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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 desk and the face.
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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.
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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 Chrysal 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 brands.
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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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Tankarella 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, 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, you know.
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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 cr 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 in this.
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Alright, 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 and PRs 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
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clips from from the show, which is kind 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 Tentin 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 Will and 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 listen to uh this week with George Stephanopoulos.
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I 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 Republican 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, 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.
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It's I um oh 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, and I I don't understand why that is, but I will never forget your face.
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I 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 Godfrey, that's him and his other 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've 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 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 and 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 uh uh um whatchall it um political science major or someone in 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 Cruisy is sniffing confess sniffies cruising confess confessional confessions, whatever.
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Uh I enjoy I enjoy their their posts.
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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 and 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, kind of uh consent talk, um all that jazz.
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I mean, good because basically Sniffies 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 sp 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, uh Dmitry, 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 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 was 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 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.
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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 it 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 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 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 get 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 always butcher her last name.
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She's had some really cool um people on the last one that I actually saw was the one with Felicia Rashad.
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Um but 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.
00:19:48.240 --> 00:19:52.960
Um The Black Futurist, I I've been listening to his stuff recently, but nothing new has come up.
00:19:53.119 --> 00:19:54.720
Um, and the living room podcast.
00:19:54.799 --> 00:20:00.319
Now, I think this one died because of um circumstances of life, you know.
00:20:00.400 --> 00:20:11.920
Uh, and you'll listen, you'll hear it if you listen to one of his episodes, you know, they lost their 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.
00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:12.400
I don't know.
00:20:12.799 --> 00:20:19.119
They had a really bad um turn of events, but they're trying to come back.
00:20:19.279 --> 00:20:25.839
Um, middlemen is uh a podcast about bisexual men.
00:20:26.160 --> 00:20:39.920
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?
00:20:40.079 --> 00:20:46.640
Um my conversations with girls when it comes up, you know, they sort of get turned off by it.
00:20:48.319 --> 00:20:52.880
Um I should do an episode on it.
00:20:53.519 --> 00:20:54.240
Anyway.
00:20:54.799 --> 00:21:02.319
Um it's it's an emotional subject for me.
00:21:02.480 --> 00:21:04.400
Um but yeah, it's a great podcast.
00:21:04.480 --> 00:21:09.440
It's called Middlemen, and it's a by a bisexual guy for bisexual guys.
00:21:09.759 --> 00:21:26.000
So um there's a lot 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.
00:21:26.319 --> 00:21:26.960
I shouldn't say that.
00:21:27.119 --> 00:21:37.440
Um I listen for the I listen to this podcast for the insanity because the dude is off his rocker.
00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:39.119
Now I've mentioned him before.
00:21:39.440 --> 00:21:47.680
Part of the reason why I really put an effort into making these this podcast what it is, uh, is because of him.
00:21:48.480 --> 00:21:52.400
Um the uh I think what was he said?
00:21:52.480 --> 00:21:56.400
The storm the uh storm doesn't ask permission to storm or whatever.
00:21:56.640 --> 00:22:03.359
It was a very I don't know if he if he uh coined the The phrase, but I watch for the insanity.
00:22:03.440 --> 00:22:10.079
Um, sometimes he has moments of brilliantness, uh, a streak of incredibleness.
00:22:10.400 --> 00:22:16.720
Um, it's aware and aggravated with Leo Skeppi.
00:22:18.079 --> 00:22:32.640
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.
00:22:32.720 --> 00:22:34.720
I'm very proud of being Albanian.
00:22:35.119 --> 00:22:41.279
Um and a lot of his a lot of his um episodes are way out there.
00:22:41.839 --> 00:22:44.720
I personally think he might be bipolar.
00:22:44.799 --> 00:22:47.039
Um I think he's very creative.
00:22:47.200 --> 00:22:48.720
He's also a Pisces.
00:22:49.200 --> 00:23:02.079
Um and I've connected with him on that too because my birthday's a few uh two weeks after his, and uh is it two weeks after his?
00:23:02.559 --> 00:23:06.160
Uh yes, two weeks after his and a week and a half, really.
