The Group Chat - #148 - Here Comes Your Man..

Episode Date: February 20, 2026

From the drama in the basketball world to Softwilly's inability to read, he still managed to get 4 Overwatch accounts permabanned because of his toxicity (pushing 30 btw) , but he was able to read 25 pages of a book in a week, and we couldn't be more proud of him!!! | VISUAL PODCAST - "THE GROUP CHAT"

Don't don't don't go Bang Ladies and gentlemen Welcome back to the group crap podcast episode 143 Nope 157 Nope 148 Keep gone

Oh oh I got it 148 bro 148 bro 148 forever I feel like we've been on 148 forever I feel like you're only conscious of the 148 I'll record this once a week, but you guys say the same thing every week. Every single week.

All of you guys. You see that? Welcome back to the bookcast, podcast. Today, some of us read our books. Guys, raise your hand if you read to 25 pages. We should do three podcasts a week. Okay, I'm down. And we try to predict the next two topics for the next two weeks.

Yeah. So we do it. Do we have a month? It's like one day a month. One day a month, we try to do all the fucking, weeks for that month. Yes. Let's do a podcast every day for the entire month. Yes. The entire month. Wow. It's just an hour. It's just an hour. We'll upload 30. Well, dude, we'll do it all. Okay. Super different quick. Uh, before we continue because I, this is important. This is really important. Gave yourself. Go to give us 20% off. 20% off today. What? For a week. For a week, 20% off. Seven days.

Are you kidding me, bro? Okay. You must be dragging me across the pavement, bro. Yeah, this is crazy, bro. Take advantage of the deal, bro. It sounds like a TTA radio. Yeah, I just like remembered I had that button. Oh, I want to get the, like the sound, the sound, sound board thing that's like,

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Yes. For a week. Wow. Until the 27th. Yes. Until the 27th. Enjoy it. Your week.

You're going to say, Nick. Oh, that was what I was going to say. Okay. Also, also the holographic tubs. That as well. That is the thing that I mentioned in the last podcast. We brought it up super late.

but I did a quick intro on that and I brought it up. So that was on the last podcast. Real quick, by the way, because this is kind of an update to an email we got. I think it was two weeks ago. And it's from the Homeboy Owen. And this is someone who mentioned previously

that they were listening to our podcast while shooting. And because they had to kind of tune us out, they got better at shooting. And so they sent us another email and they said, Bello again. I am happy to tell y'all that I place first in my age group.

And as long as my mom can take me, it's in Colorado, which is very far for me. I'll be going to Nationals in April. I'll bring my eyes of my plushy if it ever ships. Oh, shit. Oh, no. Don't worry. I still never got my Isaac Y merch. I don't have my hoodie.

The black boy. I don't have yet. I never got that either. And they said, I actually listened to the episode right before I shot. And hearing you read my message made me, made my. days so thank you. Wait a minute. That was the, that was the episode where we were trying to distract him, right?

We were screwing. Yeah. No, no, no, no, no. Yeah. Yeah. They're gonna email us next week and be like, hey, it's me again. Just got into the Olympics, thanks to you guys. Oh, shit.

I'm gonna send you all at my gold medal. Just you can put it on your wall and then you're an Olympian at that point. Oh, and I'm gonna grab your email and I'm gonna figure it out because I think, you can't, you can't because I think you should be rewarded for your your athleticism. Yeah, they sent proof. I have pictures here of like their graphs. So they got like a graph and it shows all the dots where they shot on the target and all that. That's something you should show Willie because he would know because he shoots a gun sometimes.

He knows because he shoots. Yeah, you haven't. You haven't shot in the mid-Avian now. Did you just wake up or what? No, I was in training today. So I got my ass kicked and then I ran home to beat, you know, 10 minutes or early to the podcast. So that's why I'm here. You ran home. I ran home. I had to run five, 10 miles. Damn. Wow, man. Yeah. That's impressive. But I'm here. I'm here to say. I'm glad you're

congratulations. Thanks. Yeah, dude. Glad you made him. I'm glad you made it 10 minutes early. I was also early. I was eating my rice cakes. I was too. I want to I want to say that this is a little bit of a topic switch. I'm really happy to see that a lot of people receive the group ranks themselves video really like a lot of people liked it. It was a fun video. That was, yes. That was heartfelt. Thank you guys.

Dude, I like the, I like the fact that people are making edits and clipping, clipping on TikTok and everything like that. It's just always so fun. I got a really funny reaction image of Tanner that I now have for when I do it. It was like in the comment section. Yeah.

Yeah, it was in the comment section. It's just, it's kind of funny to me. I feel like, it's like Tanner. Dude, the exposure,

the exposure reveal. Like Drake. Like that be like I get I can see that being Drake, you know Yeah Okay We're gonna step into that category Where it's like new meme pack for y'all Like no one used it

New meat pack for y'all New me back for y'all We're not using that shit If we drop a MEPAC 26 It's all like white wall reaction Images of us Every month of the year At the end of the year

We're gonna do like a recap of all the favorite Awesome memes and Tanners in February That one picture Yeah We should want to use like like popular Girl slang so like Plock the tea and it's Tanner sitting there with a fucking beanie on I don't know we'll figure that yeah you got that one We you got that one we you got that out you brought it up I'll do it

Your camera's a little delayed. I just want to let you know Bob Yeah what to restart the podcast. Oh that's perfect Is it up for me? I think you just got to turn it off and on a really Dude you got to talk you have to show it at one Wow wow wow oh yeah it's Hello there you go

It's better. Yeah, you're good. Cool. Okay. Can I talk about something that was awesome? Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

So you guys remember my TV and how it was broken? Yes. Right? Yeah. I showed you guys the power control board. So just to recap. Power control board. The PCB, right?

The power control board, the thing that controls the actually like when you plug into the wall that goes into the, okay. Not the motherboard. So I took that out and I showed you guys in the last podcast and I bought a new part for $120. It came in the mail. yesterday. I put it into the TV. Boom, problem solved. I saved $500 by not calling a specialist. Did you actually save that? No good job, man. Yeah, because it would have cost $130 for them to come out just to diagnose it. It would have been $150 an hour for them to try and repair it. And then also the parts,

which would have been over $200. Oh yeah. Good shit, Willie. Listen, mechanic, Willie. So I wanted to use this as maybe a PSA. Yeah. If maybe you're feeling like you're, you have to be a little reliant on other people in life and like oh shit i don't know what to do because like when i first thought about it i was like damn my tv went bad i don't know shit about tvs i don't want to break it and then i thought to myself well i did rebuild a car that no one's seen the footage of yet but when i when you do see that you'll see that it's like way more went into that and it's like dude it's just a tv you know so i fucking took that shit off and i opened it up and bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam thank you ma'am so i would have just came to terms and i will say that

I will say as well, you know, I get this, the hate over, you know, using tools like AI to, like, ask what you're looking at or help find this part number. But, like, I feel like when in those cases where it's able to actually help you kind of like figure it out, because like I was going through Reddit, I was doing everything. And then I, like, took a picture of the PCB and then I was able to find the art number. Did you hop on TV, TV subreddit, our slash TV fixtures? Yeah. R slash TV nerds. You go to R slash TV Unite. R slash PCB fix it.

Yeah. Were you there? R slash fix it all. Yeah, it was a thread in R slash fix it all. Fuck it. I'm going solo. That's the thread. Ooh, that'd be a hard ass.

That'd be a crazy. Oh my God. We should start a subredator for that. Hashtag. F. F. F. F.

Fuck it all. Figs. Figs. You know who would benefit from that? Grog. Gronk would benefit from that. My shit got fried. The top?

I actually, I actually like didn't. There's two outcomes in this world for DIY. One where it works and one where it almost burns your crib down. Yeah, you want to hear the story behind this. I did show it last week how this broke and the energy were falling out. But it was fine. I could just put this back in here and then put this on top and it would work, right? But so what had happened was last night I was trying to plug in my phone and I realized that the USBC had come out of the,

brick and the brick was kind of like misaligned and instead of like unpluging it and trying to realign it I instead tried to realign it with just my hands while it was plugged in and then like just kind of using the USBC to plug it in or like I was using the USBC to stabilize it while trying to plug it in. Oh. And basically I I, whenever I went to plug in the USBC it like came up a little bit and then just went, and then everything went dark in my room. The power went out in my room.

