S2E23 - Cuban Bee, Florida Heat, and Life After Retirement

In S2E23, we bring on Rodney, also known as Cuban Bee, and catch up on life after the military. We talk about his move to Florida, retiring in 2023, getting his A&P, teaching aviation maintenance, buying a dream home, and raising two young kids after spending the first decade of marriage travelling and enjoying life. From there, we get into old crash recovery memories, the car crash Ian and Rodney somehow walked away from, life in England, Florida and Texas heat, medical cannabis versus tobacco, working at a sports bar, weight loss, old video games, Call of Duty, GTA, Need for Speed Underground, kids, patches, going back to school, and the reality of being retired but still tired as hell. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

What's going on guys? It's Ian. And this is Robbie, and we're two assholes in a mic. Yeah, yeah. Alright, today we got uh Cuban B. Cuban B. What it dookie?

SPEAKER_03 0:12

Um I'm Ginger B. Noise. I just made that up.

SPEAKER_00 0:17

What's up, gentlemen? Thanks for having me.

SPEAKER_01 0:20

Yeah, man. So uh welcome. What I what what we normally tell everybody is that we don't really have a particular agenda. We just kind of talk. Whatever comes up, comes up. So we'll just bullshit and word up. Yeah, so it works out. What's been going on the last couple years?

SPEAKER_00 0:33

Well, my good crash buddy. Um no. Well, but like a vehicle crash. We were crashed in two different ways.

SPEAKER_04 0:43

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 0:44

We were in crash recovery, and then we got into a uh a nasty ass car crash together where we should not be walking. Um remember that?

SPEAKER_01 0:53

Yeah, I do. Yeah, I still got the pictures, man.

SPEAKER_00 0:55

It was a that beautiful ass car, dude.

SPEAKER_01 0:58

Yeah, it was an eventful night. It was my first arc 7 crashed.

SPEAKER_00 1:02

Yeah, so uh none, man. Just you know, I retired in November of 2023 and so enjoying civilian life since then, dude, and got my AMP, and then I've been teaching part 147 aviation maintenance. And this is my second school I'm teaching at now. We moved to Florida finally. Hell yeah. This is our dream spot. So we bought our dream home and we moved here probably about a month and a half ago, dude. Nice, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:26

Congratulations.

SPEAKER_00 1:28

Thanks, brother. And I got a little got a little two and a five-year-old. You know, we just started late to start late.

SPEAKER_03 1:34

Sometimes that's what's best, though. Like financially, you're set and stuff, you're more mature, you're less um you're less uh selfish and all that stuff when you're you're older at our age, you know what I mean? So I feel like it'd be nice to almost be nice. Almost I've already done it, so I mean I'm good.

SPEAKER_00 1:52

Dude, but let me tell you fucking what man. So Ian knew me in our younger days, and I was a little fucking just ball of energy, dude. And now I'm just this old fat dude that I can barely keep up with these fucking rug rats, man. I love them to death. They're my pride and joy, man. You know, my little my little tribe, my my midgets. But yeah, yeah, you're right though. Uh so it's it's a blessing and a curse, right? It's a double-edged sword. Yeah, you're older, you're tired, or whatever, but uh Letty and I are about to be married 15 years now, dude. You know, like I said, I got a two-year-old. So, I mean, we spent the first decade of our marriage like traveling and fucking drinking bourbon on Fridays together, dude. It was awesome. Yeah, and then eventually, you know, we we did enough of just us, and we're like, man, fuck restored family.

SPEAKER_03 2:37

It's time to move on. And yeah, yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_01 2:41

No, yeah, but it's all right. I was just telling uh telling Brooke that like she needs to get she needs to experience life a little bit. I think that I you know, I don't want to be selfish and be like, oh, you need to get a good job, you need to go get a good degree and make some money and then find a family, but like no no go out there, experience life, and then if a job comes later, then a job comes later. I don't want you to I don't want you to fucking stress about school right away. You're fucking still a young adult at 18, right? Yeah, a new a new adult. Um so she needs to experience yeah, experience life, dude.

