The Journey of Monroe: Transitioning from Military to Music Pt.1

Dive deep into a captivating conversation as Monroe, a retired military veteran and sound engineer, shares his unique journey from a life of structure to one filled with creativity and collaboration. The episode brilliantly juxtaposes the chaos of civilian life against the regimented world of military service. Monroe's candid anecdotes bring to light the challenges faced during this complex transition while imparting valuable lessons on resilience, the significance of community, and the importance of maintaining a sense of humor.

Throughout the episode, Monroe underscores the necessity of vulnerability and authenticity when sharing our experiences and connecting with one another. From insightful discussions about mental health to lighthearted takes on personal hygiene, he draws the audience in with relatable stories and wit. His perspective emphasizes the wisdom gleaned through adversity, paving the way for deeper connections in both personal and professional spheres.

Join us for a hearty blend of laughter, valuable insights from Monroe's life lessons, and a reminder of the importance of supporting one another in our journeys. This episode is more than a conversation; it's an invitation to reflect on your path and share your stories. Don’t forget to engage, subscribe, and share your thoughts—let's keep the conversation alive.

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Transcript

Introduction: Blessings and Buzzing

Speaker 1 0:00

I put a blessing on it too real, that's not metaphoric. We just put the I in iconic buzzing like I'm electronic. Ah yeah, I put a blessing on it. See me dripping in it 24-7 on it. I'm just being honest. Ah, holy water dripping, dripping from my neck to my creps.

Speaker 2 0:13

So I'm too stepping on it like we're rolling, so we're good. We're good, we're going to talk about some things.

Speaker 3 0:19

Oh shit I.

Speaker 2 0:20

I don't know what we're going to talk about. We're going to talk about it.

Speaker 3 0:22

So this is a place I can't plead the fifth right.

Speaker 2 0:25

No.

Speaker 3 0:25

Okay.

Speaker 2 0:26

You can plead anything you want to, but it ain't going to work, you can plead, you can pray. You can do that too, it doesn't matter. Hey everybody, I'm Tiffany Foy, welcome to the Ramblin' Gypsy Podcast. And we are in my she shed again, and I have a another set of balls in here, and I know I said that I was never going to ever do that, but clearly I've broken my own rule and, um, everybody break the rules, this break the rules.

Speaker 2 0:54

This is Monroe hi hi, thanks for having me, ma'am. Thank you for being here.

Speaker 3 0:56

I am very excited this is going to be interesting.

Speaker 2 0:57

it is going to be really interesting. In fact, right before we just got started, um, you and I've known each other for a long minute Different venues, different avenues, different places, different scenarios, so to speak and you just said that you were shy.

Speaker 3 1:13

I am, believe it or not, I am.

Speaker 2 1:14

I don't believe it. No, so I don't at all.

Speaker 3 1:18

No, so you know I get a little bit liquid in me, yeah, yeah. Liquid courage. If I'm in a in me, you know if I'm in a crowd, you know in a crowd, you know it doesn't matter, you know. But you put me on a stage, you put me on a camera, oh, you know it, just it's. I don't like eyes. Yeah, you know, in a crowd, it doesn't matter. I like to be the loud guy, I like to be the, I like the shock, because you hear some of the stuff.

Speaker 2 1:40

I say, yeah oh yeah, but but to actually like just to stand on stage so well for so we've gotten along so well for so long.

Speaker 3 1:46

So, yeah, this is just new to me. I mean, this is actually my second podcast, and the first one was supposed to talk about wrestling.

Speaker 2 1:53

Really.

Speaker 3 1:54

But we talked about hammer toes for about two hours.

Speaker 2 1:56

Oh my lord, yeah, that sounds like a conversation that I need to have with Creed Fisher, and we are going to talk about that again when I am next on the show. That one's for you, buddy. That one was for you. You're welcome, monroe. You know, creed it wasn't your hammer toast.

Speaker 3 2:16

It wasn't your hammer toast, I promise.

Speaker 2 2:17

Oh, thank God, Because that is a whole. That is a whole nother show. That's at least a two hour episode. Oh my God, now my cheeks are red and we haven't even talked about anything yet.

Speaker 3 2:29

This is why I love you. This is so good.

Speaker 2 2:34

But yeah, um, that's good. So you being shy in this situation, um, it was really weird when we first started the podcast and you know, steve trevino was comedian, renee his wife, very good friends of mine and that's they're the ones that talked me into doing this and um, when we first started the podcast, it was very, it was very weird for me. Like I could sit and shoot the shit and talk and have conversations in big crowds or small crowds or just one-on-one, but then you stick all these lights and these cameras in front of you and in in the porch that I built.

Speaker 1 3:11

I mean, it's a very narrow little area and those cameras were literally right in front of your face.

Speaker 2 3:16

I was like holy shit. And then I would, I would start practicing. And then it was like um, thinking about topics, and what about this person? What about that person? And you know, steve and them, they've they figured it out. I mean, obviously he's, he's clearly not shy, but um, he, uh, he. We sat down and we got to talking about it and he said you need to, you need to stop, you're thinking way too freaking hard, like this is absolutely not you. And and I and I sat and I listened to him and I listened to everything that he was saying and I thought you know, you're right. And so since then it's been a complete game changer for me, where I don't, I, I couldn't tell you from the moment of us talking about bringing you on the show and what we're going to talk about, or I just I don't even, and it's been so good and it's been, so it's been so fun for me.

