Your Transformation Station - 29. What's Your Musings About Larry Oliver w/ Favazza

Episode Date: August 31, 2020

"How can you create a transformation in others if there's no transformation in yourself?" Join Greg Favazza podcast host and creator and co-host Larry Oliver reflect on daily musings as well as imagined scenarios. Have you ever considered the tableware you purchase at your local store, questioning the portion size of the tableware and researching the proper amount of food for a balanced diet? Greg and Larry will question those ideas and more. Or imagining the worst-case scenarios to pass the time while waiting in line at your neighborhood 7-eleven. --- New episodes on Mondays for free. All episodes ad-free. https://PodcastYourTransformationStation.libsyn.com/site Find us on social media (YTSthePodcast)   Support the showPODCAST INFO:Podcast website: https://ytspod.comApple Podcasts: https://ytspod.com/appleSpotify: https://ytspod.com/spotifyRSS: https://ytspod.com/rssYouTube: https://ytspod.com/youtubeSUPPORT & CONNECT:- Check out the sponsors below, it's the best way to support this podcast- Outgrow: https://www.ytspod.com/outgrow- Quillbot Flow: https://ytspod.com/quilbot - LearnWorlds: https://ytspod.com/learnworlds- Facebook: https://ytspod.com/facebook- Instagram: https://ytspod.com/instagram- TikTok: https://ytspod.com/tiktok- Twitter: https://ytspod.com/x Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're tapping in to surpassing expectations from the most successful people in the modern day and honing in a new foresight, methodologies, and clairvoyance you never knew. This is your transformation station with your host, Greg Favaza. I have been overly welled. As you can tell, my shit's not even up on my background because I had to... Oh, I see that. Yes. I had to re-wipe the computer because this book.

brand new computer I bought somehow got a fucking virus on there and fucked everything up. So I had to delete that. I've been, I'm writing two books. I've finally finished my design for my third book that's going to fucking punch a hole in Stephen Covey's work where I'm going to go, I am going to take those next seven habits to a whole new fucking level. Wow.

I need to be patenting this shit, but I believe that costs like around 200 bucks. I just can't spend it. However, just know it's going to... You could always print the concept of it up and then mail it to yourself and keep the envelope sealed and you have a postmark on it.

So it's better than nothing at all. That's genius. That's fucking genius. Yeah, I mean, I've heard that's one way to deal with that. Again, when push comes to shove, I don't know how valid, but at least you have a... Here, well, when did you guys come up with it?

because here's when I came up with it. Okay. Yeah. I came up with about, I want to say four months ago, and I've just been, I'm trying to work on numerous things, and I'm creating a course for podcasting. I'm creating a course for Your Transformation Station that will open up people's minds on creating a character similar to mine,

because it stuck with me. When you told me about my character, it's like, I want my character to be out in the world because I feel like men today need to adopt a higher standard of themselves. And I feel like that will actually ripple out into people's actions. It will impact those to the people that they're interacting with. And it will just continue to disperse if people were to just act like that. And I think just having that as a good giveaway as far as you do this course,

you follow this little cheat sheet that I have, all this stuff that I've been creating, finding, it will be great to get people on the email list. It'll be great to continue to grow with your transformation station. And then also we're doing a podcasting course. We're going into that as far as, or I'll do stuff to review as far as reviewing my microphone, reviewing my camera. And I want you to participate with that because you got a lot of knowledge on that. And it's just for, it's just different ways for you.

and I to continue to grow with your transformation station, but also to grow with our audience. Like, I haven't connected with them. I haven't done shit with them. And it's just, it's really important that I start doing that today. It's something that I just noticed. You know, a couple of my coaches in the voiceover world tell me that I need to have and participate in a real social presence. And I just, at the end of the day, that's when I think, oh, shit, I didn't do anything. Anyway, what's really interesting, Greg, is in the last two weeks, I've been more social media oriented than I've been in several years. And I will tell you, on my Facebook business page, you know, the professional page, fan page, whatever you call it. Okay, I had just under

2,000 interactions, which was up from the previous month, and this was over a seven-day period. It was up like 1,000, 2,000 percent. It was crazy. Just from participating a little bit, and I mean a very small amount, with those people that stumble onto me every now and then. I was surprised what a difference it makes. So yes, point being coming back to what you spoke of is, is that interaction? Yes. People really, they're into that. It's definitely something that I have struggled all my life with. with. And I believe doing this will help me grow and be able to get the message out to people. I know we, I know I have a lot of great value information to offer this world. It's just this

internal barrier that I put between myself and everybody else holds me back. And I know it's just I created it. It's nothing, it's nothing more than that thinking that, oh, God, If people know, then I'm human, then I'm fucked, you know. Absolutely. If people want to know that you are human. And, you know. I'm curious, like, what do you even talk about with your audience as far as that goes? I'm trying to work our live session as we go, so I am paying attention.

Sure. So here's what, for example, yesterday was a beautiful morning. I woke up. I had my breakfast, my coffee. And I got dressed on Saturdays in Tower Grove Park, which is just a block or two away from me. There's a farmer's market. And I needed, I was out of local honey. So I figure I'll just walk over to the farmer's market and pick that up and anything else that I really don't need but I want.

So on my way over, once I got into the park, I still have, you know, a good mile, three quarters of a mile to go. to where the farmer's market is. Anyway, I just turned on my phone, and I didn't have a stick or anything. I mean, I'm holding it out here and walking, trying not to, the trails all crookedy and broken. So trying to make sure I don't fall like an imbecile, and then I can't get up because of my age, you know,

and then I have to push my button around my neck. You know, I've fallen it. I can't get it. What is that call? The thing, like you broke your hip, you can't get up. Right, right. And so I just kind of went on and said, hey, it's a great morning. I'm going to the Farford's Mark.

I'm going to pick up some honey, you know. And people respond to authenticity and just, you know, it was a short. I don't think it was two minutes. Maybe it was two minutes. Later that day, I went back online and I didn't go. I did go live on this one. And I think it was the first one I'd ever gone live on. I'd been thinking about, what am I going to have for dinner?

And it was 2 o'clock in the afternoon. But as I said in the video, just being authentic, old people, you know, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, they start thinking about, what are we going to do for dinner tonight? And so I was thinking I'm going to have this pasta. But for weight control purposes, they're actually, you know, portion control. I decided I would actually look at the box of pasta to determine what. a portion is. And so I talked about that.

A portion of pasta is two ounces. I mean, that's nothing. It's actually 56 grams, which is two ounces. There's 28 grams in an ounce. Anyway, so I showed them what it looks like. It's three quarters of a cup of dry pasta. And it was even more terrible

when I actually made it for dinner and then put the cooked pasta into a pasta bowl. And I mean, I can't I kept looking in there like, where's my pasta? You know, I mean, it's like four pieces of it. And, but I will tell you what's interesting is when I was done with dinner. And I just, I had a little salad, one slice of garlic toast in my pasta.

I know this. You were full by the end, weren't you? I was satisfied and I wasn't miserable and uncomfortable and burping and farting. I wish I didn't eat so much. And then later, too, I can enjoy a couple of cookies. Because I had the room. So anyway, but I talked about that. It's amazing how many people popped in and watched it and commented on it.

And again, it might have been two and a half minutes long. So I'm curious with that. Did you make it appealing to you and also trick your brain in a way as far as setting this pasta in a smaller dish versus an average dish? I feel like all the like several where all the. table where we buy is for extremely large portion sizes. I think that's why we're all obese in America today is because it needs to be acceptable. That is such a great point. What I did, I have a digital scale because I'm a coffee nut.

So if I try a new bean, you can't really go by your scoop. You go by the weight of the beans, how much weight you need for the water you use. anyway, so I actually weighed out two ounces of pasta. I weighed out in grams because that's how it was listed. So I weighed out 56 grams of pasta. I was just using little medium shells because I like those. And I put them in what I call a rice bowl just until I got ready to cook them so I wouldn't have to deal with it.

