#also technically that's not the phrase like the real one is 'until the cows come home' but like it's too close

[james-stark-the-writer]

doomed by my hubris (turned in a paper that used an expression at the end that is antithetical to my point in the paper and i forgot to double check if it meant what i thought it did and now it seems like i'm insulting the book i worte the paper on)

[princeoftheroses]

Since you want asks, PLSSSE I want your Utena TH0ughts. WHAT is your favourite black rose episode? actually how do you feel about the black rose arc in GENERAL

black rose arc, black rose arc, oh black rose arc!!! by you adding how do i feel about the arc in general you are unleashed me to make a long post giving my very disorganized thoughts about this arc.

a couple of people call it a filler arc? i guess technically it is because it does not directly contribute to the main storyline and it wasn't in the manga and also the ending of the arc sort of makes it so the whole arc kind of didn't happen???

but also i think if a person labeled it as a filler arc they are kind of missing the point?? even if it doesn't contribute to the main plot (which it absolutely DOES but i'll get to that) it adds so much nuance to the characters of utena.

you get to see side characters and how they tick!! some of which like kozue and shiori become very important later as they become miki and ruka's rose brides in the akio arc! (side note : what was up with ruka he just kind of showed up and disappeared lmaooo)

also, it adds to akio! (tw warning for only the next paragraph, i'm talking about akio so you can except me talking about grooming and abuse)

not only is this where akio is introduced, but he is always so omnipresent. it was ... honestly really terrifying to see how chill he acts with utena here. of course the real grooming begins in the akio arc but you can see how he starts here. how he kind of builds himself as anthy's cool older brother that utena can trust and ask for advice for... but we the audience know that he CANNOT be trusted as even know we see him being shady af in the background. i really feel like if we skipped straight from the first arc to akio arc a lot of the creepiness of akio would not have been realized because of ... just how NORMAL he akio acts to utena. he's charming, he's smart, and he overall is somebody utena SHOULD be able to trust bc we should all be able to trust an immediate family member of a best friend , but of course the world doesn't really work that way. anyway akio tangent over because BOOOOOO akio (he honestly terrifies me so much because of how many predators like that exist and you can meet without realizing their intentions)

BACK TO BLACK ROSE ARC

one of the main reasons i feel like this isn't a filler arc, at least not in the traditional sense of the phrase, is because it builds a lot character relationships. something that i didn't like when i first watched revolutionary girl utena but now is one of my FAVORITE things is that for a while we don't really get a straight forward utena/anthy episode. because their relationship doesn't need to build in an episode, it just slowly builds over time. we just see these two causally existing and they just start to trust each other.

in the akio arc we get to see just how close utena/anthy have gotten over the series because of their late night conversations. like how if the black rose arc didn't exist akio wouldn't have been as impactful, if the black rose arc didn't exist it would feel more sudden how close utena/anthy have grown imo.

this arc adds a lot to the world as well. as long as the students stay inside of school they will not grow. dead people wander the halls thinking that they are still alive. these two facts contribute a lot to utena theorizing and analysis (mainly, the ideas that ohtori exists within a plain of frozen time literally because of anthy's magic and metaphorically because the cast is very cozy in their coffin) and i could not thank this arc for that enough. not only are these very cool ideas that may or may not have inspired elements in my own story (i can neither confirm or deny that one of my oc story is heavily inspired by utena) but they just add so many layers!

this arc also felt necessary because of the new duelists??? if we went straight from the first arc to the akio arc then it would've kinda gotten very tiring to see the student council constantly duel and lose to utena (with the exception of touga's sole victory to utena in the first arc before she duels him again and wins) but these new duelists possessed by the black rose are very interesting!

if i did have to make a compliant about this arc, though, i will say that at times the stories felt very disconnected to each other. while it was very funny for utena to not even know who keiko was when she dueled her, it would've been nice if sometimes the arc of the black rose duelist intertwined more with utena. as the arc goes on, the student council is on alert and is trying to figure out where the black rose is coming from, but they never really try to ask utena about it and utena never really tries to get involved? she just is chill until she gets the note to go to the duel arena to fight the black rose duelist. i don't really have a solution on how to fix this? maybe have the student council member that the black rose duelist takes the sword from be more involved? idk.

the villain of this arc mikage also really fascinates me??? i... really like him??? but not even as a villain ... i just really pity him. the realization he has in his duel with utena that everything he has been doing is for nothing because mamiya is already dead .. that always really hit me? the horror in his voice when he starts to recall the truth in his false memories.... for some reason, this is one of the most terrifying parts of the show for me. the realization that something you were doing, something you were doing that might've been awful but you were doing it because of somebody you care about deeply and love, it was all for nought. how much time he has wasted...

even before his duel with utena, there's this moment when after he got punched by utena he says something like "if she hadn't seen my duelist ring and challenged me to a duel, she could've killed me" or something like that, he's just so pathetic and i feel very bad for him but at the same time am too disconnected to him to truly feel empathy for him... that's some TOP TIER shit

overall, this part of the show is one of my favorites. the only part i like more is the last few episodes because it makes me very emotional.

