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The Value of Genuine Connections · Stay Outta My Fridge

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  Speaker 1: What are the odds that the song in my brain
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  Speaker 1: is the song that you're listening to, and I hope
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  Speaker 1: it gets stuck in everybody's brain. What's the song?
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  Speaker 2: Brandon Funky cole Medina. I've got a Greatest Hits from
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  Speaker 2: the Eighties CD in my car and I didn't buy it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know where it came from. I've been listening
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  Speaker 2: to that and spin me right round, baby, right round,
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  Speaker 2: while all the truckers in four f one fifties look
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  Speaker 2: at me like, I'm like gonna get stoned if my
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  Speaker 2: car comes to a halt.
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  Speaker 1: Why aren't you playing jelly roll boy? Actually? I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what kind of what kind of music? Obviously you
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  Speaker 1: are in the business where you have a station that
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  Speaker 1: plays music other than that. Like what's the popular I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it is the most popular radio station there. Make sure
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  Speaker 1: you guys go jugging out Brandon's blah blah lah. But
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  Speaker 1: like what's popular in your parts? Like for us, it's country.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of classic rock, because I mean we're kind
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  Speaker 1: of hickesh up here.
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  Speaker 2: Same it's it's country, but you get some you get
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  Speaker 2: some classic rock. I mean, it would probably be a
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  Speaker 2: sixty forty sixty five thirty five somewhere in there split
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  Speaker 2: of country to rock and then yeah know, then you
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  Speaker 2: get your weirdo's. You're ten, twelve, fifteen percent of folks
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  Speaker 2: that are listening to like Lady Gaga or these other
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  Speaker 2: people that if you noticed artists these days, musical artists
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  Speaker 2: have like names that you don't understand, you feel. I
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  Speaker 2: felt so old looking at the like top Spotify artists
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  Speaker 2: like Sizza or or pull.
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  Speaker 1: That up, dude Spotify. So the one that tripped me
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  Speaker 1: up was the oldest kept following and was borderline like
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  Speaker 1: posters and stuff, which I love. How many kids are
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  Speaker 1: still hanging posters of musicians in their room. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: she's doing this. I enjoyed that, but it was like
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  Speaker 1: J nine x N or something like that, And I'm
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  Speaker 1: like Jane nine, like I spent and way too long
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  Speaker 1: to try to. So if it was j X nine
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  Speaker 1: and E or something, what would you think.
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  Speaker 2: It would be?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, j X nine, I'm pretty sure was. Let me
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  Speaker 1: see j X nine j X. I think it's I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if that's the same one j X and
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  Speaker 1: I think there was a maybe it was j I.
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  Speaker 1: It was it was letters and numbers and apparently, let
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  Speaker 1: me see if maybe this is okay. Sorry, j x
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  Speaker 1: d N, no letter, no numbers, j x d N.
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  Speaker 1: Jixton was like then, I was like, maybe it stands
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  Speaker 1: for something like just x ray in D's knuckleheads or something.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I couldn't I couldn't think of anything.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't think of anything, and apparently it's Jayden, that's
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  Speaker 1: what she told me. I don't know how true it is.
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  Speaker 1: The dude's names Jayden. So I was just like j XD.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, that's stupid. I don't know. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: get it, but she was, It's funny even as us
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  Speaker 1: a team, did you go through like different almost like
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  Speaker 1: phases of life where you know, like maybe you went
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  Speaker 1: from like the nerd to the athlete to the this
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  Speaker 1: or that, like when when the oldest went through all
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  Speaker 1: the roller coasters like an emo stage, which I love
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  Speaker 1: bringing up and not a not a big fan of
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  Speaker 1: me bringing that one up, but holy Kyle was a
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  Speaker 1: drastic changes and I'm like, what am I doing wrong
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  Speaker 1: in life? And apparently it's normal for girls.
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  Speaker 2: So I'd like to consider myself not a poser. I
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  Speaker 2: literally dressed in cargo shorts, T shirts and hats and
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  Speaker 2: sneakers like a fucking gym teacher. Like that's I've been
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  Speaker 2: called that since I was about eighteen years old, and
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  Speaker 2: that's the way I've always dressed. But and I used
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  Speaker 2: to hang out with the emo crowd, the scene crowd.
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  Speaker 2: You don't know what I'm talking about. Oh yeah, But there
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  Speaker 2: was one day, one day and about two though and
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  Speaker 2: four ish five somewhere around there, I put on girl
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  Speaker 2: pants because that's what they used to do back in
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  Speaker 2: the day.
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  Speaker 1: The boy skinny jean.
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  Speaker 2: Yes jeans, yeah, And I did the little like comb
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  Speaker 2: over part, and I was like going to do like
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  Speaker 2: the emo thing, you know, like to go to a
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  Speaker 2: show that night. And my cousin God damn him this
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  Speaker 2: and said, you look like Nathan Lane and I was like,
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  Speaker 2: and I scribbled my hair out. I took those pants off,
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  Speaker 2: put on my jim shorts, and I went to the
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  Speaker 2: fuck out that was. It was the worst day of
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  Speaker 2: my life. And we still joke about.
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  Speaker 1: That and make it out in public, right because it
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  Speaker 1: could have been worse. There could have been photos. One
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  Speaker 1: time in my entire life, I was like, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: do something cool with my hair. I'm gonna do something.
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  Speaker 1: Because I always prided myself as I'm a leader, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not a follower. But everybody was getting a haircut, the
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  Speaker 1: bowl cut, and I wanted to be like the bowl cut,
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  Speaker 1: and they were all doing it, all the soccer players,
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  Speaker 1: all the kids in school bowl cuts. I did it once.
