Rushing Toward Red Lights

Ever feel like you’re sprinting toward a red light? We open with the grind—two-hour commutes, sore feet, and the dopamine drip of delivery apps—and then dig into why “now” culture leaves us impatient, irritable, and strangely disconnected. From walking as a reset to getting cut off just to stop at the same light, we ask: what’s the rush costing us?

The story widens into neighborhoods and nostalgia: where kids once ran pickup games until the streetlights blinked, screens swallowed sidewalks. We trade notes on safety at 3 a.m., packed buses, and how city density rewires social trust. There’s a detour into consumer culture—party-size flavors that don’t taste right, overpackaging that insults common sense—and a surprisingly earnest tangent on hygiene and why small upgrades get so much pushback. It’s funny until it’s not; then it’s useful.

We get honest about coping. Alcohol as identity in certain zip codes. Depression hiding in naps, weed, and late-night snacks. The tells you can spot in yourself and the swaps that actually help: walk the errand, eat something real, skip the doom-scroll, call a friend. We wrestle with solo travel and the stigma of dining alone, then draw a line: your ticket is your contract, your table is your right, and your time is yours. Ask for better or say no.

The heaviest stretch is Chicago deep dish: loyalty, gangs, grief, and how music and marketing can glamorize a life that takes more than it gives. We don’t moralize; we humanize. The counterweight is creation. We sketch out our DIY studio plans, sample packs, and making beats—not to chase clout, but to build skills, community, and a second self worth protecting. It’s creativity as harm reduction and hope.

If you’re tired of living on fast-forward, this one’s for you. Listen, laugh, and leave with a few tools to slow your day, strengthen your boundaries, and make something that outlasts the scroll. If it resonates, tap follow, share it with a friend, and drop a comment about one habit you’re changing this week. Your story might spark someone else’s.

Transcript

Small Talk And Daily Routines

shooter 0:00

I think you brought a kid lucky it wasn't me at them cannabis. What a fucking What a fuck the floor with his ass. You wanna clean?

mac g 0:12

You put in that good work tonight, buddy. How do you do man?

shooter 0:17

You know, man, just another day paradise. I just feel like the whole afternoon is coming. I feel like the whole afternoon is coming in the trying to do a little bit more healthier lifestyle as far as eating, a little bit of exercise, maybe take a little you know, I'll take a little walk, even if it's just a walk to the grocery store.

mac g 1:05

Yeah, well that's you know, I walk everywhere, so yeah, yeah, yeah.

shooter 1:08

I'm not gonna lie, it is nice, you know. I mean it's it's nice to have a car, but man, when I didn't have one, dude, you're not lying, dude. I would walk everywhere, bro. And and I couldn't tell you how many miles of walking I put in. I'm talking about 10 minutes, fucking I'm walking. 20 minutes, fucking I'm walking.

Commuting, Walking, And Bus Life

mac g 1:24

Yeah, yeah. Well, I mean I don't know. I look forward to it, but then again, I do a lot of uh game a lot of walking in at work now, Monday through Friday. But I mean, before I moved down over this way closer to work, I was riding the bus like almost two hours.

shooter 1:43

I think uh yeah.

mac g 1:44

Almost two hours.

shooter 1:45

That's a mission.

mac g 1:46

So all the way from over there to over here.

shooter 1:48

Uh that's a mission. What was worse from the morning here or from the afternoon back? Afternoon. Yeah, it was just more people, right?

mac g 1:56

More people afternoon because you're tired, especially in the summertime. You're tired, you're dirty, you're stinky. Yeah, being on a bus and you're on the bus, dude. Yeah, it's extra tough, dude. It's extra tough, dude. And some people are rude, bro. Extra rude, extra rude, bro. I mean, I don't blame them.

shooter 2:16

No, I do.

mac g 2:17

Yeah, but yeah, dude.

shooter 2:18

I'm I'm walking, I'll get out of work, and obviously I'm in my uniform. I'm coming out the store, you know, and some ladies like, damn, you smell that? Yeah, and I said, Yeah, it smells good, don't it? She said, Nah, it's your body order. She said, I said, Damn lady, you don't see me in my uniform? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, can't even work. You know, they were making fun of this one actor, dude. He used to be an actor, I think. I forgot who. I don't know if he was an actor or an athlete. And he was bagging groceries at the Trader Joe's or something, and they were like, Look at this guy went from being an actor to now bagging. What's wrong with what's wrong with just having an honest job? You know?

mac g 2:52

Yeah, you know, it's just don't get me started, man. Don't get me. It's the society, bro. Okay? Right? It's the society. Yeah.

shooter 3:02

What a society.

mac g 3:03

I was actually thinking about this today. It's like, it's funny how everything, everything we everything we do today, or everything we we try to do today, or get done, or or try to achieve for ourselves. We want to do it, it's now. It's now and now it's now, it's now. I need it now. It's not.

shooter 3:22

I mean, look at look at the way we live.

Society’s Rush And Impatience

mac g 3:24

You could you could order anything you want. But basically, what I'm saying is that we're all rushing towards everything, dude. Everything. And society's telling you to rush towards everything.

shooter 3:35

But it's all just I think it's not. I think sometimes we just need to take a take a breather, bro. Like, what's the rush, right? I I I'm getting cut off. I'm on my way over. I'm getting cut off by people to go in front of me to a red light. What's the rush? I am I I'm not going fast enough to a red light? Yeah. That's how I see it. And my friend told me he was like, he was like, it's like life is like you're rushing towards a red light.

mac g 4:01

It's like we're rushing towards our death, dude. That's what I was thinking. That's all right. We want everything here now, we want everything fast, everything has to happen now. We have no patience for anything. And and and and in in the in in in trying to get everything fast, we sacrifice a lot of things. You know what I'm saying? A lot of things. A lot of things. Uh our self-worth, our time, our value, you know, just things like that.

shooter 4:33

You know, some people don't, you know, I know some people don't see it that way. They're like, well, I don't care, I just want it now. Yeah, I need it, I need it now. Back then, though, you if you needed it, you used to have to think, do I really want to get up, start the car, go to the store, do the whole shopping, go through all the the stuff and the people and everything. Now you don't even have to deal with people. You don't even have to see the person who drops off your stuff. You could just be like, hey, leave it at the door, bro.

mac g 4:55

I know, it's great, isn't it? You know what I mean? I love it. I love it. And don't even have you don't even have to go into Yal Martin to see to see all y'all. Yeah, you know, me, me, bro.

shooter 5:07

I mean, think about it. I how many back in the day, dude? You could step outside, you could step outside, you and your little crew, your your friends, and time just seemed to be I don't know, like it seems to stop a little bit.

mac g 5:23

Yeah, we were kids back then, but everyone.

shooter 5:25

Yeah, yeah, but nowadays, you don't really see kids out there playing on the street, like maybe certain neighborhoods and here and there, but you know, you still have parties and gatherings and stuff, but I'm talking about like I don't know.

mac g 5:38

I mean, and what do you mean by uh little kids though?

shooter 5:41

Just just like just kids. Like I remember when I was a kid, dude. Like even like for for even in high school, right? Like I had my my crew and we were just always chilling outside, playing basketball, playing tech football, just getting into little mischiefs. You know what I mean? Now you go down certain like little neighborhoods and you don't see no kids outside, really. Or like, you know, you might see a couple kids riding their bikes, and they're all playing Fortnite, bro.

mac g 6:04

Exactly, dude. And it's like Except for these little badass kids down the street with their fucking dirt bikes and shit. Ha ha.

shooter 6:11

You know what I mean? Yeah. But no, definitely it's just it feels like almost like like a virtual reality. You know? Or click here, buy now, do this, go here. Like, you know, you get if you're not moving, you're not.

mac g 6:28

Instant gratification, but instant gratification. If you can't be gratified now, then if you can't satisfy if that thing or that person or that place can't satisfy you then and there, then you don't need it. Or or you're gonna use it up till you're done with it. Sometimes don't consumers, bro. We're all consumers and lingers, bro. Fucking lingers, fucking lingers, man. Fucking lingers, man. I tell you, dude.

shooter 7:01

But what else?

mac g 7:02

Oh shit.

shooter 7:03

You know, dude, it's just there's so mass production of stuff that we don't even need. Sometimes I'll buy something in, bro, and I'm like, do I really even need this?

mac g 7:12

Dude, people in China and Japan are like stupefied at our marketplaces because of the packaging.

shooter 7:22

What you mean?

mac g 7:22

Like packaging in in Japan, unless it's like really expensive stuff, expensive stuff. Packaging in Japan is like nothing, like that. Almost nothing, like just bags or just quick little this or that. It's not like here we get bags. Like for a little thumbstick, hard drive or whatever. It comes in. It comes in like a big old, like a little two-inch, one inch by two inch little square comes in a like a a 20 20-inch package. Like, okay, that's just ridiculous.

shooter 7:54

Yeah, I know what you mean, dude. I ordered a little bit of a thing. Yeah, like a little chip, like a little uh whatever, like a little dude.

mac g 7:59

I nothing or nothing over there sold in bulk. It's all for just it's all meant to be used. You understand what I'm saying? Like like tissue paper, like, like for example, like you know how we get the thousand, the thousand square squares per roll over there? Yeah. And we we use like fucking 10 to 20 squares per for one for one wipe, and we only use like three of those squares to wipe our ass? Yeah. You know, over there they only get like 10 squares, bro.

shooter 8:26

What they know how to I'm just kidding.

mac g 8:28

They know how to use the shit out of that out of that one square, bro. They they they use every each they use uh one corner per wipe, bro. Per square.

shooter 8:37

I believe it opened uh, you know what's funny, uh, my grandpa.

mac g 8:39

Actually, they don't even have toilet paper over there. No, no, dude.

shooter 8:42

What the fuck you mean?

Kids, Screens, And The Vanishing Streets

mac g 8:43

I mean, America's there I don't know. Allegedly, from what I keep hearing is that like most all countries and even some were third world countries wash their asses after after using the bathroom. In other words, they have bidets, so they get that spray up their ass. But yeah, they say that it would like we are one of the last countries that still walks around where people walk around with with uh films of of shit on their in our ass cheeks.

shooter 9:21

And their hairy ass cheeks. Yeah, that's crazy.

mac g 9:23

Like like smeared peanut butter on shag carpet.

shooter 9:27

That's when you put it like that. Come on, man. When you put it like that, listen. Nothing's nothing listen, right? Right. I'm visual. I gave you a visual. Listen, I am not expecting any company there, right? So I could care less, right? Yeah, right. But I will tell you this. I'm not fucking going, dude. I'm not going to the doctors for no checkup with the fucking finger in the ass. I'm not I'm not going to get my ass washed out, dude. Like, what is this? I don't know, man.

mac g 9:59

It's just, I guess, for for some people, for some people? Okay, so I'm gonna put it to you like this.

shooter 10:06

For what?

mac g 10:07

Some people like to be near that area. I'm not saying on that area. Who? You know, but you know, like when you when you like to eat out, you know, when you like to eat out, sometimes sometimes you have to go pick up your ticket, you eat out at the next to check it out.

shooter 10:29

Sometimes you have to eat out next to the sewage flat, bro. I don't I don't know, bro. I don't know what you're doing. I'm a I'm a dine in type of guy, right? I don't I don't dine in type of guy. I'm not eating out, nothing. You know what I mean? I don't do that, you know? And she ain't going, no, no, no, dude. Oh no, but you're dying in. You know, I'm not going out. I'm not eating out. I'm not eating out. I don't care how bad she is, I don't care how clean it looks, I'm not eating out. I don't know, bro. That's all I can tell you, dude. You know, and definitely I'm not having no home, no, no invitations or nothing like that. So uh let's tell the doctor.

mac g 11:05

You know, it's kind of like when your favorite Chinese restaurant is next to like the sewage plant, but their food food is so awesome, dude. You just you just gotta go get it. You just gotta you just gotta have it, bro.

shooter 11:17

See, that's different though. You just gotta have just gotta have it. I'm not having no damn toilet.

mac g 11:24

You gotta have the that raggoon in your mouth, bro.

shooter 11:27

Hey, crab ragoon, bro, is good. Don't play about my crab ragoon.

mac g 11:30

You gotta get that raggoon in your mouth, bro. No matter how close, how how close to the sewage plan it is, I don't know, man.

shooter 11:38

Sometimes it starts to stink, you know? And it's like, how much can you really take? It's gone too far. I tell you, it's gone too far with these people over there. No, no, no, no.

mac g 11:50

Not far enough if you guys know I'm just kidding.

shooter 11:53

I'm just kidding. Yeah, no, definitely. You know, well, when you can walk the streets at 3 a.m. over there and not have to worry about getting robbed really to get some ramen. Uh that sounds good.

mac g 12:03

Where? Oh, yeah, because people are up almost. There's so many people out there that there's people up all like, you know what I'm saying?

shooter 12:11

You know, I just you know what it is, too? I feel like they're more like I don't know about how it is now, but like maybe it's just because I watch too much anime in the movies. I've never been over there, right? So I don't know. But like even when I was with uh this girl, like they they always seem to have a good group of friends, and they always seem to have like uh like something to do after like after work or like they're meeting up. Like, where do you get all this money to go sh to go eat every fucking day out? Not every day, but like on the weekends, they're always linking up, and then it's not even like so.

