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Happy Halloween, everybody.
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And happy birthday, little bit, ladies and gentlemen.
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Today is my little bit's seventh birthday.
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Happy birthday to you.
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Happy birthday to you.
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Happy birthday to any girl.
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Happy birthday to you.
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Always on my dad's skin defe.
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It's my birthday.
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I'm the birthday girl.
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Happy birthday.
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I'm the birthday girl.
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Hey you is.
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You have your breakfast names?
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You got a full big old?
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Yeah?
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What's up, everybody?
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Welcome back to the pod.
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I'm Mike Draden Figaro, and this is Unscripted and Unrehearsed, where I give you my take on news of the day, things I've seen, heard, experienced, short tales, knocking everything off the desk.
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Okay, so I had originally planned on doing this week on finance, like uh some of my take on the um my my investment uh strategy for old age and all that jazz, but then I realized uh oh crap, it's Halloween and I don't have um anything planned for that.
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And last year I was uh the dread pirate Roberts, so and uh so this wig is for my uh Inigo Montoya costume, which I was gonna wear at work last year, but um I chickened out.
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Uh but I'm gonna wear it this year because you know I work at the theater where uh Billy Crystal is doing his uh his one-man show.
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So I'm hoping I have a name tag that says Inigo Montoya on it.
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That's like what the company ran.
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It's it's silly.
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I haven't told my boss I'm just gonna show up to my position and see what she says.
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She'll probably just look at me like, Jesus Christ, Michael.
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So um in celebration of Tony Girl's birthday, number seven, lucky number seven, and her witchy self.
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Um and Mr.
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Mr.
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Tankarello over there knocking everything off.
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Uh, I decided that uh I'm gonna move off that that uh episode to next week.
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And this week I'm just gonna talk to you guys about uh give you an update on the podcast that I've been uh tied up in.
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Um so uh it changes regularly, I would say, because I try to stay um uh uh what's the word?
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I try to stay, I want stuff that's gonna um engage my mind, you know, and keep me thinking, maybe a little bit of nostalgia, inspire me, uh, you know, can't put a fire under my ass.
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I don't know.
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Anything that will that will really educate and entertain me, uh especially on the subways.
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But I mean my number one, yes, sir.
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Hi.
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My number one um favorite uh podcast is uh uh Rachel Maddow.
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And you know, I still listen to her.
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Look, Rachel, if you see this for the for the love of all that's holy, please.
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I know you're busy, but can you come back at least, you know, twice a week, once a week?
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Uh not once a week.
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That's what you do now.
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More than once a week.
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You know, uh this this is my take on the whole thing.
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She Rachel Maddow is a beast.
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She is writing, she's producing stuff, she's all over the place, she's doing live events.
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I get it.
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That's a lot of work, that's a lot of time, that's a that's a lot of effort and energy.
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Um and the shows that have filled in the block from Tuesday to Friday are not have full failed, honestly.
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I mean, I feel bad for them.
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Um, because they were great, great journalists, great um not uh uh people of the of the industry who know knows their their their shit and but they're not it's not working.
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I don't know why.
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Um okay Tony, you're gonna have to relax.
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She's not totally knocking everything off.
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All right, stop, stop, stop.
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No, this way.
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Okay.
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There.
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Um so I really love listening to her, especially on my train run to work.
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Um, so today, what?
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Um this week's episode, I I listen to it on Tuesday when I go to work.
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Every Tuesday, because you know, she does the shows on Mondays.
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I really want that to come back more than once a week.
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Um, I still listen to Up First in the morning, NPR's um Up First, uh, but sometimes not so much because when I'm looking at World News Tonight on Facebook in the morning with my coffee, um World News Tonight, did I say that?
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Okay.
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Um they repeat the same information uh and they have clips from from the show, which is kind
Load full transcript
of weird, but um it's it sort of becomes repetitive, and I that will annoy me.
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I don't like the repetitiveness.
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Um, but I I listen to it.
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Um I do like to listen to Ten Ten Winds in the Morning.
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That's a side note when I'm walking Max, obviously, too, when uh you get you know the local news.
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So there's that.
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That's just a side note as far as news goes.
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Um I listen to Smartless still uh on and off because you know sometimes their their guests are not not entertaining for me.
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Um the guys are pretty funny sometimes too.
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Their banter can be a little bit much where it's like, oh my god, just get to the point.
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Um, or they're like stepping over each other, and it's clear they're annoying the fuck out of each other because they're ruining the flow.
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Um, but it's Jason Bateman.
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Um what's his name?
