Brian
Appearances
Coder Radio
587: Surfing the WSL Wave
Down by the meadow Under the banging tree Where old folks gather, jabber, and take their tea Talking about numbers Trends to foresee in the world of digits None purer than thee With R as our vessel voyaging through time Mining data quarries, rough ores we refine For stately computations and visions divine Your cold, unwrapped stories, line by line.
Coder Radio
587: Surfing the WSL Wave
Oh, sweet or silent as the dew in the world of ones and zeros, your lighthouse true. Where numbers sing and scattered floods bloom through days, labyrinth, you lead us past gloom.
CreepCast
The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
You told me you were leaving for the circus. You wanted to be either a lion tamer or a strong man or maybe a fire eater.
CreepCast
The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
I was so scared when I found your note. Du warst derjenige, der sagte, dass du weggegangen wärst. Meine Hände schluchzten, als würdest du nicht glauben, dass ich den Sheriff genannt habe. Und dann, Mr. Jonas, ging es weiter. Es fühlte sich an, als ob wir dich die halbe Nacht suchten, obwohl es nicht mehr als eine Stunde vorher gewesen wäre, bevor wir dich dort gefunden haben.
CreepCast
The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
I'm so glad. That hour you were gone, Brian, that was the most afraid I've ever been. Afraid we wouldn't find you. Afraid you might be hurt or worse. I couldn't hardly breathe through the fear. Then suddenly you were there and the relief nearly knocked me over. I think we stayed up together the rest of the night watching the stars.
CreepCast
The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
I wanted to make sure you could find the North Star in case you ever got lost again.
CreepCast
The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
I was scared too. I was afraid I'd be stuck out there. What made you think of it? Well, I've been thinking a lot about dying lately and... Don't! Don't talk like that. You're not going anywhere. Not for a long time.
CreepCast
The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
It's okay. I've known real fear and what I'm feeling now, it's not like that. I'm scared, I guess, but I'm at peace with it. I had such a beautiful life and I'm so glad I got to meet you, to be your mom.
CreepCast
The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Ich hatte den ungewöhnlichen Traum. Es waren so viele Sterne drin. Sie begann, unkontrollabel zu schweigen. Der Kälte schickte mich einen Moment später. Ich rief aus. Das Haus war früher kalt, aber die Dining-Ruhe war nahe der Arktik.
CreepCast
The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Delayed her. I clenched my fists. She didn't get enough time. I didn't get enough time. It's not right. It's not fair.
CreepCast
The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Yeah, a beautiful dream. I love you, Mom. I love you so much, so very much.
CreepCast
The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Sure, yeah. I'll see you then. Who do you think is at the end of the road?
CreepCast
The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
I don't know where it goes, but promise me you'll be careful.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
Like I said, I think I drove, but I think, like, you know, there were a couple girls that were outside, too, and we were all just hanging out and probably talking about, like, how cool it was and, you know, Lucas talking about the roller skates and stuff.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
I just remember he had this, like, he had this way of talking and, like, he was always, like, talking through a kind of, like, a sinister smile a little bit. He was harmless, but he was just kind of like... There's just something about Lucas that was like... It's like parents loved him for some reason.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
He was like a good-looking kid, but he just always had this kind of like comic book villain quality to him that was as scary as it was charming, I guess. But yeah, he was just really, really into these roller skates. They were kids' roller skates. And I want to even say they said Sears and Roebuck on them, but I'm not sure about that. It was like a department store brand.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
They were just like metal with straps, like the kind that a kid would strap onto their shoes. And they were like... You know, it was just like a metal, like a bottom plate kind of thing with like two leather straps. I want to say like buckles. But they were definitely small. I remember, you know, we were kind of like, what are you going to do with those? And he's just like, I don't know.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
They're cool, you know. And he was just really excited about them. And Corey had this sheet or something. It was like ripped and stained and molded. I think he just wanted to have like a trophy or something too. And, you know, he was just, Corey was just always a little bit more, um, destructive than any of us were.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
So it was, you know, it could have just been about like taking something or like breaking something. It was, you know, um, that was Corey's fun. But yeah, so he's, he's like looking at these roller skates and, you know, we're all smoking and like looking at them and, and hanging out. And Lucas said he had to go to the bathroom or whatever. And we were getting ready to leave.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
I had my headlights on at this point because I remember them shining at like the, the bush thing or like, it was just like a bush that had turned into a tree, you know, it was like a weed tree kind of thing. And I remember the headlights on it and him walking around that bush. And I don't think we were in, we weren't in the car yet, but the headlights were on, car was started.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
And I remember him coming back around and he was just, his whole complexion had changed. His face was, I just never seen Lucas look like that. He was always smiling. Like Jack Nicholson Joker smile. You know, he was just like kind of that kind of character. Like he wasn't that bad. But, you know, that kind of like energy. And he just looked scared.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
My name's Brian. I live in Milwaukee. I work at an art school. I'm the director of safety. And I've lived here for like 23 years. I was always super, super scared of paranormal stuff. I saw The Exorcist at a really young age. And I remember for like a year just being completely, completely afraid of like becoming possessed.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
And I had never seen Lucas scared or upset before. Even when he was like angry, he would still kind of be like smiling or laughing. But he was shaken. And we were like, what's your problem? And he said that he was peeing and he turned around and there was a little girl there. And she said, please don't take my roller skates.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
and that was all he said and we were kind of like I remember everybody else kind of like laughing at him I was not laughing it didn't the combination of him saying that and like knowing how he usually was and how he was then just it didn't add up for me and I was just like he's either playing the best prank ever Or he did see something, something happened.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
And he was like, I have to go put him back. And we were just like, I remember Corey especially was just like, you're a pussy. Like, shut up. And he did. He went back in the house and he was out pretty quickly afterwards. I don't know if he just like opened the window and threw him back in. Or if he actually went back inside, if he did, he was back quickly and he didn't have them anymore.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
And that was the other part for me that was like, he'd have no reason to just put the, it just wasn't him. It wasn't Lucas to just be like, oh, I'm going to put these back. It didn't make any sense. And I remember him being like really, really quiet on the drive back. But then, like, we got back to Colin's house and, you know, Corey was the most vocal on the drive back.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
You know, he had that sheet or whatever. And he was excited about that. And I think maybe it was also the fact that he had, like, taken something and he still had it. So it's like the attention kind of shifted to him. But Lucas was in the backseat and he was just, like, quiet on the way home. And it was a pretty quick drive back to Colin's house from there.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
I remember getting back to the house and... We were, like, looking at the sheet. And, like, when we got back to the house and we were, like, inside and looking at it, it was like, why do you have this thing? It was just, like, gross, stained. I don't even think it was a curtain. I think it was really just, like, a sheet. Like a bed sheet. And...
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
It was ripped, it was stained and we took a picture of him, like holding it up and he's, I can still see it. Like he had his head turned and he's kind of smiling and he's holding it up. And, um, you know, at the time it was just like, this is dumb. It's a dumb sheet. It was a stupid picture. It didn't really mean anything.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
But for me, things after that, like the trouble that we got into and some of the stuff that happened just got like way heavier and darker after that. It just felt like everything before that night was pretty harmless and just funny. And after that, especially Corey, became like a problem.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
This all took place probably like my senior year of high school and the year after. So that would have been like 1998, 1999. It really started with meeting my best friend, Colin, who he was a year older than me in high school. And we were like the only like alternative kids in my school. We grew up out in the country. It was like really, really rural. My graduating class was like 60 people.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
he just became a little bit more like even more reckless more violent and i don't really know what to attribute it to or anything but um there's so many there's just like so many examples of like stuff that he'd do where you're just like what is he why is he doing this?
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
Like it just like, he just have like a mercury in his hand and he's like, he, I don't know where he got it from, but he'd just be like sitting there in the living room playing with mercury or the air conditioner in the living room. Just like he cracked the, the, like the metal hose, like the Freon hose and just started like sucking the Freon out.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
It was just like stuff like that where you're just like, what is he doing? Like, Just really, like, weird, destructive stuff. We went to, like, a church parking... There was, like, an addition being put on a church a couple blocks away. And he started the Bobcat up. There was, like, you know, those little mini bulldozer things. They had left the keys in it.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
And I remember him starting it up and driving it. And it, like, went into a ditch that was... You know, they were like pouring a new foundation or something, and it just kind of like went down a little bit, but we took the key out and it wouldn't turn off and you could hear it from the house running all night. And it was just a lot of stuff like that.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
It was just kind of like it was piling up and it was getting too, too weird, too risky. You know, I guess maybe that's the natural progression of stuff. You just like crank up the extreme knob. It's like, it's not doing it for you anymore. Just smashing a mailbox. So you've got to like do something bigger. And it was, we were out in the country. There was just like, there was nothing to do.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
And we weren't really like, we weren't indoor cats. No. It came to the, like, I stopped kind of going there as often. And it just, like, the whole feeling of that house, it just, I don't know, it really changed, like, the house that Colin lived in, even. I remember I'd go back, and it was like, Corey had just, like, started knocking a wall down in the living room. And there were, like,
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
exposed it you know like studs where they were just like oh um you know corey got mad about something like kicked a hole so we decided to like tear the drywall out and the house just started like it was a mess it just i don't know it just started feeling like way more just like a
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
I came from like a pretty good home and I was a happy kid and it just seemed to, um, it seemed like a, a, a level that I was just like, not, not used to and not comfortable with where it was just kind of more trouble than I was willing to cause more destruction than I was really into being around. And, like, drinking became more of a thing for some of those guys, too.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
And it was a lot of like kids. you know, Garth Brooks and like, you know, the Robin Hood Prince of Thieves soundtrack and stuff like that. That's like what people listen to. And we were just not into that stuff. We just like causing trouble and stuff. You know, we were like class clowns. So that's how we kind of started hanging out was just, yeah, messing with people, messing with teachers.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
And they were, like... It was just, like, stuff that you could really get in trouble for. And, you know, there was, like, a night where... I was with Corey. I was hanging out with Corey. We had this shed behind, um, behind Colin's house. It was like one of those metal kind of low sheds. You could basically like fit two lawnmowers and a bicycle in it. And that was about it.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
But we had like taken snowmobiles. It was like late spring, early summer. We had taken a snowmobile, at least one from some garage, just like stole it. And, rode it home on a dirt road. It was, there was no snow. It was just like raced it home on a dirt road and parked it in that shed.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
And I was in there with Corey and we had done acid that night and we were spray painting this thing in the shed with no ventilation. And he was, I mean, there's like acid and spray paint involved, but it was just like, he just seemed like,
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
way off just kind of um scarier like capable of more than i was used to seeing from him and um after that the worst night that i remember was it was july it was like close to my birthday we had been walking home from That McDonald's or that gas station, we were walking around. It was summer. It was at night. And some of those older guys, there was three of them, were in a pickup truck.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
And they drove by yelling stuff at us. And we yelled back at them. And we were, like, flipping them off and stuff. And there was the intersection for Hazard Court and, like, the street, the bigger street that led up to it. Hazard Court was a dead end. There was a parking lot right there.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
and we were walking through that parking lot and they pulled up into it and one of them got out and grabbed colin by the neck and like kind of picked him up and we were just like yelling them to let him go and stuff and Corey, who was like the biggest and scariest and most intimidating of all of us ran away. And I just remember being like, we're going to get our asses kicked.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
Like, this is the worst. Just really scared. And I didn't, I wasn't like used to these guys. Like it wasn't my hometown. So I didn't know these guys. I just remember being like really, really scared and just trying to like pull this guy off a column. And all of a sudden, Corey is back. And he had a baseball bat and a rake. And he hit that guy in the head with a bat. And he just dropped.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
And his friends were like, what did you do? You know, like, oh, my God. And we were just like the adrenaline and everything. We were just like. I think I was hitting somebody with a rake. I don't even really remember. Because we were 16, 17, and these guys were older. But Corey just went off on this guy. And he did paralyze him. He paralyzed that guy that night.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
