Episode 011 - "'Fess up Fellas: What are your guilty pleasures?"

Jaime, David, and Dr. DLH discuss their guilty pleasures.  They attempt to convince David that, yes indeed, he also has some guilty pleasure.

Guilty Pleasure are activities that you enjoying doing and that some people would be surprised you enjoy.

• Hallmark Movies
• Musicals
• Binge-Watch Shows
• Pop Music

Issue a Verdict.

Transcript

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If by some chance, some stroke of luck, or some act of God, you have stumbled upon this broadcast, you are listening to The Chivalry Chronicles with your host, DLH, David and me, Jaime. I hope you're ready, because I know we are. So let's get into it.

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There you

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go. We're back. Again, from the friendly confines of the chivalry studio... a.k.a. my office upstairs. Thank you guys for coming. How's it going? I hope everyone's having a great weekend. For the listeners out there, I know we said it last time, but there is a link to send us a text. Send us a text. The other thing that we have on there is a link that says support the show. And if you so feel inclined, buy us a beer. You know. Or six. Or six. I promise I'll share it with the guys. But click on it. Support the show. But anyway, today we were talking about guilty pleasures. So the topic is, come on guys, fess up. What are the things that you do, a.k.a. guilty pleasures, that makes you feel better that other people would find or they would be surprised and maybe... A little judgmental. So, I mean, I think, well, what we've come to find is that maybe David says he doesn't have any, but I think he's withholding some guilty pleasures. I think he's saving it for material for the podcast. Who knows? Well, we'll start with David. David. I have done. You have none. Zero. Nothing. Not that I can think of. I'm thinking as we go along here, maybe there is something I'm happy to share. I mean, the stuff that you guys know about me or that have clowned me on, I'm not ashamed of it. We've already gotten one out of you. What, the Yacht Rock thing? And it's terrible. Don't listen to it. No, guys, I'm telling you, Yacht Boy Summer is the album. Hook it up. If they sponsor us. And it is really good. The guy is really good. So that's what I wanted to say. That is a guilty pleasure. Okay, definitely. Because that was painful to hear. But see, to me, a guilty pleasure, you're kind of not really surfacing it. I have no... shame and say, yeah, what we're saying is that keep that shit to yourself. You know what? That might be it. He doesn't recognize it. Yeah. He doesn't have that filter. He doesn't filter. He's always like my daughter says he's always out of pocket. Wait, wait, that's where I live out of pocket. That's why everything is okay. Whenever the dude hits top tier on iTunes store or whatever, or on Apple music, which I believe he did. Uh, Hey, yacht, yacht, yacht, boy summers. No, it's terrible. It's terrible. It's terrible. You can't say terrible, DLH. You haven't even listened. You did. I heard the last time when we played it off air, you played it for me. It was terrible. Why were you dancing then? Because his ears were bleeding. That wasn't dancing. I was writhing around in pain. That was his guilty pleasure is dancing, sir. It inspired this topic today. So when we were talking about this, David was like, I don't have any. And I was like, bruh. Yacht Rock. Yacht Rock. That's your guilty pleasure. That's at least one that he's fessed up to. Yeah. So I want him to fess up with some other ones, but we'll move over to DLH. Well, I think for Dave, drinking clearance beer is on the fence. No, so he's bringing this up because the other day I was at HEB. There was this one aisle that I was headed down, and at the end of that aisle is clearance. And there was some craft beer. Several of which I've had before. The six packs were all less than$3. All of them were like$2.68 or something like that. So I stocked up significantly, and I've had some. And I even picked up some$1.75 water, hop water. I've never had that before, but if I'm going to have a non-alcoholic drink, I'm picking up that hop water. from now on, but I'm not paying the$8 that they charge for it on the regular. And just so everyone is clear, when you were talking about craft beer, in the clearance section, what you meant was skunky, right? No.