Speaker 3 4:05

I'm a huge fan. I've watched so many I mean I didn't know what it was until you brought Mags and Ditto on, and then I watched that one, then I watched the Uno Rios one, and then you brought Jungle and so I'm kind of I'm a fangirl.

Speaker 1 4:18

Thank you.

Speaker 3 4:19

Right, so I've watching all of them you know, and it's just, you're infectious, you really are, You're just. I mean, I know you personally, you know, but here I just you're infectious.

Speaker 2 4:29

Thank you, that makes me feel good. Now my cheeks are really red twice, from head to hammer toes. Yeah, I'm sorry. Oh my God, no, you're not. That's so freaking good. I cannot wait to elaborate on this whole thing. Yeah, there it is, we just nailed it. Yeah, head to hammer toes. So let's tell everybody who's Monroe, tell everybody who are you. What do you do? I mean, I know what you do, oh well, I'm a retired vet.

Speaker 3 4:59

I did 20 years in the military, got out of the military, did a lot of questionable things, uh-huh, and hooked up with a guy who was doing sound. And you know, even though I'm old, I still have that 14-year-old. I want to be a rock star.

Speaker 2 5:17

Yeah.

Speaker 3 5:17

But I can't sing, I can't play an instrument. To save my life, so I hooked up with this guy who was running sound. I'm like holy cow, I like it, mm-. It saved my life, so I hooked up with this guy who was running sound. I'm like holy cow, I like it. So I started doing that for a while and then finally I went, got my degree in music business, audio engineering.

Speaker 2 5:34

This is after you got out of the military.

Speaker 3 5:35

This is after the military and a couple of years of bad decisions.

Speaker 2 5:38

So you were when you got out of the military and like I've had a lot of conversations with Ditto and Jungle and you know the whole group and Legacy and and known so many of them for for a long minute and, um, were you completely lost? Were you? Were you scared, were you was like becoming a fool on coming out of the military and being a just a civilian. I mean, did you know? I mean, were you? You came right out and you obviously you said you made several years of bad decisions. I know a couple of them that are about to come out of the military and they're scared fucking shitless.

Speaker 3 6:11

Definitely. For 20 years I've had a structured way of life. Get up at 4, PT.

Speaker 2 6:20

Because they structured that for you. And so then you come out and it's like what the fuck? What do I do?

Speaker 3 6:25

It's utter chaos. And even with nothing to do, because I'm retired, I have no job, it's utter chaos because I don't know what to do, I don't know where to go, I don't know how to act.

Speaker 2 6:36

And the military doesn't say by the way, monroe, you leave on Friday, you're done, and this is what we think that you should do, or this is what we suggest that you or do. They don't. You don't have like a year prior to where they well they do have programs.

Speaker 3 6:54

They do have programs that help you transition you know, but no matter how much planning that you do, you don't. It's usually you know the transition starts. That last year.

Speaker 2 7:04

Right.

Speaker 3 7:04

But for 20 years you've known structure, You've known what to wear, Mm-hmm. You know we don't have to pick out our outfits, the simple things.

Speaker 2 7:14

We don't have to pick out our outfits, that we all take for granted. Yeah See, I would have never thought. Yeah, that would have been one of the first.

Speaker 3 7:20

It was just difficult. So I numbed myself with things, things, and it took me about a couple of years and, holy crap, I got kids. I can't do this Right. So kind of fell in. You know, believe it or not, I actually started school to be a radiologist.

Speaker 2 7:42

Really yeah, nice.

Speaker 3 7:44

And I took A and P and I'm like oh, hell, no.

Speaker 2 7:46

Yeah.

Speaker 3 7:47

What's a forayman? I mean yeah, so I went into the music program.

Speaker 2 7:52

That's a real big one, yeah.

Speaker 3 7:54

So here I am.

Speaker 2 7:54

Yeah.

Speaker 3 7:55

Yeah, so now I run. Sound for whoever hires me.

Speaker 2 8:00

Right, and how long was that whole process?

Speaker 3 8:03

I mean I've been doing it. How hard did you? Have to fall when you came out after those two years I'm still falling, I'm still falling. I fell every day. Yeah, you know, but if you don't fail, you're not learning. So, um, you know, I thought I was doing pretty good and I met my really good friend. His name is jack rabbit j J-Rab for short.

Speaker 2 8:22

Yeah.

Speaker 3 8:23

And he was actually a tour manager for someone that we both know, anyway. But he came out to a show I was doing in Unaria several years ago and I thought I was doing pretty good and he's like okay, it sounds good, but let me show you something. Yeah, so he started showing me things. Well, I didn't know I could do that. I didn't know I could do that.

Speaker 1 8:41

Right.

Speaker 3 8:42

So it humbled me real quick. So I don't pretend I know everything.

Speaker 2 8:48

How'd you take that, as a man and a big ego and being in the military, I mean, did you take that?

Speaker 3 8:55

I took it very well, believe it or not, because he's been doing this for 40 years Because of a respect issue with him. Yeah, it's just he's been doing it for 40 years. He obviously him. Yeah, it's just he's been doing it for 40 years he obviously knows a lot more than I do, so shut up and listen.

