Gearing Up For A Big Trip

the time. It's fine. It's the Queen of extreme freancy. Hello, Hello, how are you today, my friend? Well, I'm doing okay. Now, getting to talk to you as a definite good break for the day. But you know, a lot of stuff going on, and it's pretty crazy, pretty hectic. All right, I'm gonna I'm gonna pretend i'm your therapist. You're laying on the couch right now. Okay, Okay, what is going on? What do you need to get off your chest? I think I may have bit off a little more than

I can chew this week. Okay, okay, So I'm feeling like you have big plans this weekend and you're not prepared for them. I am not. It all starts and stops with the fact that I committed to be the head softball coach of two one two teams T ball and ten and under. Okay, the week of our Disney trip, which technically I'm on as we speak. I'm in Epcot as we speak on Monday, but like, holy crap, when you talk about preparation, you're sitting there meticulously getting stuff on,

packing two weeks in advance. I'm like, oh, she's crazy doing that. I got nothing. Okay, let me stop you. I packed the day before and the morning off, and we had to catch a plane. We weren't driving. At least you're driving, and if you're running late, it's okay because you're driving. If I was running late, I gat my flight. Yeah, think about that. I will. That's yes,

that's terrible. But now I have this time frame. I want to get everything done because what I realize is I'm traveling on my anniversary, which is very nice, our wedding anniversary, and because of the softball games on Saturday, had to switch my plans up completely. Was originally driving to my uncle's house shout out if he's listening to this on his way to Epcott in Tallahassee and then

drive across to Orlando, just like we did the last time. Well, these two softball games have completely took over my life and our right smack at the beginning and the end of the softball schedule for Saturday. So it's going to be a rat freaking race from sun up to sundown Saturday and then leaving at least seven o'clock on Sunday to get to Jacksonville, Florida by like five o'clock. So do you have, like you have the first game which starts at what time? The first game is at ten o'clock.

I gotta be there at nine thirty. Okay, so nine thirty you're there. Then you have a break, right because you're the last wall break small brand. What time do you wait there? Well, it's I guess we would have. Well, we'll probably maybe get lunch, right, because that's the only

thing you can do in between. Then the second game starts at two and you have to be there at one thirty, So I really only have about a two hour window between the two that I guess maybe we could run to Walmart grab some snacks, grab some stuff for the road, crap like that. But I won't be done then until like fourish, when we get home and the kids, you know, have dinner and we settle down, and maybe we're looking in the sixth even so I'm gonna what am I pulling it all night? Or I

still got other shit I gotta do? Okay, So for today, Now people know we tape on a Friday, obviously, do you have time later in the day to start throwing stuff in a bag? Tonight Friday night, I have on the schedule podcasting of editing, putting stuff together, getting stuff up, getting things ready, which is, well, she'll do that too, but I gotta you know, I gotta do my part. I'm not gonna let her do the whole thing. I'm gonna do. We gotta do it as a team. I

gotta get the bags. I had to get it my crap. I gotta get all the coolers. I did all that stuff. But well, I'm just talking about from the me perspective. I have I regular work, I have the real work. I have all the podcasts. I gotta get posted something. Now what you knew this was gonna happen? You knew your schedule. You knew what you had to do. Why did you procrastinate this way? Are you better under pressure?

Once a fire is lit under your ass? Are you gonna just run around and get it all done within an hour? That's a good question, and I don't know if I have that answered. But okay, I I like to Uh. I like to perform under the gun. Uh, for sure. But I don't know. I think it's just ill preparation and I might fall into the yeah, i'll get it done later. You know, we'll do that one later on. Okay, are you feeling stressed for me a little bit? But I think you're gonna get it done.

I do. I think you're gonna get it done. I didn't even shave. Look, I didn't shave. You're looking a bit scruffy. I usually like I like to etch it out and make it nice and clean when we're recording. I didn't have time for any of that. Yeah, I he knows something I forgot to ask you. On a good note, this won't stress you out at all. Do we have dinner reservations anywhere while we're there? Yes, I just don't have it in front of me. I should hold on, wait, let me check. Wait, wait, let me check.

I'll pull it up. I think, let me check I have the app? Do you have the app? Yes? Okay, then it's under my plans? Yeah, sold one. Who's your character on the app? Mine is Donald Duck Kermit the Frog. Okay, I like that. Watch I bet I changed my password. Here we go. Well, I don't need to go anywhere to get it fixed. I can figure it out any sense. I have a rolodex of a few that I'll use. Let's see if it's this one. Oh, I think did it get No? Damn it? What happened? Now? Password wasn't

the right one? Let me see? All right, I'm in. I'm in. It was either gonna be one of the plans. All right, my plans. All right, there's Epcot. Where where am I finding? Oh? Wait, there we go my plans under each day it'll tell you what you have. I am eating at Via Napoli Restaurant, meaning there on Monday. Okay, uh be prepared. And the only other thing I have on here is the Grand Floridian Cafe Breakfast on Thursday. Cafe Breakfast. Okay. So that's my that's my book ended meals. Okay.

