In this episode, we have a lively discussion with three friends, Brian, Rich, and Ron, as they share their unique stories and experiences. From starting a podcast to navigating their military backgrounds and opening up about struggles with PTSD, they cover a wide array of topics. The conversation takes us through their hobbies like ham radio and roller skating, offering a glimpse into their diverse interests and life lessons.
Delving into childhood memories and societal issues, the trio reminisces about radio stations, teachers, and even road rage incidents. They share entertaining anecdotes about 'moose piss' and recall the nostalgia of old radio stations like 'the cat' and 'the zoo'. The discussion also touches on the impact of school systems on students and the significance of teaching relevant content.
Exploring personal experiences, self-realization, and veterans' mental health, the hosts delve into podcasting 2.0 features and invite audience participation in creating jingles and using royalty-free music. They stress the importance of supporting veterans' mental well-being and engaging with the community.
Throughout the episode, the trio highlights the value of camaraderie and support among men, especially veterans, showcasing a blend of casual banter, humor, and insightful conversations. They wrap up with warm wishes for the upcoming week and a promise to return next Thursday.
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[00:00:01]
Bryan Goodwin:
Hey, man. Hello, and welcome to 2 Grumpy Vets and a Duuude. I'm your host, Brian. With me, I've also got Rich and Dude, also known as Ron. We are been a long time friends, good 4 or 5 years, and we're just wanting to kinda start having sharing these conversations that we have. I think these conversations help men help people in general just start living their life intentionally. We're having this podcast intentionally. And this this is gonna be a podcast that is just set in a laid back, easy manner where we just get together. We just we're we're talking. We have our different awarenesses. We we're gonna be talking about all sorts of things at the at first. But one of the cool things about this particular podcast is that we are podcast 2.0, which is a value for value model. There's gonna be a lot of different features that are gonna start cropping up as you hit. So if you are listening to this podcast through a podcast 2.0 compliant, platform, you're gonna end up hearing a lot you're gonna have a lot more interactivity than a lot of other, the other player. But if you are not on listening to it or you're listening to maybe Apple Podcasts or or Pocket Cast or any of the other traditional podcasting players might go to.
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[00:01:50] Unknown:
Podcast guru. Castomatic,
[00:01:52] Bryan Goodwin:
podcast guru,
[00:01:55] Duuude-Ron :
Podverse.
[00:01:57] Bryan Goodwin:
These were all, bright, great podcast apps out there that will, let you know when a podcast goes live. We will eventually be going live at the end and stuff. So this is we're gonna have a lot of a lot of going on, but this is being our first episode. This is the first time we're getting out there. We're grabbing everybody together strictly for the purpose of recording this podcast. Wanted to just kinda first off kinda share our story, share what this whole, whole group is about because there there's 3 of us that are all always talking, just about, once a week. We get together, and we just kind of intentionally live our lives with each other in a way that we can just be able to commiserate. And so one kinda share each of our our each of our stories and and talk about what it is that, what are some of our passions, some of our, some of our thoughts and, and things like that. And this show is, is going against any and every, podcast, podcast rule quote, unquote rule there is because we're gonna be talking maybe talking for 15 minutes, one night may not have anything going on. We're just kinda, hey. How was it going? Alright? How are you doing? Alright? How about you, dude? Dude? Alright. Cool. We're awesome.
And that's all there is to it. So, and then there might be, we may end up talking until, until. You know, maybe 10 o'clock at night. This is, we usually start we're gonna be starting up these shows about 7 o'clock every, every Thursday night CST time. And, and we'll go until probably 10. That's kind of the the cutoff for me because I've I I drive a truck, and so I I end up needing to have grab some sleep somewhere along the way. And, so but anyhow, I I've taken up the first, the first 5, 6 minutes worth of of of talking here. I wanna go ahead and pass this on over to to Rich and let him, let him introduce himself.
So rich, who are you? I'm rich. Okay. No.
[00:04:12] Unknown:
Yeah, no, I I'm I'm rich. And yeah, like Brian said, Brian and I have been talking to each other for 5 years. And I I honestly, Brian's the one that freaking got me into podcasting. I've always loved it. I've started a couple and failed a couple, but, you know, I'm still trying to get in a brand had this idea and I thought he was badder than anything, but I was like, all right, we'll try it. Cause you know, I don't like to conform to anything or anybody. And, that's why I love these guys that I talk to because we all don't.
We don't conform. Brian did not inform you, but he was a Navy guy. Okay. He was a squid. And, yeah. So, hey, I forgot that. Didn't say anything. Right, Brian? Didn't say anything. I haven't got the I haven't gotten to my story yet. So Well, no. That's true. That's true. But still but, I was army and, and and all like that. And, you know, one of the main things and I've talked to a lot of different vets, and a lot of them missed that camaraderie we had when, we were in the service. And it doesn't matter what branch you were in. So, I mean, that's why, that's why we all got together. But, another one of my hobbies is, ham radio.
I love I love taking a radio and, antenna and a wire antenna and talking around the world. I love it. It's as I'm telling you, it's a blast. And if you wanna know if you wanna know more about it, hey. Shoot me an email. I don't care. What is our email? Oh, yeah. Yeah.
[00:05:50] Bryan Goodwin:
I well, you got your you got your email. Mine. Yeah. Mine. Yeah. Shoot me an email at [email protected]. That is Chelson.
[00:06:00] Unknown:
Yeah. With the r in front of it. Yeah. I didn't spell it. Brian. Brian hooked me up. But, and and and I also love my Jeep. I love the hell out of my Jeep and you might hear Ron and I go go on and on about Jeep sometimes because Ron drives a Jeep too. But, anyway, other than that, that's me, and, I'll be with you just like Brian will and and introducing the next person. You wanna go with
[00:06:34] Bryan Goodwin:
with Ron? Alright. Go ahead. Pass it on over to over to the dude.
[00:06:38] Unknown:
We're gonna pass you on to duuude. Take it away. So wrong. Is Ron.
[00:06:45] Duuude-Ron :
Well, thank you, gentlemen. Yes. Referred to as dude. Again, our conversation started as, of vets getting together just to talk. Also, vets getting together to if they are having, issues. I myself, combat vet, been to Afghanistan, Iraq, and I suffer with severe PTSD. Some days are good. Some days are not so good. So these gentlemen, are kinda my lifeline to if I need somebody to talk to with their military background, they know exactly what I'm saying and why I'm saying what I am saying. So again, we, you know, became friends through a couple of, events and organizations and just, you know, we talk on a weekly thing about military stuff. And, you know, again, if I'm having a bad day, they will they're there to listen.
Rich had mentioned to you that, we're all prior military. I myself was in the 82nd airborne for 12 years, 116 jumps, and one broken neck later. And here I am. So I retired. And also, it just so happens to be that the 3 of us have been truck drivers within our lifetime. 2 of us are currently driving trucks as a living and one is a retired truck driver being Rick. Rich also commented about, jeep life. Yeah. I've had I own used to have 2 Jeeps. Now I'm down to 1 Jeep. But, yeah, going out and I bought the Jeep for its purposes to go out and wheel it out on the trails. Yes. It also is my daily driver.
However, I like to see how far I can put the Jeep to its, capabilities. And had both of them almost on their sides being out wheeling. So I thoroughly enjoy going out and playing with the jeep out in the rocks and mud. And then also, I, my other passion for most of my life has been roller skating, which I started roller skating when I was 5 years old. I am currently 55, and I still own a pair of quad speedskates. I've had rollerblade speedskates in my lifetime. Been to nationals for speedskating in my lifetime. But, yes, I still own a pair of roller skates as does my daughter, as does the grandkids. And once in a while, we are able to get 3 generations onto the roller skating rink floor, which is absolutely a ball.
That's cool. So that is kind of wrong in a nutshell. Oh, and speaking in nutshells because of PTSD was on Prozac. And reason being is sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't.
[00:10:34] Unknown:
Dude, that was awesome, man.
[00:10:38] Bryan Goodwin:
That was awesome. I love that. Yeah. That's okay. And that might be something we have to start doing is coming up with just though we are, are going this, like I said, this shows is a value for value model. It's going to be where we have, you know, we're we're we're going to be taking time, talent, and treasure from our guys. But at the same time, put start putting up just, you know, this episode of the show is brought to you by the makers of Prozac, you know, using that, or this portion of the episode is brought to you by Tampax. We're not the best thing in the world, but we're right up in there type of stuff, you know? So and start using those type. It might just some some just just hoax commercials that are just just right that might be something we throw, throw in there, while we go. May I've well, that come up with about good 10 or 20 of them just to Okay. Just to really just to really to to have fun with with that because using the same two jokes, because those are the only actual 2 that I know, so I have to go find a whole bunch more because
[00:11:43] Duuude-Ron :
It shouldn't be too hard. It shouldn't be too hard, but love. And I've always loved Prozac because sometimes you feel like a nut, Sometimes you don't. Sometimes you don't.
[00:11:55] Bryan Goodwin:
And so, yeah. And so guys, and that to the audience, to the you guys, guys and gals who are actually listening to it. That is part of the value for value. Yeah. We would like for you to send us money. We're we'll end up having on the site. We'll and site right now is, 2 grumpy bets. And the whole reason why we ended up throwing in dude is because Ron, Ron came along and goes, Hey, I could join. I, I wouldn't mind joining in. It's like, oh, sweet. Okay. Didn't didn't think you would wanna join in on a podcast. And so I'd already bought the, the the the domain of 2 grumpy vets.
And, so we've got 2 grumpy vets. I haven't actually gone off to see, at the time of this recording, by the time it comes out, I should have it looked up and at least bought. So that's why I have no problem saying this right now, because, It should be open, I would think, because our name's kind of unique. Yeah. So but 2 grumpy vets.com, pretty soon we'll have 3 grumpy vets.com also. And, so with that, we can, you know, we could we we have a, we're gonna this is a this whole show, like I said, it's a value for value. Yeah. We're gonna be we're setting up to where you've got means of being able to send us.
Fiat, Fiat, currency, coupon, or value for value coupons, which is just Fiat currency. That's the dollar bill. Through PayPal at, and, and the such, But we also are using the podcast 2 point o, standards, which means that you can actually send us Satoshis. And I know a lot of people who are, especially our age, if they hear, Bitcoin and stuff, they're gonna go, oh my god. Oh, no. No. It's a scam. They're scared. And I, and I get that because there, there has been a big push by media and by society as a whole saying that Bitcoin is this mean, bad, evil thing.
And it was for a while when people weren't really paying that much attention to it. It is, it is very scary. It is very, you know, un out of the ordinary. Yeah. It is. And so a lot of people use it and they, but, and it, and it's a, it can be used nefariously, but so can
[00:14:20] Unknown:
actual dollar bills. Well, true. But but say say the thing is also, Brian, is is and this is what I've seen. Bitcoin, they still haven't fully simplified it for for us regular folk. It's still it's still a little technical for for most people,
[00:14:39] Bryan Goodwin:
I think. Well, it is. I mean Well, the Satoshi part podcast 2.0 part. Yeah, it is. It's still just it's nerd bill. Yeah, it is. 1 100 percent. It is trying to get you a, a satoshi wallet is just been a, a exercise in futility almost. Yeah. And it's not and come to find out it's not the technology. It's the fucking government again. Yeah. Sticking their fingers going, oh, well, well, you don't know. You're this isn't all regulated. Well, no crap. It's not regulated. There's a reason why it's doing so good. There's a reason why it jumps up to $70,000 in one day and plummets down to 23,000 the next. And that is because people are are using it for what they want. Now does is it, is it kind of, do you wanna be investing your life savings into it?
[00:15:32] Unknown:
No. No.
[00:15:33] Bryan Goodwin:
No. No. But at the same time, people are investing their life savings in, you know, the value of the yen. They're buying, you know, stocks and bonds that is putting your money into American dollars. Right. Money market accounts. It's the same thing except because it's so heavily regulated. 1, our that's one reason why our dollar is not worth a freaking dollar anymore. The dollar used to be worth $1 of gold. Used to be. That was low. And so you could actually go to a bank and say, Hey, I need my $500 worth of gold. And they wouldn't give you $500 worth of gold. Now nowadays, it might be just, a little piece of of gold about the size of a dime. Well, you know, I don't know. I just saw gold go over 2,000 an ounce. It last,
[00:16:20] Unknown:
this just the other day. It had 23
[00:16:22] Bryan Goodwin:
No. Shit. It did. I have been paying attention to what gold what gold's got. Oh, it just popped up. Yep. Yeah. Well, considering how much they're they're using, they're they're just the government's playing playing, you know, sticking their fingers in absolutely every damn thing, it doesn't surprise me. So, anyhow Right. Now, guys, I'm going on all this tirade stuff, and you still have no freaking clue who I am. So let me jump in here real quick. I well well I was fixing to say something like like, woah. Come on then. No one knows who you are, dude. We do. Who am I? I am I'm Brian Goodwin.
I am actually a certified men's coach. I am, I helped form together what we, what we affectionately call the veterans call. And every Wednesday. So if you're a, a, a veteran and I'll, I'll make this call out again later, if you're a veteran and you'd like to be a part of a group of guys who just sit around and talk about bull for 2 hours. And no, we don't record it. Just to let you know, no, no. It's not recorded or anything. We just have a zoom meeting and you can show up. None of us actually even turn our turn our, our, our cameras on. So you could set the you could you could sit around and and be doing whatever it is you wanna do. And, you know, we're just there to talk, have a good time, share, and, again, just intentionally live our lives with each other.
Mhmm. For 4 for 2 hours, it is just me, Rich, Ron. Sometimes there's about 3, 4 other guys who will jump in. And they're not always there. Sometimes they are. Sometimes they aren't. Sometimes they come in because there's a they've got an emergency, and they're just they're needing to get something off their shoulders. And we all jump in. We've all become we coalesce and become a a very large support group for these guys. Yep. And so it's I I've helped kinda put that together, and we've been meeting since since about 2020 see, when was the first, when was off the hard ball? That was what? 2020, 20, 20. Woah. That was 19, I think. 21. That was 2021.
No, wasn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Because it was that this is 2021 because the February 2022 was the free, was the rock mark. Was it because it was 2 20 2 22.
[00:18:44] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. So, yeah, it was, it was, hold it. July,
[00:18:49] Bryan Goodwin:
July, no, August, of, of, of 21.
[00:18:52] Unknown:
So, yeah, it was just right after birds, wasn't it? Yeah. Over birds. At 21. Okay. Okay. So,
[00:18:59] Bryan Goodwin:
and it was about that time that I really, we really started getting, kind of all the veterans, together with that. Right. So, but but anyhow so I we've been we've been kinda meeting shortly thereafter that, oh, for, well, since 2021, which has, been, what is it? What I, I went to sunray high school. So that's what, 3 years, 3. Yeah. 3 years. So Well, let's say for I I I am too good looking for math. So we've got we got a Oh my god. So I've gotta got a I've got a been here. Well, it is. It's it's true. I mean, you saw me struggle with trying to go 2,000 4 minus 2,021 21. Yeah. Okay.
[00:19:43] Unknown:
I carried the 8.
[00:19:46] Duuude-Ron :
So so You you forgot to carry the you're right. You forgot to carry the eights. Carry gotta carry the 8.
[00:19:54] Bryan Goodwin:
And so, but anyhow, I I am when it comes to, to to all that, I've just I've that was my means of being able to help support, support the vets in, in at least some way where because I am a firm believer that when, when veterans are struggling, it is they're struggling because they are, have forced themselves to be alone. There it they are by themselves. There is they have they have isolated. They are are syncing within their own thoughts, And that's when other men, specifically with with men, with the male veterans, when you have other men get together, we have that ability to provide the community to lift them up.
And I that's how I, I have always seen help come in. You can, you could try to tell somebody, Hey, you're gonna get better, Except no. There's no proof that you're gonna get better. The only way that person's going to get better is if he decides and changes the way he thinks about what the problem is. Now can you keep a person changed? No. No. Well, you can if they wanna if they wanna keep the change and they are willing to to apply the thoughts, but a lot that's a, that's easier said than done because we have a habit where we fall into a the old habit of I'm no good or whatever type of of of self defeating thoughts that we end up having where we we start letting the weight of the world pile on, pile on, pile on, pile on till where, yeah, we're we get we've got to, to to distribute that weight one way or another. And that's one of the great things about men. And you're gonna hear me talk about masculinity a lot because I help men. I think a lot of men, in general are suffering because they have been told men bad. Man, white man bad. Any man is is is bad. White man, even worse, that whole line of thinking, except for the fact that you can't separate men.
And we, and they've done such a good job of separating men that now there's there. Men are, are struggling with life. They don't know what to do with themselves. They struggle day in and day out with trying to just make, trying to make make it through the day, doing what they think they're supposed to, but yet at the same time, negating what their what their responsibilities are. Not knowing what the responsibilities are because we have so many single moms not not throwing any shade upon single moms themselves. But it's kinda like how the feminists say men don't know what, what it's like to be a woman. Well, women don't know what it's like to be a man. Exactly.
And so we, so Not even this is a strange man. Saying, hey, I know how to raise my son to be a good man. No. You know how to raise your son to be a nice guy. And a nice guy and a jerk are 2 sides of the same asshole. They're just, I like that. And they're just going, neither one are, are good. You've got a nice guy who is just trying his damnedest to trick you into and into you getting naked. But at the same time, he knows that if he gets you naked, he's got to, he's gotta, to rise to the occasion of being the, you know, of being a, a good lover. And he doesn't even, he doesn't even know, have the confidence in that.
Right. And so nice guys, they, they are afraid of 2 types of emotions, everybody else's and their own. They want to, they want their emotions to be just a one line type of deal. And guys, honestly, I'm the, these shows aren't all gonna be me, pontificating about, about what the, the, the struggles of men. That it's not what that is. This is, is, again, this is kinda my intro. And if anybody knows me, I was inoculated with a phonograph needle. I can't help but talk, and I will talk, and I will talk. I believe, your your brother your your brother-in-law commented on goddamn. He can talk, Kenny. Well,
[00:24:17] Unknown:
well, Brian, it was, I think, after our first event or whatnot, he turned and looked at me and he said, I found someone who could talk more than you. He's like, I did think that was fucking possible, dude. I'm like, yeah, he can tell.
[00:24:35] Bryan Goodwin:
I I've I've I've always, I've always done that. I mean, I've, I could never, whenever I was a kid that I don't know if, if, where y'all grew up, we used to have UIL competitions. And these were, like like, spelling bees in 1st, 2nd, 3rd grade and stuff. You had things like, spelling bee. You had a speech contest. You had storytelling contest. You had reading, or oratory contest. You had all these different types of contests for kids from the first until, about like the 8th grade. There's a big old law. Every year you could get something. They had speeches, they had debate club and, and all this. And one of them was a storytelling contest and what the store, what the objective was. And I, I struggled at this because it was, you would hear a story.
Can you tell the story back? And within the same within the amount of time and still be able to fluff it up enough to where you made it really entertaining? The more entertaining you could make it, the better. The problem is, yeah, I could make it more entertaining, but I also made it 4 times longer than this supposed to be. And so I I I would go in and I'd try out, and they would they would have you, you know, they would have classes or or meetings and stuff, and you would try and you would they would they would try and they would work with it and work with it. And that was the whole thing that teacher was always you're too long. Like, well, I'm just telling the story. I'm making it better. Heck. You know? And I that I had fun with it. It was good. But at the same time, yeah, you're supposed to keep it under, you know, like, 5 minutes or something like that, and I'd come out at 15.
You know? It was just that that's just the way it is. And so yeah. I I'm a yabbber. I've always been a yabbber. I don't know why I'm a yabbber, but, I do talk. But and that's one reason why I went into, into coaching is because heck, man, I can talk. And it's not just but that's the also, the the drawback is because when it comes to coaching, it's not about me talking.
[00:26:45] Unknown:
Right.
[00:26:46] Bryan Goodwin:
It's can I sit and hear what the other person's saying? Right. Right. And and help and let them just do the thought process. And whenever I was going through my certification, yeah, that was the biggest that that was my big deal is I was wanting to to, almost motivate motivate or speak to them, and it's and and the teacher was like, oh, no. No. No. No. Hold up. Hold up. You gotta let the person coach themselves, essentially, is what she finally got around to saying it and it clicks. Oh, okay. I'm here to coach them through their the thought process that they're having.
[00:27:22] Unknown:
Right. Right.
[00:27:23] Bryan Goodwin:
And so that's, that's the, that's the big, the big, the the big cincture,
[00:27:29] Unknown:
so to speak. So, but, yeah, we, anyhow, so I I Hang on. Hang on. Hang on a second. Okay. Hold on a second. Let me ask you. What's what's that last big word you said? Center or or or it's sensuous or well, no. It wasn't sensuous.
[00:27:46] Bryan Goodwin:
I was going to say, I don't recall ever saying sent to us. I've no, I, I fly out of my mouth and, and I,
[00:27:55] Unknown:
Well, that's I I think I think that was one of them because you said it and I'm like, censure is when you shut someone up, basically. Yeah.
[00:28:06] Bryan Goodwin:
You have to censor censure censure yourself. Yeah. Pontificate.
[00:28:12] Unknown:
Well, yeah. No. No. I know I know what that one is. But Yeah. Most of us do do so, but, No. No. The thing hang hang on. No. Hang on. No. No. I'm not saying everyone who, who watches this will will, not be intelligent or whatnot, but they might not know what the word pontificate means
[00:28:32] Bryan Goodwin:
because that's a noble. Okay. So need to write down. It would need to, here's let me grab the book here and I guess we can start making making notes. I got got our first jingle that we're going to have to come up with. Ryan's word of the day is. Antification. Pontification.
[00:28:53] Unknown:
Because you see, it was funny. The first time I heard that, I was I was listening to, Phil Robertson. They they were doing their podcast. I can't now I can't think of it, what it is, but hey, he says that word a lot. He's like, I sit there and I pontificate. And I didn't know what it was. First. In speech tonight? Yep. Yeah. Yeah. And and I just I was like, I had to I had to look it up. So, Ron, do you know what pontificate means?
[00:29:27] Duuude-Ron :
Not a clue. Absolutely 0.
[00:29:31] Unknown:
Pontificate.
[00:29:33] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, I was going to say here here's a, here's a here. We'll use it in another sentence to see if it helps you, helps you understand what it is. The preacher was pontificating on the virtues of giving. Great. Message? Mess speaking, speaking on the topic of.
[00:29:55] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, okay.
[00:29:56] Bryan Goodwin:
Is essentially what it is. It's just it's a grandiose, a grandiose way of talking about a topic.
[00:30:05] Unknown:
Okay. It's it's it's an old word, though. It's from, what, 19th century?
[00:30:11] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. And, my my English teacher from high school would have been would have been so glad proud of me because it took until after I got out of high school to finally fall in love with words. So because we would have yeah. Because, I mean, we would have well, we had a my my high school English teacher's name was Ward Haynes.
[00:30:35] Unknown:
Okay.
[00:30:36] Bryan Goodwin:
And so we had ward words is what the kids all in high school would call. Now all the students there were calling. We knew we were having a word word test. Uh-huh. And so our word word words were just were the vocabulary words. And so and one day I was so proud of myself. I got him. I got him stumped on a word that I used. And it's not it's one that people use today, but they use it more for in the in the in the the the marijuana culture, the cannabis culture. But it was because I was writing, I'd wrote out a story and I was having to tell, tell the story on, in front of the class. And I used, and I had to use an illiterate.
