Car Chronicles EP 17: What Could You Become With Real Priorities

Another late night drive home turns into a raw behind-the-scenes look at a high-end wedding production in Texas. I’m coming off a long setup day, tired but fired up, because watching a great crew operate is like watching a well-oiled machine. Everyone has a role, the timeline stays tight even when weather causes snags, and the whole site feels classy because experienced people simply do the work. Then I see something I’ve only ever seen on screens: a photographer wearing a VR headset to fly a drone and capture footage. That moment hits me with a simple truth, if you never leave your bubble, you’ll never even know what’s possible.

The crew conversations go deeper than wedding logistics. One of the guys tells a Marine Corps story from Kandahar that sounds unreal: getting hit, being resuscitated after he “died,” and coming back under a sheet like a movie scene. It’s intense, and it reminds me why I miss tight-knit team environments from my own military and law enforcement days. From there, it turns into the bigger life stuff: meeting new people when you used to be cynical, learning not to judge a book by its cover, and noticing how many talented people build real careers without taking a traditional path.

I also challenge the excuses that keep us stuck. If you feel like you “don’t have time,” we talk about what’s really eating your hours, doomscrolling, drinking, porn, gaming, and other escape habits, and how stress makes simple lives feel impossible. I break down why priorities matter, how routines reduce decision fatigue, and how a morning routine and beddown routine can stabilize everything fast. If this resonates, subscribe, share it with a friend who needs structure, and leave that five-star review. What’s the one habit you know you need to cut this week?

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Transcript

Late Night Drive After Setup

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Another late night. What I say I call it late night drive night. 10 30. Another what we do? We were supposed to do we were supposed to work 8 to 9. End up going a little bit longer. Had a sit through a staff meeting just to go over the course for tomorrow and get everything squared away. And man, when I tell you, listen, I ain't gonna hold you. I'm excited for tomorrow, man. Like just being part of a team environment when you got a good group of guys, and you know, we're all able to cohesively function and just knock things out, and we just make it look smooth, man. Hey, it's gonna be a very, very good day tomorrow. And I'm just ready to see, like, because I was saying I didn't want to be, you know, here Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and not do the wedding and see all the hard work that we put into it from just the planning side point and all their hard work that they put into it to bring the show to life. I didn't want to miss it, man. So when I asked him, I said, hey man, can y'all put me on Saturday? Y'all have any, y'all have any people or any any openings? He's like, man, we don't have any openings right now. I said, all right, man, well, if something opened up, you know, just put me on it. He's like, you know what? I can put it in. And you get an arm pay, which is still 40 an hour. I was like, yes, sir, I will do that. So, hey, man. The group of guys I'm working with, hey man, we we we chill, dude. Let me uh let me tell you, he was telling his story. The Marine, he he he was in the Marine Corps, and he was telling us, he's like, yeah, man, he's like, I died. I was like, what you mean you died? I was like, you died and they resuscitated you? He's like, yeah. He's like, when I was in Kandahar, he was part of the Marine Corps group that set up Kandahar. So they were the initial boots on ground Marines that cleared out Kandahar so that the Air Force could come through and build the base. Or the Air Force and Army. And they cleared it out. And he's like, yeah, man. I kicked in the door, took two, took two rounds to the chest, I instantly. They they uh they flew me to the nearest hospital, and I was on the table, resusciting me, I died, and then at one point they called it, and he's like, they had the the sheet over my head, and he's like, it was just one nurse in there, and he's like, I remember just freaking coming to like they do in a movie. He's like, I came to and I was like, excuse me. And he's like, I remember the nurse screaming. He's like, Yeah, man, I came back to life. I was like, damn, that's crazy, man. He got three purple hearts. He showed us, he showed us his ribbon rack. He got three purple hearts and two combat action medals. I was like, man, dude. He's like, yeah, I got I got he's like, I got shot twice and blown up by an IED over there in Afghanistan. That's like, that's freaking crazy. And this dude's freaking working with us tomorrow. Yeah, a real good guy, too, man. And the other guy that I was working with today, he was in the army. So we were all, like I said on the other episode, we were all talking about our stories and stuff, man. It just made me miss reminiscing, like really made me miss just like being in the military, man. When I was on the SWAT team, when I worked with NCIS and just being part of a team, man, that just operated. God, man. I'm so mad at the Air Force kicked me