NOW FOR THE SPECIFICS

favorite black rose duelist: honestly? wakaba. the girl deserves it this is stress relief for her. not only is this duel very emotional as i don't think we've ever seen utena refuse to duel somebody (at least not in the way that she does in this episode) but just the SHEER emotion.

i'm a real sucker for fighting the person you care about the most which is why the dark signer arc in yugioh 5ds is the best yugioh arc and this just really takes the cake in this arc. utena always shows concern for the black rose duelist because they are clearly people in pain who were not able to properly duel with their grief which let mikage manipulate them, but it's taken to a new level here.

the way that after the duel is completed, wakaba comes home to her empty dorm where saionji used to be but now isn't always gets me. she's just such a lonely girl and that's never really resolved for her. a lot of the other duelists have a optimist note to end on (kozue asking miki for a milkshake, shiori and juri saying hello to each other as they walk past, keiko being friends with nanami again, etc.) which is why the fact that wakaba is more alone now then she is ever... it is a feeling i can relate to an almost embarrassing amount.

favorite episode: COWBELL OF HAPPINESS, NANAMI TURNS INTO A COW-

ANTHY YOU GLORIOUS TROLL-

favorite episode that isn't cowbell of happiness: i'm very torn between the landscape scaped by kozue and thorns of death. shiori and kozue are both very interesting characters that i like a lot. but i'm going to go with thorns of death for now, as while i really like the landscape scaped by kozue, i think my preferred miki/kozue episode is their episode in the akio arc. meanwhile i like thorns of death way more than i liked whispers in the arc (mostly because i just do not really care that much for ruka, but azure paler than the sky was a banger and he was in that?) i just loved the feeling of seeing shiori the girl juri loves so much and juri's reaction to seeing her. the way my heart was wrenched when black rose shiori mocks juri... it really did hit different. but the hopeful ending did make me feel a lot better. i do like the way that juri out of all the student council members is the one closest to self actualization and this really sets that up even if there is still a bumpy road until then.

honorary mention: the boys of the black rose and kanae as a black rose duelist are both really great. i feel like if this wasn't the arc opener it would've had more room to stretch its legs and show how horrific it could've been. kanae is a girl i feel really bad about and similar to wakaba, i don't really think her episode was a very optimistic ending for her especially since akio probably killed her later in the show?

honestly the minute akip appeared on screen, engaged to a girl who HASN'T EVEN GRADUATED and is also emotionally manipulating her so much and having his little sister manipulate her too... throw the whole man away

tl;dr - the black rose arc is very good and i like it a lot, the ending of the arc really fucks me up, somebody give mikage & all the black rose duelists therapy, throw akio in the garbage, and this show probably exists in some sort of time loop / frozen time space as a metaphor for the whole coffin thing but you can probbaly find people smarter than me talking about that.

oh and go rewatch cowbell of happiness it's great

[jorts-lad]

If you haven’t already, may I suggest watching the the post TMA episode 200 live stream. You can find it on the past live streams on the Rusty Quill twitch page. It’s a great time and many fun chats about the show from many of the people at Rusty Quill. If you need more of a reason below I have some fun quotes throughout all 3 parts of the stream.

Slight tangent before that, I do suggest continuing watch their streams, they are pretty great and also if you haven’t yet the other RQ podcasts are amazing.

I might not have the exact quotes but eh, I got them mostly.

In character Among Us (Start)

- “I realize we could end up with like 10 Martins at this point, or 10 Johns, but I feel like that will add to the drama”

- “I hate it already”

- “And it will give Robbin Lennox more screen time then he did in the show so it will be really good!”

- “Hey everybody look at me, I’m hot, I’m the fun one, I’m sexy. Sexy Tim.”

- “Keep adding to canon, that’s right, keep adding canon”

- “Your voice has changed a lot over the years, it’s like you’ve lost track of it”. “I’ve started smoking *laughter*”

- “i like fan fic”

- “All season 1 Tim round”

- “You mean a notTim?”

- “What a Tim to be alive”

- “We can’t have John as the imposter because you’d always hear from a distant corner of the ship, ‘Ceaseless Watcher’ ”

- “If I were the Corruption I guess I would just say, *corruption noises*”

- “Enjoy space black?”

- “That’s the key with Elias, just very British”

- “Hot John rights”

- “This is Elias Shiteatinggrin Bouchard”

- “I don’t suppose there’s an open position at the Archive?”. “Fun-ally enough there’s quite a few”

Jackbox

- “Aww, I love those” “Motion Sickness?” “Yeh”

- “I refuse to say Dino Nuggies”

- “So how is everyone?”

- “I cyber bully Martyn a lot”

- Question: A rejected fear from Smirke’s list. Answers: Vacuuming or The Fandom

- “I’m not voting for either because I don’t understand either joke!”

- “Alex told me to turn it on” “Alex isn’t the boss of you!”

- Question: Ah, yes, Elias Bouchard’s only weakness: Answers: Loose Morals and Fast Women or Mirrors and Thigh High Boots

- Question: What did Martyn photoshop Alex as this time? Answers: The Entire Cast of Glee or A Dinonuggie

- “Keen as mustard”

- “I really thought I had it with Senpai”

- “Hello, I’m Alasdair, the unsung hero of The Magnus Archives.”

