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ABJ Podcast Ep 48 James A Kachnoskie · ABJ

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Surprise, click myself in. What's going on everybody?
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A BJ here from the, a BJ podcast, you're like, hey, you
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know, I thought you quit I did, and there's a lot of crazy stuff
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happening. I wish I can get into everything
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I do. I can't speak on everything, but
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it's been a crazy turn of events.
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I'm sure I'll get into it eventually here soon.
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There is a them doing the Vlog stuff, so I'm sure it'll make it
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into the Vlog. But, yeah, it's been fucking
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nuts. Everyone who have been reaching
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out and supporting and saying kind words.
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Thank you. Use a lot but we're going to
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keep grinding here. We're going to keep at it.
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Keep doing our thing today is is 4:20, and I don't know if this
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is the most if this is the best or worst guest for this date
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butcher it, but I'm going to bring in my boy James and this
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is my first International guest. Well half International guests,
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half Hometown hero but we'll get into that as well but let's have
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some fun here. What's going on bud?
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Hey man. Let's go.
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What is your? How do you pronounce your last
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name? Catch Lasky.
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It's what a difficult one. Yeah, it's like a punch, your
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keyboard for x and then yeah, yeah.
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Hey Mom. Yeah, when I was a kid, it was
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horrible. Like you imagine having to spell
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that out like when you're like in kindergarten like it.
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Yeah, it's just I have pets. Just like it's goes on the
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diagonal. It's just such a difficult name.
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Yeah, couldn't have been easy. So here, but this is, this is
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such a fun conversation in a fun podcast to do because We've
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known each other for a little bit of time and through friends
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and through the, you know, the scene and everything like that.
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Yeah. Used to be a dirty school.
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Like the rest of us, I feel like it's still in your heart and
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soul and then you moved and we haven't talked for a while and
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then we had a conversation and now you have an English accent.
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It's crazy. Yeah, I've relocated just a
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small trip over to the United Kingdom, you know, just Skip Hop
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and a jump across the The giant ocean.
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Yeah, so just kind of crazy. It's just a crazy thing.
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Like I lived in the scoop for about eight years originally
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from Shamokin Pennsylvania. So still coal region born and
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bred through and through. But yes, I ended up uprooting my
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entire life and moving across the pond to the UK with by wire
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in the UK. Are you?
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Hmm, we're in the UK, are you? So it's called Lee.
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So it's like 40 minutes, south of London.
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So okay, it's like South, South East England, I think.
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Okay. Yes.
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Tires just, I mean compared to where we're from.
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I mean, I live in a big city. It's crazy like it's absolutely
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like it's such a culture shock. I thought I was going to move
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over here and it was just gonna be so easy.
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I've struggled the first two years I was here.
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It will always have rest, it was a tough move, everything's
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different Current. The language is different, it's
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just all of it, the food's different, all everything.
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However, on the other side of the road is the food awful.
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Don't ya? Hundred percent hate it.
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But I imagine that's because the United States government.
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Probably pumped me, full of all type of fake flavors and, you
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know, riboflavin and all kind of weird shit that like that, you
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know, nobody else in the world uses, but America's like, yeah,
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we're cool with that. Yeah, it causes 800 but like
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baby can nobody wants to live here that long anyway so
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cancers. Yeah probably need.
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Yeah. You guys are like man if I could
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just get involved in like school shooting or cancer, I mean,
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that'd be great. Yeah, that's probably used ago
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mass shooting our cancer is probably your to outside America
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right now, you know. Yeah.
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Yeah. I heard mommy at her school.
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Shootings are on the rise man. That's like what people ask me.
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Like top top question. Oh, you're from America school
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shootings? And yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Largest mass shootings in general just guns.
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There's guns everywhere. But yeah.
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People like over here. They're like so your police
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carry guns. I was oh yeah they shoot people
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all the time all the time not over here, they have to stick
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they carry around with them. The only thing is where there's
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like stabbings are higher, right?
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Like people are getting oh yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah I'd rather get shot hundred percent.
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Yeah, 100% shot. Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah, stabbing is so personal. It's like it's like getting
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punched in the face, like it's very violent.
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It's not, does a lot of damage, like, more than was in a bullet.
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Sometimes listen, I've seen videos of like, like these gangs
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up in London and like, dude has like a machete.
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And like I'm not sounds like I'm changing just like, I'm going
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through and like chops, this guy in like the chest and I was
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like, Yeah, yeah, shit happens. Yeah, it's crazy.
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That wild you know that England trip was looking cool but now
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I'm terrified, I'm not coming but real quick.
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Another thing I want to ask there before we get into this
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because you know we're going to go on these podcasts like
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Tarantino movies. We just kind of jump all over
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the place and then find our way back to the original Point,
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okay? But amazing.
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Yeah like in England there's Transportation everywhere.
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You can get on a train you can get at least a new burger like
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they're like from what I'm gathering.
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Like you can just get in a train and be like, hey I'm going
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Liverpool for the day. And I'll be there in three hours
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or I can get a train and being Paris and two two and a half.
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I mean, yeah. I mean technically yeah like I'm
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but I think like to go to like Liverpool I think it's more
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maybe more than two hours but like two, three or four hours, I
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just like more hour train ride. Yeah, I just took I just took
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the Eurostar to Disney Paris with my wife and kids and it was
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like and your arms like a day trip, right?
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Yeah. It was like two hours you were
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there on two out. Rising then yeah it's not
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mentally. Yes crazy.
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Like next thing you know like you're in Central Europe just
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yeah just there you can take a train and with with like the
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distance that it would take me to get the Philly.
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You can go through for State. A country.
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Is that all speak? A different language?
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Yeah. What the end up going that you
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kind of like if you can even take the Eurostar up to like a
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Damn and stuff. Like it's it's like three hours.
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Yes, every state. Oh, that's it.
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Also like if you get, if you just want to fly anywhere, so
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like I'm in Crawley and Gatwick Airport, London.
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Gatwick Airport is right. It's five minutes from where we
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live, but you can get a flight from Gatwick to like Spain for
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like 40 pounds. That's not how it's that's like
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50 dollars or something like that.
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That's not your underwears. You can go to a country, like,
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we're just tragic. We're trapped, we're trapped in
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the freest country. A long time.
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Yeah. But the thing is, like, in
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America, you have the freedom to delay.
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If you want to go to a different place that seems like beachy you
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go to Florida, are you going to South Carolina?
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Are you got him? But you know what I mean?
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You like you go to places in the United State, you got to
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California if you're feeling adventurous, you leave the
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country and go to Mexico you know but yeah like I don't know.
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Just weird. I try to figure it out, but I
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don't really understand it because like, when you grow up
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there your whole life, like, people are like, well, what do
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you know? When did you get a passport?
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And I was like, I don't know. Probably when I was like 27 and
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I like, 27, I have it. I listen, I have a, I have a
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nine-month-old that has a passport.
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Yeah. What do you think?
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Get them right here. They get them straightaway right
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here because they're going places.
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Plus also like in America, like you guys get Like you don't have
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vacation, you don't have any time to go anywhere.
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Like they're like, so you going to be at work for the rest of
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your life until you die occasions like a weekend?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, like, over here, I have 28
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days of vacation to take like, straight away.
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Like that. I signed a contract, I'm
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employed, and they're like, okay, you have 28 days of
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holiday to take. When, do you want to take it?
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No, Mike. I don't know.
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That's a lot of days. First time I got a chart like we
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would die on 28 days of holiday. Our vacation, huh?
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We would do in America if you gave us Twenty Eight Days to go
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to another place. When know what do you think?
