Pyramid Scheme | This Past Weekend #240
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Summary
It's spooky season, folks! It's Halloween, which means it's time for spooktacular costumes and spooky stories. This week, we've got a couple of spooky tales from the past.
Transcript
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You feel me, baby? I ain't no one-time line, baby. You know it.
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I'm that cinnamon-lemon, daddy. I'm staying season-y.
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they had a bunch of ants with, like, little bitty axes, you know?
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And we had a guy at our school named Cauldron Patterson.
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Young urban fella and beautiful guy and did a lot of art.
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Not art, but he painted, like, houses and stuff like that.
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but then somebody gets slapped every couple seconds.
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They'll slap a damn jawbreaker out of your mouth right there, that thing.
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That sounds scary, but also a little bit of domestic dispute kind of tickled in there with the slappy.
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That sounds a little like Dexter, like Dexter is going to do some Halloween, and you know,
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Could you imagine if Dexter showed up at your door?
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You're going to have to give him your soul, because that's what he's going to get.
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You know, like Larry and Abishola or some bullshit.
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Oh, that sounds like somebody about to take their tits out at like a real nice Wendy's
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or something, real upscale Wendy's, and that means just any Wendy's that has, you know,
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two doors on it because everybody knows I've been in a Wendy's out here in Los Angeles
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over there, Santa Monica, and one of the doors is missing, you know, one of those in and
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out apparatuses, doors, is missing off that there Wendy's, and if Dave Thomas were alive,
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he would shit in his apron because that's no way to go through it.
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That was a little bit of intro music and just, you know, getting people keyed up and everything,
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If you get to check this out, Nicholas, premature Nick, and if, I don't know if there's anything
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more, you know, the coffin, you know, that's when the coffins open.
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You know, the thoroughfare is there, and people can, you know, spirits can come and go as they
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And a premature baby, and that's what producer Nick, you know, got here early.
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And if you get near him, sometimes you can smell a little bit of milk on him or something,
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you know, just something, you know, you could definitely, I mean, he'll wake up out of a
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I hope you hope this week have everything you want in it.
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Dude, when I was young, a ghost was like one of the top costumes.
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I remember one guy, this guy Little Carlton, and he didn't have, I don't know, he didn't,
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Or he didn't want to, honestly, bro, he was lazy.
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So, he didn't, you know, we'd all be walking somewhere and he would kind of just kind of
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Or sometime my friend Shep, this big guy, he would carry him.
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And I remember, who the fuck was I talking about?
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But I'm going to have me a little snicker, boy, you know that.
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They got, and they got a lot of different ghosts now.
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When I was young, they had rare, you know, limited costumes.
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And Carlton, one time, I remember this dude was a transmission, that's what he was.
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And he put some type of metal or something on him and poured motor oil all over himself.
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But he was beautiful, beautiful kid, had real beautiful cheeks on him.
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You know, sometimes on a child, it's almost like the Lord just fucking Botoxed him with a, you know, just put like a, just a, some warming, just a little bit of lava or something in their cheeks.
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And I wish he wouldn't have been so lazy because more people would have seen his cheeks.
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But when you're that lazy, you don't run across as many people as you should because you're not out making the rounds of the world.
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I wonder what sound I would make if I'm dying, bro.
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If I'm dying, dude, I'm not making like a, I don't know, my last thing.
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Some of these thoughts out here, you know, some of these Franken thoughts out here, they'd be like.
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If you had a last sound, what would it be if you had a really, because it's your last, the last noise you're going to make in the world, the last thing that's going to reverb out of you.
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But if people, if you do that, you're probably not going to die if you have that much energy to do that sound.
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So, it would have to be a soft, maybe like a little whistle or something, like a.
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I remember in college, I got fired from radio station for blowing a dog whistle.
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You know, one of those dog whistles that only dogs can hear, allegedly.
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But I got fired for blowing one of those on the radio station all the time because people would complain.
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You know, like, I can't listen to Foo Fighters.
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You know, because my damn Labrador hates your audio network.
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You know, I'm trying to call in and get y'all to play some juvenile.
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And they got, you know, and they got six stray dogs showing up over here on the dance floor.
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What did I do this weekend, this past weekend, man?
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I do want to tell you some dates that just are coming up.