And the alliteration that I used on this was a deep dark dank cave or no, no dungeon, deep, dark dank, dun, deep, dark dank dungeon. And the word word that threw him was the word dank.
[00:31:38] Unknown:
Really?
[00:31:39] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. He's like, what in the what did you just say? And I said deep dark well, I know what deep dark, but what in the heck is a it's dank. Where'd you make that word up at? I was like, I didn't. It means wet. It's me it's a it's a highly moisture Yeah. You know, it's a wet environment. He's like, nah. I was like, yes, sir. And so I rolled it up, and I showed it to him. It was like and he's he's like, well, I'll be. I was like, yeah. So, you know, you wanna write that word out 10 times? And he looked at me and said, don't push it. Because because if you got a word if he if he asked you what a word meant and you couldn't can, get it, he would have you write the, write the word out 10 times with the definition.
Oh my gosh. So, I mean, that's, that's why I now know what jocularity means.
[00:32:28] Unknown:
Okay.
[00:32:29] Bryan Goodwin:
Because jocularity is at inappropriate humor or, or appropriate, humor at an inappropriate time. So jocularity is cutting a, cutting a, a laughing at a fart at a funeral. Right. Right. Okay. That's have a little jocularity there.
[00:32:48] Unknown:
Yeah. That's that's. I was gonna say, I was gonna say military life is jocularity.
[00:32:53] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Yeah. You're always laughing at the most inappropriate time. So, Right. Redundant was another, word word that I ended up having to write a few times. So, yeah, we I was very redundant in my writing of redundancy. So so so,
[00:33:12] Unknown:
so since you've given this, English lesson, and thank you for that, by the way. You know? What about your, later career after you got out of high school?
[00:33:24] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, out of high school, I was going to be the world's greatest photographer for 2 years and then realized that, that life in the nineties is just as hard as life in the 2020, whether the kids these days wanna believe it or not. It it it's it's still, I was I was living off of a very well paid $11 an hour.
[00:33:50] Unknown:
Oh, it was paid by me, dude.
[00:33:52] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Back then it it was except for the fact that if, when you looked at it, I was still living below the poverty level. Right. Because I think poverty level is like 28,000,
[00:34:03] Unknown:
and I wasn't in the nineties?
[00:34:05] Bryan Goodwin:
I think so. Yeah. It might be a it might be 25, but anyhow but 11 $11 an hour, 40, 40 hours a week, because I was not gonna work overtime. I mean, I have a life except the fact that my life was trying to figure out how it was going to make ends meet. So and so I I'm not was that But I ain't doing no damn overtime. Yep. But I ain't doing overtime. There wasn't much. The only time you actually got to make any roll over time was during because I worked at family photo, actually family photo, new generations in, in Amarillo.
And that new generations was a, it was just, is it a port portrait studio? And so you'd have families and seniors and stuff come in and went sit there and you take pictures and pictures of little Johnny, and you try to get them to smile. But you there's a fine line. You had to try to get them to smile, but you didn't go on to get them worked up because if he got worked up, he got silly. He got rambunctious, and then you were gonna give him you had to find a way of getting him to settle down without barking at him because then mom would get mad. Penny or Sears? Neither one. It was called, family photo new generations.
[00:35:18] Unknown:
Okay. Okay.
[00:35:20] Bryan Goodwin:
And it was, it, it had, it had 4 studios. We did in house processing of the film and, and loaded the film, and all that. I mean, we just go in and had a dark room, so we go in and and did color, processing, printed out the, you got your, you got your your proofs within about an hour because, we were still shooting on silver at that time. Digital cameras hadn't quite come out. Well, they were out, but no one bought them because the one, they were they were actually lower quality in the than silver. Yeah. So, but we we'd take pictures and and and all that. And it was great. I ended up getting a couple little side gigs. I'd do a wedding or 2, and I did, did a photo for, for a local, gunslinger group. And, they would dress up in the old west days, and then they'd go out to Palo Duro, and they'd have, have gun fights and see quick draw contests and stuff. Oh, cool. So, yeah, it was it was a lot of fun.
[00:36:22] Unknown:
Hey. You're you're, you you you're $11 an hour. Actually, for a year, that was 22,00880. And Yeah. In 9 this was 1990, you said. Right?
[00:36:38] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Well, 93.
[00:36:41] Unknown:
Okay. Give or take.
[00:36:42] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah.
[00:36:44] Unknown:
But but either way well, okay. For a single person in 92, the poverty level was $7,143 a year, and 28,745 for a family of 9 or more. So,
[00:37:01] Bryan Goodwin:
but a family of 4 that was that somebody somebody did not know how to do their calculations properly because I was struggling to make ends meet. I was having during that time, I was still doing I was that was actually part of what I called my, my, year of starvation. It's not that I wasn't eating, but I was eating Ramen noodles. And that was a treat that was, Hey, I had a few extra bucks, right? So I'm going to, I'm going to to, to to whoop it up and buy some ramen noodles. Most of the time, it was lettuce sandwiches. It was just cheap piece bread. I could buy bread under a under a dollar. I could get ahead of lettuce for under a dollar. I could get that to last a week.
[00:37:52] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. Kind of jam sandwiches.
[00:37:54] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Take 2 pieces of bread and jam them together. Jam them together. There you go. Yeah. My God.
[00:38:01] Unknown:
So But no. I was just, yeah, I was just saying what And I didn't even have a car
[00:38:06] Bryan Goodwin:
at that time either. So I wouldn't even have it. I was driving. I was running around Amarillo on a on a on a Mongoose bike. Back when Mongooses were still quality bikes before they sold out to, to to a Chinese manufacturer and became, what you bought at Walmart. Right. So and I would take it. And, there for a while, I would, whenever I was actually in in college for, for 2 semesters, I did whole 2 whole semesters and then realized, yeah, we're not doing this. I used to live over in Canyon, which is about 20 miles away.
[00:38:41] Unknown:
Mhmm.
[00:38:42] Bryan Goodwin:
And I would I actually spent I did it for a week. And after that, I was just like, screw this. I I can't do this no more. And, I would end up using, my my aunt's car because I used to have a car. I actually, I won a car and then, went to make a right hand turn on a, on a country road. And I looked left and proceeded to make a right hand turn and hit back end of a, of a, of a, Suzuki sidekick. And, yeah, my little Ford Escort,
[00:39:16] Unknown:
did not run right after that. So Oh, damn. I bet not.
[00:39:21] Bryan Goodwin:
So and so that just I could never get the money together, to, to pay for the the, pay for the insurance, the down payment or not the down payment, the premiums for the, for the for the repair. And so ended up, just kinda selling it and, and stuff. And ended I had to actually turn around and and, had other debts that I needed to pay off, and so I hit most of that money went away. And so I after by the time I got whatever I was left was, didn't have enough to really buy a car. So, yeah, for a long time, I was I was, carless in in Amarillo. Still had a I had an apartment, had a roommate and stuff and but, yeah, it was just one of those where it was not a, it was it was it was a rough time, but at the same time, it was you it was a it was a great and wonderful learning experience, man.
Right. And so after that, after 2 years of that, about, about 95, I was just like, alright. We we've gotta we gotta be doing something here. We gotta change, change this up. And so in, in 95 is when I brought the side of the alright. It's time. We need to go ahead and start heading off into the navy. And so 96, I joined up, and they actually, I started out while I was wanting to go air force because I I'd heard that they had the easy lie. And, and, so I was like, hell yeah, man. Let's do the air force. And let's go do the air force, and I had, had a, a kid by then. And she was a big old oops with a really ugly woman. Don't ever do that because that takes the fun out of everything.
And, and so, they'd since I was essentially a parent at that time, they, the, air force said, nope. And so I had to go, alright. Who since I can't I'm not someone I am very adverse to having bullet holes in me. I knew that the army wasn't a good place to go. The marines surely wasn't a place to go. So the next place was the navy. And I was like, alright. Let's see if the navy will take me. And, and sure enough, they did and became an operation specialist and which is also known as a scope dope. I'm the guy, if you ever watch hunt for red October or any other navy movie, and you see the guy who stands behind the clear screen, right, numbers backwards.
That was what that's an operation specialist did that. We're the ones who looked at the surface radar and and and jot itself down on the bridge, on on a piece of plexiglass backwards, which was much to my wife's irritation because I did that so much. I would end up getting off of, off my watch, and I'd go to write her a letter and inadvertently start writing backwards.
[00:42:20] Unknown:
She can read part of it forward and had to use a mirror.
[00:42:23] Bryan Goodwin:
She had to mirror and read what else was what else I wrote. So well, Hey, you could at least write in code that way. Oh, yeah. I can still write backwards. I can read backwards. It's great. It's awesome. So, so all those little Facebook bills of, if you can read this, you're smarter than the average person. It's like, yeah, no shit. I'm smarter than the average person. No. I'm I can write it backwards too. So so anyhow, now that I have taken up a good chunk of the, of the stuff, what else do y'all got? What what's been happening in your world there, Rich? Because that's for because get let's get a little more detail out of you because you are not originally from the states that you're in.
[00:43:04] Unknown:
No. I am not. No. I was, I was actually born and raised in Missouri most of my life and been all over, And I was actually living up there and then I got cold. It got down to like negative 21 with a negative 45 wind chill, foot and a half of snow on the ground. And my ass said, I'm out because I'm retired and I'm like, oh, hell no. So I jumped in my Jeep, threw some clothes in it and I drove to Mississippi. Didn't know anybody for nothing. And, actually, I've met quite a few people here. They're all friendly and, right here on the Gulf. I mean, I drive any farther south, I gotta put pontoons on the on the Jeep. Otherwise, I just I just think, you know. In fact, in fact, yesterday, it was cool. Say, well, all it was.
Did I tell y'all this last night? I don't know if I did. Anyway, I was I was at the VA and, because I, my head been swimming for, like, the past 6 months. Right? Well, the doctor figured it out and said said my freaking crystals in my ear were all out of whack. We all have. Oh, okay. So you've got you've got a little bit of vertigo going on. Yeah. And, and and so she fixed it. And as better, I think I have to go back and and get it again because, I'm still swimming a little bit. But, anyway, yesterday, when I was at the VA, it was crazy. I didn't know it. I was in, I was in doc was doing all these tests, had these goggles on and had to keep my eyes open and she could see if my eyes were open or closed. I couldn't see shit because it was dark. But, anyway, I get down, and I'm leaving. Now it man, it's pouring rain.
It's just pouring rain. I get down to the thing and, I mean, winds I mean, straight line winds blowing really hard. It's like, what the hell? Well, the storm come through and, well, the winds kicked down and everything like that, and I got my jeep and took off. Well, I went down, 90 and, I was going back east. Man, the ocean was coming up on the beach. The waves were just chopping up. It was about halfway on the beach and, the road was was, I mean, covered with water. And at some point It's cold, but warming. Oh, man. I'm telling you. It was, they they said it dumped, like, 3 and a half inches that?
Matter of less than an hour. And the roads were flooded. I'm driving down the road in my jeep. I'm hauling ass about 30, 35 and hit these puddles and throw water up over my Jeep. Every car around me just stopped right where they were, and they were like, we ain't going nowhere. And I just I just kept I just kept running through the puddles and throwing water. It was it was fun. I had fun. So, but, yeah, I just I just said screw it and came down here, didn't know nobody, and found a place to live and having fun. So that's that's about I don't know. I just I got a wild hair. I got I got cold.
[00:46:19] Bryan Goodwin:
God, honey. You're a poor boy.
[00:46:21] Duuude-Ron :
All because you are old and cold.
[00:46:26] Unknown:
Right. Right. Because, yeah, when it's cold, that boy here don't move. Oh, yeah? No. I don't. No. I do not. No. I'm not.
[00:46:37] Duuude-Ron :
I will never go back to my hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska.
[00:46:43] Unknown:
Oh, no. No. No. Yeah. There's entirely
[00:46:47] Duuude-Ron :
too much white air that sticks on the ground for too long of a time. I don't do snow. I'll watch it on TV. But as far as shoveling it, no. Now driving in it with a Jeep, that's fun.
[00:47:11] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. That's fun. But but say the thing is recovery
[00:47:15] Duuude-Ron :
getting the recovery gear out of the Jeep because, well, cars don't fare well in a snowbank.
[00:47:24] Bryan Goodwin:
That's fun. I had too much fun.
[00:47:27] Duuude-Ron :
As well as a jeep can fare a lot better in a snowbank. So, yeah, that was a lot of fun.
[00:47:36] Unknown:
See, the thing is, though, I can't watch snow even on TV. I get pissed.
[00:47:44] Bryan Goodwin:
I'm sorry. Why is it so white? No.
[00:47:47] Duuude-Ron :
I get mad. Old and cold.
[00:47:50] Unknown:
Right. Right.
[00:47:51] Bryan Goodwin:
No. I, I, I mean, degrees outside. He's watching a Christmas story. Just fuming. Goddamn it. There's too much cold white on there. Right. Or
[00:48:01] Unknown:
or or or that's like that's that's like if I'm playing my, PS 5 and there's a game and it's got a it's got some scenes in the game. You begin your red dead redemption. You're just your nemesis, ain't it? Oh my God. That game pissed me off. Took me, like, 2 fucking weeks to get through that. And I was cold the whole time.
[00:48:22] Bryan Goodwin:
I would know. Yeah. I know. Hey. But isn't that cool, though? Where I'm at. Yeah. Do you do you notice the, the horse testicles when you were playing that red dead 2 while they were in the cold?
[00:48:33] Unknown:
Really? Do you think I'm gonna look at horse testicles? No. I didn't notice my horse testicles. You've gotta watch it just for the horse testicles, cause honestly.
[00:48:41] Bryan Goodwin:
What go up and go up and hang around in the cold area, get up in the, into the grizzlies and hang around there for a little bit. Angle your camera down. Look at, look at the danglies and then send your horse all the way down to, down to Lemoyne. And then again, look, they actually drop when it's hot. When they're running around the cold, they're all packed up. But whenever it's hot, they they go they go to dangling. Oh my god. The details in that gay and yeah, guys. Another gamer. So we've got 2 gamers, and we get a we were able to talk about that and talk about gaming.
Rich and and Ron, they're able to sit around, and they're able they they talk Jeeps, a lot. And then me and and me and Ron, we set set around and we talked about, roller skating. I didn't do much roller skating. I was nowhere near as as, as as, fanatical about roller skating. Because I spent most of my, most of my time making sure that I, my, my tail end was thoroughly bruised. So so that was my same here.
[00:49:51] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I was talking about roller skating when I was growing up because my mom, we're and we're talking very early in the conversation about single moms. My my mom was a single mom, and she worked at the skating rink. So I got to go roller skating, and I spent more hours a week on roller skates at the rink than I did in school on a 5 day school day week.
[00:50:27] Unknown:
That's cool, dude. That's cool, man. That's called fun.
[00:50:32] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Oh, yeah. And that was back in the day when the roller rink was the place to be.
[00:50:43] Unknown:
What is that? The eighties?
[00:50:45] Duuude-Ron :
No. That was, in seventies.
[00:50:47] Unknown:
Okay. Late seventies or mid seventies?
[00:50:52] Duuude-Ron :
Mid seventies.
[00:50:53] Unknown:
Yes, folks. We are old and ancient. We're not gonna lie, but we don't care.
[00:50:59] Duuude-Ron :
Yep. And
[00:51:00] Bryan Goodwin:
the roller skated roller skated with froze that would that would turn 2 seconds after they turn their head. Sit there and turn
[00:51:11] Duuude-Ron :
packed on that roller skating rink. Man, you could barely move. There were so many people, but that was the place to be. Oh, yeah. Love those days.
[00:51:25] Bryan Goodwin:
So you've got now let's let's go ahead and let's let's look at a little bit of that. We'll that'll be another segment we need to come up with. 1 is Ron's rink. Yeah, guys. Audience, we're since we're still kind of, you're kind of getting a a backstage pass to to our whole line of thinking. So coming up with different, different little, little fun segments and stuff that we may cough up from time to time. I was thinking, like, having Rich's Ron's, or Rich's, ham sandwich for, for whenever he wants to talk. He gets into, talking about, his ham radio. So Yeah. And that's and that's not just sandwich. That's that's samich.
Samich. It's a m m I c a. Samich. So Samich. Right. So and then we got Ron's rink for, that. And I don't know. We'll come up with something, but it's something with the Jeep topics. So
[00:52:23] Unknown:
Dude, me. Oh, yeah. Me and root beer are having a problem tonight.
[00:52:30] Duuude-Ron :
I'll tell him. Why you wanna so why do you wanna bring dude into your root beer problem?
[00:52:36] Unknown:
Because because you you're dude, man. You're you're you're just dude.
[00:52:43] Duuude-Ron :
So okay. Enlight me with your root beer problem. I do. I do all that.
[00:52:49] Bryan Goodwin:
I'm glad you're the one that asked, Ron, because I'm, there I'm scared to have asked that. Like, oh, okay. Because he doesn't have any ice cream. Well, if you because if you ask an old man, and he you hear him say I'm having problems with some type of food product. There's probably something smelly going on too. I don't know which end it's coming out of, but there sounds like there's some type of intestinal distress going on. I don't know what's going what's, like, what's what this is about, but you're you're the one that opened up that can of worms, Ron. I'm gonna let him, just dish it out over to you.
[00:53:26] Unknown:
No. No. No. It just it just normally normally, I can I can sit here, like, like, on our calls and, like, drink water, drink root beer, drink coffee, drink whatever, and and make it through just fine? And then and then after we get done, I I have to go to use the bathroom. This is the 2nd time since we started this that that that I've had to turn my mic off and go drain the main vein. You know? So
[00:53:54] Bryan Goodwin:
Root beer is root beer the the rent on the root beer is expensive this this, time.
[00:54:01] Unknown:
It's very expensive.
[00:54:03] Bryan Goodwin:
And root beer ain't cheap. I ain't gonna lie. Root beer is not cheap. Oh, no. I was noticing that it looked like it was just kind of the generic root beer. It's not a it's not the high quality barks.
[00:54:13] Unknown:
So Oh, oh, I love barks, but I do too. They want 799, a 12 pack down here for it. A 12 pack? 12 pack, dude. 799.
[00:54:23] Bryan Goodwin:
God bless. And
[00:54:26] Unknown:
this this one here is is the best choice.
[00:54:29] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. This was the Walmart brand.
[00:54:31] Unknown:
It was the 549.
[00:54:34] Bryan Goodwin:
Gee. I wonder I guess guess the root beer, plant is, is getting a bit scarce.
[00:54:40] Unknown:
I guess. I don't know, man. It's but I don't buy it all the time and just buy it once in a while. But a 12 pack 12 pack normally last me about a week, week and a half.
[00:54:50] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, okay.
[00:54:51] Unknown:
Because I see. Well, hella got it, man. 549 for a 12 pack. That's expensive.
[00:54:59] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep. Louds Shit. Air is getting more expensive.
[00:55:04] Duuude-Ron :
What's that? Is that better?
[00:55:05] Unknown:
Yeah.
[00:55:08] Bryan Goodwin:
Harris doesn't mean it's it's it's charging us.
[00:55:11] Duuude-Ron :
Hey. Yeah. I'm surprised they have not figured out a way yet with this. What are we in right now? Inflation?
[00:55:22] Unknown:
Oh, I don't know. Oh, yeah. Well, we're in the middle. We're in the middle of
[00:55:29] Duuude-Ron :
recession. Whatever it is, we're in the middle of nobody has enough fucking money
[00:55:35] Unknown:
for food. Well, that's true.
[00:55:38] Duuude-Ron :
It is fucking ridiculous.
[00:55:41] Unknown:
Food's expensive. I ain't gonna lie.
[00:55:44] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah.
[00:55:45] Duuude-Ron :
Stupid expensive. Yeah. From Yeah. From how long ago?
[00:55:51] Unknown:
What? That's
[00:55:52] Duuude-Ron :
a change of the presidency.
[00:55:54] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's for damn sure it is.
[00:55:58] Duuude-Ron :
That's that's the only Yep. Well, it stage of the president. They're
[00:56:03] Bryan Goodwin:
a lot of the reason that it's getting to be as as expensive as it is. I mean, you look at what they're what they're doing with just beef itself. I mean, you've got you've got all, all 3, of the, slaughter, companies kinda joining together. 1, they're trying to come up with their own form, of fake meat, but then you also just well, like the, the panhandle fire, the the, smokehouse creek, fire that they, that they had go through and burnt up at like a 1000000 acres or whatever it was. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I remember that. Yeah. Well, that, that killed off a lot of cattle that killed off a huge amount of cattle.
And those are CA those are farmers and ranchers that aren't going to be able to come back. Right. Right. And that's because of all the ESG bullshit that they're doing. The banks are not, because the banks aren't allowed to give money to them because cows fart or whatever. And, you know, cows are contributing to global warming somehow, though, the actual saliva in cows when they bite off the grass actually has a hormone that helps the grass grow back faster.
[00:57:19] Unknown:
Oh, wow. Now, now the thing is, I I'll hold on here. But they're but the people are people are,
[00:57:26] Bryan Goodwin:
yeah. We're we've lost a lot of the, lot of the the ranchers that are in the Texas pant, Texas and Oklahoma, area.
[00:57:35] Unknown:
Well, yeah. And say and say that's a sad thing. And and basically what is fucking government wants to get up in it, which which they've actually been up in it. They just wanna control more of it and and, and, control the prices and, make all the profits in that gum self.
[00:57:52] Bryan Goodwin:
I mean, that's that's You've got what's his name? Larry Fink, which is just the all, if they're in a better comic book name for a villain, Larry Fink, who is the head of, the head of black, which is the largest, investment firm out there. Has actually even said that they need, their aim is to commoditize the cattle. They're actually wanting to go in and see. Hey. How many heads of cattle do you have? Now the government wants to thinks you've got too many cattle. You're you're creating too much c o 2. You need to get rid of some of your herd.
[00:58:33] Unknown:
I mean, they're wanting to be able to control it to that granular level. Okay. Hold on. Hold on now. I mean, yeah. Okay. This is something, this is something I never understood, and I don't think anybody can actually put my mind at ease about it. If if everyone is worried about how a cow fucking farts over here in the US, Don't don't freaking cows fart over in China, South America, and Argentina. I mean, I mean, who cares if a cow farts over here in the US because it's not gonna have an impact on the freaking ozone.
[00:59:06] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, because we are, we have more money.
[00:59:10] Unknown:
We are more Do we have more money? China. What you wanna bet China has more money in us. You know, China owns China has most of our, has most of our our debt. Yes. Yeah.
[00:59:24] Bryan Goodwin:
And but at the same time, they're actually they're struggling. Really? They're they're oh, yeah. They're they we have the nay the the the world itself, all these all these, like, the world economic forum and all, and all these dip wads who think they they know know all their know all that needs to be known. And, you know, you have, what is the, modern monetary theory where it's essentially Kiese and, theory of you can spend yourself out of debt. Type of type of backwards ass thinking that you've got what do you think Joe Biden's been doing for the last 3 years? Speaker 3: Inflation. They, they think inflation is good. It's like, oh no, it's good to have inflation. No.
[01:00:11] Unknown:
Yeah. That's why. It's like, oh, oh, no. It's just a good news. That's why that's why single moms can't buy formula for their kids. Right. That's why exactly.