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I broke our, we would die. You would you use it all in one
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big clip. He'd be like, fuck it.
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I'm done. Yellow, bam.
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Blow it all out, Straight Out The Gate 28 days.
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I'm coming to work for a month. Fuck off our I'm taking every
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Monday off for the next 28 one. Yeah yeah until next year guys.
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Sorry. Yeah, not going to be there.
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I'm not working. One days ever again ever again.
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Yeah, it's yeah. Like it was strange.
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Every football season for every Monday during?
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Yeah. Well seasoned.
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Yeah. Every every Monday Night
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Football game or every Sunday he just take off.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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When I, when I first got it and I was just like they were like
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okay so just let us know when you want to take some days and
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I'm like, okay. I like came home and like looked
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at my wife and I was like I have 28 days of holiday.
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I don't really know what to do and she was like, we just have
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to take some and I was like when for what seems like, I don't
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know, will plan something I was like, what?
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Yeah, shocks all system. So we're here to promote a
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podcast, you're doing. Yeah, let's let's talk about
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that a little bit. Yeah, it's a great day to
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promote for. It's funny, right?
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Yeah. Podcast, don't do drugs kids,
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they're bad. I mean, I mean, I'd be one of
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those people who would get into the argument simply weed is not.
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I don't, technically, I wouldn't say that's what I'm California.
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So bright. I mean.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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I don't think. I don't know.
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I don't know. I don't believe it.
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I just think it's, I've read too much about Anna and stuff, and
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how it's been. They made it this way.
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They criminalized it and they made it.
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So it's like, who marijuana? But, I don't know.
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I just don't I just don't take someone who really really likes
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to drink and who used to also like to drink with pain pills
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Since switching to marijuana. I don't drink as much and I
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haven't touched a pain pill in about a year or two years.
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Yeah that's a dangerous life. The live taking yeah drinking
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and pain pills man. Yeah that's it.
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Perry played in the big. Yeah there's a lot of lost
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memories gone on somewhere there where you were like time
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traveling there. I feel like Marty McFly suck.
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Sure. How full it you like about four
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days later. You're like it.
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Yeah. Past been there.
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Yeah. So basically I started the
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addictively speaking podcast just I toyed around with the
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idea of podcasting for years because I saw you doing it It
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and I was like, man, how do you even like going to do it?
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I can do it. Yeah, I know I just I just
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thought like like I didn't even know where to start.
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So I just kind of like you know, when you're like afraid to do
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something you just like I can't I can't do that.
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That'd be silly nobody'll. Listen it'll be a waste of my
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time. Like I just, you know, I kept
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being negative about it. And then finally I just said you
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know what? I'm just I just want to do it, I
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just want to do it. I just want to talk about
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addiction and recovery and how, you know, I've changed my life
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and like, you can change your life if you're having, if you're
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struggling with these things, you're struggling with mental
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health. I mean, there are ways to get
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help. I mean, all of it, I mean, it
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encompasses all of it because people that suffer from
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addiction. Usually have, you know, they
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suffer from depression and anxiety and some type of other
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traumas in their life that they've gone through. that they
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can't really, you know, they haven't found the help for it
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and they just use Substances to to numb and dull and to take
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away pain, you know, to fill a void.
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They fills a void in and I'm very, very happy and proud of
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where I come from. I love my area.
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But also this area is a cesspool for addiction.
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Yeah. Because really like the only
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thing and this is kind of like I'm not shitting on the area,
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but there's really nothing for kids to do.
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And the only thing for kids, Has to do is look up to the adults.
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And the only thing, the adults, do our go to bars and drink and
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then go to block parties and everything is based around.
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Drinking. We will put in 14 new bars
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before they put in one thing for a kid to do or our business that
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can have. And if even if you do put in a
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business it's like well can you drink?
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You know? I mean like it is a very big
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part of the culture in our area. Yeah.
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And I kind of like the only thing kids look forward to as I
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can't wait to go to a bar. Like, I remember, being a kid
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being Bro, I can't wait to go to a bar like that.
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Look at 21. I'm going to bring my life.
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The instead, the day I was born, and then one, that's it.
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And then you're like, wait, we can drink now.
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Just don't get caught, you know? I mean like that it's kind of,
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that's the, that's the Mind state of this area.
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Yeah, and I think growing up in that, you know, when I did, you
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know, when I did start, I did start drinking, I did start
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drinking young. I think I was like, 13 years
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old. Old.
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You know when you experiment you start drinking start stealing
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stuff from your parents and blah blah blah blah blah.
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You know you do the whole thing, right?
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And then as I got older, I had periods where I drank a lot and
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then I stopped, and then I had a really bad.
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I had to tragedy. I had a best friend passed away,
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tragic. I was 21 at the time.
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I couldn't handle it. I didn't know how to process it.
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I didn't know how to cope with it.
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Didn't how to deal with it. I ended up in a deep depression,
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you know, and I used alcohol to cope.
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I used it deal with everything I used, and then it just, it just,
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it just spirals out of control. And then I'm not in control
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anymore. And I don't have my own
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thoughts. I don't have my, I just have to,
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I keep end, I'm in this endless cycle and, and I'm in, I'm in
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from Oak. And I'm in a region where, you
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know, nobody looks at what I'm doing.
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And goes, yeah, he should probably get help or he should
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he should look to, I mean, sort his life out.
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Like people were just happy to see you crash and burn because
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they were basically doing the same thing.
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I had a party house that everybody came to.
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I mean I was an absolute Savage, like I was fighting people I've
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you know, I would just do crazy shit.
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I'd hop in the car and drive, all right, over a stop sign like
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to like a block. Like I'm around the corner from
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the place. I lived, I drove up the street
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clip, the stop sign, knock, my knock, my mirror off, and then
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park the car, and then walk drunk all the way to where I
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needed to go to. But I chose to get in that
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vehicle and drive which is a crazy because I was like
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Styrofoam there's no I was in no State.
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I was not. I was like most people drink and
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some people like can drink and have a couple and be cool.
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That's me. I'm a get to Level and then
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chill the rest of the night. Yeah, you know, you're you know,
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where you're at, you know, that level.
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Yeah, I'm the guy who sees that level says fuck that level next
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level. Then when that next level comes
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in like next level, then the next level comes and the next
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level. And then I wake up somewhere.
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And I don't know how I got there.
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And I went to the next. I feel like trash.
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I'm like, I'm never going to that level again.
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Oh yeah. I wake up the next day and go.
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Well, that was interesting. I need a drink.
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Yes. I don't know.
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I have a really big problem with like, I'm like getting in
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recovery. I've learned a lot about myself
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and who I am and the things that work in my mind and I get very
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obsessive and I kind of, I don't know how to say, I don't know
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how to do moderation. I don't do it with food.
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I don't do it with. I struggle with it and
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everything every aspect of my life, if I have to try to
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moderate something, I'm either I can either do All of it like at
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a crazy level or have to do none of it.
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It's really odd. Casting All or Nothing.
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Yes asleep. Yeah.
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But the thing is, like, I get into this and then, I like
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obsess over things that I'm doing with it and then I'm
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thinking like I need to be doing this right?
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And I guess I don't like all that, mess them like be careful
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like is it is and it's part of my personality.
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So it's really hard to like I have to fight back these urges
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to be like fully engulfed in it and I took a lot of He said to
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heart as well, like, like thought about it.