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And a portion of the proceeds to go to Dustin Poirier's Good Fight Foundation.
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Dude, Dustin called out, you know, Nate Diaz on.
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He's in the hospital bed because they took part of his hip or something.
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I mean, I think they're going to replace his hip with a damn chainsaw, bro.
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That dude's going to be cutting people's heads off.
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And then he'll probably get a job doing reforestation or timber.
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I mean, that dude could be, you know, he could be fighting by day.
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And, you know, he could be fighting at night and doing, and building, you know, and doing, working at a lumber yard, working at it over there.
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But, and he was talking shit to that man, Nate Diaz.
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Dude, if you go read their conversation back and forth, it was pretty funny.
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This is a great time to get out there, do a costume.
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You know, when I was young, they didn't have as many costumes.
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I remember having, I remember asking for a sheet for my birthday.
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Just to save that bastard so I could ghost out.
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And some people, you know, a lot of kids, you know, if you had a sheet, a lot of times you didn't really, you know, some people called it more of a bastard drapery.
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Because you didn't usually have a daddy or something if you was just out there in a sheet.
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I remember one kid would put a sheet on and put like a little rope around his neck, kind of.
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And he fucking forgot to cut the eye holes into it.
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Ran outside and got attacked by a bunch of fucking stray dogs.
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So you gotta, I mean, Halloween, you gotta think, you know, you have to, I mean, cut some face holes and stuff.
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And that tight ass thing pressing into the back of your head.
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Especially from the, if you got something from like the pharmacy or whatever.
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I remember my dad one time got a, me and my brother, he accidentally got us both, uh, um, raggedy Ann instead of Andy.
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And so we were both out there like just a couple of straight up sugar bitches, man.
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I'm, I'm, I'm a, I'm a handy, but I'm just, I got the wrong, you know, uh, suit on.
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Being locked in that damn little fucking face fucking prison.
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That, dude, that little plastic mask that bitch cuts into your head.
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You try to stick your tongue out the little breathing hole in there.
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Dude, they, yeah, you put that thing, that mask on.
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You, some, you couldn't even breathe sometimes.
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And he's at the funeral and they got him a death certificate, Raggedy Andy on there, Frankenstein.
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They don't even fucking look for his real identity.
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Dude, I remember one time when I was at Halloween, uh, my dad had gotten, you know, because my father was a senior citizen.
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Hold on, I'm going to have a snicker real quick because I deserve it.
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And by Christmas, I'll escalate up to a damn full bar.
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We got one in here from like a damn museum or something.
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Or the kind you pull over on the side of the interstate
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and in Missouri to take a picture of with your cousin.
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or they gave him wrong blood work at the hospital.
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that's why you would either go to the hospital,
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they got him in like a damn nine foot incubator.
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Little Daniel come by and sell him a pack of smokes,
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that if you're gambling and you should have bet on them New Orleans saints,
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he's like a light at the end of the tunnel of humanity.
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and the place that I like to do it is at my bookie,
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you got a ghost in your wiener or in your coot.
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Everybody's got something haunting them right now.
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lie to your wife and say you're going to the store.
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If you're the kind of guy who likes to bet a little
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if you like a couple of the big favorites this week
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because they let you bet multiple games together
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and sometimes I got a little bit of bitch in me,
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And so I can only play with these cards that I have.
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December 16th will be three years of doing this past weekend.
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a lot of people will kind of beat each other out in the street and stuff like that.
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I don't know if that'd be the smartest investment.
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I don't know if you've been watching the news lately.
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This back and forth we have here is the information I receive.
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that's when I think people could use an animal the most.
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it's almost like when you touch the back of a damn beautiful,
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when you touch the back of a beautiful ape or a beautiful,
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a kitten or even one of those little dogs that's in a wheelchair or something.
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It's almost like sticking your hand right into heaven's ass,
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When you touch the back of an animal or the back,
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they let you touch a damn fucking lemur or something,
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that can cure a lot of people is what I'm saying.
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You get to go look at a couple of lambs or whatever,
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then that could be something that could be special.
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it's crazy cause my boy hadn't even gotten back to me.
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He hadn't responded to like the past four messages.
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we had some calls that came in about pyramid schemes.
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but we had some call that came in about that pyramid.
