Jack Osbourne talks Ozzy, the Paranormal, and Construction + Dolly Parton Passes Away at 80
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Jack Osborne reflects on aging, cultural shifts, and the loss of personal agency in modern life. He notes how classic TV shows once portrayed older characters as realistic, showing a time when audiences were fascinated by larger cosmic mysteries—unlike today, when people are consumed by self-centered digital lives. He explores the resurgence of UFOs as a symbol of a slow, deliberate government disclosure, suggesting a shift from denial to acceptance. Jack attributes his deep passion for woodworking and DIY projects to childhood deprivation—now a source of profound satisfaction and identity. He argues that in a world where convenience and automation dominate, people lose connection to their labor, creativity, and resilience. The act of building something oneself—like a tree house from milled wood—offers deeper fulfillment than fleeting pleasure. This self-reliant, manual labor serves as a mental and emotional counterpoint to modern passivity, restoring a sense of purpose and inner strength. Ultimately, Jack believes that embracing effort, even when uncomfortable, is essential for mental health and personal growth, challenging the culture of outsourcing and instant gratification.
Well, in this episode, Jack Osborne all grown up, back on the show. Also, Rudy Scott the News, and we'll do that right after this. Hello, and welcome to Pluto Fo. If you know the name of the movie you'd like to see, just stream it for free on Pluto TV. We're all your blockbuster favorites are landing all summer long. Catch Anchor Man, the legend of Ron Burgundy. Fantastic. The Matrix trilogy. Welcome to the real world. Mean Girls. Set up. I'm the King of the world. And so much more for showtime. Press nothing. They're free 24/7. That is so epic. On Pluto TV, stream now. Pay never. From Corolla 1 Studios in Glendale, California, this is the Adam Corolla Show. Adam's guest today, Jack Osborne. Plus the news with Rudy Pawditch, and now Adam Corolla. Yeah, get it on. Got to get on. The choice between the young man and age. You get it on. Thanks to an end. Thanks to you on the front. Welcome back, Jack Osborne. Man, I'm looking at the number. I always have the age of the guest, and it says 40. It's so crazy. But I don't know. You haven't gotten old enough yet to just sort of look around and see kids. When I was old, you were a kid, and now you're 40. And then you'll also conversely see women you had a crush on from Falcon Crest or Dynasty or Dallas or something. And now they're 84. Yep. And weird. So I guess the answer is we're getting old. Time comes for us old. Yes. I mean, I have a high school daughter now. Yes. That's insane. It's all weird. I don't know. Was everyone's mindset historically always like, I'm not old. I mean, I feel like old people used to be old. I'll tell you how you can tell. All right. If you watch The Love Boat, their women on that show. There's the young on Janus, you know, the hotties that everyone liked. And then at some point they had roles for like, she's a school teacher. She's a house, she's a housewife. The actress would be like 44. She had her hair short and a bunge wearing a shawl. Have you ever looked at the age of the women from the Golden Girls when it, when it had? Yes. That's what I'm saying. It was like 48. Yes. I had a sad, I liked to depress. I want to chain with the Jimmy Kimmel and, you know, Bill Simmons and guys like that. And I looked this up, Andrew. I was going to fuck these guys weekend up. I was going to send them a thing that it said. I think we are older in, in no country for old men, which is one of the greatest movies ever. It's the best. I think we're older than Tommy Lee Jones's character from that movie. Well, you want to freak out. Like the Captain Loveboat was like 42, the actor when he took that role. Okay. That was a long time ago for me. Yeah. Like, anyway, let's not get my own depression. How old was Tommy Lee Jones's character? Yes. Hey, Tommy Lee Jones was 61 during the filming of it. Wow. He's 57 years old, the source novel, whatever. All right. I'm 62. You don't look 62. Well, I'm older than Tommy Lee Jones was when he made that old movie about a guy getting old and losing it. I think you're aging gracefully. There's part of the Tommy Lee Jones did in no country for old men. Thank you. So, Jack, who we are, of course, know from the Osborne's, which is, I don't know. There's a lot of firsts, but firsts, real reality. I mean, I don't know, groundbreaking. I don't know what to call that show. I think it was the first, we'll call it family based reality show. Because there were a reality, there was, I mean, real world, road rules, cops. I mean, there were all reality shows. Right. And I don't know if you look back and you go, that was good, or I wish it never happened, or it was bad, or everything above. I actually, there was a time where I really resented it. And now I look back on it with a huge amount of gratitude. That's good. Yeah, that I got to be a part of something that kind of helped change pop culture. And ultimately, you know, changed my life, because I never, ever thought I'd have, you know, the career I've had. And also, people forgot what it was like to be on MTV back then. Yeah. And being on MTV was like such an incredible exposure. Like everyone knew who you were. And I don't, you know, it's like, I don't, I never looked at the ratings or anything, but I used to be on MTV too. And I can tell you, if you're on MTV, everyone knew who you were. Yeah. And I, if you're on CBS, not everyone necessarily knew who you were. Or maybe the people you wanted to know who you were knew who you were, because it was a great demo. Oh, totally. I would go into a strip club and my show was on the TV when I walked in. And that's a good demo. That's a real dude. Yep. Yeah. So because MTV is what every club would put on because you could watch it with no sound. Oh, yeah, you could just always have it on the background. Right. And that's where that's where it would be. So, you now have a new platform, Spark TV. Yeah. You go spark tv.com, AI for more info. And I know, and I know you've done stuff about, you know, UFOs and paranormal activity and that kind of stuff. I'm sort of open to anything, especially UFOs now, because it now sort of seems like they're here. Totally. Yeah. And it's a phenomenon, the phenomenon to me is that I grew up in a, in a time when we were obsessed with UFOs. There was UFO movies, there was UFO TV shows. There was always the same handful of like grainy pictures, but nothing real good. And it was a lot, lots of UFO discussion. And now it appears there is UFOs and no one cares. Yeah. Which is very strange to me. It is, right? Yeah. I think, well, I've always kind of looked at it like, I think the government's doing like a staggered disclosure. When they're just dissensors, slowly dissensitizing us. Because there's two things they're dissensitizing us to. One, that they've been really freaking lying to us for the last 75 years. Right. And two, that there's things visiting us from another galaxy or dimension, whatever. So the government, if the government goes from, we don't have any income tax to, here's 40% income tax. Everyone goes, holy shit. But if they do it incrementally, if they just keep going, no, like state of California will do that shit where they go. It's only 1%, it's all going to the roads. And it's only for one year and you go, okay. And then somehow it's for, you know, 20 years goes by and it's there and the roads don't get improved. And it's these little bits and pieces. So if you sort of like, I tell everyone, you could eat a Chevy suburban. If somebody just pulverized it, made it into powder and you put one scoop into your protein shake every day. After 27 years, you would have consumed, but you could do it slowly and incrementally. And it feels that way, you're right with UFO stuff, just little bits and pieces. Now you have former presidents and people kind of laughing about it. It's in the zeitgeist and all of a sudden, it's kind of like, I don't know, I think it's like bootleg celebrity porn, which it used to be a big deal. And now it's kind of like, yeah, everyone's got something out there. Exactly. Everyone's firing up the only fans. Yeah, so we're kind of used to it. So what do they want? And are they visiting? And what are they doing when they come down to see these weed, headless ape creatures just running around? Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, that's what I mean. Yeah, but I don't know, I think it's. Yeah. I mean, think about how many people are obsessed with what is the island off of India, where you can't go. And there's that untouched tribe that you set foot on that island. Right. Everyone's kind of fascinated about that, right? Everyone's like, what are they doing? What have they been doing the last 30,000 years? I think it's that. I think they just want to see what we're doing on this, you know, speck of dirt, hurdling through the universe. You know, the thing that I find interesting about people, I was trying to figure out why nobody cared. Well, I grew up with all these UFO movies and everyone was obsessed with something he's crazy. I'm not crazy. I saw it with my own eyes, you know. And now it's just like, I think it's our own narcissism.