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I was like, you know what, he's right, I need to just kind of
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like relax and stop like fussing over like numbers and viewing
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all this stuff I had was I had about 300, people send me
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messages and hearts and hug emojis about me quitting
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podcasting. There's three people watching
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right now. You know I'm saying, I'm not
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trying to be a dick but like everybody wants everybody wants
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to be there when you're down. But when you're, when you pick
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yourself up I got three people. A chilling.
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Yes, I am. Yeah.
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They're like oh yeah, I want to watch it later.
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I watch it like yeah, yeah yeah. It's a wonderful thing that I'm
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doing and I'm trying to help and stuff like that.
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And that's ultimately the goal is to, you know hopefully share
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my experiences share some of the things I've learned while I've
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been in recovery and stuff like that and like just give people
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hope because a lot of these people like when you're in
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addiction, you don't have any hope.
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I mean, I felt like I didn't, I felt like I didn't mean shit to
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anybody. You know, and you were, I don't
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know, I don't know the Forefront.
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I don't want to stay with you or the Forefront but to me you were
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because you were essentially the person who was pushing the brand
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the most. So I don't want to give all the
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credit to you unless you know more about it than I can.
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But I want to bring it up here. But you started a little bit of
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a. Are you a part of a program or
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started? I'm not sure what it was but you
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were doing a little bit of a podcasting deal.
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But more or less like speaking out about it recovery and
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addiction with skoog recovers in the area as well.
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Yeah, that was like That's where it all kind of really started.
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Like, I am, I got involved in the skoog recovers because it
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was local community thing and actually still a thing.
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I can't get out of the truck. Anyway.
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I have, no, I don't hear. I don't see anything about it
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anymore. Yeah, I mean, Trav would get
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into it and he would just go crazy and do like, a whole bunch
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of stuff at one time and it was hard to kind of like Get Him
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focused on one thing. So he kind of like branch Out
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and do like, a whole bunch of other stuff as well, but the
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skoog recovers was like the big. That's what we, that's what I
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said. Because I know Trav for a long
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time and, you know, we kind of got sober around the same time
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so he was, like, do you want to come and do the screw cover?
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I started this thing. Screw covers and honestly, I,
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yeah, what is it? So then I kind of got involved
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in that and so we did. A lot of stuff in the Schuylkill
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County area. We did drug awareness day in
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Upper Dauphin. I did that twice.
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I think and then we did another one.
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I did another school and I can't remember where it was offhand,
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but we did. We did a lot of.
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I did a lot of speaking engagements with them, like, you
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know, just sharing, you know, there's nothing harder than
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sitting in a room, full of 10th graders thinking, they probably
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think we're all a bunch of fucking junkie idiot.
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That's like dickheads, you know? And we, you know, I, but I did
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it and I loved it, it was great, and he also did a lot of Live
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streaming. And he did he built a like a
22:36
studio? He had this.
22:37
Um, they had this crazy barn out and Higgins.
22:41
And he turned it into this crazy like multimedia Studio.
22:45
I had like five screens up and he had all the stuff.
22:48
It was all it was crazy and we did them.
22:51
We had a couple podcast there, but yeah, he just he just never
22:55
like stuck with it and then you know obviously I moved and you
23:02
know I You know, I don't know what happened really with the
23:05
scoop recovers, but it was great at the time because they were
23:07
doing a lot of stuff in the community.
23:09
They were doing a lot of community cleaning projects,
23:11
they were doing. I know they did a couple
23:15
playground refurbishments where I'm in.
23:17
Travel is very crafty, got all the materials and you know, did
23:24
the whole thing for the for for the township or whatever it was
23:29
you would do the whole thing up for him.
23:31
Paint it. It was amazing.
23:34
I helped them with a couple of those cleanups.
23:36
Yeah, I remember you were, you were very good with carrying
23:39
that brand and making it being seen, I just kind of, you know,
23:42
I mean I do remember now Travis. I think like, as you were saying
23:46
him and talking about how am I do, remember seeing him on there
23:48
a lot too? But yeah, it's, I don't know if
23:51
it's like maybe just not in my algorithms anymore, or he's
23:53
still doing it. I have to, I have to do a little
23:55
bored more research. But do I remember that being a
23:57
big thing? What was, what was the main like
24:02
factor or What was the moment where you're like?
24:04
I need to clean up. I need to figure this out.
24:07
I need to, I need to stop my processor, or what I'm doing.
24:13
Yes, like that. That Moment of clarity that
24:17
moment where I figured it all out.
24:19
Yeah, so basically our you became self-aware that like this
24:24
is the steps I'm going to take. So, so I've been I've been I've
24:29
been living in Pottsville on Montelongo Street.
24:33
In like a basement apartment. It was horrible.
24:35
It was like living in hell. It was like it was exactly where
24:38
you would go. If you were depressed and felt
24:40
like shit, it was the there was dark all the time.
24:42
There's like one window and all I could see was this like a part
24:48
of the street above. So there was like no natural.
24:51
It was dark. It was crappy.
24:54
I was in there and I basically just live my life for like every
25:00
every Thursday Friday night. Thursday, Friday Saturday.
25:04
I would just go ape shit. I go to tripping on Thursday.
25:10
Get fuck up. All right be sometimes end up in
25:13
a holding cell not gonna lie. They took me there a couple
25:16
times. Yeah I got myself in all type of
25:20
shit and it was going on for a while and I just felt like I'm
25:26
just throwing my life away. What am I doing?
25:29
I started just kind of like I just didn't know what I was.
25:33
Myself and I met a girl and she had a kid, she had a
25:38
two-year-old and I was like, how, you know, how am I, how
25:43
would I ever be a role model to this kid?
25:47
I'm a I'm a fucking drunk. I drink all the time.
25:50
So it took a while, I was still drinking when I was with her for
25:53
a while. Not as bad.
25:56
I won't go out and get myself in too much trouble, but I would
25:59
kind of go overboard on the, you know, I get really, really
26:04
fucked up and then it was like we went out on New Year's and we
26:09
went to my buddy's in Maryland and I used to go there every
26:13
year on New Year's Eve and get absolutely trash because you
26:17
would pay like $60 and it was like, all you could eat and
26:21
drink all night. Horrible for me because I was
26:25
drinking like, Long Island, Iced Teas, and tiny cups.
26:28
And just, I was drinking on my Shooters drank about I love
26:33
them. So I ended up being really
26:36
horribly drunk that night, throwing up all over my buddy's
26:39
house, which is, you know, nice. When you invite a friend over is
26:42
just throw your shit and just been like, man, I'd the fucking
26:46
babysit him every time he drinks.
26:48
Yeah. And Matt and my buddy, Matt knew
26:51
me and he obviously he says, his quote was on the only three
26:55
people to ever throw up in his vehicle.
26:58
I threw up in this vehicle. Three times what the one time
27:03
have you so pissed? That's my biggest fear.
27:05
Please don't puke in my car. Listen, I couldn't figure out
27:10
how to use a push button window. I caught, I can't roll it down.
27:14
I can't figure it out. I was like sat there and I just
27:16
kept like pounding the his things like well the fucking
27:19
window down, I was like, I'm all over the side of it and he's
27:22
like, I fucking hate you and I was like, yeah, cool.
27:27
So anyway, back to this store, Sorry, I was absolutely
27:29
horrible. They had to drag me out of the
27:32
bathroom and like, they basically to babysit me, I woke
27:35
up the next day and we were supposed to go do something in
27:39
Baltimore and I can't do anything.
27:43
Can't move felt like shit, kept throwing up.