You know, when I got ready for dinner, I just drew it into a pot with boiling water and this great Fasio's meat sauce. And then I just put it in a regular pasta bowl, pasta kind of bowl. But what you say is so true, and it's mostly marketing, I think, that's affected the way everything's supersized and how we expect stuff to be supersized.

in the old days, pre-COVID, when you'd go into a really nice restaurant and you'd order something on the menu and they would bring it. And, I mean, it looked really pretty. But, you know, you got like medallions of beef. And there's like three bites of beef. You know, instead of if you and me, we're going to go charcoal grill a steak outside, you know, we're going to go get a 12 or 16 ounce. steak and slap it on the grill, man. Yeah. That's not for four people, really.

Mm-hmm. I mean, assuming you have something else to eat with it, you know, you only need three or four ounces of beef when you sit down and eat. Anyway, I don't mean to get off on that, but what you said is absolutely correct. Yeah, and also with the fact that, like, I mean, we're not used, I guess people aren't used to the fact that, yes, we adapted. We don't, we don't go how we used to back then where we would have to survive off one meal that would last us for days.

Now there's an abundance of food. I believe it's just way too much as the fact that we can go to a grocery store and get anything we want at any time of the day. And now we do even have to go to the grocery store. We can get a car cell phone and Instacart will bring whatever the fuck we want. I'm guilty. I'm guilty. No, I am too.

But again, it's so we do that. We're sedentary. You know, we're not moving. and people wonder how come there's so many people with aches, pain, so diseases, illness, they don't feel good, they have no energy, and they're overweight. Because of fucking Amazon, Instacart, and fucking, what do you call that place that delivers food?

Uber eats, the other one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, DoorDash. Thank you, DoorDash, you know, that shit's popping up with fucking reminders, say, oh, we got a special for you today. We got you covered. And, you know, and you get a free cookie if you, you know, do it in the next 12 seconds. Oh, my God, and I get a free cookie?

Yeah. But the other thing is, that's all fine and dandy. If we'll each make ourselves move and get some physical exercise every day, all of that's okay. But if we're not, in addition to that, if we're not getting out and being physical and enjoying the way our bodies are put together, which require movement to stay in optimal shape, You know, just like a car. If you don't start it for five or six days and you wonder how come the battery's dead because it's meant to be turned on and the alternator is going to keep it all charge.

You know, however that stuff worked. I don't know. But, yeah, we need to exercise is so important as to what we do each day and how we feel and how our bodies work. Yes. So, anyway, I'll get off that soapbox. No, you can keep going because right now you're buying me time as I try to figure out Because right now we're live on YouTube, and I'm trying to get us live on fucking Facebook and...

So do you have a special software or a special piece of hardware that allows you to stream from, for example, YouTube, and then it streams out live to other platforms? I have a buddy who actually specializes in that in live streaming, but no, I do not have that. I'm actually utilizing Zoom. Okay, so you don't need to. Yeah, they provide you with three avenues to get out there. And this is the first time I've ever used it before. Is it working pretty smoothly? For fucking YouTube, I believe so.

I mean, I'm trying to think. I don't even know. It's just showing a picture of your face with a lazy eye going. So it looks like... Lazy eye? Yeah, it looks like it's your left one. Oh, yeah, that's probably because I always forget to look at my webcam. Like, I look down here where you are, but then that makes everything go down here versus,

especially when I'm talking, I need to be looking, I suppose, into the camera, which is really not placed in a good, that's part of why it looks like I have a lazy eye. So with lazy eye, this is what's interesting to me because I was thinking about this today, as far as why do people have a lazy eye? And then you really got to look into it a little deeper as far as, okay, is there vision off by chance? Let's say somebody has like a 20-20 and the other one, and the other one's like 100 by 20. I don't know the... That's an astigmatism.

And yeah, that's my issue. But generally... With one eye that's lazy, it's like, is that the one that's straining all the time? Like, that's the shitty eye and the other eye is good because it's constantly like open and just kind of relax. Well, several years ago I had LASIC surgery. So none of that's really true. what you're seeing is the end result of two things. One, a just average webcam.

And two, like I said, where my camera's placed and what I have to do is concentrate on looking directly at the camera lens. But if the camera lens is off access, it's like when your microphone's off access, depending on your microphone, your voice will sound considerably different. with video, if you're off axis, you will appear, and things will appear totally different.

And especially on this camera, when I move, whatever I move, the movement's all messed up. So as I move my eyes, you know, it looks funny. Like this, okay, so as I look at the television, the computer monitor, it's this right eye that looks funky. I'm definitely listening. No, no, I know that. I know that. And I'm just, you know, talking as you're trying to make these adjustments so that, too, you'll have whatever adjustments you need. And as I told somebody yesterday, I like to talk. And so what I've determined is, you know, we all have about 50,000 words we speak a day over a normal day, most people. So what about those people that can't and don't talk for physical reasons and mental reasons?

Somebody has to use up their 50,000 words. Otherwise, those 50,000 words still hang and need to be used. And if too many of them are hanging around in the ether, well, then our ether will get all clogged up with these unused words. So I use everybody's words that don't use their words. words. That's why I talk so much, I believe. It's my excuse for today. That's a good excuse. And the fact, I like that as far as with people that need to use up this ether, the fact that they don't do it. Do you think that creates some sort of anxiety? The fact, like, it's just energy that's inside them that's not being expressed. Thus, they really don't know how to express it.

And that's why they get uncomfortable. That's why they're just like awkward kind of thing going on. But then you're coming in, kind of just feeding off that energy. Yeah, I'm just trying to use it in an effort to utilize all my pent-up energy that I could otherwise not use. Yeah, for people who are chiming in right now, they hear you saying, just using your pent-up energy, I think that can send a red flag on how you being a creeper Well, you know, there's probably many people that find that I am a creeper. Yeah. But I think part of that, part of that has to do with the fact that we're usually in the mornings,

I like to get out of the shower and just put on my London fog trench coat in a big fedora. And I like walking around outside in public. And every now and then when it seems appropriate opening up my trench coat. and people honk and scream and wave and throw stuff and, you know, others give me thumbs up. So I don't know. Maybe I have a little creepster to me. No, but that's what makes it okay.

I like to be weird. Like, I want to approach a situation in public and do it in the most abnormal fashion where I can break people's autopilot. I feel like if I can do that, then I made an impact in somebody's day because... Think about this. They're shutting their brain off. They're dissociating just to get through their day. And I don't want them to do that.

I want them to not suffer, but I want them to embrace this awkward, never-before-seeing experience into their life because they need that more than anything right now. They need that because that's a way to grow. And I will tell you back in the day when I was in corporate world, and I'd go into office buildings and walk into an elevator, the door would open. there'd be five or six people, you know, all facing out naturally and all very quiet. Yes. And here's how you break the ice in an elevator. I walk into the elevator and I don't turn around. So I'm facing everybody that's facing out.

And I don't say anything. I just look, you know, look around it, everybody's standing there. And somebody will say something and it'll break the ice, but it's really funny the expressions you get. they're like saying you can see in their mind why isn't this fuck turning around he needs to be I don't want to be looking at him we're all supposed to look at the door until it opens and then leave yes it's really funny when you do stuff like that the responses you get and generally it's a lot of smiles and laughing and that's always fun yeah or just ripping ass in the middle of that 30

second, like enclosed room for a second, and just have them like, whoa. Yeah, exactly. Or again, the opposite, too, is true. You know, you were just in a long business meeting and you get in the elevator and nobody's in the elevator with you. And you really got to cut a fart. And you know, it's the middle of the day. Nobody else is going to be getting in here and I only got to go down six floors. So, you know, you let it rip. And the next floor, the door opens and somebody walks in. They know it's, you. There's no dog. There's nobody in there. I did it. Yeah.

