บทถอดความฉบับเต็มของ “Is this what happens when you die, you hear a toilet flush?” with David Pressman

year, I was really diligent knowing that this was going to go away. 00:07:16.079 --> 00:07:29.819 So I went to the doctor after a year. And he was like, You know what, this isn't gonna go away. 00:07:23.879 --> 00:08:18.119 So, I was like, but you said for sure. Are doctors supposed to say for sure? Yeah. So I just really kind of spiraled and just got depressed, and then was not as good about, about my diet and exercise and stuff. And now, you know, it's been a few years and I'm, you know, I've gotten used to it, but I always was afraid of needles anyway, you know, every night I have to stick myself with a needle for insulin. Yeah. And I'm still not completely used to that. Oh, wow. Okay, it's still kind of a bummer. So I have to like, you know, like, psych myself up for it. Right. So, yeah, that's my, that's my really fun. Hospital story, sickness story. 00:08:23.129 --> 00:08:27.360 David, where does that leave you now? That's pretty heavy stuff. 00:08:29.610 --> 00:08:37.049 Um, yeah, it was really rough. 00:08:29.610 --> 00:09:39.330 For a while? Well, I mean, a couple of years, I was in a real deep depression about it. As I said, I've gotten more used to it. I'm certainly glad that I'm alive. My doctor was actually also friend of mine, when one of the doctors told me afterwards that there was after the first operation, that there was a 70% chance that I was not going to wake up from that, too. And even when I was in the hospital bed right after the operation, my dad's My dad also had to take care of my my mom had Ms. For a long time, Omar and sue that had his hands full. Yeah. And I but that was part of the guilt when I wanted to. When I recovered it at his home. I felt terrible because he spent so many years recovering, I mean, helping her. 00:09:40.679 --> 00:10:15.090 She died 15 years ago, and then at kind of had to go through that with his son. And I mean, he's a hero, but I just I just felt horrible being there. And I just remember seeing my mom go through that. And towards the end, you know, I was in and out of the hospital and I always vowed I'm never going to be in a fucking hospital I hate it here. 00:10:07.409 --> 00:10:19.440 And then there I was, and that really bad really added to my depression and freaked me out. 00:10:21.450 --> 00:10:31.919 David, what did you do all this stuff? There's so many questions for you. But right now I'm gonna go to what did you do? How were you seem like you're in a good state of mind. Now? How did you overcome the depression? 00:10:31.980 --> 00:10:39.480 So I went to a therapist. 00:10:31.980 --> 00:10:57.389 Actually, after the first year, I was really avoiding going to a therapist. I didn't want to I didn't. I've had therapy before, and it never really did anything for me. But I was referred to this short shrink therapist. 00:10:57.450 --> 00:11:19.980 Yeah. And she was really helpful. She was great. And going there, I just went there once a week, but just going there and talking with her about everything. And it. It really helped. Because I didn't want to burden anybody else. 00:11:21.120 --> 00:11:35.250 You didn't want to talk to your friends about it. Not really, I just didn't want to be that guy. Just I felt like I was being annoying. To be honest. I didn't want to like that is tough. I fully understand it. But that is a it's a tough position to put yourself in. 00:11:35.309 --> 00:11:38.940 Yeah, no, I realized that now. 00:11:35.309 --> 00:11:41.759 Yeah. And I actually have a lot of good friends that were actually really, really helpful. 00:11:42.690 --> 00:11:49.289 But I think it also helped to talk to someone that didn't really know me very well, at all actually. 00:11:49.440 --> 00:12:01.500 Seems always seems to be Yeah, I always feel like we're gonna get it's always easier to talk to strangers. Oh, yes, for sure. Is your friends because it's theirs. I don't know. There's just nothing at stake with strangers. 00:12:01.529 --> 00:12:08.220 No, she was also very attractive. That always helped a lot. Yeah, I said a nice figure the whole thing. For sure. 00:12:09.658 --> 00:12:22.320 So yeah, that's what really got me through it. And just, you know, it's just time I guess it's such a cliche, time heals, and it really has. Isn't that fucking cliche that at the time you hear it when you're in it? 00:12:22.919 --> 00:12:25.980 You literally like whoever said, Go fuck yourself. Absolutely. 00:12:26.429 --> 00:12:30.240 And then later you realize goddamn time does heal. 00:12:30.360 --> 00:12:43.259 It really does. It's, it's, it's amazing. Yeah, I know. I remember people saying any sort of cliche to me and I was like, you can go fuck yourself. Really go fuck yourself. 00:12:44.668 --> 00:12:57.538 When I was deep in my bullshit, I had a relative say to me, Hey, honey, everything's gonna be okay. And I was like, how would you? Why would you say that? 00:12:53.188 --> 00:13:04.110 What convinces you that everything's gonna be okay, because there's nothing on my radar that says that. Yeah, no, I was always someone said that. 00:13:01.830 --> 00:13:09.059 To me. It's like, No, it's not look at me. Nothing is okay. 00:13:04.139 --> 00:13:15.659 Yeah. And I really was convinced that I was, I mean, like, I was gonna stay at that really sickly weight. And then I you know, I gained a little bit of weight. 00:13:15.659 --> 00:13:22.049 I'm still fairly skinny. But I guess that was the best thing that came out of it. I looked I looked decent now. 00:13:22.078 --> 00:13:33.688 Yeah. Because one of the that was one of the first things I said to you is how amazing you look, because you don't look emaciated. You look healthy, right? Is that you're doing or is that just the way it ended up? 00:13:33.870 --> 00:13:55.200 I mean, it's a little bit. I mean, it's it's hard to gain weight. But it's I've been doing more exercise, and I've been trying to be more athletic and doing stuff like that. There are a lot of hikes and shit like that. And

yeah, I think it's just kind of a little bit of what I've been doing, but also just, that's how it turned out. 00:13:51.929 --> 00:13:59.309 And I'm so grateful because I didn't want to be like 130 for the rest of my look like. 00:14:00.450 --> 00:14:07.799 Yeah, cuz even before I could probably kick your ass, but even now, I'm just like, Oh, I could take Pressman. He's a little wisp of a man. 00:14:08.399 --> 00:14:10.950 I'm pretty confident that I could kill you. 00:14:11.700 --> 00:14:30.210 I take everything back that I just said. David, it's awesome that that you're alive. First of all, what's going on? Why are there consequences now to the fact that you only have 20% of your pancreas? 00:14:31.230 --> 00:14:34.950 I mean, the biggest consequences diabetes, I guess that's really it. 00:14:35.970 --> 00:14:39.120 Just that you have it? Yeah. 00:14:35.970 --> 00:14:42.629 Okay, but you can manage that what you have been doing? Yes. 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:45.000 It's not like okay, you're dead now because you only have a piece of pancreas. 00:14:45.538 --> 00:14:52.769 No, and I remember asking my doctors does this mean like, I can get pancreatic cancer much easier. Yeah, that's my thought. 