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🎯 New Year’s Resolutions – You know, those lofty promises we make to ourselves and break by February? Yeah, we’re tackling how to ACTUALLY set goals you’ll stick with—because you deserve better than annual disappointment.
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Eric Readinger (00:01):
There. We got to figure out music. I know, maybe
I'll do that today. I've got,I've got something.
Law Smith (00:18):
Can't be late. How much time do I have
Unknown (00:23):
a minute? This
Law Smith (00:26):
is girthy, the girthiest podcast, business
comedy mix a mash up for youentrepreneurial people. Oh, wow,
that, wow, man, that wasproducing. No, we're keeping all
this. Yeah, I'm not gonna editit out. Fuck, but Jesus, look,
sometimes you're so girthy youhit the walls and explode like
that, and that just happens,okay? Your fade out duration.
Eric Readinger (00:48):
Yeah, I know it should be. It shouldn't be a
hard out like that. It should bea slow ending.
Law Smith (00:53):
Look, we haven't seen each other in a long time, for
us, for our gay relationship,yeah, I know.
Eric Readinger (01:02):
And it's been, I mean, we haven't actually done a
show in a month.
Law Smith (01:05):
I know I put up two episodes. The previous two
episodes are me riffing, standup, mostly just improving jokes,
crowd work, stuff that Ithought, you know, that gets us
on the board. I like, I likehaving something out there, and
we both failed to do so low podswhen we couldn't get our
(01:25):
schedule together. Look theholidays rough. Yeah, and we
were just talking off air about,you know, doing the last second
dad gift stuff, and you
Eric Readinger (01:38):
were saying that, well, I was saying that
you put me in that circle. I wasjust saying how my kids are
older, and a lot of it wasprinting out gift card codes and
wrapping up pieces of paper.Yeah, I you know, I mean, I did
it in at a normal pace. My
Law Smith (01:58):
sister and my mom got me in this habit of giving
gifts. They they keep thereceipt. And if they see your
face and you don't like it,they're like, here's receipt.
Wrap up the receipt. Like mysister got me, like, this is a
cool creamsicle Buccaneers longsleeve shirt with a pocket on
it. I don't wear long sleeveshirts. No, she got the sleeves
(02:19):
out. She told me, Oh, she toldme, I couldn't cut the sleeves
off.
Eric Readinger (02:22):
When she gave it to me, it's your shirt. And I
go, you do it in front of her. Itold her what I
Law Smith (02:26):
told my kids, they just come off. I can't help it.
I know Hulk,
Eric Readinger (02:30):
that's all that. Yeah, me too. It just happens
like that. But why would we haveWhy would we wear sleeves? I put
it
Law Smith (02:36):
on and it looked like a blouse. I'm
Eric Readinger (02:37):
a man. I'm 40, where I don't want to wear
sleeves anymore. It looked like
Law Smith (02:41):
a blouse when I put it on. So I like that, that she
gives the I think that's thebetter part of the gift that she
cares enough to go. I'm not sureif I got this right. Here you
go. Yeah, you know.
Eric Readinger (02:53):
But did she wrap it up as a gift? Yeah, the
receipt, the receipt separate,like a separate gift.
Law Smith (02:59):
I think she put it in the bag at the bottom of the bag
I got. It wasn't a wrapped gift.It was a bad gift, because I'm
Eric Readinger (03:04):
gonna start doing that, wrapping up the
receipt and being like, this isalso a gift. It's in the bag.
You're welcome because you hateit. So here you go. It's like,
free money, yeah?
Law Smith (03:15):
Well, here's an errand you have to do. Yeah?
That's that's gonna my cynicismof like, okay, now I have to go
the mall. God,
Eric Readinger (03:26):
right? But that's like, if you're buying
something for a chick, that'swhat makes it a gift, that you
can't order it
Law Smith (03:32):
online. Well, did I tell you what my dad did when I
was younger? He goes, I don't goin malls. He made up a rule that
I believed, and now I'm tryingto, I'm trying to make it a
thing for me. My dad was justlike, I don't go malls, like, so
if I had to go get something atthe mall when I was, like, in
high school or whatever, he justsit in the car and wait, and you
go here, here's whatever forwhat you what you're going into
(03:54):
by just going and out. And I'mlike, Oh, he really hates
Eric Readinger (03:56):
malls. And she said, I'm not allowed in malls.
That
Law Smith (04:00):
would have brought up more questions. It was smarter
just to leave it at that. Hecould have just been like, shut
up about it. And you believeOkay, well, he's a man of few
words, right? So when he sayssomething like, I don't go in
malls, you're just like, youdon't go malls. And he's like,
nope. And I go. I said it once.Well, also I'm trying to get the
money to go get the thing. Hehasn't given it to me. Just
like, okay,
Eric Readinger (04:20):
whatever you say,
Law Smith (04:22):
you know, I ripped on this on one of those episodes
that I posted like this lastweek. So I had two shows or
whatever, and I was talkingabout the laziness of the bag
gift that dads do, because youdon't want to wrap anything,
right, you know? So you just go,I'll just get a bag and just put
(04:45):
that tissue paper in there. I'lldo
Eric Readinger (04:47):
you one better. I got these things that are
like, they're, they're the buildof a Chinese takeout box, but
they're plastic. Oh, decorationsof it,
Law Smith (04:56):
huh? We used to hand out our neighbors. We used to
hand around. Got
Eric Readinger (05:00):
a lot of takeout this week, this Christmas, when
I had a
Law Smith (05:03):
house and was married, we would hand out our
neighbors like little takeoutboxes of something small, like a
fortune cookie and somethingelse, as like, you know, please
help us when the hurricanes comefrom
Eric Readinger (05:16):
lesbians, Asian family. Well, yeah, exactly.
Law Smith (05:20):
I didn't realize that was they probably thought
watching cookie and a lot, notso much my issue, but they
probably thought she was Chineseand not Korean, right?
Eric Readinger (05:30):
That was my point. Confusing. Wait, you're
not China. Is a Korean fortune?Get what?
Law Smith (05:36):
Well, yeah, I you know, and it was, it was Hood,
Hood families and lesbians on mystreet. So it was like, they
were probably like, whatever. Idon't have time to learn this. I
don't care my Subaru's notstarting. Oh gosh. So lot of
stuff, I feel like, Do you haveany gay alien news?
Eric Readinger (05:58):
Gay alien news? Yeah, aren't they all gay? Oh,
yeah, probably
Law Smith (06:03):
I did say this to someone yesterday. I go, if any
of my friends wears a maga hat,any of my friends wears a maga
hat or, like a you just callthem gay. I've never heard
anybody call someone with a magahat gay Yeah, or white guys for
(06:24):
by or for Harris or brat,whatever that campaign she tried
to do. But if you just call I'venever heard anybody just do a
hate on them. I'm vamping so youcan pull this
Eric Readinger (06:39):
up. I mean, I don't really, I mean, it's just
Law Smith (06:42):
what's up with New Jersey dude. I
Eric Readinger (06:46):
you know, if you look at what I got, it's just
one video after another. Isn'tit just these things, isn't
Law Smith (06:53):
it a private business that was doing this, that owns,
like, drones and stuff,
Eric Readinger (06:59):
they would be in a lot of trouble going over
military bases with theirdrones. So
Law Smith (07:04):
those listening were getting like kind of cell phone
footage. It looks like firefliesat you know, from that angle,
there's a it's
Eric Readinger (07:12):
there's a cube, it's not all UFOs. This was this
chick. This could be completelyfake, but she claims she didn't
have a baby bump at all when shewas pregnant, she
Law Smith (07:22):
would, she would classify herself as sassy and
curvy on a dating app.
Eric Readinger (07:28):
I mean, if that's real at eight months,
that's so weird. I don't how bigwas
Law Smith (07:32):
the baby, a pound, normal size baby, no. NICU, Oh,
what's this?
Eric Readinger (07:36):
This one? I don't know. This one looks a
little too fantastical.
Law Smith (07:41):
Uh, yeah, this looks like a movie, and it looks a
little too clean. Yeah?
Eric Readinger (07:46):
That one, this is just so, you know, it's not
all UFO stuff. Are
Law Smith (07:50):
these all the things you like? So
Eric Readinger (07:52):
either I'm saving it to like show for those
listening, we're on Reddit.
Law Smith (07:58):
We're fat dads live, yeah?
Eric Readinger (08:01):
I mean, that's an eight minute video, shit.
This was cool. Footprintappearing out of nowhere in the
snow.
Law Smith (08:09):
It was Jesus like the sand, huh?
Unknown (08:14):
Yeah, he was carrying.
Law Smith (08:17):
He was carrying the both of
Eric Readinger (08:18):
us. He was doing piggyback rides.
