#199 - Are You Garbage?

Dear friends of the show Kevin Ryan and H. Foley from Are You Garbage? return to the pod to discuss their new special American Garbage (out now on YouTube), Foley living in Ian Fidance's basement, the status of everyone's Ozempic journey, scoring sketchy GLP-1's, acting on Tires, Wawa, egg bites, their divergent life trajectories, and much more. Kevin, Foley and Stav help callers including a guy who wants tips on kicking out his deadbeat friend who he let crash with him, and a plumber wondering if he should take a job at a data center. Watch Are You Garbage's new special American Garbage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77zGwlLffWk See the Are You Garbage? boys live and follow them on social media: https://areyougarbage.com/pages/live-shows www.youtube.com/@AreYouGarbage https://www.instagram.com/areyougarbage/ https://www.tiktok.com/@areyougarbage https://twitter.com/areyougarbage Thanks to our sponsors!! Visible - https://www.visible.com/ SWITCH NOW! Twisted Tea - https://www.twistedtea.com/locations Keep It Twisted!! ☎️ Want to be a part of the show? Call 904-800-STAV and leave a voicemail to get advice! 🎤 Watch Stav's new special Uncle Stav on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/82055929 ‼️ Bonus episodes every week! Unlock exclusive, Patreon-only episodes at https://www.patreon.com/stavvysworld 🎟️ See Stavvy live!! 🛥️💕!!! https://stavvy.biz/ for tickets

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• 1:30Stavros Halkias?

  Puppa, welcome everybody to Stavvy's World. 904-800-STOP. Call the Stavvy hotline, sponsored by Visible. We'll solve all your problems. And today on the couch, very happy to have, for the time being, half of my, one of my favorite podcasts, because, because one of our fat idiot friends couldn't be less than 40 minutes late to a podcast recording.

• 1:56Speaker 05

  At noon, by the way. At noon. Dude, I'm not even, I hate to shit on a guy who's not here.

• 2:03Stavros Halkias?

  No, no, no, don't worry. We will do plenty of it when he gets here, Kevin. I think you know.

• 2:08Speaker 05

  On Thursday, the last time I saw him, I go, hey, man, you gotta lock in. And he goes, I swear to God, he goes, I'm more locked in than I've ever been. And I went, we're in big, big trouble, guy. We are in big, big trouble, if you think this is funny.

• 2:22Stavros Halkias?

  It is funny, though, because I just saw him. Look, guys, sorry, you know how this works. We record a little different. The Tires premiere just happened. And I thought, I was like, wow, Foley looks better.

• 2:33Speaker 05

  That's a guy who's locked in right there.

• 2:34Stavros Halkias?

  He looked locked in. He actually did. He looked, somehow he lost like 100 pounds instantly. Like, I saw him when we were shooting Tires. He was, honestly, I was like, well, looks like I'm not gonna be the first one of our friends that dies, you know? And then, and then I saw him at the premiere. I was like, holy fuck.

• 2:51Speaker 05

  Yeah, he really, listen, he really.

• 2:53Stavros Halkias?

  He was looking great.

• 2:54Speaker 05

  He's looking great.

• 2:55Stavros Halkias?

  His energy was good.

• 2:56Speaker 05

  He's doing well. He's making the steps.

• 2:58Stavros Halkias?

  And then immediately.

• 3:00Speaker 05

  And then immediately drops the ball, dude. He can't get right.

• 3:03Stavros Halkias?

  And the thing is, like, look, ultimately, I don't really give a fuck, but I see how much it's, it's eating at you.

• 3:12Stavros Halkias?

  This is your life.

• 3:13Speaker 05

  I was just like, dude, we're just missing like 2:00 PM deadlines. This is crazy. I'm like, dude, like, I was like, I had to tell him, like, listen, we're not like, we're not working at fucking Walgreens here. Like, there's, we can, like.

• 3:25Stavros Halkias?

  Of course.

• 3:25Speaker 05

  We can break the rules we want, but at some point, you gotta.

• 3:29Stavros Halkias?

  You have to have some base professionalism, some absolute baseline.

• 3:33Speaker 05

  This isn't even our episode. Like, there's a, Stavvy's got a team of people. You know what I mean? Like, there's, there's, people are at work right now.

• 3:41Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, that is true. Including, we should say, our, our boy is here, getting ready to take Eldis's job. Eldis training his replacement.

• 3:50Speaker 06

  Or he's maybe taking my job by now, depending on the order these have come in.

• 3:54Stavros Halkias?

  Depending on where, by the time this comes out, Eldis will have put him, will have put him on paternity leave. And when he come, when he tries to key back into the building, the fucking door won't, the door won't unlock.

• 4:05Speaker 05

  You're gonna dilute all these shares?

• 4:09Speaker 06

  Hey, he kicked me out of the Instagram account. What's going on?

• 4:12Stavros Halkias?

  Don't worry about it, Eldis. I just wanted you to focus on your new child.

• 4:18Speaker 05

  That's sick, dude. Yeah, screw him over for sure. That's it. I don't know if you've ever tracked podcasts, but the, the OG producer's gotta go.

• 4:27Stavros Halkias?

  That is true.

• 4:28Speaker 05

  I don't know.

• 4:30Speaker 05

  I'm not talking about anybody specifically. Just look at, I mean.

• 4:35Stavros Halkias?

  I would, there is, there is.

• 4:36Speaker 05

  So everybody's OG producer is, leaves at some point, on their own will.

• 4:41Stavros Halkias?

  We would really, we, yeah, I can't wait till Eldis tries to start his own AI podcasting company.

• 4:47Speaker 06

  Red Band ripoff YouTube coming soon. I'm like, Stavros called out the anti-woke comedian to the industry.

• 4:56Stavros Halkias?

  You start, you start a reaction channel?

• 4:59Speaker 05

  I need more Eldis gossip.

• 5:02Stavros Halkias?

  Eld World.

• 5:05Speaker 05

  H. Foley didn't show up to the podcast. That's what he's doing. I respect it. Dude, I'll feed you inside dirt. Let me wet my beak on the back end, guy. I got all these guys dead to rights.

• 5:18Stavros Halkias?

  Eldis wants to be, Eldis wants to join the comedy TMZ fray.

• 5:21Speaker 06

  Downstream, baby, downstream. I'm, I'm going downstream with my water tub and just catching what I can.

• 5:30Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah. Eldis goes to like very low level comedy festivals and just acts like a fucking celebrity.

• 5:35Speaker 05

  He's at an open mic.

• 5:35Stavros Halkias?

  He acts like he's a scout for Stavvy's World. He's like, yeah, you got it, kid. How, we're so close. That's probably already happening.

• 5:42Speaker 05

  Can you say come 47 times in an hour?

• 5:44Stavros Halkias?

  Dude, I just realized there's probably producers going to like shitty shows, like producers of like mid-tier comedy podcasts, and trying to fuck like open, girl open micers right now.

• 5:57Speaker 05

  Listen, I am so involved.

• 5:58Stavros Halkias?

  That's disgusting.

• 5:59Speaker 05

  I'm so involved in.

• 6:00Stavros Halkias?

  It's not even movies. We don't even make anything that matters.

• 6:04Speaker 05

  We're waiting on our fat retarded friend to show up. Late, an hour late to a noon.

• 6:09Stavros Halkias?

  To us hanging out. Our job is hanging out, and that was too, I cannot wait till Foley gets here. And we should say also, you guys have a, maybe the last special you collaborate on.

• 6:21Speaker 05

  We have a YouTube special, I believe, out now, or maybe not, in somewhere, no, on our YouTube page. I believe we're going with American Garbage, so check that out.

• 6:30Stavros Halkias?

  Love that.

• 6:30Speaker 05

  It's all, if you've ever been to a live show or seen any live stuff, it's me and him on stage at the same time. We play AYG with the crowd. They send their garbage questions in, like, is he garbage? Have you loved your uncle when you were whatever?

• 6:42Stavros Halkias?

  Uh-oh, look who the fuck it is.

• 6:45Speaker 05

  Look at him go.

• 6:47Stavros Halkias?

  Look who the fuck it is.

• 6:52Stavros Halkias?

  Come on. Sit in, sit in, you piece of shit.

• 6:56Speaker 05

  Holy shit, I didn't know Henry was gonna be here.

• 6:58Stavros Halkias?

  Surprise guest. Yeah, we should have played it that way.

• 7:01Speaker 06

  I do have good news.

• 7:02Stavros Halkias?

  Okay.

• 7:03Speaker 06

  I might have pink eye.

• 7:07Stavros Halkias?

  Get a little too buck wild at the fucking Tires premiere, Foley?

• 7:11Speaker 05

  That's not pink eye. This guy comes in with the only lie I can prove right away. Look in my eye, it's completely fine.

• 7:18Stavros Halkias?

  That is the classic, like, that's an.

• 7:20Speaker 06

  My right eye knows not.

• 7:21Stavros Halkias?

  What, were you eating ass, Foley?

• 7:22Speaker 05

  That's like the inside.

• 7:23Stavros Halkias?

  Were you eating ass cheeks, Foley?

• 7:25Speaker 06

  Yeah, I did a little bit of that. I apologize.

• 7:29Stavros Halkias?

  What's going on, man?

• 7:31Speaker 06

  Killing, buddy, all is well. How you doing?

• 7:33Speaker 05

  No, no, no. Nice try.

• 7:35Stavros Halkias?

  Living the dream. Why was the noon deadline too much for you? What was going on in your life?

• 7:41Speaker 06

  I literally woke up at like 11:45.

• 7:42Stavros Halkias?

  Okay, respect.

• 7:43Speaker 06

  In a panic.

• 7:44Stavros Halkias?

  Okay.

• 7:44Speaker 05

  Which you should.

• 7:45Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 7:47Speaker 06

  In an absolute panic.

• 7:48Speaker 05

  Okay, well, I'm glad you're a fan.

• 7:50Speaker 06

  I went to bed at like 11 o'clock. I just slept right through the fucking night.

• 7:52Stavros Halkias?

  That's good. You know what? That's good. I feel like you need some sleep, Foley.

• 7:55Speaker 06

  Thanks, pal.

• 7:56Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah. How, how are you doing otherwise, man?

• 7:58Speaker 06

  Fantastic. I saw you three days ago.

• 8:00Stavros Halkias?

  I know, I know. It was beautiful.

• 8:01Speaker 05

  We didn't live in the podcast world. Saw you three days ago. I just had lunch with you.

• 8:07Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 8:07Speaker 05

  Um, it was, uh, it was a very, I texted him, sent a text to him personally.

• 8:13Stavros Halkias?

  Of course. Just me?

• 8:14Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 8:15Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 8:15Speaker 05

  Hey, 10 o'clock. Hey, I'm getting to the office early.

• 8:20Stavros Halkias?

  Maybe we could powwow before.

• 8:22Speaker 05

  I'm like, if you wanna link up, we can head to Stavvy's together. Right through that. I then text our group with like all the AYG guys. And I'm like, it's, I'm like, hey, this is what I'm thinking for this. We got the special coming. This is like all hands on. You've released the special. It's all hands on back.

• 8:38Stavros Halkias?

  I mean, we're, you're in the, we're in the middle of it.

• 8:39Speaker 05

  You're in it. We're aware.

• 8:40Stavros Halkias?

  In fact, Stavvy, Uncle Stav on Netflix right now.

• 8:42Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 8:43Stavros Halkias?

  Check it out. Hopefully by now, it's, uh, it's been number one for three weeks in a row.

• 8:49Speaker 06

  Is that true? Has it?

• 8:50Stavros Halkias?

  No.

• 8:54Speaker 05

  I pink eye's getting to your brain, dude.

• 8:56Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, you have pink brain. Conjunctivitis on your brainstem. No, it hasn't come out. Through the, through the magic of podcasting, Foley, uh, it has not come out yet.

• 9:06Speaker 06

  You're hoping by the time this comes out, it'll be number one.

• 9:08Stavros Halkias?

  It'll be, it'll be a phenomenon. That's exactly right. So even though you're like, you're sharp. You came out swinging. Um, so yeah, by, and American Garbage is already.

• 9:19Speaker 05

  American Garbage is out. It's number one on YouTube.

• 9:21Stavros Halkias?

  It's number one on YouTube.

• 9:22Speaker 05

  It's what they said.

• 9:22Stavros Halkias?

  It's, yeah, yeah. It's, it's taken over, uh, videos of that Brazilian guy grilling meats. You guys ever fuck with him?

• 9:28Speaker 05

  I don't know who that is.

• 9:29Stavros Halkias?

  I believe his name is Duda or some shit. Do you know him, Eldis?

• 9:32Speaker 05

  We got different algos, guy.

• 9:33Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, my algos are.

• 9:34Speaker 06

  The Salt Bay guy?

• 9:35Stavros Halkias?

  No, Salt Bay guy. First of all.

• 9:37Speaker 05

  Did I ever tell you I went to one of his restaurants by accident?

• 9:39Stavros Halkias?

  Awesome.

• 9:39Speaker 05

  That was the worst.

• 9:41Stavros Halkias?

  Of course.

• 9:41Speaker 05

  Dude, this guy, it wasn't even him. I had like a bootleg Salt Bay.

• 9:44Stavros Halkias?

  So they have guys that look like him?

• 9:46Speaker 05

  Just.

• 9:46Stavros Halkias?

  Pretending to be Salt Bay?

• 9:47Speaker 05

  Yeah, it was like a Tuesday night downtown. It wasn't, it wasn't even the main restaurant. My wife made the reservation, just because we were in that area, and this guy was like sensually feeding her meat.

• 9:59Stavros Halkias?

  No. What?

• 10:00Speaker 05

  I'm gonna fuck this dude up. I'm gonna fuck this dude up. And then he came over to me and was, I'm like, dude, I'm even more mad.

• 10:08Stavros Halkias?

  Getting cucked at dinner?

• 10:09Speaker 05

  Dude, we're in an empty restaurant. It holds 550, it's like an airplane hangar where they're the only two in there.

• 10:16Stavros Halkias?

  That's so fucking funny.

• 10:17Speaker 05

  I hated it. I hated it. It was like 3:50 for two of us to eat. It was so bad. I hated it.

• 10:22Stavros Halkias?

  I do remember, I, what I remember about Salt Bay is Ian doing this like two years after it was like a reference. You know, I just remember a video. That's all, that's my, I mean, I haven't seen Ian probably in a year, and all I remember are times he's embarrassing on the internet. That's my, that's my relationship. And you know what? He brings me joy when I remember those moments.

• 10:43Speaker 05

  Of course.

• 10:44Stavros Halkias?

  You know, it's like, oh, that's fucking hilarious when he was doing that.

• 10:46Speaker 06

  Well, he's actually doing very well, and he's a good guy. How about that?

• 10:49Stavros Halkias?

  Foley, what is this? Hold on, man. You cannot be late and also fucking be a wet blanket on the podcast.

• 10:56Speaker 05

  Oh, look, guys who wake up are always hilarious.

• 10:58Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 10:58Speaker 06

  That's my friend Ian Fridays, okay?

• 11:03Speaker 05

  He doesn't like when you make fun of Ian.

• 11:04Stavros Halkias?

  And I just saw him five days ago.

• 11:07Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 11:07Stavros Halkias?

  When he welcomed me into his home.

• 11:09Speaker 05

  They're living together.

• 11:10Stavros Halkias?

  Really?

• 11:11Speaker 05

  Ten.

• 11:11Stavros Halkias?

  Theoretically.

• 11:12Speaker 05

  Theoretically.

• 11:12Stavros Halkias?

  I stayed there one night. Holy shit. That, now that is awesome.

• 11:16Speaker 05

  We got bigger issues.

• 11:19Stavros Halkias?

  That is a beautiful roommate, like forty, you and Ian in your forties as roommates is so fucking awesome.

• 11:24Speaker 05

  You know what's even cooler? He's fifty.

• 11:29Speaker 05

  You know what'd be cooler?

• 11:32Stavros Halkias?

  Holy fuck. You, that's a reality show I would actually pay, I, that, I would love, you gotta put.

• 11:37Speaker 05

  Coming soon on RU Garbage Patreon.

• 11:39Stavros Halkias?

  That's right. GoPros on every corner of the house. I don't think so.

• 11:43Speaker 05

  Well, there's that yes and.

• 11:44Stavros Halkias?

  Sure, I'm sorry.

• 11:46Speaker 05

  Um, yeah.

• 11:47Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, I'm in Ian's basement. Oh, the old po- in the podcast studio? Right next to it, yeah.

• 11:55Speaker 05

  You're sleeping.

• 11:56Stavros Halkias?

  They record on Tuesdays. Okay, so you gotta.

• 11:58Speaker 05

  I gotta be out of there.

• 11:58Stavros Halkias?

  You gotta be out, yeah, yeah. You, when you see the door, the, the sock on the podcast studio door handle, you know they're recording. It's a steel door with a slide on it. Awesome. And my door. Awesome. There's no windows. No air conditioning. And a funk that I really can't quite put my finger on. The mix of podcasting and Ian's lifestyle, I think, is that. Yeah, it's something. I don't know what it is. But I do have a half a bath down there, which is. That's beautiful. Yeah. That's big. There's no, no going upstairs to piss. He loves me up there. He sleeps with the door open, it's fantastic. Yeah. It's a real homestart. It is, it is. Ian, I mean, Ian's lived there for like, what, fifteen years?

