WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.519 --> 00:00:27.719 Weird things happened in the Weird Weird Weird. Welcome to 2 00:00:27.719 --> 00:00:33.240 bledso said so again, my friends, this time, I'm not 3 00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:35.520 exactly sure what I'm going to talk about. I have 4 00:00:35.560 --> 00:00:38.000 some ideas and we'll figure it out along the way. 5 00:00:38.600 --> 00:00:41.159 But before we get into that, I want to talk 6 00:00:41.200 --> 00:00:44.560 to you guys about our Instagram. Follow us on Instagram 7 00:00:44.560 --> 00:00:46.640 at Bledsoe said, So, I wonder if I even said 8 00:00:46.679 --> 00:00:51.119 that properly last time, but it's bless okay. You stay 9 00:00:51.119 --> 00:00:55.840 current on everything we're doing on their conferences SkyWatch schedules. 10 00:00:55.880 --> 00:00:57.840 You get to see clips from the show, and it's 11 00:00:57.880 --> 00:01:00.079 just a great way to stay in tune with what 12 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:03.479 we're doing. 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There's going to be 32 00:02:03.359 --> 00:02:09.919 four stages, thirty experts and they're going to have simultaneous 33 00:02:10.039 --> 00:02:12.080 presentation so that you can kind of pick and choose 34 00:02:12.120 --> 00:02:14.280 which ones you want to go to, and there are 35 00:02:14.319 --> 00:02:18.360 going to be four sky watches. It is the Lake 36 00:02:18.479 --> 00:02:21.319 Lawn Resort in Delavan, Wisconsin, and is a beautiful place. 37 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:25.280 I truly really regret that I'm not able to go. 38 00:02:25.520 --> 00:02:27.520 I'm honestly really regretting it. But I'm going to have 39 00:02:27.560 --> 00:02:31.680 a newborn baby that's like three weeks old, so I'll 40 00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:34.919 have exciting things to deal with. But while I'm home 41 00:02:35.800 --> 00:02:38.439 feeding my wife and baby and making sure they're alive, 42 00:02:38.919 --> 00:02:40.919 Alex is going to be there at the Lake Lawn 43 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:45.360 Resort with my dad and my brother Chris Junior, and 44 00:02:45.400 --> 00:02:49.639 my sister having a ball meeting all of you wonderful, 45 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:52.000 lovely people who want to go and say hello and 46 00:02:52.159 --> 00:02:55.400 join in on the skywatches. So pay attention to what 47 00:02:55.960 --> 00:02:58.080 tier of ticket you buy, because there are going to 48 00:02:58.159 --> 00:03:02.520 be three sky watches available to the population, the general 49 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:05.680 population according to your ticket here, and then there's going 50 00:03:05.719 --> 00:03:10.400 to be a fourth and final VIP SkyWatch that we 51 00:03:10.439 --> 00:03:14.000 are going to give away slots. It's already maxed out 52 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:15.520 by the way. You can't buy for this one. It's 53 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:19.400 already sold out, but with the giveaway that we're doing, 54 00:03:19.560 --> 00:03:24.400 there will be slots available to be one. And at 55 00:03:24.400 --> 00:03:28.000 the final VIP SkyWatch, there will be buses that will 56 00:03:28.039 --> 00:03:32.560 shuttle people to a private location for a intimate SkyWatch 57 00:03:32.719 --> 00:03:37.879 with my dad and with our people, and it'll be awesome. 58 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:42.240 So check out Contact Modalities. Let's hit them with the website. 