February 27, 2025 • 39 mins
Dive deep into a captivating conversation as Monroe, a retired military veteran and sound engineer, shares his unique journey from a life of structure to one filled with creativity and collaboration. The episode brilliantly juxtaposes the chaos of civilian life against the regimented world of military service. Monroe's candid anecdotes bring to light the challenges faced during this complex transition while imparting valuable lessons on resilience, the significance of community, and the importance of maintaining a sense of humor.
Throughout the episode, Monroe underscores the necessity of vulnerability and authenticity when sharing our experiences and connecting with one another. From insightful discussions about mental health to lighthearted takes on personal hygiene, he draws the audience in with relatable stories and wit. His perspective emphasizes the wisdom gleaned through adversity, paving the way for deeper connections in both personal and professional spheres.
Join us for a hearty blend of laughter, valuable insights from Monroe's life lessons, and a reminder of the importance of supporting one another in our journeys. This episode is more than a conversation; it's an invitation to reflect on your path and share your stories. Don’t forget to engage, subscribe, and share your thoughts—let's keep the conversation alive.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I put a blessing on it too real, that's not
metaphoric.
We just put the I in iconicbuzzing like I'm electronic.
Ah yeah, I put a blessing on it.
See me dripping in it 24-7 onit.
I'm just being honest.
Ah, holy water dripping,dripping from my neck to my
creps.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
So I'm too stepping on it like we're rolling, so
we're good.
We're good, we're going to talkabout some things.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Oh shit I.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I don't know what we're going to talk about.
We're going to talk about it.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
So this is a place I can't plead the fifth right.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
No.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
You can plead anything you want to, but it
ain't going to work, you canplead, you can pray.
You can do that too, it doesn'tmatter.
Hey everybody, I'm Tiffany Foy,welcome to the Ramblin' Gypsy
Podcast.
And we are in my she shed again, and I have a another set of
(00:51):
balls in here, and I know I saidthat I was never going to ever
do that, but clearly I've brokenmy own rule and, um, everybody
break the rules, this break therules.
This is Monroe hi hi, thanks forhaving me, ma'am.
Thank you for being here.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I am very excited this is going to be interesting.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
it is going to be really interesting.
In fact, right before we justgot started, um, you and I've
known each other for a longminute Different venues,
different avenues, differentplaces, different scenarios, so
to speak and you just said thatyou were shy.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I am, believe it or not, I am.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I don't believe it.
No, so I don't at all.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
No, so you know I get a little bit liquid in me, yeah
, yeah.
Liquid courage.
If I'm in a in me, you know ifI'm in a crowd, you know in a
crowd, you know it doesn'tmatter, you know.
But you put me on a stage, youput me on a camera, oh, you know
it, just it's.
I don't like eyes.
Yeah, you know, in a crowd, itdoesn't matter.
I like to be the loud guy, Ilike to be the, I like the shock
, because you hear some of thestuff.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I say, yeah oh yeah, but but to actually like just to
stand on stage so well for sowe've gotten along so well for
so long.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
So, yeah, this is just new to me.
I mean, this is actually mysecond podcast, and the first
one was supposed to talk aboutwrestling.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Really.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
But we talked about hammer toes for about two hours.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Oh my lord, yeah, that sounds like a conversation
that I need to have with CreedFisher, and we are going to talk
about that again when I am nexton the show.
That one's for you, buddy.
That one was for you.
You're welcome, monroe.
You know, creed it wasn't yourhammer toast.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
It wasn't your hammer toast, I promise.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Oh, thank God, Because that is a whole.
That is a whole nother show.
That's at least a two hourepisode.
Oh my God, now my cheeks arered and we haven't even talked
about anything yet.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
This is why I love you.
This is so good.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
But yeah, um, that's good.
So you being shy in thissituation, um, it was really
weird when we first started thepodcast and you know, steve
trevino was comedian, renee hiswife, very good friends of mine
and that's they're the ones thattalked me into doing this and
um, when we first started thepodcast, it was very, it was
(02:56):
very weird for me.
Like I could sit and shoot theshit and talk and have
conversations in big crowds orsmall crowds or just one-on-one,
but then you stick all theselights and these cameras in
front of you and in in the porchthat I built.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I mean, it's a very narrow little area and those
cameras were literally right infront of your face.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I was like holy shit.
And then I would, I would startpracticing.
And then it was like um,thinking about topics, and what
about this person?
What about that person?
And you know, steve and them,they've they figured it out.
I mean, obviously he's, he'sclearly not shy, but um, he, uh,
he.
We sat down and we got totalking about it and he said you
(03:36):
need to, you need to stop,you're thinking way too freaking
hard, like this is absolutelynot you.
And and I and I sat and Ilistened to him and I listened
to everything that he was sayingand I thought you know, you're
right.
And so since then it's been acomplete game changer for me,
where I don't, I, I couldn'ttell you from the moment of us
(03:56):
talking about bringing you onthe show and what we're going to
talk about, or I just I don'teven, and it's been so good and
it's been, so it's been so funfor me.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
I'm a huge fan.
I've watched so many I mean Ididn't know what it was until
you brought Mags and Ditto on,and then I watched that one,
then I watched the Uno Rios one,and then you brought Jungle and
so I'm kind of I'm a fangirl.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Right, so I've watching all of them you know,
and it's just, you're infectious, you really are, You're just.
I mean, I know you personally,you know, but here I just you're
infectious.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Thank you, that makes me feel good.
Now my cheeks are really redtwice, from head to hammer toes.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
Oh my God, no, you're not.
That's so freaking good.
I cannot wait to elaborate onthis whole thing.
Yeah, there it is, we justnailed it.
Yeah, head to hammer toes.
So let's tell everybody who'sMonroe, tell everybody who are
(04:53):
you.
What do you do?
I mean, I know what you do, ohwell, I'm a retired vet.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I did 20 years in the military, got out of the
military, did a lot ofquestionable things, uh-huh, and
hooked up with a guy who wasdoing sound.
And you know, even though I'mold, I still have that
14-year-old.
I want to be a rock star.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
But I can't sing, I can't play an instrument.
To save my life, so I hooked upwith this guy who was running
sound.
I'm like holy cow, I like it,mm-.
It saved my life, so I hookedup with this guy who was running
sound.
I'm like holy cow, I like it.
So I started doing that for awhile and then finally I went,
got my degree in music business,audio engineering.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
This is after you got out of the military.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
This is after the military and a couple of years
of bad decisions.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
So you were when you got out of the military and like
I've had a lot of conversationswith Ditto and Jungle and you
know the whole group and Legacyand and known so many of them
for for a long minute and, um,were you completely lost?
Were you?
Were you scared, were you waslike becoming a fool on coming
(05:59):
out of the military and being ajust a civilian.
I mean, did you know?
I mean, were you?
You came right out and youobviously you said you made
several years of bad decisions.
I know a couple of them thatare about to come out of the
military and they're scaredfucking shitless.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Definitely.
For 20 years I've had astructured way of life.
Get up at 4, PT.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Because they structured that for you.
And so then you come out andit's like what the fuck?
What do I do?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
It's utter chaos.
And even with nothing to do,because I'm retired, I have no
job, it's utter chaos because Idon't know what to do, I don't
know where to go, I don't knowhow to act.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
And the military doesn't say by the way, monroe,
you leave on Friday, you're done, and this is what we think that
you should do, or this is whatwe suggest that you or do.
They don't.
You don't have like a yearprior to where they well they do
have programs.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
They do have programs that help you transition you
know, but no matter how muchplanning that you do, you don't.
It's usually you know thetransition starts.
That last year.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Right.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
But for 20 years you've known structure, You've
known what to wear, Mm-hmm.
You know we don't have to pickout our outfits, the simple
things.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
We don't have to pick out our outfits, that we all
take for granted.
Yeah See, I would have neverthought.
Yeah, that would have been oneof the first.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
It was just difficult .
So I numbed myself with things,things, and it took me about a
couple of years and, holy crap,I got kids.
I can't do this Right.
So kind of fell in.
You know, believe it or not, Iactually started school to be a
(07:41):
radiologist.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Really yeah, nice.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
And I took A and P and I'm like oh, hell, no.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
What's a forayman?
I mean yeah, so I went into themusic program.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
That's a real big one , yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
So here I am.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Yeah, so now I run.
Sound for whoever hires me.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Right, and how long was that whole process?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
I mean I've been doing it.
How hard did you?
Have to fall when you came outafter those two years I'm still
falling, I'm still falling.
I fell every day.
Yeah, you know, but if youdon't fail, you're not learning.
So, um, you know, I thought Iwas doing pretty good and I met
my really good friend.
His name is jack rabbit j J-Rabfor short.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
And he was actually a tour manager for someone that
we both know, anyway.
But he came out to a show I wasdoing in Unaria several years
ago and I thought I was doingpretty good and he's like okay,
it sounds good, but let me showyou something.
Yeah, so he started showing methings.
Well, I didn't know I could dothat.
I didn't know I could do that.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Right.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
So it humbled me real quick.
