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Speaker 1:
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Speaker 2:
[00:30] Welcome in, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, Net Positive podcast in the studio live. Baby, we got Easton, Alex, whole squad is here, dude. Welcome in, everybody. Ladies and gentlemen, I said boys and girls, what do we have an age limit?
Speaker 3:
[00:44] On the top end or bottom end?
Speaker 2:
[00:46] Oh, you get a great point. Let's see. Let me see our ideal demographic. Sure. I'm gonna go, when would you not get all the jokes?
Speaker 1:
[00:57] Like when do you age out of them?
Speaker 2:
[00:58] No, when do you, no, the low. I'm gonna go low. I'm gonna go, I mean, anybody can listen.
Speaker 1:
[01:04] Of course.
Speaker 2:
[01:04] But this is gonna be, you gotta be, you have to have, I'm gonna say you have to have been employed. Yeah. Or you have to have a...
Speaker 4:
[01:12] I think you gotta have bills.
Speaker 2:
[01:14] You gotta have, well, there's a bunch of high school kids that come through the, that are, this guy came through, he went to all the places we went, oh, universities all weekend. There's kids from the school there.
Speaker 3:
[01:26] Okay, so college is in.
Speaker 2:
[01:27] Yeah, college is in, or high school is in?
Speaker 3:
[01:29] I don't know.
Speaker 4:
[01:29] Depends on if they got bills.
Speaker 2:
[01:31] Yeah, depends on what kind of aura they got going on at the school.
Speaker 3:
[01:34] Are they the high school kids who work real summer jobs? Yeah, real summer jobs.
Speaker 2:
[01:39] I feel like if you're on a team, if you're on a sports team, you qualify. If you're a high schooler and you listen to the podcast, send us in your credibility, send us in your statistics, we'll see if you qualify. Yeah, you gotta have a summer job, maybe you've gone to Christian camp, maybe.
Speaker 3:
[01:54] That'll help.
Speaker 2:
[01:55] Let's see, what are your parents up to? Yeah, your parents, if you got, yeah, high school is qualified. Okay. Yeah, high school is qualified. And then what's the top end? I'm gonna go, let's see.
Speaker 3:
[02:06] I think we're probably stricter on the top end than the bottom end.
Speaker 2:
[02:08] All right, what's the max?
Speaker 3:
[02:09] Cause I think people, like we talked about the internet a lot, like it's a lot of that stuff.
Speaker 2:
[02:12] Oh yeah, you're not gonna, you're gonna age out of the podcast, probably.
Speaker 4:
[02:16] I think if you're getting social security, you're kicked.
Speaker 2:
[02:18] You're out?
Speaker 4:
[02:19] Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 2:
[02:20] All right, if you listen to, if you're on social security and you listen to the pod, let us know.
Speaker 3:
[02:23] My parents listen, they're mid 60s.
Speaker 2:
[02:25] So do my parents. Yeah. Well, our parents are different. Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[02:28] When did you get on social security? Is it 65?
Speaker 2:
[02:30] I don't know, I'm about to be on it, bro.
Speaker 4:
[02:32] I might be too little.
Speaker 2:
[02:34] 80, 80 is the max.
Speaker 3:
[02:36] Okay, 80.
Speaker 2:
[02:36] Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[02:37] All right, so 79 is good.
Speaker 2:
[02:38] But if you're in the nursing home, you're kicking up every Wednesday, kicking up an episode of the pod.
Speaker 3:
[02:42] That actually is sweet.
Speaker 2:
[02:43] Love that shout out, dude.
Speaker 3:
[02:44] That'd be sweet, everybody gathered around.
Speaker 2:
[02:46] Yo, listen up, all right, it's not the Civil War, dude.
Speaker 4:
[02:49] What do you mean?
Speaker 2:
[02:49] Gather around a radio? What are they gathering around?
Speaker 4:
[02:51] Gathering around Facebook.
Speaker 3:
[02:54] Is it not community-oriented anymore? They just put you in a room?
Speaker 2:
[02:57] Gather around, is there a fire? They're like, let's get this.
Speaker 3:
[03:00] I don't know, I pictured a bunch of old folks gathered around in this little room that smells exactly as we all think it smells.
Speaker 2:
[03:05] Yeah, they have like a, you know, they have like the, for the people that are paying for it.
Speaker 5:
[03:09] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[03:09] They have like, here's the calendar of what everybody does.
Speaker 5:
[03:12] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[03:12] There's like a pickleball, probably not pickle, the shuffleboard, there's bunko, and they're like every Wednesday at 3 PM in the rec room.
Speaker 3:
[03:20] Yeah, right.
Speaker 2:
[03:20] They gather.
Speaker 3:
[03:21] That's what I mean. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2:
[03:22] They gather and listen to Net Positive and then discuss.
Speaker 3:
[03:24] Yes, of course.
Speaker 2:
[03:26] After they discuss.
Speaker 3:
[03:27] It's a lot of, what did he say?
Speaker 2:
[03:29] Well, I don't get that. Yeah. We'll have, we need a glossary. Explain all the terms.
Speaker 3:
[03:34] A concordance.
Speaker 2:
[03:35] A concordance. There you go. Episode 200 and what, four? Six. 206, area code 206 serves Seattle. Ooh, Seattle, Washington and its surrounding suburbs, including Mercer Island, Bainbridge Island, SeaTac and Shoreline. Shout out to the good people up there.
Speaker 3:
[03:56] It's a rainy area code, huh?
Speaker 2:
[03:57] Let's see what I know about up there. Dustin Nickerson lives up there.
Speaker 3:
[04:00] Okay.
Speaker 2:
[04:01] Judah Smith, buddy of ours. Yep. Pastor lives up there and Seahawks.
Speaker 3:
[04:07] Super Bowl champ.
Speaker 2:
[04:08] Won the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3:
[04:09] Of course.
Speaker 2:
[04:09] Won the Super Bowl. I would not last up there, not because I would be too depressed because of the weather. Yes. February is tough for me, but I go, well, you know, he is risen. The future is bright, but there it's not.
Speaker 3:
[04:26] It's not bright.
Speaker 4:
[04:26] Gosh.
Speaker 2:
[04:28] Yeah, that's tough.
Speaker 3:
[04:28] I couldn't handle it.
Speaker 2:
[04:29] I couldn't live it. So shout out to everybody up in Seattle that they're tuning in. Welcome in. I just got back from a little jaunt over near that coast. Hot run of shows. We are headed to, not this weekend, next weekend, we're going to Dallas, Texas, baby. We got two shows there. We're going to Amarillo, Wilmington, North Carolina, Evans, Georgia, Durham, North Carolina, Jacksonville, Asheville, Columbia, South Carolina, Mobile, Florence, Alabama. Ending the tour June 6th at the Gas South Arena in Duluth, Georgia. We added a show in Winnipeg, Canada with Jim Gaffigan. This is very helpful.
Speaker 3:
[05:05] Nice. Yeah, this is a way better way to do it.
Speaker 2:
[05:07] He's like, oh, we did? Then we added the Montana State Fair. Montana, everybody's like, you're never going to Montana. I am now. Coming to Great Falls July 28th, New Brunswick, New Jersey. I'm at Distress Factory, doing a quick comedy club before I ramp up for the fall. Then fall tour dates, Lexington, Toledo, Huntington, West Virginia, Minneapolis, Rochester, Des Moines, Torrington, Connecticut, Boston, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando. I'm cracking up at this, dude. Columbus, Georgia, Memphis, Grand Junction, Greeley, Colorado, Colorado Springs, Virginia Beach, Wilkes Bar, Providence, Lubbock, Albuquerque, Midland, Corpus Christi, Beaumont, Hattiesburg. Ending the fall tour in the River Center Theater. That's helpful information too. In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, dude.
Speaker 3:
[05:56] We're laughing because usually we make a list on the outline of all the dates and today we decided why don't we just read them directly off of John's website. johncristcomedy.com/tour, by the way.
Speaker 2:
[06:05] And there's like more dates on there.
Speaker 3:
[06:06] It's everything live to the minute.
Speaker 4:
[06:07] It's a well put together website.
Speaker 2:
[06:10] Remember, dude, last year? Just classic me over thinking. We had Johnstown, Pennsylvania and it was like an arena and it was like two-thirds full or something like that. I'm like, why is this show not sold out? This is like our demographic and then it wasn't on here. The whole time we cost ourselves thousands of dollars.
Speaker 3:
[06:28] Wasn't on the list or was on the website?
Speaker 2:
[06:29] It was on the website. It wasn't on our list. Sorry, dude. For whatever reason.
Speaker 3:
[06:32] It's on us. Send us the bill.
Speaker 1:
[06:34] It's on me, dude.
Speaker 3:
[06:35] We'll buy out the other third of it.
Speaker 2:
[06:36] RIP, dude. Dang it, dude. We had a good time in there.
Speaker 1:
[06:39] Oh, goodness.
Speaker 2:
[06:40] All good. This episode brought to you by a new sponsor, ladies and gentlemen. Brought to you by good folks over there at Keyer. You could be drinking water all day and still be dehydrated. Oh, got you. Without electrolytes, your body can't actually absorb it. Yeah, this is neat. Hey, y'all need to be paying attention.
Speaker 3:
[06:59] I need this. I'm listening up right now.
Speaker 2:
[07:00] Yeah, I need this too, but yeah. My mornings used to start with coffee. I shoot. I did that this morning.
Speaker 3:
[07:06] Doing it right now.
Speaker 2:
[07:06] And I'd be tired by noon. Yep. Okay. I start mixing a cure pack. Start mixing in a cure pack to your first glass of water before anything else and the difference is real. Plant-based electrolytes, no sugar, no garbage. And it's built on the same formula used in IV hydration therapy. You know, me and Theo would be doing that sometimes. Head on over there to the Green Hills little, get a little.
Speaker 3:
[07:28] Get a bag with your boy.
Speaker 2:
[07:28] Get a little bag. Get a bag with your boy. It sounds like a Drake song.
Speaker 3:
[07:33] Yeah, that might mean something different to Theo.
Speaker 2:
[07:34] You get a bag with your boy. And built on the same formula used in hydration therapy makes water, it makes water actually work. Oh good. Someone who forgets to hydrate just wants to feel better throughout the day. This is the easiest habit. I've had it busy days. Plant water gets, plain water gets boring. Cure makes it easy to hit your intake goals then actually enjoy. I just got a text from, dang it. I caught myself. I just got a text from my doctor and that makes me sound elite. My doctor's like, hey.
Speaker 1:
[08:06] That does make you sound elite. Shoot dude, shoot.
Speaker 3:
[08:09] But we're gonna talk about something after this that makes you sound even more. So we'll get to that.
Speaker 2:
[08:14] My doctor's like, hey dude, what's going on?
Speaker 3:
[08:16] What's up man?
Speaker 2:
[08:17] Everybody's like, dude, we can't get a doctor.
Speaker 4:
[08:20] You want me to come to the house or?
