Episode 102: I Lost 55 POUNDS FASTING 18 HOURS... THEN LIFE GOT WEIRD

In this episode of The Odd Nerd Podcast, I talk about losing 55 pounds while fasting 18 hours a day, what the weight loss journey has really felt like, and how my mindset has changed along the way.

Then things get random in the best way.

I get into a woman giving me her number at a coffee shop on a piece of paper with a note that said, “I like your face,” and why that kind of thing feels like it only happens to Michael B. Jordan, a Hemsworth, or somebody with superhero lighting following them around.

I also talk about the couple that climbed the Empire State Building and turned it into one of the wildest proposal stories I’ve seen, plus what that says about love, effort, and the current dating pool.

Then I close the episode with an 80s cult classic conversation about The Legend Of Billie Jean, why “Fair Is Fair” still hits, how it fits into the teen rebellion movie era, and why I think it’s an underrated cult classic that more people should talk about.

Weight loss, fasting, dating stories, viral love moments, and 80s movie culture… this episode went everywhere, but somehow it all made sense.

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

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What's up, ladies and gentlemen? I am Thaddeus Shade and you listen to the Odd Nerd Podcast, and here we go. It is Wednesday, July 1st, 2026 for all future self to see. Just in case you guys discover this podcast and you're like, what was it like in 2026? Well, here I am. A very elderly guy talking to you directly, right? And let's talk about a few things. Let's get into it. I am the I nerd. And what I'm gonna start to do is I'm gonna talk about some life stuff, and then I'm gonna finish talking about some movie or some TV show, which shall be fun and entertaining. Let's get right into it. All right, let's start out with weight loss. I have been on a journey, and if you look at if you listen to past podcasts, I have talked about um me uh fasting and I fast for 18 hours, right? My window to eat is from 12 to 6 p.m. And is a bitch. When I started out, it was a bitch. I'm not gonna lie to you. It started out, it was a bitch, it was hell, it was tough, it was gangster. You know what I'm saying? It was being stomped by Timberlands in New York with four Knicks fans who all say, Hey, what are you talking about? We're going to LaGuardia. Anyway, it was very difficult. And my boy uh Craig Visions put me onto this fasting journey, and it has been the most effective thing that I've done in my life. It has changed my whole health. I have lost a total of 55 pounds doing it, and it was not easy. It wasn't easy, man. Trying to figure out and my whole life, so I've been a promoter for almost 15 years, maybe 15 years, for sure, 15 years. I've been a promoter late night, nightlife, right? And eating late night was the thing to do. When I started this, I was 305, right? I was a heavyweight lover heavy D. And for the Gen Z you don't know who Heavy D is, shame on you! But I started out heavyweight, lover, heavy D, right? 305. My biggest I was like 330, 340, but that was a long time ago. And I started playing ball and I lost weight, but then it just was stick around because I love the food and I love candy, and you know, I love to eat. I was an eater, you know. I was an eater. I get down with the best of when it came to eating, you know. And before I became vegan, you put me in a hot dog challenge and I smash you. I would smash you. It was nothing to me, it was a skill. Give me some glizzies, give me a plate of glizzies, man. Give me 10 plates of glizzies. I would smash anybody in a glizzy, a glizzy challenge, man. I get down with the best of them. And that's before I became vegan. I went vegan. Um, that changed a lot of my body, right? How I felt and how I smelt, all that stuff. Anyway, but the biggest change I made was going to fasting 18 uh hours, right? So I would eat between 12 and 6, and I had to learn, you know, how to adjust to not eating um after 6 p.m. And that was a motherfucker because there would be nights from Thursday to Saturday, and I do other nights too, but Thursday to Saturday that I would be um out and about to two to three in the morning. That shit was gangster. That shit was gangster. You know, I used to think like I just have some fries. I like I told you, I was uh, you know, I'm I'm I'm vegan, so I would think like I'll just have some fries, bro. That's it. I'm gonna have a I'm gonna have a little fry fry, I'm gonna have a little frigate fry, put it in the stomach, I'm good. I'll get up, hit the gym, but nah, it wasn't working. I still go to the gym, wad on all sides. I'm doing two hours worth of work, hour and a half worth of work, cardio, you name it, it was it didn't matter. And it's true, man. It's true. It's all in the kitchen, baby. It's all in the kitchen, it's all in the it's all what you put in your body, when you put it in your body. And as soon as I started doing that, I started dropping weight like crazy, right? And nothing was nothing was easy, and I gotta give my boy a salute. And so this fasting has got me from 305 to 250, 250, 249, 248. And I'm trying to stay under 250 and now I'll start to lift. And it's it's it's gangster. One thing you notice is like the reaction people give you is not a fun reaction, it's not fun. When you're drippity dropping the late the weight, it's not fun the way people react to you because it's like, well, damn, was was I the size of two apartment buildings to where you guys are having this type of drastic response? Am I now Pookie? CB4 who's doing the crystal rock was happening. People react to you, like, oh my god, you lost so much weight, you look so good. Like, what did I look like before, man? I mean, what did I look like before? To get this type of reaction to where you're like, it's so so drastic, and you feel you almost feel kind of hurt behind it. Like, damn. I was I was a really big back bloated, black, big back, bloated motherfucker. When motherfuckers will be having this drastic, are you doing crack? No, I'm not doing crack, man. I'm just trying to do better. Let me get a sip of my coffee because my coffee is my shit. This is the I Nerd, this is the I Nerd podcast. Let's go. By the way, if anybody who listens to me knows that I get down on the coffee, and I just got a package of the espresso pie. They just got to the dough before I started doing this. They just got to the dough. This is um pistachio vanilla, right? Um, Will Smith, right? Right, um, pistachio vanilla with some very clean organic barista milk in here. It's oat milk, you know. I get, I get it. It's old milk, I get it, right? But it's old milk and hair, and I put a little just a little bit