00:14:52.859 --> 00:14:57.149 They're like, No, not at all. 00:14:52.859 --> 00:15:08.369 though. I feel if I ever did get pancreatic cancer it would be over in about a minute. There's nothing there. There's nothing there. Okay, so yeah, hopefully that won't happen for a while if it ever does. 00:15:08.788 --> 00:15:24.240 Are you mad that you now have diabetes? Oh, yeah. No, it's I'm mad. Yeah. It's it's super annoying. But, you know, I guess the trade off I didn't die. So I guess that's good. 00:15:25.320 --> 00:15:28.950 We talked about earlier you and I were discussing about myself. 00:15:29.460 --> 00:15:37.980 And I was telling you that I'm fully at peace with my abilities disabilities. Are you at peace with the fact that you have diabetes? 00:15:40.288 --> 00:15:56.578 That's a good question. I mean, sometimes I am, I think for the most part I am. But there's some times where I'm by myself and my place and I'm like, I get a why me kind of attitude. But I've gotten a lot better with that. 00:15:56.610 --> 00:16:00.629 Where does the Wi Fi come from? 00:15:56.610 --> 00:17:18.388 What sort of limitations are exactly that would make you think that I mean, I used to really like food. I know this is gonna sound really, like trivial, but I just loved food and excited to be able to eat anything and everything. Yeah. And now, I can't. I can't like go to the movies need Whoppers. I used to love Whoppers. Wait, everything stops there. Whoppers was your concession food of choice at the movies. I love Whoppers and it's just silly. No only 12 year olds like water so your silly Whoppers is the best and Red Vines. Okay. I can't even really have popcorn. That's that's a bummer. Yeah, so I think maybe more than why me was just like it was much more prevalent when I was in the hospital and could barely move. And that first year it was just it was so hard to walk. I got so exhausted all the time. And I really thought this is what my life's gonna be. So it was that was why me every day and my poor dad had to I mean, I was fucking crying every single day. 00:17:18.839 --> 00:17:22.559 Emotionally crying. No, yeah. 00:17:18.839 --> 00:17:22.559 David, I'm sorry. 00:17:24.720 --> 00:17:29.250 But it would still be nice to have some Whoppers I'm gonna go back to I'm gonna get keep saying Whoppers. 00:17:29.309 --> 00:17:40.319 I think it's more of the word usage that you like more than the taste of the silly chocolate itself. How do you not like malt? It's it's the malt flavor. It's that's ridiculous. Do you know who gets malts? Little kids? 00:17:40.410 --> 00:17:49.019 Listen, if I had a choice between a shake, and a malt Oh is malt you're not completely wrong. 00:17:49.378 --> 00:17:56.038 Okay, thank you. You're welcome. 00:17:49.378 --> 00:18:03.749 What when I was a kid might if I ordered a shake or a malt, my parents would make the waitress put an egg in it. Was that a thing? Or is that just my parents being weird? 00:18:04.679 --> 00:18:12.180 I'll tell you what. I don't know that it was a thing but man, it sounds like a delicious addition. Little protein in there. 00:18:13.859 --> 00:18:16.049 A little bit of that goo just kind of sounds good. 00:18:16.140 --> 00:18:17.579 Oh, do I love goo? 00:18:17.640 --> 00:18:20.640 Yeah, that's that's where the diabetes comes up. 00:18:21.599 --> 00:18:34.679 So much go delicious. All right. So that being said, we started at the top asking what's your favorite so you still got there's some days when you go to Shake Shack and you leave the bread on or you go to McDonald's and you get the whatever? So what's that meal? 00:18:35.279 --> 00:18:38.490 Do you know that? I don't you know, it's pizza is what I do. 00:18:39.329 --> 00:18:43.109 Yeah, pizza is my is my big cheat on love it. 00:18:43.920 --> 00:19:00.750 So you have a sense it is a cheat. There's got to be only there's got to be a go to place when I want that cheat. Where does it go to vetoes okay to know vetoes. Yeah, yeah. That's That's my plate is kind of close to me. And yeah, I really think it's great. 00:19:01.230 --> 00:19:05.309 So my recommendation is far vastly different from vetoes. 00:19:05.849 --> 00:19:15.990 But you've probably been and that is I like little Tony's Wait, little Tony's is that in the valley, or am I completely wrong? 00:19:16.019 --> 00:19:23.190 Yeah. Over there off. What like Lankershim and oh, yeah, I haven't been there in ages. 00:19:19.170 --> 00:19:25.500 Yes, I can go there. I like it. But I've sent people there. 00:19:23.190 --> 00:19:35.190 And they're like, that's just greasy and no good. And it's like, well, I love it. No, that's old school. I would like that, I think. Yeah, yeah. Also onion ring, some big onion rings. 00:19:37.440 --> 00:19:43.259 Do you ever do the

tower at Red Robin may sound silly, but they've got some pretty great onion rings there. 00:19:43.349 --> 00:19:46.619 I haven't done it since I got sick. But yes, I have done it. 00:19:46.829 --> 00:19:49.559 See, that was the good thing I guess about getting diabetes. 00:19:49.559 --> 00:19:59.579 When I turned 50 It was like at least I had 50 years of eating everything and whatever it was, and so I remember what it tasted like at least I got to know that. I just miss a lot of it. 00:19:59.730 --> 00:20:05.640 Yeah. Yeah, well, the great thing is, honestly, is that you do miss it, because that means you're taking care of your shit. 00:20:05.970 --> 00:20:08.819 Yeah. And I, you know, I have asshole friends that taught me. 00:20:09.089 --> 00:20:13.440 Oh, yeah, you know, the right in front of me and they say, doesn't this look good? 00:20:13.500 --> 00:20:20.250 Or come on? We're going to so and so come on you can have something Oh yeah, exactly. 00:20:16.109 --> 00:20:37.380 Yeah. That's horrible. Yeah, terrible enablers, I was surprised at your story of hanging with your dad, when you had to go there for a few months after the operation that you guys ended up fighting after a little while now I'm not surprised on one end because you spent enough time with anybody you're going to end up arguing. 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:56.190 But I would say of all the love affairs that we're forced to look at on social media, your seems to be the most true with your dad. So what happened? How did it get to a point where you're, you're arguing so much with this man that you seem to idolize on social media? 00:20:57.358 --> 00:21:46.709 Well, so I was a horrible, horrible patient, horrible. So he had every right to, you know, raise his voice to me or get annoyed with me. And that made me super angry. But I knew that I was always in the wrong. Now also, he's a real stickler for the rules. And sometimes I wanted to bend the rules, and he wouldn't let me do it. And we just, and also, as I mentioned before, I didn't want to be there when he had to take care of my mom for so long. I didn't want to have you felt guilty. I did. I felt really I felt really guilty. I was like, I can't do this to him. And I know how scared he was when he came to the hospital every day. Yeah. 00:21:41.788 --> 00:21:50.429 And at that point, I could have taken care of, I was able to take care of myself. So I went home. 00:21:51.329 --> 00:21:54.299 What did he invite you in initially? Or did you ask to come over? 00:21:54.390 --> 00:21:57.359 He initially invited me in and I thought I really needed that. 00:21:57.359 --> 00:22:16.410 Because when I first got diabetes, I had to give myself three shots a day. And I was scared about it. I didn't know if I was doing it. Right. I was also so depressed like this is my life three shots every day. 00:22:09.750 --> 00:22:29.250 Really? Yeah. Yeah, I just wanted to get out of his hair really. And I wanted him. I wanted him to believe that I was going

