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Oh, fire it up, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome into the show. Welcome into the show. Net positive. Dude, you know what people are hyped about? What? That their their city's coming up. Oh, there you go. The area codes. We're at 203. What's 203? Connecticut. Somebody look at us. Is it? Yeah. Can we talk about this? Maggie. Yeah. Okay. So 202 was DC. 203. Where did what area of Connecticut? She's Waterbury. This is episode 203 of the Net Positive podcast, representing Waterbury. Connecticut. Waterbury, Connecticut. If you're from there, welcome in. And listen, if you got if you got an area code in the twos, it's not, you know, if you go to look up, did you know the interstates are like 10, 20, 30, 40? Yeah. And then 75, 85, 95 across the country. This they have no zip codes or nothing. Yeah. Yeah. They're just whatever they decide whenever they came around, like they hit random number generator and it just gave them. Yeah. If you're like on I-20 in America, you're going through like Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Arizona and I-90, you're in like Montana. This is no idea. Yeah. So let's just keep it a secret. OK. Whatever, whatever to what's next to a. 204. Yeah. Whatever. No, I didn't. I forgot. We're coming up on 204. Don't look it up. Don't look it up. We won't even know. Yeah. We don't know. We'll look it up every week. Yes. We need to learn. We'll educate ourselves. What do we need to know? You're you're close to the close proximity. What's it about? What's Waterbury, Connecticut about? Yeah. The Waterbury Open from Happy Gilmore. Waterbury Open. Yeah. For sure. Yeah. Fake golf tournament. Fake golf tournament. Yeah. Sorry, Maggie. There's a lot of Albanians that live there. Are there? Yes. They get yeah. Yeah. What do you mean? That's kind of like the Somalians in Minneapolis. I wouldn't put that on them. That's my family. But I'm sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Yeah. John said it. Yeah. On his business there, John. No. What I mean is they all and the people congregate. They do congregate. Yeah. No, for sure. Is that racist? To know that they congregate there by facts. No. Is it racist to want to live around your people? No. No. Yeah, that's tribal. It's racist to not want to live around other people. Well. You can want your own. You can't say I don't want them. Well, that's what you're saying. Filling your own them. Well, hold on. Hold on. If I'm looking, yeah, if you want to live, all right. This isn't a good way to start the plot. If you said why do you live in Nashville and you said... Because I would like to be around... My people. Yeah, and my people could be skin color, could be demographic, could be values. Sure. Could be Christians. Yeah. But if you said because I don't want to live near them. Yeah. That's right. Because they're not here. And that's a problem. So you say it like that. Oh, yeah. Now that I think about it like that, you're probably right. Yeah. Yeah. Happy to be in. Welcome aboard, everybody. Hot episode of the podcast. Every time we get a big boom of a pod, let's welcome in everybody, the Brad Cooper fans. Yep. Welcome into the pod. This is what we do every week. We have no guests this week. So now you're going to learn what we're really about. This is the real... John usually doesn't dress like this either. So apologies for that. No, what do you mean, dude? I picked this up over the weekend. John, can we count how many Bass Pro logos are on it? What do you mean? Because I think John walked in and he goes, I got this at Bass Pro. He said, yeah. For real? Oh, there is a lot of Bass Pro. One, two, three, four on the front. And I already counted four on the back. Sleeves? Two on the sleeve. So you're at 10. Three. And this is a Bass Pro company. They own all that. Yeah, they own you now. 10 logos. 10 logos just in the front. Did it come with a neck tattoo too? Yeah, I sell it, dude. But I got to be honest. I get a little... It feels a little stolen valour to me. I'll be honest. If you're not getting paid to wear that or you didn't do anything to win that, I feel like you should not be wearing that. What do you mean? Stolen Bass Pro valour is crazy. Well, like what if I wore like a... Like what aisle'd you buy that in? Yeah. What if I wore like a Jalen Johnson jersey? Can I do that? Like a basketball? My favorite basketball? Yeah, I mean, that doesn't have 10 logos on it. It has like the conference and then the team. Oh yeah, that's just too much. This is... I mean, my goodness. It's a lot going on. It's a lot. I got a Bass Pro. The back looks just like the front, by the way, for anybody that's curious. It's the exact same thing. I think it's a fishing jersey. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Now they got a tour. Well, let's do the episode and then, depending on what the content will see, if I'm allowed to wear it. Okay. If I align with the values of Bass Pro. Okay, deal. Oh yeah, hot episode of the pod. Welcome everybody. Headed back on tour. Dude, I already read all the old tour dates. Let me just read the new ones. Okay. Because we don't want to bother everybody with all the tour dates we've already read. I am coming on tour this fall. And this is y'all's first time hearing this. Lexington, Kentucky, Toledo, Huntington, West Virginia. That qualifies me, dude. To wear this? Yeah. Not there yet? No, yeah. No, he's pre-gaming. Huntington, Minneapolis. And I've said a lot about Minneapolis. I'm going to go find out for myself. I just did. Des Moines, Rochester, Turington, Connecticut. That's close. Yeah, that's right. Is that close? Yeah, Connecticut's small. Connecticut's like the size of Nashville. Everything up there is small. Everything up there is close to each other. Yeah. Boston, Fort Lauderdale, different weekends. Orlando, Columbus, Georgia. I've never been there. Memphis. I might have to... Don't do this, John. Grand Junction, Colorado. Greeley, Colorado. Colorado Springs, Virginia Beach. Wilkes, Barre, Providence. That's up in that. Lubbock, Texas. Albuquerque, Midland. Corpus Christi, Beaumont, Hattiesburg, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. South. Hot. Hot. Dude, I'm going to get down. I'm going to take a couple of weekends. And there's a... You notice there's a big... If you look at that schedule closely, there's a big gap in there. There is. About a six, seven-week gap. Six, seven, six, seven, eight. You know, something going on. Something big is going on in the fall. I also notice you made a beeline for Florida as soon as you got out of Minneapolis. What's that about? Yeah, well, no. He talked to my agent. I'm going to need some time. Yeah, because I got to get away from them. The fans, the fans. For sure. And go to the other fans. Go to the other fans. No, no, no. This is great. Sorry, Miracle Made, but... Possible Denibility. This episode brought to you by Miracle Made. Not too biposable. 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You got to write it out. I got two for two. I got to focus on, I think you put a capital on free. I focus on free. I just start free. Got to be. And then I do the rest. That's the key. Yep. So we're in for a good one. Locked in today, ladies and gentlemen. I just got back from, I was telling my buddies this take. It's basically a take. I don't think it existed anywhere else. We went to this easiest way to, when you go to play all over the country, we tour, somebody brought us to their golf course. Nice. And I was instructed once again to not mention it. Not mention the golf course. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. By the golf course? Just by somebody that the member there was like, just, yeah, we don't want, yeah, we don't want. Anyway. We don't want them here. Yeah. Title of this episode, them. Them. Yeah. You know, them could be a lot of different things. But yes, they could. Okay. So I, so we go out there. I mean, this is, there's no price to how much it costs to be a member there. It's just, it's all, you can't ask to be a member. It's just kind of word of mouth. And this is, but this is what I thought to myself. So we go out there, we play with one of the members. There's not a sign anywhere directing you what it's a whole one is this way. A left is this way. Throw your trash here. Make sure this, make sure that. And I said, the higher you get on the socioeconomic ladder, the less signage there is. Oh, nice. Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice. Okay. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Like if you go to a public, a public park in a poor neighborhood, don't go in here, make sure you use this, make sure you throw away this, make sure you don't flush the toilet with stuff in it, make sure there's no, there's, there's so many, if you go to a convenience store, there's so many, there's so much, you go to, you go to a golf course that is 15 bucks. Hey, make sure you're not wearing jeans. Make sure you're not wearing spikes. Make sure you're not looking in the creek for balls. There's so many like at the top, they know you understand. Hmm. Why do you think that is? Do you think it's more civilized up there? Because those people need signs. You think that's what it is? They need it? You need signs. I think it's worth every, well, I think every, any, you can dumb it down to even like, it's cheaper clothes, like, like Nike clothes have huge logos and graphics or whatever. When you get to like the nicer designer clothes, a lot of times there is no logo, or it's like a tiny little logo somewhere. Like, you know, you go into a, like a club that's like, hey, no flat bill hats, no chains, no Timberlands, no jeans with holes in them. At the very top, they don't say nothing. They, if you're in there, you know. Hmm. Do you think it's a way that they also weed people out too? If there's no signs explicitly saying what the rules are and you violate the rules, it's really easy for people to just be like, you don't belong here. Yeah. Do you have to have a high class? So we don't need the signs. Well, at the, at the Trubidor, which is their nicest golf course in town, you can go with, you can, you don't have to wear shoes. People go golf with no shirts on because, yeah, but we know what the rules are because it costs $3 million to buy a house. So you think it's also that you're just paying so much money that you can do what you want? But you also do understand what the rules are. Right. Yeah. So you can, yeah, but at the, at the bottom of whatever, whatever we're talking about, this is what we're talking about golf, but you don't know what knows how to act. It's also, you gotta kind of insane to have a signage conversation in that shirt. That is insane. This is for that. You must be, you must be rock bottom, brother. You must be rock bottom. My man said, let me put on all my signs today. No, because I know I'm wearing an ironic. Oh, right. Yeah. Look at all these signs. Full circle on the other side. Yeah. For sure. A lot of signs. No, that is interesting though. The further you go, the more there are, or the less there are signs. There's less. And we, and we also played with, we, I'm private airports, no signs. You go to the FBO, there's no signs. Do whatever you want. Yeah. Hey, how are you? Good to see you. Hey, the door opens. You can walk on to the tarmac. Oh yeah. You wouldn't. Welcome in. Good to see you. Just show me your license. Can I? That's the only thing I need. Yeah. Cool. You're good to go. Fantastic. It's the public airport, the most, the place with the most signs per, per square inch. Ooh. Nice. Well, that's where everybody's, is, is everybody from all the rules, all the sections of rules are there together. Yeah. Because they're like aerosols. The hears are, here's a case like a, like a. They have signs on the signs. A jewelry case. Yeah. Of like, here's all the things, if you can't read, they have to show you. Right. Don't have this in your, in your like, this, so yeah. In every language. Wake up. Hey, if you forgot your, your shoes come back to the, like, if we would have went to that golf course without a member, we'd have, we'd have no idea where the next T-box is. Right. Because there's no signs. Cause we're assuming you're, if you're here, you're with someone that knows and they'll tell you. Each one, teach one. There is not a sign. There's not an arrow. Yeah. There's not, and I'm looking around at that place, you got to kind of pick up on these things and I go, and I whispered to, I was playing with a buddy of mine and we were in the cart, the other cart had the members in it. I go, I don't think this is a, he goes, I got to go to the bathroom. I go, I don't think this is a P in the woods. Yeah. Of course. Yeah. Cause they're not doing it. Right. And I'm just kind of, you're kind of picking up on the, but we've gotten this far in life by picking up on the cues of what everybody else is doing. Recognizing that you even need to do that is a big skill. Yes. To just be like, oh, I don't know what to do. I'm just going to sit back and kind of watch. And we had like some, if you've watched the pros on the, in the professional, you can't wear shorts. Like in the live tournament, you can wear shorts. I brought shorts and long pants. Smart. So I go, I don't know what the rules, but I'm going to wear, I'm wearing pants. I can't mess up there. And then my buddy, RIP to him walks into the, He died? No. Well, yeah, pretty much no. Walks into the clubhouse wearing a hat. They go, hey buddy. Yeah. That was this, that was an informal sign. They told him to his face. Wow. They go, hey, can wear hat in here. But there's no, do not wear hats in here. No. Yeah. You should know that. I took mine off before I went in there. Smart. Yeah. Dang dude. I'm trying to think of other places that have most signs per square foot. Yeah, the airport's the best one. It's got to be the airport. Because I would throw DMV, but airport is just DMV on steroids. Yeah. Just like public, public places. If you go to like the, if you go to the Titans game, go in this way, go in this way. Hey, don't throw, don't, we made the video, the preseason videos that don't throw things onto the field. Yeah. Because I was gunna before I saw the sign. Thank God that sign's here, man. Or now you can prosecute somebody. That's part of the rules. Yeah. There's no, I mean, I go, I don't know. There's, yeah. That the higher you get, the, tell me I'm wrong. It's got to be airports, dude. I can't even think of a close second. I'm thinking maybe like a school or something. Well, that's the, I think probably airports is where people that don't, it's a luxury to fly. Yeah. And people that are, have never been to this level are now at this level. Subway. Good one. Not as many. The hospital's got a lot of signs. Yeah. And that's, they don't, you know, they don't discriminate in there. Right. You got a broken ankle, you got a broken ankle. I got lost a couple of times in the hospital. Don't leave this way. If you go into the airport, yeah. I mean, COVID was the most signs. Yeah. The most signs. Yeah. There were signs of everything. Yeah. Yeah. You walk this way, do the breed this way. Measuring out the amount of feet between you and the next person. You ever still see one of those every once in a while? So do I. Yes. And I laugh. I laugh, man. It just takes me back. You go, wow, back in the day. Remember that? What a time to be alive. Like, off Galaxy, I go to, still has like the social distance things. He does. And there'll always be some like, old guy being like, man, you take these off, man, I'm tired of looking at them. Who, me? Who's there, me? Yeah. Take these off there, I'm tired of looking at them. It's definitely a guy wearing this shirt. For sure. For sure. No, no. Speaking of airports, by the way. Yes. I've laughed at this. I don't think anyone has had this take about the, all the airport lines, because the government shut down or whatever TSA. Ice came in there and like tightened it up. Sure. After like, I'm making no political analysis of the bureaus of the government TSA versus ice. Good disclaimer. But if you're, if your job, if you go on strike, you know where I'm going with this? Somebody else can come in and in 30 minutes, figure it out. It's a bad look for you. Yes, it is. It's the worst look for you. That's like, we're going on strike. I go, be careful. Like the refs went on strike one time in the NFL and then the games were horrible. They were all terrible calls everywhere and you go, this is a nightmare. And then they go, thank you, we're worth double. We're back. Because the same as the moms leaving the house. Yeah. And like, please don't figure it's the same exact angle of like, don't, I mean, don't figure this out when I'm not here. Please. Ice came in