Re-Introduction Of Our Podcast And Family Concerns

Raw, unfiltered, and overdue—this conversation is a reintroduction and a reckoning. We open with gratitude for the surge in listeners and then tell the truth about what it’s taken to get here: living with depression, carrying family secrets, and deciding where faith and forgiveness fit when the past finally stops hiding. We don’t name names or exploit details, but we do say aloud what was never meant to be said, and we talk about how to break a cycle without breaking ourselves.

From there, we pivot into ordinary life that refuses to pause—a cracked windshield, flashing lights, nerves settling into awkward humor. That small story becomes a bigger point about how dignity lowers the temperature in tense moments, how work and fatigue sit behind so many of our choices, and how grace sometimes looks like being let off with a warning. Then the energy shifts again as we rewind to our earliest radio dreams: double-cassette recorders, fake commercials, late-night improv. Those lost tapes taught us the rule we still live by—start where you are, speak honestly, and let your difference be the hook.

We also press on politics with a skeptical lens. Grand promises about free services and frozen rents sound good, but power, budgets, and legal limits matter. We dig into what voters are told, what officials can actually deliver, and why critical thinking is a kindness to working people who can’t afford another broken promise. Whether you agree with our take or not, you’ll hear exactly where we stand and why.

Through it all, one thing anchors the show: the community that chose to listen. Your downloads, shares, and notes kept us at the mic when it would have been easier to go quiet. We’re exploring a move to two episodes a week, sharing a quick QR link for supporters, and doubling down on conversations that hold both pain and humor without faking either. If this resonates, tap follow, share it with someone who needs a real talk today, and leave a review to help others find us. Your voice shapes what comes next.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Chaotic Cold Open & Gratitude
• 3:32 Reintroduction To The Hosts
• 4:27 Depression, Family History, And Faith
• 8:56 [Ad] You've Got to Be Critting Me
• 9:36 (Cont.) Depression, Family History, And Faith
• 16:21 Naming “Gooch” And Day Jobs
• 24:11 Traffic Stop Story And Cop Banter
• 38:33 Early Radio Dreams And Lost Tapes
• 45:41 New York Politics Rant And Clip

Transcript

Joe: 1:10

What's up everybody? What's up? What's up everybody? What's up? What's up everybody? This is Thee Talkers Podcast Unscripted everybody, what's up everybody? My name is Joe and we have Thee Gooch. Thank you, tell me, thank you for joining in us. Um I just before we start this, I just wanna thank everybody. Um all the downloads, everybody that is doing us, everybody that is tuning in, thank you very much. UK North America, South America, Italy , thank you very much for tuning in and downloading McDonald's, because if it wasn't for Downloads, we're gonna be on Amazon Music, iHeart Radio, Swann Flying, Apple Pop Cap, YouTube Music, Pandora, All Podcast platforms, everybody. What's happening, Gooch? Um, today's weather is 78 degrees in the highs, everybody. 78 degrees in Los Angeles California. Thank you, everybody. Stay cool, stay warm, everybody. What's up, Gooch?

Thee Gooch: 2:36

What's happening, Joey? So Joe, Joe and I were talking about before the show how this show would probably be a reintroduction of ourselves, yeah, of the talkers, since we are getting a lot more uh downloads, you know. Yeah, dude. It feels very, very cool and overwhelming. I we really appreciate it.

Joe: 3:03

Yeah, dude. We're being heard, you know.

Thee Gooch: 3:05

Yeah, we're being heard. We're actually we're actually doing something after three years of doing podcasts. We're actually we have an effect on people, and I don't know if if it's relatable to others and when they hear us or you know they agree or disagree, but either way, we're grateful.

Joe: 3:21

Yeah, thank you guys, everybody out there. You heard the Gooch himself. Thank you very much.

Thee Gooch: 3:31

Nice, yeah, Gooch. So how you been, Gooch? You know what, bro, bro? I've I've been kind of in a funk today, like just depression. I slept most of the day. I've just been just snappy, you know. Just I don't know. I just I was looking forward to the show so I can just get it out there. I don't know, just I'm kind of in a funk, dude, like really bad. And I I spoke to one of our older cousins. I won't I won't tell you what we spoke about, but I'm not proud of it, dude. I'm not proud of you know what we talked about. It's kind of fucked up, something uh most likely will take to the grave with shit that I was told, which makes a lot of sense, you know, when you look at shit growing up, you know, how fucked up things were. Right. You know, I'll I'll tell you about I'll tell you partially about about it after the show.

Joe: 4:23

Yeah, but uh this took place when we're kids, or because if if it was, if it is, we were just kids, we're all stupid kids. We'll all do stupid no, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.

Thee Gooch: 4:34

But it actually has nothing to do with us, us as kids. Okay, it actually has nothing to do with us as kids. It has a lot to do with that old fart you called grandpa.

Joe: 4:44

Oh shit, okay. Yeah, yeah.

Thee Gooch: 4:46

We used to talk about him a lot on the show with the one that didn't like me, yeah. And there's a reason why he didn't like you. Oh your face.

Joe: 4:57

Oh shit, right? I don't know, I don't know. Uh I mean, I get that on people a lot, dude. I mean, I I get that at work too, and all that stuff, and you know, I don't know.

Thee Gooch: 5:09

Yeah, it can't it kind of it kind of, you know, when I was talking to our older cousin, dude, it it it fucking surprised me, right? Because we were talking about you know, God, and you know, she's a very religious person, and I I I actually want to get her on the show so we can so she can talk about it. And right, like again, I'm not gonna mention what we talked about, but it was a lot about religion and the family, you know. And ever since that, dude, it was just like fuck, dude. After all these years, you know, you learn shit and the truth comes out about certain people, and yeah, I know, right? Everything starts coming out after, huh? Yeah, it's fucked up. And and and then when I tell you when we talk after the show, it'll it'll put a lot of pieces to the puzzle together on why shit was the way it was when we were growing up. Jeez, you know, yeah. And I I was I I probably should have mentioned it before the show, so I didn't catch you with your pants off, but I kind of like seeing you with your pants off. Yeah, but yeah, dude, it's just I've just been in a depression ever since I talked to her. I think I talked to her Wednesday or Thursday, Tuesday or Wednesday, one of them days, and ever since then, dude, it's just like this morning, dude. I woke up. I didn't want to get up, you know. I was just like, holy fuck, dude. It beat the shit out of me emotionally, man. Yeah, it beat the shit out of me emotionally. Damn, no way, it's it's fucked up, yeah. So it was like uh serious talk, serious matter, or something, or uh you know, in the beginning we talked about God and it was it was really refreshing, you know. But then we started talking about other things, and you know, shit came up, and yeah, you know, I don't know, dude.