• 12:34Speaker 05

  He's been there. He lived there and then moved back to Philly, then moved back to that apartment.

• 12:38Stavros Halkias?

  Wow. Had the apartment, cause he had his boys in there. Right, right, right. Yeah. Smart. That is his, Ian, Ian's best move is like being a very, very low level slumlord. Is like, is holding on to that apartment and like renting it out and just taking a little bit off the top. You know, just a, just a little bit. And that allows him to put up his friend Hank in a time of, in a time of need.

• 12:59Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 13:00Stavros Halkias?

  Good man. That's, he is a good man. Not charging me at all. Wow. Until three months after I move out.

• 13:06Stavros Halkias?

  And the juice is running. Then you get an itemized bill, every snack you ate.

• 13:11Speaker 05

  I didn't know you were flushing the toilet forty-five times a day.

• 13:15Stavros Halkias?

  Uh, I'd like to say Ian does not sound like that and rethink doing that voice, uh, next time, Kevin.

• 13:22Speaker 05

  Ian sounds like that. You haven't talked to him in a year, you said it yourself.

• 13:25Stavros Halkias?

  A lot's changed. Hey, he's a good friend of mine.

• 13:33Stavros Halkias?

  Alright, Foley, we get it. You don't wanna pay rent at Ian's house.

• 13:37Speaker 05

  I feel like me and, me and Foley are going to jail together and I'm chained to him, he's just fucking mugging me.

• 13:42Stavros Halkias?

  I can't pay rent. You can't? No. Why is that? No, I could, but he's being nice. Okay. Yeah. I thought there was like a legal thing you can't, for some reason.

• 13:51Speaker 05

  Illegally doesn't have any money. I think it's the legal.

• 13:54Stavros Halkias?

  Little mix-up down at the bank with old Uncle Hank. They say I'm broke, I'm pretty sure I had something. Yeah, you got a little something in there. Yeah. Foley, how you doing, brother? You're looking, I, I, we were talking before. Thank you. I remember, I remember before.

• 14:08Speaker 05

  Thank you.

• 14:08Stavros Halkias?

  It's just nice to be spoken of. I remember during tires, we were both in pretty rough shape. My back was fucked, I felt like. Yes, filming tires. Filming tires, when we were filming it. That was about rock bottom, I would say. Yes. It seemed like you were about to fucking lose your mind every moment of the day. Yeah. And I was very happy to see you. You look like shit too. What are we doing, throwing stones? I said we were both look like, I couldn't even. Now, granted, you were still extremely wealthy and doing very well at the time. Yeah, wait, have you, do you really, have you really lost your money? You motherfuckers make like.

• 14:38Speaker 05

  Oh, I'm doing alright.

• 14:39Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, I know you're doing fine.

• 14:40Speaker 05

  Kibby's killing it.

• 14:41Stavros Halkias?

  I see you're in the suburbs with a fucking child. This fucking guy's fifty in Ian's basement. Ian's the one you're leaving off of is crazy, dude. And I can't bring myself to stay there. Stability, that's crazy. Which I think it actually works out. We're a good family over there. I, I do think you guys are very compatible in a, in a very funny way. We kind of are. He's the roommate or the friend I've always been looking for, cause he's like me.

• 15:03Speaker 05

  I feel like I've been pretty good with.

• 15:04Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 15:06Speaker 05

  I feel like I've been keeping you alive for the past four years.

• 15:08Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, but you don't.

• 15:08Speaker 05

  I've been a pretty good guy.

• 15:10Stavros Halkias?

  You don't build forts and make Rice Krispie treats and shit like that. That is true, whimsy.

• 15:14Speaker 05

  You're right.

• 15:15Stavros Halkias?

  You're missing whimsy.

• 15:15Speaker 05

  You're right. I, I could, I could be a little more whimsical. No, I'm a very fucking.

• 15:19Stavros Halkias?

  Meat, potatoes guy. Even as a young man, I didn't, you were never whimsical.

• 15:23Speaker 05

  No, no, we were, it was kind of funny. When we built our studio, we were sitting and, you know, we didn't finish and we were like, somebody was making fun of me, they're like, ah, you know, you don't have any imagination. I'm like, you're sitting in my fucking imagination, so I'll get your imagination.

• 15:34Stavros Halkias?

  That's beautiful.

• 15:35Speaker 05

  It's just a room.

• 15:36Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 15:36Speaker 05

  I'm like, I get points.

• 15:37Stavros Halkias?

  That we all grew up in. It's a room with three microphones and a table.

• 15:40Speaker 05

  It's a family room? I'm like, fuck.

• 15:44Stavros Halkias?

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• 17:45Stavros Halkias?

  Terms apply. That's fucking hilarious. But anyway, my point is, what happened, man? I'd love to hear how you turned it all around. Is the, is the, are the GLP-1s finally working for you? They are. GLP-1s are finally working and I'm working with them. You know what I mean? You, you stopped fighting them? Yeah, I did. But you wanted to? Oh, yeah. Did you fight it for a while? I'm still. Yeah, you look great too. Every day I'm fighting, dude. I see, I have the joke in the special, but it, uh, it's, but, yeah, sorry to do my act, but. Oh, you killed a chain show, by the way. That was fantastic. That was all, that was very fun. But I have a joke where it's like, it's working, but every game goes seven, every series goes seven.

• 18:21Speaker 05

  Sure.

• 18:22Stavros Halkias?

  Every game goes to overtime. Like, I push, I push these drugs to the limit. I've lost maybe a, a pound and a half a month on the world's most powerful medicine. You know what I mean? Like. Well, you don't wanna lose it too fast, though. So there you go. Right, right. God forbid. Yeah, me and you, of our top two health problems, I would say losing weight too fast. Now, you wanna piece yourself. Is what me and you have to worry about. Believe it or not, I actually, I also have a GLP-1 joke in my set as well. Yeah, yeah, interesting. Feel free to do a bastardized version of it now if you don't like I just did. Yours is better. Oh, that was kind of just the setup, man. I watched Stavvy's set on Saturday. Opening riff. I watched Stavvy's set on Saturday and everyone was dying. I sat there in silence like, fuck.

• 19:02Speaker 05

  There's another fat guy out here doing fat guy material? What?

• 19:06Stavros Halkias?

  He does the same exact jokes that I do, but a million times better. Then brings it all back together and kills with something smart. I'm like, fuck.

• 19:17Stavros Halkias?

  I'm sorry to make you feel that way, Hank. You have a, a natural charm. Look, you got all your hair. You know what I mean? Look at that.

• 19:24Speaker 05

  You got that?

• 19:24Stavros Halkias?

  Would you really trade it? Let's, let's be honest. Well, here's the thing about that. Yeah. You, uh, I think you're way more interesting on camera, so it's actually better. Okay, alright, alright. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Dennis Franz thing. I look like a fucking moron. I see what you mean. You're sort of in no meza and you're the most handsome obese former addict. Yeah. And that's kind of, you're not getting any leading man roles for that. Can't be a leading man. Might be too good looking or too young looking to play like the dad or something.

• 19:50Speaker 05

  My dick's too big.

• 19:51Stavros Halkias?

  What are you talking about? I gave you good, I gave you good looking. I don't look fifty. Pause it on young. Do I look fifty?

• 19:56Speaker 05

  Also too good looking.

• 19:57Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I might say that, yeah.

• 20:01Speaker 05

  He says something that just makes, I have to call that out. I can't. That's my, my.

• 20:05Stavros Halkias?

  I'm too good looking to play the buddy.

• 20:09Speaker 07

  Let me tell you something.

• 20:11Stavros Halkias?

  No, no, you're not.

• 20:14Speaker 07

  Fair enough.

• 20:14Stavros Halkias?

  That's not what's been holding you back. You're not losing weight. You're not in danger of losing weight too fast and you're not too good looking to play the buddy, but.

• 20:22Speaker 07

  Fair enough.

• 20:22Stavros Halkias?

  But you are wonderful this season of Tires. You are sort of my nemesis, right?

• 20:26Speaker 07

  Yeah, we were boys.

• 20:27Stavros Halkias?

  I love it.

• 20:28Speaker 07

  Uh, that was the most that you and I worked together on anything.

• 20:31Stavros Halkias?

  It was really fun.

• 20:32Speaker 07

  And I remember leaving there every day. When we did the strip club scene.

• 20:36Stavros Halkias?

  Oh.

• 20:37Speaker 07

  I remember, and I think I told Kevin about this, but you have like a confidence on set to operate in your own way that I don't have. That's great for me.

• 20:48Stavros Halkias?

  Well, you should. Yeah. I mean, first of all, it's our friend's show.

• 20:51Speaker 07

  Of course.

• 20:52Stavros Halkias?

  You know, it's like what?

• 20:53Speaker 07

  I mean, choices, choice wise in, in the scene, you know what I mean?

• 20:56Stavros Halkias?

  Right, right.

• 20:57Speaker 07

  That you, the way you operate is, uh,

• 21:01Speaker 07

  good for me to see that.

• 21:02Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, I love that. Let your nuts hang. You're a great actor, Foley.

• 21:05Speaker 07

  Thank you, buddy. I appreciate it.

• 21:06Stavros Halkias?

  And we do the, we have some incredible stuff. I mean, we, we do hit it, you know, it's out on that. It's, Tires has been out now for about a month. Surely you've seen it, but we have a wonderful strip club scene. We do a lot. We work with Bobby Lee a lot. He was fucking hilarious.

• 21:20Speaker 07

  We work with Mr. Bobby Lee. Bobby Lee also killed at that show too.

• 21:23Stavros Halkias?

  He did, he did.

• 21:25Speaker 05

  Bobby?

• 21:25Stavros Halkias?

  The funniest thing I saw is.

• 21:26Speaker 05

  I love Bobby.

• 21:27Stavros Halkias?

  He came out, he came out, Shane's, yeah, South Carolina, Shane Gillis show. There was what? 12,000, 14? Like something crazy, right? The arena. And actually, maybe it was a little, it was a small arena.

• 21:39Speaker 05

  Sure.

• 21:40Stavros Halkias?

  Um, hilarious to, that, that.

• 21:41Speaker 05

  Remember when I used to do those?

• 21:43Stavros Halkias?

  That's even in like, yeah, like Shane's like, oh, just a small arena. You know what I mean? Yeah. Hilarious. Like, yeah. Not, we will never touch that, but.

• 21:50Speaker 07

  Comedy Zone's pretty cool too, though.

• 21:51Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 21:52Speaker 05

  On a Tuesday night, you sell that out, that check's pretty good.

• 21:54Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah. They throw in a pizza. If you sell it out. Uh, Bobby comes out, the first thing he starts going, he starts singing, we are Charlie Kirk.

• 22:06Speaker 07

  Is that what he was singing to that lady?

• 22:07Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. We carry the flame. He gets the biggest pop of the night because it's Bobby Lee.

• 22:13Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 22:13Stavros Halkias?

  And then immediately starts singing the Charlie Kirk song and everyone is kinda mad at him. And then he immediately wins them back like two seconds later. He's so, he's such an incredible, he really is.

• 22:23Speaker 05

  He can like, even when I'm talking to him, I'm like, what's, like, it's like hard to track it in conversation.

• 22:29Stavros Halkias?

  Totally. As a, as a performer, he's fucking.

• 22:31Speaker 05

  Yeah, he's the man.

• 22:32Stavros Halkias?

  He's so magnetic.

• 22:33Speaker 07

  And he literally went from zero to a thousand in two seconds. As soon as he got on that stage, just took it over.

• 22:37Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah. Yeah, no, he's the fucking man, but.

• 22:39Speaker 07

  It was good stuff.

• 22:40Stavros Halkias?

  I love it.

• 22:41Speaker 07

  Horrible actor, but good stuff. Not good looking enough to play the best friend.

• 22:45Speaker 05

  No. Not even close.

• 22:47Speaker 07

  No, he kills it. And so does the guy that plays his dad.

• 22:50Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 22:50Speaker 07

  Yeah, he was great.

• 22:51Stavros Halkias?

  He was great.

• 22:52Speaker 07

  I love a stern Japanese guy.

• 22:54Stavros Halkias?

  I believe he was Korean.

• 22:55Speaker 07

  Okay, fair enough.

• 22:55Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 22:56Speaker 07

  We're trying to mix that up.

• 22:57Stavros Halkias?

  That is a joke. That is a joke in the show about us being racist and you did it for real.

• 23:02Speaker 07

  Yeah, I did it for real.

• 23:03Speaker 05

  He's a method actor.

• 23:06Speaker 07

  I was like, these guys are Japanese businessmen and somebody yelled out, they're Korean. I was like, what Bobby? You're Korean?

• 23:14Stavros Halkias?

  Well, and now cuisine wise, would you take Korea over Japan? What do you think?

• 23:18Speaker 05

  Yeah, this is his wheelhouse.

• 23:19Stavros Halkias?

  Let's talk.

• 23:20Speaker 07

  It's tough, man. Um, I never fucked with Korean food until, uh, I met my wife. She was from, she's from Hawaii and all that little melting pot stuff.

• 23:30Stavros Halkias?

  Sure.

• 23:30Speaker 07

  And I never thought, like, when I smelled kimchi for the first time.

• 23:34Stavros Halkias?

  Right.

• 23:35Speaker 07

  When her mom came to visit and she opened that. I mean.

• 23:38Speaker 05

  Yeah. Do they make chicken fingers?

• 23:43Speaker 07

  It was like, what the fuck?

• 23:44Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 23:45Speaker 07

  And then all this stuff for Korean barbecue, I don't know what it, I can't identify all those little side dishes.

• 23:49Speaker 05

  I like that. Korean barbecue is good.

• 23:51Stavros Halkias?

  Korean barbecue's good. Now, Japan just has sushi going for it, has ramen going for it. And they have a version, which I'm sure is just a colonizer stealing a good thing from the country they colonized. They have their own little barbecue called Yaku, Yakiniku, I believe.

• 24:06Speaker 07

  Yaku Niku, yeah.

• 24:06Stavros Halkias?

  Yaku Niku, something like that. So unfortunately, I hate to say it to my Korean, you know.

• 24:11Speaker 05

  Brethren.

• 24:12Stavros Halkias?

  Brethren, who I do consider myself an honorary Koreans for some reason, only because I've eaten so many short ribs, you know? But I do think unfortunate, now look, Korea, come at me. If I'm wrong, if you have some kind of.

• 24:26Speaker 07

  Talking about North Korea, right?

• 24:27Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. The People's Republic. Um, if I'm wrong and you have some kind of, something that goes toe to toe with ramen and sushi, I'm all ears. Cause your, your barbecue is better than Yakiniku, but.

• 24:40Speaker 07

  Wow, I forgot about ramen. That's tough.

• 24:41Stavros Halkias?

  Ramen's tough. Japan has a nice, they got a night, a lot of good stuff going for them.

• 24:45Speaker 05

  I heard a pretty good take on ramen that like the ramen you've kind of are first introduced to always stays your favorite ramen.

• 24:52Stavros Halkias?

  Thoughts on that? Absolutely untrue because the first ramen I was introduced to was 25 cent.

• 24:58Speaker 05

  Not that.

• 24:58Speaker 07

  No, not that.

• 25:01Stavros Halkias?

  That was the.

• 25:02Speaker 07

  Oodles of noodles.

• 25:03Stavros Halkias?

  No, I mean, the first ramen I had was.

• 25:05Speaker 05

  Like first real ramen. That you're like, it's in your neighborhood that you get a lot, becomes like the prime argument.

• 25:10Speaker 07

  Which was, when was that?

• 25:11Stavros Halkias?

  This was, I, I mean, the first ramen I ever had was in DC. Actually Brandon Wardell, shout out to, shout out to Brandon.

• 25:17Speaker 05

  Shout out.

• 25:17Stavros Halkias?

  Who, who also, it was in, he grew up in Hawaii for a lot of, a lot of the time. And then, and he's, uh, he's half Filipino. So he, you know, he's, he's more, he's, he, he was more in touch with Asian cuisine. And I remember when he was like, let's go get ramen. I was like, what the fuck are you talking about? Cause all I knew it as was the fucking marushin or whatever the fuck. Yeah.

• 25:37Speaker 07

  Sure.

• 25:38Stavros Halkias?

  Beef.

• 25:38Speaker 05

  I didn't know that was bad. I was crushing them freshman year of college. I had no idea.

• 25:43Stavros Halkias?

  Of course, college. Oh, a nice college way to do it too is, uh, you put a little cream cheese in there. Get a, get a, get a like, almost make Alfredo. Make white trash, white trash fucking ramen Alfredo. Put some hot sauce and some cream cheese in there. Pretty nice.

• 25:57Speaker 07

  Damn, stop.

• 25:58Stavros Halkias?

  Pretty fucking nice. Yeah.

• 25:59Speaker 07

  I used to make like spaghetti out of it. Not put the packet in, but put ketchup and ground beef.

• 26:03Stavros Halkias?

  Okay. All right. I'm like, we.

• 26:05Speaker 05

  Yeah, ground beef.

