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How Do We Stay Sane When Fantasy Starts To Rule Real Life
We also dig into a listener letter that’s equal parts hilarious and alarming. Casper writes about his girlfriend’s deep belief in a coming zombie apocalypse—endless zombie shows, doomsday podcasts, and a 2 a.m. raw-meat “experiment” to see if she’ll turn. We unpack where fandom becomes fixation, how pop culture shapes fear, and the difference between healthy preparedness and obsession. More importantly, we talk practical relationship tools: setting boundaries, naming red flags, and choosing safety without shaming someone’s imagination.
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SPEAKER_01:Ah, snap. How's everybody doing out there? It's been a good day. It's been a good week. I hope you guys have had a fantastic day, a fantastic week. I know I have some crazy shit today. You know. Today at work. So amazed about how chill people are, you know? So let's head into a transfer station. For those of you guys who don't know, I am a roll-off driver, a roll-off truck driver. Um, maybe you guys know what that is. If not, I will give you a brief rundown. So, what I do for a living is that I pick up we call them cans, but they're actually dumpsters. The company I work for, we deliver 40 yards, 30 yards, 20 yards, uh, 12 yards, and uh 8 yard dumpsters. So, the crazy thing is I was headed to the transfer station. Transfer station is where we go to dump the trash, and then more trucks take the trash and haul off to a secret location where I have no idea. I'm just talking, I'm kidding. I don't know what they do with this shit. It's trash, yeah. My job is just to pick up a dump. In any event, tell you what, Jesus. So I was headed to the transfer station. You know, of course, this white thick smoke filled the air. I just thought it was nothing. I just thought one of the factories was just, you know, blowing off steam as they always do. I kid you not. I'm driving down the road to the right of me as a gas station, a big gas station, right next to a post office. Uh, this guy's car is literally on fire. Now, the crazy thing is, is that well, it's an it's another day, it's just another day in paradise. But the most sinister and crazier thing is that his car was on fire at a gas station. Okay, this gas station has roughly about maybe 12 12 pumps, and they're double stacked. So, well, maybe it's more than that. I don't know. Could be 12, could be a little bit more than that. In any event, I kid you not, people are still pumping their gas while this car is engulfed in flames. Now, mind you, the car is sitting at a gas pump, and they're like, uh, you know, still gotta get gas. So me, as I'm driving, I'm looking for the wow factor, you know, the the big boom. Because I didn't see a fire truck, an ambulance, or nothing in sight. So I'm like, I guess it's one of those days. I mean, it's hot as hell outside, nobody feels like working, car goes up in flames. We just want to keep filling up our cars. Now, me personally, if I seen shit like that, I'm in the car. I'm in the car in the truck and I'm hauling ass because you know, gas is combustible, so you never know what the hell's gonna happen. There's so much unpredictable, and yeah, I know there's fail safes in the pumps, but still, you know, it all it takes is that one wrong person and go ahead and light this cigarette up, and then you got one fire already going, and here comes another one. This is the big grand finale, you know. I thought for sure this shit was gonna be on the news, but eh, I guess it wasn't. So that was my day, you know, fun day, but hot. You know, I'm not sure what part of the country you guys are, but we are in the heart of America, and it is hot. Oh, it was so hot. I mean, I seen a bird just flying, and he just crashed out into the into what I thought was a pond, but he was met with very disappointment because when he got down, it was nothing but dust. So he might have even thought he was seeing shit. You know, how like you're in the desert and you think you see water. Well, that's the way he felt, so whatever. I tell you, boy, it is some weird shit going on in this world today, you know, and as the days go by, it just gets weirder and weirder, you know. See, back in our day it was more civil, more civilized. We didn't have this kind of shit, you know. I mean, if we did, we knew how to deal with it, right? So, before we get to the show and the letter, I'm gonna give you guys one more thing. So, I kid you not, Jesus. As I'm scrolling through Instagram, apparently there are all types of people that have beef with each other, and unbeknownst to me, I didn't know the uh the deaf people have beef too. I've never seen that shit before. That's something you don't even see. I mean, you see it on TV, but that's like a controlled environment. So I'm pretty sure if you guys have or have not seen this video that circle around on uh IG or Snap or whatever, Facebook, whatever. It is, I kid you not, Jesus. And I couldn't really laugh because I was trying to figure out is this real? So there are three women, and they are hearing impaired, and they were on either Facebook Live, I think it was Facebook Live, and apparently they were beefing with somebody. Who they were beefing with, I have no idea. All I got was in sign language, and they were doing the you know, okay, so like the thing that does the Undertaker where you cut uh like you're gonna cut his head off, and if he he goes across his neck, that was going on. I kid you not, I spent a whole damn hour trying to interpret what they were saying. I came up with zero, zero results. You hear me? Zero results, and I mean the crazy thing is this beef was so real. I was like, is this really happening, dude? That people really beef, and then she had pointed down to her dudes down at the end of the stairs. I mean, they gotta be either Dominican or Mexican or whatever the hell they are. I don't really care. I just never seen that shit before, and I thought that was like, really? What the hell? What does this? I mean, I didn't even think they beef with people like that. I mean, sure, you