The Cost of Getting Shit Done | Ep.79

[00:00:00] The part I'm actually most impressed with in all of that is like, you slept for two and a half hours and then got up and took your kid to school. Probably still fulfilled your responsibilities at home. Like, that's the part. For me personally, like, it's very easy for me to like sacrifice things to do my job because I get so much purpose in my life out of, like, maybe this sounds bad, but like I... Well, that's your business purpose.

[00:00:21] No, no, no. Yeah. And maybe I have multiple purposes. That's fine. But like, it's easy for me to sacrifice all kinds of stuff for my work. I have a harder time feeling that same level of drive for my home and my family.

[00:00:33] All right. Welcome back everybody to The Quiet Riot Show. Season five.

[00:01:01] Four. Ticks. I don't know. Whatever it is. Well, we were supposed to have a guest then again. Lately it's just... Nobody wants to do anything with us. Is it us? I'm starting to think it's us. Is it us? It's totally us. It's me. Is it me? Yeah, it's you. It's probably me. It's your face and my smell. That's a bad combo. My attitude and face and your smell is just... It's just... Why would anybody want to be here? Perfect combo. Or not. Depends, I guess.

[00:01:30] But here we are, the few of you that listen to our show. Thank you very much. We appreciate it. Yeah, I guess. Keeps us going. Yeah, so... But you know what? Again, I guess, yeah, it's one of those things. Like we tried to line up a online guest, but our schedule just didn't work out. It's mostly my fault. No, it's actually... This time it's not? Well, like the gentleman that we want to have on the show today was... He's just not... He can't do it in the morning. And then I had... I have family friends in the afternoon.

[00:01:59] So yeah, it's fine. We'll still have him on probably in January. But I'm looking forward to it because we have some good speakers that actually have been on like TED Talks. And they had some really interesting perspectives. They sent me the link and I was like, oh yeah, this will be a good talk on our show. We've got a few things like... We've got some activity. We just haven't... We do. We haven't dialed it all in yet. Well, we don't have the time to like fully... Like if this was our full-time thing, that would be different.

[00:02:28] Yeah, yeah. Also, I'm never here anymore apparently. Yeah, yeah. I think you're traveling a lot now. So that's another curveball. But you know, we make... I think we make it work. We try. I mean, I make it work. Fuck. Yeah. This fucking guy. Oh yeah? Really? I'm here, aren't I? Yeah, you're here. And I appreciate that. Like that's the thing. Like we'll... Again, like we'll just... We'll work out the schedule. And I know sometimes it's an inconvenience. It's not. It's never... No, but like... I make it seem like it because it's funny to me.

[00:02:58] But it's not. I like doing... Do you think I don't like doing this show? I know you love doing that. I know. We had lots of conversations often. I actually love doing it. But also like, you know, when you're gone for a full week, you're home for the weekend and then you're leaving in a couple of days again. Like your family wants you around too, right? So like... Yeah, and I want to see them. Yeah. Like it's nice to see them too, I guess. I don't know. But yeah, so it's... I understand that this also is another thing that takes you away from them. But like, that's just life, right? I want to talk a little bit about that later. Okay. Yeah, we can do that.

[00:03:28] I have a topic for discussion. Okay, perfect. Yeah. We have an event coming up, a Movember event. So clearly I didn't shave at all. It's kind of like a Mocember event, but... Yeah. But, you know, last episode we talked about it and I'm sticking to my $500. The mustache will come off. A thousand bucks, the whole beard comes off. No matter where we're at in the month of November.

[00:03:57] But I added another thing on social media. I'm not sure if you saw it. No. But if we reach our goal, which I set at $2,000. So it's a high goal. Okay. But that's including... Did you commit me to something? Nope. Oh, okay. No, no, no. And you can if you want to. It's up to you. Sure, I don't know. But you've done it before and you can kind of rock it. So it's funnier for me. Okay. But so I set the goal at $2,000.

[00:04:24] And if we reach that goal, and that's including not only in November, but up to the event, which is December 6th. We have an event which we'll talk about a little bit more. But up until December 6th, if we reach that goal, I'm going to shave everything except the mustache. Yeah. And I'm going to rock it for a year. A year? A year. Till next November. I might just pay. I mean... I might just actually pay for that.

[00:04:53] Well, we can save that to the last day, you know. Oh, man. You might have to pay less, right? Yeah, I know. I know. But I might top that shit up. I'll rock the mustache. Now, I want to be clear that I do hate my triple or quadruple chin. Yeah. So I might grow out a goatee. But it will be... It will be... I don't like it. I don't like where you're going with this. The rules for the mustache is that they cannot be touching the beard. There has to be a gap.

[00:05:21] And I'm not going to grow my beard back, but I will keep a little goatee just to hide the layers. Yeah, we're going to have to establish some rules around that. I still look really stupid and ridiculous. No, I don't think so. Oh, my God. Like Colonel Sanders mustache? Like it looks so stupid. No way. Yeah. Oh, I hate it. So... Oh. Yeah. So anyways, but the idea is to grow the mustache as big as possible for the whole year. Would you do like a twisty thing or what's your game plan? Probably, yeah.

[00:05:51] I'll have to get some product and actually care for it. Yeah, yeah. Wax and whatever. Otherwise, it's going to be in my mouth and like, oh, it's horrible. Yeah. So, but yeah, I'm going to actually try to grow it then for the whole year. I love mustaches. Yeah. Way to go with you. I'm not going to keep the size, but... Every man who can should have a mustache. Oh, dude. I love like a good Ted Lasso mustache, like a nice thick one, you know? Never seen it, but... Oh, my God. You got to watch it. It's funny. But yeah, so that's... Like a Borat mustache? Can we go with something I'm more familiar with? Yeah, like...

[00:06:23] A Borat mustache is fantastic. It's a great mustache. It is, yeah. And so the thing is like I never had like thick beard or a thick mustache either. Yeah. So, yeah, it's... I guess it's more like pubes. Yeah. Facial pubes. Anyway, so that's the thing. So, yeah, December 6th, we have the Wingman Challenge coming up. Yeah. And it's a collaboration with Kingshead and Intergalactic Sauces. We're going to have...

[00:06:51] I believe it's going to be five heats of hot wings. Okay. So, it's not going to start with no heat. It's going to start with heat right away. Yeah. And then ramp up from there. And then I believe it'll be two wings per person. Okay. And in between, we're going to have some time. So, we're going to have the Clubhouse Comedy... Sorry. Clubhouse Comedy guys. They're... You sure? Yeah, they're called... You don't sound very sure. We're going to have the Clubhouse Comedy guys from Winnipeg.

[00:07:21] There are three comedians. And they... What they did is they've joined the heckle hole, or they created a heckle hole at the Josh Morrissey Golf Tournament, I believe. Okay. And when we saw the video of them... It was pretty funny. Yeah. It is so funny. And like, it doesn't matter where it was like, probably a CEO or whoever. You know, they just unleashed... Spare no one. I've always loved that. There was a guy with a prosthetic arm there, and then, you know... Can you share that clip?