SPEAKER_03 3:12

Yeah, I was uh not like we did, yeah, but experience life. I had uh my ex my ex-girlfriend's dad uh backpacked around Europe for years before he decided around his 30s, he decided to go be a chiropractor, you know, went to school and became a chiropractor. So now he's a fucking doctor and shit, and but he spent five, six, seven years, some shit like that, just backpacking around Europe, you know, doing farm work here and there to make ends meet or whatever to pay the bills, you know, which was no bills, you know, to feed himself or whatever, and that was it.

SPEAKER_00 3:45

Yeah, rent a room, rent a fucking whatever, yeah. Just live live life on his own own terms.

SPEAKER_03 3:51

Yeah, I think that'd be cool as hell, not to do now because I'm too old and set my ways and all that shit now. But in the younger days, though. Yeah. Did you guys see that dude that recently re- uh enlisted or whatever? He's all like he's like 37 or some shit like that, just enlisted because they're they just raised the age.

SPEAKER_00 4:11

What is the age now? I think it's 38.

SPEAKER_03 4:15

Yeah, I think they just moved it up. Dude was 37 or some shit.

SPEAKER_00 4:18

Just when I do like facing retired.

SPEAKER_03 4:22

Like, I retired, what it's been I retired in 22. October of 22. So it's been four years. Holy fuck. It's coming up to the city.

SPEAKER_00 4:32

I retired a year after you, November of 23.

SPEAKER_02 4:34

Damn.

SPEAKER_03 4:35

Damn, I've been collecting money for nothing for almost four years now.

SPEAKER_01 4:41

Don't say for nothing. You deserve that shit. We are.

SPEAKER_03 4:44

I'm just saying I've been sitting around, you know. But yeah, you know what I mean. You're right. You're right. Not for nothing. You're right. I did waste my fucking prime years doing the government's bidding.

SPEAKER_00 4:57

That and I did a bunch of hood rat shit with my friends.

SPEAKER_03 5:00

Well, that too. I remember jumping off of second story and third story buildings onto fucking lawns and shit like that. That shit's not good for your legs.

SPEAKER_01 5:08

No. Or your knees or your back. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Can't confirm we did some hood rat shit.

SPEAKER_00 5:16

So you're living in England again, huh? Permanently.

SPEAKER_01 5:20

Back to the place. Permanently.

SPEAKER_00 5:22

Where'd you guys buy? Or what area? We won't say, like, we don't want people to know where you live.

SPEAKER_01 5:27

Oh no, I don't care buying up in Thetford.

SPEAKER_00 5:29

Okay. So right back to the stomping grounds.

SPEAKER_01 5:32

Yeah, right back up there. Right around the corner from where Chefs used to live. Is that where you guys met then? I know exactly what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_03 5:39

Was there in uh England then?

SPEAKER_01 5:41

Yeah, yeah, we met in England. We met through um a mutual friend of ours, uh Evan. So I guess he and Evan and Joel, they all kind of grew up together in Chicago, and then um they all ended up at the same fucking base.

SPEAKER_00 5:54

We all went to the same high school and everything.

SPEAKER_01 5:57

Dude, that's and one was security forces.

SPEAKER_03 5:59

That's pretty dope. I'm not gonna that that'd be cool as shit to go because a couple of me and my friends joined around the same time, and they ended up in C-130s and gone, and the other dude ended up in KC-135s, and he was gone, and then I was on 16, so none of us were even fucking close to each other, but we all joined at the same time. That would have been that'd be fucking dope.

SPEAKER_01 6:19

Or the the most the most I had was just a couple dudes that grew up in the same town that I was from, but no one I knew, or no one that were there, because they were like five to ten year age gaps. You remember Don Littlerod? Yes, yeah, he grew he grew up in the same uh town I did. He went to the uh arrival high school.

SPEAKER_00 6:36

No shit. He was the one with uh Infinity G35, right?

SPEAKER_01 6:40

Yeah, the one that had the fucking uh girlfriend that let him drive a fucking Aston Martin DB. Yeah, and fucked that relationship up. Dumb shit.

SPEAKER_03 6:48

I'd have been sucking her dick, dude, so much if she was. Oops, sorry.

