WHO ARE THEY…. The_Sonian pt.2

[00:00:03] Speaker A: Where are they? They're probably upstairs. They never answer the door. [00:00:10] Speaker B: Oh, wait, it's Monday night. [00:00:12] Speaker A: They're on the second floor. Hey, guys, welcome back to Second Floor Sessions. We have brought the son in. Back again. [00:00:31] Speaker B: Burners. [00:00:31] Speaker C: He's back. [00:00:32] Speaker A: We have got questions for him that are actually untold stories that I realized, hey, we never even touched on that. But he mentioned it that we're going to bring back up again and ask him to tell us. He claims he's got some things to say to us or questions to ask us. So we'll see how that goes. And interested to see what that is. Stephen Smith, the Sonia is here. [00:00:57] Speaker B: Hey, let me just, let me break [00:00:59] Speaker A: this all the way. [00:01:00] Speaker B: You know the new studio. [00:01:01] Speaker A: Yeah. What do you think about this? [00:01:02] Speaker B: I love it. You know, I was the future of the, of this show when you started doing guests. I was the first guest. Well, tonight we're going back to the future I love. So thank you for having me back. [00:01:17] Speaker A: Yes. [00:01:18] Speaker B: Third time Iceman, man. [00:01:19] Speaker A: What's up for the listeners. He's got a Back to the Future shirt on that's not watching. [00:01:24] Speaker B: Well, I hope they can see it. You know what I mean? Yeah, it's a good movie. [00:01:28] Speaker A: It's a classic. [00:01:29] Speaker C: So in the last podcast, he said he had 10 minutes. Yes. In Brazil. Yes, 10 minutes in Brazil. [00:01:37] Speaker B: And we just, I mean, it's like one of those things where and forgot about it. So here we go. Bar talk, house talk, any type of conversation where something comes up and, you know, leave it to this guy, right, to just kind of step in and go, well, hold on. Have you ever heard of this? And that's. These are just the facts. There's no sugar coating anything. When I tell you I went to Brazil for 10 minutes. I went to Brazil for 10 minutes. And we originally was going to do a missionary trip and my church, you know, kind of fell in line with doing something like this. So this is like our first missionary trip. You know what I mean? We ain't. And it took a full year to get prepared and ready for this. So the time comes, it doesn't matter. I'm a few months out of high school, maybe getting ready to graduate. Nevertheless, the time comes. I had never in my life flown on an airplane and in two days time I flew seven times. So we leave out of McGee Tyson. We go McGee Tyson. To what I want to say, I think maybe you said this or something. Everything's an extended. You just don't really go to McGee Tyson, which is not. [00:03:03] Speaker C: That was Kevin. Kevin Was talking. [00:03:04] Speaker A: Okay. [00:03:04] Speaker B: Yes. [00:03:05] Speaker A: Well, you've got one way flights, but it's. It's not. You're not going to go far with. [00:03:09] Speaker B: Correct. [00:03:10] Speaker A: An airport. [00:03:10] Speaker B: Everything's a connected flight. [00:03:12] Speaker C: Connect. Yeah. [00:03:13] Speaker B: Kev, I ain't flown like you, baby. Let me tell you something. I did seven plane trips in about a 48 hour span and it was crazy. Yeah. Especially for someone that's never flown before. It doesn't matter. We, when we leave out of McGee, Tyson, Knoxville, wherever we connected to, we had to be in Miami. And when you fly out of Miami, that's passport wise. [00:03:39] Speaker A: So we had. You were probably going Charlotte or Dallas would be my guess. I mean it sounds stupid. [00:03:44] Speaker B: No, it doesn't. [00:03:44] Speaker A: Oh, it might have been Atlanta. You probably were going. [00:03:47] Speaker B: I think it is. [00:03:47] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:03:48] Speaker A: You were probably going to land. [00:03:48] Speaker B: We ended up everywhere anyway. Yeah. And I remember leaving out of Miami. That's a passport place you really like. If you're. Let's say we go from Knoxville to Charlotte, North Carolina. You don't need your passport. [00:04:03] Speaker C: No. [00:04:04] Speaker B: But when you go leave for Miami to wherever foreign country or you're going over at water. That's passport. You got to have your passport, right. To get on period. Yeah. [00:04:15] Speaker A: When we get on the plane, you're flying international. [00:04:17] Speaker B: Correct. You get on the plane, it's an eight hour flight. This is my like first big boy trip. You know they've got the big screen in there, it shows the dot the whole time. This is an eight hour flight. And the last hour and 15 minutes of the flight is a descent balance. Catch your waves, get ready landing gear, all that cabin light, slip on. Finally about seven and a half hours. And then they pass out paperwork and eventually I'm like, okay, when you fill this certain things out, there's this little line at the bottom, that's where your passport number goes. Sorry, I need to find my passport. Then the whole down time, whatever, as we're landing, plane comes to a stop. I can't find my passport. But you have to have it to get on the plane. So this leads into. This is a Friday night, by the way, landing in Brazil. And for the next 10 minutes, I mean if we're going to get some super technical. Okay, I did 20, 25 minutes. But what was the 10 was the simple fact that we could not find the passport. I held the plane up, I went back onto the plane, I looked under every seat, every crack, crevice, everything I could take through dumping all my CDs out, everything I could do, I could not. And they were Playing zero games. There was a taped off square on the. On the airport floor. I had to stand in it. Guards were around me with ars. And it was no joke. There was nothing to be figured out. There was nothing to talk about. You get back on that plane. You cannot stay here. This is Friday night in Brazil. The next returning plane to the United States is Monday morning. They don't care about that. Get back on the plane. That plane is going two hours further into the country, down to Bolivia. Y and I'm just telling you. So my stepfather at the time looks at me and goes, can you go by yourself? And I was like, no, I cannot go by myself. You're coming with me. Can I go by myself? I guess. Kind of know what I know now. I probably could have, but I mean, I'm in tears. Tears, crying almost hysterically. Beg. But you quickly find out none of that matters. [00:06:49] Speaker A: It's not gonna work. [00:06:50] Speaker B: It's not about the age or anything, but you would honestly think as a young kid there would maybe just from a custom. [00:06:56] Speaker A: How old were you? [00:06:57] Speaker B: 18. [00:06:58] Speaker A: Okay, well, not a young kid. [00:07:00] Speaker B: An old kid actually, but the planes coming into Bolivia, this is two more hours down into the country. [00:07:08] Speaker A: Right? [00:07:08] Speaker B: Okay. I just came off an eight hour plane trip and my stepdad's over there just stressed out, worrying this and that. We get our bags. They had busted into our bags and took our 200 a piece out of the bags when we land in Bolivia, which I think the sun was probably coming up that morning by time we. [00:07:32] Speaker A: So they took that money and confiscated it. [00:07:35] Speaker B: No, someone at one of the stops or something had already gotten into our bags and took the money out. Oh yeah, I packed my money. You know, I'm 18. Like I pack. [00:07:46] Speaker A: Okay, okay. [00:07:46] Speaker B: It wasn't a carry on situation. I got