We All Need Adventure

Ever feel like you need a break to truly think? 🤔 Here's what I learned from a whirlwind trip to Ohio!  

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Last week was an adventure—road tripping to Lima, Ohio to help a buddy with an irrigation project. It was a blast reconnecting over shared passions, reminiscing about the old days, and diving into some hard work. 🚜  

But it wasn't just about the work. It was a chance to escape the daily grind. I realized that sometimes, you need to step away to gain clarity. The hustle can blur your vision, but getting your hands dirty can spark fresh ideas and insights.  

As I pushed through the long days, it reminded me of why I love building and creating. When you find your flow, everything just clicks!  

So if you're feeling overwhelmed, consider a little adventure for your mind and spirit. Sometimes, a change of scenery is the best way to recharge.  

What’s your escape plan?  


#AdventureAwaits #MindfulLiving #IrrigationLife #EscapeTheRoutine #BuildingConnections

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Oh, oh my gosh, we got some audio. There we go. Monday morning. Let's go. Baby, shut up and listen. Mike check one too. Shut up and listen. What's up? Oh my god, you guys. It has been one hell of a weekend, so Thursday, Wednesday. Wednesday morning. I believe. Did I leave Wednesday morning? No. I left. Yeah. I left Wednesday morning. I dropped the boys off at school. Uh Wednesday morning. And I headed straight to Lima, Ohio. Um, I was helping a buddy out. I met him, um, Curtis. I believe it was at a uh home show in Las Vegas years and years and years ago. Uh Instagram. We used to have like this really cool community of like builders, uh, woodworkers, carpenters, anyone really in the trades. Uh, but we had like a little like a really close um interactive group on Instagram, and it was just kind of like it was extremely fun because it was like like-minded people, right? So we went to this builder show and I met Curtis, and I believe his wife was there at the time. Uh come to find out they're from like the Indiana area. They're just home builders, carpenters, you know, smaller outfit, uh, couple man crew. Uh, but we just had a lot of like similarities and stuff, so we got to be uh pretty close through the uh starting there, then throughout the years, just like on Instagram, um, always kind of BSing back and forth. I think at one point he came to my shop in Peoria. I don't remember what that was for. Why was Curtis there? I remember cooking pizza in the middle of the night. I don't remember. Either way. So he builds these irrigation systems uh across cornfields, uh bean fields, or agricultural sprinklers, essentially. It's a giant fucking sprinkler system. You've seen him out there driving those long those long uh kind of like uh you know what I'm talking about. They got wheels on to spin around. Uh but he puts those together, so he's like a private contractor for these salesmen that sells those. So anyway, he's been in the business of irrigation for like 15 years. Uh supposedly, man, you know, I grew up tile farming, and then Tile and Dad put um field drainage in fields, so we were always burying pipes somewhere and running machines, like, and that was such good work for me. Like, I something clicked with uh Tile and that I really liked farming. I never really wanted to farm. Yeah, I remember from a young kid. I remember sitting underneath a bridge with Steve O'Brien, a cousin of mine, and I remember we were young hanging down at the bridge. Um I remember talking about farming, and I remember him asking me, he's like, Are you gonna farm? And I was like, no. And he's like, Yeah, me neither. And I was just like, huh, well, I'm not alone in this. But um, so farming was never really my forte. Um, dad had uh I knew from a young he's dad had an exceptional bar set for farming that I just couldn't reach. Like I was just like, nope, I'll run this thing straight to the ground. But Thailand, being out in the field, and it was usually at that time it was only in the winter, so it was always cold, and I just loved it. I think it's because like I've always hated being hot as a kid. Like I just hated being overheated, but there was something about being out in the field, you know, and it's a little muddy, it's frozen, you know, just like it's always you're always in a hole with water, and it's just it's gritty, man. But it's such good work, and I always did like truly love Thailand. Uh, so when I saw the irrigation system, like, oh man, yeah, it's my kind of work. Like, I can do that. So uh he finally called me last week. He's like, hey, what's the chance of you being in Ohio next week for a few days? And I'm like, done. Like, what's up? He's like, Well, I got uh irrigation system I'd like to get some help with. So, anyways, I went out there, left at 8 15, 8 30, and I just drove to Lima, Ohio. Um, not a bad drive, wasn't terrible, but I