Over A Week In The Making!

Update: The dinning room is now back to normal.

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:03

Hello, how's your day going? I hope it's well. Um I'm just terrible at this whole schedule thing. I got out of the habit because I ran out of things that I, you know, were entertaining to say. And um. So then I would go, you know, I went month a month or two or four or whatever, and then you know, now it's weeks between, and it's just it's awful. I'm just I'm just awful. There's a podcast on this recorder that I recorded seven minutes of. No idea what the fuck I said. I forgot about it until pretty much just like two minutes ago when I got in the car. Um, I am currently on the way to Walmart to pick up a medicine and a phone screen. I got electrocuted yesterday. Yeah, happy birthday, America. Um We have issues with our garage door. And sometimes if the power is on, it lets you hear people and just goes. So Yeah. I uh we had an issue with the mower, and I am not mechanically inclined, but once in a while I can redneck my way through something and figure some shit out. So I went outside to do that, and I uh did my best. I actually figured out what was wrong with the mower, but before that, when I went to uh ra raise the garage door, it electrocuted me, and it electrocuted me enough that my hand opened on its own, and I fucking s uh dropped my phone into a puddle from all the storms that we've had. Why Wisconsin garages uh driveways are built on a slope is kind of beyond me. Because and and because it's not just ours. Like most of our neighbors are like that too, and other places that I have lived or been in Wisconsin, the driveways are all at a slope. Which means that the garages all have puddles in front of them. And so, yeah, I cracked the screen protector on my phone. I bent the I actually don't know, because I think I had bent the metal case before. But then I wa I ordered another case delivered from Walmart, and the case got here, but my ignorant ass got the wrong size glass, and then trying to get it to work, I broke that glass, so I was basically out twelve dollars and life is life is it's just it is what it is. It's long, it's irritating, it's expensive, and it's not a whole lot of fun most of the time. Anyway, we had a book sign in last th day. It was at the bookstore in Appleton. And isn't that just such a great fucking name? Holy shit. The bookstore. No further inquiries needed. What are you what what's your business called? It's called The Bookstore. And by the way, I really enjoyed and I want to thank anyb everybody who bought a book, everybody who even looked at a book. There was one dude who uh Um read the back of the gathering, I think it was the Gathering Place, was like, oh okay, well thank you so much. And it wasn't for him. That's fine. Totally cool. I just want to thank anybody who took the time to talk to me, and anybody who took the time to check out my shit, even if you didn't buy nothing. Um by the way, you can sign up for a newsletter on the website, BrennanPublishing.com.

SPEAKER_01 3:54

Although we also have a blog out there that I failed to update properly because I never remember what to say.

