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Episode 131 - Sunny Days · The V Cast

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  Speaker 1: You are listening to The Beacon. Welcome back to the podcast.
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  Speaker 2: I'm your host, Vic Cedeno. This is the V-Cast, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm back in the attic, baby, because the temperatures are dropping.
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  Speaker 2: Summer is over. Summer is over. Time to break out
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  Speaker 2: the long sleeves. Not just yet. We're almost there. But
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  Speaker 2: that's it. Last episode was May.
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  Speaker 1: This is the most inconsistent podcast of all time. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm all right with that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm happy to be here, back up in the attic,
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  Speaker 2: laying it down, got the helmets out, even though I
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  Speaker 2: don't even watch football. But I saw them in the
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  Speaker 2: back over there, and I was like, these things are cool.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to put them on the table, make props
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  Speaker 2: out of them, because if not, they're just back there
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  Speaker 2: collecting dust.
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  Speaker 1: Football season is back. That means.
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  Speaker 2: Summer is over. Today is actually the last day, the
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  Speaker 2: first day of fall. Is it the first day of
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  Speaker 2: fall or last day of summer?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how it works. That's like right on
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  Speaker 1: the pendulum there, right in the middle.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know which side we're falling on, but
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  Speaker 2: whatever the case is, temperatures drop so the attic has
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  Speaker 2: become sustainable. Not that the attic was the reason I
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  Speaker 2: wasn't recording. I can't even get into it. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: even going to bother thinking about why I haven't been recording.
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  Speaker 2: The point is I'm here now. The point is we're
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  Speaker 2: back together again. And that's all that matters. It has
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  Speaker 2: been a fantastic summer for me. Just dropping weight. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if you've noticed, but I might look a
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  Speaker 2: little different. For those of you that are watching, I
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  Speaker 2: might just look a little bit different. If you're just listening,
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  Speaker 2: you might hear my voice is a little lighter.
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  Speaker 1: It's about 38 pounds lighter than.
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  Speaker 2: Then the last time you heard it, actually, no, by May,
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  Speaker 2: I was already down like maybe like 15, 20 pounds.
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  Speaker 1: But man, the weight is coming off and we're still rocking.
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  Speaker 2: We are still rocking, dropping weight, tracking macros, looking at
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  Speaker 2: what I'm eating, looking at portion sizes, trying to be
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more balanced, not binging on chocolate, not
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  Speaker 2: eating all kinds of food.
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  Speaker 1: We're keeping things professional. Keeping the diet professional. That's what
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not an amateur. I'm not an amateur dieter. I've
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  Speaker 2: been here before. But we're kind of just keep shit moving.
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  Speaker 2: It's a lot easier that I'm not blasting blunts every night.
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  Speaker 1: I tell you that much.
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  Speaker 2: The fact that I'm not fighting the munchies at the
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  Speaker 2: same time helps. It is helping the situation. For sure.
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to just do a lot more things, more stable.
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to be more stable with everything. And let's see.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just go through the checklist of things that I'm
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  Speaker 2: trying to be more stable with. Number one, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: smoking weed anymore. I know a lot of people are
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  Speaker 2: going to boo. A lot of people are going to
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  Speaker 2: hiss and call me a quitter.
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  Speaker 1: But that's fine.
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  Speaker 2: I started in December because I knew I just needed
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  Speaker 2: to stop. After my mom died, I was just going
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  Speaker 2: through weight. My dealer was happy for sure. Shout out
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  Speaker 2: to the B. Shout out to B.
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  Speaker 1: B Deliveries. He was happy.
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  Speaker 2: But I was just dropping a BMW car payment every
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  Speaker 2: month on weed. That wasn't manageable. And it just stopped
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  Speaker 2: working for the purpose that I was using it for.
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  Speaker 2: I was using it to numb myself and it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: working anymore.
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  Speaker 1: So I dropped that.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, at first I said it was temporary,
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  Speaker 2: but I'll get into a little bit more why it
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  Speaker 2: feels like it's going to be a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: More permanent than temporary in a little while.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, dropping the weed, consistently going to the gym
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  Speaker 2: on a schedule. I paid for a trainer. I'm financially
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  Speaker 2: invested in this. So there's a financial incentive for me
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  Speaker 2: to keep going because I don't want.
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  Speaker 1: To waste the money.
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  Speaker 2: It would be a waste to put money into a trainer,
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  Speaker 2: a nice amount of change into a trainer, and then
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  Speaker 2: not do the things I'm supposed to be doing. Also, accountability.
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  Speaker 2: When you have somebody that you're answering to, It keeps
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  Speaker 2: you honest. It keeps you on the grind. I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to, I'm not a bullshitter even though I'm in sales,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't bullshit. I don't beat around the bush
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  Speaker 2: with people. I don't lie to people. I don't like
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  Speaker 2: deceiving people. It's just not my style. And when I
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  Speaker 2: have a trainer to answer to and he has questions
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  Speaker 2: every week about what I'm doing and he can see
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  Speaker 2: the food that I've been eating and logging, Like I'll
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  Speaker 2: put in when I mess up, I'm not perfect. I
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  Speaker 2: just put in when I mess up and then we
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  Speaker 2: address those issues and keep going. And the accountability helps
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  Speaker 2: me make changes so that I can keep getting better.
