Hello and welcome to another episode of '2 Grumpy Vets and a Dude.' This week, we dive into a variety of topics, starting with the origins and purpose of our podcast. We discuss the value-for-value model and how it helps us maintain our independence from censorship. We also touch on the technical difficulties we sometimes face and how we handle them.
We then move on to personal updates, with Rich sharing his frustrations about selling his house and the challenges he's facing with the buyer. The Dude talks about his routine and the Texas heat, while Brian discusses his weight loss journey and the importance of understanding the root causes of overeating.
Our conversation takes a turn towards the political as we discuss Kash Patel's recent comments about going after the media if Trump wins the election. We debate the merits and drawbacks of rehashing old election claims and the potential costs to taxpayers.
We also touch on the recent passing of actress Shelley Duvall, reflecting on her career and the impact she had on us. The discussion then shifts to the business practices of Walmart and Sam's Club, particularly their recent changes to shipping policies and membership fees.
Finally, we wrap up with some thoughts on the importance of talking to veterans and friends who may be struggling, and the value of simply being there to listen. Thank you for joining us, and we look forward to having you back next time.
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Bryan Goodwin:
Hey, man. Hello, and welcome to 2 Grumpy Vets and a dude. I'm your host, Brian. I'm here with the 2 other others. We have Rich and the Dude, and we are got another fun filled action packed. What in the hell type of a show we're doing gonna be doing this week. Each week, we'd like to get together, guys. We, sit around and we just talk them. So we'd set up just to turn this week, this weekly talk into a podcast. Why? Because, hey, it's something fun, something different, and, you know, it it it befuddles the dude because it's, it pulls him completely out of his comfort zone. So why not? And so we've started to turn this into a show, and this is our 12, 13th.
13th. That was our day.
[00:00:50] Rich Chelson:
No. No. We've done 12.
[00:00:52] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. It's like the 15th episode now. Oh, fuck. I I don't know that. Why would you come on, man. Why don't we just say 23?
[00:00:59] Duuude-Ron :
Why don't we just say 20?
[00:01:02] Bryan Goodwin:
It's between 10 and 20. We we're somewhere in between the 10th episode and 20th episode because the 10th episode is one of those magic numbers. You know, once you get past,
[00:01:12] Rich Chelson:
past 10, you are more than, like, 90% of the podcast that I've ever started. So So, yeah, why why do we need to keep track? But, I mean, I know.
[00:01:23] Bryan Goodwin:
Just to give us some time. Like to it gives us something to brag about here in about another 4 years. We can go, yeah. This is episode 212, and it you know? Right. And we get to get to really hoop it up. But so but anyhow. So yeah. We started started talking and wanted to go ahead and share this These talks with everybody else and just let everybody kinda hear how, you know, guys who intentionally live life, live intentionally a part of each other's life, How what that looks like and how can it, how can it be be used? And we said, you know what? Let's also go ahead and turn this into a value for value deal. And so
[00:02:06] Rich Chelson:
What happened, dude?
[00:02:09] Bryan Goodwin:
I don't I don't know. This is Well, at least he's not going Chinese cellular. Because I think my cord is is is for shit.
[00:02:19] Rich Chelson:
Hold on. You're you're sounding fine.
[00:02:23] Bryan Goodwin:
What what story? Hearing anything.
[00:02:25] Rich Chelson:
You're not hearing anything?
[00:02:27] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. You're breaking up Let me give this twist around here.
[00:02:30] Duuude-Ron :
You're breaking up sadly on my end.
[00:02:34] Rich Chelson:
Your, audio Breaking up badly? Oh, that's better on your audio. No. I no. I can hear you fine.
[00:02:44] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, so now when you're not breaking up.
[00:02:49] Rich Chelson:
Well, well, Brian stepped away. So, yeah, actually, the, value for value model is you know, we we did it because we don't wanna be censored because, Apple Podcasts like to censor, other podcasts. So just because I don't like what they say and yeah. You see, our podcast, we say what we want. So it is Brian back?
[00:03:14] Bryan Goodwin:
I am now, and I'm gonna put I'm gonna put a, marker in here so that, you know where to cut this stuff out when you're editing for the, for the, podcast itself. So just look for the 3 spikes. So well, I I should be able to see this the spikes also. It just it helps for me to be able to know what to get a g a g decent area as to where to look. So but anyhow, so guys, yeah, we so we as we got together, something hey, let's even let's make this even more interesting. Let's turn it on to value for value. And with the value for value angle, what we're doing is we use podcasting 2.0, tags, and this allows us to be able to, a, receive time, talent, treasure, but also gives us the ability to, put in our our own list our any special folks that we end up getting on the show at any particular time or if we end up having somebody who wants to send us, some satoshis. They're able to stream satoshis to us. If you wanna send us a message, you can do that using the boostagram, and you could do all this through a podcasting 2.0 compliant app, the modern podcasting app. You can do so by going to podcasting 2.org/apps, and there's a big old list of all the modern podcasting apps that accept podcasting 2 point o type podcast.
And if you don't if you're listening on just normal one, you're not gonna be have features and stats. You're not gonna see the, the people or the, or the The lives. The lives. The lives is the big one. We're going we're live right now. And if you wanted to and you're driving down the road, wanted to hear what the podcast was, you can actually jump on and listen. And with this, actually, is really cool because we're we actually start the live a a little bit early so that you get a little bit of the, the preshow before we start start in with the hey, everybody. Hello and welcome. And so we get this, and it just there's a lot of great stuff that comes about on this. And so we're we, we wanted to just explore and and, try stuff out. And that's that's what we're doing here. We're just having a good time and, and doing so with a with a big old grin on our face because, hey, man. This is this is fun stuff. It is. It's perfect. We have got and we do have a purpose. Yeah. We're wanting to show, show the dude what is possible with podcasting because eventually, we're gonna have him doing his own roller skating, based,
[00:05:54] Rich Chelson:
podcast and We are not getting notes on the dude.
[00:05:58] Bryan Goodwin:
We're we're gonna get he's gonna get there
[00:06:01] Rich Chelson:
one day. And he's not he's gonna wonder how in the heck he went so long without doing a podcast. Right. Right. And it might take us 10 years, but we're still doing it. Yeah. We we we will persevere.
[00:06:13] Bryan Goodwin:
Just He will end up being on the podcasting hall of fame. I know.
[00:06:18] Duuude-Ron :
So That would be awesome. There's a hall of fame for podcasting? Yes. Yes. Yep. There is. No shit. Okay.
[00:06:25] Bryan Goodwin:
See? They don't have a home as of yet, so they're just kinda they're just collecting those. But, like, Dave Jackson, Rob Walsh. Adam Curry is here in all of his name. Adam oh, yeah. Adam Curry, Dave Weiner. I think Dave Weiner's on there is there too since he was actually the one who did most of the coding.
[00:06:45] Rich Chelson:
What is that? Is Mark Marron? I don't know if Mark Marron is. I'm sure Mark Marron is. Yeah. I would think so. I mean, they've done they've got quite a few. What about senior j Lewis?
[00:06:56] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah. Daniel's Daniel's on there. He was actually on, what is it, the podcasting organization until, until he actually spoke his mind, and they we found out exactly what type of, what type of group the the podcasting organization. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Podcasting Academy,
[00:07:18] Rich Chelson:
academy of podcasters. Wow. Found out what their, what their politics were. So Reason. The, the, the reason why I like Daniel j Lewis so much. I mean, I mean, listening to his podcast, I can listen to him for a little bit, but there's just something about his voice that that I you know, it is weird in my headphones, but but I can still listen to his content. Right? But this man here, he's he freaking gets along with everybody until and and and the thing is, dude's a Christian. I mean, I mean, he, he reads his Bible and stuff like this, and and and I love that about him. But when he gets his dander up, he speaks his mind,
[00:08:07] Bryan Goodwin:
you know? Yeah. He does. And and but
[00:08:10] Rich Chelson:
but it's always clean. But but it's it's I don't know. I just I just like him for that because he's not afraid to stand up, you know. I mean and and he's not afraid to, you know, talk about his faith or anything like that. I mean, he's he's just really decent guy, and he's, I mean, he's smart as a whip. Oh my lord. Dude is, like, major smart. But, yeah, that's that's why I me out.
[00:08:37] Duuude-Ron :
That leaves me out.
[00:08:39] Rich Chelson:
You're smart, dude. You're just smart in different ways.
[00:08:43] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. You're right. Smart ass, smart aleck,
[00:08:49] Bryan Goodwin:
Smarty pants.
[00:08:50] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. There you go. You wanna add that into the mix?
[00:08:53] Rich Chelson:
Of course. Got to. But So
[00:08:58] Bryan Goodwin:
but yeah. No. It's but yeah. There's a there's a podcast that, there there's several. And there actually, I think there's more podcasting awards out now than there than there ever has been.
[00:09:11] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I know that they're the old fashioned,
[00:09:14] Bryan Goodwin:
people's choice podcast awards that's out. I think he think Todd fine Todd Cochran, who is the guy who's been running it all for about 1 year, he, he finally realized he's gotta stop putting the bill for all the dang trophies. Right. He actually I think I I think for a long time, it was $10, but it might be $50 now to, if you wanna be if you're if you're wanting to be open for nominations, you have to actually pay in for a, for the, for the nomination. You actually have to pay for it so that your own broker. He cover the cost because cost some $25,000
[00:09:58] Rich Chelson:
for all the trophies and stuff, but I heard if I remember. Right? But that's the thing. Why don't they get sponsors to pay for that?
[00:10:07] Bryan Goodwin:
Todd, well, you do get, he does have sponsors on there.
[00:10:12] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. No. No. I'm saying, why don't they get sponsors to pay for their sponsors?
[00:10:20] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, he get they he does, but but it'd be I think most of them take care of the time it takes to actually because it also takes a lot of manpower because you have to go through and you have your you you first initially because of what it is, it's people choice. It's actually, audience reaction or response is is how they judge this. And so use when the when the, nomination say session starts up, you actually go off and say, hey, if you wanna nominate me for the for the podcast awards, you need to go to this, go to this this, this link and and nominate me. And if enough people get, do the nomination, or or maybe even it's just 1, if somebody not jumps on and says, I'm gonna nominate you.
Boom. Okay. Now you're in the running. And when the counting session comes in, they you actually need to have see who's got the most active audience is actually the way the People Choice Awards works. Okay. But okay. Then okay. So every day, you have to encourage your people to go to the, go to a site and and vote for, for and vote. And so you have to repeat and repeat and repeat and repeat and repeat and get it going. And if you have and so it get it could be a big pain in the ass. Okay. Yeah, no, I can understand it. The most honest way of doing a, doing an award show. Okay. That's fine. But still,
[00:11:55] Rich Chelson:
what the hell does it matter? I mean, I mean, what what is the It's the oldest running,
[00:12:02] Bryan Goodwin:
podcast, podcast awards,
[00:12:05] Rich Chelson:
there is. Yeah. But, again, what is the big deal about this podcasting award? I mean, I'm, you know, I'm not saying nothing bad about it. I'm just I'm just saying, like, like, for us, I mean, we're just doing this just to entertain people. Entertain and piss them off or, you know, make them sad and make them happy, whatever. You know? I mean, we're we're not going after any awards.
[00:12:29] Bryan Goodwin:
You know? Not yet. Next year, we will.
[00:12:32] Rich Chelson:
I'm not planning to go after any awards, period. Oh, yeah. Yeah. We're gonna
[00:12:37] Bryan Goodwin:
I'm gonna get you standing up on the stage. You're gonna be all all all gobsmacked. Dad. No. You'll be gobsmacked, standing up on top on stage, be it, be it won't be a podcast movement. Sorry. Podcast movements done pissed me off with the whole Ben Shapiro thing, what, 2 years ago. But Dude, let that roll off your shit. That was 2 years ago. Fuck them. That was 2 years ago. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So Why? They they they wanna they wanna hold their grudge. I'm gonna hold my grudge right now. Please. Come on, dude.
[00:13:08] Rich Chelson:
That's like 4th grade shit. Come on now.
[00:13:11] Bryan Goodwin:
Exactly. I show them I could go 3rd grade. I will run around and call them stupid head
[00:13:21] Duuude-Ron :
and poopy face. And poopy But you don't yeah. You won't even well, you'll go back as far as terrible twos, I'm sure.
[00:13:29] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah. I will I will do the rubber baby maneuver so no one can grab a hold of me and throw myself on the ground.
[00:13:35] Rich Chelson:
Oh, I really don't wanna see that. I don't need a visual cue.
[00:13:40] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, come on. You know what you're doing?
[00:13:42] Duuude-Ron :
That would be nothing but hilarious. Yeah. Yeah. You that would you know what?
[00:13:49] Rich Chelson:
We would need that on video. I mean, really, we would that? We would need that on video.
[00:13:57] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. That would be that would be absolutely hilarious. Now what would it prove or what would point be?
[00:14:07] Bryan Goodwin:
I am a. But you
[00:14:09] Rich Chelson:
know.
[00:14:10] Duuude-Ron :
That you are a CEO. Yep. Yep.
[00:14:13] Rich Chelson:
Yep. Yeah. No. See, that's the thing. I I'm and and, you know, maybe this is me, but but I've never been one to, go in search of that stuff because I'm just here to help out whoever I can, like like we all are. You know? And Oh, yeah. Yeah. If if if, someone wants to, recognize us, that's great. I I mean, I won't shoot it down. But as far as me actively going after it, no. I I won't do it because that's not why I'm doing this. You know? Right. I'm just, I'm just doing it because I wanna talk and I wanna talk.
[00:15:00] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Yeah. No. And talk to the spot.
[00:15:03] Duuude-Ron :
So so And you do an excellent job of it.
[00:15:06] Rich Chelson:
Thank you, dude. Thank you, man. That that just, like, made my night, man. I I I'm just, like, so happy.
[00:15:15] Bryan Goodwin:
So, Rich, what have you been up to this past week?
[00:15:19] Rich Chelson:
Oh my god. This week has been this week has been crazy. Next week's gonna be crazy. The week after that's gonna be crazy. And then the week after that's gonna be crazy. So
[00:15:30] Bryan Goodwin:
Okay. So so what made this week crazy?
[00:15:33] Rich Chelson:
Well, this week, I talked with the dude that's buying my house up north, and I damn near pulled the contract out from him because he's a fucking idiot out wandering around. He's an ass.
[00:15:50] Bryan Goodwin:
What? Is he from Iowa or something? Yes. He's from oh, Indianola, Iowa.
[00:15:55] Rich Chelson:
Indianola, Iowa, baby. And and and he's Okay. So
[00:16:01] Duuude-Ron :
what's the difference if he buys a house? Who cares?
[00:16:04] Bryan Goodwin:
Well Don't wanna give it to an island.
[00:16:07] Rich Chelson:
No. No. No. No. I don't care. I I don't care. You're right. But it was just the way it was it was just the way he was acting when he was on the phone. He was like, well, I need you to do this. I need you to do that. And this was after he had already signed the contract saying he would pay for the house in as is, where is condition. And he's like, oh, I I I need a survey. And and and, you know, you can pay half and I'll pay half on the survey. I said, fuck you. That shit ain't happening to us. And, and and he was like, oh, I need this stuff. I need that done. Blah blah blah. And just just fucking trying to dictate what the fuck I was gonna do. I I I told my realtor.
I told her, I said, Lizzie, I said I said, I'm a tell you right now. You call that son of a bitch back and you tell him I'll turn the water on so he can inspect the pipes and the plumbing. I said, anything else he says, pull the fucking contract and tear it up.
[00:17:04] Bryan Goodwin:
I'm done with this ass. Suck a fart out of my ass, man. Come on. Right?
[00:17:09] Duuude-Ron :
Well Damn.
[00:17:12] Rich Chelson:
Well, she had called him and then and then called me back like the next day. And she says, well, he still wants to move forward. I'm like, did you tell him he could go kiss my ass on that survey shit? She's like, yes. And he still wants to move forward. I said, alright. Fine. Fine. Alpha can take his money. I don't care.
[00:17:33] Bryan Goodwin:
And so a salesman?
[00:17:34] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. And so so we're supposed to close on August 1st.
[00:17:40] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, wow. That's just right around the corner of that, Right. And that's the thing.
[00:17:46] Rich Chelson:
I've got a contract for a house down here that's supposed to close on my birthday on 16th.
[00:17:53] Bryan Goodwin:
So That fast, really?
[00:17:56] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I'm telling you. And then and then, of course Gosh. Damn. It was it was a good
[00:18:03] Bryan Goodwin:
6 month experience whenever I was trying to buy my freaking house. Oh, no. No. No. Nowadays, no, sir. Could've just been the fact that I had really any I don't have great credit now, but I've got better than what I did when I bought the house. Right. But but you see, the thing is, check this out.
[00:18:21] Rich Chelson:
These these girls over here with the loan officer, they say they say give me 30, 45 days max. You're closing. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. They don't they don't fuck around, man. They're just like, nope. Get it done.
[00:18:38] Bryan Goodwin:
It's see if their last Texas too. No.
[00:18:43] Rich Chelson:
I could find out.
[00:18:46] Bryan Goodwin:
Sure, no. But still
[00:18:48] Rich Chelson:
yay. You never know, dude. But, so, yeah, that, got that going on. And next week, we're not doing a live Nope. Because I will be on the road. And
[00:19:02] Bryan Goodwin:
And I won't be able to make it. So Yeah. Well, that's a bummer.
[00:19:06] Duuude-Ron :
And, so, Is this next, you said this is the next week?
[00:19:10] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Next week, I'll be on the Nope.
[00:19:14] Bryan Goodwin:
The week after. Not this next. Not this okay. We got this weekend, one more weekend, and then we have that.
[00:19:24] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I know. Where are you at? Next week, I know. Next Thursday, I leave for Arkansas. Okay. And then
[00:19:36] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah. The truck y'all would be there a week early to get that fixed up? Yeah. And then and then
[00:19:42] Rich Chelson:
the, 25th, I'll be in Oklahoma. And then, hopefully, I need to look at the dates real quick. Okay. On the first, I might still be on the road because I'm supposed to close on the first, which is on a Thursday. Yeah. So so So yeah. I will so so for the next 3 weeks, we will not be doing lives unless you somehow make it home and can do it. Yeah. And and, if you could edit for, like, the next 3 weeks, that would be great. I can do it this week. So
[00:20:26] Bryan Goodwin:
I should I should be able to. I'll get, and, also, if y'all are wondering, last week's, video will actually come out, this Saturday. So Oh, okay. Okay. Because it it did get touched. I I I did I got home Sunday, 6 o'clock
[00:20:46] Rich Chelson:
ish. Oh, wow.
[00:20:48] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. And so yeah. I don't blame you. To go to show you how good of friends we all are, my wife is jealous of the fact that we have we have as good of a friendship as we do.
[00:21:03] Rich Chelson:
What?
[00:21:03] Bryan Goodwin:
What? Woah. Woah. Woah. My wife is jealous of the fact that I come home, I see her for for maybe about an hour, and then I took off to the, took off to the office to go do the, do the pot. And before I got home, she was not happy.
[00:21:21] Rich Chelson:
Oh my gosh.
[00:21:23] Bryan Goodwin:
Sorry. But
[00:21:26] Rich Chelson:
Like, honey, I love you, but But
[00:21:28] Bryan Goodwin:
yeah. It's like, well, I don't ever see you. And then you come in for an hour, and then you're gone for another. Said you're gonna try to get done early. I was like, yeah. I tried. It don't happen. Well, hey. Look at it this way. Get to talking. It's gonna be a 2 to 3 hour conversation. Yeah.
[00:21:45] Rich Chelson:
Guaranteed. Guaranteed. You know? So, hey, at least you're not drinking or at the bar.
[00:21:53] Bryan Goodwin:
Nope. Nope. I'm not nope. I'm just, I'm sitting in front of a computer yabbering with people, you know, a couple 100 miles away from me. Right. Right.
[00:22:01] Rich Chelson:
So, yeah, that's, that's that's kind of been what's been, I had to put brakes on the Jeep, but other than that, that's Good. Good. You could stop now. Yeah. I can stop a whole lot better. I I still need Stop on a dime and give 9 and a half cents back? No. No. No. No. I stopped on a dime and give about 6¢ back because I need to change the rear brakes too. Oh. I only did the fronts. So, so, yeah, I'm, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not getting the 9 and a half cents yet.
[00:22:33] Bryan Goodwin:
Okay.
[00:22:34] Rich Chelson:
So I will I I will get it soon.
[00:22:39] Bryan Goodwin:
So alright. And, dude, what have you been doing this past week?
[00:22:43] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, just, stuff. Just, going to work, coming home, going to work, coming home. I think that's the only places my vehicle knows, except for Walmart. And we'll we'll talk we'll talk about them later. Yeah. But, you know, other than that, it's just Texas hot.
[00:23:03] Bryan Goodwin:
God. Yeah. It it was nice when when the hurricane blew through.
[00:23:07] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. We got we'd actually yeah. It was nice weather when the hurricane, but now I don't know what happened down in, like, Houston and, you know, all those areas that They got hit pretty hard. Yeah. I haven't and I haven't even seen,
[00:23:23] Bryan Goodwin:
you know, the aftermath. I don't know if you're asking about that.
[00:23:28] Duuude-Ron :
But, yeah, it dropped, what, not 20 degrees, about 15 degrees from one day to the next on the high temperature. Holy shit. And now we're back up into the low 100.
[00:23:41] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. So are we, dude.
[00:23:43] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. We're in too much, brother. I'm Yeah. I know. And you're you're nice and, humid where where you're at. Oh, hell yeah. Oh, yeah. You could go outside with a swimming truck on and lay out in the yard and start swimming. As thick as the humidity is, I'm sure where you're at. Yeah.
[00:24:03] Rich Chelson:
I I mean, I mean, I'm losing weight. No. Weighed myself the other day, and I'm down to 2 73 now. So I've lost £5.
[00:24:12] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, that's good. That's good. I am gonna be doing that very same thing here real quick. As a matter of fact, 2, Sunday is gonna be my official start day, ditching some weight. Because I went off, stepped on, stepped on some scales, I was home yesterday. Yeah. Yesterday. Mhmm. And I am at 298. Oh, my god, dude. Fuck me backwards. We're not playing this game no more. I am not doing this. I so no. We're we're we're we're going to, we're gonna shed 98 fucking pounds.
[00:24:48] Rich Chelson:
Well, that was that was my weight. That was my weight. Well, I think I lost a few pounds before I got down there. But when I was living up north, that was that was my weight, 298.
[00:25:01] Bryan Goodwin:
And I know I know what my big triggers are. If you wanna use that word, I I really absolutely detest the word trigger because it makes you sound like a victim. You are out of control. You have no control. Somebody else is pulling the pulling the trigger. But I know what sets me on. I know what activates my want to eat and it's gonna be boredom. And so I've gotta pay attention to what what it is about the bore sense of boredom that absolutely detest. What is it that I am running from by being bored?
[00:25:34] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. That's yeah. That that would be something good to think about. I mean, what is it you know, what because you see, that's the thing. Like like, with me sometimes, I mean, I've had a lot of ideas and, you know, I could sit here and do all this or I can go out and run around town, play ham radio, which I haven't done. But Oh. I know. Right? God forbid. You know, it's it's freaking been like a month and a half. I mean, I did I did think about it today, but let me get back on track. Okay. But, but with me, sometimes I can sit here and stare at the screen and not fucking do anything. And then I'll start watching TV. I mean, I don't eat, but it's like I'm bored. And it's like, why the fuck are you bored?
You've got so much shit to do that you can do, but I don't feel like doing it. So I've I've forced myself to, you know,
[00:26:28] Bryan Goodwin:
to And yeah. And and I'm I don't eat near as much when I'm at the house. It's just whenever I've got my it it's like smoking. Whenever I was, whenever I was smoking, if I sat in the seat, I had a cigarette in my hand. It was just it was I was choo choo trained the whole time.
[00:26:48] Rich Chelson:
Mhmm.
[00:26:50] Bryan Goodwin:
And exactly. And, I mean, there was times where yeah. Just puffing right along. And it was and it was just because I was bored. And I realized shortly after I picked smoking back up, one of the drawbacks that I had, and that was just that I was not liking the way I was feeling. I was I could tell when my blood pressure was rising. Because all of a sudden, I'd feel feel blood I'd feel, a pulse in the back my head. It's like back half of my head was just going
[00:27:29] Rich Chelson:
I was like, alright. That's freaky.
[00:27:32] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Yeah. It was like, okay. Okay. We need to we need to be doing something here. And so I finally was like, alright. Took several false starts, and finally, it was like, alright. Yeah. We're we're we're doing this. Got got the, nicotine lozenges that I needed to grab and just committed to it. And it works because I 1, I was committed to it. I knew what I was needing to do. And that oversized load is not gonna make it one because I'm blocked I'm I'm I'm taking up half the over side half the area that he'd be able to make a right hand turn on. So
[00:28:13] Rich Chelson:
over here ask you this. Do you drink a lot of soda?
[00:28:17] Bryan Goodwin:
Yes, sadly. Not well. I will drink a 64 ounce usually around Wednesday Thursday. I'll drink 1 on Wednesday, 1 on Thursday. Monday, Tuesday, I don't have a a big enough a big draw for it. So I usually will have coffee until about noon, and then after that, I'm going through my jugs of water.
[00:28:42] Rich Chelson:
Okay. What about Friday and then at home?
[00:28:45] Bryan Goodwin:
I I drink water out of the sink.
[00:28:48] Rich Chelson:
Okay. Well, I do too. I mean but because
[00:28:54] Duuude-Ron :
because it's a little bit water out of you're right. You drink water out of the sink that is heated, turn black with grounds, and add a few, condiments.
[00:29:04] Rich Chelson:
Do that. The first half of the day. Yeah. Yeah. No. I don't I don't put drugs in my shit.
[00:29:12] Bryan Goodwin:
No caffeine whatsoever.
[00:29:15] Duuude-Ron :
So you like your coffee the way you like your men?
[00:29:19] Rich Chelson:
My women.
[00:29:21] Bryan Goodwin:
Hot, strong. You remember the movie airplane. Right? Dude, you feel like goosey tonight. What's up with him, dude?
[00:29:28] Rich Chelson:
I love it.
[00:29:32] Duuude-Ron :
I don't know. I gotta get some aggression out someplace.
[00:29:36] Rich Chelson:
Bring it, buddy. Bring it.
[00:29:38] Duuude-Ron :
So it's a it's a wide eyed goose. All but your best friends. Here. There there you go. You know? What so what better what what better place to put out your than your friends? That's right. You know? You know? And we and, you know, I'm not gonna hurt anybody's feelings, especially mine because ain't nobody here got any feelings. So, you know, we can't hurt anything we ain't got.
[00:30:06] Rich Chelson:
I do, man.
[00:30:08] Bryan Goodwin:
You just you just Especially me. I need my safe zone. No fair, man. No fair.
[00:30:15] Rich Chelson:
Oh my god.
[00:30:16] Duuude-Ron :
Poopy head. We're gonna approach you. Yeah. We're yeah. Okay. You start crying, we're gonna have to put you in the time out corner. How about that?
[00:30:28] Rich Chelson:
Oh, shit.
[00:30:30] Duuude-Ron :
But the other thing is and I'll just and I'll broadcast it now. Went to the VA the other day, and I have an accelerated white blood count, so godly knows what that is. And, you know, the only thing that came into my head was cancer, so we'll see.
[00:30:47] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Well, let's hope it's not that.
[00:30:50] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, we'll hope it's not that. But Maybe you just got a hangnail that you haven't noticed yet.
[00:30:55] Rich Chelson:
Hey. There you go.
[00:30:58] Bryan Goodwin:
You know, did you get did you get paper cut here recently?
[00:31:02] Duuude-Ron :
Well, yeah, well, I get freaking cuts on my arms all the time. And now they're not healing as fastly as they should be. So
[00:31:12] Rich Chelson:
yeah, we'll see within the next, short amount of time. That could be a thyroid problem or something else too. So
[00:31:20] Duuude-Ron :
Really?