[00:07:50] Because that clip is so funny. That was like... You know, they obviously... They know their limits, too. They're just like... They didn't want to say anything. And the guy turns around and is like, guys, just... Boys, just let it go. Let it go. Okay. ODR, dude. Oh. Donna's fucking voice, let it fly. Oh, okay. All right. Let it fly.

[00:08:23] And then I... You know, you're struggling trying to tee that up. I was going to say, use your other hand. And then I realized... There's not one there. Have you ever heard of Bethany Hamilton? Soul surfer? That's a story about my life. They made it into a girl to hide my identity. Man, this hole's taking like 127 hours right now. You guys have no idea how happy we are right now. This is great. We've been sitting on this... Are you a righty or a lefty?

[00:08:52] The X-Rex. Oody Howl. Don't choke up on your back, Swig. You ever been armed before? You guys are great. You guys have a great day. That was impeccable. Oh, thank you so much. Thank you so much. You are a fucking champ. I love you, buddy. We love you. That was awesome.

[00:09:22] You were like, you ate your buddy's arm. And so they did. And the guy loved it. It was all in good fun, right? And it was funny. And so I was like, we got to have these guys here. And one of the comedians is Pat that was on our show. And his day job, he's a teacher. But he does stand-up comedy in the evenings. He's done a bunch of events as well. And the other guys are Brady and I want to say Max or Maxwell.

[00:09:52] Sorry, guys. I don't know. We're remembering your names yet. But yeah, they right away, we reached out to them and they said, yes, we're in. We want to do this. It's awesome. It's for a good cause, right? I love it. So they're going to be there to chirp us while we eat the hot wings. Just talk shit. While we're suffering physically, might as well get some emotional suffering on us. Well, we're men. We like the abuse. Yeah.

[00:10:17] And then so maybe in between the heats, we'll leave some time for people to kind of just shoot the shit, chat, whatever. Maybe the guys can do maybe a quick set or something. Like whatever. We kind of leave that up to them what they want to do. But yeah, so I'm super pumped and obviously we're going to end with the fifth heat being like absolutely ridiculous. Yes.

[00:10:41] And there's a little surprise that the heckle squad, as we call them, they're going to try to do after you eat the hot wings. Okay. So I'm going to leave that for the actual event. But yeah, I'm looking forward to it. I think this has come together really well. So obviously Intergalactic Sauces are going to be providing all their hot sauces. They have delicious sauces. We might throw in a surprise sauce in there as well.

[00:11:11] Oh, I hope that's what I think it is. Yeah, I think so. And I think we have to go with like the extreme one. Like three? Yeah, three. I mean, even the single one is brutal, but yeah. Yep, I'm in. Might as well, right? I'll obviously be doing it as well. So everyone's welcome, obviously. Like we don't, we're not charging any entry fee or anything. You guys want to just come check it out. No problem. You don't have to do the wing challenge. Yeah, you don't have to do the wing challenge. It's fine. I think there will be a suggested donation for the wing challenge. And I believe, so you'll get the wings.

[00:11:41] And I think you'll get a beer with it as well. Yeah. So, you know, it's for, and obviously everything's being donated. Like the wings are being donated by Granny's Wings. The beers are being sponsored by Rendezvous Brewery. Yep. And we're going to have others. We're going to have Trav at the event shooting some videos for us as well. Awesome. So he's a sponsor as well. And so everything that's being donated is going towards Men's Mental Health to Movember.

[00:12:09] So I'm really looking forward to it. We might try to have Chris from Kingshead on here for our next episode right before the event to maybe again talk about it and just maybe bring in Chris a little bit and hopefully opens up about something. He's got an interesting story, so if he's willing to share, then it would probably be very interesting. I know, I know. I'll try, I'll try. All I can do is try. So I'm looking forward to it. So December 6th, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday afternoon. Yeah.

[00:12:39] What's better than afternoon? And there will be football. Now football, because of the stupid time change that hasn't happened here. I don't even know what time it is anymore. It's so confusing now. Now we're Toronto time, like Eastern Standard Time. Why didn't we pick Western? I don't know. We could have picked. We got to pick. I don't know. I don't like that we didn't get to pick. Yeah, I don't get it. So it's confusing a little bit. Even my Google calendar is like all over the place. Oh, man. All my meetings and shit. And then I was like in Calgary this last week. And I'm putting calendar stuff. Then I get home.

[00:13:07] I'm like, that's not the, ah, fuck. Oh, it's brutal. I hate it. It's absolutely shitty. I hate it. But yeah, so the footballs are now pushed from noon to one, right? So we're going to have the football games on on a Sunday. So if you're a big football fan, come out, watch the football, enjoy us suffering, maybe join in on the challenge, you know. All of that sounds great. All of that. We're going to try to get some, I talked to Chris and we're going to do like maybe a 50-50

[00:13:36] or like maybe we'll get some prizes donated and make like a little draw or something. Tweet? Yeah, we'll see. All that is still being planned, but December 6th, 2 to 5 p.m. 6th? Is that it? Yeah. 5th? 6th? 6th. Okay. Yeah. Sunday. Got it. I'll be there. We'll see. We'll see. Fuck you. I'll be there. You always say you're going to do shit and then you quit last minute. No, no. You can't make it. No, I don't. I don't do that.

[00:14:06] Not always. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Sometimes. Yeah. Yeah. This is a little more important. I'll be there. Okay. Okay. Everybody, you heard it here first. You're the worst. You're such a dick. All right. Let's check in. Let's check in. I'm a two and it's your fault.

[00:14:37] Yes. No, I'm like a four and a half. Okay. Yeah. How come? Is it because of me? Yeah, I was a seven before I got to your house. No, I'm a four and a half. Sorry. That was my family that brought it down. Never. I was away this last week. Kind of tired. But it's okay.

[00:15:06] And I just, there's always, like I'm home this month. I'm traveling a lot. You're on for like three long trips. Three of the four weeks. Yeah. I'm gone. And so that's a lot because it's kind of like, okay, you're gone. You come home. You're home for two days. Then you leave. Yeah. Then you're home for two days. Then you leave. Yeah. It's just. Good stuff, yeah. And there's a lot to cram into that two days. Like my responsibilities to my family and my home and our podcast and friends and like, it's just, and then work.

[00:15:36] Like, it's just a lot. And this is when you're traveling, you're not just getting ready or doing the thing that you're traveling for, but you have also other work stuff. Yeah. Everything on top of that. Like all my normal work stuff piles up. So when I travel, I hope there's evenings to catch up on all that stuff that I don't get done during the day. And to be fair, it's easier because I'm by myself. Now this week I was traveling with somebody. So it's different. Yeah.

[00:16:06] You don't get that like the whole evening every night or most nights if I'm not out with customers or whatever, like to do stuff and catch up on my day. And so I'm with someone else. So like we're focused on our things and I'm behind on shit. Well, and there's some exciting, new exciting things too. Yeah, for sure. Like it's great. It's just the list gets long. And especially when I was at an event, like a, like a scheduled event. Yeah. So like it wasn't, it's not like I can float in and out of things.

