Sean
Appearances
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Markets turn Trump, Long rates spike, Election home stretch, Influencer mania, Saving Starbucks
My wife. My chef.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Markets turn Trump, Long rates spike, Election home stretch, Influencer mania, Saving Starbucks
Yeah, Sean.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Markets turn Trump, Long rates spike, Election home stretch, Influencer mania, Saving Starbucks
Please take off my sweater. Oh my God, this is so brutal.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Markets turn Trump, Long rates spike, Election home stretch, Influencer mania, Saving Starbucks
Well played.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Markets turn Trump, Long rates spike, Election home stretch, Influencer mania, Saving Starbucks
I mean, when are you going to drink it?
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Markets turn Trump, Long rates spike, Election home stretch, Influencer mania, Saving Starbucks
You're on fire.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Markets turn Trump, Long rates spike, Election home stretch, Influencer mania, Saving Starbucks
You're going to have to have the fifth best guy here.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Markets turn Trump, Long rates spike, Election home stretch, Influencer mania, Saving Starbucks
I knew that was coming.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Markets turn Trump, Long rates spike, Election home stretch, Influencer mania, Saving Starbucks
You don't want to be at what's called a party. Everybody in the world wants to do something except sex.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Markets turn Trump, Long rates spike, Election home stretch, Influencer mania, Saving Starbucks
Pandemic. He celebrates the pandemic for six months every year. Part of his new ritual to not see anybody for six months.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Markets turn Trump, Long rates spike, Election home stretch, Influencer mania, Saving Starbucks
Have you put your order in? J. Cal, what did you put your order in at?
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Markets turn Trump, Long rates spike, Election home stretch, Influencer mania, Saving Starbucks
Oh, sweetheart.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Markets turn Trump, Long rates spike, Election home stretch, Influencer mania, Saving Starbucks
She's like, you speak to me so much more kindly than Chamath does.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Markets turn Trump, Long rates spike, Election home stretch, Influencer mania, Saving Starbucks
I'm the world's greatest house guest. He's put together his own gift bag. Love you, besties. Love you, boys. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
In my defense, they were in green garbage bags.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
I tell you what, I'm doing okay. Thank you. You want to know something so bizarre? Yeah. I have that painting of the Great Dane. You do not.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
You have that exact one? The exact same one. No. How did you discover yours? My mom. Oh. Wow. I had a house for a long time with nothing on the walls and she's like, here's a great Dane. And it's the exact same one.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
Well, it is. I would probably get some stock in it if I could.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
Just outside of Phoenix, but I'm originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
Yeah, very much. I think we did a little bit better in the Rust Belt, but hey, what can you do?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
This is a long time ago, 89 to 91. Not even sure if I remember. But on New Year's Day, there's the Polar Bear Club. And my friend, Billy, had a house with an in-ground pool. So he had a party every year, as you can see.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
So we hop in, swim to the wall and back and out. Oh, God. A bunch of us did this and kept going back inside, drinking a lot of tequila, a lot of Sierra Nevada pale ale in a keg back then, which was like unheard of. especially in Pittsburgh. That's an expensive K. We had to special order it in. But anyway, got his fireplace going. We're having a great time. We decide, hey, let's go do it again.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
Hop back in. We're having a blast. We come back in, drink more tequila, throw more firewood in the fireplace. Then the next thing you know, there's smoke pouring into the house.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
We don't know what is going on, but there's about 12 people
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
drunk guys i mean really a mess obliterated drinking this much tequila and beer have no clue what is happening so anyway we end up trying to get people out of the house and of course you know i'm bulletproof at 22 years old so i pull the attic open figure that's got to be where the fire is okay so i peek up in there and then the whole roof just starts to go emblazoned
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
Oh, okay. So we get everybody out of the house. You know, other than the house burning, everything seems to be okay. But it doesn't stop there. My friend, Billy, whose house it is. Now, back then, he had a Nissan Pathfinder. So Billy said to me, please move my Nissan Pathfinder. So sure, I go out there, put the key in the lock, and it snaps off.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
So not only did his house burn down, but the pathfinder melted along with the house. Oh, my God.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
Well, yeah, we put too much wood in, but he barely ever used his fireplace and there were cracks in the flue up top. So the sparks were going up. And going out through the... Oh. Attic. Yeah.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
All the fire trucks show up. Everybody's outside. I see the fire chief's Suburban, and I just crawled into the back seat and took a nap. Oh, went straight to sleep. I am done. Wow. Wow. So the last thing I remembered... was the fire chief waking me up saying, hey, you can go back in the house. All that was left was the two brick walls on the side. Oh, jeez. Oh, fuck. It burnt all the way down.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
All the way down. Oh. He did rebuild. Every year after that, he had the burn the mother to the ground party. Oh. Oh my God, this guy, is he alive still? No, you know what? Sadly, he passed away from alcoholism addiction. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Years ago. Yeah.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
I'm very moderate. You know, I like a beer now and then, a glass of wine now and then, but that's it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
Oh God, yeah. It was just incredible. When I saw that you guys wanted stories about winter holidays... I figured. She can't even look.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
Yeah, you've lost all material items. You've literally lost everything. Yeah. It does suck, though. I have a son. He's an addict. He's in recovery over in Oceanside right now. He's doing great, though. He's doing the steps. I think he went through step eight, finished up this weekend. Oh, awesome. So very proud of him doing that. Yeah. Yeah. Good for him. Yeah.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
But I found out about you guys through Bridget and Crystal, two beautiful souls that are in my life. They say hello and they love you. Oh, wonderful.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
No doubt about it. I appreciate you guys. Happy holidays to you.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 541 - NP-Ari (feat. Ari Shaffir)