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No. I guess you'll never know. Why did it have like a green film around it and shit? You know, like you brought it in and you're like, ew. We didn't come here to discuss this particular moment. We didn't come here to discuss this. Okay, so let's get back to guilty pleasures. Focus. DLH, do you have any guilty pleasures? And now that we've kind of, you know, broke down through with David's, that we brought those to light, because he didn't know they were, but they are. What are some that you can think of that you do personally? Yeah, I have one that I believe is a guilty pleasure. I think that people may be surprised, considering that a lot of the other things I like are in the manly realm. And I'll have another one that I know for a fact is, Oh, he just thought of one for you. That David has. All right. For me, it's watching Hallmark Christmas movies. Okay. Right. Now... Name one. I'd have to... Oh, man. Look, and now... No, no. This is what makes it... A guilty pleasure, right? I love all things like Christmas and around my house, I'm the one who brings a lot of that Christmas stuff out. This is my favorite time of the year, right? I love all that stuff. I'll play Christmas music all the time, you know, all this stuff, right? But my wife and I, we started... One time, I don't know, we had it on. We went by the Hallmark Channel. I think it was because there was nothing else on in the moment. It was like, whatever, there's a Christmas movie. And we actually got into it because we started making fun of the premise. Because Hallmark movies, you know they're always going to tie it up in a neat little bow by the time you reach the end. And then we would watch the next one and start making fun of the storyline or whatever it is. But then... Little by little, it just became something we started to do together. So my wife and I, we watch Hallmark movies. Yeah, okay, so you're using the wife force field. Well, what I would say is... Is that what you're doing? I would say that... Come on, you're better than that. I would say that in this particular case, I was either a slightly higher percentage or this would be 50-50, right? Now, I have seen every single thing in the Sex and the City realm, right? Okay. That was my wife-directed. She wanted to do it. I went on the journey with her. I did all of that. This Hallmark stuff you said earlier. Hallmark. You're the one that stepped into it. I believe I'm the one who did that and started that. But we started doing this together. But now it's actually reached a point where it doesn't even need to be Christmas time. Sometimes we'll watch a Hallmark movie and there's like Hallmark mystery. That's terrible. They're all cheesy. You can forecast the plot. and all in the ending, you know, most of the time before you, you were even halfway through the movie, but we'll still keep doing it and watch it until we reach, reach the end of that. And, and, and there'll be sometimes this is where I know it's, it's like me and a guilty pleasure is because sometimes she was not even in the house. And then when I'm working from home that day and I need background noise, I'll put it on the Hallmark channel. Really? And I'll let a movie, because it, When they're doing reruns, I already know they're movies I have seen. Yeah. So it'll just play in the background. I can't have it on something live. So it's a stop down movie? I would say for me, if we're talking about stop down, that would be a stop down channel or a stop down. Yeah. Right. Like I know that I could put it on that. uh, station, um, most of the time. And I say most of the time now it was all of the time, but right now they have a reality show on there to find the next Hallmark movie person. And I don't like reality shows. So I avoid that one. But, uh, aside from that, yeah. Hallmark channel. I'll put it on that. Wow. I think we saw one last year, my wife and I, she was like, Oh, let's watch this. And then, you know, so I am using that cover and I did see that. And it was not that great. Well, none of them are that great. Really? So that's what you, you just know that they're going to suck. Well, yes, but there's a, if you can accept that there's going to be like cheesy acting, the storyline is repetitive, right? All of these things have happened. They just changed minutia. Yeah. But you're watching the same storyline over and over and over again. But yeah, When you do get some acting in there and they at least even in a cheesy way or they come across as endearing, they get the sentiment to you that you want to feel. And that's the thing is I think because of my studies and the things that I have done in that realm because I'm so anti-drama, this one is a fictitious drama for me because I know that in the Hallmark Channel, all of that is manufactured. They're going to tie it up in a neat bow. So how many Kleenex boxes do you go through? And do you cry? I will on occasion. But we talked about that recently, and I think that the majority of the time, if something is going to evoke tears for me, it's usually drama that is like a conflict within the family. It would have to be like there would be something contentious between the daughter and the mother. Yeah, it could be. But it could be like a family issue that is being addressed throughout the movie. And when they, of course, they reconcile that, but they have to deal with the problem and the plot. Those are things in particular that might evoke tears for me. I don't exactly know why, but they do. Yeah. So I think we probably need to do a bit of defining of guilty pleasures. And I think it's going outside of what you normally do. Like if you listen to a particular type of genre and then you kind of go away from that and you enjoy it, but you kind of don't want to. So let's say you're in a car and you're listening to a particular song and then you get to a stoplight and you kind of turn it down because you don't want people to listen to you. They're like, oh shit, what is he listening to, right? Because I know for a fact that David has heard a Justin Bieber song and loves that song. And he confessed that to me a couple of years ago. Oh, yes. So that is a guilty pleasure. That's what I'm trying to tell you. But that's one song, maybe even two songs. It's listening to an artist that's not, you're like, that's a good song. Yeah, but they're in pop culture. I'm not sure that that would be a guilty pleasure. It is if it's not part of your makeup. If you're listening to it and you enjoy listening to it, but it's not really what you do. Here's why I say that. And I'm messing with David, but he's like, man, that's a really good song. He felt he had to say that. If you're in my car and I play Wu-Tang, I'm not going to say, man, this is a really good album. I'm not going to try to justify why I'm listening to it. I'll tell you, I was in College Station with my brother and I think it was our fraternity's like our chapter was like a 30 year anniversary. Anyway, we get into the car. Right. And and as soon as he turns the car on, like the music comes on and he's like, oh, man, he went to go to.

