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Death of DMX and Internet Dating in the 2000s · WDYM What Do You Mean?

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  SPEAKER_01: And this is the very first episode of WDYM.
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• 1:33
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for taking the time to listen to this podcast.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, you might ask yourself, what does WDYM stand for?
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_01: And it means what do you mean?
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_01: Quite frankly, what do you mean podcast?
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  SPEAKER_01: Where I ask questions or I make you ask yourself, Michael, what the hell do you mean by that?
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna divide the show into two topics.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_01: Some like for latest events or things that are freshly on my mind, I'm gonna call that what's going on.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then the second one will be the main topic of the day of the what do you mean.
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  SPEAKER_01: So with that being said, let's go ahead and get to uh what's going on or What the hell's going on?
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_01: What the hell is going on?
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  SPEAKER_01: So one of the things that's going on is uh the death of DMX.
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  SPEAKER_01: April 9th, I believe.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Earl Simmons, aka the dog.
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  SPEAKER_01: DMX, he died.
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  SPEAKER_01: He died of a uh catastrophic cardiac arrest, according to the hospital.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_01: And um at dying at 50, you know, 50 seems rather young, at least as we go up there, we always say that, hey, you know, 50, 50 is kind of young, you know what I'm saying?
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_01: But uh, yeah, I mean it is young for 50 for a man who's been a rapper for so long.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, he I heard DMX in around 1998, that's when the first album came out, and this was after the whole Pac and Biggie thing in the mid-90s to the late 90s, where we had Jay-Z, Nas, DMX, Outcast, let's not forget Outcast.
• 2:55
  SPEAKER_01: But uh, yeah, uh, DMX came out, and the thing about DMX that makes him so makes him what who he was, was that there was no other style like DMX.
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_01: DMX had such a unique way of rapping.
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  SPEAKER_01: First, his rap was was banging, first off.
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  SPEAKER_01: Secondly, like there was no other rapper doing the quite messes like he did.
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  SPEAKER_01: He knows he struggled with everything from addiction to God to Satan and all the stuff that comes comes with DMX.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_01: And um it's sad.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_01: It's sad to see that someone someone like X going out the way he did.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I understand that the man was in pain based on his music and his lyrics.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's been pain for so long and the two finally go out this way.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_01: It's a little disheartening to to think that.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_01: But I mean I mean the thing the the footprint that DMX left is is remarkable.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_01: And uh as a fan of DMX is, you know, I bought all his albums and probably after the fifth album kind of fell off.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_01: But you know, it is what it is.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_01: That's what happened with hip hop.
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_01: You know, sometimes they keep repeating themselves.
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  SPEAKER_01: Either way, DMX is one of the iconic figures of hip-hop, and he surely would be missed.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_01: But the thing that you know about X about DMX is that he was still making music up to uh uh August 19.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_01: I mean he just made a song with the locks called Bout Shh know what that means.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh I'm gonna play a sample of it, so the dance.
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  unknown: I'm in the I'm a money.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want the eye, I want the money called BS.
• 4:41
  unknown: Top for cartels.
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  SPEAKER_00: We the outlet, don't hold me out of deck, anyone at Stafford, homie got a code, anyone at Raphael, you ain't really bad You ain't really powerful.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now you can't tell me that does not sound sound good.
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  SPEAKER_01: And and you know, just it's just sad to see that happen to such a to you know, a person that has brought so much to people and all that stuff.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I mean, we all can speculate what happened, you know, as far as you know what happened with him.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_01: So if it was drug related, you know, let's hope not.
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_01: If it was, because I heard some rumors are saying, hey, he got the COVID vaccine, a couple days later he died.
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, we don't know.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_01: We don't know, and I don't think an autopsy has been out as of me recording this, but uh still, you know, God bless him, you know.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_01: Hope he's finally at peace.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_01: Well, pretty sure we all are at that point, but you know, let's give a shout out to DMX, man.
