Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] Speaker A: Alrighty. Alrighty, everybody. Welcome back to another week of the Human podcast. Your host is still alive, as always. Never gonna die until I do.
We were talking earlier about, you know, is it, you know, okay to eat animals? Mochi, I swear to God. Don't. Don't touch nothing.
[00:00:28] Speaker B: Would you eat mochi?
[00:00:30] Speaker A: I'd definitely eat mochi. Like.
[00:00:32] Speaker C: Oh, my God.
[00:00:33] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Like, let me see. Like, her back, you know, legs here have a lot of, like, muscle on it, you know?
[00:00:40] Speaker C: Yeah, but that means that if she has a lot of muscle, sometimes that just means it's gonna be stringy and not tender.
[00:00:47] Speaker B: Yeah, no, that's why you don't eat the roosters. Eat the hens.
[00:00:50] Speaker C: Like, I. I know, right?
[00:00:52] Speaker A: I would see what her tail tasted like, you know, see if there's, like, you know, like, good meat there. Like, she has good, you know, under, you know, stomach meat. You know, do cat brains taste good? Do I. Do I get prion disease from it?
[00:01:08] Speaker B: Okay, so I wouldn't eat a cat because I view cats as a higher species than humans, because I would eat a human if given the opportunity.
[00:01:15] Speaker A: You get prion disease from eating humans.
[00:01:18] Speaker B: Which is not a bad thing.
[00:01:20] Speaker A: Kills you and precisely makes, like, proteins or something fold. Weird.
[00:01:25] Speaker B: I die from it. Yeah, that is the angle.
[00:01:28] Speaker A: And then you start smelling weird. Okay.
[00:01:30] Speaker B: No, I wanted to kill me, not leave me in constant suffering pain.
[00:01:33] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. No, it. It's really bad. Like.
[00:01:36] Speaker B: No, but you die sooner.
[00:01:37] Speaker A: Oh, no, it'll make you. Hold on.
[00:01:42] Speaker B: I am very happy dying from prion disease. Again. If given the opportunity, would eat. I would not eat human brain. That's. I think brains are gross. I don't like neurons.
I know that sounds dumb, but I would definitely eat a human. Besides brains, I'd eat anything given to me.
Like, okay, I'm excluding keratin, like, hair and nails.
[00:02:05] Speaker A: My favorite thing about people is technically we're a brain in a mech suit. So my wife is technically a brain saying that she doesn't want to eat brain.
[00:02:17] Speaker B: Yes, but as a brain, I'm fine eating other body tissues.
[00:02:22] Speaker A: But I. I am your host, Alex the truck. That's my wife. And then we got Courtney as well.
[00:02:27] Speaker C: Yep, we got me here.
[00:02:32] Speaker A: But, yeah, no, like, I. I'd have no problem, you know, Like. Like, there's vegetarians and vegans, and, you know, vegetarians are fine. Vegans are annoying, as, you know, because, like, oh, you can't eat any animal.
And I. I say this, you know, as, like, the main argument for eating animals.
You know, if you don't eat them, they will take over everything. And then eating, you know, your vegetables, your salads, all that, that becomes unethical because now you're eating what the animals would be eating and you're starving them out.
[00:03:13] Speaker C: That's also part of the thing that I don't like about vegans because sometimes they don't even, like, they don't eat eggs, even though there's no reason not to eat eggs or milk.
And they, they like most fruiting vegetable like fruit like needs bees. So some of them don't even eat some of that and try to do weird sourcing where they don't they find some that don't utilize them. I mean, and then there's also the fact that even doing agriculture work itself, it's gonna kill a ton of freaking mice, squirrels, birds, yada, yada, yada. It's still gonna have a footprint like avocado. They, they shouldn't have avocados because it uses bees and the tree, the trees need to be protected. So they're going to kill off all the animals that are nearby.
[00:04:07] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly.
I mean like you, you live in America. Like if you live in America, you have the freedom to believe and do whatever the you want to do. Like if you just want to, you know, carefully source everything, be the change you want to see in the world, I don't care. But if you're going to be an annoying about it, then, you know, shut the up. I'm still going to go and eat a delicious steak.
I'm going to eat meat all the time.
And you know, people, you'd be like, would you shoot this baby cow in the face? Yeah, absolutely. Go shoot it right in the head. I'll punch it to death. I don't care. You, you know, like I am like the master species here. Be tougher. You know, be a lion. I mean, I have never eaten a lion because they're a, you know, they, they run fast and they're more dangerous to go hunt. I haven't eaten crocodile, but I could, you know, I, I'd love to. If, you know, someone wants to send me in some croc jerky, I'll eat that.
You know that there isn't anything that I, I wouldn't eat except for like, you know, mushrooms and olives and like water chestnuts. Like, that's gross.
And when, like when vegans eat, I.
[00:05:33] Speaker C: Don'T understand why you don't like mushrooms.
[00:05:35] Speaker A: They're gross.
[00:05:36] Speaker C: Have you tried them again at all? Like they're freaking awesome.
[00:05:41] Speaker A: Yeah, no, it's just like. It's mush. It's decayed mush that turns into an umbrella.
[00:05:48] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:05:48] Speaker C: My God.
[00:05:49] Speaker B: That's the whole point.
You're eating the recycler and the recycling at the same time.
[00:05:58] Speaker A: Like. Like everything around us is spores. There's spores everywhere. There's little mushrooms just all throughout the air. And I'm like, I don't want that. And if you eat mushrooms, you could be eating, like, fucking, you know, animals technically.
I feel like a mushroom technically would be an animal.
[00:06:18] Speaker B: Okay, so you're eating the fruiting body. So if you want to get technical, you're kind of eating the mushroom stick or vagina.
[00:06:28] Speaker A: I mean, like, I've had this thought experiment in my head, like the Ship of Theseus, you know? You know, do you know this one where, you know, you have a ship and, like, everything is, like, removed from it and replaced? Is it still the same ship? You know, matter cannot be, you know, destroyed or created. So every atom on Earth has been recycled, at least most of them.
And so, you know, something that was once part of a tree has been once part of an animal. You know, it's like, oh, that atom used to be like a, you know, a squirrel's liver. And then it, you know, squirrel died, and now it got absorbed into this tree.
[00:07:19] Speaker B: It's a transfer of energy, which is carbon.
[00:07:22] Speaker A: Yeah. And then. Then now that, you know, fucking atom of whatever is inside the apple. And so technically, everyone is eating everything.
[00:07:33] Speaker B: Okay. So, you know, they gave me a little play stray. So in. In level two, or Mid City, whatever, there's you. You chat with this one robot, and he's at a place where you can get, like, your body parts, like, changed out for, like, an upgrade. And he says, if one day I have an army place and the next day a leg, will I. Will I be the same robot one day in the future?
[00:07:53] Speaker A: Yeah, that's. That's the Ship of Theseus.
[00:07:55] Speaker B: I know.
[00:07:56] Speaker A: You know, I love that. And. And it's a great, you know, thought experiment. If, you know, you slowly replace everything, is it still the same thing?
[00:08:07] Speaker B: No, because neurons also decay.
[00:08:11] Speaker A: And it's like, you know.
You know, it served the same purpose.
And since you did it slowly, you know, it has kept the same name, but, you know, in factuality, no, it is not the exact same.
Like, yeah, you know, any human, you know, your skin cells will, you know, slough off and dissolve and get replenished, you know, all. All throughout your life, you know, are you the same person, you know, that you were when you were born. No, technically not, because, you know, you keep on, you know, replenishing yourself, and I. I find that magical. And I. I find, like, the fact that an apple that you're eating could have, you know, at one point, you know, been, you know, like a monkey's heart or something.