you. [00:07:50] Speaker A: So someone storing the luggage had gotten your money. [00:07:52] Speaker B: There we go. [00:07:53] Speaker A: Okay, I gotcha. [00:07:54] Speaker B: Do I know that for sure? That's just what I'm gonna blame it on. It wasn't there. [00:07:57] Speaker C: I needed. [00:07:57] Speaker B: I knew where that money was and how to get to it didn't matter. Yeah. So when we land in Bolivia, no matter. Now at this point, my 10 minutes in Brazil's up. Bye bye. Brazil. That was. I'm out of there. That was a 10 to 20 minute window. It's over. Get to Bolivia and you just. There's nothing you can read, understand or know. There's no signs. A pay phone looks like a. Yeah, it's all Spanish. It's just crazy. And I'm telling you, somehow some way we get to end up talking to the president of the airport. And I remember while we were sitting there waiting to talk to him, given our situation, they knew two Americans were coming with no, nothing, nothing. Well, my stepdad has his passport, so that helps tremendously in this situation. The problem is me. I'm the problem. [00:08:55] Speaker A: Yeah, dude. [00:08:57] Speaker B: I just remember waiting in a little room like this and how high was playing on the tv. The Method Man, Red man and them. He finally comes in and talks with us and whatever unfolded to. To be. He got us on the next plane out of there, comped our tickets. We had no money, so it didn't matter. It just really didn't matter. From that time on, I think we went into Ohio up to Washington D.C. i remember when we got to Washington D.C. the NBA Finals is going on and Kobe and the Pistons. The Lakers were playing the Pistons. Kobe hit this crazy overtime shot and this is the 18 year old coming out of me. We're in the hotel room, Kobe hits the shot and I'm like, yeah. And that was like one of the first moments where I was like, probably shouldn't be fired up celebrating right now. [00:09:50] Speaker A: You know what I mean? [00:09:51] Speaker B: Stepdad's not really feeling this trip like that. This ain't a go, Kobe, go. [00:09:57] Speaker A: So when you got back? I can't believe they're flying you all over the place. I can't believe you didn't. That's right in the airport. [00:10:02] Speaker C: Well, that's why you had seven off you. That's the cheapest flight to get back home. [00:10:06] Speaker B: You've got four of them though. [00:10:10] Speaker A: They're waiting on open seats and that's where you're going. [00:10:13] Speaker C: That's why you got seven flights. [00:10:15] Speaker A: I got you. I got you. Okay. So end up back in the United States. [00:10:19] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:10:20] Speaker A: Flying all of you ever find your passport? [00:10:22] Speaker B: No, to this day. Negative to this day. [00:10:25] Speaker C: But you did. [00:10:26] Speaker B: Someone had to have stolen that. Oh, you can't go through the terminal hall. You know, that's the last thing you do leaving a Miami international flight. Yeah. Bad boys up here like this. There you go. Your next steps are onto the plane. [00:10:40] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay. [00:10:43] Speaker B: So even if I drop it or whatever, I just, I know more about it now. And that was a different time. Maybe someone found it and went complete stolen identity or build it. Who knows? Maybe there's a wilder Sony out there now, just living the dream. But no, I never found it. And it was just a crazy experience because, you know, I'm 18. [00:11:10] Speaker C: So if you ever went back out of the country since. [00:11:13] Speaker B: No, not out of the. Yes. Yeah, I've been. I've got 37 days at sea. [00:11:19] Speaker C: Yeah, that's right. [00:11:20] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, Well, I don't count. 37 days at sea. Is that like. Are you totaling up cruises? Is that what you're doing there? Okay, I don't know if you spent like 37 days out at sea. [00:11:30] Speaker B: No, no, no, no. But no, it's like fun days at sea, but still no. I mean, oddly enough, back to Brazil, one of the ports and stuff like that, but there are still stops and places you go. Anybody watching or listening it knows anything about cruises. You got to play the passport game there, too. Or strictly birth certificate. You can play that through Carnival. Yeah, we got our passports, but nevertheless, it was just a super crazy experience. And of course, mom was furious and I got hit with a. You're just thinking about that girlfriend here, that's all. It's on your mind, this and that. I just thought, my God, that is not what this is. That's the last thing this is. Then I got a little older and I thought that might be right, you know, it could be true. That could very well be true. [00:12:20] Speaker A: So I just don't even understand where it could have went. [00:12:23] Speaker B: I don't either, man. I don't either. But let me tell you, that's, you know, to. To flash to this moment here. You. You've got that 10 minute window where you're begging, crying, you know, you think I'm having snot issues right now, buddy. We were slinging it on the airport floor, okay? And I'm just telling you, like, what do you. Where could have it went? One of y' all got it at this point. [00:12:51] Speaker A: Quit playing this game on me, right? Did you not have a carry on? You didn't take anything? [00:12:57] Speaker B: No, I think everything was just in one bag. [00:13:00] Speaker A: I learned a long time ago, man. You. Your best bet is to put a backpack on. That is your best bet. I've flown a lot without it, and nowadays, everything. I put an extra change of clothes in my bag, my phone charger, my phone, my wallet, my passport, anything extra, I want to make sure that it's going to be at my destination in that bag in case my other bag's lost. I've got at least a start, you know, so. [00:13:31] Speaker C: So real quick. I remember what you said when you got off. I mean, this guy's got. How many cruises have you went on? I mean, you said 37 days at sea, so. So that's a lot. That's a lot of cruises. [00:13:42] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:13:42] Speaker C: You went on one cruise A short cruise. And you said it would take you forever to forget how bad it was. [00:13:49] Speaker A: Right, right. [00:13:51] Speaker B: I absolutely loved it. I thought you had a weird reaction when I said that. Like, hey, don't count shoe. Yeah, it does, man. [00:13:57] Speaker A: Well, no, my reaction, my reaction to your 37 days at sea. I thought you were fixing to say, oh I. That you were fishing with force, you [00:14:07] Speaker B: know, that way, my boy, that's where we'll find the shrimp. [00:14:11] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:14:11] Speaker A: You, you and Lieutenant Dan right there on a real shrimp fishing boat. [00:14:15] Speaker C: What took, what took place. What happened there that you didn't like it? Because I absolutely loved and it was [00:14:20] Speaker B: Carnival and then I'll piggyback after you. [00:14:22] Speaker A: It was so I'll say this. It was our first cruise. Okay. We didn't want to go crazy long. We didn't want to. And we have a. We're for our hand is forced. We didn't want to take our kids on the first cruise we went on. [00:14:38] Speaker B: We didn't know you did go kid free. [00:14:40] Speaker A: We did. Okay. We didn't know what it was going to be like. We didn't want to take the kids without knowing in other our. We had. We. We don't have, you know, it's not like I can throw the kids up somewhere. Now Megan's mom is really good about helping and taking care of them, but at the