Episode 100: From Cocaine Shrimp To Why Life Feel Off Right Now

Episode 100.

Started this one talking about work and how it keeps me young — but also how different things are now. The way people interact, approach each other, and move socially just isn’t the same. We really used to go outside with nothing but confidence and a pen and pad.

Then I get into everything else going on right now — from wild stories like cocaine being found in shrimp, to a bigger rant about how nothing really feels enjoyable the same way anymore.

I also touch on things like the military raising the age limit and what that says about where things are right now, along with a few other off-the-rails thoughts along the way.

Funny, real, and a little all over the place — but that’s Episode 100.

Thank you for listening now please go back and check out some of my previous episodes.

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SPEAKER_01 0:45

I thought you man, I be wildin' before I start my podcast. I gotta get my energy up. I told y'all last episode I'm still I still be thugging. I still got a little thug. Still got a little thug in me. Okay, let me stop this minute so we can get to this episode. Ladies and gentlemen, I am Thaddeus Shea. This is the Odd Nerd Podcast. This is the Odd Nerd Podcast, bruh. Episode 100. 100 episodes took me a very long time to get to because of inconsistency. And if you know anything about inconsistency, it will fry you if you're trying to get to your end. Destonation. Inconsistency will kill you. Complacency will kill you. Laziness will kill you. Especially if you got like dreams and goals, aspirations, things that you want to do in life. It'll take you down, man. It'll take you down. I don't know if y'all can see this. I got land before time shirt. Can y'all see the land before time? Y'all can't can y'all see it? Y'all can't see it if you're listening to me, but the people watch it can see it. You know what I'm saying? Episode 100000100. Episode 1000. I am Thaddeus Shea. This is the Odd Nerd Podcast. There are some things that are happening in the world where I think I could come in and provide just a pinch of something else to look at and to listen to. I'm not saying that I could provide much, much, much uh laughter and so much joy that you forget about all the things that are happening in the world and the gas prices and stuff, but I think I could provide, I think I could provide just a little sprinkle of joy. The gig keeps me young. Now, if you don't know what I do, I get a little chump chain from the social media, adds to the pot. But I'm a veteran in the nightlife profession. Okay. Now, nightlife promoter just makes you feel it sounds a little bit more nice. You know what I'm saying? Like somebody hold the elevator open for you. So that's a nightlife promoter. I'm gonna hold the elevator, but the elevator open for this guy. It's a little bit more clean to say, but I'm a promoter to simplify it. You know, I've been doing it for a long time. Made some good ducats, make some good ducats. The ducats, the shillings, um, that I put in my pocket. And but it but it keeps me young and uh and learning about the youth, right? That are below me. You know, and it's cool to see, and it's also horrifying to see how the younger generation interacts with themselves. Man, I used to be outside. I used to walk 40 miles in the snow to get to the school just to find out that the school is closed. I used to walk 40 miles back home in the snow. After I found out that the school closed, just to find out that the power was turned off at home and it was cold. 40 miles. That really wasn't what the 1900s were like. The 1990s, nine ninety hundreds was there, it wasn't like that, but it feels like it, I guess, because it was a long time ago. It feels like it, it was a long time ago, but it wasn't alone. But to watch them interact, you know, the days of joy of getting a lovely female's number with a pen and pad was terrifying. But it was a lovely, lovely feeling of joy. It was a joy. You hit them all with your fam, you hit them all with your boys, and then you would see something special, and you would almost slow-mo run to her. Or or you had to beat your boys before they go over and talk to her. They're like, nah, I'm about to go get them and now I'm about to go get them. You had to beat them off. Everybody, you had to just go. And you would go. And where I'm from, like when they built this mall is independence mall. When they built this mall, it was more in the white area. So, you know, we was we was hood, hood kids, hood teens, and then you know, and um we would go out to this area, and we see you know, we see different women than what we're not used to seeing. And so imagine the heart that it takes for these two different, you know, people from two different places. You know, you got the woman that's probably in the very white suburban area, and then you got the the the black kid, and he's coming from from the ghetto, he's from the ghetto side of the city's from the ghetto, and then you would go, and then you would meet in this area of shopping, and it was nice and it was new, and so you had to try to you had the the the mental fortitude, the gumption, the the balls, the kahunas to go up and then get the number like that. It took a lot, right? That took a lot of that took a lot of whoo, that took a lot of mmm to to do that. And you could take an L. You could take an L because it's as if you could get hit with an ass if you know it's different time is time, and you just different time, you know what I'm saying? But they were still, you know, the high high uppity was a little different, but there's still high uppity, and you you could get shot down in the very whitest of ways, and it could really hurt because you didn't know what the really whitest of ways was. What's what's this wording of as if or uh he yuck and all that shit you didn't really know, you know what I'm saying? You used to a certain type of turndow, you know, uh nigga, get away from you know what I'm saying. You used to a certain type of aggression when you got rejected from you know people that was in your own community. If you understand what I'm saying, you understand what I'm saying. It took a lot to do it, it took a lot of heart. Take that L like that. I got a land before time, sure. I just want to say it