All right. All right. All right. This week is episode 38 of the local area podcast. A couple of quick notes before we hop in today's episode, I recorded this episode two times. So I am both fired up and exhausted at this point. I recorded the episode early last week before a lot of things happen definitely before the weekend, all to find out that everything went to shit because I did not realize that microphone unplugged itself somehow probably too much futzing and moving things around. But anyways, I recorded this Sunday after the games after Dion's win, and Colorado Buffaloes win on Saturday night into Sunday morning on the East Coast. talks about a lot of stuff I talked about. A little bit about stroke recovery. I know it's annoying for those that are not part of that experience. But it is part of my life. Talked about my family in particular my son and my wife with different things making fun of me for my wife making fun of me for being judgey my son who will be the fourth My middle child calling me slow twitch I say Just you wait till I see your six foot eight 325 pound dad is running behind you chasing you down from behind. That is not a situation I think you want to find yourself in probably for anybody. I didn't get into all the topics. I think I did a lot more in the first recording that went to crap. What else I talked about this week I talked about the disliking the term experts disliking neighbors in general. I think everybody can kind of deal that I'm pretty sure everybody has a take on their neighbors even if you like a lot of your neighbors, which I did. I do currently love or like a lot of my neighbors. I really liked my old neighborhood. Yeah, the immediate neighbors around our house are great. It is the larger community here in Florida that I am less fond of, but I think that is Florida in general. I also don't really enjoy people to take themselves super seriously, which is why I got a big Dion cake because I really did not care for the coach from Colorado state's words and I'm really glad that Dion and the buffaloes won it's exciting. I think it's a really cool thing for college football, but I'd love to hear your thoughts and takes you can eat a podcast we'll uh we'll start are lovable idiot.com Anyways, hopefully you enjoy this episode of sorry the first time he got messed up the second one hopefully is good, but we're definitely on a roll and ready to roll. So enjoy episode 38 of warble your podcasts everybody, my name is Schmierer Welcome back to another episode of your podcast today is episode 30. And I am back for the second time time this episode because the first one so Mike got disconnected from my computer and I recorded an hour of no audio and weird video. So now we're back on track and I'm recording this for the second time so you better believe I'm fired up for today's episode episode 38. Let's see what topics are we going to cover? It is changed since I recorded earlier last week. today. So today is Sunday the 17th. I have September Dion and Colorado won last night. That was an amazing game. Awesome day. cool to see as a just a fan of football college football in general. I think Colorado is looking good. I love everything about Dion. So we'll hop into that. Doug a little bit about football. Rogers last week I definitely talked about that. I want to talk about neighbors and how we all feel about our neighbors in life. And then let's see what else I have some thoughts on creators and particularly the word expert. I had some really I don't know if they're hot takes they're just my takes these none of these things are really super hot takes but yeah, just the thoughts just the things I want to talk about this week. You know, this is not the most educational show. I do want to bring topics to light have discussions about things that are important to me. Things that get me fired up things that excite me things that I think I are worth a listen, share. worth your time to investigate and look into talk about life the hard, weird, scary and stupid parts of life. That's what this show is about. It's just supposed to be fun, light hearted, I am working on some things in the background that will help make this show even better. I do have a bit of an outline this weekend is not the most regimented. So this is going to be a pretty free flowing episode. But yeah, let's hop in to football. So if you hate football, you can skip to the next part. But if you're into football, Oh, and before you, before we get too far into this episode, this episode is brought to you by sad, sad Tober fest coming next week to Monmouth County, New Jersey. It's not real, this is not a real. A real sponsor, I'm just joking with my buddies, I really actually wanted to go up to set Tober Fest in New Jersey where my boys are at. However, my wife has a thing that is going on next week, which limits my availability to leave my boys and daughter. And so I don't think I'm gonna be able to make it but I really want to go. You know, I always say next year, but this time, I really mean it. I think I've come a long way in my recovery stroke in 2019. And I am ready to travel, I'm ready to do more however it is, you know, not the same for me as I used to be I do need to plan travel a little bit more because there's just more shit with me than there used to be. There's less body weight, but there is more. thing is you know, I have like sleep machines, I have this I have that. I just all process honestly. So I really don't thoroughly enjoy leaving the house for long periods of time, or at least not for long periods of time where I'm not going to like settle in. For a few days like Tiki a short, small trip is actually more difficult than a longer trip. Anyways, lots of things going on my life this week. So that is on the docket. I am I love my wife, I said that all the time, I really do meet it. For those that aren't familiar. My wife and I have a very unique dynamic. You know, one of the things I love about my wife is she's she's not afraid to give me shit which somebody who are afraid to do in life. I don't know why. I'm actually quite a bit friendlier than I look. But I definitely look I guess intimidating to people who don't know me in particular. And honestly, even some of those who do know me because I can be a lot. And I know it. And you know, that has good and bad parts. It is a thing that I enjoy. But also at the same time I understand how difficult it is sometimes for people to not know what to say or what to do or how to act. You know, and I can get carried away in emotions. And I definitely have a flair for the dramatic. So when something goes well or goes wrong, I could really ramp it up or ramp it down, depending on the day. But anyways, let's hop into to football, which is kind of the first topic this week. I think it talks a lot about the jets and my dislike for the Jets. They're playing the Cowboys this afternoon, which sounds like the worst game to watch in the world. If I'm being honest, because I can't stand the jets or the Cowboys but I'm curious catch the highlights. But yeah, I'm really curious. So as we all know, probably at this point, Aaron Rodgers went down in the first series of his jets career. really bummed honestly to see that as much as I like making fun of the jets and giving my friend who is a Jets fan a hard time. In fact, I say friend because I'm pretty sure I only have one friend who's actually a jet fan. The rest are all fans of another team or fans of the giants. So