Fat Chance Podcast - Ep.63 - Alek Riestra

Episode Date: October 6, 2022

Sore throat or congestion? Ever taken a limo from a wedding that wasn't yours?

Am I getting volume now? Yeah, you have volume. You just got to speak up. All right. Project into the microphone. I'm talking like normal like I do at the bar all fucking day. Would you rather when you're sick? Right off the rip.

When you're sick. Because I think about this all the time. My sicknesses go from sore throat. I'm going to struggle to talk because I'm congested. They go from sore throat to congestion or congestion to sore throat. Every time I get sick. Okay. And every time I have congestion, I'm like, I wish I just had a sore throat.

And then I get the sore throat and I'm like, fuck, I wish i would just have the congestion which one would you rather have congestion or sore throat congestion or sore throat which one would you rather have if you're gonna get sick i mean sore throat i think sore throat i think i would have to say sore throat i like to breathe i gotta i like to breathe yes when i can't, yes. When I can't breathe, I can't sleep. Like, trying to sleep and you're sitting up like this because you're hoping all the snot goes down. It's the fucking work. Dude, you got to get one of those little pots, the neti pots. Do they work?

Yeah. Really? Yeah. Every time I get sick, I'm like, you know what? I should just go get one. I don't want to shove water up my nose, though. Okay, so what's it fucking called? Arm & Hammer. Arm & Hammer sells

these little cans. It's compressed. Not compressed, but it's saline. It's got a little nozzle on top and that's what you can use that for too. You just shove one nozzle up your nose. Let it go and it just drains. I'm just going to order a neti pot

right now for the next time I'm sick. You can do it. It's good. Like this. It feels so good after it's done. It hurts like – no, it doesn't hurt, but it feels weird when you – Yeah, it's got to be uncomfortable. Shut it up in your nose, like, and it goes through.

But it's so worth it in the end because, shoot, when I was sick for ever last year, I was sick for like four months straight. Really? Yeah, did I talk about you? No. No, I didn't talk about that last time. Yeah, I got my tonsils out, so I don't have any more sore thro't talk about that last time yeah i got my tonsils out so i don't have any more sore throats you'll get them i got my tonsils out in february you got them out in february or you will no i did in february you'll

still get them i got my tonsils on kindergarten dude i still get sore throats yeah yeah you get them less you'll get strep throat less yeah i got strep throat all the time as a kid And so my parents and my tonsils Taken out Yeah I don't I haven't gotten strep throat since At least I don't think so I probably have but it was It was all the time and it was terrible

But yeah I got them out in kindergarten Yeah I got them out in February Because I can't believe I didn't talk about this last time No so from like probably a year ago now after I went to Oktoberfest last year yeah um probably like two weeks later maybe um all of a sudden I just like little fever sore throat like you know when you go to bed the night before and you just feel a little bit and you're like yeah I'm gonna be sick I'm gonna wake up

I'm gonna wake up just fucked like I felt that I'm like oh great here we go and I woke up and it just like stayed the same a little bit it wasn't that bad like it was sore throat still little worse fever was like it was an annoying fever it wasn't like i'm dying fever it was like i don't feel like doing anything fever yeah you know that like yeah you're kind of fatigued yeah like you just want to lay down like you can still can still do stuff, but not. Aggressively. Not, like, knocked out. I'm like, damn, what is this? What is this?

And I went, like, I'm like, it'll go away in a couple days. And sure enough, like, a week went by, and it just got worse. My throat was just, like, on fire. I looked back. My tonsils were just, like, ridiculously swollen. Like, my throat was probably, like, that. It was long. It was ridiculous. And I had mono two years ago. ridiculous and I had mono two years ago

Really had mono two years ago. I had that in kindergarten too. Oh my god. That was terrible I thought I'm like am I like do I have mono again? But like you're not you can't get I mean you can but it's like super rare to get it twice. Yeah I'm like damn, so I went to the doctor And they looked at me. They're like yeah, let's test you for strep Test you for strep test you not even they didn't even test, let's test you for strep. Test you for strep. Test you. Not even. They didn't even test me for mono. Test me for strep.

Strep was negative. They're like, you just have, like, tonsillitis. Like, a cold. Like, a flu or a cold or something. Tonsils all acting up. I think they gave me, like, prednisone. Like, a steroid. Because my tonsils were so bad.

They knew that my tonsils were, like, ridiculously bad. So, they gave me, like, a steroid to take the swelling down. And then they gave me Augmentin, which is like an antibiotic. They're like, just take this. It was like a week of the antibiotic and five days of the steroid. And after five days, I'm like, damn, I feel great. Like even like a day, I think it was the day after I like went on the meds. I was like, I feel great.

This is awesome. like went on the meds i was like i feel great this is awesome and then literally a week probably probably about a week after i got off of them right back same thing same thing like just even worse same thing annoying the fever would like come and go but my throat would just swell up so i went back to the urgent care like two weeks later or three weeks later whatever it was like it's back like same thing she's like really i'm like okay she's like okay they test me strep again still no strep she's like let's do a mono test um or no not a mono test just strep again and then she put gave me the same round of meds same uh antibiotic same steroid same thing happened day after felt great felt awesome and i was did you stop taking it after that or did you finish no i finished the whole thing both times and i

felt great but literally a day after i would go off of it or yeah or a week after i would go off of it it would just like come back and it would like slowly come back i could like feel it coming on your body was just like pushing it away for a little bit yeah pushing away for a little but like i felt completely fine not even like remotely like it was still lingering around. Because I went, I mean, I remember I went up to Minneapolis to visit Ava for a Badger game that was up there. And I mean, I was drinking all weekend like ridiculously. And I was fine. I was completely fine.

