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The Bull Sessions: Vol. 3 · Bearded And Crunchy

0:19
SPEAKER_01: From Goodyear Heights to podcast listeners everywhere.
0:24
SPEAKER_00: Welcome back to Bearded and Crunchy.
0:29
SPEAKER_00: The Bull Session.
0:30
SPEAKER_00: The Bull Session.
0:31
SPEAKER_00: They have returned.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
0:34
SPEAKER_00: Not that anybody's listening currently.
0:37
SPEAKER_00: 25 for the last seven days, man.
0:40
SPEAKER_00: That's that's our worst outing since I think ever.
0:43
SPEAKER_01: Probably the sports episode because nobody gives a shit about sports.
0:47
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, nobody cares about sports anymore.
0:50
SPEAKER_00: But yeah, guys, we're back.
0:52
SPEAKER_00: We needed to we won't go into detail, but it's been a it's been a it's been a week for the both of us.
0:57
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
0:58
SPEAKER_00: Uh definitely a lot of roller coasters between the two of us.
1:01
SPEAKER_00: But um, yeah, we are currently in uh some sort of twilight zone between diarrhea lettuce and the United States smoke alert.
1:14
SPEAKER_00: I don't know what the fuck, dude.
1:16
SPEAKER_00: Between Ohio, Michigan, uh Pennsylvania, and parts of West Virginia, dude, that air quality was a mother, wasn't it?
1:26
SPEAKER_01: It's all the smoke from the Canadian wildfires.
1:29
SPEAKER_00: And it was right over Ontario, and it had that wind shift.
1:33
SPEAKER_01: Cleveland was horrible, bro.
1:35
SPEAKER_00: Well, you know, we know this, but uh Thursday was Ty's birthday, and we always love it when his birthday falls during the week.
1:45
SPEAKER_00: Um, but we took him to Kennywood, and uh that was the worst day of it uh Thursday.
1:52
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
1:53
SPEAKER_00: And I'll never forget I I woke up to take the dogs out, and I as soon as I opened the door, I noticed the the smoke, yeah.
2:01
SPEAKER_00: Um, but I just thought it was fog at first until I smelled as soon as I opened the door and I could smell.
2:07
SPEAKER_00: Did it did it smell like burnt plastic to you?
2:10
SPEAKER_00: You know what it smelled like?
2:11
SPEAKER_00: You know when you get packages nowadays and the outer package is like a cardboard box, and inside of it is like a plastic tray.
2:19
SPEAKER_00: It smelled like somebody burnt that.
2:20
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it was both, it was nice.
2:22
SPEAKER_00: And I was like, Jesus Christ, and it was bad.
2:24
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and as we were traveling, because Kennywood is east, but it's also a little south.
2:30
SPEAKER_00: Um, by the time we got to Kennywood, there was clear skies.
2:32
SPEAKER_00: But by the end of the day, it rolled in, uh, it was bad, and they were closing early because of it.
2:38
SPEAKER_00: Uh, we ended up getting free rain check tickets to come back.
2:41
SPEAKER_00: Oh, hell yeah.
2:42
SPEAKER_00: Uh, hope Kennywood never sees this, but our day was already over, and you gave us free passes to come back.
2:46
SPEAKER_00: So between that and the the uh that whatever uh uh what is it?
2:57
SPEAKER_00: Inf not infection, what was it?
2:59
SPEAKER_00: That that oh the parasite diarrhea lettuce stuff, yeah.
3:04
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, whatever.
3:04
SPEAKER_00: And at first they were freaking out, they were saying all of your veggies are bad, and even watch your fruits, and then Friday morning I seen it was traced back to shredded lettuce from Taylor Farms.
3:16
SPEAKER_00: Oh, it always ends up being that pre-bag shit, and you know, and I want to say this because this is the bull sessions.
3:23
SPEAKER_00: Quit shitting on these restaurants and saying it's their fault, right?
3:26
SPEAKER_00: It's not their fault, regardless of where they're getting it from somewhere, yeah.
3:30
SPEAKER_00: And the shit that they get is the same shit that they actually put in grocery stores too.
3:35
SPEAKER_00: You can get the same lettuce they get.
3:37
SPEAKER_00: Um but yeah, um, yeah.
3:42
SPEAKER_00: Uh fortunately, I don't think I've known anybody that got it, but they said there was a bunch of cases in Ohio.
3:49
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I don't know.
3:50
SPEAKER_00: I I didn't see or hear of anybody that actually I don't regularly eat uh shredded lettuce, so um it's I should probably eat more vegetables and shit like that, but I'm I'm a high protein kind of guy.
4:05
SPEAKER_00: Me too.
4:06
SPEAKER_00: Um I don't get a lot of fruits and vegetables.
4:08
SPEAKER_00: Um probably should.
4:10
SPEAKER_01: Get the scurvy.
4:11
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, need the citrus.
4:13
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
4:14
SPEAKER_00: But yeah, I mean what a what a crazy like, and you couldn't like it was weird too, because like I don't know, like the smoke, it just it almost seemed like the movie The Fog.
4:27
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
4:27
SPEAKER_00: Like that apocalyptic, like Yeah, it had that feel to it.
4:31
SPEAKER_00: It was like a weird orange haze.