- “In a real way aren’t you always playing Helen?”

- Question: It’s all fun and games until Daisy... Answers: Runs Out of Bullets or Kills a Cockney Delivery Driver

- “Wow. Wow. Wow. Jonathan.”

- “I took over the Stellar Firma transcripts and I come into the series at episode 60, I have no idea what the hell is going on. And then I have to describe the noise Tim makes with his mouth.” “It’s technically called speech I think”

- “Someone in the chat said, ‘Content warning: Tim Meredith’”.

- “Original recording of Rick Astley doing what?”

- Question: Martin’s favorite sweater had THIS written on it: Answers: This is what a Tea-Drinker Looks Like or Twink

- “I forgot about the good cows” “How could you forget about the good cows?!”

- “Crawdaddy”

- Not a quote but all i’m gonna say is, Autumn PHRASING

- “Alex. But wrong”

- “Content Warning: Daddies”

- “Martin wearing a shirt that says ‘Tea Daddy’”

- “The two genders: Crawdaddies and Regular Daddies.”

- “It’s alright it’s just a podcast” jonny please don’t i’ll start aggressively crying at you.

- *Jonny and Sasha discus what they are gonna eat for dinner*

- *Jonny messing everything up*

- “I used to play Martin, but ya know”

- “Oh wait does that mean Tim is now kayaking with John and Martin?” STOP IM CRYING

- “Do you here the raw capitalism in his voice”

- “Aw Daisy Chains”. “That’s not what it says”. “That’s what I choose to read”

- *everyone making Alex uncomfortable with words*

- “Oops all Ben”

The Huge Chinking’ Quiz of the Season (End)

- *everyone ominously saying Martyn*

- “Episode 69” “And what is the title of that one?” “Nice”

- “Jacky-B”

- “It’s just a spin off where nothing bad happens and ya’ know cause like Gerry Keay said the fears were the only entity and I said no, fuck you that’s wrong”

- “Alexander J. Bone”

- “Dino nuggets”

- *zooms in on Mike’s face* “You’re doing what? On my stream!”

- “Magns Achves”

- *extended sounds of chicken noises*

- “Spider [nonbinary] is my gender”

- “Over 9,000?”

- “Everyone go home Twitch is over”

- “Tim, I mean Mike”

- “Can we not make Tim a verb”

- “Swoon, swoon, swoon, Adelard Dekker”

- “not a soup store, just soup!”

- *talking about Jonah Magnus* “Cause he’s a bitch!”

- “You can’t just pop in a contact lens, ya got to bring in the whole man”

- “I was covered in disinfectant before I stroked him”

- “Don’t just straps your friends down and pull things out of them, I guess”

- “Rusty Quill Streams is a podcast”

- “Rusty asmr hours”

- “Ceaseless Watcher, turn your gaze aping these ribs!”

- “The Twilight universe is actually set in the Magnus universe” *disapproving* “NO”

- “I thought you said Shrek shaved her”

- “how’s it feel to get the last line in the show?” “VINDICATION”

- “And for the last time, Statement Ends”

[oh-kaaay]

1, 2, 6, 10, 12, 17, 21, 35

ohoho! thank you dear friend! a chance to talk about my children is ALWAYS appreciated!

1. A favourite character you have played.

well, this should be easy. tyshvan copperhelm is the character i play the most, after all. but... thing is, i’ve had the most fun playing more chaotic characters. so, for this answer, i’m gonna say fwoosh. he’s my kenku who sounds like mean owen wilson! but if you mean just my overall favourite character? it’s tyshvan. it’ll always be tyshvan. she’s a cleric-bard dwarf and basically the party mom

2. Your favourite character that someone else has played.

okay. okay hands down, 100%, tenny c, elven bard-with-a-secret-rogue-side. he’s tyshvan’s best friend, and he’s played by my lovely gf, @shfcapb! he’s honestly iconic. i can’t get into it all here, but ask her about him sometime and you’ll get some real gems. he’s married to @scottidols‘s half-elf half-vampire ranger emardo trex, and is teaching him how to read (’:

6. Favourite death (monster, player character, NPC, etc).

hahaaaa, fun fact, my main campaign, the sauce, has a negative death count. so npcs and player characters don’t just NOT die, sometimes npcs that WERE dead come right back due to absolute shenanigans. it’s never just “ah, we might as well resurrect X”, it’s always like... something no one expects? so uhh, i guess, out of the enemies we’ve killed, i really loved how we tackled a toschar chilling in a mage tower. we couldn’t go up to face him, so we just decided to start looting the tower while we waited for him to come down and face us. then we laid a trap for him, involving grease, invisibility, a griffon, and a severed hand. good times.