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  Speaker 2: If I faked it, if I was a phony about it,
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't be able to address the problems. I would
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  Speaker 2: just be working on how do.
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  Speaker 1: I game the system?
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  Speaker 2: And I've done that before. I used to game the
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  Speaker 2: system all the time. But you're not only gaming the system,
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  Speaker 2: you're gaming yourself. So that doesn't work. Because then I
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  Speaker 2: don't fix the problems I need to fix in order
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  Speaker 2: for me to get better.
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  Speaker 1: And if I'm not getting better, then what's the point?
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  Speaker 1: We must get better.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, locking in with that, workouts, nutrition, keeping the
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  Speaker 2: food balanced, exercising. Even if I'm not going to the gym,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going out and walking regularly. getting steps in that
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  Speaker 2: hasn't only been good for me physically, it's been great
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  Speaker 2: for me mentally. You ever feel like you're just getting
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  Speaker 2: so anxious in your life and you get stressed out,
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  Speaker 2: you start getting easily irritable, and then you think about
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  Speaker 2: it and you haven't even been outside in eight hours.
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  Speaker 2: You haven't left a desk in eight hours. Of course
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  Speaker 2: you're irritable. You're not putting any energy out. It's just
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  Speaker 2: all building up inside of you. So getting out for
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  Speaker 2: a walk. Sometimes I go through these spells where I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to call it depression, but you just feel down.
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  Speaker 2: You just don't feel like you want to do things.
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  Speaker 2: You just want to just, I just want to eat
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  Speaker 2: things and sit on the couch.
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  Speaker 1: I get in those moods.
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  Speaker 2: And going for a walk when I feel like that,
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  Speaker 2: not only snaps me out of that feeling, but it
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  Speaker 2: relieves like.
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  Speaker 1: A burden in my head. I don't know how to
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  Speaker 1: explain it.
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  Speaker 2: It's just, if you are depressed, if you're feeling down,
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  Speaker 2: if you're not, if you're feeling out of it, whatever
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  Speaker 2: it is, go for a walk. If you have a
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  Speaker 2: lot of things on your mind, if you're stressed out
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  Speaker 2: about things, go for a walk. Like walking is so.
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  Speaker 1: Good for you and your mind.
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  Speaker 2: Get the blood pumping, you get your heart rate up
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  Speaker 2: a little bit You get, you know, endorphins and whatever
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  Speaker 2: other chemicals. I don't freaking know what it is technically.
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  Speaker 2: Don't come here for the science of things. Just know
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  Speaker 2: that come here for the experience. Don't come here for
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  Speaker 2: the science.
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  Speaker 1: Come here for the experience, okay? Because I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: do shit and I'm going.
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  Speaker 2: To tell you about what I did and how it
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  Speaker 2: makes me feel. And then maybe that helps you. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: you make fun of me. Maybe it entertains you. But
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  Speaker 2: that's the whole point. All right, don't come here for
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  Speaker 2: no specific scientific reason on why things work because I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. All I know is that walking makes me
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  Speaker 2: feel a lot better.
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  Speaker 1: So I've been tracking 7,000 steps a day.
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  Speaker 2: That's not a lot. It's not a lot. It's an
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  Speaker 2: hour of walking. An hour of walking will get you 7,000 steps,
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  Speaker 2: will get your mind, uh, Declouded, you get fog in
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  Speaker 2: your mind, it'll help you focus. If you want to
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  Speaker 2: listen to something, listen to something. You do books on tape.
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  Speaker 2: If you do nothing is the best way. I don't
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  Speaker 2: do nothing most of the time. Most of the time
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  Speaker 2: I'm listening to a podcast or something because I can't
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  Speaker 2: stop consuming right now.
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  Speaker 1: I can't stop. That's another topic. But just go for
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  Speaker 1: the walk. you're going to feel better.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to feel good that you did something and
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  Speaker 2: you didn't stay home. That's been really big for me.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of times I pick the staying home, and
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  Speaker 2: then I feel like an asshole afterwards. So getting out,
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  Speaker 2: going for a walk. Luckily, I live next to a park.
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  Speaker 2: But even if you don't live next to a park,
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  Speaker 2: go out and walk in your town. Go walk down
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  Speaker 2: the block. Go walk to the store. Go walk to
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  Speaker 2: the other side of town and come back. There's plenty
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  Speaker 2: of places.
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  Speaker 1: To walk. There's sidewalks everywhere. Can you believe it?
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  Speaker 2: They built these little paths all on the streets for
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  Speaker 2: you to walk on and not get hit by a car.
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  Speaker 2: You can just walk on those. Drive to a nice park.
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  Speaker 2: Go walk in that park. That takes too much more time.