I felt fine. But same thing. And then the cycle went on for like probably about a month and a half from like october into november did you keep getting the antibiotics every time i go back there just like boom boom i went to the i it got so bad because my parents left they went down the floor for a little bit um and i was by myself and it got like the worst it was like when it came back i just felt like shit like almost to a fever where you just don't want to do it Like yeah, I need to sit in bed So like you just drive to the ER like see what they'll do for you. You are was absolutely no help

They did the same thing. They just gave me the same medicine but through an IV and they just gave me Whatever it is the hydrate, you know Saline bag. Yeah hydration. They're like, like oh you're fine it's just tonsillitis tonsillitis is all that everybody kept telling me it's just tonsillitis for no damn reason i was getting so frustrated that nobody could figure this out and it would just keep coming back finally we're like almost we're we're like nearing christmas like we're in the beginning of december now and i went to a different urgent care and it's this sweet old lady she's like the best not even

my doctor but like the best doctor i've ever seen in my life she was so sweet she felt so bad for me and she's like did anybody like why did they kept putting you on the same antibiotic you're not supposed to do that because like that's what i was saying it stops working yeah you're taking off of it like your body like is used to it and it just doesn't fight anything it's like i don't know why they're doing this um did anybody test you for mono i'm like no did anybody give like a biopsy of your of your you know tonsils at all i'm like no it's like well let's do all this she ran mono she ran strep again um both negative and then she gave me a new antibiotic which helped just as good as the other ones maybe even a little better i think i felt better for a while but it came back eventually finally i'm like fuck this i'm going like to the hospital to see

an ent and the ent he was still like a dick about it because i was like coming off i was like right on the end of the cycle where it was you're like i you come off like this has been too long so your ass is already shit i was like he like looked at me and i was at the point where i could feel myself i was gonna get sick the next day and i I was going to get sick the next day, and I knew I was going to get sick the next day, but I still maybe looked, like, because the steroids took the swelling out of my muscles. And I swear, he, like, looked, and he's like, it's not that bad. I'm like, I promise you this has been going on for, like, two and a half months now. Like, I promise it'll be back tomorrow. He's like, well, I don't know.

Your tonsils are only a little bit swollen. We can recommend you for a tonsillectomy, but, I mean mean i don't think you need it because this surgery sucks as an adult um and i'm like screw it i don't care like let's fucking do it sign me up i just need to get this over with um so then i had to wait and i kept doing this cycle of medicine for another two months well from beginning of december to like mid end of January, yeah. I just kept doing this. Like, I forget when I got my tonsils out. End of January, early February, I forget. But I did the whole cycle of meds because it kept coming back.

Finally, I go into surgery. God, that surgery sucked so bad. I've never had surgery before besides, like, wisdom teeth. Yeah. And I was, like, so anxious just to go under. I hate that feeling so much. But, yeah, they took my tonsils out. And the surgeon

comes back he's like yeah now i see what's happened i had like abscesses in the back like underneath my tonsils so like you need to get them drained or removed in order to get better otherwise this keeps coming back and nobody thought about this i went on fucking web md and i think i could have told the doctor this because that was like the first thing that came up for my symptoms like just repetitive and just nobody had any could have told the doctor this, because that was, like, the first thing that came up for my symptoms. Like, just repetitive. And just nobody had any thought in the world to do this. But that was it.

And my tonsils were, like, gigantic and disgusting. And they took them out. I just had shit, like. You basically had, like, zits in your throat. Yeah. That's disgusting. Like, it's really gross. But that's why I was sick for, like, three and a half, four months. That was last year.

Yeah. From, like, right months. That was last year. Yeah. From like right about now until January, February last year. I was just literally ridiculous. I was like, it was like clockwork because I would tell everybody, they're like, you want to go out? I'm like, let me check where I'm at on my medicine before I can go out. Like if I was still like taking it, I'm like, yeah, let's fucking do it. But I'm like, I don't be sick this week.

Probably not going to be able to go out until I go to the doctor again and get medicine. Damn. Yeah. Dude, my anxiety would be through the roof. If you're like, fuck, I'm doing. I have had, well, I've had my tonsils out and wisdom teeth. So, same as you. As an adult, like, it's just anxious.

I hate, like, not being able to, like, what the fuck's going on with my body. Like, when I'm not conscious. I't like i hate not i mean everyone doesn't like feeling or hates feeling like not 100 but like even this like i know i sound congested which sucks i'll stand up it's so weird if i sit down i'll get congested i'll stand up walk around totally fine yeah it's like i loosen the mucus or something like that it's gotta be it's like when i was sick and i mean whenever you were like get a cold in high school and you go to gym run around for a little bit you're fine totally fine totally fine it just goes away that's not like oh i'll sweat this out yeah and i tried doing that monday i did two exercises and i was like i gotta lift or cardio lift i squatted and i did a shoulder press and i was

like no i'm done done i can't do anything today i got through my whole workout but like really slow and then did like 10 minutes of cardio at the end but even then i was like my body it's running warm yeah trying to get everything out of here i don't like taking medicine really yeah for exactly that reason that horror story because now like it's like i was like when i one day really need it yeah i want it to work yeah and so i try to take it like i'll go the whole day doing nothing and then i'll take like the nighttime dose to knock me out yeah or try to it doesn't really knock me out but like i'll fall asleep a little quicker okay like nyquil or some shit yeah yeah like mucinex nighttime stuff something to just

knock you out it's like i cannot stand not being able to fall asleep when you're sick. It's got to be the worst feeling in the world. Like we said earlier, if I'm asleep like this, you wake up like this, you're like, what the fuck? What the fuck is going on? Like I go to bed, I want to go to bed early. Yeah. Because I know like every time I go to sleep, I wake up feeling a little better. Like sleep is like the number one thing for me that helps me but just getting to sleep is the hardest fucking part you're like oh my god especially when you got the fever and you're just like

even when you have like as many covers as you can on you're still like just fucking freezing underneath and then you wake up and then you're. I just drenched in sweat. It's the fucking worst. Yeah. It fucking blows. It's like the worst. I hate being sick. I haven't been sick since. I've had a couple episodes where I think I'm going to feel sick, and then I wake up in the morning and I'm fine.

But I have not been sick since I got my tonsils out. I've had a few. I actually think emergency makes me sick. Really? That's my go-to. Yes and no. People are like, take an emergency, you'll feel better. I have, the only time an emergency has quote-unquote worked is when I've felt fine. And then my roommates or my family members who I was living with at the time were getting sick.

And like, I feel fine. I got something to do this weekend. I'll pop one. But then I'll have like a sore throat like like a scratchy one like you know what let's take one see if i can just like nip this in the bud next day dude i'm sick i was like what the fuck dude emergency that's like the only time i take emergency is when i feel like a little scratchy yeah the night before i'm like fuck i gotta i gotta put one in get it down i'll be fine the next day i think it's a placebo thing i talk myself into things so much too all day not congested at all really not even a little bit i got here i'm warm in here right now yeah i got

here i was like it's gonna happen i know like all i want i was like i don't want to be congested for the podcast and literally i sat down on the couch for five minutes before you got here i was like instant just like that fuck this dude i'm gonna get sick i think now once the weather changes i guarantee it like i guarantee i'll get this would be the one time i'm sick all fall really yeah it's like once right when the season changes and then i'm good if i make it out of the fall like the changing fall to winter, if I make it out without getting sick,

it would, like my tonsillectomy did something good for me because I get sick every, I used to get sick every fucking year. Every year I get sick. That's gotta,

how long did your throat hurt after they took them out? Holy fuck. Two weeks. Two weeks? Because as an adult, it sucks because it takes forever

for your throat to heal. I think it was like two weeks, maybe a little bit more, but I don't think so. I think it was two weeks, but it was it sucks because it takes forever for your throat to heal i think it was like two weeks maybe a little bit more but i don't think so i think it was two weeks but it was just what were you eating were you like barely anything yeah my mom would get pissed and she just like you drink this eat this drink this eat this like i like i don't know it's just a pit like if i got my mouth i need you to throw it down there. I was just the biggest crab ass on earth. I would be too. Because, dude, it hurts so bad. Well, they gave me Oxy for the pain.