[01:00:21] Bryan Goodwin:
And they've their their excuses. Oh, well, debt took off too quickly. Oh, no. The fact that we are not debt, but, inflation took off too fast. It's like, no. Inflation anytime is bad. Inflation is theft. Yeah, it is. Because your $1 that you think you have is actually worth, you know, 75¢. And so you now, instead of having to spend a buck, $2 for, for a Coke, you're now actually having to spend 3, 3.50. And so, no, it's, it's, it's a, it's a form of theft. I mean, this is, bad of a theft is taxation. I'm I'm a firm believer in that. Right. Right. You know, because everybody thinks that well, and and the fact that, and I'm no fan of, of Google. I'm no fan of apple. I'm of any of the big tech corporations out there, but, they're, they're starting to go after apple right now because why? Because they're too good. They made too good of a product and the, the Sherman ads. Are you jealous?
Everybody else is. Yeah. They're, they're complaining about the fact that they charge too much money for their phone, that other, other companies can't have their store in, in the apple, ecosystem. They wouldn't be able to bypass because apple charges 30%.
[01:01:54] Unknown:
Right. Right. Yeah. I know that.
[01:01:56] Bryan Goodwin:
So if you're selling something through apple, well, apple's going to charge you or it's gonna take right off the top 30% of your of your, and they just got finished getting sued over in over in European Union. And so they're like, oh, alright. Fine. And they're doing the bare minimum of what they're supposed to do, which is giving a really crappy experience, which is great. Right. They did the same thing with Google and where Google, they had too good of a product.
[01:02:25] Unknown:
Right.
[01:02:26] Bryan Goodwin:
Their, their advertising model, the, or, which is how they make money was too good. And everybody's bitching. Well, there's, they're, they're doing, they're advertising their stuff over mine. Well, yeah. It's their damn shit, man. If you wanna have your own. If you wanna be get your stuff advertised over Google's, then make your own damn search engine that's better than Google.
[01:02:50] Unknown:
Right. Right.
[01:02:52] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. So, and that's the, that's the, the main complaint that I've had even with with, back when, they decided they wanted to try to break up Microsoft. Yeah. The same thing. Microsoft was too damn good. Yeah. Microsoft had, and it, it wasn't because of the browser. Everybody knows it wasn't because of the browser. That's the excuse. They said, well, like you, they, get internet explorers on there automatically. It was on there automatically any afterwards anyhow. Right. But what did everybody do? They would go and download Firefox. They would go and they'd download you know, eventually, it went
[01:03:29] Unknown:
to Chrome. And opera and start and opera. And it was because all kinds internet Explorer
[01:03:35] Bryan Goodwin:
was crappy. We knew that, but brand new internet users were just going well, there's internet Explorer that works for me. And that did, it did the job. It did the job very poorly until people realized, oh, wait a minute. Firefox runs a little better and
[01:03:51] Unknown:
they discovered it. Well, it's and you see something else something else too. And and I mean, you know, if I'm wrong, say something. But Apple, Microsoft, and Google all built their shit from the ground up.
[01:04:06] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. And they made them really goddamn good. And And and and now everybody's pissed because, oh my God, you've got all this. We can't compete. You've got a monopoly. Well, monopolies are actually a good thing. Yeah. I'm one of those. And I am a, of course, I am a firm believer as to what I am Rand said about what capitalism is. If you were to make a Laissez Fair Capitalistic Society, you would have, you would still have highs. You would still have crashes. You would still have depressions. You would have recessions. You'd have all that, but they would recover faster.
You would have monopolies. Naturally, you would have monopolies. And that's actually a good thing because that means that the person is doing it the cheapest and is selling it for the cheapest possible. Right. And you have a lot of people going around. No. Well, they're, they, they raise their prices and the moment they raise their prices in comes a competitor, undercutting them. And so they have to low they naturally have to keep their prices low. But when the government comes in and goes, Hey, now you've, you've gotta act this way. Like the Sherman act, the Sherman act is, if you read, Atlas shrugged, the Sherman act is is in there. That is one of the anti doggy dogs out there.
[01:05:27] Unknown:
Okay.
[01:05:28] Bryan Goodwin:
And it is the reason that we now have the reason why, like, Ma Bell, the, the telephone company, bell telephone. Right. Was, was a, a natural monopoly. It was created by the government. And that is why all the way up into the seventies, you had the black bowling ball telephone. That were heavy and that, and you didn't actually own that telephone. You rented it. It's like the, like the cable boxes.
[01:06:04] Unknown:
Right.
[01:06:05] Bryan Goodwin:
Right. You, you actually had to rent the telephone to be able to talk to people. And it wasn't until they did busted up the, the, the telephone companies busted up Ma Bell and took away their opportunity to hold the to hold that that extreme. And all of a sudden took all the the telephone, companies broke them up into little bit of kingdoms where you still yours might have southwestern bell is gonna be your telephone, provider for, you know, for the Amarillo area.
[01:06:40] Unknown:
Right.
[01:06:42] Bryan Goodwin:
Which then then eventually it it crumbled and went under and it, went to winds. I think Windstream has it now. I don't know who all it bounced around to from there. But then all the prices started going down be because, you, in introduced competition, but you, we wouldn't even had to worry about that if the government off right off the bat, didn't say, hey, this is, you're the only one who could actually have a, do the telephone. And I think their whole, their whole deal deal was, you know, because they put up the lines.
[01:07:20] Unknown:
That very well could be.
[01:07:21] Bryan Goodwin:
And I'll, I get that. But then again, you could also rent, you know, they, he could have rented the lines out. He could have made a lot more money if he had actually right. Had tried to be the best instead of just trying to hold a, a monopoly. And because when the government gets involved, that gets the monopoly that everybody's afraid of.
[01:07:43] Unknown:
Right.
[01:07:44] Bryan Goodwin:
That's the monopoly that, oh, there's no innovation. Well, no shit. There wasn't any innovation. We had invisible telephones. We had phones. You could see the guts on and that lit up after, after they busted it up. You know, we had the Snoopy phone and the Mickey Mouse phone and all the great phone. The phone Yeah. The the lip phone and The football phone. Yeah. The football phone. I mean, we had all these great and wonderful phones in the late seventies, and all of them were eighties. I mean, oh my god. The eighties were the best when it come to telephones. Oh, yeah. Yeah. All of a sudden the prices of telephones dropped and not all the kids started having their own phone in the, in their bedroom. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That was, I just kind of took the fun out of, out of, you know, taking the phone and stretching it across the house to, to the bathroom.
But at the same time okay. Hell yeah. That was, that was awesome. But at the same time, you know, we had I, me and me and my sister had a phone. I couldn't tell you what the phone number was anymore. It's not like we talked to anybody. Everybody I knew in, in the town that I lived in, you didn't have, you know, we could call doom us. That was the only other town we could call. That was a local phone call. Right. Everybody else was long distance. And I wanted to call border. That was a long distance call. I I wanted to call Perinton. It was a long distance call. If I wanted to call Amoral to, to do a, to to do a a a shout out to my girlfriend for the moment on the radio, z 93, Texas best, rock, rock, rock, which was just, that was the station everybody listened to unless you were a banger. And I think it was, 1079.
There for a while, it was a it was a pop station also, but then, 1079 turned into a into a hard rock station. Unless you were the cool kid, and then you discovered, FM 90, which was the college station's, college's radio station, and they played just different types of music. And Friday night at, at 10 o'clock 9 or 10 o'clock was, was, dead end street, and that was where all the really good music came out. So Oh, wow. Oh, yeah. You got to learn about really good music like mucky pup and, and 3 dead gophers. That was a that was a good song. Okay.
[01:10:00] Duuude-Ron :
All right. Sounds like the sounds like the doctor Demento show.
[01:10:05] Bryan Goodwin:
They did. They had doctor Bento on Saturday mornings. Really? So yeah. Yep. You got, poisoning pigeons in the park and, and, kick to the boot to the head and, and and all those greats. So the Scotsman, another great, another great, song. So, oh, heck yeah. It's where I first got introduced to, to weird Al.
[01:10:31] Unknown:
Oh my gosh. That that's crazy.
[01:10:35] Duuude-Ron :
Mine was KRFX 1035. 1035.
[01:10:41] Unknown:
Mine was 967 KCFM.
[01:10:44] Bryan Goodwin:
And believe it or not, they're still rolling with the Oh, really? Okay. Yeah. Well, z 93 is 2, except I don't, actually, I don't even know if they still call it z 93. I think it I know that they'll play the same music. It's more hip hop now, but
[01:10:59] Duuude-Ron :
but, there Everything is hip hop except for, you know, the stuff that we like to listen to, then you have to get theories or, what is the other one that I have? Hold on. Iheartradio with the, company.
[01:11:20] Bryan Goodwin:
So here here's a here's a something to help the younger kids and younger folks who are listening. When you were growing up, did y'all have a radio station that was called the cat?
[01:11:31] Unknown:
Oh, the cat.
[01:11:33] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Usually spelled with k, it was k a t. Yeah. That that is something it would always be it seemed like every town I went to that had a radio station like Dallas. Dallas had a cat. They also had the zoo, which was a, a great rock station. Oh my god. The rock station. Yeah. Yeah. Dallas was the base. That one in Dallas. Yeah. Yeah. I remember that one. But there was a, there was always seemed to be, everybody had a radio station that was called the cat.
[01:12:02] Unknown:
Oh, wow.
[01:12:03] Bryan Goodwin:
And, so I was just I didn't I and I was just kinda checking to see if y'all where y'all grew up at, if y'all had a cat also. Because that's just kinda been one of those things that I've always kinda been fascinated by was, the whole cat. Ours was, like, 10 49, 1048, 7, something like that. It was is that on the farther end of the of the dial? It wasn't quite the middle.
[01:12:31] Duuude-Ron :
But No. We up in Lincoln, Nebraska, we didn't have the cat. Okay.
[01:12:37] Unknown:
Well, we,
[01:12:39] Duuude-Ron :
the only However, you just talked about, the zoo. Yeah. Man, that is an excellent song. And who sings the zoo?
[01:12:54] Bryan Goodwin:
I didn't Yeah. I do. I I I would Fail with that trivia.
[01:13:02] Duuude-Ron :
Well I'll get back with you on that. Okay. Scorpions scorpions things the zoo.
[01:13:08] Unknown:
Oh,
[01:13:09] Bryan Goodwin:
I don't think I heard that one. Oh, that's that's the one I haven't heard. Yeah. Oh, you're gonna have to get on Scorpions
[01:13:16] Duuude-Ron :
and the zoo. Excellent song.
[01:13:22] Unknown:
So Yeah. No. I'm I remember as close as I can come to anything resembling a cat is 933, the fox. Ah, okay. So, yeah. No. That's, I mean, yeah. As far as yeah. Cat. I
[01:13:39] Bryan Goodwin:
and Oh, god. I just remembered something.
[01:13:42] Unknown:
But
[01:13:42] Bryan Goodwin:
Me and a friend, we used to sit around and we used to make this, and I couldn't even remember how to make it, but we used to drink, make this concoction from time to time Whenever I had the ex had, everything paid off, and I had, you know, even had a really good good paycheck where I had, like, maybe 5, $10 extra. Mhmm. We'd sit down and split as, share, me and our roommate, we would share, put, our money together and we would buy the ingredients for something that we called moose piss. And all I really remember is that it's something with Kool Aid or not Kool Aid, but lemonade Mickey's big mouth beer.
[01:14:21] Unknown:
You know, the Greek.
[01:14:22] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Yeah. And we've that, and there was a couple other, items that were thrown in there and we would sit around and we would drink this thing, this crap until we would just be just slobber and drunk. But we had fun. We came up with the best radio station and all the plugs for it. And it was K O C K the cock. And we could wake up in the morning with the big cock, You know? And we had all of these taglines for it, man. I mean, that we it's like, oh, yeah. I mean, granted, we would never be able to do it because I know the FCC would go, no. Yeah. Right. Yeah.
Yeah. But at the same time, it was just oh my god. It was so it's so much fun because we were just like, yeah. Yeah. We got the we could we could have the, the the traffic cock or the traffic you know, it would be, you know, a rooster would be kind of our part of our logo, but, yeah, we had we had the, the traffic rooster out there, and he was give he would give us all the, all the all the the traffic details of what what's happening in Emeril Right. Just never anything. Because even even now, the Emeril has traffic where I 40 will slow down to maybe 40 miles an hour and people just lose their ever living mind.
Really? Because the traffic never actually stopped. Granted, Amaro's got the longest damn street lights in the history of man. Right. I swear that I swear you age. You know? Mhmm. You feel yourself age by the time the light changes. You've got all of a sudden, you start driving. You're like, oh god. I've got a pain in my hip. Why is this fun? So
[01:16:02] Unknown:
I've been sitting there for 6 years.
[01:16:05] Bryan Goodwin:
It's been 6. And, and I, I actually am fully understand if you don't step on the gas, the moment that puppy turns green and people honk at you, they know they're gonna be there for another 2 years and they do not wanna wait that long. And so I get it. I'm like, I hear a beep most of the time. I I'm I'll depending on what town I'm in. Because if if I'm, like, in in a in a rougher part a rougher town, I won't do this just because I I do I like to live. And so, but other places, if I am feeling in a, in a pissy mood or I'm just feeling extra snarky, somebody honks at me. I actually will throw it into park and look out the window and go. Yeah.
And, and they'll honk at you again. And I'm like, if they honk again, then I usually will stand out and kinda go over there and go, you needing something? And I've I've only been able to do it twice because most of the time, my wife's with me and she's like, do not get your ass out of it. And so I just okay. Yes, ma'am. But the 2 times that I've had is, like, one guy probably wasn't really the smartest because the guy started getting out too, and I was just like, well, what are you needing? He's like, need you to go. I was like, well, why are you honking at me then? Don't get my attention. I'm trying to figure out what you were needing. Thought you knew me or something.
But Oh, shit. Like I said, I've only been in my I went to church. Yeah. I've only been in all my life, I've only done it twice. And, and and so far, I've still got all fingers and toes, and I haven't been aerated in any weird places. So so it good thing. Yeah. Yeah. It's a good thing. And but there like I said, there there was one guy who, I if I if if, if he was in if he'd had any, today nowadays, though, might you know, it might be okay over Mississippi, but, it, there there's some places around around in the bigger cities. No. I'm not about to do that because they're more likely to have some, someone come running up to you with a baseball bat and then Well, yeah. Yeah. Well, and I keep seeing, I've seen plenty of videos of, of people who are actually road raging and they come dumping out of there and then they instantly get dropped.
So so people are, people are carrying because lot of lot of idiots running around these days. Yeah. There is. Lot of people who are caught in their own emotions yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm I'll blame the school system personally. So Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Which pisses teachers off. That's, that's the big I'm I I love the teachers. I've got I I'm still I, not great at the Facebook friends, but I still, Facebook friends. It was like my 1st grade teacher. My my English teacher, which was, another my, my lower level English teacher was, missus Parsons.
Or no? No. Ward Ward Haynes was the freshman sophomore, and I think missus Parsons came in afterwards because I think he retired shortly after that. Well, say I can't I can't remember. Anyhow, I know she was she was English. She was an English teacher. Maybe just been a literature. But anyhow, she was, she was one of those who taught me one of the biggest lessons out there. And that was, if she said something and you got offended, her catch phrase was build a bridge and get over it. Right. And to watch all of these high school kids just gets kind of incensed over it, but not being able to say anything because, well, she's right.
Yeah. You were just like, oh, well, oh my god. Do you hear that? And, you know, and this is, you know, late eighties, early nineties. I graduated in 92. And so she it was around the, you know, about 80, 1990 to 92 in that area. She it was she would tell you, just build a bridge and get over it and go do your work. And everybody would just be, oh, what? And, you know, what did she say type of thing? And just, it was just, it's one of the best ones that I still actually use today because I mean, there are teachers, they're great. But sadly, these days, there's a lot of teachers who aren't teaching for the sake of teaching. They're teaching they're they're there just for the paycheck. They don't really give a crap of what they're teaching the kids. Well, and As a matter of fact, most of them are teaching kids stuff that doesn't need to be taught in school. Exactly. Exactly. That's exactly what it's gonna say. It's like, it's like
[01:20:54] Unknown:
learn. Yeah. I mean, I mean, teach these kids, but you see, the thing is they freaking went to college to be a teacher and look at how they were taught. Yeah. So so they're just they're just going along with the, you know, cycle.
[01:21:12] Bryan Goodwin:
Right. And like great, the late great brush Limbaugh said, they were just a bunch of school skulls full of mush. Right. And and, yeah, we, even at my whenever I was in college and, heard that, and I was just like, oh my god, what the goal of this? You know, I would get mad at the fact of it of him calling it it I was taking it so personally that he was calling me a skull full of mush. And I was like, I'm I'm I'm studying. I'm working hard. And, you know, it all it takes after your great awakening, which you're, everybody's great awakening is typically around the age of 26. That's when you kinda start figuring out who you are.
Yeah. And you kinda figure out what your what your standards are, what your values are. And that's also where you hear the pop. And the pop is when you that's the sound that, one hears when they successfully dislodge their head from their ass. Yep. And it's about 26 when all of a sudden you're going, oh, damn it. My mom and dad were actually a little smarter than I thought they were. Well, well, well, well, no. I'm gonna hold it. You say 26, but I was probably a little longer. I was probably closer to 30 one when I heard the pop. So you know? It's just it it that's the average. Some is I've I've there's some people who hear the pop when it's about 21, and others hear they don't hear the pop until they're, like, 58. So it's you know?
[01:22:37] Unknown:
Hey. Hey, Ron. Ron, do you wanna weigh on this? Do you wanna weigh on it? Go ahead. What's what's that, dude? What's that, dude?
[01:22:47] Duuude-Ron :
Dude. What do I wanna weigh in on?
[01:22:51] Bryan Goodwin:
Any of what we've been talking about. Anything.
[01:22:53] Unknown:
I mean, the teachers head, your head popping out your ass, you know, whatever.
[01:23:00] Duuude-Ron :
It's how good Loud and thunderous kaboom. Kinda like Marvin kinda like Marvin and the Martian. Marvin the Marvin the Martian. What happened to the earth shattering kaboom? Yeah. There was supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom. Bet you. Looney Tunes. Yes. Then there was the The plutonium
[01:23:23] Bryan Goodwin:
p 38 space modulator?
[01:23:26] Duuude-Ron :
Yes. Yeah. You know, it's a Yeah. I can't remember when my head popped out of my ass. I think it might have been last week, maybe. No. Maybe yesterday. I don't know. What? Maybe 2 weeks ago? Possibly. Okay. It it it hasn't been too long ago. Oh, okay. After I think it was after our retired. But
[01:23:57] Unknown:
Dude, you're still working. You haven't retired yet.
[01:24:01] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I know. I can't freaking afford to retire, but, you know, that's my life. My I should say my dumpster fire of a life. But, you know Well, you do know that,
[01:24:12] Bryan Goodwin:
that that, in there is no word for retirement for in the Hebrew language. Right?
[01:24:21] Duuude-Ron :
Well, okay.
[01:24:23] Bryan Goodwin:
And the reason why is because they there. There was no reason to 1. Well, 1, when men retire, typically they only last 5 years after retirement. And then they die. The reason is that's probably what who died? Most men, when they retire, they don't, they, they don't have a purpose. They, they retire thinking that they're just gonna be able to just sit around and do nothing. And that is a guaranteed way of that's just a slow suicide.
[01:24:54] Unknown:
Yes, it is.
[01:24:55] Bryan Goodwin:
And so that's why you see so many older men who are still alive, who go and work at Walmart, even if it's just as a greeter.
[01:25:04] Unknown:
Get your shit and get out. Get your shit. Yeah. So Welcome to Walmart. Get your shit and get out.
[01:25:11] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Get out as soon as I see your receipt.
[01:25:15] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, fuck that. I just want Oh, yeah. Oh, no. And that's something me and my wife don't do. We won't we don't play the recipient. Well, sometimes we will.
[01:25:24] Duuude-Ron :
Why? You know? Okay. You can't trust me to be my own cashier?
[01:25:28] Bryan Goodwin:
Exactly. If you're wanting me, if you're expecting to try to please me, because I'm now doing a self checkout thing that you wanted me to do, That's your bad, man. That's on you. Oh, yeah. I I I personally still go through the, through the, the other registers. I like to have the other person check out because I like to make sure that the other person is being paid for what they're being paid for. Right. Right. Oh, I no. No. I don't I don't use a self checkout
[01:25:56] Unknown:
unless I don't
[01:25:57] Duuude-Ron :
have a choice. You know? Right. And But at the same time the bad and the bad thing about it is is I did not get either a w 2 or a 1099 from Walmart. That's right.
[01:26:09] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. For big checker. Yeah. They they essentially have got you got you for free labor. And
[01:26:16] Unknown:
so if they if they want to go check your receipt, check your receipt to make sure you didn't steal from them. Yeah. Now kiss my hat. And that's and that's why me and my wife both, if we're, if,
[01:26:30] Bryan Goodwin:
if, if there is a line of people who are waiting to check out, which is usually around the Christmas time, They'll go, can we see res, see a receipt? I'll hand the receipt and I'll just keep walking. And I don't even know that. You get from the people are what the hell you don't don't you what you I don't care if they had a receipt. I'm I bought my food. If I eat it and I don't like it, it's, am I gonna be able to return the turd to you and go, I want my money back. No. So it doesn't do me any good. Right. So, you know, it does if I if I sell it out, I will scoop your turd up and throw it in a in a in a in a Walmart bag and take it back. Take it back to him. It's like, damn, that stuff did not fill me up at all. It ran right through me, man.
I I want my money back. It didn't do the job. And no. So you were you you gotta you're gonna have to, you know, it, it doesn't do any good to keep the receipt. Now if we're going through and we've got Christmas bot and stuff, then yeah. Okay. We're gonna hold on to the receipt and we'll just go ahead and stand there and, because if we've got a bunch of un unwrapped or, unbagged stuff, I get it. Where did you just take those bags, but am I going to spend the time to bag up every damn thing and somewhere in the middle, not bag something and, and try to steal it in front of the, of the register lady?
[01:27:51] Unknown:
Well, well, the thing is, what about what about the the the the 500 cameras that they have in Walmart? Oh, yeah. And and and they still think they have to put someone at the exit door. Oh, I need to see your receipt. You you're gonna
[01:28:07] Bryan Goodwin:
have to I know you don't have a, don't have a purpose and that they're trying to find something for you to do. And god bless you. I mean, there's one guy. I think his name's Kevin. And, and so I've gotten around to talking with him a little bit. But, but most of the time, I we go through he's like, if there's no one there and he's just kinda standing there and he's like, hey. Can I see your receipt? And I'm like, oh, sure. Yeah, man. Here. Here. I'll show it to you. Because I can usually tell what set them off. Like, if I've got a big ass bag of dog food sitting underneath the, underneath the basket, I have forgotten to pay the for the dog food before. Well, okay. Oh, yeah. And and that's usually what they're looking. Actually, I don't think they they look at dog food, 15, 20 butt. No.
You haven't bought dog food in a while, have you? No. Dog food is typically a £40 bag of dog food cost typically anywhere from 40 to $80 these days. Oh my god.
[01:29:06] Unknown:
No way way.
[01:29:09] Bryan Goodwin:
Now you can get, you can get the Purina, you know, and that's still $30. Oh, wow. For a 40 pound bag. That's crazy. That's, you know, you're getting the the the shit, scraps of of the shit scraps. Right. That because this is the stuff even the premium dog food people are going, ew. That's that's crap. Oh, that's bad. That's it. It's the stuff the navy won't even beat. They're going, yeah. We're not gonna give that, you know Oh, damn. And then they We've had stuff like that. No. No. I mean, that we've had, we've had stuff where from, you know, I literally have people think that this is a, a joke, but there are times when I was in, part of the stocking party where, while we were out at sea, they would, we would be doing, have restocking, drills where we'd pull up alongside of a tender, and they would break and send over all the groceries and stuff Mhmm. Which is a shit ton of groceries because we got 5,000 people on on board. Right. And so we would have to what all of us lower, lower ranked guys would all be part of the, of the stocking party, and we would go down. And from the freezers on up to the, up to the hangar bay, we would all just start passing, passing frozen goods stuff down.
