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What Happens When Three Friends Ask Life's Big Questions?
Ever wonder what happens when three friends start asking life's biggest questions? This episode takes us on an unexpected journey through philosophical territory that's both profound and deeply personal.
The conversation unfolds organically as we tackle what we truly can't live without. While phones and technology seem like obvious answers, we discover that electricity might be civilization's most essential element – without it, we'd quickly descend into chaos. This realization prompts us to consider what's genuinely necessary versus what we've merely grown accustomed to having.
When faced with choosing between truth and comfort, we unanimously lean toward truth – even when uncomfortable – as the foundation for authentic living. This perspective reflects a hard-earned wisdom: that knowing reality, however difficult, ultimately serves us better than comfortable illusions.
The discussion delves into whether identity is fixed or evolving, with personal anecdotes revealing how we change throughout our lives while maintaining core elements of who we are. We explore the fascinating question of whether we truly transform or simply become better at masking our inherent flaws, concluding that awareness of shortcomings often catalyzes genuine growth.
Perhaps most captivating are our unexplainable experiences – from spiritual encounters to mysterious atmospheric phenomena dubbed "the cloud factory" – reminding us how much remains mysterious despite our supposedly rational world. These personal accounts highlight the limitations of our understanding and invite listeners to reflect on their own unexplained moments.
Join us for this thought-provoking episode that balances deep introspection with plenty of laughs. Whether you're questioning your own priorities or just enjoy philosophical conversations among friends, you'll find something that resonates with your own journey through this unpredictable life.
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Speaker 3:Yeah, no right, that was like that was. She was forced.
Speaker 2:I was being weird. Yeah, no, yeah, yeah, that was like that was. She was forced. I was being weird.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no.
Speaker 2:I'm just saying, bro, you made us nervous.
Speaker 3:He should be weird.
Speaker 2:Yeah, sorry, all right, so go ahead, lou. What are we doing today? Oh well, oh, you want me to do it and just, all of us are going to have, like you know, a couple of the cuff. A few are going to be that we've read and picked out of this, just random search. So, okay, yep, so we in there, like swimwear baby, want to go first, Lou, or?
Speaker 3:you want to go first, tom?
Speaker 2:no, no oh, you don't want to go first, all right, all right, okay, okay, okay, okay, says this one here. I was bugging out with this one, right. What is the one thing you cannot live without? What is the one thing I cannot live without?
Speaker 3:Yeah it was sort of just one of those things.
Speaker 2:My phone, your phone, dude. Are you serious, man, godly? So I know for a fact I can live without my phone.
Speaker 3:Yeah yeah, well, I have when there was time, oh, no, no, no, I took it recently. You said when there was time.
Speaker 2:Oh, no, no, no, I'm talking recent. One thing you can live without. So I know for a fact because when I was on vacation a couple of weeks ago I was without my phone, took the phone, threw it into the safe and I didn't touch that phone until I made the one stop, just to text the kids. But I was good without it, right, you know what I mean. It was just a matter of checking to see the kids. So phone, I used it as if it was a landline. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know what I mean. When I got to PR I was like hey, childrens, and then said it was up to them, and then it went right back on the ship and party was over bro, I didn't same exact thing you did when I went on vacation.
Speaker 2:I was like I don't want it on me I don't want to do it, I freak out, I was good with it, but you really you don't think you could do without your phone.
Speaker 3:I mean if I could.
Speaker 1:But it would be really fucking miserable.
Speaker 3:I could.
Speaker 2:That was great dude. Holy shit, that was awesome. What about you? What do you think? You can't live without. I could do the phone right. But what one thing do you think you couldn't live without? Cause like for me? I don't think I could live without. I don't know, that's a hard one. Now we're talking.
Speaker 2:We're talking not like family or friends or people, we're just talking like you know, like I don't think I could have a necessity, yeah, something like well, we were considering necessity, so I don't think I could live without a vehicle, a car, a car, a bike? Like I don't think I could. You know, motor vehicle, right, I don't think I could live without that because I don't. I'm not, I don't think I'm a horse and buggy kind of guy, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Like I don't know, I have to you have to be honest, there's really not a lot that comes to mind in the sense of what you said first before but yeah, that's funny, that is funny Power tools.
Speaker 2:Imagine now you have to go back to old school and like using your hand to right and and ratchets and wrenches.
Speaker 1:No, if I got ratchets and wrenches, then we should be good. The only bad thing is you won't be able to drill anything yeah.
Speaker 2:You have to do the old school drill. The old school drill was like that Winding it, you had to hold it and then you would just wind and spin, but it was only one size bit Bullshit. So you're saying electricity, right? Oh well, no, no, because society can't live without.
Speaker 1:No, I think you're right we would, we would you're right we would be going cannibals and like yeah, yeah, it would be bad, it would be fucking bad bro, it would not be good, that would be insane people would go fucking off the hook nuts, my god dude.
Speaker 2:The whole infrastructure would shut down. Yeah literally.
Speaker 1:I would hope they wouldn't, but they would. People will.
Speaker 2:People will lose their shit well, there was movies about all that stuff happening. You know like what was it? Die Hard, die Hard or Live, trying something like that. And in that one the people had hacked the electrical grid and they shut down.