know, my sister's disabled, and she's just mean, she's mean for no reason. I mean, we try to get her to be nice, but she's just honory as hell. I mean, I don't know why, but I still love her and she's my sister. But apparently, people from all walks of life can have issues with somebody. I to this day don't know who they were dealing with or who they were talking to, and of course, the comment section went crazy. You know, there were comments on there that I I shouldn't have laughed at that I did laugh at, but I didn't laugh too hard because it's just weird because you never see this shit, you know. And this is what brings you to to the show that we're gonna have today, or that we're doing. I'm sorry, I didn't even give an introduction. For those of y'all who don't know, my name is Derek, I am Endeavour Empire. Welcome to the show. I'm sorry, I've just been rambling on about this, rambling on about that, and I don't know, it's just been a weird, weird week and a weird day, you know. It's just been going crazy, and the shit that I see, I'm just like amazed, you know. And I'm like, how does this even work? I mean, the whole thing is I sit here for an hour trying to figure out the translation of the sign language. If that wasn't worse enough, I was trying to figure out I was looking for more videos to see if they actually went to go do what they say they were gonna do. I don't even know how this happened. I'm not gonna read none of the comments because to some it might be funny, but to others, I'm not trying to poke fun at the hearing impair because I respect all people. I know it's not funny, but my god, the comments were like I mean, it was like Comedy Central. I mean, on a Wednesday, so go figure. In any event, this brings me to this brings me to a letter that was submitted by a listener um that apparently is going through some weird shit in his relationship. Uh shit is so weird, I've never heard of this before. I mean, kinda sorta, but not really. But when I read this letter the first time, I was like completely in awe and amazed, and I was trying to get more clarification from the guy that wrote this letter. Um, because clearly, clearly, I thought that this couldn't be real, but I tell you what, when I get through reading this letter, I can assure you that it's I think it is real. Um, because as I've shared with stories before about some people believing or drinking too much of their own damn Kool-Aid shit is real. So this guy's name, well no. Yeah, this guy's name is Casper. Um, which is ironic enough when I read this letter, um, because it gets really weird. And I gotta be honest with you. This is some shit I don't even get down on. But you know what? I indulge my listeners, so I will indulge this letter. Without further ado, here we go. Uh, Derek. Hey, how are you? Have you ever been with someone who constantly believes in something that is totally not real? Here is my problem. This guy's been dating for the better part of five months. Thinks zombies are real. Yep, as well as everybody else does. I don't know how we ended up together because clearly she has issues. Until this day, I don't understand how we talk how the talk of zombies came up. She's definitely one of those that if you tell her something that's fiction, then she tries to explain as if it's really happening right now. Like, take for instance The Walking Dead. You've seen it, yeah, we've all seen The Walking Dead. She thinks that it will definitely happen. Oh yeah, as well as everybody else, you know. I told her that it's clearly not imp that it's clearly not possible. And she said, wait and see, then I would be thanking her. And I'm like, what the hell? Thanking her for a zombie apocalypse? Seriously? Who makes this shit up? She loves Rob Zombie. Do you know who Rob do you know who that is? I know who Rob Zombie is. That dude is awesome. He's freaking electric. I like his music. And listen to various listen to various podcasts about zombie. Dude, what the hell? This is crazy. This is crazy, y'all. It's crazy. I don't even do this shit, but it's crazy. One day she scared the hell out of me, and I saw her I saw her eating raw red meat like 2 a.m. in the fucking morning. These are his words, not mine, because you know I don't use the word every word on my podcast, but whatever. So I'm reading his letter in entirety. So keep in mind when I found her in the kitchen eating eating it, I was like, what the I thought she was eating the fucking cat. Who eats a cat? I had a bat in my hand and I almost laid her the fuck out with no hesitation. I lost it. But thankful. Mr. T was alright. Your cat? Is it name Mr. T? Oh my god. This is crazy. I asked her, what the hell are you doing, Casey? She replies I was seeing if I would turn into a zombie. I would praise taste. What the hell? Dude, I don't get to know this shit. It's getting to the point where I've had enough. I don't know what was your first clue. I can't even watch a dumbass scary movie because of what she would say or do. In the beginning it was cool. All we really watch were movies about zombies. Is this what the world is coming to? I'm 26 years old. And I'm not old enough to know when when the zombie thing when the zombie thing is a thing. I can't deal with this shit. Check this. Ah god, you know I try to keep this shit together. Check this shit out. So I talked to her and told her that this shit is too weird for me. And I'm about to dip. Do you know what the hell she said to me? Oh, she said it's okay. When I turn I'll come fight you. I'll bite you. Who the hell writes this shit? Who does this? Is this just real? Oh my god. Do you know I left everything in the fucking house? Got in my car and dipped out. If I had wings, I would have flown, but then again, I left so damn quickly. I was flying either either way. Or I was clearly I. Nigga, you say you wasn't I? Man, Derek. Um I don't know who or what I got myself into, but clearly I think it's going to be a bit of a ride date. Maybe a week or two. Listen, man. You said we could email you about anything, bro. What's your take on this? Casper. The dude's name is Casper. The girl's name is Casey. He said P.S.
