Episode 3: Dealing with Deemobius

Hello again. My friend, Deemobius, joins us at the restaurant. We talk about our 30+ year friendships, video games, and so much more. Pull up a chair and let's get cheesy.

Episode Transcript

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Hey, what's up everybody?

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Welcome to the restaurant. This is the Straight Cheese No Letters podcast. I'm your host, Mr. Matthew Newton, aka M16, aka King Insanity.
And I have a very special guest with me. He is a very close friend, but more like a brother to me. He is an inspiration.

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He is a mentor. He is my friend. He is everything you want in a person and much more. His name is Mr. Darren Stewart, aka Demobius, aka Big Daddy Slice.
Did I forget? I don't remember the other 18 names. What else do you have?
Well, you can just call me Darren. I have a whole plethora of names that I can go ahead and list off for you real quick.

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My name is Darren, but I go by Dad, Demob, Demobius, 3, Dr. Mob, MD with no fancy degree, Dizzy Montana, and Durante Swing.
ulousту 치 Turkey, also known as Mr. Deut, Emma, Bin-Mar, Ben핏, slobber, andere, specimen, or documents properties İyi.

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And the first name last fall.
depressed.
I can't knock the original when I got the college a good friend of mine named me
D mom that was the start of it all really I say I say dirty D was stark as some folks in high school named me dirty D

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I think I figured out where they came from
But D mom was started at all
Okay, I
Can't knock D mom, but I've been I've been liking mobs you lately
Did I ever tell you I got the nickname be my by the way
No, this is this is the first folks. This is how I figured out you how'd you get anything?

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Okay, so I'm gonna keep this story like in the pocket real quick because I know we got a lot of stuff to talk about
So my first year of college I got hooked up with this group of slight
Computer science majors mostly and this guy who was a psychology major his name was seven seven Jackson

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rest in peace which was actually pretty recent his death, but
He was like one of the funniest cats in our group. So he decided that
After he met me I was a couple weeks after he met he decided
Decided that he was gonna give me a nickname and he was the guy that nicknamed quite a few people in our group too

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so
We were just sitting in
Our buddies apartment one day
It was just me and him in the living room and he was like, you know what I got a nickname for you
You know you should go up to all the girls on campus that you see like and just tell me

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My name be Bob
And we bust the fuck out laughing we just we just bust out laughing
Sure, go ahead
This show is ready for adults only
So you have children in the room listen to this. I am so sorry to put that in the beginning of the show

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But then we will be cussing but we're gonna try to keep it clean, but cussing is allowed on this show
So, yeah, we just bust the fuck out laughing mostly because I was just like man
That's this kind of a hard ass dick name for somebody that doesn't look like it. He was like, that's the whole motherfucking point
You don't look like your name should be the mom so you should go by the mom and ever since then it's stuck

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So what really made the stick around campus?
in 2008 I
Enter the mad tournament in one of the dorms. I played with the Packers Packers trashed that year I
Got second place in that tournament
And everybody that was at that tournament of course, there's a lot of dudes that showed up

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Everybody that was at that tournament was recognizing like hey this dude knows how to play some fucking band with this trash as team
What's his name?
Ever since that tournament everybody around campus would call me D-Bob
Okay
That's actually a pretty cool story
I never really understood how'd you get the name D-Mob you just went to school one day and then we came back when they came back to hang out I

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Just saw you your name. I think we were on Xbox and you had D Mobius and D-Mob. I'm like, where's that?
It's like, oh, that's my nickname. I thought you got it from band
You got it from I thought you got it from one of our close friends in you know up north
Yeah, the D Mobius came from from Spidey
He kind of is an offshoot of D-Mob so he kind of

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Okay
He has nothing to do with Sonic the Hedgehog like I originally thought it kind of does actually I
True story I thought that's what you got it from because we was in the Sonic a lot
We got a lot of things in common
But that's what I thought he came from because it's Mobius in the name
I was like, oh, he's just he just trying to make it come so D Mobius and keep it. You know legal

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So say it won't come calling
We got a lot of stuff in common because we've been friends since we were six
That's the thing that bothered that's they that makes me look like surprise and we've been friends for now
If you nearly what third going on 30 years now, it'll be 30 years this year
Shit

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How do we how do we keep it going? I
I
Dare as relationships that don't make it
We're too we're just too random niggas that met on the swing set and we're putting best friends for 30 fucking years
I my first memory of you is
Being in the art of second grade play miss Poclain. I

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Remember her and then she got married and came back and came as Thomas she got married in the same year
I I didn't even I remember she was engaged, but I didn't remember what her name was after she got married
But I do remember her it was miss Thomas
I remember she went away for I think a couple week a week or two and she came back

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She had her name changed the miss Thomas Wow
But yeah, we met on the swing set cuz I remember my first memory you is pushing you on the swing set
Because nobody wanted to push me and nobody wanted to push you
I forgot if I if I remembered how to pump thin or if I didn't I don't I don't remember it don't matter anyway because

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We were pushing each other up swings and we was having a fun crack
It's still 30 years. Yeah, the most memorable thing about that year also
Do you remember the butterflies we raised?

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Someone yes, I remember right?
that was a vivid memory in my mind of
Having those caterpillars arrive
I have eggs arrive them hatching us feeding them
All that you know the green goofy stuff them pupating

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Yeah, and then us releasing them in and I think it was actually in the middle of March and us releasing the butterflies out on the playground
Yeah, remember that I
Had a
Body experience cuz I remember that day cuz I went home my dad picked me up from after school care

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I saw one of the butterflies
In my at the house when I in my house when I got home
I was like this cannot be one of the same but I didn't know yeah
Oh, yeah, they were my larks, too. I know I was like damn I
Don't know if you follow me or not, but that's kind of cool
But I remember I've seen a butterfly on the car as we was leaving. I was like y'all have abandonment issues

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probably your child
Hey, we oh shut the fuck up dude. I am not that dude
It's okay demobius is it okay to tell the audience where you're from or where you resonate from
Wow

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Frequency
No, I was trying to say
What city do you rip now or live now?
The city that I rip in the city that I live to their cities
The city I live in now is a Murphy's Feralty. I see

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That's like what 10 minutes away from Nashville
Um, this is the next major ish city over from Nashville
If you go to the southeast it's like good 30-minute drive away from a Nashville City Olympics
Okay, so I'm gonna ask you a question you

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drove in both major cities Birmingham at Nashville, Murfreesboro
Who calls you to get high blood pressure the Birmingham Brutes or the Nash villains?
Oh definitely in that villains
Trafficking a lot worse in Nashville

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Definitely
Last time I was in Birmingham and I was in rush hour traffic. I was heading out east
To
Like a center point and all of that to go see some family

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When I got on the interstate it was I think it was right after passing
BJCC and all of that and
It was bumper-to-bumper traffic but traffic was moving and it was actually moving
it don't move in Nashville and
And when I needed to get over to a different lane, I didn't have to fucking bow guard my spot. I

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Turned on my blinker and somebody let me over
I was like
Where am I I'm in Birmingham. Oh wait people know how to fucking drive here I
Called bullshit on that I call bullshit on that with a capital B D
My net Birmingham a little bit worse because at least in Nashville when you see a stop sign