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  Speaker 2: admittedly I don't do that I luckily I live next
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  Speaker 2: to a park it has a nice path I can
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  Speaker 2: walk I can see deer walk back and forth kids
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  Speaker 2: are playing you hear things it's nice but walking has
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  Speaker 2: been a big help for sure so I feel good
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  Speaker 2: things are things are really good overall because I'm controlling
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  Speaker 2: my area we've talked about this before on the podcast
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  Speaker 2: I get Can't control what's going on in the Middle East.
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  Speaker 2: So that has no effect on how I feel. I
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  Speaker 2: don't feel good about a lot of things that are
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  Speaker 2: going on, for sure. I don't feel good about a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the things that are happening in our country.
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  Speaker 1: For sure.
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  Speaker 2: But those things don't affect how I feel. I feel fantastic,
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  Speaker 2: if I'm being honest. There's a lot of things I
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  Speaker 2: could change. A lot of things I'm messing up. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of things that I'm not doing right. There's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of things I could be doing more of. But
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  Speaker 2: other than that, I feel great because I'm giving myself grace.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not being so hard on myself. I'm doing a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing great. Every day I'm showing up. Some days
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  Speaker 2: I'm great. Some days I'm not my best. But every
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  Speaker 2: day I give myself a new, like a clean slate. No,
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  Speaker 2: I don't bring the mistakes I made yesterday, the mistakes
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  Speaker 2: I made last week. Noted, understood, forgive yourself, move on,
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  Speaker 2: be better. That for me has been really big. I
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  Speaker 2: used to be so down on myself about so much.
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  Speaker 2: I'd be so down on myself about not recording the podcast.
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  Speaker 2: I'd feel like such a schlup for missing since May.
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  Speaker 2: Last episode was May 31st. I could sit here and
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  Speaker 2: just beat myself up about it. If I did beat
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  Speaker 2: myself up about it, I wouldn't be here recording.
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  Speaker 1: I'd feel ashamed. But no, we're here. Fresh start. We're
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  Speaker 1: fucking back. We're back. That's all that matters. Every day,
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  Speaker 1: you're back. You're trying again. That's all that matters.
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  Speaker 2: There's so much stuff going on that you could be
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  Speaker 2: negative about, but your perspective is what determines how you feel. 100%,
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  Speaker 2: I just saw a quote from Marcus Aurelius, the.
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  Speaker 1: Roman, about.
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  Speaker 2: The world is gonna happen regardless of what you do.
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  Speaker 2: You form your opinion of how the world is based
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  Speaker 2: on your perspective. The way you see things is how
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  Speaker 2: you form the world. So you can control your outlook
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  Speaker 2: on things. It doesn't all have to be doom and gloom,
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  Speaker 2: even though it could be outside. Even though they're trying
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  Speaker 2: to kill us and take everything away from us, it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't have to be all doom and gloom. You have
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  Speaker 2: a filter that you can put on, and you can say, hey,
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  Speaker 2: it's nice here. It's nice here in the middle of
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  Speaker 2: these flames. You can control how you feel about things.
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  Speaker 2: Your perspective is what matters. I try to tell my
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  Speaker 2: daughter this all the time. She's freaking out over things
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  Speaker 2: and I'm just like, relax. Because the more you freak
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  Speaker 2: out about it, the less you're going to be able
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  Speaker 2: to deal with things. Because shit's going to happen no
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  Speaker 2: matter what. No matter what you do, no matter how
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  Speaker 2: much preparation you do, no matter how hard you work,
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  Speaker 2: no matter how good of a person you are, shit's
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  Speaker 2: going to go wrong. Bad things are going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: It's how you react to things that actually matters. How
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  Speaker 2: you see the bad things that happen in your life.
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  Speaker 1: That's what matters.
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  Speaker 2: So having that perspective change in my life has just
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  Speaker 2: been leaps and bounds, has made me, I am more
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  Speaker 2: capable of being happy. I don't think anybody's ever happy.
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  Speaker 2: Don't look to try to be happy. That's a myth.
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  Speaker 2: You can be happy sometimes. You can be happy a
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  Speaker 2: lot of times. I'm happy every day. Sometimes I'm down.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes I'm mad. But I am happier a lot more
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  Speaker 2: because of my perspective in life, the way I roll
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  Speaker 2: with the punches, the way I don't take things personal,
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  Speaker 2: the way I don't care about other people's opinions, the
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  Speaker 2: way I don't care what other people are doing. I
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  Speaker 2: don't compare myself to what other people are doing. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: I do. Sometimes I do. I'm not perfect. Sometimes I
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  Speaker 2: compare myself to what other people are doing and when
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  Speaker 2: I start to feel myself feeling down, when I start
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  Speaker 2: to feel myself getting envious.
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  Speaker 1: I snap out of it. Like, hey man, why are
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  Speaker 1: you feeling like that? Good for them. Like, that's great.
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  Speaker 1: Cheer people on. Good shit, man. Good for you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm still doing me over here and whatever happens for
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  Speaker 2: me is great. Whatever happens for you is great for you.
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  Speaker 2: But it doesn't, your wins doesn't mean I lose. Like,
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  Speaker 2: you could win, I could win, we could win.
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  Speaker 1: You could win. I'm not doing great. Whatever. It doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: I hope I'm making sense. I was just talking shit.