Speaker 1:Oh, it was the newer one, the newer one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, it was the newer one, yeah, and that was one that they had done that and they were trying to just show that the governments needed, or the world needed, to have electricity, but they were cutting them off and people started to bug out a little bit. So I'm just saying that would be wild man, that would be crazy. Woo, no electricity. Yeah, I don't know if I could do that. Don't know if I could do that. What are you thinking, luke, what you got?
Speaker 1:I don't know. That is a good one. What's more important, truth or comfort? Ooh, depends.
Speaker 2:Right, that's hard to say yeah. Yeah, because sometimes the truth is comforting, sometimes All the time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it doesn't mean rat yourself out Well, it doesn't also mean that if you hear what is the truth, it's actually going to help make you feel better either. True true true, right? So I guess it depends, you think it will but it doesn't work out that way usually.
Speaker 2:I don't know. I'm that guy. I think I'd rather have truth, though I think I personally rather have truth. Yeah, I think so too. I think I would want to have truth.
Speaker 1:What are of comfort? Throwing out Someone?
Speaker 2:will be back on to you. I mean imagine that shit.
Speaker 3:No, what Truth. I mean it's better to know than not know, but sometimes you know the term ignorance is bliss.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no yeah.
Speaker 3:I don't have a heart here, sorry.
Speaker 2:I can't hook you up. Yeah, yeah, oh wait, I do have a harp. Look, look Awesome there you go there, you go.
Speaker 1:I don't have a harp.
Speaker 2:Yes, truth, that is it. That's, yeah, I guess you're right, bro, I would be down with that. That's funny, that is funny. All right, here you go. What inspires you the most, so like, is it love? Is it just wanting to know the truth? Is it just curiosity? You know what I mean. Like what? What inspires you people we couldn't say people. Do your kids inspire you? Kids from your friends you know, family, some other family member you you know? I got to say I think my kids, my kids would be the ones I would have to say would be what inspires me. I agree, kids, and then wife, I think, is what it is, because sometimes she says and does things I'm like oh, I wish I could just be like that, you know, like I could just have that mental for a minute.
Speaker 3:I think that'd be a good thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like I could just have that mental for a minute. I get what you're saying, you know, yeah, but then kids, wife, and then you know I have friends that I get a little bit out of all you guys and stuff like, oh, I wish I could do it like that, oh, I wish I could be like, just have that mental. That that's me. What do you think?
Speaker 3:for me, I can't say like one thing specific, you know, because, like I, take inspiration from everywhere. Okay, sometimes certain things inspire me and find things maybe. So it's tough to say like I can't say from one thing, just because, like I get my a lot of inspiration from, I feel, from people who were I get everybody like vocal more, like I just turned woke.
Speaker 2:But you know what I mean.
Speaker 3:You know what I mean, yeah, yeah yeah, you know I like to get inspiration from people that are like, more willing to like teach, expose, oh okay things and like, hey, check this out. You didn't know about this, but you know Like I love that they're good about information.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's free information, right right.
Speaker 3:Just make sure they get it out to you. I'm not just saying like, just like stuff that like people like didn't know that they should know.
Speaker 2:Like stuff like that, got it.
Speaker 3:That's why I love like TikTok and shit like that. That's why I love like TikTok and shit like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because like it shows people things that like who do well because of their what's going on in their life.
Speaker 3:It can be anything now Right.
Speaker 1:So now anybody is in that self-help stuff, right, that's great too, yeah Because like, isn't that?
Speaker 2:there's that one guy that he lives out off the grid. I think he's supposed to be stopping how often he posts, but he was just showing all these crazy random places that he was doing it with his kids and they were just up on a mountain, out on a field, yeah, and, but I understand I get what you're saying. That makes sense to. That would be cool. That's, yeah, that's an interesting inspiration. You know what I mean? I could, I could dig that. I could dig that. I could dig that. You no, no, well, you had another question. No, no, but inspiration for me.
Speaker 1:I would think, yes, I did this to my kids, but I'm starting to think that's easy. Well, you know, that's an easy kids? Of course you do. I think for me it comes when it happens kind of thing, when I get inspired to do something Like when, something when the right Right For me, that's when it. You know, I don't necessarily look to try to do anything, but I do get inspired by other people, mm-hmm, and inspired by things like that, like Tom was saying, you know, or positive, you know affirmations and taking care of each other and animals, and Taking care of each other and animals.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know right, yeah you do I get it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, right, exactly Right. That's the one that's you, so that's where you would be. Yeah, that's where I would be, so that would be giving me.
Speaker 1:you know if everything was good, but you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's always hope, my friend. There's always hope, but we got a bunch of stuff on here that's really cool, though Seriously, oh, that's an easy one.
Speaker 1:I'll ask that later. All right, okay, what?
Speaker 3:belief, what one belief you hold that you'll never speak out loud, Well then I guess we're not going to find out.
Speaker 1:Are we, let's move on, shall we?
Speaker 2:Next question. That is such a loaded freaking pistol dude, I know it never mind a loaded question because, bro, it's like people will listen to this and then be knocking at your door. That's what you said yeah, dude, that is funny. That's a yeah, that's a super deep one. I think, yeah, we can't answer that all right.