So you have two meals book and then we're eating someplace else that we had to make separate reservations for that. I don't think is in the park. Is it at one of the hotels? I think so. I just can't remember what it was. I know Liz had to do that when we were booking. Oh, yes, those are my plans. The Anapolis is really good. And I can confirm that Epcot has extended hours, so they're up to eleven o'clock. Last time I logged into here, they were at seven.

Magic Kingdom is eight am to nine pm, and Hollywood Studios is nine am to eight pm. Awesome. Well, I fingers are crossed that you get that Rise of the Resistance borting pass, because you need to get on that ride. I do want to check it out. I do you have to. You have to try. You have to set your alarm for six fifty if you're not up or earlier than that, and you have literally sit there with your hand ready, your finger pointed and ready to tap it, tap it, tap it, all right, tap thats tap it

like somebody's business. Well, you know me, with hotels, I'm not very comfortable. I'll probably be up all night anyway with my headphones on and watching stuff. And last time I watched the Lovely Laurel and Hardy movie uh standon Ali the last time we traveled. So it was a great experience, wonderful. I'll check out some movies I haven't watched. Please tell Lovely Liz that I said to try the lemon cello. I think it's a lemon cello strawberry. Uh, freezy.

It's one of the cocktails at Vietnapoli. Okay, the most delicious drink I had on the trip. Okay, very nice, expensive, you said, though, Huh it's expensive. Oh lovely, very expensive. Here's a funny little story. So I had this close to calling out Big Lots on Twitter for a terrible, terrible experience and customer service. Uh long, long story short, two weeks worth of phone calls and complaints back and forth.

I just got a text message from a district manager that my deck set, that I bought my outdoor set from my deck the whole thing was refunded. So my deck is brought to you buy Big Lots. So you got it for free, got the whole deck set for free. So why did you complain in the first place? Oh, they were brutal, brutal, brutal brutals. So the deck set, right or outdoors? I keep saying deck set. It's an outdoor set. Yeah, purchased it online with the intent of

it being delivered to my home. Okay, it only gets delivered to the store. It wasn't No, was pickup in store. Wasn't even shipped to store they it in. But okay, it's twenty five thirty minutes away whatever. I called the store, I said, hey, listen, I'm about to come pick this up. I was hoping I could have had a chip to my house. I had to pick it up your store. What are the dimensions of the box? Let me put you on hold. Sat there for thirty minutes like a

bush hung up. Called back, Hi. I was just on hold for thirty minutes, just waiting for somebody. You know, give me the dimensions of the box. Oh sure, yeah, let me get that guy for you to put you on hold another twenty minutes. I hang up the phone, hang up. Hanging up, I said, well, I mean, is it going to fit in my car? And I want to go all the way there with my car and I have to rent a van, right, rent a U haul van go all the way to big lots. Guess what would have fit in my trunk? Very fox take

put the seats down? Or would it fit perfectly? Oh? So I call customer Service eight hundred number Monday morning. Hey, this is what happened. Not happy about it? Uh? Could I get some sort of restitution just for the pain and suffering? Right, that's the gist of my call. Uh. They say, sure, let me put you on hold, on hold for an hour? Oh an hour hour. Finally they come back on and go, hey, yeah, we'll give you a twenty percent coupon on your rewards account. Like for that?

Hell no, no, I'm never shopping there ever again. What am I going to use it for? I said? Can I get in touch with some sort of manager from the store maybe I could talk to them? Said absolutely. Three days later I get a call from somebody named Paul who said they were a district manager that was refunding me from my truck, which was great, that was all I wanted. Right then says we'll give you one hundred and fifty dollars back on the set. I was like, wow,

that's unbelievable. What a gesture. Thank you appreciated the whole nine yards, thanking them up and down. He goes, you'll have to hear from the store manager of the Culpepper location. I said, great, I'll be here, thank you. Never hear anything. A week goes by, try to call Paul, goes to voicemail, Try to call Paul again, goes to voicemail, send him a text, no response. So I called the store. Hey, how you doing talk to Paul? He said this, who's Paul?

I go the district manager. Oh, we don't have a district manager named Paul. I know what, well, I go That call I got was pretty specific, so you know we're gonna have to do something. Oh well, we'll get you the number of our manager. He's in another location. He'll call you back. No calls back or again. Now this person tells me there are there are two district managers named Paul. So we went from one pall to know Paul to two Paul's. But Paul just went out

on disability, which Paul I don't know. We don't know. So he's out, he's not available. We can't get him. So the store manager will call me. Right store manager calls me at nine o'clock Eastern time last night and night last night. This I was a jerk, call me, okay, jerk. He was basically accusing me of scamming, basically accusing me of trying to take advantage of, uh, you know, my purchase. And I stopped him. I said, look, ask yourself this question.

