#457 How To Be A Man At 40 and embrace it like Oklahoma State Head Coach Mike Gundy, "I'M A MAN! I'M 40!"
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Law Smith 0:00
Whole social media thing.
Eric Readinger 0:04
I hate that you're live. We can't cut that out.
Law Smith 0:07
It's pretty good, though. You don't want to cut out gold. Yes, I do sweat equity podcast, the number one comedy business podcast in the world. I'm a man. I'm 40. They can't hear the mike Gundy. I'm a 40. I'm man, I'm 40. I'll just have to impersonate kind of weird. That guy looked way older than 40 when he said that, you know, like leather. Watch
Eric Readinger 0:32
the video,
Law Smith 0:33
leathery Sun face. Rewatch it. When's
Eric Readinger 0:36
the last time you watched it?
Law Smith 0:38
I don't know, but I'm turning 40 soon, so maybe I'll watch it. Then listen to us on iTunes, Apple podcast Spotify. You know, go over to our YouTube page. We're trying to up the subs on there.
Eric Readinger 0:50
What? That's
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You are listening to the sweat equity podcast. So I just kind of impulsively was like, Let's do Instagram Live, and I did it for my account, and not the sweat equity podcast, like an idiot, and I'm not getting Hey, we did it, though. Yeah, you did it. I got more followers than our podcast. So, you know, maybe more engagement. Yeah, I do want to get this show to the point where we do take live calls and make fun of people asking dumb business questions. Yeah,
Eric Readinger 2:58
that's how you get more callers. Well, you make fun of them right away, then they'll have all the confidence in the world. I
Law Smith 3:04
mean, that was kind of the love line formula, yeah, but
Eric Readinger 3:08
that was just stupid kids calling in. No, well,
Law Smith 3:11
how many, how many questions you're right. Most
Eric Readinger 3:14
business owners are like, stupid kids. Okay, right? I
Law Smith 3:16
make a good a pizza pie, but I don't know about a business, it's pretty good. Yeah, that was pretty good. Impression. Guy nailed it. Let's see I was I, I would, but I'd love to have, like, real time Molly, Holy guacamole,
Eric Readinger 3:32
Bronco Molly. Sorry,
Law Smith 3:34
I'm off today. Okay? I
Eric Readinger 3:37
mean it just said it, I know you can't. You have Instagram in your head, is what it is you're thinking about being live, right? No, I was just
Law Smith 3:44
thinking about people writing really dipshit comments, like friends, my my closest friends would write the most horrendous comments, probably, yeah, but as we're doing this, I think that would be fun. Or another idea I've had for the show or moving on, is like a game show ish kind of thing.
Eric Readinger 4:04
Yeah, that's I keep score every time. I mean, I'm undefeated be
Law Smith 4:08
kind of fun. I don't know, I don't have much more than that. But I think if you can gamify this for people, remember that that, what was that thing like six years? Six years ago, there was an online it was a live streaming game. It would come on at four o'clock every day. Oh, yeah. And you have to, like, get 20 questions right, or whatever. What
Eric Readinger 4:27
was that called? Man,
Law Smith 4:29
someone's listening to this and, like, it's this. No, they're not. I forget what it's called, but, but I thought, I think that was so interesting. I don't know why it didn't work out, but it was one of those things where it's like, yeah, how are you going to get people to kind of appointment watch something nowadays, you
Eric Readinger 4:46
got to give them stuff. I
Law Smith 4:47
thought it was a great idea. I don't
Eric Readinger 4:49
I, I've got a stack of gift cards out there. We
start there, dude, you're,
Law Smith 4:53
you're gift carded up, like, you gotta you got, what you got, what rappers call $10 $10 $10 the rubber band. Into dunkin's, dude, yeah, dude, dude, you're gonna get so much at Dunkin Donuts. What
Eric Readinger 5:05
they're for? Oh, they're for donuts. Oh,
Law Smith 5:09
you're not gonna buy girls drinks at Dunkin No. Hey, would you like a frosty, like vanilla frappe, strawberry thing?
Eric Readinger 5:19
Now, I
Law Smith 5:20
don't drink this fat but I'll get it for you. Girl fat that up. Hey, big news, secured dates for my special filming. Oh, boy, into June.
Eric Readinger 5:34
You sure about that? Oh, I'm sure it's locked in.
Law Smith 5:38
It's locked in. My birthday is June 25 everybody knows that I'm gonna leverage the devil's birthday. By the way, summer birthdays suck.
Eric Readinger 5:46
The Devil's birthday. I've never heard that Christmas
Law Smith 5:49
in July is because it's six months away from Christmas is June 25 that's why it's the devil's birthday.
Eric Readinger 5:55
They say. Who calls it that?