[00:31:21] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. No kidding. Okay. And and you see that's the thing also. Your thyroid also, controls your weight. So, Brian, just not saying anything, but you might wanna have your thyroid checked.
[00:31:39] Bryan Goodwin:
No. I know what I know what's causing the weight because it's it jumped. It started going up at about the time that I quit smoking. So I I I I didn't actually give up what the problem what caused the smoking. I never solved that. I just converted the problem, from being a smoking problem
[00:32:00] Rich Chelson:
to an eating problem. To a candy problem.
[00:32:03] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, it's not even well, I don't do much candy, kid.
[00:32:08] Rich Chelson:
Do you do ju junk food?
[00:32:10] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, I junk food. Yeah. I mean, but but
[00:32:13] Rich Chelson:
but ghee and ding dongs?
[00:32:16] Bryan Goodwin:
No. No. It's not so much ho ho ding dongs or or or or star crunches or anything like or Little Debbie stuff like that. Not everybody. It's more of along the lines of a whole bag of pistachios in one setting, a whole bag of of, grapes in one setting.
[00:32:34] Rich Chelson:
Oops. Dude, grapes are fine.
[00:32:38] Bryan Goodwin:
Except for their sugar. It's natural sugar, dude. It's not natural sugar. But it's sugar nonetheless. There's a shit ton of sugar. And like I said, it's in one sitting. Okay. Right after the pistachios.
[00:32:51] Rich Chelson:
No. Okay. So
[00:32:53] Bryan Goodwin:
no. It's it's it's not spread. There's no 10. I will buy 3 I will buy I used to, I I would limit I used to go off and grab, try to grab a snack for every day. And then I realized, no. I can't be doing that because I was and I was still doing it with just 3 snacks, that I would grab. I tried to stretch out. I tried to pull myself to go, no. We're just gonna eat this for 1 this time, this for this time, this for this time. That doesn't work for me. And I know it doesn't because I fought this thing forever. And it is, if I sit if I go off, buy a bag of chips, that bag of chips is gonna be gone. I may As soon as it's opened it, it's gone. It it yeah. The moment that I open it, it's going to be it's all it's like an alcoholic with with, with a with a 5th of, vodka.
Right. If the seal is broken, boom, game over, man. It's it's gonna be consumed, and I'm going to be miserable after that because I'm gonna be stuffed stupid.
[00:34:01] Rich Chelson:
Right. Yeah. And see, that's where that's where that's where you need to get. And and, you know, I fought that, you know, I mean, fought that for a long time. And that that that disease is what's causing it. Yeah. And see and see what I had to do when I made my mind up, because I was I was a size 42 waist, fixing a push 44. Yeah. And I I I was like, no. I've gotta do something. So so I just started changing my mindset. And I mean, it was hard. It was hard. And and and I tried and I'm trying to cut out sugar because everything we freaking buy, like your chips Is light Everything. Just Oh my goodness. Absurd about sugar. Either either either an ass load of salt or an ass load of sugar or both.
[00:34:50] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. And and in all reality, salt isn't nearly as bad for you as they led you on to believe in the early eighties. True. True. But still but still as we get over The salt is actually I'm I'm one of those that is firmly planted in the camp that sugar is actually what creates the, the plaque in your veins, in your arteries and stuff.
[00:35:19] Rich Chelson:
Well, that that not all Because it when it gets
[00:35:23] Bryan Goodwin:
it it irritates the lining of the arteries. And so the plaque that that gets winds up on there is essentially a, a scab. It is Yeah. The way it's trying to defeat to keep the the irritation down. And so, sadly, there's places that it gets really irritated around your heart, and so it builds up till it just gets everything clogged up. And, no, it's not red meat. It is sugar.
[00:35:51] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. But yeah. No. I just I just started changing and and eating smaller portions and just forcing myself to, you know and, yeah, believe it. At first, you know, my body is saying, dude, I need to fucking eat. I need to fucking eat. And I'm like, you know what? I've got enough fat for days.
[00:36:10] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. And and I can't remember the dude's name. There was a guy in England who did not eat for a full year.
[00:36:19] Rich Chelson:
He was that big?
[00:36:20] Bryan Goodwin:
He was that big. He was like the only thing his doctor told him is take some vitamin k. Get take some potassium. Other than that, your body you your body has stored everything that it needs, and he did. For a little over a year, he didn't need a thing. And then once he got down to the weight that he wanted, he had our of course, if you're not gonna eat for that long, you're going to work through all of your all the all the issues that you have. Why are you eating? And that's what causes us to that's what causes anybody to find a quote, unquote addiction. There's no such thing as an addiction, but we call it an addiction because Yeah.
It's the best thing they can they can use to describe it. Right. Food addiction is you've just you've got a dis, an uncomfortable sensation within your body, a feeling. And so to drown that out, you would rather feel full. Mhmm. You'd rather have this the joy of eating, so we've taken food and we've turned it from being a a just a fuel and turned it into something that is supposed to make us feel good, which it does. It doesn't make us feel good. It's a it's be it's it's a candy bar. It's a piece of steak. It doesn't make you feel good. It you have positive associations with it, but that's the that's all there is to it. Well, if you watch the advertising, they say it makes you feel good. Oh, yeah. No. Yeah. The I mean, that's a lie, but, you know Yeah. Because I it again, it has no power. Alcohol does not make you feel good.
Alcohol drowns out the sensations of that ease, your ill ease that's within you, the discomfort.
[00:38:07] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I wish I wish I wish it would do that for me, but, I mean, I haven't drank hardly anything. You know?
[00:38:16] Bryan Goodwin:
The idea Yeah. Because you haven't had the narrow there right there is a really good example of you getting rid of that ease, that lack, that that ill feeling that you have within you. Because before, yeah, Europe and up in, up in, Missouri. You were you would go through a good amount of alcohol.
[00:38:43] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I would.
[00:38:45] Bryan Goodwin:
I would. And since you've been down to down to Mississippi, you don't have that anymore. You don't you aren't beating yourself up for whatever reason you that you had about that shack, which I think a lot of it was you being alone, if I had to guess.
[00:39:01] Rich Chelson:
It yeah. Honestly, I've I've, thought about it and, yeah, I would have to say because you see this thing down here, you know, I don't like cities or anything like this, but I I I just even though I like to be on my own, I still like having people around. Yeah. You know what I mean? I mean, I don't have to talk to them. In fact, when I was sitting on the beach today, I mean, I watched couple of hot hot hot chicks walking by with their puppies or couples walking by and it's it's I didn't talk to them. I didn't wanna talk. I didn't wanna talk to anybody, but it was just the fact that there was You were able to watch people?
Yeah. Oh, yeah. And, you know, watch the water because I you know, shit. I was sitting right there, you know, trying to get some sun on my white legs and my white chest here. You know? I I mean, I would open my shirt, but it would blind you off. You know?
[00:39:57] Bryan Goodwin:
So, yeah, I'm not
[00:39:58] Rich Chelson:
I won't I won't do that. Overload the sensors on the camera. Yeah. Blow the camera out. But yeah. No. And see, that's the thing. You know what? That'd be like one of those arctic blindness things.
[00:40:11] Duuude-Ron :
Exactly. Yes. No blind. Right. Yeah. There you go. We'd be rich blind.
[00:40:19] Rich Chelson:
So, yeah, no, it's it's, yeah, I think, yeah, honestly, I think you you're right. It's because, yeah, I didn't have anybody around or anything around to, you know, keep me out of my head.
[00:40:33] Duuude-Ron :
So Yeah. You're going down to and how far of a drive is it from where you're at to the actual beat?
[00:40:42] Rich Chelson:
Right. Well, right now, I'm about 2 and a half miles.
[00:40:48] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. So Right. 2 and a half miles. But like you said, when you're up in Missouri, being up in being in the shack, you know, there's not a whole heck of a lot to do, not a lot to look at. You know, just by you going down on the beach, you know, like me, I could sit and watch waves roll in for hours and not get bored.
[00:41:15] Rich Chelson:
Right. Oh, yeah. It was fun. It it it was fun sitting on the beach, and and I even walked down by the water. And I thought about getting in the water, but I didn't bring a towel to dry off with, so I did. And that's why I didn't. Otherwise, I was going to.
[00:41:28] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. But, you know, but something like that, like I said, you have a lot more of being able to get out and just go and do without it costing you well how much they're gonna cost you to go down to the beat. Lunch and whatever gas for 5 miles.
[00:41:50] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. That actually, actually, not even lunch because lunch here at the house, I mean, I, you know, I can eat up a couple of hot dogs,
[00:41:59] Duuude-Ron :
slap them off of bread, eat them down, and I'm good. You know? Yeah. That's what I'm saying. You could or bring a sandwich down to the beach. You're not buying when you bring lunch. Yeah.
[00:42:09] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, it's basically gas. So Yeah. 5 miles worth. Yeah. Then, yeah, believe me, my Jeep actually gets well, I've I found out something because, you know, my brakes my front brakes were really bad. And, we're driving around before I changed them. I was watching my fuel mileage go down After I changed them, I was I was hanging around between 14 15 miles a gallon after I changed the front brakes with God damn low and behold, I'm up over 16 now. Like, holy shit.
[00:42:52] Bryan Goodwin:
That's like Brakes were actually easing off a bit.
[00:42:55] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Oh, yeah. No. They Yeah. Sounds like that caliper that you said you replaced was dragon and you have a resistance. Yeah. Okay.
[00:43:05] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. So so I'm I mean yeah. I mean, I should've done this when I first but but it had only been a couple weeks since, all this started. So, I mean, I didn't wait that long, but I probably waited longer than I should've.
[00:43:26] Bryan Goodwin:
But Rich? Yeah. Who is Kash Patel, and why do you have a beef with?
[00:43:33] Rich Chelson:
Well, in fact hang on. Because, I I I wanna bring this up. This this Ghosh Patel, he, he was, I think he had worked for Trump or whatnot or it c and everything, before. Okay. K. Let's see. And he he says if Trump wins the election okay. He wants to go after the people. Actually, in the media is is who he wants to go go after because the media lied to the American citizens is what he said. Okay? And that was said in a recent interview with Steve Bannon. But, yeah, he, Patel, was the National Security Council when, Trump was in office the first time.
[00:44:37] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[00:44:38] Rich Chelson:
And Trump actually considered installing him as the FBI or the CIA director. And yeah. No. They they threw a fit. But oh, yeah, they did. Cause they're like, they're like, he ain't got no, no experience. He's like, fuck that. But this dude wants to keep rehashing the, 2020 election claims. Okay? I mean, you know, I'm not saying I'm not saying there there wasn't wrongdoing or anything like that in the 2020 elections, but that was 4 years ago. Give it the fuck up. Because what are you gonna do by by doing something now? What what are you to gain? And this is what this is what hurts me because it's the same rhetoric, and and this is the democrats.
This is what they do. You know? They just they just keep saying the same fucking rhetoric every year after year after year. All they do is change names and dates. And it's like, how are you supposed to grow? How are you supposed to get ahead if you're sitting here rehashing the same old fucking shit all the time? And it's like, no. Shut the hell up. Think of ideas for the future and then present them. Stop living in the fucking past. This is what irks me. You know, dude, I love you very much, but you still live in the eighties, man. I love you for it. Eighties nineties.
But but but you see, that's the thing. People people in government, though, they should instead of living back in the seventies sixties, should be at least in the early part of 21st century and should be thinking forward and thinking ahead to what's gonna help us. Because I hate to say it, but we're not going back, you know, to the 20th century. Right. We are too far into the 21st to think about going back. You know? So stop, stop with this bullshit. Stop acting like a Democrat or a woke liberal, you know? Yep. And just, and just, I, I, that's why, I mean, I freaking read, our article and it just, it just set me off. And it's like, oh, no. No. No. No.
[00:47:13] Bryan Goodwin:
I cannot let this go unanswered. I just couldn't. Well, and I and I get that. And there's a part of me that that agrees with you because we're not gonna fix anything because all we're doing is they punched us. They got they got Trump with, they were able to put 34, convictions on the on the Trump for felonies Mhmm. And and all that. And yeah. We could do we could turn around. We could go after Hillary. We could go after Biden. We could go after, Pelosi. We could go after AOC. We go after everybody. I mean, everyone in in the Washington DC area is guilty of something.
[00:47:54] Rich Chelson:
Right. But but that's the thing. What would it cost to taxpayers? Us How much how much would it cost?
[00:48:02] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, it depends. If they stop, we would save money doing that if they did stop the the Ukraine, Ukraine money, laundering scheme. No. No. No. Not that they're going to do that because the, you know, because the the military industrial complex
[00:48:20] Rich Chelson:
is having way too much fun spending money there. Oh, I know. I know. No. No. What I'm saying is, though, if if we went after Hillary, Nancy Pelosi, Schumer, and meddler, all these fuckers, okay, it would be out on our dime.
[00:48:35] Bryan Goodwin:
We would have to pay for that. I I I agree. It would we would be we would pay for it, but we'd still be end up saving more money than what than what, we're doing within the laundering scheme money laundering scheme. But but at the same time, we're there's a part of me that wants to go off and dot the dot their i's going, yeah. See, this is what happens when you fuck around. You find out that, yeah, we're going to eventually end up being in control and there you go. You now know, don't fuck around. If you don't like if you're afraid that we're going to take control, don't do it. And that's I mean, that's one of the big things, you know, that I would always one of the big arguments that I would make is, like, what if y'all I can understand. That makes sense.
If y'all were to stay in control forever.
[00:49:33] Rich Chelson:
Well, I mean, they would love that. Whatever whatever scheme, whatever
[00:49:38] Bryan Goodwin:
lopsided idea they came up with again Works real good if the Republicans never got into office again. If the Republicans got into power again, you're gonna have to worry about that coming right back at you. And that's and a lot of times that's what we end up trying to do. I mean, like this like taking, taking going after Trump. Okay. Congratulations, Democrat. Just opened up a can of of of harassment and bullshit. Took a many years to do that. For the next 100 years.
[00:50:18] Rich Chelson:
Then years, though. Somewhat
[00:50:20] Bryan Goodwin:
unless somebody grows a set of balls and goes, no. We're gonna be the bigger people. We're gonna point what they done wrong, and we're gonna leave it at that.
[00:50:33] Rich Chelson:
Well, well,
[00:50:35] Bryan Goodwin:
but Again, will they stop?
[00:50:38] Rich Chelson:
Did Probably not. Hold on. Hold on. Did you hear hear what SCOTUS said the other day?
[00:50:44] Bryan Goodwin:
About what?
[00:50:46] Duuude-Ron :
Trump.
[00:50:50] Rich Chelson:
They said,
[00:50:51] Bryan Goodwin:
I guess not them.
[00:50:53] Rich Chelson:
They had a ruling come down Monday. I think it was Monday. Yeah. That, Trump has some immunity.
[00:51:04] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, talking about the the immunity of, president's immunity while in office. Yeah. Yeah. I did hear about that one.
[00:51:10] Rich Chelson:
So so and so, yeah, they're everyone's kinda quieting down on, lawsuits and shit.
[00:51:20] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, yeah. They have to because well, I mean, they've already got all the black women set up, Bailey. So because that's what they've done. They they because all the all the big prosecutors and stuff, they all that's they they went and sicced after, after Trump. They were all DEI hires. They're a bunch of black women. They're they're all black women or all the prosecutors. You got, you got Fannie Willis down in, down in Atlanta. And you've got, what's her name up in New York. Well, for The democrats again are showing that they're showing the racism once more. Yeah. Because Fannie because these are all all these black women are fixing to take the fall.
All the DEI hires are fixing to be out on their ass because they went be after skin color and sexual orientation. Right. Not whether they could do the job or not. That was that was, like, 5th down the line. It was like, alright. Well, you're you've got the right skin color. You got the right gender, and, you've got, yeah. Yeah. You you will you like you like rug munching. Alright. Good, dude. We're good. We've got got all those critical things checked off. Go go prosecute Trump. And not thinking of, well, a, should you be prosecuting Trump? And b,
[00:52:53] Rich Chelson:
can you? Right.
[00:52:56] Bryan Goodwin:
And they're finding out. Well, no. Just because you think Trump is a mean man and that he hurts people feelings and and that he he's got this weird orange tint, He should be he should be prosecuted, and he doesn't believe in our ideas. That's not the reason to try to throw him into jail. Well, they I mean, they tried. Yet that's what they that's what they've been trying for the you know, they were trying for the past 8 years.
[00:53:25] Rich Chelson:
Right. Yeah. And and the thing is they're, even trying to get the, New York case overturned and thrown out.
[00:53:33] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah. Now they're and and they know that it will. Mhmm. Again, that and that will stand to be for that that DA, assistant DA or or prosecutor will end up getting fired because of it. So again, thank you, Democrats. Y'all have, again, successfully shown that y'all cannot handle race at all. Y'all let your color your your true racist color shine every single time y'all try something out.
[00:54:05] Rich Chelson:
They can't handle race. They can't handle money. They can't handle anything.
[00:54:10] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, no. They're they're they're the, I just got finished bringing the fountainhead, for the, for the year. And, there was Howard Rourke's courtroom speech said something that's that really spoke out because it was I don't have it in front of me, and I'm not gonna turn make myself turn sideways and stuff. But it to the point, it was talking about how people, because of altruism, they try to get people to fill a spot who doesn't Who don't have the ability to fill that spot. And sadly, you have to have the ability. If you wanna be able to fill a, become a good, you know, DA, you have to have the ability to be a good DA and to be be, fair.
Just because you think that you've been mistreated back, you know, back in the, back in the eighties for whatever reason, is not a reason to try to go after everybody around, everybody who's opposite of you. Right. To go off and to have a racist heart isn't a reason to try to get even. What'd you hear, Rhett? That's what that's what the what Martin Luther King was trying to trying to preach is don't go to it with hatred in your heart. Right. You're going to lose every single time. Right. And But if you go
[00:55:49] Rich Chelson:
go ahead. I I was gonna say I was gonna say that's like that's like with anything, you know, that you go and do. If if if you go in to do something, anything, with with anything else other than, you know,
[00:56:07] Bryan Goodwin:
Benevolence of of doing it, Of the pleasure of being able to do it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean,
[00:56:13] Rich Chelson:
you will fail 99% of the time. Yeah. You know, because, you know, you know, a lot of people well, that's like that's like when Joe Rogan sold his show to Spotify and everybody jumped on. And they were just thinking about money. You know? I wanna be like Joe Rogan. I wanna be like Joe Rogan. And they all failed. You see? And that's the thing. If you do anything, just go out and do it. And you know what? Eventually, things will, you know, whatever it is, things will start to happen. Right. But now everyone needs to have it right now, you know, because because, god forbid, that is their identity.
[00:56:58] Bryan Goodwin:
Well yeah. And that's I mean, we're we run into that same problem even now with, in podcast. I mean, podcasting started out as being the middle finger to the, to the gatekeepers of broadcast.
[00:57:10] Rich Chelson:
Right. Right.
[00:57:11] Bryan Goodwin:
And now you've got the broadcast the gatekeepers of broadcasting trying to come in and say and talk about how horrible podcasting is and that they need to come up with a new way of doing doing the the, the distribution because you can't measure how the performance. It's like you don't need to measure the performance. Look at your downloads. Are you getting people interacting with your stuff? If yes, then you are doing great. That's the objective of your of your of your show. Now if you're wondering, hey. Well, I need to have, you know, I'm trying to make money off this. Well, if you're doing it for the money, you're not gonna make money. Because even though this is supposed to be a, and I I don't know, and nobody knows where this $2,200,000,000 of it, for the industry's at, But that's what they claim. It's it's a $2,200,000,000
[00:58:07] Rich Chelson:
industry. No. I'd care. It's not. Industry?
[00:58:09] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Yeah. Hell no. And with people who are making money off of it are the idiots who don't know what podcasting is about. They're going like NPR where they have, like, 75 people to a team for a show. Right. A show that takes maybe 2 people or like in our case, 3 peep Right. And that's all you need. Well You don't need 4 editors and 3 sound designers and and these people and that people and and and No. Executive producer and a co executive producer and an executive producer for the co executive producer and the assistant gets co executive producer for the co. You know? And it's like, goddamn, man. No wonder y'all are trying to spend, you know, $500,000 on on a podcast.
[00:58:55] Rich Chelson:
Well, see see, there's this one podcast. So and and, see, I think it's out in New York. I can't I can't think of the name of it right now. It's freaking awesome. They they have they have big, big production teams. But their podcasts are, are fully produced. And I'm talking with sounds. I mean, it's all researched, and it's it's, man. It's a famous one too.
[00:59:22] Bryan Goodwin:
Hang on. Percent invisible?
[00:59:26] Rich Chelson:
No. Nope. It's not it's not, NPR either, but it's out of out of, New York.
[00:59:44] Bryan Goodwin:
Nah, that would be WNYC is what I gave gave, which is the NPR.
[00:59:48] Rich Chelson:
Oh, is it? Public radio. Well, I mean I mean but but you see that see, I'll know it as soon as I no. That's a channel art.
[01:00:02] Bryan Goodwin:
It might be that, but Oh, 99% Invisible, This American Life. This American Life's been around forever.
[01:00:09] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. But but you see, that's the thing, though. The shows I mean, yeah, they they had, yeah, a major team, but, I mean, it was the show was a pleasure to listen to
[01:00:24] Bryan Goodwin:
because Oh, yeah. But you again, but you don't need 47 people to do the show. No. No. No. That's true. You don't. You don't. And what that was is like, hey. We got money here. I'm gonna jump in here and I convinced that I'll shoehorn myself into this into this group. And so yeah. And that's one reason why NPR is now shedding shows. Because after a while, yeah, they were making money, from the podcast because they were well, the podcast were able to do something that the radio shows weren't able to do. They were able to do advertising.
They broke their lone little rule on, well, we're not gonna advertise. Well, except for on the podcast. The podcast we're gonna add, we can advertise. And they were advertising, and they were bringing in a lot of money. Mhmm. But at the same time, they could have been bringing in a whole lot more money if they didn't have 47 people on the on a on a show. Well, that is true. You may have needed, you know, maybe, an editor, maybe a sound designer, and maybe a producer, and then the host. I mean, 4, 5 people, 5 people at max.
[01:01:37] Rich Chelson:
Right. I mean, we do it with 3, but, of course, we don't we don't have a a highly
[01:01:45] Bryan Goodwin:
I don't wanna do that type of work. That's No. Way too much freaking work for for a because it if y'all don't know, when it comes to a podcast, there is a ratio. Podcasts are a 4 to 1 ratio. For every minute, or 1 to 4 ratio. For every minute of of show that you hear, there's 4 minutes worth of work put into it. Yep. And that is editing. That is posting. That is getting all the, album art taken care of, doing all the background stuff, getting once it goes live, promoting it, sharing it out with and and every everywhere. And that's how that's how much it works for audio.
Video podcast, you double that. It's now for every minute, there's 8 minutes. Yeah. Video. Yeah. Video's even worse. And so, yeah, it gets to be a huge pain in the ass. And, yeah, you would it it helps if you could cut things up and give, you know, break it up into 4 chunks and everybody does does 4, but still that it still equals out to being a 4 to 1 or 1 to 4 ratio.
[01:02:55] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[01:02:56] Bryan Goodwin:
No matter how much you cut it up, it's still going to be 1 hour show, 4 hours of work. Yep. And yeah.
[01:03:05] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Think about it. You know, we do, you know, 2 and a half.
[01:03:10] Bryan Goodwin:
You know? Yeah. We're doing 2a half hour shows. So there's it and it does. It takes a little while for for the editing and and just the cleanups. And if you heard on, like, the preshow and stuff or right there at the beginning, I ended up having to do put a cut in so that we know, hey, this is a little area, I we screwed up. I had a had an audio problem. My my, my cord that I was using was dying on me, which is interesting because the brand didn't crack the cord. But Yeah. It's stashing cords, man. Gotta love them. No. No. Actually, it's an apple cord.
[01:03:44] Rich Chelson:
Well, there's your problem. There's your problem. It's Apple.
[01:03:49] Bryan Goodwin:
Android Except for the fact that Apple,
[01:03:51] Rich Chelson:
Apple has Android, baby. Android.
[01:03:54] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, I mean, I've this one I one that I've I replaced it with is, it's a it's a gas station 1. So it's it works. Okay. And then I've got I've got an anchor, cord that's, that's for the, for the the power to go to the, to the Zoom. So, you know, it's all it all is, you know, But they we had a small problem, so I ended up having to do a small cutout in that. But Yeah. That's But anyhow so so, Ron, what do you think of all what we've been talking about?
[01:04:28] Duuude-Ron :
I have absolutely no clue whatsoever. You fell asleep on me?
[01:04:35] Bryan Goodwin:
No. I didn't fall asleep on you.
[01:04:37] Duuude-Ron :
I just got a lot on my mind.
[01:04:40] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, I understand. So do you what do you think about, Kash Patel wanting to get back the, back to the democrats for, for being little shits.
[01:04:54] Rich Chelson:
For for 2020, basically.
[01:04:57] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. You know, what is it like, Rachel was saying, what is it
[01:05:08] Bryan Goodwin:
going to fix.
[01:05:10] Duuude-Ron :
Go Well You know, the they can go after every Democrat that has been should there is a hell of a lot of them, but like, even Brian said, 99.9% of every person that's in want there to represent Right. The people that book them in. They're there to represent themselves and to see, you know, how much money they can make other than their salary. It it and with the democrats, you know, it's all been it's all done. What the hell is trying to rehash all this shit? What's it gonna solve? Nothing. Except for everybody spending like what Brian said. Spending taxpayers' money on stupid shit. Stupid shit. Yeah.
You know, okay. When are they going to start spending money on, resolving homelessness? When are they gonna start spending money on resolving veterans crisis and, 22 a day. Right. You know, soldier suicide. Start spending money here in the United States instead of sending 90% of our money out of our country and helping everybody else. They, you know, they send all the money to Ukraine, and you it goes to certain individuals where it's supposed to go to the Ukrainian people and the and the efforts for the Ukrainian military. But, okay, the president just bought himself a fucking house wherever it was, a mansion for several $1,000,000.
Yeah. Yep. For the the what was it?
[01:07:32] Bryan Goodwin:
$15,000,000, some shit like that? Nah. It I all I know is it's more than what I make in a year, so it's it's a bit.
[01:07:39] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. So
[01:07:41] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. And you don't even know that.
[01:07:43] Duuude-Ron :
Why are those people even getting fucking anything? Why? Because the top 1 percenters, the only you know, the only thing they want is they're they can't be content with how much money they have right now. They want more. It's never It's they want more, and it's never gonna be enough.
[01:08:07] Rich Chelson:
Nope.
[01:08:08] Duuude-Ron :
I have I have a million. No. I need 10,000,000. Once they get 10,000,000, oh, no. 10,000,000 is not good enough. I need a 100,000,000. Oh, no. A 100,000,000 wasn't good enough. I need a 1,000,000,000. Yeah. Okay. What the fuck are they gonna spend it on?
[01:08:27] Rich Chelson:
They don't care because they don't have to worry about it. They'll just they'll just pass money down to their family, dude.
[01:08:35] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Okay. And how many houses can you own and how many boats can you water ski behind at the same time?
[01:08:45] Rich Chelson:
Well, that yeah. That's a challenge. You're right. Now, I had read sometime, a few years back, I had read this that the Johnson and Johnson family, you know, the baby shampoo people plus other stuff. Yep. They have so much money that their great, great grandkids will never have to work a day in their life already. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, and, you know, so, and, and I mean, so any child born into that family today, well, will never have to work a day in their life ever.
