You might notice a change in the voice here at the top of the show because I am not coach.
He's taking a rest while the rest of the gang takes over.
Welcome to Halfway House.
let's go and welcome to halfway house episode one and
And we will be talking this week with friends on the show about what's on our minds.
This is the show for, of course, white fathers and white families, even if all the participants are not exactly in that state of life, shall we say.
But we will address that and other topics.
I am Sam, your faithful host.
And this week, we will be doing something a little different while Coach is out.
And we've taken over the show because we did what we had to do.
Let's put it that way.
So with that, I'm going to introduce our panel.
So for the birth panel this week, we have first up, Rolo, the producer of the show.
How are you doing, Rolo?
Well, you know, a little annoyed, but hey, it's just how it goes.
I'm doing my best to hold it together as my PC is currently falling apart.
Yeah.
Well, that's, we are all relying on this thing here, whether it's our phones or the computers nowadays in the modern life.
And what would we do without it?
I mean, we talk to each other on it.
We work from it.
We have all our pertinent data, all our financial data and everything, every pertinent document in our life is on here.
So it's kind of like you have no choice but to make sure you got a device that's up to snuff.
And it's not only that, but you got to keep your stuff backed up.
And up on the cloud, you got to have a security plan to protect your information.
So how are you doing and all that?
You think you're going to be able to hold up?
Well, I haven't backed up everything that I need to yet.
I backed up most of it and I'm probably just going to do that over the weekend.
But it's more that I think there's enough shelf life, so to speak, on my PC to get me through whatever day-to-day operations.
But the things that I actually use it for is what I think it's not going to be useful for in the future.
Well, do you have your things protected like your paintings and things?
You have an external hard drive maybe that you back things up regularly?
Well, I can't actually store my paintings on my computer, but wait a minute.
You don't use Microsoft Paint to do all that?
Well, okay.
Well, I do, but I was hoping you wouldn't tell everybody that.
Oh, I drew a really good sunflower and a cat on it the other day.
Okay.
I can't wait for everybody to see that.
But those are the things that doesn't upset me so much.
It's just being able to do it in the future.
Right.
If I lose whatever like immediate audio files, like most of Full House I have backed up and Gamer Word and what other crappy show I've been on.
But all right.
But it's just being able to do it long term is it's looking a little bleak these days.
Right.
Right.
Okay.
Well, that's good.
Good stuff.
And from bachelor number one, we're going to go to bachelor number two.
Water.
Water.
How are you doing, buddy?
Well, fish want me.
Women fear me.
So that means I'm doing pretty all right.
Very good.
Very good.
And how are your travels nowadays?
They're usually pretty calculated.
It's two or three times a year at most, mostly by the season.
Staying with some weirdo right now.
And it's pretty cool.
It's doable, but it's, you know, it's kind of taxing mentally every now and then.
Yeah.
But I'm making it work.
Great.
I mentioned I had a plan to abduct my two youngest daughters and I'm going to give them to you guys.
You guys can figure out which one you want and, you know, condition them, you know, get the Stockholm Syndrome thing to kick in and save them from themselves, really.
Needs to be done.
I'm going to make her second guess if she wants to really travel.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
Can't seem to stop doing it.
Yeah.
Well, this last couple of weeks, you know, we were off for a couple of weeks there and it worked out okay for me anyways, because I've been on two gigantic projects at work that have been driving me crazy that have wrapped up, you might say, today.
And so I'm really kind of on a little high right now because I'm sort of free, you might say.
And I come home and I got to tell you, I'm coming off of a few shots of Mescal, one of my favorite hard boozes.
And do you guys know what Mescal is?
That's the one with the worm, right?
The one brand does have the worm, but many of the brands do not have the worm.
You might describe it like this, like Mescal means that it's distilled from the agave plant.
And you might say tequila is to Mescal what scotch is to whiskey.
So tequila means it's made with this blue agave plant, and then it's aged in oak barrels.
So it's very, very smooth and it has a very distinctive flavor that anyone who has drank tequila will know the flavor.
But mescal is distilled from what they call wild agave.
And it is wild.
It's maybe the inexperienced drinker might call it like harsher.
And I suppose our grandfathers would say something like it puts hair on your chest because it does scorch you pretty good.
But it's something that I've developed a taste for through the years and something I enjoy.
And anyways, after I came home, I came home a bit early from work because I had wrapped up these projects and was completely mentally kind of exhausted.
came home started drinking the mezcal and i've been uh kind of chasing my wife around the house and slapping her on the ass a few times you ever see this uh looney tunes cartoon where uh i think it's like uh elmer fudd and bugs bunny they're uh they're like yosemite sam Yeah, that's what it is where they're at sea, right?
In a boat or something.
They're like drifting at sea.
And then one party looks like a big piece of meat, you know, to the other party.
Like he's talking to him and the other party looks like a piece of meat because they're starving to death.
That's what my wife looked like to me today after I've been.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Anyways, so just like anything, if you go to a fancy liquor store now, you know, this whole market of tequila and mezcal is like exploded where you have this very high-end stuff and, you know, the shelves are just full of all this, you know, swipply type booze.
So anyways, I would recommend it if you're a little bit adventurous and maybe you want to get in a fistfight or two, start drinking some Mezcal and it might just work.
It might just work one way or another.
Maybe it'll help you guys, you know, with the ladies or something.
I don't know.
Well, I have a question for you.
Yes, sir.
Why was there a worm in it?
Give me the history.
Well, yeah.
Well, the agave plant, that worm lives in the agave plant.
And perhaps in the old days, that was a mark of the authenticity of it was to include the worm.
It's really a grub to include it in the bottle.
Good grub.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And but it's it's only the one brand that I ever see that in.
And that brand was like, that was the bottle that I was able to get many years ago.
And I don't even see that brand anymore.
And I don't see any of those bottles that have a worm in it.
And it was always a macho thing, though, to, of course, eat the worm at the end.
And it's probably thoroughly soaked with the booze.
Can Jews drink Mezcal?
I don't know how that works for them.
See, they can't eat bugs.
Is a worm a bug?
Yeah, that's true.
Probably if you wanted to observe dietary laws, that would not be one.
You know, the dietary laws are more centered around things like you don't want to, you want to eat things based on what that thing eats.
So like you don't want to eat animals that eat other animals.
Hey, hey, yeah.
And when it comes to bugs, again, if we're talking about the dietary laws in the Bible, which by the way, the Jews don't really follow either.
But you can eat locusts.
That's what the chicken is for.
You can eat locusts because John the Baptist, of course, ate locusts.
So, you know, there are certain rules about it.
And if you wanted to distill what the principle of it is, it's don't eat things that eat other things.
And I think worms would follow into that like scavenger type animal that digests corpses and stuff like that.
So I would say I could throw a hole in a seat.
Would that be all right?
Well, yeah, that's bringing in another wrinkle to the argument, I suppose.
But so, yeah, I would say just as a general principle, those are good, good principles.
And you know, in our modern day and age, you could make the argument like any animal that's for sale for food in the United States, if it's regulated by the FDA and things like that, things are raised in controlled conditions and not wild animals per se.
And, you know, you could make the argument that diets of the animals are controlled.
And so, you know, why not eat any animal?
And yeah, I understand that too.
You could, you could raise that type of topic.
I, I retain the idea, though, that, you know, those principles enumerated in the Bible about dietary laws, those are good things to follow.
And maybe if you were starving to death or something, or you didn't have a choice, you might, of course, it's not about sacrificing your life for it.
These are more things of to for your own health and your own good.
It's the way I look at it.
This is one long Jew joke.
I gotta tell you.
Okay.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, this is the challenge.
We're working a bunch like working up.
I thought you were going to launch into one.
Okay.
I tell you.
Vigorous speech.
But go ahead.
I was going to say, have we played the animal game before?
I don't know.
I don't know if I have.
It's not a day thing, is it?
Okay.
What's involved?
Okay.
So optional, but preferably, please do.
So here's the idea.
And this is this is a great.
This is a good game.
Yes, I know, unfortunately.
This is a good game for single men.
This is a you play this game on a date with a woman, first date, and it's a lot of fun.
So what I've done is I've reclassified the entire animal kingdom into a I've just condensed it into 11 or 12 categories.
So you name an animal.
The idea is to try to stump me.
You name an animal and I'll tell you what it is.
So go ahead, Sam.
Because you'll learn how the game works as you go.
And the more you go, the more you figure out how it goes.
And girls love this game.
Three toad sloth.
Three toe sloth.
It's a mouse.
Water, go ahead.
Platypus.
See, it's a bird.
Lays eggs.
It's got a bill.
It's a bird.
Everyone thinks that they're so clever with that one.
Go ahead.
Go again.
Chimpanzee.
It's a monkey.
Okay.
Norwell.
That's a fish.
You know why?
Because it looks like a fish.
Eel.
Swims around the water.
That's a tail things and all that.
Yeah, eel.
It's a fish.
Okay.
Human.
Well, we're not in the animal kingdom.
We reign supreme.
Negro.
I mean, if you want to be like a homo scientist, we are too easy.
Come on.
Yeah.
Yeah.
See, that was a dumb one.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, you get the idea.
Yeah, yeah, so you distill it down to like whatever the genesis or something like yeah and, and it's always, and it's it's fun to come up with the reason why that that, that that always makes I see it yeah like uh yeah well, you do it.
It's the pre-drunk game.
You know, you do it on the first beer or or, in you know her case, first cosmo, but you, you do that it it, it's the icebreaker while you're getting the social lubricant in.
Yeah, I think you're hitting on something there that, even though it seems maybe a little silly on on one way, I I think that women, they like to talk and they they like a man who knows how to talk to them, even if it's about like kind of a little bit small talk, or or you're playing, like this game.
Uh, I think that's funny too, makes you laugh, and yeah, you can make it like it's your own.
You you can make oh, I just I came up with this and then you'll be funny, right.
So I think that's uh, that's a good advice maybe for somebody who's who uh, clams up around women.
Uh that's, that's one thing you gotta you gotta uh overcome or figure out.
Is is how to keep the conversation going, like you say how to make them laugh and uh um, that that's it's.
It kind of just follows naturally.
Then Rollos, Riz Tips.
I'm liking that yeah yeah, yeah.