So I don't pretend I knoweverything.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
How'd you take that, as a man and a big ego and being
in the military, I mean, didyou take that?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I took it very well, believe it or not, because he's
been doing this for 40 yearsBecause of a respect issue with
him.
Yeah, it's just he's been doingit for 40 years.
He obviously him.
Yeah, it's just he's been doingit for 40 years he obviously
knows a lot more than I do, soshut up and listen.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I do.
It wasn't that.
And a lot of people will takethat.
And I feel like I can neverlearn enough in aspects of
everything, everything andanything, and I ask a lot of
questions.
And if I run into a scenarioand I'm completely lost, or run
(09:28):
into a scenario and I'mcompletely lost or and I'm in a
dispute or a whatever, aconfrontation or just any
scenario, and and I'm thinking,you know, I, I really feel like
I'm right in this and then Ithink, well, maybe am I.
And so then I go to Nick, or Igo to close people that are with
me that know me very, very well, and I'll say, will you look at
this and tell me I mean peoplethat are with me that know me
very, very well.
And I'll say, well, you look atthis and tell me.
I mean, do am I?
Just straight up, tell me, am Iin the wrong here?
Am I the jackass, am I the onethat's being completely
(09:51):
unreasonable, or but?
And they'll, straight up, theyknow, tell me and I'll take it.
And then I'll.
And because I want to learn thesame thing with therapy, I feel
like I can never have enoughtherapy.
Yeah, but it takes a lot forsomeone yourself to take
somebody that even if the guyhad five years experience versus
(10:15):
the 40, would you have.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Well, the thing is, you know, 20 years I was
military Right.
You know, and in the audioengineering, I'm an infant.
I'm an infant, I'm an infant.
I need people to show me right,because school only teaches you
so much, right?
You know, it teaches you thebasics, blah, blah.
But how do you do this?
I did right, so I need peopleto teach me and I'm not one to
(10:40):
press off.
You've been doing this, youknow, even if I don't know you
right.
If it sounds like a good idea,okay, cool, you know, let me try
this.
Let me try this right and thenthere's some suggestions.
I'm like kick rocks, dude youknow, so, but you know, this
being the brothels, how manymusicians do we have here?
How many venues do we have here?
(11:01):
How many sound people do wehave here?
How many sound people do wehave here?
And what I love about thiscommunity is we all talk, we all
communicate, we all help eachother out.
You know, um, you know this,this Thursday, you know that I
was asked to do a show, butThursdays are my date nights
with my wife.
So this other guy got the gig,but he needed a soundboard.
(11:22):
So I gave him my soundboardhere.
This other guy got the gig, buthe needed a soundboard so I
gave him my soundboard here.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
You know I love that.
It's just, you know, you feel alot of that, don't you scotty?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
oh yeah, you can't mean.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Yeah, it's community yeah, I mean one thing I love
and I appreciate the musicianpart and the sound part and and
the videographer part and the.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Yeah and all the parts.
Yeah, you know you play a lotof roles.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Yeah, but one thing, and it's kind of stuck with me
amateurs compete, professionalscollaborate, so I like to think
of myself as a professional.
So I'm not trying to knockanyone out of anything.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Amateurs compete.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Professionals collaborate.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Professionals collaborate.
I really like that.
That's what I try to doThatessionals collaborate,
professionals collaborate.
I really like that.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
That's what I try to do.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
That is very strong.
I like those statements.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I think it was on my toilet paper.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
I don't care.
Did you put that one aside andnow wipe your ass with it?
At least take a screenshot ofit.
I guess it doesn't matter ifit's stuck, it's stuck.
We't matter if it's stuck, it'sstuck.
I'm not going to talk aboutwhere it's stuck, but at least
it's stuck.
I love that that's so good.
Yeah, that's so good.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Because I remember when I first started I didn't
know shit from Chicago, you know.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I feel like that, just about things in life in
general, which I have thatconversation with a lot of the
kids that have worked for me.
People call it karma.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
I call it a love bank .
I like to make deposits into mylove bank.
Eventually I'm going to have tomake a withdrawal.
I'm just always trying to putdeposits into my love bank
because I may need to have awithdrawal someday, somewhere,
that's what I try to do.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
You're like a little monk.
I don't even know if we can sayIndian style anymore.
I know I feel like we shouldall.
Whatever I can't do that, I'mgoing to get a cramp.
Yeah, I'm going to throw out ahip or some shit.
It's about to happen.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I've had all the surgeries yeah.
So, Nick's going to have astroke.
Yeah, I mean literally drovelike yeah, I mean literally I
did a deal and hiked my legs.
She's like stop doing this.
I'm gonna send the video toyour doctor.
And I was like don't be god,you're so mean why are you
yelling at me?
No dude, look at you, just fullof inspiration.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
I like that I've faced a lot of adversity and I
was in therapy for 13 years.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Oh, I've been.
I am 51 years old and I've beenin there since the day I came
out and I am going strong.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Yeah, but you know, like you know, before we started
I told you, you know, before 06, I was an introvert, you know.
And then what happened in 06?
It just opened my eyes.
You know tomorrow's notpromised, you know, yeah.
So live your life, yeah, andtreat people the way you want to
be treated, you know, and liftpeople up.
Putting people down doesnothing, it doesn't nothing
(14:18):
doesn't make you feel better no,there's a lot of people there's
my yeah, boy do I.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
That's a lot of people.
I mean there's yeah Boy, do I.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
That's a whole nother column.
There's people I love to slapon the daily, oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Yeah, I got a whole list of them.
Yeah, yeah, and there's acouple I have bapped in the back
of the head.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
But yeah, just like.
I said my love bank.
Eventually, I'm going to need awithdrawal.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Yeah, that's good that what made you decide to go
into the military.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
I lived in a very small town in West Virginia,
really.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Very small town in West Virginia Like this small.
Do you even know what thatmeans?
No black people, no Mexicanpeople.
No, this means it was biggerthan that, then no stop signs no
nothing, no, nothing, mygraduating class was 52 people.
Oh, you all lived on the sameblock.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Well, aunt Grandma and Uncle Grandpa.
No stop signs, no nothing.
My graduating class was 52people.
Oh, you all lived on the sameblock.
Well, aunt Grandma and UncleGrandpa.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
They used to have, you know, three houses.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Uncle Grandpa, yes, Aunt Grandma and Uncle Grandpa.
Right, yeah, right, but no, itwas just a very small town.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
That one's for you.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Uncle Becca, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
We had a choice Cold mines or meth.
Pick one yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Cold mines or meth.
Wow, I didn't want to do either.
So, believe it or not, mycousin, he joined the military
and he's like hey, dude, if youjoin the military I get promoted
before you go to basic training.
So my dad was a professionaleducator.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
So so it was like a buy one, get one, Kind of sort
of.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Yeah, so my dad wouldn't sign because I was 17.
My dad wouldn't sign for me togo, so my mom was like hell,
yeah, so behind my your dadwould not.
Oh, my dad would not, but mom'slike hell yeah.
So mom went behind dad's back.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Why was your dad so against it?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Because my dad's a and he thought she'd go to
college, he thought she'd dothis.
So graduated June, went tobasic training in August.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Really, and your mom was like get the hell out of
here.
Yeah get out of here.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Make something out of yourself Siblings.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Do you have siblings?
I?
Speaker 3 (16:17):
have two.
I have an older sister and I amvery honest when I say this.
She lives in Big Ugly, WestVirginia.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Okay, that's a town.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Big Ugly Talk to the wife She'll tell you oh, it is
real.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yeah, that's what it's called.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Big Ugly, West Virginia.
Yes.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Why are they so mean to that place?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Because it's on Big Ugly Creek, so it's Big.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Ugly.
Wow, it's almost like woman hoand older, younger and then
you're the baby.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Oh okay, I'm the middle, you're the middle.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Yeah, but I was mommy's baby.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I was the only boy.
I was mama's baby yeah I was amama's boy but she shipped you.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
She was like yeah, I'm shipping.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
You need to get the hell out of here yeah, so she
knew what was up, yeah but I didno wrong in that woman's eyes.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Oh, that's a boy.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
mom, right there I want to tell you how bad it was.
She used to de-bone and de-skinmy chicken.
I never ate chicken from a boneever.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I know several people like that.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
I'll join the military and I'm in basic
training and they serve mechicken on a bone.
What the hell am I supposed todo with this Mama?
Yeah, no, shit, right, so I gota quarter I can put in here,
but I was that spoiled.
I was that spoiled.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Grown-ass man with a cup of three-four hair on your
balls and she's still deboningyour chicken.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Yep, mama, but she sent you off.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Yeah, she knew what it would take to put hair in
your ass.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Yeah, she knew what it was going to take for you to
eat off that damn bone.
Just get your ass in themilitary.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
But yeah, so that's how I joined, why I joined.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
So is your wife deboning your chicken.
No Wait a minute Once I retired.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
I found someone to debone for me.
Whoa, look, we have a deboner.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Wow, wow, my cheeks are.
