Oscar. What the hell are you doing here? What do you mean you
invited me? This is very strange. Listen, my car crashed? Can
I just get a cup of sugar? Is that what neighbors do? That
is what neighbors do? And then you fuck their wife? God? Oh,
I didn't wait? Are we recording? Can I go to the other
neighbors? It's too personal. I know you guys too much. We've done
been recording. We're recording right now. Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas listeners.
I don't even know how many listeners we have left anymore. Sweeping drink,
it's three and it's you and I and then the third person that's yeah,
yeah, so Merry Christmas listeners. Whoever's left it's I think it's literally almost
it's got to be a year to the day last since we last recorded,
because I think when we were recording episode one fifty i Isy Sagawa the Cannibal,
I think we were signing off for Christmas saying Merry Christmas because it was
like a demented Christmas episode. Yeah that sounds like you, right, Yeah,
that sounds like you. And then we were supposed to come back in
either January or February and we never came back. That's right. Yeah,
that's usually our season or like our time off, right, Yes, yeah,
yeah, it's like a summer break, right, except it because you
take fifty vacations work as heavy and before and around that area, so you
like, you know, I remember that, yes, yeah, yeah,
during that time. Yeah, so we decided we're going to take a break.
It's just the break lasted for a year, and for that, I
mean, I'm heartfelt apologizing to our listeners. I'm not he can do it
for me live in my best life. No, okay, I have not,
but we'll get to that in a minute. But no, I don't.
Yeah, obviously I do apologize. I don't have the heartfelt us.
But what I do have is like I feel like I feel like when a
young couple, especially young people, you know, they take a break.
They don't break up, right, but they take a break, and this
is the guy. It's like, the audience is the guy in this normal
situation normally, I mean, and we're the girl each other, We're gonna
take a break, we want to break, but it ended up being a
breakup because the last of the whole year and now we're back after like,
you know, trying out different podcasts, not really sleeping around with different podcasts,
right, and then and then we come back to the audience like,
okay, the break is over. Now did you miss us? You know
I missed you, honey. You know that's how it feels. It does
it does? It feels it feels weird. It was crazy. Put we're
face to face. We're face god, we are fuck covid now right,
So March twenty twenty. March of twenty twenty is the last time we were
face to face doing this, right, face to face it in the studio
in my home with the good mics and that pick up every that means we
were in quarantine? Were before? That was before, right before quarantine.
Yeah, that's when quarantines happened. Yeah, that's right. So in a
few months, it'd be three years since we did this. Face. Your
hairline looks amazing. Everything else is falling apart, oh yeah yeah everything yeah
gray and tatters. I don't know what's going on with your skin over there,
but yeah, yeah I'm falling apart. Yeah it's ok. Yeah,
So I just wanted to get on the mics. I really missed it.
Fuck twenty twenty two is all I have to say. Fuck twenty twenty two.
It was a terrible year for me. A lot, a lot happened.
We were supposed to come back in January or February. I can't remember
what we said which month, But in January of this year I wound up
if something happened to me health wise, and I wound up in the hospital
physical therapy. A shitty couple months, something something, something, a big
setback at work. I'm still employed, same company, but there was a
huge setback. Well also, COVID hit it. I mean we talked about
this too. Oh wait, no, that's twenty I'm still we're talking about
this year. This year feels like five years and twenty twenty felt like it
happened twenty years ago. I'm trying of like or seven years ago. Really,
and just sorry, I'm back on top. Time. Is funny when
you start thinking over these past couple of years, the COVID years, it's
very dogs funny. It's dog years. Yeah. So yeah, I wound
up in the hospital physical therapy, had a big setback at work that I'm
still dealing with. I I realized there were unresolved issues that I had after
my father's passing, everything kind of culminated into I just couldn't. I think
depression is what it was. Yeah, I'm still trying to call my way
out of it. And you know, one of the one of the symptoms
of that is you stop enjoying the hobbies you once loved. You completely stop
doing those things. And that's yeah. He stopped recording, he stopped taking
me out on dates. It was very compressing. It was it was really
bad. And I just said, I'm still trying to claw my way out
of it. But I realized that I have to get a hobby back.