And and there's some really funny uh reasons why and I brought this up because uh, because you, because so many things just become a bug like obviously, a spider is a bug no, it's a reaction.
No no, it's a bug.
But octopus oh, that's a bug.
It's basically like a giant water spider.
It's a bug right, so well uh so, as as a tool for the uh interacting with the opposite sex uh we, we just touched on before coming on the show about this uh swipe right uh, culture that was alluded to.
Um, what do you think about this?
What are your thoughts on this, either of you?
About water, why don't you start where you were talking about it?
Let's uh, let's hear what you got on on this.
I was talking about this to one of our guys earlier today too, and it's uh, if you're looking for one good quality woman for life, which is our guys goal, it should be, start a family, have one stable, good woman.
It's probably one in 100.
Speaking as accurately as I can on any given dating app which I don't use the hookup ones, but things like Bumble hinge.
A more faith-based one like upward you're talking like one in 100 ladies is worth staying with for good there and it's uh, once you get that one to match you, if you can do that, good luck.
That's when you need that's well.
I also want to push back on.
I also want to push back on one thing, because I I hear this a lot from a lot of people.
Well val, before we go into that, um and I and this is from experience I don't believe any of them are the, the hookup app or whatever that that is.
People have kind of globbed on to that that never used any of those apps because they assume Tinder is the same as Grindr, where gays are just mentally deranged perverts that need to sexual gratification constantly because of the one time they got, you know, too much funny business at summer camp.
But the way that society has catered to sex positive.
feminism and all this stuff The dating app versus like meeting someone IRL, I do not see any difference.
Like, you're going to get the same behavior.
It's, it's not like a woman's on a dating app because she's she's down to cruise, yo.
Yeah, it's just that, that's just that's just this the state of people now is we've been taught you don't need self-control, and that's why it's one in a hundred to find a good woman because it it's just hard to find a good woman in general, it has nothing to do with the apps.
And I like I have met women that like at church or at a gym or at some other event, and it's it my experience is it hasn't really been different because the overall problem it's the how society has has treated everybody,
it's it's not the apps themselves because the the apps are like tinder bumble hinge, whatever it's just dating Uber, that's all it is instead of going out and putting time into, yeah, yeah, it's or it's dating Netflix or dating whatever brings you your groceries app, Amazon cart or whatever.
It's it's people don't they they don't need to go out and put the work in when you can just have it delivered.
That that's that's where the people are now.
There's a part of me that that um has a hard time really believing what you're saying, not that that it's not what you think, but it's you know, the 99 out of 100 that have this ridiculous um outlook on life.
You know, there's a part of me that says I want to chime in real quick on that.
I think he means like it's one in a hundred that you're going to want to marry in addition that you can marry, yeah.
So, okay, there's a lot of people out there.
I think that's what he's going.
I want to believe that somehow, under enough layers, there's like a real person in there who has actual normal human needs as a woman would.
Um, and and that's I'm saying I want to believe that, and maybe I'm wrong, uh, because people are in some cases so deranged today, but uh, it's it's disturbing to me that it's so difficult to have what I would call normal human interaction with uh other young people.
And in the case you're you're trying to talk to young ladies through these apps or whatever, that it's it's so um that uh our view or our expectations are actually so very alien.
And this other way is somehow the actual normal or typical at least way that that people relate and the type of outlook that they have on the purpose dating and what they're after or what they expect out of a relationship.
A part of me wants to believe that underneath there, somewhere many layers down, perhaps there is that you know, the little girl, if I could put it that way, that hey, she needs somebody to love her, you know, just like everybody needs somebody to love them.
So it is there, they they do have that there.
That little girl is there, it's just buried under 30 years of academic and Hollywood propaganda.
That's very powerful brainwashing.
You know, billions, trillions of dollars has been spent on this brainwashing, and we're seeing the strength of it or the success of it, I suppose.
And the problem is a lot of them, they all eventually break out of it.
It's they just break out of it way too late.
Too late.
Like I've met plenty of girls that are like 36, 37, 38.
They're like, I'm still young.
I don't want a family to slow me down.
Like, I don't want that to get in the way of my career.
And I still have so many countries to go.
Totally lost.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And then and then they hit like 45 and they're like, what have I done?
It's like the arrested development.
It is a, it is a, you know, there's, there is something wrong with the mentality.
I was just talking to somebody about this.
If you've ever had the type of job where you have to travel a lot as part of your job, I did for a while, did a lot of traveling.
And I knew other people, either colleagues or even a relation of mine also did a lot of traveling.
And many people, they make it work for them so that they don't mind it and it's not making them depressed or anything like that.
They go see all the latest movies while they're traveling.
If there's a concert where they are, they see whatever the latest their favorite bands or popular acts, whatever.
I knew a guy, a co-worker, he was really into the craft breweries.
So anywhere he would travel, he would hit the craft brewery.
But for me, all of those things are like social things.
The fact that I have a generous expense account and I could sit in a very nice restaurant and have the best meal, that doesn't do anything for me.
My wife isn't there.
My friends aren't there.
Yeah, I'm sitting there by myself enjoying it, I suppose.
And the same with all those other things, attending a concert, going to a movie or something.
Those are all about the way that I would interact with my friend, my wife, whomever.
And so you can acclimate to those things, but ultimately those things are like traveling.
You alluded to that.
I have a daughter who loves to travel.
Oh my gosh, she's been everywhere.
Yeah, those are interesting things to me.
I think travel does broaden the mind.
When I traveled for a living, it certainly did broaden the mind.
It just showed, I was always impressed when I would go to different places, how people were the same and how they were different.
You know, you would go to, let's say, Canada, or you would go to Southern California or somewhere in the South.
And there were things about Aruba.
There are people, people, you could see things that were the same, but also very in fundamental ways, how the little micro societies were different from each other in interesting ways.
But ultimately, to me, it's so like you say, this, oh, I'm not going to have children that'll slow me down.
You know, my wife and I were just talking about when she was much younger.
She had a job in the big city, New York City, and she worked with two women who were already maybe 40 or in their young 40s, no children, no husband.
They were real career women and everything.
But, you know, you don't even need for me to tell you how these women were or what it was like to deal with them.
Because, you know, without some kind of like really deep spiritual values or something that might enable you to, you know, do some other kind of track in life other than being a family person, you're just this very unbearable, materialistic shrew, right?
Well, because that's all they have.
They don't have the family.
So the, the only thing they have is, well, I, uh, last week I went to the Bahamas.
Before that, I went to Canada.
It's like the equivalent of that.
It's that scene from The Simpsons when the guy's with Homer and he says, I bet you don't get to sleep in a race car, Homer.
And Homer says, I sleep in a bed with my wife.
Right.
Exactly.
Yeah.
That's a good line.
Absolutely.
Yeah, they don't have anything.
And I remember that this is another one of these things.
This has happened in the last like five, maybe 10 years.
I'm not sure, but definitely in the last five years where things are nothing and then all of a sudden they just exist as part of our just the cultural zeitgeist.
Yeah, like trap traveling became a trend like five, six years ago.
And when I was a kid, it was just called vacation.
You did it once a year.
Everybody did it.
And then now it's like my hobby is going on vacation.
That's not a hobby.
No, right.
That it is a good thing in a sense as far as far as it goes.
That's a fine thing, but it is.
It's no different than drinking alcohol.
It's the same thing.
You craft yourself.
Well, no, I'm saying the difference between you drank some mezcal versus polishing off a bottle every night.
Yeah, right.
It's like, you know, like, like, you know, a drink here and there is not bad for you.
But when it becomes your personality, that's a problem.
Yeah.
Because these people are.
It becomes an end in of itself.
Then it's lost.
And these women are traveling.
None of them have homes.
They all live in apartments.
So they're spending all their money traveling because it is not cheap to travel.
So they're not building up any savings.
Well, and it's, it's not that, and it's not saying we're not trying to say that everybody needs to be a married person with families, but the type of person who ends up like these women, it's not a very good place to be.
There, there is some pious woman who gets to a certain age.
She's not married.
She doesn't have kids, but she can be a very, very pious person and somebody who contributes to society in an important way.
But that's far from this type of person that we're talking about.
It shouldn't be a regular thing.
And it is becoming a regular thing.
Yeah, right.
This is like not the normal path.
That doesn't mean that some people just don't happen to end up going that way, but it's something gone wrong.
The society is sick because the normal path is not being followed by most people.
Well, because the reality is, is men are so many people just don't believe anything.
Right.
No, I disagree.
The only thing they believe in is themselves.
Like everybody is so narcissistic because they don't believe in any altruistic aims or anything like that.
No, so social media is talking about them.
They don't even believe in themselves because their entire personality is drinking too much and watching TV.
Well, and they take pictures of themselves doing it.
Like support my picture of me doing the thing that everyone else is doing because it's important when I do it.
Yeah.
But the, but like I was saying, is the these men are not meeting these women, but these women are not meeting men either.
So we're not like China where the ratio of single men to women is like two to one.
It's probably pretty close one to one ratio where there are so many like, so many single moms near me.
Like it's so weird that like surrounding me is is is single moms and women that are like 45 that are like, I can't have children because they'll just get in my way.
I'll have children later on.
Charlize Theron did it at 53.
Yeah.
Harold Silton did it at 44.
Anyone can do it.
No, even they, even with all their millions, those people have trouble doing it too.
So well, if they do do it, it costs them like five million dollars.
They couldn't do it at all, right?
Right.
I know the sex in the city creator couldn't.
And she like, she put out a big article about how she essentially lived the same life that the characters in her show did.
And she regretted everything.
She's like, I wish I just had a family.
Like, I'm 55 and single now.
No, of course not.
Well, that's not going to be plastered.
They would listen to that if it was everywhere.
Nevermore.
55.
Yeah.
It's well, and we can get mad or mock or, you know, I think of that one meme where it's the young woman, she's, you know, she's in her 30s.
She's driving a car and the caption is something like, yeah, you know, says we're, we're, we're in our 30s and we don't have children.
It's like we're blazing a new path.
This has never been done before.
We're doing something that's never been done before.
It's like, oh my God, you know, the sad, the sad thing is going to be as much as we might mock these women or we might say, you're going to get what you deserve, it will also be very sad one day when they come to the realization of what life is really about.
