April 26, 2025 • 42 mins
Common Sense Gurl and Noah dive into a free-wheeling conversation about opinions, social media influence, and finding peace in a world full of noise.
• Discussion of why beloved cartoon character Peppy Le Pew was cancelled
• Exploration of Ryan Holiday's Daily Stoic wisdom on how opinions affect our perspective
• Reflection on how social media amplifies opinions and impacts mental health
• Conversation about neural pathways and choosing how we process information
• Personal values of dependability and responsibility, and the struggle with self-care
• Debate about education reform and the need for higher teacher wages
• Ranking happiness, money, freedom and love in order of importance
• Reading from Mark Nepo's "The Awakening" about the addictive nature of caretaking
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
welcome to the green onions podcast, where we throw
out nonsense and a whole lot ofsense and a whole lot of
laughter.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I am commissary and I'm noah, how are you doing
today?
Not like completelydisregarding that we just had a
50 minute conversation yeah,just I mean, what's 50 minutes,
what mean?
What's what's 45, what's 50minutes, what's an hour and 15
time?
It's relative, yeah, and it'scyclical in nature, which is odd
(00:34):
, yeah, so why are?
You making a 50 minutes of hogposh wow, before a minute's up,
we've already got on the subjectof time.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
That's crazy, um I don't know why he's, but he is
it's the mental clock, it's justthat's always running your
mental clock.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Bless it, baby my clock is mental I can't I can't
knock, knock.
Who's there?
(01:17):
Nobody, okay.
Can I bring up a point?
Why did we cancel peppy lepew?
Bring up a point?
Why did we cancel peppy lepew?
I don't know.
I loved that dude man.
He got like okay.
So there was this really funnyimage I saw like I was.
(01:38):
So there was this movie withbrendan frazier and it was
looney tunes back in action andit was like the real life
version of the looney tunes andI looked it up on imdb because I
have it on dvd and I likepulled it out of like my attic
as opposed to moving my roommateshit into where it needs to be.
I'm pulling out dvds of likeold movies I used to watch, um,
(02:00):
and it was looney Tunes back inaction and like Brendan Fraser
is the main character and um soit was so funny because he has
like a guest role in it.
And then it sent me on thisrabbit trail of like why'd we
cancel Pepe Le Pew?
And then it was funny because Ilooked up Pepe Le Pew on Google
(02:20):
at work and there was a inmemoriam of Pepe Le Pew where it
said 1942 to 2021 or some shitand it was like something that
should be put on a tombstone.
And then it said like well, nowwe.
And it was like one of hiscatchphrases and I was like, oh
my God, they really did acartoon drawn character that
(02:43):
dirty, like they killed that,like poor little skunk who was
just trying to find love.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
But he probably was creepy, if we think about it.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
But they all, are they all are.
Like.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I miss Peppy Elmer, elmer Creepy, elmer's weird.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure he's somebody's stalker or a
serial killer Well, Bugs Bunny'sstalker.
Or a serial killer.
Well, yeah, bunnies, I mean whothe hell is carrying a gun,
that I mean that all the time.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And now and Bugs Bunny is the only one that knows
how to evade him he wouldn'tget that mad if he didn't have,
like, a successful kill ratio.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
so like bugs bunny being the one that just can like
brush him off his shoulder andbe like missed motherfucker,
like little fat dude.
So I'm like how are you runningafter this damn?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
rabbit.
Most rabbits aren't bugs.
No, it's kind of like fantasticmr fox, which is in my top five
of all time movies.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Interesting.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I find it along the way my top five is more of like
a mental recalibrationInteresting.
All right, should I start?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yes, you can put a little wisdom on the life.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
All right.
So today is from the DailyStoic by, obviously, the
legendary Ryan Holiday.
He's been around a while, itbeing Ryan Holiday.
April 18th, yep.
Opinions are like what is badluck Opinion?
(04:29):
What are conflict, dispute,blame, accusation, irreverence
and frivolity.
They are all opinions, and morethan that.
They are opinions that lieoutside of our own reasoned
choice, presented as if theywere good or evil.
Let a person shift theiropinion only to what belongs in
(04:50):
the field of their own choiceand I guarantee that person will
have peace of mind, whatever ishappening around them.
A pick, a picket, uh oh you'rejust going to kill us.
Oh shit, he said it to meyesterday on the phone Apicatus
(05:12):
Apicatetus Discourses.
So often to the point.
I think it's just a bit at thispoint in my mind, but to
everyone else it's like he'sdumb.
Okay, so, ryan Holiday,opinions, everyone's got one.
Think about all the opinionsyou have about whether today's
(05:32):
weather is convenient, aboutwhat liberals and conservatives
believe, about whetherso-and-so's remarks is rude or
not, about whether you'resuccessful or not, and on and on
.
We're constantly looking at theworld around us and putting our
opinion on top of it, and ouropinion is often shaped by dogma
(05:54):
, religious or culturalentitlements, expectations and,
in some cases, ignorance.
No wonder we feel upset andangry so often.
But what if we let theseopinions go?
Let's try weeding out, cuttingor knocking out them out of our
lives that simply are Not goodor bad, not colored with opinion
(06:18):
or judgment, just are.
So that's cool, done and scene.
Did I get through it?
Did anybody hear that?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
No, no.
But if only we all felt thatLike really, like mentally,
physically, just believe thatLike it's true.
But think about it.
You do sometimes take not justyou in particular, but just
people in general.
Every blue moon.
(06:54):
There's that one opinion thatjust kind of it's not that it's
the end of the world, but forsome reason it means a lot to us
.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Or bothers us.
It's like why do they thinkthat way about me?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I think to me um, there's this weird perspective
where everybody has opinions.
They're like assholes.
There's that thing and that,that when we were talking about
the reading that we were goingto do, we said that joke is kind
(07:27):
of a riff, but it's more oflike.
I think a lot of stuff is likecentralized and based around ego
to where it's like why dopeople think that opinion
matters?
Like there's so many opinionsand there's so many people
(07:50):
saying words and there's so manypeople just shouting it from
the rooftops as loud as possibleto where it drowns out the
noise of the street trafficbelow.
So collectively, if we're allon the rooftop, can we just
start yelling at each other?
So, collectively, if we're allon the rooftop, can we just
start yelling at each other.
Nobody gives a fuck what youhave to say.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Go enjoy your night that'd be nice and it'd be nice
to believe that mentally, aspeople but in this society
that's not how it works andthat's why we have so many
people, not just kids, well,fuck this society.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
What if I want to live that way?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
that are.
They're killing themselvesbecause of someone's opinion
that's true which is it's reallysad, like I don't know why
billy Bob's opinion matters andthey got four fucking toes and
three.
On the other hand, like I don'tknow why your opinion should
matter to me.
Who is a full body, has all mytoes, no extra ligaments or
(08:56):
anything, but it sometimes justdo.
And those opinions, especiallywhen these kids and adults are
on social media and they'regetting ragged on constantly by
people with opinions, all theseopinions, and they feel shitty
about themselves and thenthey're just like, well, I must
be a shitty person.
No, you're not a shitty person,because that motherfucker said
(09:17):
they are one out of a billionpeople, like very small
percentage, but you're givingthem so much space in your life.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
If only I don't like.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
It's the way our world runs.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Space in life is funny Because time and space.
We started this podcast talkingabout time.
Time and space is where weexist, right?