Law Smith 5:57
I don't know other people with that birthday have told me that. Huh? One of my best friend's dad, his dad, has the same birthday. We call each other every, every June 25 Yeah. What
Eric Readinger 6:07
kind of guy is he? He's cool. He's one of the coolest guys I know, actually, okay, so maybe it's not. He's
Law Smith 6:12
like, a old he's like a Kentucky entrepreneur guy. And he's like, hey man. He's like, talking you out of anything if you wanted to, opposite
Eric Readinger 6:19
of a Salesman. No. I
Law Smith 6:20
mean, he could just, he was just, like a very cool dude. He was that he owned the house that we all went to in high school to party basically right on they had a half court with a gorilla rim and all that was a gorilla rim. Like the nice, like, this is, like, your 2000 I want to say, like one of those, like, legit basketball rims and backboard. Yeah, the see through now they're a little bit around, but like, the super expensive one. Okay, anyway, I never heard of that when we play ball all day, and then he never watched us as kids. So everybody spent the night, spent the night over there.
Eric Readinger 6:58
Sounds awesome, yeah. So for the days, so I
Law Smith 7:01
at least owe him a call on the birthday. But so Friday, the 28th of June, it'll be eight o'clock show, and then Sunday, it'll be you can send me a calendar invite. I'm going to stress this down. It just officially finalized today. I'll get you on there, and then Sunday, I think we're doing like, 630 I got a set now. Now, here's where all the crippling pressure comes in. Oh, yes. Well, part, partly, I wanted to do this because I don't want to celebrate my 40th birthday with a party at all.
Eric Readinger 7:37
You know, right? You want to celebrate with an obligation? Well,
Law Smith 7:41
I go. I can real business move here. I can leverage this out. Oh, okay, right. I don't like if I was gonna do one I already
Eric Readinger 7:50
had. You don't have to give me a birthday gift. But I really
Law Smith 7:53
wanted to do a funeral themed birthday party, but in Tampa, Florida, in June, that's asking a lot of everybody, and that might actually kill someone well, and, yeah, and look, it's so hot right now already. It's, it's, it's fat guy whispering in your ear. Kind of steamy, hot, like a fat guy whispering secrets to you about Marvel or something you don't care about. Did you know this to you? You never had a fat guy whisper to you did this to you. You've never had a fat dude. No,
Eric Readinger 8:26
no, this is about you and whoever did this awful thing to you. What
Law Smith 8:30
are you gonna do? Mom,
Eric Readinger 8:31
I don't know. Do we need to
Law Smith 8:36
No, I I've had fat friends that, you know, they talk and you're like, oh, geez, it's hot. It's coming off. You it's, you have breath that's humid. You say friends. They're not my friends anymore. Oh yeah, I cut all the obese friends. Matt Fernandez will be opening. It's at the gimmick, which is a good segue, which is a cool, a a cool, like, bungalow house that's turned into a comedy club in and it's it's fine. I'm the old, weird comic around there, because it's all like 20 year olds, like guys in their 20s. So I I feel like, what I felt I'm protecting the that I feel like an old, like, faggy ghost around there, like, Ooh, I do stand up for a long time in Florida, you know. Like, because there's a lot of Florida hacks that are like, they just do it, and they've never going anywhere with what they're doing, you know. And they stink. And I bomb in this room a lot because it's tough. It's yeah, it can be a tough room. They're
Eric Readinger 9:36
probably like, Oh no, that's him, yeah. And
Law Smith 9:40
they don't put me up. They don't put me on their shows in there. And I'm like, I'm good. I swear, good.
Eric Readinger 9:45
Please believe me. I've
Law Smith 9:46
crushed before, so I'm excited about that little nervous. You're gonna check out the spot. We'll go, we'll go check it out, like on a producer trip, kind of deal, yes, one day. And then we'll just, I was thinking, we. Can kind of hack, you know, David tell did this with like GoPros once he just kind of, he gave him to the crowd, which is bad idea. But we could use cell phones too as secondary shots. Sure. Yeah, that might be good. Text it to you. I record. I'm trying to think of like, the producing of this. I did a show for 300 old people recently. I don't think I talked about this on the show. I guessed a dude's name, right? One for one. I go, what's your name? I feel like you did. I go, what's your name, Alan. I mean, my name is Alan. I was like, No way. Yeah. Done it once before, once ever because I'll maybe I just saw it. I posted
Eric Readinger 10:46
like, you told me, I
Law Smith 10:47
think I told you off air, though
Eric Readinger 10:49
I never know. Yeah, everything kind of Yeah. I feel like it's all on air.