[01:09:26] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. They have that And that's not fair to the kids either because that's No. You're right. That's one of the reasons why you have so many of these rich liberals. Mhmm. Is because they sit around and go, oh, man. I have just way too much money here. I should be giving this to the poor. But no, let's not give it to the poor because I'm kinda the poor. So let's let's give it to a to a 501c3 so that they can give it to the 4. You know? And they're they don't pay attention to what it is that they're actually giving it. And so they try this whole altruism thing, and they try all the different aspects of socialism and thinking because it makes it sound really good and, you know, it's it's hip to be, you know, to to poo poo money except for the fact that they're not about to give up their money. Well, no. They're gonna give up everybody else's money. That's what that's what social media is all about. It's not it's not what can I spend my money on? It's what can I spend your money on?
[01:10:36] Rich Chelson:
Mhmm. Exactly. Yeah.
[01:10:40] Bryan Goodwin:
So now did wanna jump over to something because we lost somebody today. And this is somebody who I I liked. I enjoyed watching her in several, the movies that she was in.
[01:10:58] Rich Chelson:
Who'd we lose?
[01:11:00] Bryan Goodwin:
Shelley Duvall. No way. Really? Yeah. Yep. She died. 75 years old. Apparently complications from, diabetes is what I've heard. Lived down in Blanco, Texas. Oh my god. Just just North San Antonio, just hop, skip, and a jump away from Fredericksburg. Right. Yeah. She and she was she was a recluse. She did have a, I wanna call him a boyfriend, but they were just they were friends, and he was a boy. And, and they boyfriend. He's a boyfriend. And but, they just called called her his, or called him, her her partner or whatever. So whatever that's supposed to mean. But anyhow, he said that, she just she died peacefully in her sleep, last night. And that's I mean, that's just that's sad thing to hear that we've lost a a a a great actress. Well, I'm gonna say great actress. She was an okay actress.
She was, but, but, I mean, heck, she was in some very memorable shows. I mean and a lot of people wanna try to point out, the shining. And, yeah, she did a great job of being with Torrance in there, but at the same time, the way that, that she was treated on that on that set was was if it was anywhere close to true, it's for shit. I would I've I'm not a, I wouldn't, would never say that that was a a great piece. So if you had to actually almost psychologically torture a an actress to get her to to act the way she wanted her to act. And that's what, apparently, that's what Stanley Kubrick did. I mean, there was times where, apparently, he had her do a 147 takes to get the proper amount of exo emotional exhaustion he wanted to her to emote.
[01:13:16] Rich Chelson:
You see that, that you see, if you ask me, that is going overboard. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I agree. I mean, I mean, because I mean, I mean, actors and, actresses, you know, especially if they've been doing this for quite a while, are very good at what they do.
[01:13:34] Bryan Goodwin:
You know? Yeah. Then I mean and like I said, she's not known for being a she was never gonna be a Greta Garbo or Bette Davis. Right. Right. Or anything like that. But at the same time, I mean, come on. She was olive oil. She was the perfect olive oil for Popeye. Right. And that was Yeah. Is one one of my favorite movies. You know? That I love Popeye. I remember watching it in the theaters. And it was just a delightfully screwy, wonderful callback to the early Popeye's. I mean and if you catch some of the really early stuff, I mean, you hear Robin Williams did a great job of, you know, doing his little talking to himself through, through, through his interactions with, with the oils.
And, I can't remember. See castor oil, I think it was, was the dad's name. I thought it was funny. But, if you look through all their names, they're all different types of oils. There's like olive oil, castor oil, sunflower oil, you know, all these different oils. Oil, vegetable
[01:14:40] Rich Chelson:
club. Or maybe vegetable's not a name. But
[01:14:43] Bryan Goodwin:
But, but, you know, so, but if I'm thinking about the dad, he would always walk around going, you owe me an apology. And that was his whole kind of his whole line through the whole series of of of early Popeye comics and and and, and and, cartoons and stuff. And so it was it was great. I mean, you had, you know, you had the Commodore and and blue Pluto and everybody else in there. Right. And great fun songs. They, they were always fun just to sing. But, you know, and and and he had Sweepy and and all the and all the characters. Even even Whippy was running around and they're asking for, to borrow he'd gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.
[01:15:34] Rich Chelson:
And My god. And but he was And it could be Tuesday, but he meant next Tuesday. Yeah. Next Tuesday. Yeah. So but I mean It's the 2nd Tuesday of next week.
[01:15:45] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. And she was in many, many, not only Popeye's, not only Shining, not only Home Fries, but, I mean, her first one was was way back, Something McCloud. I can't even remember what it's called, but it is, like, way back in, like, the early seventies, late sixties, early seventies. And I mean, back then when she was really young, she was actually a very beautiful woman. She had the twiggy look, which was in vogue at that time. But she was she wasn't as as gaunt as as like she was in in the, in The Shining. Right. But shortly after after that, I mean, she still did some movies from time to time, but, yeah, she she eventually just kinda swore off of everything. It was like going, I'm I'm living by myself. I'm I'm I'm not going out and about. I mean, you see, there's a couple of, TikTok, at least one TikTok, channel out there that talked about how this girl had befriended Shelley Duvall.
And from time to time, they they would run into each other, and they would talk a little bit on, on the, on the TikTok, and it would be done and over with and go on. But it was and, yeah, you could see she had a she she wasn't living the easy life. And if you didn't know it was Shelley Duvall, you wouldn't have you wouldn't have easily recognized
[01:17:21] Rich Chelson:
her. Right. Right. But but say, I had I had I had looked at But at the same time, I mean, yeah. Yeah. If we lost Yeah. That's that's crazy. I I mean, I while while you were talking, I had looked her up and, and I mean, yeah, she's not a bad looking woman. You know? She just you know, that's just how she is. I mean, it's crazy, though. You know?
[01:17:46] Bryan Goodwin:
I mean, you weren't gonna you weren't ever gonna see a a box of, bosomed type of woman out off off of Shelley Duvall, but took for what she was when she was back when she first started acting.
[01:17:57] Rich Chelson:
Well, you see okay. Let me ask you this. From from from I mean, you can't answer for all men, but why does mainly most of the men I'll use it that way. Why can't they appreciate a woman who isn't buxom or, you know, whatever? You know, because I Well, because I I've seen I've seen I've seen many women of many different shapes and sizes. Okay? And a lot of them are like very freaking pretty, but just because they don't fit into that, what, quote unquote, you know, code that that is out there. It's it's like, why are we still dealing with that in the 21st century?
[01:18:54] Bryan Goodwin:
Because that's that's that is biology. We are attracted to the 36, 24, 36,
[01:19:03] Rich Chelson:
the hour that hourglass shape. I wanna see 5 3, baby. Come on now.
[01:19:09] Bryan Goodwin:
362436 doesn't matter to height. That ratio of boom boom boom is seen all throughout history. Any woman, the because Marilyn Monroe fell into that same same I forget what they call the, the call ratio, but it's it's the 36, 24, 36 is considered a a particular type of ratio. Right. That all men, Well, not all men, but the majority of men, when they see it, that is a a sign of a very breedable woman.
[01:19:54] Rich Chelson:
Well, she's
[01:19:55] Bryan Goodwin:
She's got enough she's got enough mammary gland so she can feed the kids. She's got big enough hips so that she can birth kids without them getting stuck. Yeah. You see this. And so we see that and that is what causes us to go, hey. Yeah. She's gonna be getting out. Is it all all men gonna be No. Matter of fact, most gen, most gen c, they actually are one of the few times where the overall approval that guys had was more on butts than it was on breasts. And I think a lot of that just had to do with the fact that guys were gonna look at something.
And why they and, because girls were throwing a big old fit because guys were looking at boobs. Even though they were putting them right out there in front street, right from everybody's face. Well, stop. My eyes are up here. Well, quit showing your tits down here. Alright? Breathe you know? Right. But because they bitched about that so much that, guys were like going, well, she can't tell if I'm looking at her ass. And so true. They get they got around to going, well, I'm I'm more of a butt guy. And sorry, but I was raised in the eighties. Now you're gonna give me boobies. I will look at boobs openly.
You know And, if you have a problem with it, then cover them up.
[01:21:28] Rich Chelson:
I don't know. It just it just I I I mean and maybe I'm thinking too much or whatnot. Maybe maybe I'm maturing or I don't know what the hell. But but, you know, because I'm not saying that that I'm innocent because back in the eighties nineties, I was a little fucking horned up, you know. Oh, yeah. Well, yeah. I wanted to see boobs and everything and all like that. But it's like now it's like it's like learn to appreciate everyone. In fact in fact, on the beach today when I was on the beach today oh my god. There was a whole lot of woman and she was on the beach enjoying herself in, you know, in her bathing suit and she bent over and it was, you know, but I didn't, you know, think, oh my god. That's nasty. I mean, I'm not saying it was exactly gorgeous, but, you know, but I was like, I was just I don't know. Kinda like At least she has no shame. Good. Well, no. Yeah. You're right. This is true. And I mean I mean, you know, I don't know. It just it's just, I've learned to appreciate the beauty and and, you know, you know, different things.
[01:22:49] Bryan Goodwin:
No. Yeah. No. No. I'm I'm with you. I mean And And I'm I was the same way you were back whenever back when I was younger. First, the mother of my my oldest was an ugly woman. I will admit that up up completely. I was I was paying attention with the wrong freaking head is what I was doing because this chick was not anywhere close to pretty. And, but she was easy. And that's what it wound up. Hey. And all we needed.
[01:23:21] Rich Chelson:
Dude, when we're in our early twenties, dude, easy is, like,
[01:23:25] Bryan Goodwin:
top of the list. If if if the watermelon sit still, it's like, okay. Sure. Yeah. Uh-huh. So
[01:23:33] Rich Chelson:
Yes. Yeah. I remember them days. Oh my god.
[01:23:37] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. No. And so, I mean and and sad thing is is that's not is still not even changed with the with the young men of today. The only issue they the only issue they have right now is the fact they've got easy access to porn. Instead of chasing after the girls, they can just look at look at a girl and and sadly, not even not even enjoy the the excitement of the chase. Right. Because that is there's a lot of fucking fun when you're chasing after women.
[01:24:10] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I mean, I, well, I I mean, I say yeah, but, you know, it's been it's been quite a while since I've chased after a woman. I mean, I'm I would, I wanna say I'm chasing after 1 now, but I don't know if I'm chasing or I, I don't know what I'm doing. I'm just, I'm just exist. I'm just by ear. That's it. I mean, that's exactly what I'm doing. You know? I mean, I got to have dinner with her the other night. So
[01:24:42] Bryan Goodwin:
that's There you go.
[01:24:44] Rich Chelson:
I scored that a win in my column. That that yeah. I was gonna say winner. And it wasn't a chicken dinner. I guarantee you that.
[01:24:54] Duuude-Ron :
Winner or weeder?
[01:24:56] Rich Chelson:
Mhmm. When No. No. It was No. Sadly, wasn't the second part. No. No. It was just dinner. Yeah. We yeah, we went to a Mexican restaurant and had a very nice dinner and just sat there. And I I just enjoyed. Got it. This first time in 12 years that I had, you know well, I I don't know if it was a date. I'm gonna call it a date because I'm gonna take that I'm gonna take that win. So, you know but I'm just going with the flow. Right. So oh, yeah. I got some sad news, man. Uh-oh. Yeah. It's it's I'm I'm, like, really, really freaking bummed. My, my, whole health coach, Heather Okay. I don't have her no more.
[01:25:48] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, no.
[01:25:49] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah. She, couple weeks ago, on our conversation, we were talking, and she had gotten offered another job over at Iowa State doing basically the same job she was doing at the VA. And, everything. Yeah. Yeah. And and plus at the VA because because, her and I talked about it. The, VA in her department, she was the only one left. Everyone else had moved on. You know? So it's like and, yeah, I was bummed. I'd yeah. I was really bummed.
[01:26:31] Bryan Goodwin:
But That's an option you can, you can do whenever you, re up for a for another whole health coach here in there in Mississippi. He goes, and she's gotta have a really, really, real I mean, really cute voice.
[01:26:45] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Right. I mean, I
[01:26:49] Bryan Goodwin:
you see that's the time I don't care if she looks like a Ryan Austin's ass end. As long as her voice is we're good.
[01:26:56] Rich Chelson:
That voice and and and and be personable. Yeah. That's Yeah. That's that you see this whole thing. Me and her talked for, what, 2, 2 and a half years, something like that. I mean, it was a long free every 2 weeks, we would talk for an hour, hour and a half. Normally, an hour and a half, she would just I mean, we and we'd talk about everything. And and they just trust me at times, especially up north, between you all and her, that's the only thing that kept me alive. That is the only thing that kept me alive is is the fact that I had you all and I had her to talk to.
You know, other than that, yeah. I probably would have been among the 22. You know? Right. The They they well, you know, they're dude knows. There was times when I was I was, yeah, right close. But but and and I told her, I said I said, you know, I told her, I said, honey, I said I said I knew I knew I I knew this was gonna come to an end. And I told her, I said, I ain't happy about it. I ain't gonna lie to you. I ain't happy about it. You know? But and I haven't decided if if I wanna go with another whole health coach because if they ain't like Heather, I won't I won't deal with them.
Sorry. I got spoiled. You know? So,
[01:28:26] Bryan Goodwin:
so so We got your new whole health coach. Oh, great. I'll talk to him tomorrow. Ring, ring. Hello? This is my whole health coach. Why? Yes. It is. Oh god.
[01:28:38] Rich Chelson:
Dude, yeah. You got the wrong number later. Yeah. No. I mean, like, yeah, no. That that that well, now now with Whole Health, if you sign up with Whole Health Whole Health. They freaking want you to watch a freaking hour and a half long video.
[01:28:59] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. About?
[01:29:01] Rich Chelson:
I don't know. I've never watched it. I don't know. Well, well, no, because cause you see that's something that's saying when I got down here and, went to my first, my first VA appointment down here. I had asked my doc about staying with Heather, my Whole Health coach from up north. And, well, 3 days later, Whole Health from Pensacola, Florida called me up. And she's like, yeah. Yeah. I need to get you signed up on, Whole Health Coach, and and and and I need you to watch an hour and a half long video. And I'm like, woah. Hold on here. I hold it. I've already got my Whole Health Coach. I've been talking to her for a long time now. Every 2 weeks. I'm like, no. I don't need one. She's like, oh, okay. So, yeah, I do know they want you to watch another half long video. Why the fuck? I don't know.
But,
[01:30:01] Bryan Goodwin:
you know, it's help. It's one of those old 19 fifties. What is hell? Johnny here was it's fiddle as they like.
[01:30:13] Rich Chelson:
Right. Yeah. I don't know. It's it's you know, might be wanting to explain what is whole health? You don't freaking get it. Just talk to the freaking veteran. Just just talk to them. They I I mean, seriously, that will do more. And, you know, this is why we do our Wednesday night calls and and allow veterans on operation tiers of 22, you know? Right. You know, same thing. Just talk to a freaking veteran. Just general chitchat because 9 times out of 10, just a a general conversation will help them more than than you'll ever know. Right.
So now, but yeah. So, so yeah, I've been, it's been 2 weeks since I talked to her and normally, tomorrow would be my time to talk to her. And so I'm just kind of bumped. I ain't gonna lie. I'm just kind of bumped. I know. So
[01:31:22] Bryan Goodwin:
But I Tell me about Walmart.
[01:31:25] Rich Chelson:
Them sons of bitches.
[01:31:27] Bryan Goodwin:
Walmart. Walmart and Sam's.
[01:31:30] Rich Chelson:
Yes. Well, I mean, honestly, it's just the same fucking thing, really. Yeah. Just a bigger a bigger building. Mhmm. Well yeah. Now now Sam's Club. Okay. Now now Walmart, and I think Walmart had already started doing this. Was and and it really didn't make the, news, but Sam's Club because you have to buy a separate doohickey. Sam's Club is is, is, revoking the free shipping for online orders under $50 Yep. Now. And and so so so if if your order is under $50, it's an $8 flat shipping fee. But but yet, they are not dropping the cost of the, dues.
Yeah. So why? I mean, what's I I mean, seriously, what is it to Walmart if if they say, you know, the $35 gets free shipping? Why can't they offer free shipping? Because
[01:32:41] Bryan Goodwin:
it's it's freaking Because of inflation. That would be the reason why. Oh, yeah. Well That money's not going near as far as it used to. I mean, it's not Well, not shit. They're only they're limiting that $8.
[01:32:54] Rich Chelson:
Well, yeah. Okay. But freaking Walmart makes 1,000,000,000 of dollars of fucking in profit a quarter.
[01:33:01] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. The, it's the So But the but the effective amount of those 1,000,000,000 is maybe instead of being $8,000,000,000 which I know it's more than 8,000,000,000. I I know this. But, you know, as as a means of of argument that But that $8,000,000,000 that, years they're making is equaling out to being 6. So they may be I mean, when you're because inflation, a lot of people like, oh, well, we're we've got, you know, we've got 16% inflation. Oh, well, we got it down at 16% inflation. We got it down to to to 5% inflation. Well, that's 5% on top of the 16 that we had last month.
It's it's accumulative. And that's what a lot of people think, oh, well look, we got inflation down. No. No. No. No. No. If you wanna get inflation down, then you have to have negative inflation. Okay. Okay. Instead of having 16% inflation, it's now you'd have to to fix that. You would have to have minus 16 inflation the next month.
[01:34:06] Rich Chelson:
Okay. Okay. Hold on here. Hold on here. Walmart's annual gross profit for 2023.
[01:34:15] Duuude-Ron :
Yep.
[01:34:16] Rich Chelson:
147.568000000000 dollars. So you mean to tell me and and that was 2023. Okay? Oh, hang on. 2024 for the, financial year 2024? That would 161 0.043000000000. So you mean to tell me charging $8 a flat rate shipping is gonna break fucking Walmart.
[01:34:49] Bryan Goodwin:
Charging $8 for Walmart is is helping them be because the one thing you have to remember is Walmart, when they went public yeah, they get a lot of money from the public to to add money to their to to their call offer so that they can actually grow and and develop and and and expand.
[01:35:16] Rich Chelson:
How big do they need need to be, dude? I mean, I mean Depends on what the the the shareholders
[01:35:25] Bryan Goodwin:
Okay. Okay. Hang on. Hang on. Because when you go public, it you're no longer well, we we need to go ahead. We're gonna work on this. No. They have to figure out every way to cut costs so that they can bring the profits up more so that the shareholders, the the stockholders, actually, not just share holders, but stockholders themselves can actually make money. Okay. If they don't, the stockholders can actually come in and sue Walmart for mismanagement of funds.
[01:35:56] Rich Chelson:
Okay. Okay. Hold on. Right now in Bentonville, Arkansas. Okay. Which is the home of Walmart. Yep. Alright. And and in fact, let me bring the map up because it starts at j street. I I I know where it starts. Walmart is building a new, home office, data center, all this, everything. And I will, tell you because it's it's I think 6 square city blocks, I think. And because, I mean and this area was, that's not j street. Hang on. This area was where Walmart had a had a had a had a whole bunch of stuff. Different buildings, like like Walmart had their own GM, Walmart had a couple distribution centers, and stuff like this. Okay?
Right. And and and so so instead of repurposing those buildings, Okay. Walmart Walmart is oh, that's center okay. Here. That's I Street. Yeah. J Street. Aswan Boulevard. Nope. I need to go no. I need to go this way. P Street. Or no. J Street. Yeah. Between J Street and Southeast 14th, and I know you would have to look on Google Maps. Yeah. Yeah. You'd have to go down to east central, which is 1, 2, 3, 4 city blocks. You would have to go across 1, 2, 3 city blocks and then come back up those 4 city blocks and come back across. That is gonna be the new home center of Walmart.
[01:38:04] Bryan Goodwin:
K.
[01:38:05] Rich Chelson:
Okay? And everything like this. So there are so called everyday low prices, which aren't low. Okay?
[01:38:16] Bryan Goodwin:
But they are lower than most other prices.
[01:38:20] Rich Chelson:
Are you sure about that?
[01:38:22] Bryan Goodwin:
Unless you wanna go online to Amazon. Yeah. For for for Elk City? Yeah. Because you can go to yeah. You see, but but Now you get you get better quality when you go to United or Homeland. Right. You get better quality meats, which is the place where we go just we go on hit. We have given up trying to do it at the we'll grab some, some 90, like, 93 7, ground beef jugs from Walmart from time to time just because you know? Alright. So they're they're they're just as much, it's hamburger meat. It's just getting in there just instead of having to run across town to to there. But if we're wanting to grab some beef steaks and things like that, no. I don't we we tried Walmart tried Walmart. Yeah. You can get some steaks. They're, like, maybe a quarter inch thick.
Right. And, yeah, they've got thick steaks. I mean, you can pick up a tomahawk steak over Walmart, and it'd be a good inch and a half thick.
[01:39:27] Rich Chelson:
But you're also looking at $50 for the damn thing. Right. But still, okay, what I'm saying is is a 161,000,000,000 fucking dollars a year. And, and they're worried about $8
[01:39:41] Bryan Goodwin:
I mean, give us a How many people are doing the shipping? How many people are, a day are shipping?
[01:39:50] Rich Chelson:
Take a $100,000 a day. 100,000 people a day.
[01:39:55] Bryan Goodwin:
Okay. Okay. A 100,000 people a day. Times 8 is $800,000
[01:40:00] Rich Chelson:
a day. But the thing is is how much money did they spend? Because most people will spend more than $35. Now some won't, of course.
[01:40:11] Bryan Goodwin:
But Now some people are just going, I just need a pat just need a a couple cans of soup and and have them ship it over to Okay. I mean, yeah. But And that's that's a that's a that's a loss. Okay. And they they and granted yeah. This is But again, this is also society not regulating themselves. So Walmart has had to do this because of all the dipshits over in California who can't keep their hands off the freaking merch merchandise and wanna run off with
[01:40:48] Rich Chelson:
it. Well, yeah. Well, it's not just California. So all the all the loss Absolutely.
[01:40:53] Bryan Goodwin:
All the mark all the the, the what do they call it? It's not loss. Anyhow, instead of having the products just, you know, just kinda up and fucking disappear and and stuff, they, shrinkage. That's the word I'm looking for. They have to sit there and worry about about shrinkage, which is just the fact that they bought 50,000, 50,000 units of a doohickey, and then they take, you know, half of that sent into California, and 2 thirds of that gets stolen. Right. Okay. Hold on. Hold on. And there's some places where like in California or like in, like in San Francisco, they're actually there's the mayor and some of the, sit some of the city council members are actually going to are actually trying to get a, an ordinance passed to where if you are a shop if you are a grocery store or you sell groceries and you're going out of business, you can't just shut your business down.
You actually have to keep it open because, you know, it's a food it's a food desert. Well, it's not my fucking fault. It's not the grocer's fucking fault either, asshat. If you would've gone off and actually be going after the people who are stealing the food, maybe that grocery store would've stayed open. But no. Oh, I can't because he's a black person. Foo freaking who? Can't help you there. Oh, no. No. I get it. They ran off. They lost lost money. They can't stay open. And so it try trying to force a person to continue to lose their livelihood and to lose all their money, go destitute because, well, they can't be closing. Well, they can't be buying other buy food either. So what are they gonna do? They're just gonna have a grocery store that's open.
Honestly, if I was in that area and I was like, you know what? I've gotta close, but I'm not allowed to close. I would just open the doors and walk out and say Right. No one owns this. That I'm I'll I'll tell the landowners, like, hey, take it over whenever you're ready for it. I'm not doing anymore. And I would just I would let them try to let them try to sue me. It's like, dude, fuck you. Y'all have a good day. You're not getting my shit. Oh, you sued me. Oh, you won because I wasn't in to end the state. Oh, okay. Oh, chapter 7. I'm sorry. Yeah. I'm bankrupt. Bye. And and go on my way. Right. Now hold on here. Hold on here.
[01:43:35] Rich Chelson:
There, on this on this Sam's Club's thing and this Walmart thing. Now there are 2 different tiers with Sam's Club. There's a basic membership, which is now $50. Yeah. And there's a plus, which is a $110. And, actually actually, they increased those fees in October of 2022. So
[01:43:59] Bryan Goodwin:
so again And Costco just increased their fees too.
[01:44:03] Rich Chelson:
Yes. Okay. I understand that. But Costco's not fucking around with the shipping either. And you see, because one of the benefits Not yet. Oh, well, right. But Walmart's now listen. One of the benefits for what was that? That was advertised for the plus membership included free shipping.
[01:44:24] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[01:44:25] Rich Chelson:
That was I mean, you pay a $110 a year and you get free shipping no matter what you ordered. And now
[01:44:32] Bryan Goodwin:
Walmart is saying, no. Kiss my ass. Under $50, you're paying the Yeah. Because if it's a loss leader, I'd be doing the same thing. That's one reason that's something, you know, and put this in more of a tangible means. People want, like, Patreon. Back when Patreon first came out, they were like, and we'll give you a free t shirt and and all this for if you do a $5 donation. Until they realize, holy shit, $5 doesn't go very far. I'm losing money for whatever t shirt I give out. Well, that's their dumbass. So they had to pull Well, exactly. It is their they they they chose wrong.
They made a wrong choice. They didn't see look far enough in the future to go, I didn't realize we were gonna get so popular that all of a sudden every $5 t shirt was gonna cost me that an extra $10 out of my own pocket. Right. I've gotta make a change. And so they had to change. It was and it started out really good. They've had to change it. And so people are going And the public will decide, you know what? I'm not going to stand for this. I'm gonna go to Costco. And a lot of people at first are gonna do that until they realize, oh, wait a minute. I liked Walmart and Sam's Club for this reason itself. And they're gonna go back to it. And they're gonna go back to it quietly. Right now, they're all pissed off. They they're they're they got their butt hurt. And so they're gonna go off and they're making a big noise. Oh my god. Walmart went off and is making charging us $8 to buy one item.
Have you gone to Amazon and bought a $10 item before? There's times it costs you $15 for a $5 item to ship. I get free shipping. So Well, that yeah. Because you're not prime. If you don't Well, no. I know. I I I don't care to pay I don't care to pay the 100 and something odd dollars a month a year to to do the Prime. I don't order enough from Amazon to do that. Well, they've got prime video too. I mean, I I I watch a lot of prime video. But but no. I use prime video for for my my purchases. So
[01:46:39] Rich Chelson:
Okay. But but see see, that's the thing that you see, I don't even shop at Walmart or Sam's Club, but it just pisses me off that that because the Q1 earnings of 2024 for Sam's Club was 21,400,000,000. Yeah. Okay? Profits for the 1st quarter. And it's, and why were they, why are they,
[01:47:03] Bryan Goodwin:
why were they that part of that profitable?
[01:47:05] Rich Chelson:
Because they've been They kept raising prices.
[01:47:08] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, they have to keep raising prices.
[01:47:12] Rich Chelson:
No. They don't, dude. I Yeah. They do. I mean, if if they were if they were to keep well, you're right. They could eat milk at
[01:47:21] Bryan Goodwin:
at a dollar 50, and they would be losing 1,000,000,000.
[01:47:26] Rich Chelson:
You think? Yes. Well, yeah. You know, probably you're right because of all the government fucking regulations of bullshit on milk. Because I remember I could get milk straight from the cow when when I was growing up for a dollar a fucking gallon. Yeah. And I'm talking that was from the tit to the jar.
[01:47:49] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. You know? And and at one time, yeah, it would've been that. But inflation again has caused prices to have to increase. It's, it yeah. It sucks, but it's not Walmart's fault for them having to increase the prices. Again, you gotta point finger at the at the old old senile fucktard that's hanging out in the in the wall in in in the White House right now. Well, no. And they get both him. Him and his crony. Maker we're a salad chef that's standing around. They're going Right. Oh, yeah. Well, you know, a in AI is for artificial, and the I is for intelligence, which is what something I don't quite have all that often. But, you know, we do have such intelligent things that are gonna be able to you know? And then I love listening to her because she sounds like she is a freshman high schooler who did not read the book report.