got there around 4 30, 4 35, and um just kind of jumped right in with him, and we worked till about 7 30 that night. And then first thing uh Thursday morning, I think we were on site about seven o'clock, and it was it's honestly it's not terrible work, but it's just learning the process. The other employee, Christian he had working with him, had like a really good specific layout for everything. Like it was very noticeable every time you went to get something that was already laid there, and even like saying put the part like a foot back because it's easy, like things that just and I knew they made sense in his head, so I was just like, Yeah, that's how I want to do it. Like, there's something about efficiency in like a well-oiled machine that I just love. I love when things just like production manufacturing's never been exciting for me, but like building something in sequence is exciting because it's just like the next step. Like, I kind of watched myself, you know, the first round, I got like the first two steps good, and then it was like, Oh, I need a refresher on the third, and then the second round I was getting one, two, three, or four, five, six steps, but like not quite to the seven, six, seven. Um, so it was like kind of cool as it progressed. So essentially you have like long lines of tubes. These are like a hundred, I forgot what the lengths of these were, 180 foot. I don't know. There was three real, real long ones, and the other two were a little bit shorter. So you lay them out, you assemble these long ass tubes. That's got like a sprinkler system throughout them on the ground, and then you wire them, and then you go down sequins, and then you tie the wires, you put on the and it's just like a really cool pattern. So you get the first one, and you're like, oh, okay. Like, first one I'm learning the flow. Like, okay, I'm I'm checking everyone's speed. I'm really watching, I'm like soaking in, like, even where tools are going, where materials go and where everyone's putting their tools at, how they're handling, like you got these pouches on with nuts and bolts. Like, I'm just kind of observing, but observing, but then I'm also like doing the first couple steps that I can remember. So by the time we get to like the third one and fourth one, fourth one, I'm like, fucking, let's go. Like, that's oh. So that's when things like start to get fun, is when like you finally get the flow of it, and then you start to realize like, oh, this is exhausting. Like it is, it's got to you like the first day was cold, so we had a little bit more clothes on, uh, so it gets a little harder to move, but like you start to realize like, okay, I'm huffing. Like, my legs are shot already. And um, it is a long day of trucking back and forth, but there was something in me that like needed to go do that. There was something that I needed, you know. We talked about adventure a couple episodes ago, and I know there was something in me that was like, you have to go do you have to go not even challenge yourself. I don't want to be challenged necessarily, but I need to like an escape to think. Because genuinely, like when I'm home, it's always something needs something. You know, it's always the kids have appointment, kids have this, kids have that, I have this, I have this, everyone's got needs, everyone's got something. And I can like feel myself like when I started thinking about like camping, that's always like my clue. It's like when I'm like, I just want to get in a tent and go. I'm always like, okay, Jeff, you need you need your break. You need your and it's just funny how I see breaks, you know, like a break for me. I looked at that more as a vacation than a break. But it is nice just to go learn something and do something that I've wanted to do for a long time. So it's kind of got me down another rabbit hole in my in my never-ending maze of a brain is what does that look like for me? How can I make that work to where I can go experience all sorts of shit and then still you know, I'm still working, it's still a job, I still want to generate revenue from it, but then like what ad streams can come of that? So that's kind of like my inner thoughts of like, how can we sell that? So I don't know. Uh but no, it was great, man. I really um felt like I I helped. I felt like I got them out of there a little bit early on that job, but no, I felt very confident with them. They all had a good pace. They're a lot like me. Like, hey, we don't talk. Like every once in a while I'd start saying something, they take their ear, you know, their headphones off or whatever. I'm like, oh shit. Forget this is kind of a no-talking job site, but um, yeah, we didn't really get to connect much with Curtis. It was strictly, you know, strictly business, it seemed like, but it seemed like he was doing good and making some uh making some good moves in life and using his brain. You know, we did have the conversations about you know, we're just older. Like