SPEAKER_02:That's my real name. Holy shit. Give me a minute.
SPEAKER_01:Oh my goodness, I'm choking. It's not good. It's not good.
SPEAKER_00:Oh my god.
SPEAKER_01:Oh Jesus, I tell you. Okay, so Casper, first off, dude. Dude. Freaking sweet. The letter was. Oh my goodness. Definitely something too. Definitely something to get my show started today.
SPEAKER_02:Dude.
SPEAKER_01:The crazy thing is, dude, you wrote this letter. Oh my god. I'm trying to keep this together for y'all. But I just don't know how to take shit like this, you know? Because the sad thing is, it's true. There are people out there who actually think that zombies are real. I assure you they are not. But you can't tell people that. Listen, when you drink too much of the Kool-Aid or get too high on your own supply, this is the ending result.
SPEAKER_02:You feel me? You feel what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_01:I mean, the hell with Captain.
SPEAKER_02:This this shit is real. Oh, Jesus.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, let me bring it back. Let me bring it back. So Castro, first off, as myself and my late wife, when The Walking Dead aired, which was back in October of 2010, we thought for sure that this world would happen. It would be some kind of apocalypse. But keep in mind, the Walking Dead series has been around forever ago for ages. I mean, I can remember um looking at um uh zombie movies from back in the day. Um and this is when I was uh this is back when I was young when I was a young one. Uh when I was a young. So this is nothing new. The only difference is it's a lot more in-depth um than it was uh versus our time. Because see, back then we it was a lot more graphic, a little bit more, you know, and we didn't have all this hi-fi and the sci-fi shit that we have today. So of course, everything that's made to look real is actually, you know, it gets everybody thinking, you know, because when we look at stuff like this, we think, and we sit and think, and we're like, holy shit, this could really happen. And then we're all sitting around here thinking, like, how if this happened, what would we do? You know, so here's what I'm telling you I gotta do, what I would do. I kid you not, I could be sitting here on this podcast right now, and one of my kids say, Oh my god, dad, Cody bit me. You know what? All I gotta hear. Holy crap. All I gotta hear is let me tell you what's gonna happen. I'm gonna play it for you first, and I'm gonna tell you what's gonna happen. Here we go. All I gotta do is hear that, and this is exactly what's gonna happen. Real talk. If you didn't get it, then I'm gonna navigate it for you, okay? This is how it's gonna go. Let me navigate this thing for you. All I gotta do again is hear one of my kids get bitten. All I gotta hear is uh, and they start shaking. This is gonna happen. This is me peeling out the driveway. This is me down the street. This is me just sitting there waiting to see if anybody got affected. That's me backing up to the house, checking on the kids, seeing if any survivors are coming out.
SPEAKER_02:This is me going down the street again, making sure this shit ain't real.
SPEAKER_01:This is me just sitting there. Okay, creeping back, creeping back. Hold on, checking for survivors again. There we go. That's me getting the hell out of Dodge. That's all I gotta hear. You hear me? I couldn't get my thoughts together to get it, but you guys get what the point I'm trying to say. That's exactly what's gonna happen, okay? Oh my goodness. Hold on.
SPEAKER_02:I gotta get some of that red diamond tea hold on.