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_01: On to the second, what's going on is uh basically someone at my work that is bothering the H-E-Double hockey sticks out of me.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_01: Uh many of you probably don't know or do know that I work at a uh retirement home.
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  SPEAKER_01: And when I first applied for the job, I thought this would be, you know, easy.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_01: This would be easy working at a retirement home because the retirement home, they ain't, you know, they're gonna eat the same stuff and dietary, you know, things like that.
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  SPEAKER_01: To my surprise, it's been very crazy to say the least.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I and when you work for you, like you work for old people like, yeah, this ain't gonna be nothing.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's a lie.
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  SPEAKER_01: That is a bold-faced lie.
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  SPEAKER_01: I should have asked for more money when this came, this situation came out because these people are crazy.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'm coming from a hospital.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_01: I used to work at a hospital in downtown Cincinnati, and I thought that was okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: The people were crazy there too.
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  SPEAKER_01: But this uh senior living takes the cake.
• 6:53
  SPEAKER_01: They crazy.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_01: I got, as of lately, I have talked to the same people.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_01: There's two main people that just are the the head people.
• 7:03
  SPEAKER_01: Like, if I see, I don't know what to call, if I see this one person, he is automatically, oh my god, he's about to waste the next 30 minutes of my life because he wants to tell me about problems.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's crazy.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I can't handle that.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's two of them.
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  SPEAKER_01: One is, let's call one Mitchell, and the other one Mr.
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  SPEAKER_01: Dickerson.
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  SPEAKER_01: Mitchell is the head leader of everybody.
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  SPEAKER_01: If if someone has a complaint, they tell Mitchell.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_01: Mitchell comes down on his motor scooter and rolls down.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_01: Can I see you for a second?
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, no.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I have to because I'm the manager on so he comp he complains about everything.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_01: The food's not too hot, the plates not too hot, the everything.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't get my sauce.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_01: Can I get two bananas?
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_01: Like, oh my god.
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_01: Like, okay.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you could just put it on a ticket, and that's that's the main thing.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_01: They don't put on a ticket.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_01: But anyway, he comes up to me because we were having this whole chicken tender thing.
• 8:03
  SPEAKER_01: Can't believe this.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_01: So we had our corporate chefs come in and they were doing a little inspection and everything.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_01: They're like, Well, um, are you using processed chicken?
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, Yeah, I am, because it's, you know, with COVID, we can do that.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_01: We ordered it in, and they know you can't, you can't do that.
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, oh, okay.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_01: So what do you want me to do?
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, Yeah, you need to make that stuff fresh.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, okay, no problem.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_01: So, as you know, as a manager, I'm gonna order chicken tenders.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_01: However, chicken tenders cost 104 F and dollars.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, wow.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_01: That's that's that's that's a lot of money.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you want me to buy a chicken tenders with this?
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_01: See, and they're you know, they're like, Yeah.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_01: So initially, I'm being cheap.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, nah, bro, I'm I'm gonna cut this chicken breast up and cook it.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_01: And it's still the same.
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  SPEAKER_01: Next thing you know, I got Mitchell coming down, coming down.
• 8:54
  SPEAKER_01: Do you want to see?
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_01: I want to see you.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_01: Like, oh man.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_01: So he comes up to me, sees me, he's like, look at this.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_01: Look at this.
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  SPEAKER_01: I said, I'm looking at it.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm looking at the freaking chicken breast, cut like a chicken tender.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's like, Yeah, this is unacceptable, Mike.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_01: I can't eat this stuff.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, oh my god.
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_01: So I shell up and I buy the chicken tenders, like, you know, whatever,$104.
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just gonna have to have to eat this expense.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that got Mr.
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  SPEAKER_01: Mitchell off.
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  SPEAKER_01: But then Mr.
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  SPEAKER_01: Dickerson.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, Mr.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_01: Dickerson is a hundred years old.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_01: Mind you, this man is a hundred years old and he still drives.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_01: When I see him going to his car, I stop.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_01: I'm parking my car because you ain't gonna hit my car.