up. Because I would have dwelling. I'm trying to go back in now, though. So we'll see how that goes. But yeah, so tonight went well. We're doing our job, getting things done. They had a little rehearsal dinner. Uh they're covering all their bases for the for themselves tomorrow for the wedding. The client. He's happy with the wedding setup. The setup looks absolutely amazing, man. I wish I could see it. I took so many pictures. I was like, man, this is freaking cool, dude. And then one of the photographers, he got a cool name, Sage. He comes into the hallway when uh when I was standing there. I was like, I was like, my man, are you wearing a VR headset? He's like, I sure am. I was like, for what? He's like the drone. He's like, I can see, I can see the freaking drone what the drone sees with this headset on. And he's like, we're gonna be using it to take pictures and stuff. I was like, and video. I was like, bro, that's pretty good. I was like, that's pretty good. Sick, bro. I'm like a little freaking child, man. It's all this, all this stuff that you just, you know, if you just stay indoors all day and just freaking scroll on your phone and never get out, you never see any of this stuff. Or if you just constantly work in a nine to five and have no type of life, but then you're going to the club and stuff, you're like, you're not actually like getting out and exploring what the world has to offer and being. I mean, obviously you got to know the right people to be in rooms like this, but it's still if you're not even attempting to do it, then you ain't never gonna see stuff like this, man. This is stuff you see on TV, bro. Tell me, tell me what in person have you seen a dude with a VR headset on flying a drone around? You ain't seen that. You lying. So I thought it was cool as hell. Regardless, man, I think I think the whole thing has just been awesome, man. The crew's been awesome. All the people that we've interacted with have been awesome. And I was talking to Catering today, and I was talking to the lead over catering, and she's real chill. I was like, hey, don't forget about me tomorrow. She's like, I know you want that carrot cake. She's like, don't forget about my parking spot. I say, hey, look, I told them specifically name dropped your name to make sure that they save you a parking spot up front. And it's just fun, man. It's just, it's just, it's just fun, man. Just getting to meet. See, alright. Let me let me say this before I before I get rolling. I just want these late night episodes just to be a free-for-all. So if you guys just want to hear me talk about everything that's just going on with the wedding and everything that's gonna be happening, and just updates for that, with a splash of, you know, just seeing life through my eyes, that's what this is gonna be. So if you don't want that and you're waiting for the next episode, then you know, don't listen. But regardless, I'm gonna sit here and just talk about how I just see life through my eyes and just some of the some of the emotions and things that I experience when I'm going through when I'm going through things like this. Oh my god, my cough. It hasn't been bothering me until right now. But yeah, like I was saying, I was like, man, it's just really cool to meet new people. And I used to not be like this, man. I I really hated meeting new people because of like I talked about with the cynicism. And it's like, man, okay, what is what does this person want from me? It's like I don't want to meet somebody new and just potentially have another person trying to stab me in the back or trying to use me or take advantage of me or just, you know, in any shape or form. So I used to hate meeting new people. But now I I look at it differently to the point where it's like, okay, I look at what this person is, because I look at these people in their jobs, and I'm like, how did how did you get here? Like, what was your life path like to get here? And then they tell us what they do, and they tell us, you know, what they were doing before, and it's like, man, that's that's crazy. And it's just interesting to hear about people's life stories, you know. They're just doing they're doing things that one, I never thought I would be, you know, meaning, oh, I'm gonna get sidetracked here and I'm gonna get back on it here. But the the the the wedding planner, they were telling us how big of a deal she was in California, out in Los Angeles. And this is what they were saying. She was saying that she had planning her hands in the planning of the Maroon 5 wedding and a bunch of other famous people out in California. And I was like, that's freaking crazy, dude. She's here in Texas doing this wedding. And it's stuff like that. It's like I never expected to meet big shot people like this down here in mother freaking Texas at a wedding. And and they're bringing in the, you know, the top, top of the line, people from, like I said on the other episode, all over the all over the country. And it's just, I don't know, man. It's it's real cool. But like I was saying about meeting people, it's like, I'm just talking to people. Man, I literally talked to the guy in catering, the the bus boy, and he was he was literally talking, he was going on about how he wants to jailbreak an iPhone so he can go incognito and disappear off the map and just be able to hack into things