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I forgot who it was. It was like, who's the who's the girl with the hair that is like. Sia? Sia! Yes, that's who it was. He was like, man, my sister tripping and stuff. She borrowed my car yesterday. They were like, bro, come on now. You listen to Sia? It's okay, bro. You can listen to Sia. I don't listen to Sia. I don't even know who Sia is. You would know her if you heard her song. You would know her if you know her. I remember her because... I may know the song. Yeah, my daughter did a dance routine when she was in high school. And so... in dance they do that routine pretty much all year and so it kind of gets burned but oh my god we clowned him so hard he's like man my sister tripping dog she borrowed my card and left her sia but but that's that's the essence of a guilty pleasure yeah like you feel a little a little shame for liking it right try to hide it and you try to hide it like like dave i i'm Pretty convinced he hasn't admitted it, but that he likes to listen to Islands in the Stream on repeat. That is what we are. So along the same lines, I think it is when you feel a little shame that, you know, like if the guys are coming over and you're trying to, you know, like change the channel or like you're watching like what you said, Hallmark movies or whatever. Like personally, like I like Hamilton. Right. I really like it. Like the first time I heard it, my son Hamilton, the musical. Yes. And that's a guilty pleasure for me. It is. Yeah. Don't don't be playing that around me. Really? Yeah. For me, it is. I try to watch it. I thought it was true. I didn't view it that way because because to me, the the the soundtrack, if we're talking, it's great. It's one of the best. I listen to it all the time. I will put it on in the car like it's like just it's just music. But because it's not it's not something that it's in my wheelhouse. It's not something that people would say, I'm Alex Hamilton. Like it's just not part of who people think I am. Right. The first time I heard it, my son used to play it all the time. I was like, what is this? And then, and then I just, you just kind of put it away. Right. And then one day we watched it and I was like, okay, that that's really good. And then I found out it was, uh, Lin Manuel Miranda. And I was like, he's Hispanic. He's like, I'm, I'm all about that. That's cool. But the, the soundtrack itself is, I loved it. I loved it. I listened to it. I listened to it for so long. My kids made fun of me. And what kind of made me a little mad is my son was like, Dad, can we listen? I was like, bro, I got it from you. You were the first one to introduce that to me. Actually, if you haven't heard it, go listen to it. It's an awesome soundtrack. This is how bad it was. My family, a couple of years ago... My birthday party theme was Hamilton. They gave me a Hamilton shirt. They gave me Hamilton socks. And I was like, y'all are getting a little crazy. I got a Hamilton coffee cup. I was like, I know I like it. But they were like, no, you really like it. And I was like, let's calm down a little bit. It's awesome. Especially cabinet battle number two. Yes. Go listen to Cabinet Battle number two, right? You must be out of your

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mind. The whole thing is- Trash. No, it's really good. It's really good. It's really good. Along the same lines, because then I was like, who is this Lin-Manuel Miranda? Once again, I'm like, Wikipedia, Lin-Manuel, boom. And then when Encanto came out, Genius. He wrote that. Genius. The soundtrack. Yes. But he also did In the Heights before that. In the Heights, which I'd never watched, but I was like, I'm good with that. It's good. You should see it, though. You would like it. Those are two that, you know, growing up, I listened to metal, like heavy metal. And then in the mid-90s, when heavy metal started dying out, I kind of went to hip-hop and like hardcore hip-hop, that type of stuff. And then... you know, you kind of stay in that realm. Like whenever you, you go back to who you are, I still listen to eighties metal and nineties hip hop. Like that's my wheelhouse, you know? And so when you introduce Hamilton, I was like, okay, I liked it, but it's not something that, you know, if, if my brother, my oldest brother, the, the ultimate alpha male would be like, man, that's a little, that's a little girly, but that's how, that's how he is. Right. Other artists that I'll listen to, are like Billie Eilish um and this is from my daughter because she went to go see Billie Eilish like um probably like six six years ago and I was like okay I was driving her to Austin because it was Austin City Limits and and I said I'm always of the mindset of if we're going to a concert let's listen to the playlist so you can kind of get revved up for the concert and so I was listening to all the way there and then I you know she was getting out with her friend I was like hey, what's the best Billie Eilish album? Because I was going to drop back. I said, I'm going to listen to it. I like listening to music. And so I was like, she's really good. You know what I'm saying? She's a legit star. She's an artist. Yes. I got into this whole argument with one of the bros about, is she a musical genius or not? You know what I'm saying? And he was like, no, there's not enough work. And I was like, no, she's up there. So anyway, people like that. And I don't want to just say female artists, but kind of along the same lines, like a Carrie Underwood, a Taylor Swift, because my wife listens to Taylor Swift all the time. All the time. Like every day, just about. How much? Every day. I would probably go downstairs and it's probably on right now. We should do that study one

