Welcome to Geek Therapy Radio. You've got your mental curator, Johnny Hemburger.
I cracked the mic today to record this broadcast with nothing, nothing really specific
on my mind, which doesn't really matter, because if you've listened to Geek
Therapy Radio, even just once, but definitely twice, you know that one
of the glorious parts of this radio show and of this podcast is that this
is geek therapy, and in a lot of ways, this is my own
geek therapy therapy for myself. So my mind wanders. I'm definitely undiagnosed ADHD.
I don't think hYP I don't have hyperactivity, but ADD for sure,
and I'm thinking about going and like actually taking a test to see if it's
true. But you know what part of me here's the first hand. I
was just gonna say that I go off on tangents on geek Therapy Radio about
different geek subjects and what's on my mind and what's going on in the world
of geekdom and maybe otherwise ADD. Even if I was diagnosed with ADD,
I would argue I'd be kind of like, what do I do with this?
What do I do with the information that I have ADD? Because you
know, the doctor is going to say, well, we can prescribe you
things. There's different ways to deal with it and manage it, and I'm
thinking, well, the way I've been managing it so far has actually turned
out to be pretty has turned out well for me so far. I'm not
a millionaire. I don't drive around Ferraris and things like that, but like,
I've got a home, I've got a child and another child on the
way. I have too many cars that I know what to do with.
I've got a nineteen eighty three Delore, like, I've got stuff as far
as like checking out the list of like American consumerism and doing what you got
to do to be a good American consumer. My Amazon account will tell you
that I'm fine. I'm doing fine there. I make sure that I have
the money saved first. Everything that comes out of paycheck first, after Uncle
Sam takes his stupid cut of it. Everything that I earn first ghosts to
the proper channels. It first goes to investments. It goes into my investments
for my children's education, it goes into investments for my retirement. It gets
saved off the bat. Everything I make it gets saved first, and then
everything that left. Then whatever is left over is can be used for fun
money or the laptop or the camera or whatever. I'm fine if you would
have asked me, you know, in twenty eleven, when I first got
my start in radio, Hey man, one day your career will be going
so well that you can be laying on the couch watching your giant whatever fifty
five inch which is not that giant, but your big o lead TV,
with your beautiful three year old son running around at Christmas Tree, and your
cruis are on Amazon. Just kind of people sending you their wish list,
Like my wife sent me her Amazon wish list and I don't know when she's
going to listen to this podcast, but it's like I'm not going through and
just picking and choosing what I'm going to take off this list to get.
I just got the whole list and it wasn't that much money. But still,
if you would have told me twenty eleven, when I first got my
starting radio making eleven bucks an hour, part time, pre tax, like
you're going to be chilling looking at your beautiful son, with your beautiful wife
and cruising Amazon and just without even thinking about it, just hitting by all
the to the Christmas list, I would have thought you were insane. It's
like, there's no way this path that I'm on in radio will amount to
being able to buy someone's entire Amazon wish list in one fell swoop and again
I can't. You're thinking it's thousands of US dollars. That's not the case
at all. It really wasn't that much money. But still it was more
than two hundred dollars. But if you would have asked me in twenty eleven,
hey, you're going to be buying things two hundred dollars of willy nilly
after you've saved all this money, You have enough to save, you have
enough money to pay your mortgage, you have enough money to pay the car
note, and then you have enough money to buy video games and computer stuff
and microphones in whatever else. I would have been like, you're crazy.
There's no way I'm going to have just a frivolous two hundred dollars to have
a couple of drinks of bourbon and go on Amazon. Which is the most
dangerous conversation, the most it's the most dangerous situation financially. No matter kind
of where you are at financially, you know, a couple a couple of
shots of bourbon and Amazon is a very bad mix. And I have this
joke that I've put postulated on Twitter a couple of times, which is basically
that everybody, everybody listening to this. You in the car driving around,
listening to this, You and your garage right now, listening to this.
