Bonus #187 - McDade's Maniacs Vol. 13 w/ Shaunak Godkhindi [PATREON PREVIEW]

Patreon preview. Unlock full episode at https://www.patreon.com/stavvysworld Shaunak Godkhindi and JP McDade join the podcast for a special July 4th edition of McDade's Maniacs, to discuss taking way too long to get a green card, what's the perfect Independence Day plate, why you need unfancy and unpretentious cheeseburgers on July 4th, beach vs lake celebrations, and much more. Shaunak, JP, and Stav help callers including a 36-year-old father of three who can great regrets about never joining the military, and a woman who wants to tell her money-obsessed friend to chill on splitting every little thing. See Shaunak Godkhindi live and follow him on social media: https://punchup.live/shaunakgodkhindi/tour https://www.instagram.com/shaunakg https://www.tiktok.com/@shaunakg https://x.com/ShaunakIsCool https://www.youtube.com/@shaunakgodkhindi Follow JP McDade on social media: https://twitter.com/jp_mcdade https://www.instagram.com/mcdadebaby ☎️ Want to be a part of the show? Call 904-800-STAV and leave a voicemail to get advice! 🎟️ See Stavvy live on the Dreamboat Tour 🛥️💕!!! https://stavvy.biz/ for tickets ‼️ Bonus episodes every week! Unlock exclusive, Patreon-only episodes at https://www.patreon.com/stavvysworld

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• 0:01Speaker 00

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• 0:30Stavros Halkias?

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• 0:49Speaker 02

  I, uh, my life's pretty good. Like, I, um, have everything pretty much figured out. Like, I got three kids and two baby mamas, and as crazy as that sounds.

• 0:59Stavros Halkias?

  Pause. You don't.

• 1:02Speaker 03

  Or he does!

• 1:03Stavros Halkias?

  Or maybe he does. Who knows? You're right, man. And what do I know? He might, I was actually, honestly, I was thinking about it. I'm like, what? Why don't I just have a fucking kid?

• 1:11Speaker 03

  That's what he said.

• 1:11Stavros Halkias?

  I'm getting old, like, I was doing the math of like, because it's so funny when you, when you're, you're like, "Oh, I could have a kid at 40." It's like, the kid is zero at 40.

• 1:21Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:21Stavros Halkias?

  And when it's 10, you're 50.

• 1:23Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:24Stavros Halkias?

  In my head, it just, I just realized, it's like, oh, I don't just, I don't have the kid's entire life at the age I am.

• 1:31Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:32Stavros Halkias?

  I also, and then I was like, oh, fuck, maybe I'm not having kids, but if I do... You got a middle schooler at 50? Yeah, the clock's kind of ticking. So I was literally like, who gives a fuck? Maybe I'll just fucking find the girl that wants to have a kid. But anyway, whatever. So maybe, you're right. Who am I to know? Maybe this guy does have it figured out. Keep going, Elders.

• 1:51Speaker 02

  We're tight. We're cool. Like, we get along. We co-parent. We're cool. Um, I also have a girlfriend I've been with for about a year and a half. I love her to pieces. She's amazing.

• 2:02Stavros Halkias?

  Great.

• 2:03Speaker 02

  I've just been, again, I'm thirty six years old, um, and I've just been thinking like, I really, really regret so badly not joining the military.

• 2:15Stavros Halkias?

  Now you do? You wanna fucking, you wanna snipe fishermen in Venezuela and blow up Iranian girls? You fucking loser. What do you, I mean, anyway, I'm sure this guy is just kinda having that eldest, because this is one of eldest's big things. He literally wishes he was in the military.

• 2:33Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 2:33Stavros Halkias?

  You're so stupid. Anyway, keep going.

• 2:35Speaker 02

  Fucking like random and weird, but I was in like JROTC when I was in high school, like, I didn't really take it seriously, but now I'm an old man and I'm just like, fuck, like, I wanna do something for my country, like, not even in like a weird, stupid conservative way. I'm not even getting political about it.

• 2:58Stavros Halkias?

  Joining the army is maybe the worst thing you can do for America. The reason the world hates us is because since World War II, we have been the occupying force around the world with good PR. We have army, they don't fucking like us, and you think you're gonna help America by joining the army that Trump is in control of?

• 3:18Speaker 04

  When you join the army now, at age of thirty six, in the year twenty twenty six, you're gonna be driving a steamroller to build a data center that's destroying seven or eight towns.