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  Speaker 2: I was fucking so happy to be back. So happy
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  Speaker 2: to be back. So, summer's been awesome. Went to Austin.
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  Speaker 2: End of June.
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  Speaker 1: Let me see. Last episode was May. So, yeah. May.
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  Speaker 2: June, I think like mid-June, towards the end of June,
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  Speaker 2: was in Austin with Pedro for like 10 days. Long
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  Speaker 2: time to be in Austin. Long time to be away.
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  Speaker 2: But it was good. My jug of water, that's another thing.
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  Speaker 2: I've been drinking a lot of water. For those that
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  Speaker 2: are listening, I'm just chugging my water.
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  Speaker 1: Carrying around this big 128-ounce canister of water. Yeah, we
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  Speaker 1: were in Austin.
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  Speaker 2: It was a long time, probably a little too long
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  Speaker 2: looking back at it, but it was a great experience.
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  Speaker 2: We had a great time. We did a lot of spots,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of spots at the Sunset Comedy Club, which
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  Speaker 2: was great. That's Red Band's club, Red Band and Christina.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome.
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  Speaker 2: They were absolutely fantastic to me and Pedro.
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  Speaker 1: So welcoming.
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  Speaker 2: Got to chill there. Even when we weren't on shows,
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  Speaker 2: we were chilling in the green room, hanging out. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of shows at NAR Bar, a lot of shows
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  Speaker 2: at coffee shops.
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  Speaker 1: There's just a lot of comedy in Austin. There's a
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  Speaker 1: club next to the Mothership where they do Kill Tony at.
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  Speaker 2: I can't think of the name, but that was a
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  Speaker 2: nice club. I think it was, I keep saying the
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  Speaker 2: Crow's Nest like I'm in Hasbro Heights, but.
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  Speaker 1: I, Shakespeare's. Shakespeare is next to the Comedy Mothership.
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  Speaker 2: Great spot. They do shows there. Some of the shows,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there was like four or five people there.
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  Speaker 2: Then there's like ten people there. And then a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of people walk out. And then you're only down to
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  Speaker 2: two people. But whatever, man.
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  Speaker 1: You're just doing the work.
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  Speaker 2: You're up there. You're trying to figure it out. You're
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  Speaker 2: trying to make people laugh. You're getting, you know, you're
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  Speaker 2: just building yourself up.
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  Speaker 1: On these shows.
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  Speaker 2: So I really had a good time down in Austin.
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  Speaker 2: I think I'm going to be back next month. I
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  Speaker 2: think I'm going back next month in October, which I'm
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  Speaker 2: excited about. Because you could just do so much comedy.
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  Speaker 2: It's so much easier to do so many more spots.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the name of the game is reps.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what?
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  Speaker 2: If I'm being honest, I'm not getting enough reps here.
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  Speaker 2: Not that this is a location problem. This is a
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  Speaker 2: me problem. I'm just not being as driven as I
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  Speaker 2: was earlier. That can be fixed. But, hey, maybe me
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  Speaker 2: coming here tonight and getting this started and promising myself
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  Speaker 2: and just saying it now to promise the ether to
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  Speaker 2: get it out there that I'm going to do this
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  Speaker 2: every week. Every Monday I'm coming back here, recording an episode.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to bring guests back. We're going to start
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  Speaker 2: having people on the podcast again so it's just not
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  Speaker 2: me here babbling by myself. And it's a lot easier
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  Speaker 2: to have conversations with people, talk about things, share experiences.
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  Speaker 2: That's what the whole podcast is about. It's just conversations, experiences,
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  Speaker 2: things that try to make you think, try to make you.
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  Speaker 1: Laugh, and entertain you for an hour. That's all.
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  Speaker 2: You don't listen to one shot, all good. Listen to
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  Speaker 2: it in six shots. Listen to it while you're at
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  Speaker 2: the gym. Listen to it while you're out on a walk.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever.
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  Speaker 2: But The whole point is to just have this platform
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  Speaker 2: for me to express myself and things that are in
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  Speaker 2: my head.
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  Speaker 1: That's the goal.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: So yeah, then after I went directly from Austin and
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: I came back here to Jersey, picked up my daughter,
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: got back on a plane. We went right back same
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: day to Puerto Rico for a week to babysit my
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: cousin's dog.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: It was Labrador.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Why can't I think of his name? Oh my God,
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: he has such a funny name. I can't believe I'm
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: blanking on this Labrador's name. He's such a, oh my God.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Anyway, I.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Had to dog sit him and that was a fun time.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: I keep wanting to call him Andy, but his name
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: is not Andy. Holy cannoli. I can't believe I can't
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: think of his name.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: My cousin had chickens, too. He fed chickens every day.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: But that was a cool experience, going to Puerto Rico
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: with my daughter. It was a different experience than taking
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: her to Florida every year. It was the first time
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: I took her somewhere else for a vacation, which was bittersweet.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: It was a cool experience, but obviously I'm sad I'm
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: not going to Florida anymore because my mom's dead, and
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: that's not a.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Vacation spot anymore.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: So we had to do something different, and Puerto Rico
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: was a lot of fun.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Ollie, Oliver, that's his name.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Ollie, we got to dog sit Ollie, who's a fantastic Labrador,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: and it was just a really good experience with my daughter.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Being a dad is the most proudest thing that I've
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: ever accomplished in my life. It's the best thing I do.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: It is the best thing I do. I'm so good
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: at it.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: All right?