SPEAKER_00 6:57

Oh, thanks for letting me drive your uh your Aston Martin today, honey. I got you.

SPEAKER_01 7:03

You know what I mean? Yeah, she was she was uh some fucking I th I don't know why I want to say this. I thought she was some heiress or her her family who owned a lot of the Guinness Guinness Corporation. So I don't know if uh I don't know what happened there.

SPEAKER_03 7:17

I'd have done anything. But what do you need? Poof. What do you need? Like fucking genie and shit. Yeah. Just kidding, Aaron. I know she's not listening because she doesn't listen to our fucking dumb shit, but just kidding.

SPEAKER_00 7:30

Ian, I know you don't know what hot weather feels like anymore, but it's hotter than five motherfuckers in Igloo here, dude.

SPEAKER_01 7:37

No, I don't want it. Tampa, Florida.

SPEAKER_00 7:39

It is fucking 90s with a lot of humidity.

SPEAKER_03 7:43

It's but it's fucking it's it's been thunderstorming like fucking crazy out here. We had we got flash flood warnings and stuff, and it's 88. It's supposed to be 91. And I don't know what the humidity level is, but it's it's it's swamp.

SPEAKER_01 7:58

Yeah, no, it gets to the low 80s, low 80s out here.

SPEAKER_00 8:01

Yeah, you're wearing a fucking hoodie. That's unheard of right now.

SPEAKER_01 8:05

Right now, because it's I want to say it's 59 degrees right now.

SPEAKER_03 8:09

That's perfect, though.

SPEAKER_01 8:11

61, 61 degrees.

SPEAKER_03 8:13

See, I look like 40 to 60.

SPEAKER_00 8:16

70. If it could stay at 70, just always? Just always?

SPEAKER_03 8:21

I could be I could be down for that, too.

SPEAKER_01 8:22

That'd be fucking perfect. I could be down for that with a slight breeze, just a little bit of breeze. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 8:28

Because I do like wearing my sweatshirts, but now that I've lost a whole bunch of weight, I do like wearing my mediums now too. So yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:36

Let my fo let my conformal fuel tanks hang out, aka fucking love handles, you know?

SPEAKER_01 8:40

Yeah. And you used to be a fucking tiny thing, dude.

SPEAKER_00 8:45

I used to be a buck forty soaking wet. Now I'm like two.

SPEAKER_01 8:48

You could he would eat and eat and eat and eat and gain weight.

SPEAKER_00 8:52

It caught up. It caught up. That's why I told his young bloods now. I'm like, man, you better fucking dude. Don't even when you pass like 35, don't even look at a snicker, you'll gain five fucking pounds, dude. Yeah, you know.

SPEAKER_01 9:06

Don't touch it. Don't even look, don't even look at it.

SPEAKER_00 9:09

Don't even notice it, dude. Yeah. So what's up, boys? When'd you guys start doing this?

SPEAKER_03 9:16

We started doing it uh probably a little bit after Willow passed, yeah. Because I was in car sales, so a year after. I was in car sales whenever we first started doing it. So that was back in 22.

SPEAKER_01 9:29

Yeah. I'll have to we did take a break, though.

SPEAKER_03 9:33

Yeah, we took a break just because I was still going through a bunch of shit and stuff, and yeah. Yeah, and of course retiring and moving and retiring and all that stuff, you know. We picked it back up. We both were like, it's time. Get out of my face! You see that motherfucker? The hummingbird, goddammit. Dude, what just happened? I missed it. It was a fucking wasp just rolled right up to my face. Dude, they I'm not humming a place. Are you outside? Yeah, I'm in the garage.

SPEAKER_00 10:01

Okay, yeah, dude. Fuck that. You fuck around and get stung on camera?

SPEAKER_03 10:05

Like no, one fucking flew past the other day and he caught it on on screen. It was like, brrrrrr. What's up, guys? How you guys doing? Fucking checking out the phone. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:20

And then one came by and slap Roxy.

SPEAKER_03 10:22

Yeah, one came by and slap Roxy right in the face.

SPEAKER_01 10:25

Dude. Where are you at?

SPEAKER_03 10:27

I've been weather for Texas.