SPEAKER_02 4:06

Uh I used to judge those tricycles, but now they kinda seem dope. The broom broom tricycle, like anyway. Several people bought books, and uh you you know, you all fucking rock. I hope you dig 'em. Um feel free to review us on Amazon. Or please review us on Amazon. It was really weird. It was it it was interesting to, you know, ha sign a book for somebody. It was really fucking cool. I uh I sold I think we sold 18 books. Which is 18 more than I thought we would sell. So I like I was perfectly content to just, you know, go up there and sit there for four hours and do absolutely nothing except moan about the fact that I couldn't explore the bookstore. Which I did as soon as uh as soon as we were done, I'm like, let's take this johnies like, let's take the stuff to the car, then you can look. I'm like, okay. And I went through and I looked through oh yeah, it's awesome. If you like romance novels, I think they have all of them. Yeah, pretty sure all of them. Um so the next stop is the Thursday market. Although one thing that I did not foresee being an issue when I decided to start taking publishing more seriously. Drink break. It was the fact that it takes a long time for book printers, because I am not making them any money, I'm just buying books from them. Um they don't ship the books out right away. Yeah, the hardbacks from Ingram, they they have the option, but it is prohibitively expensive at this point. If everybody buys um books, then maybe I can just sh, you know, order bigger bigger clumps. But so right now we're our stock is heavy on the thought bubbles and low on the free cast books. And the novelites will probably not be available until the the second Thursday market I go to. But conversely, um I have been debating the Thursday. I'm gonna go to at least one and see how it works, you know, how it's but if it doesn't work out, then I probably will save the stock for New Jersey. And because gas is getting expensive. I mean it's coming down from what it was, but it's still expensive as shit, you know. During the before four times, I tried to keep my tank at ha ha my car at half a tank just for health reasons. And now we're lucky if it reaches half a tank. I've been scolded before, and I'm like, well, unless y'all wanna fucking fill my car up, I'm riding dirty till payday. Books is expantheaved. And so is my dungeon crawler carl addiction. Joni was nice enough to buy me book six that I've I'm I'm getting into right now. I love it, I love it so much. We're trying to schedule a book club, but we have changed book club into we're gonna call it what we're reading. Because for a couple of different reasons. One, we're trying to take away the stigma, or not stigma, but like the the guilt of not reading a lot from some of the people involved. Because um everybody but me has a fucking life. Uh so like we're trying to get my sister-in-law, Amanda, uh, involved. We sent her a couple of books. They were supposed to be May and June's books, it's now July. But she also has my brother doesn't do it. You know, fuck that little midget. Not really. He's not a midget, not don't really fuck him. He just he doesn't like to read. And I don't know if he can. That's actually, um, that that's not true. I know he knows how to read. I just curious if he listens to the show. If I get a text later, you know, when the show comes out that's like, hey fuck you, asshole, I'll be like, Awww, you listen to the podcast? So yeah, if anybody knows my brother, he's a, you know, tiny little man with brown skin and buck teeth, and he's retarded and he smells funny. I I don't know. I'm just trying to insult him enough that if he listens to this show he might text me. What was I saying? Oh. You know, people have doctor's appointments and jobs and things that they're doing. Somebody I mean, one of us is trying is writing, you know. People have issues and things, and you know, uh running and doing and going and living lives. I watch dogs most of the time, so I I can play fetch and read at the same time. Joni works, I think, roughly 175 hours a week. That is hyperbole. I am aware that there are only 168. I I don't know her actual number, but it's a lot of fucking hours. So if she doesn't have a uh, you know, a specific book done in a month, you know, I don't want any b we don't want anybody to feel shitty because they didn't read that book. So, the new thing is gonna be what are you reading? How much have you read? If you read two pages or two or two books, good for you, man. Both of those are awesome. And this way we also, the other big reason about that is that now we don't have to buy four copies of the same damn book. We can still do theme months or something. Uh like I might say, you know, Joni, pick a book I'm gonna read. Oh, is that a cop? Not a cop. Uh I might say, pick a book and I'm gonna read it. Or ha you know, whatever, like a book you've always wanted to read, a book that you think is too long for you. Read a 1200 page book and it might take you three months, and that's totally fucking okay. Whatever uh whatever. But then it's to celebrate more reading and not you know nobody has to feel bad that they didn't get, you know, the requisite reading done. This isn't fucking junior high. Um the price increase. Okay, so I do truly want the like the ethos uh of must have chance I used that word wrong, but we're gonna go with it. The whole ethos and the mission statement of the publishing company is that we want to publish books that are more affordable for people, right? Books that do not cost an arm and a leg, but are still entertaining and fun, and maybe you love them, maybe you don't, whatever. I have, however, been told that running a bizarre pricing products based on your autism is an ignorant ass way to doing things. And after running the numbers I tend to agree. So everything went up just a little bit. Um and that but that little bit helps uh us you know pay people and publish more books, buy more stock for stuff maybe even someday afford the gas it takes to get to the place If only if only if only Anyway Um So Novellas, novellettes, and the like the tiny books not tiny, but like the thinner the shorter books are going to be five bucks. And I am calling it Bill for a Book. I the Bill for a Book Initiative. Joni rolled her eyes at that, so it's probably lame, but so am I. Uh what was I say oh basically five five bucks get you a novella or a novelette ten bucks get you a paperback book. It's not mass market, it's a nice trade paperback. The average price of which, according to my you know, internet research, seems to be a lot these days. Um ranging from like twelve bucks to twenty or I think was the number. Number dyslexia is hard because you can't remember numbers and you remember them wrong. And then twenty bucks is a hardback. That is and and then the and that price point makes us enough money that you know I can put gas in some somebody's car if or you know if they're going to do something, I can hopefully someday when we have other authors besides people I know directly, um we can m give them money. But it still tri you know, still try to keep everything affordable. Because that's the goal. Everything is expensive as shit, right? I want I want somebody to be able to, like, if you you know see us or you go to our website, you order a book. Like, I will try that. Click That's about it, um, as far as the book stuff goes, because shit's expensive and you know when you're working a job and you have normal bills, but you're also trying to do the thing, stuff moves a lot slower because you're out of money very quickly. I'll have more to say, but I just got to Walmart. And a bat, boom, just like that. Nothing happened. I mean quite a lot happened. I got new glass screen protector from my phone and a new universal remote, because this is like the 115th one that the dog has eaten. Uh some circle pod, a tiny part that will hopefully fix the mower, but so far I'm having a pretty good day, so I think that means that the thing probably won't work. That's generally how my life goes, is that shit doesn't work out that well. Um but I mean worst comes to worst. We have some C clips and some some shit'll work. Took me quite a while in the um Auto Parts store because I I I didn't know what anything was called or what anything actually looked like because all I saw was the fragment. Anyway. Um I also had an idea for a podcast where I go through all of my it's called the physical media challenge. And I'll do a podcast about like physical media that I have, you know, watch a movie on the podcast, or do like we used to do and do, you know, take note. I figure TV would have probably have to work that way. Um, I've been meaning to start that all year. I just can never sit down and do it because I don't know. I I I'm sure it's just my attention span has been broken, but it also seems like anytime I sit down just to watch a film, um, or watch some tele, either I fall asleep, or somebody somewhere for something needs some shit.