of the put a little bit of the pistachio. No, no, no, no. Actually, I put the orange cream syrup just a tab it to give us woo-hoo. And then I happened to see, I know I'm finishing about my fasting, just hold on. I happened to see on the gram, this influencer um was making her coffee thing that she had fallen in love with, and she was and she was like showing the recipe. And I was like, Oh shit, here's a white person showing me a recipe about some coffee, and I know y'all don't play about your shit like how I don't play about my shit, especially white women. So I was like, Oh shit, I'm locked in. So she showed me what she was making. She was like, I make it every morning, and I be so I was like, Okay, show me what it is. So she was putting brown sugar. I said, Okay, a nigga like some brown sugar. She then she put some um um um some honey. I said, Oh, a nigga fuck with some honey. So she put some honey in there, and then she put a little salt. I said, Mmm, salt in the coffee. Hmm. I said, Fuck it, I'm gonna risk it. I made it, and I'll be damned if I'm not addicted. I'll be damned, man. I'll be damned if I'm not addicted. And that's what I did with this, man. I got the the espresso uh uh pod in there, and I put the brown sugar with the honey and a little bit of this flaky sea salt. You know, I bought that shit off of Amazon and I bought as if I'm not a regular motherfucker, I bought as if I got millions in the bank. I bought brown sugar, the best brown sugar I can buy. I bought some $20 bag brown sugar, I bought uh the the flaky sea salt from Iceland. Some some sea salt from Iceland, nigga. You are a Negro. What are you doing by but I bought it because I like to be classy when I fucks with the coffee and the honey I got some I can't even say the name of it because it's Hakuna, Hakuna Matada honey, and it was the low grade 50 from New Zealand. I bought that, came in a jar, it was $20, and I made it all together. The shit tastes bomb. Let me get a sip of my shit. This is the Odd Nerd Podcast because I do what I want on my shit. So Visions put me on to the fasting, and it's really worked. And it's taught me a lot of discipline, and I'm very proud of myself. Because it's not easy, man. Weight loss is not easy. My mom got food stamps, man, and how she she would make those food stamps. Man, we would eat, we eat pretty good. It wasn't like my mom wasn't picking up a box and looking on the back of the ingredients. She's like, nigga, y'all niggas need to eat. Here it is. She wasn't picking that shit up, turning around, like, oh shit, red color dye, die 79. You're gonna get nah. She just like, I need to eat. And so we would get like Tampico juice. If you ever had for Gen Z, Tampico juice, there's NASA fuel, and then there's Tampico juice. If NASA, if there's an astronauts out there in space and they're floating around and they're like, oh shit, we run out of fuel, and somebody's like, Look, I got a I got a gallon of Tampico juice, they'd be like, Oh shit, we need to put that in the in the in the fuel tanks. The fuel tank, that'll get us back to Earth. That's how explosive Tampico juice was. At 11 years old, I would drink Tam Pico juice and I would get 55-year-old heartburn. I'd like and now run out and play and be like, I think it's burning in my chest. My mama didn't care because that shit was like a dollar fifty a gallon. You get orange, you get pink. It's like it's like a dollar fifty a gallon. She didn't care. She's just trying to feed, and so you know, I Snickers and Salisbury. You you ever you have Salisbury steak? Have you ever like cooked salisberry steak and then you like, oh, we got some salisbury steak left, we're gonna put it in the fridge, and then we're gonna come back to it. And you look at the the sauce that's alien hair grease. Oh uh, salisberry steak left over ain't nothing but alien hair grease. Have you ever seen look, it's all thick and weird, it ain't what it was when you put it in the stove and you pulled it back out. That ain't the same, you know what I'm saying? It it's so you know you was eating straight poison, man. So my whole my whole life I understood nothing but poison. And as you get older, you become a surgeon about let me look on the back. Even if you're not vegan, I'm vegan, but even if you're looking on the back, you're like, let me look on the back. Because I give a fuck about health. You learn so much, you so much is out there, so much knowledge of what not to eat, what to eat, when to eat it, how to eat it, how to cook it, you know, how to wash it. There's so much out there, you'd be a fool not to start to enjoy the journey of how to eat better. You still want to have fun because I still have funny fun. I'm still gonna get down with a cake, I'm still gonna get down with a cupcake, I'm still gonna get down with a pie, I'm still gonna get down with a pop tart. These mango pop tarts I would go get, man, from my place goji, downtown Phoenix. I go get these mango pop-tarts, man. And let me tell you something. If vagina tastes like these mango pop-tarts, man, it I'd be I'd be in prison because all I'd be trying, is there more vagina out there I could eat? Because the mango pop tarts that I get from goji are amazing. But my whole thing in saying is, man, this fasting journey has really changed my life. It is uh difficult, but once you get the in a groove of like I've done 72, 48, 24 hours, the straight water fast, and the 72, the 72 should only be done by people who are on death row. When you do a 72-hour water fast, those are only meant for people who are on death row. Do you understand what I'm telling? That shit is no joke, but you feel amazing mentally when you get done with it. Physically, you feel like, ooh, I feel lighter on my feet. I feel lighter on my feet. You drinking the water, and I and a big a big thing that really helped me was LMMT. So I would call it LMMT, and then my black ass discovered it was element. The whole time I would say LMMT, LMMT, LMMT, it is element. And that package saved my life. Element is full, it's got like a thousand milligrams of sodium, right? That's a lot of sodium, I know. But you know, I'm I'm black, so I I grew up eating chicken with never fried chicken. Never mind, let me not even get in all that. But listen, thousand milligrams of sodium. Sodium, I think it got like 300 milligrams of potassium, and then there's uh magnesium. It's magnesium and then potassium, so it's all in there, right? And I learned that like when you're craving things, you just want some salt, some potassium, some magnesium. So I would I would take a little, I learned about it, and then I would take a little sippy sip because my boy Visions put me on a video and they was talking, then the doctor was talking about it. I think it was on Dire of