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Hey everybody, welcome to Church and Other Drugs. My name is Jed. It's a lovely Sunday morning out here. In case you missed it, me and Josh just put out the Emojellicles episode 4. That's going to be on both of our Patreons. But the one that you need to subscribe to is patreon.com/churchandotherdrugs to hear that. And I've been going back and listening to the old bonus episodes. And they are hilarious. And me and Brad did. That are very, very funny. So if you want to get access to those, go sign up for the Patreon. Today, this is an episode that me and Brandt did for Waste Removal, which is Brooke and Emily's podcast. But this is the unedited version with a bunch of introductory information on Jurassic Park, which is pretty dope. It's perfect for our audience. We're talking about making relationships in the social media age. I don't know if you can hear my daughter cooing in the background, but it's a very fun episode. Next week, we have Major Payne, my dad, and a guy from his small group where we're going to talk about the unseen realm. Major Payne read the unseen realm, so I get to talk to him about Nefilim. It's a super good episode. Go see Deadpool and Wolverine. That's all I'm going to say. It is unbelievable. If you are a fan of the Fox series of X-Men movies, you just, it's a must see. It's so good. And then TV wise, we just finished watching Presumed Innocent on Apple. If you like courtroom crime dramas, it's super good. Good God. I hated the character Tommy Malta so much. But enough about that. Let's get to this episode. And send me to email, church and other drugs at gmail.com. Go check out Waste Removal, the podcast with Brooke and Emily. They are super rad. Brand does not have a podcast because he is a loser. [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] I was going to say I'm the same with you. I had the Rugrats and the BHS tape that was orange. Yep. Those are dope. Yep. And I also watched a lot of Jurassic Park and Godzilla. Yep. Oh, yeah. Jen knows how much I like Godzilla. Yeah. I talked about Jurassic Park the other night because it made me be a paleontologist for like a month. And I like dug up my yard and just found a bunch of glass. I bought this version. I can't really tell. It's like a leather bound. I was like, you're showing me a just black cover. Rich mahogany and leather bound books. Anyway, I love Brand grabs it and she goes, it's now their favorite book because they call it the dinosaur book. They know they do. Dude, that book is awesome. It's so much cooler than the movie. It's so violent. I read the dinosaur book and it's the part where Nedry dies and it talks about him holding his own intestine. Yes, dude. I love that. And John Hammond gets eaten and moldoon survives. That's the coolest part. Yeah, cuz he shoots the t-rex or the rocket. Yeah. What was there some trivia about moldoon and his character dying and the actor in real life that he had cancer or something? I gotta look this up. Talk amongst yourselves. Emily, these guys are nerds. I love that. They are already used a lot of words that I don't know, but I'm catching on. We're good. I'll circle back around. You know, what is your flag? I don't think I've ever asked you that. It's upside down. It's in every time I die flag. You can see the checks in. Yeah, there you go. So you're like anti every time I die. That's what George. I just hung it that way and I'm awful lazy to redo it. I know what I mean. Occasionally when I lived, that was what you would say. Okay. Okay. Here we go. I'm getting there. I'm getting there. Wait, y'all keep talking amongst yourselves. No. When we were kids, my brother and my first cousin, they used to, we had a cornfield behind my grandmother's house. And they used to put belts on their back belt loop and be Velociraptors and try to come get us through the field cornfield. And then we'd all get our ass what because we weren't supposed to be in the cornfield anyway, so. Cornfields are scary as hell. Okay. I found the trivia. Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob. Peck, the actor, Bob Peck had been diagnosed with cancer and he wasn't confident about being able to return for sequels. So he asked that he is character be killed. Oh, wow. Well, his character has arguably one of the most famous deaths and like a line that will live in meme history clever girl. And why? So we're going to talk about Jurassic Park the whole time. Why is he like, why is he citing and like, like setting up a sniper rifle when it's a goddamn shotgun? Like, what is he doing? That always pissed me off. He's like, yeah, it's a shotgun, bro. You just point and shoot and whatever's in a 20 foot radius is going to get blown away. Like your guys. It was a spazz too. So it's made to shoot without the stock. Right. It's very funny. It's like this whole sniper scene slowly. Yeah. What do you need? Come on, dude. Unless he was firing slugs. I guess that's true. That's true. That's true. Did you hear that story about that? I think it was said he was a foreigner of some kind and he ate a slug on a dare at a party and it he got some crazy rare bacteria sort of like a meningitis and it put him in a paralytic coma for like nine months and then he died from it. What corners of Reddit do you sit on to find this? That was pretty. That was like a that was a headline news for a minute there. It was a PSA to not was that when all the kids were eating tide pods to everybody just started putting things in their mouths. All right. Are we going to pretend that they don't look delicious? Are we going to sit here? I'm not going to lie. The squishiness did have my curiosity, but I was like, no. Yeah, but it's soap. No, for me, it's more the cascade dishwasher pod. So you got like green, green, little red dot. Oh, yeah. Yeah, they're all grainy, though. No, those are liquid. Oh, I'm thinking about the one you're talking about. Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking of. Yeah, they're like grainy chalk with a chewy center. Brooke, you being off quiet. Okay, honestly, I just missed. I just missed like two minutes of everything that was being talked about because my car kept trying to connect to my phone and it took me forever to realize I should just turn off Bluetooth on my phone. I love when that happens. Tell me these two don't look delicious. Yeah, yeah, they do. They wouldn't make a good sandwich. Yeah, what did I miss? Let the record show that Brant showed a picture of a tide pod and a dishwasher pod since it's an audio podcast. Always got to do that exhibit. Let the record also show he's got a pretty dope mustache. It does look good. You do. It looks good. I was watching a firefighter show and I got motivated. You look like a firefighter. My wife's like best friend saw a picture I posted and goes, your husband looks like a state trooper. I was like, no, I'm going to take a file title. Oh, man. You need to watch that show, by the way, it's your humor. It's the super trooper guys. Oh, Tacoma, FD. It's so funny. Yeah, I've dipped in dabble. I haven't given it a full chair. It's laugh out loud funny. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, that was a good show, folks. We will talk to you later. I can't. I can't remember. Did we have a plan for this? Yeah, that's what I thought. Okay. I wasn't sure which one this was. Okay. Sweet, sweet, sweet. It could be either. No, dude. Go for it. I would love to not be in charge. Okay. Well, we're going to interview you guys on your internet relationship. Mm. That's very dirty. It is. Yeah, that's what we really just, it's an investigative series. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Actually, there is probably some very not safe work in our friendship. It started when I was perusing men with mustaches.com. No, sorry, mustaches meet.com. The tag, the tagline is, it's the friction. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I paid it for the upgraded account and that's how I found it. