Going Deep with Chad and JT - EP 172 - Traveling the Country, Gamestop, and Cowboy Voices

Episode Date: February 4, 2021

What up Stokers! We're back from going on a trip to a few different states and we're hyped on it. We call our buddy St Capital to talk about bitcoin and the Gamestop story. And we talk in cowboy accents.    Sign up for new merch here: http://www.shopcgd.com​   Sponsored by Manscaped: Get 20% Off and Free Shipping with the code GODEEP20 at Manscaped.com. If you wanna trim your pubes during a contagionSHOW LESS

Oh You can't wear your headphones, huh? Oh crap Because we're wearing cowboy hats.. Because we're wearing cowboy hats. Yeah, we're wearing cowboy hats. Ooh, yeah, welcome to 96.9. This is Big Rod and the Slayer coming in with the cattle roundup. Welcome to Go Deep. Howdy.

Big Rod, how you doing? I'm good, Slayer. You know, it's just been another regular Tuesday. Glad to settle down and have some pina with my partner. You know, I mean, can't complain. Sun was out today. Saw some wildlife that, you know, always kind of brings me a little bit of serenity. And, you know, I went plant-based on my diet.

We're going to get into that later. That's been a journey. I'm two days in, and it's beating the shit out of me, to be honest with you. Well, you look supple and nice. Well, thank you very much for saying that. I think you look very handsome as well. Thank you. Like fresh veal cow that I want to take into the old shop and cut up and serve at Dan Tana's.

Well, that sounds A1 okay to me, my friend. Well, but dang. What's up, dudes? Welcome to GoingOK to me, my friend. Well, but dang. What's up, dudes? Welcome to Going Deep with Chad and JT. My name is Chad Kroger coming in. Guys, before we begin, I'll remind you once again that we are brought to you by Manscaped. Manscaped, thank you so much for keeping our trims pubed, for looking after our hogs, for making sure that our dongs are looking fresh and clean because 2021 is here.

We're deep into it. We're already to February, guys. The year is flying by. And you know what also is flying by? Your pubes. They're growing long. JT, how are your pubes right now? Medium length.

are your pubes right now medium length well partner you better get that lawnmower 3.0 saddle up and get your pubes a whacking that's a big 10-4 big rod yeah they're going to be coming down to a a closer tighter trim you're gonna be looking like the 50 yard line at a mile high stadium it's gonna feel nice under john elway's feet because he's coming over to my crib later to walk on my body yeah they said he had the fastest shoulder to hip motion in his throwing mechanics than anyone had ever seen and i can attest to that when he's grabbing for my stiff hard onon. Dude, speaking of John Elway, when you use a Lawn Mower 3.0, your dongle region is going to have the aerodynamics of a Nerf football.

You know that's right. Nerf football. They better not Nerf my dick. They will not because they got skin-safe technology, a ceramic blade, and even a lat, so you can see if you're nerfing your dongle piece. And if you're not, you're going to be sitting pretty at the hog tie event just hog tying your own cock up. That was me saying nerf to you.

That was a reference to Call of Duty. Call of Duty. Duty. When I first played Call of Duty, I felt a little guilty because i was like i don't even have a license to be hunting right now yeah yeah because it was it was march and i was like hunt season's over i don't even and then beyond that we're killing humans right i don't know if you can get a license for that but then i realize it's a game and like you know mortality is kind of fluid in that context and people you can go to the gulag which is sort of like a purgatory

and then you get to fight some dude 101 mano a mano kind of like in a you know a duel sort of thing which is pretty interesting and then they messed with the guns and sometimes i think they tweak it too much like i'm like kiss baby keep it simple stupid right you know what i mean then kiss me and then because i like that i like kisses that's the thing when i was when i was ranching i didn't think we talked about kissing. Right. We talk about this steer 1,600 acres off where it's supposed to be. We got to go over there and check his kidneys. I'll see if he ain't feeling right.

But we ain't never talking about kissing. Right. And the whole reason I'm wrangling the steers is so afterwards I can go home and kiss my lady. I got to tell you something. Randy and I were out there sitting by the tree for god dang, must have been like 36 hours looking for this buck, this 10 point buck. And you know what Randy and I did? We started thinking about kissing. We didn't even say it. We were just

our minds were just connected. You melded. Like the drift in that Pacific Rim movie. Right. Which always makes me choke up when the father's talking to his son and they talk about the things they never said to one another. Oh,, dang. And I don't know what happened, but Randy and I kissed. Y'all kissed?

We kissed. And I missed it? We kissed. And you didn't tell me about it. Well, let me tell you what happened after that. We kissed and we must have had some cosmic kind of love energy because that 10-point buck just showed up right there. And you know what we did? We didn't shoot it.

We kissed the buck. Yeah, because you're, well, the pheromone, it makes total sense. Like anyone who's been hunting knows if y'all kiss and you exchange that saliva, that's going to create a third thing. That's like in film, they say you match two images, it creates a third meaning. That's like Khrushchev's soup or something like that when the Russians, they were doing all all this crazy stuff in the 20s they're way ahead of people you know propaganda really yeah then but then when y'all kiss you and randy which i'm i gotta talk about that too because i'm jealous but when you and randy kiss that created a little little dust up a saliva pheromones yeah the elk smelt it want to get in on that that is god dang correct and i gotta tell you when you kiss while you're hunting

you kiss you kiss you you bro yeah you know another dude yeah you're you know i might opt for an avocado today you know right right right i feel you 100 100 get some soybeans in you that is correct i didn't even know soybeans had proteins you know that well god dang i did because i'm plant-based now so i'm trying to find protein wherever i can find it stay away from them soybeans though those give you tits that's what people say they'd say everything gonna give you tits they say steroids give you tit that does happen though you see some dudes do a cycle they come off and then they get they get that tits god damn they got that gastric yeah oh i know the googly doogly they give you them tits i ain't. They got that gastric... Yeah. Oh, I know the...

They give you them tits. I ain't too worried about it. I got a nice chest. Look at that. Let me see. Oh, that... There's my chest. Look at that.

God damn. That's my chest right there. Sorry, fellas. I know you didn't watch this for that, and I'm sorry. I got that exhibitionist streak. Dude, I was driving down Santa Monica Boulevard, and I saw these apartments up on Wilcox that are like 10 stories up, and you could see into them, and I was like, man, I want one of those apartments for everyone down Santa Monica Boulevard and I saw these apartments up on Wilcox that are like 10 stories up. And you could see into them. And I was like, man, I want one of those apartments for everyone on Santa Monica Boulevard.

That's a popular street. Has to see me. Right. I just want to walk around there and just be observed. Dude, that fires me up. I would love to see you shirtless or nude just walking around. That's me at my best, bro. But hold that thought because use code go deep 20 atainsgate.com to get 20% off your order.

Back to the show. What were you talking about? You're on God dang Wilcox. I was on Wilcox in Santa Monica, and I was looking up at this veiler and his girlfriend. They were looking like they were making some dinner. I felt like a voyeur, because I'm like, this is a private moment. I go, this ain't a private moment. They got that place for a reason.

They wanted to show off who they were were because that's when they feel good that's when they feel more themselves is when they're being seen when they're being observed that's a lot of people in los angeles were they having stand-up sex no no but it looked like it was heading that way and had i been there with either of them there that would have been happening at some point i would have been pinning one of them up against that window and hitting from the back 100 oh god dang that's just the way i'm designed to express myself i consider it expression i don't think anyone should be mad in fact in fact but dang i want to go down to the city hall and i want to make you know if you goaking, they'll make you a sex offender. Anson, throw him out the window.

What the heck did you just say? I'm telling you, if you go streaking in America, they'll call you a sex offender. Now, you tell me, is that the America you want to live in where a person who's expressing themselves and delivering joy to the people around them and look there ain't nothing sexual about it okay there's nothing sexual about it there ain't no pleasure in this for me other because i streak i'm talking about myself other than i feel free and i feel like i'm liberating other people especially especially men with little cocks because they see me running around my little cock and it gives them hope that they too can be comfortable their little cocks so don't you call me a sex offender but what

you're really trying to do is keep the little cock dude down and i ain't letting it happen no more sorry i got all fired up there let Let me tell you something, Big Rod. I mean, you just spurred my gooch. Let it rip, partner. You just spurred my gooch. I can picture that. The back of my boot running up your tail and just going up your hole with the little metal parts. And they're going slow and they're barely pressing against the skin.

Because if I go too hard, I'm going to break the skin. Sorry. This is the thing. In this instance, I don't like it. You're spur i go too hard i'm i'm gonna break this i'm gonna make you sorry this is the thing in this instance i don't like it you're spurring me too hard now i'm gonna god dang dude bucking out right yeah yeah well god dang because you're talking about streaking and streaking is all about showing off your stoke because it's all about boosting the stoke of those around you show off your new body when you see a new body out in the public like that, I mean, god dang, that gets me fired up on humanity and the beauty that is this cosmic force that we are just living in, you know?

And ba-dang. Ba-dang, dang, dang. Yeah. That's what I'm going to say to the city council. I'm going to say ba-dang. Thank you very much, ba-dang. I want to be able to strut my stuff down a busy street with my dong out and people not think I'm doing it because I'm some kind of molestory fuck.

That ain't who I am. You're some kind of pervert. I ain't got none of that in me. I'm a gentleman. I just like to run around naked once in a while. I just like to run around naked once in a while. I just like to run around knackered once in a while because I think it's funny. Not because I freaking want to do mean, awful things to nice people. That ain't who I am.

I don't have a fucking boner when I'm doing it, you dumbass. Tell him. You see me running around with a heart on, then you put that sex offender label on me. You see me running around with my little basically thumbtacky dick. You let me be. I mean, on me you see me running around my little basically thumb tacky dick you let me be i mean you gotta tell me to put my clothes on but you don't make me sign up no paperwork make me gotta knock on my neighbor's door no what did my granddaddy told me the same thing you know we was out strolling yeah we were going out to get uh an ice cream cone and we saw a fellow streak it one time and i you know 18, 18, my granddaddy, I was like, hey, fella.

