I want to do an episode this week where I'm kind of tired.
Mainly because I pulled a 14 hour shift the other day and I'm feeling pretty good.
I haven't worked in a bit so now things are starting to pick up and I'm very optimistic
for the future.
Speaking of optimism, let me tell you something that I was actually surprised about.
Number one, the mead.
We finished it.
What do I mean by that?
I mean it's ready to drink.
How do I know this?
Well, I gave some of my cousin as a sample.
You know, my cousin Tony runs our Working Boys podcast.
He loved it.
You know what?
Thank you, Tony, for your honest opinion.
I mean he chugged that shit.
That's how he showed me.
I mean it is good.
I like it.
I'm very proud of what I've made.
Although we still have quite a lot to go.
This isn't going to be like a one-off thing.
For me, I love the process of it so much that I'm thinking of just constantly going.
Making it like a monthly thing maybe.
I'm not sure how long or how much more bottles I could buy, but I feel like I'm going to
make more of them.
And you know what?
I'm excited to talk about this week's topic, which to be honest is going to be me addressing
a lot of stuff that I have left undiscussed.
And I really feel like I should update people more often, at least in this specific case
and these specific cases because there's multiple.
I think I need to be more transparent.
All right.
I guess we should start with the meat thing, right?
I mean a lot of people maybe have been wondering about it.
I noticed that there are some people that are, there are way more listeners now.
By the way, hi everyone.
How are you doing?
I'm Mr. Meatweed.
As I've been deemed by Sage from Gaijin Bento.
That podcast is amazing.
Honestly, if you love anime, if you love everything Japan, go check them out.
Personally, I don't watch anime as much as I used to, but it's run by my buddy Brian
and Sage.
They're both awesome.
They have this dynamic, right?
When they talk and I love them.
Go check them out.
I've listened to their entire episodes, like all of them, and I'm listening more again
and I'm hyped for the next episode.
I don't know when it's going to come out, but I'm excited for it.
Anyway, the meat, as my cousin described it, tasted like a strawberry daiquiri, which I'm
actually surprised about because not only are there no strawberries in there, there's
no daiquiri in there either.
What does that mean?
I don't know.
I'll figure it out.
It's just cinnamon and molasses and a bit of sugar, but I guess timing and cleaning
everything, it worked out well in the end.
And here's the best part for me.
Me and my cousin got to sample the one that's not done yet.
And let me tell you, that one tastes significantly smoother.
There's no fizziness to it.
It's incredibly flat, but it's also very dry.
I don't know how to explain it.
The next batch is going to take far longer to make.
It's going to age way longer, like an actual wine should, you know?
Not years by any means, but a few months.
And after those few months, I'd say maybe two months, maybe three.
You really don't know.
Five or six.
The more months, the better.
I gave him a liter of the stuff to take home that was properly, properly racked and everything,
getting rid of all that yeast that died on the bottom.
I didn't know there was so much left, but the good thing is it was clarified.
When it's clear, that means all the yeast is dead and out of it and it's ready to drink.
And it aged properly.
That's a good thing.
Very important for me.
And of course, before he had some, I had some with him, you know?
We both had to try it.
And I'm proud of myself.
I'm proud of what I did.
Having said that, I'm not done with it.
Like I said, it's going to be a recurring thing.
Each time, I'm going to try to improve and master my craft as I did with the cheese.
But the thing is, cheese is already perfect.
How can you improve on perfection?
You cannot.
It's very simple.
As the same goes with the soap making, right?
Soap making is very easy, very simple.
Hard soaps anyway.
However, liquid soaps on the other hand is significantly more difficult.
And maybe later down the line, I'm going to try to do it, but I need to buy a crockpot.
A single use crockpot, which I do not think exists.
Because there's no way in hell that I'm going to buy a, not a crockpot, a slow cooker.
There's no way in hell I'm going to buy a slow cooker for a single use, right?
There's got to be a way to clean it.
I hope so at least.
There's maybe some plastic wrap or something.
But then again, the chemicals are used.
You can't really use plastic wrap.
And it's got to be heated really, really high and you've got to stir it for hours.
There's a whole bunch of stuff that I'm leaving out on purpose.
Mainly to confuse you.
Need and personal stuff aside, the internet came together to do this beautiful thing that
I've been seeing this month.
But it's been sparking.