same time we don't want to burn all that. You know what I mean? [00:15:03] Speaker C: Absolutely. So. [00:15:05] Speaker A: So we burn her out either. Right. So we went short. We went on like a three day cruise, whatever. Right. So I didn't know how we'd like it. We had to get back quick for the kids, blah, blah, blah, so on and so forth. So that is probably a downfall because of a smaller boat. Absolutely. I mean, okay, it was a smaller boat, it was an older boat. [00:15:28] Speaker B: That's a lot going on for just three days. Like there's a lot of line waiting [00:15:32] Speaker A: and I, I thought so here's my, here's my take on it. I really wanted to go Royal and originally we were going to. But Royal Royal. The Royal Caribbean maybe. It was a four day cruise. We went on. I think the Royal was going to be a three day cruise instead. And it was less time, more money and we had friends going on this cruise. [00:15:57] Speaker B: Oh I mean that so it. [00:15:59] Speaker A: Right. So it won. And that's the one we went on. Ultimately I want to do a Royal cruise too. I want to see what those boats are like. I do want to do that. [00:16:08] Speaker B: New ones are crazy. [00:16:09] Speaker A: What I said what to you about the whole. It'd take me a long time to figure how bad it was. Was, you know, you, you and other people asking, are y' all gonna do it again? What'd you think about, you know, would you do it again? Or something like that. And it's like, I'm sure we will, but it's gonna have to be far enough removed from our memory to forget how bad it actually. How we didn't really like. And I'm not going to say it was bad. It wasn't bad. It just wasn't our cup of tea. [00:16:33] Speaker B: Right. [00:16:34] Speaker A: I mean, I get that I don't like. I mean, I don't care to sit around and hang out and. And whatever else, but I'm like, there's more to me nowadays than just wanting to sit around and drink, you know, so that doesn't entertain me. I actually. Probably the best time we. The best times we had was maybe at the comedy show shows. [00:16:54] Speaker B: Oh, the comedy shows are amazing. [00:16:55] Speaker A: That was probably the best times. [00:16:56] Speaker C: Karaoke. [00:16:57] Speaker B: Karaoke is awesome. [00:16:59] Speaker A: So the karaoke on this boat was really super crowded and they're in there. [00:17:05] Speaker C: I kind of feel like a three day. Maybe. These people that are extremely rough and don't really have the money. [00:17:12] Speaker A: Exactly. [00:17:13] Speaker C: To go. That might. [00:17:14] Speaker A: Exactly. [00:17:14] Speaker C: Might be the difference because. [00:17:15] Speaker A: Exactly. [00:17:16] Speaker C: That's the difference. See, I've always went on a five, six, seven. [00:17:19] Speaker A: You've got to get out and you've got. It's facts. It's facts. Yeah. [00:17:23] Speaker C: Because they can't afford. Not say anything. Anything bad, but they can't afford a five, six, seven day cruise. And then you're going with these, these [00:17:29] Speaker A: people that are just, they are wiling out, counting the pennies to get to go. Absolutely, absolutely. [00:17:36] Speaker C: And party for the next three days. [00:17:38] Speaker A: You're. I, I think you are 100. [00:17:40] Speaker C: Right. [00:17:40] Speaker A: That was one of. [00:17:41] Speaker C: That makes they just. [00:17:41] Speaker A: Yeah, that was one of our arguments to. It was like, we, okay, we need to do two things. We need to go on a longer cruise. We need to go on a big boat and set a small. Honest to God, I didn't feel like there was anything to do. [00:17:53] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:17:54] Speaker A: Everybody's like, what do you mean? There's so much to do. [00:17:57] Speaker B: There was. I mean, there's. [00:17:58] Speaker A: There's like two water slides at the back of it. I'm 30 something years old. I ain't just. I ain't running out to go down water slides, you know what I mean? Oh, there's pools, there's hot tubs. Yeah. Loaded with freaking sardines with people in them, you know, so I'm like, not getting in, not dealing with all that nonsense, you know, so it was literally the best time I had was dinners. [00:18:21] Speaker B: Well, those are really good. On the flip side. So you loved your first one. [00:18:26] Speaker C: I loved all the ones I went on. Yeah. I went on three. [00:18:29] Speaker B: My first one changed my life. But now, respectfully, I wasn't married at the time. And every penny I took I spent on alcohol. And it was a seven day trip and it was insane. [00:18:44] Speaker A: Yeah, no, see, I mean, it was rewind, you know, 15 years ago in my life. [00:18:51] Speaker B: I couldn't wait. [00:18:52] Speaker A: That's me. No, that's me 15 years ago in my life. That's probably me. Fast forward to today. You know, it's. That's. [00:19:01] Speaker B: I literally remember being like, oh, my gosh, what do I need to do to get back on that boat? And how long until I get back on that boat? And then when I got back home down here, I remember the cabin just rocking. [00:19:15] Speaker A: That's so walking. [00:19:16] Speaker B: I was like, oh, my God. [00:19:18] Speaker A: Yeah. So that. That's one thing that really burdened us was, you know, you spend x amount of time getting your sea legs and then you got to get your land legs. [00:19:26] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:19:27] Speaker A: You know, so for me, it took me a couple days. I wasn't moving anymore. Right, Megan? Almost like a month. [00:19:34] Speaker B: That's wild. [00:19:35] Speaker A: It was bad. [00:19:35] Speaker B: I didn't get much. [00:19:36] Speaker A: Like, she's like. She's like, I'm. No, we didn't either on the boat. We were fine. It was afterwards when you're standing on land and everything's still mo. That messed her up. I do think. [00:19:44] Speaker B: I do think. How am I trying to say this? If you think you can just go into a cruise and this is just like going to. You quickly find out, like, when you get on the boat that, oh, my gosh, I wish I would have known this, this, this or this. Versus like, okay, now I'm going on my third cruise. And you know, by this point, you can bring your own free 12 pack of. Of any sodas you want. [00:20:10] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:20:10] Speaker B: Bring you some waters and just things alongside. Pay the extra money for the balcony. Just things like that, man. [00:20:18] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:20:18] Speaker B: Crazy. [00:20:19] Speaker A: Well, we. I mean, we. We researched, we talked to people. We did our due diligence to make sure we did the. The things that we would like to do on it, you know? And I will say, you know, I love a casino. [00:20:34] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:20:34] Speaker A: I absolutely love. It's so fun to do that. It's not fun to lose. And you're not in There very long if you are. But if you can play freaking penny slots and small bets and win a bunch of money and just make. You can make $20 go all night. Those are the best nights. I don't care if I ain't making a million dollars, you know what I mean? Or winning all kinds. But that's the thing. That's another problem for me. [00:20:58] Speaker C: Just watching, Watching people too. [00:21:00] Speaker A: I love that. That is another problem for me. I've been in almost every. In Vegas. [00:21:07] Speaker B: Not. Not go out there. [00:21:08] Speaker A: Not every. Let's say all your big, big. Go down the main strip and see all the popular ones, right? I've been in all of them. You