We had a librarian that we really liked to get a rise out of, Mr. Jesperson. Yeah, we just did like lots of really stupid stuff. So Colin was a sophomore. I was a freshman and his girlfriend had just graduated, I think. So she was like out of high school by then.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
I don't really know what happened out of that. That night was the last night I really went there and hung out with those guys. I think I went back maybe one more time right before Colin moved, because he did move to Milwaukee pretty shortly after that was like the last summer we were in, in Michigan, or at least he was after that night. I know that, you know, like law was involved.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
There was court stuff that happened. Corey didn't get in trouble. It was self-defense. Technically, you know, like I said, I wasn't really involved in any of that court aspect of that or really know what was going on with any of that. Um, the only person that really did was Corey. He didn't really talk about it after that.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
I just remember kind of hearing from Colin about the last night they had seen him. He was at the house causing a lot of trouble. they had to call his dad to come get him. And he like ran away before his dad got there. And he came, he ended up coming back like after his dad had left and like kind of continued with stuff. I think he was drunk, but he had like, he had hit his girlfriend.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
I don't know if that happened at the house or not. I wasn't there that night. I was just hearing about it from my friends. But, um, Colin ended up having to hit him in the head with like a rubber mallet. And they took him out on the porch and they left him there and called his dad. And he came and got him. But that was the last night that Corey was around.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
He went into the military pretty shortly after that. I think probably his dad made him. I want to say his dad was like a retired cop or was in the military or something like that. But. He went down south somewhere. And from what I heard, he was doing pretty well. And we never saw him. We never saw him again. He didn't, like, he didn't come home or anything.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
And he got hit by a car crossing a street when he was down there and died. By this time, Colin and I had moved to Milwaukee. And we hadn't gone back and we went back for his funeral. It was pretty brutal because everything had ended so badly. And we never like buried any hatchet or like, you know, had any sort of closure to like the mania that happened before he left.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
Colin, especially, was just like, he was a mess. He was a complete mess at that funeral. So it was the night before the funeral. Colin and I were staying in his mom's apartment. I was sleeping in the living room on the couch. And I had a hard time sleeping that night. He was like, probably the person that I, like, the first person that I was, like, spent that amount of time with that had died.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
And she had been in a plane accident with her brother when she was younger and like almost died, but she got a bunch of insurance money from the accident. And, um, She ended up buying a house. So that was the house on Hazard Court that we hung out in. I had just gotten my driver's license when they bought the house, so I was 16. And Colin must have been 17.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
So the first friend that was, like, that close that had died. And I, you know, I fell asleep. I remember it was really, really late when I did end up falling asleep. But I had, I had a dream that night and he, Corey was in it and it took place in the living room where I was sleeping. It was vivid. It really disturbed me. He was just on the ceiling above me.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
And I feel like he, he had like crawled out from like the hallway. And he was kind of like blue, like dark and blue. And I just, it was like, he kind of descended from the ceiling, like towards me, but it was still his back that was towards me and his head turned around. And I, I wish I could remember exactly what it is that he said in the dream. But I just remember it being like evil.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
It was something, it was just something dark. I don't remember if I woke up right after that, but I did, I did. I remember waking up that morning and like, just not wanting to go to the funeral at all. And it wasn't because I was like sad and I just felt really uncomfortable. Um, and I've always felt like I, for a long time, I felt really, I still do feel like guilty about having that dream.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
Like it was my, it was my, me thinking that, that made like my friend, something evil in my mind that like stuck with me. So I, you know, I still feel kind of like guilty about it and like thinking of them that way, but yeah. So many years removed from that situation and like that night and that summer after it. You know, that's just kind of putting the puzzle together of like.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
I just think something happened. That night at Pike House. I don't think I went back there until like back to Blissfield until this last this past winter. When. Jason died, our other friend Jason. And Colin and I went together for that. And like, that was like a pretty, pretty brutal, pretty brutal funeral too.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
Jason had like, he had really bad psoriasis when we were kids and he never really took care of it. And I think it led to like internal stuff. And he just never went to the hospital or anything. And he just, like, died of internal bleeding one day in his house. His brother found him. Yeah, we, like, we went back and we drove through all of the areas that we had gone to.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
The house on Hazard Court was still there. It was nice. It looks like somebody bought it and, like, fixed it up. It looked pretty good. The Fike house is gone. I'm fairly certain that it was Lucas and Corey that burned it down. I know that some, like a few people in that group of friends like went back and burned that house down that summer. And I remember hearing about it.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
I didn't, I wasn't there when they did it, but I remember Colin telling me about it. It's, it's weird. Like, him and I don't really talk about this much and I don't think it affected him. You know, like Jason's death and Corey's death, like affected him a lot, but I don't think that like the stuff that we did affected him the way that it affected me. He just kind of, he's kind of shrugs it off.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
Like it's not really, it's not really a thing or, I don't know. Maybe it's just like something he doesn't like to talk about, but I, I tried, I tried to talk to him about it and like, you know, when I, when I wanted to email you guys, I, I tried bringing it up a couple of times to him and he was just kind of like not interested at all or just kind of downplays it a lot. But I don't know that, um,
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
Our birthdays are like two days apart, but a year apart. So that house was in a town called Blissfield. I grew up in a town called Clinton. That's where I met Colin. He moved back to Blissfield. And it's just like a bunch of small towns separated by tons of farms. And that's where like Corey, Lucas, Jason... Those were the three other guys that were most prominent.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
That group of the four of us was really who hung out the most. And a couple other randoms would come and hang out, but mostly we just went there and smoked weed and played Mortal Kombat. And then we have a band room in the back, and that's where we played music and stuff all the time. Corey and Lucas were kind of a unit. They were definitely the more troublemaker of the whole group.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
Lucas was kind of like the Eddie Haskell guy. He was always laughing and just pushing people's buttons. He was nice, but there was just this little devil about Lucas that you never felt completely comfortable around him. Corey was a little bit scarier, but because he was bigger. He was like, I think back on it now, he was like Russell Crowe in the Gladiator with the glasses.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
That's like what I think about physically. He just seemed bigger than all of us and just like kind of like farm strong. So he was kind of scary a little bit, but we always got along really great. We had a lot of fun, caused a lot of trouble. Nothing really where anybody ever got hurt or
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
was all pretty harmless the most of it would be like property damage and stuff like that so yeah it was just you know we stuck out in blissfield too where we where colin lived was close to like a gas station and a mcdonald's obviously we like started smoking cigarettes at a young age we'd go there and get them and then go to McDonald's. I think Corey worked at that McDonald's.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
So he'd always bring us free stuff and, or we'd just go through the drive-thru and he'd give us a bunch of stuff, but we could walk there. And, um, there were like, there were a lot of older, like more farm kids, um, or jocks that, that lived there that I didn't know. Um, but they, they always gave us shit.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
Like if we were walking around, if they saw us walking and they were driving by, they'd yell at us and stuff like that and call us the normal, the normal stuff from the late nineties, you know? Yeah. It was a lot of like back roads, driving late at night, getting high and going into old farmhouses, um,
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
And I think the first time we went into one of those houses was because we had started a band and we wanted to get a good picture. And around that time, I was really into photography. That's what I wanted to go to school for. So I was always taking pictures. So we'd break into places and like take pictures of ourselves.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
And, you know, it was going to be like our band of promo shots and stuff like that. a normal Friday would be getting out of school and either Colin would pick me up before I could drive because I did start going out there before I could drive or I drive out there on a Friday night. And those guys in Blissfield would kind of know where places were.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
They always had a plan for like what was going to happen that weekend. I'd always, you know, it was before cell phones and I don't even know if we ever really called each other on the house phones or anything, but like,
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
I would just go out there and there would always be some kind of plan of like what we were going to do, you know, in the summer a lot, it was going for drives on dirt roads and we would go into abandoned houses. There were, there were tons of them where we, where we grew up. That's where I just remember hearing about the Fike House. Like, oh, we got to go check out the Fike House.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
I think they had probably been there before I went with them. But that's the one that I really, really remember. And it's the only one that I remember ever having a name. It just felt different than all the other ones. It was bigger. It felt older. It was a more ominous house. It was harder to get into. It was more secluded than all the others. But it was also...
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
It was like there was one tree next to it and then nothing. There was just nothing around and it was like the driveway was overgrown and everything too. It was just like a little dirt path. It was probably either a Friday night or a Saturday night that we ended up going out there. Jason drove a lot of the time and I would drive because I had a station wagon so I could fit a lot of people in it.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
the dirt roads in Blissfield are, are kind of like domed, you know, they're for runoff because it's a lot of farms and they're really rutted. And then on the sides of the road, they're just like the deepest ditches, just like super deep. So we would like swerve around and kind of like fishtail. And my, my station wagon was really, really fun for that.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
So that's what we ended up doing a lot of the time was just kind of like driving around and doing that. But, That night, everything seemed normal. Everything was kind of run-of-the-mill, a typical weekend. But that night was the turning point for this friendship and this group of friends to me. Everything just kind of changed after that and got dark. I feel like things got dark after that.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
So you pull up to Fike House, and you had to go in through the basement, which was the worst part. It was the first time that I had been in the house, and it was the only time I ever went there. So you'd go in through this kind of short basement window. It was like a storm window. You had to pull it up and... And you'd open that window and there was, we never had flashlights.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
Obviously there were no lights inside. So you just kind of, you'd swing your legs in and you couldn't see where your feet were going to hit. You just had to kind of, it was like a leap of faith. Just, you're going to, there's a ground, there's ground there. You're going to stop. But you didn't know where it was.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
So you kind of had to wait for the person before you to say that it was all right to come in. Or you'd hear him kind of like walk off or whatever. But you couldn't jump in right away. You might land on somebody. So I don't know what the basement looked like. You couldn't see anything. I know it was a dirt floor.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
It smelled, you know, kind of like a basement would smell, but just like old wood and dust. I guess like being from the city and not being used to that kind of stuff, it just didn't, it was just kind of another world to me. It was, it was really foreign. Like these old farmhouses with these old structures that had been around, like, and were so old and abandoned.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
It just didn't really make sense to me. It was like, why is this still here? Why didn't somebody knock it down? Or like, why isn't somebody living here? Like what, My mind would just go to awful places in that house. Why did people leave this place? They must have left it for some reason. I'd have tons of anxiety being in that place. At this point, in the basement, everybody's laughing.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
Those guys were always way more comfortable with this stuff than I was. So I just remember my heart racing. I'm in this basement. I can't see where I'm going. I can hear like voices of my friends in front of me and I'm just like scurrying, trying to get to those voices and be as close to them without holding on or, you know, tripping over them.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
And you go up these stairs and then you're on the first floor. There were definitely rooms that you couldn't go into because the floor had deteriorated. And like I said, they had a better idea of the layout of that place than I did. So all I remember is like heart racing, the weird old house smell. And like the walls were exposed, laugh, like all the plaster had just kind of like fallen away.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
Some of the wiring, you know, for the old lights had, had drooped downs and they were like, you know, obviously spider webs and stuff like that. So it was just kind of like random things would kind of hit you in the face and you didn't know what they were. I'm pretty sure it was like a Victorian.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
because the ceilings were really tall, staircases were kind of windy, and it just, it seemed out of place too for where we grew up. It just seemed like in its time, it was probably like the nicest house, the biggest house that would have been around there. When I went into Fike, I just remember kind of staying put. I could hear people moving around throughout the house.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
I was just way too scared of falling through the floor or not knowing what was in there and being extremely frightened of just ghosts and demons and stuff like that at that age. I was just trying to play it safe, I guess. So I could hear...