I think we used to be very much into something that was bigger than us. And a UFO is bigger than you. I mean, how much bigger could there's a completely, there's another civilization that's somewhere that made dwarf your own civilization? Like you went from puny to nothing, all of a sudden. And so we're so caught up. We're literally looking down at our phones and we're reading about us. We used to stare up into the heavens. We spent a lot of time. A whole activity back in the days. People just lay down at night on a grass field and just look up and just go, wow, look at the stars, the constellations and everything. Now we stare down at our phone. And if it's not about us, not interested. And I think that's what this is. - I think it's very, you're onto something there because it is becoming like this almost step down from faith and religion, right? Because, oh, I can, there's actually pictures of this thing. There's, and they're clearly more powerful of us. Okay, what's a simple way to say, God, power greater than yourself. So it's, like, maybe there is a bit of, it's scratching this search for God-ich for some people. - Yeah, well, there's a saying, which is basically when God or religion leaves, it's not that people don't believe in anything or don't believe in something, they start believing in anything. So we have whole movements about the environment that becomes a kind of religion. Race is kind of a religion. If you think about, we have to have lots of stories and with deities and we raise these people up to certain levels, politics is entering this thing. And even when you, you know, when you see, like people taking to the streets and screaming and sort of having these almost religious fits, almost like when they flag themselves, going dragging the cross through the streets and whatever city they're in, it feels a little that way when you see an ice protest and the woman is just screaming and there's veins coming out of her head and she's pounding on stuff, even to the point where they're ignoring things like the guy's got a gun, the guy's in a car, like you're standing in front, I see people, women running in front of hands like trying to stop the van, like they're a superhero. - Yeah, you and that's wrong, ladies. - Right, but that's a religiosity if you kind of think about it because you're a human, the van's 5,000 pounds and you're 150 pounds and there's nothing you're gonna do and then they get knocked over by the van at some point and that pulls them out of their fugues hate and they go, they get up, they go like, "What's going on?" It's like how to get here. - Yeah, what's going on in front of a van? - I was just at Starbucks scrolling. - Right. - I was like, "I'm gonna hit by a van." - Yes, and who cares about the UFOs? 'Cause I'm gonna stop this, right? - Exactly, I'm here, I have a platform and here's what I should say. - Yeah, now the thing about the stuff, I mean, the number one thing you see is that they move in a way that we couldn't recreate from a propulsion standpoint and I don't think China can recreate that either. Some people go, well, maybe it's China. China rips off our technology. - Exactly. China is an amazing imitator. - Right. - So they're not leading the charge in creating new tech. - No, we create it, whether it's golf clubs or fighter planes, we create it, they imitate it. That's-- - And they do it really well. - And they do it right. - I always say it about musicians. You have a scrolling online and you see these amazing, like a eight-year-old Chinese violinist just doing stuff, you're like, "Oh my God, that's insane." But where's the Chinese bait hoven? - Where's the Chinese freaking guns and roses? Like, they're amazing, they're talented, they're great at learning stuff. - Yeah, well, it's kind of, you know, you're bringing to an interesting cultural thing, which I've always had, there's nothing to do with Chinese, but I'll talk black and Jew for a minute. - Oh great, here we go. Blacks are amazing improvisers. You go like, "Who all the great jazz musicians?" You know, that guy pick up the horn and who knows where he was going with that thing. You know, you think about real jazz musicians, really jamming and riffing and it's improvisational. - Yeah. - You know, and then you picture magic Johnson taking the ball down the court. It's like, is he gonna go round the back with it? Is he gonna fake like this and then do a no look or whatever? I don't think he knows what he's gonna do with that ball when he's heading down court with it, you know, but he's a great improviser, right? But then you get to the Jewish culture. Lots of learn it, lots of college, lots of lawyers, lots of doctors, that ain't about improvising. You're studying something that somebody else wrote in a textbook, you know? So you'll see the Jewish person ain't the jazz guy. I mean, I'm sure he exists, but he's not bringing the ball up court for the Lakers. So it's like, it's a weird, all right, don't put a picture of me up, he's doing no country for old men. And me, it's an interesting mindset. One is improvise and the other is study and sort of replicate. And so it kind of makes sense if the whole culture is a like study replicate culture, you don't get magic Johnson and you don't get the Thelonius monk or whoever. You're not gonna get that, you're gonna get people who can replicate it, but not improvising. - Exactly, yeah, yeah, it's a good point. - So I don't think this stuff's out of China and I don't think it's out of the USR. - No, I have a friend who is close with the president, I've told a story a couple times, but he's close with the president, and he asked him, what is this? And apparently the response was, we don't know, but they're in the ocean. - Oh, in the ocean? - Yeah, which I thought was interesting. And there's been so much footage released from the Pentagon as of late where these objects are flying around battleships and what have you. - Uh-huh. - So I mean, I think the idea that these things could be interdimensional makes just as much sense as they're from another planet. 'Cause in order to get here is, I mean, for what we understand about physics is next to impossible. So, it's, well, the ocean is mostly unexplored. - Yeah. - I say to my son, get the water. I'm not going to the ocean. I go, why not? I go, 90% of it's unexplored. - I go, yeah, but the Malibu coast is. - Malibu coast, the first 80 feet of Malibu coast as well, well documented. But yeah, it's not all explored. So it's interesting ocean that like a boat has never even sailed over. - We had a commercial airliner crash and no one even knows where it is. That's weird in modern times. - I'm just so insane to me. I mean, a large commercial jet just went to the ocean and never heard from again. And they have no idea where it is. - Apparently I've read something that they're going to stop the search again. They've got some fishermen picked up some piece of debris from the ocean floor and it's like, I know where it is. So, you know, gee. - I get, you know, I get the Amelia Earhart part because we didn't have satellites. - And it was 100 years ago. - Right. But now, I don't know. I don't feel like there's a real good excuse. We're not finding a big commercial airliner. - Yeah, I'm right there with you. And it also didn't necessarily instill a huge amount of confidence in me as a passenger on planes. 'Cause I'm always like, is this thing gonna vanish? - Well, the paranormal stuff, I'm interested in. And but I have a question or a challenge for you. - Go for it. - So, I know people that are from New Orleans and they all will tell you ghost stories. But I grew up in North Hollywood and there's no ghost stories. - But there's a shit ton of zombies there now. - Yeah, they're homeless. Yeah, they're drug addicts. Right, it's called the fentanyl ghost stories. But so it's like a cultural thing. I just grew up in the valley. It didn't exist. There was no old, the buildings were all built 1971. There's no old culture. And then, but New Orleans, that's a totally different vibe. But I also started thinking it's impossible for ghosts to be regional. Like, they can't just exist in New Orleans and not in the valley village area. - Interesting story for you. There's this very famous ghost case, actually. I believe, it's definitely in the valley. It might be Shamanokes or Studio City, but it was in the '90s. This guy was taking these photos with a Polaroid camera in his house and these crazy images were appearing. And they were supposedly messages from a ghost. It became this big deal where he contacted Polaroid thinking, is it something wrong with the film. they were sending him.
film, the same thing was happening. It's a wild story and he never outright said, "Oh, no, this is definitely a ghost." But there was a very strange phenomenon that was happening in the valley. To this day, it goes unanswered as to why these images were appearing and it was pretty wild. Just look it up. I don't know. Look it up. Maybe there's something in there. You can find something 1990s, Polaroid, Sherman Oaks, Polaroid Ghost Rider. Polaroid involves two Los Angeles residents, let's see, who claimed an invisible entity, named Wright, communicated by causing a glowing handwritten message and smoky shapes to appear. The pictures of the Polaroid photos. Oh, well, I stand corrected. There's one guy who has been the same for now in a valley that found a ghost for the camera. He's holding down the great one. I never, I never ran into anybody. I mean, they were just boring people. There was no culture. Did you guys always, well, you're born here, I guess. I'm just born in England, but. Oh, where are you born in England? Yeah. Oh, when did you come here? We moved back and forth a couple times, we ended up kind of dropping anchor in early 1998. Early 1998, and what for you, what were you thinking about like as a young dude? Because there's kind of, I grew up with poor people and they were desperate. When you're kind of desperate, you really think about food and you think about a job and nobody ever speaks about a career, you know, they just go, you got to get job, oh my good, good job. And then you literally talk about how much you're going to get an hour on your job. You're like, if I get myself a job that paid like $10 an hour, then I'd be in good shape because it was like 400 bucks a week, you know, it's jobs, it's hours, and the parents and the family, they don't talk about career either. They're like, you're going to have to move out and get a job, you know, so we graduate high school. You get a job. So, but if there was money and there was success, where you could look around, your parents were really successful, then you'd start thinking, maybe I want to be a veterinarian or a lawyer or something like that, but I don't know what your thoughts ever were. My thoughts always were, well, I'll never be that, you know, because I, you know, your dad, my dad, like this, you know, I was like, that's never, I was like, I'm terrible at music, I can't, that's not a thing here. And so, around what my, what my real plan was, I wanted to join the Army. Really? Yeah, that was kind of, I was like, well, I was, I was in high school during 9/11 and I was like, I guess I'll just run this out and then join the Army, screw it. Really? Yeah, that was kind of my plan. And then we started the show, you know, shortly thereafter. Well, I know