Seasonable Clout With Thaddeous Shade
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Seasonable Clout With Thaddeous Shade
I’m addicted to my phone
Thaddeus Shade opens up about his five-year vegan journey—how it started as a bet, why people still don’t believe him, and the real benefits he’s seen. He gets candid about phone addiction and the burnout that comes with always being online for work. From Phoenix’s tourist boom to a Mission Impossible mini-review, it’s full throttle as Shade closes with a no-filter breakdown of the NBA Playoffs and why the Timberwolves’ collapse was “mayo on a PB&J.”
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Speaker 1:Wkty and I was not happy about that. Western Conference Finals last night. You try to enjoy a little bit of basketball and you realize there's no LeBron James, there's no Steph Curry, there's no Luka Complain, there's no Luka Magic, there's no Steph Curry. Night nights, there's no LeBron James, powder in the air and you realize, oh, this is about to be extremely horrible for the fan. You realize it's about to be really bad for the fan. You watch we really and I told, if you listen to the previous episode I talked about Ant facing the league, you know, and it's 23. I'm not supposed to be that. I'm not supposed to be that tough on him. He's 23. He's got to learn Bullshit. I just can't allow you to get out there. I think he had 19 points and they got blown out last night. I can't stand that man. It's the fucking Western Conference Finals. Man. I need you to play. You're going out on your sword. Do or die. I need teams to play. I cannot stand elimination blowouts.
Speaker 1:It is disgusting.
Speaker 1:It's mayo on a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. It's mayo on a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. It's mayo on a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. It's disgusting. It's not fun, it's not cool, it's not pretty to watch. It's disgusting. Do you understand? Do you understand? It's drinking chocolate milk and then eating pickles with mustard on them, because I don't eat pickles with mustard on them. I don't eat pickles, period. But it's just not fun. Man, I don't want to. You know I put my hard-earned money into FanDuel because I'm thinking like there's no way Ant's going to give me 25. It's do or die. He's the guy you know went to the Olympics, played around. Lebron played around. Steffi played around. The guysed the game. Great work, ethic. Killer Polter had that killer in him. He's got that killer in him. He's got that dog in him. He got that dog in him. No, the free throw merchant got him. And I listen, you know, happy for OKC. Small town man, small town market. Nba finals I mean, I'd rather watch a four-year-old draw on a white wall than to watch OKC. But they all talented, they all play hard. They're young. Caruso's a vet, you know, harnstein's a little bit of a vet in there, but that's really, really boring and you need that, man. You want some excitement when you're watching your sports. You want some excitement when you're watching your sports. You want some excitement. Come on, man, I put my money down on Ant to get 25. Man, you want to do or die? Man, you can't give me 25. I want to do or die. God damn you. Man, god damn you. I didn't put the D on there, I put the God. I put my money down, man, 25. I did some other things on there, but I put the 25 on Ant because he Ant man. I saw something this morning that said he, the Can't man, shit. I had to watch fucking Shea shoot jump shots with a straight face. No excitement. Do interviews with his whole team. No excitement, no flair, no history, no history. And then I got a, which I think is going to happen, which I think the Pacers end up beating the Knicks tonight because obviously looks like Cat's not going to play. Cat's not going to play. It's really over now. Watch OKC and Indiana Pacers, it's like a nightmare. So Freddy Cougars creating a nightmare for me. He's like, oh shit, I'm putting Nia Long in your nightmare. I said, oh shit, you're putting Nia Long. That's not a nightmare, that's a dream. He said hold on, I'm not done, I'm putting Nia Long in your nightmare. And she ain't got no arms, she ain't got no legs, she got one eye eye patch. I said, well, that's fucked up, man, that's a nightmare. He said, but I'm not done. He said, I'm not done, I'm gonna take kelly kapowski from the early 90s, I'm gonna put her in there too. She will have the same thing no arm, no leg, one eye with an eye patch. I said now see, now, this is just totally wrong, it's totally fucked up. This is a nightmare. He said, but I'm not done, I'm putting J-Lo in there and J-Lo gonna be in the corner. She's gonna be doing the Tootsie Roll the whole time. So you fucking around, man, that's not cool and that's what I'm going to have to watch at the NBA Finals. Man, shit, that's not cool and it's going to be boring and it's a fucking nightmare, man, and I'm not watching that shit. Man, I'm not watching that shit man.
Speaker 1:And I got to be quiet because I'm listening for a package from FedEx, because I ordered some perfume and it's coming from South Korea and they're supposed to be getting delivered today. I know I'm fly. I ordered some shit from South Korea. Y'all don't order shit from South Korea. It ain't from North Korea, it ain't from Kim Jong and the boys, it's from South Korea. The place is all right.
Speaker 1:I think it's safe for me to order some shit without potentially getting some poison in it. I ordered it from South Korea. It's supposed to be here today. I'm waiting on FedEx Monday. I think I ordered it Monday, tuesday, tuesday, right, I ordered it Tuesday and it's here. So it's shocking because I can order shit in the States and won't get it from UPS. Usps order it on Tuesday, won't get it till next Wednesday. That's the skill. But FedEx South Korea, shit's going to be here about today. I'm amazed and blown away that a guy packing in South Korea is going to be here. But I ordered in the States. Shit won't be here until next Wednesday. Shit's crazy.