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Um Jack from William Grace and uh this other dude who's I I don't remember their names, but they're funny as fuck when they're together.
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Um but yeah.
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Jason Bateman, by the way, I used to have a huge crush on back in the day with along with Michael J.
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Fox.
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Just so you know.
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Um I still listened to uh this week with George Stephanopoulos.
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I do listen to that on Mondays as well.
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Um my favorite part is the round table where they have these people come in.
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I love to see the back and forth with uh Donna Brazil and um uh what's his name?
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He was the governor of Jersey.
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Oh shoot.
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Um I'm losing my mind.
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Um shit, I can't remember his name.
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Anyway, he was the governor of Jersey, he ran for president him.
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Made fun of him with all the memes.
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Uh it'll come to me.
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Uh so yeah, I I enjoy their their uh that that coverage because they really talk about the uh the state of stuff and um sometimes it's it's ridiculous in their understanding, especially the Republican side when they have these Republicans and right-leaning people on.
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It's like, do you not realize that there are so many there are so many people who are knowledgeable out here in the world that you're not the only ones who have uh the the uh what's the word I'm looking for?
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You haven't cornered the market on knowing how things work and what's going on.
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Um so yeah, and then there's um uh 7 p.m.
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Brooklyn, which is kind of cool.
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It's a culture uh podcast on you know, from hip hop to everything.
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I enjoy that.
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And I forgot why, why um I got turned on to that, but there was some I saw I think maybe a clip I saw on Instagram or something, and it led me to there.
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So and some of their stuff I've been catching up.
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It's been a lot of fun.
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Pod Save America is absolutely the one of the hilarious most hilarious podcasts ever.
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These guys, um, I think one of them used to work for the Obama administration.
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I think maybe they both did.
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Um, they eviscerate the current administration uh with not only their obviousness, like you know, did you really think that was gonna fly?
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Uh, but their take on stuff.
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Um, and it's ridiculous, I have to tell you.
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Um, sorry, I got an alert and about a meeting that I don't know is happening today.
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I think it's tomorrow.
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Yeah, it's a um oh one one five four with um with um you know this is the this is the trouble with not just going on the fly.
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I I don't have notes, so I don't remember people's names.
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And I think that's one of my biggest flaws, I guess, is that I you could tell if I meet you for the first time, you could tell me your name five times, and within a half an hour I will have forgotten your name.
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And I I don't understand why that is, but I will never forget your face.
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I'm like, I know I know you, we've met before, I know your face.
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I don't know why that is.
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Uh Godfrey, that comedian Gottfried, that's him and his other friend.
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They have this incredible um podcast, which is uh it's a Nigerian-based uh it's about the Nigerian people in the in the uh diaspora and all the things that they're doing.
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Um it's really cool, and they're both very funny.
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Uh, Killing It is an amazing podcast of uh talking to uh people of color and their career and where they're gone from music to politics to business.
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It it's really a lot of fun to listen to.
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Diary of a CEO.
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You guys really do need to get in on that.
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That the the level of the the caliber of of guests that uh there are on this show is
beyond anything anybody could imagine.
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Um from sciences to politics to business to finance, the the host really manages to get in deeper with a clear agenda in his questioning and what he wanted to talk to them about.
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Um and it's not just like superficial questions, it's like if this is the question and like what is below this question, what is the deeper meaning behind the question?
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What what answers can we get from this?
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It's tailored incredible.
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You should watch.
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You should definitely listen and watch, and and it's wonderful.
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Um script notes is for you know, us actor, writer people.
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Um they they talk about um how how to go about storytelling and um talk to people whose whose work has gotten some notoriety or or they've gotten somewhere with their with their work.
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Um it's it's really worth doing it.
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And also, this is the best thing you could do for yourself if you want to understand what's going on in the Supreme Court.
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Uh, oral arguments.
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The the logo is like the the seal of the United States.
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You gotta check that out.
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You can listen to both sides argue and hear the questions from the justices.
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It is if you're if you're a legal geek and a uh um whatchall it um political science major or someone in the bot loves political sciences, definitely listen to that.
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Um I also listen to uh let me go to my library here.
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Um where is it?
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Um The Cruzy is sniffing confess sniffies cruising confess confessional confessions, whatever.
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Uh I enjoy I enjoy their their post.
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I love I love the show, I do.
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Um I just feel like I don't know if it's old man syndrome or or I don't know, but it just feels like they are not talking to people who have what am I trying to say?
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I just feel like they're young men who are not very knowledgeable in the past.
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Um they're very knowledgeable in their respective areas.