Just got out. The guy just, he farted and got out on the floor. Yeah. You just got to own that shit. When that happens, you got to embrace it and just let it flow. Because I think people, they get real weird and awkward. I think if you own it, it would actually make you more a respectable individual. Absolutely. When they walk in, yeah, sorry about the stink. I just farted. I didn't think anybody else would get in here.

You know. There we go. If you can hold your breath for 42 seconds, we'll make it to the lobby. Just this light. Oh, shit. Oh, that's weird. Whoa, stop it. Hold on.

We're going to just fix that. Okay. Display up to no. Hi, non-video. Are you still there? No, I left. Oh. You got really quiet like I just fuck something up.

No, no, not at all. I just decided to. take a breather. Every now and then I actually do that. I don't try to do it often. So it says like everything's running on like all three platforms. However, I'm only seeing we're live on YouTube, which isn't showing Facebook at all. So on the Facebook page is that your transformation station Facebook page, I'll grab it up here on my cell phone. Yeah. Yeah. And I added you as a fucking editor. have the ability to do anything on there. But I'm going to copy a link to the YouTube, the streaming link.

Yeah. I will post that on the page as well. Let me get to. Sometimes I have really fat fingers, I believe. I think that's just happens with age. Thank you. You know, I was wishing you could come up with so many things, but you chose to tell it comes with age. God.

See, I don't like the fact that it shows you're creepy. face when it's the initial YouTube streaming like part. It's going to look, I'm going to post it just because because it's just, it's really funny looking. It's like, whoa. Where will I see this? America's most wanted right here. Exactly, exactly. Okay, now I'm actually on the transformation station page. Ah, damn it. I posted on my personal page. We got to fix that. All right. So, I don't. I don't I don't want you on there. Ah, too late. You're there.

All right. Let's see here. What do you listen to in the background? We're live there. Where? We just went to your post office to your personal Facebook page. Yeah, I just posted on that. Yeah.

So we're there. But that's just YouTube. That's the YouTube link that I copied. Right. Oh, so this is not live what I'm saying. in. No, no, this is live. If you click on it, it'll take you to YouTube. I think what I need to do is set it. But I'm walking it through your Facebook page. So I think we're streaming. And it shows Zoom, so that's right. Yeah. No. Okay. Maybe. Is it plain? Yeah. I just switched back to YouTube. But here's your, hang on.

Okay. This, if you, I don't know, if you can see that. Yeah, I can see that. I know that's player. I don't know what to do it. That's weird. The guy that's there, the guy that looks like Brad Pitt. Yes.

No. Yeah, that's what, yeah, people confuse us all the time. It's embarrassing, actually. Yeah, he's quite exhausting. You have to literally wear a hat and fucking just. Sunglasses. Yeah. And you need a pen because you do, I don't want to disappoint people.

So I go ahead and give them the autograph. I wish I had that experience. How does that like when you wake up and you piss excellence? You know, I'll tell you. I see us there on your page, but I don't know if it's... See, I just switched it. Now it's on your transformation station. I'm going to put it on the group next.

All right. I know. I should have this setup. I really did. No, this is confusing. because I was actually going to try to do this before, not today, but I mean, before last week, actually. But it's okay that it's confusing because you're 90 years old, Larry.

I wouldn't expect it any other way. I can use so easily. It's unbelievable. I just want to put a VCR in front of you and watch you struggle. Let me tell you. Yeah. And there's people listening going, what's the MCR? You know, what's that big black box that you just stuck in that big slot?

Yeah, it was funny. My daughter was telling me this is a few years ago when my grandsons were a little bit younger. But she was cleaning out some old stuff. And there was a box of videotape. And one of my grandsons said, what's that, Mom? And she goes, well, you know, it's a videotape. It's like a movie. Oh, cool. Let's watch it.

We don't have a VCR player anymore. It's a VCR player. I mean, who has, still people have DVD players. But, you know, today, really? If you don't have one, do you really need one? You know, everything, you can stream everything or find it in a video, an MP4 format or whatever. See, you know what I was thinking, I think this would be like a great, like, idea for like a TV show is to actually have like a competition between, let's say, a one-year-old. putting in like the little like boxes or the little squares into the square hole,

the little circles into the circle hole. And then we have like a, what do you call it? Maybe like a 15 year old trying to learn stick shift. Okay. So we do that. We time that. And then we do an older man, say 30 to 37 trying to figure out a fucking Rubik's Q. And then we have your ass right there on there trying to work like a DVD player.

Right. see who is the first one that is able to get to the end of the taskings. I think that would be really interesting. It would be, yeah, it's like that, what is it, American gladiators where people go through optical courses. So this would be like techno something. You know, that's an interesting concept. Is this group here?

I don't know how to pull out. They updated this Facebook app. McGigger and I'm trying to. Oh, they did. They did actually. Find how to get to this and it's like, no. What is going on here? Fuck. I will get to our Facebook page. No problem.

So what are you even up to this weekend? Anything exciting, extraordinary. Before we even go into that, because I don't want to, let's go into what the plans are with your transformation stage. I have been I have sucked so badly at entertaining with the audience just you have to engage when you're running this soulful social influence I would say lifestyle this podcast and I want the audience to know that I've been working extremely hard I'm writing three different books one will actually be focusing excuse me around your transformation station and it'll allow you to adopt these principles that you can apply to your character and move forward with a higher self-awareness in yourself, but able to recognize the flaws and other people. So you can distinguish people that will help you in life versus people that will only bring you down.

And then the other book, that is focusing with a podcasting course. I've learned so much as far as I started researching how to podcast back in, November 2019 and I'm the guy who spends every day from morning to night on how to do something. And I have links to everything. I got links to fucking Britain. This podcast is going globally in 17 different countries. We are in 32 different states of the U.S. and that is me being at the bare minimum because I'm trying to write a book. I'm trying to create this online course for your transformation station as well as another course for podcasting. Yet I haven't even come up the names for it. I'm just right now creating these stupid slides, recording these videos of myself,

which is extremely exhausting. And then I got links to over like 60 different locations where you can publish a podcast. I actually have more than 60. I wish in the world actually how many places you can, but I know people will find that very interesting and want to know more and that'll be put out there as well as you and I doing a product review over equipment on how we can just inspire the world to stop buying this useless crap that Amazon's populating with. Oh, this is the number one seller. Get this one.

This one's fantastic microphone. No, no. There's a reason why it's number one seller. It's because people that bought it, returned it, and it's just complete nonsense with all these comments, reviews. Yeah, and you know what's really interesting when you talk about microphones or you talk about a camera or you talk about a light or you talk about a supplement, a nutritional supplement, or you talk about a body weight.

exercise or the latest fad in anything. You know, there's no one best thing of anything. So what I'm suggesting is, for example, in voiceover, one of the most common questions you'll see on different forms or Facebook groups, whatever you want to call them, is, what's the best microphone to get? Or if video people, what's the best camera to get? or, you know, if you're wanting to get a bicycle, you know, what's the best road bike to get? Well, you know, it depends.

It depends on your size. It depends on your voice. If it's a microphone, it depends on your recording area. It depends on your lighting. If it's a camera, there's no best of anything. But people don't want to hear that depends. That there's a gray area because to me, that makes me mad because I want a fucking microphone now. I'm impatient. I'm an impulsive individual and I want it. I'm like that. I'm the guy at the store

that suffers when I come across as impulse little section in the middle of the aisle. Like, oh, what is it? Oh, candy. I didn't want it, but now I do. Yeah, absolutely. So that's why I think when you talk about reviews, the reviews I really like and respect and believe are the best are not the, you know, opening box recommendation. You know, this is the only smartphone to have. This is the best smartphone. No, you need to have three smartphones there or you need to have three microphones there and review them and review why you really like this one for this purpose and this one for this purpose and this one for this purpose. And then my question is, and what you can address in those is, you know, what are you going to do with this microphone, Greg? Are you going to be on the street interviewing people with noisy traffic

behind you? Fuck, no, I'm going to talk to myself in my lonely little place. That's what I'm going to do. Yeah. And do you have a good recording environment. So that's when it depends. But you don't have to tell people it depends. You can take three popular uses of microphones today, you know.

