The Gracious Two - LIVE Show 020 - Scott Martinetti

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All right, preparing to live stream. Setting

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it up. I think when I say this, it's already

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there, but I just make sure that it says, all

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right, and we are live, ladies and gentlemen.

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Episode 20. Gracious Two. What up, Chad? Hey, we're

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20 now. All right. Should we have a cake? We

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should. This is a milestone, man. Yeah. Hey,

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let's get to 100. That's right. Exactly. We'll

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be there before the year's over and then some.

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Well, this is true. Yeah. I mean, how many? 52

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Tuesdays? Oh, Jesus. My math is... We'll be at

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70. Well, no. I don't know. I got to do math

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now. Fuck. Yeah, don't do that. Don't do that.

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I don't want to do math. I'm going to start this

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off with, and it's posted in our description,

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I found or was shown a lovely new lawsuit brought

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on the one and only Chad Taylor. Have you got

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to look at that? Oh, yeah. I saw something about

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this online. Yeah. It's interesting. Interesting.

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Because it's huge. Well, Chad Taylor and Patrick

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at this point. Yeah. Out of the 300 pages, I'm

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reading a couple, but he passes the buck all

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over the place, whether it's the people who invested

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in him or Patrick himself that he tries to point

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the finger to. Right. Well, this is what narcissists

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do. They will turn on everybody and try to blame

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everyone else for their bullshit. And this has

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been my point with Patrick the whole time. He

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refuses to disconnect himself from Chad, and

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Chad is just using him. blaming shit on him now

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like in depositions and it's just fucking wild

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the whole thing like i know personally you know

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some of these people that brought this lawsuit

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because they were investors in in tle qe qe was

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questionable entertainment was what the entity

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that we set up to do uh the gracious view yeah

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let me mute him hold on he's muted sorry about

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that sorry about that Thank you. All righty then.

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Anywho. So what was I saying? Oh, yeah. So I

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know some of these people personally, and they

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came to me at some point. It's like, hey, what's

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going on with TLE questionable? I was like, I

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don't know. I'm suing Chad, so I have no idea

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what's going on. So they started that. So they

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sent a formal letter to his lawyer, and the response

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back was like, you people are pathetic. This

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has nothing. Chad Taylor had nothing to do with

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this company, blah, blah, blah, blah. Now, he

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said in depositions he had nothing to do with

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it. And it's like, you ran it. You were the CEO

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and ran it and had all the access to all the

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bank accounts. And instead of just – I mean,

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apparently what these people want is just to

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shut down the company and get the final K -1

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and be done with it, right? So they can have

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the write -off on their taxes. But instead of

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doing that, Chad Taylor's like, I had nothing

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to do with it. So these investors... It was Chad.

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He blamed it on Chad and Bill, of course. Bill's

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the bad guy and everything. So it's easy to say,

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oh, it's Bill's fault. It had nothing to do with

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Think Wild Entertainment. Like, what the fuck?

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It's insane. Well, they ask him numerous times,

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like, if Bill had something to do with it, why

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is his name not on the paperwork? And he's like,

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oh, it's just a fake paper. It's like, dude,

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your signature's on it. The whole thing is...

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It's like, just say, yeah, I ran it. I'll send

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you the final K -1. And we're done. But now,

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he's pissed everyone off because he's like, I

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have nothing to do with it. It was Bill Hines.

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So the investors are just looking to get a K

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-1 so they could write this off as bad debt,

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basically? At one point, they were. Yeah, they

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just wanted information. They wanted a K -1 to

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shut down the company or wanted him to shut down

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the company, issue the final K -1, which allows

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them to write off their full investment on their

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taxes. Right. Simple. But now they're fucking

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pissed because he's like, I had nothing to do

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with it. They talked to him. They got information

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from him. Yeah. But he had nothing to do with

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it. It was Bill Hines and Chad Gracie. Well,

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it seems to me that, I mean, from everything

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I'm hearing, these companies were helping him

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kind of live the lavish lifestyle he created.

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Again, this is all alleged. So I'm just speaking

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of things I've read. But it seems like, is that

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his hesitation in shutting down the company just

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so he can get some more money out of it? I don't

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know what his motivation is. It fucking baffles

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me. Knowing the guy for, whatever, 40 years,

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35 years, 36 years, I don't know what it is,

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but I have no idea why he would fucking deny

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that he ran this fucking company. It just baffles

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me. And then Patrick, at one point in the deposition,

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says the same thing. Bill and I ran that company.

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I'm like, what? I mean, what fucking world are

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you living? Right. You can't just say things,

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especially if there's paper trails and stuff

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like it. It just seems like you're digging yourself

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a hole that you're not going to be able to get

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out of at some point. It's fucking crazy. I mean,

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just the amount of money and lawyers alone, dude,

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it's like cut your losses. It seems like you

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did all right in these companies made out like

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move on. I don't know. I mean, the big thing

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about Think Loud Entertainment was that the main

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artist that he was trying to develop got pregnant.

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And that kind of shut it all down. But instead

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of going to the investor and saying, yeah, or

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instead of just shutting the company down and

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being done with it, he's like, just kept it open.

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And now he says he has nothing to do with it.

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Is it Chad Taylor's baby that she's pregnant

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with? No, I don't. I don't think so. Because

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it seems to draw conclusions that he was like

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flying Instagram models out on the company's

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dime when they had nothing to do with the company,

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almost like it was... Yeah, that was interesting.

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I had no idea about that. Almost like quid pro

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quo, I'll give you a shot here if you give me

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a shot there or something. Yeah, and I had read

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at some point that I guess he gave the artist...

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that got pregnant and $80 ,000 advance. I'm like,

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what? And never put out an album. Yeah. And I'm

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like $80 ,000 from a independent company, like

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record, I guess we call them a record company,

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entertainment company, whatever the fuck. Right.

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That is not, that was never like really completely

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funded to do what it should have done. Right.

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To give a new unknown artist $80 ,000 was like.

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Wait, what? I don't even think major record labels,

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if they still exist, do that with new artists.

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That kind of money. Yeah. And I had no idea about

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that. I'm like, that's fucking insane. Was this

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artist Zoe or whatever? Or is this somebody else?

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Yeah, it was Zoe. Yeah, yeah. Or Zoe, whatever.

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Well, Jesus, Christmas. The whole thing is just,

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like I said, the whole thing is baffling to me.

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It just, I don't. I don't understand those people

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over there anymore. I don't understand Ann Chantel.

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I don't understand Patrick. I just do not understand

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them as former friends, as human beings. I don't

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understand their motivations, like what the fuck

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they're trying to do by just lying, blatantly

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lying to people. It just drives me fucking insane.

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I don't get what it's in it for Patrick because,

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you know, Taylor's over there under deposition,

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like trying to point the buck at him. And it's

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like, that's not what a friend does. Take responsibility

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for what you did and don't rat on your friends.

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I mean, come on. That's number one rule. Yeah.

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Well, that's not the number one rule in the narcissist

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world. It's like playing where you can to take

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the fucking spotlight off of you. Right, right.

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Well, we do have some cool guests coming on today.

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We're all cool guests. Scott Martinetti, I believe

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we pronounce it. Yes, sir. Long time live fan.

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Got a bunch of stuff for him. I'm sure he's got

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questions for you and all that jazz. Yeah, he's

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done. He's asked me a lot of questions on my

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drum videos and stuff. And yeah, so I'm excited

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to talk to him. Yeah, dude. Everybody wants you

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to pump out some more of those videos. Those

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are cool. Yeah, I might work on some when I go.

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I'm probably going back to York towards the end

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of the month here. So hopefully we'll pump some

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out. good old york i forgot i was watching that

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day oh i was watching something on y2k on um

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hbo max remember that yes oh yeah i thought that

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it was all bullshit and just something they were

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trying to rile us up on but apparently they really

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did have to for a couple years really reprogram

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a bunch of uh computer uh you know line and code

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to um actually add those two extra digits like

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how like narrow -minded are you to to set up

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the date i guess because it was done in the 70s

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early 70s but like yeah i think i think they

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just weren't thinking about it at that point

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it's just like someone will change this before

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you know night before 2000 comes i guess maybe

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that's what they were thinking who knows and

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they were saying it's like a memory issue back

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then because i guess they never so to add those

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two extra digits for the year i'm like wow how

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much memory could that take up that's pretty

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weird I remember that hysteria. I mean, we actually

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had a fucking gig on New Year's Eve. Oh, really?

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New Year's Eve 1999. Yeah, we were playing in

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Hershey, Pennsylvania, and we actually didn't

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do the gig because of Mike Duque. Just in case.

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We're like, I don't want to be called out. If

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this shit goes to chaos, I don't want to be fucking

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sitting in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Yeah. I remember

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New Year's Eve 1999. We didn't do the show, obviously,

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so I was at my house in Portland, and I fucking

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filled up a bathtub with water. I'm just like,

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what's going to happen? Were you about to slice

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your wrist in there? I don't know. You fill up

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your bathtub with water, and if there's an emergency,

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you have potable water that you can use. Oh,

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wow. That's a great idea. You better clean that

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tub a little bit before you do it. Of course.

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But you can use it to flush your toilets and

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shit, too. Yeah. Um, I'm watching people who

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recycle that toilet bowl water just so they can

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kind of reuse it in the toilets and stuff that

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they don't need. It's a, it's a, it's weird.

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We're not set up like that. I guess water has

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just become so easy for us to get that we're

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like, ah, we don't need to recycle anything.

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Yeah. I mean, other countries, they recycle all

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their sewage, all the sewage water. Like they

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clean it and then, you know, use it again for

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toilets and stuff. Maybe to drink too. I mean,

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when you clean it to a certain point, it's like.

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you know, you can still drink it. Well, yeah,

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that's what sewage plants do. I mean, they clean

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it up and get all the shit out of it and then

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put it to, I guess, ocean. And then they just,

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well, they just flush it into rivers and streams

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once it's cleaned. God, dude. It's like, why

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wouldn't you reuse it? It's pretty wild. Yeah,

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I think it's like clean. I don't know if it's

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clean to the point where I'd want to drink it,

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but it's clean to the point where I think it's

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not going to pollute things like, you know, just

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dumping raw sewage. Oh, no, it's pretty clean

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when it comes out of the wastewater treatment

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plants. I don't know if I would drink it, but

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why wouldn't you recycle it and then put it through

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the process of drinking water again? Well, let's

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start a company. We'll call it Shit Water. Yeah,

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Shit Water. There you go. Taking the shit out

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of water. Taking the shit out of water. There

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you go. I guess this one company started something

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called Black Water years ago. And I drank it.

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It was pretty good, but the, it was black water

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and it was some company in New Jersey made it.

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So I think that was a stigma against it. And

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they were trying to say it was like naturally

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processed water, but I'm like, what water is

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black? Like, I don't know. It was strange. I

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tried it, but you know, the only black water

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I know is in your RV that this is the shit water

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that you're not supposed to, that you're supposed

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to put into the sewer. Exactly. You got gray

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water and black water. So yum. You been watching

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anything cool lately? I'm watching Louder Milk.

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Did I talk about that last week? Briefly, we

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brought that up. I'm getting all caught up on

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it. It's a good show. I like it, man. Ron Livingston

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is great. He was great in Office Space. The show's

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entertaining. I'm digging it. It seems like anything

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he's involved with, either he's involved in the

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writing of it or producing of it, because it's

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all got a similar feel, like all the stuff he's

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in. Yeah, I don't know if he was involved in

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writing of Office Space. Oh, no? I don't think

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so. I mean, that's Mike Judge Project. Oh, right,

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right. From Beavis and Butthead. Yeah. What was

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I going to say? Oh, yeah, but there's a cool

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video going around probably like a year or two

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ago that I saw that's from the show, and I didn't

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know it was from the show, where he goes into

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the coffee shop and the chick's like, What can

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I gotcha? And he's like, why are you talking

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like that? Yes. Yes. She's like, why are you

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talking like that? That's my voice. That's not

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your voice. Dude, that is classic. Why are you

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being such a dick? Dick. It's like vocal fry

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or something they call it. It's so funny, man.

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Like that's a, that's a, not a natural phenomenon.

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That's something you put on to be better. Yeah.

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He's like, that's not your natural voice. It's

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an expectation of teenagers and rich people.

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Exactly. And you're not rich because you're working

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in a coffee shop. You're my barista. All right.

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I'm going to let in Mr. Scott Martinetti. Please

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let me know if I'm saying that right. Clarification.

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Last name here. Yeah. I should get a phonetic

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dictionary, but you never know what names people,

00:14:21.240 --> 00:14:23.139
people pronounce them a little whack. Fucking

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Italian. There you go. Scotty, what's going on,

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dude? Welcome, welcome to The Gracious Two. There

00:14:34.360 --> 00:14:38.259
he is. What's up, Scott? Hey, what's going on?

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How are you? Good, man. How are you? How are

00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:44.980
you doing, Chad? I'm good, thanks. Sweet. I'm

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still in Brazil, actually. Oh, you are? Nice.

00:14:47.919 --> 00:14:49.879
That's awesome. Scott was telling me about his

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trip to Brazil. He has a girlfriend. Yeah. She

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lives there? Nice. Yeah, she's from here. Yeah.

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Yeah. I've been down here, I think since December

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19th or 20th. Oh, cool. Very cool. Yeah. Ladies.

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Yummy. What part of where, um, it's a town. Oh,

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sorry. Go ahead. That's a little bad here. I

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didn't realize. It's all good. Um, yeah, it's

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a town called Gaonia. It's kind of in the center.

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It's the start of, uh, probably the Southern

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two thirds, which is like the farming region.

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So it's a lot of farmland. Behind the house here

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is just, like, you know, probably 200 acres of

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cow pastures and stuff. It's beautiful. Wow.

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Well, very nice. I know there are big, at least

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when UFC is on, the Brazilian community is represented

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pretty well. There was just a big fight on this

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past weekend where a bunch of Brazilian fighters

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were going for the championship and whatnot.

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Do you notice any of that in Brazil? Like, are

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there avid fans over there, or is it just something

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I'm kind of bringing up in my brain? I don't

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think the USC is something that the average Brazilian

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watches more so football, like soccer. I mean,

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things shut down for what I've seen. And it's

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like, you know, you see people sitting out in

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front of the house with a TV nearby and they're

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all watching the game or in the local pub and

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stuff. It's pretty cool. Very cool. Have you

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seen the, you spent Christmas there. How was

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Christmas over there? Was it festive? Was it,

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did they celebrate like us? Oh, dude. I mean,

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they. They get like two and a half or three weeks

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off from work. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. It's why I mean,

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you know, I think anywhere outside the United

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States gets a decent actual vacation like a human

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being should get, you know. down here they were

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lighting firecrackers and like you know it sounded

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like m80s going off you know for like two weeks

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straight especially at you know the mid -afternoon

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at night so nice it was it was cool i mean you

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know i i had to ask sandra i said that's not

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guns right she's like no no it's uh la fiera

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which means the festival so it's like two and

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a half weeks i was like okay because where i

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live that's not that's not firecrackers yeah

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yeah does that span over christmas and then into

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new year's i assume Dude, I think her niece just

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went back to school yesterday. Wow. Like, so

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the kids get like, like, you know, almost half

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the month of January off. It's like a five month,

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five, four or five week thing for the kids in

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school. And I mean, the festival is like three

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bills. Does the festival last over like Christmas

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and then go into New Year's is how the festival

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works. Like people are late. Yeah. Yeah. It's

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like, yeah. Yeah. And they do like. because it's

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it's middle of summer here you know it's it's

00:17:37.460 --> 00:17:41.019
reversed i'm about was it uh 1700 miles south

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of the equator so the weather is comparable to

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you know the southern florida which is southern

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florida is 1400 miles so it's about the same

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but um yeah they get off and you know things

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shut down and they have carnivals and stuff they

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do you know local carnivals merry -go -rounds

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and stuff it was pretty cool uh get a little

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personal here scott did you meet Uh, your lovely

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lady, was this somewhere you met online? Was

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this somehow you met, uh, in person? How did

00:18:08.140 --> 00:18:13.019
you make your way down to Brazil? So, um, kind

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of friends in common. And I got to talking to

00:18:15.619 --> 00:18:17.799
her, you know, via Facebook a little bit, chit

00:18:17.799 --> 00:18:19.519
chat. We talked, I mean, honestly, I've talked

00:18:19.519 --> 00:18:22.539
to Sandra off and on for probably four or five

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years. And I was down in Medellin, Colombia back

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in July. And I said, you know what, here it is.