Speaker 2 9:08

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I do. It wasn't that. And a lot of people will take that. And I feel like I can never learn enough in aspects of everything, everything and anything, and I ask a lot of questions. And if I run into a scenario and I'm completely lost, or run into a scenario and I'm completely lost or and I'm in a dispute or a whatever, a confrontation or just any scenario, and and I'm thinking, you know, I, I really feel like I'm right in this and then I think, well, maybe am I.

Speaker 2 9:36

And so then I go to Nick, or I go to close people that are with me that know me very, very well, and I'll say, will you look at this and tell me I mean people that are with me that know me very, very well. And I'll say, well, you look at this and tell me. I mean, do am I? Just straight up, tell me, am I in the wrong here? Am I the jackass, am I the one that's being completely unreasonable, or but? And they'll, straight up, they know, tell me and I'll take it. And then I'll. And because I want to learn the same thing with therapy, I feel like I can never have enough therapy. Yeah, but it takes a lot for someone yourself to take somebody that even if the guy had five years experience versus the 40, would you have.

Speaker 3 10:17

Well, the thing is, you know, 20 years I was military Right.

Speaker 3 10:21

You know, and in the audio engineering, I'm an infant. I'm an infant, I'm an infant. I need people to show me right, because school only teaches you so much, right? You know, it teaches you the basics, blah, blah. But how do you do this? I did right, so I need people to teach me and I'm not one to press off. You've been doing this, you know, even if I don't know you right. If it sounds like a good idea, okay, cool, you know, let me try this. Let me try this right and then there's some suggestions.

Speaker 3 10:50

I'm like kick rocks, dude you know, so, but you know, this being the brothels, how many musicians do we have here? How many venues do we have here? How many sound people do we have here? How many sound people do we have here? And what I love about this community is we all talk, we all communicate, we all help each other out. You know, um, you know this, this Thursday, you know that I was asked to do a show, but Thursdays are my date nights with my wife. So this other guy got the gig, but he needed a soundboard. So I gave him my soundboard here. This other guy got the gig, but he needed a soundboard so I gave him my soundboard here.

Speaker 1 11:27

You know I love that. It's just, you know, you feel a lot of that, don't you scotty?

Speaker 2 11:30

oh yeah, you can't mean.

Speaker 3 11:31

Yeah, it's community yeah, I mean one thing I love and I appreciate the musician part and the sound part and and the videographer part and the.

Speaker 1 11:40

Yeah and all the parts. Yeah, you know you play a lot of roles.

Speaker 3 11:43

Yeah, but one thing, and it's kind of stuck with me amateurs compete, professionals collaborate, so I like to think of myself as a professional. So I'm not trying to knock anyone out of anything.

Speaker 2 11:59

Amateurs compete.

Speaker 3 12:01

Professionals collaborate.

Speaker 2 12:02

Professionals collaborate. I really like that. That's what I try to do Thatessionals collaborate, professionals collaborate. I really like that.

Speaker 3 12:07

That's what I try to do.

Speaker 2 12:08

That is very strong. I like those statements.

Speaker 3 12:12

I think it was on my toilet paper.

Speaker 2 12:15

I don't care. Did you put that one aside and now wipe your ass with it? At least take a screenshot of it. I guess it doesn't matter if it's stuck, it's stuck. We't matter if it's stuck, it's stuck. I'm not going to talk about where it's stuck, but at least it's stuck. I love that that's so good. Yeah, that's so good.

Speaker 3 12:32

Because I remember when I first started I didn't know shit from Chicago, you know.

Speaker 2 12:37

I feel like that, just about things in life in general, which I have that conversation with a lot of the kids that have worked for me. People call it karma.

Speaker 3 12:45

I call it a love bank. I like to make deposits into my love bank. Eventually I'm going to have to make a withdrawal. I'm just always trying to put deposits into my love bank because I may need to have a withdrawal someday, somewhere, that's what I try to do.

Speaker 2 12:59

You're like a little monk. I don't even know if we can say Indian style anymore. I know I feel like we should all. Whatever I can't do that, I'm going to get a cramp. Yeah, I'm going to throw out a hip or some shit. It's about to happen.

Speaker 3 13:16

Yeah, I'm with you.

Speaker 2 13:17

I've had all the surgeries yeah. So, Nick's going to have a stroke. Yeah, I mean literally drove like yeah, I mean literally I did a deal and hiked my legs. She's like stop doing this. I'm gonna send the video to your doctor. And I was like don't be god, you're so mean why are you yelling at me? No dude, look at you, just full of inspiration.

Speaker 3 13:37

I like that I've faced a lot of adversity and I was in therapy for 13 years.

Speaker 2 13:47

Oh, I've been. I am 51 years old and I've been in there since the day I came out and I am going strong.

Speaker 3 13:55

Yeah, but you know, like you know, before we started I told you, you know, before 06, I was an introvert, you know. And then what happened in 06? It just opened my eyes. You know tomorrow's not promised, you know, yeah. So live your life, yeah, and treat people the way you want to be treated, you know, and lift people up. Putting people down does nothing, it doesn't nothing doesn't make you feel better no, there's a lot of people there's my yeah, boy do I.

Speaker 2 14:22

That's a lot of people. I mean there's yeah Boy, do I.

