Confident, Not Cocky
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Confident, Not Cocky
Holidays and Heartfelt Reflections
What happens when you blend the suspense of horror with the sparkle of holiday lights and a dash of personal reflection? Join me, Charles Campos Jr., and my fabulous guest Dani as we playfully grapple with horror movie trivia and the horror genre in general. Halloween was just a few days ago, why not right? Laugh along as we reminisce about our lively youthful escapades and Dani's unapologetic preference for her nickname over Danielle, setting the stage for an episode that’s as entertaining as it is engaging.
As the conversation takes a thoughtful turn, we ponder the pressures of holiday consumerism and the weight of maintaining traditions. We share our personal takes on navigating the chaos of holiday seasons while raising families, questioning the balance between joy and commercial pressure. With a mix of humor and sincerity, we discuss the societal shifts impacting parental mental health and the complexities surrounding gender identity discussions, reflecting on our own experiences and the world our children are growing up in.
Rounding out the episode, we dive into the powerful narratives of parental mental health, sharing candid insights on the emotional rollercoaster of raising a child with disabilities. With a blend of raw honesty and heartfelt stories, we tackle the profound challenges and rewards that come with parenthood, bolstered by a discussion on mental health awareness and the importance of support systems. And as we wrap up, prepare for a spirited debate on superhero abilities, all while channeling our inner self-hype with a sprinkle of fitness inspiration. Tune in, laugh, reflect, and join the conversation that’s as real as it is entertaining.
Hello everyone, my name is Charles Campos Jr and this is my podcast. Confident, not Cocky. I wanted to give a quick disclaimer and I'll let you get back to the episode. I apologize ahead of time for the audio not being the best, for I am still learning as I go and I would continue to learn, get better and bring you better audio and quality shows. If you're hearing this, then I really appreciate you taking a listen and I hope you enjoy the show. Thank you, appreciate you taking a listen. I hope you enjoy the show.
Speaker 2:Thank you. As the saying goes, it ain't cocky if you back it up. This is Confident, Not Cocky. The show where bold conversations meet relatable real-life experiences. Hosted by Charles Campos Jr, this podcast brings you everything from the latest trends and news to personal stories that make you laugh, reflect and maybe even get a little emotional. Whether it's Charles flying solo or chopping it up with special guests, nothing's off the table and it's always straight talk, Real and raw, no filter. So get ready for a ride that's as fun as it is real. This is Confident, Not Cocky, and this is your host, Charles Campos Jr.
Speaker 1:All right, well, welcome in. Do you want to use your nickname or your real name?
Speaker 3:We could go by, danny.
Speaker 1:Danny.
Speaker 3:Yes, with an N and an I, single N.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, for the audience, what is your real name? Well, you don't have to give me your last name of course, Disgustingly, it's Danielle. You don't like your first name.
Speaker 3:Hell no.
Speaker 1:Why? What's wrong with danielle?
Speaker 3:no, I feel like I don't have the face of danielle. You know it's like what?
Speaker 1:what is the face of danielle have? What does that look like? It is a white girl.
Speaker 3:It is not somebody who is Mexican and Puerto Rican, but apparently my mother said she wanted a name that I can call you. That's a boy and a girl name.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, danny, I guess that makes sense. Well, I appreciate you coming on. Obviously, as you know, this is the first episode of Confident Not Cocky or Cocky Not Confident. I can't even get my own damn title of my own podcast correctly, so there'll be some nerves here and there and, of course, I'll have to learn as I go, of course. But, like I said, thanks again, hopefully we'll have some fun here. Um, so tonight we're gonna get to know each other on a different level, because I definitely plan to open it up the conversation, as I plan to do it with any guests on my show. So, like I said, like we started off, um, don't be afraid to hold anything back. Obviously, I have notes here for topics. I don't know if you jotted down on any of yours, but if not, it's okay, I'll keep the conversation going. But if you like, uh, go ahead and just tell the people a little about yourself what's about me?
Speaker 3:I would first say I'm a hilarious person. Anybody who describes me would say I am the life of the party is that right? That is very right is that, with or without alcohol and you you're funny without no, I walk through the door and they'll be like the pot is here, alcohol just helps with it it loosens you out, I know I smell that wine from over here. You're funny, that's strong oh yeah, that's what that 13 percent does is that 13? 13, but you know what the highest is? I had.
Speaker 2:What 17.
Speaker 1:You made it sound like you're going to have this huge number like 45.
Speaker 3:For wine 17%.
Speaker 1:I don't know anything about wine, is 17 a pretty strong one, hell yeah.
Speaker 3:Does it go higher than that? Ask your wife, wife, what happened last time?
Speaker 1:I gave her 17 does it go any higher than that? No, I think 17 or 16 is about the highest I've found so far because even I mean I haven't, I haven't really dabbled in drinking in a while, but even in a beer nowadays, a hard one isn't 11%, 12% high for a beer. I think so I mean that gets you buzzed. A normal beer is like what? 6%, 7%. And they have some hard ones out there that are probably 13%, 14% nowadays. Huh.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I want to say yeah, they've been trying to come up with higher wine percentages, so I've tried about one or two of them and let's just say I don't remember the nights that makes sense for for one I understand it doesn't take much for you to uh get lit first of all, I'm just saying from what?
Speaker 3:I hear and what I've seen in the past back in the day when I used to drink a lot, my tolerance was, you know, very high. I of myself. Now, don't even ask me, don't even ask me, I'm ashamed.
Speaker 1:How old are you?
Speaker 3:I am 27. So back in the day, back in the day when I was like that young, 23, 24.
Speaker 1:So four years ago was back in the day to you.
Speaker 3:Four years does damage on a body.
Speaker 1:Back in the day is like 10, 15 years.
Speaker 3:Okay, don't give yourself like you're 40 years old boy.
Speaker 1:I'm close. I'm 36, 35.
Speaker 3:Okay, that ain't 40, though.
Speaker 1:Calm yourself down, it's close. But yeah, either way, I know that Halloween just just passed and I was, Would you say you're. You're pretty in tune with scary movies, right?
Speaker 3:Oh yes, my favorite Halloween is the best holiday. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:So you think, if, if I give you a quiz on some how or not, not even halloween, like scary movie trivia, you think you'll do pretty good oh, I'm gonna try now.
Speaker 3:I'm intrigued to see myself so how about?
Speaker 1:how would you put a little stake on it? Let's say, if I find a, uh, a trivia one, and I'm trying to say like, if it's like best out of 10, let me questions for this one. There is, oh my god, how many questions. I don't know if we're gonna do all 30 no, let's do disney I'll win that, yes, disney songs.
Speaker 3:No, okay, disney movies.
Speaker 1:Alright, there's like 50. It keeps going Like 100 questions on this.
Speaker 3:I'll murder Disney. Anybody who wants to go against me on Disney, I'll murder you.
Speaker 1:You know what? I'm going to give you the first 10 here and let's see if you can get 7 out of 10, right? Just random's see if you could get seven out of 10, right?
Speaker 3:Just random movie horror trivia oh shit All right.
Speaker 1:Pressure's on All right Number one In the movie the Exorcist what is the name of the possessed girl?
Speaker 3:Pass. I never watched the Exorcist.
Speaker 1:So you're a horror movie guru and you've never seen the exorcist?
Speaker 3:so I always fall asleep on the exorcist. For some reason I feel like those movies just drag okay, so you don't like the classic I don't like anything that's like I guess you could say like exorcism wise, because I feel like the whole let me take it out of your body and the whole life story and the priest talking so much. No, ok, so let's. I'm more gory.
Speaker 1:OK. So I was going to say let's try to narrow it down. Are you more of a slasher type fanatic? Are you more of like gore type?
Speaker 3:of fan fanatic like slasher gore. I like that and no, I'm not a psycho killer like do you have you?
Speaker 1:have you seen the movie psycho that I've?
Speaker 3:not seen that one but I've seen I've seen slasher. Now that was a very good show. Now that was a very good show. That, oh yeah, I think that's the one on netflix. Yeah, that was.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's gory and slasher, so you're more into that so then are you are you into the saw films?
Speaker 3:oh, all of them.
Speaker 1:I've seen every single last one of them like hostile, hostile repeatedly oh, so you like that yeah, bloody yeah, okay, I I make your stomach turn while you're eating yeah, yeah, I'm trying to see here I don't know if they have like a, a modern or what about post-2000s horror movie? I think that should be robbie alley, right let's see it's not gonna give me the answer. I don't think so, like the first one is in the movie Tusk what animal does the old guy?
Speaker 3:oh, it's a walrus that's kind of easy he uses his tibia for the teeth have you seen that movie? I have seen it. It's on Netflix. It's very disgusting. It's a very disgusting movie. Who are the only two people that?
Speaker 1:young Michael Myers spares in the. I have seen it. It's on Netflix. It's very disgusting. It looks crazy. It's a very disgusting movie. All right, who are the only two people that young Michael Myers spares in the Rob Zombies Halloween?
Speaker 3:Oh my God, that's an original. So he spares his sister for one. She's a baby.
Speaker 1:So the baby sister. Yeah, that's right, so who's the other one?
Speaker 3:He kills his older one, the mom.
Speaker 1:Yeah, look at you. Okay, all right, so you're digging, you're digging down, okay. Now I don't know if I I don't even know what this movie is In zombies. You've seen that movie 2016? I think it's the one where the zoo animals become zombies.