00:18:29.799 --> 00:18:34.980
I'm in. No. No, dude, I tell you, man. No, no.

00:18:35.559 --> 00:18:37.720
Medellin's actually really cool. I mean, a friend

00:18:37.720 --> 00:18:40.619
of mine makes fun of me how I say it. I say Medellin

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or Medellin. Yeah. So I was down in Colombia

00:18:43.579 --> 00:18:46.880
last July, and I said, you know what, here it

00:18:46.880 --> 00:18:49.359
is. I'm in stinking Colombia, and I'm talking

00:18:49.359 --> 00:18:51.200
to Sandra, texting her. I said, let me just bite

00:18:51.200 --> 00:18:52.599
the bullet. I'd never been to Brazil before.

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So back in September, I flew down here. and you

00:18:56.130 --> 00:18:58.069
know got to know her things work well you know

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she's a great person and she cares for her mother

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you know i mean a lot of good qualities there

00:19:02.670 --> 00:19:06.509
so yeah nice stuff hell yeah i want to go check

00:19:06.509 --> 00:19:08.849
out columbia i've heard good things about it

00:19:08.849 --> 00:19:12.450
good and bad things but like you know yeah i

00:19:12.450 --> 00:19:17.470
would say at the first oh no go i'm sorry john

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well i'd say the first time i went to columbia

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i was literally two weeks before the pandemic

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started i was down there in February of 2020.

00:19:26.349 --> 00:19:28.390
I left in March of 2020. I was there for four

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or five weeks. Medellin was starting to become

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the hotspot in South America. It had just picked

00:19:35.369 --> 00:19:39.569
up traction. I think now is probably still a

00:19:39.569 --> 00:19:43.890
good time to go. I say this up front. I think

00:19:43.890 --> 00:19:49.390
before it becomes too touristed, it's good to

00:19:49.390 --> 00:19:52.369
go now. Check it out. Because the prices of everything

00:19:52.440 --> 00:19:54.660
I was looking at farmland out of curiosity. You

00:19:54.660 --> 00:19:57.140
could get, you know, 20, 30 acres down there

00:19:57.140 --> 00:20:01.680
for $33 ,000 about four years ago. Wow. Yeah.

00:20:02.740 --> 00:20:04.859
I mean, that was kind of like the dream, you

00:20:04.859 --> 00:20:07.099
know, a little called in Spanish finca, you know,

00:20:07.099 --> 00:20:09.380
with, you know, 20, 30 acres, get your chickens

00:20:09.380 --> 00:20:12.920
and, you know, a horse or whatever or cows and

00:20:12.920 --> 00:20:14.059
stuff like that, just live in the countryside.

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Do you speak Spanish going to all these Spanish

00:20:17.339 --> 00:20:21.400
-speaking countries? Brazil is Portuguese. Hey,

00:20:21.460 --> 00:20:26.880
now. Yeah, it's true. Yeah. Don't piss off the

00:20:26.880 --> 00:20:31.299
Brazilians. It's true. I know, bro. Yeah, I know.

00:20:31.839 --> 00:20:34.220
Brazilians are less, you know, I mean, Brazilians

00:20:34.220 --> 00:20:37.200
are more to the point than, you know, like Colombians

00:20:37.200 --> 00:20:40.200
and Dominicans and stuff. I speak about 70 %

00:20:40.200 --> 00:20:42.440
Spanish. I can get by pretty well. I got the

00:20:42.440 --> 00:20:45.339
basics down. Portuguese is different. Like, I've

00:20:45.339 --> 00:20:49.650
got to re, you know, get an idea of. what's going

00:20:49.650 --> 00:20:51.769
on, what's being said, I can understand, especially

00:20:51.769 --> 00:20:54.049
reading body language. That's the biggest thing

00:20:54.049 --> 00:20:56.750
for me. You know, if I understand the context.

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Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. I mean, but people are

00:21:05.309 --> 00:21:08.390
generally patient, you know, is that, is that

00:21:08.390 --> 00:21:10.470
you got a truck backing up onto you? It sounds

00:21:10.470 --> 00:21:14.200
like, uh, The trash truck is out front right

00:21:14.200 --> 00:21:18.960
now. Nice. Perfect. You want me to show you the

00:21:18.960 --> 00:21:20.900
street where I'm at real quick? Yeah, absolutely.

00:21:20.980 --> 00:21:25.180
Sure. Check it out. Okay. Get ready, folks. We're

00:21:25.180 --> 00:21:30.619
going to Brazil. Muito bom. Muito quente. Very

00:21:30.619 --> 00:21:35.960
hot. It's about 90 degrees today. 89. Muy caliente

00:21:35.960 --> 00:21:39.480
or something. Muito quente. Let me make sure

00:21:39.480 --> 00:21:40.960
this door don't close on me. Okay, there we go.

00:21:41.289 --> 00:21:44.589
If I get locked out, I don't know how far. Oh,

00:21:44.710 --> 00:21:49.170
you know what? It's the, I know. Yeah, it's the

00:21:49.170 --> 00:21:54.529
repaving the dirt road here. Wow, dude. So it's

00:21:54.529 --> 00:21:57.730
a dirt road. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, it's a dirt road.

00:21:57.769 --> 00:21:59.890
Well, Sandra was like, she said, I'm so embarrassed

00:21:59.890 --> 00:22:02.529
because it's a dirt road here. It's not asphalt.

00:22:02.589 --> 00:22:04.730
I was like, listen, I'd rather do that any day.

00:22:05.069 --> 00:22:08.410
Hell yeah. Okay. What do you get around? Let

00:22:08.410 --> 00:22:11.759
me show you. Yeah. Go ahead, John. I was just

00:22:11.759 --> 00:22:13.279
asking, how do you get around over there? Is

00:22:13.279 --> 00:22:15.400
it just a regular car on those unpaved roads,

00:22:15.500 --> 00:22:17.839
or do you do, like, more off -road vehicles?

00:22:19.720 --> 00:22:22.400
She's got this little four -cylinder, five -speed,

00:22:22.400 --> 00:22:24.640
like, Japanese. It's a Chevy with a Japanese

00:22:24.640 --> 00:22:26.740
engine in it. Oh, wow. We swear this thing was

00:22:26.740 --> 00:22:30.720
four -by -four. You know, it goes over every

00:22:30.720 --> 00:22:34.119
type of thing you can imagine, man. We actually

00:22:34.119 --> 00:22:38.359
drove about an hour and a half. oh no no this

00:22:38.359 --> 00:22:41.200
one isn't they do have four yeah there's the

00:22:41.200 --> 00:22:46.299
pasture down here nice little garden right there

00:22:46.299 --> 00:22:50.920
yeah it's yeah it's beautiful yeah i hear some

00:22:50.920 --> 00:22:53.559
cats it seems like you're kind of well protected

00:22:53.559 --> 00:22:55.980
in the development you're in it's got high walls

00:22:55.980 --> 00:22:57.779
it seems to have a nice gate and stuff is that

00:22:57.779 --> 00:23:04.730
necessary or we got strays Yeah, dude. My sister

00:23:04.730 --> 00:23:06.750
fed that thing last week when she was down here.

00:23:06.829 --> 00:23:08.430
He don't leave me alone since I get your best

00:23:08.430 --> 00:23:13.769
food yesterday. Yes. I call him Oscar. His name's

00:23:13.769 --> 00:23:19.309
Oscar or Roscoe. Roscoe. What's up, buddy? Yeah.

00:23:19.769 --> 00:23:25.430
So I'd say it's probably the average within Latin

00:23:25.430 --> 00:23:30.650
America to have, you know, somewhat walled exterior

00:23:30.650 --> 00:23:35.769
of the house. Yeah. You know, I've been to Peru

00:23:35.769 --> 00:23:39.490
when I was a kid. Actually, my uncle, who was

00:23:39.490 --> 00:23:41.990
a huge live fan, you know, took me to Peru when

00:23:41.990 --> 00:23:45.750
he got married back in 2000. So Peru, you know,

00:23:45.789 --> 00:23:49.650
Latin America in general has the walled areas

00:23:49.650 --> 00:23:54.549
around the homes. There's not a really, there's

00:23:54.549 --> 00:23:56.750
not a police, there's a really good book called

00:23:56.750 --> 00:23:59.289
The Locust Effect. And the guy gave a TED Talk

00:23:59.289 --> 00:24:01.670
a few years ago, and he talks about how traditionally

00:24:01.670 --> 00:24:05.130
the police, Law enforcement system is really

00:24:05.130 --> 00:24:07.849
in place just to protect the rulers of society.

00:24:08.349 --> 00:24:11.470
And the unique circumstances around the United

00:24:11.470 --> 00:24:13.490
States and maybe Great Britain is that that's

00:24:13.490 --> 00:24:15.269
one of the few law enforcement systems that are

00:24:15.269 --> 00:24:19.490
there to protect the people. So, you know, with

00:24:19.490 --> 00:24:21.869
that being said, down here, it's the police.

00:24:21.910 --> 00:24:23.869
It's not really anything you can truly depend

00:24:23.869 --> 00:24:29.190
on. So you just, you know, take your preemptive

00:24:29.190 --> 00:24:31.049
caution, so to speak. It's kind of like Mexico.

00:24:31.089 --> 00:24:34.170
You can't really. count on them either in mexico

00:24:34.170 --> 00:24:42.190
yeah probably so down yeah yeah you know brazil

00:24:42.190 --> 00:24:43.930
here i think they do traffic stops for that stuff

00:24:43.930 --> 00:24:46.950
i haven't experienced that yet so we'll see the

00:24:46.950 --> 00:24:50.750
first time we went to brazil like 92 to play

00:24:50.750 --> 00:24:53.589
what i noticed we were in rio and sao paulo the

00:24:53.589 --> 00:24:56.589
big big cities obviously but in rio what i noticed

00:24:56.589 --> 00:25:00.289
what stuck out to me was that all the slums are

00:25:00.289 --> 00:25:04.599
up in the hills where in America, like in the

00:25:04.599 --> 00:25:06.180
Hollywood Hills, all the big, you know, nice

00:25:06.180 --> 00:25:08.039
houses are up on the hills with the views and

00:25:08.039 --> 00:25:10.039
all the slums were built up on these hillsides.

00:25:10.059 --> 00:25:12.500
It's like, this is fucking crazy. Like all the

00:25:12.500 --> 00:25:15.019
people, you know, the poor people got the sweet

00:25:15.019 --> 00:25:20.279
views. But hey, why not? Don't go up there. Look

00:25:20.279 --> 00:25:24.579
at the river. No, no, no. We went to Rio and

00:25:24.579 --> 00:25:25.700
they were like, yeah, just stay in your hotel.

00:25:26.460 --> 00:25:29.460
Is Rio the spot with that big statue of Jesus?

00:25:30.240 --> 00:25:34.400
Yes. Christ the Redeemer, yes. He's in Rio. That's

00:25:34.400 --> 00:25:37.700
dumb. How far are you from Rio? You know that?

00:25:39.259 --> 00:25:44.180
Man, it's probably because Brazil is huge. I

00:25:44.180 --> 00:25:48.559
am comparatively in the Midwest United States,

00:25:48.559 --> 00:25:53.819
maybe Texas, and Rio is in, let's say, New York.

00:25:54.119 --> 00:26:01.980
Ah, okay. Yeah. decent hike to go there. Are

00:26:01.980 --> 00:26:04.559
you, are you exploring all of, you know, where

00:26:04.559 --> 00:26:07.420
you're at, where you kind of stay in local, how's

00:26:07.420 --> 00:26:11.440
it working? Kind of 50, 50. I mean, my work is

00:26:11.440 --> 00:26:13.859
seasonal in the States. I do like power washing

00:26:13.859 --> 00:26:16.180
and window cleaning down, you know, in Maryland.

00:26:16.259 --> 00:26:19.720
So I, times like this, when it's literally 20

00:26:19.720 --> 00:26:22.619
degrees in Maryland last night, you know, I'm

00:26:22.619 --> 00:26:24.619
just, I just take off and get the heck away.

00:26:27.480 --> 00:26:29.940
As far as checking things out, I'd say, you know,

00:26:30.019 --> 00:26:33.160
I'm always on the go in the States. And I don't

00:26:33.160 --> 00:26:35.839
think a lot of other people are used to that.

00:26:36.259 --> 00:26:39.099
You know, you go down to other areas, they're

00:26:39.099 --> 00:26:41.700
pretty much just chilled out at home in their

00:26:41.700 --> 00:26:43.079
local neighborhood, which is the traditional

00:26:43.079 --> 00:26:46.200
life, really. Right. So I'm like antsy. I've

00:26:46.200 --> 00:26:49.460
got to go. So like yesterday, I asked Sandra

00:26:49.460 --> 00:26:51.880
if we could go check out. I'm just going online,

00:26:52.079 --> 00:26:54.279
looking up, you know, farmland, see what's around.

00:26:54.880 --> 00:26:58.619
It was, I think, 18 acres for 230 grand. I mean,

00:26:58.660 --> 00:27:00.920
I don't have the money right now, but it'd be

00:27:00.920 --> 00:27:03.299
something to save for. So we rode, you know,

00:27:03.319 --> 00:27:06.460
an hour and a half south and just checked out.

00:27:06.480 --> 00:27:08.240
It was beautiful seeing the farmland region.

00:27:08.319 --> 00:27:11.440
I mean, it looks like you're in the States in

00:27:11.440 --> 00:27:15.500
terms of the corn and soybean farms. Like, you

00:27:15.500 --> 00:27:18.319
know, I'm down in the eastern shore of Maryland.

00:27:18.380 --> 00:27:21.960
So Chad knows that area is like all rural. It

00:27:21.960 --> 00:27:27.529
used to be. Yes. So what you're looking at the

00:27:27.529 --> 00:27:29.609
farmland, is that something you can get in the

00:27:29.609 --> 00:27:32.630
field? There you go. When you're looking at farmland,

00:27:32.710 --> 00:27:35.490
is that something that you are thinking about

00:27:35.490 --> 00:27:37.809
doing or do you have some farming experience?

00:27:38.430 --> 00:27:41.029
Like 18 acres or something seems like a big plot

00:27:41.029 --> 00:27:45.150
of land to, to grow stuff on. If you're not like

00:27:45.150 --> 00:27:48.750
skilled or, or it looks like we got that Brazilian

00:27:48.750 --> 00:27:54.910
wifi glitch. The. I wonder if that is their Wi

00:27:54.910 --> 00:27:57.329
-Fi or maybe just he has a bad connection. I

00:27:57.329 --> 00:28:00.630
do notice that when we go long distances with

00:28:00.630 --> 00:28:04.410
some other countries that their internet doesn't

00:28:04.410 --> 00:28:06.289
work as well. I always wonder if it's a distance

00:28:06.289 --> 00:28:08.650
thing or if it's their internal system thing.