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It's like my whole tongue just dang went to church,
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It's like everyone on my teeth just sat down in,
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Because my mouth is with the Lord when I got a snicker in it.
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Because I asked you guys to let me know if you'd ever done,
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that's a Bermuda triangle of your bank account right there.
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they'll steal a bag of potato chips out of your hand.
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Kind of like those little monkeys over there in,
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my fiance and I actually got wrapped up in one of those with,
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it can definitely be good for the people that are at the top,
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you have to start selling to your friends and family.
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I'm guessing that's when they do the baby powder.
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And I think it was like a couple thousand bucks.
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we'll meet you back there and come in and you'll be going on the stage.
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she looks like she has a real strong kind of butthole on her,
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I bet it could probably blow a bubble with some gum if it has gum in it.
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and there's like a clock that's counting down on the wall.
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Cause they were doing dinner when I was on stage and they had just gotten in it to the dessert portion of the evening.
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I'm sick of people acting like we just like dinner,
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but give me a menu that just has dessert on it and I'll be fine.
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so now I'm able to see the stage from the front and see what everybody else is seeing.
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There's like this countdown clock of like when the new product is going to launch.
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And they had these patches you put on your head and it helps you sleep and stuff.
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you'll never think about your ex-girlfriend or something,
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you put them on the back of your legs and you can drive better,
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But everybody was in there and they were fired up and the new patches were about to launch.
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And I look on stage and Suzanne Somers up there with that strong ass fricking back,
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And I remember getting high when I was young with two,
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And one night we got high with a couple of urban gentlemen,
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he could rescue somebody who had fallen down in a hole easily.
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One time we're driving in this 84 Ford Escort I had.
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what'd be funny is if I pull over and say the car won't start and they'll all get out of the car and be looking under the hood.
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and they were looking under the hood for so long,
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and I just kept telling them that it wouldn't start.
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I just kept telling them that it would not start.
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I actually got into a pyramid scheme because of my mom.
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which was all the money I had because I was only like 18 at the time,
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When I was young and we found out one of my buddies,
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If you can't even make first chair when it comes to being a cousin,
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I'll get you into a pyramid scheme because we don't have that for,
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but they would make us go to these trips out to like different states and stuff and do these like conventions.
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I went to this one convention in Vegas and I like,
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basically I just like slept on the floor in someone's hotel room and,
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it's probably the worst experience being in Las Vegas at 17,
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I lost a lot of friendships trying to get people in the business.
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some family members and my mom never gave me that $600 back.
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it's hard when you mix family and the money and everybody's people fist fighting.
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we didn't talk for a long time because of the pyramid scheme.
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And we had a square and we kept calling somebody else.
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Cause I wonder if there's just somebody who's just going town to town,
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like just Jerry pyramid and he's winning them all.
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I felt some pretty hard titties down there in Dallas a long time ago.
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I just wanted to call in about pyramid schemes.
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She used to order a lot of packages to our door of different types of
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accoutrements that you would get in a pyramid scheme.
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I remember one time she said she was about five sales away from getting a free
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She did probably about five pyramid schemes when I was a child.
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one of them little ice cream makers or whatever you can have at the
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And it was basically just like a little hatchet,
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like a little safe ax and like a little cup in there.
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And you had to like bring your own ice and beat that shit up.
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I wish I just had never gotten bought in that thing.
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The stress of trying to just make a damn cold treat for myself,
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we got some beautiful pumpkins here in studio today.
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And I'll put them on the Instagram and tag him.
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And he did some real cool ones with the cartoon.
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it's going to be like fast and then it's going to be Christmas and then it's going to be New Year's.
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that's like when you never hear a kid say like,
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but if you want to see somebody go downhill quickly and,
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I had a bunch of sets this week working on some new material and it felt real good,
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he has pictures in there with him and his father and his family and the dad's laying there.
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I think it's like a traditional Korean thing where,
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they get a little sword or something and draw it on the wall.
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people don't draw on their walls as much because it's not caves and stuff.
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here's a question that came in from Alex Gebhardt.
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I've declared myself the world's worst procrastinator.
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I'm currently taking a coding course and I'm behind so many assignments cause I just don't want to do them.
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Do you ever have problems procrastinating and what do you do to pull yourself out of it?
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having a tough time with some stuff the past couple of weeks.