your dad was big into all the World War II stuff, and this is the sit-around and watch all this World War shows and all that kind of stuff, because he basically was born just a few years after the blitz, I mean, his neighborhoods were bombed. Yep. I'm guessing when he was a very young person, he would still see bomb craters. Big time. Bricks down it. Yeah, they didn't clean up a lot of the, you know, the bombed out building sites for years because, and I only learned this recently, a part of the surrender, the unconditional surrender of Germany was, if we're going to surrender, you need to rebuild Germany before you rebuild like, and that was a part of the deal. So, Europe, you know, they left these, you know, huge sections of London and Birmingham and Manchester all blown up for years. Yeah. So your dad was born in, I don't know, 48. Oh, I said 48. All right. So we, right after the war, basically, and then as a young person, could certainly just see or walk around, see reminders of the war everywhere, plus all the adults who just lived through a world war, exactly, not to mention just being fire bombed and terrorized by the Nazis or by the German Luftwaffe coming off of France, which is an old crazy, crazy story. So your dad lived it and was kind of understood it and into it. That could mean that he would not want you to be in the army or it could mean that he wanted you to be in the army. That's a terrible idea. Why are you going to do that? You're an idiot. Especially because it was right off the 9/11, he was like, you're going to, you know, and so, yeah, never, never, never came to fruition. Did he say what he wanted to do, wanted, like, wanted you to do versus go into the army? And your mom was pretty managerial, right? I mean, she was like an idea person and she also got shit done, like, so she probably had some thoughts. Yeah, I mean, I would help out with Osfest and then I used to intern at record labels when I was in my early kind of teenage years. I would just go and, you know, whatever busy work needed to be done at a, you know, spent a time at Virgin Records when not the store of the record company and then Epic Records. So I was, I was interested in the music business side of things and I kind of was like, all right, you know, if I do decide to go to the college route, you know, go to school for business and maybe go into the music industry type stuff, but yeah. And she was very encouraging of that because that's what she did. I mean, she left school at 15 and dove right into managing bands. Yeah. It's kind of interesting. People who have a motor, you know what I mean? Like, it's just really a motor, it can be used and pointed in almost any direction, but it's just, they got a motor totally and, you know, and I think now it's like this thing of, you know, there's so much on NEPO baby, this NEPO baby that, but I, you know, I kind of cite this as, well, when is, so like, my best friend who I grew up in England with, he's a Tyler and he's a Tyler because his dad was a Tyler and when his dad retired, he took over his tiling business. And so it's like, well, I guess my Tyler friend is a NEPO baby because he just, his dad was like, I'm retiring. You want the business? Well, everybody who's in construction is there because their dad or their uncle had a construction firm. Are they NEPO babies? No, because they, they fucking sweat out the sun all day, but they are doing what that person did, and I, I am sad for them sometimes for, and I'll tell you why, I know, I know it's a, the building things for sure because I was a carpenter as an adult and that's how I made my living. And almost every time I told someone I was a carpenter, they went, it's your dad's business because it's a real hand me down, they all thought I'd go, no, my dad had nothing to do with it. And it was always kind of a surprise, like, especially being a white guy, like, come on, your dad had to have a business. I had a friend in high school and his dad's business was vinyl signage. When the, every year when the Oscars would come around, they'd hang all those big vinyl signs off the street lamps or whatever, they did a lot of work. And it was a good business and a family business, and I guess a money making business. But when I ran into him, you know, when he was in his 30s or 40s, he was in the vinyl signage business. And I thought, no one dreams of making vinyl signs when they're in ninth grade, right? It's like, it's not a dream for any young man. Maybe for him. No. I don't think it was. Now he would probably say, well, I made the business better and more efficient or something like that. But there's a part of me that always feels a little sorry for those guys because who knows what you're really meant to do or what you could do or whatever your dream was? You may have wanted to do something, but this is your reality. You took over the business, you got responsibilities, you have some kids now. And here you are. And the only advantage to coming from poor people who don't care what you do is whatever it is you do, that's what you're supposed to be doing. Like it turned out, whatever I ended up doing, it's what I wasn't going to do. It wasn't because my dad pushed me into being this or said I had to join the law firm or anything. Sure. And I guess kind of knowing that you don't have musicality and being the son of Ozzy Osborne, it's wide open now. Yeah, absolutely. And that was the thing that my dad was always just like, I don't care what you do, as long as you're happy, and he came from a real working class family. My grandfather was a tool maker and a welder and worked nights at a factory. My grandmother worked days at the same factory, so they never saw each other. Right. Kind of like submarine schedule, you know, they jumped into a hotbed. And so his plan was, well, because no one had music careers back then, you had a song and then you disappeared. And so he was like, well, I'll just go back to the factory and do that. And so I think for him, his whole thing was, I'm happy doing what I'm doing. I'm never one to tell my kids, don't do what you're doing is just be happy with it. Yeah, I mean, it's also hard. I have the same thing, you know, I can't say to my 20 year old son, oh, this is [BLANK_AUDIO]
You want to do sports journalism because I don't do a real job, you know, like if their own dad doesn't actually have a real job How can I tell them you go to bed tired at night? Well, I work I work hard and I work consistently It's a real job. It is a job. It has all the trappings of a job But it still would be hard for me to say to anyone that's not gonna work You need to, you know, you need to study you need to get certified and welding or something like that when I have a job that didn't exist 15 years ago sure, but you also have a job that That not everyone can do right? How many how many welders are there on planet earth? I got a check with How many Adam Corolla's are there? You're so kind, but it's true. No, I get it. I mean, you have to be realistic, too like you go Who doesn't want to be a rock star when they're 15? I wanted to be a rock star. I didn't have any ability Yeah, so I it that a sort of realistic appraisal of your own strengths and weaknesses and I knew there's a whole bunch of shit. I couldn't do so I sort of narrowed it down to the stuff I could do yeah, and but also There's a thing where like in our society The the the next generation always did better than the last generation, you know, and I remember saying to Dr. Drew when his kids his triplets were like six and I don't know this 25 years ago or something. I said, you know Your kids aren't going to be living in a bigger house than they grew up in and they ain't gonna have more money than they grew up in I mean statistically They're gonna live in a condominium in Pasadena, but they're not living in 8,000 square feet up on the hill and I'm like This the first time we've had to kind of deal with that like and it's going on It's going on on a pretty big scale now mom and dad owned a home and Their son is 38 and he's living an apartment or he's still living with my mom and dad. Yeah, so There is a thing I guess, but you can tell me so I come from poor people who didn't accomplish anything So it was all I had to do is move out and get a job and I was killing it. I was doing better than my family or at least tied them You grew up with wild success That you're not gonna out do so I don't know you have to pick a different kind of perspective with it Yeah, I mean if I'm being totally honest something that hit me Relatively recently and I would say it you know within the last like five years or so where you know How do a bunch of kids married you know been doing what I'm doing in an industry that's you know the ship is listing You know taking all water and you know better start setting out the distress signals and and it kind of hit me I was like wow, it's really a strange place to be when the the most Success I probably will ever accomplish in life was when I was 16 years old That's a weird place to be as much as a man with kids and who's married who's trying to just like do the deal and And that's I think why I have the gratitude for the show because I'm very realistic because that level of success Isn't even attainable now because of the way everything's been decentralized yes and and so I kind of like I'm like at a good place with it. I'm like, okay cool. I did that. I know what I need to survive for me It's not necessarily about having the you know all the The accolades of the success for me my success now is like all right Did I pay all my bills this month and are my kids good and is you know am I am I good? Okay, great. We're good this month. I can't go back to measuring my You know success as a 16 year old to a success as a 40-year-old man It's two days. Well also There's a thing where like I grew up with not a lot of food and so I am very much a you're not throwing that food out I'm taking it with me and I'm like nuts with it And I hate waste, but I Also realized like I grew up with a health food mom So I didn't get this shit. 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I had like a 68 Camaro I had two acid mountains and I had I think I had like seven eight cars at one point right and then you start having kids And it really eats into that budget and I'm kind of just like Like cool stuff is great stuff is great when it makes sense the thing I learned is that when you have stuff You don't just pay for it. It's done. You got to maintain the stuff and it gets expensive and it's you know I'm really in this phase now where it's It's not about minimalism. It's about essentialism. It's this kind of theory of like is it essential to me right now? Mm-hmm, and that's that's kind of where I've landed with it. I mean, you know, yeah, I mean, it's I and and it is that You know the question I ask myself is you know what makes it essential is It's gonna bring me joy. Is it gonna bring me peace or is it get it bring me stress right? Yeah, I got to say there's a almost I don't know what called a disease, but you know, there people have an obsession with things lots of things like The dudes that you know, there's like sexual proclivities. They're there's guys who cannot stop cheating They just can't stop and Then they're guys who sadly love kids that sexually, you know, there's pedophiles and and it's like You go you want to say the guy hey knock it off, but it's like that's a that's like a disease. Yeah, that's a that's a thing and it's and it probably runs Deeper than they go. Well, that guy likes big titties. All right, but he can he can bang a chick with a beak up He can do it, you know what I mean, but if you like kids, you like kids like that you got a problem, but it's it's a it's a problem and then hopefully on a