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But stuff like that. I think you mentioned movies or shows like Sex and the City. I did watch that. And for me, it's kind of like you're in a room that you shouldn't be in. Right, right. Yeah, you're like, what's going on? Do they really feel that way? Yeah. Is this how women talk? Yeah. Is this? Yeah. Man, Samantha's a hoe. So I think when it's stuff like that, that, that you're like, Oh yeah. I'm watching Sopranos, you know, like, which I did watch Sopranos too, but I did watch that, um, that show. And it was, it did feel like you're kind of a fly on the wall and that's kind of cool. You know what I'm saying? In a weird space. Yeah. Um, other stuff like, um, Well, I thought the Hallmark movies, we were kind of joking about this, that DLH and I have the wife, Forcefield, have the wife kind of, this is why I did it. Built-in excuse. It's a built-in excuse. And then we also have kids, so we're kind of talking to David, like, you should have, I think you have some, you just don't know it yet. And so, I mean, do you think... I mean, now that we've talked about some, is there some in your wheelhouse right now that you can think of? No, not that really that surface or come to mind. I don't purposely seek out that type of stuff. I kind of stay within my realm because I'm generally by myself, right? So it's everything that I'm typically accustomed to is what I do. Maybe if you're going to say... taking care of your plants and that kind of stuff. I do like having live plants in my house. I don't do a great job with all of them, but the ones that have lived, I have at least three or four that I've had for multiple years. I do that kind of stuff, but it's more just to not... Even though it's a bachelor pad type house, I don't want it to be so bachelor pad that it looks like I'm still... An active frat boy. I would think because it is a bachelor pad, you would be more apt to have guilty pleasures, right? Because you can do whatever you want. True. You know what? I'm actually thinking a little bit the opposite. So I think this might be something good to ask even the listeners, right? If they can message us in whatever form, text or social media. Yeah. Not that I want you to blame things on your significant other, but perhaps some of the guilty pleasures we have is because of that open avenue, right? And if we were single, and this gets into some of those, for those of you out there that are single, maybe you just haven't had that avenue open and so you do what is programmed, right? Like you're… Your usual routine doesn't put you in those situations. So the reason I said that, because my little brother, right, younger brother, he came on as a guest a couple episodes ago. He lives in an apartment all by himself. He basically does whatever he wants to do, right? But he gets into so much other stuff. He'll text my wife, he's like, Man, that one Taylor Swift song is pretty good. And then discuss the lyrics. And I'm like, why are you listening to Taylor Swift as much as you do? That's why I put Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood because he's like, man, Carrie Underwood is really good. And I was like, I agree. She's a really good artist. And I'll listen to some of her stuff. But it surprises me sometimes the stuff that he listens to that is not what he normally listens to. And I thought it's because he's by himself, lives by himself, and you can delve into all these other aspects, right? I didn't think about it the other way, that if you're by yourself, you're just going to do, listen to what you normally listen to. Well, you know, and this is why I guess I'm, I think this way along the lines of what Dave does is because when my wife and kids are gone and it's just me. Right. I eat the foods that I know I like, right, whether I make it or order it. And when I get to control the TV, I go and I watch the movies I have already seen. Absolutely. My stop-down movies. Yeah. Extraction one and two. And I'll actually go and look for it, right? Yeah. Or if I'm going to go and see a movie I haven't seen… it's not going to be in some brand new genre or something like that. It's going to be, uh, like recently the last time this happened and I was at home by myself, I had seen, uh, going back to Denzel Washington, right? Yeah. Um, I had seen the equalizer, but I hadn't seen two or three. Yeah, they're out. And, and so I went to go and watch equalizer too. Um, and those are, those are like movies that I feel like I can't watch when, you know, Victoria, the kids are home because they want to do other things. So, um, I have to have this set, I guess, list of movies I want to watch when they're not there. And because it's so infrequent, that list is pretty damn long. But I will go to Disney and like, what Marvel movies haven't I seen? And I'll finish up whatever is left. Deadpool, Wolverine, is that on Disney? That one's out now, yes. Yeah, it's been playing nonstop in the house here. This morning, my son and I got up to work out at 830. So it was there and then it played on. And then we came in here and I watched it. It was on last night. But so other examples of guilty pleasures is like binge watching, you know, binge watching, just binge watching itself. Do you binge watch, David? Yes. Yes. Usually whenever if there's a show that I'm into. Because I do feel guilty sitting and just watching TV. Usually it's like, okay. There's a guilty pleasure. I watch the show. I'm just going to finish it today. So tomorrow I don't have an excuse to be on the TV. Right. So, yeah, I definitely do that kind of stuff. So usually if all the episodes are there, it's like I'm going to power through this because– I don't want to be sitting here tomorrow. I want to get it done and over with. Okay. Other examples are like social media stalking. Stalking? Yeah. Singing loudly in the car. Do you sing loudly? I sing right here. That's a terrible, that's a terrible frigging guilty pleasure. I know one guilty pleasure you have is buying shit. That's a guilty pleasure, I think. Yeah, but see, to me, guilty pleasures are things that you generally don't want to say out loud. I'll tell you I bought this. I think it's because you're always out of pocket. You don't have that. That's right. It's because you don't have a filter. But, yeah, I'll buy things and I'll flip them. Have you read books that you– no, you don't read books. You don't read books either. I read a lot of news. I love reading political news and stuff like that. Like I read a couple of books that were suggested by friends, right? And like the Fifty Shades of Grey, I read that first book. And yeah, it's pretty