Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Welcome to the Double J.J. show with J.J. smalls. Now, let me tell you something else. I'm tired of doing 25 different takes of this. I'm gonna keep this one going.
[00:00:09] I am a chronic overthinker, and that is true. That is factual.
[00:00:14] And it's okay to obvious, but if you allow it to cripple. Yeah. Well, you don't get nothing done. And then you're broken. Then you're in shambles. Anyway, when I come to the show. Welcome to. To the show.
[00:00:27] I had two energy drinks today, so I'm a bit geeked, as they say.
[00:00:35] No, it's okay. No, it's what you say. No, it's okay. No, chip back down. Shit. Back down.
[00:00:41] Nope, we're not gonna say that.
[00:00:44] There's no ums or whatever is in this show.
[00:00:47] Whatever I say is truthful and impactful.
[00:00:51] You understand me?
[00:00:53] You know, my computer desk is literally with sticky notes.
[00:00:58] Not just my computer desk. I have sticky notes all over my apartment.
[00:01:01] And what do those sticky notes say? One says, stop wasting time.
[00:01:06] Want to know what another one says? This one's on my door.
[00:01:10] What you do today is all that matters. This is the other one that's on my door.
[00:01:15] You hate your life today, change it.
[00:01:19] Because I'm. I'm one that needs constant reminders of not my goals, necessarily, but more of where I'm headed and to stop being distracted. Because I'm a very distracted young man.
[00:01:38] You know, I get derailed a bit, so I feel I need to put sticky notes everywhere. It's kind of like the movie Memento when he has tattoos all over his body. You know what's fun? I actually thought about doing that some years ago on my wrist, getting like.
[00:01:57] No tattooed on it, or just say, no, stop, think, don't, or something like that.
[00:02:09] So if I'm ever in a situation where I'm at the. Because I'm.
[00:02:14] I would never do that again. I'm sorry.
[00:02:17] I. I guess I'm. No. I am bipolar, and I'm prone to violent impulses.
[00:02:23] So I feel like if I'm ever in a situation where I'm like, I'm about to do something I shouldn't be doing, I can just look at my wrist or my arm.
[00:02:30] And so past. Jason could reach out and say, now, don't do it. Don't do what you're about to do, for the love of God.
[00:02:40] You're gonna regret it tomorrow.
[00:02:42] You're gonna regret it tomorrow. So stop.
[00:02:45] So it's a very similar thing. I need visual a signpost that I put there myself to say, get to work, stupid.
[00:02:57] I have another one near my TV that says if you have time to veg, you have time to work.
[00:03:05] So that's the kind of thing I. I need. But do I listen to those sticky notes?
[00:03:09] Not all the time, but they're there and that's what matters, I guess. But I mean, if I don't listen to the sticky notes, then why do I even bother wasting time?
[00:03:19] I just said that while reading the sticky note that says stop wasting time. So that was kind of poetic.
[00:03:26] Want to know who died today?
[00:03:28] Same Neil.
[00:03:30] Sam Neill died. He's from Jurassic Park.
[00:03:35] He. Well, apparently he had cancer, but he was cancer free by the time of his death, so I'm not sure what he died of. He was 78. 78. Some good life, I think.
[00:03:47] I think if I'm past 75, I'll be all right. If I die, it's a long life.
[00:03:55] Some people. There's some people in our. There's some people in our government that's like 80, 85, you know? What are they doing in our government?
[00:04:05] They're ancient. They're from a different era of civilization. Why are they there?
[00:04:11] Why are they there?
[00:04:13] Why are the Krusties running the country?
[00:04:18] That's. That's my biggest complaint. Not talking about both sides of the aisle.
[00:04:23] Get the crusties out of here.
[00:04:26] Anywhere. Same. Same. Neil died. I feel like he 78's good, but it could have a few more life, a few more years. He could have been to 80, but I guess we'll come out later on what he died of because I guess he had a really bad blood cancer.
[00:04:39] But he I guess had that dealt with and he was cancer free. Poor guy. Rest in peace, brother.
[00:04:47] What's some of those movies he's been in? Because I think that's one movie that I'm thinking about. He was in that.
[00:04:54] Maybe I'm thinking about someone else.
[00:04:58] What's the guy who was in Spencer for Hire? I think that's who I'm thinking about.
