This Is Important - Ep 307: And Then DMX Happened

Episode Date: July 14, 2026

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Welcome to This Is Important, a production of IHeart Radio, the show where we only talk about what's the most important bottom line critical thing happening on this planet. Today on this is important? Go on one. Just have one. Just have one. Don't be a pussy. Is it being bitch? Tonight on TMZ, the workahawks guys have gone missing at sea.

Bro, go touch grass. Buckle up. Somebody help me. Who, who, who, who, who, who, who. Is it the dog days yet? Cumbaya. I think it just started, actually. The dog.

Is the dog? Are we in dog days yet? Whoop, who. What is, uh, what? The dog days are like the final days? August. I think dog days are like August. Yeah.

The end of the summer. I fucking love the summer, dude. This summer is... Look at this guy. Comes in rock hard. I like it. I love the summer. Tell me more.

Well, I live at the beach. And so when it's, when it gets summery, it gets fucking summery down here. Everyone's on boats. Everyone's surfing. Everyone's swimming. There's jellyfish in the bay. And it's not the stinging time. And that's good?

It's the jellyfish that you can swim with, dude. Which one? I thought they all sting. Are some of them nice? Not these ones. Not these ones. You can, like, rub them on your body, and you would be perfectly fine. You can swim with them.

You can fuck. And you're perfectly fine. Let me, what are we talking about? This is, like, a perk of the summer. Like, you just listed, like, three things about summer, and one of them is that there's jellyfish in the water. What are you doing at these jellyfish, man? I know you don't eat chips, but like this is where we are now.

What are you doing to these jellyfish? Great ass! I'm just saying, okay, okay. And I'm just saying I'm excited about summer. Okay, all right. And then. But so wait, in the winter you can't swim because there's sea lions? Well, it's chilly.

You can swim. It's just cold as shit in the bay or in the ocean. But now the water's super warm, so there's great whites right out there, right out there. Pizza, pizza. I hate it. There's also jellyfish in the bay, which normally they wouldn't be there because the water's too cold, but they're here now. And it's, they're fucking stunningly beautiful. Oh, so you can see the jellyfish.

Yeah, you see them. You're right in the water. Do they illuminate or do they look like plastic bags? No, they illuminate. They do. They have the lights. Yeah. At night.

Well, where I saw them, a light was shining in the water and you could just see them. So I don't know what I'm talking like some of them like. actually like light up. I'm not positive. But it was beautiful. It was science. Striking. And I'm not, and I know this is so on brand, but like, could you literally, like, hold the jellyfish in your hand?

Like, I think you would kill it. Yeah, it's dead. But could you use it as a- You can definitely just scoop a jellyfish out like this and then just drop it back in the water? Yeah, and kill it. Yeah, you could do that and murder it. No, I'm saying, what if you, could you hold it all? all bunch it up in your hand,

and could you, could you, like, use it as like a pocket pussy? Okay. Let it hang. Pun intended. I'm serious.

Jesus. What the fuck, Blake? I'm serious. What would happen if you... Blake, I'll answer this one. Adam, I got this. You're serious, dude? Blake.

Yeah, you could, Blake. You're serious. Could you? What did... Yeah, what I got here? Uh, yeah, I got this, Monarch hat, still streaming on.

Apple. I can fuck that. What do we got here? You're serious. God, this cruise is important. I can probably fuck that. Do you think anyone do you think anyone in history?

You see this tape? You could probably fit your dick in there and fuck it, Blake. Scoop up a jellyfish. Yes. In history. In 20206 someone's done this. The thing,

well, the fact that you just said it aloud means that across the world, the 8 billion people that live on this planet, most live by water. A lot of them.

I like that Blake thinks he has had this. This is the first time someone's thought of this. The ego on this guy. No, no, no, no. Right now, on this planet, someone is fucking a jellyfish. Right now. Yeah, dude. Cut it out.

Well, hopefully it's not one of the ones that sting you. I thought they all stung you. Maybe they get off. Maybe they get off to that. That would be crippling pain. Blake, you got stung by a stinger, not stung right, a jelly. Valley Fish in Miami many years ago? Or Kyle did and who peed on who?

I was the one who got stung. I don't know how severe it was. I don't know if it required Kyle peeing on me. You just wanted Kyle to pee on me. Ow! I got stung. Where? In my mouth.

I remember it being a big thing where like you were saying someone has to pee on me, someone has to pee on me. This is three in the morning. And then you go, does anyone have to pee? And I'm like, well, I have to pee. I could like pee in a like a empty bottle and you can spray it on you.

And you go, no, not you. And I go, what? Oh, wow. Him. And you go, not you. And then you go him to Kyle. And Kyle's like, oh, yeah, okay. I think I got to pee.

And then. Water trap. You made Kyle actually piss on you. And not my plan, which I thought was a perfectly good plan of pissing in a cup or a plastic bottle and then putting it on it. No, everybody, everybody knows. that it's not... You guys got into the shower together, right?

We did. Yeah, that's right. I'm starting to remember, yes. And then the next night you got stung by jellyfish. Whoops. I'm your free. Yeah. I got stung by a jellyfish on my asshole.

Literally around my asshole. There's two things that get up. You got to spray it in. It hit the bullseye, Kyle. I was in the next room. I kept here and hit the bullseye. Have you ever been to a carnival? where you play the game where you have to

inflate the balloon with the squirt gun? Oh, yeah. That's what we were playing. But with my jellyfish stinging on my a ass hope. I'll sting that jellyfish. That's a starfish. Yeah, should we... Should we get into that?

Why you didn't want my piss? Well, you were saying you wanted to pee into like a jar or something, but I think science depicts that... You think science depicts that. It has to come directly out of you for it to neutralize this thing. I don't think it can be like... The hot heart rate. Yeah.

Why is that because... Something happens when the urine touches the atmosphere and it has to be fresh. Like how blood is blue, but it turns red. Exactly. Thank you. I do believe science depicts that as well. I don't know if science depicts that. The science.

Can we see if science depicts that at all? I think that's at least what I saw in some sort of a science show. Dream, some sort of a fantasy. It's science. And the weird thing was, is just how immediately you were like, by the way, you didn't, then I did have to, I did have to piss. And you didn't go, that's okay, just piss on my leg. I'd prefer that because of the way science depicts it.

You go, not you. Right. I wanted to. Not you. Kyle, who, I don't know, I feel like the last person... Who science has depicted. I feel like if science were to depict the person I would want to piss on me the least, it would be Kyle. Water trash.

Sure. It'd be Kyle. Sure. But that's who you wanted. Well, we have a lot of history, and I just felt like it was also... We were killing two birds with one stone, you know? It's like something that we hadn't accomplished as friends yet. And I was ready.

Accomplished? Yeah. I try to accomplish, check things off. Adam, you got to remember how Blake and his friends interact. Yeah. It's different. It's a little different. We're close.

It's gayer. It's a lot more dicks out and closeness and giggling and... Great ass! Less stories about girls they know when I've talked to. We don't talk to them. It's like, hey, did you talk to that girl? Yeah, I did. cool. They're more like, hey,

do you feel that? And you go, what is that? And they go, that's my dick on your neck. That's my dick on your leg. Yeah. Huh. Yeah. No, that's exactly. That is so spot on.

I'll hold a jellyfish. Fuck it. Yeah. Yeah, man. It's called bro bonding. High speed brobond. High speed bro bond. Have you ever heard of it?

Sorry. Man. I've heard of it. And to think all this started by saying I love summer, dude. I love summer. I love summer. I love summer. Unbelievable.