00:28:09.470 --> 00:28:14.089
Scott, we will be here if you come back. Do you

00:28:14.089 --> 00:28:17.029
have any sound on him or video, Chad? I got nothing,

00:28:17.089 --> 00:28:21.720
no. He's locked up. He is locked up, locked and

00:28:21.720 --> 00:28:23.279
loaded. It's probably internal. I mean, they

00:28:23.279 --> 00:28:25.819
have fiber optic lines connecting Brazil, so

00:28:25.819 --> 00:28:29.259
it's probably internal. I got to wonder with

00:28:29.259 --> 00:28:32.279
us. There it is. Move it again. I got to wonder

00:28:32.279 --> 00:28:36.160
with us inventing the Internet if there's just

00:28:36.160 --> 00:28:38.140
backdoors for every country and we could siphon

00:28:38.140 --> 00:28:40.019
off all their information. Scott, it seems like

00:28:40.019 --> 00:28:42.019
you're back, though. I was asking you about your

00:28:42.019 --> 00:28:45.240
18 acres. Are you a farmer? Do you know how to

00:28:45.240 --> 00:28:47.039
farm? Or is that something you plan on maybe

00:28:47.039 --> 00:28:51.859
getting into further down the road? I think maybe

00:28:51.859 --> 00:28:59.559
it's catching up. I don't know. Chad, you ever

00:28:59.559 --> 00:29:03.880
farmed or been on a farm? Yeah, I've been on

00:29:03.880 --> 00:29:07.779
a few farms. All right, I'm going to let in Mr.

00:29:07.940 --> 00:29:15.200
Scott Martinetti. Oh, wow. That's like 15 minutes

00:29:15.200 --> 00:29:21.420
behind -ish. That is wild. Yeah, so I had family

00:29:21.420 --> 00:29:25.119
friends that had a farm that my mom used to take

00:29:25.119 --> 00:29:27.200
me to when I was a kid, probably up until about

00:29:27.200 --> 00:29:30.480
10 or 11. So we used to go down there. There's

00:29:30.480 --> 00:29:34.319
Ike and Mary, I think their names were. Cool.

00:29:34.359 --> 00:29:37.980
Older people. I didn't like going there because

00:29:37.980 --> 00:29:39.759
they would give you well water and it tasted

00:29:39.759 --> 00:29:44.059
like shit. Oh, yeah? No filter on that? Just

00:29:44.059 --> 00:29:46.019
straight out the ground? Right out of the fucking

00:29:46.019 --> 00:29:49.019
ground with a pump. Just a pump thing. Yeah.

00:29:49.420 --> 00:29:52.700
Oh, yeah. Way in the 70s. So, yeah. But he would

00:29:52.700 --> 00:29:55.279
take me around, show me the gardens and the animals

00:29:55.279 --> 00:29:58.880
and stuff. That water is definitely great for

00:29:58.880 --> 00:30:00.759
watering your crops and stuff. But yeah, maybe

00:30:00.759 --> 00:30:02.920
to drink is a bit much. Scott, are you back?

00:30:07.660 --> 00:30:10.440
Negative. No, no. Scott, I got no sound on you.

00:30:10.500 --> 00:30:13.339
If you want to try to leave and then there we

00:30:13.339 --> 00:30:21.700
go. Let's try this. Do that. Okay. View and then

00:30:21.700 --> 00:30:30.480
admit. Let's see if this works. Trying to, I'm

00:30:30.480 --> 00:30:32.180
going to, so he's trying to come in under two.

00:30:32.240 --> 00:30:33.500
I'm going to try and let him in on both because

00:30:33.500 --> 00:30:36.640
I don't know which one is which, but sorry for

00:30:36.640 --> 00:30:38.140
the technical difficulties, folks. This is what

00:30:38.140 --> 00:30:41.339
happens when we go live in other countries, but

00:30:41.339 --> 00:30:43.299
that's the beauty of the internet. We could,

00:30:43.299 --> 00:30:46.339
we could do all this. Scott, can you hear us?

00:30:47.000 --> 00:30:49.460
Scott, can you hear us? Yeah, here we go. I'm

00:30:49.460 --> 00:30:50.980
going to switch over to the cell phone I've got.

00:30:51.019 --> 00:30:53.700
It seems to be better than the Zoom Chromebook.

00:30:54.339 --> 00:31:00.059
There you go. The old 5G rather than the Wi -Fi

00:31:00.059 --> 00:31:07.079
connection might be the way. So, Scott, I'm going

00:31:07.079 --> 00:31:09.359
to try to ask this one more time. Do you have

00:31:09.359 --> 00:31:12.039
any farming experience or is that something you're

00:31:12.039 --> 00:31:14.079
thinking about getting into like further down

00:31:14.079 --> 00:31:15.740
the road? Because you mentioned that you were

00:31:15.740 --> 00:31:17.599
looking at farmland a couple of times. So I'm

00:31:17.599 --> 00:31:20.220
just wondering if that's something you're into

00:31:20.220 --> 00:31:27.220
already or maybe some potential future. Yeah,

00:31:27.279 --> 00:31:30.440
I grew up on the eastern shore and my grandfather

00:31:30.440 --> 00:31:34.079
had about 65 acres on the water farmland. So

00:31:34.079 --> 00:31:36.200
I was kind of grew up around that, you know,

00:31:36.220 --> 00:31:39.000
when I was a kid. My grandfather had sheep. You

00:31:39.000 --> 00:31:41.539
know, he was from Brooklyn, New York. So he just

00:31:41.539 --> 00:31:43.140
had it was more of like what they call, I guess,

00:31:43.160 --> 00:31:46.359
a vanity farm. But, you know, we we had chickens

00:31:46.359 --> 00:31:48.799
and eggs down there. And I lived down there for

00:31:48.799 --> 00:31:52.759
a year, a few a few years ago and raised a bunch

00:31:52.759 --> 00:31:55.000
of chickens doing the track, the chicken tractors

00:31:55.000 --> 00:31:57.299
stuff. If you ever look into what Joel Salatin

00:31:57.299 --> 00:32:00.579
does with the coops, he moves every day. So,

00:32:00.579 --> 00:32:04.430
you know, I think. Yeah, it's interesting stuff,

00:32:04.549 --> 00:32:07.150
especially, you know, you, Chad, with your approach

00:32:07.150 --> 00:32:11.190
on a lot of the the way things are going in the

00:32:11.190 --> 00:32:12.950
States with the food system. He wrote some really

00:32:12.950 --> 00:32:17.819
good books talking about why, you know. People

00:32:17.819 --> 00:32:19.980
have been so brainwashed into believing that

00:32:19.980 --> 00:32:21.880
the way that they raise animals now is normal

00:32:21.880 --> 00:32:24.740
You know the big big pharmaceutical companies

00:32:24.740 --> 00:32:27.720
the big the big food corporations have really

00:32:27.720 --> 00:32:31.240
owned The politicians in terms of you know lobbying

00:32:31.240 --> 00:32:34.779
against small farmers so you can't grow fresh

00:32:34.779 --> 00:32:37.559
healthy chicken So you can't grow grass -fed

00:32:37.559 --> 00:32:40.240
cows and bring them to your customers locally.

00:32:40.579 --> 00:32:44.720
So If I if I did have some money to spend on

00:32:44.720 --> 00:32:46.740
a piece of property down here, I think I would

00:32:46.740 --> 00:32:48.779
probably just do a little homestead type thing.

00:32:50.039 --> 00:32:52.319
You know, that's something I would like to do

00:32:52.319 --> 00:32:54.319
to answer your question. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry for

00:32:54.319 --> 00:32:55.680
going around the bat. And I'm not sure if the

00:32:55.680 --> 00:32:58.700
lag is still in the connection here. No, dude,

00:32:58.779 --> 00:33:00.559
you're good. Whether the lags there or not. I

00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:03.240
like what you're saying. And that's true. I think

00:33:03.240 --> 00:33:06.079
that's where capitalism gets a little freaky

00:33:06.079 --> 00:33:09.000
is when. These big corporations are all about

00:33:09.000 --> 00:33:11.660
making that top dollar and pleasing their investors,

00:33:11.819 --> 00:33:14.200
and then they fuck the small man, the independent

00:33:14.200 --> 00:33:18.660
farmers and stuff like that, who make great food,

00:33:18.700 --> 00:33:21.680
a lot of times better than those big corporations,

00:33:21.940 --> 00:33:24.680
and they treat the animals better, and they do

00:33:24.680 --> 00:33:27.960
regenerative farming as opposed to what the big

00:33:27.960 --> 00:33:30.500
corporations do. So that's where capitalism is

00:33:30.500 --> 00:33:32.579
a little tricky. If they could figure out a way

00:33:32.579 --> 00:33:35.039
to not let shit like that happen, it would be.

00:33:35.480 --> 00:33:38.259
the best system, but they just haven't tackled

00:33:38.259 --> 00:33:42.079
that yet. The U S and the FDA is in the battle

00:33:42.079 --> 00:33:44.279
for big pharma and all that bullshit too. I mean,

00:33:44.279 --> 00:33:47.259
just get into that conspiracy theory, of course,

00:33:47.279 --> 00:33:52.960
you know? Have you heard of John, John Bergman?

00:33:53.019 --> 00:33:55.279
He's a chiropractor out of, I think San Diego.

00:33:55.400 --> 00:33:58.779
He's got a, he's got a really good theory on

00:33:58.779 --> 00:34:01.740
what disease is. And he goes down and he says,

00:34:01.759 --> 00:34:04.700
basically disease is something from, you know,

00:34:05.119 --> 00:34:10.920
mental stress uh emotional physical or um environmental

00:34:10.920 --> 00:34:17.280
stress you know and he says the fda yes yes yeah

00:34:17.280 --> 00:34:20.619
yeah yeah the fraud and uh fraud and deception

00:34:20.619 --> 00:34:24.159
agency he calls it that's perfect basically it

00:34:24.159 --> 00:34:28.780
yeah more people need to just kind of look into

00:34:28.780 --> 00:34:31.320
this stuff i mean it's we could talk all we want

00:34:31.320 --> 00:34:33.780
and we we pretty much try to hammer the hammer

00:34:33.780 --> 00:34:36.280
home a lot of these points but until people start

00:34:36.280 --> 00:34:38.139
to really look into it and because you could

00:34:38.139 --> 00:34:41.659
eat local you could uh use your uh local farmers

00:34:41.659 --> 00:34:43.940
and stuff like that you know even in new jersey

00:34:43.940 --> 00:34:46.260
we could do it i'm sure every state has a has

00:34:46.260 --> 00:34:49.719
a little bit of local farming going on and yeah

00:34:49.719 --> 00:34:53.139
there's a ton of ingredients in the u .s that

00:34:53.139 --> 00:34:55.300
are allowed substances and food that are allowed

00:34:55.300 --> 00:34:57.440
but in the u .s but not allowed anywhere else

00:34:57.440 --> 00:35:01.090
in the world they're banned I mean, food coloring,

00:35:01.269 --> 00:35:04.010
you can go down the list of different stuff that

00:35:04.010 --> 00:35:06.909
we allow in our food system that is banned in

00:35:06.909 --> 00:35:09.349
the world. As long as it doesn't kill you in

00:35:09.349 --> 00:35:11.590
a single dose, they could have those ingredients

00:35:11.590 --> 00:35:13.670
in there. Like, in other words, they could have,

00:35:13.670 --> 00:35:17.190
you know, rat poison in fucking, we'll say milk,

00:35:17.309 --> 00:35:19.530
as long as it's not under, like, enough to kill

00:35:19.530 --> 00:35:21.610
you in one dose. Like, if it kills you in 100

00:35:21.610 --> 00:35:23.969
doses, then they could have that put in there,

00:35:24.030 --> 00:35:27.719
which is fucking crazy. I think there's around

00:35:27.719 --> 00:35:30.219
15 ,000 ingredients they only have to list on

00:35:30.219 --> 00:35:33.019
fucking food labels. Strange. Different shit.

00:35:33.559 --> 00:35:36.659
And so I was just, so Joe Rogan had this guy

00:35:36.659 --> 00:35:39.460
named Gary Brekka on a few episodes ago, probably

00:35:39.460 --> 00:35:43.679
two months now. And Gary Brekka specializes,

00:35:43.719 --> 00:35:47.900
he has, he's basically, I don't know if you saw

00:35:47.900 --> 00:35:49.800
what happened to Dana White, like he transformed

00:35:49.800 --> 00:35:53.699
and he got all healthy and stuff. Yeah. Oh, that

00:35:53.699 --> 00:35:56.659
guy, yeah. So Gary Brekka is one who basically

00:35:56.659 --> 00:36:00.780
transformed his health. And one of his big things

00:36:00.780 --> 00:36:04.719
is that you have to take supplements, but the

00:36:04.719 --> 00:36:06.840
supplements have to be what's called methylated.

00:36:07.059 --> 00:36:09.699
Yes. Which basically allows your body to absorb

00:36:09.699 --> 00:36:12.639
them better and use them more effectively. But

00:36:12.639 --> 00:36:16.139
what he really talked about that stuck out to

00:36:16.139 --> 00:36:19.860
me was that in America, all of our flour and

00:36:19.860 --> 00:36:26.119
bread has folic acid in it. We're the only country

00:36:26.119 --> 00:36:29.440
that adds folic acid to our food. Most people

00:36:29.440 --> 00:36:32.360
can't process it. That's why a lot of people's

00:36:32.360 --> 00:36:34.639
health are fucked up in this guy's estimation.

00:36:35.079 --> 00:36:37.760
Because your body doesn't really process folic

00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:41.519
acid. It needs a methylated version of it, but

00:36:41.519 --> 00:36:44.440
this version that's in your food just fucks your

00:36:44.440 --> 00:36:46.820
body up. It fucks up your bowels. It does all

00:36:46.820 --> 00:36:50.719
kinds of weird shit to your body. But no other

00:36:50.719 --> 00:36:52.539
country does that. That's why in Europe they

00:36:52.539 --> 00:36:55.380
can eat pastas and breads and not get bloated.

00:36:55.559 --> 00:36:58.500
Most Europeans are not overweight. And they eat

00:36:58.500 --> 00:37:00.219
pasta and bread all fucking day long. That's

00:37:00.219 --> 00:37:03.300
what they eat. Especially in Italy and the southern.

00:37:03.840 --> 00:37:06.059
They eat pita bread and all that stuff and it's

00:37:06.059 --> 00:37:08.719
like they don't put folic acid in their food

00:37:08.719 --> 00:37:10.440
over there. They don't put all kinds of stuff

00:37:10.440 --> 00:37:13.519
in their food. That's one of the big problems

00:37:13.519 --> 00:37:16.559
with the US food system. What an advertisement.

00:37:16.719 --> 00:37:18.840
I'm just a conspiracy theorist so don't listen

00:37:18.840 --> 00:37:22.929
to me. Don't listen to Chip. What an advertisement

00:37:22.929 --> 00:37:27.230
for that. That guy is fucking awesome. Worth

00:37:27.230 --> 00:37:29.769
checking out. Just to see Dana White. That's

00:37:29.769 --> 00:37:34.369
why I got this. What is it? It's glass. Hydrogenated.