• 26:06Stavros Halkias?

  We're innovators.

• 26:08Speaker 05

  A box of pasta is like a dollar 49.

• 26:11Speaker 07

  True.

• 26:12Stavros Halkias?

  But did you like the, the texture?

• 26:13Speaker 07

  Yeah, like the noodles.

• 26:14Stavros Halkias?

  I'm with you.

• 26:14Speaker 05

  The brains? I get it. Yeah.

• 26:15Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, we just had kind of a fat mind meld there where I was like, I knew what he was doing.

• 26:19Speaker 05

  Hey, I'm out of my depth.

• 26:21Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 26:22Speaker 07

  Plus spaghetti takes longer to cook and it's messy and shit like that.

• 26:25Stavros Halkias?

  Longer, longer to cook is where you're losing me, Foley. We're talking about.

• 26:28Speaker 07

  Spaghetti cooks way longer than ramen.

• 26:29Stavros Halkias?

  Versus, you know?

• 26:30Speaker 07

  And as a kid, I was.

• 26:31Speaker 05

  You gotta brown the ground meat too.

• 26:33Stavros Halkias?

  Right.

• 26:33Speaker 07

  That was already done.

• 26:34Speaker 05

  What?

• 26:35Speaker 07

  It's already done.

• 26:35Stavros Halkias?

  Ah, that's a leftover. You were kinda doing, you got it delivered.

• 26:39Speaker 07

  Yeah, that's right. No, I had to do the ground beef.

• 26:43Stavros Halkias?

  I thought it was a, a leftover situation, you know?

• 26:46Speaker 07

  Leftover ground beef. That's not a Patty Foley move.

• 26:49Stavros Halkias?

  Hmm.

• 26:50Speaker 07

  That would go to the dog.

• 26:52Stavros Halkias?

  Respect.

• 26:53Speaker 07

  Yeah. Most of her refrigerator now is for the dog. You can't tell. Sweet potatoes, ground turkey.

• 26:58Stavros Halkias?

  So the dog's eating better than you are, basically?

• 27:01Speaker 07

  At the house these days, yeah.

• 27:04Stavros Halkias?

  So your mother's dog lives in a loving home and gets cooked for it and you're in Ian's basement?

• 27:10Speaker 07

  That's very true. That's very true, baby.

• 27:14Stavros Halkias?

  So remember when you said Tires was your rock bottom?

• 27:16Speaker 07

  Mm-hmm.

• 27:19Stavros Halkias?

  No, you're building back up and I love that.

• 27:21Speaker 07

  Thank you, baby.

• 27:22Stavros Halkias?

  We're gonna get back in there.

• 27:23Speaker 07

  Yeah, you had your bad tooth, you had your back.

• 27:25Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, the tooth. I forgot about the tooth.

• 27:27Speaker 07

  Which was wild. That was another thing I gave you so much credit for.

• 27:30Speaker 05

  What was the bad tooth?

• 27:31Stavros Halkias?

  I had to get my fucking, I had to get a fucking tooth pulled.

• 27:33Speaker 05

  You got bad, you got bad teeth all around.

• 27:35Stavros Halkias?

  Dude, I got bad everything.

• 27:36Speaker 07

  You had a constant toothache.

• 27:37Stavros Halkias?

  I had a constant toothache and I had, and my back was fucked. And I was, I got a little buck wild off the GLP. Well, I tried to fight them one week. Cause they were having, cause they had some like, some guy was visiting set or like producers were visiting and then a reporter was visiting.

• 27:52Speaker 07

  You were shitting your brains out.

• 27:53Stavros Halkias?

  So we had a couple of very decadent lunches.

• 27:55Speaker 07

  Yeah, that was a nice lunch.

• 27:56Stavros Halkias?

  That was a nice lunch, but then I was, the only stunt day on Tires, I had wild diarrhea when we're whipping around that course.

• 28:03Speaker 07

  Yes.

• 28:04Stavros Halkias?

  And I was just like, holding my asshole shut, dude. It was tough. It was tough. Have you ever had a, what was the, what's the greatest distress you've had off the, off the GLP ones?

• 28:14Speaker 05

  He gets it. He's bad with it.

• 28:15Speaker 07

  Yeah, I get it. Usually, which it's calmed down a little bit because I really have stopped eating to the point of where, you know, I get full.

• 28:24Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 28:25Speaker 07

  And at night and shit like that. Cause I get it. I would, if I ate too much at night, I would literally wake up the next morning.

• 28:31Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 28:31Speaker 07

  Have, uh, sulfur burps.

• 28:33Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, I hate those.

• 28:34Speaker 07

  And then everything in my stomach would liquefy and I would have liquid diarrhea and cramps for like the next three or four days.

• 28:41Speaker 05

  Brutal, dude.

• 28:42Speaker 07

  Which is a great way to thin down.

• 28:44Stavros Halkias?

  Of course.

• 28:44Speaker 05

  Sure.

• 28:45Speaker 07

  You know, cause when, the opposite of that.

• 28:46Stavros Halkias?

  Shitting your brains out.

• 28:47Speaker 07

  Yeah, the opposite of that is I'm all backed up. I don't shit good on it at all.

• 28:52Stavros Halkias?

  Hmm.

• 28:52Speaker 05

  I had zero.

• 28:55Stavros Halkias?

  No complications?

• 28:55Speaker 05

  Not one side effect. Nauseous if I like really push it. If we don't like, there were like a couple of times we went out to dinner as like a team and I'm like drinking fucking martinis or manhattans and then like we're doing apps and desserts and let me try that, that'll

• 29:10Stavros Halkias?

  Absolutely.

• 29:10Speaker 05

  But

• 29:11Speaker 07

  You started heavy too. You didn't like start out small.

• 29:14Speaker 05

  No, I went to some like quack doctor in midtown.

• 29:16Speaker 07

  Some Hollywood doctor.

• 29:17Speaker 05

  In an, she was, it was empty.

• 29:19Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, oh, that's a good sign.

• 29:21Speaker 05

  And just her and she's like, you gotta buy it through me. I give it to you.

• 29:24Speaker 07

  Straight needle, no pen.

• 29:26Speaker 05

  Heavy butt needle. I still do it.

• 29:28Stavros Halkias?

  So you would go in and she gives it to you?

• 29:30Speaker 05

  Yeah, I get it from, they hand it to me. I buy, it's like I tap my credit card and she hands me a vial of drugs.

• 29:37Speaker 07

  Like Brett Favre getting Percocet.

• 29:39Speaker 05

  Yeah, it didn't feel good.

• 29:41Stavros Halkias?

  Do you know it's the, is it at least labeled as the vial?

• 29:44Speaker 05

  I sent it to a doctor I know.

• 29:46Stavros Halkias?

  To get

• 29:46Speaker 07

  Did you?

• 29:46Stavros Halkias?

  To get synthesized, to get to check what it was?

• 29:48Speaker 05

  No, like a picture.

• 29:49Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, okay.

• 29:50Speaker 05

  Well, I don't know what was in there.

• 29:51Speaker 07

  It was definitely generic and she did give you a cocktail.

• 29:53Speaker 05

  It was a mix of one of the two.

• 29:55Speaker 07

  Manjaro.

• 29:56Speaker 05

  Yeah, we were

• 29:57Stavros Halkias?

  She gave you a cocktail? Are you supposed to mix them?

• 30:00Speaker 05

  I was snake fighting.

• 30:01Speaker 07

  And a little bit of vermouth, a little bit of vermouth I thought was in there as well.

• 30:04Stavros Halkias?

  Gimlet. I tasted some triple sec on the back end.

• 30:07Speaker 05

  Yeah, it was, uh, yeah, but that, that stuff, cause now I'm on the regular whatever. We go, like I, cause that was so expensive. It was like really expensive.

• 30:16Stavros Halkias?

  Cause you're paying cash.

• 30:17Speaker 05

  I'm just paying cash and then I switched to just like one of the services that's less expensive now, but uh, that shit would hit you and you would be like

• 30:24Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 30:25Speaker 05

  It was like fucking, it felt like chemo, dude.

• 30:26Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 30:27Speaker 07

  Yeah, it's brutal.

• 30:28Speaker 05

  It was really fucking bad.

• 30:29Speaker 07

  Yeah, you never got sick or got, uh, zepi burps or anything like that?

• 30:32Speaker 05

  No.

• 30:33Speaker 07

  And you lost weight quick.

• 30:34Stavros Halkias?

  That's nice, dude. I think for us, I think we're the same type of guy where, cause it took, I was, I remember you watched like the first tour doc and I kept saying like, man, I keep getting food poisoning. And it was like, and it was like, wait, are you, or are you just overeating on a medicine designed to stop you? And I truly had to hit, it was, I was like, it's like I had to hit the electric fence for a year.

• 30:54Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 30:54Stavros Halkias?

  Before I learned how to do it. And even now, I just feel like I know the rhythms of the, of

• 30:58Speaker 05

  Yeah, you can like, I can, I can get, you get called with your hand in the cookie jar. Like I can steal a little bit, but I know how to not get caught.

• 31:04Stavros Halkias?

  Uh, before the mousetrap, get the cheese before the trap hits you.

• 31:07Speaker 07

  First day, you gotta be real careful.

• 31:09Stavros Halkias?

  First and second day are very

• 31:10Speaker 05

  I'm opposite. First two days, I'm still in, I'm, I'm still playing with house money.

• 31:15Stavros Halkias?

  Later, interesting.

• 31:16Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 31:16Stavros Halkias?

  No, no, for me, it's definitely the first, if you overeat that first day, you really pay for it. It's it doesn't, you don't feel it and that's the danger day. The day, the day you take the shot, cause your body's still like, uh, it hasn't kicked in yet. But the second, if you have too decadent a day, that next day is brutal. And the last day, the, the day before the shot, that's like, I, I think the analogy, I, I don't know if I've said it on the pod or just like did in conversation once, but have you ever played like a stealth game, like Metal Gear Solid or some shit? Where like, you know, you have to wait for the guard to go to the end of the hallway and then for the one second that he turns his back, you have to like dart. That's the last day where I'm like waiting for the warden and I'm like, hmm, you know what I mean? Then I'm like eating chicken wings and

• 31:59Stavros Halkias?

  that's when I'm, that's when, that's when I'm scheduling team dinners and shit like that. Uh, but then, you know, you pay, you know, you just don't

• 32:06Speaker 05

  Pay the piper.

• 32:07Stavros Halkias?

  If, if you try and, and mathematically see how many calories you can get without getting sick on this medicine, it completely defeats the purpose.

• 32:15Speaker 05

  Of the medicine.

• 32:16Stavros Halkias?

  But you know, whatever.

• 32:17Speaker 05

  But at the same time, like you said, it took me a year hitting the electric fence. It's like, you know, well, you had thirty some years of the opposite behavior. It's like one year to correct thirty years of bad behavior.

• 32:26Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 32:27Speaker 05

  Isn't that bad?

• 32:28Stavros Halkias?

  It ain't, it ain't, until, you know, in four years, we all find out our, uh, kidneys have been liquid, liquid, liquefied.

• 32:34Speaker 07

  No way.

• 32:35Speaker 05

  They've been using it for thirty, I mean, it's generic at this point. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's like

• 32:39Speaker 07

  They were using it as a weed killer for thirty years.

• 32:42Speaker 05

  Made my roundup.

• 32:45Stavros Halkias?

  Twelve point five roundup? It's way cheaper.

• 32:49Speaker 05

  You're just spraying it in your mouth.

• 32:51Stavros Halkias?

  Spray a little weed.

• 32:52Speaker 05

  Spray it on the food. I only ate half a pizza.

• 32:55Stavros Halkias?

  This tastes like shit. Ellis, you're fighting it, huh? You're never, are you, do you think maybe you, are you, do you see these Svelte three gentlemen? Do you get jealous?

• 33:05Speaker 06

  He doesn't. I'm ready, I'm ready to come around.

• 33:07Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 33:08Speaker 06

  My sister just started it. Um, she like, you know, has two kids and she fucking loves it.

• 33:14Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 33:14Speaker 06

  And it's like one of the most positive reviews of GLP ones I've ever heard. And I'm like, you know, I'm fucking thirty seven.

• 33:22Stavros Halkias?

  You have a child now, probably, by the time this comes out, you will have a child.

• 33:26Speaker 06

  Exactly.

• 33:27Stavros Halkias?

  So you wanna live to at least fifty, fifty-five, you know, that kind of thing?

• 33:31Speaker 05

  Dude, I gotta say, I did it for, I, when we were like getting ready to have the baby and it's like, I don't know, I would be a significantly worse guy.

• 33:41Speaker 06

  A bit, a bit, a big reason

• 33:43Speaker 07

  That's why I did it too.

• 33:45Stavros Halkias?

  For Kevin's son.

• 33:47Speaker 05

  I wanted to be a bad uncle.

• 33:48Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 33:49Speaker 06

  Well, a big reason I'm really open to it now is cause I've had like some fucked up knee pain.

• 33:53Stavros Halkias?

  Hmm.

• 33:54Speaker 06

  I don't know if it's because I'm fat.

• 33:56Stavros Halkias?

  Uh, let me stop you right there. What do you think the other option is? Your years of top tier athletic performance?

• 34:02Speaker 05

  Yeah, all those dunks I did.

• 34:05Speaker 06

  Too many long after

• 34:06Speaker 05

  Shouldn't have done the windmill.

• 34:08Speaker 06

  He won the home run derby, but was it worth it?

• 34:11Speaker 07

  How does, you don't need it though, I think, man.

• 34:13Speaker 06

  I think I need it.

• 34:14Speaker 05

  Yes, he does.

• 34:15Speaker 07

  You think so?

• 34:16Stavros Halkias?

  We are just

• 34:16Speaker 07

  Stand up for me.

• 34:17Stavros Halkias?

  No.

• 34:18Speaker 05

  He's big. I mean, he carries it better, but he's big.

• 34:20Stavros Halkias?

  He needs it. We should be dead. You know what I mean? Like we've, we have, we have evaded like nature for so long. That's what a guy who actually needs it looks like.

• 34:30Speaker 07

  Hmm.

• 34:30Stavros Halkias?

  We needed in, in, in intense medical intervention ten years ago, me and you.

• 34:35Speaker 07

  Sure.

• 34:35Stavros Halkias?

  Eldis is a guy who needs it.

• 34:37Speaker 06

  I haven't been able to like get under three hundred in a long time. Now you could say, have I been really trying to exercise and diet? No, but I'm ready to just put poison in my body. That makes me hate food a little bit more.

• 34:49Speaker 07

  Damn, you're over three hundred?

• 34:51Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 34:51Speaker 05

  He's tall though.

• 34:52Stavros Halkias?

  He's six six.

• 34:53Speaker 05

  Six six.

• 34:53Speaker 06

  I know, I know I'm built like LeBron James, but

• 34:56Speaker 07

  I didn't say that.

• 34:58Speaker 06

  Thank you, Foley.

• 35:00Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, you two should just talk about how handsome you are.

• 35:05Speaker 07

  I don't wanna kill it too hard with the chicks, you know? Well, do you have like an addiction with food? Do you, are you like that with food?

• 35:13Speaker 06

  Yeah, of course.

• 35:14Speaker 07

  Okay. Yeah, that's when you need it.

• 35:15Speaker 06

  Food.

• 35:16Speaker 07

  Which a lot of people don't understand.

• 35:17Stavros Halkias?

  Of course.

• 35:18Speaker 07

  All those naysayers out there, they can fuck themselves.

• 35:20Stavros Halkias?

  Of course.

• 35:21Speaker 07

  Why don't you work out and do this? I do it. Fuck you.

• 35:23Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, well, that, there definitely is a type of like, being fat is the one thing that crosses all cultures and everyone, no matter how downtrodden you are in society, the fat version of that is even more downtrodden, right? So it's like, so it's, it's kind of unites humanity across races, sexualities, genders. Everybody looks down on the fat version of who they are. Cause, and then they can say like, I'm better, at least, at least I'm better than them.

• 35:49Speaker 05

  Sure.

• 35:50Stavros Halkias?

  You know, across, so it's like, you know, and some of these guys who have no personality whatsoever, we haven't had to develop personalities. Cause the world looked at us and was disgusted.

• 35:59Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 35:59Stavros Halkias?

  From the, after we, once you stop being cute at like eight,

• 36:03Speaker 07

  Ooh.

• 36:04Stavros Halkias?

  Then the world's, as a fat person

• 36:06Speaker 05

  Smelly fat kid.

• 36:07Stavros Halkias?

  You're just, yeah.

• 36:08Speaker 05

  That's a tough

• 36:08Speaker 07

  Those awkward years.

• 36:09Stavros Halkias?

  The first time you get a stain The first time you get a fucking ice cream stain on your sweater, it's over, bro. The first time you're fat and sloppy.

• 36:17Speaker 05

  Dude, I saw a guy, I was at a Wawa yesterday and I'm like, I'm fucking getting a sizzly. I'm driving, I'm like, I'm getting, I'm getting a probably two breakfast sandwiches. I'm, I'm having a bad day. I'm like a cheat day. I'm getting it.

• 36:27Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, at Wawa.