And like you wouldn't have this microphone that I'm using for a podcast microphone because it doesn't, it could do okay. But you want a large diaphragm microphone. just like when you start talking about DSLRs for doing video. You know, do you want a full frame or, you know, one of those small frame, small chip? Yes. So it does depend on the kind of work or the play you're going to do with so much of this technical equipment. Just like, well, should I get a Mac or a PC?

Well, first of all, what's your budget? That's a big question, you know? Yes. And even at that, you also Linux, I mean, as far as open sources, it's definitely, you're technologically advanced enough to understand that. Well, people, like, I've noticed, like, with my, like, research as far as podcasting, I've actually came up with so much information within this book that I'm writing, that it will expand to every platform.

It's marketing, it's advertising. You're utilizing RSS fees. You're utilizing similar software with the same end state goal. and that's what your transformation station is about as well as this book of podcasting where it's a universal standard that you can apply from one focus being podcasting to another focus being on a being a YouTube influencer to another focus. It's all useful stuff and it's all out there and it's all fucking free. Yet we're all buying the shit because people say, oh, I have all the special. answers and all this nonsense. When really it's out there, if you know how to look, if you know how to research, if you

know how to read and take time and learn what you're actually trying to find, you can find it. You can, but most people, too, the reason why having the knowledge and putting the knowledge into a book or a podcast or whatever media you may use is people, you know, they don't want to take that time to learn, they want to grab a book and read or watch a video and learn how to change my oil. You know, whatever it is, one, it's time and information are the two commodities that are so important today. And of those two, there's only one that's really unique. And that's time because time is the only asset that everybody shares in equally. Nobody gets any more or any less time each day, assuming you make it through the day.

You get 24 hours just like everybody else. And how you use that time is what makes a difference to you and really the world around you. Because again, you know, this minute we're in right now will never be here again. And now it's gone. Why is that, Larry? Why are we losing time every day? Why can we have that minute back? Tell me about that.

Well, and again, I don't know that we can't, at least in the dimensions in this part of the universe that we live in. You know, unless you have that time machine, you don't get it back. And I'm not saying that that doesn't exist or won't.

Larry, are you suffering the oddball fact at this point where you get too old, you start to look back at all the good times you've had? Yeah, with the oddball, that's, as you get old, I don't believe that to be an oddball, because with my old friends, we're constantly sharing in nostalgic events. And you remember when back in, you know, ought three, you know, that kind of stuff? But I'm an oddball. So I have oddball events going on most every day in my life. and I'm so thankful for those because if I wasn't on the spectrum, um,

if each of us weren't on a spectrum of some sort, it'd be really boring place we'd live in, you know, if we were all bots. Um, you know, although we'd have different algorithms, but,

you know. No, I'm weird. I just, I can't handle how normal people function. Like I'm, if we're standing in line waiting for something, happen. I'm the dude that's thinking about random things that could be possibly happening at this

point. It's like what if, okay, I'm in a convenience store or something. I'm number five in line. I'm already going through these thoughts in my head. Like, okay, if somebody were to come into this building with the fucking AR and start shooting the place up, how would I react to this situation? What I just run towards that individual, take those bullets into the chest and keep trying to go forward? or would I put this old woman that's standing next city next or standing next to me pick her ass up and then use her as a shield throw the hurt fucking ass at the dude take the weapon or even the sense what if a horse were to just gallop in from the rear out of the storage room you know like what the fuck is a Clydesdale doing in 7-11 bringing you a bud yes I mean

there's something you know with the whole situation quicker faster and easier and what do you call those into it a manit tar it's like half man half horse oh What if I was one of those? Like those shit, that shit runs through my... A floater cycle that... Progressive or Geico. There we go. We're back. Yeah, I'm trying to do five different things at once,

and I'm just going to say, fuck it with the Facebook. We have YouTube live going right now. You just... Do you have one monitor going, or do you have two... I have two monitors set up. And I wish I had my other computer next to me because then I could just jump on that and see what the fuck is happening.

Gotcha. And I was wondering how you were monitoring all this video was. Yeah. No. I was set up before, but I had a virus on my fucking computer and it's like, dude, like this is 2020.

How the fuck you letting this shit happen to you? You need to put a mask on each one of your computers. You don't have any viruses. I'm just saying it could be. that that is definitely perfect timing to use that so what do you think about what's happening today do you think it's complete nonsense we've had this conversation in our last recording but i just really want to go over it again because it's really fucking hilarious to me i don't know why it's hilarious when you're talking about the situation you're talking about the the covid yes yes the

covid what do you yeah no covid's real covid's very real uh are people's approach to dealing with it? Yes. Are, it's just unreal. It's, it's, uh, do you think the mask actually even hold anything back? Because it's just, yeah, I mean, what if you, if you follow the science of it, um, you know, there's special lighting that scientists use so that they can see particles and stuff. And so when they, when we're, like, I'm talking right now, of course, it's just me in, in my studio. but droplets are coming out of my breath.

And given the right light, and I don't understand the technology behind it, but these chemists and scientists that are constantly analyzing stuff, and they use carbon dating to tell you, well, this bone is 5,300 years old. I mean, the science is there that they can look at the size of and the amount of and how far your droplets go. when they put a mask on it,

yeah, unless it's an N99, which most people don't wear out to the retail stores. But if it's anything other than that, yeah, droplets are still going to get out, but far fewer droplets get out, and they don't travel but a couple inches. And so if you're six feet away from somebody,

they're not going to get one of your droplets. So from that standpoint, wearing mask, number one, again, if you follow the science, the scientists, major well-respected scientific minds and organizations have found that if between now and the end of the year, I think it was 60 to 80, if 60 to 80 percent of our country would wear masks, so it's not even everybody, just 60 to 80 percent of the people wore masks when they couldn't socially distance. Yes.

If that took place, we could low. or we could save approximately 70,000 lives between now and the end of the year. Now, some might say, well, 70,000's a drop in the bucket. It is. But if one of those 70,000 people were your significant other, your child, your mother, your brother, your best friend, you know, to put a mask on, why would I not? To make a political statement, that's absurd. If I could save a life, I would. you know when I'm driving my car

if somebody's in the crosswalk walking across the street against a red light well legally I should just run them over they shouldn't be in the fucking crosswalk yeah or when people are in the middle of the road like in their fucking throwing a tantrum out in the middle of the road trying to get their getting people's attention I mean the problem I hate the fact that I would have to stop because these individuals want to stand in the middle of the highway Well, that's protesting.

I mean, that's... No, I'm going to still run them over. It doesn't matter. We're running them over there. Yeah. You know, and again, that's... You know, that's why there's vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate ice cream. Everybody's got their own way to approach things.

Like I said, in my humble opinion, I wear a mask when I go outside, not for me, but for somebody else. And I get tested every week. You know? Why is that? I just test on Wednesday. because while I have a bubble and you know my family and those closest to me we have our bubbles if you will we all step outside of our bubbles. But I mean I always have my mask on when I walk into the grocery store or you know wherever.

I can't socially distance. And but you know you just never know if you're walking around with COVID. I don't and again, I'm. asymptomatic. I don't have any symptoms, but again, Wednesday, I'll be back at Walgreens getting, you know, sticking. I don't stick that, you know, swab up my nose until you're, oh. And, you know, three, four hours, I get the email that says, hey, negative, cool. Then I just know I don't have it. But again, next hour I could have it, depending on, you know. And because COVID, here's the other thing, you know, I hear.

people debate about how serious COVID is. And I don't know if it is or not. I know that 180,000 people have died from it. Would they have died otherwise? I don't know. Did they have other issues? I don't know, probably. But here's the thing. It's called a novel virus because the world's never seen it before. So nobody really knows how it works. That's why at the beginning of this thing, which really was back in December. But, you know, if you listen to, to 45 is in his administrations, it really didn't, they didn't know about it until January or February. And then we only had 15 cases and no deaths and it'll disappear magically. And if it doesn't, all you got to do is take a Lysol enema and you'll be okay or inject Lysol into your system.