4:34
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, well, and what that was what really did it was driving home from Kennywood and seeing the sun.
4:41
SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah, and it was it it looked like Tatooine.
4:44
SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah.
4:45
SPEAKER_00: Because of how orange it was from the haze and shit.
4:47
SPEAKER_00: I was like, oh shit, that's straight out of Star Wars.
4:49
SPEAKER_00: Nice.
4:50
SPEAKER_00: Um, but yeah, uh we uh yeah, we ended up we ended up leaving the park.
4:56
SPEAKER_00: It's about two anywhere between two hours, 15 minutes, and two and a half hours to get there, depending if you went tolls or not.
5:03
SPEAKER_01: Right.
5:04
SPEAKER_01: Um I've been there once before.
5:06
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and we uh we left about 5 30, 5 40-ish, and the boys were hungry.
5:12
SPEAKER_00: Uh so we stopped at Texas Roadhouse.
5:14
SPEAKER_00: Ooh, took them out, let him eat.
5:16
SPEAKER_00: Uh and let me say, uh, I don't think his parents oversee this, but Ty's best buddy, uh Cooper, is a treasure.
5:24
SPEAKER_00: Nice.
5:25
SPEAKER_00: He is one of the most polite kids I've ever met in my life.
5:27
SPEAKER_00: He said thank you for everything.
5:29
SPEAKER_00: He was asking about things, he's seen my uh sensor.
5:33
SPEAKER_00: Oh, he's like, Oh, what's that for?
5:35
SPEAKER_00: I was like, Well, I'm a diabetic, and he goes, and I and uh well, Rannon was actually telling him about it, and then I showed him on my phone how I can ship everything.
5:44
SPEAKER_00: He thought that was cool.
5:44
SPEAKER_01: That's a game changer for you guys.
5:46
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's it's been amazing.
5:47
SPEAKER_00: It's helped me really uh be able to regulate much better than having to prick my finger every two and a half, three hours.
5:54
SPEAKER_00: Nope, uh the tips of my fingers used to get so just tender.
5:58
SPEAKER_00: That's how my dad is hated it.
6:01
SPEAKER_00: Like even if you alternate and go back, yeah, it didn't matter, you just eventually because you're doing it two, three, sometimes four, maybe five times a day.
6:09
SPEAKER_01: But and the you know, the funny thing is is my dad fought that so hard until he was finally explained exactly what it does, and he goes, That sounds so much better than pricking my finger all the time, fingers all the time.
6:23
SPEAKER_01: It's like that's what we've been trying to tell you.
6:26
SPEAKER_00: Well, the the thing that discouraged me was the price.
6:29
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's they're so expensive.
6:31
SPEAKER_00: Well, they're dropping now.
6:32
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, um, I used to pay 120 something for five um and they last fifth 14 days, yeah.
6:40
SPEAKER_00: Um, but the last time I got the five, it was$99.
6:44
SPEAKER_00: And I was like, holy shit, it dropped.
6:46
SPEAKER_00: That's and then I realized I had seen a commercial.
6:49
SPEAKER_00: It right now it's only Dexcom and the Freestyle Libre 3.
6:53
SPEAKER_00: There's another one on the market.
6:54
SPEAKER_00: So they were like, oh shit, we got more competition, we should probably lower our prices.
6:58
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so that's kind of what I figured happened there, but whatever saves me money.
7:02
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no kids.
7:02
SPEAKER_00: You know, I'm for especially because in these batch, uh, the first one that I got, um, it ended up I forget how it happened, but it ended up malfunctioning, and I had to replace it.
7:16
SPEAKER_00: And then because I sweat so bad um at Kennywood and that, it started to release yesterday.
7:24
SPEAKER_00: Oh uh, and I had to pull it off.
7:26
SPEAKER_00: And I actually had to have typically Rihannan helps me, um, but I had to have Ty put a new one on, so I had to waste two.
7:33
SPEAKER_00: I can get a hold of them and they'll they'll replace them, and I'm gonna do that.
7:36
SPEAKER_00: But dude, this last week was just so busy, and you know, I have to prep for this week because Rihanna's out of town taking care of her aunt.
7:43
SPEAKER_00: So but yeah, it's it's been a hell of a week.
7:46
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
7:47
SPEAKER_00: Uh but good news on you.
7:49
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
7:50
SPEAKER_00: Tell everybody the good news.
7:51
SPEAKER_01: Well, unfortunately, I had to turn that job down in Ravenna.
7:54
SPEAKER_01: That that is unfortunate.
7:56
SPEAKER_01: It was a little bit far of a drive through the uh through the boonies and the sticks to go work.
8:01
SPEAKER_01: And my car's kind of a piece of shit most of the time.
8:06
SPEAKER_01: Uh, but I found um this place up in Brexville, which is literally three minutes further than my former job.
8:13
SPEAKER_01: And it's all highway, and it's doing I don't want to say less, but it's it's less BS and more get the job done.
8:23
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean it's driving, but I would also end up doing some shipping stuff in the warehouse, which that's what I did at a a couple jobs ago.
8:31
SPEAKER_01: I remember that.
8:33
SPEAKER_01: And bro, I I interviewed with the guy on Thursday, and he goes, Well, I got three more interviews today and one tomorrow.