Speaker 3:
[08:22] They're like, bro, we can't find anybody.
Speaker 2:
[08:23] My doctor's like, hey, I haven't seen you in a month. Can I come by? Staying hydrated isn't just about drinking more water, it's about your body actually using it, Alex Easton. That's what Cure does. Clean ingredients, real science, and it actually tastes good. Use the code Net Positive for 20% off at Cure. Hydration, how do you say cure or cure? Whatever you want. C-U-R-E, cure. What's the cure? What's the cure? What's the cure? Cure. curehydration.com. Or find it on Amazon, real ingredients, real hydration. There you go, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 4:
[09:00] You might be like, I didn't think we needed a pronunciation guide for this guy, but I guess we do.
Speaker 2:
[09:04] We gave everything.
Speaker 3:
[09:05] Like on cure?
Speaker 4:
[09:06] Really?
Speaker 2:
[09:07] How do you pronounce it?
Speaker 3:
[09:08] Cure? Is it real ingredients? Isn't that Papa John's?
Speaker 2:
[09:12] Real ingredients, real hydration.
Speaker 3:
[09:13] Papa John's.
Speaker 2:
[09:14] Cure.
Speaker 4:
[09:16] What the hell, dude?
Speaker 2:
[09:17] That's different.
Speaker 3:
[09:17] Oh no, they're better ingredients, better pizza.
Speaker 4:
[09:19] That's right, sorry, sorry, sorry.
Speaker 3:
[09:20] I'm sorry, cure or cure. My bad.
Speaker 2:
[09:23] We gave them a long ad rate.
Speaker 3:
[09:25] They got a good one.
Speaker 2:
[09:25] Yeah, we'll call it even.
Speaker 4:
[09:26] Ah.
Speaker 2:
[09:28] Welcome into the pod. I walked into this morning, listen, if you're listening on Spotify, click over to video real quick. Click over to video real quick and you're gonna see this sweatshirt. Let me get the mic out of the way. Can you see that? Yeah. Lakewood Golf Club. You see, ooh, that thing is clean blue. Okay.
Speaker 3:
[09:45] It's a good blue.
Speaker 2:
[09:45] Hey, listen, Nike, sponsor Nike.
Speaker 3:
[09:48] Checks Over Stripes.
Speaker 2:
[09:49] Yeah. Joel Osteen's Church. Wow. I got this. I went to, I was at a show in Houston. I went to Joel Osteen's Church. Nice. They got merch.
Speaker 4:
[10:00] Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 2:
[10:02] Hold on, Paul, wait, wait, wait. When I walked in, We got questions. When I walked in, what did you say?
Speaker 3:
[10:07] I said, that's a really nice sweatshirt, John.
Speaker 2:
[10:09] Unsolicited, what did you say?
Speaker 4:
[10:10] I said, it's a clean sweatshirt, John.
Speaker 2:
[10:12] It's a clean sweatshirt. It is from, it's from Joel Osteen's Church.
Speaker 3:
[10:15] That's great.
Speaker 4:
[10:15] So does Joel Osteen have a golf club to go along with the church?
Speaker 2:
[10:18] No, dude, they just got, let him work, bro.
Speaker 3:
[10:20] No, I like that a lot.
Speaker 2:
[10:21] Let him coach.
Speaker 4:
[10:21] So there is no golf club.
Speaker 2:
[10:22] No, Liquid is not a golf club. Liquid Church is Joel Osteen's Church.
Speaker 3:
[10:27] Yeah. I like that a lot.
Speaker 2:
[10:29] I mean, you know, I'm going there to be like, I'm going to see what's going on here.
Speaker 3:
[10:32] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[10:32] And I was like, well, let me pop in to the bookstore, aka gift shop.
Speaker 3:
[10:36] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[10:36] Let me pop into the gift shop.
Speaker 3:
[10:37] AKA the pro shop.
Speaker 2:
[10:40] Let me pop into the pro shop after my round, see what's going on in there. And I got a Lakewood golf. I said, give me that.
Speaker 3:
[10:46] I love it, bro.
Speaker 2:
[10:47] What you mean?
Speaker 3:
[10:48] I love it.
Speaker 2:
[10:48] Wow. You can't hate on this drip, dude.
Speaker 3:
[10:50] No, that's dope.
Speaker 4:
[10:51] I'm surprised he's... I mean, the golf club is probably coming.
Speaker 2:
[10:54] Say, yes, dude, I'm going to be the first member. Say all you want, all these people on the internet chirping this and that about Joel Osteen. He ain't got drip like him. Just say you're jealous.
Speaker 3:
[11:03] Are there any pastors who have just completely been like, I'm going for it?
Speaker 2:
[11:08] I'm going into the merch game? Yeah. I mean, there's the...
Speaker 3:
[11:10] Like all the LA churches.
Speaker 2:
[11:12] Yeah. Well, churches have merch now. That's what this is.
Speaker 4:
[11:15] How big was the pro shop?
Speaker 2:
[11:16] I mean, it's pretty big. It was pretty big. But there's a lot of... It's a bookstore. They got a lot of stuff in there. Yeah. They got some clean merch.
Speaker 4:
[11:25] He's got a lot of books, I feel like.
Speaker 2:
[11:26] What you mean? Give me that, bro.
Speaker 3:
[11:29] What other stuff do they have?
Speaker 2:
[11:30] Oh, dude, they got mugs. They probably got some tees and golf balls. There's a lot of books, a lot of Joel Osteen books.
Speaker 4:
[11:37] Do they have any Joel Osteen action figures?
Speaker 2:
[11:39] Yes. Yes, dude.
Speaker 3:
[11:40] They got everything.
Speaker 2:
[11:42] That's in the kids' section, bro.
Speaker 4:
[11:43] It's like the gnomes at Augusta. What is Joel Osteen instead?
Speaker 3:
[11:47] What is the average attendee at that church? You know what I mean? Like who is the congregation there?
Speaker 2:
[11:54] I'll say, listen.
Speaker 3:
[11:55] A lot of people.
Speaker 2:
[11:56] This is going to be problematic for people to hear.
Speaker 3:
[11:58] Okay.
Speaker 2:
[11:59] It's the most diverse church I've ever been to.
Speaker 3:
[12:02] I would expect it with that many people.
Speaker 2:
[12:03] Joel Osteen is the most diverse church I've ever been to. And I feel like I've been there now three times. Every time in Houston, the first time I ever went, it was when I was on Winter Jam Houston 2018. And I go, we're all on this tour. It's like 15 tour buses. I'm not, it's not my tour. I'm on the other tour. I'm like in the back of a bunk of like the ninth bus. I was, and I was like, I wanna go to Joel Osteen's church. And they're like, what? I was like, yeah, I wanna go over there and see everybody talk. Y'all keep my name at your mouth. Everybody's talking about it. We can't go over there. Let me go see what's going on over there. And I step in and this is the same thing I thought yesterday. You walk in, first of all, they're doing a huge gigantic blood drive. Cool. I go, well. Respectable. It's helpful. Yeah. And they go, and I walk in and they go, over here to your left is the food pantry. I go, oh. So if you don't have any food, you can't. Oh, here is a course on financial peace about how if you're struggling in your finances, how you can go, oh. Oh, up here. Oh, up to your left. That's where you see if you're struggling in your marriage, they have a marriage course that you can take for totally free that can help you in your marriage. What's up over here? Oh, this is just the kids area where the kids can learn about the Bible and principles that, what's inside this sanctuary? Oh, well, we're going to sing some worship songs and then he's going to preach. And then if you want help or prayer, then you can come forward and.
Speaker 4:
[13:34] So you're saying it's a Net Positive?
Speaker 2:
[13:36] Well, maybe more than that. But I've said that this is not a new take for me. I've said this for forever. I go, well, yeah, maybe if you walked in, I'll say this, if you walked in there with a bag of stones, you might have to put them down. Does that analogy make sense? You might have to go, oh, yeah. All right, well, I'll put this. But now you might have a stone or two left, a critique or two when you leave. Sure. But I thought that he's like a, all right, what's the guy, all right, we didn't mean to talk about this in the podcast. But after he has, there's two services. Everybody wants to meet him. Everybody wants to meet him, talk to him, shake his hand. He does like a, we've talked about this before on the pot, about what he does, I don't know what else you want to call it, a meet and greet. Yeah. So, okay, he can't come to the lobby and just stand there. It's going to be, there's people crying, there's people wanting him to pray with them, there's people wanting him to sign things, make photos, it's a meet and greet. What's he supposed to do in there? He has like a bunch of security guards around him and they have people lined up. It's a very orderly meet and greet, but it's not, you don't have to pay for it. Right. And he does it for, I watched him. Incredible aura. From this guy.
Speaker 3:
[14:50] I'm sure.
Speaker 2:
[14:51] Say what you want to say, incredible aura. Yeah. Yeah. I watched him do it for 45 minutes.
Speaker 3:
[14:56] Dang.
Speaker 2:
[14:57] And then did the 11 o'clock service. And then did it again, I'm sure.
Speaker 3:
[15:02] I mean, who do you think sits atop the-
Speaker 2:
[15:05] Give me a bag of stone somewhere. Give me a bag of stones somewhere so I can put them down.
Speaker 3:
[15:09] Who do you think sits atop the mega church pastor power rankings?
Speaker 2:
[15:13] Oh, let's see.
Speaker 3:
[15:15] Do you think it's him?
Speaker 2:
[15:15] It's him.
Speaker 3:
[15:16] With the pyramid? I think it has to be him.
Speaker 2:
[15:17] Yeah, with the pyramid.
Speaker 3:
[15:19] It's got to be Jolos.
Speaker 2:
[15:19] Yeah. You know how that guy, that Jewish guy on Fox that always does the quarterback power rankings? It was that guy with the long hair.
Speaker 3:
[15:25] Jewish guy on Fox.
Speaker 2:
[15:27] Right?
Speaker 3:
[15:28] Oh yeah, he does the long hair now. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2:
[15:30] He does the quarterback. It's like every Tuesday. It's a quarterback power rankings. All right, I'm going to go Osteen at the top.
Speaker 3:
[15:37] Yep.
Speaker 2:
[15:38] Then I'm going to go, who's that Mexican guy? There's that Mexican guy with the nice hair. He's got to be up there.
Speaker 4:
[15:47] Are you sure he's Mexican or are you just?
Speaker 2:
[15:48] No, he's Mexican. No, oh yeah, shoot. Sorry, my bad.
Speaker 3:
[15:52] You're like, no, he's Mexican.
Speaker 2:
[15:54] He's not on here, dude. Yeah, okay. Here we got Kenneth Copeland, Rick Warren, TD. Jakes.
Speaker 3:
[15:59] Yeah, TD.
Speaker 2:
[15:59] Jakes got to be up there. Andy Stanley, Stephen Furtick. These are good numbers. Yeah, because you got to be up there. Sometimes people come and go.
Speaker 3:
[16:06] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[16:06] And they pop up on there. They got the third tier pyramid and then they're gone.