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
cory and lucas going through the house i want to even say they were on the floor above me and you could just hear their voices and i was just like i'm just gonna stay here when they come down i'm gonna leave with them through the same way i came in and um you know i i don't really remember where colin was at that time or jason um but
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
I think I actually got scared enough that I tried to get out before everybody else left. At some point, I was getting out of the house, crawling through the basement window, and I heard Lucas mentioning that he had found some roller skates. I want to say that Lucas was the last one out. Lucas or Corey was the last out. And Corey was like talking about this sheet.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
It was like a sheet or a curtain that he had found too. And I remember being, we kind of dismissed that. We were like, why would you take Lucas?
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
curtain or a sheet like it just didn't make any sense to me the roller skate thing was kind of cool Lucas was really really excited about it and and none of us it was like we were out of the house so I felt just relief I was kind of like you know I had accomplished something it was like that was done I was over it I made it out I I was kind of like manically happy
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
I remember still like my heart was still racing kind of. I was definitely smoking a cigarette and was just relieved to be out of that house. I remember Lucas coming out of the house and he had the roller skates in his hand and he was just like, look at these. And there was a pretty good group of us there, but I don't think everybody went inside. There were definitely two cars there.
Savage Lovecast
Savage Lovecast Episode 950
Hey Dan, it's Brian calling from Lincoln, Nebraska. I wanted to comment on the caller who had a question about having photos developed. If you do, in fact, go to Walgreens and have them develop, someone will see them. At least when I worked there, that's the way it was. And they have a policy of not providing them to you.
Savage Lovecast
Savage Lovecast Episode 950
They won't destroy your film, but they will put a note in your packet saying that your pictures weren't printed because they're inappropriate and you won't receive the photos.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Bukele at The White House + Where’s The Money?
Yeah, well, first of all, they do have oversight. They can bring the Fed chairman in, ask him questions, embarrass them. But they also write the laws. The Congress started the Fed in 1913, changed the law again in 1973, and then we changed it again about – 10 years ago. And then Congress also gave the Fed this ability to pay banks interest on reserves. So Congress has a big role in this.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Bukele at The White House + Where’s The Money?
And they the problem is, is that Congress, most Congress people ever since Rand Paul's father left, don't really understand monetary policy. And therefore they get flummoxed in these hearings. And and they they They don't know enough about it to ask the right questions or to do the right thing.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Bukele at The White House + Where’s The Money?
No, we haven't. And, you know, and here's the thing. The only thing that keeps the Fed in check really is, I mean, Congress has oversight, but it's really the public. And inflation, when it came, it was all because of this policy. And yet, like so many people have ignored that. When you explode the money supply like they did during COVID especially, That's where inflation comes from.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Bukele at The White House + Where’s The Money?
You print so many dollars that the value of the dollar goes down. You know, people say pizza costs more. And I'm a geeky economist. And I say to them, your pizza doesn't cost any more. Your dollar buys less because we printed too many of them. And now what's happening is the Powell, every member of the Fed, especially the chairman, they're politicians. And now he's blaming Trump on everything.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Bukele at The White House + Where’s The Money?
tariffs and inflation, and he's trying to get away from the fact that he is the one that caused it in the first place. And the public doesn't know enough about this to really be able to make a decision about who's really at fault.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Bukele at The White House + Where’s The Money?
Yeah, so, I mean, if you just look back at COVID, you know, supposedly, gosh, all the arguments were COVID hits the lower class more than the upper class and certain groups of people more than others. And so we have to fix this and make things more equal. So we ended up running these massive budget deficits. We ended up printing all of this money.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Bukele at The White House + Where’s The Money?
And what happened was the exact opposite of what they said was going to happen. If you had assets, if you own equities, if you own a house and inflation comes along and they print all this money, you win. If you don't have assets, you get crushed. And so I hope. that Scott in that quote and the Trump administration really does find a way to keep the Fed from ever doing this again.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Bukele at The White House + Where’s The Money?
And in fact, I think they ought to shrink the Fed quite a bit and take away the power. We didn't even talk about the fact that the Fed somehow is able to fund climate change research, that the Chicago Fed is doing work on lead water pipes. And they have a community development office. I mean, they're out of control.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Bukele at The White House + Where’s The Money?
And all these regional banks are spending money they don't have to do things that they shouldn't be doing. They have nothing to do with climate change. We have the EPA for lead water pipes. pipes? Why is the Fed involved in lead water pipes? They need to answer all those questions. All right. Thanks. Great to be with you, Charlie.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Bukele at The White House + Where’s The Money?
Yeah, Charlie, it's great to be with you. This all started really back in 2008 when Ben Bernanke walked into W's office and and said, hey, if you don't let me print $4 trillion and flood the financial system with that money, the whole global world order is going to collapse. That was when it began. We did it again during COVID.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Bukele at The White House + Where’s The Money?
And so what this means is that we have increased the money supply in the United States. It was $7 trillion in 2007. It is now $21 trillion. So let me put that in perspective. If you have a $100 bill in your wallet, 67 of those dollars were created in just the last 18 years. Like, that's how much money we printed. Now, when all of that money goes into the banking system, it turns into inflation.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Bukele at The White House + Where’s The Money?
And the way the Fed stopped it from turning into inflation is first they raised a ton of regulations on banks. And second, they paid banks to hold that money. So we are now paying banks about $200 billion a year to not lend that money out. That means we're paying private banks. Now, the interesting thing is the Fed bought bonds with that money.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Bukele at The White House + Where’s The Money?
And so they earn interest from those bonds, but they're paying banks more than they're earning. In other words, the Fed is losing. Last year, they lost about $80 billion, and the taxpayers funded that, and we used that money to pay banks. If we stop this, think how much we could lower the deficit. Over a 10-year period, it would be $2 trillion.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Bukele at The White House + Where’s The Money?
Yeah, they play sleight of hand with this, Charlie. It's crazy. The Federal Reserve has an account that they call a deferred asset. So normally, before all of this change, the Fed owned bonds, but they didn't pay banks, and they made money every year. And so then they would give that money to the Treasury at the end of the year.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Bukele at The White House + Where’s The Money?
Now, with them losing money, they have what's called a deferred asset. which is the craziest term I've ever heard. It's a negative account. I don't know how they're paying their employees. I don't know how they're keeping their lights on because if you run a private business in a deficit, you either have to raise more equity or or debt or something in order to pay to keep the lights on.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Bukele at The White House + Where’s The Money?
And so my belief, and the Fed won't really tell you this, is that they're borrowing money from the Treasury in order to keep the lights on. In Britain, the UK, they did the same thing. And now they're kind of caught because it's raising their deficit, but at least they're accounting for it the right way. We don't. We hide it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Bukele at The White House + Where’s The Money?
And so I can only imagine that Elizabeth Warren doesn't understand that we're paying private banks $200 billion a year because I think she'd have a cow if she knew that. She hates banks. And so this is the most amazing, insane policy I've ever seen. And yet we're doing it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Bukele at The White House + Where’s The Money?
Well, OK, so there's two things going on here that are separate. One, in order to do quantitative easing. So Ben Bernanke, when he was fighting the financial panic of 2008, created like four trillion new dollars. Jerome Powell. and literally created out of thin air. Jerome Powell did the same thing during COVID.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Bukele at The White House + Where’s The Money?
So we have created $8 trillion more of Fed balance sheet that turned into $14 trillion more of M2, which is all our checking accounts. So the Fed literally creates this money. But then once they've created it, now you have interest earned and interest expense, and the Fed is losing money based on that. Here's another way to think of this.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Bukele at The White House + Where’s The Money?
When they created $4 trillion under Bernanke and then another $4 trillion under Powell, they bought bonds to put on the Fed's balance sheet, and interest rates were super low. when they did this. So when interest rates went up, they actually lost money on their portfolio. Right now, the Federal Reserve has a trillion dollars of losses on its bond portfolio. And it's all because they bought bonds
The Charlie Kirk Show
Bukele at The White House + Where’s The Money?
When interest rates were low and now interest rates have gone back up. So the Fed is caught. They they have losses on their books. They can't sell those bonds off without taking those losses. At the same time, they don't want the banks to lend out the money. So they're paying them that they created out of thin air.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Bukele at The White House + Where’s The Money?
And so they're paying the banks to hold on to that cash so that it doesn't turn into inflation. But their bond. No. Yeah. Finish your thought. Go ahead. All I was saying is their bond portfolio is not earning as much as they're paying. So that's where they make a loss. And then the question is, how do they pay to keep the lights on? Do they print the money?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Bukele at The White House + Where’s The Money?
Well, it doesn't look like they're doing that. Are they taking it from the interest that they're earning from those bonds and somehow moving it into another account? Or are they just borrowing straight from the treasury? And my belief is they're borrowing straight from the Treasury, even though they won't tell us that that's exactly what they're doing.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Bukele at The White House + Where’s The Money?
Yeah, no, the Federal Reserve creates a deferred asset. Like, that's the weirdest phrase I've ever heard. It's a negative number, and they promise that they're going to pay the Treasury
The Charlie Kirk Show
Bukele at The White House + Where’s The Money?
that money back when they start making a profit again in the future so in return for that promise uh the the treasury is now funding the fed all right and and what's interesting about this is congress did not agree to this congress did agree to let the fed pay interest to banks but they did not agree that the the fed the treasury uh could lend the fed this money
The Charlie Kirk Show
Bukele at The White House + Where’s The Money?