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: I'm really good at being a dad. And thank God.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: And it's because I didn't have a dad growing up.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: So one of the things I always thought about was how.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: I can be a good dad. I always wanted to
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: be just a good dad. I always wanted to....
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Be the dad that I was robbed of, right? So
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: being a dad is one of the best things I do.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: So being able to take her on the vacation and
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: take her to my dad's childhood home, my grandma's house,
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: my dad's childhood town, bring her to his grave because
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: he's buried in Puerto Rico. So being able to bring
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: her to his grave and share a moment with her.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: I shared a moment with my daughter that I'll never forget.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: And it is the reason why I feel like I'm
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: not going back to smoking weed. And it's because she
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: made me promise that I wouldn't. She made me promise
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: that I wouldn't do drugs. We had a conversation at
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: my dad's grave. We talked about, I finally, you know,
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: my daughter's at an age, my daughter's been asking me
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: what happened to my dad since she was like seven,
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: I would say.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Like since she was.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Like seven, or eight, she's been asking me, how did
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: my dad die, and I would just say that he
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: was sick, and she was like, well, you know, and
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: I'm like, just like, you know, I can't, I don't
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: want to go into it, I would tell her, I
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: don't want to go into it, because I don't want
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: to explain, because you're a kid, and you don't understand, it's,
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: you know, you're not going to understand, and I don't
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: want to explain it, just know that he got sick,
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: and he died, and she was like, all right, she
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: used to leave it alone, she got it, like, she
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: would impress the issue, but Finally, I felt like she
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: was old enough to understand.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: So she asked.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Me again at my dad's grave, and I told her,
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: you know, my dad did drugs, and he got sick
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: from doing drugs. My dad died of AIDS, and he
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: got sick from sharing drugs with other people, and it
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: was unsanitary, and, you know, he got the disease. And
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: it was during a time when the disease killed people,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: and that's how he died. And she was like, oh, wow.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: And I told her my uncle was buried there. My
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: uncle died from drinking too much. He literally drank himself
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: to death to the point where his stomach blew up
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: and he, you know, he just, you know, he poisoned himself.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: And my other uncle there, he... Is my uncle buried?
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: I don't think my other uncle's buried there. I think
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: maybe he is. He was also, you know, he just.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: He outlasted everybody else and he was the.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: we thought was the worst one out of him because
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: he was schizophrenic, but he just, you know, whatever.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: So she made me promise.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: She was like, she gave me a hug and she
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: was like, dad, please promise you'll never do drugs.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: And I was like, I won't do them anymore. I
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: was like, not anymore.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: I won't do drugs anymore. So that was important to me.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: And that was part of the biggest, that was a
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: big part of the reason why I stopped. Why I
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: stopped smoking weed was because my daughter was getting to
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: an age where she was going to start asking questions
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: that I didn't want to answer.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: I didn't want to lie. I didn't want to deceive her.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: I have a joke in my act about how I
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: lied to my daughter about where I was going. She
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: started asking me, where are you going? I'm going outside
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: to throw the trash out. I was making up excuses.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: I think I forgot something in my car, and I'd
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: go run to my car or run outside, smoke, and
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: then come back in. I'm like, oh, I couldn't find it.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: That's just.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: I didn't want to do that, you know, and then
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: she's going to start smelling and then she's going to,
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: you know, and, and I just didn't want to go
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: through that whole dance.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: And I didn't want her to look at me.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: I didn't want her to look at me any less
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: when she found out that I was smoking, like just
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: that thought.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Of her seeing me a certain way.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: And then like my stock dropping with her because she
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: found out I smoked. My daughter's very anti-smoking. um, obviously
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: cigarettes because of my mom, because she knows them. Sig,
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: because she connects smoking to my mom getting lung cancer. She,
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: she's just anti-smoking, which is great. I hope she never does.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: And I wanted to break that cycle all my life.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Everybody around me, my, you know, my older brother smoked,
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: my sister smoked, my mom smoked. Um, my brother smoked weed,
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: my sister, my mother didn't smoke weed. Um, All my
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: cousins smoked weed. My older brother smoked weed. My older,
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: older brother. So it's just something I've been around my
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: entire life. So for me and my family, my mom
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: let me smoke weed in my room because she just
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: thought it would be better for me to be in
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: the house than be outside in the streets, which was
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: a pretty calculated decision. I think it was the move.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: But I want to break that cycle. I don't want
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: my daughter to smoke. I like my daughter being a square.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: I don't shame my daughter for not talking like me.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: I don't shame my daughter for not listening to rap music.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Good.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: I remember growing up, I would be considered white or
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: not cool because I didn't do certain things.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: And then it led me to wanting to do those
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: things more.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: And it made me create this persona that wasn't really me.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Because I was chasing some sort of validation or some