How would I have had this specific of an experience if I was making this up? Okay, I said, let me send you the number of the guy who called me. I go, and I'll send you the receipt they handed me in the store so you can see this was an online purchase. I go, why don't they just refund my online purchase? Right? That's all I said. This morning,

I get a text message from the store manager. Text message, very professional with the receipt, saying your purchase has been refunded and you don't have to return it or anything. I have to return it. Perfect long story short, by the way, Well, I think that was worth two weeks

of bullshit? Could you got everything for free? Yeah? So at the end of the day, I can tell people when you come to my house and you're on my deck and join an ice burger which we already cooked one last weekend that my deck is brought to you by Big Loss. Don't put them over right there, don't put them over Well, that was a hell of a story with a good by the way. Yeah, yeah, everything's great. It's great to talk to you. How are you you too? We have a special guest today. I'm I'm pretty excited

about it. We met him through uh Twitter, never met him in person, but met him through Twitter and Twitch big supporter, uh and he has a very sad story to tell today, but I'm sure he'll put a twist on it because he's also a ball breaker. Yes he is, Yeah, in a good way, in a good way. Is he coming on soon? Or you should be here any minute? Okay? Is Rod Robinson and Rod the Mod? Oh yes, his nickname. Everybody knows him as Rod the Mod And he's one of those guys that come in the Twitch chat and

when he comes in, it's like Norm from Cheers. Everybody knows your name, you know, everybody's like Rod, Rod the Mod's here, it's Rod. So he's uh, he's pretty popular online and I'm excited to talk to him today. I think there was a this is Rod the Mod. I don't understand Rod the Bod. I think there was a wrestler named Rod the Body. It wouldn't surprise me. Roddy Piper in a different maybe like one of those Northwestern promotions was I could have been, but uh yeah, he's

pretty proud of that. I think he even has a T shirt that says Rod the Mod It's pretty good. He's pretty over. Yeah, so I'm excited to talk to him today. H Twitch is going well. I baked my first rect the pie the other day. That was awesome. It was so good. It was so good, and I was so proud of myself and it's gone now. We all ate it, but man, it was tasty good to the last drop. Huh yeah. Oh yeah. Is that like a specialty? Is that like one of your go tos?

Is where were before? Oh you never made it? No, I never made it. It was the recipe. The recipe was on the back of the ricotta cheese, uh plastic thing, and I'm looking at it and I said, I have this this and I wasn't even going on Twitch that day. I said, well, I'm going to make this pine and then I said I'm gonna go on Twitch and make a pie. They love when I cook on there, so I did, and you go ricotta or do you go Yeah, that's the way. That's that's what I grew up hearing,

so I can't. I feel like when I say it, I sound stupid, so I don't say it. But that's how I grew up. Yeah, Like if you're in a restaurant, oh, can I have the ricotta? And yeah, you know, and I say, my uncle, who I'm on vacation with as we speak, would say muzadel and I am like, well, yes, well mazzarellisticks please please. I think the muzzarel sticks with Toel. All right, let's take a minute right here to talk

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I could see you? Now? Look at that shirt? Look at those eyes on that shirt? Where the eyes? When I say, my friend, how are you guys? Today? Doing all right? A little tired today, but I'm happy to be here. I was excited because you're coming. You are coming on today, So we need to move you over, babe. I can only see half your face. I need to see the whole package. But you understand. Sometimes it's hard for me to lean over. But I'll do my best.

I'll do that. How's that? Wait? Let me move you around? How's that? No? What are you doing? Pretty bunch? Here's the story? So Rod, I try. I had to find the shirt you requested, but it was dirty. So this was the only other leopard print that I had. So looks great. Thank you. So what are you doing today? What's going on? Well? I basically just gotta basically just got a bed. You just got out of bed? Is your brother whom or is he working? He's off today,

so he's home. Good, okay, camera ja, so he's camera show. He doesn't want to say hello to me? All right, maybe next time. So you said you have an interesting story that you want to share with us, Well, I just thought I would basically tell you about my life and then when we could go from there, or if you guys want to answer me, ask me question. Oh, it's you you No matter the answer, we want to hear the story. Wow. Oh, let's see. Well. But I told Francine the Other nine or Chad, I was born

on June the twentieth of sixty eight. But but the doctors told my parents that that they could barely hit my heart be okay. My mom's umbilical cord was tightly wrapped around my neck like three times, twisted tightly, and and when the doctors decided to finally take me at four point thirty in the morning, I told my parents it was now or never, because when they decided to do it, I could barely hear my hearty peeze, I

couldn't even imagine. So you you were you were telling me like as a child, you were able to walk with a walker. Uh yeah, finally with the walker embraces yes, the walker. Okay, we was on the front and then rubber tips on the back and you would just stand behind him pushing in, you know, because do one foot one foot and so forth. That's right. Now, I basically can't do nothing, Kandi. My brother's help basically for almost everything.