And so I actually think there's a lawsuit here around.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Bukele at The White House + Where’s The Money?
Well, to me, it is. And nobody focuses on it. And, you know, what's fascinating is you go in every month or every well, every time the Fed meets, it's like eight times a year. They have a press conference and there's. 30 reporters that are handpicked by the Fed to come in and no one will ask them how they're paying to keep the lights on.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Bukele at The White House + Where’s The Money?
They just won't ask them because if they do ask, they'll not be ever invited back again. I've begged them to let me in and ask those questions. I've begged reporters to ask those questions. But so far, they haven't been asked and they haven't been answered. And the Fed, I give a talk and I call it the Fed. Federal Reserve has gone insane. I mean, I'm going to go back to what I said.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Bukele at The White House + Where’s The Money?
If you have a $100 bill in your wallet, 67 of those dollars were printed in the last 18 years. The other 33 in the previous 220 years or 30 years. And so what I'm getting to here is that the Fed has completely changed the way we manage monetary policy and hardly anybody complains about it. It's why we had inflation.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Gulf of America, Greenland, Mark Zuckerberg, and More
Brian, go ahead. Yes. Happy New Year, by the way. Thank you. We have some breaking news. You may not be aware of this, but it looks like Cannon has blocked the DOJ from releasing the Smiths report until further court proceedings. Get your thoughts on that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Gulf of America, Greenland, Mark Zuckerberg, and More
And if I can just follow up real quickly, you want to comment. Many Americans are angry that we're sending millions of dollars every month to the Taliban. Do you anticipate?
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Gulf of America, Greenland, Mark Zuckerberg, and More
Could you give us a preview of what you might be talking to leaders of Congress who are expected to come here in the next couple of days? And you've got a very supportive Congress behind you.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why Christians Need to Stand Up — Live With Riley Gaines at Dream City Church
Charlie, my name is Brian Storm and I'm from Conway, Arkansas. What role do you, I just want to say thank you for standing up for all of us that feel like we don't have a voice. America needs more people just like you. What role do you see for faith and religious values in the public square? And how should people of different beliefs coexist in that society?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why Christians Need to Stand Up — Live With Riley Gaines at Dream City Church
Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 80 — Karmelo Anthony "Race War?" AI Action Figures? Charlie Gets High?
And all I'm going to say, so it don't be asked later, is that was disrespectful and just shows you all the character who was not invited He knows that it's inappropriate to be near this family. But he did it. And so I say to people, actions speak louder than words. Okay?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 80 — Karmelo Anthony "Race War?" AI Action Figures? Charlie Gets High?
What he has failed into is the political operatives that wanna make this thing a political thing of hate, yet bigotry, and yet racism. We have conservative operatives that have been posting nonstop about this case.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 80 — Karmelo Anthony "Race War?" AI Action Figures? Charlie Gets High?
Yes.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 80 — Karmelo Anthony "Race War?" AI Action Figures? Charlie Gets High?
Black people in America. While the current occupant sits at 1600 Pennsylvania. Black people in America don't have to pull the race card. It's what we live as a reality every day. It's what we have to teach our children. We don't want to, but we have to. We don't like to, but if we wanna sleep at night, we got to. I ain't pulling no race card, I live it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 80 — Karmelo Anthony "Race War?" AI Action Figures? Charlie Gets High?
I'm reminded all the time that I'm a black man in America.
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The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
It really does, looking at it from perspective, it now looks like such a weird spot that weird things have to happen in. You know what I mean? You've got the nuke plant, you have... The insane asylum, and around an area that's super, super old, where people have been for a long time. Oh, yeah. And we have the empty industrial area right next to it, which is very eerie.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
Oh, yeah. And the other thing, too, is because it's so much residential there, the people, I mean, the road to access it, you're passing right by houses. And in this area, there's rules against using rifle calibers, so like .308, things like that. Because of the distances you are between residential properties, you could over-penetrate an animal or something and accidentally shoot. Yeah.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
Into a house. So, you know, it's the families and the locals over there are I'm sure are keeping track of who's going in and who's going out of the game lands if they're causing any trouble or anything. So, you know, it just it was just so strange and it was so scary. It was so off putting. I just nothing ever felt quite like that. Did you ever go back? Yes. Yes.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
I went back, uh, for small game, but during the daytime, cause there I was, it was like five in the morning and it was a clear day and I got to scope it out a little bit and nothing strange. It was very normal. It's a great spot. If you want to go dove and pheasant hunting, um,
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
The empty portions of the property on the back, that was probably, if anything, that's where someone would hole up, but I didn't see anybody or any evidence of people.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
So it was just really, really weird. I've never had another experience out in the woods with how often I've gone hunting around here before. that's been similar. No, no sensation of something weird. I know I've seen, you know, coyotes and the presence of other predators and stuff where you're like, okay, time to, time to hoof it.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
Or you start hearing the yips and the owls and you're like, all right, time to move along. But nothing like that.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
And I will note for everyone, too, when it comes to mountain lions and apex predators, especially the big cats, the only time you're going to know they're there is if they want you to know they're there. They are that dead quiet, and it's one of the reasons why hiking out in the West is so terrifying, especially if you happen to enter their territory.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
it would not have been likely trying to say hi to me if it was treating me like prey. So that's another kind of scary aspect of it. Whatever this thing was, it wanted me to know it was there.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
Empty enough outside of the city. And I've hunted plenty. I lived in that area as well, and I've hunted all over Reading, around that south towards Morgantown, north up towards the mountains when you get up there, and never had an encounter quite like that. Uh, also I grew up in bear country and which is a weird thing to say for, uh, New Jersey is bear country.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
Surprisingly, North Jersey is, has a ton of bears. Um, it is very, very fun, uh, cause they're kind of funny and goofy, but they, you get used to knowing the sounds and the expectations with them. They're, you know, pretty easy to spot and you can tell them in the dark, even if there's just black bears.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
And then the only other thing, and I will say, I think it happened at a similar time while I was there, was there was a guy going around to different state parks and game lands and putting up papers on trees and the parking area saying that there's been Bigfoot sightings and you should call the state game commission to talk about it if you've seen something.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
And I'm like, oh my gosh, did I meet Bigfoot? Was it Bigfoot, man? Was it the Sasquatch? And I'm like... Maybe. Maybe. Because people say PA has Bigfoot. I'm kind of iffy on that, especially in the South. Maybe when you get up towards, like, Tioga County or something, or Elk County. Maybe. This would be a weird place to see Bigfoot. Yeah, Bigfoot would disappear really weird.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
Yeah, it's like Bigfoot was coming to get some Wawa hoagies and head back to the woods, man. It makes no sense.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
Some people are. I've seen a lot of dumb things in game lands during hunting season. Especially in the areas where the suburbs cross over really well. People with their dogs off-leash in the middle of rifle season. It's horrible. Yeah, no, it's...
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
Oh, for everybody, wear orange vests. Any high-vis vest, if you go out during any hunting season, please, it helps everyone involved. It gets kind of sketchy out there, especially if there's some old boomers with some really bad eyesight. It gets a little sketchy at times. Wait, so what are we allowed to use to hunt? In Pennsylvania. So it's by Wildlife Management Unit and county. Okay.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
And so in this area, when it's rifle season, you can use buckshot and 12-gauge slugs. You cannot use a bottleneck cartridge.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
Yes. Very quickly, I'll tell you, very quickly, once we get out to 5C, this was in 5B, you get to use rifles. So, like, I guess we're on the map. I'm curious now. Oh, 5C is, oh, man, it kind of cuts in around Pottstown, down towards the left, towards New Holland. Okay, so. Yeah, so that's where 5C starts. Oh, near Reading? Yeah, yeah. Reading is like the center of 5C. Gotcha.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
We did in Jersey. Wow. But we got into a Greystone Asylum in New Jersey. We did the Gates of Hell in New Jersey. We did the Shades of Death Road, Clinton Road, all these kind of famous spots, you know, in high school growing up to go see all the spooky stuff. Never had an experience quite like this.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
Oh, it's one that, like, these businessmen are after me now, and that's because of Feed Finder. It's the big feed. Oh, yeah, it's the big feed.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
Ooh, I don't want to go to this guy's house, man. That says there might be a painting on the wall that's painted in blood or something. I don't know. Painting on the wall with two holes cut out in one of the eyes? Yeah, yeah.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
What? My wife jumped in here and just sent me a little message of she thinks that I saw you in the woods there, Mr. Dilo. Apparently you grew up in America. Yeah.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
I like that one. That's a great question. A lot of stuff, at least for me, it's the demon direction. It's demons. I struggle sometimes with the aliens kind of concept because it's like the world, everything is so vast and grand. I'm not entirely sure there, but I work on that and pray on that.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
But, yeah, I think it's just an actual manifestation of something evil, as opposed to, you know, people are really good at dealing with evil people. And that's easy to kind of figure out, but when things are just so evil it can manifest into a physical space, and that's what it seems to be to me.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
Yeah, I would 100% agree with that.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
It was so terrifying that I started carrying to go into the woods. It changed everything. You weren't before? Not usually. I usually had a gun anyway because I was doing small games.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
Wait, no. Go back to start one. God make it the world, man. That was Jamaican. The time when everything would start.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
I would think you can probably produce a... Oh, yeah, we'll make someone. I mean, I'm a Giants fan, so someone like JPP Sands blowing their fingers off, but, you know, well, okay, maybe they might blow their fingers off. Hopefully not. I think you know more about gun safety than that. I do. Do you know that story? Okay, well, yeah. No fireworks, dude. He was playing with fireworks.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
What is Pidgin? What is Hawaiian Pidgin?
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
No, it's not. It's not good at all. Ah. Why would you ask me to do this?
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
Oh, man. I might forget all the Golden Girls right now.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
Thank you. That helps so much. I know. It's shameful that I don't know them. Oh, it's Sophia. Or Estelle. It's Sophia Petrillo. I mean, I gotta go with Betty White's character because Betty White's so... Sophia reminds me of my crazy grandmother, so it's perfect. How many times have you watched The Golden Girls? Enough.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
Oh, it was fireworks? Yeah, he was playing with fireworks on July 4th, and he blew his fingers off like an idiot, and he had to wear a glove on his arm, and it looked cool, but, I mean, he still blew his fingers off.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
You gotta do a little more info there. I wanna know, like, what part, what county. Yeah. If he did, I'm shocked. What town?
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
That throws a wrench in the problem. It's definitely a possibility. I mean, the mountain lion possibility exists. Oh, yeah, for sure. Definitely a possibility. It's real small. But it's there. It's there.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
Like, it's like the King James Milk Bible or something. Oh, God. The dairy version. The non-dairy and dairy versions of the Bible.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
Where'd it go? You're at like $7.23.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
Yeah, Duo, I think you might be right. I'm not. I think there's something to do with the county, and it might be dependent on the county, because I'm pretty sure it's Chester County that doesn't allow straight wall cartridges, but 5B does allow straight wall cartridges. That's like .357, .44 Magnum, .45-70. Oh, so we can take the... We can take the... We can take... Yes, yes. Yes, I know.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
Yep, there he goes. The special state. The special state.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
I was bow hunting early season. Late September, first week of October. And it was...