00:37:34.690 --> 00:37:36.869
The other thing Gary Brecker says is you should

00:37:36.869 --> 00:37:39.010
drink hydrogenated water, which basically is

00:37:39.010 --> 00:37:42.690
this little thing down here that has electrolysis

00:37:42.690 --> 00:37:46.340
in it and makes hydrogen in your water. Oh. So

00:37:46.340 --> 00:37:48.800
it's good. It's like anti -inflammatory. It helps

00:37:48.800 --> 00:37:52.900
you absorb your supplements better. It does all

00:37:52.900 --> 00:37:55.739
kinds of great things in the body. So hydrogenated

00:37:55.739 --> 00:37:59.019
water. There you go. Yeah, that's a good advertisement

00:37:59.019 --> 00:38:01.969
for that dude because, I mean, he took... uh

00:38:01.969 --> 00:38:05.110
dana white off of like cholesterol medicine thyroid

00:38:05.110 --> 00:38:07.809
medicine like a lot of serious medicine in four

00:38:07.809 --> 00:38:10.469
to five weeks just changing his diet which is

00:38:10.469 --> 00:38:13.110
he just so all you can so what gary does is he

00:38:13.110 --> 00:38:15.510
offers a kid on his website you can go to garybrekker

00:38:15.510 --> 00:38:18.909
.com i'm not endorsing him just saying you know

00:38:18.909 --> 00:38:21.170
probably check out but you can do a cheek swab

00:38:21.170 --> 00:38:23.630
and then you send that in and you can check your

00:38:23.630 --> 00:38:27.309
genetics to see what you know if you have genetic

00:38:27.309 --> 00:38:31.119
um malfunctions in certain genes, he can then

00:38:31.119 --> 00:38:33.280
give you supplements and stuff to correct those

00:38:33.280 --> 00:38:36.559
things. To get your body to naturally analyze

00:38:36.559 --> 00:38:38.579
and do what it needs. Scotty, I'm sorry. Go ahead,

00:38:38.619 --> 00:38:42.340
buddy. Oh, no, I heard about that. I was curious

00:38:42.340 --> 00:38:45.480
looking into that. You send a cheek swab out

00:38:45.480 --> 00:38:47.280
and they test whatever your deficiencies are.

00:38:47.420 --> 00:38:49.639
And they say a lot of people's underlying conditions

00:38:49.639 --> 00:38:52.460
clear up. Yeah. I mean, I got to tell you, I,

00:38:52.579 --> 00:38:54.460
you know, I spent a lot of time in Columbia.

00:38:54.679 --> 00:38:56.460
I go there, you know, a couple of times a year.

00:38:56.519 --> 00:38:57.980
I actually go there for the dentist. It's not.

00:38:58.349 --> 00:39:01.869
I'd rather go down there and spend good money

00:39:01.869 --> 00:39:04.929
on a dentist there versus what the health insurance

00:39:04.929 --> 00:39:08.869
will pay for back in the States. But a lot of

00:39:08.869 --> 00:39:12.289
the diseases in the United States are extremely

00:39:12.289 --> 00:39:17.929
unique to our food system. It's very scary. To

00:39:17.929 --> 00:39:21.489
be honest with you, I said to myself, between

00:39:21.489 --> 00:39:24.690
the stress that's involved in living in the States,

00:39:24.849 --> 00:39:29.090
and it's not... It's a mixed bag. I mean, I think

00:39:29.090 --> 00:39:31.369
the average, you know, citizen in the United

00:39:31.369 --> 00:39:33.570
States has so much weight on their shoulders

00:39:33.570 --> 00:39:38.190
that the propaganda, you know, can the machine

00:39:38.190 --> 00:39:40.590
that so much stress they try to push on you as

00:39:40.590 --> 00:39:44.050
a citizen that average people here don't, you

00:39:44.050 --> 00:39:48.110
know, it's not a daily, you know, really concern.

00:39:48.469 --> 00:39:51.809
And it's interesting. But besides that, I said,

00:39:51.869 --> 00:39:53.469
I don't want to have cancer by the time I'm 40

00:39:53.469 --> 00:39:58.800
or 45. You know, I'm 36 now if I can. And John

00:39:58.800 --> 00:40:02.000
Bergman, he cited a study in one of his podcasts

00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:03.760
a while back, a couple of years ago, I was listening

00:40:03.760 --> 00:40:08.260
to his stuff. And he said that the FDA or the

00:40:08.260 --> 00:40:11.900
pharmaceutical companies have have found no correlation

00:40:11.900 --> 00:40:17.059
in mice with Roundup during a 30 day trial. And

00:40:17.059 --> 00:40:19.440
he said that's because he said that's for the

00:40:19.440 --> 00:40:22.280
study. He said that's because the kids. Exactly

00:40:22.280 --> 00:40:24.360
right. He said that's because the tumors don't

00:40:24.360 --> 00:40:28.119
start growing until day 40. It perfectly makes

00:40:28.119 --> 00:40:31.360
sense to me. And that's how they make studies

00:40:31.360 --> 00:40:36.000
work for them. Right. What about the long -term

00:40:36.000 --> 00:40:38.900
effect? Not the fucking 30 -day effect of Roundup.

00:40:38.920 --> 00:40:41.079
What about the long -term effect? I mean, come

00:40:41.079 --> 00:40:45.440
on now, people. He says, really? Oh, sorry, bro.

00:40:45.579 --> 00:40:49.420
No, go ahead, dude. He says, you know, Roundup

00:40:49.420 --> 00:40:51.829
was actually registered as an antibiotic. And

00:40:51.829 --> 00:40:54.710
from what I've read, I'm not an expert, I'm not

00:40:54.710 --> 00:40:56.429
a doctor, I'm not a scientist, but what I've

00:40:56.429 --> 00:40:59.949
read and what I've seen through researching is

00:40:59.949 --> 00:41:03.630
that it's claimed that Roundup actually works

00:41:03.630 --> 00:41:07.269
by stopping microbiotic processes from creating

00:41:07.269 --> 00:41:09.610
the amino acids in the food that are supposed

00:41:09.610 --> 00:41:11.789
to be there. So in other words, you might eat

00:41:11.789 --> 00:41:14.550
a stalk of broccoli with Roundup on it, and it

00:41:14.550 --> 00:41:16.849
actually doesn't even have the health benefits

00:41:16.849 --> 00:41:19.010
that broccoli is supposed to have. On top of

00:41:19.010 --> 00:41:22.019
that, it has Roundup in it. which is an antibiotic,

00:41:22.260 --> 00:41:25.679
which not only messes with your gut microbiome,

00:41:25.719 --> 00:41:28.679
but it also somehow works to chelate minerals

00:41:28.679 --> 00:41:31.219
out of your body. That's why everybody's constantly

00:41:31.219 --> 00:41:33.659
dehydrated, drinking tons of water. I mean, I'm

00:41:33.659 --> 00:41:36.280
here in Brazil. People aren't chugging water

00:41:36.280 --> 00:41:38.900
like they do back home. I mean, because don't

00:41:38.900 --> 00:41:41.400
get me wrong, the food is, you know, we're living

00:41:41.400 --> 00:41:44.920
in the same type of system. They're putting chemicals

00:41:44.920 --> 00:41:46.960
on the food here, but it's not as intense as

00:41:46.960 --> 00:41:50.119
the States, at least yet. Right. Well, they probably

00:41:50.119 --> 00:41:52.119
have less factory farming down there, I would

00:41:52.119 --> 00:41:56.719
imagine. True. Dude, yeah, that farm, they had,

00:41:56.800 --> 00:41:58.460
I think the neighbor of that farm I was looking

00:41:58.460 --> 00:42:00.760
at yesterday had 700 acres, and it was all just,

00:42:00.820 --> 00:42:03.159
you know, pasture, just cows grazing. That's

00:42:03.159 --> 00:42:05.679
what cows are supposed to eat, grass, not corn.

00:42:06.280 --> 00:42:09.360
Well, actually, I'm hearing there's this type

00:42:09.360 --> 00:42:13.000
of seaweed that these cows could eat to lower

00:42:13.000 --> 00:42:15.500
their methane output. Like, in other words, grass

00:42:15.500 --> 00:42:18.260
makes them gassy and stuff like that. Uh, whereas

00:42:18.260 --> 00:42:21.539
this seaweed that they grow in the ocean supposedly

00:42:21.539 --> 00:42:23.760
gets rid of that. So I'm not saying cows are

00:42:23.760 --> 00:42:26.699
supposed to eat that, but supposedly if, and

00:42:26.699 --> 00:42:28.760
when they do, it really lowers their methane

00:42:28.760 --> 00:42:32.960
X export. Uh, if that's a, if that's a way to

00:42:32.960 --> 00:42:35.440
do it. Uh, Scott, you said something interesting.

00:42:35.559 --> 00:42:39.119
You said that like the, the, uh, people in Brazil,

00:42:39.179 --> 00:42:41.340
they're not as like edgy. They're not as anxiety

00:42:41.340 --> 00:42:44.170
ridden as people in America. Is that because

00:42:44.170 --> 00:42:47.889
they're just not as connected and on their phones

00:42:47.889 --> 00:42:50.369
like we are or they're not on the Internet like

00:42:50.369 --> 00:42:52.829
we are? Or is it just their government's not

00:42:52.829 --> 00:42:55.309
putting out all this horrible news and stuff

00:42:55.309 --> 00:43:00.070
like that? I personally, I mean, people down

00:43:00.070 --> 00:43:03.789
here, I think 10 years ago, everybody's got a

00:43:03.789 --> 00:43:06.010
cell phone. You know, now I think Brazil was

00:43:06.010 --> 00:43:08.369
probably 10 years behind the states in terms

00:43:08.369 --> 00:43:12.539
of. It's cultural disintegration due to social

00:43:12.539 --> 00:43:15.980
media, to be honest with you. You know, people

00:43:15.980 --> 00:43:18.179
here still know how to have conversations. They

00:43:18.179 --> 00:43:20.219
still know how to sit down and talk. They still

00:43:20.219 --> 00:43:22.420
want to share a meal. Those things still matter

00:43:22.420 --> 00:43:26.739
here. I'll be honest with you, John. I personally

00:43:26.739 --> 00:43:31.400
have my personal thoughts that I think when you

00:43:31.400 --> 00:43:34.039
come back to the States, I think the food is

00:43:34.039 --> 00:43:36.579
poisoning, not poisoning, but it's depriving

00:43:36.579 --> 00:43:39.920
people's nervous systems. and they are neurologically

00:43:39.920 --> 00:43:43.280
frayed due to the inadequate uh insufficient

00:43:43.280 --> 00:43:46.300
amount of you know nutrients in the diet and

00:43:46.300 --> 00:43:48.340
i think that's you know i had a family member

00:43:48.340 --> 00:43:51.920
who had esophageal cancer and towards the last

00:43:51.920 --> 00:43:55.440
few months of his life he couldn't eat and um

00:43:55.440 --> 00:43:58.019
he ate very little wow and there was a certain

00:43:58.019 --> 00:44:00.380
look in his eyes that i'll never i'll never forget

00:44:00.380 --> 00:44:04.760
and when i see um people in the states how angry

00:44:04.760 --> 00:44:08.230
they're they're irritated it's not actual anger

00:44:08.230 --> 00:44:13.309
it's general agitation irritation and you know

00:44:13.309 --> 00:44:16.230
i come down here for the first week i'm still

00:44:16.230 --> 00:44:18.730
hungry like i am in the states and after about

00:44:18.730 --> 00:44:22.210
the first week i just can't eat that much and

00:44:22.210 --> 00:44:24.849
i need to lose i trust me my goal is to you know

00:44:24.849 --> 00:44:26.630
drop a bunch of pounds that's that's the end

00:44:26.630 --> 00:44:29.469
goal anyway but um You know, when you come down

00:44:29.469 --> 00:44:31.550
here, you're just satiated. You know, I felt

00:44:31.550 --> 00:44:33.570
that way in the Dominican Republic. I felt that

00:44:33.570 --> 00:44:35.829
way in Colombia. You know, I spent a couple months

00:44:35.829 --> 00:44:38.829
down there over time. And I just find outside

00:44:38.829 --> 00:44:40.650
of the state, I went to Portugal a couple years

00:44:40.650 --> 00:44:42.429
ago, and you can eat the bread. The bread doesn't

00:44:42.429 --> 00:44:44.429
bother you. People were just chilled out. People's

00:44:44.429 --> 00:44:47.829
nervous systems aren't as agitated and on edge,

00:44:47.889 --> 00:44:53.769
in my opinion. Yeah, and we could definitely

00:44:53.769 --> 00:44:56.050
use a little bit less anxiety in the States for

00:44:56.050 --> 00:44:58.389
sure. I think it's the food and the propaganda

00:44:58.389 --> 00:45:01.170
that they fucking throw out constantly in our

00:45:01.170 --> 00:45:05.670
news. Chad, I said something to somebody yesterday.

00:45:05.869 --> 00:45:08.610
I said, and I don't want to get political. I

00:45:08.610 --> 00:45:10.190
don't want to say this in particular. I'd say

00:45:10.190 --> 00:45:12.489
on a broad spectrum, I'd say the United States

00:45:12.489 --> 00:45:15.250
used to produce some of the most amazing technological

00:45:15.250 --> 00:45:18.309
achievements in the world. The farm equipment

00:45:18.309 --> 00:45:20.170
that came out of the States after World War II,

00:45:20.329 --> 00:45:23.690
I mean, the stuff, it changed the world. I think

00:45:23.690 --> 00:45:27.150
in my... personal personal system or belief system

00:45:27.150 --> 00:45:29.309
now I'd say the United States is really good

00:45:29.309 --> 00:45:32.590
at producing propaganda I mean it's just it's

00:45:32.590 --> 00:45:36.570
scary how scientific things have become yeah

00:45:36.570 --> 00:45:41.090
and we're like so we know being in America that

00:45:41.090 --> 00:45:43.750
China's all propaganda Russia's all propaganda

00:45:43.750 --> 00:45:46.829
but in America as Americans we don't think that

00:45:46.829 --> 00:45:49.190
about our government and they could possibly

00:45:49.190 --> 00:45:53.860
be the best at it You know, in the grand scheme

00:45:53.860 --> 00:45:56.440
of things, because we're just blind to it and

00:45:56.440 --> 00:45:59.639
eating into it and feeding into it. And, you

00:45:59.639 --> 00:46:03.139
know, that's worse than being in China, a Chinese

00:46:03.139 --> 00:46:05.519
citizen, and kind of knowing that you have a

00:46:05.519 --> 00:46:08.679
dictator telling you and propagandizing. When

00:46:08.679 --> 00:46:10.739
you're in the black in America, you're thinking

00:46:10.739 --> 00:46:13.360
like, oh, no, that's not going on. That's more

00:46:13.360 --> 00:46:18.099
scary than knowing. That's the biggest thing

00:46:18.099 --> 00:46:21.860
to me is that people in developing. In countries,

00:46:21.980 --> 00:46:24.579
they know the government's corrupt. They admit

00:46:24.579 --> 00:46:26.940
it. They'll say it. Well, you know, that's because

00:46:26.940 --> 00:46:31.019
they're corrupt. But I think there's this desire

00:46:31.019 --> 00:46:33.420
to want to believe in people, you know, in the

00:46:33.420 --> 00:46:35.159
United States. And I'm not saying that all is

00:46:35.159 --> 00:46:37.360
awash. I mean, there are good people. There are

00:46:37.360 --> 00:46:39.539
good people who are, you know, who are, you know,

00:46:39.539 --> 00:46:41.559
sticking out for what's right with their family,

00:46:41.599 --> 00:46:43.460
for them themselves, you know. And there's not

00:46:43.460 --> 00:46:46.420
all the people who go into politics are evil,

00:46:46.500 --> 00:46:49.760
you know. But I think there's this overall just

00:46:49.760 --> 00:46:54.480
movement. that people just don't know what to

00:46:54.480 --> 00:46:56.139
think about it because they have nothing else

00:46:56.139 --> 00:46:58.159
to compare it to. I mean, here, it's obvious.

00:46:58.559 --> 00:47:01.559
For example, when I was in Colombia, a friend

00:47:01.559 --> 00:47:04.179
of mine lives an hour and a half outside of Medellin,

00:47:04.260 --> 00:47:07.460
and he lives in this beautiful little town. In

00:47:07.460 --> 00:47:09.179
five minutes, you drive through it, and it's

00:47:09.179 --> 00:47:11.980
in the middle of farmland. And he showed me.