we all share that in common, which they frankly did not do a whole lot better if I did it a whole lot worse. But regardless, I think I never really was a big fan of Aaron Rodgers for a lot of reasons. But mainly because he was a packer and I just have this thing with the Packers. I'm not into not into the Packers and I think I just meet the wrong fans. Like I just always seem to meet the bands that I don't really like. I think it has nothing to do with the Packers and everything to do with just the people that I happen to meet who happen to be Packer fans. I'm just not a fan of them. So regardless, I was excited and I am excited to see Aaron Rodgers. I love everything. He said this since the surgery. I know he's at the show this week. I love what he said, Give me all your doubts. Give me all your, you know, you know, your theories, your your takes, you know, he loves the doubters. I love the doubters. I honestly, I think it's the first time I've really, probably in 15 years really like, oh my god, I like what he's saying, I'm really listening, like, you know, and I do feel bad for him as a football player as much as I again, I don't love the Jets. They kind of got a new swagger to them, and I kind of enjoy it. So on the Jets, you know, I'm really curious, everybody's hating on Zach Wilson. And I really want the kid to do well, which is weird. I don't usually have this kind of a take. But I think he deserves a second chance. And that's really what I like I think is hard to play in New York period. I don't think it's for everybody. It may not be wind up being the best place for Zach longterm, but I really want to see him succeed. I want to see him be able to take the team and turn around his subpar year last year show that he's learned a bit that, you know, and I'm excited. I heard it today on pregame shows that Aaron is really, you know, hopefully trying to get back to New York be that support for Zach, who is a young quarterback, he was picked second in the draft for a reason. They don't usually get this way wrong as NFL scouts, you know, and I think sometimes the pressure overwhelms a young player. And so I'm excited to see what he does. I agree he does not have to have an earth shattering year. But I'd love to see him just like get on the path to progression to really become a great NFL quarterback, whether that's long term for the Jets, or somebody else. I am kind of tired as a 40 year old adult now like I'm tired of seeing really good players get knocked out of the league because of playing for a bad team. They don't have the support system around them that just, you know wind up in a really weird place. And that's part of sports as part of everything but like navigating that is really hard. And I don't think there's great playbooks for that there are some great players in history who have played for not the best teams. I mean, think about Barry Sanders sets a player that comes to mind who's really good who really you know, the lions were never that great. I think it's hard to remember now. He's not the only one He's just somebody that comes randomly to mind. But even like Patrick Ewing all the Knicks that never won a championship Barkley had never won a championship Great player great teams. Just they got there as a team and it was a less Me me me more of a we I guess that's the way it used to be obviously that's changed in sports, for better or worse. But yeah, I really am curious and excited to see everything about the Jets honestly, I hope Week One was a fluke for the Giants as much as I don't love Daniel Jones as a quarterback. Obviously I'm not rooting against him I just I wonder if he's the best long term solution. I did talk about this on the first recording that I think the Giants spent money they obviously see something we're not seeing. I'm surprised with the sake one thing, but there's also a lot that goes on behind the scenes in sports and running a team and the quarterback is important but I don't think sake one is not important. We just I think that's unfortunately kind of what the market is for running backs these days. You know, this is the way it's going right now. Hopefully it all works out. I do. I am hopeful the Giants turn it around. You know, we don't have to win the Superbowl but it would be nice to see them back in the playoffs. At least that was a promising move. Last year with the coaching change with the team, it was all headed in the right direction. Anyways, that's kind of my take on the Giants and the Jets. And again, this is week two of the NFL season curious to see how this week goes. I am not that pumped for Monday Night Football this week. It's just why are we playing two games on Monday night football. I don't get it. There must be something I'm not picking up what they're putting down and they're not that great a game so we'll see how that goes. But yeah, in the college game, week three of I think it's week Three or four of college football depending on where you live or what team you support. I think some teams are already weak for a while some are selling weed three out of those throwaway games for a lot of teams that definitely have the bigger market teams. But you know, Colorado, Colorado, Colorado State and Deion was the big one last night. That was really exciting to watch all that pregame stuff. I watched a ton of clips. I stayed up to watch most of the game a little later than usual for me, and that's when I found out that my recording of this episode from the other day was no good. Because I was going to put that out together and put it for release. However, yeah, that that happens by all levels were good. I keep checking it actually. Because the wire got unplugged. So I'm looking directly at that to make sure it is plugged in. The audio is coming through recording well. Anyways, so yeah, if I'm looking away, I'm looking at wires and cords today. That's why Yeah, because of neurotic because, you know, I don't mind losing one recording of it episode, but I really don't want to lose same episode more than once. That's annoying beyond what's already annoying in life. Another heartache is my son called me slow this week. Boy, do I have some thoughts on that he was saying the other day walking home from the bus and I was like, Hey, why don't you say hi. He's like, he's like, Yeah, you were slow. You're running slow. You're walking slow. I'm like, I'm not walking, buddy. I'm running. And it really it really set me on fire as somebody on a path. Because now I am. So a couple of things. He said that. And I immediately got annoyed. I'm like, man, like this kid's been seeing me run. I think I've run now. 300 and I think it's 350 days. And 350 For the last. Yeah, 315 last are pretty four days. A lot of running. surpassed or just about to surpass 3500 miles for the year which is insane. For a six foot eight 325 pound stroke survivor living with MS. I can't tell you how insane that is. It boggles my mind that I run that bar this year alone. So that's, you know, honestly, going back to that Aaron Rodgers things like give me your debtors give me the hate. Whatever prognostications, you want to make I, I maybe haven't turned this around as quickly as I wanted to. But I really put myself away behind the eight ball and a lot of ways in 2019 leading up to my stroke, and you know, my life. It's, it's funny, coming back from stroke, it's both hard and easy. But what I've really learned and what I always tell people is that like, once, and Bumblebee, you