Speaker 3:
[16:10] Are the new school guys still hanging around too?
Speaker 2:
[16:14] Yeah, but they don't have this staying power, like a Judah Smith, like Mike Todd.
Speaker 3:
[16:19] Yeah, Mike Todd.
Speaker 2:
[16:20] But yeah, if you're talking about, it has to be based on-
Speaker 3:
[16:24] Rich Wilkerson.
Speaker 2:
[16:25] Yeah, yeah, but the lineup. But we're, see, I feel like we're white. Or missing. Well, we are.
Speaker 3:
[16:30] We definitely are.
Speaker 2:
[16:30] Oh, yeah.
Speaker 3:
[16:31] So you're right to feel that way.
Speaker 2:
[16:32] I feel like we're white. We are. We are. Oh, yeah, yeah. Our pyramid, if you're talking about an everybody pyramid.
Speaker 3:
[16:37] It has to be.
Speaker 2:
[16:38] Yeah, because there's some black pastors and some Latino pastors that were, oh, maybe that guy's Asian. I thought he was Mexican. He might be Asian.
Speaker 3:
[16:46] Okay, getting further away.
Speaker 4:
[16:47] Just a little close.
Speaker 2:
[16:48] You know who this guy is. You know what this guy is.
Speaker 3:
[16:51] He's got some intent. I get it.
Speaker 2:
[16:52] Yeah, I got it. I don't know if I'm very good or what, but when people are listening to the podcast, screaming this guy's name. Yeah. Jesse, I think his name is. No, it's not Jesse.
Speaker 3:
[17:00] I'd be interested to put together that list.
Speaker 2:
[17:02] Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[17:02] It's Joel number one, I think, and I think there's a pretty good fall off from him too.
Speaker 2:
[17:05] Yeah. And what about, we got some female pastors in here. What about Joyce Meyer, Beth Moore?
Speaker 3:
[17:10] That's a different league.
Speaker 2:
[17:11] Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[17:14] WPL.
Speaker 4:
[17:14] It's a WPL.
Speaker 2:
[17:16] WPL.
Speaker 4:
[17:16] When it's pastors league.
Speaker 2:
[17:17] Yeah. If you talk about like, hey, let's just go to a hundred, you know, like, what's that show when they're like, what is a thing a woman would put in her mouth or whatever? Okay. No, but they always.
Speaker 3:
[17:32] No, hold on, hold on. Family Feud.
Speaker 2:
[17:34] Okay. Hold on, hold on, hold on.
Speaker 4:
[17:36] Family Feud.
Speaker 2:
[17:37] You know, it's always leading like that.
Speaker 3:
[17:39] It is always leading.
Speaker 2:
[17:40] The question's always like insane. If you were in bed, what would be one thing you would bring?
Speaker 4:
[17:45] And you're like, what?
Speaker 2:
[17:46] It's always like that.
Speaker 4:
[17:47] It's a Mexican bastard. Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[17:51] It's like, what would a woman put in her mouth after drinking?
Speaker 4:
[17:54] Sure.
Speaker 2:
[17:54] And you're like, dude. Right. What do you want us to say?
Speaker 3:
[17:57] Show me food.
Speaker 2:
[17:58] Yeah, yeah, yeah. Show me a donut. And you're like, okay. And then it's always like the fourth one is like, yeah. And there's like, I can't believe he said it. I'm like, dude, this question is insane. Yeah. Okay. That's it. Yeah. It has to be take it, but they take a hundred. It's not the most part. It's a hundred. They asked a hundred people. Okay. Take a hundred people in America.
Speaker 3:
[18:18] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[18:19] Every age, race, socioeconomic and put these a hundred past, put the, no, not a hundred, put these 25 pastors. Who does every, that's the, this is our chart. Who does everyone know?
Speaker 4:
[18:33] I don't think you give them the names.
Speaker 3:
[18:34] No, you just say, who do you think is the biggest pastor?
Speaker 2:
[18:36] No, you say, who do you recognize here?
Speaker 3:
[18:39] Oh, I would just say name a pastor.
Speaker 2:
[18:42] Or name one.
Speaker 3:
[18:42] Name the biggest pastor.
Speaker 2:
[18:44] If you recognize him, you get one point. If you name him, you can get two points. Joel Osteen. Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[18:50] Yeah, Joel Osteen.
Speaker 2:
[18:52] Yeah. So that's why you never hear me on this podcast criticizing a comedian bigger than me. Because it's a bad look, because I want to be bigger. Or that's, you're like, I'm not going to criticize a guy that's beating me. Not beating me, but like.
Speaker 3:
[19:12] Yeah, he's doing something right. Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[19:13] I want to do what he's doing.
Speaker 3:
[19:15] Right.
Speaker 2:
[19:15] So he's telling arenas. I'm telling theaters.
Speaker 3:
[19:17] So that's why I love punching down, you know. Yeah, it's better.
Speaker 2:
[19:20] Thank you, dude. Make fun of people below you. Yes, dude.
Speaker 3:
[19:24] Turn around and make fun of them.
Speaker 2:
[19:26] I used to have a joke in my act. I go, my mom always says, my mom, when I was coming up in comedy, she said, John, comparison is the thief of joy. Comparison is the thief of joy. I was like, yeah, comparing yourself to people that are better than you. Right. And compare yourself to worse people.
Speaker 3:
[19:38] You feel great.
Speaker 2:
[19:39] It's the source of joy.
Speaker 3:
[19:40] Yes. That's where all my joy comes from.
Speaker 2:
[19:42] Yeah, if you're a little bit chubby, like don't go to the gym, go to Golden Corral. You'll feel way better.
Speaker 3:
[19:48] Yeah, take a trip to Walmart.
Speaker 2:
[19:50] You'll feel great about yourself. Compare yourself to other people. That's what you mean.
Speaker 3:
[19:55] It's not the comparing, it's your bad at comparing.
Speaker 2:
[19:58] Yeah, you're comparing yourself to the wrong people.
Speaker 3:
[19:59] You're a better compare. There's better comps here, let's figure it out.
Speaker 2:
[20:05] Every church in America is trying to get numbers and trying to sell books or trying to do whatever Joel Osteen's doing. You're trying to be him. I would keep his name out of your mouth.
Speaker 3:
[20:17] Yeah, don't compare yourself there.
Speaker 2:
[20:19] Yeah, compare yourself to, I don't know, somebody smaller. Yeah, if you want to feel better about your personal life and your social life, well, let me say this first. I'm also rocking the proud Atlanta Hawks hat.
Speaker 3:
[20:31] You are.
Speaker 2:
[20:31] Big win over the New York Knickerbockers last night. In New York. Man, you know how my struggles have been recently. Getting online. We talked about it last night. Start firing off. Start firing off on people. You know what I'm saying? Getting online and it's about, if it's like, I try to keep it to myself. Everybody does. And we're firing off on other sports fans. And I did it last night. We won at the buzzer. And I hate New York. I hate the fan base. I hate them. And then I showed Lydia this because you know how you're like, was I in a line for this? Let me just run this by. Yeah. She's like, okay, are you getting online? I go, no, no, no, hold on. You'd be proud. Anytime you post anything online, you just want to, it should run through this filter. Would my spouse, if she saw this or he saw this, be embarrassed? And if they would, then stop.
Speaker 3:
[21:31] Good rule of thumb, John.
Speaker 2:
[21:32] Nice. Okay. Okay. So I also put in the New York Mets into the same category. The New York Mets are terrible. They're in our division, in the Atlanta Braves division. Somebody posted a fan duel has a Mets next win section, meaning like you can bet on the next time the Mets are going to win. Yeah. Which is hilariously, hilarious for everybody that's not a Mets fan. That's how bad they are. I couldn't keep this to myself, dude. Sure. I said, can't Mom Donnie just take some wins from the first place team and give them to the Mets? Great joke. Wow. Great joke.
Speaker 3:
[22:07] Solid joke.
Speaker 2:
[22:07] Lydia was like, it's a great joke. Yeah. Yeah. And then the Babylon B took it. Took the joke.
Speaker 3:
[22:14] Credit or no?
Speaker 2:
[22:15] No, dude. No. But everybody in my, everybody was like, John made, John Crist made this joke first.
Speaker 3:
[22:21] They just wrote it as a headline?
Speaker 2:
[22:23] Yeah. They were like, yo, this is John Crist joke. And I was like, dude, shout out to the. They said Mom Donnie orders visiting teams to redistribute some of their runs to the Mets. And everybody's like, credit where credit is due is John Crist joke.
Speaker 3:
[22:35] Very nice.
Speaker 2:
[22:35] You're welcome.
Speaker 3:
[22:36] Shout out to the fans.
Speaker 2:
[22:36] Yeah, shout out to the fans and shout out to my accountability partner, my fiance.
Speaker 3:
[22:40] And speaking of fans, yeah, you had quite the experience this weekend.
Speaker 2:
[22:49] Well, moment of silence, no matter how, okay.
Speaker 3:
[22:54] You mean just tell it, dude, I've been dying.
Speaker 2:
[22:57] Okay.
Speaker 3:
[22:58] Ever since I saw it, I have been dying.
Speaker 2:
[23:01] Okay.
Speaker 3:
[23:02] I occasionally, I think of it and I smile and I feel warm and fuzzy inside. Like it's a good memory for me that I didn't even live.
Speaker 2:
[23:11] Yeah, yeah. That you're like, I'm just saying through someone else. Yes. Okay. I was in, first we went to El Paso, Texas. Was that in El Paso or Tucson? I think it was in Tucson.
Speaker 3:
[23:22] Tucson.
Speaker 2:
[23:23] Which is, let me say first, not my core fan base. It's a little bit outside of the Venn diagram of where John Crist typically tours. I've been out there, this is the second time I've ever been there in my history of touring. Great show by the way, great fan.
Speaker 3:
[23:40] Good, because you can't go back.
Speaker 2:
[23:41] No, I'm never returning. I will never return.
Speaker 3:
[23:44] Glad you like that.
Speaker 2:
[23:45] I go, so sometimes after, I'll say this, sometimes there is food for me after I get done, and sometimes I call me second strike against me for being high maintenance. I don't like the food. I don't like that food, and I don't drink anymore, so I'm a little bit of addict for some fast food. Sure. As everybody can relate so far, I fire up the old DoorDash, and you've been to another city, you had to fire up a door, it redos your address, I'm seeing what's in there. I fire up the old raisin canes.
Speaker 3:
[24:18] Nice.
Speaker 2:
[24:19] As one does, little box number one, fire it up, 16 minutes on the way. Sounds good. Normally, they bring it to the room.
Speaker 3:
[24:30] Right.
Speaker 2:
[24:31] Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. It's meet in the lobby, meet at the valet, whatever the scenario is, happy to do it. Okay. I've seen other people, while I'm in this hotel, DoorDash orders being delivered. Leave it at the front desk. I don't know how they do it. Okay. Because they can't bring it up to the room, sit at the valet, whatever.
