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Why You Should Laugh At Yourself (w/ Travis Parker)
Ever been caught off guard by a prank that walked the fine line between hilarity and humiliation? I sat down with my good friend Travis Parker to relive our favorite prank stories, including the infamous fake poop stunt at a supermarket. We also tackled the age-old question: is pranking your partner a sign of love or a recipe for chaos? From glass door mishaps to surprise water bottle sneezes, our chat is packed with laughter, playful banter, and a touch of introspection about keeping humor in check amidst the wild world of internet culture.
But it's not all fun and games. We shifted gears into a heartfelt discussion about breaking free from the grip of habitual drinking. Both Travis and I shared our personal journeys of recognizing nightly wine routines and the eye-opening self-assessments that followed. We talked about the power of support systems and explored the world of mocktails and non-alcoholic beverages as healthier alternatives. With honesty and a touch of humor, we navigated the complex terrain of habit change, touching on everything from road rage to the comforting ritual of drinking tea.
As our conversation wound down, we couldn't help but celebrate the friendship that keeps our spirits high and our creativity flowing. We brainstormed quirky sign-offs, inspired by newscasters, to leave our audience chuckling and eager for more. Through laughter and camaraderie, we expressed our gratitude for each other and our shared mission to bring joy to our listeners. Join us on this lighthearted, insightful journey, as we promise more laughter, friendship, and growth in episodes to come.
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Hey everybody, recently I got together with my good buddy, Travis Parker, and we just clicked record and sat on this couch in my podcast studio and just started chatting. We talked about all kinds of different stuff. Some of it just completely goofy, kind of shooting the shit kind of stuff where we're talking about pranks and just how silly life is. But then we also got serious about talking about alcohol abuse and really kind of how to get ahead in life. So we just kind of jump into it with this funny Instagram reel that I saw. But anyway, just sit back, relax and enjoy what comes next. Here we go.
Speaker 1:I saw this video where this guy took a long piece of toilet paper and like put I don't know, we put like it was just like brown yogurt or brown like pudding or something on it, so it looked like poop, you know, At the supermarket he goes up behind his wife and like pats her on the back and like pushes it in the back of her pants, so it looks like she's hanging out and she's walking around and he's videoing the whole thing. And then people she would be like picking, picking apples or something like looking at the apples and somebody looks over.
Speaker 1:It's like like ew disgusting because it's just like a and she doesn't know why people are freaking out of her she squirt on the back of this thing, no, and well, she didn't see the reactions because she's not looking for it, but um, but then. But then like somebody's like, uh, excuse me, there's a, I don't know if you saw that and then she's like she thought it was funny I bet they do pranks like that a lot, but she saw it. She's like, oh, goes after the husband, you know.
Speaker 2:You know what I have to appreciate like couples that do pranks on each other, because that's a good marriage Is it, is it?
Speaker 1:Or do they just, like freaking, hate each other after that? I mean?
Speaker 2:Well, I don't know. I mean, if they continue to do it, then they must not hate each other.
Speaker 1:I guess, if there's that perfect give and take where they both do pranks, but if one person's always pranking the other people and always getting the other person more, because I see some of these videos are just like with the one where the balloon's above with the paint in it, with the paint, whatever that is like so much worse, not to mention destroying the place they live with whatever that is Like. Who cleans up? I don't know.
Speaker 2:And how do you recover from that?
Speaker 1:And then, you're just walking into something all the time.
Speaker 2:Well, and I love how smart he gets too Like he has like a trap within a trap, and so when she walks in, she's like before she goes to the door, she's like you know and she knows. And so she like moves over to the side and then thinks she's outwitted it.
Speaker 1:And then there's a second trap that drops on her. You know what I like the walking in the tape, clear tape.
Speaker 2:Have you seen that it's like walking into like a glass door. Have you ever walked into a glass door? No, I mean between her name. I've seen somebody walk into a glass door.
Speaker 1:I've done it before. My dad walked into a glass door and he almost broke his nose. His blood all over the place. He had a wound on his eye. Why? Because he was walking like full speed. It's borderline surprise and pain at the same time. And it makes my hand look really big, I feel like I need an espresso.