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Um it's really just a fun uh podcast to to do, you know, for the for the culture, you know, guys.
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There's a lot of um safety talks, kinda uh consent talk, um all that jazz.
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I mean, good because basically Sniffy's is a cruising website for gay men.
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That's what it is.
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And there's a lot of guys out there who are unaware and uh they're either they're unaware of stuff.
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So what they're doing is good to help educate the masses.
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Um I just feel like, except for recently when they had uh Daskalakis on, he used to be uh used to be my doctor, um, who I saw regularly.
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Uh Dimitri Dimitri Daskalakis.
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He used to have uh be part of a clinic I went to.
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Now he's heading up.
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Can you stop?
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Um he's heading up the uh Callan Lord Community Health Center.
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Uh he's the big wig there.
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Um he'd be nice to run into him.
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Anyway, he they had him on to talk about a bunch of stuff.
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Uh the problem with um with uh James, the James Smith show, he he used to be involved, I guess, in MMA or um some other sports, but he's he talks about a lot of uh issues.
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Um the most recent one that I've I've been playing on repeat recently was about marketing yourself and utilizing YouTube and and the algorithms and to to grow your business.
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Now I'm trying to grow my own acting career as well as my own content creation, right?
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So there someone he talked to recently who helped him get somewhere.
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It just seemed in most that episode, just to critique it a little bit, um the young guy is like 23 or 22, uh, who's made millions of dollars and gone very far helping people elevate their their their content and their creation.
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Uh, he's in this conversation, there was it seemed that he was educating the young guy more, um, where he was just learning something new and that he didn't think.
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And uh there were a couple of times where it seemed like you know his 22-year-old brain kicked in where they were having a serious conversation and he just went off on a tangent that on stuff that wasn't very funny, but it was like he became unfocused.
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Um it was fine, it's not a big deal, but it's kind of like you know, you talk to your little brother, say, hey, check it out.
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You keep the flow going and he just came right back in.
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But that that you know what?
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I'm gonna link that episode in the show notes today, so this way you can listen to that.
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Um piggybacking on top of that.
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Um I also just got into um where is it?
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Um if I can find it.
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Uh shoot, shoot, shoot.
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Um, there was a there was a um oh here we go.
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Did I not subscribe to this?
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Uh
go to show.
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Yeah, I'm I'm doing it.
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So it's um set talks.
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And so they talked in this episode that I was listening to, um, how to pitch a TV series and win uh win at Series Fest.
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Uh it's with Martine Gabriel Diaz.
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Gabriel Gabrielle Diaz.
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Um this has been I've listened to this episode three times already.
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I'm gonna listen to it again.
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Uh if I'm not mistaken, she's one of the founders of new of um series fest.
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It's based in Colorado.
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Um I don't know how how how much that will help here.
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I don't know.
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I'm not I'm I'm I'm limiting myself and I'm trying to stop limiting language and behavior.
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Uh I looked at the website, there's they're actually accepting submissions now.
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So I'm gonna put the show the episode in my show notes today.
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If you are, if you have written a series and you've been pitching it or want to pitch it, or know of how do you get people to see this, you're gonna listen to this video and then you're gonna go to uh the new fest, a series fest, seriesfest.com, subscribe to the newsletter, and look at how what what to do and how to submit a pitch, what they're looking for.
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Um there's also uh I'm sure you can, I think she says in this episode, you can reach out to her or send her your uh ask her questions and stuff like that.
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Um this is something you definitely want to do.
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I'm gonna start from scratch.
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I have a major pitch put together uh for the reboot of last call.
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Um and I'm gonna try and submit it and see what happens.
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Uh, but there are a couple of tweaks that I want to do to the visuals.
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Um and but uh everything I learned already is there.
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I just want to make the visuals more me, I suppose.
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You know, my my my voice, what I want to say.
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So yeah, that's uh Set Talks, and it's uh hosted by Nick.
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No, that's not right.
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Oh, his name is Nick.
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I can't see his name because the text is so damn tiny.
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Anywho.
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I hate getting old.
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Um, alright, so that's that's that.
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Uh then there is I'm gonna go back to the library.
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No, I want to get to that one last.
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I was listening to um Legacy Talk with uh uh Leah Grafe.
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Graf?
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I I always butcher her last name.
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She's had some really cool um people on.
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The last one that I actually saw was the one with Felicia Rashad.
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Um I haven't seen anything new since, and nothing has popped up in the um in the uh the feed, so I don't know that she's still doing it, but um, there were some really interesting conversations with people that I admire.
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And I admire her too because she's come a long way.