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah, that's honestly what we want to know about all the dirty things y'all do on the internet. Mm-hmm. But no, I'm sure you guys haven't been fully listening, but we started a series on relationships. And that's, we have kind of embarrassing social media, to be honest with you. And we think maybe you guys might have another side to the story of social media because that's how y'all met as friends. And Emily, I started thinking about, I think you and Max met through social media in a way. I know you kind of met at Yawnee's, but weren't y'all on a dating app or something? Um, we were not. I have. I did. Mm-hmm. Who made the old Max on it? And I've been on dating app. I don't know. Personally, that's suspicious. I did try dating app before and it was awful. I think I tried it for like, literally, I think it gave it like two days and I was like, I don't know. Do you want to hear my first dating app experience? Yeah. It was brutal. And I just, I was like, at the time, one of the times, I was freshly sober, so I was very, very insecure and had bad self-esteem. And this was, I mean, this had two have been, just got a 2013? No. No, no, no, 2011. Um, and it was like, what was before Tinder? It wasn't plenty of fish. It was alarming. No. Was it bumble? Mm-hmm. Maybe, I don't know. It was one of the early ones. It was the first to get major ones. So I, I signed up for it. It was the most memorable. I sent one message to one person and do you know what the reply, it was, I think it was just like, Hey, what's up? And do you know what the reply was? Oh, God. I'm ready. Ew. Period. No. Period. You know what I was like. I would be like, what a bitch. Oh, dude, I, I, you know, yeah, I wasn't very nice after that. But it, I didn't, I deleted my account. That was enough for me. I didn't do Tinder. I didn't do Tinder. Um, but I did bumble. And I think on bumble, the guys have to hit you up first. Like you, like you can agree to talk to them. Like you can actually like, I guess. I thought it was the opposite. Yeah, I think it's like a girl. Huh? It's the girl. It's the opposite. Okay, maybe that's what it is. I can't remember what it was. But I think I did bumble and because I didn't want to do Tinder because I feel like everybody that at the time that I did get on it and got talked into doing it. Tinder was like a thing for you to just hook up. Like you were just there to meet people to just hook up and then that be it. And I was like, well, that's not what I'm doing here. It's funny you say that I matched with my now wife on Tinder. But when we were friends, so we matched out of, I just thought it was funny. So I matched whether just to see what kind of reaction I would get out of. And I was sitting to all these like extremely flirty messages to someone who at the time was completely like platonic kind of situation. I was like, Oh my God, you're just the worst. And now we're married. Funny enough. Oh, that works out well. Did you say your friend? Broke, you're breaking up your robot. I'm turning off my video. Oh, yeah. Oh my God. Let the record show that a glamor shot headshot has replaced. Broke's video. Let's describe it. It is a mid-length blonde bob with an emo swoop, I would say. Yes, but also you have the nice. I'd say it's a very southern smile. Very southern smile. You can hear that photo going. Yes, sir. Don't talk to me before I say it. Yeah. People around here shit on Bojangles. And it's offensive to me. Oh, wow. They hate it. And I can't convince them otherwise. What do they like, Popeyes? Yes, they love Popeyes. I'm done. I can only coexist. That's what I'm saying. Because I remember when a Popeyes tried to open in Irma, South Carolina, and that thing closed real fast. We be boy cotton. Yeah. It's like when a-- Okay. Do you subscribe to the theory that Long John Silver's are a money laundering front? Because who do you know eats at Long John Silver's? The people that order play the McDonald's. Broke, you're still breaking up. Oh, my God. Hold on. Let me move my car. That's a little better. We've got enough. Yeah. I just don't. I can't do it in my house. And-- I mean, it's working right now. Is it? Yeah, now you're good. Okay. I've got two bars, guys. That's a point. I've done more with less. Okay. Well, here comes Cameron. He's got to get something out of my car. You want to say hi to Cameron? Yes. Cameron, Max is off my Bluetooth right now. Hey, Cameron. Hey, Cameron. Hey, what is me? Hey, Dave. Who's Dave? Who's Darla? It's me. Hey, Cameron. It's me, Brandt. I'm ugly. I would agree. Yes. Donate, like, the best photo from your wedding Cameron. Wasn't me and you looking in that balloon. Aww. I can't compete with balloon pictures. Yeah, we sent it off until the distance to catch a field on fire. That was bad to say. Oh, so you, you like killed a wild animal when it tried to eat it, you know? Geez. It was one of those, like, ones that you light and will send off. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like the Chinese lanterns. Yeah. Yeah. We don't say that. I'm sorry. Freedom lanterns. My bad. Yeah. Yeah. Loreda. Okay. Let's do this thing. You want to? Okay. Do it. Okay. Why am I here? Yeah. We're going to do a little, um, we're going to do like a little intro. And then if we want to change it, we just do another intro at the end. So be prepared for that. Awesome. Awesome. We're like, we didn't talk about any of the things we thought we were going to talk about. Yeah. I've been recording the whole time and it's going to get released. Good. I'm glad. Yeah. It'll be the, the, your cut and then Jed's unedited raw cut. Yeah, John. We edit. Sorry. But I don't know how anybody would want to listen to this chaos of random camera and Max being on my Bluetooth. Anyway. Okay. So are you ready? Yes. Absolutely. Absolutely. Okay. Emily, do you want to do it? You want me to do it? Go for it. Girlfriend. Okay. Well. Hi, everybody. Welcome to waste removal. This is Brooke. And this is Emily. And we are with Grant and Jed. Say hi guys. Hey. Oh, wow. Yeah. Blow hanging fruit. You're all laughing there. Yes. Yes. Yes. But they're laughing at you. At you, Branch. That's the. Don't care. Don't care. It's, it's all Brandon, Jed, the, the rootness, tootenist best friends in the galaxy. I did. We love a good team. We've been friends for seven years and have never met in person. It's been seven years. Wow. And this is a great segue into why we brought them on this podcast. Because we are doing, like I told you guys before, we're doing a relationship series. And we've been kind of, you know, a little hard on social media and people online. And so people that don't know, Jed is from a podcast church and other drugs. It's a really big podcast. And it's funny because I only know him because I was listening to Jed's podcast. And then me and Brent had lunch and Brent was telling me about his friend who does a podcast. And it was a guy had been listening to. And so this is Jed Payne from church and other drugs. Super awesome podcast. Yeah. Y'all got to check it out. That's pretty, that is pretty bizarre. Yeah. That's fair. The odds of that are, I don't know. I'm not. I'm not a numbers guy. Yeah. Extremely slim. That's funny. Yeah. It seems like it was meant to be. Absolutely. Absolutely. Like every fourth person has a podcast to be able to like sit down at lunch with the person who has that connection. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. It is really very crazy. Yeah. So we brought them on to maybe defend their stand or give us a little insight into social media and how you can have those relationships online. Oof. I don't know how much defending I will be doing. Actually, I will be doing some defending, but. So well, yeah, first, what was everybody's first social media account ever? When I space. Okay. Same. Well, do you count the messenger as social media? Ooh. Like I am. Yeah. Yeah. What was your. I guess it was. Oh, dude. Those are way messages. That's what I was going to. All right. Check it. I don't I don't think people today understand the elation of coming home hopping on the computer and like seeing who was on or like your favorite person is on or like the person you're trying to flirt with is on or like and then you start Oh my God. It was so much fun. It was so fun and it was and I I loved when you I feel like we started. Did we do and hearts and like coding and I am or was that just my space? No. Yeah. There was no code, but yeah, that was when like a lead speak. That was when that's I'm not going to say that's when it started, but yeah, we use that was when like emojis were in there emoticons rather were in their infancy, I think. And then you got a phone call, you got kicked out and had to do it all over again. Wait, what? And then you would get a phone call and you'd get kicked. Oh, brutal. Oh, dial up. If you picked up the phone and you heard that internet noise, like I knew my sister was about to beat my what's the what's the spaghetti policy on this podcast? What's the cursing policy on this podcast? Emily, you want to tell them? Okay. Good. Yeah, I knew I was going to get my ass beat for if you hear that. You hear that dial tone, man? Well, you know what's crazy though, thinking about the kids today and how you have like a cell phone as soon as you can talk basically, or at least it