Speaker 3:No, I haven't seen that one.
Speaker 1:That one sounds weird. What song plays in the credits of the Hills have Eyes remake 2006? Who?
Speaker 3:watches the credits.
Speaker 1:It must have been iconic.
Speaker 3:I don't watch credits unless I know something's gonna happen at the end.
Speaker 1:You think if I gave you the name of the songs you would know, or you have no idea.
Speaker 3:Let me see, maybe I'll sing it for y'all.
Speaker 1:Painted Desert.
Speaker 3:Nope pass and.
Speaker 1:I Miss you.
Speaker 3:Nope pass 30, 25. 30, 25, no.
Speaker 1:In the Valley of the Sun.
Speaker 3:Nope.
Speaker 1:Hills and Valleys, no. Or here Comes the sun. If you had to take a guess, which one I have- he'll have the sun. I would say in the valley of the sun. Let's see, I was right in the in the valley. All right, a couple more. Oh, here's a speaking of saw. Which trap is not in the saw 3d? Silence circle. Circle Impalement Wheel. Public Execution Trap. Reverse Bear Trap. The Brazen Bull oh, you know what the Brazen Bull is? That's a fucked up torture device. Bedroom Trap.
Speaker 3:What was the third one from the end?
Speaker 1:I'll just say them again silent circle, impalement, impalement wheel, reverse, bear trap, the public execution trap, brazen bull reverse bear trap so you're saying that it was not? I don't think that one was no, it was the bedroom trap damn, that was my next one, but let me do you know what the brazen bull is no, but it sounded like something gory like I'm not gonna lie. The brazen bull is probably one of the most just like a torturous thing and I what about the impalement?
Speaker 3:one public impalement. That's how they started the whole movie off of with the girl she was hanging in the middle. She's like brad, I love you, no, I love you. And they're like you, bitch, you just want whoever's gonna win oh, is that within the glass?
Speaker 1:yeah, and people were trying to break it.
Speaker 3:And she was over here like telling whoever was winning, I love you that's right, that's right that was messed up.
Speaker 1:That's, that's what women do, man. They, they'll, they'll play you okay, pause no, like watch. So obviously I don't have video. So for the people watching, I just oh, is this where?
Speaker 3:they put you in the bull and they smoke you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:From the yeah, I was like from the movie.
Speaker 1:And they're screaming in the bull, so it's like a bronze or a copper bull.
Speaker 3:I don't remember this one in the saw.
Speaker 1:They throw you into this bull and they light a fire underneath you and the crazy part is that they put like organs not like like human organs, but like people like brass instruments, like horns horns goes through the horn or the nose of the bull. So the people screaming in there. You don't hear the screaming, you hear like a whistling noise coming out of the bull's nose and it's jacked up. So people are basically like cooking alive. So if you see how she's hearing the whistling noise, it's multiple people in there crying for their life.
Speaker 3:It was messed up. But see, saw didn't use a bull. To my knowledge, it was in Saw, I think. I don't know four or five.
Speaker 1:I don't remember that either.
Speaker 3:It was the pig scene. It was the one where the man pretended that he was a Saw victim but he never was. And then Saw actually captured him and at the end he had his wife chained and he burned her alive and they closed her into a pig. It wasn't a bull Trick question.
Speaker 1:Maybe I don't know the lies We'll do two more. Oh, this is probably one of my favorite movies, but yet I probably can't quote anything from it. Um, in the I spit on your grave, remix 2010, what is the plot? Do you want me to give you the the choices, or do you know offhand?
Speaker 1:give me the choices, because I've seen all of them, but there's I'm trying to remember with the remake if anybody loves that horror revenge movie, these movies are the movies to watch. Oh my gosh, all right. So the plot a zombie rises from the grave negative yeah, okay, there's one option, id, idk, I don't know. Okay, so a woman wants revenge after being brutalized. Okay, this is pretty easy. And then this says parents want revenge after their daughter is brutalized. Skeletons come from the cemetery.
Speaker 3:A man smits on another man's grave see, isn't the remake supposed to be like? It's all the same, you're overthinking it well, no, because have you seen one, two and three? Yeah, I've seen all of them so part three is she wants revenge for her friend because they were in the aa, but this is the remake.
Speaker 1:oh, she just wants revenge for herself, yeah, yeah, I mean, I thought it was gonna be a lot trickier, but if you know any part of this movie, you'll get that All right. One more.
Speaker 3:She got them though.
Speaker 1:She did, she did Brutally.
Speaker 3:She did. I gave her a high five.
Speaker 1:All right, I'm trying to find a tricky one.
Speaker 3:Oh one, oh, that's all right from what kind of? Weapon did chewy die in the friday, the 13th reboot.
Speaker 1:Oh my god, not friday the 13th. I don't even know who chewy is me neither I only watched those like one time but.
Speaker 3:I can do the sign so we got an axe, machete, antlers, screwdriver, crossbow fire for some strange reason for some strange reason, I think it's antlers I think you say machete because that's what jason uses, but watch you be the antlers.
Speaker 1:It was a screwdriver damn so I mean no, there's only a couple. Do you want? Do you want to finish it, or? Sure might as well what is the lowest rated on rotten tomatoes of the following six? So I'm gonna name you six movies. Which one is the lowest rated on rotten tomato? Leprechaun 1993, with the original one with Jennifer Aniston. Trash the Hill, have Eyes 2006. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2010, saw 3D Scary Movie 2 or Human Centipede 3.
Speaker 3:Oh, that one's disgusting.
Speaker 1:What do you think is the lowest? Leprechaun that movie was trash. And even the graphics it all 3d.
Speaker 3:What now?
Speaker 1:I'm devastated now I'm kind of curious what it has I'm like very devastated.
Speaker 3:I love all the saws rotten tomato didn't have the stomach for it.
Speaker 1:That's what it was is saw 3d, basically the final chapter. Like, is it because it I put in saw 3d? Yeah, because then afterwards they start making the one with like um nine percent chris rock that was, that was spiral yeah, but it's part of saw oh yeah, so they made that one.
Speaker 3:then they made the Saw 11. They also had there was another one that was like, not named Saw, but it was the one- where like Pop, open something real quick. Saw wasn't dead, but it sounds so nice. They like, brought the people back and they were trapped in and man and man.
Speaker 2:I want to look up all the other different saws.
Speaker 3:Yeah, because, but that was the only one that was last called saw saw.
Speaker 1:Besides saw 11 oh then because they didn't call saw 10, I don't think did you go see smile too, yet I did.
Speaker 3:It was a good. Was it better than the first one? I like the first one better. It's usually better the second one. I was like nah.
Speaker 1:Have you seen that Malignant? What is it?
Speaker 3:Malignant. Yeah, On Netflix oh yeah, that was a fucking twist that was wild.
Speaker 1:No spoilers, but I just keep rerunning that police prison scene.
Speaker 3:Jigs, jigsaw was it?
Speaker 1:oh yeah, jigsaw. Remember when she she's fighting all the or killing all the police officers oh yeah it's hit. But you know what I'm saying, like backwards and shit.
Speaker 3:I'm like what I remember being like. You can't see my eyebrows and my eyebrows are like going close to my, like middle of my forehead I'm thinking like this shit's ridiculous, but this isn't entertaining as hell, and that's why you gotta watch that hulu show I was telling you about what?
Speaker 1:what? No go ahead say it, no go ahead, say it grow grotesquery.
Speaker 3:Gross grocery? How do you say it?
Speaker 1:I'm pretty sure it's grotesque. Where are you getting a re now? You got me looking it up.
Speaker 3:I'm looking up for y'all motherfuckers it's grotesque.
Speaker 1:There's no re or anything at the end of it. I hope if anyone listens to this, they make fun of you for that shit look it's grotesquery see, maybe grotesquery or grotesquery. I think it's grotesquery grotesquery.
Speaker 3:Either way, watch that shit on Hulu. I am on the episode four and I am literally turning like I don't know who who to trust I see I'm trying to get caught up on and it's very gory. So if you like saw movies or anything slasher gory, that's up your alley see I'm trying to get caught up on those uh america horror stories I got back into those. Man, I'm trying to think where I stopped at there's so many now, I think I stopped at the road. Yeah, I was like no, no, the camp one.
Speaker 1:I watched the slasher one the slasher. Yeah, that was a good one too.
Speaker 3:That's where I left off when I didn't watch was with lady g. I'm sorry, Lady Gaga. Oh, the vampire one. Well, she's in more of the show the hotel one yeah, that's the vampire one. Yeah, I couldn't watch it. She just, I couldn't, I couldn't.
Speaker 1:Really, I like Lady Gaga.
Speaker 3:Okay, who was your? Which one was your favorite one?
Speaker 1:Well, I'm only up, I just finished.
Speaker 2:From the ones you watched.
Speaker 1:So the ones I watched was a slasher Roanoke, the original one in the house.
Speaker 2:Oh the doomsday.
Speaker 1:The circus one, the doomsday one. Remember they're in the shelter. The witches one the witches one, so I've seen on those. If I had to choose which my favorite one was, honestly it probably had to be the slasher one because I like how I like how they had the clown and the other piece of the puzzle and like how it all ended and how people were in purgatory like it was good.
Speaker 3:It was better than the roanoke one. But I'm an og, I would have to say season one or the circus one, the asylum one that clown yeah, yeah that was pretty crazy.