8:42
SPEAKER_01: Probably end up calling you tomorrow.
8:44
SPEAKER_01: I I wish I could just offer it to you right now because you fit everything that I need.
8:50
SPEAKER_01: You check all of my boxes, and you're really easy to talk to.
8:54
SPEAKER_01: And I could have told him that.
8:56
SPEAKER_01: Well, here's the here's the funny part, because I felt like a whore.
9:00
SPEAKER_01: I said, Funny you should mention talking.
9:02
SPEAKER_01: Oh, he did it.
9:04
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, me and my friend have this have this podcast that we do.
9:07
SPEAKER_01: Did you pop your stranger sharing?
9:14
SPEAKER_01: And he goes, that's pretty awesome.
9:16
SPEAKER_01: He goes, it was almost like allow me to retort.
9:21
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
9:22
SPEAKER_01: He goes, I have a nice little following on my YouTube channel.
9:27
SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, alright, touche.
9:29
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
9:29
SPEAKER_01: So we laughed about that and talked, and he's like, dude, you're awesome.
9:33
SPEAKER_01: Like I'm I want to hire you.
9:35
SPEAKER_01: I can't, like, I gotta do my due diligence and get these other guys.
9:39
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
9:40
SPEAKER_01: I get a call at like four till four on Thursday, and he goes, Well, I'm just calling to let you know that the job is yours.
9:49
SPEAKER_01: Um, the other three interviews didn't even bother to show up, and I talked to my boss and he goes, Hire you.
9:54
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, Oh, sweet.
9:56
SPEAKER_01: So, yeah, I get to start tomorrow.
9:59
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's a yeah, and that's another thing.
10:01
SPEAKER_00: It was a quick turnaround.
10:03
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, you know, as much as that that one job would have been a decent job, a little bit of a further drive.
10:09
SPEAKER_00: You had to wait a while and then you know you get anxious and you start thinking, you know.
10:14
SPEAKER_00: Like for you, I I know you were probably worried about the drive, so you're like, God damn.
10:18
SPEAKER_00: And then the more you had to wait, it's like you couldn't really get a test of would it make it long term going back and forth from here and stuff like that.
10:26
SPEAKER_00: So I know that that could have been an issue.
10:28
SPEAKER_00: But you know what?
10:29
SPEAKER_00: We're it doesn't matter, we're all happy, you know.
10:31
SPEAKER_00: You're baby, you know, you can get back into the workforce.
10:34
SPEAKER_01: I've been going stir crazy sitting at home trying to, you know, figure things out, and it's like I feel bad because I feel like my wife is shouldering all of the burden right now.
10:43
SPEAKER_00: Well, and and you know, now that you say that, like, you know, that just sh shows your character.
10:49
SPEAKER_00: But you know, I think we've we've mentioned this in past episodes, but I think that's what a lot of people forget about is that like that's that's why you get in a relationship.
10:59
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, because when somebody's down the other, you know, I I've said this to you and I've said this to you on this podcast, right?
11:05
SPEAKER_00: It's not 50-50, right?
11:07
SPEAKER_00: It's not even a hundred-hundred.
11:08
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, right now, yeah, when it comes to like uh as far as financially is concerned, your wife's holding the whole load for now.
11:15
SPEAKER_00: Right.
11:16
SPEAKER_00: But that's how it goes.
11:17
SPEAKER_00: But there's been times when you've had to do that, right?
11:19
SPEAKER_00: That's what that's what you do in a relationship.
11:22
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you you you pick up that whatever's going on in in your partner's life and and and you carry them while they need you to, right so they can get them, you know.
11:31
SPEAKER_00: So don't I and and again, there's nothing wrong with feeling the way you do, but you know, I you're doing what you can.
11:38
SPEAKER_00: I mean, like, bro, you were you told what'd you tell me that first day you put it like what 40?
11:43
SPEAKER_00: What'd you text me?
11:43
SPEAKER_00: I don't remember what you said.
11:44
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it was something like 25, 30.
11:47
SPEAKER_01: I knew it was something.
11:47
SPEAKER_01: That was a lot.
11:48
SPEAKER_00: I mean, it was it was more than I probably would have.
11:50
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I was hitting everything just trying to find because I felt like getting let go from a job I wasn't expecting from you know from calling off on a Saturday because you're my back hurt?
12:00
SPEAKER_01: It's like I mean it's cool.
12:02
SPEAKER_01: Like we we talked about it a couple episodes ago.
12:04
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but uh again, man, like and I had PTO to cover it.
12:08
SPEAKER_00: That's the the fucked up thing.
12:10
SPEAKER_00: That that's to me, that's where they like I feel like I mean ultimately there's nothing you can do right because I mean most of these places can fire you for whatever reason.
12:22
SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, it's in all of their code of conduct and their pilot.
12:25
SPEAKER_00: You don't like the color of your your shoes.
12:27
SPEAKER_00: Bro, you could come in and they'll be like, Man, you didn't shave right, you're fired.
12:30
SPEAKER_00: I mean, it doesn't matter.
12:32
SPEAKER_00: Right.