The jellyfish your back. Blake's feeling a dick on the back of his neck. I just come on. I mean, summer's fucking, the best memories of your entire childhood are from summertime. Yeah, of course. And then the whole part of summer is great. Because when summer starts and you just get off. school and all of a sudden it's getting late.

It's getting dark a little bit later and your parents like she stay up a little later. Yeah. And then all of a sudden it's July and then it kicks off with a boom. Yeah. And your parents let you play with explosives. At least my parents did because they were fucking cool. Yeah.

We played with so many explosives. Yeah. I was the rocket man. Show us your legs. Yeah. That wasn't. That wasn't from that. No, it was a car accident.

Uh-huh. But I was hit in the end of June. Sure. I kicked off my summer that year. Okay. The dog days. And then you start, and then the dog days hit. And then it's too hot to even go outside.

So then you watch some afternoon movies. Wimbledon. That's fun. Or read a book. We were a Wimbledon house. It was always on the kitchen TV. The little black and white kitchen TV, you walk in there. Kitchen TVs are, you want a little crystal light.

You want some Triscuits. You go in there. Wimbledon's on. We didn't have a kitchen TV. I didn't even know what tennis was until I was 32 years old. So you met me. Yeah. Tennis is actually tight.

You were like, this guy smells like tennis balls. Tennis is sick. I love tennis. Tennis is cool. Yeah. I found it the worst way possible. It was through playing pickleball, and then I realized, like, there's got to be something better than this.

It was tennis. It's tennis. Tennis is so crazy. But how come they don't get hurt all the time? How come their legs aren't exploding out of their... They are. No. Their knees probably get fucking twerked.

Yes. rate of like a basketball player or a football player like tennis they do the thing this is but and this is why uh joke itch jock it jock it jock it jock it jock it jock jock jock jock jock jock jock jock jock is like i don't know if no back joke bitch or wow joker is like an anomaly because he's just lasted for fucking ever somehow um whereas rafa nadell he's had all sorts of leg problems and knee problems which is is why he's a savage on clay, because it's less, you can slide and it's less cutting back and forth

on your legs and your knees. But generally speaking, if you talk to old fucking tennis dudes, their legs are all fucked up. Yeah, but they're still playing into, when you're thinking of summer, I don't know if you're thinking... Fucking jellyfish, tennis,

Joker. To me, when you think of summer, what do you think of? Well, you grew up in more of a... country club atmosphere. So there's more golf, there's more tennis. Mine was mostly... Dad was always coming back from golf when I woke up.

Yes. Mine was mostly baseball. It was baseball or pickup basketball. Yeah. Or throwing rocks at abandoned buildings. Harry Carey also on the TV a lot in my childhood. Oh, yeah. Oh, we had WGN.

A lot of Cubs win, Superstation situations. And I think I finally aged to the point that I like baseball again. Like I really do. Oh, baseball rules. I'm back. I'm back on. I now I just will turn on baseball and just have it on. And Chloe's like, what are we doing?

Oh, man. And I'm like, it's just on. That was me. She's like, do you care about this game? I'm the same way with tennis. And I'm like, I absolutely don't care about this game. But it's on. And every once in a while, you'll see something cool.

Yeah. I used to love to. that shit. Of course, I lost my baseball team, so I don't really do that anymore. But it was a great joy in my life having baseball on in the background. Mm-hmm. Listen. And you're there for heart-wrenching knockouts. The world's biggest stage. And breathtaking triumph. 2026 FIFA World Cup, the knockout stage.

Every match, every moment. Listen on TV. On the On the road to the July 19th final 2026 FIFA World Cup Stream it all live on TSN Radio Available on IHeard Radio Dude last summer I did I got I told Chloe I was going to get deep into baseball

Didn't watch maybe more than one baseball game But I watched every baseball movie I could think of Hell yeah, those are the best one And it was the best it was the best summer baseball has the best movies why does baseball have the best sports movies go um

it's the pace of the game you know you like you don't have to like it's already the worst answer to me I think it's about a childhood and there's so much freedom when it comes to baseball because you do have so much free time during the summer so then it's

not like football they then are in school for the entire week. Baseball there, you know, if you're on like a competitive team, you're playing multiple games a week, and you're playing weekday games, and then on the off time, you're just kicking at each other's house. Oh, yeah. They're playing double back-to-backs in a day now, bro. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. These kids are get, these parents are getting milked for it. You don't get me started on the YouTube videos I watch about the decline of children's sports in America. Oh, what? It's a fucking nightmare. Well, it's a whole, it's just a cash.

Well, it's not a decline. Yes, it is. Well, it's a decline in the way that it's not as fun for the kids, but it's a incline with how much more sports they play. What? I'm still going to send it. Yes, but it's a decline in, like, return. Like, more kids are getting injured because they're specializing earlier and doing the same thing over and over and over. Whereas you used to do, like, three months in one sport, three months of another sport, three months of another sport, and three months of another sport, or four and four and four and four.

Now you're doing 12 or 11 months of one sport And then all of a sudden you're like My ankles are all fucked up Because all I do is play tennis Or all I do is play basketball or whatever You didn't take that time off to be like Hey actually I wrestle for two months Or I swam in the summers or whatever it was

And so they're getting all these crazy injuries And burnout where kids are like I fucking hate this Yeah that's the When do you know At what age are you like, oh, my kid is athletic? Right away. Because is that right?

Yes. If your kid is like a G, you know right away. Just by the way they run. If you have a kid who runs around the house and like jumps off something and sticks the landing or jumps off something and continues to run in a way where it's like seamless, they're a stud. if you have a kid who like climbs up the couch and then like jumps off and collapses finds jellyfish finds jellyfish that begs their friends to pee on it?

No but if like you can tell or I can tell like I just the way they like move. Yeah, the way they move. Yeah, the way they move. Just at parks like that's an athlete. Like my oldest kid, my oldest kid he runs like very like kind of like gazelle like and I could tell right away that he was never going to have like fast switch speed. Yeah.

Who did you? My second kid, he ran with his legs out like this kind of goofy. It's slowly, like, reeled in as he's gotten older. But I was like, well, okay, he's not necessarily built for land. And he plays water polo. There you go. My third kid. Hello.

He connects with the ground in a way that makes me very excited. This is the way. Well, I, yeah, I'm like. He's got fast Twitch. He moves. Eric Griffin's kid is, like, two weeks younger than me. Beau or it's something they're really really close in age and he is already

first of all he's like a head he's like weighs 20 pounds more than him is a head taller oh why do he that is like fully hitting the ball when he tosses it to him right it's like shooting a basketball is kicking a soccer ball

yeah Bo doesn't do any of this shit oh no yeah no Eric is 6364 and his wife is tall right what's Bo selling that. Maybe he wants to read books. He is. He's really smart kid.

That's right. There you go. Yeah, but that sucks. That's not what you look for your boy. I got one of those. Good luck having a conversation. You don't want that, dude. I'm so disappointed. They're like, what did you think about the war 1812 and you're like Oh, God,

nerd, dude. I'm like, don't you want to go throw rocks at an abandoned building? Dude, come on. Like, dad. Let's go light fireworks. There's no abandoned buildings around here. And you're like, You're right. Dad, we're at the Acropolis in Greece. Come on.

Let's go like fireworks, dude. This will be cool. Let's blow some shit up. Yeah. You just keep showing him jackass over and over again. And he's just not clicked. Yeah, he's just a smart, a smart boy who isn't that athletic. And I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. Give it time. He's not even two and a half. So I was like, when does it kick in? Is he like maybe four? Some people find their love for sports way later in life. That's not about a love. I'm not talking about love.