CEO, he was talking about it, and I was like, all right, bet. I bought it, sprinkled it, I would sip it because I didn't want to do you. I never did a whole thing. That's a lot of sodium, right? So I would only do like a half a pack and I would sip it and I would catch myself not being hungry, man. So I was like, oh shit, that thing would save my life. Now I'm moving around, you know what I'm saying? I got I'm doing Barry Sanders shit up the stairs. You know, for you gin gin zers don't know what Barry Sanders is go look up the highlights on YouTube. I'm doing Barry Sander, Barry Sander moves up the up the up the up the stairs. When I walk my dog, I'm out there moving around like Patty Mahomes before the knee injury and after. I still believe in you, Patty. Go Chiefs. It's crazy, man. I'm really happy about that journey. That journey's crazy. It's really crazy. And it's it's insane how people look at you. You know? Even with the the new smile that I have in my mouth, please don't look at it. Thank you. Um, because I'm like, it's weird because you do things like I'm not like a big, you know, put me in the spotlight, you know, put me in the middle of the room, and I'm gonna take over the room, like, woohoo hoo, let me look at me. I'm cha-chai on top of a table. That's not what I do, right? I'm very, very cool, very kind, except from when I'm on here, that's when I act the pool. But in live and in person, I'm very chill, right? Just want to be cool, put me in a corner, you want to talk, have a conversation. Oh yeah, huh, 10, 10, 10, yeah, yeah, for real, for real, for real. Oh yeah, Steph Curry is the man. Steph Curry is the man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure, that's how I am, right? I don't like the uh the attention, right? But the way people react to, you know, you doing something and it changing your look. It's like, damn, was I ugly? Did God make a mistake? I gotta blame my parents more. What type of DNA was y'all mixing where you got me? Because people are having these reactions, and it's like crazy to think that we are really eye contact pay. We eye first. I it's eye first, and then everything else is second. You know, I was watching an episode of home improvement because I watch like comfort shows to go to sleep. I'm watching an episode of home improvement, and um, this has gotta be like season. If you don't know what home improvement is, Google it. And this is like season three or four, season three or four, it's gotta be. And uh Jill comes home from work and she's talking to Tim and she's telling Tim about work, and she's working in a like a hospital, I think. And she's like, she was sad because this lady came in and she's getting all this work done because her husband left her after 30 years of marriage for a younger woman, and and she was just kind of sad about like all these women coming in and getting these uh breast implants and getting these things done to her body. And I was like, damn, this is like 94-95 that they're talking about this. And I know plastic surgery has been around forever, but I never put two and two together watching home improvement, right? And I'm like, damn, motherfuckers have been doing shit to their bodies for a long time to look better. And so Jill hands old Timmy Tim the pictures, and he's looking at like the before and after, and Jim and Tim drops the the punchline of oh, she could have saved the marriage if she had done this earlier, which is very funny, by the way. It's very funny. But Jill was hurt, but it was very funny. I actually laughed, and it's you know, normally I just watch those shows, get nice little comfort that way. Satan gets off my ass and I can get some sleep. I because you know the old comfort shows bring a lot of happiness and joy, so I like to get into it so Satan be like, Oh, it's too happy in here. I'm going, I'm going somewhere else. Plus, I'll be having my AC frosty in this motherfucker. And he, you know what I'm saying? I keep my AC down to the bare minimum. I I like to challenge Antarctica when I put my AC on, right? And he be in here, ooh, it's a little too cold in here for me. And this nigga happy too. I'm about to leave, so that's why I put my comfort shows on. But he made that punchline. I laughed. It was funny. I laughed. But it's, you know, people have been making changes to their bodies forever, man. And then even he acknowledged that, like, oh shit, there's a drastic difference. And it's kind of a weird feeling to have people be like, oh shit, you look so good. What am I? You weren't telling me that four or five months ago. You look so good. What do you want? Some of the deh? You know what I'm saying? Do you want some of the deh? Because you wasn't saying that four or five months ago. That shit hurts. When you it's cool, it's great to hear, right? And it keeps you motivated to stay in the gym. And anybody that I talk to, you know, you talk to me about it. I'm like, it it motivates you to stay and do what you're gonna do because you know, you you like to feel better first. It's all about feeling better first. The compliments do help. Make no mistake, the compliments do help, ladies and gentlemen. They make you feel really good. Oh, they make you feel really good. Um, it just is when you sit back and you analyze, you kind of are like, damn. When I get up, when I get up to heaven uh and I'm talking to GOD, I gotta let him know, like, man, you know, you know, you kind of did me over, man. I had to go do some other things to my mouth, and I had to go do some things to my body, and you're like, nigga, the body shit is all you, baby. You can't put that on me. You know what I'm saying? I mean, yeah, I made the people who made the Snickers, who made the Reese's, who made who made the cinnamon toast crunch, but you didn't have to put it all down to your system. I said, But shit, it was good, man. Why do you have to make the people to make the food so good? And you know, I I dabbled for a long time. I don't even eat cereal no more. I miss cereal, man. I miss cereal. I'm just thinking about it, right? I miss cereal, but I'm very appreciative of the journey, and it has changed my life. So out there, if you you're out there and you're struggling, I'm always, I'm not even somebody that's gonna push some shit on you, but I'm gonna, I'm not gonna push shit on you. But I'm gonna, if you ask me, I'm gonna say, man, start out with 1212. Don't eat for 12 hours and then have a 12-hour window to eat. Try it out, build yourself up to 18. And if you're gonna do 72, because my boy Davion just jumped right into the game because he's doing it too, and he he done lost a lot of weight, he got all the compliments in the world, you know what I'm saying? And if you're gonna do it, don't do like him. He he did he did it