has been that way. But in, I remember I was going into seventh grade and I had pretty strict parents, but I really wanted AOL or a cell phone and my mom said you can pick one, but you're not going to have both. And I picked AOL over a cell phone. Hmm. Isn't that crazy? Like wait, think about that. It's just like Nokia bricks back then. So it wasn't the same thing. Yeah. Well, what do you mean? Like, how did she give you like as in, we'll get AOL for the house or you get a cell phone? I don't understand. You just had a snack. I was allowed. Like I was allowed to have an AIM account, like I started using it. Oh, yeah. Because I wasn't allowed before. Yeah. The phone was like not really that important back then, although texting, yeah, used to be also the shit and being able to text in your pocket was also the shit like. Exactly. Thank class. Yeah. Driving. Dude, we had, you had to pitch your thumb so many times to type just a sentence, dude. And we got so fast. Yeah. That's why our generation is so smart. And why we all have a carpool tunnel. On the Nokia phones. Of course. Snake. Yeah. Absolutely. It was the best. You know what's funny though? We got so, my baby daughter is obsessed with cell phones because it's like the one, yeah, we're always holding it, which we'll get to. So at a yard sale, we found a Nokia. So we bought that for her. So she's got her little, yeah, dude. It's, there's still a SIM card in it. I really want to try to track down a charger and like see what's on this bad boy. Please do that. We need, we need a sequel to this because we need to know. I don't know where to find a, like, I guess, well, the internet, but I wonder how much a Nokia charger is going to be. Oh, well, it's probably an antique at this point. I have to think about selling my pink razor. They are. I'm wondering how much that would make. You could probably make something, they have smartphone razors now. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, they came back. They may have come back. Nothing will ever be cooler than the razor though. Slipping that phone down when you were mad. I will argue that the, like, spring-loaded phone from, like, the third matrix, I think. Like you press a button and it's shot down, you remember that one? Oh, yeah. Dude, I wanted that so bad. I'd like the keyboard on the part that came down. No, no, it was, it was a, it wasn't like a sidekick. It wasn't like that. It was a, like, vertical and you press a button and the keypad cover shot down. I do know what you're talking about. Yes. Yeah, very cool. But, yes. Well, this actually, also was a good segue because I remember the very first phone I got that had internet access. The day after I got it is the day that Cameron messaged me on Facebook and was like, it was like, I saw you and I was away. Like I was out of town at a, at a retreat for, like, juniors and seniors in high school. And I was there with my ex-boyfriend who, like, wanted to get together super bad. And I don't know if I would have gotten back together with him if I didn't have, like, what I have if I hadn't had this other guy, like, messaging me during that time. Do you know what I mean? Mm-hmm. There's... Oh, yeah. The, yeah. The retroactive butterfly effect stuff is interesting. So I... It is. So it kind of segues into your internet relationships and, like, you know, that's y'all's forte. I feel like we talked about it a little bit last time we talked. Yeah. I've been on Facebook since you had to have a college email. Which is wild. And, like, all the status updates used to start with... I'm... I'm... I'm... I'm blank and... Dude. It's... My, my stuff is so cringy. I've always... I'm gonna see you remember my memories, say, see if I got any of those in there because every now and then I came in. I've still got my live journal. It's still up and it is unbelievably emo. I mean, like, I'm writing poems about, like, shooting myself and stuff like I'm so sad. Oh, my God. Oh, dude. It's so cringy. It's, like, taking next Sunday and bright-eyes lyrics just non-stop. Oh, God. It's so funny. This song lyrics, they would cut deep in a status, though. Like, you always knew... You would always know where somebody was standing based and what song was in their lyrics. Yes. Mm-hmm. Well, speaking of the search bar, though, I do have any story. My grandfather, if you... I guess it's funnier if you knew him, but he was, like, this old huge personality zoo. His name was Zoo. Like, if this sums it up for you. Like, huge personality short guy wore his, like, pants up to his, to his chest, but, like, thought he was a pimp. You know what I mean? Are they doing that? And so he... Yeah, it sounds like he was showing off. Oh, he was always showing off, you know? And, actually, he was very pervy, but he, like, okay, for instance, here's just some more context of him. For Valentine's Day one year, he posted Happy Valentine's Day to all the pretty ladies out there and all the ugly ones, and all the ugly ones, too. I love it. And so, with the search bar, he would, or he would type into his status, like, women's names that he was looking up on face. Yes. Like, the old people mistakes, like, where they'd accidentally post. Yeah, I love when senators do that shit now, like, whoa, they'll, like, oh, God, yes. Or when they always go, like, type in the comment section, like, how do you delete this? No. Or, or they say, like, or they'll be like, that's a lovely picture, Jed. Love Nana. And it's, like, I know, I know it's you. I know it's you, Nana. So, yeah, when my grandma got Facebook, I think that was, that was a wrap. That was when I knew it was going down. Okay. So, all right. Our, our relationship and Facebook relationship. So I say that to say, even seven years ago when we met, social media was a vastly different landscape, vastly different. And I don't remember it. So I remember being able to, when it, when I didn't have it on a smartphone, it was kind of like aim where I, I was so contented with just hours on my laptop on Facebook, right? But it stayed there. And then when it got on the smartphone, it wasn't so, I don't remember it being number one, so negative, number two, so bloated with ads, because we met through a podcast, not fan club, whatever, podcast listener group, the bad Christian club. Patreon before it was Patreon. Yes. Like a private Patreon. And I don't, I think we talked about this the other day. What was the first interaction? Was it because was, did it have to do with my podcast too? I don't, do you remember? It's only played video games, but how, yeah, but how did that, what was our first interaction? Like, how did we, was it like, hey, does anyone play video games? And we just ran. I think it was somebody like, like, one of the new ones came out, like it was probably Call of Duty. And somebody was like, people who plays and then you and I shared and we probably just played in from, was it World at War, not World at War, World War II, maybe? Yeah, I mean, we definitely played World War II. And so then I guess our relationship blossomed on the game chat. And at some point though, you started, you knew me from the podcast too though, right? Well, I started listening to it, yeah. That's it. Okay. Oh. You had an interesting story. So the friendship was first and for whatever reason, I guess there's certain, I have met a lot of people that way, so, so is Brant. But you only continue the relationship with a select few, I guess, because it just like life happens and it's how the deck gets shuffled and for whatever reason, I think it's because like we started like share, I think it, you know, relationships blossom when you start sharing like the shitty parts of life and it's not just like, Hey, what's up? It's like, Oh, you're going through this thing that's more than surface level and so am I. And yeah, I guess that's, well, I mean, what would you say? I was going to say, the two of us have been through quite a bit of terrible things. So really good at the same time, but I do feel like there is some level of comfort talking to someone that you're close to online about serious objects or serious topics. I mean, versus somebody that you might see on your day to day basis. I could tell you something and you have no concept of what or who I'm referring to with maybe he does knows we have played video games together with some of my other local friends. And I would say they're more than acquaintances at this point. I would say they're friends, but nowhere near as close as we are. Right. But it's objective third party. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. So that definitely changes the dynamic and makes it easier, maybe I guess it's interesting analogy. I was thinking it's kind of like a therapist without the payment aspect. Yeah. Yeah. It is, it is a different, we are able to have a different relationship dynamic than we are with other people, I think, because yeah, it's, it's, it is. There is something about not having to filter or worry about like, oh, if I, if this, if I say something about this person, it's going to get back to him like, he doesn't, we don't know. And we're not going to see any of the same people, right? And I would also say that like our faith was also a bonding thing, right? For sure. I think we both had similar extremely jaded background with Christianity, but we didn't give it up. That's also. Yeah. True. I feel like we both have tried at least one search for it. Yeah. I can't shake it. Can't shake it. Nope. Yeah. We're finally going back to church this Sunday. We talked about it today. So we'll. Oh. Wow. We're going to go to the church. Our son goes to we school to say, oh, dang, let me know how that goes. I'm actually genuinely looking forward to every aspect except getting up and doing that stuff. Yeah. Well, and the first time, dude, you got to say, hey, everybody, I'm only, I'm putting talent on my left and my wife on my right. So I don't have to turn to my neighbors. Oh, dude. So say a morning to somebody you've not talked the scariest sentence. Say good morning. And southern people, they want to like get so close. They know what you have for breakfast. I know. Um, like another aspect of like, I think that's cool of legitimate internet friendships as you can connect to their friends, like all knows pretty much all of the people who are my groomsmen. Like, I feel like he could just strike up a conversation with them at any moment. One of them commented on his Facebook page post the other day and he talked about how much you missed him, um, I talked to a couple of clients, great. I talked to a couple of Jed's friends were almost on a daily basis and a discord chat that we're in. Yeah. Shared interests, although lately it seems like it's just more people talking about people dying. But yeah, well, we have a support server for the bad news. Yeah. We have a server for celebrity deaths and it's a lot, dude. It's a lot. Rest in peace. Shelly. Mm hmm. Yeah, I'm come across one that's hit me yet, but yeah. So like, I have friends and I feel like at any given moment, if I had something to talk about that related to one of their interests or specialities, I would be able to bring that up to them because of Jed and I's connection. And I feel like he could talk to any of my friends as well. I would say that on Jed's angle, it's a little more connected just because we are closer in age. Mm hmm. My groomsmen are a little younger because I met them when they were in undergrad and I was in grad school a couple of years separated created. We all share similar interests because we all have this sense of humor of 12 year olds. I think I think a few times I was a little, I was a maybe a little much in the group chats for certain, for certain years in that chat. And I would get pretty loose with my, my lord past and my man, making cop jokes to Clint though is probably the most fun I've ever had in my life. It's a cop. He was. He was. He was a master, but his brother is still a cop. At Grandin, his brother is just as dark as Jed, not quite there, I don't think, but close. But yeah, we would see is he is he dark enough that Clint would shoot him is that stuff like that? Yeah. And he was a good sport, man. He was. I think the one in the group that you could really play off of would be Mike. Yes. Yes. But he really has no feel, no filter as well. Like some of the stuff that he's. But very different. He's like, if there's like a morality scale, he's much more on the kind hearted side of just so much more of the depraved. Well, that's just when I get with the boys, right? When I like at my core, I'm like extremely moral. Like it's a it's so and I I've never I'm not quite figured out. I guess it's because I'm such an extrovert that like I don't want to say I have two different sides. If I'm yeah, if I'm isolated for too long, I definitely like retreat inward. And then so when I finally am around people, dude, I explode and also this I'm glad that I brought up because so I live in the city I do because I went to rehab here and almost all of my best friends here are through recovery. And what happens with people you meet in recovery, you most of the time have nothing else in common except that you all are getting sober. Okay. So it's not all well, it's both very cool and but what happens eventually, like in this case is like I love them and I would die for them and they were in my wedding, but they're not like especially in Lafayette, Louisiana, like a little deep thinking emo kid isn't exactly, you know, compatible with oil field, working blue collar balls like dudes. So I don't, you know, I'll make movie references that nobody gets, I'll make jokes that, you know, nobody laughs at but then I'll, you know, brand is more my tribe. Those people are more my tribe, the Corey and bourgeois who he's talking about, they're more my tribe. They know some movies that I don't think anybody else knows of. One of them is literally at VHS Fest right now. Yeah, he's, he's obsessed with VHS tips. So when I get to talk to them, yeah, it's like, Oh God, like thank you, like I can finally be who I want to be, I guess. Well, that kind of brings me to something I was curious about. And it's, I actually wrote it down because I don't want to forget about it. But I feel like when I was on social media, and even now I'm like, AIM, my space, like even before social media was like a big thing, I remember thinking like, Oh, this is a different part of myself that like people don't get to see. And I liked it for that reason, that there was like a part of me that for societal reasons or whatever reason I kind of kept to myself or only shared with very people that I knew very well, it was like I could just let that part of me out on the internet. And so I feel like with, okay, y'all know last time I compared y'all's relationships to 90 day fiance, and I love it. I love that show because I love like watching human beings. I really do. I love trying to figure out humans and it's so hard, but it's like, you know, who else loved watching human beings, Jeffrey Dahmer. I can relate. They're it fascinating, especially their inside. I want to know their muscle fibers. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Keep going. Oh, yeah, that would do well. But I guess it's like, there is a different part of you that you let out on the internet, but then, for instance, like these girls that I went to school with, they're like people that I know in real life, they like all of my stuff on Facebook back in the day, or they would comment on everything and then I would see them in real life and it would be like, hi, yes, or not even say hi at all. Right. It's like, okay. Yeah. So there's two different personnel, like entire personalities, I think in everyone. And so it makes me wonder sometimes like even seeing on 90 day fiance, these people were so compatible online and then the moment they were like in real life together, they didn't get along. And so it's like which version of you is actually the real version or can it be both? Well, so social media and the internet in general, especially when it used to be way more anonymous, you're able to curate whatever you want and which was it's kind of like, I get more confident just by strictly wearing sunglasses and that's probably a biological thing where like, you know, if you catch someone's eyes, that's like intimidating, but you have this digital mask between you and the other people and you control to a large degree, how other people see you. And some people by personality type are really witty writers and thinkers and they're not good conversationalists or, you know, it's a very different interaction. This is, okay, so this has happened when I have met people like brand my internet friends or people I've met on the podcast in real life and it's like, there's all this excitement and then you meet them and then there's like this sudden realization of like, oh, oh, it's like, oh, what if, wait, what are we, this is a different, this is really different. I met, so there's this guy Ben that is one of my co-hosts and I finally met him in real life and it kept tripping me out just seeing him in 3D because I had only known him from zoom. So I kept like circling around him and looking at his different angles. I'm like, this is so weird, dude. It's like you, but like a weird model of you. I don't know what's, I