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
It's wild, like, coming to see your lives and how many people just jump in with, like, just, oh, you know, this person heard of this disappearance. It's a little, it's kind of sad at times because you're like, wow, there's just a lot of... Missing people, but it's cool that you guys are able to get so many people with all this stuff that pops up. Oh, yeah, for sure.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
Can you put a word in? It's not going to be me. I'm not an engineer.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
How many four-year-olds does it take to take you down after ten child waves with a ten-year-old as a boss after five waves? So that's the thing, or they aren't.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
You can probably take even more. We update those to 7-year-olds and then we do a 12-year-old as a boss.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
But, you know, seven-year-olds, if they can grab onto your arms, if they weigh you down... It would be, like, there will be a number. Like, it isn't like you can do this to infinity.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
Yeah, you gotta remember, too, there's going to be, like, seven-year-old girls and maybe even a 12-year-old girl, and they might be so... They might have the meanness... And by that point, you're going to say something that would really hurt your feelings. That's probably what's going to take me down, is like a mean comment from a 12-year-old girl. Oh, stop that. Not bad.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
That's such a weird skill to have nowadays.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
His name was Kevin. I would not have picked that to be the neo-Nazi name. You wouldn't, but no.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
This is big action. Fights are dumb. Fights are dumb in public places. Don't get in fights for no good reason, because as soon as someone hits the pavement... And your fight's in private places. Private places, that's up to you.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
But still, like, also, as a big guy, to all those out there who are at the bar who are like, you know what I really want to do after, like, five drinks is fight the big guy. Can you please stop, man? It's exhausting. I'm not trying to fight. I'm here with my family.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
Anyway, tell us the story. Yeah, so with Pennsylvania, bow hunting starts earlier than rifle hunting. And for the area that I'm in, that's around September. And you get out early. Before that, you do all this scouting and stuff. And this was a tiny little game land that was kind of...
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
It's a really interesting thing, like a cool place to have, like, it's a cool art installation, that's a great idea, like a huge cement area with all that cool stuff, but like... Why would they murder him unless it was, ooh, was he trying to launder money?
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
orphaned in the middle of a lot of suburbia and i'm like i'm gonna go check this out this will be cool um rifle hunting on the other hand does start in november uh it's like basically uh what is it uh thanksgiving the weekend of thanksgiving kicks off two weeks of rifle rifle hunting and then is this because the deer have fattened up from thanksgiving yes and it's like peak rut so you're getting some really some horny deer really horny bucks okay that seems rude
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
Well, he's also, well, he's like Canadian French, but a little bit better. Yeah, but look at his hair. I know. It's 2000 and late is what it is.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
He's totally murdered. He definitely murdered this woman. You're not genetically pure enough and then just murdered. You're not pure enough. Oh, yeah. Well, that's the thing. It's like he's already insane. This is one of those. He has a PhD? There's a lot of crazy PhDs. Yeah, that's fair.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
Seems a little rude when they think about it. And we chat and I tried to build a rapport with him because it's nice to know just in case of a safety incident, there's someone else out there. And I start my hike down this straight road to the back of the game land because it's a big square. And I wanted to get in the back left corner. That's a great spot. No one will be around me.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
No, yeah. We don't have our dive bar anymore, which makes me sad. Yeah, that's the hardest part is no dive bar. You just want, like, $4 beers and, like, you know, $6 wings. That's it.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
Phoenixville sounds like Western Russia, at least politically.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
Yeah, milk the beef, dude.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
Well, I start my walk, and, you know, it's misting. I got my headlamp on. I got my Home Depot bucket that I was going to sit on for the whole time, which is the cheapest and most affordable way because I don't want to fall out of a tree stand. And I start walking all the way back, and on my left side, I see these two yellow eyes in a tree row. And I'm like, oh. That's a raccoon. That's awesome.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
That's so cool. Maybe it's a deer. I'll maybe get a snort or two if it's a deer. And I kind of stop and look at it, and it doesn't blink. It doesn't move. It doesn't do anything. I'm like, all right, I'll just shove on, time to move it, move it along, get to my spot. And in an instant of me turning my head, it is now...
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
Closer to me, like another five or six feet closer to me, directly on my left, where initially it was kind of in my, you know, if I was looking south, it was a little bit west of me. And that was directly west of me, right on my side. And I'm like, ooh, that's not good. I didn't hear anything move. And so I thought maybe raccoon jump from a tree.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
something like that, and was just moving weird, well, I started to back up. And I'm like, I got a bad feeling from this guy. Something not positive. Something... Something bad. You know, that sensation in your stomach where you're in a place and you can tell that it's not a good place to be, or like, you've... Your body's telling you something's not right. Something's not right.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
Almost like you are not welcome.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
And I'm like, okay, I'm just going to start backing up. So I start backing up, and then I start hearing movement to the side of me, and it follows me. And I'm an environmental scientist. I like to spend a lot of time outside. The one thing that I especially, I like animals, and you know that there's a specific sound that the gate of four-legged animals makes. It's a glumping noise.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
So ba-doo, doo-doo, doo-doo. it started to move and it was a two legged gate. So step, step, step, step, step, step. And I was like, that's really strange. If it's a bear on a time legs, that's weird. They don't really do that. They don't really do that. And a bear in this area would be also really weird. Yeah.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
Yeah, I would assume New York probably on the official side doesn't have any, but they're there. They're few and in between with Apex Predators like that.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
Yeah, easily. So I start to back up a lot faster, and I hear it running beside me in the tree line. And then I started to turn, carrying a big bow and a bucket with a bunch of other... What kind of bow is this, compound? Compound bow is a Bowtech BT MagX, if that means anything to anybody. I got a long draw because I'm a big guy, so I had to go with a semi-target style bow.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
But, you know, of course, I have my Twinkies in my bucket, so a little snack in the morning and all that good stuff. Which is how you know we're not afraid of bears. Yes. And I start running, and I'm jogging. I'm a big dude, so I'm just clacking around. I'm hearing this thing running next to me, and I get to an intersection, and I see another headlamp. I'm like, oh, thank God.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
There's another hunter here. He has a black powder gun, which is one shot, but it's better than nothing. And so I go up to him. I'm like, hey, man, how's it going? And he just walked up with another guy who has a, what's it called? I'm blanking on this. It's not, it's a... Crossbow. Thank you. There we go. Crossbow. And so he uses crossbow.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
He has the other rifle, and the crossbow guy goes off into the ether, and I start talking to this guy. I'm like, hey, man, I know I'm newer to hunting. I'm kind of a young guy, but I just saw something really weird and messed up. do you see anything over there? Anything going on? He's like, nope. And he just goes off on his own merry way.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
And he was like, I'm not getting involved with your scary movie. I don't want to be involved. I'm not going to be in this, not going to roll on the credits. I'm out. So I'm like, well, Time to bail. And I sprint off towards my truck. And I stopped hearing the sound of the footsteps next to me because it also turned into open field at that point.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
But when I got to the gate that they use to block off the game land to keep trucks from coming on, I turned around and was like, I gotta see if there's something over there. And in the center of the pathway is two eyes. Just yellow eyes. Paul stared at me and it just turned and went off. And I was like, I got to get out of here.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
Jump in the truck, threw everything in there, and proceed to call my dad. And the one thing is I'm not afraid of much. I'm certainly not the toughest guy on the planet, but it takes a little bit to freak me out. And I gave my dad that call. He thought that I, like someone, had been shot or something was really, really wrong.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
And I sat there on the phone with him for a 45-minute to an hour-long drive,
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
just workshopping what this could have been, because bear, animal, it didn't make a lot of sense, and then with the footsteps, and finally I went, you know, it could have been a homeless guy, because there's an industrial facility that's private property right next to this game land, and there's a lot of these open, big industrial buildings, and I'm like, there's a good chance it could have been someone, like a homeless man, maybe someone who might have been on drugs or something, and they could have just been a little off-kilter and wanted to freak me out, mess with me early in the morning, but
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
nothing kind of made sense. Nothing fit... perfectly anywhere, and I decided to go back in the future with a shotgun in hand to go for a small game, and I went to the area where it was, and the height of it made a lot of sense. You know, I was standing up on the path that was probably two feet above where this tree row was sitting, so its eyes were pretty close, you know, in line with mine.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
Oh, yeah, because we're right by the runoff over there. There's a lot of weird water over there. But, yeah, so it was a super yellow spot of water.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
Yes, I wanted to look like the dad you'd avoid at every baseball game ever.
The Lore Lads
A True Story of Terror From Our Back Yard| Podcast Episode 169
So I'm going to adjust the camera a little bit. To no where. We're going to... He's going to take them off.
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The MeidasTouch Podcast
Red State Gov Gets Brutally Screwed Over by Trump
I just spoke, the president just called me yesterday afternoon. I missed him and called him right back. And he just said, hey, what do you need? And I told him, you know, we got what we need. We'll work through the federal process. He offered that if there's other things we need just to call him directly, which I appreciate that.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Red State Gov Gets Brutally Screwed Over by Trump
Well, listen, I don't think anybody's above the law, you know, a Democrat, a Republican, an independent, myself or anybody else. So that's my personal opinion.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Red State Gov Gets Brutally Screwed Over by Trump
Well, listen, I think most voters probably feel the same way I do. I mean, we're a country that was built on laws and the Constitution. And it's up to us really as elected leaders to be the ones that exemplify that in a lot of ways. So we'll see where the process plays out. I think probably they will be ruled on for the election.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Panicked Trump Freaks Out in AM as It All Goes Wrong
Currently right now, are you worried about empty shelves? Because they say that a lot of these supply lines and the cargo ships are being held up. A lot of people are saying, turn it around with the tariffs this high. I don't want the product. Are you worried about empty shelves?
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Panicked Trump Freaks Out in AM as It All Goes Wrong
The WTO says trade could dip 80 percent between the U.S. and China if something doesn't happen quickly. Do you see it that way?
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Panicked Trump Freaks Out in AM as It All Goes Wrong
Probably you get the best reviews of anyone in the administration outside the president. Your thoughts about the U.S.-China standoff right now?
The Ramsey Show
Stick to the Plan Even When It’s Tough
I got a pretty good business going. And, you know, so I get a chance to meet some fabulous people. and ask them their stories, and you hear some wild stuff, you know.
The Ramsey Show
Stick to the Plan Even When It’s Tough
36. Great. That's the world we live in. So I'd give you two words for the real estate business today, older and richer. Older and richer. That's who the clients are. Average age of a first-time buyer three years ago was 32. Today it's 38. They're putting off getting married, having kids, and having families. Very destructive to the culture. The average age of a seller is 63.