10. Your favourite enemy and the enemy you hate the most.

hm. tough question. technically, those would be the same enemy for me, bc i live for good enemies, but like... probably the enemy i hate the most is the lack of communication between our characters, so the drama builds! but, i also love it, so like... it’s fine. my favourite enemy we actually fought is probably our current arc’s boss, a bard named lakat. we met him for the first time the other day and literally demolished his army and would have killed him, if he wasn’t just an illusion on the battlefield. but like, we bumped into him for the second time and basically jumped him in his own house, almost wrecked his whole plan, and then took the captain of his bugbear army’s boots as payment to leave his base and let him like... live another day. this is particularly funny when you consider it took us an in-game year to even THINK about tackling kalarel, a nasty necromancer. probably an irl year too, if we’re honest.

12. Your in game inside jokes/memes/catchphrases and where they came from.

ohhhh boy, too many of those. but let’s go with some of the highlights!

firstly, halfling as a language? it’s just memes and jokes. halflings be like “haha lit” (dabs) and other races are like.... what the Fuck.

dm: alright, when last we left our heroes... who would like to do the recap?everyone: (dead silent for 30 seconds)

“hm. but that would be very interestingggg...”

“don’t worry guys, i think this is gonna be a chill session” (10 minutes later, we burn down a tavern, accidentally kill a single mother but save her kid, and resolve a bunch of character drama between a vampire and a god whilst almost dying ourselves) (next time) “i think this is gonna be a ch--” “NO DON’T CURSE THE SESSION” (even now, typing it out, i get shivers. it’s like our version of a scottish play. we have a session later today and i am fearful i’ve already cursed it by uttering the phrase)

“you wanna learn about... dwarven anatomy~?” 

17. What are some house rules that your group has?

if you “bard to bard” (ie, sing/play music as a bard) you get hella inspiration dice. once, we had a crossover session with some other campaigns in a big boss battle, meaning we had 4 bards who could bard to bard. we wrote a HUGE song with a bunch of different parts. it ended up being like 5+ minutes long? and got us all like 4d100 insp dice. per bard. we ended up needing them all.

21. Have you ever regretted something your character has done?

in-game or irl? bc irl, im a basket of anxiety so i absolutely regret a lot of stuff, bc like, “oh no, that was not in-character, that was not a good decision, etc etc” until the cows come home. i’ve learnt to try to chill out, but it’s kinda a constant noise in the back of my mind.

in-game, tyshvan regrets not being able to save the mother that died in the original, classic “chill session”. she regrets her entire approach to her will-they-won’t-they maybe-relationship with the npc wizard, equus. she has a lot of regrets, really. but she’s working to get over them!!

35. How much roleplay do you like to do?

oh man. if i could JUST roleplay for an entire session, i would. which is funny bc that was not the case in the beginning. but as i’ve grown alongside tyshvan, she’s really come into her own. and with the help of the party, she’s been able to relax a bit more and be more like... real, as opposed to just churning out inspirational speeches. but that’s still her number one activity!

[irlpinkiepie]

tmg concert writeup

so me and @butchaligned went and saw a mountain goats concert last night, here’s my thoughts

i’d like to preface this with two important notes: one, this was the absolute best experience i’ve ever had, and two, as of me starting to write this it is 3:25 am and i’ve resolved to stay up until i finish it so i can’t guarantee this will be intelligible by the end

so, are you familiar with “the cow song”? i wouldn’t blame you if you weren’t, because it’s an obscure song from the hound chronicles and is quite frankly? not that good. well, over the course of about an hour and a half, i became well acquainted with this song - turns out it was played at an ohio live show in 2006, and the people right behind us in line were determined to get him to play the cow song again (or, one of them was, one of them was staunchly against the idea, and one was indifferent but supportive) so we spent most of that hour and a half singing or hearing the cow song - which, i remind you, is really not a great song. if you’ve ever wondered what a mountain goats concert is like, take that fact, add in the fact that there were at least a dozen lesbians in attendance, and you’ve got a pretty good idea

the concert venue itself, i might add, was nominally a theatre, refurbished from what was once a church - that added a lot of wonderful ambiance to the whole scene, but it also severely limited the amount of available space. i’ve never actually been to a concert before this one, and i kind of had the impression that there was a potential to sit down at some point. there was not. we stood for four hours. and we loved it

then the opening act comes out, and they play a bunch of songs, and they’re pretty darn good, and then they walk off the stage. that may seem like an unfair summary, but hear me out:   1) it is technically accurate   2) while their music was indeed very good, it also was distinctly forgettable? case in point i totally forget their name (jenny besetzt, google tells me) - it was very enjoyable in the moment but looking back on it i can tell you very few things about it stylistically that i remember; it was sorta rock-y but with not much lead guitar, and i couldn’t really make out the vocals at all so   3) because the mountain goats were playing right afterwards, there wasn’t space at the back of the stage for another drum set, so they had their drums right at the front of the stage and it kinda overwhelmed everything else - not ideal, but not particularly avoidable sidenote though it was exactly the kind of music that i could see in like, the soundtrack of a hollywood movie, and as such it would have been the perfect music to kiss your gf to. wanda if you’re reading this we gotta go to a concert at some point

(also worth noting that they are genuinely very good; just also there were a lot of factors about their performance that made it hard to remember)

so then the stage is cleared and set up for the mountain goats themselves. the keyboard desk is set up, then covered with a red sequined cloth, then topped with a wooden cobra statuette. white electric candelabras flicker to life at the back of the stage. truly, they are living up to the spirit of their newest album. the fact that it took about 20 minutes to set up the sound systems adequately can be overlooked at this point.