27:47
So I ended up. We ended up coming home and it
27:50
was a long, two hour drive of pulling over and be vomiting the
27:55
whole way home. So I got home and it was I think
27:59
it was like two weeks later would probably about mid-January
28:05
was like a Wednesday night. I don't know why I remember
28:07
this, but it was like a Wednesday night and I had a
28:08
whole bottle of coconut rum. I'm just kept mixing it with
28:12
pineapple juice on a Wednesday night.
28:14
I was at this girl's house and we put her put us on the bed and
28:18
I finished the whole fifth by myself, I want to sleep.
28:21
He's now woke up the next day, I felt like shit.
28:26
I was like, what the fuck did I do that on a Wednesday night?
28:30
Like, what am I doing? How could I ever be a father?
28:34
How could I ever be You know, responsible for another person's
28:40
life like I suck. So I just took it.
28:44
I just took the day and I was like I just remember like I
28:46
think I messaged her and I was like, I'm gonna quit drinking.
28:50
How do you feel about that? She was like, yeah, that's
28:52
great. I was like, okay, I'm done.
28:56
And then I remember I because I have a thing that comes up on
29:00
Facebook every year where I posted.
29:02
I'm you know I'm giving up drinking bottle blonde, I posted
29:05
it and that was it. It stopped, I didn't go to any
29:08
meetings and into anything I just stopped in that moment
29:12
which is crazy because that doesn't usually work for a lot
29:16
of people. I mean, most people have to go
29:18
and do treatment and 12-step and stuff like that.
29:21
But I went to a 12-step before and well how many people also go
29:24
to those programs and those steps and it's almost like it's
29:28
almost forced upon them are. It's an ultimatum for them to do
29:32
so where you are kind of like self-aware like no.
29:35
I think I'm done here. Yeah, I got to, I think I got to
29:38
the point where I was like, this needs to stop now II chalk.
29:42
It up to. I thought about my life and I
29:46
thought, like, I'll never have anything.
29:49
I'll never have anything of my own that, I'll that I'll be able
29:51
to love. I'll never have, I'll never be
29:53
able to be somebody's husband. I'll never be able to be a
29:56
father to children. I just won't.
29:58
I just won't. I won't be able to do it.
30:00
I won't be able to keep a job long enough to support somebody
30:04
like that. I just, I won't have a life.
30:06
The quality of my life was kind of, what was pushing me in that
30:09
direction of like, this is, this has got to stop like, hmm.
30:14
I think I was 30, 31 or 30? 31, 31.
30:19
When I've said this is, this has got to stop, so it took a long
30:22
time to get there, but finally got to that that Crossroad and
30:26
said I'm done. I can't do this anymore.
30:29
Yeah, it was fucking crazy man. That, that was the thing too is
30:32
like or what? I would like, you know, go out
30:34
and party and drink with friends.
30:36
It's like I liked to drink right, but I always like,
30:39
alright, well one of us has to stop here because nobody else is
30:44
or we're never getting home. So then it became like I didn't
30:48
drink as much. Because I knew everybody else
30:51
around me wasn't going to chill and we were all done our vehicle
30:54
and drove, you know what I mean? And it was like so I like I can
30:58
have two or three beers of the place and be fine only because I
31:02
like that's kind of how I taught myself how to drink because it
31:04
was like, like, I'm not saying it's good, but I'm saying is
31:08
like, I know my limit if that makes sense, and it just like,
31:10
yeah, because I and I just got to the point was like, I don't
31:13
even like drinking with people who don't who drink excessively
31:17
because like, I don't wanna babysit you like, I like, you're
31:19
an idiot right now, you know, I mean, like, it's off.
31:22
It's a tough fucking thing. And, and and, and in that in in
31:25
that region, that is what that's like, what happens?
31:30
Yeah. Eric Eric, another one that's
31:32
not professional wrestler, straight edge and but had, he
31:34
was a big drinker for a while to but he really comes out.
31:38
Hangs out with us, he's completely sober.
31:39
And he stopped a long time ago and hasn't touched it, since
31:43
that's it. It's tough.
31:44
It's tough to do it on your own. It's tough to just, just stop.
31:47
But I mean, it was probably the best.
31:48
Thing. I mean, it was it was the
31:50
greatest thing I've ever done for myself, like I
31:53
single-handedly in that moment changed the entire course of my
31:56
life. I mean, that's, that's period.
31:59
Bottom line, it changed. Everything.
32:02
It changed everything. I'm the junior, Reserve, you and
32:05
God to you, and then got into like Jiu-Jitsu start doing that
32:09
for a while, like doing MMA. Yeah.
32:11
Mmm. But that was more because, like,
32:14
I was always in bar fights and shit, and I was always, you
32:17
know, I'm a nose, bro. Broke like three times in like,
32:20
two months. Like, I black eyes like swollen,
32:23
shut. Like I put people in the
32:26
hospital. I had a lot of charges against
32:28
me because I was fighting people all the time.
32:31
Yeah. So I thought to myself.
32:34
When I got like, when I start to get clean, I thought if you
32:37
really think you had that fucking stuff.
32:42
Go do what tough people do. Go go, get in the gym.
32:46
And I remember going to the gym. I went to a gym and Shamokin.
32:50
It was a lie, performance combat club.
32:53
And I went in there and got absolutely houst by a guy that
32:59
was, I don't know, maybe like 11 at 30 pounds.
33:04
I was about 20 to 30 at the time 230 pounds and he absolutely.
33:12
Beat the snot out of me. We were boxing.
33:15
He just beat the shit out of me. We did some Jujitsu.
33:20
I mean I yeah he just did whatever he wanted.
33:23
I was in Triangle chokes. I was in Kimora's americana's.
33:29
He was just stealing all type of naughty shit to me and I was
33:33
like how the fuck can I was like picking him up and trying to
33:37
toss him off of me and he would just end up he'd end up on my
33:40
back and be like rear naked choke him.
33:42
Like what is going on? Yeah.
33:44
And then after that, I thought I need to do this.
33:48
This is fucking amazing. I don't know why because I just
33:51
I was just getting beat up like constantly getting beat up, be
33:54
just going to gym, you know, the guy who asked him to ours and
33:58
leave. Yeah.
33:59
Like the guy who was who's Jim? It was his name is Chris, Chris
34:02
pifer. He was you look like a fucking
34:06
grizzly bear man. He was, he was like 355,
34:09
Frontier box. He was a boxer, right?
34:12
Don't know if he was a boxer. He did do some boxing and stuff
34:16
but he was like a giant grizzly bear and he just literally would
34:20
take you and just how you would hear things in my body popping
34:24
that I didn't, they probably shouldn't have popped.
34:27
He just house me up every single day until you start learning and
34:31
then you start getting better and you start learning positions
34:34
and, you know, how to get out of things and stuff like that.
34:38
So yeah, it was great. I really enjoyed it.
34:41
I really enjoyed Jiu-Jitsu. I did it for a long time.
34:45
I did it for a long time in my recovery, and it was probably a
34:48
huge focal point because it kind of kept me, you know, centered,
34:52
it kept me out of trouble. It kept me, focused on things
34:55
and like, you don't want to go out and get into fights.
34:58
If you know you can fight or if, you know, you can handle
35:00
yourself or if you've been in a situation like in a gym where
35:03
you're boxing people and you're getting, I'm getting smacked in
35:06
the face and, you know, throwing hands with other guys that are,
35:10
you know, No quite good with their hands you know.
35:13
So I don't want to go out and get any trouble.
35:15
I don't want to cause any trouble, it's funny.
35:17
Just want to do my thing, just be left alone and it's very
35:20
humbling to to be feel like you're a really big guy and then
35:24
get tossed around by a guy who's like half your size.