SPEAKER_01:That is all I have to hear because let me tell you something. Remember, I told you guys with the story about my wife when we had first met and she had put a foil in the microwave and hauled ass and left me. I'm sorry. If one of my kids is infected, I know they damn sure the rest of them gonna be. Because everybody wants to have a wait and see attitude and wait and see what I'm not waiting to see and shit. I am out the door, okay? And like I'm sitting in the car packing up, trying to confirm what just happened actually happened. So that's me, okay. I'm trying to get to this letter, but you know what, y'all. Y'all killing me. Y'all killing me. So, oh my gosh, Casper. I don't know what to tell you, my man. First off, dude, the name is freaking electric. It is freaking dope. I like the name Casper, it is awesome. It does not remind me of Casper the Friendly Ghost, which maybe that's why you girl hooked up with you in the first damn place, but reminds me of an actor on a movie that uh I liked, and then of course we knew a kid back in our school, we used to call him Casper. Uh, it doesn't it wasn't because he was white, it was because of something else. But in any event, dude, I don't know what to make of this letter. Um the crazy thing is you're not alone in this because I've actually heard people who talk about this. As I said before, there was one young lady that I used to work with, and she said her she said her roommate thought she was a real witch, like a real witch. And I said, You gotta be freaking kidding me. What is this? And but I don't know how we get to a point where when we see something, we think that it's just when we see something, I don't understand how we get to a place that we think it's real, and we think it's real, but it's not real. And when we start believing that it's real, it kind of just takes over our mind because we think we're in this conspiracy that when we go out into the world and we start seeing shit for what it is, then we think it's real, and it's crazy because we actually start believing it, and when we start believing it, then it starts coming entwined in our mind like, oh my god, this can really happen. This can really happen. So and it's listen, The Walking Dead, some of these zombies that came out, they're actually a lot bigger than what it was back in the day. I mean, if your girl sits around all day and thinks about death and you know, zombies and stuff like that. I don't even know if it if it has been done. If it is, you know, America don't tell us shit until the last until something happens any damn way. All these movies that come out when they say they don't know what happened, well, these are man-made diseases. I mean, how else do these people get this way? It damn sure not something in the other atmosphere that's coming down from like that. Because clearly is, we would know about it. But America wouldn't tell us shit anyways. We would all be down here defending for ourselves, it'd be like the real live walking dead around here. I mean, hell, people thought COVID was the walking dead. Listen, the day they reanimate somebody um and bring them back to life from the dead, like literally, then uh I'm gonna tell you right now, I am on the mothership to somewhere far the hell away from here. I mean, listen, this letter is comical. It's comical, it's funny, I love it, and this is real for you. I get it because back then when this show came out, well, there's another show that came out, and my wife heavily watched this show. Oh my god, she loved this show, and it was called Doomsday Preppers. Now, if any of you guys have ever seen this show, Doomsday Preppers are they go into these people's homes, and these are people that kind of live off the grid, um, that are not really in tune with society, but then again, they are, but they live out in the country. So, in the event of a zombie pockets, I can't believe I'm saying this shit. The place where you definitely want to head to would be would be the countryside. Oh my god, I kid you not, the tractor's playing right now. It's called Area 51. How ironic and screwed up is that shit. But I'm giving y'all notes like this shit's gonna happen, okay? But the show was it was a good show, it was on for four seasons, um, and they would just show people preparing for like the apocalypse or a zombie outbreak apocalypse. And I kid you not. I remember this this this episode one clearly because my wife and I had this huge, not really argument, but this guy was like, So if your kid gets turned, are you gonna be the one to put a bullet in her? And the dude kind of hesitate because he was talking all this shit, like, oh, you know, it could be my family member, I'm gonna put him down. But when it came to his daughter, like his daughter was like six or seven, and he's like, So if she turns, are you gonna put a bullet in her? And then I was sitting there, like literally thinking about it. Like, I was like, dude, what the hell are you thinking about? There's nothing there. You can't raise a zombie. What the hell? What do you think's gonna happen? Y'all gonna have play dates? You're gonna go for ice cream, she's gonna be in Tyler's NTR. What the hell? I mean, dude, like, literally sit there. It is a real reality show because it's crazy. I'm not sure how they find these people or where these people are, but the show was freaking hilarious, and these people were really serious. And I'm talking about they were serious, they had like stuff stored up in uh camps. I mean, they had stuff up underneath the grounds, I mean, they had food for days, you know. Um, those um MV packs, those army packs, they had this stuff like stored up, and I was like, Oh my god, these people are really getting because the crazy thing is, if this shit were to happen, these are the people that's gonna be prepared, and people like me are gonna be like, damn, they they warned us, they weren't, yeah, they warned us, you know. We didn't listen, we didn't listen at all. So I'm gonna be one of those people that's gonna be like denier. Meanwhile, Casper and his girlfriend.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, well, she might be off the reservation, but Casper said, I'm out, dude. Oh crap, hold on. Let me hit this bait.