[00:16:35] It's like, no, everything that happens during the day is just piling up. Like 20 missed calls, 30 emails. Yeah. Like a million emails and a pile of texts and phone calls and shit I got to get done. And I bet you're still catching up yet. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, I'm, I probably have to go home and do some work tonight. But, uh, but it's okay. Like it's just, I, I know how that, that's how it works and it's okay. Yeah. Yeah. It's fine. Cool. You, um, I had a very rough week.

[00:17:04] I asked from Monday to basically, because I was gone Thursday. Yes. You just missed me. Oh, well, it was your fault. Monday, Monday to Thursday, uh, morning. I slept about eight to nine hours. Um, it was brutal. Like, um, I lived on coffee and ADHD pills because like I had to take, like, like my pills really

[00:17:32] helped me like focus, uh, narrowed down. You drive me nuts when you take those fucking things though. I know. Yeah. It's like, Hey, can you answer me? Can you answer me? Can you answer me? There's 40 questions in 30 seconds. Answer me right now. Like eat shit. I'm fucking busy, asshole. Um, but yeah, so like Monday I was, uh, kind of catching up on work and the pills did not wear off when I thought they would. So I just kept going, you know? And then all of a sudden not like, you're like seeing progress, shit getting done. Like I did a bunch of invoicing, bunch of bookkeeping.

[00:18:00] Like at two in the morning I was doing that because I'm just like, well, okay, I, this is done. What else? Oh, I can do this as well. So it was great. Uh, and then woke up at like, I don't know. Uh, I went to bed at like 5am and, uh, woke up at eight, sorry. Um, at eight, eight, eight 30, I think. Yeah. That's ridiculous. And I was like, oh, okay, well let's just, no, it was, I woke up earlier cause I had to take Jacob to school. So it was seven 30. Yeah. So it was just like, okay, let's take him to school, you know, come back home. And I was like, well, I'm awake.

[00:18:30] So let's just keep going. And then Tuesday, um, you guys wanted some work, right? So like that needed to be done. So I'm like, I did, I wasn't planning on necessarily, I didn't have that plan that I'm going to be doing. So I had to finish my shit that I was doing during the day and I'm like, okay, well let's fucking keep going. Uh, I went to bed at five 30 in the morning and then again, up at a seven, I slept like just two and a half hours.

[00:18:57] And, uh, and that was because I was also rendering some videos and just like, okay, I had to get up and finish it off. Um, so I just like, okay, great. And then the last Wednesday night I was waiting for you to get me some final information that what you were obviously busy with stuff. So I was like, this took you four hours. And it's like, no, it took you 10 minutes. No, it took me 10 minutes when I had 10 fucking minutes to do it. But it's like, so then, then I was just like, again, like up till, I think I finished with your work around two.

[00:19:27] And then at that point I'm just like wired. So I watched TV till about, uh, four 35. So I was exhausted. Yeah. No shit. And, uh, Friday I had a busy day as well. And then just like Friday night, I was just like, okay, I need to like, like, I can't talk to anybody and then just, um, yeah. So it was, it was nice, busy, productive, but like physically I was just drained.

[00:19:55] And I even had to chat with, uh, Adriana and the kids just like, Hey guys, like, um, I need, I need some like space now. And like, they understand it and it was great. But I had this conversation now with my wife yesterday and I said, you know what? With Adriana. And, uh, come on. I'll get to it. And, uh, I just said like, I feel great because I felt, uh, like mentally I think I'm a, I'm

[00:20:25] a seven to eight. Okay. Because, um, it's awesome. Even though I was physically, um, exhausted, I was, uh, really challenged this week to how to manage my frustration and my like frustration from being tired. Yeah. Cause yeah, when you're tired, like everything's fucking, everything can piss you off. The smallest thing can set you off. Yeah. It's awful. And so I was like, I, it was a good challenge for me that I could actually just like realize

[00:20:54] like, Hey, I'm feeling this way because I lack of sleep because I fucked up something on a design or didn't render it properly. And like, it's just, you know, and I was able to express my, my express my feelings with my words actually. And, uh, then I told Adriana too, that she actually recognized it. And like, I felt heard and supported and that felt so fucking good. Yeah. That's awesome. And then, you know, she was right away.

[00:21:23] Like, even though like you were busy, you still did this and this and this. So like, it was good that again, this is part of the therapy that we're doing too. There was just like, yeah, we just, again, stopped communicating. And so we just need to start telling each other like, Hey, this is what's going on. And like, I just need now your help here and I need your help here. And, um, yeah, it's just been really like a two way street this week. Um, so it was really nice. That's nice. So that was kind of like, uh,

[00:21:49] Do you feel like some of that is progress from therapy? For sure. Like things that you're actually putting into action and like thinking things through differently? Yeah. Because, um, I, like, I know I had to work on myself a lot and, and kind of realize things that are happening in our household, not just rely on Adriana to tell me what needs to be done. Well, I just, I'm, I just like, I'll walk. I'm for sure the worst. But, but for sure. Like, you know, Adriana does the laundry in our household. I'm joking. I'm joking.

[00:22:19] And like, she can, she'll do the laundry and she would like fold it. She is the laundry queen. She would put it, yeah. She put it down on our, like we have a futon in our bedroom. Like she doesn't put my clothes away. She just puts them up there. And so as she was giving shit to Jacob that, Hey, your room is a fucking mess, you know? And then, so I was just like, Hey buddy, like, you know, like, what are you doing now? This was Friday. You're not doing anything. Do you want to maybe go clean? I was like, Oh, I don't feel like it. And blah, blah. So I'm telling him like, and I was like, hold on. You know what?

[00:22:49] I have some stuff to put away. And I wasn't, I wasn't even planning on doing it. Like, it's just like, cause I didn't think about it, but it popped in my head. So I was like, why don't we go upstairs? I'll put my shit away. You clean up your room. It's probably going to take us five to 10 minutes. Yeah. That's the thing is like, it doesn't even take. No, no, exactly. But it seems like a fucking mountain. And then so, you know, even Adrian said that, like, she's like, it was, it was getting to me that the clothes were there for like three days, you know?

[00:23:15] But then, but then like you actually made the thing with Jacob, turn it into almost like a fun activity together that got the job done. And you know, it's, it's, it's fun. Kids are so messy. They are. They're messy. Man, I told him. So there's. My daughter's bedroom is clean for maybe six hours after she cleans it. Like, I don't even know if it's six hours. I don't even get it. I don't understand. Yeah, I don't know. I can't understand.

[00:23:45] If anyone has daughters, can you please help me understand? Or at least share in my lack of understanding. So when, when you have your like clothes that like, okay, like, you know, like sometimes a hoodie, like you don't wear it once and, and wash it after. No. T-shirts I wear it once. It goes into hamper unless it's like a work t-shirt or something that like, oh yeah, I'm going to get sweaty tomorrow.