happy side, you have a thing with, you love music, or you love animals, you know, and it's hard to dissuade you. If someone said, I love animals, you're like, well, you got one dog, that's enough. They'd go, no, I went 10 dogs, there's I love animals. I'm that way with mechanical stuff. Like, I love mechanical stuff so much. It's kind of a disease. How much mechanical stuff do you have? And what is the definition of mechanical stuff? Like, power tools or like vehicles? Vehicles and like, power tools. Like I might, I got, first off, I couldn't catalog my power tools because there's like too many, too many power tools. Like I know too much. Like I was on, I was on a air, I was on a flight to Austin. My flight to Austin, my flight back from Austin, and I was sitting next to a guy, and he was telling me, he goes, I'm a woodworker. And I go, oh, you got a little shop set up near garage? And he's like, yeah. And then I proceeded to sort of tell him every tool that was in his shop. Like I was like, you got a contractor, son. He's like, yeah, I guess it's a grizzly jet. What kind of, oh, it's a jet. I go, you got like a 62th carbide, like 10 inch on there. And he goes, yeah. And then you go, I go, you do your data's with a router. You're dealing with like a data set up on the contractor's son. He goes, he never said, how do you know all this shit? I said, it's a guy on the right home. He said, I make my own guitars. I'm a woodworker. I go, he goes, he said, I go, you got a scroll saw? And he goes, I got a portable handheld scroll saw. And I said, that doesn't exist. And he said, what? I go, you have a scroll saw? He goes, yeah, I go, you have a jigsaw. And he goes, oh, yeah, it's a jigsaw. But I'm like, I start going through it and realize I know every single tool, I have a disease with like tools and cars and, and, and I love fabrication of any kind. Do you, okay, here's a, here's a, here's a thought. Do you think it's a trauma response for not, for not, for wanting it as a child and not having it. And now having the ability to have it, you'll like, I must have it all. Yes, I'll tell you what it is. In this town, there would be a lot of like nebyshy agent types who clearly weren't the captain of the football team and clearly didn't get any pussy in high school. But now they run CAA or whatever. And they have to bang every blonde that comes into that building. And it feels like they're overcompensating for being that guy. You can see him when you see the guy, he has got the fancy suit and the expensive shoes now and he pulls up at a BMW. But you picture that guy in high schools like. He was just getting stuffed into a locker. Stuffed into a fucking locker while the guy banged the prom queen, right? So he's clearly compensating for something that was missing. And I wanted tools and minibikes and dirt bikes. I wanted this stuff and it was, there was zero. There was, it was always a vacuum of it. And so the second I started making money, that's what I started doing. And it did feel, it smacked of compensation. But it was born from a love of it. Like it started that way. - And does it bring you joy? - Yeah, that is okay. I get a lot of satisfaction. And I do think part of the problem in our modern day society is people do not possess a skill, a skill, it could be building, could be welding. It could be playing the saxophone or it could be being a really good chef, a really good cook. But some form, some baseline of skill. I think people are kind of floating around. And they don't have a base. - And the crazy thing is there's no better time to learn. Because we have endless access to information. I mean, last time I saw you, I was like, oh yeah, I know I'm thinking about taking up woodwork and stuff. And I just started watching videos and just like, screw it. I'm gonna give it a go and you would love it. I bought a wood mill. So I'm milling my own lumber up at my place in Idaho. - Really? - I built this big old tree house. - All just watching YouTube videos being like, all right, let's go. - So you're like planning? - Yeah, you bought a planer. - No, it's not a planer, no, it's a wood mill. So I can essentially cut any shape size, piece of wood from a tree stump. - Is it on a trailer? - Yes. - Oh my god. - Yes. - Is it gas power? - It is gas power. - Holy shit. - It's amazing. I just will literally, me and my ranch manager will just go like, all right, let's chop that tree down. We'll chop it down. Like, what are we making? And we'll just figure it out, figure out the measurements and just go, what is this call? - What's the brand? - So that the brand, it's called Nullwood. They were great, actually, I hit them up and I was like, hey, I'm one of wood mill, they came out, they showed me how to do it, it was awesome. - Find a picture of this thing. - So it's trailer mount, obviously it's gas powered 'cause you're going out into the wilderness and not running extension cord. You're running this thing, you know, you're taking the logs and you're milling them. - Yep. - And at a certain point, if you're gonna make planks, you gotta push it through a spinning blade of death. - Right, spinning a planer. - Yep. - Right. - Yeah. - And it's like a, it's a, yeah, it's basically like a, yeah, I guess it technically would be a planer, but it's more like a chainsaw blade. - And you're making planks and things too? - Yeah. - Wow, as long as you make planks as long as it's, you know, as long as you get your measurements right and the log kind of, you know, makes it so. - How much, because I don't know anything about this, 'cause I've go to the Home Depot, 'cause that's what I did for it. - Also, I would tell people sometimes when they go, you know, Nick Offerman made a kayak for $30,000, I'd go, yeah, that's jacking off shit. I had to build, I had to fucking rebuild people's bathrooms and shit, you know, like I did earthquake rehab work. Like I had to make money, I couldn't make canoes. I mean, it's bitching and everything. - That's it. - That's it. - Yeah, Nowood Mill is the one I have. - So you're passing logs through that thing. - Yep. - And then once you get it down where you're making what they were called, dimensional lumber, you're then having to dry it and I don't know all the process. I do know wood is weird. Like if you're gonna do hardwood flooring, it's gotta come to the living room and acclimate for like a week or two before you install it. It sounds weird, but the wood needs to acclimate to the environment. So once you mill it, then what? - So what I've learned, and I'm by far not an expert, I just told you, I watch YouTube videos on this. But what I've learned is it just depends on what I'm using them for. If I'm putting in fence posts around one of the animal enclosures, that I'll give a shit. So I can, I'll cut it and I'll just dump it right into the ground. If it's stuff that I'm gonna use for, you know, an outdoor project or whatever, we'll stack it and we wear it, the mill is located, it's under a bond and it gets really good air flow. And we'll leave it for six, eight months and just let it air dry. - We put it on spacers. - Yep, exactly. - And it does its thing and it's great. - What kind of species of wood? - A lot of cedar, a lot of pine. There's not as many cedars as I would like, just 'cause it's that area. - It smells good. - It smells so good. - It smells good too. - Ponderosa pine, stuff like that. Cedar is great for outdoor stuff. - Yep. - And pine, and they're pretty soft. So good for work and I don't know if you deal with oak, but Jesus, that's hard. - Yeah, I mean, we don't have any oak trees on the property with the love it, you know, I think we, I was thinking about planting a bunch. - Oh yeah. - Waitin' 25 years. - Oak, you'd be amazed. Well, you wouldn't, but people listening, when you're dealing with hardwood like oak, it is hard versus cedar, something like that. Like all those old ships of the line and stuff. That was all oak they made that sides out of, and they used it like armor. - Yeah. - Like, you know, eight inch thick oak, you know. - It's no joke. - Crazy. - You ever seen that, the guy on YouTube who's the lumberjack who just chops up different wood and he's, you know, big old buff dude and he's always bringing in these different types of wood, like how many hits can I get through? - Oh really? - Yeah, his content is so simple, but yet so good. - Well, that's the key. - It's like a logo. Just real simple, but reliable and everyone knows what it is. - And it's clearly just pawned for housewives 'cause he's just this ripped chiseled lumberjack. - And what's he doing? - He's just hitting wood with axes. - Oh, real? - That's it. - Wow. - What's the name of it? - I wanna look at it. - I mean, there's a couple of them by forget the guy, but he's always finding this obscure types of wood. - So you mill it up and you're putting in fence posts, like cementing them in. - Yeah. - Digging the whole stroller, got an auger. - I do have an auger, yeah, just pick one up. - Nice, got an auger. - Yeah, yeah, I've got a, yeah, I've got a, I definitely am in need for more tools, but I'm in the market for a good track to these days. I need a kind of, I'm like, all right, it's time. - I'll give you a tip with the planting the posts in the ground if you're gonna cement them in. make sure that after you dig that hole, if you're gonna see more.