the skydiving way, he just jumped right into it the 72 and then started the journey. I would never say that because I told you that 72 hours is only for lifers, lifers and death rows. Because that shit is gangster. My that shit gangster, son. I ain't gonna lie to you. That shit ain't for everybody. You feel me? How many them shit ain't for everybody? That shit gangster. But the fasting has changed my life. Anyway, let me get a little sip of my coffee because it's my shit. I can do what I want. And moving on to more impressive things because of the weight loss in the teeth, right? Um, here comes me and my boy. We go to Luna Cafe downtown here in downtown Phoenix. Luna's Luna, Luna Cafe or Luna's Cafe. I don't know, it's cool, man. It's really retro type cafe, bar place because they sell they sell the liquor liquor there. And you got you can get you a beer there too, but they also have coffee and they coffee the bomb. You know what I'm saying? Cfo grenade, bomb, the bomb, Martin, Martin, the bomb. It's really good. And they have like this coffee there that's got like a it's like a peanut butter chocolate joint. Very impressive, very impressive, very and uh uh we go there and we you know sit down, shooting the shit, talking the shit, working on promotion, promoting, doing the work, whatever, right? And we've been there for a little bit, and I oh that's when I first got the pocket, the pocket. Three, which I'm using right now, right? I got that, and I'm fucking around with that because I was making I was gonna make some content, but I had to, I'm still learning it, right? This is a few weeks ago, and um I got my head kind of down, and then there's this lady, I don't see her, but this lady comes up and she uh has a paper and she puts it in my hand. And Davion, I think at the time was on the phone. Um, but he had, I guess he had peeped everything. I didn't see nothing, but the lady had uh put something in my hand. At first I was like, uh, don't touch me because I don't know who you are, right? I wasn't really like that. I'm not like that at all. Unless you unless you're homeless. I'm not gonna lie, unless you're homeless. I'm just keeping it real. If you're homeless and you come up and touch me, I'm gonna give you a jab with the left, clean you out with the right. Talk to me first. I don't mind give them something to your pockets. I don't mind that at all. If you are homeless and you happen to see this, I don't know how you will, you touch me straight jazz, finish you with the right. You know what I'm saying? You sleep, and you wake up thinking you in the mansion, but you still on the streets. That's just what it is, man. Don't touch me, right? But I didn't see her, so she she touched me and put something in my hand. I was like, What the fuck? And then I looked up, and all I saw was the back of her head. And Davion was like, he was on the phone, you got the phone. He's like, Oh, I knew she just kept staring at you, dog. She just kept staring at you. I knew you was gonna, I knew she was gonna do something. She just kept staring at you. And I looked in my hand, I said, Oh shit. I said, Oh shit, there's paper in my hand, and it said, I like your face, and it was a phone number. Now, I'm gonna tell you the whole story. I'm just before I get to the whole story, I just want to say this. That shit don't happen to me. You see what I'm saying? Five, six years, not years, but six months ago, I wasn't getting no women walking up to me and putting numbers in my hand. You know what I'm saying? You know, they're not they're not that shit happens to the the to the Hemsworths and the Jordan B's, the beaten Jordans, the B Jordans. It don't happen to to to me, right? So I'm chilling, you know what I'm saying? I'm thinking it's a bill collector. Bill Collecker didn't got me. He done came up and said, I found you, motherfucker, you owe us some money. I thought he put some, you know what I'm saying? I didn't see him. I thought he put something in my hand. He said, I got you. I was mad about it. But now I just saw the back of her head and said, I like your face. Said I like your face. And there was a number on there. So there's two sides of this. It's very cool. It's very cool for the guys that this shit happens to, you lucky sons of bitches. It's a very cool feeling. And then I understand the women's side of it. How creepy it is to have that to have that be done to you. Because you don't, you don't see it's like a drive-by number drop-off. You don't see it. You know what I'm saying? And you know, if you're a guy, you know, you're supposed to always move with a level of confidence. And sometimes, you know, you got two, three women at a table inside of a coffee shop. That ain't that ain't something you want to to attack. That ain't something you want to move into because you walking into the village of the of the uh uh of the strike zone. You don't want to do that. That's sometimes you don't want to do that, but so you got to be slick, you got to move in a slicky slick way. So you might want to write the number down and then walk over there and be like, oh, this from somebody else, but it's actually from you, and then you get the fuck out of there, you know what I'm saying? But I can see how there's a big level of creep to it, and I and that's what I was wondering when I left. I said, Oh man, this is really cool. This really happened. And I was like, Well, what if what if she like admires like Ted Bundy? What if I call her and she's like, hello? And then I'm like, oh shit, you know what I'm saying? What if she's into all that? She hides it all from me. Next thing I know, I go over to the place, and it's like a dungeon, it's like scalps and like and and and heads of rhinos and shit. Like, gotta go over there, and that's what she's into. All because I called the person who shoved who shoved the number into my hand. Now, in all realness and all seriousness, I have not called her. And if you happen to see this, I am so sorry because I really wanted to, but I think I lost the number. And I was actually really hurt by this because I wanted to talk about this and I wanted to talk to you about what I did and how I pursued, or how I if I texted her, if I didn't text her, because I wasn't gonna call. Who calls nowadays? What the fuck? I don't even like to don't call me. And you people who FaceTime, shame on you. Don't FaceTime, don't do that, don't do random FaceTimes. Have the decency, have the decency to just check and see if it's cool. Hey, is it cool if I FaceTime you? Don't just FaceTime me. That's just that's just inappropriate behavior. That's not acceptable behavior. That's un that's unacceptable behavior. That's not appropriate behavior. And I wanted to really, I was really mad at myself. Now I'm gonna, I'm