to be okay. On my own. I don't know if he actually did believe that. But it worked out. 00:22:29.250 --> 00:22:32.339 And yeah, I mean, we're super close. 00:22:32.670 --> 00:22:57.000 David, I would bet I could be wrong. But I'm throwing this out there. That when we're relegated to having to go to our parents house for length of time for any reason. There becomes that moment where you feel like the little kid again, and he's the parent, and you've kind of lost the relationship that we've built as adults. And now I'm 10 years old again. 00:22:57.930 --> 00:23:20.490 That is for sure what happened for sure. There he was taking care of me this you know, 50 year old man. And also he's he was like, late 70s. Then he's no spring chicken. Bad that he was he was really like, running around trying to make sure I was okay. And what would go to the pharmacy and get me stuff and you don't need to be doing this. 00:23:18.839 --> 00:23:24.299 And were you relatively immobile or can you get from bed to the living room? 00:23:24.720 --> 00:23:40.710 I could get to the bed to the living room. But I was I felt like a nine year old man. Just trying to walk. Yeah. That was open pain all the time. My back was just killing me. It was it was a dark, dark year for sure. 00:23:41.700 --> 00:23:48.119 And now are you in a position? I don't know if you want to play kickball at the family reunion. 00:23:45.269 --> 00:23:50.878 Are you able to? Yeah, I've been playing pickleball recently. Shut up. 00:23:50.910 --> 00:24:35.819 Look at you, man. Oh, how awesome is that? It's it's great. It changes your whole perspective. I would hope not what pickleball the ability to play pickable Yeah, I mean, I'd like that's, I was always fairly athletic even before and so I'm just glad that I'm able to do that. Yeah. Now I might get little little tired. A little faster. Yeah, but that's also you know, I'm I'm 56 I'm all this pocket. So it's I'm just I do you look better than me because I'm 56 and I feel like you look great. I think I look a lot better. Yeah, you know, when people ask that they actually misleading you to not say the the negative thing. 00:24:35.880 --> 00:25:01.440 I like to be honest, because one of the things that happened when they removed a lot of my pancreas and I should have taken this out for sure. Um, now you really do look amazing, dude. I appreciate that. Yeah, I mean, you knew I wouldn't say you looked unhealthy before but maybe Okay, sure. Maybe you did look unhealthy before. And now it's just like, Who's this fresh fit dude who's 50 Six. Good for you. 00:25:01.589 --> 00:25:05.430 I know I need to you need to work my Tinder account. 00:25:06.720 --> 00:25:10.950 II. I think Wait, is that the guy one or the CO ed one? 00:25:11.130 --> 00:25:14.549 No, that's the grinder is that don't pretend you don't know what that is. 00:25:16.470 --> 00:26:02.519 You don't know all of my secrets. I don't care who you are. David. I want to touch on something that that always

fascinated me and I'm glad I have you here to talk about it but it is your dad. I meant what I said when you go on social media sometimes you see people waxing high their love for somebody. And you're just like Good lord, shut the fuck up already. You buy your social media love the hell out of your dad. He's an idol to you. If I had to describe it. How I see it on your social media. Number one, is that true? And number two, how and how did he get to that level? 00:26:03.118 --> 00:26:11.878 Oh, by the way, yes. He is my idol. He's my hero. Yeah. We were not always that close. You know? And I was stupid teenager. 00:26:11.909 --> 00:26:17.818 I did not enjoy him. Okay. Also, he's not my birth father. 00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:20.460 Get out. Yeah. How about that? 00:26:20.848 --> 00:26:23.878 Always love knowing stuff. When did when did he take you in? 00:26:24.299 --> 00:26:45.329 So my parents my mom and my birth father they divorced when I was five. And then my birth father died when I was 14. My mom remarried Larry my now dad when? I guess seven years old. 00:26:45.359 --> 00:26:54.359 So he's been around. He's He's basically my father. He raised me he matter of fact, tea. In my my real name is David. Yet a gar off. That was my birth name. 00:26:54.359 --> 00:27:05.700 Now, I don't accept that. But go ahead. Yeah, Debbie had a scarf. So my dad in my 20s he officially adopted me. We went to that didn't meet you till you were 14. 00:27:06.569 --> 00:27:14.099 No, he, no, he was the was at seven years old. I would say I skipped ahead. And my my dad, my birth father died when I was 14. 00:27:16.170 --> 00:27:40.619 So yeah, so I remember I was the oldest kid in the court getting adopted by like years. And now that I became officially David Pressman. But when my mom passed away 15 years ago, we became super close these last 15 years. 00:27:36.750 --> 00:28:15.480 So we've become really, really close. And I you know, I see him I talked to him. Every day. I see him as much as possible, you know, yeah. He has more energy than most people. I know. He just turned 83. He's still working. And, and your dad, you should know, because we've never talked about him. You and I. But I know who he is. He's a what I would call a famous character actor. Sure. 00:28:09.839 --> 00:28:20.700 And I mean, that's got to be a kick for you. Just to have that in your life, especially since you're an actor as well. 00:28:20.940 --> 00:28:36.599 Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, my mom was. My mom was on a soap opera for a long time. Oh, yeah. I didn't know that. Yeah, my grandparents were actors, the whole thing. So yeah, and I saw what everyone went through, and I still wanted to do it. Yeah. 00:28:37.079 --> 00:28:53.099 Though, for a moment. I wanted to be a cop. They taught me how far did you go? Just thinking like, oh, just thinking about it, but really wanting to I was like, very time of my life. I was very anti drug and I wanted to get the drug off drugs off the streets. 00:28:54.720 --> 00:28:59.400 Yeah, I went as far as the pre training academy. 00:28:59.460 --> 00:29:08.099 Oh, you did? Yeah. Oh, well, yeah. I think that I would have been a corrupt cop terrible. 00:29:09.690 --> 00:29:12.930 I think detect some things you don't have to be truthful with. 00:29:12.960 --> 00:29:34.619 Yeah, sorry about that. But detective like I love like, I watch any of those shows, you know, the first 48 all that. I remember going to Vegas with my girlfriend at the time and I all I wanted to do was the CSI experience. So so much what is that I was bad. Because it cries a couple of crimes and you got to solve them. No less, like, actors playing dead bodies in the room type of thing. 