January 14, 2024 • 44 mins
Dive into the Chatosphere with Charlie & Lil' Momo: Season 2 Kicks Off with Holiday Hangover & Pop Culture Chaos! Hold onto your holiday hats, Chatfam, because The Chat Podcast is back for a brand new season of laughter, pop culture dissection, and real-talk shenanigans! Buckle up for Episode 1: a wild ride through the post-holiday haze, where Charlie and Lil' Momo spill the tea on their festive misadventures, dive into the juiciest December-January pop culture drama, and answer your burning questions about all things 2023. Ever wondered:
- Which celebrity's New Year's Eve meltdown was the most epic (and slightly terrifying)?
- What's the secret to surviving the post-resolution slump without resorting to existential dread and fuzzy slippers?
- Did anyone else escape the holiday movie marathon unscathed by cheesy Hallmark romances and questionable family dynamics?
- The Great "2023 Wrap-Up" Game: Brace yourselves for a hilarious trip down memory lane as we crown the year's biggest memes, fashion faux pas, and viral sensations. Think "Squid Game" meets "The Dress" meets your grandma's fruitcake recipe gone wrong.
- Pop Culture Pulse: From Taylor Swift's Midnights mayhem to the Golden Globes' snubs and surprises, we're dissecting the hottest headlines and trends that kept you glued to your screens during the holiday break.
- Lil' Momo's Life Hack: Get ready for a post-holiday life hack that will have you thanking the Chatosphere gods (and maybe Momo's grandma). Hint: it involves leftover pie and questionable fashion choices.
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[Music]
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Hey what is going on it is Charlie and we are back with the chat podcast. It's a new year.
I don't know why I'm singing like that. I'm also got... I don't know what you're doing.
I don't know. I'm doing it. I'm a mom. I wasn't very very on the moon. I'm back too.
You are back. It's so good to see, well to hear everyone, I'm really singing you right now.
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Except for the one person that we don't have back is Scottie.
Scottie too, hotty. Yeah he's out dealing with people issues. I guess we'll say.
Puppy issues? A people puppy issues. Exactly. I like that one.
So we'll go with that. So he's out dealing with that situation. But yeah he's... I assume doing okay.
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From what I understand and this was just the tease. I'll have a really good story from when I return.
I am legitimately curious about this. You know what? The little details I got I can't wait.
All I know is it's about people over extension of stays. Puppy's and from what I understand I think we may have...
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we may be able to have one of the puppies calling to the show. I'm just saying.
Oh my god. One of the dogs may call into the show.
You're gonna think... You're gonna think it's a different kind of puppy.
A different kind of pup. Well you know what? Maybe it is. Maybe we don't know.
We don't know for sure. I know. But it's... Yeah so anyway that's coming. Hopefully this next weekend we'll have that situation sorted out.
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But anyway so there's that. So it's 2024. Season 2 episode 1. Our first episode of the year.
That's right we got renewed. That was so sweet of them too.
So this episode is sponsored by Air. Yeah absolutely. You know what? It helps us free it. If you do. Yes sponsored by Air.
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I know Lamamou's accepting vape shops and alcohol.
Yeah definitely the second one. But what you wouldn't vape. Have you ever... I've tried to before.
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I'm just like this is just weird. It's a weird sensation for me.
Compared to smoking regularly. I don't smoke either. Well I know okay. Not even weed.
No I'm a good boy. I just drink on my streams. Which you can find on Twitch at the struggle book.
That's right. That's right. Yeah so let's talk about that real quick. So you okay. Yeah. So I go live on Monday Wednesday Thursdays and Saturdays at 7pm Central.
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Hold on. You were going to rename it. Come up with a new logo. There was all this rebranding going on. And then all the sudden nothing changed.
Actually it's probably quite the opposite of all the sudden. Because nothing changed. It's still the struggle.
Nothing changed because people in the chat are calling me "strugs". Now it's kind of taken on a life of its own now.
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So I'm like well I still introduce myself as Lamamou but if you call me "strugs" you call me "strugs".
I mean you know what I told you at the very beginning you shouldn't have changed it anyway.
Well I really wanted to. And if I would have been able to get a logo I was happy with sooner I would have.
But now we're stuck with the struggle book forever. Well maybe. God don't be one of those people who comes up with something.
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Teases it. Says it's going to happen. Doesn't happen. And then all of a sudden it randomly happens.
You know what I'm going to do? Once I get to a thousand followers I'm going to change it to change the whole thing.
Oh my God that's the worst marketing thing you could do. God. If you're interested in Pokemon Nuzlocke or like different RPGs with a flaming homosexual.
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Oh by all means stop by and let me know how you found the channel because I would love for more people from the podcast to hop on over.
See the other side flaming is an understatement. I think this homosexual is definitely I burn with a passion of a thousand white sons.
He is Paul Revere's Lanner.
No, never mind. Anyway so it wasn't good at history. I could tell definitely not. But anyway yeah so there's there's that. Well that's good.
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I'm glad that it's still going. Now you did just change over though or at least a couple of days ago you started doing a different game. Finally.
Because I'll be honest I'm not a Pokemon fan. I just I've never understood it. Don't don't get it. But Hogwarts legacy. That's something I can get behind.
That's what you're doing. Yeah and I'm obviously not a dark wizard in this one. We're a good slither in.
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Really because you literally put as you're heading. There's a new dark wizard in time. I don't sound like that. Well that's how I read it.
There's a new dark religion. I think who is that that's actually it's my meanwhile.
I don't want to I don't want to call her out or anything but yeah so well that's good. I'm glad that you're doing that.
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Did you also get more viewers by switching over or was that coincidence? I got I got different viewers. People that have already been following and subscribing are like the message and be like oh my gosh like I'm so excited for this. I'm like okay cool.
I did it pretty much all week so it's tied off a little bit so now I'm splitting my time between Pokemon and Hogwarts over the next couple of weeks.
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Well you let me know when there's Hogwarts because I'll tune in for that for sure. Well hey you know you can find the promos I do every day.
If you asked for I go live on my Instagram on the channels struggle books Instagram on my Facebook on my discord and on Snapchat.
And what are those handles? They will all be can they be attached in the description? Yeah sure we'll do that.
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I call they're in the description. All right there you go every last one of them I'm gonna oh no every one of them well not not the only fans or anything like that.
Oh my goodness saying so just go ahead and send those to me so I can put those in the description because no big yeah all right all right cool so anyway well that's good glad we got that out.
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Yeah they're doing a doing a little wizard action finally changing it up I still think you should do call a duty though look all I can say is there is an option that will remain a staple during the Harry Potter series.
It's called a Vodka Casp. Okay you explain that.
Yeah so it doesn't matter if we're doing a sip and stream or not a Vodka sip is always there. It's for free.
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It's for free. Use your channel points or you can donate a few bits to redeem that and I have to immediately take a drink of and a gov a reduction.
You add reduction on anything and you immediately have a chef's hat. Is that is that how that works.
Look also if you follow me on my socials you can see my chef worthy dishes on occasion.
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All right well that's good my ramen noodles from today which actually honestly look very good I'm not gonna lie they inspired me to create something a little bit more authentic than what you did but it was good authentic from a cup.
Absolutely mine didn't have potatoes and I've never seen potatoes in a in a noodle bowl look all the sodium you gotta absorb it see this is a special section.
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No one knows how to cook one second but you do absorb it and then you eat the potatoes yeah all right well that's absolutely ass and I.
I mean it helps tenderize the potatoes a little bit of pax them with flavor and also we toast our spices spices garlic onions carrots I buy my nose from a corn.
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I know I've no man no man while you are a trip well you know what I'm looking forward to you creating me an authentic and I use quote air quotes bowl of ramen.
But you know why we get some some octopus in there.
In your octagon.
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I touched that should look I bought a tentacle of sushi grade octopus wait wait wait you bought a tentacle.
Uh huh no we don't do that we don't we don't eat my little Asian market they have these freezers and like they're not labeled or anything they're just white freezers.
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So you go lift up the thing and I was like is that a f*ck is that a tentacle I go I reach it and I'm like oh my gosh that's a freaking tentacle.
So I go to the lady and I was like is this sushi grade she's like oh yes she great.
Oh that's awesome.
I was like well how much is it she's like market price.
Okay what is the I don't usually buy octopus tentacles how much is the market price.
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She's a oh god.
Yeah.
Yeah she slapped that.
Yeah.
Oh she slapped herself too.
Oh that must be the little kid.
Yeah child labor.
Yeah.
It's a set of fun.
54.
34.
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Oh still you pay 35.
I was for a tentacle.
Well I had waited like legitimately probably 10 minutes for her to figure it out because she had to call her husband.