We're going to need to darkenthese cameras.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
This is how the hammer toe shit came up.
It just happened yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Shit Frickin hammer toe de-boning chicken.
This is okay, Anyways.
Yeah so does she no?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
no, no.
So we have 20 years in the armyand no one there to debone or
de-skin my chicken.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I've learned to eat chicken.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Yeah, yeah, I still want to eat grits, I still want
to eat oatmeal, but I'll do myown chicken.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I'm just going to stop I know the writing is all
over the marquee on my forehead.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
I don't want to talk about your boner in the military
, and if you had it, it's a beebuster, it's not one.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Well, I mean, you know, I did three years in the
desert.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
And having a boner in the desert was weird.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
The only place to take care of it was the Port of
Johns at 127 degrees.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Ew it's fine, you learn to get rid of them.
Right, yeah, they're talkingabout a bee boner, yeah, 127
degrees shitter, yeah, uh, yeah,that got cleaned once a week by
the way.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
So all right, so you just go in there and you lose it
, right?
Yeah, everything was so high inthe sky until this is going to
probably be one of my mostfavorite episodes ever hey, but
we made it past 10.
I mean, I'm not sure about allthe cussing.
Oh yeah, no, but that's good.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
I'm so trying not to cuss.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Oh, I can't.
They have bloopers and bleepersand things that they throw out
there.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
I'm just trying to be .
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I'm so proud of you.
Yeah, I've been proud, allright, well, so fucking relax.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Yeah, but I don't know what fucking audience is
going to be watching thisfucking thing.
I know.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
We have the E on all the things, yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Okay, cool.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Yeah, because my favorite word is called it yeah
exactly.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Wait till you get my Christmas card.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
It's adorable, oh, dude yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Mm-hmm, Mm so you're sounding sound engineering.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Yes, I got a frat party this weekend, so a couple
months ago this band came intoBilly's and I did sound for them
, Mm-hmm.
And so earlier this footballseason I worked with Riverbottom
Sounds and Entertainment.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
First of all, I just realized that your mic was not
part of your.
I thought you had the rubberband.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Wayne thought that I would look good in pink.
He said it brought up my eyes.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
It's good, but I thought it was your Beautiful
accent piece.
I thought it was.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Oh, no, dude, I used to have a, really long one I'll
get to that one.
I'll go ahead and tell it now.
So I had a really, reallydecent sized beard, yeah, and my
current wife has never seen mewithout a beard.
So one Sunday I wake up and Igo, I shave completely
Completely.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Why, first of all?
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Because she'd never seen me.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
So you just wanted to be a.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
So this hooker, I love her to death.
She's like well shit, wake upwith a husband and go to bed
with a boy toy Hooker, she wasdeboning your chicken, she was
deboning my chicken.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
She was deboning Yep One piece at a time.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
See ya.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
So, but no, while back this.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Was this after y'all had already tied the knot?
Yeah, so she hadn't seen yourface Ever.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Ever, ever.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
After we got married.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Dude.
She saw all four of these shitsfor the first time All four of
them, but she thought I lookedyoung enough.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
So you passed up, yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
So yeah, so how you passed Abby, yeah, so, yeah.
So how'd that go?
I mean, what happened?
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I woke up with a husband going to bed with a boy
toy.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
We luckily we didn't have a kid that weekend, okay we
.
Bow, chicka, bow, wow.
Kind of like a pinky toy, Ibanged on every piece of
furniture in the house.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Okay, all right, then that's a good.
So marked territory, that'snice, that's good.
Nothing that a little pledgecan't take care of.
Yeah, and a couple ofmicrofibers.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Like a fundraiser.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Yeah, then there's that I might need a GoFundMe or
something.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
After that.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
I might need a GoFundMe or something, I don't
know.
No, luckily, luckily, I got tostart a pledge campaign.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Yeah, yeah, but no, luckily, I mean, the VA gives me
all the Viagra I need.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
So I think you got to back up stash.
You can't sell Viagra withoutVA.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
That is a good one.
So, then she said grow back, orare you just like you know?
Was this like a mutual decision?
I didn't like it.
A draw vote.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
No, I didn't like it.
So I started growing it backand she wanted me to keep it
short and I was like, no, I wantit back Because you know I used
to put like so many rubberbands and you know I just missed
that.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
My dad shaved his beard one time and and I won't I
, I'm still traumatized for him.
It was just like oh then mydaughter devastated my daughter.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
She's like dad.
You look like a pedophile.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
I've never seen his face I never nothing and I was
like what is all that?
Yeah, I mean we're yeah, yeah,it was.
I was devastated.
It literally broke my heart,like I it just you know my dad's
beard.
Until he crossed the I mean hisit was always just perfect and
(23:37):
groomed and yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
It was just, you know , I joined the army at 17, 20
years.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
You know so I didn't get to live in my twenties, I
didn't get to Right.
So I'm an old old man now, butI'm living my 20s.
Now I'm doing the dumbest shityou could think of.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Yeah, I'm right there with you.
I'm right there with you, butluckily I got married to this
one and she really calmed medown.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
I'm still doing dumb shit, but not as dumb, yeah, you
know.
So she's actually put years onmy life, thank God.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
That's good.
I mean, it took a couple.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
She's number five.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
I have this I got a couple, two, three, whatever.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Who's counting?
Speaker 2 (24:19):
I'm not, I damn sure I'm not.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
I have no one to count.
I'm trying to get a little WNBAteam together.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
We might need an extra hammer toe to start
counting all of our baggagearound here.
Oh my God, yeah you never know.
Hammer toes Say two hammers arebetter than one, but are they
not?
Speaker 3 (24:38):
You can never have enough tools If you're wearing
high heels and you've got thatone pinky toe sticking out and
it comes across and crosses overthat toe.
Come on.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Like it's having a conversation.
Yeah, you know no.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
You need to put that up.
I mean seriously.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
How could any other topic be in the conversation?
Speaker 3 (24:54):
No, but I'm a firm believer in yoga pants or yoga
shorts, whatever, and open-toedshoes should be a privilege, not
a right.
I'm that dude.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
So is Creed Fisher.
Yeah, we had a whole familyevent on about feet is this one
of the episodes?
Speaker 3 (25:14):
oh, no, but it's going to be.
Oh, it's going.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
This was after can I sit over there when it happens?
Oh?
Speaker 3 (25:19):
yes, absolutely for the live studio he was.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Yeah he was live on his little deal, because he gets
on and talks to the world andall of his audience on the daily
and and yeah, and he wastalking about something and I
chimed in nick, and I were doingsomething, whatever, and I
typed in there and he was likeokay, all right, gypsy, you're
not gonna let me ever live thisdown.
I was like fuck, no, I'm not.
(25:43):
Are you kidding you threw thebiggest temper tantrum I've ever
seen over feet and it wasfreaking hilarious.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
But I'm that dude Creed.
I'm with you, boy, I'm with you, dude, I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
I got you boo, this is so good.
I feel like we need to do likefeet stamps, walking up the like
oh my God, oh my God, yeah, disgod yeah disgusted no, it's no
yeah no, yeah, oh my god, yeah,yeah, yeah, yeah, you're on the
(26:21):
mag side no, if they're prettyfeet, I will suck toes all day
see, there we go, here we go butno, but if I'm crazy, if it
looks like read max in Monroe.
We're doing a whole this wholepanel yes, you know it will do
it like the Ellen DeGeneres deal.
When she does her things andit's like truth or dare, or yes
(26:43):
or no when she does the thingand you have to turn it around
and it says yes or no.
We're going to make foot panels.
Put them on tongue depressors.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
If your toes look like you're throwing up gang
signs, come on.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Oh, that's bad.
That's hammer toes, that'shammer toes, those are
Neanderthals.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Yeah, if you could pull trout out of a lake, if you
can slice a.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
If your feet are singing.
No, you've got to do it.
Those hermitos, Hermitos.
No, you've got to do it If youLike.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Sebastian, am I wrong ?
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Look.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Sebastian Maniscalco is one of my favorite humans in
the world.
I'm obsessed with this man andhis family and because he is
such a realist and the stuffthat he talks about is literally
, I have never missed one of hisshows.
I've seen him multiple times invegas and any times he's in
texas, never missed one.
But he talks about when you, hewalks in and they, they're the,
(27:40):
the, it's a guest deal and hiswife's got people and so he's,
he, he doesn't like people.
And he goes in there and theguy says you, you have, you have
to take your shoes off in thehouse.
And he's like what I mean he?
He says that we're standing inthe kitchen and he says and
looks down and the guy wasasking a random question.
He said well, the firstquestion we should be talking
about is your feet.
(28:01):
I mean, do you just walk aroundlike this?
And he said and he sticks histoe up and he said it looked
like you could slice a nicepiece of provolone.
Would you do that?
So now is he, not only now andI'm a visual.
That's so disgusting, yes, andI'm such a visual person and I'm
(28:23):
thinking, oh my God, and ittook the whole cheese toast
thing to a whole new fuckinglevel for me.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
You know I've been a biker forever.