SPEAKER_01 16:33

Uh I You know I said I'd have more to say and I don't remember.

SPEAKER_02 16:45

I did look at some books while I was in Walmart and finding comparable stuff and um like size-wise a my my books are still more affordable. Um is expensive. Life is expansive. I was gonna work on what I needed to do and shit, and then I didn't. I was like, well, while I'm shopping I can try to figure out what I need to talk about. And then I didn't. So that's that's fun. It's been hot as shit this week. Holy, holy, holy, fucking hell, it's been hot. I wonder if when I'm dead or eventually committed that the jury will use this podcast as four years of examples of me slowly losing my fucking mind. Sorry, I was yawning. I have not slept very well lately. For a whole host of reasons. One of which being, I just can't sleep. I lay there and swear I go through the whole day trying to get shit done, blah blah blah, and then I lay down and I close my eyes and start to drift off sleep. My brain goes, You forgot something.

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I'm not gonna tell you what it is, but you forgot it. Fuck you.

SPEAKER_02 18:22

That's uh that's what my brain says. My brain says, Fuck you. Or I start having ideas for various million different things. And then before you know it, it's like uh ten o'clock at night or eleven thirty or midnight and I'm still not asleep and I fucking hate that. I like to be in bed ready for night night by nine thirty, okay? Nine thirty at the latest Not nine thirty and then stare at the ceiling until twelve or ten or eleven or whatever. Here's a question that I have for you. What do you think about shorter novels? What is your opinion? Do you like 'em in the forty to sixty-five seventy range? Or are you like one of those people that even if there's a lot of padding, you want it eighty, hundred, hundred and twenty, hundred and fifty thousand words. Because as a publisher, I'd like that information. As a reader, I am so split down the middle. Because on one hand, it is painfully painfully fucking obvious when an author is padding their work. And I can't remember what it was. I I can't remember. But um the uh whatever the book it was, it wa I mean it was probably a good 200 pages longer than it fucking needed to be. And so it's really obvious when you don't have anything to go with, but on the other hand, I don't mind like the d the which one am I on the Eye of the Bedlam Bride is the one I'm reading right now. It's long as hell. It's eight hundred pages. It's actually a little over that with the uh all this the pineapple mascarine. It's over eight hundred pages. The last one was over seven hundred pages. The one before that was over si I don't remember. And I didn't regret a single page. Um I lerv'd it. I lerved it. There's something we oo puppy. La boy better take care of that puppy. He better be trained to mow along the roadside. So I don't know. I but the thing I will say is even though I'm okay with the sixth Dungeon Crawler Carl book being over 800 pages, and it was a gift, but I didn't like the fact that it was forty freaking bucks. You know what I'm saying? I don't know. Other random thought uh thought, um I need a nap. Oh, Zatan.

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I don't remember.