Speaker 1:Is identity something fixed or always evolving? Always evolving.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, Always always.
Speaker 2:Definitely always evolving yeah.
Speaker 3:Because, like the person you are last, where last year might not be the person you are today, yeah, I mean, yeah, we all have our personalities, but even that can change Right. You know some can change right. You know some people can be very you know, they grow up very extroverted they get older, they're introverted right, they're not.
Speaker 3:They're not like sociable as much. And then it could be the other way around. You know, and same thing with you know, maybe someone you know was like always. You know, someone was always like a nice guy and now he's got the chip on his shoulder all the time. You know like people just change, you know. So I think it's always evolving yeah.
Speaker 1:I would have to agree with that for sure, as life changes and you have different experiences. Life shapes who you are and you definitely know you have, I mean if things, if you look at yourself at a certain point, you know if it's a picture that reminds you of something or whatever it is, and you say, oh wow, I'm definitely not the same person I was when I took that photograph.
Speaker 3:You know, you kind of already know that.
Speaker 1:But you know what? But you are, but you're not. You're more mature, you're more seasoned, you're more lived life. You, you, you're not green anymore.
Speaker 3:But then there's people that never change. So I don't know. I think maybe you know that question. I I'm playing my own devil's advocate here, but I feel like there's some people you meet, you see them like years later and you're like they're the same fucking person, like nothing's changed, so I guess it am I still the same person. I guess there's two I guess it really depends on the person then right, because they can go two ways. Like you said, some people don't change and some people change.
Speaker 2:But it depends. So I think it's a double-edged sword. Yeah, or some aspects they change, yeah, because, yeah, so I'm the same comedian that I was always. I still talk shit and laugh and joke and it's whatever. How I feel about people or certain things has changed, so I'm more mature. With that. You know what I mean, right? So, like then you know, like I'm nicer to people than I was many moons ago. Okay, you know what I'm saying? Things like that. And that comes with age, of course. Yeah, with age comes wisdom.
Speaker 1:Yeah, with age comes wisdom. Also. We also know that there are those people who will never get to that point in their life. They are stuck in their ways from a certain point in time that is no longer in. You know, we're talking about two episodes ago.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, but I'm saying think about it. I'm talking about because there are people like that.
Speaker 1:Right, Not only people that I know, but I mean in general. You know, Think about it I'm talking about.
Speaker 2:there are a lot of people like that Right, Not only people that I know, but I mean in general.
Speaker 3:You don't people like that. You're like this motherfucker's never going to get it. Yeah, never going to get it. Never going to get it Never going to get it Right?
Speaker 2:Yeah, because they're freaking cracking Three episodes ago. What were you contemplating?
Speaker 3:I gotta fuck with you man. No, no, no, I was just. I was just thinking the amount of episodes back that we were talking about the similar subject.
Speaker 1:All right, wait a minute, I have another question no, no, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead. Can we truly change, or do we just learn to mask our flaws?
Speaker 2:better Mask our flaws, better Hands down.
Speaker 3:What do you mean, like mask or what we just said, we did change.
Speaker 1:We do change. We evolve as we get older. We change For certain things.
Speaker 3:What does that mean? Mask or floors I haven't heard that Floors.
Speaker 1:you know things that you're not like, let's say, physical or verbal Right or whatever it might be.
Speaker 2:You might have, but you know we get better. Some of us will get better and do that, but our flaw would be something that we find is wrong with us.
Speaker 1:But it's something that nobody would know about either. It would only you be the only one who would know it. If you had a flaw that you knew, what is that? Oh, flaw Flaw, not the flaw, like the linoleum flaw.
Speaker 3:The flaw the flaw.
Speaker 1:I'm like what about the flaw? Oh my God, F-A-F-L-A-W. What metaphor is this? I've never heard this before. That is funny.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, that's funny dude, so yeah.
Speaker 3:So now, what is the question? Again, because I completely forgot.
Speaker 1:He did because he just went off on a tangent.
Speaker 1:Oh my, God Can someone truly change or do we just learn to mask our flaws? I think people, I think we all change. What I was saying earlier was so when you are young, you're green. You go through life, you figure shit out, you get a job right. You go through life, you figure shit out, you get a job right. You go through stages. You're in 20s, 30s, 40s. Right now you have experience. You live life. You've been up down this sick right. Someone passed away something. You know, like there was always something and if you got through that, you got better through life. Some people don't, some people get a little. You know I'm not saying that you. You know it was great get real deep on this.
Speaker 3:Yes, go ahead, go ahead. So I'm sorry I cut you off.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry. You know I do that all the time, no.
Speaker 3:So I think masking flaws is the first step to changing actually I, I would agree with that. Because that means you have awareness Of something that you're not very proud of. Yeah, you have awareness of it. So if you're not aware of it, you're just going to keep fucking doing it or comfortable with. So if you're masking it, that means you're not comfortable with it Right. Or just aware of it. So you're masking it because you know it's a bad behavior.
Speaker 3:Most likely they don't want anybody else to know about it and once you start masking, that's a very stressful thing to do, not stressful, it's just, it's work. So you're not going to want to do it anymore. So you're going to change Right, so I think it's a step.