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And she's the creator of The Chai.
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I don't know if you were watching that show.
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It's it's really good.
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Um, it didn't hold my attention for very long.
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Um, it's based in Chicago, obviously.
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Um, I enjoyed it.
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I I but after the first few episodes, I just felt like I was watching a web series version of power, maybe.
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I don't know.
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I don't mean to that's my take.
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I mean it's not bad, you know, but just didn't hold my attention really.
00:19:53.440 --> 00:19:58.160
Um The Black Futurist, I I've been listening to his stuff recently, but nothing new has come up.
00:19:58.240 --> 00:19:59.920
Um, and the living room podcast.
00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:05.440
Now I think this one died because of um circumstances of of life, you know.
00:20:05.599 --> 00:20:17.039
Uh, and you'll listen, you'll hear it if you listen to one of his episodes, you know, they lost her apartment, they had to move because they they were doing this podcast, and then you know, they were doing it from their living room, and it just took off from there, and then quarantine happened.
00:20:17.119 --> 00:20:17.519
I don't know.
00:20:17.920 --> 00:20:24.240
They had a really bad um turn of events, but they're trying to come back.
00:20:24.480 --> 00:20:30.960
Um, middlemen is uh a podcast about bisexual men.
00:20:31.359 --> 00:20:45.039
Uh so there's a lot of conversation, like how do you fit in in a world where you know you are say, for instance, you meet a girl and you're talking about you know stuff and it comes up that you happen to be bisexual, and how do you navigate that?
00:20:45.200 --> 00:20:51.759
Um my conversations with girls when it comes up, you know, they sort of get turned off by it.
00:20:53.440 --> 00:20:58.000
Um I should do an episode on it.
00:20:58.720 --> 00:20:59.440
Anyway.
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Um it's it's an emotional subject for me.
00:21:07.599 --> 00:21:09.519
Um but yeah, it's a great podcast.
00:21:09.599 --> 00:21:14.559
It's called Middlemen, and it's a by a bisexual guy for bisexual guys.
00:21:14.960 --> 00:21:31.119
So um there's a lot to to unpack and discover and talk about and uh so now this is the one now I I hate listening to no, that's wrong.
00:21:31.519 --> 00:21:32.160
I shouldn't say that.
00:21:32.240 --> 00:21:42.559
Um I listen for the I listen to this podcast for the insanity because the dude is off his rocker.
00:21:42.640 --> 00:21:44.160
Now I've mentioned him before.
00:21:44.640 --> 00:21:52.720
Part of the reason why I really put an effort into making these this podcast what it is, uh, is because of him.
00:21:53.599 --> 00:21:57.519
Um the uh I think what was he said?
00:21:57.599 --> 00:21:59.759
The storm the uh storm doesn't ask.
00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:01.519
For mission to storm or whatever.
00:22:02.559 --> 00:22:08.480
I don't know if he if he uh coined the the phrase, but I watch for the insanity.
00:22:08.559 --> 00:22:15.359
Um sometimes he has uh moments of brilliantness, uh uh a streak of incredibleness.
00:22:15.519 --> 00:22:21.759
Um aware and aggravated with Leo Skeppi.
00:22:23.200 --> 00:22:37.759
Now, if you don't know who Leo Skeppi is, um he is he's he's a self-proclaimed uh uh motivational speaker, life coach, former nurse, Albanian.
00:22:37.920 --> 00:22:39.839
I'm very proud of being Albanian.
00:22:40.240 --> 00:22:46.480
Um and a lot of his a lot of his um episodes are way out there.
00:22:46.960 --> 00:22:49.839
I personally think he might be bipolar.
00:22:50.000 --> 00:22:52.160
Um I think he's very creative.
00:22:52.319 --> 00:22:53.839
He's also a Pisces.
00:22:54.319 --> 00:23:07.279
Um and I connect with him on that too because my birthday's a few uh two weeks after his, and uh is it two weeks after his?
00:23:07.680 --> 00:23:11.279
Uh yes, two weeks after his and a week and a half, really.
00:23:11.759 --> 00:23:17.599
Um but I'm a few years I'm a lot of years older than him.
00:23:17.759 --> 00:23:22.160
I think he's 29, maybe gonna be 30 this year or next year.
00:23:22.559 --> 00:23:30.400
Um I have heard some of the crazy shit.
00:23:30.480 --> 00:23:34.559
His my favorite, my okay, my favorite posts of his are the what would Leo do.
00:23:35.039 --> 00:23:40.559
Um because in a in a normal world, these are things you would not do.
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Um, case in point.