12:33
SPEAKER_00: Um, that's why when I was going through this Meneer shit, I wanted that um the FMLA and the uh to where I can work from home without it counting against me, because it's like you know, and that's where you know, as much as I think they don't serve the same purposes they used to, that's what unions were for.
12:50
SPEAKER_00: It was to save the worker.
12:51
SPEAKER_00: Um I agree.
12:52
SPEAKER_00: I mean it's not like nowhere near what it I mean it is, but it it depends on what sector you're working in.
12:59
SPEAKER_00: Well, and and I also think that some of them really do use the system to to basically allow some of these union workers to basically do nothing.
13:11
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
13:12
SPEAKER_00: Now, I'm not saying they're all like that, but you know, there's people like that everywhere.
13:16
SPEAKER_01: So but I I'll tell you a quick story.
13:18
SPEAKER_01: I have a great uncle who worked for Chrysler for damn near 30 years, and they would work overtime on Saturdays once in a while.
13:30
SPEAKER_01: And I love the guy because he was he's just a he's I mean, he's still alive, he's in his 80s.
13:38
SPEAKER_01: But super down-to-earth guy, completely different than my great aunt, who was uh surprisingly my grandmother's sister, and they couldn't be polar opposites.
13:47
SPEAKER_01: Like my grandmother just was a sweet lady, she loved everybody, she was a little, you know, a little German lady.
13:53
SPEAKER_01: Her sister was like Cruella Deville.
13:56
SPEAKER_01: I mean, she was literally it was everything about money, money, money, money, money, and she I can never remember her ever working.
14:04
SPEAKER_01: Wow, my whole entire life until she died in 08.
14:08
SPEAKER_01: My uncle worked again through Chrysler, but he would work overtime on Saturdays, and they literally on his part of the line, they would sit there and play cards at a at a card table and they would have whatever part roll through, and they'd have to go and do like four bolts.
14:26
SPEAKER_01: And mind you, that's making like forty-five-fifty bucks an hour on overtime.
14:32
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
14:33
SPEAKER_01: And that's where that gets me as like you know, UAW is strong, and that's a great union to be into if you, you know, oh yeah if you can get in that and do auto stuff.
14:43
SPEAKER_00: Jermaine was in that.
14:44
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but man, come on, to do four bolts on a Saturday.
14:48
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and well, and that's well, and unfortunately, I think that's probably why they went to robots.
14:53
SPEAKER_00: Oh, of course, of course.
14:54
SPEAKER_00: Jermaine worked for Goodyear.
14:56
SPEAKER_00: Oh, nice.
14:56
SPEAKER_00: For I I think eight, nine years.
14:59
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
15:00
SPEAKER_00: Um, and he he had to utilize the union a couple of times, and it it definitely helped him out and stuff like that.
15:10
SPEAKER_00: Matter of fact, I'm I think his mom or Amy's mom, she worked there, or no.
15:18
SPEAKER_00: Somebody that was I can't remember.
15:20
SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna get it wrong, so I'm not gonna go there.
15:22
SPEAKER_00: But yeah, um, I I've never even been in a situation to to work for a union, so I I don't I mean, I I know the basics of how they work and all that shit.
15:32
SPEAKER_00: I know many a times if Jermaine had emergencies come up, I mean a lot of his kids were little when he was working there, um, they really covered him when he needed to keep his job.
15:44
SPEAKER_01: But it again it depends on what sector.
15:47
SPEAKER_01: Like I was uh I was a teamster at Schwabels and they didn't do shit for me.
15:53
SPEAKER_01: But I turn around and I go, well, my dad was a teamster for almost 25 years, and he was uh he was a union steward.
16:00
SPEAKER_01: I mean, if anything happened, he was at work, he was the guy you went to.
16:04
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
16:04
SPEAKER_01: And he brought everything to the union, you know, for grievances and everything, and you know, he loved being in a union, and it did protect a lot of stuff in his job over the years.
16:14
SPEAKER_01: I had a completely different experience, you know, as a teamster, and I can tell you uh my buddy CJ, uh he's an electrician, so he's IBEW and he loves it.
16:25
SPEAKER_01: They protect the hell out of their guys, but they make really good money too, because it's a serious trade.
16:30
SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, I don't know.
16:31
SPEAKER_01: You know.
16:32
SPEAKER_01: So again, it it's depending on what sector you're in, uh, you know, job-wise and everything, depending on the union, it could be great.
16:40
SPEAKER_01: Or it could be why am I paying my union dues?
16:43
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
16:44
SPEAKER_00: It just depends.
16:45
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, like I said, I've never I mean, hell, where I'm at now is the first job I've had a salary ever.
16:51
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
16:52
SPEAKER_00: Uh I've been paid hourly my entire life up to that point.
16:55
SPEAKER_00: So um, but you know, like I said, they serve their purpose.
17:02
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes.
17:02
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's a little dusty.
17:03
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they have a thousand up here.
17:06
SPEAKER_00: But, you know, again, I I you know, I I never got into a trade or anything like that.
17:12
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
17:13
SPEAKER_00: Looking back, I kind of wish I would I mean it all it all worked out now.
17:16
SPEAKER_00: Sure.
17:17
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I'm an engineer technically, so you know, I mean, I I do more design than engineer type work, but I do have to put some of the shit together that I that I designed.