I have to get back on the mics, researching and doing something that I
love. So fuck twenty twenty two. Now, I'm not committing to a
schedule on the podcast right now. You know, we used to do every
two weeks religiously, and then we did like once a month, and and
the and the and the eve and the home stretch of our of our break
because it was getting heavy and obviously, which is a precursor to why we
took the year off. Really it's really what it is like the eye of
the store. Maybe I don't know what and and now we know, you
know, and yeah, no schedule. It could be like Dan Carlin,
what's up? Dan Carlin is a famous podcast, or he does history,
he recurked whenever. Yeah, he just does it whenever he can. That's
that's a stick. I like it. I think that's what we could do
for now. Yeah, we'll, we'll, we'll put out some stuff.
I started researching something, right, and I was like, well, no,
do not get excited. I started because you know you what was was
two weeks ago, three weeks ago you told me that you want to come
back. Yeah, about three weeks ago, and I was like, oh
great, And then I texted you at some point after that like, oh,
I started researching something. And I should have said, like, I
had no idea how to do this again because so many false starts. I
got like one pair of dumb it's dumb. There's nowhere near done. Anyway.
I'm rusty. Yeah, me too, me too. Well, your
skin looks rusty too. I don't have anything wrong skin, so listeners know
I'm not like a leper over here you have. Yeah. And then our
our website was brought down twice. It was hacked and completely destroyed twice.
That sucked. So we had to finally and it's up now Chicago ghost podcast
dot com. That was from go Daddy. I got hacked and brought down
twice from go Daddy really had to be rebuilt twice. Yes, So now
we finally migrated all the data off of go daddy servers and put them onto
a private server from our our hosting server, our web design company. Yeah.
Yeah, it's like in the Philippines or whatever. You were serious.
I was just and so they're they're moneery constantly and uh there yeah, so
we should be good there. Our merch shop is back up, you know,
that's all up and running. I'm very happy about that. But just
stuff like that. Man, fuck twenty twenty two, it sucked. Yeah.
Now how about for you, I know for a time you took on
a new job before the government. That's right. Our schedule was another reason
our schedules changed. That's right. It did change because I only had I
had two days off only, which was I don't remember Tuesday, Wednesday or
something like that. It was something really weird, something weird. Couldn't meet,
right, that was gonna be hard to meet because that schedule was like
two am or something till eleven am. Yeah, crazy, some weird hour,
Yeah, some weird time. I quit it very soon after that,
Yeah, because so real quickly. The job was for I don't mind saying
it. They don't care either. It was for goodwill, specifically the goodwill
at a Navy base. They basically served the troops. Yes, I was
serving the troops, very weird job, serving them food, serving them food,
sorry, serving them food, feeding them three times a day. That
was all that was our job and everything that entailed, which is preparing all
that cleaning and shared managing. I was one of the managers. And they're
wrong. The job itself, it was, it's technically manageable. Do they
manage it? Well, no, it's a crazy zoo down there, And
well I didn't know. I don't. This is what I'm fun with.
No government, that's my first. This is not a real government job because
I'm working for a nonprofit, but like it is because I'm working on their
soil, so I do have to follow their rules and shit. So that's
probably why you know, it was so weird there for me. But I
was like, like, I can tough this off for like a year.