59 00:03:41.919 --> 00:03:46.639 Alex Contact modalitiesxpo dot com. 60 00:03:46.680 --> 00:03:50.759 Awesome. Mel the owner and the creator of the conference, 61 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:53.199 is a wonderful human being. I really like her a lot, 62 00:03:53.800 --> 00:03:57.840 and she's very kind to not only my family but 63 00:03:57.879 --> 00:04:01.080 everybody that she comes into content. I just I really 64 00:04:01.159 --> 00:04:03.599 love her as a person, and I like her conference 65 00:04:03.639 --> 00:04:07.439 a lot. I think it just has a great feeling, 66 00:04:07.639 --> 00:04:13.120 a great atmosphere. It's very open to you know, if 67 00:04:13.120 --> 00:04:15.400 you're into this, come, if you're into psychedelics, Come, you 68 00:04:15.400 --> 00:04:17.160 want to do sound healing, you want to do mindsight, 69 00:04:17.199 --> 00:04:19.759 you want to do you want to see telepathy, you 70 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:23.120 want to talk about UFOs or whatever, like, just come. 71 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:28.279 It's for everybody, and it's truly a magical place and 72 00:04:28.480 --> 00:04:30.920 it's beautiful and you don't want to miss it. So 73 00:04:31.040 --> 00:04:33.240 be sure to check them out and thank you to 74 00:04:33.319 --> 00:04:39.680 them for sponsoring our show. Now, Alex and I were 75 00:04:39.720 --> 00:04:46.959 talking about it before we started recording, and he thought 76 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:48.800 it would be a really good idea to dig a 77 00:04:48.839 --> 00:04:51.560 little bit more into this. And I'm like, whatever you say, 78 00:04:52.519 --> 00:04:57.000 I mean, right right, right, whatever you say. I mean, 79 00:04:57.000 --> 00:04:59.680 I'm in charge. Yeah, I'm more of the opinion. You 80 00:04:59.800 --> 00:05:02.959 just show and you just do, you know, and you 81 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:07.720 don't talk, talk, talk talk about what you do. But sure, 82 00:05:07.759 --> 00:05:11.439 I mean you know, I'll humor you, I'll throw you 83 00:05:11.480 --> 00:05:17.079 a bone to make you doss island fed. But since okay, 84 00:05:17.079 --> 00:05:19.319 so let's go through the time. Like a hungry ghost 85 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:23.279 over here. Yeah, that's right, that's right, and your greed 86 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:29.759 consumes you. But in all seriousness, so Nick left the 87 00:05:29.800 --> 00:05:35.639 show in July. To you guys, it was August because 88 00:05:35.759 --> 00:05:38.240 it was you know, a week or so of like 89 00:05:38.279 --> 00:05:40.399 figuring out what we're gonna do, recording his last episode, 90 00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:43.000 all that, airing it at the end of August. But 91 00:05:43.079 --> 00:05:45.480 in reality he left the show on it was like 92 00:05:45.639 --> 00:05:49.120 July twenty eighth, or the night that he came over 93 00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:51.639 and was like, you know, I'm I'm gonna be phasing 94 00:05:51.639 --> 00:05:56.439 out of this, and Alex and I got to talking 95 00:05:56.480 --> 00:05:59.639 a lot like Okay, well that sucks. It's a bummer, 96 00:05:59.720 --> 00:06:03.199 but let's you know, figure out what's next to keep 97 00:06:03.319 --> 00:06:06.120 the passion of this alive and to keep it on track. 98 00:06:06.920 --> 00:06:08.360 And you know, none of that stuff was ever a 99 00:06:08.439 --> 00:06:11.439 question like, yeah, we're obviously going to still do this, 100 00:06:11.560 --> 00:06:13.439 but what's it going to look like, how's it going 101 00:06:13.519 --> 00:06:19.040 to be? What form will that take? The structure, the process, everything, 102 00:06:19.160 --> 00:06:23.279 We just you know, really decided to look at the 103 00:06:23.279 --> 00:06:24.959 whole picture and like where are we going to go 104 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:31.199 from here? And it was a while, I think because 105 00:06:31.240 --> 00:06:34.240 of that transition period. It took us a while to 106 00:06:34.279 --> 00:06:37.560 really like get into the swing of things. And then 107 00:06:37.560 --> 00:06:39.800 the other thing that was crazy was we knew that 108 00:06:39.879 --> 00:06:43.480 you had a baby coming in December, so we were 109 00:06:43.480 --> 00:06:46.800 in this weird evolutionary period or you could say like 110 00:06:46.839 --> 00:06:49.800 a bardo based on you know, the last week's theme, 111 00:06:50.279 --> 00:06:54.600 but we were in this weird space of Okay, so 112 00:06:55.800 --> 00:06:57.920 Nick just left. We