The love of the game is, I think, the most essential part. Like what Durs is saying, like the burnout. But Blake, that's not what I'm talking about. You can think anything you want. I'm talking about the freak athleticism that I wish my son had. Instead. Haven't you seen Rudy, dude? Haven't you seen Rudy?

You don't need athleticism. You need love. Oh, have I not seen Rudy? You need love for the game. I think the point of Rudy was that he was an athletic and that he was just a hard worker. Exactly. You don't need the freak athleticism. He didn't make the team.

He didn't really make the team. No, he did. He did. He did. Doesn't he score the fucking touchdown? No, he doesn't. What is the movie he does? But I don't think in real life he did. No, in the movie he doesn't.

He does not score touchdown. What do you mean? They coist him on the shoulders. I think that they put him in the game. He gets a sack. They put him in the game because everyone chanted his name. He gets a sack. That's huge.

What the fuck are you talking about? Do I not know Rudy? I'm not ready to crawl through this screen, motherfucker. Do I not know Rudy? You're the one who's claiming the love of the game is unimportant. It's obviously the most important thing. No, I'm not saying it's not important. I wish my son had more God-gifted talent when it comes to physical athleticism.

Yeah. That shit's important. I wish she was blessed with a physical athleticism that I didn't have. Sure. that my wife didn't have, but I was thinking maybe somewhere along the line, a lineage, he could have it.

I think there's a good coordinated hand eye, though, no? Also, what? Yeah, I was good at baseball as a kid, but I also wasn't like the best. You know what I mean? I was like, I literally tell my kids, I'm like, just pick your sport and hang in there.

You're going to be 6'4, and it's going to come in handy. And everyone who's better than you at sports or gives a shit more now, they're going to quit in sophomore year because they're 5-7. Yep. And they don't want it.

And if you want it and you like it still, work hard. Genetically, I have set you up. That's right. Maybe both. Must be nice. Must be nice. Maybe both are going to be ill.

Not even that athletic, but I was like, I got to get into college somehow and I just fucking focused up. That's kind of sick. What are you kids? I wondered that too, because, you know, I saw this thing for like a college

scholarships and it was like, it, but like, are you going to just pay for your kids college? Fuck. What do you mean?

It's almost like if they, I guess for athletics, that's one thing because they just want you to come do athletics. Right. But to get a college scholarship

in another way where you might be taking something away from someone who doesn't have the means to afford it. I'm like, is that, is it, what is the, that's a moral quandary a little bit. Oh, sure. I know what you're saying.

So this is, this is made famous in the movie Soul Man. Right. Is it? Okay. That's a movie that, you've never seen Soul Man. I don't think you can watch it anymore. It's notoriously the most offensive movie of all time.

Then why is James Earl Jones in it? Well, this is my, hey, this is where I stand. James Earl Jones is in it. He's not the moral compass. To me, he is. James Earl Jones? James Earl Jones? From Sanlo?

I think James Earl Jones. From Conan? Yeah. From Conan? Yeah. With the cool wig and the bangs? Baseball. Yeah, from Field of Dreams.

He's my barometer for what's racist and what's not. I, well, he was in that movie. And he read the script and he was like, I think it's hilarious. I'm Darth Vader. Then I go, yeah. For people who don't know, Soulman was a movie that was played on Comedy Central all the time. Constantly.

All the time. It's a movie where the main character is doing Blackface the entire movie. And what was the name? What was his name? He's not doing Blackface. He's wearing black makeup as opposed to Blake's favorite thing, traditional black face. Right. But in the movie, he's taking tany pills.

So yes, the actor had to paint his face dark. But he's also acting like he's African-American. It's crazy. It's insane. He's acting like he's African-American at first when he thinks he has to. And he's like pretending. This is where I think James Earl Jones is. Because it's a complex, it's a complex, compliment,

complicated movie. And that's why he was on Comedy Central at 4 a.m. Yeah. Yeah. And I think that you can definitely write it off immediately. You can definitely write it off immediately based on all the things you're saying. Yes. I do think that if you do watch it and you see how they did what they did.

Sure. I don't think it was meant to be an offensive movie. It's definitely a movie to make you think. I think it has a point of view. It's trying to say something. Ray Don Chong? These are two people. Okay.

The actor never worked again after that. Okay, so here's the elevator pitch. To achieve his dream of attending Harvard, a pamper teen, poses, as a young black man to receive a full scholarship. Yes. Okay, so he's stealing a scholarship from a young black man. But no, here's what they do in the movie. They go...

Here goes to do. The apologist. Dude, they used to play this constantly on Commercial. Unreal how many times they would play this movie. So they go with these scholarships. Like, if no one claims them, they just roll into the next year and someone else gets it. And he's like, this one hasn't been claimed. claims it. Then he falls in love with this black woman in the movie and she's like,

are you the one who got the so-and-so scholarship? And he's like, well, what are you talking about? And she goes, yeah, like if no one from L.A. claims it, it goes up to Oakland. And that's where I'm from. But then you got it. And I'm happy you got it because you're such a great guy. And he's like, what? And then it's snowing. Yeah. And she goes, you're turning, she goes, you're turning white. And he's like, what? And she's like, because of all the snow on you. Dude, like, I know this movie It's so well It's crazy.

Dude, dog days of summer? Yeah, that's a movie during the dog day. Just sitting on the Ottoman like this, watching TV, booty in the air, eating chips. Watching Soul Man over and over and over again. Bro, go touch grass. I was touching water.

Couldn't really make things work on grass. I mean, I, maybe I need to revisit the movie. That was one of those movies. where it was on all the time, but I just, yeah, I never really sat down with it. Yeah, see Thomas Howell did not work after that. Yeah, I did. Because I don't think it was done maliciously. Correct.

Hence, but there are way worse movies that are like reprehensible and did not even know it. And this one was at least conscious and trying to do something. But obviously like, you know. Yeah, and then they, you know. Fumbled the bag. they fumbled it. Yeah, I don't know if I ever watched. It just didn't seem like a movie I would even care to watch.

It's so funny. It's so funny. He goes to dinner at this white family's house. Stop! And he's like dating this white girl, and then they go into the mind of the dad and his racist thoughts. And he turns into like a pimp who's like yelling at his white daughter. It's crazy, dude. Julie Louis Dreyfuss is in it.

Dang. Heavy hitters. Oh, how come she didn't catch any? Get her. I stand with James Earl, Ray Don, and Julia Louis. These are your barometers. You keep saying Ray Dong.

You don't know who Ray Don Chong is? Said no one ever. From Commando? It's Tommy Chong's daughter, first off. Oh, it's a girl. Is that real? Yes. It's a girl.

Oh, I didn't know that. Ray Don. Ray Dong Chong? She's the woman from Commando. Oh, yeah. She was a babe. She was a babe. He named his daughter Ray Dong Chong.

That's Tommy Chong's daughter. That's incredible. Say that five times fast. That's a really good name. Yeah, because she was in commandos. She was in all kinds of bullshit. Oh, yeah. I remember her.

When I worked at Bones, she came in for an audition, and I lost my mind. I was like, I'm not supposed to say anything but commandos awesome. Dude. Thanks. And it had been 30 years, and she was like, Thank you. Yeah. Thank you.

Dude. That was the thing I did 30 years ago. Leave me alone. Dude. Yeah, dog days. You know, you get to watch cool movies like that. That was a big dog day summer movie. And then it's just the looming you're going back to school.