[00:05:05] Hey. Oh, Bing Bong. That's not Sam Neil, but Robert Eric.
[00:05:12] I mean they could be brothers for bloody hell. There could be brothers for bloody hell.
[00:05:16] They look just aloy.
[00:05:18] That's. I think as a kid I used to get them mixed up.
[00:05:22] You guys remember Spencer for Hire? I think they made a new one, a show. What's that with Mark Wahlberg?
[00:05:31] Was that with Mark Wahlberg? So I'm saying that again because I don't like.
[00:05:36] I don't like. Silence Spencer Confidential. Yes.
[00:05:40] Yes, I was right. Mark Wahlberg.
[00:05:43] They just named it Different. And who's supposed to be Hawk?
[00:05:48] Oh, that dude from.
[00:05:49] I guess he's Hulk. Anyway, Samuel is dead. Rest in peace, bruv.
[00:05:56] What else is going on in the news? You. You know what I want to do with this? I want to do a little segment called obituary time.
[00:06:05] Well, I pulled, like, a random obituary of some person who died at a random point in time, like, in a random place, and I have one here. I don't want to do him, though. Let's do someone. Let's do. Let's do this lady. She just died.
[00:06:22] She just died.
[00:06:23] Should I say her name? I don't know. Let me rethink this.
[00:06:28] Okay, I'll say my first name. Her name is Hollywood.
[00:06:31] She was born in June 21, 1944, and she died June 30, 2026. So she died a couple weeks ago, the poor lady.
[00:06:39] But she was 82. Hold on a second.
[00:06:43] I don't know why I'm sniffing so hard. It's gross. I can hear it.
[00:06:47] Holly of Newburgh. Oh, she was in Missouri.
[00:06:51] Passed away peacefully on June 30th.
[00:06:54] Oh, wow. She was born in June 21st in a.
[00:06:58] I don't want to say how they know.
[00:07:01] I don't like that at all.
[00:07:04] Anyway, she was. She had a bachelor's. A bachelor's degree in English. Wow.
[00:07:10] She was a dental assistant. Oh, wow. She probably saw a lot of cavities.
[00:07:14] And then she was an office manager, I'm assuming of the dentist office.
[00:07:22] She.
[00:07:24] I don't know even what that even means.
[00:07:26] Oh, she was really big into gardening. She had a remarkable knowledge of flora and fawn. Of her. Oh. Of her beloved Ozarks. Oh, wow.
[00:07:34] Oh, and the Amazon rainforest. Wow. She's a worldly gal.
[00:07:39] She loved canoeing in Ozark streams and northern lakes, hiking through scenic trails. Oh, fine family.
[00:07:46] She loved her family.
[00:07:49] She is survived by her devoted husband of 50 years. Bro, my long relationship was, like, six months. I can't imagine she has. Let's see, how many children. One, two, three, four. Four children.
[00:08:04] And then one, two, three.
[00:08:06] Three granddaughters. They are not producing enough or.
[00:08:12] Oh, no.
[00:08:14] Anyway, rest in peace, Holly.
[00:08:16] He lived a great life. Love.
[00:08:18] A great, great life. 82 years. As I was saying, 82. Being 82 and dying is not that bad.
[00:08:25] Why am I talking about death?
[00:08:28] I don't know, but I wanna. I'm gonna do that. But the next app I'm gonna do at the end of the show because I Think that'd be entertaining. And plus, it's like, you know, people die and sometimes they die all alone.
[00:08:40] And nobody knows, no one cares, you know?
[00:08:47] You know what I was thinking about earlier today as well? I was thinking about free will. Let me take a sip of this energy drink.
[00:08:59] Because I was sitting at my desk earlier, but I was only wearing my undies.
[00:09:04] And I was like, oh, let me get dressed for this, for this podcast.
[00:09:09] And I was thinking, what for?
[00:09:13] What for?
[00:09:15] I'm alone, no one's looking at me. There's no web, there's no video of this pod.
[00:09:21] Why do I have to get dressed? And furthermore, why can I strip myself down of my, my undies and be fully nude?
[00:09:29] And this is what I'm talking about, free will.
[00:09:32] Who says I have to be clothed?
[00:09:36] Even when I'm alone in my apartment, I come home, I take off my shoes.
[00:09:43] Like when I'm off of work, I'll come home, take off my shoes. I'll clip my clothes on, I'll cook.
