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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm at the World's Least Humble marine. It's one more thing.
I'm strong and getty. Two things is a setup to
this story from my vacation one. It's just been in
the last few years. I feel like that they've started
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breaking down intelligence into different groups. Yeah, it used to
be smarter dumb, but now there's different kinds of intelligence,
including emotional intelligence. And I ran into a guy who
had very low emotional intelligence or whatever ability it is
that some people have or don't have to read a
room to read other people's body language or faces or whatever, right,
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and it's amazing. I mean I have run into several people.
I know some people that are very high on that,
Like I think Trump is extraordinarily high on that. He
probably actually is genius level when it comes to emotional intelligence.
I think a lot of successful people probably are. But
I've know some really smart, successful people that seem to
have like zero I mean, they're like imbeciles when it
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comes to emotional intelligence. And I met one on vacation.
As I said, the World's Least humble marine, and yes,
go ahead.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I was just gonna say, do you think a decent
description of emotional intelligence is understanding? How the other person
is receiving an exchange.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Perceiving that absolutely, And it seems to me the people
that are really bad at it have never even considered
the idea of wondering how the people are reacting to them.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
It's kind of like, truly, the h you have no
idea how bad you or the more dumb you are,
the smarter you think you are, one of those things.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, and everyone asked that question. Yeah, it's the whole
incompetent people don't know they're incompetent. And I guess that's
true on all topics and my experience with military people
as we've Joe and I have done so many things
with so many military people over the years, and we
both have family members in the military. Military people tend
to be pretty humble just the way they are, and
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the higher up the food chain you go in that
the more likely they are to be humble, Like Special
Forces dudes, super humble guys you would never know they were.
And most Marines I've ever met in my life were
like that also, except for this guy. So I'm on
vacation and my son and I is actually going to
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be both my boys and I were going to take
this boat trip. It's like this inflatable boat probably fit
fifteen to twenty people on it, maybe a couple of motors,
and you're going to go out on the ocean and
it was described as a pretty rough ride and then
you ride around in the ocean and then there's going
to be some snarkling and then a ride back and
has a pretty long trip. It was like three hours total,
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but anyway they made it clear is really rough. And
then my youngest son decided he didn't want to do it,
and thank god he made that decision because he would
have never been able to handle it. It was grueling,
I mean it and yeah, you had to you had
to have your feet underneath these straps and then you
had to hang on with both hands to these other ropes.
Have you done this before? I have?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
And these boats are not a smooth ride.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
No, no, super rough and you like had to hang
on really hard with your legs and your arms to
stay in the boat. It was and it was hours
of this and it is a pretty physically grueling thing
to do. And it was fun, but I mean you'd
go over waves and land and boom, and it's just
like such a jolt to your spine. I mean it
was it was wrong. AnyWho, So before we got on
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the boat, there's a young dude in a bucket hat, sunglasses,
and a this is on the fourth of July, a red,
white and blue speedo. And he's a super fit guy,
like big guy, guessing like six two two ten, very fit,
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very muscular dude.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Just to clarify, the bucket hat, the sunglasses, the speedo
and nothing else.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Correct, Okay, all right, he had flip flops on. Well,
grandmom have a pair of flip flops, red white and
blues speedo and and you know, there's a variety of
groups so like husbands and wives or boyfriends and girlfriends,
or like me and my son. And then he's by
himself and they talk about before we're gonna get on
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the boat. The captain who is a super cool dude,
really really cool dude. He was six years in the
Coastguard and then he's run other big ships around the world,
and he piloted this thing and he went in and
out of rocks. I mean, he's like one of the
most confident people I've ever been around in my life.
I wish I was like him. He was military, so
that factors into the story because he was like your
regular military guy, kind of humble and you know, not
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trying to show off or anything like that. So he
tells us where all to sit on the boat, and
you know, if you really want to smoother ride, sit
in the back. It gets rougher as you go toward
the front. And then if like you're really worried about this,
sit in the miller middle pillar. So there are some
older people that sat in the middle pillar, some girls dead,
and it kind of spread out, and my son and
I were up toward the front. Marine guy takes front,
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sea I'll take front, And guy said, okay, cool, you're sure,
and he said, I'm semper fie man, I don't worry
about it. Oh so, right off the bat, Marines never
freaking tell you you're the a marine unless it comes
up in conversation. The fact that he just said that
right there is the first time I've ever heard that
in my life. At the guy in the speedo. So
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he gets up there and he's sitting toward the front,
and we take off on the boat and he's just
non stop talking the whole time, never stops talking, talking
to the captain, talking to all the girls around him.