never want to have a stroke, it is fucking impossible. If, if there is anything that is, I don't know that there is a harder thing to come back from. I'm gonna guess there is, but I don't think I've experienced it. And I gotta be honest, I don't want to experience it. Because this is brutal. I promise I'll talk a ton about stroke this episode. But like coming back from a stroke is really, really, really, I think people take for granted. And maybe sometimes they make it look easy. But there it is not easy. It is, in fact, quite the opposite. So people see me doing it. And I sometimes wonder if I'm making it look easier than it really is like, I definitely struggle with a lot of things. I'm pretty honest about it definitely am on my other show. I've talked about it a ton over the last couple of years, I probably need to keep talking about it because I don't want people to get discouraged. Maybe they see my progress or you know, maybe they're making good progress in one area, but they're not in another and that's one of the things I like talking about. But anyways, that aside, sorry, that got on that tangent better. But it just reminded me about there and Rogers thinking Oh, I love what he said, because that's how I felt about everything since my stroke and the entire recovery process up till now and continue to think that way because I always feel like I'm getting better but it is slow for sure. So yeah, coming back from a stroke is both hard and easy. But I do feel like it has put me in the mindset and the mental conditioning. To be more resilient to have kind of like the comeback that Colorado had last night like that. That mentality and that's why I'm talking about sports early because it kind of overlaps a little bit like having that mentality. Even though it's been a minute since I've played competitive sports on a regular basis, just having that background really like has has helped me tremendously in my recovery. And it's just It excites me. And that's why I get excited about football and swagger and Dion and like, Dion is somebody that is getting a lot of flack, for lack of a better word. And in the media. I did talk about this prior to the first recording, I didn't like that the Colorado State coach said something I think it was out of context, perhaps or he meant it a different way. I don't know if he was backtracking or what. But yeah, he kind of took a little bit of a shot at Dion and I think they said on the broadcast last night, it wasn't attended that way. I don't know if that's true or not like it was a really childless kinda, it's kind of one of those things like he might have meant it a different way. benefit of the doubt he might have been talking to his team. Regardless, think about the sunglasses. I'm like, thinking to myself, like man, you got to worry about your team like showing up and they did show up last night to be fair, I mean, they gave Colorado run for their money. But ultimately, Colorado and should Sanders and his son pulled it out and you know that he is some shit or is like it? Sure All right. Man, that arm is. He is an amazing quarterback like he's exciting. The throws are on point like those throws last night or something. I've never really honestly, I can't remember a quarterback. He's really thrown the ball quite like that in a long time. It's just it was like lasers coming out last night. i It's exciting. It's different than I think you see a lot of times in the NFL and I'm sure that's for good reason. But yeah, it was a really good game. I didn't watch all the I honestly, I went to bed the fourth quarter. I was just too tired. And I was like, You know what, I really hope they pull this out. But I kind of don't want to stay up till the end because I want to go to bed. And also like I just like, pan over the pull it out. So I turned it off leash. I was excited to see if they pulled it off. And when I woke up this morning, so kudos to Dion and Colorado. I think, you know, Colorado football was a pretty good program back in the day. They've definitely had you know, a rough quarter, quarter century. But yeah, it's exciting. It is definitely exciting just to pro football in general. And definitely college football. Love what they're doing love what they're about. I know it's not for everybody, but again, Dion is going against the grain. It's funny because the rock was on the pregame shows yesterday and you know, big supporter of Dion and what he's doing and I love that because Dion went to FSU. The rock is from UNM where I went. But there is that that even though in states like Miami and Florida and FSU all rivals like at the end of the day it is definitely feels like Florida against the rest of the country. Which I never understand. People hate on Florida and there's good reason there's there's some weird stuff here sometimes but there's weird stuff everywhere. And again, I just thought of this because because it was on somebody was talking about the fall and how it's gonna get start getting cold and I'm already starting to hear people in the North complained about it getting cold and I'm thinking to myself, Man, it's fucking 90 degrees. Sad so I'm running for a quick six. We were recording and it deleted myself. If you hate the cold and you're irritated by it and you don't like it, why are you living in the cold like nobody is forcing you to live there. I just that has boggled my mind for the last 25 plus years. I didn't like the cold. I love jersey. Don't get me wrong. I love jersey. Love New York could do without the rest of the Northeast and the most of the Midwest but like I don't really like the cold so I don't live in the cold like it's not rocket science. It's if you don't like the cold and you don't like to snow and you don't want to shovel then move to a warmer climate. It's actually significantly cheaper to live in Maine most of the southern states. I don't know. It just bothers the hell out of me. Yeah talking about I mean I get really fired up about that. I love the option to go to New York. I want to be there more I wanted to come up and see my boys up a jersey. I want to see them this year. Do feel ready to finally travel and make trips. I have not felt that way for the last four years recovering from my stroke and dealing with MS and raising my kids. But it's time I'm ready to come I want to confirm visit probably won't be next Saturday but I want to be up there and have that back in my life. I love the holidays. I love New York at the holidays. It is expensive it is the xy and z it is a little cold. It is snowy. I love it. My don't love it long term, but I love it for a week. So yeah, I just think, I don't know. Another tangent there. But anyways, football is exciting. Really excited for week two, week three college football is a good week. Excited to see where things go. We'll see how the games go today. I'm sure we'll talk about that next week. I am recording this week on Sunday, which is unusual. I actually kind of like it because I feel like it's a good way for me to like end the week fired up. Which is you know, this is the level at get fired up edition. Yeah, good way to end the week. Then as we slowly get fired up Monday through Friday, you know, I think I'm gonna record on Fridays, going forward, but I like getting a little fired up during the episode starting over my son back to that real quick. He was calling me slower than I thought I was thinking to myself, yeah, I might be slow, but I'm gonna work my way back. Like