Well, the saddest part about it is those women could be with single men, giving those men a purpose.
Because the thing is, men and women are complementary.
Like if a woman does not have a man in her life, she will walk into every trap that predators set.
She will make every wrong decision.
And a man without a woman.
And a man without a woman, he has no purpose.
He's nihilistic.
And he will do anything to escape reality because he just doesn't know what to do.
Well, I would offer that even the person who is alone, whether it's a man or a woman, can find fulfillment in life and can lead a meaningful life.
But this is somebody who embraces like a kind of a spiritual level where they're very not materialistic, right?
I think that I don't agree.
I don't agree.
The guy with 15 children is saying like, listen, if you don't have this, I'm sure it could be good.
I think people are, especially when they're older, as they get older, because I've seen a lot of women when they get older and they're just like, what have I done?
I threw my life away.
I don't think men have that same problem.
I think they just get angrier and angrier when they're single.
For most people, it is the normal thing to get married.
But I think of many of the saints who led very holy lives and purposeful lives and who did not have a spouse or children.
How many of them were there, though?
Small handful of people.
No, well, of the ones we know, but there are people.
It is also normal to live a single life and to be happy and have a purposeful life.
But for most people, maybe by choice, if you understand the path that you're on and you are happy with that, like, I don't know.
Hitler never got married.
Yeah, no, there's, there's, there are people or many people that didn't get married, didn't have children, but they have, you know, another, the important thing or the, the, the, the relevant thing is that you're, you are not supposed to do nothing with your life.
You are supposed to have a certain humility and do important things in life, which is not travel and have materialistic things.
You know, it's there, there are a lot of good you can do in the world.
And an unmarried person can do many things that a married person cannot do.
And so there is a role for everybody.
Travel every weekend.
Startup and only fans.
Well, maybe you could travel and and preach the gospel.
You know that that would.
That's that's what you could do uh, but uh, but you know, I I don't think we're disagreeing too much it's, it's the the.
The good path for most people is to get married and have children, and that's how our race continues on, and clearly we have a reason to uh believe that.
Because our, our race has been in trouble or is in trouble, though more people, thank god are more and more people, thank god, are waking up and and recognizing what's important in life and uh, thinking about that and the fact that we're having this discussion here and you two guys are a couple of very eligible bachelors and we're talking about this topic shows that uh, people know what's up and uh,
and and talking about it is a way to move closer to a solution.
So there, there you go.
Um, I thought we might pivot uh, we've, we gave that topic uh, some good minutes there, uh and uh, you know, I think I back me up here.
I think second hour should just be all indie jazz.
Come on, you guys got me on this.
I mean I, I thought we were gonna do a whole show on indie jazz whole show.
Well, two and three can be.
How do you get just one hour on indie jazz?
Well that's, I mean honestly, it should be its own podcast.
We should three days a week minimum.
We have to arm wrestle each other over this or something.
We've got to crack some music out first, though.
Yeah, the second hour, third hour, could be indie jazz uh, but no seriously, I uh, you know, that was kind of a funny uh awkward, awkward moment uh, in the show, and we had water on there and um, he suggested, he suggested the song, and it was like you could hear the record scratch and uh um, a coach kind of uh, vetoed that.
Yeah, we went to a docking song instead, I believe at that point heck yeah, we did.
Yeah well, you know and uh, I was thinking about that and uh, because uh, believe it or not I, I know something about jazz, and everyone would say, wait a minute.
What the hell uh, you're gonna tell me, is uh, breaking the, the uh, the image here of Sam with the skinhead music.
No, that's true, that's most of my life.
I listened to a certain kind of thing, but I am a musician and I consider myself, if I could put it this way a serious musician.
Not that i'm going to claim to be any good, but I I am serious in the sense that I do approach it as I, though i'm serious, I do practice, uh.
I do uh attempt to learn things and and try to play.
And when I play, people don't tell me to stop playing uh, or they don't tell me to play that song far away.
You know, could you please play far away?
They don't uh, i've never heard that song.
Is that a good song?
Go on youtube and you could find it there, and but so I anyways, it got me thinking about that, because I don't, you know, hey, Water likes indie jazz, fight me, you know, let's so what?
So he likes it, you know.
And, but I thought back to my youth when I was, and I was quite young.
Um, and my father was, was very much into jazz.
He was of an age.
He was, he would not be a boomer.
He would be the generation before that.
But he was, yeah, I don't know.
I guess you could call him a boomer.
But also my uncle, who was like a Korean War generation, he was also a big jazz guy.
And as it turns out, my wife's father, that would be my father-in-law, he was big into jazz.
And my father just tried to, just in the same way, I would attempt, maybe not even purposely, but I, you know, you can't help but inculcate your own tastes in your children or friends, even.
You know, you share the things you like or love and because that's what you know.
And when I was, you know, 12, 13 years old, and I was a musician already, and my father tried to inculcate a love of jazz in me, which did not really take, though I did perhaps gain enough appreciation of it to say that I just don't reject it outright.
Like when Water brought up that song, I didn't say, oh, absolutely not, not, do not play that shit on this show.
No, I didn't say that.
Yeah, it was a coach funny reaction.
I said, hey, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
Bad taste.
Yeah, put it on, you know, and, but, but, you know, before whatever, punk rock, heavy metal, acid rock, the, the music of the 60s, the Beatles, before all that, you know, jazz was kind of the like subversive kind of.
It was black people music.
Well, not really.
You know, there was a real, that, that's certainly that's a certainly a part of it.
But I'm just saying.
Yeah, I'm just saying that in the case of my father, my uncle, my father-in-law, you know, people of a certain age, they saw that as kind of like a the rebel thing to do or something that was kind of breaking the societal norms or forging a new direction in music and things like that.
And that got me to thinking about, you know, what jazz made the 78 RPM record.
And I'm wondering if you young fellas have ever even touched a 78 RPM record.
Ah, maybe.
Yeah.
I have.
No.
No?
Okay.
Well, they were thicker.
I remember when I was little, we had some in the house.
They weren't exactly mine.
They were my mother's, but she had a record player that had the 78 RPM speed.
It had, of course, the 45 RPM speed and the 33 RPM speed.
And get this, the 16 RPM speed, because when records or the idea of vinyl records was new, they had the 16 RPM record, which I have never even touched.
You probably think I'm old and certainly I must have touched.
No, I did not touch a 16 RPM record, but there was a flow band.
He waited.
He waited.
He wouldn't touch the 16 RPM, but he would touch the 18 RPM.
Okay.
Laws are laws.
Well, the 16 RPM was used for like orations or speeches or just vocal tracks, like somebody talking or something like that.
Morgan Freeman read audiobook?
Something like that.
And then it was decided to make the 33 RPM came from it because it was roughly double the speed.
And at 16 RPM, the sound quality was not good enough for music.
It was only good for like speech.
And so that's where the 33 RPM had its origin.
But the 78 RPMs were, a lot of jazz music was on there.
But the thing is, you could only have three to six minutes per side.
And I'm talking on a 10 or 12 inch diameter record.
So the last 78 RPM record was produced in 1959.
So it's no wonder that none of us handled it.
I did handle it, but they were my mom's records.
But then came the 45.
And we started talking before the show and I held up a record.
I'm holding it up now.
The audience, of course, cannot see, but I got this wonderful seven-inch record.
I know what that is.
I know someone that has that.
A seven-inch record or this very one I'm holding?
That one you're holding.
Oh, yeah.
No, shit.
No, that's good.
That's, this is, this is some obscure stuff.
Well, obscure, but it's this just came out.
I'll just, I'll just give it a blurb for a moment.
There's a website called Metal Hyphen Shop.
It's from Poland.
And I bought this seven inch vinyl.
It is a split with the band's Dark Fury, which is a Polish black metal band.
It is the same guys that are in the, I suppose you could call it black metal band called the White Devils, but it's more of a white nationalist type motif to it.
Dark Fury are the same guys as far as I know doing it, but it's more of just black metal.
And you might say more like anti-Christian black metal, some of the songs.
But the other band on here is really the reason I bought it.
The band is Mohariba.
And Mohariba is the Arabic word for heretic.
And Mohariba is a specifically anti-Muslim black metal band.
We think of black metal as being so much, much of it, not all of it, but a lot of it is very anti-Christian.
But Mohariba is specifically very anti-Muslim.
There's two songs on one side.
One is Muslim Ban, not period, even period one, period.
Muslim band, not even one.
And the other song is Every Faggot Must Die.
Whoa, based.
And but so it was always a happy day when I, when I, when I, when I open a new package and I got some fresh vinyl in there.
And the other question I had for you guys, have you guys ever bought a cassette?
That's right.
Cassette.
I bought, I bought Coolio's.
25 years ago.
What did you buy, Water, 25 years ago?
Enlighten us.
What was the, if you can tell us, if you don't want us to, Indy Jazz, obviously.
Track with some sort of tractor on the cover that looked cool.
Oh, is this a cassette single?
Something by Garth Brooks.
It was like a cassette single?
That was probably it.
That's a safe bet.
Yeah, because they tried to make a go of that in the 80s.
That was kind of in the...
They did it in the 90s.
I had a bunch of cassette singles in the 90s.
That was kind of like the last gasp of the cassette.
You know, they were trying to make it a way to do that exact thing, you know, get out singles and stuff.
But eventually it kind of died, but then it came back, you know, really making it.
Format.
Let's be fair, it is but.
But i'm telling you the, the cassette deck that you can get now to to buy this is very high quality, and the quality of the cassettes themselves the, the quality of the tape, is very good too.
So this is not your your uh, daddy's cassettes uh, the way you might remember them from the 80s, which they were terrible often.
Now they are of very good quality.
But touching back on the seven inch vinyl for a second, I wonder if you guys have ever handled a seven inch vinyl that had the one and a half inch auger to it.
I don't know what that means.
I'm not trying to dig any holes with an auger.
No, i'm good.
Yeah, that's what I that's, for my brain went, okay, hold on uh, let me let.
Okay, I are those the ones that were in jukeboxes?
Yeah okay yes, I have the Star Wars theme on um with the one and a half inch auger, like that NERD alert yeah, orchestra.
Or like the Cantina no no no, the the, the main theme.
I have that on 45 with the one inch auger.