I mean, I'm with my granddaddy. I don't want to give him a heart attack. You know, you're streaking. You're going to give my dad a, you know, a stoke attack, right? And my granddaddy's like, Chad, hold a second now. Look at that fella. That's a flaccid dong right there it's flaccid that's not offensive at all that means not hard i am proud to live in a country well maybe not right now because now it's

a sex offensive thing but i'm proud to live in a country where a man can show off his flaccid dong and it doesn't have to be sexual it has to all it all it is is it just an exclamation of hey i feel good and i want to show the world and i want to get everyone else feeling good with me now damn yeah i'm in the wiener we don't have to make it a sexual thing all the time just because there's a lot of failures who don't know when it's appropriate and inappropriate you know i mean we got to be able to understand that sometimes a wiener is just a funny thing hanging off a dude's body. And then also, you know, Jeff Bezos stepped down today. What?

You didn't see that? What? No. Yeah. Jeff Bezos. He stepped down as CEO. Why? I don't know.

He's too rich. He's too rich. My dad's so funny. My dad has so much compassion for like billionaires. He's like, you know, JT, he's just tired of being maligned by the public. At some point, you just get sick of it. I'm like, yeah. But here's my non-populist take.

I think a lot of people think rich people, powerful people are molesters, you know, a lot of them. Right. And I think some of them are. Yeah. But I think just as many poor people are also molesters, you know, a lot of them. Right. And I think some of them are. Yeah. But I think just as many poor people are also molesters. Oh, interesting. Per capita.

Yeah. I think it runs the gamut. So you think molestation is like, it doesn't have to do with class or? No, it's an affliction. Yeah. Yeah. I think the rich people are probably doing it at nicer places. They find more enablers.

Yeah. Yeah. And they're probably doing it at nicer places. They find more enablers. Yeah. Yeah. And they're probably doing it like in the Caribbean. So it's like a little more like news grabby. But I think it's all, I think it's about the same across the board. Yeah. It's a shame it's even a thing, you know. Yeah, it's a real shame.

Because when you, I don't know, I didn't even think about it until I was in my 20s and started hearing about it happening to people. I guess I was just, maybe I was just super naive growing up and i just wasn't exposed to it at all but then but then he's like you you watch these documentaries you know like epstein and stuff and you see how prevalent it is you're just like like what like the the idea that that that exists in the world is so common it just boggles my mind yeah it's it's sad i. It just boggles my mind. Yeah, it's sad. I'm glad it boggles your mind, though. That's good.

Oh, thanks. Yeah. Joe Paterno tried to do that. When his coach buddy, his defensive coordinator, got caught because he was doing some horrible, horrific stuff. Yeah. They go, Joe, you know, in 77, someone came to you and said he was molesting kids. And Joe goes, what's molestation? I don't know what that is.

Really? It's like 85. Everyone's like, no, you can't say that. That's a nice try, dude. You can't do that. That was my old thing when I was in college. I used to plagiarize papers. Yeah.

And if I ever got caught, I said I was always going to go, you're not allowed to do that. Oh, that's the move. Yeah. They're like, you have like two paragraphs I was always going to go, you're not allowed to do that. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's the move. Yeah. They're like, you have like two paragraphs in Wikipedia. I'm like, yeah, they said it perfectly there. I just copy and pasted it. They're like, yeah, that's cheating. I'm like, what?

Is that cheating? Yeah. I was like, no, I saw it. It was better. So I put it in the paper. No, that's research. That's a... I found that.

That's a citation. Yeah, I found that. And then I put it in the paper because they said it better. Dude, what about your diet? How's it going with the carnivore diet? No longer on it. I lasted about two weeks, two and a half. And we were on a shoot recently.

And it's just like, intuitively, you're like eating all this meat, you know? And you're just like, I shouldn't be eating this much bacon. You know, no matter what these guys on Instagram tell me, this is too much bacon. Uh, and so I, I was feeling that even though I was feeling good, like I was feeling, I was feeling good for the most part, but then we're on a shoot and a lot of times, you know, when we're out working, if we're on a shoot or something like that, I don't have a lot of options. You know, it's not like I can go ahead hey, can you grill a grass-fed steak?

It's like, we'll go in and out and I'll get three Flying Dutchman. But I think on that shoot, I just ate three Flying Dutchman and then my body was just like, nah, playa. And I was just nauseous and I was like, all right, I think I need to throw some tangerines in the mix or something. So now I'm, and I missed arugula too. I missed arugula so much. That was so funny when you said that.

You like turned me with the most sincere eyes. You look so fatigued. Yeah. You were like, I miss arugula. Dude, you could probably have some arugula. Yeah. So now I'm eating, you know, I'm still heavily, heavy protein, but I'm throwing avocado.

Gotta get those acatos back in there. Olive oil. Olive oil, some white rice here and there, tangerines, arugula. That's the move. Also, tell the listeners why you thought you had COVID yesterday. why you thought you had COVID yesterday? Oh, I thought I had COVID yesterday because I didn't have the energy to work out a second time. You went surfing and you did an ice bath and then you didn't want to do battle ropes. I didn't want to do sprints.

You called me like, dude, I think I have COVID. I was like, what are your symptoms? You're like, I don't want to run sprints right now i was like dude you better go get tested i was like you're worried i was worried i was like go get tested i tried to sign you up for a test i was like yeah i was like hey dude i got a place that'll test you like no i got a place i'm good you gotta listen to your body and i was listening and my body's like something's not right um dude my diet so i'm plant-based yeah yeah let's get into that so you're you're plant-based for a t-minus two days two days dude i'm having headaches today i swear it's from missing meat i didn't realize how much of my diet was meat-based like every meal for me is is chicken

or beef yeah and then something green and then like a potato or something with it yeah and i don't know i'm i've been trying to i think i'll make it two weeks i think you like i'm trying to just make it as long as you made it, basically. And, like, dude, I've been eating, like, plant-based burgers. Yeah. Like, I don't know, man. There's something kind of gross about them. I have pretty strong opinions on that stuff because people are like,

oh, just because it's plant-based, it's better. I'm like, no way. The amount of ingredients they put in there, dude, it's like, you know, it's like 30 different things. And you're like like that can't be well that's what they try to they try to put so much stuff on it to mask the thing that's how you know the thing's not good it's because they put like they're like you've never seen so much sauce on a burger in your life yeah and the sauce is like pink it's like a purple or pink sauce it's

like from the movie hook yeah i'm like i've never seen pink sauce on a regular burger in my life every one of these vegan places yeah it's like this like you know splendid amount of color i'm like i've never seen pink sauce on a regular burger in my life every one of these vegan places yeah it's like this like you know splendid amount of color i'm like what the fuck's going on here right right i'm like don't don't fool with me bro yeah i'm eating like chickpeas after this oh after this pod yeah chickpeas and like how it's a chickpea salad it's like tuna salad but chickpeas oh interesting yeah i don't know you know i i think we're talking about this pre-pod but i think what we learned is that you know it's just um the extremes are stupid it's the middle it's the middle yeah little little meat Yeah. Little meat, some greens, potato. You're going to be rock solid.

Yeah. And this is another thing, too. I was like, I don't want to live a certain way where I'm putting that much thought into my diet. You know, where I'm like, oh, maybe I should have these supplements because I'm not getting enough riboflavin. And it's like, I don't want to live that way. I want food to be like, food is fuel for me. And it's just like, I invest probably a few hours a day at most, making it, two hours a day, making it, eating it. No more thought.

I devote the rest of my day to other stuff. That's my relationship with food. I don't need to think about supplements and all that fricking malarkey. I love it. Yeah, but I think it's cool though that you attempted it. You know what I mean?

That you went for it. You're in plan pace. Two days in. Thank you. Thank you. You'll make it. Yeah, you might feel great. Yeah, that's true.

Dude, my girlfriend just sent me the cutest fucking text about diet. She just goes, thoughts on donuts, apropos of nothing. Nice. Little lady. That's awesome. I'm going to tell her just glad to be alive in a time where we got them. Yeah. You know, same with you, sweetie.

Nice. Yeah, that'll work. Yeah. Love sending nice texts like that. You should send that right now. All right, that'll work. Yeah. Love sending nice texts like that. You should send that right now. All right, maybe I will. Fired that off. Awesome.

Dude, hey, should we call my buddy? Because the Bezos thing, I don't know much about. I know he's a rich and powerful man. I admire that. I know he doesn't pay his people. Whatever. Yeah. I admire that. I know he doesn't pay his people. Whatever. Yeah. I don't know shit. But at my, so, so the GameStop thing happened where these Redditors almost overthrew the

entire like hedge fund, hegemony. And we got a friend, this is a friend of mine who is a major player in the financial industry. Yeah. So much so that he can't go by his real name on the pod. He goes by a pseudonym. So let's call him up and see what he's got to say about all this. Oh, yeah, we've got to take off our cowboy hats for a second. Hey, man, what's going on?

Hey, you're talking to Big Rod and the Slayer. What's up, dude? We've been doing a cowboy accents for a good chunk of the pod, but you let me know if that's not hit with your financial gamut and we'll drop it, partner. No, it sounds authentic, I'm in. That means a lot to me. So, do you want to introduce yourself? Sure.

Do you want to introduce yourself? Sure. I am John's Tree Capital. So, a pseudonymous Twitter person as it pertains to all things markets. Nice, dude. Yeah, I love that. Dude, I just got chills.

Yeah. Let's talk money. And you work in the financial sector, right? Exactly. Where do you work? Not which company exactly, but what kind of company? Yeah, so I invest in public markets, private markets, crypto, a little bit of everything.

And you've told me that crypto is the way to go. You told me that four years ago, that you had most of your money in crypto. Yeah, that's still the way to go. You told me that four years ago, that you had most of your money in crypto. Yeah, that's still the case, luckily. And what's your big selling point for crypto? Since we were born, the dollar's basically depreciated by 50%. Last year in March, the Fed printed some $3 trillion. We saw $12 trillion plus of stimulus globally, which is just deflating the purchasing power of all currencies that are fiat-based. So what's kind of an alternative? The sovereign-grade censorship-resistant store of value. If it's a small probability that works, it's mispriced here at $600 billion, so that's a bet.