know, I've walked through them. I've. Maybe I've gambled in them. Maybe, you know, maybe I've just passed through them just because I'm looking at them sightseeing or whatever. And then to get on the smallest boat that carnival has and it being this big and so crowded, I'm like, good point. [00:21:32] Speaker B: I like that. [00:21:33] Speaker A: And plus, I didn't do good either. I didn't. Yeah, I didn't do good at all. I won 100 out of a claw machine, though. She picked it up. It's fun, man. I love it. You know, everybody's like, if you're used [00:21:45] Speaker B: to like real deal casinos, right? [00:21:48] Speaker A: I am. [00:21:48] Speaker B: And then you stumble up on that [00:21:50] Speaker C: one on the boat. [00:21:52] Speaker B: Actually, that. That's a really. [00:21:53] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:21:53] Speaker A: So that's another thing. I'm like, I get on there and I'm like, oh, yeah, heck freaking casino. And then you're like, oh, you can't. You can't go. And you can't gamble. It's not open until you get international waters, you know? [00:22:03] Speaker B: And I'm like, it don't matter. [00:22:05] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:22:05] Speaker A: And then, and then it opens and then that's where everybody goes and it's like, okay, can't get in the pool. Got to wait on turns. Got to wait on turns to get in the casino. If you get a good machine. [00:22:15] Speaker B: But probably not point to like the three verse seven day stuff, you know, I really. It's awesome point. Cuz like day three is when everything starts settling down and people start. [00:22:27] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:22:28] Speaker B: Mellowing out their business into their own room and settling. [00:22:32] Speaker C: Yeah, everything. [00:22:33] Speaker B: The casino's old news. We've been on the boat four days, you know, I mean, and then the bows of the world get to come in and pick their table the rest of the week and. Yeah, I just had such a routine when I was. [00:22:45] Speaker A: I. I want to do it Again. And I would, you know, and I really hope when we do it again, Megan can be better. I'm thinking, and I don't know, I may be totally freaking wrong about this. I asked so many people, even on that boat, you know, like, it seemed pretty dang rough to us. [00:23:04] Speaker B: Sure. [00:23:04] Speaker A: You know, because everybody I've talked to through the years, oh, you don't even [00:23:08] Speaker B: know you're on the water. [00:23:09] Speaker A: It's like a floating city. You know, you hear all this stuff and I get out there and I'm like, you know, we get out on the open ocean and I'm like, definitely on the water. You know, like, how could you not notice this? You know, and it's, I mean, I'm laying in bed like the first night and I'm like, dude, I feel like I'm a roll out of bed. I mean, I know I'm not. It literally feels that way. [00:23:30] Speaker C: I think it makes a huge difference too, with the size of boat. [00:23:33] Speaker A: Well, and I asked everybody too. I'm like, where does this fall on Your scale, like 1 to 10? Is this like a 5? Is this like a high? You know, 8, 9? Is this very mild at 2? Cuz. Dang. I don't know. I couldn't imagine it being much worse than this, you know, and it being doable or a norm. [00:23:50] Speaker B: We tried to save money one year and got like a. In cabin room like in the middle of the boat and, and above the motor. And dude, when I tell you every stop in port that we hit, you know, the, the rotors and the whole room was just from like 4am to 7:30. And we're on this seven stop cruise. Never ever, never again. The best cruise I've ever been on in my, in my entire life was with my wife. And we picked, I paid an extra three grand and we had one. Yeah, one of two rooms on the entire boat. There's, there's only two of the captain room or something. Only two of these rooms on the entire boat. And our balcony stretched around the back of the boat, up around the corner and up the side of the boat. [00:24:42] Speaker A: Yeah, I've seen those. [00:24:43] Speaker B: Amazing. [00:24:44] Speaker A: Yeah, I've seen them. [00:24:45] Speaker B: I mean, that balcony, that balcony was our private balcony for seven days, boys. You name it, we did it. [00:24:53] Speaker A: Yeah, it's nice. [00:24:54] Speaker B: It was amazing. Yeah, because then, Bo, you don't have to worry about the casino being full or dinner being too crowded or this or that. Yeah, get, take, do anything you want. Just go onto your balcony, watch the sunsets and the waters. [00:25:10] Speaker A: I mean, to Me. There was just. I mean, it's like, you know, you can only eat and drink so much, you know, that's like. And that was like, the only thing there was to do for me. [00:25:23] Speaker B: I get that. [00:25:23] Speaker A: And I'm like, now what I'm gonna do, there's nothing to do. Am I gonna lay out in a chair? No, I'm not a Tanner. I'm not a lay around. I've got too much. I'm. I'm kind of a jittery. I'm kind of go, go, go. Yeah, yeah. And it just. It just killed me, man. I mean, you know, I'm the kind of guy that. We're burning up this weekend at a baseball tournament, you know, sitting in a scorching sun. There's some tents. We didn't bring ours, of course, but, you know, and. And we got like an hour and a half before the next ball game starts, you know, And I'm. I'm like, Megan's like, come on over here and sit in the shade with me. I'm like, no, I'm gonna go walk around. [00:26:03] Speaker B: I'm with you. [00:26:04] Speaker A: You know, I'm not. [00:26:05] Speaker B: I get it. Yeah. [00:26:06] Speaker A: And there's. And once you go around so much, you've seen it all, you know, and there's just. [00:26:12] Speaker C: And. [00:26:12] Speaker A: And plus, we went in December, so we got good. You know, we're trying to save money again, you know. So in other words, the more I talk about this, the more I'm like, it's probably not a good one to judge it off of. [00:26:24] Speaker B: That's fair, though. [00:26:25] Speaker C: But I'd never heard any of your. [00:26:26] Speaker A: But we have the reasons. Well, we went in December. Okay. Bahamas, you know, everybody's like, well, let's get off. You know, let's. Let's get off the boat and let's go. Let's. Let's go do. I can't remember the first place. Oh, we stopped at Carnival's private island, the new one, Celebration Key. [00:26:42] Speaker B: Oh, cool. [00:26:42] Speaker A: We went there. That was. [00:26:44] Speaker B: So you went recently? [00:26:46] Speaker A: Yeah, I went last year. [00:26:48] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:26:49] Speaker A: Yeah, so I went. And, you know, we get off at Celebration. [00:26:53] Speaker B: Way crowded them. [00:26:54] Speaker A: We get off at Celebration Key. Well, no, back then, they only allowed one boat there at a time. You couldn't even bring multiple. They didn't have all the docks built. [00:27:01] Speaker B: Did you feel like your boat was super crowded? I don't know. That three day thing goes big time. [00:27:07] Speaker A: So. Absolutely. No, that's absolutely, you know, December, it's [00:27:11] Speaker C: probably the cheapest rates. Probably. [00:27:13] Speaker A: We've already. Already talked about all this stuff. You're not bringing this old. [00:27:16] Speaker C: No, no, no, no. [00:27:17] Speaker A: Well, we know all the negative sides to it and why we should, you know, why we should have done something different. But literally we were trying to just get our toes wet with it and see what it was all about. [00:27:27] Speaker C: All the