Like I can feed myself and so forth. I can bunch my teeth and do little stuff, but as far as getting out of bed, that's still that's the one thing I missed. I used to be able to, like if I had to go to the bathroom or if I wanted to get up, and I used to go to sick guy to the police and a police garage in Pennsylvania while living in Pennsylvania, and he would make modifications on my world here, whether if I need it or just what if I wanted done becoming. He was

very smart and he can do it all. So I would get up early in the morning and jump in my chair and we go out there and wouldn't even bother my mom. Way up, I would laid out of my garage bedroom and I would just wheel there. But but now I can't get out of bed at all. The guy to get in on my brother or whoever. The kaid roller can't do nothing. So when you were a kid, I'm going back to when you were little and you were able to use like a walker and you had the braces. Is it just because like with

time passing, you just like your your muscles just got weaker. Yeah, yes, exactly, that's where it was. And like you know, speaking of my weak muscles, like one morning before I knew like what was going on, right kile covering myself from the bed, and I got my and I got myself to see the position. And then what I would do is I can only use my right hand my left hand. Like take your left hand and turn your palm up to the ceiling macau. I cannot do that with my left hand. Okay,

so that's how screwed up my left hand is. God, basically, you don't even need my left arm. I can't use it very much. Like I said, she'd be glad to have it. Right. So you just like when you're type in, you're just using one hand. You're just using right lo. I use my right thumb only. That's the only thing that I use to type. I don't use my index finger or nothing. I only use my right thumb. And can I tell you that he types better than I do, because I'm the worst. He type's quicker than me. He's

very quick, putty quick. But if I have to type like a paragraph, then that will take me probably about five or between five. Are you able to do like voice to text or can you do that on a computer? Yeah, you my laptop laptop because you can't. But I hate my voice. Don't take because like you like you. It's voice to text though, look that on my iPhone from when I but when I do it, my iPhone doesn't understand me because so it types like whatever because you

know what I'm saying, don't you know what? Don't think too much into that rod because I mean with my accent sometimes the words show becomes shell. You know, I say, try to say something, it becomes something else. So it's I think it's because the sophistication of the of the actual technology is not that great. Yeah, I tell Serio to f off sometimes because I've been there. Ma'am you online obviously you're you're completely over like in a good way.

People know who you are. When I was telling Chad, I said, when this guy enters the room, the chat room on Twitch, it's like uh on cheers when Norm walks in the bar and everybody screams Norm. That's what they do with Rod. Everybody knows Rod loves Rod, and you know, it's like Rod demas here and I'm just like, how does like how did you get so popular online? Are you just one of those guys that just is You just go and you make friends with every single

person because everybody loves you. Friends scene Macay, Yes, Bekay makes friends easially okay, but because Okay, worm just pricked the world. I've seen some of your tweets, Sir. I know how you can be but one though. I understand that part, but for the most part, become the nicest guy. Yeah, well I agree with that. Yeah, the old thing goes. God tried to read others that I would like others to read me. And you know what, if everybody followed

that example, the world would be a much better place. No, I agree with you. Well, you you make me happy. I'm gonna say that you you're you just bring sunshine into the room. Uh, you you pick up the The mood gets better when you come in and I just wanted to thank you for being so a not only a good guy, but you're like an inspiration. You know. I had a friend of mine on a couple of weeks ago, Cheryl Bess. Cheryl. I don't know if you ever heard her story, but she's a bold woman, do

you know, Cheryl? Yeah, well I'm a lady. Kai is her. She's the one that's blood right, she's blind, yes, and she had the battery acid thrown in a horrible story. I look at people like yeah, like I look at people like Cheryl, and I look at people like you. And you know, if I wake up and I have a headache and I'm bitching about a headache, and I'm just like, I stop myself and I say, all right, it's a headache, It'll go away. I'm so blessed with

the life that I have. And then someone like you who is chipper and in a good mood and positive, like, that's such. It's just you're a good role model for people. Yes, exactly, that's why. That's like Jerry was telling me this story the other day because she was on the treadmill and she and she was running, like I said, she wanted to get off, but then she thought about but then she thought to herself, you lazy so and so you know she's sticking Rodney playing in that hospital bed for

pub thirty hours a day or whatever whatever day. And you don't complain, bitch about it, nobody. So get your ass back on that treadmill and keep this. And that's what you thought you did. So that's right, that's what I say. Like when we're at Disney and I'm tired of walking, I say, thank God I can walk, and I keep going exactly, you know, because that's the way,

best way. More people, you know. But I've been there and work here because come by birthday and a couple of months, all up in there world chair for a flat fifty years, okay, and trust me, nobody wants to be in a fucking world chair for fifty years. Tell me about the difference, because Rob, I don't know if you know this type, but rod got a dandy new wheelchair. It's very spillfl breaths between your old wheelchair and your new one. Because you said this makes your quality of

life a lot better, right, right? Well, I have what's called like this curve in my back. My spine. Spine is curved a at bit now and if she's gonna get worse age over this new chair I got, I can til get back and if I need to, I can lay it all the way back. Well, I'm almost flat and it takes a lot of pressure off my spine. I see. Is it a form of scoliosis? Uh? Because your guest as good as my I only ask, Yeah, I asked because my daughter has sculliosis and she's been