Nope, six weeks is all I lasted before I was like yeah, life
is too short for this. It paid more than I was for sure a
good amount more, but it wasn't worth it, Like I was gonna my
soul was gonna die like the rest of them. A lot of people were
very depressed on there, who were like eyes glazed over with you know,
or like hired to the bone kind of thing, or like every day is
like a new upheaval that they bring on something, all this unnecessary baggage,
unnecessary baggage. I started immediately and like, no, I don't want to
deal with this. I don't need my life to be a sitcom that isn't
funny. So I quit and I went I went back to Starbucks. There
you go. Yeah, and it took me back into Harpy. They had
not replaced me, and they were were raised too, right. Yeah,
yeah, Yeah, it's it's cool that you you realize that, Hey,
the money isn't worth losing a part of myself. Yes, I've always done
that. This is why I've always lived, you know, lived kind of
minimally because I don't I'd rather have a peace of mind than a lot of
money. Yeah, I've never been that kind of person. And that's really
kind of where I'm at now too, like, is this is this money
worth my health? Because mental health is just as important as your physical health.
Mental health and physical health. Yeah for Trusty, as it's killing me,
that's it is. So I understand what you're saying and brab with you
for pulling the trigger on that. You know. Yeah, well it's well
like pulling the trigger and take the trigger at the bullet back because the first
big change was taking this job, and then the big change after that is
going back. You know. That's funny, but it's good. They took
you back and you got a raise. Yeah, and then I remember,
no one wants to close, no one wants to whoever what happens? Then?
I remember you were also really sick too. It wasn't COVID. Do
you remember. I do remember that you were down from I don't remember what.
I'm trying to remember what it was. It's been til long now.
Yeah, but it wasn't COVID because that's what we thought at first. Yeah,
I still haven't really gone COVID. You didn't, I did. I
wound up getting it. Yeah, I remember that. But you have kids
though, it's like basically gonna happen. It's like a matter of time,
not if, but when nothing would Nico, my son hasn't gotten it.
We all of us, me, my wife and daughter have got it.
But yeah, I remember you were super sick. So it's just another thing
that added to you know, extending the recording and just one thing after another,
one thing after another. And did feel that way. But this year,
you know, that's scene in Seinfeld. Sorry for younger people out there,
let's face it, you're not the younger the is this the episode side
of the Summer of George. Summer of George? I don't remember that one.
Well, well, he decides this year I'm gonna make a change.
This is gonna be the summer of me. I'm going to be a successful
something in something. I kind of did that not not a summer of Oscar,
but it was more like I called I didn't call it anything. What
I what I did is that I went out online, mainly online but also
in physical form, going out and accept trying to like make new friends.
That's what I try to do this year, make new friend. I accepted
all applications whatever, no matter how weird you were or what, like the
polar opposite of what I don't care if you're accept I'm accepting kind of thing.
And so how did that turn out? So weird ups and down ups
and downs, some of them in the form of like through a dating app,
I met a few people that were interested only in making friends, and
I was fine with that, and so I did hang out with a few
people, some of which, like I found I don't wanna say uninteresting.
They're not uninteresting, but I found them to be like, oh, you
know, maybe I'm not really feeling it out as even friends much less something
more amorous. And others they did the same to me, They're like,
maybe they're not feeling it right. So a lot of that, a lot
of like almost potential friends, but no follow ups, no real hangouts after
you know, maybe one more time a bar here or a drink there,
or a game top whatever here. But overall, I think I've made like
three four new friends that I have been pretty steady since nice. So yeah,
that's way more. That's four hundred percent so o kadness that I have
other friends with. But yeah, that's been. That was that was a
lot of fun. And I'm meeting someone new next week possibly tomorrow as well.
Yeah, somewhere loading been loading it up. Yeah, and I guess
a lot of people are pretty lonely in the holidays a lot. Yeah,
it's been catching a lot of people being like unfortunately for them, obviously left
out from their families, you know, from either from this year as a
new thing or overall in their life. And I'm like, yeah, let's
do something, you know, kind of you're brightening other people's lives, trying
tofully Yeah, with a dark light. That's the problem. That's my That's
well, there is such a thing. I was listening to the news the
other day. There's I can't remember the name they gave it, but it's
a it's a depression. It's it's a thing that settles on some people around
Christmas time when Christmas does not turn out to be picture perfect like the movies.