SPEAKER_01 10:29

Uh Oklahoma, Texas.

SPEAKER_03 10:31

Oklahoma, Texas.

SPEAKER_01 10:32

Yeah. Oklahoma, Texas.

SPEAKER_00 10:34

Is that like on the border?

SPEAKER_03 10:36

No, no. I'm like two hours away. So, like, if I want to smoke weed, I drive two hours away, go smoke some weed, and then then come back. Because this is tobacco.

SPEAKER_01 10:46

Yeah, dude. This is this is legal shit. Yeah, he's legal. I got my medicinal, my medicinal cannabis.

SPEAKER_03 10:53

Yeah, I don't get the medicinal kind of well. We're starting to do it now because one of my neighbors just picked up some dispos from a legal source, apparently. Like a legal prescription or some shit. But this other chick that is has got is getting legal stuff, she had to sign a waiver saying that she won't, she's no longer gonna vote and she's no longer gonna fucking get any weapons, no more guns.

SPEAKER_01 11:16

Right, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 11:17

I was like, fuck that. It's not that important. So yeah, I I uh I bar back uh at a local restaurant bar and grill. It's like a sports bar.

SPEAKER_04 11:31

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 11:32

The food that comes out of there is like a restaurant, you know what I mean? It's not your normal bar.

SPEAKER_01 11:37

It's fucking amazing food.

SPEAKER_03 11:39

Yeah, the chef owner is ridiculous. He used to be uh chef for the um for the Rangers. He was the head chef for the Rangers. He won. You ever watch Guy Fieti's grocery games? Uh well he won that, or he came in second, something like that. He was on it. He either won or came in second. I can't remember now for sure. I haven't seen the episode. I actually saw, see where the episode was, and I was thinking about watching it, but I got lazy and didn't put it. Yeah, dude's dude's amazing, like with his cooking and stuff. So I've been working there for like a year and a half now. Yeah, a year and a half this month.

SPEAKER_00 12:16

And it's it's fucking priced well too. I would be three times my size I am now if I work in a place like that.

SPEAKER_03 12:23

I started getting uh bigger again, but I'm on I'm on those shots. I'm on one of the like Ozepic style shots or whatever, because I got sleep apnea. So you can get on it on Tri-Care if you have sleep apnea, and you can stay on it and maintain it even if you've lost the weight. So I stay on it's called ZEP bound. It's uh it's all I've seen commercials for it. Yeah, so you can get on it and you can it you can get on it through TRICARE. You just need a uh uh a PA. You know, after I hate PAs, it's so stupid, but you just need a PA. That's a uh you know what that is, right?

SPEAKER_00 13:02

What a PA is the like uh what is it? The uh the letter from the doc, no?

SPEAKER_03 13:07

Yeah, it's a second letter basically saying, yes, we're doubly sure that he needs this medication. And you have to put sleep apnea on there if you have it. I don't know if you've got it or not.

SPEAKER_00 13:18

I'm 100%, brother. Yep. I got sleep apnea. I got the machine and the mask and everything.

SPEAKER_03 13:22

So you can get on it, and if you need it, I'm not I I'm not saying you do or don't, but if you think you do, then uh you tap bitch. You gotta you gotta be so as far as I'm concerned, you look fucking skinny. You know what I'm saying? You look skinny to me.

SPEAKER_00 13:38

So I'm keeping the camera angle here. You know what I mean? Yeah, the angles, the angles.

SPEAKER_03 13:43

I feel it. I used to be 318 pounds right when I retired. I was 318. Yeah. So that's how I initially got on it, and I'm down to 210 right now. I got down to 206, but you know, I've been drinking beer and stuff. It's close to my birthday. Well, today's my birthday, so happy birthday, dude. Yeah, thank you. 43. Oh yeah. Yeah, so I've been drinking some beer. Yo, bitch. I've been drinking beer and stuff lately, so I'm back up to like 210, but I'm maintaining around 210 with the with that shot. And I could probably lose if I wanted to. Like, if I decided to go to the gym, I could probably get down to 190 and be built, but I don't want to. It's too much work.