[01:48:49] Rich Chelson:
Oh my god. No. She dude, if I sit and listen to her, I just I just get pissed off and wanna smack her. But no. You no. No. No. You say it you know, it sounds like I'm trashing on Walmart. Yes. I am because I hate fucking Walmart. Because Yeah. I I mean I mean, I've lived in Bentonville, Arkansas. I've lived in Northwest Arkansas, and that is nothing but fucking Walmart on every goddamn corner. Right. Every corner, there's a supercenter, a neighborhood market, a convenience store. I mean, it's something Walmart every fucking way, and I hate it. And so I don't go to Walmart. But yet you know? And and it's I know it's not just Walmart doing this. It's it's other companies too. But, you know, this is what I'm saying. You know? They're saying, oh, you know, we had to raise our prices. Really? You buy in bulk for 500 fucking stores.
You you freaking get your shit a whole lot cheaper than what you sell it for. Right. You know, if you know, I mean, you took out the cashiers and then you bitch about because, you know, now you get people stealing from them. Yeah. Right. Right. Right. So so what do you do? Take out the fucking cashiers and put someone at the door. Oh, I need to check your receipt. Fuck you. Get out of my ass. You know?
[01:50:12] Bryan Goodwin:
And it's just it's bullshit. It's like No. There's not there's a lot of it that I agree. But this is the beauty, of capitalism, though, is if you don't like it, that's awesome. You don't have to. You can go to, you know, someplace else. Well, they've got the better prices. Then you have to either shit or get off the pot, ma'am, because you could either, a, bitch about the Walmart, and my wife does it. She loves to bitch about Walmart. I mean, it is oh, that is her favorite game every Sunday afternoon. Afternoon. Right. Right. Going on Saturdays because there's the lines are there'll be 5,000 people in there, 2 lanes open.
Because I refuse to do the, the self checkout. I'm Right. Right. It's like I wanna make if I'm going there, I'm gonna make sure the person who is getting paid gets paid for their job. Right. They're actually getting to do what they need to do. And so we go on Sundays because they at least have the 2 lanes open, but there's only, you know, a 100 people in line instead of the 500.
[01:51:16] Rich Chelson:
Right. Right. But no, you see. But
[01:51:19] Bryan Goodwin:
like I said, I go I don't buy the meat at at Walmart anymore. Because Right. One, Homeland and United, a, have higher quality, but I Mhmm. But, but the prices are still, attainable. I would love to be able to go to Keith's meat market, but I can't afford, you know, $25 a pound for for incredible hamburger, you know, with round chuck and some other assorted yum, delicious oh, my son's the best damn hamburger meat. But, you know, I can't afford it. Right. So Right. I I think he puts a little crack in there just to make sure that people come back. Because, I mean, it's amazing. It's it's some of the best best hamburger meat you ever come across. But he's also got other stuff in there, and it's all cut great and it's marvelous and beautiful.
It's great. But, again, I can't afford it. So I can't quite attain Keith's meat market, but I can't attain some good decent black and red river, red river Angus at, at Homeland. I think I got that. It might be the opposite. No. United is, the dry aged beef, and Homeland is the, is the, just the regular black Angus. So bam. Yeah. Well, let's say that There's there's options. Right. But that and that's that's capitalism, though. That's the glory of capitalism. You have a choice. You may not wanna drive 2 hours to go get the good choice,
[01:52:49] Rich Chelson:
but you have that choice. You have that option of being. Oh, no. I'll drive. I'll drive because I just I just I just went to the commissary on base, on the air force base, spent 75 fucking dollars, and got a month's worth of groceries.
[01:53:03] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. I got I got $200 for $75. It's amazing.
[01:53:10] Rich Chelson:
I mean, seriously, fuck a Walmart, you know? Oh, yeah. I mean, I I just I don't know. I like that. Hey. It's just it just irks me because, you know, people, you know, say, oh, you know, we're doing this. And then all of a sudden, out of the blue, they just change. You know? And it's like Yeah. And and I get I get that. But at the same time, they there are factors in their choice
[01:53:37] Bryan Goodwin:
that we're not a we're not privy to. Well, okay. Yeah. I get it. But And so why are they raising prices or why did they have to cut that off? Because I'm I'm the the only reason why they're doing that is because it is a loss. They were doing it at a loss. How big? Don't know. Maybe maybe their 21,000,000,000, dollars would have fallen down to 19,000,000,000. Oh my god. Well, I know. I don't. But you're thinking you. You're looking at you're you're looking at what you're able to attain. I would look at a $100,000 and go, oh my god. You know, I'd cream my pants if someone dropped a $100,000 in my in in my hands. Right. Yet, there's gonna become a point when a $100,000 for my business is not gonna be enough because that $100,000 is going to get folded into other stuff and I still gotta be able to live off of it. Mhmm.
So I'm gonna be doing you know, if I if my dreams come true, like I would like for them too, eventually, I'm gonna be taking a group of men over to, over to Ward Branch. We're going to be walking the Camino all the way across the, all across Spain and ending over, Camino de Santiago. You know, we're gonna be, or the, Santiago de Compostela. We're gonna be walking that and doing a, you know, doing a 6 week intensive coaching session Right. While we're walking across doing this doing this this pilgrimage. But then there's also, the thoughts of doing men's retreat where it's just a group of, like, 30 men that we all get together, And we go out into the Grand Tetons, and we get lost out there for a week. And it's just us versus the bears, you know, and beat them up because apparently, they're taking all our women.
So, you know
[01:55:37] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I want, I want pictures of that. You wanna join us?
[01:55:44] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. I'm gonna be boxing it out.
[01:55:48] Rich Chelson:
Oh my god.
[01:55:50] Bryan Goodwin:
Playing the game hungry, hungry hippo. You know? Hippo. Exactly. Yeah. We're gonna find you. 2 guys on one on one side, 2 group pairs on the other.
[01:55:59] Rich Chelson:
Oh god. That'd be funny. That would be fucking hilarious.
[01:56:04] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. But then wait till that monopoly game comes out. Someone's gonna get pissed and we're gonna be flipping tables. So So do So but no. I mean, but these are things that I wanna do, but to be able to do that, that's gonna take a good chunk of money. So these are things that, yeah. I've eventually, I wanna be able to get around to where I can say, I make a $100,000,000 a year. Right. Will that ever happen? Probably not. I'm But I'm gonna be happy with making 50,000,000. Do I need that 50,000,000? No. But that 50,000,000 is a scorecard on Right. How successful I was on changing men's lives for the better.
Can I change enough men's lives that they have the most incredible merit that they're willing to fork over, you know, $15,000 for 6 week for a 6 week trip? Yeah. I don't know. I think I'll be able to.
[01:57:10] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[01:57:12] Bryan Goodwin:
But, you know, that's not anything that I'm I'm not to that point yet, so I'm not worried about it. I'm trying to get up to making $1,000 a month. Right. If I can get to that, then boom. Alright. I I'm I'm set. I can take go to I can take my step to the next level and learn the next set of skills. But again, when we're trying to convert compare that and compare and contrast to what Walmart does, Walmart's an international corporation. They're going they're they're operating in so many zeros that, yeah, it fries our minds like $21,000,000,000 Good grief. They wouldn't miss a miss a dollar.
Well, in all reality, they would miss a dollar. Because if someone took a dollar and then they took a dollar again, eventually that though all those little dollars are gonna add up and then all of a sudden, they're gonna find themselves short a $1,000,000. And that's really gonna ring a bell.
[01:58:09] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. God forbid. 1 of the execs don't get their $5,000,000 bonus.
[01:58:15] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, but there there's times that that people get people steal $1,000,000.
[01:58:21] Rich Chelson:
I get it. I get it. But yet at the same time I mean, someone doing, you know, someone doing a a vice president's job, a CEO job, or, you know I mean, yes. I understand it's hard. You know, there's a lot of different decisions. But do they really need $10,000,000 a year?
[01:58:43] Bryan Goodwin:
No. But they're providing $10,000,000 like you're worth of value. Well And and that's debatable. The reason why it's debatable is because to you, no. But if you were in their seat, you would like that $10,000,000.
[01:58:59] Rich Chelson:
Maybe, maybe not. I mean, I don't know because I I have never been
[01:59:04] Bryan Goodwin:
saddled with that problem yet. Right. May you know, maybe one day. Yeah. And that's one reason why so many people who win the lottery and they get saddled with a $100,000,000 lotto prize, 2 years later, they're broke. Yeah. Because yeah. They don't have anything to show with it because they that that $100,000 or a $100,000,000 was too much for them. That Right. Put them so far out of their comfort zone that they had to get rid of that money and get rid of it fast. And so they were gonna do everything they could. And that And so they pushed the million the shit out of it. Yeah. And and sadly,
[01:59:45] Rich Chelson:
you know, a lot of people do that because we're not trained. We're we're not taught how to deal with
[01:59:53] Bryan Goodwin:
large amounts of money like that. Yeah. I mean And that's why I so many people struggle with whenever I say this. The poor are poor because they've chosen to be. They don't wanna do the work to become rich. Right. That's too hard. That's too scary. That's there's too much there's too much judgment in in about what being rich means. Right. I'm not gonna be no no money grubbering son of a bitch like that. Well, guess what? That's the reason why you're not you're you're making barely $20,000. You're sitting there looking down your nose at a $50,000 a year job going, well, I'm not about to do that. Well, okay.
[02:00:32] Rich Chelson:
Stop bitching about and being broke. That's like that's like that's like my first my first award from the VA Yeah. On my on my claim. I got 34,000. You do. Oh, goddamn. I was crying like a little baby. You know? I and, you know, I I would $34,000 is dumped in my account. And I'm like, what the fuck do I do? Yeah. You know? And How do I handle this? I mean, thank God thank God I did have a plan because I had thought about what what I would do with it. And so I didn't just totally blow it. You know? Right. I did use it for a lot of good. But, yeah, I mean, the first time I freaking opened my bank account, saw that. Oh, yeah. Shit. I was I was scared. All of a sudden, you've got a 5 digit figure in there. You're like, okay. Let's, no. We're not gonna mess with that right now. It's like it's like I can buy lunch today. I'm good.
[02:01:33] Bryan Goodwin:
And that's a good place to start. I mean, that's one things like, when my son got, his inheritance from his grandpa
[02:01:41] Rich Chelson:
Mhmm.
[02:01:43] Bryan Goodwin:
He took it to a point because he he took my the advice to a point because all of a sudden he had 4 other adults. His granddad, his grandmother, his great aunt, and his great uncle were all all of us were standing around going, you need to take this money, put it away, sit on it, don't mess with it until you can look at it and not sweat and not have a reaction to it. Right. And he had didn't quite do that because, I mean, once he got the got moved to the house, he bought he spent $8,000 on on this and spent a couple 8,000 several dollar several, actually, not 8, but, $2,000 off television set.
And he, you know, he went, he went a little a little crazy, bought himself a high end computer and all this. And so I was like, you know, fooling their money. You do what you have to think you have to do, but I'm sorry, man. But yeah. And and just in, you know, for, as a parent, you're just standing there going, dude, no. You're spending don't spend all the money. You're gonna you're gonna wish you had to spend all that money, you know. And he finally kinda hit a point where he's like, okay. Hold up. Hold up. Hold up. I'm this money's going faster than what I what I wanted it to. And so he's stuck a bunch of it into into a into stocks stuff. And and also he was like, he started using the stocks as, as the collateral for a couple of loans because he was like, well, I'm gonna because he wanted to start a business. It's like, okay. And he's now learning the what it takes to be a to in the means of work for a business because he's like going, well, I he got him all this stuff and he's got it kinda set up, but he's not really pimping it all all that much because, well, that's where all the work is. Right. You have to go around. You have to market. You have to talk to people. And he's like, oh, you know, I just wanna play golf. And I wanna play disc golf. And I was like, I get it.
But that's not your job no more. Your job is to go out and help other people play this golf.
[02:03:49] Rich Chelson:
Mhmm.
[02:03:51] Bryan Goodwin:
And and so it's it's a hard thing for him to get grasp. I mean, it's like, for me, it's like, I I don't, I would love to be able to just hang out at the house. But I want, I love the fact that I am now able to help. I've got a set of skills that allows me to help men who are struggling with their relationships.
[02:04:15] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[02:04:17] Bryan Goodwin:
And be able to show them that problem isn't that their their fucking wife is not giving them the blow jobs they want every night. That's a symptom of what the actual problem is. That problem is just the what they're thinking. Mhmm. Exactly.
[02:04:35] Rich Chelson:
And 10. Out of 10. That's exactly what they do. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, that's why
[02:04:40] Bryan Goodwin:
Is my sense. Things I was I I had come to a conclude come to a realization here recently is when you start to relax, hence the relaxed smell, when you find the wherewithal to relax, when you find that ill ease, that disease that's inside of you, and you can process that and get rid of it, all of a sudden, like you found out, the need to be drunk all the time goes away. Oh, yeah. The need to look at porn all the time Goes away. Goes away. All of a sudden, trying to just have sex with your wife isn't as important. Right. When you do get to have sex, that's when the fun happens. It's like, alright. Yep. We're meeting on her terms and my terms and we get to have a wonderful time. It's not just me seeing if I can get my rocks off.
It's not me just seeing exactly, you know, how quickly can I make her toes curl? There's Right. A whole synergy that goes into it to where, yeah, all of a sudden you're not having as often sex is often. And for somebody who is at a has a ill ease at them within them, that scares a crap. What do you mean I'm I'm married and I'm not gonna have as much sex as I I was as I want? Because you'll be okay.
[02:06:06] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Well, you see, it's simple. Quality over quantity
[02:06:11] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Wins every time. Now if we can have a whole lot of quality, that's better. But at the same time, you know, together. Take it as it comes, dude. Take it as it comes, exactly. Baby steps.
[02:06:23] Rich Chelson:
Hey. Hey. Hey. Just to let you know, we got about 5 left.
[02:06:27] Bryan Goodwin:
I was just, just peeking there. I was like, oh, alright. Well, we gotta be getting close here. Yeah. So so alright. Well, guys, let's go ahead and let's pack this baby on. Hold on a second. Hold on a second.
[02:06:39] Rich Chelson:
Dude.
[02:06:40] Bryan Goodwin:
Dude. I I What are your thoughts on this? It's true.
[02:06:43] Rich Chelson:
We we haven't heard from you, man. So enlighten us.
[02:06:50] Bryan Goodwin:
Lay upon us the the due
[02:06:55] Rich Chelson:
knowledge.
[02:06:59] Duuude-Ron :
I don't
[02:07:00] Rich Chelson:
know. Okay. The dude knowledge.
[02:07:05] Bryan Goodwin:
I love it. That is so so far out, man. Wow.
[02:07:09] Duuude-Ron :
Yes. Yeah. Dude You know, I've been I've been listening to you, and it's like just listening, but not really listening.
[02:07:22] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. So okay. So what about, what what are you what are your thoughts on Walmart charging $8 for shipping and dropping the free shipping for anything under $50. Well,
[02:07:44] Duuude-Ron :
you know, I I I agree with Rich on the aspects that they are a multibillion dollar company and that okay. And you're man, if you wanna shop at Sam's, you have to have a membership, something like that. I think that they can, maybe loosen their purse strings a little bit. You know? Is it really hurting their bottom their dump, their bottom line when it comes to shipping?
[02:08:25] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, what if they face the face the possibility of being sued by their stockholder because they're not making as much profit as they can.
[02:08:38] Duuude-Ron :
Trust me. They're gonna make profits regardless, you know? And I had never heard of any stockholders suing a company for what their possibilities of their stock rates or stock price is. I I don't know any of that. So, you know, most people that have the end me as an individual, say, if I own 15 shares of Walmart stock, am I really gonna worry about, you know, my measly little piece of the pie on shipping? No. Now I understand if you have 1,000,000 of dollars and or 1,000,000 of shares of Walmart that okay. Yeah. Do you wanna make a little bit more money? Well, anybody that has that kind of money, The only reason why they have money is to make more money and in turn to make more money and in turn to make more money.
You know, again, it all goes back to those that have want more and to hell with everybody else. No. I completely get it. You know? But I think it's bullshit that, you know, about charging an $8 flat rate for shipping for anything $135 just That's why people join, say, Sam's and this other Walmart. They're they're the fucking thing that they're doing for the privilege of having the free shipping. Okay? They just Right. Leave this fucking shit alone. Just leave it alone.
[02:11:02] Rich Chelson:
Yeah? Hey, man, dude. And I love it.
[02:11:06] Duuude-Ron :
So and, yes, I've been listening to it. And the one thing I saw, I think it was on Facebook. I can't remember. Which I think going to Costco, what one of their policies is, and I think it is freaking out standing that if you are a member and if you get caught parking in a handicapped spot and you are not placarded or got a license plate, they can and will revoke your membership.
[02:11:51] Rich Chelson:
Oh, wow.
[02:11:52] Duuude-Ron :
It's Costco.
[02:11:54] Rich Chelson:
I did not know that.
[02:11:56] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I think that is freaking outstanding. If you want to abuse that privilege because okay. The state of Texas, with me having a disable or a disability plate with the military. Disabled vet. A DV plate. Disabled vet. I could up until September of the year before last. So it's it's been in effect for this September will be 2 years, that they took the privilege of a disabled vet to where you can no longer park in a handicap spot with just disabled vet plates. Now you either have to have a handicapped licensed disabled veteran plate or you have to have a placard, which I never used them anyway. Even though I got DV plates, I I don't park in a handicap spot. Why? Because I'm perfectly able, and somebody that they have all they have, the fucking handicap placards, need those parking spots.
And I agree with that a 100%. And I don't, again, I don't use any handicap spots and never have with a disabled veteran's plate. But Costco is, like I said, if they catch any of their, club members parking in handicap, handicap parking spots, and they don't have placards, they will they're starting to, suspend those individuals' membership. That's kinda cool. And I think that is freaking outstanding. Yeah.
[02:14:20] Rich Chelson:
So well, Brian, do you have parting thoughts?
[02:14:25] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, got a few parting, parting thoughts, parting shots. So anyhow, guys, again, this is a, value for value show. We, accept time, talent, and treasure. You can if you wanna be able to help us in some way, always be able to send out over a, email to either me or Rich. I'm circlecast, [email protected]. Rich is rchelson. That's [email protected]. You can reach out to either one of us and say, hey, man. I would love to be able to help you with x, y, and or z. Love to be able to, see how we can, how we can fit you into the, end of the team, let you be able to help us. If you are, if you have a a particular talent and would love to be able to contribute to your talent to the show, love to have that also.
All of these will also be that we're not just gonna be greedy sons of guns because if you apply treasure and you are somebody who has applied, given some, some, talent or time, what we would end up doing is we'd take a little bit of a give you a little bit of a split off of the, off the Satoshis that come in because we with, with the treasure, you can use your fiat currency, your little green certificates of appreciation by going over to PayPal, and you can actually follow the link by going over to, to 2 grumpy vets.com, and up there, you'll see a value for value tab. Just hit the tab and there's, there's the, the PayPal link right there. You can, you can click on that and send the, money over to us. Or if you like, you can use a modern podcasting app.
You can actually send send us, boosts and or send us a boost to Graham, and that was is a boost with a message, and we will then take the message. We'll read the message out. And the boost, they come to us, and they get split up right now. Get 3 split up, 4 different ways because the music that we that you hear at the beginning, that is all, open to open source, music that's comes from actual, music artists who actually get a portion of the, of our stats. But if you if so if you were to contribute, then we would throw you into the, end of the mix for that, for that episode too. And we wanna say just say thank you. It's not that we're trying to do this, the value for value as a means for us to become rich greedy bastards. I'm doing that on my own. I've got my own little business that I'm trying to become rich greedy bastard on. This here is just so to be rich and and the dude can actually sit back, talk, have a good time, laugh, giggle, see talk about what's going on in the world just so that we can actually utilize the term grumpy because, heck, a lot of the stuff just makes us kinda grumpy. So that's that's what we wanna do. And I wanna thank all of y'all for taking the time to listen. We are still growing. We're still becoming better. And if you would please take the time, share the this episode out. If you found something that you found funny, share it over on the Facebook. Share it on the Twitter, X, Instagram, threads, Mastodon, whatever whatever social media, what is the one? I found one here recently that I've been playing around with. I think it's called Storyside.
Fires no. It's not Fireside. I think it's Storyside. But anyhow Okay. It it's kinda interesting. It's got videos. It's got it's got a video section. It's got a, got a, a a post section. It's got several different little bits in there, and so I've been just starting last week, I just started messing around with it. So it's got I haven't got given a whole lot of thought as to the effectiveness and and stuff. Definitely doesn't have the, the critical mass as as number of people and number of users because, yeah, it's, it's a little slow. But it's it's really cool. It's pretty. So, so I've been playing around with that. But there's a lot of different ways. If you're primal, you can you know, using some of the nostrils stuff that we're you can you can share this out with anybody and everybody. And when you do share that, you're letting people know that, hey. There are these 3 heads in one brain that is just the bizarrest thing you've ever come across.
And we'd love the fact that we have more people come in, listen, and stay if they like us and, you know, they don't like us. Okay. Cool. Well, thank you for trying. You know. Right. And, yeah. Tell your friends, you know, and maybe Tell your friends. Tell tell your family. Tell your friends' family and tell your family's friends. And, you know, we would love to love to have more people join up. So, Rich, what do you have to say?
[02:19:10] Rich Chelson:
Well, apparently, I got wound up a little bit tonight, and and it just That's good. I mean, yeah, it is good because, by god, it just I owned up to my name Grumpy Rich. But, no, I just I just wanna say, you know, thank you for let everybody. Thank you for listening. All the listens we get. Yeah. I mean, there's I don't know. I I haven't looked at the numbers. So but I'm just I'm just grateful people are listening. And, you know, best thing to do is just 1 foot forward, breathe in, breathe out, and, yeah. Enjoy life one day at a time, man.
[02:19:54] Bryan Goodwin:
So Absolutely.
[02:19:55] Rich Chelson:
That's all I got, man.
[02:19:57] Bryan Goodwin:
Alright. Ron, the dude himself, what do you have to say? Oh, hail the dude.
[02:20:06] Duuude-Ron :
Well, the dude the dude will as always, is just kinda lurking in the shadows and just listening and, you know, gives his comments every, oh, now and then and, you know, may cut in a little bit. But as, Rich and Brian say, you know, yeah, we get together. We have our opinions about certain things, and, these are our opinions. They may not be your opinions. And then if you like our opinions, that's great. If you don't like our opinions, well, sorry. Yeah. We're not gonna change our opinion. However, your opinions, and I'll say this every week, your opinions on somebody that you know that may be feeling down, feeling suicidal, just not thinking straight.
If you know somebody that that is currently in that situation, Most of the time, they just wanna talk, and they need an ear to listen to what they have to say. And it it it's just mainly and a lot of it is just folks trying to get their stress off their shoulders, and they just need somebody to listen to them. And that makes that makes some people a lot better, and that helps. So anytime that you know a veteran or a friend that is not you know that something is going on, get just talk to them. Try to have them open up and, you know, get that weight off of their shoulders because most of the time, that's what they're looking for is somebody just to listen so they can get the weight off their shoulders.
And be kind. I know that I'm and, the people that I work with and the associates that I know, I'm an asshole, just because when I come to work, I come to work. I don't play gram ass. You know, my industry. Yeah. There's no room for error. Yes. I'm an asshole, but I am a fair asshole.
[02:23:10] Rich Chelson:
And you are True. You're still kind, dude. You are still, you're still kind at times.
[02:23:18] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I'm still kind and I will still offer my knowledge to anybody that, you know, I yes. I'm a a major asshole, but every day, I will have an associate that will come up and ask me a question because they know my knowledge base because I've worked in every department at my plant. And, yes, I have a lot of knowledge, and I'm willing to share it. Why not? If it's gonna if it's gonna make somebody a better associate to have that information, why keep it to myself? Yeah. Okay. I'll share my knowledge for free. And I got a lot I every day, somebody will ask me in one shape or form, what is your thought on this? Because you you have been through this situation, you know.
I haven't. So, you know, I'd like to learn, and I'm willing to teach.
[02:24:25] Rich Chelson:
That's cool. I I would I would still I would still charge him at least a banana.
[02:24:35] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[02:24:36] Rich Chelson:
I mean, dude, I need I I need some nana pickles. No. Sorry. It's just me being an an ass.
[02:24:47] Duuude-Ron :
So, yeah, within the next couple of weeks, and we're talking about, Rich's drinking at one time, I'm sure that he will consume a considerable amount of what Matt has made for adult refreshing drinks come the, tears of the 22 event.
[02:25:14] Rich Chelson:
Yep. Probably not, dude.
[02:25:16] Duuude-Ron :
Probably not. How many how many no? No?
[02:25:20] Rich Chelson:
No. I probably won't. I mean, I didn't hardly drink and, at Stubborn at all. I mean, I think I'm I might have had a 12 pack the whole time I was down there.
[02:25:31] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. But he didn't bring any shine with him.
[02:25:33] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. But, I mean, I'm just dude, I've got a quart of swamp juice that I brought back in June that I haven't even cracked. Oh, okay. I'm afraid right now. So I I just that's the thing. And like like Brian was saying, you know, I don't I don't have that disease, so I really don't wanna drink, man.
[02:25:55] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Okay. Alright. Well, you know I mean, now now. Would be great. No. Which is absolutely great.
[02:26:02] Rich Chelson:
Now now now I'm not saying that that I won't, but I I'm gonna make sure I don't get drunk. Let's put it that way.
[02:26:14] Duuude-Ron :
Well, if if, and that's about a 50 foot word right now, if I'm even able to attend because right now, you know, I just, again, don't have the finances to attend. Right. Right. And if something changes and I'm able to attend, Yeah. Friday night? Yeah. I'm gonna get freaking ham bored. All down on my face or just pass out in the chair hammered, but not Saturday night because and that really sucks trying to drive back that Sunday. No. It'll Right. It'll be Friday night.
[02:27:02] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's fine.
[02:27:04] Bryan Goodwin:
So where are you gonna find all these bottle and James, wine coolers at?
[02:27:10] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, hell no. I'm gonna steal from Matt's shine stash. Oh, you can go for the hard stuff. Alright. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Have about 4 of those in a in an hour.
[02:27:26] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah. He would be he would be toasted. He would find the I was gonna say, we're gonna find find Ron hanging upside down from one of the tree houses going, and then wonder what the hell got into him.
[02:27:41] Duuude-Ron :
Right. I was the, Yeah. I was toasted not last time, but the time before that. Yeah. I was well, you were right. You guys remember me. Oh, yeah. Yep. Getting staggering around.
[02:27:55] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. You as happy as a clam, dude. I was happy as a clam.
[02:28:01] Duuude-Ron :
So Yeah. Alright. I might I might, I might not.
[02:28:06] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, if you do, that'll be a sight to see. If you don't, well, still, you'll be a sight to see. That's right.
[02:28:14] Duuude-Ron :
If I'm able to go yep. So right now, you know, the chances are not looking very good whatsoever.
[02:28:23] Bryan Goodwin:
I sadly, I the the wife and my daughters informed me that, no, I wouldn't be able make it to this year's either just because birthday falls right, right in that, that area. So Right. So now I I got a 10 birthdays. So Oh, so you won't be able to make it? No. I'm not gonna be able to. I'm I'm gonna have to I I I get to hang around hang around with Nugget and give her see if we take her over to the splash pad just have a good old time. So
[02:28:55] Rich Chelson:
Well, that'll
[02:28:56] Bryan Goodwin:
work. Oh, heck yeah. So So but anyhow so alright. Well, guys, y'all have a good rest of the, rest of the week. We will see y'all next, next Thursday when we go live at 7:30. No. No. No. No. I'm not going live next week. I'll be on the road. Trevor. We're not doing live next week, the next week, or the next week. So But So it'll be when we do go live, we go live at 7:30. But don't worry about the live because we're not doing live this this next week because yeah. Right. We're not doing live this next week. Now we're the next week or the next so Right. So no lives scheduled for the next 3 weeks, but then after that, keep an eye out on the on the socials because you'll see that, the 7:30 lives will pop up again. And, then you can start listening on your pod, on your modern podcasting app choice, which you can go get over at podcasting2.org/apps.