Law Smith (08:22):
I wonder who I need to look up, who won cracker of
the Year from Antonio Bryant?Here's
Eric Readinger (08:27):
a crazy one. Look at this. And Malaysia
spelled wrong. So okay, as faras this shit goes, Man, here's
what I don't even know. Here'swhy I
Law Smith (08:38):
don't have a love for this like you do, it's because
it's like politics, that kind ofnews. It's one of those things
where you have to cipher throughso much Bs, and that feels like
a job, and that's why I don'tcare. Well,
Eric Readinger (08:54):
yeah, the thing with it all is, like all of
these regular people seeingstuff, mayors and, you know,
county commissioners and shitsaying they have meetings with
the FBI, and the FBI says, wedon't know. And, you know,
there's a lot of these mayorscoming out, being like, What the
fuck is that? Because itcertainly seems like there's
(09:17):
more than one kind of thing.Seems like there's actual, like,
drones going around, and there'slike, these orbs, and who knows
what else, well, but I wassaying, like, I've heard that
there's technology that they canproject these orbs into the sky
too. So, like, who knows? Yeah,owner von Braun, before he died,
(09:39):
said the last thing they'regonna do is fake an alien
invasion. Yeah, to like, whywouldn't beat us down?
Law Smith (09:45):
Have you seen, have you seen the you might be able
to look this up on Reddit,because I'm pretty sure it was a
link from there. I saw Chinesefire fireworks with drones. It's
pretty amazing how itsorchestras. Rated, even though,
right, I'm not a pro China guy.
Eric Readinger (10:03):
Well, they, they don't have all the FAA
regulations for drones. Well,they own, so that's drones. They
have the best, but I'm saying
Law Smith (10:13):
the orchestration of it. Okay, if you have you been
to Vegas? Yeah, have you been toreally? But okay, I was gonna
say the fountain, the famousfountain outside of whatever one
of the big casinos. It doesn'tmatter, but people clap at the
end of it, which is the fun. Andit's just like it happens every
(10:36):
10 minutes. The fountain thing,the fountain, whatever. Yeah, so
we're looking at the drones overthe night sky and hanging river.
I mean, it looks like betterthan the Olympics kind
Eric Readinger (10:52):
of display. I mean, it's it's nuts what they
can do. It looks like
Law Smith (10:57):
that Spider Man movie where he has all far from home,
where he has all the tiny littlebaby drones everywhere, right?
Eric Readinger (11:03):
That's, that's, that's real already. That's
what's crazy. Oh, that's cool.They didn't count down with
drones in this guy. Yeah,that's, that's insane. If
Law Smith (11:12):
anybody, the whole city looks fake. This is old
too.
Eric Readinger (11:15):
Yeah, funny I was, there's
Law Smith (11:18):
one that was over a building that had a circle over
a building of drones, and itlooked like it, it almost looked
like the bifrost from Thor, likegoing up
Eric Readinger (11:29):
rainbow river. I mean, we're being the people
like, you know, if I was at afirework show and people were
filming it, being this fuckingidiot who's gonna watch that?
And now here we are watching iton YouTube.
Law Smith (11:41):
I need to give you Antonio Brown, former bucks
receiver, former Steeler, allpro receiver, former Raider,
kind of has the funniestTwitter. You know, I was
thinking about it on the drivehere. Do you think Tom Brady?
Does Tom Brady have funny tweetsfor a while, right? Did he,
yeah, when he was, when he wason the books, he was pretty
(12:03):
funny. And I was like, he has tohave a writer, like, unless he's
just, like, that amazing atwriting. Like, doubt it brief.
Like, they're all bread. Likebrevity jokes. It's all like,
concise, no fat on him. I'mlike, he had to hire writers. I
feel like Antonio Brown doesn'thire writers, but maybe he does,
(12:24):
but he is the funniest follow.So he he did an awards last
night, the cracker of the Yearaward. If you don't, if you
don't follow him, he'll do acracker of the day. Who's the
cracker of the day? Fingerscrossed. Here's the nominees.
Elon Musk, Donald Trump, ShaneGillis, Donald Trump Jr, Dave
Portnoy, Zach, Brian, MikeMayock and Joe Biden blocked
(12:53):
him, I guess so he's out and thewinner of the cracker of the
year, like he made an awardshow, like he has a podium.
Well, yeah.
Eric Readinger (13:07):
Who is it? The
Law Smith (13:08):
Cracker of the year? It will be released early. Wait,
I think it's a podcast cracker.Joe Rogan, oh, there's a bunch
of these cracker of the year,Donald Trump, yeah. I mean,
Eric Readinger (13:26):
he just wins greatest
Law Smith (13:28):
president of all time. I do. You have your any
new year's resolutions? Youknow, I like a little goal list
for the year. Keeps me, keeps meon point. You got none?
Eric Readinger (13:43):
I wrote down three. Here's
Law Smith (13:46):
what do you think New Year's resolutions in the first
week? What do you think thepercentage quit? We do this
every year. I know, but I gotmore specific stats. We know 80%
of resolutions fail by February.That's the stat we were the
first week, yeah, but the firstweek was really funny.
Eric Readinger (14:03):
44% in the first week,
Law Smith (14:05):
okay, it's 23 I thought that was still high,
okay. 64 abandoned theirresolutions within the first
month. 80% failed by February,at some point in February, yeah,
nine to 12% of people reportsuccessfully achieving their
resolutions by the end of theyear.
Eric Readinger (14:25):
See to me, you said, Do goals? Yeah, I mean,
and I feel like a resolution isdifferent than a goal, or a
resolution is like, I want tochange this about myself and do
this for the rest of my life,whereas a goal is something that
comes to an end, and then youlike, I could accomplish this in
(14:46):
January. I'm
Law Smith (14:46):
gonna put in what the difference is, because I don't
know, and I was just gonna, kindof bullshit my way through a
debate of that, what aresolution is a broad
declaration of intent orcommitment to change. Change
room, prove something. Oh, myGod, the start of the year. Ai a
goal, specific, actionable,measurable target you aim to
(15:09):
achieve within a set time frame.However, I will say you
Eric Readinger (15:12):
don't even have to look it up. I said it almost
word for word, but that, butyou're but you're not a
computer, though.
Law Smith (15:18):
No, no, no, I'm saying yes, yes, yes, I should
Yes, and that I would say that'swhy resolutions fail. They are
essentially goals, but when youleave them too, open ended, they
don't work, yeah, if you don'tmake them smart goals, yeah, you
love this acronym, dude,Specific, Measurable,
(15:39):
Achievable, Relevant, timebound, they don't work. So I had
a teacher in high school. Shoutout, Coach boza, my economics
teacher. He lives in my parentscondominium, and I don't I ran
into him a few times. Doesn'tknow who I am, doesn't remember
me at all, and I'm like, I wasthe funny kid that loved all the
the Bill Murray movies he playedin class. Yeah, and Albert. He
(16:03):
got me on my parents condo. Hegot me on Albert Brooks earlier,
parents again, I was like, I rantrack for you for four years.
You don't remember me at all. Mydad's the biggest man in this
building by far. Like, you don'tnothing. He was messing with
you. No, he wasn't. He like, youknow, you get that look where
(16:23):
it's just like, completelyblank, and he's like, Okay, now,
to be fair to him, he's had1000s of kids. Yes, taught for,
you know, he taught for 25 yearsor something, but, like, I would
say His thing was, like, goingto church. More wouldn't be a
good New Year's resolution,yeah, going to church three out
(16:43):
of the four Sundays in a month.That is a good resolution. Yeah?
So that always stuck with me.That was the exact example, one
of the few classes I paidattention in. And so, because he
gave me an A in economics, sinceI could I could reel off Albert
Brooks
Eric Readinger (17:01):
stuff about economics.
Law Smith (17:04):
No, I you know you be, you'd be on, like an you'd
be, like an 89.1 you're like,Come on, dude, dance for your
ace and I go, Look, you knowwhat's the Albert Brooks movie
where he dies? Oh, you'rekilling it right now. Oh, god,
dude. 9:50am on a Saturday. Thisis rough. I can't. We used to do
(17:25):
these at 6am I don't know how wedid that. When we're like, five
years ago. Remember, ourschedules are so wacky. You're
like, 6am I'm like, bring it.Let's do it. I can do I'm sure
Eric Readinger (17:38):
we have, I'm sure we have, I just don't, oh
yeah, we
Law Smith (17:41):
definitely used to do some of those real like, 630
Eric Readinger (17:44):
in the morning. Yeah,
Law Smith (17:47):
when you're getting up at four, I might get up at
five and run over there anyway,defending your life. Boom. Got
it? You ever seen it?
Eric Readinger (17:58):
Yeah. I mean, in Rip Torn at his rip torniest and
bunches on TV when it was justplaying. He's like a yup down.
He start to finish. He's
Law Smith (18:07):
a yuppie advertising guru, exec or whatever, in LA
and dies in a car crash. Then hegoes into purgatory, and he has
to defend his life to get intoheaven. Rip Torn is his, like,
Purgatory lawyer, and MerylStreep is opposite him as just
someone hanging out in there. Ithink I need to re watch it. But
(18:29):
I could be like, rip rip thatoff. Or, What About Bob, Dr Leo
Marvin, the chains around me.Yeah, like my chains
Eric Readinger (18:41):
internally. That's what got you an A. You
Law Smith (18:43):
bumped me up to an A because I could recall comedy.
