 Oh Welcome to church of the chair is sorry to start with a yawn, but welcome to church of the chair Where we celebrate all the things we do while seated. I'm your host E here today with my buddy Chad Let's keep we are currently collaborating on a book called Planet caravan here. We are pushing Ford 40k now. We're at least at 35 aren't we? Yeah, I think it were 30s set just under 37 Okay, it's even better than I thought anyways, so last dream was absolutely amazing. We Pretty much figured out the entire rest of the book Other than you know did the the needed plot points So if you watch that one, we apologize for spoilers, but you got to see in real time us come up with Where this thing is going what we're doing with it? It's very exciting moment for me You can see me absolutely giddy like a fucking 12 year old on Christmas. It was it was amazing Or as a Viking college, I was good II Yeah, I Created this monster everything with that ends in the E sound It's a capital E treatment anyways So today We're just pushing forward. I guess Good morning, King. How you doing? Good morning Viking. I was just talking about you It's like I summoned him So I watched Mad Max with my youngest Which was an interesting situation Because that that boy is so awkward around like even like two people kissing so it opens up with two people fucking in a field and I didn't even have to tell him to close his eyes like he just automatically just looks away and he's like He's 11 So I don't know if it's like, you know, this is weird or whatever We watching it with me or whatever it was But they don't really show anything other than you know, these two people on each other with no clothes so And I forgot all about it and it happens so quickly and when it's I haven't seen the movie in 20 years at least So as soon as it starts playing I'm like, oh shit and I don't even have to do or say anything because he's like and Then there's several other sections. I actually remembered I misremembered the movie like entirely because I don't I didn't remember that opening scene probably because I think it probably more like 30 35 years since I don't know It's been a long time since I've seen it the last time I saw that first one um What probably happened is either mom fast-forwarded started at a different point or whatever because I don't remember that scene at all But I also remember very specifically that the the sexual assault scene They actually showed it and they didn't I was I was shot because I was I was like fast-forwarding through that because I of course didn't want him to see that and I'm watching and he turned to said every time I fast-forward through something he turned turned to said but I'm fast-forwarding through it and they didn't show any of it though The worst that you get is the dude running away through a field and he has blood on his butt cheeks and I'm like I Remember like this whole scene with I don't know if there's a director's cut out there or what but we bought the box Said it was supposed to be the definitive editions of all of them And uh, but it's funny that you know, I remember I had like the whole scene in my head of what happened And they didn't show a thing of it And I know that happens to other people but I was I was literally like kind of gobsmacked I was like I remember And now I know how people feel when they read Hope for the wicked Because we talked about this before it's just it's one sentence in what happens in that book and people are like this is the most gratuitous Graphic scene I've ever read I Guess you just build it up in your own head your own imagination Morning Derek. Good morning. Haley. Hey, I was watching um, I don't I can't remember how old my daughter was but she was young and we were maybe 12 or 13 and The remake for psycho had come out with Vince Vaughn Yeah, and it's and I had heard I had I had read about it that it was a shot-for-shot Remake, yeah, and so I was like we can watch this no problem I've seen psycho that nothing to worry about it is shot-for-shot with the exception of taking the liberty in one scene where Norman Bates masterbates while watching through the hole and Who's not happy? Yeah, I bet um, I uh, I Believe that that scene was in the original script like alluded to in the original script and that's why they did it Wasn't it was it Lars Ventier or who was it that we made that I can't remember and saying things and that's it That's it. Okay, so I remember a I remembered an interview with him and Ben spawn Him talking about it was shot-for-shot and even some of the stuff that what didn't make it in the original movie because it was too Racy for that time period Anyways that that might be that might be once again Mandela effect whatever but I remember I remember that interview Did you imagine it worse false memories or so? Oh, yeah, I remember like okay, so there's the dude There's the lead dude with like the he's got a bleach blonde front of his hair He kind almost almost looks like meatloaf. He's got one eyebrow shave. I remember him Assaulting the girl while the bleach blonde dude with the like open Open jacket or whatever it is. Maybe it's a button. I'm sure I can't even remember. It's the black shirt. I Remember him Assaulting the dude with the bloody butt like I remember all of that like I saw it so vividly in my head Yeah, and it's not it's not in there But we watched the lethal weapon movies and we're continuing on the Mel Gibson Train right now because we did we've done all of the all the Arnold Schwarzenegger Series we've done that one like Conan Terminator Anyways, but then we did Rocky we did Rambo Then we moved on to I think let's see here. Oh, yeah predator. We went through all the predator movies Now we're we went through the lethal weapon movies now We're going through the Mad Max collection and then once we get done with the Mad Max collection We're gonna finally play the video game the big open-world game. They made to see if we can catch any You know Easter eggs or whatever I have memories of pictures and books that never existed. I have that too. I have that too It's just like the whole thing with Ed McMahon and publishers Clearinghouse Ed McMahon never Did publishers Clearinghouse he did a completely different one, but everyone remembers that it's publishers Clearinghouse you go watch all the The videos on YouTube of him doing it And it there's even a video of him being interviewed and they asked him about publishers Clearinghouse And he's like yeah, yeah, you know they contact me so on and so forth But what nobody shows is a later interview where they're talking to him about publishers Clearinghouse He's like so many people think that it was publishers Clearinghouse. I just let them go with it so But it's it's weird with the things that we build up, you know in our head Do I believe it's other timelines? No, of course not It's just a matter of you know our our brains remembering a certain thing because pop culture and also our generation Like I would say from the 80s on I guess it is we maybe even farther back than that we are It we're a parody generation and some of the things that we remember are from skits like SNL and You know that that kind of thing, you know just parodies of those things Mad TV not mad TV, but mad magazine all that stuff has kind of Not a skewed It's kind of convoluted our memories. That's what I think is happening because we have so many parodies out there and we have so much You know back then with like some if someone were to say Ed McMahon's part of the publisher Clearinghouse There was no way to fact check that like you couldn't look it up on the internet kind of thing So that stuff like that to get stuck in your head when it was actually a whole different company Well, we have gone from movies to anyways Mandela effect Yeah, it could be That happens to me sometimes when I think of a and I That me so much as it's some of my friends. I noticed I realized Especially my my oldest son. I'm like you're thinking of two different movies. Yeah, like fusing the two together, but In psycho too a little bit of trivia For those who don't know they still push the envelope quite a bit because that was the first time ever that they showed a toilet on screen Ever it was trippy dude back in the day, man It was weird the stuff that they wouldn't show just like with every single couple sucked in separate beds Yeah, you know shit like that just blew my mind like how something so innocent as Being in the same bed together. Yeah married couple. Yeah, and going even farther back to And of course the first thing that comes to mind is I love Lucy Lucy and Ricky were in separate beds But he was every single one of them dick Van Dyke show all of them Yeah, Mary Tyler Tyler Moore all of them and Go going even farther back man Like go go back to like Victorian period where you know if a woman showed an ankle or a wrist that was highly Sexual they had to have one foot on the floor if they were in bed together that too. Wow. I didn't I didn't know that one I had no idea it's like what we got to know with that legs doing I can still have all kinds of fun with one one two feet on the floor sometimes I do it for balance purposes It's interesting to wonder how many of our memories