SPEAKER_01:Oh So the crazy thing is I've never seen a or heard a letter. Excuse me, you know, I've been laughing so hard that I don't know what it is. The crazy thing is, I have been going over this letter over and over again and trying to ask myself if this is really real. And I don't understand how it can't be real because you have people like that. Now, if this is a relationship, Casper, that you choose to keep with Casey. The crazy thing is, I don't understand how we keep finding the names with the first letter being the same. It's just weird for me. It's not well, not really weird, but it's just oh my god, it's different. So oh excuse it. See, I've been laughing so hard that I'm hiccuping, and oh my goodness. Okay, so let me try to do this for you. Here is the red flag for me. Okay, I can get to the zombie talk or whatever, but then again, I can't because it's not some shit I want to hear every damn day. I mean, you two must be a really good couple, or there's something about her that you truly like. I don't know if you think that this shit's gonna actually happen, and she's one of those doomsday preppers that she's got everything already figured out, and you want to kind of want to stick with her. That part I get, but I gotta be honest with you. When the zombie shit hits, I won't even be on this podcast anymore. I mean, because technically we're gonna be without power anyways, the world's gonna be in utter chaos. People be looting, killing each other. It's gonna be like the purge all over again. The real purge. So we're gonna not only will we have the purge going on, we're gonna have the apocalypse and we're gonna have zombies. My black ass is going to head for higher hills, and I'm going to make a home somewhere where I can't be found. If my kids are with me and they ain't infected, hey, they ain't infected, and we gotta go. But nah, I'm kidding, y'all. See, y'all gotta be talking like this. It's crazy. Hold on. Hmm. I had to get that tea. It's crazy. It's crazy that I'm talking like this because I really don't even talk like this in the shit. Me and my wife would go back and forth about this shit. I mean, we would actually sit there and think like what does this happen? Because we've seen all the movies that came out. There was World War Z. I know it's another that they look at Zombieland one and two, that was pretty good. That was more believable than um than the Walking Dead, and well, World War Z was kind of believable too. Here's the thing about The Walking Dead. I love the show. This is why you don't see a lot of black people on this show. Because white folks, let me tell y'all something. Y'all have a wait and see attitude, as I keep saying. Y'all want to wait and see what's gonna happen. Black folks, they will take off running, they will be like 10 states over, and meanwhile, you're sitting there getting bit. The thing that pissed me off about the walking dead is that there is a shitload of zombies, and these damn things can't even run, they're not like the zombies in World War Z or Zombieland 1 and 2, where they run after you. They were slow walking, and these people will get cornered by these damn zombies, and then it's like they get overwhelmed. First off, you have the upper hand, you know. Again, I can't believe I'm talking like this, but damn it, let's go ahead and indulge this letter. You have the upper hand. If these things can't run, why are we backing into the corner just screaming? Yeah, because screaming makes everything better. What are we screaming at? Is that some kind of dialect that they can understand? No, they understand one thing, and they want to eat your damn brain. Okay, so this is why you don't see a lot of black folks on the walking dead. Maybe now you do, but listen, Jesus, do you think because I wish they would make a version of the walking dead, and they think they uh uh they did. Uh, it was a low budget uh version, I think it was zombies in Brooklyn's or whatever. That's more believable because as we know, black folks don't like to sit around and wait and see what's gonna happen. I mean, I kid you not. If you guys ever seen these zombie pranks on YouTube where they play on black people, it does not go the way that they think it goes. Because black folks, they will beat your ass first and then try to figure out what the hell this is later. You know, white folks, y'all want to sit there and try to investigate every damn thing, as well as y'all. That's that's y'all. Y'all can do that. I'm gonna make sure when the zombie pocalypse happens. I'm gonna have me a white person with you because they're gonna go wait and see, find out what happens while you're waiting to see it, and I'm running like two miles up the road to see if you got bit. That way we gotta put some distance between me and you. So if you got bit, at least I got a two-mile head start.
SPEAKER_02:Shit. Oh my goodness. Oh, goodness gracious.