And part of it was there'd be times where you would see, you know, like, department, California Department of Corrections types of food or like boxes of meat, and it would be, you know, it would they would have rejected on it. So they would send it on over to the, to the army. And what it was, it's just it it a lot of times, it was just some type of meat, like, hamburger meat or whatever. Right. Why they rejected it? Maybe it had too much fat. I don't know. But it was just always, we always just found it really fascinating that we even we got we got the hand off from the, from the from the, the prison system.
So Yeah. And so it was just but at the same time, I can't complain too bad because, I mean, there's plenty of times we ended up having steak and lobster on the, on the
[01:31:27] Unknown:
ship. That would be cool.
[01:31:29] Bryan Goodwin:
And I mean, granted it was it was not red lobster style lobster tails because, I mean, it was, it, they, they, when you're cooking that much food, you can't make it Great. Great. It's go, it's gonna come out as, it's all right. It's pretty good. Right. Cause I mean, cause you ain't got to have lobster. They were still in the tail and all that, and you had to cut it out. But at the same time, it was overcooked lobster, so it was a rubber. So so it it was you could drop it on the, on the, so it, so it turned from lobster to squid. It, it, well, no, it was, squid was juicier than, than, than the, than that. It was it was so overcooked. I mean, you could actually probably have thrown it up, throw it on the on the table, and it would've bounced
[01:32:17] Unknown:
just completely. So
[01:32:19] Bryan Goodwin:
but it would, I mean, it is, but at the same time, when it came to like, like Thanksgiving, say we were, we were had actually entered the straights of hormoos and we're just going up to, up to, the Persian Gulf during, on Thanksgiving day. This just happened. How how the, everything all ended up. And we still had kick ass her. Granted, I was working down the chief's mess. So I had incredible kick ass turkey. Oh, damn. And gravy. And and that because that was if you're gonna mass crank, which is, kitchen, KP for for for the rest of you lower, lower, folks. What what lower fella? Phone? Lower phone. Yeah. Yeah. We we we we didn't just go do kitchen patrol. We we got to do cranking, and we were mess cranking.
And if you did, if, if you, mess cranked enough, you eventually wound up in the chief's mess and the chief's mess was the shit, man. This is better than the officer stuff. Oh, no way. Oh, yeah. Way. I mean, you had because the officers, they they got all their shit handed to them. And so the and but the chiefs, they've come down and they've had you they had their own coffee mugs. So you'd had to know start paying attention. Who washed their coffee mugs? Who didn't? Because if they washed the Chiefs coffee mug, then he doesn't like to be washed, you got yelled at.
Oh, shit. Yeah. He's like, goddamn it. You know how long it took me to walk get that flavor just right now? It's not gonna taste right. Oh, it was dirty, man. It was yeah. Coffee flaking off on the damn shit. It was terrible. You know? Oh, dude. Dude, that is like prime. That is like prime
[01:34:06] Unknown:
prime flavor right there. What, dude, what the hell are you doing? I'm I wash my shit. I'm going No. It yeah. No. No. That's wrong. That's dude,
[01:34:17] Bryan Goodwin:
I will wash that pantina off every single time. No.
[01:34:21] Unknown:
You're taking off, man.
[01:34:23] Bryan Goodwin:
You you don't That's almost as that's almost as bad as the, as the line off of, no country for old men when, Tommy Lee Jones goes in to see his uncle. Uh-huh. I think it was his uncle anyhow. And, he goes to pour the cop goes to pour the coffee, and then he stops. And he looks at him and goes, is this fresh? And he's like, I make a new, new pot once a week whether I need it or not. Oh my god. Holy crap. We go copy. Oh my god. What is pro I've had copy where that I forgot to empty out. You know, I'd go off on the I'd Jana would be off, off seeing a friend or whatever. And I took off on Monday and left some coffee in the, in the coffee pot and not thinking about it. And I'd come back and there would be shit growing in it. And that's just 5 days.
So to think That that's normal. That's
[01:35:18] Unknown:
normal. Take it out. Rinse it out. Make another pot. You're good. Wash it out. Scrub it out. No. No. No. Rinse. Rinse. I didn't say I didn't say nothing about no washing. I said rinse. No. I'm washing. No. You don't have to wash. Just rinse it. No. No. You you Yeah. Why. Yeah. No. No. Just just rinse it out and make you another pot. It'll be fine. If you
[01:35:41] Bryan Goodwin:
agree with Rit or disagree with rich, our Chelsea atgmail dot com. Let him know. Oh, hold it. Hold it. You haven't even you haven't even given out your email yet. No. I haven't given my email out yet. Why not? It's it's going because we haven't gotten to the closing yet.
[01:36:01] Unknown:
So hold it. We don't we don't we don't have to wait till the closing.
[01:36:06] Bryan Goodwin:
Well well, when you get if you get yourself in word, any word in edgewise, then throw them on that and throw throw circle cast at g mail dot com. Yeah. Circle cast at gmaildot com because That is circle. Was it a round thing? Cast is in, like, a, like, a fish casting. All one word, no spaces, [email protected]. And you'll when you tap it in, in Gmail, you'll see my big old grill show pop up in there. So so you
[01:36:36] Duuude-Ron :
And and see, we ain't even gonna do my email address.
[01:36:40] Unknown:
Oh my god. Dude, you yeah.
[01:36:43] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. People would just go nuts. And the reason why is because I don't check my email, my address. I don't check email. I might, once a week, see, okay, all the Gmails that I've gotten from whatever sources and just start going through and delete.
[01:37:03] Unknown:
But dude, hang on. Hang on, dude. What what happens if if, like, everyone starts to like you and and want to get in touch with you, man? I mean
[01:37:14] Bryan Goodwin:
So we just give you a phone number?
[01:37:19] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Give them my phone number. Yeah. That's that's that's it. Yeah. Yeah. Hey. Dude, we'll do we'll do my we'll do my Gmail. Start getting crank calls at 3 o'clock in the morning. Dude,
[01:37:35] Unknown:
Dude, you can have your own fan base, man. Think about it. People be be just, you know you know, paying base on on you just because your name is dude.
[01:37:47] Duuude-Ron :
Just because my name is dude. Well, dude is gonna hold off just a little while. I wanna see how I wanna see how you guys is go because I I seriously do not check my Gmail. I don't believe it. I pro I probably have 400 emails that I haven't opened or looked at. Well Mhmm. Easily 400.
[01:38:19] Unknown:
Just saying you probably don't need to. So, yeah, I would mess delete them.
[01:38:23] Bryan Goodwin:
Just go ahead and just declare email bankruptcy and start fresh.
[01:38:28] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. No kidding.
[01:38:31] Bryan Goodwin:
Email labels. About once a year. I'll there's, I've got a, one one, set of labels that I hold on to, and it's it's called family. And it's because I've actually got emails still from my dad Uh-huh. And who's been gone for 12 no, 14 years now. Oh, wow. Goddamn. That's a long time. So but, yeah, he's been gone since, 2010, and I've still got some of his old, his old emails. And so I just hold on to those just for posterity's sake because Right. I'm I'm taking them from time to time. I'll just whenever I happen to think of it, it's like, oh, yeah. I need to throw some of those emails up onto, up onto Ancestry so that we've got documentation of, you know, of dad and his style of writing and and all that. Not that you would actually give him a show anything, a scan of anything of his actual handwriting because nobody could read it.
Even dad, he couldn't read it. He couldn't even read his own handwriting. No. He kidding. I'm like, oh, what I wrote there? What is that?
[01:39:37] Unknown:
That must not be important. Damn it, dad. You know, it was, it was a cure to cancer probably. And he couldn't read it. So he just, yeah, it was like, just like, yeah. Okay.
[01:39:49] Bryan Goodwin:
So, but anyhow, so, yeah. Alright. Well, guys, we are gonna be we're in the, the final 10 minutes or 15 minutes or so of the, of the show. So I wanted to just say that typically you're in this area, wanted to start kind of bringing it around and start this being a value for value show. What is value for value? I kind of started to talk about it. And then we went off on a tirade, found a, found a, rabbit trail and just got completely lost. So bringing it back home. Yes. Value for value is time, talent, treasure. You we like it when you send us a Satoshis, send us, the Fiat currency.
Send us all those the the money, Not that we're to to do it so that we get rich, but we'd like to just have the money so we can pay for our the hosting bills and and and stuff like that for for the site. We eventually will have a website and have bigger, better thing. We've got, got a a a plan laid out just depending upon how much money we have available. But also if you don't have the money, but you still found anything that we're doing worthy of of something, maybe it's talent. Maybe you're good at graphic design. You could actually come along and and, create or or maybe it's talent, and you're you're you're, when it comes to graphic design, you do a a kick ass job. So you wanna create a custom, episode art. We we could always handle some episodic art, some some chapter art. We could always start, break this up because of podcasting 2.0, we can we're gonna be having to do Chances. Be able to do chapters.
[01:41:31] Unknown:
We're gonna be able to do
[01:41:33] Bryan Goodwin:
art links. Yeah. And if you do send us not graphic designers, by the way. Oh, no. No. I mean, I, the, the, the, the, the actual album art, it was something that I was able to just do through Canva. And I, I can, I can manage, but, oh, people can do so much better than I can? They make it a whole lot more simpler. And I, and I love sip the, the, the beauty of simplicity is, is, is the great one. So if you can do that, if you have the time, maybe you wanna go through and you want to set up the, the chapters for the, for the podcast.
You know, welcome to do go through to do that. Reach out to me, circle [email protected]. Just say, hey. I'm wanna wanna jump in. I wanna help where I can. We can we'll offload as much as we we're able to other than, you know, we have to kinda show up to, to do the recording, but we're gonna, I've got plans for, for this show. Got plans to see, to have y'all actually show up and become a part of the show itself, become a producer of the show type of thing, or if you're if you help to produce bring the show to, fruition, we're gonna find ways of telling you thank you. We're gonna have ways of of of recognizing the the time that you put into, into whatever it is you've done.
Maybe it's, you're we get around to doing an old fashioned forum or something. Maybe we'll have, 2 grumpy, men and and dude, Bolton board style form just out of for shits and giggles because, you know, why not?
[01:43:12] Unknown:
Well, I, well, we could do a discord or, I mean, or, or, or, or,
[01:43:19] Bryan Goodwin:
or we could do discord. We could do, yeah. I mean, there's many, many, many, many different things that we could do. And it's all just, it doesn't matter. Simple because dude is technically challenged. Billy Fetzner (zero forty six:fifty seven): Well, yeah, that's what we're gonna do is we, we wanna confuse the hell out of dude and get him as uncomfortable as possible because he claims that he is technically, deficient. And I wanna show him that, you you've, he he's figured out how to do some things on on his phone. I bet you we could teach him how to do more things. And so not not enough to where we frazzle his his, his head, but at at the same time, just something to just push him out of his comfort zone. Just just a smidge because that's where we all grew.
So
[01:44:05] Duuude-Ron :
this is where Very very and I can and I completely and and do completely understands that and is appreciative. I just wanna break in and add one note to our overall conversation as for the 3 of us being veterans. Right now, we have a crisis in our country. It's 22 a day veteran suicide rate. If you know a veteran, and I'm talking to everybody out there, if you know a veteran that is struggling, talk to them. There's a lot of people that a lot of veterans, all they wanna do is talk. And if we could bring the suicide rate from 22 a day to 0, that would be awesome.
But just know that there are a lot of vets like myself that are struggling, PTSD, a lot of demons. If you know a vet that is struggling, please get them some help.
[01:45:25] Unknown:
988. Dial 988 and make sure you press 1. You will talk to a veteran or a family member of a veteran, someone who knows veterans. Absolutely. 988 dial 988 on on your phone and press 1. And you and you don't have to, call just because you're suicidal. You if you're having a bad day, call them and talk to them. That's what they're here for. Yeah. They don't care. So
[01:45:53] Bryan Goodwin:
and also, we ask
[01:45:55] Duuude-Ron :
go ahead. We may be a grump we may be a group of grumpy vets. However, we are very vet
[01:46:08] Bryan Goodwin:
Help me out, guys. Senator. We're very pro pro vet. Well, here we go. We're pro vet. Centric.
[01:46:15] Unknown:
Yeah. Centric. Yeah. See? 9:53 at night, Brian's throwing out them big words. My brain don't work after 2 in the afternoon. So so, but anyhow, we are a veteran.
[01:46:29] Bryan Goodwin:
If anybody is who's listening is a veteran, doesn't matter whether you're a guy or a girl, just, but if you're a veteran and you would like to be a part of a group, I, like I said, I, we have the veterans call. It comes up every Wednesday, 8 o'clock, from 8 o'clock to 10 o'clock is what when we're normally talking. And that's, central time. Gonna make sure we do send lay the central time out. Shoot the email over to either me or or Rich, and I will get you added into, into the Zoom, Zoom invite. I'll drop a Zoom invite over for you so that you can jump on. And it's not a requirement that there's
[01:47:10] Unknown:
no no cost to it. Nope. Just jump on and and talk. In our system. So, Hey, how you doing? How's your mom and them?
[01:47:18] Bryan Goodwin:
Exactly. And, and we'll have it. It's been a while. Hell, yeah. And we'll and we're always glad to have have new folks there for a while. We were having about 6 or 7 people who were all on, at once. But if we, you know, if we turn around and we start having, you know, get 10, 12 people at a time, that's awesome. That's great. It's not that we're all gonna be able to talk all at once, and then it's okay. We're just not there to be able to talk all at once, but we can all commune with each other. We can all have a good time of just living with each other, having just a little speck of moment in our busy lives where we can sit around a bunch of other vets and just, you know, talk to that. Yeah.
[01:48:05] Unknown:
You know, be us. That's it. With with no
[01:48:09] Duuude-Ron :
judgment.
[01:48:10] Unknown:
Thank you. Well, we judge you, but it's, but it's a good judgment. Well, I mean Yes. I I mean, vets judge other vets anyway. I mean, we've done Oh, hell yeah. From the time we joined in. But Yeah. Yeah. But still, no. I mean, I mean, you know, if you wanna dance in a pink tutu, hey, you do you, boo. That's, I mean, that's fine. You do you. I I don't have a problem with it. Just know I'm not dancing in a pink tutu.
[01:48:36] Bryan Goodwin:
No. No. He wears the red bikini. So
[01:48:41] Duuude-Ron :
and see, his isn't pink. It's purple, but it's not a 22. It's a 44.
[01:48:49] Unknown:
Oh
[01:48:51] Bryan Goodwin:
my, so, oh, so guys also, one other thing that we I'd like to add right before we, pose this all up is one of the things that we can do with a podcast 2.0 is you can actually, compliant app is you can actually send us what's called boostograms. And these are messages that get sent instantly. They arrive to our, arrive to our wallet. And from there, we can actually read the message that you have and that you send. So if you wanna ask ask us a question, you can, you could do it via email. Send me or Rich, an email. Yep. Or you can send shoot over to, a Boostgram. It it doesn't have to be much. You can send this over, you know, 5 sets and and and You can send what? Tell us whatever. We don't care.
Yeah. I mean, in I mean If you, if if you wanna, if you wanna advertise, through the boostgram, that's fine. I am gonna put at least a 100 sats that you send to us before you, before you do a a, before you have us do our an ad rate read just because we are professionals of some sort. Yes. Some sort. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah. And so so we do have we do have a cost. It it's a 100 sets. Send us at least a 100 sets, and we'll we'll we'll read your read your ad for you. And so but so we're we're we've got, there's so much available there. And like I said, I think it's new podcast apps.com.
And not not a 100%, but I do know that if you go Yeah. I think you're right.
[01:50:29] Unknown:
Honestly, though, I would go to,
[01:50:32] Bryan Goodwin:
where's the podcast index., dot org and just hit there. Or or actually Yeah. That's right. That's right. Podcasting2.org.
[01:50:44] Unknown:
That's that's another good
[01:50:47] Bryan Goodwin:
one. They have got a list of all the, of all the apps and they can tell you whether it's for apple or Android or and and they got it all sorted out. It's great stuff. And Yeah. And and yes, you can with a podcasting 2.0 app, you can get regular podcasts. So Yeah. Yeah. You're still able to download all the others. It's just podcasting 2.0 has extra fancy stuff, and this is what's underneath the hood, how the sauce is made. There's things called name spaces.
[01:51:18] Unknown:
Yeah. And what So we can do a live item tag,
[01:51:21] Bryan Goodwin:
which is, our lit tag. And that tells us that tells the, the, the podcast player, Hey, this person is lot broadcasting live right now. And you can actually go on and you can either watch if they support video or listen, if they're just audio and you'd be able to hear what the, and you can still send boostograms. Yeah. Now you can there's, you can, jump back and forth on like I said, we there's chapter support. There's actually they're working trying to figure out how to set up what's called cross app, comments. Yeah. So no matter what platform what platform you're on, you could comment on a on a show and somebody listening on, say, like, Podverse would be able to reply.
Right. And then someone over on over on, castomatic would be able to make a a comment. And so it all just kinda, jumbles together. Yeah. Hey, Brian. Still in that's still in the works, but, so it's not quite available, but there's, like, 30 different, name space tags that are available. And it's just
[01:52:28] Unknown:
There is quite a few. I just that's just I was just gonna say, you know, maybe maybe we can, oh, damn. Where'd you go? There you are. You, like, vanished for a second. Oh, yeah. I I was having a pretzel. Oh, okay. But, you know, I was thinking I was thinking, you know, we break these people in a little slower, you know, because the information that you're throwing out, I mean, my head's starting to go crazy right now. It's like it's like I mean, I'm I'm learning all this stuff.
[01:53:03] Bryan Goodwin:
And we ain't gonna talk to you. Another one.
[01:53:06] Unknown:
So so
[01:53:07] Duuude-Ron :
And dude is just, we we ain't gonna go there. Now head past swimming point.
[01:53:17] Unknown:
Oh, hang on. Hang on, dude. We will hook you up with with with, what you need, but now we'll be we'll be explaining more and more about podcasting 2.0 as we go along. Oh, yeah. It's it's it's actually a lot of fun. It's it's exciting. It's new, but it's there's a lot that, yeah, we haven't realized yet.
[01:53:40] Bryan Goodwin:
Right. And But, also, guys, just as we're wrap it up, couple, couple other, small requests. If you want to provide your talent and tread talent and time with, there's a few segments that I would like to go ahead and get some That's That's the one I just got finished writing down also Brian's word of the day. And these are, when I say short, I mean real short, like maybe no more than like 5 seconds. If we can, if we can get it that short, another one is shit. Brian knows shit. Rich knows and shit. Ron knows. Then also one for Ron's rink and, Rich's ham sandwich.
And also on these, the only request that I will say is with music, make sure it is royalty free. Do not use any copyrighted music. And so don't put any, Bach Bachman Turner overdrive or or, or or
[01:54:46] Unknown:
Scorpions or ACDC.
[01:54:49] Bryan Goodwin:
Or any of the or ACDC or anything like that in there because we won't be able to use it because, we will get an, DMCA take down and that's no good. That's no good. That is no Bueno. So so, a good place if you wanna if you're wanting music, good place to go. And also is also, podcast. It's actually music 2.0 compliant is, wave lake is a great place to go and and, listen to music.
[01:55:20] Unknown:
No. No. No. Wav Lake, you know, explain this if they haven't heard of it. Wav Lake, w a b. Yeah. WAV is in is in a audio file, w a v or or as the British call it, WAV. WAV leg. I'm sorry. Yeah. LA K E because because when I tried, I was using like wave, like you wave at somebody
[01:55:42] Bryan Goodwin:
and it wasn't working. No. It's a sound. It's a sound wave. Yeah.
[01:55:46] Unknown:
So so yeah. But, no. Their, SoundCloud's got got royalty free music.
[01:55:54] Bryan Goodwin:
That one's a lot of times it's DJs using using, copyrighted music. And that's one of the big that's the, that's kind of a, of a hinky. So if you're, if you do, and you've got permission to use the music from, you know, like, if someone's doing a doing a remix of, of, of say Halloween,
[01:56:20] Unknown:
not most yeah. No. No. You see you see that thing, most of that is, locked up. But you see, if you look like I think it's at the cc 4, cc 4 tags, I think, are are royalty free. You don't need permission. You don't need to, attribute even though we will attribute if we find out who who made the song. Because, I mean, we
[01:56:47] Bryan Goodwin:
we want to recognize them just as, you know, just as And also whenever yeah. Especially if you do, like, wave lake, send us the artist's name also of any music that you use in there because what we do is we put a split in our in our feed so that anytime, anytime y'all boost to us, that artist is gonna get a percentage of that boost also. Right. So we're all we're sharing that with everybody. The so if and also, if you end up doing a doing, like, spending time to do some of the jingles for, for the the weird segments that I've just kinda coughed up there. Give us your name. Also, send us your, your wallet address.
[01:57:35] Unknown:
And then if you don't have one, we'll we'll try that. If you don't have one,
[01:57:39] Bryan Goodwin:
there's there's a lot of re there's several not a lot. There's several resources, though, that you can turn to and, be able to get a a lightning wallet set up? Because it's not a Bitcoin wallet. It's light we use the lightning, network. Off chain network, which is a little bit different. It still uses Bitcoin, the Bitcoin value, but it what it does is takes it off off the chain so that it can actually move faster. We don't have to wait for the 30 minutes for for the things to go through. When you send a a boost, that boost and those satoshis arrive in our wallet and get divided up amongst us within like 90 seconds. It's no, no time at all. It's just, boom, it's done. It's available. Hence, the reason why they call it light.
[01:58:27] Unknown:
But, yeah, we'll be we'll be we'll be saying more about this as we go on because, I mean, we want everybody to, you know, experience this.
[01:58:36] Bryan Goodwin:
All of y'all's. Yeah. Yeah.
[01:58:40] Unknown:
It's but but yeah. I'm hearing that.
[01:58:43] Bryan Goodwin:
Any, any last words, any y'all need to drop?
[01:58:48] Unknown:
I think I'm pretty good right now.
[01:58:50] Duuude-Ron :
How about you, dude? Well, dude is pretty good. Alright, dude. That's good.
[01:58:57] Bryan Goodwin:
Alright. Well, guys, y'all take care. Y'all have yourselves a great rest of the week. We will see y'all next Thursday at 7 o'clock. And might even by then, we might have even got, got the live, live tag figured out and, and start being able to go live too. So as soon as we figure that get that one nailed down, we'll you'll you'll start, you'll start noticing it. So, alright, guys. Y'all take care. We'll catch y'all later. Take it easy. And again, if you need help, speak up, speak up. If you're it's life is it's never a, a permanent solution to a temporary problem is never the answer, man. We're here. We're here for you. We're here for everyone.
And, that's the one thing we're doing about this. I, is we want to show guys that y'all can actually have fun conversations on a very regular basis and and and have have good times doing it and be able to live each with each other in in close, in close terms like this. Yep. So guys, y'all take care. Have a great week, and we'll see y'all next Thursday. Later till then. Bye.
[02:00:06] Duuude-Ron :
Talk to you later, dude, signing off.