So to quintessentially thinkthat it's boiled down to just
like, oh, they're livingrent-free in your head.
(09:56):
No, we choose.
Like how much percentage of ourbrain do we access?
every day 14%, something likeridiculously small.
We choose the neural pathwayswe want to open up and a lot of
people choose the easiest route,the easiest route.
(10:19):
And then that's why it'sdifficult to have a conversation
with somebody that did choosethe easiest route that day, as
opposed to understanding thestruggle in somebody's eyes,
because you don't even have tohave a conversation with the
person that didn't choose theeasiest route, because you can
already see it in their face.
And then that's when productiveconversation happens, I think,
(10:41):
faith.
And then that's when productiveconversation happens, um, I
think Because opinions are likeassholes and everybody's got one
.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Yeah, allegedly, unless yours got sewed up.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Unless you got hemorrhoids or some dumb shit, I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Well, you better take care of the hemorrhoids.
Uh yeah, I don't know.
Well, you better take care ofthe hemorrhoids, oh yeah.
I don't have that, I just saidit.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Am I going off topic again?
Did I not answer the?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
question.
No, you're still there, you'restill on topic.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Okay, because everybody audience listeners.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Anna went on like a whole tyrant he do and he just
lies into so effortlessly.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
And I'll be holding up all my air traffic
controllers up here and he justI'm really trying and I think I
did well with that because, like, consciously, as I go on these
rambles, it's funny because,like, as I put all those words
together, like back to back, toback in what I was just saying,
(11:48):
I sit there and think, okay,this is going somewhere, like, I
see this, like making asentence that's functional and
like and like it's cool becauseI love practicing that, like in
this environment with you,because it's a very cool
(12:09):
experience, even though I set upall this shit.
Hold on, no, let me get on myown dick for a second he plugs
in a few mics.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Good for you.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Look at the room.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Okay, the room has nothing to do with Ambience,
because the room was going to beset up anyways.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
The vibri-fication.
The vibri-fication.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
The vibri-fication, not the feng shui.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Let's talk to Miriam Webster about making a new feng
shui and it being vibrification.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Vibrification For some reason that goes so easy it
works.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Vibrification, vibrification, oh, it could be
vibration.
And also just oh, that vibe isdope bro.
Oh, yeah, dude, it vibe is dopebro.
How'd you miss that 70s show?
Yeah, dude, it's thevibraphication dog.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
That 70s show.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Like when they're all smoking in the circle and the
camera's whipping around.
Damn, vibraphication is afucking cool word, man Shit.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I wonder, what does it mean?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
You know, like when the feng shui is just like a
vibe.
Ah Okay, I think we have aquestion.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Nah, it's not a question, it's like a fill in
the blank.
We have a caller, we have acaller.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
It's like a fill in the blank.
We have a caller.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
We have a caller, Caller one.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
are you there, Hi this is Pisa and this is
Domino's and you said you wantedsome.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Like why are you calling me like that?
So this is a fill in blank.
So at your, your funeral, howdo you hope to be described?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I guess, that's not in the blank the way I just said
it uh dependable mother ducker,get out of my head.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
That was my exact word.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Yes, no way shoot, we didn't even.
I had a whole joke word.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Yeah, you had a whole another word.
You were sticking with it.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
You were like, oh, we're going there I wanted to be
funny and then you said it andI was just in it.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
No, I can change mine no, no, no, you got it because
your other word might not be thegreatest, so we're just gonna
stick with it do you want me togo on an explanation while you
think about what your word wantsto be?
Yes, there we go, Responsible.
Thank you, little co-babyproducer.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Dependable and responsible.
That's phenomenal.
Dependable, responsible,phenomenal.
I sound like Eminem you kind ofdo.
I don't know why.
He just put big words togetherand talked about awful things
and wait, he's one of thegreatest of all time.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
fuck out of here, walk out the door you remember
how we talked about you going ona tangent.
There we go yeah, that was.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
That was the.
That was almost short people.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
And then he just made you mad Short people.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Because they're not me.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
It didn't take long.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
But Eminem is short.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
You took your nose there.
No, he really is short.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I know that's an awfully hot coffee pot,
Motherfucker shut the fuck upyou short ass.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
He's taller than Lil Wayne.
I mean, he's taller than LilWayne.
I respect Lil Wayne so muchmore Lil Wayne's only four foot
two.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Lil Wayne only just has bad aim.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Oh, he said bad aim and there was a couple of ways
we could have won with it.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Wait.
Okay, so I was dependable andyou were responsible.
How do you miss that close?
No, okay.
Yeah, I just like as a man andas in the therapy I've been
(16:20):
having you switching gears.
What's that thing on the trainI've been having you switching
gears.
What's that thing on the traintrack that people had to pull to
like shift the tracks?
That was what I just did in myhead.
Mentally, I do want to be likea dependable person and, like in
the day and age where stuff isso easy all the time to not be.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
You're dependable now all the time to not be.
You don't think?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
you're dependable now , um, I think I lose the
dependability on myself ingiving the dependability to
other people, to where, when Ilay down at night, I might feel
as if I kind of let myself go tothe wayside.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Does that make any sense?
Yes, possibly.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
I hope the people on the other side of the mic feels
like it made sense.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
No other side of the mic.
Let me clarify Just when yougive so much to where yourself
might have felt neglected andthat feeling of emptiness that
you didn't water yourself asmuch as you should have better.
(17:33):
Yeah, okay, and you wereresponsible.
So why did you say responsible?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
well, I mean, I probably.
So I feel like I'm pretty umdependable, loyal, responsible,
all at the same time, all thetime.
I don't really have a momentwhere because I think it's kind
of cool that you're a normal 25year old, just like I think our
(18:02):
baby co-producer is a normal 21year, like y'all get to
literally be yeah, she's alittle weird I'm about to roast.
No, I'm kidding but y'all get tonot have all these extra
worries.
I feel like when I was y'all'sage, I had all these extra
worries and and honestly I Idon't even want to say I had
(18:25):
extra worries, but I've alwaysfelt I had to be dependable,
responsible, just constantly,and I don't know if others see
that Like, if something goesawry, who do you call?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Awry.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Yeah, so it's kind of like Not array Hold on
Pronunciation.
No, we know how to spell theword, so it matters.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Array Awry.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
It's awry.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Where are you from?
No, it ties into what we weretalking about about the shouting
on the rooftop and I think usgrowing up in that, like
everybody shouting on therooftop all the time.
You did not grow up that way,like with it being in your
(19:17):
pocket all the time.
I mean so like growing up thatway with everybody shouting on
the rooftop.
Sometimes you just want to buysome land in Oklahoma and just
fucking not hear people shoutand maybe walk outside look up
and see the stars.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
That'd be really nice .
They like to have tornado cells.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I don't care, I'm in and they have a whole bunch of
flies.
We have tornadoes here.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Yeah, they have a whole bunch of flies.
We have tornadoes here.
They have a whole bunch ofmother ducking flies.
I'm like what is?
Have you ever been to Oklahoma?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
No, but I'm so down to buy some land there.
Good, okay, I'm not ever comingto see you.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Because I'd be like what in the Samuel L Jackson?
Why is there flies in themiddle of the store At the
Walmart?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Right.
What's the next question?
We're not talking the store atthe Walmart.
What's the next question?
We're not talking about fliesat the Walmart in Oklahoma that
we've never been to.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
I actually have been to have you really, is it dry?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
It was either Oklahoma, arizona, or that was a
throw in Gatlinburg.