00:47:12.000 --> 00:47:13.460
We went for a five -minute walk. He says, look

00:47:13.460 --> 00:47:16.900
at this road here. He says, the local mayor.

00:47:17.670 --> 00:47:19.210
embezzled all the money that was supposed to

00:47:19.210 --> 00:47:21.889
go towards the road project. It never got paid

00:47:21.889 --> 00:47:23.630
and they had, you know, it's washed out. So that's

00:47:23.630 --> 00:47:27.130
the type of corruption and, you know, stage one,

00:47:27.190 --> 00:47:30.150
stage two, you know, level corruption. Yeah.

00:47:30.949 --> 00:47:37.650
Got it. You got it. You got a bad connection

00:47:37.650 --> 00:47:41.070
there, buddy. Uh, it's, uh, you're not, the sounds

00:47:41.070 --> 00:47:45.289
not coming. Um, we'll let, we'll let's see if

00:47:45.289 --> 00:47:47.619
Scott can get that thick. But yeah, man, that's

00:47:47.619 --> 00:47:51.119
that's well put. And, you know, scarier to think

00:47:51.119 --> 00:47:53.179
that we have one of the biggest propaganda machines

00:47:53.179 --> 00:47:56.579
out there and just we don't know it. I think

00:47:56.579 --> 00:47:59.039
I think it kind of got, you know, we know it.

00:47:59.079 --> 00:48:01.699
Yeah. Yeah. And people are starting to see it

00:48:01.699 --> 00:48:04.519
now. But you just never like in the 90s, if we

00:48:04.519 --> 00:48:06.760
said this, you'd be like, get the fuck out of

00:48:06.760 --> 00:48:10.059
here. USA's got more propaganda than China. No

00:48:10.059 --> 00:48:13.179
fucking way. And then you realize all the influence

00:48:13.179 --> 00:48:15.639
we have on the world and all the information

00:48:15.639 --> 00:48:18.320
that's put out there. COVID shined a big light

00:48:18.320 --> 00:48:23.800
on it. Yeah. And that's what I was getting to

00:48:23.800 --> 00:48:25.820
earlier. With us creating the internet, you got

00:48:25.820 --> 00:48:28.539
to wonder if we did create a bunch of backdoor

00:48:28.539 --> 00:48:30.380
systems where we could siphon out information,

00:48:30.619 --> 00:48:32.480
really know what everybody's talking about, and

00:48:32.480 --> 00:48:34.840
then use that against them. It's called the NSA,

00:48:35.019 --> 00:48:39.440
my friends. Ah, another conspiracy. How dare

00:48:39.440 --> 00:48:44.099
you? That's what Snowden fucking brought to light.

00:48:44.199 --> 00:48:46.260
That's why they want to fucking arrest that motherfucker

00:48:46.260 --> 00:48:48.380
and put him in jail the rest of the time. Is

00:48:48.380 --> 00:48:51.000
he still in Russia, Snowden? I believe so, yeah.

00:48:51.440 --> 00:48:56.320
I mean, that was dope. He was on Rogan via satellite,

00:48:56.400 --> 00:48:59.519
but it's weird that Russia is protecting this

00:48:59.519 --> 00:49:04.820
guy and we're trying to get him for dumping out,

00:49:04.880 --> 00:49:07.380
for putting out the truth, basically. That's

00:49:07.380 --> 00:49:11.440
what he was doing. He just took documents. I

00:49:11.440 --> 00:49:14.579
mean, he basically broke it open that the NSA

00:49:14.579 --> 00:49:18.659
fucking bullied Watsonville or all of us, basically.

00:49:19.099 --> 00:49:21.260
I mean, I kind of knew that when Homeland Security

00:49:21.260 --> 00:49:24.679
was created, I kind of knew that they were going

00:49:24.679 --> 00:49:28.780
to fucking be able to listen and listen to anything

00:49:28.780 --> 00:49:32.269
and do whatever they wanted to. I don't know

00:49:32.269 --> 00:49:34.449
if it was said or just my brain went there, but

00:49:34.449 --> 00:49:36.750
I've kind of known that since like right after

00:49:36.750 --> 00:49:38.969
9 -11, after they came up with that Homeland

00:49:38.969 --> 00:49:40.550
Security. Oh, the Patriot Act you're talking

00:49:40.550 --> 00:49:42.769
about. That's what it is. Yes, the Patriot Act.

00:49:43.190 --> 00:49:46.210
It was probably happening before that, but definitely

00:49:46.210 --> 00:49:48.329
the Patriot Act. They started monitoring everybody.

00:49:48.809 --> 00:49:51.230
They just said we're doing it basically and it's

00:49:51.230 --> 00:49:54.849
legal now. Like, yeah. Come stop us. Right, right.

00:49:56.090 --> 00:49:58.789
And I mean, I guess. And we were all on board

00:49:58.789 --> 00:50:00.110
with it. We're like, we don't want another terrorist

00:50:00.110 --> 00:50:02.309
attack. Please listen to whatever you're saying.

00:50:02.469 --> 00:50:05.269
Yeah. Now we got 8 million illegal aliens in

00:50:05.269 --> 00:50:08.190
this fucking country. Military age men. Who knows

00:50:08.190 --> 00:50:11.690
from fucking where. Is there any other country

00:50:11.690 --> 00:50:13.650
on earth where you could just walk across the

00:50:13.650 --> 00:50:16.050
border? Like, let me see you do that from South

00:50:16.050 --> 00:50:18.309
Korea to North Korea. See what happens to you.

00:50:18.409 --> 00:50:22.510
Try to fucking walk into Mexico. Well, right.

00:50:22.829 --> 00:50:26.050
That's true. Just reverse it. Try to walk into

00:50:26.050 --> 00:50:31.099
Canada. Good luck. That is so true, dude. That

00:50:31.099 --> 00:50:34.039
shit's got to get fixed. It's sad that the state

00:50:34.039 --> 00:50:36.900
governor has to block federal agents from allowing

00:50:36.900 --> 00:50:40.579
illegal people into this country. Oh, in Texas

00:50:40.579 --> 00:50:41.840
you're talking about? Yeah, the Texas National

00:50:41.840 --> 00:50:44.039
Guard has shut down a lot of the border now,

00:50:44.179 --> 00:50:46.019
and then they put up barbed wire, and then yesterday

00:50:46.019 --> 00:50:49.239
the fucking Supreme Court said that the federal

00:50:49.239 --> 00:50:51.639
government can cut the barbed wire. What the

00:50:51.639 --> 00:50:55.820
fuck is happening? What clown fucking people

00:50:55.820 --> 00:50:58.170
are in charge of this shit now? Where you can

00:50:58.170 --> 00:51:01.150
let 8 million people in, and now it's like, oh,

00:51:01.170 --> 00:51:02.670
no, the Supreme Court's like, oh, you can cut

00:51:02.670 --> 00:51:04.349
the barbed wire. I guess they said they can cut

00:51:04.349 --> 00:51:06.469
the barbed wire while the lawsuit's going on,

00:51:06.550 --> 00:51:08.869
but that's the craziest part of it. It's like

00:51:08.869 --> 00:51:11.469
Governor Abbott, getting no help from the federal

00:51:11.469 --> 00:51:13.710
government, deploys the Texas National Guard,

00:51:13.829 --> 00:51:16.789
shuts down the border, and Biden is suing him

00:51:16.789 --> 00:51:22.179
for it. Right. Right. It's like, what? How bass

00:51:22.179 --> 00:51:24.639
-ackwards is that, or ass -backwards? Well, it's

00:51:24.639 --> 00:51:27.000
fucking not bass -ackwards when you figure out

00:51:27.000 --> 00:51:30.039
that they want fucking 8 million voters. Yeah.

00:51:30.420 --> 00:51:32.900
And it's funny that they assume that, too, because

00:51:32.900 --> 00:51:34.980
what's going to happen when they don't vote that

00:51:34.980 --> 00:51:37.320
way, if that's what their shit is? Yeah, well.

00:51:37.860 --> 00:51:40.840
Welcome back, Scotty. Can you hear us? I can

00:51:40.840 --> 00:51:42.539
hear you now. It's better on this phone. Sorry

00:51:42.539 --> 00:51:45.460
about that. Oh, yeah. That's much better. So

00:51:45.460 --> 00:51:47.880
anyway, that's what's fucking crazy about the

00:51:47.880 --> 00:51:50.110
whole situation. It's like... Governor Abbott

00:51:50.110 --> 00:51:52.650
shuts down the border, being sued by the federal

00:51:52.650 --> 00:51:55.949
government, by the Biden administration. So you

00:51:55.949 --> 00:51:59.989
want the border open. Did you see where El Salvador

00:51:59.989 --> 00:52:04.570
now requires, was it a $1 ,000 visa for anyone

00:52:04.570 --> 00:52:08.210
traveling from Africa or India? I asked a buddy

00:52:08.210 --> 00:52:11.389
of mine who's Salvadorian about that. I said,

00:52:11.389 --> 00:52:13.650
what's up with that? He says, because they want

00:52:13.650 --> 00:52:15.530
to stop all these people flying to El Salvador

00:52:15.530 --> 00:52:17.590
from coming in just to travel. That's one of

00:52:17.590 --> 00:52:19.920
the ways of coming in, yeah. Well, good for El

00:52:19.920 --> 00:52:21.320
Salvador. I mean, at least they're trying to

00:52:21.320 --> 00:52:24.500
do something about it. That makes sense. Yeah,

00:52:24.539 --> 00:52:26.699
they're getting in on the scheme. Give me a thousand,

00:52:26.780 --> 00:52:30.380
go. Yeah, well, basically, yeah. Yeah. I mean,

00:52:30.420 --> 00:52:32.579
I think that'll curtail some of it, but it's

00:52:32.579 --> 00:52:33.760
not going to stop all of it. They're going to

00:52:33.760 --> 00:52:36.539
make a lot of money. Yeah, totally. Did you see

00:52:36.539 --> 00:52:40.500
that the American guy who said he's going to

00:52:40.500 --> 00:52:43.159
fly down to Mexico and sneak back up to see if

00:52:43.159 --> 00:52:45.880
he can get free? Oh, yeah. He's in a free place

00:52:45.880 --> 00:52:49.219
to live. And then I think they apprehend somebody

00:52:49.219 --> 00:52:53.300
that has gone back and forth like eight times

00:52:53.300 --> 00:52:55.900
and gotten all the, like, you come across the

00:52:55.900 --> 00:52:57.860
border, you get a $5 ,000 gift certificate, you

00:52:57.860 --> 00:53:00.239
get a fucking phone, you get a free ticket to

00:53:00.239 --> 00:53:03.340
anywhere you go. And they've talked to somebody

00:53:03.340 --> 00:53:05.880
who's gained the system where he's come back,

00:53:05.940 --> 00:53:08.059
got the $5 ,000, fucking do all the work we want,

00:53:08.119 --> 00:53:09.579
and then flew back to Mexico and then walked

00:53:09.579 --> 00:53:12.420
back over again and got $5 ,000 and all this

00:53:12.420 --> 00:53:14.480
shit. And it's like taking complete advantage.

00:53:14.960 --> 00:53:18.460
of our fucking ridiculous fucking immigration

00:53:18.460 --> 00:53:21.539
system. I should do that. That they now continue

00:53:21.539 --> 00:53:24.219
to blame on fucking Republicans. I love the left.

00:53:24.480 --> 00:53:30.480
They fucking just blame. John Rotoles. Cabo to

00:53:30.480 --> 00:53:32.900
Texas. Let's go, boys. I just put up that meme

00:53:32.900 --> 00:53:35.360
the other day. It's like, Jose at the border

00:53:35.360 --> 00:53:39.639
gets a fist bump from the INS agent, and then

00:53:39.639 --> 00:53:41.860
you at the airport getting fucking patted down

00:53:41.860 --> 00:53:47.889
by fucking TSA. Yeah. Fucking retarded. That's

00:53:47.889 --> 00:53:50.289
true. Going through the x -ray with Chad Gracias,

00:53:50.750 --> 00:53:54.610
John Rotoses, and Scott Martinez. And then they

00:53:54.610 --> 00:53:56.550
put all these people on planes with no fucking

00:53:56.550 --> 00:53:58.789
photo ID. Do you have to show your photo ID to

00:53:58.789 --> 00:54:01.949
get on a plane? I do. Absolutely. But the illegals

00:54:01.949 --> 00:54:03.610
who come over, they don't have to show an ID.

00:54:03.670 --> 00:54:05.250
They just get shipped wherever they want. No

00:54:05.250 --> 00:54:08.289
IDs. At some point, we need... It makes a lot

00:54:08.289 --> 00:54:11.599
of sense. It's just fucking great. At some point,

00:54:11.619 --> 00:54:14.280
we need to have a real ID. It's different than

00:54:14.280 --> 00:54:17.800
your license. It's almost as good as a passport.

00:54:18.219 --> 00:54:20.579
Did you guys hear about this, the real ID? I

00:54:20.579 --> 00:54:24.380
already have one of those. California, you have

00:54:24.380 --> 00:54:27.199
to get a real ID at some point. Yeah, I got to

00:54:27.199 --> 00:54:31.639
upgrade at some point. It's a little star on

00:54:31.639 --> 00:54:34.179
your license, right? Oh, sorry. No, all good,

00:54:34.219 --> 00:54:37.900
dude. Please, with the way the lag is, no worries.

00:54:38.429 --> 00:54:40.730
Talk to me about when you first got interested

00:54:40.730 --> 00:54:43.070
in live, what year, how old were you? How did

00:54:43.070 --> 00:54:48.250
it come about? Dude, in a way, like, of course,

00:54:48.250 --> 00:54:50.230
you know, most people who love music would say

00:54:50.230 --> 00:54:53.909
they, since I was four years old, I have an uncle

00:54:53.909 --> 00:54:57.909
down in Salisbury, Maryland, who I think he saw

00:54:57.909 --> 00:55:01.690
live back in 91, probably in Dewey beach, Delaware

00:55:01.690 --> 00:55:04.210
or ocean city, Maryland. I'm not sure which one

00:55:04.210 --> 00:55:09.710
it was. Wow. That would make sense. Dewey Beach,

00:55:09.789 --> 00:55:13.250
yeah. Yeah, so he saw you guys down there, and

00:55:13.250 --> 00:55:17.610
he joined your fan club back, I don't know, I

00:55:17.610 --> 00:55:19.730
guess in 91, 92, whenever it started back then.

00:55:19.789 --> 00:55:24.809
I don't even know. And he was at your MTV Unplugged.

00:55:25.809 --> 00:55:30.570
He told me that he's the guy who yelled freaks.

00:55:33.550 --> 00:55:37.860
Hello? I'm sorry. Oh, that's all right. He's

00:55:37.860 --> 00:55:39.980
the guy who yelled freaks in the beginning of

00:55:39.980 --> 00:55:45.599
TBD. Oh, nice. That was his. Yeah. Yeah. So I

00:55:45.599 --> 00:55:48.219
just grew up, you know, my uncle always listening

00:55:48.219 --> 00:55:50.179
live. All of his friends, you know, were into

00:55:50.179 --> 00:55:52.820
you guys. And, you know, you always have that

00:55:52.820 --> 00:55:55.260
cool uncle as a kid. You go to his house for

00:55:55.260 --> 00:55:57.099
a few days and it's always awesome. So to me,

00:55:57.119 --> 00:55:59.780
I remember coming back from his house and, you

00:55:59.780 --> 00:56:04.039
know, think Operation Spirit, you know, five

00:56:04.039 --> 00:56:07.880
years old. Yeah. Yeah. So that. Yeah, that was

00:56:07.880 --> 00:56:10.099
that. I mean, I grew up listening to those guys.