SPEAKER_02 22:09

Oh. Sh the Thought Bubble Collections. I don't think I they didn't sell very well at the signing, and I think that's because I don't sell them very well. It's because I think people think that they're just like a j uh like a just a smattering of shit. Like, here's one of these, here's one of those, here's one of these. But because they are they're all loosely the same genre, kinda sorta. Like the first thought bubble is a thought bubble stories from my mind. Not real fantasy heavy. There is a free cast short story. Um, but most of them are trying to think. Most of them are real people in situations style. I mean, some of them are stylized, like, you know, doing trick shots at the circus. But there's not a lot of magic in that one. And then the second one, it is a little bit volume two is a little bit more all over the place. Because like the first story is called the tracker, and it takes place on a newly minted planet where there are only six hundred people colonists on the planet, and there's somebody who has to track everyone's sexual partners and everything to prevent inbreeding, because they didn't start out with like the requisite number of people. Um and then you've got, I think, four or five stories in a row that are from a challenge I did actually on this podcast back when Joni would give me two uh she would give me a story a week, and I had to write a story based on her prompt. And a couple of times the prompt was somebody who loves their job and a story about somebody who hates their job. And I would write two stories. And while I know one of them there was uh uh a well-loved piano, and I don't remember the exact wording of the prompt. You could probably find it if you looked on here. I don't remember what episode. But um that's the peril of doing over like over 200 episodes. I don't remember what was in most of them. But there's another story, uh, it was like a a well-loved piano and a piano that's in pristine condition. So those are two stories. And then at the back of the uh of volume two, there are three novelettes um that I published previously under different pen names, but then I was trying to, you know, consolidate Ethan Thomas because nobody people don't like Russian last names these days, and it was hard to pronounce, and anytime you Googled me, it just came up as this Russian UFC fighter. So Volume 2 is a little bit more wide-ranging, but I like to think that there's somebody something for everybody, you know, in there. I can see how it would be harder to sell. Plus, I am not a salesman. Good lord. And I'm so self-deprecating that even though my stories are actually pretty good, I like it's that I'm a perfectionist, so I could tinker with them for the rest of time. And at a certain point I have to just go, fuck it, I'm publishing this, because otherwise it'll sit here for the next 25 years. The only thing keeping Free Cast 3 uh from being published is I don't have enough money to pay my formatter right now. And she is worth every penny because she does fantastic work. But Daddy ain't got the money, so no third book. And I don't oh I'm a risk it. I'm coming into town there's gotta keep an eye out for the popo. Popo don't act piec. I gotta figure out how to rig up a microphone in here so that I'm not holding the thing. But uh oh. I have had uh a whole list, I should probably put them on social media at some point just for people to laugh at me. There are uh what was I saying? Oh, I've had several ideas that I uh you know on ca you thought-wise. I th I like I think they would be cool, but we'll probably never do them unless a whole bunch of people tell me that they think that's cool. Um because they're just not like financially one of them was a sampler, and it was like uh I would have called it chapter one hand. It would have been as cheap as I could possibly make it. So probably like two two bucks, three bucks. Like I I looked at a bunch, and it was really hard to make it cheap, but it would have chapter one of all the very uh like uh of like chapter one of the gathering place and you know chapter one of a couple different stories from the thought bubbles, and it's like if you don't want to trust the books, here you know, give me two bucks and or give me a buck and you can try this. That doesn't financially work, and I honestly don't think anybody would really like that. Um It wasn't on it like I got the idea when I saw the Tom Aylink video about what how Game of Thrones original publishers didn't think that anybody would take a chance on an over 800-page book, so they published the first eight chapters and you could get it for like I think that this was the UK publisher. I don't know, it was like eight dollars or something, and you could get the first eight chapters or some I don't remember. I was like, oh I should do that, but then it doesn't work. The other thing is a catalog, um because I think they're cool. Nobody I don't not many people really do catalogs anymore, and I honestly don't think anybody would would buy one or order one or sign up for a mailing list for for one. Um it would be fun, like I would I would love to have a catalogue of everything I publish and all the all the authors and everything and see it slowly get larger and everything. But like I said, it's not a great idea, because that's that's that's like a idea from an era that I don't live in.

SPEAKER_01 28:53

Alright.