that post, I'm just saying this to everyone is listening. When you do, when you finish the cement, make sure the cement's a little higher than the ground and give it a little angle so it doesn't create a little pool. So when it rains, it's just a puddle that's rotting out your wood. Totally. Yep. We do that. Absolutely. Yes. But not for everyone. It's like the main load bearing post will do it. Yeah. So we're hanging a gate or something. Right. And there's also a little gate controversy from years ago, I was talking about on my show, which is when you're doing a gate, you got the two ones that go across. And then you got that horizontal one. The horizontal ones got to go at the top where the latch is and come down to the bottom where the bottom hinge is, not the other way around. Some people do it the wrong way, meaning we're trying to get the gate not to sag. Yeah. And the way to get it not to sag is to start it at the, let's say, top left hand corner and come down to the bottom right where the hinge is. You doing any cabinet making? I have not yet got to cabinet making status yet. What's in your garage? What's in my garage as far as like tools go? Yeah. Like, it's mainly old portable stuff because I'm always working out at the house so it's a lot of like, you know, portable jigsaw, hand saws, circle saws, that kind of stuff. I will say if you're going to build stuff cabinet wise, you need a good contractor saw, like a good table saw. Yes, I know. And you need, so I'll give you the three things you need. You need a good table saw and if you can run off a 240 better, household current works, but if you see one of those saws on what used to be 220, they just come alive. They start home and when you kick them on, number two, you need a good fence. Not the fence the thing came with, but they probably come with better stuff now, but like an aftermarket bees in my fence where you can really get your rip on. And you need a good cross cutting place to like a radio alarm saw. You don't want to do that. You're going to, you're going to write me a, this is your, his, your essentials list. Go get it. You laugh. No, I'm not. I've locked it. I need that. And you get it. No, I will set you up. Listen, there's precedent for this. It's all the story of a million times. Patrick Dempsey, back when he just smoked pot hung around with his Rhodesian rich back dog and lived under mean Hollywood, he used to borrow tools for me all the time. And I just said, this is like one afternoon, I just said, that's enough. We're going to Home Depot and me and Patrick went to the Home Depot in Hollywood. I said, get a cart. He just pushed a cart. I said, I'm going to throw in everything you need. I'm not going to go like you're going to be a contractor, but I'll tell you what you need. Sure. I threw it all on the cart, pushed in. He paid for it. I said, now you're never going to have to ever bother me. You would, you would lose your mind at my house, though, because the guy I bought it from was a, was a contractor who did a lot of woodworking. And so my, what is my man cave like office is his woodworking shop. So it's got the air fan, the, all the countertops are like leveled to like perfect zero. It's like the perfect set up air fan. You mean air scrubber. Yeah. S scrubber. Yes. Yes. What you probably want to. Yeah. Well, you already have one. Nice. Yeah. And air scrubber, you know, the, the whole dust collection thing was not a big deal back in the day. You just fucking sat and pool your own dust. That's it. Someone has figured out we should figure out a way to do this, having like, you know, inhaling particles of so does probably isn't the best. Well, inhaling the trees that you're milling is a lot better than medium density fiberboard out of China with melamine coating on it, right? Yes. The very much. It had like 42 cancerous ingredients in it. Yeah. Sucking up that fresh cedar. Nothing about that. I wouldn't wear a mask for that. Bathing it. Yeah. That's so good. Yeah. I love that story. So you're, you're milling, man. Yeah. And but next is a, the pro, the cabinets. Yep. Yeah. Getting learning, learning the more finer details of woodworking, I'm sure, you know, I'm getting the framing down, you know, and I built a really cool tree house and I was thinking about building some cabins on the property, but just doing it all myself. I kind of like the, the narrative of like, hey, I built that with wood from this lane like it's. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's basically saying I made this salad out of my garden, you know, I don't think people, people are losing touch with the satisfaction of basically saying, yeah, I made that, you know what I mean? Like what goes along with that so much psychologically more than a thousand therapy sessions is you just milling that wood and then making your own tree house. So true. We throw, I throw a podcast in and it's just, right, right. And so we started outsourcing everything, you know, and then it got down to like door dash and stuff where people are just bringing food to your house. Yeah. You can't even go up the street anymore. Well, there is such a satisfaction in just making your own meal. And then like sharing that with someone and then having them go, oh, this is really good. Yeah. Thank you. You know, like, or that tree house, who built that? I built that myself. Like, there's so much and I don't know why we're trying to run from it. No. Like, I talked to people all the time, I go, do that yourself. I go, you don't need to do that yourself. You're going to have somebody come to the house, I go, I know, but do it yourself. I think people have, I'm wondering if the, what is the, the, the push behind it is this notion of if it's easier, I'll be happier. And I don't think that's the case. I think we're learning that it isn't the case. Well, there's what we would like and then what is good for us. And the problem is that cast them there. Like when I was a kid, I never thought about this, but like a big hit show was Bewitched, and Bewitched was a guy lived with a witch. She was foxy, but she was a witch. And he could have anything he wanted in real time and just go, she'd twinkle her nose. And if he said I'm in the mood for roast beef, she's going, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I remember as a kid like going, oh my God, that would be so great. Like I want a go-cart. I would just have her make me a go-cart, like ding, you know, and immediate gratification. And then you realize after four months of getting everything you wanted in two seconds, you would probably kill yourself or OG or something, right? And unfortunately, it's sort of the four play and the delayed gratification of life that part where you circle something on the calendar and you save up. You know, everyone will tell you, anyone will go, oh man, I love my first car. I mowed so many lawns for that car that when I finally got there was a piece of junk, but I mowed 100 lawns that earned that car. And it felt the attachment they had with that car and the appreciation they had for that car versus like, I was at the car auction this weekend and somebody bought a car that was like 43 million bucks. Jesus. Yeah, I know. And then I, people are kind of speculating, like, who is that guy? And then we sort of found out through somebody I know who works with him, like, oh, he was the same guy I bought then $9 million for Ari the month before or the year before. And then they said, oh, you spent about 80 million this weekend buying up cars. And I thought, they don't mean as much to him as that guy who mowed the lawns. No. He's a young dude that's family money and he'll never appreciate it like they do. Yeah, he wants it just to have it and he probably gets excited, like, oh, look at my thing. But it's over, like before it starts though, you go right to the thought of what's the next one and it's just a bad cycle. And so the temptation is to say, I don't feel like going out and washing my own car today. So I'm going to hire a detailer just to come to the house and I'll watch TV while they detail. And I don't feel like making lasagna. I'm just going to get lasagna brought to the house and I don't want a higher guy to make a tree house for my kids. By the way, your kids miss out on the story where dad made him a tree house, which is a pretty good. Look, when, you know, when you're in family therapy in 10 years and they're telling you what a douche you were, you'd go, I made you a fucking tree house, right? Exactly. I literally chopped the tree down to make the wood to make the tree house. Right. And they'll go, all right, maybe wasn't that bad at that, you know? So I don't know, I love all that shit and I think people should start tacking back to those times. Now the past, we had no choice. You had to do everything yourself. There was no grub hub. So you had to do everything yourself.
Now we have a choice and people are taking the easier route, which any kid would do. Totally. But you're an adult now and you have to kind of police yourself and that's where we're running into difficulty. Yeah. Because we're avoiding the difficulty. By avoiding difficulty, we're creating more difficulty because we're atrophying. Yes. And we don't have the resilience. But we're going insane because we've removed simple and sort of basic misery. Like, Oh, you got to walk. You got to carry this thing. You got to move that thing. I don't know. It's hot. I'm sweating. You have to engage in all that. What Dr. Dr always calls sort of ordinary misery. Like just used to be people's lives. Yeah. People had to just pluck a chicken. Like who the fuck wants the pluck a chicken? I don't know. You want chicken? Like I do. Well, then go pluck that chicken. Are you hungry? Are you hungry? So now you can buy eight dollar rotisserie chickens all done. And I'm just saying we're going to have to synthesize the plucking of the chicken. Like we have treadmills. Treadmills are to synthesize something we use that do, which is walk everywhere because we realize it's good for us to get the exercise, but we need a mental version of the treadmill. And I'm saying, milling the wood and building the tree house is that mental version of that. Yeah. I mean, isn't that kind of what CrossFit is? Yeah. It's like, let's find a way to do really hard manual labor, but just inside of a gym. Right. Actually, pay somebody to then do manual labor. Yeah. Go outside and go take your hill and clear the brush. And then you'll get back and you'll feel tired, but you have this crazy satisfaction. And I think, I mean, you're in, do you say Montana? I don't know. Oh, Idaho. Oh, even better. There's probably no sainer day than you going out and milling, right? It is. It is like my full happy place being on that. When I'm up at the ranch, it's like, I'm up super early. I am, I mean, doing like 20,000 steps every, you know, every day, I'm on the property. And whether it is fixing fences or, you know, taking care of, you know, some of the animals or, you know, milling wood, there's always something to do. It's the best. I would, you said happy place, but I would say it transcends happy. Oh, yeah. It's satisfying. Big time. And satisfying is so much better than happy because happy is like, I'm eating, I'm eating fudge. This is good. I'm watching porn while I'm eating fudge. I'm happy. But the satisfaction of like finishing a marathon or rebuilding that, building that treehouse or something, that's satisfaction. And a lot of people just aren't experiencing it. They're living in a world where they do data entry. They sit in a cubicle, they go home and they turn on Netflix, they eat edibles, they get high, they order grub hub and then they fucking go to bed and do it all again. And that has the lead to misery. I think it does. I think that's why we're seeing what we're seeing with mental health across this country. It's, it is, it is so apparent that the system that's been created is not working. There is no way you would need to be on SSRI's or any of that shit if you were milling wood every day and going through all the rituals that you have to go through. Not to mention, we're talking off the air about the sort of devil making work for idle hands, but the necessity, like I would like to do nothing, but many things need to be done on this ranch today and I'm, no one else is going to do it. 100%. I mean, I could, you could hire someone, but you know, it's like, hey, why hire someone when I got, when I can do it, you know, and that's, and that is a sad, so satisfying. Yeah, and you've never learned to do it if you hire someone. I mean, you really have to just get tacked out there. However, I won't mess with electric. I will not touch electric plumbing. I've, I've dabbled electric hell no. Now that's, that's right. I, I can't say I'm much good at that either, but plumbing you can kind of figure out. Yeah. It's just like playing that video game when you connect the pipes. Yeah. Just sweat them. And now they have packs, which is like, you know, it's flexible. Okay. Yeah. They