are wrong fabricated every time we think of a memory we taint it Yeah, that's the thing about memory is also we lie to ourselves constantly you know either that or we lie and that lie becomes the truth and it things just get Screwed up man I know some dreams that I've had and books that I've written have changed my own memories of certain circumstances Because now in my head the girl that lived down the road from me That that candy was based off of in Bay's end That girl's name was candy and it wasn't candy. It was your name is because something completely different But in my head that's how I remembered it her name was Candace and we called her candy and that's not how it went at all That's just what happened in Bay's end Our brains are truly remarkable when we really stop and think about it and of course it is the brain telling me that so it's biased But of course our brains make mistakes. Of course, they record things and perfectly. Yeah Our own our own biases get if that's even a word getting getting away All that stuff work by our perceptions We are not machines our brains do the best they can and going back to Bay's end one of my favorite lines of Bay's end is in that opening I guess not prologue that opening scene where he says Experience altars perception like you know it you don't realize things Exist until you experience them It's like that office the office skit where What's his name Steve Perrell or whatever he's he's talking to another dude and that I've only ever seen a clip I don't actually like the show but he said How do you know the wall behind him else? I'm out. I know I know I can't I don't think it's been fun I don't think any of those people are funny But that that's just there you go wrong. You go again But anyways, it's like that scene where you know, he's like the The wall doesn't exist behind you or what if the wall behind you doesn't exist when you turn around I can't remember exactly how it is and Steve Perrell starts backing up and there's a moment of indecision or worry on his face When he swipes and the wall is not there because he's not close enough to it And I felt that so hard, but I don't like the rest of show But I it's like that moment of uncertainty until finally he goes back far enough and touches the wall But uh, it's a what what is the is it Schrodinger's cat? Is that the Was that the yeah Yeah, I think it's Schrodinger's yeah Superposition like you the cat in the box the cat is neither dead nor alive Until you actually look at it, you know, is the cat in the box dead is cat in the box alive a Yeah, a Really good book about that is I believe it's dark matter by Blake Crouch It's not recursion. It's definitely definitely dark matter But that was a really good Run down the rabbit hole for that. I don't even know what it's called. It's not a theory. Is it a theory? I Don't know either and but the Mandela effect stuff blew my mind when I first saw But I do think it's all because of well, it's a hundred percent false memories It's a there is no timeline breach CERN didn't you know throw us into another dimension I find that people present Mandela effects as this or that both options given to create two separate memories Maybe there's a there's an episode of the office where I Don't know if you know who Stanley is. He's the overweight black guy. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Well somebody mentions He hasn't he hasn't come into work yet today and somebody mentioned something about his mustache And then somebody else is like Stanley doesn't have a mustache and they're all and then some people are like Yeah, he has one and then some of them are like wait He doesn't does he and then they start pooling You know like betting on whether he has them and then at this point when you're watching you're like Does this freaking dude have a mustache? Wow? I mean he's on every episode. Yeah, you know and he does He does doesn't yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so but you start it starts to you start to wonder man That's an original that the whoever writes that show the writers must must be into that theory Must be because that's I mean it's at there's two things so far, you know that that scene that you're talking about in the clip that I know But I don't I don't like the original office either. I don't like Ricky Gervais office It's just something about I don't I guess I don't like it when Shows or movies break the fourth wall and every time either Ricky or shows it do that Yeah, you know look at the camera. It's just completely takes me it takes me out of it And I'm like, oh, these are just actors having a goop, you know But yeah, I like I guess it is fourth wall breaking stuff that bothers me because I just it just aggravates me Stop looking at the camera. That's the number one rule of acting is don't look at the camera I think the first show to ever do that was three's company with mr. Roper. Oh, yeah Yeah, I like that one, but I was a kid when I watch every time he'd crack a joke or something He'd look at the camera and do that perverted little smile. Yeah, you know for the longest time And I expected something to come out about that actor because he played that role way too well like he was He was a he's a horn dog Well, it wasn't no or he was he was talking about John John Ruder. No, uh, mr. Farley. Oh Well, I was talking about mr. Roper, but you're talking about not Farley. No, no, no, no, I'm talking about I'm sorry Sorry, let me let me fix this mr. Roper from three's companies who I'm talking about not not John Ruder and I missed. Yeah, that's exactly. Yeah, so they anyways, but Yeah, it was the the jokes that he would crack were always so I guess salacious kind of deal because he thought that you know What John was gay? Yeah, and it was it was really it was I think that was really cool and progressive of its time To to you know even allude to to that situation It was a little, you know, I don't know it was off-color, but it was always in good fun whenever Whenever he would he'd be like, mm-hmm. Sure that little look that he would give John Ritter It's not fourth wall though they presented as if they're shooting an ongoing documentary Oh, okay. Well that changes things, but I Had no idea like I said, I don't I don't watch you doing the shows cuz I've never really Yeah, the whole show. There's a documentary team on Set filming every season and that that's who they're looking at that's why they have like the they have like the interviews with cast members and stuff like that See see I saw an interview on the Graham Norton show with Steve Carell talking about looking at the camera and He said he brought up That you know it was it was a conscious decision to break the fourth wall, but if it's a documentary film crew Anyways, whatever. Okay. Yeah, man. I'm not gonna trust. I'm not gonna trust anything I hear You got to do you got to do with the wife and I do we We Do this like three to four episode rule for any show that we start particularly like drama stuff Yeah, so like Like we just started watching succession a couple months ago Oh, I heard that's amazing and I heard that too, but then I we watched an episode was like, okay And I watched another one with even if we don't like it because oftentimes you come off from one show and You so badly wanted to continue Mm-hmm It's hard to get into new characters and then you all you really want is the show that you just got done watching So it's it's almost not it's not fair to the new show So give yourself three episodes if you're still unsure on that third one Watch it forth and then by that time You know if you don't like it by then if you're not invested then you're probably not going to be and so Maybe you need to do that with With the office. I've got my wife to Reason why we came up with that rule is because there's so many shows that I'm like Let's watch this together. We watch this with me. She's like no and I'm like, let's just so we would do this And she would be so against So against that and then I think Hannibal was one of them which we we both Loved that was such an amazing fucking show Bates motel, which is one that I didn't want to see because I was like what can you do? What can you do with this with psycho? It's been done, but that's a great show and then a couple of other shows and Sure enough, man. You just kind of But if you watch this I'm like breaking bad and then you're going into something else All you want is breaking bad. That is hilarious. That's exactly when I was sitting here going like this I was waiting. I didn't want to cut you off. I'm trying to do better with that um Is exactly what I was going to say. We had that same exact problem with breaking bad going into Ozark after it We were like man, I don't because they're almost like the it's very similar The build up for that whole thing Not the build up, but it's you know the pacing is a lot slower in Ozark. Yeah, I would say I would say yes I would agree with that, but uh, we ended up stopping Uh like see like episode two or three because we were still stuck on breaking bad. We did we realized that we just Consistently compared it to breaking bad and we didn't watch another tv show for the longest time In fact, uh, the the