there and they were like, ice came in there and, and you go, what? Okay. So what's going on here? So we just got a line and we just got to check people's idea. All right. They went, well, we already have all these signs. So this shouldn't be that hard. But they go, you go to TSA. I don't know what TSA we got to be trained for a couple of weeks. I saw it and I was like, if I was trying to find, I don't think so. I don't know if I had to sneak contraband into a plane and there was two lines I could choose from. One of them was a TSA agent. Close your eyes and imagine that. And the other one was an ice agent. I'm going in the TSA. TSA. I'm not trying to try. Reason one, the ice guy is wearing a mask and has an AK. So yeah, I'm going. Not around his back, around his chest. His hands on it. Yeah. He got a 50k signing bonus to join. I'll test my luck with the walkie-talkie. Taking off my jacket. Shoes off. Laptops out of the bags. Brother, I'm taking my socks off. Yeah. Just go ahead and strip search me, sir. I won't know the problems. I'm taking everything off. There's a guy, there's a guy I saw on Instagram who stripped down to his briefs. He just went for it. No questions asked. They're like, sir, you don't have to. He was like, what? What? What? What do you need? I mean, yeah, I'm rolling the dice with the TSA. Dude, I don't care what your job is. If you're like, because people like, we've covered like Starbucks employees walking out, like Waffle. We've done a Waffle House one. We're like, all right, if you're going to, if you, that's the gamble. Yes. If you are going to, and now TSA wasn't striking, they just weren't getting paid. Yeah. But, but, but in Nashville, everything was fine. I believe I'm not speaking, I might be speaking out of turn here, but the reason why some people in some cities went on strike is they can't afford. I believe you can work and then you're going to get back pay. Yeah. And I think that starts this week. The back pay. Yeah. So, but there's are some cities where they go, we can't afford, we got to go door dash. Yeah. Any money now. Yeah. Yeah. We didn't, I wouldn't, by the way, all in support. I wouldn't go to work either. If I, if I was in a financial situation, I'd come to work. Yeah. If I, if I was in a, if I'd followed the Dave Ramsey plan, I'd become to work. Trump signed an executive order. That envelope would be empty. Yeah. By the end of the emergency fund. Yeah. Trump signed an executive order to pay TSA. So, I think they're getting paid now. Yeah. The back pay. So, I think it's over. Well, it's the same with like the snap benefits, right? It was like, well, we're going to get all these retroactively. We're going to get them back. Yeah. But yeah. Yeah. But you're right, man. Most American families can't. My gosh. I'm just thinking everybody's job that's listened to this podcast. If you're like, hey, if we get, if we get five or six of us to like go, like if Amazon drivers go on, they're like, am I right? Yeah. We'll get other drivers. Yeah. Or your job has to be in some way, shoot, we cannot live without them. Best, best. I've enjoyed and everybody has tremendously what's going on in baseball. Have you heard? Yes. That fits perfectly. Man. Man. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Everybody, all the umpires that now we have review. Yes. And it's the same. Okay. So basically what's going on in baseball is the calls and strikes the umpire like it always has been and now you can challenge it. Yep. The batter can challenge it. Oh, the batter can. The batter can. He just taps his top of his head. I think it's batter, pitcher and catcher can all challenge. And but they only get two per game. Yes. Unless you're right and then you, you preserve your challenge. Yeah. And some of these guys have just been getting raked. Yeah. What's his name? C.V. Buckner. Is that his name? Raked. Like not like just, I guess. Umpires are just doing whatever they wanted. Yeah. And umpires were doing whatever they wanted. They've started over the last few years like rolling out umpire statistics of like this guy's and even with onscreen graphics of like this guy is very batter friendly or this guy's very pitcher friendly. His box. His accuracy. Yes, exactly. So this is like the next step in that of now we get to really see in a real time because he, he blew three in a row. In a row. And the batter just goes. And the crowd's freaking out. It's awesome. The announcer was like, this is the biggest pop we've had all game. We just hit back to back home runs. And it goes, yeah, everybody goes nuts. It's awesome. It's awesome. I love it. I also want them to install that umpires must speak at press conferences post game. Ooh. You must answer for it. Everybody else has to. Hey, what happened? Coaches have to, players have to. You had a game too. What happened out there? What happened? Well, you know, I just, I started out, let's say I, you know, I got, I was 50, I was 20, 20 on the vision. I thought everything was going well preseason. I just, you know, I had a long day. Traffic coming into the stadium was tough. This morning I had to fight with one of my kids, kind of set me off a little bit. I was kind of, you know, I saw some old, I saw some Bryce Harper highlights. This kind of made me upset. So I was just going to call it a little bit tighter for him. And then, you know, what happened? I'm probably got to, you missed six calls. Yeah, it's just, I got to get better. I just got to go look at the video. Yeah. Yeah. I got to look at the video. That's the only answer too. That's why I want them to do it. Cause it's like, Hey, you should have to sit there and feel awkward. In the same way that somebody goes, Hey, you made a game blowing error in the ninth. What happened there? You're like, dude, I missed the ball. You saw it too. All the Duke players, the Duke players, they're had to go in a press conference. Yes. 10 minutes later, you should have to too. Yes. Man, that's a great. I want it. We're going to get, the next step is just the robot doesn't. The robot says greener. Well, I think, I think the, well, they do in tennis. They've been doing in tennis for a while. It hits and then they still have a judge though. Yeah. They still have a judge. Yeah. But then, but the line, it's, there's still the human, the human aspect of it. They go, get rid of the umpires or like, well, this is a, this is a good combo of both. I like it like this. So do I. I don't want to get rid of the umpires. I, because that'll also slow the game down away. I also hate the idea of like, you throw a pitch and then you have to look at something to see if those ballers strike. It's like, just call it right here. I think baseball and football, maybe it takes too long and you go, like, especially if they're reviewing a foul, you're like, some of the stuff can't review. So you're like, we're not going to get it perfect, but. Tennis has it perfect. Tennis has it perfect. Soccer has it pretty good when they do the VAR thing. They're really, really fast. They could go, oh, about off sides. Yeah. You know, yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's the same with, it's, we talked about this before. It's the same with the, the driverless Ubers and the driver and the Ubers with the taxis. The taxis were mailing it in for 20 years. Hey, just wait outside your house in the snow and just cross your fingers. You got to go to the airport to go to your grandpa's funeral. I hope that thing comes down the, that's what it was. I hope that that, and you're calling a 1-800 number and they're like, what, who are you? I put my address in last night. I was hoping it kept, maybe. Yeah. They were mailing it in for so long. Somebody goes, yeah, we'll create a better one. It's just evolution. Yeah. It's better. Dude, imagine being a taxi driver, seeing like the Uber stuff take over. You're like, oh, we're done. And you're like, oh, we're still making a little bit. We're making it. And you see a few Waymo's drive by and you're like, oh, it's over. Well, I think Uber is going to be, is you're like, they're like trying to do your best with, if you want to talk to somebody, but if I was going on, I would want, I would, I take them. What? Waymo's? Yeah, I would too. Yeah. I'm scared though. I saw one drive through a red light yesterday. Yesterday. I've seen him with like cops and they're like cops. He was one late, bro. I saw one that the cops were trying to pull over. I was right down the street driving in. Cop was trying to pull over and just kept going. Really? Yeah, just kept driving. That's sick. All right, never mind. I'm all for him. Who knows? Yeah, gotta get there, man. Yeah. I'm running late. Jen, if you're going to, if you're going to, if you're going to protest, it's like going in for, it's like going in, I guess a one-on-one situation. It's going in and asking your boss for a raise. You're like, I hope, I hope that what I'm doing is the boss is like, but your boss should be doing a good job of compensating both parties. But you go, if I go in and ask for double raise, he's going to be like, wait, I don't get that. I don't get the parallel. What am I missing? You're going, if you, you better hope that your contributions to your company are the same with the umpires and the same with the ice. You're like, if you were a TSA agent, you go, I want to make double. They go, have a good day. Yeah. But if you're the best, yeah, when you're trash man in the city, you're going to go, hey, we're going to make, we're going to make triple. They go, shoot, we need you. You're the unbelievable. You got it. We can't afford to lose you. Yep. Yeah. I don't know. Let's do it. 