trailer. You caught all the trailer people. [00:27:31] Speaker A: Maybe, maybe so. But anyway, would I go back out on one? I would and would. What would I do now? I. I think it would be unfair and who gives a crap about being fair when it comes to these big old cruise companies? But this is how I think. I think fair in my mind. But it would be unfair for me to get on the smallest boat that Carnival has. [00:27:55] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:27:55] Speaker A: And then get on the giant boat that, that Royal has and be like, oh, it's so much better than Carnival, you know, because Brody, like, Brody's been on a ton of cruises. He loves cruises. Right. He goes on long cruises, short cruises, mid cruises. He does everything. He loves them. And he told me that he prefers Carnival over Royal. [00:28:15] Speaker C: Oh. [00:28:15] Speaker B: You know, I've never been a Royal, but I, I love me some Carnival. [00:28:19] Speaker A: So it just, I mean, every. It's different strokes for different folks. My cousins or my, my brother in law and sister in law, they like Royal. They won't go on nothing. But. But everybody says. Everybody says, you know, pick one and stay on it because of your rewards, you know, and I get that, but I'm gonna have to try them out before. [00:28:37] Speaker C: I know the lady that I bought a Jeep, that Jeep from, she works for Royal. Six months out of the year, she's gone. She's out. Wow. She's on a boat for six now. [00:28:47] Speaker B: We did meet some cool. [00:28:48] Speaker C: And she was on there for six. She's gone right now. That's the whole reason I bought that Jeep from her. [00:28:54] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:28:55] Speaker C: And she told me, she said, if you like Carnival, you really need to try Royal. She said, unless you like to party, you like to do all that stuff that she said our cruises are a little more higher end. That's what she said. [00:29:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:29:07] Speaker C: Our boats are more higher end everything [00:29:09] Speaker B: as you go back, try it again at some point in this life. [00:29:11] Speaker A: Yeah, well, I want to. I think it's. I think it's a perfect pitch sales pitch. Ideal for like families to do because you're not going to go anywhere in vacation, of course, and have your food, you know, everything for that amount of money. Yeah, yeah. It's not going to happen. I tell you what, though, I was very disappointed in that boat with like, you stay up late and go to the late, late comedy show or whatever. And then you come out of there and you're like, I want some, you know, I want some ice cream. I want some food or whatever. They didn't have it open and everybody's [00:29:50] Speaker B: like, what you doing? 24 hour pizza and ice cream. [00:29:53] Speaker A: So it was open like the first two nights real late. I just don't think I was out there late enough. Cuz eventually I went back and like you couldn't get none of it. It. They took the freaking handles off the ice cream machine. Oh yeah, they were gone. Not like it's turned off. Like you couldn't use it if it was turned off. You know, they took the handles off of it. So anyway, that's where I stand on cruises. I will do one again. I will try Royal next. Probably bounce back to Carnival. Unless I just don't see a reason to change. Right. You know, I made. I may. I mean who cares about being fair to freaking travel companies like that? [00:30:28] Speaker B: So yeah. [00:30:29] Speaker A: Anyway. All right. [00:30:30] Speaker C: One thing that we forgot to do last time was with Steve [00:30:37] Speaker B: about medical. Medical sick. You know a little bit more about this. [00:30:40] Speaker A: And this is May new to me, [00:30:42] Speaker B: new to you, new to a lot of people who doesn't know this. I don't just openly share it, but when you have the visible issues I'm going through now. Actually walked to that mailbox down the road about six years ago. And when I got to the mailbox, I could not turn around and get back to the house. And there were some other things that had led up. But at the age of 35, I was diagnosed type 1 diabetic and my pancreas had died. My feet had swollen up like watermelons. All this is another thing I kind of left out with my sinuses and stuff, which is reflection to my insulin. But all fat, muscle mass and everything shrunk down all the way down to my bones and the in from the inside out of my head, like in my mouth and stuff started dehydrating and cracking. Started cracking up on the outside of my jaws. [00:31:41] Speaker A: What? [00:31:42] Speaker B: You know, my body had jumped to a 986 sugar level. [00:31:47] Speaker A: Is that like dead? [00:31:48] Speaker B: Bet we could prick your finger right now. And I would put. Unless you know that you have any issues or you've been experiencing anything lately. I would put a high amount of money on it that you are between an 80 or a 105 max. And if it said 105 a duck po, you might want to watch it. Like you could eat three Snicker bars Right now. And I bet your body would handle it and do what it does. My pancreas doesn't allow. Since it's being dead. Your pancreas creates the insulin based on the sugar intakes or your sinuses and opens and controls everything. You don't know that. Even to when you pee in the toilet, the minerals and stuff that you're pushing out. So for about two weeks, every hour on the minute. If I Woke up at 1103, Bo. I woke up at 12:03. 1:03, 2:03, 3:03. All through the night. And I peed, and I started peeing so long, I started falling asleep with my hand on the wall while I was peeing. [00:32:45] Speaker A: Now, is this before you know anything's going on? [00:32:47] Speaker B: Before I knew. [00:32:48] Speaker A: Okay. [00:32:48] Speaker B: This is like. Okay. [00:32:49] Speaker A: It's before the mailbox. [00:32:50] Speaker B: Before I knew. Yes. [00:32:51] Speaker A: Okay. [00:32:52] Speaker B: Actual diagnostics. [00:32:53] Speaker A: Okay. [00:32:54] Speaker B: But them two weeks, if you've ever heard of this, I had never heard of this. I literally peed everything from my weight to my muscles to my minerals, to everything that is important and valuable to you. [00:33:10] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:33:10] Speaker B: To the little things that keep you from blowing snot everywhere. All that stuff is controlled on time. Works how it does, not if you pee it all out. And then your body just doesn't know what to do and how to do. [00:33:23] Speaker A: And so you did this for two weeks. [00:33:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:33:26] Speaker A: And after, like, the first two days, you wasn't like, something's weird. [00:33:31] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:33:32] Speaker B: But I mean, you don't think. [00:33:33] Speaker C: I guess you wouldn't think that much [00:33:34] Speaker A: about it if I peed every freaking hour. Waking up. I would kind of leave that out. [00:33:40] Speaker B: No, I get it. [00:33:41] Speaker A: I would. Every night. [00:33:43] Speaker B: I just ain't a run to the doctor. [00:33:45] Speaker A: I hear you. I'm not either, you know, you especially. [00:33:48] Speaker C: I'll be back on track next week. And then next week comes, you still ain't back on track. [00:33:51] Speaker B: Yeah. Another week barely struggling even to just breathe. Not breathe like that. I can breathe, but you know what I'm saying? Just to. To control this side of my. Whatever you want to call. Sinuses, nasals, whatever. So obviously, go get the test done and. [00:34:11] Speaker