Joe: 6:55

Yeah, it's a lot, dude.

Thee Gooch: 6:56

So I'm kind of depressed today. I was kind of fucking just like overwhelmed.

Joe: 7:00

I probably know some of the stories that you probably do, yeah. Yeah, I probably know most of it, what went on, but we'll see. We'll see. We'll see and all that stuff.

Thee Gooch: 7:10

Depression ain't no fucking joke, man. Like it got me in a fucking funk, dude. And I don't like talking about it. I'm doing it now on the show to give us something to talk about, you know. But I don't talk to people, I don't open up to people. I hate that because then at one point you talk to this is the one thing that that really bothers me about people and why people don't open up like me. Like, I'll open up to Joe, I'll open up to you, you know. Huh?

Joe: 7:31

Yeah, it's like with dad, and he doesn't open up, he never opened up, he never talked, you know, things like that.

Thee Gooch: 7:37

Yeah, and there's a reason why I don't, because then people will use it against you, yeah.

Joe: 7:43

You know, and I don't open up to people, and then they will spread the rumors and they will talk against you, and then they use it as a weapon and shit like that, you know?

Thee Gooch: 7:51

Yeah, so our cousin, our cousin opened up like a fucking book, dude. Like a book, and it almost made me cry. But she's confident that I won't say nothing about it, you know, and which is true. I won't. I'm not a fucking rat. You know, we don't go around talking about people.

Joe: 8:38

Right, right.

Thee Gooch: 8:39

But I will go as far as saying, I'm not proud of our last name, dude. You know, after hearing that, yeah, yeah. I'm not.

Joe: 8:49

You're not your last name, or our last name?

Thee Gooch: 8:51

Our last name, yeah. I'm not, you know. We can forgive and shit, but now it's just explained a lot, dude.

Joe: 8:58

Like is that something that doesn't go away, huh?

Thee Gooch: 9:00

Yeah, and it didn't, dude. It didn't. It kind of fucked me up, you know. And then you know you have people around you wondering, you know, what's wrong? What's wrong? Well, I don't want to fucking talk about it. You know, I'd rather just snap and be a fucking complete asshole and not talk about it. Right. Um because it's just that's the way it is, it'll be used against me eventually. Yeah. So one way or another, it would be used against me. And I don't like opening up, I don't fucking open up.

Joe: 9:27

Yeah, I know I know what you're saying because one time I did that, um, you lay out like you talk about your what's going on, what's what's bothering you. And um then they re then they hold it against you, like oh, they spread rumors, and especially when you talk to a friend. I mean, you can't talk to a friend or nobody like that. You got to like code it to yourself, you know. And then they uh they start spreading rumors and all that stuff. So yeah, I know what you're saying. Yeah, it's a different way, but in a different you know, situation, you know. But yeah, sometimes I I really don't like to express myself too much, you know. Yeah, yeah. But I'll I'll do anything for the show. But I mean, if it's uh in our family thing, that's has to be secret, right?

Thee Gooch: 10:10

Yeah, of course. Yeah, no, yeah, I'm opening up, yeah, I'm opening up, you know, about my feelings right now because it's for the show, for the sake of the show. But I'm not gonna say what you know, yeah, actually what's going on, you know, because it is fucked up, dude. Like it's like fucked up, and again, it it just puts a lot of pieces to the puzzle together, you know, what we saw uh growing up and shit. Yeah.

Joe: 10:35

I I think I'm pretty sure I know what it what's it about because I think Benny mentioned it and he told us about it too, but we'll see.

Thee Gooch: 10:46

Yeah. Kind of a cliffhanger, huh, Joseph?

Joe: 10:48

Yeah, it's like a a mystery that needs to be solved or something like that.

Thee Gooch: 10:52

And I and I wish I can say, you know, here on a show, but it is fucking personal, dude. Like very personal. Well, this well, yeah, this one's kind of personal, you know. And again, it's people if I'm in a funk, just let me be in a fucking funk. You know, I work fucking hard, you know, to get shit off my mind, you know. Yeah, you know, work long hours just to fucking forget about shit. And then when I talk to cousin, it's like, holy fuck, dude, that was a load, man. That was a fucking load, bro, bro, for real.

Joe: 11:27

I wasn't fucking ready for that.

Thee Gooch: 11:29

Yeah, dude, I wasn't ready for that, dude.

Joe: 11:32

I wasn't so she finally opened up. Yeah, she opened up. So she I mean, all this stuff that about our family back in the day, right? Right, they were probably saying that, well, why do you hate grandpa and all that stuff? Now you know the reason why, right? Right, right. So now she knows the reason why. Yeah. Is is that is that on my um I getting it.

Thee Gooch: 11:57

You're on you're on the you're on the right path. Yeah, you're on the right path. And when you put two and two together, ultimately to blame is grandpa.

Joe: 12:06

Yeah.

Thee Gooch: 12:06

That fucking dirt bag is ultimately to blame for what happened to the family.

Joe: 12:11

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I I know I know part of the story, but um I would I would like to open up on that, on that story. But maybe it's not the right time. Uh, they told me about it, uh, Benny's mother, you know, and mom told me, you know. Right. And mom, well, uh technically mom told me about it. And uh we'll talk about it after. If you wanna if you wanna want it to be announced to the show, we if you want to talk about it a show. So you know, it's something that we got to talk about, you know me. So I'll let you know about that one right after we're done with the show. So um yeah, so that's so she she finally opened up and admit to so basically the family was in denial, right? Right, absolutely, 100% in denial and so is that in that case that if she's knows about that, the whole family knows about it, right? Possibly, I'm pretty sure.