next one that we tried together was you um the uh adaptation of caroline keppness's book Um, and we fell in love with that one. I guess we had enough time But that's also why I try to consume different media Between those things like if we watch it Right right now we're watching beef and at the same time I'm me and shell are watching beef on netflix and I'm watching all these 80s and 90s action movies and you know kind of installs of stuff with uh with my youngest and um, so that's kind of breaking up the monotony, but even even then we stopped watching We took like two weeks off of beef we were At episode seven and there's only nine nine episodes and we stopped that to go watch movies Um, but if you haven't watched beef, I think you would you especially I've seen the first two episodes It is so so fucking good. In fact, it is very chad. Let's be it is very lutzki-ish because You never know what's going to happen next and it's always the coolest most off the wall Shit that you're just not expecting where it's going to go and the twists aren't anything like big gotcha moments It's more like it. In fact, it's it's like a slow burn up to the twist and there's no Like we were watching I think it's episode seven the way episode seven ends And what happens in episode eight is some of the best television I've ever seen period I usually don't like cliffhangers like the like like this But it was perfectly done because the whole episode leads up to this this thing and you are certain You know what's got what's happened. You are just as upset and just as broken as the characters And then the next episode comes and that's not what happened at all And it's it's another punch to the gut and every single episode has that punch to the gut and i'm very impressed 824 is absolutely murdering You know doing a fantastic job. Yeah, I didn't know they were doing uh, yeah Yeah, they it's their first one. I believe don't quote me on that but beef is Everything you love about 824 Without any of the like supernatural stuff or you know horror elements anything like that Everything man. It is so intense and funny. Um dark dark dark comedy um And there is a very strong Uh, I don't know if it's strong, but there's a It one of the characters ends up going to church after a long period of not going not believing all that stuff Goes back to church and i'm not i'm not going to spoil anything but it's The power and the passion of the moment when this person Comes back to god is a something. I think you will also appreciate As someone who went through that themselves when I was younger because I disbelieve then I believe Then I disbelieve then I believe again, and then I disbelieve and that's been since I mean all that happened within the course of like three years between the time I was well I was four years, but from the time that I was 13 the time I was I was 17 Uh, then 17 came along and the drugs took over everything But after that I just you know, I don't I don't want to get into religious talk But yeah, if but that was a very powerful scene for me too because I've been through that And uh watching this and I wasn't expecting it at all Like I was like I had no I I did not think that I was going to see a powerful moment of religious fervor in this show But it it was and the actor that it happens to It's it's almost it's an amazing transformation Um, and then what happens afterwards I'll wait I'll wait wait for you to finish I would love to talk to you about it. Um, so Please finish you get mail this early. I'm so jelly I got a package from mr. Hunter shea Oh Oh, he's moving and he wanted to get rid of some stuff surprise unboxing Oh, man Joe Lansdale Zeppelin's west Hopefully nice of him. Cool. You got me on the edge of my seat over here. Let's be come on, brother Oh person before you know, yeah Lansdale. He owes me uh, he's supposed to You know he he uh, he's got what he calls the belfry It's his attic and he films a lot of his family guy episodes up there and up there He's got posters and memorabilia and And he's cleaning it all out He's supposed to be sending me his Samantha Fox poster that he has hanging up there I don't know if you know remember who's Samantha Fox and hang on. I'm vaguely Oh my god, okay. Yeah, I remember her. Yeah, she had that song touch me. Is that what it was called? I don't know. Um, I always get her confused with the um chick from american gladiators Ozark never grabbed me because I couldn't sympathize sympathize in single character. I mean fair, but Um, guys, you're american gladiators. Yeah, uh, you know, this is do you? Let's see Fairfoss. Yes, I know who fairfoss it is in her 12 inch long nipples. Yes. I'm very very aware of fairfoss it dude Very aware remember it's only 10 years difference between us. Yes. I know who fairfoss Um, but yeah, I wrote in fact she was probably honestly I I cannot think of one before this. She's the first woman. I saw naked and it was the it was the like finger length Nipples that I remember the most from extremities. Uh, I have no idea I think it was it was a magazine 100% magazine. Um that either my friends had or that I stole from somewhere or something It was probably Oh, I know what it was. Um Because my wife my wife and I were we were only dating at the time and uh She knew that growing up. That's why I got the poster because that was like my first crush in 70s Was fairfoss it like like most people my age, but then mine was Pam Greer Is it the black exploitation films? No, actually not it was honestly Oddly enough not honestly oddly enough. It was uh, it was uh, escape from LA that did it Like I had never fallen for someone so hard and the funny part is is she plays a transsexual Um, a trans woman, uh, you know dude that has become a woman And uh, but I saw her and I was like, I'm in fucking love. I'm in absolute Love and I'd never fallen for uh, and I think it had to have been after I was 15 So it was the first time I ever saw a woman. I just went completely fucking goo goo of gaga not goo goo. But never mind Well, and then finish what you were saying in the early 90s. My wife and I were at the uh store Buying some cigarettes or something And they had the new playboy on the counter And it was uh It was the first time that uh, Farrah Fawcett had ever had ever had like a pictorial in there and She was 50 years old And my wife goes do you do you want do you want to buy that and I said I looked at it and I thought about it and I was like Yeah, I'm good. But then I saw it later And there's a movie called extremities where Farrah Fawcett It doesn't show her breast and her face in the same shot So when her nipple pops out, which was humongous I thought this is a body double Farrah Fawcett doesn't get naked And then when I saw that playboy, I was like That was definitely That was definitely Farrah Fawcett. That was definitely Farrah Fawcett. Yeah. Yeah. Hayley definitely be like uh Let me put this up on the screen. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh, that's so good. That is so so good Anyways, so however old you were in like maybe 92 9 I have no idea 93 93 when it came out uh Kind of Figure out when dude. I was 16. So my first Onscreen crush. No, I take that back. I fucking lied to everybody my very first Well, it was more of like an obsession because I had no idea I had no idea whatsoever what I was I was six when this movie came out, but Howard the duck and Leah Thompson Um, still to this day. She's like the only the only white woman who has ever like done it for me And I don't know why but it's it's her in the bed When uh when her and Howard are like messing around and she's playing with him like she's actually going to sleep with him and That just that scene like even at like six years old the intense Equality of that scene even though it's technically bestiality or whatever you want to call it It's a that did something to me and I was like this woman is god um, and then the the older I got my my taste I don't know if it changed, but um, I just didn't find too many women attractive and then I get to I get to uh, What you call it um escape from la and I see Pam Greer and I'm like That woman is a goddess that woman is the queen of my dreams from here on out And I went back and I after that I well I was I knew I was young younger or young ish because I wasn't allowed to watch any of the other movies that she was in Um, I remember that I was like mom. Can I get this? Can I get that kind of thing? And it's like it's always no when it came to her Um, so later in life I went back and watched all of them, which is funny because I absolutely hate Jackie brown I don't like the movie at all. I think it's Quentin Tarantino's worst um But that one That's the only one that I watched but going farther back when she was younger dude Head over heels. I mean even as an older woman. She's still fine as fuck to me. Like she's just absolutely gorgeous um, but nowadays like my my pics are like kerry washington holly berry Um, there's there's a couple other ones, uh, but it's always been You know, it's just a certain type of what kelly rolling from destiny's child Never cared for fiance or the other one Uh that went to gospel singing but kelly rolling man. I was so mad. I was literally hollering