Hindsight: Recent Episodes
John Kalu
Just like hindsight gives you a different perspective on a situation, I'm here to offer a different perspective on anything and everything society and culture has to offer all while telling some fun stories along the way! Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/john-kalu/support
Yay! I finally finished Euphoria after 2 years of saying I was going to watch it. In reality, I was just playing the long-con and was waiting for season 2 to come out, even though after it came out it still took me months to watch it. But either way here's my creative review of the show, it's more like an audio essay if you will.
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Well, I'm back in town, and oh boy am I glad to be! It's been a minute since I've done a story-based episode but this trip and these experiences warranted one more than anything else so here you go!
“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience” – John Locke
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While perhaps I may not be the best person to give you relationship advice, I would like to pose the argument that I can give you personal advice and wisdom that could translate well into your relationship. But of course, advice is like a buffet, take what you want and leave what you don't...
"Continue to share your heart with people even if it has been broken." - Amy Poehler
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So if you ever thought that some of these philosophical questions episodes can get really depressing well then you are in for a real treat with this one!
"What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?" - George Eliot
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This is going to be the deepest dive of all deep dives that has ever been dived on this podcast, and I am more than excited for you guys to hear it! Will it take some time? Yes, it will. Will I still upload parts as I work on them and not wait to complete the whole thing first? Uhhhh, maybe...
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And we start again! Of course, this episode is a day late because things never seem to go as planned, but what's most important is that the episode came out in the end, so as always, enjoy!
"Don't go through life, grow through life." - Eric Butterworth
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Hindsight is back baby! Yeah, I know, I've been gone for a minute but I explain everything in this episode and I also talk about what's to come for the future because there is some really cool stuff coming up that I'm really excited for and I can't wait for it all to get started so stay tuned!
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I’m not sure which is a worse outcome, working really hard only to find out, in the end, there is nothing, or working really hard a certain way only to find out that way was wrong…
"I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions." - Karen Armstrong
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This movie had everything it needed to be a great movie. A star-studded cast, an interesting premise, and it was supposed to be funny, what more could you ask for? And I for one can say that this movie most definitely delivered on all fronts!
"Climate change knows no borders. It will not stop before the Pacific islands and the whole of the international community here has to shoulder a responsibility to bring about a sustainable development." - Angela Merkel
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Well, this was quite the way to start off the new year but hey we press on, Hindsight Season 2 baby!
"If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor." - Eleanor Roosevelt
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And that concludes season one of the Hindsight podcast! I honestly can’t even believe that there have been 365 episodes this year and I can’t believe the reception that the podcast has gotten over this inaugural season. If you liked this season or at least what the season ended up becoming then I got some great news for you, next season is going to be even better! Happy New Year!
"We do not remember days, we remember moments." - Cesare Pavese
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Another case of me saying that this won’t be a long episode and then the episode becoming a little bit long but hey, it’s not too long. Either way, we’re talking season 2 changes and there are some big ones coming up in the following year that I’m excited for and hopefully you will also be excited for. As always, I appreciate every single one of you!
"Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love." - Mother Teresa
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In the spirit of the end of the year wrap up stuff, I figured that movie talk lent itself best for an episode of that format talking about some of the best and some of the worst pieces of entertainment that I’ve consumed this year.
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett
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The final deep dive of season 1 of the Hindsight podcast has officially landed! It’s been an insane year of deep dives, even though deep dive has only been around for a few months, but season 2 has so much more in store so stay tuned!
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana
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When asked why are there any more of this one thing if this other thing evolved from the original thing, then you just say well this thing is just a branch of that thing so therefore both things can exist without one thing having to replace the original thing. Hope that makes sense!
"The point of human evolution is adapting to circumstance. Not letting go of the old, but adapting it, is necessary." - Sonali Bendre
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Do I overthink the simple things way too much? Of course I do! But that’s what makes me who I am and that’s what makes the podcast what it is so you’re going to have to allow it…
"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives." - Jackie Robinson
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Finally, an episode that I said will be really short that is actually really short! Either way, I hope you have an amazing Christmas and I will see you guys tomorrow with another episode!
"Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling." - Edna Ferber
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Can you believe it? We are actually about to be done with this year and with that be done with the first season of the podcast and just saying “the first season” sounds crazy since I never really expected to do this for more than a year when I started out. As always, a huge thanks to everyone that has listened to even just one episode, you have made this one insane experience!
"This is going to be a short episode." - John Kalu at the beginning of a 45 minute episode
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If you haven’t seen the movie yet and want to watch it without knowing anything then DON’T LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE! Just come back after you’ve seen it and then we can chat about it :)
"Don't forget to use your spidey tingle!" - Aunt May
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Oh boy what a movie this was! This is the spoiler free movie talk for Spider-Man No Way Home, needless to say it was an incredible movie, of course there is always my Spider-Man bias, but I think anyone who has seen the movie can agree. For those who have seen the movie, tomorrow we’re getting into spoilers because there is so much more that I want to talk about!
"With great power, comes great responsibility" - Uncle Ben
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You know that money isn’t going to solve your problems when even one of the richest rappers alive, Jay-Z, still has 99 problems…
"Real riches are the riches possessed inside." - B. C. Forbes
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There’s always so much to do in Atlanta if you come here as a tourist besides dodging the infinite amount of potholes and sitting in infinite amounts of traffic if you decide to go anywhere beyond 2 miles…
"Atlanta is not the South." - Pimp C
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Second to last deep dive of the year and the second holiday related deep dive and this one actually came out before the holiday that’s being discussed takes place! As always I hope you enjoy a different perspective and some insight into the holiday that is Christmas!
"Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values." - Thomas S. Monson
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The year is coming to a close and of course there are certain things that I set out to have completed by the end of the year and in order to do that, there has to be a bit of a reshuffling to the schedule, but trust me, it’s all for a good reason
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Hey Hindsight listeners, Gossip Girl here! A little birdie just told me that the reboot of my show was not something to look forward to, but you know what I think? Whoever said that is a bum who has to borrow money from their grandparents - XOXO Gossip Girl
"Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for." - Marian Wright Edelman
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The way I see it, it’s always best to leave last year's business in that year, so it’s time to knock out all of the things still lingering from 2021 so we can hop into 2022 with open bags.
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other." - Abraham Lincoln
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You ever wonder what would’ve happened if you did or didn’t do that one thing and how different your life would be? Well if we were able to peer into parallel universes we would have our answer…
"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." - Eden Phillpotts
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And with that, the deep dive into the extreme side of politics is completed! As always, I hope you guys enjoyed both parts of this deep dive and of course there’s another one coming soon so you have that to look forward to!
"Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues." - George Will
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As promised because I am a man of my word we have part one of this two-part deep dive, and with this one being about the far-left, I’m sure you can take a guess as to what part two is going to be about… Either way, as always, I hope you enjoy it!
A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant, and respectful. - Charles W. Pickering
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To save you the three minutes you would have to spend to listen to this, the smoke alarms have been fixed but it had to be done after I got back from work at 1 AM and resulted in me not getting done fixing them until around 7 AM, but now that they are all fixed and it's my day off, I can record both of the deep dive episodes so the first one will be out tomorrow morning!
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If you don’t laugh about it, you’ll cry about it…
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Every now and then it’s always a good idea to pause and take an in-depth analysis of where you are in life and how you’re doing, and of course in true Johnny K fashion, we have to make a program to do that! Could this be there start of a new series??
"Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with." - Adam Ant
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I think we can all agree that award shows kind of suck in general and in a sense are somewhat pointless since they ignore the main part of what makes these artists and movies what they are, the fans…
"Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort." - John Ruskin
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What we call order is just the human condition of always wanting to find a pattern in things that have no pattern, there is no pattern in the universe, it’s only chaos, fully random chaos…
"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos." - Stephen Sondheim
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You want to know the easiest way to know that you’re in the good old days before they’re gone? Simple, if you’re currently alive, these days will eventually become the good old days so appreciate them while they are around before you regret not doing the things you wanted to while you had the chance.
"Some memories are unforgettable, remaining ever vivid and heartwarming!" - Joseph B. Wirthlin
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Well I’m not sure what you expected but this episode is pretty much me gushing about Arcane for about 20 minutes so if you didn’t like the show you’re going to hate this episode but I don’t think there is a single person on the face of the planet that has watched Arcane and didn’t like it…
"TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains." - Peggy Noonan
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This is technically the last state of the podcast address of the year until we do the entire year in review, crazy to think we’ve already gotten to this point. As always thank you to everyone that has listened to even just one episode this past month, it’s you guys that have made this month so incredible!
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A situation that hits close home and has seemingly gone undiscussed for a while now as the American population is focused on other matters seemingly more pressing, but this is an epidemic that has taken the lives of millions and continues to do so in terrifying fashion.
"No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions." - Patrick J. Kennedy
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Forrest Gump said that life is like a box of chocolate, well I will do you one better, the universe is like a bowl of cereal!
"The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Besides the audio program holding me back from being able to export my audio yesterday, there are some other things that I think I fail to admit to myself that are hindering me from doing the things that I want to do… let’s talk about it!
"The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement." - Helmut Schmidt
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If Ic an figure out how to get the audio to export then this episode will get deleted and replaced with the real episode but until then, you can enjoy my angrily explaining the problem...
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I think this should be pretty obvious without anyone having to be told but apparently not so I will say it, running from the police is probably the worst option out of all the options you have when you’re about to get pulled over…
"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe." - Frank Zappa
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Well, I guess I can say at least they gave it a shot and the shot may have missed but it still hit the rim and did a little toilet bowl around there a couple of times before it ultimately came back out so yeah, it’s still a miss but you know that whoever took the shot still shows some potential!