The dad jacked him off, too. You told me about that. He fucked the whole family. He fucked an entire family.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 541 - NP-Ari (feat. Ari Shaffir)
You just get a buzz at the tailgate from people who fucking next to you.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 541 - NP-Ari (feat. Ari Shaffir)
And just to have people be like, yo, for real, dude, this isn't it, all right? This isn't it, so fuck you. It's so fucking funny. I talk to the dude who did it, and he's like, I'm going to fire up three more right away.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 541 - NP-Ari (feat. Ari Shaffir)
And then it's just about Garfield selling pussy and John being sexually bothered on the streets as he tries to find out what's happening. It's so funny. It's just people trying to force John to do gay stuff with him. To find his lost cat. Every time he brings it up, people are like, I fucked that bitch last week.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 541 - NP-Ari (feat. Ari Shaffir)
Oh, dude. You're thinking what I'm thinking.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 541 - NP-Ari (feat. Ari Shaffir)
That pod squad is like Thomas the Tank Engine.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Yo! I was ready this morning, man. You should have called me at 6.30. I woke up being like, I'm ready to fucking podcast.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Yeah, no little, I mean, I wouldn't mind some little cannon fodder.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
The cool thing is, so you get hit, you go out, you can't be hit for six seconds until you come back to, like, your gun makes a noise. So that was like, yeah, if you got hit, you're out. You couldn't get hit again. But there was also these big power-up detonators that, like, if it would be, like, three, two, if you hit it in time, you get, like, your gun would get, like, contra, like, super ammo.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Or you have, like, an ammo count. It was kind of nuts. But, yeah, there was a lot. You could get, like, there was, like, landmines around you. Like, if they went off near you, you were just, it was pretty sick. Yeah.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
laser tag man it was yeah even better than i remembered and i played i mean i gave it literally my all like i was yeah first game was a learning curve i had to figure out a couple things about gameplay second game i was ripping dude it was fun you have like rank you come out you see like your stat it's dude i mean it's literally called who was number one guard dog you're claiming you were number one i was number two but tootsie roll was number one and he was on my team tootsie roll was red what
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
I believe number one of the first game was Rhett.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
I got like 11th and then eighth. But here's the thing.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
The one thing I don't like, they do kind of reward cowardice in battle.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
yeah i was moving that's just i mean that was that was good but i was storming castles i was going in but i was getting hit a lot and i'm just kidding i'm not fucking with you i'm not playing with you i'm not messing with you you have some cowardice but that's fine no i wasn't you were tactician i i was you know i was tactical i have a question for spider when were these farts happening during the game or where was this that the farts was it in the cake room yeah
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
But he said his music was ass because he was like, I just, it threw off my whole thing. Especially if you're rapping using the N-word and you take it away.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Yeah, exactly. Although I'm sure laser tag fog doesn't help. That's probably... Probably traps the farts. By carrying the fog. And Guardian, I'm just kidding. You didn't... You weren't playing like a character. You fought bravely and you fought well. I'm just being jealous.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Oh, my God. Shane Gillis is breaking into the thing. Shane Gillis is smacking a diva. Oh, my God.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Yeah. That'd be tight. I mean, everyone wants to have McConaughey energy just rub off on them. It was awesome. It's just like looking people in the eye. I'm like, ah.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
But yeah, so then he came back after the shit wasn't working. He goes, I'm going to do it. They're like, no, no, no. I'm going to do it again. He's back on his bullshit.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
I was just having fun Damn after the diva fucking was that after the diva told you I thought I could get him I thought I spent the rest of the night pretending to be angry
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Yeah. Yeah, dude, they fucking invented wrestling. They invented fake wrestling. It's luchadores. Yeah, luchadores, dude.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
That should be... The WWE should change their slogan to, let's get retarded in here. Like, for real, just like... It's awesome. Just throw off the weights of the world.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
It'd be crazy if you're like, yeah, actually, I'd like to see this in like two weeks.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Goddamn, dude. That was one reality show when I used to watch reality shows with my ex. That was when I liked the Divas show. Yeah, they were like, I kind of liked that. Usually you watch kind of reality shows like Vanderpump Rules. I'd watch Divas and be like, these seem like good down-to-earth people. These are good Divas. These are good Divas.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
The bros, just pro wrestler boyfriends, just being kind of supportive. Yeah.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
He lives in a castle. I mean, that's got to be crazy in a castle in Kentucky with like a goblet just thinking about the time he said the N-word. I mean, imagine though, because a lot of business heads are like really stoked on cursing. That's like a high level CEO thing. Because they're bad at it. I don't give a fuck.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Put him in the Undertaker casket for a weekend. See if he comes out and just kind of like trad, straightens out his weird sexual things. They did it the ultimate. It worked on the ultimate warrior. What'd they do? They just put him in the casket and he chilled? You remember they put him in the casket? The Undertaker put the ultimate warrior in a casket. He was never the same.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Back in like 94, they put the ultimate warrior in the casket for like a weekend. He came out and he was, bro, he was fucked up. That's not good. I remember being little and just being like, holy fuck, dude.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Something like that. I think they just snagged his ass.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
I gotta go to school tomorrow. He buried him alive?
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Damn, what about the guy who died? Didn't the guy for real die?
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
But people in the arena were like, oh. Yeah. Did they continue on with it?
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
I mean, you really can't stop it. That would be a vibe crusher.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Wait, hold on. He got kicked in the neck and he died? No.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Yeah. Dang, so what happens? What's a mega fan like you do when a wrestler dies in the ring?