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You act this person on the side when there's a four-way stop. They actually motherfucking stop in Birmingham
You're playing rush you relate down here because I people just like to drive in Birmingham
That's that's what I figured out cuz if somebody it was traffic's flowing smooth in Birmingham
And somebody going 90 on the freeway everybody else gonna be going 92. Yeah, I

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Been driving in Nashville long enough to know that I do not like driving in Nashville
Because it's too many people from too many different places with too many mixed styles of driving
It's just it is terrible
And nobody knows what anybody else is doing

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And don't let there be like a ax on the freeway people like freak it the fuck out down here
But so I don't know how it is up there, but if it rains
People drive 25 miles under the speed limit and if it's I wish people would do that here. I
Actually welcome it
Welcome people people here when it rains just know it's gonna be a whole bunch of emergency services out

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To pick people's cars up
They're not gonna slow down. Oh
Wow, I would rather them drive 25 miles under the speed limit
Provincing for reckon
Preference of a wrecking I agree, but sometimes in Birmingham
Even the slightest sprinkle everybody wants to drive like it's 15 miles per hour is like the insurance rate

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It's too high up down here in Birmingham. We got it like, you know stay quiet
Shit, but I'll take Nashville driving. So I don't know what the
Maybe you got drive down here again prior for a couple months before you realize I think you need to we
Really definitely diametrically opposed on this point, but that's okay. I

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Think that's the other reason why the fact we've been been good friends for 30 years
Because we can agree to disagree. I think that's the problem with some friendships nowadays
Do we agree to disagree or do I just let you
Say whatever it is you gonna say and then just I just be like, okay
Well, sure sure we'll go with that

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There's a lot of bullshit. I don't let you get away with I know
And that's why I should respect the fuck out of you and also and there's sometimes where I was like when you pissed me off
I just like I let you know it
And that's what friendships are sometimes you get you agree on everything sometimes you don't sometimes you cause arguments and sometimes

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You know it is what it is
But I've noticed that now in my nephew's generation now
You're either all together you're all we were friends. We agree on everything
There's no split down the middle
Either you're all in or you're out
Yes, pretty much and that goes everywhere and that's the one thing about I

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Think that goes where all our core friends our group of friends. We're like we're all different
backgrounds
well
belief systems, you know
Right there were raised differently, but we all come together like we respect
There's a level of respect there and even we don't have some sort of like agreement on some things we like hey

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You agree with a I agree with B. Let's just leave it at that
I want to something about video games cuz I know some people are like die hard
This or die hard that and then it causes mayhem. Oh, it's really right
but
It's just
It's just how fucked up like they like I don't want friends who like between you and me

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I don't want friends who like always agree with me. That's not how progress gets done
at any why not
Why not have a yes, man and you your back pocket? What's wrong with it?
because
Why would I want a yes, man and things goes to shit a
Yes, man agrees just once a yes man does not want to cause conflict. He just wants the result

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So why would you want to get fucking yes, man say? Oh, that's a great idea. Are you sure? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah
They got no they got no investment in it
Well, everything goes right then the yes man is gonna be in the right position
See that's again, that's another thing between you me I'm a worst-case-first best case never kind of guy

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That is not something that we are opposed on
diametrically opposed on because I'm also a
A worst-case-first kind of guy. I was just playing them. So I forget
What's that good at that? That's good. Oh
Speed of that. I just remember at all those nicknames. You've got the one I gave you didn't I didn't you both the one I did not forget that

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I just hadn't when I wrote that when I wrote that rap
Well, I wrote a rep for my affirmations a few years ago and that's part of it is all
My nicknames in there except for the one you gave me which is

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Darren, I'm a destroyer of dreams. I
Didn't forget about that one. I just it's hard to find something that rhymes with
the destroyer of dreams

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Oh, I remember I remember that motherfucking story to the letter today
So, why don't you tell it from your perspective then?
Okay
Okay, order up. Let's come new story
Besides trying to start a podcast ladies and gentlemen ladies and gentlemen. I also want to write so this is back when our

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Was a high school years. No early freshman years in college
Early college. Yeah, basically freshman year
I tend to write to calm my nerves sometimes and I thought of the right and I was really good at it
Or at least I thought I was like hey, it's pretty good
I'm just really bad at editing myself because I'm one of those kind of guys like once I write I write just the right I don't

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Punctuation grammar all this stuff. I got to get out of my head to write it and put on paper
And a lot of our friends will start reading it at is and they say wow Matt, you're really good at this
This man right here. I said hey Darren, you want to check this story? I wrote and you like sure
So I gave it to you next time. I know you're able to tell me yeah

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I and then what to three days later you said it to me
It's like I was like did he put a different paper because it was nothing but red marks up and down
The fucking paper to the point where I couldn't even find the story. I was reading
Because I'm a story. I was supposed to be reading

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That's the thing
And what else is reading it as is you actually wanted to be an English professor for the first time in your
fucking life. He's like I can't read it the grammar thought over the place and I'm like, okay, that's fine
I was like behalf of the story. It's like what story I
Couldn't find the damn story. There's too many mistakes. I couldn't get into it

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And for some reason that broke me for a minute I was like
And Jared actually was there one time when I was reading it. He said what's wrong?
I think he asked me say what's wrong and I looked up to I say I think they're just bait and blatantly said my dream
Would be a writer is destroyed
now

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That's not what I was trying to say
No, but basically I like in the back of my a but also in the back man's like
this nigga is just
just freaking a
Mortal Kombat fatality my idea my dream of being an author because this dude just killed it and I try to rewrite it
Same scenario some of that. It's like this nigga is on 10 on the story of my dreams

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so so
When you over there with Jared he saw that you know
What did he say about that
Nothing he was too busy playing web of shadows, okay
Now would you like to hear my perspective on that please do okay?

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So I remember us being freshman in college
You were over there and my girl me I was up here in Nashville and
Amongst all the other stuff we had going on you know, I had a lot of free time when I would travel around the city
to be on the bus
not just ride the bus so

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You would email me something and
I was excited to read it and
I would try to read it for content and I'm just like it is just too
Much missing here that I can't even read it for content

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like the the the grammar the punctuation the
The tenses the all of that stuff. It just did not make sense in my mind
at all
So I felt it was my duty
To not let you go out like that
Yeah
And at least do some corrections. I think I went a little overboard because I actually ended up trying to

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Try to put in or at least fill in some of the stuff to make the story flow a little bit better
Which that wouldn't necessarily supposed to be my job, but I just wanted to make it readable
At least for me to read it for content. That that that is it
Just so happen that I had to just freaking basically rewrite the story to make it happen

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You see why I say you don't need a lot of yes many a group because think about everyone else like hey the story's pretty good
The story pretty good they get you in that height
Look if you were to publish that man out of came and kicked your ass
And whoever else's ass that told you to publish that shit out of kicked ass is too

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Well, you got a long ass list
I
Think I was my freshman
Okay, I can't have my boy going out there like that
Oh, man, this is why you don't need a lot of yes many a group cuz you need that one dude

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It's gonna be like hey this shit trash
Okay, oh
Fuck that is
I'm gonna start I'm enjoying this man. Oh
Oh

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Real quick today's video is sponsored by no fucking person anyway back to the show
One day man one day this show is gonna get sponsored by somebody and it's gonna be awesome. Oh
I know me me and Ella were waiting on cozy to be a sponsored by my Lowe's
Why