Law Smith 10:53
Someone was saying they were listening to this podcast. I was hanging with a friend yesterday, and she was like, I was listening to your podcast on the way over. I was like, I don't remember anything we say as soon as we leave the room. So, you know, like, just,
Eric Readinger 11:04
you'd think, you'd think we'd at least be able to, like piece it to get nah, I
Law Smith 11:09
was like, what do we what do we talk about? What? What did I say something about you? I hope not. But when I did this, old people show also, I guess Deborah, for the lady next to him, his wife, Lady two people over named Deborah. Not bad, not bad. That's pretty close proximity point. Yeah, the average age was Fox News, but it was like, you know it was, and I, I hadn't been up in a while, and I was like, forgetting material.
Eric Readinger 11:37
It was like, so you probably understand, well,
Law Smith 11:41
you have to go slower for that crowd. Like you can't, you can't be, like, talk fast New York. You kind of probably
Eric Readinger 11:48
helped a little bit. But I do, like, totally endearing. I
Law Smith 11:51
love taking pauses on stage, just because some people get nervous because it's a pause and they have to blurt out something, yeah, like, I'll take, like, a good 510, second one and just look out and just kind of, I'll be laughing like an idiot, because I'll be laughing at how ridiculous this, this whole scenario, is, that I'm I'm on stage telling jokes to a bunch of people. Yeah, I'll catch myself in that sometimes, but I'll just be looking some a lot of time I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to talk about next jokes. Well, any funny
Eric Readinger 12:24
What's funny, just like
Law Smith 12:26
what's in the news? Well, just like reading the intro. If I go too fast on stage, I have to, I have to put a governor on my tempo at that because I will say out of order, and then you sound like a schizophrenic because you're putting the punchline before the setup, and you're like, Oh, And then you can't do your way out of it. You're
Eric Readinger 12:46
like, and, huh, yeah, get that together before the special. No,
Law Smith 12:49
now the special is themed. It's gonna be mostly about Florida and how we're the most American state because we take care of everyone's family members. That's
Eric Readinger 13:01
how you're gonna not mess up the punch lines. Because, no, no, no, no,
Law Smith 13:05
no, I'm just saying it is theme about Florida. Mostly, I'm just going for a 30 minute guy. So I'm it's gonna be a short show. We'll do, you know, maybe, maybe 75 minute show, Max. You know, I don't want to, I don't want to go 90, or I don't want to just do time. Just to do time. I want people to be in a good mood, you know, yes, like, you go to shows now, and I'm like, I don't think we have attention spans for 100 minutes to watch a live show, like in a club. Yeah, think about it. So like, I
Eric Readinger 13:35
know I
Law Smith 13:35
did now or 10, and it's like, it's not, I don't I've always thought that's weird. I'm like, get, don't you want them leaving wanting more.
Eric Readinger 13:43
It is why I do feel like comedy hits a threshold at an hour. Well,
Law Smith 13:48
it's one of those things too. It's like, all right, you got it like any if you're booked by a club, you know, they sign you on a contract, you have to at least do 45 like, that's always standard, yeah, that's pretty much minimum headliner time, right? But some of the clubs will put, they'll let the feature do 3035, and then, you know, sometimes the guest set just add another seven. Yeah, you got a host. He's doing five. She's doing five, whatever. That's a long show, I think for a lot of people, yeah. And then, like I, when I used to open for Bert, he, if it was the late show, he would just go. He would just, he'd be there until people walked out. Sometimes, just be doing shots and just be like, around, just like, barely coherent. That's awesome, and it's kind of cool. But it was like, I, I hate that clubs make you as a host when you're when you're growing up in the game, you have to stay there all the way to the end just to go back up and go. All right, we're done by like, thanks for coming. And the cool Sarah, you're
Eric Readinger 14:51
going with that. Yeah. The cool ones,
Law Smith 14:53
John Witherspoon, the dad in Friday, he did that in Little Nicky, my bad bye. Um, but he was cool enough and, like, kind of aware enough to go, like, you can just, you can bounce once I get on, huh? Because you have to wait there. You'd be like, it's Friday, Saturday night. 1010, 1030 show start. It's maybe 1011, 30. Sometimes by the time you're he's getting up, and you're like, I just want to go home now, because you did your set an hour before that. Basically,
Eric Readinger 15:27
I know, but now you're going to be that guy. Yeah, no, I
Law Smith 15:30
tell if I headline a show, I'm like, please. Let's do it Boston style, where the the first person brings up the second, second person brings up a third. Kind of thing that's in style or shotgun style. I forgot this
Eric Readinger 15:42
next queer we got.