You tinkering with your OH Scale Model trains or HRO model Scale model scal trains,
You playing your video games, you work, tinkering with your drone or
your RC airplanes or whatever you're working on whatever, wherever this voice is meeting
you right now. You, Yes, I'm talking to you specifically and individually.
If you're over twenty one, you have things in your Amazon Saved for
Later KRT that you are one bourbon away from purchasing. We are all guilty
of it. We are all guilty. I have things right now in my
Amazon cart that you know what, next time I have a little nightcap,
a little rum and coke or whatever, it's getting bought, it's getting put
in that cart and it's coming my way within two business days via prive.
We all have things and are Amazon Save for Later cart that we are one
drink away from purchasing. And that's the truest thing that you're gonna hear in
this entire segment. We all have things that are Amazon save for later.
Cart we are one drink away from purchasing. And if you would have told
me years ago that I'd be in a position to where I could do that
kind of slightly irresponsible activity and be financially okay, not have it mean that
I have to like tweak and trk around my my accounts and things to move
moneys around to make sure I make rent. I wouldn't have believed you,
like, that's crazy, that that my life could could turn out in such
a way where I don't have to constantly be worrying about money in that way.
Now, the worry financially is just, you know, I look at
my my path of retirement and in money management towards that path, and Wriker's
education and my next son's education and things things like that. The worry is
like am I on track for that? There's always a little worry that should
I be saving more? Or am I okay? And of course the answer
is you can always save more. You could? Did I need you know
that drone that I got I would argue yes, because it's part of my
profession's part of my job at the Houston Museum of Natural Science as a YouTube
manager making videos for Houston Museum and Natural Science. Yeah, it is a
thing. But did I need to get that drone? Could I have saved
a few bucks on a slightly less expensive drone? Like you could always save
more? But now the financial worry, And I think for a lot of
people my age, you know, forty years old, that's not necessarily if
you're so lucky and blessed to be in the position, it's not necessarily.
Am I gonna make mortgage? It's like, I know I'm gonna make mortgage,
but could I be saving more? And especially you know in this season,
my heart goes out to people who are struggling with the mortgage because that's
that's a very likely scenario with a lot of people is struggling to make ends
meet. Anyways, more giek Therapy Radio coming up, let's talk about a
drunk scooter ride. Welcome back to geek Therapy Radio. You've got your mental
curator, Johnny Hamburger geek Therapy radio dot com, which, by the way,
I'm updating geek therapy radio dot com, depending on when you go visit
the website. Hopefully I've got it sussed out right now. It's kind of
a blank page with a cassette background as I'm recording this, but I'm simplifying
it. I'm just streamlining, streamlining and simplifying it. So if you go
to geek therapyrado dot com, the only two things I want you to see.
First and foremost, somebody visiting geek theraperido dot com, I want them
to see a giant, you know, play button. Uh maybe not a
giant playbump, but I want them to see the playlist of podcasts. You
should be able to go to a podcast website and just immediately start listening to
the podcast. So that's first and foremost. Second is I wanted the background
to kind of depict, just in an instant, kind of where I'm at
as a geek, kind of tell the story of me in of geek therapy
Radio just in one image, And I think cassette tape kind of perfectly encapsulates
at a glance what geek therapy Radio is about. I'm staring at my tape
deck right now. It's a glorious Sony three head tape deck. It's a
tc K six fifteen s Sony three head tape deck which is still works.
And occasionally, if you listen to Geek Therapy Radio, subscribe to Geek Therapy
Radio podcast in your favorite podcast player pluggy pluggy plug. Occasionally I have shows
that I record to cassette tape, So if you're curious about what or how
good a cassette can sound in the year twenty in the twenty twenties as of
recording, you can go back and go through the playlist of my podcast I
have hundreds of podcasts by now hundreds of episodes, and you can search.
If you go to a website, especially geek Theaparido dot com, you see
the podcast listed there, and there's a little thing there's as search podcasts.