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Ballos shit, I'll tell you this dog
I'm more of a chick-fil-a guy
Now don't hit like it used to the sweet teeth. Okay, the sweet teeth pretty good
But it can't miss sometimes you have to be like in a real good move for my Lowe's

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Well, that's cuz you live there
Where my Lowe's is that's the difference right there because
There is no my Lowe's
I think north of like Coleman
Wait, are you fucking serious serious there used to be one educator
But they close it down sometime within the last year, but there's no my Lowe's north of Coleman

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So we have to travel
Down to get some my Lowe's
When was last time when was the last time you had some last time I came over to your parents house? Oh
But we got something right before we left out to go back to

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Murphy's world
Yeah
Speaking of missing some things I do say this I do miss some hot chicken
Which is one of Nashville's things I like when I come visit up mean come into visit you and the gang up there
Yeah, yeah, yeah, cuz cuz I promise you the hot chicken places down here

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Our sus are mid at best one place we went that one time
the south there, uh, you Eugene about top golf you say CC Eugene
Eugene
Yeah, you're saying that you take that back

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That was terrible by the way that was awful I
Don't know what got over brought came over my head like huh. I'm in the mood for some hot chicken
There is in a city that has our chicken. Let's go go to your jeans. He probably like that
Lesson learned
That shit is all that I like it but

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Their heat is very
Unlevel they're known for their heat not their taste I
Haven't tried the other place yet. I haven't tried had to be you try had to be
Yes, that was like the first place we went to because that was well no
Well, it wasn't necessarily first place it kind of popped up during the hot chicken craze

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about six or seven years back
But I've had had he bees
Yeah, what was that? What was that place we went to when I first tried it? Had to be is terrible
Yeah, what was that place we went to it's not princess. It was another place we went to I think it closed down
But it was the first place ever had hot chicken and you warned me to like keep it simple

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And I didn't let I think you we go by degrees and you say what's normal?
And you say keep it either between 100 degrees or 200 and the lady in the back. Oh
Yeah, that was the place that uh, the Jeff found
Yeah, that's that was the very first time ever had hot chicken was with you and Jeff
Mm-hmm. I couldn't remember the name of the place, but it does have degrees in the name and yeah

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They they serve some real hot chicken, but it's real good good flavor chicken underneath that all
The breading and stuff to know I
Didn't fucking I didn't fucking know that I was really dying over there. Well, we told you as
Yeah, we go stroll in there and say what's eat what's normal? Oh 200 degrees. What's how 300?

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a little hot a little hot in my ass
We told you I
Thought y'all was fucking kidding
I got like what I got three strips all 300 degrees and I ate those bitches like crazy
I'm like this tastes good the next following day. You came in
Hey, man, we want to go to hot diggy dogs. Oh shit. You want to come and say fuck that shoot my stomach on fire, dude

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I need water
You had to come you had to call Jeff. I said, uh
We're not gonna make it to hot diggy dogs today Jeff Matt
Matt over here
Comatose or some shit. Yeah, it is is 400 degrees
That's the name of the place. Yeah
400 degrees and me and Jeff went there one day. We saw that man airy spears in there

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Really? Yeah, and he had like the hottest chicken that they had in there. He was over there sweating and everything
It's funny is he is on TV is that funny in real life for sure? I
Miss him on Matt TV. I missed the whole show Matt TV. Yeah, me too

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Oh, shoot to me was better than Saturday night live
Yeah, the problem Saturday live is some from the same thing as a sentence
It's been on for so long they can't it lost all his funny it lost all his funniness to me all the flavor

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Yeah, yeah
But then that's just me. I think no TV show. I don't care how good is no show should go over
Seven seasons 11, maybe it's not 11 but seven or eight seasons. Mm-hmm
Cuz when she get back once because once you get past a certain point you're just grass-match straws

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Even if it's still going strong
maybe
depends on
What you're doing or what's talking about I guess but you know, I ain't really got a dog in that fight cuz I love like
Japanese shows and
British shows cuz a lot of them have very short runs for seasons like eight to ten to maybe 13 episodes of the most and then

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They'll do like one or two series and that's it
Yeah, that's why I'm in the anime too cuz you got like you said six you got 12 and then you got 24 and
Even the big shows they usually go what about a hundred
Episodes some of that at the most
Which I wish which by the way I wish one piece was fucking learn that shit

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One piece is fine
Hey, get out of here, dude
It's that one if that one show that's like if you have it's been on for what fucking 20 fucking years
1000 episodes if they ain't find it yet, they ain't gonna find it ever
Look, it's some people out there enjoying the ride. There's some people out there

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Still still with Luffy and them
That's fine
Hey, man, they can have fun with Luffy. I tried I tried on two different occasions to try to get into it
I got back at the Naruto before I got back into one piece
And Naruto has its ups and downs too, but I like release it when I got back into it
I can listen. Hey, please get a moving plot

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True true enough. Yeah, I
Think I watched all the Naruto I skipped like maybe the last
20 or so episodes of Naruto because I knew it was just gonna be filler and
Then I started on
Spoodin made it through the first dark and I was like I'm about I just got busy with stuff and never picked it back up

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Yeah, I I got into shippuden too and kick it. I'm trying to get it. I'm trying
I'm trying to get into my hit my hero academia man, but for some reason I'm getting pulled to a
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It turns out it was pretty good actually

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I kind of got into a little bit
What do you think is the most underrated anime
Now I'm definitely not not the person you need to be asking that question
Okay

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I'm not even well versed in anime
That much anymore because I don't I don't really
Watch a ton of it anymore. I'm really more into uh
Tokusatsu even that I'm just trying to catch up on
Because I think I'm about five years behind on both of them

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Coming right at Super Saiyan
Yes Super Saiyan not Power Rangers
Not Power Rangers ladies gentlemen the original Super Sentai the real shit
The Japanese I always explain it to Japanese Power Rangers and everybody's like oh, okay. Yeah

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Yeah
Man I was mad to say when I when the
Uh, the wool was pulled over eyes or the truth was revealed when I was in my sick
They were like wait it might when I was like
What sixth grade seventh grade?
I like wait a minute. So this is not American doing this shit. This is Japanese stuff. We have nothing original

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Cause I think we drive
Because I remember that being the case then and then I didn't come back to all that stuff till years later
And then I started watching I was like shoot. I like this Japanese shit
Me too
I get
I stopped watching

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I stopped watching Power Rangers right we're right around lots of galaxy or
As many people used to call it the Charlie Brown Power Rangers when they had that zigzag in the middle of the J
Yeah, yeah the Gengar Mansons
Yeah, and then I got back into it when they did power and for some reason I saw I watched Power Rangers and SPD

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And
What is it called? What's it called the Sentai the SPD version the one with the cops decorator
Okay
The last Power Rangers
So I tried to watch and I just completely gave up watching was Power Rangers operation overdrive because for some reason they made the black guy

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The thief
I thought the original Power Rangers had it worse when they made the black guy the black Ranger and they made the yellow
They made the Asian woman the yellow right now. Okay, that's racist, but I think they weren't they didn't know anything
The night is where different time man. Yeah, different time
This was like in the early 2000s or something like that. They they chose to make him