Speaker 1:and then, um, speaking about this, all halloween stuff, I don't know I feel like I am in the minority of this, but like, like Christmas and like Thanksgiving, halloween, like I don't know why, I'm not all about that Like, and it's weird because growing up we celebrated all the holidays like Easter and shit. I, I got baskets, I've always got presents, but like now that I'm an adult and a parent and I have kids, well obviously it's like I'm like over that shit, like low-key, like I I I think, I think we keep this whole Santa Claus thing going for way too long.
Speaker 1:You know, I'm saying like I truly believe. If, if my wife would let me, I probably would have told my kids that, you know, santa was fake, probably years ago. Because I just think so let's, let's think about it this way. So all these holidays valentine's day, uh, halloween, christmas, easter I think it's just all a money grab. It's a day to put pressure on people to spend money, get gifts, decorate your house, spend all this money and stress to make sure you do this, this and that.
Speaker 1:Like I don't, I don't care for it. I mean, I don't know what. What's your take on? Just and not just a specific holiday, but just like a general idea about celebrating this stuff. Like because I think it's overrated as fuck, like when people go all out and decorate their house and all this shit, and then you know you got commercials and stuff with everybody blasting oh, valentine's day, christmas, thanksgiving like I don't know, I think it's all kind of getting out of hand and if it was up to me, I probably wouldn't even celebrate any of these holidays with my kids, even even christmas, and I don't know.
Speaker 1:I don't know if I'm in the minority or that, or I don't know what you think about that so I do feel like they're extra.
Speaker 3:Like I won't watch the christmas movies anymore, I won't listen to christmas music. Um, I, just that I feel like is extra, but I will like celebrate. I don't decorate my house, I ain't even gonna lie. I don't put my tree up, probably like two weeks before Christmas, and will I take it down.
Speaker 1:That's just to do all that to, to be like, well, I'm too lazy or I don't want to, oh, I got gotta put my tree up like what are you doing that for? Are you doing that for yourself? Are you doing that?
Speaker 3:for your kids.
Speaker 1:I'm doing it for my kids but at the same time that's stress and you could say, oh, I was just putting up a tree, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 3:But it's every fucking year that you gotta do it, and then you gotta clean it up, and I'm like to put that shit away I just feel like you know, okay, it's christmas, here's your gifts, boom be done with it. Yes, but you guys do the fucking elves now. That's a whole nother level and see, and that's.
Speaker 1:I don't even want to be a part of that either, but it's it's my mother that keeps pushing that shit. Same thing with, uh, easter. She's like are you getting the kids baskets? Are you doing that? I never got my kids I know like, and I used to get them all the time right. But isn't that weird, though, that as kids we got all that shit and now we don't even really want to do it, and I think it's it's gonna get worse I don't even think my kids know about the easter bunny.
Speaker 1:I've never spoke of him like I know we did that uh egg hunt, but that was just to just to do it. But it's like what? Like in a hundred years this shit's not gonna be celebrated like it was today or even 20 years ago I really don't think it is and I think it's to me.
Speaker 1:I think it's just, it's pointless. Like trick-or-treating. I think it's pointless like I have four full like pillowcases of candy. Uh, just sitting here and like we're not gonna eat all that, I'm not gonna let my kids eat all that. And like shit, like my Lorenzo, my oldest son's um costume jacked up.
Speaker 1:Now it's too mostly, it's too cold to be able to even go trick-or-treating. You have to wear a costume and have two layers of clothes underneath just to be able to bear it out there. And for what like? And I know it's for the kids, I get it, it's for the kids to have fun. But at the end of the day it doesn't benefit the kids because either a, you're gonna let your kids just eat all this candy and they're gonna get cavities, or b you just let them have a handful in the next couple weeks and you end up throwing away a bunch of candy. And I I don't know if I'm just being like a debbie downer, but it's like I could go without celebrating any holiday and that that's just me. Like the whole. Like I said, if it was me I wouldn't put a Christmas tree up, I wouldn't put any decorations, I wouldn't do those stupid elves and come Christmas I'd be like here, here's your gifts. They're from me and your mother and okay, let's move on. That's just me, I don't know.
Speaker 3:I would celebrate them to a certain extent. So I don't do the Christmas movies. I ain't decorating the outside of my house because all I see is dollar signs. When I stare at these houses for any decorations of a holiday, all I see is dollar signs. For any decorations of a holiday, all I see is dollar signs. My immediate thought is y'all must have money to be plugging in these lights on the outside, this blow-up pumpkin, these reindeers. No, I already see my light bill. I want that shit. Keep that shit out. Okay, I don't even want to plug the tree in until I get home at like 6 o'clock at night for the two hours of the extra bill they going to pay me. That's true.
Speaker 1:And I'm not trying to say you shouldn't celebrate holidays, shouldn't celebrate holidays. I'm just saying that I, if it was totally up to me, I would prefer not to celebrate any holidays. Tell my kids that this isn't that, it's not really this isn't that, it's really this, and just be done with it. But I, I'm pretty sure I'm gonna be in the minority on this and if not, then I don't know if. I don't even know if I'm gonna have a comment section on this shit, but if I do, put your comment on it down they're gonna call you the grinch.
Speaker 1:Oh I know right or krampus or something, and that's, that's fine with me, I don't really care, but I don't know.
Speaker 3:Like, as I got older I've just become like maybe it's because of all this inflation like money and just everything is costing so much more. Like I remember when I was a kid, like the disney, the nintendo switch, the Disney, the Nintendo Switch wasn't even around. Like you had to watch Disney movies on VHS and then DVD came out, blu-ray. You were fancy to have that. And then there was Nintendo DS. Those were classics.
Speaker 1:What do you think is going gonna happen like in 20 more years? We're gonna the kids are gonna have chips in their heads.
Speaker 3:They're not gonna be playing outside. They're gonna be indoors playing some game on their hand that they can just blow up like it's gonna be crazy because you know they have. They have glasses now yeah, the vr, the vr, shit, and like you can even like interact, like you could walk down the street and scroll into your phone through your glasses and I am just gonna be so like way ahead of what it is now like easily in the next 10 to 15 years Hell I wouldn't be surprised in five to seven yeah.
Speaker 1:Remember, uh, they try to do 3d TVs.
Speaker 3:Oh my.
Speaker 1:God, you know that shit. It was going to be this big thing.
Speaker 3:Even now with the whole 3d?
Speaker 1:Yeah, but now you have uh the the goggles.
Speaker 3:Now imagine people who wear glasses. Yeah, I wear glasses, so I had to wear double glasses to watch a damn movie in 3D. Trash, just trash.
Speaker 1:That's true, that's true, but they had those. You remember the curved TVs?
Speaker 3:Oh man, Thank God they got rid of that.
Speaker 1:Well, I would say, the curve monitors work well for computers, but for a TV idea that shit was trash.
Speaker 3:They just came out with Samsung. It's a Disney TV.
Speaker 2:And you know why it's a Disney TV.
Speaker 3:Why.
Speaker 1:It's a Disney TV because it's got making my ears on top of it?
Speaker 3:yeah, I wish no. All you're paying for is a black border around the tv that says disney. So the samsung tv? And then it's like a thicker border that you have to install that says like I don't know, Disney 2020 or like 2025. Like it just has the Disney logo on it and they call it a Disney TV.
Speaker 1:That's dumb as hell. Yeah, it's a Disney TV, but people are going to pay for it. People have, people are going to buy it.
Speaker 3:I've seen people set up on TikTok.
Speaker 1:You're going to be like I got one and I'm like, are you serious right now? So I mean it doesn't even do anything different than your regular tv. It just has a disney board. What does it come with the disney app on it, like every other smart tv?
Speaker 3:I don't know about that. You're pretty much just paying for the frame.
Speaker 1:At that point, why didn't they just sell Disney frame installs and you could buy the size you'd want and put it on your existing TV?
Speaker 3:Because they want to make money off you.
Speaker 1:That's stupid. I want to look it up, so you can's just stupid I don't know if you can't find it.
Speaker 3:I think you're lying about it oh, no, no, no, no, no if you can't easily google it. I ended up in the shopping section and I'm like how do you get out of this?
Speaker 3:I don't think it exists there is, there we go and now we're gonna go to images and it's literally like you're just paying for the frame let me see you're just paying for the frame and when you go to all like if you go out of the photos you'll see like you're just paying for the frame oh, so it's supposed to look like a like a portrait yes, you're, it's literally a samsung tv and you install the frame.
Speaker 1:It's a disney frame samsung special edition launch disney 100 the framed oh okay, I see what you're saying. So it's supposed to be made to look like it's a painting of a like of whatever in it on your wall, like a frame picture yes, ok, which is stupid, but it's a TV yes. Yeah, it's kind of stupid.
Speaker 3:Like I'm going to pay all this money, I want to watch TV off that shit.
Speaker 1:That does. That's kind of stupid.
Speaker 3:Let's see it's going for at Target 1600, best Buy. Oh, that was the 65 inch $1600 for the 85 at Best Buy. You're looking at $1600, With taxes $2,500.
Speaker 2:You know what?
Speaker 1:I want to do You've seen those little square inserts and you put them all together and you can make one giant TV.
Speaker 3:Oh, you can connect the TV right, Like at the movie theaters, yeah just put it on the wall somewhere.