The Ramsey Show
Stick to the Plan Even When It’s Tough
So it's older and richer. And it needs to shift. And Scott Turner is the new Secretary of Housing and Development, a good friend of mine, played for the Chargers. And I'm meeting with him at the end of the month to try to help in this regard. We've got to create programs to get younger people in the game. But also younger people have got to be willing to do what it takes. And it's this.
The Ramsey Show
Stick to the Plan Even When It’s Tough
You've got to be willing to fight for it. You've got to be willing to sacrifice it. Are you willing to do a side hustle? Are you willing to do a side hustle? Are you willing to save every dime on that side hustle, invest it, grow it? Are you willing to fight for it? It's got to be that important to you.
The Ramsey Show
Stick to the Plan Even When It’s Tough
I think what needs to happen is people need to understand the value, what it means to a family and a culture and a community when you're a homeowner. And so are you willing to fight for you? It won't delay gratification. You want to move a little further out of town to get a start.
The Ramsey Show
Stick to the Plan Even When It’s Tough
You know, are you willing to have some difficulty in doing it? Are you willing to not have to go out with your buddies and, or take the trips? Are you willing to go? Okay. You know, it's ramen. You know, when I bought my, I bought a house about a first house. Then I sold him about a second one, bought a third one, third house, a nice big home.
The Ramsey Show
Stick to the Plan Even When It’s Tough
We had three empty rooms of no furniture for two years. I understand that kids could play and they could roll and do whatever. And guess what? Dad invested, dad grew. And then eventually mom could have all the furniture.
The Ramsey Show
Stick to the Plan Even When It’s Tough
Can I tell one story before we go? I know we're tight on time. Yep. My mom just passed, as you know. Thank you for the flowers from you and Sharon. Thank you. My mom and dad were engaged for seven years back in the day. Okay. Going to be promised to be pure. One another, one of us, seven years, they were engaged. They wouldn't get married until they could buy a house. Wow.
The Ramsey Show
Stick to the Plan Even When It’s Tough
Yeah, I'd say more possible now than ever. Why is that? Well, you know, I have six kids, so they get this seminar all the time. You know, I think if you don't have a sense of entitlement, grew up not having much, have appreciation for the opportunity and you get to see the opportunity, you know, fish discovers water last. And here's the other thing.
The Ramsey Show
Stick to the Plan Even When It’s Tough
And again, if you ask people like myself who are immigrants to America, they're the most fanatical Americans. I became American by choice, not by birth. My kids are in military and so on and so forth. But I'll say this. I'd say the work ethic in the United States is not what it was 35 years ago, 40 years ago when I came. Money is more available than it ever was. And so I think money's available.
The Ramsey Show
Stick to the Plan Even When It’s Tough
Your competition's not working that hard. People are a little bit of entitled. And I'll say this. If I was 19 years of age and I happened to get hit by a car like I did in 1986, I think I could build my fortune in half the time.
The Ramsey Show
Stick to the Plan Even When It’s Tough
The opportunity is more than ever. The opportunity, the American economy, business is so much bigger. There's so much bigger markets than ever before. You don't need, you know, with social media and the things that you can do to market and advertise yourself now, you can go so much faster.
The Ramsey Show
Stick to the Plan Even When It’s Tough
You know, Dave, you're building your brand today compared to building your brand when you started out, you know.
The Ramsey Show
Stick to the Plan Even When It’s Tough
And then capital is available when needed for certain things. So I just think that, and I do think a little bit, and again, that's why a little bit of adversity would be helpful to America, is folks want easy, quick, millionaire overnights. That's why internet gambling is huge now. Bitcoin is big now. I want success. I want it now.
The Ramsey Show
Stick to the Plan Even When It’s Tough
And I think one of the things about immigrants is you had to sacrifice to come here.
The Ramsey Show
Stick to the Plan Even When It’s Tough
I mean, I just left, my mom just passed last week. You know, you have to leave your family and you have to come, you have to pay a price to get here. You guys teach delayed gratification. There's a reason you have a big market because it's a foreign concept.
The Ramsey Show
Stick to the Plan Even When It’s Tough
I wrote a book about I'll give you seven principles in 30 seconds. Number one is a voracious openness to learn. And number two is a do-whatever-it-takes mindset. Number three is a willingness to outwork others we just talked about. Number four is a heartfelt spirit of gratitude. Immigrants are very thankful to America and thankful for the opportunity, thankful to their customers.
The Ramsey Show
Stick to the Plan Even When It’s Tough
When was the last time somebody said that to you? Thanks for your business. They're willing to invest. They're willing to delay gratification, and they always remember where they came from. And I think if you can always remember where you come from, it gives you great perspective. Dave has his old car on display here. We used to sell stuff out of the back of the car.
The Ramsey Show
Stick to the Plan Even When It’s Tough
It's right when you come into the lobby. Never forgets where he came from.
The Ramsey Show
Stick to the Plan Even When It’s Tough
It's a touchy subject, and that's why the legal immigration route is a sacrifice. If people come here for entitlement programs, you've destroyed the very reason to be an immigrant. Wow. You actually take away all of the seven gifts you have. You take away that. We proved it in Ireland. Ireland, we had 450,000 Eastern Europeans come to Ireland in the early 2000s.
The Ramsey Show
Stick to the Plan Even When It’s Tough
And when Ireland got into trouble and had to do an austerity program, cut back all the programs, 450,000 people left the country. So they didn't come to contribute. They came to take. You have to be willing to come and make your own. You have to be willing to come and make a name for yourself and make a business for yourself and make a life for yourself.
The Ramsey Show
Stick to the Plan Even When It’s Tough
It does a terrible disservice to people. If you take away the very essence of being an immigrant, it does a terrible disservice.
The Ramsey Show
Stick to the Plan Even When It’s Tough
Yeah, well, it's a little different. You know, like when I wrote a book, I found out as a writer I'm a great speaker.
The Ramsey Show
Stick to the Plan Even When It’s Tough
Exactly. And, you know, just because you can buy a microphone doesn't make you a broadcaster.
The Ramsey Show
Stick to the Plan Even When It’s Tough
And being Dave Ramsey is not as easy as people think. You know, here's what I do. I get a chance to interview people I'm really interested in and ask them things. I had you on today, and I asked you as a business mentor of mine, as you have been, I got to ask you some questions that helped me in my business today. I got a couple hundred employees I got to take care of.
The Ramsey Show
Don’t Look for a Hack When You Need a Grind
I've been here for four years, and I do SEO and content marketing for our amazing real estate department. Shout out to real estate.
The Ramsey Show
Don’t Look for a Hack When You Need a Grind
$204,000 oh my gosh and how long did it take six years six years wow and what kind of debt was this um student loans 164 that was uh the principal and then 40,000 of that was interest so it's all student loans yes student loans what'd you get your degree in Digital media management. So business for your business degree. Yes. At a private school in Austin. So there you go. Yeah.
The Ramsey Show
Don’t Look for a Hack When You Need a Grind
Yeah, it was definitely easier and more fun, and I felt less shame telling people how much I was paying off. So that was really fun to be like, yeah, it's six figures.
The Ramsey Show
Don’t Look for a Hack When You Need a Grind
Yeah. So I think it was towards the end of college. I was realizing what I had gotten myself into. I don't think before I went to college, I really understood what is a loan and that you have to pay that back. Yeah. And so towards the end of college, I knew, okay, it's kind of a non-negotiable. I can't live with this debt for the rest of my life. So I knew I was going to have to take
The Ramsey Show
Don’t Look for a Hack When You Need a Grind
FPU so I did that as soon as I graduated and I knew I had how did you know to do that my parents informed me of you and your program yeah they're everyday millionaires and teach FPU so they were able to kind of learn with me at first and become those everyday millionaires and everything too. And then we kind of like did it together. And they're here with you today, right? Yeah. Yeah. So fun.
The Ramsey Show
Don’t Look for a Hack When You Need a Grind
Yes. Yeah. um but yeah so after graduation took FPU started paying it off and I would actually like cry myself to work um because I hated my job and I was doing it basically because I knew that I had to have an income and do something and I was living rent-free at home um and I would listen I'm sorry I knew I was gonna cry no you're great you're doing great okay
The Ramsey Show
Don’t Look for a Hack When You Need a Grind
All right. Sorry. That's okay. No, you're good. It's been a long journey of doing this.
The Ramsey Show
Don’t Look for a Hack When You Need a Grind
Anyway, so I would listen to the Ramsey show on my way to work and cry and listen to the debt-free screams and envision myself doing this one day. So it's really cool. And I didn't know I was going to work here.
The Ramsey Show
Don’t Look for a Hack When You Need a Grind
Y'all found me on LinkedIn and asked me to apply and I did. And then y'all gave me the job.
The Ramsey Show
Don’t Look for a Hack When You Need a Grind
Pretty much, yeah. Yeah, so then the rest of the four years has been here, and it's been an amazing journey. Wow. Oh, my gosh.
The Ramsey Show
Don’t Look for a Hack When You Need a Grind
Um, shopping. Yeah, girl. I'm like, I like to look cute and I couldn't for a long time. Um, so shopping definitely. Um, for six years though, I did have to budget like some fun in there cause I was just going to go insane if I didn't. So I was able to do some very small like weekend trips with friends and keep it in control, like control it. Totally. Um,
The Ramsey Show
Don’t Look for a Hack When You Need a Grind
and i just really the sacrifices were not having any time to myself i was working up to seven jobs at one point oh my gosh what are you doing so working full-time i have a photography business on the side and then i was doing anywhere from like three to six to seven additional um freelance jobs where i had seo clients on monthly retainer and so i was doing that for several years and it was exhausting and miserable and
The Ramsey Show
Don’t Look for a Hack When You Need a Grind
I was just working nonstop. I would work here. I have memories of working here, getting off at four, going downstairs and sitting in the cafe and working for an hour on side jobs, going to work out and then going home and working until I went to sleep. And I would do that for just like five days in a row. Just straight all the way, grinding it out.
The Ramsey Show
Don’t Look for a Hack When You Need a Grind
Yeah, I was making on a low year, $15,000 all the way up to like $30,000 a year in side jobs. Amazing. Wow.
The Ramsey Show
Don’t Look for a Hack When You Need a Grind
I mean, yeah, that's what had to be done. Yeah, the budget was obviously helpful, but I'm already kind of naturally a frugal person. So for me, having that much and being a single income, I just had to get more money. I had to do anything to make more money.
The Ramsey Show
Don’t Look for a Hack When You Need a Grind
Feels good. I kind of didn't, I haven't really felt what it feels like to be free. Murphy hit me two weeks after I paid off my debt and I got in a car accident. Somebody hit me and totaled my car. So I haven't really felt debt free because I've been financially dealing with that too. So I'm like, hopefully after today I'll feel really debt free.
The Ramsey Show
Don’t Look for a Hack When You Need a Grind
Yeah, my parents, my brother, my sister-in-law, and then all my friends, Annalise and Alyssa specifically, and then all of my awesome teammates and coworkers.