from random locations. Telling me all the stuff you need. He's like, you need this, this, this, and this. He's like, man, I can easily do it. It's like he's like, it's real tempting. He's like, I got morals. I was like, bro, it's just the crazy stuff you hear like that. I never expected to hear all that. From a bus boy working for a catering company. He's like, yeah, man, I got my bachelor's and this, this, and this. And I was like, dang, are you all right, all right, big time? What you doing busting tables, bro? But it's just, like I said, it's just interesting to see all walks of life. And, you know, like I said in one of the episodes, I don't remember which one it was, I will judge a book by its cover until proven wrong. So when I first saw him, I was like, oh man, he's just some freaking Gen Z kid that ain't about nothing. And I started talking to him. Because by the fact that if I judge you or not, I will still interact with you because I interact with you because I'm looking to be proven wrong. And then when you prove me wrong, I'll be like, oh man, this dude's chill as hell, man. We freaking kicking it up, talking, chilling. Uh I like I just talked about his hacking, the hacking thing that he was talking about, and then his bachelor's and the school and the stuff that he's doing. I said, this dude's a real cool cat. And that's and that's basically how it's been. There's just some people who are, you know, completely different. Like the site manager, that dude is just eccentric and he's very extroverted. So he was chill right off the bat. No issues with him, uh, his assistant. She's cool as hell, too. They're both from San Diego. And if you picture California what a Californian is, she is the epitome of California. The way she talks, the way she acts. I swear she's uh on act 24-7. She's hilarious, dude. And so that's the you know, the site management team, and then the hospitality team. She was hooking me up with snacks, some uh some organic gummies. So, and she was giving me out power giving me parades. She's real chill, man. So she's cool. And then the one that's running the whole site on the ground, man. She hit her and her husband. They be hooking us up, man. Just I I ain't got nothing but good thing to say about the whole the whole production and just the whole crew and just everything that's going on. Nothing but good things to say. I've had no issues with literally anybody. And everybody's chill, man. And it it just it's a real classy like feel when you get people who are experienced in their job and they're doing their job, even with because they had a few snags just because of weather and things that were out of their control that kind of push a timeline back just a little bit. And even with those snags, man, they just, you know, did what needed to be done and just moved past it. And it just it just seemed so organized. And they just got things done. And it's just it's like watching a well-oiled machine, man. They were just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And it was just cool to be a part of it and just to actually see it. And then tomorrow, to actually get to see the whole thing play out. Now, tomorrow though, tomorrow's gonna be a little a little different because they got a bunch of moving pieces tomorrow. And I'll be I don't get in till 3 30. But the guys they're gonna be in in the morning, they got a bunch of work to do. So we'll see how that goes. But outside of that excuse me. Outside of that. And this is I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna point this back to one of the one of the episodes I did. When you not not fear, but just I guess more or less limiting your potential because of, you know, whatever your reason it may be. Like I think about I thought about I was talking about my what ifs. You know, what if I would have took football more serious, or what if I would have been the saxophone more serious and actually invested the time into doing those things seriously, you know, where would I be in this moment in time? And this kind of applies to all the guys that were working. It's like they they did that, and now they're working for a big name event staffing companies, catering companies, sound producing companies. And it's like damn, they did it, man. They freaking did it. And I was going around, you know, talking to them, and I was talking to one chick, and she was she was um she was part of fabrics. And I was like, Did you go to school for this? She's like, no. I just watched them do it, and I learned how to do it. And I was like, you working for a company like this, and you didn't even go to school, and you're just able to do it just by watching. I was like, that's that that's talent right there, man. And it's just one of those things. It's like, okay, well, you don't, and it's another thing, you don't need to go to school. And they say, who's actually more talented? The genius or the hard worker? Because a genius comes off as smart, but who will eventually surpass the genius? The hard worker, because most of the time geniuses get complacent because they're just naturally talented. The hard worker is doing repetition after repetition after repetition after repetition. And I don't know if you've ever seen Demon Slayer, but Zeneto is the prime example of that. He only can learn one breathing technique from the lightning form. He