basically did with plumbing what they did with electrical many years ago. Electrical used to all just be conduit, rigid conduit and they'd pull the wires to it. But then at some point, they said, well, why, why don't we just make, make it romance and they made it, you can twist it, pull it and bendy or whatever. Well, pipe plumbing was always like, let's just do galvie and then let's just do copper. Right. But at some point, someone goes, why don't we just do the romance version of pipe and it'll be pecs tubing. That's, that's great. Yes. Absolutely. You can just pull it, pull it all the way through where you need to go and you don't have to do elbows and joints and couplers. And then you get a crimper, like a special crimp thing and you crimp on whatever you need on the end of the packs. So yeah, I needed to do a couple of years ago and I was digging up my backyard to fix the irrigation for the, for the, where we, you know, where we grow all our fruits and veg. What are you growing in the fruits department? And so we've got a ton of berries because because we're so far north, it's, you know, our growth season is, is pretty short, but, you know, rosary's, blueberries, apples, that kind of stuff. It's good. Nice. A lot of tomatoes. Oh, yeah. Randomly rhubarb. Just a big old mountain of rhubarb keeps growing and we're like, all right, just leave it. Randomly rhubarb sounds like a sitcom from the 90s. Her name is Shelley rhubarb, and she's so random, but she showed up in the big city. And her zany grandma, Ruby, Ruby rhubarb. So and it's got to, you know, you harvest stuff from your own garden and bring it in and, and dice it up for the salad or the stew or whatever. It's just so much. It's also good. Oh, yes. Yeah. And, you know, we can hunt. We have goats. Sometimes we'll, you know, harvest a goat. Yeah. People need to get, they unfortunately, we got to get back to it because we're going nuts. And the more time you spend in the city, the crazier your ideas. Yep. Get. And, you know, the thing about you like your brain, it can be your best friend, but it can also be your worst enemy. It can turn on you. And you don't spend enough time outdoors in the ocean, up in the hills. With a project, with a plan, it'll get you. Big time. And that's what's happening to a lot of people. And I've, I used to say to a million years ago when we were doing love line, and there were those like, oh, we've got to save the music. I'd be like, they were talking about music class in schools. I was like, these kids need woodshop. Yep. They need a vocational training. They need auto shop, woodshop, metal shop, like they need a skill. They don't, they learn to play the viola is great, but they're not going to be concerned fine. Violous, but they're, they're whatever's going to use a hammer and it's like you can get a job. They would get a job. Uh, Jack, where did the time go? So spark TV. Yep. You go to sparktv.ai for the info. Yes. You can watch all the shows there in the podcast, trying not to die as well, wherever you find finer podcasts. Uh, Jack, always great catching up with you. Always good to see you. Yeah. Thank you, sir. And, uh, and anytime you want to come up to the runs, just let me know. I would love it. And I will, when you're ready to buff out that shop, the woodworking shop, I will tell you okay. What you need. I got lots of tricks. All right. So don't listen to anybody else. All right. I will take you up on that. All right. Good news right after this. Hule. 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Now available in Canada and the UK too, that's q-u-i-n-c-e.com/acs. It's time to check Adam's voicemail. Hey Ace Man, curious, do you consider yourself a boomer or Gen X because I know your birthday is around the dividing line? Also, my name is Derek, I'm the guy that you met with the wild, Decon Monsa-esque, and so wide body, fox body Mustang at the quail. Just curious if I changed your mind about fox bodies. They're not all bad, are they? You can leave us a message at 888-634-1744. Oh, that guy. From the quail. Oh, these fox body guys. Fox bodies Mustangs from, I don't know, 84 to 92 or something. What year were the fox body Mustangs? I don't know, I always say, you know what you're saying? Now I sound like a fucking blown smoke in my own ass. But I'll go like, I don't know what you think about American cars and some of the guy could go, "Well, I got a mopart and I was like, 283 in it?" And he'll go, "Yeah, and I go." And I'll just stop and I go, "Maybe I do know something about American cars," but not like I know Japanese and European cars. '79 and '93, so that was pretty close. The fox body Mustangs. Now, I don't like 'em, but this guy had one that was done up in a super groovy '70s Decon Monsa style. The Monsa, the Monsa was a Chevrolet and eventually they made a Decon Monsa and they even had a song for the Monsa by Chevrolet. What? Oh yeah, because Monsa had like a couple different offerings back. Here's what they used to do. Can you imagine Dawson? Can you imagine why you said like, "What do you got?" And I was like, "Well, we got a Toyota Camry, but we got a Toyota Camry Spider Edition. What's that guy?" It's got a sticker for Spider on the hood. Right. And then the stick shift knob, we got a Spider on it. They do that with like any body shit. Yeah, like yeah. Yeah, this fucking stick a sticker on and they go, "Now it's the Spider. It's a Camry Spider." Yeah, this is my cool existence version of the vehicle. All you did was put a sticker on the thing. Monsa had a theme. Here comes Spider out of the night. Cool down, honey, didn't go to bed. All right, go from the beginning. Sorry. That story to tell you is short and sweet by three Chevy Monsa's new short and sweet. Coop's the moon in all dazzling plants. Running your back, sure. Running his ass. It's a. Spider! Spider! Come down, honey. You're not going back. It's a. You're getting a duct in that car. Like someone at GM or something, we could have three Monsa's. How's that, Bert? Well, we just get a sticker of a spider. We put it on one. Yeah. We black out the rims. We call that the spider addition. Of course. Well, we have to get a sticker for the horn, too. Yeah, yeah. Like a couple of stickers. We put one in the little hub of the wheel. Yeah, yeah. Uh-huh. Put one on the gas tank. Yeah. We put a little sticker on stuff and that would be the spider. And then we'll get a funky song. Here comes Spider out and I. Calm down. Honey ain't going by. It's a. Monsa. So then. Now, that thing is. American junk. But they came up with something called a decon Monsa. And the decon Monsa is the craziest race car ever. Which is somebody put it like a. People act like Hilborn injection or something. You find me at decon. I used to race with guys who race decon Monsa's. Also, you can always tell who the crazy drivers are because they choose the crazy cars. Like anyone who drives a decon Monsa race cars and not. It's also the one that killed rats, right? Isn't that one? Decon. Full gone. Muhammad Ali used to do that commercial. I love that Monsa. It was like, it ain't going to bite. That's a great selling point to do that are trying to pick up underage chicks in that car back in the day. Like, can I just tell them, hey, you guys want to get in? No, we're not supposed to get in with strangers. It ain't going to bite. Yeah, you know what? Never mind. That will take a ride from you. Sticker for spider on the hood. How back in the driver be? Show me a picture of a decon Monsa. Anyway, this guy had a fox body Mustang that was decon Monsa's out. Come on, Inter. There it is. It's a crazy. And it's a fast race car, but it's nuts. So he had that at the car show. Nice. All right. So now he got me all sidetracked. All right, you got news. I was saying to some of the Dr. Drew and I wrote it down and it was based on a clip that I saw from Meet the Press or whatever it was, CBS. It was Dr. Oz. And so I am now dealing with a lot of revisionist history people that are kind of doing some version of COVID. You can always tell when they go, "Oh, so told people to stay home for a couple of weeks and he had to stand six foot apart from the dude at the trader Joe's. Okay, big whoop. They're not talking about suicides and addiction and vaccines causing deaths and kids being kept out of school and falling behind in depression." It was like a little inconvenience. I couldn't go to the trader Joe's and stand two foot away from people like I enjoy. I had to stand six foot away. And that was about it. Fuck off. That's number one with your revisionist history. Shit. They're also doing all the revisionist history around vaccines. That's what Fauci's, I didn't tell anybody. I never suggested I wasn't there. It was always a choice. It was never mandated. It wasn't mandated. So Oz gets up there and who's he talking to? Margaret. What's her last name? Margaret, what? Is it Brennan? Yeah, Margaret Brennan. All the people that were beating the COVID drum and trying to force everyone to get vaccinated. All of a sudden, never is agnostic about everything. Hey, we're just looking at the science. I didn't tell you. I never made any rules. Okay. By the way, if no one made any rules, why was my kid's school shut for two years? Why couldn't I go to beach? Yeah. Where are my favorite restaurants? All right. But no one did anything. There was nothing. They didn't do anything. It's just the tin horned flats guys are out of business right now. All right. So here's that and here's her response. The question again. This comes back to much more fundamental issue, Margaret. Do parents have the right to ask questions? We already experienced what happened during COVID. When we took away that right from parents, they were forced to give their kids COVID vaccines. Well, they were pushed hard and oftentimes hindered from being what they wanted to do, like going out socially if their kids were not including these programs. What we should as a nation date. No, of course they died out of the state. All right. And there's no mandate. There's no mandate. There's no mandate. Okay. Let me explain something. In the state of California, there's a law that you have to have a front license plate. So there's a mandate that you, there's a law and you have to have a front license plate. 25, 30% of the cars on the road ignore it and do not have a front license plate. There is a mandate, but people ignore it. Now, let's just say you found the guy who said, I'm not putting a front license plate. I don't like the way it looks on my Corvette. So he said, no. And you'd go, but it's a mandate. It's a government mandate. It's a law. And they go, I don't care. I'm not going to do it. What if I said to that same guy, hey, listen. You're not, you can't go to your favorite restaurant. Your kid can't go back to school. He can't sign them up for a little league. He won't be able to go to the airport and you're not getting in a movie theater unless you put a license plate on the front of your Corvette. That guy'd fucking put it on that afternoon. Yeah. So don't fuck you with your mandate. So there's never a government that, yeah. But if you could not negotiate society because you ask holes, well, then that is no different than a mandate. And I would argue stronger than a mandate. Because you can not have a front license plate and get along in California. But you cannot not go into restaurants.