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They made one of them in the black Ranger again, unless he picked that color. I don't know how they did but to make him a thief
You could have be anything else
You just had to make him a thief and then he was rocking and then he was rocking corn rolls
Yeah, I was like I was like, okay. I just gave up on that idea alone. But anyway, so besides being an anime

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Well for the limited time you have it and super since I were also
Very familiar video games and the one video game that connects us is fighting well type is fighting games
So my question is to you D Mobius
Why are you taking so much

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Don't try me again son
Okay, I know I know I'm just fucking with you
Tekken is not my 3D usually 3D fighters just haven't been my my bag. Honestly, I it's not that I don't find them interesting and just finding them a lot just to just to be a lot of

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Soul Calibur was like the first fighting game that I really just got to know how to play
And kind of learn on my own to learn myself what to do and it was a ton of work
When street fighter 4 came out years later
I took that as like my first D fighter that I really learned how to play it was a lot easier to kind of grasp the concepts of it and less stuff to worry about on that you know that third plane of existence that's in there on them 3D fighters

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And just for the record folks he doesn't really hate Tekken I'm just poking fun because Tekken is one of my favorite fighting game genres
But I like I also like three fighter man but for some reason between me
The goat street fighter game still is three fighter three third strike

(37:36):
It I don't know I like street fighter 4 I despise 5 and depending on who you I play with and 6 it can be a decent place through but for some reason for me the the the bar the benchmark has always been thirst right
The third strike is okay I definitely a few years ago I probably would have said the same thing but I do enjoy ultra street fighter 4 a lot that's probably like my favorite street fighter I probably just because I spend so much time on

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Yeah, okay, like I don't know how much in the lore you are but do you care which version of that street fighter 4 do you like give a do you care about which either like style of tree fighter my style
Do you care about the alpha series that you know those type that different versions or do you just care about the main like street fighter 4 5 and 6 like what's your what's your opinion on 6 so far

(38:47):
Are you necessarily talking about lower you're talking about everything overall or it's just game play with a I was a little confused with that question
I was confused too as I said it so I'm going to re re ask the question but better right now 6 street fighter 6 is out it's been out for a while and they almost you yeah and you've been playing it almost a year

(39:15):
Okay, how does it stack up compared to 4 like gameplay wise
Game play wise I think it's very fun. I'm compared to 4. I think it's a lot less hardcore than 4 was for definitely have a lot of

(39:39):
It's a lot of lots of a lot of footsy base, you know, you dash up you do the walk up or walk back you do the dash you do the back dash sort of thing kind of like how five was to but with dry fresh
It kind of changes the game of time. It makes everything a lot faster. You got to react a lot better. It's just and that just makes it pure fun for me. I've been having a lot of fun going in and playing street fighter 6 is last year almost year that has been out and I haven't

(40:19):
I haven't gotten really bored of it yet which is kind of kind of crazy. I can see that. Is there any character you hope shows up in like DLC soon?
See Viper visit this all. I don't care about anybody else. Give me see Viper and I will be happy for the rest of the games lifespan. I don't have to play no fucking body else. I will just take my Jamie and take the see Viper and I'll just walk off into the sunset.

(40:53):
What are they bringing you? What are they bringing back? Because you was pretty you was actually pretty killer with a con and for I played her car as a joke because I just like the way his moves worked where you just slid around his body like the opponent slide around her
because he's all old up. I probably try to play with a con a little bit if they put him in there, but I doubt they'll put him in there. If they do they're gonna make him a they kind of simplify them.

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So far the controls and six. He'll be a charged character. If you doubt it, I doubt it. He'll probably have some similar moves to four to what he was at four. But I could actually see the kind being played in six like I could imagine that in my mind and see how that would go.
That that would actually be a nice addition if they did that but I doubt that.

(41:58):
I'm gonna go way back. I'm actually go back and dig back in the street for the third strike in that time frame. Give me back my Sean.
Now there's definitely somebody will see. I want Sean especially since the fact after five when we made a sister was her name Laura Laura.

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I'm like how did you not pick up the like the Thunder Shock moves from her.
And then he went straight to like reading being trained by Ken Masters and learning the Hadoken and stuff and yet you had that stuff.
Well, you know he was slidling martial arts martial arts learner and third strike. So since this game takes six takes place after third strike then it actually may be something that he picks up.

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If they put them in there I would hope they put that in there.
I didn't play much of five but I will say this I do want them if I could like ask I would ask them to bring back Laura Sean and well I was using I kind of like how con with you.
I was kind of just like messing with him in my when I was playing with him El Forte.

(43:19):
Yeah, that dude that guy was pretty good. Yeah he was he had had the mix up game had the run was just a couple of people with runs and Street Fighter 6 now so he wouldn't actually be that out of place.
But it was so like when I played online with him like nobody was like oh he's trash and then I would beat him and it's like you ain't that good. It's like no you just don't know how to defend against El Forte.

(43:52):
Right.
And it's like it's just it's just surprised me how much how much fun I had playing with the guy and as soon as I tried playing and I don't think the service went down but nobody just got off Street Fighter 4 when I started picking him up I was like I was basically frustrated like I actually want to learn how to play El Forte.
Nobody wanted to play Street Fighter 4 for some reason I forgot why and some of that but

(44:17):
the game's lifespan probably I don't know I don't know what it was so I don't know. So yeah if you know what it was I could probably tell you.
Yeah I'm not in the mood to look up dates yet it was just that it was just that it's probably at the end of his run so
I'm gonna have to look at it up later but we'll check I'll check on it but but but but five.

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The I try playing that but it felt so
slow and so bulky. I don't know maybe it's the way they felt it.
They felt so slow to me playing. Yeah I think it was supposed to be that way.
I think they were trying to appeal to a more casual audience and also is it was very Street Fighter 5 was very cerebral at a high level.

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It had all of the nice with punishes the back and forth that you like out of a good good 2D fighter you know just make sure you step in you step out you do you know you do your little hokie poke and you get a with punish.

(45:42):
This was this was all about right there so basically so basically Street Fighter 5 was made for tournaments.
Actually yes yes it was because if you remember what Street Fighter 5 launched they launched with no story mode or anything like that.
Only because the Capcom Pro Tour and Capcom Cup were starting right then that was pretty much the first major event.

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I think within a couple of months of Street Fighter 5's launch so yeah they they had turned in some line for that.
That's why it felt so bulky so that why it felt so damn bulky so damn much.
Street Fighter is known for its speed taking it's the one for all the like you know you got to be careful in the long combos and the 18 juggle moves and shit like that one.

(46:42):
And so in speed that we don't talk about the last one the other one in Mortal Kombat because honestly between me.
It's known for its fatalities and that's it.
Mortal Kombat is just blood gore. I was like okay well after you get past the blood gore then what do you have?
It's just some shit.

(47:04):
Well the special character sometimes because.
And I've also never really been much into the the universe of Mortal Kombat even so it just never interested me.
It's like it's the darkest, goriest, most brutal shit that you know somebody came up with but it's just not to me there's just better dark brutal gore shit out there.