Speaker 1:I'd be broke and you just connect them and you could make the whole wall a TV, but at the same time you could just do a projector as well. I mean, it's the same shit, you might as well the projectors have like the 100 inch, the 120. Yeah, it's like you're better off doing that Just get a bomb ass projector, some nice ass speakers. Put it on the side of your house, why not?
Speaker 1:Probably could, but that's, it's ridiculous, but that's, that's capitalism, that's consumerism. There's oh, I don't know if you, because I know cable is pretty much obsolete right now. Everybody streams, but I was watching football. I watch football here and there and the commercials these days, in my opinion, have gotten ridiculous. It's all about who can make the goofiest commercial and who they could get to play a part, like any type of celebrity athlete, like I think and I don't know if it was, because it was just it was a football game going on but every commercial had a celebrity endorsement and some just goofy ass, like idea or joking around to try to sell fucking tostito chips.
Speaker 1:Like I don't, I don't get it anymore. Why do we have commercials? I would love to know what the percentage of Americans that still pay for cable. It's got to be up, it's got to be down. If I had to guess the percentage of Americans still paying for cable, it's got to be less than 20%, or maybe I'm wrong and maybe 50 americans still pay for it honestly, I don't even know if cable's still around, because it offers live tv and that's what I pay for, so that's their version of cable, but the live tv still has commercials right.
Speaker 3:So I guess cable commercials it depends, like some don't and some do. So it just depends. Their commercials are maybe, like it'll tell you in the corner, like 30 seconds or one minute that's so stupid.
Speaker 1:Like I'm, I don't even. I don't know why we have commercials like crazy thing is, we grew up on commercials. And now we have options 7-7-3-2-0-2 Dun-dun-dun-dun Luna. But it just drives.
Speaker 3:I'm watching this and I'm like it's my money and I need it now.
Speaker 1:They still do that. They still do that shit.
Speaker 2:now it's my money and I need it now, like don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1:There's some. There's some classic ones, there's some classic ones that are funny as hell. But I'm just sitting there getting annoyed. I'm like I'm watching all these like snoop dogg you have the orbit smile, oh my god. No, I say I say get away with commercials. We you get it.
Speaker 3:They send doesn't do commercials now too. I think, if you don't pay for like a certain you know how they have different plans. I think they have commercials in it if you don't pay for a certain plan.
Speaker 1:That's dumb as hell. I want to say.
Speaker 3:I think it do. I know Disney Plus because it's connected with Hulu. When you click on certain movies they do like how back in the day, when you used to put in the DVD, in the VHS, they have like previews no.
Speaker 1:Does it really? Yes, they do. They have previews no.
Speaker 3:And they'll show other movies and they'll allow you to skip it. So like, skip intro. But like I can't, skip it because I just think of my childhood self watching it Like, oh my God, remember that. Like all these little previews, I love you, disney, for that one I was like bring that shit back.
Speaker 1:No, don't bring that shit back. Bring that shit back. No, don't bring that shit back. Bring it back. But allow me to skip it yes, bring that shit back.
Speaker 3:I want to watch it.
Speaker 1:I can't even stand to watch commercials on YouTube. I pay for that YouTube premium me too.
Speaker 3:I can't stand it.
Speaker 1:I can't stand it. I'd be damned to have to sit through five seconds of an ad just so I could skip it.
Speaker 3:I like it because I use the YouTube a lot to play music. So I just have the YouTube music app and I buy the premium.
Speaker 1:Do you not use Spotify?
Speaker 3:No, why? Because I have YouTube premium. What do I need Spotify for?
Speaker 1:Because it's so much user-friendly.
Speaker 3:No, youtube Premium is user-friendly. Have you downloaded the music? The YouTube Music app.
Speaker 1:No, because I use Spotify like every normal American.
Speaker 3:So then why do you buy YouTube Premium?
Speaker 1:Because I watch videos.
Speaker 3:I watch podcasts no, no, no, I use it for music, so that's why I bought it really, I've never heard of anybody use YouTube for their music yeah, youtube music do you remember Pandora? Oh my god please don't. I think it's still around it is still around and anybody who pays for it. I'm sorry you go to something else spotify, apple music, youtube music. Why are you still on pandora? I?
Speaker 3:mean, unless they've changed, not gonna throw any shade, but shell pays for pandora does she, does she even use it she does and she shares it with her parents, but I'm bruh you might as well buy something else.
Speaker 1:Brother ooh Like cringe Like why. Yeah, I don't, but I mean, then again, Pandora could have stepped up a game and changed some features. But I remember that shit was limited as hell.
Speaker 3:It still is.
Speaker 1:I think everybody had Pandora before Spotify. What about have you?
Speaker 3:seen the new DreamWorks intro, so you know how DreamWorks. They would just have you come in from the water and the people? Well, the person would sit on the fucking half moon.
Speaker 2:No, they got a whole intro.
Speaker 3:Now what they got. A whole intro.
Speaker 1:It shows all the DreamWorks movies movies they made is it like the marvel intro, where it does like no no, no.
Speaker 3:It shows like like they're on the water, like on a boat. It shows shrek peep that I love shrek. Shrek is life. Yes, I love shrek. And then it shows like how to train your dragon kung fu panda pussy, like all that is on there are you getting off this shit? Hell yeah, I loved, like I love dreamworks and I am so proud of them dreamworks intro yes, I'm so proud of them with their new one.
Speaker 1:I'm assuming it's this one. No, that's the old one. Oh, that's the old one because they do the dreamworks.
Speaker 3:No, it's got to be the new one so where do you see a new one?
Speaker 2:try this one 2023 this one yeah, try that one so yeah, that's the new one, that's look at all these new movies.
Speaker 3:How to train your dragon toothlessothless.
Speaker 2:Madagascar.
Speaker 3:Krugs Puss in Boots.
Speaker 1:Shrek.
Speaker 3:That's a nice boulder. I like that boulder.
Speaker 1:I'm making waffles.
Speaker 3:Okay, all right, they came up. I could get behind that somebody once told me the world I think they're making another shrek five right and I hope it's true I think they are if they lie to me, I'm going to be very pissed.
Speaker 1:You know who Chris Farley is.
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 1:The comedian, you know who.
Speaker 3:Chris Farley is. I don't watch comedians.
Speaker 1:But you know who Adam Sandler is right.
Speaker 3:I'm sure yeah.
Speaker 1:And you don't know who, chris Farley is no. No, no, no.
Speaker 3:I don't watch comedians. You know, Adam Sandler don't count, because he makes movies.
Speaker 1:Chris Farley made movies. I can't believe. You don't know who Chris Farley is, what?
Speaker 3:movies Adam Sandler is no.
Speaker 1:He was in. Adam Sandler deserves his credit. He was in Tommy Boy nope he was in Saturday Night Live nope, those are not movies. I guarantee if you see him, you'll know, those are not movies. Those are I guarantee. If you see him you'll know who he is. Those are movies, those are classic movies. You're crazy Like how do you not know who, chris?
Speaker 3:Farley is Nope.
Speaker 1:You don't know who he is. You don't know the man down by the river.
Speaker 3:Lives in a van down by the river, Like there's.
Speaker 1:Adam Sandler. See, I know because they were in Saturday Night Live together nope but you know well, either way, chris Farley was originally gonna voice Shrek disgusting, and he didn't they the reason why is because he passed away before they could finish the movie they have watch.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna play a clip that there's, um, there's audio of him as shrek watch. I'll check this out so you know how shrek stands now, right, listen? Audience is probably not going to be able to hear this. All right, listen. Audience is probably not going to be able to hear this. Obviously, that's Donkey. That's Chris Farley.
Speaker 3:Disgusting. Thank God they want the other Shrek. The other Shrek goes better. No, no, that doesn't match Shrek at all.
Speaker 1:Because clearly you know Mike Myers as Shrek. Yes, and he deserved it no he did great, absolutely, but they actually had audio.
Speaker 3:They had it almost made.
Speaker 1:He's not, but he passed away I'm sorry he passed away and they gave it to mike myers he, he didn't match I didn't know that until like just recently and I found that footage or the audio of that.
Speaker 3:I was like I'm sorry could have beenley, but no, totally different if Chris Farley Mike Myers, you perfectly fit, shrek.
Speaker 2:What about have?
Speaker 3:you heard the Gingerbread man song in Spanish.
Speaker 2:That one is funny.
Speaker 3:That one is funny.
Speaker 1:Wait, like the whole scene. The run, run, run as fast as you can Wait. You're talking about like the song.
Speaker 3:The Spanish one. Or like the scene from Shrek, the Shrek scene in Spanish.
Speaker 1:Like not the gumdrop bun scene.
Speaker 3:It's in Spanish, though.
Speaker 1:Is it really?
Speaker 3:It's in Spanish, it's hilarious in Spanish.
Speaker 1:What would I put in there?
Speaker 3:Put in gingerbread. Man Shrek Spanish.
Speaker 1:This is so hard to do, which is we're going to have dead air now thanks, because there's no.
Speaker 3:Gingerbread man song in Spanish, so they don't sing, like you know. Run, run, run as fast as you can.
Speaker 1:Well, someone had to. It's not in Spanish, they don't have it, so he be like El pinpon, you can Well.
Speaker 3:Someone had to translate it right. It's not in Spanish, they don't have it so he'd be like so someone made like a? He'd be like el pinpon con agua de jabon. So it's like with water and soap. It just don't it, would it don't, it don't go. I remember when I heard that I asked my baby daddy and I said, did this man just say with water and?