You just type in cassette or c ass and see all the episodes that I've
talked about at cassette. I am diligent in how I title and describe my
podcasts so that when you're just kind of glancing through the playlist, you can
easily see what do you want to listen to. So if I'm talking about
model trains one day for whatever reason, or RC airplanes or drones, or
computers or amigas or commodores or old two eighty six is three eighty six is
or I'm talking about my reference great Adam studio monitors or music production or whatever.
You can see in the podcast description and title that that's what the show
is about, or DeLorean or cyber truck or whatever. But if you want
to hear episodes that were recorded to actual you know, type one or type
two cassettes, just go to geek theperio dot com and its says search podcast
type in cassette and it'll come up. So, yes, I am working
on the website. You see the podcast playing. I want the next thing
you see that's prevalent to be the contact to be just start typing something and
I'll see it, which I do, and y'all reach out. Tristan as
I'm recording this right now, was asking if it was if they should buy
a DeLorean right now or not, and I just kind of told Tristan my
experience with owning a Delory for twenty years. They said that they want the
only thing is they need to make it their daily driver. Is it okay
as a daily driver? And so I was just given my experience with having
a doloury for twenty years and the time that I did daily drive it for
several years, I delivered pizza with it, for God's sake, and that
person, Tristan, contacted me through the website just right there. So as
I revamped the website, I want you a a visitor, to be able
to listen to the podcast immediately too, just as easily be able to contact
me. And then third down the line would be like, all right,
I want to revamp my merch store. Not many people go there to buy
merch in the first place, and I revamped it in twenty twenty when there's
a whole bunch of supply chain issues. I want to have it. I
want to have merch in there that's really affordable. Like for me, it's
not about money. I'm not trying to make a lot of money with this
radio show or podcast. If it happens awesome, I could just save more
money for retirement, like I was talking about in the kind of in the
first segment. But I just want people to have access in kind of if
they like the show, if they like what I'm doing here, if they
like eat Therapy Radio, that they can kind of put a sticker cheap sticker
on their laptop, or bumper sticker, or maybe a coffee mug, little
things like that T shirt. It's a various kind of like price scale so
that people don't get don't get to my merch store, which doesn't exist yet
by the way, not really and feel like sixty bucks for a beach towel,
one hundred dollars for this and that. No, since I said I
don't care about money, I would price it so I would price it just
enough to like cover shipping, and maybe I get you twenty five American cents
above that. I price it very reasonably because I'm not trying to gouge.
Like you go to these people in these podcasts, merch stores and YouTube channels,
merch stores, and you're seeing like seventy dollars screwdrivers. I'm not saying
Linus tech tips, screwdriver ant worth seventy dollars or whatever the heck gets they're
charging for it. But like, I don't this stuff is so expensive,
like merch stores for bands and things like that. I understand why they price
it the way they do because they need bands, especially struggling artists need to
make make a living, and I have no problem. I will shell out
thirty bucks for a crappy T shirt at a rock concert if I really like
the band, because I want them to be able to feed themselves. I
want them to be able to have enough gas to get to their next gig.
But I am in a position to where I don't need to gouge y'all,
and I'm not greedy. So I just want y'all to have access to
geek therapy radio stuff for a very reasonable, if not cheap price. So
as I revamp my website, I'll build up the merch store again to more
cater towards obviously that I'm not trying to gouge y'all. And if I see
an item on there that's going to be like, hey, you need to
charge twenty dollars for this coffee mug because materials cost this and shipping costs this
and whatever, then I might not offer it, or if I do,
it's going to be down towards the bottom. For people that really want to
shell out. You might be thinking twenty bucks, that's not that much,
but is twenty bucks for a coffee mug? I don't know. I don't
know if someone's on the fence about that. I want there to be more
options for them. I want to have the stickers for a dollar or two.
I want to have, oh gosh, whatever, like a T shirt
for ten bucks if possible. I don't. I'm not trying to gouge y'all.