She wouldn't pick up so then she bust out the calculator and then she went back to calling her husband.
Like it was a whole process and I was like well at this point I kind of just want to go so get wrap it up and let me leave.
Yeah I hope that tentacle reached out and like shook your hand back or something because there's no way it's worse.
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It was so good.
How did you Google how to cook it?
No it was sushi grade.
Why would you cook it?
Oh that's what that means you eat it raw.
Yeah.
Like I slapped a glaze on it a few times.
It took me a while to get through the whole thing but I was like you have really thin slices.
No too thin.
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Too thick.
Because here's my thing.
If I'm learning how to cook something I will legitimately spend a month trying to learn how to cook it.
Like I learned how to do a French omelette.
Took me a month but oh my goodness by the end of it.
A French omelette?
Yeah you don't know how to do a French omelette.
No I don't know anything.
You don't have class.
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To learn about French omelettes?
No I've never taken that class.
Oh well you know it's funny what googling can do for you.
I know if I cared to google about it I probably would.
Basically it's just eggs.
Some people use a little bit of cheese and like some scallions on top with some salt.
I'm just picturing a crape.
No.
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Anyway.
Mix up your eggs so like you know they're nice and harmonious.
Pour them into a pan.
Low heat.
You don't want any browning on it whatsoever.
And basically as soon as it starts to set you roll it up so that when you cut into it the middle looks like runny scrambled eggs basically.
But the outside is nice and firm but no spots.
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It's so good.
No that's.
I'm good.
I don't want to play with it.
Let me guess you want one that's just folded in half stuffed with ham and bacon.
Oh your holiday ron.
You're a lot of genius poppers.
You know what you mentioned jalapeno poppers now we're onto something.
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See?
But here's the thing is that I don't like ham.
So I find bacon.
I do like bacon.
I like crispy bacon.
Well yeah.
Yeah but I've come across well yeah they should anyway I've come across some people who half fast cook their bacon.
And when they go to put it in whatever it is they're putting it in I get these chewy bits that are.
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It's basically just raw bacon that's warmed over.
I mean that's kind of like.
I don't want to say that's gross but it's not.
I saw the most heinous thing ever speaking about bacon.
Somebody put their bacon in water and boiled it.
No.
It was one of those freaking take talkers.
It's like isn't this so good?
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Oh yeah baby.
Look how good that looks baby.
Yeah I know and it's so simple.
Anyone can do this baby.
No.
No we don't we don't we don't do that.
We don't know the people I'm talking about.
I do.
I know it's a well if it's I think there's like a couple of different couples that do that.
No there is.
But there is one that just kept getting a bunch of crap and honestly it I don't know if it was real or if they were trolling or.
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If they genuinely thought that whatever the concoction wants that they were coming up with was good.
It looked disgusting.
Like there's no way.
No way that I saw.
I saw a girl put a block of velvita in a pan with raw.
With raw.
Oh God beef and like for Tia shells.
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She put it in the oven.
She brought out she's like okay so you can see it's still not quite done yet.
I was like I need safe to eat girl.
No no no there's I'm not I'm not touching that that you've got to be this guy that's why I don't go to people's.
Kitchens like if it's not I just I can't.
You'd come to my kitchen.
I don't know if I would or not.
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Thank you one.
I.
I don't know.
Look when I broke up with my ex I made him a full course meal.
We had cheese stuffed rolls salad cheesecakes for dessert.
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What was it?
A pot roast mashed potatoes which I infused the cream and everything into that pass it through a sieve.
I'm not a cook baby.
I mean if it looks like what you posted on your snapchat if you can make me some like.
Authent minus the potatoes because you know but if you can do something like that I'm yeah I'll do that I'll try it out.
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Let's see what you got up in that thing.
That thing.
That thing.
You know just go with it.
I don't know but.
Showing your age sweetie.
Yeah kind of am I aren't I.
Just a little bit.
It's kind of hard for me to really relate since I'm 25.
I don't even want to talk about that anymore.
All right so here's the question I do have for you.
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We just came out of 2023.
How was your take you amount a long time ago.
How was your new year?
You know what?
Let's leave that in the past too.
All of the bad jokes are going to stay in last year.
Oh okay.
All right so I guess I'm going to be the only one talking from now on.
No, no let's move on with truth is like your age not me.
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So how was your new year?
Did you do anything special?
Because I do remember before we went to break we were talking about what we were going to do and our answers were.
Nothing we weren't going to do anything.
Yeah tell you what I did for New Year's.
I watched American dad.
Okay.
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That's literally it.
Yeah and how was that?
I mean I had a great time.
That was good.
I was by myself downstairs and yeah.
At nice time played game on my phone and I text everybody at midnight.
That was the extent of my new year.
Did you text me?
I don't think you did.
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Go back.
You look up her seats.
What did you end up doing?
I need you to tell me a few texts.
What did you do?
Tell me if you text me for New Year's.
I'm curious.
I think I snap-shatted people.
I think that's what I did.
Oh, go check you see if you snap-shami.
What was the last one?
You know, unfortunately snap-shat has got that thing where you can't see it after.
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You can go eat a big ol' bag because I know exactly that you didn't say anything to me.
I think I might have.
What did you do though?
Nothing.
Would you sleep?
I don't think I was.
No, I wasn't because I remember I was playing Call of Duty.
Oh, yeah.
I was playing Call of Duty with my cousin and we were watching this guy stream live from,
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I think he was in Times Square and then we saw one guy who was in downtown Dallas doing the New Year's
for the New Year's for the year because they have the big reunion tower or most people who aren't from Dallas know it, the big ball.
They shot fireworks off that.
It was actually really cool.
But yeah, that's, I would just watch that.
That was pretty much it.
Oh, okay, fun.
Did you see the two guys making out or whatever?
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I'm sorry.
Yeah, that was a huge thing.
Everyone was appalled because there was a gay couple that did a New Year's kiss.
They always show a gay couple that seems every year.
You talking about for it was this a new New York?
Probably. I didn't watch it.
I just saw a meme and it was just like, how dare they shove this filth.
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It's like, oh, it was whatever.
I just don't understand people, man.
I just, it is so stupid.
People are so stupid.
Especially it's always the older, the older, maggot lovers.
Well, that's fair.
I mean, honestly, who are the ones who were always like, I am.
Yeah, I just, I know my throughout.
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Yeah, it's just like that.
Yeah, I so anyway.
Yeah, I didn't see them.
I didn't see that.
But you know what? Good for them though.
I'm glad to say that they got it out there.
Yeah, good for them.
I first thought you were talking about it being Anderson Cooper and, uh,
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oh, what is nuts from?
No, just some random gay couple with like big hats.
Yeah, I don't.
Big hats.
Yeah, that's honestly.
I think they were like giant purple like top hats or something.
Oh, yeah, they had the, then that sounds like that was probably,
time square.
Is when that came down.
I cannot imagine being in time square for that.
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That is too many people.
And it's cold up there.
You ever been to New York?
Yeah, been once.
Did you go to time?
I loved it.
Uh, no, I didn't.
Like I saw it from like a, like a few blocks away or whatever and was like,
it's.
It's really, it's really cool.
Actually, like, I mean, it's one of those surreal things because you see it in movies and TV shows
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and all this and then to be there, it's kind of like being on a movie set, you know?
And see, I feel like I would have that feeling if I like went to like, um,
Shenzhuku Crossing.
I don't know her.
Okay.
Well, was that the, whatever, the big old confusing crosswalk?
It's not confusing.
He said, it's just a crosswalk.
But is that the one that comes from like 14 different angles?
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From like five different angles.
Yes.
No, it's more.
Yeah.
If I went there, I think I'd have that moment where it's just like, oh my gosh, I can't believe I'm here.
If I went to like Tokyo Tower, I totally would.
But I, I never like romanticized New York ever.
So I don't, I didn't feel the need to do it.
Like I went to that fountain that everybody goes to, which is, I think that's in Central Park or something.
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I don't know.
The friends fountain.
What?
Yeah, yeah, that one.
Oh my god.
That's not, it's not real.
So no, it's not that one.
No.
There's a fountain in New York that like they always freaking show.
Did you watch Pose?
No.
Never even heard of it.
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It's so good.
When did you go?
When did you go?
The first two seasons were good.
I think I was like 20, so like five years ago.
Did you go to the 9/11 Memorial?
No.
I was there to have a, I was there to have a good time.
Okay, you know what?
And some reflection might not have been a bad thing either.
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Okay, I was there for Escapades.
Oh, you mean sexcapades?
Escapades, yes.
Yeah.
I was being paid.
I was, I was doing a job.
Right.