Uh, I also have Red Bone, Come And get your love.
Uh Madonna, Like A Virgin.
I have uh, I have all of those on on the 45 with the uh.
Remember this?
Remember when uh the Hooked On, Was It Hooked On Classic?
I don't forget what it was on Monkey Phonics, the No no, the uh.
So you had that Star Wars theme, very classic.
It was the London Symphony Orchestra, I think it was.
Uh, it won Academy Award, I think, for that uh soundtrack, but then they came out with like this disco version of it.
Do you remember that?
I, I have that as well, but that's not all.
What was it called?
What was it called though that was the title of it like hold your, hold your tongue, i'll go get it.
I want to say it was like Hooked On Classics or or something like that.
Uh, where they would take um, even like uh, you know, like they would take a classical piece like a box uh, something or whatever, and they would put it to like like a disco beat and uh, and these songs would make it into like the top 40, top 40 radio, you know um so, uh.
Anyways, that probably makes me all music, one that makes me sound old and everything like that.
But you know it's the thing is I, I enjoy getting, whether it's a record, a cassette tape or a cd.
I buy those things, I have all those players, I have a stereo system, but I go places like i'll go to a party and i'm all excited, look what I got.
Nobody has a thing that could play it.
Nobody has.
Like, if you are under a certain age, you do not even own a cd player, let alone a record player or cassette player.
Do you agree with that water?
Yeah, I mean, my vehicle is pretty old and it has a cd player and it was one of the last models to get one.
Yeah, it's super rare.
Now oh, here we are.
Yeah yeah, Disco fever see what?
But who's is it leased out Disco fever?
Yeah, Star Close Encounters, Star Wars, Star Trek and Barry Manolows I can't smile without you.
Cringe, cringe.
But who's?
Does it credit?
An artist?
Or it's produced by Ralph Stein?
Yeah, there was some.
What?
The Wonderball Disco Orchestra?
Yeah yeah, I remember all that and some of these things, especially like the Star Wars theme that was set to like a disco beat.
These made it into the top 40 back in the late 70s, early 80s it was.
It was a strange time.
Uh, this thing's awesome, to be sure, but uh uh, i'm not.
I don't mean to beat this topic to death.
I just want to come back to.
Oh, the last 45 that was produced, like with the one and a half inch Auger was 1990.
So it's no wonder that's why I say you and it was carried by Clint Eastwood.
Well, oh it wasn't a 44 man, it was a 44 man, but the last 45 RPM record with the one and a half inch auger with I'm talking about the hole in the middle.
You know, if you have any familiarity with records, you've seen them with the little hole.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I also had Talkamo by the Beach Boys on that.
Okay.
All right.
Bass.
45 inches is huge for that hole, man.
She's been one and a half inch.
The one and a half inch auger, and you needed the adapter.
And my turntable has the adapter.
It's off to the side.
But now all seven inches, like the one I'm holding here, they have the little hole.
Nobody makes that one and a half inch auger, but I do have.
Well, that's well, that's because those were that was for jukeboxes.
Now jukeboxes are just digital.
Yeah.
Well, I guess all I'm saying is there's something kitschy or a little bit nostalgic about I like when I'm going to play a seven inch vinyl and I got to get my one and a half inch auger adapter out.
You know, it's, it sounds ridiculous.
But anyways, that's all I had on that topic.
Well, did it didn't vinyl outsell CDs?
I'm going to say last year for the first time in like 30 years or something.
Yeah, exactly.
And it's funny if you think about it, like, you know, at one time there was no recorded music, right?
And then we had like wax cylinders and then we had we had the 12 inch vinyl for a very long time and then Creel to reel.
We had reel to reel.
We had cassette tips.
8 track.
I bet you guys never handled an 8 track.
I have fools out on 8 track.
All right.
I did have an 8 track back in the day, but someone's closet one time.
Yeah, because I love it when your favorite song kind of fades out in the middle and then it clicks over to the next track and then it picks back up again.
That's that's really cool.
There's something about it like, oh, what happened to my song?
Oh, here it is again.
You know, it's exciting to listen to this.
I love being inconvenienced by my music.
That's my favorite.
Like, who thought that that was a good idea?
Are you telling Bill's character?
But what I like, I like when I'm listening to music and then someone comes in and just pauses it.
And then they wait a few seconds and they unpause it and then they just leave.
That's what I really like.
Absolutely.
You say that stuff, but it's not uncommon for me to just skip it after the first chorus or so.
I don't know.
I've heard it before, but I'm going to keep listening to it.
At least the first half of it.
You don't skip it after the first chorus and then change your mind and go back to it.
Well, you could go back to it next week.
Exactly.
Back around.
But yeah, obviously you could.
I'm just saying you don't.
Okay.
So how are we doing?
Rolo, how are we doing on time?
Do we keep blasting through here?
Do we take a break now?
What's I don't know how to do this show?
We got we got 10 minutes left.
Got 10 minutes left.
Okay.
Yeah.
I don't know if I should want to talk about records.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, this is uh, we did have kind of a good discussion off the air that really I wish would have been on there.
I don't know if we try to capture back some of those elements, but I'll mention this.
You know, I'm on a show called The White Power Hour, which I really recommend to people to listen to.
It's a lot of fun.
And recently we had a request show.
And request show is, you know, it's a it's a double-edged sword, right?
You could, you could cut with it, you could get cut with it.
And so we have a request.
It's raining men.
Well, yeah.
And, you know, you did make a request and I did put it on there, by the way.
So I hope you'll listen and hear me recently over here.
But so one person recently, one person sent in a song and I almost wish we would play it on the break.
I don't know if you want to try to shoehorn it in there, Rolo, but there was this band Opus in the 1980s.
And this song is from 1985.
Opus was from Austria and they had the song Live is Life.
Live is Life.
And the video, if you look it up, maybe this will give a, if we're not going to play the song, or if we don't, I'll give a homework assignment to the listeners.
Go on YouTube, look up Opus, Live is Life.
And it's concert footage.
And it is, from my perspective, most absolutely cringe-worthy 1980s type of a song.
Funny as hell, inadvertently, in my opinion.
But watch it, really.
Watch that video.
And there's something about it because the crowd is 100% white.
Everybody in the crowd is white and they're acting in very 80s ways.
They're like standing with a certain look on their face and the camera's like coming up to them, looking at them in a certain, it's funny the way the video is done.
And it's kind of a good song.
You might even like it.
When I heard it, I said, oh, yeah, I kind of remember that song when I heard the melody is something you will recognize if you have ever heard the song.
And it's corny and cringy.
It's kind of the song I think coach would enjoy, actually.
And so I said, guy, I don't know if I could play this.
If I play this song on White Power Hour, it probably would be my last appearance there.
But the thing is, I remember the song better because it was covered by a band called Leibach.
And Leibach was from Slovenia, then Yugoslavia.
And they covered the song.
They're kind of an industrial metal kind of a band.
They were on Wax Tracks Records from Chicago.
You know, the label was from Chicago.
And so I knew a lot about it.
At the time they came out, I knew about Leibach.
And they had a very, if you watched, look up, that's your second homework assignment.
If we don't play the song at the break or at the end or something, go look up Leibach, L-A-I-B-A-C-H and watch the video.
These guys have a very fascist aesthetic.
You know, you got the blonde-haired guy with his hair swept back and he's kind of looking up at the sky.
And, you know, it's, it's a very, I don't know how they got away with it, except that they're completely probably not fascist.
But they do a cover of the song and by them, they, it's called Life is Life, L-I-F-E is Life.
And both, both, that, that song is good.
The other song is kind of a good song in a way, cringy as hell.
But a couple of good songs there.
Anyways, check them out.
I ended up playing the Leibach song because I didn't want to get any death threats or laughed off the show or anything.
So that's probably being laughed off the show for your music taste.
That's right.
Yeah.
You shouldn't.
For me, it was too cringy.
Like if Water, you said, please play Opus Live is Life.
I'd say, all right, Water, I respect you.
You're a good man.
I think that's a funny song, but you think it's a cool song?
Let's play it.
I am cringe, but I am free.
Yeah, but no, seriously, and I remember back at one of the old, I don't know, I guess we don't have to name the event to give it any notoriety.
We were at an event and we were driving around and you were playing house music.
You know, you're like, I hope you don't mind.
I'm going to play house music.
And I was like, no, man, play it.
Play it.
I like a bit of techno myself.
I tend to go for more like the, you know, maybe a little bit more underground, a little more edgy type stuff.
But Derude, I don't know.
I don't know that.
Underground hit.
He just said he doesn't know that.
It is the underground hit, apparently.
What is it?
Say it again.
I didn't quite hear it.
It cut out a little bit.
Sandstorm by Derude.
No, I didn't.
You ever heard that one?
I feel it.
Yeah, maybe I would say, oh, yeah, that one.
Just like this other song by Opus.
When I heard it, I was like, yeah.
So, yeah, no, you don't ever have to be ashamed for what you like or anything like that.
And at least in my life, even though probably 80% of the music I listen to is OI, R-A-C, black metal, hardcore.
And then that other 20% or so will be stuff like techno or maybe some country once in a while, a little classic star, a little Atlantic Star, some folk music.
Lionel Richie.
As a musician, I consider myself broad-minded enough to, you know, listen to something and appreciate it for what it is.
So second hour, all indie jazz.
That's what I'm pulling for.
Art post-culture in the chat right now.
They need it.
Patricians only past this point.
Right, right, right.
Okay.
Well, we're at an hour.
Why don't we take a break?
So what are we going to do?
We have to have like a fists fight over this.
What are we going to play?
It's a break.
Okay.
Darude, Sandstorm.
Yes.
Sandstorm by Derude.
Okay.
So we're going to take a break, play some music.
Back with more halfway house.
Welcome back
to halfway house, second half of the show.
Hope you enjoyed the music there.
The Rude classic, what do we call that?
It's not techno exactly.
It's kind of a electronic isn't it techno exactly?
Isn't it techno?
Exactly techno.
Okay.
All right.
Techno.
I guess I'm showing my age here a little bit.
All right.
Techno.
Yeah.
Techno.
I do like some techno, and that was a cool song.