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
I didn't mean to say Raven Serial killed that guy but yeah we know what you meant well I didn't know yeah I thought it was just that one guy who died it was a shame more people died how about that and then no one ever talks about all those pussies Vince McMahon fucking straight up killed dude after damn hell yeah yeah it was awesome that was a fun time nice man
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Dude, hear me out, dude. What if you start a new Fast and Furious franchise, but just take a different vehicle? What are you thinking? Lime scooters. Jailbroke lime scooters. Cruise.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
that's what i'm saying so yeah you gotta think you gotta think of something cool you can like pass underneath like a truck that's all you need is one one cool lane switch to set off the whole 10 movie franchise that was big that was i was done after that i was like yep sign me up for 14 more of these things yep they haven't gone in space yet have they yeah fast and furious is in space they launched uh ludacris and tyrese into outer space in a car i'm not fucking joking dude
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Did they? I got to ask. Did they ride dirty into outer space? They did. Why'd they launch him into outer space? I have no idea. I didn't see the movie. I just saw that clip. That's got to be... I mean, dude, that's got to feel crazy when you're like your 10th movie in and you're just like... You know it's like a trope and a cliche to like, all right, we got to go to space now.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
And it's being like, it's got to be actually kind of a sweet moment. We're like, dude, we've made literally so much money. We have to go to space.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
We're taking the franchise into space. And you're like, everyone just clings glasses and like, dude, our descendants will never have to work. We've taken a movie franchise into space. Now we have a billion dollars.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
We were at a happy hour when he called our one co-worker. Wow, wow. It was so awesome.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
They also got to miss me with that other stuff, bro.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
I know. Heavy Pauls on the last paragraph. Join me in the fun this Sunday. We're going to have big runs. I like that. Big scores and obviously big buckets of brewskis. Yo. Can't forget the brewskis. What can't you forget? Big buckets of brewskis, bro. Big buckets of brewskis. Big buckets, dude. and hopefully big wins on prize picks. Combine up to six picks.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
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Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
That happens when you're in an office. You're like in school forever, essentially. Yeah. Like, you can't say bad words. No bad words.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
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Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
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Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Oh, I have to do a... Please come to Dania Beach, Florida. That's a big one. Dania Beach, Florida. I'll be there next weekend, I believe. And the Bang Bus guy. And the Bang Bus-er. Oh, yeah, I talked about that.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Bang Bus-er, don't come get me. The Funny Bone, Columbus, Ohio, February 21st. Comedy Castle, Royal Oaks. The Funny Bone, Omaha, Nebraska. Laugh Out Loud. San Antone, Cobbs Comedy. In Sacramento, California, Seattle, Washington. That's everywhere I'm going to do until May.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
That might have been the first. That was, I think, the first set of tits I saw in an actual movie was Leprechaun in Space. Yeah. Bro, I'd be so mad if I was in Space and there was an evil leprechaun. Was Jennifer Aniston in that? She's in one of them. She might be. She's in a fucking leprechaun, bro. Is she really? Yes. It wasn't her tits, though. Leprechaun was a big movie franchise.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
i'd go no i'm fucking jennifer aniston i'd be leaning into him i was like yeah while you guys thought i was killing my gay chef and smoking crack and doing all that other stuff i was actually plugging aniston so fuck you guys dude for saying that'd be sick i would support him if you had if you were obama and you had to own up to two rumors which would you own up to uh drone striking all those civilians way before i admit to killing my gay chef
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Mike handled my fucking light work, bro. I watched. I just diddied out and watched.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
I don't like... I don't know why it's acceptable. There's this guy from Denver who like... He's asking questions, and the whole thing is supposed to be like, all right, did you say these things in the past? And then RFK's like, well, like, kind of said that, but let me clarify. And he's like, I don't care what you're saying now. I want to know what you said then.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
It's like, well, why do you care what he said then if you don't care what he said now?
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
I mean, I get it, because it's like, you're just saying that to get into this position. But it was just so lame to be like.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Yeah, he was like, I don't want to hear that part. You're like, dude, what the fuck?
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
I can't stop watching videos about that white rapper who keeps saying the N-word. He's like, I'm ready to punch on it. He's ready to punch over it. If you even think someone's looking at him sideways, he's like, I'm ready to punch about it. I think that's the only way he's a giant man.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Does it have a butt flap? Yeah, dude, I that was like really insane, dude. I watched a good amount of it. I didn't watch, I listened to it, but my video was playing while I was driving on the way over here. And I was just like, dude, just let the guy talk, man.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
You can hold his feet to the fire on stuff, but they do that, I hate to say, kind of like girl stuff, where they'd be like, no, no, no, that's what you said, okay. And you're like, oh, hold on, what the fuck? What are we doing here? Oh, that's what you said. No, that's what you said.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Yeah, and it's also like, what I think a lot of it is, is like, all right, let's just get the clip of us making him seem like he doesn't know what he's talking about, bang, and just go.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Yeah, I mean, I will say there's like an age. It's like if you commit a crime when you're minor and forgiven.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
But there's a threshold. Into adulthood, if you're video game lying, it's like, bro.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
I always get so scared to sleep at work. I've tried it. I did it in an office. There was one guy who wouldn't come in on a certain day and I would go to his, like, office. It was all, like, dark. There was no lights on. I would just lay in the corner and try to sleep. That fucking rules, though. But I'd be so fucking, like... Oh, yeah. If I get caught. Yeah, I was worried about getting caught.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Hiring a guy to be like, yo, get nice in this video game.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
See, if it's just for a passion project where you're like, damn, that level's really hard, I'm a billionaire, why am I sweating over this? I'll hire someone to beat this level for me and come back. Just so I can watch the storyline. That would be sick to get briefed. You're a billionaire. So what happened? Briefing on Diablo. Yeah, briefing on Diablo. I was like, that's so sick.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
So he paid to... Mr. Musk, did you use Game Genie?