Law Smith 15:46
I'm so angry and white, but yeah, perfect. He's taking a Oh, you didn't get the nuance of my impression. I see, should I bring the Italian guy Matt, please. Hey, it's me. I'm Mario
Eric Readinger 16:03
from a Boston by
Law Smith 16:05
the way, it when people say Super Mario Brothers. I want to
Eric Readinger 16:09
doing that just to me off. I want to throw a chair through
Law Smith 16:13
a window just to go. No,
Eric Readinger 16:15
nobody say, who said that? People
Law Smith 16:17
from like the jersey Philly white thing? No, it's like that Italian kind of No, no, what we call Mario. And it's like, he literally an Italian would never say Mario, dude, I don't know. I don't get a name. Is an Italian name? I used to fight with my ex wife about this all the time. And I'd go, hey, when you put on in 64 Super Mario had some good points. What does he say? What is the first thing that he says in the video game when it loads up, it's a me, a Mario. you. I'm with you. I'm
Eric Readinger 16:50
the pronunciation, just, you know, the demographics, I guess.
Law Smith 16:55
Oh no, Italians are dumb.
Eric Readinger 16:59
Okay, I can agree with that,
Law Smith 17:00
like you said on the show before you said it really is really poignant. Italians are the dumb Jews. That was your quote.
Eric Readinger 17:10
What you sure about that? So hilarious. So
Law Smith 17:16
I'm a little late on getting everything. I didn't
Eric Readinger 17:19
say that for the record.
Law Smith 17:21
Oh, yeah, off air. That's what you
Eric Readinger 17:26
mean. I mean, just,
Speaker 1 17:27
I mean, you know, call in if you have any And shame on you
Eric Readinger 17:31
if you're like, acting like that's a bad thing. If I had said that, yeah, you know, I
Law Smith 17:37
wish I was a poor man's you that's
Eric Readinger 17:39
so it's on you people, well, you
Law Smith 17:43
know, call in, or IG live in, whatever, however you do that. I don't know. I'm gonna be 40 soon. I don't know how technology works. I just like saying call in. We don't have a phone number. Call them on airplane mode. I would, I we do need to set up a voicemail number people can well, we
Eric Readinger 18:01
need like, a fun telephone here.
Law Smith 18:03
Oh yeah. We need, like, a football one,
Eric Readinger 18:05
yeah, real loud, aggressive ringer. Remember
Law Smith 18:08
the football? Yeah.
Eric Readinger 18:10
I want it, like, vibrating on the table.
Law Smith 18:11
We should just get it and get a Google Voice number and just have it for the novelty of having that phone there. Yeah? Because, like, you're not gonna get a phone
Eric Readinger 18:19
line, nah, or not. Yeah. What
Law Smith 18:22
is this? 95 so trying to I was like, Oh, man. Now the list of I need to do that I haven't done yet. I got enough time. It's not, what do you got to do? It's not a big room. It's 70 people, maybe max, and that's kind of the fill the room. It sounds great in there, and you gotta worry about filming
Eric Readinger 18:45
it. That's part BYOB, yeah. So that's covered.
Law Smith 18:49
That's cool. And I'm thinking maybe I get a trash can of Bush lights and just have them outside, something like that. Just lean into it. Yeah? Everybody would hate it. Yeah. Maybe I can get high noon to sponsor. Who knows,
Eric Readinger 19:02
did you consider, I regret that I'm bringing this up, but did you consider doing two of the same shows so you have when you wear the same clothes?
Law Smith 19:12
Oh yeah, no, I'm I was asking to do as many shows as I could in the weekend. He didn't want to move around a lot of stuff. But if Sunday sells, maybe we'll do a second one on Sunday. Oh, you know. And if this, if they all sell quickly, you know, we'll figure out how to, maybe ask, ask another comic that runs a show to kind of move for that week or so. I don't know. We'll figure it out, but he was very like, you'll figure it. He didn't, yeah, but he didn't meet, I meant me and the club owner, but, like, he didn't. He's very, like, loyal to the people that run shows there and stuff and that have put deposits down. No, I don't. I don't know how he works the other shows, but it's one of those things where it's like, I'm excited about it. It's, it's one of those things where you put it out there, like, you know, you put something out there. I was like, I'm gonna run a marathon. I'm. I don't know how I'm going to do it, or train for it, which I didn't, or run a half marathon, whatever. And you like, you put it out there, and you're like, Okay, now I got to focus on that. And this needs to take this is going to make me better in the end of it, you know, yeah,
Eric Readinger 20:17
like, I probably need my map before you might need to go talking about it for a very long time,
I know, and we're gonna finally do it. And I was like, What
Law Smith 20:26
am I gonna do? Just not do this now? Because I jam myself up with, like, I wanted, like, three months to just take my time to promote it. And I was like, I can't delay this anymore. You know,
Eric Readinger 20:36
we're kind of, you know, kind of in the same spot mentally with our lives. We got this thing, like, no war waiting for you time to get do it at this then you can die happy.