But then that also kind of rocks too, because by that point at the end of the summer, you did it. You have a nice tan. You maybe took a little vacation. You play, you know, you were out there. You were in the street. You got a little dirty. You were kicking the king.

And then now you're like, hey, what them, at least Anders and I were like, what them girls do? You know, what's up with the girls this next year that we haven't seen? That was not. We had a beach. We had a beach. So you're just at the beach every fucking day. And you're like, where the girl's at? Which beach are they at?

Yeah. And I'm like, where do jellyfish at, brother? And then your buddy's like, we should kiss. Do you love it? What if we kissed? What if you pissed on my mouth? I mean, we're not gay. Not in yet.

We are not in. We just can't find women. What if we kissed? Piss on my mouth. Listen. And you're there. For heart-wrenching knockouts. The world's biggest stage.

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Sweet 305 with Lele Pons as part of my Cultura podcast network on the IheartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Jake Brennan, and on the Disgraceland podcast, I explore the wild lives of rock stars and unbelievable true crime stories from music history. These are the stories you haven't heard, the kind you'll end up telling someone else. Like the time Paul McCartney spent in one of the world's most notorious prisons. Imagine that. You're Paul McCartney. It's 1980. You're an ex-beetal.

And you're doing time in one of Japan's worst prisons right there alongside Yakuza gangsters and for a ridiculous charge. Or the bizarre crime Lady Gaga is accused of. Who is the artist Lady Gaga as being accused of doing the unthinkable to after allegedly stealing her music and style to become famous?

And what about that time, Blondie's Debbie Hatt? Harry escaped a serial killer. The man who had given her that ride she barely escaped from was Ted Bundy. Listen to Discraseland on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And you know what, Adam, to really get into the dog days of summer. Okay. I'm starting to understand what they are now.

My, looking back now, the evolution of summer based on age is the shit. Because when you're six or seven, you're kind of just getting like carted around. You're going to summer camp during the day. You're staying up late at night. You're watching like, again, cable all fucking day long. Eureka's Castle. Maybe a movie you shouldn't be watching. Right.

Okay. USA up all night. My favorite part of summer, the dog days, was I would stay up till like one in the morning every night. So I would actually watch like Conan O'Brien, which was fucking sick. Well, that was just bad parenting. dude. So now you're in high school. You went to high school. You're fast forwarding? Yeah, you were six years old staying up until 1 a.m. Yeah, and I'm watching Doctor Who. That's fucking crazy, dude. I don't remember six years old what the fuck I was doing. I didn't go.

I do. I was on my bike outside constantly. I was playing football on the street. Eating like fucking lightning bugs and just putting them on my teeth. Put them on your teeth. We didn't have those. That is some hillbilly ass shit. There was no lightning bugs. Okay. Well, that sucks for you. That's a bad childhood. It's not. It's just a bug.

Was it humid? Is it humid in Omaha in the summer, Adam? Yeah. Is it humid in the bay in the summer? It's not, right? No, not at all. The humidity was like a whole fucking just sensual memory. I don't fuck with humidity.

I don't either, but it takes me back when I feel it. I do very poorly in it. It takes me back. You want to feel something that's going to take you back? I'll take you back. I'll take you back here. It's in the air. Even, you know, I live, I live down here at the beach now,

and you see it like a little hop-skip and a jump in, like, people's steps. Even the adults, you know, they're like, oh, it's summertime, you know. I'm going to start being an alcoholic as soon as the sun starts to do it. As soon as the margaritas start pouring, baby. It's five o'clock somewhere, brother. And not even the sun, it's like, it's five o'clock somewhere, and they start. Parents walking the neighborhood with a huge mug of alcohol is all I ever wanted to achieve. And I bet you have.

I do it. We got some new families on the block. It's a beautiful thing. But I can't do it as much as I wish. I wish I could do it more. But it was just kind of the whole thing. You'd go house to house. You'd top off, get a little more ice maybe, go on to the next one, see what people are up to.

That's fucking cool. That's a good community right there. Yeah. And then it was always jokes about like, oh, you come and empty my liquor cabinet. Oh, you know. I need to get like a margarita machine. That is on my list. Sure.

I want to get some. I want to be the house. Blake, you have a dive bar 60 feet from your house. How close is that bar from you? That does not make a good. That, A, they don't make a good margarita. And B. Okay, shots fired.

It's too damn far. I want it right here. I want it right here. Now, is this one that it's just constantly churning like a slurby machine? Like, so you could just... I would... Oh, wouldn't that be just fucking peak existence to always have a slurgeon? Why can't you have that?

You have in your little man cave that you have out there. Why isn't there... I've been YouTubeing products and I haven't found the one that I have settled on. I want to find the ultimate margarita machine. If you're listening, hang on. Why don't you buy a industrial machine? It'll probably cost you of several, maybe $2,000, but I think you could do it.

You'll make that back in police reports. It looks like the cleanup is a little bit of a chore. I will say that. Here's what I was just going to say, because I know you got to keep it fresh, right? You got it. I don't know how often you have someone come to clean your house. Extra $50 a week or a week or a,

whatever, a visit, to have them clean it and re-pour and just have it refreshed. Here's a thought. Here's a thought. Because you have to keep it fresh like Ders just said. Gotta be fresh. Can you not have alcohol in it so you can give it to the kids? You can have, you know, the wife. She doesn't want.

Habit forming very young. And then you have daddy's tequila stash and you do a little mix. I bet that that's a possibility. What would be really cool is if there were two machines spinning at once. Oh, okay. All right. His and hers, all right. One for daddy.

One for mommy. That's daddy's pink lemonade, okay? I don't know about you guys. I like a slice dirty soda. Ooh, dirty stuff is trending right now. That's one of those things that it sounds like a thing that would be, and it probably would be. so fun. But then by the end

of the summer, once the dog days are over, you're 15 pounds heavier. And there's flies everywhere. Everywhere. Getting radical. And you're like, just sluggish. And now you're like, you're getting blood work done from your doctor. And they're

like, Jesus Christ, you're all over the place. You've been eating chips. You have diabetes. It seems like it wouldn't be as great in practice. It's a lot of power. You can't, you can't, you can't You can't abuse the power. What you really need is like you've got to be the guy on 4th of July and on Halloween that the neighbors know,

oh, damn, he's breaking out the margarita machine. That is true. That is true. And he makes a hell of a concoction. Hey, have you gone over to the jellyfish fuckers house for a margarita yet? Literally, I don't like talking to him, but I do like his margaritas. Once a year, I'll tolerate them. I was saying, I think I think.

I just talked with Blake and you were out of town, Ders, you were traveling the world with your family. And you guys talked to each other without me. Yeah, we talked about you. We talked about you. I was saying, me, you, Blake, we need to, the three of us, and it's a work trip. We're talking work.

Good. We're getting work done, okay? Like plastic surgery. We're getting work done. I'll have a Botox doctor on the boat. Yes, points. With GLP 1-2. twos and threes.

Yes. Go on my boat. We take it over to Catalina. Yes. We try out some margaritas there. Maybe we spend the night. Maybe we come back later that night. I'd prefer not to because I want to be drunk enough.

Tonight on TMZ, the Work of Hawks guys have gone missing at sea. That's why I don't want to come back. I would love to. And by the way, we can all crash in the boat. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That would be so fun. We could all crush. Do you have a cool little fur fireplace I can vomit in, please?