SPEAKER_01:So that is me, okay? That's me. I mean, listen. Oh, god, I love you white people. I do. Because y'all make everything so comical, you know. When you get bit, it's like, oh, instead of just looking at it like and cutting off, oh my goodness. See y'all, see what y'all got me doing. Instead of y'all just cutting it off like with the first second, y'all sit there and look at it and wait for it to spread, you know. Oh my god. I tell you, The Walking Dead really did a number on me because I don't even watch the show anymore, and I think it's still a good show, but it's just something that like I just can't believe like if this really happened, this is what the world would be, you know, because first and foremost, everybody's gonna click up anyways. You know, there was another movie, what was it? Black Summer. First season was good, second season hated it. Okay, because again, these zombies aren't running, so clearly you have the upper hand. Now, Casper, getting back to your letter, because I keep getting sidetracked because these zombie stories and the zombie talk. My friend, I am trying to make sense of this, but here's what's so weird: the fact that you named your cat Mr. T is freaking awesome. I mean, my cat, her name is Bella, and she's kind of an ass. She has a personality, she doesn't like to be pet. She only likes she'll make you work for her affection. But Mr. T sounds like a pretty awesome cat. When you came in the kitchen, you was ready to light her ass up just on principle alone because she was eating uh red meat, which you thought was a cat, which I'm a cat, because if it was, I would expect this letter to be coming like from some kind of either mental institution or some kind of prison. But I don't even see how that's even possible. I mean, I do know people eat raw meat, but hamburger? Because she wanted to see what brain. How do you actually know what brain tastes like? I would be more scared to be in the bed with her at night while you're sleeping, okay? Or be scared around her at all in the house. Y'all don't have any kids. I already know you don't, because you damn sure didn't say anything about Larry having kids. So you're 26, she's gotta be somewhere around the same age as you. So I'm just curious, and you said you asked what the hell are you doing, Casey? She replied. She said, I if I turn, I want to see how brain tastes like. First off, hamburger does not resemble brain. Okay, this ain't Silence of the Lambs, okay? That something totally different. I don't even see how the hell I would be more concerned. I want to know what she does for a living because if she works in a mortuary, that is a huge red flag. Huge red flag. And if she works in a mortuary, I got one word for you. Run. Run, run, run like hell, and run. You know, I would even go so far as to change my name and social security number. You know, I'd probably move about maybe. I'm not even sure where the hell y'all stay at, but wherever she's at, I wouldn't be. I would be probably in 10 states over. My black ass would probably convert to being a monk. That's how serious it would get from me. This girl would probably do damage to me, real talk. She do some real damage to me. Because if I had a female like that, yeah, I caught her in the kitchen. I gotta be honest with you, man. I probably would let her let her let her ass up anyways because she's in there eating raw meat, and I would have thought she was a burglar. So, I mean, at least I have a good well, you know, I thought she was a burglar, so you know I did light her up, you know. I mean, but then again, I got cameras in my kitchen, so you know, they probably would have saw right through that. In any event, that's what I would have done. I mean, my god, I don't know. I I I don't even I can't say if I hope if y'all are or not still together. I hope this is a phase for her because you know we all go through phases when we go when we grow up, uh, or when we're trying to figure ourselves because you sound like you're in your well, you're in your late 20s, later 20s, well, somewhere in between. So she's gotta be coming into her own. So it's weird. And you said you talked to her about it, and I don't know if what she's saying is serious. Sounds like she's serious to me. It sounds like she is not giving this any second of thought as to when she's turned, how the hell she's gonna find you. I don't even know how that's even possible. Last time I checked, they don't have bloodhound zombies. Then again, there was that movie Animal Zombies. I didn't watch that, but whatever. I mean, this chick sounds like she's really, really like a fatal attraction type of chick. So I don't know how you guys met or how y'all even got on this subject. Me personally, my black ass would be gone. I would have to tell her. I mean, god, I'm sitting there trying to the sad thing is I'm trying to figure out how y'all as y'all how y'all day-to-day life, how y'all navigate. Like, what do y'all do in y'all's day-to-day life? I mean, she's got to be. I wanna well, she's gotta be dressed. Well, no, I don't think she's gotta be dressed up in black. I think she's just too enriched to. I mean, I can imagine because my wife had the walking dead t-shirt. I think she had the walking dead, um, the walking dead blanket. I even bought her Negan's bat, the replica bat, not the real thing, because you know she ain't gonna hit me up here no damn real bat, even though we got real bats, and she did decide to turn one of the bats into Lucille. Uh, that was a Halloween prank, and yeah, yeah. But it's crazy that I read this letter and I just could not stop thinking about everything that you were talking about. And I'm sitting here, and the crazy thing I was picturing about how you came into this kitchen and she's in the kitchen with the refrigerator over, sitting on the floor, and there's blood, and you thought it was Mr. T, which crazy. Again, I would have let her ass up on principle alone. I'm sorry. Maybe hit her in the shoulder, not in the head, you know, because if you hit her in the head, you wanna, you know, she might not come back from that. But then again, she is talking like she's a real zombie, so and again, she probably would have came back from that. So I you know what? I don't know. I don't know. You gotta be talking crazy up in here, okay? It's crazy. You know, I love my listeners, I appreciate