It's been popping off, right?
In fact, people of all mediums, people of all sides of the internet have come together
to collectively dance to the song by Pine Grove called Need Too.
And there's something about it.
Pine Grove shuffle.
It's so simple.
You just stammer forward, move your arms back and forth.
That's it.
It's not difficult.
The first guy to do it just kind of did it on a whim.
And something about the comment section makes me think this guy was going through some stuff.
So wow, that was a loud explosion behind me.
Anyway, the internet in all of its glory, every single person on TikTok, Instagram shorts,
all kinds of stuff, right?
YouTube shorts, whatever.
Instagram reels, my bad.
But they all started doing it in their own way.
I saw a Gengar animation in the pixel style, you know?
And I saw animation of...
I forget what it is.
I think I got an adult version of Scooby Doo where they all get high all the time.
And those guys were dancing and they were doing it hard, you know?
Okay, white boy.
That's the most of the comments.
Just saying that.
And I love it.
I'm not going to lie.
It's just it's not even the fact that it's such a simple dance.
It's the fact that everyone is doing it.
This is one of those collective things that for some reason we all just like.
Altogether doing it.
The Pine Grove shuffle.
Nothing here to care about.
It's such a simple song too.
I have it on my playlist now.
Yes, and TikTok has influenced my playlist.
And I'm not going to lie.
It's not even a lot of songs that have been doing it.
And I don't know.
I love it.
I really, really like it because it's such a simple dance.
And to be honest, I had this idea years ago, or at least last year, when I reached a certain
milestone that I was going to do a TikTok dance.
The only problem is I cannot dance.
I mean at all.
Okay?
Regardless of me trying.
This is back when I had my beard.
So it would have looked even weirder me trying to dance in the middle of nowhere.
Rather than me doing that, I'm just not going to do that.
Very simple collective answer.
We should all sigh in relief because I probably would have fumbled and knocked some shit over.
I'm not going to lie.
Admittedly the dance in its simplicity is the reason why it caught on so quick.
I mean, how difficult is it to stammer forward?
Maybe those who don't have legs can't do it.
But that's where the arm movement comes in.
You know?
You could do that.
Having said that, let's move on to the next trending topic.
The reason being is because I have to update people on the last episode of the podcast.
I'm kind of embarrassed.
I didn't wait more than a few hours to upload.
The reason being is actually have a seat for this one because the submarine was found in
pieces.
All the crews are dead.
Like the crew members are all dead.
And the thing is, in my last episode, we did not have those updates.
We didn't have any of that because this update that I'm talking to you guys about is hours
old on a Wednesday.
Okay?
Of course I wasn't going to get it.
So yeah, if you guys are wondering, last week's episode I did mention the submarine.
However, it was not fully up to date.
You know what I mean?
Because that was last week and this is this week.
Did I get something wrong?
Not really.
It's just a time based thing, right?
So yeah, I want to clarify.
Those people are gone.
Those billionaires are gone.
And unfortunately, there was a teenager on board who was made to go.
He didn't want to go, but he was made to go by his family.
So that's honestly that's the real tragedy for me there is someone who didn't want to
go and they were made to go anyway.
And they died as a result.
That's never something that's okay.
Okay, I just wanted to bring that up.
Next topic.
There are people who asked about the morbid universe episode two, when is it coming out?
The truth is, I'm actually still doing research on it because next week's topic or next, not
even next week, the next episode's topic is going to be a lot more of a deep dive into
the human psyche.
And I can't give more details on that because the thing is, I've been researching constantly,
honestly, it's been a big research topic for me that I've studied years ago and I have
to kind of dust off some old books and read it again.
And I'm not bothered by that all that much.
I don't mind studying a topic that I was already fluent in.
I just have to have a few refresher courses because it has to do with psychology as well.
Somebody else asked me, what happened to that YouTube video that you were promising to make
last year and never did it?
Well, the truth is it was never going to work out.
I was trying my hardest to make a video, a remake in any way, of Filthy Frank's hair
cake.
The problem is you can't.
There is no possible way of making that family friendly in any regard, really.
You can make a cake, put your hair in it, and then it's like, okay, what now?
We got to eat it.
And you really can't.
So I'm not going to make the video.
On the other hand, I am uploading on YouTube.
I'm not uploading fully.