in a brace for over a year now. We took her this week and they said the curve is starting to get a lot better. So they said maybe eighteen to twenty four months with the brace, and she won't have to wear it anymore, thank God, So she won't be three. But maybe it's a form of like sculiosis in your back. It could It could be because only they've always told me because it was an ass curve, so funny doesn't tell me for anything, because because if I need to be but the co can be up. Well,

why I haven't done in a while. But me and my dad please no longer live. But back when he was living, so my dad was also in the world here. He had polio back in the fifties before the vaccine. Oh okay, So but me and my dad because he's going you know, because if I have I have a brother and her sister. So so they had three kids total, and my dad held a held a regular job just like any maghb witho was on his feet. He used

to work from all back in the day. And one of the impressed the guy that hired my dad was because my dad was leaving the building and he and he misjudged the dropped in his wheelchair and and he fell and he in his wheelchair dropped and fell off, wondering when he was leaving the building. But my dad played he played wheelchair diy basketball back in that day. So as soon as he fell, he just juked that chair, jerked it back up right and jumped back and then and in his chair and took out and got in

his car left. And that guy when he hired him said that was the reason that he got hired because double Weds game impressed him so damn much. Wow, m but tough as nails, yeah, because my because my dad became my dad and his landbody was skinny, but he's up everybody in his arms look looked like he was a freaking football player. My dad was a flight for business like one time, and he said, him and this guy God got to talk, you know, like how people

talking point. And so the guy asked him for what he did, and of course, you know, my dad was sending a wheelchair, I mean in a plane seat, so you wouldn't know he was saying. My dad said, oh, I played professional football for the Chicago Bears. And so they went on and stuff, and then when the plane landed, my dad said, hey, Clay guy, but KA can't lie to you because he said, because he said, I can't even walk, because he said, I've been in a wheelchair

since around like the late thirties and forties. So he said, I won't lie to you, he said, but I can't walk it all. Oh, all right, I'm switching gears because I don't want I want to be happy. No, it's it's a it's a great it's an amazing story. It's amazing. I tend to cry on this show a lot. I don't want to cry today. So I'm going to ask you some things about yourself. What are your hobbies? What what can you do with all your restrictions? What do you like to do? What can you do well. But

I can do basically anything I want to. I mean, like like if I want to go somewhere because you asked my brother, you know, I say I want to go here. I want to go there and and make that happened, all right, But I mean I just watch television, listen to Shin on my phone. I got a bunch of Shin on my phone. Do that and I am but I really like so I way more than a shipping and said, con that's my joy on my life. And I and I CODs didn't work for a spell, but I haven't more wrong in my life. I don't

care the contents. I just did one of them wanting and need to do people get into let and so be it. Hey, so so you are you a big wrestling fan or were you a big wrestling fan? Game? But i'd been a whistling saying since like the early the late sends, and I I'm a big journey lower fan not only w W. But he's shift in his career and Lymphis, Tennessee. But let they tell him why they can used to call him the old lifting the mits South calls him why they said that wants a

house ball over built. They don't Loller would be the ones to put the asses on the seats on Monday nights. It's King of Memphis. That's why exactly do you get to ever go to like shows or conventions? Well, because once I've been to wrestling shows a while, not come down in a while, but I've been a wrestling shows and I was in the one all right. Became met Terry back in old nine okay, Yeah, I was waiting

for you to bring that up. Well, because we are to talk about it, okay, because met on Facebook and like oh nine okay, and we became fast Facebook friendoy. But back in them days, like people like her whoever wanted to be friends with, you know, I always pointing to I was pointing the poor me card, okay, but because I'm telling them in the world here, and I was, and I can't use my wife paying too much. But if they were't mind, what the with the friend you

on first book? But I don't have to play that card anymore. Kinda played that card in years because people like me now for who I am, you know, and I wanted to tell you John five give me the nickname Rod the mod you know, the guy that yes, the guy that he's the one that give me the mind or rode the modself. That was all John's idea, but it stuck. So do you and John know each other like in real life or are you just friends online? Uh? No, just friends of line COD never be cod, never many.

But hopefully we see because Terry was saying that the three of us need to get together and party whatever whatever the whole party, you know, because like I mean, in so many different ways, sure, sure whatever. I can only freak of imagine. Well, you need to tell Terry that I said, thank you for letting us borrow you today. Terry, Terry, Terry don't here because she'll give you what I do. I love Terry Rry. Terry is one of my favorites. Yeah,

I actually have her on here. We definitely do. I talk about doing each other shows a couple of times here and there, and then it never happened. So I need to get Terry on here for sure because you but I know you know her, because you will because you'll love her. I've worked with Terry. I mean we've shared locker rooms quite a few times, done conventions together. She's a doll. I really love her. Yeah, just be careful. Then it's Katy Bard the damn door. Help us are off.