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Or just be like, I like to play video games every now and again. You don't have to be a world-ranked player. That's crazy. That is crazy. Although he is. I don't know. Is he the first case of unchecked autism? Pretty much. Have we had autistic billionaires before? We had to have had a couple.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
I feel like you... What an autistic video game liar. That's the fundamental question here. You know what I'm saying? I don't think they lie. I feel like there's a code. Those bros... Especially on the vidges. That's what I'm saying. That'd be like being like, I know I could quote the whole Sonic movie back and forth and being like, bro, bro, you're lying, dude.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
It's like I hired somebody to fucking read me the Sonic lines so I could be autistic. Yeah. I hope that's not true. The thing that's been freaking me out about that kind of stuff is like, and again, I don't know if this is real or not, but like people hiring, like being their own hype man in the comments.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
I've like, I've seen multiple stories about different people doing this where it's like busted. They like bust up the comments, bro.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
That would feel good to like anonymously be like, actually, he's actually pretty fucking sick. I don't know, but he was on laser tech. He was number six. But yeah, people, they like the screenshots again, you know, whether or not it's true or not, you never know. But it's like, there was like a screenshot of them busting up their Twitter account. And then you saw the alt underneath it.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Sleeping at work, if you can somehow pull it off, I mean, that's the ultimate.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
And it's like, that's the, and then they'll show the top comment and like, yo, this person's
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Yeah, that's crazy. Or if like you hire someone to do social media, like, you know, while you're at it, set up that other account. How about you say a couple of nice things about me?
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
It's like I'd rather be caught fapping accidentally on Zoom than have somebody catch me hyping myself, dude. That's devastating. Be like, actually, he's like really fucking cool.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Night shift is like people do sleep. Night shift ruled. It's kind of accepted to sleep on night shift. I liked night shift. Yeah, it's kind of acceptable to be like, dude, I'm going to go fucking take an hour long nap.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Yes, I could imagine that being a gigantic waste of money.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
You're the DEI instructor. You come back with like hard PTSD. Get out of here, you fucking gay bitch.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
They're the best. It's a shame we can't get along better, man. It'd be so cool to just like... We can get along with Africa. We do, for sure. Yeah, we can chill with those. But I'm saying, we gotta stop fighting. Every other country, so all of our, like, think about our enemies, dude, abroad. China's, you know, like it or hate it. China's hilarious. They're funny as hell, dude.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Yeah, they're funny as fuck. They're funny as hell.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
That's their, like, remember how the soldiers got, like, peanut butter, German soldiers got peanut butter for the first time in World War II? They're just watching fucking Fail Army, like, holy shit, everything I've ever been told is a fucking lie. This shit is awesome.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
yeah that's gotta be crazy man especially getting tossed into russia and having russians be like oh you didn't know about this shit yeah check this shit out blue jeans check this shit out although tucker was saying russia's chill as hell i watched that one video where he went to a supermarket yeah looked like an aldi's where he was just like this is amazing they have everything here fresh produce
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
yeah they have stuff there although apparently uh you're never gonna believe it russia has stuff russia has stuff or they apparently putin called i think putin is trying to rile up the right wing bros he's like yo actually send falchi over here i'll deal with his ass and everyone's like yeah we'll fuck on twitter like i'll send him over here right now you'd be surprised he's uh it's pretty it is pretty massive they also said the biden administration tried to kill him
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
I'm just watching fucking RFK get in there, and they're like, you think fucking kids... You don't like Pop-Tarts? You don't fucking like Pop-Tarts? Fuck you. All the kids are going to die. It is crazy. He's like, look, it's not working. Health-wise, we're not doing well. They're like, we understand that, but didn't you say that... And it's just like, dude, let it go. You guys had it.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
You guys held down the fort. They held down the fort. You had fucking... Fort sucked. You had the Fouch Man in there. You guys got your... How long was he in there for? Fucking forever. He's in there for fucking ever, dude. It's like, let's fucking roll the dice, man. We're all fat as hell. Let's roll the fucking dice. I got type 2 motherfucking diabetes almost.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
I wouldn't mind switching things up a little bit, dude. Switch it up. Yeah, I was over here like, dude, I'm probably one of the healthiest guys I know.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
This is truth. But yeah, hopefully we come out of it. I think after two more years we might come out. All right. They do got to stop fucking lying and doing Nazi salutes. I just wish. I just wish they'd stop. Video game lying is what you wish. Video game lying, no Nazi saluting.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Heart goes out to you. That's a gray area up for interpretation. Video game lying is... It's black and white, man. It's cut and dry like... Oh, man, I pray that's not true. You guys looked at it. I need to know. Yeah, he did. It is true. He admitted it.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Tom Fuller. Yeah. There's like money in those open world games that like becomes almost like real money. Like it becomes like you could, you know, it's like a tradable commodity.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
It is sick to have a storm being like, I got to get a higher fucking Diablo rank.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Yeah, that is the ultimate. I mean, that's like the click remote of being able to just be like, I'm going to accelerate time. Let me just lose consciousness for a while. Wake up.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Whatever. At least he owned up to it. At least he's fucking... That's good. Holding it down. That'd be crazy if he held it down Watergate style. I was like, I'll never fucking admit it.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Yeah, true. I would have been like, we got to invade Vietnam again, actually, just to distract the whole population. Fucking bomb Vietnam.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Dude, that's like reading a fucking book. Yeah, it was a lot.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
That's a sick move, actually. That does create like a little sanctuary blast zone. I'm just watching this thing about a horrible... Watching Vietnam, you guys are not going to watch it. Yeah. It is like one of those frequencies. It's a scarecrow. It's a scarecrow.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Yeah, it's tough. It's tough to lay on the floor in business casual and take a nap. Here's something like a sweater vest.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Yeah, that's fucked up. That's crazy. The book I read, the Born Again book with the guy Chuck Colson, who was like his dude who went to jail for Watergate or one of the guys who went to jail. I remember him claiming like they had these peace talks going. They got like sabotage. But that was before he even got in there.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Oh, yeah. They don't talk about that. That's pretty bad.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Yeah, this is not a good idea. The idea was they were under the threat of becoming communists and we were supposed to go in there and be like, hey guys, come on man, don't do that. Then we just started shooting people.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
What was the upside for America, though? I don't know.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
That is a giant psychological victory to be like, yeah, I don't give a fuck.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
yeah but i just don't understand i never i can never understand how it started like world war one was archduke ferdinand they're like oh fuck like i get the beginnings of that i've never there was was there like in like the civil war there was like fort sumter was the first battle i never understood like the first battle where they're like hey oh shit well vietnam didn't have like it did have battles but it was another it was like it was a weird war there wasn't like uh
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Dude, I had possibly, so I went to laser tag for my birthday. I didn't want to do anything. Brittany asked, like, so what do you want to do? I was just like, dude, I just want to like eat like dinner and just go to sleep. I'm like, kind of, you know, she's like, we're going to do, we're going to do laser tag. And I was like,
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
So you have to just like, you have to like just take out the communist leaders. That's like the military objective.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
That is pretty exciting. I mean, dude, I never really knew. I knew it was like a. Yeah, I never knew anything about Vietnam.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
I mean, it does, you know, I don't know. Yeah, I still, I got a, I did Marty Ben's podcast on Bitcoin. Nice. Yesterday, so I had the same experience.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
I'm a little bit clear. I don't know what it is. It's like one of the greatest technologies man's ever done. I can do that. I can do that. So, dude, he was explaining it yesterday. How do they mine it?