So anyways, revamping the website there geek Therapy radio dot com. You
can also just email me directly Joa and Why at geek Theapy radio dot com
Johnny at geek Therapy radio dot com. And if you're listening to the radio,
you can find the podcast anywhere. iHeartRadio app of course, Google,
Apple, Spotify, just type in geek Therapy Radio podcast and there you go.
Also on YouTube and all the other socials, TikTok and all that.
So I ended the last segment, and this is what I'm going to get
into for the remainder of this segment, and then the next segment. I'm
sure we'll see. But the other week, like two weeks ago, let
me predicate this by saying, as of recording, I am forty years old.
I am not a spring chicken. This is I did it. I
partook in an activity and adventure a couple weeks ago that a twenty two year
old would have no problem with, but as a forty year old I was
paying for it for days afterwards. My body was like, dude, I
know your spirit is willing, but your flesh cannot keep up with this.
You cannot do this all the time. And your bones in your back and
your muscles are gonna tell you in your in your brain are gonna tell you
you can't do this. You're gonna be punished for the activities you partook in
the other the other day. So that activity, it's innocence. It wasn't
debauchrous or anything like that. But here's what I did. It was one
of those nights where you get home or you're like really hung over the next
day and you're surprised by it. For any kids listening, don't don't drink
too excess. I mean, this is stupid. I don't do it very
often, which is why I don't have any sort of tolerance for it,
which is why I felt so bad the night of in the day after,
But so the day after, it's one of those things where you're like counting,
like I don't think I had that many drinks. I think you only
had like four drinks or the equivalent of four beers. And then the next
day as clarity kind of sets and you start like tracing your steps and you're
like, I didn't have four drinks. I had like twelve to fourteen drinks
over a span of time. And that's what happened to me is I went
out to dinner with Sarah and Riiker, and I was in a very good
mood. I only ever drink alcoholic beverages when I'm in a good mood.
When I'm bummed out or depressed or or anything like that, I don't drink.
The idea of having a beer when I'm depressed is the worst idea in
the world to me. It just doesn't appeal to me at all. But
when I'm feeling good, in a good mood, that's where if I am
going to have a beverage. I do have a beverage. And I did
have a beverage or fourteen this other night, and I will proceed to tell
you about it in the third segment coming up, which is the longest segment.
You're listening to Geek Therapy Radio, your forty year old mental curators about
to tell you about his party night. Welcome back to Geek Therapy Radio.
You've got your mental curator, Johnny Hamburger. In the last segment, I
teased that I was going to tell y'all about my my party night that I
had the other like a week or two ago. Parties. Parties are stretch
by party. I mean, I drink too much. Let me recap,
let me recap the drinks that I had, and just kind of how the
night went. So when out my family, I was in a good mood.
We Sarah Riker, Sarah driven. Obviously, we went to a Kossa
V. We call a cosav Aqueros here in Missouri City, Texas. We
go to that place. Man, it seems like once a week we go
to Kossa V. But anyways, I'm in a really good mood that night,
I have one margarita and usually I stop at one margarita at kosav and
like not one margerita is good. I will definitely feel one margarita. I'm
forty years old, I'm gonna feel one mart margarita. I don't drink that
much that often, so one margerita is good. But on this particular night,
and this is probably where this is probably immediately where the train of the
evening derailed is the waiter came around. I was in a really good mood,
especially because I had already finished one margarita, and he's like, you
want another? And I said, where I normally would say no, I
said, normally i'd say no, but tonight, sure, I'll do another
margarita. My wife is driving. Everything's fine, So had the other two.
Margerita's not a big deal to margarita's. And you go home and you
just have a pleasant evening. You know, you can tell that you've had
a couple of margarita's, but it's nothing crazy, certainly, nothing to be
hungover about. You drink more water, you eat more food. It's just
it's nothing. You feel warm for a couple hours and that's it, no
problem at all. So where things really started getting off the rails was that
I remembered before we went out to eat at Kosav, I was still doing
stuff in the garage, like cleaning the garage and doing whatever. And I
had two Mikeelobe Ultras, which is an extremely light beer. It's practically water.