Overconsumption And Packaging Rants

mac g 12:39

Well see, you're looking at the life, and I know what you're talking about because my son likes to watch all he's very into the whole Asian thing himself. He loves the whole the culture, the food, the snacks. I call them little Asian girl snacks. Little Asian girl candy. He loves to go to that little Asian girl candy store at the mall, I forget what it's called, but he's always coming with those bags or whatever. But what you guys are looking at are rich ass Asian kids with rich parents, and those kids that you see that are in the uniforms and everything, those are kids that come from rich families. They're in boarding schools or they're in private schools and all that. So so what you're seeing are rich kids leaving. So you're saying they got poor kids over there too?

shooter 13:29

Of course. Come on, dude. I don't know, they don't make it seem that way. You know, here's the thing that I see, right?

mac g 13:36

Because that's how their marketing works, dude. Like, even even us, like you what do you think? Like when people when we send people videos of like come to America, you think we send them pictures of starving ass little kids in Oblak and you know little mocosals in Oblock, or that or that that little that little devilish kid closing up shop over at the Sam's Club mean mugging, mean mugging and shit.

shooter 14:03

What what um say something say something, right? No, because the thing, so so my thing is I don't know, and and and it's not all the time, but here I feel like nine times out of ten, like as if people go out as a group, unless it's like co-workers, if they go out as a group, it's usually guys with guys and girls with girls. Over there, it seems like a mix all the time. Like guys could go out with girls, everybody's getting along. It's always seems like there's a mix of of you know what I mean. But here, for some reason, like if I go out to a bar and I see tables, for me, nine times out of ten, what I see, unless it's like a call uh a work party or something, I see guys are guys and girls are girls at their sections. I never really it's it's it's rare to see, I mean, not that you don't see it.

mac g 14:52

That's here in the city, man. I get that. You know, you know, in in Colorado where I grew up in Colorado and most places I've been to in Colorado, it's always been co ed. That's what you mean, is co-ed or yeah, like mix, like or gender segregated, yeah. Yeah. I mean, my most all the crews I ever went and hung out with, and all that, it was always a mix of guys and girls. And that's cool.

shooter 15:17

I like that, you know what I mean? I don't know, I don't like a sausage fest.

mac g 15:21

Yeah, I mean, you know, but what can you do? I mean, this is the city, it's really different out here. Dude, trust me. They're they're very it's people out here are on are on high alert all the time, dude. And I get that, I understand that. I get I totally understand that. That's not like that in Colorado. It's not. I mean, maybe in certain parts of Denver, but other than that, it's like it's no, dude. It's yeah, it's nothing. It's safe.

shooter 15:49

You know, I hear like some people won't even say thank you if you open the door for them.

mac g 15:52

Put it put it this way, you're more scared of maybe running into a bear or some sort of like wolf or like a coyote or something like that out there than you are, you know, getting mugged or something, unless you're hanging out with the bad crowd with the wrong people or whatever, then honestly. Yeah, right.

shooter 16:08

Here it just seems like you don't have to, you could be on your own and people just want to, yo, what's up?

Hygiene, Bidets, And TMI Humor

mac g 16:12

That's what I'm saying. But over and you know, that's anywhere, really. I mean, you know, that's anywhere. But I mean, it's really populated out here. You have a lot of people living within one city block, so many people, so many people within one city block here, dude. Out there, it's yeah, we were talking about that. Uh it's completely different.

shooter 16:30

It's fucked up.

mac g 16:31

Yeah, and and then not only that, but then I mean I don't even know how to put it, but like I don't want to say like the old Catholic ways, but like the alcoholism out here too. I mean, alcoholism is is bad everywhere, but it's it's pretty, it's like it's yeah, I think I I I saw I started noticing alcoholism in Colorado as I got older, but like here is like you get here and it's like damn, everybody's drunk. Everybody's getting drunk.

shooter 17:02

Everybody, it's almost like like if you're not getting drunk, you're not part of the crew.

mac g 17:06

Exactly. Same with that, yeah. Pretty much.

shooter 17:09

Yeah, well, think about it.

mac g 17:10

I mean, it's it's you're grinding. It's it's like a billion-dollar industry out here, man. It's it's insane, dude. And they make it look good. It's insane. And you know, I've been to like Missouri.

shooter 17:24

Missouri.

mac g 17:24

Where like they sell alcohol at gas stations, dude. They don't do that here. No, no, yeah, they yeah, they do. Yeah, but over there, it's like it's everywhere. It's like as soon as you walk in, it's right there. It's like on the shelves. It's not even it's not behind stuff, it's like it's all right there.

shooter 17:41

Like at you just like you're at a store, like you're at a regular store within arm's reach.

mac g 17:45

Yeah, bro. Pretty much. Like they're offering it to you. It's like as soon as you walk in, dude, all you see is like shelves of bottles of liquor everywhere. That surprised me, dude.

shooter 17:54

In Missouri?

mac g 17:55

Yeah, that was like I think like uh what was it like I can't even remember now. Had to have been almost like it was like the second time that the in the in the Chiefs' run that they made it to uh to the soup to the playoffs. So I so it was like six years ago or something like that. I went to Arrowhead and got to see the Kansas City Chiefs.

shooter 18:16

You know, it is pretty easy to fall into that uh I mean I I I like to have a beer, you know, I like to have a mixed drink once in a while, but I could see like it's I could see why this place, Chicago especially, dude, makes people just want to hit the bottle.

mac g 18:32

Well, now more than ever, but I mean I knew that that there was I knew that people that the alcoholism out here was pretty crazy growing up too, though, before I moved to Colorado. So, you know, but because there was a couple of alcoholics in my family growing up too, and you saw it, and you saw all the all your friends' dads getting together and getting drunk, or granddads, you know, getting together, or you know, every once a month they'd be hanging out in each other's garages, getting drunk. And that we'd we'd love it because me and my cousins, because we go hit him up, and the more friends he had over at the garage drinking, the better, because we go ask him for like a couple beers. No, we go ask him for like we were kids, so we go ask him for like 25 cents to go buy like a quarter ten cent candies or whatever. And there's a dollar, and then his friend be like, Oh, use a dollar fifty, and then he'd be giving us just throwing us money, throwing money at us. Yeah. Because that's how they were back in the days.

shooter 19:30

And uh oh, yeah, you got that much? Well no, yeah, I remember being young too, and something about the garages, bro. I guess that was a spot to drink. I get the garages are spots to drink.

mac g 19:43

Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, yeah.

shooter 19:44

You know, I remember I was little and my uncles they would be in the garage having a few beers, and they would have the the little mic, the little Mickeys, I think.

mac g 19:52

Yeah, yeah.

shooter 19:53

You know, they're like try it, you know, put some hair in your chest.

Late-Night Safety And Cultural Perceptions

mac g 19:56

Well, I mean you know, it seems like that's not the thing anymore. 'Cause it seemed like in that my my old neighborhood now, it's like everybody's just drinking out in the front, and it's not even people that even live in those buildings. It's just bummed. Especially the closer you get to the liquor to the liquor store or to the gas station, you just see people just in droves and standing in front of houses drinking. Cause out in in my own neighborhood, you can drink, I guess, in front of you can stand outside of a building and drink. Well, I don't I I would I would as long as you keep it hidden or whatever, you know. Right, right. But I I would no, I mean it makes sense because like some people don't have yards uh in my old neighborhood. You know, it's it's the old neighborhood.

shooter 20:35

And it depends on what area you are too, because I'm not gonna lie, sometimes it is safer to drink in your backyard. But who wants to drink in the back? Everything happens in the front, you know? Yeah, out of action, everybody like you.

mac g 20:45

Well, I mean, me per I pre- I prefer that. I'd prefer that I don't know. Especially here, dude. You can just be sitting in your in your porch and shit'll just pop off. Yeah, you get that, dude. Yeah, won't have nothing to do with you. Hey, bro, why are you? You know, it's like you know, yeah, you're not lying.

shooter 21:00

I actually had me and my buddy were actually having a beer one time in the front, and this car pulled up, slid the van door open, and uh they're like, yo. And we looked, they were like, Who the hell is that? And they looked and they're like, You want some candy? Get in the van. Get in the van. All right, look, candy. Hey. No, dude, but no, you're not lying. And uh, some most of the time, you know. I mean, I keep to myself, so most of the time I like to have a beer in the summertime in the front afternoon, just kick it, and you see stuff pop off. But there's like you said, though, you're out there, and people just oh, he's out there. He's uh who's that?

mac g 21:37

Just the first beer.

shooter 21:38

I don't know.

mac g 21:39

The first person, and you know what's funny? I think that's a Chicago thing, because I'm the same way, dude. When I get mad, dude, and I get mad, dude. The first person is and you motherfucker, yeah, I might not even know the dude.

shooter 21:49

What yeah, you, you, I see you, don't even know you, bro. Fuck yeah, you with the stupid ass face over the yeah, you bro, pretty much like what me? Stupid ass face what? And then they're getting mad, and then there's the whole dude. It's crazy, huh? What do these people downstairs think we're talking shit? He said, damn, bro. Yeah, really? Yeah, you bro. Who the fuck you think I'm talking to? Somebody just yelling, you with the stupid face. Yo, that's funny, right? Go out in public, you want the stupid face. You know how many people turn around? I guess if you're the one that turns out. Who's to talk to? Whoever with the stupid face. What are you no dude? No, it's just uh it's just everybody's watching everybody, dude. Yeah, everybody's watching everybody's stupid face. Everybody's watching everybody's face. Can you imagine dude? Like if people recorded just your face when you're fucking and shit, just the stupid faces people make.

mac g 23:05

The vinegar sniffs, yeah. You know what the vinegar sniffs are? The vinegar sniffs is like when you know that face you make when you sm uh smell vinegar? This is like the same face you make when you're about to come. I'm going. You get the vinegar sniffs. No.

shooter 23:30

Oh god, dude. No. Vinegar's a weird smell, dude.

mac g 23:35

I can't or are you talking about uh uh the L face? The L face? Yeah, man. Show her my talking about showing them or showing her your L face.

shooter 23:45

No, no, no, dude. I don't even know, dude. I just you know what I mean? I just do my thing, man.

mac g 23:51

And uh get from the back and oh, oh, oh, oh man, dude.

shooter 24:01

Gotta love it, man. But no, dude, definitely it's so hostile out here, bro. So hostile out here for no reason. You know what I mean? Like, I'll literally be cruising, dude, listening to my music, and the guy will pull up, yo. Like, what the fuck? Exactly, dude. And now the fuck did I do to you? Fucking cut me off 10 legs, bro. You can be standing there trying to get your condiments at Sam's Club, bro. Little kids just come over here slamming, slamming cabinets on you, looking at you like what fool? Like, ain't no more condiments, fool. We're all the condiments, little white devilish ass kids, bro. Oh bro, we gotta be careful with those.

Alcohol Culture, Cities, And Coping

mac g 24:33

And then and then dude, I'm like, where your parents at? I'm trying to avoid getting close to this kid, just because it's those days, these are the days. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? And so I'm like concentrating on like trying to get my my Coke lid, and I said my and I set my my my slices and my and my my coke without a my drink without a lid, full to the brim on the other side, and he was going toward it, like touching the surface. I'm like, oh it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen. I was waiting for him to grab that coke and be like, pour it all over himself.

shooter 25:15

He looked like he was ready to do it. He looked like he gave it a second, like he gave it a thought. He said, Should I fuck this guy real nail?

mac g 25:21

Slow him up, but then he he changed his mind, started working his way back the other way. So I was like, all right. And then I grabbed my stuff, you know, like damn, dude. I mean, this kid had to have been like what two years old, a year and a half, something like that. Like two years old. That kid almost looked like four, two or three, something like that, but still, like, come on. Little blondish little I'm looking around like whose kid is this? And like I look around, take three scans, and I find she is mean ass looking, almost white trash looking lady, just looking at me with her finger pointed towards the phone, like she's ready to hit the the send button on 911. Like we got one we got this one out here, sir. I don't know what they're doing out there. Nice, nice job, lady. You're like literally 40 feet away, letting this kid, and I'm like a six foot three, you know, big brown man. And that's all I have to say about that. Right. And that don't mean shit to me, but you know, you know, to some of y'all people out there, that means something to have your little kid out there all by himself, look like he's unsupervised, just right all nilly willy, nilly willy over there, closing up shop, closing up shop before 30. I could have swear, and I thought that he was like the janitor's kid of Sean, because like the the janitor was like throwing trash out at the same time, like oh shit, bring your bring your kid to work there, some shit. He looked at you like, is that yours?

shooter 26:37

Nah, no. I thought it was yours. Look at him. Looks like he's helping you. Help it, help it out, closing up cabinets and shit, closing up shop early. He said, That's crazy. Let's go. My dad's gonna get out of here. Yo, come on, man. Come on, man. You're holding up the line, bro. The fuck, you don't even need condiments. So they say you don't even need to fuck your sour crap. You didn't even find a hot dog, he said. It's crazy.

mac g 27:03

Some of these parents, man. I'm telling you, dude. And uh literally, dude, like 20, 30 feet away, dude. That's like aisles away, man. Isles away. And I'm like, what the hell?

shooter 27:16

What happens is if you accidentally bump into him or you accidentally give him a little elbow, you're the wrong one.

mac g 27:21

You're the bad guy. And he's lucky that I saw him because normally I don't pay attention like that. I don't. And this kid was literally his forehead, big ass forehead was like knee at knee level, bro. It probably would have took us one step to the right, bro, and that would have been it. That kid would have been riding the short bus to school for the rest of his life. He would have been a caller.

shooter 27:45

He'd be riding the short bus to I got to start. For real. And his mom would have looked at you like, Look what you did to my kid.

mac g 27:52

Lady, should have been came back walking out of there with a big ass fucking dummy for it.

shooter 27:58

For real, dude. Something I'm telling you, bro, there's different shoppers at their different time, right? From like one to six, one to six thirty-ish. You got like the people who are like kind of in a hurry. There has to be some yeah, like bro, after seven o'clock, bro, you go, it's like the like, I don't know, the kids, bro. The kids, they they come, man. They're coming out at night, they're coming.

mac g 28:20

There ought to be a plague, bro.

shooter 28:21

There ought to be no you know, it's just um and it happens a lot too. Like, even with uh like uh, well, every every you know, it doesn't matter what color or whatever, dude, but there's kids out there, man, where even I'm just like yo, call your mama, man.

mac g 28:39

Come on, man.

shooter 28:40

Come on, man. Why you picking everything, bro? Picking shit up from the ground and putting it back in the buffet line, bro. Like, what the fuck, dude? I'm at the buffet, dude. Little Timmy over here got the nerve, bro, to pick up some shit that fell on the floor, put it right back in the motherfucker.

mac g 28:55

I'm like, this oh my god, dude.