And everybody's like, are you going to get addicted? I would never get addicted to that shit. I literally would take – I would be like – I would wake up in the morning, try and like get water or Gatorade or something and maybe oatmeal down my throat or like something, I would be sitting up in bed, like watching a YouTube video. Like I just fucking woke up after sleeping for God knows how long the night before. Yeah. I would wake up, start eating breakfast, what I could, cause I had, you can't take oxygen, an empty stomach. And then I would take it and I

would literally fall asleep like completely fall asleep not like just drifting off completely fall asleep like sitting up it could just put you to sleep like that like that i've never taken one of those i've never taken like a pain drug at all like i've the only thing i've ever even been issued was like a super high dose ibuprofen yeah like the thousand milligram or whatever the 500 honestly maybe like six to eight hundred that's not even a high high dose yeah like i have the 200 milligram this year and every time like i would have a headache around it well i'd be like take two you could take two it's okay yeah but i don't like taking medicine yeah and i view that

as medicine too i was like i'll just take one like you know what one so if i ever do take two like a charm which is nice yeah okay bottle lasts a little longer spend less money at the fucking some people like i remember in high school we're taking a lot before games and shit before a football, dude, people would be taking like handfuls. Yeah. Handfuls of that shit. This is not good for you. Oh, my God. I wish I could remember the drink once that they were taking. C4?

No. It might have been at the time. When I was there. But it was like speed. These guys would take it and they were just like, that's why they needed ibuprofen. They're just banging their heads against lers like, let's fucking go. Like, I don't know why we're so good, but – Not this year. I suck this year.

I say suck, but they just lost to Oak Creek, so. Dude, I don't even – I didn't even – this is how far removed I am. I forgot high school football was even, like, happening right now. Like, it's peak season. Yeah. I don't like pay attention every week but they just lost oak creek so you know i'll find out about that one oh because of it's just oak creek yeah yeah yeah i don't i won't hear about it until like

hunting season they're like it's franklin and state i was like dude it is hunting season yeah but for me i have like i've only done gun opening weekend oh you just go gun yeah yeah i don't have time to go up our property's four hours away where is it thorpe thorpe it's like amish country amish country yeah like straight up like northwest it's three hours north of madison oh okay so like further so i go at jacob hansen i go with him i hunted his land which is in it's in like it's called nishikoro okay which is in marquette county which is probably like an hour and a half yeah see that's perfect two hours is like perfect for me it's far enough away where you feel like you're getting away yeah so you

mentally feel like you have opportunity because if i was like someone told me hey we're going hunting 20 minutes outside of the city it could be a dense woods i like there's no way yeah there's no way there's anything here two hours and like there could be something anywhere four hours you're like there should be deer everywhere but when there's not you're like fuck this dude they could be wherever didn't you see that black bear in franklin a couple months ago no you didn't see that no there was a black bear in franklin it was the craziest shit everybody was like pooping out about especially all those fucking moms on uh on facebook the uh the old franklin community page going crazy all the karens on there there's a franklin community page yeah on facebook i don't use facebook religiously

but man if you're on facebook you got to get on the frank community page? Yeah, on Facebook. I don't use Facebook religiously, but man, if you're on Facebook, you've got to get on the Franklin community page. It is just pure comedy. It's pure comedy. Where is the black bear? It was in Franklin. But where in Franklin? So, you know, by your old house slash my parents' house, like, you know the the river the river trail the trail oh yeah yeah they somebody saw it like going oh sorry sorry some guy saw it in the morning probably like

four or five over like um south of ryan by the business park oh really just on the side of the road he took a video of it and put it on facebook everybody's like freaking out like there's no way and then sure enough everybody started seeing it because it and put it on Facebook. Everybody's freaking out. There's no way. And then sure enough, everybody started seeing it because then it started going north, up the trail. So they started across Ryan, across Pewts, Drexel, yada, yada, yada. And people were following it all day. Did someone, did Animal Control? How big was this?

I don't remember how big it was. It could have been that big. They said it was like a younger black bear. But it wasn't like a cub or anything. It was like a decent-sized black bear. Is it a zoo escapee? No it was like a younger black bear. But it was still like, it wasn't like a cub or anything. It was like a decent sized black bear. Is it a zoo escapee? No, it was a wild black bear. Where was it that like a tiger escaped or like a lion?

In here, in Wisconsin? I feel like, if I dreaming shit, I swear to God there was like a lion that escaped or a tiger. A cougar. There was a cougar a couple years ago in Waukesha. That's it. It came up on somebody's porch and they're like they're they're ring like got it it's like a mountain lion that came up on somebody's porch which is wild for it to be in waukesha wild for a cougar to be anywhere near here well like the dnr said because the dnr came out with a statement after this bear was here

like like yeah you guys are freaking out but i mean they're moving further and further south because they're like so successful up north that they've been moving south and they can just live here, and they're probably living here, and you just don't notice them. There's, like, they said there's got to be more than just that one in Milwaukee County. Like, they're probably just living here in Milwaukee County now. They're not just transient. They're probably here. But the sad part of the story is he went all the way north on the trail to like where the freeway

is like seven or eight ninety four like connects to uh ninety four semi just like three in the morning really it was like it was like he got spotted he got spotted he got spotted on one morning it was like oh my god like we're just watching this black bear this is so cool this is so cool and then i woke up the next morning it's like black bear has been hit black bear you know dead franklin black you think a deer fucks your car up imagine hitting a full-grown bear oh yeah that's that's probably fucking tough at least i mean it was a semi that bear probably got that bear is in pieces depending how fast my dad almost got ran off the road by a semi this past saturday really he called me after golf he goes that was all my dad is terrible with like leading phone calls but he just like

he got like i asked the phone i was like what's up he goes that was almost the last round of golf you ever played with your pops i was like really what do you mean by that? Or he's like, you almost just played your last round of golf with your dad. I was like, huh? He goes, there's a semi. He's like trying to pass. It was just like veering off the lane. Missed my dad by like that much. Really?