mad when I saw freddy versus jason and kelly rolling died I mean and then the dude in front of me Um as hot with like 10 minutes before she died because she's like she starts running and then there's a long chase scene That's cut in her cut with a bunch of other stuff. So it's a while before she actually dies And the dude in the is a couple rows down for me and he hollers kelly dies. We fucking riot It's like i'm with you and then she died and i was like fuck this movie But anyways, I I I like the movie but yeah kelly kelly rolling. Definitely. Um There's a and I have a very specific uh adult film actress that I like, um And as jade of fire. I don't know if you've ever seen her or heard of her or anything But uh, I'm not up to date. Yeah. Well, she's not up to date. I mean she's I don't even I think she's retired at this I just know that I know like these staples like gingerlyn amberlyn tracy lords Yeah, well, I know tracy lords only the only reason I know tracy lords is because of the tommy knockers That's literally the oh she and that yeah, and it was funny because when uh when it came out that she was It was her first dramatic Or her first I don't want to call it a real movie, but you know what I mean um her first real movie. Well, yeah, I guess so but I mean Anyways, um First movie and the I remember the newscast so specifically They were talking about how it was the 15th movie. She had been in with the word knockers in it And this was on the news man the news That's funny. I was like that's messed up But yeah, um, I still love that movie I love that movie to death for no matter how bad it is even though I hate the book Um, but they all the stuff that I don't like from the book is taken out of that miniseries Which all the stuff outside of haven That's why I like the movie so much because they focused just on haven Um, and of course they could because it was a tv movie I don't even think they would have done it had to come out in theaters But there's no uh vagina tentacles. There's no, you know, none of that other stuff Like I said outside of haven so it's got all the all the good stuff is in there. Um But I always wanted and I think this is one of the reasons why you know Tommy knockers doesn't work for me is because I the best part of Tommy knockers is the little boy magician And I wanted more of that. I wanted like a whole story just based on that this kid who Made his little brother disappear Um was far more interesting than anything else going on in that book More interesting than bobby and guards relationship more interesting than anything else going on This little boy. I wanted to really focus on that little boy and the trauma of you know Making his brother disappear and not being able to bring him back that alone Would have been a novel in and of itself And I think that shirt you're wearing is my favorite so far. Which one is it? Well, it's a mistake Well, it's uh, yeah my hoodie. Yeah I got it from ebay. I think a year or so ago And it is very comfy and it was dirt cheap I think I paid 24 bucks for it or something You know, we should do like we should do a series where we talk about things we actually agree on Like I was thinking, you know, we disagree on so much that maybe we should like do something eventually I'm not talking about it anytime soon, but do something eventually. It's like us just talking about It's the stuff that we agree on like we find find those points and uh You know call it, uh, you know broken clock is right twice a day or something. I don't I don't know some stupid like that um And you know talk about those things because we've done the uh, agree to disagree He was the first one I did that with I did one with sonora taylor and uh, I think I did one with joe atone I'm not sure I might not have but anyways um But I think that would be interesting us talk because it seems like every single time you bring something up I'm like, oh, I hate that or you know, you talk about something you hate. I'm like, oh, I love that that kind of thing But it just it just goes to show that you can have you can disagree on fucking everything and still be friends You know and still enjoy each other's company all that shit Uh, call it chatty chat chat. No No, no Uh, we already got dan dan e cast or whatever it was called where me and dan were doing uh Uh discussions about Uh, oh shit. Hayley. I'm sorry. Hang on. Uh, let me finish my thought first. We were doing discussions on they Dan would read a steven king book and then you know, we would do a I think we did like three episodes or whatever Hayley, I just saw your voice messages. I'll check them out on break. I promise. I'm sorry discord, uh, is To become the bane of my existence in one way Y'all there are so many Updates so many notifications. I had to turn off notifications entirely um, because it's like every I would say every Five seconds. I would get a new discord notification and then it would just keep going. Um, and I can't I just can't keep up with all of it if I were to read everything on the discord In fact, I was talking to jordan also known as solvents or demotivated um, it's talking to jordan yesterday and uh, he said that He follows several discords with like thousands and thousands of members And mine is the most active out of all of them. Like it's it's crazy I got another I got another message too from another friend. Yeah, I gotta I gotta respond to all this. Yeah, I'll get to it I'm glad you I'm glad you don't hayley because holy shit I uh, yeah, there's Yeah, it's hard to keep up over there And then people are always like but they posted it on this on discord and this one. I'm like, I can't keep up with everything guys I cannot do it I found out that shoot man. We're almost 100. Sorry. Go ahead I don't know if you can see that But it realized it was signed. Holy shit Thank you. Thank you hunter. Wow Put a nice guy. Love that guy. Oh, yeah real good, dude And what's funny is he doesn't even know all of I got I got a lot of landsdale He doesn't even know the ones I own and he sent me two that I Don't own actually I do own zeppelin's west in paperback, but not hardcover of slipjacket and I think it might be limited I mean it is signed. It's got a six sheet. So Viking says is that Poe in a jar? Yeah 15. Oh, uh, no I didn't get a good look at it viking No, it's not looks like it might be Some pirate or something, but um, just to answer your question real quick I saw this are there bunks in here other than the main bed or should we use a cot? I was what I had in that chapter that I wrote was he was just going to be sleeping on the couch For now it's probationary period. There'll be a couch in there. Um, yeah, there's uh The way these the way the like living quarters are set up. It's just like an open Open trailer kind of thing. I've I've been drinking my coffee. I promise I've been sipping. I've been sip sipping Um chad get you a drink anyways, um but uh Uh, so that there'll be like a back room. There's usually like curtains or whatever that closes closes off the bed the bed area Um, and then um, there'll be a living space with like a you know It's just like any other like studio apartment. That's basically what they're like, but they don't have bathrooms in there. They usually have either a potty truck um that they That they empty out or they use port of jones, of course on location, but the port of jones are usually for They're usually supplied by the city. So they'll rent out port of jones from wherever they're going They um, but way back in the way back before port of jones, they would literally build an outhouse For people and then tear it down every time and then, you know, bury whatever is left over. But yeah Um, that's the way I envisioned it, but you can definitely have a cot like, you know, if it's a probationary period or whatever Um, it is a probationary period, but if you want to have a cot in there, that's fine um, I just know that the dude's got to have like his His love making area. Yeah, so that's the I had the heart shaped bed that that that rotates and then But it didn't put not really, right? Oh, I actually had it rotating But anyway, you have a heart shaped bed in this trailer rotating. Yeah. Yeah Why not? It's gonna fit in there. Yeah, these these jokers are as wide as like a mobile home It they're just shorter. They're they're as wide. They're just shorter and they'll they'll fit behind a truck Hang on. Let me let me show you this doesn't seem like there'd be enough room for that and a couch and maybe a Hang on because I'm thinking like I'm thinking like, uh, you know camperside. Yeah Hang on Did I lose you because you started? Yeah, you froze. This is Did I freeze or did he freeze? I think he froze and he's Oh wait, he froze. Is it froze what you guys do like that where he's like Oh Somebody screenshot that somebody screenshot it. I don't know if it froze on the same one. Oh, this is amazing. Oh, I'm so sorry, Chad I'm so sorry Chadwick It's it's Chadwick deep in thought. Oh, I can't Oh, I can't oh, I can't I can't I can't oh my god laughing way too hard at me, dude That's way too hard. Oh my god. That's fucking that's fucking freeze frame was epic. You were still like Like Perfect the perfect perfect. It's my senior