shooter 28:58

You got feeling. I go to the buffet, bro, people are sneezing all over the chicken, bro. Sneezing all over the chicken, bro. You know what I mean? I got people trying to jump in my car.

mac g 29:08

I mean, I mean, what do you expect? It's like the people that go to uh water parks, man. Come on, dude. Come on, come on, but dude, come on, man. Come on, have some have some when you see like you see little Timmy over there making that face, like 60% to 40% or 50 to 60% of the people in the water park are kids running. Come on, dude. You not come on.

shooter 29:34

You see, you see you see you see the little kid over there in the corner making that face like he's shitting himself.

mac g 29:39

Exactly.

shooter 29:40

I'm like, bro.

mac g 29:42

Come on. That's what I don't understand. That's what I don't understand. Like, I'm not, I'm not a full, I'm not a public pool person. I'm not.

shooter 29:49

Okay.

mac g 29:50

I have to get my I haven't I've been a fat boy all my life. Let's talk public pool. I've been a fat boy all my life, dude. Okay. I can't, I I can't, dude. I can't take off my shit around. I just can't do it. I can't. I can't like and to this point, and I've lost weight. Like I used to be 300 and like five plus five ten five plus uh ten plus pounds or something like that. And those days, yeah, I definitely could would not. Hell no. You got me fucked up. Hell no. All my life, even as a little kid, dude. I mean, there was times in like middle school where like I, you know, you don't care those times or whatever, but like then you you hit the puberty and you start noticing that you know, whatever. Right. They you start noticing your bitch tits, and uh you know that shit or your fupa. You start noticing your bitch tits or the fupa, and it's just you know, it's whatever it takes the winds out of your sails. So whatever. That's that was me. That's me. That's that was me. That's still kind of me. I've been working on myself, and right it that was I was 300 plus pounds, well, uh 310 plus pounds, like 10 years ago now, I think almost. So around that time I made I I worked out hard within like uh about a month and a half, not even within like three weeks, I lost like 45 to 55 pounds. Like within the first month, I lost like 75 pounds. Of this month? No, no, no. I'm talking about back when I was 300 plus, you know.

shooter 31:15

Oh, okay, okay.

mac g 31:17

So no, yeah, I've always been one to not wear to to wear shirts. I mean, especially in my older age when I had after, especially after having kids, it was a must because I was drinking those those that malt liquor, those Mickeys, like they were going out of like they're going out of commission. I'm telling you, six to seven, sometimes most times eight. Oh, eight forties a day, dude. A day? A day. And this was this was when the when the economy bubble burst around 2009, and I got laid off, couldn't find a job. I was the bread, the breadwinner.

shooter 31:51

That hurts. Yeah, that hurts. Especially when you're the breadwinner. Yep. And uh it's quick to it's easy to fall into like a little like a little depression and uh start drinking and stuff. Yeah, and uh, and it's funny, man, because some people don't even want to admit, you know? Yeah, yeah. Cause even now, like for me, I wouldn't say it's depression, but I like to sleep a lot. You know what I mean?

Depression, Weed, Sleep, And Food

mac g 32:15

Maybe it's the money. I can't sleep unless I'm tired, like, and that's usually first things in the mornings, then I can sleep. But other than that, no. I'm not a depress I'm not a depressive sleeper. I am well that's not true. I am, I mean, I do sleep, but it's because I I smoke myself stupid. Yeah, yeah. Like stupid, like can't open my eyes, can't keep your eyes open type smoke.

shooter 32:39

Right. Cause you just gotta like just see that was that was me when I would wake and bake, and that's where that's where I noticed where like if I wake and bake, like like and I'm hitting it, yeah, and I'm three rips in, yeah, I start it's like already 12 o'clock, one o'clock, and I'm on a Sunday off. I got a nap sounds good. You know?

mac g 32:58

No, no, I mean I know when I'm depressed because I'll smoke weed stupidly.

shooter 33:04

Yeah, like almost everyone.

mac g 33:05

Like like a whole blunt, you know, well, I didn't, you know, like three bowls of a bong all to the dome by myself to the point where like I can't keep my eyes out, like, like I just black out, I pass out. Like, I don't even go to sleep. I think I just black out like where I'm at. You know what I mean? True. I mean that's enough true. I I do end up, I'm uh I I do it's like an archolepsy. Yeah, I guess it's like I give myself an archolepsy basically. It's like I just but that's because you're so depressed, but and that's when I can tell that I'm depressed because I'm smoking like stupid crazy.

shooter 33:42

I think uh I think it's I think it's hard for guys to talk about depression, you know? For some reason. It shouldn't be.

mac g 33:49

It shouldn't be, but it just seems like I I don't think it's as hard now that nowadays uh compared to how it was before, but it's still just kind of the same thing. Well, I think it all depends on where you're at in life, you know? Like I noticed that at around at around your age because of the stuff I was going through with the wife and all that, and and you know, uh you're the breadwinner and you have to you have the kids and you have to act a certain way and you have to be a certain way and you have to be right, yeah, you have to be the pillar and all that, but you know, so but we but it's life, man.

shooter 34:27

And uh I think there's really like maybe four top I mean there's a lot, right? There's there's a lot of depression, but me it's like sometimes I'll catch myself eating more than I even need to. I'll catch myself maybe eating more than I need to, sleeping more than I need to. What is there? There's sleeping, like like like sleeping or eating too much junk food or like eating too much shit that you don't even need to eat. It's like I don't know if it's to fill the void, but like sometimes I'm like, man, I could just I'm just gonna eat just to well see, and that was another thing for me.

mac g 34:58

Before I was I was I was smoking weed, I was I was uh I was one of those eat your feelings away type right type of thing. That's why I was I was always affecting it. Yeah, and then I would I mean I'm talking like at like six years old and making like double decker sandwich, like four slices of toast with bread and cheese, with uh meat and cheese, and I'm talking like Scooby-Doo type of fucking yeah, like uh Dagwood from Blondie. Yeah, a Dagwood, throwing whatever I can on it. I'm telling you, like that, and a lot of times it would just be bread and meat and cheese stacked up and mayonnaise and mostly all bread dough. I I'm truly an American, an American I grew up with an American boy, American kid. Like I I everything I eat is in between bread. I gotta uh it's not tortillas with me. Although in my older age I'm getting into the tortillas, right? Mainly because I've stayed away from the family so long that uh I missed the cuisines, and over there it's still frijoles and bean and and rice and tortillas. Rice and tortillas. Oh, you gotta have, you know, yeah. Yeah.

shooter 36:16

Oh, I like chicken wings with tortillas.

mac g 36:18

Yeah, or chicken just in general, yeah. Yeah. There's certain things that I do like to eat with tortillas. Yeah, yeah, no doubt. Or like depending on how it's cook, you know. Or lately I've been craving beans in the mornings, beans with uh eggs with beans. Ooh, scrapboard or uh uh no, just uh yama and uh frijoles pintos uh machucados? Fire uh with some tortillas in that's it.

shooter 36:45

That sounds fire. No, you're not lying.

mac g 36:47

I'm just so used to uh you know my carnitas in barbacoa that I got in my weekly fix.

shooter 36:53

Yeah, gotta have that.

mac g 36:55

And I grew up not eating pork, so like carnitas dude. You know, one of these days I'm gonna try the um the uh what the hell is it? What's pork rinds? Chicharrones este guisados and and chile rojo with some beans. Well, that's mainly why I started getting the carnitas. Cause that was another story from that's not never on point over here. Right, right. Let's not change the subject too much.

shooter 37:31

Yeah, no, dude, it's uh it's a it's a subject. So what were we talking about? What we're talking about, I don't did we ever do that? Uh I don't know if we ever did that. Remember we were trying to do that Troy segment, or did we cut off?

mac g 37:45

No, you flew you flew for you.

shooter 37:47

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Alright, because I for some reason, bro. No, you got no, we did it, but um No, yeah, I think we did do it, but uh maybe we gotta put it up. No, you know what though? I don't know.

mac g 37:58

Oh no, remember it didn't get saved.

shooter 38:00

Oh, it didn't get saved, saved.

mac g 38:02

It didn't get saved, but then we we did do it again the next time. I think it might remember.

shooter 38:07

But you know, I everybody's talking about those the Venezuelan president getting sweeped up.

mac g 38:12

Dude.

shooter 38:12

That was crazy.

mac g 38:13

I don't want to talk about that right now. It's that's still too fresh right now. I don't want to talk about that. You want to talk about conspiracy theories? Don't get me don't get me started on that one right now, bro. Conspiracy theories? Yeah, well, you uh what happened with your packaging?

shooter 38:27

Let me tell you about this packaging, right?

mac g 38:28

Oh shit. I think it sounds like it's packaging. It sounds like it's uh it's it sounds like it's time.

shooter 38:33

I wrapped it off. What time is it? I presented it to her. What time is it now?

mac g 38:38

What segment time is it?

Food Nostalgia And Tortillas Talk

shooter 38:39

It's conspiracy theory time.

mac g 38:40

It's time for uh what grinds shoots, yeah.

shooter 38:45

You know what really grinds my gears? I'll tell you what really grinds my gears, right? These fucking packages, dude. And um so I'm pretty sure pre so I'm pretty sure we could all be on the same page with this one. Is uh after COVID, obviously things didn't taste the same, right? Yeah, and after COVID, things didn't taste the same. And what I'm noticing now is if when I go to the store and I get my cocoa pebbles or I get my whatever, it could be Pringles, it could be whatever, right? I'll get the regular size package and they taste fine, they taste good, delicious. And since I'm trying to save money, or you know, I figured I kind of run through this in a two days, let me get the big box. Let me get the big box, right? Get the big box, make it last longer. It's only a few extra, extra dollars. Save me a couple bucks. I get home and I'm eating them, and I notice something, something's off. Something's off, right? It's not the same.

mac g 39:43

With the big box or with the regular box?

shooter 39:46

The regular box of anything.

mac g 39:53

I'm talking about them, yeah.

shooter 39:54

The the the family excuse me, the party size, party size, family size, mega size, mega size, mega size. Call it whatever you want. Right. The fucking biggest box you could find. Right, right, right. And they just don't taste the same as if you get a regular size box, dude. Question.

mac g 40:09

What's the question on this one? So is this all coming all these products coming from Sam's? No. Or are they coming from Walmart? Just anywhere. Anywhere. Anywhere. I could go to Sam's. Okay, so so that's that's another thing because the stuff you buy at Sam's is mostly all bulk. True, true. But I'm just talking about like what I mean, though. That there's a difference. So that's where it's like you have to be kind of specific because I mean, if it's all bulk at Sam's. So let's say you go to Have you gotten the stuff at Sam's and then compared it to the stuff over there? No, well, I don't really. Well, I mean, I guess that's not true because when you buy the bulk at Sam's, it you're getting like two about two two regular sized boxes. Two regular sized boxes at a cheaper price, right? It's just three cereal, it's just three different boxes. Just packaged together, not not like all in one, not in one, not all in one. It's not one big exactly. But I know I do remember at some point when you would buy like cereal boxes there. Yeah. Either you would buy like the one box that has like the regular package bag in three regular packages. Yeah, it's like package bags and and you know.

shooter 41:22

Yeah, it's like I think Sancho would have is like just three different box.

mac g 41:25

It's a big box, but just three different are individual size. Individual size regular box. Yeah, yeah. Bags.

shooter 41:32

So so you so what I'm saying is you could go to Walmart, buy a regular size uh box of whatever you want, cereal. So like if I went to Walmart and I bought my my my box of cereal of cocoa pebbles and I went to Julasco's and I bought the regular size size back of uh box of cocoa pebbles, they're gonna taste the same to me. But for me, for some reason, what I've been noticing, no matter where I go, even from Walmart, I'll go to Walmart, I'll go to wherever Target, you name it. I'll buy a big box, the big family, family size or whatever box, the big one, and it just does not taste the same, dude. And that goes for a lot of things. I'll go get Pringles.

mac g 42:06

You know, I agree with you. Dude, I bought Pringles. Did you try mine? No, did you try those? No, I got those are the party sellers, and I'm not gonna lie to you. Like, normally, where I'm sorry to cut you off, but like I was thinking on that when you were telling me about this in the car ride. I love my thing is the pizza, the pizza flavored Pringles.

shooter 42:28

The pizza flavored Pringles?