And then he's like, I almost missed the side rail by that much. I almost just scraped my entire brand new truck. Down there, I'm like, let's lead with I'm okay. I'm all right. missed the side rail by that much use i almost just scraped my entire brand new truck yeah down there i'm like let's lead with i'm okay i'm all right i'm still driving i didn't get rushed off the road but you're not gonna believe this i can already picture like the the nonchalant tone your dad said that into yeah did he yeah he's like well that was almost your last round of golf ever with your dad dude i almost just, I almost just died. I almost just died.

Oh, my God. That's crazy. I was like, if that ended with, by the way, my truck's upside down in a ditch, can you come get me? I'm like, we're going to have a talk after this. You got to learn how to take phone calls or call people. So I don't know if you're fucking dead. It's weird because my car took a shit

and it's getting honda yeah really it's getting a new engine right now why don't you just buy a new car because i'm getting a new engine for free oh okay there you go there's my answer they honored my the warranty way later than you put the turbo in it yeah i guess because the timing belt went okay at a hundred thousand miles and it shouldn't have yeah so they're like my dad found a dealership that was honoring warranties just outside of it yeah he's like best case scenario they cover it 100 otherwise half worst case scenario we sell your car we try and find you a new one yeah uh he goes in the meantime i just bought a new truck you can use

my old one so i'm driving around the car you're driving around the kusky mobile i'm driving the kusky mobile right now and uh while i'm waiting for my car but it feels so weird because my dad's got this blue one it feels i can't tell what's weirder seeing my dad pull up in a truck that's not the typical granite builder's ink that he doesn't even like to use anymore on the side of his truck, or the fact that I'm driving it. Probably because, dude, if I saw that truck, I'd be like, no way, that goes Mr. Kuski. Yeah. And then you see me, and you're like, what the fuck?

What the fuck is Michael doing driving this shit? Yeah. That might be one of the top, that's got to be top five most iconic cars. That's what I say. In my life. In southeastern Wisconsin. Oh, yeah. It's one of the most iconic cars.

Everybody knows. Everybody knows exactly who that is. The cap, the sound, the sticker. The guy that hops out of it. You're like, I thought you'd be taller. But that car is falling apart. Every time I see it, there's just a little bit more rust. Just like a little bit more, a little bit more.

We had a hail warning on Sunday. I go, that might get some of the dents out of the car. It's so rusty. But my dad's like, don't take it on long trips i was like i have to drive it to madison once yeah because we have like this college reunion yeah so we drive it up there it's so stressful i have to help it shift it's an automatic truck but i have to like lay off the gas for it to finally be like oh yeah we shouldn't be at 4 000 rpms just gotta find it let it find it and so by parking in the structure we have our day there the next morning we go and we're loading everyone's stuff in the back me rachel connor

hunter uh sam i go to close the gate yeah and the right the left hinge just rusts through. I'm like, I've had this truck for two weeks. My dad's had this for 18 years. Never happened. Just falls off. Fuck. So we had to get this back onto the locking mechanism and then take the cap windows and lock it onto the door. And just hold the tailgate.

We moved all the luggage to the front seat, and I like we're about to play real life mario kart this thing falls off oh my god this would be the world's deadliest banana holy just like a what fucking just like a 75 pound tailgate going flying down the freeway shit that, that's a good one, honestly. Shit. I would, like, pay to see that for sure. Pay to see the Cuskengobile falling apart mid-drive. It's just pieces falling off. Yeah.

Just like the little rust. You ever seen Infinity War where they all just turn to dust? Yeah. That's what the truck is going to happen to the truck. 100%. I'm just going to drive it into a... Like a Spongebob thing. Yeah, or just like a cartoon where you're driving so fast it burns up.

It's just a steering wheel and a seat. It's just you going. And somehow it's still going. That truck, I got in it. I looked down at the mileage. 340,000 miles on this thing. How the fuck is this truck? It's a diesel.

I was so happy I didn't have to pay six and a half grand to replace my engine. Yeah. But I had to pay for diesel. Yeah, that sounds like a fucking tough time right now. Every time I fill it up up it's another 160 bucks holy shit yeah and i was bitching about my car having to fill up for like 45 dollars right now it was bad for a while when i was filling up the hyundai for close to 80 fuck that when we were over five dollars yeah that was bro i can't wait to have that car back and just not have to pay $150.

Not have to pay $170 for a time. The gas mileage is better. It's so much better. That car is nice. I like that car. Yeah. No, you took me in that car once. Your brother also took me in that car once.

Yeah, when they didn't have a car for me, they were like, can we use your car to go somewhere? I was like, you just want to race it. But I got to get the front end fixed now. I remember Andrew's like, he pulled up to the high school. I think we had like practice or something. Like we were coaching practice or helping out. He's like, yo, check this.

Like, this is cool. He's fucking revved it. I'm like, dude, where'd you get this car? Like, oh, it's Michael's. And you're like, no fucking way. I remember when i got it i i drove it off the lot same day i go pick up my buddy connor from the airport and uh my roommate jake and we're going to madison yeah and as i'm picking up i mean i've had this car

for three hours yeah and i go to get connor from the airport and he looks at me as i pull up because it it doesn't have a muffler on it it's so loud like it i feel like i'm 16 yeah it's not terrible like at least it sounds clean it doesn't sound like dirty you know and he just looks at me and just goes what the fuck is is this? I'm like, get in. Immediately, three hours after I got the car. He goes, this is not you. I go, I'm going to get a muffler on it. Two years later, never did. I'm getting a new engine.

That car is fucking loud. I won't lie about that. You can hear that fucker coming from a mile away. Yeah. Well, what's funny is I upgraded to an even louder car. Oh, God. Here we go. That truck is louder.

Oh, yeah. The truck is for sure louder.. Oh, God. Here we go. That truck is louder. Oh, yeah. The truck is for sure louder. Well, there's probably nothing underneath there. That cat has got to be non-existent. That thing disintegrated years ago. The muffler definitely disintegrated even older than that. Dude, the whole body almost disintegrated. I'm surprised there's still four working doors.

like i'm surprised there's still four working doors my dad i get in and it's he goes uh the child locks down for the windows yeah i was like why he goes well you remember how we were leaving for hunting once and chad rolled down his window in the back left seat yeah driver's side whatever i go yeah you remember how we couldn't roll back up for the entire four-hour car ride in the middle of November? I was like, oh, yeah. He goes, yeah, the wires keep getting, like, disconnecting. He goes, so if someone rolls that down, you're praying to God it goes back up. It goes back up. Yeah.

Otherwise, you're just stuck down. So I was like, okay. I just, the only windows I roll down are the front two now that child lock stays on like the car right up there like can we roll the window like no you can't don't fucking touch it the the temperature yeah says it tells you if you're going north south east or west but it's always 130 degrees in there uh the air conditioning air conditioning only works if the truck is moving. And the heat only comes out of the feet. So AC works everywhere.