only learned one. But he mastered that one form to the point where he was so good at it that it made him seem like he was a genius. So when you only master one form out of seven, I believe it's seven, or no, he created the seventh one. There's the six, six forms. It's like you look like you're a genius. And you know, that's just one of those examples, like, you know, she was watching, paying attention, putting in the work, putting in the hours, and to the point to where she was able to do the work of these other people just by watching them. And it it's it seems like she's so good at it that you know you ask her, like, did you go to school for this? And she's like, Nah. That's when you know you made it. When your work looks so good, people question, you know, how'd you learn how to do this? And that's one of the things that I was talking about earlier, is like, okay, well, I could have been, you know, better at football, I could have been better at the out of the saxophone, but let's let's apply this to you guys' lives. And it's like, where could you have been? What rooms could you have possible potentially been in right now if you had taken whatever you were doing seriously enough? Because, you know, it's it's it's part talent, but also about who you know. We all know that. You know, you gotta rub elbows with the right people to get into some of these rooms because if you're not being chosen for these events, you ain't getting into these events. This event tomorrow is going to be literally locked down. These people are gonna be getting UV stamps, and if you ain't if you ain't on the list, you ain't getting in. So it's locked down. Security checkpoints, sheriffs, like it's locked down. And you don't get in these type of events if you don't rub elbows with the right people, but you can't rub elbows with the right people if your work ain't good. So good people talk about how good they are. Great people have other people talk about how good they are. So you ain't be good, but are you great? Are people be are people saying, hey man, Leo, that mother freak right there is a mother freaking killer? Let's get him. So are people saying that about you? You know, I really didn't start hearing stuff like that and being chosen for things until I started to change my worldview and get to know myself and understand who I am because I was always repressing myself, holding myself back out of fear of what I might become. And eventually, when I, you know, started digging deeper down into my core, I found out who I was, and then I started to act accordingly, and I started to live by my values, I started to stand on my principles. And people respect you for things like that. Like I say all the time, I mean, you can believe, you know, whatever you want to believe, you can do whatever you want to do. And I'll use politicians as a perfect example of this. You know, most of the time politicians are just saying things to get re-elected and are not actually trying to benefit anybody but themselves. And so when a politician gets caught in the lie, you know, they'll try to instantly deflect and or blame somebody else. In reality, if you just owned up to your lie and say, yeah, and you had like a an actual legitimate excuse, I'd be like, okay, I can respect you for that. You own up to your lie, and then you told us the actual reason why you did it. I can I can respect you for that. Don't mean I. Like you. Don't mean I'm gonna vote for you. But I can't respect somebody who owns up to their own mistakes. That's how you build trust. That's how people can look back at you and be like, man, that mother freaker, that mother freaking Leo, he always lied. But you know what? He always owned up when he messed up. And then they'll start to be like, okay, you know what? Maybe he isn't too bad. And then you start to question things. Like, I would rather have a politician who owns up to his mistakes than one that just continuously lies and makes excuses for his mistakes. But you can see how doors start to open for you because people's perception of you is starting to change. And once you can change people's perspectives, which is reality, that's when you've won. That's when you've obtained the reality stone. And now you can do whatever you want, like Thano said. So that's why it's very important to have a very, very good grasp on who you are as a person, to understand your belief system, to understand your values, morals, principles, and priorities. That's why I keep saying this over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. Because all that stuff shapes your worldview. It shapes your character, it shapes who you are down to your core. And if you're somebody who doesn't stand for anything, then people will not respect you. And if people do not respect you, you ain't gonna be getting in any of these rooms. Okay. Now, am I saying that everybody who's working at this event tonight has their life together? Absolutely not. And some of these people are just lucky enough to know the owners of the companies they work for, like the the labor crews, the labor crews, the people who are, you know, send up furniture and stuff like that, that's just do a manual labor. These aren't the people I'm talking about. I'm talking about the people doing technical work, like the sound crews, the videographers. You should have seen this man's camera. Oh