would, I don't know. I'd say both, but now algorithms are doing that curating for you. So it is really not you and the dude, it's so fake right now. Like I went through, I went through a divorce and made the very wise decision to keep that shit off of social media, like didn't, we didn't do the, you know, dragging through the mud thing. And when I would see people like, oh, how's this, oh, actually, we got divorced and they're like, oh, like everything looked so good and it's like, yeah, that's a, that was on purpose, you know, like so, like sitting here listening, you talk about this, I feel like I'm, I'm somewhere on the same goal, but I have same mentality, but I feel like as I was younger, I don't know if it was a confident saying or whatever, but I feel like I got very good at portraying who I wanted to be as I wanted to be. You only post your good photos. You only post your interests that are actually cool to other people. Now I'm on the internet. I don't care anymore. As long as I feel like I am very much so, whatever you see me posting on social media, Burke, you don't see any of it because you're weird and don't have it, but probably better. I feel like is exactly what you get at this point. I can think of an example of seeing happy, I want to be kidding. Seeing things posted and then talking to you and realizing, oh, there's some things going on. Yeah. Well, yes. Obviously I'm not going to be like my dog died on Facebook because that's not what else or whatever, but like I'm not hiding those interests that I would have used to like do it anymore. Yeah. My tiny little miniature paintings or model kits or yes that I'm overly obsessed with the IT crowd stuff like that. I don't care anymore, but yeah, because there's a community for there's there is a community for anything, any, any small thing. You're into like antique toenail clippers like there is a 10,000 member strong Facebook group for you. But oh crap. I was going to say something, but unless you had more questions, Brooke, I stumbled. What if I fall, I got to leave now that he started singing, you know, that song, right? That's a worship song, isn't it? What if I stumble, I ain't hard enough. Even if it's a coffee, I think that's all Emily knows, um, yeah, I, you know, now it's like we're not, we are not meant to what we're saying now. What I think is in this, so as an extrovert who thrives on relationships with people and I'm also very, I'm an empath, I'm a counselor, that's all I feel things very deeply. I feel extremely bad if I know someone doesn't like me or if I think someone doesn't like me, I have that weird neurosis where I have a thousand friends and I think nobody likes me. And I think I don't have. Oh my gosh, me too. Yes. And so... Why tell you one of you is right now? Yeah, I hate you. I hate you too. Please let me answer that. But so put that personality type into a culture and a device that literally links you up with every single person on the globe and it's, I can't, I drive myself insane trying to keep up with my different groups and relationships and it turns into big time FOMO and it's, it's an unwinnable game. I can't be one of the most involved people in every subculture group that I'm a part of. It's impossible. And it, I guess it's just my personality type that I, if I'm going to be in something I want to like be in it and I need to, I guess that's a big time flaw, I need to feel liked and all that. So and humans like we're only wired to be in groups of like 100, 120, 80 to 120 or something. We're not meant to be seeking the approval of 7 billion people. Like it's really doing a number on our psyches. Yeah, I need all one, or one thousand of the people that follow me on Instagram to love me deeply. I feel like Emily is the only person here that literally does not care if you like or not. Mm. That's true. That must be awesome. Well, it's so funny sometimes I don't care, but most of the time I care deeply. I think it's a good and a bad story though, because like sometimes I feel like I should be more empathetic and I will say I am naturally a very empathetic person and I will catch on to people. I'm very observant with people too. So when I'm around them, I can tell somebody's off or it's like I can, I mean, I'm not getting the energies or whatever because I'm not like crazy about that, but which, which, which. Um, but I can just like feel, you know, and if I get like a bad, the first time I get like a bad like, I don't know, like a bad feeling about something or someone. I'm like, I don't know about you, like I can, I don't trust you. And then I feel like that's when I put up like this wall and then people are like, God, she's a bitch. And I'm like, you know, I am a bitch. Well, there are the people out there that like one of my favorite people in all of college, she was the person and she didn't like you on the first moment. It wasn't like she was going to just be like, this person, she was immediately going to let you know. And it was a fascinating thing to watch. I watched her meet somebody once and she just goes, I don't like you and I don't think I ever will. So you should probably just stop talking. Is she the one that said, you know to me, if you were in Eastern North Carolina talking to girls there, you know, they call me, they call me Mr. Worldwide. All right. One of my buddies in college was obsessed with her. I mean, she was extremely attractive and I get the appeal, but maybe that's why. All right. Easy. Are you talking about Anya? No, Anya was very pretty too though. We, we, Brooke and I had nicknames for all the people that we slowly got to know in a class and what was it, Anya was like California fancy or something. I don't remember. I felt like Norwegian something. Yeah. That's right. We called her like Norwegian goddess because she was like a six foot two model. But this was just like decimated this dude who's like, she came over to his birthday party because I was there and we were friends of never anything more, which the other guy felt happy about, but she was, I will do anything for you at my party and she just cut him down. And I was just like, I don't know how people like you exist, but it just have the ability to just shut down people like that, like my desire would be to like, maybe not this time they're like, oh, but maybe the next time they'll be cool, but no, it was never cool. Yeah. See, I feel like I'm not like that. Like I will just like, if I get a bad feeling about somebody or from like, I don't, I don't think I liked them, I'll like try to steer clear of them because I probably would be the type that would end up being like, make a smarty remark or like, try to call them out on something, you know, and I try not to be rude or whatever. But I also feel like that's why I don't necessarily the older I've gotten. I don't feel like I, that's why I like social media is because, you know, like what you all said, like you have thousands of friends on there, half of them, if you seem in person, like they don't even like look in your direction or when they look up at you, they just keep walking and it's like, okay, bitch, I know you just commented on my picture. Yeah. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, and you don't want to say, hey, okay. And then that's why I'm like, all right, now we got fucking beef. Now we got problems. Or even recognizing a person off of social media, because they put such a good filter or filter. Yeah. Oh, dude. A friend, a friend of mine's friend commented on a post we had and she and I were talking like on Facebook and whatever messages at the time. And I was walking into class one day and I was talking to this person and it just was like walking to class two, we were just struck up a conversation because we were standing next to her. Sorry, Brooke. I've built I want to bring up a sort of our subjects since I didn't talk to you first time we met. But whatever, whatever, um, later in the day, I got a message from that person and they were said, so you just weren't going to acknowledge me. Oh, that's happened. Yeah, dude. That's happened to me. You. But like, I mean, again, she put forth her best photo on Facebook and stuff. And like it just the angle artists, the, yeah, some people are good at that and then I meet him, I'm like, holy shit, that is not good. This is me. Why did you have to like not whatever it was just weird and like I've encountered that a couple of times. Mm hmm. Very because it's very much so you see what they post on social media and what the image they want to be seen as versus what they might be in reality. It's very. Yeah. There, I have a bunch of, I say a bunch, there's, there's a decent amount