Inside Thoughts Episode 86

Nick talks about New York, trying to live forever, and Notre Dame

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Why are you still speaking that that should not have
made it to the rest of us. This is inside
thoughts or check check check one two three. Welcome back
to inside thoughts. Hope you're having a good Wednesday. It's
a day light. Yeah, I know it's Wednesday. Supposed to

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be dropping this on Tuesday. Guess what. I don't care, bro,
I'm gonna I'm unemployed, all right, I'm not gonna act
like I have a boss. You need to meet your
deadline and have it done by this day. Are you
gonna get in trouble? I'm not gonna do that. Well,
you know what, dude, you should uh you should actually
be your own boss and just kind of have that
dedication and that kind of discipline. Yeah, guess what, dude,

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I'm not gonna do that. I didn't feel like doing
it yesterday. So I was in New York. I was
in New York. Me and Ames were in New York
work Friday till yesterday. She's still there. She had to
stay in work in an extra day. But it was fun, man.
I was just I was. I was tired as hell

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when I got home, man, because you just walk everywhere,
walked out. I was there what four days something like that.
Walked forty miles, forty miles in the desert. Yeah, it
was a lot, forty miles and I told Ames about
it every single day. I was like Ames, my feet hurt.
We walked ten miles today. Guess when the last time

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I walked ten miles in one day? Was? Never? Because
I own a car? Why would I walk that much?
Just not walking that much? But you know, it did
feel good getting home and getting to do nothing. But yeah,
that's why the podcast is dropping on a Wednesday and
not a Tuesday, because didn't feel like doing it yesterday.
I was tired, my feet hurt, my bunions were burning.

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I gotta be honest. I don't understand how there's fat
people in New York. You just walk everywhere? Hey, do
you think we do that every day? Do you think
we take the subway and shit in a sheet? I
don't know why I started sounding like Gilbert Godfrey there
for a second. You go take the subway and let
you sit that sit. No, it's terrible. I don't even
know why I started doing that. I just blew your

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eardrums out for no reason. That was not nice to me.
But New York was super fun. I gotta be honest.
I love New York, dude. Like you can get anywhere
in thirty minutes on the subway. There's a bunch of
stuff to do. You can live off pizza and bagels
because you're walking everywhere. Hey, I'm walking over. You can

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do whatever you want. There's stuff to do. Like people
are like, oh New York so expensive, not to do
poor people shit, Just walk Look at all the free
stuff that's outside. You don't have to spend that much
money in New York, bro. I think the most money
we spent outside of like one night at a bar,
because you know, certain places in the city the drake

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are expensive. But outside of like one night in the bar,
most expensive thing we did was go to the Museum
of Natural History. Tickets were thirty five bucks apiece, but
we walked around for two hours, so you know, it's
like seventeen bucks an hour. It's pretty good, you know
what I mean, It's not too bad. Do they like

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New York's not expensive and like the subway is awesome.
You can just like tap your card now to get
in the subway. You don't have to buy like a
metro pass card and keep reloading it. You just tap
and if you take twelve rides in a week, then
it's free. So like instead of paying two bucks every
time you get on the subway, it's free after your

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twelve time for you know, until the week runs out.
It's nice, dude. I don't understand why people complain about
New York. I like it was a fan. Got to
see some people too. When of my buddies from high
school lives up there now and then one of my
friends that lives in Texas started doing stand up with him.
Me and him went and chilled at the comedy seller,

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had some drinks. It was cool, man, And people in
New York super nice, you know what I mean, Like
everybody's like ooop. People in New York are still mean.
It's like no, they just they they don't want to
talk to you. But once like they figure out you're okay,
then they're the friendliest people on the planet. Like we're
sitting at the comedy cellar and we like asked the

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bartender because we were the only ones in there. It
was kind of early in the day. We were the
only ones in there, and we were like, hey, can
we just sit at the bar and have drinks? And
she was like, yeah. My first thought was like, oh,
we got the bad mood bartender in New York City.
And then we just started talking for a little bit.
She'd listened to what we were talking about, and then
she started joining in. She was hilarious by the end.