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I'm always thinking about how I feel and feeling about how I think.
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We need to process what's going on with us and,
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So we don't have like these things trapped in us.
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People that win are people that act people that achieve their goals or their dreams or get what they want.
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and it's hard for me to stomach that sometimes,
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I'm going to get a classmate to hold me accountable.
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that kind of stuff doesn't go away very easily.
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you really have to make some efforts for change if you want to.
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if you're just going to procrastinate all the time,
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I'm always beating myself up instead of enjoying my procrastination.
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After working in corrections for the last two years,
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Can you offer some suggestions on how to stay kind and not be cynical in a negative and manipulative environment?
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you go in there every day and you're working really with the,
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the dregs and the people that are evil and afflicted and also people that are mentally not well.
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You're working at a very unique layer of humanity.
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and also in a layer where you guys are probably perceived as the enemy.
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Even though you're just somebody that's going in and clocking in a work,
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I have trouble being cynical and being judgmental.
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praying for your enemy can really help praying for your enemy.
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If you went back and looked at my life and you let somebody else say,
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pick out the people that influenced this fella.
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Cause sometimes it was just certain moments when I was willing to hear somebody or when I was,
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somebody could tell me something a million times and I couldn't hear it.
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a basketball coach or a camp counselor or somebody just had,
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just in a certain moment or a certain place where I was feeling,
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I was willing to hear what was going on or willing to hear some advice or suggestion.
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you're down there dealing with people that some of them is just,
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you got a lot of real devil dwellers out there.
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do your best and keep the light alive in you because I bet it can be easy to get pulled down.
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it's like working right out there on just like,
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but I bet there's one or two people you can inspire.
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And I think just maybe see what's similar between you and those people.
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because there's some things where you guys are both just human and you'll have very similar.
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And maybe those would be places where you can make little bridges with people.
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the coffins are open right now and you can hear,
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who's made some pretty big cartoons about possibly,
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doing something with the animations that we've been doing.
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I'm starting to feel a little bit less stressed than I was earlier in this year.
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What's up Hunter over there in that cackalacky boy,
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I got my first one when I was 17 and I blew a point.
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you're like the damn rain man of breathalyzers,
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but it falls within a seven year period to where you can't have two DUIs in North Carolina
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within seven years or you get mandatory jail time.
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I guess I'm going to find a job or something somewhere so I can look good to the judge,
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hear you make something funny about it or something,
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it's hard not to get a DUI when your town is named after a damn truck.
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you might want to start being a bookie or something,
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a lot of wealthy people get out of this kind of shit cause they get the right attorneys and blah,
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but those people who get out of things like this,
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I think your wife will think that's sexy as hell.
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cause it'll give you some time to think about stuff.
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you had a couple of bush lights and fucking decided to floor it on the way home.
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you got to come up with a good crime that you did.
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You could always tell me you tickled the cop after they pulled you over,
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I think there's something kind of wild about that.
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Cause anybody could shoot somebody or do this or that,
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Cause that dude's the kind of guy who's fucking not afraid to fucking put both of his,
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all 10 of his fingers into a cop's ribs and wiggle them around.
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Cause there's something kind of fucking artsy about that,
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you're lucky to have somebody to support you if you do have to struggle with that.
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And I'm sorry that people like where we're from don't have the same opportunity to get out of some of the bullshit,
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maybe have your buddy take all your tires off your truck or something,
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but one of them thing that's vacuumed while you're gone.
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it's supposed to clean your house while you're,
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somebody caught two room is fucking outside of their garage.
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everybody want to talk about how artificial intelligence is going to be the future and everything like that.
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a Roomba and one of these Nest thermostats and they meet,
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cooking up a gram or something or heating up a couple of,
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artificial intelligence is only as good as the dope it's going to get into.
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you find some drugs in there or something that might not be your husband's,
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next time they pull you over and they search your car and they find a,
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in a little Mason jar of a KY jellies or something preserves,
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preferably because you don't say I don't like a little bit of chunk in it.
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rolling over there to the Chevrolet dealership.
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artificial intelligence is going to be so smart easily.
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They found a toaster that had a couple of them doing dabs.
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I just got finished listening to the last podcast.
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I don't know what this podcast is going to be like.
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It's just your own will and stuff you want to do.