[00:09:49] Sometimes I'll even like put on my, like, chill clothes. I have like these. I have these shorts that are like bleach stained and there's a lot of like, ink, like ink stains from pens that bled through. They're kind of like my shorts that I wear at home. And I'm feeling a little bit of laziness and I wear those. You know, I have an old shirt, but who says I have to wear those at all?
[00:10:15] Why do I have to be clothed when I'm home alone?
[00:10:19] If I get a little bit cold, I can put on a hoodie. I don't have to put on pants or undies. I can put a hoodie on.
[00:10:28] Who's make these rules? And why am I conditioned to put on clothes when I'm home alone? There's no one here. Hello. Is anybody here that I don't know about?
[00:10:36] Anybody here that I know about?
[00:10:39] Would you like to see me fully clothed?
[00:10:41] Oh, you're naked. See, the spirit realm spoke. They told me to get naked, but I'll do that. I'll do that the next time I'm lazy. I don't feel like I take all my.
[00:10:54] But do you see what I'm saying?
[00:10:56] Do we really have free will if I'm too scared to strip myself of clothes when I'm home alone and no one is watching?
[00:11:07] These are the things I think about all day long.
[00:11:10] And these are things that you should be thinking as well, because that's just, that's just one example of everything you want to know the first thing I did when I moved to my apartment, I had my first apartment. This was when I was thinking about these things, about free will.
[00:11:23] When I had my first apartment. Fresh. Freshly 18.
[00:11:28] I.
[00:11:30] I was cooking a pizza on microwavable pizzas. Because that's what we ate back in the day. When you're 18, you're making those. What are those called? Tortillas.
[00:11:37] Those 50s. Well, back in the day, they're like 50 cents.
[00:11:41] But anyway, they're the square ones you get in the freezer aisle.
[00:11:44] And I was cooking. Then my stomach turned. My stomach took a turn for worst.
[00:11:49] And I remember I was like, crap, my pizza's done. I don't want it to get cold. And then a thought, because this is what I think about a thought was just eat it while you're taking a dump.
[00:12:00] I was like, do I dare?
[00:12:03] Yes.
[00:12:05] Okay. So I put the pizza on a plate, got a fork and knife, took it to the bathroom, pulled down my pants and my undies, and sat down. I had the hot plate in my lap, cooling myself, because that was a nice addition.
[00:12:21] So my. My groin and my thighs are being kind of not cold. I said cool. I meant heated. So my thighs and my groin is being heated, and I'm taking a crap and I'm cutting a piece of pizza with my fork and knife and eating it. That was the first thing I did as a free man in my own apartment.
[00:12:41] Want to know what else I did?
[00:12:43] Want to know what else I did? Because I'm a horny dog.
[00:12:47] I didn't care. I had this porn dvd. I didn't care.
[00:12:51] I didn't care who.
[00:12:54] I put the dvd. I had a big tv. Then I opened the blind.
[00:13:00] I opened the blinds, and I opened the window and I put the. I don't remember what the porn was, but there's, you know, one of the Mil 2007 porns.
[00:13:12] And I blasted the porn on the television, and I sat in my living room on my couch watching it like it was a sitcom.
[00:13:20] Because that's what I did when I was 18 years old. I didn't care.
[00:13:25] I didn't care. It was glorious.
[00:13:28] Was glorious.
[00:13:30] I didn't, you know, masturbate. It wasn't.
[00:13:34] That wasn't the purpose.
[00:13:36] It was enforcing my free will. Well, could have. There have been consequences.
[00:13:41] Maybe someone could have called the cops. Hey, I'm hearing porn. There's porn.
[00:13:46] Or they're having sex up there with the window open.
[00:13:50] There could have been consequences. But that I didn't care because I was like I was 18 years old and I had free will.
[00:13:59] And this is how I'm going to enforce it.
[00:14:03] I never really did it again after that.
[00:14:05] But that's okay because I had a really bad roommate. So the fun free will stuff started to get a bit stale because I would give the bloke my money. I would give him the gas bill money and he would go buy Taco Bell with it. I didn't have gas, I didn't have hot water in that apartment because he just wouldn't pay the bloody bill.
[00:14:29] That's when I realized you have to audit the people you're going to become roommates with.
[00:14:35] You just have to.
[00:14:38] Although so many, like, roommate horror stories out there, I won't go into mine.