[00:24:14] I usually go a couple times on a, and it depends. Like if I, if I got sweaty or not in it. I don't stink. I never stink. Oh yeah. No, I never smell. Um, so I get away with a couple extra, with an extra day or so. But, you know, Jacob's pile was like, like there's clean clothes that were put on his bed just on the ground. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But then I was like. So now it all gets rewashed. Well, exactly. And then I was just like, okay, like just like at least put your clean stuff away.

[00:24:42] And then if, but what pissed me off is candy wrappers. And I said, I said, listen, Jacob, like that's actually garbage. Yeah. That's not, that's garbage. That's dirty. I'm like, you don't have a garbage bin in your room? He's like, well, it's, he's like literally on the couch. Like, well, it's, it's not very accessible. And I was like, I'm like, please elaborate on that. And he's like, well, you know, it's under the table and then there's a chair in a way. Oh my God.

[00:25:09] I'm like, oh, so what you're saying is like when you're lying down, you can't just like reach over and just throw it into, you have to actually get up off the bed and they walk there and then bend over and throw it. He's like, yeah. There's, there's a difference between messy and dirty. Well, and that's what I said. Messy's one thing. Yeah. Dirty's a whole different other thing. So I was just like, listen, dude, like, no, like wrappers is garbage. That's such a bullshit excuse. It goes into the bin.

[00:25:37] And I even like made it now that, listen, let's take it out. Put it beside like the far outside of the thing. So the chair is not in there. But I said, if I do random checks and then find any wrapper, anything that's garbage, you're done. $5 per piece goes into the jar. I like that. And then we were just talking about, because we started looking at some. You have a jar? Yeah. We have like, well, it's the swear jar from a whiskey. Oh yeah. Okay. We're just going to start putting in there.

[00:26:03] And me and Adrian started looking at me and my wife started looking at the trips to Mexico. Just looking at some trips. Yeah. Some of our friends are going. So we looked at it. It's like, I'm like, you know what? There's lots of candy here. I'm pretty sure we're going for me and mom are going to Mexico on your dime. Which is your money. Yeah. It is, but it's fine. Well, no, it's like he saves money that he gets from like report cards and chores. He gets report card money? From grandparents. Oh. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

[00:26:32] And yeah, it's just shit like that. So like, and he's really good with his money. He puts it away and he's got a bank account and everything too. So, but I was like, yeah, man, I'm going to fucking charge you. Rob will blind, man. Forget it. I'll go throw some wrappers in there. Like, what the fuck is this, man? You're just planting wrappers. See if he catches on. He won't. Yeah. At least not at first. Well, if it's rockets, then for sure he loves rockets. Like, that's his favorite. Yeah, well, you got to, you're older and smarter than him.

[00:26:59] So you got to use the stuff that he's like, oh shit, did I eat five packs of rockets yesterday? So anyway, so yeah. That's super funny. So yeah, I'm about a seven to eight. That's good. Yeah, 7.5. That's awesome. I'm happy to hear that. Been enjoying my time with Jacob playing some pong. So he's got a broken foot, but he can still play pong at home. So he's weaker though. So you can, I should play him today actually. You should. You should. Because that might beat him. Just keep serving him to the right side. Yeah.

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[00:28:26] I'm nervous now. I don't normally compliment you. I know. Yeah. It's weird. For that matter. What did I do? What did you do? I don't know. I'm really worried now. OK. I'm pulling back on that compliment. No. You're exceptional at just rising to the challenge of just getting shit done when you have to get shit done. Yeah.

[00:28:52] Like you just talked in the check in about like you slept like two and a half hours a day. Yeah. And like that's not good. But there's something about that that is honorable and I actually really respect about you. It's tough to do that. Yeah. So. It is. How do you. It's not easy for sure. No. No, no, no. It's hard. And you still you generally always do that.

[00:29:22] And so I wanted to compliment you on your ability to do that because I think that's like an unbelievable thing that you have always been really good at. And that's awesome. Good for you. Thanks. It's tough though, man. It's so hard. You know, so like this. How do you like I guess what's the question? The question is like what do you how do what drives you to do that? How do you do it?

[00:29:52] And like how do you dig that deep to get that done? Well, the thing is I've been like that my whole life, but I've never been, I guess, as busy where I would have to like sacrifice like sleep or sacrifice, you know, family time necessarily. And I would I did it like for myself, like I went out and partied all night and then like, oh shit, I'm tired. The next day I just kind of, you know, that's different. That's self-inflicted. That's different.

[00:30:20] But like, so with this whole thought process was one, I'm new in the business, even though I was doing, I've been doing this for like the last call it two, three years. Yeah. But this is a new phase of that. It was a side gig. It was a side gig, right? Now this is my full time thing. So leading up to me quitting my day job, I had lots of conversations with you, lots of conversations

[00:30:46] with our Glenn, one of our guests, a couple other people as well. And just like, you know, everyone's was telling me like, hey, it's going to be tough. You're going to have to grind. And and I think I knew this like even prior that it's going to be real. But until you're in it, you don't know what it's like. Which like is such a bummer to hear. Like, oh, good for you. Fuck you. It's going to be tough. It's going to be so hard. Good for you. Are you trying to talk me out of it?

[00:31:14] Hope you hate your life as much as the rest of us. Well, and the thing is, it's like it's one of those things. Like, I think it's human nature that like when you're when you have a nine to five job, not everyone, like sometimes you have a nine to five job, you want something else. You want that freedom of making your own schedule and everything. Now, when you're an entrepreneur, you're like, fuck, I wish I had a nine to five job because I wouldn't have to work all the fucking time. You know, everything is a prison. Everything has a pros and cons. It's like what you want from life. Right.

[00:31:41] And I did not see any future for me as like being any better than what it was at the moment with my day job. It's like there's no way I can move up because we were unionized. So like you only move up with seniority. Like I could have been the hardest worker, do extra, go above and beyond daily. It means nothing. It makes no difference. It means nothing because I would not get a promotion. I couldn't walk to my boss or my senior boss or whatever saying like, hey guys, like I think I've done really an exceptional job.

[00:32:10] I believe I deserve a raise. Now we made good money. I wasn't complaining about it. But when you're making the same money and then there's somebody that's doing barely anything and then you're going above and beyond every day, you know, it's, it's, it kills your motivation and you don't want to do the extra mile, you know? So I always felt like in my day job, it's like I meant for more than just this, you know, like, like, um, I can't, I can't see myself going through life work.

[00:32:39] Like I saw my parents work nine to five jobs, put the grind in, you know, they're trying to save the money, try not to like spend it on like extra trips or extra treat themselves. Just mom and dad go out for a restaurant. Like Jesus Christ, even nowadays, like they're like, well, I don't know. I'll just cook. I'll just cook, you know? And like, I want more a little bit. Like I want to be able to one day where we have all of a sudden, oh shit, we have nothing going on tonight. Let's go out for dinner.