SPEAKER_02 28:54

I am home now, so I'm going to stop talking. Goodbye. I have no idea how bad that fucking thing uh the sound is, but the podcast that you just listened to was supposed to come out in two days ago, yesterday-ish. Um but I recorded that running to the store and when I came home, my mother was pulling up the carpet in the dining room. And Um I'm like Do you want some help? She said, Yes, please. And then the computer that I work on to do podcasts and publishing and anything else related to the internet that is annoying to do on your phone got still protected because if anybody else touches my computer or threatens it, I get very angry. Cause Dedic can't afford to replace that shit. But it got buried in a room where I can't get to it no more. Because it started out, well, all the chairs have books on them, so there's nowhere to sit down. Okay. And then it was a piece of furniture the uh uh it was a China cabinet that got moved or a bookshelf got moved first to one side to get around the table. And then the China cabinet got moved, and then the sewing machine that I put my typewriter on, it's one of those old school desk sewing machines that like disappears. I put my typewriter on it normally. Um itperred and went uh into that room, and now it's in front of the gate. And now I can't get no worth at all can't get to the computer, okay? Don't know if I'm gonna be able to do this of this podcast, like altogether when I add this little addendum bit, if this shit may all come out next week. Good chance. Uh it's Sunday right now. Um But yeah, like just fucking holy shit, don't you know? It's just like oh the whole fucking dining room is in the other room now. And I'm told that while I was at work today, Joni and Mom painted. And then they're gonna put floors in, and then we're gonna move all that fucking shit back out. Oh. Thought that might be a cop. It turns out it was just some people on the side of the road. I have no idea what's going on, but unfortunately I can't help them. Well right before we left West Virginia, there was a thing uh that the state police put out that said, Hey, don't help people on the side of the road. If you really feel like they're in danger, call us. Because it was a thing where they would put like a woman on the side of the road or a baby. Sometimes it was like a sometimes a real baby, sometimes it was a doll. And you'd pop out and they'd be like, Hey, uh, we need help, and then you'd stop, and then they'd fucking murder you. And pla I just you can't trust people. I don't know why. It's just like the the scam or it wasn't a scam, it was a uh like a gang initiation I read about in the paper years and years ago in West Virginia. And you never know what's what's gone nationwide. Um but it said if you see somebody driving uh at night with their lights off, don't flash your lights trying to get them to turn it on. Because it's a gang initiation, and what they do is the first person to flash their lights, they follow you home and kill you your whole whole family. And I'm like, oh holy shit. So unfortunately, uh now if I pass you and you're on the side of the road, you're fucked. You better hope there's somebody with a gun who's willing to stop and help you, you know, even if there is a threat. I don't have a gun right now, and even if I did, I'm not skilled enough to use one and not die. So I'm a terrible shot, and I have not trained in self-defense gun usage or anything like that, so I don't carry one. I'm hot. 80 degrees off that. Which most people don't think it's hot, but I think it's hot. I can't remember what else I was gonna talk about. I just was listening to a podcast. I did I don't have Apple Music at the moment, and the only CD in here that I like is Bob's burgers, and I've listened to that a lot, so I was like, I might as well talk for a bit. I gotta stop at the the Berlin Walmart and get some circle pods, because if if Daddy don't have his Oh Oh, just check getting something out of her car. Oh, is a dog. Holy shit. Is the dog okay? Fuck. She got it. Uh try not to get by hip, you know, seen by people or one of those fucking stalling cameras that they're installing now. By the way, I do not officially condone the vandalism or removal of the flock cameras. Hopefully you got the sarcasm that was in there. No, uh, I don't know. Ca I have mixed feelings. I mean, I am against AI in all shapes, f sizes, forms, and colors i in real life. I don't mind like the system AI in the Dungeon Call of Cara books because it's fake and it won't kill everyone or take over the economy. But the real life AI, I don't care if it's helping you pretend if it, you know, helps you pretend that you're a creative or anything else, it sucks. I hate it, it's poisoning the water and all this bullshit. Notice how as soon as AI became a thing, environmentalism died. Um that being said, don't support AI. Fuck it. Fuck everyone who uses it, and fuck everyone who's embracing it. I do think I do also feel like it's not entirely the police's fault that they want a higher presence because everyone in society seems to have lost their godforsaken minds. So something needs done just not with AI. Okay. Pay a f pay somebody to watch the camera or or or whatever. I d I don't fucking know, man, but I don't know. It it AI is going to be used for totalitarianism. That that's what it's for. Alright, I guess that's it, because I don't remember shit about shit and I had one of those days where you know it's like uh it's not busy busy busy and it's not nothing. It's that in-between place that you you're like you're tired at the end, but you don't feel like you should be tired, and that somehow makes you more tired. So brrrrrr. Alright. Goodbye. I'm not publishing any of it, but yesterday there I got a cheap ass pair of headphones to try to rig it up where I could hear myself talk, because I didn't have good headphones with me. I could have brought them today and didn't eat didn't even think of it. It's not that I forgot, I just didn't think of it. Um but now I know why the earbuds were dollar, it's because they they suck. Um everything sounded robotic. I still don't know if this will end up sounding robotic. I'll probably put this one out anyway. Um So you'll notice this is the second or