my god, bro, his camera probably costs as much as the venue. That thing's some guy they kidded out. And then you got the people who, you know, built the structures. And then you got the people who are doing the florals. Just the the the talent, the actual talent. And and even then, okay, I'm not saying these people have their life together, but they do have some semblance of direction in their life enough to get to where they are, because they put in enough effort and time into the thing that they were good at. And that's the underlying message to get out here is regardless if you do or don't have your life together, you don't have to have it together to still put in time and effort into something that you enjoy. And if you put enough time and effort into that thing, and this thing is worthwhile, then you can get into these rooms without having your life completely together. Now, would it be more beneficial to have your life together? Yes. But the whole point of the message is what are you potentially missing out on because you aren't investing time and energy into the things that you are good at? And for the things that you aren't good at or are good at, and not investing time and energy into, why aren't you investing your time and energy into it? What is what is what is preventing you from doing that? Why aren't you doing that? And that's when we get into the whole thing I talked about with not having control over your own body, okay? You have, you know, everybody has the same 24 hours in a day, but how we spend it is really what separates us. So if you're spending your time doom scrolling, going out drinking with friends, or you know, drinking alone, gaming, pornography, drugs, whatever the case may be, that's time taken away from what you could be investing into yourself. So when you're talking about, oh, I don't have the time, it's like, do you not have the time? Or are you just not willing to sax the things that you think make you feel good? And if you're not willing to sacrifice the things that make you feel good, that you think make you feel good, well, then you're not gonna have any time. And in order to start eliminating those things, you have to get to know who you are, to understand why you're doing these things to begin with. Why are you drinking alcohol so much? Okay, what are you trying to run from? What are you running from? What pain are you trying to escape? Why are you watching pornography? Why are you sitting there doom scrolling 24-7? You know, why are you doing these things? There is a trigger that is causing you to do these things, or there's something that happened to you that's causing you to do things. People don't just do things to do things. There is an action and you're reacting to it. Okay, so that's what you got to be able to figure out, and you start weeding these things out, then you can start to put your life together. And once you're able to put your life together, now you're able to actually allocate that time properly because you have a rational mind, and now you have your priorities laid out. So now you take your priorities and you're able to now, okay. I want to be, I really want to focus down on being good at the saxophone. And now that you have a rational mind, you can actually plan out a proper timeline and have a proper, you know, morning routine and beddown routine, and then in between that, you can start to lay out your time for the day because you're gonna have to take time to do the things in the morning for you to wake up, so that's important, to make sure that your your day starts off on the right foot, and then you're gonna need to make proper time for you to wind down at the end of the night and account for, you know, it's like 60% of our day goes to sleep, or three well, one-third of our day goes to sleep. So 33% of your day is going to sleep. So it's like between those two, the morning and bedding routine, now you allot the rest of that time. And obviously, depending on what you do for work, that's gonna play a role. And so the leftover time you have is everything that's gonna be allotted to you. And so if you really want to get good at the saxophone, you're gonna have to plug and play with that time. Okay, what else are you doing throughout the day? Are you going to the gym? Do you have kids? Do they have things that they need to do? You know, are you including your drive to and from work? But you're not gonna be able to do all of this proper planning when you feel like your life is so complex because you're under so much stress, and it's causing you to make irrational decisions or to have an unrealistic expectation of your own timeline because you feel like you have to do so many things when in reality you've been doing the same things every single day, and it's not a lot of things. You just feel like you never have enough time out. They're like, oh I just man, I just gotta I just gotta run so many errands, I just gotta do this and this. And it's like really all you have to do is go grocery shopping and then pick your kids up from school and then take them to dance practice. That's not a lot of things. But when you're so stressed out, and then you get stuck in traffic, and then while you're stuck in traffic, I don't know, work calls you and says, hey, this, this, and this. And then, you know, freaking Susan from the school calls you and