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Um he is adamant about if you're dating someone, I and I find I find these this mentality.
00:23:49.839 --> 00:23:59.359
This is this was me maybe when I was in my teens, just starting to date and not really understanding, you know, people are individuals.
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We don't own each other, we don't we don't um get to invade their life, we get to share their lives, right?
00:24:08.640 --> 00:24:14.880
So um his his big thing is if you're in a relationship with him, if you look at someone else, that's that's a red flag.
00:24:15.119 --> 00:24:21.279
If you're if you're hanging out with people he doesn't know, that's a problem because who are they and how do you know them?
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And instead of oh, these are your friends, who are your friends, or whatever.
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Or you just met, oh great, nice to meet you.
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One of those things.
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Um, but if you're well, before I get to that part, because that part really is a problem, I think.
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It's a major problem.
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Um, so if you're if you're still friends with your exes, not gonna fly with him at all.
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Now you could now you could have had like a 10-year relationship with someone and you recently broke up, and well, not recently, you broke up and you're still friends after five years later.
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I mean, you have a decent amount of time together and you meet Leo and you just say, Oh, this is my ex right there.
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He's he doesn't want to hear anything else.
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That's your ex, you should not even be talking to them.
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You shouldn't even look at them.
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You should know you shouldn't know what they do with their life.
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And even if you explain, oh well, we're we're married, we're divorced, oh my god, that's the end of everything then.
00:25:13.920 --> 00:25:14.559
You know.
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Um, I find that incredibly entertaining when he goes off on those tangents.
00:25:22.319 --> 00:25:29.440
Um, liking their their posts or being in touch with them in any form, shape, way, or fashion.
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Not good for him.
00:25:32.079 --> 00:25:34.960
Now, this is this is where this is where it gets crazy for me.
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I'm like, okay, girl, you have gone off the deep end.
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Going in someone's phone.
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Now he he explains in one of his many on more than one occasion, uh, how we acknowledge that our devices are, you know, these are our lives.
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Everything is in there, you know, our our accounts, our numbers, our data, our everything, photos, everything about us, who we are, who we communicate in the real world, our sexuality.
00:26:02.880 --> 00:26:04.400
It's all in our devices.
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He feels he should have access to your phone.
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You should know your code.
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You should be, and if you have nothing to worry about, you shouldn't have a problem sharing that information with him.
00:26:12.559 --> 00:26:25.519
In all my life, in all of the time that I've dated anybody, even when we started having devices like this, I never once asked for or expected to receive someone's passcode to go through their stuff.
00:26:25.680 --> 00:26:33.039
Because the problem for me is you will find something that's gonna
bother you out of context, you just seeing it what it is, what it is.
00:26:33.200 --> 00:26:36.000
Out of context, you have no idea what is behind that.
00:26:36.160 --> 00:26:38.160
You might see a photo of someone they were with.
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That could be a relative, and then you're like, well, who's this?
00:26:41.519 --> 00:26:43.200
Why, you know, you come at someone hard.
00:26:43.359 --> 00:26:43.839
Who's that?
00:26:43.920 --> 00:26:44.559
Why are they holding you?
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Why are you kissing them?
00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:45.440
What's that?
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Why the that's a problem.
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And I just highly, highly disagree with uh with um doing that to people.
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You know, it's not it's not fair.
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Really is not fair.
00:27:02.319 --> 00:27:03.359
Excuse me.
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Um, so yeah, I I listen.
00:27:13.839 --> 00:27:41.759
I listen for the insanity of it all because some some of this stuff that he uh comes up with, it's like and and it's like his advice for young people if you're young and you don't and you're in that awkward stage of life and you're not sure of things, and you come across his a lot of his uh proclamations, uh it may send you off on the wrong path.
00:27:42.559 --> 00:27:50.160
Um if you take it for what it is, and it's just you know one person's layman's advice, then yeah.
00:27:50.480 --> 00:27:52.640
You know, d just take it for what it's worth, you know.
00:27:52.720 --> 00:27:53.599
His his his view.
00:27:53.759 --> 00:27:59.039
It doesn't mean that it's um you know, written in stone.
00:28:00.480 --> 00:28:11.200
Um I I kind of like his cadence too, because he goes off on these weird uh voices and stuff like that.
00:28:11.440 --> 00:28:18.960
But I do there's a couple that uh he talked about um uh on um letting go of the past.
00:28:19.119 --> 00:28:23.119
There was one time he he said something that was very, very poignant for me.
00:28:23.200 --> 00:28:26.400
I'm like, oh okay, that might that he has he has a glimmer there.