third little addendum to this podcast. That is because Okay. I'm pretty sure I already talked about coming home and pulling up carpet, which buried my computer in the in the other room. Okay, and then I went to work. Um almost I think it's exactly one week ago. Well then, a couple of days after that, we we laid some laminate flooring. My grandfather showed me how to do it, and then uh I laid some laminate flooring and you know it triggered my little obsessive button and everything, so that I was like trying to figure out, is it right, is it right, and I'm and on that night I went to work or I w I went to bed at I st I worked between h with him and alone, I worked on the floor from about 5 30-ish until about 1220. Went slate for four hours and forty-five minutes, got up, fed the dogs, went back to sleep, got up, fed the other dogs, and got back to work and finished the whole floor around three. So I worked the better part of twenty-four hours on this damn floor now for the past few few days mom has been painting trim. And hopefully hopefully, we will get to move some shit at some point, and I will get access to my fucking computer back. Because I can technically access it right now under certain conditions, okay? Because the way that we've got the the next We've got the next DD campaign set up, right? And it's taken up the whole table in the in our little game room. My computer's on the other side of that table. And then we there is a China cabinet that had the top taken off, a bookshelf, and in front of the gate is a sewing machine. There's a good chance I'm repeating myself, but I just don't actually give a shit. Cause this podcast has been over almost two weeks in the making, and I have forgotten the other places I talked. So right now, in order to try to get to my computer, I would have to hold the recorder. Cause it's expensive and I don't want to just throw it. Um and then to get underneath and crawl between the the, you know, underneath the sewing machine, I have to dislocate a hip. Which is fine, I can do it on command, but it's annoying. Then I have to crawl while keeping the gate open, crawl under there with a dislocated hip so that I fit. Crawl underneath the dining room table, pop up and get the computer. The uh which all things considered I probably could have done, except I'm like s 95% sure the computer's dead, and the charger is buried somewhere amongst all the ship. Okay? That's the part nobody talks about when you move a room around is or when you do a project is the three fucking days or a week, or however long it is, where two Where one room is holding two rooms worth of shit. It's annoying. And I'm not sure how much stuff is going back, so there will probably have to be quite a bit of rearranging amongst the other things. So yeah, that's my life. Um I was up way too late last night, but I was trying to plot an outline for a new novel. Uh that is also if anybody was listening, that's the reason I wasn't at the Thursday market on on the ninth, is I have R threadeth. I'm all R-threaded up and I spent almost an entire day crunched up under the floor, and that was after I had moved a bunch of shit a couple days previously. So on the ninth, I woke up barely able to walk. Um because when we laid the carpet down many moons ago, it wasn't properly carpet, it was a rug that had been laid down, and then a big ass fucking remnant that my dad and I decided to nail into the hardwood floor to try to keep it from bumping up. It mostly worked, but it also meant that while we were doing that, uh uh were moving it, we had to uh pull up a bunch of nails, and then you y you know, when we were taking shit into the uh into the game room, three times I stepped on a nail. Three different nails. Like there were so many, I guess, because we just really didn't want this carpet to go up. Who knows what they were thinking in pre COVID. It was the before four times. But um It was a different world. I uh like I carried some shit through, mom stepped on a nail, and I'm like, oh shit, let me pull it up. Boop, and then I step on a nail, pull it up, boop, and then there was another nail, boop, and pull it up. I actually stepped on her nail also before I pulled it up, I think. I don't know. I lost track, I stepped on so many fucking nails. Um So then I did all that other squeezing and moving and locking and poppin' and uh and so yeah, I there was no lifting a chair and driving a ha you know, almost a half an hour away to f f fuckin' sell books. And honestly, with the way Omro's fucked up right now, I'm not even really sure if it's worth it, because instead of being right there off the main road going through town where a lot of people could stop, it's now like back in town and and I just I just you know I don't know, maybe I'm just tired. But I don't know, financial Financi It's worth it. New Jersey is worth it. I mean 'cause I mean, yeah, well, it hopefully it's worth it, because we're traveling a long fucking way and it's gonna be months of planning to hopefully sell some books. I don't know. I I'm just kinda babbling at this point. I I saw a bunch of shit, like the Alex Myers video on Obsession. I listened to it, slash watched it while I cleaned dog shit out of the yard the other day, and I really do not understand why everyone's so pissed off. I think it has more to less to do with him and more to do with this whole bullshit about how a woman is never it's never her fault, or like not not her fault, because I've from what I know of the movie, it wasn't her fault. But for those of you who don't know and for those of you who are a lunatic that are gonna gonna like track me down and try to murder me over a fucking movie, please know that my dogs will eat you. Don't come to my fucking house. Um. He talked about how Bear in this movie didn't start out evil. He just started out like a frumpy-dumpy loser who wanted a girl to like him, and over the course of the movie he becomes an evil rapist. He never said rapist, and I think that's what triggered everyone. Could you hear the air quotes? I'm so so fucking sick of that word. I had a I had a uh I had a a uh a shop say they wouldn't sell our books because there weren't trigger warnings. You put a trigger warning in it and we'll sell it. Fuck you. Fuck