I. I know. It's like, I. I. I get weird thought experiments in my truck all the time.
I. I hate people that sit there and, like, rev their motorcycle.
It's like, I hear you, douchebag. We all hear you. No one's impressed.
Like, I. I always hate these people. They're the worst.
You know, anybody that has, like, a truck and just, you know, sits there and revs their truck, especially just, you know, you know, sitting there revving it in their yard. That way everyone comes out and be like, oh, someone's revving their truck. Let's go look at them. Holy. So cool.
Yeah. Do you have any of those people that live near you?
[00:10:11] Speaker C: What people?
[00:10:11] Speaker A: The people that, like, rev their vehicles to get attention.
[00:10:16] Speaker C: Oh, I passed some of them.
And there's, like, a stretch of road right in front of us. So they've, like, done stupid.
[00:10:24] Speaker A: Sometimes that's when you just, like, put, like, a board out there, you know, that way when their truck hits it, it, like, makes, like, a scary sound.
Or. Or what you do is you just, like, you know, pour some, like, oil. Like, when they, like, park their vehicle, you pour some oil underneath their car and, like, put, like, three bolts down there, like, in the oil, and they'll just, like, oh, what the is that? And they'll, like, freak out and, you know, hold on to the bolts forever, like. Yeah, what are these bolts? They'll try and, like, figure it out.
Especially if you, like, splash some up underneath. Like, the engine works like a charm. They'll panic forever.
It's like, the same thing as, like, if, you know, like, some dude's, like, drunk all the time and you, like, pour some water on him while he, like, sleeps, like, big dude. You pissed yourself. It's like, oh, no.
Oh, man, I need to stop drinking. I'm pissing myself. And then they stop drinking.
Maybe not. You know that.
Actually. Yeah, no, that won't ever work. I know quite a few alcoholics that will willingly piss themselves because they don't give a.
But I. I h. Have come to a realization.
I have reached the next level of adulthood.
I. I am a. I. I'm a newer adult because now I am writing to my governor and to senators and, you know, contacting them, and they. They Send back, you know, like a, hey, we'll get back to you, you know, email immediately.
And it's like, but at least I did it. At least like I, you know, thought out a long ass email and back. You know, this law is stupid. You and I have to now continue doing this. And then now I'm going to have to like, now I'm going to like run for mayor or something.
I mean, I, I feel like I can do it. I feel like I can run for mayor and like, I'll, I'll just like run on one thing and one thing only. I will get rid of the horse. I will get rid of the stupid horse statue and like, I'll be like the one guy that like wins with like a hundred percent. It's like you only have to get rid of the horse statue.
And it's like the best mayor that, you know, Colorado Springs has ever seen. He got rid of the horse statue.
So if you see me running for the mayor and for the governor of Colorado, like, I, I wonder, I wonder, like, what is like the prerequisites, like do I have to go to college?
[00:13:47] Speaker B: You have to have lived in the county for a set amount of years.
You have to be over a certain age. And I think there's one more requirement.
[00:13:57] Speaker A: Now, now to look this up because.
[00:13:58] Speaker B: It'S really easy to just apply to be a public figure.
[00:14:01] Speaker A: I, I know, like my friend Callan did it as a joke and he got on TV and I'm like, dude, you know, but yeah, it was hilarious.
How to apply to be a mayor in Colorado.
Candidate qualifications.
Okay.
Oh man. A US representative only has to be 25.
[00:14:32] Speaker B: Oh, I thought you did. Okay. I'm actually here for that, to be honest.
[00:14:36] Speaker A: A senator, 30. So I can, you know, be a senator.
Yeah, yeah. Now, now I want to see what do I have to do to become a senator.
Senators are elected four year terms and may serve a total of two consecutive terms. Senators must have attained the age of 25 years, be a United States citizen and be a resident of the district from which this senator is elected for at least 12 months prior to election.
So yeah, there is literally no realistic expectation.
Like I, I feel like you can just be a dumb and get elected to public office with no formal education and then boom.
Okay, yeah, now I'm starting to, now I'm starting to realize, you know, how everything has happened.
I'm like learning stuff again in a.
[00:15:51] Speaker B: Whole level of adulthood. I achieved to never have to aspire.
[00:15:54] Speaker A: To, like, I, I, you know, I've Been learning about, like, the history of, you know, everything about the Federalists that collapsed and, you know, the Democratic Republicans, you know, which seems like an oxymoron. Then they broke up and created the Democrats and Republicans. And the Democrats ran on white power and racist.
And then the Republicans were like, give me that.
We're white power.
So, yeah, now I'm.
Now I'm at that level where I'm getting involved into politics and it kind of sucks, but, you know, if I become.
Actually, I wonder how much senators get paid because AOC is a senator.
[00:16:57] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:16:57] Speaker A: How much do senators get paid?
Fucking shit.
Yeah, they get fucking paid. Fat stags. 100.
[00:17:09] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:17:09] Speaker A: 74,000 a year.
[00:17:11] Speaker B: I think the government's so crap. Like, the majority of them are there to make money.
[00:17:16] Speaker A: I'm there to make money.
I am going to, you know, get into politics just to make money, do nothing, coast all the way through.
[00:17:30] Speaker B: That's what they do.
[00:17:31] Speaker A: And just hope.
[00:17:33] Speaker B: Paid to deal with a filibuster. Those ba. Those bastards.
[00:17:37] Speaker A: Like, recently I learned what filibustering is, and I'm like, oh, shit. You know, people do that.
[00:17:48] Speaker B: Yeah, no, it's like the political form of gaslighting.
[00:17:51] Speaker A: No, it's delaying, you know, and arguing, you know, dumb fucking topics to keep it going and be like, oh, I guess we don't have enough time to fucking vote on this, you know, and that's filibustering and trying to just get rid of it.
[00:18:06] Speaker B: Mm.
Yeah. You literally see someone say, that's a yes or no question. That is a yes or no question. Like, I've seen them ask do that, like, multiple times, and it's just like, yeah, that person's getting paid to just be there to be a dick and not try to not talk about shit.
[00:18:27] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, what. Watching, you know, people in Congress and stuff like that, I'm like, I could do this. I. I could very easily do this.
And then my mom could be like, oh, my son's a senator.
It's like he's the most corrupt senator ever. He, like, you know, posts about all his corruption, and they love him because, you know, he's, like, open with it, and he uses, you know, he accepts all the bribes and does nothing for the bribes.
[00:19:06] Speaker B: I mean, if you're around for. If you run for mayor of the town, will you get rid of the stupid statue?
[00:19:11] Speaker A: Yeah, that's the only thing I do.
[00:19:12] Speaker B: That everyone would vote for you. I guarantee you, if that was your only fucking cell, everyone would vote for you.
[00:19:19] Speaker A: I. I mean, like, our. That statue Our current mayor, you know, like.
You know, he's like.
He's a dude that moved here from, like, Uganda.
I can't remember his name. You know, small business owner and, you know, just kind of worked hard his entire life. And I'm like, okay, yeah, I can respect it, you know, but time for true power to come back.
Time for people to actually do stuff. Because I can't tell you one thing that the mayor has done. Not a single thing I can say.
[00:19:55] Speaker B: He hasn't gotten rid of the fucking statue.
That's the only thing. I will literally drive an extra, like, I don't know, like, minute out of my way to avoid that damn statue. It's, like, really inconvenient for me.
[00:20:08] Speaker A: I mean, I'm. God, I'm sure someone went up to the statue and just spray painted, like, you know, Kanye's awesome, and a bunch of swastikas on it. Like, they'd have to knock it down.
[00:20:18] Speaker B: Oh, they would.
[00:20:19] Speaker A: They're like, God. God damn it. Then they just.