got to figure that out and 113 00:06:57.959 --> 00:06:58.959 what that's going to look like. 114 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:03.199 And you know, it's like a hurry up and wait, 115 00:07:03.720 --> 00:07:06.240 because yeah, you don't know what the capacity is going 116 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:09.560 to be after having the kid, and what life's going 117 00:07:09.639 --> 00:07:10.079 to look like. 118 00:07:10.199 --> 00:07:12.759 And yeah, hurry up and wait. That describes it very well, 119 00:07:13.439 --> 00:07:15.279 like we've got stuff to do, but also we're gonna 120 00:07:15.279 --> 00:07:18.199 have to wait. Yeah. So the point I'm making without 121 00:07:18.199 --> 00:07:20.160 going in circles is like we had to figure out 122 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:22.519 how we were going to get through that period of 123 00:07:23.959 --> 00:07:27.720 you know, transitioning to the new feeling of the show 124 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:33.839 without our third partner and the guy who typically fills 125 00:07:33.959 --> 00:07:39.120 the air time and the dialogue with me, to you know, 126 00:07:39.839 --> 00:07:43.439 growing into a whole new thing while also facing a 127 00:07:43.480 --> 00:07:46.759 wall in a few months where Alex was gonna have 128 00:07:46.800 --> 00:07:49.879 the most important thing in his entire life happened, and 129 00:07:49.959 --> 00:07:53.279 his baby be born and take off an entire month, 130 00:07:54.600 --> 00:07:56.959 so and there's the holidays anyway, you know, Christmas time, 131 00:07:57.000 --> 00:08:00.079 so we're like, what do we do? You know, so 132 00:08:01.879 --> 00:08:06.000 we it took a little bit to catch our stride, 133 00:08:06.079 --> 00:08:11.680 and then around about October, I guess some some things 134 00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:15.120 occurred to me. I mean, in the beginning when he quit, 135 00:08:15.199 --> 00:08:17.839 I knew that the new direction that I was going 136 00:08:17.879 --> 00:08:21.519 to want to go in. But in October something happened 137 00:08:22.040 --> 00:08:24.759 that confirmed it to me that this was the way 138 00:08:24.800 --> 00:08:29.279 to go, that it would, you know, be how it's 139 00:08:29.279 --> 00:08:31.600 supposed to be. And essentially what that is is I 140 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:35.000 realized that in the past and there's nothing wrong with this, 141 00:08:36.440 --> 00:08:42.440 and it was very fun, but I realized that it 142 00:08:42.559 --> 00:08:47.840 wasn't sustainable for me and fulfilling to continue doing the 143 00:08:47.879 --> 00:08:54.159 content at random and because of the nature of the 144 00:08:54.200 --> 00:08:57.879 first you know, four years of the show and Nick 145 00:08:58.080 --> 00:09:01.399 not having lived here for those first three years, so 146 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:05.440 that was insane. So our schedule was just like, hustle, hustle, 147 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:08.039 hustle to make the show even stay alive with us 148 00:09:08.080 --> 00:09:11.000 all not living in the same town, and you know, 149 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:14.919 figure out, okay, when he comes and stays two weekends 150 00:09:14.919 --> 00:09:17.240 a month. Each time, he stays, we have to do 151 00:09:17.399 --> 00:09:20.679 three episodes, which means throughout the week I had to 152 00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:24.960 hit you know, three topics worth of research or whatever 153 00:09:25.039 --> 00:09:28.039 to where I felt confident in some way to talk 154 00:09:28.039 --> 00:09:30.879 about something. Because there's a level of pressure I'm going 155 00:09:30.919 --> 00:09:33.120 to record something, I'm going to talk about it, and 156 00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:34.840 it's going to go out to the internet to thousands 157 00:09:34.840 --> 00:09:39.279 of people. There's a level of pressure or performance anxiety 158 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:44.799 or whatever. So it