What do you mean, mispriced by $600 billion? Right now, Bitcoin trades at a $650 billion market cap. If you think it has some probability of being global reserve currency you know it's worth trillions of dollars so you know the most you could lose is one times your money uh you could still make you know from here i think 10 to 100 x over the next you know 15 20 years so you think it's undervalued at this point yeah and then sorry do you think it's worth do you think we missed the missed the boat on it or do you think it's worth do you think we missed the missed the boat on it or do you think it's worth buying in now still well the easiest trade was when you got to front

run the institutions right this was the first asset class ever that individuals could buy before institutions that's no longer the case because because institutions really started to buy Q4 last year for the first time. So, the easy money's been made, but I think now's as good a time as any to still get in. So, how do we transition into having Bitcoin as our primary reference point, currency-wise, rather than it being the dollar? as our primary reference point currency-wise, rather than it being the dollar. Yeah, so China and Russia have been trying to usurp the U.S. dollar as a global reserve currency for basically ever. And I think if you look at some of our global trade tensions that have been going on over the past couple of years with key partners,

going on over the past couple of years with key partners. If you look at the fact that oil isn't as important as it's been historically, which has always been priced in dollars, which helps solidify that. What makes a dollar the global reserve currency? Really, it's one, oil, and two, the fact that we can win any conventional or unconventional war. the fact that we can win any conventional or unconventional war. But as that starts to change, we're not going to go to the China, Yuan, or the Russian room base. So what could be a possible alternative? Something that's sovereign-less, right, that's not backed by a nation-state that has some fixed supply but has security in it

because security is critical so if you look at the mining power that secures the bitcoin network you know right now it's more than the compute power of facebook apple amazon netflix google microsoft combined by a factor of like 20x so there's no nation state that can attack the bitcoin network in and of itself with enough compute power. So if China tried to hack it, they don't have enough compute power. If the U.S. government tried to hack it, they don't have enough compute power. And building a network like that organically, again, is going to be incredibly challenging. So Bitcoin's been around for half as long as the euro's been around. And The euro, I bet, dissolves before Bitcoin does.

So you kind of look at your bets. Do we go back to gold? I don't think so, because Bitcoin has a lot of the same properties as gold, but in a natively digital format, which you'd come to expect in 2021. Who's responsible for that computing power? A bunch of people. So, I mean, you have literally tens of thousands of people that buy hardware to mine Bitcoin because you get compensated to do so. So every 10 minutes, new Bitcoin are mined.

Right now, it's 6.25 Bitcoin every 10 minutes. And that becomes super valuable, right? You know, at $35,000. So you're competing based on your compute power to win that. So people spend tens of millions of dollars buying specialized hardware to do that. In turn, that secures the network. And then who controls the rate at which it's mined? In turn, that secures the network. Who controls the rate at which it's mined?

That was all built by Satoshi in the white paper initially. It runs, it's an open-source code, so anyone can go in and audit that. That's on a fixed supply cadence from now until 2150, when the last Bitcoin will be mined. So there's a finite cap of 21 million Bitcoin. Right now, we're at about 18.6 million Bitcoin that have already been mined. And every four years, that new supply issuance is cut in half. So last May, we just had our last halving, where we went from 12.5 Bitcoin every 10 minutes down to 6.25 Bitcoin every 10 minutes. And then sometime in 2024, we'll go through our next halving, where that supply will be cut again. I still don't fully understand it, but you do a great job explaining it.

Yeah, I think I'm starting to understand a little bit. Me too. So maybe we transition from there, and then we'll talk about the GameStop situation. So you don't work for a hedge fund, right? He wouldn't call us a hedge fund, no. And so you're not in the business of shorting stocks? No. Or in anything that's directly related to what happened uh with gamestop and

with uh what is it milton was the hedge fund uh melvin capital damn it um so you don't you don't do you have a do you have a dog in this hunt uh not at present so who do you side with? Well, look, I think people make a big deal about this. The people in the Wall Street bets community actually did good work here. So if you kind of rewind the clock back to June of 2019, a user named DeepFuckingValue spent $50,000 on long-dated call options. So, call option, you're making a bet that the stock's going to go higher. At some point last week, that $50,000 that he invested was worth over $37 million. So, one hell of a trade. Every month since then, he posted an update titled GME YOLO Update. And so it was a bit of a meme within that community for a while. There was some real fundamental changes that went on behind the scenes. This guy named Ryan Cohen, who is the founder of Chew, he sold that for a couple billion dollars. He took a 10% stake in GameStop back in August of last year.

Then you had another WallStreetBets user do real work and said, wait a second here, 120% of the stock is sold short. There's a new console cycle coming out. They have 55 million loyalty program users. Ryan Cullen's here. And if we were to buy this thing, the shorts would kind of get their faces ripped off. And that post circulated for a while. Nothing really came of it. Ryan Cohen wrote a letter to the board in November. And then January 11th, he struck a deal with the board to be added to it. So there was a real event that catalyzed all of this. On January 8th, which was the trading day beforehand because the 11th was a Monday, GameStop was trading at $17.

So it traded up to $20 the day this happened. And two days later, it traded as high as $4. And you had all these hedge funds shorting it because GameStop has been a favorite short for guys like Melvin Capital for some time. It's a specialty retailer of yesteryear who's going to the mall and buying physical video games when you can get everything streamed. Not many people, but they still have a good following. Then, you saw this pros versus joes. You have the retail investors buying call options and buying the stock, and you have hedge fund shorting. But the dirty secret here is, there are hedge funds on both sides. This thing traded $120

billion worth of stock in a 10-day period. That's not all retail. You have to tip your hat to the retail investors who saw this. I don't know how anyone can have sympathy for hedge fund investors whose job it is to have prudent risk management, see a stock rip 500% in their face and not do anything about it. And they were over-leveraged on it, right? They committed more money to it than they actually had in their bank? Yeah, for sure. So, I mean, that's the other thing about leverage in this market. Classic example of this was back in 1998.

There was a firm called Long-Term Capital Management. They had a $5 billion fund. They borrowed $125 billion against that, so that's 26 times. They ended up building 60,000 trading positions that had a gross notional value of $1.4 trillion. These dudes had $1.4 trillion of exposure on a $5 billion capital base. They almost took down the financial system. They had to get bailed out at that point in time. This wasn't that bad, but they were definitely levered to the skis on what was a $12 to $13 billion fund to begin with. And most of the time,

you have concentration limits, right, where they'll say you can't be more than 2%, 3% in a short position as a percentage of your total gross, which is inclusive of leverage. But clearly, it wasn't the case here. Nice. And then with Robinhood, which is obviously looking like a bunch of real schmucks right now, I've heard from people that they're in bed with the hedge funds because they sell data on what everybody's ... what did you call them, retail investors? What they're trading. They'll see where the bad money's going, and then they can make bets based off of that

information. Is that true? Robinhood makes money on what's called paymentment-for-Order Flow, or PFOF. They basically sell their order flow to high-frequency trading firms. The big one here is Citadel. Citadel is responsible. This is all disclosed on a quarterly basis. But Citadel paid Robinhood something to the tune of $100 million in the third quarter of last year, which are the less numbers that we have. So, you know, that's on track to pay him $400 million over the next, you know, four quarters. That's a shit ton of money, even for Robinhood, right?

You know, they did last quarter $194 million. So, you know, Citadel's basically 50% of their following. The biggest percentage of that is options. That's where Robinhood really got in trouble here. They let retail investors trade with no commission options, which is inherently leveraged. There's this entity called the DTC, which serves as a central clearing entity, and they require all brokers to post collateral. So, you had a bunch of investors all in the same stocks here. And equities in the U.S. sell at what's called T+, two days after the trade date.

So, Robinhood had to come up with the cash, and they said that their collateral requirements went up like 10x overnight last week. So, they ended up raising $3.5 billion over the past five days, in part to deal with this. But yeah, it's a bad look for them when their whole ethos is powering the retail trader. Do you think anything nefarious is going on here with Citadel? Because Citadel put $2 billion into Melvin Capital. Citadel has their hands in anything. I would be surprised if they had a direct line. And all this came from the DTC, which were part of the big guys to do it. But the Robinhood management team just did a really shitty job

of explaining all of this. So they definitely don't look good here. And do you think they shut down the trading on GameStop because they didn't have the liquidity to cover all the money that was getting moved around? Or do you think they did it at the behest of the hedge fund? No, DTC required everyone to do it. And even now, some brokers are having ripple effects. So firms like Interactive Broker and td which are a lot bigger than robin hood had similar issues last week uh they just didn't you know catch the eye of the uh you know the finn clinton mafia if you will um what does that mean like you know everyone

who's complaining about this on twitter and on red, it's all kind of referred to as quixotism. But they were the ones that Portnoy was riling up with his videos and making these attacks on Robinhood, which deservedly so, given the way they handled themselves. But this just was a bigger issue with how equities are cleared and settled in the U.S. broadly, and not necessarily Robinhood-specific. But they also started this problem by allowing anyone to trade basically unlimited options with minimum collateral requirements themselves. Do you want to ask me about Billabong? Yeah. As you may or may not know, I have $8,000 in Billabong yeah so uh as you may or may not know i have eight thousand dollars in

billabong stock and um i'm pretty bullish with it uh and i just want to know like do you think i should stay with billabong or do you think i should um invest in rip curl as well yes so um i didn't know billabong still had a stock that was publicly traded. I thought it got delisted. Oh, crap. That's like what Kenneth Cole did, right? He took his company public and then he brought it back private so he could kind of raise the quality of the product? Yeah, so Kenneth Cole did that intentionally.

Billabong had a few issues. What kind of issues? The business just wasn't doing that hot. How's that possible? Yeah, what's going on? I think you guys just need to hit the pavement a little bit more on behalf of it because it was really struggling a couple of years ago and uh yeah i don't i don't think they're listed anywhere anymore yeah but like we have a competing merch

line or we have our own merch line which we're kind of in the same uh wheelhouse now so so maybe you guys take them over and like relaunch the brand how much capital do you think we need for that like are we talking beyond five figures? Probably not at this point. Well, I think... I mean, especially if you roll in your shares that you have now. Yeah, I think at this point, if I go public,

even more public than I already have about, you know, my stock, my stake in the company, I could probably just show up to a board meeting and, you know, give my take on their newest board short designs. Board short meeting. Yeah.

And also, I'll talk to my financial advisor, Debo, and I may have to switch to you because he didn't notify me of this. Yeah, Debo's a chiller. He's got an RV that he lives in down by Old Man's in San Onofre. And yeah, one time I was joking around there's a hey this is my house brother respect it and i respected that he really cares about his house and and the he actually his shag rug loves it it's really nice it feels good on the toes yeah um what do you think about we we also were a huge supporters of a bear flag pokey they have a three stores

right now in southern california and we hoping, with maybe an enterprising young fellow like yourself, to maybe put together a SPAC so we could put them public. Is that something that you think would be beneficial or that could fill our pockets? What do you think? Oh, for sure. I mean, if you guys are trying to take them public, the SPAC path is definitely the way to go right now. Three stores might be on the smaller side, but with your guys' brand and reach, you double that in no time. You could SPAC that by the end of next year.