Trump's movies travel and have your kid go back to school. And if it was just the government mandate, like they just said, government mandate, you have to get vaccinated, I would have gone, well, fuck it as long as I can go use the restaurant and go to the airport and they went, no, no, no. So fuck you. - Yeah, you would get kicked out of a coffee shop in New York almost a year after most states were already open, and you didn't even need to wear a mask. You just had to walk in with that card and they would ask you for it. And if you didn't have it, out you go, and you go, well, there's 37 other people in here without a mask on, they all had their cards. - Right. - I'm just trying to buy coffee from you. - Right. So all the revisionists, people, where it was never a mandate and Fauci never told us to do anything and everyone was just following the science as best they knew it at the time, fuck off. - Yeah, ask anybody who, you know, they said their kids aren't allowed to come back to school or they're not allowed to come back to work without that stupid shot. - Right, and by the way, we were very close to the mandate because so to me, or number one retard, number two, top two retard, she lied in every progressive voted for Vax, Vax mandates in the Supreme Court. So she voted Katana, all the fucking leftists all wanted it. We didn't, they just didn't have the numbers to get it. And I know, this guys are so like, we got to stack the Supreme Court so we can get our way. Well, if you had stacked the Supreme Court, then we'd all have an experimental Vax vaccination put in our bodies mandated by the government. So you're really sure, why don't we just let the adults make the decisions in the Supreme Court? - Yeah. - Yeah. So if you'd had your way, the Supreme Court, that's so to my or thing where she was like, oh, there's millions of kids on ventilators. I mean, fucking liar, she was lying, it's fucking nuts. - Yeah. - But we do need more women of color and position sometime, that much I can tell. - We need, listen, it's one thing to put a license plate on a Corvette, but you put one on a Monza Ace. - Spider. - Spider. - Decon. - Well, I was doing a race. Tell me if this exists. I don't know the internet works. I did, the race I was in one year. Decon, Monza had to hold rear tire, sheer off it, bounced and went into the grandstands at Laguna Saka. - Yeah. - Put Decon, Monza, Laguna Saka, tire grandstands. Let's see what comes up. All right, go ahead. - I also think he went third round in the draft this year. Decon, Monza. - Yeah. - Some absolutely sad news today, Ace. Ah, man, an absolute treasure is now gone. Dolly Parton, her death comes as a sudden and unexpected shock to those closest to her. Even though people in her inner circle knew she had been sick. Sources familiar with the situation, tell TMZ that when loved ones learn Dolly have been hospitalized last week, it wasn't doing well. They began to rush to Nashville to be by her side. She died Tuesday morning at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. Dolly had dealt with health complications in recent months, including immune system and digestive issues, kidney stones and medication-related problems. - How old was she? - 80. - 80 straight up. She's definitely, there are a handful of people who are not allowed to die and she's sort of one of them. You know, she's just a perennial. She should just always be there. You know? - Yeah. - There are certain people where you all get it, that kid was a child actor, got into drugs, never saw his 35th birthday or whatever. I get that. Dolly Parton's just been there always all the time. But the good news is, is all people do just talk about how great she is. That's all they did. - Nobody, you'll never hear anybody say anything bad. She has a book club for children that my mom had signed up for for like my kids and you know, like the nephews and nieces. And even though they're all older now, she still gets the books, gives them out to kids around the town just because you know, Dolly is such a huge important part of her life. So it's too bad. This is a video that her, I believe her, this is her nephew who she basically employed the entire family. He was the head of security. This obviously was something that they had put out. He had recorded maybe a couple of months ago. But this is the video they put out this morning. - Hey everyone. My name is Brian Seever, son of Cassie Parton. And I'm representing the Parton and Owens family today, announcing the passing of my Aunt Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean. Sister, sis, Aunt Granny to one generation and Gigi to the next. This video announcement is something Dolly asked of me years ago before I fully absorb it as a future reality. As her head of security for more than two decades, a role my father Larry held before me, I have imagined the heaviness of this moment but haven't truly felt it until now. It is an honor, an honor that is mixed with absolute pride and great sadness. But sadness lies with us, not with Dolly. Dolly has lived in the light and is in the arms of Jesus, surely met by Carl, her parents, and countless others who have watched her and long for her to meet them in the heavens. I first went on the road with Dolly as a kid, getting a taste of the road life in the early 1980s. Dolly opened doors, not just for me, but for her entire family to reach the potential we didn't even know was possible. Dolly also opened doors for generations of singers, songwriters, musicians, and dreamers from every walk of life and across every continent. By her example, we believe that anything was possible. She never saw a door she couldn't open and the door she opened made and changed history. My family and I have shared a lifetime of beautiful memories with Dolly. But so of you, she has always been and get it. - She'll be missed. - Yeah, I called my girlfriend a day, she was crying. - Oh, girls love Dolly partner. - Yeah, was losing her mind about it and she was saying, "Oh, I grew up with Dolly, "I had so many great memories. "Our family were all big fans, they went and saw her." And I said, "Well, if she taught you one thing, "it's to not have a nine to five." And she's like, "Now it's not the time for jokes." And I was like, "Dolly would find that joke funny." That's a good joke. 'Cause if you don't know, my girlfriend hasn't had a job in like a decade, so that's a good joke. - Yeah, yeah, great songwriter, great voice. - Yeah, and appreciated more in her later year, I would say. - Could you imagine being at Dollywood today? - Oh my God. - Oh my God. - Oh my God, oh wait, here comes, this is my race. I'm in the race with this Deacon Manza guy. Let's see, that song turned five. I think this, like, 10 years ago or something. Here comes the Deacon with the lights on. Tire in to the stands. And Deacon Manza shared the whole fucking rim off. - Good work for the cameraman, they were on top of that. - I know, but your box, have you ever opened the fridge, stared into it for five minutes, and somehow convinced yourself there's nothing to eat? But your box delivers 100% grass fed beef, organic chicken, wild caught seafood, and more all sourced to standards, they can actually tell you about. They've already done the research and made the tough sourcing decision. 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Look, you know, I remember having great conversations with my conservative friends about right to trial legislation. - The idea that the government shouldn't tell you what kind of healthcare you want to have. - Well I'm boss for a second. - Let's ask me if I think red turneros should be abolished, Dawson. - Do you think, uh, we should get rid of red? - Yes, 100% Adam Corolla said that. - Fucking tattoo it on your ass cheek. Next, I've had many conversations with friends and family.
And with content and after much consideration of the red arrows, I've decided to keep my thoughts about it private, because I believe that's a decision you make between you and your decon manza. Sounds like you want to have an honest conversation. I do. How about just, yes, that's where you've said, yes, why not just go, yes, all right, let's hear his whole answer though. Sex changes for minors, do you support that? The idea that the government shouldn't tell you kind of healthcare you should have. I just think the government shouldn't tell you kind of healthcare you should have. And if you're a minor, if you want to try and kiss, now if you disagree with that, if you disagree with that, if you disagree that healthcare decisions need to be made by a doctor. And, again, why do we have to broaden everything out? You asked me about a red turn arrow. I didn't tell you about highways and byways and the first paved highways and route 66, I would just tell you, yes, get rid of, get rid of the arrows. Right. So the fact that you have to stretch everything out into healthcare, you know, gender, farming care, woman's reproductive care like this. Also when you have to confuse the argument, that means you're making a shitty argument. Like everybody should be able to make personal decisions between them and their doctor. This is about cutting off the genitalia of a minor. And I don't know, but that's between you and your doctor. Okay. What if I thought my right arm was possessed and I couldn't stop punching myself in the face with it. And so I was 13 and I went to the doctor and said, do you need to amputate my arm? Would that be my prerogative? Yeah. And it would be his prerogative to go, okay, we'll remove your arm. But here's where it gets good, sorry. To be made by a doctor and their parents and a patient, then I just, we think we agreed to disagree. But, you know, you want to put government in so I told you're a doctor, right? I am. It's okay for a parent to slash his kids staying on the university. You think that's okay? I mean, do you really want to have this conversation? Are you circumcised? Yeah, yeah, but I mean, that's the first little question, okay, doctor, you probably should want to move on. I probably should want to move on. A circumcision is different than castration. I think it's a problem, it's a problem that you think, that you get to decide what happens between a parent, a doctor and a patient. And I'm just saying that, yes, circumcision is surgery on a kid's dingo link. So if you really want to bring that up, you can. I just think you guys are really selective about how I want to do these things. Abdul Michigan's not going for that. That is sick stuff. All right. Now, so here's the thing, I had a couple of thoughts about it. One is, these are the people that wanted to force you to get vaccinated 10 minutes ago. So I don't know, the government decisions. How about it? My, my doctor wanted to give me Ivermectin, but you basically told the pharmacist that he would fire them if they prescribed Ivermectin. How about that? So government getting involved. Number one, here's the thing that's crazy. He had to have had the circumcision transgender analogy conversation before. I don't think that was off the cuff. It's a little, as chambered, yeah, a little too advanced to make it off the cuff. He had it chambered, which means he's had that conversation with people in his circle, and the dope he hangs out with went to Shay. That's a good point because they're, they're in such a fucking weird bubble that they're like, they're the same people like when Trump beat Hillary Clinton, they're like, what? I don't know one person who voted for Trump, yet you don't know because you work in air conditioning. Others who work outdoors don't know anyone who voted for Hillary Clinton. So he must have trotted out that retarded circumcision, penis, ectomy, analogy, and he doesn't know. By the way, the problem with all these people is they have no idea how insane they sound. So they live in this weird little echo chamber where nothing ever gets through. They say it all the time, like one side's doing this one side's, I know everything CNN is saying. I always know everything CNN is saying. It's on at the airport. You can't avoid it. They have no idea what conservatives are saying. They have no idea. So they just trotted out these things, and then they start yelling, you know, after police and abolish eyes and shut down prisons, and their group laughs and nods and claps. And then they go on TV and they start bringing their crazy message to the world and the world goes, what the fuck? No. We don't want prisons abolished. They don't know it. You see like these women, especially like the younger ones and they're like being interviewed and they're like, we people shouldn't be able to own real estate. People should, and you're like, what? Well, in your crazy fucked up circles, people think that's a good idea and you never get out of your crazy circle. Yeah. It's too bad there's not a translator that could have been in this and just went, no, what he's saying is he believes this because the people who are going to vote for him believe this. And he has to say this nonsense because if he doesn't, then the people on his side won't vote for him. Yeah. So we're at. Yeah. And he will trans you later. Well, speaking of crazy places like Michigan, Minnesota, 34-year-old Christopher Boone, Kremens has been charged with second-degree manslaughter after crushing his 26-year-old co-workers head with a truck mounted hydraulic grapple. The photo we're about ready to put there. Yeah. Oh, man. Kremens told police that he and Tyler Lynch, 26, were working together in Apple Valley on Thursday afternoon when the two started effing around. He was making shadow puppets, making it look as if the crane was pinching his co-workers head. He was watching the shadows, rather than Lynch himself, it says, and didn't realize the grapple was closing in on Lynch's actual head until it crushed it. Oh, that is. That's gruesome. Yeah. That is the big claw. They're picking up logs and stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And even in the report I was reading at the end of it, they sort of allude to, you know, this is obviously something stupid, but if you've ever worked on a construction site, any guy who's worked on a site like that would go, yeah, there's days with it. If they get long and you start screwing around and dicking off and the next thing, you know, this is the type of stuff that happens, so we would fire nail guns at each other quite a bit. Yeah. Yeah. I'd worked at a cemetery for a little while, I remember having like dig a trench for like a water main and just somebody just hit me in the back of the knee with a shovel. And we just, I was like, first off, this is the place of business. What are you idiots doing? Well, tell them about the whole sect with a corp story used to tell me. Ah, ace. You know that that's only between the two of us. Come on now, man. You want a graphic details? I'm not going to share that. You want that. You paid 10 bucks to get into the show. Okay. Yeah. You come see me open for ace in Las Vegas. I'll tell that one on stage. I was trying to sell a ticket. Gavin Newsom lists his sprawling mansion for 7.5 million. It comes with a 5,000 bottle wine seller and a personal wellness oasis. Governor Newsom and his wife, Jennifer are trying to offload this. This listing comes as yet another single that Newsom really is preparing for a presidential run in 2028 with political pundits suggesting owning too many lavish homes wouldn't appeal to mainstream Americans. I had the weird thought the other day when I was like, God, I was staying around my living room and I thought, thank God you are actually poor growing up. Everybody has to pretend now. And that creates a bullshit story of poverty. I mean, he does that single mom hardscrabble bullshit. His answer, Andrew, for that SAT question is worth a visit, which is, look, I've said this a million times. There are people, there are politicians, you know, Adam Schiff, all right, dicey liar bullshit artist. Fine. Nancy Pelosi fucking liar bullshit artist, whatever games of stock market. She's a rich person, whatever, who pretends to worry about the kids. And Kamala Harris and whatever you think of her, Pete Buttigieg's or whatever you think of him. But and by the way, Jim Jordan on the other side, whatever you think of these people. But I don't say there's something wrong with them. You know what I'm saying? There's something wrong with Gavin Newsom. And I don't know if he's high, like he's like micro dosing or something, but he is at a library doing some event. And some reporter says to him, basically, all these professors from the UC system of a thousand of all sign this letter saying, you're lack of standard testing and dropping SATs and all that shit is basically hurt the incoming class, like they're no good anymore. We need to bring back standardized testing. By the way, every idea they have just ends up as a shit show. Get rid of the task. Get rid of, you know, not enough black kids are making it into Berkeley. And we'll then get rid of the SATs and everything is, that kid's morbidly obese.