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." - George Bernard Shaw
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Well I guess the title is pretty self explanatory, pretty unfortunate situation…
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Just like the character himself, this show got no love in terms of promotion and getting the word out to people, especially when compared to the other Disney Marvel shows that have come out this year, but hey, that’s not going to stop me from giving it a fair shot! (Pun intended)
"Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything." - Wyatt Earp
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Im typing this with my eyes half open as I descend into a food coma so deep, I don’t think that I will arise until next Thanksgiving. Tell my people they were good to me and I’m sorry, but this is the only option…
"You don't need a silver fork to eat good food." - Paul Prudhomme
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It’s Thanksgiving so that means it’s time to take this day off and catch up on some much needed rest, unless you don’t live in America in which case today is an absolutely normal Thursday and to you folk, happy Thursday!
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At this point is there even any surprise that a question about time came up and then I go on a long semi-confusing rant about the complexities and of the unimaginable concept that is time itself…
"Time moves in one direction, memory in another." - William Gibson
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Of course I was going to have to compare this movie to Superbad because it is practically the same movie but pulled into the modern era with all the things the modern era brings with it in terms of being a high schooler, these aren’t bad things though!
"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child." - George Santayana
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Everyone at some point has to realize that they exist and at some point, they won’t anymore and it’s impossible to fathom what it’s like to no longer exist but to have once existed, and that terrifies me…
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And with that, you now have the full Thanksgiving story from the perspective of both sides. Perhaps it’s what you expected, perhaps this is all brand new to you, perhaps the actual truth is surprising because even it is different from what people who say thanksgiving is a dark holiday say that it is, either way, hope you enjoy!
"I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual." - Henry David Thoreau
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Thanksgiving is just around the corner so of course you know we have to talk about what actually went down that got this whole thing started, and in order to do the story justice and make it make sense, I figured it was best to talk about from the perspectives of both groups involved, so you’re not going to want to miss tomorrows deep dive coming from the perspective of the Native Americans!
"Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is no coincidence." - Erma Bombeck
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If you take Kill Bill but make it a true comedy with less foot fetish stuff, an all black cast, and a fire soundtrack and you pretty much have this movie, and honestly, that’s a great thing! Also, cowboys!
"No man should have cowboys boots in his wardrobe. That's fair enough, isn't it? Unless you're a cowboy, of course." - Paul Weller
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While yes we can talk about whether you believe he is guilty or not but that isn’t the focus here, I’m talking about everything else surrounding the situation that in my opinion is making this whole thing just so much worse…
"There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice." - Montesquieu
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Think about this, if someone were to go back in time in the future then we would know about it in the present because our present would be their past, so in theory, the fact that we haven’t met anyone from the future could dictate that it will never happen…
"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow." - Edward Teller
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Fun fact, you can spell clone wars entirely using the atomic symbols from the periodic table, [ Cl ][ O ][ Ne ][ W ][ Ar ][ S ]
"Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected." - William Plomer
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I think this episode shows that first impressions can really be kind of deceiving…
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." - Buddha
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Deep Dive has finally made it's return since I royally messed up scheduling the episode last week, but hey, it isn't last week anymore, it's this week so enjoy this one, it's a little bit different than the other ones so far!
"Yo who wrote this?? Well, I know I did but still..." - John Kalu
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My verdict: Think of a movie that has The Rock and Ryan Reynolds paired up together and imagine what that would be like… There, now you’ve essentially seen this movie…
"We do not remember days, we remember moments." - Cesare Pavese
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While it may seem that drugs and programming have nothing in common but you would be wrong because they have at least one thing in common, me…
"In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice." - Marquis de Sade
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The description is supposed to sum up the episode and I think the quote sums it up best…
"Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised." - Ben Jonson
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What is real, or what could be considered as reality, is defined by what said reality and the observer of that reality are made up of. If the observer and the reality being observed are made up of the same things and the observer exists within it, then that reality is real but it can only be determined as real by the observer. This is my reality hypothesis, sounds smart, but is probably really dumb!
"We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality." - Iris Murdoch
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Well, I finally delivered on something that I said I would deliver one, what are the odds of that? Although, after watching the movie I feel like it was more so punishment for not delivering on all the other things that I said I would deliver on…
"There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment." - Hunter S. Thompson
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I know, I know, just listen to the episode, I explain everything…
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If you’re reading this that means I didn’t get the deep dive done in time and I’m just letting you know, but I’m also letting you know that it will be out soon so be on the lookout!
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I said a while back that I really wanted to watch Army of the Dead but then this prequel was going to come out so I was going to wait so I could watch everything in order, and if you really think about it, that’s a once in a lifetime opportunity, because everyone who watched the first movie when it came out will never be able to authentically do that.
"Opportunity makes a thief." - Francis Bacon
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There’s nothing scarier than trying to figure out what to put as the description and not knowing how to properly discuss the things talked about in the episode in a fashion that draws the interest of people…
"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it." - Salvador Dali
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Stress (noun) - a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances.
Ex: "Wow, John is looking like he's under a lot of stress!"
"Enjoy the pressure. Enjoy the stress. Enjoy being uncomfortable. And don't shy away from it, embrace it." - Gary Woodland
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Have you ever considered that perhaps our brains and who we are as individuals are two separate entities, and the entity that is us are not the ones who are truly in control?
"That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain." - Fred Durst
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Everyone fears the dystopian future we see in the movies, but have we ever considered that perhaps that future we fear is already upon us but we fail to notice it because, in reality, a dystopian future would just be normal life…
"I think dystopian futures are also a reflection of current fears." - Lauren Oliver
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… for movies at least…
"Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world." - Jean-Luc Godard
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Welp after spending several hours working on an episode only to realize that it wasn’t going to work, I had to resign to pushing the SotPA a week earlier, but this does mean that November has 4 Sundays worth of things to come!
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Although this movie is old enough to be able to get a driver's license and practically everyone has seen it, I’m not one of those people, so in this episode, we’re venturing into the land of the dead!
"If I touch a burning candle, I can feel no pain. In the ice or in the sun, it's all the same. Yet I feel my heart is aching." - Emily (Corpse Bride)
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The Tales From series returns with an episode that I probably should’ve done a long time ago seeing how I’ve done episodes on the other fast food places that I’ve worked but for some reason I’ve never done one on the very first job I ever had, well all of that changes today!
"Simply enjoy life and the great pleasures that come with it." - Karolina Kurkova
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Self-Made - adj; having become successful or rich by one's own efforts.
History: "Self-made man" is a classic phrase coined on February 2, 1842 by Henry Clay in the United States Senate, to describe individuals whose success lay within the individuals themselves, not with outside conditions.
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And just like that we have made 300 episodes of the Hindsight podcast! What a journey these 300 episodes have been, of course there is still 65 more episodes to come in season 1 and I think it’s official at this point that there will also at least be a season 2 so there are plenty of episodes on the way!
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Typical stream of thought for me, in thirty minutes, I go from talking about accidents and freight truck engines to the philosophy of politics...
"No one really wants change, they just want a return to how things were when they were happy, and that is impossible." - John Kalu
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What’s scary than a kid that is possessed by a demon or ghosts, a kid who hasn’t been trained on how to handle themselves in public…
"Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you." - Robert Fulghum
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I think that the level of self-criticism that we have is outrageous as we set unachievable goals for ourselves and then we beat ourselves up for missing them or the bigger problem is that we fail to remember our wins whenever we face losses. I think that both are just as important as both offer us a valuable lesson. In victory, we learn what to do and in defeat, we learn what not to do, at the same time we have to analyze our victories for possible shortcomings, we also have to analyze our losses for things done well and then work on the things that we need to work on without diminishing the things that we succeeded at.
"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure." - George Edward Woodberry
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So I’m somewhat breaking the rules of the October First Impressions episodes by watching Dune, but c’mon, it’s freaking Dune!
"Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic." - Frank Herbert, 'Dune'.
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I present to you the conclusion of the legendary infamous Savannah trip where now that we know what happened, we can talk about the fallout of said thing happening…
"Friends are the siblings God never gave us." - Mencius
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The interesting thing about time is that when it comes to the past you can jump through it without anyone noticing, well as long as it blends well…
"Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers." - Voltaire
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If you’re reading this then that means the internet is working again because, for the first time in the 6 years of having Xfinity, the internet has been down for almost 15 hours, man, that Halloween curse is just relentless this year…
"Yo, why is YouTube not loading!?!" - John Kalu
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Everyone knows at this point that I do love a good animated movie as well as how much I think animated movies are better than live action movies in many ways and many of those ways lends to animated movies making the perfect medium for horror.
"It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude." - H. P. Lovecraft
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Well I guess I kind of saw this one coming since I said that I wasn’t doing anything for Halloween now the curse is trying to simply ruin my entire month of October and it seems to be specifically targeting my podcast…
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Long-time listeners of the podcast would know all about my Halloween curse, and by long-time listeners, I mean extremely long-time listeners, the first time I mentioned this was 284 episodes ago in the “How Not to Hide a Dead Body” episode, how time flies…
"If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it." - John Irving
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While this was supposed to be a simple first impressions review of a movie that I’ve heard great things about, it ended up becoming a long-winded discussion on what is and isn’t gaslighting… and honestly, I still don’t know…
"The difference between a cult and a religion, of course, lies in extremity." - Benjamin Wittes
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At long last, after vaguely referencing this story several times throughout this year, I can finally tell you the tale of the infamous Savannah Trip of 2020, and as you can tell by the length, and even with that length there is still a part 1 in the title, that this is a spicy one…
"Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read." - Athenaeus
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This is all you need to know
"The greatest power is not money power, but political power." - Walter Annenberg
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If you really think about it, everything is just a construct of humans because we can only acknowledge things by first existing, therefore in theory, if we don’t exist nothing exists, thus, everything is just a construct…
"Perception is reality." - Lee Atwater
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Found footage movies are kind of my guilty pleasure because it seems that the majority of people hate them but I think that’s due to some activity that may or may not have been paranormal…
"I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians." - Francis Ford Coppola
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Well, we all knew this was coming, I put that project off for way too long only to find out when I started working that I was doing the entire thing wrong and I got that information two days before it was due, so now you can enjoy my panic as the realization sets in that I'm not going to get this thing done...