Heat only comes out of the feet. So my dad has this HVAC piping that goes from the bottom. He goes, it's in the back seat, and the Velcro's on there. You Velcro it over the foot thing, and's in the back seat and the velcro is on there you velcro it over the foot uh thing and you put the tube up to the front bro what are you driving right now dude it is the white trash bag mobile is what it is the day that thing disappears off the road it's gonna be a sad day i don't ever want at least like I could sell it. I go for what? You got it. You got to keep like a door or something like

you got to save something. Keep the granite builders door. Yeah. Keep the granite builders door. One of them.

Hang it up. Or the front and the front driver and passenger side. Put them side by side and we'll hang them on a wall. Hang them on a wall

and we'll see how long it takes for those to rust off. Probably another week. It's got fucking rust in your apartment. At, hang them on a wall. And we'll see how long it takes for those to rust off. Probably another week. Just got to fucking rust in your apartment. At this point, I want to see if we can get that truck to 400K. Another 60,000 miles? What's that?

I think you could do it. Unless your dad gets rid of it as soon as he gets it back. Dude, it doesn't go. Like, when I was hitting 80, I was starting to hit. I was trying. I, like, couldn't get to 80. And that's, like, my sweet spot when I'm going to Madison. 80, yeah. And it get to 80, and I'm like couldn't get to 80 and that's like my sweet spot when i'm going to madison 80 yeah and it get to 80 i'm like i'm hitting that red mark on the rpm so i'm like oh this truck has got to be it's like you're i haven't seen this and i'm like i haven't seen

this truck in so long where's that bottle right there it's uh it scares the shit like short distances totally fine but the worst is parking well the worst is driving very thankful i have it but parking it because i'm in a structure oh yeah do you park in that structure over there across the yeah like diagonal from you yeah and uh i parked in there for two days and i park in these like business spots because it's um i go from six to six it's business and then after that and i leave pretty early but some nights some days i don't and literally the one day i didn't leave early someone left me a note they're like please don't park here. Your car is too big. Like, all right. Dude, you should try and get it in our parking structures,

underneath our building. And it's so fucking tiny. I don't think it would fit. My dad's truck doesn't fit in the metro parking lot. Yeah, so if it doesn't fit in the metro parking lot, it will not fit in our parking structure. I went under there, and it fit. And then I turned right and there was a pipe like a hvac thing that's just a little lower and i just heard i was like oh fuck fuck i

gotta back up i'm like if this was a new truck i would be so livid but honestly that's a benefit yeah it's just an old truck you can just do whatever the fuck you want to. Oh, yeah. Like, it's... Like I said, if I hit a car, it might buff out some damage. Exactly. So, hey, you got to take the pros and cons where you can have them. You've had an eventful, like, couple weeks, months here? Shit, I haven't done nothing. I haven't done goddamn anything with my life besides work.

Well, I wouldn't say it's that eventful. I lost my car. I mean, that's an event. I'm driving a liability. Maybe not like great events. No. Shit. What else did you do?

How was that wedding? So much fun, dude. Was it? I heard about it. We had a – I don't think I've talked about it yet. It's been a while. It's like 45 minutes away from here. Yeah, yeah.

And God, I wish I wasn't congested for these stories. But, okay. So it's 45 minutes away from here. And I Ubered there because I had to come back. We were going to Madison that weekend with the truck. And Jake and Rachel and Connor, a bunch of other people, I was like, they're going to madison that weekend yeah with the truck and jake and rachel and connor a bunch of other people i was like they're gonna uber there as well we're gonna uber back it's cheaper than getting a 300 hotel each yes so i was like okay because in illinois

you need to schedule an uber because they're not going to show up at this wedding at midnight so i have my roommate do it and he gets to the venue he goes dude you're gonna love our uber i was like okay i don't like what do you mean he goes you'll love it don't worry like whatever i'm not worrying about it i'm worried about being in the wedding yeah meanwhile one of the guys that ubered up here was like we had a trip of an uber driver so i'm thinking okay we're just gonna have this same lady who wouldn't shut the fuck up. Flash forward to the end of the wedding. I'm walking out with the bride and groom, and we're all staring at a limo.

And I was like, oh, this is sweet. You guys got a limo to leave. And Rachel's looking at them like, who ordered a limo to someone else's wedding? And someone looks at her and her go i think it's yours she's like there's no way and like basically on cue my roommate jake walks out and goes come on guys get in we're like oh fuck in front of the bride we took a limo from someone else's wedding in front of the bride and groom dude i, I would have had the biggest secondhand embarrassment. Not even secondhand. Just embarrassment. I'm so sorry.

I loved the ride. I would first say, hey, maybe not the brightest move to order to the front door. Yeah. But when we got in there and we pulled away, and I was like, all right, whatever. They didn't kill us. Yeah. If we hear about it tomorrow, I'll deal with it. It was six of us in an Uberber it cost us 30 a person instead of 300

right to our our apartment and it was instead of i was worried about falling asleep in the uber yeah dude blasted music windows down our shirts came off we're just fucking so much fun. Dude, imagine getting a limo for $30. I don't think you could beat that anywhere. Apparently, it might have been like a family friend who had a limo business. I don't really know. I never really asked, Jake. That might be a little bit worse, though. I purposely got a limo, not just scheduling

Uber and it happened to be a limo. Oh, he purposely got a limo. I just didn't know if it was a family friend. That's why it was so cheap but otherwise the wedding itself was great i was a flower girl nailed it yeah i'll show you the pictures uh during the grand march yeah when they introduce everyone yeah me and my partner switched outfits and she pregnant, so we put a pillow in the dress. So I came out as like a pregnant bridesmaid. It was great.

It was a good time. I'm getting more and more congested. You need to say something. As the clock ticks. I don't know what to say, dude. I haven't done shit in the last forever. I haven't seen you. When was I last on here?

What, June? I was going to look that up before you got here. Was it June? It was in the summer, yeah. June, July, May? No. How's that airplane license coming along? Yeah, I still got to look that up before you got here. Was it June? It was in the summer, yeah. June, July, May? No. How's that airplane license coming along? Yeah, I still got to do that.