was it was that hurdle of 159 00:09:44.919 --> 00:09:48.759 like trying to survive that state, and you know, I 160 00:09:48.759 --> 00:09:50.600 don't know what we're going to talk about for three 161 00:09:50.639 --> 00:09:53.679 topics this week. I mean that was the first three years, 162 00:09:54.039 --> 00:09:56.519 you know what I mean. So it was like, well, 163 00:09:56.600 --> 00:09:59.120 let's do a movie, then let's do a what if. 164 00:09:59.240 --> 00:10:01.600 Then we'll do like a topic, and that way will 165 00:10:01.639 --> 00:10:04.279 split the workloads so that we're not mentally burned out 166 00:10:04.279 --> 00:10:06.879 and we can sustain. And it went on like that 167 00:10:06.919 --> 00:10:08.519 for a while, and then he moved here for the 168 00:10:08.559 --> 00:10:13.679 last year that he was on the show, and you 169 00:10:13.720 --> 00:10:16.480 know the problem there is then I bought a house 170 00:10:16.759 --> 00:10:19.399 and I went through like so many months of construction 171 00:10:19.480 --> 00:10:22.080 and was completely mentally burned out and It's just the 172 00:10:22.120 --> 00:10:24.279 point is there were so many things that were like 173 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:28.799 constantly being tossed up in the air where we you know, 174 00:10:28.879 --> 00:10:36.039 despite how well the show has done by some measures, 175 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:40.679 to us, it's always kind of felt sometimes like hanging 176 00:10:40.759 --> 00:10:42.919 on by a thread. I mean, at least to me, 177 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:46.679 like I'm not doing enough, I'm not getting out there enough, 178 00:10:47.480 --> 00:10:50.360 I'm not publishing enough, I'm not hitting it hard enough. 179 00:10:52.320 --> 00:10:57.279 Just hanging on, you know. And then and again that's okay, 180 00:10:57.519 --> 00:11:00.480 Like it was fun and we were learning and we 181 00:11:00.480 --> 00:11:03.159 were growing. And you look at like Joe Rogan, for example, 182 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:05.360 he has how many episodes, he has two thousand or 183 00:11:05.399 --> 00:11:08.799 something episodes. Dude, for the first one hundred or two hundred, 184 00:11:08.879 --> 00:11:11.279 he probably was like, had no clue what he was doing. 185 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:14.360 For anybody that does something in the beginning, they probably 186 00:11:14.360 --> 00:11:17.519 have no clue what they're doing. That's totally normal with art, 187 00:11:17.639 --> 00:11:21.720 with whatever. And you know, I'm not like knocking how 188 00:11:21.759 --> 00:11:23.360 we were what the show. I mean, it was great, 189 00:11:23.399 --> 00:11:27.480 it was pure. I still think of the older days 190 00:11:27.480 --> 00:11:30.120 of the show and the nostalgia of how that was 191 00:11:30.200 --> 00:11:33.120 and the process and the vibe and the fun of it. 192 00:11:33.159 --> 00:11:38.120 But I knew in my head and from episode zero, 193 00:11:38.600 --> 00:11:41.679 and also I should mention this is the most important 194 00:11:41.679 --> 00:11:47.720 part actually that along the way, I can't speak for you, Alex, 195 00:11:49.120 --> 00:11:53.960 but at least me personally, I went through extreme levels 196 00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:59.000 of growth and healing and maturity, where in the beginning 197 00:11:59.000 --> 00:12:03.759 of the show, I don't feel like I was very 198 00:12:03.840 --> 00:12:08.759 mature about the way that I presented myself to the world. Now, 199 00:12:08.759 --> 00:12:10.399 when I say mature, I don't mean like, you know, 200 00:12:10.440 --> 00:12:12.960 push your glasses up and tuck into your shirt and 201 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:15.480 do your taxes and get a job. That's not what 202 00:12:15.519 --> 00:12:20.600 I mean. I just mean like emotionally mature or spiritually mature. 