Eric Readinger (18:48):
What? Anyway, I don't exactly have the, you
know, most concrete gradingsystem either, so
Law Smith (18:55):
yeah, I think most of it was just like, All right,
stop annoying me. I'll give youthe a, yeah, that's part of it,
yeah. So what was the timeabout? Oh, SMART goals. So what
do you got
Eric Readinger (19:08):
one I want to do the outcast cover art like you
suggested this thing COVID.Yeah, yes, for the podcast. And
Law Smith (19:15):
you can do it better than I can. What you're better
design or graphic designer thanI am. Oh,
Eric Readinger (19:22):
I've been, I've tried to do it and actually take
the pictures.
Law Smith (19:25):
Oh, we need to do that too. We'll do that before.
Eric Readinger (19:29):
Well, I don't have all the Andre 3000
Law Smith (19:32):
stuff. You just need the pose. That's what makes it
tough. Disagree.
Eric Readinger (19:36):
I think the leather pants and leather
bangles make it tough. I
Law Smith (19:40):
know, but you could just Photoshop that in. Now, if
you haven't, if you want toeasy, Photoshop whisk, I've been
playing around with Google Labs,came out with something called
whisk, basically a very easy youjust drop in either pic. Here's
the problem with AI art, youcan't. Really alter something
(20:01):
that's already there with a lotof them image creators with
whisk you could drop in apicture of you. I could drop in
the outcast. I haven't done ityet. I don't know why I didn't
think of it for
Eric Readinger (20:13):
but we pushes it together. We need better brand
artwork. And
Law Smith (20:16):
I was like, what's on this? You mean the fat lesbian
on the wall behind, no, I lovethat lady. God, I hate that. And
I look like I have ro shape,rosacea or whatever.
Eric Readinger (20:27):
Yeah, lipstick, I turned up the color on that.
Law Smith (20:31):
I didn't know, pink lips. Yeah, it looks all fucked
out, saturated, too saturated.If you drop something in, it's
they made it very easy, but youcouldn't with these AI image
generators on chat, GPT, grok,whatever it is. You couldn't
drop an image in of like apicture of yourself and then go
(20:53):
put me in a forest. It would. Ithas to create. You have to
basically give it a prompt thatexplains what you look like,
which sucks. It won't do itwon't edit anything for you. You
sure about that? Yeah, I playedaround with this a lot, because
anything I can avoid, for medoing Photoshop, because it
takes me so long, yeah, to doany kind of altering,
(21:16):
especially, you know, I'm, I'mhelping friend of the program
and ni l, Wheeler and dealer,Steve fantti, with some of his
announcements of guys he'ssigning, oh yeah, putting them
in new uniforms, trying to do ahaze faucet style. I don't know
if you follow Him, He doesthese, like, really cool, almost
like no limit looking kind ofcool graphics, like when someone
(21:39):
comes no limit. Soldier, to me,it's like a it's like a 2024,
version of no limit stuff, hazefaucet, shout out. We need to
get him on the pot. He seemsgettable.
Eric Readinger (21:52):
It's like an insult. What you're gettable? He
is gettable. I know. But fromus, what
Law Smith (21:58):
are you talking about? We're the number one
business comedy podcast, comedybusiness podcast in the
Eric Readinger (22:04):
world. Yeah, I forget sometimes, so he
Law Smith (22:07):
does. They're very like, over the top kind of
social media posts that'll say,like, committed to Colorado.
Yeah, no, it's cool looking,yeah, it's got a no limit feel
to it. Little, I guess, a littlebling, a little like, high, high
like,
Eric Readinger (22:25):
be a little bit more gold in there, diamonds,
but whatever. Yeah,
Law Smith (22:29):
there's a random star just floating around. So whisk,
if you go and go, if you go onlabs, dot google forward slash
FX, forward slash tools, whiskor just put in Google list,
easy, easy. You can drop in asubject, a scene and a style. Or
you can tell it, if you don'thave it, and it pretty much it
(22:50):
does a pretty damn good job.I'll do a pre loaded one. I
don't know how this on here. Youcan do it on yours.
Eric Readinger (22:58):
What I don't want to start doing shit.
Law Smith (23:01):
Alright, so artwork, that's number one, yeah.
Eric Readinger (23:07):
Number two, undefeated basketball season,
Law Smith (23:11):
your team coach, Red's team,
Eric Readinger (23:13):
yes, not just any team. Yes. Shout out
Law Smith (23:16):
to all your kids that find the pod.
Eric Readinger (23:19):
Got more. I mean, hey, definitely have more
listeners. Hey, if
Law Smith (23:23):
we can go, come down and get all the 13 year old
kids, oh, God, that, that phrase
Eric Readinger (23:27):
you just said is gonna get us flagged. Like,
what? That was a positive.Again, doesn't matter. See, down
13 year olds right after that,yikes. That's
Law Smith (23:41):
probably why they got the big following on Patreon and
made I was like, are we done?No, that's, I mean, they got a
13 year old following becausethat show's name was probably
most of it, yeah, and they'refunny. I've actually been going
through all the old episodes andkind of listening to them. Sure.
I just like it because they pickon Adam Freeland. It's funny. I
(24:04):
don't know who that is. Youknow, when you were hanging out
in like, high school and you hadlike, one friend that you were
just ruthlessly, just made funof no matter what. No, you
didn't have that dynamic. No,maybe you were
Eric Readinger (24:16):
the one. Yeah, maybe it was me, me.
Law Smith (24:20):
You guys weren't that mean to each other?
Eric Readinger (24:23):
Really? Well,
Law Smith (24:26):
it's a funny dynamic. It's funny show, whatever it's
Oh, it's been over for twoyears, but they got that middle
school boy following, and nowthose guys are older and show up
to see them do stand up,
Eric Readinger (24:39):
yeah, have to foment their interest.
Law Smith (24:42):
So how are we going to achieve this goal? Illegal
recruiting. Okay, now we'retalking, baby, how you do that?
I'm already scouting. Don'tworry.
Eric Readinger (24:51):
How are you gonna it's not illegal
recruiting. I'm just, is yourpaperwork done? Do your
paperwork
Law Smith (24:56):
so you're, yeah, you got to get administrative and
clerical with them. Um,
Eric Readinger (25:00):
yeah, for sure. So you gotta meet those dates,
right? It was, well, coming intothis year, I didn't even plan to
coach the team. And, like, Iwould have been scouting from
day one, because it's like thebest players at school weren't
even on the team. I mean, one,so you got
Law Smith (25:14):
to do the coach thing, of like, Hey, you're
pretty tall. Why don't you playbasketball? Like,
Eric Readinger (25:19):
I only have to do that they play in PE sorry,
Scout them right there. You'rewatching playing basketball
again today. Yes, you'rewatching,
Law Smith (25:28):
like, blue chips or something. Yes, you're Nick
Nolte. Like, damn,
Eric Readinger (25:32):
is that kid in eighth grade? Because if they're
in eighth grade, they're gonnabe gone. Oh, so, yeah, you want,
you want them for a year too.Yeah. I'm like, well, these
sixth graders, give me all yourbig sixth graders. Do you have
Law Smith (25:42):
enough talent? You think, yeah, on hand, yeah. I'm
assuming part of this is makegood relationships with the
parents. Nah. Well, I would saythat would help keep them,
retain them,
Eric Readinger (25:56):
yeah. But hey, I'll take your kid. We only have
five games the seasons over inthe blink of an eye. So do you
Law Smith (26:02):
want to? Do you want to go and defeat it or not?
Eric Readinger (26:06):
I also don't want to, you know, go crazy.
Have to call like, what am Igonna do with these parents? No,
Law Smith (26:10):
you just gotta sell it on the parents a little bit.
You don't have to be BFFs. Justgo, hey, I'll keep your kid
after school for a couple hours,right? I mean, that was our rule
in our house. You had to play asport every day after school.
It's smart, because I would havejust fucked around. Yeah, that's
good, especially in high school,
Eric Readinger (26:31):
yeah. So my last goal was to learn a song on the
keyboard.
Law Smith (26:34):
Oh, that's doable. Yeah, you can do that in a day.