by the time I get my speed to where I want it to be as a runner. I am this person but I can't imagine another six foot 820 High bound guy chasing me down like I was thinking about it my son's like, kind of talking smack but it just fired me up and fired me up in a way that was like me. Do you really want your dad who's six foot eight and 325 pounds chasing you down from behind? Like that is scary. That is scary to anybody. It reminds me of Jurassic Park. Like when the seed Rex goes to chase down, you know, chase down that Jeep in the scene in the movie The famous scene with T Rex behind chases Jeep, you know they're escaping the island and it just like, man, like, I just fires me up. I know he doesn't maybe he's he's nine turning 10 this year. But yeah, that's that's always an interesting take, I think you need for me, I need to stay motivated. And that's a great way and reminder to stay motivated when it comes to recovery. Anyways, speaking of running up, sorry, these segues terrible today, but kind of all over the place again, recording this for the second time. So it is a little difficult. I promise, I am going to get better at this show. The other sharing level. So our is a definitely on track that has been going for all of this year. So this show as I start to incorporate it into recording and getting everything tightened up, it will be better over time actually looking to work with a producer, whether that is my daughter or hire somebody else because I think it would be helpful for me. I can do screen shares. I can do lots of things when I record these episodes, and I want to put them on YouTube, in addition to being a podcast. I think a lot of people they're doing that. I think it's good. Now it's good for the show. But yeah, so anyways, because I was just running in the neighborhood. It is an excellent time to talk about neighbors and I have some weird neighbors. I do live in Florida. I live in a nice ish area. I wouldn't say it's the best, but it wouldn't sit definitely not the worst. It's a good neighborhood for in general. But there's so many things that are weird about neighbors. I think I got pretty lucky with our last house in Virginia, we had a lot of friends, we wound up being friends with neighbors. Most of them were pretty good. Like, you know, really not any neighbors that we that I in particular didn't like, like I don't even think we had any that I didn't like but the ones I knew and the friends that we had in our street. Yeah. weren't like best friends, but we were pretty cordial. And you know, generally speaking, we had good neighbors. We do now in Florida here we our immediate neighbors are great, but like the neighborhood is all over the place, which I guess you get in Florida a lot because it is a melting. You know America is a melting pot. But honestly Florida is the biggest melting pot because you do have those people who no longer want to live in cold weather who do move down here. So you get a wide variety. And you get us all sort of congregating in an area and there's just so many weird things like I'll give you a couple of examples that drive me crazy. I have no problem with dogs I you know, there. We had a dog. We re homed our dog because when we had our third child, it just was overwhelming for us at the time. It just wasn't working out. So we found the best solution for us. It's not for everybody. It was sad. But ultimately I think it did actually wind up working out pretty well for us because of moving because of my stroke because of just life in general. Like you know wasn't Maybe the smartest move, but I think if we could go back in hindsight, it's like, okay, yeah, we probably shouldn't have gotten a dog in the first place. But I feel like we gave it a good home for a long time. Maybe we should have been more of an adoptive dog. Or what's the word where you were not like, officially the owner, but you're sort of that segue position. I forget what they call it, but like, people who you know, help rescue animals, but aren't the long term solution is probably what we should have done in hindsight. But anyways, you know, that is what it is. But yeah, so anyways, where I was going was we have a ton of neighbors with dogs. So, you know, like, everybody's different. Some people like walking their dogs, some people like just having a fenced in yard and having their dog crap in the backyard. They gotta I don't care what you do, but like, it's so weird to me to have neighbors who like walk their dog. And the dogs is like shit anywhere and now I'm not talking about the one person who occasionally like you know, we've added dogs we've walked dogs or everybody forget to baggy here and there like you just forget, this is absurd. Mind is raining, you're running out. Whatever, you know, hopefully you're going back and picking up the poop if your dog poops because you weren't expecting it happens all of us not a big deal. Not the end of the world. But generally speaking, you know, if if your dog makes it do and you see it, you go back and pick it up if you aren't prepared for it at that time. That's just kind of a nice courtesy neighborly thing to do, right? Because you probably walk your dog on the same or very similar path every day. Generally speaking now if your dog shitting in the middle of the woods at a park 10,000 feet from the nearest next human Yeah, okay. I guess you don't have to pick that up. But this time because you walk 10,000 feet out of the way that nobody's walking. But it's always weird to me when neighbors just like walk their dog the dog shit, and they don't go back and pick it up. Like, you live in this neighborhood, too. What are you doing? I don't know. It just drives you crazy. And I've also had a couple of neighbors. Now again, this similar thing I know this happens, like, you know, everybody's generally most of my neighbors with a dog generally has kids. Sometimes dogs get out of the house because the kid leaves the door open because they have young children. Not a big deal. Not the end of the world. But like a dog for like the third or fourth time since I started running last year, I ran out of somebody's house the other day and like, tried to bite the back my ankle and break but I think it did by my ankle. It just didn't do anything this time. And I get it. You know, nobody's prepared for that. Jeff, but like, it's just weird. Like the person didn't even say sorry. Like, are you okay? Like, like, they looked at me like it was my fault that their dog ran out into the street, ran across the street. came and bit at my uncle. I'm just running in the neighborhood like, why am I the asshole? It's just weird. This weird, weird weird, it's so it's alright to neighbors is weird. I've moved a couple of times in my life. I used to work in real estate. When I first graduated from college, I've been around real estate. I've been around homes. I've seen a lot of different neighborhoods or my life. I've traveled the world. And it's, I honestly I think about this every time except for when I go like I think I get so caught up and like is the interior of the home the best home for myself and my family. When I look at that, and I forget to observe the neighborhood around me, like, Are these people normal? I'm spending a good amount of money on my next home. Or my last home hopefully, I'd like to make sure that I don't have lunatic neighbors and I did when we first moved into this house. He's since moved out on move in move some very good