So as I'm recounting my steps my drinks that night, I said,
oh, I had two mikeelobe Ultras that afternoon before going to Kosa V where
I had two margerita So already right there, and this is this is over
the span of like seven hours. We're talking two light beers and two Margarita's
over the span of a whole afternoon, like seven or eight hours. So
I'm I'm fine. But after dinner, my neighbor al and I'll send him
this episode. My neighbor al text me. He's like, bro, remember
the other night were we were sitting on Bourbon and you said you wanted to
come to the this this office party that his wife was having down at the
at the clubhouse for the golf course, the Lakina golf Course, which is
in our community, in our neighborhood, just a couple of blocks away.
It's like, man, we're having that office shindig. There's not enough people.
A bunch of people are vped and not you know, a bunch like
twenty people didn't show up. So we've got extra. If you want to
see the sound system, he's running the sound and the PA and the and
the music. You know, for all that. I said, yeah,
I'll come. I want to. I just want to see I just want
to see your gear. I'm a geek. I want to see your your
Mackie mixer and your fifteen hundred watt powers, fifteen inch speakers, and just
kind of in your Senheiser microphones. I just it'd be fun just to cruise
down the street literally just down the street from my house and just kind of
hang out for a bit, well you you know, help you run sound
or whatever. Just kind of fun to hang out and you know, tinker
with soundboard stuff. I'm always game for that. So it's like, yeah,
bro, come on. So I was like, you know what this
is after the second margarita. So I'm feeling it. I'm home chilling and
I'm feeling it. I'm feeling the margarita in a good way, not anything
stupid or crazy, just like I'm in a good spot. I'm I'm in
this spot to where your your neighbor asked you to come out and do something.
You're like, heck, yeah, man, I'm there, no hesitation,
Yeah, let's do it. So I was like, you know,
it's right down the street. I just started listening to a podcast called This
is Important by the Workaholics crew, and I was really enjoying it. It's
like, you know what, I'm gonna get on my little tiny electric scooter
and I'm gonna pop my Samsung earbud in my ear and I'm just gonna cruise
up to the golf course clubhouse where this you know, office party is going
on. And just the idea was a cool, crisp evening. I was
like, you know, this is this is perfect. I'm just gonna cruise
up there, listen to my podcast, go hang out with al and run
sound listen to music. He said, there's plenty of free dinner because you
know half the people didn't show up, who are svp'd. Good evening,
So get on the scooter, pop in my earbud, listening to the This
Is Important podcast by the Workaholics. Dudes just enjoying it, and I cruise
up to the to the clubhouse. I should remind you of what I'm wearing.
I'm wearing sweatpants, my house slippers, and like a street fighter to
T shirt or no, what was it. I think it was my Nintendo
nes controller this has classically trained, or it might have been my Jurassic Park
T shirt. Just picture a dude and tan house slippers, sweatpants and a
Nintendo T shirt. Just ripping through the neighborhood on a little electric scooter which
has like a Neon blue light underneath it. A couple Margarita's just feeling good,
enjoying the podcast, enjoying the weather, enjoying the evening. I already
put Riker to bed, by the way, he's Riker's good, He's in
bed. Sarah's home with Riker. Everything's fine. I'm just gonna go enjoy
the evening with my neighbor. Al I get there, the party is bumping.