Hey, man. Hello, and welcome to 2 Grumpy Vets and a Duuude. I'm your host, Brian. With me, I've also got Rich and Dude, also known as Ron. We are been a long time friends, good 4 or 5 years, and we're just wanting to kinda start having sharing these conversations that we have. I think these conversations help men help people in general just start living their life intentionally. We're having this podcast intentionally. And this this is gonna be a podcast that is just set in a laid back, easy manner where we just get together. We just we're we're talking. We have our different awarenesses. We we're gonna be talking about all sorts of things at the at first. But one of the cool things about this particular podcast is that we are podcast 2.0, which is a value for value model. There's gonna be a lot of different features that are gonna start cropping up as you hit. So if you are listening to this podcast through a podcast 2.0 compliant, platform, you're gonna end up hearing a lot you're gonna have a lot more interactivity than a lot of other, the other player. But if you are not on listening to it or you're listening to maybe Apple Podcasts or or Pocket Cast or any of the other traditional podcasting players might go to.
What is that thing called? I just, my brain just died. I was like, yep. You ran out of steamed. My go to, go over to podcast index.org. And, they have got a list of apps over there that you can actually hit, and there'll be a link to it over in the in the show notes at to the so that you can actually see there's because there's fountain apps, or fountain, podcast. There's also,
[00:01:50] Unknown:
Podcast guru. Castomatic,
[00:01:52] Bryan Goodwin:
podcast guru,
[00:01:55] Duuude-Ron :
Podverse.
[00:01:57] Bryan Goodwin:
These were all, bright, great podcast apps out there that will, let you know when a podcast goes live. We will eventually be going live at the end and stuff. So this is we're gonna have a lot of a lot of going on, but this is being our first episode. This is the first time we're getting out there. We're grabbing everybody together strictly for the purpose of recording this podcast. Wanted to just kinda first off kinda share our story, share what this whole, whole group is about because there there's 3 of us that are all always talking, just about, once a week. We get together, and we just kind of intentionally live our lives with each other in a way that we can just be able to commiserate. And so one kinda share each of our our each of our stories and and talk about what it is that, what are some of our passions, some of our, some of our thoughts and, and things like that. And this show is, is going against any and every, podcast, podcast rule quote, unquote rule there is because we're gonna be talking maybe talking for 15 minutes, one night may not have anything going on. We're just kinda, hey. How was it going? Alright? How are you doing? Alright? How about you, dude? Dude? Alright. Cool. We're awesome.
And that's all there is to it. So, and then there might be, we may end up talking until, until. You know, maybe 10 o'clock at night. This is, we usually start we're gonna be starting up these shows about 7 o'clock every, every Thursday night CST time. And, and we'll go until probably 10. That's kind of the the cutoff for me because I've I I drive a truck, and so I I end up needing to have grab some sleep somewhere along the way. And, so but anyhow, I I've taken up the first, the first 5, 6 minutes worth of of of talking here. I wanna go ahead and pass this on over to to Rich and let him, let him introduce himself.
So rich, who are you? I'm rich. Okay. No.
[00:04:12] Unknown:
Yeah, no, I I'm I'm rich. And yeah, like Brian said, Brian and I have been talking to each other for 5 years. And I I honestly, Brian's the one that freaking got me into podcasting. I've always loved it. I've started a couple and failed a couple, but, you know, I'm still trying to get in a brand had this idea and I thought he was badder than anything, but I was like, all right, we'll try it. Cause you know, I don't like to conform to anything or anybody. And, that's why I love these guys that I talk to because we all don't.
We don't conform. Brian did not inform you, but he was a Navy guy. Okay. He was a squid. And, yeah. So, hey, I forgot that. Didn't say anything. Right, Brian? Didn't say anything. I haven't got the I haven't gotten to my story yet. So Well, no. That's true. That's true. But still but, I was army and, and and all like that. And, you know, one of the main things and I've talked to a lot of different vets, and a lot of them missed that camaraderie we had when, we were in the service. And it doesn't matter what branch you were in. So, I mean, that's why, that's why we all got together. But, another one of my hobbies is, ham radio.
I love I love taking a radio and, antenna and a wire antenna and talking around the world. I love it. It's as I'm telling you, it's a blast. And if you wanna know if you wanna know more about it, hey. Shoot me an email. I don't care. What is our email? Oh, yeah. Yeah.
[00:05:50] Bryan Goodwin:
I well, you got your you got your email. Mine. Yeah. Mine. Yeah. Shoot me an email at [email protected]. That is Chelson.
[00:06:00] Unknown:
Yeah. With the r in front of it. Yeah. I didn't spell it. Brian. Brian hooked me up. But, and and and I also love my Jeep. I love the hell out of my Jeep and you might hear Ron and I go go on and on about Jeep sometimes because Ron drives a Jeep too. But, anyway, other than that, that's me, and, I'll be with you just like Brian will and and introducing the next person. You wanna go with
[00:06:34] Bryan Goodwin:
with Ron? Alright. Go ahead. Pass it on over to over to the dude.
[00:06:38] Unknown:
We're gonna pass you on to duuude. Take it away. So wrong. Is Ron.
[00:06:45] Duuude-Ron :
Well, thank you, gentlemen. Yes. Referred to as dude. Again, our conversation started as, of vets getting together just to talk. Also, vets getting together to if they are having, issues. I myself, combat vet, been to Afghanistan, Iraq, and I suffer with severe PTSD. Some days are good. Some days are not so good. So these gentlemen, are kinda my lifeline to if I need somebody to talk to with their military background, they know exactly what I'm saying and why I'm saying what I am saying. So again, we, you know, became friends through a couple of, events and organizations and just, you know, we talk on a weekly thing about military stuff. And, you know, again, if I'm having a bad day, they will they're there to listen.
Rich had mentioned to you that, we're all prior military. I myself was in the 82nd airborne for 12 years, 116 jumps, and one broken neck later. And here I am. So I retired. And also, it just so happens to be that the 3 of us have been truck drivers within our lifetime. 2 of us are currently driving trucks as a living and one is a retired truck driver being Rick. Rich also commented about, jeep life. Yeah. I've had I own used to have 2 Jeeps. Now I'm down to 1 Jeep. But, yeah, going out and I bought the Jeep for its purposes to go out and wheel it out on the trails. Yes. It also is my daily driver.
However, I like to see how far I can put the Jeep to its, capabilities. And had both of them almost on their sides being out wheeling. So I thoroughly enjoy going out and playing with the jeep out in the rocks and mud. And then also, I, my other passion for most of my life has been roller skating, which I started roller skating when I was 5 years old. I am currently 55, and I still own a pair of quad speedskates. I've had rollerblade speedskates in my lifetime. Been to nationals for speedskating in my lifetime. But, yes, I still own a pair of roller skates as does my daughter, as does the grandkids. And once in a while, we are able to get 3 generations onto the roller skating rink floor, which is absolutely a ball.
That's cool. So that is kind of wrong in a nutshell. Oh, and speaking in nutshells because of PTSD was on Prozac. And reason being is sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't.
[00:10:34] Unknown:
Dude, that was awesome, man.
[00:10:38] Bryan Goodwin:
That was awesome. I love that. Yeah. That's okay. And that might be something we have to start doing is coming up with just though we are, are going this, like I said, this shows is a value for value model. It's going to be where we have, you know, we're we're we're going to be taking time, talent, and treasure from our guys. But at the same time, put start putting up just, you know, this episode of the show is brought to you by the makers of Prozac, you know, using that, or this portion of the episode is brought to you by Tampax. We're not the best thing in the world, but we're right up in there type of stuff, you know? So and start using those type. It might just some some just just hoax commercials that are just just right that might be something we throw, throw in there, while we go. May I've well, that come up with about good 10 or 20 of them just to Okay. Just to really just to really to to have fun with with that because using the same two jokes, because those are the only actual 2 that I know, so I have to go find a whole bunch more because
[00:11:43] Duuude-Ron :
It shouldn't be too hard. It shouldn't be too hard, but love. And I've always loved Prozac because sometimes you feel like a nut, Sometimes you don't. Sometimes you don't.
[00:11:55] Bryan Goodwin:
And so, yeah. And so guys, and that to the audience, to the you guys, guys and gals who are actually listening to it. That is part of the value for value. Yeah. We would like for you to send us money. We're we'll end up having on the site. We'll and site right now is, 2 grumpy bets. And the whole reason why we ended up throwing in dude is because Ron, Ron came along and goes, Hey, I could join. I, I wouldn't mind joining in. It's like, oh, sweet. Okay. Didn't didn't think you would wanna join in on a podcast. And so I'd already bought the, the the the domain of 2 grumpy vets.
And, so we've got 2 grumpy vets. I haven't actually gone off to see, at the time of this recording, by the time it comes out, I should have it looked up and at least bought. So that's why I have no problem saying this right now, because, It should be open, I would think, because our name's kind of unique. Yeah. So but 2 grumpy vets.com, pretty soon we'll have 3 grumpy vets.com also. And, so with that, we can, you know, we could we we have a, we're gonna this is a this whole show, like I said, it's a value for value. Yeah. We're gonna be we're setting up to where you've got means of being able to send us.
Fiat, Fiat, currency, coupon, or value for value coupons, which is just Fiat currency. That's the dollar bill. Through PayPal at, and, and the such, But we also are using the podcast 2 point o, standards, which means that you can actually send us Satoshis. And I know a lot of people who are, especially our age, if they hear, Bitcoin and stuff, they're gonna go, oh my god. Oh, no. No. It's a scam. They're scared. And I, and I get that because there, there has been a big push by media and by society as a whole saying that Bitcoin is this mean, bad, evil thing.
And it was for a while when people weren't really paying that much attention to it. It is, it is very scary. It is very, you know, un out of the ordinary. Yeah. It is. And so a lot of people use it and they, but, and it, and it's a, it can be used nefariously, but so can
[00:14:20] Unknown:
actual dollar bills. Well, true. But but say say the thing is also, Brian, is is and this is what I've seen. Bitcoin, they still haven't fully simplified it for for us regular folk. It's still it's still a little technical for for most people,
[00:14:39] Bryan Goodwin:
I think. Well, it is. I mean Well, the Satoshi part podcast 2.0 part. Yeah, it is. It's still just it's nerd bill. Yeah, it is. 1 100 percent. It is trying to get you a, a satoshi wallet is just been a, a exercise in futility almost. Yeah. And it's not and come to find out it's not the technology. It's the fucking government again. Yeah. Sticking their fingers going, oh, well, well, you don't know. You're this isn't all regulated. Well, no crap. It's not regulated. There's a reason why it's doing so good. There's a reason why it jumps up to $70,000 in one day and plummets down to 23,000 the next. And that is because people are are using it for what they want. Now does is it, is it kind of, do you wanna be investing your life savings into it?
[00:15:32] Unknown:
No. No.
[00:15:33] Bryan Goodwin:
No. No. But at the same time, people are investing their life savings in, you know, the value of the yen. They're buying, you know, stocks and bonds that is putting your money into American dollars. Right. Money market accounts. It's the same thing except because it's so heavily regulated. 1, our that's one reason why our dollar is not worth a freaking dollar anymore. The dollar used to be worth $1 of gold. Used to be. That was low. And so you could actually go to a bank and say, Hey, I need my $500 worth of gold. And they wouldn't give you $500 worth of gold. Now nowadays, it might be just, a little piece of of gold about the size of a dime. Well, you know, I don't know. I just saw gold go over 2,000 an ounce. It last,
[00:16:20] Unknown:
this just the other day. It had 23
[00:16:22] Bryan Goodwin:
No. Shit. It did. I have been paying attention to what gold what gold's got. Oh, it just popped up. Yep. Yeah. Well, considering how much they're they're using, they're they're just the government's playing playing, you know, sticking their fingers in absolutely every damn thing, it doesn't surprise me. So, anyhow Right. Now, guys, I'm going on all this tirade stuff, and you still have no freaking clue who I am. So let me jump in here real quick. I well well I was fixing to say something like like, woah. Come on then. No one knows who you are, dude. We do. Who am I? I am I'm Brian Goodwin.
I am actually a certified men's coach. I am, I helped form together what we, what we affectionately call the veterans call. And every Wednesday. So if you're a, a, a veteran and I'll, I'll make this call out again later, if you're a veteran and you'd like to be a part of a group of guys who just sit around and talk about bull for 2 hours. And no, we don't record it. Just to let you know, no, no. It's not recorded or anything. We just have a zoom meeting and you can show up. None of us actually even turn our turn our, our, our cameras on. So you could set the you could you could sit around and and be doing whatever it is you wanna do. And, you know, we're just there to talk, have a good time, share, and, again, just intentionally live our lives with each other.
Mhmm. For 4 for 2 hours, it is just me, Rich, Ron. Sometimes there's about 3, 4 other guys who will jump in. And they're not always there. Sometimes they are. Sometimes they aren't. Sometimes they come in because there's a they've got an emergency, and they're just they're needing to get something off their shoulders. And we all jump in. We've all become we coalesce and become a a very large support group for these guys. Yep. And so it's I I've helped kinda put that together, and we've been meeting since since about 2020 see, when was the first, when was off the hard ball? That was what? 2020, 20, 20. Woah. That was 19, I think. 21. That was 2021.
No, wasn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Because it was that this is 2021 because the February 2022 was the free, was the rock mark. Was it because it was 2 20 2 22.
[00:18:44] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. So, yeah, it was, it was, hold it. July,
[00:18:49] Bryan Goodwin:
July, no, August, of, of, of 21.
[00:18:52] Unknown:
So, yeah, it was just right after birds, wasn't it? Yeah. Over birds. At 21. Okay. Okay. So,
[00:18:59] Bryan Goodwin:
and it was about that time that I really, we really started getting, kind of all the veterans, together with that. Right. So, but but anyhow so I we've been we've been kinda meeting shortly thereafter that, oh, for, well, since 2021, which has, been, what is it? What I, I went to sunray high school. So that's what, 3 years, 3. Yeah. 3 years. So Well, let's say for I I I am too good looking for math. So we've got we got a Oh my god. So I've gotta got a I've got a been here. Well, it is. It's it's true. I mean, you saw me struggle with trying to go 2,000 4 minus 2,021 21. Yeah. Okay.
[00:19:43] Unknown:
I carried the 8.
[00:19:46] Duuude-Ron :
So so You you forgot to carry the you're right. You forgot to carry the eights. Carry gotta carry the 8.
[00:19:54] Bryan Goodwin:
And so, but anyhow, I I am when it comes to, to to all that, I've just I've that was my means of being able to help support, support the vets in, in at least some way where because I am a firm believer that when, when veterans are struggling, it is they're struggling because they are, have forced themselves to be alone. There it they are by themselves. There is they have they have isolated. They are are syncing within their own thoughts, And that's when other men, specifically with with men, with the male veterans, when you have other men get together, we have that ability to provide the community to lift them up.
And I that's how I, I have always seen help come in. You can, you could try to tell somebody, Hey, you're gonna get better, Except no. There's no proof that you're gonna get better. The only way that person's going to get better is if he decides and changes the way he thinks about what the problem is. Now can you keep a person changed? No. No. Well, you can if they wanna if they wanna keep the change and they are willing to to apply the thoughts, but a lot that's a, that's easier said than done because we have a habit where we fall into a the old habit of I'm no good or whatever type of of of self defeating thoughts that we end up having where we we start letting the weight of the world pile on, pile on, pile on, pile on till where, yeah, we're we get we've got to, to to distribute that weight one way or another. And that's one of the great things about men. And you're gonna hear me talk about masculinity a lot because I help men. I think a lot of men, in general are suffering because they have been told men bad. Man, white man bad. Any man is is is bad. White man, even worse, that whole line of thinking, except for the fact that you can't separate men.
And we, and they've done such a good job of separating men that now there's there. Men are, are struggling with life. They don't know what to do with themselves. They struggle day in and day out with trying to just make, trying to make make it through the day, doing what they think they're supposed to, but yet at the same time, negating what their what their responsibilities are. Not knowing what the responsibilities are because we have so many single moms not not throwing any shade upon single moms themselves. But it's kinda like how the feminists say men don't know what, what it's like to be a woman. Well, women don't know what it's like to be a man. Exactly.
And so we, so Not even this is a strange man. Saying, hey, I know how to raise my son to be a good man. No. You know how to raise your son to be a nice guy. And a nice guy and a jerk are 2 sides of the same asshole. They're just, I like that. And they're just going, neither one are, are good. You've got a nice guy who is just trying his damnedest to trick you into and into you getting naked. But at the same time, he knows that if he gets you naked, he's got to, he's gotta, to rise to the occasion of being the, you know, of being a, a good lover. And he doesn't even, he doesn't even know, have the confidence in that.
Right. And so nice guys, they, they are afraid of 2 types of emotions, everybody else's and their own. They want to, they want their emotions to be just a one line type of deal. And guys, honestly, I'm the, these shows aren't all gonna be me, pontificating about, about what the, the, the struggles of men. That it's not what that is. This is, is, again, this is kinda my intro. And if anybody knows me, I was inoculated with a phonograph needle. I can't help but talk, and I will talk, and I will talk. I believe, your your brother your your brother-in-law commented on goddamn. He can talk, Kenny. Well,
[00:24:17] Unknown:
well, Brian, it was, I think, after our first event or whatnot, he turned and looked at me and he said, I found someone who could talk more than you. He's like, I did think that was fucking possible, dude. I'm like, yeah, he can tell.
[00:24:35] Bryan Goodwin:
I I've I've I've always, I've always done that. I mean, I've, I could never, whenever I was a kid that I don't know if, if, where y'all grew up, we used to have UIL competitions. And these were, like like, spelling bees in 1st, 2nd, 3rd grade and stuff. You had things like, spelling bee. You had a speech contest. You had storytelling contest. You had reading, or oratory contest. You had all these different types of contests for kids from the first until, about like the 8th grade. There's a big old law. Every year you could get something. They had speeches, they had debate club and, and all this. And one of them was a storytelling contest and what the store, what the objective was. And I, I struggled at this because it was, you would hear a story.
Can you tell the story back? And within the same within the amount of time and still be able to fluff it up enough to where you made it really entertaining? The more entertaining you could make it, the better. The problem is, yeah, I could make it more entertaining, but I also made it 4 times longer than this supposed to be. And so I I I would go in and I'd try out, and they would they would have you, you know, they would have classes or or meetings and stuff, and you would try and you would they would they would try and they would work with it and work with it. And that was the whole thing that teacher was always you're too long. Like, well, I'm just telling the story. I'm making it better. Heck. You know? And I that I had fun with it. It was good. But at the same time, yeah, you're supposed to keep it under, you know, like, 5 minutes or something like that, and I'd come out at 15.
You know? It was just that that's just the way it is. And so yeah. I I'm a yabbber. I've always been a yabbber. I don't know why I'm a yabbber, but, I do talk. But and that's one reason why I went into, into coaching is because heck, man, I can talk. And it's not just but that's the also, the the drawback is because when it comes to coaching, it's not about me talking.
[00:26:45] Unknown:
Right.
[00:26:46] Bryan Goodwin:
It's can I sit and hear what the other person's saying? Right. Right. And and help and let them just do the thought process. And whenever I was going through my certification, yeah, that was the biggest that that was my big deal is I was wanting to to, almost motivate motivate or speak to them, and it's and and the teacher was like, oh, no. No. No. No. Hold up. Hold up. You gotta let the person coach themselves, essentially, is what she finally got around to saying it and it clicks. Oh, okay. I'm here to coach them through their the thought process that they're having.
[00:27:22] Unknown:
Right. Right.
[00:27:23] Bryan Goodwin:
And so that's, that's the, that's the big, the big, the the big cincture,
[00:27:29] Unknown:
so to speak. So, but, yeah, we, anyhow, so I I Hang on. Hang on. Hang on a second. Okay. Hold on a second. Let me ask you. What's what's that last big word you said? Center or or or it's sensuous or well, no. It wasn't sensuous.
[00:27:46] Bryan Goodwin:
I was going to say, I don't recall ever saying sent to us. I've no, I, I fly out of my mouth and, and I,
[00:27:55] Unknown:
Well, that's I I think I think that was one of them because you said it and I'm like, censure is when you shut someone up, basically. Yeah.
[00:28:06] Bryan Goodwin:
You have to censor censure censure yourself. Yeah. Pontificate.
[00:28:12] Unknown:
Well, yeah. No. No. I know I know what that one is. But Yeah. Most of us do do so, but, No. No. The thing hang hang on. No. Hang on. No. No. I'm not saying everyone who, who watches this will will, not be intelligent or whatnot, but they might not know what the word pontificate means
[00:28:32] Bryan Goodwin:
because that's a noble. Okay. So need to write down. It would need to, here's let me grab the book here and I guess we can start making making notes. I got got our first jingle that we're going to have to come up with. Ryan's word of the day is. Antification. Pontification.
[00:28:53] Unknown:
Because you see, it was funny. The first time I heard that, I was I was listening to, Phil Robertson. They they were doing their podcast. I can't now I can't think of it, what it is, but hey, he says that word a lot. He's like, I sit there and I pontificate. And I didn't know what it was. First. In speech tonight? Yep. Yeah. Yeah. And and I just I was like, I had to I had to look it up. So, Ron, do you know what pontificate means?
[00:29:27] Duuude-Ron :
Not a clue. Absolutely 0.
[00:29:31] Unknown:
Pontificate.
[00:29:33] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, I was going to say here here's a, here's a here. We'll use it in another sentence to see if it helps you, helps you understand what it is. The preacher was pontificating on the virtues of giving. Great. Message? Mess speaking, speaking on the topic of.
[00:29:55] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, okay.
[00:29:56] Bryan Goodwin:
Is essentially what it is. It's just it's a grandiose, a grandiose way of talking about a topic.
[00:30:05] Unknown:
Okay. It's it's it's an old word, though. It's from, what, 19th century?
[00:30:11] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. And, my my English teacher from high school would have been would have been so glad proud of me because it took until after I got out of high school to finally fall in love with words. So because we would have yeah. Because, I mean, we would have well, we had a my my high school English teacher's name was Ward Haynes.
[00:30:35] Unknown:
Okay.
[00:30:36] Bryan Goodwin:
And so we had ward words is what the kids all in high school would call. Now all the students there were calling. We knew we were having a word word test. Uh-huh. And so our word word words were just were the vocabulary words. And so and one day I was so proud of myself. I got him. I got him stumped on a word that I used. And it's not it's one that people use today, but they use it more for in the in the in the the the marijuana culture, the cannabis culture. But it was because I was writing, I'd wrote out a story and I was having to tell, tell the story on, in front of the class. And I used, and I had to use an illiterate.
And the alliteration that I used on this was a deep dark dank cave or no, no dungeon, deep, dark dank, dun, deep, dark dank dungeon. And the word word that threw him was the word dank.
[00:31:38] Unknown:
Really?
[00:31:39] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. He's like, what in the what did you just say? And I said deep dark well, I know what deep dark, but what in the heck is a it's dank. Where'd you make that word up at? I was like, I didn't. It means wet. It's me it's a it's a highly moisture Yeah. You know, it's a wet environment. He's like, nah. I was like, yes, sir. And so I rolled it up, and I showed it to him. It was like and he's he's like, well, I'll be. I was like, yeah. So, you know, you wanna write that word out 10 times? And he looked at me and said, don't push it. Because because if you got a word if he if he asked you what a word meant and you couldn't can, get it, he would have you write the, write the word out 10 times with the definition.
Oh my gosh. So, I mean, that's, that's why I now know what jocularity means.
[00:32:28] Unknown:
Okay.