and then..... it begins. and bizarrely, the songs that they start their show off with? letter from belgium, slow west vultures, mole, and cotton. not that those aren’t all jams, and letter from belgium was absolutely a powerful opener, but there’s something about choosing 4 songs in a row from we shall all be healed that’s pretty impressive

then they go into their new stuff - john has a really long story about unicorn tolerance and what the unicorn symbolism has meant to him throughout his life, and he plays it on this black lightning bolt shaped electric guitar and it’s rad, and then they do rain in soho and andrew eldritch and it’s all a blast, and then jon and matt and pete walk off stage and it’s just jd on stage with his acoustic guitar and i’m like ‘okay. clearly the real show has begun now.’ this is a gross error on my part, but i’d like to believe it’s an understandable one.

he leads in to the next song with the phrase “the best love songs hide their intentions as deep as they can”, and then plays night light which. WOW i’m just floored, especially since that’s one of my favorite songs of theirs, and then after that someone asks him about the tax bill and he says ‘well, y’know i’m self employed, so i get taxed a huge amount, and it sucks to have to give your money to someone else - unless you’re a christian, which i am, but uh - i believe that we should all be taxed exorbitantly and the money should go to help us all” and the crowd cheers, and then he says “i also am very cynical about institutional politics and very depressed about it all... as you can probably tell by this song” and he plays moon over goldsboro and during a couple of the instrumental breaks including right before the last few lines he played this quiet little guitar riff and i swear you could have heard a pin drop in the audience when he did it and then for those last few lines suddenly it all picked up and he was almost shouting them and it was incredibly powerful to listen to and i’m like ‘wow okay yeah this is what it’s all about’ (again, misconception, but understandable) and then pete walks back on. they play linda blair was born innocent, which was a jam, and then the rest of the band walks back on and i’ve kinda lost the plot at this point

but i’m willing to roll with it, and they play another couple songs from goths which i know less well (the grey king and the silver flame attunement and shelved) and then they do you or your memory and hearing it with the full orchestration live is just absolutely life-changing, and then they play see america right and my soul has thoroughly ascended into heaven at this point because there’s really nothing that prepares you for the experience of hundreds of other people relating to a song at the same time and in the same raw and visceral manner and then they play foreign object and matt douglas is actually playing the saxophone live and he does a couple awesome solos and i sing along the whole way and my voice just doesn’t give up

and then they play up the wolves, which is just this magical experience and i adore every second of it, and then they do their bows and leave the stage but the crowd just keeps cheering for another solid minute or so, and they walk back on and do an encore, which. i’m not sure what i was expecting an encore to be, but i feel like it was somewhere in the region of ‘one popular song, maybe no children / this year since they haven’t hit those yet’. instead, they play we do it different on the west coast (which john actually starts singing the second verse in the middle of the first, and just has to stop and talk through the chord progression until it repeats - good performance tip) and instead of the piano outro it’s replaced by this sax bit which is really rad, and then they go from there into the diaz brothers which is awesome, and then they play game shows touch our lives? but instead of the really slow and somber album version it’s this incredibly upbeat rendition which, i didn’t realize you could do that with music but i’m so glad you can because it made the communal listening to the song that much better

and then from there they played this year, and somehow again i just sing along the whole way despite having never done that before, and they bow and walk off stage and the crowd keeps cheering, and then everyone but jd walks on and starts playing an instrumental, and then jd walks on doesn’t even pick up an instrument he just goes straight to the mic and starts talking and he talks for a few minutes and i don’t remember everything he said but he ends it with ‘this song is in 6/8, you can sing along’ and they play no children and somehow without the guitar it sounds so much more powerful especially since john is screaming the lyrics at this point and so is the entire audience, and he’s like leaning down into the front row and interacting with the fans at this point and during the ‘hand in unlovable hand’ line he reaches out and grabs someone’s hand from the audience and then just as the song is building to a crescendo all the volume cuts out but the intensity is still there and it goes into this super slowed down, no guitar, life-changing rendition of spent gladiator 2, and that’s the actual end of the show

overall it was 100% worth the two and a half hour drive it took to get there and back (in fairness i was asleep most of the way back (sorry aaron) so that wasn’t too bad) and is absolutely an experience i’d like to repeat but also i’m not sure if my body could handle that. 10/10

[yarusiholdings]

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  Transcription:

This is second cup of coffee. I'm Jason I'm feeling and we are about to get started.

  I love the song plays in my head.

  Alright, so welcome back. It's Monday, I got coffee, we got cows about to enter the room make sure that their presence is heard and on that fact we've had a really awesome start to the week here God forbid energy kids got up happy everybody's been moving along getting a lot of stuff done hope the same for you. Um, we also came off a solid weekend right so it was a weekend here where we really dove in and wanted to discuss just a lot about about making sure that we have a good grip on where we were to go with this week and our our whole focus was making sure that we were going to make some choices about schools potentially opening back up for the daycare for the kiddos. We want to talk about that you'll make some changes just because now is the time to look forward and today is the day about looking forward to your future. And of course, well, you can look at your future, but it's only going to be about what you do right now. That's going to start leading into that path. So what do we learn this weekend?