00:28:26.640 --> 00:28:35.119
Um take taking the the the the leap of faith in in yourself and stuff like that.
00:28:35.200 --> 00:28:46.400
Um just stuff that you need to hear that's gonna come out of left field, and uh but I found him on his uh his uh Instagram post was like he would say uh good morning and shit.
00:28:46.559 --> 00:28:48.240
It would be such a a hoot.
00:28:48.559 --> 00:28:51.839
Um so yeah, it was it was worth it.
00:28:52.079 --> 00:28:58.240
And then I think last year someone dressed up as Sim for Halloween, which is I thought was a fucking riot.
00:28:58.880 --> 00:29:09.519
Um yeah, so those are the uh the podcasts that I've been pretty much uh listening to lately, including my own.
00:29:09.599 --> 00:29:14.480
Um I play it back and sometimes I'm like, oh and that sounds so boring, Mike.
00:29:14.559 --> 00:29:16.319
I don't know if anybody's interested in that stuff.
00:29:16.480 --> 00:29:20.960
Maybe we need to, you know, pick it up a little bit.
00:29:21.200 --> 00:29:23.359
Uh let's see, did I miss anything else?
00:29:23.599 --> 00:29:26.319
I know there was some other stuff that I was interested in.
00:29:27.599 --> 00:29:31.279
Yeah, and then you get all these great recommendations, but um I just can't.
00:29:31.359 --> 00:29:33.920
Um there's so many people.
00:29:34.240 --> 00:29:34.559
You know what?
00:29:34.799 --> 00:29:39.680
And and I do when when suggestions come up, I do take a listen just to see.
00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:42.400
Maybe there's something I should I should uh get into.
00:29:42.640 --> 00:29:44.880
But a lot of it is uh stuff I've heard before.
00:29:45.039 --> 00:29:47.279
Like um Mel, what's her name?
00:29:47.519 --> 00:29:48.000
Mel.
00:29:49.680 --> 00:29:54.079
Some of her posts come up on Instagram and Facebook, and it's uh really good clip.
00:29:54.400 --> 00:29:55.440
Like, oh, that's really cool.
00:29:55.519 --> 00:29:56.079
Let me check it out.
00:29:56.240 --> 00:29:59.759
But it's her show is not something that I want to stick around with uh often.
00:29:59.839 --> 00:30:05.200
But if she's like she did she did the interview with Gary V recently, I'm gonna listen to that one because I I appreciate Gary V.
00:30:05.440 --> 00:30:12.720
Uh knowing where he started out, like with his family's uh liquor store business and just started from there, I think, uh, to where he is now.
00:30:13.200 --> 00:30:41.920
Um he is an incredible motivational speaker, but sometimes I feel when I'm listening to his podcasts that I'm being um not that I'm being lectured, but it's the feeling I would get when I got, you know, the the uh the tough love from my mother, you know, like you know, the shit that I'm I've been avoiding, and she's finally saying it to my face, and I know that that's the answer.
00:30:42.079 --> 00:30:48.000
And I'm I've been I've just that's what I get, and I'm just like, oh, I can't, I can't, okay, all right, fine.
00:30:48.640 --> 00:30:50.160
But he's right though.
00:30:51.359 --> 00:31:03.200
I do have to say this though, and I mean you can tell me what you think of this comment, but um, a lot of people no, that's that's wrong.
00:31:03.279 --> 00:31:04.720
I don't want to generalize in that way.
00:31:04.880 --> 00:31:10.319
There are a lot of times where I get the sense that when people say stuff, they don't they come from their own experience.
00:31:10.400 --> 00:31:11.279
It's obvious, right?
00:31:11.359 --> 00:31:23.519
But the this the experience of people of color, when they're trying to break through to entertainment or business or to really make something of their lives, there's many barriers, and we are a lot of us are aware of what those barriers are.
00:31:23.680 --> 00:31:34.880
And sometimes when they say things, it's like they don't take into consideration uh not everyone can go
by the philosophy of picking yourself up by your bootstraps because sometimes we don't have the bootstraps.
00:31:34.960 --> 00:31:37.200
We have the boots, but there ain't no straps, you know.
00:31:37.279 --> 00:31:39.519
So we things go differently.
00:31:39.680 --> 00:31:42.640
Sometimes they don't happen at all, but our paths are different.
00:31:42.799 --> 00:31:50.720
Um, and sometimes I get the sense that a lot of people uh again, no, that when comments are made that it's not as simple as it is.