35:28
You know it kind of brings you down a peg where you're just
35:31
like all right well I think I'll I thought I would go you know
35:36
walk in there like Billy badass and then you walk out and I'm
35:39
like Hurts. Yeah.
35:41
Like I should. Yeah.
35:43
So then I just kept going back. I kept going back for a long
35:46
time. Still, you still train over in
35:49
the UK? I mean, I'd love to.
35:51
Oh God, I'd love to I mean, but it's just with work and kids and
35:55
she's just trying to figure out the time to do any of that is
35:58
impossible. And most of the time, the
36:00
classes are in the evenings and she's really hard because, you
36:04
know, how to get up for work. I've got I where I work.
36:06
Super early early in the morning, I'm up at like 2:30.
36:10
In the morning, to go to work. But yeah.
36:12
So it's just I don't know. I wish I wish I could be
36:14
possible because I'd love to get back into it.
36:16
But I have my ID and I have all my stuff here on my boxing
36:19
gloves. Become a pro wrestler, huh?
36:22
Just be a pro-wrestler man back in the day.
36:27
I thought that was what I that's what I wanted to do, because we
36:31
used to, we used to weave the backyard wrestle because that's,
36:35
I mean exactly what you should be doing and I live in the
36:39
Attitude Era. So, Instantly, you know that.
36:43
That stuff those moments where like this is it like this hat?
36:47
Right here. That this says, the crew, this
36:48
is a crew hat. This was create.
36:50
This was like Death Row, Records meets the NWO.
36:54
This is like, my Fusion of, like the things I love like hip-hop
36:57
music and you know, WWE factions, you know, DX and stuff
37:03
like that. That me and my best friend.
37:04
Russell rustlings back to that. It's nothing.
37:06
But factions now everywhere and every company.
37:08
Yeah, actions are thing again. Yeah, but they're not as cool as
37:11
they were back then. I mean there's some cool
37:13
vaccines right now. Like bullet Club, the bullet
37:17
looks pretty cool. I mean the guy was cool that he
37:19
wants were but like they're kind of like the elite now.
37:22
Judgement day is kind of cool. The bloodline is cool.
37:25
Yeah, bloodline is cool. Yeah, I guess so.
37:28
Yeah. But it is, it is what I was
37:29
like. How do you not look at re Ripley
37:31
and be like anything. She's a part of I think is the
37:33
coolest thing ever. She's like a hot Australian goth
37:36
chick. Sign me up.
37:38
Yeah, yeah. She looks like she would like
37:42
she kill you unless you kill you hurt?
37:44
Yeah, yeah, she hurt you think I'm all right with it.
37:47
I'd be. All right with it.
37:49
Yeah. I mean yes.
37:51
As just you know, one of those things I used to love it.
37:54
I still love, I love wrestling. I love backyard.
37:57
I love backyard wrestling. I'll get you back into it.
38:00
Tanya. We're gonna I'm gonna slowly
38:01
sneak of you're gonna be watching it on Wednesdays again
38:04
and yeah you know what the problem is.
38:06
It's always on. So late here, I have a bunch of
38:08
a aw on records record and stuff like that, Accord the dynamite
38:13
and stuff because that's what's that's what usually on over
38:15
here. Or it's at least on y hat like
38:18
on my Ice on my sky, I can get it because for some reason, WWE,
38:25
every couple of years, they switch to a different provider.
38:29
So they're on be there on BT, which is a service provider over
38:32
here, but they were on sky before and I used to watch that
38:35
all the time, but I can't can't get it now.
38:37
So I got a hangover. Appreciate you.
38:40
Some people in the chat, another quick, I have a question here
38:44
going through your recovery process when you decided you
38:47
weren't going to drink anymore. Now, I'm trying to put it in
38:50
perspective for people maybe who don't live in this area, but
38:53
that that's essentially like, saying if I don't want to drink
38:57
anymore, like that cuts out 95% of your social life, all the
39:03
things you do, because there's nothing to else to do.
39:07
Your friend. Like, if you want to go hang out
39:09
with your friends, they're going to a barn.
39:11
If you go to a restaurant, it's nine times out of ten to a
39:14
restaurant with a bar in it like everything.
39:16
There's, yeah, alcohol involved. Yeah, everything.
39:20
All of. How do you did you lose?
39:22
Friendships that front were friendships hard to maintain
39:24
like, how was that process? Like, drinking is hard enough,
39:28
but being social, especially when you're in a depressive
39:31
State, and your depressive States, then crushed by the
39:33
drinking. But then, maybe the only thing
39:35
that makes you happy is being with people you care about.
39:37
About like, how do you juggle all that?
39:40
So so basically like getting sober is it's great because you
39:46
like, you find yourself again like who you were before and
39:51
yeah, I just I kind of just was like, I think I was on a high
39:54
for like the first couple of years of being like sober.
39:56
I kind of was just like just thrilled that I had, you know,
40:00
achieve these goals and I've got clean.
40:04
It was tough though because I wanted like because obviously I
40:06
had to tell my friends. and I was just like, Are you on
40:10
message? All of them individually and I
40:12
was like Hey listen man I'm gonna quit drinking they were
40:16
all like super supportive. I was like okay cool great we'll
40:20
just call because back in the day be like stop being a pussy
40:23
bro. Yeah yeah other words one years
40:26
we don't we don't use those words.
40:29
I think the thing is when I lived in Shamokin I think it was
40:34
more toxic of a more toxic environment.
40:36
I was involved in a lot of things that weren't great for
40:39
Me. And I think the people that I
40:41
Associated myself with, also, that I align myself with, we're
40:45
doing the same things in such a drastically negative manner.
40:49
That if I would have stayed there, I think I would have
40:53
probably struggled and probably would have been able to do as
40:58
well as I did. But I think when I moved out of
41:00
there and I moved up to Pottsville I had friends up
41:06
there but I made like new friends and new sir like Social
41:12
Circle. So I wasn't as deeply immersed
41:15
in this - drinking but I was still struggling with my own
41:20
shit. So it wasn't like everybody that
41:23
was surrounding me was just pouring it down and just getting
41:28
shitty all the time. Like it was I was the one
41:31
getting shitty most of the time and maybe like One other person,
41:35
but then when I said to like, you know, my close friends, you
41:37
know, I'm done and they were like there were like, okay, the
41:41
probably they were, they were like staring labor support.
41:44
They were really supportive. They were where they were
41:46
supportive and they were like, yeah.
41:48
Because I told them all like, I was like, listen.
41:50
I was like, I know you guys don't think that I have a
41:52
problem, but I do like you have to just respect the fact that
41:57
I'm telling you that I have a problem and like if you respect
41:59
me as a person and you respect me as a friend, Then the shin be
42:03
an issue because this is my choice, and then you guys should
42:06
just support me, you know, if you're my friends and luckily
42:09
enough, they were my friends and I said, you know what, if that's
42:14
how you feel, that's how you feel, and they've always been
42:17
supportive of me, they've always been that's awesome.
42:19
Always have my back, 100%. You know, they tell me that
42:22
they're, you know, proud of me all the time for the stuff that
42:25
I'm doing with the podcast and, you know, it's just I'm lucky
42:29
that I have. I had a good core group of Of
42:32
people, you know, that telling them showing him that my
42:38
vulnerability and saying, you know, I've realized I have
42:42
something wrong with me, you know, please respect that as my
42:46
friend, you know, because they could have just been like, nah,
42:50
fuck that drink, but they didn't, which is great because
42:54
it made life easier on me because it would have been
42:56
tough. It is tough though because
42:58
everything is revolved around drinking so I had a friend.