"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday." - Don Marquis
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Yeah this isn't Hindsight Hollows, I've been having problems with the platform used to host the podcast and some of my scheduled episodes got deleted and I can't reschedule them for some reason and that is causing a couple of different issues one of those being, the Hindsight Hollows episode has straight-up vanished...
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So I have no idea what is going on, I've already scheduled this episode but when I went back to check on it, the episode was no longer there and this seems to have happened with yesterdays episode as well and I have no idea if this is just on a user side and the episode is still there and can be listed to or not, so I have no idea if now I am scheduling two of the same episode to come out, this whole ordeal is kind of frustrating...
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This episode was supposed to be uploaded yesterday and it was scheduled to be uploaded yesterday so I have no idea what happened to it or how it got deleted, so this sucks because now it seems that I didn't have an episode every day...
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Ignorance is bliss until you realize that not everyone is as ignorant on a topic as you are and then you proceed to chastise those people for not being as ignorant as you are…
"Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance." - Robert Quillen
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So this is a jam-packed episode! Not only do you get your scheduled big-brain questions but you also get a mini impromptu programming tutorial that will absolutely not help you at all!
(If you want to skip that part when you get there, jump to 23:35)
"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self." - May Sarton
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It’s super easy to plan exactly how you’re life is going to go, the hard part is actually making sure everything goes exactly to plan…
"We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality." - Iris Murdoch
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It’s spooky movie season, and this week we’re hitting one of the worst horror movies I’ve ever had the displeasure of watching as well as a pretty decent one because who doesn’t like some good juxtaposition, also Shark Night 3D makes a wild appearance in this episode!
"Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious." - Dario Argento
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Another incredible month in the books. As always, I absolutely appreciate every single person that has listened to even one episode of this project, you guys are my inspiration to keep making more stuff and I can’t thank you enough for that, so here’s to next month and many more months to come!
"I swear I'm not toxic..." - John Kalu
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Just to get it out of the way from the top, whether you’ve seen The Sopranos or not, I highly recommend this movie, from my first impressions I can say that it is a great story and movie on its own!
"Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda." - Hannah Arendt
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Having ADHD is like being a puppy, a whole lot of energy and whenever you see something more interesting than what you’re currently doing, which is technically anything other than what you’re currently doing, then that new thing get’s all of your attention… well it does for the next 20 minutes anyways…
That's the problem with ADHD: I have no focus; I get bored. - Hannah Gadsby
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While the episode title sounds like the name of a movie that is definitely staring The Rock and perhaps Jack Black as well just to make things overkill, this is much more of a serious topic, or however serious I can manage to be…
"Only the dead have seen the end of the war." - George Santayana
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There is no such thing as order, there is no such thing as meant to be, there simply only is…
"Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time." - Jean Paul
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You never know when your last moment will be so you shouldn’t spend the moments you have being lame and grumpy, tell the people you love that you love them and go roll around in some grass or something…
"I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it." - Charles M. Schulz
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At this point, I think everyone is sick of hearing anything about battle royals but I swear this one is different, and not different like all of the other bornite clones that swear their game is different, this show is absolutely something else!
"Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow." - Tom Wilson
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Here it is, part two of the deep dive into China and also the longest deep dive episode that I’ve made so far because this one is stacked to the brim with content that just couldn’t be left out. Enjoy!
"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. One is by debt" - John Adams
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I explain my reasoning behind picking this show for this episode in the episode so I shouldn't have to explain my reasoning here, just don't ask questions and give the episode a listen...
"Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?" - Bob Marley
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There is nothing more dystopian than a company that is literally our timelines version of Big Brother as they watch you every move while working all while making sure that you don't interact with anyone, use the bathroom, and stick to a work rate that they deem acceptable...
"Orwell had a very accurate foresight of today's dystopian world we live in. If only he was around to see it." - Andrew Gower
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Customers have the amazing power of being able to manipulate the market and we exert that power all the time without even knowing but instead of understanding that power to use it to do some good, customers instead decide to use the power of being insufferable…
"Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government." - Milton Friedman
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Not only do you get some really nice philosophical content in this episode, but you also get to hear me panic about the ghost living in my house and you get to hear my prepubescent voice from a video dating back 7 years ago… What a wild episode!
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill
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The world has run out of many things and will continue to run out of things, but if there is one thing that is in abundance and is like a well that will never run dry, it’s stupidity…
"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power." - P. J. O'Rourke
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There are good trailers in the world that don’t tell you exactly how the movie is going to go. There are bad trailers in the world that are pretty much like watching the entire movie in a 4 minute YouTube video. And then there are trailers that are driven by people who have no business driving a trailer but they rented a U-Haul to move cross country and they never use their turn signals…
"No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough." - Roger Ebert
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Would you look at that, a story so rich in detail and messiness it has to be broken up into two parts! We’re kicking off this two-parter with a deep dive into the history of China to set up for the second part where we’ll talk about current modern-day China and all of their internal and international Shenanigans.
"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there." - George Santayana
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My first guess is that this is kind of going to be like a female version of the great cinematic classic Superbad, but to my surprise, I was right…
"Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about." - Solomon Short
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I’ve said in the past that I would probably never become a teacher but thinking about it now…
"A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning." - Brad Henry
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Honestly for this description I could just use the description of the podcast and that would suffice so yeah, go see that…
"Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish." - Daniel Kahneman
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Perhaps our purpose in life isn’t to give life purpose, but instead it’s all about the friends we made along the way!
"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." - Socrates
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Baker Act: A Florida law that enables families and loved ones to provide emergency mental health services and temporary detention for people who are impaired because of their mental illness, and who are unable to determine their needs for treatment.
"There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business."- Vikram Patel
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As you can tell by that length of this episode that I have some pretty strong feelings when it comes to the topics of character tropes so it shouldn’t surprise you when I start ranting all over the place… But hey, I made a new intro for movie talk so that’s cool!
"Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness." - Yousuf Karsh
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Although this wasn’t one of the planned Deep Dive episodes that I announced in the State of the Podcast Address last Sunday since I was recording that episode at the same time as this was all playing out, after getting a glimpse as to what was going on here, I knew there was no way I couldn’t make an episode on this.
"A scam is a scam. A fraud is a fraud. Different rules don't apply in the City than they do for you and me." - Emily Thornberry
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I decided to do a little bit of self punishment and do a first impressions to the reboot of the classic She’s All That, He’s All That, and honestly, as usual, it’s not as bad as everyone says it is. Although with that being said, that doesn’t mean it’s not bad…
"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." - Wayne Dyer
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Being sick definitely sucks but have you ever gotten sick smack in the middle of taking an exam? That’s the definition of things sucking, but just like that ancient Hebrew proverb says, at least it’s not Corona…
"Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account." - Anne Wilson Schaef
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Why does it seem to be the case that the simple solution is always ignored for the sake of greed and that greed disregards everyone else in the world…
"Greed is not a financial issue. It's a heart issue." - Andy Stanley
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We already know that humans are humans and humans suck but did you know that because of that fact that subsequently means that the real world sucks because the real world is full of humans and we already know how that goes…
"It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor." - Eric Hoffer
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It just seems that school and I will just permanently have a perpetual beef with each other, although it’s more of a petty beef so we still kind of get along but then one of us will do something just to spite the other…
"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country." - Kurt Vonnegut
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Is the movie good? Yes, it is. Does it have its problems? Yes, it does. Does that make it your typical MCU movie? Once again, yes it does. So stop asking questions that you already know the answer to…
"The best way to predict the future is to study the past or prognosticate." - Robert Kiyosaki
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Another month in the books! As always I appreciate everyone that has come along on the Hindsight journey whether you joined in January or in August, whether you listen to every episode or just one episode a week, I appreciate all of you guys!
"Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last." - Marcus Aurelius
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I wonder if they removed the teen from teen titans to make this feel like more of an adult show but whether there is “teen” in the name or not, whenever there are teenagers present in any form of scripted media, you already know they are going to talk just like how the 65-year-old scriptwriter thinks 16-year-olds talk, and this usually results in them talking in a way that no human talks at all no matter what age they are…
"We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends." - Mary McLeod Bethune
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Every kid dreams of what they will be when they grow up and the possibilities are endless until you get older and realize the world isn’t set up for endless possibilities…
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
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We should’ve expected this from a site that is called the front page of the internet, anything with that much traffic is going to be targeted to be taken advantage of…
"Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself." - Potter Stewart
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Is it even a philosophical questions episode if I don’t somehow talk about existential space stuff and stumble over my words trying to verbalize concepts that I can’t comprehend?
"Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious."
- Stephen Hawking
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The difference only between persuasion and manipulation is intent…
"I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control." - Javier Bardem
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When it comes to movies about musicians or music in general, they always feel so pretentious in my opinion, and then there’s Whiplash. Whiplash is the exception, and oh boy it’s a really great exception!
"Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out." - Robert Collier
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The Taliban deep dive now comes to a close wrapping up all of the history and actions that led the country to be where it is today. There are no meaningless events in the world, it’s just that sometimes the consequences of our actions don’t catch up to us immediately…
"History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies." - Alexis de Tocqueville
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As someone who has a pretty big obsession with time and time travel and all of that stuff, you would think that a movie like this would be right up my alley, it’s got time travel, it’s got action, it’s got humor. But man, this was not what I expected…
"When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment." - Ryan Reynolds
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The journey of self-improvement is one that many people don’t take although many should but, it’s also one that never ends until the day we die. On the other hand, the journey of re-socialization is one that most of us are having to go on now as we begin to assimilate back into regular society after only having to deal with people online…
"Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection." - Kim Collins
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There is nothing worse than lazy journalism being passed off as quality journalism and then even worse, we as the consumer let it slide…
"Fake news is cheap to produce. Genuine journalism is expensive." - Toomas Hendrik Ilves
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So I’m assuming that an extraterrestrial life form coming to Earth would be in the most literal term an illegal alien, and with that logic, I would assume that they would be treated the same way that most countries treat immigrants which is usually as less than a regular citizen although in this case, it would probably be even worse because I don’t think constitutional rights extend to intergalactic aliens, or maybe they do, I wasn’t there when they wrote it…
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." - Aesop
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In typical Johnny K fashion, I take a normal conversation about a random thing and turn it into a philosophical conversation about what it means to be human whilst giving myself an existential crisis. I love being me!
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." - Albert Camus
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Reminiscent is definitely a sleeper. I don’t mean sleeper like the masses are sleeping on this movie despite the fact that it’s amazing, I mean it’s a sleeper because chances are you’ll find yourself fast asleep while watching it…
"An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." - Orlando Aloysius Battista
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So this story has unintentionally become a trilogy simply because I don’t want to leave anything out because there are so many details in this story that can’t be skipped over in order to grasp the entirety of what is happening in Afghanistan currently…
"History is a vast early warning system." - Norman Cousins
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By random coincidence, I started this series and then I get my first opportunity to be a best man, therefore, giving me the opportunity to make an episode on my first impressions of being a best man because you only get one opportunity to get a first impression. And it is also a crazy coincidence that I get that first impression experience the same day that I would record the episode for my first impressions…
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Confucius
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It's just some dudes being dudes!
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Almost completely as promised, here is the first episode of the new Deep Dive series and this is only part one of the two-part mini-series on the Taliban. You won’t have to wait too long for part 2 though, stay tuned for that this Sunday!
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana
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If your name decides how successful you would become in life, I feel like anyone named Chad or Karen are already at an inherent disadvantage…
"If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name." - Kendrick Lamar
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It’s better to arrive late than to not arrive at all, remember to stay safe on the roads!
"Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else." - Ugo Betti
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Moana, MAKE WAY, MAKE WAY. Moana it’s time you knew, the village of Motuni is all you need!
Absolute banger of a song!
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." - Henry David Thoreau
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This story is based on an extreme simplification of the false vacuum decay theory. I’m telling you this in case the science actually intrigues you, you can now do your own research and if you try to use the things I say in this episode as your only research and then you try and talk about the theory with someone and then they call you out for only using an extreme simplification of the theory, you can’t say it’s my fault since I already told you and this episode description is my evidence, so you can go ahead and show it to your lawyer.
"And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?" - Thomas Babington Macaulay
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Despite the fact that the only reason I have an HBO subscription currently is because I got it earlier this year to watch this movie, I still somehow managed to never watch this movie. But I guess it works out in the end because now you can hear my first impressions about it, well mostly about the bank scene…
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." - Buddha
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What do butterflies, bubbles, and noodles all have in common? Well, nothing to a regular person but to me, those are all things that can burn in the hottest pit of hell…
"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." - H. P. Lovecraft
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At this point I’m very confused about how we’re getting these names for these ideologies. There was no black pill in the Matrix, or maybe there was and I just didn’t see it…
"The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance." - Nathaniel Branden
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There is just something so incredible about knowing that there is so much still unknown and left to be discovered…
"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery." - Mark Van Doren
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I’m not sure what I expected from the first day of school with everyone back in person after a year and a half but what I got was a reminder of what I’ve been missing over that year and a half and although I may have my feelings about it, I most definitely have missed it!
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela
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No, you aren’t seeing things wrong, this is a different episode than the one from Saturday. Now that I’ve seen the movie in its entirety, I can cut it open and display its’ insides. I need to lay the true-crime content…
"We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days." - Robert Hall
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It’s a disease that I’ve witnessed firsthand that I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy…
"Time moves in one direction, memory in another." - William Gibson
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Perhaps the reason they are calling this movie The Suicide Squad instead of Suicide Squad 2 is because they also realize that the first movie was an abomination and they want to distance themselves from it and pretty much recreate the Suicide Squad universe. Honestly, that’s probably a good call…
"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts." - Nikki Giovanni
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There are two types of ways to give advice, there is telling people what they should do, and then there’s telling people what they shouldn’t do. I’m not sure which is more effective but I do know that I have much more experience on what not to do in college than anything else so you can derive what you should do from that!
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." - William Butler Yeats
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This episode is kind of ugly, might delete it later 🤪…
"The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence." - Blake Lively
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If ever given the chance to get augmented and live in a world like Cyberpunk 2077 without the world being an absolutely glitchy mess, you better believe I’m getting those augments!
"The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever." - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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Do you guys remember when bath salts were a thing? I remember seeing that a bunch a while back and people said that doing bath salts pretty much turns you into a zombie and it’ll make you eat people. I don’t really know if that’s true, also I don’t even know how one would consume bath salts to get a trip out of it, but I do know that if you want to turn into a cannibal zombie, you should try PCP…
"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave." - Mary Tyler Moore
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Despite this movie having a very simple premise, it still managed to be amazingly confusing and mind-melting but there were always giant people that howled like foxes and that was pretty dope…
"Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud." - Sophocles (This quote pretty much sums up the message of this movie)
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As usual I say this is going to be a short episode and then I start rambling and telling stories… Either way, I appreciate everyone who has listened to the podcast this month and has shared it with their friends because that makes you a good friend!
"This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it." - William James
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Every category of product has an “Apple” version amongst them which means that they aren’t really doing anything special but they mark up their prices really high to make it seem like they are. Chipotle is the Apple of fast food, Starbucks is the Apple of coffee, and IQOS is the Apple of lung cancer…
"A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life." - Jean Ingelow
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As a not so wise man once said “They’re trying to turn the frogs gay!”
"Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts." - E. B. White
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I wonder at what point a word is used so often in the mainstream that it warrants becoming a real word in the dictionary. Of course, I know that flexing is a real word but I mean the urban meaning of the word, c’mon guys, I’m not that dumb…
"Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Sometimes I think of absolute power works the same way as I think of absolute value does in math, so technically if you have a huge amount of negative power like being at the absolute bottom of the food chain, that would, in turn, make you the most powerful person in terms of the absoluteness of it. This doesn’t make sense in any way but I still rest my case…
"Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't." - Margaret Thatcher
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I will go down in infamy amongst flies all over the world as fly killer prime, the harbinger of death, reaper of souls, destroyer of lives, and I will do it all with a smile spread across my face…
"I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it." - Charles M. Schulz
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C’mon and slam and welcome to the jam! The exact same jam as last time but now with a different basketball player and even lazier writing but that doesn’t rhyme so we can’t add it to the jingle!
"Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction." - Anne Frank
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And with that, the trilogy comes to a close! Welp, I guess it’s time to start planning the next one…
"He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery." - Harold Wilson
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This episode ended up being WAY longer than I expected, but hey, this is what happens when I get on a roll of stories and there is no one around to stop me…
"If you're a true warrior, competition doesn't scare you. It makes you better." - Andrew Whitworth
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You know, one thing that I can never get over when seeing something like the Olympics and all of the insane athletes that compete there, is when I see some competitors that are younger than me just makes me think I could’ve done so much more with my years so far…
"The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us." - John Williams
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Now what if, hear me out here, what if, the world is indeed a sphere but instead of us living on the outside of it, we instead are living on the inside and everything else is just a dome around us… Mind blown!
"I'm not a conspiracy theorist - I'm a conspiracy analyst." - Gore Vidal
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There are some things science has answers for and there are some things since doesn’t have answers for, one of those things that science has yet to answer is why me and all my homies hate big Pharma…
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have." - Gerald R. Ford
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They say if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, but I don’t really see this as fixing anything just making things better, and who doesn’t want to make things better?
"The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement." - Helmut Schmidt
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They did Black Widow dirty with this one. First, you make the solo movie after the character is literally already dead and then this is what you do with that? C’mon Disney, that’s just wrong, but Loki on the other hand…
Also, this is episode 200!
"You can't halfway disrespect me ever in my life and think we are going to be OK later." - Jermell Charlo
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Finally, after a day of writing and an all-nighter spent recording, I proudly present to you part 2 of The Legend of Addiction trilogy!
"Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was." - Richard L. Evans
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There are actually three things guaranteed in this life for both girls and guys alike, death, taxes, and being down bad at some point…
"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'" - Erich Fromm
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The new mic setup is officially online so now my voice sounds crispier than ever! With that aside, do you think we’ll get to the point where we will have space hotels so you can just casually take a vacation to Earth’s orbit? Commercialized space flight is cool and all but I want space hotels!
"The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever." - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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As I always say when I offer up solutions to something that I’m not an expert in, I am not an expert in this field, I’m just saying what I think would be best and perhaps you might agree with me…
"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows." - Sydney J. Harris
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You’ve heard me say it many times on the podcast before and I will probably say it many more times in the future, humans are humans, and humans suck…
"Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity." - Xun Kuang
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I mentioned her in yesterday’s episode and made a comment about her music not being for me despite the fact that I’ve never heard her music before and I can’t say it’s not for me if I’ve never heard it, so I figure it’s time to give her music a quick listen…
"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain." - Bob Marley
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You know, in hindsight, I should’ve called this series something different since I talk about shows as well as movies but hey, too deep to change it now and one could make the argument that a show is just a really long movie broken down into many parts so perhaps this works out anyways. Either way, this episode is a little bit different in terms of movie talk, but I really like the format and I think you will too, you’ll see what I mean!