Oh, yeah. Let's get Ders back to the old. Yeah, I would love to go to Catalina. Name it. Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's do it.

And it's a work trip. It's a work trip. We'll pod live. We'll get work done. We're getting work done. You know what? This is a brainstorming session. We come back like...

Just all lips. Ders has tattooed eyebrows. You know how women get those like tattooed on? That would be awesome. I don't know why I would. Oh, that would be so awesome. That would be sick. I look at myself and I go, where's this going?

Where does this happen? When you were over in the European countries, did they lack eyebrows as well? No, but look at Erling Holland. That dude is just... I don't know who that is. You don't know that Norway soccer player. By the way, congratulations to them. They just won the entire World Cup.

Very crazy. He's an absolute beast. He's like humongous. He's a big dude. He's like six, four, and jacked. and fast. And he just looks like the most Norwegian thing you'd ever seen. It's like watching Gronk play football.

Yeah, pure Viking blood. That's fun. But it's soccer. So it's a little smaller, but it's also the size. He's definitely the story of the world. Like as far as like newcomers. Like that dude is cool. Yeah.

He is fucking cool, man. Yeah. And now I know. I've gotten a lot of people sliding in the DMs sending me the fucking roo. Yeah. So here's what we're going to be drinking. Here we go. Here's what we're going to be drinking.

Line them up. In Catalina. I'm drunk now. We will be drinking buffalo milk. Oh, love that. I've had that delicious. Tell me more. Which is a delicious concoction.

But then also, we're going to go to Luau Lari's and drink some Wikiwackers. I just want to party. So just know that we will be having some. I'm already. I don't, I have no clue what it is. I'm already. Yeah. I'm in.

I want a fun glass. That's, and then I'm good. We're doing it. We want a weakie-whackers, baby. We want a weakie-wackers. Because Blake went one time during COVID. We went the once. It was a blast.

Fully masked. But we didn't go. You peed in my mouth butt. You're peeing in your mouth butt? Yeah. What is your mouth butt? You know what my mouth butt is. It goes,

it goes, everything goes into my mouth butt. So basically, that's just my long. winded speech on how much I fucking love summer and to end it with the boys in Catalina I mean that's fun I want to continue this trajectory

of the chronology of how you age with summer because it starts off summer remember when you're like really young summer goes on forever it takes too long and then as you get older it shortens and shortens and then when you're 45 you're like there's no such thing

as summer it's just it's over yeah But like 12, you got a little independence. You're riding your bike all over town. Oh. You're hitting up your boys. You're causing mischief. You go to sleepaway camp. You can start to go to like...

You're making out. What the? With not your friends. No, I don't know. Blake was practiced his hands. He would like... Blake would draw, like, be honest. Did you ever draw a little eyes?

Absolutely not. Eyes and a lip on your hand right here. And do what? to it and kiss it and I'd never practice kissing bro. You're sagging your pants way too much. I'm definitely sagging. Your braided belt is long A.F. You're making bike rides to Carl's Jr.

And you're ordering and you're getting your own lunch. And then you're hitting 7-Eleven on the way home. You're kicking it at a white hen, which is a 7-Eleven chain that doesn't exist in Chicago anymore. What? White-Hen is what we had. You need to get the T-shirt. That's tight. We had come and goes, and I believe they still exist.

Mm-hmm. In your world. I believe I was on my way to a come and go when I was hit by the cement truck. Oh, boy. I'm gonna come. I came and went. It almost came and went. Yeah, I think we've said it.

Hey, is your shirt and your hat matching? Like, is that the same thing or just coincidentally wavy fonts? Ooh. Wavy fonts. This says number one mom. Okay. That's funny. Representing.

That's like. Someone gave Chloe this hat. Took it off great. When she became a mom. And she was like, Like, I'm never going to wear this hat. I'm going to get rid of it. It was in the like go.

It was in like the goodwill pile or whatever. What a cool nice thing to highlight on an international podcast. Yeah. Well, it just doesn't. She doesn't really wear hat. But she was like, I'm not going to. Of course. It was stupid.

It was idiotic to give it to her. Yeah. Yeah. It was like a PR package thing. Yeah. And I was like, well, I will absolutely wear a number one mom hat. Yeah. Absolutely.

It's a conversation started. It's trans-friendly. Yeah, don't assume. Don't assume what I'm working with. It makes people go, oh, interesting. I would say you're a hot mom. Thank you. I would not be a hot mom.

I guess I didn't know Madam Devine. Have we said that? That's got to be. Madam Devine? Madam Devine, have we said this? Yes, points! Pretty good. Pretty good.

That's almost as good as a slice dirty soda. Okay, are you guys down for dirty sodas? This is a trend now. What are they? I didn't know that. Really? Oh, yeah. They sell Mountain Dew dirty soda.

sodas now. What is a dirty soda mean? Yeah, what does it explain what a dirty soda is. I think it's like, I've never had one. I think it's when you add cream to a soda. Like, so you're just like pouring milk into it or some shit. I can't, I hate what's happening. What? And I'm actually, this is a whole, this was like a Bill Maher thing the other night where he's like, there's like a new name for everything that we have to know now. That's a very old man. Like I remember what it was just called a cream soda, but then they're like, oh, dirty soda. We can use that. to market to people who like the hot new thing and now it's dirty soda. It's like it's still just strawberry delicious. Strawberry cream. The orange cream soda I had was great. I didn't know why it was called the dirty soda. But you're telling me this is the new

what we were talking about last week with fucking... Yes, the new red velvet and hot honey. So I just read the little thing that's in the chat that our boy Todd just dropped, I believe. Dirty soda is a customizable non-alcoholic drink made by mixing soda with flavored syrups and a splash of cream and half and half creating a creamy, fizzy treat. And it originated in Utah, which here's why it originated in Utah.

And the Mormons, and they call it dirty, and that's their way to be like a little naughty. Yeah. It's dirty. It's a little naughty. Right, right. Because they're not even allowed to drink caffeine, right? Yeah. Are they not?

They're not allowed caffeine? if you're the real deal? Actually, now that you mention that... I don't think so. I don't think so. Now that you mentioned that, that might be a thing. What might be a thing, Blake?

I'm trying to remember that they can't have caffeine. I'm trying to remember the Mormon family in the summer, the dog days. Wait a second. The Kimbles. I don't think they are allowed to have caffeine. They're also...

This call me crazy. They might not be allowed to murder. Strictly prohibits consuming coffee and traditional black or green tea. Okay. Interesting. Of course. Believe this.

due to caffeine, the official doctrine focuses on the substances themselves and caffeinated sodas are perfectly acceptable. So you can have caffeinated sodas. Why can't you have black tea or green tea, but you can have soda? This does check out. The Mormon dude on my swim team, we would all do a case race and get hammered, and he would always show up with two leaders of Mountain Dew, and he'd always be like, I'm going to get more messed up than you guys.

And we'd be like, no, you're not. I went to prison for a weekend. Dork Squad. Fucking Dork Squad, dude. Damn, God bless me. Yeah. That's cool. That actually, I really like guys that are like that.

I mean, he had to do something. Yeah. It's cool that he showed up. He's still part of the team. He's doing the best he can. I really like it. I would always like put an arm around those guys, you know? And try to get him to drink.

And then actively try to get him to drink. Go on, dude. Just fucking have a shot. Just have one. You have to. Let me make you with my dog. Just have one. Don't be a pussy.

Is it being bitch? I love you, dude. It happens naturally. There's always somebody who holds out, and then they realize, like, everyone's doing it. And they're like, all right, fuck it. Like, let's do this. And it always goes poorly.