00:23:06.640 --> 00:23:12.480
Um but I'm a few I'm a lot of years older than him.
00:23:12.559 --> 00:23:17.039
I think he's 29, maybe gonna be 30 this year or next year.
00:23:17.359 --> 00:23:25.200
Um I have heard some of the crazy shit.
00:23:25.279 --> 00:23:29.519
His my favorite, my okay, my favorite posts of his are the what would Leo do.
00:23:29.920 --> 00:23:35.440
Um because in a in a normal world, these are things you would not do.
00:23:35.599 --> 00:23:37.759
Um case in point.
00:23:38.079 --> 00:24:03.119
Um he is adamant about if you're dating someone, and I find I find these this mentality, 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, 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?
00:24:03.440 --> 00:24:09.759
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 a red flag.
00:24:09.920 --> 00:24:16.079
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?
00:24:16.160 --> 00:24:19.039
And instead of, oh, these are your friends who are your friends or whatever.
00:24:19.119 --> 00:24:21.279
Or you just
met, oh great, nice to meet you.
00:24:21.440 --> 00:24:22.640
One of those things.
00:24:22.880 --> 00:24:30.559
Um, but if you're well before I get to that part, because that part really is a problem, I think.
00:24:30.720 --> 00:24:32.319
It's a major problem.
00:24:32.640 --> 00:24:39.200
Um, so if you're if you're still friends with your exes, not gonna fly with him at all.
00:24:39.440 --> 00:24:49.039
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.
00:24:49.119 --> 00:24:55.359
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.
00:24:55.440 --> 00:24:56.799
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, you shouldn't even look at them, you should know you shouldn't know what they're doing with their life.
00:25:02.960 --> 00:25:08.400
And even if you explain, oh well, we we're we're married, we're divorced, oh my god, that's the end of everything then.
00:25:08.799 --> 00:25:09.440
You know.
00:25:10.079 --> 00:25:16.559
Um I find that incredibly entertaining when he goes off on those tangents.
00:25:17.200 --> 00:25:24.319
Um, liking their their posts or being in touch with them in any form, shape, way, or fashion.
00:25:24.720 --> 00:25:26.000
Not good for me.
00:25:26.960 --> 00:25:29.839
Now, this is this is where this is where it gets crazy for me.
00:25:29.920 --> 00:25:33.119
I'm like, okay, girl, you have gone off the deep end.
00:25:33.759 --> 00:25:35.359
Going in someone's phone.
00:25:35.599 --> 00:25:44.799
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.
00:25:44.960 --> 00:25:57.599
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.
00:25:57.680 --> 00:25:59.279
It's all in our devices.
00:25:59.519 --> 00:26:01.680
He feels he should have access to your phone.
00:26:01.839 --> 00:26:07.039
You should know your code, he should be, and if you have nothing to worry about, you shouldn't have a problem sharing that information with him.
00:26:07.359 --> 00:26:20.319
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.
00:26:20.559 --> 00:26:24.319
Because the problem for me is you will find something that's gonna bother you.
00:26:24.640 --> 00:26:27.839
Out of context, you're just seeing it what it is, what it is.
00:26:28.079 --> 00:26:30.799
Out of context, you have no idea what is behind that.
00:26:31.039 --> 00:26:33.039
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?
00:26:36.400 --> 00:26:38.079
Why, you know, you come at someone hard.
00:26:38.240 --> 00:26:38.720
Who's that?
00:26:38.799 --> 00:26:39.359
Why are they holding you?
00:26:39.440 --> 00:26:40.000
Why are you kissing them?
00:26:40.079 --> 00:26:40.400
What's that?
00:26:40.480 --> 00:26:44.880
Why the that's a problem.
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And I just highly, highly disagree with uh with um doing that to people.
00:26:52.720 --> 00:26:54.559
You know, it's not it's not fair.
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Really is not fair.
00:26:57.200 --> 00:26:58.240
Excuse me.
00:27:03.119 --> 00:27:06.079
Um, so yeah, I I listen.
00:27:08.720 --> 00:27:36.640
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.