Thee Gooch: 13:13

Possibly, possibly, possibly, you know, yeah. It's just one of those things where we can break that mold. Of course, you and I'll speak for myself because you don't have any kids, right? Joe, and I mean no offense, but you don't have any kids. I can break that mold. Well, they claim I have one, but uh but it just well, there's also claims that I might have 15, but that doesn't mean I'm it's in the air somewhere. Just because you name him Joe doesn't mean he belonged to Joe.

Joe: 13:41

Yeah, but you know what they always call it the imaginary son, you know?

Thee Gooch: 13:44

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you know, having kids, but I'm fortunately I'm I'm fortunate to break that mole, right? You know, the mold of of what happened in the family in the past, dude. My kids don't know about it, I didn't know about it. So therefore they can't put themselves in that situation, yeah, you know, and they have a father like me that if they were put in that situation by somebody, uh a neighbor or whoever, then that neighbor would be fucking dead.

Joe: 14:14

Yeah, yeah, you know?

Thee Gooch: 14:15

Oh yeah, yeah, but we're fortunate enough that we don't we I didn't put my kids in that situation. So they don't have that mentality, you know.

Joe: 14:28

I mean, just imagine, just imagine that you had a grandpa that hated your guts, dude. You know, yeah, dude. He fucking hated you, dude. He hated you. He hated me to the core, dude. Even in the sick bed, you know.

Thee Gooch: 14:40

And then when we talk about it, dude, it's gonna make a lot of sense why he hated you.

Joe: 14:44

Yeah.

Thee Gooch: 14:45

You know?

Joe: 14:46

I mean, from my understanding, we could talk about this, like I said, but uh we we mentioned this in the early early episodes, right? Right. Okay, like episode two when Benny and Remo were around. We mentioned it why, and and he he hated me to the core. And I know I know why. I could I I want to express it and why the reason and mom told me, or told us, I'm pretty sure she uh she told you too, and the reason why.

Thee Gooch: 15:17

Well I will go, you know, and just to not just to not keep the the listeners in the cliff on your it has a lot to do with molestation. There, I fucking said it. Okay, it has a lot to do with molestation, yeah. So and then there's only one fucking man responsible for that, yeah.

Joe: 15:37

You know, so yeah, that yeah, they already told me about that. So if you're getting to that point, yeah. I already know about that. And it was upsetting, dude.

Thee Gooch: 15:46

It was upsetting for me when we were talking about it.

Joe: 15:48

Okay, but uh how does she know about that? Because the only one that knew about that was um Benny and the mom.

Thee Gooch: 15:54

Oh, it goes further, it goes a lot deeper than that, bro.

Joe: 15:58

Oh, it goes deeper, okay. I don't know.

Thee Gooch: 15:59

It goes a lot deeper than that, yeah. And um, like I said, the only person responsible for that is that dirtbag grandpa of yours. You know from our aunts and uncles and dad when they were kids, dude. You know? And um we were fortunate, like I said, we were fortunate enough to to break that mold.

Joe: 16:24

Right.

Thee Gooch: 16:25

Because I myself hate child molesters, dude. And there's a reason why I hate child molesters. Pedophiles. There's a reason. We had a rough we had a rough growing up with with shit like that, you know?

Joe: 16:39

Yeah.

Thee Gooch: 16:41

I wasn't a victim, you know. I don't know who is and who was.

Joe: 16:48

But um, yeah, they I I yeah, I heard I I knew about that, but I don't know the whole scoop.

Thee Gooch: 16:54

Oh, there's a there's a bigger scoop than well, we'll talk about it after the show.

Joe: 16:58

Yeah.

Thee Gooch: 16:58

And I I wish I could talk about it, but she told me not to. To anybody, which I have to respect and with confidence. You know, we should bring her on the show though, so she can open up about the God though.

Joe: 17:12

Yeah, yeah.

Thee Gooch: 17:12

That's a good she knows she's very knowledgeable, dude.

Joe: 17:15

Yeah, I know, yeah. We'll call her D.

Thee Gooch: 17:19

Yeah, D. And uh yeah, she's very knowledgeable. She all you know, not very many people can make me cry. Yeah, yeah, she almost made me cry, bro.

Joe: 17:29

Oh, really?

Thee Gooch: 17:30

Almost.

Joe: 17:32

Like almost. Like a baby, or but um but uh yeah, dude. Yeah, I know what you're feeling. I mean, um it's just uh crazy, dude. I mean, yeah, I already knew about that story, but I didn't know too much of it right now. But um, yeah, that's that's crazy, dude. But um it's weird. So you guys were talking the whole how many hours you guys were talking about. We were talking, we uh we talked uh I wish my talk to me like that, dude.

Thee Gooch: 18:04

Uh an hour and 15 minutes, dude.

Joe: 18:08

An hour and 15 minutes, yeah.

Thee Gooch: 18:09

She well, first she wanted to know the kids' names because she's she's involved with the family tree, right? Yeah, yeah. She's involved with extending the family tree where our last name comes from Spain and shit, right? Yeah, her and some other lady. She was there at mom's funeral.

Joe: 18:24

Uh-huh. Oh, yeah, yeah. Forget her name. I forgot her name. Well, maybe she won't even be mentioned anyway. She's the one that she's the one between her and uh the or the I forget her name, but they gave us remember the CD they gave us? Yeah, they gave us the CD of the heritage the heritage. The heritage, yeah, yeah. About where the manus came from and all that stuff.

Thee Gooch: 18:43

Yeah. So she's very heavy involved in that in the family tree. So we started, she wanted to, she wanted my information with the kids, the birthdays, the names, yeah, who's in order, up until you know, my oldest to youngest, right? You know, the grandchild. She wanted to know all that so she can get it in the tree, right? And then after that, we just fucking she just went on and on about God and scriptures and the past and who was the trouble in the past and the family, and uh, you know, a lot of forgiveness happened and you know, move on and you know, shit like that, you know.

Joe: 19:18

Yeah, that's yeah.

Thee Gooch: 19:20

That's crazy.

Joe: 19:22

But it was it was pretty cool. Yeah, I mean that was a good uh sounds like you had a good chat with her.

Thee Gooch: 19:28

Yeah.