A: Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. How did you get back from the mailbox? [00:34:15] Speaker B: What'd you do? Well, mom lived across the street at the time, so you just. [00:34:19] Speaker A: What? [00:34:19] Speaker B: I mean, I obviously made it back to the house, but. [00:34:22] Speaker A: Okay, well, sorry. You said you could. [00:34:24] Speaker B: I get it, I get it, I get it. [00:34:25] Speaker A: I thought maybe they picked you up [00:34:26] Speaker B: on a stretcher realization of. Oh, my goodness. [00:34:29] Speaker A: Okay. Like an energy level Just gone. That's what you mean. [00:34:32] Speaker B: As if. As if I had either a been beaten up so bad or it finally hit me. How you can't even fathom what it takes to put that foot, you know, [00:34:42] Speaker A: to take a step. [00:34:43] Speaker B: When my father was passing last year, he looked up at me and he. He was having trouble holding his head straight. And if I didn't go through what I went through, this would have been blown. I wouldn't have even have paid it any mind. But I'll never forget this. He got to the point where our visits and stuff just like this. You know what I mean? [00:35:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:35:03] Speaker B: And I'm lifting up enough just so they can see me and y' all can see me, but he'd stay like this. And he finally mustered up enough and got his head up and said, son, it's crazy how your liver controls such a level of energy that you never even understood. [00:35:19] Speaker A: Think about that. [00:35:20] Speaker B: You don't think about your liver when you think about energy or this or that. I mean, I don't. I'm not a doctor. I'm sure doctors and physicians. Same thing with the sinuses and insulin. I don't know, technically, I'm still learning a lot of it. I wish I could control it all better, but, you know, nevertheless. And to be fair with you, Bo, I don't really remember how I got back from the mailbox as an honest answer. Obviously I did, but that was my moment. Kind of like where you said where it's like, oh, I. Yeah, something wrong. And we go to the Doctor and my A1. When my results and stuff came back, it was an immediate call. My mother used to be a receptionist or a lobotomist through that office. And the doctor had called her and said, where's your son? And she was like, I'm sure he's at the house. She's like, honey, you gotta go and you gotta go now. He's either going to hit diabetic coma or he's already in it and he just has no idea. We're talking full blown hallucinations, everything. My sugar was a 986. My A1C had hit a 22. And when I went to my visit last week, my doctor we. She went back through where I was when I came in, where it is. And she reminded me it was the highest she had ever seen. God. [00:36:38] Speaker C: So. [00:36:39] Speaker B: And she knows a lot about or a little about a lot of stuff instead of everything about one thing. You know what I mean? So this isn't a beat the chest type moment. Or anything either. Just, it's just my story to where when I left the last show with you guys, I was like, how in the crap did we not even get [00:36:58] Speaker A: into this, this in Brazil. [00:37:01] Speaker B: Yeah, 10 minutes in Brazil, when in all actuality there should have been a 10 minute period where it should have killed me or the levels in my body at the time had just said, watch this, we're shutting you down. I mean, technically it did. It was just crazy. But I, I, I think. [00:37:22] Speaker C: So when your mom come to pick you up, were you at home? Like, were you still sick? Or how does that. [00:37:26] Speaker B: Yeah, but you know, you, you think of this, you have this vision like, oh, he's hanging on by threads. And that's just it, you know, something's wrong, but you're just like, why am I so tired? Or this or that, which, I mean, even some of the stuff you had been through and you know, I didn't, I never really had that moment where I was like, is this something? Until you find out? And then you go, well, look, just because we can control it doesn't mean it wasn't, it just wasn't terminal in that moment. Right. It kills people daily. [00:37:54] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:37:56] Speaker B: You know, kids are born with what I now have. So it's not, I, I guess it is more. I've learned this in five, the past five years. It's more common now what's happening to me. But even then, when it did happen to me, you know, it's just not. You don't name the last 35 year old who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Type 2 is a whole nother world. That's not, I really don't mean that. So these guys know me enough to wear this? That ain't a bragging thing. [00:38:23] Speaker A: No, no, no, no. [00:38:24] Speaker B: Yeah, but then you can't. Well, I'm type two. I hope you're handling it and controlling it, but that is not the same ball game. [00:38:30] Speaker A: I'm. [00:38:30] Speaker B: Five needles a day. [00:38:31] Speaker A: Yeah. Insulin dependent. [00:38:33] Speaker C: I can't take that shot. I'd be passing out. [00:38:36] Speaker A: So I'll tell you this. [00:38:37] Speaker C: I'd learn how to do it. [00:38:38] Speaker A: And you've got more to tell about this, right? [00:38:40] Speaker B: I mean, to a certain external. [00:38:41] Speaker A: I don't know how much. Well, I'll tell you, I'll tell you this story. So boom, Eric, he, His little nephew was born without a kidney, any kidneys. And. [00:38:54] Speaker C: Yeah, I know who you're talking about. Yeah. [00:38:55] Speaker A: So he wore a, he wore a bag on him because he had, he couldn't pee, I guess. [00:39:03] Speaker B: Sure. [00:39:04] Speaker A: You know, whatever. Anyway, he had a bag on him for a long time. A long time. This kid had made Matt look like he had never had a broken bone. I never seen him without a cast. He would literally break his. And it's because he had rickets. So he would literally jump off. What is that exactly? I don't know. He. But he would literally. Eric just told me this, but he would. [00:39:27] Speaker C: He's brittle. [00:39:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:39:28] Speaker C: Literally bump into that counter. [00:39:30] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah. He'd jump off the couch, break his leg. He jumped, you know, hit his arm right here, Break his arm. It would just happen all the time. And he constantly stayed in a cast. Well, all of a sudden, one day, Vanderbilt called. We've got a kidney for him. Oh, he's on a transplant list. Right. You know, like, okay, we got a kidney for. For him. So they load him up, take him up there. They put a kidney in, body rejects it. Then they have to. Then they have to acclimate the body with it. Finally, kidney accepts the kidney. Okay, that would be terrible. It accepts it. Ricketts gone immediately when he has a functioning kidney. [00:40:03] Speaker B: Oh, right, right. No. [00:40:04] Speaker A: So talking about things, making things work, you know, didn't have to do anything. I didn't know all that. Oh, yeah, yeah. And. And he spent a lot of time doing that. And here recently, I think it was. Think it was maybe a year ago or so Eric's stepdad was telling me. But they. They had to haul him back in there because his body rejected it again, like, just randomly, like. So they hauled him back in there and did all kinds of other stuff to him and all that, But. But I mean, I think he's good now, but. Yeah, but that goes with, you know, one thing. Being off can mess you up. [00:40:35] Speaker B: I don't know who watches and details. You all seen