And obviously it like exploded. Something exploded in it. All of Virginia lost its power. Dude, I thought the whole power of my house went out. Like I was like, oh shit. That's really not good. Okay, wait. Would you instantly?

Would you pretend like, man, what's going on? What was that? That's weird. Or would you be honest? What just happened? What on earth? I'd be honest because it's funny, I think. The thing is, look, it was actually way more dangerous.

See, it was very smart, but it's also very dangerous because... Yes, I see that. You see, you see that. It was on like a surge protector thing. You see that red light, that's a surge protector. And it was like tilted towards my bed. So like, it could have just caught my bed on fire. And then your floor is wood.

And then you have carpets. Yeah. It's the most flammable room ever. Yeah. But it didn't. And I learned a lesson. So it's all good. Well, what is the lesson?

I didn't know the, but yeah, what is the lesson? The lesson is Don't be lazy Be more careful Be more careful when your electronics Are out like this Because like other I think if I had unplugged it

And like actually carefully Tried to redo it It would have been fine But Um I think the less Be more careful Lessing might be

Yeah It's a trial and error It blows up in his hands right now Because he's not The law The law of Figs has its like rules Yeah Maybe electricity should be not fixed.

Electricity? Well, Electricity should fix. I think the lesson actually learned if you're going to mess with broken electronics, you should unplug it from the power source. There you. That's yeah. Yeah.

Okay, I think we should use these both as examples. Like how parallel this is. Yeah, there is a triumphant story of Nick's, you know, fixing his TV, saving a lot of money. And then there's the, you know, listen,

learn from the humble catch his whole house on fire but they're also very two different I mean they're pretty two different answers I mean you didn't have your TV plugged in right you didn't have your TV plugged in nah you were doing it all right

see good as new plug it in I'm not gonna plug it in I didn't know the I didn't know the outlet part came undone from that circuit board like really easily yeah right I didn't either

I have an idea so weird go to a public library and try it out yeah yeah and if their power goes out what's there to lose It's not your books. Yeah,

leave it plugged in. Library of Alist, Andrea. That's how it started. Someone plugged in a really bad charger. That's how we lost all those scriptures. That's how we lost them all. Oh,

yeah, my bad, my phone's at 40% of it. So, okay, last episode we talked about our book club. This very, very quickly put together book club,

and we had a book selected out of a wheel that we put, and that book was Men and As symbols by Carl Young. Now, that book was not a beginner book. It's a very wild topic because he begins, well, there's two beginnings to this book in my head.

The first beginning is the guy who wrote it or like who helped write it was talking about how he had to convince the actual theorist to do this book, which is really funny. Carl Young. And then there was another portion where they're really trying to say like a lot of people don't believe in this. But let me tell you why you should believe in this.

And that was like a good part of the beginning as well. So I thought that was like really funny. There's a part of it. It might be in the prolog. It might have been a little bit. I might have gotten a little bit further along. I will. I will say.

I was probably one of the only ones who was doing audio listening. And I was doing it while I was making food and also driving. So it's still keep cheating though. I'll be real. Well, I'm still getting. information. Yeah, but you're not reading. You're not in taking the, all the words.

Your eyes are you to learn. It's like, do you guys want to talk about it now? Or do we want to wait until a little later? Sounds like you want to wait. Sounds like you want to wait until you understand what's going on. He's got his book under. So you can read it and finish it.

You guys want to keep talking? You guys want to wait? You did not read it, did you? Well, hold on, Isaac. You can't talk to. You're reading it right before this podcast. I did.

I was reading it like, I was doing my homework before class. I did it. I just thought that we were going to do like the last 15 minutes of the podcast talk about the book. But we had no plan, so I was just going with whatever. Yeah,

I'm fine. I'm fine. We could talk about it later. That's fine. It's up to you guys. Do you guys want to like? Are the viewers reading with us? Is that what they're doing?

That's why I'm about it. I was like suggested if you want to follow along. That's what was like suggested if you wanted to. You know, but we also didn't say. Last week we didn't say like when to read to. That's true. We just said,

we set the goal. up in our group chat. So if you guys are in the group chat, everyone who's listening, you're in the group chat. If you saw that, then you know. Scroll up. Just scroll up a little bit. Yeah, if you guys are in the book club telegram that we have, make sure you read the pinned message. Just go up a little bit on our telegram.

We inform everyone. Yeah. What's that? I think I read it wrong. What do you mean? Pass. Like a manga? Do you read it from left to right? Read it like a manga?

I read it backwards. I read it backwards. Like that doesn't make any sense. Right to left. You should make no sense, man. This book is really, really difficult. Yeah, he started out by saying thank you for reading the book. I don't understand.

It was like... Wait, why do you say it's, why do you... Because when I look at like I read to page 25, page 25 doesn't have like a concise ending. Okay, it varies. Are you reading a PDF? Yeah. I was reading a PDF.

Yeah, you want to go to page 38, Nick, if you're on the PDF. I was reading on my phone in my bathtub. You're going to see the function of dream. Page 38 Yeah, just control F the function of dreams Oh, I see the function of dreams Is that page 38? It's page 39

So we were on the same You're on the same PDF I am then Oh Dude what I feel like I'm in college And someone just shared me a book Yeah They just air dropped me a whole ass book

Yeah I didn't want to pay for that book So I just found this PDF online It's still it's like the same thing It's just a little bit It's a same thing It's a different version But it's like they're saying the same shit Isaac you bought the book

And a SpongeBob like Times. Dude, I did. I didn't have sponge. I know the big sponge was on the front cover of Time Magazine. Come on. Wait, for this year? He deserved.

I don't know. He was on time for this year? He's on time. He's on the Time mag. For what? You didn't peeve my pick. Wait, does Time Magazine do more than just one month or a one year thing? No, it's just once a year.

Really? Is it? No, I'm lying guys. Come on. It's a magazine. It has to be like constant. Man of the year or person of the year. So you can do that, yeah.

A computer. Computer of the year. Wasn't Apple? It was supposed to be Macintosh. But it wasn't. It was just like a generic computer of the year. And yeah, Steve got really mad at that. He was.

He was really, really mad about that. I bet Waz was like whatever, but Jobs was like, dude, you got it down to a fucking team. You got it down to the team. Because Waz doesn't give a fuck.

He don't give a thing about that. That's his job. That's his whole thing. That's his, Steve. That's his Steve, man. That's his whole thing, baby.

Also, I'm eating rice. right now because I'm trying to see if carbs really do give me an effect of energy. And I have 8 so far and I feel pretty good. You have to eat a little bit more than yeah two rice cakes. I think a banana would give you more energy. Yeah right Willie come on I had a banana and peanut butter this morning. I had Winston from overwatch. I had an apple.

Oh, I ate an apple and I had carrots later that poor doctor. Oh, care. Are there carbs and apples? What's it? I don't know. I think it's just juice and Juice and sugar. NBA Twitter was on fire this past week. Oh my God. Can we talk about Michael Jordan, grab a little boy's butt? Can that be the title of the whole video?

Because what the hell, bro? Bro, I just watch like a superstar die. Michael Jordan and, fuck, what's this? Kevin Durant. Yeah, Kevin Durant. Oh, my God. Holy crap.

Kevin Durant is really funny. Well, and LeBron James. People were like also, you know, digging at LeBron. Wait, what happened with Katie and the King? Katie and the King? Katie and the King. What happens?

Well, Kevin Durant has a burner account on Twitter. No, he does. With like 70 followers and he just talks shit about his teammates. And he like makes horrible. He's like, if only this guy has me the fucking ball. He's like, yeah. How did they find that? Someone in the group chat exposed it.

Like someone who's just in. And then he admitted to me. He was like, yeah. Like, yeah, that was, uh, wow. That was me. Yeah. Yeah. He was making some pretty crazy jokes in those group chats.

Uh, and then, he was just like seeing his, like, truest honest thoughts on all the, like, the team members that he has. Yeah. Because he can't say that on, like, actual media. Yeah, he's called one of the ones talking about. See, now it's getting to the point where I might be saying it around, but I'm pretty sure he called one of the coaches like racist because he got like slapped by Michael Jordan or something like that.

I don't know, but he was just saying. What's just saying? Jordan awfully touch you, bro. What's going on? Michael Jordan? Apparently the story goes... Okay, the story goes that he is like basically the uncle of that kid, which doesn't justify it. I'm just saying this is what's going on.