00:27:37.359 --> 00:27:45.039
Um if you take it for what it is, it's just you know one person's layman's advice, then yeah.
00:27:45.279 --> 00:27:48.480
You know, d just take it for what it's worth, you know, his his his view.
00:27:48.720 --> 00:27:53.920
Doesn't mean that it's um you know written in stone.
00:27:55.359 --> 00:28:06.079
Um I kind I kind of like his cadence too, because he goes off on these weird uh voices and stuff like that.
00:28:06.240 --> 00:28:13.759
But I do there's a couple that uh he talked about um uh on um letting go of the past.
00:28:14.000 --> 00:28:17.920
There was one time he he said something that was very, very poignant for me.
00:28:18.240 --> 00:28:21.200
Like, oh okay, that might that he has he has a glimmer there.
00:28:21.519 --> 00:28:29.920
Um take taking the the the the leap of faith in in yourself and stuff like that.
00:28:30.079 --> 00:28:41.279
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.
00:28:41.440 --> 00:28:43.039
It would be such a a hoot.
00:28:43.440 --> 00:28:46.720
Um so yeah, it was it was worth it.
00:28:46.960 --> 00:28:53.039
And then I think last year someone dressed up as Sim for Halloween, which is I thought was a fucking riot.
00:28:53.680 --> 00:29:04.319
Um yeah, so those are the uh the podcasts that I've been pretty much uh listening to lately, including my own.
00:29:04.480 --> 00:29:09.279
Um I play back and sometimes I'm like, oh and that sounds so boring, Mike.
00:29:09.359 --> 00:29:11.119
I don't know if anybody's interested in that stuff.
00:29:11.279 --> 00:29:15.839
Maybe we need to, you know, pick it up a little bit.
00:29:16.079 --> 00:29:18.240
Uh let's see, did I miss anything else?
00:29:18.400 --> 00:29:21.200
I know there was some other stuff
that I was interested in.
00:29:22.480 --> 00:29:26.160
Yeah, and then you get all these great recommendations, but um, I just can't.
00:29:26.240 --> 00:29:28.720
Um there's so many people.
00:29:28.880 --> 00:29:34.640
I you know what and and I do when when suggestions come up, I do take a listen just to see.
00:29:34.880 --> 00:29:37.200
Maybe there's something I should I should uh get into.
00:29:37.440 --> 00:29:39.680
But a lot of it is uh stuff I've heard before.
00:29:39.839 --> 00:29:42.160
Like um Mel, what's her name?
00:29:42.400 --> 00:29:42.880
Mel.
00:29:44.559 --> 00:29:48.960
Some of her posts come up on Instagram and Facebook, and it's uh really good clip.
00:29:49.200 --> 00:29:50.240
Like, oh, that's really cool.
00:29:50.319 --> 00:29:50.960
Let me check it out.
00:29:51.039 --> 00:29:54.640
But it's her show is not something that I want to stick around with uh often.
00:29:54.720 --> 00:30:00.000
But if she's like she did she did an interview with Gary V recently, I'm gonna listen to that one because I I appreciate Gary V.
00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:07.599
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.
00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:36.799
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.
00:30:36.960 --> 00:30:41.440
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, done.
00:30:41.680 --> 00:30:42.880
All right, fine.
00:30:43.440 --> 00:30:45.039
But he's right though.
00:30:46.240 --> 00:30:58.079
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, you know, that's that's wrong.
00:30:58.160 --> 00:30:59.599
I don't want to generalize in that way.
00:30:59.759 --> 00:31:05.200
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.
00:31:05.279 --> 00:31:06.160
It's obvious, right?
00:31:06.240 --> 00:31:18.400
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.
00:31:18.559 --> 00:31:29.680
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.
00:31:29.759 --> 00:31:32.000
We have the boots, but there ain't no straps, you know.
00:31:32.160 --> 00:31:34.400
So we things go differently.
00:31:34.480 -->
00:31:37.519
Sometimes they don't happen at all, but our paths are different.
00:31:37.680 --> 00:31:45.599
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.