again. It takes a lot of heart to you know to do that and take that L, but it was fun because you had to really up your mental thought. You had to really get in the game and figure out how I'm gonna try to approach this and get in contact with this human, how I'm gonna get this human's contact number and how I'm gonna what type of language and wordage I'm gonna use to be like to woo, seduce, to boo, and then I'm gonna get her number. And I gotta go back to my boys with victory, I gotta go back to my boys with with with a loss, and they got they gonna they gonna poke fun at your boy. And you just human interaction, human interaction. You you you try that now. Even as my grind wizard time tree, if all I peeled uh to a target, and I tried that, might mace me because they're not used to it. Even the people from my time now, they're not they're not used to it. It's all apps and and and and and DMs and messages and shit. They might be the woman might be a little bit thrown. Oh shit. She might remember the joint, you know what I'm saying? But they're not used to that. The interaction between humans is crazy. So I get a chance to do my job to watch them interact, and it's oil and water. It's oil and water, it's really different, it's interesting. I don't really think there's no smooth lines. You had to have a smooth line. You know what I'm saying? You have to I don't even got one in my hip pocket, but you had to be able to, you know what I'm saying? When you was, you had to be quick on your toes, you had to be Emmett Smith, you had to be Barry Sanders, you had to be quick on your toes, you'd be quick on your feet. When you're dealing, you know, when you're in human interaction is live in person, and you got an audience back there watching you to see if you're gonna succeed. And she may have an audience watching you, and just the pressure was high. Pressure was high, it's mission impossible, falling down from the string to the glass, you almost touch it, the alarm almost go off. Pressure is high. Even my, you know, starting the club days, you still high interaction offering to buy a drink. I don't even these these young cats don't even do that though. It's the tables is wild too because they be at the tables and they be like, nah, this is my liquor. And they really shaky on sharing the liquor with the ladies, really shaky on buying drinks for the ladies. They don't even approach. Oh no, I was looking for my man coming out of the comic book drop, but I think I switched it out for Dewey, let's go! But yeah, so they don't even, there's not a lot of conversation, there's no smoothness. You don't I just get a chance to observe. I'm an observer. I don't really when I even in doing my job, I don't party. I don't, I don't really like party hard. I don't get out there and sweat. I'm not in your face, I'm not hitting the tequila, I'm not hitting the Don Julio, I'm not hitting the Terraman, I'm not hitting those things, but I'm an observer. And I'll, you know, I my people's, I'm gonna take care of you. You want something to drink? Go, go, go, go. But I I'm an observer, I like to watch. And I'm like, oh shit. There might not be any kids popping up soon. They say America's getting older. China's really supposed to be getting older. Like they're old, right? But America's getting older, but nobody fucking and having kids because ain't nobody talking to each other. They ain't got they ain't got the gentleman, the the the men ain't got the gentleman's charm no more. You know, it it you just watch it. It's like it's like Thailand traffic, just barely, barely missing each other. And it looks like it's about to crash, and he just barely is it's not what you but you if you just come out with me and you watch, you'd be like, Oh shit, this is destructive. This is scary to watch the human interaction, but it keeps me young. I learned all the you, my boy. I'm talking to my boy Craig Vision yesterday. He used the word riz and I almost hung up on him because we are damn near at the purling gates, and he shouldn't be using Riz. And he used it, and I heard it, I be hearing it type shit. I hear all the type shit, and I'll be like, wait, are we typing the word shit? I'll be lost, man. But then I learn these things. The young folks keep me scrolled up, man. You know what I'm saying? I don't know. It's like uh I'm LeBron James and what I do. Not calling myself LeBron James promoting, but I could I could call myself LeBron's. But what I'm saying is, I'm still in the game. So it's the same thing LeBron's probably experienced, the same thing Steph is experiencing. The young folks come in the gym and they come in the locker room and they're saying new words and they're doing dances, and your body won't let you do the dance. Your brain only won't let you say the words, but you pick up a couple. You say, wait a minute, Shook is ours, man. You we had Shook. Vibe is ours. We had vibe. Y'all just give me, y'all take y'all. There's words out there y'all using that we already had, but there's words you get, you like 10 on two. I can't think, so I can't 10 on two, right? It feels like it's ours. Somewhere there was a Mississippi mechanic. There's a Mississippi mechanic who was working on a car and and his baby mama pulled up. He about he about 52, his baby. I guess I guess it can't be 52 with a baby mama, but you did but you get the idea. Pulled up on him working on a carburetor, he working real hard, and she came over talking about we ain't got no milk, we ain't got no milk. Oh my god, we ain't got no milk. And he like, man, you putting 10 on two. I be feeling like that's our shit. Somewhere, somewhere deep, and that's somebody pulled that out, and we already been using that, but they be saying 10 on two, and I'm like, I like 10 on two. I don't want to give them credit for giving me something, but I think the young folks, the 10 on two, I like to use. I use that anytime. You know what I'm saying? Oh, you came too quick. I bet you putting 10 on two. You know what I'm saying? I didn't come that fast. You came too quick. Why you come putting 10 on two? I ain't come quick. I gave you the best I giving you the best that I got, baby. I gave you everything I got. I ain't don't don't try to play me like I came quick. I gave you 10 on you don't do don't do that 10 on two to me.

SPEAKER_00 14:27

Liars, liars, and more liars.