Law Smith 20:47
And that was like,
Eric Readinger 20:49
I was also like, later, right now, let's
Law Smith 20:51
say, for whatever reason, don't get a good film of it, right? Like, we have two shows to knock it out
Eric Readinger 20:58
front of the program, John Paul lab, but he's full well. I
Law Smith 21:01
want a bunch of different shots. I want, I want to hedge our bets. Because you're a chicken, he's a chicken. I'm trying to look at this like, okay, how can this get up afterward, right? How that disappointment after filming something? You're like, we didn't get it on there, yeah, you know? Like, I want, I want us to rent some cameras to make sure bat
Eric Readinger 21:20
we got batteries, redundancies upon redundancy, right? I want to
Law Smith 21:24
do a test run one night beforehand with with some of our equipment, you know, just to see, because there's, there's always so what I was saying about that old people show, I got there right before the show started, and it was an hour outside of Tampa trailer park. Country Club is weird. This mobile home parks interesting, and then this really nice, like Country Club middle part, like with a golf course. And I was like, okay, they're just the whole community is just cool with that. I guess, nice country club communal space, and then mobile homes, huh? What do you know so
Eric Readinger 22:05
and what sounds awesome? Probably,
Law Smith 22:07
I mean, look, it's Auburndale, Florida. Do you know where that is? Because I'd never been there. There was definitely a place that said, like, we have crabs, Joe's Crab place or something like that. I was like, Yeah, this place rules, did
Eric Readinger 22:20
you get the swinger vibe? Um,
Law Smith 22:22
no, no. I was just trying to a lot of references weren't hitting that. I was like, Oh yeah, they're not gonna get two girls, one one cup reference, not this crown. But I was like, I
Eric Readinger 22:39
I think actually the crowd on that is probably narrowing by the minute. What do you mean? I don't think many people would know what that means. I throw
Law Smith 22:49
it in a joke. It still works. I've got it. I've got in one of my my good material. But what's it called? I had to put my phone. I'd record all my sets, and I couldn't put it. I couldn't put it anywhere. And I was like, I literally got there three minutes before it started. And of course, the guy who brings me up is like, All right, so this guy is, I want to I should be an about this. If you're bringing up anybody on stage in anything, say their name last. Just say their name last. He said my name, and then a bunch of other things. And I'm like, he gave because, oh, he's got a sweat equity podcast. He's got a podcast called sweat he goes, we're gonna bring up law Smith. He's gonna be opening doing about 30 minutes,
Eric Readinger 23:35
depending on how, whether you laugh or not. Guys very sweet in the back, letting him know? So yeah. And I was like, aging your interest? He was like,
Law Smith 23:45
Yeah. He has a podcast called sweat equity, and he's a fractional CMO, what is that? And I'm like, Really, dude, raise your
Eric Readinger 23:55
hand if you know the answer.
Law Smith 23:55
I'm 20 feet off stage, so I'm like, come on just and then I and then kept going. I just walked on stage while he's still talking nice. I was like, let me handle it. From here, I got it. And then I think I got up and gave my own intro, and then walked in a circle and came back.
Eric Readinger 24:10
But yeah, probably the height of the show for those people. No, the
Law Smith 24:13
height of the show was guessing a guy's name second, and then he showed me his wallet to double to verify. And then he wouldn't give me his wallet. I was like, let me see that wallet, give it to me. And so. And then there was one guy sitting with four women. I was like, That guy, Fred, you know, whatever your name is, you're pimp dude. You got, you definitely have a Cialis, like, prescription. He was like, Yeah, buddy. He's like, an 80 year old guy, yeah, with four chicks. Some gills for chicks. So I put my cell phone behind me, so you get, like, a butt shot of me doing stuff right where the power is. But I didn't realize, like, oh, the sound from the audience is awesome, and I've never had that. So it's like those little things I've been writing down notes I. Listen to podcasts of other people talking about their specials and what to do, like, but outfit things very, you know, that's, that's advanced kind of stuff. Like, Hey, have the same outfit. You know, multiple different the same exact thing. Yeah, if
Eric Readinger 25:16
you're doing a black and white bonus points, cuz then you don't have to, I'm talking about for this scenario. Then you don't have to Matt's light up,
Law Smith 25:24
yeah, but the background is, like, it's an artist,
Eric Readinger 25:30
I don't you should do black, but I think
Law Smith 25:33
that, I think the color plays so much because it has so much like tchotchke crap on the wall. Sure, it's but it's like, done in a good, artsy way. I don't know how to explain that, but, you know, I don't know how to color match. I don't know how that's stuff. I thought you knew.