I'll talk to Corey. He skips Pokey on Saturday, so maybe he'll have an in. Nice. I'll talk to Corey. He skips pokey on Saturday, so maybe he'll have an in. So, Mr. Capital, too, we go way back, and I always knew you to be kind of a tough guy. You were like, how would I put it? You were gritty, right? I don't know what that means, but I'll take it. Like, I had a friend once who went out with you in Jersey, and he said that a bouncer got handsy with you, and you roughed him up. I don't recall going out in Jersey, no comment. Now, do you feel like, let's say that 10% of what I'm speaking on is true.

Do you think that that kind of mentality has served you well in the financial sector? Yeah, you know, I think you always have to be able to think clearly, right? You know, those kind of fight or flight reactions on the mean streets of New York City serve you well when you're dealing with security analysis, right? And assets that move crazy. So absolutely, there's a lot of parallels there. And what do you think is the key to success in the financial sector?

I know that's a pretty broad question. Maybe you can be more specific. What's been the key to success for you? Yeah, look, I think you have to have strong convictions loosely held. You've got to be able to, you know, kind of get deep on a topic, but also, you know, be malleable enough to change your mind. And the biggest thing is just time, right? You know, Warren Buffett talks about not timing the market,

but time in the market. And that's really it, right? Like everything else takes care of itself. All these assets are inflating year after year. You don't have to do much except be patient. Where do you get? So when it comes to people like that, like Ray Dalio or like Warren Buffett, are these like popular businessmen who are kind of almost become transcended that and become like thinkers to the the public who do you get most of your uh who's your favorite to get wisdom from

yeah that's a good question um you know buffett's sort of still the goat but you know he's he's pushing 90 now so he's not exactly as in tune with things as like the two of you are right for sure um so so that's a little bit tough i like i like him driving like a 97 cadillac and living in a modest house in nebraska though i think that's legit yeah he eats mcdonald's every day you know he's drinking like four cans of red can't cope today he's got it figured out and then do you do you feel at all like you want to see america fail because it would be good for business no i definitely don't think that'll be good for business you know if there's a handful of people that are left holding some money with everything else gone uh you don't want to be those people holding the money. You want to be part of the crowd with everything else gone.

So I'm joining the riots once they happen. I guess I kind of framed you like, I don't know, I was unfair to you in that, in presupposing that you, in assuming you wanted that. But do you think we're headed to that? america on a bad trajectory uh financially right now you know you've seen a a real growth in wealth inequality over the past 15 years because of all the quantitative easing and you know just combination of monetary stimulus with limited fiscal stimulus. So what does that mean? It means people that have assets have seen those assets appreciate, and people that don't

have assets have just been left behind. So that wealth divide is as big as it's ever been. And we definitely need to do something to address that because you're seeing it with the social unrest. You're seeing it with sort of a political tensions, which I know you guys were all over in November. But I think a lot of that has been driven by this wealth inequality. So we've got to figure something out soon because, you know, at some point you hit a breaking point. For sure. Well, I'm optimistic we'll figure it out. We got smart dudes like

you on top of it. You'll come up with some sort of solution. So we appreciate you being out there fighting the good fight, my dog. Yeah, likewise. Appreciate it, guys. Mr. Capital, it was an honor to hear your financial wisdom. I was pretty captivated. I was very captivated the whole time.

Yeah. Thank you. Mr. Capital, you're captivating. If you guys want to talk more Billabong or about your pokey stack, let me know. We're going to keep calling you because I think you could become our go-to finance guy. It's an area that a lot of people are interested in and one that I'm

a novice in. I'm happy to have your expertise available if it is available to give yeah of course all right guys anytime all right have a great one later man here i'll cut this part dude thanks so much for doing that okay yeah i'd love to have him as our money manager i mean debo is is sick but he doesn't use technology so uh his next best option i don't know if i'll try and find him i'll ask my brother to send me a photo of him

that was insane yeah he but you know i thought he brought you know okay so obviously he's a financial person so his um understanding is through that context but that is the the realm we're in and i think he did bring a lot of nuance to something that I've kind of heard oversimplified in conversation. Totally. I mean, he definitely made it palatable to a novice like me and understandable. So that was cool. Yeah.

I still don't understand. And I didn't want to ask him this because I didn't want to prolong it too much, but maybe some stokers can write into me. Okay. and I didn't want to ask him this because I didn't want to prolong it too much, but maybe some stokers can write into me. Like, okay, so I understand that the guy who invented Bitcoin came up with a system for how much would be like dispensated each year. But I don't understand then how new people can get into it and then be part of the mining process. Sorry. Yeah, I don't know either.

Does that make sense to you, Aaron? I'm sorry. Yeah, I don't know either. Does that make sense to you, Aaron? I mean, I'm so confused about the whole mining process. Like, they're just out there. I don't get it. Yeah, and how did they build such a secure and robust server?

Yeah. How do they have more computing power than all those companies combined? All those companies combined. Yeah, I wanted to ask him, like, how he quantified that, but I didn't want to, like, slow him down from his rhythm. Yeah. Because he was really cooking. Because the way, like, it just feels like it just came out of nowhere. You know what I mean?

It was brand new. Yeah. It's like, who started building that? I think the guy's kind of a mystery man. Yeah. I'll mangle his name. No one knows who he is. But he's kind of a cypher, I heard.

Yeah. But I don't know. Maybe you want to invest in Bitcoin. Yeah, me too. You know, we got to, we, unfortunately, we didn't get there before the institoosh, before the institooshes. But now's the time to buy. Dude, we read some articles too

about an Israeli doctor who says he can reverse aging by getting you to breathe pure oxygen. Yeah. And here's the thing. Other scientists are saying, whoa, hold your horses. Like you're talking about

elongating chromosomes. Yeah, that helps with aging, but it also causes cancer. Like you can't just go around saying that you're fixing aging. I'm like, just let them say it, okay? Like what's the harm? Let's get excited.

Let's, we want to cure death, right? Or at least we want to prolong it a bit more. I'm thinking like 500 years. So I hate when someone comes up with a radical idea and yeah, maybe they're being a little irresponsible, being like, hey, I got this great idea. I'm gonna fix everything. And everyone's like, slow down.

You're not gonna fix everything. I'm like, okay, let's help them get it better. But let's not come in and just like, you know, be a wet blanket on it. It's not dampening the party. I'm pumped. No, I hear that. I think scientists and doctors can be huge boner jams quite often. But then again, I was reading it.

The more I grow and learn, the more I'm dubious about cure-alls. Like there's no cure. Sorry. No, I sound like a boner jam. No, you're not. It's nice to see we've reversed positions. I think this is nice. It's good for both of us. Yeah, I just... Like the cure-all kind of thing is like, oh, I just reversed aging. All you gotta do is breathe pure oxygen. It's like, you know, I don't think one simple thing like that is going to cure aging. Yeah, because there's a lot of components to it, is what the doctors were saying.

It's sort of like these diets. Yeah, you just got to eat a steak every day. It's like everyone's looking for that quick fix, that easy solution. And it's like, no, just be content with the fact that it's complicated. And that there's a lot going complicated and that there's a lot going on and we have very little control yeah let go and let God yeah and you know people want so badly to reverse aging it's like yeah you know of course but I think did you watch sound of metal yeah that was kind of about like

accepting things you know what I mean yeah that movie was almost too hard on him for wanting to get the ear implants there's a lot of spoiler alerts yeah but he gets the ear implants and they just suck and like he didn't ask any questions beforehand like what are they going to be like yeah he's like completely like you know deer in the headlights he's like these things sound like shit yeah they're like yeah that's how they work yeah he's like i had no idea i'm like he's just like the doctor gets kind of she is kind of hard on she's like this is what it's like, I had no idea. I'm like, you just... And the doctor gets kind of... She is kind of hard on him. She's like, this is what it's like. And he's like, well, fuck. And I thought the movie was a little too harsh on people who might want to do that.

You know, it's very much like, hey, you just got to accept that sometimes things are out of your power and that you're not going to have the life you wanted. But it was a good movie. Like, the sound was good and the acting was good. It was good. It was just... Yeah. It's...

Acting is incredible incredible and his shirts dude i mean i think the best part of the movie that should win an oscar is this guy's shirts i mean every shirt that he wore in that movie i was like i want to buy that shirt because the fit was perfect like it was sort of like a you know sort of fit around the top but then like long so it's not like like not like too tight of a shirt, you know, it's like that. And I was like, the whole time I was watching it, I was watching my girlfriend. She's like, can you believe this acting? I'm like, no, I can't believe his shirts.

Right. See, and then the acting was cool too. That's fire. Yeah. Dude, then we read an article about this dude in China who had a seven inch glass bottle stuck in his rectum. Yeah. And he told the doctors because he was using it to scratch his backside.

Dude, I've been there. It got stuck in there. Well, he must have had a deep itch, dude. I know. Yeah. So you think he's being legit about it? Oh, for sure. Dude, that's awesome, dude.

I appreciate your trust. Dang. Yeah. I just, I don't know, dude. Like I want to believe him, but's awesome, dude. I appreciate your trust. Dang. I just, I don't know, dude. Like, I want to believe him, but I just find it hard to believe you get a whole bottle up your ass just trying to scratch an itch. Right, yeah. It feels like you gotta be hyper-intentional to get that kind of depth. Yeah. I didn't really think

about that, yeah. Aaron, what do you think? Intentional? Accidental? I mean, that's gotta take not only intent, but some serious lubrication for sure yeah well doctor said that he's had a lot of instances of people just like weirdly getting stuff up their ass it's crazy how often it happens when people are just doing regular shit yeah like yeah i was just you know installing a light bulb and flipped over on the ladder and then my house the gravity flipped upside down and i shot up into the ceiling and

right bulb went in my ass yeah and doctors are just like that sounds legit yeah wow and then dude the last article you read was about a man who requested trial by combat in a custody battle with his wife. He's a 40 year old. His name's David Ostrom. And he asked a judge to allow him trial by combat with Japanese swords in a child custody dispute with his Iowa ex-wife.

