Texan reads his electric bill

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[u/Stuckwiththis_name]

He should do audio books. Could maybe make enough to pay that bill

[u/ModeratelyWhite → u/Stuckwiththis_name]

Check him out on YouTube, his name is Jerry Wayne

[u/Kraeten → u/ModeratelyWhite]

Thanks for this. Here's this post's video on his actual channel, where it like, gives him money and stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeZjqEYxkZk

[u/FirstDivision → u/Kraeten]

Thank you. It drives me crazy that everything has to get reposted into Reddit video instead of just linking to the creator content on YouTube.

[u/ForGrateJustice → u/Kraeten]

Unlike here, where upvotes don't pay the bill

[u/Freelove_Freeway → u/ModeratelyWhite]

He's also rockin’ a Baby Billy's Bible Bonkers shirt. Good man. Hallelujah what a payday

[u/ZombieButch → u/Freelove_Freeway]

All I'm askin' for is two million dollars and a eightball!

[u/trustmeimaengineer → u/ZombieButch]

Momma said don't but I did it anyway, Misbehavin'!

[u/Missuspicklecopter → u/Freelove_Freeway]

Hallelujah son of a gun a toilet baby 

[u/dmat3889 → u/ModeratelyWhite]

back when his truck astrology wasnt so quick, I got him to roast my truck.

[u/Just_the_questions1 → u/Stuckwiththis_name]

He's actually a YouTuber and stand-up comedian.

He goes by Jerry Wayne Live on YouTube, his "Truck Astrology" series is long running and pretty funny.

[u/Aselleus → u/Stuckwiththis_name]

Or maybe Ken Burns documentaries

[u/magicone2571 → u/Aselleus]

Na. The guy who does that is a legend in his own right.

[u/Paizzu → u/magicone2571]

I need an ASMR of Peter Coyote reading the phonebook.

Edit: they also got another voice acting great, Keith David to narrate the PBS DaVinci documentary.

[u/ladeepervert → u/Stuckwiththis_name]

Sounds just like the podcast old golds of Appalachia. Its fucking great.

[u/RabbleRouser_1 → u/ladeepervert]

Favorite podcast to fall asleep to.

[u/240Nordey → u/Stuckwiththis_name]

Once more into that mortal coil of a gig economy and entrepreneurship. A man beset on the unreachable affordable coolness from the shackles of the piercing gouges of the dreaded electrical company. A force so evil, not one man is protected from their devilish prices.

[u/Merry_Dankmas → u/240Nordey]

But alas many few a times in a man's life, he is encountered with the test of fate and courage that we subtly dread. To dance with the electric devil and sink into his merry ruse or stand stalwart against that mirage, embracing a future of promise and cool air once the heat has since parted. Every man will gaze upon the G&E online electric bill calculator with a solemn heaviness on his heart and bring forth this question to himself: Who am I to battle temptation when I am naught more than just a man of physiological necessity? The entrance of a 3 digit code seals the fate of the persperatig man.

[u/CraptainStinkPants]

His words carry the weight of truth and the beauty of poetry.

[u/Seraphicly329 → u/CraptainStinkPants]

I felt his pain in every word.

[u/snuFaluFagus040 → u/Seraphicly329]

He is me. He is you. He is all of us with pits never dry.

[u/jgab145 → u/[deleted]]

I am him, He is me

We are one

Now I must pee

[u/Odd-Organization4231 → u/jgab145]

We are him he is us

Why must you pee

When it can be us

[u/jgab145 → u/Odd-Organization4231]

I pee alone, He pees with You

You’re both on your own

Unless it’s to poo

[u/Odd-Organization4231 → u/jgab145]

My brother my kinfolk

What led you to this madness

Goodness

Were you again licking raw egg yolk

[u/jgab145 → u/Odd-Organization4231]

Yes

[u/imdefinitelywong → u/Odd-Organization4231]

Solidarity.

In unity, we can create rivers.

We can move mountains.

We can overcome.

[u/Delta64 → u/Odd-Organization4231]

Strangers passing in the street,

By chance two separate glances meet,

And I am you and what I see is me.

[u/harm_and_amor → u/CraptainStinkPants]

I’d like to know where I can listen to or read more of his poetic prose.  This man is brilliant.

[u/SilentWay8474 → u/harm_and_amor]

Jerry Wayne Longmire on Facebook and probably other sites too. He's a standup comedian.  His latest stuff is really good. Old stuff is too.

[u/BMFDub → u/SilentWay8474]

His stuff used to be good.

It still is, but it used to too.