It's an office part, like a bumping office party, which means like
three people are on the dance floor. The other forty people are at their
round tables, chatting it up and slowly and by being more alcohol. And
I'm cruise up, cruise my scooter pretty much onto the dance floor. Did
I sweats at house slippers and did a T shirt. I literally, you
think I'm joking. I literally rode the scooter up to the golf course clubhouse,
and then I walked it in through the entrance, and then I left
it in the building. I in the conference hall or whatever the where the
party was. I rolled right through the door with my scooter and just leaned
it up against the wall where I entered in by the bar. By the
open bar is where I left the scooter, and I trapes in with my
house slippers and sweats and T shirt and I just sit down behind the mixer
with al, the audio mixer with al. And what you need to know
about my neighbor is he is one of the coolest people on the planet Earth,
one of the most generous people on the face of the planet. I
mean, he's helped me through various eye storms, replacing pipes that have burst
in my ceiling. And he's just so open. In his backyard is a
paradise. He's got a bar in his backyard. So I get there and
he's like, dude, here's some dinner. Man. He gives me some
like roast beef and rolls and mashed potatoes. And I've already eaten dinner,
already had Mexican food a couple hours beforehand. So yeah, I'm drinking.
It's like, what do you want, bro, And I was like,
uh, I'll just do like a bourbon and sprite or what did I say,
Bourbon and coke? Just well bourbon, nothing crazy, just you know,
I'm trying to maintain the evening, maintain composure. I'm not looking to
get crazy. It just just a little something to drink, keep and keep
the warmth going for that evening. So he brings me the bourbon and coke.
It's probably jack and coke. Let's call it jack and coke. And
I drink it and it immediately blows my head off. I'm like, whoa,
this is like three parts jack in like one part like you could see
through it. It was opaque. You could see through this drink. I
was like, man, And now I was like, you know, I
you know, I got you brother. So I know the bartender and so
I sip on that, eating more food. I'm fine. At this point,
I'm like, all right, that's it. I'm good. This is
my level. This drink is really strong, so this is definitely it.
I'm done with the drinking for the evening. The night progress, more music
was playing, and then as we're breaking down, as we're like wrapping cables
and putting the speakers away, and one thing a little side note, as
I ask other fellow sound people, how do you want these cables wrapped?
That is the most important question you can ask a sound guy is what do
you want to do with these cables. Don't just start wrapping cables. Every
sound guy or girl has their own way of wrapping cables or not wrapping cables.
But it's a cardinal sin to just start rapping the way you want to
wrap another man's cables, another sound person's cables. So I asked him,
al ha do you? I said, al do you do? You roll
your cables? Wind up your cables in a specific way? He says,
very specific. I said, got you ten four. I'll move to something
else. So we wrap up all the cables. He wraps the cables.
He's puts putting gear away. We're putting gear away to I'm taking speakers off
of stands and different power ramps and things like that. And at some point
in all the you know, looking through backpacks and carrying cases, He's like,
dude, I almost forgot. I totally forgot I had this in here.
He had some like black label Crown Royal in the backpack, and I
already knew what that meant. I was like, oh, man, you
found a bottle of liquor in your backpack? In a backpack, well,
it was one of his backpacks. It's like, dude, I totally forgot
I had this in here, so I know what that means. So he
poured a heaping helping of black label that Crown Royal into just a tumbler,
into the same kind of tall tumbler that I had my up my jack and
coke, and he probably poured like four or five ounces in there. I
mean it was straight like mad Men's style, just pure liquor. And still
I'm thinking, okay, well, I'll just sip on this for the remainder,
just sip on it and we'll be fine. It's it's okay. At
that point, I had lost count and just was still thinking that I didn't
have that much to drink today. This is this is fine. I'll just
drink this pure straight liquor and this will just will be fine. So the
evening goes on and we're breaking things down and I finish off the glass of
liquor of Crown Royal, and that's when I'm not even done with the story
yet, y'all. I'm not even done with this. This is only halfway
through. More geek therapey Rado coming up, scooter rines through golf courses across
highway. We'll talk about it more giek Therapy Radio coming up. You've got
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podcast app and you are good to go. All right, let me finish
my story of my drunken scooter ride from a few weeks ago and how I
paid the price dearly the next few days from it. So if if you're
just listening to the broadcast, go back and get the podcast to hear the
entire story up to this point. But I had been I had been steadily
drinking that day from about two or three four pm that that day, sneaking
up on me, kind of drinking. Y'all know what I'm talking about.