Speaker 2:This is an actual-sized coffee cup. We're giants. Wow, this camera's good. That is a good lens. It is a good lens yeah it really throws off the proportions Take the red pill you're going down the rabbit hole, baby. I could take this joke down low, but I won't.
Speaker 1:I'm going to keep it right here Nice, nice. We're just going to cancel Nice. We don't want to take the joke too low.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, no, let's bring it back up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, bring it back up. Eye level, guys, eye level, what are you looking?
Speaker 1:at Stop looking, I see you looking Gosh Internet is a dirty place Dirty.
Speaker 2:Naughty Dirty, Naughty Naughty Shame shame, shame on you.
Speaker 1:We are not these humans.
Speaker 2:No we are good people. No, so I mean pranks is a good conversation, because clearly there was a prank this week that might have happened between you and I.
Speaker 1:There was yeah, yeah. Well, the funniest thing is that if you haven't seen it, roll the clip. Just kidding. I don't know if we're rolling it or not, but if we have the clip that, we roll it in there or put in there. I'm getting a haircut and actually paying for this haircut. I just had snot come out of my mouth. And you did this whole thing. Where you have this spray bottle, I'm laying down kind of ready to enjoy my massage head massage which you never give me.
Speaker 2:I did that day. I'm lucky if I go to you and I get a hair wash.
Speaker 1:You're just like yeah, your hair's already kind of fucked up.
Speaker 2:Let's just start here. I got the time for this.
Speaker 1:I'm giving you a discount Whatever. And then you achoo with the water bottle. I shoot up like a freaking rocket.
Speaker 2:But the funniest thing is I didn't feel like I did Really. Yeah, well, I told you. I mean you almost knocked Alex out of the window, I know, but like if you see in the comments, alex, I keep what I said.
Speaker 1:after the video I said like I barely even flinched and everybody's like and everybody's laughing and they're like he barely flinched.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, you flinched this much if you guys have just seen the video you flinched this much where she was holding the camera and you left the frame.
Speaker 1:I left the frame. I wasn't expecting that, and then came back in.
Speaker 2:She wasn't expecting that?
Speaker 1:no, did you really think it was real? I mean, you had to have thought it was real. I didn't think it. I don't know what I thought. I don't know. I am used to getting water spread on me from like bath time kids sneezing on me all year long.
Speaker 2:I've been peed on from my kid.
Speaker 1:I've picked up poop with my bare hands. Like you know, I've done some nasty stuff and you get to a point where you're just like it doesn't really bother you anymore. It doesn't mean I still didn't have a reaction to just like get the hell out of here, like something's happening. Yeah, let's go. So at least you know I really activated my abs pretty quick, so I'm gonna give it to my personal trainer for that you know I.
Speaker 2:Do you think that we could do pranks this good to each other over and over again? Or do you think we're gonna get so nervous to be around each other? I?
Speaker 1:guess it depends on how much we see each other.
Speaker 2:We're already starting to see each other more now. So I think I don't know.
Speaker 1:I heard George Clooney's a big prankster. He was always pranking people Really. And you know who I was thinking too. We could start pranking other people too. Well, I was thinking too. This crossed my mind because you and I kind of get along really well.
Speaker 2:And we're. You know, you're considerably older than I'm only 76, bro, I'm 77. I was only born in 1822.
Speaker 1:I mean, I'm not that old, but I'm 77. I'm just. You're a year older than me, right, but yeah you're considerably older than me, but I still feel like we get along really well. Back to what? I was saying, and it's kind of like, you know, Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman. You know how they're always goofing on each other, so I feel like that could be kind of where we go from here.
Speaker 2:I'll be Ryan Reynolds, though they do prank on each other, that's right. I want to be Ryan Reynolds. Okay, you can be Ryan Reynolds. Well, it's appropriate. Then we don't have to be confused with names.
Speaker 1:Right, right and Hugh are Barry's. I've been told that I look like him and I'm as funny as him. And have the talent that he does. I just I'm holding back.
Speaker 2:As funny, alec, as funny as Ryan Reynolds, you're breaking the third wall. Yeah, like this could be a thing, and this could be a thing that we do to other hairdressers as well. That's where I'm going with this. I think this is the beginning of something beautiful. I think it is too.
Speaker 1:Send us your ideas on what we should do.