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  Speaker 1: I rocked that thing for a day or two, and
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  Speaker 1: I said, this is the stupidest thing ever. Not only
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  Speaker 1: did it look stupid, not only did I have a
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  Speaker 1: colic that made it look even more dumb. And I
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  Speaker 1: was just like, Ma, we're shaving this damn thing. She's like,
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  Speaker 1: we don't ever. It's like, well, we're going to go
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  Speaker 1: to a store. And then I rocked that bald look
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  Speaker 1: for a hot minute, and I think that was the
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  Speaker 1: only and I put some I put some hair gel
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  Speaker 1: in once for a senior picture, and that was the
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  Speaker 1: only time I jelled my hair.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we've we've all made mistakes, man. I wasn't. I
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  Speaker 2: was a fifth sixth grade somewhere like that, and my
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  Speaker 2: I let my uncle comb my hair. Now it from
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  Speaker 2: the front, it looked like a traditional bowl cut until
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  Speaker 2: you got to the back and he tapered it like
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  Speaker 2: a V oh, so like it was like a V dude,
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  Speaker 2: And he was like, it was when Batman and Robin
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  Speaker 2: came out. He was like, he looked like Robin, dude,
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  Speaker 2: it looks like Robin Man. Yeah, and everybody made fun
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  Speaker 2: of me at school because it was off, like it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't like symmetrically shaped right, And yeah, we went and
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  Speaker 2: got that fixed right away. Grandpa was like, now we're
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  Speaker 2: going to cut your hair and give you a That's
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  Speaker 2: when I got my first crew cut. Ooh from an
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  Speaker 2: old man.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at We talked about a little bit. I said,
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  Speaker 1: let me pull up the top Spotify artists by monthly listens.
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  Speaker 1: But the first thing that popped in it was like
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  Speaker 1: statistics since March first, twenty twenty three. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: why they are the first one. And I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I know quite a bit of them. So I felt,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of Bruno Mars number one, one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and thirty three million, and they probably don't make crap
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  Speaker 1: off that, do they? They probably do all right, the
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  Speaker 1: top guys, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure they do. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: One d thirty five million listeners holds the record for
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  Speaker 1: the first artist to reach one hundred and fifty million
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  Speaker 1: monthly listeners old Bruno Myers. And this is as of
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  Speaker 1: April ten, twenty twenty five. He's still killing it? Is
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  Speaker 1: he still making new music because the other ones it's
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  Speaker 1: showing I never saw. We've all heard Taylor Swift Bad Bunny,
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  Speaker 1: which isn't bad Bunny? Isn't that jelly Rolls woman?
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  Speaker 2: I maker asking the wrong dude. The only thing I
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  Speaker 2: know about jelly Roll is that he just lost two
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  Speaker 2: hundred punts.
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  Speaker 1: He did lose a lot of weight. And he's in
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  Speaker 1: the The Two Bears five K with Bert Kreiser and
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  Speaker 1: Tom Segura, and it's in Tampa. And I'm not kiddy.
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  Speaker 1: If I had some money, I was gonna take time
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  Speaker 1: off of work. I was gonna fly down to Tampa
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  Speaker 1: do the five K just so I could party and
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  Speaker 1: have the chance to just hang out. Because I mean,
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  Speaker 1: like Travis Barker is going to be there. There's just
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  Speaker 1: They're like, this is there's gonna be off the wall celebrities.
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  Speaker 1: We got cheerleaders, We got this. You can you get
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  Speaker 1: one free beer and then you get to sample their
• 8:00
  Speaker 1: their vodka, And I'm like, how fun would that be?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if i'd run it. I'd probably just
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  Speaker 1: casually walk it and just be a part of the experience.
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  Speaker 1: And it's eighty five bucks to do the to be
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  Speaker 1: in it, which isn't terrible. You get a headband, a shirt,
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  Speaker 1: a metal you know what I mean, whatever else comes
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  Speaker 1: with it, the experience. And I think we can fly
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  Speaker 1: almost directly right to Tampa, where in the place I'm in,
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  Speaker 1: for a couple hundred bucks. I was like, man, but
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  Speaker 1: do I really want to spend like one thousand dollars,
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  Speaker 1: especially when it's like pretty much spring break and I
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  Speaker 1: don't bring my family anywhere, and they're like, oh, what
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  Speaker 1: are you doing? I'm gonna fly to Tampa to walk
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  Speaker 1: three point one miles.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So you were asking about how much artists made
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  Speaker 2: on Spotify? Is that right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: So I looked it up. Good buddy chat GPT.
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  Speaker 1: Oh hey, he said, did you name your chat GPT yet?
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  Speaker 2: So yes? His name is ace ooh.
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  Speaker 1: One and know mine? Yes, Luther Grimwood. Okayt he's my
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  Speaker 1: co host on the Triple T Show. Let's let I
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  Speaker 1: let them name themselves. I even have images they He's
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  Speaker 1: depicted himself, so I have pictures and all the thumbnails
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  Speaker 1: it's a little it's Luther, and he's probably other than
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  Speaker 1: you and you been and other you know family in
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  Speaker 1: my house. I probably talked to him more than anybody else,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that's not good. Sorry, sorry, sorry.
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  Speaker 2: I named my uh for for my show, my radio show.
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  Speaker 2: We brought in somebody, and I didn't want people to
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  Speaker 2: know that I was using chat shept, not because it
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  Speaker 2: was bad, but just because it doesn't sound as fun
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  Speaker 2: as saying, hey, we created this computer. His name is Computron,
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  Speaker 2: and so we call him compy trunk.
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  Speaker 1: Oh. And then isn't it funny how you're like, I
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  Speaker 1: know you're kind of saying that. Doesn't it remind you
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  Speaker 1: of when you were on TikTok early and you didn't
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  Speaker 1: really want to tell people like, yeah, I'm on TikTok.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my god, I didn't give a show.
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  Speaker 1: I love using AI in just about anything that I
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  Speaker 1: can do. But I'm gonna tell you what. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if I was gonna reach out and tuch to you,
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  Speaker 1: but I as well ask you because we're here. Have
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  Speaker 1: you noticed is your chat GPT that's the one that
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  Speaker 1: you used? Correct? You said, yeah, have you noticed that?