Actually, funny story. I'll actually talk about this as I look for when I was last on so I can see what in my life to talk about. So, actually, big deal. I did get a job since I last talked to you. I know I was talking to you about Did I talk to you about going through like job application for the police departments? I talked to you about that, right? So I did actually get the job recently West Alice PD

So I got the job there I actually start in three weeks West Alice PD. Yeah starting three weeks. you'll be right by me at work yeah october 17th you might get called to my gym actually i probably will uh april 17th or april 7th was the last time i was on not even in the summer dude was that the podcast release date yeah so probably like a what a week before that that was a month into me living here yeah shit so yeah all summer i don't even know if i started like any of the actual like interviews and shit so i had to do that that's what i've been doing all summer interviews with different police departments shit everywhere shorewood milwaukee Milwaukee, Wauwatosa, West Allis, everywhere. And it's just been, I mean, granted, I'm appreciative that it's so thorough.

But, man, is it a little bit of a headache sometimes. Repetitive. It's just not even repetitive. It's just a lot of stuff. I mean, for Wauwatosa, I mean, so the first thing they did for me was the PT test, which was, excuse me, just to like weed people out. They did it first. Shit, I don't even, I ran it like at the beginning of May. So it was like probably a little bit after that.

It was cold. I remember that. It was nothing crazy. It was like a mile, a mile and a half in like 16 minutes, which I did that in like 10, 50. Easy, like 25 pushups, 25 sit-ups in a minute, whatever. That's a joke, those two. A mile and a half, I don't know if I could do. Really?

My cardio is dog shit. Well, me too. I was like – Adrenaline's got to be pumping, though. I did – I made friends with one of the guys' kids there who actually – I mean, I'll get to it, but yeah, he ended up actually getting the job there he starts work next month too um but i just made buddies with him we were just like i'm like dude you just sit in front of me i will just go with you he's like i'm not fast i'm like that is fine as long as we get to the end in time i don't give a shit i will just sit right on your ass this

whole fucking way around because i knew i was doxxed at running i hadn't ran in so long before that like it's cold i'm gonna be able to breathe i'm not gonnaed at running i hadn't ran in so long before that like it's cold i'm gonna be able to breathe i'm not gonna be dying yeah i'm just i'm just gonna pace myself with you but we did that that was pretty easy and then we took like an aptitude test i guess kind of like strongly agree disagree with a bunch of questions and then after that if you passed you got to go on to the assessment center the assessment center i had no clue what my parents didn't know either like it was just outgoing and dark and they even told me there's like there's nothing you do to prepare for this you just show up and you do it it was eight hours eight hours

full suit well yeah obviously full suit job interview assessment center full suit and we got there's 12 of us we got grouped into like groups of six sorry um and then it was everything from like report like watch a bunch of videos and then write down what you saw what happened bunch of details answer your questions that was like an hour um we had this whole like town hall meeting thing like hey here's a situation in our community. What can you do to fix it? Yada, yada, yada. And then we would go and talk in front of, like, a whole panel.

Like, I think it was, like, 15 people that were officers with Wauwatosa just to, like, judge us. And then after that, it was like, hey, here's, like, a purse. Here's a purse with a bunch of stuff in it. You have 10 minutes, I think it was. Who was this person? Like, what were they doing? Like, why did they lose this purse? Interesting.

I would like that test. It was cool. The one that screwed me over, I don't think screwed me over, but I know I didn't do that well, was this actual, like, mediation thing. And you had 10 minutes to prepare. Again, like, nothing prepared. You just had to, you had 10 minutes to prepare again, like nothing prepared. You just had to do this off the top of your head.

And that was the whole point of it. It was to see how, like how prepared you were to like do this stuff. Yeah. Um, and it was like, all right, it's an older gentleman has yada,

yada, yada, blah, blah, blah. Um, and then go try and, uh,

mediate with him. He thinks his neighbor was mad at his dog or whatever. I don't know what we, you go mediate with him. His neighbor was mad at his dog or whatever. I don't know. But you would go mediate with him. And, man, I just – talking to this guy was like – I mean, it was a guy playing the part, but I just couldn't do it. It was like there's no reason with this guy. And I was like, oh, I effed that up so bad. That one, I thought that's what screwed me over because after i mean after i left everybody's

like yeah that one sucked that one sucked that one sucked like okay maybe i did pretty good and then i gotta call like a week later hey we're gonna move on like we're not we're not gonna take you but i was after every different department you know no i didn't every whatever is it like walk he's relatively simple it was just a bunch of interviews and stuff which was i realized very quickly i'm pretty good at interviews even though i thought like i hated talking to people yeah well you do it enough yeah like i can just talk in about stuff yeah like never i mean i prepared for the first one with wabatosa um or was it wabatosa or shorewood i don't remember but i prepared for it thoroughly.

And then I got there and kind of forgot everything, kind of like you do under, like, a big test. And then I just started talking off the top of my head. And at the end, they're like, wow, that was great. But, yeah, I did all that stuff. But at the end of the day, what's the house like me? They said, yeah. So I start with them in three weeks go to the police academy where is

the police department at west house uh on lincoln it's like a like right off high 100 lincoln's literally where i work really yeah lincoln and high 100 yeah yeah it is right by uh a little health hut and subway and all that you're probably just farther down the road. Yeah, actually, yeah. Just down Lincoln, probably like a block or two. But I wasn't supposed to start until January, well, at least in my mind. They didn't tell me much because the police academy doesn't start until January,

but I think I'm going to start. I start in three weeks just to get the ins and outs of the department, like how they do stuff, which I like. I want to see how they do stuff. Sooner rather than later. Yeah.

Getting the job you want to do instead of what you're doing now. Exactly. Cause bartending as much as I love bartending. Have you had any crazy stories doing it? Oh dude, I do have a really good story. I have, it just happened.

What? Like two weeks ago. So I, so the airport, like I worked for a company that owns a bunch of the restaurants and bars in the airport and i was at the one in the d terminal i don't know if you ever delta american but that's the other one it's like not the southwest terminal nothing like nice new one it's not like old but it's the other one um so we have a restaurant there it's like an italian ish place. Um,

and I was working the morning. I got there. Shit. I'm going to do that. I got to do that tomorrow too. Fuck. I gotta be there at six. We got there at six and it's like dead all morning. Cause there's like nobody, nobody comes through from like six to 11 ish maybe or 10 ish. It's super slow. Maybe a couple of people in and out and then like right as it picked up at about like 1130 11 maybe I had a group of bachelors come through and they were like they were good time at a bunch of them but they were all leaving on different flights they were just like periodically like leaving me to go and I was just talking to them just like three of them left

having a good conversation awesome I had some gentlemen sit down older guy and i would say the same thing what can i get you how you doing like where you coming from or where you going to because nobody ever drinks when they come back he goes oh this is this isn't normal for me i never drink um on my way back in but i just got home and i need a beer i've been away for too long i'm like all right like what can i get you he's like i'll take a miller light like all right. Like, what can I get you? He's like, I'll take a Miller Lite. Like, all right, fine. So we serve Miller Lites in, like, 20-ounce glasses, not even, not like, not 16 ounces, 20 ounces. So I pour him his beer, put his tab down in front of him.