Speaker 3:
[24:51] Okay.
Speaker 2:
[24:51] The girl, whoever is on the way. I guess it doesn't say it's a girl. Does it say the person?
Speaker 3:
[24:58] I think it says their name, but sometimes.
Speaker 2:
[24:59] Maybe their name. Okay. So on the way. I'm sitting there. I'm starving. Obviously it's late. And I don't want to be sitting at the front desk and I gotta wait in the line. Hey, can I, do you have my DoorDash back there? I'm not doing that. I'll meet the person there. Okay. So I'm down there before she's down there, waiting. Maybe 45 seconds before, not long, but I see her pulling on the street. I take the elevator down. Okay. I see a girl, I'm going to say this, 23. Okay. I'm going to say this, Latino. Okay. Which is for that area of the country, that would just the highest demographic there.
Speaker 3:
[25:41] So that would make sense.
Speaker 2:
[25:42] I'm going to say English would have been the second language. Okay. Is that fair to say?
Speaker 3:
[25:48] Sure.
Speaker 2:
[25:48] Are we on board with all these statistics so far?
Speaker 3:
[25:50] Makes sense.
Speaker 2:
[25:51] Okay. So I walked towards her in that she has, she sees, there's this kind of this acknowledgement of, hey, this is the, you know, you're in an Uber, you're like, he's looking for me, I'm looking for him. We can make this.
Speaker 3:
[26:04] It's kind of magical.
Speaker 2:
[26:05] It is really magical. Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[26:06] It's like, how do you, how do we transfer that knowledge with our eyes?
Speaker 4:
[26:09] That's the chicken tender guy right there.
Speaker 2:
[26:10] Yeah. Yeah. And she walks in and goes, that's the guy. She didn't have my face either. Right. I could have been like, yeah, that's me.
Speaker 3:
[26:17] She's like, this looks like it's for him.
Speaker 2:
[26:19] Yeah, this looks like it's for him. Okay. I walked towards her. We meet. She hands me the food. Right. Wait. Yes. Yes. She hands me the food because otherwise I wouldn't, it's the next question, would it make sense? She hands me the food. She goes, can I get a photo? Right. But that was in English. But it was, she goes, can I get a photo? I go, so she, okay. I'm here. She hands it to me. I take it in my left hand. She's in front of me on the right. She goes, can I get a photo? She brings out her phone.
Speaker 3:
[26:52] Right, to take a photo.
Speaker 2:
[26:54] To take a photo. I now have the food in my hand on this hand. I, with my right hand go, absolutely. And put my arm around her.
Speaker 3:
[27:16] It's still just as funny as the first time, dude.
Speaker 2:
[27:19] Okay, and I'm trying to think, I'm trying to remember if I did, I'm trying to think if I did.
Speaker 1:
[27:30] You never know who you're gonna see.
Speaker 4:
[27:33] For those of you who may not understand, John basically posed with this woman, acting like she wanted like a meet and greet style selfie photo.
Speaker 2:
[27:40] Like a meet and greet photo.
Speaker 4:
[27:41] Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2:
[27:42] Also, and I want to say, I think I did, I'm trying to remember specifically if I went waist or shoulder for the hug.
Speaker 4:
[27:52] Okay.
Speaker 2:
[27:53] I'm pretty sure I did shoulder because she was smaller than me.
Speaker 3:
[27:55] Neither is better, I don't think. I don't think either one of those is bailing you out of anything.
Speaker 4:
[28:00] The fact that you did it at all is...
Speaker 3:
[28:01] Honestly, dude, like you could have went head.
Speaker 2:
[28:05] Yeah, I could have went, hey.
Speaker 4:
[28:07] No, that would be the most elitist thing on the planet.
Speaker 2:
[28:09] Kobe Bryant is celebrating a championship.
Speaker 4:
[28:11] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[28:13] She goes, I'm holding the phone. She goes, which is okay. It's in my defense. What?
Speaker 3:
[28:19] What does she do when you do this?
Speaker 2:
[28:20] She go, well, okay. I have already done this five times today in the airport traveling. I've already done this. Can I get a photo? Someone recognizes me, sees me. We make eye contact. Can I get a photo? It's already happened to be five, six times that day.
Speaker 3:
[28:42] So just muscle memory.
Speaker 2:
[28:43] Yes. Okay. Now there wasn't a food involved in the other exchanges and it wasn't in Tucson or El Paso or wherever it was. In a hotel lobby. I have it in this thing. I go, can I get a photo? I go, sounds good. Put my arm around her. She looks to her left. She goes, what?
Speaker 3:
[29:02] Her left, so her left is you.
Speaker 2:
[29:03] It's her left.
Speaker 3:
[29:04] She looks at you like what?
Speaker 2:
[29:05] My arm, my right arm is around her.
Speaker 3:
[29:08] You're like this.
Speaker 2:
[29:08] Yes, she's eased in, looks and goes, what? Looks me in the eye. And you went. What? Well, okay, her photo, this is what, okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 4:
[29:19] Dog.
Speaker 2:
[29:21] Cause the photo screen was on, here's what was my, I mean, this is all happening.
Speaker 4:
[29:26] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:
[29:28] A split second, the photo screen was on that way. Front, not selfie. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I go, I was gonna say, turn the camera around, cause that also happens. You're like, can I get a photo? It's like going on, just, it's on video mode. We got, we're in the airport. Yeah. Just get, I'm happy to do it. Yeah. And then it was on the other way. And she wasn't trying to change it. Or like she wasn't, she wasn't trying to like switch it around.
Speaker 3:
[29:55] So is that what made it click of like, oh no.
Speaker 2:
[29:57] So I mean, it all happened in a split second when I go, and then she goes, what? And I go, what? And she either backed away or I retracted, hopefully both at the same time. And she goes, I meant of the food.
Speaker 3:
[30:16] I'm just doing my job, sir.
Speaker 4:
[30:19] Why did you touch me?
Speaker 3:
[30:22] Get your hands off me.
Speaker 2:
[30:23] And my, I had still just grabbed the food.
Speaker 3:
[30:26] Right.
Speaker 2:
[30:27] So that hand was already prepared. And the photo, she took the photo.
Speaker 3:
[30:33] And she just sniped it and took off. He probably froze in time.
Speaker 2:
[30:37] And ran. But the photo is what they sent, the DoorDash sent. And I put that on the end, just so people could verify this is not a fake story. I wanted to call the hotel and ask if I could get the security footage.
Speaker 3:
[30:49] Let's put it in the clip, too. If you get the security footage, that would be hilarious.
Speaker 2:
[30:53] I mean, it's just...
Speaker 3:
[30:54] What?
Speaker 2:
[30:54] What? What?
Speaker 3:
[30:56] Okay, have a good night.
Speaker 2:
[30:58] What? I said, like, I go...
Speaker 4:
[30:59] One nice person that was there is probably like, I know exactly what he's talking about.
Speaker 2:
[31:01] Yeah. I mean, I go, if my... I put this in the comments. I go, if my DoorDash account is, like, suspended, they're like, you do not, I'm not going to fight it.
Speaker 3:
[31:12] Totally.
Speaker 2:
[31:12] I go, that's fair. Yes. That was way out of line.
Speaker 3:
[31:17] Bro, that is insane.
Speaker 2:
[31:19] Way out of line, dude. I go, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3:
[31:21] I love that you were just in muscle memory.
Speaker 2:
[31:23] Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[31:23] Like, you're Pavlov's dog of like, when you hear, can I get a photo, you know it means arm around and smile.
Speaker 2:
[31:30] I should, yeah, people roasting me. I should be getting credit for this.
Speaker 3:
[31:34] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[31:35] I'd be like, what a nice guy.
Speaker 3:
[31:36] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[31:36] If somebody else are a photo, he does it every time. What if I was like, what if it was the opposite? Thank you, dude. Great point. If I'm, you know, whoever, The Rock or something, I go, no, I don't take photos.
Speaker 3:
[31:45] That would have been way worse.
Speaker 2:
[31:47] Way worse, dude.
Speaker 3:
[31:48] Wow, that would have been way worse.
Speaker 4:
[31:50] You're like, no, I'm in a rush, sorry.
Speaker 3:
[31:51] Yeah, sorry.
Speaker 4:
[31:52] I'm in a long day of travel.
Speaker 2:
[31:54] You jerk. Yes, yeah.
Speaker 3:
[31:56] That would have went way worse. I didn't even think about that.
Speaker 4:
[31:59] Yeah, John, good job.
Speaker 2:
[32:00] Yeah, and then I don't look, like everybody's making a big deal out of it. I did pull out a Sharpie and I was like, what do you, they're like, we don't sign the receipt to sign it. They do, I mean.
Speaker 3:
[32:10] Like you can't pick up a pen without signing your name.
Speaker 2:
[32:12] Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[32:14] You're just so hardwired.
Speaker 3:
[32:15] You're like, yeah, for sure, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:
[32:18] And everybody in the comments is like, they're so quick to like, you know, if somebody has a misspelling, they're like, got them. Everybody's like, I mean, don't put the, okay, the DoorDashers phone number is in here. You just exposed her. I go, that's the DoorDash number.
Speaker 3:
[32:39] Yeah, come on, man.
Speaker 2:
[32:41] It's not the girl.
Speaker 3:
[32:43] Yeah, they don't give personal numbers.
Speaker 2:
[32:45] I go, have you ever used DoorDash before? Have you ever used Uber before? If you could text, like follow up, the person that just give you, it would be over.
Speaker 3:
[32:56] Hey, good meal, bro.
Speaker 4:
[32:57] Appreciate that.
Speaker 3:
[32:57] Thanks again for coming earlier.
Speaker 4:
[32:59] It's like, yo, can you do it again? And we don't want to worry about the, we don't have to worry about DoorDashers, I'll just pay you, Venmo you.
Speaker 2:
[33:04] Like any, yeah. I mean, they were like, you put the door, first of all, and if it was her number, what?
Speaker 3:
[33:13] Well, that's a different deal.
Speaker 2:
[33:16] No, no, my situation, but like what are you gonna say, like you got John Crist, are people on the internet gonna text her? You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 3:
[33:22] Yeah, I mean, internet's crazy, bro.
Speaker 2:
[33:23] Yeah, that's why they don't have the, so I was gonna like delete it out, I was like, everybody's gonna know that that's the door, it's the number to DoorDash. And it also says, don't reply. We're not gonna see this.
Speaker 3:
[33:36] When I think as soon as the transaction ends, that number probably goes dormant. Like that number was generated for that one transaction. Yeah, so you could be like, you can communicate for the delivery and then it's gone.
Speaker 2:
[33:48] And by the way, she's not getting paid unless she takes that photo. For sure. So she's like, hey, I don't care about, I have to take this photo. Cause then I'll be like, I never got it. And I can dispute it and not pay for it. We, here's the photo of you holding it with your other arm around her.
Speaker 3:
[34:09] Dude, that's crazy.
Speaker 2:
[34:11] That's wild.