• 36:28Speaker 05

  And I'm parking

• 36:29Speaker 07

  Did you have a drive ahead of you? Were you driving up?

• 36:30Speaker 05

  I was driving from the shore. Yeah.

• 36:33Speaker 05

  And I'm like, my, the, the baby was sleeping in the back. My wife was in the backseat making sure he was sleeping. She was like nodding off and I'm like, I'm just

• 36:40Stavros Halkias?

  You're in the zone.

• 36:41Speaker 05

  I'm glad, I'm gonna get two Wawa iced teas, two sandwich and a cup of coffee and I'm

• 36:45Stavros Halkias?

  Wawa's your co-passenger, your, your co, your co-pilot. Absolutely. I get that.

• 36:49Speaker 05

  And I pull up, right? And I'm like, dude, as I'm loading the car, I'm like, I'm getting it. I'm getting it. I'm getting it. I'm not getting it. I'm getting it. You're doing that whole fucking

• 36:58Stavros Halkias?

  Dance.

• 36:59Speaker 05

  And I'm like, it's just whatever the wheels slams on when I get there. I don't know. It's a

• 37:03Stavros Halkias?

  I know exactly, yeah.

• 37:05Speaker 05

  Maybe I'm, maybe I go fuck that. No, stay true. Or maybe I don't.

• 37:09Stavros Halkias?

  And there's something so, you don't even know.

• 37:10Speaker 05

  I don't know. I have no idea.

• 37:12Stavros Halkias?

  You surrender yourself up to the, to the whims of the universe.

• 37:15Speaker 05

  And I, you know.

• 37:16Stavros Halkias?

  Meanwhile, what happens is you get it actually even more than you would have just planned to get.

• 37:20Speaker 05

  Oh, sure.

• 37:20Speaker 07

  Soft pretzel.

• 37:21Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I will say, and this happens every now and then, and like I get, it, it gets burned into my brain. And I use it as, I get out and honestly, like if I didn't move to New York, I would, I would be four hundred pounds at a Wawa. Like I would for sure, that's where I would be.

• 37:38Speaker 07

  Which is weird that I did move to New York and I'm at four hundred pounds. Isn't that crazy?

• 37:43Stavros Halkias?

  Foley would be a piece of ass, eating sweet potatoes with his dog.

• 37:49Speaker 07

  And ground turkey.

• 37:50Speaker 05

  And ground turkey. They're munching, eating in the middle. They got, they got a piece of ramen. They suck.

• 37:55Stavros Halkias?

  A big ramen noodle, lady in the tramping it.

• 37:57Speaker 07

  When we stopped taking the subway.

• 38:00Speaker 05

  Oh, he blew, I knew you had a car in New York. That's when, that, I attribute everything back to that Jeep.

• 38:04Stavros Halkias?

  That's so funny.

• 38:05Speaker 05

  Where you turned into a different guy.

• 38:06Speaker 07

  Took it everywhere.

• 38:07Stavros Halkias?

  That's so funny.

• 38:08Speaker 05

  Dude, the guy, this guy's coming out and he's got, he's got my order. He's got the double stack of the sizzlys. He's got, he's got a gallon of Wawa, a half a gallon of Wawa iced tea.

• 38:17Stavros Halkias?

  And you know that's just for him?

• 38:19Speaker 05

  Dude.

• 38:20Stavros Halkias?

  You know, he's swinging that thing.

• 38:21Speaker 05

  He's one of those fats that's like, it's like he's about to pop. You know what I mean? Like

• 38:26Stavros Halkias?

  If you hit him with a needle.

• 38:28Speaker 05

  Oh, the neck swollen.

• 38:29Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 38:29Speaker 05

  The everything. And he gets in a fucking two thousand four Cavalier and he doesn't even dude, and he's on the dashboard.

• 38:38Stavros Halkias?

  Low, dude.

• 38:39Speaker 05

  He's most of the call.

• 38:40Stavros Halkias?

  Wheel goes low. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 38:41Speaker 05

  And I went Don't be that, don't be that guy. And nothing against him personally, like I said, I, that is genuinely who I would be.

• 38:47Stavros Halkias?

  Don't give in to your addiction. That guy is an avatar for what you could be.

• 38:51Speaker 05

  Could I, what I, what I could be?

• 38:52Stavros Halkias?

  Yes.

• 38:53Speaker 05

  And I went, man, and I, I didn't, I got the egg bites, which shout out to the Wawa egg bites. They are.

• 38:58Stavros Halkias?

  Really?

• 38:58Speaker 06

  Yes.

• 38:59Speaker 05

  Stellar.

• 38:59Stavros Halkias?

  Really?

• 39:01Speaker 05

  They are.

• 39:01Stavros Halkias?

  Elders, have you had them? I know you're an egg bite champion overall.

• 39:04Speaker 05

  Where are you, an egg bite, you an egg bites at Starbucks?

• 39:06Speaker 06

  I love, I love the Starbucks egg bite. I haven't had a good one otherwise.

• 39:10Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 39:10Speaker 05

  Starbucks lost it.

• 39:12Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, really?

• 39:13Speaker 05

  They cooked them, some of them are cold in the middle, they're mushy.

• 39:15Stavros Halkias?

  I will, I will give you that. It's not, yeah.

• 39:16Stavros Halkias?

  He doesn't know what he's talking about. He's crazy.

• 39:17Stavros Halkias?

  No, no, no. The consistency is not there across, across egg bites. I'll give you that, but they lost it. Still a fantastic organization.

• 39:24Speaker 05

  If you get a good one.

• 39:25Stavros Halkias?

  You know who likes Starbucks? Ian Fidance. Good guy. What do you do?

• 39:29Speaker 05

  Yeah, who works at a Starbucks? I'm kidding, shout out to Ian.

• 39:32Stavros Halkias?

  You do the red pepper ones, the white ones?

• 39:34Speaker 06

  No, I gotta get the bacon Gruyere.

• 39:36Speaker 05

  Yeah, you do.

• 39:36Stavros Halkias?

  I like the white, this is so funny. I also like the veggie ones.

• 39:39Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah. And I started with the, obviously you start when you're fat as shit. You, obviously, the first one you order is the bacon one. Yeah. But even that, I'm like.

• 39:46Stavros Halkias?

  What's the point? But then I'm like, this is just, it really feels like too much.

• 39:50Speaker 05

  Gouda even sounds like a fat cheese.

• 39:52Stavros Halkias?

  Absol- it is a fat cheese. If the, that, the bacon gouda egg bite, egg bite feels like it should be spread on to a fucking thing of sourdough. It's not, it's not a bite on, like it has no crunch, it has no nothing.

• 40:04Speaker 05

  It needs a texture and they, they miss on the texture. They do.

• 40:06Stavros Halkias?

  For sure. I would get the, sorry, I'd get the ham and Swiss baguette and throw a couple of egg bites on there. Now we're talking. Fully, that's beautiful. I am past that part of my life. If I ever get back there, I will, it's, it's over for me. A hundred percent. My back is, like, honestly, having back pain is unfortunately like the reminder where I'm like, this is because you're fat as shit.

• 40:26Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 40:27Stavros Halkias?

  Like, I always thought it would be, I always thought it would be blood work. I always thought I would get diabetes. I always thought I'd have a heart problem. The gall, something like that. Luckily, we've, we've avoided that, uh, you know, but I never thought it would be structural. I never thought about just the, the weight you're putting on your fucking, on, you know. What is it? Lower back, the vertebrae, something like that?

• 40:47Stavros Halkias?

  I have a couple of vertebrae is very fucked up. I should read, I should read it out one day so that some doctor can diagnose me via the podcast. But I have spondylitis or some bullshit.

• 40:58Speaker 05

  I don't know.

• 40:58Stavros Halkias?

  Hmm. I don't fucking know, dude.

• 40:59Speaker 05

  I just don't get it.

• 41:00Stavros Halkias?

  I'm so fucked. I'm so fucking fucked.

• 41:02Speaker 05

  But before we move on, I want to say to all the Wawa people out there, the egg bites, they sit there in the heat lamp. So they stay warm and they're, they're constantly crisp. That's all I want to say. Try them out.

• 41:13Stavros Halkias?

  All right, we will, we will have to do some investigation, Elders. We do need to weigh in on that as well.

• 41:17Speaker 06

  I'm always down. I'm a big Sheets guy. I love the Sheets food.

• 41:21Stavros Halkias?

  Funny you mention that.

• 41:21Speaker 05

  It's crazy.

• 41:22Stavros Halkias?

  Uh-oh.

• 41:23Speaker 05

  He's a Sheets guy now.

• 41:24Stavros Halkias?

  I'm not a Sheets guy now. Wow, that's crazy.

• 41:28Speaker 05

  You think, you think you start a podcast with a guy, your, your best friends for fifteen years?

• 41:31Stavros Halkias?

  You can't become a Sheets guy. I didn't say I was becoming, listen, I've been taking a lot of heat on the pod for my new life, my hip ways. Yeah, give me some of them.

• 41:38Stavros Halkias?

  Hanging out, new music. Tell me, give me some of them. Getting a tattoo. Oh, what's the tattoo? Butterfly. Come on, man. Where is it?

• 41:47Speaker 05

  You joined a band?

• 41:48Stavros Halkias?

  No. I'm mixing around with a couple of guys who are working on some stuff.

• 41:52Speaker 05

  He's in the middle of a midlife crisis, in a proper midlife crisis.

• 41:54Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, I mean, I would say three quarter life crisis, but yeah.

• 41:58Speaker 05

  Ninety, ninety-five percent likely. He's now a Sheets guy. All that aside, he's a fucking Sheets guy.

• 42:03Stavros Halkias?

  I gotta live it up the next few weeks, you know what I mean? Sheets guys, not, as a, I mean, look, being from the greater Philadelphia area, that feels, that feels like being a traitor to me. Let me ask you this. Sheets is like Western Maryland. It's, it's like. Ohio is where I live. Ohio, Western Maryland, like Frostburg, where my brother went to college, was the first place I encountered a Sheets.

• 42:22Stavros Halkias?

  Frostburg?

• 42:23Speaker 05

  It's like middle of, it's like the middle of Pennsylvania over.

• 42:26Stavros Halkias?

  Over, exactly. Yeah, Pittsburgh, all that stuff. So to me, that feels ludicrous for you to say. But if you're driving out there and there ain't a Wawa, are you gonna stop there and get something? No, you just say, no, you just stop at a fucking gas station. You don't just become a gas station guy. Like, if I fucking stop at a random gas station.

• 42:42Speaker 05

  Sitco.

• 42:43Stavros Halkias?

  If I guess, I'm not, I'm not all of a sudden a Sunoco guy because I got a fucking.

• 42:46Speaker 05

  You don't come on and go, you know what's great at Sunoco?

• 42:48Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 42:48Stavros Halkias?

  Well, that's what I'm saying. I just happened to stop at a Sheets and I gave a glowing review of that.

• 42:52Speaker 05

  The glowing review is what gets me.

• 42:54Stavros Halkias?

  They got a lot going on. They got the cooler with the beers and stuff like that, slushies. Look, Sheets to me does feel very Wawa adjacent. I'm not, I don't mean to.

• 43:02Speaker 05

  There's a big beef. I mean, there's a proper rivalry in the state of Pennsylvania.

• 43:04Stavros Halkias?

  That's what I'm saying. If we're being, if, look, if we're.

• 43:07Speaker 05

  It's like rooting for the Cowboys.

• 43:08Stavros Halkias?

  They're apples and oranges. If, but it's a civic matter for me. Because I, look, if we take the, what the, what each chain symbolizes away. Then yes, they're both fucking good, if we're being honest, right? But it's not about the actual offerings. It's about what it, what it means to your, like, I'm a Royal Farms guy and I will always be a Royal Farms guy. They got that chicken. The chicken.

• 43:29Speaker 05

  I never had it. I think about it all the time.

• 43:31Stavros Halkias?

  You gotta get in there. You gotta get in there.

• 43:33Speaker 05

  And not anywhere close.

• 43:33Stavros Halkias?

  It puts it in a different class. I can objectively say, the greater offerings of Wawa, there's more at a Wawa. There's more to Sheets. But we, we nail what we do well.

• 43:45Speaker 05

  I respect that.

• 43:45Stavros Halkias?

  And it matters to me. It's, it's, it's, uh, it is, uh, emotional to me. I have a sentimental bond with it. And I will, you will never hear me say I'm a Wawa guy, ever, because I'm a Royal Farms guy. Sure. I, do I like Wawa? Yes. So I just think you need to think about. I never said I was a Sheets guy. He put those words, yeah. I went there once and I liked it. All right, all right, all right, all right. I think that's Kevin just misled me then. I thought you had some, I thought as part of.

• 44:13Speaker 05

  Hey, whose side are you on, so?

• 44:14Stavros Halkias?

  I thought as part of your midlife crisis, you were now, I denounce Wawa and I am Sheets only. I'm getting a Sheets butterfly tramp stamp. Start dating a girl from Sheets? That I would believe.

• 44:28Stavros Halkias?

  That's funny. That is the least far-fetched thing I've heard so far.

• 44:31Speaker 05

  She gets a ten percent visit.

• 44:35Stavros Halkias?

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• 46:41Stavros Halkias?

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• 47:22Speaker 05

  That's good B R.

• 47:23Stavros Halkias?

  You're literally a suburban dad with an above-ground pool.

• 47:26Speaker 05

  How you doing? Two hundred and eighty-eight bucks.

• 47:28Stavros Halkias?

  Wow.

• 47:28Speaker 05

  Two hundred and twenty bucks.

• 47:29Stavros Halkias?

  Did you have a good time with it?

• 47:30Speaker 05

  Yeah, it's currently green, but.

• 47:32Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 47:32Speaker 05

  The neighbors don't like.

• 47:33Stavros Halkias?

  But the maiden voyage was nice.

• 47:35Speaker 05

  It was great, it was nice. Couple of beers in there, yeah.

• 47:37Stavros Halkias?

  But he is, he is getting an actual. He is getting an actual pool.

• 47:40Speaker 05

  I had to think about getting an actual pool.

• 47:41Stavros Halkias?

  You got to. What's the fucking point of becoming rich by accident?

• 47:45Speaker 05

  But I don't live in the, that's like, we don't, I'm still here all the time. I'm still in New York. We just go there.

• 47:50Stavros Halkias?

  Your vacation home in Jersey.

• 47:52Speaker 05

  It's my, it's my country home.

• 47:53Stavros Halkias?

  Your country home, your country home in Jersey City or wherever the fuck you're in. I mean.

• 47:57Speaker 05

  It's Matanchin or whatever.

• 48:00Stavros Halkias?

  Interesting. I, I like that. That's a nice move. You want your child to fucking frolic a little bit. Is that the idea?

• 48:05Speaker 05

  Yeah. Well, it's also, yeah, you just do the thing where like, we, yeah, I woke up this morning with him and I took him out back. He's in a sandbox. I got the dog run. I'm having a coffee. The dog's chasing a fox and then we come up here and it's like. You know, some guys, you know.

• 48:19Stavros Halkias?

  Of course.

• 48:20Speaker 05

  Out front of your, shitting on your, literally shitting on your doorstep.

• 48:23Stavros Halkias?

  No, no, I, we had a, we had, we had a friend of the program. Who said that was a big problem for him and he asked us to cut it out. Because he told a story about a guy literally shitting on his doorstep.

• 48:32Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 48:32Stavros Halkias?

  Over and over again. And he was like, hey, man, I have a baby. I don't want to explain it to my child. This, this is a little early to explain. Grown man shitting on the, especially, imagine trying to, to potty train your fucking baby? And they just see a grown man shitting outside and they're like, well, he doesn't have to fucking shit the toilet.

• 48:50Speaker 07

  Is this in the city we're talking about?

• 48:52Stavros Halkias?

  This is in the city.

• 48:52Speaker 05

  I'd be weird in the suburbs.

• 48:53Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, that would be insane in fucking Matuchen.

• 48:58Speaker 07

  Borden Town.

• 48:59Stavros Halkias?

  That's awesome, man. So you're, so.

• 49:01Speaker 05

  I like it. It's.

• 49:02Stavros Halkias?

  Are you enjoying fatherhood?

• 49:04Speaker 05

  I'm enjoying fatherhood. Uh, yeah, it's really, it's fucking awesome. But you do realize.

• 49:08Speaker 07

  Changed like that.

• 49:09Speaker 05

  Yeah, it's like it happens.

• 49:10Stavros Halkias?

  He changed?

• 49:11Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 49:11Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, okay. I see, I see the, I see the tensions. Yeah, I see the tensions here. He doesn't even get blackout drunk with me four times out of the week.

• 49:21Speaker 07

  We're still boozing a little bit, man.

• 49:23Speaker 05

  Yeah, still do that.

• 49:24Speaker 07

  Not with me, though.

• 49:26Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, I see.

• 49:26Speaker 07

  Suburban friends.

• 49:27Stavros Halkias?

  Oh.

• 49:28Speaker 05

  I gotta, there's, yeah, like my wife has made friends. He don't like it. They're hanging out. It's, you know.

• 49:33Stavros Halkias?

  So maybe some of Foley's, maybe he's acting out, Kevin.

• 49:37Speaker 05

  For sure.