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Sent you in. Ladies and gentlemen, you want to get around the internet? Let's do it. Let's get around the internet. We let's let's let's figure out what the Christians are doing. Okay. Up top. Yeah. What them Christians doing? If you're new to the pod, we have a little segment we like to call what them Christians doing. And it's DEM. What them and it's not doing. Okay. Because people DM the pod all the time. What are Christians doing? I got that's not the segment. What are the Christians up to? I got that's not the segment. It's what them Christians do in apostrophe. Nice. What them Christians doing? Let's check it out. Here we go. What are the Christians up to? When we realized that we got 66 clips of the KJV that goes. Right. 66 clips. You got to hold that thing sideways and start letting it fall. I feel a whole thing go subpoena. I'm talking about more powerful than a switch. More powerful than a breaker. Every demon must die. Every devil must die. Greater. Greater. Greater. What a ride. Where? Why isn't this guy in my church? What a ride. What a ride. Okay. So I got a little con. I think I got a speaking in tongues. Sound of a bullet going off combo. Yeah. I got the should about that and then he goes. Bop, bop, bop, bop. I go well those are different. Yeah. Yeah. At the beginning. He was weaving in and out of. And what's a Draco? That's a gun. A kind of gun. That's a machine gun. It sounds like that. I tell you what it sounds like. What do you think he did? I didn't know what quite was because somebody sent this in. I didn't know why I didn't quite know what was going on. Somebody said put it to the side. I go oh, got it. Yeah. Oh, oh, oh, oh, more powerful than a Draco. Yeah. Because he said 66 books. I know that 66 books in the Bible. Yeah. He also he stole this girl's Bible out of the front row. Yeah. Wait, hold on. Give me my Bible back. More powerful than Draco. I get theology wise. He's not wrong. Sound. And we always do that. I feel like it sounds. You're sound. Sound theology. When you boil it down, it is more powerful than in eternity. It is. Draco might get you in the moment. Definitely going to get you in the moment. But over time, like I'm not bringing my Bible to the drive by. No, I'm not. I'm not. It is. If you were up against Bible up against Draco, Draco wins short term. You open the closet and you see a Bible in a gun and you're like Bible. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You somebody if somebody is a it's middle of the night, somebody's walking through your back door, you go to your safe, you're like Bible or Draco. You're like, I'm going to get the Draco. I'm not even comfortable saying Draco. I'll be back for you Bible. Yeah. I can't say Draco in this. No, I don't think I don't think so. What can you say in that? I don't know. Bow of crankbait. Revington. Well, yeah. Have you seen the crankbait? That's a type of. For sure. It's a Lord. Yeah. I got you. I'm tracking. Yeah. I want to hire this guy to come to my church. Yeah. Yeah. Or just to stand behind me when I do anything. This is that type of hype, man. Hold it to the side. I like that energy. I like this guy. We got another this this clip sent into and you'll see. Let me just preface this clip because you probably going to miss it. Okay. There's a there's a woman preaching. And people say it's evidence of the Holy Spirit in your life, allowing you to catching you before you cause. Oh, okay. Church did not start at 9 a.m. Church started when you woke your butt up this morning. Yeah. It got on. Well, when you opened up your eyes this morning. Can we run it again? Perfect. That's fantastic. I want it again. Church did not start at 9 a.m. Church started when you woke your butt up this morning. That's a great say. She wasn't even trying to be clever and like mute it. No, you know what I mean? Like to be edgy. She knew she genuinely was about to let that go. It was it was on the tip. It was on the tongue right there. For sure. Yeah. Well, she wrote game. Nope. Can't say that. That's the Holy Spirit in real time. The Holy Ghost. Yes. That's the Holy Ghost. That's good. In real time. She knew. I like it. It was about to let. She was about to let one fly. Yeah. That stuff feel like the only cuss word that is woke your butt up. It does. It waters it down. It doesn't hit. Yeah. It doesn't hit. Man. I got kids now. Yeah. We're a clean pod. And I'm trying. Like I've cleaned my language up. I do cuss occasionally. I'm trying to clean that up around my kids, especially because there is two. So she'll just say anything I say now. And so yeah. So I'm trying to figure out how I want to play that because certain words in certain contexts are just necessary. I just wish I had like it kind of like the kind of like the the umpire where you get two challenges. Yeah. There's like per show per like live comedy show. I wish I had like two. It would be like per it's some like for the most part I like writing. I like writing clean. And I like it. You got to think of a more clever way to but there's just like one maybe with it. When you just want to because in certain contexts. It's not even about being clever. It's just like this one. Yeah. It's just going to have more emphasis. Yeah. Which like that's what it that's the the root of the words is like are you serious? Are you serious? It's just like yeah. Oh. Like oh he's serious. I know that. Wow. Did you ever hear your parents cuss? Yeah. Easton. Oh yeah. Yeah. Sorry mom. But they listen to the pod dude. Yeah. I met him. Yeah. All right. My nut never. Never ever. No. Not one time. I said my mom say crap one time. Whoa dude. Yeah. It was big. It was big. Now. Did you look at your siblings like? I think I yes something like yeah never. Yeah. But I think it let one slip every now and then just to know let them know you're serious. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I like the challenges idea. Yeah. You get two of them. You get two. You could have a scoreboard too like with lights on. Yeah. You say one of the like. Yeah. I got you got. Hey I'm I'm pissed. Well you got no more left. Yeah. Because that would have hit way better than but. Okay. I speaking of I go to go to this one is a layer. I thought this was so funny. I'd never heard this before in my life. Go to the first one here. I don't know this wild perspective. Wild perspective. Come on Wi-Fi. Here we go. How did not a single person in the history of my bloodline lock in like you're telling me not one person could create generational wealth. So of course now the entire burden falls on to me. Like how is that fair. Okay. Dude valid play. I've never heard of that in my entire life. Such a valid play. Not one in the generations of your family name for that's been but centuries that not what like it only really takes one Rockefeller. That's it. One Walton and then all Waltons post are good. No but how did not one person lock in the funny words. It's got to be me. Now I got to do I have to be the one. One person got to be the one. Now I'll say I will say I will say you locked in. I locked in. You locked in bro. And I will say I will say