Speaker 2:soap.
Speaker 3:He was like there's no gingerbread man song in Spanish.
Speaker 1:Oh, there it is, gingerbread man song.
Speaker 3:I was like Lord.
Speaker 1:Which one is it?
Speaker 3:Right, there, yeah, lord Pinpoint.
Speaker 1:One of the best cinematic scenes ever, though Hopefully the audience can hear this.
Speaker 2:If you can't can, I'm sorry, I've tried to be patient with you, but my patience has reached its limit and I can't take it anymore. No, no, no, my shoulders are pretty. Then tell me who told you.
Speaker 3:Okay, I'll tell you. Do you know Inpon Inpon.
Speaker 2:Yes, inpon. Yes, he's a very handsome guy, so dull, he looks very beautiful.
Speaker 3:With something, with soap, with something with soap.
Speaker 1:That's hilarious.
Speaker 3:I'm like what Up and boom? Oh my God, have you seen anybody? Did you see a lot of TikTokers dressing up as the Lorax?
Speaker 1:The Lorax yes, there was females dressing up as the Lorax I have been seeing a lot of people dressing up as the one slayer and then doing that scene from the Lorax. No, not that one. I haven't seen that. But you know what I guarantee? Your FYP is way different than mine. Oh for sure, because I go through. No, I don't go through, but I see my wife's.
Speaker 3:Mine is covered with a bunch of promise rings.
Speaker 1:It's ridiculous, is it really? Hint, hint to my new boo.
Speaker 3:I should send him one of like hint hints, hint, hint.
Speaker 1:I should send him one of like Hinton's. But like I go through it and she sends me this, I'm like what is on your FYP page?
Speaker 3:Yeah, mine is a bunch of right now. It was costumes for Halloween like DIYs.
Speaker 1:And then a bunch of Pandora like promise rings, engravement necklaces, like a bunch of gifts you should give your girl. But you know what's crazy? That our phones listen to that shit. And then that shit goes through a tic-tac like crazy part is I never said I wanted a promise ring or like any of these gifts, but somehow pandora just started popping up.
Speaker 3:Like I want these gifts oh, it knows, it's crazy.
Speaker 1:It knows it's crazy. It knows Like you can literally search it one time and that goes into the database and it'll. Yep, it's crazy. I mean, we really don't have any privacy. As long as you got your phone on you or any Alexa or anything like, there's no privacy. They're watching you.
Speaker 3:It's crazy now he's gonna see a bunch of. I'm gonna see this shit on my tiktok page later tonight.
Speaker 1:So you know, I was just like randomly thinking earlier and I jotted it down. I got Twitter, which is X.
Speaker 3:Twitter Stupid Like from back in 2006? No, Twitter is still a very valid app to use Is it really, though, I've never heard anyone use Twitter besides old people. That's how I get my news. Okay, old people, no Old people, I get my news that way Very old.
Speaker 1:Anyways, there was a video on there and I think it just happened. I don't know if you heard of it, but it said a mother committed murder-suicide with their I think it was like I don't know like seven-year-old son and they fell off not fell off or jumped off the edge of the Niagara Falls. And I'm thinking to myself like, like, damn, like how could you be that messed up to I could see wanting to take your own life? I mean, I believe, I believe, I mean obviously, I think it's. It's selfish regardless.
Speaker 1:But to want to take your own life and to think that it's a good idea to take the life of your children as well, like you hear it all the time of father turn the gun on his kids and wife and then turn it on him, and a lot of times they don't leave notes. But sometimes the ones that do are like, oh yeah, I don't want them to be grown up in a world blah, blah. Like well, that's not your, that shouldn't be your choice. Like, like it just drives me crazy. Like I know mental illness is, it's a real thing and I'm not diminishing that. But to decide to take your own life is one thing, but I don't think you have the right to make that decision, especially for a two-year-old, a six-month-old, a seven-year-old, a ten-year-old like to do. That is ridiculous, it's crazy and it just it. I don't get it, I don't like and it's obviously. You never talk to that person after the math, unless they just murder their kids and not themselves.
Speaker 1:Magically, they end up surviving right, but a lot of times they don't do it, like I've seen videos where a mother or takes the kid and jumps off a bridge to end her life and the kids, or you've seen videos of uh and you know what it's messed up. It's mostly mothers. I don't, I don't know that's, I don't know why.
Speaker 3:I mean, I think they say that women have, like, a higher chance of like with depression or like why it's more caused in women.
Speaker 1:Why the maybe?
Speaker 3:because we're the ones who have like, who birth the children. So not saying like because we birth them we are going to be depressed or anything but like our hormones end up so in balance during pregnancy, after pregnancy, postpartum like you, some people, it's just so hard to find their way back, like sometimes you don't even realize if you're in postpartum depression.
Speaker 1:But you're not even giving your kid a chance.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and sometimes it's that bad you don't realize it, like you just don't even see yourself as depressed. Don't realize it, like you just don't even see yourself as depressed. You just see yourself as hanging in there or like just going on with life and you just see yourself on this continuous loop of just like wake up, take care of the kids, go to work, come home, cook, clean. You know, like you're just kind of on this continuous loop that you don't think you're depressed I, I understand that, like I, I could get that, but how is that?
Speaker 1:that's still like. How does it fall on the kid? Like what do you think, like, obviously we can only speculate what's going through their minds, but why do you think that a parent who is mentally ill and just gets up and decides I'm gonna take my life for whatever reason, a, b, c, d, all the way through z but in the middle of that, say you, I'm going to take my three-year-old child and end it with them as well. Why do you think that even comes into a person's head?
Speaker 3:Honestly, I don't think any of us will ever know, because that's the whole beauty, I guess, of everybody having different brains and why there's like the psych ward or therapist, like that's why they dig into your brain, like to find out what's really going on. Because, like we'll never really know what they or that person was truly thinking or feeling and why they did what they did, because everybody's going to feel differently on the fact of the matter.
Speaker 1:Do you have any examples of what you think they could be thinking at that time?
Speaker 3:I think at the time they're not thinking of anyone, or even themselves. I think they're just thinking of being free. Free of whatever burdens they have going their life, whether it's financially, love, emotionally, like anything that's causing them stress. I think they're just trying to be free, think they're just trying to be free and whoever's with them child or significant other.
Speaker 1:They just want you to be free as well, along with them, and that's what?
Speaker 3:yeah, it causes them to do it as well you think that's.
Speaker 1:Some of the reasons sometimes is that a mother is like you know what, if I'm going, I want to be there with my child internally.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:If there is an afterlife.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they more so. See it as like I just want to be. That's what I think they want to be free, and whatever afterlife takes us, we're going to be there together and not have any like stress or burdens or any.
Speaker 1:I also think that a lot of a lot of these parents also think that they think that their kid is better off not living than enduring any type of hardship in in the world. Because let's let's admit it, the world is. It is fucked up and the foster care system is not good at all and and it's one of those things where you have no idea who that kid could go through the system, not get adopted, be released 18 and then live a life of crime or drugs and be dead by the age of 24 and not attributed to anything in society.
Speaker 1:That's definitely an option that could go yeah, or the complete opposite, and they're super successful yeah, for sure, and but that's the thing I never know that's where I guess I'm getting at is that you're not even giving a child, that's and it's usually kids that are like 12 and under I mean obviously there's cases where parents they somehow, you know, get lucky, they're they just older kids but but a lot of the stories you hear it's it's mothers holding on to their babies and unlivening themselves and it's like man, you're like you didn't even give that kid a chance to make something other life.
Speaker 1:And I don't. I just one of those things that I watched videos or hear stories of that and I'm just like crazy, because how could you never know which path is gonna happen?
Speaker 3:it's kind of like a chance of like gambling, like you can end up super successful, or the complete opposite that's for any child right now.
Speaker 3:Yeah, any child could like, or any parent some parents are meant to be parents and some are like I'm not gonna absolutely, so I work at an urgent care and I won't say the patient's name, but I ended up checking in a mother and a child and this mother was probably like maybe she was my age. I honestly don't remember. I know she was my age. I honestly don't remember. I know she was either 27 to 25, maybe 24 years old and her child was roughly around the age of two, possibly going to be three at the end of this year. I can't exactly remember.
Speaker 3:All I remember was this mom walked out of the waiting area and her child. Obviously, of course, your child's going to cry for you and be like, you know, take me with you with their little baby language, like I want to go with you. And she told the child no, sit there. So you know, the child's obviously going to cry, cry. She went to the car, which was right in front of the door.
Speaker 3:She took like I don't know three to five minutes to come back into the waiting area. She comes back in. The child is like two to three. You know, nobody's gonna sit still in a doctor's office. They're gonna make noise, they're gonna be loud. She straight up told the child shut up. Literally she grabbed a tissue in front of the thing, like in front of my desk from the check-in, turned around and was like shut up and me and my other co-worker looked at each other like did you just tell like a two-year-old to shut up and like there's other patients in the waiting area and she was just like I said, shut up and they call her back.
Speaker 3:They call the child back, you know. They see why they're here, blah, blah. Either way, my co coworker who was working the back said she told the child when they were leaving or like going to the room. You know what, if you keep embarrassing me, I'm going to embarrass you.
Speaker 1:This kid has no idea what she's saying.
Speaker 3:It's like how can you embarrass a two year old? Like, what are they supposed to be embarrassed about? You're only going to embarrass yourself more, like.