says, Chelsea ain't feeling good, so now your daughter's sick. And you can see how all that stuff starts to add up and just add to the stress. Now you're just stressed, and now you just feel like you you you can't do anything, and the next thing you know, you you take the next three weeks off because you needed a mental health break to recover, and then that sets you back. That paper you get overwhelmed and it just overloads you, and you just shut off. I just I just I just need a break. Okay, I just want to take a break. You're like, I don't want to do anything. But when you're not stressed out and you're thinking with a rational mind, these issues that pop up, you understand that regardless of how you feel, they have to get solved. You still have to go pick up your child from school. Okay, but guess what you don't have to do? You now now you can be like, okay, you're not going to dance today. You can make that decision. You understand what I'm saying? But then you can be like, okay, well, I don't actually need to go to the grocery store today. So I'll just go tomorrow. You can think now. You can think now. And then the same thing with work calling you, okay? Work call said this and this. Okay, this issue really doesn't matter to me until Friday, and it's Monday. So I'll just deal with it Friday. Like now you can make these decisions. But you can't do that when your life feels so overwhelmed, when you feel so stressed out, when everything just feels complex and you feel like the walls are closing in. You can't make these type of decisions. You make irrational decisions. Which again is why I harp so much on priorities. Okay? Because this allows you to invest your time properly properly. Because now you know what you're trying to do. It gives you guidance, and with guidance, you can put the time where it needs to go in the things that matter the most. And the things that don't matter the most all fall to the wayside, and then you plug and play, utilizing your priorities as a guideline, and then you can assign a value system to these things. Well, this is really isn't important. This isn't this is important, this is not important at all right now. And then you can just do it like that, and then you can apply a time value to it, and you can just knock it all out with no issues now. And then, like all things, if a good plan goes awry, you'll be of a rational mind to be able to change this on the fly. But you can't do any of that if you're always freaking running around screaming like a chicken with his head cut off. And how do how is a chicken with his head cut off screaming? I don't know, but you're a chicken with his head cut off screaming. Okay? So we don't we don't want to be the chicken with his head cut off screaming. It's okay to be a chicken with his head cut off. But once you start screaming, that's when everything goes sideways. And I really hope this is making sense. Because I'm tired. I ain't gonna hold you. And I know I said it's gonna be a free-for-all, but you know, I am talking about one of my old lessons or a podcast. I can call them on lessons, like I'm your freaking master or something. But like I said, I keep going back to them because it's very important that you guys understand the importance of them. And it's really simple things that you can implement in your day-to-day to even get this thing started. Like I said, just having a morning routine and a bed-down routine can make a huge difference in your life. Why is this? Because we when you establish a morning routine, now your entire morning just runs on autopilot, and you don't have to think about what you're gonna do in the morning. This is exactly why Stephanie and I eat the same meals every single day. We don't ever have to think about what we're gonna eat. We already know it's on autopilot. I bring it out of the fridge, I put in a scale, I put whatever I want on it, whatever I'm gonna put on it, weigh it out, boom, eat it. There's not any brain power that goes into our meals, zero. We don't ever stress about it. And that helps alleviate a lot of stress, and it makes our mornings more fluid. And you can do the same thing by coming up with a morning routine. People are like, well, I got kids, okay, and they're like, well, my kids don't eat what I eat. Then make your kids eat what you want them to eat. Make the same god dang meals for your kids over and over and over again, and they'll get used to it. And if they don't like it, do what my mom said. All right, then you don't eat. And guess what I did? I ate. Now, obviously, if they don't actually like like it taste-wise, then make them things that they like taste-wise, and then just make it every single day. And if they like, mommy, I'm bored of this, or daddy, I'm bored of this, then teach them how to cook and they can make their own god dang food when they're old enough. That's neither here nor there. What I'm saying is don't use your kids as an excuse to fall off of your plan. If you know what your kids like to eat, then you just incorporate it into making it. And if you're if you don't want to make your kids the same meals every single day, then find them three different options that they like to eat and then put them on a rotation schedule. Like, bro, this stuff ain't rocket science. You can make it work. The problem is you're too stressed out, so you don't feel like you