photo. Uh, I guess so Whoo All right, so let's uh, let's let let me let me share my screen. Let me show you some stuff. Um Screen share Okay Okay, so here's what like the fun house would be that's the kind of thing but then you also have Uh, you have things like this, but the owner's not going to be in something like this The owner's going to be in something, you know a little more extravagant, but here's like another one. They're just semi trailers Um, they're usually converted or what the semi trailer. That's all the fun houses too, correct? Yeah, yes, uh, because all they all they do with that is uh Um slap on crap in there and yeah, yeah, it's basically it's all foldouts And with poles that hold things up Um, so that it'll cover the uh the actual attraction and all the stuff on the side when they're driving down the road So you don't know what it is. Sometimes they don't even bother with that But yeah, it's like those up. What's it pop out trailers? You know how they they crank a wheel and then everything comes out of it That's exactly how they're built. Um, and they've been they've been built like that for decades um, but yeah, um the 100 there would be there would be room in the owners only the owners It's gonna be lavish Yeah, because he's gonna have you know parties and things in his in in there, you know, he's All all that stuff get togethers So on and so forth That's where he takes, you know If he if they have to bribe like city officials or cops or whatever that that bring him into the You know trailer and sit him down in the lap of luxury kind of deal and you know finesse some so they can get You know either permits or that they don't get arrested or one of their crew doesn't get arrested that kind of thing Um And it all goes back to roma And nomadic, you know tribes that you know, you know traveled around in in these these trailers Of course, they were horse drawn back then, but that's where all this stuff comes from Yeah, there would there would there would definitely be a room Um, the only thing that I didn't put in there that might be a thing is like a rollout like bay window or something Like I said like a pop-up tent kind of deal um But uh, I also didn't I On purpose. I didn't mention how big the bed was so I mean you could it could be like, you know It could I I guess you could probably fit a queen in there, but since it's heart shaped It's going to be easier. It's going to be easier for it to go around than if it was square You get does that make sense? Yeah, I guess. I mean it's still probably going to be as long as a real bed So at the at it's for this point. Yeah, but it I mean it'll be anyways, but um, you can definitely fit A king size mattress in one of these trailers, but it would be wall to wall So I guess there would be about this much space on either side if it was a regular queen size bed at the same time, you know It's heart maybe we should uh instead of having a heart shaped bed that spins Maybe we should have a bed that spins or a heart shaped bed I just feel like that's Especially for because they're like kind of like live and check to check It feels like it's something that like like if you had this like Like let's say he had two singles that were to make up this double or whatever And so it's kind of like this makeshift thing and then he's got some kind of thing that used to be part of Uh, some ride that they had at some point or that he never got off the ground That's a cool idea. Yeah, like a teacup or something that he used the mechanism to make it spin Yeah, I would imagine a full backstory owning an actual heart shaped bed just feels like something that would be expensive The rotating thing makes sense because of Right these places I mean the people who work there don't make much money, but Usually the dudes who own carnivals are fucking millionaires Even the small ones because they have to be able to afford the maintenance and upkeep and everything on all of this stuff Yeah, but they're probably not If you're if he's a millionaire he at that point He's probably at home taking phone calls and and then having someone You know in charge But that's that's the common misconception that that these people who work and live at carnivals are broke They just hide their money and it's all cash And it's also it's one of the it's the mafia and carnivals All like hide that that's where you know the hiding money in mattresses comes from It's from them. Everything is cash. They don't do banks. They didn't do any of that stuff They don't take out loans. It is all cash But certainly the people who work there are usually impoverished but the owners the Those and the owner operators of the rides those fools are well in and it's it's not a matter of it's it's more about the lifestyle than it is the You know flaunting their riches kind of thing. It's it's more about, you know them Being on the road and enjoying that lifestyle and that's why they do it to begin with Most carnival owners come up from you know being either roused abouts or whatever and they get up to like owner operator They save their money because they make so much money doing the rides Um, because I think it cost something like uh and the research I did was for the 80s um and the 90s but uh It costs maybe 30 dollars a day to run a ferris wheel as far as electricity and upkeep and whatnot And they make thousands off that one ride You know in one night So But also, you know, they go to smaller places. They don't make anywhere near as much money They go to bigger places and then they just you know clean up um But you do have things like, you know, uh barnham and bailey kind of thing where the circus gets so big It's a billion dollar industry. Um, yes, you have a guy in an office somewhere But with these small carnivals it's 100 percent just them and that's it Uh, in fact, I I think that would be another designation between carnival and circus Because circus would have someone in an office whereas a carnival or a fair Would just have the people who run the show and it's a it's a you know, it's a it's a family situation Now we don't have to make mingo rich that of course that's You know, we don't we can do whatever we want with the character But just just don't think Don't don't believe the myth that you know, these people aren't rich as fuck Because that's the only way you can keep a show on the road like that Especially for years and years and years and I believe, you know, mingles mingles mingo's been doing this for a while So he's definitely got some money. He's definitely got money. So anyways I keep getting my damn Anyway, so yeah, we could in in fact, why don't we do I mean Why don't we get rid of the rotation period and just make it a vibrating bed? Oh, why don't we do that or I seem to remember here's a here's a thing It might just be my bad memory, but I was sure that When we first discussed mingo Even before he had a name that he had a heart shaped bed that rotate I thought that was one of the things that we talked about When I was saying that I was just saying like that type of guy who would have something like that I didn't mean like he's going not literally. Okay. I got you. All right Like he's got the freaking body lotions and all that kind of stuff, you know, the Fuzzy handcuffs and feathers and yeah, just whatever whatever the the chick might be up for He's got Vicks fake bow rubbed in the uh in his in his top drawer. I know that much And the only thing I know from from uh, like Cheap fares like this are from Frieza burn by low joe lansdale and then cardamels. So I don't and neither one of those people were I likened it to kind of like a Popular punk band on the road living out of the band, you know, and it's like If you're making money Some of them might be like that, but It's I it's still The the amount of money that it takes because like carnival when you when you're talking about that You're not talking about gas prices. You're not talking about maintaining rides. You're not talking about any of that stuff You're just having to maintain the people because during that time there wasn't all that stuff. So With stuff like that. Yeah, they were, you know, destitute, you know, it was also during the depression So everyone was broke. It wasn't just, you know, uh, the the truth But but I would say that switch starting in the 60s When they became extremely popular when carnivals and traveling shows really kicked off side shows You know freak shows were always a thing back way back forever But as far as side shows like fire breathing and all that stuff really became really grew in popularity in the 60s Going in the 70s and whatnot Even so much that carnival culture Over flowed into regular culture because that's where bell bottoms came from It was the the performers wearing those outlandish costumes and then, you know, there was an explosion of color in the 70s also Um, but anyways, uh I would say from the 60s on if someone could can afford to run a carnival and run all the shipping stuff Not that all the transportation stuff 100 percent. They're making bank. Um, and if mingo now we could say uh Mingo is not like super rich because he pays everybody equally like we can make him good on that and that rarely ever happens Um, in