Speaker 1:No, I totally agree.
Speaker 3:And I just couldn't help but think, like you're just not meant to be a mom. Like how, how can you tell your child, who doesn't even understand, shut up, or I'm going to embarrass you your child's not even 7, 8. They don't even know what the hell's going on.
Speaker 1:There's a good percentage in America and probably worldwide, that people should just not have kids, and it's usually those people are the ones that have multiple kids.
Speaker 1:Yep and, and we could probably have a whole educational and political conversation about this, but it it factually.
Speaker 1:It's people in the urban areas, uh, low-income areas, and they have kids and they get on the government or they you know, government um benefits and they have a kid can't support them. Then they're, they don't protect themselves, so they have another kid, knowing damn well you can't afford them. And then a year or two later they pop another one out because they're still not protecting themselves, even though they can't. But they're like, oh well, the government will support me, like, oh, the more kids I have, the more I can write off for my taxes. It's a fucked up system and it sucks because it's not the parent, it's not the parents that get affected by this, it's the kids overall that that have to inherit the, the, the effects of poor parenting and poor nutrition and poor education, and it it sucks and it's a problem and it's gonna be a problem for the time being until people just stop having so much sex, honey honestly, it just ends up being a never ending cycle of like.
Speaker 3:If your parent treats you like this, now the child's gonna grow up have a child of their own.
Speaker 1:Treat their child like the same way because that's how they were raised well, it just feels like a never-ending cycle unless they find a partner yeah who shows them, shows them the way or comes from a better neighborhood or a better background, and yeah but I mean, if you stay within your demographic, and not even demographic, let me say, your um likeness yeah, let's, let's say like that when, yeah, I mean, you're gonna produce what the environment that you're in, and unless one of those and it's not every kid, but some kids grow up in that shit and
Speaker 1:they're either going to turn to drugs and gangs or violence or they're going to see the fucked up situation they are and they're going to try to use schooling away to get out 50, 50 thing, and but I don't know. I, like I said, we can't, I can't get into statistics and all that shit. All I could go was what I observe and what I've seen, and but that actually brings me to a segue on another topic I was thinking about. So there was a video my wife sent me and it's. It's a child in a wheelchair and I you could tell he has some kind of disability where he can't really use his legs. And then there's a father who is motivating and helping the child to learn, and the child is probably like six, seven years old to kind of get out the wheelchair by himself. And you could just tell, like you could tell that parent, that father is a very loving, patient, great person overall, just great parent.
Speaker 1:And that had me thinking and I've thought about this multiple times like I don't know, and I honestly say I don't know when if I had a child and I have three children, my children are 10, uh, seven and four and all healthy, no issues as of now. But if I would have a child who had like, just like a severe disability and I'm meaning down syndrome, asperger's, uh, like crippled or deformed or just like really needed let's just say really needed like around the clock like help, like I don't know, I don't, I don't know if I would have, I would, I could say confidently that I would have the patience to raise a child that way and and I know this, it's like it sucks to say that and then obviously everybody says, well, that's my child, I'm gonna love them either way, but I don't to be put in that situation and it's like man, like, and I'm sure they don't tell you all the backstory, they don't tell you about all the bills and the hospital care and the equipment and the medication and the time, like they don't say all any of that, but and it's like what, I really have the patience to do that for pretty much for the rest of us live. Let's just say I had a child who was crippled. You know, just can't use your legs, have to be in a wheelchair for the rest of their life, and obviously people who grow up in wheelchairs tend to live a relatively normal life, but from that from, from when that kid is born to basically until they're in high school and out of college.
Speaker 1:Like that's around the clock, uh, care, like that kid can't get out of bed to go to the bathroom, that kid can't go downstairs, he can't. Uh, you know, you gotta get him out the bed. It's like that's around the clock and I don't know. I don't know it. It sucks to say and I, I just want your opinion, like if, if you had that, and we're talking on the kind of like on the extreme. You know, obviously there's a spectrum but let's just say, middle towards the extreme disability.
Speaker 1:Do you think deep down? Do you think you would be able to do that on a daily basis?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean, if you would have asked me before, I had all three of my kids, I was the same way. I remember when I was pregnant with my oldest and I remember talking to my baby daddy because I was so like stressed and nervous and I had gotten into a severe car accident before I even realized I was pregnant. Um, the airbags deployed and two weeks later I found out I was pregnant and I remember telling him because I was so stressed, like what if, like this child is going to have like defect or, like you know, is going to need like a round account, like disability, like care? Like what would you do? His answer was who cares? I will figure it out, we will figure it out. And, regardless of what's going to happen, like I love the child and, sad to say, my answer was I don't know if I can Not love the child, but I don't know if I could be able to do what needs to be done.
Speaker 3:And I will never forget, like how he was just so quick to say who cares, like I'll do what needs to be done. And sometimes I look back and I'm like how the hell were you able to say that? And now like knowing like how my son is autistic. Sometimes I think back like that was God telling me, like to show me like you can love your child regardless. Like, mind you, the spectrum is huge. I won't say I know where on the spectrum my son is, but he isn't on the severe case. He does need help and you know he won't need it so severely. I hope when he becomes adult that he'll need me to take care of him all of his life. But he does need help now. Like he is behind on some things and some things he's ahead of.
Speaker 3:But I look back and I'm just like man. I can't believe. I said I don't know what I would do, like because I ain't the person who has the patience for it. I'm not the person who can do what needs to be done and after living the life and dealing with it, I'm like you do figure it out. People are right who have disability. Kids Like you kind of just don't have a choice. You just figure it out and you just love them from the first moment they come out. Like I remember when he was first diagnosed I already knew something was wrong with him, but I'm it didn't change what I felt. I still loved him. Actually I actually laughed and I smiled when they physically diagnosed him and I remember my baby daddy was bawling his eyes out Karma's a bitch type of thing.
Speaker 3:Yes, like he was crying and my mom was crying, his mom, every single person cried their eyes out and I laughed. I laughed and I smiled and I remember everyone just like looking at me and like telling me like how can you smile, how can you laugh? And I'm like, because I knew I wasn't wrong, I knew I wasn't crazy, I knew something wasn't right. I finally get to prove all you wrong, like I'm not.
Speaker 1:I knew what I was talking about so and I think, like clearly you and it's slightly different for women because you, you birth a child- and it's it's easy for a father to abandon a child because it happens every day, for whatever reason. So I obviously get that aspect of it and I think, to circle back like towards my end, like course I would love my child, yeah, but like you said, I think it would it falls into the patience category it does, can you?
Speaker 1:really do it like everything that's to be done if I I want to and, like I said, you could could give me your experience on this, because I don't have a disabled child, but to me, I think it would be a slightly different type of love.
Speaker 3:It would be a slight challenge. It's something different. Well, not even a challenge. Yeah, like change.
Speaker 1:I'll put it out there. Let's just say, I'll put it out there. I'll say, let's just say my old, okay. Let's just say I have. Let's say I have twins. Let's say tomorrow my wife births twins. And let's just say one has down syndrome and one is normal. Like, obviously, these are my kids, I will love them, I will take care of them, I will take a bullet for them. But it's like let's just say the girl has down syndrome and then the boy is normal. And to me it's like, yeah, I love my kids, I will take care of them. But deep down the back of my head it's like I think, and that it's not love more, but the love is slightly different between the two, because it's going to be like well, now she is not all I don't want to say normal.
Speaker 3:You know what I'm saying? No, no, yes, like I will say with my oldest, I do tend to come to his aid more than my other two but like, is it like a a fresh, like it's gotta be like a frustrating type of feeling um.
Speaker 1:I want to protect him more like I'm okay, so you're going the other way.
Speaker 3:You're going, yeah, like I'm always like listen, guys, like I'm talking to his middle, like my middle child and the youngest. I'm always coming to defend my oldest because I'm like you guys can understand more and comprehend more than what he is. And sometimes I have to let myself not do that because I want him to learn to do it on his own. So it's like I feel like everybody's gonna say how you're feeling now, but when you're actually in the moment and you have that child yeah it's kind of like it flips, because you tend to want to come to the aid of the child who you feel needs more assistance.
Speaker 1:So you think I will, and let's just say not me personally, but let's just say in general, you think? You end up showing a little bit more affection and caring towards the. You like tiptoe a little more.
Speaker 3:Okay, that's a good way to put it a little more because you were like I want to try to find a compromise where they understand that you're there for them. But then you know it's like disciplining even comes hard sometimes, because how I could discipline the middle and the youngest. It's not gonna work for the oldest. My oldest will take it to heart like I done. Ripped his heart out like and it's like, discipline has to come differently from you to you, because you understand it this way and you understand it the other way and honestly it might be a character flaw on my end.
Speaker 1:I mean, like I said and I I can't say for sure because I I don't have that situation currently, so I can only speculate how I would feel. But I'll be honest with you I I told my wife the other day and it's I I might get for this, just considering the day and age we live in now but I told her that if one of my kids came out gay to me, I I honestly would feel some type of way and I told her that I would still love my kids no matter what. But I, but I I think I would treat suck sucky as it says. I think I would treat them differently and but that's not to say that I would ultimately, down the road, I would learn to accept it, and you know just embrace it.
Speaker 3:It's something new to learn compared to what we were raised on. I think so. That's the hard part.
Speaker 1:I would assume I am more open-minded to accept it sooner than later.
Speaker 3:Compared to your parents right they were raised.