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: sort of image.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: That I was supposed to be to be able to keep.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Up with where my family was from. And that was
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: all fugazi. It was all bullshit on my part. I
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: want my daughter to stay true to her.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Listen to the K-pop. Listen to KTU.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Z100.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Go for it.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: She listens to rap music now. She doesn't like when
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: they say the N-word too much.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Why is he talking like that? And it's good. It's fantastic.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: I learned how innocent my daughter is in Puerto Rico
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: when she saw my cousin's dog humping a pillow.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: She saw.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: My cousin's dog humping a pillow, and she said, why
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: is the dog twerking? She said, why is the dog
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: twerking on the pillow? I said, because the dog has
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: a song in its heart.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: The dog's happy. The dog wants to dance. So I,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: you know, just leave the dog alone when he's dancing.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: That's all. All the time.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: The whole time we were there, I'm like, why is
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: the dog twerking? Oh, here, dog's twerking again. What song
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: does the dog listen to? Like, that's where I'm glad
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: my daughter is. 11 years old. She doesn't repeat every
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Bad Bunny lyric that exists.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: And it's good. I'm happy. That my daughters like that. Fantastic.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Hold on to that as much as you can. If
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: you have kids, don't push your kids to be an adult.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Don't push your kids towards those things. I saw online
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: that your kids go through, like girls especially, will go
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: through puberty faster if they've got more adult themes in
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: their mind. If you're exposing them to more adult themes
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: as a little kid, they're going to become an adult faster.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Fuck that. Slow it down.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: I want my daughter to continue drawing and giggling with
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: her friends about innocent things.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: It's fantastic.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: I'm so happy that my daughter's like that because I
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: only have a little bit of innocence left. There's only
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: a little bit of innocence left before she starts thinking
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: about boys.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: And forget about that. I like my daughter's talking on
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: the phone. I hear her. And she talks to her friends.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: And her friends start talking about boys.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: And she's like, I don't even like boys. Our friend
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: came out to her and said she was gay. She
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: was like, what are you talking about?
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: I don't even like boys. She's like, I don't care
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: if you like girls. I don't even like boys. I'm
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: a kid. I want her.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: To stay like that as long as possible because the
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: innocence is beautiful.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Protect that shit, man. Protect their innocence.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: My daughter's like, I don't think, yeah, my daughter's like, listen,
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: I know Santa Claus is just a spirit.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: I know Santa Claus is just a spirit.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: It's not a real person. It's just the spirit of
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Santa Claus. And I'm like, yeah, it's fantastic. You know,
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: she's on to the tooth fairy. She knows my ex-wife
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: is the tooth fairy. She knows her mother's the tooth fairy.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: She says she's not that good at.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Putting money under her pillow anymore. Like, it's fantastic, man.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: I'm so happy about that stuff. Keep it like that.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Like, hurry.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: The child innocence is a beautiful thing, so, you know,
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: she had a good summer doing things, camp, gymnastics camp,
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: and like I said, I'm just, being a dad is
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: the proudest thing I'm doing, I'm so happy for it,
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Keep up the good work, fellas. If you're a dad,
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: all you have to do is show up every day.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: I don't know if you saw, there's a clip out there.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know the actor's name, but he's from the Mayans.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: He's the one that used to do drugs on the Mayans.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: He's got a clip on Jon Bernthal's podcast where he's like,
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: being a dad is just showing up.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Just being there. That's all you have to do is
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: be there.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: I ain't got enough money to take you. I have
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: enough money to take you to McDonald's. Like, that's all
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: I have. But I'm going to take you to McDonald's.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: I'm going to be there. Like, that's all you have
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: to do is be there.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Like, helping my daughter with her homework. Oh, my God.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's like the proudest thing I've ever done in
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: my life is my daughter struggling with something.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: We just did that before I got here.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: My daughter was struggling with her science homework and learning
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: about independent traits and dependable traits, I think it's called,
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: or something like that. And I didn't know what it was,
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: and we just bought it. I'd just read it with her,
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: and I'd read it until I understand it. When I
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: understand it, being able to explain it to her until
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: she gets it and working with her until she gets
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: it and then she gets it on her own and
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: we're celebrating and we're high-fiving. There's nothing I'm going to
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: do that equals that.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: There's nothing. Nothing I'm going to do that's going to
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: give me that satisfaction. I don't care. I got to
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: do a.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: Show with Joey Diaz at Atlantic City at the Oceans
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: Resort in front of like 2,500 people. Like Sebastian Maniscalco
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: just played there. I was just on that stage. Like
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: that's the greatest accomplishment I've done in comedy so far.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Like that was so cool. Doesn't match up to me
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: helping my daughter with her homework and her getting it.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: And then like, thanks dad.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Are you kidding me?
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: Nothing I'm going to do is going to equal that.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Nothing.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: So, I'm riding that high. I came here feeling that glory. So, yeah, anyway,
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: that was August on stage with Joey. I think that
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: was August, right?