Flavor Conspiracy: Party Size vs Regular

mac g 42:30

Pizza flavored Pringles. And when I normally get those on a regular like 12-ounce can, it almost seems like they barely put any seasoning in them at all. Like like maybe like like a quarter's worth of those of that whole can. And that's not even like all together at once, like separate chips. Some of them are, but even still, like, there's not there's some very heavily flavored chips, but not as heavily flavored as they are in this pack. Because I like I I opened up one pack like damn, every chip was just like the flavor was just kicking me in the mouth. Yeah. But like with the with the regular big 12-ounce can, yeah, it's like you barely get any any pizza, any pizza flavoring on it. And I love those. I love those. I remember when Keebler Elf had that pizza flavored uh Doritos. Yeah. Oh, those things were fire, dude. They don't make them anymore, but damn, those things were fire. And they almost kind of had that same kind of scripture crispy flakiness like like the Pringles. And then I think at some point, well, no, I think that what ended up happening was that uh Pringles probably took their pizza ingredient, their pizza recipe, and then you know, bought it out or whatever, bought the patent to it or something. What's that? You good we need to pause this or what? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we're back. We uh had uh bit of an emergency, you know, we had to take care of, but go ahead.

shooter 43:59

So yeah, dude, like I was saying about the packaging of that's what we're gonna end there with. So I don't know, dude. That's just me, right? Cause uh I I uh even with Pringles, bro. Even with Pringles, I'll buy I went and I'll buy the regular size pack of Pringles and they taste they taste fine, they taste how I think they should taste.

mac g 44:21

Well I mean to you, yeah, because that's that's what you but for me it's all about the max flavor. The max flavor. Because I like I mean I don't mind pring regular pringles, but if I get a flavored any sort of other artificial flavored product, I want to taste that flavor, not like I want to taste it on every chip, not like not it be like a fucking you know scavenger hunting in there trying to find a flavor.

shooter 44:44

Trying to find uh like the needle in the haystack, yeah, exactly. Needle in the haystack, and let me get the so like I said dude, so I went, so I was like, maybe it's just me. Maybe it's just me. I'm being picky, and that's what grinds my gears, you know, because everything grinds my gears. And I go, dude, I say, you know what? Let me try let me try let me try Pringles. Yeah, man. And I went, like like when was it? Maybe like last week or whatever. Where'd you get the party size or snack size or what you what'd you get?

mac g 45:22

So today I got the party size. Oh. Because they were they were like, take these motherfuckers. I'm telling you, you're like, uh, you motherfuckers are like flavorful as fuck. I'm telling you. Just take one. Come on, but yeah, yeah.

shooter 45:35

I'll take one right now. I got pringles at home and shit, but I'll take one and um so so check it out, right? Yeah, just just try it. I I and uh I tried them though so when we went like two weeks ago or whatever. Remember, I got my Pringles and I damn near I damn near finished them before we hit out the door. So you were choking on them, dog. Yeah, I know. And uh you know my Pringles, right? So I was eating my Pringles regular size, cool, they were cool, everything's cool, right? You're like deep throat in the tube, bro. I I don't know about that. I don't know about that. You know what I mean? I don't know about that, right? But uh my my thing was like boom, I did that, and then I didn't do that, but whatever. No, but no, the Pringles, right? Yo, bro, yo, right? Yo, you know, check it out before we go on topic. Look, so I got my Pringles, and then today I, you know, I try to I try not to eat too much Pringles, I try to eat to, you know, like we're saying, we got a healthy lifestyle going, you know. Shout out to the healthy lifestyle, healthy mindset, healthy whatever, right? Right, right, right. Keep it healthy. And today I went to Aldi's and I got this big box for them for fucking party size. I don't even got a party going, right? I just got them, dude. And they were like party one, buddy. What are you talking about?

mac g 46:44

Party, dude. Party one, at least, no? Yeah, party one. That's what people party one. Everywhere I go, it's a party though. Yeah, yeah.

shooter 46:51

Everywhere I go, they're like everywhere I go, bro. My life story for the last couple years, only one? Yeah, bro. What's wrong with just being one person, bro? What the fuck? What's wrong with dining in? I can't dine in at a restaurant for one. Sorry, bro.

mac g 47:02

I didn't I didn't mean to I didn't mean to remind you of your of your vacation of your vacation at a middle change.

shooter 47:09

You can't go on you can't go on vacation for one? You can't, bro. I was at the airport and and and the lady's like, uh, can you switch to the back? I'm like, she was like, No, she was like, Oh, you're by yourself. Yeah, yeah, she was like, Yeah, she's like, you're by yourself. Uh she was like, and I was like, bro. I was like, so look. What airline was this? United Airlines or something. Yeah, yeah, dude tried to put me on blast like that, right? They're like, yo, I'm over here next to a couple, right? She comes over here talking about, sir, you're by yourself. Yeah, really? I said yellow, like yo.

mac g 47:44

Didn't even ask you, dude.

shooter 47:45

Yellow, yellow, you're right. Like, it looked like dude gave her the eye like to look at me to get to get at me. He said he and then when I move, when I move, they're over there.

mac g 47:52

So I'm over there, bro.

shooter 47:54

They put me next to little fucking some little kid, bro. And I'm looking like yellow. Come on, man. Come on, bro.

mac g 48:00

I would have said something, dude. Dude, come on. I would have said something.

shooter 48:02

I was like, you you really it was no. No, but like, I mean, it was there was like a chair between us, but still, I was like, still, you know, that's why I was like, I was kind of uncomfortable, bro.

mac g 48:11

I was like, No, I wouldn't have cared. I know. I'm not sure.

shooter 48:16

I did, and I told her, and she was like, Oh, it's because we're trying to free up space, this and that. And I told her.

mac g 48:22

Free up my space. I you know, I like that idea. Free up my space. Yeah, I like that.

shooter 48:26

Free up my space. So, so, dude, anyways, bro, people were moving, and she came to me, bro, and she's like, Oh, you're by yourself. No, I wouldn't have cared, dude.

mac g 48:34

No, I'm not moving, right? So, that's the difference, dude. I get that because I mean at your age, I would have done the same thing.

shooter 48:41

Um, you want me to sit out on the wing? Oh, sure, sure. You want you want me to sit out of the wing, you know? You want me to sit in the back of her, you know? Fuck, you want me to sit in the toilet?

mac g 48:50

Yeah, exactly, dude. That's how it would have been too. But like, but uh, so no, you know what?

shooter 48:55

At first I did it. At first I did it. At first I did it, right? At first I did it, bro. At first I was like, I'm not going. I fuck that, I'm not going. She came back. She said, We would really, you know, like you to move to the back. And I said, Do I have to? She's like, you know, she was kind of like, she was she just say it, but she kind of gave me this little.

mac g 49:15

No, that's why all you have to do is just show them the ticket. That's your ticket is your contract. You know, but it's as simple as that. No, I would have been like, no. Yeah, I'd been like, sure, you know what he should have said, like, oh, I'll gladly move. Are you putting me in first seat or first class? Right. If they said no, oh then no, I'm good right here. Right, right. But then again, it's like, so whatever, bro. I was just like, you know what? Whatever. Or what you could have just did it did was like been like, you know, uh, if you're gonna put me there, I have to legally tell you that I'm a registered sex offender.

shooter 49:45

I don't know about that, dude. I would have had the whole clear dude. Trust me, there's a lot of kids back there. So the fucking show the fuck what? I would have had the whole back row to myself. The fuck? That's for real. Hey bro, hey, fuck they did something.

mac g 50:02

They didn't let it be known that I'm not even. No, of course. No, that's what I'm saying. I'm not saying I am. I'm just saying I'm not saying I am. I'm just saying, hey, dude, you're throwing grenades out there. You're throwing the grenades out there, bro.

shooter 50:16

You're throwing grenades out there, bro. You have to pull your woe. I'm sorry, bro. You're throwing grenades out there, bro.

Solo Travel Frustrations And Seating

mac g 50:22

Are sex offended? A lot of people would have found that funny. I know a few and you know a few people that would have been like, I would have done the same thing too. You know why? Because they're fucking with your mood, dog. You're going, you went, you went to you bought this flight to go on vacation to relax, bro. And now you're here sitting bitching about that, dog. Right. Do you understand what I'm saying? Right, right. But I'm just And now all I'm saying is that is like just because you're a registered sex offender doesn't mean you're a pedophile, bro. I mean, I know a whole bunch of CU kids and college kids that got that had to register, that had to register for running the naked mile, bro. Dude, but that's crazy. That shit went down when I was 18. When I was 18 years old, that shit, that was like the first year that like people, that people took people college kids to court for doing the naked mile. That was a real thing? Yeah, they took, you know how the naked mile? That's an actual they wouldn't make movies about this. Fraternities are fucking crazy, dude. And they would do the naked mile. Don't even the only thing I seen that is American Pie. No, yeah, but it's it's a it's a real thing. Even in in C in CU it was it was a thing for uh while I was growing up out there in in near CU.

shooter 51:36

I am not running no fucking track with a bunch of dudes in their fucking.

mac g 51:39

But what I'm saying though is that there this was a this was a tradition. Okay. And you know, they're and it was around campus. It wasn't like you're running outside around town, but but you know, so all these poor college kids that were doing a traditional thing got taken to court. A few of them got arrested, and that's when they start they shut it all down because they they they they hit they went hard on these kids with a lot of people.

shooter 52:05

So you're on a plane, you, you're on a plane, on vacation. The lady comes to you and says, Sarin.

mac g 52:12

Not only that, not only that. Sarry, we need you to move. What did you just tell me? What did you just tell me when you said they moved you and they were like, oh, okay, okay. And then they put me next to a kid. Fuck that, dude. Dude, I would have looked over and be like, they moved me. I'd be like, you might not want to put me here.

shooter 52:27

I would have just said that. I don't know. You might not want to put me here. The fucking couple that I was sitting next to started fucking fucking damn near fucking and I'm over here saying to better fucking Timmy and shit.

mac g 52:38

As a matter of fact, you probably want to uh cruise a Pornhub or X videos because yeah, there might be a video of them two fucking in the fucking in the airplane, bro. I'm I'm like there might they might even be you in the background over there, like these motherfuckers. I think homeboy says something because this girl was giving me the eye. Yeah, yeah, I'm telling you, dude. So that's what I'm telling you, bro. And you know the funniest part is that that kid was probably their kid, dog. That's what I've been like, oh yeah, motherfuckers. You oh, oh, you want to turn the tables on me? Check out this chair, this this table flip right now. As a matter of fact, I'm gonna put I'm gonna bring everybody out of first class and get my ass back. Dude, I'm telling you, dude. I would have I would've pulled that out, dude. Let me tell you, like I said, I am not I am not a registered sex offender. But if people were gonna fuck with my vacation like that, I'm telling I'm telling you, dude. Because when I go on vacation, oh dude, let me tell you, there's there's certain people I haven't I haven't done this with you with you yet, but there's certain friends and there's certain lady friends, and it's just you sometimes I go out to have me to cause mischief. I'm not talking about breaking the law. Breaking the law, breaking the law. I'm talking about like you know how you wanna you go out to forget yourself and forget all the problems and shit. Yeah, oh, I'm going out there as a whole brand new person with a hell of brand new identity. I meet somebody, oh, what do you do? Because that's who I hate the most. Oh, what do you do for a living? Oh, fucking, you know. I just come up with something, dude. And I start fucking with him. And I've done that quite a few times with different people. So that's what I do, dog. And you know, I guess and when I'm dude on vacation, no holds bar, bro. No holds bar, dog. Uh-uh. What do you do? Uh because they can't, what are they gonna do? Look you up, even if they did, so what?

shooter 54:28

No, I'm saying that's true.

mac g 54:30

What are they uh it sucks, you you know. I I get it, but it sucks, but I get it that that sex offenders have rights too. I get that. But you have rights, bro. Yes or no? Everybody has rights, right? Exactly right. I would hope so. That's all I'm saying, dude, is I like to have fun with I like to fuck with people. People like to fuck with me in real life. I'm gonna fuck with your fucking with your the reality in your head inside your head, bro. Guess what? That's just what's gonna happen. And I'm not like that a lot of times, but you catch me in that right mood sometimes, dude. Oh, dude. Nah, it's game on. Yeah, it's game on, dude. I don't even give a fuck, dude. I don't I will fuck with you if you fuck with me just right. If you fuck me just right, I'll fuck you even harder than that, dog.

shooter 55:20

Dude, something something I'm telling you, bro. It's a it's a crime, dude. They're charging people more to fly single than if you fly with a with somebody. You get that?

mac g 55:33

Yeah, we're gonna have to edit this. What? Dude, it's not gonna go on YouTube. Fuck YouTube. You know, I'll probably just go over there and just Yeah, yeah, no, yeah, definitely.

shooter 55:45

Um I would have cleared out that whole back area so fast. I'm telling you, dude. And they sent me next to this little I'm telling you, dude. I felt bad, bro. Look, I felt bad because look, she Why? Because she was she was it was they sent me next to so not next, but like they felt bad? No, but like I could I could I cause the diary. So look, when she moved me, out of all the places, she moved me where there was this little kid that was a girl sitting by herself, and I said, dude, really? Come on, man. And her dad was sitting right next to me. And I'm like, dude, he's looking at me, looking at his daughter. I'm like, bro, do you want to switch? Did you ask him? No, because he was sitting with his 200 kids, and I'm like, bro, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't choose to sit here. Oh my lord, I didn't choose to sit here. It's not and I didn't even look, dude. I didn't, I'm not, I don't give a fuck. If you're not above 21, no, if you're not above 25, dude, you you they put me in a jam, dude.

mac g 56:39

They put me in a jam, they're not put you in a jam, dude. They don't dude. Do you know how many times I've sat in somebody else's seat and they were, oh, this is my seat. And then they'll get the steward. They wouldn't even tell you this, they'll get the stewardess. Oh, this is their seat. I'm telling you, if you have this, is how many times have you ridden the plane, my guy? Like five times, probably. And you should know by now, dude. Your ticket is your ticket, your seat is your seat. No matter what, they can ask you to, doesn't mean you have to. Right. Sorry, doesn't mean you have to.

shooter 57:11

No doubt, no doubt. It's just I thought I was gonna get a whole seat by myself, like a whole row.

mac g 57:16

Well, you should have you should have been like uh you should have negotiated. I that's what I would have done. I'm like, true. Where are you gonna put me at? True, true. If you uh first of all, I would have been oh cool, yeah. Are you gonna move me to first class? That I would have joked around like that. I would have had a oh yeah, awesome. I'm gonna are you moving me to first class, you know, because then though the dad already kills it. I was like, but it's just the way she went about it. It might even go your way, it might even go your way, and it might even put you there, dude. You never know.

shooter 57:44

It's just the way she went about it. It was kind of like, I don't know, man. I was just like, 'cause at first I told you, bro, at first I wasn't going. I said, she said, oh, you know, you mind this and that. And I said, nah. She came back again and she said, Yeah, you're gonna have to. I'm like, I don't gotta do. But then I was like, whatever, dude. I I moved and then here I am. So whatever, bro.

mac g 58:05

Did they even comp you anything?

shooter 58:06

Did they get they just said that they just said that there's so much space on the plane, that there's so much space on the plane, but yet they stuck you next to other people. God, dude. You know, I was I was just I was just whatever, bro. All right, I was just I was just right.

mac g 58:22

Listening to now you're pissing me off. No, you're pissing me off because I was talking about my Pringles.

shooter 58:27

I was talking about my Pringles. How did we get to this? See? Because I'm telling you, because you're pissing me off, bro. I'm trying to talk about my Pringles, and you're over here talking about this whole we just did uh 20 minute signature signature on the fucking planes, bro. Planes and boats and fucking sitting arrangements, holes on boat, hoes, pointed holes, snakes on planes, snakes on planes, dude. They put me man, dude. They fuck me up. They fuck me up.

mac g 58:51

You fucking me up, telling me this story. Come on, bro.

shooter 58:54

Come on. So, like I said, bro, it's a crime to be alone because people fuck with you. You know what I mean? People fuck with you. You think I don't know what it is about being alone. People want to jump in your car, people want to talk to you like they feel like they could talk to you however. Little kids mean mugging and shit. You know what I mean? Dude, I don't know, bro. People fucking up my order.

mac g 59:15

Oh my god.

shooter 59:16

I need some, I need a girl that got me some backbone. So you know, to be like, nah, we're not moving. Nah, he ain't going. He asked for cheeseburger plane.

mac g 59:24

You know? I don't know. I don't know what to tell you, bro. I I'd have been, but then again, I'm the type of profession that looked there and be like, yeah, we're not moving you, bro. Actually, we are moving you by yourself.

shooter 59:36

By yourself, so by yourself, nobody else. Just no and uh, dude. Dude, dude. I said, fuck that.

mac g 59:48

I paid for my seat. I'm not going. Matter of fact, we're gonna move you next to the we're gonna move you next to the air marshal. Fuck that a too. You know what I mean?