Of course, non stop chatterbox caught it. I don't know
how many times he mentioned he was a marine or
he was simperfie, way too many times, not hanging on
to any of the rogues. He would just fly up
in the air and land and kind of balance some stuff. See,
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I don't need to hang on. I'm semper fine.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
And I hate him already, I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
And it gets worse. So they're going around and so
they start handing out The captain starts handing out gloves.
He said, your your your knuckles are going to get
rubbed bloody holding onto the ropes against the canvas of
the boats. Let me guess. So if you want to
wear gloves, you can get him. He said, I don't
need them, And the captain cee, I didn't know you'd
take any captain city. The captain is already tired of this.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
You can tell. Captain says, uh, yeah, I didn't figure
you'd want to. Of course, not sient for five. We
don't use gloves, Okay, we get it. Dude, You've made
it clear to everyone on this tiny boat who's hurt
you already. You were in the Marines he's actually still
with the Marines. But you're a tough guy. We all
fully understand the whole dynamic of what's going on.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
We just stipulate that move on. We get it, and
it's neat okay.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
So we're on this boat ride and the captain points
out a couple of hikes and swims that people do
in this touristy area on the ocean, and he talks
about this one. It's a seventeen mile hike and swim.
Not very many people do it. Do it? Do it?
It's really really hard to do. It's really grueling. You
have to be like an expert swimmer. Marine voices, I
just did it, did it yesterday. I didn't think it
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was that big a deal. I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Act Oh, this is why you go ahead, he says,
when you go whoops.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
And accidentally just donkey kick him off the side of
the bove.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
You know, if only his dad had told him like once,
I'm proud of you, son, or a good job.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Oh wow, you think that's it? Uh, that could be
it and not a shock that he was by himself.
But so he had done this grueling like seventeen mile
coastal swim or whatever. And the captain, the coastguard veteran
guy was pretty impersonally said wow, you did that, and
he said, yeah, I didn't think it was that much.
And he said, I don't know how many people have
done that? Were you with some people? Say? I was
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by myself. He said, man, that's not a very good idea.
I usually suggest if people are going to do that
swim they have a boat with him or nah, that
says a marine guy. Okay, fine, we get that going.
But here's here's the ending of my story. This is
my favorite part of the whole thing. The cap and
super cool guy has a big speaker on his boat
and he's blasting music the whole time, which made it
kind of fun. And he's got like a bunch of
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different cool songs, so Jimmy Buffett tunes and different stuff
like that and just you know, kind of songs that
people would like. And then this song comes on, Michael,
So that song starts and the marine says, hey, you
know what I call this song, Captain psych what Freeballin'?
Oh no, he's like, what freeballin'? You know, you haven't
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ever heard that term freeballin' it's like when guys don't
wear underwear. We call it freeballin. And I wanted to
say to him, everybody got it, dude, we all understood
from the first moment you said that you're pun, You're
you're fantastic pun. We just thought it was like coursing uncool,
and there's you know, there are a couple of they're
not children on here, but there's a couple of like
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high school girls or whatever, not appropriate content for them
or whatever. So then when it gets to the chorus,
the horse comes on and he stands up. So now
free balling, like really, emphasize again it frea come on,
everybody's free balling.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Are you are you Tessnicles Michael You're right, yes, fair good.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I actually thought, at one point, are you a Saturday
Night Live bit?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I was gonna ask, are you in the background of
some jackass ish video you're reacting to? That's wow?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
It was amazing.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
This guy sounds cringe from start to finish. Every part
of this.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
I hate Oh.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Yeah, it was just it was tough, and I didn't
know if my son was picking up on it or not.
But when we got off the body, he was like, God,
that guy was an ad you know whole Oh yeah,
everybody and the captain just trying to ignore it. Now,
what do you call it? Free balling? Okay? Do you
get it? Yeah? I get it. We all get it.