I think, okay,
Eric Readinger (26:41):
maybe the or weekend from Beverly Hills. Cop,
do,
Law Smith (26:53):
speaking of music, I found copyright infringement. We
need like a new intro, and I'vebeen playing around with the
suno app. It makes it'll makemusic for you. Tell it what you
prompt it what you want. You cangive it lyrics, and it'll like,
I was like, I want. My favoritegenre is 80 sample with newer
(27:16):
rap over it. It's really toughto find that genre online. How
do you spell it? Suit, S, U, N,O, I think it's on your phone
only, though. Ai,
Eric Readinger (27:30):
well, it'll at least direct
Law Smith (27:31):
me. It might, it might have a desktop version of
it, but you can go give me likea Phil Collins, you know, intro,
there's a desktop, and thenthere's a bunch of other ones
you can pull from. So you canpull from other people's, like,
it's like, open source demos.And you get, like, if you do the
free version, you can do like,six songs a day. It'll make two
(27:53):
of them when you go so put in,like, I don't know, put in
something that tickles yourfancy. I think 80s is pretty
safe. Hip Hop, high BPM,
(28:18):
1980s sample. You might have toput a comma in between some of
the okay. Now the hip hop, youhave to tell it to be gruff, or
you're gonna get a white guyvoice. That's the only, that's
the only tip I've got gruff.What happens is, like all the
(28:39):
hip hop rap stuff. I've had it.It gives it like a nerdy white
guy rapping, and you're like, Idon't want this. I don't need
another me.
Eric Readinger (28:50):
We should sing the intro. Oh,
Law Smith (28:53):
I was actually trying to write lyrics for this. We
don't go crazy with it. Well, ifyou look at legion of skanks,
they have a really great intro.All
Eric Readinger (29:07):
right, let's see what it spits out. How long does
it take? Not
Law Smith (29:09):
that long you got to sign up, though. So sign in.
Give it all your data. Sign inon an account that's not yours.
It's pretty fun. If you're like,at the end of the night and
you're just kind of like, youknow, half watching something,
it's kind of fun to make somemake some songs, if you can
Eric Readinger (29:32):
creating, creating.
Law Smith (29:35):
And I was also trying to do this for the stand up
special, just to have some kindof like intro bed of music.
Let's see what it what
Eric Readinger (29:45):
I mean, the thumb was a good start. Let's
see what we got.
How long is it? How long is thesong? Late Night,
Unknown (29:58):
try to win a city that don't rest. Swinging. Told you,
white guy
swinging in the Night streetlights. Take a shadow dance on
the wall. I mean, I think thelyrics should be out there on
the right. Only lyrics
Eric Readinger (30:15):
here. Do you want
Law Smith (30:19):
to put it on the screen?
Unknown (30:21):
Can't reality, a dream. I mean,
Eric Readinger (30:26):
not bad, pretty fucking crazy that it took 30
seconds. That's what I'm saying.Dude, that's
Law Smith (30:31):
why it's fun to do at night when you're like, kind of
faded
Eric Readinger (30:35):
and what I can download that no bubbles, no
troubles, literally, just do anew one every time.
Law Smith (30:41):
Yeah, I'm telling you I'm super I think I saved this
for the pod to tell you aboutit, but I should have told you
about it way earlier.
Eric Readinger (30:52):
It's fun. I mean, you know, listeners can
see y'all on it tonight,
Unknown (30:55):
chatter in a city that don't rest, singing with the
truth. Yeah, put it to the test.Voice is loud, Echo swinging in
the night. Catch the vibe. Feelthe words still ignite street
lights like a shadow space. Tunein tight. Let the master take
the call. Every word sharp likea COVID blade cut through the
tear when I say no, masquerade,leap podcast, gotta let it
Law Smith (31:19):
go. So you can feed it lyrics, if you want. Now,
here's my book. This sounds likeJimmy, who I write, but you ever
heard them? Yeah,
Eric Readinger (31:35):
I don't hate any of it. Isn't that now, yeah, I
might need to write some lyrics.And
Law Smith (31:41):
it's fun, if you're hanging out with someone and go
check this thing out. This iskind of fun. And they were like,
I knew we'd get like, this isthe most excited you've been in
a year about something. I mean,yeah, you did it, but you could
put on your boy like, a Simonrec style song, you know, yeah,
you're a fan of his.
Eric Readinger (32:02):
It does a video too. Yeah, it'll
Law Smith (32:05):
make like, you know how Spotify has like, like,
moving video that's notsometimes associated with the
actual zone. It'll do that, bythe way, Spotify, if you're, if
you're still with us, listening,anybody listening to this, go
subscribe to us on Spotify.We're putting the video up there
(32:27):
too for the podcast. And yeah,we have modified. We have a real
low count on Spotify. And itpisses me count. It pisses me
right off.
Eric Readinger (32:40):
People don't have Spotify. Though, you know
what? Yeah, I think you're in abubble, brother, I don't
Law Smith (32:49):
think so. I think you're Apple, right? You go
Apple Music, yeah, I thinkthat's dad shit.
Eric Readinger (32:57):
Mean, podcast app, yeah,
Law Smith (33:00):
no, I'm talking well music too. Why
Eric Readinger (33:03):
is that dad shit? It has everything.
Law Smith (33:05):
I think boomers and use the apple podcast and Apple
music. And I think Spotify isfor us cool guys.
Eric Readinger (33:17):
I don't really use Spotify for music, you know,
Law Smith (33:21):
I It's the best. I mean, it's got every I don't
have to go to apps. It's justall in there for podcast and
music. Let's see 100 millionSpotify users in the US. So one
out of every three people isthat a lot?
Eric Readinger (33:42):
Yeah, how many users? 100 million in the US?
Yeah. I mean, it's a lot ofpeople.
Law Smith (33:48):
It's about, it's about one in every year. Yeah,
it's a
Eric Readinger (33:52):
little under. Is that how you're saying there's
only that many cool people? I'm
Law Smith (33:56):
just saying it's, it's, it's, I think the number
one for streaming and podcastsand stuff for streaming music
and whatnot. Maybe I don't, I'mjust saying we gotta, we gotta
keep that. We can make a fourththing on your list. What did
Spotify follows?
Eric Readinger (34:16):
Oh, how's that work? You just, just talk about
it. Just Spotify,
Law Smith (34:22):
yeah, and I was gonna say, I'm Jackie Daytona from
Tucson, Arizona, from what we doin the shadows.
Eric Readinger (34:33):
No, I know. Where are you reading that
Law Smith (34:34):
from? I'm just my brain. Oh, your brain's weird.
Well, this was an episode, yeah,I'm at Sun, China city Comedy
Club, sunshine. So if you, ifyou watch the previous episodes,
I had to kind of prove myself tobe able to headline the club. So
(34:55):
they asked me to headline. I'llbe there may 16 or. It around
the corner, put it in yourit'll, it'll sneak up on you.
And then I'll be at Clearwatercomedy club at some point in the
spring too, working on thosedates. I'm gonna start booking
more gigs, and I want to get amonthly show where I'm, we're
(35:16):
doing some kind of bucket topicthing, sir,
Eric Readinger (35:18):
headlining. I'll get up. Maybe just throw me on
open for you.
Law Smith (35:22):
Yeah, I think you got to do an open mic too. Pretty
sure I got it. No way, dude,
Eric Readinger (35:30):
yes, I want to do that. That's actually, let's
put that on the list.
Law Smith (35:33):
What's crazy is, you've done it before. I know
the last time we signed you up,you're like, Ah, that was Yeah,
panic attack. But that probablywas due to other there's
Eric Readinger (35:41):
definitely other stuff, but whatever that's I
think that was
Law Smith (35:45):
like a catalyst for all the other stuff going on.
You know, yeah, like I wastrying to wrap gifts on the fly
before I'd pick up my kids onChristmas Eve. And I was like,
good. I wish I had it on video,because I was like, look like a
baboon trying to do it likeCOVID tape around next one, get
it and then, and then me tryingto go slow. Slow is fastest.
(36:07):
Slow is fast. Slow
Eric Readinger (36:08):
is smooth and smooth,
Law Smith (36:09):
right? And I'm trying to do that, and then go talk.
And then doing like the dad modeof folding in, folding in the
corners, and just like, Okay,that's good enough, as long as
it stays on the on floor, youdon't see the ball. And
Eric Readinger (36:23):
I thought about this where it's like, I kind of
do it, I just do it easy, and itends up shitty. And then it's
like, oh, he tried.
Law Smith (36:31):
I know. I if you do
Eric Readinger (36:33):
it good, I do a lot of fast wrap this. No, I do
a lot of fast
Law Smith (36:37):
forwarding to when they're adults. And I go, I
don't want to have these tropesof, like, Dad couldn't take the
time to wrap gifts and just putthem in aluminum foil. I mean,
like,
Eric Readinger (36:49):
what if it was the opposite? I always thought
dad was gay because he wrappedpresents so well. That
Law Smith (36:54):
would be high compliment, especially from that
age group. Yeah, you know, thankGod they're gonna gay is the
coolest. They're gonna thinklike, I am. My hope for our kids
generation, as they get older islike being on your phone is lame
and like being on the internetis stupid, right? It's gonna get
such a saturation point thathappened, anti that will be
(37:15):
cool. Yeah, I'm hoping. That'smy hope. That's my hope and
dreams. Next episode i'll do mymy New Year's rest.
Eric Readinger (37:22):
Oh, okay, yeah, we'll just pick on me this time,
Law Smith (37:26):
very sensitive. That's how we do this early in
the morning. It's sensitivetime,
Eric Readinger (37:32):
okay? It's not true. I'm not sensitive. All
right, you good. I'm good, baby.All right.