00:29:34.648 --> 00:29:47.009 No. They just there's like setups and clues and there's rooms and stuff and you got to find that you get a little they tell you there's like a host and they tell you what happened or what what what went on. 00:29:47.039 --> 00:29:50.369 I want that really bad. How much would something like that cost? 00:29:50.519 --> 00:29:57.509 That was I think it might have been $50 Oh my god. That's nothing. No, it was pretty good. 00:29:53.730 --> 00:30:05.519 And my girlfriend and I solved both cases. Good for you. We became detectives. It was very exciting. And then we broke up. 00:30:02.369 --> 00:30:15.690 Yeah, I couldn't stand her. Yes, she was the worst are you? Are you a Vegas guy in general? 00:30:16.230 --> 00:30:25.349 I, I Oh, yeah. I love Vegas. And actually, I went back a month ago for the first time. You know, since I got sick. Yeah. 00:30:25.529 --> 00:30:28.500 And it was a blast. I was a little harder to stay up late. 00:30:28.529 --> 00:30:34.319 But yeah, I went with a few friends and did all the Vegas II things. And it was really fun. 00:30:32.490 --> 00:30:41.369 David, what's the difference? Because I know there's a difference for me. But what's the difference between Vegas at 25 years old? And Vegas now? 00:30:43.230 --> 00:30:46.470 Well, I think I mean, you don't want to go to a pool party. 00:30:47.368 --> 00:31:07.888 Yeah. That's the biggest point, right? Yeah. You don't want to go to a pool party. You know, you just don't maybe want to be up all night partying. Think that's what it is. You just get real. You get super tired. You count the next day. If you're there a weekend and you go big on Friday. 00:31:07.888 --> 00:31:18.628 Saturday has just ruined you don't bounce back. Couldn't do it. No. You need to sleep all day. Maybe go into like this asana somewhere. 00:31:19.259 --> 00:31:28.470 If you can get out of bed. Yeah, exactly. I think for me now, dinner and a show. And some sort of game blackjack or poker. 00:31:28.500 --> 00:31:31.410 Right. And then bed. That's good for me. 00:31:32.160 --> 00:31:49.140 Yeah, that that we did. I didn't do the show. And we kind of went we kind of went hard. We kind of went. We were kind of acting like we were without the pool party. But we were acting like

we're young people. And it was rough. It was a rough drive. I'm the only one that drove there because I don't enjoy flying. 00:31:51.000 --> 00:31:53.398 scares me. Oh, I didn't understand. You're a big baby. 00:31:54.240 --> 00:32:05.460 Yeah, I'm a big baby. Also planes are unsafe. But anyway, so I tried drove it. Yeah. And you're in control? Sure. It's a nice little, you know, little road trip. 00:32:05.848 --> 00:32:11.909 As a matter of fact, all the jokes aside, I prefer the drive to Vegas, instead of the flight. 00:32:09.118 --> 00:32:23.878 I think it's beautiful. It's barren. But there's something wondrous about it. Especially David, I hope you'll agree and have done it. But I would rather leave at 11pm and get that Starry Night drive all the way there. 00:32:24.299 --> 00:32:30.420 Absolutely. But that is also something harder to do when you're older. That's Oh, I think that's the young person's drive. 00:32:30.450 --> 00:32:40.259 I get you get tired. Okay. But yes, I agree. Yeah. And also you avoid the traffic and all that stuff. Very true. 00:32:40.410 --> 00:33:03.029 Except one day, I was coming home early morning. 5am. From Vegas to LA. Oh, wow. And the there's a torrential downpour at the time. And there's only one car ahead of me one car. And he hydroplaned into a bout four circles. And I had to dodge him. 00:33:05.009 --> 00:33:14.460 In order to live. Yeah. Yeah. So that was exciting. That does sound exciting. Especially you know, when you're over 40 It's like, whoo, this happened. 00:33:16.140 --> 00:33:18.779 Do you ever stop and beautiful Baker, California. 00:33:20.430 --> 00:33:36.450 When I used to want a delicious bun, boy, yes, for sure. But now that that Oh, and then I would visit when they were Bob's Big Boy. Because I'm also a fan of the big boy. But now it's something non salacious. I don't know what it is. But now I don't stop there. 00:33:36.630 --> 00:33:39.960 Bob's Big Boy is wonderful. 00:33:36.630 --> 00:33:39.960 Yeah, I do miss Bob's Big Boy. 00:33:40.380 --> 00:33:50.190 Yeah, I used to enjoy pappy Parker's fried chicken. That Bacchus fried chicken. I don't know why you have to say it like, wow, that was the commercial if you have any knowledge. 00:33:50.220 --> 00:33:52.380 I mean, I thought this big boy. 00:33:50.220 --> 00:33:55.680 I didn't know you're doing character work. Or other exacting David. Okay. 00:33:57.569 --> 00:33:59.519 I loved Pepe Parker's fried chicken. 00:33:59.730 --> 00:34:01.890 It's wonderful. I think they still have it probably right. 00:34:01.950 --> 00:34:04.619 I think they do. As a matter of fact, I'm gonna have to go get some. Yeah. 00:34:04.950 --> 00:34:07.859 Can we go after this together? 00:34:04.950 --> 00:34:07.859 Or do you have to go somewhere? 00:34:10.139 --> 00:34:12.360 Oh, that's a very good question. 00:34:10.139 --> 00:34:12.900 Oh, no, I might be going to see a movie. 00:34:13.650 --> 00:34:18.809 Wow. I don't like the way it just popped into your head as an excuse to get away from digging me. 00:34:18.900 --> 00:34:28.590 Actually. I will know. As soon as this is over. I will text and see if I have to go to this movie. If not. I'm down for pappy Parkersburg fried chicken. 00:34:30.269 --> 00:34:52.349 David who? Who do you hang out with like, Who's the one on the who's the maybe movie? And who your friends that are go to like, oh yeah, I hang out with so and so. The movie is a friend of mine named Avi tal you know who I hang Randall Slaven? Yeah, you know Yeah, Matt 11 You know MATLAB damn okay, you're still old school. 00:34:49.920 --> 00:35:09.148 It's all the old Cesar all your boys. There's some new my best friend Noel is my ex. Okay. Um, But let's talk about that. How did that delve into? Where we are a couple. And now we're not a couple, we're just really good friends. 00:35:10.650 --> 00:35:32.760 So, I mean, I think we did it around 13 years ago, and it was for a little less than a year and we just leave, we fought a lot. That wasn't fun. And I'm a guy, that's friends with most of his exes. I know, a lot of people don't do that. But I'm like, they never end terribly. 00:35:29.519 --> 00:35:43.320 And there was a reason you went out with them in the first place. Let's be friends. So no, well, we broke up as sad, you know, and a couple of months. 00:35:43.320 --> 00:36:02.130 And a couple of months later, we just started hanging out, going to lunches and stuff and friends. And she just, she's the best friend I've ever had. She's the closest friend I've ever had. She and her sister, Laura. 00:35:56.670 --> 00:36:08.460 They're both TV writers. Both very talented. And yeah, without them. I don't know. They really helped save my life during all that. 00:36:08.550 --> 00:36:13.050 Oh, wow. That's awesome. Yeah. 00:36:08.550 --> 00:36:16.949 David, you and her are comfortable when you end up in relationships with other people. 00:36:16.980 --> 00:36:27.840 She's married now with two kids and her husband super cool. And I hang out with the kids as much as I'm, you know, like the honorary uncle to the kids. It's nice. So yeah, that's great. 00:36:29.070 --> 00:36:34.440 That's awesome. I had one like that. We're not friends anymore. 00:36:34.440 --> 00:36:42.809 But. But yeah, it was nice to kind of go go for a while as friends and even into her marriage. It's a good feeling to be able to do that. 00:36:44.130 --> 00:37:09.869 Yeah, I don't know. I would be real honestly, I would be lost without her. So I'm very glad just in my life, nurse. When I met you, you you came across shy at first, and then you started making jokes. 00:37:04.619 --> 00:37:31.949 And it's like, oh, okay, I see who this guy is. But I still don't deny that, uh, you know, I've only hung with you in person a few times. And today, of course, but you still strike me as somebody who's innately shy? And my way of course, no, I'm shy. Especially when I first meet people, or in a group. 00:37:34.559 --> 00:37:45.570 It's weird to be