[00:33:07] I want to be able to do that without feeling bad that I'm spending the money. Yeah. So in order for me to do that, I know I have to make a change. I can't just have my nine to five job necessarily. And like, um, I want, I don't want to be locked in to go to work and, or like have to stay home, get an unpaid day or, uh, when my, like when my son is sick, I don't care that he can be homesick by himself, but I want to, or my wife, you know, like I want to be here and take care of her or them, uh, like the kids.

[00:33:37] And I can't do that with my nine to five job because they need me there. And it's, and I understand that. So I had to make a change now for this last week. Um, like your, the company you work for are my, my probably number, they're not probably they are my number one client. Yeah.

[00:34:00] And, um, I care about your business and this is something that I want, I'm trying to promote as my business that I will, when you work with me and I work with you, we're going to become one unit. Like I'm going to care about your output, your business just as much as you care. And I know it's, it's unrealistic because I'll, I'll never care as much as the owner of the business. No, but, but the, the spirit of your thought in that is like, I want to, is really good.

[00:34:29] It's like, I'll, I will be honest with you and tell you like, I don't think you should do this. Yeah. You know, if I, if I think there's a better option and if you tell me, no, no, I, this is what I want. And I'll be like, okay, no problem. I just want to be honest and talk about it. And so when the reason I was staying up late is because you guys have, your team is kind of splitting up to two different trips this week. Right. Yeah. And so like they needed some prints now.

[00:34:57] I need some too, but I also realized I'm way too late for that. So I'm going to have to look after those. And this was already like kind of somewhat late. Right. And so it's just like, okay, so the option was like, well, we can just get them printed there. So I was like, no problem. But this is where my, my logic kicked in. It's like, well, listen, like my print shop, I know the quality they do. Yeah. I know you like that quality. Yeah.

[00:35:22] And I, I'm pretty sure the price can be very similar to what you would get somewhere else or maybe lower. Yeah. And it might be a little bit long, but like, let me just find out if they can get it done. Yeah. And so my print shop was like, usually they take like four to five days to print these. So I messaged them. They're like, yeah, we should be able to get it done by Friday. And I was like, okay. Like, I'm not happy with that answer. Like I want a yes or no. Should be, doesn't work. Should be, doesn't work.

[00:35:48] So, but I was like, listen, so I, you know, I, I constructed my email just like, well, I appreciate all the effort you guys are putting into this. I'm, I, I know like, I know your team can get it done and like, it's not a big, cause it wasn't a big job, but I understand they also have their own schedule. And like, you know, um, 10 minutes later she came back to me and was like, yeah, I talked to the guys and they'll, they'll make it happen. And I was like, I was so happy because now I know my clients are happy. Yep.

[00:36:17] And so that makes me look good as a, as, as a business makes me look good as a person that I like, I feel like I want that extra mile to make sure that you guys get the product that you need for your thing. And that's, that's, that's, that was the main motivation this week is just like, you just got to do it. And you know, well, I know, but was I frustrated? So yeah, no, no, no, I, that's fine. But like on top of that, the part I'm most impressed with, like, that's great. Those are all like, I'm impressed by that.

[00:36:46] But the part I'm actually most impressed with in all of that is like, you slept for two and a half hours and then got up and took your kid to school and like probably still fulfilled your responsibilities at home. Like that's the part that like, for me personally, like it's very easy for me to like sacrifice things to do my job because I get so much value. I, uh, I get so much purpose in my life out of like, it's maybe this sounds bad, but like I, well, that's your business purpose.

[00:37:16] No, no, no. Yeah. And maybe I have multiple purposes. That's fine. But like, it's easy for me to sacrifice all kinds of stuff for my work. Yep. Um, I have a harder time feeling that same level of drive for my home and my family. Yeah. And like, but maybe that sounds really bad. I don't know. I think that's normal. Like, listen, like you've, um, you've been, you've been an entrepreneur your whole life. Like essentially. Yeah. Like you, sure.

[00:37:44] You worked as a teenager, you worked at like HMV or McDonald's, whatever. Like you've done your, your, you know, your teenage jobs. But then essentially you worked for your family business, which you've ran after. Correct. And then after that you've, you know, ran other companies and now you're like working with, with a company that is, yeah, you're working for a company, but essentially all the skills that you've learned over the years, you're using those skills. So you're in the same position. It's, it's, it feels the same to me. Yeah. It's like, it's like you're running your own company.

[00:38:14] Lucky them. I guess. Yeah. It's also my best friend's company. So that's fine. But well, and cousin, like it's a family. Yeah. Yeah. So like you care, you have that, you have that like connection that you also care about his company. I'm for sure mentally equally as invested. Yeah. And so now. I actually don't know how to do it otherwise. Yeah. But like, so actually me and me and my wife. Yes. We talked about this a little bit.

[00:38:44] I've been with her since 2003. With Adriana. Yep. So we have a long ass history. Yeah. Poor woman. How long have you been with your wife? Just over four years. We had our anniversary. Married, but prior to that. So just before COVID 2019? Yeah. Since 2019. Okay. Yeah. So not that it matters, but I think there's just a little part of it doesn't.

[00:39:13] It matters that me and Adriana have gone through a lot of ups and downs. You've just had a longer, you have a longer story. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. And so, you know, now we're struggling with certain things because we have done things this way for 20 years and now it's like, well, fuck, now we got to adjust. It's so hard, right?

[00:39:58] Mm-hmm. You're a new date when everyone's in a good mood. Oh, let's get together. Yeah. Once you move in together, like you don't have to be married. Move in together. No, everything starts to change. Yeah, exactly. It's like, oh shit, never mind. I fucking hate you. Yeah, what the fuck is this? Yeah. So, I would never marry a woman before I lived with her for at least a year. I couldn't do that. I have an interesting opinion on that. That might be another episode. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, so like, you know, it's just like-

[00:40:26] Oh, I have an episode idea. Okay. We'll talk about it off mics. Sure. Remember it. Yeah, no, no. You want me to write it down? No, no, no. I'm good. I remember it. I actually know someone who's been through this. Okay. Yeah. But, so, for me to see my relationship struggle right now, it's very hard. Because we've been so strong, right? Yeah. For years.

[00:40:54] And then we had some tough times. And we did the marriage counseling. And it kind of like, it was like a little epiphany, call it, or realization that like, hey, we need to work on this shit. But, and then it got good, and then shit hit the fan again, right? And now, on top of that, I started a business. And like, I quit my job, the steady job. So like, I'm throwing curveballs, not only at my wife, but at my family too, because it does affect everybody.

[00:41:20] So, going through marriage counseling, I was just like, okay, like, I realized that I need to be able to communicate my, how I'm feeling at the moment, because I'm not always going to be in the best mood. And, and, and Adriana is also like, you know, she's, she also does some bookkeeping on the side. So like, she's busy, and she's behind on that shit. So like, I, I tried to be, I guess, I tried to pay attention to like, what she needs in

[00:41:47] order to get her part done for the household, for herself, for the side business that she's doing. But because it is, it is a partnership. It's not a thing. So, so yeah, just like. Can I say something? Yeah. Does she, and maybe we've talked about this before, but like, not that it's her job, but does she take ownership of the household? Would you say that like. She has for the last 20 plus years.