Speaker 2:That's a good idea, send us some good prank ideas.
Speaker 1:That's not like shave somebody's head, or it can't be mean Cut a ponytail off or something. Remember when that was a thing, my thought was that was a thing. Yeah.
Speaker 2:My thought was that was extensions. I don't know. Do you think that that was for real?
Speaker 1:Or when people would walk on the street and cut people's hair in the crosswalk, yeah, and then scurry off that should be assault.
Speaker 2:I would I mean it might turn into assault after that.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah it can't like the greatest pranks aren't me.
Speaker 2:It's got to be reasonable which is like there is a bridge between like fun and funny. Maybe, it's like that's just me.
Speaker 1:It could be as simple as like quadruple booking somebody and they walk into the salon and they didn't realize they were quadruple booked. Yeah, can you imagine that would be pretty stressful, right yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 100%.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's not that good.
Speaker 2:But one of the clients that's quadruple booked actually comes in like a bear costume or something like that. Right, right right, right and asks for like a back trim.
Speaker 1:A back trim. Can you tighten up? Can you fade it up into my back?
Speaker 2:here From the toes up. How much is that From the toes up? Or we could book appointments at salons and come in and somehow surprise them. I'm here for my bleaching. I mean, you're famous enough. I don't know if I'm famous enough that we could walk into a salon and they would recognize us. I don't think I'm famous enough for that. Not yet.
Speaker 1:But we keep doing these pranks. We're going to really build a name for ourselves in the best possible way.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I like it, I like it. You know what was great about your prank and my prank was it was really your prank. Well, it was Alec, I was just being pranked, I was being punked. It was her prank and she's like Trav, do you want to be part of this? And I said yes, 100 with all caps. And I was so excited. But the but, the great thing is that we, we learned there was acting that went in this. Like we lured you in, like we're like okay, she's gonna be filming. Like we need to do a proper service, let's give a shampoo. I want her. I never get a shampoo in my head. We want to capture this. And and then I was fake telling you I had allergies, like I was like I'm going to be sneezing.
Speaker 1:That was great.
Speaker 2:yeah, like that started from the beginning, so there was I'd like to thank the Academy. Do I win something? But there's, we have to put thought into this. It can't just I mean sometimes it can be spontaneous.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I think we should definitely do some cosplay stuff right. That's where you get costumes, that's what they call it.
Speaker 2:Cosplay. That's like, yes, Like the animation film festival or whatever that's called.
Speaker 1:I don't know why, but I feel like whenever I say cosplay, I feel like it's like an intimate, creepy thing. It just feels like, but it's not right, like anime porn kind of thing, kind of yeah, but it's. Is that what it means, cosplay?
Speaker 2:I don't know. To be honest, I know that they have that huge convention.
Speaker 1:It's not like coming to the bedroom and dressing Superman without pants on or something, yeah totally, and those people are all in.
Speaker 2:They're not joking around. That's more their identity than without the costumes on.
Speaker 1:So I've got to get a Deadpool suit. You should get a Wolverine suit. Or at least the mask. I can't afford the whole. I got to get a Deadpool suit. You should get a Wolverine suit or at least the mask.
Speaker 2:Oh, dude, I'll get the mask. I can't afford the whole suit when I get the fingers, the fingers and the knives.
Speaker 1:Maybe that could be our Halloween podcast, maybe this is the Halloween podcast.
Speaker 2:I mean, I don't know, I don't know, I mean I need one for next week.
Speaker 1:So if you're watching this now, this is what we film. How much time?
Speaker 2:do we have?
Speaker 1:this is what we filmed last week, we have a week, we gotta. Well, this is it. No, this is it right now. Oh shit, this is it because it's next week, because it drops on tuesday so, if you're, maybe the thumbnail will be us in costume so if you're listening or watching this right now, um, we've obviously not talked about anything worthwhile to help you in your life or your career.
Speaker 2:But hopefully we're entertaining you.
Speaker 1:Hopefully we're entertaining you. We're taking a new spin on things here, I don't know. I would like to mention that I am now and this is kind of funny- to say oh. God, no, I'm like seven days sober. Oh dude that's so rad and I've been kind of following.
Speaker 2:I've been kind of showing my journey and whatnot and I've been like kind of like following.