00:31:50.880 --> 00:31:55.759
Sometimes you do need a little help, and maybe you get it, maybe you don't, maybe you succeed, maybe you don't.
00:31:56.000 --> 00:32:04.880
Um but I have to remind myself that when I start feeling like I need to do this, you know, there are no excuses, especially now in my stage of life.
00:32:05.039 --> 00:32:07.119
I just either need to go for it or let it go.
00:32:07.200 --> 00:32:09.519
Because if I'm gonna go for it, go all in.
00:32:09.680 --> 00:32:15.599
The worst that's gonna happen is it doesn't happen, and you know, you're gonna die soon anyway, so what the fuck, you know.
00:32:15.839 --> 00:32:16.880
Just do it.
00:32:17.759 --> 00:32:20.799
Um so yeah.
00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:29.680
Uh I would really love to know what you guys are listening to and what pod pods are on your rotation.
00:32:29.839 --> 00:32:38.960
Um, I do try, I I was looking for stuff that were um, I don't know, erotic maybe.
00:32:39.200 --> 00:32:46.720
Um I think mostly because of the heated rivalry craze and and uh uh explosion.
00:32:46.880 --> 00:32:51.359
Um I wanted to hear more of these stories, but I didn't want to download another app and buy a subscription.
00:32:51.440 --> 00:32:54.400
I just wanted you know, podcast out, you know that.
00:32:54.640 --> 00:32:58.960
Oh, by the way, and I caved.
00:32:59.039 --> 00:33:10.559
A friend of mine bought the behind the scenes the book with the script and the annotations and all of that, and he sent a screenshot of a section that he knew would get me riled up.
00:33:10.960 --> 00:33:12.720
And I'm like, all right, I fucking hate you.
00:33:12.799 --> 00:33:13.680
I'm going to buy the book now.
00:33:13.759 --> 00:33:14.559
So I wanted the book.
00:33:14.799 --> 00:33:16.319
He's like, Oh, there's a bunch of noble by me.
00:33:16.400 --> 00:33:17.839
So I just picked it up off the shelf.
00:33:17.920 --> 00:33:20.000
I'm like, all right, Glenn.
00:33:20.799 --> 00:33:22.640
All right, I see you.
00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:27.440
So yeah, I'm getting it should be arriving at some point today.
00:33:28.240 --> 00:33:34.079
Um, yeah, so I'd love to know what you guys are uh listening to these days out there.
00:33:34.319 --> 00:33:36.319
Uh so yeah, that's that's today.
00:33:36.480 --> 00:33:39.839
Happy I oh, I need, I need, I need people.
00:33:41.599 --> 00:33:44.720
I need to see your costumes this year, please.
00:33:44.960 --> 00:33:45.440
Please.
00:33:45.599 --> 00:33:51.039
I'll
tell you that here's here's a here's a realization, uh a coming out, if you will.
00:33:51.680 --> 00:33:54.960
Many times, I love Halloween, I really do.
00:33:55.200 --> 00:34:02.559
I just never got into it because I never felt that I could be free to exp to express a costume in it, whichever way I want.
00:34:02.720 --> 00:34:08.400
Just something, I would just do something silly, just not to attract attention of myself because I really wanted to go way out there.
00:34:08.559 --> 00:34:17.599
And a lot of times my family would shoot me down or just like, you know, the the response when I was like, oh, I think how can we go about doing this?
00:34:17.760 --> 00:34:21.760
I didn't have the skills, I didn't have the resources back then to just whatever.
00:34:21.920 --> 00:34:26.400
And I have friends now who are so fucking, I'm like, what are you doing with your life?
00:34:26.559 --> 00:34:30.800
You should be a costume designer, you should be doing shit for people and charging them money.
00:34:30.880 --> 00:34:33.119
Your guys are insanely talented.
00:34:33.280 --> 00:34:34.639
What are you fucking doing?
00:34:34.800 --> 00:34:37.679
But they just do it for fun, they don't they don't want to make a business out of it.
00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:39.119
Okay, fine, whatever.
00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:42.159
I need to see what you're doing.
00:34:42.239 --> 00:34:46.400
So for me, I'm like, this is my Macho Man Randy Savage book for today.
00:34:47.119 --> 00:34:47.920
Savage.
00:34:48.639 --> 00:34:51.199
And in honor of my grandmother, because I miss her terribly.
00:34:51.360 --> 00:34:54.320
Um and this will serve as my other one.
00:34:54.800 --> 00:34:58.639
And uh yeah, I want to see what you guys are doing.
00:34:59.840 --> 00:35:00.480
Let me see.