Joe: 19:29

But we're we're trying not to be too explicit, you know. Who? Not not to say too much profanity here, you know, you know, because you say that you know, does she hear the show though? Does she listen? Does she do she listen?

Thee Gooch: 19:44

I don't know. I don't know if she's listening to the show, you know. But uh I'll ask her. I can ask her, you ask her if she wants to come on the show.

Joe: 19:50

I mean, where's our cousin support? Where's our family support, right? You know, you're supposed to be cousin. Yeah, she stays away from I'm not speaking about cousin D. I mean, I'm I'm talking about like sexy pants and Chico Chex , you know. Fucking they don't even support us, they don't even banning downloading our fucking podcast for support, too. You know what I'm saying?

Thee Gooch: 20:15

Yeah, sexy. Yes, we're up. It's just it's just me and you, Joseph. Yeah, just you and I and you, you and I, yeah.

Joe: 20:24

But other than that, I yeah, we'll we'll talk about that after the show.

Thee Gooch: 20:28

Um and I was gonna call you too about it and shit, but I didn't want to disturb you. Well, I know you're awake now, so I'll talk to you after the show. Yeah, so this is kind of a reintroduction of the show because we're getting a lot of downloads, a lot of listeners, a hell of a lot of listeners. So I am my first name is the last name Gooch. Now, where I got that name from was I was called Gooch when I was a kid because of the show, TV show, different strokes. Yeah, and the Gooch was the bully. Not that I'm a bully, but it kind of fits, and I've had that name ever since the early 80s. Yeah.

Joe: 21:09

I don't know why we we we we started calling you the Gooch. I don't know what what's good, what is what it is because most people take it the wrong way, they take it, it's under the male's crotch, right?

Thee Gooch: 21:19

I'll take that too. I'll I'll be named, you know, the what is the sphincter between the butthole and the and the and the balls? I'll take it. Yeah, it's a nice area, nice and warm.

Joe: 21:31

But it's not no, it's not really the name of that, it's not the purpose. The purpose is that you got it from the shoulder, different strokes, you know.

Thee Gooch: 21:38

Yeah, yeah. So yeah, and because it's Google, because you Google Gooch, that's exactly what Google's gonna tell you. You know, it's the the that spot between the asshole and penis, right? Yeah, because Google Google Google's wrong. It's not what Gooch is.

Joe: 21:52

Yeah, Google says that there's cops right there um with a speed trap, and they're lying, dude. So when you see a speed trap on the Google maps, don't believe it. Don't believe it. Yeah, so yeah, Gooch.

Thee Gooch: 22:07

And I work outside of the podcast, I drywall. I drywall and finish my own jobs, my own work, have a couple helpers. What else? I think I'm funny, maybe. You pick you pick butts. I pick butts, yep.

Joe: 22:27

There's a there's a there's a Japan, I don't know if it's a Japanese slang thing or or Chinese, they call it the Pikuchu, or I don't know what the fight. They they go like that and in China or Chip Japanese, they go, they sneak up on a person, they go like that, and they call it the that's what they call that game. I forgot the name of it.

Thee Gooch: 22:45

Really?

Joe: 22:45

There's a yeah, I forgot. But they go deep in there though, dude. Yeah, they they they they stab you like yeah, you know, I forgot the name. I'm gonna have to look it up.

Thee Gooch: 22:55

That's in China or Japan?

Joe: 22:56

I think China and Japan.

Thee Gooch: 22:58

I think then we must go to Japan. Jeez, play that game, see what they got for us. See if I can take it.

Joe: 23:04

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Thee Gooch: 23:06

Kiko.

Joe: 23:07

Yeah, yeah. Well, you know what? What happened to me on Friday, Gooch? What's that? Oh my gosh, dude. I was I was like tired coming out of work. Uh the freeway was kind of like, oh mellow out. I was coming out of work. And I was already like uh I was already nearby going, I was already home. I got off the freeway, make it short. I'm gonna make it short. I just got out of work. I was already getting to the house already, to my home. I was like at least a mile away, just right here, you know. And I see these, I see these two, uh, I see the sheriffs, right? I'm going southbound, and I think they're going north, okay? And I'm going down, they're going, I'm in my right side, they're going to the left side. So I looked in the rear mirror and they're making a U-turn. I go shit. I go, what happened? You know? And I was like, okay, oh shit, they were they're already like behind me and shit, right? And I was like, oh shit, why did they like following me? So I made a laugh, so they were tailgating me, right? And then sure enough, I saw the lights. Oh shit, dude, I got so I didn't know they were following me though, but I I kept on going. I keep going straight down and oh shit, I'm fucking sleepy, tired, you know? Yeah. And so I I I pulled over and I was like all nervous, dude. I was like, oh fuck, I don't want to. What did I do? But I'm driving okay. I don't I I don't make no fucking mistakes on driving. My my I turn signal and all that stuff, and I drive straight and all this stuff. Yeah, I'm sleepy and tired. So they got off the car. So the reason why I stopped you, you because you have a broken windshield. And they go, oh shit. Oh, no shit. Yeah. And so do you have a license? And then he asked me insurance. That's what I was crazy about. I mean, I was like, like, I was wondering why they didn't ask me for my insurance. So then he asked me for my valid driver license. So I I gave him my driver's license. They told me to put my hand over the the steering wheel, do not take them out and all that stuff. Just wait until I check if you know if you've been in trouble, have you been arrested? Have you been in prison and blah blah blah, and other stuff. And then there's there were two female girls, there were cops, sheriffs, there were females, right? And the other one was fucking cute, you know? She was really fucking cute, dude. Yeah, baby. And so we she's talking to me real cool, you know. I go, Oh my gosh, you go, she's fucking cute. She was short too. But um, I was like, worry, oh my gosh, I'm just worried. So what do you she was asking me, where are you coming from? I go, I was coming out of work. I was just gonna, what do you work at? I can't say it, I don't want to say it on the air. I mean, on on uh Komisema. Right, right. So I told her, um, yeah, I work and all that stuff, and um, so is it oh you where's it at? Oh, it's all like in Chino Hills over there. I go, Dan, that's far. That's a long drive. We go, yeah, it's a long drive. I go, it's like a 45-minute drive. I had to drink two coffees to get over here when there's traffic and all that stuff. I go, is it worth it driving all the way over there? Do you have what do you work full-time, part-time? And I go, no, I work part-time. I go, is it worth it? What do you go you go all the way or whatever? To be honest, you go, no, it's not, it's not worth it because it's uh for full time. I mean, I got to, it's like it's a breakout even and all that stuff. So and yeah, she was cute. She was a cute uh cute cop and she was talking to me real nice. So I go, Do you have any kids? And you go like that. I go, nah, I'm single right now, and stuff like that. But um, but yeah, I just it's like since when did this happen? Your your um your windshield, um, when did it crack? When did it broke, and all that stuff? I thought it happened like nine months or 10 10 months ago. I go, how did it happen? I go, well, it happened because I was driving on the freeway going home, you know, as usual, my daily routine going home. Those gravel trucks, I told her, and those gravel trucks, one little pebble hit my windshield. I heard a snap, and it started like a it started small, and then in a couple of weeks it started increasing big. It started growing and growing and growing.