I'm going to stay on her good side, and you're a good side. Hey. You know what, I met her in nineteen ninety seven when she was still mar Lane. She did an indie show on loan from the WWF at my high school. Yeah. I actually met her as mar Lena about that in the gold all the whole, Gold the whole. Literally this was in the midst of the gold Dust years. It was. Yeah, it was a

big show at my high school. I like that. That's great, Terence, Fa was you know back in the day before you were as well done you you know, because she because you were calling me, but she called me like you did, come here we go the phone, so you know, like maybe the second or third phone call, you know, like like you know, eventually, like over time, if she would end up giving me a number, right, he got the digits terry because didn't get a man, but he's gonna

was so was so genuine she said, now just you take a couple of and that I just bro I see well Rod rod and and I forgot to mention this, but hello, I didn't want to get on the camera's are pretty impressive though, my friend. Nice, that's a lifetime right there. Awesome, nice to see you. I forgot to mention, uh, I forgot to mention that Rod is our newest Patreon memory. Yes, so he's with us one hundred dollars here, so he's gonna come back with you in one second, just one minute,

he'll be back. All right, well he'll be back. I'll continue my thought. Then Rod is going to be uh with us once a month because he's on one hundred dollars tier, so he's going to be guest hosting once a month. He's back everyone. He had to he had to pat his brow. Yes, a little sweaty for my appearance looking at me, I'm sure getting bothered. Oh Jesus, Rod, Uh, we're gonna have you once a month now on Patreon

and on on the podcast. So you're gonna come up with some cool stuff because we got to know you today. Well we're gonna ask you to get that brain work and and and we're gonna we're gonna play some games, we're gonna tell some stories. We're doing a lot of stuff with you. So I help you up to the challenge. Oh, goll like whatever. Well, I have to think about the games become no game play, I mean the cal up games come my from. My best game is dominant become.

If you don't how to boy cock up dominoes, you could fit in the locker room. Back in the eighties, man, they were playing dominoes. They were doing all those guys that would have been perfect for a rock right in. Yeah, yeah, guys, Well you have you have a month. You have a month to think about your next show. So plan wisely. I don't want you to coming out of you on day twenty nine saying oh, I don't know what I'm

gonna do. You have you have thirty one days to think about it, think about Okay, come we all Avenue go to Well. I like that, I like that enthusiasm. But let me tell you one quick story because right ahead, because back back back when I live in Pennsylvania, my dad would go like, come, we come, we would go to the Laying City because we got up and damble right, yes, here's the killer. Because I first kneel there a casino

when I was seventeen years old. And obviously, because you ain't supposed to do that, because you're supposed to be legally twenty five right now, but like, but my dad's game of choice with blackjack, and of course me being underage because then he told me, just boy, slot machines, because you know how many as many eyes as you were there at the table. Then so so I would play slot, didn't god would win a little was a

little come whatever. I just had a good time. But then but then I was getting hungry, so me and my dad were gonna go to dinner, because then alway got raided. So dinner dinner never cost is the damn dying because it was always tom and so so I was sending by my dad like in the black jack came up over his shoulder watching the employee the last game,

and this in this pitball. She was a nice girl, she said, mister Robinson talking to him, She said, I want to ask him quick questions and he said all right, he said. She said, you know I always see your son over there behind you send the machines, playing playing the machines. She said, why come, why why doesn't he ever play black jack with you and Francine. As soon as she said, I ran back to my shirt and

I slept the shield on my father's back. And when I slept his back, he didn't want the herd, but so so my man said, well, he just he did like flots. So so we went down to dinner. Well, he had a steak for dinner. We said, there, disgusting. And then that night, after dinner we went back upstairs and I wen't keep the table then, and I bought one hundred dollars it may playing blood jack like ever said, oh, there you go. Well, yeah you can probably, I don't.

You're in Illinois, correct, yep, now I am, yes man. Are you able to play online? Uh? Well yes, no, but I but I do play blood jack online, but it's not for money. But yeah, but I enjoy playing it for fun. But I'd rather be a casino as just doing a phone, you know, with the phone, because anything could happen. I'd rather be SA. I'd rather be with my money to be parted from my money. There you go, smart man, funny. If you guys need to go, it's fine. If not, I'll do whatever you want to do.

But listen, I have a cameo coming up for you today later, and you know Rod wants me to be really mean. Listen, anyone who knows me this is me. I'm very sweet and nice and kind. Do you really want me to go all in today? Oh? Yeah? Oh? Because you really don't want to do it because I know I told you what I wanted to be. But I know and I can. I can do it. My heart will break while i'm doing it, to just know that it's it's not true, but I will go all in. I'm going to be I'm going to be very mean

to you. Rod. That's fine, okay, Oh god, all right, that's that's what I'm doing. Later then I'm gonna he'll d you say it? Okay, what we like to call famous last words. He's in for it. I have everything right up here. It's gonna be a long one and it's going to be brutal ready, and I don't mean a word of it, but it is gonna It's the last one did for the last one was my favorite one you've done so far. Yeah, I've done two for him, So I told him, I try to raise the bar