17:27
SPEAKER_01: But but you you earned that ability and and that's your craft, and you make good money at it.
17:33
SPEAKER_01: I I I definitely don't make bad money out of it.
17:36
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I'm not rich by any means.
17:37
SPEAKER_00: I mean if I were to But you make a good living.
17:39
SPEAKER_00: If I were to go out on my own, I would probably live in you'd be fine.
17:42
SPEAKER_00: I I hope.
17:43
SPEAKER_00: I I've been looking at like apartments.
17:47
SPEAKER_00: I really I really would I want a home to rent when I go out on my own.
17:52
SPEAKER_00: Like I I want a place for Ty to come and I want to have an office for for maybe this.
17:57
SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, especially if you stayed close or well I'm I'm gonna put it all out there.
18:03
SPEAKER_00: Um after me and Rihanna had decided to split after Ty graduated, I I was gonna go south.
18:11
SPEAKER_00: Oh.
18:12
SPEAKER_00: Um, but then this happened.
18:16
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
18:16
SPEAKER_00: And um I I I wouldn't walk away from this for all the money in the world.
18:22
SPEAKER_01: So um give it a couple more abysmal weeks, you might change your mind.
18:26
SPEAKER_00: No, no, especially after this past week.
18:30
SPEAKER_00: I need this, yeah.
18:32
SPEAKER_00: And and I think there's gonna come times when when you oh well you have.
18:36
SPEAKER_00: I must say, what was it?
18:37
SPEAKER_00: I don't know if it was last week or the week before, but like you were you were you were ready.
18:42
SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah.
18:42
SPEAKER_00: Um but um yeah guys, listen.
18:47
SPEAKER_00: Download, like, comment, come on.
18:50
SPEAKER_01: It's it's like it you know what's really funny, I always laugh about uh because we're doing a bowl session, I can kind of say this shit on here.
18:58
SPEAKER_01: I don't give a shit.
18:59
SPEAKER_01: Right.
18:59
SPEAKER_01: But I I really it it it always it makes me laugh.
19:02
SPEAKER_01: I I look at you know the promos you put up and then the clips you put up after the episodes come out on you know Instagram and TikTok, and I see that sometimes it'll have like a hundred and like fifty views on you know either one of those platforms, sometimes over 200.
19:19
SPEAKER_01: And I'm like so we can take the time to watch a video clip and either a hard emoji it or even leave a comment, but we can't listen to the fucking episode.
19:32
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I mean like that's where yeah, like we're never gonna get paid off of that shit.
19:36
SPEAKER_00: I don't understand it.
19:37
SPEAKER_00: I don't either, and and like it will look at the views on YouTube.
19:40
SPEAKER_01: I know, like the the first music episode has almost 400.
19:45
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and it's like okay, yeah, cool, thanks for watching.
19:50
SPEAKER_00: Well, and and you know, again, this is a bull session so we can say, you know, like obviously we didn't get into it to be successful, right?
19:58
SPEAKER_00: Not that it wasn't something that we wanted, but it wasn't why we started it, it's definitely not, and and I I'm not gonna lie, especially with the week that I've had, right, and then this it's been a tough week for me.
20:10
SPEAKER_01: I know, I know.
20:11
SPEAKER_01: I remember texting you early on in the week when the episode dropped, and I'm like, eh, kind of rust.
20:18
SPEAKER_00: I mean, we are hitting hard of hard of camping and vacation season.
20:23
SPEAKER_00: Wait till fall.
20:24
SPEAKER_00: Um, but we did get a new location.
20:26
SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you saw that.
20:27
SPEAKER_00: I did not.
20:27
SPEAKER_00: Whereas Virginia.
20:29
SPEAKER_00: Oh.
20:29
SPEAKER_00: I was wondering if that was and it was the bull session.
20:33
SPEAKER_01: Who's listening in West Virginia to the bull session?
20:36
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
20:36
SPEAKER_01: Unless they thought it was something about a bull.
20:38
SPEAKER_00: I only know of two people in West Virginia that even know we have a podcast.
20:44
SPEAKER_00: Okay, and that's Rannon's Aunt Sherry, where she's at taking care of her and her cousin, who her Aunt Sherry is her grandma.
20:52
SPEAKER_00: Oh, you think maybe lives in Morgantown and comes down to Oakens where her aunt lives.
21:00
SPEAKER_00: And uh those are the only two that know that I do it.
21:05
SPEAKER_00: Oh um, I just don't understand why that would be the one they would download.
21:10
SPEAKER_00: Maybe I don't care, thank you.
21:13
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, um, but yeah, there was that, and then Brazil.
21:17
SPEAKER_00: We never talked about Brazil.
21:19
SPEAKER_00: I knew Brasilia, yeah.
21:20
SPEAKER_00: We we got somebody from from Brasilia.
21:23
SPEAKER_01: Uh and that was the bull sessions.
21:25
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
21:26
SPEAKER_00: I don't understand these bull sessions.
21:28
SPEAKER_00: I don't know what people were expecting out of them.
21:30
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
21:30
SPEAKER_00: It's just two guys.
21:33
SPEAKER_00: That's literally what it's about.
21:35
SPEAKER_00: We're dumbasses, man.