you guys, but y'all gotta be doing some crazy shit. But I love it. I love it. I'm gonna keep doing it because y'all send me this shit and I'm gonna indulge every minute of it. So, my take on this, huh? My take on this, Mr. Casper, dude, do what you gotta do. I mean, me personally, I done dipped a long time ago. And me coming to the kitchen is just icing the cake, finding her eating red meat, that's just icing the cake. I'm trying to figure out how you sleep at night. I don't know if y'all have a two-bedroom apartment or one-bedroom apartment. I don't know if you sleeping, excuse me, in the bathroom with the door locked, or if you sleeping somewhere else. Because I gotta say, this couldn't be me. I'd have been like, yeah, uh, I'd been working some pretty late night shifts, if you know what I mean. Some pretty late night shifts. So I'd have been like, yeah, but it sounds like this girl, either you're about to be her first victim. I mean, man, thank god she didn't say vampires. That probably would have been, I don't know, what's worse. Well, vampire you can come back from, but though they're not even real. You know what? I'm up here thinking about this shit like it's really happening. Because you know, you actually have some people who think they are vampires. Oh my goodness, but thank god that's not even real. But I don't know. I think vampires might be a little bit better than a zombie. At least a zombie they don't eat prains, vampires just suck your blood and you just turn, huh? Interesting. Why the hell am I thinking about this shit? This is crazy, y'all. It's crazy. I mean, listen, I'm gonna post this. When you guys hear this, I want y'all's comments. I want somebody to email me and tell me what y'all would do in this situation. I mean, I know we have people that believe in their own, like their shit don't stink. I get that part, but how do you guys feel about this whole zombie thing? I mean, I know some of y'all gonna say, well, it's stupid, it's not real, and it's not. I just want y'all to indulge me, you know, humor me, you know, because this is what we do, and it's fun, it's fun to talk about, you know. When people see stuff in the movies, we often think about if this could really happen. I mean, we see a lot of shit in the movies that we think are like so close to the truth, and that and then we know just one day it's gonna happen. Do I think zombie apocalypse will happen? I don't know. I honestly don't know. Because again, if it does happen, America will not tell us. America will just probably just and the crazy thing is they will probably release a zombie into a black neighborhood before they would a white neighborhood. Races that might say, yes, because they're trying to wipe us out. No, I'm just joking. I'm kidding, y'all. Okay, listen, if you put a zombie in a black neighborhood, it's not gonna go the way you think it's gonna go, okay? They're gonna whoop his ass on principle alone, okay? He's gonna get dealt with. Now, white neighborhood, that's different because you got one zombie and you got a whole family. So this whole family is huddled into a corner while this one zombie is trying to get at the family. And when the one zombie gets at the one family member, everybody else is standing around watching and screaming and hollering. Black folks, Mexicans, hell, maybe even Chinese, because I've seen that movie. What was that? Train of Bosnia, that was a good movie. I mean, they fight, they fight. I'm sorry, white folks. Y'all just like to get bit and scream and then whine and cry and don't want to do anything, you know. But you know, unless y'all get hooked up with some uh some real backwoods people out in the country, then you know, y'all might have a fighting chance. But black folks, Mexicans, hell, even the Asians already have a chance because they fight. I mean, we've been fighting all our lives, so this ain't nothing new. Zombie, what? What you want to do this? Okay, yeah, all right. You know, because there ain't no talking, you know. There's a lot of swinging, probably machine guns or guns or whatever, and that's just gonna happen. And we're just gonna go about our normal day. It's gonna be a party at the end of the week, you know, because we done racked up and cleaned up, you know. Meanwhile, my wife folks, y'all still in the corner screaming, you know, because little Timmy got bit or little Sarah got Aiden, and you're trying to figure out what you did wrong as a parent, which has nothing to do with being bit. Nothing. I mean, y'all want to ask why. Here's here's the why. You stood there, you watched, you could have took. I mean, y'all got an arsenal full of guns. We didn't think to pull one of them out the case, cock that bad boy up and open open season. Oh my gosh, this shit is crazy, y'all. Why are y'all doing this to me? Oh my goodness. So, okay.
SPEAKER_00:Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_01:Oh my gosh, oh my gosh. Okay, so Casper. I hope you got an answer that you do. I'm sorry, this letter was just too good to pass through it. It was a good letter, it was comical. I'm just trying to figure out what I could give you advice. If you have already left this girl, good for you. Me personally, I would have been sleeping with two eyes open. I couldn't deal with no shit like this. I honestly can't, and I don't even like drama because the minute a girl told me that she believes in zombies, that's fine. You can believe in zombies, but you don't have to start living the life as if it's actually happening. Now, if you want to live that life and actually this happened, you can do that shit by yourself, or better yet, go find some other people that do that. I mean, listen, we all like to believe in sci-fi and fantasy, and that's fine. It's it's it's fun to do, but when the shit starts getting real and it started affecting your life and affecting the way we do business or how our relationship is, I can't deal. I gotta be honest with you. I'm gonna I'm gonna dip, I'm gonna bounce. And as much as I don't want to look back, I'll probably let it be like, damn, this girl's crazy. I mean, listen, I will come find you if the zombie outbreak happens, so that way you could be like, I told you so, and then I know that at least I'm with you, I got a chance of survival raid.
SPEAKER_00:Because I could be like, Oh, you know, she did tell me, yeah, yeah, she told me.