(47:36):
Look at it.
So basically the fame that made it famous is not what made it famous anymore so.
It's not the thing that made it famous is not where interested me but there's still plenty of people out there doing fatalities or shit so you know it's fine.
I mean honestly man the only reason you pick it anybody I would pick it up is just this play with the DLC characters and then that would get old after about a month so that's why I don't even attempt to buy it I'll play it but I'm not going to like.

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I'm not going to force myself to like I have to get it right now.
One dude on Mortal Kombat.
There was a couple of games back though.
I played against a friend of mine and I picked I picked this guy.
He was over there throwing up and farting and shit.
I was like yeah this my guy right here.

(48:31):
You're talking about Bo right show.
Yeah I believe that was his name.
Again he was hit and miss but I mean other than playing with Sub Zero I really don't care about anything else.
Speaking of that speaking of games I thought were going to be great but not great.

(48:52):
The one time my favorite game in your favorite game combined to play to be one and it was utter trash street fighter X tech and I'm like.
When I heard they actually would got they actually partner up to do a one game like that I was like head over heels.
I don't know why that was such disappointment.
It was well there's a multitude of reasons why I didn't play that game very much.

(49:19):
You you're you're lucky.
I wish I had your like ability not to play that shit because I tried playing it and especially with my group of friends who like all like taking what's the best better game and they had the other group of friends were like street fighter is the best game.
We finally got the one game and said yes they go to get the collide and it was good it was gutter trash it was.

(49:43):
I don't know Domino's pizza trash basically it would it was.
It was yeah it was just awful because it was too slow for you taking fire because they didn't they missed like able to move around and do combos and stuff like that and it was too bulky and too slow for street fighter character for street fighter fans in my.

(50:06):
Slow slow all around him.
Oh yes especially if you if you were a taken player and you built your whole resume on like juggle moves and like speed and like able to like move left and right in 3D you would you guys you had to learn you had to learn a whole new learning curve.
I mean it was to do games so you know you had to get with the get with the thing.

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So yeah and it was kind of funny the fact that when you saw people who were who grew up basically playing Tekken.
Try to play street fighter and they was trying to like oh man I forgot I can't go left or right.
Yeah that's the problem and then you had three fighter characters who are fans of three fighters like man this thing feels so damn fucking slow.
Because three fighter to me was all built up even if I was 2D its speed was the fun thing because you can get in get out like you say get in get out and you know wham bam thank you man and then back up you know especially for a 2D game.

(51:08):
Right right.
Let me change let me think about something else because three fight tech and really pissed me off I need to think about something else right now because.
So how about this how about I lead the conversation for a little bit.
Go ahead.

(51:29):
So.
You tell me.
Why do you think.
The people who listen to your podcast would want to hear anything from me.

(51:50):
Your ability your experience your ability to talk your ability to tell stories.
Your ability to connect with people.
Okay okay.
When I even though this is the second episode of this show.

(52:12):
What I kept telling myself is that like if I'm going to interview someone I want somebody who the first person I want to interview had to have had to be somebody I had to trust.
Who knows what they're talking about and actually makes people feel can actually connect to people.
That's why I immediately thought of you out the out the gate.

(52:33):
Oh you think I could do that.
Okay people ladies and gentlemen of the restaurant.
Yes I'm calling this podcast show even if I could straight cheese the lettuce I'm calling the fucking universe the restaurant.
This man.
What I said at the end of the show with a mentor teaching all this stuff was not hyperbole it was not it was not me glazing up.

(52:58):
You D have the ability to connect with people in ways you don't even you can't even imagine.
I probably do.
I mean I can't have the bad stuff but okay and the no and the fact you don't know and the fact you don't know how you're doing it proves the fact how good you are.

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It's like basically when my my friend was a teacher who the teacher and I asked him like what how you knew the teacher because I didn't know I was good at it.
When you're not when you're good at something you know you don't know you're doing it.
That's how you know you're doing it well.
Great mentors are not like I want to be a great mentor great mentors are just mentors because they're good at connecting people they just doing what they're doing and people gravitate to him.

(53:45):
So give me like three examples of how I've been a decent teacher mentor.
Do you remember the time when me you came back home.
I think it after our first year in band having a first year in college and first and shout out to Mr. Right.

(54:10):
I never hears this. I doubt it. We came back and we might have had a home game.
I think it was either it was not a home game.
I think it was either the summer or something we had been had band practice.
And you and the year prior you was the drum you was the drum and I drum major you was the captain of the drum line section later.

(54:35):
Yeah. And I remember me you both said hey let's go to mine and see how they do how the band doing.
And we went up there and I think they either had a show or they were doing something with the band.
We walked into the band room.
And I think they were Mr. Right was talking to the band the drum students.

(54:57):
And I think he had to go out and do something.
He was out thinking about it. He turns to you. I was I remember this.
He turned to you and said hey there. Can you teach these kids something. I got to take care of something.
And he just walks off. He said OK.
To be a great mentor or teacher you have to have trust in other people to take care of some shit.

(55:22):
Mr. Right had that much trust in you that here are some students that you didn't know.
That you have no idea how their skills are. And he looked to you and said I trust you enough to teach these guys something.
Let me go take care of something else. And he just walked off and he left you in there because I remember I left.
They go hang out with some other sections and I come back and they are still teaching these guys and you was walking around.

(55:47):
I'm like you was like a fucking band director. I mean hell.
That's it. Yeah I remember that. I remember that too.
The other time when you were the mentor and shout out the static and I got to get him on the show one day but it was when he was a little bit later.
I think he wanted to he was trying to find out what he wanted to do with his career.

(56:13):
Or he was trying to figure out and he kept like changing stuff like changing ideas.
I remember one time he had he came I remember what I remember one time you came down.
We all went downstairs to my mom's house and he leaned over to you and he said I think I want to be a firefighter.

(56:38):
That was the first time I ever heard him say that.
And then you turn and what I miss a bit you turn to me and you say are you sure now like it's not like saying like oh don't I'm not saying like don't be a firefighter but you question them like a teacher and a mentor because you know you basically brought him down.
Brought him down because he was like oh I think it'd be fun. My friends are doing it and so and then you calmly told him he said are you sure that's what you want to do.

(57:04):
Are you doing it because your friends are doing it. Are you feel like this is something you can actually be good at.
And he had to sit there and think about it.
He's like I think I'm good at it.
And he said.
And you talk to this man you was basically saying.
I want you to use your skills for what you are good at.
I don't want you to be something you get your you get too over your head you can't get like flustered and stuff and you talk to him to him.

(57:30):
And you talk to me you didn't like that you didn't disrespect his ideas you didn't respect the idea he was going to want to be a firefighter.
All you did you would talk to him like a brother will talk to another brother.
And you basically ask like I want you to go home and think about it.
You say you don't you say you think I could do I said I know you can but I want you to be absolutely sure that you want to do this.

(57:53):
After that day he comes back a couple weeks later I talked to him say hey you can still be a firefighter said.
Now talk to there and kind of make me think about it for a minute.
And I think I need to do something that's better with better use for my skills.
Okay.
Okay.
Yeah.
I kind of I remember when he was trying to be a firefighter.

(58:19):
I don't necessarily remember that conversation specifically but that does sound like something I would do.
And the band thing I don't remember Mr. Right actually pulling me aside or telling me to go help them.
I don't know whether that was the specific moment.
I miss I miss I miss I remember actually going over there to band camp.