Speaker 1:But nobody's happy about that shit. Nobody wants to fucking watch that NBA Finals man, even Adam Silver, the commissioner of the NBA, tch, tch. You know what I'm saying. He feel me know what it is. But anyway, this is Daddy Shay. You're listening to Seasonable Clout, fucking Weak ass.
Speaker 1:Nba Finals is coming up, but basketball is still basketball. Like I said, I'm still. I'm going to take a peek. There's going to be some times. I'm going to watch some minutes throughout the game Because I'm chilling. I'm going to see what's going on.
Speaker 1:Now they give me some good box office scores or some close games, about two close games. I might you know what I'm saying. I might, but I doubt I will. I expect it to be slow and low scoring. Hmm, mm-hmm, but I doubt I will. I expect it to be slow and low scoring and blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1:Anyway, you know what's interesting to me is I've been vegan now for five years. I've talked about this multiple times in different episodes and just being vegan doesn't make me special. I'm not better than anybody. You know what I'm saying. I'm not better than nobody being vegan. Do I hold my head up like I am better than everybody? A little bit because I am vegan, but I don't think that I'm in my head. I don't think that I'm better than you. I don't think that that's not how I roll right, been vegan five years but it never fails to.
Speaker 1:You know people. You know I do a taco tuesday, right, I'm, remember, I'm a promoter. I do a taco tuesday, I do a wing wednesday. And so people come to the restaurant and they're hanging out with me. They'll ask me hey, what's what's good on the menu? Right, taco tuesdays at well seasoned restaurants, costa, arizona I guess I gotta do that because I got a puppet, right.
Speaker 1:Maybe somebody listening. They want to come in town, you well seasonedseasoned Scottsdale, arizona, soul food, bunch of shit, right. And they'll ask me hey, man, what tacos are good? And I'm like I don't know, man, I'm vegan, I don't eat here. But I mean I've heard this taco, the chicken and the salad, you know, I've heard, right. And then we have a soul fish, a soul food taco with greens and macaroni and catfish, right. So I've heard these things are good, they be like. But they don't listen. Once I say that I'm vegan, everything else is out the window. They don't listen to shit else. Oh, negro, you're vegan.
Speaker 1:Get a load of this guy here. He's a black vegan, a black vegan. There's no way. It's no way. It's like finding out that a leprechaun writes Trump's speeches. There's no way. Maybe a leprechaun does. Maybe there's like a little small leprechaun somewhere in the White House who just giggles about, who skips around in the White House and he takes five to 10 minutes out of his day to write Trump's speeches and then he hands them over to one of his people and he runs off giggling and he go, finds his own pot of gold that he hid somewhere. He knows exactly where he hid it, but he just goes off into an adventure inside the White House, giggling, skipping and dancing, and he finds his pot of gold and he sleeps in it till the next day. Then he wakes back up and he does the same thing again. Maybe that's, maybe that's who writes Trump's speeches.
Speaker 1:You know, maybe, maybe, but I'm sorry, but people don't. They lose focus because they're like oh shit, you're vegan. And I'm like, yeah, I'm vegan. Like, are you serious? People always double down, are you serious? I'm like, yeah, I'm vegan. Like, are you serious? People always double down, you serious? I'm like yeah, I'm vegan man. So I don't know what to get here, but it doesn't matter, I don't care about what you recommend. Let's dive into your veganism some more.
Speaker 1:And I'm like well, I don't do it for the animals. You know what I'm saying. Y'all good, if I need to go ahead and kill them to eat, go ahead and eat. I understand I don't do it for animals. I do it just for my body and how I want to live and how I want to feel and what I think is best for me, right? I don't do it for the animals. So if you got to go out there and you got to pop Bambi's mother for some deer meat, that's what you got to do and I don't say do that. You know what I? And if you know that that's Bambi's mama, I wouldn't say shoot it. But if there's another deer next to her, named Cheryl, you can shoot Cheryl. I would prefer you to shoot Cheryl than you can do your thing and eat some deer meat if you want. I don't, I ain't for the animals when they come to me. I just do it for my body and what's good, what I think is good for me, right. But people, they really are confused by it.
Speaker 1:A Negro, vegan and five years and I remember Craig Visions but he was a roommate at the time busting out of his room talking about hey man, why don't you do this seven-day challenge with me? Because he's watching some documentary on Netflix and that'll do that. And I'm like, all right, cool man. No, I don't think I can do it. I didn't think I could do it, so, no, I'm not going to do it. And he was like, come on, man, let's do it.
Speaker 1:And then he told me, like a benefit he said it'd make your dick harder. I know you ain't supposed to say that between two men. I prefer he had emailed it or had texted it. Now the text is a little, email is a little bit more professional. So if you were to email that information and then at the very bottom say, hey, eat vegan this way, make your dick harder, I say, oh shit, that's where I'm sold at.