And what was your quote that you loved? He summoned his ex-wife to the battlefield but the lawyer could stand in her place. And what did he say he wanted to do? He said in his motion, he would rend their souls from their corporeal bodies. And they did a psychological evaluation that indicated he is not troubled, but has adjustment disorder with mixed emotional

features. In other words, he's super fucking pissed off. This guy's just been losing his mind. He's saying they won't let him see his kids, so at one point he just goes in a court and he's like, fuck all this bullshit. Fuck all this circly argument shit. Give me a sword.

She gets a sword. if her lawyer's a man he'll step up in her place and we'll settle this out drama combat he wants to duel his wife should we should we act that out yeah i'll be the site psychologist all right so, explain to me what you wanted to do again. I want to sword fight my wife to the death

so I can get custody of the kids. Trial by combat? That's correct, sir. Hmm. And, what you wanted to, with their souls?

I want to rend their soul from their corporeal bodies. Right. I just thought that sounded cool. Because I'm so fuckingal bodies. Right. I just thought that sounded cool. Cause I'm so fucking pissed off. Yeah, I can see that.

Well, that all makes perfect sense to me. Um, I'll recommend it to the judge and, uh, good luck on the battlefield. Do you, do you need a sword rec?

That'd be great. Okay. I got a guy, um, he's actually in, uh, where is he? Reseda. Um, so I'll give him a shout and best of luck and is there do you have a preference lawyer wife your kid i'd like lawyer okay are you divorced

yeah okay cool yeah i got that vibe yeah you get it yeah um that's basically what happened when you read that the psychologist is like no no, he's all good. It's like, the psychologist, by chance, was also divorced. Yeah. No, this guy looks... The judge is divorced. He hears him, he's like, corporeal bodies. Ordinarily, we do not like threats in our court.

But I have to say, in this case, Mr.. Ostrom I totally fucking hear where you're coming from this lawyer is a whack bitch and you guys will settle this with child by combat court is adjourned beautiful am I the sword guy in Reseda? because I have some swords

and you live in Reseda? I do bro you are the sword guy you are him dudes should we do an ad and then we'll just talk about our travels, I guess, during our... Because those are going to be your legends and babes, right? Yeah. Okay, well, same here. And also, I did a little thing I decided today.

I'm similar to your... It's different. I'm going to start saying brother more. Nice. I think it's just like, you know, because I've always wanted to assert my masculinity a little bit more. Just because I have older brothers and they just, you know, would knock me, you know, and I'd love it.

And they'd be like, you need to be more like assertive and tough. And I'm like, well, maybe I'll just start saying brother more. You know, like I feel you, brother. Do you feel the weight a little bit more? Absolutely. Okay. I heard you saying it more when we were on our trip. Yeah, the cowboy hat brings it out of me for sure.

I think the cowboy hat's working, dude. I think it's, yeah. Thanks. You're good. How's it, how's it hits different going for you? You know, it's funny. It's like I said I wanted to say it more but I think it was more about that hmm, it was almost like when I

Like sometimes I just want to be accepted for things more than I even want to do the things like one time when I was Like 17 I was talking to my dad and I'm like yo, we're just watching football like my name for mom like yo You would love me less if I was gay. I mean, I was like, what? And I was like, you'd love me less if I was gay. He's like, no, I wouldn't. I was like, I think you would. And I had tears in my eyes.

And he's like, are you gay? And I was like, no. Just the idea of my dad loving me less for any reason made me cry. So I needed to hear him say that he would accept me, which he did, as his gay son. But I'm not gay. I just needed to hear that. So I think the hits different thing is similar.

Like I wanted people to know I wanted to say it hits different and I wanted to be accepted for it. But I actually haven't even really taken it for a spin. Yeah. Interesting. That's the truth, brother. Wow. Dude, that hit different. that feels good yeah okay I'm up here real quick guys of course we are also brought to you by manscape manscape thank you so

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nice did we get an email back? no Beast. Let's get into some cues. Nice. Do we get an email back? No. They're probably just working on it. Yep. Sorry for the long email. Hey, Chad, JT, and hopefully Strider and Joe. How's the hog?

I'm a new longtime stoker who picked up the pod in my long morning shifts this past fall. You guys truly boost stoke and always amped when I see a new pod. Sorry for the long quest. So a friend of mine who I've been friends with through high school and I have become a lot more close since graduating, as in we hang out just about every day. Usually we blaze. He's a great dude and definitely a lifelong friend

in which I can introduce to my kids one day. During high school when we were friends, but not nearly as tight as we are now, we had different friend groups. Currently he is unemployed, no license, no car. He stays home majority of his days unless we hang out. There has been multiple times when I invite him to come over to one of my dude's houses, which he is also friends with, just not as good friends as I. Just a little confused on why he would rather sit at home alone

rather than hang out with some of his bros. And I might get it, and I might get not being his first choice, but he has yet to tell me a true problem and why he does not want to go out. It's gotten to the point now where I don't feel bad not inviting him, already knowing he won't come, but still feeling guilty making plans in front of him that he could easily also attend. He claims he doesn't like social gatherings,

but I know if his friends of his choice invite him, he would be down. Just a little agitating, also when my other friends enjoy hanging out with him and don't know he would rather be home. I don't quite get it. Thanks for being anonymous. Dude, I get this. I totally get this. I've felt this way before with friends.

You know, you want to be everyone's number one. You want everyone to want to hang out with you. But there's really not an issue here. Like, this dude just likes being home. And it's kind of a compliment that he likes hanging out with you he probably doesn't like hanging out with a ton of people and i would just keep inviting him to stuff because that's the polite nice thing to do and then just not worry about how he responds like you did your part you invited him if he doesn't want to come he doesn't have to

come um and if you feel like not inviting him you can do that do that too but i feel like that'll make you feel bad so just keep inviting him and then let him be him. He probably really appreciates that he has a friend like you, who he actually does like spending time with once in a while. Some people are just more introverted. Totally. Yeah. And I think, yeah, he just likes what he likes and he knows, he knows how he wants to spend his evenings and you know, there's no's no need to overthink why he doesn't want to come out. I mean, he just doesn't want to come out. It's not on you. I think you're doing the right thing, like JT said,

by inviting him out and being a good friend. But I don't think you have to overthink it. It sounds like you might just be frustrated because you like hanging out with him and you want to hang out with him out more, but, you know. Sounds like he just is a guy who needs

his alone time, needs his space and that's cool. Yeah, I think you're good, dude. What up, Samurais of Stoke? First of y'all, thank you for good vibes always. Winter is cold,

but your words am my stoke. Got a quick request for y'all. I'm a big fan of the pod, and the chica of my life, Lou, knows it. She's a dream, dudes, and I just know it's her. But I digress. She happens to be on a mission trip for a few months down in Costa Rica, changing people's lives and amping stoke while I'm up in the USA dreaming about her return.

I want her to carpe diem or time away. But with Valentine's Day coming up and the distance being a little sad, I want to do something to show my uber love for her. Ah, you poor thing. But I'm not too fazed since the love is so strong. What a resilient dude. Still, I need y'all's help. Could you hype up my love for her real fast on the pod? I want her to be reminded that I'm so amped for her and that she is a baller. She needs to know that my love is so strong.

I love her more than ground swell and light offshore winds. Woo. Chat in JT plus the gang. Your wise words would totally amper Stoke and trust that you know how strong I feel and could speak for me as well. Dude, I don't know if there's anything we can do. I think he just did it. Yeah.

I mean, I've never heard something like that before in my life. You got me amped up. I want to like be a better boyfriend and my girlfriend and call her right now and be like, I love you more than offshore winds. Wow. I barely know what those are, but I care. I want to care like you do. You're inspiring, dude.

And dude, this guy's, you know, he's in it. He's not going to see her for a while. Yeah. He's not going to see his baby on Valentine's Day, but you're good, dude. You're solid. When you guys see each other, it's going to be on. And when she hears this,

she's going to know that she's got a real catch. Someone who is thinking about her in profound and authentic and loving ways, dude. She's a lucky lady. Yeah, Lou, if you're listening to this, just know that your dude just blew our freaking domes off with his love for you. The way he wrote it out, he wrote it out like, you know, I'm like, is this Herman Melville at the Keys right now? God dang. Like, but dang.

I mean, that made me, I mean, God, that just made my stoke tank pop off right now. Like a goddamn carburetor that's filled up to the gills with oil. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. I'll say sometimes I'm on a ranch, you know, and we got some wild horses that we're getting paid to break. Yeah. And I'll see these horses. They'll just take up off a hill just because they love to run.

And when you see a real wild thing like that, a pure wild thing, and you let it run, the only way you can properly break one of them horses is to let it run. Let it run itself out and let it come back to you. Let it come back to you. It'll come up to you when you're on the fence line. It'll put its head up against your hand. You'll just pet it. You to you. Right. Let it come back to you. Right. It'll come up to you when you're on the fence line. It'll put its head up against your hand. You'll just pet it. You'll just pet it. And this gentleman here, this gentleman, Graham, he understands that.

He's letting his lady run. Really? She's running all the way to Costa Rica. Yeah. She's getting her legs moving all the way to Costa Rica. Audio. He's watching her run, and he's saying, honey, you look beautiful. You look beautiful when your hooves are pounding.

You're setting my heart ablaze. I could turn to fire and set this hillside into amber dust. Is that it? God dang, that's it. Is that it? Did that make sense? You just filled up my nuts with something called nectar. That's what's up, partner.

And this reminds me, you remind me of a more, less commitment-phobic Brad Pitt in Legends of the Fall. That's right. He's open. This is Tristan. If Tristan did a little therapy and was like, hey, I appreciate you. Yeah, Tristan is saying, hey, I'm going to go to South America, but I'm never going to forget you, but the roles are switched this time. And she's doing that right now.

And now you are wherever you are. Sounds like maybe Orlando, something of that nature. And you're just sitting there, and you're professing your love, and it's beaming out from your chest like a god dang ufo in the arizona sky oh yeah yeah this got me fired up dude you're a good dude man and she she must be an incredible lady so you guys together two special people like that coming together i mean that's a you know you know you don't want to say it's once in a lifetime because you know things can go wrong and then you know you got to you got to be able to get back up and get on to the next one, you know.