Thee Gooch: 27:31

You should have, you should have told her, you should have told her that your nightstick increases big too. I knew you were gonna come over something like that, but so yeah, I have a nightstick too, you know.

Joe: 27:48

She would have like arrested. I wanted to ask her, can you arrest me? Okay, but yeah, so I just told her, yeah, it was a pebble, one of those gravel trucks, a pebble hit my windshield, and that's how it started. It started increasing and all that stuff. I know I should have taken care of it before it stood up, before it got worse, but like I think like in two days it increased real large and it just increased. So, and then I asked for I called my insurance and they couldn't do nothing about it and all that stuff. So I told them, you know what, you guys got to do something about that because it's it's it's it's a hazard, uh, it's hazardous when pebbles are flying out in the freeway, you know, those hazmat and those gravel trucks, right? And plus they don't put no fucking tarp over their gravel trucks or anything like that. And you know, that's the thing that pisses me off, dude, because uh those gravel trucks don't pull tarps when they're driving in the freeway, you know.

Thee Gooch: 28:42

And there's a lot of gravel gravel trucks out here too, because before it snows, they start they start throwing gravel on the on the roads. On the roads, yeah, yeah, just too, yeah.

Joe: 28:51

But yeah, so that one little pebble, I just told her, yeah, that just when I heard that, I go, Oh shit, I saw a little line, a little crack in my windshield.

Thee Gooch: 28:59

Right.

Joe: 29:00

Oh, then they said, you know what, we're just gonna let you go, just take care of it, fix it, you know. They didn't give you a ticket? They didn't give me no ticket. So that's like um that's why I just said, you know, thank you, man, because I'm going through a tough time as it is financially. You know, I got to pay rent this week and all that stuff. We go, Well, just take care of it and just be safe. And I I told them to, you know, be safe and all that stuff.

Thee Gooch: 29:23

And I would have I would have asked to be frisked just for the fuck of it.

Joe: 29:26

Yeah, well, well, that's what they were asking me. Do you have any weapons in your car? I go, no, have you been in prison, or do you have any standing ones? I go, nah. No, I don't, I don't. I just I'm just coming out of work. What do you work at? And you know, but uh yeah, yeah.

Thee Gooch: 29:41

Remember that time? Remember that time I got a drunk in public because I was flirting with the cop?

Joe: 29:47

Oh, yeah, dude, no shit. Yeah, dude. So what a ring was gorgeous, yeah, she was gorgeous, dude.

Thee Gooch: 29:54

Yeah, fucking tall and what is she was a brunette, right? A brunette, yeah.

Joe: 30:01

Yeah.

Thee Gooch: 30:01

Oh hey, what's your name? An idiot. Yeah, dude. Crazy, dude.

Joe: 30:10

Yeah, dude.

Thee Gooch: 30:11

I remember that shit. She told me to go inside the property like fucking a hundred times, and I didn't listen because I was like love struck and shit.

Joe: 30:17

You're all right there talking.

Thee Gooch: 30:20

I wanted her number, dude. Fuck yeah, dude.

Joe: 30:22

And then when uh think on Saturday morning, it was a bad accident, dude. I went late to work. Uh sent my truck, you know, fucking on the 63, almost to the 71. It was a bad accident, and then I seen a hot fucking patrolman. Uh, I think so. It was a Chino Hills cop, or I think it was probably a highway CHP. Uh-huh. And she was hot, she was all blonde. She had blonde and everything. She was a blonde-haired girl and stuff like that. She was kind of cute, you know. They're coming around, dude. You know, yeah, it's crazy. They're looking oh man, I'm so they're looking, they're looking fucking good, you know.

Thee Gooch: 31:01

Yeah, it's because as we get older, you know, the the younger generation, we we're starting to see a lot of different people, dude.

Joe: 31:06

Yeah, that wasn't even the teachers too, huh? They're all looking different now. They're not they don't fucking fucking and shit like that.

Thee Gooch: 31:13

My fucking my my fifth grade teacher was a smoker, lesbian, yeah, right? Fat. And my gym teachers.

Joe: 31:23

Yeah. My gym cheat my gym teacher. I mean my gym. My fucking teachers look like that fucking lady the the chocolate, um that old chocolate, what is it? The granny the granny chocolate. Uh-huh. Abuelita chocolate. Yeah, abuelita chocolate. All my teachers look like that, dude.

Thee Gooch: 31:42

Yeah, dude. They weren't they weren't nice to look at. My at least my teachers weren't. Not one fucking time, dude.

Joe: 31:48

Yeah.

Thee Gooch: 31:48

But it's the way it is, Gooch. You know? My kids, they have, you know, good looking teachers, right? Yeah. Like, geez, they didn't build them like this when I was young. Yeah, I know, right?

Joe: 32:01

I go cheese. But um, yeah, dude. So I got I I I got I didn't get no ticket, and I was like, That's good. I thought I was gonna get a fixed ticket. No, to be honest.

Thee Gooch: 32:13

You know, what is a fucking wind windshield like that cost, you know, in California.

Joe: 32:17

300 Chico, yeah, three Chico Check says he has a guy at work. Uh he could do it for me for uh I think 250. Oh really? So yeah, I'm gonna have it done. I don't know when, maybe next Saturday. Or I don't know, after the after the next Saturday. I'll probably do that.