00:56:10.139 --> 00:56:13.800
And then when I, I guess about six, when I turned

00:56:13.800 --> 00:56:18.840
14 or 15, I bought a ticket to see live back

00:56:18.840 --> 00:56:21.820
in 2002 in Delaware at this place called the

00:56:21.820 --> 00:56:24.039
Big Kahuna. I actually commented on it and Jimmy

00:56:24.039 --> 00:56:26.440
Lang had pictures from the shows, you know, pretty

00:56:26.440 --> 00:56:32.400
awesome. And from then, you know, I, sorry, Chad,

00:56:32.519 --> 00:56:35.840
I tried to. get all the drums that you had so

00:56:35.840 --> 00:56:38.960
i could sound just like you i've got the you

00:56:38.960 --> 00:56:41.800
know the what do you call it the free floating

00:56:41.800 --> 00:56:45.639
brass piccolo yes you know this is why we have

00:56:45.639 --> 00:56:49.880
endorsements so people buy drums that it works

00:56:49.880 --> 00:56:52.900
except i bought all my stuff used so that's cool

00:56:55.340 --> 00:56:58.500
so you have that and the 13 -inch quick beat

00:56:58.500 --> 00:57:01.000
nobody uses 13 -inch quick beats i mean and they

00:57:01.000 --> 00:57:02.960
sound amazing i always thought they sounded they

00:57:02.960 --> 00:57:05.340
were my favorite hi -hats yeah i loved them forever

00:57:05.340 --> 00:57:08.239
i stopped using i went back to 14 and like darker

00:57:08.239 --> 00:57:11.079
hi -hats but yeah the quick beats were 13 quick

00:57:11.079 --> 00:57:15.000
beats were great for a while yeah yeah yeah so

00:57:15.000 --> 00:57:17.699
with the holes in the bottom and then i got i

00:57:17.699 --> 00:57:20.059
thought i bought this the ride symbol that you

00:57:20.059 --> 00:57:23.260
have but i actually bought a 21 inch k heavy

00:57:23.260 --> 00:57:25.219
ride which is actually really rare now i didn't

00:57:25.219 --> 00:57:29.360
realize it but um yeah but you know just yeah

00:57:29.360 --> 00:57:32.500
i tried to emulate chad saying i the only symbol

00:57:32.500 --> 00:57:36.320
i've ever broken was a dark uh dark k splash

00:57:36.320 --> 00:57:43.679
the one you used on unsheathed yeah yeah so yeah

00:57:43.679 --> 00:57:47.519
i'd spend hours go ahead john no don't mind me

00:57:47.519 --> 00:57:49.420
i'm just humming unsheathed i love that song

00:57:52.429 --> 00:57:56.010
That poor Splash cymbal, man. There was no chance

00:57:56.010 --> 00:57:57.929
on that sucker. So how long have you been playing

00:57:57.929 --> 00:58:02.530
drums then, Scott? Oh, I think I bought that

00:58:02.530 --> 00:58:05.130
drum set when I was 18. But I started playing

00:58:05.130 --> 00:58:07.929
in elementary school, fourth grade concert band.

00:58:08.170 --> 00:58:13.130
Yeah. And then in high school, I played marching

00:58:13.130 --> 00:58:17.840
snare in marching band. And then. Finally got

00:58:17.840 --> 00:58:19.539
my own drum set, you know, when I got out of

00:58:19.539 --> 00:58:21.619
high school and just, you know, been playing

00:58:21.619 --> 00:58:25.719
from there. So I never I mean, I did play. I

00:58:25.719 --> 00:58:27.440
wouldn't I wouldn't call it professionally, but

00:58:27.440 --> 00:58:29.980
I had an older friend of mine who died a few

00:58:29.980 --> 00:58:32.900
years ago. He was in his 60s and he was he lived

00:58:32.900 --> 00:58:35.920
in Honolulu back in the 1970s. He let me sit

00:58:35.920 --> 00:58:38.860
and play jazz with him over in Delaware a few

00:58:38.860 --> 00:58:43.320
years ago. But he used to play with guys. He

00:58:43.320 --> 00:58:47.179
knew Danny Barcelona, for example. um from louis

00:58:47.179 --> 00:58:50.039
armstrong's band yeah but but don was so kind

00:58:50.039 --> 00:58:52.460
he he let me sit in and play you know play a

00:58:52.460 --> 00:58:55.639
little old you know 1920s jazz with him 1930s

00:58:55.639 --> 00:59:00.539
so um yeah yeah very cool chad you ever play

00:59:00.539 --> 00:59:03.440
um any like marching snare stuff in school like

00:59:03.440 --> 00:59:05.659
that or i i know you were in the music class

00:59:05.659 --> 00:59:07.820
but it seemed like you were pretty much rocking

00:59:07.820 --> 00:59:09.800
a full set straight from the get oh no and all

00:59:09.800 --> 00:59:12.579
the all the school bands i played saxophone oh

00:59:12.579 --> 00:59:15.929
so oh i didn't play i didn't i wasn't in the

00:59:15.929 --> 00:59:19.230
drum line and play drums in the school wow and

00:59:19.230 --> 00:59:21.570
so all the all those drummers thought that i

00:59:21.570 --> 00:59:23.869
they knew that i played drums in a band but they

00:59:23.869 --> 00:59:25.929
thought i sucked because i didn't because i wasn't

00:59:25.929 --> 00:59:28.429
in drum lines and stuff i was like little did

00:59:28.429 --> 00:59:30.590
they know just didn't have any interest i like

00:59:30.590 --> 00:59:34.269
i learned how to play you know trap set you know

00:59:34.269 --> 00:59:37.929
in my bedroom so and that was more kind of like

00:59:37.929 --> 00:59:40.329
i don't know i mean i could play most of the

00:59:40.329 --> 00:59:42.210
stuff they played but i didn't want to go through

00:59:42.210 --> 00:59:46.300
and learn all the rudiments and all that so whatever

00:59:46.300 --> 00:59:48.880
you did seemed to work because yeah you have

00:59:48.880 --> 00:59:51.900
some of the most iconic drum sounds that came

00:59:51.900 --> 00:59:55.579
out of the 90s and 2000s i mean just even back

00:59:55.579 --> 00:59:57.239
then i was like i don't want to take lessons

00:59:57.239 --> 01:00:00.039
because they're going to teach me how they play

01:00:00.039 --> 01:00:02.579
and i want to just play how i want to play so

01:00:02.579 --> 01:00:08.079
you know go ahead Oh, I was going to say that's

01:00:08.079 --> 01:00:11.340
one thing with Chad when he plays is he is not

01:00:11.340 --> 01:00:14.260
relying on the drum for rebound. So if you had

01:00:14.260 --> 01:00:17.079
gone to school and been taught to depend upon

01:00:17.079 --> 01:00:19.019
the drumstick to come back, I mean, that's one

01:00:19.019 --> 01:00:21.639
of the things to me that always set your playing

01:00:21.639 --> 01:00:24.920
apart is that you're hitting, but you're making

01:00:24.920 --> 01:00:29.179
it all happen. You're not relying on the drums

01:00:29.179 --> 01:00:31.840
to bring the stick back to you. And it's more

01:00:31.840 --> 01:00:33.920
of a driving force the way you play because of

01:00:33.920 --> 01:00:36.610
that, if that makes any sense. That makes sense.

01:00:36.670 --> 01:00:43.989
I never learned about rebound and fills and different

01:00:43.989 --> 01:00:47.010
stuff that I would figure out. I probably don't

01:00:47.010 --> 01:00:49.269
play some things the way they should be played,

01:00:49.329 --> 01:00:54.289
but I figured out how to do it myself. Like I

01:00:54.289 --> 01:00:55.650
said, even back then, I was like, I'm going to

01:00:55.650 --> 01:00:58.510
develop my own style by not taking lessons. I

01:00:58.510 --> 01:01:01.309
could figure out what everyone was doing, so

01:01:01.309 --> 01:01:03.170
I was like, why do I need to go? have someone

01:01:03.170 --> 01:01:05.110
tell me how to do it i can just listen to it

01:01:05.110 --> 01:01:07.889
and figure it out and now you have videos this

01:01:07.889 --> 01:01:09.690
is this is one of the very reasons i made those

01:01:09.690 --> 01:01:12.329
videos because people can see exactly what i'm

01:01:12.329 --> 01:01:16.250
doing so i gotta make more but the maraca and

01:01:16.250 --> 01:01:19.190
pain lies on a riverside just to be that on fucking

01:01:19.190 --> 01:01:21.969
point like the whole song like it just it seems

01:01:21.969 --> 01:01:24.750
very difficult that job i mean i've tried to

01:01:24.750 --> 01:01:26.750
play drums you know a bunch and it's just like

01:01:26.989 --> 01:01:29.489
damn, that is hard, man. You really are the heartbeat

01:01:29.489 --> 01:01:32.329
of that song, like keeping everything and the

01:01:32.329 --> 01:01:35.170
timing just bam. Well, thank you. Yeah, that

01:01:35.170 --> 01:01:38.809
was, we were in my bedroom and I think Chad started

01:01:38.809 --> 01:01:42.829
playing that, like the guitar riff to that. I

01:01:42.829 --> 01:01:44.969
was just like, oh, and actually the first Morocco

01:01:44.969 --> 01:01:48.530
that I used, Chad Taylor had brought back from

01:01:48.530 --> 01:01:51.150
Africa or somewhere. It had like bottle caps

01:01:51.150 --> 01:01:53.869
and it was a wicker Morocco with bottle caps

01:01:53.869 --> 01:01:56.960
in it. Wow. I think we recorded like that. I

01:01:56.960 --> 01:01:58.920
don't know if we did, but anyway, so that's,

01:01:58.920 --> 01:02:00.280
I just picked up the Moroccan. I'm like, Oh,

01:02:00.320 --> 01:02:05.039
look at this. Dude, the way that all that shit

01:02:05.039 --> 01:02:08.800
fell into place, like just set up by God and

01:02:08.800 --> 01:02:10.960
like a little bit of like, you're just intuition

01:02:10.960 --> 01:02:13.820
to know, like not to grab lessons. Let me develop

01:02:13.820 --> 01:02:16.360
my own style. It's, it's brave. And it fucking

01:02:16.360 --> 01:02:19.280
worked. I mean, those are cool stories. Yeah.

01:02:19.519 --> 01:02:21.840
It's well, I mean, yeah, you start thinking about

01:02:21.840 --> 01:02:27.019
the odds of. four people living in the same town

01:02:27.019 --> 01:02:30.099
going to the same school that then have the four

01:02:30.099 --> 01:02:33.239
individual skills and and or personalities to

01:02:33.239 --> 01:02:36.599
be the independent parts of a rock band like

01:02:36.599 --> 01:02:39.659
you know singers are a certain way guitar players

01:02:39.659 --> 01:02:42.059
a certain way and then to develop the skills

01:02:42.059 --> 01:02:44.340
together and get good enough to fucking actually

01:02:44.340 --> 01:02:47.900
make it whatever you know it's just the odds

01:02:47.900 --> 01:02:51.190
of that are fucking wild Oh, my God. Yeah, I

01:02:51.190 --> 01:02:52.809
mean... So that's when you start thinking about,

01:02:52.849 --> 01:02:54.590
like, divine intervention a little bit, like...

01:02:54.590 --> 01:02:59.769
Absolutely. Like, whatever. Absolutely. Now,

01:02:59.809 --> 01:03:03.309
Scott, as a... Go ahead, buddy. Yeah. I was going

01:03:03.309 --> 01:03:04.510
to say, it makes you wonder how many other bands

01:03:04.510 --> 01:03:07.070
really got their start, like you said, in high

01:03:07.070 --> 01:03:11.869
school. Yeah, I mean, you too, for sure. Yeah.

01:03:13.469 --> 01:03:16.710
Oh, yeah. That's true, yeah. The Beatles, we

01:03:16.710 --> 01:03:20.690
said... I was listening to Mental Jewelry. Oh

01:03:20.690 --> 01:03:23.750
man, I'm so sorry if you're lagging. Um, I, you

01:03:23.750 --> 01:03:27.809
know, the way you played the, um, take my anthem.

01:03:27.909 --> 01:03:35.929
I know. Um, who's that? I'm blanking. Take my

01:03:35.929 --> 01:03:41.070
anthem. Yeah. His, uh, his roles and his, I mean,

01:03:41.130 --> 01:03:43.769
it sounds like he was in marching band. I thought

01:03:43.769 --> 01:03:49.019
that. And, and I think my, in my opinion, Of

01:03:49.019 --> 01:03:51.159
course, I listen to all your stuff. The only

01:03:51.159 --> 01:03:53.940
drum solo, in my opinion, that you really have

01:03:53.940 --> 01:03:58.139
done on record was in Good Pain. You broke it

01:03:58.139 --> 01:04:00.139
down for a second and you're doing a hi -hat.

01:04:04.800 --> 01:04:06.880
That's about the extent of drum solos that I

01:04:06.880 --> 01:04:11.360
would do. I don't like drum solos. I don't think

01:04:11.360 --> 01:04:16.280
you can... Sorry, Scott. Here's what I noticed

01:04:16.280 --> 01:04:17.920
about live. I don't think you can really have

01:04:18.710 --> 01:04:21.309
solos in the band because it seems like even

01:04:21.309 --> 01:04:23.670
during guitar solos you got ed kind of singing

01:04:23.670 --> 01:04:25.989
over it like it might be a solo for a little

01:04:25.989 --> 01:04:28.909
bit and then he comes in uh it seems he doesn't

01:04:28.909 --> 01:04:32.489
give much or there's not much freedom with that

01:04:32.489 --> 01:04:35.409
like the guitar solos are there but there's vocals

01:04:35.409 --> 01:04:38.090
over and stuff like that it seems like i don't

01:04:38.090 --> 01:04:39.989
know it just every time like oh shit this is

01:04:39.989 --> 01:04:42.690
badass and then all of a sudden or whatever he

01:04:42.690 --> 01:04:45.860
does is is going on Our biggest, I mean, our

01:04:45.860 --> 01:04:47.820
biggest influence, I think, as a band as a whole

01:04:47.820 --> 01:04:50.179
was U2. So, I mean, we were emulating a lot of

01:04:50.179 --> 01:04:52.159
what they were doing. Like, Lionel just doesn't

01:04:52.159 --> 01:04:56.860
play solos. That's right. And, like, one of the

01:04:56.860 --> 01:04:59.500
distinctive things we do is we don't, like, I

01:04:59.500 --> 01:05:03.699
don't fill into, usually, don't fill into, like,

01:05:03.739 --> 01:05:07.400
going from the verse into the chorus. Sometimes

01:05:07.400 --> 01:05:11.449
we just fucking do it, like, boom. I learned

01:05:11.449 --> 01:05:13.469
that from you too as well. Like there's, Larry

01:05:13.469 --> 01:05:15.690
sometimes doesn't fill from the verse into the

01:05:15.690 --> 01:05:17.929
chorus or in different sections of the songs.

01:05:17.949 --> 01:05:24.869
You just, you know, you just get to it. Oh, um,

01:05:25.969 --> 01:05:30.449
am I flying solo here or is it just me? That's,

01:05:30.449 --> 01:05:35.829
uh, can you guys hear me? Can you hear us now?

01:05:35.949 --> 01:05:38.610
I can. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. There you go.