[00:32:29] Bryan Goodwin:
Because jocularity is at inappropriate humor or, or appropriate, humor at an inappropriate time. So jocularity is cutting a, cutting a, a laughing at a fart at a funeral. Right. Right. Okay. That's have a little jocularity there.
[00:32:48] Unknown:
Yeah. That's that's. I was gonna say, I was gonna say military life is jocularity.
[00:32:53] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Yeah. You're always laughing at the most inappropriate time. So, Right. Redundant was another, word word that I ended up having to write a few times. So, yeah, we I was very redundant in my writing of redundancy. So so so,
[00:33:12] Unknown:
so since you've given this, English lesson, and thank you for that, by the way. You know? What about your, later career after you got out of high school?
[00:33:24] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, out of high school, I was going to be the world's greatest photographer for 2 years and then realized that, that life in the nineties is just as hard as life in the 2020, whether the kids these days wanna believe it or not. It it it's it's still, I was I was living off of a very well paid $11 an hour.
[00:33:50] Unknown:
Oh, it was paid by me, dude.
[00:33:52] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Back then it it was except for the fact that if, when you looked at it, I was still living below the poverty level. Right. Because I think poverty level is like 28,000,
[00:34:03] Unknown:
and I wasn't in the nineties?
[00:34:05] Bryan Goodwin:
I think so. Yeah. It might be a it might be 25, but anyhow but 11 $11 an hour, 40, 40 hours a week, because I was not gonna work overtime. I mean, I have a life except the fact that my life was trying to figure out how it was going to make ends meet. So and so I I'm not was that But I ain't doing no damn overtime. Yep. But I ain't doing overtime. There wasn't much. The only time you actually got to make any roll over time was during because I worked at family photo, actually family photo, new generations in, in Amarillo.
And that new generations was a, it was just, is it a port portrait studio? And so you'd have families and seniors and stuff come in and went sit there and you take pictures and pictures of little Johnny, and you try to get them to smile. But you there's a fine line. You had to try to get them to smile, but you didn't go on to get them worked up because if he got worked up, he got silly. He got rambunctious, and then you were gonna give him you had to find a way of getting him to settle down without barking at him because then mom would get mad. Penny or Sears? Neither one. It was called, family photo new generations.
[00:35:18] Unknown:
Okay. Okay.
[00:35:20] Bryan Goodwin:
And it was, it, it had, it had 4 studios. We did in house processing of the film and, and loaded the film, and all that. I mean, we just go in and had a dark room, so we go in and and did color, processing, printed out the, you got your, you got your your proofs within about an hour because, we were still shooting on silver at that time. Digital cameras hadn't quite come out. Well, they were out, but no one bought them because the one, they were they were actually lower quality in the than silver. Yeah. So, but we we'd take pictures and and and all that. And it was great. I ended up getting a couple little side gigs. I'd do a wedding or 2, and I did, did a photo for, for a local, gunslinger group. And, they would dress up in the old west days, and then they'd go out to Palo Duro, and they'd have, have gun fights and see quick draw contests and stuff. Oh, cool. So, yeah, it was it was a lot of fun.
[00:36:22] Unknown:
Hey. You're you're, you you you're $11 an hour. Actually, for a year, that was 22,00880. And Yeah. In 9 this was 1990, you said. Right?
[00:36:38] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Well, 93.
[00:36:41] Unknown:
Okay. Give or take.
[00:36:42] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah.
[00:36:44] Unknown:
But but either way well, okay. For a single person in 92, the poverty level was $7,143 a year, and 28,745 for a family of 9 or more. So,
[00:37:01] Bryan Goodwin:
but a family of 4 that was that somebody somebody did not know how to do their calculations properly because I was struggling to make ends meet. I was having during that time, I was still doing I was that was actually part of what I called my, my, year of starvation. It's not that I wasn't eating, but I was eating Ramen noodles. And that was a treat that was, Hey, I had a few extra bucks, right? So I'm going to, I'm going to to, to to whoop it up and buy some ramen noodles. Most of the time, it was lettuce sandwiches. It was just cheap piece bread. I could buy bread under a under a dollar. I could get ahead of lettuce for under a dollar. I could get that to last a week.
[00:37:52] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. Kind of jam sandwiches.
[00:37:54] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Take 2 pieces of bread and jam them together. Jam them together. There you go. Yeah. My God.
[00:38:01] Unknown:
So But no. I was just, yeah, I was just saying what And I didn't even have a car
[00:38:06] Bryan Goodwin:
at that time either. So I wouldn't even have it. I was driving. I was running around Amarillo on a on a on a Mongoose bike. Back when Mongooses were still quality bikes before they sold out to, to to a Chinese manufacturer and became, what you bought at Walmart. Right. So and I would take it. And, there for a while, I would, whenever I was actually in in college for, for 2 semesters, I did whole 2 whole semesters and then realized, yeah, we're not doing this. I used to live over in Canyon, which is about 20 miles away.
[00:38:41] Unknown:
Mhmm.
[00:38:42] Bryan Goodwin:
And I would I actually spent I did it for a week. And after that, I was just like, screw this. I I can't do this no more. And, I would end up using, my my aunt's car because I used to have a car. I actually, I won a car and then, went to make a right hand turn on a, on a country road. And I looked left and proceeded to make a right hand turn and hit back end of a, of a, of a, Suzuki sidekick. And, yeah, my little Ford Escort,
[00:39:16] Unknown:
did not run right after that. So Oh, damn. I bet not.
[00:39:21] Bryan Goodwin:
So and so that just I could never get the money together, to, to pay for the the, pay for the insurance, the down payment or not the down payment, the premiums for the, for the for the repair. And so ended up, just kinda selling it and, and stuff. And ended I had to actually turn around and and, had other debts that I needed to pay off, and so I hit most of that money went away. And so I after by the time I got whatever I was left was, didn't have enough to really buy a car. So, yeah, for a long time, I was I was, carless in in Amarillo. Still had a I had an apartment, had a roommate and stuff and but, yeah, it was just one of those where it was not a, it was it was it was a rough time, but at the same time, it was you it was a it was a great and wonderful learning experience, man.
Right. And so after that, after 2 years of that, about, about 95, I was just like, alright. We we've gotta we gotta be doing something here. We gotta change, change this up. And so in, in 95 is when I brought the side of the alright. It's time. We need to go ahead and start heading off into the navy. And so 96, I joined up, and they actually, I started out while I was wanting to go air force because I I'd heard that they had the easy lie. And, and, so I was like, hell yeah, man. Let's do the air force. And let's go do the air force, and I had, had a, a kid by then. And she was a big old oops with a really ugly woman. Don't ever do that because that takes the fun out of everything.
And, and so, they'd since I was essentially a parent at that time, they, the, air force said, nope. And so I had to go, alright. Who since I can't I'm not someone I am very adverse to having bullet holes in me. I knew that the army wasn't a good place to go. The marines surely wasn't a place to go. So the next place was the navy. And I was like, alright. Let's see if the navy will take me. And, and sure enough, they did and became an operation specialist and which is also known as a scope dope. I'm the guy, if you ever watch hunt for red October or any other navy movie, and you see the guy who stands behind the clear screen, right, numbers backwards.
That was what that's an operation specialist did that. We're the ones who looked at the surface radar and and and jot itself down on the bridge, on on a piece of plexiglass backwards, which was much to my wife's irritation because I did that so much. I would end up getting off of, off my watch, and I'd go to write her a letter and inadvertently start writing backwards.
[00:42:20] Unknown:
She can read part of it forward and had to use a mirror.
[00:42:23] Bryan Goodwin:
She had to mirror and read what else was what else I wrote. So well, Hey, you could at least write in code that way. Oh, yeah. I can still write backwards. I can read backwards. It's great. It's awesome. So, so all those little Facebook bills of, if you can read this, you're smarter than the average person. It's like, yeah, no shit. I'm smarter than the average person. No. I'm I can write it backwards too. So so anyhow, now that I have taken up a good chunk of the, of the stuff, what else do y'all got? What what's been happening in your world there, Rich? Because that's for because get let's get a little more detail out of you because you are not originally from the states that you're in.
[00:43:04] Unknown:
No. I am not. No. I was, I was actually born and raised in Missouri most of my life and been all over, And I was actually living up there and then I got cold. It got down to like negative 21 with a negative 45 wind chill, foot and a half of snow on the ground. And my ass said, I'm out because I'm retired and I'm like, oh, hell no. So I jumped in my Jeep, threw some clothes in it and I drove to Mississippi. Didn't know anybody for nothing. And, actually, I've met quite a few people here. They're all friendly and, right here on the Gulf. I mean, I drive any farther south, I gotta put pontoons on the on the Jeep. Otherwise, I just I just think, you know. In fact, in fact, yesterday, it was cool. Say, well, all it was.
Did I tell y'all this last night? I don't know if I did. Anyway, I was I was at the VA and, because I, my head been swimming for, like, the past 6 months. Right? Well, the doctor figured it out and said said my freaking crystals in my ear were all out of whack. We all have. Oh, okay. So you've got you've got a little bit of vertigo going on. Yeah. And, and and so she fixed it. And as better, I think I have to go back and and get it again because, I'm still swimming a little bit. But, anyway, yesterday, when I was at the VA, it was crazy. I didn't know it. I was in, I was in doc was doing all these tests, had these goggles on and had to keep my eyes open and she could see if my eyes were open or closed. I couldn't see shit because it was dark. But, anyway, I get down, and I'm leaving. Now it man, it's pouring rain.
It's just pouring rain. I get down to the thing and, I mean, winds I mean, straight line winds blowing really hard. It's like, what the hell? Well, the storm come through and, well, the winds kicked down and everything like that, and I got my jeep and took off. Well, I went down, 90 and, I was going back east. Man, the ocean was coming up on the beach. The waves were just chopping up. It was about halfway on the beach and, the road was was, I mean, covered with water. And at some point It's cold, but warming. Oh, man. I'm telling you. It was, they they said it dumped, like, 3 and a half inches that?
Matter of less than an hour. And the roads were flooded. I'm driving down the road in my jeep. I'm hauling ass about 30, 35 and hit these puddles and throw water up over my Jeep. Every car around me just stopped right where they were, and they were like, we ain't going nowhere. And I just I just kept I just kept running through the puddles and throwing water. It was it was fun. I had fun. So, but, yeah, I just I just said screw it and came down here, didn't know nobody, and found a place to live and having fun. So that's that's about I don't know. I just I got a wild hair. I got I got cold.
[00:46:19] Bryan Goodwin:
God, honey. You're a poor boy.
[00:46:21] Duuude-Ron :
All because you are old and cold.
[00:46:26] Unknown:
Right. Right. Because, yeah, when it's cold, that boy here don't move. Oh, yeah? No. I don't. No. I do not. No. I'm not.
[00:46:37] Duuude-Ron :
I will never go back to my hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska.
[00:46:43] Unknown:
Oh, no. No. No. Yeah. There's entirely
[00:46:47] Duuude-Ron :
too much white air that sticks on the ground for too long of a time. I don't do snow. I'll watch it on TV. But as far as shoveling it, no. Now driving in it with a Jeep, that's fun.
[00:47:11] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. That's fun. But but say the thing is recovery
[00:47:15] Duuude-Ron :
getting the recovery gear out of the Jeep because, well, cars don't fare well in a snowbank.
[00:47:24] Bryan Goodwin:
That's fun. I had too much fun.
[00:47:27] Duuude-Ron :
As well as a jeep can fare a lot better in a snowbank. So, yeah, that was a lot of fun.
[00:47:36] Unknown:
See, the thing is, though, I can't watch snow even on TV. I get pissed.
[00:47:44] Bryan Goodwin:
I'm sorry. Why is it so white? No.
[00:47:47] Duuude-Ron :
I get mad. Old and cold.
[00:47:50] Unknown:
Right. Right.
[00:47:51] Bryan Goodwin:
No. I, I, I mean, degrees outside. He's watching a Christmas story. Just fuming. Goddamn it. There's too much cold white on there. Right. Or
[00:48:01] Unknown:
or or or that's like that's that's like if I'm playing my, PS 5 and there's a game and it's got a it's got some scenes in the game. You begin your red dead redemption. You're just your nemesis, ain't it? Oh my God. That game pissed me off. Took me, like, 2 fucking weeks to get through that. And I was cold the whole time.
[00:48:22] Bryan Goodwin:
I would know. Yeah. I know. Hey. But isn't that cool, though? Where I'm at. Yeah. Do you do you notice the, the horse testicles when you were playing that red dead 2 while they were in the cold?
[00:48:33] Unknown:
Really? Do you think I'm gonna look at horse testicles? No. I didn't notice my horse testicles. You've gotta watch it just for the horse testicles, cause honestly.
[00:48:41] Bryan Goodwin:
What go up and go up and hang around in the cold area, get up in the, into the grizzlies and hang around there for a little bit. Angle your camera down. Look at, look at the danglies and then send your horse all the way down to, down to Lemoyne. And then again, look, they actually drop when it's hot. When they're running around the cold, they're all packed up. But whenever it's hot, they they go they go to dangling. Oh my god. The details in that gay and yeah, guys. Another gamer. So we've got 2 gamers, and we get a we were able to talk about that and talk about gaming.
Rich and and Ron, they're able to sit around, and they're able they they talk Jeeps, a lot. And then me and and me and Ron, we set set around and we talked about, roller skating. I didn't do much roller skating. I was nowhere near as as, as as, fanatical about roller skating. Because I spent most of my, most of my time making sure that I, my, my tail end was thoroughly bruised. So so that was my same here.
[00:49:51] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I was talking about roller skating when I was growing up because my mom, we're and we're talking very early in the conversation about single moms. My my mom was a single mom, and she worked at the skating rink. So I got to go roller skating, and I spent more hours a week on roller skates at the rink than I did in school on a 5 day school day week.
[00:50:27] Unknown:
That's cool, dude. That's cool, man. That's called fun.
[00:50:32] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Oh, yeah. And that was back in the day when the roller rink was the place to be.
[00:50:43] Unknown:
What is that? The eighties?
[00:50:45] Duuude-Ron :
No. That was, in seventies.
[00:50:47] Unknown:
Okay. Late seventies or mid seventies?
[00:50:52] Duuude-Ron :
Mid seventies.
[00:50:53] Unknown:
Yes, folks. We are old and ancient. We're not gonna lie, but we don't care.
[00:50:59] Duuude-Ron :
Yep. And
[00:51:00] Bryan Goodwin:
the roller skated roller skated with froze that would that would turn 2 seconds after they turn their head. Sit there and turn
[00:51:11] Duuude-Ron :
packed on that roller skating rink. Man, you could barely move. There were so many people, but that was the place to be. Oh, yeah. Love those days.
[00:51:25] Bryan Goodwin:
So you've got now let's let's go ahead and let's let's look at a little bit of that. We'll that'll be another segment we need to come up with. 1 is Ron's rink. Yeah, guys. Audience, we're since we're still kind of, you're kind of getting a a backstage pass to to our whole line of thinking. So coming up with different, different little, little fun segments and stuff that we may cough up from time to time. I was thinking, like, having Rich's Ron's, or Rich's, ham sandwich for, for whenever he wants to talk. He gets into, talking about, his ham radio. So Yeah. And that's and that's not just sandwich. That's that's samich.
Samich. It's a m m I c a. Samich. So Samich. Right. So and then we got Ron's rink for, that. And I don't know. We'll come up with something, but it's something with the Jeep topics. So
[00:52:23] Unknown:
Dude, me. Oh, yeah. Me and root beer are having a problem tonight.
[00:52:30] Duuude-Ron :
I'll tell him. Why you wanna so why do you wanna bring dude into your root beer problem?
[00:52:36] Unknown:
Because because you you're dude, man. You're you're you're just dude.
[00:52:43] Duuude-Ron :
So okay. Enlight me with your root beer problem. I do. I do all that.
[00:52:49] Bryan Goodwin:
I'm glad you're the one that asked, Ron, because I'm, there I'm scared to have asked that. Like, oh, okay. Because he doesn't have any ice cream. Well, if you because if you ask an old man, and he you hear him say I'm having problems with some type of food product. There's probably something smelly going on too. I don't know which end it's coming out of, but there sounds like there's some type of intestinal distress going on. I don't know what's going what's, like, what's what this is about, but you're you're the one that opened up that can of worms, Ron. I'm gonna let him, just dish it out over to you.
[00:53:26] Unknown:
No. No. No. It just it just normally normally, I can I can sit here, like, like, on our calls and, like, drink water, drink root beer, drink coffee, drink whatever, and and make it through just fine? And then and then after we get done, I I have to go to use the bathroom. This is the 2nd time since we started this that that that I've had to turn my mic off and go drain the main vein. You know? So
[00:53:54] Bryan Goodwin:
Root beer is root beer the the rent on the root beer is expensive this this, time.
[00:54:01] Unknown:
It's very expensive.
[00:54:03] Bryan Goodwin:
And root beer ain't cheap. I ain't gonna lie. Root beer is not cheap. Oh, no. I was noticing that it looked like it was just kind of the generic root beer. It's not a it's not the high quality barks.
[00:54:13] Unknown:
So Oh, oh, I love barks, but I do too. They want 799, a 12 pack down here for it. A 12 pack? 12 pack, dude. 799.
[00:54:23] Bryan Goodwin:
God bless. And
[00:54:26] Unknown:
this this one here is is the best choice.
[00:54:29] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. This was the Walmart brand.
[00:54:31] Unknown:
It was the 549.
[00:54:34] Bryan Goodwin:
Gee. I wonder I guess guess the root beer, plant is, is getting a bit scarce.
[00:54:40] Unknown:
I guess. I don't know, man. It's but I don't buy it all the time and just buy it once in a while. But a 12 pack 12 pack normally last me about a week, week and a half.
[00:54:50] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, okay.
[00:54:51] Unknown:
Because I see. Well, hella got it, man. 549 for a 12 pack. That's expensive.
[00:54:59] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep. Louds Shit. Air is getting more expensive.
[00:55:04] Duuude-Ron :
What's that? Is that better?
[00:55:05] Unknown:
Yeah.
[00:55:08] Bryan Goodwin:
Harris doesn't mean it's it's it's charging us.
[00:55:11] Duuude-Ron :
Hey. Yeah. I'm surprised they have not figured out a way yet with this. What are we in right now? Inflation?
[00:55:22] Unknown:
Oh, I don't know. Oh, yeah. Well, we're in the middle. We're in the middle of
[00:55:29] Duuude-Ron :
recession. Whatever it is, we're in the middle of nobody has enough fucking money
[00:55:35] Unknown:
for food. Well, that's true.
[00:55:38] Duuude-Ron :
It is fucking ridiculous.
[00:55:41] Unknown:
Food's expensive. I ain't gonna lie.
[00:55:44] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah.
[00:55:45] Duuude-Ron :
Stupid expensive. Yeah. From Yeah. From how long ago?
[00:55:51] Unknown:
What? That's
[00:55:52] Duuude-Ron :
a change of the presidency.
[00:55:54] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's for damn sure it is.
[00:55:58] Duuude-Ron :
That's that's the only Yep. Well, it stage of the president. They're
[00:56:03] Bryan Goodwin:
a lot of the reason that it's getting to be as as expensive as it is. I mean, you look at what they're what they're doing with just beef itself. I mean, you've got you've got all, all 3, of the, slaughter, companies kinda joining together. 1, they're trying to come up with their own form, of fake meat, but then you also just well, like the, the panhandle fire, the the, smokehouse creek, fire that they, that they had go through and burnt up at like a 1000000 acres or whatever it was. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I remember that. Yeah. Well, that, that killed off a lot of cattle that killed off a huge amount of cattle.
And those are CA those are farmers and ranchers that aren't going to be able to come back. Right. Right. And that's because of all the ESG bullshit that they're doing. The banks are not, because the banks aren't allowed to give money to them because cows fart or whatever. And, you know, cows are contributing to global warming somehow, though, the actual saliva in cows when they bite off the grass actually has a hormone that helps the grass grow back faster.
[00:57:19] Unknown:
Oh, wow. Now, now the thing is, I I'll hold on here. But they're but the people are people are,
[00:57:26] Bryan Goodwin:
yeah. We're we've lost a lot of the, lot of the the ranchers that are in the Texas pant, Texas and Oklahoma, area.
[00:57:35] Unknown:
Well, yeah. And say and say that's a sad thing. And and basically what is fucking government wants to get up in it, which which they've actually been up in it. They just wanna control more of it and and, and, control the prices and, make all the profits in that gum self.
[00:57:52] Bryan Goodwin:
I mean, that's that's You've got what's his name? Larry Fink, which is just the all, if they're in a better comic book name for a villain, Larry Fink, who is the head of, the head of black, which is the largest, investment firm out there. Has actually even said that they need, their aim is to commoditize the cattle. They're actually wanting to go in and see. Hey. How many heads of cattle do you have? Now the government wants to thinks you've got too many cattle. You're you're creating too much c o 2. You need to get rid of some of your herd.
[00:58:33] Unknown:
I mean, they're wanting to be able to control it to that granular level. Okay. Hold on. Hold on now. I mean, yeah. Okay. This is something, this is something I never understood, and I don't think anybody can actually put my mind at ease about it. If if everyone is worried about how a cow fucking farts over here in the US, Don't don't freaking cows fart over in China, South America, and Argentina. I mean, I mean, who cares if a cow farts over here in the US because it's not gonna have an impact on the freaking ozone.
[00:59:06] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, because we are, we have more money.
[00:59:10] Unknown:
We are more Do we have more money? China. What you wanna bet China has more money in us. You know, China owns China has most of our, has most of our our debt. Yes. Yeah.
[00:59:24] Bryan Goodwin:
And but at the same time, they're actually they're struggling. Really? They're they're oh, yeah. They're they we have the nay the the the world itself, all these all these, like, the world economic forum and all, and all these dip wads who think they they know know all their know all that needs to be known. And, you know, you have, what is the, modern monetary theory where it's essentially Kiese and, theory of you can spend yourself out of debt. Type of type of backwards ass thinking that you've got what do you think Joe Biden's been doing for the last 3 years? Speaker 3: Inflation. They, they think inflation is good. It's like, oh no, it's good to have inflation. No.
[01:00:11] Unknown:
Yeah. That's why. It's like, oh, oh, no. It's just a good news. That's why that's why single moms can't buy formula for their kids. Right. That's why exactly.
[01:00:21] Bryan Goodwin:
And they've their their excuses. Oh, well, debt took off too quickly. Oh, no. The fact that we are not debt, but, inflation took off too fast. It's like, no. Inflation anytime is bad. Inflation is theft. Yeah, it is. Because your $1 that you think you have is actually worth, you know, 75¢. And so you now, instead of having to spend a buck, $2 for, for a Coke, you're now actually having to spend 3, 3.50. And so, no, it's, it's, it's a, it's a form of theft. I mean, this is, bad of a theft is taxation. I'm I'm a firm believer in that. Right. Right. You know, because everybody thinks that well, and and the fact that, and I'm no fan of, of Google. I'm no fan of apple. I'm of any of the big tech corporations out there, but, they're, they're starting to go after apple right now because why? Because they're too good. They made too good of a product and the, the Sherman ads. Are you jealous?
Everybody else is. Yeah. They're, they're complaining about the fact that they charge too much money for their phone, that other, other companies can't have their store in, in the apple, ecosystem. They wouldn't be able to bypass because apple charges 30%.
[01:01:54] Unknown:
Right. Right. Yeah. I know that.