[00:20:23] Speaker B: I mean, if I had the opportunity to deface something, I would instantaneously draw a dick. It'd be really sad because I've only ever drawn a dick, like, three times in my life, and they all came out awful. That would be my first idea of dis. Of disgracement, Displacement.
[00:20:39] Speaker A: I still remember the first time I drew a swastika, and it was like, the first time, like, you know, my mom had, like, a real challenge, you know, in her parenting, you know, because, like, I was a kid just doodling, you know, on paper, just, you know, having a good time.
And, you know, I. I drew a plus, and I'm like, you know what? This plus needs a little bit of flourish. I didn't know what a Nazi was. I didn't know what a swastika was, but I just went, boop, boop, boop, boop. And I just added little, you know, dashes to the end of my plus sign and inadvertently made a swastika. I'm like, hey, mom, check this cool thing out that I made.
And, you know, I'm like, you know, going into her shoes at this point, I'm like, you can either kill the kid because he's, like, a Nazi, you can say, welcome to the brotherhood.
But she did the right thing. She's like, don't ever draw that again. And she, like, threw it away.
I'm like, that was a good choice. You know, compared to the, you know, giving me a white hood or, you know, killing me.
Yeah, I'll take it, but it's like, what. What do you do when your son or your kid in general, like, accidentally does, like, the most racist thing?
[00:22:15] Speaker B: Well, no, you're just making a pretty design you don't understand. Like, for you, you're just moving shapes about, and that's the proper way to go about things. You're experimenting, you're drawing. It's the right thing to do. Unfortunately, meaning has been put to a symbol of that shape, and therefore the shape itself is not wrong.
[00:22:35] Speaker A: Well, it's. What's fucked up is it actually came from India and it did not mean a symbol of hate.
[00:22:41] Speaker B: Of course it didn't. No, of course it didn't. Things like that or things.
I'm. I'm agreeing with what you're saying. I'm not shocked by it. I'm not shocked to hear it. But it's not the first time a signal embolism has been misrepresented. Misrepresented? Misrepresented.
[00:23:01] Speaker A: Well, I mean, like, now everyone looks at the Tesla and, like, Nazi vehicle, and it's like, I. I hate to break this to you, but Volkswagen is the true Nazi vehicle. But, you know, and also Mercedes, too.
But no, no one ever wants to talk about that. No.
[00:23:24] Speaker B: I thought Mercedes was Japanese.
[00:23:26] Speaker A: No. Oh, so, you know, when Hitler first came into power, he was using the Mercedes and they. The people at Mercedes like, oh, Jesus, you can't be killing Jewish people. And so they pulled their support and, you know, Hitler's like, final, do it myself. And, you know, he made Volkswagen.
Well, his people made Volkswagen.
Yeah.
[00:24:01] Speaker B: I hated my Volkswagen so much. God, I hated that car.
[00:24:05] Speaker A: You didn't know that Hitler made Volkswagen?
[00:24:08] Speaker C: No.
[00:24:11] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's brutal.
[00:24:15] Speaker B: It's basically like. It's. It's what Jeep came. It's how Jeep came about.
[00:24:27] Speaker A: Yeah. Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party founded Volkswagen in 1937.
The company was originally called the People's Car Company.
Hitler wanted to make an affordable car that'd be accessible to the German masses.
He asked Porsche to design the car.
So, yeah, so, yeah, Volkswagen is a. Is a Nazi vehicle. So if you have a VW and you drive up to a Tesla, you.
[00:25:10] Speaker B: I just hate how the car drove. It drove like a boat. I hated driving that car. It. God, it was so heavy.
[00:25:18] Speaker A: I mean, like some of the older, you know, like, slug bugs, you know, VW slug bugs. They were good, you know, kind of reliable. Like, I. I've seen some horrific. Like, someone changing out their serpentine belt with a screwdriver while the engine's running.
[00:25:39] Speaker B: No yeah, people aren't that stupid.
[00:25:41] Speaker A: And it works.
Like, they didn't get hurt. They just, you know, fucking go, boop. And then popped a new one in, and it snapped right in place.
[00:25:49] Speaker B: Good for them.
[00:25:51] Speaker A: I'm like, that's horrifying because that could go really wrong.
[00:25:56] Speaker B: Go really wrong.
Just because you're good at doing something stupid doesn't make it smart.
[00:26:04] Speaker A: That's a shirt right there.
I want that shirt. Just because you're good at doing something stupid doesn't make it smart.
[00:26:19] Speaker C: Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I have to.
Okay, what was it? Just because.
[00:26:26] Speaker A: Just because you're good at doing something stupid doesn't make it smart.
Merch from the show.
If it doesn't exist, like, now. Now I've, like, make it, like, sell it on Amazon.
Like, just figure out a way to, like, make mer.
Does the sh.
[00:27:00] Speaker B: Come up?
[00:27:01] Speaker A: Yeah, of course not. We. We just.
[00:27:08] Speaker C: We.
[00:27:09] Speaker A: We literally just created it.
It's gonna, like, if I remember to actually do this, then, yes, I'll start selling it on Amazon.
I. I now have to, like, you know, write myself a note in real time. Let me see.
[00:27:26] Speaker B: I really want you to make me this shirt.
[00:27:29] Speaker C: Oh, my God.
I have selective hearing. I'm sorry. You weren't selected today. Tomorrow isn't looking good either.
That's so awesome. I love this shirt.
[00:27:47] Speaker A: Doing something stupid doesn't make it smart.
[00:28:10] Speaker B: I am so proud of myself.
[00:28:12] Speaker A: A. It's a good shirt.
I, like, have, like, a stick figure, like, juggling knives or something.
But, yes.
Let's go and get in this news.
I. I have always known that money isn't real. But the US Bank Citigroup recently made headlining headlines after crediting a client's account with a staggering $81 trillion.
This guy should have immediately paid off the national debt. Just back, boom, paid.
Just like, you know, went to China back, hey, China boom, pay. And then, like, Citibank were like, oh, no, you can't give that money. It's like, it's already gone. All of it.
Like. And they're like, okay, we're going to close your account. And then Citibank would have just vanished, but would have taken care of the national debt.
But the colossal error reported by the Financial Times was discovered after two employees failed to spot it. Fortunately, a third staff member noticed the mistake 90 minutes later and rectified it before any funds left the bank.
Like that. That's such a flex to just, like, you know, screenshot your bank. Like, when the bank makes a mistake, it's like, yeah, look, how much money I have, you know, a massive 81 trillion would have exceeded the entire US stock market value, which is estimated at 62 trillion at the end of 2024. Like, how do you even do that? How do you move money you don't even have?
[00:30:09] Speaker B: Money is fake numbers. Once it's in electronics, but then cash is free money. You spend it because it's free money because it doesn't show up in your electronic numbers.
[00:30:21] Speaker A: I mean, like, I honestly feel like cash is like the thing to have because it's like, okay, now you're, you know, having to give something over rather than swipe a card and back.
[00:30:31] Speaker B: I tried that once and it didn't make a difference. If anything, I spent even worse because I wasn't having to pull it out of my card, which means I didn't have to take my bank account before making a large purchase. I could just pay in cash.
[00:30:43] Speaker A: See, what you do is you, you give, you give yourself, you give yourself a budget for the month. I try and you pull all that out in cash and it's like, okay, cool, this is all the cash I get for the entire month. And then cut that in half. And then you could only spend like a half that budget in the first two weeks. And then in the last two, you know, two and a half weeks, you get the rest of the budget.
I mean, it, like it's a fair way to do it.
[00:31:12] Speaker B: It's a fair way to do it.
[00:31:15] Speaker A: Yeah. That way it's like, cool. And then you just, you know, put the other half aside. That way if you go do something stupid, you know, like, oh no, I spent all my, you know, money, you know, you still have, you know, the other half, but you can't touch it until, you know, the first half of the month is done.