this. But as I cannot get my nose stop running. And I know that's a tie into what I've learned versus what opens up and a kidney instantly fixing something like that. I don't know. I'm trying to learn all this stuff too. [00:40:53] Speaker A: When I'm. [00:40:54] Speaker B: My blood sugar is real high and stuff, my body's more dry and, you know, I can accept. And I feel perfectly fine at a 300. Well, you put me at a 68. And I'm over here. Like, [00:41:06] Speaker A: it's all calm. [00:41:07] Speaker B: You know what I mean? [00:41:09] Speaker A: But anyways, so questions for that, then. Okay. You said. You said feet swell up like watermelons. [00:41:15] Speaker B: Crazy, like big talons. It was wild. [00:41:18] Speaker A: So is. How old were you when this took [00:41:20] Speaker B: place 34 and a half. 35. [00:41:23] Speaker A: So about five years ago. [00:41:24] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:41:24] Speaker B: Okay, fair enough. [00:41:25] Speaker A: About five years ago, what did they start? So you go to the hospital, I'm [00:41:30] Speaker B: assuming because of your main doctor office. [00:41:32] Speaker A: Not the hospital, just the doctor's office. Okay. And what did they do for you? [00:41:37] Speaker B: Ran labs instantly. [00:41:39] Speaker A: Okay. [00:41:39] Speaker B: Which is an all around organ check. Know a little bit about this. Okay. You know what I'm saying? If major blood work, but now we're gonna dive into organs and this and that extended test here, here, here, here, and here. Well, what is it, four or five main organs, whatever, they come back fine. But your pancreas. And then, then, you know, there. So she knew my pancreas was dead, Producing no insulin, no sugar intake, nothing. [00:42:07] Speaker A: Now, is it still in your body or they have to remove it? [00:42:09] Speaker B: No, we didn't remove it. [00:42:10] Speaker A: Okay. So it's just chilling. [00:42:11] Speaker B: And we asked about that and it's been a while. I hadn't brought that up in a while, but just. It is just chilling. [00:42:18] Speaker A: Yeah. And so they do they like automatically start giving you some insulin when they realize that. Okay. [00:42:25] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:42:25] Speaker A: All right. [00:42:25] Speaker B: I'll never forget my first round of insulin. Promise upon promise. I've never done no insane, crazy hard drugs. But I'm telling you, that first dose of insulin's gotta be what heroin feels like. But she warned me now when she sent me home, she's like, honey, I don't know what. I was like, yeah, we ain't gotta worry about none of that. She's like, you're gonna take that first dose because your body is dying. [00:42:51] Speaker A: Yeah, you're living. [00:42:53] Speaker B: What did you say about that kidney and how it inches healed that rickus? And I just remember being like, oh, my gosh, if insulin does this, let's ride, baby. [00:43:06] Speaker A: Let's live life. [00:43:08] Speaker B: She's like, don't get too excited. Your body will start to regulate. Which is pretty much the game I play every day. Snotty nose or not, that doesn't matter. You try. I'm on a daily mission to regulate my body. Could I be better in a hundred different areas? Of course. Better diet. I did pretty good exercise, you know, across the board. All these things you could do, but it's just a wild awakening. [00:43:40] Speaker C: At 35, I couldn't imagine waking up. I mean, if it happens to me, it happens to me, but it. I don't know what it would feel like. A train wreck. [00:43:47] Speaker B: I'm sure it was like. [00:43:49] Speaker C: I mean, you're 35. Like, you kind of feel like you're in Your, you know, not in your prime, but you feel. [00:43:53] Speaker A: You are in your prime. [00:43:55] Speaker B: You feel pretty good. [00:43:56] Speaker C: You feel pretty good. And then you get wiped with type 1 diabetic, you know. [00:44:00] Speaker B: Well, I went to my. This is beyond a true story. So I'm pretty sure I've probably had panic attacks before. We just. Me and my family didn't know enough about it to label it that it's okay. Just handle your anxiety or do it. I just, just when I went to the grocery store the first time after being diagnosed, that was a full blown panic attack. I remember you telling me this wild anxiety. I stood. Oh, I can almost take you to the exact spot in the local grocery store. I stood there, my eyes started watering, I couldn't move. And I just cried and cried and cried because everything I thought I could pick up, grab or I needed to start eating now I couldn't because of the carbs, the labels on the back. [00:44:55] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:44:55] Speaker B: And you, you find out so very quick that nothing in that store is good. [00:44:59] Speaker A: Right. You walked around and you read things and you're just putting them back because [00:45:02] Speaker B: you knew you could. Nothing in that store is good. [00:45:04] Speaker A: That sounds like I would. I would just be dead. [00:45:06] Speaker B: Cereal. The cereal all is my favorite. And that's the first time she said, stay off the zero. You have no business ever going back down there. It's just crazy. [00:45:14] Speaker C: I had no cereal last night. Maybe that's why. [00:45:16] Speaker B: There we go. Cereal. Yeah, we're joking about that. But when I say I'm still learning and stuff, that really could be the reflection of the type of day I'm having versus just even down to what it feels like in here versus going out into the humidity air and just. I know that sounds crazy, man, but you've got to watch your insulin intake, which. I'm insulin dependent. So what I eat, I inject. [00:45:44] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:45:45] Speaker B: Because I'm not eating when I wake up, I inject. [00:45:47] Speaker C: My cousin, he was born with being [00:45:50] Speaker B: sorry for all the sniffles and stock guys. The top one. [00:45:53] Speaker C: And he's. He's got the pump on. [00:45:55] Speaker A: Yes. [00:45:55] Speaker C: You know, and I was like, gosh, that would be terrible. [00:45:57] Speaker B: But you get used to it. [00:45:59] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure it would be rough living like that. I mean, that thing we're sitting there and now he. [00:46:04] Speaker A: And it makes no. It goes beep, beep, beep or something. [00:46:06] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. And then he'll look down at it. He's like, golly bunger, a 505. I'm like, put the dang cake down, man. [00:46:13] Speaker B: Oh, no, no. [00:46:13] Speaker C: You know, it just. And it. [00:46:15] Speaker B: Now that's a good point. [00:46:16] Speaker C: You know, it's. It's one of those things. It's like, yeah, you got the pump. [00:46:21] Speaker B: You're gonna wear that thing out if [00:46:23] Speaker C: you don't do a little bit better. Die. [00:46:25] Speaker B: You know, I promised myself that. And she was like, listen, and this is only going to do what it's going to do. But if you're just going to sit back and make the insulin do all the work, there's going to be no ground cover and you know, what size I used to be and stuff. So I've put fairly decent effort into this and I'm promised to at least stay true to myself where I'm just not going to be out here eating whatever I want, when I want. Do I? Dude, let me tell you something. [00:46:54] Speaker C: Something. [00:46:54] Speaker B: If you ain't never had a wake up day and you just don't care, I absolutely have those days. To heck with it. I'm having pizza today too. I'm having pizza. So