Boundaries, Jokes, And Public Etiquette

shooter 59:58

So what's up, bud? How's it feel to be a loser now? As salamu alaykum for real, right? Shalam alaykum, my brother. See this backpack right here? Exactly. That's what I'm saying. I had a chicken there too, bro. He's just you better have your parachute ready. That's all I'm saying, you know. No, that shit would have thrown me out the plane. They would have thrown me out the plane.

mac g 1:00:21

You seen that motherfucker that opened the door? That would have been like, have you heard the shaggy shirt? He's very bombastic.

shooter 1:00:30

Yo, you may, yo, I can't go on vacation with you, that's for sure. We're gonna be fucking. I can't go nowhere with you. I guess we're not going nowhere. I guess we're not going nowhere. We're not going. I guess. So what? Colorado? The train? What they're gonna say? What they gonna say? What they gonna say? Huh? Take a train to fucking Colorado? Used to out the fucking train. I paid for my ticket, dude. I paid for my ticket. What do you mean? I'm going with you, bro. What do you mean? That's only because I'm going with you. What do you mean, dude? If we both get kicked out is because your bad luck is rubbing off on me, bro. I can't see. I can't see. How though? Like how though? Like what's the what what argument do they have of two of us jumping on a train? We're going to Colorado minding our business. Sir, can you can you please uh switch seats? Switch seats with who? Why?

mac g 1:01:21

When? What do you mean? Oh, because like I said, I would have piped. Oh, you put me in are you putting me in a little roomette? Let's go.

shooter 1:01:30

I can't see, dude. I I feel like I feel like if we were dude, I if we go to Colorado, dude.

mac g 1:01:38

I feel like if we went to it's gonna be it's gonna be I think that your your mojo would ruin my vacation, bro. That's what I think, bro.

shooter 1:01:48

I think that just but my thing is bro, I don't do nothing. I don't do nothing. Whoever it was holding.

mac g 1:01:54

Whoever is holding your voodoo doll is gonna ruin my vacation.

shooter 1:01:59

But the thing is, bro, like I don't do nothing. Like I just sit there, bro. I literally, she looked like she picked on me. Like for no fucking like there's a hundred other people. Why, dude? There's a how do you know I was by myself? What if I was their friend? What if we're friends? She said you're not their fucking friend, dude. Fuck out of here, dude. You know what I mean? How dude? How do people just look at you and assume shit? Like they looking at me like this fucking lonely ass bastard, this fucking nobody. You know what I mean? Get the fuck to the back, bro. Fuck you doing here bothering these nice people, bro. What the fuck is wrong with you, bro? They're gonna be like, yo, come on, dude. I don't get it, dude. I don't get it, bro. We go to Colorado, right? To let the people know we've kind of been planning a trip. Hopefully. These people don't want you going in, dude. Dude. We let right, we we maybe, maybe just for the weekend, we might go to Colorado. Do a pot out in Colorado.

mac g 1:02:56

Yeah, it's we shouldn't be able to do that. And I'll tell you right now, I would love, I would love to um I'll tell you right now, dude. It's it's it's vindicate home slice and and you know do some on her home. It's gonna turn into this thing, bro.

shooter 1:03:07

It's gonna turn into this fucking thing, bro. I don't know why, dude. I already see it happening, bro.

mac g 1:03:12

Yeah, and it's just you know, dude, another thing about the cool thing about going to Colorado is that if we take a trip up to Denver, we can get ourselves some some fungus among us, bro.

shooter 1:03:24

Dude, I can't, dude. Do you understand it's harder it's harder for me to step out without getting us into some bullshit? And I don't even try to get into bullshit.

mac g 1:03:33

Yeah, but that's here. And out there, so what I can handle the people up there, fuck them. See I'll fucking nunchuck a ninja, dude.

shooter 1:03:43

I'll fucking nunchuck. I'll I'll dude I'll flip out, bro.

mac g 1:03:46

Nah, nah, nah, nah. It's not like that out there. Nah, dude. I'm like a chihuahua. You know what I mean? Like, I ain't gone, dude. Honestly, I think your vibe fits uh fits in, you your vibe fits in a little bit more better out there than it does out here.

shooter 1:04:01

I like no dude is I don't care where the chicken came from, I don't give a fuck where the chicken was raised. I just want a chicken, dude. You don't care uh what came first, the chicken or the egg? I don't care who came from the rooster, I don't care who came first. The chicken, the egg, or the rooster, you don't care. I just want my chicken, you know? So fuck that shit, dude.

mac g 1:04:19

Fuck the intolerant. That's always that's always been my answer to who came first, the chicken or the egg. I was like, it sounds like the rooster did. Somebody had to come.

shooter 1:04:27

Sounds like the rooster did. Somebody had to came first.

mac g 1:04:29

The rooster had to come first. We got to come, bro. Right?

shooter 1:04:33

In order for the chick for the egg to the egg to exist, yes or no. But let us know, man. Let us know in the comments. Let us know uh if you ever had any, like you've been on you where you had to take a single trip by yourself, not a single like as a single person, but just just you had to make maybe go on an emergency flight, or you just had to take a flight, or you just had to go on a train, a bus, whatever, man, by yourself. And just man, dude, it's a crime. It's a crime, dude. They want to charge you more for riding by yourself, they want to treat you like a peasant for dining by yourself. They said to dine asa, it's a restaurant. You're supposed to have two. What the fuck? No, you can't sit. Yeah, yeah. You yo, I go to a restaurant, a nice little restaurant, I want steak. Uh you know, I'm sitting there eating my steak, people looking at me like I'm like I'm like I'm fucking looking at me, yo. How dare you? Bro, like I'm gave you permission to be out here, right? Everybody got somebody. Did you mad? Did you master give you permission to get to be out here? Everybody got somebody, right? I'm eating. Everybody got somebody. Bro, everybody got somebody, bro. Everybody got somebody, bro. Even even some people came with their parents, bro. And I'm there just just eating, enjoying my dinner, bro. People looking at me like honestly, you know what that sounds like to me? Like what?

mac g 1:05:49

The best dinner in the fucking world, bro. It is, I'm not gonna lie. You know what I like, bro? You know what? What I've learned is fuck with other people. Yeah, dude, you you need to know and expect that people are gonna be looking out. You know, we do it. I know I do it when they go outside. I'm like, look at this poor bastard. Poor lonely bastard, but but damn, bro, when the tables turn, it's like, damn, I'm that lonely bastard. But look, look. Yeah, I'm aware of it. At first, if it does mess with me, but then after all, you know what I'm gonna have fun with this, whatever. But because it because I guarantee you, dude, next time you feel that way when you go out somewhere to eat, like at a diner, when you start having that feeling, start looking around. And I guarantee you're gonna find at least two to three couples that are just sitting there like like trying not to fight, trying not to fight with trying not to argue.

shooter 1:06:37

See, my thing is this, right? Like, um, if I'm if my thing is this, and I notice and I notice a lot that it's changed. If I'm with somebody, like with my boys, it's different, right? Like, I might text a little bit, I might pick up a car or whatever, but like if I'm with the girl, dude, and I'm really with her, and we're out for dinner, and we're out have like having a good time. I try not to be on my phone. And I notice with with some of these women, bro, they don't give a fuck about your time, dude. They don't give a fuck about your time, bro. They're on the phone, they're they're you're talking to them, they're texting, they're fucking taking calls in the bathroom, or they're kissing.

City Hostility, Kids, And Buffets

mac g 1:07:14

My problem was that they were keeping me on the on the phone for two to three hours a session, two to three times a day, bro. What do you mean? That was my problem, is that yeah, yeah, it was that they don't give a fuck about my time because they would keep me on the phone for like uh two hours in the morning. But you loved it, two to three hours right after work. But you loved it. Then she would get home, or she would walk in, she she'd be she'd already been parked outside the house for like an hour for like no outside of her house, you know, after she got home, because we were still talking for like an hour, sometimes an hour and a half. Then she go and say hi to the kids and to the family, cook dinner, and then like two hours later, next thing you know, another two, three hours on the phone. Every six hours on the phone.

shooter 1:08:09

So, so so would you would you say every day. So, would you say if you're cooking, you pick up the phone and she's cooking, she wouldn't pick up the phone. Is like kind of like it's a it's a it's a difference, right? Like, so like if if I'm let's say I'm doing something that never happened, dude. No, no, let's say I'm doing something, right?

mac g 1:08:24

Hardly, I mean, and then I shouldn't say never, it rarely happened. I'm I'm telling you, it was so if you call picking up the phone, all those things that you're talking about that you like that that are grinding your gears right now? I'm grinding, bro. Yeah, I'm telling you, I'm telling you, I'm telling you it's been a long time, so what I'm saying is Oh no, I'm telling you. No, no, no. So I'm just I'm trying to make understand that this last relationship that was my problem was that it wasn't that that she wasted my time by taking my time and not and not being in that time with me.

shooter 1:08:56

Right.

mac g 1:08:57

She she demanded my attention.

shooter 1:09:03

Well don't won't don't most women.

mac g 1:09:05

Well, no, but what I'm saying is that like if you didn't pick up, would she get mad? Jokingly. No. Jokingly, I mean cuz because you know what do you mean by the way? But we're honestly we were at that we were at that point where like we knew each other's schedules, bro. Like, and even we would tell each other what we were doing. Look, I'm uh gonna uh okay, bye. I'm gonna be doing this. So if I don't answer, if you call me, call you back. If not, I'm sorry, but I was doing this because we didn't go to the back. She would pick up when you call back.

shooter 1:09:38

Let's say you didn't pick up because you were taking a shot.

mac g 1:09:39

Yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dude, because we would just want it to we just wanted to hear each other. I'm sorry. That's how it was to the very end, bro. To the very end. Honestly, that's why do you think I'm so fucked up, dude? I'm sorry to flip things around on you, bro. But literally, like I was I was the prom queen, bro. Oh my god. Like I was Oh my god, like I was uh Molly Ringwald in Sweet 16, but everything went right on. But everything went right instead of everything going wrong, dude. You know what I'm saying? That that's how that's how this two-year, almost two-year-long relationship with this last chick was, dude. But I okay, so what I'm saying though, like from like my thing is But no, I understand from the previous relationships before that. Oh yeah, dude. I I totally understand all that, but it's hard for me to really relate because that's so far, so long ago, dude.

shooter 1:10:39

Right, right. No, no, no, I hear you, I hear you. But it's just it's hard to find someone who really like listens when you're talking, and you know, yeah, that I do agree with because it took me this long to find this one, you know, and the last one I had, like, dude, literally, we would walk by the river walk and she would listen, bro. She and I would listen to her too. Right, exactly. I feel like nine times out of ten, bro. I I told some girl I'm 30, and she's fucking 20. She was like 28, and she's like, Oh, you're old. I said, What the fuck? I said, What the fuck you mean? Like, all right, like, okay, I guess you know what I mean? Like, uh I guess, you know, but you don't know what you're missing, baby.

mac g 1:11:21

Nah, you should just tell her when you put it like that, it sounds kind of hot, doesn't it?

shooter 1:11:25

Yeah, you know what I mean? But I don't know, man. Like, it's just like it's weird, bro. Like this whole so I'm and then it's like you try to talk to them, and it's just like I can't do younger bitches, dude. I can't, dude. Because they just like they're too much on their phone, and then first of all, let's let's keep it to women, not bitches, right?

mac g 1:11:44

Right, whatever, right?

shooter 1:11:45

Females, that's just that's just my Chicago slang, ladies. That's just my Chicago slang. I know, I know we're you know what I'm saying? That's just my Chicago slang. Don't take offense, women. I love the women, right? But that's just how I talk. That's just my Chicago slang. And they know that, they know that. You know, like I said, bro.

mac g 1:11:59

Fuck recording editing out this right. We'll keep this one on the different, we'll we'll make one for YouTube. But look, look. Yeah, if it doesn't go on YouTube, then go on YouTube.

shooter 1:12:06

Right, right, but it's gonna go on YouTube, who knows? And when I met this other girl, dude, and we would just like, and she and the fact that she would like when we talk and shit, we have a conversation, she wouldn't be on her phone texting, she wouldn't. You know, and I'm like, damn, like I pay attention to things, right, right, you know, and we fucking and we went like like a long shot from the Pringles. Far long shot. Far long shot. I'm left field with this chick, right? I'm over there in the penthouse, dude. I took a shot, bro. I took a shot at love, right? And for two years it played out well, yeah, yeah. And I was loving it, I was loving it. And uh, and it's just hard, it's hard to find that, dude. It's hard to find someone who actually wants to listen. And and sometimes I would feel bad. I'm not gonna lie, because she loved art. She would take me to the she would take me to these art gallery venues that people sitting there drinking their wine, looking at art. I love shit like that, dude. Nah, dude, fuck that shit, dude. I love that. Fuck that shit, dude. Who the fuck made this shit, dude? Right? I'm looking at shit and I'm like, yo, who the fuck? What is this? Why what is this? This is a seesaw. I'm an artist though. This is a seesaw. I'm an artist though, so you need to remember. I'm a realistic guy, right? And I see this shit and I'm like, this is a seesaw. And people are looking at this shit like it's a motherfucking, like, like it's a seesaw. Yeah, I know. You know, it's got fucking.