So yeah, it does suck.
Yeah, Like I, I want to know who this, this person was because technically for 90 minutes is the richest man in the world.
Oh, they've done it before. They sent 900 million to creditors of a Revlon.
More recently, in 2022, City Trader accidentally sold 1.4 billion worth of stocks instead. Instead of 58 million causing a flash crash in European markets. The UK later find the bank 61 million pounds over the incident.
It's like, what if you, what if like another country like finds you and you just don't do about it? It's like off.
Just sit down, I will get it for you.
[00:32:56] Speaker B: He was trying to be an ad.
[00:33:05] Speaker A: There you go.
But yeah, makes me very happy. Unlike this other dude, A crypto trader kills himself live on X formerly known as Twitter to create a meme coin.
I. I've watched the video of him killing himself. Obviously, I'm not going to play it here because it kind of sucks, but, you know, he was trying to, like, do, like, rug pulls, and he lost his last, like, 500 bucks. He was, like, dead broke.
And the dude was Mr. You, you know, with two Cs.
[00:33:54] Speaker B: Classy.
[00:33:55] Speaker A: M I S T A F U C, C, yo, definitely should be reproducing. And you is, you know, going on to, you know, pump a coin to, like, try and do, like, a rug pull. And he's like, make a meme coin out of this. And he pulls out a revolver and, like, fires it three times. And on the third shot, it, like, shoots him in the head.
And the second this all goes down, people made Mysticoin.
Yeah, I mean, you know, let's see. Like, if it's actually, you know, Mr. You, Mr. Coin.
It is, you know, 0.0001, you know, dollars as a market cap of $100,000. Wow. Actually pretty damn good.
Let's see.
Yeah, I started off pretty goddamn good, and then just. It's crashing.
[00:35:12] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:35:13] Speaker A: Like. Like, how sad. How sad is that? The. This kid, you know, went online, killed himself online in front of a bunch of people and, like, you know, make a meme coin out of this. And then, you know, it dumped as well.
[00:35:32] Speaker B: So, I mean, can we confirm this is real?
[00:35:35] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Oh, I've seen the video.
[00:35:39] Speaker B: Like, but how would you know the video is real?
Like, it wasn't, like, a stage.
[00:35:44] Speaker A: Oh, because, you know, the, like, the police were like, hey, yeah, like, this guy's dead.
You know, hell of. You know, even, like, Binance is, like, you know, saying, hey, this sad and pathetic. That's why I don't trade in coins.
Yeah, I mean, I. I have some. Some, like, Shibu Inu. And, like, I don't even have.
That's fine.
I'm gonna shoot myself over a coin, though.
If you're bad at investing, do not invest in any crypto. If you don't understand crypto, no one does. Don't invest in crypto.
These kids. I swear to God, America's going to hell.
[00:36:59] Speaker B: It is.
[00:37:02] Speaker A: But, you know, at least took himself out of the gene pool. He was kind of a fat kid anyway.
[00:37:07] Speaker B: Okay, that last bit wasn't necessary.
[00:37:12] Speaker A: Make a meme coin out of it.
[00:37:14] Speaker B: Then he tried, and it didn't work.
[00:37:18] Speaker A: Well, maybe he could get a job.
I think you, like, people are saying he was Trying to play Russian or roulette, but like the way that he was, you know, firing that gun. Yeah, I'm like, the kid wanted to die.
[00:37:35] Speaker B: This is a release, not a punishment.
[00:37:39] Speaker A: Russia is recycling wounded troops, sending some to the front line on crutches.
[00:37:46] Speaker B: That's hilarious.
[00:37:50] Speaker A: The Russian military is sending wounded troops back to the front lines to fight and redeploying soldiers with significant injuries to combat role as it struggles with growing manpower issues.
Frontline footage posted by Ukrainian drone operators and Russian troops show men who have clearly suffered leg injuries, some still bandaged, using crutches in combat areas.
Like, at this point, just give up.
[00:38:27] Speaker B: Yeah, it's pretty sad.
But again.
[00:38:33] Speaker A: But like, the, the one thing that's like, might as well die.
[00:38:37] Speaker B: While they're there and do something.
[00:38:39] Speaker A: Like, like the one thing that's kind of annoying is that Trump is going over there and talking.
[00:38:45] Speaker B: Like in person.
[00:38:46] Speaker A: Yes, in person. And talking to Putin and talking to Zielinski.
[00:38:49] Speaker B: Oh my God. God. What does he think? It's okay, fine.
It has to be a publicity stunt.
[00:38:57] Speaker A: Oh, it is. And it's. It's not great.
[00:39:01] Speaker B: No, it's not.
[00:39:05] Speaker A: And I, I'm not even going to get into all that, dumbass. Cuz I don't care.
It's like, yeah, like at this point, you don't have enough, you know, children to send over to war like America does, you know, give these kids, like more video games, you know, have them go kill Nazis, you know, and Wolfenstein, and then, you know, they'll all want to fucking go join up.
But yeah, poor Russians. At least they're Russian though. I mean, give them some vodka and they're ready to fight. They'll like, kill you with their crotch.
[00:39:50] Speaker B: Vodka is good.
[00:39:54] Speaker A: I mean, like, I can drink any vodka, you know, but I, I like to, you know, keep it on a higher shelf than like, Pinnacle.
Cuz Pinnacle vodka birthday cake flavored vodka. Like, I still remember.
[00:40:10] Speaker B: Ew, that's nasty. You drink that type of vodka?
[00:40:14] Speaker A: Yes, Pinnacle birthday cake flavored vodka.
[00:40:17] Speaker B: Ew, that's like the birthday cake flavored peeps. It's so gross.
And when shit tastes like birthday cake, it does in a really creepy, like, realistic way. And I can't take it.
[00:40:28] Speaker A: It did not taste like birthday cake.
[00:40:30] Speaker B: Oh, that makes it.
[00:40:32] Speaker A: And like, it was the ultimate fucking party foul.
[00:40:39] Speaker B: What did it taste like?
[00:40:42] Speaker A: I just remember vomiting.
[00:40:46] Speaker B: I feel like that's the correct response in that nut situation.
[00:40:50] Speaker A: Like, I, I was at like my friend's house and we were like doing shots and I already had Like a, like, baconator. And earlier in the day, and it was just fucking taking shots, like, straight. I'm like, okay.
And, you know, destroyed my friend's bathroom. I felt terrible about it.
And, like, I threw it on myself.
And he was such a sweetheart. He cleaned up. He, you know, washed my clothes for me. You know, that's what friends are for. Took care of me.
And, like, the next day, you know, his mom was like, hey, let's go get some Starbucks. I'm like, all right. Yeah.
It's like the worst hangover ever had in my life. And it's like.
[00:41:46] Speaker B: Yeah.
Although I have come up with my own alcoholic math, so I don't know if this actually works or not, but, like, if I drink too much cider, I get really hungover in the morning. But if I drink cider but then follow it up with a beer later, I'm not hungover the next morning because, like, my body craves yeast more than anything else.
[00:42:08] Speaker A: It's, you know, how much water do you have in your system? Because realistically, the alcohol fucking, like, you know, pulls it out of you.
[00:42:18] Speaker B: Yeah, I know.
[00:42:19] Speaker A: And so I just make sure I drink a bunch of water when I drink, and it, you know, kind of balances it out. I'm still. I'm not less drunk.
I'm just, you know, boom.
[00:42:32] Speaker B: You need to maintain your hydration.
[00:42:41] Speaker A: Up Next, Fire Festival 2 is an event that does not exist technically.
Tourism and local officials in Mexico deny any knowledge of the proposed follow UP event from 2017. And if you don't remember, this is amazing.