[00:42:18] Yeah, yeah, yeah. So like, and now she. And I'm not saying it's her responsibility. Yeah. But like, does she feel and take ownership of the household? Honestly, I think I would have to ask her or we would have to ask her that. I don't want to ask her that. I'm scared of her. No, but. She scares me. But that's something that actually I can bring up at, at, at the, at the, at the therapy

[00:42:39] session because it's, I think she cares very much so about how the household is being run. Yeah. That's what I'm. That's. But she doesn't want to do it on her own. No. Yeah. That's what I'm. And I think so. Yeah. Like, so that's, if, if that's what you're asking that ownership is like, she wants to have it in a certain way. It doesn't mean, it doesn't mean she does it all. Okay. Yeah. Or is responsible to do it all.

[00:43:08] But like somebody has to take ownership of the home. I would say yes then for sure. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Like my, my, me too. Like my, my wife. You gotta, you gotta do it better, man. No, that's pretty good. It was a casual one. Casual. It's a casual. It's a casual. It's a casual. My wife. She, she definitely takes the ownership of the home. It doesn't mean she's responsible to do everything. Like that's not real.

[00:43:34] We don't live like that, but like the, the condition and how we live in our home and everything is like, that's her. She takes more ownership over that than I do. Yep. Also, I'm gone all the time. So like, of course she would. Um, and it's tough then because like she has an expectation and I have an expectation and like there's often gaps between what those two things are and also who should be doing what and when. Yeah.

[00:44:03] You guys have a pretty good, you guys have a decent system at your house actually. Like, so like I live with two women that have that structure makes them want to vomit. So like it's a little tougher. You guys have a bit more of a disciplined setup going on. Uh, I don't. For sure you do. I wouldn't say disciplined. I said the plan, the plan looks good. Same, same, same. Sorry.

[00:44:29] So the plan looks good, but like, so, you know, like for example, dishes, that's mine and Jacob's job. Okay. Like that's that we said that like empty the dishwasher, do the dishes, you know, but on, on the other hand, I asked like both my kids, like, Hey, um, can you guys just like clear the, we can still do things that contribute. Like just because you said you're like, I'm doing it. It doesn't mean that you're never fucking doing them again. And like, also like, it's like, okay. Also doesn't mean you get to use a thousand dishes.

[00:44:57] Because I like, Oh, I'll have a glass of milk and just leave it on the counter. Oh, now I'm going to have a tea, you know? And just like, Oh, I'm going to have a snack. I leave it there. Like, listen, like you can maybe like give it a rinse and use the same fucking cup for the tea and milk. But, um. Nobody does that. I do it. No, I do it all the time. I'll use the same glass for three days. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I just like, I get so mad when Adrian puts it away. It's like, yeah. What are you doing? Why'd you wash that? I was using it. I grew up in like. I could go with one plate, one fork, maybe a knife. Yeah.

[00:45:27] And one glass for like four days. I grew up with my grandparents had, uh, they didn't have hot water in the house, only in the bathroom. And it was like one of those, like you had to actually stoke the fire and like. Oh wow. Okay. Warm it up. Yeah. But in the kitchen and then the sink. Fucking communist Slovakia. The dishes was like, it's a counter. You pull this part out and it's like two big pails in there. And like my grandma would warm up water and like warm water, rinse water. And then she would carry it out and dump it on the street. Well, and you did like camping. Yeah. You've done that. Camping. And then so. That's how it works.

[00:45:57] But there was, there was cold water. Yeah. And so there was one sink, metal sink, good old like fucking, it's like probably full of lead, you know. Workhorse baby, workhorse. And then there was a community mug, like a mug like this, like maybe a little bit wider, but you know, like those prison mugs that they tried to. Oh yeah. Yeah. Rattle the bars. Aluminum. Before you get ass raped or whatever. So it was a little bit of mug that was just on sitting on the sink and that was the community mug. Everybody drank from it.

[00:46:26] It never got washed, never got, it just, you drink from it, you rinse it. I'm good with that. And I was like, yeah, that's what it should be. But now we have dishwashers. We're spoiled. We're so spoiled. So anyways, I kind of went off here, but so yeah. And then, so like Adriana recognized, she knew like even, so Friday I did like a job here that was, that requires me to do, use the studio to do some live streams.

[00:46:54] But then I edit the videos and I give it to my clients to, so they can have it as a, as a training video. So I was like, okay, like they need it. I need to work on it. And we have, I've finished one of the videos. I still have to do the other one, which I'm going to be working on tonight because they need it tomorrow. And like, that's my deadline. Yeah. Family wanted to get together with our friends. No problem. I'll do it.

[00:47:20] That just means that after like eight or nine o'clock, I'm going to work for another four to five hours. Yeah. And that's fine. Yeah. Now she knew that I'm going to be busy. So like yesterday and, and I, I can't give, give enough credit to Adriana because, you know, yesterday, like she worked on her shit. Uh, did the dishes, did some, she, she cleaned the tomatoes, made more tomatoes. You've just gotten more tomato sauce.

[00:47:49] Like this is it. Like it's done. But like she did that. She cooked them down, packed them, froze them. Yeah. She did laundry. Um, while she, she's really good at like multitasking as in like, I'll do a little bit of work. Then I go to do this. Women are better at that than us. And I can't do that. If I'm going to fucking do this, I'm locked in. Women are generally way better at that than us. And then so I also made a choice to go out, uh, see, see my friends, which, oh, I've, I wanted to talk about it. Like, um, shout out to create, um, good friends of mine.

[00:48:19] Haven't seen them in like years and went out like, they're like, ah, like big hugs. You know, right away. And we chatted actually, we're going to have, uh, one of the guys from the band, Jamie on the show. He's got a really cool story. Like he was like, he told me it was like 320 pounds. He's like 230 and he's going to go down to 199 within like this was in a year. We should listen to him. Cause yeah. Oh fuck. I do. Dude. I, yeah. We're both slipping.

[00:48:46] This is, well, and this is the night he did the full, like no sugars. No. So we've done it and we know it works. It's fine. We don't have to. That's another episode. He had other issues. So like, it was just like, he locked in, he did it. Like, so we, yeah, we chatted. He's going to come on the show for sure. I tried to get in actually today, but like, he's like, I'm wearing it. So I think that's, that's kind of the over, over the over, whatever the umbrella message

[00:49:11] I'm trying to ask is like, when you dig deep and you do something, even though your body might tell you it's awful, your mind might tell you like, I'm fucking exhausted. I can't do this. Like, that ability to push through that, to do the thing is really hard. It's really hard.

[00:49:58] It's really hard. Like, I don't know if I'll be able to do it right away. I want to get it done. They don't have homework. Anyway. But you know what? I'm joking. But I said, that's important. Yeah. Do it. I'll do the cooking. So I, I cooked, I made the dinner for, you know, and we had dinner now for two, three days, which was great. And so I knew that that is important to do. So maybe because I took those two hours, three hours to cook, I, that's why I stayed up till five, not to three, but that's okay. Yeah.