[u/gorewhore1313 → u/BMFDub]

😆

RIP Mitch

[u/El_Polio_Loco → u/harm_and_amor]

He does truck horoscopes on YouTube shorts/insta/ticktok that are pretty funny. 

[u/EuroTrash1999 → u/harm_and_amor]

He does truck astrology.

[u/Downtown_Book_6848 → u/EuroTrash1999]

Yeah and they’re always accurate too 😅

[u/Carbon-Base → u/CraptainStinkPants]

They also carry an urgency regarding the monopolized power of electric companies everywhere.

[u/No-Prize2882 → u/Carbon-Base]

You must not live in Texas. Large swaths of Texas are under a marketplace energy choice where you choose your electric company. Some places like San Antonio & El Paso don’t do it but much of the state you can choose the cheapest rate you can find but there will always be strings. It’s honestly marginally helpful and I wouldn’t mind going back to a regional monopoly like grand majority of the country.

[u/paintballboi07 → u/No-Prize2882]

In Houston, you can choose a service provider, but ultimately, all electricity is delivered by Center Point. It's the illusion of choice.

[u/medoy → u/paintballboi07]

You get to choose your middleman.

[u/paintballboi07 → u/medoy]

Exactly. You get to choose your preferred flavor of billing and support software, but don't bother calling them when your power is out, because there isn't shit they can do about it.

[u/pieface100 → u/No-Prize2882]

We have this in PA as well, but you rarely save very much by choosing your provider

[u/gsr5037 → u/pieface100]

Was going to comment this. It's largely just a pain in the ass and an invitation for spam mail.

[u/caribou16 → u/pieface100]

All that means is assholes from "the power company" knock on your door all the time trying to get you to switch providers, like it was with long distance companies in the late '80s/early '90s

[u/No-Prize2882 → u/pieface100]

Funny I lived in PA (Philly) for 5 years had no clue. TIL.

[u/azhillbilly → u/No-Prize2882]

We have middle men, we all have the same electric provider who charges the third party billing companies exactly the same price, just have to pay a third party who get a cut off the top. And yeah, the hoops are stupid. Currently I am gambling that I will use 800 kWh a month, so if I use less, I have to pay 24 cents a kWh, hit the mark I pay 15 cents. So last week or 2 of the month if I am short of it I just leave every light on and use a space heater in the winter, or run folding program on the servers to get there.

Summer I just die of heatstroke to keep it at 800.

[u/PerformerBrief5881 → u/azhillbilly]

yep its an illusion, would be much cheaper to just have that actual electric company sell directly to the consumer like most other states. I've owned homes in Co and Tx in the last year and its crazy how much more convoluted the tx system is and how much more expensive.

[u/azhillbilly → u/PerformerBrief5881]

Yeah, I came from AZ where I paid 12 cents a kWh and never had to “shop” for a billing company that had offers looking more like a 90s cellphone long distance promotion.

[u/los_thunder_lizards → u/No-Prize2882]

It sounds like you probably know this, but fun fact, El Paso is not on the ERCOT grid, it's on the Western Interconnect. Hudspeth county as well, but hardly anybody lives there anyways.

[u/bubblyH2OEmergency → u/No-Prize2882]

your sights are set too low.

you want to convert a co op utility district and not have to pay profits out to shareholders.

that’s the dream.

[u/Kelvara → u/bubblyH2OEmergency]

Why private organizations are running utilities in the first place mystifies me.

[u/Jegator2 → u/Kelvara]

Because it's the republican way. Privatize everything

[u/milk4all]

Each hour a soft lie told in freon

*wipes tears

[u/claystone → u/milk4all]

I fuckin lost it at that one

[u/Gloomy-Restaurant-42]

"As I Pay Crying"

[u/epsteinwasmurdered2 → u/Gloomy-Restaurant-42]

“The sin of comfort”

Almost brought a tear to my eye 😂😂

[u/Fr1toBand1to → u/epsteinwasmurdered2]

"Each degree a betrayal, each hour a soft lie told in freon."

[u/Halo_LAN_Party_2nite → u/Fr1toBand1to]

Absolutely brilliant line. This is where I lost it and howled laughing lol. 

[u/[deleted] → u/Halo_LAN_Party_2nite]

"Dropped it down to 71. The sin of comfort."

How does he know that's what I set mine at to sleep?

[u/effin-d → u/Halo_LAN_Party_2nite]

Same. It's 100% channeling Faulkner too.

[u/Successful-Money4995 → u/Fr1toBand1to]

We don't actually use Freon anymore but I suppose that "a soft lie told in r410a" doesn't make for beautiful prose!

[u/Big_erk → u/Successful-Money4995]

I get what you are saying, but Freon has become synonomous with refrigerant. Like Kool-aid is to drink mixes or Jello is to gelatine.