"The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege." - Charles Kuralt
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And new trilogy has begun! This one is a pretty personal story and this particular episode took an eternity to make but that’s passion for you right?
"Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams." - Donovan Bailey
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Sometimes I just go on tangents and in order to keep things not feeling too long I don’t talk about things that I want to talk about on that day and it’s sad. So I figured that the best way to right that wrong is by putting some of those things in their own episode!
"Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Nothing like finding another use for an essay that you had to write for class. I was beginning to think that I was forced to write all of these essays for no reason!
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity." - Frank Leahy
Sources:
www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/27/new-evidence-confirms-what-gun-rights-advocates-have-been-saying-for-a-long-time-about-crime.
www.statista.com/statistics/476461/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-legality-of-shooters-weapons.
www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/crimeinenglandandwales/yearendingdecember2020.
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They said being an idiot will get you nowhere and that simply isn’t true, it’ll get you a medal in the idiot olympics!
"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity." - Robert A. Heinlein
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Happy wife, happy life? What if you’re not married? What if you’re the wife, is there no saying for you? Why is the happiness of my life tied to that of someone else’s? That doesn’t sound too healthy…
"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open." - John Barrymore
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Is this episode shorter than my usual episode? Yes, it is. Why is that? Well just read the title…
"Don't forget to tell yourself positive things daily! You must love yourself internally to glow externally." - Hannah Bronfman
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The movie came out fast and all of us are furious although, we all knew this was coming the second we heard Vin Diesel’s voice say that the Fast Franchise was coming back to save theaters…
"I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live." - Judy Collins
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First Sunday of the month which means time to talk about last month and tease stuff for this month. Thanks to everyone for making last month a big month for the podcast, I appreciate everyone!
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In my opinion, there is nothing more fascinating and intriguing than learning about a way of life that you've never seen before!
"Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come." - Swami Sivananda
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I will always stand by calling out nonsense when I see it no matter by who and what’s going on with this topic is just straight-up nonsense…
"When in doubt, make no sense. No sense is good. And nonsense is good." - Genesis P-Orridge
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The people said “The rich suck!” and the rich responded, “They hate us cause they ain’t us!”
"True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind." - Kevin Gates
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The human heart costs about 1 million the liver around 600k, each kidney about 260k, you would only get about 500 for your stomach and around 3k for both of your eyes, so with only a few organs being considered the human life is worth almost 2 million dollars. Not bad…
"There is no wealth but life." - John Ruskin
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It has been a long day which I guess is scientifically accurate since we’ve passed the summer solstice which means that the days are longer and the nights are shorter and that just makes me sad…
"Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be." - Abraham Cahan
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A movie called the little things failed to realize that it’s the little things that make a good movie…
"To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail." - Giorgio Armani
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This next statement is true. The previous statement is false.
"The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul." - Ralph Peters
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As promised we’re still doing the Let’s Talk episode and because my research has been done, my opinion has been formed and it is ready to be shared!
"A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion." - Grantland Rice
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I know that it’s Friday so this is supposed to be a “Let’s Talk” episode, but due to some health things I had to move that episode to tomorrow so I can do it justice and so with that, you get an excerpt from the “Tales From” book today!
"Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account." - Anne Wilson Schaef
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I remember when Twitch used to just be a bunch of League of Legends streamers and then Fortnite took over and everyone thought that was the end of twitch because this stupid game has taken over the platform, oh boy we were so wrong…
"Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'" - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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We all already know my opinions on the government in terms of an institution at this point but I guess now you can hear how those feelings are applied in a philosophical setting!
"How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?" - Charles de Gaulle
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Yeah, this is a really long just chatting episode, but I was having fun just chatting with you guys so can you really blame me for that?
"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing." - Marcus Aurelius
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There are very few things that can make a good movie bad and a bad movie good but one of those things is… THE BIG REVEAL! You see what I did there, it was like a big reveal but in text form, and me explaining it pretty much just ruined it…
"The less routine the more life." - Amos Bronson Alcott
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Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there including myself because being a dog dad is almost just as taxing as being a real dad!
"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was." - Anne Sexton
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This may come as a shock to many of you but yes, I am black…
"For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance." - Mignon McLaughlin
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Now that I have consumed a Snickers I am back to my normal self and I can talk to you guys again with my inside voice! With that being said, you can see the title, we’re talking about twitter’s favorite hobby, cancelling people!
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
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I would highly recommend turning your volume down just a bit before listening to this episode, I get a little loud when I’m angry. I guess I need snickers…
"Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done." - Ang Lee
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I can assure you that knowing Edgar Allan Poe married his 13-year-old cousin is not a useless fact!
“I am actuated by an ambition which I believe to be an honorable one — the ambition of serving the great cause of truth while endeavoring to forward the literature of the country.” - Edgar Allan Poe
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There are few things that I feel very passionate about and where there is passion there is bound to be frustration, and where there is frustration, there is bound to be a rant!
"Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits." - Robert Louis Stevenson
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All hail Mickey, the harbinger of crappy live-action remakes and the purchaser of every franchise that I love only to make the new movies from those franchises even better than before! Yeah, that’s a mouthful of a title …
"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." - Henry David Thoreau
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Back with another bit of creative writing being spoken through the speakers into your eardrums! Whether you choose to listen to this episode or fate deemed it so that you do, I hope you enjoy!
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Whenever I think about my time living in Columbus Georgia, I get reminded of the quote that says “I wish there was a way to know that you’re in the good old days before they become the good old days…”
"Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale." - Hans Christian Andersen
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Oh yeah, we’re going there. Anytime is a good time to talk about a sensitive and somewhat controversial topic, although if my point of view on the topic is controversial to you then that’s really a you problem…
"All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten." - Robert Fulghum
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As we all know, the grind never stops but perhaps it’s time that the grind stops, just for a little bit …
"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs." - Charlotte Bronte
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I completely forgot to add the music before uploading this...
Well too late to go back now I guess!
"The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Fact of life: The only fun or funny thing about school are the students
"Life is a work in progress." - Jeff Rich
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You want to know what’s scarier than a made up alien species, the infinite void from which they came from…
"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life." - Seneca
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So as I said with the new upload schedule, Sundays are my creators' choice day, perhaps to be used to try out some new creative stuff, and that’s exactly what I’ve done! This was a really fun one to make even with the extra editing work involved, I hope to continue doing more like it and I hope you enjoy it!
"Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter." - Charles Lindbergh
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It’s the weekend so it’s time for some storytime! This one is a real knee slapper so get your hands ready and your knees lotion up so they don’t turn red or get ashy!
"The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection". - Henri Nouwen
(This quote would've been great for yesterday's episode...)
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No better way to start the first weekend in the official month that begins summer than with some good old positivity and a couple of laughs!
"Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now." - Audre Lorde
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Hey, it’s okay for you to not like certain things that everyone else likes, and it’s okay to like certain things that everyone else dislikes, but it’s not okay for you to make fun of someone else for liking something you don’t like or not liking something you do like!
"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see." - John Burroughs
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There is no better way to expand the mind than with a little bit of philosophy, of course, that is if you have a mind and you’re not just a figment of my imagination which would mean that I am the only one who actually has consciousness which would further mean that I’m the only one who actually exists…
"I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center." - Seamus Heaney
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We’re back in town and you can tell I’ve missed talking to you guys simply by how long this episode is, also when you listen to it, I’m speaking with the type of energy that one would have when they’re catching up with their significant other after a long business trip…
"The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings." - Henri Frederic Amiel
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It’s that time again! May was an absolutely amazing month of growth for the podcast, as always I appreciate every single one of you that’s been tuning in and sharing the podcast, June is going to be even bigger and better!
"My life is my message." - Mahatma Gandhi
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Yes I know it’s not Monday but I explain why I’m doing a movie talk today in the episode so just listen to that explanation, but either way, it’s still a good conversation so you won’t be upset about it, I promise!
"To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice." - John Dalberg-Acton
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So we’re starting off the weekend strong with a classic tales from middle school and I will let you know upfront, if you’re someone who struggles with feeling second-hand embarrassment from another person absolutely humiliating themselves, then you might want to skip the last story…
"Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul." - Rebecca West
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While yes the title sounds like I a wild trip after being given some weird matrix-like drugs, that’s not what this is about, this is something far more wilder…
"Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life". - Isaac Bashevis Singer
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No this is not a re-upload, although chances are you’re not thinking that because you never even hear the original because that one has been permanently wiped from the face of the Earth, although the internet being the internet I’m sure that it’s not gone forever and you could probably find it somewhere but I wouldn’t recommend that because that was a really rough episode. And why would you want to listen to that when you can hear the new and improved conversation on the topic right here and right now? Spare yourself and just listen to this one instead of trying to find the ancient one!
"No man is a failure who is enjoying life." - William Feather
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Hey guys, I’m here in my garage at my house in the hills. As you can see I have my Lamborghini behind me, but you know what’s the most important thing to me in this garage? This bookcase full of books. Do you know what’s more important than money? KNOWLEDGE!
"Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter." - Charles Lindbergh
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I’m reaching levels of boredom no man should reach in his lifetime! Ironically I think I’ve said this before in a previous episode description way early on in the podcast, perhaps I just need to get some more hobbies…
"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware." - Henry Miller
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Oh yes, we have not forgotten about the Tales From series, it makes its valiant return with another heater talking about my favorite place that I’ve ever had the experience of being kicked out of, ALC!
"Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not." - Oscar Wilde
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With great power comes great responsibility, but some of these movie companies only see dollar signs and not the process that it took to get there…
"With great power, comes great responsibility" - some guy's dead uncle
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You already know what this is at this point but we got some really good questions in this one, definitely some questions that got me thinking personally and objectively, and perhaps they’ll make you do the same…
"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone." - George Eliot
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Today we’re talking about a very poignant topic for these times as everyone seems to hang on to every word of their favorite influencer, perhaps we should take a step back and look at the words we are listening to.
"Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts." - Soren Kierkegaard
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What’s the point in adding a description since we’re all going to be dead in the end anyways…
"Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now." - Audre Lorde
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So we have another round of philosophical questions to ring in hump day and to slowly ease us into the more heavier episodes I have planned for Thursday and Friday. Worry not, those episodes are going to be heaters and you’re not going to want to miss them so you should use this episode as a pallet cleanser to fully prepare yourself for the controversy!
"All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low." - John Wooden
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It’s a sad day when I went on a 5-hour journey to pick up my new car and all I return home with is exhaustion and no vehicle…
"There is more to life than increasing its speed." - Mahatma Gandhi
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As a veteran of the game after officially retiring and being to collect my pension, I figured old man John could offer a little bit of wisdom on the whole concept of the streets!
"Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it." - William Christopher Handy
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Hello, this is John from the past telling you from my future but your present that we’re doing, well technically already did but are going to do for you in your present, some move talk and we’re talking time travel!
"Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises." - Samuel Butler
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It’s always nice to hear some words of encouragement to maybe inspire you to level up in life because no one wants to be a low-level noob that can’t even enter the promise land because they aren’t a high enough rank…
"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need." - Vernon Howard
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Due to a little bit of an unplanned hectic day, we have to push the originally scheduled episode to tomorrow so I can finish working on it. But it’s all okay because we have some more random philosophical questions from the randomizer! Also, you can hear my mind melting in the title extra tidbit after the outro…
"Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out." - Anton Chekhov
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Did I binge watch an entire show in one day because it was absolutely amazing? Yes, yes I did. Did I then take the main idea of the show and make it into a whole conversation about the human race? Once again, yes, yes I did. Is that conversation really 40 minutes long? Actually no, no it isn’t, the last 15 minutes of this episode is pretty much just a bonus encore conversation after the outro because I still had a bunch I wanted to say but I couldn’t put it in the main episode because it’s technically off-topic and would be a tangent just like this episode description, but I still wanted to talk about it, so if you want to listen to it it’s there, but if you don’t you’re not missing the main episode. Like I always say, it’s always a good idea to give people options!
"The difficulty in life is the choice." - George A. Moore
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So we’re doing something a little different today. It was an idea spawned from boredom but that’s where the best ideas come from! Also, I ended up absolutely enjoying making this which I’m not sure why I’m surprised, I don’t think I would make myself create something I don’t like, but I guess you can say I didn’t expect to enjoy it this much and hopefully, you do too!
"It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project." - Napoleon Hill
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And we’re back to have a chat and as you may notice we have a new cover photo for the podcast, very shiny and lovely! Hopefully, you like it just as much as you’ll like this episode because everyone loves just having a chat!
"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't." - Richard Bach
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We’re wrapping up my ghost hunting adventures with my friend Jay talking about the ghost hunting duds, the ones who we can say myth definitely busted!
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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As always for a holiday such as today, we have a short one for Mother’s Day so you can spend time listening to your mom and not listening to me. Don’t worry, I don’t cry in this episode but the end is a little emotional so if you’re slightly Charmin ultra-soft, you might want to have some of those around...
“When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” - Charley Benetto
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To welcome the end of my spring semester, it felt only right to tell more tales from the place where it all started, good ‘ole Georgia Southern!
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets." - Arthur Miller
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And we complete the holy trinity of controversial conversational topics by talking about news outlets! To be fair, this isn’t as controversial as religion and politics but yet people still seem to get the underwear all ruffled up when you try to hold their favorite news outlet accountable. I wonder why…
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." - Confucius
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Going two for two on talking about things that people never want to talk about but worry not, I’m not simply attacking your party for an entire episode, I’m attacking both parties for an entire episode because it doesn’t matter what party you align yourself with, we all simply need to do better.
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'" - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We are doing the big no-no today and talking about everyone's favorite not controversial or contentious in any way topic, religion! They say you shouldn’t talk about that if you want to keep your friends but I think friends are overrated anyways and plus, if you can’t sit down and have a civil conversation about serious and possibly controversial topics, I don’t want to be friends anyways. But if you can do that, I’m glad we can still be friends! (I was just joking about friends being overrated)
"One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure." - William Feather
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Nothing is better than sitting around a campfire and just chatting with some friends! Sadly we have no campfire and we can’t actually see each other and it’s a very one-sided conversation because you can’t respond but still, it’s the same vibe!
"Into each life, some rain must fall." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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More ghost hunting! This is one of, if not the only, time I can say I actually had a haunting/ghost experience. Some may say placebo but technically what happened isn’t even what was supposed to happen so I can’t placebo what you don’t know, no?
"Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments." - Rose Kennedy
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What do scrambled egg cheeseburgers and engagement parties have in common? They both were included in my day today in one way or another!
"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking." - Marcus Aurelius
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People working customer service jobs are just trying to help you out, at the very least they just want to do their job so they can go home. There’s no need to terrorize them because of something out of their control…
"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them." - Dalai Lama
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It’s that time of the month again! Firstly congratulations on making it this far into 2021, I know that is no easy task. But you already know how this goes, we’re talking about the highlights from the month of April, we’re talking about the exciting stuff coming for the month of May, and also we’re wrapping up the final story I told in yesterdays episode because I never concluded it since I went on the nice long rant.
"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be." - Grandma Moses
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Yeah, it’s another long one, in fact, it’s the second-longest episode of the podcast only behind the ALC episode so you know it’s a good one! Although most to the length is from an angry rant at the end but it’s necessary, it’s a conversation people aren’t ready to have but I don’t care cause we’re having it! (I’m sorry for generalizing, maybe you are ready to have that conversation and if that’s the case then you already know I’m not talking about you…)
"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it." - Lou Holtz
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They say man is the apex predator and has no rival and yet I consume a cup of milk and my body just falls apart…
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself". - George Bernard Shaw
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Another Tuesday another day of just chatting and this was a long conversation as you can tile by the longer than normal episode length. But I must say it is a pretty chat we’re having in this one, of course, I’m pretty biased but I think you will reciprocate my sentiments for this conversation. And if you do then you won’t even notice the length of the episode because time flies when you’re having fun!
"Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Despite my dislike of horror and ghost and hauntings, how can one turn down the opportunity to become a ghost hunter? You can’t, that’s how! And quite frankly our ghost hunting stories were definitely history channel quality because you know the history channel doesn’t actually show history stuff anymore, only obscure kind of tinfoil that shows and people raiding storage units. Oh yeah, and how could I forget the absolute peak of history channel content, Pawn Stars!
"The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed." - Eminem
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Since there is an absolute hail storm going on outside right now, it’s only in good taste to talk about the funny storm stories from my time at Georgia Southern. And I’m talking about the actual weather, not the racial storm that descended on the school in 2016…
"Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith." - Steve Jobs
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Of course, we have to follow up the worst date ever episode with the best date ever, and oh boy it was a good one!
“What You Lack In Talent Can Be Made Up With Desire, Hustle And Giving 110% All The Time.” – Don Zimmer
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You know a date was bad when you’ve suppressed the memory so far down into your brain that you don’t even remember it ever happening until something or someone brings it back to the surface and it makes you cringe so much that it feels like your body is about to seize…
“Develop An Attitude Of Gratitude. Say Thank You To Everyone You Meet For Everything They Do For You.” – Brian Tracy
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Like a mythical final boss of emotional turmoil, Kenzie rises from the ashes to try and finish what she started… This is a joke, I don’t actually hate her or anything like that XD
“You Don’t Have To Be Great To Start, But You Have To Start To Be Great.” – Zig Ziglar
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The job of a finesser is by no means an honest one, that would literally go against the term, but it’s a fun profession to say the least. Even though I officially retired from the game last year, of course, I had to make a brief comeback to finesse my finals grade in my networks class, so let’s take a trip down memory lane of my bests finesses of all time!
“Fake It Until You Make It! Act As If You Had All The Confidence You Require Until It Becomes Your Reality.” – Brian Tracy
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I love just chatting with y’all, it feels like a normal conversation that I would have with a friend because only in a normal conversation would I be able to go from talking about painkillers in video games to a long rant about cancel culture all in the span of 30 minutes. Yeah being my friend is an experience in it of itself…
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
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We’re taking a trip in the way way back machine all the way back to elementary school, aka the good ol’ days before we all grew up and found out that the world sucks…
Also #freeBiscuit
“What You Lack In Talent Can Be Made Up With Desire, Hustle And Giving 110% All The Time.” – Don Zimmer
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So I got into a pretty bad car accident today, my car and the car that hit me got absolutely totaled but thankfully I survived to tell the tale. So I guess there’s at least one positive and if there’s at least one positive then the situation could’ve always been worse so I can be thankful that it was only as bad as it was.
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Once again I forgot how to stop talking and the planned short intro became a 27-minute intro…
“Creativity Is Intelligence Having Fun.” – Albert Einstein
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Sometimes I look back on my early college years in absolute awe as to how I was able to put myself through the mental gymnastics of convincing myself that I could be an extrovert. It would definitely make me a gold medal Olympic gymnast but as an extrovert, I wouldn’t even make the podium…
“The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.” – Hasidic Proverb
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It really be your own bros that try to get you caught up, you hate to see it…
“Security Is Mostly A Superstition. Life Is Either A Daring Adventure Or Nothing.” – Helen Keller
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We finally come to the conclusion of the Quarantine Chronicles and of course like a good conclusion in a well-written essay, the best way to do it is by going over in main points of your paper, so today we go over the main points and lessons learned from quarantine!