Speaker 1:I've been like kind of showing my journey and whatnot, and I was not necessarily addicted to alcohol, but addicted to the habit of drinking alcohol. I didn't wake up in the morning and drink beer.
Speaker 2:I can relate to that.
Speaker 1:I didn't like it's lunchtime, I got to have, you know, I got to pound some wine and when I drink, I didn't, you know, I guess I drink faster than most people. You just don't want people. I want to get the buzz, I guess. Is that what every alcoholic?
Speaker 2:says I just drink faster.
Speaker 1:That's it Right, right right, but it's like I get home from work and it's like I need to. If it's a good day, I want to celebrate. If it's a bad day, I want to kind of escape. Yeah, and it's just like chips and salsa and a glass of wine or a margarita. I have a three drink max. Three is like pushing it because I'm going to have a hangover the next day. I'm not going to feel great the next day, so I don't usually drink more than three.
Speaker 1:So I never thought like it's a problem. Yeah Right. But then I looked at how long have I been doing this and I looked at it's been over a year and before that it's been longer, like almost every single night of doing this, and I'm like, holy shit, so kind of like half a bottle of wine a night for an entire year, just using years as it. And it's been. You know, I was a frat boy and I drank a lot during then, so it's not like it's always been part of my life in a way like socially drinking the habit and I think like, okay, so shit, that's 180 bottles of wine, just personally, I wouldn't do that to yourself.
Speaker 1:No, that sounds bad, that sounds bad.
Speaker 2:Let's be bad at math and just say it's like yeah, enough.
Speaker 1:And then like $20 bottles of wine, it comes out to like $7,000 or something. That's nuts or I can't remember because my wife was helping me to drink those so she stopped too as well.
Speaker 2:No way, yeah, yeah yeah, oh my God too drink those. So so she, she stopped too as well. No way, yeah, yeah, oh my god, that's so rad that you're doing it together, yeah yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1:It's gonna make it a lot easier. But, like you know, I I last night was the first night I came home and I'm like didn't really think about it. Yeah, you know, and I'm looking into like mocktails and things and yeah, um, it's, it's cool, it's really cool.
Speaker 2:And the thing is, I think that I just have to say I'm so proud of you, dude, like, honestly, like homie to homie, friend to friend, like that's. That's. It's really cool and the most beautiful thing about life is if you, if you, were to say that life's a book. You know, the greatest book has chapters and right, and you have closed this chapter and you're starting a new one, and that's the greatest thing, I think in general is that we always can find reset, but acknowledgement about where you're at allows you to find your best self, and that's exactly where you're at and I will tell you this with 100% honesty, as a friend, I got your back and anything you need let me know, dude.
Speaker 1:Beer, give me beer.
Speaker 2:No, I'm just kidding. Non-alcoholic, yeah, yeah, yeah, I had a non-alcoholic beer the other day. Beer the other day. This is not going to help you at all. Was it just terrible? Yeah, it kind of was.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like what's the point? Like at least you know, beer in and of itself is like not really.
Speaker 2:But there's probably good ones, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I mean, you might love the taste of beer, but it's like it's tolerable to get the buzz. For me it's not like it's delicious and I love it, but you don't get that like buzz from it.
Speaker 2:It's like a fake sugar versus real sugar.
Speaker 1:You're like I'll take the real sugar.
Speaker 2:Yeah right, exactly, exactly. I, just for a sense of yeah, relating. I was a big stoner my entire life and so drinking I would drink socially, but it was never my interest to get drunk and I didn't drink by myself ever. But I smoked a lot of pot and, of course, as soon as it becomes illegal I decide to quit.
Speaker 2:But I was at a point, like you, where I was just recognizing that it was more the habit and association of it with all these different things that was then propelling it to be a daily thing multiple times a day. And then, like you said, I had my regular habits oh, I'm going to watch a movie, I want to smoke weed. I'm going to do this, I want to smoke weed. But then, when things weren't going great for me and I was in a low moment, then it compounded by like 20. And then I'm like smoking like a chimney and finally you just get to a point where you're like I'm just, I'm going to break up with me, like I'm not okay with that part of me, and I think alcohol with respect is harder to quit than weed, so I can only imagine the daily challenge of finding new associations and new patterns.