Law Smith (37:38):
Jackie Daytona from Tucson, Arizona. Baby, new exit.
Music.
There. We got to figure out music. I know, maybe
I'll do that today. I've got,I've got something.
Law Smith (00:18):
Can't be late. How much time do I have
Unknown (00:23):
a minute? This
Law Smith (00:26):
is girthy, the girthiest podcast, business
comedy mix a mash up for youentrepreneurial people. Oh, wow,
that, wow, man, that wasproducing. No, we're keeping all
this. Yeah, I'm not gonna editit out. Fuck, but Jesus, look,
sometimes you're so girthy youhit the walls and explode like
that, and that just happens,okay? Your fade out duration.
Eric Readinger (00:48):
Yeah, I know it should be. It shouldn't be a
hard out like that. It should bea slow ending.
Law Smith (00:53):
Look, we haven't seen each other in a long time, for
us, for our gay relationship,yeah, I know.
Eric Readinger (01:02):
And it's been, I mean, we haven't actually done a
show in a month.
Law Smith (01:05):
I know I put up two episodes. The previous two
episodes are me riffing, standup, mostly just improving jokes,
crowd work, stuff that Ithought, you know, that gets us
on the board. I like, I likehaving something out there, and
we both failed to do so low podswhen we couldn't get our
(01:25):
schedule together. Look theholidays rough. Yeah, and we
were just talking off air about,you know, doing the last second
dad gift stuff, and you
Eric Readinger (01:38):
were saying that, well, I was saying that
you put me in that circle. I wasjust saying how my kids are
older, and a lot of it wasprinting out gift card codes and
wrapping up pieces of paper.Yeah, I you know, I mean, I did
it in at a normal pace. My
Law Smith (01:58):
sister and my mom got me in this habit of giving
gifts. They they keep thereceipt. And if they see your
face and you don't like it,they're like, here's receipt.
Wrap up the receipt. Like mysister got me, like, this is a
cool creamsicle Buccaneers longsleeve shirt with a pocket on
it. I don't wear long sleeveshirts. No, she got the sleeves
(02:19):
out. She told me, Oh, she toldme, I couldn't cut the sleeves
off.
Eric Readinger (02:22):
When she gave it to me, it's your shirt. And I
go, you do it in front of her. Itold her what I
Law Smith (02:26):
told my kids, they just come off. I can't help it.
I know Hulk,
Eric Readinger (02:30):
that's all that. Yeah, me too. It just happens
like that. But why would we haveWhy would we wear sleeves? I put
it
Law Smith (02:36):
on and it looked like a blouse. I'm
Eric Readinger (02:37):
a man. I'm 40, where I don't want to wear
sleeves anymore. It looked like
Law Smith (02:41):
a blouse when I put it on. So I like that, that she
gives the I think that's thebetter part of the gift that she
cares enough to go. I'm not sureif I got this right. Here you
go. Yeah, you know.
Eric Readinger (02:53):
But did she wrap it up as a gift? Yeah, the
receipt, the receipt separate,like a separate gift.
Law Smith (02:59):
I think she put it in the bag at the bottom of the bag
I got. It wasn't a wrapped gift.It was a bad gift, because I'm
Eric Readinger (03:04):
gonna start doing that, wrapping up the
receipt and being like, this isalso a gift. It's in the bag.
You're welcome because you hateit. So here you go. It's like,
free money, yeah?
Law Smith (03:15):
Well, here's an errand you have to do. Yeah?
That's that's gonna my cynicismof like, okay, now I have to go
the mall. God,
Eric Readinger (03:26):
right? But that's like, if you're buying
something for a chick, that'swhat makes it a gift, that you
can't order it
Law Smith (03:32):
online. Well, did I tell you what my dad did when I
was younger? He goes, I don't goin malls. He made up a rule that
I believed, and now I'm tryingto, I'm trying to make it a
thing for me. My dad was justlike, I don't go malls, like, so
if I had to go get something atthe mall when I was, like, in
high school or whatever, he justsit in the car and wait, and you
go here, here's whatever forwhat you what you're going into
(03:54):
by just going and out. And I'mlike, Oh, he really hates
Eric Readinger (03:56):
malls. And she said, I'm not allowed in malls.
That
Law Smith (04:00):
would have brought up more questions. It was smarter
just to leave it at that. Hecould have just been like, shut
up about it. And you believeOkay, well, he's a man of few
words, right? So when he sayssomething like, I don't go in
malls, you're just like, youdon't go malls. And he's like,
nope. And I go. I said it once.Well, also I'm trying to get the
money to go get the thing. Hehasn't given it to me. Just
like, okay,
Eric Readinger (04:20):
whatever you say,
Law Smith (04:22):
you know, I ripped on this on one of those episodes
that I posted like this lastweek. So I had two shows or
whatever, and I was talkingabout the laziness of the bag
gift that dads do, because youdon't want to wrap anything,
right, you know? So you just go,I'll just get a bag and just put
(04:45):
that tissue paper in there. I'lldo
Eric Readinger (04:47):
you one better. I got these things that are
like, they're, they're the buildof a Chinese takeout box, but
they're plastic. Oh, decorationsof it,
Law Smith (04:56):
huh? We used to hand out our neighbors. We used to
hand around. Got
Eric Readinger (05:00):
a lot of takeout this week, this Christmas, when
I had a
Law Smith (05:03):
house and was married, we would hand out our
neighbors like little takeoutboxes of something small, like a
fortune cookie and somethingelse, as like, you know, please
help us when the hurricanes comefrom
Eric Readinger (05:16):
lesbians, Asian family. Well, yeah, exactly.
Law Smith (05:20):
I didn't realize that was they probably thought
watching cookie and a lot, notso much my issue, but they
probably thought she was Chineseand not Korean, right?
Eric Readinger (05:30):
That was my point. Confusing. Wait, you're
not China. Is a Korean fortune?Get what?
Law Smith (05:36):
Well, yeah, I you know, and it was, it was Hood,
Hood families and lesbians on mystreet. So it was like, they
were probably like, whatever. Idon't have time to learn this. I
don't care my Subaru's notstarting. Oh gosh. So lot of
stuff, I feel like, Do you haveany gay alien news?
Eric Readinger (05:58):
Gay alien news? Yeah, aren't they all gay? Oh,
yeah, probably
Law Smith (06:03):
I did say this to someone yesterday. I go, if any
of my friends wears a maga hat,any of my friends wears a maga
hat or, like a you just callthem gay. I've never heard
anybody call someone with a magahat gay Yeah, or white guys for
(06:24):
by or for Harris or brat,whatever that campaign she tried
to do. But if you just call I'venever heard anybody just do a
hate on them. I'm vamping so youcan pull this
Eric Readinger (06:39):
up. I mean, I don't really, I mean, it's just
Law Smith (06:42):
what's up with New Jersey dude. I
Eric Readinger (06:46):
you know, if you look at what I got, it's just
one video after another. Isn'tit just these things, isn't
Law Smith (06:53):
it a private business that was doing this, that owns,
like, drones and stuff,
Eric Readinger (06:59):
they would be in a lot of trouble going over
military bases with theirdrones. So
Law Smith (07:04):
those listening were getting like kind of cell phone
footage. It looks like firefliesat you know, from that angle,
there's a it's
Eric Readinger (07:12):
there's a cube, it's not all UFOs. This was this
chick. This could be completelyfake, but she claims she didn't
have a baby bump at all when shewas pregnant, she
Law Smith (07:22):
would, she would classify herself as sassy and
curvy on a dating app.
Eric Readinger (07:28):
I mean, if that's real at eight months,
that's so weird. I don't how bigwas
Law Smith (07:32):
the baby, a pound, normal size baby, no. NICU, Oh,
what's this?
Eric Readinger (07:36):
This one? I don't know. This one looks a
little too fantastical.
Law Smith (07:41):
Uh, yeah, this looks like a movie, and it looks a
little too clean. Yeah?
Eric Readinger (07:46):
That one, this is just so, you know, it's not
all UFO stuff. Are
Law Smith (07:50):
these all the things you like? So
Eric Readinger (07:52):
either I'm saving it to like show for those
listening, we're on Reddit.
Law Smith (07:58):
We're fat dads live, yeah?
Eric Readinger (08:01):
I mean, that's an eight minute video, shit.
This was cool. Footprintappearing out of nowhere in the
snow.
Law Smith (08:09):
It was Jesus like the sand, huh?
Unknown (08:14):
Yeah, he was carrying.
Law Smith (08:17):
He was carrying the both of
Eric Readinger (08:18):
us. He was doing piggyback rides.