21:36
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I mean, but uh I guess that's what we'll we'll we'll take the rest of it away.
21:42
SPEAKER_00: It's like, guys, we we need your help, man.
21:44
SPEAKER_00: Like, I'm not asking to be Joe Rogan, but like tell your people about us.
21:50
SPEAKER_00: Like, I mean, I gotta be honest, like, and and and Bob can attest to this.
21:54
SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't feel like anything I do is quality anything.
21:58
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, the shit that we're putting out is good.
22:00
SPEAKER_00: Good shit.
22:00
SPEAKER_00: It's fun, yeah.
22:01
SPEAKER_00: Like the it's only getting better.
22:04
SPEAKER_00: Well, with quality-wise, with our um what's the word determination to make this shit be perfect?
22:13
SPEAKER_00: I feel like what we're putting out is good.
22:15
SPEAKER_00: If you look at everything from how we're recording, yeah, how in the beginning we just compressed, now we're doing other things, to how my editing.
22:25
SPEAKER_00: I went back and looked.
22:28
SPEAKER_00: Remember, I told you, I said I'm leaving these up so I could go back and look.
22:32
SPEAKER_00: When I looked at that, I could smack my old self for how shitty that was that I put that up.
22:38
SPEAKER_00: The very first one I did, there's about 20 seconds of just black space at the end of it.
22:43
SPEAKER_01: Is that is that uh episode three?
22:45
SPEAKER_01: That's the first one.
22:46
SPEAKER_00: No, no, no.
22:46
SPEAKER_00: It's the very, very first time when I was talking about our our podcast coming and it had the big weapon and shit, and it was like that one.
22:55
SPEAKER_00: There's literally like 20 seconds of just black screen at the end of it because I didn't know what I was doing.
23:00
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, now I mean I still don't know what I'm doing, but I don't do that.
23:05
SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
23:06
SPEAKER_00: I'm yeah, but now, bro, it's it's it's made I got the greatest compliment of my life when Bob's son said, Whoever does your editing does a good job.
23:17
SPEAKER_00: Bro, that made my week.
23:19
SPEAKER_00: But that's an eight-year-old.
23:20
SPEAKER_00: And it was honest, yes, because he didn't know I did that.
23:23
SPEAKER_01: There's no filter on an eight-year-old.
23:24
SPEAKER_01: You know, he didn't know, and he didn't know exactly.
23:26
SPEAKER_01: And I said, buddy, I said, I said, Eric does the editing.
23:29
SPEAKER_01: He goes, Oh, that's awesome.
23:32
SPEAKER_01: Tell him he's doing a great job.
23:33
SPEAKER_00: Dude, that was the best shit I could ever.
23:36
SPEAKER_00: That was so good.
23:37
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he made me laugh with that.
23:39
SPEAKER_00: He made me feel really, really, really good about that.
23:41
SPEAKER_01: He was watching um he was watching one of the episodes on my TV the other day.
23:46
SPEAKER_01: And uh, yeah, which one was it?
23:49
SPEAKER_00: I figured the ones like the toys and the movies ones, those would be ones he could really get into.
23:54
SPEAKER_01: I think it was the second music episode he was watching, and some of the cuts and stuff you had done, and some of the effects and shit, and he goes, Yeah, that's really cool.
24:02
SPEAKER_01: That's a good job.
24:04
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's not gonna be, just so you guys know, uh, you know, I'm still learning how to edit, so you guys are gonna see how I say this almost every episode, but how the Kool-Aid is made.
24:15
SPEAKER_00: Right.
24:15
SPEAKER_00: Um, but I had no idea how to fucking edit video.
24:19
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
24:19
SPEAKER_00: Like Bob had to teach me how to do audio.
24:21
SPEAKER_00: I got that pretty much down, but neither one of us had ever edited video.
24:25
SPEAKER_00: I mean, outside of maybe an app here.
24:27
SPEAKER_00: Right, right.
24:28
SPEAKER_00: Um, but um uh I've gotten to the point now where I at least like now I know there's an auto sync, and now um, so I try to put as much much you know effort into it as I can.
24:43
SPEAKER_00: So I mean, guys, please, like I'm I'm I'm gonna be that guy now.
24:49
SPEAKER_00: Just whore out our podcast, tell everybody you know.
24:53
SPEAKER_00: I mean, guys, we talk about a variety of topics in our main episodes.
24:57
SPEAKER_00: These bull sessions are us just talking about whatever the fuck we want to in that moment, just talking shit.
25:02
SPEAKER_00: Um, I mean, typically we record these during the week or whatever, yeah, and we're recording this on a normal recording day because I needed it.
25:10
SPEAKER_00: You were down for it.
25:11
SPEAKER_00: We had been talking about slowing down the main episodes because we're a little ahead.
25:15
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, did you wouldn't want a Sunday this and stay in there?
25:17
SPEAKER_00: And like I like the bull sessions because I don't feel and not that like guys, our main episodes are great.
25:24
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I like I am a very like I can get chaotic in my world very easy, and Bob can attest to this.
25:32
SPEAKER_00: He knows I'm very routine with how I do shit.
25:35
SPEAKER_00: And so having an outline episode is is great for me.