Speaker 1:But he was, it was a conversation in the kitchen and it might've been some jazz playing in the background. That's a little weird and that wasn't a good time to say that. But I understood what he was telling me so I accepted. I said, oh shit, you got me sold Seven days. Let's run, let's see what happens. You know, and because men do anything for the dick to perform fantastically, you'll do anything for that motherfucker.
Speaker 1:Listen, the right amount of doctors come out and say man, if you do this, not only will your dick grow, you will last longer, you'll be harder, and then all the men will like, lean in, like, oh shit, what you got to do. And they'd be like you got to go find bigfoot. Nigga and the whole world of men, just go try to find bigfoot, because they find out. If you find bigfoot and you rub his back, all of a sudden your shit is stronger, longer and you can. You know you good to go, but that's how it is. So he came to me, told me that's all right is so. He came to me and told me and I said, all right, seven days, vegan, fuck it. It wasn't even about the health at the time. It wasn't about my joints feeling better or my skin being clearer or even my body odor smelling different. At the time, it was just about fuck it. He said something about my dick being harder. I'm going to do it. I did it Seven days. I did it Seven days, man, and it was difficult, it was difficult, it was very difficult. I'm not playing man. It was real difficult. I didn't think I was going to make it.
Speaker 1:I was used to eating, eating like shit, not you know shit. You know, even if I was, you know, I think at the time I was listen still in the gym. I'm just saying at the time I was heavy in the gym, right. I was doing my thangs, eating chicken steak and shit and now burgers and shit and, you know, occasionally some shakes and shit and some fries and shit. So I was eating some shit, right, I was accustomed to eating that type of shit and it wasn't like a slow roll.
Speaker 1:We didn't. We didn't wean, what's that? Is it wean, wane, wean ourselves over that, whatever the word. You know what I'm saying. We didn't do that, we just went cold turkey. We just said, fuck it, we're going to do it for seven days. We did it for seven days and then I realized, as I was going through this very difficult seven day process by like the actual like sixth day, I was like, oh shit, I'm like one day away from doing this, like finishing it. I was like, okay, cool man. And then the seventh day, you know. And I was like, okay, cool man. And then the seventh day, you know, we got through it. And on the eighth day we was talking and like early in the morning I was like you want to do it again for another seven days I said, all right, fuck it. I mean, you know, wasn't no immediate, there wasn't no crazy-ass results for me. You know what I'm saying, I'm a real G Wasn't no crazy-ass results for me. Now, after that second week, whoo-wee I got to give you that old man down south whoo-wee, whoo-wee man.
Speaker 1:My system was processing stuff different. I was shitting, I was, you know, the energy was up, my joints was feeling different. These are just small things that I had noticed immediately, right. And then, man, 60 days in, I was like, officially sold, probably wasn't even 60. It's probably like a good month in. I was like, yeah, I'll never go back to meat eating. Nothing was heavy again. You know, my poopity poop smelled different. You know, it was just. Even my gym sweat smelled different. That's crazy, right. My breath smelled different. Everything was just different and it was for the good. So I was like, all right, f it. And you know, you know, as you're doing it, you got to, of course, do more research and I'm not a great cooker, I'm a professional microwave pusher, like button pusher.
Speaker 1:You put me in front of microwave and I can turn that shit into one of the best pornographic things ever in life. I can tell you I can make that shit look sexy, lexi. Three minutes, three minutes. I don't just hit three, I don't like to just hit three. I like to make it dramatic. I like to hit three, zero, zero, and then I spin, I holler and then I hit the start button. I watch my shit rotate Three minutes. I don't play about my microwave skills.
Speaker 1:I ain't a great cook. I eat to survive. I can't. I have no skills in the kitchen. I love watching people make food. I love watching people make food, but I can't do it. So I stick to the basics and, you know, a little something in the pan every now and then, you know, sometimes I'll do spaghetti and I, you know, I feel very, very Italian. It ain't Italian. You know what I'm saying. I just feel it.
Speaker 1:Sometimes I do a little work like that and sometimes I do take risks and I try to put something together that me and Chad GPT put together and it don't come out the way it's supposed to. I'm sure if Chad GPT was an actual robot that was standing next to me, he would just be like I'm disappointed, nigga, and then I would be ashamed and I would never try to cook again. But I don't push my veganism on to nobody. If you want to be vegan, be vegan. But I don't ever push it.
Speaker 1:But people be so blown away and they ask so many questions about it. Now I feel like I'm over talking about it and I'm trying to put you on. And people hear me talk about it Now they're like, oh, don't be trying to put him, I'm going to try to push your vegan on somebody. I ain't do that. He asked me about it. I'm just trying to share my results. He asked me about my veganism. I'm just trying to share my results. Come over here.
Speaker 1:I don't do that shit. I don't knock on people's doors at six o'clock in the morning. Are you prepared to be a vegan? I don't do that shit. I ain't a Jehovah's Witness. I don't be out here with bags and pamphlets of shit trying to sell people on vegan. That's not what I do. It's not what I do.