I'm just... Well, I saw somebody dumped ice on the kid. Someone dumped ice on him and that he was trying to help dry him off. But I don't get it. I don't get what was going on. That's what people are saying. Just to describe the video growing... Okay, this is separate from Kevin Durant.

This is now Michael Jordan. We're talking about Michael Jordan. right the iconic right so I can do it again there's a clip you still alive can you step back and do it wow well Larry you got to Larry you just put your one arm out bro no do you jump into it midair so we get a spinie yeah shut up my thing on shut up what oh here oh tenor do it thank you tan look at that cord man it looks like intestines oh it's like the artery it's the artery it wraps on the world one time

that's just it that's exactly a beheaded version of it so there's a clip of him that someone recorded and there was this little boy and I didn't know about the ice cream thing so I guess he had ice cream on him

but he was just kind of like ice ice ice just water cold water ice cream makes sense and so he was just kind of grabbing his butt like a lot

and it looked He rubbed his leg because he was like his leg was wet, I guess. He was just covered in water. I don't know, but I don't know. I don't know. We got to ask him. Let's get him on the podcast and ask him. Oh no.

I don't know. I don't know. I mean, that sounds pretty crazy to me. I don't know. I don't know either. No one knows. Willie.

I didn't see it. Willie's getting stressed out. Like, I think he's just. About Michael Jordan? He just doesn't know. That's his favorite that's his favorite B-ball player. I mean Willie really loves MJ Yeah, he does. Yeah, ever since you were a kid. He loved it. Oh yeah, yeah, ever since I was a jude. Oh, yeah, dude, you know what I'm gonna try today? Um, PCP just kidding. I'm not trying. Wow

Dude, have you ever seen that show? Um, the widest kids you know? I've heard of it. It's a comedy sketch show and they were like, there was one guy who was like, he had PCB on like a gallon and he was like, oh dude, I I haven't seen the long time. I'm just, I'm selling this PCB right here. PCP, PCP. I don't know which one is which. I'm addicted to PPB. PPB. That's, um,

Pee. That's, um, Pee. Ooh. It's like a drug or something. Yeah. But what I actually am going to try today is I have an evolution exam tomorrow that I've not studied one bit for.

And, um, I'm basically gonna, I'm gonna stream later and try to teach the audience. And, and because, oh snap. There was this, I watched this YouTube video that I was saying,

this is titled like overnight genius or something. And basically, basically it said, it said you need to teach an imaginary audience without looking at your notes. And you, that shit will like retain like crazy. That is true. That is true. Try that.

But with an audience and they can teach me, I can teach them, they can ask questions, I can answer them, you know, and I'll just retain. Teaching definitely will help you learn it better. That's a very big truth.

Yeah. So I'm excited to try that, you know, and I'm curious how fatigue I'll get. I'm curious. What time? The viewer interaction. I don't know, probably pretty much after this kind of. I got to do a lot of studying, like a lot. I'm putting aside my other curriculars today.

Like I'm not going to my bird club. I'm not going to trivia. I'm just studying today, bro. Huge. Yay. W accountability. Dude, I took a bird exam today. It was 50 questions, all memory based.

I got a 93. Oh, damn boy. I had so many things. Like, like, tell me a bird. I could probably tell you something about it. Hell not. Okay, that's not on my life. Okay, I got you.

I got you. Don't worry, I got you. So tell me the difference between, well, no, actually, tell me the geographical location. Okay. Between a morning dove. Penguin. And no, not a penguin.

Okay, what I can tell you about? A morning dove is a Columba Formies, and it's got an esodactal toe pattern. I agree. Yeah. You can't do that. Yeah, I got banned on Overwatch. Yeah.

What the, oh my God, y'all are just wrong. I was going to ask you about, I was trying to think really hard what Mordecai was. I could not. He's a freaking blue jay.

He's a blue jay. Which is like, I'm trying to think about what the blue bird is. What is what I'm saying? What is Mordecai? He's a fucking pastor for me's, that's his order. Boom!

His family is Corvite. Boom. Come on. What about Rigby? No. Like a raccoon or something Oh, didn't study on the raccoon Dang Nick you kind of looked like this

Like distorted version of Chica There's this game on like a Panaf fan game And with like Chica Like Chica that's a smile Or like the eyes It's like it's like analog horror a little bit It's funny because I can see it Like Chica from Phanaf

I got to talk Don't you pull up a source Don't you dare pull up a source I just have to sit there and take it I just look up distorted version of Cheetah No because you're gonna get like some weird shit. Don't look at the weird.

Yeah, he's going to, you're going to look it up wrong. Dude, going back to the overnight genius thing. Yeah, yeah, what of it? I just, I took an IQ to, like one of those free IQ days. Oh, yeah. I got, where is it? I got 134. You took one, you got 134.

You took one and got 134. Are you kid genius, bro? I think I'm boy genius, dude. There it is. God, focus. I see that. That's true. It's real.

I'm smarter than 7.9 billion people on this plane. It's like everyone. It's the whole fucking low. I know 1%. Holy shit. Tell us something we don't know, Tanner. Please. Oh, man.

I can't even tell you what I read because I forgot all the information. You can't retain anything. You just mailed the clues and forgot. That does look like Willie. Look. There's Willie. Wow. That looks like Mick.

It does look like Willie. Thank you. It's kind of a one-to-one. You're welcome, man. I love that. I love that. I wish I looked like a 134 and IQ test is super impressive. Yeah.

What was the IQ test? Where were the questions? Like, can you run us through it? It was just like patterns, number patterns? Like, what follows after this? What follows? Like, what do you think? It's like, it's like, I was in my bed.

I was just bored. I was bored because I know they're not like actual IQ test. The genius gets bored. She was too easy. That's sick, though. Congrats. I do thanks I want to take a real one

If I take a real one It would probably be like 81 I want to take a state mandated one Yeah we should all do that That should be a group video Yeah we all take an actual real life IQ test A state mandated IQ test But usually state mandated

It's enforced by Somebody like watches you do I'm pretty sure I mean yeah but it only has to do if you're like enrolled in school I don't know if you could just Take it around a fun Yeah I don't know Shirley, just say you're a scientist.

I must know, please. I bet you, what it is is you pay a theme, and then they watch you do it, and you do it, and they're like, all right, yeah, you're good. You're pretty smart. And you don't get to find out your score. Yeah, you don't get to find out. That's part of the IQ test.

Yeah, figure out your own score. I want to know why Willie got banned off. I was going to say right now, yeah, I want to hear about this Overwatch band. For a month? Okay, wait. Just to quickly kind of set the stage is Nick left our house. 10 minutes later.

No, no. No, no, no, no. It happened, right. I went on a 10-minute walk. It happened. I got that message in the 10-minute walk. It happened. He didn't.

I didn't get banned that minute I left. I got banned because of things, I found out you banned. 24 hours for things that I said prior. So let me ask you a question. Was that your name? For things that I said privately. No, your main is permanently banned, actually, for shit-talking on Overwatch and COMS. Yes, my main is permanently banned for shit-talking on Overwatch.

watch. So your alt or Jubby's all I should say. No I got Jubby's all band too and then I got my own alt and now this one. I forgot that was crazy. The fourth one? That was all that one. How can you feel comfortable like shit talking on someone else's alt and getting it banned?

To be to be honest I didn't feel comfortable. I said sorry he only got a temporary ban. Sorry doesn't change things bro. That's the hard That's on his permanent record. Sorry can change things because a lot of people need to start opening their minds to forgiveness This world is full of hatred and betrayal and judgment.

Says you. You got bad for shit. I want you to keep that mindset. If someone got my alt account banned, I wouldn't give a fuck because at the end of the day, we're humans and it's Overwatch and I get it. Because that's empathy. That's empathy. So if you're banned for shit that you said and you're not being empathetic about your own actions. Think about the other team and how they feel.

I'm doing an IQ test while I'm talking to you guys. That's how smart I am. I don't give a fuck. It's Overwatch, bro. You're so ignorant. You're so ignorant. You're so ignorant. What do you say?

You can't even repeat it. It's that. I don't. I know you said some truly, truly dark things. I don't, okay. Just to preface, just to preface, I don't say things that are like super crazy, insane, horrible in game. I just tell people how it is. I tell them straight up.