I was looking at land there too, never mind.
I was looking at land there too, never mind, just what.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Okay, so I got the Oklahoma and Arizona, how that
could potentially be up there.
But I'm like Gatlinburg youwent.
That was a whole nother.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Well, Appalachian Mountains and it being like
haunted all the time and justhaving a cabin out there, that
would be so nice.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
It's pretty haunted here where we're at now.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Well, like dream location.
Like summer, I want to live onthe beach, winter, probably a
cabin.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
And just like a fire running always and I got to chop
wood.
That would be awesome.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Right, you're just literally wanting to get from me
.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
No, I want to do it like the old people did exactly.
I'm wrong to hear why I'm notchopping nothing this is not
alaska and I'm not going at himtired that's weird, though,
because I bring that up and mygrandfather, who had his
(21:22):
birthday recently, uh, he likewhen we lived with him for a
short period of time with megrowing up, he would like I'm
not gonna expose him like that,but he would just like it was a
wood fire, like uh inpennsylvania, so he would chop
the wood and, like he would, hewould wake up at like 3 am oh
(21:43):
gosh and just start putting thewood he chopped earlier in the
day in the wood fire and just hewould lay right by it and just
stare and I remember being a kidlike walking because the
staircase was behind and I wouldjust like sit at the top seven,
be like what the fuck is hedoing?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
he's like enjoying and he's like motherfucker.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
This house needs to be hot.
I and I'm doing it for youright now, but you won't
understand until you're 25,sitting in a chair that's air
conditioned literally, and welive in pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
You can't get you.
It's cold, oh my gosh freezing.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I remember walking to school when that shit was okay.
What's the next one?
Speaker 1 (22:30):
sorry he sounded like an old married.
I remember you.
Remember you gotta walk up thedang on block like no bro.
I walked 45 miles, no my, meand my sister.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
We rode the bus like down here they'll cancel snow
for a sprinkle in the sky.
In Pennsylvania the snow'sthree feet high and me and my
sister are waiting out by thebus stop and my dad hasn't
pulled off because he's waitingfor the bus to pull up and see
if we're safely on it.
But we're waiting in thefucking cold and the snow is up
(23:03):
to my fucking titty and that,and now I'm just like wait, it's
cold.
And then we're sitting on thebus and the windows are down
because the exhaust doesn'tfucking work and there's weird
kids that are playing fucking Idon't know some song that I
don't like and and now I like,and they're throwing shit at
other kids and it's like what?
(23:24):
It's 20 degrees.
Why are you throwing shit?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
This is why he goes to therapy this right here.
That whole scenario just gothim all fired up.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Okay, what's the next question?
I'm sorry.
I loved that, though, becauseit brought me closer to my
sister.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
You gotta have a choice.
Y'all had to warm up next toeach other.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Well, yeah, she was like.
I think that's why she alwaysknew what I was going through
all the time.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Yeah, she's like you cold right now.
I got you.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Oh, you're pissed off about what's going on, or not
even pissed off.
I don off about what's going on, or not even pissed off.
I don't think I discovered thepissed off feeling until I was a
teen.
We're not getting into thatright now.
What's the next question?
Speaker 1 (24:08):
what family or school rule would you most like?
You start this one off, becauseI'm gonna so, um, our baby
co-producer and I were talkingabout how we think they should
bring spankings back into school.
I don't think kids should beabused, but there's that one
(24:31):
little mother in that classroomof 32 damn students my kid being
one of them that needs a littletap.
Tap.
They going to act a fool.
Let me meet you where you at,you act a fool.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
It's not going to happen though at you act.
It's not gonna happen though.
It's not gonna happen though.
Like are we gonna talk about?
Like real world, like the taptap needs to happen, and I agree
, but with the progression ofshit, it's not going to so like
what's the actual?
Speaker 1 (24:56):
logical answer no, that's, that's what.
That's my only logic I gotright now okay because you are
gonna touch on what you your,your maybe no, you will.
No, you will.
It's cool.
I'm gonna let you roll with it,because you ended to win it and
I completely agree with thatpart.
Um, and I'm not sure if that'sgonna happen either, because
(25:18):
clearly we in a world they don'teven know how to balance no
fucking checkbook, clearly no,but they're not they can't even
write in cursive they're notgetting the tap tap in at home.
They're not getting it at schoolthe way this world is going, in
, the way these little mofos beacting, they, you right, they
won't get a tap tap with a ruler.
They're gonna get, because theteacher's only gonna deal with
(25:41):
so much.
Because that's what's beengoing on right now in schools.
Is they want, um, or teachersor school boards or whatever?
They're trying to basically seeif they'll allow a teacher
carry a gun.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Some teachers are just as crazy as the damn
students I think a gun is alittle, a little bit much, but I
do understand that there'sschool shootings as well what
happened to like I have adifferent perspective, prefacing
what I'm about to say with this, just because both of my
(26:18):
parents were teachers and theywere very good.
So you gotta nurture anenvironment to learn.
So like, fundamentally, topdown it's even at any corporate
job or any business or fuckinganything it works top down, like
(26:44):
you have to nurture theenvironment, you have to water
the soil for the thing to grow.
Fucking Fucking the sky rainson trees and then it makes it
down to the root and that thingis like, okay, I'm going to try
to grow and just apply that toanything, especially schools,
(27:11):
because that's our youth, thatis the soil.
Especially schools, becausethat's our youth, that is the
soil.
Those kids are the future.
And just like if my rain or sunhad a gun, no, it's just going
(27:33):
to make it worse.
I'm happy I'm the age I am nowwhere I'm not there and I don't
have to deal with it, but it'sterrifying for me to hit that
subject.
Obviously, I have a differentperspective but, I, got home and
I learned shit.
I went to school and I learnedshit because I learned from home
and I learned shit.
I went to school and I learnedshit Because I learned from home
(27:56):
how to learn shit.
People don't want to learn shitanymore, they just watch shit.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Well heck, the parents ain't doing their job
half the time, and that's why wehave so many.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Because they're so consumed with themselves,
because they're screaming fromthe top of the rooftop.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Yeah, and that is why we have so many issues in the
schools.
That's why I'm like, okay, theteachers may need to rat, tat,
tat a little, a little hand, youknow, get them with a ruler, do
I think the teachers?
I hell, I don't even think thestudents need a gun, but I
definitely don't want theteachers to have one because
you're going to get that teacher.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
that's being poked too much actually I'm changing,
I'm changing my point and theyneed to raise the wage for
teachers, because people thatare actually qualified to teach
you said the wage.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Yeah, just make sure.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Because the people that are actually qualified to
understand a room of childrennow are not going to put
themselves in a room full ofchildren, of children now, are
not going to put themselves in aroom full of children.
They're going to go on Zoom andget a bunch of adolescent
adults and do therapy for them.
That's where all the goodteachers went, because they were
(29:06):
like I'm not putting myself ina room full of erratic kids.
I know too much aboutpsychology.
It's all gatekeepy.
So if we raise the wage to theaverage psychologist for
teachers for our soil, that ismy answer.
Raise the wage, because theyouth is gonna kill this place
(29:34):
the youth is going to kill thisplace.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Well, good luck on raising that wage?
Speaker 2 (29:36):
It's not.
I already know, but I want toget this on wax Because I said
it and everybody told me hey,you was right.