But, I mean, this might be it. You guys might be meant to be on this journey together. And it's moves like this that are going to put you more in a position to have that happen. So, good on you. Good on you for putting your nuts on the table, big man. What's up, my sensei? First off, I wanted to say I just got hip to the podcast and I've been listening to it whenever I drive

for two weeks now. Over the past year and a half, I've dropped around 50 to 65 pounds and have basically transformed my body. I'm still a little chunky at around 215, but I've slimmed down enough that I've started to get a lot more attention from women. My problem is that I've been overweight since freshman year of high school and now a senior in college, so my game is basically non-existent. What can I do to be able to talk to the baddies now that actually talk to me?

Thank you. I'll tell you right now, get yourself a pair of boots, a boot buckle, belt buckle, spurs, and a goddamn cowboy hat. And so, hey, ladies, I'm ready with a huge heart that's going to send you off to Ecuador. Dude, I could not agree more. I think dressing like a cowboy is 100% the move. Make sure it's an authentic cowboy. We'll send you some Allen.

Was that the story we went to? Allen Hats, I think. Allen Hats in Austin will treat you right. A little overpriced, but it's good stuff. So go in there and get yourself decked out and just be a cowboy. good stuff. And so go in there and get yourself decked out and just be a cowboy. And then also, I would, I would not worry too much about what you're saying. There's no, everyone, everyone's got their own lingo. You know what I mean? It's like dancing. You know, our friend Austin, when we were in Austin, we were at, we went to a bar and we were upstairs

dancing. He was like, I can't dance. And I was like, he's like, you got some moves. I was like, no, no, no, no, no. Everyone can dance. You just have to find your moves. And how do you find that? It's trial and error, baby. You just get out there and you don't worry about what you're saying. Just start talking. Just say whatever comes out. If it's gibberish, it's gibberish. But you

just keep moving. I love that. And you know, yeah, it's all just reps, you know, and that's the fun of life. It's like, you just, all you don't worry about what to say because it'll come to you. All you got to do is just fill yourself up with just this confidence that you may not be so sure of yet. You know, the foundation may be shaky, but just approach the ladies and the situations with that confidence of just like, I know who I am. And have fun. That's the biggest thing.

Just have fun. That's what life is about, having fun. Just being joyful, having fun, and making big investments in yourself. Yep. This is super long. You ready for this? What up? What's going on, Chad and JT?

This is a lot of text. Sorry for the rant. I'm trying to save my relation with this girl and my roommate, but I don't know how my roommate feels about anything. This guy's in it. The subject of the email explains what's killing my stoke. I think my roommate is pissed at me for fucking this girl he's friends with, but he won't say anything and is pretending everything is okay. Here's the back story

I've been listening to your pod for a couple months now after seeing some funny videos on Instagram of Huntington Beach goons either way I'm a junior in college in LA and I've been living with one of my best friends in college since August and a two-bedroom apartment We get along well, but the relationship has always been a little more shallow than I would have liked This isn't a big deal though because we've always got along well and have a good time gaming and generally chilling together. Either way, my buddy has had this female friend. He occasionally has head over to the place, head over to our apartment over the past couple of years. And I've always liked this girl.

Whenever I asked him if he wanted to get with her, he would give me a weird answer like, I don't know. I don't want to relish. Or no, we're just friends and all kinds of shit. I don't mean to smile, but it's so clear where this is going. I think he liked her, but didn't want to commit, was afraid or something. But I get the feeling he never shot me straight about it. Last semester, I asked him, though, and he literally said, nah, you can go for it.

Ah, as if he didn't care if I hit her up or dated her. He also was talking to some girl he was trying to do a long distance thing with and was having other girls over to hook up with all the time this fall. So I couldn't figure out what he wanted. Oh, well, I was wrong. You know, you live and you learn. So here's where I fucked up and what's killing my stoke. About both my relationship with this girl who I really like and is fine as hell

and my relationship with my roommate, which I value more. Bros before hoes, you know? I ended up hitting this girl up when I had a place to myself in December of 2020 and we hit it off, had a few dates, and had sex like on the second date or something. The problem is I never explicitly asked this dude if I could make a move on this girl. And when he came back in January, I told him right away, but still felt really uncomfortable about telling him retroactively because I know I fucked up. He ended up saying he doesn't care and it's no big deal. And I had her over a few weeks ago while he was here and we were all chill.

Also, this girl was not stoked at all that I hadn't talked to my roommate before I made a move on her. It's now stabilized, but I think I've overheard my roommate talking shit on me on the phone, talking about how he's really bummed he let me get away with hooking up with this girl and just generally bashing me on a personal level. We were still chilling and gaming, playing Forza and vibes seemed good on the surface, but I get the feeling he's still pissed at me and I don't really feel comfortable talking about this girl or bringing her around to my place.

We usually just go to the beach or hook up at her place because there's privacy, etc. I told the guy I felt bad about not telling him, and I think he accepted the apology, but it still doesn't make things right, especially if he was trying to hook up with her. I doubt he wants my sloppy seconds, but I also feel like I care more about this girl than he ever will, and it's on me to make a move in the two years that he's known her. And it's on him to make a move. I'm super hyped about this girl, and ever will and it's on me to make a move in two years that he's in the two years that he's known her and it's on him to make a move i'm super hyped about this girl and ending our relationship would really blow so i'm trying to avoid that at all the cost but it makes me feel dumb because i feel like i stole my homie's girl but i don't know how he feels about anything if this whole thing pisses him off i just wish he said something instead of holding it in and

talking shit behind my back when i explicitly asked him if he had a problem he just said no you're good uh so i really so i just don't know where he's at. And this shit is rattling around in my head all the time. And I can't bone this girl, hang out with my friends without being anxious of what the future holds. This shit is a mess. And I don't know if I should talk to my roommate, break up with this girl or do nothing or whatever. I just want to chill.

Thank you, bro. Stay stoked. I love the pod. Dude, you should so clearly do nothing. Just keep dating the girl and let your roommate be a little upset. Like you are so caught up in like feeling like you have to like fix something. There's nothing to fix. Like, yeah, you know, you could have been more sensitive to your roommate.

Yeah, he could have been more honest about it. Everyone could have been like a bit more careful about the other people, but people aren't like that. You know, we just do what we want most of the time. And you're just making yourself crazy and it probably felt good to get it out and type it out so I get that completely I mean that's therapy for me too sometimes just airing this shit out but I would do absolutely nothing that sounds good yeah

you're gonna keep bringing it up to your roommate hey bro for the 65th time I'm sorry I fucked that girl you liked. Yeah. Yeah, bro, got it. Sorry I'm still fucking that girl you like. Yeah, and the roommate doesn't like to talk. You like to talk about feelings. Your roommate doesn't.

So be sensitive to that and don't make him go where you want to go. He's not going to enjoy it, I don't think. Enjoy it, I don't think. Yeah, nothing you say or do is going to make him less upset, I think. You apologize, that's it. And if you like the girl, you've got to keep dating her. You're going to break up with her. You're going to resent your friend forever because of that.

And you're going to always, I don't know, it's a bad thing. It's just not the right move because you're just going to think that, oh, I lost out on love because of my roommate. It seems seems a little self-sabotage yeah yeah it'll all work out don't worry about it this is you're just going through an awkward phase at the moment but all will be well you guys will be good homies again and your love with this new lady will blossom and uh i see good things in your future you You're just going to have to go through these growing pains. And yeah. Yeah, dude.

You're good, dude. My piece of advice has a little something to do with the hats you're wearing. Oh, yeah. Hit them with it, Daddy. I would say move out. That's a good idea. Oh, god dang. Because this guy, if he cools off, he cools off. He should.

If you move out, he's not seeing it every day. And if he doesn't, well, fuck him. Like, you know, you're not just, you didn't just hook up with the girl he likes. You're in a relationship. That's the thing. At some point, your guys' mutual like for one another will supersede whatever his feelings were. You know what I mean? Like, if you guys are dating for two years, you can't be like, but I had a crush on her.

It's like, you guys were clearly going to end up in that. If you guys weren't together, it doesn't mean him and her would be together. Yeah. Yeah, moving out's a good call. But I don't know. What if, but can I play devil's advocate to that? Sure, sure, sure, sure. Like what if the, would the dude feel like that's like more of a trail perhaps?

That he moved out? Yeah, it's like, oh, so you took my chick and then you moved out like you were my roommate. I like to live in with you. There's other roommates in the sea. Right. I don't know. I'm being a little codependent. Is a codependent dude asking a codependent dude what to do. I'd break up with a girl and suck your roommate's dick.

My high school friend is married to my high school girlfriend. Oh, really? Yeah. Whose car are we taking? At a certain point, it's just like, who cares? They're clearly together. It's clearly lasting. Who cares?

Dude, my oldest friend and me, like, I love this dude to death. I've done some effed up shit to him, too. But he, like, we've both done effed up shit to each other. You know what I mean? We're still best bros. You just, that's life. You know what I mean? You don't pitch a perfect game.

You fuck up. You prove your friendship through time. Oh, that said, I mean, I don't pitch a perfect game. You fuck up you prove your friendship through time. Oh That said I mean I haven't spoken that guy Oh, really? Well, I mean I moved LA and you know, it's like was the relationship severed because of that Um, we both gone off to college so we just kind of weren't seeing each other that much And he told me after they started dating and I was like, oh, that's fine. Like, I'm kind of over it at this point. But then it was still like, well, I'm not going to ask you how she's doing.

Like, where I would do that if you were dating any other person on the planet. Right. You'd just rather not trudge up that stuff. Yeah. So then it just became easier to just be like, well, I don't need that friendship.

I miss it, but it's all good. I got a lot of really close friends. Like two of my really good buddies weren't buddies for a couple years

because they both fell in love with the same girl. Oh, really? And they were like, and one of the guys was kind of dishonest about it with the other guy.

Wow. Like he was like, he's like, do you like her? Tell me. He's like, I don't like her. But then they ended up

dating for a couple years. But now they're fucking thick as thieves again. Yeah, they're fine. Yeah, it'll all work out. Yeah. The guy I'm talking about, he,

for like one year, every girl I had a crush on, he tried to take her from me. Really? Yeah. We go out to bars. I'm like, what the fuck?