[00:14:43] But I'm. I'm so glad I live alone right now.
[00:14:47] I'm a single male. I'm an incel. I have my own space.
[00:14:51] I have my own stuff, my own dishes, my own clothes and my own furniture.
[00:15:00] And do I blast porn on TVs right now? No.
[00:15:03] I watch them silently on my phone with my headphones in because I don't want anybody to hear because now I'm an old man and I don't have free will. I'm fully clothed, like I said. I can't even walk around here naked.
[00:15:17] I'm in prison. My life is a prison. I'm in chains.
[00:15:22] And that is the reality of it all. But maybe with enough determination, I can break those chains.
[00:15:33] I can break up.
[00:15:35] Massive European heat waves is going on.
[00:15:38] Extreme heat and wildfires are sweeping across the uk. In the uk in France. How about in Missouri? It is so, so unnaturally hot. And this is coming from me as a Florida man. I've lived in Florida for a very, very, very long time.
[00:15:53] It is so hot. The heat is like in my skin.
[00:15:57] So forgive France and the uk and why is it only the UK and France?
[00:16:03] Isn't there other countries on the same longitude and latitude of France?
[00:16:08] Boring.
[00:16:10] Let me take another. I'm drinking, I'm drinking these Bloom energy drinks. They're like the new clean energy drinks. It has 180 pieces of cat, 180 milligrams of caffeine in it. It's pretty good. This one's orange. I bought, I bought a troll pack because I'm just over the monsters.
[00:16:26] I really am.
[00:16:28] My gut doesn't feel good, my heart doesn't feel good.
[00:16:32] And when I start drinking those things, I. I'm thinking, I think today's the day.
[00:16:39] Today's the day you guys Ever see that movie with the, with the lady sitting on the front yard? She's like a black lady in all black and she's like, today's the day.
[00:16:50] I think I saw that last year, but I think the movie was about God. It was it really over it.
[00:16:58] The theme of it was like drilled into your face.
[00:17:02] What was that called?
[00:17:04] Lady.
[00:17:06] Wait, no, today.
[00:17:11] Horror movie.
[00:17:16] Oh yeah, the Woman in the Yard. I guess that was pretty easy to figure out. I saw that last year.
[00:17:22] It was okay.
[00:17:24] I got. I think it was. What is she. Didn't she get an abortion?
[00:17:28] Wasn't it about abortion?
[00:17:31] I don't know. There was something she. I'm not gonna read this right now. But I felt it was like, oh God, oh wait, I'm reading the wrong film.
[00:17:42] I was just like, God, can you.
[00:17:45] Crummy river. And whatever it was, it wasn't about abortion. Obviously. I wouldn't say that, but that, but it was something.
[00:17:52] The plot of the movie was like, okay, I get it. Comic. I get it.
[00:17:58] Whatever.
[00:18:01] Speaking of movies, I have a problem.
[00:18:07] I do have a problem.
[00:18:11] I've spent most of my life trying to be a filmmaker.
[00:18:17] I just don't watch movies anymore at all.
[00:18:21] I read this thing or it was. I think it was doom scrolling. And this lady was talking about if you're an artist and you don't actively consume the art in which you're pursuing. Pursuing, then your art has no merit. And I was like, bitch.
[00:18:39] What?
[00:18:40] I think there's truth in it. But I think I was a bit offended because I think it hit a note for me because, you know, I'm an aspiring filmmaker. Yeah. I could barely bring myself to watch a bloody film.
[00:18:55] What does that mean for me?
[00:18:57] Does that mean I've lost a passion? Passion for cinema?
[00:19:01] And if so, why do I. Why do I still try to pursue it as an art form?
[00:19:07] And if I did pursue it as an art form, do I have any.
[00:19:15] I guess, would my art hold any merit?
[00:19:21] I don't know.
[00:19:23] If. Do painters someone.
[00:19:26] Do you. Do you go to Arch? If a painter doesn't go to art shows, should he be a painter?
[00:19:31] No, I don't know. That's a good one.
[00:19:37] I. If you're a novelist and you don't know. I guess I see the point saying that 1.
[00:19:43] If a novelist doesn't read books, would I still read their books if they were published?
[00:19:52] Let's say, let's say Stephen King, Because Stephen King's a big one. He said, if you're not reading, you shouldn't Be trying to be a writer, which is true.