SPEAKER_01 14:35

Episode 100. Let's kick that. You know what? You know what? Because I'm a G, I'm gonna keep rolling. I was gonna do something, and I was gonna add something, and I was thinking about I was gonna do it. I'm just gonna keep it rolling because I'm gangster like that. But uh, I was on the internet, man, and I want to say, I've always talked about this in previous episodes. I talk about this all the time. The internet should not be a place that you believe all the things, everything. You should not believe everything, especially your timelines. Your timelines are designed to keep you in a box, man. Keep you happy, keep you put. This is what you like, this is what you want to read about, you want to read about politics, you want to be all about the politics, this is what you want. I'm gonna give it to you. And you should never let me get a sip of this black coffee because it's horrible. Stir it up. And you shouldn't believe everything, man. It's designed to keep you happy, it's designed to keep you in your box. And a big part of that is I was on there and I looked up and I had seen that there were cocaine, cocaine found in shrimp. I was like, damn, in England. I was like, damn, cocaine found in shrimp. How do you find cocaine and shrimp, ladies and gentlemen? Well, there was a couple of researchers, and I I guess they're called freshwater shrimp. Now, again, this is shit that I'm not supposed to know, but I'm believing immediately when I see the title, I'm like, oh, it's from Complex posted it. I said, Oh shit, it's cocaine and shrimp. I said, Oh shit, cocaine and shrimp. That's crazy. So then I'm like, well, let me do a little research on it because that's wild. I don't eat shrimp, I'm a veganastic, right? And so when I do my research, I find out that it's just fresh water shrimp. Now, let me just say this isn't the shrimp that you eat, but it's interesting stuff. So stay with me here. Fresh water shrimp is found in rivers at the bottom of rivers. They call them filters, they call them scavengers, they absorb everything in the water, right? And what happens is when people do drugs or they take medication, they take massive shits. When they take massive shits, you know, it goes into treatment centers and the water treatment plants, they don't do a really good job of getting all of the drugs out. So they go back into the rivers and the waters, and then then then it rains, and the rains get the chemicals from the street, and that also goes into the sewage system, and that's supposed to get treated. It doesn't get cleaned out that well. And then the shrimp, the shrimp, I forgot the name of the shrimp. What's the name? Uh the shrimp or the fuck the gamma, gamma shrimpers, gamma, gamma something. They absorb, they absorb everything in the water. So they was able to find shrimp. Now, it's not they said it when the research I did, they said it's not enough to get you high. It's not even enough to do nothing to your system, but it's not enough to get you high. But they still found cocaine, man. You know, somewhere, Scarface is like I did, I can't even. I was gonna do a fucked up voice. I did my job. Somewhere Scarface is like, I did my job. And it's a part of the thing that I'm saying when you see these these these titles of of news that that if you don't dig in there and you don't do your own research, you can get lost. I mean, they found ketamine in these shrimp, you know, banned pesticides in these shrimp, cocaine in these shrimps, prescription meds in these shrimps. It's like it also goes to show you that doomed. Me and my boy Craig Visions, we talking yesterday, and you think about cavemen and and and just men in general, just humans in general, that time, and you can keep going, you can keep going. You know what I'm saying? All the way up to Oregon Trail times, you can keep going. You know, shit took them out, but I feel like a lot of the stuff that you know, allergies and bullshit. We man, I I bought a spray yesterday made by Clorox, and it's just I spray it in the air, and it's supposed to take care of like pet dander and fucking pollen and all types of stuff because I don't want to be in here how chewing, hot chewing, hot chewing, hot chewing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hot chewing. I don't want to be in here hot chewing. So I was like, I bought the spray. I was like, oh, this is cool. I have an air purifier. Who would have thought from the streets of Kansas City, Missouri, that I would end up with an air purifier in my crib? An expensive one. I never even thought about that as a kid to sing to a young adult. I was like, I don't need a fucking air purifier. I'm fucking G, fucking gangster. But I look up, I have one. The diffuser's blowing. All to keep the air clean. I was like, man, we were talking about it, it's like there's no way that they were giving a f about pollen. I feel like their system was built to handle pollen. It was they were shields of armor built to handle pet dander. I mean if they had pets. T-Rex dander. Probably a little too far