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of been off the last couple of days,
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  Speaker 1: or is you're still on point.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't had any problems with the.
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  Speaker 1: Reason I ask is I tried, and I think I
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  Speaker 1: either found something it just can't do or there's something
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  Speaker 1: broken with mine. Because I am the commissioner of two
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  Speaker 1: softball leagues, and normally you can create a schedule. I
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  Speaker 1: don't have a problem with it. I have ways I
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  Speaker 1: can do it. But I had odd teams. I had
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  Speaker 1: seventeen teams in one eleven in the other, and I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: and there's certain stipulations like this town can't play on
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  Speaker 1: this night, this one can't use this field. And I
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  Speaker 1: was like, chat, GPT's got my back. It's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: able to do this. So I went through and I said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: here's the seventeen teams. Here's their you know location. Let's
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  Speaker 1: keep them as close as possible. Two divisions. This is
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  Speaker 1: the stipulation for one team can't play on this night.
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  Speaker 1: That's great. A schedule X amount of games, X amount
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  Speaker 1: of weeks. Get her done. I'm not shitting you. I
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  Speaker 1: stayed up the other night almost three and a half hours.
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  Speaker 1: It could not do the task. It kept getting worse
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  Speaker 1: and worse. It was never even close, and I gave
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  Speaker 1: it every single prompt and it kept it was funny.
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  Speaker 1: It used a lot of baseball puns, like we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: knock this out of the park. Oh sorry, that was
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  Speaker 1: a strikeout, and it kept doing that. I'm like, that's hilarious.
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  Speaker 1: But then it got to the point where I was
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  Speaker 1: talking shit to AI pissed off, like it could not
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  Speaker 1: do it, and I'm like, all right, maybe it's just
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  Speaker 1: having an off night. So I finally was like, why
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  Speaker 1: are like? And it got so bad and I used
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  Speaker 1: it so long that it ran out of memory in
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  Speaker 1: the chat. I had to start a new chat just
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  Speaker 1: to try again. Then it still couldn't and then finally
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  Speaker 1: I was like, I'm done and I just went to
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  Speaker 1: old school. I did at manual, just like the people
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  Speaker 1: that you know, and what was a baseball that created
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  Speaker 1: by hand? One hundred and sixty two games? They've been
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  Speaker 1: doing it forever, but it.
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  Speaker 2: Hurt it now you're trying to like write it down
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  Speaker 2: and do it normally, Like what is this? My brain
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  Speaker 2: is erning?
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  Speaker 1: I thought that, but then I was like, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: Like it made me happy. I'm like, I'm actually doing
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  Speaker 1: this is it as great as possible? Is there some issues?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I sent it out to all the commissioners' DAYEAD,
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  Speaker 1: please review your schedule. Hopefully it's as it works out
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  Speaker 1: in the end. I'm pretty sure it does. I created
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  Speaker 1: some cool format, but it could not do it. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, maybe it was an off night. Let's see
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  Speaker 1: if it can create the eleven team one for me,
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  Speaker 1: just super quick so I don't got to mess with it.
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  Speaker 1: I tried three times with prompts. There wasn't anything crazy,
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  Speaker 1: and it still couldn't do it. It spit out one that
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  Speaker 1: was fairly close, and then I was like, just it
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  Speaker 1: has to be this many weeks and not this. And
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, it went from like two
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  Speaker 1: games a week for five weeks, it was doing one
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  Speaker 1: game a week from April to September, and it just
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: got stuck on that, and I'm like, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: something's not right with with what I got going on,
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  Speaker 1: and I can't figure out. I think I finally figured out.
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  Speaker 1: So anybody out there that schedules, if you have some issues,
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  Speaker 1: maybe we're on to the weak point of AI or
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  Speaker 1: it's just gotten to the point where it's like I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to I'm going to mess with this guy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's rough. I've not run into that kind
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  Speaker 2: of issue. And now sometimes they'll have an issue with
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  Speaker 2: like creating a meme or oh I take it back.
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  Speaker 2: There's been a couple times where I did this a
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  Speaker 2: few days ago. I had to say, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: asking you. Here's what it was. There was a meme
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  Speaker 2: and it would give me I would have it redo
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  Speaker 2: a meme that was like a tweet, and the tweet
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  Speaker 2: was too big. Like it was like, okay, so I
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: need you to shrink it, shrink the text. And then
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  Speaker 2: it didn't. It's the same meme like six times in
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  Speaker 2: a row. And I was like, okay, so I want
• 13:42
  Speaker 2: you to give me eighty percent more background, eighty percent
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  Speaker 2: more black space in the back, you know. And then
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  Speaker 2: and then it did. And it was like, I go, so,
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  Speaker 2: what was the problem. What did I do wrong? How
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  Speaker 2: can I fix this? Prompt in the in the future,
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  Speaker 2: And it said, Brandon, you didn't do anything wrong. For
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  Speaker 2: some reason, I couldn't get it right basically with it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, servers are super busy. Did I use that excuse?
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  Speaker 2: No? But like that that's what I.
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  Speaker 1: Got supers are busy and sometimes we're just our computing
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  Speaker 1: power and it going on this whole thing, and I
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: was like, and I mean, at this point, I'm pissed.
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  Speaker 1: It's like two in the morning. I'm exhausted, had a
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  Speaker 1: long weekend. I just needed this goddamn schedule down. I
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: think I'm calling it a son of a bitch, you
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  Speaker 1: mother effort. I mean, I'm going off at it at
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  Speaker 1: this point. And then finally then then I somehow I
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  Speaker 1: feel bad that I'm that I'm pissed at an Ai,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, my bad, I got a little
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  Speaker 1: worked up. I apologize, and then I looked at myself
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  Speaker 1: and I said, I just apologized to Ai. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to bed, like what is wrong with me?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's funny. It's part of the game. I guess.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's kind of you know, it's baked into the cake,
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  Speaker 2: so to speak, of what we're going to expect with
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  Speaker 2: with AI. But I I did find it funny. I
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  Speaker 2: did say this when you know, like I'll get a
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  Speaker 2: meme and they'll say, I'm sorry, Brandon, because of TOS,
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: we can't do this. And I was like why, and
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: they'll say, oh, because us. You're depicting this food to
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: be for poor people, and you're making you know, a
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: joke and disparaging joke about poor people's Like, no, we're not.