Speaker 3:
[34:12] Somebody took a Uber Eats, took my photo on my front steps the other day. And it's literally me holding it. Cause I was already outside.
Speaker 2:
[34:21] Oh, yeah.
Speaker 3:
[34:21] I was like taking the trash out and they came up and I was like, oh yeah, let me get that. And they were like, okay, let me just get a photo of it real quick. And I just went like this.
Speaker 4:
[34:27] First day of school vibes.
Speaker 2:
[34:28] Yes. It looks like a dang, like a police lineup.
Speaker 3:
[34:32] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[34:32] You know, like it's 2 30 in the morning and this is Taco Bell. I don't want this. I'm going to put it on the ground.
Speaker 3:
[34:37] I was like, can you blur my face maybe?
Speaker 4:
[34:40] Can you redact me, please?
Speaker 2:
[34:41] Did you hear about the girl that's getting like huge tips? No. She's eating huge tips because she puts the food on the ground and puts her feet in it.
Speaker 3:
[34:50] Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:
[34:50] With the sandals and she has a manicure, pedicure, whatever the one for the feet are. Pedicure, manicure, pedicure, pedicure. Dude. And she's putting that in there.
Speaker 3:
[35:01] And she gets tips off that.
Speaker 2:
[35:02] Yeah.
Speaker 1:
[35:03] Oh, we're cooked.
Speaker 3:
[35:05] Wow, dude.
Speaker 1:
[35:07] We're cooked.
Speaker 2:
[35:08] We're cooked, dude.
Speaker 3:
[35:09] It's like only, only Dash, only, only Eats.
Speaker 2:
[35:12] Only Eats.
Speaker 4:
[35:13] Only Toes, yeah.
Speaker 2:
[35:15] But it's like, I mean, if you're going to get another couple bucks from that.
Speaker 3:
[35:18] ToeDash.
Speaker 2:
[35:19] Yeah. Oh, this week's episode brought to you by the good folks over there at the IRS. I'm just kidding. That's definitely not the topic. That's the next topic. Zoc, doc, ladies and gentlemen, welcome in. You need a doctor. Speaking of, I just talked about it. Finding a doctor that actually likes, finding a doctor actually like feels like discovering a diamond in the rough. Sure, you want someone in network nearby with the open time slots, but let's be honest, that's just the start. You also deserve someone who really listens, makes you feel comfortable, calms your nerves, explains things clearly, tells you it's going to be okay, remembers your kid's names, roots for your sports teams, still makes you laugh. I don't want a doctor that makes me laugh, I don't think. Do I?
Speaker 3:
[36:02] That wouldn't be for me.
Speaker 2:
[36:02] Yeah, it wouldn't be for me. Well, everybody wants their own thing and a doctor. Yeah. I remember I got this eye surgery, I had something on my eye back in 2020. This doctor was the weirdest guy. You know what he did to my eye? Sedated me. I was alive though. I mean, I was obviously not dead. Oh, that's good. Yeah. That's good to know. Good information. Aware, because they have to be aware for the- I can't be knocked out. Right. And he put a scalpel in my retina, cut something out, and then grafted another part of my eye, and then put it in like a cube.
Speaker 3:
[36:45] Nice.
Speaker 2:
[36:45] In the part. And I go, brother, you can be as awkward as you would like to be.
Speaker 3:
[36:52] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[36:52] You just say, I still would want to send this guy a Christmas present. Yeah. I mean, I look terrible. He fixed it.
Speaker 3:
[36:58] Yeah, please be weird.
Speaker 2:
[36:59] He put us, dude, he stitched my retina with, brother, do whatever you want. Do whatever you want. That's interesting that people want these things from your doctor. What I'm saying is, whatever you want, you can have. Yeah, they got it. You want a doctor that's cool. You want a doctor that drives a nice car. You want a doctor that we can find it. We can figure it out for you. You want a doctor that communicates with you. You want a doctor that doesn't. Do whatever you want. You can find it at Zoc Doc maybe in its free app of the website that helps you find book high quality in network doctors. You also find someone you love. Stop putting off those doctor's appointments and go to Zoc Doc Z O C D O C D O T C O M. I spell the whole thing for no reason. zocdoc.com/netpositive to find and instantly book a doctor you love today. That's Zoc Doc Z O C D O c.com/netpositive. zocdoc.com/netpositive. Thank you, Zocdoc, for sponsoring this message. Man, dude, we are next level in this podcast. People don't know the technology we got over here. Y'all been sleeping on us. Podcast also brought to you by the good folks over there at Blue Land. Lately, I've been thinking more about plastic, not just the stuff we throw away, but the tiny particles we don't even see. And I've been putting my plastic forward for a lot of wedding expenses that I was not aware of. Okay, that's that. That's not the ad. It's not the ad. It's not the ad. Speaking of microplastics. Speaking of plastic that you, Blue Land is on a mission to make it easy for everyone. I think mine is actually metal. They might credit card. Swag. I just had to throw that in there. That's strike three for me. Everyone makes sustainable choices. We believe that hard working clean products can be the norm, not the exceptions. You can do better for your family, the planet, at the same time from cleaning sprays, toilet bowl cleaner, dishwasher and laundry detergent, tablets. Blue Land products are independently tested and performed alongside major brands and the formulas are free from dyes, parabens and harsh chemicals. Blue Land, certified B Corp and Leaping, bunny cruelty free certified. The formulas are EPA safer choice certified. Many products also earn cradle to cradle gold, material health certificates. Celebrate Earth Month and make the switch today. Get up to 30% off by going to blueland.com/netpositive. We've been thinking about making the switch. Now is a great time Easton. Get up to 30% off blueland.com/netpositive. Make the switch this Earth Month and get up to 30% off at blueland.com/netpositive. Oh, what day is it? What was it? April 20th, April 21st? Everybody been paying their taxes?
Speaker 3:
[39:39] No, get that mandatory extension. Or I'm sorry, that not mandatory, the default extension.
Speaker 2:
[39:43] Oh, you got an extension. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm done.
Speaker 3:
[39:45] Because of the storm.
Speaker 2:
[39:46] Oh, yeah. Isn't that weird?
Speaker 3:
[39:48] I didn't expect that.
Speaker 2:
[39:50] Yeah, that's, well, it's...
Speaker 3:
[39:51] I'm done, I'm done with my part.
Speaker 2:
[39:53] I'm done with the government, dude. Yeah, well, that too, for sure. They were like, hey, it's like, yeah, that's, none of those two are related. Yeah, I don't... Not related at all.
Speaker 3:
[40:03] I don't understand.
Speaker 2:
[40:05] Sometimes the government would just be lying to our faces.
Speaker 3:
[40:07] Sometimes. A lot of the times.
Speaker 2:
[40:11] Don't like, don't say that. Just say there's an extension. Don't say it's because of the storm.
Speaker 3:
[40:18] I really don't understand.
Speaker 2:
[40:20] You think anybody during that storm was like, we got to get, I wish I had a generator so I could do my taxes.
Speaker 3:
[40:26] Right.
Speaker 2:
[40:27] Who is it? And by the way, where did it apply to? Just around Nashville?
Speaker 3:
[40:29] I think it's Tennessee.
Speaker 2:
[40:31] The whole state?
Speaker 3:
[40:32] I think so.
Speaker 4:
[40:33] Yeah, I think like North Carolina got, I think there's a couple of states that got.
Speaker 2:
[40:38] Imagine thinking, imagine how brain dead you'd have to be to give control of something to the government to run it.
Speaker 3:
[40:50] I mean.
Speaker 2:
[40:51] I mean, I'm being dead serious. I'm being dead serious. Like look at the post office. I mean, that's what, look at health care. The government, when the government, it's a disaster, dude. It's an unmitigated Zoran Mondami disaster, dude. Okay, that was unnecessary. I didn't mean to say that. I take that back. He's doing a great thing for the good people of New York City. Yeah, sure. But it's like this idea that like the people are so like, remember the whole thing of like people can't, like they don't know how to get IDs, so they can't vote.
Speaker 3:
[41:25] It's still a thing. We're still fighting about that.
Speaker 2:
[41:28] It's so disrespectful to the people of the country. That's the saying that you don't even-
Speaker 3:
[41:35] To the minorities of the country.
Speaker 2:
[41:36] Let's call it what it is. Yeah, but that one, but this one is to everybody. The power thing. Yeah, yeah. It's like, do you think that we are like, please government, like we're not, like please government, tell us that, please let us.
Speaker 3:
[41:49] Government.
Speaker 2:
[41:50] Give us government, government. Please give us two more weeks. We had the, we had the power, the storm.
Speaker 3:
[41:57] It was so long ago, too.
Speaker 2:
[41:58] It was the storm. And yeah, so also we, I was like cleaning up like sticks from my yard.
Speaker 4:
[42:05] I'm gonna just disclaimer this so we don't get cooked. I don't care. I think the extension is for people that had to, came out of pocket money-wise to fix things or like medical bills and stuff like that. So if they were to owe taxes. Is it? I can't afford it. I would assume that's what it's for. I thought it was that you couldn't file taxes.
Speaker 2:
[42:22] It's because people were delayed in the things that they were doing.
Speaker 4:
[42:25] I don't maybe on their job.
Speaker 2:
[42:27] Who knows?
Speaker 3:
[42:28] Yeah, I don't that kind of makes sense.
Speaker 4:
[42:29] I hope that again.
Speaker 2:
[42:31] Say it again.
Speaker 3:
[42:31] He's saying you're gonna owe taxes when you file, right? Yeah, maybe some do. And so if you had to come out of pocket unexpectedly during the storm, for you'd be short on cash right now. Yeah, you'd be short on cash right now.
Speaker 2:
[42:44] Oh, because you have to file them. You also have to pay them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'm just kidding. That is how that works. Yeah. Now, mine is mine. Mine. Mine work different.
Speaker 4:
[42:53] Oh, dude, I'm go with this guy.
Speaker 2:
[42:56] No, no, no, no.
Speaker 4:
[42:57] Take your Lakewood Golf Club.
Speaker 3:
[42:58] Strike four.
Speaker 4:
[43:01] Someone called Joel.
Speaker 3:
[43:02] Oh, mine work different.
Speaker 2:
[43:03] No, no, no.
Speaker 4:
[43:04] Someone called Joel Osean, tell us and fly this guy. Take him back to Houston, bro.
Speaker 3:
[43:09] Mine goes to Lakewood Golf Course once. Mine work different.
Speaker 2:
[43:16] Mine work different.
Speaker 3:
[43:17] Oh, that's weird.
Speaker 2:
[43:17] No, no, no. Mine don't do that. No, no, no. Mine don't. No, no, no. There's just more.
Speaker 3:
[43:20] That makes sense. But I still don't... I don't know. Just so we don't get cooked again.
Speaker 2:
[43:24] And so you get an...
Speaker 3:
[43:25] Also, I just don't understand the whole tax extension thing in general. Like, I've filed extensions for the last, like, four years. And so then you have to, like, October to file them.