And that'll take care of it. The fact is we don't know how it acts. And we don't even know if you have the antigens because you've had it, how that will affect your immune system. We don't know shit about it. It's only a few months old for the whole world since it appeared back in December of 19. You know, and it's called... What about with 5G? Are you familiar with that

and the possible side effects it could have on our own health? Well, now, okay, I've done, you know, reading about 5G. I never really bought into any of the microwave damages to health relative to, like, cell phones, cell phone technology. I personally seldom keep one up to my ear, generally, on earbuds, excuse me, or speakerphone. 5G, again, I don't know. I just think that our overall exposure to 5G is far less damaging than our overall exposure to the ship that's in the air from the carbon emissions that are out there.

And ultraviolet. I got to stop playing with it. Raised from the sun. Yes. So, you know, look, if we tried to isolate ourselves from everything that can hurt us, I mean, we'd live in a cave and die probably at age 30, most of us. So we have to take each risk. Each person has to evaluate their risk tolerance and what they're willing to.

to expose themselves to and make their own decisions. But when it comes to public safety, when it comes to a mask, everybody should be wearing a mask. I had Spectrum come to my house last week a couple different times, and again, they're coming Monday. God, they fucking hate you, don't they? They do. And I want to touch one thing on that, to get your opinion. But let me finish this story. You know, I look, there's a knock at the door.

It's the technician. I knew that because, you know, Spectrum says he'll be there in 12 seconds. And sure enough, there's a knock of the door. I look out the window and the dude standing there without a mask. He's a stranger. I don't know where he goes at night, how his families act. And he's going to be in my house less than six feet away from me, breathing and touching things. I don't know.

And I just yelled at him through the door. I got, do you have a mask? I said, where's your mask? And he goes, do you want me to wear one? I go, fuck yes. You know, and I got mine here. I'm going to put mine on. You put yours on.

What a dumb fuck? Literally, you come up there. Like, do you know what's going on outside right now? Yeah, I mean, you know, does it help? I think it helps. I feel safer when I'm in close proximity, especially to strangers, that, you know, we both have a manifest on. I believe in this.

I believe that you minimize exposure. You minimize your risk. I think everybody has different risk. tolerances, but everybody minimizes the risks that they're not comfortable dealing with, whether it's financial risk, whether it's safety risk, whether it's health risk. I mean, I lived my whole life never using a fucking rubber. I don't even know how to put one on. Are you Catholic? There's no instructions in those packages, how to put a rubber on. Larry, are you Catholic? No. Okay. And I definitely know that's definitely a Catholic thing.

And that's what our family, like, that's why there's so many of us. The Catholics that I do in high school, they use, you know, pull out. Yes. And that's the best way to do it. But it doesn't matter. Like I said, my point is my risk tolerance, and I wasn't talking about pregnancy, I was talking about venereal disease. But again, when I was a kid, you know, there was just a couple.

there was no herpes, there was no AIDS, there was no chlamydia, you know, so you got gone or a sybilis, you go to the doctor, get a couple shots, and you get well. Yes, the outcome is still detrimental to your own perception. True. Both of a child or COVID, you know, definitely leads somewhere to different state of mind. Exactly. And again, like the point I was making is risk tolerance. You know, what, how much risk can you tolerate in every aspect.

of your life. We go to a restaurant pre-COVID. How many people thought about the number of restaurant people, if you piss them off, spit in your food before they deliver it? A lot. Or if you've never been in the restaurant business as a wait staff or owner or chef or whatever, you need to realize that while they meet minimum health standards to keep their doors open, again, pre-COVID, and now even more so. But if you go back into a restaurant's kitchen, I mean, for the most part, you look around, you probably are not going to go back to that restaurant?

Even a fine restaurant. I mean, it's dirty. It's weird. Our employees are doing shit. You see an employee come out of the bathroom. Did they wash their hands? I don't know. You know?

So every day we deal with risk. And I was just talking to my sister about it earlier today on the phone because she wants to fly to New York to see her. grandkids and her son. And she goes, I don't want to be on a plane. And she's seven years older than me. And I go, you know, if you stop and think about it, it's probably okay. You're going to have a mask. They're not seating people in the middle of the, you know, in the middle sea. You know, it's a three-hour flight from her place to New York. You know, you got to decide, is it worth it? And she has a whole bunch of other medical issues. You know, is that risk worth it?

Or just wait a couple months and have Jeff and the kids come visit you, you know? Because, too, if she goes to New York, according to law, she would have to quarantine for 14 days. And then she could visit. Why? She could quarantine in their house, I suppose. Why does she have to quarantine? Just tell her bring Lysol, she's good. Well, yeah, as long as you, you know, inject it into yourself and take a handful of hydrogen.

that drug that whatever the fuck it is yeah it's a UV light you'd be good but it's mostly like I said the UV light up your ass in an Orox bleach and I'm a old year or anything

it does for me you know it's uh it keeps you feeling clean all day you know like going through a car wash in a weirder way okay so you're gonna tell me

okay you go ahead you answer that you send me the question I'll answer that a question. How do I know if I have fiber optic internet? Fuck. If they so now this is interesting. So if somebody tells you you do, usually people will take that as in, okay, I believe you because you work for this company. So we don't have, it goes without questioning. We don't challenge that information that's being presented, which is definitely. could ripple out as far as what's happening right now. Well, so here's my question. You know,

if my speed was anywhere close to 940 MBPS, it wouldn't matter to me. But when my speed is 19 MVPS, what the fuck is MVPS? I don't know what that is. Megabits per second. And what does that matter to me? Well, okay. So when you pay $110 a month because you're allegedly getting one gig, 1,000, you're getting 1,000 megabits per second. Yes. What a gig is, right? It's a thousand megabits. Yeah, I guess.

Okay. So, and you pay $110 a month for that, but you only receive 19 megabits. So you're receiving less than 2% of what they promised you and what you paid for. When it's that slow, I got a question, is it really fiber optics, number one. Number two, how do you take regular coaxial cable that has no fiber optic tubes in it

or pipes, whatever you want to call those things that the light goes through? How does light go through a regular coaxial cable? Okay. Google's going to be coming up as I listen to you. You do what? I'm going to be Googling. as you speak here.

Excellent. And then when I Google it, according to what I could find, in my area, spectrum doesn't have fiber optics, yet that's what they sold me. And the speed is so slow, if it was half of what they promised, I'd allow myself to get screwed up the ass. On purpose? On purpose, yeah. Okay.

I'd bend over. If they could consistently deliver half of what they promised, they're delivering two and three and five percent, but I'm paying 100 percent. And what I proposed to them is here's the deal. At the end of each month, at the end of each billing cycle, okay, whatever speed you actually delivered to my abode, okay, whatever percentage of that speed is to the 940 MBPS you promised me is the percentage of the $110 a month that I'll pay you. And they go, no, it doesn't work like that.

They go, really? Because the fucking Ameron, Amaran in the electricity and the gas company, that's how they charge. You know, they just charge me for the electricity I use. Just charge me for the speed that you deliver. Wait, are you doing budget billing, though? Because they have that feature where... Right, but it doesn't matter. That's still budget billing on the electric bill and gas bill.

It's still based on your usage. All they do is they look at your usage historically. average it out over 12 months, then at the end of the whole 12-month cycle, you make adjustments. Yeah. Okay. But, I mean, they don't, it's not a flat rate charge. It's a flat rate payment system, you know, to make budgeting easier in the gas in the winter months when you get stupid gas bills, average it out in the summer where, you know, they're just charging the minimum $35 a month because you're hooked up.