Speaker 1:But I think in the initial, like if my kid says, you know if he's 15 in high school, and he says, hey, dad, like I think I'm gay, I'm like like you know, just yeah, it wouldn't be as bad as, like your parents, their parents like snapping off, like it wouldn't be like a disownment type of thing. Disownment, disgrace, that's the hard part, but it'd be like Like a quiet, like it's like Like a little jab.
Speaker 1:Yeah, a little jab it's like damn it, like are you sure? And like I said, I think I would open-minded to accept it down the road and and and I don't think it would be like a a five-year thing I, I, probably.
Speaker 3:It probably would take me some months, maybe a year, to like yeah, it's just something to learn and accept with this new generation, like I'm not gonna lie, like I was raised the same way as you, but then, halfway through my generation is when it became more open and it's not like and it's not like. I hate gays no, no, no for sure, or anything like that. It's how we were all we were raised, yeah, yeah we were.
Speaker 1:We were raised to be, heterosexual.
Speaker 3:We were raised like my kids, our kids are gonna be raised way differently because, like now, it's completely open it's ridiculous even we don't even know, it's ridiculous now how, or you know, like how it's gonna be the processes.
Speaker 1:I'll tell you right now I refuse to use your pronouns.
Speaker 3:Like I, I will be that person. I'll be that person. Like I need to know.
Speaker 1:In a professional setting?
Speaker 3:Yes, I don't understand Like I don't understand them. I don't have anything against them, but I don't understand them Like no lie, like if I don't understand.
Speaker 1:If some years down the road and my son from high school brings a friend over and he's like, oh, my pronouns are they, them.
Speaker 3:I don't understand that. I don't know, I can't like. I have nothing against. I just want to know are you he or she? I don't understand Plural.
Speaker 1:You're a singular person. I wouldn't even verify Like you you are. You look like a man I'm gonna call you he like like you're in my house. I don't, I'm sorry I don't really I don't care what choice.
Speaker 3:Like you want to be a woman, you want to be a man, I don't care. But if you're a singular person, I don't understand.
Speaker 1:How am I supposed to say hey, they yeah them, I'm not gonna go on my way. I can't, I don't understand it.
Speaker 3:I don't understand it. It's not I don't have against it, but I don't understand how one person goes to plural.
Speaker 1:But oh, it's, it's, there's like for one understand, there's like hundreds of different type of pronouns.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that are people.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's, it's ridiculous and it's and it could be something that it's at its height right now oh yeah, that sounds like our kids are gonna be able to say all of this we could be at the height of this right now like huh and then five years it might die down yeah, or it might stay where it's the same like it could die down in the next five, ten years and then 15 years from now.
Speaker 1:I'd be like, hey, remember back in the mid 2020s where we were talking, like people were thought they were wolves and yeah like I'm so scared to see what our kids generation is gonna be like when they're gonna be explaining it and we're just gonna become to the point where, like huh. Like this shit's going to be taught in school. Yeah, like 20 years from now, this shit's going to happen. Back in 2022, in the 2020s, this epidemic of the LGBT plus it's going to be brought up.
Speaker 3:Even back in like early 2000s, it was never like. I remember being in like third grade, fourth grade, like it was never discussed, it was never openly discussed. I remember being like seven to nine years old and going to festivals, like the puerto rican festivals. At that young of an age I didn't know what it meant when you would saw two people of the same sex in a relationship and I remember my mom telling me they're just friends.
Speaker 3:That's like like everybody, like they were just friends, it wasn't so openly like everybody wasn't understanding. And now that I'm older it's like it's so out there, like even when you apply for jobs, the question they always ask you, it's on applications sexual orientation, are you um part of the lgbtq and then are you an ally of the LGBTQ.
Speaker 1:Is that on there?
Speaker 3:Yes, every time I apply for a job they ask me am I part of the community of the LGBTQ? And then the next question is am I an ally? And I remember when I first started applying for jobs, I was like so confused. I was like what does it mean? Am I an ally or am I a part of the community? And I remember one of my friends who is actually part of the LGBTQ had to explain to me saying are you actually LGBTQ, which means you're part of the community you see yourself that way or are you just an ally?
Speaker 1:You just, you're friends with us, You're part of us so they want to know if you have, yes, lesbian gay friends.
Speaker 3:Basically basically or like that you're not, I guess, homophobic or like that's wild like you know like that. You're very like not liking them.
Speaker 1:How the hell is that going to affect your work?
Speaker 3:Yes, and I'm like why are we asking these questions now and now? On top of those questions, they also ask us what is your sexual orientation? Yeah, I'm like why are you asking me these Like this has nothing to do with being part of my job. Like I get it? Some people are homophobic. Some people are very negative about the lgbtq but like out there. Yeah, nobody's gonna tell you that. No, they're gonna show you when you're already hired. So it's like, why even ask?
Speaker 1:and then going back to what you said earlier, if my four year old or seven year old sees two men kissing I'm, I'll probably give them the same answer that your mother gave you, because a four, five, six year old cannot, in my opinion cannot, comprehend a whole drawn-out explanation about a homo homosexuality, like even at 10, 11 years old, like to explain what being a homosexual is, being trans, being bisexual, like they're not even having, they're not even sexually active. Yeah, I mean some, let's just say some may be, but like 10, 9, 11 years old, like I understand having to have a conversation about it, maybe when they're 11, 12, 13, but I'm not gonna sit there and explain homosexuality to my five-year-old it's kind of like, even if you were to explain it like about the homosexual you're just gonna confuse
Speaker 3:them they're gonna be confused because it could be the same said like if mom and dad split up, you're not gonna sit here and explain to your child no, you're right why? Why we split up?
Speaker 1:It's too much.
Speaker 3:They're not going to understand, nope. So the same could be said about homosexual Like. Why am I going to explain to my child why me and daddy didn't work out? Why is there two daddies Like they're not going to understand?
Speaker 1:No, they don't have the attention span. To even care about it, until they get to that. Nine attention span to even care about it until they get to that nine ten, eleven year old. Yeah, that's when they could, that's when they start noticing shit and understanding stuff, that's fine. But anything under eight years old? You need to just give them a quick, easy explanation and just let it be and then explain to it when they're older, because you're right, it's the same thing.
Speaker 1:If you have a three-year-old, four-year-old and mommy, daddy split up, you're not going to sit them down and be like, oh well, daddy stepped out, or mommy stepped out.
Speaker 3:Mommy doesn't love daddy. No more Like huh.
Speaker 1:Or this isn't working, or mommy drinks too much, you know isn't working or mommy drinks too much.
Speaker 2:You know like it's yeah, you don't do that now, when they get older then, yeah, you explain.
Speaker 1:Well, we separated because, yeah, it's the same thing and I don't get. These parents are letting their child choose their gender at the age of four, five, six, seven years old, like it's just. A child's brain doesn't comprehend that and I at the, at the end of the day, I don't care what you do with your child, I don't care. As long as you're not harming them, I don't care. It doesn't affect me, it doesn't change my lifestyle. It doesn't change my lifestyle. Now, when you start having discussions without me there, to my children about it, let's say, if the school brought in a drag queen and they were discussing trans people, that would be stupid for the school to do. But something like that, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Don't you need my permission for you know from the start if you're gonna have a discussion like that. But whatever you want to do with your child behind your doors, like, am I gonna have an opinion about it? Of course, but it doesn't affect me in any way. So if that makes you happy, go ahead and do it. But it's here and there. I don't want to go too much into it because I know it's a big topic nowadays. So unless you have something to add to it, we don't have to move any further with it. But I do want to change it up a little bit. I know we've been talking about some uh, maybe sensible stuff, probably for the last hour.
Speaker 1:I saw this on a tiktok and I thought it would be really cool because I know you know all these characters, so I'm gonna show you. It's called mask game. Have you heard the mask game? No, it's nothing crazy, it's just a quick question. So it says choose a mask to wear and you gain all the abilities of this character who wear it. And I'm going to change it up. So I'm going to say you could pick two of these masks and you'll get both the powers.
Speaker 1:You understand what I'm saying yeah so I'm gonna show you this picture and but real quick, I'm gonna say number one is the green ranger mask, number two is the mask mask from the movie the mask with jim carrey.
Speaker 1:The third one is iron man. Fourth one is, uh, black panther. The fifth one is jason vorhees. The sixth one is batman it's batman. The seventh one is magneto from x-men. The eighth one is, um, oh my god, I can't the Bounty Hunter from Star Wars. And then the ninth one is Wolverine. So take a second. If you had to choose two, and you don't necessarily have to wear Iron man, you're picking Iron man as one of your, just like he says in Avengers.
Speaker 1:I'm a multi-millionaire billionaire genius, it says you get the abilities His ability to be that smart. That's an ability, that's a multi-millionaire genius. The mask just gives the ability of the mask. So you basically just have a suit. You're still, they're all trash, you're still gonna have your brain they're all trash. Then even if I chose Magneto, I don't get no fucking you get that ability to control metal, so then I should get the ability as Iron man for the brain, his fucking brain, yo Tony Stark. Because, like Magneto is a mutant, so he just he, naturally has that?
Speaker 3:The fucking Mandalorian ain't got no fucking damn powers.
Speaker 1:The Mandalorian. That's right. Same thing with the Green Ranger. The Green Ranger is a normal person. Black Panther ain't got no damn powers. That black suit is amazing. Are you serious?