I'm not doing whole ass podcast episodes on YouTube.
I'm going to leave that for other people.
However, I think, and here's the thing, right?
RSS.com has recently given me the option to upload podcast episodes to the YouTube channel.
Am I going to do that?
Maybe I am.
Regardless of that, though, we're still going to do it once a week.
You know what I mean?
Either once a week or once every two, three days, something like that.
I don't want to overwhelm you guys' feet with my podcast episodes.
It's just going to get annoying and a lot of people are going to unsubscribe.
I don't blame them for that.
It's very annoying.
And the thing is, only halfway through, I'm thinking the older episodes where I had the
Blue Yeti, that the quality was much lower, the audio spikes were numerous, and editing
was much more laid back.
Let's just say I didn't know what I was doing back then, but I certainly acted like I did.
The thing is, I don't know where to start.
Should I upload the episodes with the Blue Yeti mic or should I upload when I started
with this microphone, when I started actually figuring it out, you know, season three or
something?
I guess it's a good idea that I labeled it.
Season one, two, and three, or season one, two, and three, I guess I'm going to keep
in RSS.com and the rest I'm going to put on YouTube.
The thing is, it's a thing that I'm not too familiar with either.
I haven't looked into it.
The thing is, I've been busy this week, but I'm going to go ahead and look into it right
now actually, as soon as I'm done uploading this.
I'm a tidbit, but how the hell does Louis Vuitton bags sell for just under $64,000 when
it's microscopic?
I mean, that shit is tiny.
The thing is, right, I first saw this on, of all things, I saw this on a Mexican news
channel where they were speaking Spanish, and yet there was this joke that just killed
it.
Like, you knew that the guy didn't have to say a word.
After they saw the bag and they saw that someone's fingertip had the bag on it, he just got a
piece of paper, tore off the corner, put it on his finger, and said, here you go, 64
grand please.
Like, they were just making fun of the bag because it's so tiny and useless.
I guess if you're an eccentric billionaire, good on you, but at that point, you might
as well buy a ticket to a submarine.
I apologize to those billionaires listening.
By the way, my Patreon is right there.
Just click that please if you're a billionaire.
Give me money.
Anyway, I'm just...
Only if you're a billionaire though.
If you're not, you don't gotta.
But, yeah, okay.
That joke was a little offhand, right?
Okay, well, it is fucking weenie hut juniors compared to the rest of the internet.
Because if you guys go on TikTok or if you guys see the latest memes about the submarine,
not a single person has any sympathy for the people who were on the boat.
I'm genuinely surprised.
In fact, there's an entire news article about it, the psychology of why people are like
that.
And apparently, it's actually a very interesting topic.
Let me tell you about it.
Psychologically speaking, when we talk to other people, they tend to be within our...
They're not usually people who are cut off from the rest of society.
They're people who, whether they make more or less money than you, you will still interact
with them from a day-to-day basis.
You'll still talk to them and you'll get to know them a bit more, right?
The thing is, these billionaires, a lot of them have been cut off from society because
they choose to be cut off from society.
I'm gonna burp.
I had to stop recording again to burp.
And let me tell you right now, what didn't help was that goddamn grimace shake I had
earlier.
You heard me.
Grimace shake.
There's one in me.
Pray for your boy because your boy didn't feel good.
I'm not gonna lie.
I didn't stop at the grimace shake.
Last night, me and my girlfriend went and we got that midnight munchie meal that Snoop
Dogg endorsed.
The only good thing, the only thing I liked anyway was the brownie.
I don't know what he was thinking.
I mean, if you like spicy food, it's definitely up your alley.
Like if you get high and you eat spicy food, that's gonna be something you'd love.
I'm off Omeprazole.
I didn't stop, you know, I didn't stop because I didn't want to take anymore.
I stopped because I ran out of money to buy more.
And yeah, that's, I wish I was joking, but no, I'm doing, doing pretty tough.
At least I was, but we're picked up.
So we're good now.
We're Gucci.
I really just said that.
Kind words aside, I just realized something.
Okay.
So when you get this meal, you're supposed to get an air freshener with it, right?
For all these reasons, haha, weed, whatever funny.
I didn't get it.
I didn't get the air freshener.
I wanted it.
Maybe they ran out.
I actually, I actually don't know if you're supposed to order along with it.