an actor, but like, one of my biggest fears is public speaking. So like, just standing up there, and I have to stand up there and be myself. I don't like that one bit. 00:37:50.250 --> 00:37:58.170 sneezing, it's not COVID. 00:37:50.250 --> 00:38:07.380 Alright, I'm back. Yeah, I think I'm sure I think it takes a while for me to, you know, let loose so to speak. I really have to feel pretty comfortable. 00:38:08.940 --> 00:38:22.500 It's funny because your confidence in your humor is super high. And it's odd. That that doesn't translate into who you are in social settings. 00:38:24.119 --> 00:38:31.170 Yeah, that's actually that's good point. I don't even know how to answer that. 00:38:31.769 --> 00:38:41.639 Okay. Do you feel confident when you're when you're not in social settings when you're behind a computer? 00:38:42.599 --> 00:38:46.440 We know it's, we mean, behind the computer just by myself. 00:38:46.739 --> 00:39:24.570 But no meaning when you're expressing yourself on social media? Yeah, I feel much more confident. Yeah. And it shows when you read your stuff, whatever it is. It's like who is this guy? I want to know this guy. And then you meet him. And it's like, he's still great to meet. He's still awesome. But he's okay. This guy's much more demure than Yeah, I mean, I remember, you know, during COVID As you know, there was a lot of zoom poker things. Yeah. And I was invited to a few and I would I would rarely speak. I just like, I just I don't know, these people. 00:39:20.730 --> 00:39:24.570 I don't think they'll enjoy me. 00:39:24.690 --> 00:39:49.769 Wow, maybe they will find what I say funny. So I'm gonna hold off and it would take me a long time. I would I would have to hear someone like say something that I thought was funny or it's something that I maybe I would say or a subject that I could relate on or it's you know, something dark, make fun of. And then I would chime right in, but I'm pretty Yeah, I'm pretty sure. 00:39:50.039 --> 00:39:51.599 Where does that come from? 00:39:52.590 --> 00:40:54.000 I don't know. You know, I remember even back in the day, like if I would have to up My parents would take me to see a show. I remember one time my parents took me to Cirque de la was when it first came out here was on the Santa Monica. Yeah, years ago. And we got there for some reason so early that we were sitting there in the stands, and the guy who's the clown guy comes up to me and was like, he wanted to this whole bit with me this whole this whole shtick, yeah. And I was super nervous. And I was already starting to sweat. But I said, Yeah, I would do it. And I couldn't enjoy the show, because I was just waiting for the spotlight to come on me. And they had to do this bit and I was terrified. I hated it. I remember going to like a Shakespeare play was midsummer Midsummer Night's Dream, I think was summer Night's Dream. I can't even say it. I shouldn't My dad loves Shakespeare, he would get so upset with me. 00:40:50.190 -->

00:41:00.900 appropriately. So yeah. And there was like one of the actress came in the audience and started up like, you know, talk to me and I just wanted to cry. 00:41:00.929 --> 00:41:27.059 I just, it was it's really hard and even, I guess Falcon auditions. Sometimes I would just get super nervous and just sweat almost like Albert Brooks in broadcast news. It was like I was Yeah. I don't really have that much. self confidence. I should improve that. 00:41:27.630 --> 00:41:33.719 Well, should now but yeah, could you and would it be nice? Of course it would. 00:41:34.889 --> 00:41:37.079 It's certainly gotten better. As the years have gone on. 00:41:37.260 --> 00:41:44.219 Yeah. But I don't know. It always struck me as odd because it's. 00:41:46.230 --> 00:41:53.519 You're so acerbic and quick on online, and then when you meet you, you're so quick and quick once we get to know you. Yeah. 00:41:55.050 --> 00:41:59.940 But it is odd. It's like wait, this is the guy that says those hilarious things. 00:42:00.059 --> 00:42:34.230 I will say that if I've if I'm drinking it, it happens a lot quicker. Sure. Confidence. Of course. Yeah. That's the that the truth enabler. Yes. All right. I'm drinking also lowers my blood sugar. And I was talking to my doctor. And I said, So when I'm eating something bad. I'm gonna drink a few drinks. And it really helps that my doctors like whatever works. Really? Yeah. 00:42:34.679 --> 00:42:40.710 So I want that doctor is like, Hey, Doc Hershey bars are really good. Okay. 00:42:41.579 --> 00:42:44.639 Yeah. And just have a couple of vodka sodas with it. 00:42:44.670 --> 00:42:49.440 Yeah. So that is weird though. 00:42:44.670 --> 00:42:51.090 David, because booze is supposed to raise your sugar. 00:42:51.630 --> 00:43:01.199 Well, I asked him asked to talk to that. And he said it works differently with with different people. Okay, I got the lowering the blood sugar. I mean, not wine. If you could drink wine. 00:43:01.199 --> 00:43:02.639 That's just sugar. That's bad. 00:43:03.239 --> 00:43:11.250 But I didn't know that wine is worse than booze. Yeah, it's a lot of sugar. A lot of sugar in that. Yeah. 00:43:07.949 --> 00:43:31.050 Okay, but I can vodka soda or even like tequila soda, and when I'm eating something shitty, and that really helps. Okay. All right. I don't record this is not I don't recommend this for people listening. Maybe at home, I don't want people to eat badly and then just start drinking a bottle of vodka. 00:43:31.110 --> 00:43:56.130 You are going to start some epidemic and it's going to be called the Pressman principle of how people have died because they started drinking when they had diabetes. I'm torn because I'd like to have something named after me. I totally understand that. Yeah. All right. Um, Pressman. Tell me about your mom, I know she passed when you were younger. 15 years ago. What was your relationship like? 00:43:57.150 --> 00:44:39.000 I was very close to my mom. I mean, she was the best she she, she was sarcastic. I got my sarcasm from her. She taught me how to play poker. Now she my love for the Dodgers is because of her. And we are close and she got MS. When I was 18. And it was her decline was pretty fast. 00:44:26.309 --> 00:44:51.030 And her decline. I also had my own decline, you know, when you felt yourself go down when she was going down? Yeah, like really a depression and I remember was at when I was 2425. 