The same with the electricity, you know, in the summer when you're going to use a lot of air conditioning. and you get stupid bills, but in the winter, the only thing that's really cost me a lot is you're heating, primarily gas in this area. But all I'm saying is there's nobody for me to check with and determine if I have the fiber optic that you promised me, other than the people that sell it to me. Right. Well, then also you can do is basically what you just described with Amaran, as far as they look back on your history,

as far as you can use that method, looking back on what you've been receiving, recording it, and somehow showing proof to that, that this is what I've been getting, why the fuck am I not getting what you promised me when I'm paying it at this price? Exactly, but that involves then our legal system

and the FCC and the attorney general making a complaint and dealing with that, when really, like here, here's my favorite example. And again, Spectrum would have to agree to that billing. Otherwise, they say, you know what? We'll just discontinue your service and you go elsewhere, you know. I mean, if you don't like it, go elsewhere. You saw our terms and conditions.

You read them. Oh, yeah, the fine print you barely fucking read when you're 90 years old. Yeah, exactly. I mean, you need a fucking magnifying glass the size of the world to see some of those fine print. And then you don't understand that a Philadelphia lawyer wrote it. And then it doesn't matter because they're not responsible. They're not accountable for it. Yeah, we just think about this.

Okay, walk into Ruth Chris, this is pre-COVID. So you walk into Ruth Chris or, you know, Capitol City Grill, whatever your favorite steakhouse is. And you sit down and you order an eight-ounce filet mignon of the finest prime age beef they have, and it's $125. Again with the fucking steak, Larry, I'm getting hungry now. I know.

Yes. And then the waitress, in 40 minutes, the waitress brings out this little, well-done, crispy piece of meat that looks like, you know, the size of a booger that came out of your nose and it's hamburger. And she starts walking away, and you go, whoa, whoa, excuse me, just for a second. What's this? She has a piece of hamburger. Yes. But I ordered, and I see here on the bill, you charged me $125 for a filet mignon.

Yeah, well, nothing I can do about it. That's what I'm doing. You know, I mean, they're charging me for filet mignon. It's the best, fastest service available to residential places here in my zip code. And they're delivering whatever the fuck they want. How does that make you do? on it almost 10 days now. Four times a day, I do

two different speed tests on my internet just so I have this paper trail when I make a stink. You know, and I'll make a stink. I'm making a stink with them now. They don't even answer my phone calls anymore. Now, I go, fuck, here's Oliver calling it. Oh, my God. You take it. No.

Give it to the brand new guy. That's exactly what's fucking happening, too. Because I would be doing it if I was working there. Like, this fucking man. What is he? No, Larry. No, Larry. Here's what's really cool, though, Greg. If you delivered half of what you promised, I wouldn't be calling up. That's true.

You know, I mean, I'm not asking for something special, you know. I'm asking for what you promised in your terms of conditions, except if you read the terms and conditions, which unfortunately being old and just nothing but time, I actually read to make sure I wasn't out of line. And I am. If you read spectrum's terms of conditions, They're just like every other internet service provider around.

They say, we can't promise or guarantee any rate of speed. Wouldn't that be cool? Now, think about this. In your whole life, just take a white-ass guess. It doesn't matter how accurate it are, but try to be close. In your whole life, about how many commercial airline flights have you been on? I want to say that most, 12.

Okay. Were they pretty good flights? I mean, you know, you got... Some of them were nuts. A couple of were military flights. They were shitty.

I wanted to kill myself on those, not literally, but metaphorically. Those... The commercial flights you were on, the commercial flights, more so than the military, that's something different.

But the commercial flights, if I told you, and it was a fact, and you believed the fact, that 50% of all commercial airline flights will crash and burn killing everybody, on board, would you still be apt to get on those 12 flights?

No, I wouldn't bother me one bit. To get on them? Yeah, no. Yeah, I guess I'm just fucked up in the head like that. Yeah, no, I mean, some people, like I said, we talked about risk tolerance briefly a few minutes ago. Yes. A lot of people, because people read statistics of how safe it is to fly today, and I believe

it is. Right. I mean, think of, here, think of this. How many people do you actually know? whose homes have burnt down to the ground? Two. Okay. I know two.

And I'm just, this is just a guess because you may or may not be aware of this. But out of all the people you know that have a mortgage on their home, how many people do you guess have fire insurance? It's a loaded question. Yeah. A hundred percent. To have a mortgage with anybody, they will fire and will force place fire insurance on your property if you don't have it because you agree to keep it insured.

Okay? So 100% of those people have fire insurance unless they let it lapse and the mortgage lender doesn't know about it yet. But out of all those people you know, I mean, it's a fraction of a percentage of whose house is burned down to the ground. You just, it doesn't happen. The same with commercial airline flights, the same primarily with prescriptions. if the people filling people's prescriptions only got it half right,

half the time they gave them the wrong dose, the wrong medication. I heard that's pretty frequent. That happens pretty frequent. I don't think it's 50%. I mean, yeah, it could happen 60, 70, 80%. All I'm saying is that pharmacists have accountability to provide you with the correct medicine. The commercial airlines have accountability, because if you've ever followed any of the major crashes of commercial airlines where they kill 230 people, you know, it's a three-year investigation to figure out what the fuck went wrong, you know, and then the airline has to pay out tens of hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements because there's accountability. You fuck up, there's accountability. Yes.

In the military, you fuck up. There's accountability. In everyday life, you fuck up and speed, you go 63 in a 45 miles on, there's accountability. But with internet service providers, there's no accountability. Why is that? We're going to charge you $100 for, call it one gig of service, 940 MbPS, but you say you're only getting 20? okay you still owe us $110 even though we didn't even

do half of what we promised all right I gotta get off that soapbox gives me a jana and then when you say with statistics I mean half the population isn't even a statistic individual like when it comes to numbers

holy shit like you are drowning me in my own past transgressions literally just like what the All those statistics are atmospherly extract. Yes. I just made them up. It's all good.

It's all good, though. I forgive you. Yeah. No, it's part of being old. You just fucking can do whatever you want. Like, just drive fast and then you get pulled over. You're like, I'm old. I don't fucking know what I'm doing.

I got dementia. I forgot there was a speed limit. Sorry. You ran over three people. I'm sorry. I was playing the game of five points, 10 points. Don't you know that game? Well, yeah.

There are people who lives are more valuable than others, you know, obviously. Look at the world we live in today. Yes. Anyway, I didn't mean to take us way off topic, but I was just, I'm curious, you know, if anybody is watching this and wants to make comments at some point in time, I'd really like to know how one can know if they're really getting fiber optic service, whether it's from Spectrum or anybody else. I don't know that there are other providers here in St. Louis.

Residential. I know business is something different, but I can't. I mean, I'm not going to pay for business service, especially seeing what I get in residential service. But these people need, you know, to be punished somehow. You know, but there's no way to punish them. I agree. I need to stop playing.

with these buttons over here. Like literally I get over. I just go because it's just like I second guess. Like it says we're live on YouTube and I'm not seeing too much happening. It's like, but then there's this button like upload video or go live. But it's like, wait, it says we're going live. Yeah. So if you're on YouTube, yeah.

If you already push the go live, you're live. If you push the upload, I don't know if it'll keep this stream going, but it'll be looking for you to upload a video that's on your. computer somewhere somewhere i think i think it's definitely working because i just pressed this button and it shows me talking right now explaining when i'm explaining when i'm explaining to you and i'm like holy shit i'm fucking losing my mind but is that you or is that somebody else it looks like you it could it could be anything because it's like it's what we perceive is our own reality like try to look at this like we're our bodies are like a vessel we are

submarines, underwater, literally. We don't know if there's water surrounding us. Can we just open the hatch and find out? I mean, there's that possibility that if we open it, we might drown and die. So what do we rely on that tells us what's happening around us, our own perception, our little tools inside there that's scan. And you know, you know that we all live in a yellow submarine. a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine. Wait, why is it yellow? I don't know if you know that or not, but... I don't know. I don't know what's happening now, Larry.