And then I go back to talking to these gentlemen, the bachelors. And we were just having a good conversation. And then I go to, like, do something else. I was cleaning or something. I don't know. But they would to talking to these gentlemen, the bachelors, and we're just having a good conversation. And then I go to like do something else, like clean it or something. I don't know. But they would start talking to him. They were having a conversation that I was just overhearing. I wasn't listening, but I was just hearing it. And then all of a sudden, as I'm going back to have a conversation with the bachelors, out of the corner of my eye,

he's sitting at like the end of the bar where like the opening is to like the entrance to the restaurant sitting at the very corner and the bachelor's sitting at the other end uh and there's not a soul in between them but all of a sudden I corner my eyes see this guy like get up like struggle to get up and then he has like a backpack which he like can't get on and I'm like I like glance I'm like trying to stare at him because I don't be rude but then I like fully look at him and I'm like now I'm just dead staring I'm trying to stare at him because I don't want to be rude. But then I fully look at him, and I'm like, now I'm just dead staring. I'm like, this guy's going to have a fucking heart attack. It looks like he is about to stroke. Oh, shit.

Like something that— Like not drunk. No. Like something's actually wrong. Well, I mean, I talk to him fine. He talked to me fine. He had a conversation with the other gentleman. Fine.

I'm like, I would have never asked him. This guy's drunk at all. I'm like, there would have never asked him. This guy's drunk at all. I'm like, there's no way. And he still hasn't even drank the beer. The beer is still sitting in front of him full, 20-ounce glass, like maybe a sip gone, not even. I can still see the head on the beer sitting there. And then all of a sudden he gets up, and I'm like,

oh, maybe he has to run to the bathroom or something. I don't know. Or maybe he has to go take a phone call or something, which isn't abnormal. But I can see him struggling, and I think he's about to like something bad is about to happen medically he finally gets his backpack on and then he just like looks around grabs the beer looks around and then he just starts walking like up towards the exit of the terminal

I'm like sir like you haven't paid for that you got to come back sir you haven't paid for that you can't take my glass either and he's just i don't know if he didn't hear me or what but i i mean i was speaking pretty loud he heard you yeah like there's no way he didn't hear me and then he just he just disappears around the corner and i'm like i just look at the bastards i'm like did that just fucking happen to me they're like did he just walk on his tab and i'm like, I just look at the bastards. I'm like, did that just fucking happen to me? They're like, did he just walk out on his tab? And I'm like, yeah. He's like, dude, you better go fucking get him.

And I'm like, all right. I'm going to go get this guy now. So I had to go, like, get somebody else. I'm like, hey, watch the bar. They're like, what's going on? Somebody just walked off with a glass of beer, so I got to go deal with this. They're like, all right, go. Grab his tab.

And then I, like, look out, and I got to go deal with this. Like, all right, go grab his tab. And then I like look out and I look out like the terminal hallway and I can just see all the way to the end. And this dude is just like grabbing every chair and every wall he can like can't walk straight. I'm like, is this dude all right? He's going to like, I didn't even like, I didn't start walking after him. Like he's about to like stop right here. He's about to like just sit down in the terminal he gathers himself and just keeps going and i don't know if he like turned around and saw me or what but as fast as the old ass would take him he just started like hobbling like he just started like like running as fast as running but

as fast as he could go like up and i'm like all right fuck um and i didn't even catch up to him he was so far away until he was like almost out almost out of the terminal, like, just past security. And I'm, like, behind him trying to flag TSA. Like, you got to stop this guy. Like, stop him. And then the TSA stopped him. But they didn't, like, do anything about it. They're just like, hold on.

I think he wants you. And I'm like, yeah, no shit. I want him. He's got a beer in his hand. He looks like he's going to die. Yeah, they were just going to, like, let him. They didn't, like, think that was weird weird so then he turns around looks at me and then i'm giving i'm like hey you like have to pay for this but i can see that he still hasn't drinking the beer

like you know what i don't know what's going on but i just don't want this situation right now i'll just take the beer back and we'll call it even i'll deal with it later with the manager or something just void the check or something i don don't know because he's still in drinking I don't care he's like no no I want it like well you you haven't drinking it or you haven't paid for it you have to do either or yeah he's like no no I want it he takes it and just chugs it in my face the whole thing one go 20 ounces just like right in my face I'm like standing like this close to him at this point and I'm pissed I'm like I'm not happy yeah i'm visibly upset with him well now you need to get him to pay yeah i'm like

and then all you got it done i'm like all right well now you need to give me money i'm like that was 10 94 you need to give me the money he's like okay i'll pay and then just starts like staring at me i'm like like what the fuck is this dude's deal and i'm like clearly he's not all right but i don't know what's wrong because he was fine just like five minutes ago um in the bar he's like i'm like you need to pay for this and tsa's just like laughing behind me they're like not even i'm like i'm like trying not to laugh because they're laughing but like you need to pay he's like i'll pay he keeps like grabbing his pockets and stuff like and he just does that and just stares at me i'm like do you have money he goes yeah yeah i'll pay for it and then nothing and then finally a tsa like manager comes over and he's actually like

helping me out he's like sir like you need to pay for that you've never you haven't paid for that can we do you have money on you do you well he's like yeah it's like well this guy right here said you didn't you walked out on your tab and i said yeah he did and he goes did you call me a scumbag and i'm like no but that was that was kind of a scumbag move to walk out of my bar i literally said it to him like that's a scumbag move to walk out on your tab it's like no no no i didn't mean it like that i just i don't know he like wouldn't give me an answer but he just keeps on like patting his pockets and finally the tsa guy's like all right well can you at least like give me an pockets. And finally the TSA guy's like, all right, well, can you at least give me an ID or something? And the guy goes, yeah.

And he's like, I don't know where my wallet is. I don't have money. And I'm like, you just said you did, though. So confusing. And then finally the TSA agent's like, all right, well, if you can't find your money or your wallet, we've got to get the sheriff's deputies involved. And he's like, no, no, I'll find it. I have it.

I have it right here. He's like, then he goes for his backpack. He's like looking looking at his backpack like just looks up at us like we're supposed to know where it is because can you guys help me i'm like we're both looking like we're not digging through your backpack to like find your stuff um so then finally he sits down we get the sheriff's deputies come over they take like my statement on the whole thing um dude at this point i was like telling him like just give me a ten dollar bill yeah i will cover the other dollar just so it goes away and we don't have to worry about it anymore i just don't want that it's been like 20 minutes 25 minutes at this point like we've been going back and forth this guy with to no avail nothing um but my one of the managers came up and and he brought me the machine for the car,

and he's like, we can do either. I don't care how we do this. Just let's get it done. The deputy found his wallet, and he paid for the beer. I'm like, you guys need anything else? They're like, no, it should be good. So I went back down to work. And then like 20 minutes, maybe an hour probably, half hour.