Like, if, for example, I'm about to drop a little bit of ball here. If, for example, there's a Reinhardt who's got a big shield and both of my DPS, are going fucking I don't know Sojourn and fucking Soldier 76 What's wrong with that? Oh, let me guess

The shield is blocking All the healers You know what I'm saying So it's like You gotta tear it down his shield But no You get a Zenata on your team That all Zinnata players

Are all fucking same bro They're all so fucking dense If I ever meet a Zinnata player In person I'm gonna punch it in the POTA Bro Shut up

Wait Wait You literally Maine a counter to Rine and you're bitching the fact that your DPS are not countering the Rine Is that what I'm hearing? I'm coaching your ass.

You play Arisa. You need a... I play Arisa. That's fine. You counter the Rine. You take care of that shit. No. No.

No. You got the movement heat cool down part, bro. You just melt the shield by pressing left shift. Wait, as who? Arisa. I do play Arisa. That's what I'm telling you. You guys are not high IQ, dude.

This is like... So then what I have to do, I have to go and play Sigma to poke the back line because the, even if I were to take down his shield, he gets healed all the time. You're playing Sigma into Rhine? Bruh. To poke the back end because, okay, you can't poke the back end if there's a Ryanheart. Twin, shut up. Bro, your E eats projectiles and your Ryan heart isn't a projectile. We're deviating from the cause here.

What did you say? I didn't say anything. Yeah, you're deflecting. I didn't say anything that was like super insane. I just told people that they're fucking stupid and that they should quit the game and like, when we're losing, I literally write, I'm so glad we're losing

so that your stupid ass can stay back. Like, I'm actually, I'm glad because that I can find a lot of team that's healthy. And I do not. I'm glad you're losing Elo. You need a little notebook next to you so you can write it out. Game seven logs.

This team is so stupid. I'm so happy that they're fucking losing so that they can all stay back. Like, they probably think you're throwing. Well, I did at one point say I don't give a fuck. Like, I'm done. Do you, or do they send logs like they do Rocket League? Uh, no, they didn't send me any logs.

But dude, the point is, every single time I get mad at these games, I think about grunk saying, you're getting too old to get mad at video games. I'm glad that resonated. I'm so glad that's stuck. And then I'm like, you know what, bro? No, fuck that. I'm not getting too old for video games. These people are just so fucking stupid.

They're so dumb. See, how would you be? Go ahead. You should write a book. book of everything you've said in overwatch chat logs and I think it would sell yeah I feel like it'd be an art piece oh oh that be so amazing like in school scholastic oh this is what happens if you don't if you're unable to control yourself call it the willie logs yeah oh willie's log I've been tempted so many times to just be like log out iRL but then I don't and then I'm like you know

whatever like this is not worth it like I get so like these people are so long people to log out IRL. Almost. No, Willie, do you do this subconsciously? Oh, shoot. Unconsciously. I remember you said there's a difference between subconscious and unconscious. There is.

Do I do this subconsciously? Unconsciously. Like, do you do it before you even realize there's no unconscious. There's subconscious and conscious. Yeah, I read this in the book and no. What? Is unconscious? I read this in the book.

No, no, no. Okay. The difference is subconscious. which is when you're dreaming and your sleep and then the conscious. Unconscious is when you're knocked down and you're not thinking anything and you forget why you go to the kitchen.

Do I do this unconsciously and subconsciously? Yeah, not not, not. No, no. Hold on. Now hold on. No, hold on. No, hold on. You can do something unconsciously.

This whole ties back to the Johari window. You have four panels. You have the one top left where everyone in your cell. You're reading right now. There's something that was brought up in that book that I wanted to ask you guys about. No, no, no, no, stop, stop.

I know that's a that's a psychology thing I didn't read that in the book dude he just has a high IQ I'll say this I'll say this it is very real I'm a gamer I'm a gamer yeah and you know I'm gonna close it with saying Overwatch and Blizzard are notoriously

They will ban you for calling someone dumb Like so you could say something like you're bad Please quit which I do say a lot And I get muted and I get banned So why do you keep saying it Because they people need to you hear that. See, that's the problem.

That's the problem. That's the problem. Some people, it's not about improving them. It's about the fact that they decided to go and queue in competitive the same time I did, and that I somehow got paired with them, and that unfortunately I'm stuck with them for about 30 minutes. If everything goes to plan, we're in overtime, which usually it does. And I'm sitting there clutching up, and you get a Zenata player who's like, yeah, you're the fucking problem, by the way. And meanwhile, he has 4,000 heel and 3,000, you know, damn.

We're in fucking diamond, bro. Like, what's going on here? You'd be cutthroat in the corporate environment. Like, you'd be climbing that fucking ladder, bro. Nah, no, I wouldn't. You'd be dropping. You can't get banned from work. No, you can't get banned from HR. Telling facts.

I get pulled. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know, guys. I don't, I don't think Overwatch is for me anymore. I think I need to move on to something. I think we all need to play Rock. Yeah, like league or, I'm with the, like Rust.

I'm going to go to Rust. Oh, no. Oh, that's way, way less. CS, dude, go back. Yeah. You were already in CS. Go by to CS. I want to know why Tanner was banned from high pixel.

Oh. You know, I can't exactly, I can't remember exactly what I said. I can't get into that. Let's just say, at this point, I was defending myself because I didn't know how to play Bed Wars. And some guy was like

talking shit and I did say some unkind words and then it said I was permanently banned, like IP banned. So I have to like buy my Simon Simon's like Oh I know that username dude Yeah Well I got banned on high pixel too

But I didn't say anything You didn't because your name is soft willy Yeah They banned me and I did I was like who the fuck are you to tell me to change My whole name before I have to log back in Like my Minecraft name But I did

There's one game I got banned from It was GT online Because I got banned for cheating Yeah I've been banned so many times From GTA I were cheated on GTA but I never got banned you're lucky my most recent my most recent account that is true as well I still have um

a good amount of money I'm not gonna be telling anyone how much because I want to get banned yeah you don't want to let people know your wealth yeah just know that you know I have like nine trillion I think well there's that so goes your account and that's a second yeah so this guy's rock star ID is soft willie with two eyes oh shit devs at home that's bad take care of that business please um you know it's crazy crazy is I a few when was this Larry was this a year and a half ago I

I bought that about two months ago I don't know we talking about that drum set oh damn that was a damn two years ago that was a year and a half two years ago and I picked I picked up the sticks played like three different patterns and I put it down and never picked it up again and so I've been trying to sell it and one guy on Facebook marketplace oh my God asked me he messaged me and he asked me and he asked me and he asked me. I'm actually going to read it verbatim because it's actually a really funny message. Verbatim. Verbatim. Verbatim. Yeah, like words for word bar for bar for bar. Verbatim. Verbatim. You sure did. You sure did it. No, he did it. No, he did it. What's up with that?

Verb atem. Oh, I totally got the whole story wrong. This was for my graphics card. Oh. Right. Oh. I have a graphics card that I bought off Isaac that I never put into a computer. And so I'm selling that. And he said, Hey, want to trade for a badass tattoo session? Go-wee. And then me and Nick were like, dude, he's just like, full body. Larry's like, what does that mean? He's going to like suck you off.

He's going to give you like that Trevor Phillips like pig but a hole tattoo on your belly butt. Oh, yeah. Oh, dude. Did you see that rumor of lamello ball getting, uh, Flaming Hot Cheetos tattoo. Now, let's not hop too quick to La Mello Ball. I'm so curious, what, did you say yes?

Like, what happened after the message? Oh, I, I agree with you. Oh, yeah, so yeah, look, right here. Like, take your shirt off and you have a full, like, backpiece. Is it like Nick and like a cursive? I don't think, I don't think Nick could, oh, there it is. But Mello Ball gets hot Cheetos. Oh!

Gets hot Cheetos for tattoo. That's gross. I hope that's real. I don't wait. It's hot Cheetos. Larry's losing his mind. Larry's so mad that he did it first. Getting Shito fingers permanently tattooed.

You know, the other thing about it, I haven't seen Larry with his socks off in a minute. Bro. Dude. Oh my God. That would be great to have my fingers. Just a bunch of tattoos like Cheeto does so that when I'm eating on to clean my hands anymore. You don't even know. Yeah, I don't even know.