mac g 1:13:23

I I mean I understand where you're coming from. I'm the same as you.

shooter 1:13:25

She's like, no, it's and I get it, you know? And I and I felt bad because you know, dude, if I had a second chance, dude, I would make it up there for sure. Foresight, bro. For sure. If hindsight was 2020, right? And I know why people say, if I knew what I knew now, but you can't go back with the knowledge you have now. You know what I mean? And my mom told me something one time. She said, It's not age that makes you older. It's the experience of life. Yep. Age doesn't matter, dude. I meet I meet people that are a little bit, you know, I mean, my damn near the same my age, and they're just not and I'm just and it's not their fault or nothing, but it's just dude, I I don't get it, dude.

mac g 1:14:06

I don't know. And then uh there's there's people out there that you that you know of that from the age they were like four, five, six years old, or walking two to three miles in the middle of of Chicago at like fucking one o'clock in the morning because their dad sent them to go get their their gun from the bar. You know? And you have to ask yourself, what the hell was he doing at the bar to begin with? That's why he was there to go get his gun whenever he needed him, he needed his gun. Yeah.

shooter 1:14:39

Life's a trip, man.

mac g 1:14:41

I tell you, and if you can find somebody who's sister shit like that that you don't hear about stories like that you didn't hear about in Colorado. You hear you hear stories like that in Let me tell you, right?

shooter 1:14:52

Handfuls out here. You want to hear a story about that? I'll tell you a story, right? One thing. My uncle belonged to this little street crew, whatever. And I I left I left home. I left home because I thought I was Billy badass. I told my mom, fuck that. I'm leaving. I don't need you. You know, I was I love my mom to death, dude. But we were of course yeah, you both had it and she said, okay, yeah? You think you're Billy Badass? Grabbed my shit, threw it out to the street, said, Go, beat it. Hit the street, see how long, see what you can see. See the road, Jack. Hit the road, hit the road. Yeah, you the fucker. I said, Alright, cool. Kick rock. I said, you know what? I'm going to my grandma's. I went to my grandma's in a in a different neighborhood. And even though, you know what's funny, bro? Even though in Chicago, neighborhoods really aren't that far away from each other, it's like it's like entering a different zone. You enter the zone in all different colors, different rules, different bullshit. Yeah, that's how it is out here.

mac g 1:15:46

I mean, that's how it is in most places. Right, right. But it's stupid. It's fucking extreme. It's extreme. It's hell. You cross your imaginary. Your lives are lost out here. I mean, don't get me wrong, that happened almost everywhere, but not as extreme as it is out here. Not in as high numbers as it happens out here, or in like other major cities, but like this is one of those top three to five cities.

shooter 1:16:07

Right. And long story short, dude, my uncle's running with this crew, whatever. And um, this this uh it's a block party. We're chilling. I'm chilling outside in front. I'm thinking about what I'm gonna do, right? I'm thinking about damn. I should apologize. This fucking kid, this fucking guy, dude. Probably like I'm probably like 17. This fucking 28 year old. What's up, fool? Where you from you not, where you from? I ain't seen you around here. You ain't from here. When my uncle comes out, hey asa, chill, bro. It's my nephew. Chill the fuck out. Nah, fuck him, bro. He from the other side, bro. He ain't from around here, bro. Man, my grandpa came out fucking big ass canyon. What? You touch my fucking you touch my little You touch him, you touch him, you're dead. Fucking dead. You know what I mean? Yeah, bro. My grandpa came out here, you touched him, bro. You touch what my nieto? Yeah, yeah, exactly. You touch my nieto, bro, fucking blowing your head off, bro. And that's that's that's that's just you could you could be anybody, bro, in Chicago. You don't have to be a gang member, you don't have to be, you could be working, chilling.

mac g 1:17:10

Yeah, but if you're an old head like that, they're not gonna fuck, they're not gonna, they're not gonna clap back. Yeah, do so, yeah, yeah.

shooter 1:17:15

So so when my grandpa came out and said that, he was like, alright, alright. You know, but even my own uncle that was part of the crew and telling his own people, yeah, no, bro, don't touch my nephew. This was this was Oh nah, fuck him, bro. I don't give a fuck if that's your nephew, bro. Come on. You know why?

Public Pools, Body Image, And Change

mac g 1:17:28

Because that food didn't have respect for your for your uncle, that's why.

shooter 1:17:31

They they they God bless my uncle, bro. Rest in peace. They they killed him, bro, because they were jealous. Yeah, no, no, they it's cool, it's cool, but uh I love my uncle, dude.

mac g 1:17:40

All my you just have to put yourself in it the way I see that is it's it's like monarchy rules, bro.

shooter 1:17:51

It's stupid, bro.

mac g 1:17:52

Because you're basically you're holding court when you're in some sort of position like that in a gang. And I'm not saying this because I was a part of a gang, but I'm just imagining that like when you're somewhat of a head up and you're you're still answering to somebody, you're holding court for that person. Like when there's things that are happening, businesses or deals that are happening, you it's like you and the people that are at your level that are having to answer to this guy above you, right? Yeah, yeah. And when you have like five of these guys or five, ten of these guys, they're answering to the heads up, they're all trying to step over each other. In a way, right? You're not you're not in a you're not working together. No, but you're trying to step over each other so that hopefully maybe you can he can move up, and maybe you can be his spot, and you're taking over care of these guys down here. That's the way it's like a monarchy, right? You understand what I'm saying?

shooter 1:18:43

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

mac g 1:18:44

100%. And and monarchies, dude, there's drama like that all the time, bro. Do you understand what I'm saying? That's why I think there's homies that'll get along and know each other for life and have each other's backs, and then they're fools that are supposed to be a part of the crew that doesn't don't like you, can't stand you, but they're your friend's friend, and shit like that. You understand what I'm saying?

shooter 1:19:04

That's why it's like I never understand that shit. That's that's why I hated that shit. Like, bro, like, I don't get it, bro. Like, I'm not sending money to some dude I don't even know. I'm not paying dues to a block I don't even live on. I'm not doing that shit, dude. I'm not doing that shit. I want to walk where I want to walk. I want to fuck a bitch I want to fuck. I mean, I get it, right? Don't be naive.

mac g 1:19:21

Don't be like, you know, most people that that have that sort of mentality, that are in that sort of lifestyle, those are the type of people that end up going to in jail to jail. You know that you you notice that, right? Yeah, of course. I mean, yeah, that's the majority. I'm not saying all of them. Right, right, right. The majority of them that are in jail are the ones that have that mentality. Right, right. And and it's just And those are the ones that are in some sort of a crew or another.

shooter 1:19:43

And I and I get it to an extent, right? Like when you grow up in it, you grow up around it, you kind of just it's kind of being it's kinda like, Oh, okay, it's it's cool. You know, but I feel like after a certain age So you're being a sheep, bro. No, no, yeah, no doubt.

mac g 1:19:55

I mean not you, but you know what I'm saying? It's like it's that's a sheep mentality.

shooter 1:20:00

Yeah, yeah. But I mean like I feel like after a certain age, people you should be able to think for yourself a little bit more. Like, you know, I'm not gonna lie and sit here like I didn't I didn't think it was cool back in the day, like, oh damn, that shit, you're on the block, you holding it down, you're you know what I'm saying, you you fucking fuck that come go come fuck with my block, you know, but then it's like you get older and you're like for what? Like these I don't understand, like you know.

mac g 1:20:20

Can I be honest with you? Like there's nobody that I grew up with here uh growing up as a kid that I keep that I besides like obviously my cousins and family, right? And even then, I don't really you know it's like we're we're older, you know, you grow up out of that stuff, and yeah, you try to keep in contact, but everybody's busy, right? But there's nobody outside of the family. Oh well, that's not true. Maybe maybe people from church, but even then, even then, I didn't talk really talk to m any of those people unless they were visiting the church out there in Colorado. Right. So I can honestly say that there's nobody that I grew up with out here that I keep in constant contact with. Not even family members, to be honest with you. Yeah. No, I mean I hear you. But that's that that's that's me. I mean, and that's not to say that I don't have long-term friends, but I mean, I I moved out of here at nine years old. So it's like what what it's and it like believe me, it sucks coming back because like I came back 20 years after that, and that was 20 years ago. No, no, you know, something like that, some difference like that. Anyways, the math is off, but you know what I mean. It's like I I moved over here, what was that, 20 years ago? I had moved over here, met my the mother of my kids, and and then I moved uh got married and moved to Colorado to get divorced, you know. Anyways, right, right. Uh, but like I I lost my train of thought.

shooter 1:21:50

But what no, what I'm saying is gang culture here in Chicago, and it's it's different everywhere, right? But gang culture here, like in Chicago, dude, it runs deep. And I'm talking about family, like family deep, you know, yeah, yeah. And when you when you're going to visit your grandma and your uncle or or your cousins or whatever, and you go to a park and you see the handshakes, you see the symbols, you see the way they live, and yes, you see you you you literally go to the garage and they're kicking it, all wearing colors and all talking about this and that, and let's you know I did kind of see some of that in color in Chicago in yeah, in Colorado. Yeah, you I mean you see, dude, the thing is like you see it anywhere, to be honest. You it does like I've growing up, I used to think, oh, Chicago is the only city of gangsters, of this and that. And then you grow older and you're like, damn, no, there's gangsters everywhere. There's there's people who are you don't have to be in a gang to be a gangster.

mac g 1:22:42

It's just not it's just not worth it.

shooter 1:22:44

I mean, I don't know. No, no, yeah, no, 100%, you know, but it's just it's crazy because dude, you go to school, you go to school, you're in you're fucking 16, 17 years old, and people are fighting, and and someone dies 17 years old, a kid dies 17 years old because of what gang signs and colors, and it's like, damn, bro, you had your whole future ahead of you. Yeah, so it goes deep in the city, in the in certain cities, you know what I mean? So I could see growing up why certain people would turn to that lifestyle and and live that lifestyle, and I'm and I'm blessed enough to that God opened my eyes and took me a different way. Because it could easily go bad for any kid out here in any city, New York, it could go in Colorado. Even Colorado, you don't know even you don't have to be a killer, bro. You could be paid really.

mac g 1:23:24

Listen, this shit happens everywhere and anywhere. Exactly. But I mean, in places like this, where it's populated, like you were saying, you know, it's Texas, parts of Texas, California, obviously, California. Yeah, but Florida.

shooter 1:23:38

But what makes it harder is how sometimes mainstream makes it seem cool. You see Lil Wayne got the red rag, talking about he's a blood. You see these people talking about you know, G Unit, you know, and and then and it's like you you hear it on the radio, you hear like like I grew up you listening to Jeezy. Young Jeezy, I love young jeezy. He made me want to be a dope dealer. You know, you hear it on the you hear it, bro, and it's like push towards the youth. Is it bad? I'm not the one to say, but it's definitely not good. You you hear stories like oh, I grew up without a pops, so I started selling rocks just to feed my motherfucking mailbox. Like I don't know, it's hard though, because so you think they're talking to you though.

mac g 1:24:21

All that is a part of the culture now. It is like a lot a lot of these kids really. I mean, yeah, I get it. Some of these guys, the ones you hear of that are in jail and facing Rico charges, yeah. I get that. But like a lot of these kids, it's just what like that's a part of the rhymes, a part of the syllables and a part of the the flow.

shooter 1:24:38

Yeah, but some some some of them get so lost into it that they don't understand it's just it's corporate thugging. It's not yeah, half these motherfuckers aren't really out here shooting up.

mac g 1:24:47

Like six nine, yeah, dude.

shooter 1:24:49

Half these motherfuckers really aren't here aren't here, never shot a gun, never killed nobody, bro.

mac g 1:24:53

But they're then they go, then they get you know go make a video with some some bloods, and next thing you know, they're this come on, man.

shooter 1:24:59

Come on, and when does it become a point to be like, hey, look, it's not cool. You should why are we killing each other? Why are why are dude? I I got my grandma cooking up a solid good ass fire ass food, and you're probably a cool dude from the next block, and your grandma's probably cool, but you want to kill me because I'm from a different block. As a matter of fact, there's grandmas probably hang out exactly like dude, my grandma probably hangs out with your grandma, but because you're your your partner.

mac g 1:25:23

Probably shared recipes, exactly.

shooter 1:25:24

You know what I mean? Probably come from the same neighborhood, but you want to kill me from because I'm from a couple blocks away, and now or you might even have same family members too for even then, it'll matter. Even then it'll matter.

mac g 1:25:35

But what I'm saying is you might even have family members, might even have that like three to two to three degrees degrees of separation thing going. We're like you it's one of those things where like you you know people are related, especially like when communities live within communities for so long, you know what I'm saying? It's like you know that like and and and that's it. Somebody that grew up here, went to school here, the school system here, and still lives in the same block. Do you understand what I'm saying?

shooter 1:26:03

And even the school systems are bad are are fucked up too, because you have different cliques, different gangs coming together for school and one building. What do you think is gonna happen?

mac g 1:26:12

Yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? Because I know for me, when I grew growing up, my grandpa's brother lived like three buildings down from us, and his family, his wife and his his four kids.

shooter 1:26:22

Right, and I don't and I don't want to get too deep in it, because I'm not I'm not a gang expert. I no, no, I'm not either.

mac g 1:26:27

But that's what what I'm saying is that like you grew up with families, is it seems like that's especially out here, like you said, New York is the same thing where you hear like I I think somebody that I know of close to me said that they grew up with their uncles or with their aunts living in one apartment upstairs and the other downstairs, right? You see what I'm saying? And the grandma down the first floor type shit. And it's just bad blood, bro.