00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:50.640
Sometimes you do need a little help, and maybe you get it, maybe you don't, maybe succeed, maybe you don't.
00:31:50.880 --> 00:31:59.759
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.
00:31:59.920 --> 00:32:02.000
I just either need to go for it or let it go.
00:32:02.079 --> 00:32:04.319
Because if I'm gonna go for it, go all in.
00:32:04.480 --> 00:32:11.759
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, just do it.
00:32:12.640 --> 00:32:15.680
Um so yeah.
00:32:17.839 --> 00:32:24.559
Uh I would really love to know what you guys are listening to and what pods are on your rotation.
00:32:24.720 --> 00:32:33.839
Um I do try, I I was looking for stuff that were um I don't know, erotic maybe.
00:32:34.079 --> 00:32:41.599
Um I think mostly because of the heated rivalry craze and and uh uh explosion.
00:32:41.759 --> 00:32:46.240
Um I wanted to hear more of these stories, but I didn't want to download another app and buy a subscription.
00:32:46.319 --> 00:32:49.279
I just wanted you know podcast out, you know that.
00:32:49.519 --> 00:32:53.759
Oh, by the way, and I caved.
00:32:53.839 --> 00:33:05.440
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.
00:33:05.839 --> 00:33:07.519
And I'm like, all right, I fucking hate you.
00:33:07.599 --> 00:33:08.480
I'm going to buy the book now.
00:33:08.559 --> 00:33:09.359
So I went to the book.
00:33:09.599 --> 00:33:11.200
He's like, Oh, there's a bunch of noble by me.
00:33:11.279 --> 00:33:12.640
So I just picked it up off the shelf.
00:33:12.799 --> 00:33:14.880
I'm like, all right, Glenn.
00:33:15.680 --> 00:33:17.519
All right, I see you.
00:33:18.880 --> 00:33:22.319
So yeah, I'm getting it should be arriving at some point today.
00:33:23.039 --> 00:33:28.960
Um, yeah, so I'd love to know what you guys are uh listening to these days out there.
00:33:29.200 --> 00:33:31.200
Uh so yeah, that's that's today.
00:33:31.279 --> 00:33:34.720
Happy I oh, I need, I need, I need people.
00:33:36.400 --> 00:33:39.440
I need to see your costumes this year, please.
00:33:39.839 --> 00:33:40.319
Please.
00:33:40.480 --> 00:33:45.839
I'll tell you that here's here's uh here's a realization, uh a coming out, if you will.
00:33:46.559 --> 00:33:49.839
Many times, I love Halloween, I really do.
00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:57.440
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.
00:33:57.599 --> 00:34:03.200
Just something, I would just do something silly just not to attract attention to myself because I really wanted to go way out there.
00:34:03.440 --> 00:34:12.400
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?
00:34:12.559 --> 00:34:16.639
I didn't have the skills, I didn't have the resources back then to just whatever.
00:34:16.719 --> 00:34:21.199
And I have friends now who are so fucking, I'm like, what are you doing with your life?
00:34:21.360 --> 00:34:25.679
You should be a costume designer, you should be doing shit for people and charging them money.
00:34:25.760 --> 00:34:28.000
You guys are insanely talented.
00:34:28.079 --> 00:34:29.519
What are you fucking doing?
00:34:29.679 --> 00:34:30.719
But they just do it for fun.
00:34:30.800 --> 00:34:32.480
They don't they don't want to make a business out of it.
00:34:32.639 --> 00:34:34.000
Okay, fine, whatever.
00:34:34.800 --> 00:34:36.960
I need to see what you're doing.
00:34:37.119 --> 00:34:41.199
So for me, I'm like, this is my macho man Randy Savage book for today.
00:34:41.920 --> 00:34:42.719
Savage.
00:34:43.519 --> 00:34:46.079
And in honor of my grandmother, because I miss her terribly.
00:34:46.239 --> 00:34:53.519
Um, and this will serve as my and uh yeah, I want to see what you guys are doing.
00:34:54.719 --> 00:34:55.280
Let me see.