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
So, this is my understanding of it. Somebody tell me. This is my hard-earned, and I don't know if this is even correct, but... So there's like a computer network that is somehow securing Bitcoin by solving this like mathematical equation the founder set out to where like it increases in difficulty. So if like a lot of Bitcoins are being mined, You're mining a Bitcoin.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
You're being rewarded for dedicating computing power that then secures the network itself, which is just this weird mathematical function that can be solved. And then for solving it, you get a little Bitcoin as a reward. But then the network knows the problem's being solved, so it ups the difficulty. And then it tethers back and forth. It was weird as fuck. Yeah, but that doesn't make any sense.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Yeah, not really. I don't understand it either.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
So it can't be... The big thing is the fiat currency.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
True. The fiat currency is the big port of... Where it's like any currency is... like the policy dictating like the worth of the currency is dictated by a centralized government body. But Bitcoin, the network through which it's exchanged, that is somehow bolstered by like voluntary computer power that is given Bitcoin as a result, as a reward.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Alright, I actually might be kind of sick dude then I made I I wouldn't I don't know if I'd call it a mistake But I was like I'm gonna get like really stoned and just go to laser tag. That'll be kind of fun, dude So I'd like I said I ate a little edible and they in on the before I went in there I was like smoked a joint in my car.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
allows for it to never be centralized and dictated in a way where like you know if you own if you have all your money in usd and they're printing out tons of us dollars it fucks up your money like your money in a bank is of course literally dissipating if it's not if you're not investing your money's disappearing under inflation like a part of it is just disintegrating yeah and bitcoin's argument is that it won't do that because they're not they're only going to ever put out 21 million bitcoins that's like the whole thing it's just and but i'm like yeah but like
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
So you can just save it. I guess you can just save it and just put it, use it as like a savings account. That was the whole, let me just talk about other stuff, but it was cool to hear about like hash point. I still don't understand that. He's like, well, then it reaches the hash point. The hash point dictates the difficulty level. And it was just like, bro, let me know.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
I hope it goes up to 200, man. That's all I know. Yeah.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
They don't like it, dude. No. They don't like it. Well, because it apparently just totally undermines the way Wall Street functions. I don't know. Again, I'm out of my depth on that, too. But I did get a little bit. Now I understand what mining Bitcoin is. It's like dedicating computers. You have a computer, and it just does math problems, really hard math problems all day.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
And then every now and again, you're like, damn, you just got a fraction of a Bitcoin. You're like, yes. It's Math Castle. It's stupid. It's literally Math Castle. I don't like that. You have Math Castle. You have like a huge rack of computer servers doing Math Castle every now and again. Yeah. Yoshi or whatever his name is. Yoshi is like... You get a Mario coin and you go, yes!
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
The network. The network having its... The network just gets bigger. Yeah. Bigger and more secure. So it's like with the more computing power you have dedicated for some reason to doing these math problems, that way like when an exchange happens, it's somehow validated within the thing. It's like, yep, this definitely happened. It's like a...
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
kind of a worry-free way to exchange money like they're saying you can't scam it from what i've heard i don't know if you can or not so it was pretty cool i got i got bitcoin pill yesterday and i was like damn it's kind of sick i always wanted just to know because i don't know literally anything about it and these dudes are like you seem to have an idea of what bitcoin is
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
I'm like, dude, how hard is this math problem? And how the fuck did a guy... It's 13 times 7.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Yeah, we got into quantum computing. I was like... That makes no sense, quantum computing. No sense at all. Because quantum mechanics has to deal with the teeniest, tiniest specs of matter possible. And I'm like, okay, I understand that, but how the fuck does you have a computer dealing in that?
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
I guess instead of megabytes, it's minibytes. And you go, oh, shit. It's minibytes. It's just unparalleled computing power. What do you have? They're called qubits. Qubits? They're called what?