the things we did, you know, when we were younger, when we were both building our businesses and the mistakes we made and the time that we let slip away, but like at the same time we're building a business, but then we both mention now like our kids are getting older. It's not fun anymore. Like all of a sudden we're like, wait a minute, like we've been doing this for a while, this way, and it was good, it got us through, but then it's like now that we're older and we're looking at our kids growing up, like literally right in front of us. So it's kind of nice to share those conversations with other guys kind of in the trades and seeing where their head's at. You know, it's we talked a lot about what the trade makes, you know. I think in I think in a short five or six years the trades will be beyond lucrative. Like, I really do think right now, if you're able to kind of grind it out for a while and get into it and like find your very single lane that you're super good at, and just be the absolute best. But I think there's gonna be a tons of money ton of money available coming up in the next couple years, but then like we even talk about right now, like, yeah, we can make good money in the trades, is like but everything it's just like minimum wage at the end of the day. By the time the hours you put in, the bills you gotta pay to even stay alive, it's just like, well, what the hell's the point? So no, having those conversations with someone, um, kind of from the same area and same kind of cut of life or whatever it's called, walk of life, cut of cloth, cloth of cut, cloth cut, same cut of cloth, cloth. I don't know. Uh so no, that was fun. That was like my great little adventure. Um, the Friday night I just did not sleep. I've never not slept so bad in my life. I have never not slept so bad in my life, ever. So I went out to eat afterwards. I mean, we're dog ass tired. My first day was like 7 30 to I don't know, 7 30. I mean, it was pretty good. They had another hour left, and I think I was even like, alright boys, okay, okay, I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna get out of here. So you guys have fun with that last hour, but I am gonna leave. Um, so I really just wanted Mexican food. I want to just go sit and eat Mexican food. I love eating by myself. It is like a such a little treat. So as soon as I left the job site, I knew I was like, if I go home and if I go to the hotel and shower, I I will not leave. I will not leave again, and I have no food there. And I always do that. I just I have in my mind I want to just race back to the base. Right? I just want to be I want to be home. Or it's like getting to the gate before your flight. Oh, if we're going to the gate, we're going to the gate first. I don't care if our flight is late for two hours. I want eyes on it, and then we can go wherever. Um, but I knew if I went back to the hotel, I wasn't gonna releave the hotel. Releave the hotel. Oh, relieve. It's interesting. Choice awards. That's how I made myself. I found in Lima there was a dispensary. So I went to the dispensary, I didn't have anything on me besides like flour, and flour's kind of tough in hotels. Um, so I was like, I just need to get like a little vape pen or something, something super easy. So I found this dispensary, and it was it was an interesting one. Uh, usually I'm kind of used to like the Ivy Hall and the new eras around here, and this one was very, very low-key. Like they had like the same, like you check in, you usually talk to a person at the front desk, and there's like a locked door between you and the actual store. So, like security guard, I can never say security, security guard. It was just some lady sitting there, and the doors were wide open. I'm like, well, hello. So she kind of, I don't know, she wrote my name down like with a crayon or something. She's like, Alright, go ahead, go buy some drugs. I'm like, Alright, thanks. So I went in there and like the other girl just like stared at this. She looked terrified. This this girl looked like she was terrified. I can't even describe how she looked, like an older emo look. Like she kind of you could tell she had that emo stage, but she just didn't look well. Like her eyes were just dead. Anyways, um I was like, hey, I just want to get a vape pen. And she just like stared at me and she's like, Did you did you go to the screen? I'm like, No, I didn't go to the screen. And she's like, I'll come around and help you with an order. Or it was just so strange. And she just like I guess you have to order everything through the maybe that's the Ohio, maybe it was like some sort of rule and people know, but I don't. I bet that's it. I bet they have to order through the screen, and then she takes the money. Either way. So I ended up getting like the select one, and it was like 60 bucks. I'm like, fuck. 60 bucks. I was like, I don't have $60 to spend on this. So I went back to the thing real quick and found like a $20.