my parents locked in in how they raised me. You know what I'm saying. That's what I like to look at it. Well they like that my dad was a pastor and he locked in in a different way. Yeah. They go hey we're not showing up late for work. We're not we're saying please and thank you. We're being respectful. You're not you're not if you say you want to play a sport you're completing the season. Sure. You're showing up. You're you're you're shaking your opponent's hand. Yep. In that way. So then I guess that the generation had a chance to lock in. That sets you up. And my grandfather Dale Christ. All the way locked in and now everybody's good. Nice. Yeah he locked in he started a dairy. And now the residuals of that there are family is written in for the rest of history. What. Well that's how any business is like that's sick. Like the money will be. Yeah he's not how any business is. No it's not. No. No that's that's well played. Yeah. Locked in. He like he like yeah everybody like all the siblings not me but my parents have like a ownership in like parts of like the ownership of the store goes into them and they just get. That's amazing. Yeah I don't want to speak out of turn I'm not super informed on it but he locked in. That's locked in. Yeah for sure that's locked in. Yeah that's it's a hilarious thing because of the thousands of people. In the thousands of years. Nobody. Million by the way millions billions billions of people. Billions. Yeah and no but how many in your family. Yeah definitely. I mean you've got to be thousands. Yeah. That nobody locked in. Well what. Like Henry Ford. I got to figure this out now. Yeah if you're a Ford since whenever the Model T if your last name is Ford you're good. Yeah I would assume so. Yeah forever. Yeah. Yeah if you're Rockefeller if you're the if you're the Kennedy if you're a you're a what's the guy that wrote all those books about how to Carnegie. You're locked in. Yep. That's just so funny to me. Nobody locked in. Come on man. Or you'll do it. Yeah. Yeah when when when yeah I mean there's. The wall behind him. Bro you're not locked in. You're on a bed frame in an Ikea. What are these tarps behind you. Yeah what's going on. Now I have to. You're not locked in. You have to lock in. But based on what we're seeing on this. Yeah this is not. Yeah. Hey family aside. Yeah. You need to. Your future generation is going to be saying the same clip. Bro. How did no one lock in. He's in a tent. Man that is so funny. How did no one in my family lock in. That's all. In the course of forever. Okay okay okay okay. All right here's here's a wild a wild debate. Go to go to number three. I think this is just a. Just a text post. All right let me read it. Just saw a TikTok where a girl booked her hair appointment back in October and the stylist ended up passing away. The girl decided to message the family members of the stylist. This is split by the way this is very split. Decided to. Message the family member of the stylist and asked about getting her $350 back for the booking. Is she wrong. I personally get why the family would be upset. But also the same time that's a lot of money to be letting go. How would you handle the situation. My word dude. Okay. Wow. This is a tough one. No no no I think the resolution is not tough at all. I think the scenario is tough. Okay I don't even I can't even think of what. All right first of all $350 means different things to different people. Sure that's that is a lot of money. Totally. $350 is a lot for a hair appointment. Yes. Yeah how much does hair cost. That's a lot of money for a hair. Okay yeah all right so you're you're locked in maybe you to get the appointment. Yeah I know Liddy has to do it months in advance. And it's it's a six hour thing. It could be and there might be more on top of that. That's the deposit it sounds like. Ask about getting her $350 back for the booking. All right so you reserve the spot. Yep. The person dies. Yeah. You never got a cut. What would you do. I'm a follow up. I mean if you booked it you're saying can I get that money back. I don't know how I don't know. That's what's tough. How do you ask. How. Into who. Because I think you're entitled to your money back. I would I think that what I would do is. For sure you're entitled to your money back. No question. You asked for a service. Are we all on the same page about that. The service did not get. Yeah. I think what I would do is I'd be like I need $350 but if you just give me $250 back I'll give you $100. Towards like funeral or like donation or whatever. That's really generous. That's a cool. That's like I'm not a complete selfish. Yeah. Why wouldn't you just call and say put the $300 toward the funeral. Because I want the $350. I want the $250. Because they let me. It's now you're doing a bargain with them. I'm going to give you some bad donation. I obviously feel bad for them. Well who are you reaching out to. Is it do they say. They said the family members. Wait. And I decided to message the family members of the stylist. Message them on GoFundMe or something. And you don't know these people. You never conversed with them obviously. So you go on Instagram. Find out who their sister is. Yeah. That's tough man. That's so tough. Hey sorry about the loss. Can I get my 350 back. I'll also say this though. If we have we have bookings here in the studio right. Yeah. If I die tomorrow God forbid. Yeah. I would assume that Maggie would look. Well you guys would be here still. No refunds. But if I would assume Maggie would be like I need to jump in the driver's seat of Alex's business real quick and figure out what needs to be done. Kind of get everything. Or the other way like. Like do the boys need to be paid. Like you know what I mean. Like things still need to happen. Things still need to collect. Yeah. No it's like it's like the other way like if someone books. If someone made a booking for us and then they passed away and they finally reached out to you and was like hey. Can we get the money back. They're going to get them refund. Yeah. Obviously we wouldn't do it. Oh what. Yeah. Obviously we give it back. Y'all could come in and record like a memorial. We'll do an AI. We'll give you a custom graphic and all that. We'll get you a mannequin wearing this. Yeah. I try to upsell them on a package. We can move it to you by the way. The coffin will probably fit like right there. Put it up there. Yeah. I mean no problem. You thought about doing this weekly. If you're a. If you're a. If you're the family member are you pissed. No. That's that's what I'm saying. Yeah. They got to. They got to understand. Yeah. They have to. But this is just a bad scenario all around. And I do think I think there's more sad unfortunate stuff. That the family's dealing with where this is nothing compared to like picking out this and that. And it's like this is part of like a yes. And whatever. Just give me. Yeah. And you don't do you. How long. She doesn't need the money where she's going. So. Yeah. Oh yeah. It's it's nobody's. It's her money. How are they going to get her money though. It's probably the family. She doesn't need the money. And if she has a bad financial situation where they she left them with a bunch of debt where they can't they debt doesn't pass on to them. Just do the ones. Yeah. So. Yeah. Okay. Well that's not their business. No. What if she already spent it. That's that's in the account. Right. It's like there is no account. Yeah. She's you got to personally write them a check. Or yeah. Is her is her poor money management now you're responsible. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. That's why. What now I don't know. They files a family member I go we don't have. So what about you just dog on that person. Like yeah she was really irresponsible money. She spent it all on DoorDash and Chipotle and Starbucks. It's gone. But. Clara she clarned everything. Yeah. Sorry bro. She owes a lot. Can you send us more. Yeah. We got 19 incoming installments. How long do you. I'm not let's be clear. I'm not hunting down the family. That's I'm going through whatever channels I was communicating with. Yeah. The business in the first place and I'm sticking there. And if I don't get my money back I don't have my money. Or yeah. They have like the Venmo set up for the donations. Right. And instead of. What do you request. With the casket emoji. The skull emoji. No. Skull emoji. No. Or like that. The no scissors skull haircut. Yeah. No. No no no no. Oh man. Yeah it has to be back the same way. Yeah yeah yeah. Whatever you put it. Yeah yeah yeah. I gotta come back the same way. Yeah just do a Venmo request. You can't go hitting up the family man. That's crazy. Hit up the family. Crazy. Crazy. No. Well I was gonna say how long do you. How long do you wait. I mean date next day. If I can afford to I'm giving it. Like probably a couple months to be honest. The money's gone by then I'm going. Yeah. You can't wait too long. Yeah. Can't be next day though. When do you when does the girl. If you're waiting a couple months you don't need the 350 that bad. Yeah. No. If you need the 350 back then you're gonna. Just because I don't need it doesn't mean I don't want it back. Okay. How. Wait no how. How long in advance do you book an appointment. Oh this says October. Probably a week or two. October to now. So this was when does this post. Book your appointment back in October and this was posted a week ago. Okay so. March 20th. Months. You book a hair appointment do women do that. Yeah. Six months in advance. For sure. Six months in advance. Well she probably booked it after her last cut. What are we accounting for inflation. Lydia does that. Six months in advance. Like you finish your cut and it's like when do you want to schedule come in again. Do it right there. Yeah. And it's every to get the tips colored up or whatever. Whatever it is. Yeah. Roots. No not tips roots. Yeah and get the tips cut. Tips is like Backstreet Boys. Yeah. Yeah. Six months. Yeah. So you can't but you're you're you're you're you got to do something else with your hair. Because you're this was you're another six months from another cut. Yes. You can't get back. So you need this money immediately. Oh I see. Gosh that is so fun. Yeah I'm called. I'm giving it. I would say after the funeral. That's why I don't prepay for haircuts. Is it torn for real. Are people in the comments saying both ways. People know yeah and people say it's no brainer. I take it as a loss. Take it as a loss. And other people say don't contact a family. Yeah. That's what I think. I mean that yeah. But this is obviously this girl was doing hair on the side. So it's a personal there's no business. Obviously you would go to the salon. Right. Yeah. And they would obviously take care of you. So that's not the case here. Right. It's somebody's doing you must be Venmoing them or giving them cash. If you gave them cash you're done. That's your fault. Not giving them cash. I say depending on yeah because that's why a lot of people say when you go abroad use a credit card because you are a visa will defend you. For sure. If it's if you didn't get what you asked for a visa will. Well it's not your money. It's visa's money. Yeah. You're using somebody else's money. Yeah. Yeah. So you go you got to refund me for that because I booked the parasailing and it was not a real business and they will they will take care of that for you. Yeah. I'd ask for it back after a little bit of a window. And that but I wouldn't expect it back. I think that's I would just hope for it back. Say send a text. Or a Facebook message. Here's my Venmo. I'm not going to follow this more. I'm not going to be like yo. Yeah. Yes. Just words in three weeks. Yeah. I'm not chasing you down. Yeah. But I'm going to say if you if you if you would like to make this right. I'm not doing that. If you would like to make this right is crazy. Yeah. What a dilemma. Look I would just let it go. Money comes back like that one clip we watched. This is what she would have wanted bro. She would have wanted me to have my money back. No she would have wanted you to have your hair done. She would have wanted to be alive to do it. She's not. So I think she'd want the money. Thanks. Crazy dude. Dang. Oh man we covered it. That's crazy dude. That's crazy dude. Let us know what you think. Let us that's a tough situation. That's a super tough one man. That's hilarious dude. What else we got going on on the internet. Oh we need to talk about the um. That was which I wouldn't turn to think. What that one's too serious. Oh this is good. You're going to love this one. Go to the second from the bottom. This is where the cursor is. Yeah. We don't have to watch the whole thing but hear me out. Okay. Unpopular opinion. I think married friends and friends with kids need to be better friends to their single friends. Hold on. And what I mean by that is I always show up to your married and parental events. I.e. your kids birthday parties, your baby showers. I show up to your weddings. I show up to your bachelorette parties. So when I want to do single girl things and I don't mean you got to go out partying until three in the morning. I mean I want to go get dinner and drinks with my friends on a random Friday. We could be home by 10. Don't worry. But it shouldn't be this big thing. Or it shouldn't be met with oh I don't really have time to do that anymore. Or I don't have time for that. Our friendship should not always revolve around the stage of life that you're in. You should have to sometimes meet me in the stage of life I'm in. Because if you're comfortable in your marriage and as a parent it should not be a big deal to sometimes go by yourself with your friends to go have dinner or to go to a movie. Or to go on a girls trip. It'll take this even further. Okay. As I'm not married, currently not married, I am engaged. You're married. You're married multiple kids. We got all the perspectives here. I default to what my married friend's agenda is. And it's better that way. I disagree with this 100% and I'm single. Okay. Anything that I am doing is objectively, I hate to say it, of less consequence. Sure. Yeah. Okay. All right. I didn't know what you guys could have. I agree but I'll throw from the other side. There's also like as the married guy, I appreciate that perspective from your side. You understand that like, hey, I have all this other stuff that I am committed to and that does weigh something. But also I think it's really important for married people slash married people with kids to make the effort to still let you be seen and make sure that we make time to go do stuff with you. You got to compromise me in the middle. Look at us, we're both taking the opposite side to go. I understand the other. My buddy's got four kids. Dude, if you can fit in golf, I'll adjust. Right. Because now we're talking about if you're, if me and you are trying to make plans. Yes. Prior to being engaged, I have just me. Now you have three others to coordinate the schedule. I just said that to Maggie the other day. I was like, I have three girls. Just numbers wise. You go, well, I should fit around you because I have one. Sure. Or I have one fiance, like a three quarters of one. Yes. And Lydia, that's not what I meant. But you're like, if you're single, like what, what, what stuff are you going to run club? What's the same as if you like, if you were trying to book a meeting with somebody who's Uber famous, Uber successful, has a crazy schedule, you're trying to book a meeting with the rock. Yeah. You're going to work around the rock. We're trying to get Taylor Swift on the pod. Yeah. She's like, I'm flying in at 3am. Tabe, see it for. We'll be here. Yeah. Let us know if you can do that. 330, we're there. Don't worry about it. We'll be there. Some people are like, hey, we filmed the pod. Yeah. At 10. Yeah. On Tuesday. Mm-hmm. So, so. Right. We can't make adjustments. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I go, if you're, yeah, whatever single people, it's of, it's of, I think, raising children or being there for your, I think everybody in the course of human history knows the importance of that. And when I get done at the golf course versus when my buddy with three kids gets done at the golf course, he's going back to more significant activities. Yeah. Versus me. You're hitting shower in the couch. And watching the game and putting a hundred bucks on a parlay. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Dude, he's got to go read this kid a Bible story before bed. Yeah. Yeah, do that. Yeah. I think that, like, what you're saying, your perspective is more common thought though. I think so. I think for the married folks out there, still making effort for your friends. Dude, like, I don't think that that is set enough. I'm actually happy to hear her say this and the way that she said it. Because I also think that pours back into you as the married person or the parent, which then pours back into your relationship at home. I would say that. You know what I mean? Yeah. I think when I am I, we have at friends this weekend that come out to the show that, like, have multiple children and, like, got a sitter. Yeah. I feel so like, I got to make sure the show's good. That is so kind for them. It's like me, it's like me getting on a plane to show up for one of my friends. You're like, what, you flew here? Right. That's like a- Cost the same. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. In my surprise 40th birthday party or my engagement, people flew with and left their kids and they go, that is such a, I would just say as a single guy, I see that. Yeah. I noted. You still, you do a good job, I think, of still making time for your friends too. I mean, I was just about to say, I don't think the kids is the differentiator. I don't think the wife makes a difference, in my opinion. Oh, that's sorry about that. Unless you have a very controlling wife and she doesn't like to leave the house, but I don't. No, that is a good point. But like the kids is like, you got to be understanding on both sides, I think, but I mean, I've always realized, because I've also grew up with the younger subjects, so I know like, some days stuff's just going down. All right, all three, go ahead. I'll say one more thing. As a married man with kids, I know other married men with kids who I've watched disappear when they had kids. And I now am in that same position and I still feel the way that I feel of like, you shouldn't just fall off the face of the earth just because you have a family now. Yeah. We get to figure stuff out. Yeah. Yeah. As you get your, like if, all right, so in two weeks, if I said a Wednesday night, April 20th, I'm having a get together to release my new whatever. What's going on in your house? Nothing. No, no, no. But I, for me currently, I would. Eastern just puts it on the calendar. Well, I would too. I would too. I go, I'll put it on that week on Sunday. I'd be like, that's where I'm at currently in my life. Hey, I got a thing Wednesday. It wouldn't be, I have to, you would have to. So I put it on the calendar. I check the calendar. I put it on the calendar. I talked to Maggie. Hey, looking at this, this date, this time, you good with the girls? We need to get a sitter. Can we call my parents? Like how like. And you're not, you're not bringing one of those unless it's more significant now than it was in the past. You're not bringing a Wednesday night. Mike is doing a huge release of his new thing or whatever. Right. Right. I'm doing the Opry, for example. We're not, we're not for open mic night at Zany's. We're not calling anyone. Yeah, you're right. I skipped the step where it runs through a filter of like, is this one of those things that I would do this for? That's what she's saying. Yeah, absolutely. The things that you do, you're like, hey, let's go grab dinner tonight. Like Lydia tonight, Lydia is busy and I go, I texted my buddies, both single. Yeah. And I go, let's go. I do. And they go, let's go. Yeah, done. Yeah. It is more of a, there's more checks and balances. Yeah. And then in the back of my mind is, if we have a terrible week leading up to that, I still may have to bail. Yeah, yeah. You don't have to be like, there's also that. And I think you're allowed to bail. Thanks. You go, like people all the time go, hey, there's a lot going on. Yeah. You go, yeah, yeah, all good. Yeah. Now I'm not going to let, hey, there's a lot going on to my single friends. No. There's not a lot going on. No, there's not. No, there's no, there's no. Hey, I got caught up with what worked. From the other side, there's no sip of this. No. Yeah, that's a great point. Now what, what? Yeah. You what? What was your list again? Your, yeah, you just thought about it. You reconsidered. Do I want to? Yeah. Because if you got a kid, if you have a wife and kids, there's always something A. Always. There's something that you can throw as an excuse. Yes. I would say a, if you are single and you've committed to a thing on a, that I'm not talking about an out of town trip. No. I'm talking about a two to three weeks in advance, weeknight, something. No excuse. You should be there. I don't, I don't even, I wouldn't even consider sickness. I don't think. Let's watch the end. She said, and keep going. Oh, okay. Cool. This might turn bad. We'll see. I didn't watch the rest of it. She's like, and comedians, by the way. Yeah. What? That married friends and friends in serious relationships and friends that have become parents, you should reach out to your single friends. That's what you're saying. Okay. You should not wait until your single friend says, Hey, do you want to go do this? Interesting. I'm telling you as the single friend, sometimes we get exhausted of it because we totally get that you're busy. I have so much empathy for parents. You guys are superheroes. Thanks, Ma. But it would be nice if sometimes you're married friends or your friends that are parents now would reach out to you. Dang. And say, Hey, do you want to get together soon? And doing things with your kids is fine. But it would be nice if sometimes you said, what do you want to do? Shout out to this girl. Yes, yes. Yes. Yes. Love that. And my all my married friends, they all do this. Yes. Good. Yeah. Good friends. My sister, my brother, all reach out to me. You want to go to dinner. Yeah. My buddy that's my best friend here in town and says, we want to go play golf. And then talk about not just the kids the whole time. That's the other part of it is like, what's going on in your life? You know what's going on in my life. Yeah, we got, we know. It's my kids. What about you, man? You guys think she told the friend she's obviously talking about in this or you know? No, she just posted on you. That's all I like. Yeah. I don't like it. I don't like it anymore. No. The friend's seeing it right now on the feed. Yeah. Just, I'm just throwing this out there. Tell her. This trip is getting shared to her by one of their mutual friends being like, yo, she's talking about you. For sure. Yo, Molly's talking about you on the feed. Did you see this? That's crazy. Story. Hard post. She's in pajamas, bro. I like that she recorded the first half of it and was like, wait, I got more thoughts. She came back. Hey, get with the other guy. You'll lock in together. Both of y'all need to lock in. No, this is fire. I like this. Pajama post? Yeah, pajama post. It's good. Hey, shout out to that girl. That's good. That's quality. We'll do one more before we get out of here. I like it. Ooh, one more. It's a lot of pressure. 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And I'm saying that as a joke in EASTA. I'm a joker. I love to make the jokes. Okay. Like we all love to laugh. Obviously I love to laugh. Okay. The don't we all, don't we all? But I mean, we're turning very serious, unfortunate, traumatizing subjects into eye-funny gag reels. And for what? Who does that help? Nobody. That's the answer. And like, don't get me wrong. I love to make the tilted laughing, crying face emoji moves just like anybody else. But I really do think that in being funny, you also got to be, you got to be respectful when you need to be. And I feel like people have learned to be very desensitized and jaded about subjects that you should never be jaded about because we turn everything into a meme. We turn everything into something that can be reposted on Twitter when that's not what things are always meant to be. It's cheap. It's cheap. And you're cheapening the importance of things that deserve better. Like people just deserve better than being turned into something that people are using to get TikTok likes in a comment section. It's not cool. And you're making, you're making the children of today think that the horrible things that are happening around them are no big deal because ha ha funny. Okay. Boo. You boo that? Jokes. You think everything? It's the internet. Yeah. What do you want the internet to do? Take a moment to be serious about things? It's never done that. Yeah. I mean, I think I, I mean, I'm pro jokes. I just think it's, if anything, it helps me, I guess I'll speak for myself. Me cope with bad things is