• 49:37Stavros Halkias?

  Maybe he's, this is his way of saying, hey, pay attention to me.

• 49:41Speaker 05

  He gets, he gets a lot of attention.

• 49:44Speaker 07

  And that's bad news.

• 49:47Speaker 05

  He gets more attention some weeks than my son. Unfortunately, that's where we're at.

• 49:52Speaker 07

  Talk about the electrical fence. I've finally learned to stay off Kippy's radar.

• 49:56Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, okay, okay. Interesting. So this is, yes, your, your relationship is, this is phase three, basically.

• 50:02Speaker 05

  Of us.

• 50:02Stavros Halkias?

  Of you, because phase one is, you know, open micers together.

• 50:05Speaker 05

  Sure.

• 50:05Stavros Halkias?

  The initial friendship. Phase two is when you.

• 50:08Speaker 07

  I was in charge running the operation.

• 50:10Stavros Halkias?

  You're, because you're forty years older than everybody else.

• 50:12Speaker 05

  At one point, he was in charge.

• 50:13Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 50:13Speaker 05

  And then I looked around, I'm like, you gotta get out of the way, guy. Let me start getting some shit done.

• 50:18Stavros Halkias?

  Well, as an open mic'er, if someone's a decade older than you, you're like, well, that's a guy I need to respect.

• 50:23Speaker 05

  For sure.

• 50:23Stavros Halkias?

  And then you start realizing like.

• 50:24Speaker 07

  No, they didn't.

• 50:25Stavros Halkias?

  No, I don't.

• 50:26Speaker 05

  No, I did, and I still, I, I still respect you to it, obviously, and the things you're good at.

• 50:30Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 50:30Speaker 05

  There's certain things, he just like, you know. But he was the kind of guy where he would start hanging out at like an open mic, and then he didn't have Sig, so he bum Sig's off you, you know, which I, I'm. Pro CA, you know, we're, everyone's smoking Sig, let's smoke Sig.

• 50:42Stavros Halkias?

  Of course.

• 50:42Speaker 05

  But then he'd be the kind of guy like, yeah, let me get a ride home. I'm like, all right, well, I park, you know, this way. And then you're walking to the car. He's like, how fucking far did you park?

• 50:48Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's mad at you.

• 50:49Speaker 05

  I'm like, what is this guy's deal, man?

• 50:51Stavros Halkias?

  I did recently, I went to, I went out to eat with a couple buddies. Uh, it was in LA and they, they were like, offer me a ride home. And I was like, oh, great, that's awesome. But they had parked up a hill and I was like. I'm gonna take an Uber.

• 51:05Speaker 05

  I'm not walking up before you.

• 51:07Speaker 07

  He only offer a ride if the car's right there. What the fuck?

• 51:10Speaker 05

  You asked for a ride.

• 51:11Stavros Halkias?

  It was a nice, it was a nice gesture for my friends and, and yeah, yeah, but it, it is very funny to complain. I, basically, I was trying to avoid being.

• 51:19Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 51:19Stavros Halkias?

  Doing that exact thing.

• 51:20Speaker 07

  Halfway up the hill, like, what the fuck?

• 51:22Stavros Halkias?

  Come on, what are you guys, out of your fucking minds? Making me walk all the way up here?

• 51:25Speaker 07

  I had a drive to a show with Cassidy like, uh, two months ago. And he lives in Sunnyside. He parks about. Seven miles away from his fucking apartment.

• 51:38Speaker 07

  Had a hoof it down there.

• 51:39Stavros Halkias?

  Brutal, man. I'm sorry. I'm sorry you had to get twelve minutes of, uh, low.

• 51:43Speaker 07

  You know how it is, you know, I hate when I don't know where I'm going. And he's like, go right over here. It's not right over here.

• 51:48Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 51:49Speaker 07

  It's still locked to me.

• 51:50Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, you. Well, they can't give you the information because you'll get mad. If you know how far the walk is.

• 51:55Speaker 05

  Yeah, it's also, they used to do that. We used to lie to him of like, dude.

• 51:58Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 51:58Speaker 05

  He's also, and I don't think he's, he's, he's lost the weight and he's been doing great, but it was always, we would always clock it. The team would clock it in the airport.

• 52:07Stavros Halkias?

  Right.

• 52:07Speaker 05

  He'd see the gate and go. A eighty-four, what the fuck?

• 52:12Speaker 07

  And they put the distance on it now, too. Fifteen minutes.

• 52:14Speaker 05

  I'm like, that's not good for the team's vibes.

• 52:17Stavros Halkias?

  Of course, of course.

• 52:18Speaker 05

  One piece of information. It's a fucking fuck.

• 52:20Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 52:21Speaker 05

  So we would like leave him and then he's like, you're not waiting for me. But now we'll charge you, she's right up there with the pack.

• 52:26Stavros Halkias?

  I love that.

• 52:26Speaker 05

  Sometimes the hell, sometimes leaving the pack.

• 52:27Stavros Halkias?

  I love that.

• 52:28Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 52:28Stavros Halkias?

  That's beautiful. You're, you're going back to becoming a leader, Foley.

• 52:31Speaker 07

  No.

• 52:33Speaker 05

  Today, today's a, today's a little speed bump.

• 52:34Speaker 07

  I walk away from him. I do my own thing.

• 52:36Stavros Halkias?

  I see, I see, I see. Okay, so yeah, this is interesting. So phase three, so phase two is AYG.

• 52:42Speaker 05

  I think is, is, is.

• 52:43Stavros Halkias?

  And phase three is now family man and. Whatever's going, whatever Foley decides to settle into.

• 52:48Speaker 07

  Yeah, it's not great.

• 52:50Speaker 05

  I believe in you. You're doing great.

• 52:52Speaker 07

  So I gotta give him that. And it was a, it was a, I remember when I saw him change, like into a dad.

• 52:58Stavros Halkias?

  Right.

• 52:58Speaker 07

  Which made him.

• 52:59Speaker 05

  Smack him around a little bit.

• 53:00Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 53:01Speaker 07

  It made him.

• 53:02Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, it made him more stern with you.

• 53:04Speaker 07

  A hundred percent. And he would throw things at me like, you know, my time is more valuable now.

• 53:09Stavros Halkias?

  Right. Which is true, which is objectively true.

• 53:12Speaker 07

  One hundred percent.

• 53:13Speaker 05

  Hey, Stavi, what would be your response if you. Drove an hour to work, got to work, and then the guy you're supposed to work with was like, I'm not coming in today.

• 53:20Stavros Halkias?

  Well, let me tell you something.

• 53:21Speaker 05

  You're gonna be like, well, you can't do this.

• 53:22Stavros Halkias?

  I will find out soon when Eldis has a kid. We're gonna be in the reverse situation where somehow it makes him more, uh, it will make him less responsible, you know, at his job.

• 53:34Speaker 07

  Why? Is he late and stuff like that? Huh? Is he late?

• 53:37Stavros Halkias?

  Eldis, Eldis does a great, Eldis will do. An, a B at any task you give him. He will never do better, but he won't do worse. You know what I mean?

• 53:46Speaker 07

  Thank you.

• 53:46Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 53:49Stavros Halkias?

  I'm sorry, I should say he's capable of reaching a B.

• 53:51Speaker 05

  Gotcha.

• 53:52Stavros Halkias?

  At some point, on any task you give him.

• 53:54Speaker 05

  Now I'm leaving Stavi's way.

• 53:55Stavros Halkias?

  And he's there, he's there, but I am actually very curious to see. I actually think Eldis is gonna be, uh, he is gonna be an incredible dad, but I also have all the people. Who have a kid, I'm the least worried, because Eldis, you can throw anything at him and he will not fuck it up. Now, will he do the best job ever? No. Is his kid gonna be a genius? No. But. But he's got a great mom, you know what I mean? The kid's gonna have a great mom that's gonna pick up a lot of, and there will be slack. But Eldis is sort of like a pack mule. You could just keep throwing stuff and he's gonna keep going up.

• 54:26Speaker 07

  He does roll with the punches.

• 54:27Stavros Halkias?

  He does, he does.

• 54:28Speaker 07

  I've never seen you, uh, emotionally, I've never seen you, um, height emotions one way or the other.

• 54:34Stavros Halkias?

  Exactly. He's a, he's a, he's a steady hand, which is very, very important as a tour man. That is actually. He, he does, that is his A-plus skill, is his steady hand. As a tour manager, because it's like, it can be, it can be insane. Now, sometimes he forgets to, you know, make sure we have a place to park the bus. Or something like that, but that's okay. He's.

• 54:54Speaker 07

  That's a lot of shit, too.

• 54:55Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 54:56Speaker 07

  You gotta give him that. Funny how you guys all got, a bunch of you guys got thrown into being actual tour managers.

• 55:01Stavros Halkias?

  I know. It is very, it is very fun. And that's why I think, I actually think, that's why I know Eldis is gonna be a good dad. Because he has no business doing this job the way he has no business being a father. And he will do, and he's done, look. The podcast is, look where we are. New studio, fucking Sirius XM deal. Eldis is, for my money, the number one.

• 55:19Speaker 07

  Deal?

• 55:19Stavros Halkias?

  The number one podcast producer, yeah. The number one podcast producer.

• 55:23Speaker 07

  Spending all that time with the kid.

• 55:25Stavros Halkias?

  You think it's his, you think he's the one that needs to pick.

• 55:27Speaker 05

  Meetings on time. We'd, we'd have a deal.

• 55:30Stavros Halkias?

  This kid's not in the trouble.

• 55:32Speaker 05

  Who's late to everything? You don't want to give him a bunch of money? All right, we'll try again next year.

• 55:37Speaker 07

  It's all political.

• 55:39Stavros Halkias?

  Ah, yes, you're, you're staunch politics, Foley. Your, your political views.

• 55:47Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, the Sirius guys are big Hawa guys and they heard you.

• 55:50Speaker 05

  You believe he turnedcoat it up?

• 55:51Stavros Halkias?

  They heard your dalliance with sheets and they're, they're, they've turned on you.

• 55:55Speaker 07

  I'm probably too good looking for you.

• 55:59Speaker 07

  No, yeah, I never thought about it like that. I guess we are on a different phase a little bit here.

• 56:02Speaker 05

  Well, we said, I, I think it was said pretty good on one of the Patreon episodes that we did of just like, you know, uh.

• 56:09Speaker 05

  We just need a little separation of church and state, right?

• 56:12Stavros Halkias?

  Of course.

• 56:12Speaker 05

  That's all.

• 56:13Speaker 07

  I drove him nuts last time.

• 56:14Stavros Halkias?

  We all have, no, no, but the way.

• 56:16Speaker 05

  A little bit this time.

• 56:17Stavros Halkias?

  Of course. But the way that.

• 56:18Speaker 05

  But joke, all jokes aside.

• 56:19Stavros Halkias?

  We've all been thrown into some, like, none of us thought we were gonna be this successful. None of us were ready for it. And as much as I shit on Eldis, I, I don't want to run a business.

• 56:28Speaker 05

  Sure.

• 56:28Stavros Halkias?

  That sucks dick. I want to do stand-up and I have to fucking have meetings? That sucks. You guys have no fucking, I mean, Foley actually is the only one behaving the way. We all should be.

• 56:39Speaker 05

  Sure.

• 56:39Stavros Halkias?

  All of us should be like, what? We have responsibility? No, thank you. I'm gonna go eat a hoagie and sleep in a basement. Meanwhile, me and you are pretending to be something we're not.

• 56:49Speaker 05

  Sure.

• 56:49Stavros Halkias?

  I have to give Foley credit for staying true to.

• 56:51Speaker 05

  True to himself.

• 56:51Stavros Halkias?

  We all have been our entire lives.

• 56:55Speaker 05

  Guy, guy's a goddamn genius.

• 56:58Speaker 07

  I appreciate that, Stavi.

• 57:00Stavros Halkias?

  And look, we'll get into all your dynamics when I come on Are You Garbage, uh, very soon.

• 57:04Speaker 05

  Sure.

• 57:05Stavros Halkias?

  But for now, I think we need to.

• 57:06Speaker 05

  It's out now already.

• 57:06Stavros Halkias?

  It's already out now, you're right. Uh, we've already gotten into your dynamics on my, on my episode of Are You Garbage? But now let's take the new, the new expertise you boys have gained in the last six months. And let's, let's apply it to some of our callers. What do you say? Let's hit the visible.

• 57:21Speaker 05

  Lock in.

• 57:21Stavros Halkias?

  Let's hit the Stavi hotline, sponsored by Visible, Eldis.

• 57:24Speaker 07

  Can I say this first?

• 57:25Stavros Halkias?

  You absolutely can.

• 57:26Speaker 07

  I'm very confused by the timeline. I don't know what's going on.

• 57:28Stavros Halkias?

  You don't have to, man. It's kind of like Tenet. Yeah.

• 57:32Speaker 07

  I saw, I saw that on a plane with bad audio.

• 57:34Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 57:35Speaker 07

  I almost jumped out of the fucking back of the plane.

• 57:36Stavros Halkias?

  We watched it on Christmas on mushrooms.

• 57:39Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 57:40Stavros Halkias?

  And it was awesome. That was one of the most fun holidays I've ever had.

• 57:44Speaker 07

  It was awesome.

• 57:44Stavros Halkias?

  Well, we were so fucked up.

• 57:46Speaker 07

  Sure. I watched it sober, too, and I still love it.

• 57:48Stavros Halkias?

  I'm gonna have to watch it sober. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 57:52Speaker 07

  I like Robert Pattinson in it, but that's where I got a, came to a certain point with Nolan. And his fucking scores.

• 58:01Speaker 07

  It's like, dude, pull it back a little bit. You know what I mean?

• 58:03Speaker 05

  He's got crazy taste.

• 58:04Stavros Halkias?

  You heard it here first. Christopher Nolan's scores are too intense. Now let's play some calls, Eldis.

• 58:11Speaker 07

  Play some hits, will you?

• 58:14Speaker 07

  Stavi, Elvis, esteemed guest. First time, long time. I am calling because I have tried the Stavi's way of having conversations.

• 58:25Speaker 06

  With my buddy who I am letting crash on my couch.

• 58:29Stavros Halkias?

  Hmm.

• 58:30Speaker 05

  Ian's calling.

• 58:33Speaker 07

  He keeps eating all my snacks, man.

• 58:37Speaker 07

  Ian's got weird snacks.

• 58:38Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, I believe it.

• 58:39Speaker 07

  It's like beet juice, cherry juice.

• 58:41Stavros Halkias?

  He is in great shape.

• 58:43Speaker 06

  My couch. Uh, let me explain my living situation. I live in a one bedroom apartment.

• 58:49Stavros Halkias?

  Oof.

• 58:49Speaker 06

  You have to walk through my bedroom to get to my bathroom.

• 58:53Stavros Halkias?

  Ooh.

• 58:54Speaker 06

  I decided to allow my buddy who was suicidal, sleep on my couch. So that he could be in a city where he could get access to work because he was in a very rural area with no access to transportation. Um, so he has been on my couch. For two months. I told him three months max. At this point, uh, he has, um, a little, I told him I'd give him a little bit over three months. But I told him at the end of a certain month, he has to get out. Uh, my problem is for this last month.

• 59:35Speaker 06

  How in the hell can I get him to leave my apartment? So I have some time to myself. He has essentially just not left my apartment. He worked one day as a, doing a moderately physical job and then immediately had health problems come up.

• 59:56Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, no.

• 59:57Speaker 06

  That he knew he had, that I guess he thought if he didn't work too hard, they would be fine.

• 1:00:05Speaker 06

  So he doesn't have a job. Um, hopeful he'll eventually find a job, but in the meantime, I can't even jerk off.

• 1:00:16Stavros Halkias?

  Right.

• 1:00:17Speaker 06

  In any meaningful way. You know, I'd like to take a little time, you know, stretch out on my bed. Spend a little time, not just get the venom out. And I have tried to, you know, tell him like, hey, it'd be good for you to get out and talk to people and just be outside.

• 1:00:39Speaker 07

  God, you shot him.

• 1:00:43Speaker 07

  I'm not going anywhere. Is that Stabby?

• 1:00:50Stavros Halkias?

  That was basically it.

• 1:00:51Speaker 05

  Nice, Eldis.

• 1:00:54Stavros Halkias?

  Um, I don't fucking know, dude. You're fucked. I, I mean.

• 1:00:57Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:00:57Stavros Halkias?

  I mean, you, at least you, he did a good job of setting that initial boundary, right? And you gave your buddy a chance. He squandered it. What can you really do? For you to want that, this last month to yourself, it's like, buddy, that's not, you know, that's not.

• 1:01:11Speaker 05

  Your month, your month's cooked.

• 1:01:13Stavros Halkias?

  Your month's gone.

• 1:01:14Speaker 05

  You just gotta go, you gotta, you have to do more work. You have to use this month to go, how are we gonna get you out of here? What's the next step? What more can I do for you to get my life back is what you have to do.

• 1:01:26Speaker 07

  I would say from a different perspective.

• 1:01:28Stavros Halkias?

  Give the guy a chance.

• 1:01:29Speaker 07

  You can't, you can't make a deal with that guy and then say, you gotta be out in three months.

• 1:01:35Stavros Halkias?