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: August 7th. My birthday week. What a better birthday. What
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: a better birthday.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: Present I couldn't have gotten than just getting that call
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: to go do that spot.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Put me up at the hotel. Oh, man, like a
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: fucking doctor.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Damn, man, that shit was really cool. A suite,
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: a nice hotel, suite.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: You know, you get paid. I got a check.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: I got the nicest payday I've gotten in comedy so far,
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: plus a hotel room, you know, plus to do the time,
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: to be able to go on that stage, open the show, kill.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Awesome experience. Awesome experience. So that's May, June, July. What
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: did we do in July? lying. Nothing. I've just been working.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Doing good at work. Having a lot of fun. I'm
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: so blessed, man. I'm just so blessed. Thank God. I
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: can't even begin to tell you how blessed I am.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: And that's just from hard work and an outlook. A
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: positive outlook. Because A felon like me is not supposed
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: to be doing anything. You know, I'm supposed to be
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: part of the system forever now.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Somehow I made it out. I think about that all
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: the time. Somehow I made it out.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: Just with a little bit of luck, God on my side,
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: and a positive outlook.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: Man, it's wild. But what else? Let me see here.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: I've got some topics written down.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Some topics, some topics. July, yeah, that was Puerto Rico.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Puerto Rico was July. Yeah. I mean, that's good. It's good.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: It's a good podcast. Good podcast. I've been streaming a lot.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: I've been streaming on Twitch a lot.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: Playing video games. Video games are the best. PS5, Xbox,
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: just playing games. I'm so addicted to Fortnite right now.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: As a 44-year-old man, am I supposed to be addicted
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: to Fortnite?
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but it's fun. It's fun. I rage.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: I rage on Twitch playing Fortnite.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: Every time I lose, I start making fun of whoever's avatar.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: You can't talk shit on Twitch.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: Maybe it's my game settings or something, but I can't
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: hear anybody else, you know?
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Maybe I get on Call of Duty to hear you
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: talk shit on there. I don't know.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: I'm just having fun. Just having fun. Playing games. Playing
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: games on Twitch. Nobody's watching. Nobody's watching.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: I don't care. Get some clips out of it. Get some...
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: I just like playing games and.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: I want to see if I can start reading on
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: Twitch or maybe talking about books, man. I want to
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: dive into books. I just want to read books. I'm
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: almost finished with Fire and Blood, my second read-through. Once
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: I finish that, I think I'm going to start the
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: Jack Reacher series. I want to read Stephen King books.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: I want to read.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: The Lincoln Lawyer.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: That's a good show if you've watched that on Netflix.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: The movie with Matthew McConaughey was pretty good too.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: But I think that book series is going to be good.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: So I want to check that out. Yeah.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: That's been pretty much it, man. Just keeping a positive outlook.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: Sunny days, baby. Sunny days aren't over. Sunny days aren't over.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: Summer might be over, but the sunny days aren't over.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: We're going to have sunny days all year long. Sunny
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: days all year long.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: You can do that. You can do that with your perspective.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: You can keep a positive perspective, a positive outlook on things,
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: try to look for the silver lining in things, and
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: things work out better. You put yourself in a better
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: position to overcome hardships when you have a positive outlook.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: When you're looking for the silver lining and not looking
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: at the bad things that have happened, when you're looking
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: at that silver lining, man, things get better fast. Things
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: get better fast. I'm telling you. Bad things happen. Shit happens.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: Mistakes are going to happen. But when you have that
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: silver lining attitude, boy, do things get better faster. They
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: really do. Because when you're down in the dumps, that's
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: where you stay. When you're negative, that's where you stay.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: You don't see the good in things. You see the
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: bad in things. That don't feel good. That don't feel good.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: So shape up the attitude, baby. Keep a good attitude.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: Get some good sleep, too. Get some good sleep. I've
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: been tracking my sleep patterns with my little Apple Watch here.
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: I've been going to sleep with my Apple Watch and
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: tracking my sleep. I'm going to look at this right now.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: I'm getting constant text messages from the family group chat.
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  Speaker 1: Sleep.