I can't tell. I think that's clean. I don't know. No, because, dude, that red 40 in those Cheetos, I think it's right. I don't know what the fuck's in there. That shit is potent. That thing sticks. Like, I have these white-ass towels, and I did a mistake one time on accident after washing my hands.

Because you can wash your fingers. You could do, dude, I have hands sanitizer. I have everything. You could do everything, but nothing works. And it's just time. You've got to let it do its own thing. Your skin naturally, like, brushes it off at the broom. Dude, I swear, if it gets under your fingernails, they stay there for like two weeks.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, if you be hammering on a bag of Cheetos and you're like, you're really in there, you got some furino going. Yeah. It's over. Low key method is just to kind of ball it with the bag, you know, a little. Yeah, tap its ass. You know, drink it.

Open the mouth. Do that again. Oh, gosh. Oh, wow. Speaking of food, can we talk about what happened and what went on yesterday? I was going to ask about that. Dude, I just want to set the record straight before we do spoil a little bit. I have been farting nonstop all last night into today.

And they're like the farts that you want to even get away from and you can't. Yeah, real quick. Before we continue, this discussion is about to get real fucking nasty. Because yesterday we recorded, I'm going to spoil it just the premise, okay? Because Greg doesn't even know. So yesterday we did record a video where we were kind of testing out. two of the same foods well one's from a store and then one's from

Facebook marketplace okay because you know Facebook marketplace it's made by you know your neighbor it's made by somebody around you it could be Camden you never know it could be Camden and so we're trying that out now we had a variety of amounts of food like we had

it just all over the world it kept bouncing it was just all the things and our stomachs after that video it's all I remember was By the last one, I couldn't even like really fucking process like the food I was eating and I like

I like slept on the floor after we got done recording and then after that my stomach was like That was a good sound Impression Oh Dude and I like Oh I was sitting like a rabbit bro

But dude it was like different colors every time It was like different hues Dude So we're severely downplaying what we had to eat grunk we had to have 20 different foods all right wait let me break it down in a way that is super understandable for everyone at home too now imagine you smoke and you get the munchies now imagine everything that you want to eat in that very moment and then eat some of it all just do it all of the foods that come to your mind you take a bite of 20 20 different things yes and and wow

I'll never forget No, we take two bites Because we ate from the store And then the Facebook So two bites of everything That comes to your mind When you smoke a dube, a scooby snack

Yeah, it'd be 20 items total I like that You're a way of trying to get the whole audience Like, let me do it So that everyone gets it So you know when you're high Like everyone smokes Right

So everyone gets high in smokes And has an idea about food they want So you get that right You get that part? Okay, yeah so Yeah It was a total of 20 items because there was 10 rounds. So you had two items per round.

So it was 20 different foods. You'd have, let's just say, Taco Bell, and then you'd have Facebook Marketplace Taco Bell. Markle. Yeah. Marco Bell. Yeah. Yeah. So, dude, I think there was a time.

So, Grunk, I'm just going to kind of spoil a little bit of it, that like we went from having subway sandwiches to then having another sandwich. which that was like McDonald's fries on it with cheese and like turkey and like and roast beef and ham and like that was the comparison right and then you go to like the next thing and it would be

what was the next thing after that it was I don't even remember though I think the Lord is blessing me with forgetful memory yeah I'm like so traumatic all I'm saying is we jumped from like having hot ramen to like a sandwich to a burger to a cassedia to to dessert

Post the fucking video at this point. Just post it all. Post the whole thing. Everyone already knows all the food now. Well, it's okay. I think it's really funny watching it. Larry threw up. Yeah, but that's because, dude, that was so funny. That was really nasty depiction. Unfortunately, one of the cups that we were using for like the coffee stuff, they had foam on it, but the foam didn't look like foam.

It kind of looked like vomit. It was kind of gross. Tend is like, you need to try this. Yeah, look. I lifted it up. And the Tanner threw up. Yeah. No, I only, I was like, I was gonna be fine holding it in.

But until I heard like, it was watery and I hear it hit the bucket, I was like, I heard it hit the bucket. I got to go. And I threw up in my sink like seconds later. I was cornered, bro. I'm a sympathetic puker like Tanner. You and. Yeah, I excuse myself.

I'm a sympathetic puker too, bro. No, you're not. You're not sympathetic even a little bit. You're a psychopathic. You're a psychopathic laugher is what you are. So Nick sat there and giggled until he had tears in his eyes. I did not giggle. Larry puked until he had tears in his eyes.

And I was crying just watching everything happened. It was one of the hardest I laughed in a long time. That was not a giggle. That was outright. He was like crying like from, he was all red in the face from all. If this was the lid and like, I was like, Larry, look, look at it. Don't look, Larry. And I'd show him again underneath.

And he'd be like, look at. Who. It was also. Like it was that and it was just all the like the amalgamation of all the food before like before that. That was just kind of building up already. And I was a good vocabiding bad. Like I'm not going to lie. I was low key, you know, making some nasty dirty bubbles.

Yeah. Larry would, uh, Larry would poop and lift himself off the couch a little bit. Yeah. It would have a balance. And it would only chase me, bro. It would only come after me. I didn't smell nothing. I didn't smell nothing.

I was nose blind. Well, I'll smell it. You guys just love it so much. I'll smell it. I'll smell it. Everybody. I was saying it in the video It reminded me of Patrick

When SpongeBob smelled really bad And the stench lines passed right back Like past Patrick Because he had no nose nose It went around him like an airplane's aerodynamics It was like Ignores Tanner completely What?

Yeah, it was only chasing me It was fucking horrible But no Parts chase pretty people Dude last night My fart It was they were rancid Like they were like

I will never eat 20 different foods All at one time ever again I felt like I woke up as a little kid in an adult body and went and had a buffet and I was like, all right, fuck yeah. I'm gonna get hot ramen noodles with a subway sandwich and a pop tart. Two different pop tarts.

Pizza and burger and then cake and cupcake. And then Mike had to finish at all. Bro, when I was way young, and I hadn't had five guys yet, my cousin told me we were going to five guys, and he was like, you can put like anything on your burger at five guys, like literally anything. And I was like, you can put like cake on.

it and like crazy shit and it is like yeah like it you put cake on it and and I found out that you couldn't oh I'm sorry I read that would be really funny if they were like cake on it yeah you and cake man and unconscious oh there you go unconsciously ordering no he talks unconscious not unconscious no he talks about the unconscious it's unconscious Larry. We all read the wrong book. Larry didn't read, bro. He said, I swear to God, he says unconscious.

Unconscious is when you forget you were walking into a kitchen, you don't know why you're there. You're like, what the hell he does talk about that. He does talk about that. He does talk about that. That's true. Wait, wait, wait. Part one is approaching the unconscious. Damn it. Damn it.

Dude. That's literally the chapter. The first chapter. Actually, part of the book, Grunk was like egged me to read because I still haven't, I wasn't like reading it yet. And I was like making a whole scene about not reading. Oh my God, your right. You're right. Sorry.

Uh, yeah. And I read a word that made me like, all right, maybe I should just keep reading. It was called masonism. And it was like, fear of the new and the unknown.

I was like, all right. Yeah, right. I'm looking sinker, bro. Fear of the new and the unknown. That's like, yeah.

It's a fun premise. Um, not to, not to get too like geeky nerdy on, on the pod, but if you guys do want to read. the book. I think we're going to try our best. I don't think we're going to finish it all. I feel like something exciting is going to happen in the meantime and we're going to get like derailed. But you have to. So far, it's pretty, uh, it's interesting. There was a part where, okay, so I thought it was

really, really funny that the guy, the theorist, um, the Swiss theorist, found it that he was going to do the book because of a dream. He made his answer. He came up with his answer because he dreamt a bit. and that goes to show that he's fucking putting in that action bro like what he's what he's been he's putting it back in his pit but he's having meanings from the subconscious yeah and it forms into symbols yeah and assembles to make it understand yeah yeah and he's saying like um you should interpret dreams based on what they actually are and not don't even like

try to look for it because of meaning set the mess fact and it's so interesting like because he was talking about Freud and how Freud is like free association. So it's like just given to like symbolism and or like deeper meaning. But no, just look at the surface value because it's telling more. And he also was talking about how like normally when you're listening to like one of his patients,

when he's listening to his patients, it's often times that the patient is like talking around what he's like you can tell. And then he keeps saying. Okay, now back to your dream. What is it telling you? What is it saying? Yeah. Yeah.