You know, my brother the other day found a, a morning dove, you know, those that go, you
know that thing, right?
It sounds like, it sounds, I can't replicate the sound, but my brother found it the other
day and it had a injured wing, right?
Like it was damaged.
I guess someone shot it with a pellet gun and missed, but my brother and his kind nature
put it in a cage and he's nursing it back to health, feeding it every day.
It's actually kind of cute.
I'm not trying to touch it cause you know, it's a wild animal, but we're going to nurse
it back to health and send it back up to the, to fly off with the other birds.
I actually really liked that.
It's so cute.
The pigeon I've never seen up close, is pigeon or dove?
I'm going to go with dove.
I think of, I say dove and I think of the soap, whatever.
But yeah, this, this bird up close is kind of funny because since we've started feeding
it and making sure that he's being nursed back to health, every time I go outside, he
kind of pokes his head out and just looks at me and it's creepy, but also kind of cute.
I don't know.
I like it.
I kind of liked the guy.
I liked the little dove.
Doves have a lot of character to them.
I don't know if you know, if you've ever had like a pet dove, you probably understand what
it's like, cause they like to stare at you a lot and they make it very obvious.
I thought it was kind of funny seeing it.
So funny.
In fact, I'm pretty sure I'm going to use it for the cover of this, this podcast episode.
Just cause why not?
I'm a good spirit right now.
I'm feeling good.
Oh, oh, you know what?
We have an update on something.
Hang on.
I was, I said I was going to do a test for this drink.
Let me bring in the, let me bring the can.
Here it is.
Okay.
This is one of the things I needed to, wow, my noise is loud.
My chair is loud.
I mean, this is one of the things that I had to update you guys on, right?
Okay.
This is a drink that I first discovered and I thought the, I thought the concept was really
funny.
The thing is I'm a, I like energy drinks quite a bit when I don't have magic mind, of course.
But the thing is this drink is the exact opposite.
It does not give you energy.
It takes it away and it takes it all away.
Let me tell you right now, this drink is called Psalm Sleep S O M S L E E P. It looks, the
can looks surprisingly like a Red Bull in design.
Color it's completely different, different color and everything.
Designs on the bottle, I mean the, the can, the can is very obviously a rip off of Red
Bull.
However, the, the, the end result is completely different.
Let me tell you something.
I was actually scared at first to use this drink.
Why?
Because me and Melatonin do not have a good relationship.
What do I mean by that?
Those who know, know Melatonin dreams are nothing to fuck with.
I'm talking dead serious because I'll have moments where I take Melatonin and my dream
will be like me on LSD drinking five gallons of the ocean water while an elephant breaks
my legs and also I'm a tank.
You know, it makes no sense, right?
But on Melatonin it does.
Melatonin, not even once.
This drink, wow, that is an old reference.
Holy shit.
Okay, let me put it this way.
Let me tell you the story of what happened.
First off, taste wise, 10 out of 10, absolutely delicious drink.
But I wouldn't drink it for the taste cause the end result was this.
Here, I'm going to put it down and just say this with my hands because I'm in my, I need
some italics for this one.
I got eight hours of sleep with the drink.
Having said that, I did not test it on my own.
My cousin slept over and we both had one.
We both wanted to try it.
Here's the thing.
The can says drink 30 minutes before going to bed.
We did not last five minutes.
During our conversation, we began to slow down noticeably and audibly because we were
talking.
The reaction was so fast that I think I was still holding the can when I, when I nodded
off.
I had to tell my girlfriend almost instantly, Hey babe, I'm falling asleep here.
Good night.
I think halfway through texting, I hit send and my eyes closed and I opened in five minutes
later we started skipping through time with this shit.
The taste was great, but the effects were fast.
I mean quickly, quickly.
My cousin noticed it too because he and I were talking about relationships, family stuff,
the economy, Pittsburgh for some reason.
Was it Pittsburgh?
I don't know.
One of those states.
But yeah, the effect was quick.
Unlike with other drinks, this one, I don't know what it is, right?
Melatonin usually gives me weird dreams.
This one did not.
In fact, I would go as far as to say I went comatose for eight hours because I closed
my eyes.
I opened them and it was eight hours later.
Did I feel refreshed?
Here's the thing.
I think this is my fault.
I'm not going to blame the drink, but I'm pretty sure I slept on my side wrong.