you, I'm gonna put it if I um no, uh uh fuck off. I'm not putting a fucking trigger warning. Give it a shot. I better get out of here because I'm in town now. Goodbye. But my point isn't like the d he talked in this uh in the video, and I guess people didn't like that he didn't show the rape scene and call him a rapist. I mean, keep in mind that this video is on fucking YouTube where saying the word kill when describing a murder will get you demonetized and take it down, so people have had to start s using slang like unalived. I mean, you can't have an actual discussion on YouTube anymore. But because that they don't like that, that you know, people I mean, ca and then he made an apology video, which I wouldn't have fucking made, where he was talking about like, I'm really sorry if what I said offended any of you you guys. Like, I I was trying and kind of clarified his point, and I'm like He's like Because he said that the online hate was escalating into like real threats from crazy people. And I I I'm just like, for fuck's sakes, guys. I mean, it speaks to the whole broader point of why everyone assumes and and the left, in quotes, is crazy. And I realize that the left is not a monolith, you have this wide-ranging spectrum uh from normal people who just have more progressive politics all the way to the people who make a fucking movie their entire life and are willing to murder someone for not agreeing with them. But that kind of crazy violence and shit, uh you definitely see that shit more from the you know, quotes the left than the right. And it's it's a whole agree with me or I'll fucking kill you thing, is is why people cover their face when they're doing stuff now. Like everybody uh the when it comes to the ICE agents or those white nationalist guys on the on the train in I think it was DC maybe. Wherever the fuck that happened. People were like, if you're not embarrassed, or if you're not ashamed, why is your face covered? Because you fucking lunatics will go to my mom's house and burn it down. If i i it's not that they're worried about their lives, it's wor I mean we live in the internet age. Someone will get a picture, find them on Instagram, go to their house and kill their fucking family. And I'm not I'm not like some right wing Trump thumper saying like, oh, the right wing would never do that, right right. There are crazy people, but statistically and historically, uh uh historically being like the last ten or twelve years, the the the left is the worst side, uh the worst side when it comes to doing crazy violent shit. You know, I mean the right to protest and the right to to peacefully gather is an American right. But when those dudes I honestly don't know what their protest was about. I don't know if it was about deport Muslims, deport illegals, or if it was just we're proud, we're white. I I honestly didn't care enough to watch their little thing. Um I did notice that none of them were holding a Confederate flag and that it was probably hot as shit in in those khakis and polos and shit, but my point is they got some flags and did a parade and beat their chest, rah-rah, here's our cause, and everybody acted like we were being you know, like DC was being invaded. But the No Kings protests everybody was like, That's a human fucking right. As far as I know, the No Kings protests were mostly also peaceful, where everybody got some flags and some signs and beat their chest and rah rah, here's our cause. So explain to me why that's different. Oh, except that you agree with one of them and not the other. I think you're all fucking crazy. I don't know I think the f the last time that a a protest really affected anything was Maybe I Have a Dream. Not really sure if that counts as a protest or a march, but the last pro like protest, like this is for sure a protest that I know of that actually affected any real change was the fucking triangle shirtwaist fire and the like I think it was like 38,000 people who took to the streets to protest working conditions. Since then it's mostly just been young people bitching. Occasionally there will be old people bitching. But it's kinda like Jamie said on Blue Bloods, protesting is as American as apple pie and bitching about taxes. As long as you're not violent, go for it. Except get the fuck out of the street. Honest God, if you hippies are are fucking sitting down in traffic, we should have the right to run you over. I mean, that is some Darwinism shit right there. Like, if you are dumb enough to lay down in traffic because you don't want me to drive to work, I should have the right to run you over. I've gotta get new tires. I mean, I am unaware of the of the last, like, right center or like right side protest that burnt cities down. I'm not saying there's not one, I'm just saying I don't know anything about it. I do know that the left side of the aisle seems to burn shit down quite a lot. Mostly their own communities. That kind of make about as much sense as those sports fans who go crazy when they win and burn cars and shit in their own city. It's just I just wish everyone would chill the fuck out. I also wish and I want to preface this a little bit. I did not intend to get political, but here we are. I want to preface this by saying that I'm not a huge Trump guy. I I like some things, like most presidents, I you know, I agree with some of what he's doing, I disagree with a bunch of other shit that he's doing. But stop acting like the man's the Antichrist. You are giving him way too much fucking credit, and you all sound like right-wingers. I don't think that's a cop. I don't think that's a cop. Um, you you honestly that's exactly how you sound. I how do I know this, you ask? How do I know that that's exactly how you sound? Because I grew up during the Obama administration listening to the people Republicans in my life, including a fight at school during the Obama McCain campaign. I uh just hating on Obama for a variety of reasons, and acting like he was like I know somebody who said that Obama was secretly running the government during uh Biden's administration, and I said that I think you're giving him way too much credit there. They're like, bullshit. I went, I'm not saying that Biden was running shit, I'm just saying that I