SPEAKER_00 14:23

Yeah, dude. Like, I've I've been putting physical activity on the back burner because I'm fucking like I said, I got two little ones. We just moved, so we're still unpacking our fucking house. Yeah, I just got this new job being an AMP instructor, and I'm working nights, so it's just it's a lot of fucking, it's it's chaos right now. Yeah, dude. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:46

What made you end up moving to Florida? What did you move to Florida because of the job? Or did you say, hey, we want to go to Florida, and then you just found a job when you got there?

SPEAKER_00 14:54

So you know how there's battles and wars. I won the fucking battle, Letty won the war. So um, yeah. She was like, hey, I followed you around for more than half your fucking military career. I've had to quit multiple jobs, blah, blah, blah. Um, you know what I mean? You know, I was away from the family and stuff. She was like, I want to move to uh to Florida, to Tampa. That's where my family is. And um, you know, I want the kids to be raised with their cousins and all that. So, you know, I followed you. I think it's time you follow me, babe. And I was like, oh, fucking sweet guilt trip, dude.

SPEAKER_04 15:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:32

But uh, we love it, man. We love it, dude. Yeah, um, yeah, like I'm dipping my fucking toes in the pool right now.

SPEAKER_03 15:38

Yeah, hell yeah, yeah. That's what I need to get. I need to get a pool.

SPEAKER_00 15:45

Yeah, well, nice. But um, yeah, dude, uh, it's good, man. I I just I retired out of Robins, so I was in A B D R crap battle damage um before I retired, and I went on a fuck ton of TDUI, so I was always gone. That was another thing. She wanted me to be home. Um, you know, but obviously I couldn't get away from fucking aviation maintenance, apparently. Yeah. So uh yeah, I was like, fuck it, yeah, I know a lot of people good, man. Um I went and got the AMP and then I taught in the Air Force. Remember, I was an MTF instructor, taught in general shit. So this college was like, hey, we see you got instructor experience, we see you got your AMP. You want to come teach for us? And I was like, okay. And then it was it was the dean of the aviation program at Central Georgia Tech. He was also my DME, and he was like, hey, come come take the sweet spot. And I did that for two years, and then finally I told Letty I promised, man. You know, men, all we got is our word, right? So I'd never break my promises. I'd tell her we're gonna move to fucking Florida by the time I'm 40. I'm 40, and here we are. So we pull talks and shit. I got another job down here with a National Aviation Academy in Clearwater. So nice doing that. And uh life's good, man.

SPEAKER_01 17:03

Life's good. Hell yeah. Yeah. That's what's up, man.

SPEAKER_00 17:07

Mm-hmm. But I can't do what you guys are doing right now. So I'm peanut butter and fucking jealous.

SPEAKER_03 17:13

Well, I can't. What are you talking about? I'm smoking tobacco.

SPEAKER_00 17:16

Yep. I wish I was too jealous of me.

SPEAKER_03 17:21

Jealous of Ian. Yeah, you're jealous of Ian. This is this is what this is.

SPEAKER_00 17:25

Man's got the treasure troll eyes going on and shit, dude. He's all fucking dude. You got snacks in there? You got snacky poos in your center console.

SPEAKER_01 17:37

He's reaching for him. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 17:43

Uh it's the Aldi Brahma fucking cliff bar. Fucking Cheetos and fucking goddamn fucking. No, I got cake.

SPEAKER_01 17:50

I got cake and uh besides cake. He's got cake, dude.

SPEAKER_03 17:54

He's got cake. That's why I got recent pieces. I got no cake either for my birthday. Fuck that.

SPEAKER_01 18:02

You didn't want a cake?

SPEAKER_03 18:03

I don't like cake anymore. I don't know what it is. It's kind of like video games. Like I used to love video games, and now I can't get behind them. I'm still a gamer. I'm still a gamer. I still try to play. Like I've been playing LEGO Batman 3, but in like 30-minute increments, and that's all I can take. Yeah. And I'm like, this is bullshit. I used to play for hours on end. And now I can't. It's either I can't find a game or what.

SPEAKER_01 18:27

I just want to download some of the old games we used to play. Dude, it seemed like from maybe Xbox 360 or PS3 and before and back. I think those are the best consoles in the guest games.