So guys, with that, I'm gonna say bye. Y'all take care. Catch y'all laters. Sianora. I'll read with Darche. And any other words you could say for later, dude?
[02:30:04] Rich Chelson:
Later.
[02:30:05] Duuude-Ron :
Steve sat now. Bye, guys. See you guys. See you. Alright. Bye.
Hey, man. Hello, and welcome to 2 Grumpy Vets and a dude. I'm your host, Brian. I'm here with the 2 other others. We have Rich and the Dude, and we are got another fun filled action packed. What in the hell type of a show we're doing gonna be doing this week. Each week, we'd like to get together, guys. We, sit around and we just talk them. So we'd set up just to turn this week, this weekly talk into a podcast. Why? Because, hey, it's something fun, something different, and, you know, it it it befuddles the dude because it's, it pulls him completely out of his comfort zone. So why not? And so we've started to turn this into a show, and this is our 12, 13th.
13th. That was our day.
[00:00:50] Rich Chelson:
No. No. We've done 12.
[00:00:52] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. It's like the 15th episode now. Oh, fuck. I I don't know that. Why would you come on, man. Why don't we just say 23?
[00:00:59] Duuude-Ron :
Why don't we just say 20?
[00:01:02] Bryan Goodwin:
It's between 10 and 20. We we're somewhere in between the 10th episode and 20th episode because the 10th episode is one of those magic numbers. You know, once you get past,
[00:01:12] Rich Chelson:
past 10, you are more than, like, 90% of the podcast that I've ever started. So So, yeah, why why do we need to keep track? But, I mean, I know.
[00:01:23] Bryan Goodwin:
Just to give us some time. Like to it gives us something to brag about here in about another 4 years. We can go, yeah. This is episode 212, and it you know? Right. And we get to get to really hoop it up. But so but anyhow. So yeah. We started started talking and wanted to go ahead and share this These talks with everybody else and just let everybody kinda hear how, you know, guys who intentionally live life, live intentionally a part of each other's life, How what that looks like and how can it, how can it be be used? And we said, you know what? Let's also go ahead and turn this into a value for value deal. And so
[00:02:06] Rich Chelson:
What happened, dude?
[00:02:09] Bryan Goodwin:
I don't I don't know. This is Well, at least he's not going Chinese cellular. Because I think my cord is is is for shit.
[00:02:19] Rich Chelson:
Hold on. You're you're sounding fine.
[00:02:23] Bryan Goodwin:
What what story? Hearing anything.
[00:02:25] Rich Chelson:
You're not hearing anything?
[00:02:27] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. You're breaking up Let me give this twist around here.
[00:02:30] Duuude-Ron :
You're breaking up sadly on my end.
[00:02:34] Rich Chelson:
Your, audio Breaking up badly? Oh, that's better on your audio. No. I no. I can hear you fine.
[00:02:44] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, so now when you're not breaking up.
[00:02:49] Rich Chelson:
Well, well, Brian stepped away. So, yeah, actually, the, value for value model is you know, we we did it because we don't wanna be censored because, Apple Podcasts like to censor, other podcasts. So just because I don't like what they say and yeah. You see, our podcast, we say what we want. So it is Brian back?
[00:03:14] Bryan Goodwin:
I am now, and I'm gonna put I'm gonna put a, marker in here so that, you know where to cut this stuff out when you're editing for the, for the, podcast itself. So just look for the 3 spikes. So well, I I should be able to see this the spikes also. It just it helps for me to be able to know what to get a g a g decent area as to where to look. So but anyhow, so guys, yeah, we so we as we got together, something hey, let's even let's make this even more interesting. Let's turn it on to value for value. And with the value for value angle, what we're doing is we use podcasting 2.0, tags, and this allows us to be able to, a, receive time, talent, treasure, but also gives us the ability to, put in our our own list our any special folks that we end up getting on the show at any particular time or if we end up having somebody who wants to send us, some satoshis. They're able to stream satoshis to us. If you wanna send us a message, you can do that using the boostagram, and you could do all this through a podcasting 2.0 compliant app, the modern podcasting app. You can do so by going to podcasting 2.org/apps, and there's a big old list of all the modern podcasting apps that accept podcasting 2 point o type podcast.
And if you don't if you're listening on just normal one, you're not gonna be have features and stats. You're not gonna see the, the people or the, or the The lives. The lives. The lives is the big one. We're going we're live right now. And if you wanted to and you're driving down the road, wanted to hear what the podcast was, you can actually jump on and listen. And with this, actually, is really cool because we're we actually start the live a a little bit early so that you get a little bit of the, the preshow before we start start in with the hey, everybody. Hello and welcome. And so we get this, and it just there's a lot of great stuff that comes about on this. And so we're we, we wanted to just explore and and, try stuff out. And that's that's what we're doing here. We're just having a good time and, and doing so with a with a big old grin on our face because, hey, man. This is this is fun stuff. It is. It's perfect. We have got and we do have a purpose. Yeah. We're wanting to show, show the dude what is possible with podcasting because eventually, we're gonna have him doing his own roller skating, based,
[00:05:54] Rich Chelson:
podcast and We are not getting notes on the dude.
[00:05:58] Bryan Goodwin:
We're we're gonna get he's gonna get there
[00:06:01] Rich Chelson:
one day. And he's not he's gonna wonder how in the heck he went so long without doing a podcast. Right. Right. And it might take us 10 years, but we're still doing it. Yeah. We we we will persevere.
[00:06:13] Bryan Goodwin:
Just He will end up being on the podcasting hall of fame. I know.
[00:06:18] Duuude-Ron :
So That would be awesome. There's a hall of fame for podcasting? Yes. Yes. Yep. There is. No shit. Okay.
[00:06:25] Bryan Goodwin:
See? They don't have a home as of yet, so they're just kinda they're just collecting those. But, like, Dave Jackson, Rob Walsh. Adam Curry is here in all of his name. Adam oh, yeah. Adam Curry, Dave Weiner. I think Dave Weiner's on there is there too since he was actually the one who did most of the coding.
[00:06:45] Rich Chelson:
What is that? Is Mark Marron? I don't know if Mark Marron is. I'm sure Mark Marron is. Yeah. I would think so. I mean, they've done they've got quite a few. What about senior j Lewis?
[00:06:56] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah. Daniel's Daniel's on there. He was actually on, what is it, the podcasting organization until, until he actually spoke his mind, and they we found out exactly what type of, what type of group the the podcasting organization. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Podcasting Academy,
[00:07:18] Rich Chelson:
academy of podcasters. Wow. Found out what their, what their politics were. So Reason. The, the, the reason why I like Daniel j Lewis so much. I mean, I mean, listening to his podcast, I can listen to him for a little bit, but there's just something about his voice that that I you know, it is weird in my headphones, but but I can still listen to his content. Right? But this man here, he's he freaking gets along with everybody until and and and the thing is, dude's a Christian. I mean, I mean, he, he reads his Bible and stuff like this, and and and I love that about him. But when he gets his dander up, he speaks his mind,
[00:08:07] Bryan Goodwin:
you know? Yeah. He does. And and but
[00:08:10] Rich Chelson:
but it's always clean. But but it's it's I don't know. I just I just like him for that because he's not afraid to stand up, you know. I mean and and he's not afraid to, you know, talk about his faith or anything like that. I mean, he's he's just really decent guy, and he's, I mean, he's smart as a whip. Oh my lord. Dude is, like, major smart. But, yeah, that's that's why I me out.
[00:08:37] Duuude-Ron :
That leaves me out.
[00:08:39] Rich Chelson:
You're smart, dude. You're just smart in different ways.
[00:08:43] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. You're right. Smart ass, smart aleck,
[00:08:49] Bryan Goodwin:
Smarty pants.
[00:08:50] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. There you go. You wanna add that into the mix?
[00:08:53] Rich Chelson:
Of course. Got to. But So
[00:08:58] Bryan Goodwin:
but yeah. No. It's but yeah. There's a there's a podcast that, there there's several. And there actually, I think there's more podcasting awards out now than there than there ever has been.
[00:09:11] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I know that they're the old fashioned,
[00:09:14] Bryan Goodwin:
people's choice podcast awards that's out. I think he think Todd fine Todd Cochran, who is the guy who's been running it all for about 1 year, he, he finally realized he's gotta stop putting the bill for all the dang trophies. Right. He actually I think I I think for a long time, it was $10, but it might be $50 now to, if you wanna be if you're if you're wanting to be open for nominations, you have to actually pay in for a, for the, for the nomination. You actually have to pay for it so that your own broker. He cover the cost because cost some $25,000
[00:09:58] Rich Chelson:
for all the trophies and stuff, but I heard if I remember. Right? But that's the thing. Why don't they get sponsors to pay for that?
[00:10:07] Bryan Goodwin:
Todd, well, you do get, he does have sponsors on there.
[00:10:12] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. No. No. I'm saying, why don't they get sponsors to pay for their sponsors?
[00:10:20] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, he get they he does, but but it'd be I think most of them take care of the time it takes to actually because it also takes a lot of manpower because you have to go through and you have your you you first initially because of what it is, it's people choice. It's actually, audience reaction or response is is how they judge this. And so use when the when the, nomination say session starts up, you actually go off and say, hey, if you wanna nominate me for the for the podcast awards, you need to go to this, go to this this, this link and and nominate me. And if enough people get, do the nomination, or or maybe even it's just 1, if somebody not jumps on and says, I'm gonna nominate you.
Boom. Okay. Now you're in the running. And when the counting session comes in, they you actually need to have see who's got the most active audience is actually the way the People Choice Awards works. Okay. But okay. Then okay. So every day, you have to encourage your people to go to the, go to a site and and vote for, for and vote. And so you have to repeat and repeat and repeat and repeat and repeat and get it going. And if you have and so it get it could be a big pain in the ass. Okay. Yeah, no, I can understand it. The most honest way of doing a, doing an award show. Okay. That's fine. But still,
[00:11:55] Rich Chelson:
what the hell does it matter? I mean, I mean, what what is the It's the oldest running,
[00:12:02] Bryan Goodwin:
podcast, podcast awards,
[00:12:05] Rich Chelson:
there is. Yeah. But, again, what is the big deal about this podcasting award? I mean, I'm, you know, I'm not saying nothing bad about it. I'm just I'm just saying, like, like, for us, I mean, we're just doing this just to entertain people. Entertain and piss them off or, you know, make them sad and make them happy, whatever. You know? I mean, we're we're not going after any awards.
[00:12:29] Bryan Goodwin:
You know? Not yet. Next year, we will.
[00:12:32] Rich Chelson:
I'm not planning to go after any awards, period. Oh, yeah. Yeah. We're gonna
[00:12:37] Bryan Goodwin:
I'm gonna get you standing up on the stage. You're gonna be all all all gobsmacked. Dad. No. You'll be gobsmacked, standing up on top on stage, be it, be it won't be a podcast movement. Sorry. Podcast movements done pissed me off with the whole Ben Shapiro thing, what, 2 years ago. But Dude, let that roll off your shit. That was 2 years ago. Fuck them. That was 2 years ago. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So Why? They they they wanna they wanna hold their grudge. I'm gonna hold my grudge right now. Please. Come on, dude.
[00:13:08] Rich Chelson:
That's like 4th grade shit. Come on now.
[00:13:11] Bryan Goodwin:
Exactly. I show them I could go 3rd grade. I will run around and call them stupid head
[00:13:21] Duuude-Ron :
and poopy face. And poopy But you don't yeah. You won't even well, you'll go back as far as terrible twos, I'm sure.
[00:13:29] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah. I will I will do the rubber baby maneuver so no one can grab a hold of me and throw myself on the ground.
[00:13:35] Rich Chelson:
Oh, I really don't wanna see that. I don't need a visual cue.
[00:13:40] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, come on. You know what you're doing?
[00:13:42] Duuude-Ron :
That would be nothing but hilarious. Yeah. Yeah. You that would you know what?
[00:13:49] Rich Chelson:
We would need that on video. I mean, really, we would that? We would need that on video.
[00:13:57] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. That would be that would be absolutely hilarious. Now what would it prove or what would point be?
[00:14:07] Bryan Goodwin:
I am a. But you
[00:14:09] Rich Chelson:
know.
[00:14:10] Duuude-Ron :
That you are a CEO. Yep. Yep.
[00:14:13] Rich Chelson:
Yep. Yeah. No. See, that's the thing. I I'm and and, you know, maybe this is me, but but I've never been one to, go in search of that stuff because I'm just here to help out whoever I can, like like we all are. You know? And Oh, yeah. Yeah. If if if, someone wants to, recognize us, that's great. I I mean, I won't shoot it down. But as far as me actively going after it, no. I I won't do it because that's not why I'm doing this. You know? Right. I'm just, I'm just doing it because I wanna talk and I wanna talk.
[00:15:00] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Yeah. No. And talk to the spot.
[00:15:03] Duuude-Ron :
So so And you do an excellent job of it.
[00:15:06] Rich Chelson:
Thank you, dude. Thank you, man. That that just, like, made my night, man. I I I'm just, like, so happy.
[00:15:15] Bryan Goodwin:
So, Rich, what have you been up to this past week?
[00:15:19] Rich Chelson:
Oh my god. This week has been this week has been crazy. Next week's gonna be crazy. The week after that's gonna be crazy. And then the week after that's gonna be crazy. So
[00:15:30] Bryan Goodwin:
Okay. So so what made this week crazy?
[00:15:33] Rich Chelson:
Well, this week, I talked with the dude that's buying my house up north, and I damn near pulled the contract out from him because he's a fucking idiot out wandering around. He's an ass.
[00:15:50] Bryan Goodwin:
What? Is he from Iowa or something? Yes. He's from oh, Indianola, Iowa.
[00:15:55] Rich Chelson:
Indianola, Iowa, baby. And and and he's Okay. So
[00:16:01] Duuude-Ron :
what's the difference if he buys a house? Who cares?
[00:16:04] Bryan Goodwin:
Well Don't wanna give it to an island.
[00:16:07] Rich Chelson:
No. No. No. No. I don't care. I I don't care. You're right. But it was just the way it was it was just the way he was acting when he was on the phone. He was like, well, I need you to do this. I need you to do that. And this was after he had already signed the contract saying he would pay for the house in as is, where is condition. And he's like, oh, I I I need a survey. And and and, you know, you can pay half and I'll pay half on the survey. I said, fuck you. That shit ain't happening to us. And, and and he was like, oh, I need this stuff. I need that done. Blah blah blah. And just just fucking trying to dictate what the fuck I was gonna do. I I I told my realtor.
I told her, I said, Lizzie, I said I said, I'm a tell you right now. You call that son of a bitch back and you tell him I'll turn the water on so he can inspect the pipes and the plumbing. I said, anything else he says, pull the fucking contract and tear it up.
[00:17:04] Bryan Goodwin:
I'm done with this ass. Suck a fart out of my ass, man. Come on. Right?
[00:17:09] Duuude-Ron :
Well Damn.
[00:17:12] Rich Chelson:
Well, she had called him and then and then called me back like the next day. And she says, well, he still wants to move forward. I'm like, did you tell him he could go kiss my ass on that survey shit? She's like, yes. And he still wants to move forward. I said, alright. Fine. Fine. Alpha can take his money. I don't care.
[00:17:33] Bryan Goodwin:
And so a salesman?
[00:17:34] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. And so so we're supposed to close on August 1st.
[00:17:40] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, wow. That's just right around the corner of that, Right. And that's the thing.
[00:17:46] Rich Chelson:
I've got a contract for a house down here that's supposed to close on my birthday on 16th.
[00:17:53] Bryan Goodwin:
So That fast, really?
[00:17:56] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I'm telling you. And then and then, of course Gosh. Damn. It was it was a good
[00:18:03] Bryan Goodwin:
6 month experience whenever I was trying to buy my freaking house. Oh, no. No. No. Nowadays, no, sir. Could've just been the fact that I had really any I don't have great credit now, but I've got better than what I did when I bought the house. Right. But but you see, the thing is, check this out.
[00:18:21] Rich Chelson:
These these girls over here with the loan officer, they say they say give me 30, 45 days max. You're closing. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. They don't they don't fuck around, man. They're just like, nope. Get it done.
[00:18:38] Bryan Goodwin:
It's see if their last Texas too. No.
[00:18:43] Rich Chelson:
I could find out.
[00:18:46] Bryan Goodwin:
Sure, no. But still
[00:18:48] Rich Chelson:
yay. You never know, dude. But, so, yeah, that, got that going on. And next week, we're not doing a live Nope. Because I will be on the road. And
[00:19:02] Bryan Goodwin:
And I won't be able to make it. So Yeah. Well, that's a bummer.
[00:19:06] Duuude-Ron :
And, so, Is this next, you said this is the next week?
[00:19:10] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Next week, I'll be on the Nope.
[00:19:14] Bryan Goodwin:
The week after. Not this next. Not this okay. We got this weekend, one more weekend, and then we have that.
[00:19:24] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I know. Where are you at? Next week, I know. Next Thursday, I leave for Arkansas. Okay. And then
[00:19:36] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah. The truck y'all would be there a week early to get that fixed up? Yeah. And then and then
[00:19:42] Rich Chelson:
the, 25th, I'll be in Oklahoma. And then, hopefully, I need to look at the dates real quick. Okay. On the first, I might still be on the road because I'm supposed to close on the first, which is on a Thursday. Yeah. So so So yeah. I will so so for the next 3 weeks, we will not be doing lives unless you somehow make it home and can do it. Yeah. And and, if you could edit for, like, the next 3 weeks, that would be great. I can do it this week. So
[00:20:26] Bryan Goodwin:
I should I should be able to. I'll get, and, also, if y'all are wondering, last week's, video will actually come out, this Saturday. So Oh, okay. Okay. Because it it did get touched. I I I did I got home Sunday, 6 o'clock
[00:20:46] Rich Chelson:
ish. Oh, wow.
[00:20:48] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. And so yeah. I don't blame you. To go to show you how good of friends we all are, my wife is jealous of the fact that we have we have as good of a friendship as we do.
[00:21:03] Rich Chelson:
What?
[00:21:03] Bryan Goodwin:
What? Woah. Woah. Woah. My wife is jealous of the fact that I come home, I see her for for maybe about an hour, and then I took off to the, took off to the office to go do the, do the pot. And before I got home, she was not happy.
[00:21:21] Rich Chelson:
Oh my gosh.
[00:21:23] Bryan Goodwin:
Sorry. But
[00:21:26] Rich Chelson:
Like, honey, I love you, but But
[00:21:28] Bryan Goodwin:
yeah. It's like, well, I don't ever see you. And then you come in for an hour, and then you're gone for another. Said you're gonna try to get done early. I was like, yeah. I tried. It don't happen. Well, hey. Look at it this way. Get to talking. It's gonna be a 2 to 3 hour conversation. Yeah.
[00:21:45] Rich Chelson:
Guaranteed. Guaranteed. You know? So, hey, at least you're not drinking or at the bar.
[00:21:53] Bryan Goodwin:
Nope. Nope. I'm not nope. I'm just, I'm sitting in front of a computer yabbering with people, you know, a couple 100 miles away from me. Right. Right.
[00:22:01] Rich Chelson:
So, yeah, that's, that's that's kind of been what's been, I had to put brakes on the Jeep, but other than that, that's Good. Good. You could stop now. Yeah. I can stop a whole lot better. I I still need Stop on a dime and give 9 and a half cents back? No. No. No. No. I stopped on a dime and give about 6¢ back because I need to change the rear brakes too. Oh. I only did the fronts. So, so, yeah, I'm, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not getting the 9 and a half cents yet.
[00:22:33] Bryan Goodwin:
Okay.
[00:22:34] Rich Chelson:
So I will I I will get it soon.
[00:22:39] Bryan Goodwin:
So alright. And, dude, what have you been doing this past week?
[00:22:43] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, just, stuff. Just, going to work, coming home, going to work, coming home. I think that's the only places my vehicle knows, except for Walmart. And we'll we'll talk we'll talk about them later. Yeah. But, you know, other than that, it's just Texas hot.
[00:23:03] Bryan Goodwin:
God. Yeah. It it was nice when when the hurricane blew through.
[00:23:07] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. We got we'd actually yeah. It was nice weather when the hurricane, but now I don't know what happened down in, like, Houston and, you know, all those areas that They got hit pretty hard. Yeah. I haven't and I haven't even seen,
[00:23:23] Bryan Goodwin:
you know, the aftermath. I don't know if you're asking about that.
[00:23:28] Duuude-Ron :
But, yeah, it dropped, what, not 20 degrees, about 15 degrees from one day to the next on the high temperature. Holy shit. And now we're back up into the low 100.
[00:23:41] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. So are we, dude.
[00:23:43] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. We're in too much, brother. I'm Yeah. I know. And you're you're nice and, humid where where you're at. Oh, hell yeah. Oh, yeah. You could go outside with a swimming truck on and lay out in the yard and start swimming. As thick as the humidity is, I'm sure where you're at. Yeah.
[00:24:03] Rich Chelson:
I I mean, I mean, I'm losing weight. No. Weighed myself the other day, and I'm down to 2 73 now. So I've lost £5.
[00:24:12] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, that's good. That's good. I am gonna be doing that very same thing here real quick. As a matter of fact, 2, Sunday is gonna be my official start day, ditching some weight. Because I went off, stepped on, stepped on some scales, I was home yesterday. Yeah. Yesterday. Mhmm. And I am at 298. Oh, my god, dude. Fuck me backwards. We're not playing this game no more. I am not doing this. I so no. We're we're we're we're going to, we're gonna shed 98 fucking pounds.
[00:24:48] Rich Chelson:
Well, that was that was my weight. That was my weight. Well, I think I lost a few pounds before I got down there. But when I was living up north, that was that was my weight, 298.
[00:25:01] Bryan Goodwin:
And I know I know what my big triggers are. If you wanna use that word, I I really absolutely detest the word trigger because it makes you sound like a victim. You are out of control. You have no control. Somebody else is pulling the pulling the trigger. But I know what sets me on. I know what activates my want to eat and it's gonna be boredom. And so I've gotta pay attention to what what it is about the bore sense of boredom that absolutely detest. What is it that I am running from by being bored?
[00:25:34] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. That's yeah. That that would be something good to think about. I mean, what is it you know, what because you see, that's the thing. Like like, with me sometimes, I mean, I've had a lot of ideas and, you know, I could sit here and do all this or I can go out and run around town, play ham radio, which I haven't done. But Oh. I know. Right? God forbid. You know, it's it's freaking been like a month and a half. I mean, I did I did think about it today, but let me get back on track. Okay. But, but with me, sometimes I can sit here and stare at the screen and not fucking do anything. And then I'll start watching TV. I mean, I don't eat, but it's like I'm bored. And it's like, why the fuck are you bored?
You've got so much shit to do that you can do, but I don't feel like doing it. So I've I've forced myself to, you know,
[00:26:28] Bryan Goodwin:
to And yeah. And and I'm I don't eat near as much when I'm at the house. It's just whenever I've got my it it's like smoking. Whenever I was, whenever I was smoking, if I sat in the seat, I had a cigarette in my hand. It was just it was I was choo choo trained the whole time.
[00:26:48] Rich Chelson:
Mhmm.
[00:26:50] Bryan Goodwin:
And exactly. And, I mean, there was times where yeah. Just puffing right along. And it was and it was just because I was bored. And I realized shortly after I picked smoking back up, one of the drawbacks that I had, and that was just that I was not liking the way I was feeling. I was I could tell when my blood pressure was rising. Because all of a sudden, I'd feel feel blood I'd feel, a pulse in the back my head. It's like back half of my head was just going
[00:27:29] Rich Chelson:
I was like, alright. That's freaky.
[00:27:32] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Yeah. It was like, okay. Okay. We need to we need to be doing something here. And so I finally was like, alright. Took several false starts, and finally, it was like, alright. Yeah. We're we're we're doing this. Got got the, nicotine lozenges that I needed to grab and just committed to it. And it works because I 1, I was committed to it. I knew what I was needing to do. And that oversized load is not gonna make it one because I'm blocked I'm I'm I'm taking up half the over side half the area that he'd be able to make a right hand turn on. So
[00:28:13] Rich Chelson:
over here ask you this. Do you drink a lot of soda?
[00:28:17] Bryan Goodwin:
Yes, sadly. Not well. I will drink a 64 ounce usually around Wednesday Thursday. I'll drink 1 on Wednesday, 1 on Thursday. Monday, Tuesday, I don't have a a big enough a big draw for it. So I usually will have coffee until about noon, and then after that, I'm going through my jugs of water.
[00:28:42] Rich Chelson:
Okay. What about Friday and then at home?
[00:28:45] Bryan Goodwin:
I I drink water out of the sink.
[00:28:48] Rich Chelson:
Okay. Well, I do too. I mean but because
[00:28:54] Duuude-Ron :
because it's a little bit water out of you're right. You drink water out of the sink that is heated, turn black with grounds, and add a few, condiments.
[00:29:04] Rich Chelson:
Do that. The first half of the day. Yeah. Yeah. No. I don't I don't put drugs in my shit.
[00:29:12] Bryan Goodwin:
No caffeine whatsoever.
[00:29:15] Duuude-Ron :
So you like your coffee the way you like your men?
[00:29:19] Rich Chelson:
My women.
[00:29:21] Bryan Goodwin:
Hot, strong. You remember the movie airplane. Right? Dude, you feel like goosey tonight. What's up with him, dude?
[00:29:28] Rich Chelson:
I love it.
[00:29:32] Duuude-Ron :
I don't know. I gotta get some aggression out someplace.
[00:29:36] Rich Chelson:
Bring it, buddy. Bring it.
[00:29:38] Duuude-Ron :
So it's a it's a wide eyed goose. All but your best friends. Here. There there you go. You know? What so what better what what better place to put out your than your friends? That's right. You know? You know? And we and, you know, I'm not gonna hurt anybody's feelings, especially mine because ain't nobody here got any feelings. So, you know, we can't hurt anything we ain't got.
[00:30:06] Rich Chelson:
I do, man.
[00:30:08] Bryan Goodwin:
You just you just Especially me. I need my safe zone. No fair, man. No fair.
[00:30:15] Rich Chelson:
Oh my god.
[00:30:16] Duuude-Ron :
Poopy head. We're gonna approach you. Yeah. We're yeah. Okay. You start crying, we're gonna have to put you in the time out corner. How about that?
[00:30:28] Rich Chelson:
Oh, shit.
[00:30:30] Duuude-Ron :
But the other thing is and I'll just and I'll broadcast it now. Went to the VA the other day, and I have an accelerated white blood count, so godly knows what that is. And, you know, the only thing that came into my head was cancer, so we'll see.
[00:30:47] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Well, let's hope it's not that.
[00:30:50] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, we'll hope it's not that. But Maybe you just got a hangnail that you haven't noticed yet.
[00:30:55] Rich Chelson:
Hey. There you go.
[00:30:58] Bryan Goodwin:
You know, did you get did you get paper cut here recently?
[00:31:02] Duuude-Ron :
Well, yeah, well, I get freaking cuts on my arms all the time. And now they're not healing as fastly as they should be. So
[00:31:12] Rich Chelson:
yeah, we'll see within the next, short amount of time. That could be a thyroid problem or something else too. So
[00:31:20] Duuude-Ron :
Really?
[00:31:21] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. No kidding. Okay. And and you see that's the thing also. Your thyroid also, controls your weight. So, Brian, just not saying anything, but you might wanna have your thyroid checked.
[00:31:39] Bryan Goodwin:
No. I know what I know what's causing the weight because it's it jumped. It started going up at about the time that I quit smoking. So I I I I didn't actually give up what the problem what caused the smoking. I never solved that. I just converted the problem, from being a smoking problem
[00:32:00] Rich Chelson:
to an eating problem. To a candy problem.
[00:32:03] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, it's not even well, I don't do much candy, kid.
[00:32:08] Rich Chelson:
Do you do ju junk food?