So it's like postpartum depression, but for holidays. Yeah. Yeah,
it's like that actual thing. Not to say that that's the same expectation,
by the way, I'm just saying when when the Christmas doesn't come out the
way they do in the movies, it's it's a thing, well that will
never happen. At a name for it, it's really crazy. Yeah,
we have a name for a lot of not dumb things, but a lot
of things we wouldn't expect. Yeah, and that could be, that makes
sense. I didn't know that. Yeah, it's crazy. Lexi Raven will
not be this is the Ketchup show, right, this is this, This
is the Ketchup Show. Lexi Raven won't be joining us on the show any
longer. We didn't mention that on the show because we were doing we're still
doing podcasts. I don't believe we did. I think I know. I
said I didn't want to at first, but I never did. I really
don't think so. I think we kept it hush hush, Okay, So
uh, six months before we took a break from y'all around six months,
I like said, I broke up. We're not taking a break right,
No, no, broke yeah, yeah, yeah, and it's fine.
It was surprisingly mutual. Again not to reference semn felt all day, but
it wasn't like that breakup where they both wanted it they handshake it like all
right, bye bye. It wasn't like that, but it was like understandably
from both our ends here. So so yeah, so it was amicable,
good good. Yeah, and she is now with child. Well, no,
she has a child. Which child that means that, Oh yeah,
I guess that would. She has a kid, but she's still with it.
Thank you you opened that up for me. She has a kid now
as a kid Ariel, Ariel, it's beautiful. I'm only saying that because
it's a R I E L L E. But I think she just says
Ariel. But the way it's spell is like Ariel. Okay, alright,
like loreal. I don't know. Yeah, I've seen a picture beautiful,
beautiful. Oh you've seen yeah, Facebook, right, Katie showed me.
I'm not on Facebook anymore. I don't. I don't do anything on Facebook,
but Katie showed me. Yeah. Also I don't do with Facebook because
a snapchat that I know also Twitter nowadays. Yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna
pay for that blue check just to do it. I always wanted that.
Those funny things though, with the blue checks, it's so good. Yeah,
so so LEXI won't be here. She has a child, beautiful Ariel.
Yeah, we'll miss her on the show. She was always a fun
addition, it should be said, though not my kid. Oh good.
We didn't say that, No, we did make it sound like airy.
I don't know how to spell it like, no, no, no,
it's not my kids. Yeah, that's fucked up. No, that's fucked
up. But hopefully nobody quits quit in the moments between me saying me making
you assume that that's right, right, exactly hopefully. Yeah, you didn't
jump the gun on leaving the show forever again after our break? No,
no, no, not my kid. Yeah, it's a fun story,
though. If you get me off for a few drinks, I'll tell you
the whole story. But that's the only requirement you need though. Drinks.
Yeah, boom up, put it, Yeah, exactly, loom up.
Speaking of drinks, you're not drinking your eh, Taylor over there are well,
I don't have to make too much sounds. I feel like this thing
is hearing my stomach growling. It's great. I had to unplug the sun
pump over here. Mm hmm. Yeah, so that that happened again.
Fuck twenty twenty two. Yeah. Also, the dating world awful. It's
pretty dismal, bearing wasteland of nonsense. Really, did you know that I
did not? Yeah, it's pretty bad. However it was in your day.
There's been like three different waves of dating that you missed out on.
Thankfully, thank God. And I don't know how I miss I just said
three waves at the top of my head. But let's just say three or
four, right, because you're that old. I feel it. Yeah,
you feel yeah, yeah, the gray everywhere, he's fine, he's why
did I come back to this? I don't know. I mean, you
know me, so the guy changed. I went bitter, bitterer, more
bitter, the bitters, I know. That's what I'm just thinking. I
was saying. Anyway, let's say three waves of dating. Somehow in the
first two ways of dating from my lateeens, thirty twenties to the early thirties
or whatever, it's been somehow a ball enough, like enough where I get
to play the field. I understand what's going on roughly human content seems something
attainable. And then this last wave it's insane. I don't understand anything that's
going on me. They don't either, and I think we're all pretending we
do, but no one we understands. It is a mindfield of nonsense.