neighbors so like I'm very pleased with how the immediate area around my house now is, is generally pretty good. The neighborhood, you know is generally pretty good. But there's a couple people that are weird. Like we live not that far from the county dump. The county dump is a place that is within a mile and a half, maybe two miles Max. You could pretty much drive anything you want to the county dump and get rid of it. You don't need. I have a neighbor who like they've had a mattress sitting in their yard. Like they're just like, it's like they emptied their entire house one weekend and just left it for people to pick up with trash like personal they're not picking up a couch or bed or boxspring up a frame like if it's one thing sure but like what are you doing? i This is weird behavior to me like it's like, but I'm getting a letter from the HOA which is uh, don't don't even get me fired up about HOAs but like beach away, and I get it. Technically I'm breaking a rule. I put my garbage cans neatly on the side of my home very neatly because I like the appearance to look neat. They are recycling they are garbage cans. But like I don't feel the need to put up a fake piece of fence to hide my garbage cans like they're just nicely stacked on some like we have a nice paved driveway. We have a little section next to the house paved for the trash cans. I don't have anything to hide it, I don't have big tree in front of it. I don't have a big structure, protecting the trash cans because I don't really care about them. I don't want to put them in my garage, because that's fucking ridiculous. I use my garage as a workshop in woodshop. And so I don't really want to smell trash. Recycling is different. I can handle putting recycling in the garage. But like, Why not just put all the CANS outside the neath the place. We never overflow the garbage because I wouldn't want that because I don't want that myself. I don't want to look at that. And I don't even look at the side of my house. But meanwhile, there's people in the neighborhood that aren't getting letters and fines about that but there's people in the neighborhood or people there dog shit all over the place. Of like an asshole neighbors with so much trash outside. It looks like fucking Mount Trashmore like I love the idea of an HOA and I know a lot of people hate HOAs but like, generally speaking like yeah, I don't want somebody's yard to not have been cut for six months like you go out of town. You have a lawn service that just kind of goes shoo like I get it you know if you have a lawn service and somebody ghosts you your lawn might be overgrown for a little bit. But you can generally fix that within like a month, right? So you're probably going to fix it before you even get a letter. You know, there's always something but you probably going to fix the thing. You know, like Yeah, one week you might have a little extra trash so I might be like an extra trash bag on the site like, okay, you know, they have rules like the rules are good because they're supposed to stop the assholes from being assholes. But like sometimes the rules like it's like the people who are doing the right thing you are basically being good neighbors to each other. Generally doing the right thing those always the people getting letters, which is so weird to me. It's never the people that actually need to get the letters who apparently can afford off your three or $400,000 house, they don't know how to be not an asshole like that. So it's just the homeownership is the most interesting thing in the world to me, like I just don't understand how people, some people are struggling to own a home and some people who are brilliant. And then there's people like who just like don't know how to be civil. It's weird. It is weird. It is actually it's frightening. It's scary. Like I know, mostly it's just weird. It baffles me. But you know, and thinking about the other thing. So the last thing I'll talk about with neighbors this week is we have a couple homes for sale in our neighborhood. Not a lot. It's very low turnover, turnover. But you know, occasionally, I think we have some military families. So there's usually one or two of those per year, somebody who just maybe they want to move, maybe they want to be in a different neighborhood. I don't really know. But it's not a ton. Like right now. And I gotta tell you this because I've worked in real estate, I went to school for architecture, I worked in construction. I've worked in real estate, I've sold homes, I've worked with both sides of homeownership as a buyer as a seller. You know, technology has come a really long way when I first worked in real estate, there were no iPhones. Now there's iPhones. You know, there's just accent and things that didn't exist when I was in real estate exists now Zillow, Redfin, you name it realtor.com is much more advanced. So you can get a general idea of what a home looks like, by going online you can tell this person takes care of their home, you know, it may never look exactly like the pictures but you can certainly get a pretty good idea of like, I would like to look at these homes in these areas. These are the ones that are like at the price point that I'd like in the neighborhood I'd like you know, it's never going to be the way you want it. But there's it has to be like and it just has to make sense to you and your family the price to the size to the to the way it's taken care of. And again pictures are are you know, they say worth 1000 words, but they're also deceptive sometimes we get that. I don't know if they they're deceptive on purpose. Don't to every Realtors credit they're trying to make their homeowners house sell for both their benefit and the homeowners benefit and they're trying to make it look the best it can so that people are intrigued. You know there's always issues and things that come up. But I don't understand the people who like, I'll give you a good example. There's a person on my overhead who is trying to sell their home and they're trying to sell it aggressively. They're consistently having. This is the thing. If you're trying to sell your house these days, you have to do certain things, you have to make it look appealing. You have to take stock of what is the market saying about other homes in the area that have sold? Is it priced, relatively the same? Based on bedrooms, bathrooms, comps, of course, everybody thinks that our home is the best, decorated the best, but the reality is like it just needs to be in good enough shape for somebody else to come in and do the things they want to do and put their stamp on it. That's part of homeownership. But open houses do not sell houses in 2023. I haven't worked in real estate and about 1513 years. 