SPEAKER_00 12:25

Actually, I think it's in my pocket.

SPEAKER_01 12:27

I would like to tell you about it. I don't know if they sell these around here, but I don't know. Whatever. Supply is the name. It was like $21, just like a single pin. Looks like it can charge. It's got a charger on it. But it's not like a cartridge, or there's nothing else to put on it. Like it's $20, and it would I just got a sativa. Uh so I went there, got that, super happy about it. I drove to uh the Mexican restaurant and I just typed in. I actually did look at reviews. I'm not a big review guy. Sarah's a big review gal, but I just never looked I just like, I don't know, it's close. Let's go there. What's the worst it could be? What's the worst that could happen? Cockroaches? Food poisoning? What are you gonna do? Uh so I went to the Mexican restaurant, back to the old uh, I bought a suburban. That's a whole nother story. Back her in, shut the vehicle off, I changed my shoes, I think I put my tennis shoes on, took my boots off, tennis shoes on, and I hit that little supply pin once, and I hit that little supply pin twice, and your boy was good to go. That one was a pretty fast act, and I think two little hits before I hit the door. I was just like, alright, like I'm ready to sit, like there it is. Uh not a lot of people in there. I don't even know what the place is called, doesn't matter, it's in Ohio. Unless you're an Ohio listener, okay. Now I feel obligated. Now I feel obligated to tell you which one it was. But it was in Lima, and right now on TikTok, there's quite the debate. I'm trying to start like a Mexican turf war with the Mexican restaurants in Lima because they sound like everyone's pretty passionate about their own. So I'm being like, oh yeah, this one sounds better, or you should go there. Uh, first off, Ohio Streets. Fuck right off. Good God. Your street system is the dumbest thing I've ever seen. And I'm you go to TikTok and you'll see these comments. I'm even I'm lighting you people up about these damn streets. It's it's dumb. It is one of the dumbest things. Ryan said this is the best Mexican joint in the entire area. Kevin said my favorite Mexican restaurant in Lima. L Cha is the best. LA Cha is the best Mexican fruit around. We don't talk smack about them. I said, I'll talk trash about your weird streets. What's going on over there? Weird ass streets?

SPEAKER_00 14:38

I don't know. Ohio's a weird vibe.

SPEAKER_01 14:41

What is Ohio? It's just Ohio. Like, I even think Illinois probably has a little more little more, I don't know, a little more revolent, maybe than Ohio. Like, what is Ohio? What sends you to Ohio? Unless you're playing for the Cleveland Browns, why the hell are you in Ohio? That's my question. But either way, if you're there, you're the Mexican food was good. So I walked in. I got sat down, there's like a maintenance guy working on the slushy machine the entire time. And I think it was just like a friend of the the owners. And like he had a beer with him when he was working on it. I'm like, hell yeah, like someone to watch. So I was just like totally, I just sat up at the bar and like eavesdropped on him the whole time. Then this other lady came in and sat down like across. And it was just like, it's fun to listen to people like how they talk to people. It's like, why are you I don't know. She wasn't terrible, but you could tell she was terrible, if you know what I mean. So I sat there and I just he can always like, What do you want? I'm like, I don't know. I was like, I love chimmy changa, but I'm a sucker for steak burrito. Can you deep fry just uh like uh steak burrito? And they were great, everyone was great, service great, and then like that all of a sudden kicked in like real good. So I just and I love soda. God, I'm such a little bitch for a good soda, man. It's awesome. So I sat there and slam sodas and slam free chips, my food came, and then I'm like one bite, so I'll like cut up my