back, but systems was built. I talked about Oregon Trail a couple episodes back, and yeah, they're there shit that they were dying from in that game. We're not getting kicked over, but I'm sure they're like, you guys are pussies, man. The Oregon Trail people that existed, like, you know, I'm not saying it's in the game. In the game, if I was player ready one, ready player one, then I could use the game tactic because the movie was anyway, you guys see the movie. And I'm sure they be like, man, y'all soft. You folks is mad soft. And I feel like there's some truth to that. But also, if you pick up somebody from even in the 50s or the 60s, you drop them off, and they go to your faucet here in Arizona and they go to your sink and they want to get some water and drink that water, they're gonna melt away. They're gonna melt away. When I was when I was back home, man, in the 1900s, I was drinking out of the water hose, and it was fantastic. This had to be the same water that Jesus was washing his hair in, man. This water, water hose water was meant meant to replenish. It had its own electrolytes, magnesium in it, its own flavor to it. It was it was glory. It's what I imagine when I hear the gates of oh, that's what it was, man. Midwest, the humidity, 90 degrees, humid. You've been running around playing ball, running up a hill, tag jumping, tackling motherfuckers, and chase being chased by dogs and running, running from the police, maybe stealing some shit. You're just doing a bunch of outdoor activities, and you go with your boys to somebody's crib who got a water hose, and the water hose is hot as a motherfucker, and you gotta be careful because it'll burn your mouth. But you couldn't wait to get your hand, you just gotta give it a couple of seconds, let it come out. Let it come out, let it come out, let it come out, let it come out, let it come out. Oh, there it is. The temperature's right, and then you would have a line. And I feel like people, other kids from around the neighborhood, be like, wait, somebody, somebody drinking some water hose water, and they would come out the crib, and they'd be like, There it is, right there. And they would all run down. You have a line at your house, and everybody trying to get some water hose water because it's the best water ever created it existed was water hose water. It did so much for the joy of life. And I didn't appreciate it at the time. I didn't know what type of water I was drinking. Now I go and I see all these videos, and all my water that I drink is shit. Gatorade water, shit, essential water, shit. Found out Fiji water, shit. Costco water, Kirkland water was good, but it's in a plastic bottle. It's got microplastics. Can't drink it. Everything that is fucking built to be better fucking kills. I got two skillets I gotta get rid of. I got two skillets I gotta get rid of. Cause they got because is because is the uh the the the non stick, and you know the chemicals, and you see scrapings, you say, see, I'm supposed to go get me a cast iron skillet, and it's got the scrapings off, and I can't enjoy the I can't even cook my beyond meat on it no more because I'm getting death from the pan. Death from the pan by while trying to eat healthy. Do you understand what that means? You're trying, you get I'm getting death from the pan while trying to eat healthy. Uh not saying the beyond meat is supposed to be the healthiest. I'm just saying for me as a plant guy, I want some treat and I want to put it on there as well. I'm living my healthy life. I want to put it on the skillet and I want to hook something up. I can't even put it on the skillet, hook something up because when I'm because when I'm flipping, y'all don't know who emerald is, but when I'm hitting them with the emerald and I'm flipping my burger, right? When I'm flipping my burger, and then I see my burger go up in the air. I said, That's a cool flip right there. And my burger, my patty is flipping. I look down at the skillet while I'm still in the air because I got the skill to do that. Look down there, I see the scrapings and say, Oh, I'm dying. And then the burger lands right on the open gas wound right there that's on the skillet. And now I'm realizing I gotta get it. I had a cast iron skillet. I don't know what happened. My cast iron skillet. I moved, and it's hard to just misplace a cast iron skillet because they meant for beating ass, uh uh uh uh protecting you from bullets and cooking food. You know what I'm saying? But all the shit that I used to enjoy, like fucking water holes, water. I can't, you can't enjoy all the water, it's deadly. It's not a drop of water you can't enjoy. It's deadly. I seen they had put somebody in jail because he was collecting rainwater, he was just getting rain water. That's just God's water. That's it. That's just God's water. He was collecting it, they put him in jail for it. He said, I'm just getting some of God's water. They said, Oh, that ain't God's water, that's all water. Okay, put you in jail for that. You don't own that water. You can't get any of