203 00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:28.080 I don't feel that I presented myself in a way 204 00:12:28.200 --> 00:12:31.919 that is without regret sometimes because I had a lot 205 00:12:31.960 --> 00:12:35.120 of trauma and I felt like I was lashing out. 206 00:12:35.480 --> 00:12:37.320 You know, there were certain aspects of me that I 207 00:12:37.320 --> 00:12:40.720 felt were, you know, getting revenge against that. Not that 208 00:12:40.799 --> 00:12:45.679 I thought that consciously, it was subconscious, right, I'm getting 209 00:12:45.720 --> 00:12:48.120 revenge to the people in the CIA who threaten to 210 00:12:48.159 --> 00:12:51.720 kill us or whatever what WASDIA technically, but you know, 211 00:12:51.919 --> 00:12:54.799 or the people that cyberstalked us online, or the people 212 00:12:54.799 --> 00:12:56.919 that harassed us or doubted us or mocked us, and 213 00:12:57.000 --> 00:12:59.960 somewhere in my mind, somewhere deep down, I was like, 214 00:13:00.120 --> 00:13:03.639 you know, fuck you guys, like I'm getting back at you, 215 00:13:03.759 --> 00:13:07.559 and you know, and that was wrong. And so that's 216 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:10.000 another element too, that like throughout the years, it's this 217 00:13:10.039 --> 00:13:12.080 is our fifth year. We're going into the fifth year 218 00:13:12.120 --> 00:13:14.960 of the show. Wow, I know, right, that's insane, Like 219 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:17.519 you're not even in high school for five years. But 220 00:13:17.600 --> 00:13:20.799 it's gone by in a flash. It really has, hasn't it. It 221 00:13:20.759 --> 00:13:21.919 feels like we just started. 222 00:13:22.120 --> 00:13:25.600 And but the personal growth too, I mean, to your point, 223 00:13:25.759 --> 00:13:27.639 it's been insane, and I feel like I talk about 224 00:13:27.679 --> 00:13:31.879 that a lot like my my my personal spiritual journey. 225 00:13:32.039 --> 00:13:34.840 You know, the knowledge that that you've brought to me 226 00:13:35.399 --> 00:13:41.759 or and participated in altogether is incredible. Yeah, it's it's 227 00:13:42.399 --> 00:13:45.919 I'm a completely different person. And I tend to really 228 00:13:46.120 --> 00:13:50.159 avoid going back to some of those early episodes where 229 00:13:51.279 --> 00:13:53.600 but it's good. It means it means you grew right 230 00:13:53.720 --> 00:13:56.679 to be cringing at the old self. But still I'm like, 231 00:13:56.759 --> 00:14:00.919 man that for two different people. Now, would me in 232 00:14:01.159 --> 00:14:04.279 episode eleven, Alex or whenever I got a microphone? 233 00:14:05.240 --> 00:14:08.960 Yeah? Man, And at that time, you were like twenty 234 00:14:10.360 --> 00:14:10.960 three years. 235 00:14:10.840 --> 00:14:14.639 Ago twenty one, twenty nine. No, I'm twenty seven, so 236 00:14:14.679 --> 00:14:17.840 you were like twenty three something like that, yeah, or 237 00:14:17.879 --> 00:14:19.240 twenty two two, twenty three. 238 00:14:19.320 --> 00:14:23.519 Yeah. Yeah, I mean now you're twenty seven and you 239 00:14:23.559 --> 00:14:26.639 have a baby late. Yeah, it's just crazy and you've 240 00:14:26.639 --> 00:14:30.360 been married and like it's just insane like for us, 241 00:14:30.440 --> 00:14:32.440 And yeah, I guess I am glad we talked about 242 00:14:32.440 --> 00:14:34.240 this because we haven't done an episode in a while 243 00:14:34.320 --> 00:14:36.559 like this where we just got to talk without a topic, 244 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:40.320 and it's nice to not have to always succumb to 245 00:14:40.320 --> 00:14:42.799 that pressure. What am I gonna talk about? What am 246 00:14:42.799 --> 00:14:44.919 I going to talk about? Whatever? Talk about whatever I want. 247 00:14:46.480 --> 00:14:49.200 But yeah, and there was a lot of growth too 248 00:14:49.519 --> 00:14:53.080 that happened in the background in our lives since we 249 00:14:53.159 --> 00:14:57.759 started the show. We're not in the same place we 250 00:14:57.759 --> 00:15:02.200 were then. We are now. My dad put out a book. 251 00:15:05.120 --> 00:15:07.639 You know, lots of amazing things have happened, the mass 252 00:15:07.639 --> 00:15:10.879 sky watches that came from this, and you know, I 253 00:15:10.960 --> 00:15:12.639 don't have to stay here and go through five years 254 00:15:12.639 --> 00:15:14.519 of all the incredible things that have happened and the 255 00:15:14.519 --> 00:15:18.480 hard things that have happened. But we have grown. But 256 00:15:18.639 --> 00:15:21.279 it always felt like, for whatever reason, we were hanging 257 00:15:21.360 --> 00:15:24.320 on by a thread and running on fumes, at least 258 00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:28.879 for me. So Nick left the show basically to the public. 