throw away the scale. That's, that's their approach to everything. And none of it ever works. It's, it's sort of like, you know, Mexico ever once in a while would be like 10 million pesos for a taco. And it's like, well, print more pesos. You know, that's the going to solve this problem. No, it makes it worse. Listen to his answer. And tell me if it makes any sense and watch his body movement. And listen to him laugh. He also laughs wildly and appropriately. Here we go. You may have seen there's this open letter going around where a thousand or more professors in the UC system are raising alarms about what they see as, in some cases, a severe lack of preparedness among college students who are heading into calculus and other advanced courses. I didn't want to get you the position when you're calling. Okay. What's so funny? What's so funny? Why is he laughing? Why is it garnering a laugh? He's moving like the lead singer, the spin doctors, and he's laughing. All right, she's saying test scores. Professors are saying these students aren't prepared. And, and they shouldn't be here. And they're failing. And we all want you to change this. Because now we're getting results of your bad ideas. And that's meant with a big laugh and with some weird kind of body movement. But all right, let's hear his answer. But I did want to get your position on what they're calling for. They're saying that, you know, the system needs to reinstate standardized testing as a part of admissions. So I wanted to get your position on that. You know, we, we all have. All right, hold on. He's taken his hand and he's shewing her away. He's going to scat bitch. I keep pulling his hand out. He's flipping it at her like, we all have different opinions. All right, what's your opinion? You're the governor. Should we bring back standardized testing? So say the professors. Here we go. The system needs to reinstate standardized testing as a part of admissions. And, you know, we, we all have our own perspective on this. And they could speak for their fault on that, you know, you could, you could say what you think we're asking you to do. We're asking you. What do you think? I said it. Of course, six months. I think it's an important discussion in the big. I'm also an argument interested in having to show me the data. What data feeling? Hold on. A thousand professors signed an open letter saying it's not working out. Now, respond to that. What data? By the way, I think we all know what the data is when you stop testing for everything. If you stop testing at barber colleges, haircuts would get worse. But okay, here we go. Six months. I'm open argument interested evidence. Show me the data. I have feelings about this. What are there? There's anecdotes about this. What are there? But I want to see the data. And I made that point at the original. We're asked what your feelings were. We want to know what your take was. You have feelings. You said you have feelings about it. Tell us about your feelings. Show me the data. And I made that point at the regental level. But the UCs talked to the president and talked to a member of the board and expressed that point of view, not just publicly, but also privately as well. And so the data needs to bear out the ultimate determination on this. But again, there's some counter data that's coming out and suggesting things. And that's where I hold on. There's other data saying that stopping testing and standardized testing helps students prepare better for college. There is. Yeah. What other data are we talking about? Newsom? Newsom, you asked a fucking question. You coward. And it took 20 minutes not answering your questions. This guy, there's there is something wrong with Gavin Newsom. There's something wrong with him. He's not even people go, Oh, he's a slick politician. If you're retarded, if you're a normal person, you're going to this guy just took 20 minutes, not answering a simple basic question. We all know the answer to. And the data is the thousand professors. Sorry, play it out. I'm sorry. We're doing different things. And that's where I lead leads to my all I'll say a word or two. But just I think the first thing to understand is that note bringing a test back may happen or may not. All right. All right. Everyone feels satisfied. You got your answer. Hey, for breakfast tomorrow, I may eat a denver omelet or I may not. Yeah. You answered your question. Good. Yeah. We're all bases are covered. Everybody funny. They weren't for the government saying, we know what's best for you. But when somebody who works in a sector that does know what's best, they go, here's what we should do. They go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hang on, boss. You got no price. The guy's fucking retarded. Yeah. All right. Tampa, Florida, that's right. Friday. 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Key Points:
Jack Osborne reflects on aging, noting the contrast between youth and elderhood, especially when viewing older characters from classic shows like *The Love Boat* or *The Golden Girls*.
He expresses a belief that society is now more self-centered, losing the once-common awe of the cosmos, with people now fixated on personal lives instead of broader existential wonder.
UFOs, once a cultural obsession, are now seen as normalized, with a growing sense that governments are slowly disclosing truths incrementally—possibly as a form of psychological desensitization.
Jack draws a cultural parallel between improvisation (e.g., jazz, music, DIY) and replication (e.g., academic or bureaucratic systems), suggesting that technological or societal breakthroughs may stem from creative intuition rather than rigid replication.
Personal anecdotes highlight how childhood deprivation of tools, cars, and experiences led to a compulsive, almost pathological interest in building and crafting—now a source of deep satisfaction and resilience.
He emphasizes that true fulfillment comes from self-made achievements (like building a tree house from milled wood) rather than instant gratification or outsourcing.
The episode critiques modern lifestyle avoidance of effort, linking it to rising mental health struggles, and argues that engaging in manual labor and self-reliance restores purpose, resilience, and emotional well-being.
Summary:
Jack Osborne reflects on aging, cultural shifts, and the loss of personal agency in modern life. He notes how classic TV shows once portrayed older characters as realistic, showing a time when audiences were fascinated by larger cosmic mysteries—unlike today, when people are consumed by self-centered digital lives. He explores the resurgence of UFOs as a symbol of a slow, deliberate government disclosure, suggesting a shift from denial to acceptance.
Jack attributes his deep passion for woodworking and DIY projects to childhood deprivation—now a source of profound satisfaction and identity. He argues that in a world where convenience and automation dominate, people lose connection to their labor, creativity, and resilience. The act of building something oneself—like a tree house from milled wood—offers deeper fulfillment than fleeting pleasure.
This self-reliant, manual labor serves as a mental and emotional counterpoint to modern passivity, restoring a sense of purpose and inner strength. Ultimately, Jack believes that embracing effort, even when uncomfortable, is essential for mental health and personal growth, challenging the culture of outsourcing and instant gratification.
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Jack notes that people used to view aging as a natural, inevitable process, with older characters in shows like 'The Love Boat' or 'The Golden Girls' appearing in their 40s or 50s. He observes that today, people seem more aware of aging, with a mix of nostalgia and anxiety, and believes society is now more comfortable with the idea of age than in the past.
Jack believes that in the past, UFOs were a major cultural obsession, with people deeply invested in the idea of extraterrestrial life. Today, the phenomenon is more widespread and normalized, with people sharing stories and even appearing in public discourse, suggesting a shift from obsession to acceptance, possibly driven by government disclosures or collective curiosity.
Jack attributes his deep love for tools, cars, and woodworking to his upbringing in a poor household where such things were scarce. He believes this lack created a strong desire to own and build things, which now serves as both a source of joy and a form of personal fulfillment.
Jack emphasizes that building something from scratch—like a tree house—offers deep psychological satisfaction that surpasses fleeting happiness from passive entertainment. He views such activities as forms of resilience and self-reliance that foster a stronger connection to one’s skills and environment.
Jack argues that people today increasingly avoid basic, physical tasks—like cooking or gardening—by outsourcing them, which leads to a loss of skills and resilience. He sees this as a societal trend that contributes to mental health struggles and a lack of meaningful connection to daily life.
Jack believes that engaging in manual labor, such as milling wood or building a fence, provides a form of mental health therapy by creating a sense of purpose, accomplishment, and connection to nature and physical effort, which he sees as essential for emotional well-being.
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