And the entire day, my back was hurting.
I mean the whole day.
Like it was not subtle.
I kept stretching.
I kept trying to pop it.
You can ask anyone who was there.
It was fun.
It was fun trying it.
But would I drink it again?
Maybe if I'm absolutely desperate to sleep.
But it has to be a day where I can't wake up early.
Like if an alarm wakes me up, it defeats the purpose because I tend to be groggy if I wake
up with an alarm and I'm on melatonin.
I can't do that.
It has to be a full eight hours of sleep, naturally wake up and that's enough.
With this can, I only kind of got that.
Only kind of.
It was fast.
It was effective.
But that's your update on the drink.
Some sleep.
10 out of 10 effectiveness.
Would I do it again?
No.
Because it's so effective.
I'm just going to get regular sleep.
Four hours of sleep like everyone else.
I'm a normal human being.
I'm functioning just barely.
Mostly on caffeine.
Mostly.
This is completely off topic as is the rest of the things I was talking about.
But I was at the gym today and on my way home.
Like I'm actually surprised I saw this.
There was a guy just straight up smoking crack in the front.
Like he did not hide it.
The man was tweaking, tweaking.
Like the guy was leaning forward, moving his legs around, just throwing his arms in the
air as hard as he could.
I mean the guy had to move, right?
But it made me think.
Is it possible that a guy could smoke crack and lift weights?
Would he be incredibly jacked after a few months?
Or would he be dead entirely?
I have a feeling he'd be dead entirely.
I don't know.
Nor do I want to test this theory.
But it's definitely something that I thought about the moment I saw it.
Because here's the thing that clicked in my head right away.
You're smoking crack at a gym.
You know?
Like how on the nose could it be?
Like I saw it and I thought why are you doing that here?
And then I turned around and I was like wait a minute.
You're either a genius or a dumbass.
So you know I've been in that situation multiple times.
Never done crack.
Not gonna lie.
Nor do I want to by the way.
In fact most of any drugs at all.
In fact I quit smoking.
I smoked weed maybe a few times when I was in high school.
And it's not my thing.
You know people have reactions to stuff like THC and everything like that.
My reaction was paranoia.
And I could not fucking deal with it.
I was never the one who found it pleasant.
When I smoked weed when I was in high school I just got paranoid.
That's it.
I didn't like it at all.
I hated that.
Even if I mellowed out dude.
No that shit was just annoying.
It's not my thing.
I mean to those who do it go ahead.
It's legal in California now so go ahead and do whatever you want.
But I don't know.
It's just weird to me.
There seems to be a growing number of drug trends that regardless of legality or not.
Me being a former pharmaceutical technician I can tell you right now that there was a
lot of stuff that I saw got popular and I did not like at all.
Like before the pandemic the jewel getting super popular on having flavors obviously
advertised to kids.
And keep in mind jewel advertised to like coolmathgames.com.
Stuff where little kids would see it.
And this is the same tactic that cigarette companies used back then.
Get them young and they'll be hooked forever.
But like even their spokespersons were dying of cancer back then.
And all of a sudden we had this new much more concentrated nicotine.
Obviously people were going to get sick.
Far worse was when COVID hit.
You know?
We're still dealing with the repercussions of COVID.
Whether a lot of people know it or not.
In fact let me tell you this right now.
The other day I was signing up for a certain health insurance.
I'm not going to tell you how much it is or whatever.
Health life insurance.
It was life insurance.
Okay?
Those who had been affected by COVID were no longer able to purchase it.
Period.
They weren't even given a rate.
They were given nothing.
The scary part about it is the main reason being is because we don't know the long term
effects of COVID.
So if you had it back then chances are you will have permanent side effects.
I'm so sorry for those who didn't know that.
There is a big chance that you have side effects from COVID and you probably have not recovered.
I never got COVID.
I got vaccinated and I did everything that the CDC said to do.
And still I wouldn't say I was dealing with the repercussions because the thing is my
family might have.
And I'm a bit worried about that because my parents aren't that young anymore.
A lot of my family you know they'll smoke and drink.
They'll do all that stuff.
And I'm just concerned.
I'm not worried.
I'm not going to say oh this needs to stop.
This is a big deal.
But I'm more thinking yeah this is something to keep an eye on.
So for those who have dealt with COVID one thing I recommend and this isn't medical advice.