Eric Readinger 25:50
No, I'm saying it's fine. I'm just saying if you're doing two different ones, it can then you have to match two. Now, Fernandez
Law Smith 25:57
had a good idea. He's like, why aren't you doing a crowd work one? And I was like, oh, yeah, I do that. So if I do, if I can get the 30 minutes I want, let's say I get it real tight to that 30, or maybe I go 35 with that material. I might just around after I'm done. Yeah. And I also had an idea I want to pitch you. I was thinking, you know, they don't, I don't want to do a sketch beforehand, like a lot of 80s, 90s specials, did you know? And you're like, What is this? I thought I was watching stand up. I want something quick, but I thought it'd be funny. We could borrow my buddy's golf cart and drive around Ybor City, almost like I was thinking, like, Goodfellas, where they go in, you know, that long, yeah, from where he goes outside, they go downstairs, and the guy gets up the table, moves it just that long, one cut. We're True Detective one long cut. But I to do that, we'd have to, like, speed it up, probably, you know, yeah, that's you want to get like, one joke as soon as possible, really? Yeah, maybe for promo.
Eric Readinger 27:06
No, they've, I've seen it where they like time it and they follow them right up on stage. Yeah, I
Law Smith 27:11
think that would be cool.
Eric Readinger 27:12
It would be cool. But it sounds like you'd paint any answers people filming it. I think we
Law Smith 27:17
could do it on, like, a different, a slower night there and then to,
Eric Readinger 27:21
like, nail the timing. No, no, we just cut it.
But the whole point of the majesty of the shot is that it's one shot. There's no cuts. Well, I was
Law Smith 27:30
thinking it'd be funny if, like, people just threw me stuff to put on, like, what I'm wearing for the show. We can do that after, is what I was saying, and just in, yeah, a lot work to do. Yeah, it might be a fun promo, I don't know, but I was just just trying to think of outside the box ideas like that. Yeah, it'd be kind of not too difficult to do, but I
Eric Readinger 27:54
button up that that set. Oh yeah, go.
Law Smith 27:59
I'll have, you know, already written it out a few times just because I'm like, I gotta, I'm gonna think about this every day kind of thing. Because I don't. I definitely don't want to do the thing I normally do, which is, wait till the last week. Yeah,
Eric Readinger 28:13
and do it. Yeah. No. You just need to be second nature this time very smooth. Turns
Law Smith 28:17
out I find out if I'm like, you know, chip away at things a little bit at a time on a project, right? Seems my life's a lot easier. Yeah, weird. It's the whole getting started on it, right? Today, I had some time this afternoon I go, I'm gonna get ahead on work, and I don't even know, I can't even tell you what I did for like, an hour and a half. What am I doing? Yeah, I had three hours I find
Eric Readinger 28:42
for something big, getting a system in place, ready to go, that you can rely and fall back on right routine gets me feeling better about whatever it is. It's like, okay, well, lots of times it's like, Oh, am I gonna be able to do this tomorrow? Right? It will awful that use my system. That's
Law Smith 29:02
how I was thinking. I was like, I got my kids this week, so it makes, oh, yeah,
Eric Readinger 29:06
and you and I have to have a kids week system and a non kids week system, right? And so
Law Smith 29:10
my my work days get shorter. And I was like, I need to, I have to take a weekend day in the future always, to do work, you know, right? Just to make sure, because that's how you scale and get bigger and do what you want to do work wise, you know,
Eric Readinger 29:26
and steroids, oh, man, I can't wait.
What is stopping you? I don't
Law Smith 29:31
want it. I don't want a shot
Eric Readinger 29:36
rating. So they do gummy steroids, do they?
Law Smith 29:41
I do have a corrections from the Corrections Department. They
Eric Readinger 29:43
do, you know, there are mixing pharmacies that I learned about that like, you know, they they have to, like, if you get prescribed something, you might have an allergy. And, like, there's a pharmacy, you know, in every town that has to, like, make it special without the certain allergy in it. Well. If still get your medicine. If I do, I need steroids and gummy form. TRT,
Law Smith 30:03
I first have to see if I can qualify for it, like my T, whatever score might be, not it might be too high. Or, yeah, because I put it out, that's
Eric Readinger 30:17
not what we're talking about. What are you talking about? I'm talking about you get, you go to the gym and you find the guy that sells steroids. Oh, going
Law Smith 30:24
to the doctor. I could easily do that. I don't want to do that. I could do that every day of my life, since I was 15. But I I'm good. It's not
Eric Readinger 30:32
nearly as scintillating that you're just getting medical treatment for your low testosterone. I don't care. I don't do more badass. If you have high testosterone, you
Law Smith 30:41
still you do it your way. I'll do it my way. I'm not doing
Eric Readinger 30:43
it at all. Yeah? So you know you'll be double,
Law Smith 30:47
you'll be behind, dude, yeah? Peep, season's coming up. Yep, no, if I do it, I would, I would be the guy that goes to the doctor to get the shot, because I don't trust my sweaty hands. Oh, no, yeah. Like, I think you can, I can give you a shot. I'm not. I don't want you. I want a doctor to do it, or what, I want a nurse or a doctor to do it. I am that. No, yeah, no, medical school.