The Ramsey Show
Don’t Look for a Hack When You Need a Grind
Mm-hmm. For me, it was making extra income, definitely. And just not, there's no other option but to do it and get out of debt. And no matter how much you have, you can do it. I did it as a single person and I made it happen.
The Ramsey Show
Don’t Look for a Hack When You Need a Grind
29. That was the other thing I was going to say. I paid it off three days before my birthday. That was my goal. So I had 30, a little over 30,000 at the beginning of this year. And I said, okay, I want to do this before I turned 29.
The Ramsey Show
You Can’t Borrow Your Way to Freedom
Hello. How are you guys doing today? Doing well. Is that Rachel Cruz on there as well? It is, Brian.
The Ramsey Show
You Can’t Borrow Your Way to Freedom
I got a little sidetracked with the side hustle. I had my question prepared, but... The Side Hustle Ramsey Quiz. Is that a thing? Is that somewhere I can go?
The Ramsey Show
You Can’t Borrow Your Way to Freedom
My mom, at age 80, has no retirement. I am her... dedicated financial person. Dementia comes and goes. Luckily, yeah, thank you. Luckily, she came into a small windfall of money. It was 20 grand. It's now down to 12, and that's why I'm helping. So the question is, what investment vehicles are left at her age? What does an 80-year-old person do
The Ramsey Show
You Can’t Borrow Your Way to Freedom
I've heard CDs, I've heard money markets, and I'm like, okay, well.
The Ramsey Show
You Can’t Borrow Your Way to Freedom
He just got out of a bad situation with my brother. He's in jail. We'll leave it there. My sister and I got her in a 55 and over retirement community. She has a single bedroom apartment.
The Ramsey Show
You Can’t Borrow Your Way to Freedom
All of it. Yes, ma'am. Okay. Yes, ma'am. So it's half social and half VA benefits. My dad was a Marine.
The Ramsey Show
You Can’t Borrow Your Way to Freedom
My sister and I are. It's so I heard Dave Ramsey say, if you make it to 64, you have a good chance of making it to 90. Something close.
The Ramsey Show
You Can’t Borrow Your Way to Freedom
Exactly. It's like, OK, she's going to make it to 90, 95.
The Ramsey Show
You Can’t Borrow Your Way to Freedom
I'm on baby step two. She is sort of on baby steps one.
The Ramsey Show
Skip the Scams, Build Real Wealth
Hello, Mr. Rizzi. Thanks for having me on. Sure. What's up? recently passed away, and they're with the Lord, and they left myself and my brother in inheritance. We both paid off our mortgages, and then we both invested.
The Ramsey Show
Skip the Scams, Build Real Wealth
He invested in a way I'd say the typical average way, and I sought out like a Christian financial advisor, and I invested in, I guess what we'd say, more Christian-friendly stocks. And he invested around June last year. And so he had his money in about six months and he had made probably 50% more than what I had made with my stocks. And they had only been in there about, uh, three or four months.
The Ramsey Show
Skip the Scams, Build Real Wealth
Uh, when I, I talked to his advisor then and told her how I was investing and she said, Oh, uh, she just, she didn't say it out loud, but basically what she was saying is I'm going to earn about half as much as he is if I invest that way. Uh, so I wanted to see what your thoughts were on that.
The Ramsey Show
Skip the Scams, Build Real Wealth
I am in that one. There's 10 different funds that I'm in.
The Ramsey Show
Skip the Scams, Build Real Wealth
I'm not really sure what it is. I just invested with them. Uh-oh.
The Ramsey Show
The Key to Financial Success: Slow and Steady
We started out in 2021 with $102,361.45 in debt. Wow. Since then, we just started Ramsey in October of 2023, and we paid off in the last 15 months, we paid off the remaining $38,727.90. Whoa. Okay, so how long did this full journey take to pay off the $102,000? Go ahead. Since May of 2021. Okay.
The Ramsey Show
The Key to Financial Success: Slow and Steady
We started out at $140,000 and then we ended up at about $158,000. Wow. What do you all do? I'm a truck driver.
The Ramsey Show
The Key to Financial Success: Slow and Steady
Just looking back at what I hadn't done and what I did do was what was wrong and what I should be doing for my family and my wife.
The Ramsey Show
The Key to Financial Success: Slow and Steady
Right. Yeah. I was embarrassed. You know, I should have done better. And Taylor was a numbers person and she's an ex-teacher. And so I kind of learned from her. Yeah.
The Ramsey Show
The Key to Financial Success: Slow and Steady
That's amazing. Change that family tree.
The Tim Dillon Show
435 - Little Moments With Meghan Markle
This is a different panel than I've had.
The Tim Dillon Show
435 - Little Moments With Meghan Markle
The President Well, I'm going to buy. And I'm going to buy because, number one, it's a great product, as good as it gets. And number two, because this man has devoted his energy and his life to doing this. And I think he's been treated very unfairly by a very small group of people. The Press This is bulletproof.
The Tim Dillon Show
435 - Little Moments With Meghan Markle
The President I mean, look, in terms of imagination, I think I have a great imagination. Who else but this guy would design this, and everybody on the road is looking at it. It's amazing, actually. As soon as I saw it, I said, that is the coolest design. Do you agree with that, Brian? I do. It's amazing. Very cool. You've got to give him credit. We want the future to look like the future.
The Tim Dillon Show
435 - Little Moments With Meghan Markle
What kind of truck would Blade Runner drive? That was the design idea.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
That's what he looks like.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
And I want to get my whole house painted, but that's going to be so much work and money.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
And now you're back on eBay looking at. Yeah, now I'm back on eBay. How's this happening?
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
You could see the comments, though, because I purposely post things on Reddit because people can read your comments.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Yeah, I don't hide. He goes on as his name. Yeah, I don't hide or anything like that. But if you look at my Reddit... comments it's i just go to like uh like porn girls like uh would you what would you do to me and i like she's showing her butt and i'll be like uh i'd put some clothes on you dumb bitch and like oh my gosh wait so what are these subreddits like singles like juicy asians uh
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Yeah, it's a fun thing I do. And then somebody on Reddit, or a few people I've caught on, and so they're like, Red Band's such a pervert. Because they think it's all serious and stuff like that. That's funny. Kind of like trolling people. Yeah, you could trick people.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
He has this fucked up little back flipper.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
There we go. Hey, guys.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Oh, the top part is... See, squashed ones should not be allowed.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
I have pirates in my kitchen. Oh, oh. Printed. I see what you're saying.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
I always see corn.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
You know what's crazy? I had a... This is how dorky I was in fifth grade. They were like, it was like Hands Across America or something was going on. I don't remember. Like, we are the world. And you were supposed to, we were supposed to write, like, how can we help hunger or like starving people in the world?
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
And I wrote this whole thing about just give them a bunch of corn and then they could rewash it and eat it. And it's like unlimited food.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Oh, my gosh.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
that's genius that's that hustler coming out coming up with ideas like that and i remember i i remember i got like a b on it and i didn't know it was like ew gross but i still got a b nice that seems good it's genius
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
It's true. Like, can you ever get rid of corn ever?
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
We had wallpaper growing up and I just remember they probably have better technology now. But my dad having to take the wallpaper off in the room literally took a week just like peeling all this shit off his wall.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
I heard he got stuff taken out because he was too crazy looking.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Does that help?
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
I don't know. Do you remember when Kenny Rogers right before he died? Yeah, look at that. Remember what Kenny Rogers used to look like right before he died? He looked like a fucking woman. What happened to the gambler? He used to be a badass cowboy and then he started looking like that. Catwoman. Yeah, I hate that Catwoman look.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
No one to hold him.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
We should go to one. I don't play poker, though. Okay, I don't really either.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
It's like you got to pay money or something. You probably do. I have no idea.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
I don't. I'm not. Would you be willing to start practicing with me? I'll play blackjack with you, but I'm not poker.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
That was kind of fun growing up. Oh, hey, my grandmother died, and she gave me something, and it kind of looks like you. Oh, what is it? Let's see. And she used to always keep it in the basement. Really? Because she said it was hot. Okay.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Yeah, she kept it in the basement. She always said that there was something wrong with it. And this is weird because we've never met.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Are you serious, man?
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Yeah. And it was just like one of those things like peeling off like a sticker when it just like rips a teeny bit and he's just sitting there.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Yeah, you can have it because it kind of looks like it. So I thought it was weird.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
No, I love it.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
That voice sounds like a cartoon character.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
You ever give her a little Zerber, like on her tummy? Yeah.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
She hates it.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Oh, gosh, I want to cry. How's the cameo business been? You never talk about cameo anymore.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Uh-oh, did something happen?
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
I met Janine Garofalo the other day. When? How? So there was a moon tower going on and Sunset was a moon tower club. And she was on the show. And I walk in and I'm like, oh, my God, that's Janine Garofalo in the green room.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
And I was with Lil Janis. And I was like, I did such a fanboy thing. I go, oh, hi, Janine. I'm Brian. I'm a comedian, one of the owners here. And I said, in college, I was in love with you. You were like my number one crush. And it's because that movie Reality Bites. Oh, my gosh.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
She was so cool. And then we talked about the movie Singles, how it came out at the same time. And she's like, Singles was a better movie, though. And then we talked about the soundtrack to Singles. Cute. Oh, my gosh. 15 minutes about it was great. That's wonderful.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Yeah, but she was cool. She was, oh my God, I forgot about that on the left. What movie is that again? Is that with the bangs? Is that Reality Bites when she was?
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Is that a good movie? I've never seen it. It used to be, but it was like also during that time in the cheesy 90s, like MTV where everything zoomed in and you know, like, I don't know that.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Yes, Singled Out.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Did you know Christina Brzezinski used to be in Road Rules? No, she was on road rules. Yeah, that's like and what's crazy. I used to watch all those real world and I used to watch real road rules. I remember I would watch that. Well, if you if Grant can find a picture of her in that, what's her name? Christina Pazitsky. It's like P-A-Z something. Was that, like, similar to Theo Vaughn?
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
I think it was also Road Rules. Real World, maybe.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Was he Road Rules? I don't know. But when you see Christina, you're like, oh, that's the same bitch.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Yeah, it's crazy.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
I don't think Theo likes talking about when he was on road rules or whatever it was. Really? Because he had like short hair and, you know, he was a different person, you know.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Do you usually go to the airport to get home? Is that where you usually go?