SPEAKER_03 18:38

It's Modern Warfare 3 with a bunch of old fucking buddies and shit. Just fucking playing Modern Warfare 3 on Xbox, dude. Just that would be fun, dude. I I I have it too somewhere.

SPEAKER_00 18:49

I was playing Call of Duty before I jumped out when you guys are playing Warzone though.

SPEAKER_03 18:52

Hell yeah. Like the old Warzone or new new shit?

SPEAKER_01 18:56

New shit.

SPEAKER_03 18:57

Uh, is it good?

SPEAKER_01 18:58

Yeah, I can't do that. I like it.

SPEAKER_03 19:00

It sees that's a first-person shooter though, right? See, I suck at first person shooters like bad. That's like that's why I'm all like Modern Warfare 3 because I know the maps. You know, I still remember the maps and shit for Modern Warfare 3. When you if you know the maps, dude, you've got an advantage over you know everybody.

SPEAKER_01 19:18

I feel like I just want to play some Forza Forza 4 or Forza 3.

SPEAKER_00 19:24

I could never get into fucking Forza, dude.

SPEAKER_01 19:26

Oh, I love it. We can get into the fucking Remember Need for Speed Underground?

SPEAKER_00 19:31

That was the shit.

SPEAKER_01 19:32

That was the fucking that was the shit.

SPEAKER_00 19:35

That was the shit. That was the fucking. I would throw fucking 29-inch rims donk out my skyline and still drift. Unrealistic as fuck, but you know.

SPEAKER_03 19:46

Yeah, it looks like GTA. GTA's unrealistic as fuck, but I fucking love the shit out of GTA. I still play that game. This one's my favorite. This one's my favorite so far. Story, the fucking.

SPEAKER_00 20:01

I mean, you guys been waiting for six to come out for like, I don't know, sixteen years. Basically. Something like that.

SPEAKER_03 20:07

Since 2013. Like we they've talked about it since 2013.

SPEAKER_00 20:10

13 years. Holy fuck.

SPEAKER_03 20:13

Did you hear that?

SPEAKER_01 20:17

Oh, I did hear that.

SPEAKER_02 20:19

It's a frog. Fingy. Go get the frog. I know you heard it. Fucking lazy piece of shit.

SPEAKER_03 20:30

Look at this motherfucker.

SPEAKER_01 20:32

He just wants us in your lap.

SPEAKER_03 20:33

I know, that's why I'm grabbing him. Oh, it's such a good buddy. Hot dog. Yes, he's my little nine-pound dog, and Roxy's my 93-pound dog. Hell yeah. So my oldest, my oldest is 23, then my son is 22. Autumn is about to be 17 this month, and uh, I don't know if you know, but our youngest passed away, but she's B9 this year.

SPEAKER_00 21:05

Dead in it. Sorry to hear that about it.

SPEAKER_03 21:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:08

Brooks 15. Kai's about to turn 13. Jesus, Asher's. Asher's about to turn uh five.

SPEAKER_00 21:16

So Asher's of the same age as my oldest. Muela just turned five.

SPEAKER_01 21:20

Yeah. Yeah, he turns five in September.

SPEAKER_00 21:23

And then Liam just turned two. And he's a fucking linebacker. So I don't know if you know this about me, Rob. Um, I'm like, does it I'm like in stature. I like if I fight a big guy, I have to kick him into shin bone and run. I'll just say that.

SPEAKER_02 21:36

All right.

SPEAKER_00 21:37

I can headbutt him in the balls.

SPEAKER_02 21:39

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 21:40

Um, so I have that going for me. No, but no bullshit. I'm like 5'7, 5'7.5 if I sneeze real hard. And my wife Levy, she's uh like a millimeter. Like if we were standing back to back, flat footed, she's like a millimeter taller than I am. So it's super awesome when she wears heels because she loves them and we go on dates, and I'm like holding her hand. Appearance shit, you know? Um she's like tooting around her little midget husband, but yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:05

Uh hold your finger out next time.