of face like these people I know in real life, but we only talk on the internet and we actually have a decent rapport on the internet. But like, I don't, I don't, I don't anticipate myself ever hanging out with this person in real life ever, like it's probably never going to happen. Uh, and that's just, I think the nature of relationships is changing. I don't think it's good. I think it also has allowed, uh, you, you will say a whole lot. If you know, you can't get rocked in your shit, like you can't, you know, and I think people have gotten real comfy with that and, uh, God, people can be brutally mean. I, I, the last time I quit Facebook was because, and I, man, I used, um, maybe I do, um, I will start some ridiculous arguments on Facebook when I've been feeling zesty mainly about like Christianity or things like that. And man, this one guy, it was something about sleep token too, I think. And this dude, I, I, I got so mad at this guy and like, I couldn't win the, the comment war and I wanted to just go to lowest common denominator and be like, fuck you, I murdered your family. Like, you know, like, I'm so, I was so like it ruined my night. I, and Georgia was like, I think you talked about this, maybe. And, uh, yeah, and I, I deleted it because I was like, I can't, this is, I got it ruined this person never met in my entire life will never meet is inconsequential to me ruined my night. And I let this person ruin my night and like, that sucks. That's not good at all. Okay, but honestly, a lot of these things, y'all, y'all know I've been on social media for a while, but I do remember these same feelings when I had it, but also the same feelings in real life when I don't have it. Like, I had somebody recently who ruined like days of my life, like a weeks of my life because she pissed me off, like in real life. But, yeah, yeah, why are you hanging out with those people? I'm not, I don't, I'm forced to be around this person. Your husband? Yeah. Cameron? I mean, I think that's a given as husband, as far as husbands go because like my wife and my wife, yeah, I was like, you were the most annoying person. So yeah. Oh, yeah. Y'all are supposed to be so annoying, but, um, it's that. And then I think like the insecurity piece that we've all talked about a little bit minus Emily, but like, I still feel insecure in my life. I still feel like I'm not good enough. I still, and I don't know if it's because I had social media for so long, or because I feel like kind of weird because I don't have it. So I don't know what's happening in half the people's lives, but either side of the spectrum, like these are just human emotions. I just wonder if maybe social media magnifies them. Well, I would say the what upset me about it was that it wouldn't have happened if I didn't have social media. So this thing in my hand ruined my night, which in turn made Georgia's night worse. You know what I mean? And like that's where it's like, yeah, it's a frivolous thing that has now caused harm. So that was kind of like you said, you can't avoid that person. You can't help that. I could help this. You know what I mean? I think that's probably the difference and I would be completely off of it if I a didn't have a podcast, B didn't sell art and C have so many friends that I keep up with that way. I've done it to where I just keep messenger and I can keep up with the friends. But then I I my primary way I sell art is on Facebook and you can't really do a podcast well without social media promotion. So it's a kind of sucks that I'm stuck in a way and I have no discipline. I'm not disciplined with social media on my phone and compulsively checking it for no reason. Like going to the fridge when I know nothing's in it over and over and over. Well, a good thing where you check it, you doom scroll for all of 20 seconds, put it down, do whatever you're doing, like legitimately supposed to be doing for like a minute and then you know that time for anything new of work it's so look it is pure addiction. I mean it it it is doing exactly what it is designed to do and your brain is like, Oh, I want some dopamine. Oh, I want some dopamine. It's it's a straight up slot machine. And I hate it. I hate that I am aware of that and I still do it. At least you're aware that's the worst part about it. Yeah, I feel like it's worse. It's worse, but it's a step. You know, some people are so unaware. Yeah. And I think that's my big I talk about this all the time on our podcast, like I cannot stand a person who lacks total self-awareness. I think we are probably like because it's not and Jed, this isn't to call you out like hard drugs or alcohol or anything like that. We were actually like it could be a worse addiction and it's not that big of a deal. I'm just looking at pictures of puppies or video game plits. But when let me see, I'm going to call myself out. What is my screen? Oh, I've been awake for 15 and a half hours roughly today. Five of it has been on my phone. Oh, let's all check our screen time. Oh, God. How do you even do that? I swear. Why are we doing this? I don't like this game. Oh, wait. I figured it out. Okay. How do I know where to go? Okay. Wellness. What is it? So who wins? Is it the person with the highest and under the lowest? Oh, God. I think the lowest. I think Brooke is default. No. Okay. Well, she can't be in this. No, I don't think I am default winner. No. All right. What was yours, Brent? I thought I was in eight minutes. I'm going to last with I want to know. I spent three and a half or three hours and 15 minutes or three and a half hours on social media. Okay. Wait, wait. Okay. Nobody's told me where to go yet. Oh, just like pull down, pull down your search bar and type screen time, screen time. You wouldn't know about that, Jad. Yeah. I go to settings. Yeah, but when I go to screen time, it just says, understand how much time you spend on your devices, set limits on how long when apps can be used or you never look at it. I don't think so. Well, make it activate somehow. Well, how do I do that? Well, what is yours, bro? Six hours and 10 minutes. Okay. I am. Oh, wait. Hold on. Oh, there we go. What was your most six hours and 10 minutes? What was your most used thing actually messages, two hours and 30 minutes on messages. Wow. Wow. Yeah. I talked to so many people, but I don't know who. I don't know. Maybe I just leave my phone open a lot. All right, you guys. I've got zero minutes. Oh, it just started probably. We'll come back around to you tomorrow. I have got seven hours and 46 minutes. That's not bad. Four hours on social, but an hour and 40 is on Spotify and an hour and 40 is on YouTube. So those were music and hour on messages, but yeah, four hours on social. I will say sometimes it gets skewed because if you do like navigation with Google Maps or something, it'll do that, but I didn't travel the day. My weekly average is seven hours and 57 minutes. Ooh. I did it for multiple people. Yeah. And so out of 12 hours in a day, that's how long that sucks, dude. I'm actually with my weekly average, which is four hours and one minute. Damn, dude. That's not bad at all. It's up 78% from last week. Well, okay. It's like Tuesday was outrageous for me. What? That can't be right. Tuesday was 14 hours and 51 minutes. Something messed up there. You watched something on Netflix. Something doesn't. Don't try to make excuses. You're thunder. Deets. That's impossible. Well. What is it? The graph says it right there. Yeah. What did I do with Tuesday? I don't know. That's crazy. But honestly, I mean. I think, Brant, you're right, that it is kind of an addiction. Oh, that's weird. There's no kind of. It definitely is. A hundred percent. It is. Well, I mean, think about it. Like, Jed, you can probably speak more to why people do drugs, right? But basically, we know that it's because, or at least I think I do, I probably sound so ignorant, but it's to escape your world for a little bit, right? Like, it's to kind of get out of your head, get out of your body, and like, go away from all of it for a minute. And I think that's exactly what social media does. Not just social media. I think when it was on computers, it was, there was a little bit more of a balance, but especially like a family shared computer. Yeah. But now that it's like, you know, you remember those? Oh, yeah. Well, it has to do some work. You need to get off the computer. But now that we haven't in our pocket, it's like we have this unending. You know, supply. Yes, a never ending supply of. So yes, escape, yes, is what it used to be and still is. But now, I mean, these apps are, and TikTok is the, is the pinnacle. They are designed by psychologists to be the