Good choice.
all right uh new white life i know everyone is accustomed to hearing about it that at this time of the show i don't really have anything new i will just say that i am tracking five ladies that are with child that means five ladies i know don't get caught ladies don't get caught yeah don't get caught yeah keep you know keep keep ahead change your change your uh location every few hours so i don't catch you but uh they're all doing well as far as I know.
And anyone else got anything for this segment?
Water, Rolo?
Stay tuned.
Some days we go, maybe.
Yeah, trying.
You're trying.
That's good.
That's good attitude.
All right.
Well, moving on, I wanted to bring up a topic.
And I have my own little set that I work on humbly as a musician, as I fancy myself to be.
And I occasionally play for groups, you know, whenever our guys are getting together, if it's appropriate, I bring out my guitar and I play some good old racist hits, you know, from the past or present.
And I was working on a particular song.
It got me thinking, maybe we'll play it at the end of the show if we could squeeze it in.
And the song is called Case of Pride by the band called Screwdriver, which is the perennial all-time favorite white nationalist band, not to be missed.
But anyways, the song is talking about being dissatisfied with living at home and pack your bag, you get upon your way, and you leave home, maybe, maybe prematurely, but this was not such an unusual thing in the 70s, as I recall.
I was just a lad in the 1970s, but I had maybe some older cousins or I would hear about it at school or something.
You know, kids running away from home, which you don't hear about so much anymore.
And it was not just boys or girls.
It was boys and girls would get fed up with their parents, maybe, and they would take off.
Maybe they're a teenager, 15, 16, 17 years old.
And this song, as I was listening to it, because I wanted to include it in my set, talks about that thing.
Hey, you know, I'm not taking my parents' rules anymore.
I'm taking off on my own, which is kind of a natural thing for somebody of that age to feel like they want to spread their wings and go.
And sometimes, you know, it doesn't take, it doesn't go exactly as well as one would hope.
Because as the song talks about, you know, you can't afford much food and you're looking pale and talks about maybe you're sleeping under a railway arch, but you're too proud to go back, you know, as like the name of the song suggests, Case of Pride.
The lyrics are Case of Pride, I know just how you feel.
And how that was kind of common in that day.
I shouldn't say common.
It was not unheard of.
And there was enough people.
But as I thought about it, I thought about why.
Why is it?
Not that it's the best thing or the right thing to run away from home.
The thing is, as I thought about why those conditions were like that, I thought of thought about, you know, at that time in our country, people, if they were dissatisfied with their home conditions, there were conditions enough in our society where you could go out and think like, well, I'll just get with a few of my buddies.
We'll get a cheap apartment or rent a place and I can get a job and I can make it.
Well, the way it is today, you can't really make it on your own like that.
And so, you know, I don't hear about that phenomenon with teenagers anymore about running away from home because I think it's like not.
feasible really in a sense.
People have to live at home because there's unless you want to be like a bummer or if you're a drug addict living on the street, but the idea of just like, well, I'm leaving and I'm going to just go get my own place and get a job and work.
That was that was very feasible at one time in our country's history.
And it's really rather not feasible now.
As I listened to the song, I thought, you know, how times have changed.
And I started to think about the topic of adult children living at home because I have some of my children living at home.
Some of them have gone off and they have their own place and they have a job and everything.
One of my sons lives with me.
He certainly could go live on his own.
He has a good job, but he lives at home.
And this is a phenomenon I think that's occurring more and more in this country.
And I thought worth discussing because it does create friction in the house because you have another adult who is exercising adult prerogatives.
And you can't help but clash at least in a little bit.
Like if the three of us were living in one place, we probably would rub each other wrong at some point, you know, because we're all adults.
We'd probably get along pretty good.
But, you know, there'd be some moment where it was like, you know, well, all right, I guess I got to bite my tongue because, you know, water and rollo want to play Derud or whatever it is.
And so 24-7.
JK, JK.
And, but anyways, the thing of, and what also got me thinking about this was my wife and my youngest son, they went on a trip, a family trip to back where she is from on the East Coast.
They're going to a family wedding and they were going to be gone 10 days.
And so I was kind of alone, almost you might say bachelor, except my other son is in the house with me.
And as I would come home from work or I'd do my things and he works, so sometimes he's not here and so forth.
The house felt empty and it felt uncomfortable, honestly, to me.
And I started thinking like for my adult son that lives at home, you know, for me to just say, go live by yourself, you know, and many people would say, oh, that's good for him.
Yeah, you got to get him, get him going.
He's got a good job.
He's, he can do it.
He can get his own place, live on his own.
Those are all good things.
Independence is good.
Take care of yourself is good.
Maybe get your own place that you could get a wife one day and so forth.
All that's good.
But the thing that pressed upon me was that coming home and the place was empty.
And I thought like, and I know my son that lives here, he's, he's kind of a sentimental type too.
And he's even said as much, like, yeah, but there's people here, you know, and it's not that, it's not that you don't even, that you don't fight with the people sometimes, you know, like I said, there is this thing of, of a little bit of uncomfortableness once in a while because there's another adult here.
But also there's that thing that we are social creatures and in fact, we need each other.
And there's something nice about just knowing that there's other people here, even if we don't even necessarily bump into each other.
It's a place of a certain amount of rooms and things that there's, you know, he does his thing, I do my thing.
And when everyone else is here, we all do our own things.
We don't necessarily constantly interact.
It's just the idea of it.
There's people here.
Maybe you're both in the kitchen preparing some food or whatever it is.
And I thought, you know, there's no way I could give a hard deadline and say, guess what?
Starting January 1st, you got to get your own place.
You might argue that's good for the person to go get their own place.
But the other side of the coin is I know for just 10 days, the way it made me feel, my wife wasn't here, my youngest son wasn't here.
I didn't like that feeling.
I got to be honest with you.
And so I reflected on this song, Case of Pride, about how times have changed, how people's feelings and attitudes about living alone or going it alone, going out in the world alone, how the conditions have changed in our country where it's much harder to go it alone.
Now, you got to be some kind of professional person with a great job.
The idea of some 16-year-old going off and getting in some apartment with some buddies and getting a job and forging his or her own way, that's really tough now, you know?
And those are my reflections on that particular song and that particular situation of when I was alone, you know, my wife and youngest son, they were away.
And I honestly, it was a little bit eye-opening for me.
What do you say?
Well, there's two aspects to that.
The first is, what are kids clashing with their parents now that they would want to run away?
Like, I don't want to be under your authoritative thumb, man.
Because most parents, especially the younger ones, they are pretty liberal.
Like they're, they are, they'll give their kids, they spoil their kids so much that they will permanently disfigure them forever because they saw it on TikTok.
So I think there's a lot less of like a need for kids to rebel because rebellion is gone now.
Like there, there's no need to like people that are doing every single thing that every major corporation enables.
They think that they're rebels.
But here's the other thing, though, with like you can't give your son a deadline to get out.
Well, it doesn't sound like he's just a loser that sleeps on the couch all day smoking pot.
So he's like a productive, not only member of your family, but of society, where he has direction and he could get his own place, but he chooses not to.
So I think the line is you need to give them reality if they don't have any goals that they're working towards because there's a line between someone lives at home and someone lives at home because they have nothing going on in their life.
That's right.
Of course.
Yeah, I agree.
Yeah.
My first reaction to that one is, okay, you're going to give your son a deadline to move out.
And it's good for you to get out there and get on your own if you're able to do it.
And increasingly, you're not.
But the economy is not going to magically fix itself when the deadline comes.
We're still going to have a demographic problem.
If you stay in the same area, like a large U.S. city, you're still going to have a crazy violent crime problem, property crime.
You're going to have a lot of stuff to deal with on your own.
You're gonna have a lot less of a support structure of a family there.
The cost of living is super high, too.
Yeah, forget that.
You're not gonna build equity because what are you gonna do with a even with a decent job when you're first starting it?
Do you think you're gonna qualify for like a what's the average now?
Like $450,000 for a house, something crazy like that, especially in our major city.
Do you think you're gonna qualify for that loan?
And if you get that, is everyone's life situation going to stay stable enough to keep it?
Doubt it.
And how and how many jobs now start above 40 grand a year?
Like yeah, the average wage is about 35 a year for man.
Yeah, like good white, good white-collar tech jobs that used to start at like 60, 70 a year.
They're they're starting at like 40 grand a year because they say, Oh, you don't like it?
Well, we'll just hire an Indian to do it.
Depending on the industry and the qualifications, that's why I said tech, yeah, specifically.
Sure, yeah, absolutely.
And a lot of those big jobs, the ones where like you're maybe starting 100K a year where you can afford a house, you don't get that by hard work.
You got that because your family is connected to people that connect you to other people.
The guy that I worked for in Tinseltown, I won't, I could just say what his parents did, and then just boom, you got it all.
But I would call him Hollywood Royalty.
We'll just put it at that.
And he would talk about all the things like his parents made him do, blah, It's like, bro, your first year out of college, your dad gave you a million dollars to start your own business.
Yeah, exactly.
And that, and that's the thing about college now.
You don't go to college to get education for a loan.
Or sorry, for a for a job.
You, you go to college to meet people and network.
Because if you're white and you go to any college, you're just going to be browbeaten by brown people that don't deserve to be there.
And that's why so many white people aren't going to college.
They say, well, I'll just get a trade.
Those jobs pay better anyway.
I'd be real careful about going to college.
College can be a good tool that's part of a plan, but it is not the plan itself.
It is not an end in and of itself.
And I can make a list for you of all the people that I know that went to college that are not working in their field or that are working some very meager job.
So you got to have a plan.
And I don't drive on it unless you're going to be in a medical field or an engineer and you're already building the scholastic realm.
If you suck, don't go.
Just don't go.
And even with those, like those fields you mentioned, those are good fields to get into.
Those are good degrees.
But even then, like work in those fields before you get the degree or maybe while you're going to school, work, you know, it the degree by itself to me doesn't mean that Sam, who can do that?
Who can work in science or the medical field before going to those schools?
How do you, how do you do that now?
Like both.
Well, my, I know a bunch of a bunch of my friends, boomer parents, when I was growing up, they would talk about how they would transition from college to college.
They'd be like, I don't like this.
I'll go to a different one.
Right.
There was a time when you could do that.