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  SPEAKER_01: 100 years old, he still drives, got his teeth.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, God bless you.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_01: However, he likes to complain and take all my time as well.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_01: So, again, we're going back to the chicken tenders because they want to argue with me about chicken tenders.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_01: Chicken tenders, I buy the chicken tenders.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_01: He comes down with the plate, took a bite of it, and he's like, guess what?
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_01: I can't well, hold on, let me rewind.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, I can't eat this food.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_01: It's too, it's too tough.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, all right, you know, you know, you're 100 years old.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do you want me to put you on mechanical diet, which is very basically chopped up.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_01: That chicken tinner is gonna be chopped up where he can eat it.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_01: And initially, he agrees to it.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_01: He says, Yeah, okay, we'll we'll try that.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, all right, cool.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_01: Get out of my face.
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_01: So, the very next day, he comes up, it's like, with the plate full of uh chicken tenders that's been mechanical stuff, that's very tender and broken down.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_01: So I can't eat this, I can't, I can't even enjoy my food.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_01: I'm looking at him like Mr.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_01: Mr.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_01: Dickerson, you just asked for this the other day.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_01: Like, did you forget?
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_01: Did you did you forget that you wanted it this way?
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_01: Ugh.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_01: And he just uh and when old people do that, they don't remember.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_01: Like, oh my god.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm looking at him like, what do you want us to do?
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_01: Because we just went from chicken tenders to mechanical soft chicken tenders.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_01: What do you wanna what do what do you want me to do?
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_01: And guess what?
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, let's go back to the regular diet.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_01: So we go back to that.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_01: Then he complains the very next day.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_01: He complains the very next day about the damn chicken tenders again.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm at a point where I'm like, you know what?
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_01: What do you want me to do?
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_01: Cause that's what this is the thing that no one told me about.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_01: Is that old people complain for no reason.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_01: They can mo not most.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_01: Let me let me first say that.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_01: Not most complain.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_01: Some.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_01: And those some are the annoying some.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_01: They drive me up the wall.
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_01: But it is what it is.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_01: I signed up for this.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_01: I should have asked for more mumm, I should have asked for more money, but you know, I deal with it.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_01: So the thing with Mr.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_01: Dickerson, we move past the chicken tenders.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_01: We're we're past that.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_01: Now it's to hamburgers.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_01: He can't eat a hamburger because it's too thick.
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_01: Because we make them fresh.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_01: We do that fresh.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_01: The corporate ships, do you make burgers fresh?
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_01: I said, absolutely.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_01: We cut them all up.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I used to season them, but then it's too spicy.
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_01: Salt and pepper is too spicy for these people.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't, I did not know there was spice in salt and pepper.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_01: Now, a lot of pepper, yeah, but I don't do that.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_01: But I don't even season them now because I get too many complaints.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_01: So back to Mr.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_01: Dickerson.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_01: Mr.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_01: Dickerson complains about the burger.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's just too thick.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_01: It's too thick.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm looking at this dude like, you gotta be kidding me.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_01: You gotta be kidding me.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_01: So I said, Alright, um, I will make your burger.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_01: I will make it White Castle thin.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_01: And if you don't know what White Castle is, shame on you.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_01: It's a real thin, small burger.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_01: So I make, I, you know, I personally make this man a burger.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_01: Thin as a razor.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_01: And I see him in the corner eating the burger.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_01: And then I approach him.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_01: I say, hey, mr, Mr.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_01: Dickerson, is your is your burger thin?
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, yeah.
• 13:09
  unknown: Eating.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_01: Eating.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm like, alright, problem solved.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_01: Go away.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_01: The next day I'm off.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_01: I come back.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_01: Guess who wants to see me?
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_01: Mr.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_01: Damn Dickerson.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_01: You gotta be kidding me.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_01: So I was like, Mr.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_01: Dickerson, what's the problem?
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_01: I'm tired.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_01: What's the problem?
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, guess what?