Speaker 1:That's my theory. It could happen, you could hope, so you're going to change Right. So I think it's a step. That's my theory.
Speaker 3:It could happen, you could hope to force somebody to go in that direction, right, and then they finally get to where they're supposed to be, because if you're masking, then you're aware of a behavior Right.
Speaker 1:In some way or another, you're actually admitting to yourself that something is going on.
Speaker 3:Right, huh, and that's the first step is admitting.
Speaker 1:That.
Speaker 3:That's what they say. Okay, man.
Speaker 2:Very well put right there. That's groovy. You got another one bro.
Speaker 1:Oh, I got a lot. Oh yeah, go ahead, you go ahead and do one.
Speaker 2:How do you recharge so out of a stressful situation or whatever?
Speaker 3:Yep, Go ahead. For me that's easy. I just need some. I need to forge a solitude, you?
Speaker 2:know what I mean.
Speaker 3:I just got to just chill, be at home. You know Recharge, yeah, I like, I like.
Speaker 1:I like when I crash and I can sleep on the week like on the weekends.
Speaker 3:I like to sleep.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I like to get my sleep. I don't sleep as long as I usually sleep, but but that's, that's a good one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I look forward to that. Yeah, I don't, I don't like to sleep that off like that, but I'll take like kind of like naps throughout the day, like yeah, every so often, I don't know, to recharge. I think it's a little bit of peace time, you know, just quiet, be able to. You know just to sit and be like nobody. I don't hear anybody, I don't. You know just me right there with the TV or whatever that I'm doing. So, yeah, I'm with you, bro. Fortress of Solitude is Fortress of Solitude. Yeah, that sounds where it's. That'd be awesome I could be there. I know, just sit right in the middle of it, dude, that'd be great, that'd be awesome.
Speaker 1:Just not do anything, just sit there and just listen With a projection TV showing Right. Something groovy yeah.
Speaker 2:Watching a game or whatever. Dude that would be sick.
Speaker 1:But you never know man. Yeah, yeah, okay. Are we the people we think we are, or people others see us as?
Speaker 2:Ooh, this is a.
Speaker 1:Tom question, bro. So you think you're one way, but everybody else knows you're not. You're either really you're a dick, or you're really a good person. You don't realize that you are, or something to that effect. Like well, you're just just not you think one way. It's like almost the same thing, when I probably shouldn't even say this, but when people wear clothes that they probably shouldn't be wearing. You know what I mean? Yep, same kind of thing. Do you get what I'm saying?
Speaker 3:Yeah, you mean like yeah, I know what you're saying. Right, I know what you're saying. Yeah, yeah, are we the?
Speaker 1:people, we think we are or people see us another way.
Speaker 3:Well, I think in general, that's probably true for everyone, because we always perceive ourself to be a certain way.
Speaker 1:This is like you can't see yourself because you are yourself, yeah, right, yeah, and when you project and you think there are other people.
Speaker 3:That's how you seem like yeah. It's never the way you think it is when you go there, because it's perfectly fine, that's why you ever see someone take like candid video of you and you're like, oh, it's so fucking that's do I act? Like do, I look like Do.
Speaker 2:I do that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, You're like oh, that's not how.
Speaker 1:I am. Yeah, I do not like that video. Delete that shit immediately. Yeah. That's how you are, I know but it's funny when you see certain things. But if you're acting like a goofball to begin with, then it doesn't really make a difference.
Speaker 3:I'm acting like a goofball most of the time. Most of the time.
Speaker 2:So you might get away, but they may not see those slip-ups. It would only be you, I'm good. Is that the person you want people to see?
Speaker 1:Yeah, you always want people to see your good side, right? I mean, obviously we all have that one side, that if you push us or something's- going on in our lives.
Speaker 1:You're not a good, you're not a very nice person to be around, right, you know? Yeah, I know I'm not, so. Yeah, I mean, but not all the time though. Right Only, I would hope, when it's only necessary or unfortunate. Maybe Right Is that the right word to use. Right, right, right, yep, yeah, cause I'd rather be happy, but I know that's not realistic Shit. We were saying about age too. You get to a point where you start to be like this is really not a big deal, right, right, like I made such a big deal about this when I was whatever this age or that age, and now you're this age and you're like this is really not a big fucking deal. Yeah, I wasted too much time on that shit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's true, right, yeah, definitely, it's crazy.
Speaker 1:That makes sense, yep. And again it goes to like when you see young kids and they talk stuff and you're like, oh, you're very knowledgeable and you say things and you've had this, that and the other.
Speaker 2:You don't fucking know shit. All right, I got socks. Older than you, sonny, yeah, yeah you know what I mean, okay. I like that. That works that works.
Speaker 1:But listen, the kids today are different than the kids that we were too, so we do shit that we probably would have loved to done if we had the same access they did. That's my old job.
Speaker 3:You know what I mean. My old job is to have a guy that used to say that to me yeah, I got socks all the time. I got socks all the new year, sonny all right.
Speaker 1:Do you work to live or live to work? Oh no, I were.
Speaker 2:Well, I have to work to live. That's the only way it's well. I think that's more metaphorical, you know. I mean like, do you go to work because you know you want to live your life and have a good time, or is it that you're going to work because you, like you, don't have anything else, that you only?