  We learned that Luke really loves music. You notice in there, I mean, this isn't this weekend. This is just right now it's just in there. And somehow he's found out the music app. And he's making music playing on the piano, very

  sound and all these things, and I'm just like, Wow, my kid. Our kid is amazing. So this weekend, what

  did I learn this weekend?

  You know what I just I realized, I'm going to make it my personal mission. I mean, we have we have our mission at the Jason PV project. And we actually have, you know, we're all about growth and we're always growing what we're doing. So for me, my personal mission is to just get as much Aloha and aloha to the world and everybody in it. That's, that's my personal Deep down in my neck out in my tummy mission. But what were we discussing? We were discussing about our mission in the car and we came up with this amazing phrase. And of course, it slipped out of my head, but you wrote it down.

  Yeah. And that's it, because we discussed but I'm gonna retract this and go back to it. But it's really we got to thinking about what is the message that we want to get across here? What is that thing that we want to continue to bring to you? And it's tactical advice to a fulfilling life? Yes. And that route carries through our message, right? Because we, that's what we want, right? We want to provide technical steps tactical advice, whether it's from us or people that come in the show, that can help you find a more fulfilling life and that can be whether you need to improve your mental toughness, improve your health, grow your wealth, any of those topics, and if we're not perfect, we're here to learn with you. But these are the steps that we're using see other people taking that are really driving forward their days or weeks. There are others. So you know, I'll throw out a couple other things. YPO is out there. I also learned that I In Latin, the word quarantine or quarantine was corn. Tina means 40 days and that that was used to be based on designated how long a quarantine can happen, right. So so I think our extended quarantine, we're starting to see that that move away move points and other people are, are taking steps along with that. And also the economy, just the way that's not directly tied to the stock market, which was also shocking, right? Because it's the stock market is really pushing forward really bushing looking at the that we're really after opportunistic about where the future lies, and that that leads to a couple things right. So regardless that you know, small businesses or are really taking a hit and probably go out Well, most of the stock market is larger corporations, larger companies that had the balance sheet had the reserves had the willingness and ability to sustain throughout, so on that prospect, although a lot of businesses small businesses are really getting hurt right now and potentially are never coming back the economy still from a large business perspective. The stock market is really, really I'm still looking forward to that. It's a good time. So where does that push for us? Where does that push for us in terms of what is our step to provide technical advice to a fulfilling life?

  What steps are we going to give people? I mean, we're, we're all about having a fit rich life. And now having this additional layer on top of that, just this additional kind of pinpointed pneus of what we want to do to give people tactical steps. So like what I said before, I want to push as much aloha as I can out into the world. But how am I going to do that without giving everyone the way this show is the way to limit the way to be able to live that positive, live that amazing life without those steps. So how are we going to do that? Well, we're doing it right now. So what kind of steps are we going to give everyone?

  Well, like parenting right so I was trying to work out together was always A task, right? So sometimes when we are going to CrossFit, we were able to use the daycare for the time being. But it's always a task. We even right now, we tried to do a workout together with the three kids outside with us. It's just not happening, right? You have one run again, as we said, or other points or kids jumping in or running in or everything else point, we found that, you know, the thing that's working for us is doing this, you go I go, so basically people go out there and do a set, you know, so running some kettlebell, some bike, some step ups, and then I will be with the kids. And then in our little downtime with the kids, maybe we'll do something like little setups or push on or something in between and what why purely takes three to four minutes, we'll do that. Come back, and then I'll go We'll do that back and forth. So we're constantly with the kids, but the other person's getting the workout data, we're doing it together. So that's actually been something that's been really workable working for us right now and we're doing this and he's quick spurts where you go out there you get three minutes in three minutes or three minutes in three minutes off. You do that for a full 4548 50 minutes and can be really beneficial for you to get a quick workout in. under an hour and push for, and we also love challenges. The other thing we're doing is hashtag 50 with will or 50 push up challenge, which just basically means you do 50 pushups every day for 30 days. And the thing is, this is scalable folks, you hear the words push up, and automatically people like, I don't know, 235 10 years ago, if you had asked me back then, and you told me to do a push up, I'm like, No,

  not at all. But the thing is, you can scale it, go to a wall, if you really can't do anything. For like any push ups, go to a wall, put your hands like this against the wall, and push and keep on like working your feet backwards, push and then go to a table. Make sure it's a sturdy table. I asked somebody to do this in another group, and they're like, really, the table broke and I almost killed myself. I was like, well, I'll do another bar table.