01:05:39.500 --> 01:05:41.519
uh don't mind all the technical difficulties

01:05:41.519 --> 01:05:44.400
folks we're dealing with all over the place continents

01:05:44.400 --> 01:05:48.280
brazil yeah what i was saying is like one of

01:05:48.280 --> 01:05:50.280
the things that happened when when the whole

01:05:50.280 --> 01:05:52.320
robin thing was going down with chad taylor is

01:05:52.320 --> 01:05:54.860
like he started saying you should fill into this

01:05:54.860 --> 01:05:58.260
section of the song i'm like that's not what

01:05:58.260 --> 01:06:01.400
i do but right just fucking know we're going

01:06:01.400 --> 01:06:03.099
to the first they're going to the course they're

01:06:03.099 --> 01:06:05.619
like i'm not going to traditionally fill into

01:06:05.619 --> 01:06:08.440
the next you know section of the song because

01:06:09.039 --> 01:06:12.139
guess what? That's made us fucking who we like

01:06:12.139 --> 01:06:14.460
that, that kind of different little shit is what

01:06:14.460 --> 01:06:16.699
makes live live. And like, right. I'm not going

01:06:16.699 --> 01:06:18.579
to fucking fill into the fucking course here,

01:06:18.639 --> 01:06:21.340
but Robin Diaz does. I'm like, I don't give a

01:06:21.340 --> 01:06:23.760
fuck what Robin Diaz does. He's, he's more of

01:06:23.760 --> 01:06:26.059
a traditional studio drummer and that's what

01:06:26.059 --> 01:06:27.820
he does. And that's fucking great. But like,

01:06:27.860 --> 01:06:30.679
that's not what I do in live. Right. Anyway.

01:06:31.579 --> 01:06:33.599
And it's just, why would you fuck with magic

01:06:33.599 --> 01:06:37.079
at that point? But, uh, Scott Taylor being Chantel

01:06:37.079 --> 01:06:39.179
at that point, he was the producer that I'm like,

01:06:39.260 --> 01:06:44.780
okay, I got here. Uh, Scotty, did you, cause

01:06:44.780 --> 01:06:46.820
we were talking, uh, online. I think you had

01:06:46.820 --> 01:06:48.559
some questions for chat. I wanted to make sure

01:06:48.559 --> 01:06:50.880
you got to some of them. Absolutely. Yes. My

01:06:50.880 --> 01:06:56.119
ass off. So, Oh dude, I, I, you know what? I

01:06:56.119 --> 01:06:58.320
didn't write him down, but I do know what I want

01:06:58.320 --> 01:07:03.000
to ask at the top of my head. Um, uh, in all

01:07:03.000 --> 01:07:08.679
over you. On the drive. You're riding on the

01:07:08.679 --> 01:07:13.159
bell right there, right? When we recorded it,

01:07:13.159 --> 01:07:15.760
I was more on the bell, but when I play it live,

01:07:15.880 --> 01:07:21.940
I'm just fucking bashing the ride. Okay. Bell

01:07:21.940 --> 01:07:25.699
is a symbol. Bell is like the raised part of

01:07:25.699 --> 01:07:28.440
the, like the symbols, the round thing. And then

01:07:28.440 --> 01:07:30.739
towards the center where the, where it sits on

01:07:30.739 --> 01:07:32.699
the, you know, on the stand, there's like a raised

01:07:32.699 --> 01:07:36.780
part. That's called the bell. ah gotcha for those

01:07:36.780 --> 01:07:42.800
less musically inclined than me you get it yeah

01:07:42.800 --> 01:07:47.699
um i guess out of each album what besides besides

01:07:47.699 --> 01:07:50.659
actual concert playing what is your favorite

01:07:50.659 --> 01:07:54.079
song off of if you take two minutes and maybe

01:07:54.079 --> 01:07:56.900
ask off of mental jewelry what is your favorite

01:07:56.900 --> 01:07:59.239
song that you played on which were obviously

01:07:59.239 --> 01:08:04.519
all of them yeah um probably like pieces now

01:08:04.519 --> 01:08:08.079
great song one of my favorites from that record

01:08:08.079 --> 01:08:12.500
yeah the toms on that yeah mother earth is kind

01:08:12.500 --> 01:08:17.779
of like weird time signatures and different changes

01:08:17.779 --> 01:08:21.100
and stuff and it was good to figure out those

01:08:21.100 --> 01:08:25.899
drums on good pain are crazy crazy the pain's

01:08:25.899 --> 01:08:32.239
a good one mother earth go ahead Oh, I was going

01:08:32.239 --> 01:08:33.800
to say with Mother Earth, he was doing stuff

01:08:33.800 --> 01:08:36.779
that you don't really hear. He was doing this

01:08:36.779 --> 01:08:44.300
with the low tom, with the hi -hat. Am I mistaken

01:08:44.300 --> 01:08:47.279
for a different song there? No, you're correct.

01:08:49.079 --> 01:08:52.420
Okay, so I thought, sorry. It seemed like when

01:08:52.420 --> 01:08:54.479
you guys were playing the mental jewelry stuff

01:08:54.479 --> 01:08:56.699
in concert, it got a little bit harder. Is that

01:08:56.699 --> 01:09:00.880
because mental jewelry was mostly recorded? with

01:09:00.880 --> 01:09:03.819
acoustic guitars and then when you played them

01:09:03.819 --> 01:09:07.000
live you were using electric uh guitars because

01:09:07.000 --> 01:09:09.600
like 10 000 years for now like if you listen

01:09:09.600 --> 01:09:12.760
to concert versions from like 93 ish like it's

01:09:12.760 --> 01:09:15.279
it's a it's it's a harder song than it is on

01:09:15.279 --> 01:09:18.420
the album is that because you went from acoustic

01:09:18.420 --> 01:09:20.819
to electric or just the way you did it in concert

01:09:20.819 --> 01:09:24.960
it's i didn't really have to do with acoustic

01:09:24.960 --> 01:09:29.920
to electric it was just more like Chad started

01:09:29.920 --> 01:09:32.779
just getting more and more distorted and louder

01:09:32.779 --> 01:09:36.140
on stage. And we were just rocking out and like

01:09:36.140 --> 01:09:38.539
playing those songs live. And because we, you

01:09:38.539 --> 01:09:44.079
know, a lot of those songs we wrote, maybe play

01:09:44.079 --> 01:09:45.880
them a few times out because we didn't have a

01:09:45.880 --> 01:09:48.640
lot of gigs to play at that point. And then we

01:09:48.640 --> 01:09:50.380
recorded them and then went on the fucking road

01:09:50.380 --> 01:09:52.479
like all the time. You know, we were on the road

01:09:52.479 --> 01:09:55.399
a lot for even Mental Jewelry. So it's just naturally

01:09:55.399 --> 01:09:57.840
through playing, we just started getting. heavier

01:09:57.840 --> 01:10:01.260
and harder and that's what's led into the guitars

01:10:01.260 --> 01:10:06.899
on throwing copper and you know so it seems as

01:10:06.899 --> 01:10:10.779
like um with mental jewelry ed's range is kind

01:10:10.779 --> 01:10:13.659
of you know it's a little graspy he's got a like

01:10:13.659 --> 01:10:16.060
nice yell in there but it seems like you didn't

01:10:16.060 --> 01:10:18.960
really know how good he was or how good that

01:10:18.960 --> 01:10:20.920
voice was until throwing copper when he started

01:10:20.920 --> 01:10:23.720
bringing in some of the higher vocal ranges and

01:10:23.720 --> 01:10:27.960
you know like did his voice just progress or

01:10:27.960 --> 01:10:30.079
did he always have that and just left it off

01:10:30.079 --> 01:10:32.859
of mental jewelry uh is that something you are

01:10:32.859 --> 01:10:36.260
thought of or were aware of chad well i'm aware

01:10:36.260 --> 01:10:40.560
i don't know if i think it's probably just him

01:10:40.560 --> 01:10:44.760
maturing as a vocalist and then and then uh trying

01:10:44.760 --> 01:10:48.300
different stuff on brian copper and then then

01:10:48.300 --> 01:10:50.399
we were doing mental jewelry and mental jewelry

01:10:50.399 --> 01:10:52.260
he was saying he wasn't i don't think he was

01:10:52.260 --> 01:10:54.899
singing properly he wasn't diaphragm supported

01:10:54.899 --> 01:10:57.000
at that point i think it was just know using

01:10:57.000 --> 01:11:01.039
his you know not not not breathing properly throat

01:11:01.039 --> 01:11:04.819
yeah yeah and then growling yeah and growling

01:11:04.819 --> 01:11:07.020
and i think on that even on that tour i i don't

01:11:07.020 --> 01:11:08.960
i wouldn't say he had problems but i think he

01:11:08.960 --> 01:11:10.439
was starting to notice his voice was getting

01:11:10.439 --> 01:11:14.539
tired like you know so he started getting serious

01:11:14.539 --> 01:11:16.460
about like taking care of it and like doing it

01:11:16.460 --> 01:11:18.979
properly yeah i think i mean he took some vocal

01:11:18.979 --> 01:11:21.039
lessons at some point breathing lessons and stuff

01:11:21.039 --> 01:11:25.420
so Yeah, it's definitely a big transition. And

01:11:25.420 --> 01:11:27.579
then, you know, you guys all kept growing from

01:11:27.579 --> 01:11:29.520
album to album, which was kind of cool to watch.

01:11:31.119 --> 01:11:33.699
Scott, how long are you in Brazil for? Is this

01:11:33.699 --> 01:11:38.319
until you pick up your business again in the

01:11:38.319 --> 01:11:41.380
States or are you just planning on coming back

01:11:41.380 --> 01:11:44.939
soon? What's going on? Probably in a few weeks.

01:11:45.079 --> 01:11:47.180
I haven't bought the return ticket yet. I got

01:11:47.180 --> 01:11:50.880
to start looking. My business picks up. up usually

01:11:50.880 --> 01:11:53.699
around end of february second week of march something

01:11:53.699 --> 01:11:57.119
like that so um gotta get back get the truck

01:11:57.119 --> 01:12:00.119
ready for the busy season um probably two or

01:12:00.119 --> 01:12:04.600
three weeks more so yeah i'm enjoying i get to

01:12:04.600 --> 01:12:07.699
skip that whole terrible northeaster cold yeah

01:12:07.699 --> 01:12:12.140
absolutely so um did you did you want to ask

01:12:12.140 --> 01:12:14.460
more questions and about live and stuff and did

01:12:14.460 --> 01:12:17.300
you want me to continue on like what song from

01:12:17.300 --> 01:12:21.310
each record i like yes Yeah. We got sidetracked.

01:12:23.050 --> 01:12:25.670
So I guess I would say, what is your favorite

01:12:25.670 --> 01:12:28.710
song? And then what is your, do you, could you

01:12:28.710 --> 01:12:30.529
do, would you want to list a least favorite?

01:12:30.609 --> 01:12:32.949
You rather not say that. I mean, I don't know.

01:12:33.909 --> 01:12:38.029
Least favorite. Wow. My favorite song probably

01:12:38.029 --> 01:12:41.470
overall is White Discussion. Yeah. I love playing

01:12:41.470 --> 01:12:43.529
it. I love the song, you know, the message in

01:12:43.529 --> 01:12:45.590
the song and look at all this talking. It's got

01:12:45.590 --> 01:12:48.310
us, baby. I mean, it's fucking. Yes. it was spot

01:12:48.310 --> 01:12:52.729
on then they spot on now about it yeah um and

01:12:52.729 --> 01:12:55.609
i just love rocking out to that song it's always

01:12:55.609 --> 01:13:02.409
been great um least favorite you know um i'm

01:13:02.409 --> 01:13:08.119
guessing it's later albums Yeah. There's a whole

01:13:08.119 --> 01:13:10.640
bunch of records with Lee's favorites, I guess.

01:13:10.779 --> 01:13:14.479
Like Nobody Knows was probably like, oh, what

01:13:14.479 --> 01:13:19.659
am I playing here? I love the song. It felt like

01:13:19.659 --> 01:13:22.479
that could have been an Ed solo. And Lee's favorite

01:13:22.479 --> 01:13:28.500
would not maybe come down to the lack of the

01:13:28.500 --> 01:13:31.939
song being good or whatever, but just the environment.

01:13:33.039 --> 01:13:35.560
and the way oh okay the way the records were

01:13:35.560 --> 01:13:37.939
put together and like here here's here's the

01:13:37.939 --> 01:13:41.199
song structure just play to this instead of oh

01:13:41.199 --> 01:13:43.420
we'll get we were getting a room and hash out

01:13:43.420 --> 01:13:45.300
an idea and come with you know help with the

01:13:45.300 --> 01:13:47.079
song structure all of us would be like oh let's

01:13:47.079 --> 01:13:50.619
go let's do the the verse twice as long here

01:13:50.619 --> 01:13:52.619
whatever the it was like we would all help with

01:13:52.619 --> 01:13:57.220
arrangement yeah whereas those later albums when

01:13:57.220 --> 01:13:58.859
ed sort of took over all the writing he would

01:13:58.859 --> 01:14:04.479
just bring fully constructed songs um even with

01:14:04.479 --> 01:14:09.779
five even with five yeah five basically yes okay

01:14:09.779 --> 01:14:13.819
yeah five five started out with just ed and i

01:14:13.819 --> 01:14:18.079
in in la because we i was in i was in portland

01:14:18.079 --> 01:14:20.500
so i could drive down easily but like he he was

01:14:20.500 --> 01:14:22.439
he was living in la so i just went down and went

01:14:22.439 --> 01:14:26.899
out he was like let's let's go i met this guy

01:14:26.899 --> 01:14:31.079
alan johannes and oh and uh and we should go

01:14:31.079 --> 01:14:32.840
record, you know, start writing some songs out

01:14:32.840 --> 01:14:34.220
of his place. I'm like, what the hell if I can

01:14:34.220 --> 01:14:35.899
do that? And then we brought on Patrick and Chad

01:14:35.899 --> 01:14:39.539
kind of later, but that was just a weird record

01:14:39.539 --> 01:14:41.659
because it was just like, here's the song structure.

01:14:42.079 --> 01:14:43.960
That was kind of the first time we had done that.

01:14:44.779 --> 01:14:46.439
And I was kind of game at the time. It was like,

01:14:46.479 --> 01:14:47.699
oh, it's kind of different. Let's fucking do

01:14:47.699 --> 01:14:50.020
this, you know? When you say the strong, you

01:14:50.020 --> 01:14:53.140
know what? Sorry, go ahead, Scott. Oh, you know

01:14:53.140 --> 01:14:55.899
what, John? He broke out his single stroke rolls

01:14:55.899 --> 01:14:59.770
on five, though. Oh, yeah? See, you know that.

01:15:01.050 --> 01:15:07.250
I know, I'm a nerd, man. Chad, when you say this

01:15:07.250 --> 01:15:08.770
song structure was brought to you, does that

01:15:08.770 --> 01:15:12.189
mean just like the guitar and vocals were all

01:15:12.189 --> 01:15:14.850
there? Or was he like telling you like, I want

01:15:14.850 --> 01:15:18.689
this like time beat? No, he would just lay down

01:15:18.689 --> 01:15:22.170
the song to a click track. So it was already

01:15:22.170 --> 01:15:27.260
like the song was arranged and played. It would

01:15:27.260 --> 01:15:31.260
be basically just guitar and vocal, but the structure

01:15:31.260 --> 01:15:32.840
of the song was already there. It was like, the

01:15:32.840 --> 01:15:34.539
chorus is this long, and then you go into the

01:15:34.539 --> 01:15:36.560
chorus, and the chorus is half here, and then

01:15:36.560 --> 01:15:38.359
we go into the bridge, whatever the fuck it was.