I will pull in biker and alland I will get a pedicure.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Well, yeah, as you should I just?
Yes.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Yes, no, it's.
It is very, very important.
Me and Kel are very we're.
We're all about our toes, noteven just the toes.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
You know you're walking through damn H-E-B
Walmart and you got all thesechicks in their flip flops and
the black heels.
They got cracks in them andlooks like they got soles on
their feet, Not their shoes ontheir feet.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
That's why there's a whole industry that's called
Walmart feet.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
That's a.
Thing.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
It is a thing, marisol, tell me about that.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
This is the thing, though, when you say that we
probably all see the exact sameimage in our head.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Yes, I've never heard of it.
It's Walmart fee.
When you say that, I'm going toknow exactly what Walmart fee
is.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
I'm sorry, but this is the world according to Monroe
.
Okay, I see shit that peopledon't see.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Oh, I am that person.
You know what I mean.
Oh, I see it, I see it and I'mthe first one, but my problem is
I can't shut up.
Well, no, yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
I can't shut up.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Yeah, nick is notorious for telling me well,
my whole thing is I, and I willbe the first one to say I need
to go take a lap, because I knowwhat's about to happen.
I know what's about to happen,I know what's about to come out
of my mouth.
I know what's about to look,that's about to just come right
out of my face.
And then she sees both of them.
She's like you know what youneed to.
Before we all end up in a badsituation, you need to go take a
(30:14):
lap.
In fact, then she'll send me,not even say take a lap.
She'll be like you need to goand she'll see me like on a damn
scavenger hunt and shit.
Yeah, and I fall for it.
Okay, I'll go get him.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Yeah, let me go.
If I give you the look it'slike is your birthstone a crack
rock she fell for that shit Isyour birthstone a crack rock
yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
That's also another great title for this episode.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
You know, but it's just, you just dude like for
real, real, yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
You actually walked out of your house like thinking
that you're okay.
Uh-huh, the fuck is wrong withyou.
What is wrong with your people?
Do you not have a mirror?
Do you not have friends?
Why have they let you do this?
Speaker 3 (30:51):
man, it's just so sad I don't know who to shame them
or them.
Basic personal hygiene is sorare nowadays.
So so you nasty motherfucker,you know I can't Sorry.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
No, no, no, Believe me, I have.
I could tell you a millionstories about the things that we
see at the resort.
Or, oh my God, the thing that,yeah, you want to talk about
Walmart, you should talk abouttheir swimmies that they have on
.
They got oh Guadalupe fee, ohGuadalupe.
(31:24):
Yeah, it's even worse, yeah.
How long, I can't, I need towatch.
I need to watch my room, thecool thing.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
You know April.
Like I said, april's comingdown a lot the.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Guadatos the what the guata toes, it's what they get
in.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
You know the, they paddle, they pat do you need a?
Speaker 2 (31:49):
yeah, they don't need to cut they don't need to roll
with their, with theirfungicides, and jesus christ,
you know, their toenails arelike four inches thick.
Oh my god, literally I am.
I just want y'all to know thatI have a s Claus on one of my
toes and I have a reindeer onthe other so my shit is legit.
No, you know it's not.
(32:09):
It is a reindeer.
Kel thought it was a blackSanta.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
She was like what Kel ?
Speaker 2 (32:15):
thought it was a black Santa.
No, yeah, she was like I mean,they all give the gifts, right?
And I was like, well, of coursethey do, I don't care.
Yeah, she was like, only youwould go get a white Santa and a
black Santa, one on one toe andone on the other, because
you're right there.
And I was like, no, it was fine, it was good, it was a good
time.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
So, moral of the story take care of your feet.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
And wash your ass and take care of your feet.
It's really important.
It is yeah, yeah, it's a headto toe.
Head, shoulders, knees and toes, those are things.
That's where that all started.
I'm pretty sure that was like ayeah, A Sesame.
We learned that in Sesamestreet era.
Yeah, Nick doesn't even knowwhat freaking Sesame street is.
(32:57):
Yeah, but you know it is.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Yeah, but you know, I just you know, I frequent bars,
believe it or not, you know andI frequent music venues all
over.
You know, yes, it's just somany people that don't know
basic hygiene.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
And then, I'm expecting to have.
Those are crowd clearers, butI'm expecting to have
conversations with some of thesepeople.
Right and you're dying.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Oh yeah, you know Yep and you're dying.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Oh yeah, you know, yep, been there.
It's bad, yeah, yeah, I can't.
I can't handle the things.
I don't know where that reallycomes from.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
We were raised right.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
I mean, even if, even if we didn't have a normal bath
time or whatever, what wecalled would be a spit bath, we
call them whore baths Face spit,nuts ass.
Okay, well, we just spit on arag.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
I was in the military and we'd be out deployed and
you don't have the luxury ofshowers.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
So we always took baby wipes or something like
this.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
I'm just talking about when we were out running
around because I was the kidShit.
I still am the one that runsaround with no shoes on Shit,
they've seen me.
That's how the whole feetconversation with freaking Creed
started Me running around outhere at our undisclosed location
, the only time I'm barefoot isin a pool or in my shower.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
So many men are like that.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
I got flip-flops or bedroom slippers.
No, I'm about as redneck.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
as they come, I will run around.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
I grew up redneck as shit, but I don't like shit on
my feet.
Tender feet yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
So many men are like that.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
I know it's weird.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
It is weird, not me.
I'll run around and I neverhave shoes on, but my feet are
good.
I damn sure ain't walkingaround with no Walmart shit, but
I'll be the first one to smellmy toes to see if they're stinky
.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Because I can't do that and I don't have stinky
toes.
Smell my toes in like 15 years.
I thought you got to stretchand hydrate.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Monroe, you got that shit yeah I got like automatic
shoe time.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
You got a.
Bend and squat, you got a bendand squat.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Yeah, no, my version is the bend and squat.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
That's how well, yeah , that's a whole another
explanation of teaching thesegirls how to piddle in the
pastures.
You got a bend and squat, butyeah, no, I, I do.
I will run around out here withno shoes and whatever, but at
least you have the decency toknock that shit off before you
(35:43):
go my whole crew at the resort,if I'll have a fully booked
campground and be roaming aroundand I will go straight up top
where I have our hand washingsink or whatever, and I built it
, it's just an old metal tub.
And yeah, no, I'll stick myfoot right up in there and then
(36:05):
put my shoes on and do my ownthing.
Yeah, I may run around like ahood rat, but I am.
I'm a clean one.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
I wake up, shower all that shit you know, and get
ready to put my stuff off forthe day before the socks, baby
powder, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Look at you with your baby powder and all that's good
.
Yeah, so we have sound, cleantoes, clean hygiene.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
What's next for Monroe I don't know, I don't
know, I'm just looking for thenext adventure.
You know, I just I never wantto sit on my porch and say I
wish I would have.
What got you to New Braunfels.
Well, april, actually, my wifeReally yeah.
So my last city station wasFort Sam and in 2014, I actually
(36:58):
started coming up to NewBraunfels why we started a
chapter of my club up here.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
Back in 14.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
And I lived in San Antonio, but I was up here
probably four or five nights aweek.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
And drunk as piss and then riding all the way back to
San Antonio going to drink anddrive.
But it was it was, but that'swhat I did, and then I planned
on moving up here anyway, but Imet my wife actually met her
June 1st 2019.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
At Billy's.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
So in 2014, you were in San Antonio, okay.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
Yeah, I retired in 14 .
Okay, blah, blah, blah and gotdivorced from my last one, moved
into an apartment, all thatcrap, and I just started hanging
out up in New Brunswick, gotcha, and then met her June 1st 2019
.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Did you already have your sound?
Speaker 3 (37:50):
I was just starting, just starting the sound thing,
just starting, so did that.
No, I was up here to get drunk,okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
The sound still sucks around here, but I'm here for
you know, and uh, in 21 weactually started dating finally
yeah and you met her at billy's,met her at billy's and I I told
her that day.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
I asked her to marry me that day.
Yeah, and she's like whateverright yeah and uh, yeah, we're
going bar hopping.
I'm like day.
She's like whatever, we'regoing bar hopping.
I'm like come on.
She's like I'm not getting onthe bike with you.
I actually Ubered her from barto bar to bar that we were bar
hopping in At the end of thenight.
There was no Uber, so sheactually had to get on my bike.
Anyway, I took her home.
Nothing happened, she debonedyour chicken.
(38:40):
No, no, she didn't, no, shedidn't.
And you know, from 19 until 21,I would be at Billy's or
whatnot and I would get stupiddrunk and not listen to anyone.
They would call her, so shewould come and right, but I was
a gentleman, so she'd take me toher house.
(39:01):
I'd either sleep in her yard orsleep in the garage, just a
gentleman.
But she and I, we just had thatlittle connection.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Right.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
So 21,.
She had to have procedures doneBecause she's bullheaded.
She thinks she's going to do itby herself, but she reached out
for help.
I'm retired, I ain't got shitto do, right?
So five days turned into 10days.
Then there's complications.