Speaker 3:iron man suit is amazing, exactly. So what?
Speaker 1:so if you pick the black panther, you're gonna be the king of wakanda. I'd be. No, you just get that ability, you don't get the lifestyle billionaire genius, you're overthinking it.
Speaker 3:okay, okay, fine.
Speaker 1:Fine, fine, iron man and who else, even though I think you're wrong, but I'll let you, you're the guest. So Magneto and Iron man.
Speaker 3:Because, even if you choose Wolverine, fine, fine, fine, fine, no, no, no, I will choose.
Speaker 1:Because, wolverine, you are invincible.
Speaker 3:I'll choose Wolverine, for sure. Love him, yeah, because you regenerate.
Speaker 1:Fuck yeah, you got and.
Speaker 3:Iron man, I'm going to have my suit and all.
Speaker 1:And I'll make my suit where I can bring my claws out. But do you really need a suit if you're invulnerable and can?
Speaker 3:regenerate yes. I do so. I can fly and I can shoot the lasers out of my hands.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'll give you that. I think I would choose the mask.
Speaker 3:The mask.
Speaker 1:I would choose the mask. Oh hell, no, to have those abilities to be cartoony and make shit out of nothing.
Speaker 3:Of course you would. That's like saying you would choose to be in Dragon Ball Z. Okay.
Speaker 1:Majin Buu Buu, I would be Majin Buu the fat one. I'd be the fat Majin Buu Chocolates. I would do the mask and I would do Wolverine. I think Wolverine's a given on that one hell yeah, who wouldn't? He's fucking invisible cause it's almost like cause you can't double dip like who's gonna do Voorhees and it's like for you you can't double dip like who's going to do Voorhees and and it's like for you to choose.
Speaker 3:Magneto and Wolverine. So you're just going to fucking Magneto yourself. You're not going to.
Speaker 1:I think he could channel where he wants to control. He's not going to channel his own body that's crazy come on it's like no too similar. I think that's a good choice.
Speaker 3:I think Iron man and Wolverine is a good choice, and I'd fucking turn my damn suit so I could bring my claws out you could?
Speaker 1:yeah, you could do that yeah you'll fly. You can shoot lasers. That's not a bad idea. I didn't even think about it that way. I mean you took it a little too far, thinking that you're gonna get.
Speaker 3:I'm gonna be a multi-billionaire genius, like he told. Captain America. Captain America should have come for his ass and he said multi-millionaire, billionaire, genius.
Speaker 1:Let's act like I have a big following and put your comments down below, and I don't think that's going to. I don't think that would have fly. I don't think that would have flied. I don't think that's fair in the game.
Speaker 3:It'd be very fair I don't think so. Tony Stark's brain is part of the suit. Hello. No it's not the Iron man powers come from his chest, from the damn thingy that he installed in his chest. That's where the power comes from, but the suit itself has its own abilities that you control within the suit no, it comes from his chest, so you might as well give me his brain so I can be a multi-billionaire genius.
Speaker 1:I don't think it works that way. I created the Avengers alright, genius.
Speaker 3:I don't think it works that way.
Speaker 1:I created the avengers all right, I'm gonna finish this. I'm gonna. I've been sipping on this crown royal washington apple seven percent alcohol yeah, you might as well make it yourself I know I'm gonna finish this off real quick.
Speaker 3:What the blackberry? I want to try the blackberry Crown Royal.
Speaker 1:I'll try any Crown Royal flavor. I love Crown Royal, I know you do that.
Speaker 3:Vanilla and Coke is disgusting, I think.
Speaker 1:Okay, we're going to end the podcast on that.
Speaker 3:I want to do the blackberry and vanilla.
Speaker 1:Vanilla is amazing. It's the most so delicious. I'm sure my baby daddy A-A-A-Ron would agree with you it's the smoothest thing ever. He thinks that too.
Speaker 3:Ain't that right, a-a-a-ron, a-a-ron. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:I have no idea how big. Oh it's an hour and a half and there's water all over this floor. My water jug just spilled everywhere, god damn it All right.
Speaker 3:Donnie, though blackberry and lemonade, we got to try that one next.
Speaker 1:Blackberry and lemonade.
Speaker 3:Yeah, have you seen that you guys love that citrus drink? Well, because what else?
Speaker 1:would mix a blackberry, crown, royal blackberry and lemonade.
Speaker 3:Yeah why do you? Why do you guys love that? Because what else would makes a blackberry crown royal blackberry coke what blackberry coke?
Speaker 1:no coke and coke and crown, and you can't, you can't guess you can't.
Speaker 3:A blackberry coke doesn't sound satisfying milk ew, that just Milk. Ew, that just makes me want to have the churros.
Speaker 1:What do I call them?
Speaker 3:Churro King. Oh, you tell them what the fuck.
Speaker 1:How did I mix it up? What did I say? Tell the story.
Speaker 3:What did I say? Jessica said, you call them churros. We were walking somewhere right, and wasn't it like a baseball game? Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I think I saw it. You're like oh snap.
Speaker 1:And what'd I say?
Speaker 3:They have churros and Jessica said you mean churros?
Speaker 1:I was like, yeah, that's shit. Hey, that's an easy thing to mix up, though. Come on now. True, it's easy to mix up.
Speaker 3:I'm a no saba kid, so I don't, I don't know that shit. He a no saba kid, you know my logo was almost gonna be no saba a big fat hispanic dude with them with the fucking um that wouldn't have matched you, because you're an osabu, I know that's what I even be listening to like peso it was gonna be called um javi I can't remember the title all these artists I'm naming and he don't know not a single one, not a single one.
Speaker 1:I don't, that's not my, that's not my thing. Junior age, I'm, that's not my thing, junior age that's not my thing. I'm more hip hop and even the hip hop.
Speaker 3:He don't want to be claimed. Don't claim him now.
Speaker 1:That's his wife that's her gym mix. I don't listen to that shit. He don't want to be claimed, don't claim him even finding good rap hip hop music is hard.
Speaker 3:I said what I said and I mean what I said yeah, that shit.
Speaker 1:It's hard to find good music, man. I try to. I'll listen to anything, but it just has to. It can't be trash like like remember Lil Pump.
Speaker 3:Oh God Lil.
Speaker 1:Pump and the Migos and like just shit like that. Like that shit's annoying man, but it is what it is.
Speaker 3:Next time I'm going to bring the Blackberry.
Speaker 2:I'm going to tell.
Speaker 3:Dude, Jessica, have that lemonade and we're gonna do blackberry and lemonade we'll bring uh AA, ron, maybe I'll get.
Speaker 1:I could get a third, uh, a third mic yeah, I'm like take that sip real quick.
Speaker 3:Aa, ron, we'll do?
Speaker 1:we'll do like a drinking game yeah, it's gonna suck cause I won't have video to show it, but we can tell.
Speaker 3:AA Ron, this is a chill and spicy in his house. Yeah, People who know us, they know AA Ron is the chill one. Yeah, that's my baby daddy, and I'm the spicy Because you know.
Speaker 1:I don't think anyone's referred to you as spicy. I'm very spicy but according to you, my new boo says I'm spicy too oh, is that why?
Speaker 3:yeah, he says he likes that shit. Dahmer mm-hmm, my Dahmer, my Dahmer. Yeah, jeffrey Dahmer, he's like ooh, you got a little kick to you a little spice, I like it oh, is that what he said to you? Yeah, you got a little kick to you, a little spice. I like it. Oh, is that what he said to you? Yeah, I like that shit.
Speaker 1:Hey.
Speaker 3:A-Ron says that too.
Speaker 1:He said get that little spice, because you don't give a fuck.
Speaker 3:I don't. He says that too. Hey, A-Ron, he be like get that little spice.
Speaker 1:Get that kick to it. I love it. See, motherf man hey a-ron will tell you you gotta be your own spicy bitch, you gotta be your own hype man. Ain't nobody gonna hype me up but me. Hey, hey, hey.
Speaker 3:Hands on your knees, oh god, I'm at that shake soon all right, we're going on the two hour mark.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna try to keep these podcasts about hour and a half, so if you don't got any uh lasting words, then we could cut it off I shall see y'all soon and, like I said, we'll try to. Um, I'm sure I could get a third mic. I think it'll be a lot more entertaining with three follow me and his wife on tiktok. Oh god don't don't be trying to plug your shit. Don't be trying to plug your brand new TikTok page With the new gym girlies. Go ahead, plug it. How can they find you?
Speaker 3:Jesse and Danny6.
Speaker 1:You sounded so convinced With the new gym girlies, I'm going to show y'all asses and you guys are posting daily.
Speaker 3:Look at these fucking muscles, y'all ain't ready. I wish y'all had a video to see this flex game.
Speaker 1:Posting daily.
Speaker 3:Yes. Okay we'll see Okay okay, we're starting up. It's okay, we about to show all you hoes.
Speaker 1:There you go.
Speaker 3:Hell yeah, show all you hoes there you go. Hell yeah, keep it up. I mean, you guys are showing progress, just gotta keep it up.
Speaker 1:His wife has some nice boulders she got them shoulder boulders, those ufc fighter I like them boulders. All right, all right, appreciate you coming on um, enjoy talking to you and then, like I said, we'll uh, we'll do it again. We'll try to get a ron and, hey, maybe you'll just be. You'll become a, um, a norm to the show co-host.
Speaker 3:There you go all right.