This sneaking up on you kind of drinking where you're like, I haven't had
that much, and then you go back the next day after you're recovering with
a hangover, you're like, I had triple what I thought that I drank.
So it was one of those types of situations. So picking up where
we left off in my little story here, I helped al my neighbor pack
up all his stuff gear, all his sound gear from the party we were
at at the golf course clubhouse, in which I was wearing my house slippers,
sweatpants, and Nintendo T shirt and had rolled my electro scooter pretty much
directly onto the dance floor to get there. We're all done breaking down and
putting things in the bed of his pickup truck, and we're just kind of
standing out there talking. I got my foot on my scooter kind of like
pushing it back and forth, just kind of recapping the day talking. I'm
like, yeah, man, y'all have a good night. It was his
wife and daughter were with him. I said, y'all have a good night.
I'm just gonna cruise on home on my scoot, probably take a short
cut across like the seventeenth hole cart path whatever, and I'm just really enjoying
the idea of taking of a long scooter, cruise home with my ear button
in my ear, listening to this new podcast that I got that I was
enjoying called uh this is important by the workaholics people. So see, yeah,
y'all, y'all, just cruise on home. Be safe. We'll text
each other when we're home safe. I'm gonna cruise on my scooter here around
the golf course at midnight or and it was I think it was eleven PM
at that point. Yeah, I was like around eleven PM at that point.
Just gonna listen to this hour long podcast whatever and enjoy the evening,
enjoy the scooter, and just some me time. Really, it was just
some just some much needed me time. So that's what I do. We
shake hands and give hugs and like, all right, see how later.
So I am cruising around the golf course. I have documented all this,
by the way, I have a running commentary going on my phone through video
that I will never share with the general audience, but I will share with
my my WhatsApp group. I've been recording the entire time, documenting this,
this journey that I've had for that evening. So I'm cruising down the golf
course and I'm probably thirty minutes just enjoying the podcast. I got off the
scooter to go take a picture by the flag of like the sixteenth hole or
whatever, just kind of for my friend saying, man, I'm forty years
old, y'all, and this reminds me of a like a college night where
you know, you drink and then you'd go run around you age campus or
something like that. But I'm forty years old. So I'm documenting all of
this. And it's probably thirty minutes since we said goodbye, and he gives
me a text. He's like, Bro, I could hear his voice in
the text. It's like, Bro, we're at Bogie's now. We unloaded
all this stuff at my house, which is is my neighbor. He's just
right across the street from me. It's like, we unloaded everything, We
got everything in the garage, and then we decided the night was still young,
so we me and Tiffany cruised out to his daughter. Tiffany, we
cruised out to Boge's just you know, a couple miles away. We haven't
been to Bogie's in a while. You want to come out like, oh,
man, you know I'm gonna say yes. You know that I shouldn't
say yes, but you know I'm gonna say yes right now because that's how
I was feeling at the moment, just loving life and just living it up
and really enjoying myself. So I get that text while I'm on the tea
box of like the fifteenth hole, I'm working my way backwards through the laking.
This is the El Dorado golf Course. Actually, I'm working my way
back through the holes. And I'm sitting there at a cart right and the
cross street to Highway six ten forty two whatever, Murphy Road, whatever you
want to call it. And I'm sitting there like it's dead. There's no
traffic and it's safe. There's a cross and I'm at a part of the
street where there's it's very not busy. So I did the crosswalk, and
I crossed the crosswalk on my scooter making my way to Bogey's. I pumped
it into I poked it into Google Maps. It's like, oh, Bogies,
It's like, you know, six minutes by scooter. So through Missouri
City, Texas. So I'm cruising listening to the podcast cruising down to Boge's,
which I had told Sarah like a day before we're going by. I
was like Boge's, I've always wanted to go to Bogies. We sued to
check out Bogies one day. Well, that was the night that I checked
out Boge's with my with my neighbor out. So I am cruising. Remember,
I'm documenting the whole time on my phone, which unfortunately y'all will never
probably never see. I need to edit it together and just see if I'm
just the drunken fool that I thought I was. So I'm on the sidewalk
and it's so like eleven thirty by this point, I'm cruising up to Bogis,
which is on high close to Highway six in Missouri City, Texas.