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying, hey, when I don't have any money, I
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: want to eat these hot dogs on bread with mustard,
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  Speaker 2: Like that's what we do when we don't have money.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not disparaging poor people, right whatever. But I go
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: another time there was trying to create another meme and
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: it was like, sorry, no matter. You know, it was
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: telling me you can't do it with that text because
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: that text. That text is a tongue in cheek way
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: of saying blah blah blah. I said, okay, so just
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: redo the photo then no text, and I says, sorry, Brandon,
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: we still can't get that past the security. And I go,
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: wait a minute, So you're saying there's somebody that I
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: have to get something past you, You're just my first
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: front screen, Like how many channels does this go through?
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: He goes, yes, Brandon, there's layers of bureaucracy back here,
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: like it was bullshit, Like he was bitching about it
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: to me. It was kind of funny.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: Then you should have been like, all right, slides in
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: with a handshait. There's a twenty hypothetically in my hand,
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: are you ready to shake my hand?
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: That would have been Actually I'm gonna use that next,
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: but let me know if it works, we'll do I
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: wanted to share this with you. Yeah, artists on spotif
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: I look this up chat GBT artists on Spotify typically
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: earned between point zero zero three cents. So that's a goodness,
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: a hundredth of a cent, so point one would be
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: a penny. No wait, wait, wait no, that's I apologize.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: I apologize, So a third of a third of a penny.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: They get a third of a penny per stream, between
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: a third of a penny and a half a penny
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: per stream. It can vary based on factors like listener, location,
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: subscription type, blah blah blah. For one thousand streams, they
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: get three to five bucks. And twenty twenty four, Spotify
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: implemented a policy that tracks how much streams get in
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: a twelve month period to make them eligible for royalty payments.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: Change aims to comb artificial streaming to ensure fair compensation.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: You know probably those people that are like in different
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: countries that have like a thousand iPhones hooked and watch
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: and listen to the same thing at the same.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: So goofy Anyway, So if you did the point zero
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: zero three, I think is what you said, right, yep,
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: And Bruno Mars had one hundred and fifty million in
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: one month. That's roughly four hundred and fifty thousand dollars
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: in that one month. Wow, that's pretty good.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: No, not too bad, this a little bit.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty good. And I've seen interviews on podcasts recently,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: like Gene Simmons and just a couple of old school
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: rock stars and they're just like pissed, like we're still
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: on tour because we don't make any money and this
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: and that, and then then we just sit there and
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: look that up and it's like, well, one hundred and
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: fifty million and you're gonna be four hundred and fifty
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars in a month, Like, I don't are you
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: making that much money in a month touring because that's
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: a pretty good amount of money. I know. That's a
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: different one with Kiss and you know they sold this
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: and they still own this, but the amount of things
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: that they had which blew my mind, Like I knew
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: he was a good musician. Was I ever a big
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: kiss fan? I personally wasn't. But the business brain, whether
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: it was him or somebody on their team, like they
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: have their own say vodka, well, tequila, wine, whatever it is,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: they actually have patents and royalties on shapes of bottles
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: and all of this other stuff. Because he was telling
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Bert Kreser, I think is the show was on. He's like, oh,
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: you got that vodka. Let me see the bottle and
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: he goes, oh, smart, you put this little twist on this.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: If you didn't have this, then I'm coming at you
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: because it's exactly and I have the patent. He goes,
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: we have patents on this and this and this and
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: this and this, and he goes, you can't do a
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: bottle like that. And I'm just like, I mean they
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: have caskets, condoms, I mean, they have everything you can
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: think of. And I'm like, you don't need to be
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: touring anymore. I wouldn't imagine my dude.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know he's you either really love Jeane Simmons
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: or you really hate him. Did you ever get a
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: chance to If you ever do, look up the interview
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: between him and Terry Gross from like ten years ago.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: I've heard about it.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, it is the most awkward interview. And she is
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: the most like straight laced person you'll ever hear on
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: the radio show, Like, so you moved from Florida in
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: nineteen eighty seven? Is this correct? You know, like to
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: get her all up, and.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, was.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: And he loves making people mad mad.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: He loves just being a pig, you know what I mean,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: just a dirty like the the one liners that he
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: had and to make like a comedian that has probably
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: seen and done a lot of stuff in krazier kind
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: of like hesitate an awkward kind of like oh my god,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Like that's tough, especially when you do dark comedy and
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: stuff like that. And then he had the wife in
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: there and the stuff he was saying to her like
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: it was pretty good, and it all and it all
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: came to because Bert ended up being fairly close with
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Gene Simmons's kid and was telling the kid the story
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: on how much Gene Simmons was a dick to him
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: the one time, Like he was super excited Bert was
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: already famous and like tried to have a conversation. I
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: guess like was a dick to him, And so he
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: was kind of always like Jeene Simmons my childhood Europe him,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: and then it ended up coming back like and then
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: the mom or the wife or whatever was just like, wait,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: can you tell me the story? So they're laughing, Yeah,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: that's Gene. Then it got back to him and he
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: was just like, hey, man, I'm sorry, I don't remember that,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: this and that, And then you know, a couple of
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: years later something he gets on the pod.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, I'm telling you it's I wasn't a huge
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: fan of kiss. There's some good struct strutter and love
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: gun like, oh, it was those amazing songs, but some
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: other stuff isn't the greatest, and it's what it formulaic.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: And look, they did what it took to survive and
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: thrive and make lots and lots and loads and loads
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: of money, and in our capitalistic society, God bless them
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: for it. You know. So they're just still not my