Long, long, long, long story short, and for those who are like, what the hell is going on, it's basically saying your day-to-day life, any struggles or things that are in your head that you don't, like, immediately address may appear in a form of like a dreamer or a reminder in a dream. But when people think of dreams, they're like, oh, my God, this has to be like a prophetic thing. I have to look into it super, super deeply. And it's not, the book is basically like, yeah, no, don't do that. You know, just look at it at how it is and go from there. Don't try and dissect it and make it more than what it is.

Here's something interesting, interesting that I heard. That was like a parallel to what happened yesterday because it was a, you brought up that like, maybe I. Yes. Dude, yes. No, I know what you're about to say. It was about the fact that like someone who doesn't like or doesn't eat well. What was it? It was like, I'm trying to remember exactly what he said.

But it was something along the lines of someone who doesn't eat well usually is kind of a reflection in a way of, of a deeper rooted problem and it's like you're you know let's say I'm disgusted by the mayo and his burger which is what happened. Then it's almost like a parallel to I'm discussed by something or like I can't confront something in my personal life which or it's from way back from way back yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah and that's just like that's my consciousness is right now like looking at that mail and like that's nasty and then my so you're talking it's like you don't you don't be fucking with mayo because of something that happened in your past.

I guess so. It's kind of weird. That was like what I was trying to. Isn't, well, hold on. That's what I was trying to connect. I was like,

I don't know. Was that the case? Someone probably made you try something really gross. Like, when you were like little and you're like, it gets your will. It didn't happen when I was a kid. Isn't this exactly what he told us not to do?

How to like, you know, close my nose and eat so that I won't have to be disgusting. That's what one of my friends taught me because like, ooh, I don't like seeing something on the internet. But I mean, it did happen one time where I was made

food and I'm very thankful for that because I was fed but the food just happened to be a little bit stinky and I had a hard time eating it and then my friend was like look whenever she's looking away just close your nose and then take a bite and then swallow it and you don't have to worry about the taste

and I was like okay got it noted but yeah a lot of my childhood was a lot of that was like nasty no way yeah because you're thinking you're thinking of you know the way that you hey mayo the way that the book tells us like don't be looking into shit too deep. What if we're looking

into shit too deep? What if you just don't like man? Yeah. What if you don't like me? That's it. Why I thought he was talking about dreams on that on that part? Uh, I mean he is, but it's also like, it's a good guideline. You know, not to I guess over, over exaggerate. Another option, you know, like another way to look at things. Yeah. Yeah.

Dude. What is also interesting was his like concept of anima, like this female element in every male. Oh yeah. Yeah. It's like, whoa. That's pretty interesting. It said they'll get more into that in chapter three, which I'm excited about. It's not like all my age 3.20.

Oh, it's pretty far out. Something else that I wanted to bring up was I forget the word or what it's called, but it's like how everyone. Because they were talking about souls or they were talking about spirits. Hi, Betty. And they were talking about how like some like some groups have this thing. of like sometimes your soul is tied to like a tree, which means that you're kind of like an overseer or something like that. You got real like. I think I don't know if that part was in. How far did you go? That was early. That was that was I just got to that part. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They were saying

that, um, a lot of critics. Oh, yes. A lot of critics. Yeah. You know, you're not, um, you know, you can't say you're like a deer, you know. Yeah, they kept like referring to the primitives. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What, what, that's Missonians. whatever. Misanism? Misanism? I can't remember. I don't know how to say it.

Misan. Or they have that fear of the unknown or something. But yeah, they like attached their unconscious to a deer or a tree or something. I remember hearing like one of them attached to an alligator so you can swim with the alligator and you'll be safe. I was like, whoa. What are you talking about?

What are you talking about? But honestly, I feel like if you're so tapped in spiritually, then maybe. Honestly, maybe. Maybe you can be an alligator. Out of everything I read, though, I think the most interesting thing was the fact that, um... Well, there goes that thought. Right out the brain ago. Wow.

Hold on. It'll come back. It'll come back. Hold on. Dude, I thought it was funny with that guy who dreamed of, like, his wife as, like, a drunken, like, disheveled woman or something. And then it's like, boy, no, that's just your inner woman. And you're acting like a disgusting woman, right now. Yeah.

Like, damn. They say degenerate. They say that you're acting like a degenerate. Yeah, degenerate. My fault. You're acting. You're behaving like a degeneration. degenerate female.

Yeah, your female son. Your animal is like a degenerate. You're in some respects behaving like a degenerate female. Yeah.

It's so funny because this was written in like the late 60s. It's like, I feel you can tell something it's dated in some part. It's like, you know,

I've been taking note of how like in a lot of his examples, this is going to be really woke of me guys to prepare your ears. Oh, but a lot of like examples that he's been using

thus far, he'll put the woman in a scenario where she's like scared of social behaviors, like scared of how she'll be perceived by others and whatnot, and males in a situation where it's like a more manly type thing. I can't remember, but like something with money or like being strong or something like that.

And it's just like that generation. Yeah, right. Traditional. Really interesting. That traditional mindset. Umbrella terms for gender ideology, big word. What? I don't remember.

I can't find this. Sorry, I'm reading. I can't find it. Oh. Dude, the part about that one guy who was walking past the farm and he smelled the geese and then he just started, he got distracted because a bunch of childhood memories like flooded into his head because like he grew up on a farm with that smelled like geese or something. Well, dude, that is exactly what a lot of musicians use. Some people. And I mean, same thing with like authors who write like fiction books.

You, they have a very tight grasp at detail and it's things that remember you. There's like, um, what? What? Sorry, it's not funny Where did Nick go? Yeah, he did he? He was like, I forgot he was like gone.

He'd come back and be like, all right. Thank you guys so. Yeah, he's like, Damn, they actually read it. Hold on. Damn, hold on. He's not real bullshit. Yeah.

Oh, bro. But yeah, like, that's a thing that I've noticed because I love watching interviews of artists and like a lot of... Yeah, it's... Dude, Larry. They go into it a lot. I dare you?

You do me. You gotta do it. Pick this book up and read it. It's filled with like... Discovery and invention. It's filled with like over 90 interviews with creatives and like their processes and everything.

It's really cool. Okay. I got to put that. So well, did you read the book or what? Yeah. Is that where you went? You got to send me the afterwards.

So tell me what you thought of, you know, the unconscious mind and how it, uh, yeah. What do you think? What do you think about the farm bit and the geese? Yeah.

Did you get to that? Yeah. Yeah. Or the, the bit of female in every male. Animal. That's a given. There's a bit of female in every male. That's a given.

Oh, Willie was written by a woman, man. Fuck. Really was written by a woman. That's awesome. The story of Willie. Dude. What? What?

It's, it's, it's, can someone jog my memory if I read this? Was it, did they talk about? how there's if there's a guy that has some feminine traits, but not fully masculine traits, that that's also seen as attractive. I think you just missed that part. I don't know. I talked about the woman and the man.

Is that Bigfoot in this? Is there Bigfoot? Bigfoot makes a debut on page eight. Page 33. Bigfoot. Bigfoot's there and he's, yeah. Am I a man and a brother? What are you talking about?

He just read the wrong book. Wait, is this the right book? Are we lost? His symbols like CYM. His symbols, yeah, it's excellent. This is a hexagon. I got to be real. I was expecting so much more from this like this aquarium video, man.

It's good though. It's chill. Oh, wait. You need like deep sea. You need deep sea. Something goes down here. Please don't be an ad. I'm pretty sure there is one part.

I know this. same video. I'm going to spoil it. I'm pretty sure a scuba diver guy comes out and cleans the glass or something. Oh, you think so? What? This is like big? This is not a small aquarium? Yeah, I think well, I think that's got to be a small aquarium.

Brothers fish are not that. It looks tiny. But, dude, there's one part where he said such material has mostly become unconscious because in a manner of speaking there's no room for it in the conscious mind and we are in we are in a freaking time. I was

watching a video about this today, where it's like, we are flooded with so much information that so much stuff goes straight to the unconscious that our brain is just flooded with nonsense. You know what that is? It's like in computer, that's RAM for you, bra. We don't got a lot of RAM. We need to figure out how to reset our RAM. That's a really good point. Yeah. That's also why we feel like time is moving by super fast. Yeah. There's always like flooding by slow is when you're learning new things, you're like, oh, what? But when you, once you've learned everything and you're just doing the monotonous things of... Dude, remember Japan?