Speaker 3:go to work to live. I do not live to work yeah, I don't live to work.
Speaker 2:Yes, no right to live, yeah, like some people are just so wrapped up in their job no, no, you know or their quote-unquote career that they don't do anything like that maybe yes, I don't know if that's a good thing.
Speaker 3:Well, I think I think we're all that way because I don't think anybody that lives to work have a podcast.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, no, definitely not but they're living to work at the podcast, to be famous, to make that the job.
Speaker 1:Well, this is added information. This is added information.
Speaker 3:I'm thinking as someone who's a nine to five.
Speaker 2:Oh, nine to five, no.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 1:Gotcha Slave wage, you know yeah.
Speaker 3:Exactly.
Speaker 2:You know, like you know, like fucking you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, Not working Hell, yeah, yeah, exactly, you know like. You know, like fucking you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm working, none, you know hell yeah, retail hell, whatever it is, you know whatever, any kind of working but yeah, like, okay.
Speaker 3:So if you have a job you like and love, right, but I still wouldn't, it's not your life, but I still wouldn't like it's part of your life.
Speaker 1:It's your life, would not be my entire right.
Speaker 2:It helped make your life better, right that's, but it would not be my entire Right. It would make your life better, right? That's crazy. It wouldn't be my whole being Right.
Speaker 1:Fair enough, but you need it, or like having it Because you do really well at it and you're good at it. That's awful, that's huge. Yeah, you can get that in your life. Hell, yeah, as long as everything else could be going.
Speaker 2:Exactly Down the fucking drain. Yeah, I know Family life could be shit yeah yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1:Sorry to be Debbie Downer here, people, jesus, you know, this is life.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry, this is what happens. No shit, no shit. God, what was the?
Speaker 1:one you had. Oh okay, hang on, you want me to do another one? Sure, yeah. So we're mystery and the unknown. Let's see. Uh-oh, what do you think governments actually might be hiding?
Speaker 3:from us. Oh, this we can dip into the.
Speaker 2:We got to make it so many ways, but conspiracy theory, we got to keep it right at the top because we can't think that there's not going to be a deep dive.
Speaker 3:I know so quick, fast.
Speaker 2:What would be the one thing that you think the government is hiding from us?
Speaker 1:Aliens yeah, they're still doing that. Yeah, even though they put stuff out there. There's so much more that they have that we don't even know about, or UFOs.
Speaker 3:What kind of testing that they do. Space travel there's so much stuff there's just so much that they probably done already that we have no clue about.
Speaker 2:Like I think like building, like they have the stuff that they've already been building on the moon. I think that's like been there. There's shit on the moon, I think.
Speaker 1:Which side, the dark side? It would have to be the dark side, yeah, yeah yeah, the dark side, you'd be able to see it on the front side.
Speaker 2:You'd be able to see it of like a base, you know human, the world countries, big business, whatever they've got-.
Speaker 1:Why would you need to do that? It wouldn't be there why?
Speaker 2:Because mining.
Speaker 1:Why would you need to do that?
Speaker 2:though, because of mining. Oh yeah, so that's what the idea is what kind of mining, whatever, or that they say that Remember the movie. Time Machine Time Machine Time Machine Time Machine Time Machine. With a guy Orson Welles movie.
Speaker 1:No, the guy comes back. It was the newer one that was made from an older movie. Guy comes back. He built the time machine back in the 1920s, or something like that. He comes back, yes, and one part of the time that he comes back to the moon is cracked in half.
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that same movie, yeah, Cracked in half, I suppose Because they were mining on the moon. Yes, mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:Yes, so they need to be careful, man. Well, and Now the moon is pretty. For what I'm saying, it's actually part of us, because, it's from what I understand, we collided Right and then and then it moved away.
Speaker 2:Right, yeah, so now. But then it's not. I mean not just mining on the moon itself. You know, that's like the stop before, because it's easier to launch off of the moon because less gravity, so then they can just go to different planets and whatnot.
Speaker 1:It makes sense. That's the idea. Well, I always knew they wanted to use the moon for that.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:So that's why I said that would be the one thing that I would like to know. Yeah, then there's then this conspiracy about the dark side of the moon yeah, right, yeah, crazy, yep.
Speaker 2:Okay, here you go. This is a little bit of a deeper one. Do you trust anyone with your life? Because I would hope so. Yeah, yeah, I, I probably got like I probably have like two or three people, but now I guess it depends on how much with your life do you really trust, like to jump in front of a bullet for you.
Speaker 3:No, I don't expect anybody to do that.
Speaker 2:No, I'm just like. I mean not, you know. Yeah, I mean not like movie worthy, like no jump in front of the bullet, you know, but I mean like movie worthy like no get in front of the bullet, you know, but I mean, you know like if they see somebody with my life.
Speaker 1:I don't know, does anybody trust me with their life?
Speaker 2:yeah, you know what I mean. Yeah, but I mean you know again I would hope so.
Speaker 1:I guess, when the time comes or if it was necessary, yeah, I would hope that whoever that person is right, that person is is there when it happens.