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She was telling us, you know, about her kid. It
was just like people just need an extra minute to
open up in New York because you know, it's not
like down South where you walk down the street and
everybody's like, hey, hew's it going. Yeah, y'all come back now.
Then as soon as you walk away, they're like, I
fucking hate that piece of shit. Up in New York,
they'd be like, hey, you're a piece of shit. They'll

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be like really, like now you're all right. It's just like,
I don't know, it's cool except ames. She uh not
a huge fan of cities because she just she grew
up in a small town, so she was a little
nervous about it. But she got an a plus introduction
into New York. Like she had to fly up a

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little early to be on time for work, and uh
so she had to ride the subway out of JFK
to get to where she was going to work and
the first subway she gets on, the dude that sat
down next to her just started pissing on himself and she

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was like, oh, I can smell is stale pee. This
is terrible, and yeah, you're in the city. We see
then shit himself. You know when life gives you women's
smell like pe, you know. And then uh, this dude
got on with the speaker and just started freestyle rapping
about Jesus and I was like, yeah, that's good. You
got somebody, you know, getting bodily fluids out of them

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right next to you. And you got one of the
crazies who was like, I'm gonna save everybody on this
subway right now. Oh oh, Jesus Is must save your
oh h, Jesus Is must save your oh h, like
that's what he was doing. It was. It was hilarious.
So she got a good first introduction in New York.
But by the end she was liking it. You know,

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She's like, this place is awesome. It has everything. I
was like, yeah, no, right, and you know, it's just
kind of cool and you can get anywhere you want
to go. Your peg cat's are looking at me like
what are you doing. It's funny. The cat normally acts
like it could not care about my existence or Amy's existence.

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But you know, I was gone for four days, came home,
and the cat has just not left my side at all. Yeah,
you love me, don't you. You missed me, didn't you.
So basically, that's all you got to do to anybody
in your life that's not appreciating you the way you
need to be appreciated. Just leave them, leave them for

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a little bit. See what it's like with alb Huh No,
I'm just kidding. That's kind of toxic. Guy. Love you anyway,
even if you act like you do love me. It's fine.
She's just been following me around. But now it was
It was cool, man. I got to do some stand
up in New York. Amy saw some friends she hadn't seen,

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said she left England because they were over there celebrating
the birthday. So it was cool. Got to see some friends,
did some things, said hey, walking on goo bye. It
was fun man. But I'm glad to be home because
I do like being able to drive in my car

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to get places and not have to walk ten miles
to go get you know, whatever I actually want, Except
I gotta be honest, I was like a lot calmer
and happier in New York. And I realize it's just
driving that that's what like raises my blood pressure because
I got back here and you know, I went back
to the gym. I was driving down there, and people

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just like do things where you're like, what what were
you thinking? Were you? You weren't, That's what it was like.
It just makes me want to smack people. And I'm
normally not a violent person, but when people are bad drivers,
it just makes me want to hit them. And I shouldn't.
I shouldn't do that. It's it's fine, though, but I
was cracking up because I was I was bugging Aims

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a little bit on the trip because every time we
walk past like a big tourist thing like the rock
Feller Tree, or we went past Trump Tower, I pulled
out the this is mine, it's my tower. Look at it,
you foreigner. You know, just being annoying to her, and
she's pretty tired of it. And it's worse because like

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whenever I post stuff and she reposted it, like all
all her friends are like, oh my god, it's so funny.
She's like, yeah, it was like the first five hundred times,
and so I was already kind of getting on her nerves.
So I was like, you know what, I can do
one more and I had you ever have just like
bad gas, just where it's like Saddam Hussein Mustard gas

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type shit. I had one of those the last night
and I cracked it off, and she was like, stop
doing that, like we're in this little apartment, don't do
it anymore. And then, you know, felt one coming and
we were both in a good mood, so I was like,
I could ruin it. I cracked it off. It smelt
so bad, and she's sort of like I knew she

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was gonna go off, so I started recording it as
it was funny, and she's sort of like you know,
when you're making your partner mad, but just like the
amped up mad, like not actual, you know, anger, just
like the I'm gonna get going about this blah blah blah,
just a little more animated. Like Amy loves doing it

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to me. Anytime, like somebody try, like a stranger tries
to make small talk with us, She'll look at me
and be like, huh, yeah, the weather is crazy and
be like, why the fuck would you talk? Just be
quiet in the elevator. Okay, we don't need to have
a conversation. I don't care about your day. I don't
know you you know what I mean. But I'm not
actually mad. It's just like you try and make the

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other person laugh by getting excited, Like what are you
getting all excited for? Huh? What are you getting a
shite for? So she started going off about the fart.
It was just like she was laughing through it, but
she was like yelling at me. And so I posted
it on social media because I was like, oh, this
is funny, you know, angry British person. It's gonna sound like,

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you know, Harry Potter's getting mad. So I posted it.
And I love people on the internet because people on
the Internet see something and they're like, you know what
I'm gonna do. I'm gonna bring my wife into this situation,
because that's what we all do. We're selfish. Like some
of the comments were like this one dude was just like, hey,
she hates you, bro get out of there. And I