Law Smith (08:22):
I wonder who I need to look up, who won cracker of
the Year from Antonio Bryant?Here's
Eric Readinger (08:27):
a crazy one. Look at this. And Malaysia
spelled wrong. So okay, as faras this shit goes, Man, here's
what I don't even know. Here'swhy I
Law Smith (08:38):
don't have a love for this like you do, it's because
it's like politics, that kind ofnews. It's one of those things
where you have to cipher throughso much Bs, and that feels like
a job, and that's why I don'tcare. Well,
Eric Readinger (08:54):
yeah, the thing with it all is, like all of
these regular people seeingstuff, mayors and, you know,
county commissioners and shitsaying they have meetings with
the FBI, and the FBI says, wedon't know. And, you know,
there's a lot of these mayorscoming out, being like, What the
fuck is that? Because itcertainly seems like there's
(09:17):
more than one kind of thing.Seems like there's actual, like,
drones going around, and there'slike, these orbs, and who knows
what else, well, but I wassaying, like, I've heard that
there's technology that they canproject these orbs into the sky
too. So, like, who knows? Yeah,owner von Braun, before he died,
(09:39):
said the last thing they'regonna do is fake an alien
invasion. Yeah, to like, whywouldn't beat us down?
Law Smith (09:45):
Have you seen, have you seen the you might be able
to look this up on Reddit,because I'm pretty sure it was a
link from there. I saw Chinesefire fireworks with drones. It's
pretty amazing how itsorchestras. Rated, even though,
right, I'm not a pro China guy.
Eric Readinger (10:03):
Well, they, they don't have all the FAA
regulations for drones. Well,they own, so that's drones. They
have the best, but I'm saying
Law Smith (10:13):
the orchestration of it. Okay, if you have you been
to Vegas? Yeah, have you been toreally? But okay, I was gonna
say the fountain, the famousfountain outside of whatever one
of the big casinos. It doesn'tmatter, but people clap at the
end of it, which is the fun. Andit's just like it happens every
(10:36):
10 minutes. The fountain thing,the fountain, whatever. Yeah, so
we're looking at the drones overthe night sky and hanging river.
I mean, it looks like betterthan the Olympics kind
Eric Readinger (10:52):
of display. I mean, it's it's nuts what they
can do. It looks like
Law Smith (10:57):
that Spider Man movie where he has all far from home,
where he has all the tiny littlebaby drones everywhere, right?
Eric Readinger (11:03):
That's, that's, that's real already. That's
what's crazy. Oh, that's cool.They didn't count down with
drones in this guy. Yeah,that's, that's insane. If
Law Smith (11:12):
anybody, the whole city looks fake. This is old
too.
Eric Readinger (11:15):
Yeah, funny I was, there's
Law Smith (11:18):
one that was over a building that had a circle over
a building of drones, and itlooked like it, it almost looked
like the bifrost from Thor, likegoing up
Eric Readinger (11:29):
rainbow river. I mean, we're being the people
like, you know, if I was at afirework show and people were
filming it, being this fuckingidiot who's gonna watch that?
And now here we are watching iton YouTube.
Law Smith (11:41):
I need to give you Antonio Brown, former bucks
receiver, former Steeler, allpro receiver, former Raider,
kind of has the funniestTwitter. You know, I was
thinking about it on the drivehere. Do you think Tom Brady?
Does Tom Brady have funny tweetsfor a while, right? Did he,
yeah, when he was, when he wason the books, he was pretty
(12:03):
funny. And I was like, he has tohave a writer, like, unless he's
just, like, that amazing atwriting. Like, doubt it brief.
Like, they're all bread. Likebrevity jokes. It's all like,
concise, no fat on him. I'mlike, he had to hire writers. I
feel like Antonio Brown doesn'thire writers, but maybe he does,
(12:24):
but he is the funniest follow.So he he did an awards last
night, the cracker of the Yearaward. If you don't, if you
don't follow him, he'll do acracker of the day. Who's the
cracker of the day? Fingerscrossed. Here's the nominees.
Elon Musk, Donald Trump, ShaneGillis, Donald Trump Jr, Dave
Portnoy, Zach, Brian, MikeMayock and Joe Biden blocked
(12:53):
him, I guess so he's out and thewinner of the cracker of the
year, like he made an awardshow, like he has a podium.
Well, yeah.
Eric Readinger (13:07):
Who is it? The
Law Smith (13:08):
Cracker of the year? It will be released early. Wait,
I think it's a podcast cracker.Joe Rogan, oh, there's a bunch
of these cracker of the year,Donald Trump, yeah. I mean,
Eric Readinger (13:26):
he just wins greatest
Law Smith (13:28):
president of all time. I do. You have your any
new year's resolutions? Youknow, I like a little goal list
for the year. Keeps me, keeps meon point. You got none?
Eric Readinger (13:43):
I wrote down three. Here's
Law Smith (13:46):
what do you think New Year's resolutions in the first
week? What do you think thepercentage quit? We do this
every year. I know, but I gotmore specific stats. We know 80%
of resolutions fail by February.That's the stat we were the
first week, yeah, but the firstweek was really funny.
Eric Readinger (14:03):
44% in the first week,
Law Smith (14:05):
okay, it's 23 I thought that was still high,
okay. 64 abandoned theirresolutions within the first
month. 80% failed by February,at some point in February, yeah,
nine to 12% of people reportsuccessfully achieving their
resolutions by the end of theyear.
Eric Readinger (14:25):
See to me, you said, Do goals? Yeah, I mean,
and I feel like a resolution isdifferent than a goal, or a
resolution is like, I want tochange this about myself and do
this for the rest of my life,whereas a goal is something that
comes to an end, and then youlike, I could accomplish this in
(14:46):
January. I'm
Law Smith (14:46):
gonna put in what the difference is, because I don't
know, and I was just gonna, kindof bullshit my way through a
debate of that, what aresolution is a broad
declaration of intent orcommitment to change. Change
room, prove something. Oh, myGod, the start of the year. Ai a
goal, specific, actionable,measurable target you aim to
(15:09):
achieve within a set time frame.However, I will say you
Eric Readinger (15:12):
don't even have to look it up. I said it almost
word for word, but that, butyou're but you're not a
computer, though.
Law Smith (15:18):
No, no, no, I'm saying yes, yes, yes, I should
Yes, and that I would say that'swhy resolutions fail. They are
essentially goals, but when youleave them too, open ended, they
don't work, yeah, if you don'tmake them smart goals, yeah, you
love this acronym, dude,Specific, Measurable,
(15:39):
Achievable, Relevant, timebound, they don't work. So I had
a teacher in high school. Shoutout, Coach boza, my economics
teacher. He lives in my parentscondominium, and I don't I ran
into him a few times. Doesn'tknow who I am, doesn't remember
me at all, and I'm like, I wasthe funny kid that loved all the
the Bill Murray movies he playedin class. Yeah, and Albert. He
(16:03):
got me on my parents condo. Hegot me on Albert Brooks earlier,
parents again, I was like, I rantrack for you for four years.
You don't remember me at all. Mydad's the biggest man in this
building by far. Like, you don'tnothing. He was messing with
you. No, he wasn't. He like, youknow, you get that look where
(16:23):
it's just like, completelyblank, and he's like, Okay, now,
to be fair to him, he's had1000s of kids. Yes, taught for,
you know, he taught for 25 yearsor something, but, like, I would
say His thing was, like, goingto church. More wouldn't be a
good New Year's resolution,yeah, going to church three out
(16:43):
of the four Sundays in a month.That is a good resolution. Yeah?
So that always stuck with me.That was the exact example, one
of the few classes I paidattention in. And so, because he
gave me an A in economics, sinceI could I could reel off Albert
Brooks
Eric Readinger (17:01):
stuff about economics.
Law Smith (17:04):
No, I you know you be, you'd be on, like an you'd
be, like an 89.1 you're like,Come on, dude, dance for your
ace and I go, Look, you knowwhat's the Albert Brooks movie
where he dies? Oh, you'rekilling it right now. Oh, god,
dude. 9:50am on a Saturday. Thisis rough. I can't. We used to do
(17:25):
these at 6am I don't know how wedid that. When we're like, five
years ago. Remember, ourschedules are so wacky. You're
like, 6am I'm like, bring it.Let's do it. I can do I'm sure
Eric Readinger (17:38):
we have, I'm sure we have, I just don't, oh
yeah, we
Law Smith (17:41):
definitely used to do some of those real like, 630
Eric Readinger (17:44):
in the morning. Yeah,
Law Smith (17:47):
when you're getting up at four, I might get up at
five and run over there anyway,defending your life. Boom. Got
it? You ever seen it?
Eric Readinger (17:58):
Yeah. I mean, in Rip Torn at his rip torniest and
bunches on TV when it was justplaying. He's like a yup down.
He start to finish. He's
Law Smith (18:07):
a yuppie advertising guru, exec or whatever, in LA
and dies in a car crash. Then hegoes into purgatory, and he has
to defend his life to get intoheaven. Rip Torn is his, like,
Purgatory lawyer, and MerylStreep is opposite him as just
someone hanging out in there. Ithink I need to re watch it. But
(18:29):
I could be like, rip rip thatoff. Or, What About Bob, Dr Leo
Marvin, the chains around me.Yeah, like my chains
Eric Readinger (18:41):
internally. That's what got you an A. You
Law Smith (18:43):
bumped me up to an A because I could recall comedy.