SPEAKER_01:Damn it, damn it. You know, and then I will worship the ground that you walk on. But until then, I am just going to be like, No, hard no. I wish that you can send me a picture of you too. I wonder what she went for with Halloween. I could pretty much already tell and I already know. You know, I wonder what the day-to-day life, I mean, does she really eat does she even eat meat? Probably not, she's probably vegetarian. That probably sounds plausible. I mean, just because you taste an hamburger, that has no effect on a human brain. I really want to know where this young lady works. But, dude, listen. Uh, hold on, let me get some of my red diamond tea. I know I love my red diamond. The crazy thing is, I was thinking about putting some scary music behind this, but I was like, nah, I ain't got time for all that because I might freak myself out. And then in the process, my kids might knock on the doors and might scare the shit out of me, and then again, yeah, I know what y'all gonna hear in the process.
SPEAKER_00:So while I appreciate this letter, oh my goodness, this was a good one.
SPEAKER_01:Keep them coming, folks. Keep them coming because there's no right, there's no wrong. You know, I get a nice little size portion of letters a week, and I try to go through as much as I can, but you guys know I do have to work. I am a single father, and I got three kids still take care of that are still in school. They're in high school. Well, two of them are just making it to high school, and of course, my boys are older, but I'm still a parent, so I'm trying to get to everybody's letters, you know, do my notes, do my research, and then kind of put you guys up on it. So I appreciate that you guys are just you know giving me an opportunity to hear my voice, and I appreciate that you guys the love that you guys show me on my podcast. Now, as we know, uh Instagram launched a new platform, which I guess is gonna probably put Twitter out of business, which I'm certainly it will, and it's called Threads. I am still getting the hang of it. I was not a big Twitter fan, I'm still not a big Twitter fan, Twitter fan, and I'm not a really big threads fan, but it's pretty cool. Um, but my Instagram pages are still up, um, all three of them. You know, I got Endeavor Empire, the Facebook page, I don't really have a lot of hits on. I get more hits off Instagram than I do Facebook. I wonder why, but then again, I don't, I'm being sarcastic. But the Facebook page, it'll remain up, but most of the posting and stuff will go towards Instagram. Um, so my links are always um in the podcast description. You guys can feel free to comment, like, send me a message, and my email as well. Again, I appreciate um the fans that listen to me from all over, not just here in America, but in the Philippines, Asia. Uh, there's even some in Africa. Oh my gosh. Shout out to you guys. But feel free to email me letters. Um, I love to read letters, I love to hear your fan mail. Um, I do have some shows coming up that's probably not gonna be good for. Well, I'm not gonna say they're not gonna be good, they're just you know, some people that don't really think too highly of my podcast, which is fine because everybody's entitled to their own opinion. But I want to read, I just don't want to read the letters that I get that are good. I want to read all the letters that are kind of in between, or letters that that people think you know that are not so good, because I want to give everybody a fair share. So I'm not made that way, you know. I'm not I don't do this for the money or the cash. I do this because it's fun, and me and my wife started this thing. So as we get ready to close this out, this show out. Oh my gosh, freaking awesome, freaking yes, yes, yes, yes. So, I want to say to Casper, dude, if you wanna get back with me, kind of give me a follow-up. You know, that's what I like doing with people. When you guys send me letters and I do your letters, uh, do your podcast. If you can guys can give me like a follow-up, because we don't have to do the whole episode of follow-up. I mean, there's gonna be one podcast where we're just gonna do follow-up letters from previous episodes because I know just some of the listeners, you know, they're like me, they wonder, and they wonder, well, what happened here or what happened there? I did receive a follow-up um to one of the shows, but I'm not gonna tell you who. You just have to stay tuned for the episode, and then I will let you know who that is because it's gonna be interesting. It's good, not bad. Well, maybe in between, but I like to do follow-ups, and it doesn't have to be a long paragraph, it can just be something short and sweet, you know. That way I can give my listeners and myself, not really closure, but just to say, hey, here's an update on so-and-so, this is how they're doing, this is what they did. So, Casper, I am clearly, clearly interested to see how you and Casey kind of fathom this relationship out. You know, I don't again, the name, Casper and Casey. I think that's free. That's that's freaking sweet. So I want to I want to follow up, man. I want to follow up. I want you to tell me, give me a little bit more background how this is how this is going, how this is doing, if you decide to change the things, or if you decided to just ride this out. I mean, I don't know what kind of young lady she is, because you only gave me bits and pieces about the zombie thing, but she sounds like a pretty okay girl, aside from the zombie part. But you know, that's that's that's that's just you. You know, I don't I don't know. It's freaking sweet, man. I freaking love it. Oh my gosh. So my friends, as we get ready to close it out, all my links are in the podcast description. Feel free to email me at d6mpire357 at gmail.com. If you have any comments, scribes, or questions, hey, I'm here. Let's hear it. So, my friends, until next time, you guys take care of yourself and each other. God bless you all. And until we see each other again in the next one, y'all have a good one.