She had to have anotherprocedure done.
Yeah, so five days, 10 days,three months, and she's like
(39:33):
you've been here this long, whyleave?
Why?
Speaker 2 (39:35):
yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Why leave?
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
So here we are.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
And that was in 21.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
Yes, and we got married in 22.
We just celebrated two years.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
Congratulations.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
November 12th, 22 is when we got married.
I love that.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
That's awesome.
I love that.
I love that.
I love that.
I love that, I love that.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
I love that.
I love that, I love that, Ilove that, I love that, I love
that.
I put a blessing on it too real, that's not
metaphoric.
We just put the I in iconicbuzzing like I'm electronic.
Ah yeah, I put a blessing on it.
See me dripping in it 24-7 onit.
I'm just being honest.
Ah, holy water dripping,dripping from my neck to my
creps.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
So I'm too stepping on it like we're rolling, so
we're good.
We're good, we're going to talkabout some things.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Oh shit I.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I don't know what we're going to talk about.
We're going to talk about it.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
So this is a place I can't plead the fifth right.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
No.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
You can plead anything you want to, but it
ain't going to work, you canplead, you can pray.
You can do that too, it doesn'tmatter.
Hey everybody, I'm Tiffany Foy,welcome to the Ramblin' Gypsy
Podcast.
And we are in my she shed again, and I have a another set of
(00:51):
balls in here, and I know I saidthat I was never going to ever
do that, but clearly I've brokenmy own rule and, um, everybody
break the rules, this break therules.
This is Monroe hi hi, thanks forhaving me, ma'am.
Thank you for being here.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I am very excited this is going to be interesting.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
it is going to be really interesting.
In fact, right before we justgot started, um, you and I've
known each other for a longminute Different venues,
different avenues, differentplaces, different scenarios, so
to speak and you just said thatyou were shy.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I am, believe it or not, I am.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I don't believe it.
No, so I don't at all.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
No, so you know I get a little bit liquid in me, yeah
, yeah.
Liquid courage.
If I'm in a in me, you know ifI'm in a crowd, you know in a
crowd, you know it doesn'tmatter, you know.
But you put me on a stage, youput me on a camera, oh, you know
it, just it's.
I don't like eyes.
Yeah, you know, in a crowd, itdoesn't matter.
I like to be the loud guy, Ilike to be the, I like the shock
, because you hear some of thestuff.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I say, yeah oh yeah, but but to actually like just to
stand on stage so well for sowe've gotten along so well for
so long.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
So, yeah, this is just new to me.
I mean, this is actually mysecond podcast, and the first
one was supposed to talk aboutwrestling.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Really.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
But we talked about hammer toes for about two hours.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Oh my lord, yeah, that sounds like a conversation
that I need to have with CreedFisher, and we are going to talk
about that again when I am nexton the show.
That one's for you, buddy.
That one was for you.
You're welcome, monroe.
You know, creed it wasn't yourhammer toast.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
It wasn't your hammer toast, I promise.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Oh, thank God, Because that is a whole.
That is a whole nother show.
That's at least a two hourepisode.
Oh my God, now my cheeks arered and we haven't even talked
about anything yet.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
This is why I love you.
This is so good.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
But yeah, um, that's good.
So you being shy in thissituation, um, it was really
weird when we first started thepodcast and you know, steve
trevino was comedian, renee hiswife, very good friends of mine
and that's they're the ones thattalked me into doing this and
um, when we first started thepodcast, it was very, it was
(02:56):
very weird for me.
Like I could sit and shoot theshit and talk and have
conversations in big crowds orsmall crowds or just one-on-one,
but then you stick all theselights and these cameras in
front of you and in in the porchthat I built.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I mean, it's a very narrow little area and those
cameras were literally right infront of your face.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I was like holy shit.
And then I would, I would startpracticing.
And then it was like um,thinking about topics, and what
about this person?
What about that person?
And you know, steve and them,they've they figured it out.
I mean, obviously he's, he'sclearly not shy, but um, he, uh,
he.
We sat down and we got totalking about it and he said you
(03:36):
need to, you need to stop,you're thinking way too freaking
hard, like this is absolutelynot you.
And and I and I sat and Ilistened to him and I listened
to everything that he was sayingand I thought you know, you're
right.
And so since then it's been acomplete game changer for me,
where I don't, I, I couldn'ttell you from the moment of us
(03:56):
talking about bringing you onthe show and what we're going to
talk about, or I just I don'teven, and it's been so good and
it's been, so it's been so funfor me.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
I'm a huge fan.
I've watched so many I mean Ididn't know what it was until
you brought Mags and Ditto on,and then I watched that one,
then I watched the Uno Rios one,and then you brought Jungle and
so I'm kind of I'm a fangirl.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Right, so I've watching all of them you know,
and it's just, you're infectious, you really are, You're just.
I mean, I know you personally,you know, but here I just you're
infectious.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Thank you, that makes me feel good.
Now my cheeks are really redtwice, from head to hammer toes.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
Oh my God, no, you're not.
That's so freaking good.
I cannot wait to elaborate onthis whole thing.
Yeah, there it is, we justnailed it.
Yeah, head to hammer toes.
So let's tell everybody who'sMonroe, tell everybody who are
(04:53):
you.
What do you do?
I mean, I know what you do, ohwell, I'm a retired vet.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I did 20 years in the military, got out of the
military, did a lot ofquestionable things, uh-huh, and
hooked up with a guy who wasdoing sound.
And you know, even though I'mold, I still have that
14-year-old.
I want to be a rock star.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
But I can't sing, I can't play an instrument.
To save my life, so I hooked upwith this guy who was running
sound.
I'm like holy cow, I like it,mm-.
It saved my life, so I hookedup with this guy who was running
sound.
I'm like holy cow, I like it.
So I started doing that for awhile and then finally I went,
got my degree in music business,audio engineering.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
This is after you got out of the military.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
This is after the military and a couple of years
of bad decisions.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
So you were when you got out of the military and like
I've had a lot of conversationswith Ditto and Jungle and you
know the whole group and Legacyand and known so many of them
for for a long minute and, um,were you completely lost?
Were you?
Were you scared, were you waslike becoming a fool on coming
(05:59):
out of the military and being ajust a civilian.
I mean, did you know?
I mean, were you?
You came right out and youobviously you said you made
several years of bad decisions.
I know a couple of them thatare about to come out of the
military and they're scaredfucking shitless.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Definitely.
For 20 years I've had astructured way of life.
Get up at 4, PT.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Because they structured that for you.
And so then you come out andit's like what the fuck?
What do I do?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
It's utter chaos.
And even with nothing to do,because I'm retired, I have no
job, it's utter chaos because Idon't know what to do, I don't
know where to go, I don't knowhow to act.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
And the military doesn't say by the way, monroe,
you leave on Friday, you're done, and this is what we think that
you should do, or this is whatwe suggest that you or do.
They don't.
You don't have like a yearprior to where they well they do
have programs.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
They do have programs that help you transition you
know, but no matter how muchplanning that you do, you don't.
It's usually you know thetransition starts.
That last year.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Right.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
But for 20 years you've known structure, You've
known what to wear, Mm-hmm.
You know we don't have to pickout our outfits, the simple
things.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
We don't have to pick out our outfits, that we all
take for granted.
Yeah See, I would have neverthought.
Yeah, that would have been oneof the first.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
It was just difficult .
So I numbed myself with things,things, and it took me about a
couple of years and, holy crap,I got kids.
I can't do this Right.
So kind of fell in.
You know, believe it or not, Iactually started school to be a
(07:41):
radiologist.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Really yeah, nice.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
And I took A and P and I'm like oh, hell, no.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
What's a forayman?
I mean yeah, so I went into themusic program.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
That's a real big one , yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
So here I am.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Yeah, so now I run.
Sound for whoever hires me.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Right, and how long was that whole process?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
I mean I've been doing it.
How hard did you?
Have to fall when you came outafter those two years I'm still
falling, I'm still falling.
I fell every day.
Yeah, you know, but if youdon't fail, you're not learning.
So, um, you know, I thought Iwas doing pretty good and I met
my really good friend.
His name is jack rabbit j J-Rabfor short.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
And he was actually a tour manager for someone that
we both know, anyway.
But he came out to a show I wasdoing in Unaria several years
ago and I thought I was doingpretty good and he's like okay,
it sounds good, but let me showyou something.
Yeah, so he started showing methings.
Well, I didn't know I could dothat.
I didn't know I could do that.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Right.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
So it humbled me real quick.
So I don't pretend I knoweverything.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
How'd you take that, as a man and a big ego and being
in the military, I mean, didyou take that?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I took it very well, believe it or not, because he's
been doing this for 40 yearsBecause of a respect issue with
him.
Yeah, it's just he's been doingit for 40 years.
He obviously him.
Yeah, it's just he's been doingit for 40 years he obviously
knows a lot more than I do, soshut up and listen.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I do.
It wasn't that.
And a lot of people will takethat.
And I feel like I can neverlearn enough in aspects of
everything, everything andanything, and I ask a lot of
questions.