• 3:27Stavros Halkias?

  You're gonna be built, you're gonna be building a fucking high-rise for Jared Kushner if you join the fucking military right now.

• 3:32Speaker 04

  Drone pilot for illegal black ops in some country.

• 3:36Speaker 03

  Killing people in Cuba, bro.

• 3:38Stavros Halkias?

  A hundred percent.

• 3:39Speaker 03

  You should be mowing down kids in Cuba.

• 3:41Speaker 04

  They're gonna be blowing up a nineteen sixty-three Chevy that they're driving around in Cuba.

• 3:45Speaker 03

  And they're still gonna get ya.

• 3:47Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah. In fact, if you're in the military now, get out.

• 3:50Speaker 04

  Yeah, don't die for Israel.

• 3:52Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, don't die for Israel, bro. Fucking leave. And as a joke, sabotage some of the equipment as a joke.

• 4:00Speaker 04

  Throw water on a few servers.

• 4:02Stavros Halkias?

  As a joke legally, you know, don't, you know, re- really don't do that, but as a joke, do that.

• 4:09Stavros Halkias?

  So anyway, but I, this does, I'm, we're gonna let him finish, but this, there is something interesting here. Go ahead, Eldis.

• 4:15Speaker 02

  Territorial way, I'm not even getting political about it. It's just like, I would love to have that on my belt.

• 4:21Speaker 04

  Yeah, that's what your soul needs.

• 4:22Speaker 02

  I mean, I've been doing like a little bit of research.

• 4:24Stavros Halkias?

  I'm sleeping, I'm sleeping too easy at night. I'd love to, I'd love for a Iraqi teenager's dead face to flash in front of my eyes before I went to bed.

• 4:35Speaker 04

  I don't have any moral injury, I just realized.

• 4:41Stavros Halkias?

  My soul is clean. I have no excuse to beat my children. When I drink, it's roses.

• 4:50Speaker 04

  I don't have, I never have to sit awake at night drinking whiskey, telling myself that those kids would have grown up to be terrorists.

• 4:58Stavros Halkias?

  Convincing myself that seven year old playing soccer would have been terrorists.

• 5:02Speaker 04

  I was just cutting the grass.

• 5:06Speaker 04

  Staring into the middle distance.

• 5:08Stavros Halkias?

  Helping my country. Anyway, keep going, Eldis.

• 5:10Speaker 02

  I mean, I've been doing like a little bit of research. There's like little things that you can do when you're older for like the army, not the Marines, obviously.

• 5:18Speaker 04

  Oh, obviously not the.

• 5:19Speaker 02

  And I've been thinking about looking into it, but as I said, I have children, I have a family and I'm just trying to think, is this a stupid fucking idea?

• 5:28Stavros Halkias?

  I mean, it's maybe the stupidest idea anyone's ever had. Like even Eldis saying it, he doesn't really believe it, but, and he doesn't have fucking kids. Anyway, go ahead.

• 5:40Speaker 02

  Just continue doing what I'm, what I'm doing. Everything's copacetic, just.

• 5:47Speaker 02

  Yeah, I guess that's pretty much it.

• 5:49Stavros Halkias?

  I know what this is, right? This is, this is a great learning experience for you, cause you're literally, this is someone who has fallen for US propaganda.

• 5:58Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 5:59Stavros Halkias?

  So hard. This isn't your fault. What you're feeling, it's, it's really not. You feel a malaise, right?

• 6:06Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 6:06Stavros Halkias?

  You feel, you feel, um, and look, maybe some of this is the fact that you. You had, you have fucking three kids with two different women that you're, and you're not dating either one of them.

• 6:15Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 6:15Stavros Halkias?

  I don't know if you feel unfulfilled career wise. I don't know if you're like, I just didn't see this shit going. And from the time we're fucking children, we are inundated with the message that the most, the most heroic sacrifice anyone can make.

• 6:29Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 6:29Stavros Halkias?

  Is joining the army. The most, the way you help your country is join the army. That's fucking bullshit that they program you with because if anyone in their right mind knew what war was, they would never fucking sign up.

• 6:41Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 6:41Stavros Halkias?

  The ways they get you to sign up for the fucking army is A, make you so fucking destitute and poor.

• 6:46Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 6:47Stavros Halkias?