  Yes, you can, Foley.

• 1:01:37Speaker 07

  I think if you gotta, it's gotta be an unconditional thing.

• 1:01:39Stavros Halkias?

  No, it does not.

• 1:01:40Speaker 07

  You know who does that in finance?

• 1:01:42Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So this guy should become friends with you.

• 1:01:45Speaker 07

  You can't say you got three months and then fucking, you gotta get out of here, man. Where the fuck's he gonna go? Guy's suicidal. He's got health problems.

• 1:01:52Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah. So he had, he gave him a three month window to figure his shit out. He gave him a place to stay. He gave him a place to crash. He gave him access to opportunities. And yes, that's more than enough time.

• 1:02:02Speaker 07

  Opportunities. You gotta walk through his bedroom to get to the bathroom.

• 1:02:04Stavros Halkias?

  To, I, whatever he's living, wherever he went, you know, the city he's living in apparently has more opportunities. So I would say, and I see why, I see why we have two dueling perspectives here.

• 1:02:15Speaker 05

  We have to, we have to say.

• 1:02:18Speaker 05

  We got him a corporate lease for three months that ended and now he has nowhere to live. That's why he's at Ian's.

• 1:02:25Speaker 05

  It's a little too on the nose.

• 1:02:27Stavros Halkias?

  That's so fucking funny.

• 1:02:29Speaker 07

  I had my own place.

• 1:02:33Stavros Halkias?

  Eldis doing good producing by accident. Uh, um, yes, you could absolutely, so Foley, to you, both you and our caller Foley, three months is absolutely enough time when you have, especially if you have a good job, but this guy doesn't even have that.

• 1:02:48Speaker 05

  Hey, he has some medical issues came up that he knew about.

• 1:02:52Stavros Halkias?

  That is true, that he knew. And that's also weird. What does that mean exactly? But look, I agree with Kevin where it's like, this month's gone and actually what you need to be doing.

• 1:03:01Speaker 05

  More work.

• 1:03:01Stavros Halkias?

  Is make sure the rest of your life is not cooked.

• 1:03:05Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:03:05Stavros Halkias?

  Make sure he doesn't creep in another month. Make sure he doesn't fucking get, go, you know, be, act like a fucking asshole when you finally are like, all right, man. I told you, you know, so you have to set him, you have to be like.

• 1:03:17Speaker 05

  Laying the, laying the groundwork.

• 1:03:18Stavros Halkias?

  Hey, man, what's the plan? Like, what's the plan for getting out of here? Cause I gotta, I, I love you. You're my guy and I'll continue to help as much as I can, but I kinda need my life back. I need to do this. I can help, you know? And so try, but also, but always in every interaction, make it clear.

• 1:03:34Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:03:34Stavros Halkias?

  That there is no.

• 1:03:36Speaker 05

  Because.

• 1:03:36Stavros Halkias?

  We're not extending this.

• 1:03:37Speaker 07

  End of the month, you gotta be out.

• 1:03:39Speaker 05

  You need to start doing that work, cause he's for sure not. The work he's doing is, if I just don't, like, he's trying to extend it. That's what he's doing in his head. He's going, if I don't do this, if I don't bring it up, oh dude, it's two weeks. He hasn't fucking said shit yet. Like, so you have to say it now.

• 1:03:56Speaker 07

  He'll be cool with it.

• 1:03:57Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:03:57Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This ain't so bad. Just the guy smoking weed on his couch.

• 1:04:03Speaker 07

  Yeah, that's a lose lose situation right there.

• 1:04:06Stavros Halkias?

  Pussy. Ha ha. Playing fucking switch all day.

• 1:04:09Speaker 05

  Yeah, that sucks.

• 1:04:10Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah. You, you have, that's a great point. You have to shake him out of that mindset.

• 1:04:13Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:04:14Stavros Halkias?

  Cause right now he is trying to extend and you have to, he clearly hasn't pulled himself up by his bootstraps.

• 1:04:19Speaker 07

  Not at all.

• 1:04:20Speaker 05

  It'd be one thing you could extend him if he was like, you know, hey, I, I've only been where, it took me two months to get a job, but I got the job.

• 1:04:27Stavros Halkias?

  Right, right, right.

• 1:04:27Speaker 05

  Like, if he's gotta give you some sort of initiative.

• 1:04:29Speaker 07

  Like if he was at a band or got a tattoo, lost a bunch of weight, was killing it, sure.

• 1:04:36Speaker 05

  If he's like probably too jealous of your good looks or something.

• 1:04:39Speaker 07

  I get that.

• 1:04:40Stavros Halkias?

  You, you think getting a band, joining a band and getting a tattoo is equivalent to getting a job, Foley? Is that what you're thinking?

• 1:04:46Speaker 07

  Looking cool, yeah.

• 1:04:48Speaker 05

  Then the money comes.

• 1:04:49Speaker 07

  It's sad to say this, but it's like you seeing the fat guy at Wawa. I can tell you right now, this kid is not ready to leave this place.

• 1:04:56Speaker 05

  No.

• 1:04:56Stavros Halkias?

  It's not, but that's not, that's neither here nor there. He's, he's.

• 1:04:59Speaker 05

  Yeah, you have to, you have to cut ties.

• 1:05:01Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 1:05:01Speaker 05

  Otherwise he's gonna do it.

• 1:05:02Stavros Halkias?

  And, and look, this guy maybe is a little naive about how easy this was gonna be. That, that happens a lot, right? When people,

• 1:05:08Speaker 07

  The normal people.

• 1:05:09Stavros Halkias?

  You put yourself in the headspace of a friend who is fucking insane or has mental or has severely depressed. And yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, truly.

• 1:05:18Speaker 05

  Hey, you ain't lying. I know you fucking lying.

• 1:05:21Speaker 07

  Caused him a lot of, a lot of heartache.

• 1:05:22Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, Kevin was like, well, obviously Foley will behave in a reasonable manner.

• 1:05:27Speaker 05

  To go back. Sure.

• 1:05:29Stavros Halkias?

  And that was your biggest mistake, Brian.

• 1:05:31Speaker 05

  A lot of discussion on the team of like, I go, I keep using my brain to solve his problem.

• 1:05:36Stavros Halkias?

  That's it.

• 1:05:36Speaker 05

  And that's my flaw is to think he's gonna go, oh.

• 1:05:40Stavros Halkias?

  Right.

• 1:05:40Speaker 05

  This is how logically you would do it, A, B, and C. So you just gotta go.

• 1:05:43Stavros Halkias?

  That is hard, right? That's hard for, for this guy to figure out too.

• 1:05:46Speaker 05

  It's hard for all parties involved, obviously.

• 1:05:47Stavros Halkias?

  Especially, I mean, you know.

• 1:05:49Speaker 07

  That's pretty easy for me.

• 1:05:49Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:05:51Speaker 05

  I'm having a good time.

• 1:05:51Speaker 07

  Just being a jerk off for a little bit of time.

• 1:05:55Stavros Halkias?

  True, true. So you've seen, you've seen the mind of these people. This is, you're looking at a very successful version of your friend and he is still arguing for getting more than three months. So you're a fucking unemployed guy, you know, with chronic, with tuberculosis or whatever the fuck he has, that he can't even do one day of hard labor.

• 1:06:14Speaker 07

  Yeah, for all we know, this kid could start doing crowd work clips or something like that and be killing it a month.

• 1:06:18Stavros Halkias?

  That's not a bad, yeah.

• 1:06:18Speaker 05

  There you go.

• 1:06:18Speaker 07

  Then he's gonna be asking for tickets.

• 1:06:21Stavros Halkias?

  Send him to Kill Tony. Let him do a bucket pull. This guy, this guy might be able to fucking tour with, uh, you know, some guy with cerebral palsy. Um, uh, so yeah, those are your options. Either make, get him a bucket pull or fucking, or give him, you buy him a, a couple of months of Indeed or some shit like that.

• 1:06:39Speaker 05

  Yeah, you gotta, but you gotta, you're gonna have to do the work cause he's not doing it. You gotta start doing it.

• 1:06:44Speaker 07

  Fucked up letting him in there and I can tell you that from a dirtbags perspective.

• 1:06:46Stavros Halkias?

  Exactly. It's like, it's like vampire rules.

• 1:06:49Speaker 05

  He's gonna have squatters rights.

• 1:06:50Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, exactly, exactly. Well, this guy, in fact, this guy's probably Googling squatters rights before he's applying to jobs. Like this, I'm telling you. So yeah, get him out of there one way or the other and get ready to get him out of there.

• 1:07:01Speaker 07

  That is a funny way to look at it. You think of how you would solve the problem.

• 1:07:04Stavros Halkias?

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:07:05Speaker 07

  You know?

• 1:07:05Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah. Yeah. Cause if I had three months like crashing, I would be like, Jesus, this is fucking miserable. I gotta get the fuck out of here. Like I, the first month in New York, I did crash on my friend's couch and it was fucking horri, first of all, they were insane. They were like addicted to meth or not real meth, like they were crushing Adderall.

• 1:07:22Speaker 07

  Sure.

• 1:07:23Stavros Halkias?

  And they were cheating on each other constantly. And then I got bedbugs from, from the fucking, from the place.

• 1:07:28Speaker 05

  Brutal.

• 1:07:29Stavros Halkias?

  And I had no money. I just moved to New York, uh, and I took, I had like, you know, I had maybe like three grand in the bank, right?

• 1:07:36Speaker 07

  Jesus, really?

• 1:07:37Speaker 05

  I moved up here with a hundred and eighty-six dollars.

• 1:07:39Stavros Halkias?

  Respect.

• 1:07:39Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:07:40Stavros Halkias?

  No, I had, I had like, uh, cause me and Eldis were, me, Eldis and our friend Christina were moving in together and I had like just enough for, you know.

• 1:07:47Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:07:48Stavros Halkias?

  First month, whatever. And it cost me seven hundred fifty dollars to fumigate, like I had to put all my belongings into a truck and fumigate them. And I did not have that seven hundred fifty.

• 1:07:58Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:07:59Stavros Halkias?

  That was a fucking, but even then I was like, I cannot be in this situation.

• 1:08:03Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:08:03Stavros Halkias?

  We gotta get the fuck.

• 1:08:04Speaker 05

  You gotta, you gotta move.

• 1:08:05Speaker 07

  So you're kinda somewhere in the middle between me and Kippy a little bit.

• 1:08:07Stavros Halkias?

  I think I am, yeah. No, I, I, I can really let my, like when my addictions take over, I am more useless than you Foley.

• 1:08:16Speaker 07

  But I think financially and stuff like that with life, you lean more towards Kippy, but you know.

• 1:08:20Stavros Halkias?

  I also say, I go, I can get in the zone. I'm just a man of extremes. I'm a man of extremes. Yes, yes.

• 1:08:26Speaker 05

  I know. It's crazy that you make me look responsible. Like I'm, I look like Warren Buffett and meanwhile, I'm blowing money.

• 1:08:32Stavros Halkias?

  I have no, yeah, I only look like, exactly. You're also grading on the comedian's curve.

• 1:08:36Speaker 07

  Is that a shot at me? That what's going on here?

• 1:08:37Stavros Halkias?

  What?

• 1:08:38Speaker 07

  That you look like Warren Buffett?

• 1:08:39Stavros Halkias?

  No, no, no. He, that's not, he didn't mispronounce buffet. That's a, that's, that's a guy.

• 1:08:44Speaker 05

  I'm getting that joke.

• 1:08:44Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 1:08:45Speaker 05

  You mean Margaritaville?

• 1:08:48Stavros Halkias?

  Um, so anyway, yeah, you're probably fucked, but try and get your friend out of there.

• 1:08:51Speaker 07

  Yeah, you're fucked. You should've never let him in.

• 1:08:53Speaker 05

  He's stern. You gotta be stern.

• 1:08:55Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:08:56Speaker 07

  He's gonna kill himself.

• 1:08:58Speaker 05

  Oh, God.

• 1:08:59Stavros Halkias?

  And if he does, we have no legal, we are not legally responsible at all. This is for entertainment purposes only.

• 1:09:05Speaker 07

  What's up? Stabby Baby and LD and esteemed guest.

• 1:09:10Speaker 03

  Um, I am a wife and a mother of two. I'm twenty eight years old. My husband's twenty nine. And I'm also a bisexual lady, so. Repping for those.

• 1:09:23Stavros Halkias?

  Nice.

• 1:09:24Speaker 03

  Um, here's my question. My husband and I, before we had kids, have been known to step outside into the dating world together, just in terms of like sleeping with people, i.e. we've fucked girls together.

• 1:09:50Stavros Halkias?

  That's awesome.

• 1:09:51Speaker 07

  No one should be using shit like that.

• 1:09:53Speaker 03

  Fucked girls together. Yee-haw. Um, we haven't done so since we've had kids and like gotten married and kind of settled down. But we've talked about it and it's something I would like to do for him as like kind of a gift because. You know, like a fun night to be a little bit more youthful, but my question is, how do we go, how do I go about finding this person?

• 1:10:21Speaker 03

  My husband in almost a decade now, um. I don't really want it to be anybody we know intimately. I would much prefer it be like a safe stranger. So how do I find a safe stranger in, you know, not a super crazy populated area?

• 1:10:41Stavros Halkias?

  Right.

• 1:10:42Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 1:10:42Stavros Halkias?

  Cause I was gonna say a dating, like a fuck forward dating app, like Field or some shit like that.

• 1:10:47Speaker 07

  Sure.

• 1:10:49Speaker 05

  There's like, I don't, I mean, the old one was Thrinder.

• 1:10:51Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, I don't know that.

• 1:10:52Speaker 05

  You like, you're like either go on as a couple or a single looking for couples. Yeah.

• 1:10:59Stavros Halkias?

  Did you ever get in the mix?

• 1:11:00Speaker 05

  What we do in the burbs.

• 1:11:01Stavros Halkias?

  Did you ever get in there?

• 1:11:02Speaker 05

  Me?

• 1:11:02Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:11:03Speaker 05

  What? I got chicken fingers.

• 1:11:06Speaker 07

  Going on there as the single dude looking for a couple.

• 1:11:10Speaker 05

  But they're looking for it. So it's like, you know, why?

• 1:11:13Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, but they're not looking for you, for us.

• 1:11:16Stavros Halkias?

  We're, we're not really the bulls. Even if they want guys, they don't want fucking. Hold on a second. Uh, just give me a second to get hard. They want, they want their wife plowed. You know what I mean?

• 1:11:26Speaker 05

  Which I will not do.

• 1:11:27Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, me neither. Me neither.

• 1:11:29Speaker 07

  Yeah, I can't wrap my head around that.

• 1:11:33Speaker 05

  Yeah, I don't know. But then like you're public. I don't know if they want it public. Like if someone else sees it, then people know.

• 1:11:38Stavros Halkias?

  Right.

• 1:11:38Speaker 05

  Small towns, that might not be great. I don't know.

• 1:11:41Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, I mean, and which also the like, uh, this is, I mean, I would, my first piece of advice would be like, how did this happen in the past, right? When you guys are younger?

• 1:11:51Speaker 05

  Sure.

• 1:11:51Stavros Halkias?

  What was the situation? How did you do it? Cause if you want a no work, no, you know, no strings, no, you know, no, nobody to know about it, then perhaps Foley's immediate suggestion of a pro makes the most sense, right? Like, like getting a, getting a, you know, and maybe you get, maybe you spring for a nice, uh, uh, third week. Uh, they have the GFE, they have the girlfriend experience. Do they have the, do they have the third, third experience where you go out, get some drinks.

• 1:12:22Stavros Halkias?

  If you want it to be just sex, whatever, that's, and you're worried about like, you know, like she said, public place, whatever. That's probably your, that's probably your most direct.

• 1:12:31Speaker 05

  That's kind of a fail safe to have like, this is, there's a level of, uh, inconspicuous that goes with this or whatever.

• 1:12:39Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 1:12:39Speaker 05

  Confidentiality.

• 1:12:40Stavros Halkias?

  It confidential, exactly, exactly.

• 1:12:41Speaker 07

  However.

• 1:12:42Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 1:12:42Speaker 07

  The problem with that is they might want it to be a normal, no, you know, uh, not a regular person, but a person that.

• 1:12:49Speaker 05

  That's not a sex worker.

• 1:12:50Speaker 07

  Yes.

• 1:12:51Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:12:51Speaker 07

  It might be hotter for them.

• 1:12:53Stavros Halkias?

  Hotter for them. Sure. I'm just saying, well, yeah, we're, we're giving them options. So this is your first number one option. Then I would say a very fuck specific app, because even that, the people you're worried about finding you, they're not on field. You know what I mean? Like, maybe they're on Tinder, like maybe your neighbors or whatever on a regular.

• 1:13:10Speaker 05

  But yeah, they're also in, the people in there are in there.

• 1:13:12Stavros Halkias?

  The freaky app, I think is the way to go. Now I will say, the way she's framing this is, it is, this is the hardest difficulty threesome to set up, I would say is like, hot girl trying to convince a different girl to basically take one for the team and also suck her husband off. You know what I mean? Like, I don't know. Is your, yeah, is your husband hot? Is like, what does he bring to the table? Because the way to do this otherwise is like, and if you want to feel a little more youthful, if you don't want it to be a one off, then it is you and your husband. Live the like, kind of lifestyle you used to, where you used to maybe some fine chicks together.