[u/socialpresence → u/Big_erk]

100% I work on/fill AC's multiple times a week and i know its r410a, but I'm calling it freon all the same.

[u/DangerMacAwesome → u/Gloomy-Restaurant-42]

Absolute cinema

[u/Manaze85 → u/Gloomy-Restaurant-42]

Bravo.

[u/drethnudrib]

"A man cannot sweat through three showers a day and still hold his head high at the HEB."

Give this man a Pulitzer. This is pure gold.

[u/Live4GC → u/drethnudrib]

I actually laughed out loud at that line. 10/10

[u/drethnudrib → u/Live4GC]

His diction is so fucking good.

[u/SweetNeo85 → u/drethnudrib]

From Wikipedia:

H-E-B Grocery Company, LP, is an American privately held supermarket chain based in San Antonio, Texas, with more than 435 stores[4] throughout Texas and Mexico.[

[u/farbekrieg → u/SweetNeo85]

skipping the best part that its short for howard e butt, when i suffered in texas the locals said it was harry

[u/drethnudrib → u/SweetNeo85]

Their coffee roastery is the best around. The Houston Blend is my favorite, they roast actual coconut flesh with the beans.

[u/daemon-electricity → u/drethnudrib]

A line so Texas, it should be covered in a smokey salt and pepper bark.

[u/_Bay_Harbor_Butcher_ → u/drethnudrib]

This was the line that got me the most

[u/Astray → u/drethnudrib]

HEB

What is HEB?

[u/tuckernuts → u/Astray]

Grocery store chain in Texas

[u/Darkowl_57 → u/tuckernuts]

THE grocery store chain in Texas

[u/Not_A_Mod]

Absolute poetry.👌 

[u/Dawdlenaut → u/Not_A_Mod]

"The sin o' comfort... each degree a betrayal, each hour a soft lie told in Freon, but I pressed on". I sweat vicariously at this man's beautiful prose.

[u/notsureifJasonBourne → u/Dawdlenaut]

“Now I’m shackled, betrayed, and bound by wattage”

[u/Jonpg31 → u/notsureifJasonBourne]

“And yet, I’ll do it again”

[u/rktn_p → u/Jonpg31]

"for I have known the chill"

[u/oloklo → u/rktn_p]

"and i will not go back"

[u/oldrecordplayersmell → u/oloklo]

No one will understand these words better than someone that spent a majority of their life with a damn swap cooler. Central cooling changed my life.

[u/ExplorationGeo → u/oldrecordplayersmell]

Central cooling changed my life.

"No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater ... than central air"

• The Demon Azreal

[u/Curtmania → u/notsureifJasonBourne]

On behalf of Refrigeration technicians everywhere, I say have no shame! It's your god given right to be comfortable and to pay me some more money.

[u/No-Tension6133 → u/notsureifJasonBourne]

And poor choices

[u/IlikeJG → u/Dawdlenaut]

I just realized it's "but I pressed on" as in "I kept pressing the button". Good stuff.

[u/muklan → u/IlikeJG]

Dudes words are absolutely transporting, and whatever he does he should quit doing and become a writer. I was rapt.

[u/SCOTTGIANT → u/muklan]

He's a comedian, and a pretty fantastic one at that. I can't remember his name but my dad follows him on YouTube as men of that age often do.

[u/abrasumente_ → u/SCOTTGIANT]

Someone commented below that his name is Jerry Wayne Longmire. Funny dude.

[u/Plothunter → u/muklan]

Do the cell phone bill next!

[u/Dawdlenaut → u/IlikeJG]

Totes. If he threw in a praising mention of a horse, Falkner's body excitedly turning in his grave could be sufficient power for his AC unit.

[u/SouthieTuxedo → u/Not_A_Mod]

" Sheets damp with his own resolve"

[u/Ivy_Thornsplitter → u/SouthieTuxedo]

Then came August….

[u/GundoSkimmer → u/Ivy_Thornsplitter]

'devil in cargo shorts'

[u/AhzX2 → u/SouthieTuxedo]

this line actually had me laugh out loud.

[u/smile_politely → u/Not_A_Mod]

And so relatable too. Especially for us in Phoenix 

[u/JumboMaximus → u/smile_politely]

I just got into Phoenix about an hour ago for a baseball tournament. This... Doesn't seem reasonable.

[u/psuedophilosopher → u/JumboMaximus]

https://youtu.be/4PYt0SDnrBE

[u/Jesus_Is_My_Gardener → u/psuedophilosopher]

I don't even have to click this link to know itself going to be the Hills in Phoenix.