[00:20:07] Well, let's say. Let's just say any author. Let's say Stephen King himself.
[00:20:11] And there was an interview with Stephen King and then they asked him, what's your favorite book today? What are you reading today?
[00:20:18] Stephen King goes, well, I really read a book since 80s.
[00:20:22] You ever read a book since the 80s? No, I don't have time for it. No, I don't really care to read.
[00:20:27] But you're an author.
[00:20:29] What do you mean you don't read books?
[00:20:32] I don't have the time or the passion to read.
[00:20:35] But he still writes the same way.
[00:20:38] His books are still, you know, claimed.
[00:20:41] Does his books no longer hold value?
[00:20:47] Is the.
[00:20:48] I guess the argument or conversation I'm trying to have.
[00:20:51] Because I agree with that statement, but at the same time, I don't agree with that statement because I think my lack. My lack of desire to watch cinema is. Comes from a place of depression because I'm not making as much films as I should.
[00:21:10] And I don't want to see movies because it's more of.
[00:21:18] It's just more of like a mirror. I feel like I'm seeing all these films being made and I'm like, why am I not making any films? Even micro shorts. Why am I not making these micro shorts? I don't want to watch movies anymore.
[00:21:28] So I think that's where my.
[00:21:30] But no, I don't think that was true because it's like, I don't know. It's. It's not. Is it. It's not an easy thing that really come to a conclusion too, I guess.
[00:21:43] But like, say, if I made a film that, I don't know, reached an audience and I was asked that question, like, do you. What's your favorite film?
[00:21:54] I would probably be like, I don't have her film from when, when I was studying as a filmmaker. Favorite film. Now, as an adult, what's your favorite from the last 10 years? I couldn't tell you my favorite film the last 10 years because the last five years I probably watched 10 films.
[00:22:13] Truly. No, let me say I probably watched 10 films on my own accord, my own desire to watch that film. Like the Dune movies.
[00:22:24] I see. I can't even think of anything else. Obsession I watched recently. Have I watched anything? Oh, I just watched Hail Mary recently.
[00:22:34] But it's not like I'm watching them out of desire of cinema. As a student of cinema. I'm watching them because those sound like good movies. Let me watch them.
[00:22:45] But there is. I didn't Watch them. As a student of cinema, I was just watching them as popcorn flicks.
[00:22:52] I wasn't studying it, I wasn't dissecting it.
[00:22:58] You know, I wasn't consuming it as an art form. I was consuming it as media.
[00:23:03] So I don't know.
[00:23:09] There's nothing.
[00:23:13] It is.
[00:23:15] It's actually. It's really hard to even articulate. I think it's just multifaceted because there's the thing. Like I said, there's depression elements.
[00:23:24] The. Those are just the lack of desire to consume it because I. It's like, that's my favorite food, but I don't want to eat it because it hurts to eat it kind of thing. Because it reminds me too much of something in the past.
[00:23:38] Because now it's like, okay, now that I'm refocusing, I'm like, what? There's so much time has passed. I feel like there's been a whole new generation of filmmaking that I've totally missed out on.
[00:23:50] I don't know who the filmmakers are.
[00:23:53] Now they're coming out from YouTube, which is amazing.
[00:23:58] I feel like Obsession has started a new wave of independent filmmaking. I think YouTubers are starting to get noticed now.
[00:24:07] And now I'm like, well, I am nowhere.
[00:24:12] I've. My last film was three years ago and it reached zero audience because I didn't push it. I didn't send it out.
[00:24:21] I didn't know what to do with it. I really just didn't know what to do with it. I spent so many years trying to learn how to make a film and I totally ignored because I. I come from the school of film festivals, you know, and make a film and you send it film festivals.
[00:24:36] But then I spent all my money on making the film. I didn't really have much money to put it in film festivals, so I didn't really submit it to film festivals. So it didn't. It just sat on my bloody hard drive for like two years.
[00:24:46] And then last year I was like, okay, let me upload it to YouTube. But by then I lost all interest in the film entirely because that was like three years ago as a totally different person dealing with totally different things that stories not dead to me. I'm just moved on from it.
[00:24:59] I just don't. I moved on. What am I gonna do with this film that I just moved on from?
[00:25:04] Okay, I just uploaded to YouTube. I tried to. I pushed it on my socials, but by that time, oh my God, I have the stories. I'm just done with it, you know? So this time I'm trying some new things and gonna start small.