• 1:13:48Speaker 05

  Go out to the bar or something. You gotta be out in the field.

• 1:13:51Stavros Halkias?

  You gotta act, if you want, if you want, exactly. That's, that's the way to get to it. Unless you want it to be like a completely, you know, completely no strings attached, whatever. In which case I do think, yeah, you know, of patronizing a sex worker, I think would be the, the, the way to go if you wanted it simple. And then I would probably go, you know, fuck app in the middle. Um, who knows? Who's to say?

• 1:14:13Speaker 07

  I like how she put the, uh, the rule down that you can't be anybody we know or.

• 1:14:17Stavros Halkias?

  I mean, of course, that's.

• 1:14:18Speaker 05

  Yeah, that's.

• 1:14:19Stavros Halkias?

  But you guys are in a better place than most because most people, I would say, if you were trying this for the first time, I'm like, don't do it. You're not gonna pull it off. You have fucking kids. But you know, if you guys have done it, and I do think it works for some people.

• 1:14:30Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 1:14:31Stavros Halkias?

  Then it's more nostalgia than it is.

• 1:14:33Speaker 05

  Yeah, it's like more like if you, if you went to concerts a lot, then you had.

• 1:14:38Speaker 05

  Hey, we're going to a concert again.

• 1:14:40Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah. Let's go see the, the Backstreet Boys reunion. Um, yeah, I, I think that's probably your move. I will say, are you getting anything out of this? Cause she has only framed this as a gift for her husband.

• 1:14:54Speaker 07

  I think that's bullshit. I think she's.

• 1:14:55Stavros Halkias?

  You think she wants to eat a little pussy as well?

• 1:14:57Speaker 05

  I mean, she's writing into it or she's calling into it. Like she's invested in it.

• 1:15:01Stavros Halkias?

  Which I like. I like if, I mean, look, we, we are for horny. Women should be more publicly horny. They shouldn't be shamed for their sexual urges. So don't, so don't feel like you have to say, well, I'd love to give him a present. It's like, if you wanna suck some titties, suck some pussy.

• 1:15:14Speaker 07

  Bisexual.

• 1:15:15Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, sure. But that doesn't mean you necessarily, you know, want to do she, cause I'm not wrong, right? In her speak, in her speaking, she said.

• 1:15:21Speaker 05

  She positioned it. It was, she wants to do that for him.

• 1:15:24Stavros Halkias?

  For him.

• 1:15:24Speaker 05

  I guess that is the leading.

• 1:15:25Stavros Halkias?

  But she also is, yeah.

• 1:15:27Speaker 06

  She did, but she didn't, she didn't have any, anything hinting at contempt in her.

• 1:15:31Stavros Halkias?

  Not at all. She seems pretty excited to do it as well. So yeah, I would say, my number one thing would be like, think back to how you did it in the first place, cause that's really what you're trying to recreate.

• 1:15:41Speaker 07

  Yeah, go to a fucking bar, get fucked up, find some chick, take her back to the house.

• 1:15:45Stavros Halkias?

  And even if it doesn't happen, that sounds kind of fun. Like, I, I'm not kidding.

• 1:15:48Speaker 05

  You're at least out there with your husband.

• 1:15:49Stavros Halkias?

  That's fun. That's a team building.

• 1:15:51Speaker 07

  Yeah, a couple of apps, stuff like that, sure.

• 1:15:53Speaker 05

  It's also funny if it doesn't work.

• 1:15:55Stavros Halkias?

  Foley fucking jumps to the mozzarella.

• 1:15:57Speaker 07

  You want some of these wings, honey? Before we go back and do it? That also could go very south, very.

• 1:16:02Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, you don't want, I'm gonna say, don't load up on, uh, don't go to TGI Friday's endless appetizers and then try and get pussy with your husband. I would say keep a, a, a light lunch and go into it, go into it that way.

• 1:16:15Speaker 07

  Gary, you have mustard on your shirt.

• 1:16:19Stavros Halkias?

  Uh, but yeah, that's, that's beautiful and that's, I hope to one day find a love like that.

• 1:16:24Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:16:25Speaker 07

  Is that true?

• 1:16:25Stavros Halkias?

  Absolutely. It sounds fucking awesome.

• 1:16:30Stavros Halkias?

  No, I don't, do I want ten billion dollars just dropped on my doorstep? No, Foley. Uh, good luck. Good luck, sister. Let us know if you suck some titties with your husband. Sometimes the best plan is having no plan at all. Get some friends together and get some food. See where the day goes. Twisted Tea is made for that kind of hang. I'm gonna have a lot of those this fall. I finally got some time off after the tour. And you know what was number one on my list? Getting the gang together so we can absolutely destroy Twisted Tea's responsibly. While there's a nice autumn chill in the air. Oh mama, do I love Twisted Tea? Or refreshing hard iced tea with five percent alcohol per volume and real brewed tea.

• 1:17:14Stavros Halkias?

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• 1:18:25Speaker 02

  Hey, Stavi, eldest esteemed guest and or guest. Um, I've got an Ozempic scenario that I don't think I've heard discussed yet. So for context, me and my high school sweetheart, we've been together 10 years, married for three. Um, when we graduated high school, we were in pretty decent shape.

• 1:18:47Speaker 02

  And pretty shortly after we started college, um, we just kind of started piling on the pounds. Um, we were living in her parents attic uh for several years. Times are tough out here. Um, we turned 25, moved out. And pretty much immediately, uh, started shedding the weight. Um, we just frankly stopped drinking a case of beer a day and stopped eating fast food every day.

• 1:19:23Stavros Halkias?

  Honestly, that's also, that's another beautiful type of love. Early twenties, in your parents attic, drunk together, eating fast food together. If I found a girl like that, man, my life is so different. My life is so different right now. And my college girlfriend wanted me to achieve things, unfortunately. Next question, or keep going, Aldous.

• 1:19:42Speaker 02

  Yeah, but so.

• 1:19:43Stavros Halkias?

  I just say, alright, thanks.

• 1:19:44Speaker 02

  Anyways, a year later, after we, we had moved out and started, you know, getting clean, um, we, I had lost 40 pounds, sorry, 30 pounds, and my uh wife had lost 70 pounds. Which was huge, great for her, she feels better, um, her self-esteem is a lot higher, um. Naturally, we're just kind of posting more on Instagram, on the stories, stuff like that. It's been great. Um, until we had a.

• 1:20:13Speaker 05

  Confidence is up though.

• 1:20:14Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, posting more on Instagram is really funny. I never even thought of that as a metric for.

• 1:20:18Speaker 05

  Sure.

• 1:20:19Stavros Halkias?

  It's like, I show my fat face in public now.

• 1:20:22Speaker 07

  I know where this is going. This guy's fucked.

• 1:20:24Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, okay, let's find out.

• 1:20:25Speaker 02

  Um, until we had a family trip, um, and these, everybody that was on this trip, um, hadn't really seen us in the last year. Um, so they were all blown away, um, by, you know, just the physical change, and that's great, but, um, my brother-in-law asked me if we were taking Ozempic and, you know, fair question, I guess, uh, you know, 70 pounds in a year is pretty steep. But we, we didn't take Ozempic and I'm kind of in my head now thinking, is he the only person that thinks we, we needed that to, to lose the weight?

• 1:21:09Speaker 02

  Um, is, is it a one-off? Am I being over dramatic?

• 1:21:13Stavros Halkias?

  Don't give in to what our thin oppressors have, to the context they've put these medicines under. Good for you, but that you hear in his voice, he thinks he's better than fat people that use Ozempic.

• 1:21:24Speaker 05

  You're taking a little offensiveness about being a.

• 1:21:26Stavros Halkias?

  I am, I am, because he's, he is one of us. This happens all the time.

• 1:21:31Speaker 05

  I'm on his side.

• 1:21:31Stavros Halkias?

  Because you're a fucking fat traitor as well.

• 1:21:33Speaker 05

  What do you mean?

• 1:21:34Stavros Halkias?

  You, you, you think he's better than us?

• 1:21:37Speaker 05

  I don't think he's be, well, I didn't, first of all, he didn't say that.

• 1:21:40Stavros Halkias?

  He did.

• 1:21:40Speaker 05

  No, you would know.

• 1:21:41Stavros Halkias?

  It's implied.

• 1:21:42Speaker 05

  No.

• 1:21:42Stavros Halkias?

  He's, he's, no, no.

• 1:21:43Speaker 07

  But I'm not on Ozempic, but does everybody think that?

• 1:21:46Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, exactly. Who cares if they think that, man?

• 1:21:48Speaker 07

  Sounds like a real fun vacation, Dory.

• 1:21:50Stavros Halkias?

  But, but like, why, I guess, I guess what I'm wondering is why do you care? These, that is the, that is the framework of the anti-fat coalition that you have, you've, you've sort of. He's saying he's one of the good ones. He's saying he's one of the good fats.

• 1:22:05Speaker 07

  Well, Stavi, you gotta look in the mirror. You know what I mean? We gotta stare into the abyss.

• 1:22:09Stavros Halkias?

  This guy's not better than me.

• 1:22:10Speaker 05

  I wasn't saying he's better than you. He did it differently, though.

• 1:22:13Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:22:14Speaker 05

  He did it differently.

• 1:22:14Speaker 07

  It's a, I think it's a different kind of situation that some people have. Than what maybe he has, and he's younger.

• 1:22:24Stavros Halkias?

  Sure.

• 1:22:24Speaker 07

  We all had runs when we were younger, lost a bunch.

• 1:22:27Stavros Halkias?

  You know what? That's a good point.

• 1:22:28Speaker 05

  This guy's gonna be fat like four more times.

• 1:22:30Stavros Halkias?

  You know what? I take it back, man. Enjoy it.

• 1:22:33Speaker 05

  Hit me up around 40.

• 1:22:34Stavros Halkias?

  I do remember losing 40 pounds in my mid twenties and getting a girlfriend.

• 1:22:38Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:22:39Stavros Halkias?

  So you know what? I'm sorry, man. Uh, but I, but I, but my point does stand in that people do see it as like cheating or something.

• 1:22:46Speaker 05

  I agree. I mean, I agree with you for sure. I get that.

• 1:22:49Stavros Halkias?

  Is it cheating if you fucking take, you know, blood pressure medicine? Is it cheating if you fucking, if you have migraines and you take fucking, you know, medicine to stop the migraines so you can have a regular life or whatever?

• 1:22:58Speaker 05

  Sure, I guess like, but I think in his, like, his point of view is like, I've worked crazy hard for a year.

• 1:23:04Stavros Halkias?

  Sure.

• 1:23:05Speaker 05

  To lose 40 pounds, and then his dickhead brother-in-law comes up and is like, oh, what are you doing this? And it's like, just to assume that you're quote-unquote taking the easier route out, rather than being like, not even going, how'd you do it? What, what are you, what are you lifting? Are you running? Like, just and like.

• 1:23:21Stavros Halkias?

  It's disrespectful.

• 1:23:21Speaker 05

  Disrespectful to his journey at that time.

• 1:23:23Stavros Halkias?

  Sure, sure, sure. And, but I, my point would be, you are, by even being bothered by your dickhead brother-in-law, you are buying into the, the thought process that leads to that even being an insult.

• 1:23:34Speaker 05

  I got you.

• 1:23:35Stavros Halkias?

  Anyway, let's, let's finish, maybe, you know, I don't want to cut him off, and I get it, he's, he's in his mid twenties and he is proud.

• 1:23:41Speaker 02

  Basically, just, uh, don't want everybody to think that we over lost the weight because we took Ozempic. Um, and not that we started working out and dieting and had to make some fundamental life changes. Um, that's it. Appreciate it. Love you.

• 1:23:56Stavros Halkias?

  No, I stand with what I said.

• 1:23:57Speaker 05

  Yeah, I got back on your side.

• 1:23:58Stavros Halkias?

  I stand with what I said. He thinks he's better than me.

• 1:24:00Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:24:01Stavros Halkias?

  And you know what? In some way, look, congratulations, huh?

• 1:24:04Speaker 07

  We, it's just like if we, the guys that are dickheads, you know, that say, you know, oh my god, people, they take that stuff I work at every day, what's the problem? We would just be a part of that if we didn't recognize the fact that, not that it's the easy way out, but if you eat right, exercise, and do the right things, that's a much harder journey than taking, than, you know.

• 1:24:26Speaker 05

  For sure.

• 1:24:26Speaker 07

  Liquid diarrhea for seven days.

• 1:24:28Stavros Halkias?

  Sure, look, my point is though, is there anything worse than someone who used to be fat? And all of a sudden thinks they're superior to fat people?

• 1:24:36Speaker 07

  Brutal.

• 1:24:36Stavros Halkias?

  That's what.

• 1:24:37Speaker 05

  They're still a fat person at heart.

• 1:24:38Stavros Halkias?

  Exactly, and this guy.

• 1:24:39Speaker 05

  I'm on, I'm on board with that.

• 1:24:40Stavros Halkias?

  And this guy is kind of halfway there, where he's like, he, he thinks he's better for losing, he, he's like, I don't want people to think that. It's like, why not? What do you think that says about you if you did? First of all, by the way, okay, they're gonna think that, man. I don't know what to tell you.

• 1:24:55Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:24:55Stavros Halkias?

  That's the world we live in.

• 1:24:56Speaker 05

  We're in a time, if you're losing a bunch of weight in a year now, people are just assuming.

• 1:25:00Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, like if some, if somebody, if somebody in the eighties, you know, had a, a parasite and they lost a bunch of weight and had dark circles under their eyes, everyone's like, well, that guy has AIDS. You, you live in the time of AIDS, we live in the time of Ozempic, you know what I mean? Like, they're just gonna think that. Interrogate why you think that's an insult. That's what I would say. And don't think you're better than, uh, you know, than, than other, it's like, alright, you locked in for a year. Come see me in five years before you start fucking turning your nose up at other fat people. There but for the grace of God go I, and don't forget that, I would say. I don't like this superiority you have over fat people.

• 1:25:39Stavros Halkias?

  Because it's the same strain of thinking as somebody thinking, you know, you're less than for using. And look, obviously this is a personal thing, but it goes for anything else. It's like, people really think they're better than you, you know, they just, why are we finding ways to think we're better than, you know, to?

• 1:25:56Speaker 05

  It's kind of like you got sober and it's like you're judging the, the way you got sober. It's like, the end result is every, these three people are sober, depending on how they got there.

• 1:26:04Stavros Halkias?

  Right, right, right. So anyway, I would say, why is it bothering you? And they just are gonna think that because that's how the fucking world works now. We're in a time where there are miracle drugs, but if you just, like, look, there was a time where, I remember, uh, maybe like in college.

• 1:26:22Speaker 05

  As you just talked through a burp.

• 1:26:23Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah. I had to burp to my everything bagel. It was turkey bacon. It was a turkey bacon, egg and cheese. Thank you very much. Would somebody?

• 1:26:31Speaker 05

  On a what?

• 1:26:32Stavros Halkias?

  On a everything bagel.

• 1:26:34Speaker 05

  I hate that.

• 1:26:36Stavros Halkias?

  That's all I have all day. I'm fucking doing two podcasts. I have two more podcasts after this, you fucking assholes. I need sustenance.

• 1:26:41Speaker 07

  That's a very fat guy thing. It's the only thing I ate today.

• 1:26:44Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, it really is. It's, that's the only thing I ate, a pizza and wings combo.

• 1:26:47Speaker 05

  I called, dude, I remember, I remember at the first, he's like, dude, I'm starving. I haven't eaten all day. I went, that's about six hours in fat guy land. He goes, you're, he counted back the hours, like, damn, you're right. We were on Bleaker Street.

• 1:26:58Stavros Halkias?

  I love that. Um, anyway, that was what I would say. You're not, don't feel superior. Don't be one of those fat guys that starts lecturing other fat people about it.

• 1:27:06Speaker 05

  It's tough when you do first, I remember when I, when you first kind of lose it, you are, you do, don't, you don't realize how hard, how long life is in this journey and the struggle is. And you start going like, yeah, I just cut out grains. Like, it's like that easy.

• 1:27:22Stavros Halkias?

  It's true, it's true.

• 1:27:22Speaker 05

  You hit the perfect timing of mind state, or, you know, willpower, all this stuff to make it, not to say it was easy, but to make it easier.

• 1:27:32Stavros Halkias?

  And by the way, I am proud of you. That's the other thing. No one is saying what you did is not impressive. And you should, and you should be proud of yourself, but don't, uh, you know, don't take it out on fat people that have worse food addiction problems, or metabolic problems, or diabetes, or whatever the fuck than you do. That's all I would say. It is very impressive, and you and your wife should be proud of yourselves for cutting out drinking a 30-pack together every day.

• 1:27:56Speaker 07

  And also remember, he did come in second to his wife, who are seven.

• 1:27:59Stavros Halkias?

  That is true. That is true. That is true. I actually, you're a fucking piece of shit. I'm impressed by your fucking wife. Next question, Aldous.

• 1:28:09Speaker 02

  Hey, Stavi, eldest esteemed guest, uh, first time caller, long time.