gonna try to find it. I haven't really scoured because I put it in my pocket. I haven't really properly scoured where it probab possibly could be in the crib, but I am hurt by it. Because I really wanted to see who was this woman. The fucked up thing about my boy, all he kept saying is you're gonna be able to get that. You're gonna be able to, oh, you're gonna be able to, oh, you're gonna be able to get that. I kept asking how she looked. You're gonna be able to get that. Oh, she how she looked. Oh boy, you're gonna get that easy. No, hey lady, ma'am. I'm not saying that you're easy. If you see this, ma'am, lady, that's not what I'm saying. That's just how we talk as a men. We talk like that. That ain't him. He ain't he's just saying that you had the the big time hot for me and I'm gonna be able to get the cuckoo easy. That's all he's saying. But I'm not saying you like that. I like to earn my coochie. I don't like I don't like layup coochie. Layup coochie scares me. I like to earn my spot in Coochie Ville. You understand what I'm saying? I like to earn my spot in Coochieville, and we're not saying you like that. We just we just how we talk amongst men. So let me tell you something, everybody do it.

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Your pastor in the church, when he with his other pastor buddies, he like, ooh, you see sister digger, oh you see sister digger, ooh, she they get to talking like that.

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They just they gotta because he be paying attention, so they gotta they gotta they gotta uh a little bit with it, they gotta put a little bit more PG, a little bit PBS on it. They can't get like he can't say you're gonna get that shit. He can't say that. He can say that you know what I'm saying? They can say, Oh, sister Dick, she she likes you, Pastor. You know, they could say that, but what they really saying is oh, she's gonna give you some of that, some of that clean heaven, you know what I'm saying? She give you some of that clean heaven shit, you know. They can't, but oh shit. Um, so yeah, I'm kind of hurt. I gotta try to find the number. If I find the number, I'll definitely still message her if the window hasn't closed. I don't know what the window is for that. I don't know, there's a timeline for that, like a time span, time period of when she's gonna be accepting of me hitting her up and being like, Oh, hey, you remember me from three weeks ago at Luna's Cafe? She might because I look like Shaquille O'Neal. There's not a lot of people out here that just look like Shaquille O'Neal. There's not a lot of us out here that look like Shaquille O'Neal. I'm one of them. And she's gonna be like, Oh, yeah, you the one look like Shaquille O'Neal. Yes, that's me. But I'm gonna try to find a number. If I find the number, I'm gonna call or I'm gonna text. I'm so sorry, I'm gonna text. We're gonna see what happens, and we'll go on that journey. But it was one of the it was one of the cooler things that have happened this year. Because it just doesn't happen, you know, to to to a lot of guys. Not a lot of women ain't walking up in in shy mode. They they barely approach you, you know what I'm saying? You got to do you got to all the work, which is fine. That's what men supposed to do. We supposed to go do the work. I'm not saying that don't get all weird on me, but it's rare that you're gonna get one to come up to you and be like, You look good enough for me to put a number in your hand, creep. I'm not you're not a creep lady, I'm just making jokes. You're creepy. No, I'm just playing, I'm just fucking around. But it's uh it was pretty fucking cool. And maybe I just go back, maybe I just start going back to Luna's cafe every day, hoping to see her, and then maybe she comes up to me and be like, You never, and I'll be like, Oh, and then I see her, and maybe she ain't what I because we all use our eyes. Remember, I just told I just talked about y'all judging me and my weight loss and how all of a sudden I look better. I ain't no better. I ain't no better. I ain't no better. I'm gonna look at you dead and now I'm gonna look at you. I'm gonna make the proper adjustments. Oh, yeah, you can come meet me in Bible study. You know, I'm gonna make the proper adjustments. Because if you look good enough, I'm gonna I'm not gonna mention Bible study. I'm like you wanna get some food? Get something to eat, and if you don't look the pro Bible study, Bible study, one of the coolest things that have happened to me, you know. Um you think about what could potentially happen, you know, if she was cool, because then I can look up and be like the couple from today that climbed the Empire State Building. That's like 1,450 feet up. They climbed it, and they got to the top, and they put a banner, like some type of flag up about world peace, which is cool. Put a little flag up about some world peace, and then they climbed down just a little bit to a platform, and the guy proposed to her. It's really hard to beat that. There's a lot of guys out there that have done a lot of amazing proposals. It's hard to beat that. You line them all up, like, oh yeah, I was NBA Finals halftime. After the marry me who came across the board, LeBron James came out, helped me do it. It's pretty solid. You know what I'm saying? I was at I was at a Bruce Springsteen concert. Bruce let me come on stage. She was blindfolded, she didn't know what was going on. It's pretty cool. Empire State Building, 1400 feet up in the air, to drop a message, which is a really good message, and then to go down lower, get on one knee, propose, and the and the lady from Philly, who was the news lady, she was in Philly, she's like, Oh, they started kissing. She's like, Oh, oh, oh, and then she was talking about, oh, please don't walk to the edge. And and you could see the girl stick her hand out with her phone and then like take pictures. It's all cool because you're going to jail, right? You got to get all you can get out of it. Because you're going to jail when it's all said and done. You got to get all you can get out of it. It was really dope. And and and and you got the proposal, you climbed all the way up. I don't know how you did it. Somewhere, somewhere, Christopher Nolan's thinking about doing Batman again, because Matt Matt Reeves taking forever. And he's thinking about doing Batman, and he's like, I gotta figure out how they did that because I'm gonna use it. And then they it's cool because you got to milk it for everything. They climbed up 1,450 feet in the air and got the proposal. She's taking the video for the for the gram because they're going to jail, and and it's really dope. They got the peace sign up there, world peace. And then I find out they got a Netflix documentary.