  They starve so many populations that the only real way out of some of these, like, you know, someplace in the deep south, someplace with incredible poverty in the inner cities. You're a legitimately great way out.

• 6:57Speaker 04

  You're taken into the middle class.

• 6:58Stavros Halkias?

  Is the military, right? And it's fucked up. They force you to do that economically, or if you're from a middle class background and you're fucking gullible.

• 7:06Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 7:07Stavros Halkias?

  They've, they, you know, you see, you watch fucking.

• 7:10Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 7:10Stavros Halkias?

  You watch fucking Jim from the office.

• 7:13Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 7:13Stavros Halkias?

  Be the, be.

• 7:14Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 7:14Stavros Halkias?

  Pretend the CIA is cool.

• 7:16Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 7:17Stavros Halkias?

  And you're, and, and your whole life, you, every war movie, the Americans are the fucking good guys.

• 7:21Speaker 04

  Your officer material, young man.

• 7:23Stavros Halkias?

  And, and, and you fall for this fucking bullshit.

• 7:27Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 7:27Stavros Halkias?

  And so I think what this is, is a great moment to deprogram yourself and realize like, I get feeling like you want to help, because our fucking society is crumbling. This country is crumbling. Why the fuck, when you said, I want to do something for my country, was the first thing you thought about? Support for people murdering, I mean, Iran, what they're doing in fucking Venezuela, even more.

• 7:49Speaker 04

  You want Pete Hegseth to be your boss?

• 7:50Stavros Halkias?

  You want some drunk fucking idiot on Fox and used to be your fucking boss?

• 7:55Speaker 03

  Yeah, bro.

• 7:56Stavros Halkias?

  Even, at no point, other than maybe World War Two, was it like noble to be in the fucking military?

• 8:04Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 8:04Stavros Halkias?

  But right now, you're literal, unless you're, you know, so poor and you don't, not think about these things. To want to join this military, you're, you, it's like, you're evil.

• 8:13Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 8:13Stavros Halkias?

  What they're doing now is, this Iranian war is illegal. They, they're not, they're thinking about invading Cuba. They're fucking killing. They're pretending they're narco terrorists. They're just fucking killing people. You, why was the first thing you thought of? Support for this, the, the army? If you say you want to help your country, you know how you help your country? Fucking volunteer at a soup kitchen.

• 8:35Speaker 03

  Yeah, be a teacher.

• 8:35Stavros Halkias?

  Be a fucking teacher.

• 8:36Speaker 04

  Picking up trash on the highway would be.

• 8:39Stavros Halkias?

  So much more for your country.

• 8:41Speaker 03

  Go to an inner city Wendy's and work a shift there. That's more for your country.

• 8:46Stavros Halkias?

  Give fucking, yeah, get like, do a fucking after school program.

• 8:49Speaker 04

  Yeah, teach kids basic financial skills or something. Not open a savings account.

• 8:54Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, the ways to help your country, to help your fucking community. They have stripped us of community where, and again, this isn't your fault. You don't have any other options because there's no, there's no propaganda arm telling you, go out, beautify your neighborhood, plant some fucking trees. Be in that, like, that's why, I mean, the fucking, the FDR shit where they made the like, you know, Works Progress Administration or whatever, where they were actually, like, our country needs so much infrastructure work, needs so much fucking like, there's so many ways our government could point disaffected youth and middle aged people into helping.

• 9:30Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 9:30Stavros Halkias?

  But the propaganda arm is fucking dialed into the army because they need that shit. That's what fucking Ameri, you know, it, it, you, so this is a good moment to really think about. That's my hunch, right? I don't think you want to join the army. I think you feel a, you feel like you haven't done something. You feel like a hole in terms of, you feel unfulfilled and you, through no fault of your own, have fallen for the brainwashing that this is the most noble thing you could do. It's so much more noble to go fucking volunteer at a hospice. It's so much more noble to, you know, you fucking get a homeless guy a fucking haircut, help him with his resume and get him a fucking job. Like, there is so much more you could do. The army is quite literally the worst thing you could do for your country.

• 10:14Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 10:14Stavros Halkias?

  And I don't even think you care about your country. I think you just feel unfulfilled.

• 10:17Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 10:18Stavros Halkias?

  And I think we all in general need to stop thinking about, we, we need to start thinking more locally, where it's like, how about we focus on our neighbor before we focus on the, this ambiguous idea of your country?

• 10:30Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 10:31Stavros Halkias?