[00:43:04] Speaker B: What? No. People can't be this stupid a second time, can they?
[00:43:08] Speaker A: Back in 2017, there was an event called Fyre Festival.
People took planes.
[00:43:16] Speaker B: Oh, my God.
[00:43:17] Speaker A: To an island.
And there was just like some basic bitch tents set up and, like, sandwiches and, like, fucking, like, very little water.
[00:43:29] Speaker B: They were lucky they were tense at all, honest to God.
[00:43:33] Speaker A: And like a bunch of like, you know, it's supposed to be like a music festival and, like, no one showed up.
And, like, all the planes have left.
[00:43:44] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:43:45] Speaker A: And so people were stranded on the island and, like, they sued the organizer of it like it was someone fucking famous too.
Who is an organizer of Fyre festival?
Yeah. Billy McFarlane with rapper Ja Rule. That's it.
And, you know, and it was supposed to be a music festival and it was supposed to be awesome, and it just kind of fell all the apart.
[00:44:23] Speaker B: I thought it was a prank.
[00:44:25] Speaker A: Oh, no. Like, it was supposed to be something.
[00:44:28] Speaker B: Oh, I thought it was a prank. And people were Just stupid.
[00:44:31] Speaker A: But I, I feel like Fire Festival 2 is a prank.
[00:44:35] Speaker B: Absolutely has to be a prank.
[00:44:45] Speaker A: But let me, let me see if I can find, you know, tickets to Fire Festival too. Let me, let me see if they actually exist. Fire Festival two tickets.
Oh my gosh.
[00:45:06] Speaker B: No way.
[00:45:10] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:45:11] Speaker B: Ah, man. You know, it would have been amazing if that was. If you got to the website and it was just a brick roll.
[00:45:19] Speaker A: So. But yeah, it's supposed to be like a Coachella.
Coachella is another music event. It's actually very popular.
[00:45:29] Speaker B: I thought it was like a coming of age high schooler thing.
[00:45:32] Speaker A: Nah.
[00:45:33] Speaker B: Oh.
[00:45:36] Speaker A: But yeah, Billy McFarlane was convicted of fraud and sentenced to six years in prison.
And he was later released after less than four years. A New York court also awarded 7,220 to each of the 277 attendees.
Apparently Billy McFarland is saying that Fire 2 is real.
[00:46:09] Speaker B: Oh my God. Yes.
[00:46:10] Speaker A: And now he's going to make it a real thing.
You know, Fire was selling tickets between 1400 and $1.1 million.
[00:46:22] Speaker B: Oh my God.
[00:46:23] Speaker A: Jesus Christ.
Yeah, let's, let's see. Let's actually go to the website and let it load all the way. If it gives me a virus, so be it.
Yeah, let's see. Tickets.
You know, General access is $1400. Fuego. VIP access, elevated experience, $5000. Phoenix artist access, $25,000.
And then Prometheus, the fire starter, $1.1 million.
So I guess you just, you know, get, get all in.
[00:47:22] Speaker C: Wow.
[00:47:23] Speaker A: I mean, it, it, you know, you come into Cancun and just.
Prometheus and Phoenix pass holders will receive complimentary fire transportation to and from Cancun.
Yeah, I, I'm, I, I want to see if someone spends $1.1 million, you know, to go to a music festival.
I'm, I'm sure he just needs a few of those idiots, you know, but how it works. Let's see.
Choose your ticket package, book or stay enhancer your festival experience.
Yeah. I guarantee you this is gonna be a scam. And I can't wait for it. I'm, I'm excited. It's like the Oompa Loompa type where they, they created like a Willy Wonka's chocolate factory.
[00:48:26] Speaker B: Yeah, but they made a real factory. This is just.
[00:48:29] Speaker A: Yeah, no, it was kind of though. It was like, hey, here's a Pixie Stick and a tiny little prepackaged chocolate bar. Go yourself.
Yeah, it's $10.
And then there's like some like scary dude in there too. It's Hilarious.
Yeah, I, I like, I sincerely hope that this guy goes back to jail for a fraud again.
Like get like a bunch of. Get like some billionaire. Get like Elon Musk to just, you know, throw him like a million dollars to see what happens.
But yeah, hopefully this guy gets over.
[00:49:16] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:49:25] Speaker A: 10 minutes.
Next story. A football match was called off after referee Stefan Color testicle was bitten by a child.
You know, and this, this sounds bad. It's like, why is this guy's balls anywhere near a child's mouth?
[00:49:52] Speaker B: No, I don't know how the child's mouth got near the dude's balls.
[00:49:56] Speaker A: Yeah, that's what I said.
[00:49:58] Speaker B: Like you made it like sound like it needs to be shame like perforated. And I'm like, no, that's not the place to go. Clearly this was an accident.
[00:50:06] Speaker A: A football match in Germany had to be called off after the referee was bitten in the testicle. A lower tier German football clash between FC Taxi 2 and ROT Weiss Mulheim the third ended in painful circumstances. I hope I said any of that right before, you know, even started.
He checked over the players before the game. A child of one of the players ran up to him and bit him in the testicle.
I'm sure he's just like headbutted and then like accidentally just unfortunately got him in the testy.
[00:50:51] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:50:53] Speaker A: And like as a dude, like I imagine that pain and it's like, oh.
[00:51:01] Speaker B: Kids do the most embarrassing.
It's got to be really hard to be a parent some days. And this is one of those days.
[00:51:14] Speaker A: Caller said, while I was checking the FC Taxi flares id, a small child was doing warm up exercises alongside the players. He came closer and closer to me and then suddenly, to my complete surprise, gave me a sharp bite on my left testicle. I'm like, where's your testicles? Out. Yeah. Like, like do you have short shorts on? Like, like when I'm wearing pants, like it's just like a way.
[00:51:46] Speaker B: I thought they wore tights.
[00:51:48] Speaker C: I remember this guy that like came to the garage sale that I had at your guys's house and he like his balls were hanging out of his little tiny short shorts.
It was disgusting.
And like when you I, it was either you or Cassandra, she brought out stuff that she wanted to sell that you wanted to sell and it was kind of lingerie stuff and some guy was trying to was being a weird creep about it.
[00:52:18] Speaker B: That was definitely Cassie and ew.
[00:52:21] Speaker C: Yeah, actually I think a few were yours because you didn't fit in them anymore. I think they were corsets or something.
[00:52:31] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Might have been.
[00:52:34] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. Speaking of penises, the largest penis is 19 inches, and he can't really use it because it's too big.
[00:52:43] Speaker B: Where the would it even.
[00:52:44] Speaker A: Is this the guy that stretched his penis?
[00:52:48] Speaker C: It's Roberto Escobal Cabara from Mexico or whatever.
[00:52:54] Speaker A: There's some brown dude that like, stretched the out of his dick.
[00:52:59] Speaker C: Oh, my God.
[00:53:00] Speaker A: Poor dick. Yeah, he has like, in a sock all the time.
So talking about another poor dude. A man suffers intestine necrosis after fiance electrocutes his belly for three hours as a premarital pain test.
A Chinese woman subject subjected her fiance to stimulated childbirth pain for three hours as a sick premarriage test that caused a man to develop intestine necrosis and undergo emergency surgery.
It's not uncommon for people and their partners to test various ways to see if they're right for each other. But some people take it a bit too far. Like this Chinese lady. I mean, three hours, though, like, what level was she putting it up to where he has, like, intestine necrosis.
[00:54:03] Speaker C: Wow.
[00:54:04] Speaker B: I have no idea. I don't know how strong frequencies electricity have to be to cause harm in the body. So that's me.
[00:54:10] Speaker A: But like, I, I, I, I had one.