SPEAKER_00 22:09

So my so my kids are fucking they're massive, dude. Uh my boy, Lenium, dude, he's 40 plus pounds. He's like 99th percentile and everything.

SPEAKER_03 22:20

Maybe you guys have both got a recessive giantism dream uh gene.

SPEAKER_00 22:24

So my wife's side of the family. Remember, she's a little bit taller than me. Her brother's 6'5, her cousins are 6'5, her dad's 6'4. They're giants. So all my fucking yeah. So if he ends up bigger than me, I gotta, I gotta like kick it, I gotta whip his ass now and establish dominance. I'm just kidding.

SPEAKER_03 22:40

He's gonna be 12 years old and he's gonna be taller than me.

SPEAKER_00 22:43

You know what I mean? Like, he's gonna get he's there's gonna be a time and he's gonna get bigger than me, dude. I'm gonna be looking up, I'm gonna have to fuck him, hey, bend down, dude. And then I'm gonna talk to him like high level down here.

SPEAKER_03 22:51

Bring your ear down here so I can pull. Get the fuck down here.

SPEAKER_00 22:56

Mila's tall too. Why are you all just getting in the way of my stuff? That's crazy. So you got adults, you got teenagers. Holy shit.

SPEAKER_03 23:05

Yeah, yeah. So we just got done, we were just hanging out with my son because I I bought a bunch of Lego and I bought this new coffee grinder for grinding up my my tobacco leaves, right?

SPEAKER_04 23:16

Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_03 23:16

Well, I actually we send my son um stuff every two weeks. Get out of the way. Every two weeks, you know, we send him food and stuff like that, you know. It's hard, it's hard life out out there, especially for you know young people, you know. So we send him food and stuff like that. Well, I accidentally fucking sent my shit to his house because I didn't check the address. So we decided to go visit. He lives like 45 minutes away. Yeah, go get that motherfucker.

SPEAKER_00 23:43

Oh, that's not too bad.

SPEAKER_03 23:44

Yeah, so we went to go visit him. But he sells plasma like three times uh three times a week to make ends meet and stuff, you know, because he doesn't drive. So he ubers to work. Yep. So 25% of his pay, you know, goes out to Uber just showing up to work, you know. First 25% of his day is going to Uber Drive. Right, bro, you have got to get a license, man, and get get rolling. He's like, oh, I will walk everywhere, but you can't walk to work because you work 45-minute walk away, you know?

SPEAKER_00 24:18

Bro, he'd be the most in-shape person ever.

SPEAKER_03 24:21

But he's like my. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So, yeah, he's already, like I said, he's already super skinny because he's probably 5'10, probably my height, you know, 5'10, 5'11, and then uh he's probably 125 pounds, you know what I mean? 125 pounds.

SPEAKER_00 24:43

Oh, so he's a fucking stick.

SPEAKER_03 24:45

Yeah, he's fucking skinny. And then uh my oldest daughter, she lives in Vegas. Uh, and then um she just got a new boyfriend. She used to work in uh she's been she's nine months free of uh Caesars now, Ian. So she's gonna get her license soon because she has not been able to get her license. She's the only kid I got that wants a fucking license, you know. The one that can't get it is the only one that wants it. My 17-year-old doesn't want her license, you know. So I'm gonna be driving her around all over forever. You know, so yeah. Oh yeah. That's it for my kids, I guess.

SPEAKER_00 25:24

Oh, Ian, check this out.

SPEAKER_01 25:27

Hell yeah. Can't move up a little bit, it's cut off. Pick up what you fuck off. Oh yeah. I have some patches like that.

SPEAKER_00 25:38

Yeah, I know you're like the avid patch collector. You got patches or stickers? I don't know which one you do. Patches. I got a lot of patches, but I only got one. So I could give you some gangster patches, but actually, I could probably do without a bunch of patches. You gotta shoot me your shit. I'll send you some.

SPEAKER_01 25:55

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll uh I'll see what uh because I know I have doubles of some, so I'll see what I got doubles of and see what you want.

SPEAKER_00 26:02

Man, that fucking tobacco leaf sure hitting hard.

SPEAKER_02 26:07

Don't you worry about that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:10

I fucking goddamn. I hate you guys.