It never goes well for those people. I remember these girls in high school cried when they found out that I smoked weed. Mm-hmm. Cried. Adam had, like, a nerd fan club. Oh. I mean, sort of. And then they lost you.

Yeah. They legit cried and were begging me to not be this person. These were the girls who pushed his wheelchair around for two years. And then he was like, I think I'm going to go smoke weed with these hot chicks. See ya. That shit's important. Well, if the hot chicks were Kyle Walsh and Zach Leonardo. They both have beautiful locks.

Yeah. They do. They're very cute. Cumbaya. But I'm not far off. You're not far off. No. They were so nice.

We'll push you around. And they were devastated. Good people. It sucked. And I felt really bad, but I'm like, dude, smoking weed is awesome. It's so fun. Truly, when you find it, it does completely change who you are as a student. It's so fun.

All of a sudden, I was hacky-sacking all the time. Devil's sick. Devil sticks. I never did the devil sticks, but I did have a lot of hemp accoutrements. Sure. Yeah. I had necklaces and bracelets and belt.

Did anybody make clothes for you? We had a few girls who would like make like knit, like wide leg quarteroys with like patchwork down the side style. Yeah, I remember that. I remember some. Because jeans hadn't been flared yet. That's right. And so they were like, we're going to make them big and wide.

Yeah, they would add material. Well, by the time we, You're a few years older. Gene's had been flared when we were in high school. They had figured it. Levi knew what they were doing. You guys wouldn't understand what I had to go through. Yeah.

And I mean, Jankos were all the rage. Thank God, I thank God none of us went down that path. Kyle for sure. Well, Kyle was close. I don't know if he truly did. But I remember having a homie that I was like friends with in middle school. And then, you know, you kind of fall out of, we just weren't close and then

saw him in high school and it was freshman year and he just came with a look freshman year. Yeah, yeah. Hold up. I hadn't seen him all summer and now he's like wearing all black Marilyn Manson. Reinvented. T-shirt. Yeah. And

Janko jeans with like the super thick leg holes. He found his people. And then like fish nets on his arms. Yeah. Oh, Jeff Hardy. Oh, buddy. Hell yeah. He just fell into a hot topic and just emerged a new man. Absolutely, dude.

Absolutely. It happens. I was truly taken aback. Wow. I couldn't imagine going that far down the rabbit hole in like the two and a half months that summer had happened. I saw him. He was like kind of a nerdy kind of put together guy. Sure.

And then going into summer or going into freshman year. This is like a Marilyn Manson summer probably. It had. Yeah. I would say for us, seventh and eighth grade, were very, it was very that, and,

uh, Brerrahra, the beautiful. The beautiful. Maryland Manston had a real puddle of mud and, and, uh, Rob zombie. No,

Romstein. Romstein. Romstein, Duhaus. There was a, it was right before Matrix. It was a dark time. Right before Matrix?

Like, bordering matrix? No, that was during Matrix. It was during. covered in gemstones. This is gemstones adjacent. No, I want to say Marilyn Manson was before Matrix, but same time. It was all kind of the same time.

Well, Matrix came out in 99, right? And I think Marilyn Manson was 97, 98 into 99. This is as dark as it gets, but I think the fucking Columbine kids dressed up like the Matrix and then played Marilyn Manson on the fucking speakers. Yeah, it's all connected. Yeah, we're all talking. We're all speaking the same. language right now. You probably read the book,

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I explore the wild lives of rock stars and unbelievable true crime stories from music history. These are the stories You haven't heard. The kind you'll end up telling someone else. Like the time Paul McCartney spent in one of the world's most notorious prisons. Imagine that. You're Paul McCartney. It's 1980. You're an ex-beetal. And you're doing time in one of Japan's worst prisons right there alongside Yakuza

gangsters and for a ridiculous charge. Or the bizarre crime Lady Gaga is accused of. Who is the artist, Lady Gaga as being accused of doing the unthinkable to after allegedly stealing her music in style to become famous. And what about that time, Blondie's Debbie Harry escaped a serial killer? The man who had given her that ride she barely escaped from was Ted Bundy. Listen to Discraseland on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Yeah, so we were right in the pocket, Blake.

It was our sixth grade year was 1996. And so that's when Marilyn Manson came on the scene. Imagine if he grabbed me by the heart and I was that. I could have seen it. I could have seen it. I'm saying. I just, it never, it never, I didn't think it was cool. Mm-hmm.

I didn't think it was cool. Was it popular at your school or was it like fringe? It was very fringe. Yeah. For me, like there was a very select few of like the darkness. you know, where it was just like, oh, these are these are the little goth kids, but it's not even...

The dark souls. Yes. But too, I was just too happy to fuck with any of that. I was like, I don't know. I mean, I was just hit by a cement truck, but now I'm walking again and I'm just... I'm walking on sunshine. I'm like, I'm back, baby.

Like, it's all working out for me. I could have been dead. You don't realize. If you never walked, you probably would have gone the way of the Janeco. Yes, I would have been. of a beep bad. Dude, you don't know.

Your wheelchair would be like the Adams family car, or no, the Munsters, the hot rod. But the Jancos are always getting caught in the wheels. I'm always like falling over. Yeah, I, fuck. You hear you died? Fucking Jankos.

Suck! Fuck! Caught in the spokes again. Where's something else? I always had, I always took a bunch of art classes because I was into that. And so then I had, I just had like a leg in or a foot in with the darkness?

The goth crowd. Yeah. Well, I was, yeah, for us, the goth crowd, there were all, they were heavily involved with the drama department. Stage crew. So that's, yes, they weren't. Oh, no. Yeah.

They were, they were the stage crew. Yes. They weren't in front of curtain. They were behind curtain. Yeah. And so I knew a lot of them. And I was friends with a lot of them. And so much so that, uh, this girl who I knew put a list together of people that she would,

wanted to murder. And it became a big. thing at our school. Yeah, it was a different time. It was just thoughts in the journal. I've all done it. And then I was devastated that I was on the list. Yeah.

Damn it. You really? And I'm like, homie, I know you. Like, we are friends. And she was like, I pushed you around in the wheelchair for two years and then you started smoking weed. Then you smoked weed? You betrayed me.

Then you smoke weed. That's crazy, man. I know that we were in a heightened era of that kind of stuff, but like. Couldn't believe it. Couldn't believe it. She'd go through every fucking diary from like the 90s and 80s. I'm sure a lot of girls were like, I want to kill this fucking person. Yeah, no, I mean, but I think.

We just got hell of organized about it. And then someone was like, I'm going to do it. Yeah. Then they started to. Well, then it just got too easy. Yeah. The guns got too good. The guns got too good.

And people started, you could find those communities. You'd be like, oh, check out my shit. And it's like, oh, dude, are you really going to do it? It's like, yeah, I am. And it's like, oh, fuck, you did it. And it's like, oh, this is terrible. And that's how you think they sound? Absolutely.

100%. Interesting. I kind of feel like, though, I'm going to be... Dude, when I feel like... I don't... I never went Marilyn Manson, but I was 9-inch nails. I was 9-inch nails.

I thought 9-inch nails... What do you mean you were? Tell me more. I was 9-ish nails, too, because I just thought it was a fucking cool video. I liked those albums. Well, yeah. But those are like... Downward Spiral.