Speaker 1:Hold on, let me get a sip. I ain't drinking coffee because I'm out of my coffee pods, but I did order the weekend espresso pot. So the weekend. You know the singer I don't really care about he and I said listen, hold on now, because just in case I really blow up and y'all. You know how they like to search for all the old shit and fucked up shit. You said, listen, talented man, right? Talented singer, got the movie out with Ortega, miss Ortega, the beautiful Miss Ortega, right, big singer, cool, I don't fuck with him Now, but I did see he had some espresso pods that was popping out right.
Speaker 1:I was like, oh, and I had signed up for the text messages. I don't like doing that, because they be doing that to get your number. I don't like people having my number. That's why I got my personal number. You know what I'm saying. I got a business and I got a personal. So I gave him my business number and I got the text. I was like, oh shit, the weekend pods is out. So I hopped on espresso app. I said, oh, I see them and I ordered them. So I did order the espresso pods that are developed with the weekend. So the espresso got together with the weekend and they came together.
Speaker 1:Now I'm not sure that's going to come with a bunch of you know, you know, never mind, let me, let me stop the man's talented. I'm gonna stop so, but I ordered them. I'm man's talented, I'm going to stop so, but I ordered them. I'm out of coffee so I'm drinking these, drinking some electrolytes. So just, you know, I'm just going, I'm just going, man, you come right out of a comic book. Yeah, but if I could tell anybody I would never go back to me. Now I miss, I miss Lemon Pepper Wings, just like I miss you, sarah. You remember I just talked about you a couple of times, sarah, come on home, baby. It ain't got to be like that. Come on home, baby. Don't do that, come on home. But I do miss the lemon pepper wings from Wingstop.
Speaker 1:Sometimes I have these random moments of I can feel them up in my gums. You know how they did in in uh, miami vice or cop shows, you know, uh and the drug dealers together they doing a deal or whatever, and they stick the knife in there or they stick their finger and then they put all in their gums. Well, I could taste the lemon pepper all in my shits, all in my gums. I could taste it, I could. It just happens randomly. It's the same thing with sushi. I I think about sushi and the eel sauce and I'll be like damn, that's that combination together, you know, and I miss it sometimes.
Speaker 1:It's rare, but I never go back to meat. I'll be seeing, I'll be seeing meat shit on social media, just straight meat shit. Then I know I'm supposed to put a pause on that. I'll be seeing straight meat motherfuckers making. But I recommend anybody, if you feel good about you know you want to give it a shot. Give it seven days, man. See how you feel after seven days. Man People always, you know. I told him this happened to me Tuesday. She's like you're vegan. I was like, yeah. She was like, oh, so you, you couldn't eat fish. No, I'm vegan, so you can eat cheese. Nah, motherfucker, I'm vegan. Motherfucker, I can't, I can't eat that. I don't eat dairy, I don't fuck with that. Plus, cow titty had me upside down anyway if I sniff cow titty, little cow titty.
Speaker 1:Winston's got to suffer the most because Winston's around me most, my dog Winston, he's around me the most and if I have a little bit of milk, he gonna know I have some milk and he got. He got this, got this face that he make and it's just about a three second stare where Winston just looks at me and you could tell in his face he's saying hey, man, you're not supposed to be drinking no milk. You're not supposed to be drinking no milk, fam. Not only are you blackity black, but you know what it does to your system. Just on, gp baby, you're not supposed to be drinking no milk.
Speaker 1:Don't do that to me, because he got to live with the results. He got to live with the bombs. He got to see me in fetal position Watching a show and I'm just letting him out the tunnel. He got to deal with the smoke. He got to deal me in fetal position watching a show and I'm just letting him out the tunnel. He got to deal with the smoke. He got to deal with the green gas, his eyes watering as a dog. You ever seen a dog's eyes water Because he's smelling hot-ass gas? He's smelling hot-ass gas. His eyes is watering. You ever seen that happen to a dog? That's because I had a little milk.
Speaker 1:Man, I know what I'm doing when I go to Starbucks. Listen, I'm keeping it real. I'm keeping it real. I do this for me. I do this for me. But I'm a coffee fiend. If it got a little dairy in it, it's very rare. It's very, very rare. But if you got a specialized coffee and the foam got a little dairy in it, winston's just going to have to suffer then, because I'm going to let it out of my ass, but I'm going to drink that coffee Because if it's good, I'm going to get it down in me. That's just what it is. But yeah, I've been vegan five years, going on six. I recommend, if you want to do it, you want to give a test drive? Go seven days, go 14 days.
Speaker 1:My skin got clearer, you know. More energy. My joints, my joints, always feel good. You know, I feel like I'm doing something right and that's what. That's what it's all about. When you feel like you're doing something right for yourself, like, okay, I feel like I'm, this is right for me. This is a solid move for shade. I like this and that's what you know.
Speaker 1:I wish, I wish we had more time. Sorry, that's man on fire, denzel Washington, but I just got done with Memorial Day weekend. Yeah, memorial Day weekend last weekend, and this shit was really, really, really packed. Black folks really traveled down to Arizona. Black people love it here. I see y'all Y'all love it here. Don't let people here it here. I see y'all Y'all love it here. Don't let people here fool you.