“Knowing Is Not Enough; We Must Apply. Wishing Is Not Enough; We Must Do.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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I saw what I mean, and I mean what I say and you can hold me to that. Unless I say don’t hold me to it then you shouldn’t or you’ll just be disappointed…
“If You Are Working On Something That You Really Care About, You Don’t Have To Be Pushed. The Vision Pulls You.” – Steve Jobs
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When someone has gone through something and they offer you advice if you’re going through the exact same thing, take the advice. It’s crazy how someone who has been through the exact same thing you’re going through knows how things are going to play out!
“The Pessimist Sees Difficulty In Every Opportunity. The Optimist Sees Opportunity In Every Difficulty.” – Winston Churchill
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100 episodes down, 265 more episodes to go!
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Finally doing part two and once again I still haven’t told all of the tales from my time at ALC. Who knew so much can happen in two months when the administration of a school is corrupt!
"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well." - Jack London
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There are many types of finesse, but the type of finesse that requires the most finesse is the academic finesse. Actually, you could argue the type that requires the most finest is the legal finesse but you don’t really see that kind very much unless you’re a police officer…
"Life is too important to be taken seriously." - Oscar Wilde
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The fact that I did a Tales From Archer episode that’s 30 minutes long and I didn’t talk about Archer fight week is astounding as that was probably the highlight of my time there… Guess I’m going to have to do a part two, now that’s what I call a content farm!
"Difficult and meaningful will always bring more satisfaction than easy and meaningless." - Maxime Lagacé
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Having the skill of being able to learn new skills quickly is a skillfully useful skill that is always nice to have in your back pocket whenever you need to skillfully learn a new skill in a quick and skillful manner. I now will not be able to look at the word skill the same for the next couple of days because that last sentence made me hit my skill quota…
"Believe you can and you’re halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt
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Aight bro, we get it, you vape...
"Life is a mountain. Your goal is to find your path, not to reach the top." - Maxime Lagacé
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Yesterday was like the intro for today's episode except at the time I recorded yesterday's episode I didn’t know it because it only makes sense in hindsight. I’ll see myself out…
"Change your thoughts and you change your world." - Norman Vincent Peale
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It’s Easter so were keeping it super short so you can get back to doing what you’re doing, and if you’re too busy doing what you’re doing since the episode is super short you can easily listen to it tomorrow morning before Monday's episode and it will still take about the same amount of time to listen to both!
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What do food poisoning, streaming TV shows, and science politics have in common? Absolutely nothing and yet that is the rabbit hole my brain went down…
"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done." - Bruce Lee
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Although this happened today, I still count it as a part of the Quarantine Chronicles because this is like the grand sign that it is the beginning of the end of all this quarantine business. Exciting times isn’t it!?
"Three things in life – your health, your mission, and the people you love. That’s it." - Naval Ravikant
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We’re starting the month of April off with a spicy one (pun intended), The Legend of Tabasco, an epic tale of brotherhood, friendship, and most of all stupidity!
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." - Søren Kierkegaard
This is the link for the Mercedes Benz Stadium vaccination site as promised:
gta-vras.powerappsportals.us/
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Another month in the books and what an amazing month it was. The podcast has been seeing some crazy growth and I appreciate everyone who is listening and sharing, you make me a happy boy!
"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done." - Bruce Lee
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Hey if you’re a Georgia resident and above the age of 16 you can register to get your COVID-19 vaccine at myvaccinegeorgia.com. Do us all a favor and go get it!
"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
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To simp or not to simp that is the question. Also, Jacob from Twilight was a simp, try and change my mind!
"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." - John D. Rockefeller
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It’s a rough one zzz…
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius
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It’s a rare occasion when you actually get to see the full end results of your actions, usually, we just see what we did to the person but now how what we did has forever changed the course of history or something like that.
"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples." - Mother Teresa
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You honestly couldn’t write it at this point, it’s like just because I called life out for what it’s doing to me it decided to double down make sure I never forget who’s in charge. Message received. (Also I spelled outrageous correctly on the first try, just a flex)
"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." - Ayn Rand
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Honestly, at this point, I feel like Captain America because life keeps punching me and knocking me down but I keep getting up and telling it that I can do this all day. The only problem is that the only super-soldier serum I know is cocaine, and we’re not going down that road again so I’m going to need life to chill out…
"If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work." - Thomas J. Watson
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My relationship with life is more toxic than my relationship with school. With life it’s way more abusive, whenever I’m feeling good, life is always there to make sure I never forget I’m its punching bag.
"If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary." - Jim Rohn
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Another Tuesday another episode of Just Chatting, and we’re just having fun with this one, it’s a fun conversation! I would also like to dedicate this episode to extra strength Tylenol, as always coming in clutch with the last-second pain relief!
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." - Amelia Earhart
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Of course, I had to follow up yesterday’s behemoth of an episode with Tales From ALC. There are just too many stories that I have from only being there for 2 months, if I had lasted the entire year I could probably an entire book series.
"I would rather die of passion than of boredom." - Vincent van Gogh
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Yeah you read that right, this a 52-minute episode easily the longest episode I’ve ever made but the length was necessary. It has come time for me ALC exposé and even with 50 minutes, I couldn’t tell all the stories and all the details that went into this experience. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, it takes a special person to be given power and not abuse it, sadly at ALC, there were none of these special people.
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Yeah, the title isn’t lying, I got carried away talking during the intro that the entire episode became one long intro. But hey on the bright side I finally did an entire episode in one take so I knock that off my podcast bucket list!
"If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on." - Sheryl Sandberg
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As I bid farewell to the app that combined my two favorite things, driving and making money, we reminisce on the fun times and we do not cry because it is over but instead we smile because it happened!
"Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear." - George Addair
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Of course, being someone who lives in north Georgia and frequents Atlanta on a daily basis, I had to address what happened Tuesday evening. It’s so jarring that people can be so twisted mentally to be able to do something like this and justify it to themselves.
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It’s St. Patrick’s Day! I don’t mention it in the episode because I still can’t seem to comprehend the whole recording the day before thing. Enjoy the day, don’t drink and drive!
"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear." - Rosa Parks
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Tuesdays are for the chats! We’re talking about Canada, beards, blood work, and superposition police officers. So you know, a typical conversation with John!
"If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary." - Jim Rohn
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Don’t let the title of the episode fool you, we’re talking about the power of friendship today! Oh yeah that’s what the title says but it’s not what you think, trust me!
"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value." - Albert Einstein
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At long last I have followed through with my promise for part two for Tales From FBLA State Competition, a promise I made way way back on January 17th. Oh, how time flies!
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Driving is a unique activity because it’s one of the few that shows the best and the worst of what society has to offer. That may seem like a stretch but, that is why I put philosophy in the title because all philosophy is overthinking something super basic and attempting to relate it to something profound. So I would say I’m right on the money!
"Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out." - John Wooden
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School and I have been together for a while now but things have been getting sour for years. But with a little bit of counseling and a few apologies, we’ll be alright. Of course, that is until I inevitably graduate from this relationship, and this time I’m not taking her back!
"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston S. Churchill
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It’s the series crossover that no one has been asking for! Well, this is more like a part two to yesterday's episode but the title makes sense even as a semi-joke.
"The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well." - John D. Rockefeller Jr.
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How to go viral:
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Do something people will like
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Post it
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???
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Profit
"Life is trying things to see if they work." - Ray Bradbury
Also, this is episode 69 😏
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Ladies and gentlemen, we are experiencing a slight delay as there seems to be something blocking the tracks therefore not allowing this train of thought to reach its’ destination. We are working diligently to solve this issue and we will get back on our way as soon as possible. In the meantime please enjoy some refreshments complimentary of Brain Waves Train Lines! Thank you for your patience.
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose." - Dr. Seuss
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We’re talking about the application of the absolutely wonderful philosophy of choosing your battles! You know, in hindsight this would make a good modern philosophy episode…. Yeah, I’m definitely repurposing these notes.
"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game." - Babe Ruth
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Today we go back to an ancient time, a time when Heeley’s were cool and everyone wanted a pair, a time when Miley Cyrus was still having the best of both worlds as Hannah Montana, t'was the best of times.
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Well, it’s exactly what the title says, we’re just chatting… But don’t worry, it’s a good chat, the kind that makes you want to chat some more!
"If life were predictable it would cease to be life and be without flavor." - Eleanor Roosevelt
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These episodes are getting longer and longer each day, I just can’t seem to stop talking! Speaking of talking, did you know that when people talk not everything they say is true? Hard to believe I know but I read that on the internet somewhere so I know it must be true…
"You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated." - Maya Angelou
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After a life-changing rest last night I’ve come back stronger and livelier than ever! As always, I got a good one for you today. We’re talking about the first steps I made towards self-improvement. Maybe you can find a little bit of advice in there!
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." - Robert Louis Stevenson
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Today you get the ramblings of a tired and broken man… That's all I can say…
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Quarantine hadn’t even been fully kicked off yet when I decided I wanted to lock myself in my own personal hell before the government did it for me. It’s a funny story to tell but the actual experience was easily one of the worst things I’ve done to myself and now you get to listen to my story about suffering!
"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." - Aristotle
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New month, new series! And this one is starting off with a wild one and it’s touching a touchy topic but it’s one that had to be told and I know you’ll like it!
"If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success." - James Cameron
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Breaking my own rules by doing a main story episode on the weekend, but does one really count the epilogue as part of the main story? Either way, if having parents has taught me anything it is that if you make the rules you can break the rules, so really this is my first step towards becoming a father!
“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.” - Socrates
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Uber Eats is good for making pretty decent money but kind of sucks in all other categories but that’s what a monopoly gets you I guess. But even Uber Eats doesn’t have a monopoly on pure stupidity, that’s saved for some of the customers on there!