25:40
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but these episodes are dope because it gets to see really those episodes were what we're turning our empire into.
25:49
SPEAKER_00: These bull sessions are what Bearded and Crunchy started as.
25:53
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and then this is where I think we're always gonna come back to that.
25:57
SPEAKER_00: This is you know where like we're gonna feel like this is our root.
26:02
SPEAKER_00: Yep and who knows?
26:03
SPEAKER_00: If these start blowing up, it might just be the be the norm, it might have to, and then we and we uh uh sprinkle in some of the other stuff.
26:12
SPEAKER_00: But I do enjoy those.
26:14
SPEAKER_00: I enjoyed struggling to come up with a topic and then finding one and going, oh shit, that's good.
26:19
SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
26:20
SPEAKER_00: It's good, yeah.
26:20
SPEAKER_00: It's fun.
26:21
SPEAKER_00: Um, just so you guys know, we're not gonna stop.
26:23
SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm serious, and and Bob, I'll make this commitment to you.
26:26
SPEAKER_00: We'll we're gonna be doing this for years if we get zero every week forever.
26:29
SPEAKER_00: We're not, because we do have family and friends that love us that will listen to us regardless.
26:34
SPEAKER_00: But uh we we want we're at the point now with the couple of spurts that we've had because we've had two two weeks since we've done this, especially that really crazy one.
26:48
SPEAKER_00: Bro, right, where we got some spikes that it's obvious that people want to listen.
26:53
SPEAKER_00: And and I've said this before, like you guys listening is absolutely great.
27:00
SPEAKER_00: The problem is we have no visuals on that.
27:03
SPEAKER_00: We have no right, we have no uh documentation, we have no nothing.
27:09
SPEAKER_00: Like we don't the only thing we have is where you're listening, yeah, what you're or where you're downloading, what you're downloading on, and what episodes you're downloading.
27:21
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
27:22
SPEAKER_00: Um, so unfortunately, I gotta keep bringing it up, but download the episodes.
27:28
SPEAKER_00: Um and I'll let you in on a secret on Apple Podcasts.
27:34
SPEAKER_00: I download them my on my personal I'm sorry, I'm gonna do it.
27:38
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, um, and you have to go in and check because there have been weeks.
27:41
SPEAKER_00: Yes, even though I have auto, no, I have auto-download on or it didn't do it, but there are some weeks when it just doesn't download, and I have to go in and download it.
27:50
SPEAKER_00: So even if you have auto downloads, check that.
27:53
SPEAKER_00: Um where are we at on time, Bob?
27:55
SPEAKER_00: Uh 28 minutes.
27:57
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we could probably shoot the shit a couple more minutes about whatever the fuck.
28:01
SPEAKER_00: Is there anything else that was going on?
28:03
SPEAKER_00: Well, I mean, there was a heat wave in the middle of we forgot about that.
28:06
SPEAKER_00: Fuck, bro.
28:07
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it was supposed to be even hotter than it ended up getting, but I I will tell you this.
28:11
SPEAKER_01: My sister came up last weekend with her husband, which was cool, and I got to spend uh an afternoon with my uncle from Texas I hadn't seen in 25 years.
28:22
SPEAKER_01: And I will tell you this, I'll get to him in a second.
28:26
SPEAKER_01: Her and my sister and her husband brought an air conditioner up for us.
28:31
SPEAKER_01: And the same one that's in here, I think, but the one I have is a little bit bigger, it's like 14,000 BTUs.
28:37
SPEAKER_01: And bro, I replaced the one in my dining room with that.
28:41
SPEAKER_01: And I can tell you the the days that we were up like 96 degrees, my house was 70 from this air conditioner.
28:49
SPEAKER_01: Oh, it was beautiful because I didn't feel like I was dying sitting in my chair.
28:55
SPEAKER_01: It was like 70 and cool, and I'm like, ooh, this is ness.
29:00
SPEAKER_01: I can actually sit here and watch TV or play a video game and not want to die.
29:04
SPEAKER_01: But anyways, back to my uncle.
29:08
SPEAKER_01: He used to talk uh music with my grandpa all the time.
29:12
SPEAKER_01: That was the that was their thing.
29:15
SPEAKER_01: And I would talk music with my grandpa too.
29:19
SPEAKER_01: When we would talk, which wasn't, you know, I had a strained relationship with him, more my choice than anything.
29:25
SPEAKER_01: If I had to take it back, I would do it over again.
29:28
SPEAKER_01: I would get through my petty bullshit.
29:30
SPEAKER_01: Hindsight's always and he died in 2021 at 88 years old.
29:35
SPEAKER_01: And so, anyways, I got a chance to talk with my uncle, like I said, hadn't seen in a quarter of a century.
29:42
SPEAKER_01: Hard to believe that.
29:45
SPEAKER_01: And we got to talking, and it was awesome because I started naming like prog bands, which for those of you that don't know, it's progressive rock or progressive metal, it's you know, that it doesn't follow the typical um like note scale, like how you structure us.
30:07
SPEAKER_01: They're just it's it's a different way to approach music, is all it one of the biggest I would say prog bands is rush.
30:14
SPEAKER_01: I don't like rush, I don't either.
30:16
SPEAKER_00: But you could probably they consider Pink Floyd a prog band.