Yeah. I'm like, why are you all over this girl? Like, everyone, we'd be going out to the bar, and like, my buddy would be like, hey, you and me, this girl likes you, her friend likes me, we're gonna, and then he'd be in the back seat, and then we'd get to the bar, and he'd go to the girl. Yeah. And I was like, what?

I'd just sit there, and I'd be like, what the fuck's going on here? That's weird. Yeah. But you know what? I love him. It's all good. I love him. I don't give a fuck.

Yeah. All right. But here's the thing. If you ever cross me... No, I'm kidding. I'm telling. If you ever cross me again, you will wake up in a coma, my friend.

Chad, who's your Beef of the Week? My Beef of the week is when um my beef of the week is when you get spam and you unsubscribe from an email list from a certain company you unsubscribe from all of their emails you're like, I don't want any more emails from you. Stop sending me emails. And you click unsubscribe. And then they come in with another email to say, hey, just confirming that you're unsubscribing. I'm like, yeah, that's why I unsubscribe. You don't need to send me another email to let me know that I unsubscribe. Just stop sending me emails spectrum GoDaddy

I unsubscribed from GoDaddy today and they sent me an email saying hey dude just confirming that you unsubscribed and And I was like, go, daddy. Go fuck yourself. That's my beef. But dang. My beef of the week is with the phrase keep Austin weird. I just think it's an ineffective way to keep Austin weird. You know what I mean?

We land in Austin and it's in the airport. It says keep Austin weird. I'm like, oh, okay. The airport's trying to keep Austin funky. Like it's been co-opted by like the least weird things ever. And I get it because like we went to Austin. It feels really cool. But I get how it's been kind of like,

you know, co-opted by other people and kind of taken over by the non-natives, but it's like, I don't know. I just think you need a weirder phrase. If you want to keep Austin weird, just say something like Austin butt fucks. You know what I mean? Or Austin where shit lands on your head. That'll keep Austin weird. If you say something like, oh, keep Austin weird, it's like everyone will say that. That's like something non-weird people will say. Yeah. It was just the wrong phrase to help the city stay weird. Yeah.

And once, look, if everyone's trying to stop X, bet on X. I think that's what, who was Richard Nixon's campaign manager? The guy who helped him reshape the South and flip all the Dixie crats? That guy said that. And then they later said that about Donald Trump. If everyone's trying to stop that guy, bet on that guy. He's got all the momentum. So if you're trying to bet on keeping Austin from being normal, it's going to get normal.

It's too late. Unless you get really weird. Yeah. It's sort of like putting up a flag like oh big tech is here yeah they moved in it's like

you basically said we're done at that point keep Austin weird I just I don't know yeah you should have just said something weird

yeah I know there's parts of Austin when I was like you're on that one street and I loved Austin but you know I could see it

happening you know it was like a lemonade then an equinox and you're like oh You're on that one street, and I love Austin, but I could see it happening. It was like a lemonade, then an equinox, and then you're like, oh, this is becoming Brooklyn. It felt like Abbot Kinney Venice, too. Yeah. It was like really nice, upscale places that I enjoy, but that don't have much personality. Yeah. I was like, oh, Silver Lake moved to Austin.

Mm-hmm. And me, for one, as a person who's been to Austin twice, I'd like to see it Silver Lake moved to Austin. Mm-hmm. And me, for one, you know, as a person who's been to Austin twice, I'd like to see it return to its original glory. But dang. And maybe not Austin butt fucks, because I'm not trying to say butt fucking is weird. Yeah. But it's something that would, it's a little more shocking to people. It would keep probably the more tame, boring folk out of there. Yeah. What's a phrase that doesn't have

any sort of connotation like that that's weird? Like Austin burns nuts in Austin singes ass hair. Yeah. Austin Austin twists nipples.

Austin twists nipples. See, there you go. Yeah. Aaron, there you go. Yeah. Aaron, do you have a beef? I do. What's your beef of the week? My beef of the week is with grocery stores hiding shit.

Nice. Now that I'm a dad, I have to buy formula at the grocery store. You go to the formula section. Is the formula there? No, it's a fucking card for the formula because they have it hidden somewhere. Presumably to prevent theft. And I get it. Formula is expensive.

But also this. If someone needs formula so badly and they can't afford it. Let them take it. God damn it. We're in the middle of a, A, we're in the middle of a pandemic, but B, poor people need to feed their children. Who gives a shit about your bottom line, Ralphs? The card makes the things really small. So twice now I bought the wrong formula. So twice now I bought the wrong formula because you can't see the colors of the lids and you can't see the small text that's on the formula that tells you which kind it is.

Also, they've now put the condoms behind glass as well. Yeah, what is going on? Again, I like it because then I got to go up to someone and say, hey, I need some rubbers. Oh, what is going on? Again. I like it, because then I've got to go up to someone and say, hey, I need some rubbers. Oh, I did it recently. It was both liberating and incredibly embarrassing.

Oh, so you're wearing rubs again, because you're not ready to pop out a second little one. How's it feel to be, never mind, too private? Chad, who's your babe of the week? Oh, but same thing with condoms. Obviously, reproductive health is very important.

Preventing STDs is important. Anyone who needs to steal them, let them. That's true, because condoms, if you go to Planned Parenthood, you can grab like 50 condoms. Yeah. But I mean, what are four people stealing in a year? Let them. It's fine. Nice.

Not stealing rubs. Not everyone's stealing. Yeah. Behind them is, yeah, just let them take them. We should have like a formula condom and diaper and I think, yeah, things just like dispensers they should just be public yeah yeah publicly available yeah yeah i mean rubbers for sure because then if you give those out for free then the form you might cut into the formula and stuff need less of that right i don't mind wearing condoms doesn It doesn't bother me. Really? No, it doesn't bother me much.

I mean, look, you know. I like fucking without one, for sure. It feels good. But I don't mind wearing them. I could wear one forever, I think. Really? Yeah. That's awesome.

Yeah, it's nice. I like that you're promoting that. I don't want to give my lady herpes. If it happens, it happens. But I'd feel very chivalrous if I didn't. You know her doctor? I'm going to cut all this out. But she went to her doctor and she was like, hey, my boyfriend's got herpes.

And she was like, oh, really? And he told you about it? She was like, yeah like and he told you about it before you had sex and she was like yeah and then and she was like and he doesn't pressure you into having sex without a condom and she was like no she's like your boyfriend's a very special guy that's awesome low bar to clear but yeah yeah i did it that's awesome chad who's your uh babe of the week uh my babe of the week is the rest of the country uh just because we've been in la socal for you know like a year straight and uh you just forget about what the rest of the country is like and we went to we went to pennsylvania we went to florida slash georg And we went to Pennsylvania, we went to Florida slash Georgia,

we went to Texas, all different parts of the country. And it's just so nice. Everyone was so nice and just warm. And they just had a different kind of energy to them that I think we hadn't felt in a while. They were super cool. Yeah, just like really just sort of

Polite and and looking out for wholesome wholesome. Yeah looking out for their fellow neighbor and Which is I guess it's you don't really see that as much as LA So it's really is really cool to be around and also just like it's cool Just to just to be in different parts of the country where you just see totally different walks of life you know like we were in Amish country they were fucking plowing a field with horses

they were traveling on horse and buggy dude the horse and buggy is all ass they're fast they're keeping up they're going and we were shooting a commercial and we were running up to people and we'd be like, for a, I don't know how much I can say, but for an alcoholic beverage. Yeah.

And we'd run up to people and I'd be like, hey, sir, you like to drink? And he goes, no. Yeah. And then I said, well, you want to be in a commercial? No, I don't. Well, here, can I bother you for a second? Nope. Got to get back to work.

And then he'd get in his horse and buggy and ride off. Yeah, yeah. And they're very flinty people. Yeah. Like, they don't have time for nonsense. I think they just kind of socialize with the people they already know. Nope. Gotta get back to work. And then he'd get in his horse and buggy and ride off. Yeah. Yeah. And they're very flinty people. Like they don't have time for nonsense. I think they just kind of socialize with the people they already know. Totally. But they, they, but I loved it about him. There was something so authentic and like pure. Yeah. It's crazy. It's so cool. It was really fun. Yeah. I went up to an Amish, you know, I'm just trying to talk to everybody. I see we're in a little diner diner, and they say they got the chicken broasted. I've never heard of that.

I turn to a Mennonite woman. I go, hey, lady. I'm like, how's it going? She's like, meat? I'm like, yeah. I'm like, do you know what broasted chicken is? She goes, nope. Back to her sandwich.

Dude, what did we get there? The meat sticks? Yeah. Spacklers or something? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. What were those? Storklers? What were the little sticks? Yeah. Those were pretty good. The Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. What were those? Storklers. What were the little sticks?

Yeah. Those were pretty good. The sandwiches, all the food was amazing there. Really good. It was so like, you could tell it was locally. The meat section was on fire. Raised and brought together. Yeah.

Dude, that was so fun. Just being in all those different places and seeing so many different kinds of people. Yeah. It was just, I don't know, it was one of the best weeks of my life. I had the best time. I did. Yeah. A lot of people, they want to go to Europe.

They want to go to Australia. I'm like, just go see the rest of America. It's awesome. When we heard how Sasha Baron Cohen, before he did Borat, and Borat's him going across the country, we heard that when he graduated from college, he took a long trip by himself around America just to like better understand it. Yeah.

And that informed a lot of what he does now. Totally. Where he just like saw so many different dimensions of, because it's such a huge country too. Yeah. Yeah. And just all the different ways that people think and feel and how they articulate themselves. It's really so diverse and interesting.

Totally. It's the best. I got to pee real quick. I'll keep pushing. should i keep pushing yeah aaron what's who's your babe of the week my babe of the week is uh new cardinals third baseman nolan arenado eight time gold glover four time i believe four maybe two two or four uh platinum gold glove winner uh and and badass silver slugger uh home run home run leader coming to the cardinals it's a it's a dream come true he's like third in war over the like over the past like five years right oh he's got to be yeah

like he's like right behind like trout and like I don't know who the other guy is. Maybe Betts or someone like that. Yeah. I don't think he has the speed of either of the two. But yeah, it's unbelievable. It was a trade that potentially could have happened last year. It didn't, and I thought there's no way it's ever going to happen. And I was just happy to see Adam Wainwright get re-signed

and Yachty's around the corner, I think. And then all of a sudden it's like, oh, the Cardinals have traded for Nolan Arenado. It's just like, holy shit. So you guys are the favorite in your division for sure. For sure. Him and Goldschmidt in the same infield. That's pretty insane. You have to hit it up the middle.