[00:25:21] I'm trying to come from a place of like, I guess the kids call it lo Fi cinema.
[00:25:29] But at the same time it's like I'm not even watching films from that genre.
[00:25:34] Which comes back to my original point of why am I a filmmaker if I don't even watch movies?
[00:25:44] I guess that's the question.
[00:25:46] I don't watch movies.
[00:25:48] I'm consuming more stories and Because I also want to be an author. And I'm reading a way a lot more because growing up I was reading non stop.
[00:25:57] I probably read thousands of books growing up.
[00:26:00] Truly have I read a lot in my early 20s. But then when I hit 30, I stopped reading entirely for fun.
[00:26:09] So a good almost a decade of not reading, I'm now fixing that I'm reading a lot more.
[00:26:18] I'm trying to read two books a month at least because I just have so much other stuff going. Well, not I don't want to pretend I'm being busy, but it's more of I have a lot of things I'm trying to focus on. So I'm like, I'm trying to at least read two books a month, which is pretty cool.
[00:26:33] But it's, I'm getting more of my stories from in novel form and then I just, it's like something's not clicking. My brain.
[00:26:43] Just don't want to sit and watch a movie now. I don't want to. I just don't want to sit and watch a movie.
[00:26:49] My brother watches like movies. My brother probably watches 10 movies a week. And he's not in a filmmaker, he just watches them. He just sit there and you turn something on and watch it.
[00:27:01] And I even just like, I can't. I don't know how he does that.
[00:27:05] Like I have Amazon prime the other day I was like, let me watch a movie. I was like, okay, let me watch a movie. Because I was getting in filmmaking mode. And what did I do? I watched a movie that I've seen a hundred times, Blue Valentine. Mostly because I wanted that handheld candid filmmaking. I love that. I, I. So there is a part of me still alive because I just felt passion just then.
[00:27:27] There is still passion within me because I just felt it.
[00:27:31] So it's still there.
[00:27:34] But it's more of like I need to watch new movies and not stay in these old movies.
[00:27:39] I've already consumed them, I've already studied them, already dissected them. I need to.
[00:27:45] Hello?
[00:27:47] Crap.
[00:27:48] Okay, so it's like, sorry, I hit the Mic. So I just gotta figure out. I gotta find a passion. I just don't know what movies to watch.
[00:27:58] Anyway, how did I get here? And that's fine. What time is it?
[00:28:05] I won't think about doing an hour, but I might just stick with like a 45 minute thing.
[00:28:09] That's not bad. 45 minute thing of ramble. That's not bad.
[00:28:13] Anyway, I guess the discussion is free will, doing what you want and being naked at home, being sexy, cooking naked. And also if you pursue something but you don't consume, that thing that you're pursuing does the thing that you.
[00:28:36] If you publish something that in the thing that you're pursuing, like a film or a book, and you don't consume books or movies or films, does your art hold merit or meaning or value or should you even be taken seriously?
[00:28:51] Is what I think what the lady was. I don't remember where I saw that.
[00:28:54] I think it's like we're not gonna. I think it was basically your filmmaker doesn't watch movies. We're not going to take your film seriously.
[00:29:03] Which is valid. It's valid in my opinion. Ciao.
[00:29:08] Those are things to talk about, to think about.
[00:29:12] You know, I'm not expecting much from this, from this podcast. I'm just going to be rambling. I'm just going to keep going. It doesn't matter. No expectations chat. Hopefully. I don't know why. I kind of have a stuffy nose.
[00:29:24] And I'll. It would all get better. It's okay.
[00:29:29] Let's do one more obituary.
[00:29:31] Because this is how I kind of want to end it. On a happy note. Even though it's death, but it's happy death.
[00:29:37] No one's being murdered here.
[00:29:39] This is. I'm always gonna do an old person.
[00:29:42] Someone who has a nice long, healthy life.
[00:29:45] And that's it.
[00:29:46] Okay, so there we go.
[00:29:49] This is what you call obituary segment. To end the show on someone who died, lived a long life.
[00:29:56] And.
[00:29:59] Yeah, so her name is Mary.
[00:30:02] She was born. Okay. I don't like this website because it's. It says where I live. Let me back out of that. I don't like how it knows where I live. That. Oh, I see.