fact, I don't think I've ever heard of it But we could do that and make it our own thing to where, you know, he's not this this lord or king over these people It's more of, you know, a family situation Uh, which is kind of what we're going for anyways because we want shane to feel like he's part of a family You know other than buzzard kind of deal Yeah, but if he comes in starts getting paid just as much as buzzard or anybody else They're not that's going to be a problem. Yes, exactly. So, um, and I'm not saying, you know, pay him pay the newbie You know as much but he definitely get paid as much as it roused about Uh Let's see here. I would say in the 80s. He's probably making By three to four dollars an hour. Um, it's definitely not minimum wage Because all that shit is under the table anyways. He's probably making three in the mid 80s minimum wage here was 335 Yeah, it probably it probably be anywhere between maybe two to three dollars. I figured an hour wasn't wasn't wouldn't be making much Um, because uh, they're providing all food room and board. Yeah. Yeah, exactly So they're gonna take that out of there out of that cut too so but uh Usually the and also one thing. Uh, there's always a cook line Just for the people. There's always a cook just like old school wagon trains. There's always a cookie And they always set up Before they they and the it's funny because I was gonna bring this up, but I wanted the scene Carnies rarely ever eat carnival food. Um, they they like never do It's usually they'll make like one big pot of stew And then everyone will eat off that and then they'll work all night and then at the end of the night They'll you know eat basically like whatever they have around But they have the the morning in the morning. They'll cook a big breakfast for all the rousings abouts who have been working all night Um, and then everyone we should have a cook cook character that that's all they do And everybody's fine with them only doing that because they cook amazing food for their Uh for especially given, um, their situation. Yeah. Yeah 100 percent. Um, and it'd be yeah Yeah, I like this cookie This cookie character and we did we you have to call them cookie. It's the same thing with cowboys. They call them they call them cookie Carnies call them cookies. You know, it's it's the same thing. So, uh, whatever their name might be hang on someone's here. Give me a second See you later. Hailey. Thanks for stopping by and hanging out Never mind. It's just FedEx All right Did you uh, get something special? Oh, I don't know. I have no idea. I didn't order anything. So it's probably shell All my stuff came in And I find I figured out what happened to my holly showing up late. It wasn't amazon's fault the last time I checked out I checked Uh In as few boxes as possible And I had ordered three other things spider man spider man into the spider verse and uh some little ramekins with lids And so they put everything in one box And of course, I have to the one that I picked up it The one that I had to drive to go get I'm gonna have to send that one out because my copy's damaged The copy that came in amazon because it was bouncing around with these, you know other items in there So I gotta Yeah, I'll probably end up. I don't know. I'll probably end up going and buying another one or sending this one How damaged is it? Um, well the cover's ripped up at the top It's in the house, but it's got a rip right across here And the this top section is all crushed in So it's uh, it's pretty bad But yeah, I mean that's what you expect with amazon. It's just I didn't expect it to be as bad I wasn't expecting it to be ripped Um, all right hailey. Well if you're Is his name chadwick? No, his name is not chadwick. I'm sorry. It's just something I goofily call him I give everyone nicknames if you haven't noticed um All right. Yeah, but you have a nice one too hailey. I think you're already gone, but Anywho, so uh, you want me to go back and fix that and just have like a vibrating bed or what? What do you want me to do with that section? Or do you want to fix it when you get there? I don't carry the weight on I think we should have it spinning just like I said Like it's it's like the spinning device was from some uh, what about a round bed? Why don't we just make it round that would make it one it would make it really fucking easy In a in a trailer of this size Um, if you want that maybe it maybe it spins and because it spins, you know on on the on the It also vibrates just naturally like we could have that too Yeah, okay, but only what it only when it gets to a certain point And then it gets back there again Oh, that'd be good. That'd be good. Yeah, okay. What if we what if it was Round where he took those he'd like the corners were all strapped and tucked tucked. So it was like almost like tapered edges So it could spin in the trailer Perfect perfection. Yes. Oh, that's that's so good. That's that's so good. Yeah Like it's it's completely jerry rigged to be something something, uh, you know, I love it very romantic, but Underneath the bedspread. It's a just a honk a joint. Yeah, we'll we'll we'll have it made He'll have it made up and covered up But we got to have that reveal at some point in time where you know, like someone walks in while he's changing Maybe shane walks in to get paid or whatever and he's changing the sheets. It's like Did you strap the thing into like? Yeah, or else it wouldn't spin And it's it's moving so he can you know, it's like it's like rotating while he's trying to put on the Sheet to make it easier to put on the sheet so he doesn't have to you know, reach over or whatnot And as it's spinning it hits that one point and mingo can look over and go that's my favorite part Uh, that's okay. Yes, uh, it could be it could be some uh old like preschoolers, uh Carousel ride, you know, the only has a couple things down there or or tea cups or whatever it might be There's got to be something like that. It's gotta it has to have come off of something like that I I that's that's that's amazing. That's the that's the little stuff. That's that's little stuff that makes uh Stories great Uh, that's beautiful. It makes it makes it feel real. It's very landsdale, too Oh, okay. It's I haven't read enough of him Yeah, it sounds like it sounds very uh, just to have something like that in there We we should dedicate this to him. We should 100 dedicated to him I just dedicated a book to him. Oh never mind then And he uh, he read it loved it and uh tweeted about it sweet Okay, well, I am going to okay. What do you want to do? You mentioned, um, you can see the the caravan rolling out thing And then being on the road very pretty clearly Do you want to do that next and then I can do the setup for the next town? Well, right now I'm fusing, uh Because I had to switch things around because of how we The way he dropped off his stuff and so now I just met up with your, uh Spot where he's talking to buzzard and figuring out that he is not So I've I've wrote a bunch of before that and then to fuse them and yeah, I see I'm gonna I'm gonna read it Now before I come back. No, I'm gonna read it when I come back from break because um I want to start writing as soon as I get done I'm reading it so Okay All right. Yeah, I'm gonna take my break. I'll be back in about 10 15 minutes. I'm like, let's get to work Read what you got up in here. Anyways, but what I was asking before I left Uh about whether or not you want to do the caravan if I which what I should work on next Because I forgot to tell you I I added to the outline if you want to look at that too. Okay. All right I'll look at that also And I've read the whole ending of the you can unhighlight the ending of the chapter Before x marks the spot Just ignore the asshole when it pluckers. I never heard that one. That's me. I've never heard it either Oh, you it's it's fucking gold. That's for sure. Hey, how about um, right here um This part how about he just like opens up the door and drops it on the inside like he tells him Just drop it on the inside of the door Um Because the the reason I said you got you got explained or further description later on. Okay, right exactly. Yeah, okay It's like just drop it on the inside and he can lock up Okay the chop hat It's supposed to be this thing that dude thinks it's cool and everybody thinks it's stupid. Oh, sorry. Yeah But there's a but haven't mingo say that man don't know a damn thing about fashion Well, he's like robert plant mixed with fucking john waters. It's hilarious Yeah, I look at Oh god, this is gold All right, let me roll down here Yeah, that was page 69 giggity All right, so we got this one done um, also We need to make sure we're on the same page with what we're calling this because a fair is local or community funded And carnivals are the traveling shows So um any instance of fair needs to be changed. Well, I mean, I guess We we actually don't need to change it because we're in chain's head We can just have them call it a fair at one point in time and have someone else be like no no kid This is a carnival fairs are local So that's an easy fix We'll hit that uh some point in time Still have the wrong color Would you Don't want to bother you while