Speaker 2:That's super hard. Well, for me, it's just that. Is that part of your hikes right now?
Speaker 1:Hikes when you're falling and biting it. Hey, hold that thought for a second. I just want to make sure that we're still recording. I always have this fear. Okay, cool we are. It's just like we've been talking for 25 minutes and it doesn't show us on the Ninja.
Speaker 2:No, it really bothers me.
Speaker 1:But yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm getting to that age.
Speaker 2:I'm getting to that age. You know I'm getting closer to your age. Getting closer to your age Vampire age yeah yeah, his kid just had a child.
Speaker 1:Where everything is going to go gray. And I was just running, I was just trail running, you know, and I just fell. I just fell.
Speaker 2:It was like some force came it was a perfectly beautiful day.
Speaker 1:It wasn't rainy, it wasn't slippery, it was just nice hard ground. I mean it was like uneven ground. I love the description.
Speaker 2:Nice hard ground. It was like perfect ground, it was really nice ground.
Speaker 1:If I was looking around at different grounds I'd be like that's really nice ground.
Speaker 2:I want to run on that ground. Of these six grounds, I like that ground the best. It's nice and hard, totally Nice and hard.
Speaker 1:Like that's going to be a good ground. It's a very grounded thing to say. I didn't expect to be shooting across of it on my elbows, yeah, but yeah, until then it was a you know pretty. It was a challenging run because I haven't been like running as much as I liked.
Speaker 1:So maybe my old legs just tensed up or I tripped on a root or a rock or just I don't know. But I just ate it at full speed and full speed for me at this point it's like a nine minute mile. It's pretty slow.
Speaker 2:Was there that moment Like this is what happens to me. Did you have that moment when you ate shit that all of a sudden you're just like sitting there going okay do I, my fingers work, my toes work, and so you have this sort of like checklist that you go through to make sure you're okay? I?
Speaker 1:didn't pop back up quick, like I fell and I supermanned it forward and it was almost like a cartoon.
Speaker 2:I'm laughing.
Speaker 1:It was almost like a cartoon skid where I hit the ground and I didn't stop, I just kept going because it's nice hard ground. It was just like there wasn't anything to catch me. It was just like it was slippery, nice hard ground. Was anybody?
Speaker 2:around or no?
Speaker 1:no, no, no, that would have been more terrible yeah, because then you pop up like nothing happened yeah, I'd be like no, I'm good, even though I'm bleeding and my you know, there's a hole in my hand and I'm like, but I didn't hit my, my head or anything. So I think, like me actually working out and having, uh, you know, some actual strength helped, because otherwise I could have just smacked my head on the ground and it would be we'd have a different conversation, right?
Speaker 2:yeah, you would have all these bandages on your head, but yeah, yeah, then you'd be back to drinking I fell.
Speaker 1:So now every time I go out there for a run, now I'm going to think about falling.
Speaker 2:Why are we so embarrassed to bite it? If people are around again, you get up real quick.
Speaker 1:Your arm could be bent backwards like broken off, basically Because you hear as you get older, as you get closer to your age that you've got steps in your place, you could fall and break a hip. I know I'm going to get one of those elevators that goes up the side of the stairs, like the gremlins Remember the gremlins or the elevator.
Speaker 2:But the super slow one, where it's just barely moving, she shoots out of the house.
Speaker 1:Is this on pause?
Speaker 2:or is that actually moving? It's so slow yeah exactly.
Speaker 1:It's like people are walking by you.
Speaker 2:You're like 20 minutes later. My clients are all waiting. There's like six of them. I'm getting there, Right, right, right, Wait. So back to so how many days has it been since?
Speaker 1:you quit drinking Seven, I think Seven, or eight, seven. I guess it's good that I'm not counting, I'm not like it's been seven days.
Speaker 2:That's very fresh. It's still fresh Two days ago.
Speaker 1:It was at nighttime. There was a night two days ago I was like had this massive headache and I think everything was just kind of like detoxing, leaving my body and it felt like a hangover headache. That was just like really hurt, you know, and I was hating the world and I pretty much hated the world for the last several days.