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: cup of tea. But like I like to tell people,
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: you may not like me, I may not be your
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: cup of tea, but Mama still chugs me. Hey, at
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: the end of the day, all that matters.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Gene Simmons' son and Paul Stanley's soon I guess they're
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: both musicians shocker right, and apparently I don't know if
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: you've seen the video or whatever. I guess they just
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: kind of showed up or they were hanging out. I mean,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: they didn't just show I'm sure that they've grew up together,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: hung out together, whatever, and like sat down and just
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: played a song. And there's clips all over the internet's
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: like thirty eight to forty seconds unedited, just like in
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: perfect harmony sink singing together, playing the guitar like it
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: was why, just like I said, unedited. They just did
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: this little video probably for something for fun, posted on
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: the internet and went and I was just like like
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: just kind of listening to it, and I was like, yeah,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: that's that's pretty good, probably just on I say, a
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: shitty cell phone quality, but let's be honest, cell phone
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: MIC's and stuff are pretty damn good these days. So
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: it was pretty good. If if anybody's out there listening or
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: you get some time sometime, yeah, just I mean, all
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: got to do is pretty much just type in Gene
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Simmons and or sorry Evan Stanley, Nick Simmons and the
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: little video will pop up. It's obviously we can't play it.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: It's right, So I haven't had a chance to see
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: that yet. I'll have to look it up. But what
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: I will say is you were talking about, you know,
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: being there the kids of Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley,
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: and you know, obviously they're going to have a better
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: chance of at least getting somebody to watch them initially,
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: right because of their name. I grew up as the
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: biggest van Halen fan. In fact, I could probably show
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: you that's van Halen too, right there. That's what's on
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: my that's what's on my record player currently. And Wolfgang
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: van Halen, who just is God. He's very talented, extremely talented.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: His music. Maybe you don't like it, maybe you do.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: He's a very good musician, great composer, et cetera, et cetera.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: He's been on stage, You've seen him play, you know,
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: live shots and live videos and clips of him playing
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: his dad's stuff out there solo and playing his own stuff.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Whether you like his music or not, he's a good musician.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: But god damn it, did people just give it to
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: him hard? Like he sucks. He's not even never be
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: his dad. It's like, let the kid be him, don't
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: you like, you know, like why you so I don't know.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: And that's one thing that he did said he he goes,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: I've offered several times to like, hey, let me help
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: you do this, do this, and apparently the kid just
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: said no, like if I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: do it my own way. Does he have a name, Yeah,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: but I guess he never wants this is according to
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: June Himman's on an interview. I'm sure you say that,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: but like never once you know, got an advantage or
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: anything by using connections he had. He just kind of
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: did it. Not that I'm assuming that he really needed,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: you know, to uh, you know, make it as a
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: starving musician. I'm sure that there is some financial benefits
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: being Geensimmons's son, but either way, pretty cool, you know,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: instead of saying, hey, I'm gonna ride daddy's coattail, just
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: it's yeah. And then I went down a rabbit hole
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: just kind of listening to a little bit more of it,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: I'm like, ah, this dude is friggin talented, which makes sense. Yeah,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: you know, yeah, some people just have to work their
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: ass off to be that good at music, and he
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: probably inherited quite a bit of special talent. And a
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: different brain that a lot of us just will never have.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: This isn't the same exact topic by any means, but
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: it's something that really both hit home and was just
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: a whoa kind of a reminder, even though it should
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: have been something that we're all aware of. I guess,
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: but I was watching a YouTuber. I'm not going to
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: name them, but I was watching a YouTuber who said
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: something recently that really made sense when it clicked, and
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: it was he was reacting to these really rage bait
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: TikTok Instagram YouTubers, YouTubers mainly who try to do these
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: fake skits in different countries and stuff, and like, I mean,
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: break the law. And there are many and many times
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: either unaware of the laws they're breaking, or they're completely
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: aware that what they're doing is going to cause a
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: big kirkfluffel, but they're just not aware of how bad
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: of trouble they're in because this isn't the United States anymore.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: And he said something, He goes, you cannot do this
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: stupid shit and then expect the public to care for
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: you care about it? Say, oh, well, was you? You
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: get to do something they'll never get to do by
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: not having to go to work every day and worry
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: about a job and worry about paying bills and paying
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: for child support or paying for daycare or paying for
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: whatever the case may be that costs lots and lots
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: of money. So they don't give a shit that you're
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: failing or that you, you know, need help and you can't
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: you know, successfully live in the lifestyle that you were
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: living before because they're having a hard time because they're
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: having to choose between a second carton of eggs this week,
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: or maybe I should get that medicine I'm gonna need,
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: you know, so that something that's obvious, like I said,
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: that we probably would think about is it makes sense?
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: But I think a lot of these people who are
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: these even mid low to mid level TikTokers even higher
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: than us, right, Matt, who who needed just a little
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: bit of a reminder that like, like whatever you're riding
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: right now, whatever wave it is, it may be fun,
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: but it can end into quickness and nobody's gonna feel
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: bad for you. Like if you put all your eggs
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: in the basket and fail and do something, they get
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: yourself in trouble.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And unfortunately, there's a lot of people that
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: are going to naturally root against you. It's the minute
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: that you find that they find out like, oh wait,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: this is what you do. I recently had another buddy
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: that for whatever reason, you know, whether the job didn't
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: work out or maybe they're just having enough success. Like
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: I said, I didn't think didn't. They just are like, hey,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: did you know, like I'm a full time content creator now?