This isn't me saying this is going to work.
This isn't a medical cure.
This is nothing like you know see a doctor for information like this.
But I would say start running.
Not from.
It sounds ominous but I mean literally get your lungs as strong as you can you know.
Really push yourself to start running a few miles.
Running, jogging, do anything.
Any form of exercise where your heart is racing a little bit and your lungs are going you
know opening and closing.
That's important.
It's important to work out.
And it's you know whether you're sick with COVID whether you were sick with COVID or
not just do it.
It's honestly it feels great.
The reason I'm saying this is because all month I have a ledger that I started in June
1st and it is what the 20 the 28th today and I've been running miles every day.
I feel pretty good.
Okay I've been pussy funning around it long enough.
I have a thing to mention that a lot of people who know me personally have probably seen.
No one on the internet has seen it because I've kept it secret until the other day.
Fuck it.
I have a bit of one of those what's it called?
A guilty pleasure.
Emphasis on the guilty and exclamation point on the pleasure.
I've been buying shit on Teemu.
I'm not gonna lie.
I've been using it a lot more than anyone should.
So much so that I kind of want the little personal washing machine that keeps getting
advertised.
I don't know what it is about it right?
We even like me my girlfriend and my family we even share stuff from the app that's like
goofy or maybe something like we'll be browsing it for hours and it's just so entertaining
whether you buy something or not.
Like the other day I was unaware that almost literally anything on Teemu can be purchased
if you know what to look up like what to quote unquote type in and I was unaware that Teemu
you can buy let me let me let me tell you right now this is all true.
One you can buy crack pipes a set of three they call them oil burners quote unquote.
Two you can buy bongs a lot of them they're very open about it you could buy pieces for
it you could buy a whole vape system on the app.
I haven't bought any I don't smoke anymore and another thing that I saw that really caught
my eye fucking holy water you could buy a set of five bottles of holy water and obviously
it's a bootleg it's not real holy water but at the same time who's gonna tell the difference
maybe the demon when you throw a bootleg Teemu holy water on his ass and he's just like get
the shit out of here.
The fuck I don't know how to explain it right but I've been seeing these things and there's
another thing there's this very very special very very specific thing that Teemu kept trying
to sell me I don't know what the fuck it is I had to google it and I was still confused
I told me everything I had to find a YouTube video on what it is and why it's when it's
used there are these sticks that will be given to you after you get acupuncture you know
the little needles in your back and stuff and it's I forget what it's called it's very
special stick it's a type of plant that you light the end on fire similar to a cigarette
it almost kind of looks like one and you put the burning end close to your skin but not
touching it just enough to feel the warmth and that's supposed to have anti-inflammatory
properties how the fuck was I supposed to know that I just it didn't tell me anything
the advertisement didn't specify anything how to use it or what the fuck it was it just
had a picture of a plant and I thought it was some bootleg cannabis I'm not even joking
I was showing my girlfriend asking do you know what this is because I don't and Teemu
kept recommending it in various forms I didn't know what it was and I just thought it was
the funniest thing because here's a website trying to sell me something that I don't even
know what it is and it won't explain it's just implying that I know what it is I'm a
fucking dumbass guard my hands through this there's also this other thing that people
know Teemu for I bought a meme sticker recently it's a corndog literally I thought it was
the funniest shit ever and I don't regret my purchase I bought three of them and I have
one that I don't know what to do with but I'll find somewhere I'm thinking of putting it
on my car somewhere but I also don't like what the sticker glue does to the car shine
I had the same problem with my old meatweed podcast sticker anyway that's gonna do it
for this episode of the meatweed podcast remember we have a link tree in the description if
you don't know where everything is because like I used to have like a tree full of links
and now I have a literal link tree click on the link tree and you got my patreon you got
my merch shop you got my youtube channel you got my twitter you got my spotify you got
my instagram you have a one trick you know one place for everything and another thing
we have magic mind okay and read the description it says use this code for 20% off we're still
partnered with magic mind we're actually still in a contract with them and they're they're
big fans of the podcast and I love them for that okay so seriously support them and when
you support magic mind you support me okay because it's a big deal for everyone to use
that promo code and click on the link anyway that's gonna do it for this episode of the
meatweed podcast I gotta upload some youtube videos or at the very least got to start working
on them see you guys next week