SPEAKER_03 26:15

That's why I work at the fucking sports bar because all the all the tobacco I smoke can't get a job anywhere else. Oh they're like, sir, you have way too much nicotine in your system.

SPEAKER_00 26:27

I do not, I do not want to do aviation forever either. So I've been thinking about legit quitting and going back to school. But I'm like, fuck, man, I'm 40 plus, dude. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03 26:40

My dad did that when he retired and he started collecting money or whatever. So you get like the E5 MGIB pay, you get all kinds of other different pays. He was making a ridiculous amount of money just to go to a couple of classes a week, you know what I mean? So that's why he did it. I I've been thinking about it, but I just don't know what to go for. Like, I don't know what I want to do with my fucking life other than just chilling, and that's all I've been doing. So what the fuck do I go to school for? Chill.

SPEAKER_00 27:08

I'm so fucking tired, dudes.

SPEAKER_03 27:12

See, I don't I don't want to be like that no more.

SPEAKER_00 27:15

I'm I'm fucking retired. I got two babies, I'm fucking working nights. I my my commute's like 40 minutes each way. And I'm unpacking a house. We just moved, dude. A month and a half ago, I was still teaching in Florida. We were fully lived in in Georgia. It was like everything, but everything a lot, like, dude, the fucking stars and the the fucking spectrums and shit were aligned, bro, because everything just fucking worked out like boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Like it had to be done, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03 27:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:46

It's awesome.

SPEAKER_03 27:47

The chance you gotta like when things fucking roll up like that or line up like that.

SPEAKER_00 27:52

I just I just want to fucking chill, dude. I'm so tired. I'm so tired. So Letty. We we we did we had this agreement. She wanted to, she's Brazilian, by the way. Um, and so like families big in their culture, and you know, the moms are at home with the kids in their first early years, you know, blah, blah, blah, developmental and loving, nurturing, etc. So she wanted to stay home for the first three years of each kid. My wife's an architect, by the way.

SPEAKER_03 28:20

Nice.

SPEAKER_00 28:21

And uh, yeah, she's been doing that, and I've been the sole provider. I got no qualms or complaints. I'll be the man of the house, I'll provide for my family, you know what I mean? That's what that's my job, right? It's my duty. But she's a fucking workhorse too, dude. Like when she um, so I'm just ready for her to go back to work so that I can quit and like become a student, and then we could be okay, and I can just fucking chill and I can, you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_02 28:45

Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_03 28:48

Well, just think about not much longer, right? Because you you said tell till the little one's three.

SPEAKER_00 28:54

Fucking counting, dude. Yeah, so he's he turned two in April, May, June. She got 10 months, dog.

SPEAKER_03 29:06

Go shut your mama it up, dude. My wife is uh she's uh RXOM, so she's the um what does RXOM stand for? It's uh pharmacy operations manager. So that's why I've cut back to just one to two days a week at the bar now. I was working five, six days a week at the bar, and I was like, what the fuck am I doing?

SPEAKER_00 29:29

Like it's it's cool work, but pharmacists got their PhDs, don't they?

SPEAKER_03 29:34

She's not a pharmacy, she's she's a technician. So she is a head, she's the head, she's the lead pharmacist, and then it's her.

SPEAKER_00 29:44

Gotcha.

SPEAKER_03 29:44

So there's the store manager, lead pharmacist, and then her. So I think I think they're trying to line her up to be the store manager. I think that's what I think. So I'm hoping. I'm all like, yeah. When because I think the other dude's gonna eventually get promoted to district manager because he's working in three different stores already. Yeah. So if he gets promoted to uh district manager, I'm like, dude, you can't.

SPEAKER_00 30:08

Vegancy spot, she fucking floats right in.

SPEAKER_03 30:10

Hell yeah, that's what I'm hoping.

SPEAKER_00 30:11

Lateral move, hell yeah. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:13

So but all right, on those positive notes. Um, it's it's time, Rodney. Stay where you are. We'll uh we'll we'll catch on after the episode. Okay. Hope you guys take care. Stay safe. Be safe, make good choices. Bye! Bye.

SPEAKER_02 30:29

Peace.