30:19
SPEAKER_00: I would I would see that.
30:20
SPEAKER_00: I mean they were so experimental with the shit that they were doing, and some people consider tool like that.
30:25
SPEAKER_01: I I would agree with that as well.
30:27
SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
30:28
SPEAKER_01: But we got into talking about bands like Dream Theater and Porcupine Tree and things like that that the more underground, lesser.
30:38
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
30:38
SPEAKER_01: Well, Dream Theaters, like yeah, they're well known.
30:41
SPEAKER_01: Like I would recommend totally listening to Dream.
30:43
SPEAKER_00: I've listened into Dream Theater with that.
30:45
SPEAKER_01: They're awesome.
30:45
SPEAKER_00: Um, Steve.
30:46
SPEAKER_00: Oh, he liked he liked Dream Theater at Highcom.
30:50
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
30:50
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he that's badass, dude.
30:52
SPEAKER_00: He was he was he was you I I wish he was a big guitar guy.
30:57
SPEAKER_00: I wish you would have been able to get to talk to him more.
30:59
SPEAKER_00: I know.
31:00
SPEAKER_00: Um only just in passing, man.
31:01
SPEAKER_00: But still, but he was yeah, but anyway.
31:04
SPEAKER_00: Good dude.
31:04
SPEAKER_00: Uh but yeah, it's um that that that that's awesome.
31:08
SPEAKER_00: You had told me that like you spent like three hours and yeah, and you had mentioned that uh he was a big Pink Floyd fan.
31:14
SPEAKER_00: He is when I when I texted you, I said I'd love to pick his brain because like bro, you know me.
31:19
SPEAKER_00: We've talked about this.
31:20
SPEAKER_00: I don't have an addictive personality, I have an accessory personality.
31:24
SPEAKER_00: I have read 12, 14 books on Pink Floyd.
31:27
SPEAKER_00: I've watched every documentary I get my hands.
31:29
SPEAKER_00: I know a lot, so I would love to talk because he lived through it, right?
31:33
SPEAKER_01: You know, like my dad did, and he was a big fan, so it it would have it would be nice to find somebody like that that I could pick their brain and see what they you would have loved getting a chance to talk to my grandpa too, because my grandpa, surprisingly, you know, having been born in the 30s, he loved Pink Floyd.
31:51
SPEAKER_01: That's crazy.
31:51
SPEAKER_01: I wouldn't guess that people hated them back then.
31:54
SPEAKER_01: I'm you know, we've talked about it here.
31:56
SPEAKER_01: I I'm not the biggest fan.
31:57
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Rannon doesn't really like them either.
32:00
SPEAKER_01: There's there's probably about ten songs for me that are like they're great.
32:05
SPEAKER_01: The rest of it for me, I'm kind of like, eh, what else is on the radio?
32:08
SPEAKER_00: Well, you know, the problem too is is from Dark Side of the Moon Um all the way up to the Endless River in 06, which is the last one they did, and that was also the last one before.
32:19
SPEAKER_00: There's only two members.
32:20
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
32:21
SPEAKER_00: Well, I take that back.
32:22
SPEAKER_00: There's three members because Roger Rogers, but right, um, but they're concept albums.
32:27
SPEAKER_00: It's not like music today where it's an album full of singles.
32:31
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's just not how they make music.
32:33
SPEAKER_00: Right, one song flows into the other.
32:35
SPEAKER_00: Like, perfect example.
32:36
SPEAKER_00: Like, a lot of people skip the great gig in the sky on Dark Side of the Moon because it's just a girl, like, I don't want to say screaming, but she's just you know, belting out, and it's like, but that's it's part of the ambiance of the whole album.
32:51
SPEAKER_00: So I I I can totally see that, but that would be that would be fun.
32:55
SPEAKER_00: But I guess on that, we'll we'll close this bull session out.
32:59
SPEAKER_00: Um, it's dude, I love these.
33:02
SPEAKER_00: I feel so much better.
33:03
SPEAKER_00: Then they're like well, and you know, you know why, but I've you know, I've had a rough week and and I've I've had a lot of anxiety and knots in my stomach, and for the first time in a couple of days, they're kind of gone.
33:15
SPEAKER_00: Well, maybe you'll seem good tonight.
33:17
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, maybe that's what we do it for, yeah, for sure.
33:20
SPEAKER_00: I this is we've said it before, we'll say it again.
33:22
SPEAKER_00: This is therapy.
33:23
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, maybe maybe later on it it it it might come out what we talked about.
33:27
SPEAKER_01: Right now, that's for us to know, and you do not.
33:31
SPEAKER_00: I think that'll probably stay between us.
33:33
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, probably.
33:34
SPEAKER_00: Regardless, that's fine.
33:36
SPEAKER_00: It's fun for y'all to wonder.
33:37
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
33:38
SPEAKER_02: Um it's like the mysterious yeah.
33:40
SPEAKER_00: So does Eric have an offensive joke?
33:44
SPEAKER_02: Do you do you got a joke today?
33:46
SPEAKER_00: I think I got one number joke.
33:48
SPEAKER_02: Oh yeah, I can't wait to hear this.
33:50
SPEAKER_00: All right, so why don't orphans play basically?
34:04
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.