trashy. Yeah. I read it too. Yeah. I didn't move on to the others. I did not. It wasn't good. Yeah. It was very... Yeah, I'll just... You guys are picking up those paperbacks with the guy with the long blonde hair. Well, there's a bunch of them downstairs because my... Because you bought them? No, because the lady that's the author, Leti knows her and she lives in this neighborhood. And so she writes graphic, you know, like those type of novels. And so she'll drop off her new novel to Leti. I haven't read them, but they're downstairs... I forgot what they are. And they're always, you know, like a cowboy, you know, like with a girl, you know what I'm saying? And so I don't, I didn't read those. The closest I got was the 50 Shades of Grey and that was close enough. And that was pretty, it was a little, it was a little off. When the movie came out, I was like, yeah, it's kind of the same thing. So, I mean, DLH and of course, I was supposed to have none, and we've already shared three of mine. Now, what's yours specifically? Because now you started pivoting to defining the guilty pleasures. No, no, I said Hamilton. I said Hamilton and Canto. Yeah, but those aren't guilty, I don't think. Well, they are to me because that's not my– I don't listen to them. Oh, maybe it's not to me because I'm in the same boat. Well, you know what I'm saying? Because I don't– I mean, I'm not a musical person. I don't listen to musicals, or that's the first time I've really listened to one and liked it. I don't think I view it that way, especially having lived in New York City. I mean, it's a musical. I never went to go see Rent. I mean, Hamilton. Rent was the other one. I wish I did, but I did go see Rent, and Rent was the start of my... I liked it so much more than I thought I would. Really? Yeah. See, I do not like musicals. To this day, I still don't like it. The closest thing to liking a musical was Isaiah and I went to see Temptations. I don't remember. It was Temptations something. But it was like the story of the Temptations. And that one I did like because it was more they're singing the Temptations songs that I liked to begin with. And they sing it Well, so that's the closest thing to liking a musical. Otherwise, other musicals, I'm like, get me out of here quick. And then that includes Hamilton because I did try to watch Hamilton. Oh, man, it's so good. It's just a musical. When I met Lethi is when I started, she loved Rent. Rent, yeah, is awesome. And she used to listen to it all the time. And so when I was like, okay, that's not bad. You know what I'm saying? But I set that aside. I don't go looking for musicals. For some reason, when Hamilton came out, you saw it everywhere. Presidents were going to it. I think Obama went. Who was the vice president for Trump? Pence. Yeah, Pence. When Pence went, they booed him. I don't know if you remember that. Yeah, so I was like, okay, so it became pop culture, right? Yeah. And it became a big thing. And so when it becomes so big that it starts getting into your sphere, you're like, okay, let me watch it. And I was like, that's pretty good. I like it. It's good. But Rent, I think for me, not to just stay on musicals, but this will be that last part. When I went to go see Rent, it was my first experience with a live musical. Yeah. And I went in with not a negative attitude, but I was already expecting to not like it. Rent? Yeah, Rent. Okay. But when I saw it, I was like, wow. I was wowed. Yeah. Right. And since that point, I have seen many musicals, but Rent had remained my favorite the entire time until Hamilton. Really? Yeah. And then Hamilton, it was like the soundtrack and then having seen– I only saw it on TV when they released it on Disney. But having seen the actors that originally did it that are on the soundtrack and the way that they performed it– So much talent and passion in there. And I will tell you now, if we're going to talk about this as a guilty pleasure and the tearful elements, Philippa Soo is the one who, when she gasps when their son dies, ooh, man, that starts making me tearful. And it doesn't matter how many times I watch it, it gets me every single time. It's really good. It's really good. So... When I heard Rent, like I never saw, and then the movie came out, right? There was a movie that came out? Yeah, yeah. And the movie really wasn't that great. No, the movie, I mean, the movie's great because it's Rent, but it was, how would you put that verb? Hollywoodized, right? By having Taye Diggs and Rosario Dawson and that sort of stuff. And the really great singer that she was in, what's her name? She's like, Super famous, but I can't remember her name. Beyonce? Beyonce, no. No, no, no. That's the only one super famous I know. But it wasn't, because you're talking about the- She was in the movie, I thought. 521,600, right? You're talking about that. I don't know who sang that. No, wasn't she in Frozen? Same one. Oh, yes. Yeah, but that's- What's her face? That's Idina Menzel. Yeah. There you go. The one that John Travolta messed up her name. Adele Dazeem or something like that. It was Idina Menzel. Of course, I think where we're getting confused is that a guilty pleasure is like if my daughter said, I love Hamilton. They're like, okay, you're okay. Whatever. It's a guilty pleasure if it's not something people would Think you're into. Because you're always watching Clint Eastwood movies and the things that are just manly. I think that's what makes it a guilty pleasure for me is because whenever I get to watch my stop-down movies, Tombstone and things with Bruce Willis and all of those things. I've always affiliated you with Hallmark, bro. And then I'll watch Hallmark. So the other thing that reality shows... Trashy reality, like the Kardashians. Did you watch that? That's a guilty pleasure. I draw the line. I don't like any reality shows whatsoever. Like the one where the housewives of so-and-so. None. There was one that my wife and I started watching, and it was called Tejanas or Texacanas. And it was people in San Antonio, like all these wives that were like affluent Mexican, you know, Hispanic women. And, you know, of course they tables flip over and all that stuff. It was, it was like one season and I think they, they canceled it. I can't, I can't do it at all. I tell you like Hallmark started doing that reality show to find the next Hallmark. Yeah. Leading man or whatever it is. And even in that one, you know, Victoria told me she's, she watched an episode. And then, so the other, the other night she was, she was, she put on another episode and I was, Listening to it, right? And doing my own work and stuff in the background. But after that