have enough time to do any of this stuff. And you feel like you need to make their food, get them in the car, get them to school, you come home, and then you make you something real quick, and then you gotta go run this errand, you gotta go run that errand, you gotta go do this, and you gotta do that, you gotta come home, you gotta clean the house, and this. It's like, bro, you don't have to do any of that. Sit the freak down somewhere. Who who who who put you on this timeline? You made you made this timeline up yourself. Nobody said you had to do any of this at any specific time. You understand what I'm saying? So take a chill, pill. So yeah, get you a morning routine and then get you a bed down routine. Wind down. Two hours before you get to bed, start winding down. Okay? We have we have the same bed down routine. We give him by you watch a couple couple TikTok videos, and by a couple I mean the ones that we send each other throughout the day. And we'll watch a couple stories on Instagram of some people that we follow. And then literally right around 7, 7.30, depending. We'll let the dogs out. Once the dogs come in, we go to bed. So we're usually in bed, lights out, 7:38. And that's our that's our normal bed down routine. Okay. Obviously, there's some times where, like tonight, obviously I'm not gonna be in bed by mother freaking 8 o'clock because I'm working. And it's just one of those things. And but I'm not gonna stress about it. I'm just gonna go home, get undressed, and literally get right into bed. Or there'll be times where, you know, we were out later because of something happened, and then we'll get home at like 9 o'clock, and then we'll do a quicker version of our bedding routine, and then go to bed. So you can make it work, man. It's just you need the willingness to do it. And you need to have some type of priority so you can address your focus and it motivates you to do it. Because if you if you have nothing really guiding you or nothing you're even working for, then you're not ever gonna want to get your life together. So, yeah, that was a little late night drive. Um day three of the wedding. This was the last day for the production team. Everybody's gonna be set up, they're gonna be putting uh the final touches on it tomorrow. And we'll see how the actual wedding goes. And it's gonna be a big day, so stay tuned for that episode. And I'll probably drop a late-night drive episode after that wedding as well. And like I said, I'm gonna drop these in chronological order so you guys can follow along with the wedding process and not be confused. And I'll be dropping the late night drives right after. So I'll drop both of them on the same day so you know exactly what's going on with that. And again, I want to thank everybody who actually listens to these podcast episodes. I I really can't express how much it actually means to me to know that people are actually taking the time. Like I said, we just talked about how finite time is, and you're taking the time out of your day and taking the time out of doing what you want to do to listen to me talk about what you should be doing. So I do want to thank you for that. And like I said, if you guys ever need to reach out or ever want to talk, you know, just hit me up on IG. And just remember, I'm a regular guy, dude. So there's none of that, there's no pressure. I'm not gonna freaking charge you freaking$500, have a consultation with me. Um you talk to me for free.$399, man. Just hit me up. And uh, you know, I'll try to help you in whatever way I can. Hopefully, my words and all the episodes you've been listening to have helped you and guide you in some type of manner in your life because everybody always thinks the grass is greener. And I try to tell people, I say, the grass is green where you water it. I did a whole episode about, you know, taking care of your garden and making sure you're pruning your trees and digging out your weeds. Because you can move to a different plot of land, but if you don't keep up on the upkeep, that land is gonna also die. So it don't matter how many times you move if you don't learn the habits of groundskeeping. So make sure you got your garden in order, make sure it's watered. And if, like I said, if you need help, go ahead and call, go ahead and call me, Mr. True Green. I'll come out there and get your grass right. And there's no need. We've all needed help in life. We've all needed a little guidance. None of us got to where we're at today solely by ourselves. We've all had some type of help from somebody. Either it was direct or indirect. We all got to where we're at today. From from the backs of other people. So don't feel ashamed when you have to reach out. Because, you know, for a long time that kept me, that kept me paralyzed. And like I said, it really hindered my potential because I just didn't trust anybody. So I was like, I'm not gonna ask anybody else, I'll just do it on my own. And that mentality only gets you so far before you burn out and your flame just I didn't even become a freaking nobody. So let's not do that. But yeah, I'm gonna get a battery. I'm about 40 minutes out from the house. And I'm gonna listen to some Drake on the rest of the way. And hopefully you guys enjoyed this episode. If you did, don't forget to like, comment, and share. And eat that five star review. Until next time. See ya.