Everybody gets it. See the problems. And that's where I
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come in with the emotional intelligence thing. I mean, it
was clear all of us looking around that we I mean,
we're all looking at each other. We all I felt
exactly the same way, and I would like to It's
like an experiment as a sociologist to talk to the
guy and say, are you really not picking up on
any of the cues that everybody on this boat is giving?
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That one? They're tired of hearing you talk too. They
don't think your course jokes are funny, like you really
that hasn't sunk into you at all?
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Was he drinking?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
No? Okay?
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Do you think he was a real marine or was
he just being I.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Think man, I definitely think he's a real marine. And
he had all the They talked a lot about what
base you been on and when you get out and
blah blah blah. He had too much knowledge about it.
I think his marine. I just think he I think
he's a super stud athlete, really good looking guy. So
the uh the there's a captain, and then there's another
person who's like the tour guide and talks and takes
lots of pictures. And she was like twenty five and
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super attractive. She went up to the front to sit
by him at one point, like when we first started,
because I think she was singing, here's a single guy,
good looking guy. I'm good looking girl, I'm gonna talk.
She was up there like five minutes, went back to
the back of the boat.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Okay, from the department of this is why you're single.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Dude, you know er number one?
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Well, I'll skip to this second point reminds me of
a dude I ran into in Lama's classes when Judy
was pregnant with her first and it was so obviously
a case where a big stud dumb ass found himself
some hot dumb chick and the two of them got
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together and pretty quickly started to make each other insane.
And he is so clearly headed.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
For that sort of future he is.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
He's got to be in the outermost, like three percent
of utterly clueless.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Right, And man, imagine how difficult that is to make
it through life. If you can't read other people's reactions
to you at all.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Yeah, and you're standing on a boat, screaming, freeballing right
in a family setting.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Yeah, I mean, it wouldn't been It wouldn't have been
funny if we'd all been nineteen year old dudes. It's
still yeah, we get it, We got it right at
the beginning. You don't need to sing it.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
There was no way for the captain to make him
accidentally fall overboard.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Yeah, Well, I was just gonna say, karma really demanded that.
When the boat flew up in the air, he smacked
down hard, maybe on them, you know, Karma punishing him
for his well, the aforementioned sins.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
And I thought kind of what you were thinking there,
is like, how many women have fallen for this good
looking studley dude and how long did it take him
to figure out? And or is the reverse? Is this
the really dumb hot chick that guys put up with
for a while.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I don't know, but I see him connecting with either
the and forgive me for referencing it in anyway, but
the hawk twak girl who was viral for a cup
of coffee or the two stupid good looking chicks who
stole the girl scouts money?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Who?
Speaker 2 (13:02):
We've played the clips of whoa Right many times? Well,
they had the money and I wanted it. He'll end
up with one of them or both of them, probably.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Speaking of a Hawk two egg girl, I just want
to let you know.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
I was at a bar over our vacation and my
husband was elsewhere. So this guy came up and stood
next to me and went, hey, I just want to
let you know. You look just like the Hawk two
E girl. Oh, And I said, first of all, no,
I don't. Second of all, is that your opening line?
That's what you're going up to chicks now and saying?
So anyway, I'm apparently the other Hawk two E girl.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
I got a marine, buddy, I think you should beat
it to you and get along great.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
I must say, I don't know what you guys are referencing.
Good Yeah, is it worth explaining?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
I will explain it in my usual cultured and reserved manner.
She was asked by some street interviewer is there something
you do that always drives guys crazy? And she described
a bit of an act, including that memorable phrase, and
it went viral and she got a deal and put
out one hundred thousand dollars worth of merchandise in three
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eight hours.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Yeah, sorts of stuff.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Oh yeah, she's gotten IQ is seventy six.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Jack Bryan, the country star brought her up on stage
during one of his concerts.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Yeah, it's gotten out of control.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
It's Andy Warhol's fifteen minutes of fame, just on steroids.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
See, I could see this marine if he was at
a concert. I could see them bringing him up on
stage in his red, white and blue speedo because he
looked like a model. Yeah, you know, and him getting
and becoming something briefly.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Introduce her to the horny dip s backstage, and maybe
they matchmaking a couple of clueless babies together.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Certainly not dumb dumb babies who can't read the room.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
But are hot.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
At least they're hot.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Well, I guess that's it. Uh,