burrito and I'll put it on the chip, and then I'll eat the chip, so I'm eating like a chip every single time. I'm eating like a thousand tortillas a sitting. But anyways, it was just like the fact of the matter that I've got to go just sit and observe and like make up these stupid stories in my head. Like at one point I was thinking they all thought maybe I was like an ice agent that was off duty because I'm just like sitting, I have like this black t-shirt on, and I'm just like sitting at the bar, like I'm completely, I feel completely out of place. But then my head, I'm like, oh my gosh, they all probably think I'm some sort of weird ice agent. And then my head, I thought they were closing. I thought everyone was leaving, so then I started eating real fast, and I was like, Why are you eating fast? I was like, Why the hell are you in such a hurry? And I was like, Well, you they're closing. So I look over, I'm like, hey, what time do you guys close? He's like, Oh, you have time, you have time. I said, Are you closing right now? And he said, No, no, it's 8 30. We don't close until 9.30. Okay. So I was like, slow the fuck down. Enjoy your food, you crazy fucking animal. But anyways, I got back and I'm just like, all I can think about is the night before I slept really good. Like I slept all night, and I just don't sleep well anymore. So after this day, I like honestly all day I thought about like how good I'm gonna sleep. I'm like, oh dude, we're gonna wear this freaking guy out. I'm gonna be out tonight. I simply did not sleep. I don't know. I there were two beds in the room. I tried the old switch a bed of Rooney. I tried laying at the other end of the bed, I tried laying at the other end of the other bed. I sat in the chair, I had a baloney sandwich, and it was awful. I literally stayed up at five o'clock. I said, I'm just gonna go find a coffee shop and go to the job site. Like, there's no point to being in this fucking room anymore. So I went, found some like thought I was finding coffee places, and then I couldn't find coffee places, and I didn't want to go to just like, you know, the big main one. But like at what at some point after all the Ohio streets, I just had to type in Starbucks because I'm sick of driving in your ridiculous streets. I don't understand. Do you guys think that's normal? Are you guys living in some sort of world where your streets are normal? Because it's not. Good lord, fix them. Uh so I ended up getting a coffee. I don't even know what I got. I was just like a zombie. I was just like, I don't know, give me something. Give me like I always do a half flavor of whatever it is, because it's just like, uh, you don't want all the sugar. Got myself a nice coffee, showed up at the job site, and I got to sit for a little while. And it was just freaking nice, man. But I was exhausted. So I think about one o'clock question mark, somewhere in there. We were taking off for the day. And they probably had another hour left, and I was like, hey, I'll stay with you if you want me to, but if not, like I'm hitting the road. It's like, no, that's fine. So I think maybe an hour into the drive, I was on the side of the road. Like, I don't need it was probably 15 minutes, and it did me a lot of good. And I I was up for a couple hours. I made two stops just to kind of walk around, and like by this point in trips, I'm just sick of like soda. I'm sick of shit, and I don't even want one. But it's just like I need something to I like a big fountain drink just to kind of keep me from like drinking it, keep me awake. But the last hour was the absolute god-awfulest hour. It was like i I I described it being like in and out of consciousness. Like I was just like, oh my gosh, this isn't even reality. But you're looking at the GPS and it's saying like 46 minutes, and you're like, just go, like, windows down, music on, didn't matter, nothing helped, shoes were off, socks were off, just anything to keep me awake.

