Rob's Mini-Show – 20151027 and 20151029

[rob]

Two shows for the price of one! I try to keep the vaping talk down to a minimum because apparently I’m boring as whale shit when I do that. 😉

Direct Link: 20151027.mp3

Direct Link: 20151029.mp3

[Bucho]

YES!

Just got to find your audience for the vape talk Robby, for me it’s like listening to military folks talking in jargon I don’t understand but once you get your YT channel up and rolling I bet you get folks who do know that game tagging along with you just fine.

- Women sense my power and they seek the life essence.

[rob]

Yeah, I’m just messing with you. And I don’t know if it’s worth doing a channel, simply because I’m not sure I want to attach work and effort to something that I enjoy so much, if that makes any sense?

[Bucho]

The health updates are always welcome though. Sure they’re generally not conversation starters because it’s such a unique thing you’re going through, but it is a fascinating and even kind of miraculous thing you’re going through. Not that it probably seems miraculous to you anymore, since the novelty wore of loooooooooooooong ago, but even the idea you’re still with us when if you had been living 60 or 70 years ago you’d have been outta here is prettty amazing.

I definitely feel you on the Star Wars stuff of course. So many of those sounds – music included of course – are so ridiculously iconic and wired into our souls from growing up with them that even without the video they nail me right in the heart. I tear up at some of the reaction videos too, although I find it’s only when it’s one person and almost always only when it’s a woman. For some reason I find people are more self-conscious when they’re watching in a group and dudes seem more self-conscious than chicks, so the solo women videos feel the most genuine and thus hit me in the heart the hardest. Aside from John Boyega’s epic reaction the only dude I’ve seen who’s really fun to watch is the Reel Rejects guy, who seems unaware of the shapes his face makes while he’s watching.

I’m with you on the suggestion that Han is headed for an end, but I’d be pretty bummed out if Luke is a bad guy. Even the idea that he’s now a hermit feels kind of uncreative/repetitive considering how we met Obi-Wan and Yoda, but if they also had him fall to the dark side like his father before him I might even have to think about rolling my eyes. If he’s no longer 100% light side – especially considering how dark side he went during Empire and Jedi before pulling back – I prefer the idea that he’s somewhere in the middle. That the whole “bringing balance to the force” thing happened within Luke just as it did in The Galaxy Far, Far Away as a whole.

- Women sense my power and they seek the life essence.

[Bucho]

Re: 20151029

My health is fine thanks Robby. I do have more rumbling guts and sloppy business than usual the last couple of days, but you’re 1000.563% correct – any time I think about complaining I remember what you go through and slap myself across and about the face. Pretty sure it’s just some new stuff I’ve been eating anyway, and maybe nerves/adrenaline from being in the middle of exams and stuff. I don’t know, I’m not a doctor. Not legally anyway.

I was very glad to hear episodes of your patented Rob Plays Both Sides of a Conversation show-within-a-show thing on this one.

“I don’t like the way my knees rub together when I run sometimes.”
“Really? I DON’T HAVE A COLON!”

And some nice road rage. Fuckin’ schoolbus indeed.

And of course I’d be torn up about it if you didn’t come out the other side of the surgery. There would be a Robby-shaped hole in the world and that’s no damn fun at all. But while the chance exists it’s really a very small one, especially with you being on the younger, healthier (all things considered) side of the scale. Not that I’d blame you for worrying about it, I’m scared of having surgery myself.

Good news that you at least have the certainty of the date now though.

- Women sense my power and they seek the life essence.

[rob]

There’s a part of me that’s always thought that I was exceptional – that’s the asshole in me. But when people say that they’re amazed by how I’m still here, and that many others would’ve given up, or that my story is inspirational to them – well, that’s just weird to me. Again, it just wasn’t a choice. I don’t know if that’s some sort of mindgame or what, but doing MMA for months made me realize that I was capable of pretty amazing stuff (at least, to me), and I just did not see staying home or acting weaker than I already was as an option. Maybe that’s like what Chael Sonnen was telling Uriah Hall on the Ultimate Fighter – that failure is ALWAYS an option, and that you can choose to fail or choose to succeed. I just never saw it that way. I don’t think that makes me special or exceptional or inspirational at all. It just is.

I get a kick out of how much you like it when I have conversations with myself. I don’t plan it at all, they’re very organic when it does happen. For me, that’s where I like to do my shows – with my brain as empty as possible. Too often, when I try to do shows on my way home, I’m still thinking about work, or what I’m going to do when I get home, or whether or not I’m shooting gelpoo onto my shirt. The morning time seems to be the best, at least right now. Maybe once I get out of the hospital and back to normal things will be better there.

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