Oh shit, when the world'sfucking burning, it's
technically burning.
Now we got a lot of DEI issuesnow, exactly so I'm good.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
We already burning honey.
We're already burning.
You know we started burningwhat.
What was it?
When was our inauguration?
January, something?
Speaker 2 (30:04):
I'm not getting on that, I'm not touching that with
a temple pole, we burned.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
when COVID hit, I didn't burn.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
I'm not touching that with a temper pole either.
What's the next one?
Speaker 1 (30:20):
In order of importance.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
I'm gonna try to focus on stuff I Like Care about
, like the youth and like theall the that's, that's fucking.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
But all that affects everything.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Literally, politics is Kim Kardashian for keeping up
with the Kardashians.
For people that just want tonumb their mind, politics is
literally the 60-year-oldversion of brain rot.
Is that a hot take?
I don't really give a fuck.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Yeah, I'm not sure, but I'll worry about it later,
right?
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Politics is brain rot , though.
Okay, what Politics ain't?
Politics no more Like everybodylooks at Instagram and like, oh
, you're viewing Spongebob, likeedits, and I'm like
motherfucker, you listening tofucking James Earl Jones or
whoever the fuck is on whateverpolitical podcast, being like,
wow, he said some shit.
That's really impactful.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
I just want to let the viewers know we do know
James Earl Jones have passed.
We are very aware.
I just want everybody to know.
So don't worry if you heard himon a political podcast, they
lied.
I want to get ahead of thisright now.
I am sorry.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
I'm sorry, james Earl Jones.
I respect you, I know you'renot a politician and I think I
was confusing you with somethingPierce.
So I'm sorry, james Earl Jones,I loved you in Darth Vader the
movie.
Alright, what, oh shit.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Okay, In order of importance, how would you rank
happiness, money, freedom andlove?
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Do you want me to go first?
Mm-hmm, can you repeat the fourwords, not the question?
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Happiness, money, freedom, love.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Money last love first , freedom second.
What's the third one?
Happiness.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Happiness, my money is definitely last.
Love and happiness for me islike number two, because I feel
like if I'm happy, Well, that'swhat I just said, though, didn't
I?
No but.
But if I'm happy, I will givelove and feel loved, and vice
(33:05):
versa but happy is fleeting,happiness is fleeting listen,
I'm telling you for me how yougonna try to change me.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
I'm not trying to change you.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
I'm just saying like for me.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
I'm trying to reason what I said.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
I already said you you ain't gotta reason what you
say.
You stand on you.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
I am.
I said money last.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Yes, money's definitely last.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Freedom, love, freedom and love is such a cool.
Yeah, money and happiness,those are the boat.
Those are the most monetary andfleeting things, I think, in
that list money's last, but thething for me one of you ever
felt free well that's a feelingI don't think anybody's felt
(33:54):
ever okay, so me me in taxseason we're gonna discuss
freedom really I didn't gettaxed, I got money back.
But listen yeah, no, I got fourdollars.
What the hell are you doingnothing?
Speaker 1 (34:15):
I was like what are you doing?
You got $4, but there'sfreedoms, even in this day and
age, that people like me don'thave legally yes, on paper, but
it is disguised.
(34:36):
Our freedoms are taken away Insome of the craziest ways and
sometimes we don't even noticeit until shit pops off and we're
like what?
And then we try to make it seemlike it's a brand new thing.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
I don't want to get into politics, think, or even
the no, I'm not trying to beinsensitive to that, but I just
think so I can't really saythat's leading number one
fleeting and root wise, like ifwe're talking about watering
something and it grows.
Happiness is an extent ofwatering something.
(35:16):
Money is an extent of wateringsomething.
What do you water that with?
You need to let somebody thinkthey're free and you need to let
somebody.
What's the other word?
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Love.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Think they're loved.
You water people with freedomand love, and then the other two
things grow yeah, but we needto first get in the rigmarole of
the bullshit yeah so, alright,are you closing us out?
(35:53):
Money is definitely there,money.
It's going to kind of go eitherway.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
We all know that.
You know money is what the rootof all evil.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Take that out of her check.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
That dumbass Samsung.
I swear to God.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
That is our least worry.
It's not the Samsung, it's thehomeless guy.
It's not the Samsung.
Oh Lord, wait, hold on.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
There's more apples in the world All right,
everybody, I'm going to go peeand Anna's going to close us out
.
It was a pleasure listening toyou all.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
That was very interesting.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Well, I do have to pee for the last one.
Maybe that's why I'm soirritated.
Is it really All right?
No, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Okay, so we will do put a little wisdom on it, or
put a little love on it, put alittle something on it.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Put a little oof, oof , oof.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
This is our sit on it segment and I will be reading
to you from the book of theawakening by Mark Nepo, with a
Ford by Jamie Lee Curtis thelife of a caretaker.
Accept this gift so I can seemyself as giving.
(37:35):
I have been learning the lifeof a caretaker is as addictive
as the life of an alcoholic.
Here the intoxication is theemotional relief that
temporarily comes when answeringa loved one's need, though it
never lasts.
In the moment of answeringsomeone's need we feel loved.
(37:55):
While much good can come fromthis, especially for those the
caretaker attends, the careitself becomes a drink by which
we briefly numb, a worthlessnessthat won't go away unless
constantly doused by anothershot of self-sacrifice.
It all tightens until whatothers need is anticipated
(38:18):
beyond what is real and then,without any true need being
voiced, and anxiety to respond,build that can only be relieved
if something is offered or done.
At the heart of this is theever-present worry that unless
doing something for another,there is no possibility of being
(38:42):
loved.
So the needs of others standwithin reach like bottles behind
a bar that, try as he or shewill, the caretaker cannot
resist.
I have experienced this even inthe simple issue of calling a
loved one.
While away from home, even whenno one expects to hear from me,
(39:04):
I agonize over whether to call.
Often, unable to withstand thediscomfort of not registering
some evidence of my love, I willend up going to great lengths
to call.
In truth, caretaking, thoughseeming quite generous, is very
(39:26):
self-serving and its urgentself-centeredness prevents a
life of genuine compassion alife of genuine compassion In
all honesty.
To heal from this requires arigorous program of recovery, as
alcoholics enlist, includingsponsors who will love us for
who we are Within oneself.
The remedy of spirit thatallows for true giving resides
(39:49):
somewhere in the faith tobelieve that each of us is
worthy of love just as we are.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Well, that's kind of crazy it tied in.
I'm back from peeing also.
It's kind of crazy that tied inLove, I think love's one.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
You think love's one.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
No, love is the top of the list of the four.
Yeah, I know love is first andI know money's last.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
We don't live in a world of love.
If we did, we wouldn't have somany wars.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
I can live my life with love.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
I mean me can, I'm me can, I can't do, me can, but
too, me can but.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Because the world's going to keep doing what the
world does.
But my little Subsect of lifeand generality and just
whatever's there, if I lead withlove.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
I think I can sleep okay at night.
Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
I'm not going to change anything, but nobody has
nobody has for the past 2000years you know what I mean
anybody that's led with love,you know.
But I think I can sleep betterat night if I do.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Yeah, I have guilty conscience syndrome, so I know
I'm going to be being a goodperson.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
Yeah, I love everyone .
I might not like their ways,but I love everyone.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
That's my little motto.
I love everyone's my littlemotto I love everyone, all right
.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
Well, this was a beautiful, wonderful april night
.