The first week was so slow. No, dude, the first three days in Japan felt like your week. I am so serious. I remember that because we were traveling. We're like, oh my God, it's only been three days. And I feel like we've been here for a whole fucking week doing shit. And the day fell long.

Like, the day just like kept going. I was like, we've already done so much. And it still hasn't even been sundown. I do. I do think that there's a hand. And this is like super. like conspiracy moment. Tim Foil had a,

there's a hand in, like it's, there's a hand playing into social media and what you see and all the news. And like we've never been more connected in our lives. We've never been able to study the impact of that on a human mind in a long term scale. Because of social media and how it came out so recently. Dude, you know,

I just heard on that same video, I heard a pretty freaking crazy point. They, how they do it for, y'all probably know this, but how they do that for social media, how they keep you on is they, Put it, set it up like gambling.

They don't give you all good posts. They do like five bullshit. And then the next one will be good. So you just keep, keep fucking cranking that shit, motherfucker. It's gamified your algorithm. There's a Netflix document about this. I forget what it's called, though. But I saw it when we were diving.

And they were talking about it because they were talking to some of the devs. And the devs were like, yep, that's about right. Yeah, we put that in there. Yeah. Pretty genius, isn't it? Capital, they're freaking CEO of Netflix guys said, our main competitor is sleep. That's fucking crazy.

That's evil. They're trying to get you to just like, he said that like on the next step. The next step is to advertise in your dreams, bro. In your brain. That's the last. There was a video I saw. They're going to try and get ads in your brain, bro.

You'd be dreaming. Then the coat bear pops up. That's the only other real estate you have. You're dreaming, you're running, you're in a fucking, you're in a fire in this giant tornado, and you look to you right, and LeBron james. James is holding a can of Sprite, cranberry.

Yes, it's clear. They're trying to actually do that. Okay, wait, think about this. Think about the five senses in the way that you perceive information. With your eyes, you see ads. With your ears, you can hear them. Nose and mouth are pretty untapped.

I'm not going to lie. I don't know how you. Yeah, you can maybe do nose, but not mouth. I think smell is definitely a sense of advertising. Because there's a special. Oh, my God. It's like crack cocaine. Whenever you guys come here, you're going to try it.

It's so close to my house that I walk out my door and I can catch a whiff and it's like, fuck, I'm hungry for it. Disney does that. Disney pumps up smells. They specifically pump out certain sense that aren't you guys tired of being a freaking consumer, bro? Yeah.

Well, yeah, but it changes nothing. Aren't you tired of being taken advantage of all the freaking time? Yeah. The group starts a revolution. We do something about it. All right, here we go. Three, two, one.

Come with me. We're going to go push over time square. All this because we're, We read 28 pages in a book. Oh, yeah, yeah. 20 pages. I've actually been, I've been, like,

diving into studies of consciousness recently for some reason. So I'm on a kick. You're on that right now? Oh, fuck, dude. You have more reference point for that then. Actually, the conversations that, like,

the weird kids, quote-unquote would have. The smart kids, the kids who have a future, maybe. The geniuses of the IQ 100 before. They were talking about, like, some really disturbing stuff.

Reddit 50-50. They show each other gore all day. That's the vibe. Yeah, comment down below if you ever showed your friend Gore. I'm curious how many of you guys made it here. It's probably a lot. You know what? It's terrifying because I like to know, too.

One of the things that I have a big fear about is like when I have a kid, there's going to be that stage where I'm like, dude, I'm sorry, but I'm not going to be around you when they show you gore. And I don't know how right now. I can't protect you. I can't protect you. You just can't let it grab you and take you. You can't let it last for more than like dwell on it.

No, this is like, okay, there's this thing I read. it was a story about a serial killer that really fucked me up when I was younger because it was like no way it's that easy for it to happen but it was a so there's this guy who was like a camp counselor and he had like a bunch of these like you know this is I think

60s or 50s and and what he would do is like he would like make these kids he would tie up these kids upside down until like all the blood like rushed their heads and they were kind of unconscious and then and he would record this on this like old camera and then he would cut off

their feet or something like that or like their toes I don't remember what it was but like with the boots still intact so he had a collection of a bunch of these like boots from children that he cut off or whatever and so the way that how he got to that point was he said that he was just walking

when he was young he was walking down the street a car crash happened and he said that the smell from the gasoline and like what was going on in front of him all excited him and he had no reason why no explanation why I did

but it's just excited him. And then from that, he chased that same feeling through really like, you gotta save the kids, man. I was like, oh my God, just from like something that.

But then again, like he could have told that and then they would have been like and then he would have left out a bunch of other details that would have been like, oh wait, no,

there's a reason why. He's actually just fucking crazy. Yeah, yeah, like there was just so much shit before that that happened that he just didn't say because he was,

he maybe found a normal and it wasn't normal and then that was the case. But I read that and I was like, oh my God. Damn, yeah. Because, like, how, honestly, how did we, like, not fall into the gore trap, bro?

You just got to, like... Because, like, you know, there was a time in my life where it's like, I would watch... I wouldn't actively seek out, but I wouldn't, like, look away, you know? Yeah, and it's, like, it's a fascination. This is back when, like, all those freaking beheading videos happened and shit back in, like, 20, fucking, what, 15? I mean, it's even to this day, like, yeah.

Dude, what I used to do, if that ever, if I ever came across it, it would always make my stomach, like, not feel good. And then I would just go to R slash puppies. And I would just look at puppies on Reddit. R slash eye bleach or whatever? I bleach your eyes. No, that's good. It's good. Oh, is it good?

That's like. Like a reset. There are some things in life that should not be normalized and consumed. And that is something that should not be normalized and consumed. You can be exposed to it, but to consume it on the regular, it's. not it's not good. But also, that's not good for anyone.

There's nothing to gain. Look at, like, because you know when like something happens in real life, like let's say a car crash that happened or an accident

happens, everyone's looking. Like, no one's going to like look like. Everyone's like staring. Yeah, like you got that morbid curiosity. You're like,

damn, what happened? How bad is it? And I think since it's behind a screen, it has like a filter effect. Yeah. It makes it so much less real. There's no one is sitting there

and being like, why are you watching that? Yeah. It's only you. It's really hard. Like after I'd watch those videos, I'd like feel horrible. Like I'd feel like just so off. Dude, my entire mood was like, and I'm not really like political,

but my entire mood from this last major assassination video that everyone saw, the guy got shot in the neck. I just don't want to really need a news. It's just like, that was fucking horrible. You know what I'm saying? Watching death in general is just not. It's just hard on the brain, bro. And it shouldn't be.

It shouldn't be normalized, but it is. When I'm mowing down ops on GTA 5, it's a different story. It's fucking different. When I'm off Fortnite with my bros, and I got a golden scar. It's a different story. When I be on Rocket League, I'm explicable, but it's a different story. No, I blow up their cars.

Oh, shit. And I slam right into the, it's a different story. It's a different story. Sorry. But yeah, that book so far thus far, it's kind of crazy. Yeah, 25 pages next week. Honestly, I could do more. I could do more probably if you all wanted to.

Yeah, I could. I could. I could read 25 pages first and then. Oh, my God. I had faith in you. I thought you were going to be really on that, bro. Dude, I did skim through. I like picture books.

So this is fun. He lied. This is fun. He lied whenever I asked if he read it. That's what he did. Oh, he did lie about that. Sorry, I'm a liar. First lie in a long time.

So let's ask. Why did you lie? What drove your lie? Public humiliation. Well, you still got that. Same result. Yeah, well, I'm owning it. I'm owning the fact that I don't care about the backlash.

You know what? He saw me get called a chud in the group chat because I wasn't reading. And he's like, oh, I actually, I actually, when I saw everyone sitting all those text messages, I muted the group chat. and I looked away. Because my phone was buzzing. You didn't want to confront that you weren't going to read the book.

No, to be honest. It's like that's your conscious doing something because you're unconscious. You're the unknown. I think I found out that I'm just really picky about books because this book is not appealing to me. But I will. I will. No, no, I like books. I don't either.