Speaker 3 14:24

That's a whole nother column. There's people I love to slap on the daily, oh yeah.

Speaker 2 14:27

Yeah, I got a whole list of them. Yeah, yeah, and there's a couple I have bapped in the back of the head.

Speaker 3 14:32

But yeah, just like. I said my love bank. Eventually, I'm going to need a withdrawal.

Speaker 2 14:37

Yeah, that's good that what made you decide to go into the military.

Speaker 3 14:45

I lived in a very small town in West Virginia, really.

Speaker 2 14:49

Very small town in West Virginia Like this small. Do you even know what that means? No black people, no Mexican people. No, this means it was bigger than that, then no stop signs no nothing, no, nothing, my graduating class was 52 people. Oh, you all lived on the same block.

Speaker 3 15:07

Well, aunt Grandma and Uncle Grandpa. No stop signs, no nothing. My graduating class was 52 people. Oh, you all lived on the same block. Well, aunt Grandma and Uncle Grandpa.

Speaker 2 15:11

They used to have, you know, three houses.

Speaker 3 15:15

Uncle Grandpa, yes, Aunt Grandma and Uncle Grandpa. Right, yeah, right, but no, it was just a very small town.

Speaker 2 15:21

That one's for you.

Speaker 3 15:22

Uncle Becca, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 15:23

We had a choice Cold mines or meth. Pick one yeah.

Speaker 3 15:26

Cold mines or meth. Wow, I didn't want to do either. So, believe it or not, my cousin, he joined the military and he's like hey, dude, if you join the military I get promoted before you go to basic training. So my dad was a professional educator.

Speaker 2 15:41

So so it was like a buy one, get one, Kind of sort of.

Speaker 3 15:43

Yeah, so my dad wouldn't sign because I was 17. My dad wouldn't sign for me to go, so my mom was like hell, yeah, so behind my your dad would not. Oh, my dad would not, but mom's like hell yeah. So mom went behind dad's back.

Speaker 2 15:56

Why was your dad so against it?

Speaker 3 15:58

Because my dad's a and he thought she'd go to college, he thought she'd do this. So graduated June, went to basic training in August.

Speaker 2 16:08

Really, and your mom was like get the hell out of here. Yeah get out of here.

Speaker 3 16:14

Make something out of yourself Siblings.

Speaker 2 16:16

Do you have siblings? I?

Speaker 3 16:17

have two. I have an older sister and I am very honest when I say this. She lives in Big Ugly, West Virginia.

Speaker 2 16:26

Okay, that's a town.

Speaker 3 16:27

Big Ugly Talk to the wife She'll tell you oh, it is real.

Speaker 2 16:29

Yeah, that's what it's called.

Speaker 3 16:30

Big Ugly, West Virginia. Yes.

Speaker 2 16:32

Why are they so mean to that place?

Speaker 3 16:33

Because it's on Big Ugly Creek, so it's Big.

Speaker 2 16:36

Ugly. Wow, it's almost like woman ho and older, younger and then you're the baby.

Speaker 3 16:49

Oh okay, I'm the middle, you're the middle.

Speaker 2 16:50

Yeah, but I was mommy's baby.

Speaker 3 16:51

I was the only boy. I was mama's baby yeah I was a mama's boy but she shipped you.

Speaker 2 16:55

She was like yeah, I'm shipping.

Speaker 3 16:57

You need to get the hell out of here yeah, so she knew what was up, yeah but I did no wrong in that woman's eyes.

Speaker 2 17:03

Oh, that's a boy.

Speaker 3 17:05

mom, right there I want to tell you how bad it was. She used to de-bone and de-skin my chicken. I never ate chicken from a bone ever.

Speaker 2 17:15

I know several people like that.

Speaker 3 17:16

I'll join the military and I'm in basic training and they serve me chicken on a bone. What the hell am I supposed to do with this Mama? Yeah, no, shit, right, so I got a quarter I can put in here, but I was that spoiled. I was that spoiled.

Speaker 2 17:30

Grown-ass man with a cup of three-four hair on your balls and she's still deboning your chicken.

Speaker 1 17:34

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2 17:36

Yep, mama, but she sent you off.

Speaker 1 17:40

Yeah, she knew what it would take to put hair in your ass.

Speaker 2 17:44

Yeah, she knew what it was going to take for you to eat off that damn bone. Just get your ass in the military.

Speaker 3 17:50

But yeah, so that's how I joined, why I joined.

Speaker 2 17:53

So is your wife deboning your chicken. No Wait a minute Once I retired.

Speaker 3 18:00

I found someone to debone for me. Whoa, look, we have a deboner.

Speaker 2 18:08

Wow, wow, my cheeks are. We're going to need to darken these cameras.

Speaker 3 18:11

This is how the hammer toe shit came up. It just happened yeah.

Speaker 2 18:14

Shit Frickin hammer toe de-boning chicken. This is okay, Anyways. Yeah so does she no?

Speaker 3 18:22

no, no. So we have 20 years in the army and no one there to debone or de-skin my chicken.

Speaker 2 18:28

I've learned to eat chicken.

Speaker 3 18:29

Yeah, yeah, I still want to eat grits, I still want to eat oatmeal, but I'll do my own chicken.

Speaker 1 18:34

I'm just going to stop I know the writing is all over the marquee on my forehead.