when stuff turns funny, I guess. I don't know. That's helpful. Yeah. I mean, it's, because otherwise if everything's serious and stuff, it's like, all right, well, what am I supposed to do? Just sit here and cry. I guess that's what, wait, that's what you go to the internet for. Yeah. Yeah. I think in person. I think we, for sure. Yeah. I said, but she's mad at the internet. Yeah. That that's what the internet is. Yeah. The internet itself is a joke. I mean, yeah. If you know, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So like they, like what she's talking about is like, we get the president of Venezuela and he's in that like Nike jumpsuit and it's like me when I come out a third period after hitting a kid in dodgeball. Funny. Hilarious. Objectively. You don't think that's funny? Let me think. Dude. John. No. Okay. Well, but what you talk about this, the situation in Venezuela is very serious. For sure. And so what you're saying is we're not discounting that. Absolutely. No. Two things can be true. And like people can go on a like, people can go on like a Shia LaBeouf. He's like, what would you say if you saw Jesus? And he goes, I wouldn't, the most sincere he's ever been, he goes, I wouldn't say anything. I'd kiss him. Yeah. It's like me after three beers when I hit a parlay. Also funny. Yeah. You can hold two ideas, man. Like grow up. This is the internet. Not you. I'm talking in general. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like come on, man. Of course that's funny. And of course, what a beautiful clip from Shia. Two things are true. Yeah. Yeah. The meme accounts are like, I would say in defense of her, I'm not saying nothing serious on a podcast. Yeah. Because it's going to be, people have said very vulnerable things. And if it's on the internet, it's going to be made into a joke. There you go. That's the internet is. Yeah. Yeah. Also, if we're playing by these rules, is it always too soon then? How long do we have to wait after that Shia clip happens? Or like you might get, yeah. For us to make that joke. Years? Yeah. Like me flying, me, let's see, me, a plane flying into Pearl Harbor is like me and her DMs. Yeah. Or exactly that, right? Yeah. From 1907. Yeah. Too soon? Yeah. Come on. 125 years later. Right. Yeah. That's it. It was a very Pearl Harbor, very serious, obviously. Yeah. Or there's been jokes about the 9-11. Yeah. That's 25 years later. Yeah. Yeah. That you go, well, if you go, my parents were in 9-11, you go, but yeah, but this is also. Yeah. Get off the internet if you don't want to see that type of stuff. Because the internet's going to internet, dude. Like this is what it is, especially if you're on Twitter. Like that's just. That's what Twitter is best for. And I say about, well, now I'm not even going to say it because it would be against what I said to you guys earlier this week. The people don't clip this, but like the people having like think pieces about the Jrusky piece. Yeah. Lame. Yeah. It's lame. Because the internet's going to internet? Yeah. It is. It is like, I feel like, and maybe this podcast, I'll say, I'll call ourselves out. This era versus the past is there's a lot less of making and there's a lot of reacting. I've seen reactions to reactions of reactions. Okay. And the Jrusky clip was a reaction. There's less people making original things and more people reacting to what we do. Yeah. I like the Jrusky thing. I think it's great parody. I think it's funny. I think the angle he took is critique is on angles of critique that a lot of people hold of her. We're doing the same thing. And that's why. And so I'm all for it. I think the clip's funny, but obviously the situation is not funny. I don't think anyone thinks the situation. Well, that's what we're talking about here then, I guess. That's what she's talking about. Maybe she is. All things are true. I don't know if she is or not. Yeah. No, this was back in January. This is supposed to be. Okay. So it's not. Yeah. Well, this happens all the time. Yeah. This is gonna forever be. Make your jokes. But I go, I go, I'm not sure I should say this or not. I guess I, there was a comedian that wants to work with us, wants to come out on the road with us. And there was a, there was something on the internet that I found to be wildly offensive. Yeah. Wildly offensive. Am I allowed to do that or no? I think everybody is. Yeah, you can take offense however you want. And he liked it. And I didn't. Okay. Hire him. That's okay. Yeah, we should be allowed to do that. Actions have consequences. Yeah. Yeah. My, my, my only critique of this girl's take. Yeah. Is that you're trying to tell people. You're not the police. You're not the police. Yeah, you're trying to tell people what they can and cannot think is funny. Let me, yeah. This is funny. We're making, we're making jokes. I think Drusky, I think Drusky's is, is a perspective in comedy is 100% worthwhile and necessary. Agreed. Yeah. And as he go across the line, he go, I didn't love that one. I liked the other ones more. Yeah. That's fair. Yeah. You're allowed to do that. If that video is about me, I probably don't like it as much. Yeah, but I'm not mad at it. That's fine. Or I go, I go, eh, you're fair. I think I just go fair. You can be mad at it. I, I just, yeah, you're allowed to do that. But you can't say he shouldn't be able to do that. Yeah. Because then, then, then, yeah, because then it turns on your side. Like you're going after the other side. They can't, but then you don't want, it's like free speech. Yes. Like you shouldn't want this guy to be shut down because then the, then the possession arrow as Easton says, is going to switch. Yeah. Is going to switch. You don't want that power to come to you. Yeah. You got to be consistent. There's no jokes or no funny content. I mean, what are we supposed to do? Just live in a Sean Ryan episode and everything. Is this dead serious? Dude, hilarious reference. I mean, no, I'm serious. Just incredible reference. Like, we ought to sit in that dark room being like, yeah, I burnt those tater tots this morning. Tier one operator. Yeah. Yeah. In that voice. Yeah. Yeah. It's not, it's no phone. Yeah. Yeah. I guess if you see something on the internet, if you see something on the internet, they go, I not, but yeah, then it's fine. Yeah. Here's what it is, man. Yeah. Keep scrolling. That's the title of the pot, mad at the internet. Yeah. Yeah. When did you, when would the internet say they weren't that? It's always been that dude. It's the internet. Or it's the newspaper. Or it's the, the Dead Sea, not the Dead Sea Scrolls, but the scrolls. Do you think there were jokes? Do you think there were jokes in deep history that they just don't? They're written on the side of a cave. Yeah. And he's like, dude, don't write that. Bro, go on. Imagine you find some scrolls in hieroglyphics. Toilet humor. He's like, gross. Yeah. That was like the original carving in the bathroom stalls, dude. These are hieroglyphics and they say some wild stuff back in there. It's like roasting the king's harem or something that they're out of shape. Dude, you can't say that. You think it's some like prolific, profound thing that you found. You took all day trying to chisel this. He must be committed to the joke. You got hair and makeup, bro. You got irrespective to commit to the joke. Wait till this is going to kill. Bro, I promise you they're going to love this. This is when the village comes in here for us. You got to kill. I got to kill a saber-toothed tiger for dinner. But once I do, everybody comes over. It's going to murder her. It's so funny. It's digging up ancient artifacts and it's just mean humor. Tink tink. We thought it was a philosopher. We thought it was Galileo talking about where the sun originated. It's just like roasting it. Roasting to somebody that can't cook in your village. I don't even know history enough to come up with a clever example. His name is Wingedfoot and he can't hunt. You're on the military? Wow, it's hilarious, dude. Oh, we solved it. What are you going to say, Easton? Nothing. No, I thought you were taking deep breath. I had something to say. Net positive, ladies. Coming next week for what? 204? 204. Get ready. Coming next week. See you guys later. I mean, yeah, sure. It was a little weird, but on the net, on the on the it was a positive. It was a positive. You cannot be serious. On the net, it's a positive.