So what is it? This is very interesting. I get ghosted so much,
Jay, which is a common thing, very common, so common,
right that uh, it's like I expect it. I expected it for everyone
all the time, and it's like I feel like I think of a good
I feel like Casper. I was gonna make a Pokemon reference, but you
don't know Pokemon Caspar. Caspar is the Hispanic Ghostspar. Yeah, okay,
I go with that. Is there Caspital. I love it, I think
so, I actually don't know. Don't quote me on that. I think
it's called caspital. It is now better and not just that, but weird
things that I feel, and it's very politically heavy and charged out there,
very very very I dated both opposite ends of the spectrum. It's been fun.
I won't tell you that. I'm not gonna I'll tell you, but
like I'm not gonna, h it's been a very interesting ride seeing what also
turns them off is funny to mean to like, Yah, it's fun.
It's it's it's fun bad but fun. Like I'm I'm tolerantly making fun of
it. But yeah, but still like I'm you know, still meeting new
people and whatever. And one of those people has become like a friend.
So that's been interesting. Nice. Oh yeah, So, like I said,
accepting all friends invites no problem. Uh, listeners, dating sucks so
stay away from my Jesus contact at Chicago ghost podcast dot com. Be Oscar's
friend. Yeah, exactly, he'll be your friend. We'll watch movies.
Also another update, getting a roommate soon. You're getting a roommate part of
the one on these new friends no ship. Yeah, know them well enough
to it's a her and yes, know them well enough? Yes, okay,
very well enough. Oh like that? Oh no, I didn't mean
that. Oh okay, kind of sounds like you're right, it did.
No, that's that's a that's something else, right, that's not a roommate
either way. I'm getting a roommate to like lower the living of my cost
cost of living, That's what I'm meant to say, stop drinking, yes,
and uh, just to make it easier. And also she needs us
change desperately, so she wants to get out of a bad situation. And
I'm not saying I'm the best in town, but I'm better than and what
she needs as far as cost. And we're a mat and yeah, it's
working out and that's gonna happen in the next few months less even Yeah,
nice, very soon changes. Yes, I got plants, plants, I
got plants in my house. That's two two plants. They're still alive,
speaking of I had three one of them die though. You go, how
are the sugar glighters? They're amazing, so they cute. Thanks, thanks
for that, my mom. Still no, no, no, no,
no, no, it's fine. The only time I get asked by people
is when they they always say like, oh, how are the sugar laris?
Are they still alive? That's usually always what I get when people ask
that you did Oh didn't you? I said, do you still have them?
Oh? Did you say maybe? Maybe? I like, what do
you? What do you call it? You were just anticipating me? No,
no, no, there's a bad word for it. There's a I
projected on you. Stop projecting on me. I'm trying not to, but
it was so easy. Clearly I picture you as my mom because my mom
asked me that that's a whole Well, we've gotta talk about that one.
Well. The gray hair is matching. It's just in my beard. Yeah.
Could you heard me doing that? He's like, Cando, Yeah,
I can't fuck these mic Like, I'm afraid to move my feet on the
carpet. I'm afraid I've already been making noise. I said, don't stop
yourself. Just don't make any extraordinary noises, like don't farty or don't hold
any either, because we'll hear it on the inside. Yeah, yeah,
okay, okay. I almost bought a house in Florida. That's right.
I was gonna mention that and again, fuck twenty twenty two because that all
fell apart. Yeah, what was the name of the hurricane? I had
the house? I had that down. We were moving to Florida. We
were supposed to move October twenty eighth. That's right, we were supposed to
move. I was gonna hate your guts when you move because it was kind
of sunning for me because I heard about it like a month before. You
did it, right, because you were looking at houses. I think,
yeah, I'm like that soon. I know, stay here, what are
you did? I had so many mixed emotions, but you know, that's
our ultimate goal is to get down there, and you know, I want
my mom to ekamble to take my mom with us, and I want her
to be down there. But Hurricane Ian came again. I heard, you
know, just the year is terrible. Hurricane Ian came and screwed everything.