Thee Gooch: 32:33

It's starting to sound like those cops, the female police officers, they just wanted to pull you over just for the fuck of it.

Joe: 32:38

That's what I was thinking too.

Thee Gooch: 32:39

Yeah, I would have let them that dude. I I would I'll me, if I was a cop, I would definitely frisk you just for the fuck of it.

Joe: 32:45

I mean, because uh Chico Checks tells told me too. He go, why would they want to stop you with a windshield windshield wipe? I mean, broken windshield, you know. Like, I mean, don't they have important things to do? There's a lot of stupid drivers out there fucking driving fucking recklessly, dude. That's something I don't understand, you know.

Thee Gooch: 33:01

I think they just did it to fuck with you. Ooh, who's that? Who's that little boy driving that car?

Joe: 33:08

They probably thought I was fucking tall, dude. And then when they fucking, oh, he's short. Forget it. Forget it. 10-4. But yeah, that was explaining. I was explaining how my work situations and my schedule and all that stuff. So I was thinking for transferring, but there's no app, there's no opportunities to no openings, you know, shit like that.

Thee Gooch: 33:32

So did you did you at least sneak it in? Do you want to see my penis?

Joe: 33:36

Oh no, no.

Thee Gooch: 33:40

You won't fuck?

Joe: 33:44

But um, but they were cool. As long as I didn't get no ticket, that's yeah, that's cool. I mean, as long as they stop me, dude, they're doing their job, that's cool. You know, but I mean, they should stop the ones that are really doing like the reckless driving, and um, you know, people are just you know passing over people just because they're in a fucking hurry, they they they go ahead of you and they go on the red lights and all that stuff. I mean, there's a lot of shit that I see that's real wrong, but I mean, I think that's Sony the CHP problem right there. Yeah, so yeah, crack windshield this fucking yeah, but um yeah, I'm gonna get that fixed pretty soon, so yeah. You got me all trauma traumatized already. Ooga booga. But um, so what's going on in the world, Joseph? Well, I wanted to talk about like if you guys want to listen to our beginning of um our episode one, season one, the beginning where we when I started talking and how I wanted to be a podcaster. Actually, I wanted to be a radio host, uh jockey, and back in the day. I explained myself how uh how was I doing it with uh just with uh uh a radio tape recorder with two double cassettes, you know? So I was me and me and Chris were doing that. We're just pretending. I don't know how I did it though, but I did it right. I know that for a fact. Because I will record from uh from the play and record, I will put record double record and play, and the play one will be like for the commercial, the music, and the recording will be like I'm recording my voice, you know what I'm saying? Right, something like that. You know, I fucking lost the tapes and our We lost a lot of shit, dude.

Thee Gooch: 35:30

Yeah, we lost a lot of our past, yeah. Yeah, and we and when you started it, you you started it and it was called the Talkers, right?

Joe: 35:39

Well, first uh when I was like maybe I think I was like around D say like 13 around there, 12. I was it was the fart squad because I went I wanted to be like Howard Stern at the time. I mean I don't know how for some reason I don't know I called it a fart squad because it was a show called Bomb Squad. I think it was I think it was called Bomb Squad or something like that. But I go, oh you know what? We should call it the fart squad radio show and shit. And then that's when um Chris was started farting on the on the fucking radio or did he did he fart on command? Yeah, he fought he fart at he fart at will in command too. Yeah, imagine it's chonis. Jeez, I know, right? I know, right? You will be like but uh yeah. So you guys wanna just tune in to our fart or fart squad. You guys want to tune into the beginning of our episode one in season one? It's right there now playing. Check it out, check it out, everybody. Check it out, check it out.

Thee Gooch: 36:42

Check it out. We got three messages, those of those those bots or yeah, they're the the bots.

Joe: 36:48

Oh, we got one from Michaela. You go, you sound quiet quiet, Joel. I do? Why do I sound quiet?

Thee Gooch: 36:56

I don't know. Maybe she needs to be face flipped.

Joe: 36:59

Nice! Can you hear me now? Can you hear me now? Oh man. But yeah, so it's kind of cool. It's kind of cool. Uh now I mean, I mean, uh, I thought I was gonna get a ticket and all that stuff. Yeah, but so you guys didn't want to hear our season one, episode one. It's playing now, everybody. Check it out. Thank you for all your downloads, everybody. That's all I got to say.

Thee Gooch: 37:27

Um, so New York finally made the move of uh voting for a socialist as mayor. I can't even say his fucking name, dude.

Joe: 37:37

Zanhan Mandani, what the fuck ever? Madani or something like that.

Thee Gooch: 37:42

Yeah, yeah. And you know, he thinks, and he lied to all of his right, right, you know, to the people of the of New York. Oh, he's gonna freeze rent, he's gonna make bus rides for free, everything free, everything free. No, you can't, yeah.

Joe: 38:01

He can't.

Thee Gooch: 38:02

That's he doesn't have the power as mayor, he doesn't have power to do that. First of all, if he's gonna give free bus rides, he has to pay Metro, who runs the bus public transportation out there in New York, both train and buses. You know, he's got to pay them to get to give free rides. Like, how does that work? Stupid, and people bought it.

Joe: 38:24

Yeah, people bought it. All the people that voted for him, they're that now they're upset, right? All the democ the democrats, too, they're all upset too, right?

Thee Gooch: 38:30

They're sounding regretful. Sheez, dude. Idiots, dude. Idiots, yeah. But but he sold it, he sold it, and people bought it, right?

Joe: 38:41

Yeah, oh free rent. And and yeah, and they say, and they said that he uh he whispered loudly. It was while he was thinking loudly, right? Yeah, thinking out loud and all that stuff. But I don't know, man. And people foul for it and they bought it, and you know that like they say, every every sucker is born every minute, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah.

Thee Gooch: 39:07

Right? It sure is, yeah.

Joe: 39:09

Well the only thing that's gonna happen. Oh, go ahead, John. I'm I'm thinking I'm talking about I'm speaking to the the the voters. They're they're they're they're morons, dude. They're like there's a sucker every born every minute, so they believe them and all that stuff, and yeah, they were too gullible and they fucking voted for them. Oh, we're gonna get everything free. Who there's nothing free in this world, dude?