12 years since I've officially probably got out of architecture and real estate company really Yeah, 12. But I sold the home, I bought a home I purchased a new home, I purchased new home sight unseen. I know enough about real estate to know the reason your house isn't selling isn't because of the realtor. It's because you're not listening to your realtor, you're not taking advantage of the tools at your disposal. You're not willing to lower the price, you're being greedy. In some cases, like this particular homeowner, they're trying to sell their house for like 700,000, which is a lot of money for the homes in this area. I'm not saying it's not worth it, but it's probably not worth it. Because nobody showing up to the open houses, having more of them isn't going to help. It's not going to make more people come people aren't coming to look at the home, because they feel that the price and the value of the home isn't worth the price you're asking. It's that simple. It is not rocket science. The longer you let it sit, you think you know real estate you don't trust me most homeowners do not know real estate they do not understand. If people aren't showing up. It's either because your house is a disaster, which I totally get have kids like you know where you'd have to our home is so pretty new, it's less than five years old. And we'd probably have to do a little work if we wanted to sell it tomorrow. Just being honest. But you're also having to live there. So yeah, there's some difficulties, people are not immune to that. You shouldn't have to necessarily pay a premium for that. But like, people aren't going to pay 100 grand over us like over over what the market is dictating like you just have it's simple math. Even if they can't afford it, they wouldn't. Like it's it's stupid for the buyer. When Nobody's working with the buyers, it's you know, and you think, well, I want to try to get the best deal. You're wrong. Like, you better off pricing it according to the market. comps and homes that have sold in the area at a similar size and value. You're going to want it's going to be on the market as long you know the faster you get it offers in on your contract, the better you are because it's sort of is it's a tough market, you got to compete if you want to sell your home. And the reason I bring this up is because this person keeps having open houses and it keeps not working. I'm like what are you doing like You can't seriously want to sell your home and open houses every weekend is what's going to sell or not sell your home. Lower the price like you bought it for a deal. You still even if you sold it for 100,000 less than you're asking, you're still going to make a ton of money on the sale of your home. You're not going to do is make any money if you don't sell it sooner than later. You might want 900,000 For your house but I gotta tell you, I'm talking to anybody out there. If your home and the market isn't dictating that your home in your area is worth 500 or 900,000 You're not gonna be able to sell it for 500 900,000 buyers aren't dumb, they have too many tools at their disposal on top of probably working with an agent who is telling them the same thing. This home isn't worth it because you can get a very similar home with maybe like one half bath last four for 100,000 Less you could buy the other house and put a half bath in and still save 50 grand just my two cents I just like is all these things about neighbors like I wish we could pick our neighbors I don't understand something many people in life like you know this show is a lot about human behavior and psychology and people are out it's it's that's the comedy part is like part are weird, scary and stupid, but things I'm fired up about. But like, it's just, it's, it's interesting to me the dynamics of neighbors and how very helpful little of a say we really get and that and I know we can't always pick the people around us. But it's very interesting that we don't give that more thought when we're buying a home movie. Some people do, maybe, maybe, you know, in my case, I don't really care what's outside as much because I'm really focused on the inside of my home, the immediate outside of my home, my car, my kids like, and if I really hated the place, how much I would do already move, or I would like, do what I do. Most days, I get my car, I leave, I go somewhere else. Yeah, I run in the neighborhood. Because I feel that's the best way for me to go running. But if I really hated it, I would run somewhere else. I don't know. It is interesting, though. How much money we spend on a home and then that the fact that we don't pick our neighbors and that we have such, I don't think I'm alone. In my belief that we all probably have a weird neighbor or two, hopefully, it's not around your media at home, you know, but like, definitely, it's weird. This weird. I don't know, love to hear thoughts about it. So yeah, let's see what else is annoying me. Again, I love my wife. But she has been saying some things this week. She was telling me last night that I'm a little judgy about people. And she's probably right. But I feel like I've gotten better about that over the last couple years, especially since my stroke, I do try to give people the benefit of the doubt more often than not now. But doesn't bother me. I'm a little judgy sometimes I'd rather be judgy and protect myself and the people around me and backtrack, at least in that regard. Because you know, you never know what somebody's up to. You never know somebody else's intentions. I think I read people pretty well, I gotta be honest, my wife was gonna be shipped. But I I'm usually lazy, right? Honestly, I think a lot of people would say that, about me. And, you know, I know other people judge me and have thoughts about me, and they're usually wrong. In fact, they're wrong about 99% of the time, but I don't make it easy. Because the outward appearance of me can appear very differently than the inside appearance. But that is also a by design for anybody who's not sure. But yeah, what else is firing me up, I was just speaking to neighbors, the rezoning in my area of Florida, or schools, and that is a big bubble up in my neighborhood, which is driving me absolutely crazy. Because I can't stand these parents who get bent out of shape about things that don't really matter. And they're all what I really hate about this is that they're all so the kids are, you know, there's a little overcrowding in our area, because it is being built up. The schools are great, and people love them. And so the area has been been been building up over the last couple of years, even since we moved here. But, uh, the rezoning some of the schools, particularly the middle school, and my wife, and other people in the area are getting fired up about it. And I'm like, why don't we just like, Well, the problem is, then a like the rating of some of the schools that are being rezoned. Have of this how novel idea? How about how about we rezone the school? And if the school is not a great school right now, how about we all work towards making the school that isn't so great, a better school for everybody who goes there? I don't know. What a fucking novel idea. How about a little diversity? How about like, we toughen up. Honestly, like, I love my boys to death, but they are. I know, nobody's going to bracket the 90s and I don't expect it to be the 90s We certainly have evolved in a lot of ways for the benefit of humanity. But like, you know, my boys could use a little toughening up this is how I feel. I do. I love them. You know, I want to support them. I want them to have all the emotions and experiences of life you know, I think it's it's good at being being a kid and going through some tough things and a little bit of a diversity or diversity or any of those things like just they build character. It's a good way for it's a great way for kids to learn life before We're having to like live life, like on a full scale. Like I just, you know, same thing with college, I think one of the still the strongest benefits of college, you know, is astronomical, you know, even my daughter is back in Florida, going to school in Florida cuz the price of added state tuition