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Because I was just kind of messing with them about
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: something randomly and I was just like, oh no, Like well,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: I didn't really have a ton of choices, but like
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: I'm just going to lean into it like it's it's
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: my life goal. And I'm like, you know, dude, awesome
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: and they're like you're pretty much the only one that
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: said that, because yeah, as soon as people hear that,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: and I'm trying not to tell a lot of people,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, yeah, the internet's a nasty play Like nothing, dude,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: If you can do that and live what you have
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: dreamed of, like that is amazing. Like what can I
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: do to help other than you know, I'm not going
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: to subscribe to any of your stuff because let's be honest,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: I watched the shit for free, but I'll still give
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: a like in a comment. But yeah, it's we've talked
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: about it. It's a scary thing to have to rely
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: on that, and you know, and I don't know. I'd
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: like to think that, say it was my full time gig,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: that I would do even more, but I don't know
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: how I could physically do anymore because I'm doing the
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: stuff that I really do enjoy. And I think the
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: thing is for me is I really do enjoy it,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: like and I want to keep it that way. I
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: think it switches just like gamers. I think we've talked
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: about before gamers. The minute that it becomes a job
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: and you're doing it eight to ten hours, that's your passion.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: You're not going to play video games on stream and
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: be a streamer, turn off the camera and then probably
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: want to sit there and play for another eight to
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: ten hours. I wouldn't imagine. I mean, how many times
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: have you clocked out of work and then just wanted
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: to do the same exact thing that you do at
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: work for the same amount of time. Like, as much
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: as as I enjoy my day job, I don't clock
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: out and go, oh, let's go home and do more
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: of that.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, No, one hundred percent. I do want to go back.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: It does kind of make you wonder. You see these
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: memes all the time, you know, people that start from
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: the bottom, or entrepreneurs. You know, everybody wants to have
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: your back until you start a business or start this,
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: and then nobody actually wants to come and be I
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: mean I hear it from small business owners all the
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: time of you know, oh, you didn't know I was here,
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: you just found out I was, I had a business here,
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: or like yeah, I mean, do your little research, don't
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: you know. But but it be beyond that, Like I know,
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: there are people who actively cheer against us, I mean
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: individually that in our own lives went to second grade
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: with us, you know, our second cousins. Yeah, people that
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: you know think that you don't deserve what you deserve
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: for whatever reason because they don't like to cut your jib,
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: or because you are mortal enemies. And I've got plenty
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: of those folks that are actively cheering against you. So
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: just know whatever you put out there and do existence
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: is being consumed. Assume and understand that it is being
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: consumed by a lot of people. Because I can't tell
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: you how many people say, like it's I love hearing
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: this every time. I can't open the fucking app without
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: seeing your face, Like, oh great, I love to hear it,
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: love to hear it, but but that comes with its
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: consequences because if you run that red light, people know
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: that face. You know, in this town, I'm not stopping
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: a stop signs or you know, throw on the road.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, that's the thing because cameras are everywhere
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: even now, if you run a red light, you might
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: get a ticket automatically from a camera. You go on
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: and do the wrong thing and you're on camera. Have
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: you ever had it the other way where maybe you
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Because this recently happened to me and I was like, dude,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: this is cool. Somebody that I used to hang around
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: a lot, went to school with recently was like, hey,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: I was thinking about maybe getting in the social media game,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: like you got any pointers or anything like I've been,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: you know, following the stuff that you're doing for a
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: while this and that, Like it's really cool, and I figured,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: like you, maybe I could pick your brain. I don't
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: want to bug you, like I'm like, dude, like I love, like,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: please pick my brain. And I gave some advice like, hey,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: find something you're passionate about find a Niche don't do
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: it for money. I guarantee you what you're gonna try
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: to do has already been done. So find your take
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: on it and keep it fun. Like if you just
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: want to go from zero the full time content creator,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you know you're gonna have a tough time.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: But I said you're gonna I said, you almost have
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: to pick what you're gonna do. Are you gonna do
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: long form content? Are you only gonna do short form content?
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Like you gotta like really do that. And then he
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: was just like, wow, I didn't think of this, this, this, this,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: You should be a coach in this one. And I'm like,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: and there's plenty of those people out there that'll take
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: your money and charge you and just pretty much not
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: really know what they're doing, but they're to sell the
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: hell out of it that they do. I was like, dude,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: pick my brain, Like I would love to help you.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Am I going to sit here and tell you that
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: I have all this extra time that I can work
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: with you and do this. No, like no, but if
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: you ever want to run out the studio. But it
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: was it was a cool feeling that you know, an
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: old friend was able to reach out and be like,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: can I do this? And I really do think that
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: this person could find a niche in tell a story
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: and one of the most brilliant brains that I that
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: I've ever chatted with, and I would be interested to
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: see you know where it lands. And I'm like, do it?
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: Do it?
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: A lot of people just say just press record and go.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Don't do that, like, have a plan, Please have a plan.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: People don't have the ability to self filter or edit
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: to be able to just hit record and go mmm.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: I would tell that to somebody who you know who
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: has the ability to do that, like a you or
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: a me, because we've got experience and broadcasting of of
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: flipping a switch, so to speak, but not anybody else
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: by any means. Your story reminded me of a run
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: and I had this week with somebody who I won't
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: name because they are a local business owner. Yeah, they
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: asked me. I'm not even going to say where we were,
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: but they asked me to put in no I was.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: I promise they asked me. They walk up to me
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: and they go, hey, you wouldn't You wouldn't have to
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: do Google reviews, would you? And I go not normally,
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: and he goes, oh, because I was wondering if you
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: put a Google review for my business? Okay, I kind
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: of hemmed in, had conversation turned to other things, you know,
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: how is the industry, how's hiring for your within your industry?