[00:50:26] Because I knew that that needs, I need to dedicate that time to my family. And so I think Adriana seeing that, she was very comfortable doing the dishes, like doing my chore because she's like, well, he's really busy, but he did what he said he's going to do. And now I'm going to do this for him. So it's, it is, is again, the two way street that the communication is, even though we didn't

[00:50:52] necessarily clear it, but she recognized that I needed her help. So she did it. And then she, I recognized, I guess, not necessarily very directly, but I recognize that she's getting pissed off about my clothes being on the bed for a while. Well, it's that team thing. And I just did that. It's the team thing. Yeah. And so they dialed her back and I see her, like she gets angry, like during the sessions,

[00:51:16] I see that she gets very emotional about and angry, how she's, I think she's more pissed off about the fact that she's pissed off at me about certain things. Yep. And I told her after the session, I was like, I just like, you started talking about, I noticed your face changed or your body language changed. Yeah. And I understand. I hear you. I see you and I'm working towards it. But then she also said like, I see you working at it.

[00:51:45] So it's, it's really nice that it's good, um, that we can still be frustrated. We can still be pissed off about what the other person does or does not do. Yeah. Or do not do. I don't know. It doesn't matter. Whatever. Um, I, yeah, it's just, it's just nice that we're, we're seeing that it's not perfect and it never, never will be. But I think it's, uh, that's what helped me get through this week is that we were able

[00:52:13] to actually recognize each other's needs for this week. And, and it was, I think it was clear without saying what's important to get done right now. Yeah. And then, you know, tomorrow new week starts. There's new challenges that come up, but like, we're going to have some fun evening tonight and, uh, with friends and, you know, kids are getting together and yeah, just, you know, she asked like, she's like, Hey, can we go with our friends and our, our, our friend

[00:52:42] and that time Rob are coming over with their kids. So I love them. They're the best. They're great. And so can the girls go into the hot tub? Like boys, you guys keep, yeah, no problem. Great. So girls can go into the hot tub. We'll bring them down. We'll play some pong or I don't know. We'll figure something out. Yeah. But like the girls want to have their own time where they can chill. Absolutely. I, and so, yeah, that's, I rarely say it, but like, I admire so much of the that about your family, my second family.

[00:53:12] I really admire the way you guys handle that. And like, I, I see what you're doing and I see because we talk so much and we see each other all the time, but like, I, I really do admire the, the man you're growing into in your own business. And not, it's not about your business. It's about the life change. And like, it came with it. It's come, it's come with its challenges and like, it's come with its, its weight on your

[00:53:41] relationship and like, but what did you guys do? You got to work on it and you're like, okay, well, if this is weird and this is, we're not satisfied here, let's work on it. And like, you're working on it. And I'm, I think that's so fucking admirable. Like, yeah, and I'm far from like doing the right thing. No, but you're always, you're always far from, but you're just trying to get closer. We're never going to get a re never going to reach that point. But yeah, that gap maybe is close. I admire you and Adriana and your family for, for that. And like you guys.

[00:54:10] Well, don't give credits to the kids. Like they're, they're fucking doing no. Dude, I love your kids so much. Fuck that. They're my favorite. Well, aside from my wife and my daughter, your kids are my favorite people in the world. Then maybe your wife and then you. Okay. Okay. As long as I come last. No, you guys like, you guys are just such a good team. And it actually like, I don't tell you, but the inspiration I get from seeing how you guys

[00:54:36] interact and what you do in your home when I come here and I'm, I'm engaged in, and I'm like half a part of the family at this point. Yeah. And, uh, I take a lot of that home with me. And like, I find that when I've been here and I go home, I have a better attitude about being at home than I did before I came here and went home. Like, well, and I mean that very sincerely. Like that, that's a real thing. And like, I see what you guys do and the challenges you overcome and what you're doing. And like, I just, I think that's great.

[00:55:06] I'm proud of all of you, but like, I'm proud of you. Thank you, man. I really appreciate it. And, and again, it's like, I, I'm happy that like, it's a, it gives you a little bit of, um, even just like, I guess, yeah. Like maybe, uh, opportunity to look at things different differently. Right. Yeah. Because sometimes we forget that. Right. Like there's like, well, I, I feel down. I know my life is shit right now. And it's like, well, there's somebody out there that's dealing with worse shit than you're dealing.

[00:55:33] And it's easy to feel, put yourself on an Island for sure. And, and I'm never trying to, I'm never, I don't want to try to take away the stuff that you're dealing with, which, you know, maybe one day we'll talk about, maybe not. Sure. Doesn't matter. But, uh, you've had like significant challenges in your life for the last two, three years. Yeah. And, um, and you know, I think things are getting better and that's, and that's fine. Yeah. And, um, but again, how, like you can't just go back to normal. No.

[00:56:01] And, uh, and so now you guys are figuring out like how to move forward from where you're at right now. Yeah. Yeah. Um, and you're like, you, you, like you told me you've come home and like, Hey, it was just a, not what you were expecting to walk into the house. Yeah. And, and again, I kind of told you, well, you maybe just need to like ignore it or you don't. And you just fucking do. Or what's my part in that? Yeah. Like what, what do I need to contribute to? Like, and maybe there's a part that's mine. Yeah.

[00:56:29] And so, so it will take some time. And like, you know, I always try to, um, how do I say this? So, so. You never let me get away with being mad for no reason. Yeah. No, no. I love that. No. I was just like, well, I, cause there's always that voice of reason that I think everyone should have. Yeah. And whether you agree with it or not, that's okay. But you just need to hear it. Right. Um, like last night I had a good conversation with my buddy that was here. We haven't seen each other for a long time.

[00:57:00] And then Thursday we hung out and then tonight or last night we hung out and, uh, uh, this is my buddy, Chris. We used to be in a band together. He was my first best friend in Canada. Like we clicked right away. Yeah. Yeah. Same puppy music, same local band, same gear for guitars. Like we love the same sound. Everything was just like, ah, yeah, we're fucking brothers from another mile. Right. Same people from different continents. And so, yeah, he was here and we were just kind of chatting.

[00:57:26] And like, I told him, I was like, you know, um, I've, I've had to make some serious changes in my life in the last half a year or since January, call it. But, um, I'm choosing who I spend energy on. And, uh, and if like friends are very important. But I will very easily cut people out if I'm not getting that energy exchange. Yep.

[00:57:56] And, and not to be, not to be like absolutely a dickhead. It's like, well, if you're not scratching my back, I'm not scratching your back. It doesn't work that way. It's different. But, uh, it's just like, I will move heaven and earth for anybody that I know that if I call you, you'll be there for me. Yeah. Whether it's you drive me, you buy me food, you pick me up when I fall. It doesn't matter. Yeah. It's, it's about like just being there for each other.