Eric Readinger 31:12
I can do a needle, though.
Law Smith 31:15
Save it for someone else. You know, maybe you'll marry a man that wants it
Eric Readinger 31:21
to my dad.
Law Smith 31:23
All right, so we got a little corrections from my ex, Boo Colette. She said I was FYI, the FTC non compete ban that you talked about on the podcast is not effective and unlikely to take effect. So hunch was right, what remember when the FTC said the non compete thing, where they go, we're we're striking down. You can't have non compete clauses. Oh, right. It's and we, our hunch was that it was like a PR move for them, yeah, right. It's overreach, and exceeding authority by the FTC, just because they publish a rule, which they haven't done yet, doesn't make it a law. Only Congress can make the laws Congress
Eric Readinger 32:05
part of them.
Law Smith 32:07
I feel like, I feel pretty dumb when I got that. I was like, I should. I should probably know that that seems kind of,
Eric Readinger 32:12
again. Don't remember talking about that, really. Oh, really.
Law Smith 32:15
I remember that one because that, because it was like, oh because not competes, kind of up, but you can't work around them. It just depends, whatever in it that was, that wasn't for C suite level people. It was for the entry level kind of crowd. Oh yeah, which, to me, makes sense. Like, what entry level person do you need to do a non compete with? Like, hey, you're, you're a Chipotle guy. If I see Chick fil A, if I see you going to Qdoba, right? If I see you,
Eric Readinger 32:49
Moe's how Mose, god
Law Smith 32:51
damn it. If you limpy comes back, I wish Blimpie would come back and be like, hey. Like, make a huge comeback and just go anti Jared. We don't have any pedophiles as our spokes guys,
Eric Readinger 33:04
wimpy, just Blimpy with adults, adults, adults
Law Smith 33:09
with adults, normal, limping, they're
Eric Readinger 33:10
signing consent forms.
Law Smith 33:12
Quiznos. Oh, we
Eric Readinger 33:14
should say thank you, Colette, yeah, despite the terrible, horrible bad blood, yeah, still giving us corrections.
Law Smith 33:22
No, I like corrections, yeah, but you do correct me all day, yeah, yeah. Anything on your side? I've been blathering the whole time. I did shrooms. I
Eric Readinger 33:36
got nothing. I mean, I It's either I got a shitloader. I got nothing.
Law Smith 33:42
Well, I did shrooms as a proactive measure. Felt like I had that list, that never ending list, in my head, you know? Yeah, it really does clear the cash out of your RAM space for your brain. Yeah, except
Eric Readinger 33:59
computer talk too.
Law Smith 34:01
Except I got a lift to a bar, and I just, I took, like a baby, just a baby, one a stem with a little head on it, on it, yeah, so. And I was like, that should be fine. That should be pretty chill. It might not even work. It is what I thought. And then I get in the Lyft. It's a hot, the hottest Latina chick by far, by far, the hottest person that's ever driven Lyft or Uber, for me, driven a car, period. And I was like, I blurred it. I was like, Oh, you're really pretty. Like, What the is wrong with me? Okay? And because I'm like, and because when I'm, I don't know about you, last goes up, when I'm on these cars, when I'm on shrooms, I'm like, I'm very complimentary. But it doesn't come out the way I probably think it does. Like I thought it was like, Oh, this is just a nice thing to say, but I probably said it like autistic. But. Like, you're broke, pretty Yeah. And then I was like, she drove like the whole time she's on the phone, the whole time you're not as hot as before. Only spoke Spanish, so I couldn't even be like, Hey, can you, can you, can you? Can you just chill a little bit? Oh, yeah, Nina's or whatever name is, yannette and and all the colors were like, blurring and Oh, okay, did you go plaid? And then I realized her tent was up, like it was bubbling, and I thought I was seeing colors like streaking. And I was like, oh, tense, up. And
Eric Readinger 35:40
I was like, got that shrooms?
Law Smith 35:42
Dipshit? No, I thought it was shrooms. I thought I was like, Oh, I'm not gonna have an ego death in this car. No, no,
Eric Readinger 35:49
I guarantee you didn't do hardly any play. Didn't even feel it. I
Law Smith 35:52
did, and I did Wim Hof breathing just to make sure I didn't puke, because she drove like and I want to barf everywhere. Oh, oh,
Eric Readinger 36:01
that's a whole nother ball game. Yeah. And I thought it was just like, aggressive angriness that you thought you're gonna get shot. No,
Law Smith 36:07
no. I was like, oh. But then Latino women, they don't put up with pus men, beta males. So I was like, I can't say like, Hey, can you slow it down? I'm like, I can't do that. You're in the back seat. You're in the back seat, old school.
Eric Readinger 36:25
It's from a movie.