think that you're making Obama out to sound like some Machiavellian type guy, and that's way too much fucking credit. I mean, you have to be crazy to want to be president, but that doesn't mean you're a genius. I you can hate him, okay? Hate him for the issue that you're talking about. So many people and the reason that I feel like nothing gets done is we are so polarized that people on the right support the president because ah, he's a Republican, he's our guy. Hello him. He could come out and be like, hey guys, uh today we're gonna just start uh taxing candy bars. Yeah, they're now eight dollars no matter what, eight dollar candy bars, and we're gonna put that into a fund, okay? And I'm gonna use that fund to wipe my ass. And there are so many people on the right who would just instantly be like, well, candy bars, I mean, maybe it will get skinnier because I'm not paying eight dollars. And if you want to pay eight dollars, then you're addicted to sugar, okay? So maybe maybe he's right. Now conversely, he could come out and give be like I'm taxing Elon and I'm gonna give every American a a thousand dollars of Elon's money. And there are people on the left who hate him so much that even though that's what they've been asking for, they would flip the switch and make him him out to sound like a, you know, fascist dictator that had taken over the country and was now coming after all private property. You're all just so fucking crazy. And I really don't care what you think. There is historical evidence that no matter how bad you think that our current president is, there is a president from the nineteenth century who was worse than him on that issue. Okay? Pick an issue. I'm not gonna say literally because I hate using literally figuratively, but uh pick pretty much any issue. And there is a president in the nineteenth century who handed it handled it worse. We had one who, you know, wanted to bring back slavery. We had prevented the Reconstruction South and allowed Jim Crow to happen. I mean You guys are like Well, Trump's depressing free speech. So did Lincoln. Lincoln suspended habeas corpus and locked up journalists during the Civil War. Trump doesn't want us to have rights. Uh s see Lincoln. Lincoln would just go around arresting people during the Civil War. I don't I don't have enough issues to give more examples, but do your own research. There's a president from the nineteenth century uh that that was worse. Okay? Hate the patriotism, according to Mark Twain, and I agree with it, patriotism is loving your country always and your government when they deserve it. Not saying that you have to suck the president's metaphorical dick. I'm just saying if you're gonna hate the guy, have a good reason. Hate him because you agreed like I disagree on the issues. Like take it take uh Iran. Trump's invading Iran. Why? Let's not pretend that he it's like he invaded the UK, okay? It's a shithole. It's a shithole run by terrorists. He did it for oil. Okay? And if the I mean look at what happened in Afghanistan. We didn't stay long enough. According to this thing I read. We were just starting we had been there like twenty years, and we're just starting to have people re come around like democracy and shit, and then we fucking left, and the whole country went to shit. Now it's actually run by the Taliban. The bad guys hidden caves and then came back. I now I I have not like fact-checked it, but according to this thing I read. I don't really know how you'd fact-check a an opinion, but I liked the opinion of this other person. They said that if you really wanted to affect change, you then America needed to stay there for a f for longer and let an entire new generation grow up under the ideals of democracy and whatever the fuck it is that we were what we were doing over there. Y lost the th I I lost the thread at this point. I'm I I I'm just saying Hate him like let's take Iran. Trump invaded Iran. Why? Do we have a reason? Let's say it's oil. Then hate him. Okay? Then hate him. Be like, he's just an oil thief. He just he wants to go in and invade and control the global supply of oil. I don't like that. I think it's terrorism, or I think it's you know dictatorships. Okay, you're wrong on both of those words, but I didn't have a better one, you, the metaphorical person that I'm having a hypothetical argument with. That's fine. Hate him for that. Don't just be like in if it comes out that it's like, well, yeah, the Iranian people are like severely mistreated, and they don't let women drive, so we're gonna go in, we're gonna kill all of the people in charge, and we're gonna take over, and then they're gonna elect new leaders and we'll fuck off. I'm not saying that that's happening. I'm just in this hypothetical scenario, let's say that's the truth. Well then you're I'm okay with that. Because the thing about America being the world's police department is we can't be your police department when just when you want us to. It's kinda like the whole Palestine-Israeli thing. Everyone uh my whole life I have heard that people bitching about America needs to stay out of foreign affairs and you're not in charge of the world, America. But then those two start shooting each other and killing people, and then everybody's petitioning Biden to go stop it. You can't have it both ways. We're either in charge or you're left up to your own devices. If we're in charge, that means we're in charge. That means we can go in, kill some kill the whatever side, and be like, now the pe now there's peace. If we're not and you want us to stay at home and not get involved, that means some people are gonna die. If if Israel and Palestine decide to go to war with each other and you're like, well, America's not in charge, we're gonna stay home, and whoever kills the other side, they win. All of these examples include killing because I'm talking about war. Um I don't know. I'm just I'm I'm outta just be in a bitchy mood. I still agree with pretty much everything I've said. Except the except the Afghanistan thing, because I think I might have the country wrong. I might I I might be thinking of Iraq. I don't know. Whichever one's currently run by uh a terrorist group. Alright. Well, I'm hungry and I'm getting into Oshkosh, so goodbye.