Speaker 2 18:40

I don't want to talk about your boner in the military, and if you had it, it's a bee buster, it's not one.

Speaker 3 18:47

Well, I mean, you know, I did three years in the desert.

Speaker 1 18:50

And having a boner in the desert was weird.

Speaker 2 18:54

The only place to take care of it was the Port of Johns at 127 degrees.

Speaker 3 18:58

Ew it's fine, you learn to get rid of them. Right, yeah, they're talking about a bee boner, yeah, 127 degrees shitter, yeah, uh, yeah, that got cleaned once a week by the way.

Speaker 2 19:15

So all right, so you just go in there and you lose it, right? Yeah, everything was so high in the sky until this is going to probably be one of my most favorite episodes ever hey, but we made it past 10. I mean, I'm not sure about all the cussing. Oh yeah, no, but that's good.

Speaker 3 19:30

I'm so trying not to cuss.

Speaker 2 19:33

Oh, I can't. They have bloopers and bleepers and things that they throw out there.

Speaker 3 19:37

I'm just trying to be.

Speaker 2 19:38

I'm so proud of you. Yeah, I've been proud, all right, well, so fucking relax.

Speaker 3 19:43

Yeah, but I don't know what fucking audience is going to be watching this fucking thing. I know.

Speaker 2 19:47

We have the E on all the things, yeah.

Speaker 3 19:49

Okay, cool.

Speaker 2 19:49

Yeah, because my favorite word is called it yeah exactly.

Speaker 3 19:53

Yeah.

Speaker 2 19:54

Wait till you get my Christmas card.

Speaker 3 19:55

It's adorable, oh, dude yeah.

Speaker 2 19:58

Mm-hmm, Mm so you're sounding sound engineering.

Speaker 3 20:05

Yes, I got a frat party this weekend, so a couple months ago this band came into Billy's and I did sound for them, Mm-hmm. And so earlier this football season I worked with Riverbottom Sounds and Entertainment.

Speaker 2 20:22

First of all, I just realized that your mic was not part of your. I thought you had the rubber band.

Speaker 3 20:30

Wayne thought that I would look good in pink. He said it brought up my eyes.

Speaker 2 20:33

It's good, but I thought it was your Beautiful accent piece. I thought it was.

Speaker 3 20:39

Oh, no, dude, I used to have a, really long one I'll get to that one. I'll go ahead and tell it now. So I had a really, really decent sized beard, yeah, and my current wife has never seen me without a beard. So one Sunday I wake up and I go, I shave completely Completely.

Speaker 2 20:56

Why, first of all?

Speaker 3 20:57

Because she'd never seen me.

Speaker 2 20:58

So you just wanted to be a.

Speaker 3 21:00

So this hooker, I love her to death. She's like well shit, wake up with a husband and go to bed with a boy toy Hooker, she was deboning your chicken, she was deboning my chicken.

Speaker 2 21:12

She was deboning Yep One piece at a time.

Speaker 3 21:18

See ya.

Speaker 2 21:19

Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 3 21:21

So, but no, while back this.

Speaker 1 21:25

Was this after y'all had already tied the knot? Yeah, so she hadn't seen your face Ever.

Speaker 3 21:31

Ever, ever.

Speaker 1 21:32

After we got married.

Speaker 3 21:35

Dude. She saw all four of these shits for the first time All four of them, but she thought I looked young enough.

Speaker 1 21:42

So you passed up, yeah.

Speaker 2 21:45

So yeah, so how you passed Abby, yeah, so, yeah. So how'd that go? I mean, what happened?

Speaker 3 21:49

I woke up with a husband going to bed with a boy toy.

Speaker 2 21:52

Oh, my goodness.

Speaker 3 21:59

We luckily we didn't have a kid that weekend, okay we. Bow, chicka, bow, wow. Kind of like a pinky toy, I banged on every piece of furniture in the house.

Speaker 2 22:06

Okay, all right, then that's a good. So marked territory, that's nice, that's good. Nothing that a little pledge can't take care of. Yeah, and a couple of microfibers.

Speaker 1 22:17

Like a fundraiser.

Speaker 2 22:18

Yeah, then there's that I might need a GoFundMe or something. I don't know.

Speaker 3 22:26

After that.

Speaker 1 22:27

I might need a GoFundMe or something, I don't know. No, luckily, luckily, I got to start a pledge campaign.

Speaker 3 22:29

Yeah, yeah, but no, luckily, I mean, the VA gives me all the Viagra I need.

Speaker 2 22:33

So I think you got to back up stash. You can't sell Viagra without VA.

Speaker 3 22:38

There you go.

Speaker 2 22:39

That is a good one. So, then she said grow back, or are you just like you know? Was this like a mutual decision? I didn't like it. A draw vote.

Speaker 3 22:48

No, I didn't like it. So I started growing it back and she wanted me to keep it short and I was like, no, I want it back Because you know I used to put like so many rubber bands and you know I just missed that.

Speaker 2 23:02

My dad shaved his beard one time and and I won't I, I'm still traumatized for him. It was just like oh then my daughter devastated my daughter.

Speaker 3 23:14

She's like dad. You look like a pedophile.

Speaker 2 23:16

I've never seen his face I never nothing and I was like what is all that? Yeah, I mean we're yeah, yeah, it was. I was devastated. It literally broke my heart, like I it just you know my dad's beard. Until he crossed the I mean his it was always just perfect and groomed and yeah.