Damn, bro. I like books. I just. Wow. I gave you an end. I try to buddy. I try to be your friend in this mindset, but you just pushed me away and said Willie.

You don't fuck with books, you liar. Will you read and forget what you read so you have to go back and read it again? Because like you zone while you're reading. You daydream. Highlight, highlight while you read. It's like, that's what I did.

I highlight the interesting points and it's like, see, that's why I don't do audiobooks. I was, when I was driving, I was like, well, you know, there's some good points being made here, but I want to write it down, but I'm driving. And I will definitely remember all the details. Like the word that was used for that spiritual connection to the tree or the alligator.

I think we got to look at it like your brain is a muscle as well and you have to exercise it and so like my brain low-tenuantly is not in that, you know. Penuently. I'll be real. I watched it. Actually, I didn't watch the video, but I read a study about it and then a video got recommended to me about being bored, 15 minutes a day, just being bored, looking up at your ceiling, not letting your brain go.

Maybe that's how you reset your RAM. It is. Maybe that's how you reset your RAM. am. Yes, it is. We're just so stimulated all the time. I thought it was in the environment. I'm not even kidding to you. I was going to try this later today or maybe tomorrow.

There's a really, there's a really cool library downtown at UT Austin. And it looks really old and it looks like Harry Potter. And I was going to go check it out and work there and see what was going to happen in my brain. It's not even that. It's not even going to see what's going to happen. Oh, I was I going to be like,

because I've done it before where I worked. Like I did a podcast at a library. but the problem that I faced was number one there was a bar that would go to next to me and it was so much fun going in there because those people were so nice to me so I was like you know what, let me just go in there

and then number two being at the library was kind of weird where I was like doing stuff and I was like am I being too loud right now like am I? You know is me sitting my backpack down like this too loud am I going to distract? And I got way too in my head about that

I was like oh my God am I really fucking bro when Tanner and I were at the library down in Austin we were so loud giggling, bro. I think we're the only noise in that place because we're just yeah, the computer screen. Yeah, it was so bad. I tried to study.

Yeah, I was like scared to make a noise, but it's scared. Dude, there was a bathroom door that I opened up and it almost slammed shut with Tanner. Our library is pretty fire because it has the first floor which is loud, second floor a little

or no, also loud. And then third floor is like hushed and fourth floor is silence. Dude, I'm pretty sure Johns Hopkins has a really insane library where it goes underground. If that's the right. Bunker Brer Brer. Bunker Brer. Bunkerer.

Also, Nick, speaking about door shutting really loud, that happened at the domain with me. It was so, I hated that experience so fucking bad. I had to use a bathroom, so I stopped at a Starbucks and I just went inside to use a bathroom. I opened the door. And I thought, you know, that was going to be one of those, like, Like it just does it on its own Dude that thing And you can hear the glass move

Like it's like next to it I was like Oh my god That was loud Now looking around Like some of them were looking at me I was like oh Oh wait

Sorry I've never been here I don't know Another door story Another door story Isaac in LA Fitness I don't know the yoga room Yeah Oh you try to go in

You try to push it Because it was indented And they haven't fixed it Yeah I try No I tried to pull it Like I was trying to leave and I pulled it super hard. Mm-hmm. And you're supposed to push it out.

I was like, yeah, yeah. Yeah. When I broke the entire thing. Dude, okay. So the doors are like, they're slightly indented. So it looks like you're supposed to push when you're going in. It's not. It's a pole door.

It's a pole door. But it, you can't tell that because I think so many people try to push in that it just, it like broke it. Like the door doesn't even close properly anymore. No, I don't. Probably yanked on it in opposite way and just,

I'd be fucking up doors though. That's for real. Yo, you guys should look up the George P-Body Library. It's at Johns Hopkins. It's the one where it goes down, like, down, like, underground. It's fucking nuts, dude. It's actually beautiful. It's called George P-Body, like, P-E-A.

P.E. Sherman Library? Yeah. George P. Body. George P. Body. Library. Beautiful. Those types of libraries are awesome. I'm pretty sure Cornell also has an insane library as well. Cornell University. I love those big Gothic libraries, bro.

Oh my god. This looks crazy. Yeah, dude, you want to talk about Harry Potter. Just look at Cornell University's library, bro. There's like bridges that like are inside with books where you can like sit. It's crazy. Those types of libraries. I love it so much. I could see myself bringing my sewing kit and writing in my... Dude, I would start dressing the heart.

What you think you'd be doing at the library, bro? Yeah, I would be bringing my sewing kit making clothes at the library. Recording myself in 480P. Oh, shit. There you go. Yeah. The word's performative, bro. The word's performative.

I'd go there just to be performative. No, it's great. Library's great. It's always like I used to go there in a library when I go to school. And it would be a great place to do your homework because when you go home, it's nothing but Dr. Pember and GT-A-5. A SdF movie 16 just dropped I did see dude I saw that

I saw that I was super excited So excited I didn't watch it Can I show you guys like six bro? There's too many Can I show you guys a cute thumb now? Yeah Okay, it's your finger Aw The most beautiful library In the world

George Peabody Library I'd actually be so warm if it's like the most beautiful husband in the world And he's like saying that to me That'd even better That would that's her The most beautiful husband in the world. Wait, do you guys see that picture of like a solar system and super high definition

like detail? Wait, it's like super far away. Look, it's like crazy. Whoa. Zoom in. I fucking dare you.

Yeah. It's like a dude. I don't believe that crap. I was seeing an advertisement. It's like iPhone. No, hold on. Hold on. Hold on.

Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. You don't believe in space. But I saw this ad and I almost fell for it for some stupid reason. I think I was sleep deprived. It was like iPhone versus the.

this brand I've never heard about. And it was like, they were like zoomed into the moon. And you can see like the little like like, like it was super deep. Oh yeah. You're thinking of. So Larry's Apple,

Larry's Apple mind isn't familiar with the Huawei. It wasn't Huawei. It was a Huawei. It was something else. It was something else. And you know, you know that thing that TikTok does where it's like, the blue comment and it's always like the.

Yeah. And this has like the phone name and model. And then everyone's overreacting about it. They're like, yeah, dude. Everyone knows nothing compares to and it's like the blue fucking name. And then you click on it. It's like all these bullshit videos about it.

You're like, all right, dude. I foe for it again. And it was just so stupid. But that's real and I believe it. And I believe it, Tanner. All right. About that time. I believe it.

Let's pick a page to get to for next one. I found one is page. I would say page 40. It has a chapter. 40. 40. Yeah. I know it doesn't sound very exciting and all.

I probably just read the whole book tonight. Wait. I'll allow for Nick to catch up. Wait, 44 is the next one. Why don't we just get 44? Is it the analysis of dreams? Is that it? The problem of types.

Oh, shit. Hold on. I'll find that. After the analysis of dreams is the problem of types. So do we stop at the problem of types? I found it, yeah. Yeah, stop at the problem of types. Gotcha.

Got it. All right. I did have to go take a crap. That's why I left. I didn't just like want to. Dude, after eating that food, I haven't pooped yet. Oh, I'm scared. I don't know what's going to happen.

Wait, one second. Are you talking shit, grunk? Yeah. I'm going to use my IRS notice CP40 about my overdue text as a bookmark for this book. You know what we should do? We should do a group project one day for the podcast. This is a group project. No, no, no.

We should do like after this book. Like a presentation. Maybe we don't do another book. We do a presentation. That'd be pretty cool. And we do a podcast where we try and teach the audience about something. And so we have to like go one by one. Okay.

Okay. Every one of us gets five minutes to explain our piece. That's actually perfect. Wait. I actually have a presentation to do that is supposed to be five minutes. Oh, shit. I just present to us after. Yeah.

All right. Let's wrap up though. It's about an hour 17. Listen, y'all. Hey, A, A. Thank you for joining us on the book club podcast. Yep. If you're all feeling like reading along, please do.

Enjoy yourselves. It's a manning. It's from a book, it's from chapter 148. Bang, bang. Bang, baby. Yes, it is. Our book.

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I mean, you could use that money for more stuff. I don't know. For more. Yeah. Cops. I'm lean, good. Double cut. We'll see you guys next week for episode 149 where we read about the function of unconscious,

subconscious, subconscious super dream. Adios. Braha. Thanks guys. Maha.