that water. That's God's water. That ain't God's water. That's all water. I'm gonna put you in jail for that. Everything that I enjoy. I don't even know where I was at with this, but everything I enjoy. It's dangerous. I am the I nerd. This is that shit. Thy squish. Um, yeah, so looking at shrimp just filled with shit, you know, water all fried up, skillets off, you know, and then I'm looking at oh, I'm just going now. I'm off track. So you just gotta bear with me. This is what happens. I just boom out. I'm looking at air fryers. Let me tell you something about my air fryer, man. All right, my air fryer for a motherfucker who can't cook. I'm I'm only gonna be able to survive because I got a savage instinct. What because I'm a savage, I got savage instincts. When the zombie apocalypse apparently happens, when I'm probably gonna be like 60, and then I'm I'm gonna have like a good four or five years of good strong like survival. They're gonna be like, man, that old nigga, we gotta keep that old nigga with us for about four or five years. He's gonna be good because I'm gonna be I'm still gonna be able to gut a zombie, hit that motherfucker with a Taichi elbow, right? Karate Chop, stab Daryl from Walking Dead, take care of that motherfucker, and then we're gonna be I'm gonna be able to, I'm gonna be able to run the group. I'm either gonna be leader or I'm gonna be second in command because I don't like I don't sometimes I don't like all the responsibility, but I'm gonna be good. So when the zombie apocalypse comes, I'm gonna be good. I got the instincts for it. I got the instincts, I got the savagery in it for me. But just regular life shit, I need my air fryer. It's just the truth. I need my air fryer. I ain't shit without my air fryer, man. And then you start seeing the videos, man. Remember what I was telling you, bro. You gotta go do your own research. When I go do my own research, bro, and I see that, yeah, the true about the air fryers and the metals and the plastics or whatever the fuck they use, the chemicals they use inside the air fryers is true, man. And then you start finging the glass one all over the place. And like, I gotta give me a glass one. But I don't want to retire, my ninja dual joint. Man, my ninja, me and my ninja dual joint, and then provided me with all the harsh chemicals possible, but the food was so good because I can only cook to survive, man. I'm not gonna give you something where you like goddamn, I'm not gonna give you that. That's not what I got in me. I can only cook to survive. You come over. If a woman come over my house, she says, You gonna cook for me? I said, Yep, she's gonna hear three, dude, dude, dude, and that motherfucker gonna be done. And she's gonna hear and then gonna be like that. Done. And you're going microwave door, air fryer pull up, and I'm putting it on the plate. And all I got is slap your mama some garlic. So that's what I got for you. That's how I survive. That's what I do, that's what I live. I'm I'm single, man. I'm a man, I live like a man. Me and my dog Winston, we live together. That's that nigga, that nigga get a little treat here now and then, but he gets what he gets. I get what I get, and we survive, and we watch TV shows together. That's what we do. You come over here looking for a real meal, you at the wrong place until DoorDash show up, and it's probably gonna be lukewarm because we all know that DoorDash drivers don't know how to keep your shit warm. The truth, ladies and gentlemen. But I see it, and I gotta get the glass air fryer now. I gotta get the glass air fryer. Because everything kills you. And yeah, when he when it's funny, if you notice the the industries are so good at noticing what's happening that they jump Brian on. I was in Target yesterday. No, I don't know about what we're supposed to be doing. I'm just there now. Fuck all the rules, right? But I'm there and I'm shopping, and I'm like, my boy GQ just Davion just got all the glass tupper. He asked me yesterday, he's all man, you want this plastic tupper? I said, nigga, I know about the plastic, I don't want plastic. Nadia, who I work with, she told me this is about a month and a half ago. I was like, you know, she had, I think she had her own little maybe like a hydro flash or something like that, and she was drinking water. And then I was like, Oh, and I didn't notice at the time. And I was like, You want a bottle of water? We had a meeting and I was like, You want a bottle of water? She's like, No, the water, I said, This is good water, though. But she said, Look at the is in the bottles of plastic. I said, God damn it. This Kirkland, though. The Kirkland water had a hundred and a hundred out the app. How much can you believe in the app that says the Kirkland water is a hundred and a hundred? Did Kirkland pay the app people to be like, make it a hundred out of a hundred? All of it needs to be challenged. All of it, you need to think like that. The information that I get, do I believe it? Anyway, she had her own shit. I ain't drinking the water anyway.