Those are kind of almost undeniable genre jumping albums, right? Where you're like, oh, Metallica, the Black album. People who don't like heavy metal like that album, right? Right, right, because it was like more of like, it was kind of like industrial and like... But were you wearing like snake eye contacts? I would not, I would not wear a nine-inch-neil shirt. I couldn't, I wasn't a true fan like that, but I would dabble in that. But Marilyn Manson, I think it was just like his music wasn't really hitting with me.

And he was just a little too. Did you ever stick Ninish Nails under both your eyelids? Is that the line? Then Eminem came and clean the slate. I didn't, well, the thing is, is I didn't hate, like, some of his songs. Like, we are stars now in the dope show. Would that, but like, if it came on now, would you let it ride? Yeah.

Yeah, I bet I would. Yeah, for sure. the strip club, it goes. I remember the video where he had like tities, right? I think so. I remember watching the like the TRL video and you're like, yeah, okay. He's walking around with like titties and he had like a

moose knuckle. And he's like all creepy, but I'm not like waving that flag, you know. Sure. I'm like, that's not my thing, but when it comes on, I'm like, yeah, all right. Okay. Dan, dent, dent. I'm trying to think, I don't know

if there's a Marilyn Manson song that I would still fuck with. There's definitely 9-inch nail songs. I think dope show. There wasn't that crowd. I'm not doing beautiful people. In your high school at all. I'm not doing...

No, there were. There were. There were golf. There was golf energy. There was the darkness. There were like 10. 10 per grade, maybe. 10 per grade.

But you would just get clowned on so hard. You'd be absolutely annihilating. Sad. They'd be like, I mean, it just is like, it just wouldn't fly it just wouldn't work it just doesn't work it just don't it would break it out of you

but I'm trying to think of like what is this sweet dreams or made of like I don't I wouldn't mess with that still either sweet dreams oh man yeah but that's but yeah there weren't that many people

who weren't just kind of hip hop heads that was kind of just what it was I think that's actually and then there were stoners who got into like music that way and then there were just white girls who were big into Lilith fair shit.

Our school was pretty, either you liked, like, punk rock music was like a huge, or you were top 40s. But commercial pop punk, no? Yeah, pop punk. Pop punk. Punk rock, getting radical. Omaha Punk. Blank, Green Day. Like, Blank and Green Day.

Or it was top 40s, or you had skinny sideburns. and... And you loved House of Pain? Yeah, and you were like into, you know, you were backpack wrap before that term existed. Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, hell yeah. That Omaha backpack wrap was going all.

I mean, who's the, besides 3-11, isn't there somebody from that? And I guess not even backpack rack, it also was just like rap, like the guys that their parents gave them Tahoe. and they put them on giant rims, and they had earrings. Adam, you may or may not know the answer to this question. But for sure in Chicago, it was just East Coast hip-hop, really, by and large.

Didn't even really have access. You would hear some Tupac on the radio, but not really. It was mostly East Coast and a lot of R. Kelly. RIP. Omaha. Is the radio playing East Coast or West Coast? It was a mixed bag And it was a lot of

Like from the south It was a lot of like New Orleans Yeah I think I was Oh the south had happened Yeah At that yeah yeah yeah No limit and cash money

And it was a no limit Soldiers Yeah It was like my senior year of high school I think Yeah that was our Eighth grader freshman year What a time to be alive

What a tank to drive on a bass And then DMX happened Then DMX happened Oh, dude. Rest in peace. Rest in peace. Barking. Barking at you.

And Blake, you completely skipped the entire Bay Area underground hip-hop era? Yeah, I wasn't fully in, I was more into like the E-40s of it all on significant records. Yes, Casey and Jojo. Yeah, I wasn't really digging into the hieroglyphics and foreside and all that. Now I do. Now I do. Did you like any guitar music? music.

Me? Yeah. 1,000%? Yeah. There's no such saying as 1,000%. You know, who were your bands then in high school then? That were like rock bands? Mm-hmm.

I was kind of, see, I liked like, fucking, like, heroin rockers, like, Allison Chains and, like, Stone Temple Pilots. But that was before high school. That was... No, it was adjacent. Allison Chains was like... We were in, like, fourth grade. Allison Chains unemployed. Crazy album.

Allison Chains released like a greatest hits probably in our high school but then yeah like Tool was releasing albums I was kind of and I was embarrassingly like really into Godsmack

which they turned out to be like the funniest weirdest band Yeah they sucked Yeah they really really sucked They like all claimed to be witches I don't even know that

Honestly I guess if they were like Yeah fucking go away I'm doing the best high you ever do Go away, I'm doing the best and I can. Every song was about going away. Is that a real song? Yes, 100%.

And I sound exactly like him. Yeah, it was... I'm doing the best and I can. Yeah. Go away. I was heavily influenced by my friend John Paul, and he didn't listen to anything except for like the Zelda soundtrack and like God's Mac and Allison Chains.

And then of course, West Side Connection. And that's like what I had to listen to because that's what it would be listened to in his car. West Side Connection is Ice Cube. Ice Cube, Mac 10, and Dub C. Right, got it. Got it. And they did America's Most Wanted? No, they did Bow Down.

Bow down when you come to this town. Yes, and we would listen to that album over and over and over and over and over and over again. We didn't listen to anything except that and Zelda. And no East Coast hip-hop. And were you smoking weed during this time? I was not smoking. We were starting to drink, but I was not smoking weed. You were starting to drink at when?

Freshman. We drank so much in high school. And now we're getting into the 1617 age era of summer. These are the summer. This is where you're like running around, someone got a 30 pack, you're going to go find them. Oh, yeah. Dude, everyone would go $5 in on beer and weed and then someone would get a bag of weed.

Someone would score a 30 pack. then, or you would get a handle of vodka. And then the amount of, I was just talking with my sister about this, the amount of drinking in parking lots that we would do, tons. That's all we would do. We would drink on a golf course. That's wild. You would wait to hear where the party was going to be.

Right. So you would go to the Taco Bell parking lot and you would. You guys were popular. You would drink. You would drink there. We would drink at the same place. I do love how it's like, you guys. must have been so fucking cool drinking

and parking lots. Yeah, I'm like, what? No, you were looking for somewhere to go drink at a party with people. We would just drink at John Paul's house. Yeah. Yeah. We would also drink at someone's basement too. I remember hearing stories about somebody

would be like, oh, did you hear about so and so and all those guys were drinking in a basement? And I'd be like, oh, all right. And then eventually those people came out of the basement and then they would be at the party also, and you'd kind of go, oh, like, It was Avatar style. We're like, I see you.

You know, like. Frick you see you. You're out. You're finally out. Have a Bud Light. That was right. They weren't their freshman year. They weren't their sophomore year.

But by junior and senior year, especially senior year, you'd be like, welcome. Yes. And then you would watch people who finally came to the party. Lose their shit. Go so hard. And it became their entire thing. and they just went missing into the ether and they're gone and it's sad.

Yeah. I remember seeing our valedictorian freshman year of college. I went back to visit, and I went to Lincoln to visit a bunch of friends. And I moved out to California. I came back. I'm at University of Nebraska. We're at this huge party.

And then I see her and she never drank. She was never at any of the parties. And then she was, fall down, stumbling cross-eyed drunk. He's like, I'm here, I'm here, I just see you. This is the way.

And I'm like, oh, you fucking blew it, dude. Damn. You do not know how to handle yourself in college. You have to drink. You got to train. For at least a year

or two years before going into college. Especially if you're going to Omaha. Yeah. There's a throwdown. That's a throwdown school. Yes.