SPEAKER_00 19:31

But I finally got home, I think it was like six o'clock, and I vaguely remember walking through the door, uh, said hi to everyone.

SPEAKER_01 19:39

I was like, Well, I'm just gonna lay down, supper was getting cooked, I was like, I'm just gonna lay down until it's done, and I did not wake up till like 3 30 in the morning, and I went straight to bed, and I didn't wake up again till I don't know, nine o'clock that next day. But I was so reinvigorated. Like this weekend, we just kinda like hit the ground running. Um just the boys are up 8 30 Saturday and we were outside just like pulling weeds and moping around, tinkering, taking nice little breaks, but I just like so much more energy, it seemed like, and I think it it's a lot of that to that. My body was just like, dude, you gotta get away. Like you gotta go, you gotta go on your adventures. Able, very grateful that I'm able to be able to do stuff like that, and it I have the time to go do that and make it work. But yeah, I think it was just like a good body reset. So I think really like you gotta start listening, listen to the what the hell your body wants, and you know, make sure you can arrange your life to to make it work. All right. It's bright o'bagel, answer the internet. Let's let's fix no, we're not gonna fix the energy. I'm not gonna fix the energy. We're gonna read it the way I want to read it and the way I want to read it. Damn it. We're not a podcast after all. Bright O'Bagel, Premier. Shut up and listen, sponsor. When I say premiere, I mean premiere. Uh, I've told you a lot about Josh Landing. He opens Bright Side Kitchen down in Peoria. Check him out on Instagram, Facebook, and all the things. Uh, but he's bringing just the next level of culinary to Peoria. I would highly freaking encourage you. Now, we've talked about ramen before. I'm just not a ramen guy. I don't someone says ramen, I just think of the same thing you're thinking of right now: crunchy brick of noodles. So when I see like ramen bowl night, I'm like, yeah, no, that ain't gonna happen. But went work with him a couple weeks ago, and which you got a meal out of it. And I will tell you, it was absolutely fucking delicious and way off anything I ever thought it would be. So, and the bagels are top tier, they've got um just an absolute spread of spreads, and the bagels are next level, all made in house every day. It's phenomenal what he's doing, and we do some delivery for him. So, if you need some bagels delivered, I know a guy. Give him a call. Uh, check him out on Facebook, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Brad O'Bagel, am I the asshole? Let's dig in. Am I the asshole for telling my girlfriend it's not my fault she dated an asshole? I know my girlfriend for several years before we got together. I know her from her sister, actually. Her sister and I went to school together, just to be clear. Me and the sister never had any feeling towards one another. I met my girlfriend back then. I liked her, but I was dating someone else at the time, so nothing happened between us. Okay, they were I go back so much. I don't have any ages yet. We need ages, brother. Alright, no ages, so we're gonna have to guess. Anyways, she and I became friends. Now she started dating this guy, Brian. Brian, what an asshole. He was rude, always loud, and was a known cheater. I knew this. The sister knew this. Her friends knew this. Literally everyone knew this. My girlfriend and Brian dated two years, which I broke up with my ex. Eventually, Brian was actually the one who left her. And yeah, he cheated on her at least three times. I'm not quite sure why he left. My girlfriend never opened up about that. My girlfriend and I didn't date for a while though. I'd say it was about three and a half years before we started dating, after the breakup. We were actually coming up around six months. We're actually oh, we are actually coming up on around so they've only been together six months at this point. I'm guessing that's what that means. Here's the issue that have came up. She's been critical about some of my behavior, my gaming and my hanging out with female friends, including her sister. She never thought she'd never outright said stop until recently. She basically started to link my gaming and going out with my female friends to Brian's behavior. What? She basically started to link my okay. She basically started to link my gaming and going out with my female friends to Brian's behavior. I told her that I'm sorry Brian was an asshole, but that's not my fault, and I'm not doing anything wrong. Fights have become more and more common as she gets frustrated with me for stuff Brian did. Stuff that is legitimately harmless. Eventually I had enough. I told her it's not my fault. She chose to date Brian, and I'm not gonna deal with her if she keeps blaming me for what he did. Oh, you little children. Like a little children and your little problems. I don't even know what were I don't even know what abbreviations mean anymore. Remember, like I I'm not an LOL guy. You'll never see me type. I think it is the weirdest thing when guys type LOL. It is so strange. But I like you know LOL, like what it stands for. N T A. What the hell is N T A? NTA Brian also breathed oxygen. That's so stupid. Another comment. She's known you for a while and should know your characters by now. Good job putting your boundaries and sticking to them. Unfortunately, she'll probably implode the relationship based on her personal insecurities. Your girlfriend's not ready to be in a relationship. She needs therapy, she needs therapy. Oh, there's another NTA. I don't know what that means. Six months in. If this relationship is six months old, I don't care how long you knew them, but the actual relationship's six months old. And this is coming up, like, mm-hmm, yeah, it's time to bounce. Like, I don't think you need to stick it out. I think it's kind of strange. Um, but I would say, like, yeah, if this was like a committed thing, like if you're a year in and you know you come across something, then yeah, you kind of like obviously put a number on that on how how big of a problem it is, and then how much you value the relationship, and if that ratio, you know, is anywhere close to each other, then yeah, you put your effort into it. But six months in, homie. Buddy, buddy, buddy, buddy, get out of there. Let me go back and scan again, make sure that's the right answer. Um, but I don't know what on Brian's side, what if Brian is we're only hearing one side of the story, right? So I just try to make my conclusions based on what I read, but I can't help but to dig into it a little bit. Brian is the ex-boyfriend that's bad, the new boyfriend's the author, we're talking about the girl. Yeah, I think either answer I come up with, it