  So that's our first step there. But yeah, but that but it's scalable, so fine, you're not responsible for tables break. or anything else sort of those points are? This is our disclaimer. Yeah, but our so disclaimer so so

  challenge yourself, get out there and find a tribe of people who are willing to be your accountability partners because that is key and call Jason I will wallet countability partner you to the day that you finally get it. Yeah. So start small scale it that means what scaling means is like you take the push up, you put up against a wall, you do what you can you put up on a table, you do what you can to lower yourself and lower yourself until you're actually on the ground. So that's what I did when I first started in CrossFit. I mean, Jason remembers, I couldn't do a push up. And this was like after the birth of my third child. I was, I mean, I wasn't overweight, but I was definitely like very weak. My body was weak. And I went there and I felt I kind of felt dumb, but the thing is like, that was me. telling me that nobody at that CrossFit gym thought that number one, most people are too busy to like even give you a second thought. Number two, they were they're the ones that actually cared really care deeply and knew that I could do it and help me take the steps to get there. So that's what we want to do for you, whether it's in fitness, whether it's in health, whether it's in jumping into real estate into multifamily, you let us know how we can help you and we'll give you the steps,

  because what he's really talking to here is that daily, we're trying to do practices because the first thing we need to do each day is and take that down is when against ourselves, right? So so we need to beat ourselves daily, because it's the first person or the first thing that's going to stop us in our mind or us right we're going to stop ourselves first and I'll talk to him today the one name but a friend has a has a disease, right? There's 100 cases of this a year and right now you know He's struggling Of course, I understandably right, because what happened with with COVID shut down all these things that were electives were his treatment was deemed elective, right. So that that parlayed him taking the time to be able to have his moments back. And now, you know, he's finally back having his treatment. But his response was, yeah, there's no guarantee we'll work. But you know, I shot back and we said, but there's no guarantee it won't work. Right. So so they're like, we could start like that we could change it around. And I brought it to the story of Conan Brady, I believe, who was burned head to toe and they almost died in Thailand. He showed up to see his mom and his the doctors basically said, you're never going to do anything again, you know, not even walk and his mom said, and if not calibrated, I'm sorry, but I'm pretty sure it is. But that is, mom. So what do you want to do? He said, Why don't we do a triathlon? And from that point, it was just like, the most important to your point, just told he's never going to walk again. But that was his focus, right? I said, I'm going to focus on this. That's what I'm putting all my energy and now he's gone on. To not only do that and do all these other things, you know when nice, we have the fastest part to do it, but he's now it's conquered these amazing amazing things broken all kinds of world records from like walking across Antarctica or one of these really insane, insane races. And you know, it just drives forward that we have to believe in our mind first because that's going to lead us through because so many times if you're just gonna, your mind is gonna stop you well then there's no chance. zero chance.

  Well, I'm thinking about saying since you bring him up, I'm thinking about the story of Bethany Hamilton. She was she is a world class athlete. She is a surfer. She was about 15 when she went surfing with a bunch of friends and a shark took her arm. If that happened, like my mind first goes, I'm never gonna go jump in the ocean again. But the thing is that happened to her she lost her arm. Regardless, maybe even in spite of this woman has become just as surfing icon because she took that and she used her now she had this. She created a platform for herself. She became a world champion, world class surfer. And she like she competes against the best if she wins, and she doesn't have an arm. So she she got back into the water she trained. She was 15 folks. She was a few years younger than me back when this happened. She's 15 she got back on her board. She serves mega waves and I'm not just talking about those little lumps she's This is like overhead. 10 feet overhead, huge waves. This girl rips. She doesn't have an arm. So it's all up here. It's all up here. And this tells your body how to react. So

  get this right first. And so Greg, I pull this up here cuz I like working out with a sledge hammer works before especially if you work outdoors. Papa is my idol. So broken into 10 fingers and if you see this one up close this finger was shattered with a sledge sledgehammer so yes I I know the use of a sledgehammer is not to hit your finger, but but different aptitudes I was I was 13 at the time, but I found out the hard way but it is a valuable resource. There was lots of CrossFit workouts use them and every other point so a fun thing you can do right there which just talks to what you can do with Okay, I don't have kettlebells or barbells you have things around your home right so I threw I have a backpack there that I've been running to get long run runs in that I've been throwing weight in so I've been carrying 30 pounds by run out there on my back and it just not you know the backpacks ripping through me on my arms because not made to be used this way, but it's just getting used this way. Right? Well, we haven't used it lately. You know, where am I going with the backpack? No, but in effect, okay, now it's now it's a toe it's a weight sack. And so now it's part of my workout plan. So look at what you have out there. Look what you can do. Look what you can use yourself to really just have a great workout. You Gotta commit right you just got to say okay, well not that I can't write Oh, I have nothing to work out with what okay just based on the workout we have these benches that were just sitting there as I guess decorative pieces of people have that stuff. They're not decorative pieces anymore. They are basically our boxes or or step up boxes

  or whatever they are separate boxes are bought like box jump boxes, we use them for everything we use them if, if I don't feel like going on the ground doing my push ups those days, I'm just like, hey, my arms hurt but I want to get my push ups and I do that we do our step ups with your jump ups. Well, I think you even tried to like lift them once that was probably not the best idea