Especially if you're going to a big state school like university to That's the best. You got a, yeah, you got a train. You got to train. When you're young. Did I ever tell you guys this story? Maybe I haven't.

Maybe I haven't, or even told it on the pod. But I had a friend. You guys had met him. And he went to a different school and then he started coming to my school. But I'd already known him from the other school. And he was out with his friends and I'm like, bring your friends to this party. Like, it's going off. We're having a good time.

Like, there's a keg. Da-da-da-da-da. Also that night, my good friend who was like a fake ID type guy, he told some people from another school that he would like buy the mckeg at the liquor store in Evanston. The liquor store in Evanston has a back door and a front door, and you can just go right in the front door and out the back door. Brilliant. So he has these guys meet him.

Has these guys meet him. They give him the like $80 for a keg. He goes in the door to. go buy the keg for them, goes right out the back door, gets in the car, drives off with their money. Freakly see you. Right?

Oh, bummer. They're like, we're going to fucking kill you, like da-da-da-da-da, blah, blah, blah, blah. He comes to the party and is telling the story and we're like, that's hilarious. And then people are getting drunker. They're like calling his pager,

or paging him calling him threatening. And he goes, you want your money? Like, come and get it. And everybody for like an hour is getting hands. and like ready to fight these fucking people who think they're going to show up and like get their money back that my friend stole from them. Yeah.

And so my buddy is calling, like, this is before cell phones. I don't have one. I'm trying to be like, yo, get here, like, we're having a good time. So then he's putting it off. He's not coming. He's not coming. And then everyone's like, yo, we got to go outside like they're fucking here. They just rolled up.

We go outside. I'm watching dudes from my high school like annihilate some people in like a holy fuck way and they're like running off someone has like a bat it's like gnarly and then they run off

and people are all hyped the fucking cop showed up people split and then I get to school on Monday and my homie was like what the fuck and I'm like you bailed on the party you never even showed up

he goes we showed up and all my friends got beat up oh no they would have So all these dudes that my buddy brought who I didn't know and nobody at this house party knew all got beat up because people who weren't even involved in my friend stealing the money were just waiting for people they didn't know to roll up. Oh, they weren't even the, oh man. And maybe the people who got their money taken never even showed up. Showed up.

It just got the, oh, that sucks. Or they didn't recognize. And he's like, dude, my friend got hit with a bat. And I was like, I saw that. I saw that. That's great. And he was like, then I kind of stepped out the whole story to him. And he was like, that's hilarious.

Like, he kind of got it. He was like, that's unreal. I can't believe that. Anyway. The amount of, you see, like, the people that are going to be real criminals when they get older. You know what I mean? Like, yeah, yeah. I told you, dude.

We used to hang out with this older kid. And he, he would like, get his booze. He had a fake idea or whatever. And we were driving around with him. He gets in a road rage fight with this guy. Follows him. And me and Walsh were in the car,

follows him for 40 minutes. This guy's car runs out of gas. And now we're in the middle of nowhere. And you're in like the backseat like, um, yeah, we're like, maybe we just,

hey, maybe let's not continue to. He punches through this guy. this guy was like, he was also on steroids. He punches through his window, drags him out. Now he's all bloody because he just punched through a window. Drags him out, beats the guy to an inch of his life, and then, and then opens up his car and goes through his glove box and finds like it was like, insurance or whatever. No, like $12, lose cash.

Like just rob the guy. Yeah. For like $12. and then gets in the car and he's like, you didn't see shit. And we're like, uh, he says you didn't see shit? Like you? Yeah, like us. Like we didn't see that.

And we're like, we've been here the whole time, dude. Like, and we're like, oh, of course, no, no. Meanwhile, this guy is just bloody. I'm like, this is, it's not worth getting like the bottle of Boone's farm that he promised us. That's crazy. I love that you're in the car for like 40 minutes. Like several songs are going by. You're like, yeah, that's a good one.

right? Maybe. No, it was 40 minutes of, hey, uh, well, you know, I mean, I figure, he's starting to head out of time. Maybe we just don't even, hey, let's just, well, that parties should be going off. He's love. He's love. He's love. He's in my hair. And he, uh, I'm getting hungry, dude. Huh. Pretty fly for a white guy. You know, it's on, it's on me.

It's on me. It's on me. A combination pizza hut and Taco Bell's on me. If, uh, if we just stop. Never. If we just stop now. I got you, boo. Yeah. Hey now, you're an all-star. Get your game on.

We pull off. We're rolling life. She fucking hates me. It's been a long December. It's been a long time we've been following the sky. It's been one week since you look at me. Damn, man. He's a bit.

She's a lover. She's a child. She's a mother. Oh, my. Oh, God. She fucking hates me. A song by Fastball. I'm trying to...

Everyone you see the roads that you walk on and paid in gold. Closed me in time. Oh, my God. Any takebacks, any apologies, any epic slams. Oh, wow. You know what? I take back starting off the pod by talking about fucking a jellyfish. I don't, you know, it's part for the course.

I'm sorry, but it might feel good. really. Blake, you're the X factor. Yeah. It's X factor. I don't know. We need that. We need that.

Otherwise, we're just going to talk about Norway. Children's development. Yeah, we're going to talk about how angry I get hearing about how. Yeah, seeing if my child will be physically gifted and Durs says he will not be. I'm telling you, when he jumps off the couch, how does he land? Does he stick the landing? It's not looking great. He's not sticking the landing.

How fast do the legs move when he runs? He's pretty, he's getting fast. He's getting fast. There we go. Yeah. And by the way, that's just like body coordination. Yeah. That's just 90% of the sports.

He could be good at, he could be the guy who shoots the gun with one arm. Gymnastics? Yeah. No, that's speed. That's power. Did you guys have like speed training when you were young? You can get faster. You can train to be faster.

No, no, no. But there's a difference between like, you just go to a playground and like look at kids move, dude. Watch the kids. This is, when I go to a playground. Do you want to take back how often you said that you watch kids move? No. I'm sticking to it. You should,

I watch kids play on the playground and I go, that girl's gonna be a fucking gymnast for sure. Or you watch like, out loud? And I go, who, yeah,

yeah, she's promising. No, quietly, it's even worse if it's quietly to himself. That girl's going to be a gymnast. Into a,

beer can in a bag. Yeah. Into your, you can just tell. Goblet, your giant Stanley of just tell. And so what I'm saying,

Blake is that yes, everyone can train to be better, but there are people who are at a starting point where there's just like your Alan Iversons, your Bo Jackson's where Bo Jackson's always like, I didn't lift weights and you're like, how is that even possible? Yeah, genetically. You're gifted. You're gifted.

Jump off that. I thought, I was a great podcast. I love talking dog days of summer. Let's take it's a catalyna. We're in it. We're in it. Let's go to Catalina. Get us some Buffalo.

milks. And just what is that before I go, yeah. What is exactly, it's like the drink there on Catalina? Yeah. All right, cool. Let's do it. It's a milky rum drink. It's delicious.

It's fantastic. I'm in. Yeah, you're going to love it. Creamy cocktail, actual bison milk. Okay, I'm out. Signature cocktail of Catalina Island, despite its name, the frothy tropical drink contains no actual dairy from a buffalo instead of It's an alcoholic blend of vodka, Kalua, creme de la cacao,

creme de banana, and half and a half topped with whipped cream and nutmeg. It's the type that you will shit your pants if you have more than three of them. Sounds like a dirty soda. Give me a dirty. Give me a dirty buffalo milk, baby. Oh, they're dirty. They're dirty. Well, that's another episode of this is reported.

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