Well, I thought that the 9/11 Memorial was, it was beautiful.
It was kind of, again, it was another one of those surreal things to see in person.
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But it was interesting nonetheless.
I'm convinced.
I'm just not built like a normal person.
You're thinking I'm normal?
I mean, you're talking like how it's surreal to go to the central, or not central park,
Times Square and the Memorial.
And I'm like, those didn't even cross my mind, really.
Yeah.
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The only thing that crossed your mind was getting paid.
Well, duh.
Exactly.
You're actually expensive.
So, I mean, if I were there on a business trip, I'm sure I'd have different,
a different top process.
But, you know, I had fun.
Nonetheless, I went there.
I went up into a--
I also had fun, Mr.
Yeah, I'm sure you did.
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But you had fun in a completely different way.
I had fun by going up into one world trade center and checking that out from,
I went to the top of the rock, which is the Rockefeller Center building.
You went on top of a building to see a rock?
No, I'm done.
We're done with this conversation.
This is almost as surreal as your age.
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It's just not.
I'm just saying, look, when it's approaching.
Whoa, I know.
Whoa, I am not that old.
Oh, I don't even want to hear it.
These are fighting words.
You know the sad thing is, is that you literally talk like you genuinely believe that you are 25,
and that's it.
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I'm so sick of this.
You went into the day that I can get Botox stuff.
It's over for you.
You're going to look like a--
Who's that guy that tried to look like Ken?
No, we're done.
Yeah, that's what you're going to look like.
Your lips are going to be ballooned up.
Cheekbones are going to be four inches above your eyes.
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Yeah, you're going to look like a Batman villain.
I don't want to get all of that.
I just want some Botox to help with the lines and everything.
That's all.
Because after 25, stuff starts to not be the way it's supposed to.
Yeah, things start sagging.
That's right.
Yeah.
So now that you've already experienced this for five years, you have.
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So what are you going to do about those cross feet?
So how does it feel being 50?
Good thing I'm not.
That is the truth.
I can tell you that right now.
Look bitch, I have no problem saying that I am 37 years old.
Wait, I don't even know how old it is.
It sounds like you really believe yourself.
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Hold on.
I'm genuinely looking though, because I am confused.
See, he doesn't know how old he is.
I'm telling you all, I am 25.
Oh, yeah, I'm 37.
I'm 37.
You know what the sad thing is is I know how old you are.
Why didn't you help me?
Because you're so mean to me.
I'm not mean to.
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Calling me a liar?
That I am calling you a liar, because you are lying about your age.
Well, if you're calling me a liar, you're a non-truth or so.
You might as well just call me a trumper at that point.
Yeah.
All right, so let's talk about that for a second.
So you found out, and it kind of shocks me because I figured you would have found this out sooner.
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Or at least you just told me a few weeks ago, but that your current love interest is a trumper.
Wait, or who's my love interest?
Your boyfriend?
I mean, you may or may not have one.
I don't know, but at the time of this recording, you had one, and you told me that you found out that he was in that...
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You know, I had a sneaking suspicion.
He was...
Hold on one.
What was this suspicion?
I was pretty sure he was a supporter, and I was like, I'm just not going to ask, because I don't want to know.
Well, hold on, but what gave that away? What made you think that?
I'm really good at reading people.
That tells me absolutely nothing.
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Just what gave you the suspicion?
Something had to have clicked.
Something he did said moved, moaned.
Something happened that made you think.
Okay, he's probably a trumper.
There was a talk about women, I think is what it was.
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And I was just like, "Mmm, I'm pretty sure I know what that, what I can infer from this, then."
It was like, "I'm just going to bury it and shoot it in the backyard."
Wow.
So did you...
It's kind of like, you know, we have Gator.
Right.
It was like that.
Okay, but with Gator, I don't necessarily have to have a trigger moment.
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That's what I'm saying.
I didn't need to have a trigger moment.
I was like, "I'm pretty sure."
All right, too shy.
But I work any southern town.
Yeah.
If someone comes in and they're a Democrat, most of the time I'm like, "Okay, yeah, you're a Democrat."
Or you're of the right mindset where you're like both sides are screwed up.
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I don't even see it as Democrat or Republican.
I just see it as you're a trumper or you're not.
Well, I'm not fair.
Because those people...
They're genuine Republicans who are sweet and sensible.
Oh absolutely.
But then there are people who are...
We're trumplicans.
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Yeah.
And...
I think I saw a thing.
It might have even been on CNN where there was a difference between a Republican and a Trumpie.
A Republican and a retrumpelican.
Yeah.
Well, the roof.
Yeah, but I was just like, "Wow, for y'all to say that that's kind of a big deal, isn't it?"
I don't know.
I don't usually watch news outlets.
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So I was a little...
I was playing catch-up.
So I was...
I wanted to talk about...
I talked to him all the time and talking about...
And actually he comes in your stream on occasion.
Banshee.
Yeah.
Ethan, our buddy, he listens all the time.
And his big thing that he's been trying to figure out is how he can talk to girls, how he can come up with a way or do something that can make him, I guess, attract the ladies.
(27:53):
So to speak.
Um, not my forte, but...
You're right.
It's not mine either, but I think he's always asking his questions and I'm just going to throw this out there to him that maybe...
Maybe Old J. Kipu can come up or maybe Old Lomo Mo can come up with, I don't know, something that could guide him in the right direction.
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Okay.
Yeah.
Um, on the spot, let's see.
No, no, it doesn't have to be like, look, this will be his opportunity to, because he'll listen.
This will be his opportunity to let us know what it is that he has a question about.
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What is it that he wants to know?
How does he maneuver to, you know, the next phase or whatever?
What's his next step?
What does he do?
You don't have to come up with it now, but whatever his question is, just kind of be prepared, because I think he's going to ask some, I don't want to say deep, but he's going to ask us something that I think you might be more inclined to answer than me.
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Well, I do love questions.
We know.
As long as you're not about your age, that's truthful, yeah.
Look, I'd say my age all the time, 25.
Anyway, so he'll ask those questions and we'll hopefully have some kind of a solution.
Maybe just throwing it out there, but possibly, but he asked us last year.
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That's so weird to say he asked us last year last season season one.
And I don't know if we ever helped him out to the point to where he was able to be successful, because he had a girl that he was talking to who lived in a
Virginia.
And that Virginia girl, I think she just kind of ended up like just stopped talking to him.
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That was she ghosted.
Basically, and then a couple months later, it turns out she's engaged.
Oh, wow.
And then a month after that, she got married.
And then apparently she was pregnant with his kid, whoever this guy was.
So I told him he dodged a bullet.
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Yeah, he absolutely did.
There was no winning that one.
No, I think, and I'm sure I'm probably getting some of the details of this wrong hill, correct me, but I know that.
This chick, she, I don't know, I was trying to think back like I think he asked something along the lines of, well, what does that mean?
And she, why does she talk to me and get my hopes up?
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And then, you know, this happened.
And people suck.
People do suck, but I think there's a deeper problem.
And it may have been, and I want to go put in words in this person's mouth, but just on the outside, given everything that I'm seeing here with the baby and the immediate marriage, she may have been looking for an out.
And he, she was hoping that Ethan was going to be that out.
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Yeah, that makes sense.
Maybe I'm wrong.
I don't know.
But it was, it was a little some crazy, but he obviously he dodged it.
So that's good.
But, you know, now he's on to the next.
So, well, not necessarily, but he could be on to the next, but now we have to guide him to whatever that is.
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I did want to try to help him out creating a profile for like tender hinge or something like that.
Bumble maybe.
And so I had him send me pictures of him, and I put him in an AI regenerative app.
You and your AI stuff, I swear.
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Because it's the next, it's the wave of the future.
You keep telling yourself that I refuse to use it.
Okay, you refuse all day. You'd be left behind. But the point is that I had the AI make awesome looking pictures of him.
That granted, when whoever meets him probably is going to be a little upset because he's kind of catfishing him.
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But then why are you doing it?
Because it's not 100% catfish. Like it's him.
It's just an exaggerated version of a perfect him.
You know, maybe you should let me take the helm on this.
Okay, then go ahead.
Let's just lie about your age.
If you've got the keys to the car, by all means, what is that supposed to even mean?
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I don't know, just kind of flow.
Got the keys to the car.
I'm sitting down in front of a mic.
If you're going to drive the conversation and drive the help, then go ahead.
Send me the pictures.
Send me pictures. I will take over this.
Okay. I'll send them to you after--
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If we use actual pictures.
Do you want his real pictures? Or do you want the AI pictures?
Why would I want the AI pictures?
I don't know. Maybe you can have AI make him--
Nevermind.
Nevermind. That was going to come out in the name.