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Yeah, he was a baby.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
You were a Puck guy.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
He was like the bad boy, I think. Yeah, the bad boy. Rest in peace to Puck. God, Theo looks like an Abercrombie & Fitch model right there. Yeah, look at that guy. He's got a blueberry in his back pocket. Have you ever tried to talk like Theo Vaughn? Like, do you like a saying, a Theo Vaughn saying? How? Here, do one.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
My grandmother used to be a snake, and we put him inside a bucket and had a family reunion, and then I took some cornbread out of my pocket. I don't know. It's hard to do. Try it. Try to talk like Theo.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
A different look, which looked good. I like to change my look all the time. I don't like the mustache look I've been going through, though.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Yeah. Well, I have like more of a beard now, but look at that guy. That looks like. Look at these guys. Loaded Rogan. No, you look good right there. My friend in high school, like I posted like, hey, Netflix on my Facebook. And it's mostly just like high school, college friends. Yeah. And this guy in high school is like, what happened? You get stung by a bunch of bees before they took that photo.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Talking about you.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
But, ooh, yeah, I'll totally drink some coffee later. I have to wake up and I can't do anything until I have coffee. And then what sucks is I usually drink coffee and then I start feeling like shit because I don't have any food in me. And then I got that coffee feeling. I hate that feeling. But do you smoke a cigarette, though? Yeah, I just smoke cigarettes until it goes away.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Does it make you doo-doo? Everything makes me doo-doo. Oh, okay. I could doo-doo right now if you want me to.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
When you drank a lot, did you have problems or did they just flow out of you?
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
No, it's a couple of days before we just celebrated it.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Nine years.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
You're lucky I can't do math. Speaking of math, I don't know. You heard the breaking news about Kanye West. He tweeted out yesterday. Did you know about this?
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
We talked about it a little last night. I haven't figured this out, though. So he tweeted that him and his, he used to go down on his cousin. Did you know this, Grant? I saw this.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Till he was 14.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
So it was a younger cousin. We don't know. That's what we were trying to figure out last night. Kanye's cousin, the one he's talking about, is in prison. And he had talked about it on Kimmel before, like 10 years ago. Like, shout out to my cousin. He's going to prison. He did some bad things, but I still love him or something like that.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
But I just want to know if his cousin, because if he was doing that with his cousin and his cousin was like 17 while he was 14, that's crazy. But if the cousin was six years old, that's even crazier. Like, what the fuck?
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
What's up, Kathy?
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
And you get DoorDash that I found out.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
I got crystals in Nashville for my first time, DoorDash. Did you like it? I grew up with White Castle, and I always heard about crystals like it's just like White Castle. I actually liked it better than White Castle. Me too. It's in my heart. It's in my heart. I like it better too.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Yeah, I think that the latter. Because my doctor told me he has a patient. That's on a Zempik and they went into a coma. Oh, really? Yeah. Because they weren't eating enough food or just something? I don't know. I don't even know.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Because I think it was originally, a Zempik was originally made for people that had like, you know how they always find a drug and they, oh, but this also helps you lose weight, even though it's for like diabetes or something. I don't know. Something completely different.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
And they do that, too. Now, like when you go to like Canada and stuff, they're like, why are you going to Canada? And people are, you know, just hanging out with some friends. They'll go on your Twitter and go, well, you have a show. So you're lying to us. They actually do that now. They check your social media.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Wait, is that Jelly Roll?
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
I don't even think that doesn't even look like Jelly Roll at all. Is that Jelly Roll?
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
He's cool. I like Jelly Roll.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Yeah, it's short.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
And the one in the middle, that looks like Kevin James or whatever his name is.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Have you ever thought about getting the little transplant?
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Well, I think because they take shit out of your back and you have such luscious back hair that then they put it in the front. Is that where it comes from? What's his name from? Talk Soup with Joel McHale. Oh, yeah.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Yeah. Or Elon Musk has it. Like if you look at old photos of Elon Musk, he's like almost bald. And then now he's got.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
don't mess with red beans tesla though anybody mess with your car has anybody ever messed with your tesla no i think that is by the way that is so weird that tesla's went from what i consider like like a you know save the planet man liberal yes and then now they're the complete opposite like because they made a truck the same i thought the same thing it's crazy yeah
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Yeah. Of how it's perceived. Yeah. Crazy. Crazy. Because it's always been like gas and coal. You know, the Republicans, fuck these electric cars. And now it's... Go down to the coal mines. Yeah. Let's open up these coal mines.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Yeah, it happened to Tony. He had a show, and he, like, you're supposed to do, like, special paperwork in order to work, you know, like if you have a show in Canada and stuff. And back in the day, you know, we didn't have all these managers and crazy stuff. So he said that he was just there to hang out with friends, and they saw that he was advertising a show all weekend in, I think, Vancouver.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Yeah. Like that's the craziest thing ever. That makes no sense. Or even Tesla. Like I see your, if you're against Elon Musk, but like Tesla is the, uh, it's the, uh, one of the biggest American made in American companies. It's the number one car that was, is the only made in America, you know, like it is the most American thing ever. And, uh,
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
That's why they look up to you, William, when you're on the road. Not to my ass. Screaming at dumb bitches in the front row.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
No, but I was sick like a month ago. I was sick a month and a half ago. Yeah, I had, you know, I lost my voice and my voice is still not back 100 percent. What was it? I don't know. It was some kind of.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
sinus infection like i was goobering all the time and what's that again goobering yeah you know you're always rocket it's not rockets but you like spit and go is it green or is it yellow you know yeah yeah yeah if it's yellow let it mellow yeah wait what is that for uh if it's yellow let it mellow pee in the toilet uh not flushing if it's brown flush it down
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Yeah. There's like a movie, I forget which one it is, where they go ape shit on, and it's like one of the best movies ever, and it's this weird...
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Yeah, which one is that?
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Yeah, it was like one of those movies where he's talking shit about Pulp Fiction or something like that. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, look at that hater.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Are they both underground now? Yeah. They are. Yeah. He went first, I believe.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Oh, it was the skinny one. It was.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
No, he had like some kind of cancer or something, if I remember correctly. Oh, don't tell me that. Yeah.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
And they wouldn't let him in the country. They sent him back. And then every time we went to the airport after that, he would always have to go in the back room and they would like interrogate him and stuff like that. Oh, my gosh.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Michael Roper? Or yeah, Fred Roper? Yeah. There they are. Whoa. Oh, my God. That looks like Tony Castillas. It does. He should do it for Halloween. Holy shit.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
You got to have two thumbs, not one.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Right. You guys should start a... No, it should be two people that are opposite. It should be like Tony Henscliff and Andy Schumer movie reviews.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
I love nerd stuff. Holy shit.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Who is it going to die? Do you like Star Wars? Uh, yeah, I used to like it a lot more. It seems like all these recent movies though, I've kind of been like, okay, I'm over it. I don't even want to, I don't care anymore. Yeah. Fucking Finn. Is that a person?
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
I just rewatched dazed and confused, which was a movie that I probably seen a thousand times in college, you know, like, cause that was when weed was still illegal. And so you were just like, Oh, my God, they're smoking weed. It was cool. It was really good. It held up pretty good. And it was all filmed here in Austin, Texas. Really? Literally, the whole movie is just Austin.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
But it was really cool seeing all these young people, like Matthew McConaughey and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah. It held up good. I like that movie.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Yeah, we lived by the bar.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Oh, the Flanagan's?
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
That's what it's called. Yeah. Now it's like a different restaurant, right?
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Yeah, I love that movie. Me too. That's a fun one. That's a movie I wouldn't care if they did a sequel. I would be like, yeah, just because I want to see all those characters more.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Cold fingers, but very soft.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
I don't know if you've ever shaken David Jolly's hand, though. It's like he has a bunch of crackers in his hand. Oh, really? Yeah, it's weird.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Have you seen his sketches? Yeah, his sketches. Hilarious. Hilarious. Hilarious. He found it. He did.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Yeah. Did I tell you my story about that? What? I grew up and my cat, this is when I was like 12 years old, and my cat ate a string. And a little string was coming out of its little butt hole. And my mom's like, Brian, you got to pull that out of the cat's asshole. And she made me pull it out of my cat's butt. And luckily, I just grabbed it and it ran. And then it was like.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
It was like a shoelace, I think, or something like that. It was gross. And it terrified me as a kid. Oh, my gosh.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Yeah. That was the worst. Like my dad did like the door handle. Did you really? Yeah. And remember how gross it was when you're just going back and forth and you're just trying to get it out and you're like rocking it and stuff like that.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Oh, yeah, the dry sockets. You couldn't smoke either after that.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
No. I think I think it was like years and years apart, too. Oh, really? I got all of mine out at the same time. Oh, my gosh.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
No, my doctor wouldn't let me. They were like, we don't do that anymore. Oh, really? Yeah, it's like declawing a cat. No, get out of here.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
You know, my house has this weird paint, and it's like a textured paint, and it's kind of like a gray color. Yeah. And it sucks because if you sneeze or you flick water on it, it kind of leaves like a stain forever. What?
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
No, they're not supposed to be white. That's when you have strep throat. Oh, that's how I remember it.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
God, how many times I had that was so nasty.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
It's like, it's kind of like when you're fingering a girl, that part inside of them that feels like cauliflower. That's what it looks like.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
It's like, yeah. You know what I'm talking about?
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Do it up kind of like a hook almost. Yeah. And then you just drag your fingernail in and try to cut it open. Yeah. I bet the girls love that.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Yeah, just doing your fingernail on the inside.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
He was used to the water. Why would he even do trains?
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
And then if you try to wash it off, then it takes the paint off, the textured paint off. It is the worst paint ever. Oh, my gosh. You can't do anything. So there's like... There's parts where you sneeze and you say, oh, I accidentally sneezed on the wall and it's there forever.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
No. Did you ever see that old video? It was like one of the first gross videos on the Internet where a woman's crossing a train track and a train hits her going like 100 miles an hour and her body just dissolves into like.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Yeah. And it was loud. It was like there was a train horn. If I remember.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
You would.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Or would you hate it? I like trains. We went on a long train when we were, I think, going from like London to Ireland. I don't know, like one of those trips. Yeah, we took like, I think it was like an eight-hour, six-hour train ride. And it was pretty cool. It was just like being on an airplane, kind of.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Is this in all of your rooms of your house? And so like it's it's a nightmare.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Oh, my God. Have you talked about when we were in Nashville and we got to hang out with all your college buddies? No.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
And there was the guy that you saved his life, and he never said anything.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
It's it's like imagine like textured like they take a sponge like that look where they're like going like this all over the wall. But then it's such a light color, like a taupe. That it collects anything and you can't clean it because then it just ruins the wall. Like it just starts flaking off and stuff. And it's throughout the whole entire house.
The William Montgomery Show
Redban | The William Montgomery Show with Casey Rocket Ep. 177
Yeah, and you told us, like, twice, and you're like, I wonder if he's going to say thank you, you know, like, before he got there in the green room. Yeah. And then, like, an hour later, I saw him in the green room, and I'm like, so... You're the one that William saved your life, huh? Did you say thank you for that?
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
All right. Sweet. Hello, my name is Matthew Garapik. I'm running for president in 2032. Tyler Higbee from the Los Angeles Rams will be my vice president. I went to Eastlake High School with him in Tarpon Springs, and he's a good friend of mine. I'm also looking for a girl to get pregnant, preferably a white or a Spanish girl. I'm 6'2", 6'3", with shoes on, and I'm worth six figures.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
Remember, in 2032, to vote for Matthew Garapik. Let's go.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
Should we do our drafts now? Yeah, Dan, you're the guest. You get to pick. Would you like to start with sayings or desserts?