[00:54:13] Speaker C: They're definitely not getting married now.
[00:54:15] Speaker B: Yeah, no, that dude should say far the away from her. That's up.
[00:54:22] Speaker A: In her online confession, the woman wrote that she slowly increased the sensitivity of the electric current for the first 90 minutes, then crank the power up to the maximum for another 90 minutes.
My boyfriend started to feel miserable from level 8 and couldn't hurt help cursing by level 10.
At level 12, he is sweating and breathing rapidly, doing the severe pain, the indigo experience. He is completely exhausted and his stomach was hard as a board.
[00:54:49] Speaker B: Yeah, those are electricity waves.
[00:54:57] Speaker C: Wow.
[00:54:58] Speaker B: That's. It's not.
[00:55:02] Speaker A: After learning about the torture he had been subjected to, the man's family was furious and warned his fiance that she was not welcome at the hospital, adding that the engagement was off and that she should get ready for a lawsuit.
[00:55:14] Speaker B: Yeah, she should. The is crazy.
[00:55:21] Speaker A: According to the Chinese legal experts, if the man or his family file a complaint, the guilty party faces up to three years in prison and in paying compensation to the victim.
[00:55:33] Speaker B: Oh, man, that's just fucking dumb. That's stupid.
[00:55:40] Speaker A: You know, all you have to do, you know, is not put it up to the maximum level, lady.
[00:55:46] Speaker B: No, this is psychopath level shit.
[00:55:50] Speaker A: I mean, like, me and my friends, like, we like, like I had like this little Electric pro prod thing. And, like, it was like a little patch. It just goes on. And you know, if you, like, stuck it to your belly, it y'all up.
[00:56:06] Speaker B: Yeah, it's electricity, but it's. It's not the electricity your cells are used to.
[00:56:12] Speaker A: Yeah, no, like, it. It hurt. And, like, if you put it, like, on your arm, like, you know, made it like, everything go crazy, contracting the muscle.
And, like, some of my friends were like, I'm just gonna go for it. I'm like, don't. And I gotta, like, rip it off. I'm like, stop that. You're freaking me out.
And you just had to, like, cut them off. I'm like.
[00:56:42] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:56:43] Speaker A: But now on to Am I the asshole?
By special shake6702Am I the asshole for mowing my lawn early morning because the neighbor's kids keep waking me up?
All right, I work late and sleep every morning. My neighbors right next door have three little kids who scream and play and bang.
[00:57:08] Speaker B: Ah.
[00:57:09] Speaker A: In the backyard at 7 in the morning every single day. And I mean, yelling, running loud toys, pounding, whatever they can do to make noise. I know kids are kids, but every morning, Weekends too. No. Just no. I nicely mentioned it to the neighbor a few weeks ago. She laughed and said, oh, they're early risers. He'll get used to it. No apology, no effort to quiet them down. So the other day, I set my alarm for 6am and mowed my lawn right up against her yard. Then I use my leaf blower for an added punch. The neighbor comes outside and her jammies all pissed off. Why are you being so inconsiderate? She says. And I smile and say, oh, I'm an early riser. You'll get used to it.
Now she and some of the other neighbors said I should have just dealt with it like an adult, but I feel like I gave him a taste of their own medicine. The kids need to be considerate too. Am I the.
[00:58:15] Speaker B: Of course you are.
[00:58:18] Speaker A: You're petty.
I don't think you're an though.
[00:58:22] Speaker B: It's kind of pathetic.
[00:58:27] Speaker A: I mean.
[00:58:28] Speaker B: Wait, what.
[00:58:29] Speaker C: What happened again? Guys, I'm sorry.
[00:58:30] Speaker A: Okay, so, you know, OP works late and sleeps in every morning because, you know, pretty much like a night worker.
And next door, the kids are loud as at 7am they're running out in the yard being loud, obnoxious pieces of. And OP can't sleep. And so in order to, you know. And OP did go next door and beg, hey, can you quiet your kids down in the morning? You know, I'm trying to sleep and you know, the neighbor's like, ah, kids are kids. You and so op to get back, sets an alarm for 6am and goes outside and you know, mows their lawn and uses a leaf blower, you know, just to be inconsiderate. The neighbor comes out all pissed off and people are like, yeah, you need to knock that off.
[00:59:27] Speaker C: I mean he could be doing something when he's getting home.
[00:59:31] Speaker A: Opie, I'm gonna say this.
If you want better sleep, you know, earplugs, you know, stuff like that.
[00:59:42] Speaker C: And she can wear an apple watch to wake up because it vibrates.
[00:59:49] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean like you, you can have like a Pavlovian watch to wake you up.
But yeah, I mean you can get your full eight hours and you know just put like earplugs in or you know you can put blankets over your window to kind of like dim out the sound, you know, coming in.
But there is laws so you could you know, get you know, hit with like a nuisance, you know, being loud too early in the morning, using power equipment too early in the morning.
Yeah, they could call the city and come and you up. So you're petty kind of an, you know, like one out of five, you know, not, not much that you, you know, you can do. Like the neighbor could get a dog and then you're really, you know, the dogs.
[01:00:47] Speaker B: What is the person supposed to go do? Tell their kids to have less fun cuz their neighbor is a stick in the mud.
[01:00:54] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean stop being a stick in the mud. You know, put in airplugs.
You know, you can put in noise canceling headphones. You know, something like that.
[01:01:05] Speaker B: Kids should be out having fun.
[01:01:07] Speaker A: You know, let, let, let the kids be kids screens. And it's seven in the morning so it's, it's, it's not like an ungod.
[01:01:14] Speaker B: No, it's not.
[01:01:20] Speaker A: And the second that. Well, school's in session right now, so. Yeah, I mean they'll probably come out, play for a bit and go to school.
Yeah, I, I don't know how old the kids are, but yeah, I'm so.
[01:01:38] Speaker B: Happy when I see kids outside having fun and not sitting in stream staring at their phone screens. Like I'm always so happy to see that stuff.
[01:01:50] Speaker A: Yeah. But a bunch of old people are coming into the comments and day.
[01:01:54] Speaker B: Of course they are.
[01:01:56] Speaker A: You know, they love it. No actual damage was done. You did exactly, you know, Nazi.
Yeah, I mean punch away peeps mean you're. But you're both kind of fucking it, you know, actually, no, your neighbor's not an asshole at all. Your neighbor's just being a parent and fucking, you know, having three kids.
It's fine.
[01:02:20] Speaker C: Oh, my gosh, Alex, I thought you take like the total track. Different track on this one.
[01:02:27] Speaker A: No, no, I. I'm, you know, saying that fucking Opie is kind of a. Kind of a piece of shit for, you know, you. You can't control other human beings and then, you know, come out and, you know, be more petty. No, like, I'm just imagining this as like, my neighbor. And I'm like, yeah, I can see that. Doing that.
[01:02:51] Speaker B: I like it when kids are happy, when they're having fun outside out loud.
[01:02:55] Speaker A: So, yep, no op. Knock it off.
Up next, am I the by Chico Doc, Am I the for refusing to give up my honeymoon suite to my sister and her newborn? No.
My 29 male wife, 28 female, and I recently got married and booked a Dream Honey Moon at a beautiful resort. We splurged on the honeymoon suite. It's a once in a lifetime trip. A week before we Left, my sister, 31, female, had an emergency C section. Mom called and asked if we could downgrade our room so my sister, her husband, and their newborn baby could have our suite. They didn't plan a babymoon and now want a last minute vacation to recover. I said absolutely not. We paid a fortune for this experience. My mom blew up calling me selfish. My sister sent crying emojis saying she's exhausted and can really use the peace. My dad said we should do the right thing and let them have it since we can honeymoon anytime. I feel bad.