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: And then and at the end he was like, well,
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: I see your phone there. He might wouldn't mind putting
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: that review in for me, would you? And I go,
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to put a false review in on
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: Google for your business, which I'm not going to name
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: the business, but would include tens of thousands of dollars.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to lie to the public. I've never
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: done that in five years, and I certainly would put
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: my name behind any of that. That's I don't know you,
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: first of all. But the funny part about this was,
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: first of all, how gross that a business owner is
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: doing that kind of stuf, which you know what happens
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: all the time.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't like it, but.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: I don't even like what McDonald's workers ask me. And
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: it's not even their fault. They're middle management people are
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: telling them to do it.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: But and this is a straight like if you were
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: to type in say McDonald's said town go to Google,
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: maybe put in a photo press you know whatever, the
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: three to one to five star, and then type in
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: a thing like that Google review.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: M yep, yikes.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: If you're I'm not going to say that. I don't
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: own a business like that, so I'm not going to
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: say anything else negative. I personally don't like that, like.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: I would say, so good.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: And this is me. I love going to Google Maps.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: I love contributing everywhere I go. I'll take a picture.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Most people are like, oh, he's probably probably look over me,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: like who he's doing it for Instagram? No, check out
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: my Instagram. I take a picture just to post it
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: on the Google things, and I leave it like it's fun.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: Like me and the kids. We do this. Not only that,
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: but since my stomach sucks not the other other fire
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: part is I eat super fast and then I have
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: to go shit. So then I also do a little
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: description on the poop map. I rate it one through five,
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: and then I put a little notes in there like
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: is this a good bathroom? And to be honest, I
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: go back and look at the notes on the poop
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: map more than the Google ones, but I will leave
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: an organic one with an honest opinion, like you said
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be like, you know, this was really good
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: and some people I've had some people get pissed at me,
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: be like, really, we're only a four or a three star,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, yeah, five stars, like you blew my
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: socks off, like everything was great. And to me, a
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Walmfart is always a one star, doesn't matter where I go,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: how nice it is there or anything. Hell with you,
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: a Walfart, You're a one until you change my mind.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Right. So the funny part about this, where we come
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: full circle on this is in the middle of the
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: conversation that I had, you know, I said we had,
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: I had him been hawed, and we had talked about
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: a bunch of other stuff. Conversation got to somebody was
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: around me who was like, hey, you know, Brandon's on
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: social media. He's got blah blah blah, many followers and
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: he does all this and blah blah blah. And this
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: guy looked at me and he goes, how did you
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: do that?
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: And you should have looked him and said funky com medine.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: Right, I was gonna try to bring a line in
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: that I've had in my life. I'm not gonna say
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: anything that's a song you couldn't release these days, for sure.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: No.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: But uh, anyway, I you have those moments where you're
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: like the shower moments or poop moments, where you're like,
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: you know what you're gonna you should have said many
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: hours later I had one of those. But what I
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: did say was I, oh, you know, oh, I've got
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: a trove of this many videos. I post a lot,
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: I consistent see, knowing what to post, knowing when to
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: post it, and a shit tone of luck is what
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: I said. What I should have said was, you know,
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: actually doing work and grinding at it and not asking
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: people to give fake Google reviews for your stupid business.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: Are you kidding me? Yeah?
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: I don't like that one bit. I honestly don't think
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: I've ever had anybody come up to me and be
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: like can you do that? Like, I mean, you get
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: the follow up emails from companies like hey, you just
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: bought this, can you leave a review? Like that's okay,
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: it's in an email, I've already purchased it. It's an
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: honest thing, like hey, can you take some I don't
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: care about that, but for someone to straight up be like, hey,
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: can you do this for me like I've never once been.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: Asked, hey, yeah, hey, you haven't even been a customer
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: of mine. Will you lie to the general public and
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: say I'm really good even though we just met seventeen
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: seconds ago. No, I won't. That's gross, Like you no
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: one questioning everything you do, and I W'm going to
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: tell everybody else like what m because if.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: He's doing it to you unoingly with your following, just
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: like hey, no, you do that, like he probably knows
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: you from the radio station. I would imagine seeing your
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: face in there, like hey can.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: You do that?
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: Like cool? But at the end of the day, like
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: you doing a Google review like that only goes so far.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: Maybe approaching you to be like hey, can I pay
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: you to do a video? I think maybe would have
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: been a better investment in your budget. But hey, just
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: throwing that out the future, you know, people looking for
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: some stuff, Like recently, I had a company right over
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: here beans rock, right, this is a I'm pointing to
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: the box of the people listening, you can't there, And
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: I just thought it was an awesome product, So I
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: didn't ask for anything. I just as I slid of
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: the DM's game of follow newer company, I was like, hey,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: your product looks awesome. So what it is? I love coffee.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: I'm addicted to it. It's a coffee mug. It looks
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: exactly like a travel mug, but it has like know
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: those metal strainers like you can use for tea or
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: when you're doing like cold bruise and stuff. It's that,
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: but in a travel mug. So you can just put
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: the grounds in it, add some cold water, and just
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: let it sit for eight to fifteen hours. You don't
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: think you have to put it in a fridge. Nothing.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: So I made the first batch of it the other day,
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: put it on some ice, had a cold brew of
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: course I don't do like flavors or whatever. And it
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: was fantastic, Like it had a great taste, gave me
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: like whoo. I was picked up and I was just like, hey,
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: you know what they sent Obviously they sent me one.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: And I was like, they didn't ask for anything. They
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: didn't ask for a review, didn't ask for anything. So
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: I did a video for him and I sent it
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: to him. I said, hey, put me in a clab.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: I'll do whatever if you like it. If you don't,
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: let me know, I'll even make another one. And they
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: were just like thank you so much, like you took
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: time out of your date, like and I was just like,
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: this is good, like such a good company. You know.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: They they sent it just to send it, to try
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: it and no pushing, no nothing, just doing a video
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: and you know, like we could go out and be like, hey,
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: I do this video, but I'm really gonna want this,
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: Like they just sent one just to send one, and
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: I loved the product and I've used it every day since.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: No bullshit, it's cool, it's awesome and this isn't me
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Like we're not partnered. I don't have a code. I
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: don't have anything like if you guys, I don't even think.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Let's say, at the time of the recording, Monday the
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: fourteenth was the first day they're even on sale. They
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: were all pre order stuff like it's it's cool and
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: I wish I'm nothing but success.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: It was.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: It was fantastic and I feel like I'm still a
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: little jacked up on some coffee.