SPEAKER_00 29:49

But GQ bought all glassware.

SPEAKER_01 29:56

And if you look, it's nothing but glassware out Tupperware, glass tupperware, all in your shit. The industry be on it, man. They run the systems when you look. I'm not saying this ain't for you to look at me like like uh uh uh uh Woody Harrelson's character from 2020. Then you ain't supposed to look at me like that. I don't have all that shit in me. I don't have all the you know the aliens coming down here riding right now's backs and shit like that. I don't have that shit. I don't have that in me. I have it in my thoughts, but I'm not sharing that with you because I don't want nobody showing up my door with with the neuralizer. And I'm like, you know what I'm saying? I'm caught off guard. That's not what I'm here for. But what I'm here is to talk about little big things that I can get away with without somebody popping up with an email talking about, you know, hey, you better chill the fuck out. We're gonna smoke the rest of your family out. We're gonna kill Winston. Say, how you know about my dog? We know everything. And then the email just disappear randomly. I don't want that. But the industry runs everything, they just know they see it, and they like, okay, put it in their faces, shove it all in their faces. Because I was about to buy me some glass Tupperware, and I realized, I don't even cook like that. I don't even cook like that to have some Tupperware. I realized I had just seen that Ziploc bags is hella poisonous. Listen, ladies and gentlemen, this is not on, this is not on script. We are gone now. I'm just on some shit. Ziploc bags, poisonous, man. Ziploc bags. My mama been used, my mama was using Ziploc bags since Ziploc bags was made, son. You know what being put in Ziploc bags, nigga, we put zip we put fucking fucking tools in Ziploc bags, motherfucking grapes in Ziploc bags, motherfucking steaks, Ziploc bags, leftovers ziploc bags. You understand what I'm saying? We've been using Ziploc bags forever. You know how long we've been putting that plastic in my body, plastic ziploc bags. We've been running that shit, cuz you can't do shit, man. Everything fries you out, bro. You can't, you can't I'm waiting, I'm waiting on the air tax. I'm waiting on the air tax, man. Is the air tax coming? Because you know what I'm saying? Like for clean air, it's gonna be a little thing you can put in your nose, right? You could be you can breathe the regular air, right? They gonna eventually come out and they're gonna tell you that the the regular air is cool, it's all right. You can breathe it, but it's cutting your lifespan by 10 years, but you can put this in your nose and you can live 150 years, and this is the real oxygen. This is the real oxygen. They're gonna start charging for the real some black mirror shit. You know what I'm saying? Charging for speaking of see, I man, when I had a black mirror episode. Oh, this is a little, I don't know if I'm supposed to say this a lot, but I had this, I was talking to divisions, and then we were talking about um uh Michael Jackson and how we just were so mean to Mike. So mean to Mike. And I had watched a video of Mike doing his speech, and he was talking about how he didn't he didn't really know how the world seen him and it was really, really hurt him. And so he's just talking about, he's giving a speech and he's talking about that. And the great Mike, and we just blast Mike, you know. Cole Cokey said, man, Mike was cool, man. We had a great time. All the other kids, he's cool, man. We had a good time. And you just not like that, like a real human good time, just a motherfucker in a in a in a dope ass place and some Disneyland shit having a good time. And you know, we have all these views of Mike. Now I'm not there, I don't know, but I just choose to believe that man, I don't believe Mike was being a weirdo, right? Oh shit. Oh, they about to kill me. Okay, whatever, fuck you. And so we was talking about it, and and they kind of talked, there were some hints of like there was some, there was some there's some things floating. So you gotta believe what you gotta believe, right? There's some things floating that maybe Mike had saved a couple kids from going to the island. I'm not saying no island names, I'm just saying there's an island out there. Did they saying that Mike was saving some kids? Mike saved a couple from going to the island. Now, um the the the episode-ish is here's this big pop star who knows, you know, about an island. And here he is being smoked out for supposedly being weird with the kids, and all he's actually been doing the whole time is saving them from the island. He like, like deeply knows. Deeply knows, and you can go on. I have gone on and on, but some of this shit I'm just not gonna say. I told you, I don't I don't push it too far. This is all just for fun. This for fun, right? Because I don't push it too far. You get that email or you get, you know, I always be worried about what if my my podcasts pop off. I always be worried about what if my pop podcasts pop off, and then the politician comes like, we're gonna run some ads on your shit. Like president, I'm gonna run some ads on your shit. And I'm like, nah, I don't really want to do that. Like, you should really run, you should really let us to run. You should really let us run ads. You should really be on our side. I don't ever want to hear that tone. I don't ever want that message. I just packed my shit up and say, Y'all can have this shit. I don't want it no more because I don't I'm not a big politics guy, all that shit. I don't want none of that shit. I don't ever want to cross a line to where, like I said, they could short with the neuralizer, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. And now I'm you know what I'm saying? I'd have gone from Thaddeus to to to Mike, you know, Mike James. And now I believe that you know what? I there's a lot of times I stop myself from my dark. Now, if I'm on the phone with my boys, I'd have took this so far. My dark humor game is so far. Like, ready or not, it's got like dark humor. Ready or not to, by the way, go see it, but it's a really good sequel. And but I got dark humor. Like, ooh, if they play my phone recordings with my boys, I no longer be able to exist because the shit that I say now the shit that I say is it's dark humor. It's dark. They they put me they put me under uh uh canceled jail. They put me under that. I'm not even saying I'm big enough to be they put me under that motherfucker, though. I'm under that joint. Boy. There's a lot of things talked about. It's a lot of truth in all other shit, too. There's a lot of there's a lot of things talked about. I'm that shade, this is an odd nerd. I'm a real nigga. Shrimp, cocaine and shrimp. What are we talking about? The U.S. Army increased the age from 35 to 42, and that brought me with a little bit of fear. I told you I'd be good in a zombie apocalypse. Any type of apocalyptic situation. Uh, Polibus, I'm