you're writing but would you be opposed? to It says here they hit the road and shane falls asleep sound silently and mingo's trailer Would you be opposed to me writing a section? um As everything's pulling out and he feels like he's too anxious or it's not too anxious but too excited and anxious I guess to sleep and he he's watching Like I I got this I got this idea in my head like the caravans rolling out And they're going around the curve And shane is able to see from the window of mingo's mingo's trailer. I keep wanting to call them mingle anyways mingo's trailer As this line of car the cars and trucks and trailers and everything kind of rounds this and he sees this long like lit up snake going off into the darkness Like, you know, I don't know. There's something about I'm getting fucking goose bumps just thinking about it But anyways, would you mind me taking that that section? Yeah, go ahead Sweet sweet sweet Oh, don't forget to check the uh the outline. I don't know if that's just It's just oh Because it says they hit the road and shane falls asleep soundly and mingo's trailer I'm thinking, you know, he's too excited, but then he just fucking crashes So it's like and then shane wakes up in the next town and that's where that whole thing came came from Like a rather short chapter where he's like we're finally out of here. We're gonna get gone We're doing this and like i'm too excited to sleep And you know all this stuff going through his head all the stuff that's he's experienced He's thinking about buzzer thinking about sam thinking about mingo thinking about all this stuff And then all of a sudden conked out and he wakes up in the in the next town I just want to make sure that i'm not writing something that you want to write so I think the only scenes that I were that I was really wanting to do were like hanging out with sam the first time and then the grave The grave barn I think you I think you'd kill the boobs Section two the whole life lesson lesson with boobs Because I've done I've done plenty of those so far with like mingo talking to him and you know a couple other things so I think you know him talking to karla and working with k and all that stuff so Also need to start a fucking they need to add some of these people to the character list To keep forgetting about that. Hang on. Let me do that now Oh, yeah, I also need to finish up like he's going off to work help close up the load up the heading zoo I'll have him finish up that and then They'll hit the road Middle I'm not going to go into any detail. I'm just like once I finish up with the stinky animals kind of thing Okay Did you cut any instances of sam calling? Or did you add any instances? Do you like the idea of sam calling chain spaz? Or do you want to change that? I don't like it. You don't like it. Okay, and I didn't cut any because I haven't seen any yet All right. Yeah, that's not until the later chapters. All right only because Um, you know, he's he's he's over the whole name calling. He's over the whole You know, this is like This chick is something special and okay That's fine Just something that came out while I was writing Oh, that's as good as I think it is. You know, I'm on fucking fire today Sorry, awesome. Awesome. This is a a bunch of lines that is like Sandusky farm gone from a place of mystery magic and adventure to an empty field spotted here and there with limitations of attractions and concessions lingering in the earth like heavy ghosts and then The road ahead curves and I can see the lights of our caravan winding away into the dark into the dark distance A glance in the opposite direction shows the purpling horizon as if we're feet as if we're fleeing from the light Rushing away from sunrise and I think how fast would we have to go to beat the day? Is it possible to outrun the sun? Sure, you'd eventually hit water But could you do it if only for a moment? God damn. Nice. I don't know what the fuck I'm doing boy, but I'm I'm on it today I said it's not not often. I'm happy with what I write first go. So Do you fire fire firing not filing firing on all cylinders? All right, I'll read this when I get back. I was already I was reading what you had done I'm gonna go ahead and take my break my final break and when I come back. I'll read what you wrote Okay, I got like two and a half pages done. I think something like that nice It's a much longer scene than I planned, but I think I got some good shit in there. Um, anyways get back in 10 okay What's up, Jordan? Appreciate you renewing the membership Most definitely. Thank you All right, so let me read all this all the shenanigans you got All right Oh, I like that addition by the time we're done. It's like me and Kay know a little bit about each other. That's good Maybe kind of sound a little bit down That's really good. Man, this is fucking creepy. It's like you're in my goddamn head Like the way you expand on stuff like right after carla gets through explaining that the couples The bumper's cards more for couples than anyone else And then you go on this whole by the time she's done them confused about bumper cars that that whole that whole thing is Perfect. That's exactly that's exactly it Yeah, that's good I gotta I gotta add something real quick like the uh the blisters Thing Definitely want to add that Before I forget about it I'm done Oh, it's going fantastic. It's another really really good day. We haven't had a bad day yet. I don't think Even even when we we both wrote the same well like the same scene, but at different times It was still ended up being good. Yeah, it turned out. Yeah. All right, so I took care of Let me go down here and highlight They hit the road Yeah, this one sentence they hit the road and shame falls asleep soundly and mingo's trailer Turned into two and a half pages All right, uh tomorrow too Ah, oh my gosh, I just saw the funniest meme What's that? Uh, you know those those uh pictures of bernie sanders. It says I am once again asking Yeah, yeah, whatever. This one said this one is you know that picture of bernie sanders It says I am once again asking for the clam-shaped e-reader from it follows Cool cool Oh, that's hilarious I'm gonna set up tomorrow's Stream right now We're we're just over 38,000 but I think I cut a lot, you know, I really uh, uh, what's the word I'm looking for? Consolidated Today For anybody watching now or later Wanted to encourage them to get this thing that came out Tuesday This is a Beautiful beautiful. Well the cover's awesome because I did it but It's a wonderful wonderful, uh Rural noir dark fantasy Whatever. 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Yeah, I see I'm reading the wiki wikipedia. Yeah He's best known for writing the short story that reportedly inspired november rain video Okay, cool. But yeah, he was over at uh, jeremy wagner's house and of course jeremy being uh john's publisher for snarl, um He saw the book and liked the cover and jeremy gave him a copy and he read it and tweeted about it Sweet you can tell mr. Bowden that his two sales day came from me Awesome, I have a gift card Who the fuck sent me a 25 dollar gift card? What wait, what I have a hundred dollar gift card balance Dang dude, that's killer. What the fuck? Do I have no idea where this came from? I'm trying to make sure none of my details are on on here Yeah, someone just I guess I never got a notification Listen, whoever I don't know who the fuck would have done this, but I don't think my I don't think any of my personal information's on here But it's awesome Yeah, what the hell I got a hundred dollar gift card What the shit? I have no Oh, fuck. That's crazy What the hell did I? Oh, yeah, well my my uh My amazon accounts under edward loan anyway, so it wouldn't have been a problem What the hell ding I want to find a unsuspected uh balance on here Viking says same thing happened to me a few months ago 75 showed up on my balance and I didn't put it there I didn't buy anything that I would have gotten a hundred dollar gift card balance for not a damn thing But I'll I'm gonna put up another video. I don't maybe I'll announce on discord like if anybody comes whoever Whoever did it? Thank you. I don't know. I doubt amazon I haven't bought anything any individual item over 50 dollars on amazon So I doubt it has anything to do with something that I bought But yeah, I fucking appreciate it. That's that's amazing because I went to go buy I go over here to try and buy uh John's books and It's like taken out of the gift card I'm like gift what gift card That's awesome. I have zero it is It's absolutely I mean, did they did they have a class action lawsuit for something? Nothing I'm aware of Hang on. Let me let me look up But let me just look up. Um It's a it's a whole thing. Hang on Uh reddit has a thread. This is 173. No, that's that's from december december 7 2017 But 173 41 suddenly appeared on my amazon gift card Why does amazon hold a gift never mind? No huh that's uh That's I'm I can only assume someone sent it to me. I mean because I have my wish list Well, I don't of course don't have a a wish list um For a gift card, but um my my wish list is Uh public That's fucking weird Well, that rocks. I don't even have to come out of pocket to get