259 00:15:28.879 --> 00:15:33.519 It came out in August, and I had time to 260 00:15:34.200 --> 00:15:37.320 think about, you know, the direction that I wanted to go, 261 00:15:37.679 --> 00:15:42.240 and I realized that I had to get serious that 262 00:15:42.559 --> 00:15:44.799 twenty twenty six was only a few months away. There's 263 00:15:44.840 --> 00:15:50.720 a lot of pressure there, and I had a responsibility 264 00:15:50.919 --> 00:15:54.799 most of all, to fill the void of this show, 265 00:15:54.879 --> 00:15:58.279 because you know, it's a whole different element going from 266 00:15:58.960 --> 00:16:02.440 having somebody who talks, you know, forty or fifty percent 267 00:16:02.480 --> 00:16:09.399 of the time and now it's basically mean ninety five 268 00:16:09.440 --> 00:16:13.600 percent of the time, you know, And that was a 269 00:16:13.639 --> 00:16:19.240 big mental hurdle to learn how to overcome, you know. 270 00:16:20.960 --> 00:16:22.879 But I realized that there was a thread that I 271 00:16:22.919 --> 00:16:26.559 wanted to pull. I wanted to start going in a 272 00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:32.120 certain line talking about things that mattered to me without 273 00:16:32.159 --> 00:16:35.399 like some sort of random This week, let's talk about Stargate, 274 00:16:35.879 --> 00:16:40.519 fun episode. But who cares? You know, I care. 275 00:16:40.759 --> 00:16:46.600 My coworker actually absolutely loves Stargate and that that's the 276 00:16:46.600 --> 00:16:48.000 only episode of ours he's. 277 00:16:47.840 --> 00:16:52.559 Watched a way that's funny. Okay, Well, let me take 278 00:16:52.600 --> 00:16:56.519 a step back and it's like Godzilla. Who cares. I've 279 00:16:56.559 --> 00:16:58.279 had people tell me they loved it and they're obsessed 280 00:16:58.320 --> 00:17:00.639 with Godzilla. I'm like, great, But you know, it's like 281 00:17:00.679 --> 00:17:02.600 I just decided I don't want to talk about niche 282 00:17:02.639 --> 00:17:06.000 things anymore. That was fun. I enjoyed it, every minute 283 00:17:06.119 --> 00:17:08.440 of that. I don't regret. It's it's like a part 284 00:17:08.480 --> 00:17:11.480 of and who knows, Like maybe someday I'll do stuff 285 00:17:11.480 --> 00:17:13.799 like that. Again, I'm not saying never, but I just 286 00:17:13.839 --> 00:17:16.960 realized I had to get serious, that there are troubling 287 00:17:17.279 --> 00:17:21.680 times ahead for humanity, and that I felt really compelled 288 00:17:21.720 --> 00:17:24.240 like I had to start pulling a certain thread. So 289 00:17:24.359 --> 00:17:32.799 when this begin was the episode called the Goddess and Alex, 290 00:17:32.839 --> 00:17:34.559 you probably didn't realize I was going to talk about this, 291 00:17:34.599 --> 00:17:41.160 but it's important, and some things have happened around that episode. 292 00:17:41.319 --> 00:17:46.759 And we recorded that episode in September. It's right after 293 00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:49.519 Nick quit, you know, and we had guests lined up 294 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:55.200 and with this thread that I decided that I wanted 295 00:17:55.200 --> 00:18:01.240 to be pulling in between a lot of these episodes. 