is so ridiculous now at most schools, it's just not worth it. But the experience and the time that you get into college to, even if it's not like the best school, just having that life experience going to this party or that party or social event or that whole four years of like college is just it's, you learned so much about life and school and handling schedules and like the things that you're going to have to you know, how to how to build predictability, how to build in the unpredictable, like, you know, like you that last second paper that you wish you did sooner you learn those things, like, it just prepares you for real life, because this isn't gonna get any easier, it's only gonna get harder. But uh, you know, I made a lot of mistakes in college, I made a lot of mistakes after college, I still make mistakes, like, I think that's the best way to learn is to do the damn thing. I say that a lot. And you know, kind of taking this full circle. Like, I just want my kids to like, learn different things experienced different things. I gotta be honest, like the middle school, if it gives what my wife and some of the neighbors are worried about, but I'm just like panties Middle School, like, my boys are gonna be like, What 11 to 13 at that point, like, I don't want them in the house more. At that age. They're gonna smell they're gonna stink. They're gonna be basically they're walking human heart garbage, if we're being honest. Middle school boys, it's like seems like the worst. My daughter was amazing. But she wasn't the best. Like, you know. Most girls aren't like spine, but I wouldn't say she was like the tiniest middle school kid. And she's not even the tiniest like young adult now. It's fine. It's just, yeah, I don't know. I get it in some regard. As a parent, you want to be able to like, I guess the other problem is that there is a school that is like a mile away. That could be rezone for versus school, they're talking about rezoning this kid's war. And that's like, 30 minutes away. I'd love a happy medium. But I also feel like it could be really good for them. And I feel like a lot of people aren't saying what's on their mind, which is that they don't like school is not really that well. I feel like there's opportunity for all of these parents to really boost that, you know, kind of old school mentality, like let's work together to build something together that is, is better. Let's help the kids that need help. With the kids that are more fortunate. I don't know. That's just how I take it. I just I feel like there's no I don't know. Try it out. See if it works. Like honestly, I don't do as much of the driving to and from school as my wife does. So like I get that is a concern. But I don't know, I think there's a lot of good things that come out as well. So the last part of today's episode, and I'm looking over my notes, sorry, because I've done this already. One time and I'm trying to think I'm going to talk about is experts because I gotta hate it. This happens a lot on social media. I'm sure you've probably seen it before, too is like everybody is now an expert at something and I've done this and I've had this thought and I guess my other show, lovable survivor. I mean, just saying this out loud is ridiculous. And that wouldn't call myself an expert stroke survivor. That just that that sentence makes me puke. I think I have honestly figured some things out. But I don't definitely haven't figured everything out. I haven't solved the magic elusive magic pill like I just been working really, really aggressively hard. Am I recovered? But am I an expert in stroke recovery now, no fucking way. But I know that I'm doing something different than other people. Because I hear that from the people that I see that I work with in physical therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy, doctors, like they're like, you know, not to my own horn. But I think sometimes I feel like my therapy teams are proud of me because I've really had have put in the work and dedicated but I've also been able to have the fortune to have the ability to have the resources to have the time to put in the work. That not that Everybody is afforded or able to. So I'm not, I guess what, you know, maybe that's what I'm thinking about. I'm kind of thinking as I'm talking here, but like they're proud of me because I am using my time. wisely. Could I be using it better always, of course, I think we all could from anything, it doesn't matter if you've had a stroke or not. But I do take the recovery journey pretty seriously, because I feel everybody who has a stroke is at a disadvantage. But like, my disadvantage is that I honestly had it pretty early, like mid mid to early part of my career, like under 40. Like that's honestly, that's probably still the beginning of your career, in most cases, because people are working 40s and 50s. And into their 60s. So like, yeah, the first, third right of your career, you're still in your 30s. So I've had to figure out how to recover how to work in the world how to be reassemble, you know, my life and my family. And I am parents, and I take that very seriously. Despite all my joking and shenanigans, like, I don't know, I just have a drive I guess to to be better, and to work at it. And you know, that has been true with the running this year. taking that very seriously. Like I said, a quick six, like I did run before I recorded this episode right now. But like, I have to go run some more. I'm eating clean now. Because apparently, it didn't occur to me. Until this past week I've been eating for like cific. Today, I'll be day eight of clean eating. Clean Eating, by the way is less or no preserve, like everything, for me is less. It's not like a perfect diet. But it's like I've been having very few carbs. I could really go for a car. But I'm like, Man, if I can, if I can run after a stroke. Four years after a stroke, and I'm running almost 5000 miles this year. And I have MS. Like, I'm not saying I have all these things and look at me. I'm just saying like, I know that I can do a lot of things that like I never even challenged myself about and like I've changed my entire life. I no longer drink. No longer smoke cigarettes. Two things I never thought would be a part like not a part of my life or now not a part of my life at all. And there's still work to be done. I have a law. There is no perfection over here. Don't let like I'm talking a certain way but like, I assure you I am far from perfect. I am never going to be perfect. I hate the word. Just like I dislike the term expert because I feel like nobody is really a true expert. And I feel like the people that we do as a society called experts they've really earned that title and they're an expert because we collectively have decided this person has put in a lot of work and a lot of time and a lot of research. Example Superman I know I'm not a Hebrew man husband I am a fan of humor in but I'm not like a gumbo super neurotic fan about I don't think everything he says is gold. I think he says a lot of great things. But he's also no I'm sure he's a great professor. He's very interesting guy actually like the thing about his tattoos and how he covers them because I feel very much the same. I do that as well. Although some of mine are terrible. That's why some of them are hidden and I really just love wearing hoodies. Even a Florida in 90 degree weather on Sunday afternoon after running six miles on my way to the gym. Anyways, to