[00:32:10] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, I junk food. Yeah. I mean, but but
[00:32:13] Rich Chelson:
but ghee and ding dongs?
[00:32:16] Bryan Goodwin:
No. No. It's not so much ho ho ding dongs or or or or star crunches or anything like or Little Debbie stuff like that. Not everybody. It's more of along the lines of a whole bag of pistachios in one setting, a whole bag of of, grapes in one setting.
[00:32:34] Rich Chelson:
Oops. Dude, grapes are fine.
[00:32:38] Bryan Goodwin:
Except for their sugar. It's natural sugar, dude. It's not natural sugar. But it's sugar nonetheless. There's a shit ton of sugar. And like I said, it's in one sitting. Okay. Right after the pistachios.
[00:32:51] Rich Chelson:
No. Okay. So
[00:32:53] Bryan Goodwin:
no. It's it's it's not spread. There's no 10. I will buy 3 I will buy I used to, I I would limit I used to go off and grab, try to grab a snack for every day. And then I realized, no. I can't be doing that because I was and I was still doing it with just 3 snacks, that I would grab. I tried to stretch out. I tried to pull myself to go, no. We're just gonna eat this for 1 this time, this for this time, this for this time. That doesn't work for me. And I know it doesn't because I fought this thing forever. And it is, if I sit if I go off, buy a bag of chips, that bag of chips is gonna be gone. I may As soon as it's opened it, it's gone. It it yeah. The moment that I open it, it's going to be it's all it's like an alcoholic with with, with a with a 5th of, vodka.
Right. If the seal is broken, boom, game over, man. It's it's gonna be consumed, and I'm going to be miserable after that because I'm gonna be stuffed stupid.
[00:34:01] Rich Chelson:
Right. Yeah. And see, that's where that's where that's where you need to get. And and, you know, I fought that, you know, I mean, fought that for a long time. And that that that disease is what's causing it. Yeah. And see and see what I had to do when I made my mind up, because I was I was a size 42 waist, fixing a push 44. Yeah. And I I I was like, no. I've gotta do something. So so I just started changing my mindset. And I mean, it was hard. It was hard. And and and I tried and I'm trying to cut out sugar because everything we freaking buy, like your chips Is light Everything. Just Oh my goodness. Absurd about sugar. Either either either an ass load of salt or an ass load of sugar or both.
[00:34:50] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. And and in all reality, salt isn't nearly as bad for you as they led you on to believe in the early eighties. True. True. But still but still as we get over The salt is actually I'm I'm one of those that is firmly planted in the camp that sugar is actually what creates the, the plaque in your veins, in your arteries and stuff.
[00:35:19] Rich Chelson:
Well, that that not all Because it when it gets
[00:35:23] Bryan Goodwin:
it it irritates the lining of the arteries. And so the plaque that that gets winds up on there is essentially a, a scab. It is Yeah. The way it's trying to defeat to keep the the irritation down. And so, sadly, there's places that it gets really irritated around your heart, and so it builds up till it just gets everything clogged up. And, no, it's not red meat. It is sugar.
[00:35:51] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. But yeah. No. I just I just started changing and and eating smaller portions and just forcing myself to, you know and, yeah, believe it. At first, you know, my body is saying, dude, I need to fucking eat. I need to fucking eat. And I'm like, you know what? I've got enough fat for days.
[00:36:10] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. And and I can't remember the dude's name. There was a guy in England who did not eat for a full year.
[00:36:19] Rich Chelson:
He was that big?
[00:36:20] Bryan Goodwin:
He was that big. He was like the only thing his doctor told him is take some vitamin k. Get take some potassium. Other than that, your body you your body has stored everything that it needs, and he did. For a little over a year, he didn't need a thing. And then once he got down to the weight that he wanted, he had our of course, if you're not gonna eat for that long, you're going to work through all of your all the all the issues that you have. Why are you eating? And that's what causes us to that's what causes anybody to find a quote, unquote addiction. There's no such thing as an addiction, but we call it an addiction because Yeah.
It's the best thing they can they can use to describe it. Right. Food addiction is you've just you've got a dis, an uncomfortable sensation within your body, a feeling. And so to drown that out, you would rather feel full. Mhmm. You'd rather have this the joy of eating, so we've taken food and we've turned it from being a a just a fuel and turned it into something that is supposed to make us feel good, which it does. It doesn't make us feel good. It's a it's be it's it's a candy bar. It's a piece of steak. It doesn't make you feel good. It you have positive associations with it, but that's the that's all there is to it. Well, if you watch the advertising, they say it makes you feel good. Oh, yeah. No. Yeah. The I mean, that's a lie, but, you know Yeah. Because I it again, it has no power. Alcohol does not make you feel good.
Alcohol drowns out the sensations of that ease, your ill ease that's within you, the discomfort.
[00:38:07] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I wish I wish I wish it would do that for me, but, I mean, I haven't drank hardly anything. You know?
[00:38:16] Bryan Goodwin:
The idea Yeah. Because you haven't had the narrow there right there is a really good example of you getting rid of that ease, that lack, that that ill feeling that you have within you. Because before, yeah, Europe and up in, up in, Missouri. You were you would go through a good amount of alcohol.
[00:38:43] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I would.
[00:38:45] Bryan Goodwin:
I would. And since you've been down to down to Mississippi, you don't have that anymore. You don't you aren't beating yourself up for whatever reason you that you had about that shack, which I think a lot of it was you being alone, if I had to guess.
[00:39:01] Rich Chelson:
It yeah. Honestly, I've I've, thought about it and, yeah, I would have to say because you see this thing down here, you know, I don't like cities or anything like this, but I I I just even though I like to be on my own, I still like having people around. Yeah. You know what I mean? I mean, I don't have to talk to them. In fact, when I was sitting on the beach today, I mean, I watched couple of hot hot hot chicks walking by with their puppies or couples walking by and it's it's I didn't talk to them. I didn't wanna talk. I didn't wanna talk to anybody, but it was just the fact that there was You were able to watch people?
Yeah. Oh, yeah. And, you know, watch the water because I you know, shit. I was sitting right there, you know, trying to get some sun on my white legs and my white chest here. You know? I I mean, I would open my shirt, but it would blind you off. You know?
[00:39:57] Bryan Goodwin:
So, yeah, I'm not
[00:39:58] Rich Chelson:
I won't I won't do that. Overload the sensors on the camera. Yeah. Blow the camera out. But yeah. No. And see, that's the thing. You know what? That'd be like one of those arctic blindness things.
[00:40:11] Duuude-Ron :
Exactly. Yes. No blind. Right. Yeah. There you go. We'd be rich blind.
[00:40:19] Rich Chelson:
So, yeah, no, it's it's, yeah, I think, yeah, honestly, I think you you're right. It's because, yeah, I didn't have anybody around or anything around to, you know, keep me out of my head.
[00:40:33] Duuude-Ron :
So Yeah. You're going down to and how far of a drive is it from where you're at to the actual beat?
[00:40:42] Rich Chelson:
Right. Well, right now, I'm about 2 and a half miles.
[00:40:48] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. So Right. 2 and a half miles. But like you said, when you're up in Missouri, being up in being in the shack, you know, there's not a whole heck of a lot to do, not a lot to look at. You know, just by you going down on the beach, you know, like me, I could sit and watch waves roll in for hours and not get bored.
[00:41:15] Rich Chelson:
Right. Oh, yeah. It was fun. It it it was fun sitting on the beach, and and I even walked down by the water. And I thought about getting in the water, but I didn't bring a towel to dry off with, so I did. And that's why I didn't. Otherwise, I was going to.
[00:41:28] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. But, you know, but something like that, like I said, you have a lot more of being able to get out and just go and do without it costing you well how much they're gonna cost you to go down to the beat. Lunch and whatever gas for 5 miles.
[00:41:50] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. That actually, actually, not even lunch because lunch here at the house, I mean, I, you know, I can eat up a couple of hot dogs,
[00:41:59] Duuude-Ron :
slap them off of bread, eat them down, and I'm good. You know? Yeah. That's what I'm saying. You could or bring a sandwich down to the beach. You're not buying when you bring lunch. Yeah.
[00:42:09] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, it's basically gas. So Yeah. 5 miles worth. Yeah. Then, yeah, believe me, my Jeep actually gets well, I've I found out something because, you know, my brakes my front brakes were really bad. And, we're driving around before I changed them. I was watching my fuel mileage go down After I changed them, I was I was hanging around between 14 15 miles a gallon after I changed the front brakes with God damn low and behold, I'm up over 16 now. Like, holy shit.
[00:42:52] Bryan Goodwin:
That's like Brakes were actually easing off a bit.
[00:42:55] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Oh, yeah. No. They Yeah. Sounds like that caliper that you said you replaced was dragon and you have a resistance. Yeah. Okay.
[00:43:05] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. So so I'm I mean yeah. I mean, I should've done this when I first but but it had only been a couple weeks since, all this started. So, I mean, I didn't wait that long, but I probably waited longer than I should've.
[00:43:26] Bryan Goodwin:
But Rich? Yeah. Who is Kash Patel, and why do you have a beef with?
[00:43:33] Rich Chelson:
Well, in fact hang on. Because, I I I wanna bring this up. This this Ghosh Patel, he, he was, I think he had worked for Trump or whatnot or it c and everything, before. Okay. K. Let's see. And he he says if Trump wins the election okay. He wants to go after the people. Actually, in the media is is who he wants to go go after because the media lied to the American citizens is what he said. Okay? And that was said in a recent interview with Steve Bannon. But, yeah, he, Patel, was the National Security Council when, Trump was in office the first time.
[00:44:37] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[00:44:38] Rich Chelson:
And Trump actually considered installing him as the FBI or the CIA director. And yeah. No. They they threw a fit. But oh, yeah, they did. Cause they're like, they're like, he ain't got no, no experience. He's like, fuck that. But this dude wants to keep rehashing the, 2020 election claims. Okay? I mean, you know, I'm not saying I'm not saying there there wasn't wrongdoing or anything like that in the 2020 elections, but that was 4 years ago. Give it the fuck up. Because what are you gonna do by by doing something now? What what are you to gain? And this is what this is what hurts me because it's the same rhetoric, and and this is the democrats.
This is what they do. You know? They just they just keep saying the same fucking rhetoric every year after year after year. All they do is change names and dates. And it's like, how are you supposed to grow? How are you supposed to get ahead if you're sitting here rehashing the same old fucking shit all the time? And it's like, no. Shut the hell up. Think of ideas for the future and then present them. Stop living in the fucking past. This is what irks me. You know, dude, I love you very much, but you still live in the eighties, man. I love you for it. Eighties nineties.
But but but you see, that's the thing. People people in government, though, they should instead of living back in the seventies sixties, should be at least in the early part of 21st century and should be thinking forward and thinking ahead to what's gonna help us. Because I hate to say it, but we're not going back, you know, to the 20th century. Right. We are too far into the 21st to think about going back. You know? So stop, stop with this bullshit. Stop acting like a Democrat or a woke liberal, you know? Yep. And just, and just, I, I, that's why, I mean, I freaking read, our article and it just, it just set me off. And it's like, oh, no. No. No. No.
[00:47:13] Bryan Goodwin:
I cannot let this go unanswered. I just couldn't. Well, and I and I get that. And there's a part of me that that agrees with you because we're not gonna fix anything because all we're doing is they punched us. They got they got Trump with, they were able to put 34, convictions on the on the Trump for felonies Mhmm. And and all that. And yeah. We could do we could turn around. We could go after Hillary. We could go after Biden. We could go after, Pelosi. We could go after AOC. We go after everybody. I mean, everyone in in the Washington DC area is guilty of something.
[00:47:54] Rich Chelson:
Right. But but that's the thing. What would it cost to taxpayers? Us How much how much would it cost?
[00:48:02] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, it depends. If they stop, we would save money doing that if they did stop the the Ukraine, Ukraine money, laundering scheme. No. No. No. Not that they're going to do that because the, you know, because the the military industrial complex
[00:48:20] Rich Chelson:
is having way too much fun spending money there. Oh, I know. I know. No. No. What I'm saying is, though, if if we went after Hillary, Nancy Pelosi, Schumer, and meddler, all these fuckers, okay, it would be out on our dime.
[00:48:35] Bryan Goodwin:
We would have to pay for that. I I I agree. It would we would be we would pay for it, but we'd still be end up saving more money than what than what, we're doing within the laundering scheme money laundering scheme. But but at the same time, we're there's a part of me that wants to go off and dot the dot their i's going, yeah. See, this is what happens when you fuck around. You find out that, yeah, we're going to eventually end up being in control and there you go. You now know, don't fuck around. If you don't like if you're afraid that we're going to take control, don't do it. And that's I mean, that's one of the big things, you know, that I would always one of the big arguments that I would make is, like, what if y'all I can understand. That makes sense.
If y'all were to stay in control forever.
[00:49:33] Rich Chelson:
Well, I mean, they would love that. Whatever whatever scheme, whatever
[00:49:38] Bryan Goodwin:
lopsided idea they came up with again Works real good if the Republicans never got into office again. If the Republicans got into power again, you're gonna have to worry about that coming right back at you. And that's and a lot of times that's what we end up trying to do. I mean, like this like taking, taking going after Trump. Okay. Congratulations, Democrat. Just opened up a can of of of harassment and bullshit. Took a many years to do that. For the next 100 years.
[00:50:18] Rich Chelson:
Then years, though. Somewhat
[00:50:20] Bryan Goodwin:
unless somebody grows a set of balls and goes, no. We're gonna be the bigger people. We're gonna point what they done wrong, and we're gonna leave it at that.
[00:50:33] Rich Chelson:
Well, well,
[00:50:35] Bryan Goodwin:
but Again, will they stop?
[00:50:38] Rich Chelson:
Did Probably not. Hold on. Hold on. Did you hear hear what SCOTUS said the other day?
[00:50:44] Bryan Goodwin:
About what?
[00:50:46] Duuude-Ron :
Trump.
[00:50:50] Rich Chelson:
They said,
[00:50:51] Bryan Goodwin:
I guess not them.
[00:50:53] Rich Chelson:
They had a ruling come down Monday. I think it was Monday. Yeah. That, Trump has some immunity.
[00:51:04] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, talking about the the immunity of, president's immunity while in office. Yeah. Yeah. I did hear about that one.
[00:51:10] Rich Chelson:
So so and so, yeah, they're everyone's kinda quieting down on, lawsuits and shit.
[00:51:20] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, yeah. They have to because well, I mean, they've already got all the black women set up, Bailey. So because that's what they've done. They they because all the all the big prosecutors and stuff, they all that's they they went and sicced after, after Trump. They were all DEI hires. They're a bunch of black women. They're they're all black women or all the prosecutors. You got, you got Fannie Willis down in, down in Atlanta. And you've got, what's her name up in New York. Well, for The democrats again are showing that they're showing the racism once more. Yeah. Because Fannie because these are all all these black women are fixing to take the fall.
All the DEI hires are fixing to be out on their ass because they went be after skin color and sexual orientation. Right. Not whether they could do the job or not. That was that was, like, 5th down the line. It was like, alright. Well, you're you've got the right skin color. You got the right gender, and, you've got, yeah. Yeah. You you will you like you like rug munching. Alright. Good, dude. We're good. We've got got all those critical things checked off. Go go prosecute Trump. And not thinking of, well, a, should you be prosecuting Trump? And b,
[00:52:53] Rich Chelson:
can you? Right.
[00:52:56] Bryan Goodwin:
And they're finding out. Well, no. Just because you think Trump is a mean man and that he hurts people feelings and and that he he's got this weird orange tint, He should be he should be prosecuted, and he doesn't believe in our ideas. That's not the reason to try to throw him into jail. Well, they I mean, they tried. Yet that's what they that's what they've been trying for the you know, they were trying for the past 8 years.
[00:53:25] Rich Chelson:
Right. Yeah. And and the thing is they're, even trying to get the, New York case overturned and thrown out.
[00:53:33] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah. Now they're and and they know that it will. Mhmm. Again, that and that will stand to be for that that DA, assistant DA or or prosecutor will end up getting fired because of it. So again, thank you, Democrats. Y'all have, again, successfully shown that y'all cannot handle race at all. Y'all let your color your your true racist color shine every single time y'all try something out.
[00:54:05] Rich Chelson:
They can't handle race. They can't handle money. They can't handle anything.
[00:54:10] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, no. They're they're they're the, I just got finished bringing the fountainhead, for the, for the year. And, there was Howard Rourke's courtroom speech said something that's that really spoke out because it was I don't have it in front of me, and I'm not gonna turn make myself turn sideways and stuff. But it to the point, it was talking about how people, because of altruism, they try to get people to fill a spot who doesn't Who don't have the ability to fill that spot. And sadly, you have to have the ability. If you wanna be able to fill a, become a good, you know, DA, you have to have the ability to be a good DA and to be be, fair.
Just because you think that you've been mistreated back, you know, back in the, back in the eighties for whatever reason, is not a reason to try to go after everybody around, everybody who's opposite of you. Right. To go off and to have a racist heart isn't a reason to try to get even. What'd you hear, Rhett? That's what that's what the what Martin Luther King was trying to trying to preach is don't go to it with hatred in your heart. Right. You're going to lose every single time. Right. And But if you go
[00:55:49] Rich Chelson:
go ahead. I I was gonna say I was gonna say that's like that's like with anything, you know, that you go and do. If if if you go in to do something, anything, with with anything else other than, you know,
[00:56:07] Bryan Goodwin:
Benevolence of of doing it, Of the pleasure of being able to do it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean,
[00:56:13] Rich Chelson:
you will fail 99% of the time. Yeah. You know, because, you know, you know, a lot of people well, that's like that's like when Joe Rogan sold his show to Spotify and everybody jumped on. And they were just thinking about money. You know? I wanna be like Joe Rogan. I wanna be like Joe Rogan. And they all failed. You see? And that's the thing. If you do anything, just go out and do it. And you know what? Eventually, things will, you know, whatever it is, things will start to happen. Right. But now everyone needs to have it right now, you know, because because, god forbid, that is their identity.
[00:56:58] Bryan Goodwin:
Well yeah. And that's I mean, we're we run into that same problem even now with, in podcast. I mean, podcasting started out as being the middle finger to the, to the gatekeepers of broadcast.
[00:57:10] Rich Chelson:
Right. Right.
[00:57:11] Bryan Goodwin:
And now you've got the broadcast the gatekeepers of broadcasting trying to come in and say and talk about how horrible podcasting is and that they need to come up with a new way of doing doing the the, the distribution because you can't measure how the performance. It's like you don't need to measure the performance. Look at your downloads. Are you getting people interacting with your stuff? If yes, then you are doing great. That's the objective of your of your of your show. Now if you're wondering, hey. Well, I need to have, you know, I'm trying to make money off this. Well, if you're doing it for the money, you're not gonna make money. Because even though this is supposed to be a, and I I don't know, and nobody knows where this $2,200,000,000 of it, for the industry's at, But that's what they claim. It's it's a $2,200,000,000
[00:58:07] Rich Chelson:
industry. No. I'd care. It's not. Industry?
[00:58:09] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Yeah. Hell no. And with people who are making money off of it are the idiots who don't know what podcasting is about. They're going like NPR where they have, like, 75 people to a team for a show. Right. A show that takes maybe 2 people or like in our case, 3 peep Right. And that's all you need. Well You don't need 4 editors and 3 sound designers and and these people and that people and and and No. Executive producer and a co executive producer and an executive producer for the co executive producer and the assistant gets co executive producer for the co. You know? And it's like, goddamn, man. No wonder y'all are trying to spend, you know, $500,000 on on a podcast.
[00:58:55] Rich Chelson:
Well, see see, there's this one podcast. So and and, see, I think it's out in New York. I can't I can't think of the name of it right now. It's freaking awesome. They they have they have big, big production teams. But their podcasts are, are fully produced. And I'm talking with sounds. I mean, it's all researched, and it's it's, man. It's a famous one too.
[00:59:22] Bryan Goodwin:
Hang on. Percent invisible?
[00:59:26] Rich Chelson:
No. Nope. It's not it's not, NPR either, but it's out of out of, New York.
[00:59:44] Bryan Goodwin:
Nah, that would be WNYC is what I gave gave, which is the NPR.
[00:59:48] Rich Chelson:
Oh, is it? Public radio. Well, I mean I mean but but you see that see, I'll know it as soon as I no. That's a channel art.
[01:00:02] Bryan Goodwin:
It might be that, but Oh, 99% Invisible, This American Life. This American Life's been around forever.
[01:00:09] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. But but you see, that's the thing, though. The shows I mean, yeah, they they had, yeah, a major team, but, I mean, it was the show was a pleasure to listen to
[01:00:24] Bryan Goodwin:
because Oh, yeah. But you again, but you don't need 47 people to do the show. No. No. No. That's true. You don't. You don't. And what that was is like, hey. We got money here. I'm gonna jump in here and I convinced that I'll shoehorn myself into this into this group. And so yeah. And that's one reason why NPR is now shedding shows. Because after a while, yeah, they were making money, from the podcast because they were well, the podcast were able to do something that the radio shows weren't able to do. They were able to do advertising.
They broke their lone little rule on, well, we're not gonna advertise. Well, except for on the podcast. The podcast we're gonna add, we can advertise. And they were advertising, and they were bringing in a lot of money. Mhmm. But at the same time, they could have been bringing in a whole lot more money if they didn't have 47 people on the on a on a show. Well, that is true. You may have needed, you know, maybe, an editor, maybe a sound designer, and maybe a producer, and then the host. I mean, 4, 5 people, 5 people at max.
[01:01:37] Rich Chelson:
Right. I mean, we do it with 3, but, of course, we don't we don't have a a highly
[01:01:45] Bryan Goodwin:
I don't wanna do that type of work. That's No. Way too much freaking work for for a because it if y'all don't know, when it comes to a podcast, there is a ratio. Podcasts are a 4 to 1 ratio. For every minute, or 1 to 4 ratio. For every minute of of show that you hear, there's 4 minutes worth of work put into it. Yep. And that is editing. That is posting. That is getting all the, album art taken care of, doing all the background stuff, getting once it goes live, promoting it, sharing it out with and and every everywhere. And that's how that's how much it works for audio.
Video podcast, you double that. It's now for every minute, there's 8 minutes. Yeah. Video. Yeah. Video's even worse. And so, yeah, it gets to be a huge pain in the ass. And, yeah, you would it it helps if you could cut things up and give, you know, break it up into 4 chunks and everybody does does 4, but still that it still equals out to being a 4 to 1 or 1 to 4 ratio.
[01:02:55] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[01:02:56] Bryan Goodwin:
No matter how much you cut it up, it's still going to be 1 hour show, 4 hours of work. Yep. And yeah.
[01:03:05] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Think about it. You know, we do, you know, 2 and a half.
[01:03:10] Bryan Goodwin:
You know? Yeah. We're doing 2a half hour shows. So there's it and it does. It takes a little while for for the editing and and just the cleanups. And if you heard on, like, the preshow and stuff or right there at the beginning, I ended up having to do put a cut in so that we know, hey, this is a little area, I we screwed up. I had a had an audio problem. My my, my cord that I was using was dying on me, which is interesting because the brand didn't crack the cord. But Yeah. It's stashing cords, man. Gotta love them. No. No. Actually, it's an apple cord.
[01:03:44] Rich Chelson:
Well, there's your problem. There's your problem. It's Apple.
[01:03:49] Bryan Goodwin:
Android Except for the fact that Apple,
[01:03:51] Rich Chelson:
Apple has Android, baby. Android.
[01:03:54] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, I mean, I've this one I one that I've I replaced it with is, it's a it's a gas station 1. So it's it works. Okay. And then I've got I've got an anchor, cord that's, that's for the, for the the power to go to the, to the Zoom. So, you know, it's all it all is, you know, But they we had a small problem, so I ended up having to do a small cutout in that. But Yeah. That's But anyhow so so, Ron, what do you think of all what we've been talking about?
[01:04:28] Duuude-Ron :
I have absolutely no clue whatsoever. You fell asleep on me?
[01:04:35] Bryan Goodwin:
No. I didn't fall asleep on you.
[01:04:37] Duuude-Ron :
I just got a lot on my mind.
[01:04:40] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, I understand. So do you what do you think about, Kash Patel wanting to get back the, back to the democrats for, for being little shits.
[01:04:54] Rich Chelson:
For for 2020, basically.
[01:04:57] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. You know, what is it like, Rachel was saying, what is it
[01:05:08] Bryan Goodwin:
going to fix.
[01:05:10] Duuude-Ron :
Go Well You know, the they can go after every Democrat that has been should there is a hell of a lot of them, but like, even Brian said, 99.9% of every person that's in want there to represent Right. The people that book them in. They're there to represent themselves and to see, you know, how much money they can make other than their salary. It it and with the democrats, you know, it's all been it's all done. What the hell is trying to rehash all this shit? What's it gonna solve? Nothing. Except for everybody spending like what Brian said. Spending taxpayers' money on stupid shit. Stupid shit. Yeah.
You know, okay. When are they going to start spending money on, resolving homelessness? When are they gonna start spending money on resolving veterans crisis and, 22 a day. Right. You know, soldier suicide. Start spending money here in the United States instead of sending 90% of our money out of our country and helping everybody else. They, you know, they send all the money to Ukraine, and you it goes to certain individuals where it's supposed to go to the Ukrainian people and the and the efforts for the Ukrainian military. But, okay, the president just bought himself a fucking house wherever it was, a mansion for several $1,000,000.
Yeah. Yep. For the the what was it?
[01:07:32] Bryan Goodwin:
$15,000,000, some shit like that? Nah. It I all I know is it's more than what I make in a year, so it's it's a bit.
[01:07:39] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. So
[01:07:41] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. And you don't even know that.
[01:07:43] Duuude-Ron :
Why are those people even getting fucking anything? Why? Because the top 1 percenters, the only you know, the only thing they want is they're they can't be content with how much money they have right now. They want more. It's never It's they want more, and it's never gonna be enough.
[01:08:07] Rich Chelson:
Nope.
[01:08:08] Duuude-Ron :
I have I have a million. No. I need 10,000,000. Once they get 10,000,000, oh, no. 10,000,000 is not good enough. I need a 100,000,000. Oh, no. A 100,000,000 wasn't good enough. I need a 1,000,000,000. Yeah. Okay. What the fuck are they gonna spend it on?
[01:08:27] Rich Chelson:
They don't care because they don't have to worry about it. They'll just they'll just pass money down to their family, dude.
[01:08:35] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Okay. And how many houses can you own and how many boats can you water ski behind at the same time?
[01:08:45] Rich Chelson:
Well, that yeah. That's a challenge. You're right. Now, I had read sometime, a few years back, I had read this that the Johnson and Johnson family, you know, the baby shampoo people plus other stuff. Yep. They have so much money that their great, great grandkids will never have to work a day in their life already. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, and, you know, so, and, and I mean, so any child born into that family today, well, will never have to work a day in their life ever.
[01:09:26] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. They have that And that's not fair to the kids either because that's No. You're right. That's one of the reasons why you have so many of these rich liberals. Mhmm. Is because they sit around and go, oh, man. I have just way too much money here. I should be giving this to the poor. But no, let's not give it to the poor because I'm kinda the poor. So let's let's give it to a to a 501c3 so that they can give it to the 4. You know? And they're they don't pay attention to what it is that they're actually giving it. And so they try this whole altruism thing, and they try all the different aspects of socialism and thinking because it makes it sound really good and, you know, it's it's hip to be, you know, to to poo poo money except for the fact that they're not about to give up their money. Well, no. They're gonna give up everybody else's money. That's what that's what social media is all about. It's not it's not what can I spend my money on? It's what can I spend your money on?
[01:10:36] Rich Chelson:
Mhmm. Exactly. Yeah.
[01:10:40] Bryan Goodwin:
So now did wanna jump over to something because we lost somebody today. And this is somebody who I I liked. I enjoyed watching her in several, the movies that she was in.