We live in the best of all possible worlds.” – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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It’s that time again! Time to review the work we’ve done this month and announce the exciting stuff coming next month. Lots of new ideas and concepts to come!
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” - Anne Frank
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This is the final chapter of the Allegory of a Drug Dealer! Yeah, I know it kind of popped up on me two because of a little scheduling mishap but all is well in the Hindsight Universe as I have fixed time and space! Either way, as this book comes to a close the next begins to open…
“Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes and grass grows by itself.” - Zenrin Kushû
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Now that brain has been recalibrated we can continue on with the story! As always we got a good one for you today, this story is a core memory for me like from “Inside Out”. I should probably do some spring cleaning with these core memories…
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So my brain has got some processing errors that just wouldn’t go away last night, but of course, I wasn’t going to go a day without an episode so instead, I woke up at 4 am to make an episode in which you and I both learn something new!
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You may have thought that I have forgotten that the title of this book has "drug dealer" in it because I haven’t mentioned drug dealing for a couple of chapters. But worry not, that changes today! C’mon did you really think I didn’t already plan this out? (Don't answer that, it's rhetorical for the sake of my ego)
“The wisest of all, in my opinion, is he who can, if only once a month, call himself a fool — a faculty unheard of nowadays.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I got a little something different today, figured I’d have a little fun by making a boring story into an over-the-top amazing story of true art. Or at least something like that…
“Art is anything you can get away with.” - Marshall McLuhan
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Another addition to the Tales From series coming from Texas this time. Although I don’t really like talking about anything before circa 2015, these stories are great ones and it would be selfish of me not to share. So here you go!
“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.” - Hermann Hesse
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We have arrived at episode 50! That’s quite a bit of episodes but it’s been super fun creating this and it’s been really fun to see people actually listening to something that I created, kind of mind-blowing in fact. But either way, we press on, today's episode is all about foreshadowing and also just me setting up myself to be able to call myself a prophet in a couple of episodes. So a bunch of fun stuff!
“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ” - Pablo Picasso
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I am being punished by the school gods for no reason. The punishment? Homework in every class all due on the same night. My response? Not doing any of it till the night that it’s due causing me to not be able to plan the next chapter so instead today we just have a little chat. Seems like a fair trade!
“Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.” - James Joyce
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There is nothing better in the world than having a best friend and there’s nothing better than your best friend and the girl you’re talking to also be friends. Actually, I’m not sure about that last part…
“Love is friendship set to music.” - Jackson Pollock
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So we finally arrive at the episode that I have been procrastinating on making for a while but now my hands are tied because I have to talk about it for everything else that comes through the rest of the year to make sense, so with that being said I present to you, the schizophrenia episode!
“What labels me, negates me.” - Søren Kierkegaard
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We’re back at it again as always picking up right where we left off as I continue to embark on this magical acid journey while trying not to have a panic attack at a party. Oh, the lovely decisions I make!
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” - C.G. Jung
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It’s the big V-Day and not the military invasion one but the personal space invasion one. Anyhow, I got little something special for you on this lovely day of loving people lovingly and I hope that you love it!
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.” - Ursula K. Le Guin
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In the night I hear them talk, the coldest story ever told, somewhere far along this road he lost his soul, to a woman so heartless. - Kanye West
Kanye speaketh the truth.
“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.” - Leo Tolstoy
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What happens when I decide to not do episode notes and just spitball? You get the longest episode to date! And on top of that, I still have to split it up because I ramble and like to tell off-topic stories but hey, all in the name of fun content!
“Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.” - Margaret Mitchell
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Nothing says Valentine’s day more than illegal drug dealing, people being late, and an uninterested partner!
“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” - Lao Tzu
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I can no longer say the saga continues and saying “the allegory continues” makes absolutely no sense so we’ll settle on the story continues. The story continues as things begin to get very messy! Will John survive the amazon jungle?? Listen and find out!
“Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.” - Chuang Tzu
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We are back on track with the allegory story (I’m not a rapper). But it’s time to get into dealing with an absolutely foolproof plan of success, I wonder how this could possibly go wrong!
“Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.” - Aldous Huxley
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So I lost my uncle to COVID-19 and things kind of suck right now as I try to figure out wtf is going on with my family, but I didn’t want to just not upload so here’s a little something for you along with my Super Bowl prophecy.
“Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.” - William S. Burroughs
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We’re doing something a little bit different today, essentially it's just the rambling of a crazy guy but it’s entertaining also Myself and I tend to have really great conversations so as to not be rude I have to include in them!
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” - Søren Kierkegaard
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Following up a more serious episode about rehab with another fun one! I got two really fun stories for you in this one so sit back, relax, and enjoy!
“Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes and grass grows by itself.” - Zenrin Kushû
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It is a special day today, I’m celebrating the 2 year anniversary of the day I got out of rehab! As much as I hated it at the time it was probably the best thing I’ve ever done so let's talk about it.
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” - Alan W. Watts
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The next book begins and of course, with every good story you have to do the backstory and so that’s what we get into today as I try to set up the Johnny Cartel!
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” - Gabriel García Márquez
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The finale, final chapter of The Dunkin’ Saga as it felt like life was actually putting a nice bow on the story to close it out. Or maybe it was karma?
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” - Kahlil Gibran
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We have arrived at the finale of The Dunkin’ Saga! What a journey it has been and what a journey that is yet to come but first you have to hear how it ends!
“The wisest of all, in my opinion, is he who can, if only once a month, call himself a fool — a faculty unheard of nowadays.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The tension at Dunkin’ is rising and rising like the tide on a full moon and all the stars are aligning in the most awful way.
“I’d tell you all you want and more if the sounds I made could be what you hear.” - David Foster Wallace
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Almost like a follow up from yesterdays episode, we talk about the follow up from rehab and the great 3-month experience of being a Florida man!
“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” - Joseph Campbell
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Back with a part two with Tales From Rehab and this one is a wild one!
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. - Herodotus
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Welcome to the first monthly State of the Podcast Address! In this address, we will talk about some of the achievements and progress the podcast has made as well as what’s to come for the Hindsight Universe.
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential...these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. - Confucius
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The Dunkin’ saga is beginning to heat up as the plot thickens. Who is safe? Who goes home? Find out this week on love island!
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. - Confucius
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The Dunkin Saga returns from the void of accidental deletion! Today we have a new character added to the mix as we set up the big showdown (that's an exaggeration) and as we set the future of the series.
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. - Lao Tzu
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So I accidentally deleted the next chapter of The Dunkin’ Saga and I was running out of time to get this episode up in time so today you get the wonderful opportunity to enjoy my impromptu storytelling!
People in their handling of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure. - Lao Tzu
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The Dunkin’ Saga returns full of betrayal and heartbreak. Well, that’s a bit of an exaggeration but John from January 25, 2020, wouldn’t think so.
Make the best use of what's in your power and take the rest as it happens. - Epictetus
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The “Tales From” mini-series universe expands with an ancient tale of strength and courage set in the 10th layer of hell, the McDonald’s overnight shift.
"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it." - Thucydides
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We continue with the brand new “Tales from” series with a couple of bangers from my time in rehab, a place where you can see anything and everything even though you’re not allowed to leave the building.
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The Dunkin’ Saga is back, listen as I talk about how I got so mad I had a mental breakdown, it’s definitely quite the doozy
It isn't positions which lend distinction, but men who enhance positions. - Agesilaus
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Taking a trip down memory lane with the COVID virus and how we got it all wrong.
“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but of how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness” – Immanuel Kant
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It's the big day, let's see how it goes... Either way, let's do a quick look back over the last four years cause it all makes sense in hindsight.
“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it” – Epicurus
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We are back in the saga with a mental health episode, things are starting to come apart at the seams...
“Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination” – Immanuel Kant
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Let's chit chat about Martin Luther King stuff and the happenings of 2020.
”Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
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FBLA is just like every white-collar business, everyone looks professional and put together during the day but their nights are filled with debauchery. Let's talk about it!
“We live in the best of all possible worlds” – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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I come to you today with a tale from the trenches of the overnight shift at McDonald's, may this story find you well or at least better than I was on this day...
“Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature” – John Locke
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Ahh, time to relish in my tomfoolery from my 21st birthday as I now have to train a new shift leader.
“It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth” – John Locke
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Welcome to the aftermath of the firing squad, aka the post-apocalyptic Dunkin' Donuts. Or maybe I'm just exaggerating, my memory is a little fuzzy...
“Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly” – Francis Bacon
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I feel like I say the saga continues in every description but... The saga continues as we arrive on the day of reckoning but things are not how they seem.
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation” – Plato
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“It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true” – Bertrand Russell
Well said Bertrand, well said...
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A new challenger approaches It's the new manager! The saga continues as a new manager has arrived at Dunkin' and everything begins to get out of control.
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You know how people say a real friend is someone that you would call to help you hide a dead body? Yeah, I'm that friend...
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Taking a break from The Dunkin' Saga with a fun story about my uncomfortable experience at a coworker's Christmas party. Also, why am I so bad with dates??
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The saga continues as I proceed to out-stupid myself every single day of my life! Am I just dumb? Am I just unlucky? I don't know, maybe it's just karma...
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The saga continues as we find John trying to dig himself out of a hole he created!
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In the beginning, there were donuts and a man who just wanted to get paid... The Dunkin' saga begins!
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The last day of set-up! Join me as I talk about my return from the depths of rehab.
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The set-up continues with the 2018 quick review, welcome to rock bottom!
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Following 2016 was of course 2017, so the set-up continues as I go over my 2017 year.
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The story begins! But first, we need a little background to set the scene. Today I go over my 2016 year as the stage is being set.
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New year, new project! This episode is a quick explanation of what the podcast is and where it's going, hope you come along for the ride!
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