As we were closing on the house is when Ian as when we were supposed
to close on the house, is when Ian made landfall. So everything got
screwed up with the clothes, with trying to secure insurance. And this was
it was an expensive home. It was, it was an expensive home.
Can't have it without insurance. So Ian screwed all that up. I just
barely got all my money back from you know, my down payment. Thank
god I got it back. And that's another thing that happened. Just that
screwed everything up, you know, or screwed with me. Yeah. Yeah,
it's just not a good year, listeners, just not a good year.
Now you don't have to get back into you don't have to try to
come up with one. But is there anything that went well this year?
Yeah? Traveling, traveling. The only time I'm truly happy is when I'm
traveling with my family. No, he's only happy, guys, when he's
in an airport waiting for that airplay that listeners know that that that has been
with us since the beginning. He hates playing. So I had to go
to Jersey because I think everyone knows that I work from home. Yeah,
I'm a remote worker now, and I had to go to New Jersey in
April for a sales meeting. That's the beginning of our fiscal year is April
April one. And it was cool. I won a trip. I got
some diamonds that added to my my ring that I secured for being great at
sales. And it was a great meeting. But I fucking drove the Jersey.
I drove the New Jersey and everyone made fun of me. But you
know what, people are getting delayed on the way home, can't get into
the air, you know, just all these problems. But even with those
delays, the probably still got there home on time. They did. But
I was less stressful and I'm just cruising man, having a good time.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, So it just I just needed to get back
on the mics is basically. Yeah. I also had a trip too.
I went to Kentucky, that's right, because you brought me back like eight
bottles of whiskey. Yeah, you fucking fucking ordered things, but you were
like whisky fucking this is my Amazon oscars, my Amazon today, I think
I have I think I have over sixty something bottles of whiskey in this house.
But yeah, you went to Kentucky, you did the bourbon trail,
A lot of bourbons. Yeah, yeah, a lot of distilleries, primarily
Buffalo Trace. We went to like three times because they changed their main shit
every day, which we didn't know until it got there. And you can
only buy one bottle per customer or per person. So yeah, we went
back. Yeah, so we took advantage of there. We went to the
Looks Looks I want to say distillery. We went to the US I don't
sore. No, it's not lux with us, not right, it's something
like that. I don't know. We went to a bunch of them,
including the big some of the big ones. I know, you brought me
quite a few bottles of will It, Yeah, brought me a bottle of
each Taylor. There was some Dickle. I think you got me sounds right,
George Dickle. So you had to go to those stilleries. We went
to the I think you got me Buffalo Trace too. Yeah, you got
my bottle Buffalo Trace probably Eagle Rare, Yes, a ten year bottle Eagle
Rare. Fucking sweet. I know. That's when we came back. We
went back for it. So when we went back, so they each Taylor.
So when we went to the the first day to the Buffalo Trace.
They had the h Taylor that day, and obviously I bought one, only
one, of course, And I was like because I had taste tests of
it before right in the in the tour, and I was like, this
is pretty good. Should I give it to Should it be nice and give
this one to J? And then like yeah, okay. And then the
next day I was like okay. So and then we found out through online
probably someone on the chat or something said that they had the Eagle rare on
the next day, Like, oh, that's what I want, and that
fuckers for me. I ain't game because I don't get one right right,
And I was like, and then, but we had other friends that didn't
drink bourbon, and they were like, they never came with us the first
time. They just they stayed at the Airbnb, and but we convinced them
to go with us, so we can use their person to buy another bottle
for us. So I got someone to pair up with me, and that's
how I got you the second the second A we're got it. So yeah,
it's an age stated ten year Eagle rare very. So I haven't opened
mind yet, So I don't think I opened that one yet. Yeah,
yeah, that Kentucky trip. I think in this year. We've been to
Florida four times the last So when when when I decided against the home.