Thee Gooch: 39:31

Nothing, nothing, you know, and I've said it in the past, you know, and again, he doesn't have as mayor, he doesn't have much power. Okay, yeah, he doesn't have much power. All he's in control of are the chief of police and shit like that, you know.

Joe: 39:44

And the funny part is that he thinks he's the president of the United States. That's the funny part. He was like, he got too ahead of himself, yeah. You know, yeah. I remember when I when I was in school, because I always always wanted to be a cop, right? All right, I wanted I always wanted to be a policeman, uh a cop. And then and when I went to the school, you have these safety patrols, you know, like the safety hall safety, you know, where you got you go to you, you have you be a safety person and you you you control the hallways, who's coming, and tardy, and all that shit. So I wanted to become a safety because I want I was I wanted to be a cop, right? So when I became a safety, I was over my head of go, I'm a cop now, you know. I'm gonna I'm gonna control the fucking hallways and shit like that. Hey, what you doing in the fucking hallways? You know, shit like that, you know? Yeah, so I know how he feels. He's thinking like a kid, you know. Yeah, you get ahead of yourself, you know, like fuck, you know.

Thee Gooch: 40:41

But I mean, the only thing that's gonna happen is that the Muslims they stick together, dude. They stick together like yeah, flies on shit, dude, right?

Joe: 40:49

Well, this is what I knew. I knew this was gonna come about, dude, because once he became a mirror, a mayor, mayor, I should say. I sound like I said mere. But everybody, all the Muslims already like popping up already, you know? Yeah, but um, but we'll see how it turns out, dude.

Thee Gooch: 41:06

We'll see how it turns out for New York.

Joe: 41:08

I'll I'll see I'll say two years. This is uh uh it's gonna be bad. Everybody's saying one year.

Thee Gooch: 41:14

Here's a fact for you. I bet you didn't know this, because I didn't. The Statue of Liberty is called the Statue of Liberty. They had to put it on the outside of the United States on an island, which I don't know if they built the island for the Statue of Liberty, but if it was posted the land of the United States, it would have been called Statue of Freedom.

Joe: 41:40

Oh, Statue of Freedom?

Thee Gooch: 41:42

Yeah, but it's called Statue of Liberty because it's on an island.

Joe: 41:47

It's on the island. So if it would have been in the center of the United States, or in the middle of the United States, it would have been called the Statue of Freedom. Yep. I didn't know that. You do your research all gooch.

Thee Gooch: 42:02

Eh I try, you know, for the sake of the show. Jeez. I love doing the show, you know.

Joe: 42:10

You're you're ahead of time.

Thee Gooch: 42:12

Sometimes I'm tired. I don't know. I gotta talk to Joe for an hour.

Joe: 42:16

Damn. And um, yeah, so I got a clip about what he said. Okay. You wanna see it? Yeah. You wanna see it? Yeah, I'll reckon yeah. Here we go. Here's the clip, guys.

Clip: 42:31

Well, thank you for the question. It's transition2025.com. And you know, there were a few months ago where I told supporters across the city to stop donating. And today I am asking them to start once again. And I am asking them to do so because of the fact that a transition that can meet the moment of preparing for January 1st is one that will require staff, it will require research, it will require infrastructure. And those are things that we will have to provide. And I'm excited for the fact that it will be funded by the very people who brought us to this point, the working people who have been left behind by the politics of this.

Thee Gooch: 43:13

I thought it should have been free.

Joe: 43:15

Yeah, that's what I thought.

Thee Gooch: 43:17

You know, after he gave that speech after this clip in 30 hours, dude, people donated over five hundred thousand dollars, dude. Oh shit. In thirty hours, donated class. He's never worked a day in his fucking life. Fuck. You know, he has rich parents. Yeah.

Joe: 43:43

You know, you can't tell his parents to he can't tell his parents to pay it.

Thee Gooch: 43:48

Yeah, no shit. It's just stupid. We'll see what New York looks like after he's he's he he's uh an oath, he takes his oath. He's not gonna do the oath of office with the Holy Bible. Oh, I know that. He already he already denied that. He's oh with the Quran, huh? Most likely, yeah. That's treason, dude. They can't do that. But you know, the Boston Tea Party, when we had the United States had that revolution because of the 3% tax, people lost their shit, right? Back in the day. Now we're just a bunch of pussies, we're just dealing with it.

Joe: 44:24

Unbelievable, you guys. All you new New Yorkers out there, wake up, man. Wake up. You guys are gonna be.

Thee Gooch: 44:32

It's too late for them, dude. Well, now the Trump admin the Trump administration. But this guy's not even wasn't even born in the United States.

Joe: 44:40

Yeah, that's what I heard too.

Thee Gooch: 44:42

He's got his citizenship, sure. But all the shit that he's doing, talking down on the United States and the president, all that, they're gonna revoke his citizenship and they're gonna deport his ass. That's what they're looking to do, at least. Yeah.

Joe: 44:53

But I thought that they don't supposed to be volunteering. I mean, like, volunteering. I mean, uh, they're not supposed to be uh active on this kind of job in the United States, dude, because of the ceilings, you know.

Thee Gooch: 45:05

Yeah, and that's supposed to be in an office, dude. In office, yeah. Oh, that's weird. It's weird. And um here's our are you gonna are you gonna talk to are you gonna talk to D see if she wants to come on the show?

Joe: 45:22

Well, I was hoping you because you you're you're talking to her, you know. No one talks to me and shit, and you know, no one gives me a fucking call and text. No one worries about me, you know. Hey Joe, you got five bucks? Huh?

Thee Gooch: 45:36

Hey Joe, you got five bucks?

Joe: 45:38

I know, right? That's when they know me. Yeah, but um I'll talk to her. Yeah, I'll just you talk, yeah. You I think I mean you I think you talk to her more than I do, so it's like I said, um like know know that I'm alive and shit. But um, oh well. I'm not I I'm not acting I'm not acting porosito, it's just the truth, you know what I'm saying? You know, but um but yeah, dude. Um I feel sorry for New York.