episode was over, I was like, okay, we're going to change the channel, right? Because it sounds like a reality show. And I can't stand the sound. If it replicates the sound of a reality show, I'm automatically out. You're out. I can't stand reality TV. What about eating half a gallon of ice cream? Is that a guilty pleasure? Hell no. That's just a Sunday. That's just something you should do. Now, you've got to be strategic when you do it, but do it. Do it after a workout. Whatever. Whenever you want to do it. I'm not somebody, and I am a fitness professional, I don't believe in earning what you're going to eat. Follow the 80-20 rule. Most of the time, do your 80% good stuff, 20% do your bad. You decide when that bad stuff is. And sometimes that bad includes eating half a tub ice cream. What about the guilty pleasure that involves buying shit you don't need? My daughter calls it something when you just go out and buy something. Binge? No, it's like you're shopping to make yourself feel better. Oh, yeah. I mean, that's a thing. She has a term for it because she'll say. I'm pretty positive there is a term for it. Yeah. But buying things to make you feel better is an actual thing. Yes. It does exist. I think that as long as you can afford it. Most people can't. Then do your thing. If you can't afford it, then you need to find a substitute for that, right? Yeah. But would that be considered a guilty pleasure? Like you bought all kinds of shit you don't need. I think it could be. I think it is. Especially if you can recognize that it is. Because if somebody asks you, did you just buy three freaking, you know, like Yeti cups? Yeah. No. Well, I mean, if we're going to go along that lines, then I would say that for me, it's probably purchasing bags, like... Purses? Bags? Yeah, bags. I've seen your bags or purses, bro. No, no, no. Like, I mean, you see this... Yeah, it's a purse. Get out of here. Is that Gucci? That's a Gucci bag? That's a 5.11 tactical. Just for reference here, my purse that he's calling in here is a 5.11 tactical backpack. Oh, that's what you asked me about. With a whole Mali system. Why has it got like an LV thing on there? Oh, it's Louis Vuitton, baby. You got that kind of money? That doctor money. But anyway, I bought this bag recently because... I wanted to have something that suited my needs for the time being. But it's like the 12th bag I own. I have a bag for like every instance. I just bought a gym bag, a brand new gym bag. I just typed in Google gym. 2024 best gym bag. Right. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with the bag I've been using. Yeah. But then at some point I find a problem with it and I'm like, you know what? Let me go with this one little issue. I had a gym bag. Well, it was a backpack that my son had like six years ago or almost 10 years ago. And, you know, kids, right? You buy him a backpack every year and then the next year you got to buy him another backpack. Right. And I was like, these are pretty good. So I used one for all my gun stuff, like ammo stuff. I just packed it in there when I would go to the shooting range. And then the other one I used as my gym bag. And actually, it's the one that I took to when we went to Guadalupe Peak, all those Spartan races. It's just a blue Under Armour bag. And then the other day, I just put it over my shoulder, and all my shit fell out. Like, it just... strung over the gym floor right and i'm like what the hell with a zipper it just the zipper busted i'm like ah hell like i don't like buying shit just to buy it well i do but this stuff i was like man i was like now i have to buy it like i hate when i have to buy something because you know if you want to go back so i i just looked up you know and amazon had one for like 35 so i was like done uh but stuff like that buying stuff that you don't need That can be considered a guilty pleasure. Okay, let me tell you, though, because you talked about firearms. Now, I don't carry one, but this 5.11 backpack that I got. This LV one that you got right here? This one right here, right? Yeah. It has, for people that do conceal carry. Hey, look. Check this out, though. Right here in the middle, it has a breakaway pocket. Really? Velcro, where you just put in your firearm. This one. No, that's zipper. This one is a breakaway where you just reach in and it's Velcroed. It comes apart. It's specific to that. So for our listeners, he pulled up his Louis Vuitton bag. Get out of here. You heard the unsnapping of that velvety sounding Velcro. He pulled up his never full Louis Vuitton bag. Please, I don't have anything that is expensive. I don't. That microphone was pretty expensive. Even this, I got on sale. I don't pay full price for anything if I can help it. I was listening to... No, actually, I was on Twitter, and somebody had posted, they need to make... Podcast equipment is a lot more expensive to get some of these clowns off the air. And I took that personally. I said, hey, we think we do a good job. I don't think they're talking to us. Yeah, for a minute. And I said, no. You know what, is this a guilty pleasure? It is a guilty pleasure. What, podcasting? Us doing this podcast. Yes. No. Is it? Yes. No. You don't sound like you've made up your mind. I don't think so. We just need one listener to make a contribution, and then we're professionals. I don't think so, because it's something we're not ashamed of. Even though we're going to buy beer with it. I'm not ashamed of it. But have you posted that you're a podcaster? I have. You consider yourself a podcaster? No, I have, because y'all remember y'all got... Spammed? Y'all got spammed? David, have you posted that you're a podcaster? No, I wouldn't consider myself a podcaster. And I have personally, like, promoted, you know, some of the people that have heard our podcast is people that, like, I can't at work, like, actually promote it. Yeah. You just leave stickers everywhere. Well, see, because I have my sticker for where I work, right? And on the other side, I have my podcast. So they're like, what is that right there? And then when I tell them, I podcast. I tell them where it is, and then they go listen, and I've gotten some feedback from that. Nice. That's the other thing. Now, we're going to wrap up this podcast, this particular episode, but one that we need to do that I think would be kind of cool and fun is that I get a bunch of texts when people listen to the podcast, people that I know personally, and people that know both of you guys, too, and I get a lot of, you need to tell DLH to so-and-so, and you need to tell David to so-and-so, And I wonder, and I'm pretty sure you guys get- Text me directly, fool.