[00:58:26] And like, I've learned with some people like, oh, I, I, I'm set, I separated them now to friends and acquaintances. I do circles. Yeah. And we should do a show on that actually. Like we should do another episode on friendship. Maybe, yeah. Uh, cause I think it's a bigger subject, but I do circles and I can explain those, but we should do it another time. Cause it's, yeah. And for me, it's just like, like, like all my, my, my, uh, people that I worked with were just acquaintances. Yeah.

[00:58:56] Like, are we friends? Sure. We're friendly. Yeah. And those aren't bad things. That's the thing is like you learn. Sorry. Yeah. It's just, there's layers to it and they're all good. You just have to know where people are at. Like if people call me right now from my old job, like, Hey, you want to go out for beers? I'm like, um, yeah, I have time. Yeah. I have time. Yeah. Exactly. I'll make time. But like you call me like, Hey man, like, I'm just like, uh, can you, can you let's go right now? No, no, I can't.

[00:59:25] Like if you call me like, Hey man, I'm like, I'm, I just, I need everything stops. Also you'll tell me like, I need you. Yeah. Okay. No problem. I drop everything. Yeah. And me too. Like no question. But, um, yeah. So it's just like, I've, I've been very open about it with some friends now that like, I don't have time for you. Yeah. Like, I'm sorry. But like, like this, I'm willing to work on things and get things done and, and put them on the right path.

[00:59:54] But like, it's a two way street. Yeah. Like, and if you're not going to like, we need to be on, like, I want to be honest with you. Yeah. I, if I can tell you honestly that like, Hey, this is, this is what's bugging me. And then you'll be like, I hear you. And okay. How can we make this work? But if you, if I tell you, Hey, this was bugging me, well, fuck you. Like you're kind of like, like, okay. That's not a good fit. Yeah. Are we going to bicker here? Like back and forth? No, no. Let's just.

[01:00:23] All it is, is just not a good fit. It's not a bad thing. It's just not a good fit. And so I had this conversation with Chris cause I was like, man, I haven't seen you in like months, but like we get together. It's like all that's dropped, all that's forgotten. And we have the greatest time. We can hug it out, talk about anything, personal things, catch up. And then just, okay. I understand you're busy. He understands I'm busy. Yeah. As just, it's a true friendship that like, it doesn't have to be a daily interaction. No.

[01:00:50] It, it's just, it has that power, I guess. Yeah. All right. So that's awesome. Yeah. Did we have a voicemail? Yes. Yeah. We should wrap it up cause we're, we're going long here. We're going long here, but that's okay. We haven't done a long episode. No, no, it's fine. Yes. We do have a voicemail and I know who it's from. Do you know? I don't know. I know who it's from. It's not Kyle.

[01:01:20] No, it's not Kyle. Yeah. Weird. I think he finally heard us and was listening. We told him not to leave a voicemail. Good. If you're still listening, don't leave a voicemail. But I believe this voicemail is related to our last episode. Okay. Well, let's, let's, yeah, let's get into it. All right. Hey, Nomad here. Just wanted to call and say that I think that unfiltered episode was the best one yet.

[01:01:50] You guys should probably talk about how awesome I am more often. Also, I guess it's just some universal thing that someone has to be sick at Tommy's birthday. Anyway, so fuck you, Tim, if that is your real name because you weren't there. I was the sick one. Show up next year.

[01:02:17] Lastly, what's all this talk about Kyle being sweet? That guy's a pervert and you know it. I know it. We all know it. Stop being nice. It's weird. That's it. Fuck you. Love you. Bye. That's pretty funny. Oh, man. I love that. That brings me back to the old days when you had your podcast and she was leaving voicemails. Like, oh my God, that is.

[01:02:48] Yeah. She's awesome. I mean, the unfiltered episode was pretty fun. It was good, yeah. I'm excited to do more of those because they're super fun for me. It's hard doing a show. I think she just said that because we talked about her. Well, probably. Self-serving bitch. But no, it's, yeah. Yeah. I'm glad we started doing it. We're going to do those once in a while because like, and I think we talked about it in that episode.

[01:03:16] Like just sometimes you just want to have fucking fun. Yeah. And like not. If you're feeling down, right? Not be serious. Yeah. Like just make jokes. And if I said something nice about Kyle, God damn, I'm so sorry. Like that was such a mistake. But you know, I don't know. I'm filterless in those episodes. So I guess maybe in that moment I felt nice about Kyle. Yeah. Well, yeah. It's like, I'm already feeling sad. I don't want to talk about another sad thing. Yeah. Right. Kyle's the worst. And. It's not sad. Yeah.

[01:03:47] But yeah. That's nice. Man, I think Kyle might have to become part of this show more often because I keep bringing him up, but he called me as soon as we made the announcement about December 6th. He's like, hey, hey, what's going on? I'm like, oh no. I was like, you know what I'm calling for? I'm like, yes, I do. I know you're excited because we're doing it on a weekend where you can make it. Very excited. Very excited. Very nice.

[01:04:17] So he's super excited to come on December 6th. Awesome. But yeah. Thanks Nomad for leaving the voicemail. Is Dirty Nomad coming too? No, she fucks off for winter. She does. She's not here anymore. I don't know. I think she's still here. That's the whole Nomad thing. You never know. Yeah. She just leaves one day. Oh, you left actually. Thanks for saying bye. I wish she wouldn't come back. It'd be fine. Oh, she always comes back. Sorry. That's an unfiltered episode. Sorry. She's like a boomerang. She always comes back.

[01:04:45] More like herpes than a boomerang, but sure. All right. Oh, yeah. So, yeah. Thanks for leaving the voicemail. Yeah. Anybody that, again, like you guys can leave a serious voicemail or you guys can leave a fun voicemail and talk about- Yeah. Just call us whatever. Yeah. I love being called names. It actually makes me really happy. That's true, yeah. Yeah, you know that. That's how we started. That's how we became friends. I like the abuse. I'm a huge fan of being abused. Voicemails on quietriotshow.ca.

[01:05:15] Go there. A little microphone on the right-hand side. Click on it. Record the episode. It comes straight to our email. And, yeah. December 6th. Get the date right. Jesus. I'm going to restart. Cut. Cut. December 6th. Kingshead. 120 King Street. In Winnipeg. 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. And Intergalactic Sauces will be there. Quiet Riot Show will be there.

[01:05:44] Rendezvous Brewery will be there. Rendezvous Brewery. Granny's Wings. By the way, when you're typing in Granny's Wings- I forgot about that. Okay, this is like- I hope I get to- And I'm sorry, Granny's Wings, if this comes out wrong. Yeah, maybe you shouldn't. I'm going to- They're a sponsor. Okay. All right.

[01:06:10] I'm just saying, like, if you're ever Googling Granny's Wings, make sure you leave the space. And make sure Safe Search is on. Yeah. Granny's Wings isn't the same results. Yeah. I- Pretty funny, though. I was horrified when I was like, oh, no, I need to have spaces. So I'm just going to say that. But yeah, thank you for sponsoring the Wings. And Trav, I love you, as always. Me and Trav have been connecting more and more. And like, that guy's- I really like him.

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