I don't know.
At the end of the day, our boy just needs some help.
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He's a fan of the show. He's a friend.
And he just, you know, needs a--
They were going to give back.
Well, you know what? It may not be the giving season, but it always can be.
Right?
That is so corny.
It is, but it works.
I wish you a week in hell for that.
Thank you. Thank you.
I'm already going.
So, yeah, I don't know. I think it'll be good.
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So anyway, long story short, I think our boy needs our help.
We need to find a way.
We need to find somebody who can hook him up.
Do you have a female friend who can come on the show to help him out?
Uh, not really.
Damn it.
My female friends are all around the world.
One of them might be moving back though.
She's coming from Germany back to New York, actually.
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Okay. Well, you know what? That's the cool thing about technology.
Just as we're talking right now, we can get her off.
So, well, maybe once she moves back to the States.
Why?
Because it is time zones are hard.
Okay. What about, uh, what about, uh, Beth?
Uh, Beth is technically off when we record these episodes.
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Sounds like we got a winner.
Look, I love her so much.
I love her to pieces.
We don't have to love her.
But she has very bad taste in men.
Okay. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. She does like that guy.
He looks like he's going to shoot up a school.
Oh, my goodness.
He's creepy.
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He's creepy.
He's creepy.
He's nice.
He's, whoa.
I don't know.
He's, he's, he's a little off.
We're all of your friends.
You are.
What about, what about black Abigail?
I can get a, I can get to share.
Let's get black Abigail.
I can get to share to help us.
You call her by her proper name.
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Yeah, to share.
Black Abigail.
How old are you?
25th.
To share.
We'll help us out.
And she will be there.
And if, I mean, I think we should probably have honestly two,
uh, two different opinions.
You know, that's not going to hurt.
I mean, my opinion is that if anything it could hurt us.
No, we'll know.
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No, no, no, no, no.
Yours, yours are, you're way out the window.
Yours are gone.
Bye.
That was a fly out the window.
We know.
We know you.
Yeah.
Shame.
Yeah.
Shame.
All right.
Well, this has been an interesting episode.
It's not get very far to do.
No, we didn't.
We didn't get very far.
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Hold on.
Let me take a look at our show run down.
2023 wrap up.
Yeah.
Nothing we need to talk about there.
Let's pop culture.
Hmm.
Oh, yeah.
Let me ask you.
Well, I don't know.
It probably doesn't even matter.
Are you into the whole Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey thing?
Not at all.
Okay.
Well, then whatever.
Not literally at all.
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Somebody asked me last night.
They were like, who do you want to win?
Do you want the dolphins?
Or do you want the chiefs to win?
And obviously I'm a cowboys fan.
I'm not a fan, die hard. I'm clearly, but I, you know, I'm also a Tay Tay fan. I love
Taylor, so I had to say for the chiefs. And so last night it was so, it was negative 30
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degrees wind chill. What? In Kansas City, when they were playing. And it was so cold that the
window that she was looking through in the booth in the suite had iced over. And so there were
the memes were just out of pocket, like left and right of her scratching the ice off the window,
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looking outside, trying to see her boyfriend down on the field. And now there's rumors that
apparently Travis Kelsey's gonna propose to her this summer. They just started dating. I know,
but you know what? Love is love is love is love. I don't think I will ever get married. Oh, I know,
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I won't. I'm never doing crap. I've seen the trouble that it causes people. Like with her,
especially like she's gonna have to pre-nup that shit like to no win.
You know what? I think I know part of the reason why I just don't care about it at all. I don't do
football. He's football, right? Yeah, yeah, that's who the chiefs are. It's football. Okay, yeah,
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yeah, I don't do football. And like I do like Taylor's music, but like not enough for me to
pay to go to one of the concerts. I love Taylor Swift. I absolutely. She seems so sweet.
She is. She's genuinely a sweet person. She cares. She goes out of her way to, you know, if
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you are one of the people who kind of help get her to where she is or maybe if you play music,
her music on the radio, that type of stuff. Like she will go out of her way to make sure that,
you know, that whole side of the industry is taking care of at her shows. And you know,
she'll put you up in a suite and a whole meet and greet thing. I mean, she'd they do that.
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Like they they genuinely care for for radio people, which is super cool. But she really does
with her fans too. She absolutely loves them. And so I yeah, I mean, I still got the letter that she
wrote me back when I first met her. I got that in the picture and the little autograph things all sweet.
Q. But now she seems super sweet. But I'm just like I'm not super into her music. Like, obviously there's
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albums that I like like I was listening to speak now because everyone was talking about her. So I was
I don't know. I was like, you know what fine. It's been a long time since I listened to Tate. Let
me go ahead and put this album on while I'm cleaning around the house. And I mean, I was like, yeah,
like I still remember all the words to like nine out of these songs. I was like, okay, cool.
But then I'm like, I don't care about her dating life at all. I'll hear about it on the next album.
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Now you're tripping. You're tripping. Yeah. I mean, it's it's is she so worth going to a concert. And I saw
somebody who posted on TikTok about going to her show, not a fan at all. Like just went because
his wife and daughter were fans and he was like at the end of it, he's like, this is the most
lit concert I've ever been. And it was it's true. I mean, those concerts that she put so I mean,
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that's why she's dude, she's made so much money from this tour from this eras tour. Oh, I'm sure.
I mean, she's literally a billionaire. I mean, it's incredible the amount of money that she's
made from it. And she was so sweet that all these truckers that haul her equipment around her stage,
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all that stuff. She gave them a hundred thousand dollar bonus each or the holidays for helping her
with her tour. Yeah. So talk about create and then it was actually really cool little story that I
heard from someone on the inside is when she did that. She was leaving the show was after the show
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was done. She was in her limousine being taken to the airport. And she was driving by all the truckers.
And the lead trucker as a thank you to her for doing all that as she was driving by they all on
they all honked their horns and blasted them as she was driving by as a thank you. And her dad who
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was in the lima with her called the lead trucker and said, Hey, Taylor's in here and she's in tears
and just thank you for that. And they're like, no, thank you for for being, you know, who you are.
And so that was my boss gave me a $25 gift card to Outback. I don't know. You worked in radio.
Oh, that's exactly what bosses in radio do. They're just they're cleaning out the prize
(41:33):
closet for the year. And they're like, Oh, hey, there's a $25 gift card to Outback.
Seven years. Like here's your Christmas present. Yeah, exactly. That's what they do. I'm telling you, man, they don't.
That's horrible. But anyway, yes. So she's super cool. Super sweet. Lover to death. And you know what?
If she and Travis Kelsey work out and things are great and awesome. I did see something that was
(41:56):
funny is it was a couple of weeks ago. It was one of his games and he was just not doing so well.
And then everybody started pointing out he had this hikki on his neck and someone posted a
meme saying, damn, Taylor sucked the talent right out of it.
Long time. I should on that. So hilarious. But yeah, so anyway, well, you know what? This has been
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an episode. It's been it's been something. It's been the first episode. You know, we can't hate
ourselves for that. We're trying. We're genuinely trying. And I try to go live on Twitch four times a
week. Oh, here we go with this with the fourth plug. That's the second one. Second one. All right.
Keep going with it. How do you get there? Yeah, you guys can find a description underneath here.
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Or it is at the struggle book on Twitch. Again, we are doing Hogwarts legacy right now along with more
Pokemon infinite fusion at 7 p.m. Central on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday. Man,
there's so much happening right there. I'm so excited for it. Oh, I'm going to get down with
I'm going to go on there. I'm going to watch you tonight. You're playing Hogwarts tonight, right?
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No, I have to work. Oh, whatever mine. I'm not going to watch you tonight. No. Wednesday and Saturdays,
I will be playing Hogwarts legacy until we're done. So this next you're not going to be back on to
Wednesday. No, Monday and Thursday, I'll be doing Pokemon. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You can actually find
it on my schedule on my Twitch though. No, okay. There you go. Look at that. You got a host
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little sketch on things. Exactly. Oh my god. It's so cute. And they could just find you by going to
Twitch.tv and type again, Stroke a book. That's right. Sure can. I love it. That's beautiful.
All right. Cool. We're going to get out of here. It's cold. It's super cold. In fact,
I'm looking here at the temperature outside. It says it's 20 degrees and it's snowing here.
Oh, you got me. I am at 25 degrees. You're 25 degrees and it's not snowing.
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Not that I'm aware of. I am in a dark room where there is a curtain over my window. Hold on,
I wonder what the windshield is. We'll see if it will come in that.
Current windshield. So there's a windshield advisory. Wind gust. I've been seeing this. I've been going
up to 50 miles per hour. I'm seeing like burst of snow. Okay. The windshield right now is two.