Speaker 3 23:38

It was just, you know, I joined the army at 17, 20 years.

Speaker 2 23:42

Yeah.

Speaker 3 23:42

You know so I didn't get to live in my twenties, I didn't get to Right. So I'm an old old man now, but I'm living my 20s. Now I'm doing the dumbest shit you could think of.

Speaker 2 23:54

Yeah, I'm right there with you. I'm right there with you, but luckily I got married to this one and she really calmed me down.

Speaker 3 23:59

I'm still doing dumb shit, but not as dumb, yeah, you know. So she's actually put years on my life, thank God.

Speaker 2 24:07

That's good. I mean, it took a couple.

Speaker 3 24:13

She's number five.

Speaker 2 24:14

I have this I got a couple, two, three, whatever.

Speaker 3 24:18

Who's counting?

Speaker 2 24:19

I'm not, I damn sure I'm not.

Speaker 3 24:20

I have no one to count. I'm trying to get a little WNBA team together.

Speaker 2 24:27

We might need an extra hammer toe to start counting all of our baggage around here. Oh my God, yeah you never know. Hammer toes Say two hammers are better than one, but are they not?

Speaker 3 24:38

You can never have enough tools If you're wearing high heels and you've got that one pinky toe sticking out and it comes across and crosses over that toe. Come on.

Speaker 2 24:44

Like it's having a conversation. Yeah, you know no.

Speaker 3 24:47

Come on.

Speaker 2 24:48

You need to put that up. I mean seriously.

Speaker 1 24:51

How could any other topic be in the conversation?

Speaker 3 24:54

No, but I'm a firm believer in yoga pants or yoga shorts, whatever, and open-toed shoes should be a privilege, not a right. I'm that dude.

Speaker 2 25:04

So is Creed Fisher. Yeah, we had a whole family event on about feet is this one of the episodes?

Speaker 3 25:14

oh, no, but it's going to be. Oh, it's going.

Speaker 2 25:16

This was after can I sit over there when it happens? Oh?

Speaker 3 25:19

yes, absolutely for the live studio he was.

Speaker 2 25:22

Yeah he was live on his little deal, because he gets on and talks to the world and all of his audience on the daily and and yeah, and he was talking about something and I chimed in nick, and I were doing something, whatever, and I typed in there and he was like okay, all right, gypsy, you're not gonna let me ever live this down. I was like fuck, no, I'm not. Are you kidding you threw the biggest temper tantrum I've ever seen over feet and it was freaking hilarious.

Speaker 3 25:48

But I'm that dude Creed. I'm with you, boy, I'm with you, dude, I'm with you.

Speaker 2 25:55

I got you boo, this is so good. I feel like we need to do like feet stamps, walking up the like oh my God, oh my God, yeah, dis god yeah disgusted no, it's no yeah no, yeah, oh my god, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're on the mag side no, if they're pretty feet, I will suck toes all day see, there we go, here we go but no, but if I'm crazy, if it looks like read max in Monroe.

Speaker 2 26:29

We're doing a whole this whole panel yes, you know it will do it like the Ellen DeGeneres deal. When she does her things and it's like truth or dare, or yes or no when she does the thing and you have to turn it around and it says yes or no. We're going to make foot panels. Put them on tongue depressors.

Speaker 3 26:55

If your toes look like you're throwing up gang signs, come on.

Speaker 2 26:58

Oh, that's bad. That's hammer toes, that's hammer toes, those are Neanderthals.

Speaker 3 27:03

Yeah, if you could pull trout out of a lake, if you can slice a.

Speaker 2 27:08

If your feet are singing. No, you've got to do it. Those hermitos, Hermitos. No, you've got to do it If you Like.

Speaker 3 27:15

Sebastian, am I wrong?

Speaker 2 27:16

Look.

Speaker 1 27:17

Come on.

Speaker 2 27:17

Sebastian Maniscalco is one of my favorite humans in the world. I'm obsessed with this man and his family and because he is such a realist and the stuff that he talks about is literally, I have never missed one of his shows. I've seen him multiple times in vegas and any times he's in texas, never missed one. But he talks about when you, he walks in and they, they're the, the, it's a guest deal and his wife's got people and so he's, he, he doesn't like people. And he goes in there and the guy says you, you have, you have to take your shoes off in the house. And he's like what I mean he?

Speaker 2 27:53

He says that we're standing in the kitchen and he says and looks down and the guy was asking a random question. He said well, the first question we should be talking about is your feet. I mean, do you just walk around like this? And he said and he sticks his toe up and he said it looked like you could slice a nice piece of provolone. Would you do that? So now is he, not only now and I'm a visual.

Speaker 2 28:18

That's so disgusting, yes, and I'm such a visual person and I'm thinking, oh my God, and it took the whole cheese toast thing to a whole new fucking level for me.

Speaker 3 28:31

You know I've been a biker forever. I will pull in biker and all and I will get a pedicure.

Speaker 2 28:37

Well, yeah, as you should I just? Yes.

Speaker 3 28:41

Yeah.

Speaker 2 28:41

Yes, no, it's. It is very, very important. Me and Kel are very we're. We're all about our toes, not even just the toes.