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Dude, the battle was great. What really rocked me was pre-battle administrative stuff with the laser tag employees because I thought Brittany was going to handle all that. We forgot the cake. So I was like, oh, fuck. So she was on the phone trying to get someone to bring the cake to the laser tag place, which I had a kid's party room, which was the fuck. It was so funny.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
So it's not 0-1. The program's not 0-1-0-1. Yeah. It's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
It's fluid. It's just like 1-2-3-4-2-5-6-9-9-9. Oh, shit. I didn't even think about 2s.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
I said a little sequestered room with purple chairs.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Yeah, it was nom, dude It was totally knowledge now, but I when I walked in there the mayor go first like they did in Vietnam You clear out the tunnels you're black you scout So it was like the bros some of the bros from the neighborhood and like so we all go But I was me and Brittany were like there first and she was like you talked to like set it all up I gotta figure out this to cake and I'm like pretty fucking high and
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Yeah, there's dirty. There's my punch over this. They could punch over it. But there are. So I've met a couple of dirty white boys who were just like casually not like they're just casually drop the N word in conversation. I just be kind of like.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
And I don't know how to... You're trying to figure out a cake. Well, I'm trying to figure out rules of combat. Logistics of getting a cake. I'm trying to figure out logistics of battle.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
It was like maybe in their mid... This is what bugged me out. So I'm like very high. Bernie's handling, obviously, the fucking food. Yeah. She's like, that's like, you know, slop, just rations for the soldiers. And then it's like, I got to figure out logistics. So I go in and I'm talking to this... I mean, maybe in her mid-20s or 30s. There's, like, just ladies.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Well, that's what I thought. I didn't want to, like, sound shitty, but I was so high. The lady was talking to me. I couldn't hear a word she was saying because I was like, damn, you work at laser tech. Like, not, like, in a condescending way, but I was, like, fully the reality of working at Lasertag as an adult. Exactly.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
I was just being, like, completely untethered by it, being like, what the fuck, dude? And then in there, it was a slow night. It was Monday night. So there was, like, Lasertag and then, like, Slash Arcade. I was just like taking in the whole ecosystem of being like, who owns this place? You two fucking work here at laser tech. I was like, damn, this is crazy.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
And then there was like, like a couple of, but then there was like, then there were these, like, you don't a casino. You'll have like the real card sharks and like card counters. There were like weird, like cat, like nerds walking around just quietly by themselves. Just pulling tickets out of machines. That's where I saw that video.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
He almost didn't make the first battle. He almost deserted. I searched all over for him.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Dude, you know the level of nerds, like you'll just see them somewhere and they're just sitting like this? There was like those level of nerds.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Just just sharking. Yeah, like fucking arcade games like devastating this fucking business You jack off like that
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
A little bit. It's a real delineator where you're like, yeah, shit. They're like sussing me out. They're like, I think I could. Yeah, it was kind of like one of those things where like, yeah, I'm not really about this life. You guys are living.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Me, I left them there. Never mind. I was crushing basketball and I got like a gazillion tickets and I left them down. I was like, there was a couple of kids in there. I'm like, yeah, maybe the kids will take these tickets.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
LaMare and Nate were in one car and Gardini was in his and me and Brittany were behind them and we just see them, those two pull up at a light and I just see fucking, or it was like getting on a highway and I just see LaMare's sword come out of the window.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
It was so funny. Dude, the gameplay. And we're going to go back, too. I'm going to. I got to play again. Laser tag rules. Dude, this is the biggest indoor laser tag place. What's it called? Down south. Blazer tag.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
okay dude i'm not gonna it was the aliens on the yes yeah yeah yeah i drive past it all the time and i'm like oh i need to get that is the mothership bro i'm telling you it's it's 10 times more fun than you i like that was the thing i was like i got in there i'm like just standing there all high being like what the fuck dude this is like embarrassing everyone's gonna play laser tag for me
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
And then I got in there, and I'm like, this is maybe the most fun I've had. It's so fun. Bruh, and the fucking, the action of those things was good. Some laser tags, kind of bullshit. These things were kind of precise, bro.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Oh, that's the best. Bro, there was little cutouts you could kind of hide and snipe.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
You could storm. And there was three color-coded teams, so it was like red, blue, blue.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
green and then like you would have to run around see someone's vest you'd see your your fucking your allies then you end up like taking over a chunk of like a base and just battling across and like i would try to storm the castle dude it was were you running yes yeah i i broke the rules i was running i knew you were running my name i was worried i'm gonna talk to that woman sliding i was sliding you're not sliding yes i did this is a call dude there is a ramp there's there's like down ramps and shit first of all my my name was butt stuff because you bet to make your own name
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
James tried to be 69 and she's like, you can't be that. So he's like, I'll be thick daddy. And I was like, I'll take B-U-T-T-S-T-U-F-F. And they just walked away real quick. Butt stuff.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Lemaire walks in late. There's this whole group. It's probably like 18 people. Lemaire, you got to give the lady a name. He just goes, is Spider taken yet? She's like, no, you're good. He's like, yes.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
There was one point where I'm, like, ducking. You can, like, duck and come up these things. And, you know, I'd see people over there. And I, like, I knew someone was, like, right around the corner. So I, like, crawl up a ramp. And then I jump slid out sideways.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Yeah. It was just Lily going, what the fuck are you doing? I was like, my bad. I'm sorry. Yeah, dude, I was belly crawl. Because you crawl on your belly, you're blocking the whole front. Crawl on my belly, pop up. And then my cousin was up high, hit me in the back on balls. I was like, dude, what the fuck? Damn. Yeah, it was. We have to go back and do that again, dude. It is.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
I mean, I couldn't believe, I couldn't get over how fun that was. Played two games.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Yeah, he was Australian Special Forces in there, dude. He was. He was.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Yeah, it was pretty nasty. Nate was unking around. It was pretty funny.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
Yeah. You know? Yeah, I mean, he... I mean, his name's Gene Lee, by the way. That's his rapper. That's his rapper. Yes. Gene Lee. and uh he's just like the problem was he stopped saying it because he like started getting some success and he had like people like managers being like you gotta stop saying the end that'll happen He had managers like, yo, you got to stop.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
And I said, I literally told her, I was like, I have a suspect, but I don't want to be unfair. I have blazer tags most wanted.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
I got back that night and I was just reflecting on my 39th birthday.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 543 - Spyder's Web
i was kind of the kids were there right no it was just oh my god my kids could i would never put them in battle like that i thought for sure this was a family affair no this was an adult just adults adults only was it but there was definitely just little kids in there with you it was no it was private oh it was private we didn't rent the whole thing out but it was our group and then there was another group between ours we got like a 15 minute break and then our group went back in oh that's awesome
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
"I Feel Behind in My Career. Help!"