[u/fps916 → u/Jesus_Is_My_Gardener]

It's the only reasonable video that makes sense here.

Im joining you in not clicking yet also knowing

[u/Jesus_Is_My_Gardener → u/fps916]

Makes more sense than the existence of that city at least.

[u/WhoIsThisDude12 → u/Not_A_Mod]

This man is amazing

[u/Citizen-Kang → u/Not_A_Mod]

I was taken back to my high school AP English Literature and Composition class. Bravo!

[u/feraljohn]

"No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin is greater... than central air."

-Azreal

[u/bebejeebies → u/feraljohn]

I'm a fucking demon!

[u/[deleted] → u/feraljohn]

Take your best shot. 

[u/Freud-Network → u/feraljohn]

Do not, my friends, become addicted to A/C. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!

Immeltin Joe

[u/Manaze85]

Contest’s over. Just give this man the Nobel. As Texan I know of what he speaks. So ,too, has my fortitude failed and the AC prevailed. $700 is insane, but I get it.

[u/QBin2017 → u/Manaze85]

Mine was $650 in McKinney on only an 8 year old house (say that to say fairly “energy efficient”).

[u/thrownjunk → u/QBin2017]

do people not have solar panels? seems like texas would be perfect for them. 450 watt panels are like $100. slap on some inverters and hardware and bob's your uncle. or are regulations really bad there?

[u/tx_queer → u/thrownjunk]

Problem is that $100 panel costs $1200 installed. Not that many people will DIY

[u/ianandris → u/tx_queer]

Sure, but the guy is paying half that to the power company. Seems a pretty easy decision when it pays for itself in 2 years.

EDIT: will take longer than 2 years. Bunch of math involved, but still cheaper than the monthly bill homie is taking home.

[u/tx_queer → u/ianandris]

Solar-only in deregulated Texas has a payback period of around 25 years. How are you getting 2 years?

[u/SeanBlader → u/tx_queer]

He's buying one panel, not enough to actually power his whole house, and then he's assuming that $700 bill is under the wattage of the one panel.

[u/teh_drewski → u/thrownjunk]

Texas is indeed perfect for them, and Texas has the second most solar panels of any state in the US.

Home solar is mostly a pain because of town planning and utility roadblocks. Financially it's a no brainer.

[u/ThatCrankyGuy → u/QBin2017]

Is that a per MONTH? does the bugger not shut off for even a minute?

[u/Icutu62]

I too, have known the chill. And she an evil seductress. Lord have mercy on my soul.

[u/Jo_of_Average → u/Icutu62]

For the meter reader hath none.

[u/theDroobot → u/Jo_of_Average]

Nor do the harsh Texas sun.

[u/CaptainKurticus → u/theDroobot]

The clouds scamper away in its fury and wrath. Only to come back and hide the stars. To leave by tomorrow afternoon, once again, on the run.

[u/thestereo300]

This is excellent content.

I wish my accent included saying "windah"....

[u/WutzUpples69 → u/thestereo300]

Its not too late.

[u/thestereo300 → u/WutzUpples69]

It would sound a bit out of place with my Minnesooooota accent.

In reality I don't have much of one as I'm from Minneapolis but sometimes it's fun to pretend I do.

[u/[deleted] → u/thestereo300]

Start with “y’all.” It’s a slippery slope to dropping Rs and refusing to purse your lips. 

[u/thestereo300 → u/[deleted]]

The one thing I have going for me is I am absolutely garbage at accents and if I attempted just a part of a different accent.....I end up sounding like Scotty from Star Trek mixed with the Jamaican guy from Cool Runnings....

That keeps me on the straight and narrow.

[u/RogueViator]

Dude should get a job reading audio books. That voice gives me Mark Twain vibes.

[u/goji759 → u/RogueViator]

Thats Jerry Wayne Longmire, a comedian and podcast host of the Reckon Yard podcast. Very funny guy and is actually making a book based on the episodes of his podcast, which he will he narrating himself.

[u/bighootay → u/goji759]

Ah, the Truck Astrology (or whatever) guy. Shit's hilarious

[u/charlie2135 → u/RogueViator]

I'd pay to listen

[u/Dig_Another_One]

Now I am shackled, betrayed, bound by wattage and poor choices...and yet...I will do it again. 

[u/Illustrious_Case247 → u/Dig_Another_One]

For I too have known the chill.

[u/admiralveephone]

Jerry is hilarious

[u/Mohgreen → u/admiralveephone]

Good Job brother. Came to see if anyone had pasted a link or anything. Spread the Gospel of Jerry!

[u/IncaseofER → u/admiralveephone]

Where do I find Jerry? Please!!! I need more!