Speaker 3 28:52

You know you're walking through damn H-E-B Walmart and you got all these chicks in their flip flops and the black heels. They got cracks in them and looks like they got soles on their feet, Not their shoes on their feet.

Speaker 2 29:06

That's why there's a whole industry that's called Walmart feet.

Speaker 3 29:13

That's a. Thing.

Speaker 2 29:14

It is a thing, marisol, tell me about that.

Speaker 1 29:17

This is the thing, though, when you say that we probably all see the exact same image in our head.

Speaker 2 29:24

Yes, I've never heard of it. It's Walmart fee. When you say that, I'm going to know exactly what Walmart fee is.

Speaker 3 29:29

I'm sorry, but this is the world according to Monroe. Okay, I see shit that people don't see.

Speaker 2 29:35

Oh, I am that person. You know what I mean. Oh, I see it, I see it and I'm the first one, but my problem is I can't shut up. Well, no, yeah.

Speaker 3 29:48

I can't shut up.

Speaker 2 29:50

Yeah, nick is notorious for telling me well, my whole thing is I, and I will be the first one to say I need to go take a lap, because I know what's about to happen. I know what's about to happen, I know what's about to come out of my mouth. I know what's about to look, that's about to just come right out of my face. And then she sees both of them. She's like you know what you need to. Before we all end up in a bad situation, you need to go take a lap. In fact, then she'll send me, not even say take a lap. She'll be like you need to go and she'll see me like on a damn scavenger hunt and shit. Yeah, and I fall for it. Okay, I'll go get him.

Speaker 3 30:25

Yeah, let me go. If I give you the look it's like is your birthstone a crack rock she fell for that shit Is your birthstone a crack rock yeah.

Speaker 1 30:31

That's also another great title for this episode.

Speaker 3 30:42

You know, but it's just, you just dude like for real, real, yeah.

Speaker 2 30:44

You actually walked out of your house like thinking that you're okay. Uh-huh, the fuck is wrong with you. What is wrong with your people? Do you not have a mirror? Do you not have friends? Why have they let you do this?

Speaker 3 30:51

man, it's just so sad I don't know who to shame them or them. Basic personal hygiene is so rare nowadays. So so you nasty motherfucker, you know I can't Sorry.

Speaker 2 31:04

No, no, no, Believe me, I have. I could tell you a million stories about the things that we see at the resort. Or, oh my God, the thing that, yeah, you want to talk about Walmart, you should talk about their swimmies that they have on. They got oh Guadalupe fee, oh Guadalupe. Yeah, it's even worse, yeah. How long, I can't, I need to watch. I need to watch my room, the cool thing.

Speaker 3 31:35

You know April. Like I said, april's coming down a lot the.

Speaker 2 31:38

Guadatos the what the guata toes, it's what they get in.

Speaker 1 31:48

You know the, they paddle, they pat do you need a?

Speaker 2 31:49

yeah, they don't need to cut they don't need to roll with their, with their fungicides, and jesus christ, you know, their toenails are like four inches thick. Oh my god, literally I am. I just want y'all to know that I have a s Claus on one of my toes and I have a reindeer on the other so my shit is legit. No, you know it's not. It is a reindeer. Kel thought it was a black Santa.

Speaker 1 32:14

She was like what Kel?

Speaker 2 32:15

thought it was a black Santa. No, yeah, she was like I mean, they all give the gifts, right? And I was like, well, of course they do, I don't care. Yeah, she was like, only you would go get a white Santa and a black Santa, one on one toe and one on the other, because you're right there. And I was like, no, it was fine, it was good, it was a good time.

Speaker 3 32:34

So, moral of the story take care of your feet.

Speaker 2 32:36

And wash your ass and take care of your feet. It's really important. It is yeah, yeah, it's a head to toe. Head, shoulders, knees and toes, those are things. That's where that all started. I'm pretty sure that was like a yeah, A Sesame. We learned that in Sesame street era. Yeah, Nick doesn't even know what freaking Sesame street is. Yeah, but you know it is.

Speaker 3 32:58

Yeah, but you know, I just you know, I frequent bars, believe it or not, you know and I frequent music venues all over. You know, yes, it's just so many people that don't know basic hygiene.

Speaker 2 33:14

And then, I'm expecting to have. Those are crowd clearers, but I'm expecting to have conversations with some of these people. Right and you're dying.

Speaker 3 33:21

Oh yeah, you know Yep and you're dying.

Speaker 2 33:23

Oh yeah, you know, yep, been there. It's bad, yeah, yeah, I can't. I can't handle the things. I don't know where that really comes from.

Speaker 3 33:37

We were raised right.

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Speaker 2 33:41

I mean, even if, even if we didn't have a normal bath time or whatever, what we called would be a spit bath, we call them whore baths Face spit, nuts ass. Okay, well, we just spit on a rag.

Speaker 3 34:02

I was in the military and we'd be out deployed and you don't have the luxury of showers.

Speaker 2 34:08

Yeah.

Speaker 3 34:09

So we always took baby wipes or something like this.

Speaker 2 34:12

I'm just talking about when we were out running around because I was the kid Shit. I still am the one that runs around with no shoes on Shit, they've seen me. That's how the whole feet conversation with freaking Creed started Me running around out here at our undisclosed location, the only time I'm barefoot is in a pool or in my shower.