296 00:18:01.279 --> 00:18:04.440 There have been guests, which is fine, and that's like 297 00:18:04.519 --> 00:18:07.759 I still will do guests and I love doing them. 298 00:18:08.200 --> 00:18:11.599 But it started with the Goddess right, So we recorded 299 00:18:11.599 --> 00:18:19.319 that in September. Something happened in that episode. We talked 300 00:18:19.359 --> 00:18:22.160 about a story that I had never heard of, which 301 00:18:22.279 --> 00:18:27.559 was the Miraculous Medal. It's the one with Katherine Leboor 302 00:18:27.720 --> 00:18:34.039 in eighteen thirties and she basically sees all the lights 303 00:18:34.079 --> 00:18:38.480 on in the chapel and she goes outside to see, 304 00:18:38.519 --> 00:18:40.559 like what's going on. She walks into the church and 305 00:18:40.759 --> 00:18:43.160 the lady in the form of the Virgin Mary is 306 00:18:43.200 --> 00:18:46.200 inside the church and she, you know, Catherine goes and 307 00:18:46.240 --> 00:18:48.400 like kneels down and puts her head in her lap 308 00:18:48.519 --> 00:18:56.799 or whatever it says happens, which got laburee. Oh, labree, Catherine, laburee, labree. 309 00:18:56.839 --> 00:19:03.079 I didn't realize that we go ahead and say it. 310 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:08.599 Someone I met, some very important uh lady I met 311 00:19:08.640 --> 00:19:11.640 at Riverfest wanted me to correct you. 312 00:19:12.519 --> 00:19:17.880 Oh yeah, that matters so much. I realized a long 313 00:19:17.880 --> 00:19:20.400 time ago, like it was no good to correct. 314 00:19:21.200 --> 00:19:22.960 I'm like, if there was an episode to correct you, 315 00:19:23.000 --> 00:19:23.839 it's probably gonna be this. 316 00:19:25.839 --> 00:19:28.599 Yeah, silly man. People people are so uptight about how 317 00:19:28.599 --> 00:19:30.519 people pronounce things. But I get it, you know, elaborated, 318 00:19:30.519 --> 00:19:31.759 that's the right way to pronounce it. So I'm going 319 00:19:31.839 --> 00:19:34.519 to lean into your French. I don't have any I 320 00:19:34.680 --> 00:19:37.519 was born in North Carolina, yet, man, I was born 321 00:19:37.599 --> 00:19:39.920 in the freaking country, dude, I don't, no, I don't. 322 00:19:39.960 --> 00:19:41.960 I don't know that stuff very well. I would love to, 323 00:19:42.119 --> 00:19:50.759 but I'm ignorant, exactly, I'm dumb. I'm simple. Actually, So 324 00:19:50.799 --> 00:19:57.720 something happened to me. I realized that, you know, this 325 00:19:57.880 --> 00:20:00.640 was this was a great story, that there was something 326 00:20:00.640 --> 00:20:02.839 to it. And I was like thinking to myself, oh 327 00:20:02.880 --> 00:20:04.839 my gosh, I want one of those medals. I really 328 00:20:04.839 --> 00:20:10.519 want one. And that was on a Wednesday, and several 329 00:20:10.599 --> 00:20:14.559 days go by. From Wednesday to Saturday, my wife and 330 00:20:14.599 --> 00:20:21.079 I were cleaning this room, the studio. We were reorganizing it. 331 00:20:21.119 --> 00:20:24.079 We were throwing old junk away. When Nick quit, we 332 00:20:24.079 --> 00:20:26.359 were all like, okay, well, let's kind of like streamline 333 00:20:26.440 --> 00:20:28.440 the room. We obviously he had stuff in here, and 334 00:20:28.480 --> 00:20:31.680 we took it and we gave it to him, and 335 00:20:31.720 --> 00:20:35.359 we were like, well, let's make it simpler. Alex did 336 00:20:35.359 --> 00:20:37.720 a lot of wire clean up stuff. Ginny puts some 337 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:40.640 uh you know, paint on the walls and things like that, 338 00:20:40.720 --> 00:20:42.599 and cleaned out a lot of trash. She was in 339 00:20:42.640 --> 00:20:44.680 this room for like four hours on that Saturday, the 340 00:20:44.839 --> 00:20:47.240 very Saturday of the week that we recorded that episode, 341 00:20:47.839 --> 00:20:51.920 and she's going through y'all can't see it, but behind 342 00:20:52.200 --> 00:20:56.759 over by Alex there's a closet and there's like a 343 00:20:56.839 --> 00:21:00.599 cubicle cabinet with a bunch of different cubby with like 344 00:21:00.680 --> 00:21:03.200 boxes and trays of I mean, there's a ton of 345 00:21:03.200 --> 00:21:09.480 stuff back there, camera cases, tripods, just cords, cables, stuff 346 00:21:09.519 --> 00:21:15.200 like that, right, And there's like several little boxes of 347 00:21:15.359 --> 00:21:18.119 fan mail and things that fans have sent us to 348 00:21:18.200 --> 00:21:23.960 our po box. And Jenny starts going through it and 349 00:21:24.039 --> 00:21:26.920 she's like, Ryan, what are these And she pulls out 350 00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:31.559 like six of the Miraculous metal. I said, oh