Law Smith 36:28
That's all I got. Okay,
Eric Readinger 36:29
that's good then,
Law Smith 36:30
oh, I got one last thing. I had a friend that's on crutches. She never been hurt before, never had like, a cast on or anything, uh huh. And she was like, you know, she was telling me, like, and everyone's like, asking me, what happened to me? And I'm like, Oh, you've never, you never had, like, a cast on, you know, like, if you got hurt, you're on crutches. She everyone's gonna use that. People were like, what happened, right? And I had, but I had to explain. I was like, you know, that's just, like, normal human behavior, like most people are going to ask you about it. And she was like, do I know this person? I'm not going to name names, but
Eric Readinger 37:07
do I know them? Yes. Okay, well, I'm going to,
Law Smith 37:10
but I'm saying, like, you know this is like, this is how people behave. And she was like, Yeah, but I mean, like, I tell them it's none of their business, and they keep asking questions, none of your business. Is that what they said? No. She said, I know. But I was like, just, if you don't want to talk about it, just say you twist
Eric Readinger 37:27
my business. All right, what I wrap around my legs is not your business.
Law Smith 37:32
We went to a party, and I was like, you're gonna get asked, I'm I'm setting the line at five, and that's low. There's probably 30 people there, and I was like, literally
Eric Readinger 37:42
anybody you would meet for the first time. But we didn't talk about we didn't
Law Smith 37:46
move around the party. So it was kind of like people had to come to us, kind of thing. But
Eric Readinger 37:50
so that's why I set the bar, meaning to ask you about your leg. Yeah.
Law Smith 37:54
And so it was like, she didn't want to. She responded once, and it was like, so icy. And I was like, Whoa, dude, you gotta chill on this. And it's like, it's so funny that we spent 10 minutes going over this. I was like, you know, this is normal with human behavior. And I was like, this is because you never had an injury like this ever in your life. So you never experienced it. I had a cast on basically all of my sophomore year of high school, I went above the elbow cast. Then it was a forearm downcast. Then it was the bowlers.
Eric Readinger 38:29
Like, splint cast was your left arm too. I broke my left arm my freshman year is right here. Yeah. And
Law Smith 38:36
so everyone's like, How'd you get the bowling thing? Like, cool dude, thanks. Every everyone will ask you, you have to have something. And then I told her, You know what you can do for fun. You can make up different stuff. Because I used to have a bad birthmark up here above my ear. And it like, if my hair was short, you could see it, and it was big, we got it kind of lasered off because it was going to be cancerous or something so, but kind of lasered, when we got it lasered off, because it's kind of, was kind of cancers, that's
Eric Readinger 39:07
full laser. So kind of cancer might have been a kind of, kind
Law Smith 39:11
of laser, but so, but it was, it was big, you could see it, right? And so people would ask all the time, and I would, I go, just make up stuff. I used to tell people all the time. I was like, Well, we were on the golf and I saved my friend Tommy from a tiger shark. And then I would just try to see if I could pull that off. Yeah, they're like, What? Really, it
Eric Readinger 39:30
broke your arm. No, no
Law Smith 39:33
for that.
Eric Readinger 39:35
But like, the opposite is, like, most people would have the thing of like, oh, man, nobody really asked me about my arm or my leg or something like that. Scenario is much more normal than what it's like. I thought it
Law Smith 39:50
was a funny human behavior thing of like, Huh? I said I, I never thought about it. If you never, if you never had an injury. Three, right? And, but, you
Eric Readinger 40:02
know, I mean, that's just like, how much more different is it than somebody just kind of looking sad or down in the dumps and you're being like, you know? Like, I feel like
Law Smith 40:12
most people come up with a coping mechanism for whatever. Like, yeah, you know, um, but like to be surprised, like a sunburn crutches, if you get sunburn and you have, like, the eyeglass tan, the sunglasses stand, the raccoon eyes, that you don't even have to be like, what might be like, what'd you do this weekend? You wouldn't want to fall into a
Eric Readinger 40:31
nuclear reactor. I just thought, Oh, I got sunburned. Oh, I
Law Smith 40:34
just thought it was really funny. I was like, oh, that's you missed that in your childhood. You're over 40, and this has never happened, right? Or or seen it you missed or had a friend that was annoyed by it. Because, look, I get annoyed. Strangers will ask you because they're just, they think they're making conversation, or, you know, they think they're I think most people,
Eric Readinger 40:55
yeah, I think most people are showing that they care about your well being, in a way. And
Law Smith 40:59
I was like, I don't, I told her, like, most people's default isn't that they're they don't want to talk about it. They just answer and then it's over, yeah.
Eric Readinger 41:09
Just that's most, that's most stuff,
Law Smith 41:11
most exciting part of this pod. All
Eric Readinger 41:13
right, I agree. Let's close it out.
Law Smith 41:15
All right, take a knee. You.