Speaker 1:Now, I think people hate any city they've been in for a long time. I'm going to fuck If it's Atlanta. I'm going to fuck. If it's Dallas, I'm going to fuck. If it's LA, you start to just hate your own city. But other people that don't live there, they love it, they want to come visit it. But AZ, it gets a hold of people. Phoenix gets a hold of people. It get a hold of the brothers and sisters. It get a hold of them and hold tight. There's a lot of y'all down here. Y'all came out to visit. It was busy. Man Club was busy, the restaurant was busy, just busy, busy, busy, busy, busy. We got Final Four in 2026. You know, they got a resort. They're building the VAI Resort in Glendale. It's got a big-ass water park. They're going to be doing concerts. Az continues to well. Phoenix continues to grow and build and I love it here. I love Phoenix.
Speaker 1:The heat I talk shit about the heat. It's all I got to deal with, bro. The sun want to lean on me, want to make me blacker. Okay, that's cool, I know I'm dealing with it. I ain't getting no earthquakes. I ain't getting no tornadoes. I ain't getting no hurricanes. A little dust, a little Habibi dust, want to come through, a little monsoon season. I don't give a shit about that shit, shit weak. I came from a city where tornadoes would happen Sucker, this shit weak. Fucking ice storm shit, this shit weak down here. So I love it here. It get hot, that's cool. It get hot, that's cool, man. I get in. Some AC Black folks love it down here. They come in here by the busloads, they enjoy themselves.
Speaker 1:Final Four 2026. Nba All-Star 2027. And they 2027, and they just building. It's just just constantly growing city. Phoenix is constantly growing. Just new luxury apartments, new fucking condos and houses. They just building, building, building, building, which all adds up to a massive amount of traffic, to a massive amount of traffic. Ugh, yuck. But I am looking forward to Final Four. I am looking forward to All-Star 2027. And I like seeing, oh, they're doing a mall expansion on Talking Stick. That's dope. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 1:I don't know what Bucky's is. Somebody was like really hype when they talked about it. Bucky's is almost like they building it out there. It's the first one. It's like a gas station. Somebody was like really hype. I saw them posting it. It's like we're getting a Bucky's.
Speaker 1:I don't know what the fuck that is. I don't know, but it's a gas station. You know what? Let's look it up, let me look. Let me ask chat gpt what I'm saying. I don't want to fuck up what I was supposed to be talking about. Okay, this one's next. Okay, it's okay.
Speaker 1:Here it says, boom, what is a bucky's gas station? We talking y'all, y'all with, y'all on with me, y'all on with me. I'm talking to ChatGPT, y'all, just hold tight, I'm going to find out what. Let me see here. Wait, oh shit. Okay, wait a minute. Okay, there we go. Okay, let's see, I hit the button real hard Like I'm doing something.
Speaker 1:I type it in and say, wow, bucky's is a texas-based chain of massive travel centers that has garnered a cult-like following for transforming a typical gas station experience into a full-blown, a wide array of merchandise featuring its beaver mascot. Huh, it's coming to Arizona. I think it's expanding to Arizona, breaking ground in Goodyear, so it opens June 2026 next year. Alright, that's what's up. It's a really cool gas station, but people are really excited about it. Yeah, cause something from Texas is coming here. That's cool.
Speaker 1:I didn't know. I didn't know. I knew it was a gas station. I didn't know what it was. I knew it was gas station. I didn't know that it was this big of a deal with people. Who was super excited about it Just pumped up Woo shit, woo Woo. But no man, we got a lot of stuff coming here. They're building up constantly. Black folks is out here, black folks, and I loved it. We had a blast. We had a blast all weekend.
Speaker 1:I don't know what to say other than keep on coming down here. I don't like the traffic, but I don't want to gatekeep a good city. As much as people talk about Phoenix, it ain't like that. Listen, man, I don't want to gatekeep a good city. Now I could bitch and be like you're turning us into LA and traffic's starting at 1230. So disgusting. I could start that whole run. I could do those things, but I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to gatekeep a good city. You want to come on out? Come on out, man. Look at the houses, check it out. Don't drink the water. Check out the cribs, check out the apartment, check out the condos, check them out. Come enjoy yourself. God, it was crazy.
Speaker 1:Memorial Day weekend Last year wasn't the same. It wasn't like that. It didn't feel as busy. This year. You could definitely feel. Folks got a little money and came on out here, you know, and it was nice to see. It was really nice to see.
Speaker 1:Now I'm going to talk about something and I'm pivoting. You know I'm pivoting and I do a lot of work on my phone, right, everything I do is on my phone. It's how I make my money. I'm on social media on my phone. It's how I make my money. I'm on social media all the time. It's how I eat, it's how I feed my dog, it's how I feed me All through the phone, which is fantastic, because I never thought that would be possible Just for me to eat from my phone, right.
Speaker 1:But there's like a big negative to it. It's hard for me to not to like to like zone in on my shows. Now I noticed that it's hard for me to zone in on my shows, even when I'm in the movies. And those are my things, like, I love watching my TV shows, I love watching. You know, going to the movies or watching classic movies, those are my things.