I don't fucking know. It was a while. The sheriff said he just came back down on me and I wasn't that busy. And they're like, so how many beers did that guy drink? I said, none. Like, he didn't even drink the first beer until I got up there and he chugged it in my face. That's all he drank. They're like, really?

And I go, yeah, I promise. I gave him one beer and I watched him not drink it until he did it in my face up there. They go, he must have been drinking on the plane or something. Cause he blew a 0.28. There's no way he blew a 0.28. Yeah, he did. Like I had a, like a coherent conversation with him when he sat down and so did the gentleman over there.

And they're like, yeah, he was, he was fine. They said it to the deputies too. They're like yeah he was he was fine they said it to the deputies too they're like yeah he was we we talked to him um that when he was here it's like he blew a 0.28 at coming home from the airport yeah he just landed and he blew a 0.28 going home and then he proceeded to stop at the bar before he got out, too, for one last beer. Trying to collect himself. Hey, the cherry on top of the whole thing is that the charioteers are like, yeah, apparently all the, like, the vendors, all the shop, you know, the employees at all the vendors are like, ah, there goes so-and-so again. He's, like, the drunk at the airport. Oh, really?

Yeah, he's just, like, a normal. Like, this is not, like. This is a regular thing for him? Yeah, this is like a regular thing for him. He travels a lot and drinks excessively. I guess. Yeah. He's probably got no home life. Yeah.

Apparently, his wife came to pick him up. Oh, really? After that. Probably not too happy about it either. No, I would assume not. But that was probably the funniest story. I met a lot of cool people. I met some dude who was like an EMS, like an air ambulance pilot.

Him and his wife, both air ambulance pilots on contract all over the country. He's like a week on, a week off, and he just flies to a different hospital around the country every week just to fly air ambulance. That's cool. That's sweet. I met an F-35 pilot. Really? In the Navy navy he was like probably between our age really yeah he was i thought he was my age but i mean i didn't figure

it out but there's no way he was older than you and there's no way he was younger than me i mean probably like 25 he's like yeah i'm in the navy i'm like what do you do i'm like he's like i'm a pilot what do you fly f-35s i'm like fucking like i can't top like who's gonna top that that's the coolest i went to flight school for a bit that's the coolest fucking thing ever yeah that's how it came up i got talking about he's like oh yeah i'm a pilot uh i went to i think it started when i told him i went to dubuque he's like oh yeah i'm from like the area like in wisconsin like just the corner over there some small town i totally forget he's like oh yeah i know dubuque did you go there to fly i'm like yeah he's like oh me too but i didn't go to dubuque i went to mankato um up in minnesota i'm like oh do you still fly he's

like yeah i'm like who do you fly for like what airline so i go no i don't fly for an airline i'm like well where do you fly or what are you doing he's like i'm in the navy i'm like oh that's cool like you know thinking he's just flying you know some i don't know cargo something something not cool and he goes yeah f-35 i'm going back to fresno to you know go back on base that's fucking you can't top that i just shut up i'm like i'm done talking yeah you're right i'm out i'm out you beat me living my dream Literally, that's what I told him. I'm like, that would have been my dream job, dude. He's like, the craziest part of that one, he's like, because he didn't want to fly for the airlines or anything either. Kind of like I didn't. And he just goes, dude, it was the luckiest thing I've ever, like, ever happened to me in my entire life.

If I would have been a day later or a day earlier, I would never flown f-35s like a spot just happened like when he graduated flight school and went to go get his post like or whatever he was gonna fly it just happened to be that that day a spot opened up it wasn't available wasn't available the day before wasn't available the day after just so happened he's like it was the luck of the draw and i was like near the top of the class i got one of the first picks and it's that's huge like that's one percent of the draw. I was near the top of the class. I got one of the first picks. That's huge. That's 1% of the 1%. That's so cool. I was so jealous the rest of the day.

I'm like, man, what the fuck am I doing with my life? I'm just bored, spotting cows, chasing down drugs. Working at bartending at the airport is just... You meet every walk of life, man. Well, good thing you start your new job here soon. I have one final question for you to wrap it up. Cause I'm going to take some medicine and hopefully pass out. Go for it,

man. Five words or less. What is your meaning of life? Oh God, dude, that's way too deep. Huh? That's way too fucking deep.

I bartended the airport, man. What do you think my fucking meaning of life is? God, five words or less. think my fucking meaning of life is god five words or less what is the meaning of life I gotta think about this one for a minute holy shit did you answer this one yeah mine's like to live

it's not like to live it's to live to live empathy to love yourself be as creative as possible, or as often as possible. I think he had like six words I gave him. To find meaning. So your meaning is to find meaning?

What? Your meaning of love is to find meaning? Yeah. Yeah. Like, I mean, meaning or happiness happiness i guess you could interchange those two but i mean i always think about this and i tell people this story every fucking day when they always ask me because i always have conversations just random strangers every fucking day um but they always ask me this like dude how'd you like turn down me in a pilot that's like two hundred thousand dollars right there like no i wanted to be a police officer and make a difference in the world like that that's what

i want to do it's not about the money for me it's about something that i love and want to do for the rest of my life not just about the money which i think i mean that's the goal for everybody in life i mean yeah everybody wants fucking money but if you're so yours is to make a positive change yeah yeah i'll put that down you could you can edit that to to make a positive change or a positive difference. Yeah, I'll put that down. You can edit that to make a positive change. What is your meaning? My meaning is it's back to me. No, yeah. Find something that means something.

That's what it is. It's not making money, having fun, being happy, something like that. Make a change. I guess that's got to be it. Make a change in the world. Yeah. All right. I mean, leave your impact.

What's this world going to think when you leave? When Michael Kuski leaves this earth? It's a lot quieter. That damn truck ain't rattling around everywhere. Two trucks and a mouth gone. Holy shit, dude. Yeah. I mean, fuck.

Who'd you ask that question to first? Myself. Oh, well, I didn't know when the question of the day changed last time. Per season. So I think you were towards the end of a season. I don't even know. What did I ask you last time? I don't fucking remember.

Yeah, I don't remember. It was something about life or something. That's why I thought you were going to ask me the same thing again. I'm like, oh, God, here we go. No, no. All right, let's end it because I got to really blow my nose. No, you got it. I got to walk my 20 minutes home.

All right. Thank you, buddy.