Well, in my case, my two sons, they worked with me in the factory, you know, and that gave them a good basis for the types of degrees that they were going for and then transitioned into a good career, which they have.
So, you know, maybe something like that.
Not everybody can do that.
Let's be fair.
How many people, like, how many people, like, here's my doctor dad?
He's going to let me work in the hospital.
No, right.
exactly anyone that's that and anyone that's that that's that connected they're just going to be a doctor anyway like they're already they're gonna get into the into the fancy med school and they're gonna have the job waiting for them it's gonna happen it's it's not it's not realistic for people like you got to pick one thing you got to do it Like you can't bounce around.
I'm thinking you could work in a professional medical supply company or you can work in the field in some kind of way and go towards a degree in something.
I don't know.
That's why my field isn't like being a doctor, though.
No, not at all.
I'm just saying, and same with my own sons.
They worked in a capacity that then, you know, where's maybe a little bit of background that enabled them or assisted them with their degree to get going to something else.
It's, I would, I would say that, you know, just getting the degree on its own is not a thing.
You know, have some good work experience to go with it and have a direction in life.
Yeah, a degree could be a good thing that goes with that.
But I could also make you another list of people who have very excellent careers and they don't have any degree at all.
So it's up to you.
Yeah, there's a way.
There's a way for you, you know, one way or the other.
And it's, I don't think you should go to college unless you know what you want to do.
I think that's because before part of a because before college was affordable enough and less hostile that you could go and then you could do all your undergrad stuff or what I don't know what you call it.
I haven't been to college in a few years.
Like the stuff that's not for your major.
Yeah.
General education.
General education.
Prerequisites.
Your general education.
You could do that.
And then in those two years while you're doing that, you have time to think about like, oh, I like working with animals.
Maybe I'll be a veterinarian or like, you know what?
I really like this calculus.
Maybe I'll be a mathematician or like, I hate all of that.
Like, I'll be a philosopher.
I think that by working in the world, whatever you end up doing, work in the world for a while is, you know, helps you to find what you really want to do.
Because when I was a high school student, an 18-year-old person, an 18-year-old man, let's say that was a man.
Now an 18-year-old, we think of as a kid.
We are infantilized forever in current society.
I mean, kiddo things.
Like 40, 45, 50 year olds are still just consuming content and getting drunk and going out to eat and not doing anything for themselves.
It's super, super common.
You're just describing my dad.
You know, I was actually thinking about that.
Someone posted in one of the chats, like a guy we know, he likes Ninja Turtles and he said something about it.
And someone said that things like that are an op to keep men from becoming adults.
And then I was just thinking when I was a kid, when I was a kid, my dad tried to get me into all the shows that he watched when he was young.
Yeah.
So I don't, I don't think that's new.
I think there's there, I, I, that to me.
It's a tendency that's been going for a while.
Like you hear about the, the holiday where the most money is spent is a, is Halloween because adults dress up for Halloween.
Well, that's just fun.
It is fun.
And I don't want to condemn it categorically, but I remember when I was a kid, there was no adults that dressed up for Halloween.
You know, now it's like it's the thing to do.
Or another thing.
Well, yes.
And it's this infantilization of adults.
And I remember one time years ago hearing somebody talking on a podcast about like the first time he saw a comic book that was rated mature.
Like, wait a minute, comic books are for kids, you know?
And yeah.
And I'm a comic book guy.
I am.
I love comic books.
However, but I can see this tendency in our society of the infantilization of adults.
It's not good.
It's not healthy.
And it's about proportionality and all those things in a person's life.
And now there's this, we have the adult children, you know.
And what about the blocking of growing up?
You can't really get a job and be loyal to the company and work your way up to middle management.
That does not happen anymore.
You cannot.
That's the biggest problem.
We can't just blame the individual, you know, because it's both things.
Like I started off by saying with this song I was listening to, once upon a time, people had that thing.
That's it.
I'm done with, I'm an adult.
I'm grown.
I'm 16, 17 years old.
I'm going out and getting my own, making my own way in this world.
That is really under attack.
You know, if the conditions changed in the society where people could do that, more would do that.
And I can't help but think about this one friend of mine when he was 18.
This is, he was a couple of years behind me, but we're approximately the same age.
When he graduated high school and his, he was 18, his dad gave him so many weeks beyond the graduation day, said, okay, this day you're out of the house.
You let me know where you want your stuff.
I'll help you move it, but you're out of the house.
So you could join the military or if you have some other plan, but you're out of the house on this date.
And so he ended up joining the Navy and he ended up having a getting into a, I won't go into details to cause any, you know, trouble, but he ended up having a very good, good career.
He got some good training, which transferred into the outside world.
And he ended up being a very successful, successful person without a college degree.
And, you know, I'm not, I would never be in favor of maybe that harsh of a ejection out of your house.
But it was a different day and age when I was 18.
Let's put it that way.
And it's the world.
He could do it.
He wasn't damning the kid to live under a bridge until he died.
He was actually doing something that he could succeed in.
Well, it's also a time when he could go get a job and then he could live in transitional housing affordably.
Like now you now you can't.
My first apartment was about $1,600 a month.
That same apartment where it is.
Yeah.
And it wasn't a good apartment building.
It was okay.
But that same apartment, now I'm sure it's filled with Mexicans.
I'm sure it's filled with like Southeast Asians.
I'm sure it's filled with Indians.
Yeah.
Well, not so much to subsidize, but it's like, you know, 10 people in one room.
I bet those same apartments are probably at least double that price.
Like probably close to four grand a month.
Inflation calculator really brings people to light.
Like if you remember working with people who would say their first job was for Coca-Cola delivering stuff.
And of course they didn't have to interview for it and it paid like $3 an hour.
And you show them the inflation calculator of today.
Okay.
So you got a job that's like, it's 20, 25 bucks an hour, depending on the year they got the job.
And they just don't understand.
You can find that price.
You can't afford it.
And their apartment was the equivalent of like 800 bucks a month on that wage because they didn't want people to live in apartments long term.
They wanted people to live in houses and start families and have kids and create more taxpayers.
That was the old scam where now like you can't kick a kid out at 18.
Because here's the thing.
You kick your kid out at 18.
Join the military where one, you're not going to have the opportunities that you once had in the military because you're white.
And two, you're probably going to go and fight a bunch of people that you have no business fighting for Israel.
And the other option is, okay, you need to make enough money to afford these overpriced apartments.
All right.
You're selling drugs or doing porn.
Pick one, pull it.
You'll never build equity ever.
What you said about the apartments being filled with the Pakistanis or Mexicans or whatever, this underscores the reason why we cannot have these aliens in the society.
Our society needs the type of different classes, you might say, where you're a young person.
Hey, you need to go live in an apartment maybe and rent an apartment and have a certain type of job.
Now that certain type of job is all non-whites.
A white person can only survive.
They could get this very high-paying job.
And that transitional.
Right.
And that transitional type of apartment or housing or things, that's just not available to a white person.
Whereas if we didn't have those aliens in our society, we would have more of these normal steps between persons' life.
Another thing is like from where I'm sitting right now, if I could take you on a not a very long car ride and say, oh, look at here's a white neighborhood that's very nice and everything like that.
Why don't you live here?
Oh, sure.
Let's go door to door and find out the income and the types of jobs that these people that live in this neighborhood.
Oh, this is a bank president.
This one is a lawyer.
This one, you know, inherited a bunch of generational wealth and they don't have a job outside of that.
And a husband and wife, maybe that are both have very, very high type salary jobs.
That's not a real community.
A real community is you have a mechanic and the garbage man and the post office worker and an engineer and a lawyer and a doctor.
And you have all these different types of jobs, working class people and upper class or white collar type.
That's a community.
That's what we need.
But the way it ends up working out is that people who can afford to must move out of those other types of communities because you can't live with niggers and Mexicans and all those types of other things like what we're describing.
And that's why we cannot have these aliens in our society if it's going to survive.
Well, not too far from me.
Our country.
We need a country.
Our.
Yeah.
We need a country.
Everybody knows it.
And every time you say it's time to give white anything, all of a sudden everyone knows what white means and you can't have anything.
It's not too far from me.
They're building new apartments.
And this is something that I've seen is you go to any suburb or city and they're just constantly building new housing, but the cost of living is only going up.
So why are you building new housing?
Because you would think, well, we're building new housing.
So there's more of it.
So we can alleviate some of the pressures of how expensive it is.
But that's not the point.
They're doing it so they can bring more brown people in.
No, yeah, everyone else is.
Yeah, that's the only reason they're doing it.
Like, I know so many white people, and it's just so aggravating.
They're so oblivious to this.
And they're just like, yeah, I'm responsible.
I have my own job.
I have my own place.
You have a crappy one-bedroom apartment, and your job is way too good for how little you make.
Like you work, you work 90 hours a week at unreasonable hours, and you're not building equity for a house because you're spending all your money on dumb crap.
Yeah.
Cars are too expensive.
Food is too expensive.
Everything is too, oh gosh, don't don't get sick.
That's another problem.
Yeah.
Those people have debt and then they eat out once a week and that's life and that's misery.
Oh, are you kidding me?
Most people have debt and they eat out every night of the week.
I know so little people that know how to cook.
Right.
Right.
I went on a date with a girl and she couldn't drive.
She didn't know how to cook.
And her, she said her, her hobby was going to restaurants.
Yeah.
Take away the cheese and put her on your farmstead and keep the chain short.
Watch her starve to death because she doesn't know what to do.
She'll learn eventually.
Imagine being in your land.
Okay, this isn't a 16-year-old.
This was someone who is almost 30 and they couldn't cook or drive.
And one thing, one thing I think about is if I if I think of something or encounter something, this cannot be an anomaly.
So there's a whole generation of people like this girl.
Sure.
A bunch of guys that can't cook or drive.
I worked with a woman who would joke about, oh, I can't cook.
That's terrible.
That first of all, everybody should be able to cook.
Yeah, what can you do then?
Everybody should be able to cook, but especially if you're a wife.
Yeah, it's like that meme.
You had one job, you know?
I mean, yeah, because that, that, that's the thing is, okay, you want, because every woman, it doesn't matter if like, oh, I'm an independent woman, blah, blah, blah.
That none of none of the women that actually say that are.
They never are.
You should see those independent women when I sprint at them at nighttime.
Full break.