Eric Readinger (18:48):
What? Anyway, I don't exactly have the, you
know, most concrete gradingsystem either, so
Law Smith (18:55):
yeah, I think most of it was just like, All right,
stop annoying me. I'll give youthe a, yeah, that's part of it,
yeah. So what was the timeabout? Oh, SMART goals. So what
do you got
Eric Readinger (19:08):
one I want to do the outcast cover art like you
suggested this thing COVID.Yeah, yes, for the podcast. And
Law Smith (19:15):
you can do it better than I can. What you're better
design or graphic designer thanI am. Oh,
Eric Readinger (19:22):
I've been, I've tried to do it and actually take
the pictures.
Law Smith (19:25):
Oh, we need to do that too. We'll do that before.
Eric Readinger (19:29):
Well, I don't have all the Andre 3000
Law Smith (19:32):
stuff. You just need the pose. That's what makes it
tough. Disagree.
Eric Readinger (19:36):
I think the leather pants and leather
bangles make it tough. I
Law Smith (19:40):
know, but you could just Photoshop that in. Now, if
you haven't, if you want toeasy, Photoshop whisk, I've been
playing around with Google Labs,came out with something called
whisk, basically a very easy youjust drop in either pic. Here's
the problem with AI art, youcan't. Really alter something
(20:01):
that's already there with a lotof them image creators with
whisk you could drop in apicture of you. I could drop in
the outcast. I haven't done ityet. I don't know why I didn't
think of it for
Eric Readinger (20:13):
but we pushes it together. We need better brand
artwork. And
Law Smith (20:16):
I was like, what's on this? You mean the fat lesbian
on the wall behind, no, I lovethat lady. God, I hate that. And
I look like I have ro shape,rosacea or whatever.
Eric Readinger (20:27):
Yeah, lipstick, I turned up the color on that.
Law Smith (20:31):
I didn't know, pink lips. Yeah, it looks all fucked
out, saturated, too saturated.If you drop something in, it's
they made it very easy, but youcouldn't with these AI image
generators on chat, GPT, grok,whatever it is. You couldn't
drop an image in of like apicture of yourself and then go
(20:53):
put me in a forest. It would. Ithas to create. You have to
basically give it a prompt thatexplains what you look like,
which sucks. It won't do itwon't edit anything for you. You
sure about that? Yeah, I playedaround with this a lot, because
anything I can avoid, for medoing Photoshop, because it
takes me so long, yeah, to doany kind of altering,
(21:16):
especially, you know, I'm, I'mhelping friend of the program
and ni l, Wheeler and dealer,Steve fantti, with some of his
announcements of guys he'ssigning, oh yeah, putting them
in new uniforms, trying to do ahaze faucet style. I don't know
if you follow Him, He doesthese, like, really cool, almost
like no limit looking kind ofcool graphics, like when someone
(21:39):
comes no limit. Soldier, to me,it's like a it's like a 2024,
version of no limit stuff, hazefaucet, shout out. We need to
get him on the pot. He seemsgettable.
Eric Readinger (21:52):
It's like an insult. What you're gettable? He
is gettable. I know. But fromus, what
Law Smith (21:58):
are you talking about? We're the number one
business comedy podcast, comedybusiness podcast in the
Eric Readinger (22:04):
world. Yeah, I forget sometimes, so he
Law Smith (22:07):
does. They're very like, over the top kind of
social media posts that'll say,like, committed to Colorado.
Yeah, no, it's cool looking,yeah, it's got a no limit feel
to it. Little, I guess, a littlebling, a little like, high, high
like,
Eric Readinger (22:25):
be a little bit more gold in there, diamonds,
but whatever. Yeah,
Law Smith (22:29):
there's a random star just floating around. So whisk,
if you go and go, if you go onlabs, dot google forward slash
FX, forward slash tools, whiskor just put in Google list,
easy, easy. You can drop in asubject, a scene and a style. Or
you can tell it, if you don'thave it, and it pretty much it
(22:50):
does a pretty damn good job.I'll do a pre loaded one. I
don't know how this on here. Youcan do it on yours.
Eric Readinger (22:58):
What I don't want to start doing shit.
Law Smith (23:01):
Alright, so artwork, that's number one, yeah.
Eric Readinger (23:07):
Number two, undefeated basketball season,
Law Smith (23:11):
your team coach, Red's team,
Eric Readinger (23:13):
yes, not just any team. Yes. Shout out
Law Smith (23:16):
to all your kids that find the pod.
Eric Readinger (23:19):
Got more. I mean, hey, definitely have more
listeners. Hey, if
Law Smith (23:23):
we can go, come down and get all the 13 year old
kids, oh, God, that, that phrase
Eric Readinger (23:27):
you just said is gonna get us flagged. Like,
what? That was a positive.Again, doesn't matter. See, down
13 year olds right after that,yikes. That's
Law Smith (23:41):
probably why they got the big following on Patreon and
made I was like, are we done?No, that's, I mean, they got a
13 year old following becausethat show's name was probably
most of it, yeah, and they'refunny. I've actually been going
through all the old episodes andkind of listening to them. Sure.
I just like it because they pickon Adam Freeland. It's funny. I
(24:04):
don't know who that is. Youknow, when you were hanging out
in like, high school and you hadlike, one friend that you were
just ruthlessly, just made funof no matter what. No, you
didn't have that dynamic. No,maybe you were
Eric Readinger (24:16):
the one. Yeah, maybe it was me, me.
Law Smith (24:20):
You guys weren't that mean to each other?
Eric Readinger (24:23):
Really? Well,
Law Smith (24:26):
it's a funny dynamic. It's funny show, whatever it's
Oh, it's been over for twoyears, but they got that middle
school boy following, and nowthose guys are older and show up
to see them do stand up,
Eric Readinger (24:39):
yeah, have to foment their interest.
Law Smith (24:42):
So how are we going to achieve this goal? Illegal
recruiting. Okay, now we'retalking, baby, how you do that?
I'm already scouting. Don'tworry.
Eric Readinger (24:51):
How are you gonna it's not illegal
recruiting. I'm just, is yourpaperwork done? Do your
paperwork
Law Smith (24:56):
so you're, yeah, you got to get administrative and
clerical with them. Um,
Eric Readinger (25:00):
yeah, for sure. So you gotta meet those dates,
right? It was, well, coming intothis year, I didn't even plan to
coach the team. And, like, Iwould have been scouting from
day one, because it's like thebest players at school weren't
even on the team. I mean, one,so you got
Law Smith (25:14):
to do the coach thing, of like, Hey, you're
pretty tall. Why don't you playbasketball? Like,
Eric Readinger (25:19):
I only have to do that they play in PE sorry,
Scout them right there. You'rewatching playing basketball
again today. Yes, you'rewatching,
Law Smith (25:28):
like, blue chips or something. Yes, you're Nick
Nolte. Like, damn,
Eric Readinger (25:32):
is that kid in eighth grade? Because if they're
in eighth grade, they're gonnabe gone. Oh, so, yeah, you want,
you want them for a year too.Yeah. I'm like, well, these
sixth graders, give me all yourbig sixth graders. Do you have
Law Smith (25:42):
enough talent? You think, yeah, on hand, yeah. I'm
assuming part of this is makegood relationships with the
parents. Nah. Well, I would saythat would help keep them,
retain them,
Eric Readinger (25:56):
yeah. But hey, I'll take your kid. We only have
five games the seasons over inthe blink of an eye. So do you
Law Smith (26:02):
want to? Do you want to go and defeat it or not?
Eric Readinger (26:06):
I also don't want to, you know, go crazy.
Have to call like, what am Igonna do with these parents? No,
Law Smith (26:10):
you just gotta sell it on the parents a little bit.
You don't have to be BFFs. Justgo, hey, I'll keep your kid
after school for a couple hours,right? I mean, that was our rule
in our house. You had to play asport every day after school.
It's smart, because I would havejust fucked around. Yeah, that's
good, especially in high school,
Eric Readinger (26:31):
yeah. So my last goal was to learn a song on the
keyboard.
Law Smith (26:34):
Oh, that's doable. Yeah, you can do that in a day.
I think, okay,
Eric Readinger (26:41):
maybe the or weekend from Beverly Hills. Cop,
do,
Law Smith (26:53):
speaking of music, I found copyright infringement. We
need like a new intro, and I'vebeen playing around with the
suno app. It makes it'll makemusic for you. Tell it what you
prompt it what you want. You cangive it lyrics, and it'll like,
I was like, I want. My favoritegenre is 80 sample with newer
(27:16):
rap over it. It's really toughto find that genre online. How
do you spell it? Suit, S, U, N,O, I think it's on your phone
only, though. Ai,
Eric Readinger (27:30):
well, it'll at least direct
Law Smith (27:31):
me. It might, it might have a desktop version of
it, but you can go give me likea Phil Collins, you know, intro,
there's a desktop, and thenthere's a bunch of other ones
you can pull from. So you canpull from other people's, like,
it's like, open source demos.And you get, like, if you do the
free version, you can do like,six songs a day. It'll make two
(27:53):
of them when you go so put in,like, I don't know, put in
something that tickles yourfancy. I think 80s is pretty
safe. Hip Hop, high BPM,
(28:18):
1980s sample. You might have toput a comma in between some of
the okay. Now the hip hop, youhave to tell it to be gruff, or
you're gonna get a white guyvoice. That's the only, that's
the only tip I've got gruff.What happens is, like all the
(28:39):
hip hop rap stuff. I've had it.It gives it like a nerdy white
guy rapping, and you're like, Idon't want this. I don't need
another me.