00:44:51.030 --> 00:45:23.159 And I had this recurring job on the Newhart Show. And it was an awesome job and I got people wanted to do other things with Be I have a lot of opportunities and I just couldn't have cared less. My motivation was zip. I blew off a lot of, you know, auditions, and I gotta just, I was just so sad seeing my mom like that. And my mom had the best attitude about it. I never saw or heard her complain once and I couldn't believe it. 00:45:23.519 --> 00:45:31.440 Because if that was happening to me, because at one point, she couldn't walk, she couldn't do anything. Yeah, I would say throw me into a volcano. I can't live like this. 00:45:32.639 --> 00:45:35.489 That's a pretty extreme exit. 00:45:32.639 --> 00:45:35.489 Yeah. 00:45:35.909 --> 00:45:46.050 Well, I would think it'd be fast. Because of the lava. Yeah, the lava. Okay, right. It's just, I don't know if you saw the movie volcano, but I saw people, they just write like that they die. 00:45:46.139 --> 00:45:50.159 Tony Jones is such a good actor. 00:45:46.139 --> 00:45:50.159 Yes, yes. Yeah. Yeah. 00:45:51.059 --> 00:46:12.300 So yeah, she. Yeah, when I think I was prepared for when she was when she died. Because she was so sick for so long. And I knew that at the time. It was close. 00:46:03.929 --> 00:46:13.139 But it was real difficult. That was real difficult. 00:46:14.369 --> 00:46:51.389 You know, I'll share with you that when my mom passed, but 10 years ago or so. You know, we knew it was coming. And I was just telling my cousin, one of the great things that I had with her passing is we had a chance to talk about it before well before it got dire. You know, how do you feel? Are you ready to go? Yada, yada, yada. And so by the time she went, yeah, it sucked. And there were tears. 00:46:47.519 --> 00:46:56.639 But at the same time, I don't know why just, I felt like okay, well, we talked about this and we're okay. 00:46:59.309 --> 00:47:30.269 I was just, my sadness came from that I would not be able to, you know, spend time with her anymore. There's also a part of me like, she doesn't have to live like this anymore. And that's, yeah, no, that's I think that's good. I didn't just didn't think there was any kind of life. Yeah. So in that respect, I think it was I was once a glad that she died. But I was I was more P I was more excitedly getting out of it. 00:47:30.269 --> 00:47:38.280 Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, she was she was she was everything to me. I just, I love her and I miss her still a lot. 00:47:38.760 --> 00:48:08.219 You

mentioned some great things that I think a lot of actors might relate to, in that, you know, she represented she, she helped me with my humor. She She was funny. She took me to all the theaters, all the plays. And I don't even know if she knows it, but she helps called me into wanting to be an actor and treat choose the creative path that I have. So I do love her for that. 00:48:10.590 --> 00:48:14.429 Absolutely. Yeah, there's no question there. Just comment. 00:48:14.610 --> 00:48:14.969 Okay. 00:48:16.739 --> 00:48:18.000 Thanks. Thanks for sharing that. 00:48:18.329 --> 00:48:47.039 You're welcome. I just wanted to tell you knows I mean, like my dad, he doesn't enjoy sports at all he could has no idea what poker is really. And so I mean, I don't know what would I have if my mom wasn't around? Well, would I've I don't know. That would have been a real a real jerk I mean, I guess I'm a little bit of a jerk but you're kind of dumb Yeah. No. 00:48:49.949 --> 00:48:59.880 Does your would were you go into Dodger games way back in the day when you were a kid? Yeah. So yeah, you're old school like me. 00:48:59.909 --> 00:49:18.000 You've been around to Steve guard Yes. Oh my God say Lopes Russell, forget about that was my introduction. Dusty Baker was my favorite player. Oh, man. I don't know where he comes in the lineup, but it's probably a few years later, but we're all mondesi was my favorite. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. 00:49:18.659 --> 00:49:21.599 What an arm on that guy. Oh, my God. Yeah. Unbelievable. 00:49:22.440 --> 00:49:46.079 The the Vin Scully passing I was a little surprised by I knew how old he was. I thought he had actually died years before he had actually died. And, and yet still as a piece I am with the understanding of death. I was still affected. Yeah, that that definitely brought me to tears. 00:49:46.079 --> 00:49:49.800 And immediately I thought of my mom, because, you know, sure. 00:49:49.800 --> 00:50:30.780 Vince Kelly so much listened to him together and but he was the voice of my childhood. I mean, yeah. And he was like, He was the best to use just the best is amazing. One of our mutual friends, David Arnott, he introduced me to an audio file of somebody daring Vin, to read a grocery list. And, and you know, with the promise that it'll be just as good as anything else. And God Damn, it's awesome. And you know, of course, you can totally picture it. You're gonna want a dozen eggs and a liter of milk. 00:50:32.789 --> 00:50:33.539 Just so good. 00:50:33.780 --> 00:50:37.440 It's so good. He's so good. Yeah, he will definitely be missed. 00:50:38.010 --> 00:50:53.789 The great thing I love about the pretty bad pretty much a general when people mentioned then and the Dodgers is dad playing them on the radio in the garage, when they're, you know, when you're working. Oh, right. 00:50:54.030 --> 00:51:22.739 I totally that's that's what it was. Yeah. My dad never played Vince Collie. No, you know, he didn't know me. Oh, God. It was

my mom that was only playing Vin Scully. But also the Vince Collie. Like he had so many iconic calls that he called Henry Aaron's the record breaking home run. Yeah. In football. He called the catch the sport and yeah. I mean, that's pretty amazing. 00:51:24.900 --> 00:51:35.909 Yeah, he's good. Yeah. I used to do an impersonation of Ross Porter. Ooh. And right. You kind of want to hear that, right. 00:51:35.909 --> 00:51:45.840 Yeah, I would like that. But no, it's it was never good. I think in my mind, I was just like, convinced that it was decent. But yeah, you don't even want to hear it. 00:51:45.929 --> 00:51:49.079 That was just a good tease. 00:51:45.929 --> 00:51:51.929 That's outrageous. I really shouldn't have brought it up. 00:51:49.079 --> 00:51:56.219 Yeah. You should edit this part out. Well, sometimes I leave things in just so I can get some words in. 00:51:56.309 --> 00:52:01.619 Okay. Good. 00:52:04.769 --> 00:52:09.090 We're just chillin. Yeah. What else you want to talk about? 00:52:09.900 --> 00:52:26.340 I'm thinking, okay. David, my parents were big on the spanking slash beating up. Where were you on that level with your parents? 00:52:27.659 --> 00:52:33.869 There was none of that. Okay. 00:52:27.659 --> 00:52:39.719 There was. My dad would maybe ground me and then five minutes later, my mom would unground I just drove my dad. 00:52:39.960 --> 00:52:41.880 Well, yeah, it makes me mad. 00:52:39.960 --> 00:52:41.880 Yeah. 00:52:42.960 --> 00:52:57.300 Yeah, there wasn't much of that, though. I was also a pretty this might be hard to believe I was a pretty good kid. Like can cause that much even. The only the worst thing I did was dropped out of high school and my parents were out of town. Wow, there were you forced to go back. 00:52:57.478 --> 00:53:04.079 I was not they just they sat me down. They said get a job and take the GED. So I did that. 00:53:00.599 --> 00:53:07.320 Why? What do you mean? Like they knew you weren't going to go back? So okay, well, you better do this. 00:53:05.909 --> 00:53:07.320 Then. 00:53:07.440 --> 00:53:17.579 It was it was halfway through my senior year. I just couldn't take it anymore. They went out of town to bow the country, actually, for a couple of weeks. 