I think, yep, yes, we're inapril and uh, thank y'all for
listening.
If you got this far, yeah, um,do I have to sign off anything
at all, or do you want to take?
Speaker 1 (41:53):
over the wheel.
Thank Thank you for joining usand click like and subscribe and
send it to your friends andfamily.
Bye.
welcome to the green onions podcast, where we throw
out nonsense and a whole lot ofsense and a whole lot of
laughter.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I am commissary and I'm noah, how are you doing
today?
Not like completelydisregarding that we just had a
50 minute conversation yeah,just I mean, what's 50 minutes,
what mean?
What's what's 45, what's 50minutes, what's an hour and 15
time?
It's relative, yeah, and it'scyclical in nature, which is odd
(00:34):
, yeah, so why are?
You making a 50 minutes of hogposh wow, before a minute's up,
we've already got on the subjectof time.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
That's crazy, um I don't know why he's, but he is
it's the mental clock, it's justthat's always running your
mental clock.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Bless it, baby my clock is mental I can't I can't
knock, knock.
Who's there?
(01:17):
Nobody, okay.
Can I bring up a point?
Why did we cancel peppy lepew?
Bring up a point?
Why did we cancel peppy lepew?
I don't know.
I loved that dude man.
He got like okay.
So there was this really funnyimage I saw like I was.
(01:38):
So there was this movie withbrendan frazier and it was
looney tunes back in action andit was like the real life
version of the looney tunes andI looked it up on imdb because I
have it on dvd and I likepulled it out of like my attic
as opposed to moving my roommateshit into where it needs to be.
I'm pulling out dvds of likeold movies I used to watch, um,
(02:00):
and it was looney Tunes back inaction and like Brendan Fraser
is the main character and um soit was so funny because he has
like a guest role in it.
And then it sent me on thisrabbit trail of like why'd we
cancel Pepe Le Pew?
And then it was funny because Ilooked up Pepe Le Pew on Google
(02:20):
at work and there was a inmemoriam of Pepe Le Pew where it
said 1942 to 2021 or some shitand it was like something that
should be put on a tombstone.
And then it said like well, nowwe.
And it was like one of hiscatchphrases and I was like, oh
my God, they really did acartoon drawn character that
(02:43):
dirty, like they killed that,like poor little skunk who was
just trying to find love.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
But he probably was creepy, if we think about it.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
But they all, are they all are.
Like.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I miss Peppy Elmer, elmer Creepy, elmer's weird.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure he's somebody's stalker or a
serial killer Well, Bugs Bunny'sstalker.
Or a serial killer.
Well, yeah, bunnies, I mean whothe hell is carrying a gun,
that I mean that all the time.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And now and Bugs Bunny is the only one that knows
how to evade him he wouldn'tget that mad if he didn't have,
like, a successful kill ratio.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
so like bugs bunny being the one that just can like
brush him off his shoulder andbe like missed motherfucker,
like little fat dude.
So I'm like how are you runningafter this damn?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
rabbit.
Most rabbits aren't bugs.
No, it's kind of like fantasticmr fox, which is in my top five
of all time movies.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Interesting.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I find it along the way my top five is more of like
a mental recalibrationInteresting.
All right, should I start?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yes, you can put a little wisdom on the life.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
All right.
So today is from the DailyStoic by, obviously, the
legendary Ryan Holiday.
He's been around a while, itbeing Ryan Holiday.
April 18th, yep.
Opinions are like what is badluck Opinion?
(04:29):
What are conflict, dispute,blame, accusation, irreverence
and frivolity.
They are all opinions, and morethan that.
They are opinions that lieoutside of our own reasoned
choice, presented as if theywere good or evil.
Let a person shift theiropinion only to what belongs in
(04:50):
the field of their own choiceand I guarantee that person will
have peace of mind, whatever ishappening around them.
A pick, a picket, uh oh you'rejust going to kill us.
Oh shit, he said it to meyesterday on the phone Apicatus
(05:12):
Apicatetus Discourses.
So often to the point.
I think it's just a bit at thispoint in my mind, but to
everyone else it's like he'sdumb.
Okay, so, ryan Holiday,opinions, everyone's got one.
Think about all the opinionsyou have about whether today's
(05:32):
weather is convenient, aboutwhat liberals and conservatives
believe, about whetherso-and-so's remarks is rude or
not, about whether you'resuccessful or not, and on and on
.
We're constantly looking at theworld around us and putting our
opinion on top of it, and ouropinion is often shaped by dogma
(05:54):
, religious or culturalentitlements, expectations and,
in some cases, ignorance.
No wonder we feel upset andangry so often.
But what if we let theseopinions go?
Let's try weeding out, cuttingor knocking out them out of our
lives that simply are Not goodor bad, not colored with opinion
(06:18):
or judgment, just are.
So that's cool, done and scene.
Did I get through it?
Did anybody hear that?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
No, no.
But if only we all felt thatLike really, like mentally,
physically, just believe thatLike it's true.
But think about it.
You do sometimes take not justyou in particular, but just
people in general.
Every blue moon.
(06:54):
There's that one opinion thatjust kind of it's not that it's
the end of the world, but forsome reason it means a lot to us
.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Or bothers us.
It's like why do they thinkthat way about me?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I think to me um, there's this weird perspective
where everybody has opinions.
They're like assholes.
There's that thing and that,that when we were talking about
the reading that we were goingto do, we said that joke is kind
(07:27):
of a riff, but it's more oflike.
I think a lot of stuff is likecentralized and based around ego
to where it's like why dopeople think that opinion
matters?
Like there's so many opinionsand there's so many people
(07:50):
saying words and there's so manypeople just shouting it from
the rooftops as loud as possibleto where it drowns out the
noise of the street trafficbelow.
So collectively, if we're allon the rooftop, can we just
start yelling at each other?
So, collectively, if we're allon the rooftop, can we just
start yelling at each other.
Nobody gives a fuck what youhave to say.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Go enjoy your night that'd be nice and it'd be nice
to believe that mentally, aspeople but in this society
that's not how it works andthat's why we have so many
people, not just kids, well,fuck this society.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
What if I want to live that way?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
that are.
They're killing themselvesbecause of someone's opinion
that's true which is it's reallysad, like I don't know why
billy Bob's opinion matters andthey got four fucking toes and
three.
On the other hand, like I don'tknow why your opinion should
matter to me.
Who is a full body, has all mytoes, no extra ligaments or
(08:56):
anything, but it sometimes justdo.
And those opinions, especiallywhen these kids and adults are
on social media and they'regetting ragged on constantly by
people with opinions, all theseopinions, and they feel shitty
about themselves and thenthey're just like, well, I must
be a shitty person.
No, you're not a shitty person,because that motherfucker said
(09:17):
they are one out of a billionpeople, like very small
percentage, but you're givingthem so much space in your life.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
If only I don't like.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
It's the way our world runs.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Space in life is funny Because time and space.
We started this podcast talkingabout time.
Time and space is where weexist, right?
So to quintessentially thinkthat it's boiled down to just
like, oh, they're livingrent-free in your head.
(09:56):
No, we choose.
Like how much percentage of ourbrain do we access?
every day 14%, something likeridiculously small.
We choose the neural pathwayswe want to open up and a lot of
people choose the easiest route,the easiest route.