Gang Culture, Chicago Stories, And Survival

shooter 1:26:51

It's bad blood because oh, I and I get right, like imagine you're you got a best friend, bro. You're fucking you're that's your boy. Next thing you know, you hear, oh, he got hit up by these guys. Then what are you gonna most people are gonna be like fuck that? I want revenge, you know? Not me. No, but I'm just saying, no, I'm just I know, I know, I know, but I'm just saying, like, nine times out of ten, especially if you're born, something about Chicago, dude, something about the air, something about the city, something about the culture. It just it just drives people different.

mac g 1:27:18

Like, and I'm not saying it's a good thing, but it's just I'm just a very large, like, I'm gonna put it to you like this. I didn't do that for the homie that I grew up with in Colorado in the projects, right? That was my best friend from like seventh grade, all all the way into like uh towards the end of freshman year, uh high school.

shooter 1:27:40

Right.

mac g 1:27:41

And I certainly didn't do that with with the guitarist of the punk band that I played with, that I played in for like three or like two and a half years, two years. Right. Whom I went and what what's the what quarter?

shooter 1:27:58

Uh we got 40, my bad. I mean, cut you up. Four minutes and fifty-six seconds, quarter four.

mac g 1:28:03

You might, might. But uh, you were saying that. But uh, but I certainly didn't do that with uh my punker friends who whom my my bandmates whom I went to school with and played and and had known from like freshman year till after to well after uh high school. Right, you know, because I had a few of them that got into some beefs and oh we're gonna toss against them. And it's like nah, I don't I don't do that. I mean I'm a pacifist, I don't I'm a I'm a lover, not if I'd remember.

shooter 1:28:35

This is like let's say it's different if they like let's say so for for instance, right?

mac g 1:28:40

And not only that, but it was between friends. Friends were again it's like dude are we all friends?

shooter 1:28:46

Ren all yeah, but you said there, yeah. Yeah, but here's the difference, right? Like for me, it's different because growing up I never left the city unless I went on vacation, and I just thought I was gonna, I always thought I was just gonna be in the city forever. And and I and I love Chicago, dude, but I I could see myself moving somewhere nicer, definitely, right? Love Chicago, love the city, everything about it. But I'm I I'll move, dude. And when I was living out there an hour away, I was loving it, quiet, peaceful, nobody knew you. Yeah, but like when you're a kid, dude, and you're riding on your bike with your bed with one of your homies, and you're you're laughing, you're like, yo, we're gonna go get some switches, we're about to go, and then some car pulls up and they hop out for no reason, just because you're from a you're a block away, and they hop out and they boom, they start mobbing. That makes you feel some type of way, like, fuck these motherfuckers, bro. Fuck these motherfuckers. We're gonna go and we're gonna go smoke these ninjas

shooter 1:29:35

. Yeah, you and your homie, you see your homie bleeding, he's down, like, that's my homie, bro. I'm can't let that you can't let shit like that slide.

mac g 1:29:43

It's weird because I think even with me and my cousins, because it was always me and my cousins in that in that sort of sense that you're talking about. Right, but uh even then my oldest cousin, because it was like me and his brother, but uh he like he he was two years older than me, and his brother was like a year and a half younger than me. But like whenever we all we all and it was me seeing really seeing them get into fights, but we all knew not to get involved. The only time we would get involved is if shit went stupid. If it would, because it was always a we always knew we were always uh one-on-one type of people. It was never uh we were never into that whole jumping, you know. If you have beef with first of all, if you have beef with somebody, you want to take it out right then and there. Right, right. You're not gonna be like fucking right here tomorrow or this and that, or let me catch you in the streets. No. If I want to hit you, I'm gonna hit you. Fuck tomorrow. Fuck tomorrow. I want to hit you today. I'm still gonna want to hit you tomorrow, guaranteed. If I see tomorrow, I'm gonna hit you tomorrow too. Right? Today and tomorrow, bro. I'm gonna show I'm gonna show you that you're not gonna wanna be around. I'm gonna show you how you ain't gonna be around me. You're not gonna wanna be around me right now.

shooter 1:30:53

Definitely, definitely. But it's just I'm saying, like, let's just say you're with your cousin, boom, and you know, just you're having to be riding, you get out, you go you guys, boom, and then motherfuckers just hop out, and it's like, dude, it's just it's something that you just can't let slide sometimes. You know what I mean? And it's just like, especially growing up with a with a no no go ahead.

mac g 1:31:12

So that's happened to me before, and nobody jumped in. I think that's why I have that mentality, is that because nobody's jumped in. The homie that I was just telling you about. Same thing. As a matter of fact, he was in the other side.

shooter 1:31:25

That was some suck of shit.

mac g 1:31:26

Yeah, yeah, he was on the other side. That's some sucker shit.

shooter 1:31:28

Yeah, that's some sucker shit for me.

mac g 1:31:30

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you know, I don't think I ever saw that really see that really go down with with the homies either. That's not true. I'm stupid. I see, that's um stupid. Right, but I'm that that's one of the first things that me and the homie I don't know if you remember me telling you that the homie I moved to the projects in in near Boulder, Colorado. Oh shit. You never know. You never know. Stop showing me the score, bro. Stop showing me the score. Stop showing me. Anyways, 27-24. Bears against Packers. We got like how many minutes?

shooter 1:32:06

You go ahead and say 20-26. Dude, they were down, they were down bad, right?

mac g 1:32:10

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

shooter 1:32:11

You know, you know, never we never get to the point here. We got back to the biggest. That's all right.

mac g 1:32:15

This is this is good breaking news, right here.

shooter 1:32:16

Breaking news. We were down like 20, 21 to 3 or something.

mac g 1:32:19

Yeah.

shooter 1:32:20

Right now we're at 27 to 24. Fourth quarter. We got three minutes. We can do this, baby. Who's got the ball? Chicago.

mac g 1:32:28

Okay, we got the ball, dude. We got the first one. What yardage? What does it say?

shooter 1:32:32

First down.

mac g 1:32:32

Uh, what yards? At 10. At the 10 yards.

shooter 1:32:35

So Chicago 31. 31 yards.

mac g 1:32:37

Okay, so it's 10 at 31 Chicago. Okay, so we got like 70. So we got like 70 yards to go, I think.

shooter 1:32:43

Yeah, we got this. We got this, dude. We got this. Come on, baby. Come on, baby. Come on, baby.

mac g 1:32:47

So 70 yards ago or 30 yards ago, one of the two. I don't know.

shooter 1:32:49

I don't know, but I I feel like we got into a serious note, but we'll finish it off and then we'll Yeah, no, don't know.

mac g 1:32:54

This is breaking news. Whatever you were saying, though. Uh oh no, yeah, yeah. So yeah, uh, so he was a friend that I told you about. He, you know, I moved to the projects. There's a knock on the door. Hey, you want to come play football? It was it was the homie. We were good friends. This was like a month or two before school started. I was new at the school, so it was the first day of school. Uh it was like a crowded bathroom because it's right after first period or first day of class. And next thing I know, I'm using the bathroom, and I hear, no, don't, don't, don't. And it sounded like the homie, so I picked my head out of some dude trying to shove his head in the pisser.

shooter 1:33:29

Nobody's trying to help him, except for you know, Captain Sable Hope.

mac g 1:33:36

Yeah, no, yeah. That little bitch is a hoe. Fuck him. I hope he does hear this one time. And he knows I'm fucking around, but fuck him. Right, right. I got nothing but love for him. He's helping me out and stuff, but fuck him. Right. He knows why. Fuck him.

shooter 1:33:47

Right. I hear you. I hear you. Yeah. Right.

mac g 1:33:50

But that, you know, I have every right to say that, and that's how I I wish no no hate, no nothing towards him. I appreciate you know everything he did for me, but still, fuck him.

shooter 1:34:00

Right, right, right.

mac g 1:34:02

Yeah, I'm sure I'll talk to him eventually at some point. We've always had this kind of sort of relationship, anyways. Right. But but anyways, that was me. I I'm the like, and then and then the kid that tried to shove up his head in the pisser, and like uh a week later, like we got put me and him, me and the homie got pulled out of a class, and they asked us, Did you know this kid? Like, well, this did you have a problem with him? Like, well, I couldn't think of anything, but then I thought about like, well, yeah, I remember uh the first day of class he was trying to shove my friend's head into the into the pisser, and I st and I got involved, and he didn't like that. And he's like, Well, the only reason we ask is we him and his friend had uh backpacks full of uh knives and they had your name on there, and and your friend's name. That's why we pulled you out. That's crazy. That's crazy.

shooter 1:34:52

Yeah, they probably weren't gonna do shit anyways. No, but not yet.

mac g 1:34:55

No, I guess we're gonna meet us at three after school and all that, and not only that, but then after that, um, there was another altercation too, but uh he was involved in that too, though. You know what I'm saying?

shooter 1:35:09

Yeah, but you know, that's what I'm saying.

mac g 1:35:10

And so that's why I about I kind of another reason why I've had that mentality aside from my cousins is that we handle our own bullshit no matter what.

shooter 1:35:17

Ah, I got to it. I got I got I got to the point. I got to the point. We finally got to the point. Yeah, I was sitting back there for a second, I was like, damn it, dude.

mac g 1:35:29

Well, no, no, no, but you know what? Wow, that was like a brain fart, dude.

shooter 1:35:34

It's like brain constipation to be able to hold your own, right? Because some days you're gonna here's the thing, right? There's some like I and I seen it firsthand where motherfuckers will pull up in a group and they'll they're hard really badass, and then I catch them on themselves. No, don't get me started, right? Dude, I catch them, I catch them by themselves. What's up? What's up with all that shit you was talking and all that when you was with, oh no, bro, it's not even like that, bro. Bitch, look at them fucking uh I hear you. You know what I mean? Clap that motherfucker right here. You got me started all sorts of ways, bro.

mac g 1:36:09

No, dude, because this is the you broke open the floodgates. Here's the thing when we broke it, you broke open the memory floodgates. I'm not I'm not no biggass, bro.

shooter 1:36:16

I'm not no, I'm not the one to be out there starting fights. I'm not out here trying to shake people down to nothing, bro. But I hate that. If you're gonna come, bro. I had people, I'm chilling on my front steps, people come up to me, oh, what's up, this and that. You with three motherfuckers, bro. Yeah, but when I see you by yourself, you don't say a damn thing to me. All right, all right, what's up then? You know what I mean? Type of shit like that.

mac g 1:36:36

You know, and all my headache growing up was brought to you by uh the fucking the Chucky Cheese siders. Shout out to the Chucky Cheese siders out there.

shooter 1:36:47

It's just a it's like if you and then you catch these people by themselves, and it's like, oh my god, you know, uh you catch them by themselves. Oh no, bro, I'm not even on that right now, bro.

mac g 1:36:54

Yeah, you're going you're not right.

shooter 1:36:55

I don't give a fuck what you're on right now, bro. I'm on that.

mac g 1:36:58

Well, I mean, I dude, I broke bread with all these fools that I told you I couldn't. And that's the that's the smoke blood with them afterwards at one point or another, this and that, and you know, they still tried doing me dirty even then, but they never they never mind. I mean, they I'm sure they thought they did something one way or another, but then fuck that shit, dude. You know, but that was just one of our segments that grind my gears. At the end of the day, I went and went down and I went back and to the old town and took took took a few of their hoes down.

shooter 1:37:29

That's just the way to do it, man.

mac g 1:37:31

Not all of them.

shooter 1:37:33

Yeah, just kidding. I shouldn't say that. Oh, damn it. Hey man, we're just having a good time letting loose. Yeah, let loose. It's uh what do you call that?

mac g 1:37:47

It is a weekend edition, anyways, right now. It is so on a on a good note, man.

shooter 1:37:53

It's 27 to 24. Packers are at 27, Bears are at 24, man. Come on, man. We got three minutes left. And it's still our ball. It's it's I don't know. It I can't tell. Uh how do you know who's third? It says all this. You'll see the football on one side of the oh, yeah, yeah. It's a Packers bar, right? It's a Packers, dude. And it's three minutes, bro.

mac g 1:38:14

And uh quit telling me, dude, just quit looking, right? Because you're jinxing it. Just quit jinxing it. Anything could happen. They were they were doing it until we started paying attention. I'm telling you, dude, I'm I'm jinxing it. No, no, but let me tell you something.

shooter 1:38:27

For some reason, bro, Chicago, dude, like I said, like, you know, I I I love Chicago, I'll come and visit, but something about Chicago, dude, the air, the hope, the the hard work, like it's just hope is you know, it it's it's a painful thing, bro. It's a dangerous thing. You know?

mac g 1:38:44

I just saw, and I hate to cut you off, but I just and it has to do with what you're saying. It's funny to say that, because as I was taking my my as I was rewriting the constitution this morning, my daily constitution. Right. One of the local headline news was uh it was a map of and a story of how the middle uh middle class middle income class is almost non-existent in the state anymore. Oh yeah, of course. And they showed the difference between 1970 and I think 2022, 21, something like that. So it is literally it is so what you're saying now it's either you're broke or you're rich type of gap. Pretty much. It's either you live in in it's either you live in downtown or you don't. There must have been an interception or fumble, but let's just leave it at that. So so we're speculating.

shooter 1:39:45

Here's the thing even even right now, bro, and uh like I said, I love Chicago, but the kids are ruining it. They're ruining it, they're ruining it because you you can't you go there, dude. There's a fucking bunch of kids, bro, running around shooting. Making a fucking mess, dude. Making a mess. Stabbing each other and download. Stabbing each other. Like, what's the if if I'm living downtown, if I'm paying, if I'm paying three thousand dollars a month and I'm and I'm hearing gunshots, you might as well live in Englewood. You might as well live in fucking the hood. At that point. At that point, you might as well just live in the hood.

mac g 1:40:20

You're paying Englewood, Colorado, Illinois, you know what I mean or California.

shooter 1:40:24

Come on, man. Let's just keep it a buck. Let's just keep it real. If you if I'm paying so much money to live in what am I paying for? Just a view? And I'm walking around and there's crackheads, bums everywhere?

mac g 1:40:36

What am I paying you're paying three thousand dollars to live uh floors above, so you don't you don't you won't really hear it.

shooter 1:40:42

No, you hear that shit. So you're just on like okay, but then you step outside, you step outside, and people are getting shot. You're going to dinner. How do uh come on, man? Well, yeah, I mean, that's this just this shit happened recently. They're shooting, and they're not even shooting like I get it, like blocks away. They're shooting on main streets. I know they're shooting on main streets of downtown.

mac g 1:41:03

I mean, that's that's I mean, public school schools are getting shot up left and right no matter where you go.

shooter 1:41:10

Come on, man. What am I I I don't care if you live downtown, you're gonna you're paying for nothing. You're paying for nothing.

mac g 1:41:16

Just because and it's not even public schools anymore. It's like almost just public anything, really. Anything, anything public. Like, I'm still waiting for a public actually no. Never mind. Never mind. Uh never mind. I'm not even gonna finish that. I'm not even gonna finish that. That's a bad joke right there. That was a bad half-a-thought joke there, right? No, bad thoughts, bad thoughts.

shooter 1:41:37

Put those bad thoughts away, bro.