[01:01:56] Bryan Goodwin:
So if you're selling something through apple, well, apple's going to charge you or it's gonna take right off the top 30% of your of your, and they just got finished getting sued over in over in European Union. And so they're like, oh, alright. Fine. And they're doing the bare minimum of what they're supposed to do, which is giving a really crappy experience, which is great. Right. They did the same thing with Google and where Google, they had too good of a product.
[01:02:25] Unknown:
Right.
[01:02:26] Bryan Goodwin:
Their, their advertising model, the, or, which is how they make money was too good. And everybody's bitching. Well, there's, they're, they're doing, they're advertising their stuff over mine. Well, yeah. It's their damn shit, man. If you wanna have your own. If you wanna be get your stuff advertised over Google's, then make your own damn search engine that's better than Google.
[01:02:50] Unknown:
Right. Right.
[01:02:52] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. So, and that's the, that's the, the main complaint that I've had even with with, back when, they decided they wanted to try to break up Microsoft. Yeah. The same thing. Microsoft was too damn good. Yeah. Microsoft had, and it, it wasn't because of the browser. Everybody knows it wasn't because of the browser. That's the excuse. They said, well, like you, they, get internet explorers on there automatically. It was on there automatically any afterwards anyhow. Right. But what did everybody do? They would go and download Firefox. They would go and they'd download you know, eventually, it went
[01:03:29] Unknown:
to Chrome. And opera and start and opera. And it was because all kinds internet Explorer
[01:03:35] Bryan Goodwin:
was crappy. We knew that, but brand new internet users were just going well, there's internet Explorer that works for me. And that did, it did the job. It did the job very poorly until people realized, oh, wait a minute. Firefox runs a little better and
[01:03:51] Unknown:
they discovered it. Well, it's and you see something else something else too. And and I mean, you know, if I'm wrong, say something. But Apple, Microsoft, and Google all built their shit from the ground up.
[01:04:06] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. And they made them really goddamn good. And And and and now everybody's pissed because, oh my God, you've got all this. We can't compete. You've got a monopoly. Well, monopolies are actually a good thing. Yeah. I'm one of those. And I am a, of course, I am a firm believer as to what I am Rand said about what capitalism is. If you were to make a Laissez Fair Capitalistic Society, you would have, you would still have highs. You would still have crashes. You would still have depressions. You would have recessions. You'd have all that, but they would recover faster.
You would have monopolies. Naturally, you would have monopolies. And that's actually a good thing because that means that the person is doing it the cheapest and is selling it for the cheapest possible. Right. And you have a lot of people going around. No. Well, they're, they, they raise their prices and the moment they raise their prices in comes a competitor, undercutting them. And so they have to low they naturally have to keep their prices low. But when the government comes in and goes, Hey, now you've, you've gotta act this way. Like the Sherman act, the Sherman act is, if you read, Atlas shrugged, the Sherman act is is in there. That is one of the anti doggy dogs out there.
[01:05:27] Unknown:
Okay.
[01:05:28] Bryan Goodwin:
And it is the reason that we now have the reason why, like, Ma Bell, the, the telephone company, bell telephone. Right. Was, was a, a natural monopoly. It was created by the government. And that is why all the way up into the seventies, you had the black bowling ball telephone. That were heavy and that, and you didn't actually own that telephone. You rented it. It's like the, like the cable boxes.
[01:06:04] Unknown:
Right.
[01:06:05] Bryan Goodwin:
Right. You, you actually had to rent the telephone to be able to talk to people. And it wasn't until they did busted up the, the, the telephone companies busted up Ma Bell and took away their opportunity to hold the to hold that that extreme. And all of a sudden took all the the telephone, companies broke them up into little bit of kingdoms where you still yours might have southwestern bell is gonna be your telephone, provider for, you know, for the Amarillo area.
[01:06:40] Unknown:
Right.
[01:06:42] Bryan Goodwin:
Which then then eventually it it crumbled and went under and it, went to winds. I think Windstream has it now. I don't know who all it bounced around to from there. But then all the prices started going down be because, you, in introduced competition, but you, we wouldn't even had to worry about that if the government off right off the bat, didn't say, hey, this is, you're the only one who could actually have a, do the telephone. And I think their whole, their whole deal deal was, you know, because they put up the lines.
[01:07:20] Unknown:
That very well could be.
[01:07:21] Bryan Goodwin:
And I'll, I get that. But then again, you could also rent, you know, they, he could have rented the lines out. He could have made a lot more money if he had actually right. Had tried to be the best instead of just trying to hold a, a monopoly. And because when the government gets involved, that gets the monopoly that everybody's afraid of.
[01:07:43] Unknown:
Right.
[01:07:44] Bryan Goodwin:
That's the monopoly that, oh, there's no innovation. Well, no shit. There wasn't any innovation. We had invisible telephones. We had phones. You could see the guts on and that lit up after, after they busted it up. You know, we had the Snoopy phone and the Mickey Mouse phone and all the great phone. The phone Yeah. The the lip phone and The football phone. Yeah. The football phone. I mean, we had all these great and wonderful phones in the late seventies, and all of them were eighties. I mean, oh my god. The eighties were the best when it come to telephones. Oh, yeah. Yeah. All of a sudden the prices of telephones dropped and not all the kids started having their own phone in the, in their bedroom. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That was, I just kind of took the fun out of, out of, you know, taking the phone and stretching it across the house to, to the bathroom.
But at the same time okay. Hell yeah. That was, that was awesome. But at the same time, you know, we had I, me and me and my sister had a phone. I couldn't tell you what the phone number was anymore. It's not like we talked to anybody. Everybody I knew in, in the town that I lived in, you didn't have, you know, we could call doom us. That was the only other town we could call. That was a local phone call. Right. Everybody else was long distance. And I wanted to call border. That was a long distance call. I I wanted to call Perinton. It was a long distance call. If I wanted to call Amoral to, to do a, to to do a a a shout out to my girlfriend for the moment on the radio, z 93, Texas best, rock, rock, rock, which was just, that was the station everybody listened to unless you were a banger. And I think it was, 1079.
There for a while, it was a it was a pop station also, but then, 1079 turned into a into a hard rock station. Unless you were the cool kid, and then you discovered, FM 90, which was the college station's, college's radio station, and they played just different types of music. And Friday night at, at 10 o'clock 9 or 10 o'clock was, was, dead end street, and that was where all the really good music came out. So Oh, wow. Oh, yeah. You got to learn about really good music like mucky pup and, and 3 dead gophers. That was a that was a good song. Okay.
[01:10:00] Duuude-Ron :
All right. Sounds like the sounds like the doctor Demento show.
[01:10:05] Bryan Goodwin:
They did. They had doctor Bento on Saturday mornings. Really? So yeah. Yep. You got, poisoning pigeons in the park and, and, kick to the boot to the head and, and and all those greats. So the Scotsman, another great, another great, song. So, oh, heck yeah. It's where I first got introduced to, to weird Al.
[01:10:31] Unknown:
Oh my gosh. That that's crazy.
[01:10:35] Duuude-Ron :
Mine was KRFX 1035. 1035.
[01:10:41] Unknown:
Mine was 967 KCFM.
[01:10:44] Bryan Goodwin:
And believe it or not, they're still rolling with the Oh, really? Okay. Yeah. Well, z 93 is 2, except I don't, actually, I don't even know if they still call it z 93. I think it I know that they'll play the same music. It's more hip hop now, but
[01:10:59] Duuude-Ron :
but, there Everything is hip hop except for, you know, the stuff that we like to listen to, then you have to get theories or, what is the other one that I have? Hold on. Iheartradio with the, company.
[01:11:20] Bryan Goodwin:
So here here's a here's a something to help the younger kids and younger folks who are listening. When you were growing up, did y'all have a radio station that was called the cat?
[01:11:31] Unknown:
Oh, the cat.
[01:11:33] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Usually spelled with k, it was k a t. Yeah. That that is something it would always be it seemed like every town I went to that had a radio station like Dallas. Dallas had a cat. They also had the zoo, which was a, a great rock station. Oh my god. The rock station. Yeah. Yeah. Dallas was the base. That one in Dallas. Yeah. Yeah. I remember that one. But there was a, there was always seemed to be, everybody had a radio station that was called the cat.
[01:12:02] Unknown:
Oh, wow.
[01:12:03] Bryan Goodwin:
And, so I was just I didn't I and I was just kinda checking to see if y'all where y'all grew up at, if y'all had a cat also. Because that's just kinda been one of those things that I've always kinda been fascinated by was, the whole cat. Ours was, like, 10 49, 1048, 7, something like that. It was is that on the farther end of the of the dial? It wasn't quite the middle.
[01:12:31] Duuude-Ron :
But No. We up in Lincoln, Nebraska, we didn't have the cat. Okay.
[01:12:37] Unknown:
Well, we,
[01:12:39] Duuude-Ron :
the only However, you just talked about, the zoo. Yeah. Man, that is an excellent song. And who sings the zoo?
[01:12:54] Bryan Goodwin:
I didn't Yeah. I do. I I I would Fail with that trivia.
[01:13:02] Duuude-Ron :
Well I'll get back with you on that. Okay. Scorpions scorpions things the zoo.
[01:13:08] Unknown:
Oh,
[01:13:09] Bryan Goodwin:
I don't think I heard that one. Oh, that's that's the one I haven't heard. Yeah. Oh, you're gonna have to get on Scorpions
[01:13:16] Duuude-Ron :
and the zoo. Excellent song.
[01:13:22] Unknown:
So Yeah. No. I'm I remember as close as I can come to anything resembling a cat is 933, the fox. Ah, okay. So, yeah. No. That's, I mean, yeah. As far as yeah. Cat. I
[01:13:39] Bryan Goodwin:
and Oh, god. I just remembered something.
[01:13:42] Unknown:
But
[01:13:42] Bryan Goodwin:
Me and a friend, we used to sit around and we used to make this, and I couldn't even remember how to make it, but we used to drink, make this concoction from time to time Whenever I had the ex had, everything paid off, and I had, you know, even had a really good good paycheck where I had, like, maybe 5, $10 extra. Mhmm. We'd sit down and split as, share, me and our roommate, we would share, put, our money together and we would buy the ingredients for something that we called moose piss. And all I really remember is that it's something with Kool Aid or not Kool Aid, but lemonade Mickey's big mouth beer.
[01:14:21] Unknown:
You know, the Greek.
[01:14:22] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Yeah. And we've that, and there was a couple other, items that were thrown in there and we would sit around and we would drink this thing, this crap until we would just be just slobber and drunk. But we had fun. We came up with the best radio station and all the plugs for it. And it was K O C K the cock. And we could wake up in the morning with the big cock, You know? And we had all of these taglines for it, man. I mean, that we it's like, oh, yeah. I mean, granted, we would never be able to do it because I know the FCC would go, no. Yeah. Right. Yeah.
Yeah. But at the same time, it was just oh my god. It was so it's so much fun because we were just like, yeah. Yeah. We got the we could we could have the, the the traffic cock or the traffic you know, it would be, you know, a rooster would be kind of our part of our logo, but, yeah, we had we had the, the traffic rooster out there, and he was give he would give us all the, all the all the the traffic details of what what's happening in Emeril Right. Just never anything. Because even even now, the Emeril has traffic where I 40 will slow down to maybe 40 miles an hour and people just lose their ever living mind.
Really? Because the traffic never actually stopped. Granted, Amaro's got the longest damn street lights in the history of man. Right. I swear that I swear you age. You know? Mhmm. You feel yourself age by the time the light changes. You've got all of a sudden, you start driving. You're like, oh god. I've got a pain in my hip. Why is this fun? So
[01:16:02] Unknown:
I've been sitting there for 6 years.
[01:16:05] Bryan Goodwin:
It's been 6. And, and I, I actually am fully understand if you don't step on the gas, the moment that puppy turns green and people honk at you, they know they're gonna be there for another 2 years and they do not wanna wait that long. And so I get it. I'm like, I hear a beep most of the time. I I'm I'll depending on what town I'm in. Because if if I'm, like, in in a in a rougher part a rougher town, I won't do this just because I I do I like to live. And so, but other places, if I am feeling in a, in a pissy mood or I'm just feeling extra snarky, somebody honks at me. I actually will throw it into park and look out the window and go. Yeah.
And, and they'll honk at you again. And I'm like, if they honk again, then I usually will stand out and kinda go over there and go, you needing something? And I've I've only been able to do it twice because most of the time, my wife's with me and she's like, do not get your ass out of it. And so I just okay. Yes, ma'am. But the 2 times that I've had is, like, one guy probably wasn't really the smartest because the guy started getting out too, and I was just like, well, what are you needing? He's like, need you to go. I was like, well, why are you honking at me then? Don't get my attention. I'm trying to figure out what you were needing. Thought you knew me or something.
But Oh, shit. Like I said, I've only been in my I went to church. Yeah. I've only been in all my life, I've only done it twice. And, and and so far, I've still got all fingers and toes, and I haven't been aerated in any weird places. So so it good thing. Yeah. Yeah. It's a good thing. And but there like I said, there there was one guy who, I if I if if, if he was in if he'd had any, today nowadays, though, might you know, it might be okay over Mississippi, but, it, there there's some places around around in the bigger cities. No. I'm not about to do that because they're more likely to have some, someone come running up to you with a baseball bat and then Well, yeah. Yeah. Well, and I keep seeing, I've seen plenty of videos of, of people who are actually road raging and they come dumping out of there and then they instantly get dropped.
So so people are, people are carrying because lot of lot of idiots running around these days. Yeah. There is. Lot of people who are caught in their own emotions yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm I'll blame the school system personally. So Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Which pisses teachers off. That's, that's the big I'm I I love the teachers. I've got I I'm still I, not great at the Facebook friends, but I still, Facebook friends. It was like my 1st grade teacher. My my English teacher, which was, another my, my lower level English teacher was, missus Parsons.
Or no? No. Ward Ward Haynes was the freshman sophomore, and I think missus Parsons came in afterwards because I think he retired shortly after that. Well, say I can't I can't remember. Anyhow, I know she was she was English. She was an English teacher. Maybe just been a literature. But anyhow, she was, she was one of those who taught me one of the biggest lessons out there. And that was, if she said something and you got offended, her catch phrase was build a bridge and get over it. Right. And to watch all of these high school kids just gets kind of incensed over it, but not being able to say anything because, well, she's right.
Yeah. You were just like, oh, well, oh my god. Do you hear that? And, you know, and this is, you know, late eighties, early nineties. I graduated in 92. And so she it was around the, you know, about 80, 1990 to 92 in that area. She it was she would tell you, just build a bridge and get over it and go do your work. And everybody would just be, oh, what? And, you know, what did she say type of thing? And just, it was just, it's one of the best ones that I still actually use today because I mean, there are teachers, they're great. But sadly, these days, there's a lot of teachers who aren't teaching for the sake of teaching. They're teaching they're they're there just for the paycheck. They don't really give a crap of what they're teaching the kids. Well, and As a matter of fact, most of them are teaching kids stuff that doesn't need to be taught in school. Exactly. Exactly. That's exactly what it's gonna say. It's like, it's like
[01:20:54] Unknown:
learn. Yeah. I mean, I mean, teach these kids, but you see, the thing is they freaking went to college to be a teacher and look at how they were taught. Yeah. So so they're just they're just going along with the, you know, cycle.
[01:21:12] Bryan Goodwin:
Right. And like great, the late great brush Limbaugh said, they were just a bunch of school skulls full of mush. Right. And and, yeah, we, even at my whenever I was in college and, heard that, and I was just like, oh my god, what the goal of this? You know, I would get mad at the fact of it of him calling it it I was taking it so personally that he was calling me a skull full of mush. And I was like, I'm I'm I'm studying. I'm working hard. And, you know, it all it takes after your great awakening, which you're, everybody's great awakening is typically around the age of 26. That's when you kinda start figuring out who you are.
Yeah. And you kinda figure out what your what your standards are, what your values are. And that's also where you hear the pop. And the pop is when you that's the sound that, one hears when they successfully dislodge their head from their ass. Yep. And it's about 26 when all of a sudden you're going, oh, damn it. My mom and dad were actually a little smarter than I thought they were. Well, well, well, well, no. I'm gonna hold it. You say 26, but I was probably a little longer. I was probably closer to 30 one when I heard the pop. So you know? It's just it it that's the average. Some is I've I've there's some people who hear the pop when it's about 21, and others hear they don't hear the pop until they're, like, 58. So it's you know?
[01:22:37] Unknown:
Hey. Hey, Ron. Ron, do you wanna weigh on this? Do you wanna weigh on it? Go ahead. What's what's that, dude? What's that, dude?
[01:22:47] Duuude-Ron :
Dude. What do I wanna weigh in on?
[01:22:51] Bryan Goodwin:
Any of what we've been talking about. Anything.
[01:22:53] Unknown:
I mean, the teachers head, your head popping out your ass, you know, whatever.
[01:23:00] Duuude-Ron :
It's how good Loud and thunderous kaboom. Kinda like Marvin kinda like Marvin and the Martian. Marvin the Marvin the Martian. What happened to the earth shattering kaboom? Yeah. There was supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom. Bet you. Looney Tunes. Yes. Then there was the The plutonium
[01:23:23] Bryan Goodwin:
p 38 space modulator?
[01:23:26] Duuude-Ron :
Yes. Yeah. You know, it's a Yeah. I can't remember when my head popped out of my ass. I think it might have been last week, maybe. No. Maybe yesterday. I don't know. What? Maybe 2 weeks ago? Possibly. Okay. It it it hasn't been too long ago. Oh, okay. After I think it was after our retired. But
[01:23:57] Unknown:
Dude, you're still working. You haven't retired yet.
[01:24:01] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I know. I can't freaking afford to retire, but, you know, that's my life. My I should say my dumpster fire of a life. But, you know Well, you do know that,
[01:24:12] Bryan Goodwin:
that that, in there is no word for retirement for in the Hebrew language. Right?
[01:24:21] Duuude-Ron :
Well, okay.
[01:24:23] Bryan Goodwin:
And the reason why is because they there. There was no reason to 1. Well, 1, when men retire, typically they only last 5 years after retirement. And then they die. The reason is that's probably what who died? Most men, when they retire, they don't, they, they don't have a purpose. They, they retire thinking that they're just gonna be able to just sit around and do nothing. And that is a guaranteed way of that's just a slow suicide.
[01:24:54] Unknown:
Yes, it is.
[01:24:55] Bryan Goodwin:
And so that's why you see so many older men who are still alive, who go and work at Walmart, even if it's just as a greeter.
[01:25:04] Unknown:
Get your shit and get out. Get your shit. Yeah. So Welcome to Walmart. Get your shit and get out.
[01:25:11] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Get out as soon as I see your receipt.
[01:25:15] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, fuck that. I just want Oh, yeah. Oh, no. And that's something me and my wife don't do. We won't we don't play the recipient. Well, sometimes we will.
[01:25:24] Duuude-Ron :
Why? You know? Okay. You can't trust me to be my own cashier?
[01:25:28] Bryan Goodwin:
Exactly. If you're wanting me, if you're expecting to try to please me, because I'm now doing a self checkout thing that you wanted me to do, That's your bad, man. That's on you. Oh, yeah. I I I personally still go through the, through the, the other registers. I like to have the other person check out because I like to make sure that the other person is being paid for what they're being paid for. Right. Right. Oh, I no. No. I don't I don't use a self checkout
[01:25:56] Unknown:
unless I don't
[01:25:57] Duuude-Ron :
have a choice. You know? Right. And But at the same time the bad and the bad thing about it is is I did not get either a w 2 or a 1099 from Walmart. That's right.
[01:26:09] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. For big checker. Yeah. They they essentially have got you got you for free labor. And
[01:26:16] Unknown:
so if they if they want to go check your receipt, check your receipt to make sure you didn't steal from them. Yeah. Now kiss my hat. And that's and that's why me and my wife both, if we're, if,
[01:26:30] Bryan Goodwin:
if, if there is a line of people who are waiting to check out, which is usually around the Christmas time, They'll go, can we see res, see a receipt? I'll hand the receipt and I'll just keep walking. And I don't even know that. You get from the people are what the hell you don't don't you what you I don't care if they had a receipt. I'm I bought my food. If I eat it and I don't like it, it's, am I gonna be able to return the turd to you and go, I want my money back. No. So it doesn't do me any good. Right. So, you know, it does if I if I sell it out, I will scoop your turd up and throw it in a in a in a in a Walmart bag and take it back. Take it back to him. It's like, damn, that stuff did not fill me up at all. It ran right through me, man.
I I want my money back. It didn't do the job. And no. So you were you you gotta you're gonna have to, you know, it, it doesn't do any good to keep the receipt. Now if we're going through and we've got Christmas bot and stuff, then yeah. Okay. We're gonna hold on to the receipt and we'll just go ahead and stand there and, because if we've got a bunch of un unwrapped or, unbagged stuff, I get it. Where did you just take those bags, but am I going to spend the time to bag up every damn thing and somewhere in the middle, not bag something and, and try to steal it in front of the, of the register lady?
[01:27:51] Unknown:
Well, well, the thing is, what about what about the the the the 500 cameras that they have in Walmart? Oh, yeah. And and and they still think they have to put someone at the exit door. Oh, I need to see your receipt. You you're gonna
[01:28:07] Bryan Goodwin:
have to I know you don't have a, don't have a purpose and that they're trying to find something for you to do. And god bless you. I mean, there's one guy. I think his name's Kevin. And, and so I've gotten around to talking with him a little bit. But, but most of the time, I we go through he's like, if there's no one there and he's just kinda standing there and he's like, hey. Can I see your receipt? And I'm like, oh, sure. Yeah, man. Here. Here. I'll show it to you. Because I can usually tell what set them off. Like, if I've got a big ass bag of dog food sitting underneath the, underneath the basket, I have forgotten to pay the for the dog food before. Well, okay. Oh, yeah. And and that's usually what they're looking. Actually, I don't think they they look at dog food, 15, 20 butt. No.
You haven't bought dog food in a while, have you? No. Dog food is typically a £40 bag of dog food cost typically anywhere from 40 to $80 these days. Oh my god.
[01:29:06] Unknown:
No way way.
[01:29:09] Bryan Goodwin:
Now you can get, you can get the Purina, you know, and that's still $30. Oh, wow. For a 40 pound bag. That's crazy. That's, you know, you're getting the the the shit, scraps of of the shit scraps. Right. That because this is the stuff even the premium dog food people are going, ew. That's that's crap. Oh, that's bad. That's it. It's the stuff the navy won't even beat. They're going, yeah. We're not gonna give that, you know Oh, damn. And then they We've had stuff like that. No. No. I mean, that we've had, we've had stuff where from, you know, I literally have people think that this is a, a joke, but there are times when I was in, part of the stocking party where, while we were out at sea, they would, we would be doing, have restocking, drills where we'd pull up alongside of a tender, and they would break and send over all the groceries and stuff Mhmm. Which is a shit ton of groceries because we got 5,000 people on on board. Right. And so we would have to what all of us lower, lower ranked guys would all be part of the, of the stocking party, and we would go down. And from the freezers on up to the, up to the hangar bay, we would all just start passing, passing frozen goods stuff down.
And part of it was there'd be times where you would see, you know, like, department, California Department of Corrections types of food or like boxes of meat, and it would be, you know, it would they would have rejected on it. So they would send it on over to the, to the army. And what it was, it's just it it a lot of times, it was just some type of meat, like, hamburger meat or whatever. Right. Why they rejected it? Maybe it had too much fat. I don't know. But it was just always, we always just found it really fascinating that we even we got we got the hand off from the, from the from the, the prison system.