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  Speaker 2: Last night I had a high sleep score of 93
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: out of 100. Good job going to bed on time
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: last night.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: It helped you score 93.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: So I'm trying to go to sleep at like 11 o'clock.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: 10.30, 11 o'clock is my ideal time to go to sleep.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: Now that's not always going to happen because of shows
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: and whatnot, whatever. But what I've been doing is when
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: I get home from shows, Cause I'm not eating late. Um,
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: I'm just going right to bed. I get home from
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: a show, clean up, wash my face, uh, say my prayers,
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: go right to bed.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Don't scroll on the phone. Don't, uh, don't read the book.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: Maybe if I do read, if my brain is racing
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: a little bit and I need to slow down, maybe
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: I'll read for 20 minutes, but I'm trying to go
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: right to bed, get right in bed and go to sleep,
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: start a new day. So I've been getting, um, I've
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: been going to sleep, my average bedtime's like 11.30. I
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: went to sleep at, last night I went to sleep
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: at 10.57, right to sleep. Now the good thing about
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: the app, and I'm doing this with the Apple iWatch,
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: and I'm doing this with the sleep app in the phone.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: So I don't know how it records everything. It records
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: my pulse, it records my, movement.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: And it's able to.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: Tell me how much deep sleep I'm getting, how much
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: core sleep I'm getting, how much REM time, and then
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: how many times I'm waking up at night.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: And based on all that data, it's giving me.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: My sleep score. I wake up a lot to pee.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: But last night I only woke up three times. And
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: it weren't to pee. I woke up one time to pee.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: And I wake up usually like around 4, like 3.30,
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: 4 o'clock is usually when I wake up to pee.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: And I try to keep my eyes closed the whole time.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: I do my whole eyes closed things.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: Let me see.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: I woke up once at 1 a.m. I was up
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: for six minutes, it says. I woke up again at Uh,
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: I can't get, it was so brief.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: It was so brief.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: I can't even get on the, on the thing, but
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: I woke up again at, um, uh, five. That's when
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: I started hitting the snooze button. Uh, but the deep
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: sleep was, I'm trying to get an hour of deep
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: sleep a night. Last night I got Uh, let me see.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: I got 20, 30, 45. I got like 50 minutes
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: of deep sleep. It's pretty good. That's when you get your, your, um,
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: your whatchamacallit. I don't have to add it up. I
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: can just do that. All right. So core sleep, I
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: got like four hours.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: I got two hours of REM sleep and, um, Deep sleep,
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: also known as slow-wave sleep, this stage allows the body
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: to repair itself and release essential hormones. It happens in
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: longer periods. During the first half of the night, it's
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: often difficult to wake up from deep sleep because you're
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: so relaxed. Core sleep, this stage is where muscle activity
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: lowers and body temperature drops, represents the bulk of your sleep.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: While it's sometimes referred to as light sleep, it's just
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: as critical as any other deep sleep. Then it's REM.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: Studies show that REM is like the most popular. I
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: didn't know about core sleep or deep sleep. I always
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: knew about REM sleep, which I thought was like what
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: you need the most. But REM sleep may play a
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: key role in memory and refreshing your brain. It's where
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: most of your dreaming happens.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: I knew that. Your eyes will also move side to side.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: You're like.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: REM sleep first occurs about 90 minutes after falling asleep.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: So yeah I've been trying to get some.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: Core sleep deep sleep because deep sleep is when your
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: like brain is supposed to like heal itself and shit
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: so I've been getting like an average of six and
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: a half hours of sleep you know that's just the
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: way I sleep everybody always says like eight supposed to
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: be seven to eight hours of sleep I get six
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: to seven hours of sleep that's a comfortable range for
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: me get up early I'm going to the gym first
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: thing in the morning or um I'm going to pick
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: up my daughter and bring her to school some night,
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: some days. But sleep, I've been trying to focus on
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: my sleep so I feel better during the day, like consistently.
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: I want to be prepared for battle. I want to
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: be prepared to go to war every day. When I
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: say I'm going to war, I mean like all the
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: stuff you face throughout the day, all the challenges you face,
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: all the stress you face, all the temptations you face.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: You know, I just want to be prepared. I want
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: to be sharp. And I don't want to.
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: Have to be taking all kind of supplements and all,
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: you know, whatever. I don't have money for supplements and
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: all kind of shit. So I'm trying to do as
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: much as I can to take care of myself. Vitamins, creatine,
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: vitamin D, vitamin C, chugging this freaking canister of water
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: every day. 120, 140 ounces of water every day, trying
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: to be the best me because I.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: Want to be around.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: I want to be around for the child and for
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: the child's accomplishments. And I have to be the best
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: me for that. So that's my focus. That is my focus,
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: trying to be the best me I can be. Be
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: the best example that I can be.
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: Baby. Man, it's great. It's a great thing. Chugging water.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: Chugging water for the working man. So that's it.
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: Let's wrap up the pile on that note. Summer days, baby.
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: Summer is over. But it's still going to be sunny.
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: Keep that with you. Summer's over. It's still going to
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: be sunny. Winter's coming. It's still going to be sunny.
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: There's still going to be sunny days. Keep that outlook positive, baby.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: I promise you.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: Things are looking up. Thanks for listening to the pod today.
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: Check out vickisfunny.com for all my dates. I'll be at
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: the Brooklyn Improv on the 30th of September.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: This week, I.
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: Don't know when I'm going to drop this, but I'm
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: going to be at the MC Hotel in Montclair on Thursday.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: Wednesday at the Dojo of Comedy. This is the 23rd.
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: I'm probably going to put this episode tomorrow morning.
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: Fuck it. So Wednesday, Dojo of Comedy. That's the 23rd.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: The 24th, MC Hotel, Montclair. And then next week on.
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: The 30th is Brooklyn Improv with Joey Diaz. And check
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: out VicIsFunny.com for more dates.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: And Twitch.
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: Follow me on Twitch, VicTheIceMan. Watch me play video games.
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: Watch me crush it because I'm pretty damn good at
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: video games.
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: And that's it. Love you. Bye-bye. Peace out. Stay black.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: You're listening to my day of the because.