And I was actually still in college when I pretty much started working full time at the Gardner News. I was a correspondent, but I was doing four or five stories a week while I was still in school. I'm also very much like I see something new that I like and I'm all about it, but I can easily get burned out. Things catch my eye and it's like, well, I want to do that now.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
"I Feel Behind in My Career. Help!"
That's also hurt me in my career because I think about. I don't want to get sidetracked, but my wife, who I love dearly, she did not go to college, but she's bright. She got a job at a corporation when she was 20 years old. She's worked at that corporation since then. She's a mid-level manager now, and she makes like $70,000 a year. And it only happened because she stuck with it.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
"I Feel Behind in My Career. Help!"
even now, like I'm super proud of my current position. Like, so Jason, we talked about how I told you I make $26 an hour. Now I started here less than three years ago and I started at $19 an hour. Hmm.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
"I Feel Behind in My Career. Help!"
I think I'd like to make like $100,000 a year. Okay, okay. I'm happy with everything about my job except money.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
"I Feel Behind in My Career. Help!"
Process something I should be doing.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
"I Feel Behind in My Career. Help!"
I love writing. I like teaching. I do like imparting my knowledge on others. And I don't know if that's different than teaching. I don't want to get into semantics. It's different than teaching children, I think. Teaching adults is a different thing, especially if they have the desire to learn. Maybe I've always not wondered, like, are people going to want to hear what I have to say?
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
"I Feel Behind in My Career. Help!"
Would they value what I have to teach them, I guess, is... The question again, this goes back to not sticking at things for very long. Like I can't say Sean has been a paralegal for 20 plus years. Come learn from him.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
"I Feel Behind in My Career. Help!"
I really like that idea. The law firm here is part of an organization that does like seminars and things for lawyers. And during the seminars, they always have people that present their products and things like that. And I could picture myself presenting my products like how to write like a human. Yes.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
"I Feel Behind in My Career. Help!"
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Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
"I Feel Behind in My Career. Help!"
Theoretically, I could do that while still being committed to my current job. It's something that you can start and then see how it goes. And maybe it turns out that it's wildly successful and I don't need to be a paralegal, but maybe it doesn't. And it just means it's a way that I can get to that number that I need to be at.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
"I Feel Behind in My Career. Help!"
I really appreciate you guys today because I was thinking I was coming here and you guys would be like, Sean, don't you know that the hot new field is this? And maybe you could pursue a job in that. You can't just say to somebody like, oh, just go get a better job. Like that's not really a valid thing. You got to look at things differently. You guys definitely helped me do that.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
"I Feel Behind in My Career. Help!"
I've never heard of it. So I have to go look.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
"I Feel Behind in My Career. Help!"
So Jason, I heard an episode a couple weeks ago and you were talking about, you know, the way you got started was coming up with basically inventing memes. And you talked about your Twitter, the Twitter thing, selfies at funerals, stuff like that. But If we go way back, what I remember you getting your start with was scamming the scammers.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
"I Feel Behind in My Career. Help!"
And your original website way long ago, the thing that drew me to your creativity was this month long conversation you had with a man from Nigeria. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yes. Yes.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
"I Feel Behind in My Career. Help!"
Thank you, Jason. I've been talking to everybody I work with now, like how I'm going to be talking with a guy today. And 20 years ago, we were like almost in the exact same position. We had both graduated from college. We're both starting our new career in the field of journalism at a small town newspaper. But things have definitely taken different paths for us.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
"I Feel Behind in My Career. Help!"
How did we end up in such different ways? And that's not to say your way is much better than my way or that I'm unsuccessful. But there are things that I wish maybe I would have done differently. So my question is now, how could I catch up? I haven't made the best career decisions in the past.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
"I Feel Behind in My Career. Help!"
And some other things have happened that have kind of made it so that I'm not where I want to be as far as my career goes.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
"I Feel Behind in My Career. Help!"
So if we go to the Wayback Machine to the Gardner News 20 years ago, Jason and I were both young reporters. I felt pretty successful there. If you've had to pick the ace of the staff at the time, it was me over Jason. I agree. I covered City Hall and our main city. I wrote massive amounts of stories. Jason already had big eyes back then. This was his stepping stone for sure.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
"I Feel Behind in My Career. Help!"
For me, it was my hometown newspaper. I always kind of feel a connection with my employers, like I'm very loyal in that way. And I had like this idealist view of local journalism and the battle we're fighting and the public service that we're providing. I was happy to be a local news reporter because it was so important.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
"I Feel Behind in My Career. Help!"
The primary reason was money. When I started at the newspaper, I think I made $10 an hour. This was 20 years ago. When I left, I think I was making $12 an hour. And it just wasn't feasible. So like I said, I had a lot of relationships in the community from being a reporter. And one of those was at the police department. And they had openings for police dispatcher.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
"I Feel Behind in My Career. Help!"
And to me at the time, the pay, I think it was like $40,000, which was significantly more than what I was making. And I liked the people there. I had a good relationship. I'm like, okay, I will do that. So I took that position. I worked overtime. I think I made $50,000 a year. To me at that time, it was good money.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
"I Feel Behind in My Career. Help!"