on each one that you order. So this one's this one's gonna be a doozy. But if you're okay with it, I'm okay with it. So I'm ready and we'll see you. Well, I'll see you hopefully later on on Twitch. I'll be on at two o'clock, yes, because that's one o'clock. So awesome. Well, Rod, you're a delight. I'm so happy that you've joined us here at eyes up here and on Patreon, and I look forward to uh doing some fun stuff with you in the future. So and thank you so much for

your your kind words and generosity as well. No problem. Could a favor though? Could you run that damn here with her discord because I still like it? Or I don't know? Man, I tell you only one. I tell you the link that I pulled from the discord. I think Francy did the same thing. We sent it to you, Rod, I don't understand. You're just supposed to click it, and it takes you right to it. Take click. It is

just put an announcement send. I would send the customer support or the Twitch or the Twitch the Discord support, just say that that's what your specific problem is. Because everybody else we sent it to comes in no problem. Every single member I sent we sent it to works. You're the only one. Well, I don't know, because because someone tried to give me on the other and finally, like after three or four hours, I finally got there. But it was, oh, well, we'll keep trying to send

it to you, to keep clicking it. We'll get you eventually. But I don't know what the problem is. I have no idea either, do I. Oh, God, all right, well we'll keep we'll keep working. Only God this will only happened to Rod. Yes, but guys, this is timeless. Thanks brand Bro, Thanks for all you do for me. Thanks for the package the other day. I'm glad you liked it. Yeah.

Like I said, I'm gonna watch the DVD only in them all, So I'm looking forward to good and then you can let me know what you think, because it's ridiculous. So enjoy it and I'll talk to you later today. Honey, sounds good. You too to thank you. And there goes Rod the Bodhi, I'm chat with nice man. Yeah, it's going to be uh, he's going to be working with us and yeah. And again it just shows that tier at your creation gives you the opportunity to come on.

You know, we've had DC in the past, we have Matt coming on, Matt's bringing these games, and DC brought all this great content. So you get that time, you get to come on. It's your choice. Rod wanted to tell his story, and I'm gonna break the news major announcement, dun So, I decided that we're going to add something to the twenty five and one hundred dollars tiers. I'm going to add a thirty minute It's not Skype, but

it skype type chat. So anybody on those two tiers, once a month we can do a thirty minute FaceTime. I guess it would be not dirty, not showing the huhas and the cookies and the booties, none of that crazy stuff. Just a little one on one interaction with me and the members. And you know, I think that what's the cookies? I have to let them know because either some people say, oh skiping, No, it's not that,

it's uh, it's my version. There's some other people that may have given the skyping a certain not bad name, but people might have an impression of skiping. Well, listen, they had an impression of only fans when I went on there and I learned the hard way. So I am telling you this is what we're offering. So, I mean, I've had requests all the time. People want to pay me just to talk to me like this. Yeah, and so now if you want to be a member, it's

it's included for twenty five or one hundred bucks. You get to do it. So we're going to add that tier onto the tiers. Yeah, great, that's great. I think that's awesome. And you know that's where you do get that and we and we still, like we've always said, we'll do our round tables. We'll have people pop on when we can. And the round table we haven't done in a while, uh well since your birthday really uh yeah,

but there. I mean, everything's fun. It's just I don't want to be a shill in this regard, but you really, if you're listening to this and you're not a part of this family and you really like the content, you gotta come over. There's so much more. Would you like to see what else there is this week? Yeah? Let me let me uh, let me get a little all right, Well, we've we've done this in the past, but this is time for a part too. We're gonna do a little

weird newss. I like some weird people out there, and how these stories get out into the public is beyond me. I wouldn't want this being seen people's likes and preferences and things. They If you think your life is fucked up, watch weird news too exactly. Yeah. We last time it was all I believe? Was it all? Oh? Was it all poop related? But it was like three or four. There's not a poof story in this one. I figured I wouldn't go to the well or the toilet again

for that well. Also, this was planned for last week, but the Disney game blew over into our Patreon. But this is Cooking with the Queen. I'm calling it the Reducts because it was already supposed to come out. What I did was I took yours your Cooking with the Queen twitch from a few weeks back that I believe. Yeah, it had was broken up into two parts and I want to need them clean palm. Yes, And I brought that together as one big mega mix megamix yeah version. Yes.

But they love the Cooking with the Queen, always have. It's always a biggie. So for people who missed the Twitch, you know, we've also come to learn that the Twitch videos disappear, but not in the world of the Chad Star. Yeah, I fix that yes you did now only they'll last for fourteen days and then they disappeared. So if you're an aw quick, you miss it. We're quick like a hiccup, that's how quick we are. But this is a cool one,

so we're gonna do that. And then for a watch along. Ooh, you scare me with these watch along because I want to know what you're finding. I never saw this before. Uh, this is from a house show Raven Stevie and Beulah versus the pit bulls and Francine And you spell wrong? I know I did. I saw that afterwards. Does it be? Yeah? Is it you? And the af flip? Right? No? The l A all right? Wait time out? Be you? Yeah? I knew I did after I did it, but then I didn't want to go back and fix it because