(10:19):
And then that's why it'sdifficult to have a conversation
with somebody that did choosethe easiest route that day, as
opposed to understanding thestruggle in somebody's eyes,
because you don't even have tohave a conversation with the
person that didn't choose theeasiest route, because you can
already see it in their face.
And then that's when productiveconversation happens, I think,
(10:41):
faith.
And then that's when productiveconversation happens, um, I
think Because opinions are likeassholes and everybody's got one
.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Yeah, allegedly, unless yours got sewed up.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Unless you got hemorrhoids or some dumb shit, I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Well, you better take care of the hemorrhoids.
Uh yeah, I don't know.
Well, you better take care ofthe hemorrhoids, oh yeah.
I don't have that, I just saidit.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Am I going off topic again?
Did I not answer the?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
question.
No, you're still there, you'restill on topic.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Okay, because everybody audience listeners.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Anna went on like a whole tyrant he do and he just
lies into so effortlessly.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
And I'll be holding up all my air traffic
controllers up here and he justI'm really trying and I think I
did well with that because, like, consciously, as I go on these
rambles, it's funny because,like, as I put all those words
together, like back to back, toback in what I was just saying,
(11:48):
I sit there and think, okay,this is going somewhere, like, I
see this, like making asentence that's functional and
like and like it's cool becauseI love practicing that, like in
this environment with you,because it's a very cool
(12:09):
experience, even though I set upall this shit.
Hold on, no, let me get on myown dick for a second he plugs
in a few mics.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Good for you.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Look at the room.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Okay, the room has nothing to do with Ambience,
because the room was going to beset up anyways.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
The vibri-fication.
The vibri-fication.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
The vibri-fication, not the feng shui.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Let's talk to Miriam Webster about making a new feng
shui and it being vibrification.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Vibrification For some reason that goes so easy it
works.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Vibrification, vibrification, oh, it could be
vibration.
And also just oh, that vibe isdope bro.
Oh, yeah, dude, it vibe is dopebro.
How'd you miss that 70s show?
Yeah, dude, it's thevibraphication dog.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
That 70s show.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Like when they're all smoking in the circle and the
camera's whipping around.
Damn, vibraphication is afucking cool word, man Shit.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I wonder, what does it mean?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
You know, like when the feng shui is just like a
vibe.
Ah Okay, I think we have aquestion.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Nah, it's not a question, it's like a fill in
the blank.
We have a caller, we have acaller.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
It's like a fill in the blank.
We have a caller.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
We have a caller, Caller one.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
are you there, Hi this is Pisa and this is
Domino's and you said you wantedsome.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Like why are you calling me like that?
So this is a fill in blank.
So at your, your funeral, howdo you hope to be described?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I guess, that's not in the blank the way I just said
it uh dependable mother ducker,get out of my head.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
That was my exact word.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Yes, no way shoot, we didn't even.
I had a whole joke word.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Yeah, you had a whole another word.
You were sticking with it.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
You were like, oh, we're going there I wanted to be
funny and then you said it andI was just in it.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
No, I can change mine no, no, no, you got it because
your other word might not be thegreatest, so we're just gonna
stick with it do you want me togo on an explanation while you
think about what your word wantsto be?
Yes, there we go, Responsible.
Thank you, little co-babyproducer.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Dependable and responsible.
That's phenomenal.
Dependable, responsible,phenomenal.
I sound like Eminem you kind ofdo.
I don't know why.
He just put big words togetherand talked about awful things
and wait, he's one of thegreatest of all time.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
fuck out of here, walk out the door you remember
how we talked about you going ona tangent.
There we go yeah, that was.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
That was the.
That was almost short people.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
And then he just made you mad Short people.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Because they're not me.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
It didn't take long.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
But Eminem is short.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
You took your nose there.
No, he really is short.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I know that's an awfully hot coffee pot,
Motherfucker shut the fuck upyou short ass.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
He's taller than Lil Wayne.
I mean, he's taller than LilWayne.
I respect Lil Wayne so muchmore Lil Wayne's only four foot
two.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Lil Wayne only just has bad aim.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Oh, he said bad aim and there was a couple of ways
we could have won with it.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Wait.
Okay, so I was dependable andyou were responsible.
How do you miss that close?
No, okay.
Yeah, I just like as a man andas in the therapy I've been
(16:20):
having you switching gears.
What's that thing on the trainI've been having you switching
gears.
What's that thing on the traintrack that people had to pull to
like shift the tracks?
That was what I just did in myhead.
Mentally, I do want to be likea dependable person and, like in
the day and age where stuff isso easy all the time to not be.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
You're dependable now all the time to not be.
You don't think?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
you're dependable now , um, I think I lose the
dependability on myself ingiving the dependability to
other people, to where, when Ilay down at night, I might feel
as if I kind of let myself go tothe wayside.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Does that make any sense?
Yes, possibly.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
I hope the people on the other side of the mic feels
like it made sense.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
No other side of the mic.
Let me clarify Just when yougive so much to where yourself
might have felt neglected andthat feeling of emptiness that
you didn't water yourself asmuch as you should have better.
(17:33):
Yeah, okay, and you wereresponsible.
So why did you say responsible?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
well, I mean, I probably.
So I feel like I'm pretty umdependable, loyal, responsible,
all at the same time, all thetime.
I don't really have a momentwhere because I think it's kind
of cool that you're a normal 25year old, just like I think our
(18:02):
baby co-producer is a normal 21year, like y'all get to
literally be yeah, she's alittle weird I'm about to roast.
No, I'm kidding but y'all get tonot have all these extra
worries.
I feel like when I was y'all'sage, I had all these extra
worries and and honestly I Idon't even want to say I had
(18:25):
extra worries, but I've alwaysfelt I had to be dependable,
responsible, just constantly,and I don't know if others see
that Like, if something goesawry, who do you call?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Awry.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Yeah, so it's kind of like Not array Hold on
Pronunciation.
No, we know how to spell theword, so it matters.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Array Awry.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
It's awry.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Where are you from?
No, it ties into what we weretalking about about the shouting
on the rooftop and I think usgrowing up in that, like
everybody shouting on therooftop all the time.
You did not grow up that way,like with it being in your
(19:17):
pocket all the time.
I mean so like growing up thatway with everybody shouting on
the rooftop.
Sometimes you just want to buysome land in Oklahoma and just
fucking not hear people shoutand maybe walk outside look up
and see the stars.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
That'd be really nice .
They like to have tornado cells.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I don't care, I'm in and they have a whole bunch of
flies.
We have tornadoes here.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Yeah, they have a whole bunch of flies.
We have tornadoes here.
They have a whole bunch ofmother ducking flies.
I'm like what is?
Have you ever been to Oklahoma?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
No, but I'm so down to buy some land there.
Good, okay, I'm not ever comingto see you.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Because I'd be like what in the Samuel L Jackson?
Why is there flies in themiddle of the store At the
Walmart?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Right.
What's the next question?
We're not talking the store atthe Walmart.
What's the next question?
We're not talking about fliesat the Walmart in Oklahoma that
we've never been to.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
I actually have been to have you really, is it dry?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
It was either Oklahoma, arizona, or that was a
throw in Gatlinburg.
I was looking at land there too, never mind.
I was looking at land there too, never mind, just what.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Okay, so I got the Oklahoma and Arizona, how that
could potentially be up there.
But I'm like Gatlinburg youwent.