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_01: I had a burger yesterday and it was too thick.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_01: I said, I said, what?
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_01: I said, what do you want me to do, brother?
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know what to do.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_01: Again, this goes back to them complaining.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_01: It is what it is.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_01: I signed up for this.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_01: I should have asked for more money.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_01: So he came to the conclusion, I'm not gonna eat here no more for lunch.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just gonna go to Burger King or Wendy.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_01: I said, feel free.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_01: If that's how you feel, you can have it your way and go get it at Burger King.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_01: I'm I mean, I'm wiping my hands with this.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_01: I'm through.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not doing this shit no more.
• 14:09
  SPEAKER_01: So that was the end of that.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_01: Till a couple days later, he complaining about the potato soup.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, man, at this point, I just didn't care.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_01: I purposely pulled out my cell phone and acted like I was texting something just so he can get the idea.
• 14:24
  unknown: I don't care.
• 14:26
  unknown: I don't.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_01: So he's asking about the potato soup.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, oh can you can you add more onions to the potato soup?
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_01: I'm looking at him like this is what you're this is what you're telling me about?
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_01: This is what you're coming to me complaining about, taking my 10-15 minutes away to add more onions to the potato soup.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, well, well, I I love onions.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, oh man, you gotta be kidding me.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_01: I said, let me look at the recipe and I'll see what it says about onions, and then I'll add more onions.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_01: So as of now, as of this day, April 17th, I hadn't got a complaint yet.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_01: In fact, I sat him down with his little buddy friend who sits in the other kitchen or the other dining room.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_01: And so far I ain't heard one complaint yet.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_01: But let me knock on this wood to help that this uh this is a ongoing problem stops.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, that's what's going on in my life right now.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_01: So let me take a quick break and then uh hit you with this PSA because it's very important, especially for those men out here that be stinking.
• 15:30
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• 15:34
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• 15:37
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• 15:39
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• 15:42
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• 15:44
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• 15:51
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• 15:53
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• 15:59
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• 16:16
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• 16:19
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• 16:21
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• 16:23
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• 16:24
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• 16:33
  SPEAKER_01: Now, I get why they did it, but that is like, wait a minute.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_01: Is the Irish Springs in Ireland green now?
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_01: That should be blue, if anything.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_01: But I digress.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, Dr.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_01: Squash is the heat.
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_01: So, main topic today is online dating.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_01: Now, think about this in the perspective of an older man like me.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I'm saying?
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_01: Uh back in the day, now not now, because now it's made easy with the whole what does they got?
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_01: POF, Plenty of Fish.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, the other dating sites.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know, I can't think of them off the top of my head.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_01: It is what it is.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_01: Back in my day, they didn't have that type of stuff.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_01: They didn't have where you could easily meet somebody, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_01: So you had to go on the computer and just talk to people.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm, you know, enter chat rooms and all that stuff.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_01: ASL, what's your ASL girl?
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_01: That type of stuff.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_01: So I remember meeting two significant people.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_01: And I met the first one, let's call her Rose.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_01: Rose was from Virginia.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_01: And Rose was a was a skinny, petite little thing.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_01: And we talked for maybe a couple months.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_01: Then she started throwing hints out, like, yeah, you know, I ain't got nothing to wear and summer's coming up.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_01: I'm looking at now, remind you that I'm only a 19-year-old punk.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I don't I just got my credit card.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, I'm cat, I'm using straight charge to the game, charge it to the game, charge it to the game, because I got a credit card.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_01: I'm thinking I'm hot stuff.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm like, yo, you know, um, Rose.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, well, what you what you want?
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_01: You know?
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know what I was thinking.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_01: I'm 19 years old.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know what I was thinking.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_01: I said, Rose, what do you want?
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_01: So she gave me a list of clothes she wants, size one, size two.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_01: I said, I didn't even know they make clothes like this.
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_01: I went into a store in Tri-County Mall around here, and I had never been to this store ever in my life.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_01: Because I'm naturally cheap.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_01: Oh shit, I go to Champ Sports to get me some shorts, you know.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_01: So I go buy this girl$327.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_01: Why does that number ring familiar?