So I cruise up there, uneventful, just enjoying the evening. I'm cruising
past the YMCA, where I'm a member, and thinking I can drive my
scooter here to YMCA. Good to know. So I get to Bogie's and
bring my scooter. Actually I didn't bring my scoter inside. I brought it
inside at first, and then I said, can I put the scooter in
one of y'all's cars if you brought your truck or Tiffany brought her car.
So I put my scooter in the back of Tiffany's SUV so that it wouldn't
get stolen outside or whatever. Get to the bar, of course, Al's
like, dude, what do you want? And I'm like, Al,
I'll pay for it, Like if I do get something, I'll pay for
it. He's like, no, man, you know I got you know,
I got you brother. I was like, you know, you know
I can pay for it. Though I'm okay buying a beer. He's like
no, no, no, no, just being super generous as he is.
So I have a blue Moon and a half, Like I finish one
blue Moon and I drink the other half of a b And by this point,
I'm still not feeling like I don't feel at this point like I'm anee
breated at all, just like I'm really enjoying the time, really enjoying the
conversation with different people, with Al, with Tiffany, with Tiffany's friends,
and I'm just enjoying the conversation and looking forward to you know that I've had
enough drinks that I've that I've got to handle on it, like you know
I'm not drunk. I'm telling as like I'm not drunk yet I don't feel
like I'm wasted, so to speak. So I do the blue moon,
and then another half of another blue moon, and that point I know it's
like, okay, just in case I'm losing track of how much I'm drinking,
I'm not finishing this blue moon. I'm just gonna it's one am.
At this point, I'm tired. I'm forty years old. I'm not twenty
two years old anymore. I am not cut out for the for the kind
of like drinking every weekend. I don't. I don't in bibe like that
very often at all, for very good reason because it sucks. My body
hates it, and I just don't like. I don't like being drunk period,
I just don't. I don't like not having my faculties, just as
a kind of general rule about myself. So I'm feeling really good and it's
one am, and I said, okay, well, I'm definitely gonna go
home now it's it's it's too late. Sarah's probably worried what she was.
She texted me like, are you okay? So I shake hands and hug
get the scooter out the back of the they're of Tiffany's car, because I
know they're going to go to a four am at least, like the party
ain't gonna stop. The party doesn't stop for al until the sun comes up,
and even then it probably keeps on going. So it very often does
keep on going. It's like I can't hack that if it's one thing,
like I already know that I'm on the limit of what I think that I've
done tonight, and there's no way I can go to four am the next
morning. I think we had church, No, No, I didn't.
Did we have church next morning? No? I think that. No.
Next morning was Saturday cruise. I'm on the scooter, everything's fine, Get
in the bed. Everything's swollen. When I in bed, the world is
spinning. And that's when my first inclinations, like I had way more than
I thought, But I will go back in time tomorrow and do the counting.
So when I went back in time the next day, Saturday morning,
I was like, I didn't have four drinks. There were probably four drinks
alone in that Crown Royal cup that I was drinking. I talented it up
as probably twelve to fourteen drinks, which for me is an ungodly amount of
alcohol. So lesson learns. I hopefully will never do that again. Wink,
wink, hopefully fingers crossed. That's the end of that story. You
are worthy of love, You are worthy of giving love, and you are
worthy of receiving love, and you are worthy of your own self respect.
Thank you so much for listening to Geek Therapy Radio. I've been your mental
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