good. Right? You want to make me the last person, maybe the last two or three people, seven people. Um, in that situation, I am knocking down some cooch, just being real. But I'm also sensible. I want to get the world back right. But I'm gonna knock down some cooch if I can. You know, there's a couple of celebrities dead. I would probably, yeah, there's female, a couple of celebrities that I probably yeah, yeah. I'm gonna knock, I'm gonna get that done first, and then I'm gonna get back to getting the world right. I have to tell her, like, you gotta give me a second, get this out my system first. You know, give me some blue chews. Uh, I and let me get this out the give me a little dewy. Put a little, you know, give me a little couple blue chews. Let me get this out by system. I'm good there. You know, and I I really do believe um women and children get on the boat first. That is in my man DNA. That's in my that's in my DNA, that's in my genes, man. Women and children get on the boat first. Remember Titanic? I know your name too because I don't like you from Tales from the Crypt. I think that's what the movie. I don't like you from that movie. I don't know if I like you. I don't know if I don't like you more from Titanic or Tales from the Crypt. I can't you creep me out in Tales from the Crypt, but you're a piece of shit in Titanic. And I can't think of your name. That means you did your job right. And you're a great actor, by the way. I'm so sorry to disrespect you. Um, but women and children get on the boat. You remember him in Titanic, though? Snatched up the kid. He can't be alone, he needs to be with me. Oh, and he just got on the boat, and there's women and children around him. Nah, man. On the set, we put the women and children on the boat first. We we ain't no pussies. We put them on the boat first, and then we figure out. Now, once once I look around, once my eyes get to moving around, and I say, okay, okay, there's I don't see a lot of women left. Now I can I can fracture the women down. I I can get my math down. Now I can look at them, I can look at the math and say, Well, we did do a lot of women and children. Just I can look if I'm on the Titanic, I'm looking over, okay. Well, it looks like I can look back on the boat. Oh, okay. The percentage is pretty, and I can then I can switch modes, and I just now if there's if there's 100% of women and children, right? And then we get, if I feel like I got like 80% on the on the safety boats, and there's like two more boats left, now I'm smacking kids. Now I'm now I'm smacking women. Because we d I didn't did a good job of getting a lot of y'all on the boats. Now look, now hold on now, because I didn't did a lot of work. I'm sweating as I got neck sweat. I didn't a lot of work. My physical about to start happening. I'm finna start getting physical. And I gotta get them on the boat. I gotta get myself on the boat. So women and children get on the boat in that type of situation, up to about 80%. Then I gotta get on the boat myself. But him, he's a piece of shit. But that's my DNA. That's in my shit. Women and children get on the boat, at least about 80, 80 to 82%. And then I gotta I gotta save myself, right? When I saw that the army was 35 to 42, I thought this was them coming to get niggas for wars because the shit's going on right now, shit's popping off. And I said, Well, hold on. I'm in that window. I'm not gonna tell you my age, but I'm in that window. Right? And I didn't like that. Cause now, this is my this is my scenario, this is my vision. Okay, when I become effective to the army and just the military in general, when I become effective for y'all is when we at the scrapings. When you scrape in the bottom for soldiers, because that means that all the good ones, we done lost a lot of good ones. Right? And we in a real situation. Basically, this it. And then that's when you come find me. You gotta come pull me out the bunker and say, Man, we down to like 17 of them left. I said, Oh shit, that's all we got left. I'ma check. That's all we got left. And then I'ma come out and I'ma put my my Rambo bandana on and a little paint up under here. I won't last long, because by that time, I done probably got fat sitting and hiding off of just stress. And then I'ma go out and I'ma help. Now, that's just my that's how I look at the wars. Shit. Justified chick, though. Let's just say it's a race war. I'm I'm on I'm on the front line. Because my people done dealt with a lot. I'm on the front line. That's just a really real. That's just a really real. I'm just telling you the truth. I could, I could, I could see a reason. Come on, let's go. Fuck it. It's too too much. Too long, too much. Let's take out some kneecaps, buy some faces. Come on, let's go. But un unjustly, war like wars is just because you don't really know the business and shit. You don't know what the business is. You don't know, nigga, you're trying to get some, oh, you don't know if you're trying to get some diamonds. You don't know what's going on. You know, where my where where are my diamonds? You you don't know what's going on. That makes you feel a little weird. Because most of the time you just sign up for military because you're like, man, they got some good benefits. I learned some crafts, arts and crafts. You know, learn some skills, get in shape, meet some people, go travel the world, protect my country on the right for the right reasons. When you get into the game of is it the right reasons? Ladies and gentlemen, that age range got me. I said, Oh shit. Y'all hate to see, y'all hate, yeah, y'all probably don't know Mash. There, I don't, I can't think of the character's name. I should call Visions on the phone because he knows his name. But there's a character on Mash, he was whole his MASH is an old TV show. And Mash was my my nightlight. Mash was my alarm clock when I was a wee lad. To let me know that it was time to go sleep, and when I just hold on, here it comes. And that motherfucker, when that intro came on, that let me know that it was sleepy time. But there were moments that my mom had gone to sleep before MASH came on. Because I think Mash came on about like 11:30 my time. Because they had no no no no it was about 11 because Married with Children would come on after late night, and Married with Children would come on. I had to get my I had to get my owl on. You know what I'm saying? I had to get my owl on, buddy. Yeah, yeah, I had to get my owl on. And uh I would watch Married with Children, Al Bundy, the the beautiful Christine Applegate. My God, how you doing, Kelly Bundy? And I would get my laugh on, and then I'd be like, I'm getting sleepy. And then there'll be times though that I know my mom would be asleep because her TV be off. And I'd be like, all right, I'm gonna stay up a little later than I want it. And I would watch Mash. I would give it a shot. And I mean, Mash, Mash was basically putting a kid inside of a white padded room with just a pencil.