(58:43):
Wait a minute and actually helping them helping them out with reading the music and getting their stuff together.
I do remember that.
I think I misspoke.
I need to double check that that I don't have my notes.
I think Mr. Chrome was dark was in charge at the time.
Either one of them I don't I don't remember.
I don't remember.
I think it was right to do it.

(59:05):
Yeah.
I remember them asking you say hey can you like.
I mean it was when you removed so I guess it didn't was not a problem.
Yeah.
No it certainly wasn't a problem for me because I feel like I'm too small or but whatever.
I would just say it anyway.

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It wasn't a problem for me because it was within my wheelhouse of skills to because ever since we got in the band we started beginning band together.
I was always trying to figure out music and I learned how to read probably I think faster than anybody else who didn't know how to read the music in the percussion section at least.

(59:54):
Like I was I was over there reading complicated rhythms.
Before we left beginning band I was always the person people went to especially since I played the tone of bass drums first two years in the band.
I was always the person that everybody went to if they needed a rhythm knocked out or if they needed a rhythm counted out.

(01:00:19):
Now I couldn't play for shit.
Especially snare like it was tough.
Okay.
But definitely somebody needed a rhythm knocked out or somebody needed to know how to count something.
Yeah, I could do that easy because that's all I was doing all day every day with songs I listened to count out melodies.

(01:00:43):
Count out counter melodies, harmonies all of that.
And then I also just go through and like with the second example you gave.
I treated Jared like I would treat myself, which I don't know some people would say that that kind of bites you in the ass sometimes because sometimes you just got to jump in the stuff and then figure out if that's what you want to do but I would question myself a lot.

(01:01:14):
That's just part of my philosophy of life, which it can stop you from doing some stuff.
But I think that's kind of the point to was like to get to on the track to where you really want to go.
You got to kind of question everything.
And that kind of goes into what we went through at the beginning of the conversation when I was playing devil's advocate, you know, you got to.

(01:01:43):
You got to be the devil's advocate for yourself or some of the things you think sometimes it opens up your your mindset to different options, different opinions that you would normally think of.
And it also strengthens strengthens your resolve for whatever decision you make, because you've already gone through all of those other options.

(01:02:09):
You've already fought against yourself. Now you know this is the right decision that you made or the decision for you that you made.
So you go ahead and go with it and I have to worry about anybody else coming through and throwing you all down.
Yeah, I believe you have to question some things.
If you don't question some things to be fooled by everything.

(01:02:33):
I have a different opinion on that. I'll say question everybody's fucking thing.
We'll say that for part another time.
You said three, but I guess it's okay. You know, you don't have to do three. Those those two were pretty good.

(01:02:54):
I was just very curious because you know you brought me here and I'm like we started talking about anime and video games. I'm like, OK, so what? Why am I really here?
Why am I really talking to you on this podcast? What's what's really the point of this?
What did you want your listeners to get out of this? And I had to ask that question.

(01:03:19):
I get you. But to simplify it as well also, besides that you're you're a comforter.
Because you're easy to talk to.
I was about to say, are you am I supposed to be spread on the bed?
No, you jackass. You fucking asshole.

(01:03:44):
I always got to I got to watch what I say around you, man.
You're there and that that that's a certain people going to love this.
Well,

(01:04:05):
you do have what you call a.
You're from something we got a fuck you sound like a big brother. But now that you need people need to understand you're more of a father figure to most people now.
Then most people want to say out loud speaking, you know.
Well, so.
Yeah, to some young cats.

(01:04:28):
I could say something. Hey, you treat my nephews like your son sometimes when you come over and they ask you for stuff.
Yeah, yeah, when I can't get.
Yeah, when I can.
Speaking of that, speaking of fatherhood.
I know that was a shitty segue, my bad.

(01:04:49):
But I don't know. I think it was only kind of awkward because you took their pause.
It was kind of kind of OK.
I'll fix it in post. I'll fix it in post when I learn how to fix stuff in post.
Yeah, so those who don't know if it was OK for me to tell them your father or three, your father or three.

(01:05:12):
Yeah, I've mentioned it many times among podcasts.
Yeah, those fucking books.
Nice plug, by the way.
Okay, so my question. This is actually a real question in well is three, but I'm start with the first one.
When you find out for the first time you was going to be a dad, the phone call or the email or the text or whatever.

(01:05:40):
What was the first thought in your head?
Like, oh, I'm going to be a dad. Like, what was the first thing you hit when you thought of it?
I think every dude has this thought when they hear those words.
I think the first two words that come up in every dude's head is oh shit.

(01:06:01):
And then the next two words are old fuck.
And then the next three words are probably I'd say about 5050.
I fucked up.

(01:06:22):
No, what the fuck.
No, really, I really do think man, this is this is kind of an emergency.
Because I'm not where I really want to be in life right now to be thinking about having kids, but everything really just kind of worked out.

(01:06:52):
And of course, you know, two more kids later, still working things out.
Everything is working itself out in time. I think that's especially our generation and people that are younger than us.

(01:07:13):
We see all the stuff that our parents grandparents went through and we're thinking like we got to make sure we have our shit together.
And all of this stuff happens. You really kind of don't. I mean, you do, but then you don't as long as you're willing to work through all of that stuff and work it out.
You know, you can you can do whatever you need to because he'll humans have been doing it for millions of years.

(01:07:41):
And that's that's my stance on it. Like everybody.
You know, most people I've talked to, especially women that I've talked to saying that they don't want to have kids because these are like terrible times to have kids, terrible economic times have kids.

(01:08:05):
Like we are possibly in the best financial and global economic situation that we've ever been in in human history.
Right now, even with all the shit that we're going through with the installation and crap.
There are definitely worse times in history in human history that you could have been born. And guess what? There were people still having sex and giving birth in those terrible times.

(01:08:37):
And there were still human beings being raised up and growing up and becoming adults in those terrible times.
So, honestly, I don't think I'm not saying that these people don't have reasons for not wanting to have kids.
To me, it's just it's not it's not an excuse for me.

(01:09:02):
Honestly, I'm just like, hey, you know what? If that's your reason, so be it. That's fine.
If that's your thing for me, that's not a reason for me.
For me and for me alone, because I can't say nothing about you, but that's not a reason for me. So doing what I can.

(01:09:25):
Doing whatever it takes to make it work.
And it is not easy by any means.
Because your kids come through and they show you a side of yourself that you thought you had long since buried.

(01:09:46):
Or you had never seen in yourself before.
And it takes a lot of patience to deal with that. And I don't even have teenagers yet.
So what's going to happen when that time comes?

(01:10:07):
God.
Real talk, man, your kids are going to be laid back teenagers. You ain't got a word.
We all see. We are going to see.
They don't pretty much be just chilling at the house.
Like, oh, there's no cheese puff in the fridge. Dad, I guess I'm going to go in my room and study.

(01:10:32):
I'm going to try to see what I could do about kind of breaking that a little bit.
Because even I wasn't necessarily that kind of teenager.
I would love to see them just be involved with a few things, at least a few things, be going to different places and be active.

(01:10:59):
That's your thing. But when I was a teenager, when we were teenagers, especially me, I didn't have that many friends growing up.
And even when I did start accumulating friends, I'm not an outdoorsy person.
I'm better now because I've learned to like have, I want social interaction and mostly due to the pandemic.