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Yeah.

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Say it to my face. Say it to my face. Say it with your chest. Do y'all get feedback and kind of dirt? Like, David, do you get dirt on me and DLH from people that you know that listen to the podcast? I wouldn't say dirt, but definitely, hey- So-and-so this. I think we should do a podcast because a lot of the stuff that I get is podcast material, I think, because I get a lot of the, man, y'all are just rage baiting. Like there's no way that David feels that way or there's no way DLH feels that way. And it's always like, you know what I'm saying? It's pretty interesting. So I'm like, okay, I'm getting them. I'm sure you're getting them and I'm sure you're getting them. And I think if we bring it to the table, I think it would be perfect for this. Yeah. I, I, I would welcome anyone who is listening here, particularly our brothers. Yeah. Feel free to text me directly. Yeah. I get so many and it's, and it's fun because some of them will text me. It's like, I'm about to listen to episode eight. And then I start getting texts from, every 10 minutes. It's like, what? Y'all didn't talk about this? Oh, my God. Y'all missed this. I think it's because I hear... Glaring omission. Because the people that I have talked about the podcast to, they will tell me either in person when I see them next or they'll text me about it or whatever. But those are people I see through the course of my usual day. But I know that you get a lot from... Our brothers that are listening. Yes. So I and I would encourage I'm not going to say what my number is right here right now. But yeah, you can certainly do one zero. But you can certainly get my number from Jaime if you if you want to get that done. But feel free to text me. Yeah, I get I get everything. I would welcome it. And don't get me wrong. I love it. Keep sending it because I hope you understand that if you had a comment about, hey, you guys need to do this or fix that, we have tried to kind of accommodate everyone. Look, we've spent... hundreds of dollars on equipment here in the past month. And we're still trying to work out our sound. DLH especially. Some of you that have texted me about DLH. That's right. I hear it. I hear it from them all the time. And right now I am speaking as close to the microphone as I possibly can. But I thought, anyway, we'll get back on task. I think at some point we need to just bring the receipts. Like my daughter says, bring the tea on stuff that you got because almost inherently i get they they would they do say some negative things about me but mostly it's about you two guys and it's funny because i'm like they're telling you i know but i i would love to hear the negative stuff that you get about us you know what i'm saying yeah because well most of it's about dave