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What's that Netflix documentary? What was that shit called? Um, what is that?

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Oh, Skywalker a love story, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Skywalker a love story. So Netflix 2024. Netflix is gonna buy this too. Because damn. So just when you think you're single, think about how single you are. It was really cool to see though. I'm not gonna lie to you. That's love. I don't, you know, even if it's you know, a little bit of show in there, there is some things that you do together. They like to climb shit. They like to climb shit and do wild shit at the top. Cool wild shit. They like to climb shit. They did it together, they go into jail together. You know, and I think she had on a Batman mask, man. She had on a Batman mask. How do you find these? How do you guys find these women that are into these things? I can't find them, bro. It's impossible to find a woman who's into it's just it's just bullshit. It's just bullshit. Whatever, man. But I'm happy for you. And you, I don't know how much your bail is gonna be, and I'm sure Netflix will take care of it because they're coming. But it was really cool to see. Got you a little message, got a little proposal, it's really cool to see. I don't think I I don't think you can top that. I just don't think there's a proposal out there you can top. Unless, unless for real, for real, like I'm not even gonna say it. No, nope, not gonna say it. But that's that's that's pretty bad. Now I told you that um the format would be first of all, this is the odd nerd podcast. Let's give some claps in here. All right, now this is where it's gonna get fun. All right, for me. I have dived all the way in to making content about movies and TV shows and kind of doing spoiler-free reviews, and I'm trying to get better and better and better at, right? That's what I love. I love movies, I love TV shows, I love all types of movies, and I I'm gonna die. Music runs my life. My other advice out of those three, there's there's music, there's TV shows, and there's movies, and then I'm a smell good connoisseur. I like the cologne. I'll get into all that eventually. But right now I'm building up TV and movie show, and I just love talking about them. I love watching them. It's my shit. That's my jam. That's some Jimmy Jimmy Jam and Terry Lucas. Oh god, I just got done watching episode one of uh X-Men 97 season two. Whoo! I got two more to watch. Well, I started the other one, I got phone calls and I couldn't finish. It's bullshit. Anyway, can't wait. Anyway, but in my episodes, the last I try to get to like the last 20, 30 to 20 minutes of the episode where I'm going to talk about something that I'm watching, or I'll bring up a classic. And I just really it's weird that I use this as my first one to start out with, but I just for some reason really, really, really, really fuck with this movie. And it's probably like, how do you fuck with this movie that much? Well, let's go into it. The movie is titled The Legend of Billy Jean, came out in 1985. Now, 80s movies, they don't never die to me. A lot of them really just hold weight for me because they just bring a lot of something to them. Now, 85, I was very young and I hadn't that movie, I couldn't even recognize or understood what that movie was about at the time. But I would say somewhere around the whiz, not the is it the whiz, the wizard, the wizard, not the whiz with Michael Jackson and Diana Ross, but the wizard, um, with uh Fred Savage. Um, you know, I kind of started to pick up it had Nintendo in there. I kind of understand, and that's when I kind of got a hold of Pat Benatars, um, Invincible. When I when my mom was watching the movie one time and I was like listening to Invincible, and I was like, Oh shit, I like that. I don't know what movie this is. And then and then I liked the the lady in there, and she was she was she had a fade, she had a fade, you know what I'm saying? She had a G.I. Jane fade, and I was like, Oh shit, I like her, and then I like the fucking song, what is this? And then I heard fair as fair, I understood fair as fair. So let's get into it. The legend of Billy Ginco in 85, and the tagline is fair as fair. That was a big part of this movie, and the movie's pretty much over uh, you know, some small town bullies are messing with a kid. Uh, this kid happens to be a young Christian Slater. Um, a young Christian Slater, his first movie. And oh, I can't think of her name. Oh boy. Hold on, let me hold on, don't get mad at me, y'all. Let me uh oh, I can't think of her name. I'm gonna be so mad at myself, bro. But uh, she was the first supergirl, and I'll get her I'll get her name in a second. She's the first supergirl, and these bullies in the town are messing with her brother, and her brother drive rides this scooter. It's a big reason why I have a scooter to this day, like because I seen that scooter in that movie, and then when I was younger and living in my grandma's house, our next door neighbor had a scooter, and his scooter looked like the scooter in Billie Jean. And I was just like, he's so cool because he's got a scooter that looks like the scooter in Billie Jean. Anyway, and they end up messing up this kid's scooter, and the sister's like, nah, they gotta pay for that, and it's 608 bucks, and they try to go to the young bully's dad's car lot and to get this money, and he's he's like, Nah, I'm not going for it. I'm not gonna pay you the 608 because they wouldn't pay for it. And she came in demanding the 608 bucks, and he was like, Yeah, well, oh yeah, I'm lying to you because he's like, Oh, yeah, I got the money. Come on upstairs. And he goes up, she goes upstairs with him, he gets all Harvey Weinstein and all that shit. I'm sorry, it is what it is. It is what it is. I said it, I said it, I said he gets all Harvey Weinstein, she's like, get off me. And then the commotion happens, and young Christian Slater, I'm not gonna tell you what happens, but an accident happens because you might want to go see the movie, you might want to watch the movie, right? So something happens, and all because he didn't want to pay the 608 bucks to have the scooter fixed, a whole thing happens. She becomes Jonah Bark, which she watches in the movie, right? She