Speaker 4:
[43:34] Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[43:34] Okay. So then if we can just do that, then...
Speaker 2:
[43:37] Let's just do that.
Speaker 4:
[43:38] Well, it opens the door to a lifelong debate of like, why don't they just tell us exactly how much we owe? Why do we got to play this crossword puzzle to figure out how much? You know, if I'm wrong, if I'm wrong, you're like, oh, no, it's not enough. But if I overpay you, I can assure you, you're not going to be like, hey, you gave us a little too much.
Speaker 2:
[43:52] I did it.
Speaker 3:
[43:53] I overpaid. And I filed to get the money back because they told me I overpaid. And you know what they did? Ignored it. Do you know where that money is? I don't know. It's definitely not going into potholes. It's not in my pocket.
Speaker 4:
[44:07] It's in a crater and I ran.
Speaker 2:
[44:10] And it's in Nancy Pelosi's sport coat, dude. That's where it is.
Speaker 3:
[44:15] Yeah, it's on a table at the French Laundry.
Speaker 2:
[44:17] What's a feet? What are the, oh, shoot. I messed that joke up. Sport coat, I meant a pantsuit.
Speaker 4:
[44:25] Oh, nice.
Speaker 2:
[44:26] It's in Nancy Pelosi's pantsuit, dude.
Speaker 4:
[44:28] Yep, for sure.
Speaker 2:
[44:28] That's where it is, brother.
Speaker 4:
[44:31] Right here.
Speaker 3:
[44:31] Here you go, Alex.
Speaker 4:
[44:32] This is where it is.
Speaker 2:
[44:33] Oh, you know when the politicians go.
Speaker 3:
[44:35] That's what they mean. They mean, I have your money in my breast pocket.
Speaker 4:
[44:38] Yeah, they go like that.
Speaker 2:
[44:42] Hey.
Speaker 3:
[44:44] It's right here. Yeah. If you were wondering. Got it.
Speaker 2:
[44:49] Hey, it's this and then private jet. It's this, private jet.
Speaker 3:
[44:53] Oh, sure. Clip it.
Speaker 2:
[44:55] That's what they're doing.
Speaker 3:
[44:55] But when they do this and when they do their talking points like this, they're really holding a wad of cash and they're hitting me with it.
Speaker 2:
[45:02] You don't have this. You don't have this.
Speaker 3:
[45:04] This is for me.
Speaker 2:
[45:04] You don't have this. This is for me.
Speaker 3:
[45:08] You'll never get it.
Speaker 4:
[45:09] This is for foreign entities, not you.
Speaker 3:
[45:13] It's right here and also it's right here. You'll never have this money ever. It's my money now.
Speaker 4:
[45:18] Thank you so much.
Speaker 3:
[45:19] I knew how much you owed me and I still let you pay me more.
Speaker 2:
[45:22] You silly goose.
Speaker 3:
[45:23] You're going to do it again next year on the same date because I told you to and then for every year for the rest of your life.
Speaker 2:
[45:29] It's right here.
Speaker 4:
[45:30] And if you don't, we'll get you.
Speaker 3:
[45:31] It's right here.
Speaker 2:
[45:33] Gosh, dude. That makes me feel so much better. It doesn't know I'm joking, but I'm not joking about like that. You were all aware.
Speaker 4:
[45:41] The money is going to a good place, John. The money is being used wisely, man.
Speaker 3:
[45:44] Bro, I hate everything.
Speaker 2:
[45:46] So funny. I hate everything.
Speaker 3:
[45:48] I can't go a day without having a conversation like this.
Speaker 2:
[45:50] My hope is. OK, let's lead in.
Speaker 3:
[45:54] Please take me somewhere else.
Speaker 2:
[45:56] I have a solution. OK. OK, I have a solution to all this. OK.
Speaker 3:
[46:02] No kinks.
Speaker 2:
[46:02] Oh, wait, what did you say? OK. OK. Well, you know, Christians, we have to file taxes too.
Speaker 3:
[46:11] True.
Speaker 2:
[46:11] Right. Christian, they don't. Everybody has to file. Doesn't matter who you are. If you are a Christian, there's a there's a there's a different a different way, a different way to look at it. There's a different way to look at it. What are the Christians doing? Let's see what the Christians are doing related to filing taxes.
Speaker 5:
[46:33] Let me tell you what I did yesterday. I took my IRS forms that I've gotten in the mail, which are numerous by the way, because they're always telling me like, oh, you have, this is a late payment. This is a late, like you're, you're running late. This is due now. Right. And this is a crap ton of money. So of course I'm late. I don't have $250,000 laying around. Otherwise, I would pay it. So, and so I took these forms and I literally came down here once again. I set them on the table. I looked at it, pointed at it. I was like, you have no authority over me. I demand in the name of Jesus that you move. You move, you pick up and go because you have no authority. These numbers on a page have no authority over me, my life. And the calling that God has called me to, it directly intercedes with the provision that He's already promised on my life. My doubt does not correspond with His promises. It cancels it out because our doubt cancels out His promises because He's like, all you need to do is believe. And in fact, He didn't even say you need to do to believe that much. He said in Matthew 17, 20, you do not have enough faith. I tell you the truth. If you had faith, even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, move from here to there, and it would move. Nothing would be impossible. So again, he's not asking us to have a mansion size faith. He's asking us to have a pea size faith. No, even small. It's even smaller than a pea, a pea.
Speaker 2:
[48:02] Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[48:03] One time at band camp.
Speaker 2:
[48:05] Oh man. Oh man.
Speaker 4:
[48:10] See how that works out for him.
Speaker 3:
[48:12] What do you got, John?
Speaker 2:
[48:12] What do you got, man? Well, okay, I will say that one of the Bibles is very clear about giving to Caesar what is Caesar's. And meaning like participate in the functions of the society if it doesn't supersede with your moral. But yes, I do not think you can tell the tax forms to move like mountains. And I think they will still say, hey, I moved them and I go, well, you still owe.
Speaker 3:
[48:47] Yeah, I moved them to the overdue pile.
Speaker 2:
[48:49] Yeah, but they owe more now. Yeah, and the mountain's bigger now. The mountain, I moved them. I moved the mountain. The mountain is unfortunately still bigger and you still have to climb it. So unfortunately.
Speaker 3:
[49:00] Yeah, I mean, did she pay them?
Speaker 2:
[49:01] Like, you know what I mean? No, she believes. Okay. So, okay, if you. Theologically, faith the size of a mustard seed to get out of paying your taxes is, I think, God's like, that's not really what I meant for the verse.
Speaker 3:
[49:20] Yeah, I don't think that's what Matthew is writing about.
Speaker 2:
[49:21] That's the way we did have Matthew, tax collector himself, by the way. I don't think that's what that also, if you have $250,000 of tax, it's because you probably made a million plus. So I don't have this money, you literally do.
Speaker 3:
[49:42] Yeah, you did. You did at one point, at least, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2:
[49:46] I don't have this money, you did.
Speaker 3:
[49:47] You definitely did. We can see that.
Speaker 4:
[49:49] I think you need to tell your account to move. Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[49:53] I see. You might need to move to a state with no income taxes.
Speaker 2:
[49:55] You might need to move out of the country.
Speaker 4:
[49:57] Yeah. Your tax guy might need to move. You might need to move some money around.
Speaker 2:
[50:06] You need to move to the mountains. You might need to move to the mountains. Yeah. Faith can move mountains, and I will also be moving there, and I will live in a cabin off the grid, because, yeah, I think if that much, if you owe 250,000, you are in the 1%. You said it. Yeah, for sure. I don't know what she does, but she's doing great. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if that's real or fake, but I think it's real. I'm pretty sure that's real.
Speaker 3:
[50:38] It's so preacher cadence, too. It's crazy.
Speaker 2:
[50:41] Yeah. Ah, man, dude. You know what's the worst part about chat? Yeah. It's just you can like find a verse that supports or defends this or denies this. Yeah. And it will. Yeah. Unfortunately, you go, hey, chat, take a verse out of context if you need to find a verse that doesn't allow me to. I'm gonna do it right now. I'm gonna do it right now. Find a verse. Find a Bible verse that doesn't allow me to pay taxes.
Speaker 3:
[51:12] A Bible verse that says I don't need to pay taxes.
Speaker 2:
[51:14] That says I don't need to pay taxes. If they give me one, I'm quitting this podcast. Okay. Find a Bible verse that says I don't, oh, you're not gonna find a legit Bible verse that gets you out of taxes. In fact, it goes the opposite direction.
Speaker 3:
[51:28] Oh, chat is red.
Speaker 2:
[51:30] Chat, dude, chat. Let's go. Chat is on the culture, dude.
Speaker 3:
[51:33] Okay.
Speaker 2:
[51:33] Chat's got its ear to the street.
Speaker 3:
[51:35] Chat's saved?
Speaker 2:
[51:36] Here, is chat saved?
Speaker 3:
[51:37] Is chat reformed?
Speaker 2:
[51:38] Dude is, shh, shh, shh, shh. Here are the two most direct ones. Matthew 22, 21. Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's.
Speaker 3:
[51:50] It's literally the same book that she was reading from.
Speaker 2:
[51:52] Yeah, and that's what I said a second ago without chat. And unto God the things that are God's. That's Jesus Christ basically saying, pay your taxes even if the government isn't your favorite. Wow. Romans 13, six to seven, for because of this, you also pay taxes. Yeah, I thought it was going to be like a mustard seed, owe it to the, you're like, it just pays taxes right on the nose.
Speaker 4:
[52:13] The way the government's moving right now, they might clip this and tweet it out. They might be like, they might actually clip this.
Speaker 2:
[52:20] IRS might be like, what? It's like when they clipped the O, being like, heard you got deported. Yeah, and he was like, guys, I'm not the Homeland Security. It's crazy, dude. For the authorities are ministers of God. For the authorities are ministers of God, pay to all what is owed to them, taxes whom taxes are owed. That's Paul the Apostle doubling down taxes are part of the deal. If you're trying to make a joke out of it, I don't like when they do this.
Speaker 3:
[52:47] Oh, this is what you meant when it, it knows your comedian.
Speaker 2:
[52:50] Yeah, it knows I could. If you're trying to make a joke out of it, why would you say that? The closest loophole angle is the story where Jesus tells Peter to get the tax money from the fish, Matthew 17, 24, but even that ends up with him still paying. So, biblically speaking, no tax evasion verse, only tax disappointment. This is the most honest I've ever seen Chad.
Speaker 4:
[53:09] Told to make something up.
Speaker 3:
[53:11] What about tax avoidance?
Speaker 2:
[53:14] Chad's like, Chad's always your friend. Hey, what's the best way to rob a bank? Yes, you deserve it. Let's get this bread. Here's what you need to do. This is the way they go, no.
Speaker 3:
[53:25] And as you squeak by the security, slip on this joke.
Speaker 2:
[53:29] Yeah, yeah, and just skate.
Speaker 4:
[53:31] Since you want to be a funny guy.