all comes down to time in the relationship. Six months. Um, and it's really just gonna be up to you whether you now, if you wanted to work through it, I think there's definitely something in the uh the girls. Obviously, she needs something to get over the brine. Like I didn't even know uh with my divorce, there were so many little things that still come up today that really bother me. And now it's more of a looking at it like, oh god, I'm glad I don't have to XYZ. I don't have you know, it's it's all these standards that you have to live by. So I think she'll have to do like a really good job of you know, like healing from that, because that does suck. It does suck trying to heal from something that you're just so accustomed to. So, you know, if that's the problem, then yeah, I think she kind of needs to look inward and see what she really wants. But yeah, I think one of the comments said just not healed from the last one, and like that, you can't do that. There's no possible way. I don't care what anyone says, it would be absolutely impossible to carry on with someone else if like you're truly not healed from the last one. And and being healed is just like not, it's like, oh, I don't cry anymore at night, I'm healed. Yeah, it's a lot, it's a lot more than that. But um, it could go either way. I could even say things about Brian that like you know you should be more reassuring to her or like be more patient with her, like meet her halfway, but at the same time, where everything results back, reverts back to six months. It's six months in. Like, come on, let's go. Be happy, go find what you want, find someone that'll work with you, and every life will be a lot easier. So that was it. Bright old bagel. Best bagels you're ever gonna have. A little bit low energy today. I thought it was gonna be a little more in-depth, uh, but I do have a um a whole notes full. I I've done nothing but notes that night I was up and I couldn't sleep. I was literally on like just talking to Chat GPT about uh podcast ideas and notes and like skits I wanted to do, video skits, and then I'd have let me just go through my notes. I will read you um so all my titles, Monday work, video, YouTube video idea, build ideas, life ideas, relationship, thoughts, tick tock ideas, stand-up. Where's my life idea ones? I don't think I updated that one. Tomic scrolling. Alright, so here's in one of my notes. So what I do is I chat with Chad GPT. I just like open my microphone and I just like say the ideas, like even to as far as like where I'd want the camera set up, like how to get the b-roll, like what I want filmed, how I want the lights, how I want the mood. Like I just think of these like skits, these like videos I'd love projects I'd love to do. So then I just like talk to it. Like I'll just ramble on for like half hour or so, and then I'll be like, hey, put that in like a video format, and then like put it in a story form and read it to me. So as I'm going to bed, like it'll save the format like that describes everything, and then it'll also like as I'm going to sleep, it'll like read me, and I'll even say, like, hey, make me a 30-minute story on what I just spoke about, like, tell me about it. Well, then the problem is like when you can't sleep, like you usually supposed to put me asleep, but the night I couldn't sleep, I just kept doing more and more and more. I was like, dude, and then I would be like, Oh my gosh, this idea, and then I'd like I'd get all excited and I'd get on my phone and I'd start like looking into it, like, uh, it's a it's a vicious, vicious creating cycle I have going on in my brain. Uh, but it's also good, it's fun. I enjoy it. I just it's one of those times where like I officially I need at some point I have to stop putting stand-up jokes in my phone and actually go do stand-up. Like at some point, I actually have to go like do something with this, but I'll try to summarize what all this was. Alright, so the title is gonna be No Bullshit, just stories, voices of Peoria. New video con, new video concept, dad advice, bros seeking wisdom. Uh, for this idea, I want to create an artsy, visual engaging video that captures the essence of seeking father advice. Here's how it can be shaped. Concept overview. The idea revolves around young men seeking advice from their fathers or father figures. It's relatable and can be resignated with many, and we can present it in a creative, artistic way. So basically, I don't know if it was like an interview, because I even read through the notes like, oh shit, I wish I was more specific on how I wanted the video set up. So, like interview style, I must have said my notes, uh, set up a casual dad advice booth where you know I put bros thinking like you almost need like the college age, like bro guy, like the or like the young, young freshmen, sophomore, juniors in college, um, that are like maybe away from home for the first time. So it's just like, yeah, it'd be nice to just like have like this interview for like interview all the young bros, you know, the young men, and then you have the dads, like this panel of dads in a studio, and then you like play the recordings to them, and then like they all three kind of like hash out how they would fix that either when they were 19 or like how they could handle it now. But basically it's just like I don't know, fatherly advice, like it could be about anything. Um, but no, that was just kind of how my brain works, is like, ooh, that'd be a good video, and then it's just like, well, yeah, that's a good video. But now we are working, there's a kind of a team we're putting together in Peori of um mixed media, uh, video, photography, podcasting, stuff like that. So like people, if even if people are like photographers, you know, if we happen to ever have a studio, like you could come in and shoot and just kind of like mixed media, mostly for advertising. So I don't know. We're gonna keep uh keep digging on that and keep kind of putting plans together. And hopefully it'll come uh something'll come up come of it someday. But as for this Monday episode, I hope it was an awesome waste of time. I hope whatever you're doing was uh way less sucky because you got to hear a rambling ass story about irrigation and uh dispensary that was, you know, a little questionable. Asking food, not sleeping, working, an adventure, a little bit of relationship in there. I mean, what else could you want to kill time while you're cleaning the house or on the treadmill? Or if you're sitting in the office trying to ignore the heavy breather that sits next to you, maybe that's what you're doing. But either way, that's what it's for. That's what you know, that's what I'm here for. Alright, you guys? Just enjoy it. Just shut up and listen. All right? Alright, I gotta go. I love you.