most addictive things possible. Like it's what I can agree with that because I'm addicted to TikTok. Oh, they have figured they have figured it out exactly how to make it the most addictive thing in the world. Well, not every social media platform has that because Instagram has real YouTube has YouTube shorts. Like I pride myself on not being on social media, but I will get sucked into YouTube in a heartbeat because when you open YouTube, it goes directly to the shorts and then you get lost and forget what you were going to YouTube for because it's never ending. And eventually what's coming down the pipe is going to be custom curated, infinite regenerative entertainment for every individual person like with AI. So you will eventually have a device and you it. So at first you can just be like, I would like to watch Star Wars with my buddy, Brant, playing Luke Skywalker and it will deep fake Brant into Luke Skywalker and the algorithm will learn for that. And eventually it will just start customizing what it knows you like and will funnel that into you liking what it is telling you to like and you will have an infinite scroll box that will never run out of it or it's it is coming down the pipe like I mean, it already is. I mean, it already is. You can see like I see so many the AI accounts on Instagram are I'm starting to see way more I'm starting to see people sharing AI pictures without realizing their AI pictures. There's, you know, I've we've all if you spent any amount of time on social media at some point you have probably interacted with a bot posing as a person. I mean, it's it's here and it's only going to get crazier. No, Jett, I'm convinced they're real women who want right local singles, bro. There are local singles in that area. Are you saying that the pink dolphin isn't real? The pink dolphin. No, they're there are pink dolphins. Don't mess them here. I'm not messed. That's a real thing. That is true. That there are pink porpoises, I believe. Are you being for real? Real legit, legit. Okay. So that might have been a real photo. Yeah, probably it was. I don't believe it. Okay. Listen, believe it. Nothing's real anymore. Believe it system. Yeah. You know, it's more creepy to me, though. Deep fix. I don't know if y'all saw the movie fall guy, but that's a plot point. Yes. You should watch that movie. What's a deep fake? A deep. Someone's like face over something else. Yes. So, like, getting an incriminating video and then putting Jed's face over it so that we get him arrested. Oh, that's terrible. See, that's also what I'm terrified of, like people can frame other people. Yeah. There's videos of, like, politicians all over the place doing terrible things. Well, and it's happened. I mean, I talked about it. This principle got fired because somebody. Oh, yeah. It was changed. Well, yeah. Somebody released audio recording of him saying some, like, horribly racist shit and turned out it was the coach who didn't like him who used an AI voice cloner to make him say whatever he wanted and he sent it to a high school student who shared it on TikTok and there you go and he got fired, but he got caught and he got arrested. But yeah, that's happening. There was a scam that's still going on, but these people were getting video calls from their children saying, like, Hey, I'm kidnapped. Can you send me ransom money? And it was all fake. Like it was not their children, but it was deep faked video and you target the right old people. Right. And they don't. Yeah. They do not know better. Good thing they didn't do that to my family, my own, but like, you can keep her. Right. I'll see you in a way you'll put your back. Yeah, so social social media is, I don't know my something's it's I don't know I'm scared for the future or we are like going to reach a pinnacle of awfulness and there'll be some kind of reset. I don't know. I don't have much faith that that'll happen. That's the optimistic take though. So do you think like the relationship you you and Brant have? I mean, this is going to just be an era that's over. You think maybe not like y'all's friendship, but like, okay, think back to AIM. Those kids will never know what that's like, right, right. It's always going to I mean, yeah, that specific thing won't exist. But you know, there are things that are evolving like discord is becoming more popular telegram and WhatsApp and I'm probably aging myself here, but there, you know, there's just going to be new things. I do. I mean, Brant works with younger people too in a different capacity, but the kids I work with, it's like, dude, they're yeah, it has not done well for their social skills at all. Oh, then you add in like COVID and then oh, yeah, yeah, like even like my niece. She's 17, but I'm just graduated high school. She's been friends with this dude for like four years on social media. He lives in Pennsylvania. She lives in the middle of nowhere, North Carolina. And they've been dating for years and just met him for the first time over the past year. And like that concept, like the idea that like a teenager doesn't have to approach the cute girl in the hallway and be like, hand her a note and says, will you go out on a date with me? Yes or no, whatever kind of thing. Oh, man. Check. This doesn't exist anymore. Don't forget to add. I always added maybe. Yeah. No. So let them write maybe and they put it in a heart. Mm hmm. God. Yeah, that's, you know, but you know, then again, every generation probably says the same thing. So they have their own version of that, but I, I, but the exposure they are, the stuff they are getting exposed to exactly is unreal. The worst thing we had was like rotten.com and like, well, and you had to seek that out. Right. Right. Right. That's fine. You. And now these things are in your face, dude. Like I was just scrolling the other day and there's a GM influencer who calls people out and I like it. Dr. Mike. It's not ever Mike. It's Joey something. Okay. Joey's full. Yes. Yes. And like he was calling out this 19 year old girl for doing ludacs and public areas around children, just the idea that my almost three year old and one year old are going to have that stuff exposed to them bodies and minds can even comprehend what's going on. That infuriates me. And it's almost an impossibility to keep them away from that. Like I wish, you know, I think our, I think Jen Alpha, I think we are going to shift that because every parent I've talked to right now with, with that age children, we all kind of have the same mindset where we're like, yo, fuck all that. Like we need to, you are not going to, you are not getting a cell phone. You are not, you know, it's like we're, we're, yeah. So I have some hope for, for Jen Alpha also sounds so bad ass. I'm kind of jealous. They're going to be so mean and I'm so excited. You think? Yes. I think we got it. Okay. We've talked about this last time on your podcast about the pendulum and how it swings. But think about like us, our age group growing up and like we were pretty ruthless. We were pretty mean kids and I think that's what maybe made the next generation so like overly sensitive and this generation coming up is just going to look at them and be like, we don't want to be like y'all just like the generation before them. We don't want to be like y'all like every generation doesn't want to be like the generation before them. So these Jen alpha kids are going to come in and just, I think they're going to be so mean. It's going to be funny. Absolutely. Bring back bully. Please. It does character. Absolutely. It certainly does. It certainly does. I tell you what. It's literally my entire marriage being bullied. It's like why I'm in love. I mean, you, in high school, you, you, you thought long and hard before you wore that t-shirt around your friends. All right. I mean, that may have defined you for the rest of the year, like, oh, here comes flannel Fred, like you idiot even the quote, unquote popular people were like not immune to that kind of stuff back in the day. Oh, no. Yeah. Everybody could get it. Yeah. It was great. It was the best thing in the world. Right. Princess Brooke. That's right. We all had to deal with it. Except for you. Oh, yeah, you were like Regina, huh? No, I was not. No, I was not. I was not. I was only Nicholas Sparks's family and, you know, new royal to me, you know, like kind of stuff. She was just cool. Is that a, is that a true fact? What? Nicholas Sparks, you know him. Yeah. I spent the night at his house. Told you. The notebook about you. Yeah. Yes. It is. And Brooklyn's 15 for inspired. Are you the fault in our stars? Wait, was that right? That. Oh, dang it. What else did he write? Oh gosh, what else? A walk to remember? Oh, that's it. Are you man. You're Mandy Moore. Yes. That's why I have a butterfly tattoo. Did. You were 15 when you spent the, can I, are we canceling Nicholas Sparks now? Is this a, is this a hashtag me two things going on? No, his son, his son was my friend and we stayed there after prom. Oh, okay. He's writing a book called the bridge over broke. That's so. Oh, no. You're up. That's so funny. No, no. I bet. But anyway. Nicholas Sparks were flying that night. Well, if you want to know a funny story about Nicholas Sparks at his son's wedding, I was at his table. I was sitting like two seats away from Nicholas Sparks and wasn't joking here, Jud. I know. Okay, but this is, listen, I'm, I'm humble because of things like this. So I had a, they had like these beautiful play settings and they had like an egg. Have you ever seen like the UK egg cups? Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. So they had like a golden egg cup and like a beautiful like white egg in it. And I felt it. And I was like, this isn't an actual egg. It felt like chocolate. And so I took a straight up bite out of the egg and it was, it was so, it was so, oh my God. Oh my God. Why? Why did you put soap on this plate? No, you do. Did it not smell like soap? Did you, did you give it the old, you didn't give it the old lick test before you just dove in. Good. I said, Oh my God, this has to be white chocolate and I hope you just committed and ate the rest of it. Like you got to double down at that point. No, I've almost threw out. It was terrible. And Nicholas Sparks was like, get out of my wedding. I don't know if you discussed me. You discussed me. Um, dang, that's crazy. Yeah, man. I went to college with Tom Cruise's son. Oh, yeah, but that one hang there for a minute. Yeah. His name was, his name was, uh, Geronimo Cruz. Oh, that's pretty heavy. His name was Chevy. That's right. Chevy Cruz. All right. That was a good one. Very good. Very good. Chevy Cruz, right. At least he told me he was Tom Cruise's son. My cousin is quite literally in the Major League Hall of Fame, because I count Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. Because do you hear that brook? It's the, the sound of nobody giving a shit, Brian. Hey, you were the first name I'd take care after it. It better be like Rex Manning. What is it? Gaylord Perry. Oh, that's man. Why were his parents that mean? Actually, his mom was the nicest lady I went away. Why would they? Why would you do that? Why would you do that? But he's got an autobiography called Me and the Spitter. Oh, my God, dude. Yeah, it's yeah. People named Gaylord, you either like, you're either the coolest person in the world or like it ruins you. I think there's no. Yeah, it's a make or break thing. It is a make or break thing. Like I said, Major League Hall of Fame, Sy Young Award, so I made it. Wow. His name's Gaylord Coltrane. Perry. Perry. I would go by Perry if I was him. Pair Bear is what they would call me. It's like the person from Williamson that did anything special. Yeah. Otherwise, I'd call him gay pair. His brothers are gay. Gay pair. Yeah, I'd be like, it's gay pair. It's French. It's called G-H-E-Y. Wait, is it really? No. Okay. Wow. It's spelled like the homo gay. Yeah, there we go. Thank you. Thanks for clearing that up. Well, I guess to, I mean, to summarize everything we've talked about, it's been a lot. But I think... Don't make friends on the internet. Y'all got to make friends on the internet when the internet was still like halfway good. But you all agree that the internet is like not a real place anymore. And we don't want our children on it. Correct. It's funny. You actually said that when we're talking about Instagram and seeing stuff, whenever my daughter, 'cause she does this cute little hand flick thing to scroll on a phone. 'Cause I guess she's us doing it. If she somehow opens up Instagram or even my son, I'm like, no, no, no, no, no. Just in the event that one of the terrible things that I come across pops up. Yeah. Jed, I know you probably have a similar algorithm. Oh, yes. Yes. Did it. Oh, yeah. That's a... We'll go down separate rabbit holes. Whereas... Yeah. Really? Yeah. Just pink dolphins. I know. That was a horrible silence. Listen. Yeah. I thought the pink dolphins really wasn't the real thing, just to clarify. But if y'all keep... That whole thing is a joke still. I really need somebody to confirm or not confirm it, if it's real. No. I promise you, pink dolphins are a real thing. Yeah. I promise. I was a science teacher. I still can't believe y'all. I think y'all are lying. That's true. And the name in Google it, because AI is ruining the internet and it's gonna pull up one. I think it makes a long distance internet friend and have them confirm it to you. Yeah. These are the real friends. Okay. Dead? Mm-hmm. Yep. Pink dolphins are not real, they can't hurt you. They are called the Amazon River Dolphin. Also known as the Boto, Bufio, or Pink River Dolphin, is a toothed whale, native to South America. Medium-sized dolphin with long beaks, stocky bodies, and prominent foreheads. There you go. Oh. I'm related. Oh, they're known to be shy. But they are drawn to people and play curiously with local children. Sounds a little suspect to me. No pedophiles. They're the pedophiles of the ocean. Big dolphins are hanging around playgrounds and stuff. Seriously. Okay. I need some shrimp. Yeah. I need to go be a father apparently. Oh, that's lame. That baby seems to be in bed. It's ten o'clock. I know. Okay. Well, we'll wrap it up. Guys, thank you so much for coming on. This is fun. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you for having us. It was a blast. Yeah. I guess we learned some valuable lessons today. We know that internet friends are not always good, but at the end of the day, if you make a connection with somebody in the real world or online and it's a real human online, then it still can be a blessing even if it comes from a horrible place. True. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you guys for coming on and telling us about your experience online. Yeah. The next time we can talk about these weird things. Yes. Absolutely. We'll get real. This is just a warm up. Real weird with it and listen to church and other drugs. Yes. Yes. So everybody definitely got a little bit of a taste today of church and other drugs, but this is Jed 24/7. He is exactly the same on his own podcast as he is here, except he doesn't edit. And we do. So if you want the full, if you want like a full frontal of Jed pain, go to church and other drugs and listen to him. Me and Brant did an episode up there not long ago and that was fun. So I'm just doing another one where you'll ask drug questions. We will do that. Yeah. We have to do that. I'm doing a taste testing. Yes. Yeah. It's going to be great. It's going to be great. And I'll smell them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, well, Jed, where else can people find you that that's the, uh, my, the Instagram is Jed.i.am go look at my art. Oh, yeah, Jed's a great artist. Oh, stop. Brant's a good artist too. He does Gundam models and little miniature paintings. Yes. Yeah, they're really good. Well, Emily's really great at making hats, um, honestly. So she's going to start an online hat store one day, but, uh, Brant, do you have a special page to send people to? Yeah. Synagogues and other said it is that was very good. Did you just come up with that? Yes. That was very good. You haven't had that one in the pipe? No. Okay. Oh, I got, that's a good one. I got to remember that. I want to. Sorry. I'm sorry. Yeah. If there wasn't a war in Israel, I would make sure to say that. Okay. Temples and other. I lost that. Yeah, it's probably going to be very hard to do it without offending, uh, the only religion you're allowed to make fun of these days is Christianity. No, I don't have anything, but I'm like the only brand culture and on the internet. So that's got to count for something, I guess. Uh, well, people definitely look up brand, train with a Nerf gun, um, that's right. Jimmy Campbell. Yep. That's true. That is, that is. Yeah. My mom was like, shot her in the face. The gun. Yeah. That was incredible. Yeah. All right. All right. Well, thank you for knowing. I'm going to be. Tonight, you paint the sky with the colorful state of your heart with your heart, with your heart. They can never tear us apart from the bright to the dark of the colorful state of your heart. Does it hurt when their eyes discover you? Does the breath or the divide care through? The light of the sun is shining in the sky. 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