But anyway, those women that I'm an independent woman, but I demand a man of blah, blah, blah, blah.
But if you can't cook, like, what do you, what do you offer that man?
Like, you want this man to take care of you and all this.
And then he comes home after busting his buns all day.
And then you're just like, oh, I didn't make food because I don't know how.
It's, it's sad.
And to think that it's some laughing matter or something is just terrible.
And as we were stating earlier, the real cruelty is that someday, perhaps this person might realize I promise you, every single man and woman that is being crushed psychologically by this society, and then they're the meme with the fire in the background, like everything's fine.
Eventually, they will realize that their house is a raging inferno and then they're trapped inside.
They will all eventually learn that I have ruined everything.
I know this guy and then he just broke up with his girlfriend of seven years.
Like, it just wasn't working.
Like, it's like, dude, not, not, not only do you have to start over, but you just threw seven years away.
And then now he's just going to nightclubs and partying and trying to bang every whore that he comes across.
That's always something that makes me kind of, yeah.
What?
Did you say situationship?
Is that what you said?
He never valued that to begin with.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You never heard that.
No.
But the thing is, This guy, this guy certainly, he's taken that for granted.
Like he, he is going to learn very shortly.
Oops.
Like it's not easy to just get back on the bike.
It's, it's always a little sad.
I remember talking to a guy not too long ago.
He was breaking up with his wife and all that.
And I said, like, well, hold on here.
Let's, I understand your complaints and things, but think of, think of you had the time in it.
You had to meet her.
You, you courted her, you dated her, you just decided you wanted to marry her.
She agreed to it.
You got engaged, you know, you planned a wedding, you got married.
What I'm saying is you got a lot of work in this thing.
And okay, your feelings now are not invalid.
I'm not trying to shush you on that.
But before you throw the whole thing away, got to consider you have a lot of work in this thing already and maybe we can save it, huh?
How about it?
You know, that's the way I would wish people would look at it is, you know, it takes, as you guys can attest, it takes a lot to meet a girl and to meet what you think is the right girl.
And then she agrees to, yes, let's be serious and all those things.
And then now, you know, it's over, this and that.
I would say you always have to try.
And it's never over until the fat lady sings, I guess.
I don't know.
But one other aspect I was going to.
That's it.
You're right.
You are right.
One other aspect of this discussion I was going to mention is a little bit backtracking.
But another thing is I heard someone say recently, you know, when we were little, I don't know about you guys, but I'll say for sure, when I was little, it was a punishment to be kept inside.
You wanted to be outside where you could run around with your buddies and stuff like that or do things you were interested in doing.
Now people stay inside.
They don't go outside.
And I think that's people's lives are digital entertainment.
Yeah, and you go outside, you get shot by blacks.
Right.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
All kinds of things.
I remember an old Nickelodeon commercial.
Do you remember this?
The old Nickelodeon commercial where they were going to pimp your room out.
And the whole commercial is this kid was just being bad to be sent to his room.
Yeah.
The orange couch and you get the posters of the 80s kids doing stuff.
I don't know.
Yeah.
Probably a Nintendo regular original.
But I remember that the whole point of the commercial was the kid was just being bad to go to his room because it's normal to be outside.
That's just not the case anymore.
So you're going the wrong way with that.
This is something that I noticed.
When I was younger, I moved to, you know, from one area to another.
And then the place that I originally lived in, everybody, every house on the street, with the exception of like a very small amount, they all had kids.
Yeah.
So you would go out and socialize.
Yeah.
That's not the case anymore because I moved to another neighborhood.
And like, I think I had one neighbor that had kids.
And then just it, it just, he wasn't cool.
So just, all right, well, I guess doing something else.
I didn't go inside.
I went out and did other things where people were.
But now people aren't having kids and people aren't living in houses.
See, when you live in like a neighborhood, like cul-de-sac or whatever, some kind of suburban thing and there's kids, you go out and play, you meet at the park, whatever, do all that stuff.
It's not the same if you live in an urban apartment complex.
Like you don't just like knock on someone's door and look for the kids.
It's different.
You go outside in the street and then you see, oh, a little Johnny's out.
Let's go.
Let's go see if Johnny wants to play Red Rover or whatever.
You do not form communities in apartments.
You don't, okay?
It is a claustrophobic and unnatural way for people to live.
And it's not like the college dorm where everybody is your peer.
Like you go knock on the door, the person may not speak English.
It's a freaky, weird thing.
And that's where kids are being raised now.
Kids are being raised in two-bedroom apartments.
Yeah.
Well, when I was a kid, when I was a kid, I knew every family on the block and many of them had kids.
Now I don't know anybody on the block.
And honestly, I don't want to know anybody on the block.
So it's our society is going the wrong way en masse.
But because we see these trends, you know, there are there are countermeasures you can take.
I don't want to paint such a completely bleak picture.
Yeah, have children.
We have our own groups, right?
We have our associates, our colleagues, our comrades, however you like to say it.
So it's not as though that there is no hope.
I would say, in fact, there's more hope than ever because we have this thing called the internet and we all have a phone and we're all in touch with each other all the time.
And we have our local group.
You guys probably have your own local groups.
And somebody's always doing something and somebody's always having a birthday party or a or just an event.
And so it is not as though there's no hope or that it's all bad.
Society, though, at large is going the wrong way, but we can go the right way.
The only real problem that we do have.
Another observation about interacting with people, apartments versus houses, real life interaction is pretty much a negative thing and it has to be forced.
Like meeting people in the grocery store in a common area, like a park or something, isn't really acceptable anymore.
You can't just walk in and start talking to anybody.
No, you are weird.
You just can't do that.
You're more weirdo if you're nice.
See, and this is the thing about that.
I can't remember what I was talking to Steve Dave earlier and I brought up something weird happened and I said, life is now a parody of life.
And like, we are weird for having normal behavior, but I guess that is the whole clown world thing.
It's like we are normal and you see someone and hey, how are you doing?
Oh, you're getting that beer?
Oh, that's my favorite beer.
And then they look at you like, oh, what does this person want?
They want to like put my head in a bag or something.
Like, yeah, it's you, you, you cannot just have normal conversations with people anymore because people have become so isolated, both digitally and in their own small little worlds, for the, for the sake of people are so narcissistic now and that's the that.
That that's what it is is.
It's all about a worship of themselves.
So that's what we always say, right, we're fighting for normal yeah, quite normal.
We're white normal, like it's.
It's just, it's.
It's so frustrating because we forget obviously, like you talk to like a black or like a Squatemal and there there's no real way to relate with them, like on all any kind of long-term or any spiritual level like yeah yeah, but that yeah, that's not like, that's not a, that's not a long-term thing, like that, that's basically to keep the situation from being uncomfortable.
That's, that's not really like a friend of.
Yes, exactly.
Do everything you can.
You have to like clutch your pearls without letting them know that you're clutching your pearls.
So you just say some kind of white people be like, yeah.
How do they do be like, yeah, exactly.
But like, you talk to normal white people and then you realize like, oh, yeah, these people are just as corrupted by the system as anything else.
Like, it's, it's just so weird to go out and talk to people and then you always get the like the suspicious eye.
Like, what does this person want?
It's like, I'm just just, I said to someone once, I said, hey, how you doing?
And they said, what?
And I'm just saying, hey.
People are so used to being scammed.
Like every phone call you don't have to scam.
Every time someone walks up to you, they want to steal from you.
It's because they're surrounded by non-whites and in their head.
Yeah, we have a low trust in their head.
Every person is the same.
So even though only black people have ever conned them, then, well, I don't want to be racist.
So this white guy's going to con me too because people con me.
That's their mindset.
Yeah, we have a low size change about the security blanket.
Like the digital security blanket of, okay, I met you on an app.
I swiped on you and get it a couple of times.
So now I'm open to talk to what was a stranger and really effectively still is.
But you can't do that when you just pass someone at a gas station or grocery store anymore.
It's so, I mean, we're backwards.
We're digitally backwards.
That was a joke I had over 12 years ago.
And this is how long ago this was.
I would say, like women won't talk to you unless you're friends with them on face or like they'll, they won't give you their number, but they'll give you their Facebook, which has their phone number and their address and where they went to school and everything else about them.
Like it's so much more invasive.
Yeah.
And that was when things were like first started.
They're both going a different direction because they'll give you the Instagram or something without their number.
Well, now they'll give you the influence.
They'll give you the words.
They'll give you the Instagram where they're half naked in all the pictures.
But don't don't comment on them or else you're a creep, but heart them.
And that's it.
Like, look, like, I'm so interesting.
I'm the center of attention.
Everybody does this.
It all started with people taking pictures of their stupid food.
I hate social media.
I got rid of it in 2016 when I realized all these people that I thought were rational are actually just retarded.
And I just saw it corrupt people in real time.
When you used to go out and be able to talk to people.
And it's, I don't, it is a low trust society, but it's, it's a low trust society because everybody has been convinced that everyone is the same.
And then you live around all these non-whites.
And no matter what, they only ever see you as a mark in one way or another.
And these people have all been conditioned to think if I notice that it's only the non-whites doing it, then I'm a bad person.
So I have to shut everyone out equally.
And what I brought up earlier, when I lived in a neighborhood where everybody on the block had kids, everybody was white.
There was not the token Mexican or the token black.
They were all white.
Yeah, it's like an organic type of situation that where normal social relations can proceed as they would.
Yeah.
But you don't have neighborhoods that are white anymore.
No.
Because people can't afford to have kids and buy the house because they don't have the jobs anymore.
The very rich people can live that way, but that's not an organic society like I described earlier to have a neighborhood where everyone's a bank vice president.
That's not an organic society.
Well, and those, yeah, those people are shells of themselves.
Like everybody knows everyone.
And like my son's going to inherit the company one day.
My daughter's going to marry my neighbor, his son, who will also be the vice president of Mott's applesauce.
And that's what those neighborhoods are.
And most of those, they're not even all white.
Like they're living next to rap football players and Mexican baseball players and stuff.
Yeah, more and more so.
That is the case.
Like when you're moving to what you think is a very exclusive neighborhood, however you were able to make that move, you'd be surprised who's living in that neighborhood.
A company I worked for years ago, I remained friends with the family that owned it.
And the lady is older.