00:53:14.190 --> 00:53:24.300 And as I am I can't do this anymore. I hate it. And yeah, and I think I had it because my mom also didn't finish high school. So I had a little backup. 00:53:24.659 --> 00:53:35.099 Yeah, you're right. But David, I think we all hated high school to some level, even though I don't think I would ever leave it. But what was so bad about it that you were just done? 00:53:35.789 --> 00:53:51.389 I didn't like the teachers. I wasn't doing well. All my really close friends graduated a year ahead of me. Girls didn't like me. I was like overweight with zits. I was like, I gotta get out of here. 00:53:53.039 --> 00:53:57.900 So you went to a carnival? I went to a carnival. Yeah, so you could be accepted? 00:53:58.590 --> 00:54:03.000 Oh, yes, I did. I fell in love with the bearded lady. Yeah. And we made love. 00:54:04.260 --> 00:54:06.360 She's got to be so sweet. I would imagine. 00:54:07.260 --> 00:54:12.750 So sweet. Yeah. It might be a different podcast, but it's Yeah, I have some stories. 00:54:16.170 --> 00:54:47.130 You know, I have a weird thought that with you that. I see similarities. Like number one. I don't even know what you do. I don't know if you're a full time actor. I don't know if you're a part time actor. But I think what I want to ask you is this growing up, we wanted to be actors. That's what we were going to do. And that's what we pursued ultimately. Did you succeed are you that? Or do you have regrets that you should have done something else? Where are you now mentally with where your life is as far as career? 00:54:48.059 --> 00:55:20.309 I mean, whenever I'm not working, I'm always thinking I should have done something else because being an actor can be really difficult. I've managed to be an actor and not I had to do something else. I think also, it's helped that I am single with no children. I think if I was married had kids, I might have thought about having to do a little something else besides acting, but you know, it's, there was always lean years. 00:55:22.318 --> 00:55:26.159 I've been doing a lot of animation stuff recently. That's kind of cool. 00:55:26.400 --> 00:55:29.070 You're talking voices. Yeah. 00:55:26.400 --> 00:55:29.070 Awesome, dude. 00:55:29.489 --> 00:55:42.780 Voice over stuff. Yeah. So that's fun. That's a whole new thing for me. But I mean, I love it. I've always loved it. I don't know what else I would have done or will do. I think I'm a lifer. I'm always gonna do this. 00:55:43.320 --> 00:55:56.190 And that's a good point to make to that. Is it? Is there a worry about? Retirement? How long can you carry? What you're doing now? And if it stops? How will you survive retirement? 00:55:57.929 --> 00:56:24.239 Well, I can't say I don't want to stop but I retirement would be tough. You know what? I don't think I can ever retire. Thanks for depressing me. I just have to keep doing this to try to make money. You know, and just I guess, maybe just take my pension? I don't know. Or you could be a greeter at Walmart. No, yeah, I could do that. Can you practice? Are you right now? Just say hi to me. 00:56:24.480 --> 00:56:30.480 Hi. Welcome to Walmart. That's not bad. Dude. If I was a man, I will manage her at Walmart. I would hire you. 00:56:31.230 --> 00:56:34.260 Okay, well, that's that's Listen, that's food for thought. 00:56:34.530 --> 00:56:37.349 I would have to get a job as a manager at Walmart first. 00:56:38.670 --> 00:56:40.739 So don't you have any connections to Walmart? 00:56:40.768 --> 00:56:45.119 I don't. You might want to stick with the voiceover stuff. 00:56:45.239 --> 00:56:52.949 I don't know why you brought this up in the first place. Sorry, man. 00:56:46.650 --> 00:56:58.079 I'm cool. Do you?

Do you have brothers and sisters and does your does your dad Larry. Does he have any other kids besides you? 00:56:58.920 --> 00:57:05.940 No. to both. I am an only child. 00:56:58.920 --> 00:57:14.190 And my dad they? Yeah, my my dad, my mom. They'd never had another kid. Or they I think they tried and they couldn't do it. I don't know. Maybe something's wrong with my dad's semen. 00:57:16.260 --> 00:57:17.670 Which happens a lot of information. 00:57:17.699 --> 00:57:22.769 Sorry. You can edit that part out? No, yeah. Only child. 00:57:23.728 --> 00:57:25.889 Did you like that? Growing up? 00:57:25.978 --> 00:57:41.489 When I was younger, I think I would have enjoyed maybe having a brother or a sister I hang out with actually even now it'd be kind of cool to have a brother sister. But no, it's not something that I think about. 00:57:37.349 --> 00:57:45.539 There was a lot of perks about being an only child. You got all the attention. Yeah, you know, little spoiled. 00:57:46.590 --> 00:57:59.639 Which would make me think and I'm I'm just a dude throwing out words, but it would make me think that you would be more would be less shy. Because you had so much attention as a kid. 00:58:00.239 --> 00:58:03.869 Yeah, didn't work that way. 00:58:00.239 --> 00:58:05.010 Didn't work that way. Now. Did you feel shy as a kid? 00:58:07.170 --> 00:58:40.289 I think I felt shy or when I got in my, my, my teen years, I think, like around 1617 I got really self conscious when you had all those hits. I think that's what it was all like when I was was heavy and had zits. I was just like, even now. When I look in the mirror, I squint a little bit. For what just because I'm like, Oh, I don't want to look at myself. I can't I just can't do it. Who is this? 00:58:36.630 --> 00:58:49.440 Who is this monster? Isn't that funny? And I like when I can never watch myself. If I'm on TV or something. I always have to do it through like my hands like the little sliver through my hands. 00:58:50.880 --> 00:59:09.150 That's fucked up. I'll tell you a little secret. I guess I'm telling everybody. But you know, I'm very confident guy. I don't know if you pick up on that. But I'm confident and I think I'm handsome and charming. The whole nine yards. And then David, I look in the mirror. And I'm like, What the fuck? Who are you fooling Jesus? 00:59:09.268 --> 00:59:11.969 No, no, you're a handsome guy. 00:59:12.119 --> 00:59:20.608 No, I appreciate that. I'm not looking for that. But I appreciate you saying that. But I feel like we were saying the same thing. It's like sometimes I just look in the mirror and I'm like, Oh my God. 00:59:21.539 --> 00:59:33.239 Yeah, it's tough. The agent processes and great. That's, that's very true. That's not great. But at the end of the day, yeah, I'm not good. I like that attitude. 00:59:33.269 --> 00:59:42.659 Yep. Got to ya. Got to how are you with you? So I know you know well is now your friend. But so who do you have? Are you dating? 00:59:42.840 --> 00:59:45.150 I am not dating anyone? 