watches Jonah Bark. God damn it, I'm telling you stuff. And she be she gets on the run, right? And in the 80s, rebellion movies became a big deal, like a really big deal. Fast was that uh fast times at Ridgemont High. Is that right? Uh Ferris Day, Ferris Bueller. Um, that's my that's my Jimmy Jam classic. And it and it became a big deal. There's way more, but it became a big deal. Lost Boys is my shit. And um she goes on a run and she becomes kind of like this hero who's rebellion against rebellion against law, rebellion against parents, and she kept saying, fair is fair. And it's like it's like a smooth tagline, fair is fair. And the as she's running away from law, these uh teens throughout the country are hiding her in houses. They're hiding, I'm not gonna tell you everything, but they're hiding her out. And the cops are like, just turn yourself in, it's okay, we're not da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. And then the the the dad who owns a car lot, he's a real piece of shit. He's trying to press charges, and he's got like a arm sling, he's a piece of shit. He's like pig piece of shit. And um, and then the cops are kind of noticing he's a pig piece of shit, and they're just trying to get her to come in, and she's got her, she's got a crew running around with her, and she it's it's just it's just cool, man. It's this 80s on top of 80s, right? And some of the things that I know this are sleeper cult classics. I don't feel like I feel like you're a real cult classics where movies don't do well because it was a flop in the box office. I think it was shot in Corpus Christi. And I've never been to my boy Craig Vision used to work down in there, but I've never been to Corpus Christi. But it was shot down there, and cult classics are like the big Lebowski, right? They're massive, they're big deals. They don't really do well in box office, but all of a sudden they get on to uh VHS or DVD and they just blow up like they're the most important thing in the cinema, right? Well, this one is a cult classic, but I don't feel like it gets enough of its respect, especially when it comes to Pat Bidatar's Invincible, which is one of the best uh theme songs for a movie all time to me. And there's a lot of not saying I didn't say one, I didn't say the best, I say one of the best, at least top ten.

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At least top ten top ten.

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I don't know what that's about, but um what was I happening with that? The cool thing about Pat Benitar, I guess she saw the movie and she didn't think the movie was good enough. Well, she saw the movie and she didn't think the song, she didn't think the movie was good enough for the song. So I'm assuming her label is like, we don't care about all that, you're gonna put the song in there. And the song technically is what carries the movie, 50% of the movie. Like it's just an overall 80s-filling movie, and it's kind of like fun, and it does feel make you feel rebellious, and they're, you know, they're you get to see parts of the the countries they ride, ride through and they're running and stuff. It's like in the they do the same thing in the uh in The Wizard, where they have these moments where send me an angel that song plays, and they're like driving, you see farmland, you just gotta you just get these shots of kind of seeing America, which is kind of cool, uh, you know, rural areas, whatever the case may be, right? So um it's just kind of one of those fun movies, and I think it's overlooked because uh it's kind of uh got some badass, got a little message to it, and you know, as you grow up, you Get an idea of like, yo, man, you my parents really don't listen to me. You know, my my mom's my pops don't be listening to me. And and you kind of get into that zone of like, nah, I'm not gonna come back when the street lights come on. Now, listen, I'm gonna say this. Now, I never looked at the street lights come on and say, ah, fuck it. The only time I ever did that is because I knew that, oh, I'm not gonna make it. I'm just gonna deal with it because I'm not gonna make it. I'm just gonna, you know, I'm gonna get in trouble anyway. We used to think like that. And man, it turned out bad every time. No matter how you felt, you'd be like, man, I'm I'm gonna get in trouble anyway. So you would hang out with your friends and you just would deal with it. And you would be like, you would finally go home, you're like this on your walk back home, because we would walk everywhere, because y'all know about that about about being outside, um, we would walk everywhere, and when you would walk home, you start to realize this was a big mistake. This was a big mistake because because you can justify five minutes after the streetlights, you can justify 10 minutes. But if you go into the mode of I'm gonna get in trouble anyway, and it's an hour or it's two hours past, that's a special ass whooping. And then while you're in the special ass whooping zone, while it's happening to you, you realize this was a horrific idea, bad idea. This was this was this was not good because this is a different type of Negro Kong fu that my mother is doing to me, and you don't make too many of those moves after that. You may got one more in you, and then the second time you decide the ass whooping is worse, and then but it's followed up by more shit. Like now you locked in the house and can't go outside, or you just become the the 90s slave, you know, you become the 90s Kuda Kente, you just working all over the place in the house, you know what I'm saying? Lifting the toilet up and getting the cockroaches under the toilet, you know what I'm saying? You just working real hard after your whole body fucked up, so you really can't move everything because she didn't give you the kung fu. You know what I'm saying? But you know, rebellion is just a part of teenage years, and you you didn't get a lot. I I do listen. I had a little rebellion in me, but mom's was a street binder, like she just was like she was raising three boys, so she was just down with the hands. We just go out to the front yard, we can just go out to the front yard, and we could just throw the hands with the best of them. You know how crazy that is? My mom has some height on her, but it's