Speaker 3 34:31

That's it.

Speaker 2 34:32

So many men are like that.

Speaker 3 34:35

I got flip-flops or bedroom slippers. No, I'm about as redneck.

Speaker 2 34:38

as they come, I will run around.

Speaker 3 34:39

I grew up redneck as shit, but I don't like shit on my feet. Tender feet yeah.

Speaker 2 34:44

So many men are like that.

Speaker 3 34:45

I know it's weird.

Speaker 2 34:46

It is weird, not me. I'll run around and I never have shoes on, but my feet are good. I damn sure ain't walking around with no Walmart shit, but I'll be the first one to smell my toes to see if they're stinky.

Speaker 3 35:05

Because I can't do that and I don't have stinky toes. Smell my toes in like 15 years. I thought you got to stretch and hydrate.

Speaker 2 35:11

Monroe, you got that shit yeah I got like automatic shoe time.

Speaker 3 35:16

You got a. Bend and squat, you got a bend and squat.

Speaker 1 35:20

Yeah, no, my version is the bend and squat.

Speaker 2 35:22

That's how well, yeah, that's a whole another explanation of teaching these girls how to piddle in the pastures. You got a bend and squat, but yeah, no, I, I do.

Speaker 2 35:34

I will run around out here with no shoes and whatever, but at least you have the decency to knock that shit off before you go my whole crew at the resort, if I'll have a fully booked campground and be roaming around and I will go straight up top where I have our hand washing sink or whatever, and I built it, it's just an old metal tub. And yeah, no, I'll stick my foot right up in there and then put my shoes on and do my own thing. Yeah, I may run around like a hood rat, but I am. I'm a clean one.

Speaker 3 36:12

I wake up, shower all that shit you know, and get ready to put my stuff off for the day before the socks, baby powder, blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 2 36:18

Look at you with your baby powder and all that's good. Yeah, so we have sound, clean toes, clean hygiene.

Speaker 3 36:31

What's next for Monroe I don't know, I don't know, I'm just looking for the next adventure. You know, I just I never want to sit on my porch and say I wish I would have. What got you to New Braunfels. Well, april, actually, my wife Really yeah. So my last city station was Fort Sam and in 2014, I actually started coming up to New Braunfels why we started a chapter of my club up here.

Speaker 1 37:05

Okay.

Speaker 3 37:05

Back in 14.

Speaker 1 37:06

Okay.

Speaker 3 37:07

And I lived in San Antonio, but I was up here probably four or five nights a week.

Speaker 1 37:11

Yeah.

Speaker 3 37:12

And drunk as piss and then riding all the way back to San Antonio going to drink and drive. But it was it was, but that's what I did, and then I planned on moving up here anyway, but I met my wife actually met her June 1st 2019.

Speaker 2 37:29

Okay.

Speaker 3 37:29

At Billy's.

Speaker 2 37:30

So in 2014, you were in San Antonio, okay.

Speaker 3 37:33

Yeah, I retired in 14. Okay, blah, blah, blah and got divorced from my last one, moved into an apartment, all that crap, and I just started hanging out up in New Brunswick, gotcha, and then met her June 1st 2019.

Speaker 2 37:47

Did you already have your sound?

Speaker 3 37:50

I was just starting, just starting the sound thing, just starting, so did that. No, I was up here to get drunk, okay, okay.

Speaker 2 38:01

The sound still sucks around here, but I'm here for you know, and uh, in 21 we actually started dating finally yeah and you met her at billy's, met her at billy's and I I told her that day.

Speaker 3 38:17

I asked her to marry me that day. Yeah, and she's like whatever right yeah and uh, yeah, we're going bar hopping. I'm like day. She's like whatever, we're going bar hopping. I'm like come on. She's like I'm not getting on the bike with you. I actually Ubered her from bar to bar to bar that we were bar hopping in At the end of the night. There was no Uber, so she actually had to get on my bike. Anyway, I took her home. Nothing happened, she deboned your chicken.

Speaker 3 38:40

No, no, she didn't, no, she didn't. And you know, from 19 until 21, I would be at Billy's or whatnot and I would get stupid drunk and not listen to anyone. They would call her, so she would come and right, but I was a gentleman, so she'd take me to her house. I'd either sleep in her yard or sleep in the garage, just a gentleman. But she and I, we just had that little connection.

Speaker 1 39:07

Right.

Speaker 3 39:08

So 21,. She had to have procedures done Because she's bullheaded. She thinks she's going to do it by herself, but she reached out for help. I'm retired, I ain't got shit to do, right? So five days turned into 10 days. Then there's complications. She had to have another procedure done. Yeah, so five days, 10 days, three months, and she's like you've been here this long, why leave? Why?

Speaker 2 39:35

yeah.

Speaker 3 39:35

Why leave?

Speaker 2 39:35

Yeah.

Speaker 3 39:36

So here we are.

Speaker 2 39:39

And that was in 21.

Speaker 3 39:41

Yes, and we got married in 22. We just celebrated two years.

Speaker 2 39:44

Congratulations.

Speaker 3 39:46

November 12th, 22 is when we got married. I love that.

Speaker 2 39:48

That's awesome. I love that. I love that. I love that. I love that, I love that.

Speaker 1 39:50

I love that. I love that, I love that, I love that, I love that, I love that.