Yeah, well, it's true. The Beatles said we all live in a yellow submarine. Yes, that's, yes. So we must, because the Beatles would never be not equal to us. Exactly. How's that for double negative? That's fucking wonderful. So no, that what you said about the submarine, it really got... It really hit a special area in my brain when you said,

could we open up the hatch and would water come pouring in? Or is there any even water outside of us? How do we know until you open that hatch? You know, which is interesting. I've often wanted to get in a submarine with screen door hatches and see if it would still be able to sink and rise and if the water would come in through the screens. or stay out because it's a submarine, so there should be no water in it.

His water know that it's not supposed to go into a submarine, whether there's a screen as a hatch or a big steel pneumatically sealed hatch. Yeah. I'm thinking like the old school ones where you can just kind of like twist and then push it outward. But then I guess all that pressure, I don't know. Do you think there's somebody strong enough to, you know, if you're 300 feet down and you got the hatch undone and no water came pouring in, would be able to push that hatch open against all the water pressure that's 300 feet down?

I think if we could take, I'll say, Ars Schwarzenegger and his prime when he was Conan the Biberian, we bring him into this situation and have him open that. I think he might be able to get it. Might. Do you think he would need like Rocky Balboa's help? Yes, but Rocky, he's, I don't know if he can get up there. He's kind of short unless we give him like a little step matter. He's true.

That yes, he is. Yeah. Well, you know, probably, now I will tell you, I'm going to make something up potentially, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's not true. But 45 is stronger than anybody. in the world. I bet he and Arnold could do that together. Oh, so?

They have the strength to do that. Like strength as in connections or strength as in? Yes, who's the answer to that? Yeah. Let's go into that as far as with 45. Who is 45, just so you know, for everybody who's listening, because when we're saying that, it's like, what the fuck are you talking about? Yeah, that would be the 45th president of the United States. Yes, that is correct.

Because I'm not going to say his name. I would not give him that. But if somebody needs to, if you would Google 45th president of the United States, his name will pop up. Yes. I'm pretty sure, unfortunately. And why do you, why do we, what is your own view on 45?

I think we can pick that up based off not saying his name, but we would love to go into your own specifics as far as why do you feel the way that you do? Was there something personal? Was there something? What is the takeaway we can all have from this? And again, this is just one old guy's opinion. Super news junkie.

But I am a news junkie. And this is going to be a direct answer to your question. I like that. Very early in on today's episode, you mentioned you discussed your character. Okay. 45 is devowed of anything like character. He has no character. And I will tell you that if you look up the three most important leaderships or the five or seven most important characteristics of a leader, okay, 45 doesn't have one of them.

But you'll find stuff that's like maybe in a Boy Scout oath. I mean, to be a leader, number one, you've got to eat last. Leaders eat last. Damn fucking right. Let me tell you, 45 is the first at the table. You know, and he's elbowing people out of there, you know, because he's going to eat first. Fuck you guys. You know?

All right. So he doesn't eat last. He doesn't respect truth because he never speaks it. He doesn't respect. fact because he just makes stuff up. Now again, all politicians lie. Actually, everybody in the world lies. And if you know somebody that says, no, I don't lie. I never tell a lie. They're lying. Everybody has told and continues to tell lies of certain degrees of magnanimity. But every time you open your mouth that you lie and you lie about shit, you don't even have to lie about,

that's what I'm telling you comes out of 45. To be a leader and be surrounded by people that are frightened that if they tell you the real facts about many different topics, that you're putting your job at risk because 45 doesn't want to hear that. He only wants to hear what he wants to hear. Don't tell me that shit about that COVID shit. You know, tell me something good. You know, so I went online and I found, tell me about something good.

I found Larry, I'm going to talk over you for just one second. I found the top 10 leadership traits that a individual should obtain or strive for. And I didn't just type that in to see what first self-help bullshit would actually pop up. But I went into what the military kind of requires. I think that's kind of somebody, anybody should be striving for something much bigger than themselves. And dependability is number one, the integrity, making a decision, being skillful of that, professionalism, teamwork, drive, ability to understand direction, organization, safety skills, and adaptability. So it looks like it's... He has one.

He has one of those ten. He does have drive. I don't like this one either. I'm going to find a different one. It doesn't matter. Whichever I promise you. Because I've already done the search, I wouldn't have said that if I hadn't done the search.

I've looked at several. I mean, I've looked at hundreds of books, articles, white papers, dissertations, case studies. what makes a leader, what doesn't make a leader, the five, the seven, the three, the most important qualities of a leader. So does this make you an expert, Larry? What can we do the definition of what an expert is? Absolutely.

I probably know more than the average guy about what I'm talking about, only because I sit here and go down these rabbit holes and do the research. and if in fact the research I use is accurate and objective to some degree, yeah, I would say that the majority of people leaders, of course, do, authors, of course do, psychologists do, but we're all experts when it comes to, you know, can I tell you what I could get a consensus of 100 random people on the street would say as the five most important characters? characteristics in a leader? Yeah, I know what they are. And like I said, 80, 85% of random people that I would walk up to the street and say, tell me the five most important characteristics for a good leader. You know, 80% of time, I'll be right on with those five. And I will promise you, I will promise you that 45 doesn't have one of those five characteristics. Now, you brought up drive. He does have drive. And that's important for a leader. Yes, I want to just update the listeners with actual good characteristics.

When we look into Army values, I definitely have researched and took to heart over a long period of my time. And that comes down to loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity, and personal courage. Now, I would like you guys to imagine that. Does 45 possess that? Fuck no. Yeah. And here's the other piece of 45, especially when you start talking about military

and comparing his leadership qualities to leadership values and best practices in the military. Recognize here's a guy that during the height of the Vietnam War, conflict, whatever you want to call it. This is a guy who paid or his family paid some shyster type doctor to say he had bone spurs, which he doesn't, so that he could avoid the draft. Now, I don't know what you call that when it comes to character other than full lack thereof. But so here's a guy. You can't, it's really hard to compare somebody to military values

when the guy was scared to death to be anywhere part of a military. You know, he paid somebody to make up a lie about a physical condition that he didn't even have, bone spurs on his feet, and that's what kept him out of the draft. That's interesting. I'm trying to think, wasn't Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali, didn't he try to avoid the draft as well? Oh, probably.

I'm just saying, you know, a lot of people, you know, I've nothing against that I would have ended up in Canada. But I'm also not president of the United States, you know. This is true. And I also have one value. Every now and then, I tell the truth. And I have another value. I mean, I respect people.

I don't, you know, constantly, you know, hack on people that are my enemies, you know, or hack on people that don't believe the way I believe. or hack on people because they look different. You know, I mean, and like I said, most important, I'm not president. It doesn't matter what anybody else does. It doesn't matter what past presidents did or do that might still be alive. He's president now. Yes.

And he's what people are supposed to emulate. You know, when I was growing up, parents would constantly, you know, when the president of the United States appeared, on television, a lot of times from the Oval Office, talking about non-political shit, but crises that are going on, you know, your parents look at and say, no, you, don't you want to be like him when you grow up? Well, yeah, but how many parents can look at 45 and say to their five-year-old son or daughter, don't you want to be like the orange baby when you grow up, you know? They want to sit there and have like orange makeup on and fake hair. But more importantly than

physical characteristics of the fat slob that doesn't take care of himself physically as the past four, five presidents did. I mean, Reagan wouldn't overweight. He was fed. He rode around in horses and picked up bales a hay and shit.

Could you imagine trying to pick up a bail a hay? Or him wearing blue jeans? In blue jeans. Did I just say his name? Oh, my God. I think I may have because, like, yeah. certainly have like twitches and shit. Look at you.

You getting all, like, all excited. Like, you just met your first girlfriend. You're all happy. I get excited in different ways for that. I'm actually on my second one. You know, after 70 years, that's not bad. No, it's not bad. I'm creepy and weird, but okay.