So my daughter and I had a Okay, Tally was having my daughter,
Tally was having a really hard time with the move. Yes, I remember
that. So I told her, Okay, how about if you and me
go to Florida, check out the house, check out the neighborhood. If
we have time, we'll check out the high school because she's entering freshmen.
Would that maybe make you feel better? And she's like, yeah, So
we had this trip planned just daddy daughter. I backed out of the home,
but I still kept the trip. So just me and Talia drove to
Florida. We stayed there three days, drove back, took her out of
school a couple of days, and it was just it was a wonderful trip,
just her and I. Yeah, no Nico, no Katie, you
know, just her and I and it was wonderful. Nice. I'll never
forget it because I don't get that with her anymore, right, you know.
And that's something else that's been fuck with me this year. That kid's
getting older. She's fourteen now, yeah, and she's not my little girl
anymore. She's independent. She could care less about mom and dad, you
know what I mean. And that used to be my little buddy. So
I've been having a really hard time with that this year. Yeah. And
anyway, Yeah, so good things that happened this year. Vacations, Yes,
And I would say over the time since we've been face to face recording,
I've probably been to Florida at least twelve times, and I think we
did New Orleans three times during that time period, you know. So that's
the only time I'm really happy is when I'm traveling. Yeah. Yeah,
Funny enough that you mentioned traveling. A lot of people's bios and descriptions and
and and dating apps, a lot of them put travel a lot as the
things they love or they do. How am I? How are these people
affording all this travel? That's my question? Yeah? You just you know,
you just no, no. I get why you do how you do
it, But I can't imagine everyone has the same ability, you know.
I don't know. Maybe it's just something to put I think, so something
to start just so common. It's just a staple. I almost like it's
almost like a detriment like enough with the traveling, Like, you know,
you ain't going nowhere. I ain't going nowhere. Sit on the couch.
Yeah right, But if we're going, we're going back to Florida on the
twenty seventh, two days after Christmas, and we'll be there for years.
Yeah, be over there for New Year's I'm taking bringing one of my daughter's
friends this time. Oh shit, take which one, Jackie? Remember?
Yeah, yeah, I think I do. She's like our second daughter.
So and I'm taking them all the Discovery Cove to swim with the dolphins.
What the hell is that? It's it's a Sea World property in Orlando.
You swim with dolphins, you swim with all sorts of fish and stingrays,
and the kids just go nuts. They love it, got it? So
we're gonna go there on the on the thirtieth. So yeah, travel travels
the one good thing about this year, all right, And that's all I'm
giving this year. Fuck this year. If I haven't said that already,
Yeah, no, I think I think we got that horrible even for the
cheap seats in the back. I think they heard it, all right,
Yeah, but uh, I mean I think we have some good topics planned
for some upcoming shows, but again no no promise on when they'll be released.
But we are going to come back. We're coming back. We're recording
a show tonight. And I don't know that. I mean, I just
wanted to jump on the mics and say we're still here, We're still alive.
We hope you're still out there listening. There was one one guy,
So I told you our website got brought down twice. Our emails, all
our old emails are gone. Everything is gone. Everything is But this this
really cool guy. I'm sorry I forgot your name. You you live in
the You live in England, but you also spent time in Jersey. We
were going back and forth on email. He sent this this wonderful, heartfelt
email, concern generally concerned for our health and safety. And we're still alive.
And he said, you know, he's been listening to us so long
that we're like part of his life. You know, he felt he knew
us personally. Just a wonderful email. And that made me think how shitty
it was to just drop off with no X Nation. I mean, we
released every two weeks without fail, and then to just go dark. That
wasn't fair. Yeah, so that's why I wanted to record this. No,
and I get that, and that's why I was like immediately yes on
this, And I got myself a portable water This is a great setup.