She had a tough birth and worked hard, but we worked hard for this trip. My wife says standing firm is the right call. But now half the family isn't speaking to us. Am I the asshole? No.
[01:04:28] Speaker B: Why would someone who just had surgery want to fucking go on vacation?
[01:04:32] Speaker A: They want a babymoon.
[01:04:35] Speaker B: Yep.
[01:04:35] Speaker C: Not happening.
[01:04:36] Speaker B: Not after having fucking full body surgery. Like, why the fuck would said individual even have the energy to travel?
People are weird.
[01:04:49] Speaker A: I mean, like, if your sister is willing to pay the crazy amount of money that you spent on this honeymoon suite, for sure this is up.
[01:05:00] Speaker B: This is like her stealing the lime. Like limelight.
[01:05:04] Speaker A: Yeah. It's like, hey, we got married. Yeah, we just had a baby. Give us your.
[01:05:09] Speaker B: Precisely. That's what that is.
[01:05:12] Speaker A: So, yeah. Since your dad said you can honeymoon anytime, why can't your sister baby moon anytime?
[01:05:22] Speaker B: Precisely.
[01:05:23] Speaker A: The entitlement is crazy.
[01:05:24] Speaker B: Good God.
[01:05:27] Speaker A: Tell one of the crybaby relatives they can pull their money and send your entitled idiot sister on her baby moon.
[01:05:34] Speaker C: Yep. They can put their mouth where the money. Their money where their mouth is.
[01:05:38] Speaker A: Baby moons aren't even a fucking thing. Okay?
I've never even heard of anything so stupid, but.
Ugh. Stupid. All right, now on to relationship advice by nurse IRL.
My 35 female boyfriend, 36 male, broke up with me because he suddenly decided to immigrate to Italy. He does not speak the language or have a job there.
I've just been processing.
Just been processing a lot over the last week. I've had a really wonderful man who was very kind to me. We didn't fight and had a very emotional, intelligent relationship. Almost two weeks ago, he came over to my home and told me that he felt he couldn't emotionally connect with me because he aspires to immigrate to Italy. Italy. The man was born and raised in America and does not speak Italian fluently and does not have any sort of job set up there. He aspires to get an Italian citizenship via his heritage. Nope. Which I understand can be very difficult. Yep.
I am jarred as I did not see this coming or expect this at all. How do I process this and move on? I feel heard and felt as though he was disingenuous with me.
Of all the times he told me how wonderful I was. His friends all love me and think I am lovely and healthy for him. Is he completely out of his mind as I think he is, since people keep asking, is someone disgruntled? I didn't mention above, but we've been together for four. Four months.
[01:07:26] Speaker B: Oh, he just.
[01:07:28] Speaker A: And luckily me, for me, it wasn't any longer than that.
[01:07:31] Speaker B: He doesn't know how to break up with her.
[01:07:37] Speaker C: He doesn't.
[01:07:42] Speaker B: How does she not see that?
[01:07:45] Speaker C: Oh, my God.
[01:07:46] Speaker A: I. I love this. I love the comments. Do you think this guy's really moving to Italy or do you think he's an idiot that doesn't know how to break up with you because there's no spec problems with your relationship to argue about. So he's just trying to make up some stories so he doesn't want to look like the bad guy to his friends.
[01:08:04] Speaker C: Yep.
[01:08:07] Speaker A: Yeah. This is giving me friends vibes. Like the episode where Chandler couldn't break up with Janet so he told her he was moving to Yemen.
[01:08:17] Speaker C: Oh, my God.
[01:08:21] Speaker B: Yeah. And she. And she's like, just, like, taking it, like, like, babe, if you tried to break up with me that way, I'd be like, that's. Are you Trying to break up with me.
[01:08:33] Speaker A: See like you know, there's you know, one of two options here. Okay, option one, you know, Occam's Razor, he wants to break up with you and he just, you know, he's like oh, I'm going to be moving and there's no way to make this actually work cuz you can't move there too. You know, blah blah blah blah blah.
Option two, he's found another girl in Italy and is going to, you know, try and go make all that work.
And it's been like kind of like emotionally cheating on you with a girl from Italy.
[01:09:09] Speaker B: Oh my God. No, he's just.
[01:09:10] Speaker A: Or he's been like catfished, you know, and like oh, I live in Italy. Come on now. Bye. Make you the pizza. Poor little thing.
So I, I love it. So I take this. Chandler's going to Yemen.
Tell him that's amazing because you just been offered a dream job in Rome and see how he reacts.
[01:09:41] Speaker B: No, that's just mean.
Let him run away with his tail intact.
I know it's not the nice, not the nicest way to think about it.
[01:09:54] Speaker A: I mean when you still see him, you know, cuz he's not going to like leave the area like oh, how is Italy?
[01:10:02] Speaker B: Sometimes just. You just got to let a coward be a coward.
[01:10:05] Speaker A: Yeah, whatever.
[01:10:06] Speaker B: It's the best way to deal with them.
[01:10:11] Speaker A: Next, relationship advice. Wife, 33 female, and I, 33, male, are having a one sided financial relationship after winning $1 million by, you know, throwaway.
We were engaged to get married when she won $1 million to the state lottery. After taxes it ended up being roughly $600,000. Good for you. We used the money to buy a duplex and live on one side and rent out the other.
Before the wedding she got fired from her work as a restaurant manager. Fast forward two and a half years later and she still isn't working. What's bothering me is that she's living semi retired and doing part time school for massage therapy while I work full time in health care. Before we got married, she worked hard to bring money in too. We both worked in restaurants and I studied on the side to get a degree to help move career fields. She lives comfortably and I use the money from the tenant and our savings to pay her debt. But I can barely keep up with the monthly bills working full time plus in my job and managing the expenses of the other side of the duplex. We don't have kids and she spends a majority of her day playing video games and being a Dog. Mom. Has anyone gone through the first years of marriage where your partner just relies on you for all the finances and is okay with not doing anything to help provide an income? What did you do guys do to help in this situation?
[01:11:52] Speaker B: So she won money, but she's not contributing to the household expenses.
[01:11:58] Speaker A: Well, like, did you pay for the duplex outright?
[01:12:04] Speaker B: Like, is she contributing money or.
[01:12:06] Speaker A: No, she is not contributing any money.
[01:12:08] Speaker B: Okay, then. Yeah, yeah, fucked up. She needs to be contributing.
[01:12:12] Speaker A: But. But, you know, she contributed 600,000 up front and, you know, got you both a place to live.
[01:12:24] Speaker B: Yeah, this.
[01:12:25] Speaker C: Well, how much is her debt?
[01:12:29] Speaker B: She won. She won money, but she didn't pay off her debts.
[01:12:32] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:12:33] Speaker B: What?
[01:12:37] Speaker A: Yeah, winning $600,000 after taxes and still having credit card debt is mind blowing.
[01:12:42] Speaker B: Yeah. No, that's dumb. What? How? How, How?
[01:12:48] Speaker C: Because they probably thought of just getting out and thinking they'd pay everything else.
[01:12:55] Speaker B: Fair enough.
[01:12:55] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, like, honestly, we need more information here. Like, what. What the is actually going on.
Okay. Oh, okay. So he says we use the majority of the winnings to put a significant down deposit on the duplex, but we still have a mortgage. Our name is both on the title. She is paying for her school tuition, credit card debt and she has had for several years. And her car insurance slash payments. That's as far as I know, based on what she tells me. So she has school tuition, credit card debt. She hasn't done anything with her school.
Yes. Credit card debt and a car payment.
[01:13:37] Speaker C: So, yeah, because she's gonna get old, she needs to be putting away that money now. Yeah, versus playing now and doing it later. Because you don't want to work when you're old.
[01:13:48] Speaker B: No.