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was like, oh, that's hilarious. Let me click on this
dude's page and he's wearing like v NEX and he's
all muscled out, and I was like Oh, you hate women,
don't you. And then there was this other girl who
was like, it wasn't the fart that made her mad,
that was just the cherry on top. You must have
done something else. I went clicked on this girl's page
and she was alone. So I was like, oh, you

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hate man. That's what it is. It's just like what
you don't have to when you see something on the internet.
You don't have to insert your wife or whatever you
think into whatever you're looking at, you know what I mean,
And you can just like comment on the situation, try
and make a joke. I don't know, give your two cents.
It's not like your personal thing. It's the same thing

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with like anytime something in the news happens, somebody's like,
well I have to let everybody know where I stand politically,
write in this comment. It's like, no, you don't. Nobody cares.
But that's what people do. I was like, Oh, my goodness,
some of you need a hug. That's what you do.
You need a hug. You need somebody to hug you.
Speaking of people that need hugs, I've been doing nothing

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the last day and a half since I got back,
so I've just been watching all the shit that's on Netflix,
and they got this doc They got the documentary about
the guy who's trying to reverse his age, the tech Millionaire.
Have you seen it? Brian Johnson wants to go from
fifty to eighteen. He's spending like millions of dollars to

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get his uh, get his iometric body whatever down to
eighteen years old. And like it's crazy because he's going
through like the whole thing that he has to do.
He's like, Yeah, I wake up at four point thirty.
I take fifty pills and then I go work out
for an hour, and then I have to eat this

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concoction that looks like camel poop, and then I take
another fifty pills, and then I have to stand in
this light that acts like the sun, but it's not
the sun. And then I stick this thing in my
ear that shoots off a frequency that's gonna hit my
whatever nerve to really get me ready for the day.
And that takes four hours, and then I'm ready to
go get the test to see how my body's doing.

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And it's like, just eat a cheeseburger and have somebody
hug you, dude, what are you doing? I want to
live forever. Now, you don't the whole point of living
life is to get to experience living life, you know,
you don't want to be set up like this dude's
basically living like what was it the human centipede, where
he's just like getting all his nutrients the villages. I'll

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have to cuddle fish in a spurgus pol that's what
he's doing, you know what I mean. It's like just that.
That's one of those people. Like every once in a while,
you'll run into people that you know, don't have enough
people around him that actually love them, you know, because
like most most people are normal, they have people in

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their lives that care about them. So if they get
a little bit out of line or start saying crazy
stuff or doing crazy stuff, somebody will come in and
just be like, hey, I love you. Shut the fuck up,
you know what I mean. Like that when you see
stuff like that, like the guy he wants to live forever.
He's like, I've actually got my aging pace down two
point six y nine. I could live. I've added this

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many years to my wife. Kill yourself, dude, like, just
have a cheeseburger, go hang out with your family. He's
divorced his kid wanted to come hang out with him.
Once the kid realized that everybody at school knew who
he was, Like the story of his dad wanted to
get younger, broke on the news and then he said

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everybody was like texting him and asking him at school.
He's like, is that your dad? He's like yeah. So basically,
like the kid got popular for a second. He's like,
I'm gonna go hang out with my dad more. I
want to get more famous. It's like that sucks, you
know what I mean, because just li live life. The
whole point of living life is getting to like, you know, exist,

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having dimensions to your body, getting to walk outside, experience
a sunshine, experience a rainy day, experience a cold day
or a hot day. Not actually I can't go outside
if the sun's UV is too high because I don't
knock down my skin biometric rating. Shut up, dude, have
a cheeseburger. Have a cheeseburger. I'm just saying, like, evaluate

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the people that you keep in your life. And if
nobody in your wife every once in a while is
telling you to shut the fuck up every time you
get you know, a little out of line, then they
don't love you. And maybe it's time to just let
them go, you know, stop texting them, stop reaching out,
stop asking to hang out. See if they want to
hang out with you, because I guarantee you if you're

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if they're not telling you to shut the fuck up
when you're getting a little outline, they don't actually care
about you. I'm just saying, you want to do all
these twenty twenty five New Year's Resolution goals. I'm gonna
go to the gym, I'm gonna run, I'm gonna eat healthy,
I'm gonna stop drinking. How about you find somebody that's
gonna tell you to shut the fuck up when you
start acting like an idiot. How about that? How about
that get some people to humble you. Haters are good