It's crazy. And those guys are no no uh slobs either so so it'll be it'll be like you guys the padres and the dodgers in the uh in the nl uh yeah the braves the braves are stacked they should still be there yeah because they got a cuna and freeman yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, they should still be there. They haven't quite figured out whether they're going to re-sign Ozuna or not, but yeah. That's amazing. Dude, that glove work. I was looking at stats on good defensive third baseman, and they keep that gold glove level until they're like 35, the majority of them. Yeah.

And he loves it. He loves playing defense. So what more can you ask from a guy who hits that well to also love playing defense? That's nice. I love playing defense, so I appreciate it. It's the best. I like it more than hitting. Really?

That's just me. Yeah. Yeah, Ozzie Smith was like one of my favorites growing up. You know who was my favorite? It was Omar Vizquel and Roberto Alomar when they played together on the Indians. Oh, yeah. And just the transitions they would have on double plays. Oh, yeah.

Like the variations and just the deaf hand and glove work. It was unbelievable. Yeah. Omar Vizquel's got a bit of a cloud over him now, unfortunately. Oh, did he do some fucked up shit? Domestic violence, yeah. Oh, goddammit. Just recently.

Dude, my babe of the week is people with no front teeth. For my money, the most charismatic people in the world. We met two on our trip. Both of them just, I'm not even being condescending. Like, truly, like, incredibly engaging, charismatic people. And I think there's something in having the confidence to rock no front teeth where you got to be that kind of person. You know what I mean?

And then you kind of trust them because you know they're not putting on airs. And then they just kind of bring you into their world and they kind of dazzle you. And I had a guy on one of my Instagram lives like a week ago, young dude, no front teeth. And he's like, yeah, I just didn't want to get him fixed. I just like the way it looks. And he was the most charming, charismatic, genuine dude I've front teeth. And he's like, yeah, I just didn't want to get him fixed. I just liked the way it looks. And he was the most charming, charismatic, genuine dude I've talked to. He was just unbelievable. Everybody in the comments was like, this dude's unbelievable.

He's unreal. And the front tooth missing dudes we met were like unreal. Chris Cooper's character in Adaptation, same thing. They've all got this kind of charm to them where they're like, they're just, I don't know. It's like this serenity. Yeah. And you got to have real confidence to pull that off.

Well, they had true joy emanating from them. That's what it is. But you're like, whoa. And they were just so amped on life and just like open. They're just open. Maybe the lack of frontier. Opens it up. They they're open let's more come in there yeah 100 good dudes who's your legend of the week uh my legend of the week is the crew

from our trip that's my legend of the week yeah it had to be yeah uh one of the greatest fucking crews in history the best crew of all time we got it's like the town times heat. Yeah, we got Dan, Lucchese, Austin, Sokol, Zach Bernstein. We got Allie, Stacey, and Olivia. Is that the crew? And then us two. And us, yeah. Dude, it was the best crew ever. Best crew.

The best time. They're all awesome. It was just such a... Everyone was just having fun. We had so many moments in the car where we just all start dying laughing about something. Yeah. And it was pure joy. Yeah.

God, yeah, it was just the best time ever. And, you know, like we had like a, it didn't seem like a grueling schedule, you know, but it's sort of like, there's a lot of travel in there, you know, we were doing like day long shoots. And there was some pressure. Yeah. There was some pressure. And so, but it was just like, so just joyful.

Just fun. Well, everyone was so good at what they did. You know what I mean? Everyone brought like, beyond bringing good vibes and being a good hang, like dinners after the shoots were like so fun. Yeah. And dude, honestly, this is how I knew it was a great crew. No matter who I was sitting next to,

I felt lucky. I was like, I was like, oh, I get to sit next to this person. You know, sometimes you go out

with people, you're like, oh, I got stuck next to this person. Everyone I sat next to, I was like, oh,

I was hoping I'd get to sit next to this person. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And we just go on like a conversation dive. Yeah.

And then, yeah, everyone was so good at their job. Yeah. Like we would just be out there moving and shooting and,

you know, we do stuff where we kind of like just run in front of strangers and start talking to them and it can freak people out and they can react in all different sorts of ways. But everyone was really good at dealing with it and putting out good vibes so that people reacted as best we could hope for. It was such a, it was tremendous. It was just tremendous.

So fun. It was so fun. Yeah yeah i want to do it again you got we got our charts read what were those charts i don't know what they're called but like our energy our astral charts yeah our astral biographies or something like that that was awesome did some tarot reading yeah which i was nervous to do but then it was it was fun what would you how'd you feel being in like cities where you were allowed to go out because L.A. is so restrictive? Like we got to work out in gyms. That was huge.

And you know what? To be honest, when we were in Austin and I was walking to meet you guys at the bar, I was walking by the bar. I didn't even like i just like normalized it so quickly i was it totally it took me a second to where i was like i was like i took a step back i was like whoa everything's open like i didn't even like take i didn't even realize it when i first walked by i just heard like music i was like oh yeah hell yeah and then like after a few minutes i was like whoa everything's open and it's, yeah, put a huge smile on my face.

It definitely brought in my tolerance for like potential COVID exposure. Yeah. Like when I got home, I was telling my girlfriend, because we've both been really safe. I was like, hey, we should go on a trip to Denver in a month. Yeah. She's like, I don't want to do that. I feel unsafe doing that. I was like, we got to live, babe.

Yeah. Literally like six months ago, I'm like, if you leave the house, you are not only risking your life, but the life of everyone you care about. Yeah. I was like, I need to go to Disney World. Yeah, we're going, right? Yeah. We're going to go.

If a couple of things go right, we got some cause to celebrate, which we will. Yeah. We're going to hit Disney World. Yeah, the crew is amazing. They're all such good folks. Dude, and like Luke Casey on the last night, he got a little liquored up and he was so fun. Yeah. He was dancing.

He's the best. Yeah. Me and one of the people were having like a deep talk about divorce. Like I brought it up. I was just like trying to go deep. I was like, so why don't your parents divorce? Yeah. And then Dan's like, what are you guys talking about over there?

And I was like, we're talking about divorce. And he's like, oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Definitely keep talking about that. And then he walked off and started dancing. It's so funny. It's a dance movie.

Junior's good. Aaron, who's your legend of the week? My legend of the week is Dearly Departed, the Hammer, Hank Aaron. Oh, yeah. Truly one of the best players to ever play the game maybe the best if we're really being honest um a for longevity b for uh being a five tool player um just unbelievable to look back at the stats he has in the uh and then obviously then then on top of all that what he went through uh with all the hate he was receiving and the the stoicism and the

the poise he still showed um to continue on and to and to break uh babe's home run record and um and not and not fold on that pressure he could have easily he was too home run shy at the end of a season he could have just packed it in said the hell with it but uh he's like no this means more to uh to me and to uh the whole community um and so he did it unbelievable and his consistency, too. Like, I checked his baseball reference. I don't know if he ever hit more than, I don't think he ever hit 50 in a season.

I think 47 was the most he ever hit. And to break the home run record when that's, like, your peak year, I mean, it speaks to what you're talking about, or his nickname, Hammerin'. Like, he just kept going. Yeah, just kept going. He won three gold gloves.

He would have won a ton more, but he was playing the same time as Roberto Clemente. And they only gave them to your position, so right field. They were both in right field, so Clemente, clearly the better of the two defensively, but it's like 1 and 1A. And another great human being. Yeah, and just a great ambassador for the game.

He's a Presidential Medal of Freedom winner, which that's kind of dumbed down a little bit because of who else is cutting it since then. Well, but Belichick turned it down. Yeah. Yeah. So did Dolly Parton, apparently. Oh, really? Twice from Trump.

But yeah, just amazing dude. And I've always felt kind of connected to him because of my name, even though it's his last name and my first name. But, you know, he wore it proud. And so do I. Do you ever watch Costas when he had his HBO show and him and Willie Mays were on there? No, I haven't seen that. It's pretty good.

But Willie Mays gets competitive with Aaron. And they're like, you know, Hank has more home runs, and then Willie Mays is like, he's like 78 at the time. He's like, I had to fight in the Korean War. He's like, I lost two years. Yeah, it's true. I mean, he's, yeah, who knows what he would have done with two more. Yeah, or something like that, but it's just funny to see him.

He's still got like some, he's still feisty. Chad, what's your quote of the week? my quote of the week comes from jaw rule regarding this game stop robin hood debacle from jaw rule you gotta let people trade man true jaw dude one of the greatest You gotta let people trade, man. True. Jaw, dude. One of the greatest. Aaron, what's your quote of the week? My quote of the week goes along with something you guys said earlier.

It's a quote from Scrubs. Dr. Cox in particular. Looking at an x-ray. Either this guy has a light bulb up his ass or his colon has a great idea. I have a really sad quote of the week. It's from the book Conversations with Friends, which I just finished, by Sally Rooney. And she's just an incredible writer.

It's undeniable. I think the book's a little too sad and the characters annoy me a little bit because they're just so freaking up their own butt with how complicated they are. But the protagonist gets a sad medical diagnosis and I don't know why I bookmarked this, but it spoke to me. This is her mom driving her home afterwards.

I looked out the window at the station. I had the sense that something in my life had ended. My image of myself as a whole or normal person maybe. I realized my life would be full of mundane physical suffering

and that there was nothing special about it. Suffering wouldn't make me special and pretending not to suffer wouldn't make me special. Talking about it or even writing about it

would not transform the suffering into something useful. Nothing would. I thanked my mother for the lift to the station and got out of the car. Chad, what's your phrase

of the week for getting after it? My phrase of the week for getting after it is but dang. But dang. Aaron, what's your phrase of the week for getting after it? I'm going to go get a cowboy hat. Oh, yeah.

My phrase of the week for getting after it is a French phrase that I like. I'm going to play it right here. It means cheerful friendliness. Bon ami. Oh, hold on. Come here, buddy. Be loud. Bon ami.

Bon ami. Bon ami. It means cheerful friendlessness or geniality. Bon ami. That sounds like you want to bow me. It does, right? Bone your homie. Bon ami. Ba-dang.

Ba-dang. I think that's everything, dude. I think we covered everything, right? Yeah, that was fun. Dude, such a good trip, man. So good. We had such a good time. Being out in the world.

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