So Yeah. And so it was just but at the same time, I can't complain too bad because, I mean, there's plenty of times we ended up having steak and lobster on the, on the
[01:31:27] Unknown:
ship. That would be cool.
[01:31:29] Bryan Goodwin:
And I mean, granted it was it was not red lobster style lobster tails because, I mean, it was, it, they, they, when you're cooking that much food, you can't make it Great. Great. It's go, it's gonna come out as, it's all right. It's pretty good. Right. Cause I mean, cause you ain't got to have lobster. They were still in the tail and all that, and you had to cut it out. But at the same time, it was overcooked lobster, so it was a rubber. So so it it was you could drop it on the, on the, so it, so it turned from lobster to squid. It, it, well, no, it was, squid was juicier than, than, than the, than that. It was it was so overcooked. I mean, you could actually probably have thrown it up, throw it on the on the table, and it would've bounced
[01:32:17] Unknown:
just completely. So
[01:32:19] Bryan Goodwin:
but it would, I mean, it is, but at the same time, when it came to like, like Thanksgiving, say we were, we were had actually entered the straights of hormoos and we're just going up to, up to, the Persian Gulf during, on Thanksgiving day. This just happened. How how the, everything all ended up. And we still had kick ass her. Granted, I was working down the chief's mess. So I had incredible kick ass turkey. Oh, damn. And gravy. And and that because that was if you're gonna mass crank, which is, kitchen, KP for for for the rest of you lower, lower, folks. What what lower fella? Phone? Lower phone. Yeah. Yeah. We we we we didn't just go do kitchen patrol. We we got to do cranking, and we were mess cranking.
And if you did, if, if you, mess cranked enough, you eventually wound up in the chief's mess and the chief's mess was the shit, man. This is better than the officer stuff. Oh, no way. Oh, yeah. Way. I mean, you had because the officers, they they got all their shit handed to them. And so the and but the chiefs, they've come down and they've had you they had their own coffee mugs. So you'd had to know start paying attention. Who washed their coffee mugs? Who didn't? Because if they washed the Chiefs coffee mug, then he doesn't like to be washed, you got yelled at.
Oh, shit. Yeah. He's like, goddamn it. You know how long it took me to walk get that flavor just right now? It's not gonna taste right. Oh, it was dirty, man. It was yeah. Coffee flaking off on the damn shit. It was terrible. You know? Oh, dude. Dude, that is like prime. That is like prime
[01:34:06] Unknown:
prime flavor right there. What, dude, what the hell are you doing? I'm I wash my shit. I'm going No. It yeah. No. No. That's wrong. That's dude,
[01:34:17] Bryan Goodwin:
I will wash that pantina off every single time. No.
[01:34:21] Unknown:
You're taking off, man.
[01:34:23] Bryan Goodwin:
You you don't That's almost as that's almost as bad as the, as the line off of, no country for old men when, Tommy Lee Jones goes in to see his uncle. Uh-huh. I think it was his uncle anyhow. And, he goes to pour the cop goes to pour the coffee, and then he stops. And he looks at him and goes, is this fresh? And he's like, I make a new, new pot once a week whether I need it or not. Oh my god. Holy crap. We go copy. Oh my god. What is pro I've had copy where that I forgot to empty out. You know, I'd go off on the I'd Jana would be off, off seeing a friend or whatever. And I took off on Monday and left some coffee in the, in the coffee pot and not thinking about it. And I'd come back and there would be shit growing in it. And that's just 5 days.
So to think That that's normal. That's
[01:35:18] Unknown:
normal. Take it out. Rinse it out. Make another pot. You're good. Wash it out. Scrub it out. No. No. No. Rinse. Rinse. I didn't say I didn't say nothing about no washing. I said rinse. No. I'm washing. No. You don't have to wash. Just rinse it. No. No. You you Yeah. Why. Yeah. No. No. Just just rinse it out and make you another pot. It'll be fine. If you
[01:35:41] Bryan Goodwin:
agree with Rit or disagree with rich, our Chelsea atgmail dot com. Let him know. Oh, hold it. Hold it. You haven't even you haven't even given out your email yet. No. I haven't given my email out yet. Why not? It's it's going because we haven't gotten to the closing yet.
[01:36:01] Unknown:
So hold it. We don't we don't we don't have to wait till the closing.
[01:36:06] Bryan Goodwin:
Well well, when you get if you get yourself in word, any word in edgewise, then throw them on that and throw throw circle cast at g mail dot com. Yeah. Circle cast at gmaildot com because That is circle. Was it a round thing? Cast is in, like, a, like, a fish casting. All one word, no spaces, [email protected]. And you'll when you tap it in, in Gmail, you'll see my big old grill show pop up in there. So so you
[01:36:36] Duuude-Ron :
And and see, we ain't even gonna do my email address.
[01:36:40] Unknown:
Oh my god. Dude, you yeah.
[01:36:43] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. People would just go nuts. And the reason why is because I don't check my email, my address. I don't check email. I might, once a week, see, okay, all the Gmails that I've gotten from whatever sources and just start going through and delete.
[01:37:03] Unknown:
But dude, hang on. Hang on, dude. What what happens if if, like, everyone starts to like you and and want to get in touch with you, man? I mean
[01:37:14] Bryan Goodwin:
So we just give you a phone number?
[01:37:19] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Give them my phone number. Yeah. That's that's that's it. Yeah. Yeah. Hey. Dude, we'll do we'll do my we'll do my Gmail. Start getting crank calls at 3 o'clock in the morning. Dude,
[01:37:35] Unknown:
Dude, you can have your own fan base, man. Think about it. People be be just, you know you know, paying base on on you just because your name is dude.
[01:37:47] Duuude-Ron :
Just because my name is dude. Well, dude is gonna hold off just a little while. I wanna see how I wanna see how you guys is go because I I seriously do not check my Gmail. I don't believe it. I pro I probably have 400 emails that I haven't opened or looked at. Well Mhmm. Easily 400.
[01:38:19] Unknown:
Just saying you probably don't need to. So, yeah, I would mess delete them.
[01:38:23] Bryan Goodwin:
Just go ahead and just declare email bankruptcy and start fresh.
[01:38:28] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. No kidding.
[01:38:31] Bryan Goodwin:
Email labels. About once a year. I'll there's, I've got a, one one, set of labels that I hold on to, and it's it's called family. And it's because I've actually got emails still from my dad Uh-huh. And who's been gone for 12 no, 14 years now. Oh, wow. Goddamn. That's a long time. So but, yeah, he's been gone since, 2010, and I've still got some of his old, his old emails. And so I just hold on to those just for posterity's sake because Right. I'm I'm taking them from time to time. I'll just whenever I happen to think of it, it's like, oh, yeah. I need to throw some of those emails up onto, up onto Ancestry so that we've got documentation of, you know, of dad and his style of writing and and all that. Not that you would actually give him a show anything, a scan of anything of his actual handwriting because nobody could read it.
Even dad, he couldn't read it. He couldn't even read his own handwriting. No. He kidding. I'm like, oh, what I wrote there? What is that?
[01:39:37] Unknown:
That must not be important. Damn it, dad. You know, it was, it was a cure to cancer probably. And he couldn't read it. So he just, yeah, it was like, just like, yeah. Okay.
[01:39:49] Bryan Goodwin:
So, but anyhow, so, yeah. Alright. Well, guys, we are gonna be we're in the, the final 10 minutes or 15 minutes or so of the, of the show. So I wanted to just say that typically you're in this area, wanted to start kind of bringing it around and start this being a value for value show. What is value for value? I kind of started to talk about it. And then we went off on a tirade, found a, found a, rabbit trail and just got completely lost. So bringing it back home. Yes. Value for value is time, talent, treasure. You we like it when you send us a Satoshis, send us, the Fiat currency.
Send us all those the the money, Not that we're to to do it so that we get rich, but we'd like to just have the money so we can pay for our the hosting bills and and and stuff like that for for the site. We eventually will have a website and have bigger, better thing. We've got, got a a a plan laid out just depending upon how much money we have available. But also if you don't have the money, but you still found anything that we're doing worthy of of something, maybe it's talent. Maybe you're good at graphic design. You could actually come along and and, create or or maybe it's talent, and you're you're you're, when it comes to graphic design, you do a a kick ass job. So you wanna create a custom, episode art. We we could always handle some episodic art, some some chapter art. We could always start, break this up because of podcasting 2.0, we can we're gonna be having to do Chances. Be able to do chapters.
[01:41:31] Unknown:
We're gonna be able to do
[01:41:33] Bryan Goodwin:
art links. Yeah. And if you do send us not graphic designers, by the way. Oh, no. No. I mean, I, the, the, the, the, the actual album art, it was something that I was able to just do through Canva. And I, I can, I can manage, but, oh, people can do so much better than I can? They make it a whole lot more simpler. And I, and I love sip the, the, the beauty of simplicity is, is, is the great one. So if you can do that, if you have the time, maybe you wanna go through and you want to set up the, the chapters for the, for the podcast.
You know, welcome to do go through to do that. Reach out to me, circle [email protected]. Just say, hey. I'm wanna wanna jump in. I wanna help where I can. We can we'll offload as much as we we're able to other than, you know, we have to kinda show up to, to do the recording, but we're gonna, I've got plans for, for this show. Got plans to see, to have y'all actually show up and become a part of the show itself, become a producer of the show type of thing, or if you're if you help to produce bring the show to, fruition, we're gonna find ways of telling you thank you. We're gonna have ways of of of recognizing the the time that you put into, into whatever it is you've done.
Maybe it's, you're we get around to doing an old fashioned forum or something. Maybe we'll have, 2 grumpy, men and and dude, Bolton board style form just out of for shits and giggles because, you know, why not?
[01:43:12] Unknown:
Well, I, well, we could do a discord or, I mean, or, or, or, or,
[01:43:19] Bryan Goodwin:
or we could do discord. We could do, yeah. I mean, there's many, many, many, many different things that we could do. And it's all just, it doesn't matter. Simple because dude is technically challenged. Billy Fetzner (zero forty six:fifty seven): Well, yeah, that's what we're gonna do is we, we wanna confuse the hell out of dude and get him as uncomfortable as possible because he claims that he is technically, deficient. And I wanna show him that, you you've, he he's figured out how to do some things on on his phone. I bet you we could teach him how to do more things. And so not not enough to where we frazzle his his, his head, but at at the same time, just something to just push him out of his comfort zone. Just just a smidge because that's where we all grew.
So
[01:44:05] Duuude-Ron :
this is where Very very and I can and I completely and and do completely understands that and is appreciative. I just wanna break in and add one note to our overall conversation as for the 3 of us being veterans. Right now, we have a crisis in our country. It's 22 a day veteran suicide rate. If you know a veteran, and I'm talking to everybody out there, if you know a veteran that is struggling, talk to them. There's a lot of people that a lot of veterans, all they wanna do is talk. And if we could bring the suicide rate from 22 a day to 0, that would be awesome.
But just know that there are a lot of vets like myself that are struggling, PTSD, a lot of demons. If you know a vet that is struggling, please get them some help.
[01:45:25] Unknown:
988. Dial 988 and make sure you press 1. You will talk to a veteran or a family member of a veteran, someone who knows veterans. Absolutely. 988 dial 988 on on your phone and press 1. And you and you don't have to, call just because you're suicidal. You if you're having a bad day, call them and talk to them. That's what they're here for. Yeah. They don't care. So
[01:45:53] Bryan Goodwin:
and also, we ask
[01:45:55] Duuude-Ron :
go ahead. We may be a grump we may be a group of grumpy vets. However, we are very vet
[01:46:08] Bryan Goodwin:
Help me out, guys. Senator. We're very pro pro vet. Well, here we go. We're pro vet. Centric.
[01:46:15] Unknown:
Yeah. Centric. Yeah. See? 9:53 at night, Brian's throwing out them big words. My brain don't work after 2 in the afternoon. So so, but anyhow, we are a veteran.
[01:46:29] Bryan Goodwin:
If anybody is who's listening is a veteran, doesn't matter whether you're a guy or a girl, just, but if you're a veteran and you would like to be a part of a group, I, like I said, I, we have the veterans call. It comes up every Wednesday, 8 o'clock, from 8 o'clock to 10 o'clock is what when we're normally talking. And that's, central time. Gonna make sure we do send lay the central time out. Shoot the email over to either me or or Rich, and I will get you added into, into the Zoom, Zoom invite. I'll drop a Zoom invite over for you so that you can jump on. And it's not a requirement that there's
[01:47:10] Unknown:
no no cost to it. Nope. Just jump on and and talk. In our system. So, Hey, how you doing? How's your mom and them?
[01:47:18] Bryan Goodwin:
Exactly. And, and we'll have it. It's been a while. Hell, yeah. And we'll and we're always glad to have have new folks there for a while. We were having about 6 or 7 people who were all on, at once. But if we, you know, if we turn around and we start having, you know, get 10, 12 people at a time, that's awesome. That's great. It's not that we're all gonna be able to talk all at once, and then it's okay. We're just not there to be able to talk all at once, but we can all commune with each other. We can all have a good time of just living with each other, having just a little speck of moment in our busy lives where we can sit around a bunch of other vets and just, you know, talk to that. Yeah.
[01:48:05] Unknown:
You know, be us. That's it. With with no
[01:48:09] Duuude-Ron :
judgment.
[01:48:10] Unknown:
Thank you. Well, we judge you, but it's, but it's a good judgment. Well, I mean Yes. I I mean, vets judge other vets anyway. I mean, we've done Oh, hell yeah. From the time we joined in. But Yeah. Yeah. But still, no. I mean, I mean, you know, if you wanna dance in a pink tutu, hey, you do you, boo. That's, I mean, that's fine. You do you. I I don't have a problem with it. Just know I'm not dancing in a pink tutu.
[01:48:36] Bryan Goodwin:
No. No. He wears the red bikini. So
[01:48:41] Duuude-Ron :
and see, his isn't pink. It's purple, but it's not a 22. It's a 44.
[01:48:49] Unknown:
Oh
[01:48:51] Bryan Goodwin:
my, so, oh, so guys also, one other thing that we I'd like to add right before we, pose this all up is one of the things that we can do with a podcast 2.0 is you can actually, compliant app is you can actually send us what's called boostograms. And these are messages that get sent instantly. They arrive to our, arrive to our wallet. And from there, we can actually read the message that you have and that you send. So if you wanna ask ask us a question, you can, you could do it via email. Send me or Rich, an email. Yep. Or you can send shoot over to, a Boostgram. It it doesn't have to be much. You can send this over, you know, 5 sets and and and You can send what? Tell us whatever. We don't care.
Yeah. I mean, in I mean If you, if if you wanna, if you wanna advertise, through the boostgram, that's fine. I am gonna put at least a 100 sats that you send to us before you, before you do a a, before you have us do our an ad rate read just because we are professionals of some sort. Yes. Some sort. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah. And so so we do have we do have a cost. It it's a 100 sets. Send us at least a 100 sets, and we'll we'll we'll read your read your ad for you. And so but so we're we're we've got, there's so much available there. And like I said, I think it's new podcast apps.com.
And not not a 100%, but I do know that if you go Yeah. I think you're right.
[01:50:29] Unknown:
Honestly, though, I would go to,
[01:50:32] Bryan Goodwin:
where's the podcast index., dot org and just hit there. Or or actually Yeah. That's right. That's right. Podcasting2.org.
[01:50:44] Unknown:
That's that's another good
[01:50:47] Bryan Goodwin:
one. They have got a list of all the, of all the apps and they can tell you whether it's for apple or Android or and and they got it all sorted out. It's great stuff. And Yeah. And and yes, you can with a podcasting 2.0 app, you can get regular podcasts. So Yeah. Yeah. You're still able to download all the others. It's just podcasting 2.0 has extra fancy stuff, and this is what's underneath the hood, how the sauce is made. There's things called name spaces.
[01:51:18] Unknown:
Yeah. And what So we can do a live item tag,
[01:51:21] Bryan Goodwin:
which is, our lit tag. And that tells us that tells the, the, the podcast player, Hey, this person is lot broadcasting live right now. And you can actually go on and you can either watch if they support video or listen, if they're just audio and you'd be able to hear what the, and you can still send boostograms. Yeah. Now you can there's, you can, jump back and forth on like I said, we there's chapter support. There's actually they're working trying to figure out how to set up what's called cross app, comments. Yeah. So no matter what platform what platform you're on, you could comment on a on a show and somebody listening on, say, like, Podverse would be able to reply.
Right. And then someone over on over on, castomatic would be able to make a a comment. And so it all just kinda, jumbles together. Yeah. Hey, Brian. Still in that's still in the works, but, so it's not quite available, but there's, like, 30 different, name space tags that are available. And it's just
[01:52:28] Unknown:
There is quite a few. I just that's just I was just gonna say, you know, maybe maybe we can, oh, damn. Where'd you go? There you are. You, like, vanished for a second. Oh, yeah. I I was having a pretzel. Oh, okay. But, you know, I was thinking I was thinking, you know, we break these people in a little slower, you know, because the information that you're throwing out, I mean, my head's starting to go crazy right now. It's like it's like I mean, I'm I'm learning all this stuff.
[01:53:03] Bryan Goodwin:
And we ain't gonna talk to you. Another one.
[01:53:06] Unknown:
So so
[01:53:07] Duuude-Ron :
And dude is just, we we ain't gonna go there. Now head past swimming point.
[01:53:17] Unknown:
Oh, hang on. Hang on, dude. We will hook you up with with with, what you need, but now we'll be we'll be explaining more and more about podcasting 2.0 as we go along. Oh, yeah. It's it's it's actually a lot of fun. It's it's exciting. It's new, but it's there's a lot that, yeah, we haven't realized yet.
[01:53:40] Bryan Goodwin:
Right. And But, also, guys, just as we're wrap it up, couple, couple other, small requests. If you want to provide your talent and tread talent and time with, there's a few segments that I would like to go ahead and get some That's That's the one I just got finished writing down also Brian's word of the day. And these are, when I say short, I mean real short, like maybe no more than like 5 seconds. If we can, if we can get it that short, another one is shit. Brian knows shit. Rich knows and shit. Ron knows. Then also one for Ron's rink and, Rich's ham sandwich.
And also on these, the only request that I will say is with music, make sure it is royalty free. Do not use any copyrighted music. And so don't put any, Bach Bachman Turner overdrive or or, or or
[01:54:46] Unknown:
Scorpions or ACDC.
[01:54:49] Bryan Goodwin:
Or any of the or ACDC or anything like that in there because we won't be able to use it because, we will get an, DMCA take down and that's no good. That's no good. That is no Bueno. So so, a good place if you wanna if you're wanting music, good place to go. And also is also, podcast. It's actually music 2.0 compliant is, wave lake is a great place to go and and, listen to music.
[01:55:20] Unknown:
No. No. No. Wav Lake, you know, explain this if they haven't heard of it. Wav Lake, w a b. Yeah. WAV is in is in a audio file, w a v or or as the British call it, WAV. WAV leg. I'm sorry. Yeah. LA K E because because when I tried, I was using like wave, like you wave at somebody
[01:55:42] Bryan Goodwin:
and it wasn't working. No. It's a sound. It's a sound wave. Yeah.
[01:55:46] Unknown:
So so yeah. But, no. Their, SoundCloud's got got royalty free music.
[01:55:54] Bryan Goodwin:
That one's a lot of times it's DJs using using, copyrighted music. And that's one of the big that's the, that's kind of a, of a hinky. So if you're, if you do, and you've got permission to use the music from, you know, like, if someone's doing a doing a remix of, of, of say Halloween,
[01:56:20] Unknown:
not most yeah. No. No. You see you see that thing, most of that is, locked up. But you see, if you look like I think it's at the cc 4, cc 4 tags, I think, are are royalty free. You don't need permission. You don't need to, attribute even though we will attribute if we find out who who made the song. Because, I mean, we
[01:56:47] Bryan Goodwin:
we want to recognize them just as, you know, just as And also whenever yeah. Especially if you do, like, wave lake, send us the artist's name also of any music that you use in there because what we do is we put a split in our in our feed so that anytime, anytime y'all boost to us, that artist is gonna get a percentage of that boost also. Right. So we're all we're sharing that with everybody. The so if and also, if you end up doing a doing, like, spending time to do some of the jingles for, for the the weird segments that I've just kinda coughed up there. Give us your name. Also, send us your, your wallet address.
[01:57:35] Unknown:
And then if you don't have one, we'll we'll try that. If you don't have one,
[01:57:39] Bryan Goodwin:
there's there's a lot of re there's several not a lot. There's several resources, though, that you can turn to and, be able to get a a lightning wallet set up? Because it's not a Bitcoin wallet. It's light we use the lightning, network. Off chain network, which is a little bit different. It still uses Bitcoin, the Bitcoin value, but it what it does is takes it off off the chain so that it can actually move faster. We don't have to wait for the 30 minutes for for the things to go through. When you send a a boost, that boost and those satoshis arrive in our wallet and get divided up amongst us within like 90 seconds. It's no, no time at all. It's just, boom, it's done. It's available. Hence, the reason why they call it light.
[01:58:27] Unknown:
But, yeah, we'll be we'll be we'll be saying more about this as we go on because, I mean, we want everybody to, you know, experience this.
[01:58:36] Bryan Goodwin:
All of y'all's. Yeah. Yeah.
[01:58:40] Unknown:
It's but but yeah. I'm hearing that.
[01:58:43] Bryan Goodwin:
Any, any last words, any y'all need to drop?
[01:58:48] Unknown:
I think I'm pretty good right now.
[01:58:50] Duuude-Ron :
How about you, dude? Well, dude is pretty good. Alright, dude. That's good.
[01:58:57] Bryan Goodwin:
Alright. Well, guys, y'all take care. Y'all have yourselves a great rest of the week. We will see y'all next Thursday at 7 o'clock. And might even by then, we might have even got, got the live, live tag figured out and, and start being able to go live too. So as soon as we figure that get that one nailed down, we'll you'll you'll start, you'll start noticing it. So, alright, guys. Y'all take care. We'll catch y'all later. Take it easy. And again, if you need help, speak up, speak up. If you're it's life is it's never a, a permanent solution to a temporary problem is never the answer, man. We're here. We're here for you. We're here for everyone.
And, that's the one thing we're doing about this. I, is we want to show guys that y'all can actually have fun conversations on a very regular basis and and and have have good times doing it and be able to live each with each other in in close, in close terms like this. Yep. So guys, y'all take care. Have a great week, and we'll see y'all next Thursday. Later till then. Bye.
[02:00:06] Duuude-Ron :
Talk to you later, dude, signing off.
Introduction to Two Grumpy Vets and a Dude
Sharing Our Stories and Passions
Rich Introduces Himself
Dude's Military Background and Struggles
Value for Value Model and Podcasting 2.0
Brian's Role in Supporting Veterans
Men's Struggles and Community Support
Exploring Vocabulary and English Lessons
Brian's Photography Career and Struggles
Struggles and Learning Experiences
Roller Skating Nostalgia and Radio Memories
Root Beer Woes and Inflation Rants
The Government and Corporate Monopolies
Fun Memories and Traffic Troubles
Build a Bridge and Get Over It
Teaching for the Sake of Teaching
The Great Awakening at 26
Walmart Greeters and Receipt Checks
From Lobster to Squid
Email Bankruptcy and Ancestry
Embracing Value for Value
Producer Role and Recognition
Veterans Suicide Prevention
Boostograms and Jingles Request
Resources for Royalty-Free Music
Plans for Going Live
Support and Fun Conversations