my god, 351 00:21:31.640 --> 00:21:33.480 I forgot Someone sent me that a year ago, but 352 00:21:33.519 --> 00:21:35.640 I had no clue what it was. It was just 353 00:21:35.680 --> 00:21:39.960 like a little plastic wrap envelope with the story printed 354 00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:43.440 on it and the metal and that came to me 355 00:21:43.680 --> 00:21:45.279 like a year ago and it was like, you know, 356 00:21:45.319 --> 00:21:46.960 here's one for every member of your family and for 357 00:21:47.000 --> 00:21:48.440 the guys on the show. And I was like, oh, 358 00:21:48.480 --> 00:21:50.960 that's sweet, and I put it in the thing. And 359 00:21:51.279 --> 00:21:53.000 I don't see my family for months at a time, 360 00:21:53.079 --> 00:21:55.279 so like I had the intention to give them one, 361 00:21:55.319 --> 00:21:57.759 but it was like I forgot it was in a drawer, 362 00:21:57.799 --> 00:22:02.359 you know, And so I thought that was an incredible synchronicity. 363 00:22:02.480 --> 00:22:04.559 Oh man, I really wanted these medals, and I had 364 00:22:04.839 --> 00:22:07.200 not only one, but I had six the whole time. 365 00:22:08.759 --> 00:22:12.039 How crazy, right, It's like I manifested the medal even 366 00:22:12.039 --> 00:22:18.079 though I already had it. A few nights later, my 367 00:22:18.160 --> 00:22:26.960 brother was over and it was actually Wednesday, the next Wednesday. 368 00:22:27.559 --> 00:22:30.400 Because this is the next episode following the Goddess, by 369 00:22:30.440 --> 00:22:34.960 the way, just to prove what you're saying, well, Chris 370 00:22:35.079 --> 00:22:37.440 Junior's episode is immediately following. 371 00:22:37.599 --> 00:22:43.599 Yes, he was here recording that week, but this was 372 00:22:44.359 --> 00:22:49.480 the next Wednesday. After we recorded it. My brother was over. 373 00:22:51.079 --> 00:22:55.119 It was really late at night, and the episode came 374 00:22:55.160 --> 00:23:00.200 out that day and it had tons of views, like 375 00:23:00.240 --> 00:23:03.119 it was just blowing up like at that By that point, 376 00:23:03.160 --> 00:23:06.240 it already had like ten thousand views, which for the 377 00:23:06.319 --> 00:23:10.400 first day that it was out. We don't get ten 378 00:23:10.400 --> 00:23:13.480 thousand views on an episode on YouTube. So me and 379 00:23:13.519 --> 00:23:18.160 Alex were like, oh my god, you know, it's crazy 380 00:23:18.200 --> 00:23:23.240 that we're you know, talking about this. That night, my 381 00:23:23.279 --> 00:23:29.440 brother and I I started to tell him about the story. 382 00:23:30.000 --> 00:23:31.920 Oh my god, Junior, I have one of these metals 383 00:23:32.000 --> 00:23:34.680 for you. I've been holding on to it for a 384 00:23:34.680 --> 00:23:39.720 few days. I start to tell him about the eighteen 385 00:23:39.839 --> 00:23:47.000 thirties story of Catherine Laboret and Labret or whatever, about 386 00:23:47.000 --> 00:23:50.119 what happened how you know, just you know, basically tell 387 00:23:50.119 --> 00:23:53.200 the story. And it was about eleven PM and my 388 00:23:53.200 --> 00:23:56.359 wife texts me and she says, did you turn on 389 00:23:56.359 --> 00:23:59.920 the light in the shed in the backyard. I was like, no, 390 00:24:00.160 --> 00:24:03.079 I haven't been out there in a week. And it 391 00:24:03.079 --> 00:24:07.079 has a coated padlock that you cycle through the It's 392 00:24:07.079 --> 00:24:10.079 like a manual lock with a number sequence. And only 393 00:24:10.119 --> 00:24:12.079 I know it. My wife didn't even know it. She 394 00:24:12.079 --> 00:24:14.519 can't remember it and she never goes out there. And 395 00:24:14.519 --> 00:24:16.240 I have tools out there, you know, mom over and 396 00:24:16.279 --> 00:24:19.240 all that stuff. So I go and I look out 397 00:24:19.240 --> 00:24:22.039 the back window and sure enough, the lights are on 398 00:24:22.039 --> 00:24:25.880 in my shed. And I was like, that's really weird. 399 00:24:25.960 --> 00:24:29.079 And Chris Junior is like, yeah, let's go check that out. 400 00:24:29.160 --> 00:24:31.799 And he grabs his nine milimeter like someone breaking in. 401 00:24:32.920 --> 00:24:35.440