Speaker 2:
[53:34] Well, I guess you gotta pay the taxes. Yeah, for sure. There's no way you're getting around that. Listen, I've been thinking about this. Okay, let's get a bell so I don't go off on this all day. But there's so many internet celebrities, whatever they're called, influencers, complaining about getting bullied online, people in their comments saying these type of things, their views going down, the algorithm going down. I've said this before about comedy and country music, and I was like, yeah, dude, making money on the internet is awesome, and it also is horrific. That comes with it. I just don't, I cannot stand the complaining anymore. Dude, you're talking to people who work in a coal mine. Stop saying how people come in to your DMs and bully you. That's part of it. Does that make sense? Yes. I'm so done with people being like, oh, I posted this thing and people didn't like it, or my views are down, or like, yeah. You know who wants to make a living making content if they could? Probably everybody. Probably everybody. They're like, I'll just make an account, whatever, and then people, I'll just make a lawn mowing account, and then I'll just cut people's lawns, and then I'll get a lot of business, and then they're like, oh, people hated it. People didn't like it. People made fun of it. That's part of it. You woke up and said, I wanted to put things on the internet. If you are signing up for that, that's part of it. Because I feel like this, like when we try to be as friendly as possible when we are reviewing clips, but this is the internet. I'm just tired of people coming on and wanting to play the internet game and get all the benefits from it. Fame, celebrity, money, status, discounts, collabs, all that, and not also endure the other side of it. And that's part of it. If you're going to go to Coachella and a brand is going to pay for you to go out there and then people criticize it, that's part of the money. Yeah. Does that make sense?
Speaker 3:
[55:51] Yeah, it's also the same for everything.
Speaker 2:
[55:53] For every money. You know what I mean?
Speaker 3:
[55:54] Like I could easily be like, I wish that I could build a company, but spend all my time with my family.
Speaker 2:
[56:02] Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[56:02] Hey, that's the trade, man.
Speaker 2:
[56:03] Hey.
Speaker 3:
[56:04] You have to sacrifice some of that. That's the trade. That's the suck part.
Speaker 2:
[56:07] Great example.
Speaker 3:
[56:07] Like, sorry.
Speaker 2:
[56:08] Yeah, that's not how the, hey.
Speaker 3:
[56:09] But you decided to do this.
Speaker 2:
[56:11] You work in HVAC for a boss, for HVAC company, and you're like, dude, it's 300 bucks every time I go for a visit, and I'm only getting paid 100. And the HVAC guy goes, okay, start yours then. Start your own HVAC business, and you'll come to me in two years ago. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3:
[56:30] Or I make great money doing HVAC, but I have to get in these vents all the time, and I don't like it. Yeah, that's the job.
Speaker 2:
[56:37] That's a better example. You said it better than I. That's the job of it. People were like, oh, I released my single, and it didn't get, that's part of it. Because you want to be a famous singer. That's awesome. And it's hard to do.
Speaker 3:
[56:54] Surprise.
Speaker 2:
[56:55] Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[56:55] I also thought about the other day how like, because I'm with you, it gets annoying to see that.
Speaker 2:
[57:00] You're talking to people in a coal mine. Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[57:02] The other thing about like internet comments, and I'm not saying do the negative. I don't support it at all. Please don't do that to people because that's mean and rude. But people were doing that already to their friends. Like it wasn't talking to the people online about how much you didn't like what they were doing.
Speaker 2:
[57:21] You can see it now.
Speaker 3:
[57:22] You would just talk behind their back offline. Now it's just coming right at you.
Speaker 2:
[57:26] And people, if you put it on this thing, and you could not put it on this thing. And then if you put it on this thing, and people cook you, that's how, it's like I want to try out for the NBA, and then some of them scored on me. Yeah, cause you're trying to play in the NBA. That's awesome. And sometimes I do understand that they're watching things that from people that they didn't mean to be in the NBA, or somebody else posted it about them and they're minding their own business. Like if you go through a drive through and they're like get the ice cream cone and then they throw it back at the window. Well, the cashier is not trying to be on the internet. You are. And the people cook you. I'm having less and less and less sympathy for content creators, any complaints. Any complaint at all.
Speaker 3:
[58:26] I'll feel for you and what you're going through because that's valid. Because that's hard to take on. Don't be surprised that it's happening. And don't think that you deserve to live in a world where that doesn't exist.
Speaker 2:
[58:40] There you go.
Speaker 3:
[58:41] That is just what Internet is.
Speaker 2:
[58:43] Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[58:44] We talked about this a few weeks ago. People disagree in the comments, by the way.
Speaker 2:
[58:46] Good. They can disagree again. I don't care.
Speaker 3:
[58:47] I think when the girl was saying, stop all the negativity, or she was saying, can we be serious about anything?
Speaker 2:
[58:53] Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[58:54] It's like, no, this is the Internet. Why do people not understand what the Internet is?
Speaker 2:
[58:57] Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[58:58] And she was young.
Speaker 2:
[58:59] Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[59:00] And I would expect her to get it, but I guess not.
Speaker 2:
[59:02] If you're going to play, and you go, okay, I made a post that went viral and I got this amount of money. I did a bunch of posts that didn't go viral and no one liked them. And it was, it's kind of embarrassing to me, but if something doesn't go, I just like to make stuff for the sake of making stuff. I'm not embarrassed if something doesn't go. But if you're going to play, if you're going to put your name in the ring and then you get hit by the bull, you stepped into the ring. That's what I'm saying. I'm just so tired of any influencer, content creator, internet, whatever person being like a bunch of people. Well, you put it online.
Speaker 3:
[59:44] Yeah, dude. Yeah, it's part of it.
Speaker 2:
[59:48] Yeah, so what do you think? I would love to know, shoot, dude, I went to rehab a couple years ago. You're like, yeah, dude, tell us every day. They were like, they were like, what kind of narcissist do you think you are that you didn't, that you deserved better than this?
Speaker 3:
[60:05] You're like the type that poses with the DoorDash driver in a hotel lobby.
Speaker 2:
[60:10] They were like, why do you think you didn't, why do you think that you were above any kind of consequence for any, like who you think you were just gonna be like, what's a business to start on the internet these days? Or like, I'm gonna be like the Tupperware Queen.
Speaker 3:
[60:28] Cool.
Speaker 2:
[60:29] Okay, you're gonna be the king closet organizer. Cool. It's probably a queen job, it's not a king job, but okay.
Speaker 3:
[60:37] It's a pink job.
Speaker 2:
[60:37] Yeah, yeah, okay. So you're doing all these organization and then you're like the people made fun of me. Well, you threw your hat in the ring. So that's also fine to be, it's also a part of it.
Speaker 3:
[60:52] Yes.
Speaker 2:
[60:52] It's also, you could quit, you wanted to quit your day job to do this. This is a cooler job than that. So it's going to come with problems.
Speaker 3:
[61:01] Yeah, like everything else.
Speaker 2:
[61:04] So stuff's not going to work and it's going to be more competition because everybody wants to do it or somebody stole my content or somebody just the algorithm just, it's hard.
Speaker 3:
[61:14] I have seen more people stealing content I have to. blatantly than ever before.
Speaker 2:
[61:18] I have to, dude.
Speaker 3:
[61:19] Like verbatim, same titles, same shots, like everything.
Speaker 2:
[61:22] I saw, there's one I saw, the first time I ever saw it was with the, the first time I ever got, this is probably two years ago. You ever see that in like TJ Maxx? It was like, hey, I'm looking for a dolphin figurine that has a costume on its head, but also a lamp.
Speaker 3:
[61:39] Super specific.
Speaker 2:
[61:40] And they go, oh, we got it.
Speaker 3:
[61:41] Yes.
Speaker 2:
[61:42] Okay. I saw that and I go, gosh, that is such a funny bit. Yeah. And I DM'd the person. And it was like so, it was so niche. I go, man, this is a great, this is an incredible piece of, maybe I commented. It's an incredible piece of content. And then the next day, I saw someone else doing it. Yeah. And I go, wait, so then.
Speaker 3:
[62:06] I think that's cause of TikTok.
Speaker 2:
[62:08] It is. Well, okay. So then that, so I don't know if I'm talking to the person that made it, cause if you ripped it.
Speaker 3:
[62:13] Yeah, you might have found the fifth person.
Speaker 2:
[62:15] I might have found, you're like, oh, this other person copied them. No, you don't know who started it. And now I've seen the one this week, I've seen it a ton, where it's men and women trying to clean the house, and the woman is doing something, doing the dishes, doing the laundry, and the guy is in the background trying to put the pillow into the case.
Speaker 3:
[62:36] Yes, I saw that one.
Speaker 2:
[62:37] In every one.
Speaker 3:
[62:38] Yes, the same pillow.
Speaker 2:
[62:41] But then I've seen it from content creators. Like, oh, so we can just do this now.
Speaker 3:
[62:48] Yeah, it's totally okay now. Nobody has a problem with it. And I think it's because TikTok started with the dance stuff. And so it was like, oh, they did this one, I'm going to do this one too. I'm going to do this one. And then that evolved into they're doing some other content shtick, and that's okay to copy too. Everybody's just doing the trend versus copying creative.
Speaker 2:
[63:09] Everybody's just doing chat, chat GBT in real life. Nobody's like having an idea anymore. Because then you go, oh, that idea works. I'll do it. I've seen also one a ton, which is a bunch of creators that are room temp IQ creators that have, they're talking to camera. They're like, can you believe this is the problem with society? Then the person comes in, like hits them. Meaning they're, you think it's a reaction video, but the person is actually, it's lit in a way where the person is actually there.
Speaker 3:
[63:42] Got it.
Speaker 2:
[63:43] It was like, can you, I can't. Oh, I have seen this.
Speaker 3:
[63:46] Like they're in the foreground.
Speaker 2:
[63:47] Yeah, but it looks like a reaction video. It looks like a green screen. And then the person breaks the wall and comes and either hits them or slaps them or whatever. And it's like, okay. Yeah, I've seen this from like a bunch of other people that just, but if you want to do that.
Speaker 3:
[64:03] It's a weird time, dude.
Speaker 2:
[64:04] Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[64:04] I don't know.
Speaker 2:
[64:05] Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[64:05] I don't love it.
Speaker 2:
[64:07] I could say more about this, but some of these people are my friends. So I want to say more about this. Sure.
Speaker 3:
[64:12] Let's move on. Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[64:13] Is there anything else to get into? Let's get into, what is that last? Oh, okay. This is perfect. This is the last one I thought about. And I've said this a thousand times. And I want to say it again, this week's episode brought to you by the good folks over there at Tempo. This time of year, Easton, trying to stay consistent with eating well, but between work, workouts, commuting, cooking, it just isn't happening. Tempo gives a fresh, balanced meals, ready in two minutes so I can eat the way I want without losing time. And when I go home and I got a stack of those in my fridge, the best you got, you know what I do? I do this. This is money I'm not paying for meals today. You can't have it.