then I. I just control and handle it the best I can. But then you get body reactions like this. Maybe. Obviously I don't know. [00:47:13] Speaker A: Yeah, well, all right, well, what else did we forget? [00:47:19] Speaker B: That might be it. [00:47:22] Speaker A: What did you say? Go ahead. [00:47:23] Speaker C: I was just gonna say I remember when he started losing. It's about three or four years ago, maybe. [00:47:28] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah. [00:47:28] Speaker C: He started like we was riding and stuff and we had a bunch of, you know, whole crew with us and he started dropping this body weight and man, the rumors started trickling around. [00:47:39] Speaker B: I mean, those rumors have been around my whole life. That, that doesn't. [00:47:41] Speaker C: No, no, but I just. I thought. [00:47:43] Speaker B: I'm sorry. For God's sake, what math. There's no telling. There's no telling. [00:47:49] Speaker C: He's on some hardcore st. Yeah, yeah. [00:47:55] Speaker B: Especially once you don't understand or don't like you. I mean, come on, everybody likes. [00:47:59] Speaker A: Let's assume the worst. [00:48:00] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, he's on drugs. [00:48:02] Speaker A: Ain't nobody accusing me of me on anything. No, I'm just saying if you had haters. Bo, they ain't gonna accuse me of that at least maybe, maybe if I start dropping weight, but give them a reason to. [00:48:14] Speaker B: But not. [00:48:15] Speaker A: Not the condition I'm in. And this is a condition. What was you gonna ask us? You said you had something for us. [00:48:23] Speaker B: I don't even know at this point. I'm having such a bad night now. It doesn't. I was just more curious on your interest levels and all this and how you seem to really be into it and with it versus maybe not even asking you. Just sharing with you. See it through. I think you're still having fun with all this. [00:48:46] Speaker A: Oh, you mean with the show? [00:48:48] Speaker B: Yes. [00:48:48] Speaker A: Oh. [00:48:49] Speaker B: I want you to go as hard as you are going now. When you start not liking it, then decide if it comes to something like that. [00:48:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:48:59] Speaker B: If you're. If it's still all smiles and you're having a blast with it. You brought me back for the second time. I don't know snotty boy will ever get to come back again, but I better enjoy this one. I'm simply saying this. [00:49:10] Speaker C: Well, make sure you're regulated. [00:49:12] Speaker B: No cereal the night before. [00:49:13] Speaker A: Yeah. No cereal. [00:49:15] Speaker B: I want you when it becomes a hassle. Yeah, I think it will. It just does most. [00:49:22] Speaker A: Most things. I would say it's kind of already. Well, it has been that already for me. I mean, just because you got to make the time to do it. I've got other stuff I really need to do, but I gotta go over it. We can't do it another night. This is it. You know, we've had some of that stuff going on. [00:49:36] Speaker B: Well, let's do this. Here's a question. Are you still having fun with it? [00:49:41] Speaker A: Yes. [00:49:42] Speaker B: And do you feel like the giddy and excitement with it and stuff? [00:49:47] Speaker A: For sure. Depends on that. Depends. [00:49:50] Speaker B: Does new location help? [00:49:52] Speaker A: No. I don't change anything. [00:49:54] Speaker B: I like that part of it for. [00:49:55] Speaker C: I like the new location. [00:49:56] Speaker B: That's awesome. So studio's fire. [00:49:58] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't. I don't. I mean, that doesn't do anything for me. It is what it is. But what I like is different people, I guess, like hearing other people's stories and asking questions and learning about people. [00:50:09] Speaker B: And even with serious. All right, boom. Jokes. Go. Even with how I'm feeling and being here and this and that. It opens up. They're just, you know, they're going to say and think what they want to anyways. There was never. You're never going to change whatever somebody's going to say even about this. But to sit here and do it, then you feel excited and have fun with it. And my man Ice over here, you guys. To have me back for the second time, it's still fun and exciting to you. I want you to promise to try to yourself even when it starts to become maybe too much or old or you feel burnout or you're not as excited. Pick a window in a period of time to where you don't just instantly give in to that and you go even harder and see if you can come out the other side. [00:51:00] Speaker A: So I'll say this. So I'll say this to you. [00:51:03] Speaker B: Okay. [00:51:03] Speaker A: This is a man who's been doing this for 10 years. Right. [00:51:06] Speaker B: Okay. [00:51:07] Speaker A: Ten years, working on it. [00:51:08] Speaker B: Sure. [00:51:08] Speaker A: And this may seem like you may hear what I'm about to say, and you go, it's not enough time. It sucks. Terrible plan. Whatever. But I'll tell you this. When we. When we started this, I told Matt, and Matt agreed with me, and maybe he didn't really agree with me, but he agreed with me. I told him. I said, you know, he's like, well, let's do it. Let's actually do it. And I'm like, are you sure you really want to? [00:51:29] Speaker B: Right? [00:51:29] Speaker A: He's like, yeah. I said, okay. We give it 365 days. [00:51:34] Speaker B: Of course. [00:51:34] Speaker A: Like, I don't. I don't care if we. I don't care if we. If we don't like it, if it's getting hard, if it's doing whatever. We can't be like, oh, this ain't working. Nobody's watch. We got to quit. I. I said. I told him a year, and he agreed. And we're gonna try to go hard. January 1, January 1, as much as we can, and try to keep it on track and. And keep going. And then after that point, we're going to step back, look at it, and go figure out. Still go or not go or whatever. Yeah. [00:52:03] Speaker B: Okay. But even. [00:52:04] Speaker A: All right. I mean, so that was our plan before we started. [00:52:08] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:52:08] Speaker A: You know, so I, like, just personally [00:52:12] Speaker B: speaking, speaking to you, you see this thing through, dude. You see it as. Through as far as you want to. And even. Even when you feel like you can't see it no more, Give it just a little bit more and just see what happens. Grows. Grows. Whatever. [00:52:26] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:52:27] Speaker B: And episodes like this, even with all going on with me, I think just adds to. You know, I've always said this, man. Run it down their neck till they have no choice but to start liking it and watching Smoking Mirrors, man. And I. I'm telling the world that you just keep giving them an episode every week, no matter what. Keep bringing people on snot and all. Who cares? Bring them in, bathe in that stuff. And you just keep releasing episodes. [00:52:55] Speaker A: We'll have. [00:52:55] Speaker C: We'll have snotty noses next week. [00:52:57] Speaker B: Yeah, I'll be sick. I had four bowls of cereal. [00:53:07] Speaker A: Next time you're on here, we'll just eat cereal. [00:53:09] Speaker B: Yes. That's a low blow right there. I can thank y' all so much. I mean it. [00:53:16] Speaker A: Absolutely. Happy to have you back on. Hope everybody's listening. Watching it has liked it. We're gonna keep going, guys. Tune in next week to see what we have in store. Thank you all for watching. [00:53:26] Speaker C: See y' all next time. [00:53:27] Speaker B: Burners up.