43:02
Dj2 tripping, Billy's all the time.
43:05
So if I wanted to hang out, I'd have to go to tripping buildings
43:09
and hang out. So I'd find myself in a bar
43:14
Sober, and I did it for a long time.
43:17
Like, I would go there, and I think a few times we hung out in
43:19
bars, if I'm not. Yeah, I think, I think, I think
43:21
we hung out in a Strikers, a couple times, because your fans
43:24
that were playing there mmm, and stuff like that.
43:26
So, yeah, it's it's, you know, it's just one of those things
43:32
that I just, I felt like, at the time, I was strong enough to be
43:35
able to do it. I think I struggled more now to
43:37
go to places that are like, where people are getting really
43:41
drunk and stuff like that, find it difficult to drink.
43:44
Yeah, it bothers me. It's just I don't like to be in
43:46
those situations, like I don't like to be in situations like
43:49
that because there's always this guy and he's always going to be
43:52
tough and he's gonna be bouncing around and bump into somebody
43:55
like, what the fuck's your problem.
43:56
I don't want to be involved in that situation.
43:59
I don't want. You know, that that's not really
44:02
the drinking see anymore and school County, like there's
44:04
really, I mean, maybe one or two places you go and you're like,
44:07
oh, that's going to turn into this.
44:09
But like, everywhere I go, it's just it's Vibes.
44:12
It's just like chilling. You know what I mean?
44:14
Even have to be drinking to chill.
44:15
I don't know. It's dope.
44:17
Like tonight, we're going to the blood washes and Tony deepens
44:21
Brewery it. Oh yeah.
44:23
And and it's, we're having 420 wrestling trivia.
44:26
So every piece of wrestling trivia is based on like weed
44:29
wrestlers, like, like like some ways gonna be in there a lot The
44:33
Godfather. Yeah, he has his own stream that
44:39
may have made. I may have smoked weed with the
44:41
Godfather one time now. That's great.
44:44
Yeah. And I was great not like a full
44:49
session because I didn't want to die.
44:50
But took a walk and a little walk.
44:54
Get a little hazy letter, but yeah.
44:57
Now if speaking of going back to the podcast here, if someone
45:01
were has never listened are if what what, what do they expect
45:05
when they tune in to your podcast?
45:07
What what's the overall like? Cuz I know you do solo stuff,
45:10
where you just kind of, like, kind of talk and get thoughts
45:12
out of your head, which is Ying. I fucking suck at that.
45:16
Like, I just started doing a vlog and I'm trying to do that
45:19
and it's so uncomfortable. It's not easy to do.
45:22
And I do I find I'm literally sitting on an episode right now
45:26
that I'm starting to edit and I'm like, I don't want to
45:28
release this because I hate it because I'm like, I don't, I'm
45:32
so uncomfortable, telling my personal stuff, like I made that
45:35
poster today and I fucking hated it.
45:36
Like I'm it's my biggest bear, I have to get over with myself.
45:41
I mean, basically this like the solo stuff is just kind of like
45:44
me talking about topics in recovery or in addiction.
45:49
Or I mean anything that I really feel like I have a true like
45:52
some understanding of and, you know, maybe things that I feel
45:57
like I could share with people who might, you know, they might
46:00
just benefit from from hearing somebody else who's gone through
46:03
it. Say it out loud, you know,
46:05
because like, with Alcoholics Anonymous and na.
46:08
It's all Anonymous. You have to go.
46:10
To these meetings and you have to, you know, sit in these rooms
46:14
and, you know, follow these 12 steps or whatever the case is, I
46:19
just think recovery, isn't it isn't the same for everybody?
46:23
It doesn't. It's not a one-size-fits-all
46:25
everybody kind of gets clean their own way and they do things
46:28
their own way. And I just think, you know,
46:30
sometimes, like, maybe things that I've gone through, or
46:32
things I've experienced might resonate with people.
46:35
And that might You know, just help them to hear somebody else
46:39
had gone through it or somebody else had, you know, they've come
46:42
out the other side of it, you know, to see what it's like on
46:44
the other side that you can build a life that you can be no
46:48
break. These barriers and break these
46:49
stigmas, you can set these goals.
46:50
You can achieve these things. So that's that's more like solo
46:53
stuff that I'm going to do. Yeah.
46:56
I'm just trying to like figure out like what else?
46:59
I want to tie into it. I do have some guests on and I
47:02
just think, like, as far as sobriety goes like, hearing
47:05
people tell their Freeze because it gives people a voice and it
47:09
lets them Express, you know, maybe things that they just want
47:14
to just just say, you know, and I just think it's good for them
47:18
in their recovery and if they're willing to share, you know,
47:21
their story might resonate with somebody, you know.
47:23
So it's just kind of things like that.
47:24
So I'm looking into doing, you know, a couple more interviews
47:28
with people and trying to get people to share their stories.
47:30
It's tough because people don't like to, you know, it's tough to
47:34
expose yourself and to say some things, you know.
47:36
It's things like, you know thinking you know, saying that
47:39
you when I first started office interviews, everyday people.
47:43
And that's essentially what was like living in this area.
47:46
I felt like and I didn't when I say this I don't want to come
47:50
off as a negative but I was like, man, I live in a gold.
47:52
Mine of people stories and storytelling.
47:55
Like you go to a bar and you meet somebody and they're
47:58
fucking, they been through stuff.
48:00
They're hurting. Like they're trying to get over
48:02
stuff and they have incredible stories, but they don't think
48:05
they matter to anybody. They I think there's right is
48:07
impactful and I would sit in a bar with these people.
48:10
Like, you know, how fucking powerful your story is and
48:13
they're like, no. And I'm like, your story is, is
48:16
insane. Like yeah.
48:18
And if you had someone like where I feel like, that's what
48:22
kind of where I'm good at color commentary with cut, like with
48:24
podcasting are with wrestling, is I can hear your story and
48:29
maybe paint a picture to it and add something to it to make
48:32
somebody else realize like holy shit I did realize it was that
48:35
deep and then the This is like, I don't even know it was that
48:37
deep, do you know? I mean, like yeah, I was doing
48:40
interviews that are they people and then I was just like, I
48:42
didn't want, I felt like I was cashing in on tragedy and I
48:45
didn't like that either. So I definitely know you're
48:47
coming from where it's hard to get people to talk.
48:49
And that's kind of where, like, this podcast is still open for
48:52
that. Like, I know I do a ton of
48:53
wrestling interviews but this is I didn't make this the a BJ
48:56
wrestling podcast. That's the a BJ podcast.
48:58
I'm just here. This is like, essentially I want
49:00
this to be as if I was writing a journal and every chapter was a
49:04
different like chapter 48 issue, you don't know.
49:06
Like this, this is, this is your story and and it could be
49:10
anything. I just I'm very fortunate
49:11
enough, that I have a lot of people in the wrestling business
49:13
who gravitated to this, and listen to it, and like it, and
49:16
that's a good way for them to meet new wrestlers.
49:18
But also like, I like to sneak these in and people to be like,
49:21
yo, I want to go check out his podcast and what he's doing.
49:24
Yeah, I mean, I think it's a cool thing to do and I think,
49:26
you know, with us doing this right now, I mean it gives
49:29
people, it gives me exposure on your people and you exposure on
49:34
my people and it's like, you know, you These stories do
49:38
resonate and you can. And, I mean, I don't want to say
49:40
cashing in on tragedy, but it's like, I've been more look at the
49:44
uplifting bits of what I've done because it is, it is, I mean,
49:48
there is a lot of tragedy. There's a lot of shit that
49:50
happened. A lot of bad things and I feel,
49:52
you know, my life now is is more about putting more good out
49:58
because I feel like I did a lot of bad.