Thee Gooch: 46:12

Yeah, we'll see what give it a year after he's he's uh you know January 1st, I think.

Joe: 46:21

Okay, here's our QR code, everybody. RQ, our code. If you want to go directly to our bus sprout link, our page, you can hear our episodes. Okay, if you want to be uh support and follow our page for three dollars a month, you will include a shout out, everybody. And if you want to subscribe for season three, you will get a uh one-time gift and and a shout-out. And if you're not satisfied with our podcast, you could cancel anytime, everybody. Here's our QR code right there. It goes directly to the bus problem page and follow us and support our show, everybody. Thank you, everybody. Um you get your all you got to do is get your cell phone camera phone, point it directly to the QR code, and it goes directly to the page, everybody. Follow me. But um, yeah, dude. So I mean, I can't believe we're doing this, dude. Uh we're we're doing great in our podcast. I mean, I was so I'm surprised, dude, because I think they were gonna go to this extinct this far. I know, dude. I know the only ones that didn't contribute is uh well they kind of did in a way, but but that when I don't see them coming around, or it's like an airy job, you know. You if they don't come around and they're they're just giving you the runaround, you know they're not interested, interested, right? Right. So I uh basically, I mean, I guess they don't want to contribute to our show. Mean you and I contribute to it, we we uh stuck to it and we fucking did it, and I like that's all I can say. I mean, and it's whatever I wanted, you know.

Thee Gooch: 48:06

I always wanted to do this since I was a kid, so you know, even though it was bad ground, but I was unlike you who didn't have faith in the Dodgers winning the World Series, I had faith in the show. That's why I stuck around. Wow, yeah.

Joe: 48:20

You know what? I think I had more faith in my shoulder than the Dodgers, you know, believe it or not. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, but you know, but you know, I mean, yeah, it's the way it is. I mean, everybody loses faith, and it I mean, I don't I shouldn't call it faith, I should call it hope instead, you know. Yeah, I mean, I lost hope, but and then I gained it back, and you know, it it comes and goes, you know.

Thee Gooch: 48:41

My my my perception of uh perspective on on the show in the beginning was you know it'd be fun, nice hobby. I don't have a hobby, you know. Well we get to talk to Remo and and and Benny at the time that when they were on the show, you know, because we went from not seeing each other, you know, right to seeing each other all our lives, you know. Yeah, and that in the beginning for me that was fun, but then you know, as it went by, a year went by, right? You know, it just keep getting better and better, dude. Like we we just start talking more about stuff, right? Yeah, uh, and again, people can agree or disagree with us, which makes it a show, which makes it a part of the show.

Joe: 49:23

I mean, I I'm not saying that Benny didn't want to be in the show. I mean, I get it. He's working a lot of hours and all that stuff, but yeah, I'm saying, like, you know, at least put some effort on it. Like me. I mean, I know he's making those long hours, you know, the whole week. You know, I get it, you know. But put some effort, I mean, put some effort on it. I I uh we're tired too. I'm tired too, you know. We're you're tired too, you're sleepy, you know. But I mean they helped us a lot, but yeah. So th I I thank them and I thank you, and I thank Remo, and um, I hope everything goes well with them. And I and I guess it's just you and I, you know.

Thee Gooch: 50:02

Yeah, and you know, and in doing the show in earlier days, you know, I wasn't expecting it to be a success, you know. Yeah, so now three years into it, you know, fuck, we exploded. No bullshit. You know, and I have no money.

Joe: 50:17

It's like I said, it's like if it wasn't for the downloaders from the carrier that I am in the bus sprout, you got to carry yourself on to like uh downloads, okay? So it goes by the downloads, and if you add a lot of downloads, a lot of followers, and you'll stick to Amazon and all that Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, Spotify, Apple Podcast, YouTube Music, Pandora, and all podcast platforms. So if we didn't have those downloads, we wouldn't not even be on them platforms, you know what I'm saying? Right. So that's why I thank all the listeners out there. Thank you very much by turning me in. And um, yeah, then that's all I can say too. I mean, I enjoy doing this, even you know, like even though I have bad grammar, if anyone out there has bad grammar, it's you can still do it. All right, you could be different. It's like you said you said that last week, Gooch. You know, we're different, right? Yeah, yeah, we absolutely are. Yeah. Oh, you mean drifty? Yeah, drifties. Rest your soul, Connie. Rest in peace. But um, are we yet? I think we're done for the day, Gooch. Go back to sleep. You gonna go back to sleep, memes? Yeah, or what? Yeah, memes now.

Thee Gooch: 51:48

Memes, time to go to sleep.

Joe: 51:53

That's the end of the show, guys. Uh but like I said again, guys.

Thee Gooch: 51:58

Nice!

Joe: 51:59

Hey now, thank you for all your downloads out there, everybody. Thank you for listening. I want to thank all of Europe that are downloading our podcast. I want to thank Europe, UK, China, Africa, Japan, Italy, South America, North America as well. And um go to our get the cam your camera phone out there, guys, and point it to the QR code there, and you go directly to the bus sprout page. You could tune into our episodes there. Any final words for you, Gooch?

Thee Gooch: 52:40

Um, no, I'm just bummed out still. You're exhausted? Yeah, I'm exhausted.

Joe: 52:48

So we might be doing two shows pretty soon. You forgot to mention that, Gooch?

Thee Gooch: 52:53

Yeah, I forgot to mention that next weekend.

Joe: 52:57

Next weekend, yeah, I think so. Okay, um, so starting next week, well, we're gonna give it a thought. We're gonna brainstorm for a little while, and we might be doing two weeks, live two weeks, and um, I mean two weeks. What am I talking about? I'm thinking I'm sleepy too, dude. But we're gonna do two shows in a week. So just stay tuned. Um, tune in, listen to listen to us, and um follow us, spread the word. Um Thee Talker's Podcast Unscripted. And um, it's a beautiful day, everybody in Los Angeles, California, everybody. I just want to say thank you very much, everybody. Um, do not drink and drive, everybody stay safe out there, have fun, don't ruin it for yourselves, everybody. This is Thee Talker Podcast Unscripted. This is Joe and Thee Gooch everybody. Thank you for your downloads already.