00:34:55.440 --> 00:34:57.360
I'm gonna be now.
00:34:57.519 --> 00:35:05.280
I was gonna I get out of work early tonight, so I could go to the parade, but I'm not gonna.
00:35:05.360 --> 00:35:06.239
That's gonna be insane.
00:35:06.480 --> 00:35:09.199
I haven't been to the Halloween parade in ever.
00:35:09.840 --> 00:35:16.639
And it's really it's it's it's fun to watch because it's the crowds that get stupid afterwards.
00:35:16.800 --> 00:35:19.760
Um so yeah, I want to see your costumes, send your costumes.
00:35:20.559 --> 00:35:21.119
What else?
00:35:21.519 --> 00:35:22.960
I think that was it.
00:35:24.880 --> 00:35:32.960
Um if you didn't know, Tuesday was uh National Black Cat Day, so put that in your calendar for next year, National Black Cat Day.
00:35:33.199 --> 00:35:37.039
And the 29th, Thursday was National Cat Day, International Cat Day.
00:35:37.199 --> 00:35:39.599
So if you have a cat, celebrate your cat.
00:35:39.920 --> 00:35:40.960
Tony girl, where are you?
00:35:42.239 --> 00:35:42.559
Where are you?
00:35:42.960 --> 00:35:44.559
Oh look, she's she's on the bed.
00:35:45.039 --> 00:35:46.559
I don't know if you could see her.
00:35:46.639 --> 00:35:47.440
Let me move there.
00:35:47.840 --> 00:35:48.559
She's on the bed.
00:35:49.920 --> 00:35:50.880
What are you doing?
00:35:51.679 --> 00:35:52.400
You want to come to you?
00:35:54.960 --> 00:35:55.519
This one.
00:35:55.679 --> 00:35:56.400
Yes, sir.
00:35:56.639 --> 00:35:59.760
Ladies and gentlemen, Maximilian's in the house.
00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:01.119
He has entered the chat.
00:36:01.199 --> 00:36:02.079
Thank you, sir.
00:36:04.719 --> 00:36:11.360
For those of you listening, Max is beauguarding Tony Girls on my bed in the background over there, just lounging.
00:36:11.599 --> 00:36:18.320
Uh this has been fun just uh bullshitting around with you guys this week and not being so regimented.
00:36:18.400 --> 00:36:28.880
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?
00:36:29.119 --> 00:36:41.599
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.
00:36:41.760 --> 00:36:43.119
I am gonna do it next week.
00:36:43.280 --> 00:36:52.639
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.
00:36:52.800 --> 00:37:06.639
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.
00:37:06.960 --> 00:37:13.360
Um the the dollar isn't carrying what it used to anymore, right?
00:37:13.440 --> 00:37:19.119
Obviously, every year it goes down and down and down, so we need a plan.
00:37:19.360 --> 00:37:22.000
I want us to have a plan, even if it's a few dollars.
00:37:23.280 --> 00:37:31.360
And maybe just uh I don't know, I just had a brain fart.
00:37:31.599 --> 00:37:32.159
Doesn't matter.
00:37:33.920 --> 00:37:39.360
Alright, everybody, thank you so much for entertaining myself.
00:37:39.519 --> 00:37:44.239
I'm thanking you for entertaining me to entertain you with my silliness here.
00:37:44.400 --> 00:37:56.559
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.
00:37:56.719 --> 00:38:00.079
Um, send me pictures of what your costume is this year.
00:38:00.480 --> 00:38:08.480
Um yeah, and a list of the podcasts that you listen to, what you what you like to listen to and uh all that.
00:38:08.639 --> 00:38:16.400
So remember if you if you're listening on Spotify or uh Apple Pod, you know, downloading really, really helps.
00:38:16.559 --> 00:38:19.360
Uh five stars gets me up in the algorithm even a little better.
00:38:19.440 --> 00:38:20.880
So, you know, five stars, please.
00:38:21.039 --> 00:38:22.400
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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Let your men give them a five-star rating this year.
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Because it's the best thing you're ever gonna do for yourself and for this entertainer actor person.
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Peace out.