Speaker 2:Because I mean, you know like am I going to turn around and be like? You know, you see me crossing the street. Are you going to come and run and, you know, pull me out of the path of whatever vehicle is going to hit me.
Speaker 1:You know like my friend Frankie did to me when I was a kid.
Speaker 2:Yeah, or are you just going to yell?
Speaker 3:You're going to yell that goes my hero.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, bro, you guys are hilarious with that shit, holy frioles. Okay, let's see what else I got here.
Speaker 1:Is there knowledge humans aren't meant to have?
Speaker 3:So is there anything that we? Shouldn't know about, regardless of how I think anything that could destroy the planet whoa anything that's destructive like, like this, like like this. You know, this theory is about the hadrian collider yeah like possibly making like dark matter that could create a black hole right. Oh wonderful, like in sawdust grows bigger and bigger and bigger that exists, we shouldn't know about it because someone's going to think they can do it in a safe way and they're trying it yeah. We could do it a safe way. It's in a vacuum.
Speaker 1:It's always a safe way. It goes fucking sideways and there you go.
Speaker 3:We shouldn't know anything like that, because it's going to be our destruction, right, right right, it's just inevitable, even if it's going to be our destruction.
Speaker 1:Right, right, right, it's just inevitable, even if it's 100 years from now, you know that they do a test like that. It's not going to be anywhere near here.
Speaker 3:Yeah, do it like on another galaxy. It's going to be somewhere far, far, far away in a galaxy.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, yeah, no, no. They're doing it right now on Earth on the other side of the planet.
Speaker 3:That's awesome.
Speaker 2:That's fantastic. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, they've been doing it.
Speaker 1:They can control it, though Is it so far? Is it an actual black hole?
Speaker 2:No, no, no, no, no. They could make the black hole if they get the dark matter to crash. They've already collided that shit a hundred fucking million times and it hasn't made a black hole yet, but they're learning but they're learning yes, but they're learning stuff just from the collision of what happened with the big bang. That was the main. So for me it was recorded. It was recorded an video computer analysis. It was like all there, all the dot, the data, the data is dead the data. So then, why now would?
Speaker 1:you do it again. They keep doing it because they want to. They're trying to keep getting it to give more information. Yeah, I don't know if we could do a black hole here, as like an energy generator type thing, because a lot of people talk about dark matter, energy.
Speaker 3:That could be like that we don't even see that, yeah, like like that we can harness energy and have like a limited power right, yeah, this, this society going to let that happen.
Speaker 1:Not a million fucking years, well, but you know what?
Speaker 2:Here's the thing, though If it was something like that, we can't even make it happen because we can't see it, you know what.
Speaker 3:That's the shame that, like greed prevents it, we could be like light years ahead. Mm-hmm, wouldn't it be great if you create your own energy source at your home. You do it, you get it.
Speaker 1:You run it, you have your own energy source, nobody's billing you nothing, you take care of it, you maintain it Like. In other words, you have it, it's eco-friendly, right, right. Wouldn't that be better, where people would get to the point where they have their own, they're in control of their ecosystem, right, their home, yes, and they don't have to pay anybody for the energy. Give them the money or anything like that, yeah.
Speaker 3:But, people like that shit. You would hope it would get like that.
Speaker 1:I think Star Trek was like that. Yeah, if you think about it, they were like that Everything was, there was no work. You just you know helped society. Yeah, you know, you know it's true Helped society.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that would be fantastic, that would be a good one, that would be cool, right, that would be way, way cool.
Speaker 1:I think so.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Okay you ready?
Speaker 1:Listen, I'm a little fruity with the sci-fi you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:I can't help it. Here you go, here you go. What's something that offends you?
Speaker 1:okay, fair enough, sorry it was no, no, no, no, no, okay, yeah I forgot that they still existed. Let's go to tom back to you super uncomfortable right now.
Speaker 3:That's funny sorry guys, I not what offends me is just people that like are just like assholes, like people that like are like I don't give a shit if you don't want my opinion. I hate that shit you know what I mean. It's just a matter of being an asshole.
Speaker 1:Don't be a jerk. That's the shit I hate. Why do people have to shit on fucking people?
Speaker 3:don't be an asshole, don't poo poo on, don't poo-poo on me, right, right right, no poo-poo here. No, but no, I mean seriously like that thing, and I know what it is is to make themselves feel better, that's always what it comes down to. Right, right, like just people are just dicks, like that's the kind of shit I don't like. You know what I mean? Yeah, it's, don't need for it.
Speaker 1:Offended. I'm sure there's a lot that offends me. You know it depends on when it happens, people like that. But yeah, mostly I just don't want to see anything get hurt or you know, because of somebody's negligence or something.
Speaker 3:You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Or somebody I mean like I like now. I love the MMA right.
Speaker 3:I love watching that.
Speaker 1:But I like, when I see, when these guys who are the ones that do stupid shit, and then they get in the ring with the guy and they lose, and they lose and it's you know, and you hope that they learn from that, like you know, don't take it as a fail necessarily. But now you're like, okay, maybe you just learn from that. You don't fucking do that right now. Those guys are warriors, so I would never, of course, know them what to do.