And so I would occasionally go over there and I would take her to somewhere.
And I remember driving into her neighborhood one time and I've always, it's a very, very exclusive neighborhood.
But when one time, finally, I drove in there and I see this Negro coming out of the house.
It looked like he lived there.
He's taking something out of the trunk of his car.
And I said, boy, if I was suddenly inherited some money or something like that and I was thinking of moving to this neighborhood, if I was driving into this neighborhood for the first time and I saw that, I would say, well, I guess I'm not moving here.
There goes the neighborhood.
Yeah, there goes the neighborhood, really.
And so it's tricky for people.
Because that is a meme to a lot of people.
And it is a joke, but it's true.
Once the non-whites start moving in, it really, with the exception of East Asians, like the East Asians really do keep to themselves.
Yeah.
But once the Mexicans and the Armenians and the Blacks, once they start moving or definitely like Vietnamese, like those types of like, you know, the banana beaners, once they start moving in, like garbage everywhere.
Like just the lawns uncounted.
Also, they put their trash on the ground.
Yeah, that was that too.
Yeah.
And they also litter the area.
Yeah, you're right.
Let's shift to something positive.
Anybody catch a fish lately?
I did.
It's awesome.
Gonna do it again tomorrow.
Shift to something positive.
Well, I went to the doctor.
Oh, gosh.
If only.
That would mean I'd only have five years.
Oh, gosh.
All right.
That's light.
Yeah.
Well, I didn't have anything more on all of that.
If we want to start to transition to wrap it up or you got something else.
No, I do want to stay on that.
I want to circle back to the very beginning of it, like the actual generational housing thing.
Because before you wouldn't need to, you know, you just you're 18, time to be a man.
Like go out and get a job.
But again, yeah, you could go work for Coca-Cola and then blah, blah, blah.
But now, not only can you not do that, but it also just kicking the kids out, go, go find a way to make your life work.
That might push them to the other side of the country, where now, at least, if they're living here a little longer, then the family is at least intact.
Sure.
Because I told my mom, I said, you know, if it ever gets bad for you, you can come move in with me.
Sure.
That was a case where I lived growing up.
We had a friend in school and his grandparents lived in the house right behind him.
And it was common at one time that people lived near their family, maybe on the same block, maybe literally next door.
And yeah, the thing, go out and find your way in the world.
That's important.
But also, there was, it was going back maybe a little more olden times, maybe my great-grandparents' times.
Sometimes the man, maybe he was 18 or 20, he'd get married and he might live for a little while with his wife in the family home until he could move out and move on.
So there's not exactly one formula, but we can see that it's like an unhealthy dynamic now.
It was a very baby boomer thing to just like move out at 18 and separate from your family because they couldn't.
It's more that because the baby boomer generation was raised the most narcissistic.
And, you know, their parents were fashionable.
Like, oh, we were the ones.
We had, you know, the cultural revolution.
We had Woodstock.
That was our thing, man.
And I'm rebelling against my parents.
I won't be like them.
I'm going to move out and be my own man.
And then they move really far away from their family.
But now it's more important than ever to stay near your family.
Like, obviously, don't live with your parents your whole life and do nothing.
But if you have a job where you can build equity, it's not a bad idea to live with your parents if they let you, if you're, you're making 50, 60K a year.
And how much, how much is an apartment now?
The average apartment is, it's, it's got to be like $1,300 in a city where you're going to make enough to right.
Yeah, of course.
Like in a, in a big city, it's got to be more than that.
It's got to be like minimum 3,000.
I remember, I remember in 2008, there were apartments.
Like when I, when I would drive through Beverly Hills, there were apartments.
They were 8,000 a month.
And then they were not even in the primo real estate.
Yeah.
That was 2008.
That's got to be like 15,000, 20,000 now.
Yeah.
So, and obviously, obviously, that's a very ritzy area.
But if you want to live in a city where you want to be near the jobs where you make the money, like you're probably spending half your check on rent alone.
And that's if you're making a good wage.
You're poor than an Indiana farmer because their money just goes farther.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Renting is a bad deal.
Usually.
Usually.
Yeah.
And at this point, you have nothing to prove.
Like, I'm going to prove that I can do it on my own.
You're not going to because society is collapsing.
This country is.
Yeah.
The country is dead.
So you have nothing to prove to say like, I'll show you parents because eventually, like, if you're just out in the city by yourself trying to make it in like a rat-infested roach motel, do you really want to be stuck there all alone surrounded by violent browns when you could be in a nice safe place with your parents?
It's tough.
It is not impossible, but it's tougher and tougher.
It's a great thing.
I think it's almost pointless.
Well, yeah, but I do know people that do do it.
It's just, it's such a, you're throwing so much money away on rent.
It would be better if you could kind of have an agreement or an understanding with your parents that, hey, I'm working towards where I can, you know, buy something decent.
But not every family is quite as harmonious as that.
There's a lot of factors in play.
Well, a lot of people don't understand the state of the country.
Right.
A lot of people don't know what time it is.
No, yeah.
A lot, a lot of people, they think it's still, you know, 1957.
You just, you know.
Yeah, I know the boomers.
The cost of living was just less, you know, like a lot less relevant to wages.
I know boomers that really think that people don't have their own place because they don't have jobs because they are too lazy to work.
That's a real thing.
They really think that.
Just out of touch generation.
Millennials saw it leave just as we were growing up.
And that's what kills me every time is like doing what you're told as the millennial age group got there and you went to college and you got the good grades and then all of a sudden the job just wasn't there.
And if you got one, it didn't pay enough to live.
And only got worse in 2008.
And now it compounds and it's ridiculous.
Cars and houses are only for rich people now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I and I went to art school.
And I'm sure if I went to art school in the 60s or 70s, there's probably something I could do with that when there's just a billion other people going to art school.
It's like, oh, and now with my degree, oh, I can be manager at Walgreens.
Wow.
That was money well spent.
Exactly.
Yeah.
And that's, that's the out of touch boomers.
Like, well, back when I was your age, like, blah, blah, blah.
It's like, okay, well, it was a different world.
Right.
You lived in a 80 plus percent white country that didn't have diversity quotas.
Yeah, there's just having an all-white community.
There's, there's so much like synergy to it.
I, I look at in places nearby to me where, oh, here's the VFW hall shut down.
Here's the American Legion Hall, you know, barely in use.
Like all these like social things.
Here's this old churches shut down or very, very slightly attended.
I've mentioned before I'm in the Knights of Columbus.
The thing is like it's barely hanging on.
But when you have an all-white community of white people that are having children and all that, hey, then there's the Little League team.
There's the Knights of Columbus.
There's the whatever, you know, all those little groups that are just part of white people being there.
They do these charitable organizations and they participate in things.
But now just all those factors of people, they don't have families, all the economics and things, everything's just collapsing on itself.
That's where we stand amongst the ruins to make our own new traditions and groups.
Let's do it.
That's exactly right.
That's the whole thing.
That's my plan.
We don't want to make a uh too too bleak of an outlook, trying to ran something.
Come on yeah, we have to admit the factors that are in play.
You know, we have to admit that because you have.
You have to be honest, like, what can we do long term and versus what we can do short term?
That's what we can do long term, but what can we do short term and?
And our options are are very limited, because this is not salvageable.
We just have to be the ones that come out on top and we're the only ones that knew what was happening, so we were the only ones that planned accordingly.
Yeah, we have to survive it.
You know, in a way, and in some, some ways, maybe people have a uh, a grandiose idea of you know, what does total victory look like?
Or something like that, about what can happen, what would happen.
I'm thinking, let's think realistically, let's survive let's, let's not be swept away with all this.
Let's form our own healthy groups and associations and let's prosper amongst all this decay and ruin.
Well said, and uh, time is getting on.
I think we should wrap up and uh come back.
If hey, if coach isn't uh ready for next time, we will do this again.
Right, that's a threat.
That's that's a threat and a promise we can.
If coach uh is uh not up to it, we can come back again, absolutely.
But uh so um, go going around everybody to say their goodbyes now.
Water I, I think you like to say it water, but the way it's, the way I see it spelled, I always want to say water.
Is it water or water?
The liquid water?
I mean it's more water, because i'm a fun guy who likes to do fun things.
Well, it's funny, and I looked it up and you know what the Urban Dictionary it says, one who bitches and moans about everything.
Well, if you wouldn't just stop bringing it up, I wouldn't join in.
I'm just thinking about gallery.
I don't know man, I wouldn't.
I, you know.
I'm just saying not everything.
Well, according to the Urban Dictionary, it says everything.
So well, that's.
I just want to clarify.
I was glad to see you're deferring to their authority.
Uh, just putting it out there, all right.
Well, I will stick to water.
I like water.
Water though, is funnier, but water is a uh was is probably the right way to say it.
So uh, any fine one who wants?
Yes yes, any final words?
Mr Water, go to church, eat right exercise, find a good woman, form a family.
Amen brother, and I will say just uh finally, not trying to blow sunshine up anyone, but Water is genuinely one of the funniest people and one of the wittiest, quickest wit people i've met.
Uh, a real southern gentleman and a fine person, and I mean that.
Rollo my brother, brother from another mother, any final words?
No, just uh, keep at it, because it's all just a uh, a game of trial and error.
You got it, you got it, that's it.
That's all we can do is is uh, keep the faith and keep going, don't give up.
So we're going to go out to my song here not my song, Screwdriver's Song, but song I got it my own personal set and it led to some of the thoughts we uh talked about earlier there in the second half.
Uh, the name of the song is uh A Case Of Pride by Screwdriver from way back, way back.
I don't know, I put this about 1980 or so, but uh, perennial classic.
So uh fans uh, keep it white and uh, we will see you next time.
Somebody want to give the final send off?
Alright, See you next time.
Pack your pockets and you get up on your way.
Once you have the money, baby, and you're naughty.
You're a case of bride.
I know that how you feel.
Calling for budget food and you're looking pale.
Oh, but you have the money, baby, and you didn't ask.
Currication, right?
Now you're sleeping a railway, but you're familiar.
Constantly told you about the things that they did.
Make you feel sick, that you have to be once you have the money, baby, and you didn't have to be.
You're a case of bride, I know just how you feel.
You're a case of pride, baby, I know that's how you feel.