Downtown Safety, Cost Of Living, And Hope

mac g 1:41:39

But uh, your mind truth my truth of um intrusive thoughts were about to intrusive thoughts almost got the better of me.

shooter 1:41:46

But yeah, man, like I said, man, watch your fucking uh watch your package, wash it, rewrap it. What anything you know, wash your butthole.

mac g 1:41:58

I was gonna say your butthole. Oh yeah.

shooter 1:42:00

Okay, you know, and uh your hole or in your pole? Wash your mouth?

mac g 1:42:04

Yeah, yeah, wash your holes in your poles, all that.

shooter 1:42:06

You know, shout out to the ladies. We love the ladies here. And uh like we like to say, man. We we try to keep a mental uh posit to positive mental health and uh you know minute 43 or an hour 43.

mac g 1:42:20

Minute and 43, bro. An hour forty three. That's all I need. Yeah, yeah, minute 43 because the thing stopped recording at a minute and 43 seconds, bro. I'm out of here. I'm just joking. I'm out of here.

shooter 1:42:32

An hour forty-three, dude. That's probably watch your fucking kids, bro. Yeah, watch your fucking kids.

mac g 1:42:36

Hey, watch your fucking kids. Don't let them get no further than five feet away from me. What the hell is this? Fucking standing like 20, 30 feet away, like you're some sort of an observer in the fucking jungle and shit. In the wildland. Letting your gazelle just go out there amongst fucking lions and shit. What kind of bullshit is that? You're gonna get people are sick. Sick bastards, sick bastards.

shooter 1:42:57

It's gonna get shaken down. If I got a little kid, dude, I need every change. I need that we're gonna be able to do it. We gotta leave this world, bro. I'm taking his lunch money, bro. We gotta leave this world. We gotta leave this world behind, bro. Yeah, no, I'm taking his lunch money, bro. Uh, the pot gotta run somehow, right? And it ain't for free. So, amen. Let us know in the comment section.

mac g 1:43:13

Please subscribe. Hey, yeah, we never, you know, we we don't really bother you. We're trying not to bother you with this. Hit the subscribe, smash that button. Like, you know, tomorrow. You know what I'm saying? Subscribe. Talk shit about it. How about that? You know, you know, I don't care. You know, let's just let's you don't like my voice or something. You don't like my ugly face. I don't care. You don't just hear it.

shooter 1:43:36

Boats and holes, bro. Talk your shit, you know, get your clip, you know. Get your 15 minutes of fame in here. We'll spit your name out, we'll talk shit about you too. Yeah, yeah.

mac g 1:43:45

If it's some good shit, if it's some good uh shit talking there, we might even uh post it up or we might even uh read it out loud. Well, yeah, man.

shooter 1:43:52

I uh no, we always like to leave on a good note, man. Yeah, it's it's a every day's every day's a blessing. Yeah, no, even though sometimes it feels like fuck, dude.

mac g 1:44:01

Nothing but jokes over here. Yeah, you know, we're keeping it real, yeah, yeah, yeah. Real funny. Yeah.

shooter 1:44:07

No, but definitely funny looking. But you know, the thing is, bro, even though I think it's good to step out and get some fresh air once in a while. Even though we have this whole, like we were talking about getting everything right away, not having to step out for nothing. It's good to step out amongst people sometimes. Even though it's like you step out and you wonder why you need to step out. It's like, but it's like you gotta step out.

mac g 1:44:30

It feels like there's a trap out there, just lying for you to just step into, bro. I'm telling you, at every turn, every turn, bro. Every turn.

shooter 1:44:40

No doubt, no doubt. But that's just like, what do you you know what I mean? No matter what are you gonna do? Avoid people all your life? Alright, you gotta work unless you work from the home. Challenge accepted, bro. Unless you work from home, even then, bro, because even when I'm at work, sometimes I'd be like, you know what really grinds my gears?

mac g 1:45:00

Most people try to avoid me when I'm at work. I'm not gonna lie to you, so you know.

shooter 1:45:04

It seems like people actually wanna works out for me one way or the other. It seems like people want to avoid you, but they can't.

mac g 1:45:08

Exactly.

shooter 1:45:09

Love it, and and and and and not that they can't, not that they can't go around you or nothing, but they think something like they just gravitate, like they're like, ah, you know, let me go see what's up with that.

mac g 1:45:17

I love it. Yeah, can't get enough of it, especially DJ. Because I'm the shit and they love to smell it, bro.

shooter 1:45:28

Oh man, dude. Me, I'll hide, dude. I I hide, I'll put myself.

mac g 1:45:32

I'm telling you, they can't stand what they can't stand seeing you what you do, but they're still sitting there watching you do it.

shooter 1:45:38

Hey man, they don't I don't get it. And if we do, if we do take that little uh train ride to Colorado for the weekend when uh in the summertime.

mac g 1:45:46

Dude, that'd be the shit, bro.

shooter 1:45:47

Do a podcast out there a little over there.

mac g 1:45:49

That would be the shit. I'm telling you, there's some good spots I could I could show you out there, you know. There's some good uh watering holes, show you some of my old watering holes and stuff.

shooter 1:45:58

And go, go, go. And because I like the last time I went was probably like three, three, three years ago. And that that was my first time, and I loved it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Loved it, dude. I went over there by Beavers Creek, shout out to them for sure. I went out to Colorado. I don't see me being from the city, yeah. Uh I don't like going to different cities like that. Unless it's like maybe like Rome or some shit. You know what I mean?

mac g 1:46:21

But like I'm not that's a whole nother country, bro. That's like that's a country. Fuck them, right? Fuck them. They ain't in the city, fuck them. I mean, that's not to go there because that's where Vatican the Vatican's at. Oh, shout out to the dude. God bless, man. That's literally a good guy.

shooter 1:46:38

He's a good guy. Good guy. I heard he's a good guy. Never met him, but I heard he's a good guy.

mac g 1:46:42

You think he likes football? I don't know. I mean, he's from here, so you know. He better like football. He likes he likes baseball, he likes the Cubs. I thought he liked the Sox. Or the Sox, one of the two at the I don't know.

shooter 1:46:52

Good guy, I like that. You're you're right, you're right. Anyways, but I'm not going to. I mean, maybe I'll check out Denver, but I heard Denver's kind of small.

mac g 1:46:59

Well, no, I'm just saying I'm just saying let's go pick up what we can well besides obviously that's a must. But uh you can get the fungus among us out there legally. Let's do that. Let's do that.

shooter 1:47:16

Well, you know, I don't know if you have any other side projects or anything you want to talk about besides the starting.

DIY Studio Plans And Creative Goals

mac g 1:47:22

I mean, we're there's there's projects we're working on. So, you know, this is uh DIY 8A studios. A DIY studio, it's a D do-it-yourself studio. We're trying to do whatever little projects we can here and there. Uh, you might even hear us switching up for formats or doing other subject matter. We are gonna start doing the whole YouTube studio thing just so we can start finding other content stuff to talk about, content material. So, you know, and I'm gonna show you here at some point before you take off or sometime this week or something. Yeah, no, no, no. Or I'll send you links or whatever, I'll send you something. Just so you know, so you get the the gist of what the ideas are. Okay. Aside from that, you know, we're also my plan is to eventually make some beats. I'm hopefully gonna do some sample packs, maybe start figure that whole side of the business out and put this whole musician skills to the test. Let's do it. And then yeah, uh, you say you're interested in doing some stuff. I'm not sure if you wanna. But like eventually, uh, it'd be cool if me and you get together, make some beats for maybe the both of us to spit on, or maybe just for the pot. Yeah, yeah, no, definitely.

shooter 1:48:43

You know, check out some beats, see what we got going on, and just see. You never know, man. Just get to put something on and see what happens. Just let it work.

mac g 1:48:51

We could do too is uh you could be like the creative on some beats, and I could just help you. Like if you I can play some samples for you, you pick what pick and choose what you want, and if there's a certain way you want stuff to go. That way it helps you on your creative artist side of it. Right. Whether it is you want something to do with it, and helps you find a system for yourself, and it also helps me get a little bit more acquainted with the studio.

shooter 1:49:18

So you know, real quick, man, I just want to say it's it feels like we came a long way from uh from just talking about just doing the pod to actually doing it. So I want to tell people out there, man. There's definitely been a little bit more motion, more uh motion, a little bit more uh what do you call that?

mac g 1:49:34

Dedication. Definitely, and I appreciate that. I appreciate you for that. But that you know, it takes time, definitely, and more than anything, dedication.

shooter 1:49:43

And everything takes time, brother.

mac g 1:49:45

And uh eating crow for sure, for sure.

shooter 1:49:48

That's why I want to tell people, man, just stop procrastinating, and if you got the extra money, or you don't even need that much money, to be honest. Little by little, just buy little equipment. If you want to do something, man, just do it, bro. Life's too short. Create something, do something.

mac g 1:50:00

Create something, man. Yeah, I know. We all have been in school, whatever part of school we were in, middle school, high school, elementary, college, where we thought I want to be a DJ, a radio DJ, or it'd be cool to do some paintings or learn how to play guitar. I know a lot of us have wanted to learn how to play guitar. I know that for a fact because I'm a guitar player, and uh almost everybody I met has told me they they wanted to learn how to play the guitar. All I'm saying is that it's never too late to learn.

shooter 1:50:31

No, it's never, never. It's something it's good to learn, isn't it? Keep that brain going.

mac g 1:50:35

I'm a DIYer. I do I like doing things myself. I like researching things myself. That's another thing I'm gonna do. Well, I don't know if I should mention this one. Uh I I they have all I can tip give you give you a clue too is that I've been uh going down the fermenting rabbit hole.

shooter 1:50:51

Oh, okay, yeah, yeah. You did something.

mac g 1:50:53

Yeah, we might have uh a review on some of my housewine.

shooter 1:50:58

Shout out to that.

mac g 1:50:59

Yeah, no distilling, straight up fermenting, that's it. Yeah, right, man. Because I mean it's illegal to make beer. Right. You just can't make booze. Okay. As long as you're not heating anything up and like like a like a still, like a distillery, then you're fine. Where you have constant flame the whole time it's going. It's you know, if it's just fruit sitting in a jar full of water sitting there for a month, it's not you don't need really any. I mean, you don't really want to be selling it either. It's just for you for your home use. Right. Right. Well to sell it, you would need a pyramid or something.

shooter 1:51:38

No, I mean just trying to.

mac g 1:51:39

No, yeah. This is just for my personal use, anyways. Right, right. And for guests. Well, sounds good, man. So yeah, we have, you know, that was another reason why we started the podcast, right? Was to get out of our zone, out of our whatever zone we're in, and start doing other things and keep ourselves busy and out of our negative headspace. Yeah. And improve ourselves, work on ourselves, really, too, right? I mean, that's just and I like to think that we've kind of stepped out of our shell a little bit. Yeah, definitely. We've done quite a few, quite a few things. We've talked about quite a few things and all that other stuff.

shooter 1:52:17

I think trying something new definitely uh kind of forces you to see inside yourself and kind of like like whether it's learning a new instrument, whether it's doing something like a power, whether it's doing whatever. Right. It don't matter what it is, you could always learn something different from others and from yourself, and some things you probably didn't expect from yourself and whatnot.

mac g 1:52:37

And when and when you do it with with friends and people you feel comfortable doing in opening up yourself to like this, it's it's always a cool thing because you you will find, I promise you, you will find a whole another side of yourself. Yeah, you'll be amazed, man. You'd be amazed that was there.

shooter 1:52:53

Yeah, because some people I feel like some people put themselves down early, and they and people need to stop doing that, man.

Keep Creating, Stay Present, Thanks

mac g 1:52:58

They need to just I'm I'm the same way. With all the experience that I have, I'm the same way, you know? Yeah, but I have seen there has been times where I have recorded some people that have had inspirations to want to put some flows down. That like even they've surprised that they were like, Whoa, dude, I just like I don't know, but like all of a sudden I got all this. Like, you even said you said with yourself that I got these flows, these ideas, and that's all I'm gonna say is like they have all of a sudden they see some clicks in them. Right. And I've seen other people kind of even step step out of their comfort zone and move into like just shit, just some of the flows come out of their mouths, they're just what the f where'd that come from? Like, I don't know, dude. I got in the zone, and I don't know. This is fun, dude. You just feel that you feel that energy in the air, you know. It's like it's something else when you're creating something, man. Like, and I remember when I was in a punk band writing a song or something like that, or we're just in the zone on like being really tight on something, and the song coming out exactly the way we planned it for it to come out, and just it's that feeling, yeah, dude. It's almost like a high, but oh, it is it is a high. It's like a natural. I don't know if you've ever been in a in a monk chat where you do the ohms, like with a group of people, or like uh been at church and sang a hymn where everybody sings in unison, and when you hit those perfect notes, and all of a sudden you just like all the the everybody singing in unison, and the energy just kind of wakes you up. It's kinda I don't know. Alright, well you know we're we're pretty much there, dude. Minute 56. Is this top again?

shooter 1:54:52

Go fucking baby. Go fucking let's let's fight seven minutes.

mac g 1:55:08

Anyways, we're gonna let you guys go so we can catch the rest of this video. Hey, appreciate you guys submitted. Like, subscribe and comment.