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_01: Because I've never bought$327 worth of clothes for somebody else.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_01: Period.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_01: So I bought her the clothes and I sent her the email.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Rose, uh, I sent it, you know, here you go.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_01: I here's your clothes.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_01: And dumb 19-year-old me was like, I did a good job.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_01: I'm about to, you know, this is about to end up in something in a you know, my benefit.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_01: This is gonna be something that works for me.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, yeah, right.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_01: Next email is oh, thank you for the clothes.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_01: That was the last email I've ever got from her.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_01: I got played.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_01: It's cool.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's you know, it's it's it's in the past, you know, and plus, you know, whatever.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, that definitely deserves.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that was that was the last time I ever did that.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_01: I don't even do that now.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_01: Like, you bought a shirt, how much is that shirt?
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_01: But it, you know, it is what it is.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_01: But that was the first event.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_01: The second event was a little more uh a little more in in depth because this was the only I was talking to Rose for maybe a couple months.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_01: The next girl I met, Violet.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_01: We talked for a whole year before something went on, and it was just like every Sunday we talk and it was cool.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_01: It's a cool like vibe, you know what I'm saying?
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_01: So she throws it out like, Do you want to meet me?
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_01: Well, like, you know, I don't even know what you look like.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_01: But you know, I got I got a credit card, we can do this.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_01: So she said, Yeah, I live in Red Hill, Pennsylvania.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, Red Hill, Pennsylvania, let me look this up.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_01: Where it is.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_01: I have a car, I have a license, but I've never driven out of state.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_01: So I was like, nah, I ain't I ain't driving that.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna get on a Greyhound.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_01: Now, let's read let's look at the tape, the table, uh the tape.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_01: Look at the stats, so to speak.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_01: 19.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_01: I have a pager, I don't have a cell phone.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_01: I have a pager.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_01: If you know what that is, thank you.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_01: If you don't know what it is, look it up.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_01: Google's free.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I have a pager, I have a credit card, I have a walkman, I have some clothes.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_01: That's all I got.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_01: So I decide to go to Red Hill, Pennsylvania.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_01: And nobody knows I'm going to Red Hill, Pennsylvania.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_01: Nobody.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't even tell my moms.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_01: I'd say I'm going out of I'm going, I'm going out, I'll be gone for a couple days.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_01: I'm 19, I still live in her house.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_01: I should have told her where I was going.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_01: But I'm I'm gone.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_01: Pew.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_01: And riding on a greyhound is the most scariest yet calmest thing you can ever do.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_01: I'm riding on a greyhound, and the person next to me, I don't know who this person is.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_01: And he's eyeballing me.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_01: Like, oh shit.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna pretend to go to sleep because I don't know what to do.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know what's gonna happen.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_01: And by the time I wake up, it's a whole new route, whole new, like, I don't know what time it is.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_01: But I got I got a walkman with Cisco.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_01: So anyway, so I arrive on a Thursday.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_01: And uh arrive, she picks me up, her and her friend.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, you know, hey, how you doing?
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_01: Blah blah blah.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_01: It's cool.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_01: We met.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_01: I guess some kind of, you know, the friend was there for just case I'm some kind of weirdo, which I'm not.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_01: You know, this was agreed on, this was talked about, and uh, there was nothing weird about this.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_01: That was Thursday.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_01: Friday comes around, I'm like, yo, I'm in a hotel room, I got set up, I'm cool.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_01: She comes to visit, she brings me something to eat.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_01: We talk, we chill, and you know, we get to know each other, blah, blah, blah.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_01: That was Friday.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_01: Saturday.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I call her, like, hey, you know, what we gonna do today?
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, oh, I'm sorry.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_01: Uh my parents, we got something to do.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not gonna be able to see you all day.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_01: Now call her at 9 30 because I ain't eight yet.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_01: Let me repeat this.