[01:10:58] Rich Chelson:
Who'd we lose?
[01:11:00] Bryan Goodwin:
Shelley Duvall. No way. Really? Yeah. Yep. She died. 75 years old. Apparently complications from, diabetes is what I've heard. Lived down in Blanco, Texas. Oh my god. Just just North San Antonio, just hop, skip, and a jump away from Fredericksburg. Right. Yeah. She and she was she was a recluse. She did have a, I wanna call him a boyfriend, but they were just they were friends, and he was a boy. And, and they boyfriend. He's a boyfriend. And but, they just called called her his, or called him, her her partner or whatever. So whatever that's supposed to mean. But anyhow, he said that, she just she died peacefully in her sleep, last night. And that's I mean, that's just that's sad thing to hear that we've lost a a a a great actress. Well, I'm gonna say great actress. She was an okay actress.
She was, but, but, I mean, heck, she was in some very memorable shows. I mean and a lot of people wanna try to point out, the shining. And, yeah, she did a great job of being with Torrance in there, but at the same time, the way that, that she was treated on that on that set was was if it was anywhere close to true, it's for shit. I would I've I'm not a, I wouldn't, would never say that that was a a great piece. So if you had to actually almost psychologically torture a an actress to get her to to act the way she wanted her to act. And that's what, apparently, that's what Stanley Kubrick did. I mean, there was times where, apparently, he had her do a 147 takes to get the proper amount of exo emotional exhaustion he wanted to her to emote.
[01:13:16] Rich Chelson:
You see that, that you see, if you ask me, that is going overboard. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I agree. I mean, I mean, because I mean, I mean, actors and, actresses, you know, especially if they've been doing this for quite a while, are very good at what they do.
[01:13:34] Bryan Goodwin:
You know? Yeah. Then I mean and like I said, she's not known for being a she was never gonna be a Greta Garbo or Bette Davis. Right. Right. Or anything like that. But at the same time, I mean, come on. She was olive oil. She was the perfect olive oil for Popeye. Right. And that was Yeah. Is one one of my favorite movies. You know? That I love Popeye. I remember watching it in the theaters. And it was just a delightfully screwy, wonderful callback to the early Popeye's. I mean and if you catch some of the really early stuff, I mean, you hear Robin Williams did a great job of, you know, doing his little talking to himself through, through, through his interactions with, with the oils.
And, I can't remember. See castor oil, I think it was, was the dad's name. I thought it was funny. But, if you look through all their names, they're all different types of oils. There's like olive oil, castor oil, sunflower oil, you know, all these different oils. Oil, vegetable
[01:14:40] Rich Chelson:
club. Or maybe vegetable's not a name. But
[01:14:43] Bryan Goodwin:
But, but, you know, so, but if I'm thinking about the dad, he would always walk around going, you owe me an apology. And that was his whole kind of his whole line through the whole series of of of early Popeye comics and and and, and and, cartoons and stuff. And so it was it was great. I mean, you had, you know, you had the Commodore and and blue Pluto and everybody else in there. Right. And great fun songs. They, they were always fun just to sing. But, you know, and and and he had Sweepy and and all the and all the characters. Even even Whippy was running around and they're asking for, to borrow he'd gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.
[01:15:34] Rich Chelson:
And My god. And but he was And it could be Tuesday, but he meant next Tuesday. Yeah. Next Tuesday. Yeah. So but I mean It's the 2nd Tuesday of next week.
[01:15:45] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. And she was in many, many, not only Popeye's, not only Shining, not only Home Fries, but, I mean, her first one was was way back, Something McCloud. I can't even remember what it's called, but it is, like, way back in, like, the early seventies, late sixties, early seventies. And I mean, back then when she was really young, she was actually a very beautiful woman. She had the twiggy look, which was in vogue at that time. But she was she wasn't as as gaunt as as like she was in in the, in The Shining. Right. But shortly after after that, I mean, she still did some movies from time to time, but, yeah, she she eventually just kinda swore off of everything. It was like going, I'm I'm living by myself. I'm I'm I'm not going out and about. I mean, you see, there's a couple of, TikTok, at least one TikTok, channel out there that talked about how this girl had befriended Shelley Duvall.
And from time to time, they they would run into each other, and they would talk a little bit on, on the, on the TikTok, and it would be done and over with and go on. But it was and, yeah, you could see she had a she she wasn't living the easy life. And if you didn't know it was Shelley Duvall, you wouldn't have you wouldn't have easily recognized
[01:17:21] Rich Chelson:
her. Right. Right. But but say, I had I had I had looked at But at the same time, I mean, yeah. Yeah. If we lost Yeah. That's that's crazy. I I mean, I while while you were talking, I had looked her up and, and I mean, yeah, she's not a bad looking woman. You know? She just you know, that's just how she is. I mean, it's crazy, though. You know?
[01:17:46] Bryan Goodwin:
I mean, you weren't gonna you weren't ever gonna see a a box of, bosomed type of woman out off off of Shelley Duvall, but took for what she was when she was back when she first started acting.
[01:17:57] Rich Chelson:
Well, you see okay. Let me ask you this. From from from I mean, you can't answer for all men, but why does mainly most of the men I'll use it that way. Why can't they appreciate a woman who isn't buxom or, you know, whatever? You know, because I Well, because I I've seen I've seen I've seen many women of many different shapes and sizes. Okay? And a lot of them are like very freaking pretty, but just because they don't fit into that, what, quote unquote, you know, code that that is out there. It's it's like, why are we still dealing with that in the 21st century?
[01:18:54] Bryan Goodwin:
Because that's that's that is biology. We are attracted to the 36, 24, 36,
[01:19:03] Rich Chelson:
the hour that hourglass shape. I wanna see 5 3, baby. Come on now.
[01:19:09] Bryan Goodwin:
362436 doesn't matter to height. That ratio of boom boom boom is seen all throughout history. Any woman, the because Marilyn Monroe fell into that same same I forget what they call the, the call ratio, but it's it's the 36, 24, 36 is considered a a particular type of ratio. Right. That all men, Well, not all men, but the majority of men, when they see it, that is a a sign of a very breedable woman.
[01:19:54] Rich Chelson:
Well, she's
[01:19:55] Bryan Goodwin:
She's got enough she's got enough mammary gland so she can feed the kids. She's got big enough hips so that she can birth kids without them getting stuck. Yeah. You see this. And so we see that and that is what causes us to go, hey. Yeah. She's gonna be getting out. Is it all all men gonna be No. Matter of fact, most gen, most gen c, they actually are one of the few times where the overall approval that guys had was more on butts than it was on breasts. And I think a lot of that just had to do with the fact that guys were gonna look at something.
And why they and, because girls were throwing a big old fit because guys were looking at boobs. Even though they were putting them right out there in front street, right from everybody's face. Well, stop. My eyes are up here. Well, quit showing your tits down here. Alright? Breathe you know? Right. But because they bitched about that so much that, guys were like going, well, she can't tell if I'm looking at her ass. And so true. They get they got around to going, well, I'm I'm more of a butt guy. And sorry, but I was raised in the eighties. Now you're gonna give me boobies. I will look at boobs openly.
You know And, if you have a problem with it, then cover them up.
[01:21:28] Rich Chelson:
I don't know. It just it just I I I mean and maybe I'm thinking too much or whatnot. Maybe maybe I'm maturing or I don't know what the hell. But but, you know, because I'm not saying that that I'm innocent because back in the eighties nineties, I was a little fucking horned up, you know. Oh, yeah. Well, yeah. I wanted to see boobs and everything and all like that. But it's like now it's like it's like learn to appreciate everyone. In fact in fact, on the beach today when I was on the beach today oh my god. There was a whole lot of woman and she was on the beach enjoying herself in, you know, in her bathing suit and she bent over and it was, you know, but I didn't, you know, think, oh my god. That's nasty. I mean, I'm not saying it was exactly gorgeous, but, you know, but I was like, I was just I don't know. Kinda like At least she has no shame. Good. Well, no. Yeah. You're right. This is true. And I mean I mean, you know, I don't know. It just it's just, I've learned to appreciate the beauty and and, you know, you know, different things.
[01:22:49] Bryan Goodwin:
No. Yeah. No. No. I'm I'm with you. I mean And And I'm I was the same way you were back whenever back when I was younger. First, the mother of my my oldest was an ugly woman. I will admit that up up completely. I was I was paying attention with the wrong freaking head is what I was doing because this chick was not anywhere close to pretty. And, but she was easy. And that's what it wound up. Hey. And all we needed.
[01:23:21] Rich Chelson:
Dude, when we're in our early twenties, dude, easy is, like,
[01:23:25] Bryan Goodwin:
top of the list. If if if the watermelon sit still, it's like, okay. Sure. Yeah. Uh-huh. So
[01:23:33] Rich Chelson:
Yes. Yeah. I remember them days. Oh my god.
[01:23:37] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. No. And so, I mean and and sad thing is is that's not is still not even changed with the with the young men of today. The only issue they the only issue they have right now is the fact they've got easy access to porn. Instead of chasing after the girls, they can just look at look at a girl and and sadly, not even not even enjoy the the excitement of the chase. Right. Because that is there's a lot of fucking fun when you're chasing after women.
[01:24:10] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I mean, I, well, I I mean, I say yeah, but, you know, it's been it's been quite a while since I've chased after a woman. I mean, I'm I would, I wanna say I'm chasing after 1 now, but I don't know if I'm chasing or I, I don't know what I'm doing. I'm just, I'm just exist. I'm just by ear. That's it. I mean, that's exactly what I'm doing. You know? I mean, I got to have dinner with her the other night. So
[01:24:42] Bryan Goodwin:
that's There you go.
[01:24:44] Rich Chelson:
I scored that a win in my column. That that yeah. I was gonna say winner. And it wasn't a chicken dinner. I guarantee you that.
[01:24:54] Duuude-Ron :
Winner or weeder?
[01:24:56] Rich Chelson:
Mhmm. When No. No. It was No. Sadly, wasn't the second part. No. No. It was just dinner. Yeah. We yeah, we went to a Mexican restaurant and had a very nice dinner and just sat there. And I I just enjoyed. Got it. This first time in 12 years that I had, you know well, I I don't know if it was a date. I'm gonna call it a date because I'm gonna take that I'm gonna take that win. So, you know but I'm just going with the flow. Right. So oh, yeah. I got some sad news, man. Uh-oh. Yeah. It's it's I'm I'm, like, really, really freaking bummed. My, my, whole health coach, Heather Okay. I don't have her no more.
[01:25:48] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, no.
[01:25:49] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah. She, couple weeks ago, on our conversation, we were talking, and she had gotten offered another job over at Iowa State doing basically the same job she was doing at the VA. And, everything. Yeah. Yeah. And and plus at the VA because because, her and I talked about it. The, VA in her department, she was the only one left. Everyone else had moved on. You know? So it's like and, yeah, I was bummed. I'd yeah. I was really bummed.
[01:26:31] Bryan Goodwin:
But That's an option you can, you can do whenever you, re up for a for another whole health coach here in there in Mississippi. He goes, and she's gotta have a really, really, real I mean, really cute voice.
[01:26:45] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Right. I mean, I
[01:26:49] Bryan Goodwin:
you see that's the time I don't care if she looks like a Ryan Austin's ass end. As long as her voice is we're good.
[01:26:56] Rich Chelson:
That voice and and and and be personable. Yeah. That's Yeah. That's that you see this whole thing. Me and her talked for, what, 2, 2 and a half years, something like that. I mean, it was a long free every 2 weeks, we would talk for an hour, hour and a half. Normally, an hour and a half, she would just I mean, we and we'd talk about everything. And and they just trust me at times, especially up north, between you all and her, that's the only thing that kept me alive. That is the only thing that kept me alive is is the fact that I had you all and I had her to talk to.
You know, other than that, yeah. I probably would have been among the 22. You know? Right. The They they well, you know, they're dude knows. There was times when I was I was, yeah, right close. But but and and I told her, I said I said, you know, I told her, I said, honey, I said I said I knew I knew I I knew this was gonna come to an end. And I told her, I said, I ain't happy about it. I ain't gonna lie to you. I ain't happy about it. You know? But and I haven't decided if if I wanna go with another whole health coach because if they ain't like Heather, I won't I won't deal with them.
Sorry. I got spoiled. You know? So,
[01:28:26] Bryan Goodwin:
so so We got your new whole health coach. Oh, great. I'll talk to him tomorrow. Ring, ring. Hello? This is my whole health coach. Why? Yes. It is. Oh god.
[01:28:38] Rich Chelson:
Dude, yeah. You got the wrong number later. Yeah. No. I mean, like, yeah, no. That that that well, now now with Whole Health, if you sign up with Whole Health Whole Health. They freaking want you to watch a freaking hour and a half long video.
[01:28:59] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. About?
[01:29:01] Rich Chelson:
I don't know. I've never watched it. I don't know. Well, well, no, because cause you see that's something that's saying when I got down here and, went to my first, my first VA appointment down here. I had asked my doc about staying with Heather, my Whole Health coach from up north. And, well, 3 days later, Whole Health from Pensacola, Florida called me up. And she's like, yeah. Yeah. I need to get you signed up on, Whole Health Coach, and and and and I need you to watch an hour and a half long video. And I'm like, woah. Hold on here. I hold it. I've already got my Whole Health Coach. I've been talking to her for a long time now. Every 2 weeks. I'm like, no. I don't need one. She's like, oh, okay. So, yeah, I do know they want you to watch another half long video. Why the fuck? I don't know.
But,
[01:30:01] Bryan Goodwin:
you know, it's help. It's one of those old 19 fifties. What is hell? Johnny here was it's fiddle as they like.
[01:30:13] Rich Chelson:
Right. Yeah. I don't know. It's it's you know, might be wanting to explain what is whole health? You don't freaking get it. Just talk to the freaking veteran. Just just talk to them. They I I mean, seriously, that will do more. And, you know, this is why we do our Wednesday night calls and and allow veterans on operation tiers of 22, you know? Right. You know, same thing. Just talk to a freaking veteran. Just general chitchat because 9 times out of 10, just a a general conversation will help them more than than you'll ever know. Right.
So now, but yeah. So, so yeah, I've been, it's been 2 weeks since I talked to her and normally, tomorrow would be my time to talk to her. And so I'm just kind of bumped. I ain't gonna lie. I'm just kind of bumped. I know. So
[01:31:22] Bryan Goodwin:
But I Tell me about Walmart.
[01:31:25] Rich Chelson:
Them sons of bitches.
[01:31:27] Bryan Goodwin:
Walmart. Walmart and Sam's.
[01:31:30] Rich Chelson:
Yes. Well, I mean, honestly, it's just the same fucking thing, really. Yeah. Just a bigger a bigger building. Mhmm. Well yeah. Now now Sam's Club. Okay. Now now Walmart, and I think Walmart had already started doing this. Was and and it really didn't make the, news, but Sam's Club because you have to buy a separate doohickey. Sam's Club is is, is, revoking the free shipping for online orders under $50 Yep. Now. And and so so so if if your order is under $50, it's an $8 flat shipping fee. But but yet, they are not dropping the cost of the, dues.
Yeah. So why? I mean, what's I I mean, seriously, what is it to Walmart if if they say, you know, the $35 gets free shipping? Why can't they offer free shipping? Because
[01:32:41] Bryan Goodwin:
it's it's freaking Because of inflation. That would be the reason why. Oh, yeah. Well That money's not going near as far as it used to. I mean, it's not Well, not shit. They're only they're limiting that $8.
[01:32:54] Rich Chelson:
Well, yeah. Okay. But freaking Walmart makes 1,000,000,000 of dollars of fucking in profit a quarter.
[01:33:01] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. The, it's the So But the but the effective amount of those 1,000,000,000 is maybe instead of being $8,000,000,000 which I know it's more than 8,000,000,000. I I know this. But, you know, as as a means of of argument that But that $8,000,000,000 that, years they're making is equaling out to being 6. So they may be I mean, when you're because inflation, a lot of people like, oh, well, we're we've got, you know, we've got 16% inflation. Oh, well, we got it down at 16% inflation. We got it down to to to 5% inflation. Well, that's 5% on top of the 16 that we had last month.
It's it's accumulative. And that's what a lot of people think, oh, well look, we got inflation down. No. No. No. No. No. If you wanna get inflation down, then you have to have negative inflation. Okay. Okay. Instead of having 16% inflation, it's now you'd have to to fix that. You would have to have minus 16 inflation the next month.
[01:34:06] Rich Chelson:
Okay. Okay. Hold on here. Hold on here. Walmart's annual gross profit for 2023.
[01:34:15] Duuude-Ron :
Yep.
[01:34:16] Rich Chelson:
147.568000000000 dollars. So you mean to tell me and and that was 2023. Okay? Oh, hang on. 2024 for the, financial year 2024? That would 161 0.043000000000. So you mean to tell me charging $8 a flat rate shipping is gonna break fucking Walmart.
[01:34:49] Bryan Goodwin:
Charging $8 for Walmart is is helping them be because the one thing you have to remember is Walmart, when they went public yeah, they get a lot of money from the public to to add money to their to to their call offer so that they can actually grow and and develop and and and expand.
[01:35:16] Rich Chelson:
How big do they need need to be, dude? I mean, I mean Depends on what the the the shareholders
[01:35:25] Bryan Goodwin:
Okay. Okay. Hang on. Hang on. Because when you go public, it you're no longer well, we we need to go ahead. We're gonna work on this. No. They have to figure out every way to cut costs so that they can bring the profits up more so that the shareholders, the the stockholders, actually, not just share holders, but stockholders themselves can actually make money. Okay. If they don't, the stockholders can actually come in and sue Walmart for mismanagement of funds.
[01:35:56] Rich Chelson:
Okay. Okay. Hold on. Right now in Bentonville, Arkansas. Okay. Which is the home of Walmart. Yep. Alright. And and in fact, let me bring the map up because it starts at j street. I I I know where it starts. Walmart is building a new, home office, data center, all this, everything. And I will, tell you because it's it's I think 6 square city blocks, I think. And because, I mean and this area was, that's not j street. Hang on. This area was where Walmart had a had a had a had a whole bunch of stuff. Different buildings, like like Walmart had their own GM, Walmart had a couple distribution centers, and stuff like this. Okay?
Right. And and and so so instead of repurposing those buildings, Okay. Walmart Walmart is oh, that's center okay. Here. That's I Street. Yeah. J Street. Aswan Boulevard. Nope. I need to go no. I need to go this way. P Street. Or no. J Street. Yeah. Between J Street and Southeast 14th, and I know you would have to look on Google Maps. Yeah. Yeah. You'd have to go down to east central, which is 1, 2, 3, 4 city blocks. You would have to go across 1, 2, 3 city blocks and then come back up those 4 city blocks and come back across. That is gonna be the new home center of Walmart.
[01:38:04] Bryan Goodwin:
K.
[01:38:05] Rich Chelson:
Okay? And everything like this. So there are so called everyday low prices, which aren't low. Okay?
[01:38:16] Bryan Goodwin:
But they are lower than most other prices.
[01:38:20] Rich Chelson:
Are you sure about that?
[01:38:22] Bryan Goodwin:
Unless you wanna go online to Amazon. Yeah. For for for Elk City? Yeah. Because you can go to yeah. You see, but but Now you get you get better quality when you go to United or Homeland. Right. You get better quality meats, which is the place where we go just we go on hit. We have given up trying to do it at the we'll grab some, some 90, like, 93 7, ground beef jugs from Walmart from time to time just because you know? Alright. So they're they're they're just as much, it's hamburger meat. It's just getting in there just instead of having to run across town to to there. But if we're wanting to grab some beef steaks and things like that, no. I don't we we tried Walmart tried Walmart. Yeah. You can get some steaks. They're, like, maybe a quarter inch thick.
Right. And, yeah, they've got thick steaks. I mean, you can pick up a tomahawk steak over Walmart, and it'd be a good inch and a half thick.
[01:39:27] Rich Chelson:
But you're also looking at $50 for the damn thing. Right. But still, okay, what I'm saying is is a 161,000,000,000 fucking dollars a year. And, and they're worried about $8
[01:39:41] Bryan Goodwin:
I mean, give us a How many people are doing the shipping? How many people are, a day are shipping?
[01:39:50] Rich Chelson:
Take a $100,000 a day. 100,000 people a day.
[01:39:55] Bryan Goodwin:
Okay. Okay. A 100,000 people a day. Times 8 is $800,000
[01:40:00] Rich Chelson:
a day. But the thing is is how much money did they spend? Because most people will spend more than $35. Now some won't, of course.
[01:40:11] Bryan Goodwin:
But Now some people are just going, I just need a pat just need a a couple cans of soup and and have them ship it over to Okay. I mean, yeah. But And that's that's a that's a that's a loss. Okay. And they they and granted yeah. This is But again, this is also society not regulating themselves. So Walmart has had to do this because of all the dipshits over in California who can't keep their hands off the freaking merch merchandise and wanna run off with
[01:40:48] Rich Chelson:
it. Well, yeah. Well, it's not just California. So all the all the loss Absolutely.
[01:40:53] Bryan Goodwin:
All the mark all the the, the what do they call it? It's not loss. Anyhow, instead of having the products just, you know, just kinda up and fucking disappear and and stuff, they, shrinkage. That's the word I'm looking for. They have to sit there and worry about about shrinkage, which is just the fact that they bought 50,000, 50,000 units of a doohickey, and then they take, you know, half of that sent into California, and 2 thirds of that gets stolen. Right. Okay. Hold on. Hold on. And there's some places where like in California or like in, like in San Francisco, they're actually there's the mayor and some of the, sit some of the city council members are actually going to are actually trying to get a, an ordinance passed to where if you are a shop if you are a grocery store or you sell groceries and you're going out of business, you can't just shut your business down.
You actually have to keep it open because, you know, it's a food it's a food desert. Well, it's not my fucking fault. It's not the grocer's fucking fault either, asshat. If you would've gone off and actually be going after the people who are stealing the food, maybe that grocery store would've stayed open. But no. Oh, I can't because he's a black person. Foo freaking who? Can't help you there. Oh, no. No. I get it. They ran off. They lost lost money. They can't stay open. And so it try trying to force a person to continue to lose their livelihood and to lose all their money, go destitute because, well, they can't be closing. Well, they can't be buying other buy food either. So what are they gonna do? They're just gonna have a grocery store that's open.
Honestly, if I was in that area and I was like, you know what? I've gotta close, but I'm not allowed to close. I would just open the doors and walk out and say Right. No one owns this. That I'm I'll I'll tell the landowners, like, hey, take it over whenever you're ready for it. I'm not doing anymore. And I would just I would let them try to let them try to sue me. It's like, dude, fuck you. Y'all have a good day. You're not getting my shit. Oh, you sued me. Oh, you won because I wasn't in to end the state. Oh, okay. Oh, chapter 7. I'm sorry. Yeah. I'm bankrupt. Bye. And and go on my way. Right. Now hold on here. Hold on here.
[01:43:35] Rich Chelson:
There, on this on this Sam's Club's thing and this Walmart thing. Now there are 2 different tiers with Sam's Club. There's a basic membership, which is now $50. Yeah. And there's a plus, which is a $110. And, actually actually, they increased those fees in October of 2022. So
[01:43:59] Bryan Goodwin:
so again And Costco just increased their fees too.
[01:44:03] Rich Chelson:
Yes. Okay. I understand that. But Costco's not fucking around with the shipping either. And you see, because one of the benefits Not yet. Oh, well, right. But Walmart's now listen. One of the benefits for what was that? That was advertised for the plus membership included free shipping.
[01:44:24] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[01:44:25] Rich Chelson:
That was I mean, you pay a $110 a year and you get free shipping no matter what you ordered. And now
[01:44:32] Bryan Goodwin:
Walmart is saying, no. Kiss my ass. Under $50, you're paying the Yeah. Because if it's a loss leader, I'd be doing the same thing. That's one reason that's something, you know, and put this in more of a tangible means. People want, like, Patreon. Back when Patreon first came out, they were like, and we'll give you a free t shirt and and all this for if you do a $5 donation. Until they realize, holy shit, $5 doesn't go very far. I'm losing money for whatever t shirt I give out. Well, that's their dumbass. So they had to pull Well, exactly. It is their they they they chose wrong.
They made a wrong choice. They didn't see look far enough in the future to go, I didn't realize we were gonna get so popular that all of a sudden every $5 t shirt was gonna cost me that an extra $10 out of my own pocket. Right. I've gotta make a change. And so they had to change. It was and it started out really good. They've had to change it. And so people are going And the public will decide, you know what? I'm not going to stand for this. I'm gonna go to Costco. And a lot of people at first are gonna do that until they realize, oh, wait a minute. I liked Walmart and Sam's Club for this reason itself. And they're gonna go back to it. And they're gonna go back to it quietly. Right now, they're all pissed off. They they're they're they got their butt hurt. And so they're gonna go off and they're making a big noise. Oh my god. Walmart went off and is making charging us $8 to buy one item.
Have you gone to Amazon and bought a $10 item before? There's times it costs you $15 for a $5 item to ship. I get free shipping. So Well, that yeah. Because you're not prime. If you don't Well, no. I know. I I I don't care to pay I don't care to pay the 100 and something odd dollars a month a year to to do the Prime. I don't order enough from Amazon to do that. Well, they've got prime video too. I mean, I I I watch a lot of prime video. But but no. I use prime video for for my my purchases. So
[01:46:39] Rich Chelson:
Okay. But but see see, that's the thing that you see, I don't even shop at Walmart or Sam's Club, but it just pisses me off that that because the Q1 earnings of 2024 for Sam's Club was 21,400,000,000. Yeah. Okay? Profits for the 1st quarter. And it's, and why were they, why are they,
[01:47:03] Bryan Goodwin:
why were they that part of that profitable?
[01:47:05] Rich Chelson:
Because they've been They kept raising prices.
[01:47:08] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, they have to keep raising prices.
[01:47:12] Rich Chelson:
No. They don't, dude. I Yeah. They do. I mean, if if they were if they were to keep well, you're right. They could eat milk at
[01:47:21] Bryan Goodwin:
at a dollar 50, and they would be losing 1,000,000,000.
[01:47:26] Rich Chelson:
You think? Yes. Well, yeah. You know, probably you're right because of all the government fucking regulations of bullshit on milk. Because I remember I could get milk straight from the cow when when I was growing up for a dollar a fucking gallon. Yeah. And I'm talking that was from the tit to the jar.
[01:47:49] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. You know? And and at one time, yeah, it would've been that. But inflation again has caused prices to have to increase. It's, it yeah. It sucks, but it's not Walmart's fault for them having to increase the prices. Again, you gotta point finger at the at the old old senile fucktard that's hanging out in the in the wall in in in the White House right now. Well, no. And they get both him. Him and his crony. Maker we're a salad chef that's standing around. They're going Right. Oh, yeah. Well, you know, a in AI is for artificial, and the I is for intelligence, which is what something I don't quite have all that often. But, you know, we do have such intelligent things that are gonna be able to you know? And then I love listening to her because she sounds like she is a freshman high schooler who did not read the book report.
[01:48:49] Rich Chelson:
Oh my god. No. She dude, if I sit and listen to her, I just I just get pissed off and wanna smack her. But no. You no. No. No. You say it you know, it sounds like I'm trashing on Walmart. Yes. I am because I hate fucking Walmart. Because Yeah. I I mean I mean, I've lived in Bentonville, Arkansas. I've lived in Northwest Arkansas, and that is nothing but fucking Walmart on every goddamn corner. Right. Every corner, there's a supercenter, a neighborhood market, a convenience store. I mean, it's something Walmart every fucking way, and I hate it. And so I don't go to Walmart. But yet you know? And and it's I know it's not just Walmart doing this. It's it's other companies too. But, you know, this is what I'm saying. You know? They're saying, oh, you know, we had to raise our prices. Really? You buy in bulk for 500 fucking stores.