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So, hmm. Beautiful. All right. Sweet. Love it. It's a polar vortex. That's nice.
I hate it. Anyway. Okay. All right. We'll see you guys later. Bye. Bye.
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Hey what is going on it is Charlie and we are back with the chat podcast. It's a new year.
I don't know why I'm singing like that. I'm also got... I don't know what you're doing.
I don't know. I'm doing it. I'm a mom. I wasn't very very on the moon. I'm back too.
You are back. It's so good to see, well to hear everyone, I'm really singing you right now.
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Except for the one person that we don't have back is Scottie.
Scottie too, hotty. Yeah he's out dealing with people issues. I guess we'll say.
Puppy issues? A people puppy issues. Exactly. I like that one.
So we'll go with that. So he's out dealing with that situation. But yeah he's... I assume doing okay.
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From what I understand and this was just the tease. I'll have a really good story from when I return.
I am legitimately curious about this. You know what? The little details I got I can't wait.
All I know is it's about people over extension of stays. Puppy's and from what I understand I think we may have...
(01:18):
we may be able to have one of the puppies calling to the show. I'm just saying.
Oh my god. One of the dogs may call into the show.
You're gonna think... You're gonna think it's a different kind of puppy.
A different kind of pup. Well you know what? Maybe it is. Maybe we don't know.
We don't know for sure. I know. But it's... Yeah so anyway that's coming. Hopefully this next weekend we'll have that situation sorted out.
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But anyway so there's that. So it's 2024. Season 2 episode 1. Our first episode of the year.
That's right we got renewed. That was so sweet of them too.
So this episode is sponsored by Air. Yeah absolutely. You know what? It helps us free it. If you do. Yes sponsored by Air.
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If you do want to sponsor us please you know hit us up. Go over to get us a little message right down there.
Below wherever you get your podcast you'll see the info there. Just if you want to sponsor whatever.
I know Lamamou's accepting vape shops and alcohol.
Yeah definitely the second one. But what you wouldn't vape. Have you ever... I've tried to before.
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I'm just like this is just weird. It's a weird sensation for me.
Compared to smoking regularly. I don't smoke either. Well I know okay. Not even weed.
No I'm a good boy. I just drink on my streams. Which you can find on Twitch at the struggle book.
That's right. That's right. Yeah so let's talk about that real quick. So you okay. Yeah. So I go live on Monday Wednesday Thursdays and Saturdays at 7pm Central.
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Hold on. You were going to rename it. Come up with a new logo. There was all this rebranding going on. And then all the sudden nothing changed.
Actually it's probably quite the opposite of all the sudden. Because nothing changed. It's still the struggle.
Nothing changed because people in the chat are calling me "strugs". Now it's kind of taken on a life of its own now.
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So I'm like well I still introduce myself as Lamamou but if you call me "strugs" you call me "strugs".
I mean you know what I told you at the very beginning you shouldn't have changed it anyway.
Well I really wanted to. And if I would have been able to get a logo I was happy with sooner I would have.
But now we're stuck with the struggle book forever. Well maybe. God don't be one of those people who comes up with something.
(03:55):
Teases it. Says it's going to happen. Doesn't happen. And then all of a sudden it randomly happens.
You know what I'm going to do? Once I get to a thousand followers I'm going to change it to change the whole thing.
Oh my God that's the worst marketing thing you could do. God. If you're interested in Pokemon Nuzlocke or like different RPGs with a flaming homosexual.
(04:19):
Oh by all means stop by and let me know how you found the channel because I would love for more people from the podcast to hop on over.
See the other side flaming is an understatement. I think this homosexual is definitely I burn with a passion of a thousand white sons.
He is Paul Revere's Lanner.
No, never mind. Anyway so it wasn't good at history. I could tell definitely not. But anyway yeah so there's there's that. Well that's good.
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I'm glad that it's still going. Now you did just change over though or at least a couple of days ago you started doing a different game. Finally.
Because I'll be honest I'm not a Pokemon fan. I just I've never understood it. Don't don't get it. But Hogwarts legacy. That's something I can get behind.
That's what you're doing. Yeah and I'm obviously not a dark wizard in this one. We're a good slither in.
(05:12):
Really because you literally put as you're heading. There's a new dark wizard in time. I don't sound like that. Well that's how I read it.
There's a new dark religion. I think who is that that's actually it's my meanwhile.
I don't want to I don't want to call her out or anything but yeah so well that's good. I'm glad that you're doing that.
(05:36):
Did you also get more viewers by switching over or was that coincidence? I got I got different viewers. People that have already been following and subscribing are like the message and be like oh my gosh like I'm so excited for this. I'm like okay cool.
I did it pretty much all week so it's tied off a little bit so now I'm splitting my time between Pokemon and Hogwarts over the next couple of weeks.
(05:58):
Well you let me know when there's Hogwarts because I'll tune in for that for sure. Well hey you know you can find the promos I do every day.
If you asked for I go live on my Instagram on the channels struggle books Instagram on my Facebook on my discord and on Snapchat.
And what are those handles? They will all be can they be attached in the description? Yeah sure we'll do that.
(06:25):
I call they're in the description. All right there you go every last one of them I'm gonna oh no every one of them well not not the only fans or anything like that.
Oh my goodness saying so just go ahead and send those to me so I can put those in the description because no big yeah all right all right cool so anyway well that's good glad we got that out.
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Yeah they're doing a doing a little wizard action finally changing it up I still think you should do call a duty though look all I can say is there is an option that will remain a staple during the Harry Potter series.
It's called a Vodka Casp. Okay you explain that.
Yeah so it doesn't matter if we're doing a sip and stream or not a Vodka sip is always there. It's for free.
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It's for free. Use your channel points or you can donate a few bits to redeem that and I have to immediately take a drink of and a gov a reduction.
You add reduction on anything and you immediately have a chef's hat. Is that is that how that works.
Look also if you follow me on my socials you can see my chef worthy dishes on occasion.
(07:38):
All right well that's good my ramen noodles from today which actually honestly look very good I'm not gonna lie they inspired me to create something a little bit more authentic than what you did but it was good authentic from a cup.
Absolutely mine didn't have potatoes and I've never seen potatoes in a in a noodle bowl look all the sodium you gotta absorb it see this is a special section.
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No one knows how to cook one second but you do absorb it and then you eat the potatoes yeah all right well that's absolutely ass and I.
I mean it helps tenderize the potatoes a little bit of pax them with flavor and also we toast our spices spices garlic onions carrots I buy my nose from a corn.
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I know I've no man no man while you are a trip well you know what I'm looking forward to you creating me an authentic and I use quote air quotes bowl of ramen.
But you know why we get some some octopus in there.
In your octagon.
(08:45):
I touched that should look I bought a tentacle of sushi grade octopus wait wait wait you bought a tentacle.
Uh huh no we don't do that we don't we don't eat my little Asian market they have these freezers and like they're not labeled or anything they're just white freezers.
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So you go lift up the thing and I was like is that a f*ck is that a tentacle I go I reach it and I'm like oh my gosh that's a freaking tentacle.
So I go to the lady and I was like is this sushi grade she's like oh yes she great.
Oh that's awesome.
I was like well how much is it she's like market price.
Okay what is the I don't usually buy octopus tentacles how much is the market price.
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She's a oh god.
Yeah.
Yeah she slapped that.
Yeah.
Oh she slapped herself too.
Oh that must be the little kid.
Yeah child labor.
Yeah.
It's a set of fun.
54.
34.
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Oh still you pay 35.
I was for a tentacle.
Well I had waited like legitimately probably 10 minutes for her to figure it out because she had to call her husband.
She wouldn't pick up so then she bust out the calculator and then she went back to calling her husband.
Like it was a whole process and I was like well at this point I kind of just want to go so get wrap it up and let me leave.
Yeah I hope that tentacle reached out and like shook your hand back or something because there's no way it's worse.
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It was so good.
How did you Google how to cook it?
No it was sushi grade.
Why would you cook it?
Oh that's what that means you eat it raw.
Yeah.
Like I slapped a glaze on it a few times.
It took me a while to get through the whole thing but I was like you have really thin slices.
No too thin.
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Too thick.
Because here's my thing.
If I'm learning how to cook something I will legitimately spend a month trying to learn how to cook it.
Like I learned how to do a French omelette.
Took me a month but oh my goodness by the end of it.
A French omelette?
Yeah you don't know how to do a French omelette.
No I don't know anything.
You don't have class.
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To learn about French omelettes?
No I've never taken that class.
Oh well you know it's funny what googling can do for you.
I know if I cared to google about it I probably would.
Basically it's just eggs.
Some people use a little bit of cheese and like some scallions on top with some salt.