01:15:38.399 --> 01:15:40.359
He played it down to a click track, and then

01:15:40.359 --> 01:15:43.279
I just played along to it. So it wasn't the magical

01:15:43.279 --> 01:15:45.180
sauce, the magical recipe that you guys were

01:15:45.180 --> 01:15:47.100
doing earlier where you would kind of flesh out

01:15:47.100 --> 01:15:50.359
the songs together and come up with different

01:15:50.359 --> 01:15:53.739
choruses or lengths of stuff. It was just like,

01:15:53.819 --> 01:15:56.810
here's the song, put your parts over it. and

01:15:56.810 --> 01:15:59.470
yeah before that it would be like well I don't

01:15:59.470 --> 01:16:02.390
you know like it's cool like the verse is great

01:16:02.390 --> 01:16:05.689
but the chorus is like meh and then maybe we

01:16:05.689 --> 01:16:07.550
would come up with something different or I would

01:16:07.550 --> 01:16:08.569
come up with something different it would be

01:16:08.569 --> 01:16:10.510
a different chord or whatever right so we were

01:16:10.510 --> 01:16:13.069
all involved in that process and that's how to

01:16:13.069 --> 01:16:16.430
me that's how the magic is yeah the first four

01:16:16.430 --> 01:16:19.310
records it was like we all were involved in going

01:16:19.310 --> 01:16:23.189
meh I mean like that this verse is fucking awesome

01:16:23.189 --> 01:16:27.829
but that chorus is not not it We've got to do

01:16:27.829 --> 01:16:31.489
something about it. So you weren't in on the

01:16:31.489 --> 01:16:36.550
Jimmy Buffett? I was never in on lyrics. Lyrics

01:16:36.550 --> 01:16:38.329
were always Ed's department. I didn't want anything

01:16:38.329 --> 01:16:41.010
to do with lyrics, and I just trusted Ed to do

01:16:41.010 --> 01:16:46.310
the lyrics. That was a good song, though. I mean,

01:16:46.350 --> 01:16:51.039
your drum part. on transmit your love i mean

01:16:51.039 --> 01:16:53.479
i i have a hard time really seeing what you do

01:16:53.479 --> 01:16:55.399
with your left hand and that if you could play

01:16:55.399 --> 01:16:58.500
that one on your next uh recording that'd be

01:16:58.500 --> 01:17:00.880
dope so i gotta go back yeah i listened to that

01:17:00.880 --> 01:17:03.140
the other day like when i flew back actually

01:17:03.140 --> 01:17:05.500
i flew back to pennsylvania for christmas i listened

01:17:05.500 --> 01:17:07.979
to transmit your love and most of five it's like

01:17:07.979 --> 01:17:09.760
that's fucking kind of cool like there are some

01:17:09.760 --> 01:17:11.880
cool songs on that fucking record i'm not saying

01:17:11.880 --> 01:17:14.420
good songs they were shitty but like it that

01:17:14.420 --> 01:17:17.640
record there was it was a new concept for the

01:17:17.640 --> 01:17:20.380
band yeah like i said about the writing style

01:17:20.380 --> 01:17:23.899
and then i was like really fucking game to do

01:17:23.899 --> 01:17:26.220
it but then like the record company just fucked

01:17:26.220 --> 01:17:28.220
that record all up like we had three big fucking

01:17:28.220 --> 01:17:30.699
chances for that record to be big and totally

01:17:30.699 --> 01:17:33.079
you know 9 -11 happened and all that shit and

01:17:33.079 --> 01:17:36.659
it was just like whoa so if you get rid of that

01:17:36.659 --> 01:17:39.500
uh jimmy buffett what your dad you know, shit

01:17:39.500 --> 01:17:43.319
and love that fucking song. It's crazy. The drums,

01:17:43.340 --> 01:17:46.859
the guitar in beautiful. And then you got here

01:17:46.859 --> 01:17:49.159
on love on there, which is fucking just start

01:17:49.159 --> 01:17:51.800
to finish is fucking amazing. So there's definitely

01:17:51.800 --> 01:17:55.420
some, some real gems on there, but that thing,

01:17:56.319 --> 01:17:59.159
I get a cringe, you know, like listening to,

01:17:59.199 --> 01:18:02.279
or even singing, I'm like, Oh God, you know,

01:18:02.279 --> 01:18:07.300
I was, Oh God, I'm sorry, dude. I was in the

01:18:07.300 --> 01:18:09.420
movies with my dad. watching the mummy returns.

01:18:09.859 --> 01:18:12.279
And my dad wasn't in the live, you know, but

01:18:12.279 --> 01:18:14.760
I should, you know, we were sitting there listening,

01:18:14.819 --> 01:18:16.920
watching the credits. I was like, Oh man, this

01:18:16.920 --> 01:18:19.779
song is awesome. And of course that was before

01:18:19.779 --> 01:18:21.520
the record was released. And there was, I didn't

01:18:21.520 --> 01:18:23.640
have internet back then. And I found that was

01:18:23.640 --> 01:18:27.260
live. I was like, Oh, America, that sounds, that's

01:18:27.260 --> 01:18:29.500
that songs, you know, that's, that's one of those

01:18:29.500 --> 01:18:31.180
missed opportunities that the record company

01:18:31.180 --> 01:18:32.739
would not take advantage of. There are three,

01:18:32.779 --> 01:18:38.050
there was, uh, recorded a song that was, Was

01:18:38.050 --> 01:18:40.550
it Deep Enough, I think it is? Yeah, Fast and

01:18:40.550 --> 01:18:43.710
Furious. Fast and Furious. The record company

01:18:43.710 --> 01:18:46.010
would not let us do the cross -promotion to make

01:18:46.010 --> 01:18:48.810
a video for this shit. And then you had The Mummy.

01:18:49.670 --> 01:18:51.449
Forever May Not Be Long Enough. That was supposed

01:18:51.449 --> 01:18:53.569
to be a way bigger feature song than the fucking

01:18:53.569 --> 01:18:57.329
movie, and we did a video for it. That song was

01:18:57.329 --> 01:18:59.949
amazing. Thank you. Well, that was a weird song,

01:19:00.050 --> 01:19:02.609
but anyway. So the record company would not promote

01:19:02.609 --> 01:19:04.750
that, and we're like, what the fuck? And then

01:19:04.750 --> 01:19:08.560
the whole 9 -11 thing went down. And what was

01:19:08.560 --> 01:19:11.840
it? Overcome. Overcome kind of like became this

01:19:11.840 --> 01:19:15.439
fucking natural anthem for that whole thing.

01:19:15.979 --> 01:19:18.239
Played all over VH1 and we were like, well, let's

01:19:18.239 --> 01:19:20.920
put the single out and like donate the proceeds

01:19:20.920 --> 01:19:23.399
to the 9 -11 fund or whatever the fuck it was.

01:19:23.600 --> 01:19:25.500
We were kind of like, nah, we're not going to

01:19:25.500 --> 01:19:29.000
do that either. I mean, this is a class's example

01:19:29.000 --> 01:19:32.220
of how record companies can fucking destroy records.

01:19:33.020 --> 01:19:36.109
It's just like three. Gigantic opportunities

01:19:36.109 --> 01:19:40.170
to fucking promote that record. Especially the

01:19:40.170 --> 01:19:42.590
overcome one, man. I mean, why would you not

01:19:42.590 --> 01:19:45.390
release that as a single dude? It was fucking

01:19:45.390 --> 01:19:51.470
everywhere. Yeah. It was so fitting to the point

01:19:51.470 --> 01:19:54.109
where people, you know, thought that it was written

01:19:54.109 --> 01:19:56.909
for nine 11. Like that's how fitting that song

01:19:56.909 --> 01:20:02.350
was. Like, you know, we were all. Right. We knew

01:20:02.350 --> 01:20:06.199
it was going to happen. Chad, that's why you're

01:20:06.199 --> 01:20:08.380
such a conspiracy theorist. You're in with these

01:20:08.380 --> 01:20:11.739
guys and know it all. Holy shit. You heard it

01:20:11.739 --> 01:20:14.579
here, folks, on The Gracious 2. Chad is part

01:20:14.579 --> 01:20:17.840
of the problem. I'm sitting triangles. Yeah.

01:20:18.260 --> 01:20:19.880
So, Scotty, you know how I like to do it. I like

01:20:19.880 --> 01:20:21.859
to leave the audience always wanting a little

01:20:21.859 --> 01:20:24.500
bit more from our guests. So can you tell people

01:20:24.500 --> 01:20:27.340
if you want to your business name, maybe some

01:20:27.340 --> 01:20:28.979
of your socials so they can check you out? I

01:20:28.979 --> 01:20:30.300
don't know if you want to give that type of promotion,

01:20:30.460 --> 01:20:32.659
but we're all about it if you do. Absolutely.

01:20:33.390 --> 01:20:36.890
Yeah, yeah, I do window cleaning, soft wash,

01:20:37.050 --> 01:20:40.149
gutter cleaning service, Eastern Shore, and actually

01:20:40.149 --> 01:20:43.649
Frederick, Maryland. Our website is spotpurewash

01:20:43.649 --> 01:20:49.310
.com. And you can, you know, check out, get a

01:20:49.310 --> 01:20:51.970
quote online if you wanted to. We do a lot of

01:20:51.970 --> 01:20:54.430
waterfront homes down the Eastern Shore. A couple

01:20:54.430 --> 01:20:56.770
of my customers, one of them went to high school

01:20:56.770 --> 01:20:59.289
with Chad. I forgot the guy's name, though. He's

01:20:59.289 --> 01:21:02.260
got a graphics company in New York. Otherwise,

01:21:02.399 --> 01:21:06.340
you know, I'm on social media, Facebook and Instagram.

01:21:06.359 --> 01:21:09.199
I don't really, you know, post too much, usually

01:21:09.199 --> 01:21:11.619
share or chat with people I know, but I'm on

01:21:11.619 --> 01:21:16.180
there as well. Cool. Very cool. I would like

01:21:16.180 --> 01:21:19.539
to thank you for coming on. I'm glad you're enjoying

01:21:19.539 --> 01:21:22.500
your time in Brazil. Tell Sandra we said hello.

01:21:22.739 --> 01:21:25.319
Thank you, Dallas. And we'll have you on again.

01:21:26.060 --> 01:21:27.739
hopefully when you're back in the States, it'd

01:21:27.739 --> 01:21:29.460
be a little bit better internet connection and

01:21:29.460 --> 01:21:31.140
we'll, we'll do this again, man. Thank you for

01:21:31.140 --> 01:21:34.500
coming on. That, that sounds great. And one,

01:21:34.939 --> 01:21:38.100
one last request, if I could, Chad, could you

01:21:38.100 --> 01:21:41.520
do meltdown on one of your upcoming play along

01:21:41.520 --> 01:21:45.739
videos? Yeah. I was listening to all the distance

01:21:45.739 --> 01:21:47.640
to here too, on that same flight I just talked

01:21:47.640 --> 01:21:49.859
about where I listened to five. Yeah. Meltdown.

01:21:49.899 --> 01:21:52.699
Oh shit. I haven't played this far. That song

01:21:52.699 --> 01:21:55.579
was amazing. So once, when he starts going to

01:21:55.579 --> 01:22:00.300
that ride symbol, it's yeah. Yeah. So cool. Well,

01:22:00.460 --> 01:22:02.680
I'm taking, yeah. I need to figure out what song

01:22:02.680 --> 01:22:06.100
I'm going to do on this next batch. So I started

01:22:06.100 --> 01:22:09.420
going into the, into the catalog. There's so

01:22:09.420 --> 01:22:11.899
much you could do, man. So yeah, we're all excited.

01:22:12.699 --> 01:22:15.619
Cool. Big plethora of stuff to do. Scotty, thank

01:22:15.619 --> 01:22:17.020
you so much for coming on. Thank you, Scott.

01:22:17.100 --> 01:22:18.659
Really appreciate it, man. Great to see you.

01:22:18.800 --> 01:22:21.590
Thank you. Thank you guys, too. You have a good

01:22:21.590 --> 01:22:23.510
day. Appreciate it. You, too. Take care, buddy.

01:22:25.250 --> 01:22:28.010
All righty, then. That was Scott Martinetti.

01:22:28.109 --> 01:22:29.890
I didn't ask him if that's how you pronounce

01:22:29.890 --> 01:22:31.630
it, but since he didn't correct me, I'm going

01:22:31.630 --> 01:22:33.970
to say it's correct. We're going to say yes,

01:22:34.130 --> 01:22:37.090
Martinetti. Let's see if we're going to get off

01:22:37.090 --> 01:22:38.829
here soon, but let's see if our young Bobby wants

01:22:38.829 --> 01:22:40.989
to say anything to anybody real quick before

01:22:40.989 --> 01:22:43.949
we get out of here and if I can figure out how

01:22:43.949 --> 01:22:48.029
to. There we go. Bob A., what's going on, dude?

01:22:48.109 --> 01:22:50.840
How you been? What's up, guys? How are you doing?

01:22:51.159 --> 01:22:55.899
Chilling, chilling. Not bad. How are you? I just

01:22:55.899 --> 01:22:58.680
want to say hello to everybody and just say how

01:22:58.680 --> 01:23:01.979
is everybody. And thank you for, you know, joining

01:23:01.979 --> 01:23:06.159
our stream. And thank you for all the good comments

01:23:06.159 --> 01:23:09.500
that you're leaving. It's much appreciated. Much

01:23:09.500 --> 01:23:12.439
appreciated. You have any crypto knowledge for

01:23:12.439 --> 01:23:18.220
the audience out there? Yeah. Actually, my road.

01:23:18.619 --> 01:23:24.039
It just dipped right now. It's a Solana Founders

01:23:24.039 --> 01:23:29.340
Dog coin. It might pull a Shiba, so keep your

01:23:29.340 --> 01:23:34.720
eyes on it. The name's a smyro, M -Y -R -O. I

01:23:34.720 --> 01:23:39.060
made a 20x on it in two weeks. All right, then.

01:23:39.079 --> 01:23:44.260
When are you taking me to dinner? It's in a dip

01:23:44.260 --> 01:23:47.680
right now, so now's a good time to buy it. yeah

01:23:47.680 --> 01:23:50.960
the whole market just dropped because uh all

01:23:50.960 --> 01:23:53.359
the etfs got released it was a southern news

01:23:53.359 --> 01:23:56.680
event well you heard it here folks go get you

01:23:56.680 --> 01:24:00.979
some of that um check us out dude at the gracious

01:24:00.979 --> 01:24:04.859
to everywhere instagram uh at the underscore

01:24:04.859 --> 01:24:08.460
gracious underscore two uh go get some of our

01:24:08.460 --> 01:24:13.020
gear they're uh those links are in our bios and

01:24:13.020 --> 01:24:14.319
we want to thank you guys for coming on this

01:24:14.319 --> 01:24:17.220
ride it's fun uh we have plenty more coming up

01:24:17.220 --> 01:24:20.060
we are booked with guests i think till like mid

01:24:20.060 --> 01:24:23.500
-march so uh if you're trying to come on reach

01:24:23.500 --> 01:24:26.020
out and we'll try to get your book but uh it

01:24:26.020 --> 01:24:30.020
fills up quick next week we have tara and abby

01:24:30.020 --> 01:24:32.199
i believe am i right this time that is correct

01:24:32.199 --> 01:24:36.000
yes yes we have our first our first females our

01:24:36.000 --> 01:24:38.100
first females and our first double feature right

01:24:38.100 --> 01:24:40.140
we got to get more dei here man what the fuck

01:24:40.140 --> 01:24:42.090
is wrong with us Especially for Titty Tuesday.

01:24:42.310 --> 01:24:48.229
I mean, come on now. Thank you guys. Thank you

01:24:48.229 --> 01:24:51.470
for coming along and checking us out. We shall

01:24:51.470 --> 01:24:54.170
see you next week. We are continuing to put this

01:24:54.170 --> 01:24:57.770
shit in bullshit. Peace, everybody. Thank you.

01:24:57.949 --> 01:24:58.569
See you soon.