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Call it out.

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So next podcast, we're going to bring the tea. To not drink during the podcast. Yeah, that's not going to happen. That's not happening. So if that's your criticism, you can go ahead and set that aside. So if you're mad because I mess up a word or something like that. Oh, no, that's separate from drinking. Yeah, that happened when we weren't drinking. Yeah, that's separate from drinking. Anyway, all right, back to guilty pleasures. Just keeping it real. Podcasting could be a guilty pleasure, but it's not for us. Yeah, no, loud and proud. Well, loud-ish. Yeah, you're not loud. I'm working on it. Oh, my God. Okay, so. I swear, if you come to one of my workout classes, I'm louder than this. I doubt it. I doubt it. Everybody believes me. That has heard you. And it's not just one person. I swear. It's like several people. It's like, why is that brother whispering? He's like, that's it. I think. But if you, I'm so loud. If you come to one of my classes at EnergyX Fitness, that's where I'm at, right? Come see me over there. Shut up. I'm definitely loud in the fitness space. This is DLH. Anthropologically speaking. Anthropologically speaking. Anthropologically? When have I ever said that? I'm just saying. These guys are full of it. But there's, hey, we're fairly new to podcasting. Yes. Three months in. Three months in, right. But we're just now doing our 11th. It's the 11th. Whatever it is. 11th or 12th, depending on which one goes first. Yes. That's right. 11th or 12th episode. But still just trying to figure out the microphone sound. It is a lot harder than I thought it was going to be before we started this venture. I know that David and I have talked about it forever. But getting into it, it is a little bit harder than... Maybe I didn't give those guys enough credit. But I will say this. I've watched a couple of Joe Rogan movies. And even they had microphone issues. So I was like, we're good. That's the number one podcast show in the nation. And they had they had microphone issues. His shit went out in the middle of it. And he's like, come fix my stuff. You know, I was like, OK, we haven't had that. So we're good. Yeah. I mean, there's there's some things that we're I think we're still sorting out being this early on. But but it's fun. It is. It will say it is fun. It's something to do. So maybe a guilty pleasure. I don't know. Yeah. Anyway, we'll put it as that. All right, back to our topic. Right. So board approved. Have at least one guilty pleasure? Have as many as you want. So normalize guilty pleasures. Let's normalize guilty pleasures. Normalize guilty pleasures. David, what do you say? And then they won't be guilty anymore. They'll just be pleasures, and we are hedonistic. Yeah, I'm on the... Normalize it. It's not a big deal. All right. I couldn't hear you. You were whispering. You're too far from your microphone. Oh, my God. We just have another problem. I'm doing work. Okay. So board approved. Board approved. Normalize guilty pleasures. Board approved. There you go. Nice. And that's it. Thank you, guys. We appreciate you sticking around this long. Join us next time for a totally other topic and different. thanks for listening if you enjoyed this episode and you'd like to help support the podcast please share it with others post about it on social media or leave a rating and review to catch all the latest from us you can follow us on instagram and twitter thanks again and we'll see you next time