I'm just picturing a crape.
No.
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Anyway.
Mix up your eggs so like you know they're nice and harmonious.
Pour them into a pan.
Low heat.
You don't want any browning on it whatsoever.
And basically as soon as it starts to set you roll it up so that when you cut into it the middle looks like runny scrambled eggs basically.
But the outside is nice and firm but no spots.
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It's so good.
No that's.
I'm good.
I don't want to play with it.
Let me guess you want one that's just folded in half stuffed with ham and bacon.
Oh your holiday ron.
You're a lot of genius poppers.
You know what you mentioned jalapeno poppers now we're onto something.
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See?
But here's the thing is that I don't like ham.
So I find bacon.
I do like bacon.
I like crispy bacon.
Well yeah.
Yeah but I've come across well yeah they should anyway I've come across some people who half fast cook their bacon.
And when they go to put it in whatever it is they're putting it in I get these chewy bits that are.
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It's basically just raw bacon that's warmed over.
I mean that's kind of like.
I don't want to say that's gross but it's not.
I saw the most heinous thing ever speaking about bacon.
Somebody put their bacon in water and boiled it.
No.
It was one of those freaking take talkers.
It's like isn't this so good?
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Oh yeah baby.
Look how good that looks baby.
Yeah I know and it's so simple.
Anyone can do this baby.
No.
No we don't we don't we don't do that.
We don't know the people I'm talking about.
I do.
I know it's a well if it's I think there's like a couple of different couples that do that.
No there is.
But there is one that just kept getting a bunch of crap and honestly it I don't know if it was real or if they were trolling or.
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If they genuinely thought that whatever the concoction wants that they were coming up with was good.
It looked disgusting.
Like there's no way.
No way that I saw.
I saw a girl put a block of velvita in a pan with raw.
With raw.
Oh God beef and like for Tia shells.
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She put it in the oven.
She brought out she's like okay so you can see it's still not quite done yet.
I was like I need safe to eat girl.
No no no there's I'm not I'm not touching that that you've got to be this guy that's why I don't go to people's.
Kitchens like if it's not I just I can't.
You'd come to my kitchen.
I don't know if I would or not.
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Thank you one.
I.
I don't know.
Look when I broke up with my ex I made him a full course meal.
We had cheese stuffed rolls salad cheesecakes for dessert.
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What was it?
A pot roast mashed potatoes which I infused the cream and everything into that pass it through a sieve.
I'm not a cook baby.
I mean if it looks like what you posted on your snapchat if you can make me some like.
Authent minus the potatoes because you know but if you can do something like that I'm yeah I'll do that I'll try it out.
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Let's see what you got up in that thing.
That thing.
That thing.
You know just go with it.
I don't know but.
Showing your age sweetie.
Yeah kind of am I aren't I.
Just a little bit.
It's kind of hard for me to really relate since I'm 25.
I don't even want to talk about that anymore.
All right so here's the question I do have for you.
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We just came out of 2023.
How was your take you amount a long time ago.
How was your new year?
You know what?
Let's leave that in the past too.
All of the bad jokes are going to stay in last year.
Oh okay.
All right so I guess I'm going to be the only one talking from now on.
No, no let's move on with truth is like your age not me.
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So how was your new year?
Did you do anything special?
Because I do remember before we went to break we were talking about what we were going to do and our answers were.
Nothing we weren't going to do anything.
Yeah tell you what I did for New Year's.
I watched American dad.
Okay.
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That's literally it.
Yeah and how was that?
I mean I had a great time.
That was good.
I was by myself downstairs and yeah.
At nice time played game on my phone and I text everybody at midnight.
That was the extent of my new year.
Did you text me?
I don't think you did.
(16:15):
Go back.
You look up her seats.
What did you end up doing?
I need you to tell me a few texts.
What did you do?
Tell me if you text me for New Year's.
I'm curious.
I think I snap-shatted people.
I think that's what I did.
Oh, go check you see if you snap-shami.
What was the last one?
You know, unfortunately snap-shat has got that thing where you can't see it after.
(16:36):
You can go eat a big ol' bag because I know exactly that you didn't say anything to me.
I think I might have.
What did you do though?
Nothing.
Would you sleep?
I don't think I was.
No, I wasn't because I remember I was playing Call of Duty.
Oh, yeah.
I was playing Call of Duty with my cousin and we were watching this guy stream live from,
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I think he was in Times Square and then we saw one guy who was in downtown Dallas doing the New Year's
for the New Year's for the year because they have the big reunion tower or most people who aren't from Dallas know it, the big ball.
They shot fireworks off that.
It was actually really cool.
But yeah, that's, I would just watch that.
That was pretty much it.
Oh, okay, fun.
Did you see the two guys making out or whatever?
(17:29):
I'm sorry.
Yeah, that was a huge thing.
Everyone was appalled because there was a gay couple that did a New Year's kiss.
They always show a gay couple that seems every year.
You talking about for it was this a new New York?
Probably. I didn't watch it.
I just saw a meme and it was just like, how dare they shove this filth.
(17:51):
It's like, oh, it was whatever.
I just don't understand people, man.
I just, it is so stupid.
People are so stupid.
Especially it's always the older, the older, maggot lovers.
Well, that's fair.
I mean, honestly, who are the ones who were always like, I am.
Yeah, I just, I know my throughout.
(18:13):
Yeah, it's just like that.
Yeah, I so anyway.
Yeah, I didn't see them.
I didn't see that.
But you know what? Good for them though.
I'm glad to say that they got it out there.
Yeah, good for them.
I first thought you were talking about it being Anderson Cooper and, uh,
(18:34):
oh, what is nuts from?
No, just some random gay couple with like big hats.
Yeah, I don't.
Big hats.
Yeah, that's honestly.
I think they were like giant purple like top hats or something.
Oh, yeah, they had the, then that sounds like that was probably,
time square.
Is when that came down.
I cannot imagine being in time square for that.
(18:56):
That is too many people.
And it's cold up there.
You ever been to New York?
Yeah, been once.
Did you go to time?
I loved it.
Uh, no, I didn't.
Like I saw it from like a, like a few blocks away or whatever and was like,
it's.
It's really, it's really cool.
Actually, like, I mean, it's one of those surreal things because you see it in movies and TV shows
(19:21):
and all this and then to be there, it's kind of like being on a movie set, you know?
And see, I feel like I would have that feeling if I like went to like, um,
Shenzhuku Crossing.
I don't know her.
Okay.
Well, was that the, whatever, the big old confusing crosswalk?
It's not confusing.
He said, it's just a crosswalk.
But is that the one that comes from like 14 different angles?
(19:45):
From like five different angles.
Yes.
No, it's more.
Yeah.
If I went there, I think I'd have that moment where it's just like, oh my gosh, I can't believe I'm here.
If I went to like Tokyo Tower, I totally would.
But I, I never like romanticized New York ever.
So I don't, I didn't feel the need to do it.
Like I went to that fountain that everybody goes to, which is, I think that's in Central Park or something.
(20:07):
I don't know.
The friends fountain.
What?
Yeah, yeah, that one.
Oh my god.
That's not, it's not real.
So no, it's not that one.
No.
There's a fountain in New York that like they always freaking show.
Did you watch Pose?
No.
Never even heard of it.
(20:28):
It's so good.
When did you go?
When did you go?
The first two seasons were good.
I think I was like 20, so like five years ago.
Did you go to the 9/11 Memorial?
No.
I was there to have a, I was there to have a good time.
Okay, you know what?
And some reflection might not have been a bad thing either.
(20:50):
Okay, I was there for Escapades.
Oh, you mean sexcapades?
Escapades, yes.
Yeah.
I was being paid.
I was, I was doing a job.
Right.
Well, I thought that the 9/11 Memorial was, it was beautiful.
It was kind of, again, it was another one of those surreal things to see in person.
(21:14):
But it was interesting nonetheless.
I'm convinced.
I'm just not built like a normal person.
You're thinking I'm normal?
I mean, you're talking like how it's surreal to go to the central, or not central park,
Times Square and the Memorial.
And I'm like, those didn't even cross my mind, really.
Yeah.
(21:35):
The only thing that crossed your mind was getting paid.
Well, duh.
Exactly.
You're actually expensive.
So, I mean, if I were there on a business trip, I'm sure I'd have different,
a different top process.
But, you know, I had fun.
Nonetheless, I went there.
I went up into a--
I also had fun, Mr.
Yeah, I'm sure you did.
(21:56):
But you had fun in a completely different way.
I had fun by going up into one world trade center and checking that out from,
I went to the top of the rock, which is the Rockefeller Center building.
You went on top of a building to see a rock?