Speaker 1:Even then I can feel the urge, just a weird urge in my hand and just in my body, just to pick up my phone and check. You know they call it an increased anxiety and FOMO. I guess you get increased anxiety and the FOMO, the fear of missing out. These are things I had to learn from the young youth. I didn't know what FOMO was at first. A long time ago I was like what the fuck is FOMO? And I had to look it up, I had to Google it. I don't feel good about Googling shit. When I had to look up ASL, I didn't feel good about that. That's not cool, it's not fantastic, it's not jiggy, you know. But I did and I could tell that I had I do. I was like damn man.
Speaker 1:The minute, even in my own career, I'd be like, oh shit, where my phone at I don't know where I put it at, you know what I'm saying? And I'd be like, oh shit, it's right here, it's tucked under some covers. Oh shit, it's right here, it's tucking in some covers. The panic happens. It's a real panic and it sucks because I'm so on it that I could be on a phone conversation and I have to tell the person hold on. I got to like, post this up, or I got to do this, or I got to do that.
Speaker 1:I'm always on my phone and I'm afraid that I won't be able to break it. Do you know what that feels like to know? You have this issue and you'd be like I don't think I'm going to be able to snap that. That's how much I'm on my phone. I have two of them Now. The personal one it just be tucked away.
Speaker 1:It's my rape whistle. You know, maybe I'm in a, maybe I'm in a in a in a garage somewhere and somebody want to try to rob me and get some of my booty hole and I'm like I don't want nobody around my booty hole and they trying to rob me. I ain't got no money on me anyway. And they trying to rob me and they run up on me and then my phone drop, my business phone drop, and they fly. They like, aha, I'm about to get your booty. I'm like no, you not. And I elbow him in the face and I pull out my personal phone that's my rape whistle and I blow that motherfucker. You know what I'm saying. That's the 911 call. Then I call the homies. You know the homies roll up and they save my life and the cops roll up and they save my life and I'm good to go, cause that's my rape whistle phone.
Speaker 1:That's my phone. I don't ever use, but the only way I know I got a personal phone Is about five people had that number, six people, maybe seven. If you clue, sarah Sarah, come on home, baby Sarah, don't do this. Sarah, sarah, come on, baby, come on home. But I it's. It's something I don't know if a lot, I think a lot of people deal with it. It's something I don't know if a lot, I think a lot of people deal with it. If you do, if you are content building, social media marketing, if you, I'm sure, if you into that, which are big things, these are things people making a living off of. I make a living off of it.
Speaker 1:My eyes I get eye strain headaches. You know, I got blue light glasses. I don't ever wear them joints. I got to get. You know what I got to get. I got blue light glasses. I don't ever wear them joints. I got to get a. You know what I got to get? I got to get a blue light screen protector.
Speaker 1:I'm disconnected from real moments. I'm sure that if I was laying on a table bleeding out and the doctors were around me, I would ask hey, can you get my phone real quick so I could post about this? I got to post about how I'm bleeding in the hospital and I might die. Disconnection from real life moments that's shade. Posture problems slash tech neck that's shade. Less focus slash productivity in the real world that's shade.
Speaker 1:I don't really live in the real world, partly because I'm a big ass kid part, you know, kid part, willy Wonka but hard to truly rest. Look, I don't sleep, I don't sleep, I don't sleep. So let's just say example I'm watching a comfort show and I have a couple of comfort shows. I've been watching Teen Wolf late night because I watched Teen Wolf back in the day. I love Teen Wolf. So I was like I'm going to start watching Teen Wolf again because I need some shit to fall asleep to, because my brain be going all the time Right, so I need something to fall asleep to, right.
Speaker 1:So it's either that it used to be like Frasier, you know the Office. I still watch them occasionally. Y'all know what Frasier is. I know y'all listen what the fuck is a Frasier. So anyway, I used to watch Frasier, or I'd watch the Office. You know Martin, you know Living Single, you know I have these shows, I have these moments I go through and I smoke them out. And now I'm watching Modern Family. I'm smoking out seasons of Modern Family, and then I also have added Teen Wolf in there. So I need these things to simmer me down right.
Speaker 1:And I also read that's not a bad thing to have a comfort show. It was a good thing. So don't sit from wherever you listen to me at and try to judge me. I read about it. Don't believe me. Google about it. Having a comfort show is good for you. They even say we're smarter people and we're more relaxed people. I agree, but even when I'm watching my shows, I look up. I'm like let me scroll. I got to get on the Twitter, I got to get on the top. I got to get on the gram. Did I post this? Did I do this? Did I do that? I wonder if I can ever break it. I could break habits.
Speaker 1:I'm a bad cabinet closer. I was in a relationship one time. She would just tell me I'm really bad at closing cabinets. I worked on it. I got better. I'm not saying I was perfect at it, but I worked on it. I got to it. I leave out of the kitchen. It would go from being three minutes before I realized that I left that cabinet open. It got down to a minute. Now I would go back in the kitchen. I shut the cabinets Right. I worked on it. It was a problem, I worked on it. I can recognize a problem and work on it and fix it, except the phone one.