Speaker 2:And then I play a prank on you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, You're just like Great timing. Shit, did I ruin that friendship? Is he pissed off?
Speaker 2:at me. He said he's fine. He said he's fine. I had to text you later. She said she liked the cut. I don't know, but she never came back.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh shit. I'm like no it was probably partly me. Just, you know, kind of like feeling like I'm, that part of me like feels like I'm going to be boring you yeah you're not boring.
Speaker 2:You're not a boring dude.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know, but maybe at parties I'll be boring. No.
Speaker 2:But it's like I don't want to. I mean, how often are you going to parties? I don't ever go to parties. I even blew off your party, my daughter's birthday. She's having a tea party. I was like that's too late for Grandpa.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we've got to get me to bed onto this thing. It's called Soberish, have you?
Speaker 2:heard about that.
Speaker 1:It's like this movement where it's non-alcoholic kind of mocktails. They all have a hint of THC in them but it's legal that they can just sell it and ship it anywhere. You don't have to have a special store for it. But apparently it gives you the slightest little buzz, the slightest little head change, with no hangovers, with no ill effects.
Speaker 2:I would like that with mushroom microdosing or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:But they actually have a little tincture thing where little drops you can put a drop on your tongue or something when you're going out and apparently it just gives you enough of a change when you just kind of feel like yeah, where you're just, it's got like some Smooth, I mean. Yeah, yeah, apparently, just Without all the hangover, without all the junk.
Speaker 2:Do you think you'll ever drink casually, or do you think Is that kind of like you've got to be done?
Speaker 1:We'll see how it goes. I'm hoping to get to a point where I don't even want it anymore, or that it's like the whole point is to crush the habit, to kill the habit. I want to just kill the habit of going home feeling like I need to have a drink. Once I feel like I'm comfortably there, then like hey, I don't see the problem. I'm not like addicted to alcohol, I'm just addicted to like the happy hour time. It's like I gotta have a drink. It's after work, yeah, uh. So once I can kind of break that habit, I don't see the problem of going on a vacation, getting a nice bottle of wine or having a glass of wine. At that point. A bottle would probably give me a hangover if I haven't had it in a long time. But that way I can truly appreciate it for what it is, for the poison that it is.
Speaker 2:Because alcohol really is poison. Yeah, I mean, if you think about it as poison, that may make you a little less interested.
Speaker 1:But at the same time it's like I do already like being more clear-headed. A good case in point today I was driving to work. Somebody just like cut me off, almost clipped the front of my car on the way to work and I go like this to honk and I'm like, nah, yeah, Any other day, motherfucker, Drive up next to him.
Speaker 2:You know yeah, but I just I'm just like nah, you just took a breath, You're like it happened.
Speaker 1:I just was like so rationally minded, you're like you know what, and it's been a long time since I haven't had road rage.
Speaker 2:I believe in karma. They're going to drive off a cliff in about 20 minutes. Watch, and we saw him on the news later.
Speaker 1:But before, with the drinking, most days were frustration, a little bit of anger, I'd get through my day. I think it's just a total emotional reset that I'm having now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I like that. That's fair. I appreciate it, I and I applaud your strength again and and full support. Thank you, I have been working out. Yeah, I mean that's what I was going to say in regard to like understanding, not that you're quitting an addiction, but but looking into, like your nature and my nature is I have a very addictive personality and so for me, whatever I put in front of myself, I'm all the fuck in, like I'm 200% on everything I do.
Speaker 2:And so back when it was weed if I was smoking weed I was smoking a lot of weed.
Speaker 2:If it was working, then I was working my A off and, regardless of what it was, it's a part of my breakup with pot was okay, my nature is still an addictive nature. So then I switched it to okay, I understand that I like the oral fixation, so smoking and going like this, and which cigarettes at one place in my life as well. And so I started drinking a bunch of tea and I would drink non-caffeinated tea at night. So I wasn't all cracked out in the evening, but I sort of replaced my habit with another habit drink non-caffeinated tea at night. So I was all wasn't all cracked out in the evening, um, but I sort of replaced my habit with another habit, but because the common denominator was me and how I report to things is how I report to things, but are they healthy or unhealthy? Right, and and so you know for what it's worth, I think that that helped me a lot and I still drink a bunch of tea, and now I have a shit ton of caffeine during the day because I no, that's fine.