That's a cute thing. Yeah, okay. Because I don't have laptops and
Jay doesn't believe in monitors, I just throw them away as a fact,
he buys them just to throw them away. Well, we were moving,
so I got rid of so much stuff monitor I held on and this is
funny. The week the week before you asked me, I had just gotten
rid of it, just gotten rid of it. Weird. No, that's
fine. I've alsto have been doing some cleaning. I have a lot of
weird shit, am I? Because I have to make space for this new
roomy. I had this giant room, well like a bedroom that I never
use. It's been holding the boxes that I haven't unpacked, well because they're
not necessary. There are many eight box's just movies like sitting there, for
example, a bunch of clothes. I don't use a lot of Lexi shit.
My mini fridge isn't like you know. I just gotta clean all that
shit out. And there's like a lot more than that obviously, and I
had another person living there for a minute too, for a few months.
Was it a few months? It was a few months. Yeah, I
did tell you about it. Yeah, don't worry, we'll talk about it
lafter. But yeah, that happened. And it's like a ship show.
So I've been cleaning it out like a little bit little it's still like halfway
there, but like I'm getting there. Uh yeah, anything you want to
say as far as to what to expect from us and in the in the
short future coming up, not I mean specifically on the next show, but
like I don't know, just something to end it regarding like we're not changing
our topics necessarily, right, we're not topics same top three the triangle of
serial killer, conspiracy and supernatural. Yes, you forgot what it was.
He used to giving me the lies Like, let's do not know. I
got it from your show. This is your idea, this is the newsletter
you invited me to fucking twenty years ago. This is a very yeah right,
this is a very weird thing. Yeah, Dave, Black, Joe,
Eerie still talk to them da Engineery. What did I say? I
just combined worry, Okay, because Dave has a few names. He does
three. I can't keep up with that guy. Yeah, so they're still
doing good. I know people I get messages every once in a while asking
if they're going to come back ever, and I still have them listened on
the website as occasional co hosts is what I have. I'll try to get
him back this, you know, coming year. Yeah. When we when
we say occasional on the on the on the website, we mean occasionally in
the large fastness of time. Yeah, in the Sea of Tranquility, it
is occasionally. Yeah, you know, in the next year. I would
like to, uh, I'd like to maybe do another pod cast trip somewhere.
Oh yeah, yeah, we love that. I know. I know
joe Erie is dying well squeeze the funk out of as we do, as
we do with the ring It. He really wants to go to Gettysburg and
do Civil War ghost hunting and interviews down there, so I thought that might
be cool. Yeah, we have our own Sherman's uh not Sherman's March was
the name of that documentary, Sherman's something. I don't know, it doesn't
matter. Other people cinematics, no cinema watch stuff, but yeah, I
mean something like that would be great, same topics. Uh, I'm not
committing to anything. I just know it's gonna roll out as it can as
we can, yeah, right, And I hope listeners are okay with that.
But that's the way it's got to be for now, right exactly.
And I will also mhm figure out how to do this again and go back
to researching. And I probably won't do what I did last time I did
like five books on one subject again because that burned me out. But I'll
do something like that. And I also want to get back on the ball
regarding like, you know, because I lost the touch. Like I feel
like I know less. You know, I don't know less, but I
feel like I do. I still read all the time, but like not
for anything in depth, you know. I read for entertainment. I read
for I mean, even my own education so to speak, sure, but
nothing in depth. And I want to dig into some stuff cool back like
we used to do. So yes, I am very much interested in coming
back to that, not just you awesome bitch. Yeah, I still torture
him with I don't know, I still torment him. I don't know why
he's still tormentable. Look at this all right? She thanks, You're welcome.
So I guess that's it. Yeah, that's it. Listeners. By
the way, I don't know. We're just gonna say Merry Christmas and Happy
New Year if we don't release by New Year the next episode, but we
hope to keep you entertained through the next year. Twenty twenty three. Yeah,
here's to twenty twenty three being a better year. Let's give it a
little there, we go, check the you go.