[00:30:13] It knows my IP address.
[00:30:18] Hold on a second. Spare with me.
[00:30:21] Is you over in state.
[00:30:23] There we are. Just go out of state.
[00:30:27] All right. Some old person here. Oh, she got the long life.
[00:30:33] Okay. Her name is Mary. Nickname Wally. Don't know why that nickname.
[00:30:40] Never mind. I have to pay. God.
[00:30:45] This was public information.
[00:30:48] Bear with me. Here we are.
[00:30:51] Let's See someone. Oh, wow.
[00:30:54] Look at this handsome fella.
[00:30:56] All right.
[00:30:58] His name is. Okay. We're going to celebrate the life of Conrad. Conrad Robert. I'm not going to say last names or anything like that.
[00:31:07] Conrad Butchie. What's his nickname? Aussie to friends. Was born in 1948 and he passed away July 7, 2026. He just passed away at age 78. The same ages am Neil.
[00:31:23] Rest in peace, bruv. Conrad graduated from. Should I say all these details? I won't say the schools. I just need to learn. I don't know if this is actual tactful.
[00:31:33] So I'm trying to just don't know the etiquette of this. If someone like randomly tuned in, they're like, why are you talking about my grandfather?
[00:31:45] Whatever.
[00:31:46] Congrat. Graduated in Bridgeport, Connecticut of a technical school. I won't say which one is until I figure things out. He served in the Navy. Welcome. Thank you for your service, lad.
[00:31:57] And he served aboard the USS Turner. Wow. From 1966 to 1968. Wow.
[00:32:04] After his service, he built a career with IBEW Local 488 as an electrician. Wow. What a great life. He enjoyed softball and bowling in his younger years and was a lifelong golfer. I can't stand golf. Let me tell you something else. I can't stand golf.
[00:32:20] It's so unstimulating. Maybe because I have adhd. Not just let me tell you something else I hate worse. It's is mini golf.
[00:32:28] Don't ever ask me to go mini golfing. I will butcher you and your entire family. Don't you ever ask.
[00:32:35] Anyway. And he was passionately followed. The New York Yankees and New York Giants. Wow. Not really a sports guy myself. I find it boring. I do like a bit Osaka. I'm not really watching the World cup right now. But you see, I have passions, but I don't consume this stuff.
[00:32:50] My life. He was married three times. Well, not happy with the first, not happy with the second.
[00:32:56] Hopefully happy with the third.
[00:32:59] With his first wife, Sherry, he had three children. Wow.
[00:33:05] And with his second wife, he had Victoria. He had a daughter.
[00:33:11] And then with his third, he had stepchildren. Good. No more kids for you.
[00:33:15] Conrad survived by his children and grandchildren, as well as his siblings, Richard, Greg, Marabeth and Ted. Wow.
[00:33:23] He'll be remembered for his dedication to his work, his passion for for life's simple joys. And his warm spirit may rest in peace. Wow. Thank you for your service. Conrad.
[00:33:34] Is his name Conrad? Or is that like the Navy? The title of the Navy Because Conrad isn't. Oh, I'm thinking about Comrade Conrad.
[00:33:44] He is laid to rest in South Florida.
[00:33:47] May the beaches wash upon your spirit and bring you pina coladas and Latinas and bikinis.
[00:33:55] I hope you like Latinos as much as I do. Anything's personal.
[00:33:59] And with that, thank you for joining the J.J. smalls Show. The Double J Show. I gotta remember my title. My own dang show. It's a Double J Show. And I'm your host, J.J. smalls.
[00:34:09] Thank you for sitting here with my first episode.
[00:34:14] We'll get this tuned out. It's okay.
[00:34:18] It's okay.
[00:34:20] Anyway, Godspeed. I'll probably be doing this once a week on Mondays, so Godspeed.
[00:34:28] Don't forget to walk your dogs and drink your milk. And also your orange juice.
[00:34:35] And also eat your greens. It's getting crazy out there. Also, lock your doors. It's getting crazy out there.
[00:34:43] Lock and bolt your doors and windows. Do not look at strangers. Do not talk to strangers. Keep your eyes down. You don't know who's gonna shank you.
[00:34:54] The world's getting topsy turvy.
[00:34:57] The world's getting a little funky out there. Be careful. I love ya.
[00:35:02] And be gone.