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_01: I'm in a hotel in Red Hill, Pennsylvania.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_01: I don't have a cell phone.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_01: I don't have anything.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_01: I'm alone in a Red Hill, Pennsylvania hotel.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_01: Somebody can kill me if I nobody this could be the worst situation.
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_01: This could be on some unsolved mystery stuff, and I'm freaking out.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_01: So now, and then on top of that, she says she can't see me all day.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_01: What huh?
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_01: So I did anything, hey.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_01: I'm stuck in a room all by myself.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_01: So I I thankfully I look out, I go outside, and it was cloudy, whatever.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_01: I could have called pizza, didn't think about that for some reason.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_01: I went to the vending machines and uh I rationed out my peanut MMs for the next 24 hours.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_01: Can you imagine this?
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_01: Like I rationed that, some trail mix, and had water all day.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_01: That was no problem.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_01: But I had all day to go through this.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_01: So I ate like six peanut six peanut MMs, four nuts, two raisins every four hours.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_01: Because I didn't know what I was gonna eat.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_01: This was not y'all think it's funny.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_01: That ain't funny, man.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_01: So on top of that, on top of that, I'm in a room by myself with MTV2.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_01: Now, MTV2 back then was just the videos.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_01: You actually got the videos, and so uh this one song was called Clint Eastwood by the Gorillas.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_01: It played, I it played every hour and 20 minutes or something like that.
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_01: Because I watch it all the time.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_01: Watch it.
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_01: And so it got to me.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_01: It got to me to a point where I felt like I was in the video.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm listening, it happened, I'm feeling glad.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_01: So I push the beds to each edge of the wall, and I'm jumping from bed to bed.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_01: It happened.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_01: Boing.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_01: I'm feeling glad I got sunshine.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_01: Boing.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_01: In a bag, I'm useless.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_01: Not for long the future.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_01: It's going on, it's going.
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_01: Turned out to be one of my favorite songs because I heard it so much.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_01: It's still today one of my favorite songs.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_01: I took like eight showers because I had nothing else to do.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_01: Ration out my food, jumped from bed to bed, took eight showers.
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, what are you supposed to do?
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_01: I I went crazy that day.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_01: So that day made me decide not to ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever do anything like this.
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_01: If you can't find a girl locally, don't do don't do this online stuff.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_01: This is could you imagine if this got worse?
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_01: Could you imagine if someone knocked on our door like I'm I'm coming to get you?
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_01: Or some bull crap, like, hey, I thought my cousin here, and then they come get me.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_01: Can you imagine how bad this could have turned out?
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_01: So the next day, I had to meet her parents.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_01: So let's get this straight.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_01: Saturday, you leave me in the room by myself.
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_01: Sunday, I gotta meet your parents.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_01: What is this?
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_01: So So we're sitting there, and it's like, you know, I'm in Red Hill, Pennsylvania.
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_01: She's Caucasian, her family's of course Caucasian.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm feeling a little like, oh shoot.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_01: This is gonna I gotta play my cards carefully.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_01: So we can say, hey Mike, how are you?
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, I'm fine.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_01: You know, how do you like Red Hill, Pennsylvania?
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_01: I said, the hotel walls are great.
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_01: No, it's fine, you know, it's not bad.
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_01: So what are you into?
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, oh shoot.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_01: You know, um just gonna say some mild things.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, don't sound no no cars off.
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I uh enjoy hiking, biking, you know, the good old hunting, hunting.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, Yeah, well, what else?
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, yeah, I'm into wrestling.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, You're into wrestling.
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_01: He got excited.
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, uh oh.
• 27:04
  SPEAKER_01: So it's like who's your favorite wrestler?
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_01: Now, if you know me, it's The Rock, but you know, right now I'm trying to play I'm the visitor.
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_01: I'm trying to play, well, I like Stone Cold Steve Austin.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, You like Stone Cold Steve Austin?
• 27:15
  SPEAKER_01: I said, hell yeah.