You you freaking get your shit a whole lot cheaper than what you sell it for. Right. You know, if you know, I mean, you took out the cashiers and then you bitch about because, you know, now you get people stealing from them. Yeah. Right. Right. Right. So so what do you do? Take out the fucking cashiers and put someone at the door. Oh, I need to check your receipt. Fuck you. Get out of my ass. You know?
[01:50:12] Bryan Goodwin:
And it's just it's bullshit. It's like No. There's not there's a lot of it that I agree. But this is the beauty, of capitalism, though, is if you don't like it, that's awesome. You don't have to. You can go to, you know, someplace else. Well, they've got the better prices. Then you have to either shit or get off the pot, ma'am, because you could either, a, bitch about the Walmart, and my wife does it. She loves to bitch about Walmart. I mean, it is oh, that is her favorite game every Sunday afternoon. Afternoon. Right. Right. Going on Saturdays because there's the lines are there'll be 5,000 people in there, 2 lanes open.
Because I refuse to do the, the self checkout. I'm Right. Right. It's like I wanna make if I'm going there, I'm gonna make sure the person who is getting paid gets paid for their job. Right. They're actually getting to do what they need to do. And so we go on Sundays because they at least have the 2 lanes open, but there's only, you know, a 100 people in line instead of the 500.
[01:51:16] Rich Chelson:
Right. Right. But no, you see. But
[01:51:19] Bryan Goodwin:
like I said, I go I don't buy the meat at at Walmart anymore. Because Right. One, Homeland and United, a, have higher quality, but I Mhmm. But, but the prices are still, attainable. I would love to be able to go to Keith's meat market, but I can't afford, you know, $25 a pound for for incredible hamburger, you know, with round chuck and some other assorted yum, delicious oh, my son's the best damn hamburger meat. But, you know, I can't afford it. Right. So Right. I I think he puts a little crack in there just to make sure that people come back. Because, I mean, it's amazing. It's it's some of the best best hamburger meat you ever come across. But he's also got other stuff in there, and it's all cut great and it's marvelous and beautiful.
It's great. But, again, I can't afford it. So I can't quite attain Keith's meat market, but I can't attain some good decent black and red river, red river Angus at, at Homeland. I think I got that. It might be the opposite. No. United is, the dry aged beef, and Homeland is the, is the, just the regular black Angus. So bam. Yeah. Well, let's say that There's there's options. Right. But that and that's that's capitalism, though. That's the glory of capitalism. You have a choice. You may not wanna drive 2 hours to go get the good choice,
[01:52:49] Rich Chelson:
but you have that choice. You have that option of being. Oh, no. I'll drive. I'll drive because I just I just I just went to the commissary on base, on the air force base, spent 75 fucking dollars, and got a month's worth of groceries.
[01:53:03] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. I got I got $200 for $75. It's amazing.
[01:53:10] Rich Chelson:
I mean, seriously, fuck a Walmart, you know? Oh, yeah. I mean, I I just I don't know. I like that. Hey. It's just it just irks me because, you know, people, you know, say, oh, you know, we're doing this. And then all of a sudden, out of the blue, they just change. You know? And it's like Yeah. And and I get I get that. But at the same time, they there are factors in their choice
[01:53:37] Bryan Goodwin:
that we're not a we're not privy to. Well, okay. Yeah. I get it. But And so why are they raising prices or why did they have to cut that off? Because I'm I'm the the only reason why they're doing that is because it is a loss. They were doing it at a loss. How big? Don't know. Maybe maybe their 21,000,000,000, dollars would have fallen down to 19,000,000,000. Oh my god. Well, I know. I don't. But you're thinking you. You're looking at you're you're looking at what you're able to attain. I would look at a $100,000 and go, oh my god. You know, I'd cream my pants if someone dropped a $100,000 in my in in my hands. Right. Yet, there's gonna become a point when a $100,000 for my business is not gonna be enough because that $100,000 is going to get folded into other stuff and I still gotta be able to live off of it. Mhmm.
So I'm gonna be doing you know, if I if my dreams come true, like I would like for them too, eventually, I'm gonna be taking a group of men over to, over to Ward Branch. We're going to be walking the Camino all the way across the, all across Spain and ending over, Camino de Santiago. You know, we're gonna be, or the, Santiago de Compostela. We're gonna be walking that and doing a, you know, doing a 6 week intensive coaching session Right. While we're walking across doing this doing this this pilgrimage. But then there's also, the thoughts of doing men's retreat where it's just a group of, like, 30 men that we all get together, And we go out into the Grand Tetons, and we get lost out there for a week. And it's just us versus the bears, you know, and beat them up because apparently, they're taking all our women.
So, you know
[01:55:37] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I want, I want pictures of that. You wanna join us?
[01:55:44] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. I'm gonna be boxing it out.
[01:55:48] Rich Chelson:
Oh my god.
[01:55:50] Bryan Goodwin:
Playing the game hungry, hungry hippo. You know? Hippo. Exactly. Yeah. We're gonna find you. 2 guys on one on one side, 2 group pairs on the other.
[01:55:59] Rich Chelson:
Oh god. That'd be funny. That would be fucking hilarious.
[01:56:04] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. But then wait till that monopoly game comes out. Someone's gonna get pissed and we're gonna be flipping tables. So So do So but no. I mean, but these are things that I wanna do, but to be able to do that, that's gonna take a good chunk of money. So these are things that, yeah. I've eventually, I wanna be able to get around to where I can say, I make a $100,000,000 a year. Right. Will that ever happen? Probably not. I'm But I'm gonna be happy with making 50,000,000. Do I need that 50,000,000? No. But that 50,000,000 is a scorecard on Right. How successful I was on changing men's lives for the better.
Can I change enough men's lives that they have the most incredible merit that they're willing to fork over, you know, $15,000 for 6 week for a 6 week trip? Yeah. I don't know. I think I'll be able to.
[01:57:10] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[01:57:12] Bryan Goodwin:
But, you know, that's not anything that I'm I'm not to that point yet, so I'm not worried about it. I'm trying to get up to making $1,000 a month. Right. If I can get to that, then boom. Alright. I I'm I'm set. I can take go to I can take my step to the next level and learn the next set of skills. But again, when we're trying to convert compare that and compare and contrast to what Walmart does, Walmart's an international corporation. They're going they're they're operating in so many zeros that, yeah, it fries our minds like $21,000,000,000 Good grief. They wouldn't miss a miss a dollar.
Well, in all reality, they would miss a dollar. Because if someone took a dollar and then they took a dollar again, eventually that though all those little dollars are gonna add up and then all of a sudden, they're gonna find themselves short a $1,000,000. And that's really gonna ring a bell.
[01:58:09] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. God forbid. 1 of the execs don't get their $5,000,000 bonus.
[01:58:15] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, but there there's times that that people get people steal $1,000,000.
[01:58:21] Rich Chelson:
I get it. I get it. But yet at the same time I mean, someone doing, you know, someone doing a a vice president's job, a CEO job, or, you know I mean, yes. I understand it's hard. You know, there's a lot of different decisions. But do they really need $10,000,000 a year?
[01:58:43] Bryan Goodwin:
No. But they're providing $10,000,000 like you're worth of value. Well And and that's debatable. The reason why it's debatable is because to you, no. But if you were in their seat, you would like that $10,000,000.
[01:58:59] Rich Chelson:
Maybe, maybe not. I mean, I don't know because I I have never been
[01:59:04] Bryan Goodwin:
saddled with that problem yet. Right. May you know, maybe one day. Yeah. And that's one reason why so many people who win the lottery and they get saddled with a $100,000,000 lotto prize, 2 years later, they're broke. Yeah. Because yeah. They don't have anything to show with it because they that that $100,000 or a $100,000,000 was too much for them. That Right. Put them so far out of their comfort zone that they had to get rid of that money and get rid of it fast. And so they were gonna do everything they could. And that And so they pushed the million the shit out of it. Yeah. And and sadly,
[01:59:45] Rich Chelson:
you know, a lot of people do that because we're not trained. We're we're not taught how to deal with
[01:59:53] Bryan Goodwin:
large amounts of money like that. Yeah. I mean And that's why I so many people struggle with whenever I say this. The poor are poor because they've chosen to be. They don't wanna do the work to become rich. Right. That's too hard. That's too scary. That's there's too much there's too much judgment in in about what being rich means. Right. I'm not gonna be no no money grubbering son of a bitch like that. Well, guess what? That's the reason why you're not you're you're making barely $20,000. You're sitting there looking down your nose at a $50,000 a year job going, well, I'm not about to do that. Well, okay.
[02:00:32] Rich Chelson:
Stop bitching about and being broke. That's like that's like that's like my first my first award from the VA Yeah. On my on my claim. I got 34,000. You do. Oh, goddamn. I was crying like a little baby. You know? I and, you know, I I would $34,000 is dumped in my account. And I'm like, what the fuck do I do? Yeah. You know? And How do I handle this? I mean, thank God thank God I did have a plan because I had thought about what what I would do with it. And so I didn't just totally blow it. You know? Right. I did use it for a lot of good. But, yeah, I mean, the first time I freaking opened my bank account, saw that. Oh, yeah. Shit. I was I was scared. All of a sudden, you've got a 5 digit figure in there. You're like, okay. Let's, no. We're not gonna mess with that right now. It's like it's like I can buy lunch today. I'm good.
[02:01:33] Bryan Goodwin:
And that's a good place to start. I mean, that's one things like, when my son got, his inheritance from his grandpa
[02:01:41] Rich Chelson:
Mhmm.
[02:01:43] Bryan Goodwin:
He took it to a point because he he took my the advice to a point because all of a sudden he had 4 other adults. His granddad, his grandmother, his great aunt, and his great uncle were all all of us were standing around going, you need to take this money, put it away, sit on it, don't mess with it until you can look at it and not sweat and not have a reaction to it. Right. And he had didn't quite do that because, I mean, once he got the got moved to the house, he bought he spent $8,000 on on this and spent a couple 8,000 several dollar several, actually, not 8, but, $2,000 off television set.
And he, you know, he went, he went a little a little crazy, bought himself a high end computer and all this. And so I was like, you know, fooling their money. You do what you have to think you have to do, but I'm sorry, man. But yeah. And and just in, you know, for, as a parent, you're just standing there going, dude, no. You're spending don't spend all the money. You're gonna you're gonna wish you had to spend all that money, you know. And he finally kinda hit a point where he's like, okay. Hold up. Hold up. Hold up. I'm this money's going faster than what I what I wanted it to. And so he's stuck a bunch of it into into a into stocks stuff. And and also he was like, he started using the stocks as, as the collateral for a couple of loans because he was like, well, I'm gonna because he wanted to start a business. It's like, okay. And he's now learning the what it takes to be a to in the means of work for a business because he's like going, well, I he got him all this stuff and he's got it kinda set up, but he's not really pimping it all all that much because, well, that's where all the work is. Right. You have to go around. You have to market. You have to talk to people. And he's like, oh, you know, I just wanna play golf. And I wanna play disc golf. And I was like, I get it.
But that's not your job no more. Your job is to go out and help other people play this golf.
[02:03:49] Rich Chelson:
Mhmm.
[02:03:51] Bryan Goodwin:
And and so it's it's a hard thing for him to get grasp. I mean, it's like, for me, it's like, I I don't, I would love to be able to just hang out at the house. But I want, I love the fact that I am now able to help. I've got a set of skills that allows me to help men who are struggling with their relationships.
[02:04:15] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[02:04:17] Bryan Goodwin:
And be able to show them that problem isn't that their their fucking wife is not giving them the blow jobs they want every night. That's a symptom of what the actual problem is. That problem is just the what they're thinking. Mhmm. Exactly.
[02:04:35] Rich Chelson:
And 10. Out of 10. That's exactly what they do. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, that's why
[02:04:40] Bryan Goodwin:
Is my sense. Things I was I I had come to a conclude come to a realization here recently is when you start to relax, hence the relaxed smell, when you find the wherewithal to relax, when you find that ill ease, that disease that's inside of you, and you can process that and get rid of it, all of a sudden, like you found out, the need to be drunk all the time goes away. Oh, yeah. The need to look at porn all the time Goes away. Goes away. All of a sudden, trying to just have sex with your wife isn't as important. Right. When you do get to have sex, that's when the fun happens. It's like, alright. Yep. We're meeting on her terms and my terms and we get to have a wonderful time. It's not just me seeing if I can get my rocks off.
It's not me just seeing exactly, you know, how quickly can I make her toes curl? There's Right. A whole synergy that goes into it to where, yeah, all of a sudden you're not having as often sex is often. And for somebody who is at a has a ill ease at them within them, that scares a crap. What do you mean I'm I'm married and I'm not gonna have as much sex as I I was as I want? Because you'll be okay.
[02:06:06] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Well, you see, it's simple. Quality over quantity
[02:06:11] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Wins every time. Now if we can have a whole lot of quality, that's better. But at the same time, you know, together. Take it as it comes, dude. Take it as it comes, exactly. Baby steps.
[02:06:23] Rich Chelson:
Hey. Hey. Hey. Just to let you know, we got about 5 left.
[02:06:27] Bryan Goodwin:
I was just, just peeking there. I was like, oh, alright. Well, we gotta be getting close here. Yeah. So so alright. Well, guys, let's go ahead and let's pack this baby on. Hold on a second. Hold on a second.
[02:06:39] Rich Chelson:
Dude.
[02:06:40] Bryan Goodwin:
Dude. I I What are your thoughts on this? It's true.
[02:06:43] Rich Chelson:
We we haven't heard from you, man. So enlighten us.
[02:06:50] Bryan Goodwin:
Lay upon us the the due
[02:06:55] Rich Chelson:
knowledge.
[02:06:59] Duuude-Ron :
I don't
[02:07:00] Rich Chelson:
know. Okay. The dude knowledge.
[02:07:05] Bryan Goodwin:
I love it. That is so so far out, man. Wow.
[02:07:09] Duuude-Ron :
Yes. Yeah. Dude You know, I've been I've been listening to you, and it's like just listening, but not really listening.
[02:07:22] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. So okay. So what about, what what are you what are your thoughts on Walmart charging $8 for shipping and dropping the free shipping for anything under $50. Well,
[02:07:44] Duuude-Ron :
you know, I I I agree with Rich on the aspects that they are a multibillion dollar company and that okay. And you're man, if you wanna shop at Sam's, you have to have a membership, something like that. I think that they can, maybe loosen their purse strings a little bit. You know? Is it really hurting their bottom their dump, their bottom line when it comes to shipping?
[02:08:25] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, what if they face the face the possibility of being sued by their stockholder because they're not making as much profit as they can.
[02:08:38] Duuude-Ron :
Trust me. They're gonna make profits regardless, you know? And I had never heard of any stockholders suing a company for what their possibilities of their stock rates or stock price is. I I don't know any of that. So, you know, most people that have the end me as an individual, say, if I own 15 shares of Walmart stock, am I really gonna worry about, you know, my measly little piece of the pie on shipping? No. Now I understand if you have 1,000,000 of dollars and or 1,000,000 of shares of Walmart that okay. Yeah. Do you wanna make a little bit more money? Well, anybody that has that kind of money, The only reason why they have money is to make more money and in turn to make more money and in turn to make more money.
You know, again, it all goes back to those that have want more and to hell with everybody else. No. I completely get it. You know? But I think it's bullshit that, you know, about charging an $8 flat rate for shipping for anything $135 just That's why people join, say, Sam's and this other Walmart. They're they're the fucking thing that they're doing for the privilege of having the free shipping. Okay? They just Right. Leave this fucking shit alone. Just leave it alone.
[02:11:02] Rich Chelson:
Yeah? Hey, man, dude. And I love it.
[02:11:06] Duuude-Ron :
So and, yes, I've been listening to it. And the one thing I saw, I think it was on Facebook. I can't remember. Which I think going to Costco, what one of their policies is, and I think it is freaking out standing that if you are a member and if you get caught parking in a handicapped spot and you are not placarded or got a license plate, they can and will revoke your membership.
[02:11:51] Rich Chelson:
Oh, wow.
[02:11:52] Duuude-Ron :
It's Costco.
[02:11:54] Rich Chelson:
I did not know that.
[02:11:56] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I think that is freaking outstanding. If you want to abuse that privilege because okay. The state of Texas, with me having a disable or a disability plate with the military. Disabled vet. A DV plate. Disabled vet. I could up until September of the year before last. So it's it's been in effect for this September will be 2 years, that they took the privilege of a disabled vet to where you can no longer park in a handicap spot with just disabled vet plates. Now you either have to have a handicapped licensed disabled veteran plate or you have to have a placard, which I never used them anyway. Even though I got DV plates, I I don't park in a handicap spot. Why? Because I'm perfectly able, and somebody that they have all they have, the fucking handicap placards, need those parking spots.
And I agree with that a 100%. And I don't, again, I don't use any handicap spots and never have with a disabled veteran's plate. But Costco is, like I said, if they catch any of their, club members parking in handicap, handicap parking spots, and they don't have placards, they will they're starting to, suspend those individuals' membership. That's kinda cool. And I think that is freaking outstanding. Yeah.
[02:14:20] Rich Chelson:
So well, Brian, do you have parting thoughts?
[02:14:25] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, got a few parting, parting thoughts, parting shots. So anyhow, guys, again, this is a, value for value show. We, accept time, talent, and treasure. You can if you wanna be able to help us in some way, always be able to send out over a, email to either me or Rich. I'm circlecast, [email protected]. Rich is rchelson. That's [email protected]. You can reach out to either one of us and say, hey, man. I would love to be able to help you with x, y, and or z. Love to be able to, see how we can, how we can fit you into the, end of the team, let you be able to help us. If you are, if you have a a particular talent and would love to be able to contribute to your talent to the show, love to have that also.
All of these will also be that we're not just gonna be greedy sons of guns because if you apply treasure and you are somebody who has applied, given some, some, talent or time, what we would end up doing is we'd take a little bit of a give you a little bit of a split off of the, off the Satoshis that come in because we with, with the treasure, you can use your fiat currency, your little green certificates of appreciation by going over to PayPal, and you can actually follow the link by going over to, to 2 grumpy vets.com, and up there, you'll see a value for value tab. Just hit the tab and there's, there's the, the PayPal link right there. You can, you can click on that and send the, money over to us. Or if you like, you can use a modern podcasting app.
You can actually send send us, boosts and or send us a boost to Graham, and that was is a boost with a message, and we will then take the message. We'll read the message out. And the boost, they come to us, and they get split up right now. Get 3 split up, 4 different ways because the music that we that you hear at the beginning, that is all, open to open source, music that's comes from actual, music artists who actually get a portion of the, of our stats. But if you if so if you were to contribute, then we would throw you into the, end of the mix for that, for that episode too. And we wanna say just say thank you. It's not that we're trying to do this, the value for value as a means for us to become rich greedy bastards. I'm doing that on my own. I've got my own little business that I'm trying to become rich greedy bastard on. This here is just so to be rich and and the dude can actually sit back, talk, have a good time, laugh, giggle, see talk about what's going on in the world just so that we can actually utilize the term grumpy because, heck, a lot of the stuff just makes us kinda grumpy. So that's that's what we wanna do. And I wanna thank all of y'all for taking the time to listen. We are still growing. We're still becoming better. And if you would please take the time, share the this episode out. If you found something that you found funny, share it over on the Facebook. Share it on the Twitter, X, Instagram, threads, Mastodon, whatever whatever social media, what is the one? I found one here recently that I've been playing around with. I think it's called Storyside.
Fires no. It's not Fireside. I think it's Storyside. But anyhow Okay. It it's kinda interesting. It's got videos. It's got it's got a video section. It's got a, got a, a a post section. It's got several different little bits in there, and so I've been just starting last week, I just started messing around with it. So it's got I haven't got given a whole lot of thought as to the effectiveness and and stuff. Definitely doesn't have the, the critical mass as as number of people and number of users because, yeah, it's, it's a little slow. But it's it's really cool. It's pretty. So, so I've been playing around with that. But there's a lot of different ways. If you're primal, you can you know, using some of the nostrils stuff that we're you can you can share this out with anybody and everybody. And when you do share that, you're letting people know that, hey. There are these 3 heads in one brain that is just the bizarrest thing you've ever come across.
And we'd love the fact that we have more people come in, listen, and stay if they like us and, you know, they don't like us. Okay. Cool. Well, thank you for trying. You know. Right. And, yeah. Tell your friends, you know, and maybe Tell your friends. Tell tell your family. Tell your friends' family and tell your family's friends. And, you know, we would love to love to have more people join up. So, Rich, what do you have to say?
[02:19:10] Rich Chelson:
Well, apparently, I got wound up a little bit tonight, and and it just That's good. I mean, yeah, it is good because, by god, it just I owned up to my name Grumpy Rich. But, no, I just I just wanna say, you know, thank you for let everybody. Thank you for listening. All the listens we get. Yeah. I mean, there's I don't know. I I haven't looked at the numbers. So but I'm just I'm just grateful people are listening. And, you know, best thing to do is just 1 foot forward, breathe in, breathe out, and, yeah. Enjoy life one day at a time, man.
[02:19:54] Bryan Goodwin:
So Absolutely.
[02:19:55] Rich Chelson:
That's all I got, man.
[02:19:57] Bryan Goodwin:
Alright. Ron, the dude himself, what do you have to say? Oh, hail the dude.
[02:20:06] Duuude-Ron :
Well, the dude the dude will as always, is just kinda lurking in the shadows and just listening and, you know, gives his comments every, oh, now and then and, you know, may cut in a little bit. But as, Rich and Brian say, you know, yeah, we get together. We have our opinions about certain things, and, these are our opinions. They may not be your opinions. And then if you like our opinions, that's great. If you don't like our opinions, well, sorry. Yeah. We're not gonna change our opinion. However, your opinions, and I'll say this every week, your opinions on somebody that you know that may be feeling down, feeling suicidal, just not thinking straight.
If you know somebody that that is currently in that situation, Most of the time, they just wanna talk, and they need an ear to listen to what they have to say. And it it it's just mainly and a lot of it is just folks trying to get their stress off their shoulders, and they just need somebody to listen to them. And that makes that makes some people a lot better, and that helps. So anytime that you know a veteran or a friend that is not you know that something is going on, get just talk to them. Try to have them open up and, you know, get that weight off of their shoulders because most of the time, that's what they're looking for is somebody just to listen so they can get the weight off their shoulders.
And be kind. I know that I'm and, the people that I work with and the associates that I know, I'm an asshole, just because when I come to work, I come to work. I don't play gram ass. You know, my industry. Yeah. There's no room for error. Yes. I'm an asshole, but I am a fair asshole.
[02:23:10] Rich Chelson:
And you are True. You're still kind, dude. You are still, you're still kind at times.
[02:23:18] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I'm still kind and I will still offer my knowledge to anybody that, you know, I yes. I'm a a major asshole, but every day, I will have an associate that will come up and ask me a question because they know my knowledge base because I've worked in every department at my plant. And, yes, I have a lot of knowledge, and I'm willing to share it. Why not? If it's gonna if it's gonna make somebody a better associate to have that information, why keep it to myself? Yeah. Okay. I'll share my knowledge for free. And I got a lot I every day, somebody will ask me in one shape or form, what is your thought on this? Because you you have been through this situation, you know.
I haven't. So, you know, I'd like to learn, and I'm willing to teach.
[02:24:25] Rich Chelson:
That's cool. I I would I would still I would still charge him at least a banana.
[02:24:35] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[02:24:36] Rich Chelson:
I mean, dude, I need I I need some nana pickles. No. Sorry. It's just me being an an ass.
[02:24:47] Duuude-Ron :
So, yeah, within the next couple of weeks, and we're talking about, Rich's drinking at one time, I'm sure that he will consume a considerable amount of what Matt has made for adult refreshing drinks come the, tears of the 22 event.
[02:25:14] Rich Chelson:
Yep. Probably not, dude.
[02:25:16] Duuude-Ron :
Probably not. How many how many no? No?
[02:25:20] Rich Chelson:
No. I probably won't. I mean, I didn't hardly drink and, at Stubborn at all. I mean, I think I'm I might have had a 12 pack the whole time I was down there.
[02:25:31] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. But he didn't bring any shine with him.
[02:25:33] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. But, I mean, I'm just dude, I've got a quart of swamp juice that I brought back in June that I haven't even cracked. Oh, okay. I'm afraid right now. So I I just that's the thing. And like like Brian was saying, you know, I don't I don't have that disease, so I really don't wanna drink, man.
[02:25:55] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Okay. Alright. Well, you know I mean, now now. Would be great. No. Which is absolutely great.
[02:26:02] Rich Chelson:
Now now now I'm not saying that that I won't, but I I'm gonna make sure I don't get drunk. Let's put it that way.
[02:26:14] Duuude-Ron :
Well, if if, and that's about a 50 foot word right now, if I'm even able to attend because right now, you know, I just, again, don't have the finances to attend. Right. Right. And if something changes and I'm able to attend, Yeah. Friday night? Yeah. I'm gonna get freaking ham bored. All down on my face or just pass out in the chair hammered, but not Saturday night because and that really sucks trying to drive back that Sunday. No. It'll Right. It'll be Friday night.
[02:27:02] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's fine.
[02:27:04] Bryan Goodwin:
So where are you gonna find all these bottle and James, wine coolers at?
[02:27:10] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, hell no. I'm gonna steal from Matt's shine stash. Oh, you can go for the hard stuff. Alright. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Have about 4 of those in a in an hour.
[02:27:26] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah. He would be he would be toasted. He would find the I was gonna say, we're gonna find find Ron hanging upside down from one of the tree houses going, and then wonder what the hell got into him.
[02:27:41] Duuude-Ron :
Right. I was the, Yeah. I was toasted not last time, but the time before that. Yeah. I was well, you were right. You guys remember me. Oh, yeah. Yep. Getting staggering around.
[02:27:55] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. You as happy as a clam, dude. I was happy as a clam.
[02:28:01] Duuude-Ron :
So Yeah. Alright. I might I might, I might not.
[02:28:06] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, if you do, that'll be a sight to see. If you don't, well, still, you'll be a sight to see. That's right.
[02:28:14] Duuude-Ron :
If I'm able to go yep. So right now, you know, the chances are not looking very good whatsoever.
[02:28:23] Bryan Goodwin:
I sadly, I the the wife and my daughters informed me that, no, I wouldn't be able make it to this year's either just because birthday falls right, right in that, that area. So Right. So now I I got a 10 birthdays. So Oh, so you won't be able to make it? No. I'm not gonna be able to. I'm I'm gonna have to I I I get to hang around hang around with Nugget and give her see if we take her over to the splash pad just have a good old time. So
[02:28:55] Rich Chelson:
Well, that'll
[02:28:56] Bryan Goodwin:
work. Oh, heck yeah. So So but anyhow so alright. Well, guys, y'all have a good rest of the, rest of the week. We will see y'all next, next Thursday when we go live at 7:30. No. No. No. No. I'm not going live next week. I'll be on the road. Trevor. We're not doing live next week, the next week, or the next week. So But So it'll be when we do go live, we go live at 7:30. But don't worry about the live because we're not doing live this this next week because yeah. Right. We're not doing live this next week. Now we're the next week or the next so Right. So no lives scheduled for the next 3 weeks, but then after that, keep an eye out on the on the socials because you'll see that, the 7:30 lives will pop up again. And, then you can start listening on your pod, on your modern podcasting app choice, which you can go get over at podcasting2.org/apps.
So guys, with that, I'm gonna say bye. Y'all take care. Catch y'all laters. Sianora. I'll read with Darche. And any other words you could say for later, dude?
[02:30:04] Rich Chelson:
Later.
[02:30:05] Duuude-Ron :
Steve sat now. Bye, guys. See you guys. See you. Alright. Bye.
Introduction and Podcast Purpose
Technical Difficulties and Value for Value Model
Podcasting 2.0 and Live Features
Weekly Updates and Personal Stories
Discussion on Kash Patel and Political Retaliation
Shelley Duvall's Passing and Career Reflection
Walmart and Sam's Club Shipping Policy Changes
Final Thoughts and Farewells