00:59:45.539 --> 00:59:50.519 Are you Lauren? Do you miss that? Or do you wish you had somebody right now? 00:59:50.550 --> 01:00:11.969 I don't really. I'm, I've gotten used to being single. I enjoy it. I like being able to do What I want to do what I want to do it and yeah, like I have friends of mine who want to set me up but I'm like, No, I don't I don't want that. 01:00:12.688 --> 01:00:27.929 You don't want to be set up. You just don't like the blind element. Yeah, it just makes me all of it makes me uncomfortable. After everything we talked about today, I would agree that you're not ready to meet somebody blindly. Yeah, don't do that. No, you need to develop a friendship and then realize, hey, let's kiss. 01:00:28.048 --> 01:00:37.079 Yes, that um, yes. I should have done that with you. By the way years ago. I appreciate that. 01:00:31.318 --> 01:00:40.559 But I yeah, I don't all my past girlfriends have always most of them come from being friends first. 01:00:41.940 --> 01:00:43.619 So yeah, that's neat, dude. 01:00:44.789 --> 01:00:46.260 I like that better. 01:00:48.690 --> 01:00:54.809 Yeah, it's rare. I'm only sitting here thinking, I can't recall just meeting someone. 01:00:51.780 --> 01:01:02.280 There was one girl that I've met, that we just instantly looked at each other. We're like, yep. But other than that, no, I knew somebody we hung out. 01:01:02.730 --> 01:01:24.989 I'm somebody within what I just talked about how charming I am and whatnot. You have to get to know that. I think candidly. And honestly, you're not going to look at Michael Vieyra. And think I'm going out with this guy. You got to get to know Michael Vieyra. And then you're going to say, Ah, I'm going out with this guy. 01:01:26.849 --> 01:01:29.940 Yeah, sure. Makes sense. Yeah, it does. 01:01:30.000 --> 01:01:45.539 Yeah. Like I would say this, David and not in any, not in any way for humor. I look at you and I'm thinking Oh, okay. He I know David, he looks good. But I don't want to date him. But when I get to know you, and we talk, you are definitely somebody I would hang out with all the time. 01:01:46.590 --> 01:01:55.170 I'm, I'm fairly cool. Yes, you are. I'm a good hang. Yep. Yeah, I'm fun to hang out with. I don't know if I'm fun to date. 01:01:55.860 --> 01:02:18.510 Oh, what's the difference? Why do you change? I just think I think I may be a little difficult. You have expectations. It's not that I just like, I like being I like having buy myself time. And I like to be able to maybe, Hey, maybe I want to go to this, this party by myself. And if you're in relationship, you can always do that. 01:02:19.829 --> 01:02:35.699 David, I fully understand what you're saying. But I don't know why you're not ready to make the compromise with the understanding that you're in that relationship and she wants to go with you. Yeah, I don't want to do that. Damn. You're stringent. Yeah, no, I am stringent.

01:02:35.730 --> 01:02:38.400 I don't know what that means. 01:02:35.730 --> 01:02:39.840 But I felt like it would fit the sentence appropriately. 01:02:39.929 --> 01:02:42.539 Stringent is a good word. Okay. 01:02:39.929 --> 01:02:45.780 That reminds me of the word stripe. Stripe X medicated. 01:02:42.539 --> 01:03:04.590 You're used to use the boy god yeah. The severed you wipe your face and loaded with dirt. Yeah, exactly. I don't actually know where you're from. Are you not from you're not from California. 01:03:01.320 --> 01:03:05.010 Born and raised. Okay. Yeah, what's wrong? 01:03:05.550 --> 01:03:35.820 And the great thing is David, I've lived all over LA County from West Covina all the way to South Redondo Beach. And And yes, I am an elitist. I made sure to say South Redondo Beach as opposed to North Redondo Beach, right. It's literally like the other side of the tracks. But yeah, it was awesome. I lived one block away from the ocean. And you could hear the waves crash at night as you go to sleep. That was awesome. 01:03:37.349 --> 01:03:41.880 That does sound nice. Yeah. I grew up in Sherman Oaks. Ah. 01:03:44.159 --> 01:03:51.449 When you grew up in Sherman Oaks, how exciting was it for you? When Fast Times at Ridgemont High came out? 01:03:51.510 --> 01:03:57.840 I mean, I used to go to that mall all the time. Yeah. I played in that video arcade. I went to Paris pizza. All of it. 01:03:57.869 --> 01:03:58.260 Yeah. 01:03:58.559 --> 01:04:16.530 You went to the movie theater there. Yes. Fantastic. Yeah. I just thought man, that would have been exciting. Because I know at that point, we were all going to malls as kids at the time. You even had a bit of that in Commando. What do you mean Schwarzenegger movie? Oh, yeah. 01:04:12.179 --> 01:04:17.039 He was swinging from the rafters in that. 01:04:17.849 --> 01:04:29.909 That's right. Well, that was the Sherman Oaks Galleria was the place to be. Yeah. Yeah, those are those are fun times. It's not like that really anymore. 01:04:30.690 --> 01:04:36.210 At no attack. That's totally different. More disappointing. I wouldn't even call it a wall. 01:04:34.739 --> 01:04:37.139 But yeah, I don't know what that is. 01:04:38.789 --> 01:05:11.849 All right. Well, we may be winding down but I'm okay with that. But I just want to make sure you're not going to leave here crying that you didn't ask me but the thing was, I don't know what thing but you know, I don't I think you know, talking about mom and the sickness that was that's been what's most prevalent. Yeah. So I don't have much besides Do you? Are you fulfilled David? 01:05:09.150 --> 01:05:15.809 Do you feel like I know you just jokingly said I don't have much but are you fulfilled or do you wish there was more in your life? 01:05:16.079 --> 01:05:24.510 I wish my I wish the career was better. I wish I was busier, busier in what way? 01:05:24.869 --> 01:05:26.309 I mean, I wish I was working. 01:05:24.869 --> 01:05:27.690 Well got it more work. Yeah. 01:05:28.920 --> 01:05:40.920 But besides that, I feel I feel pretty fulfilled. I've had a pretty, pretty great life. 01:05:36.449 --> 01:05:57.570 Actually, I've gotten to do a lot of cool things and meet a lot of cool people. And so I'm happy for that. I just have to remember that sometimes when I go into like a real like, little bit of a spiral like, Fuck the fuck am I doing with myself? 01:05:53.550 --> 01:06:06.690 True. So but yeah, I think overall, always find that that present moment where you are presently it changes everything, for sure. 01:06:00.989 --> 01:06:11.519 All right, well, I wish you the best. I hope that you end up marrying the bearded lady that you met at the carnival. 01:06:12.329 --> 01:06:18.300 She She is avoiding my my calls. 01:06:12.329 --> 01:06:22.289 David. I know. I'd say no. I don't want to get into it. Lose your expectation that she's going to be fucking awesome, dude. 01:06:23.730 --> 01:06:25.980 I tried to shave her and she wouldn't go for it. 01:06:26.309 --> 01:06:31.500 Totally makes sense. Man. You can't change people. No, I know. Let them be who they are. 01:06:29.159 --> 01:06:32.159 I know the beard. Lady should have a beard. 01:06:32.219 --> 01:06:38.849 I mean, it's in the name. No, I know. I understand that. No. 01:06:34.769 --> 01:06:47.789 Thank you for having me. This has been a blast. Actually. I really enjoyed this dude. I loved it. And if you ever want to do it again for any reason, I'm down. Oh, for sure. 01:06:43.590 --> 01:06:48.809 All right. Do me a favor. Tell Andrew to take us out. 01:06:49.920 --> 01:06:53.610 Tell Andrew to take us out. 01:06:49.920 --> 01:06:53.610 Yeah. Hey, Andrew, take us out. 01:07:00.420 --> 01:07:02.940 All right, you guys. Thanks for coming out. 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