  That, you know, so on 4th of July, that is actually our, I do, this should be our fucking breakout clip. Actually, no joke, thinking through this has made me patriotic. Cause that's what I'm proud of. I'm proud of the fucking, the people I'm around, the people I fucking share, like, my community with. That is what makes me proud to be American is that like. You know, you get people from all fucking walks of life, all different fucking places.

• 10:54Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 10:54Stavros Halkias?

  And we're all just trying to survive and people move here to give their family a better life. Focus on that part of America. That's fucking beautiful. Don't focus on the part of fucking where we have meddled in every fucking country's affairs for the last fucking 80 fucking years, dude. Because we're so scared. Because by the way, after World War II, where'd the Nazis go? They went to fucking America.

• 11:15Speaker 03

  Detroit.

• 11:16Stavros Halkias?

  Operation Paperclip, bro. The so, the after, the, if we're talking about who went with who, the communists didn't have any fucking Nazis move to their countries, bro. We had fucking Nazis come here. So anyway, and this is just a mo, this, this does make me patriotic. Go fucking, you know, help your country on a local level. Don't fucking join the military. It's fu, first of all, and we haven't even gotten to the fact that they'll reject you. You have two, you have three fucking kids and a girlfriend that you love. How about, hey, how about make one of these fucking relationships work? How about that?

• 11:49Speaker 03

  Yeah, how annoying are this guy's kids?

• 11:51Stavros Halkias?

  And then break up with her. Yeah, exactly.

• 11:53Speaker 03

  How annoying are this guy's kids?

• 11:54Stavros Halkias?

  How tired of you of listening to Bluey that you're like?

• 11:57Speaker 03

  Let me go kill teenagers. Let me go kill a kid in, in Iran.

• 12:02Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah. So that's, I would say, be honest about whether you really feel like you're killing it or not. I think the premise of your question is false. I think you're unsatisfied. And I would say, look at the root of those problems instead of trying to find the solve of joining the army, which, you know, Elvis knows what it's like. It's a symbolic thing. You want to, you know, for you, it's different. For you, you want discipline. For this guy, he wants to do good. That's the worst way you could do good.

• 12:28Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 12:29Stavros Halkias?

  If you need to claw your way out of poverty, fine. We're not going to judge you. America pins, you know, they give, they give poor people no good options for this reason.

• 12:36Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 12:36Stavros Halkias?

  And if they don't get you in the army, they'll fucking get you in jail where you have to be literally a slave.

• 12:40Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 12:41Stavros Halkias?

  I mean, the fact that slave labor is essentially allowed in America is fucking insane.

• 12:45Speaker 03

  I know.

• 12:46Stavros Halkias?

  USA, baby. The way we fix it is by not joining the army.

• 12:50Speaker 05

  Keep it twisted.

• 12:51Stavros Halkias?

  Keep it twisted. Keep it twisted.

• 12:55Stavros Halkias?

  Dessert.

• 12:57Speaker 03

  Kill your commanding officer, keep it twisted.

• 13:02Speaker 04

  Those Entenmann's cakes are pretty good for 4th of July. Is that what you meant when you said dessert?

• 13:06Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 13:07Speaker 04

  4th of July desserts.

• 13:08Stavros Halkias?

  Entenmann's cakes.

• 13:09Speaker 04

  A nice tray of cookies.

• 13:10Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah. Ice cream, of course. Ice cream sandwich. The classic ice cream sandwich.

• 13:15Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah.

• 13:15Stavros Halkias?

  Black cookie. And that, yeah.

• 13:17Speaker 04

  You bite it, you get a little paper in your mouth, you don't even mind.

• 13:19Stavros Halkias?

  You gotta have those. And the fucking... Ices, the Freezy Pop.

• 13:23Speaker 03

  Yeah, with that look like the, uh, firecracker.

• 13:25Speaker 04

  Spider-Man's eyes.

• 13:26Stavros Halkias?

  Some of those are good too, yep.

• 13:27Speaker 04

  Yeah, firecracker ones are phenomenal.

• 13:29Stavros Halkias?

  Again, it's a big put, big cooler full of fucking a bunch of frozen accessible treats.

• 13:35Speaker 04

  Yeah. Where you are smoking a spliff while you're grilling, I'm sucking on a Ring Pop.

• 13:40Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, a Ring Pop outside. You know what? Respect.

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• 15:25Stavros Halkias?

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