50:00
I'm I'll I feel like I for some reason, I feel like Karma like I
50:02
believe in karma for some reason that I feel like if I do I do
50:07
more good because I did a lot of bad before, then, if I do enough
50:11
good now that I'll balance it all out somewhere and that I'll
50:13
kind of like and on an even Keel, like I'll make it to the
50:17
middle somewhere where I can just do enough, good help enough
50:20
people and you know, My struggle can be somebody's chance to
50:27
save. Like you ever watch the show.
50:29
My Name Is Earl. I've seen bits of it.
50:33
Yeah. You should watch it, dude.
50:34
I because I'm kind of in the same boat where I'm trying to,
50:36
like, give back a little like, you know, me and I don't think
50:39
I've done anything super bad, but I just also want to put out
50:42
more positivity. But essentially, My Name is
50:45
Earl, is this guy who is a drunk and alcoholic and druggie and he
50:48
just was the horse human being ever, so he literally made a
50:51
list of every person he's ever done wrong to do then over.
50:55
Romans the show is him he's going back and trying to do
50:59
something good for that person to get it off the list but Other
51:01
people absolutely fucking hate him because of how bad he was to
51:05
them. So he's trying to prove to them
51:08
that he's like, he said it was a comedy show, but it was really
51:11
fucking good. He's check it out.
51:14
I mean, I think that's one of the 12 Steps isn't it to like go
51:17
back and make amends like you have to go back, you know, make
51:21
amends to people that you may have heard in the past.
51:24
I mean you know, I don't do the 12-step thing but I know that's
51:29
probably, you know, it's quite hard act to to To go back and
51:32
and try to repair, or at least, you know, fix some of the damage
51:37
that you've done previously. Yeah, you know.
51:41
Well, we are coming up to the close to the end here and if
51:43
anyone in the chat, has any questions or anything?
51:45
They want to put out, please do so before.
51:47
This is over, I just have one more little bit.
51:50
I want to talk about, not podcast related is is the trip,
51:53
the journey, the move. How did this come about?
51:56
How did you end up from Schuylkill County, Pottsville
51:59
Pennsylvania to, you know? No, 15 minutes outside of
52:03
London. So basically, we were living, we
52:10
did my wife, and I got married. We did the visa, she moves the
52:14
United States. We lived in Schuylkill haven for
52:20
a year. She was from the UK and then
52:22
came to Pottsville. I'll come that are.
52:23
Yeah, yeah. So I met her.
52:25
I met her. So our story is kind of.
52:28
It's insane to think about how I met her.
52:31
So I met her, I was working at strykers as a bouncer All right,
52:36
on, like the weekends usually on the weekends because I was
52:40
working as I was working Roofing as my day job.
52:44
So I'd go homework Roofing and then I go bounce that Strikers
52:48
and they'd be like, yeah, he's not wrong.
52:52
Making amends is one of the scariest parts of getting sober.
52:54
It is like you're going to apologize to people that you did
52:58
really their car for. You can see ya for future in
53:02
their car four times. Yeah.
53:04
Well, I don't think I've ever made amends for that.
53:06
I've just gotten sober and been like, I'm just not going to
53:08
mention it again. Yeah, I'm just never smelled
53:11
never cursed. Son of a gift card for like a
53:13
detailing job once a year. You know, I mean like that's
53:15
this one's on me. Yeah.
53:17
Or just like, we're just like get in this car and just
53:20
instantly vomit and be like keeping the trend alive.
53:24
I'm sober and I did it. I'm sober and I did a bitch, I
53:28
realized the whole time it wasn't a drinking problem.
53:29
I get carsick easy. I'm also I met my wife working
53:40
at strykers. They told me, they were like in
53:43
the summer, we get these people there, the Internationals, and I
53:46
was like but what that like the Internationals and I was like I
53:50
don't know what the fuck you guys talk that's a scope thing
53:52
either internet all of a sudden. Yeah that's so cute though
53:55
because you didn't know, they have no idea how to put it all
53:58
together. They're just like Yeah from
53:59
everywhere. And honestly it's like School
54:03
our area just like Like, in the past 15-20 years, have just been
54:06
more like we'll just say more cultures have entered our area,
54:09
but like, it was hilarious. Like as someone who like your, I
54:13
grew up in the hip-hop community and like, I like I try to
54:16
culture myself but like I made friends with everybody but just
54:20
watching people in the area. We like there's people would
54:22
call her here in a like it was like the you're saying the
54:25
Internationals like hearing some of the things other people said
54:29
it's crazy. School county has come a long
54:31
way, it blows your mind. So this big yellow school bus,
54:34
Al's upright, and all these people get out and I was like,
54:37
what in the fuck is this? So all these people, all these,
54:41
all these girls and boys, they all come over and passports, and
54:44
everything. They're from all over
54:45
everywhere. I'm talking Australia.
54:49
Jamaica, Germany Denmark Norway all over there from everywhere.
54:54
England, they're from everywhere.
54:57
So, I ended up bouncing there and nobody would talk to me
55:01
because I was I looked miserable.
55:04
I've been Roofing all day and I look miserable and I had a
55:07
mohawk. And I was just, I looked angry
55:10
and there was a group of people from England.
55:12
It was, it was, it was a guy from England, a South African,
55:17
and then the two girls and they were the only people that really
55:21
talked to me for, like the first three or four times that they
55:24
came. They work they did.
55:25
This thing is called Camp America, apparently, it's like a
55:27
thing over here with it. People sign up and they go to
55:29
Camp, they do summer camps. So some of them are like summer
55:33
camps for Kids, some of them are like summer camps for adults
55:36
with special needs. My wife was involved with the
55:38
adults with special needs and it was right outside of Pine Grove.
55:42
The camp was in the woods. Nobody knew about it.
55:46
Never knew it existed, probably better for like 50 years, right?
55:50
It was called The Eagle Springs. So she was one of the only
55:54
people to talk to me. And then we kind of hit it off
55:57
and he started like talking and she was teaching me, like, look
56:00
like English slang, like things that, that people would say.
56:03
Here and style of English slang. It's my fucking favorite.
56:08
I we went to Vegas real quick. Sorry.
56:11
So sorry. Tarantino clicks sighs.
56:13
Paul was, it was me and Heidi in a bar in the MGM Grand.
56:17
And we're with like, six, dudes. Just me, Heidi and six, dudes.
56:21
And they all look like fucking Captain America.
56:23
They're all of, like, the most handsome.
56:25
I thought for a second, I was losing my wife.
56:27
Like, she was Smith and they all had English accents.
56:30
I was doing it was like, fucking drinking with six James Bonds.
56:33
I had no shot. You know?
56:35
I mean and they're all named like Navy are some like their
56:39
version of the Navy. Yeah.
56:40
Oh yeah. And they're like, mate.
56:43
Like what if what a birds that and I was like, what the birds.
56:46
And now they're talking about girls the girls.
56:49
Yeah, I thought, they meant actual Birds.
56:51
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It is a lot of stress.
56:56
Also. There's a, there's a, for
56:58
letter, c word that me and my life absolutely love, but it's
57:02
so expect not. It here but over there and like
57:05
Australia and literally it's like it's like saying hello?
57:09
Yeah, I love it. I heard my mother-in-law say for
57:11
the first time was like she was like what I was like to see.