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like to a point, you know what I mean. That's
like all my friends. We say mean stuff to each
other because it's good knocking knocking your friends down, keep
you humble. And then every once in a while, you know,
if somebody's having a tough time, you go off to
the side, give a phone call. Hey you good, Yeah,
I'm good. I just you know they rote out me
good in the group chat. That's what you do. You

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don't just oh, You're so awesome. No, you're so awesome.
You guys don't like each other. Say mean shit to
people you care about. It keeps them in line. It
lets you figure out who actually cares about you, because
if you say mean shit to somebody and they get
real mad, then they don't trust you enough to think
that you're saying that just to fuck with them. You

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know what I mean? Because you know you only get
mad if somebody says something to you and you feel
like it's actually malicious. But you were trying to hurt
my feelings. No, it was just busting your balls, That's
what that was. Oh my goodness. All right, Well how
long have I been talking? Some might say too long?

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All right? We got some good things to look forward
to here, some incredible things to look forward to. A
Notre Dame is in the national championship game. I guess,
Ohio State Mo day baby who It's gonna be awesome.
Like I'm nervous that I mean, I've been nervous every
time I watch a playoff game that Notre Dame was

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gonna get embarrassed on national TV and everybody would do
the shee. Notre Dame doesn't belong in these games join
the conference, You're not good anymore. The shit in the
nineteen forties, but they've been winning. But Ohio State looks good. Man.
I just I hope somehow someway, Notre Dame finds a way,

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you know, wife finds a way, I hope. So we've
also been cracking up because, you know, just the sports
world back to Internet, people have to just insert themselves
into situations that don't matter. If Brian Kelly got asked
about the National Championship Game, which why is he even

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getting asked about that? You know what I mean? Like,
I know why he's getting asked because he used to
coach a Notre Dame. But if I was Brian Kelly
would be like, yeah, good for them, and keep it pushing.
Don't give a long drawn out answer. But also, Brian
Kelly's an idiot. So Brian Kelly was They asked him, like, hey,
who you're rooting for in the National Championship Game. He
was like, oh, I'm rooting for Notre Dame. You know,
a lot of the guys that I recruited are still

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on the field, so I'm rooting for him. And you
know what, I just want to make it clear I've
never said that you couldn't win a national championship at
Notre Dame. I just want to make that clear. Literally,
when he left, he said, it's been awesome because you've
got incredible facilities. You've got players that want to be great.
I want to be in an environment where I have

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resources to win a national championship. That's what he said
about LSU after he left Notre Dame. He was basically like, yeah,
I don't know. They're making me only recruit kids that
are smart enough to meet the academic standards. Can't I
can't do anything here. I'm not that good of a coach.
But then somebody asked them the other day, Hey, who

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you're rooting for Notre Dame. Ye know, I never said
you couldn't win national championship there. I just wanted to
weave because I wanted a different challenge. Brian Kelly doesn't
have people around him telling him to shut the fuck
up every once in a while. All right, let's uh,
let's get to your headline of the week. Um, this

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was on the New York Post, so I'm not sure
how true it is, but I'm gonna read it. Los
Angeles landlords increase rent by as much as one hundred
and twenty four percent after the wildfires. How is that legal?
Everybody's losing their house, everybody's losing their home, and so

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the people that own stuff for right well supplying to man,
this is capitalism. Come on, dude, There's got to be
some kind of clause in there that's like, hey, you
can only increase the rent if like you've done something
to make it better, not just because you know some
people want to live here. Like come on, dude. Now

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here's the thing. I will say. Most of the people
that lost their homes out there, I know it's a tragedy.
Most of them those homes were millions of dollars. So
are they going to be looking for like apartments and
houses for rent? No, probably not. But some people just
you know, had those homes, probably inherited them from family members.
That was their last thing that they had, like any

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kind of wealth, you know what I mean. Or there
were some places that got affected by the fires. People
had to evacuate caause the air quality was too bad
and they actually didn't have that much money. Those are
the people where you're like, hey, can I just can
I sign like a lease? Until they you know, figure
that stuff out, be like yeah, but actually rent just
went up. It's like, come on, did you not see

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what Luigi did? I'm serious. Like it's the stuff like
that where you're like, Okay, we want to say murder's bad.
You can't just kill people if they're doing bad things
to poor people, right, But then you see stuff like
this and you're like, do you want us to kill people?

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What are you doing? How? No? How do know? I'm
just I hope at some point in time, like we
can just be people, you know what I mean? I hope,
But what are you gonna do? All Right, that's the podcast.
I'm getting out of here. Have a good rest of

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your week. Go know today Money for Money