No, I'm done.
We're done with this conversation.
This is almost as surreal as your age.
(22:24):
It's just not.
I'm just saying, look, when it's approaching.
Whoa, I know.
Whoa, I am not that old.
Oh, I don't even want to hear it.
These are fighting words.
You know the sad thing is, is that you literally talk like you genuinely believe that you are 25,
and that's it.
(22:45):
I'm so sick of this.
You went into the day that I can get Botox stuff.
It's over for you.
You're going to look like a--
Who's that guy that tried to look like Ken?
No, we're done.
Yeah, that's what you're going to look like.
Your lips are going to be ballooned up.
Cheekbones are going to be four inches above your eyes.
(23:08):
Yeah, you're going to look like a Batman villain.
I don't want to get all of that.
I just want some Botox to help with the lines and everything.
That's all.
Because after 25, stuff starts to not be the way it's supposed to.
Yeah, things start sagging.
That's right.
Yeah.
So now that you've already experienced this for five years, you have.
(23:31):
So what are you going to do about those cross feet?
So how does it feel being 50?
Good thing I'm not.
That is the truth.
I can tell you that right now.
Look bitch, I have no problem saying that I am 37 years old.
Wait, I don't even know how old it is.
It sounds like you really believe yourself.
(23:53):
Hold on.
I'm genuinely looking though, because I am confused.
See, he doesn't know how old he is.
I'm telling you all, I am 25.
Oh, yeah, I'm 37.
I'm 37.
You know what the sad thing is is I know how old you are.
Why didn't you help me?
Because you're so mean to me.
I'm not mean to.
(24:14):
Calling me a liar?
That I am calling you a liar, because you are lying about your age.
Well, if you're calling me a liar, you're a non-truth or so.
You might as well just call me a trumper at that point.
Yeah.
All right, so let's talk about that for a second.
So you found out, and it kind of shocks me because I figured you would have found this out sooner.
(24:36):
Or at least you just told me a few weeks ago, but that your current love interest is a trumper.
Wait, or who's my love interest?
Your boyfriend?
I mean, you may or may not have one.
I don't know, but at the time of this recording, you had one, and you told me that you found out that he was in that...
(24:58):
You know, I had a sneaking suspicion.
He was...
Hold on one.
What was this suspicion?
I was pretty sure he was a supporter, and I was like, I'm just not going to ask, because I don't want to know.
Well, hold on, but what gave that away? What made you think that?
I'm really good at reading people.
That tells me absolutely nothing.
(25:19):
Just what gave you the suspicion?
Something had to have clicked.
Something he did said moved, moaned.
Something happened that made you think.
Okay, he's probably a trumper.
There was a talk about women, I think is what it was.
(25:41):
And I was just like, "Mmm, I'm pretty sure I know what that, what I can infer from this, then."
It was like, "I'm just going to bury it and shoot it in the backyard."
Wow.
So did you...
It's kind of like, you know, we have Gator.
Right.
It was like that.
Okay, but with Gator, I don't necessarily have to have a trigger moment.
(26:10):
That's what I'm saying.
I didn't need to have a trigger moment.
I was like, "I'm pretty sure."
All right, too shy.
But I work any southern town.
Yeah.
If someone comes in and they're a Democrat, most of the time I'm like, "Okay, yeah, you're a Democrat."
Or you're of the right mindset where you're like both sides are screwed up.
(26:35):
I don't even see it as Democrat or Republican.
I just see it as you're a trumper or you're not.
Well, I'm not fair.
Because those people...
They're genuine Republicans who are sweet and sensible.
Oh absolutely.
But then there are people who are...
We're trumplicans.
(26:56):
Yeah.
And...
I think I saw a thing.
It might have even been on CNN where there was a difference between a Republican and a Trumpie.
A Republican and a retrumpelican.
Yeah.
Well, the roof.
Yeah, but I was just like, "Wow, for y'all to say that that's kind of a big deal, isn't it?"
I don't know.
I don't usually watch news outlets.
(27:17):
So I was a little...
I was playing catch-up.
So I was...
I wanted to talk about...
I talked to him all the time and talking about...
And actually he comes in your stream on occasion.
Banshee.
Yeah.
Ethan, our buddy, he listens all the time.
And his big thing that he's been trying to figure out is how he can talk to girls, how he can come up with a way or do something that can make him, I guess, attract the ladies.
(27:53):
So to speak.
Um, not my forte, but...
You're right.
It's not mine either, but I think he's always asking his questions and I'm just going to throw this out there to him that maybe...
Maybe Old J. Kipu can come up or maybe Old Lomo Mo can come up with, I don't know, something that could guide him in the right direction.
(28:22):
Okay.
Yeah.
Um, on the spot, let's see.
No, no, it doesn't have to be like, look, this will be his opportunity to, because he'll listen.
This will be his opportunity to let us know what it is that he has a question about.
(28:43):
What is it that he wants to know?
How does he maneuver to, you know, the next phase or whatever?
What's his next step?
What does he do?
You don't have to come up with it now, but whatever his question is, just kind of be prepared, because I think he's going to ask some, I don't want to say deep, but he's going to ask us something that I think you might be more inclined to answer than me.
(29:09):
Well, I do love questions.
We know.
As long as you're not about your age, that's truthful, yeah.
Look, I'd say my age all the time, 25.
Anyway, so he'll ask those questions and we'll hopefully have some kind of a solution.
Maybe just throwing it out there, but possibly, but he asked us last year.
(29:33):
That's so weird to say he asked us last year last season season one.
And I don't know if we ever helped him out to the point to where he was able to be successful, because he had a girl that he was talking to who lived in a
Virginia.
And that Virginia girl, I think she just kind of ended up like just stopped talking to him.
(30:00):
That was she ghosted.
Basically, and then a couple months later, it turns out she's engaged.
Oh, wow.
And then a month after that, she got married.
And then apparently she was pregnant with his kid, whoever this guy was.
So I told him he dodged a bullet.
(30:22):
Yeah, he absolutely did.
There was no winning that one.
No, I think, and I'm sure I'm probably getting some of the details of this wrong hill, correct me, but I know that.
This chick, she, I don't know, I was trying to think back like I think he asked something along the lines of, well, what does that mean?
And she, why does she talk to me and get my hopes up?
(30:44):
And then, you know, this happened.
And people suck.
People do suck, but I think there's a deeper problem.
And it may have been, and I want to go put in words in this person's mouth, but just on the outside, given everything that I'm seeing here with the baby and the immediate marriage, she may have been looking for an out.
And he, she was hoping that Ethan was going to be that out.
(31:10):
Yeah, that makes sense.
Maybe I'm wrong.
I don't know.
But it was, it was a little some crazy, but he obviously he dodged it.
So that's good.
But, you know, now he's on to the next.
So, well, not necessarily, but he could be on to the next, but now we have to guide him to whatever that is.
(31:31):
I did want to try to help him out creating a profile for like tender hinge or something like that.
Bumble maybe.
And so I had him send me pictures of him, and I put him in an AI regenerative app.
You and your AI stuff, I swear.
(31:52):
Because it's the next, it's the wave of the future.
You keep telling yourself that I refuse to use it.
Okay, you refuse all day. You'd be left behind. But the point is that I had the AI make awesome looking pictures of him.
That granted, when whoever meets him probably is going to be a little upset because he's kind of catfishing him.
(32:18):
But then why are you doing it?
Because it's not 100% catfish. Like it's him.
It's just an exaggerated version of a perfect him.
You know, maybe you should let me take the helm on this.
Okay, then go ahead.
Let's just lie about your age.
If you've got the keys to the car, by all means, what is that supposed to even mean?
(32:44):
I don't know, just kind of flow.
Got the keys to the car.
I'm sitting down in front of a mic.
If you're going to drive the conversation and drive the help, then go ahead.
Send me the pictures.
Send me pictures. I will take over this.
Okay. I'll send them to you after--
(33:05):
If we use actual pictures.
Do you want his real pictures? Or do you want the AI pictures?
Why would I want the AI pictures?
I don't know. Maybe you can have AI make him--
Nevermind.
Nevermind. That was going to come out in the name.
I don't know.
At the end of the day, our boy just needs some help.
(33:26):
He's a fan of the show. He's a friend.
And he just, you know, needs a--
They were going to give back.
Well, you know what? It may not be the giving season, but it always can be.
Right?
That is so corny.
It is, but it works.
I wish you a week in hell for that.
Thank you. Thank you.
I'm already going.
So, yeah, I don't know. I think it'll be good.
(33:49):
So anyway, long story short, I think our boy needs our help.
We need to find a way.
We need to find somebody who can hook him up.
Do you have a female friend who can come on the show to help him out?