Speaker 1:I hope there are so many more people that deal with this. I need to find a community on Reddit and see if they got solutions that they do. People are going to tell you solutions all the time. I don't think they really know how bad of a problem it can be for somebody. This is my life. This is how I make my ducats. For a decade plus, actually, though, since social media, since Twitter for me. Early on Twitter, like I've figured out, oh shit, you can market on this, I can make this work for me. Early Twitter, too, we talking early Twitter, I can make this work for me. So I've always ate off of social media, ate off my phone, not to mention the thousands of numbers that are included. You know just doing what I've done for so long Text messages nonstop that come through when we have special events. I'm always on this shit, even when I'm out.
Speaker 1:Just say, I'm out with a beautiful, fantastic, hot woman and I have to turn my phones down. I don't turn my phones down because there's a ton of hoes texting me. I got a few hoes texting me. I'm not saying I ain't got, I got a few. You know I got a few hoes texting me. I'm not saying hoes in a bad way, I'm saying hoes in a funny way. So please don't take that. I got a few women. How about that a little bit better? I got a few women text me. You know what I'm saying. But I'm not turning my phone over because I got my few women. I got a lot of women text me. I got a few. Now I ain't gonna brag, I got a few. I'm gonna keep saying it because I got a few. I don't want you thinking I ain't got none and you're like I don't want to be with nobody ain't got no hoes. I got a few hoes. You know what I'm saying. I ain't got a lot of ho. I got a few ho. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:But I turn my phone over Because if it's up and it's going off, I will then block Her out. I block her out and then I gotta get to my phone, or at least I gotta look at it, or if the phone ring, I'll be like hold on. I got to get this Cause I don't you know what I'm saying or a message come through on the grizzy gram, I'll be like, hold on, I got to get to this. Oh like, oh, hold on, I got to, I got to, I got to post this. These are real things that have plagued me in relationships. You know what that means to know that you have a problem and it plagues you in relationships. They'd be like and the people around you learn you and they just they see you pick up your phone and they stop talking to you because they know that you have now launched yourself into the phone and you can no longer participate in real world activities. It's crazy. World activities it's crazy.
Speaker 1:I hope when I retire you know what I'm saying. I wish I could do the delete the weapon saxophone. I'm actually probably going to put that as a drop Delete the weapon saxophone as a drop and I'm going to play it whenever I have moments like this. But I'm hoping when I retire there will be this release where I just don't ever look at my phone again, because I have looked at my phone and used my phones like man. I put my phones through hell. I don't charge well. That's why I think Apple should let me. Let me Look. I just did it right now because my phone was popping off, because I'm a busy motherfucker, my shit's popping off. I looked at it and you can tell when I do it because, look, I'll be like yeah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Look, I'll be like yeah, and then my voice go and I come back because I was looking at my phone. That's what I'm saying. But I'm hoping one day I could just, you know, be done with that thing. Never look at my phone again.
Speaker 1:You want to get a hold of me? Find a pigeon bitch. Write a note, strap it to the pigeon bitch. Send a pigeon my way. Wouldn't get a hold of me. Get a fax machine. Wouldn't get a hold of me. Send it through Uber, because Uber delivers stuff, so you can write a letter.
Speaker 1:You can write a letter, a really sincere letter. You know what I'm saying. Maybe add it and put it inside a Hallmark card. Put the Hallmark card in the envelope with the letter in the envelope, and then have Uber deliver it to me. That's pretty cool. If you want to do that, you could do that too. But you can have it delivered to me and I can get it when I'm on my own place and by myself with my dog, and it's just me, my dog and some television, and that's it.
Speaker 1:That's how you got to get a hold of me. You got to get a Hallmark card. You got to write a letter, put the letter inside the Hallmark card, put the letter in the Hallmark card inside the envelope, and you got to pick up the phone. And you got to hit Uber up because Uber could deliver it to me and then Uber to me. I don't want it through the mail, I don't want to send nothing through the USPS. I just got done complaining about these motherfuckers. They don't do shit well, they don't deliver shit on time. That's how you got to get a hold of me. I can retire myself from the phone because it's insanity, a bit scary, because I don't want to look up. I still plan to be a pops. I don't care about being an old pops. Ain't nobody going to fucking make fun of me? I don't give a fuck.
Speaker 1:Al Pacino got a kid right now, 81 years old, just had a baby 81. You see, I just talked about it. What's Belichick? Got him a hot one 74. Got him a hot 24. You think he about to have a kid. He about to pop a few pills, about to have him a good time. Oops, it's an accident. Take it with you. You know what I'm saying. Take it with you.
Speaker 1:I like the name Billy. I won't be here much longer, but I like the name Billy. And if I'm dead and I find out you didn't name my child Billy, you ain't getting none of my money. I got it in the wheel that my child Billy, you ain't getting none of my money. I got it in the wheel that my child need to be named Billy because Bill Belichick and my son need to be named Billy. I don't even know how I come up with this shit. She just pops in my head and it just goes. But you understand what I'm saying. I'm being old pops. I don't care about that, but I feel like if I'm at my child's birth and my phone vibrate, not only that. First of all, let me just say I don't think I got the stomach for that. I like to consider myself a really good dude and I'd be a fantastic pops, but I get queasy easy and I ain't built for that.