And if I run into a scenarioand I'm completely lost, or run
(09:28):
into a scenario and I'mcompletely lost or and I'm in a
dispute or a whatever, aconfrontation or just any
scenario, and and I'm thinking,you know, I, I really feel like
I'm right in this and then Ithink, well, maybe am I.
And so then I go to Nick, or Igo to close people that are with
me that know me very, very well, and I'll say, will you look at
this and tell me I mean peoplethat are with me that know me
very, very well.
And I'll say, well, you look atthis and tell me.
I mean, do am I?
Just straight up, tell me, am Iin the wrong here?
Am I the jackass, am I the onethat's being completely
(09:51):
unreasonable, or but?
And they'll, straight up, theyknow, tell me and I'll take it.
And then I'll.
And because I want to learn thesame thing with therapy, I feel
like I can never have enoughtherapy.
Yeah, but it takes a lot forsomeone yourself to take
somebody that even if the guyhad five years experience versus
(10:15):
the 40, would you have.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Well, the thing is, you know, 20 years I was
military Right.
You know, and in the audioengineering, I'm an infant.
I'm an infant, I'm an infant.
I need people to show me right,because school only teaches you
so much, right?
You know, it teaches you thebasics, blah, blah.
But how do you do this?
I did right, so I need peopleto teach me and I'm not one to
(10:40):
press off.
You've been doing this, youknow, even if I don't know you
right.
If it sounds like a good idea,okay, cool, you know, let me try
this.
Let me try this right and thenthere's some suggestions.
I'm like kick rocks, dude youknow, so, but you know, this
being the brothels, how manymusicians do we have here?
How many venues do we have here?
(11:01):
How many sound people do wehave here?
How many sound people do wehave here?
And what I love about thiscommunity is we all talk, we all
communicate, we all help eachother out.
You know, um, you know this,this Thursday, you know that I
was asked to do a show, butThursdays are my date nights
with my wife.
So this other guy got the gig,but he needed a soundboard.
(11:22):
So I gave him my soundboardhere.
This other guy got the gig, buthe needed a soundboard so I
gave him my soundboard here.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
You know I love that.
It's just, you know, you feel alot of that, don't you scotty?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
oh yeah, you can't mean.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Yeah, it's community yeah, I mean one thing I love
and I appreciate the musicianpart and the sound part and and
the videographer part and the.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Yeah and all the parts.
Yeah, you know you play a lotof roles.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Yeah, but one thing, and it's kind of stuck with me
amateurs compete, professionalscollaborate, so I like to think
of myself as a professional.
So I'm not trying to knockanyone out of anything.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Amateurs compete.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Professionals collaborate.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Professionals collaborate.
I really like that.
That's what I try to doThatessionals collaborate,
professionals collaborate.
I really like that.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
That's what I try to do.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
That is very strong.
I like those statements.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I think it was on my toilet paper.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
I don't care.
Did you put that one aside andnow wipe your ass with it?
At least take a screenshot ofit.
I guess it doesn't matter ifit's stuck, it's stuck.
We't matter if it's stuck, it'sstuck.
I'm not going to talk aboutwhere it's stuck, but at least
it's stuck.
I love that that's so good.
Yeah, that's so good.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Because I remember when I first started I didn't
know shit from Chicago, you know.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I feel like that, just about things in life in
general, which I have thatconversation with a lot of the
kids that have worked for me.
People call it karma.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
I call it a love bank .
I like to make deposits into mylove bank.
Eventually I'm going to have tomake a withdrawal.
I'm just always trying to putdeposits into my love bank
because I may need to have awithdrawal someday, somewhere,
that's what I try to do.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
You're like a little monk.
I don't even know if we can sayIndian style anymore.
I know I feel like we shouldall.
Whatever I can't do that, I'mgoing to get a cramp.
Yeah, I'm going to throw out ahip or some shit.
It's about to happen.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I've had all the surgeries yeah.
So, Nick's going to have astroke.
Yeah, I mean literally drovelike yeah, I mean literally I
did a deal and hiked my legs.
She's like stop doing this.
I'm gonna send the video toyour doctor.
And I was like don't be god,you're so mean why are you
yelling at me?
No dude, look at you, just fullof inspiration.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
I like that I've faced a lot of adversity and I
was in therapy for 13 years.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Oh, I've been.
I am 51 years old and I've beenin there since the day I came
out and I am going strong.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Yeah, but you know, like you know, before we started
I told you, you know, before 06, I was an introvert, you know.
And then what happened in 06?
It just opened my eyes.
You know tomorrow's notpromised, you know, yeah.
So live your life, yeah, andtreat people the way you want to
be treated, you know, and liftpeople up.
Putting people down doesnothing, it doesn't nothing
(14:18):
doesn't make you feel better no,there's a lot of people there's
my yeah, boy do I.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
That's a lot of people.
I mean there's yeah Boy, do I.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
That's a whole nother column.
There's people I love to slapon the daily, oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Yeah, I got a whole list of them.
Yeah, yeah, and there's acouple I have bapped in the back
of the head.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
But yeah, just like.
I said my love bank.
Eventually, I'm going to need awithdrawal.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Yeah, that's good that what made you decide to go
into the military.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
I lived in a very small town in West Virginia,
really.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Very small town in West Virginia Like this small.
Do you even know what thatmeans?
No black people, no Mexicanpeople.
No, this means it was biggerthan that, then no stop signs no
nothing, no, nothing, mygraduating class was 52 people.
Oh, you all lived on the sameblock.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Well, aunt Grandma and Uncle Grandpa.
No stop signs, no nothing.
My graduating class was 52people.
Oh, you all lived on the sameblock.
Well, aunt Grandma and UncleGrandpa.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
They used to have, you know, three houses.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Uncle Grandpa, yes, Aunt Grandma and Uncle Grandpa.
Right, yeah, right, but no, itwas just a very small town.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
That one's for you.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Uncle Becca, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
We had a choice Cold mines or meth.
Pick one yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Cold mines or meth.
Wow, I didn't want to do either.
So, believe it or not, mycousin, he joined the military
and he's like hey, dude, if youjoin the military I get promoted
before you go to basic training.
So my dad was a professionaleducator.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
So so it was like a buy one, get one, Kind of sort
of.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Yeah, so my dad wouldn't sign because I was 17.
My dad wouldn't sign for me togo, so my mom was like hell,
yeah, so behind my your dadwould not.
Oh, my dad would not, but mom'slike hell yeah.
So mom went behind dad's back.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Why was your dad so against it?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Because my dad's a and he thought she'd go to
college, he thought she'd dothis.
So graduated June, went tobasic training in August.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Really, and your mom was like get the hell out of
here.
Yeah get out of here.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Make something out of yourself Siblings.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Do you have siblings?
I?
Speaker 3 (16:17):
have two.
I have an older sister and I amvery honest when I say this.
She lives in Big Ugly, WestVirginia.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Okay, that's a town.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Big Ugly Talk to the wife She'll tell you oh, it is
real.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yeah, that's what it's called.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Big Ugly, West Virginia.
Yes.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Why are they so mean to that place?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Because it's on Big Ugly Creek, so it's Big.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Ugly.
Wow, it's almost like woman hoand older, younger and then
you're the baby.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Oh okay, I'm the middle, you're the middle.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Yeah, but I was mommy's baby.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I was the only boy.
I was mama's baby yeah I was amama's boy but she shipped you.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
She was like yeah, I'm shipping.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
You need to get the hell out of here yeah, so she
knew what was up, yeah but I didno wrong in that woman's eyes.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Oh, that's a boy.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
mom, right there I want to tell you how bad it was.
She used to de-bone and de-skinmy chicken.
I never ate chicken from a boneever.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I know several people like that.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
I'll join the military and I'm in basic
training and they serve mechicken on a bone.
What the hell am I supposed todo with this Mama?
Yeah, no, shit, right, so I gota quarter I can put in here,
but I was that spoiled.
I was that spoiled.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Grown-ass man with a cup of three-four hair on your
balls and she's still deboningyour chicken.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Yep, mama, but she sent you off.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Yeah, she knew what it would take to put hair in
your ass.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Yeah, she knew what it was going to take for you to
eat off that damn bone.
Just get your ass in themilitary.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
But yeah, so that's how I joined, why I joined.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
So is your wife deboning your chicken.
No Wait a minute Once I retired.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
I found someone to debone for me.
Whoa, look, we have a deboner.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Wow, wow, my cheeks are.
We're going to need to darkenthese cameras.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
This is how the hammer toe shit came up.
It just happened yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Shit Frickin hammer toe de-boning chicken.
This is okay, Anyways.
Yeah so does she no?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
no, no.
So we have 20 years in the armyand no one there to debone or
de-skin my chicken.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I've learned to eat chicken.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Yeah, yeah, I still want to eat grits, I still want
to eat oatmeal, but I'll do myown chicken.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I'm just going to stop I know the writing is all
over the marquee on my forehead.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
I don't want to talk about your boner in the military
, and if you had it, it's a beebuster, it's not one.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Well, I mean, you know, I did three years in the
desert.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
And having a boner in the desert was weird.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
The only place to take care of it was the Port of
Johns at 127 degrees.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Ew it's fine, you learn to get rid of them.