Speaker 3:
[64:56] I got half a stack in my fridge right now. I'm getting new upgrades on a nice.
Speaker 2:
[65:01] Yeah, you got half a stack?
Speaker 3:
[65:02] Yeah, I'm getting a new stack on some running back.
Speaker 2:
[65:04] During the week, my schedule is nonstop, meetings, errands, I don't run too many errands, I guess, but late nights I do the end. Oh no, dude.
Speaker 3:
[65:12] You're saying, oh no.
Speaker 4:
[65:12] Not only are you out, you're suspended for three games.
Speaker 3:
[65:15] He's throwing a no hitter out here.
Speaker 4:
[65:17] Without pay.
Speaker 2:
[65:18] Without pay. No, I do run, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Lydia, I was gonna cook the other day, I went to the grocery and got some stuff.
Speaker 3:
[65:27] Well, if you had tempo, you wouldn't even had to do that.
Speaker 2:
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Speaker 3:
[67:35] You're going to get me going on e-course culture, John. You know that's a hot button topic for me.
Speaker 2:
[67:39] Have we ended that?
Speaker 3:
[67:40] I hate it, bro.
Speaker 2:
[67:41] Just like tipping, hopefully-
Speaker 3:
[67:43] Because that is the business. The course is the business. They didn't leave a successful business to tell other people, the business is the courses.
Speaker 2:
[67:51] The business is the courses. That's the business. I've seen people coaching people that have courses, course coaches. This is the Net Zero.
Speaker 3:
[68:02] And these people are my friends, by the way.
Speaker 2:
[68:04] Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. Who's doing something?
Speaker 3:
[68:09] I think it's dumb. Bring back gatekeeping. I heard somebody say that recently on a podcast.
Speaker 2:
[68:15] Bring back gatekeeping is great.
Speaker 3:
[68:17] Shout out Giggly Squad. Bring back gatekeeping, bro. We gotta bring it back. Stop putting everybody on. Not everybody needs everything.
Speaker 2:
[68:23] It's starting with podcasts.
Speaker 3:
[68:25] Things are getting ruined.
Speaker 2:
[68:26] Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[68:27] Things are getting ruined.
Speaker 2:
[68:28] Bring back gatekeeping. Yeah. We don't want to know that yet. I'm not going to gatekeep it. You should. Yeah. Gatekeep it.
Speaker 3:
[68:35] Yeah. Let's keep it tight.
Speaker 2:
[68:36] Yeah. Look what happened. And this is not my bit. I think this is Jeff Dye's bit. I'm not. I've seen a couple of people kind of do it. We've shamed Karen's. Yep. And then you go to a restaurant. There's no order. There's no people are loud. People are not dressed appropriately. People are doing whatever they want in there. And that also goes for the waiters and waitresses. There was no Karen being like, hey, take these appetizers off our check. We didn't pay for these. And we shamed the Karen's out of responsibility in this society. And now we got lawlessness. That's what you're talking about, about gatekeeping. Hey, I don't want to gatekeep this anymore. You should. Yeah. Yeah. There's certain cities. I know certain cities that I can mention that are like, every time I go to the city, I go, this place is awesome. Oh, oh yeah. The people that live here know that and aren't saying like, nobody, nobody ever gate kept anything that was good. If you're like, I'm not gonna gatekeep that it's more, it's probably average.
Speaker 3:
[69:38] Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:
[69:39] It's probably regular.
Speaker 3:
[69:40] Nobody ever gate kept anything that was mid, for sure.
Speaker 2:
[69:43] Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[69:44] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[69:44] Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[69:44] There's no reason to.
Speaker 2:
[69:45] Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[69:45] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[69:46] Yeah. I'm not gonna gatekeep this anymore. Stanley water bottles are the best. Okay. Yeah. Also little arrogant to think that you were the gatekeeper of water bottles. Yeah. Right. Hey, we would have found that. Yeah. Okay. You don't have to gatekeep it. Yeah. I wish there was a gate on my neighborhood, strike nine. Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[70:06] Build the wall. Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 2:
[70:07] No, no, no, no.
Speaker 3:
[70:08] The original gatekeeper.
Speaker 4:
[70:10] Borders.
Speaker 2:
[70:12] Hey, you know what I want to gatekeep? My property.
Speaker 3:
[70:15] Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[70:16] Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3:
[70:17] Yeah. Yeah. A lot of fences, one gate.
Speaker 4:
[70:21] That's it.
Speaker 3:
[70:22] And I'm keeping it.
Speaker 2:
[70:23] And I'm keeping it. I'm the only one with the key. That's so good. Did you hear that from somebody?
Speaker 3:
[70:28] Giggly Squad was talking about it this week.
Speaker 2:
[70:30] Perfect. Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[70:31] Page and Hanna were talking about it.
Speaker 2:
[70:32] So good.
Speaker 3:
[70:33] So we need to stop giving stuff away. They're ruining it.
Speaker 2:
[70:37] Yeah. They're ruining it. Yeah. I'm not going to gatekeep this. Yeah. Yeah. I've said that a long time about women's fashion. They were like, here's where I got, send me the link, girl, send me the link, send me the link. I know from my fiance that if you go to an event and the other girl's wearing the thing, you're pissed. Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[70:55] The girls who post that too, they're never going to wear it again. That's why they post it.
Speaker 2:
[70:59] Don't say it. Don't give away the secrets.
Speaker 3:
[71:01] They're going to make the affiliate code on it. Good for you girls. Go get your money.
Speaker 2:
[71:03] Yeah. I'm already past this.
Speaker 3:
[71:05] They're done. They're done with it. It's over.
Speaker 2:
[71:10] Wow. Covered a lot of ground today.
Speaker 3:
[71:13] That's why you told people about the Lakewood Golf Club sweatshirt, right? Because this is it.
Speaker 4:
[71:16] You're done. Yeah. Going back.
Speaker 3:
[71:20] Not wearing it again.
Speaker 2:
[71:20] I'm a member just for, I'm like a, what's it called?
Speaker 4:
[71:24] Honorary member?
Speaker 2:
[71:25] That's a black lady's name.
Speaker 3:
[71:27] Just any black lady's name?
Speaker 2:
[71:28] No, the black lady's name. It's a politician.
Speaker 4:
[71:30] I don't want to start swinging and missing.
Speaker 2:
[71:32] No, it's a politician.
Speaker 3:
[71:34] She actually black or?
Speaker 2:
[71:35] Yes. She might be Mexican, but I think-
Speaker 4:
[71:37] Kamala Harris?
Speaker 2:
[71:38] No, no, dude. Condoleezza Rice? Yes.
Speaker 4:
[71:43] Yes, dude. What's your name?
Speaker 2:
[71:48] Are you serious?
Speaker 4:
[71:49] It sounds like a dish. It sounds like an entree.
Speaker 2:
[71:52] Easton.
Speaker 4:
[71:52] What is her name?
Speaker 2:
[71:53] Get off this podcast.
Speaker 4:
[71:55] Easton has got it again.
Speaker 3:
[71:57] Condoleezza Rice.
Speaker 2:
[71:58] You never heard this name.
Speaker 4:
[71:59] That sounds like a $26 entree.
Speaker 2:
[72:01] Yeah, I'll have the Condoleezza Rice.
Speaker 4:
[72:03] Yeah. That sounds great.
Speaker 2:
[72:05] How old are you?
Speaker 4:
[72:06] 24.
Speaker 2:
[72:07] You've never heard this name?
Speaker 4:
[72:08] No.
Speaker 2:
[72:09] No, dude.
Speaker 3:
[72:09] That's like early 2000s politics, isn't it? I feel like she was like 9-11 Commission Times.
Speaker 4:
[72:14] Yeah. Back then, I would just listen to whatever I'd have.
Speaker 3:
[72:17] She was definitely a W. Bush woman, right? She was around during that.
Speaker 2:
[72:20] Yeah. Wow. That is terrifying.
Speaker 3:
[72:22] I love the Condoleezza Rice. Can you go light on the Condoleezza?
Speaker 2:
[72:25] Yeah. I just had extra rice.
Speaker 3:
[72:28] Anyways, about her.
Speaker 2:
[72:30] She's an honorary member of Augusta.
Speaker 3:
[72:33] Condoleezza Rice's?
Speaker 2:
[72:34] Yes. She's a member of Augusta Rice. But Augusta, where the masters, they play the masters. She was out there, last time I was out there, strike 10. Yep. But she doesn't play golf. That is what I was trying to say. It was me at Lakewood. Oh, okay. Got it. Yeah. We went so far around that to try to land that plane. Unbelievable. Cool. Oh my gosh. We have to get Easton off this podcast. We have to.
Speaker 3:
[72:57] Bro, he's been on a heater. Low key.
Speaker 2:
[72:59] I haven't addressed it.
Speaker 3:
[73:00] Oh my goodness. My man is hot right now.
Speaker 2:
[73:03] I feel the same way about Springfield First, which is our show that's been wildly successful. Thanks everybody from the pod for listening. That they were like, Sarah is unbelievable.
Speaker 1:
[73:13] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[73:13] I go, yeah.
Speaker 3:
[73:14] She sure is.
Speaker 1:
[73:15] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[73:17] I got no problem with that. Yeah. We were like, Sarah's funnier than John. Yeah. I mean, I wrote the lines, but.
Speaker 3:
[73:23] No, no, no.
Speaker 2:
[73:24] But I go, yeah, dude, she's hilarious. What do you mean? Or they're like the people, like the openers of my comedy show, they were so funny. They go, yeah, dude.
Speaker 3:
[73:32] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[73:32] I surrounded myself with people that are good.
Speaker 3:
[73:34] And you're not gatekeeping them.
Speaker 2:
[73:35] No, I'm not gatekeeping them. Maybe you should start. Yeah, maybe I should start. We've tried to silence Easton.
Speaker 3:
[73:41] Sarah all of a sudden just has no lines. She's like, so I'm just, this says I'm just working diligently in the background for five minutes.
Speaker 2:
[73:47] She goes, oh, pastor, you're so funny.
Speaker 4:
[73:51] We started a Patreon, I'm only on the Patreon episode. You got to pay to see me.
Speaker 2:
[73:57] Oh, so good, dude. Sorry about that.
Speaker 3:
[73:59] What's behind the paywall is just Easton.
Speaker 2:
[74:03] We just keep him in the livestreaming, dude. You got to hear Easton, the Easton free episodes.
Speaker 3:
[74:08] We mute his mic on the main public pod, but we have it in there on the Patreon. So there's just moments of dead silence when me and you were just looking at him and then cracking up.
Speaker 2:
[74:17] And then we're dying. You're like, what did he say? The Easton only episodes is hilarious.
Speaker 4:
[74:22] 10 bucks a month.
Speaker 3:
[74:23] That's with the E. It's not explicit. It's for Easton.
Speaker 4:
[74:26] And then we'll teach you guys how to make your own Patreon.
Speaker 2:
[74:30] Hey, we're going out on top. Net Positive, ladies and gentlemen, we'll see you next week. I mean, yeah, sure.