Speaker 1:Now you can record it it I'll never watch it. You need to have the right type of support system in the delivering room and that ain't shade cause I don't want you to need my support and I'm projectile vomiting. Now the nurses have turned their focus to me the doctor trying to do his job, but the nurse is concerned about me because I sound like the exorcist. But the nurse is concerned about me because I sound like the exorcist. And if I got enough, just say, just for example, maybe I had a little dairy that day. Maybe I had a little dairy that day. Now I got it coming out of both ends.
Speaker 1:Now the nurses are dizzy, they can't focus, they smelling, they might start throwing up. Then the main doctor who needs some assistance Getting my baby out. He ain't got no help Cause the nurses done smelled my ass gas. Now they dizzy, they throwing up. They see my throw up, my shit hot With the milk coming out, my ass gas, the milk in my throw up.
Speaker 1:Everybody in the motherfucking delivery room. We all fucked up. The doctor, the only professional in there, and he gonna need some help. So I don't want to put everybody through that. That ain't what I want to do. That ain't what I'm about now. I don't want to miss that moment.
Speaker 1:I think I could tough it out. I talk a lot of shit, but I think I could tough it out as long as I get like a cigar I don't even smoke, but as long as I get like a victory cigar for making it through that situation. But that's how bad it is when it comes to me being on my phone. I'm attached to it at all times, both phones, all times, every time and you're not supposed to they tell you hey, man, when you're charging your phone, take your phone out your room, take it out the room. My phone's being on my bed, tucked under my pillow, under my feet Shit. Sometimes they end up on the charger. Most of the time they don't. The motherfucker's as close as hell. So I can reach over.
Speaker 1:You would think I'm a damn detective, like my phone going to bust off at four o'clock in the morning and they gonna say hey, you up. I'm gonna be like mad because I'm like one of those fears, like those little angry detectives. Do you think I'm up? It's 4.30 in the morning. What do you want? Well, we need you down here. We got us a body All right. And I you down here. We got us a body all right. And I roll over and I tell my wife I gotta go. She's like what's going on? I'm like, yo, your nighttime breath is bad, but I gotta go. They got a body. She's like okay, baby, don't talk to me no more, get some sleep. I'm not a detective, just a dude who makes his living marketing being a promoter, sometimes being an influencer, but it's driven me up a wall, man, and I've never really looked for people. There's like a bunch of stuff out there where you can look at but, hey, you can try this, you can try that, but it's got a hold of me and hopefully one day I'll be able to change it.
Speaker 1:Now to the more uppity side of the podcast. As I finish up, I see Mission Impossible last week, and y'all know I stay inside the theater as I finish up. I see Mission Impossible last week, and y'all know I stay inside the theater. It's summertime, so I stay inside the theater now and hold on, let me get a little drink of this shit. Yeah, please pause while Thaddeus Shade takes a sip. So I saw Mission Impossible last week.
Speaker 1:Hold on now, told y'all. I was listening for FedEx now. Hold on now. Hold on now, somebody. What did I say? Now, wait, no way, wait, no way. See now, this is hold on, bro. This is what I'm talking about. I was listening because I wanted to make sure, oh, that's, oh, that is trash. I was here. Nobody even knocked on the door. My dog would have barked, anyway, I see Mission Impossible. Oh, I'm so upset right now. Nobody even knocked on the door. My dog would have barked anyway. Uh, I see mission impossible. Oh, I'm so upset right now. Oh that's. Oh, I see mission impossible. Um, final reckoning.
Speaker 1:And they were really glazing, uh, tom cruise, in the first hour, that movie movie it's very, very, very slow because it was a lot of professional glazing of Tom Cruise, and rightfully so, because he's done so many movies. I mean it started in 1996. He's done so many Mission Impossibles right and so they were really giving him the greatest. You know they could give him right. And then that that hours two and three, it becomes just like, oh shit, this dude and he and he gets away without getting shot. Can I say that? I can say that all right, because there's a spoiler. Is that enough time? I won't spoil like that. But the stunts that he does, he does these things are incredible. The sounds of the stunts, because he's actually doing them. They really went hard with showing his face and a lot of these crazy things that he's doing, and the sounds of a lot of these crazy things that he's doing is real crisp, clear and impactful to what you're watching. So it was phenomenal to see that I don't like the way they did Vim Reigns.
Speaker 1:I don't like all that. You know I already talked about it before. They be playing my boy. They don't really give him nothing to do for real and then he do some stuff in here where I'm like, man, you ain't got to do that, don't do that. That's horrible. I really hate the really, really, really, really, really, really hate it. Really, I'm really mad at FedEx man. I'm here. I can hear that's trash, bro. Motherfucker's still out there. I'm going to get off here and go see what's up with that. Thank you for listening to Seasonable Cloud. I'm so bad. Thank you for listening to Seasonable Cloud. This is Daddy of Shade Fucking FedEx man Bro.