• 1:28:15Speaker 06

  Listener, uh, long story short, I am a plumber in the south, licensed plumber and

• 1:28:24Stavros Halkias?

  Beautiful.

• 1:28:25Speaker 06

  I do okay. Money's fine. Recently, there is a surge in a specific type of job that basically pays three X what I'm making now. And that job happens to be a data center. It's a very hot topic in my area about voting them in, voting them out. Protest going on.

• 1:28:48Stavros Halkias?

  Here's what you do. You build them shitty. You take the money and you build them faulty. You, you're like the guy who let, who, who, when he built the Death Star, put a little square that if Luke Skywalker shot it, the whole thing exploded. Put in a little square so that a one rock thrown right at it explodes the whole data center. Take their money and make it so that it fucking is destroyed.

• 1:29:09Speaker 07

  Is that really what's going on where they're like, he, obviously the data center needs plumbers to help build it, right?

• 1:29:14Stavros Halkias?

  I guess, I don't know.

• 1:29:15Speaker 07

  They're paying more.

• 1:29:16Stavros Halkias?

  Well, they have to because it's evil and they're, they're bankrupt. I mean, they're, they're fucking up our natural resources and it's like, it's like, it's, it's kind of the Riyadh of, of, of.

• 1:29:26Speaker 05

  I don't know anything. I mean, I know it's a hub. I don't know anything about it.

• 1:29:29Stavros Halkias?

  They're so, I mean, it's like, it's the most, it's, it's like, they're building data centers that are fucking up, you know, they're taking up too much water. They're, they're fucking up the environment. Some communities have like, there's like a buzzing noise that makes it, and you can't even live in this neighborhood anymore. They fucked up the water. I mean, there's so many other things and let, we haven't even gotten into the, what this is being used for, which is, probably comes back to like fucking Palantir and all these things that are spying on us, right? That's why we out, what do they need all that data for? What's, what, what data are they putting in the fucking data centers? It's the shit they're stealing from us. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's that, that guy and his formerly fat wife's new bikini pictures. You know what I mean? But, um.

• 1:30:08Speaker 05

  I listen, I, I think you gotta do it. You're in the.

• 1:30:10Stavros Halkias?

  Hold on, let's let him finish. And no, you, that's fucking insane. Finish up.

• 1:30:14Speaker 06

  I'm voting them in, voting them out, um, protests going on. And I'm torn because I understand that they're problematic. There's a lot of misinformation on both sides about them.

• 1:30:25Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, brother. Misinformation on both sides. One side is corporate propaganda and the other side is, hey, I'd love fucking clean drinking water. The fuck are you? This guy's already gonna do it. He's fucking bought.

• 1:30:37Speaker 05

  He's already did it. He's calling from his new cell phone.

• 1:30:39Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Keep going.

• 1:30:41Speaker 06

  But yeah, I would just like to get your opinion, uh, on whether I should take the blood money or whether I should, uh, stay true and, and just, uh, see where these data centers go and, and maybe give it a while before checking back in. Thanks. Love you.

• 1:30:58Stavros Halkias?

  Well, listen, there's no, this will in a year or two be, these will be, hopefully if there's any justice, these will be being torn down, have, you know, in a year or two. Uh, now is the time to do it because public opinion hasn't, you know,

• 1:31:13Speaker 05

  Fully turned.

• 1:31:14Stavros Halkias?

  Fully, it's still up for debate. I mean, I guarantee you, when you say there's misinformation on both sides, the amount of money people are spending to put pro data center information out there versus anti, I think you're gonna find a much, I think you're gonna see who's actually propagandizing what. Obviously, I would say, are you making a good living right now? If you are, don't do it, is my perspective. If you're in it, look, I'm not gonna judge anyone for having to do something fucked up to take their family out of poverty or whatever, right? Like if you're broke, whatever. Obviously, it's like, I mean, that's how the fucking, that's how America works. How does our military work? We keep so many fucking people in poverty that they have to sign up to kill fucking brown children overseas. Or, you know what I mean? Like, it's like you put a gun to people's heads and make them be evil, right?

• 1:31:59Stavros Halkias?

  Is the gun to your head is my point. If the gun's not up to your head.

• 1:32:02Speaker 05

  The gun might not be to his head today, but it's also like, in that blue collar life, I, I, I mean, I come from it. It's like, it's not guaranteed. It's like, sure. Yeah. Hey, I had three good years. I could be destitute in five.

• 1:32:14Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 1:32:15Speaker 05

  So it's like, that's where I'm coming from. Like, if you can do it, if this guy was like, hey, I work for whatever. It's a pretty stable job. I make X amount a year. I don't need to do it.

• 1:32:26Stavros Halkias?

  Right.

• 1:32:26Speaker 05

  But if your income can fluctuate.

• 1:32:29Stavros Halkias?

  Sure. I would say if you are, if you feel like you are at a good place and this would be like a crazy amount of money, I guess like, the point is you would be doing something bad. There's no way around that.

• 1:32:40Speaker 05

  But he's putting it in the toilets. It's not like, I understand what you're saying, but it's like, it's not, first of all, it's.

• 1:32:46Stavros Halkias?

  Somebody put the toilets in the fucking Nazi in fucking camps.

• 1:32:50Speaker 05

  I think they're slightly different.

• 1:32:51Stavros Halkias?

  No, no, I honestly, but what I'm saying is where do we put the, where do we draw the line of something that is fundamentally destroying our, possibly could destroy our society? If somebody's paying you three times, it's not fucking good. There's no way.

• 1:33:03Speaker 05

  I'm not making a case. I'm not saying it's good.

• 1:33:06Stavros Halkias?

  I'm just saying, you are doing something bad. I just think there's no way around, there's no way around the fact that there is some, there is a moral component here. It's okay. And, and by the way, if you need to do it, I won't judge you, right? That's all my point is. And I get it. My dad was a fucking, you know, we were, my dad was a carpenter who, we had some fucking horrible years.

• 1:33:25Speaker 05

  Sure.

• 1:33:25Stavros Halkias?

  And I bet you if in nineteen ninety fucking four, when they're, uh, uh, you know, they wanna build a fucking super max prison that black teenagers are gonna go to, and they offer my dad a crazy contract to do it, he would have had to take it to put, because we were fucking. I'll be there the Monday morning. Right? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah.

• 1:33:43Speaker 05

  My dad would have done it and blown all the money in a year. That was the retirement.

• 1:33:47Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatever you want. I do for free. Put block in jail? Yes, I do it. I give you money back. Uh, but like.

• 1:33:55Speaker 05

  I do think, I'm just saying, I think there's shit, I, obviously it's a moral, there, there, there's a moral compass connected to it. I, like, I think if he was like, hey, I'm putting in some different kind of system other than

• 1:34:06Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 1:34:06Speaker 05

  a toilet and a fucking, a hand sink.

• 1:34:09Stavros Halkias?

  No, but you, but that's, that's, it's still, it's still infrastructure necessary for them to run. And sure, maybe the fucking Nazi camp is, but there's somebody putting ice, there's somebody putting toilets in ice camps right now and he's not, I guess that's not what he's saying, but I would say that these fucking data centers are, I just think it's fucking evil. You're just, big tech right now is completely like, what, what, the path we're on is so fucked that it's just something to think about. Go ahead, Mr. Mr. Foley.

• 1:34:36Speaker 07

  Who's Palantir?

• 1:34:39Speaker 05

  I really don't know.

• 1:34:39Stavros Halkias?

  Don't worry about it, sweetheart.

• 1:34:41Speaker 07

  I like this. I have to say, this is the first time I've, I've seen this side of you, this passion.

• 1:34:46Stavros Halkias?

  It's just, yeah, yeah. And, and I just have to say that we are at a point right now.

• 1:34:50Speaker 07

  Real commie.

• 1:34:53Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, I, you're like,

• 1:34:57Stavros Halkias?

  I'm not a commie. I, I am a, you know, social, I think.

• 1:35:00Speaker 05

  It's a nice red shirt you got there.

• 1:35:03Stavros Halkias?

  I know, I'm not a.

• 1:35:04Speaker 07

  I like to see your passion.

• 1:35:05Stavros Halkias?

  I'm not a patriot like you guys. I'm not selling out to big tech so that I could get a fucking above ground pool three months faster. You got me there.

• 1:35:13Speaker 07

  Raytheon, folks.

• 1:35:13Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:35:14Speaker 05

  That's our new ad. We're all data center all the time.

• 1:35:18Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Are you garbage? Sponsored by the IDF. Uh, anyway, I think, uh, Israel Defense Force, guys, just to let you know. Anyway.

• 1:35:28Speaker 07

  Thought it was that shop in the mall. You shoot the bank.

• 1:35:31Stavros Halkias?

  F Y E.

• 1:35:33Speaker 07

  Talking about Spencer's?

• 1:35:36Speaker 07

  Anyway, the guy's gotta take the money. What are we doing here? And you think those are gonna get taken down in a year? Yeah, right. This guy's gonna look like Skynet.

• 1:35:44Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, but that's the thing. They have to pay for, they have to.

• 1:35:46Speaker 07

  Who drinks water anyway?

• 1:35:48Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, you're right. You're right. You're right. Everything's just Mountain Dew now. All I'm saying is, if you have to take it, I'm not, I'm obviously not judging anybody for having to do something to, for their family to survive, right? You are offered no, there's, in our society, people are offered really bad choices and you just have to do what it takes to survive. I get that, right? That's all I'm saying is, if you don't need it, if you're doing fine, even, even if, and you make a good point. If blue collar, it's like if you're a single, you're a small business owner, it fluctuates. If you're having a tough year, if you don't have shit put aside, it's okay if you have to do it. If you don't have to do it, don't do it, is my point.

• 1:36:26Speaker 05

  Well, I, I, I get that. I get, I, I, listen, if you, it's easy to, it's easy to make a decision when you have a bunch of money in the bank. I, I totally, I understand that.

• 1:36:34Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 1:36:34Speaker 05

  And from, but at the same time, I think he is in this kinda gray area where it's like, it could be benefi, I'm doing okay.

• 1:36:44Speaker 07

  It'd be huge.

• 1:36:45Speaker 05

  It could be beneficial.

• 1:36:46Stavros Halkias?

  I don't know.

• 1:36:47Speaker 05

  It is.

• 1:36:47Speaker 07

  Make three times what you make in a year.

• 1:36:49Speaker 05

  Struggling with it. And he, he shows to have a pretty good moral compass. If he is going, I'm not sure what's right.

• 1:36:55Stavros Halkias?

  All I'm saying is, I agree with you guys and all I'm saying is, he has to make that distinction.

• 1:37:00Speaker 05

  A hundred percent. Only he can.

• 1:37:01Stavros Halkias?

  And I will tell you.

• 1:37:02Speaker 07

  I would have done it for two times.

• 1:37:03Stavros Halkias?

  Like I fucking, I, look, we don't take gambling money anymore. Like on Comptium, we were fucking doing, uh, you know, mybookie.ag like the most off brand shit. Cause yeah, we needed the shit to get going, right? And when this, when this podcast started, I didn't realize how fucked up gambling was gonna get. And the first year we had some gambling ads. Now I think it's completely out of control. And that they're taking advantage of how fucked people are. And they're basically just, they're gambling too much because they, everyone needs a fucking way out, right? It desperation makes you do fucked up things.

• 1:37:32Speaker 07

  Just so I know what you're talking about. When you say gambling sites, you're talking about sports books.

• 1:37:37Stavros Halkias?

  Bleep that out. Don't let that fucking cocksucker get an extra, extra couple fucking bucks on his deal. And all I'm saying is, it should make you feel bad to take data center money. Is the trade off.

• 1:37:50Speaker 05

  He's struggling.

• 1:37:50Stavros Halkias?

  Is the trade off, and, and all you have, and the calculus you have to do is, will the data center, does that, do you need it more than it will make you feel bad? That's all. People have to do fucked up things for money to, to feed their families. I get it. Like people, you know, it's like, whatever.

• 1:38:04Speaker 07

  That could put his kids through college or something like that, you know?

• 1:38:06Stavros Halkias?

  Maybe. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know how different it'll be. I don't know.

• 1:38:09Speaker 07

  Get him a couple of jet skis or something like that.

• 1:38:11Stavros Halkias?

  Exactly. That's probably, that's probably more, that's probably more where, where we're headed. But that's my, that is my only point. Is that like, just, just think about it, make a decision. And I err on the side of don't fucking support data centers. This is something that is completely fucking our, our country up. And if something is too good to be true, there's a reason. That's all. There is never, there is never money at that level with no catch. That just doesn't exist. So anyway, good luck, buddy. Uh, don't do it if you can not do it, is my advice to you.

• 1:38:44Speaker 07

  Look at this. Look at you, Stavi.

• 1:38:46Stavros Halkias?

  That's right. How about something fun to go out on, little LD?

• 1:38:49Speaker 06

  Sure. He's an update. Uh, remember the Rufat episode? Someone called in. They had a coworker from New Zealand who was like sixty, who gave preferential treatment to patrons with big titties.

• 1:39:02Stavros Halkias?

  I don't, but that's awesome. Yeah, yeah.

• 1:39:04Speaker 06

  Well, here's, here's an update on that guy. Hey, Stavi Elde. Yeah. Yes. Uh, this is an update.

• 1:39:13Speaker 02

  Actually, uh, so I was a caller that called in, uh, who works at a wine bar with like a horny New Zealand guy. Um, and you guys called me gay a bunch. That was, that was pretty funny. Um, so I, it was a guy, he like, just gets like hypnotized, like he gets locked into women's big ass titties. Um, and like, the big thing is that he would like hold up the line like real bad, like while he was doing it. Um,

• 1:39:39Stavros Halkias?

  Hold up the line? Send this guy to the data centers.

• 1:39:44Stavros Halkias?

  Let him fuck it up.

• 1:39:45Speaker 02

  Uh, you were right. I was like, what the, why, man, why do I care so much? And so you know what? I stopped caring. And you know what? I even leaned in myself. And I'll tell you what, it's awesome.

• 1:39:57Stavros Halkias?

  It's awesome. Is that what he said?

• 1:39:59Speaker 02

  Tell you what, it's awesome. Okay? Um, but that being said, uh, just want to update you about him. He, uh, is getting deported. He is going back to New Zealand. Um, he, uh, basically like decided to be like a parking attendant. Um, and, um, like, uh, like for like our lot and like, there was like a handicap guy, um, that,

• 1:40:26Stavros Halkias?

  This guy's awesome.

• 1:40:26Speaker 02

  Was parking in the handicap spot and he like wanted to, he like got in his head that the guy was like, prodding, um,

• 1:40:32Stavros Halkias?

  Oh my god.

• 1:40:33Speaker 02

  Handicap.

• 1:40:35Stavros Halkias?

  He did a, he did a citizen's arrest. Cause he thought he had a counterfeit placard.

• 1:40:40Speaker 05

  You're not retarded.

• 1:40:42Speaker 02

  He's like, he, he blocked him from getting out of his car, which is illegal. It's also illegal to like ask people to show you your handicap thing. Uh, and then the guy threatened to kill him. Uh, that was one thing. And then there was a time where he thought a customer's dog was biting him. It wasn't. And he body slams the dog to the ground.

• 1:41:00Stavros Halkias?

  This guy's nuts.

• 1:41:00Speaker 02

  Yeah, he's back in New Zealand. There you go. I'm safe.

• 1:41:04Stavros Halkias?

  That's fucking awesome.

• 1:41:05Speaker 05

  Listen, not everybody who loves big titties acts like that. I just want to come out as a big titty lover.

• 1:41:09Stavros Halkias?

  That's the state on the community.

• 1:41:10Speaker 05

  I love dogs and handicap people. Of course.

• 1:41:13Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Me too. Have you worked with anybody? Who's the most like insane coworker you've ever had? Is there one that's like,

• 1:41:18Speaker 05

  Is that a fucking serious question? Him?

• 1:41:22Speaker 05

  What the fuck? Hello?

• 1:41:26Stavros Halkias?

  Alright, we're not gonna do better than that.

• 1:41:30Stavros Halkias?

  Uh, guys, thank you so much.

• 1:41:31Speaker 05

  Thank you, brother.

• 1:41:32Stavros Halkias?

  I love every time you're on.

• 1:41:33Speaker 05

  I love you.

• 1:41:34Stavros Halkias?

  It's one of my favorite pods to do. I can't wait. I have already done A Y G as we already know.

• 1:41:38Speaker 05

  It's huge.

• 1:41:39Stavros Halkias?

  And, uh, it was a blast as always.

• 1:41:41Speaker 05

  We love you, buddy.

• 1:41:41Stavros Halkias?

  Uh, love you guys. Uh, Telly and I say hello. Foley, tell your landlord, Mr. Fiden, I say hello. Uh, and watch the special.

• 1:41:49Speaker 05

  Yes, on our YouTube, on your YouTube page. Check it out.

• 1:41:53Stavros Halkias?

  Keep, please keep running up Uncle Stav on Netflix and Tires on Netflix, which you can see me and Foley did some great work on this season. Uh, we love you and we will see you next week. Bye bye.

• 1:42:04Speaker 05

  Peace.