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, oh my god, I love Stone Cold.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_01: Well, who else do you like?
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_01: I said, I do like the Nation of Domination, but I'm not gonna say that right about now.
• 27:24
  SPEAKER_01: I said, Man, you like DX?
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, Oh, I love DX.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_01: Who's your favorite wrestler of all time?
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, oh shit, that's I mean, that's Hulk Hogan.
• 27:32
  SPEAKER_01: I can say that when I get a pass, but I'm like, the ultimate warrior when he comes down and shakes the rope, it's like, oh my god.
• 27:37
  SPEAKER_01: So now I think the dad likes me because I've listed all these people that I don't like in wrestling, but he thinks I like them.
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm like, all right, I mean, I watch wrestling, so I know what's going on as far as that.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_01: But you know, I was a rock guy.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, I don't want to make him mad, say I like the rock and a nation of domination.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_01: Next thing you know, I'm stuck in Red Hill, Pennsylvania with a on a case of unsolved mysteries.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_01: So the last day I'm there, I'm like, yo, this was the worst experience in my life when it comes to doing something like this.
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_01: This was ridiculous.
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_01: This is this is this is something I never want to do again.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_01: So last day, she is bawling her eyes out.
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, why the hell are you crying?
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_01: Because I was stuck in the room all day by myself with rationed out MMs and peanuts and raisins.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_01: Why are you crying?
• 28:33
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, I'm gonna miss you.
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_01: Crying.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, oh my god.
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_01: So as soon as my bus came around, I was like, yo, I gotta go.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_01: Like, sorry.
• 28:43
  SPEAKER_01: It's been fun.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_01: No, it hasn't.
• 28:46
  SPEAKER_01: Get on the bus crying, crying.
• 28:51
  SPEAKER_01: To this day, I don't understand why she was crying so much.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_01: But it is what it is.
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_01: So I get home, she's like, yo, had a good time.
• 28:59
  SPEAKER_01: Back on Web TV.
• 29:01
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, yo, I had a good time.
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, yo, can I come to Ohio?
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_01: I said, Don't you ever email me again.
• 29:07
  SPEAKER_01: Do you understand?
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_01: I was stuck in a room all day by myself listening to Clint Eastwood and the gorillas.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_01: I rationed out food so I could survive.
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_01: And you want to talk about coming down here?
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_01: Don't you ever come down here?
• 29:20
  SPEAKER_01: No, no, no.
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_01: And that was the last message I ever got from her.
• 29:27
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_01: So what do you what do you mean?
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_01: So that's the end of the topic.
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_01: What do you mean you can't find somebody?
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_01: Don't what you can find somebody.
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_01: Trust me.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_01: You don't need the internet to do this.
• 29:41
  SPEAKER_01: This is absolutely ridiculous.
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_01: Don't ever do online dating.
• 29:45
  SPEAKER_01: Find you somebody local as you can see.
• 29:47
  SPEAKER_01: That's not gonna leave you in a hotel and then come after you with a chainsaw.
• 29:51
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I mean, I thought that was gonna happen, but thankfully that didn't happen.
• 29:56
  SPEAKER_01: So, yeah, don't do that.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_01: And that's it.
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_01: That is the first episode of the WDYN podcast.
• 30:05
  SPEAKER_01: What do you mean you left me in a room in Red Hill, Pennsylvania, all by myself all day?
• 30:11
  SPEAKER_01: You did not, you did not just do that to me.
• 30:16
  SPEAKER_01: Well, that's it.
• 30:17
  SPEAKER_01: That is all, and uh that's a wrap.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_01: That's the first episode.
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_01: And yeah, uh, of course, things will change, the topics will change, and all that stuff, but let me get let me get comfortable with this idea because it's very new and all that stuff.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_01: With that being said, give me a round of applause because I finished my first episode.
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for listening.
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_01: It's been fun.
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_01: I'm your host, Michael Gillespie, and I'm out.
• 30:43
  SPEAKER_01: Peace.