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, you know what I mean. Yeah, not just saying this, but it's just something I'm thinking about that is freaking, no it's hilarious. Yeah, that is freaking hilarious. Oh, you another one up in the Ooh. You got another one up in there. I got a bunch of them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 1:What's something you've experienced that you can't logically explain?
Speaker 3:Oh Wait, what's that Something?
Speaker 1:you what, what's?
Speaker 3:something you've experienced.
Speaker 1:What's something you've experienced that you can't logically explain?
Speaker 2:Hmm, Now logically meaning well, I don't know what it means.
Speaker 1:It could be anything in your life. Okay, it could be anything that happens to you, that you're just like. I can't explain this.
Speaker 2:Spiritual encounter in my grandparents' house in Boston, Nice. That was Creepy. Thinking about it now, well through the years.
Speaker 1:Was it somebody you knew? Did you know who was it?
Speaker 2:No, no, no, we don't know, we don't know, we don't know, you don't know. Yeah, don't know, because there was a few things that happened. But I can't, like my cousins and I, we can't really explain them, you know, we just know that they happened, right? No-transcript.
Speaker 1:It freaked me the fuck out. When I was a kid, we lived in an apartment building I may have told you guys this before when I was just working on my bike in my father's shop and it was daytime outside. But I felt like I needed to get out, didn't feel right, like something was watching me or something was wrong, you know just, and I would just run out of the fucking thing, go out into the sun hang out outside.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was now, that was all the time, or just. No, that only happened a couple times and it really happened a lot, you know it was just, it wasn't cool.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean. Yeah, you remember that like that leads to fucking, like, even to this day, you're like what, the yeah, what the hell is that yeah, I got something.
Speaker 3:I call it the. I actually gave a name for it what, what, what the uh occurrence was, but it was a weird thing I saw in the sky and I it's not ufo related, I mean it could have been but I call it the cloud factory. So I was outside one day this is in my maybe my 20s got to my backyard in the house I grew up in and I'm looking out, I'm looking in the sky and I see this fucking cloud and it's growing and then it would like it would grow and then split off and go in. And then it would grow and split off and go in the other. It would grow, but like at a fast. It was like, oh, I've seen really a santi, but no shit, like something was making the cloud.
Speaker 2:Yeah, weird whoa.
Speaker 3:And this is before this is before smartphones, right like I had a flip phone.
Speaker 2:But yeah, if you try to take a picture of the sky, it wasn't gonna happen, right, it would be like just a blotchy mess, yeah.
Speaker 3:So like, yeah, I just I just like kept making, like I don't understand it, like it was, like it's like the flat, the cloud was like growing, and then it would break off and then just go in the same direction like a factory like, yeah, like it was making clouds, and they just how big were these clouds, I I mean if you're looking up at the sky little clouds, maybe like the size of your hand in the sky. Yeah, they were not decent, not huge Right.
Speaker 1:But yeah, all right, I'm not just asking, I'm just curious, I'm not going to make a cloudy sky.
Speaker 3:It was a it wasn't and it wasn't. Cloudy day.
Speaker 2:Ooh.
Speaker 3:It was the only cloud in the sky.
Speaker 2:No way, dude, that is bananas.
Speaker 3:What the hell was that?
Speaker 2:Was that UFO activities?
Speaker 3:Maybe, or was it some natural?
Speaker 2:thing, that phenomenon or it was the government making clouds for rain.
Speaker 3:Making rain clouds. Who knows, there's a lot of it.
Speaker 1:Listen, you see that stuff in the sky. People see things that just do not make sense.
Speaker 2:This is not yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:wow, that's crazy man I've seen a streak in this, in this guy come driving up from new york, coming upstate. It didn't look like a like a takeoff, almost like a star trek stream oh, no shit, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, that's gotta be so.
Speaker 3:That's why I named it the cloud factory yeah, I'm saying that makes sense.
Speaker 2:It was all going in the same direction. That's craziness, dude. Yeah, no, it was around right near the assembly line.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I stopped and then threw away Up. This way, this is the one closest to us. Okay, right around that area Saw that thing. Just colorless, just extreme. That colors just stream, that's fun. Something just took off. That's wild, that's crazy, that's that's spooky. Because I remember saying, oh, did you just see that? Yeah, I had the ranger game on too. I believe that's what it was. You were so lost in that thing that is crazy.
Speaker 2:You got another one dude. Oh, I got plenty, you don't have one, my friend. Tom, just like thinking off the cuff.
Speaker 1:No, that's insane, that what does a life well live look like to you?
Speaker 3:well, my son, I think. I think just a lot of life experiences, maybe experience life, you know, yeah, live life, live life, experience life, yeah, so I think everyone's gonna learn from an opinion like some people get like well to have a family, and some people are like I don't need to like have a wife and kids, I want to be single my whole life right and that doesn't mean that their life isn't no, completer, everybody's different. Yeah, so I guess that's why it's a good question, because we're all different.
Speaker 1:We're all different. What's good for you is not good for somebody else.
Speaker 3:I just think just to like experience life and not like be happy, just I think the whole like I would teach the life like someone who, like like we were talking about work to live.
Speaker 2:Like live to work, like, oh, like, why would you do that? Why would you do that? Yeah, that's just miserable.
Speaker 1:You're miserable doing that. That's not good, I have to look forward to retirement. Oh yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but like why not enjoy life until retirement Right?