Eric Readinger (28:50):
We should sing the intro. Oh,
Law Smith (28:53):
I was actually trying to write lyrics for this. We
don't go crazy with it. Well, ifyou look at legion of skanks,
they have a really great intro.All
Eric Readinger (29:07):
right, let's see what it spits out. How long does
it take? Not
Law Smith (29:09):
that long you got to sign up, though. So sign in.
Give it all your data. Sign inon an account that's not yours.
It's pretty fun. If you're like,at the end of the night and
you're just kind of like, youknow, half watching something,
it's kind of fun to make somemake some songs, if you can
Eric Readinger (29:32):
creating, creating.
Law Smith (29:35):
And I was also trying to do this for the stand up
special, just to have some kindof like intro bed of music.
Let's see what it what
Eric Readinger (29:45):
I mean, the thumb was a good start. Let's
see what we got.
How long is it? How long is thesong? Late Night,
Unknown (29:58):
try to win a city that don't rest. Swinging. Told you,
white guy
swinging in the Night streetlights. Take a shadow dance on
the wall. I mean, I think thelyrics should be out there on
the right. Only lyrics
Eric Readinger (30:15):
here. Do you want
Law Smith (30:19):
to put it on the screen?
Unknown (30:21):
Can't reality, a dream. I mean,
Eric Readinger (30:26):
not bad, pretty fucking crazy that it took 30
seconds. That's what I'm saying.Dude, that's
Law Smith (30:31):
why it's fun to do at night when you're like, kind of
faded
Eric Readinger (30:35):
and what I can download that no bubbles, no
troubles, literally, just do anew one every time.
Law Smith (30:41):
Yeah, I'm telling you I'm super I think I saved this
for the pod to tell you aboutit, but I should have told you
about it way earlier.
Eric Readinger (30:52):
It's fun. I mean, you know, listeners can
see y'all on it tonight,
Unknown (30:55):
chatter in a city that don't rest, singing with the
truth. Yeah, put it to the test.Voice is loud, Echo swinging in
the night. Catch the vibe. Feelthe words still ignite street
lights like a shadow space. Tunein tight. Let the master take
the call. Every word sharp likea COVID blade cut through the
tear when I say no, masquerade,leap podcast, gotta let it
Law Smith (31:19):
go. So you can feed it lyrics, if you want. Now,
here's my book. This sounds likeJimmy, who I write, but you ever
heard them? Yeah,
Eric Readinger (31:35):
I don't hate any of it. Isn't that now, yeah, I
might need to write some lyrics.And
Law Smith (31:41):
it's fun, if you're hanging out with someone and go
check this thing out. This iskind of fun. And they were like,
I knew we'd get like, this isthe most excited you've been in
a year about something. I mean,yeah, you did it, but you could
put on your boy like, a Simonrec style song, you know, yeah,
you're a fan of his.
Eric Readinger (32:02):
It does a video too. Yeah, it'll
Law Smith (32:05):
make like, you know how Spotify has like, like,
moving video that's notsometimes associated with the
actual zone. It'll do that, bythe way, Spotify, if you're, if
you're still with us, listening,anybody listening to this, go
subscribe to us on Spotify.We're putting the video up there
(32:27):
too for the podcast. And yeah,we have modified. We have a real
low count on Spotify. And itpisses me count. It pisses me
right off.
Eric Readinger (32:40):
People don't have Spotify. Though, you know
what? Yeah, I think you're in abubble, brother, I don't
Law Smith (32:49):
think so. I think you're Apple, right? You go
Apple Music, yeah, I thinkthat's dad shit.
Eric Readinger (32:57):
Mean, podcast app, yeah,
Law Smith (33:00):
no, I'm talking well music too. Why
Eric Readinger (33:03):
is that dad shit? It has everything.
Law Smith (33:05):
I think boomers and use the apple podcast and Apple
music. And I think Spotify isfor us cool guys.
Eric Readinger (33:17):
I don't really use Spotify for music, you know,
Law Smith (33:21):
I It's the best. I mean, it's got every I don't
have to go to apps. It's justall in there for podcast and
music. Let's see 100 millionSpotify users in the US. So one
out of every three people isthat a lot?
Eric Readinger (33:42):
Yeah, how many users? 100 million in the US?
Yeah. I mean, it's a lot ofpeople.
Law Smith (33:48):
It's about, it's about one in every year. Yeah,
it's a
Eric Readinger (33:52):
little under. Is that how you're saying there's
only that many cool people? I'm
Law Smith (33:56):
just saying it's, it's, it's, I think the number
one for streaming and podcastsand stuff for streaming music
and whatnot. Maybe I don't, I'mjust saying we gotta, we gotta
keep that. We can make a fourththing on your list. What did
Spotify follows?
Eric Readinger (34:16):
Oh, how's that work? You just, just talk about
it. Just Spotify,
Law Smith (34:22):
yeah, and I was gonna say, I'm Jackie Daytona from
Tucson, Arizona, from what we doin the shadows.
Eric Readinger (34:33):
No, I know. Where are you reading that
Law Smith (34:34):
from? I'm just my brain. Oh, your brain's weird.
Well, this was an episode, yeah,I'm at Sun, China city Comedy
Club, sunshine. So if you, ifyou watch the previous episodes,
I had to kind of prove myself tobe able to headline the club. So
(34:55):
they asked me to headline. I'llbe there may 16 or. It around
the corner, put it in yourit'll, it'll sneak up on you.
And then I'll be at Clearwatercomedy club at some point in the
spring too, working on thosedates. I'm gonna start booking
more gigs, and I want to get amonthly show where I'm, we're
(35:16):
doing some kind of bucket topicthing, sir,
Eric Readinger (35:18):
headlining. I'll get up. Maybe just throw me on
open for you.
Law Smith (35:22):
Yeah, I think you got to do an open mic too. Pretty
sure I got it. No way, dude,
Eric Readinger (35:30):
yes, I want to do that. That's actually, let's
put that on the list.
Law Smith (35:33):
What's crazy is, you've done it before. I know
the last time we signed you up,you're like, Ah, that was Yeah,
panic attack. But that probablywas due to other there's
Eric Readinger (35:41):
definitely other stuff, but whatever that's I
think that was
Law Smith (35:45):
like a catalyst for all the other stuff going on.
You know, yeah, like I wastrying to wrap gifts on the fly
before I'd pick up my kids onChristmas Eve. And I was like,
good. I wish I had it on video,because I was like, look like a
baboon trying to do it likeCOVID tape around next one, get
it and then, and then me tryingto go slow. Slow is fastest.
(36:07):
Slow is fast. Slow
Eric Readinger (36:08):
is smooth and smooth,
Law Smith (36:09):
right? And I'm trying to do that, and then go talk.
And then doing like the dad modeof folding in, folding in the
corners, and just like, Okay,that's good enough, as long as
it stays on the on floor, youdon't see the ball. And
Eric Readinger (36:23):
I thought about this where it's like, I kind of
do it, I just do it easy, and itends up shitty. And then it's
like, oh, he tried.
Law Smith (36:31):
I know. I if you do
Eric Readinger (36:33):
it good, I do a lot of fast wrap this. No, I do
a lot of fast
Law Smith (36:37):
forwarding to when they're adults. And I go, I
don't want to have these tropesof, like, Dad couldn't take the
time to wrap gifts and just putthem in aluminum foil. I mean,
like,
Eric Readinger (36:49):
what if it was the opposite? I always thought
dad was gay because he wrappedpresents so well. That
Law Smith (36:54):
would be high compliment, especially from that
age group. Yeah, you know, thankGod they're gonna gay is the
coolest. They're gonna thinklike, I am. My hope for our kids
generation, as they get older islike being on your phone is lame
and like being on the internetis stupid, right? It's gonna get
such a saturation point thathappened, anti that will be
(37:15):
cool. Yeah, I'm hoping. That'smy hope. That's my hope and
dreams. Next episode i'll do mymy New Year's rest.
Eric Readinger (37:22):
Oh, okay, yeah, we'll just pick on me this time,
Law Smith (37:26):
very sensitive. That's how we do this early in
the morning. It's sensitivetime,
Eric Readinger (37:32):
okay? It's not true. I'm not sensitive. All
right, you good. I'm good, baby.All right.
Law Smith (37:38):
Jackie Daytona from Tucson, Arizona. Baby, new exit.
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