Speaker 1:When I want to smoke, I just drink caffeine in the day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, my new addiction is caffeine.
Speaker 1:I totally get it. I mean, you just have to replace it with either a positive habit or a less negative habit.
Speaker 2:I wish I could replace it with biceps. That would be awesome. I don't get addicted to working out. I don't really get into working out either.
Speaker 1:I need a partner or like a trainer. But I have already felt like my midsection tightening up. You know I'm not bloated. Every day I'm not looking in the mirror and seeing it get bigger and bigger. But, another thing I've noticed too is that the last couple of nights I think you're just getting old the last couple of 76 is a big difference, 76.
Speaker 2:Was it? More in 1822, what did I say?
Speaker 1:But even the other night I got home last night and my kids are outside and Jenny's outside and normally this is when we'd go and open a bottle of wine and we'd have wine and the kids would be on their iPads or doing what they do and they were out and Sage. My oldest was on her bike practicing going down the driveway and Max was doing his Max stuff and he just does. Max stuff, he just we just say, like he's just, it's Max he's one of those kids, you just you don't know what he's, why he's doing things, it's just.
Speaker 1:We just say, that's just, max, yeah but we were doing Max and we were.
Speaker 1:We were, um, like actually doing stuff outside. We were playing soccer a couple nights ago we were, and I felt energetic about it. I wasn't like putting my glass of wine down to go do it, I was just doing it and having fun. Last night we were taking turns, jenny and I, doing the bikes down a steep hill to see how we could do it. We're like, oh, we could do this and just trying, like being outside being active. Yeah, not that we were like out of shape before, because I was still working out while I was drinking. You know, um drink at night and then I work out in the morning, but a whole different like that's when I would be drinking. And now it's like we're replacing it with like, hey, let's take advantage of the outside, let's have fun with our kids, let's do more family interaction.
Speaker 2:That's good. Has it influenced your sleep, like are you having a hard time falling asleep no, or staying asleep no, I'm not.
Speaker 1:The? No, I'm not. The only time I can't stay asleep is when my kids come in and wake me up in the middle of the night. Oh, that's fair. My fucking son is like a, my fucking son.
Speaker 2:He's like the Max kid, the Max At nighttime he turns into a newborn.
Speaker 1:He's almost four.
Speaker 2:He just turns four.
Speaker 1:Every night.
Speaker 2:At some point he'll come crying.
Speaker 1:He's like yeah, really grossed out. Max is like yeah, you're like, stop acting like a four-year-old.
Speaker 1:He's like dad, I am You're like my bad, but it's almost like he's acting like a two-year-old, where he's like put the covers on me, the covers are off, put the covers on me. Put the covers on. I got to go pee. Yeah, it's tough. And then you wake up and he's sideways. There's a face in your foot, in your face, and I mean last night I didn't even want to deal with it, so he came in, put him in bed with jenny. Jenny was there. I put a little railing up on the side where I sleep and I just went into the guest room yeah, that's fair and then my daughter wakes me up at 6 30 on the dot every single morning.
Speaker 1:she doesn't have a clock or know how to read time, she just knows exactly like in her head, that it's 630. All right, we're back here, we're going to. The camera is shutting off and telling us like you guys need to either talk about something worthwhile or or just peace out, and I think it's peace out time. I mean, we've given you some gems. Hopefully you've been laughing, hopefully you have been having a good time, because if you don't love what you're doing, like what's the point of life? That's where I'm coming from now.
Speaker 2:right, Well, if you don't love that's when it's time to shift gears, like you just did, and I think that's a big thing with the podcast today too.
Speaker 1:Well, I appreciate you, brother, I appreciate our growing friendship and I'm going to get you. I'm just waiting for the break. I'm going to get you.
Speaker 2:I'm so nervous me at all times. You know what we should do.
Speaker 1:We should be like the newscasters. Yeah, you know like newscasters are like and thank you guys so much for tuning in and we'll see you next week and then they kind of like scroll over like.
Speaker 2:This is Ryan and I'm Travis, and thanks for being part of our show today.
Speaker 1:And then we just like talk about Ha, ha, ha, ha ha, ha, I like it, yeah, yeah.
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