Uh, not really.
Damn it.
My female friends are all around the world.
One of them might be moving back though.
She's coming from Germany back to New York, actually.
(34:12):
Okay. Well, you know what? That's the cool thing about technology.
Just as we're talking right now, we can get her off.
So, well, maybe once she moves back to the States.
Why?
Because it is time zones are hard.
Okay. What about, uh, what about, uh, Beth?
Uh, Beth is technically off when we record these episodes.
(34:34):
Sounds like we got a winner.
Look, I love her so much.
I love her to pieces.
We don't have to love her.
But she has very bad taste in men.
Okay. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. She does like that guy.
He looks like he's going to shoot up a school.
Oh, my goodness.
He's creepy.
(34:55):
He's creepy.
He's creepy.
He's nice.
He's, whoa.
I don't know.
He's, he's, he's a little off.
We're all of your friends.
You are.
What about, what about black Abigail?
I can get a, I can get to share.
Let's get black Abigail.
I can get to share to help us.
You call her by her proper name.
(35:16):
Yeah, to share.
Black Abigail.
How old are you?
25th.
To share.
We'll help us out.
And she will be there.
And if, I mean, I think we should probably have honestly two,
uh, two different opinions.
You know, that's not going to hurt.
I mean, my opinion is that if anything it could hurt us.
No, we'll know.
(35:37):
No, no, no, no, no.
Yours, yours are, you're way out the window.
Yours are gone.
Bye.
That was a fly out the window.
We know.
We know you.
Yeah.
Shame.
Yeah.
Shame.
All right.
Well, this has been an interesting episode.
It's not get very far to do.
No, we didn't.
We didn't get very far.
(35:58):
Hold on.
Let me take a look at our show run down.
2023 wrap up.
Yeah.
Nothing we need to talk about there.
Let's pop culture.
Hmm.
Oh, yeah.
Let me ask you.
Well, I don't know.
It probably doesn't even matter.
Are you into the whole Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey thing?
Not at all.
Okay.
Well, then whatever.
Not literally at all.
(36:22):
Somebody asked me last night.
They were like, who do you want to win?
Do you want the dolphins?
Or do you want the chiefs to win?
And obviously I'm a cowboys fan.
I'm not a fan, die hard. I'm clearly, but I, you know, I'm also a Tay Tay fan. I love
Taylor, so I had to say for the chiefs. And so last night it was so, it was negative 30
(36:47):
degrees wind chill. What? In Kansas City, when they were playing. And it was so cold that the
window that she was looking through in the booth in the suite had iced over. And so there were
the memes were just out of pocket, like left and right of her scratching the ice off the window,
(37:12):
looking outside, trying to see her boyfriend down on the field. And now there's rumors that
apparently Travis Kelsey's gonna propose to her this summer. They just started dating. I know,
but you know what? Love is love is love is love. I don't think I will ever get married. Oh, I know,
(37:36):
I won't. I'm never doing crap. I've seen the trouble that it causes people. Like with her,
especially like she's gonna have to pre-nup that shit like to no win.
You know what? I think I know part of the reason why I just don't care about it at all. I don't do
football. He's football, right? Yeah, yeah, that's who the chiefs are. It's football. Okay, yeah,
(38:00):
yeah, I don't do football. And like I do like Taylor's music, but like not enough for me to
pay to go to one of the concerts. I love Taylor Swift. I absolutely. She seems so sweet.
She is. She's genuinely a sweet person. She cares. She goes out of her way to, you know, if
(38:21):
you are one of the people who kind of help get her to where she is or maybe if you play music,
her music on the radio, that type of stuff. Like she will go out of her way to make sure that,
you know, that whole side of the industry is taking care of at her shows. And you know,
she'll put you up in a suite and a whole meet and greet thing. I mean, she'd they do that.
(38:44):
Like they they genuinely care for for radio people, which is super cool. But she really does
with her fans too. She absolutely loves them. And so I yeah, I mean, I still got the letter that she
wrote me back when I first met her. I got that in the picture and the little autograph things all sweet.
Q. But now she seems super sweet. But I'm just like I'm not super into her music. Like, obviously there's
(39:08):
albums that I like like I was listening to speak now because everyone was talking about her. So I was
I don't know. I was like, you know what fine. It's been a long time since I listened to Tate. Let
me go ahead and put this album on while I'm cleaning around the house. And I mean, I was like, yeah,
like I still remember all the words to like nine out of these songs. I was like, okay, cool.
But then I'm like, I don't care about her dating life at all. I'll hear about it on the next album.
(39:32):
Now you're tripping. You're tripping. Yeah. I mean, it's it's is she so worth going to a concert. And I saw
somebody who posted on TikTok about going to her show, not a fan at all. Like just went because
his wife and daughter were fans and he was like at the end of it, he's like, this is the most
lit concert I've ever been. And it was it's true. I mean, those concerts that she put so I mean,
(39:57):
that's why she's dude, she's made so much money from this tour from this eras tour. Oh, I'm sure.
I mean, she's literally a billionaire. I mean, it's incredible the amount of money that she's
made from it. And she was so sweet that all these truckers that haul her equipment around her stage,
(40:18):
all that stuff. She gave them a hundred thousand dollar bonus each or the holidays for helping her
with her tour. Yeah. So talk about create and then it was actually really cool little story that I
heard from someone on the inside is when she did that. She was leaving the show was after the show
(40:40):
was done. She was in her limousine being taken to the airport. And she was driving by all the truckers.
And the lead trucker as a thank you to her for doing all that as she was driving by they all on
they all honked their horns and blasted them as she was driving by as a thank you. And her dad who
(41:05):
was in the lima with her called the lead trucker and said, Hey, Taylor's in here and she's in tears
and just thank you for that. And they're like, no, thank you for for being, you know, who you are.
And so that was my boss gave me a $25 gift card to Outback. I don't know. You worked in radio.
Oh, that's exactly what bosses in radio do. They're just they're cleaning out the prize
(41:33):
closet for the year. And they're like, Oh, hey, there's a $25 gift card to Outback.
Seven years. Like here's your Christmas present. Yeah, exactly. That's what they do. I'm telling you, man, they don't.
That's horrible. But anyway, yes. So she's super cool. Super sweet. Lover to death. And you know what?
If she and Travis Kelsey work out and things are great and awesome. I did see something that was
(41:56):
funny is it was a couple of weeks ago. It was one of his games and he was just not doing so well.
And then everybody started pointing out he had this hikki on his neck and someone posted a
meme saying, damn, Taylor sucked the talent right out of it.
Long time. I should on that. So hilarious. But yeah, so anyway, well, you know what? This has been
(42:18):
an episode. It's been it's been something. It's been the first episode. You know, we can't hate
ourselves for that. We're trying. We're genuinely trying. And I try to go live on Twitch four times a
week. Oh, here we go with this with the fourth plug. That's the second one. Second one. All right.
Keep going with it. How do you get there? Yeah, you guys can find a description underneath here.
(42:42):
Or it is at the struggle book on Twitch. Again, we are doing Hogwarts legacy right now along with more
Pokemon infinite fusion at 7 p.m. Central on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday. Man,
there's so much happening right there. I'm so excited for it. Oh, I'm going to get down with
I'm going to go on there. I'm going to watch you tonight. You're playing Hogwarts tonight, right?
(43:02):
No, I have to work. Oh, whatever mine. I'm not going to watch you tonight. No. Wednesday and Saturdays,
I will be playing Hogwarts legacy until we're done. So this next you're not going to be back on to
Wednesday. No, Monday and Thursday, I'll be doing Pokemon. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You can actually find
it on my schedule on my Twitch though. No, okay. There you go. Look at that. You got a host
(43:23):
little sketch on things. Exactly. Oh my god. It's so cute. And they could just find you by going to
Twitch.tv and type again, Stroke a book. That's right. Sure can. I love it. That's beautiful.
All right. Cool. We're going to get out of here. It's cold. It's super cold. In fact,
I'm looking here at the temperature outside. It says it's 20 degrees and it's snowing here.
Oh, you got me. I am at 25 degrees. You're 25 degrees and it's not snowing.
(43:45):
Not that I'm aware of. I am in a dark room where there is a curtain over my window. Hold on,
I wonder what the windshield is. We'll see if it will come in that.
Current windshield. So there's a windshield advisory. Wind gust. I've been seeing this. I've been going
up to 50 miles per hour. I'm seeing like burst of snow. Okay. The windshield right now is two.
(44:12):
So, hmm. Beautiful. All right. Sweet. Love it. It's a polar vortex. That's nice.
I hate it. Anyway. Okay. All right. We'll see you guys later. Bye. Bye.
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