Yeah. You know, I'm even thinking maybe I can find one that I might be able to have physical intimacy with. But, you know, I know a lot of virgins that, that are still virgins at 70. So it's not so unusual. Anyway, so don't get me started on Trump.

You got me started. Damn it, you said his name again. You're in trouble. Yeah. Well, they'll let you know how off my center I am. And I'll pay dearly for that. I have a little short, multi-strand whip with little hooks on the end of it.

When we get done, I'm going to go outside, take my shirt off and, like, I'll flagellate my back until I rip the skin for punishing myself for... Oh, God, you give me chills down my spine because I can just imagine that happening. Yeah, I'll record it and put it up on the internet. Yeah, we can definitely have that as bonus content to people who actually subscribe to the Patreon page. There you go. we try to upload videos.

I'm working out the kinks. I really want to apologize to everybody because I am struggling at doing this, but I am not quitting. I am trying to run all the social media. I'm trying to run the podcasting, the videos, the Patreon, the courses I'm working. I'm writing the books. It's just like, Greg, when the fuck do you take a break? I don't take a break. And I have two puppies, and they drive me nuts.

So my question, Greg, is when can we expect to see maybe your first book? I want to say within, I want to give it a month. I want to say one month or less in case something happens. I always want to plan for the worst just because of it's life. Shit happens. Yeah, absolutely. So I want to have that. to having the availability of actually taking part of your expertise,

your knowledge, learning about character and then yet in a totally different module, if you will, learning about podcasting, how to put it together, how to all the ins and outs, how you get it out there in the, what do they call them, podcast players? So if we were to look at the technical terms, it's called aggregators or,

eye catchers or there's another one. But directories, those are ones that you do not pay that will host your show for you. There are so many. And it's like I feel honored because I can just utilize all of these different search engines and go past the 20% that Google actually allows us to. So I can bypass that and find shit that's all over the place. and that will be all linked into the podcasting book that I found. And I'm going above and beyond.

This book will have more links than any book you will ever come across. And it will link you to free shit. I was doing research on actually how much it costs to pay somebody to do your podcasting for you. You're looking at 50 bucks to as much as they want to charge you to host your show, to host an episode, and that's based off their quality, which I don't want to rely on somebody to do that because I'm weird. I like things done right. That's why I'd rather do it.

And I found every single source you could do that is free when people are charging this shit, and it just makes me mad because I'm a victim of that. I'm spending money left and right when I shouldn't be when there's things out there that are free for us. Yeah, well, that'll be valuable information, especially today because so many people have things they want to share with others, whether specifically in their community or outside of their community, expose whatever it is to whoever is interested. And podcasting is conceptually, it's pretty simple. I mean, it looks like we're just, you know, talking in the microphone and it's out on the internet. It's just you push a couple buttons and boom, it happens.

It doesn't. As you were experiencing earlier today, checking, are we live? Is this street? Yeah. There. And that's just one tiny facet of it. The important part is what you just mentioned, make sure that it's out there so people can find it. And make sure you're doing it.

some relevant stuff that people want. Exactly. Adapting to the needs of what people want and how we deliver content. I mean, it's now becoming a live streaming anxiety. And me, I don't like being in front of the camera. I was just who I was as a kid. I was a fat kid back in the day, you know,

just of the youngest of seven where I always got my feelings hurt, you know. And it's something that I, have to go through those are past transgressions and those are just things in your head that you hold to you don't that that haunt you to this day and it's just something i was in the fucking military i did so much shit there's nothing there's not a stupid thought is not going to hold me back right kick that thoughts ass to shove it down well you how do you feel some of those childhood um memories and events have helped shape the character you are today. I would say it definitely made me a very resilient person,

but also able to dissociate from reality to push myself much further than any individual I've came across. I'm able to get lost in my head and think more complex, and understand the connection to different things that may seem completely irrelevant, but somehow I can find a way to bypass that and connect it. And then with that ability to make those connections, I can almost paint like a memory palace where I can learn new things and start storing things between those connections and make like a weird mind map of a buck and spider web kind of thing.

Wow. That's impressive. It's fucking weird. Well, it's weird, but I think if you can transfer that in your piece on your character, so many people can benefit from that because we all have our idiosyncrasies. Yes. We all have our fears. We have stuff that's from childhood, stuff we picked up and is, you know, deep in our brain and thought.

and negative, it's negative shit. It holds us back unless we can find a way to overcome that, unless we find a way to, yeah, you know, I'm scared to be on camera, but I'm going to, you know, put my big boy pants on and do it. Fuck, yeah. I do. I need to for other people so that other people won't have to deal with shit that I dealt with. That is, you know, just negative shit.

You don't need. So that will be extremely helpful. And I, for one, I'm looking forward to seeing that. Me too. And it provides people an outlet to fuel questions that they can't articulate in their own heads as far as things that are happening. And they just aren't aware of the things that are happening. If we can spark that thought as far as, why didn't I think of that? Or that really makes a lot of sense.

Now I have some place, I have something to base the situation off of where I can, do research on my own time. That's what I love about your transformation station is to be able to be a voice for those that don't have the voice. Exactly. Exactly. And we need so much more of that today. I can tell you as an old guy, how important it is, but it doesn't really make sense to a lot of people until they get to a point where 40 or 50 years ago they wish they would have had that information, had the ability to overcome so many of the fears or the things that just told us back from being all we can be. And I'll leave you with one final thought because I'm looking at the time and I've got a 3.30 appointment, a meeting that I've got to be at.

Beautiful. But, you know, I believe, now, we've talked about this, I'm very spiritual. I'm not religious, but I'm very spiritual. And so in that spirituality, what I truly believe is that each one of us is meant to take advantage of all the abundance that's here in this universe. but the vast majority of us don't take advantage of it. We don't feel that we're worthy. We don't do what's necessary to take. I mean, it's not going to be handed to us.

You know, oh, here's all the abundance we promised you. No, I mean, you've got to go out and grab it and you've got to work for it. But if you know you're worthy and you're willing to work hard for it with a burning desire, I call it a burning in your belly. Yes. Then you can have it. You can have all of that abundance, any and all of it. And that's what we're supposed to do, I think, and it's just purely opinion.

That's what we're supposed to do while we're here in this part of the universe that we see in this physical nature and a combination really of the physical stuff we see, feel, and smell, the stuff our mind does and then the stuff our heart and soul and spirit does and it's all combined and this is not getting religious but it's spiritual

but I think it's real you know we see it everywhere from you know the protozoa the little one-celled thing to us and beyond to outer space to you know stuff that's so big we might not be able to

imagine That's all there available for us. And with that, cosmic thought, I'll be quiet and talk to you, well, in the next couple days. Yes. Kind of wrap some of this stuff up that we need to wrap up on producing these things efficiently, effectively, quality you want. Consistency. We'll get it down. Distancy and topic and transitioning to a new season where we will take new approaches.

Exactly. Exactly. And I look forward to that. And I know as we build people that are following us around and listening to our craziness, that they'll appreciate that. So hopefully they'll leave comments for you and you can respond or at least if nothing else. I guess the trite saying is they can leave their thumbs up in print and subscribe. You know, probably nothing bad will happen.

Exactly. Well, Larry, I do appreciate you as always, and I look forward to seeing you on the next show. All right. I'll see you then. Have a good one. You too. All right, man. Be well.

Well, that is it for today with your transformation station. This is our first episode where we look into the nonsense of life and our first live episode here on YouTube. I do apologize. I try to get it on Facebook. I try to get it everywhere. However, technical difficulties, as always here with me. And let me know what you guys think.

Let me know on what I can improve, what I can do for you guys. Don't forget to subscribe to your transformation station. in the podcast. I will provide links in the show notes, as well as check out our social media besides YouTube, of course. And I will see you on the next episode. Thank you. You've been listening to your transformation station.

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