[01:13:50] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, I, I tell her to go get a job.
I mean, she. She probably will say, you know, something like, oh, I brought $600,000 in.
[01:14:03] Speaker B: Sounds like there wasn't a very good discussion about how finances are going to be used.
Like, from the bare bounds. It kind of feels like. I feel like from Op's perspective, he feels like she's like, oh, well, I've done my part. Now you're on your own. I don't know if that's actually how that's happening, but to me, I'm only hearing one side of a story and a lot of miscommunication on both ends because they didn't set clear definitions of who was going to do what when she made that down payment.
[01:14:39] Speaker A: I mean, you. You got overly excited and just jumped into some.
I mean, this is still very fixable. Opie it's just you have to like, kind of sit down and, you know, budget everything out and be like, you know, okay, cool. You. You won $600,000.
You know, that, that does, you know, give you a bit of time to, you know, dick around, but now it's time to put your nose back to the grindstone.
[01:15:09] Speaker B: I feel like Op has expectations of her that he has not told her about, and therefore it's disappointed that she's not meeting what he has. He expects to happen, but hasn't told her about what he wants to have happen.
[01:15:24] Speaker A: See, I mean, it's like if you came in with $600,000, I'd pay off the house and.
[01:15:33] Speaker B: Okay, okay, if I won that much money, I'd pay off the house. I would go down to working part time, but I would, I would give. The majority of it was left over for you to invest to help pay for, like, stuff. And then I would probably want you to help me budget how. What else to do with it. Because I wouldn't know what to do with it. But like, I honestly, I want to be able to go down to working part time but still be able to contribute. Well, although the house would be paid off, so. But I still want to contribute, but I'd want to go down to part time. It'd be easier with all my pain if I could still work, but, like, work less hours.
That's what I would do.
That's. I don't know if that'd be irresponsible to your mom, but I'd want to be able to contribute way better than I am now, but the house would be paid off, so whatever. So, yeah, I would, I would give the rest to you because they wouldn't know what to do with it.
[01:16:24] Speaker A: I mean, like, you know what would.
[01:16:26] Speaker B: Want to go on like a cruise, though?
[01:16:28] Speaker A: Like, like, if I, you know, like won like a million dollars or something stupid like that and paid off the house, like, would I retire? Like, no, I would just want to.
[01:16:42] Speaker B: Work those hours but still work my job. That's like a huge part of my identity.
[01:16:47] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:16:51] Speaker A: I, I feel like I'd go like, you know, like, if I had like a million dollars, I'd go get a skill, you know, that could make more money, but, you know, work, work less hours.
Like, go learn something that, you know.
[01:17:08] Speaker B: Well, Op hasn't said what his girlfriend is doing at her school, so how does he know if she's winning or failing?
[01:17:19] Speaker A: She's doing part time school for massage therapy.
[01:17:22] Speaker B: Oh, okay. Well, still, yeah, okay. That Kind of reduces the grandeur of my statement. I will admit that.
[01:17:29] Speaker A: So, I mean, yeah, if, you know, just tell her, you know, just jump right into that. Go and do some massage therapy.
[01:17:36] Speaker B: Like there just be conversation of expectations.
[01:17:39] Speaker A: But. But it's, you know, it's a hard conversation because it is her money.
[01:17:46] Speaker B: People are super comfortable about discussing money sometimes too.
Like, it makes them feel like really vulnerable and they just, like, they just can't.
[01:17:55] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, you know, he didn't win the money. She won that. And then she came in, it's like, hey, here's a fucking fat down payment on this house.
[01:18:06] Speaker B: Like, if she had paid for it outright, it would be different. But the fact that there's still a mortgage to pay where I'm kind of just like, okay, well how much money is she putting into?
[01:18:14] Speaker C: Yeah, she also. She should also be like contributing the bills now.
[01:18:18] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:18:18] Speaker C: Like, it's not like the burden all of a sudden went away.
[01:18:21] Speaker B: No, it didn't.
[01:18:22] Speaker C: For.
[01:18:26] Speaker A: So, yeah, I mean, op, you're gonna have to like really like sit down and, you know, have like a tough conversation. Maybe even just show her the post.
[01:18:39] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:18:42] Speaker A: You know, it's.
Talking about money apparently is not your forte, but it's fine.
And you know, a little bonus. This one's just advice by Jesse Messers. My husband quit smoking weed. Now I live with a grump.
My, you know, 36 female husband, 37 male, just quit smoking marijuana a month ago for the first time in years. He's been smoking since before we met and just recently wanted to quit due to it being costly, his words. Only problem now is he's extremely irritated and grumpy all the time. He slumps around the house, paces back and forth, and gives me sarcastic or snappy responses if I ask him anything.
Me. Do you want me to help you with anything? Him, if I needed it, I would ask me. Okay. Sorry. Hm, no, you're not.
I've had to have. I've tried to have a conversation with him about his attitude and how he speaks to me, but he says I'm over exaggerating.
I just want to make him comfortable. I know quitting an addiction is very hard and irritating. Is there anything I can do to help? Anything I can bring to him his withdrawals? World's attitude. Pass.
[01:20:11] Speaker B: Op, you're so nice. I'm so sorry your husband quit cold turkey. It's got to be awful for all involved. And B, literally this is what happened between your mom and Teddy. Like, Teddy was starting to be like a total dick and and he went back to smoking weed and things were fine.
[01:20:27] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, wean yourself off.
Like, I would never recommend, you know, quitting cold turkey on anything.
[01:20:42] Speaker B: Anything.
[01:20:44] Speaker A: I mean, like, especially some of the harder drugs. Like, you know, quit, you know, doing heroin. Like, go to a methadone clinic and, you know, wean yourself off that way.
But yeah, I mean, withdrawals fucking suck.
It should pass, but, you know, who knows? We'll see what happens.
Best of luck to you, Op.
I.
I mean, I. I haven't smoked weed in forever, so.
It also takes a long time to get pot out of your system if you're a heavy smoker. Up to three months. Hi, Mochi.
You want to get eaten right now? I'll eat you right now.
Come here.
Yeah. Someone's like. So many people don't understand what. Why truly quitting any drug is going to be a daily issue for months and sometimes years. I stopped doing hard drugs back in my 30s. I was medically disabled, had it's been five years of my life in hospitals, five major surgeries, died twice. I was living with my parents, no degree, no career, not a cent of my name, and I wanted to die.
Now I'm 42, 10 years sober, stable, dream job in the video game industry. Oh, and I'm marrying the love of my life next month.
Despite quitting a decade ago, I still have the cravings a lot less now. Usually when I'm super stressed and just had enough, I smoke a little bit of THC to take the edge off, but that's it. It's something that pops in my head every few days and it's like, yeah, yeah. I mean, anyone that's ever done drugs, you know, we think about it all the time. You know, you're never, like, free from the drug.
You know, addiction's a hell of a drug, you know, all in itself.
[01:22:46] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:22:48] Speaker A: So, but that. That's it for this week. We will be back next week with some more of the, you know, same old, same old.
Your favorite little podcast your son does.
[01:23:04] Speaker C: Oh, my gosh.
[01:23:05] Speaker A: I know.
[01:23:06] Speaker C: So funny. Is your mother your only listener?
[01:23:08] Speaker A: Probably. I. I don't actually. Look, I don't really care. I mean, I. I could have 10, 000 listeners. I could have one.
Never really even like people. Like, I. I want to be the most famous. I like. I don't give a.
Maybe I should. But I'm not looking to, you know, make money off of this.
Maybe I'll make like a super republican fucking podcast where I just complain about shit all the time. Try to make money off of that. I know.
Be awful. God awful after, like, changing my name on it.
Can't have it connected to me. But we'll be back.
Bye.