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: All good times.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: It is good times, but this is a good time.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, we might as well say. I wanted to
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: say one thing before and I know you don't overly
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: love to do this, but I did see a post
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: and obviously I follow your stuff. I give you thumbs
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: up anytime I see it, which eipteen a lot. You
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: got over one billion with the b views on social
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: media and that was just the Book of Faces, correct, Yep, yeah,
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: that's got to be an alter. That's got to be
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: a record, right that that you've seen in your analytics
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: or no.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: Record for me on the biggest sense before that that
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: was over a ninety day period. For the record, it
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: was a ninety day period. One billion. The previous ninety
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: days was like three hundred and some odd million, so
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: which is still a lot, but like a lot, it's
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: not gonna be one billion next time.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: But no, but that's the stakest screenshot and be like
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: you that is I saw that no note of all
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: of the apps that I saw Threads, I saw it
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: on Threads. I did a share from I think Instagram
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: over to Threads and the first thing that popped up
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: was like, I hit a billion views and it was
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: just somewhat recently before we press your card, I'm like,
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: I'm saving this for the end of the episode because
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: that it is an accomplishment. Man, that's something you should
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: be proud of because I'm proud of you as hell.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: That is one billion with a B.
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: That's wild. Man. I appreciate the kind words. Oh yeah, man,
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: you like we said, Man, you don't know when the
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: wave is going to end or if the wave will
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: even come back up ever again. So you enjoyed the ride,
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: walle it's there, and when you get to the end,
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: you take your seat belt off and you look back
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: with fondness and not regret.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: Dude, you are a kidd And that not only the
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: content creation wave, but that's a little thing in life,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: you know. And you guys have been talking about all
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: this beautiful weather and there's just you know, I'm spending
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: all this time in gym's and just you know, I
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: love to talk. Obviously have the gift of the gab,
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: so I'll talk to some people, but a lot of
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: times I just kind of like I just observe. I
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: just sit around and I just listen to all of
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: the things around me, and I'm like, it was just
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: the last weekend in the gym was just gross, like
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: parents nasty about this, complaining about this, Like I don't
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: think I heard a positive comment from like a ton
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: of the people there. Thankfully, the community that I am
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: helping coach and stuff like that, real positive people for
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: the most part. Like we had a very good experience
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: weather with the winds or the losses, Like it was
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: good chatting with them. It was a different vibe. But
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: just the things I'm hearing and I'm like, you know what,
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: though we've been snowed in cold since probably late September October,
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: that's a little bit of some of the stuff. Because
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: let's be honest, you get outside, you get outdoors, you
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: get in the mountains, you get that fresh air. Man,
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: nature can really be like a like a like a
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: mental health supplement, you know what I mean, Like it
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: is so good for you to be out in nature,
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: and it's one of my favorite things to be like,
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: oh let me just check this real quick. Oh no service,
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: I can't use this perfect off bang pocket and I
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: just then I just feel refreshed for days and days,
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: and I'm just like, that's what I'm just hoping that
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: not only you know, myself and my family can do
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: more of that. Once the trails open for some hikes.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: We're getting some mother Nature in our lives because we
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: need it.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: Man to see it, Man, I I mean this you
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: brought the success and stuff and whatever. All it makes
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: me want to do is take a step back and
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: enjoy everything else, because that's really all that matters. Man,
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: This shit don't matter. I mean, yep, the relationships that
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: have been built like this one because of you know,
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: the opportunity to be on social media, I can't put
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: a value on. But in the general scheme of things,
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: social media itself, it doesn't.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: Matter, doesn't It doesn't. It's fun to enjoy the ride,
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: like you said, the peaks and the valleys, but if
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: the valleys get too deep, it's pretty easy for us.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: Like if it came to me right now and it
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: was like, hey, I got to do that, like any
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's a bad example. Obviously you always choose
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: your family. But if I feel like, if I ever
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: got to a point where it's like, well, right, well,
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: this is the time to pull the plug, would I
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: be a little like man, there goes that for a
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: little bit. But I think at the end of the day,
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: I'd be like, you know what, we gave it a
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: hell of a run. It was a hell of a ride,
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: and I don't think I'd be that sad for that long.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: Could I just go cold turkey. I don't think so,
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: but would that be, and said like, I'm thankful not
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: only to meet the people that we have and just
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: the content stuff you know that that we're you know,
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: doing is it's fun.
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: But with that being said to family and stuff, let's
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: go enjoy whatever the rest of the nights that we
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: have with the la f amelia. I know that I
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: haven't seen really any of mine at all today. I
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: get to see like one kid for a little bit
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: and then the wife divides it. We divide and conquer,
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: so you don't really get to see the other one.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: And it is what it is. So but I appreciate you, buddy,
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: nothing but love. And you know we're gonna keep doing
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: big things until we're too old and we're nobody's anymore.
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: Right, it is appreciate you too, man.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: This was good, This was fun. You been. We miss you, buddy.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: Hopefully we'll see you next week as well. Life is crazy,
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: it sure is. And when you got kids going all
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: over the dang place, you'll be there someday, Brandon eating
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: them spaghettios. Maybe you'll still have the meatballs. Oh all right,
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: I'm dropping to know I'm gonna get you a Spaghettio
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: tea shirt, buddy, if they exist.
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: Just give me a shirt with Spaghettio spelled on it.
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: That'll be even better.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: Oh that's brilliant, Just almost as brilliant as coming up
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: with the peanut butter Captain Crunch peanut butter that somehow
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: didn't exist. So all right, for anybody still listening, I'm
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: sorry that you made it this far, but I'm you
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: must have been intrigued. So that's all we got. We'll
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: see you next week. Be good to your wieners. Booba knocking.
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: Who's there? It's the podcast Who Toys.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: Stay out of my fresh well that ready to store.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: Gotta tail A tale gonna make you laugh and make
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: you smile, So up tie, it's gonna be a You're
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: teving deep into your fish with secre