I really wait hold on. Oh, and for the watch along, this week we have a house show and here's the match Raven Stevie and Beulah versus the pit bulls. And I've never seen this before, so I don't know how you find this stuff. I really don't dig I love and I love that I said it last week with the referee. Did you watch the matches? I sent you I watched one of them. What did you think. I'm you know, I was trying to remember it, and I'm

still like, I don't remember it. How about that. Sometimes it'll t you know, my memory gets triggered this one. I'm just like, I don't remember it. I they I think I remember us partying in the hotel room, but I don't remember like you remember the players, but you can't remember the event. Everybody being in a room with me, Like I remember me and Cindy. Oh, because this is really funny, real quick, when we got there, this has to be the same weekend. When we got there, I

put my bags in a room. Passion walked in and she said, oh, I'll room with you, two door room whatever. Cindy then comes a little later and puts her bags in here, and Passion says, I'm already in this room. Cindy goes, she's my best friend. I'm in this room. So they start fighting, and I'm like, whoa, I'll never forget that. But then like one by one that night, everybody came into the room and we were having a cocktail.

We were hanging out. So that's what I remember, but I don't remember any of the matches you got probably I would think two thousand and seven good payday to referee, and you were a good referee. Did you see your refereeing skills? You were pretty good. I was okay. Study Jimino tapes. I know, I studied jim the whole time. You said, you're watching him watching, make check for the r make sure the tag. I know. I was there for the counts. I'm there when they were outside. I

broke up fights. You know. Doink was all over me. That Doint sucked. Anybody who gets in the ring, I'll give him all the credit in the world that doint sucked. We actually, you know how I watched it. I did a watch along on twitch. Oh did you Yeah? You were setting your night? Oh cool? What did they think what I did? Because I was like, hey, you guys want to watch something I haven't watched yet, and they were all like, yeah, so we pulled it up. What

did they think? I don't even know? Oh come on, yeah. I don't think anybody even complimented my roughing skills. I thought it was great. See I watch everything. I appreciate it. You're welcome. You're welcome. I love that craft. So we'll check it out. Its coolhouse show. I'm sure you'll tell us everything about the building, nothing about the match, So if I remember anything, I'll let you know. Yeah, just

quickly before we say goodbye. Uh. It's funny the WWE Hall of Fame announcements, right, they're coming feverishly down the pike. A lot of ECW talk because they put Rob van Dam in the Hall of Fame. Don't take that to heart because Rob was super over for WWE. That's what

I think. All It's not like they're going to start coming trickling down to the Funniest thing that came out of this was Saboo doing an interview and Saboo giving it away and telling people before they announced it because he was ready to it and he's like, I'll give a funk, I'm just gonna say it. Yeah, he's in the Hall of Fame. And they were like, would you be in? Oh? He said something like yeah, it's but who cares because it's it doesn't mean anything. It's like

a bullshit Hall of Fame. And then the guy goes would you be in it? He goes, yeah, just for the payday. Hilarious. That's great. Now, that's that's pretty much. I thought exactly the same thing. This isn't like an ECW thing, this is w W E rob Fandamn. Yeah he was in the WW for how many years? A good ECW. I the same thing about Eric Bischoff, you know, like they're using his Eric Bischoff nWo picture. But do you think that vins Man is putting him in his

Hall of fame because of w CW. No, he's thinking about the guy he threw in a garbage can on raw. Yeah. It's definitely uh, based on the accomplishments from that company and not from former companies. So don't don't get your painties in a bunch of kids. Uh. It's not happening for me, and I'm fine with it. I just love this is the time of the year. They always start to pop up. You know, we'll see the tweets about you, We'll see about Shane e c W Is there an

e c W wan? Blah blah blah blah. Please don't get me wrong. I think it's great that people want to see us in there. But come on, now, we're good. We're good. I'm good right where I am. Thank You're good, You're in your hall. You're in the Queen of Extreme Hall of Fame. I am member Party of one and that's all that's important. Important, But yeah, that's uh. I think we'll wrap it up here for this week. We h. Yeah,

we will come back with some strong extras. But if you want to follow me first, it's at Chad E and B on Twitter and Instagram, which I never update but i'd like to. I just forget Diamond Conversations is back. Exciting new logo, but our return guests from season one. This great guy, very funny guy. His name's Tim Dillard. He's a quirky pitcher, relief pitcher. He's a guy who made it to the major leagues in like the late two thousands, right, but then literally spent the next thirteen

years in the miners. Couldn't get picked up by a team, like he'd be under contract, but he wouldn't make the major leagues. But he discovered doing like viral videos and like parody videos with the people like around the minor leagues ended up putting him on the map, so he retired officially. So the interview is an update of his

you know, last time we spoke. But this guy is so talented, so talented, that I wanted to have him back, so Diamond conversations back on Creative Control where we listen to this audio and yeah, I'd be exclusive for everything else with the old Chester, okay, and across the board. On social media, you can find me at ecwdvat Franccene. I also have a cameo page. You guys want to heal or face. You could always tell me what you want and I follow the script or I go off script.

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