That was a whole nother.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Well, Appalachian Mountains and it being like
haunted all the time and justhaving a cabin out there, that
would be so nice.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
It's pretty haunted here where we're at now.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Well, like dream location.
Like summer, I want to live onthe beach, winter, probably a
cabin.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
And just like a fire running always and I got to chop
wood.
That would be awesome.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Right, you're just literally wanting to get from me
.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
No, I want to do it like the old people did exactly.
I'm wrong to hear why I'm notchopping nothing this is not
alaska and I'm not going at himtired that's weird, though,
because I bring that up and mygrandfather, who had his
(21:22):
birthday recently, uh, he likewhen we lived with him for a
short period of time with megrowing up, he would like I'm
not gonna expose him like that,but he would just like it was a
wood fire, like uh inpennsylvania, so he would chop
the wood and, like he would, hewould wake up at like 3 am oh
(21:43):
gosh and just start putting thewood he chopped earlier in the
day in the wood fire and just hewould lay right by it and just
stare and I remember being a kidlike walking because the
staircase was behind and I wouldjust like sit at the top seven,
be like what the fuck is hedoing?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
he's like enjoying and he's like motherfucker.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
This house needs to be hot.
I and I'm doing it for youright now, but you won't
understand until you're 25,sitting in a chair that's air
conditioned literally, and welive in pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
You can't get you.
It's cold, oh my gosh freezing.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I remember walking to school when that shit was okay.
What's the next one?
Speaker 1 (22:30):
sorry he sounded like an old married.
I remember you.
Remember you gotta walk up thedang on block like no bro.
I walked 45 miles, no my, meand my sister.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
We rode the bus like down here they'll cancel snow
for a sprinkle in the sky.
In Pennsylvania the snow'sthree feet high and me and my
sister are waiting out by thebus stop and my dad hasn't
pulled off because he's waitingfor the bus to pull up and see
if we're safely on it.
But we're waiting in thefucking cold and the snow is up
(23:03):
to my fucking titty and that,and now I'm just like wait, it's
cold.
And then we're sitting on thebus and the windows are down
because the exhaust doesn'tfucking work and there's weird
kids that are playing fucking Idon't know some song that I
don't like and and now I like,and they're throwing shit at
other kids and it's like what?
(23:24):
It's 20 degrees.
Why are you throwing shit?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
This is why he goes to therapy this right here.
That whole scenario just gothim all fired up.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Okay, what's the next question?
I'm sorry.
I loved that, though, becauseit brought me closer to my
sister.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
You gotta have a choice.
Y'all had to warm up next toeach other.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Well, yeah, she was like.
I think that's why she alwaysknew what I was going through
all the time.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Yeah, she's like you cold right now.
I got you.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Oh, you're pissed off about what's going on, or not
even pissed off.
I don off about what's going on, or not even pissed off.
I don't think I discovered thepissed off feeling until I was a
teen.
We're not getting into thatright now.
What's the next question?
Speaker 1 (24:08):
what family or school rule would you most like?
You start this one off, becauseI'm gonna so, um, our baby
co-producer and I were talkingabout how we think they should
bring spankings back into school.
I don't think kids should beabused, but there's that one
(24:31):
little mother in that classroomof 32 damn students my kid being
one of them that needs a littletap.
Tap.
They going to act a fool.
Let me meet you where you at,you act a fool.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
It's not going to happen though at you act.
It's not gonna happen though.
It's not gonna happen though.
Like are we gonna talk about?
Like real world, like the taptap needs to happen, and I agree
, but with the progression ofshit, it's not going to so like
what's the actual?
Speaker 1 (24:56):
logical answer no, that's, that's what.
That's my only logic I gotright now okay because you are
gonna touch on what you your,your maybe no, you will.
No, you will.
It's cool.
I'm gonna let you roll with it,because you ended to win it and
I completely agree with thatpart.
Um, and I'm not sure if that'sgonna happen either, because
(25:18):
clearly we in a world they don'teven know how to balance no
fucking checkbook, clearly no,but they're not they can't even
write in cursive they're notgetting the tap tap in at home.
They're not getting it at schoolthe way this world is going, in
, the way these little mofos beacting, they, you right, they
won't get a tap tap with a ruler.
They're gonna get, because theteacher's only gonna deal with
(25:41):
so much.
Because that's what's beengoing on right now in schools.
Is they want, um, or teachersor school boards or whatever?
They're trying to basically seeif they'll allow a teacher
carry a gun.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Some teachers are just as crazy as the damn
students I think a gun is alittle, a little bit much, but I
do understand that there'sschool shootings as well what
happened to like I have adifferent perspective, prefacing
what I'm about to say with this, just because both of my
(26:18):
parents were teachers and theywere very good.
So you gotta nurture anenvironment to learn.
So like, fundamentally, topdown it's even at any corporate
job or any business or fuckinganything it works top down, like
(26:44):
you have to nurture theenvironment, you have to water
the soil for the thing to grow.
Fucking Fucking the sky rainson trees and then it makes it
down to the root and that thingis like, okay, I'm going to try
to grow and just apply that toanything, especially schools,
(27:11):
because that's our youth, thatis the soil.
Especially schools, becausethat's our youth, that is the
soil.
Those kids are the future.
And just like if my rain or sunhad a gun, no, it's just going
(27:33):
to make it worse.
I'm happy I'm the age I am nowwhere I'm not there and I don't
have to deal with it, but it'sterrifying for me to hit that
subject.
Obviously, I have a differentperspective but, I, got home and
I learned shit.
I went to school and I learnedshit because I learned from home
and I learned shit.
I went to school and I learnedshit Because I learned from home
(27:56):
how to learn shit.
People don't want to learn shitanymore, they just watch shit.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Well heck, the parents ain't doing their job
half the time, and that's why wehave so many.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Because they're so consumed with themselves,
because they're screaming fromthe top of the rooftop.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Yeah, and that is why we have so many issues in the
schools.
That's why I'm like, okay, theteachers may need to rat, tat,
tat a little, a little hand, youknow, get them with a ruler, do
I think the teachers?
I hell, I don't even think thestudents need a gun, but I
definitely don't want theteachers to have one because
you're going to get that teacher.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
that's being poked too much actually I'm changing,
I'm changing my point and theyneed to raise the wage for
teachers, because people thatare actually qualified to teach
you said the wage.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Yeah, just make sure.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Because the people that are actually qualified to
understand a room of childrennow are not going to put
themselves in a room full ofchildren, of children now, are
not going to put themselves in aroom full of children.
They're going to go on Zoom andget a bunch of adolescent
adults and do therapy for them.
That's where all the goodteachers went, because they were
(29:06):
like I'm not putting myself ina room full of erratic kids.
I know too much aboutpsychology.
It's all gatekeepy.
So if we raise the wage to theaverage psychologist for
teachers for our soil, that ismy answer.
Raise the wage, because theyouth is gonna kill this place
(29:34):
the youth is going to kill thisplace.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Well, good luck on raising that wage?
Speaker 2 (29:36):
It's not.
I already know, but I want toget this on wax Because I said
it and everybody told me hey,you was right.
Oh shit, when the world'sfucking burning, it's
technically burning.
Now we got a lot of DEI issuesnow, exactly so I'm good.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
We already burning honey.
We're already burning.
You know we started burningwhat.
What was it?
When was our inauguration?
January, something?