Speaker 1:Why not?
Speaker 3:enjoy, you know, yeah, you got to work.
Speaker 2:And, and, then you can continue to enjoy it while you're retired, right, do your vacations. Enjoy the family yeah, exactly, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:All right, here's another one. If you disappeared tomorrow, what would be your mark on the world?
Speaker 2:Oh, the pee stain on the bed. Wow, no, you know what? What?
Speaker 1:would be your mark.
Speaker 2:The laster, yeah, the laster that I think I've left, yeah, just being Well, that's kind of really big Like oh, I invented this and I did that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I know. Yeah, Do we all leave a mark on the world.
Speaker 1:It's a good question, do you think? Do you leave a mark? Yes, do you think it's like in the movie? It's a Wonderful Life, yes, life, yes. Can you see your life being that way, in a scenario where you think something like that would happen?
Speaker 3:where you were involved, where you helped somebody.
Speaker 1:If I didn't exist, what would happen?
Speaker 2:Someone might die or someone might not be born or whatever. We would be lost in this podcast. If not for you, right, we wouldn't have you in this, right? See what I'm saying, see what Lou's saying. I think the laughter that I think I laughter that, I think I believe that I, the smiles that I put on, I think they're going to remember everything.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and they're going to. I hope that they remember everything and laugh at all of it, Right, and say he was a freaking nut and oh, if he did this he'd lose his fucking mind you know, like I know'm not going to say that shit, that's supposed to happen. Right, you know and you hope they do better than you. You know what I mean, but I hope they laugh and cry, and you know, and poke fun at me and all that shit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Because if they're talking about me in a good way, not in such a negative, or oh, I hated him, or I didn't like him, I'm sure I'll have those people, which is fine. They can go fuck themselves. Yeah, oh, exactly, bro, then I'm fine, I don't really need anybody else. And believe it or not? It's true what they say about your world shrinking as you get older. In other words, you don't need that many people in your life to be happy. Right, right, which is true.
Speaker 2:It does it is fucking true yeah, weird. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yep. What do you think?
Speaker 3:Tom, no, no, I think I was just agreeing with Lou said how when you get older, your world does shrink.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, no, no, same, but what would be yours Like? What do you think? What do you think your mark would be?
Speaker 3:Me, I mean good father.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:Like that kind of thing. But on the world I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't think of myself in any kind of you know well, I mean, like you know, to the world, I mean that sounds like oh well if to the world like I don't, I don't, yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, the world probably means more your world yeah, yeah, yeah good, dad, I like that one that's like that one, that's groovy. Yeah, yeah, that's groovy, I could dig that. Yeah, I can dig that. Oh, so with that one, though, fellas, that was a good one, that was a good one, I like that. I like the spontaneous questions or when we had a list of questions. But you is that, it's pretty groovy, I can dig it All right.
Speaker 1:We're going to do one more. Nope, we're going to do one more. We're going to do one more.
Speaker 3:All right, is it more important?
Speaker 1:One more song, one more time Is it more important to leave something behind or to enjoy it now, or enjoy the now, enjoy the now, ooh, in other words enjoy life now and not worry. Worry about what you're going to leave behind.
Speaker 3:Yeah, of course.
Speaker 2:But I don't know, because for me I believe that you believe you need to leave a legacy or something Legacy. If I do it now, I don't know.
Speaker 3:I'll be dead Give me that. Well no, but I mean, I know, I know, I know, I'm going to be someplace different.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to care about what's going on here anymore.
Speaker 3:You know, I guess it depends on your personality.
Speaker 1:If you, if that's something that's important. Legacy is something that's important to you.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I don't know, if I need a legacy.
Speaker 3:Maybe you're a professional and you maybe you're a musician, like something like that.
Speaker 2:Like I could understand you know Well because I mean, but I believe that if you're living the right way, Because maybe you've already kind of started to build a legacy, right, yeah, exactly, and you want to continue it, right? But I think we all have that to an extent. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:Of course you have the life, a good life. I don't think it's a legacy. I mean it's like it's not like you know. But we leave our marks anyways, because if you're doing and they're, going to leave it on their children, and so on, and so on, and so on.
Speaker 2:Even still like you know, we go by what you In 100 years.
Speaker 1:Nobody's going to remember us bro.
Speaker 2:Right, well, again, yeah, they won't, because nobody's going to be alive to remember us in 100 years. Exactly yeah, so you know, I get that.
Speaker 1:I'm just saying it's not important. When you're gone Will you live this life?
Speaker 2:Yeah, but just remember though, and those who go after before us.
Speaker 1:Once we leave behind, they'll follow.
Speaker 2:Fair enough. I learned this from your great, great great great father.
Speaker 1:They will follow.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, but it's what you do now is definitely going to leave a mark to be remembered after you're gone. I hope a good one. Yeah, yeah, I hope so too. Yeah, I hope so too, so that then that'll be the last question.
Speaker 1:All right.
Speaker 2:That being said, that was it, that was the. That was just pretty, but it was nice, all right. So, with all that, appreciate everybody, thank you for being here with us. Thank you, love, peace and hair grease. Live long, and prosper Yo Bye-bye.