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That's it. To me, that shit was boring as fuck.

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And but there was a character on there. He made a wee lad, black lad laugh a couple times. And he would dress like a woman because his whole thing was to try to get out of the military. Dressed like a woman. He's like, I'm a woman, I'm trying to get out of here. Well, that's me. That's me. You come knocking on my door for some unjust shit. I'm gonna give you his, I'm gonna give you a snap and Z formation.

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I'm gonna give you a zap.

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I'm gonna give you a snap and Z formation. I'm gonna walk back in my kitchen. Tell you I'm in here making, making, making a cake, baking a cake with some cupcakes. And I'm gonna do a twirl in that bitch. I'm not gonna lie to you. Z force my Z Bow. Come on in the kitchen. Look at these baked goods. Twirl, walk you back out my crib. I'm not going to do no shit for some shit I don't understand. Now you got me. Race war. Signed up. I don't want that. We better not do that. Not in my lifetime. Wait till I'm gone. Don't do that at all. I'm sorry. See? Dark humor. Um, scrapings, meaning we're getting our ass handed to me. You need me. We gotta get our ass handed. I need to see on the sheet. I see all the rules lined up. It's like all the stuff you can't, you gotta go, all that shit. And I need to see at the very bottom of the reason why I'm big bold words, getting our ass kicked. You know what I'm saying? Then I'll be like, okay, we running that. I gotta get up there. There's some jokes, but there's a little truth in this. Right? There's a little bit of truth in this. What else do I gotta hear real quick before I continue? There it is. There it is. Let me get one more time. Okay, so yeah. But I found out that that's not even really the case. They're basically saying they're allowing up 35 to 42, they're increasing it because check this out from 18 to 18 to 25, they're they're low on recruiting because of fitness, medical, and education. Now, I remember when I was in the mall, that same mall I told you about, the more it's the white mall. You know what I'm saying? Where the the more richer white people would go or suburban people would go. Just trying to give you a description. I'm I'm blackedy black from the hood where I was at. But I remember um being about 18, 19, and army dude comes up to us, he's talking. You know, they had a lot of yeah, a lot of pride. Mm-hmm, yeah, mm-hmm. I forgot who was with me. It could be my boy KB. Um, it I think it was probably KB. And and he comes up, he's talking to us about joining, and it was like, oh I'm listening. You know, I'm like, you know, hey, you know what I'm saying? I'm in, I'm in a I'm in basically a war every day in the gatta. In the ghetto, I'm in the in the war every day. I said, you know, you know, I'm listening. We both, I think we both were listening. We were doing he KB was showing me how to do music time. KB is a fantastic rapper, and he was showing me how to do music time. So we was just doing shit, but here's the kicker. You ready? So he's telling us that he's like, he he asked because we was black, of course, he was white. He said, Y'all finished high school, and we was both like, nope. And then we was like, Oh, okay, can't join. And he was out. I wish Jehovah's Witnesses was like that. Like you could just say like one word, and they'd be like, uh, yuck, and then go. Mm-mm. I'm out of here. Yuck. Shoot them. So what this is disgusting. Um, and I couldn't sign up. So the education part I get because I didn't finish high school and if I I was a dropout, I was gone out of there, right? And um, and in fitness, I get it. 18 to 25 fitnesses, influences all over the places, content creators all over the places, gamers all over the place, the stream is all over the place. Fitness, all the motherfuckers is in shape. Like myself, I'm trying. Hold on now, hold on. I may not look like I'm in shape. Let me tell y'all where I started from. I was at 305. I was at 305 pounds. Hold on, hold on. Let me tell you something. Hold on, let me tell you something. So at 305 pounds, man. Started fasting, 18.6, bitch. Right? Got down to 265, bitch. Putting on muscle, motherfucker. I'm at 270, ho. You know what I'm saying? Mmm, right? So the fitness part I get, man. My generation, we was outside, we was running. I don't even know if they I don't even, we they had us doing stretches and shit in in PE class, fitness fitness tests and stuff. I don't know if y'all do fitness tests anymore. I ain't got no kids. They don't know if they do fitness testing. We was playing dodgeball, real balls. We was running, kickball, fall, dirt, bleeding. Nurse be like, you coming here for this? You coming here for this? This little scrape on the knee with a cigarette? You better get out of here. Nurse wasn't having it. Unless your leg was missing, the nurse wanted no part of you. Hell, my nurse, especially in elementary school, she didn't want to call my mama. If I came in there, I was like, I don't feel well. She's like, look, you're gonna have to figure this out because we know the rules when it comes to your mother. We don't bother her at work. You're gonna have to you that bloody nose that you got, you just gonna have to hope that that bitch stop. We're not calling your mama. But they they're they're they're having trouble because of fitness. But I I can see why. Right? I can see why the fitness game, and but you know, it's weird because you see all these reports, and I don't know, I think these are Gen Xers or Gen Z Z. So these are Gen Xers, I guess I would say, because a lot of it look like disease, man. They you know the drinking is down a little bit and they all in the gym. Um now I just want to tell you this that I don't think you're supposed to be hitting the sauce a lot. I'm an advocate for having a good time, as you know why. Um hitting the soul. I but I don't want you to get out there and be the triple alcoholic. I just want you to enjoy yourself a little bit. So have come on out with me, have a little sippy sip. I got some down Julio, some terramata, you know what I'm saying? I have some people ask me for some vodka, I go, ooh, yuck. And then then, you know, I get them some vodka. You know what I'm saying? Have a good time. But it primarily it seems like everybody's in the gym. Where I'm from, where I'm at. I mean, where I'm at now. It's hot all the time, so you want to try to look your best. So the gym is of course is where everybody at. And but it seems like that was the problem. So they had to raise the age up, and they was like, nah, man, let's raise the age up. I did the research on them where I was reading about it, and they were basically like, man, they got job, they got tech skills, they got discipline, they they still be in shape. And it wasn't really for it wasn't really for flying bullets at people, it was more about they could be in the medical field, they could be in, I forgot, what was that? What I say it was, it was the medical field. Uh oh, cyber roles and logistics in the medical field. Cyber roles now that's where I belong. Hacking people shit, man. Look, if they said, Man, look, we drafted people, and they was like, hey, drafting, but we need people for cyber and that's me. Logistics, crunching numbers and shit, breaking into people's Instagrams and shit. I don't know if that's what you mean. They like, no, man, we need some real cyber security stuff, man. Protect people from getting it to the FBI database and all that shit. It's like, oh, I can do a little bit of that, and I can't do the full hack, but I could do a little bit of that. Do y'all know that like I had this is the beauty of doing your own podcast? Because I hope y'all enjoyed this because my brain is wild, and I love when I reach my mark and I know I've been in the zone because I could actually keep going, but I gotta save a lot of my brain work for next week because I'm in the zone. Episode 100. This is Thaddy Shade. This is the odd nerd. Thank you for listening. Subscribe, tell somebody about me, and uh make sure you have uh oh, yeah, we got it all recorded, baby. Peace.