Speaker 2 (30:04):
I'm not getting on that, I'm not touching that with
a temple pole, we burned.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
when COVID hit, I didn't burn.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
I'm not touching that with a temper pole either.
What's the next one?
Speaker 1 (30:20):
In order of importance.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
I'm gonna try to focus on stuff I Like Care about
, like the youth and like theall the that's, that's fucking.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
But all that affects everything.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Literally, politics is Kim Kardashian for keeping up
with the Kardashians.
For people that just want tonumb their mind, politics is
literally the 60-year-oldversion of brain rot.
Is that a hot take?
I don't really give a fuck.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Yeah, I'm not sure, but I'll worry about it later,
right?
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Politics is brain rot , though.
Okay, what Politics ain't?
Politics no more Like everybodylooks at Instagram and like, oh
, you're viewing Spongebob, likeedits, and I'm like
motherfucker, you listening tofucking James Earl Jones or
whoever the fuck is on whateverpolitical podcast, being like,
wow, he said some shit.
That's really impactful.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
I just want to let the viewers know we do know
James Earl Jones have passed.
We are very aware.
I just want everybody to know.
So don't worry if you heard himon a political podcast, they
lied.
I want to get ahead of thisright now.
I am sorry.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
I'm sorry, james Earl Jones.
I respect you, I know you'renot a politician and I think I
was confusing you with somethingPierce.
So I'm sorry, james Earl Jones,I loved you in Darth Vader the
movie.
Alright, what, oh shit.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Okay, In order of importance, how would you rank
happiness, money, freedom andlove?
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Do you want me to go first?
Mm-hmm, can you repeat the fourwords, not the question?
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Happiness, money, freedom, love.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Money last love first , freedom second.
What's the third one?
Happiness.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Happiness, my money is definitely last.
Love and happiness for me islike number two, because I feel
like if I'm happy, Well, that'swhat I just said, though, didn't
I?
No but.
But if I'm happy, I will givelove and feel loved, and vice
(33:05):
versa but happy is fleeting,happiness is fleeting listen,
I'm telling you for me how yougonna try to change me.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
I'm not trying to change you.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
I'm just saying like for me.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
I'm trying to reason what I said.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
I already said you you ain't gotta reason what you
say.
You stand on you.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
I am.
I said money last.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Yes, money's definitely last.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Freedom, love, freedom and love is such a cool.
Yeah, money and happiness,those are the boat.
Those are the most monetary andfleeting things, I think, in
that list money's last, but thething for me one of you ever
felt free well that's a feelingI don't think anybody's felt
(33:54):
ever okay, so me me in taxseason we're gonna discuss
freedom really I didn't gettaxed, I got money back.
But listen yeah, no, I got fourdollars.
What the hell are you doingnothing?
Speaker 1 (34:15):
I was like what are you doing?
You got $4, but there'sfreedoms, even in this day and
age, that people like me don'thave legally yes, on paper, but
it is disguised.
(34:36):
Our freedoms are taken away Insome of the craziest ways and
sometimes we don't even noticeit until shit pops off and we're
like what?
And then we try to make it seemlike it's a brand new thing.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
I don't want to get into politics, think, or even
the no, I'm not trying to beinsensitive to that, but I just
think so I can't really saythat's leading number one
fleeting and root wise, like ifwe're talking about watering
something and it grows.
Happiness is an extent ofwatering something.
(35:16):
Money is an extent of wateringsomething.
What do you water that with?
You need to let somebody thinkthey're free and you need to let
somebody.
What's the other word?
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Love.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Think they're loved.
You water people with freedomand love, and then the other two
things grow yeah, but we needto first get in the rigmarole of
the bullshit yeah so, alright,are you closing us out?
(35:53):
Money is definitely there,money.
It's going to kind of go eitherway.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
We all know that.
You know money is what the rootof all evil.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Take that out of her check.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
That dumbass Samsung.
I swear to God.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
That is our least worry.
It's not the Samsung, it's thehomeless guy.
It's not the Samsung.
Oh Lord, wait, hold on.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
There's more apples in the world All right,
everybody, I'm going to go peeand Anna's going to close us out
.
It was a pleasure listening toyou all.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
That was very interesting.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Well, I do have to pee for the last one.
Maybe that's why I'm soirritated.
Is it really All right?
No, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Okay, so we will do put a little wisdom on it, or
put a little love on it, put alittle something on it.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Put a little oof, oof , oof.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
This is our sit on it segment and I will be reading
to you from the book of theawakening by Mark Nepo, with a
Ford by Jamie Lee Curtis thelife of a caretaker.
Accept this gift so I can seemyself as giving.
(37:35):
I have been learning the lifeof a caretaker is as addictive
as the life of an alcoholic.
Here the intoxication is theemotional relief that
temporarily comes when answeringa loved one's need, though it
never lasts.
In the moment of answeringsomeone's need we feel loved.
(37:55):
While much good can come fromthis, especially for those the
caretaker attends, the careitself becomes a drink by which
we briefly numb, a worthlessnessthat won't go away unless
constantly doused by anothershot of self-sacrifice.
It all tightens until whatothers need is anticipated
(38:18):
beyond what is real and then,without any true need being
voiced, and anxiety to respond,build that can only be relieved
if something is offered or done.
At the heart of this is theever-present worry that unless
doing something for another,there is no possibility of being
(38:42):
loved.
So the needs of others standwithin reach like bottles behind
a bar that, try as he or shewill, the caretaker cannot
resist.
I have experienced this even inthe simple issue of calling a
loved one.
While away from home, even whenno one expects to hear from me,
(39:04):
I agonize over whether to call.
Often, unable to withstand thediscomfort of not registering
some evidence of my love, I willend up going to great lengths
to call.
In truth, caretaking, thoughseeming quite generous, is very
(39:26):
self-serving and its urgentself-centeredness prevents a
life of genuine compassion alife of genuine compassion In
all honesty.
To heal from this requires arigorous program of recovery, as
alcoholics enlist, includingsponsors who will love us for
who we are Within oneself.
The remedy of spirit thatallows for true giving resides
(39:49):
somewhere in the faith tobelieve that each of us is
worthy of love just as we are.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Well, that's kind of crazy it tied in.
I'm back from peeing also.
It's kind of crazy that tied inLove, I think love's one.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
You think love's one.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
No, love is the top of the list of the four.
Yeah, I know love is first andI know money's last.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
We don't live in a world of love.
If we did, we wouldn't have somany wars.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
I can live my life with love.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
I mean me can, I'm me can, I can't do, me can, but
too, me can but.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Because the world's going to keep doing what the
world does.
But my little Subsect of lifeand generality and just
whatever's there, if I lead withlove.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
I think I can sleep okay at night.
Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
I'm not going to change anything, but nobody has
nobody has for the past 2000years you know what I mean
anybody that's led with love,you know.
But I think I can sleep betterat night if I do.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Yeah, I have guilty conscience syndrome, so I know
I'm going to be being a goodperson.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
Yeah, I love everyone .
I might not like their ways,but I love everyone.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
That's my little motto.
I love everyone's my littlemotto I love everyone, all right
.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
Well, this was a beautiful, wonderful april night
.
I think, yep, yes, we're inapril and uh, thank y'all for
listening.
If you got this far, yeah, um,do I have to sign off anything
at all, or do you want to take?
Speaker 1 (41:53):
over the wheel.
Thank Thank you for joining usand click like and subscribe and
send it to your friends andfamily.
Bye.
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