Bowden's books. I'm gonna tell shell about it so she can load up on whatever the hell she wants to Maybe the kids want something too My wife just started gun love the other day. Cool. Cool. I hope she digs it. I have Not awesome. Yeah, it's it's very it's very lutzki-ish I like saying that now. It's very lutzki-ish Down to earth slice of life great characters Not much happens, but what does happen is is Satisfying enough so It's a really beautiful story beautifully written All that good stuff I am happy today. Well shit. I'm actually don't talk to shell I might go ahead and grab that guitar And if I don't like it, I can always send it back and get a credit but I have the kids use the other Have shelling the kids like $25 a piece. So I'm not checking out right now So don't tell Bowden I bought it yet. It'll probably be a day or so anyways but uh Yeah, that's that's weird. I've never I've never had that happen. That's like that's like finding money in my pocket That's yeah, exactly what it is, but yeah, that's it's crazy Yeah, one time my wife and I this is years ago, but we uh We washed a bunch of money and didn't know about it and kept finding finding $20 bills popping out of the dryer for all week It was awesome. That's crazy Uh, the the the coolest thing that's ever happened to me as far as finding money is I was 10 or 11 Something like that. My grandmother liked to take me to this place in california called solving Which is a it's like a re It I don't I don't know what to call it, but it's built up like a Like an old dutch village. I believe it's dutch um, but people walk around in clogs and all that shit. It's a They had dryer slash atm. I was I was actually gonna say something like that. It's like your dryer turned into an atm, but uh um, I was walking through this art gallery that they had And I go up there's these three steps that go up into this alcove this little nook with uh, and when I walk up there I'm I have a I've always stared at stairs while I while I walk one at a time Even before I hurt my back, you know, I've always been hyper vigilant So I walk up the stairs and there's nothing on the stairs as I'm walking up there In fact, my grandmother walks up behind me and we go and we look and there's no one else really there I turn around to go back down after we get done and she's behind me and I look down And I stop and she bumps into me and she goes. What are you doing? I was like, there's money down here and it was it was a 50 dollar bill Just folded in half sitting on the step It wasn't there when I was walking up, but it was there when I was walking down We're just we're just coolest thing. But yeah, she's like well What we're gonna do is we're gonna go up and talk to the people who run the place Because it's almost like a theme park kind of deal. You know, it's like a whole a whole thing Um, so we go up there and talk to him and the lady behind the counter She's like, oh, don't worry about it. You you you can keep it If as my grandmother's like, are you sure you this is a lot of money? I mean, this is like 90 91 something like that Like this is a lot of money. Sure. You don't want to hold on to it. She goes it happens all the time here So I have this like story in my head that I've always wanted to write like this rich person Like just going around like leaving money on you know steps or whatever leaving money around this this place So people can like buy stuff. I end up spending 20 of it in their gift in their gift store So, you know, if it's like planted I it won't be planted by them But um, so what I the money went back in there and I end up spending like the net the last 30 dollars on toys I think but yeah, that's one of the cooler And that's the first thing that came to mind because that's the most money I've ever found I believe my my biological father got a uh uh small small inheritance for uh his parents house and then when they sold it he got some money for it only like 25 grand or something but when he got that he uh He would leave 20 dollar bills around my house in in spots and around in my apartment My wife and I this was like uh, I don't know 25 28 years ago and uh We'd find it and he got a real kick out of that and then He he would always tell me for years, you know, if anything ever happens to me and I died then You know, I keep money in my books and and he had uh 17 bookshelves in in his house that were DVDs and books and when he passed away I I got all his books fortunately for me he was a a huge uh, Stephen King and Clyde Barker fan and Dean Coonson Lansdale and I He was a Lansdale fan, but he only owned like one Lansdale book And but yeah, he was a huge just a gore hound and everything else and and sure enough, man I went through every one of those books. I thought $400 good god And uh, thanks dad the one time that I found money in public. I absolutely 100% did not deserve it and it was so ironic because I had um Just weird. This is weird that I'm telling this story because I just made a post on social media today celebrating Recovery month. Yeah, because I um, I told you before I started using when I was 12. I was in rehab by by the time I was 16 and and uh I think it was maybe seven months later. So many um Very dear to me Was killed and for the next three years. I was on and on on and off the wagon until finally stopping uh, any any type of drug whatsoever by the time I was 19 drinking I you know, it was a little rockier past that but then um then I um I got 10 years sobriety under my belt Tried to become a casual drinker and that lasted a little while Became too much quit again. And so it's been 13 14 years since I've had another drink. But anyway Um, so there's a lot of checks in you What's it? There's a lot of checks in you. Oh Yeah, one yeah, okay. Okay. I was about to say all this sounds awfully familiar. Yeah. Okay. Go ahead. Yeah very very much and so anyway um I was a huge part of alcoholics anonymous Uh, I was I went to meetings all the time loved it. Uh, met some very close lifelong friends there And I used to chair meetings and this one This is when I first started sharing meetings when I was like I think I was 18 And I had a key to the hall Well, I had relapsed with some friends of mine from the hall that I'd met at the anal club and Because I had a key and we had no money We drove to the anal club and I unlocked it and we took um And I'm only saying this publicly because I've I've made amends with this But um, they had a coat a pop machine in there And they had like a row or two to the ceiling of I don't know if you have returnables in Any word that you've ever lived, but yeah main main had them, but okay. Yeah I know I know what you're talking about. Yeah in michigan 10 cents for a can or a bottle or whatever A california too. Yeah, so we loaded up a trunk with every single bottle in that place or every single can in that place Went to the mire the grocery store got our money as we're walking into mire Which is a grocery store? There's money on the floor They just found money on the floor and I was I remember thinking Really? Really I just stole from this place that I pretty much owe my life to It's like the universe telling you had you just fucking waited. I know you It might be a god dang to you Basically the same thing it's it had to have gone through your head Whether it be a god thing or universe thing go and see if you just waited. Did that ever cross your mind? Well at the time I I god wasn't like in my life or anything like that, but but yeah, I just did At the time I probably thought I was probably like hell. Yeah, you know That's true. That's true. Yeah, but uh Yeah, it wasn't and I I forgot about it But over the years it would pop into my head and I would think about it And then I think it was Maybe two just just two or three years ago I was talking to somebody and I found out that they had uh They were like kind of a big wig now down there and I said, um I gave them I gave them the same amount of money that that that we had stole and I told them what I'd done I said I broke in there one night and I took all that money. Please Give this money to uh To them you could tell them whatever you want, you know, but uh, yeah, I owe this Yeah Good man. Good man Oh All right. Well on that note, I guess we are done for the date So you get not only do you get to watch us write stories, but you get a story every single time we go live And all for free too. How about that? anyways, but uh Yeah, I did I did also just hit me that uh, you know the It wasn't too long after that that I started messing around with my neighbor that neighbor lady because I was it was between 10 or 11 that we went to solving the last time And after that it was kind of like death of my childhood. So Yeah, that was that brought back that memory, but Yeah, it's uh We all got past we all got shit that we're not proud of that we you know all that stuff um But the it's not important It's more important who you are than who you were I'll end it on that note. Yeah. Um, yeah, it was fun. Jordan. Um, all right. Thanks everybody for joining us We will be back on What's the day thursday we'll be back tomorrow. Yes, we'll be back tomorrow and then uh, no more until monday But uh until next time I'll hail the chair