Right, yeah, they're talkingabout a bee boner, yeah, 127
degrees shitter, yeah, uh, yeah,that got cleaned once a week by
the way.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
So all right, so you just go in there and you lose it
, right?
Yeah, everything was so high inthe sky until this is going to
probably be one of my mostfavorite episodes ever hey, but
we made it past 10.
I mean, I'm not sure about allthe cussing.
Oh yeah, no, but that's good.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
I'm so trying not to cuss.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Oh, I can't.
They have bloopers and bleepersand things that they throw out
there.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
I'm just trying to be .
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I'm so proud of you.
Yeah, I've been proud, allright, well, so fucking relax.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Yeah, but I don't know what fucking audience is
going to be watching thisfucking thing.
I know.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
We have the E on all the things, yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Okay, cool.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Yeah, because my favorite word is called it yeah
exactly.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Wait till you get my Christmas card.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
It's adorable, oh, dude yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Mm-hmm, Mm so you're sounding sound engineering.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Yes, I got a frat party this weekend, so a couple
months ago this band came intoBilly's and I did sound for them
, Mm-hmm.
And so earlier this footballseason I worked with Riverbottom
Sounds and Entertainment.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
First of all, I just realized that your mic was not
part of your.
I thought you had the rubberband.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Wayne thought that I would look good in pink.
He said it brought up my eyes.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
It's good, but I thought it was your Beautiful
accent piece.
I thought it was.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Oh, no, dude, I used to have a, really long one I'll
get to that one.
I'll go ahead and tell it now.
So I had a really, reallydecent sized beard, yeah, and my
current wife has never seen mewithout a beard.
So one Sunday I wake up and Igo, I shave completely
Completely.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Why, first of all?
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Because she'd never seen me.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
So you just wanted to be a.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
So this hooker, I love her to death.
She's like well shit, wake upwith a husband and go to bed
with a boy toy Hooker, she wasdeboning your chicken, she was
deboning my chicken.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
She was deboning Yep One piece at a time.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
See ya.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
So, but no, while back this.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Was this after y'all had already tied the knot?
Yeah, so she hadn't seen yourface Ever.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Ever, ever.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
After we got married.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Dude.
She saw all four of these shitsfor the first time All four of
them, but she thought I lookedyoung enough.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
So you passed up, yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
So yeah, so how you passed Abby, yeah, so, yeah.
So how'd that go?
I mean, what happened?
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I woke up with a husband going to bed with a boy
toy.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
We luckily we didn't have a kid that weekend, okay we
.
Bow, chicka, bow, wow.
Kind of like a pinky toy, Ibanged on every piece of
furniture in the house.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Okay, all right, then that's a good.
So marked territory, that'snice, that's good.
Nothing that a little pledgecan't take care of.
Yeah, and a couple ofmicrofibers.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Like a fundraiser.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Yeah, then there's that I might need a GoFundMe or
something.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
After that.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
I might need a GoFundMe or something, I don't
know.
No, luckily, luckily, I got tostart a pledge campaign.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Yeah, yeah, but no, luckily, I mean, the VA gives me
all the Viagra I need.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
So I think you got to back up stash.
You can't sell Viagra withoutVA.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
That is a good one.
So, then she said grow back, orare you just like you know?
Was this like a mutual decision?
I didn't like it.
A draw vote.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
No, I didn't like it.
So I started growing it backand she wanted me to keep it
short and I was like, no, I wantit back Because you know I used
to put like so many rubberbands and you know I just missed
that.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
My dad shaved his beard one time and and I won't I
, I'm still traumatized for him.
It was just like oh then mydaughter devastated my daughter.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
She's like dad.
You look like a pedophile.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
I've never seen his face I never nothing and I was
like what is all that?
Yeah, I mean we're yeah, yeah,it was.
I was devastated.
It literally broke my heart,like I it just you know my dad's
beard.
Until he crossed the I mean hisit was always just perfect and
(23:37):
groomed and yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
It was just, you know , I joined the army at 17, 20
years.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
You know so I didn't get to live in my twenties, I
didn't get to Right.
So I'm an old old man now, butI'm living my 20s.
Now I'm doing the dumbest shityou could think of.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Yeah, I'm right there with you.
I'm right there with you, butluckily I got married to this
one and she really calmed medown.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
I'm still doing dumb shit, but not as dumb, yeah, you
know.
So she's actually put years onmy life, thank God.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
That's good.
I mean, it took a couple.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
She's number five.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
I have this I got a couple, two, three, whatever.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Who's counting?
Speaker 2 (24:19):
I'm not, I damn sure I'm not.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
I have no one to count.
I'm trying to get a little WNBAteam together.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
We might need an extra hammer toe to start
counting all of our baggagearound here.
Oh my God, yeah you never know.
Hammer toes Say two hammers arebetter than one, but are they
not?
Speaker 3 (24:38):
You can never have enough tools If you're wearing
high heels and you've got thatone pinky toe sticking out and
it comes across and crosses overthat toe.
Come on.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Like it's having a conversation.
Yeah, you know no.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
You need to put that up.
I mean seriously.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
How could any other topic be in the conversation?
Speaker 3 (24:54):
No, but I'm a firm believer in yoga pants or yoga
shorts, whatever, and open-toedshoes should be a privilege, not
a right.
I'm that dude.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
So is Creed Fisher.
Yeah, we had a whole familyevent on about feet is this one
of the episodes?
Speaker 3 (25:14):
oh, no, but it's going to be.
Oh, it's going.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
This was after can I sit over there when it happens?
Oh?
Speaker 3 (25:19):
yes, absolutely for the live studio he was.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Yeah he was live on his little deal, because he gets
on and talks to the world andall of his audience on the daily
and and yeah, and he wastalking about something and I
chimed in nick, and I were doingsomething, whatever, and I
typed in there and he was likeokay, all right, gypsy, you're
not gonna let me ever live thisdown.
I was like fuck, no, I'm not.
(25:43):
Are you kidding you threw thebiggest temper tantrum I've ever
seen over feet and it wasfreaking hilarious.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
But I'm that dude Creed.
I'm with you, boy, I'm with you, dude, I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
I got you boo, this is so good.
I feel like we need to do likefeet stamps, walking up the like
oh my God, oh my God, yeah, disgod yeah disgusted no, it's no
yeah no, yeah, oh my god, yeah,yeah, yeah, yeah, you're on the
(26:21):
mag side no, if they're prettyfeet, I will suck toes all day
see, there we go, here we go butno, but if I'm crazy, if it
looks like read max in Monroe.
We're doing a whole this wholepanel yes, you know it will do
it like the Ellen DeGeneres deal.
When she does her things andit's like truth or dare, or yes
(26:43):
or no when she does the thingand you have to turn it around
and it says yes or no.
We're going to make foot panels.
Put them on tongue depressors.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
If your toes look like you're throwing up gang
signs, come on.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Oh, that's bad.
That's hammer toes, that'shammer toes, those are
Neanderthals.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Yeah, if you could pull trout out of a lake, if you
can slice a.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
If your feet are singing.
No, you've got to do it.
Those hermitos, Hermitos.
No, you've got to do it If youLike.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Sebastian, am I wrong ?
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Look.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Sebastian Maniscalco is one of my favorite humans in
the world.
I'm obsessed with this man andhis family and because he is
such a realist and the stuffthat he talks about is literally
, I have never missed one of hisshows.
I've seen him multiple times invegas and any times he's in
texas, never missed one.
But he talks about when you, hewalks in and they, they're the,
(27:40):
the, it's a guest deal and hiswife's got people and so he's,
he, he doesn't like people.
And he goes in there and theguy says you, you have, you have
to take your shoes off in thehouse.
And he's like what I mean he?
He says that we're standing inthe kitchen and he says and
looks down and the guy wasasking a random question.
He said well, the firstquestion we should be talking
about is your feet.
(28:01):
I mean, do you just walk aroundlike this?
And he said and he sticks histoe up and he said it looked
like you could slice a nicepiece of provolone.
Would you do that?
So now is he, not only now andI'm a visual.
That's so disgusting, yes, andI'm such a visual person and I'm
(28:23):
thinking, oh my God, and ittook the whole cheese toast
thing to a whole new fuckinglevel for me.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
You know I've been a biker forever.
I will pull in biker and alland I will get a pedicure.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Well, yeah, as you should I just?
Yes.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Yes, no, it's.
It is very, very important.
Me and Kel are very we're.
We're all about our toes, noteven just the toes.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
You know you're walking through damn H-E-B
Walmart and you got all thesechicks in their flip flops and
the black heels.
They got cracks in them andlooks like they got soles on
their feet, Not their shoes ontheir feet.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
That's why there's a whole industry that's called
Walmart feet.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
That's a.