Yeah. So I get the job at the police department. I immediately know I'm not doing this the rest of my life. It was very monotonous. My favorite part of my job is I got to be an advisor for the Explorers program, which was a program that taught law enforcement to local high school kids. I really like working with kids. I said, I should be a teacher.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
"I Feel Behind in My Career. Help!"
In Massachusetts, you don't have to have a teaching degree. You just have to pass a test. There's two tests you have to take. I passed both of them and I had my teaching license. I had a hard time finding a job for a while, and eventually I found a non-traditional school. My salary is $30,000 a year. I went backwards, but I'm like, that's okay. I'm a teacher now. It will work itself out.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
"I Feel Behind in My Career. Help!"
I start to find a lot of success at my job. A few years in, I get nominated for an award, a national teaching award. I created an organic garden for my students. We called it the Fresh Start Organic Garden. It's amazing. And then the school was sold to another organization. The culture definitely changed. Fast forward three years and I can't really do it anymore.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
"I Feel Behind in My Career. Help!"
The kids have changed and a former boss of mine is a principal at a public school and they had no opening and I applied for that job and I got it. The salary at that position was $63,000 a year.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
"I Feel Behind in My Career. Help!"
Not really. So this is my research is I talked to an uncle that I have when my career change is happening. He's actually he's very smart. And he said, you know, what do you like doing? And we talked about things I like doing. He goes, have you ever thought about being a paralegal? He says, I think they make like seventy five thousand dollars a year. And me, I said, well, he's very smart.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
"I Feel Behind in My Career. Help!"
In my mind, I always kind of find ways to justify like, well, if they're doing the average paralegal in Massachusetts and they're including Boston and Boston's rates are going to be much higher than the rates in Worcester or the rates in Gardner. That's fine.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
"I Feel Behind in My Career. Help!"
I'm not going to drive to Boston to be a paralegal because I'd be spending so much money on the commute and my quality of life would be less. Maybe I have a hard time thinking, like, if I look that up, is it going to be accurate for me?
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
"I Feel Behind in My Career. Help!"
Part of the reason maybe that I hold on to jobs is maybe some of that fear as well. Like, I definitely could have left my job at the private nonprofit school many years before I did. And I think part of it was maybe it was insecurity about, well, I didn't go to school for teaching. Am I going to be able to go to another school and be okay?
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
"I Feel Behind in My Career. Help!"
Does that resonate? It absolutely does. Because I can even tell you, Jason, I went to school for one year to get my paralegal certificate because I had the opportunity to do so. Applied for jobs as soon as I finished. I took my second job offer and I did that because I'm scared. I need to get a job. And if we go way back, Jason, we talk about how our paths diverged.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
"I Feel Behind in My Career. Help!"
I don't want to make a pity party for me, but I think our backgrounds are pretty different as well. I don't know your full background, but I know that, you know, Your parents seemed to be okay. I remember your dad was a dentist.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
"I Feel Behind in My Career. Help!"
So my dad passed away when I was 20 years old and my mom wasn't in my life. So I was in college when my father passed away. My stepmother basically kicked me out of my house while I was still in college. Like I came home one weekend from college and she goes, your stuff's packed up. I don't know what you're doing, but you can't stay here. I was in a situation where I needed to have a job.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
"I Feel Behind in My Career. Help!"
I needed to know what was going on because I didn't have a safety net where if I went a significant amount of time without working that I would feel like I'd be surviving. But I think that's a big thing. It's like, Jason, you maybe had more of an opportunity when we were starting out back then. Like, hey, if I take a chance and something doesn't work out, I'm going to be okay.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
"I Feel Behind in My Career. Help!"
Yeah, I mean, I'm not afraid to follow the things that I want to do. So actually, when I started in college, I was a business major and I started working at the college newspaper, like in the business office, and they wanted to start a business page. And I said, I'll do it, even though I didn't study journalism. And I really liked it. And then so I added journalism as my second major.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2214 - Shane Smith
There's been reports about this stuff on Twitter, but it's just like Twitter reports. I haven't seen anyone show pictures or quotes. It's just like a Twitter account saying stuff like that.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2214 - Shane Smith
I think they made something so that they would know if it worked. If we're giving it this, as long as we see this at the end result, then success. Right. So I don't understand that.
The Ramsey Show
Draw a Line in the Sand and Say “I’m Done!”
Me and Dara, back in November, have a new son, a baby boy. We have $87,000 in debt. I've been in debt since I was like 18 years old.
The Ramsey Show
Draw a Line in the Sand and Say “I’m Done!”
Wake-up call. You know, open next 20 years. This is important. You know, we got to get this right.
The Ramsey Show
There’s Always a Way out of a Financial Spiral
Me and Dara, back in November, have a new son, a baby boy. We have $87,000 in debt. I've been in debt since I was like 18 years old.
The Ramsey Show
There’s Always a Way out of a Financial Spiral
Wake-up call. You know, open next 20 years. This is important. You know, we got to get this right.
Watch What Crappens
#2710 RHOSLC S5E18: Let’s Talk About the Huzzzbands
I didn't even know what a circle jerk was until two weeks ago.
Watch What Crappens
#2710 RHOSLC S5E18: Let’s Talk About the Huzzzbands
But I think that sometimes you have to realize that when you're saying things on camera, then they live on camera and then they can be repeated.
Watch What Crappens
#2710 RHOSLC S5E18: Let’s Talk About the Huzzzbands
So, you know what? I already talked to you. I already apologized to you.
Watch What Crappens
#2710 RHOSLC S5E18: Let’s Talk About the Huzzzbands
The only other time I had a conversation this bad was when my son in Bogota told me that his roommate tried to cut his hair with just regular scissors in the room. The only time I had a conversation that was harder than this was when I had to tell Henry that Xbox Live was down.