  no, I lifting wasn't that bad by lifting them with a kettlebell on top of them and that almost well it didn't that so I'm not gonna say it almost any bad, didn't bat. So purpose there is that you try everything and it may not work. But if it doesn't kill you, then you have a chance to try it again. So take up Yeah. Jacob, Jacob, Jason. So Jacob always coming in strong your strong beliefs. definitive action which leads to big results and little belief leads to small action with leads to to really small results and confirmation bias. Yeah, absolutely. So your your point here is you have to think big, right? I get on these paths for listening to some people for a time and just find her narrative what I'm enjoying now James richer. hope I'm saying that correctly but he just talks about writing down 10 ideas a day just to get really your mind working and, and I found that that's it's super helpful, right? Because Because I get a lot of ideas running on the plate, but you put those points out, you start putting your finger to put your pen to paper, it just brings on so much other other greatness and everything you're doing. You start thinking outside the box because we get so conditioned to just stay within our lane, right? Okay. This is how it is and if it doesn't work, okay. I guess it doesn't work. But you look at this and you say, Okay, these are the hands I've dealt and I was reading something today, okay. So if you get dealt a bad The hand of cards, and you have no way of winning Well, here's your thing, lose or change the rules.

  Change the rules, change the rules.

  Actually, you know what, I think that's a great idea. I challenge everyone that's listening today. Write down 10 ideas doesn't don't, do not let your head get in the way of writing those ideas. You have an idea whether it's, I'm going to walk on the moon, fine, write it down, just write it down, write down those ideas that pop into your head, because you never know one of those 10 ideas might be the one that you need to grow that pillar. Grow that next step. Take your level, take your life to the next level.

  Yeah, so I actually saw something today that I thought was just, I was like, man, if we were not having more kids, but if we were having another kid, I would definitely do this right. So why the kids are playing in sand and everybody knows taking your little kids into sand. What a mess that is. They've sent everywhere. Every time they get food foods in their mouth. Well, they're actually taking Cheerios and grinding Cheerios up and making sand like playthings of the Cheerios. And so now they have a little place where the kids can play in the Cheerios and and they're not eating sand and you're not trying to keep the sand out at all. If you had little kids you know, I don't need to go that far but it's it never ends well, so I'm half fat, but that would How sick is that? Right? And we're 60 minutes into you crushing a workout out there. If you are really hit it out. Let us know what you're doing for working out sledgehammer we'd love that right? Something like that awesome little thing. Running. We've been running a ton pure. He's really been putting the work in with running so got a good amount of miles in this weekend. I've been feeling good with my runs been good on my pace. We're doing some five part course we talked about that. So we're doing our two workouts a day just so we're each get one in the morning. And one in the afternoon. I think that's been a good transition since last time where I'd get one in the morning who was trying to get in to, you know, either mid or end of the day. And that was always difficult, right? Because next thing you know,

  next thing I know, it's like 10 in the evening and I'm just like I I think I'll have a full 45 minutes I still have to work out.

  But I think the good thing that we're learning from this point, it's just like ending you're supposed to be doing get it done early, right? There's no advantage to to waiting. There's no advantage to the point of getting to.

  If it's important, then get it done.

  Yeah, well, if it's something valuable, right, so you can only analyze for so much before. It just it becomes an afterthought, right? Because you move on to the next thing you're analyzing, you just never really just expand from where you are.

  What have we done today? What did you do so far? I ran, you ran, I ran and I did my 50 pushups.

  50 push ups. Well, so that's a good one right there. I'll get that in later today. We haven't figured out what we're doing later today, but we'll figure it out. And it's just that point. Sometimes you get out there and start doing right. So I think with my runs where I don't know the direction, just run run in one direction, right? And that's the same thing with business. If you don't know where to go, well start going somewhere and you'll either find out, it's the wrong way and you pivot and you figure out what doesn't work or You'll find that that's the right path, but I guarantee what's not going to get you anywhere is standing still no. So, that leads us into going into tomorrow. We are we are talking about. So the topic tomorrow will be so far you've survived 100 of your worst days. So you're undefeated.

  You're undefeated. If you're here if you're listening to this, if you're here with us, you are undefeated.

  Everything and so looking at that, what else can you do?

  What else can you I mean, are we gonna dive into it? Are we going to win so tomorrow, no tomorrow, but of course, please hit that subscribe button, go over there. Go to YouTube. We got a lot of fun things coming up. So some great people on board some great interviews coming up some great people had helping up some video editing. We are continuing to expand today on most multifamily. We have Ashley Wilson. She is a fantastic mom. She flips she she does large multifamily. She's like she has two amazing kids. She has an amazing husband. They have this amazing business together and she lets you know how she does it as a mother as a wife as everything and sorrow. You are amazing. Thank you so much for your inspiration. This little this this amazing, amazing woman sent me a card out of sort of normal nowhere. She was like, Hey, what's your address? I'm like here, my address. I haven't talked to you for ages. But here's my address. And then she sent me this amazing card and it like warmed my heart and this is this is what it means to give each other strength. You say I give you strength, you give me strength, you give us strength. And this is why I want to make sure that the world gets more kindness, more Aloha, more everything out there and just a low strength folks. Kindness is strength. Love it.

  All right. So tomorrow check back for more tactical advice. I like that for fulfilling life. On second cup of coffee,

  second cup of coffee, folks.

  All right. It is Monday. See tomorrow.

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