00:35:00.559 --> 00:35:10.400
I'm gonna be no, I was gonna uh I get out of work early tonight, so I could go to the parade, but I'm not gonna.
00:35:10.480 --> 00:35:11.360
That's gonna be insane.
00:35:11.599 --> 00:35:14.320
I haven't been to the the Halloween parade in ever.
00:35:14.960 --> 00:35:21.760
And it's really it's it's it's fun to watch because it's the crowds that get stupid afterwards.
00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:24.880
Um so yeah, I want to see your costumes, send your costumes.
00:35:25.679 --> 00:35:26.239
What else?
00:35:26.639 --> 00:35:28.000
I think that was it.
00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:36.719
Um if you didn't know, Tuesday was uh National Black Cat Day, so put that in your calendar for next year.
00:35:36.880 --> 00:35:38.079
National Black Cat Day.
00:35:38.320 --> 00:35:42.159
And the 29th, Thursday was National Cat Day, International Cat Day.
00:35:42.320 --> 00:35:44.719
So if you have a cat, celebrate your cat.
00:35:45.039 --> 00:35:46.079
Tony girl, where are you?
00:35:48.079 --> 00:35:49.679
Oh, look, she's she's on the bed.
00:35:50.159 --> 00:35:51.679
I don't know if you can see her.
00:35:51.760 --> 00:35:52.719
Let me move there.
00:35:52.960 --> 00:35:53.920
She's
on the bed.
00:35:55.039 --> 00:35:56.000
What are you doing?
00:35:56.800 --> 00:35:57.679
You want to come to you?
00:36:00.079 --> 00:36:00.639
This one.
00:36:00.800 --> 00:36:01.519
Yes, sir.
00:36:01.760 --> 00:36:04.880
Ladies and gentlemen, Maximilian's in the house.
00:36:05.119 --> 00:36:06.239
He has entered the chat.
00:36:06.400 --> 00:36:07.280
Thank you, sir.
00:36:10.000 --> 00:36:12.880
For those of you listening, Max is Beauguarding.
00:36:13.039 --> 00:36:16.480
Tony Girls on my bed in the background over there, just lounging.
00:36:16.719 --> 00:36:23.440
Uh this has been fun just uh bullshitting around with you guys this week and not being so regimented.
00:36:23.519 --> 00:36:34.000
I I'm I was starting to not have fun because I was like, I'm trying to script these, and it's so much information, and I'm yeah, my my own eyes were glazing over, and I'm like, what am I doing?
00:36:34.320 --> 00:36:46.719
Um, but I do want to talk to you guys next week about about finance, especially in uh if you're older and you missed the boat, you think you may have missed the boat and investing and saving for the future and trying to, you know, because of the way the economy is going.
00:36:46.880 --> 00:36:48.320
I am gonna do it next week.
00:36:48.400 --> 00:36:57.760
Um, I hope it it's it's more of an info, like this is where you can go to get started or find information, and um I'll tell share with you a little bit about what I've what I've done.
00:36:57.920 --> 00:37:11.760
Um because I mean when when once we get to that stage, um once we get to that stage, I'm looking for my other notes to share with you.
00:37:12.159 --> 00:37:18.480
Um the dollar isn't carrying what it used to anymore, right?
00:37:18.559 --> 00:37:24.239
Obviously, every year it goes down and down and down, so we need a plan.
00:37:24.559 --> 00:37:27.119
I want us to have a plan, even if it's a few dollars.
00:37:28.800 --> 00:37:36.480
Maybe just um I don't know, I just had a brain fart.
00:37:36.719 --> 00:37:37.280
It doesn't matter.
00:37:39.039 --> 00:37:44.480
Alright, everybody, thank you so much for entertaining myself.
00:37:44.639 --> 00:37:49.360
I'm thanking you for entertaining me to entertain you with my silliness here.
00:37:49.519 --> 00:38:01.760
Um if you enjoyed this episode, uh, let's see, uh comment with uh a skull emoji or a ghost emoji, anything Halloween, anything Halloween, just put it in the in the comments.
00:38:01.840 --> 00:38:05.199
Um, send me pictures of what your costume is this year.
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Um yeah, and a list of the podcasts that you listen to, what you what you like to listen to, and uh all that.
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So remember if you if you're listening on Spotify or uh Apple Pod, you know, downloading really, really helps.
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Uh five stars gets me up in the algorithm even a little better.
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So, you know, five stars, please.
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That's what Leo asks for.
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I'm asking for it.
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Five stars if you love me.
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Because it's the best thing you're ever gonna do for yourself is an entertainer actor person.