Bruins interesting guy, Tim Ferriss, but there's lots of other great interesting people, lots of great comedians male and female. You know, I was talking about Whitney Cummings, she's I'm reading her book. It's fascinating. I love her insights. I just love I've just always been a fan of Whitney's. Some interesting experiences she shares in the book. I think I knew a fair amount of them, but I just it's some different stuff that I don't think I've heard or at least not remembering. But I a lot of people give Whitney crap because she's a little I think she can give off a Burnett. What's the word frenetic energy because she she is energized. She has a lot of things. I'm sure somebody would diagnose her as ADHD. I just think she is a very smart person who has a lot of interesting thoughts, as do most comedians, because they are leaning towards the artistic side. They have lots of thoughts and ideas, some better than others. I know Burt's the same way. Even Tom Segura, who personality wise might seem a little different than Whitney, Bert, or like, just all comedians. And I think that's what I love about comedians in general. And then another podcast is that it really gives you insight to what they're thinking what they're experiencing. I just enjoy it. I don't know where I was going with that. Exactly. lost my train of thought again. But yeah, I just like, dislike the term experts. I think we see that a lot on social media. I'd love to hear your thoughts about it. I know why everybody has to be an expert, why people can't like I love the building and public movement, because I think that is more about sharing things or learning things you're interested in, maybe it's a hobby, maybe it's your career. I just don't understand why more people aren't so willing to be like, Hey, I'm learning this thing, or this is this is my take. And this is kind of my take in general, actually. I share a lot of things on social media, and I share things on this podcast, I share things on the level of Survivor podcasts, and they are just like, things that I have been through or stories that I'm sharing, because maybe they can help you in some way. Maybe they don't, maybe they just entertain you. That's, to me, that's that that's worth even if a story is just funny, or even if it's not funny, it's just an interesting, take something pretty, like chew on and think about and just, I don't know, I know, it's very, I'm sounding a little kooky right now. But it's just like, I love interesting stories. I love hearing other people's interesting events or trips around the world or different life experiences they've had. Yeah, I just people that take themselves seriously, whether it be social media podcasting, like I'm not saying don't take your podcast seriously. I'm working on taking mine much more seriously. But I'm honest about that. I never really got into this to be like, a super great podcasts are like, I just want to get better I want to build. You know, we love wills viral, I want to make up. I want to make a resource for other people that long to like, you know, I hope more people don't have strokes at a young age like I did. There weren't any resources. Really, when I four years ago, it wasn't, it just wasn't like the honestly, I still have really not met a lot of other young stroke survivors. I know they're out there. But I haven't met a ton and face to face. And I've never really, you know, I'm meeting more these days through phone calls through social media, putting myself out there, finding people connecting with people, but it's not easy because stroke survivors, we tend to be a little reclusive at points because we're kind of rebuilding our life. We they are a weird tangent for the other show. But just as there's a lot to it. So like, anyway, the term expertise, I think, is used carelessly, sometimes I'm always cognizant of it. And it kind of ties back to what my wife is, like, always judging people. And I'm like, Well, yeah, because like, if everybody's calling themselves an expert, at the end of the day, like I have to decide who's really the expert. You know, there are great leaders and people in, you know, kind of different spaces. I don't even know what you call it. But like Tim Ferriss is a guy who's really interested in a lot of different things, Joe, Joe Rogan, again, different things, different spaces. Brene Brown, a great example. You know, like I said, comedians, Whitney Cummings, Bert, Tom, that whole crew, I'm sure I'm forgetting somebody, but like even just regular people sharing their journey. Ajay, from creator science. So you know, I'm part of that community in the lab. Meeting other creators going through the journey. And like, you know, I know, sometimes we as creators, are we feel obliged to give off this certain vibe. And not everyone, you know, sometimes we say, expert, and like, we're saying it, we don't really meet it, because I don't think we, you know, this is a weird word. And I think we all use it at times for different reasons. Generally, I like to use it to describe other people, I would never really considered myself an expert, just because I'm always learning. And I want to be learning and I want to share, I don't want to be like, hey, this worked for me, it might work for you. You know, I again, do that with a lot of different things, especially on the thriver podcast, it's like, you just don't know what's going to work until it works. And just because it works for me, doesn't mean it's going to work for you. Just my two cents. And you know, the last thing I'll say I think especially when it comes to being a creator and pod, whether you're podcasting, whether you're writing a newsletter, all these things like you know, for years, I've tried to write a newsletter. I don't like real writing. I don't like reading newsletters. I don't really like writing newsletters, it is more difficult for me. So I've kind of moved away from that. And I think what happens is a lot of times people say certain things work. And they probably do but if you don't like it, don't do it. Honestly, like that's this is like good life advice. I think I probably will wrap this show this week because I was thinking about it. I'm just not a fan of newsletters and I just gotta get rid of them from my life. I'm trying to slim things down trying to streamline things. Newsletters are not where it's at. For me, podcasting is definitely the route getting better video podcasting. You know, maybe bring our producer maybe a co host or there's this show or the other show both shows. I just think that is where I'm gonna put Because so anyways, I'm sure I could be fired up about a million other things, but I'm gonna go watch some football. I gotta run another 10 miles before I wrap this week. This week's running. I am, I think trying to for the first time I'm going to break 110 miles for the week in quite a while. It's been a very hot summer. So now that is middle of September. I'm gonna go do that. I hope you are having a great week. I hope you enjoyed the show. Again, if you'd like this show, if you're listening, if you're still listening, please like and subscribe on YouTube. I'm gonna put these out on YouTube. If you're wherever you're listening to your favorite podcast, app ratings and reviews always do help the show. I wish I had better notes. I'm sure there's something else I should say. But yeah, we'll be there for this week. And maybe I'll see you next week for Socktober fests in New Jersey. Bye for now.