57:15
Why? She's like yeah pink hair,
57:18
smells like table, drop it all the time.
57:20
Oh my yeah boom see bomb. See bomb.
57:23
See beloved such a great word. Yeah man it's annoying will talk
57:28
about cursing word. Yeah they're not really uptight
57:31
With cursing in the UK like in Ian cursed you're like your
57:34
diminishes a person. It's weird.
57:36
Like I don't know. See but the thing is though like
57:39
they have curse words that like you don't even understand that
57:44
don't make sense to you like, bloody hell?
57:49
Yeah. Like that's that's a that's
57:51
cool. Don't say bloody hell really?
57:53
That's like harsh? Yes, they say bloody hell on TV.
57:57
Stewie says that every week on Family Guy.
57:59
Yeah. But over here it's like a it's
58:01
like a swear. Like, because I said, I think I
58:04
I'm my wife might have said it in front of our son.
58:06
She was always, should have said that and I like it's not that
58:09
bad. Yeah, up and just seems like
58:12
every forward Kant, three minutes ago.
58:14
Yeah, Stevie Bombs all over that.
58:19
But yeah, it is this is this is a good one.
58:24
So like you know how we say dick right?
58:27
Call somebody dick bell end. Oh I was I thought you were
58:31
gonna say knob Now bell end the end of a bell.
58:36
A penis looks like an end of a bell.
58:38
The tip of that ahead. Call somebody a bell end.
58:42
I'm gonna do it tonight. Yeah.
58:44
Use it drop it. People just stare at you and be
58:46
like yeah wank is funny. Wanks, a good heart I think with
58:52
Lancome that yeah. I think just wanking or wank are
58:55
the anything with Wang any verbiage of Wang.
58:57
It's just walking amazing. Yeah, fucking wankers.
59:01
Yeah, it's way better than Than like saying you're going to jerk
59:04
off? I think I think wank is better
59:06
than Wine. Yeah, I started watching this
59:10
show like four or five years ago and it was called The Misfits.
59:13
It was on Hulu and the premise of the Misfits was these kids
59:17
were in like, a Saturday detention and yeah, for like,
59:20
but it was like almost like the tension, but also like community
59:23
service type deal and it was the took place in the UK and during
59:26
their time there like this eclipse happened and it gave
59:30
them all superpowers. But it was Like, they were like
59:33
normal kids who got superpowers, but like they were in the UK.
59:36
So they use all that terminology and it was a fucking amazing
59:39
show. I loved it.
59:40
It was so cool. Look, it's probably done and
59:43
gone. The one guy from the show end up
59:45
going to a. He said, he did, he was an
59:46
umbrella Academy. I don't know if he's like a
59:49
really big actor over the UK but he's really, really fucking
59:51
talented. But yeah, that was another one.
59:54
I learned a lot of UK slang was that Julie?
59:56
Showcase lying. It's on a different level, man.
1:00:00
Yeah, her level did, what was what was another one over there?
1:00:03
That will I caught you off guard when you heard it.
1:00:06
But now it's like second nature to you.
1:00:09
Yeah. You ever hit on one of the old,
1:00:10
but while you're over there, nah, the only thing but just
1:00:15
stare at me. Yeah.
1:00:22
Yeah, yeah. Hit him with the one, two tree.
1:00:25
Yeah. Did you say tree?
1:00:28
Yeah. Tree, you know, the number tree.
1:00:30
Yeah, 46 Dakota. Fuck twerking for 16.
1:00:34
They won't even. And that is what is the fuck
1:00:38
mean? It's special.
1:00:41
It's a special thing. Yeah I mean there's it's just
1:00:45
the language is just different. It's crazy.
1:00:48
I love is cruel of that for you so I don't know what's going on
1:00:53
with this trip but I hope I hopefully things work out or
1:00:58
hopefully we can cross paths and hang out against in person
1:01:00
sometime soon, but I want to thank you so much for your time
1:01:03
real quick again. Working everyone find you and
1:01:05
find Podcasts besides a little trouble.
1:01:08
Oh, yeah, the link trees there. I'm on.
1:01:12
I'm on YouTube, Instagram, Tick-Tock, Facebook, all the
1:01:17
YouTube everywhere. I said, YouTube, I don't know.
1:01:19
Everywhere, home on all this also is going to go out.
1:01:21
Forms Spotify. Apple podcasts Amazon music,
1:01:26
Google, I gotta I gotta, I gotta jet.
1:01:28
We gotta just some stuff on your link tree.
1:01:29
I was looking at it, go look at mine and look at the way my
1:01:32
podcasting is set up and then I'll team.
1:01:34
Okay. Yeah, yeah, I can teach him
1:01:38
something but thank you again. James I love you to death, man.
1:01:42
Keep doing what you're doing. Keep grinding argument, you're
1:01:45
doing awesome. And you're getting some awesome
1:01:47
numbers. You're killing me.
1:01:48
You're dominating me when it comes to views.
1:01:50
Come on, man. Tons of content because I'm a
1:01:55
psychopath. I'm, I have an addiction problem
1:01:58
where I put everything into one thing.
1:02:00
I don't know if it's an ADHD problem or something.
1:02:03
It probably is like obsessed. So where you have high block out
1:02:07
the rest of the world on. This is the only thing that's
1:02:09
important right now and then everyone in the outside world,
1:02:11
like, can I be important to and I'm like, I'll figure it out.
1:02:15
Heidi's like can we do something together and you're like, can we
1:02:19
yeah, she's talking to me now. She's like I have to like,
1:02:20
literally do something right? As we speak, but I've to eat and
1:02:25
then go do something with her and then go to that trivia
1:02:27
thing. So it's crazy.
1:02:28
This is the way my brain operates.
1:02:30
But everyone, thank you so much for sticking with me.
1:02:32
Sorry. You know, with everything going
1:02:34
on with the Being done with it and not being done with it, I'm
1:02:37
sure more will come out in a couple weeks of what what
1:02:40
transpired and hopefully things in the future.
1:02:43
All I will say is if what I think is going to happen is
1:02:47
going to happen. I will be getting a cool
1:02:52
monetization version of making some money while doing this.
1:02:55
But also using my platform to help people that I really,
1:02:59
really want to help out in the wrestling business.
1:03:00
And if this works out, it's literally a dream come true.
1:03:04
So I hope things work the way they I don't want to put
1:03:06
anything out there yet because if I don't know where it stands
1:03:09
and I don't want to put things out there and ruin it, so just
1:03:13
thank you guys so much for. So yeah, I'm trying.
1:03:16
I'm trying. But thank you guys so much for
1:03:17
hanging out and showing that support.
1:03:20
I love you guys to death James. Thank you again.
1:03:23
We will be back on Monday. I have mr.
1:03:25
Sam, coming back that I canceled on last week due to odd the day.
1:03:29
They literally the day my car broke down.
1:03:31
I was like, man, I can't podcast and he's like, come on please,
1:03:34
let's like bro. I'm A mental wreck right now.
1:03:37
My eyes are puffy. I had a good cry.
1:03:42
I can't podcast today, so I'm going to reschedule.
1:03:44
We're going to do it Monday. So mr.
1:03:45
Sam will be back for episode 49 Monday and then on Tuesday, I'm
1:03:50
gonna hit you three next week, Tuesday will be kit, RAV4,
1:03:53
episode 50 and then we will have Cosmic on 51 for Thursday.
1:03:58
So guys, thank you so much for sticking with me.
1:04:00
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Take a picture of that shirt. Send it to me, so I can thank
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So, they're on their way, but we'll see you guys next time.
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