(01:11:22):
I mean, I played it from the world and I realized I need friends and everything.
But in high school, if I ever have kids, if they say like, I'm not an outdoorsy person, hey, I'm right there with you.
I feel that too. Oh, yeah.
And as far as having kids, though, I think it's comes down not only about sex and everything, it comes down just like timing.

(01:11:50):
Because sometimes the universe says like, you are ready to raise.
I'm like, I'm not ready to raise me in the universe to tell you, you're ready to raise kids.
Here you go.
I do have an opinion about that, though.
I don't know if it's unpopular or not, but I'm just going to say it.
Go ahead.
I don't think anybody at any point in time in their life or relationship, I don't think anybody has it all together when they have kids or they find out they're going to have one.

(01:12:22):
I don't think it's ever the right time to have a kid.
Even when they try to play.
Even when they try to play in it, because you do hear about a lot of couples who are trying to play into have kids.
Then they just can't get one or something happens to where it's just really difficult.

(01:12:49):
And I don't know.
I just think there's just something that gets in the way of all of that planning and stuff.
I don't think anybody is ever ready, like slowly ready to have a kid.
I just think we get ourselves ready.
So when you also found out that you was going to be a father for the first time or second or third, was there anybody in particular, anybody in particular that you wanted to talk to or call or reach out to?

(01:13:23):
Yeah.
Yeah.
I really did want to reach out to both my parents.
I wanted to reach out to my dad to at least let him know that he has more grandchildren.

(01:13:50):
Whether he and I's relationship is not great.
Virtually nonexistent.
But that's that's a whole other.
Whole another story, which I've tried getting his side of the story on things of that. He doesn't want to tell it.

(01:14:20):
So at least to let him know that he has grandchildren out there and give him a shot.
Because I mean, that's all you can do that.
Me and my brother had to grow up with dealing with him.

(01:14:43):
I know it would be the exact same.
But I would hope that he would change, you know, but I've been hurt a lot by him.
So I just kind of let that go and I just live my life.

(01:15:04):
I need to live it.
I mean, that was a hmm.
And as much as you've been helpful to me and helping me out through my life, I'm sorry to cut you off.
My family pretty much adopted you.
Yeah.
Yeah, pretty much.

(01:15:27):
Yeah.
I wanted to reach out to my mom too.
Course she passed 15.
And that was my my first shot was five years later.
So she's missed all of that. And I really would have liked it.

(01:15:57):
If.
She'd been able to meet them and see them and even see her oldest grandchild my nephew grow up, which she was only there for.
Yes, it was only there for a year of his life. Well, not even a year of his life only a few months.

(01:16:22):
So yeah, those those are two people that I really wish.
reached out to or been able to reach out to.
When I found out.
Now I would love to have some guidance to a little bit of guidance and reassurance.

(01:16:46):
From both of them.
Yeah, I understand.
I got.
I'm at a loss for words right now.

(01:17:09):
No, I was at.
Like I said before, like I said in the beginning of this whole interview, well, this whole session, like you can connect with people and like I feel that.
Like that that that hurt.
Like I need to sit down on the floor for a while.
Listen to some mob deep or some shit.

(01:17:32):
Wow.
And reflect on my life for real and be and just be thankful.
Yes, but I can say though it's just been really tough.
Juggling all of these things that I have going on right now.
As far as like I started a new job a few months ago.

(01:17:56):
I really don't think.
Unless I go into a specific field, I really don't think I'm ever going to have a career.
So sorry about that.
So that's that's for me.
I'll probably just be working different jobs until I retire.

(01:18:21):
Then having three kids with three different personalities.
And then juggling the time with them.
Time with my significant other.
And.
Just time with myself is just seems like it's not existent.

(01:18:47):
And the one thing that I'm really focusing on right now is taking that time for myself.
And I think that's one of the things that I need to do to keep myself going.
Because if I don't fill my cup up.
If I don't make sure that I'm good then.

(01:19:08):
How am I going to give to anybody else?
How am I going to.
Give my kids the best me they can get.
How am I going to, you know, do my best work or.
Be the best person for my my significant other.

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If I don't take care of myself.
That's what the that's that's profound, but.
You're in.
You're not really alone.
I get what you're saying, but you're not alone. You have a very.

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Strong support cast your significant other.
Probably some really good friends.
You got my family. You got family down here.
You got you got hand.
You got a bunch of hands touching your soul right now.
So you're not alone in raising your kids.
You just have to reach out and ask for help when you need it.
Like I don't mind.

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In fact, I'm not right there physically.
If you ask me, hey, can you come up here and watch my kids for like an hour?
You know, I would get in my car and drive up there and do it.
Like no questions asked. Like you have, you're not.
You have enough people to fill your cup of music.
I just let them fill it up and then let you just like.
Sit there and take.
You know, take a break for sometimes.

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I don't have you have a village.
You get to your advantage basically.
Yeah, so I don't know. Maybe.
Maybe I was.
I don't know. Maybe.
Maybe you did catch something from what I said or.
Or maybe I did come off.
As I was a little.

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Alone and doing this.
Maybe.
Maybe I put that out there.
Maybe not alone, but you do.
You do come off as silent and tired.
Well, I am tired.
I know that's what I mean.
That's what I mean.
I'm not alone.
Like I'm by myself. Like you.
Like I need a push. Like you need like.

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A breather of some sort.
Oh yeah.
I think even if you.
I think even if you don't have kids, like there's.
So much stuff out there.
That we do.
That distracts us.
From ourselves.
I know.
I know.
I know.

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That we're not just from ourselves.
Well, I just believe that everybody does.
You know that don't now especially.
Our age is younger.
Since we do a lot of extra stuff.
To distract us from.
Really.

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Communicating with ourselves and our bodies and.
What it is that we actually fade.
We disguise that stuff from ourselves in order to keep from.
Kind of really going through.
The.
The hardships of asking ourselves the real questions.

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And that's kind of more so what I mean by doing.
Doing the work for myself to take care of myself.
I don't necessarily mean that I need other people to drop my kids off with
or anything like that.
I mean, just it's been a very long time since I've been bored
and spent time with myself really thinking about different questions

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that I have for like my philosophies on life, different things that I like to do
with stuff like that.
Well, now, some of the stuff I like to do, I can share with my kids most definitely.
But really is more so me talking about
just like being in my own head.

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And a lot of people say that's not good.
All of that shit is I guess being too much in your head is.
But.
I'm in my phone or that I'm in my head.
And so I don't necessarily think that that's a good thing.

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It's not, especially when you're overthinker like I am.
This is part of the reason you started this.
Very much so.
The cabin go.
The reason I start, you know, the reason I started the podcast
and it's because I felt like my purpose in life is to let people have a people

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is to get people platform so they could talk.
I said this many times before and I said, I keep saying it.
A lot of time podcast is to do a way too much talking from the host.
And which is fine.
But I want to hear people's stories.
I like to sit down and listen to stories and see their experience in life.
And I wasn't and personally I got in my own way for a long time.

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I've been thinking about doing a podcast since 2001.
But I always had doubt doubt of myself.
Why did you doubt yourself?
I'm lack of confidence.
Lack of experience.