Thing.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
It is a thing, marisol, tell me about that.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
This is the thing, though, when you say that we
probably all see the exact sameimage in our head.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Yes, I've never heard of it.
It's Walmart fee.
When you say that, I'm going toknow exactly what Walmart fee
is.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
I'm sorry, but this is the world according to Monroe
.
Okay, I see shit that peopledon't see.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Oh, I am that person.
You know what I mean.
Oh, I see it, I see it and I'mthe first one, but my problem is
I can't shut up.
Well, no, yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
I can't shut up.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Yeah, nick is notorious for telling me well,
my whole thing is I, and I willbe the first one to say I need
to go take a lap, because I knowwhat's about to happen.
I know what's about to happen,I know what's about to come out
of my mouth.
I know what's about to look,that's about to just come right
out of my face.
And then she sees both of them.
She's like you know what youneed to.
Before we all end up in a badsituation, you need to go take a
(30:14):
lap.
In fact, then she'll send me,not even say take a lap.
She'll be like you need to goand she'll see me like on a damn
scavenger hunt and shit.
Yeah, and I fall for it.
Okay, I'll go get him.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Yeah, let me go.
If I give you the look it'slike is your birthstone a crack
rock she fell for that shit Isyour birthstone a crack rock
yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
That's also another great title for this episode.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
You know, but it's just, you just dude like for
real, real, yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
You actually walked out of your house like thinking
that you're okay.
Uh-huh, the fuck is wrong withyou.
What is wrong with your people?
Do you not have a mirror?
Do you not have friends?
Why have they let you do this?
Speaker 3 (30:51):
man, it's just so sad I don't know who to shame them
or them.
Basic personal hygiene is sorare nowadays.
So so you nasty motherfucker,you know I can't Sorry.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
No, no, no, Believe me, I have.
I could tell you a millionstories about the things that we
see at the resort.
Or, oh my God, the thing that,yeah, you want to talk about
Walmart, you should talk abouttheir swimmies that they have on
.
They got oh Guadalupe fee, ohGuadalupe.
(31:24):
Yeah, it's even worse, yeah.
How long, I can't, I need towatch.
I need to watch my room, thecool thing.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
You know April.
Like I said, april's comingdown a lot the.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Guadatos the what the guata toes, it's what they get
in.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
You know the, they paddle, they pat do you need a?
Speaker 2 (31:49):
yeah, they don't need to cut they don't need to roll
with their, with theirfungicides, and jesus christ,
you know, their toenails arelike four inches thick.
Oh my god, literally I am.
I just want y'all to know thatI have a s Claus on one of my
toes and I have a reindeer onthe other so my shit is legit.
No, you know it's not.
(32:09):
It is a reindeer.
Kel thought it was a blackSanta.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
She was like what Kel ?
Speaker 2 (32:15):
thought it was a black Santa.
No, yeah, she was like I mean,they all give the gifts, right?
And I was like, well, of coursethey do, I don't care.
Yeah, she was like, only youwould go get a white Santa and a
black Santa, one on one toe andone on the other, because
you're right there.
And I was like, no, it was fine, it was good, it was a good
time.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
So, moral of the story take care of your feet.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
And wash your ass and take care of your feet.
It's really important.
It is yeah, yeah, it's a headto toe.
Head, shoulders, knees and toes, those are things.
That's where that all started.
I'm pretty sure that was like ayeah, A Sesame.
We learned that in Sesamestreet era.
Yeah, Nick doesn't even knowwhat freaking Sesame street is.
(32:57):
Yeah, but you know it is.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Yeah, but you know, I just you know, I frequent bars,
believe it or not, you know andI frequent music venues all
over.
You know, yes, it's just somany people that don't know
basic hygiene.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
And then, I'm expecting to have.
Those are crowd clearers, butI'm expecting to have
conversations with some of thesepeople.
Right and you're dying.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Oh yeah, you know Yep and you're dying.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Oh yeah, you know, yep, been there.
It's bad, yeah, yeah, I can't.
I can't handle the things.
I don't know where that reallycomes from.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
We were raised right.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
I mean, even if, even if we didn't have a normal bath
time or whatever, what wecalled would be a spit bath, we
call them whore baths Face spit,nuts ass.
Okay, well, we just spit on arag.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
I was in the military and we'd be out deployed and
you don't have the luxury ofshowers.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
So we always took baby wipes or something like
this.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
I'm just talking about when we were out running
around because I was the kidShit.
I still am the one that runsaround with no shoes on Shit,
they've seen me.
That's how the whole feetconversation with freaking Creed
started Me running around outhere at our undisclosed location
, the only time I'm barefoot isin a pool or in my shower.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
So many men are like that.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
I got flip-flops or bedroom slippers.
No, I'm about as redneck.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
as they come, I will run around.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
I grew up redneck as shit, but I don't like shit on
my feet.
Tender feet yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
So many men are like that.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
I know it's weird.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
It is weird, not me.
I'll run around and I neverhave shoes on, but my feet are
good.
I damn sure ain't walkingaround with no Walmart shit, but
I'll be the first one to smellmy toes to see if they're stinky
.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Because I can't do that and I don't have stinky
toes.
Smell my toes in like 15 years.
I thought you got to stretchand hydrate.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Monroe, you got that shit yeah I got like automatic
shoe time.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
You got a.
Bend and squat, you got a bendand squat.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Yeah, no, my version is the bend and squat.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
That's how well, yeah , that's a whole another
explanation of teaching thesegirls how to piddle in the
pastures.
You got a bend and squat, butyeah, no, I, I do.
I will run around out here withno shoes and whatever, but at
least you have the decency toknock that shit off before you
(35:43):
go my whole crew at the resort,if I'll have a fully booked
campground and be roaming aroundand I will go straight up top
where I have our hand washingsink or whatever, and I built it
, it's just an old metal tub.
And yeah, no, I'll stick myfoot right up in there and then
(36:05):
put my shoes on and do my ownthing.
Yeah, I may run around like ahood rat, but I am.
I'm a clean one.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
I wake up, shower all that shit you know, and get
ready to put my stuff off forthe day before the socks, baby
powder, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Look at you with your baby powder and all that's good
.
Yeah, so we have sound, cleantoes, clean hygiene.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
What's next for Monroe I don't know, I don't
know, I'm just looking for thenext adventure.
You know, I just I never wantto sit on my porch and say I
wish I would have.
What got you to New Braunfels.
Well, april, actually, my wifeReally yeah.
So my last city station wasFort Sam and in 2014, I actually
(36:58):
started coming up to NewBraunfels why we started a
chapter of my club up here.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
Back in 14.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
And I lived in San Antonio, but I was up here
probably four or five nights aweek.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
And drunk as piss and then riding all the way back to
San Antonio going to drink anddrive.
But it was it was, but that'swhat I did, and then I planned
on moving up here anyway, but Imet my wife actually met her
June 1st 2019.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
At Billy's.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
So in 2014, you were in San Antonio, okay.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
Yeah, I retired in 14 .
Okay, blah, blah, blah and gotdivorced from my last one, moved
into an apartment, all thatcrap, and I just started hanging
out up in New Brunswick, gotcha, and then met her June 1st 2019
.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Did you already have your sound?
Speaker 3 (37:50):
I was just starting, just starting the sound thing,
just starting, so did that.
No, I was up here to get drunk,okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
The sound still sucks around here, but I'm here for
you know, and uh, in 21 weactually started dating finally
yeah and you met her at billy's,met her at billy's and I I told
her that day.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
I asked her to marry me that day.
Yeah, and she's like whateverright yeah and uh, yeah, we're
going bar hopping.
I'm like day.
She's like whatever, we'regoing bar hopping.
I'm like come on.
She's like I'm not getting onthe bike with you.
I actually Ubered her from barto bar to bar that we were bar
hopping in At the end of thenight.
There was no Uber, so sheactually had to get on my bike.
Anyway, I took her home.
Nothing happened, she debonedyour chicken.
(38:40):
No, no, she didn't, no, shedidn't.
And you know, from 19 until 21,I would be at Billy's or
whatnot and I would get stupiddrunk and not listen to anyone.
They would call her, so shewould come and right, but I was
a gentleman, so she'd take me toher house.
(39:01):
I'd either sleep in her yard orsleep in the garage, just a
gentleman.
But she and I, we just had thatlittle connection.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Right.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
So 21,.
She had to have procedures doneBecause she's bullheaded.
She thinks she's going to do itby herself, but she reached out
for help.
I'm retired, I ain't got shitto do, right?
So five days turned into 10days.
Then there's complications.
She had to have anotherprocedure done.
Yeah, so five days, 10 days,three months, and she's like
(39:33):
you've been here this long, whyleave?
Why?
Speaker 2 (39:35):
yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Why leave?
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
So here we are.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
And that was in 21.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
Yes, and we got married in 22.
We just celebrated two years.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
Congratulations.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
November 12th, 22 is when we got married.
I love that.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
That's awesome.
I love that.
I love that.
I love that.
I love that, I love that.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
I love that.
I love that, I love that, Ilove that, I love that, I love
that.
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