crazy for you know, you're used to going outside when you in when you're in the hood, and just when you're grown up, period. It doesn't matter. Like when you was a young teenage boy, and you you either you're gonna get in fights, you just gonna tackle each other on concrete, you just gonna do shit to fuck your body up. So but you're used to that shit. You're not used to you know, mom's just gonna square with you in the yard, and she was down for it. And so you you're not gonna square with your mama's, you just gotta accept the beating. You just gotta accept your ass whooping. It hurt, she's a professional ass whooper, you know what I'm saying? And you when you black, you just have high respect for your elders, so you just you get your ass whooped under the bed. You you start out on top, or you start out up and alive, functioning, all of a sudden she didn't beat you under the bed, and she didn't came under there, and she's doing Jackie Chan shit under the bed. Elbow punch, it's just it's professional, professional shit. I don't know where they developed it at. I don't know where they went to school for how the art form of ass kicking from black parent to child. I don't know what, I don't know where it started. Who taught them the technique and how it got passed down to all black? It was a it's a special technique that started somewhere because it involves very threatening words, a lot of threatening words, and then you getting hit while there's more threatening words coming with you. And it's like, oh shit, this is professional. That's why when we fight, we get up in there, we talking shit while we fighting, because we learn that from the parents. You know what I'm saying? You getting a thorough ass whooping, whether it be belt, whether it be fists, whether it be cords, whether it be phones, whether it be switches. You you ever been told to go get a switch from a tree? What type of Mississippi shit is this? You ever, my grandma told me to get a switch? Let me tell you something. It took me two and a half hours to get that tree. It took me two and a half hours to get that tree. You ever heard you have your weapon told to go get a switch? To go get your weapon that's gonna do you in? That shit is insane, man. You know what I'm saying? Imagine you get you get you ever seen, oh, what's the movie? Uh, with Claire Danes in it. Her and her friend, oh, I can't think of it. They go uh, I think to China, and they're they went to one place and then they were out hanging, and then they met like these white guys, and they put drugs in their bag, and uh they end up getting stopped by um um customs and because the guys were trying to smuggle drugs into the country. They saw some some some young white girls, and they're like, you know, some young girls, and they were like, we're gonna try to get these drugs in this country. They smuggled it in, and um, they end up getting caught and they end up going to jail in in China. You know what I'm saying? I forgot where I was going with that story, but that movie's crazy. That movie was crazy, but getting your getting your getting your ass whipped was no joke from the art form of the mother. But rebellion was the big thing. I I had such a great, it was I was going, I had such a great thing to finish that with and I just lost it. So yeah, deal with this mind. Sip of coffee, I'm about to finish this thing up. You ready? So, but the movie was a flop, and I I recommend if you get a chance, go check out and watch The Legend of Billie Jean, 1985. I can't think of her name, but she played, she was the first super girl in the movie. Um, supergirl back then was okay. I'm not it was it was nothing like Mr. Reeves's bat uh Superman's, it was nothing like that. Mr. Christopher Reese, his bat, his uh Supermans wasn't like that, but it was you you remember it, you know what I'm saying? But it was cool. She played, she played Supergirl, and you know, I remember uh watching Supergirl on like this funky VHS cassette. It wasn't a typical VHS, it was a funky looking motherfucker, and uh I remember my first time watching, I was like, Oh shit, this is super girl, because I could I didn't really know I was watching it on something I wasn't supposed to be watching. I was just in, I think, one of my uncle's rooms and he had it, and I was watching it. I was like, Oh shit, this is super girl. I know, I know super girl, and I was watching uh yeah, I enjoyed it. Even then I knew it wasn't special, it's crazy. Even then, I was like, ah, this is this is cool. You ain't you ain't you ain't Christopher Reed, you know what I'm saying? But it was good. But I recommend you checking out um The Legend of Billy Jean, great 80s movie. It's like wrapped in 80s music. Um, Pat Benatar's Invincible is incredible. Ferris Fair is a tagline. $608 was the issue, and just the journey to the end, it's just fun, man. It is a cult classic, it's one of the underrated cult classics to me, and I think it's definitely worth watching. If you just want to see some some some history on like how the 80s just really to me was like where you got you know, animal house and all these, like, you know, I'ma get you sucker, and just just fun, different type of movies where movies started to take more risk, you know, versus I haven't seen a shit ton of 70s movies, I've seen some, I haven't seen, but the 80s man, karate kid, you know, just you know, Batman fucking turtles technically is like 90, but it's 89, right? It's like so many movies started to like really change in the 80s, and I really think uh Billy The Legend of Billy Jean is one of the better cult classics. Such a weird movie for me to choose to talk about, but go check it out. It is really dope, it's really fun. Um, and uh the song for that movie is really what carries that movie. Believe it or not, that's what really kept the movie alive was that song because that song was a top 10 hit. I just gave you a back. That song was a top 10 hit when it dropped. You know, it's really badass. So um that is the end. I did it. That is the end of the odd nerd podcast, is my new format as I talk about life, and then I go into a movie and I kind of talk about why I enjoy those movies, and I break it down. I convince you to go see it or to go watch it, and it'll only get better and better. I am Thaddeus Shade. This is the Odd Nerd. Peace.