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Lack of.
Experience lack of.
Charisma as a listen go on and on basically.
You can even hear my voice right now.
I I don't really like my voice.
When I especially want to hear it play back to me.
I sound natively even when I clear my throat in the nose.
I don't sound right.

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Yeah, I don't like my voice recorded either.
And I thought thought that you needed.
I personally thought the fact you just have to have some kind of flair.
But sometimes it's it's not about the host when you have a podcast.
It's about the person you bring on.
That's why.
My ability to listen is way better than my ability to speak.

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Especially when I'm interested in something or I'm interested in someone
and like questions, it's more fun.
And so.
Early this year, I had a sit down.
I think it was with you.
This is the third.
It was this is going to be the third like topic when you ask me like what made me.
Ask you to come on my podcast and what made people and what made people like you.

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It's because we have talked I think late last year.
About just going on a different journey.
Because I was still just trying to figure myself out.
And he's like and you sat me down.
Well, you didn't sit me down, but we took a couple of minutes.
I sat down in my chair.
You sat down and probably you sat in your chair and we just talked about.
New changes.

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You being a dad, you being a dad for the third time.
Me just like starting a new job and everything.
We's like and we told you told me we have we as guys.
As men, we have to do better.
Take chances.
What you told me.
You told me that mistakes get messy.
And then learn from it, but keep going.

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Shout out to Mr.
And then you said you basically talked to me and you said go for it.
And I just and I thought about that for a couple of months.
I'm like, what's the worst?
Let me just start this podcast.
Worst thing that can happen.
It just sounds terrible.
We don't have to come back to it, but I'm going to try.
And then I was like.
I had nothing left going for me.

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I started to get back in the hobby stuff.
I was like this podcast.
I was like, I'm not going to do it.
I'm not going to do it.
I'm not going to do it.
I'm not going to do it.
I'm not going to do it.
I was like this podcast thing is going to eat me alive, just like my story.
I got back into writing started still thinking about still considering doing that children's
book, but this podcast they can eat.

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And I was like, fuck it.
I'm going to try it next.
You know, I tell you like, Hey, man, I got my podcast I did go on.
And he's like, yeah, right.
You just said, yeah, right.
But he was like, okay, here's the first episode.
Oh, shit.
You actually are doing this.
And I was like, I'm going to try and I will see what this drink.
Yeah, we'll see what the journey takes me.

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I will say this.
I do have goals for the thing.
I will tell you this right now.
The one guy I want the two people.
Well, there's one guy I want the interview and it may surprise you.
I want Alexander Sinaard on the show.
Alexander Sinaard.

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You know, you probably you haven't been in Alabama before.
I don't know who that is.
I'll send you a link to one of his.
He's one of his commercials, but he's one of the big like accident lawyers.
He's known as the call me Alabama guy and everything down here.
And he's like, well, he's well known because he was known for his commercials.

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And so he's like, call me Alabama.
I'm Alexander Sinaard, your your turn, your auto accident lawyer.
Okay.
Okay.
Yeah, I haven't heard him.
He got so popular one time that he actually showed up at a convention one time with a
booth and they're like a bunch and he sat there and I remember one guy took a picture
of an ass Alexander Sinaard.

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He's one of those.
I'll send you a link one to one of his commercials on the phone and you be like, oh, I know who
that guy is.
Oh, okay.
And like, but everybody who was in from the Birmingham area, they know who he is.
And I want to, the other person I want to interview.

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This is going to be a longer shot, but I'm going, I want to do anyway.
I want to interview Steph Curry.
Okay.
Or yeah, Steph Curry.
I'm not a warrior, I'm not a Warriors fan, but I just want to, I'm a big fan of shooters
like Ray Island, Reggie Miller, Steph Curry.

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Oh, time works for us.
Fuck.
I walked right in.
Shit.
He did change the game.
What a pistol.
All right.
I rocked into that one again.

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30 years of friendship and I still fall for that shit.
But as a guy who's trying to get this podcast underway and you've done what two podcast
shows and done several podcast episodes, any advice to a newcomer?
Yeah.

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It's easy to start a podcast.
It's hard to be consistent.
There are so many things out there that you can get as far as tips go.
And if you want to learn anything you want to learn how to do, you can learn it in this
day and age.

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You can definitely go and learn it.
You don't, you don't have to physically have somebody there to teach you.
You can go and learn it yourself.
But the main thing you want to do is be consistent with this.
Okay.
Yeah, I can see that.

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Okay.
So, even in fact, I just started any equipment advice, like do I need like a good mic or
do I need a soundboard or just keep it simple for a while?
Well, it depends on, you know, what your budget is and how you want to do it.
But I'd say it gets you a fairly decent sounding mic to start with and also play around with

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where you're positioning on the mic and the different settings on the mic because that's
going to also determine your sound because you can have a just like somebody taught me
with guitars.
It's like you can have a fucking $13,000 guitar and make it sound like trash because
you're not playing it right.
And the same thing with a mic.

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You can buy the most expensive mic that you can afford and your sound is still terrible
because you don't know how to use it.
You can also make a very cheap mic sounds like you're in a professional booth depending
on how you use it.

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So as long as you have the knowledge and you're willing to learn how to do these things, you
can make something out of nothing.
Okay.
I remember that.
Just make sure, you know, you know what your goal is for your podcast as a whole, your

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mission statement for your podcast as a whole.
Know what you want to stick with, know what you are, are not willing to do for this podcast
and just be consistent with it.
Be inconsistent.
I can't stress it enough because that's that's going to determine how much traction you get.

(01:32:56):
Okay.
So when you another, let me focus on consistency for a minute.
You talk about like a schedule like interview, like the pin on the type of podcast I want
to do.
Are you talking about like, it's just like timeframe or like consistency and subject
matter consistency and putting it out.

(01:33:18):
Okay.
So basically consistency and all things dealing with the podcast.
Just make sure you know what you're talking about.
You know, stress, you know, getting your mission statement from podcasts together and also make
sure you're consistent with recording and putting it out.

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And even if you don't do it the same time every week, do it, you know, do it every two
weeks or if even if you do it once a month, just make sure you have a best day of episode
that month, just make sure it's regular.
Okay.
Thank you for the tips.

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Demobius.
No problem.
All right.
Well ladies and gentlemen of the restaurant, it's closing time.
I am your host slash chef Matthew aka in one six slash alpha insanity.
And Mike, I want you to, well, if you could send love and respect to my guests, Mr. Darren

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long nicknames beside himself, but the most noticeable one is demobius.
Do you have any plug it, pull shout outs or any show thing they can catch you on if they
want to reach you say hi.
Oh, no, no, because I have social media, but I'm not really on it.

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And I'm on Twitch, but I don't stream very frequently.
So no, not really, but all my handles are at demobius.
So if you want to send me a message or something out, read it eventually.
Okay.
And if you want to email the show, if you want to, I am, I do have an email up.

(01:35:21):
It's a straight cheese one at dot com at outlook.com.
So it's str cheese one at outlook.com.
Send your questions, send your confessions, they have to be anonymous, by the way, and
advice questions to there.
So it's str cheese one at outlook.com.

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And that's it for the day.
You know, until next time, drink one glass, drink a glass of water at night, get some
sleep and enjoy your day.