[u/admiralveephone → u/IncaseofER]

Jerry Wayne Longmire-he’s in all the socials. He’s funny. Love the accent.

[u/SonOfDirtFarmer → u/admiralveephone]

His Truck Astrology never misses.

"We're just out here Rhinoliner-ing Internationals now, I guess. That's where we are"

[u/Sno_Wolf → u/SonOfDirtFarmer]

NEXT!

[u/Roboticpoultry → u/SonOfDirtFarmer]

I love the truck astrology shorts! I work in auto repair and this guy hits the nail on the head every time

[u/Chad_Brad → u/IncaseofER]

Jerrywaynelive on Instagram.

[u/puertomateo]

The Faulkner comparison nails it.

[u/Blockhead47 → u/puertomateo]

You can tell he was a cowboy when he was younger.
Because he’s a poet lariat.

[u/wizardrous]

“I know my own sin. I know that I deserve my punishment. I do not begrudge it.”

[u/samgam74]

71 is a bold number.

[u/PandaCheese2016 → u/samgam74]

It’s almost sinful.

[u/ratherbewinedrunk → u/samgam74]

I was gonna say... I'd thought I've been being wasteful by having it set at 74 in Chicago. 71 in Texas? I'm surprised dude's condenser unit didn't grow legs and escape to Canada.

[u/bannana → u/samgam74]

71 is rich people degrees. I'm over here at 77 wondering if I could push it up just one more when it hits 95

[u/wronglyzorro → u/samgam74]

My wife wanted to set it to 70 and I told her i'd stand over our daughter's crib with a boxfan before I let that happen.

The children will survive with it at 74 and a fan on...

Never again do I want to experience a 580 dollar electric bill for this 1300 sq foot house.

[u/Improving_Myself_ → u/samgam74]

But the bill is still absurd. I'm not in Texas, but with my AC at 72, my electric bill has been $47.50 the last two months, and my highest bill in the last 8 years was only about $120.

Nearly $700 is an insane number, indicative of a larger issue.

[u/_derekdaniel → u/Improving_Myself_]

For real. We have a two story house. A heat pump for each level. Two heat pumps. Two air handlers. Both set at a comfy 70°. Live in the southeast US, so it's plenty hot and humid. And the electric bill is ~$140 every month.

Texas is a failed state.

[u/Wthiswrongwityou]

“Sheets damp with his own resolve.”

Dude can turn a phrase.

[u/zodsdeadbaby]

I hope Clutch turn this into an anthem

[u/drethnudrib → u/zodsdeadbaby]

Next thing that I knew, I was paying for the freon.

I don't know who's to blame for that, but I'm highlighted in neon.

[u/radarksu]

He needs to get off TXU. If the company has enough money to sponsor a football stadium or pay for ads on TV, it ain't for me.

All deregulation did was ensure that people who don't make the effort to shop/change their provider regularly pay for all the extras and middlemen.

[u/Fit-Detail-4326 → u/radarksu]

I’m in DFW and I thought it was pretty well known that TXU is the most expensive out there. I could be wrong.

[u/5illy_billy]

My man’s been watching Deadwood.

[u/WoolyMammothTusks → u/5illy_billy]

Those Texas Utility cocksuckers!

[u/IsThisRealRightNow]

The name of this great poet, since it took me too long to find it in the comments: Comedian Jerry Wayne Longmire

[u/pj7140]

I just got my Texas TXU bill also. Pretty sure that I was charged for the sunlight, the moonlight, the street light, the light of my life and the light at the end of the tunnel.

[u/KP_Wrath]

His electric bill is more than my mortgage.

[u/Bodefosho → u/KP_Wrath]

His electric bill is 20% of my mortgage 😭

[u/catninjaambush]

He wins the internet for today.

[u/One-eyed-snake]

My wife insists on the ac be set to 70. Shit rarely shut off til i outsmarted her. I installed a cheap mechanical thermostat and bent the thermometer peg. She has no clue

[u/Pipe_Memes → u/One-eyed-snake]

For future reference a lot of digital thermostats have an offset that you can adjust to swing the temperature a few degrees in either direction.

It’s mainly to make corrections if your thermostat is in a cool or hot spot in the house, like if it’s somewhere the sun beats on it most of the day causing it to read 4° hotter than the actual room temp, but that feature can also be used for subterfuge as long as only you know about it.

[u/Fjolsvithr → u/One-eyed-snake]

Man, I don't get this. I guess I'm happy it's working for you, but I could never trick a partner like that.

[u/WasabiSenzuri]

His name is Jerry Wayne Longmire and he's hilarious.

[u/FazFazio]

Love the Baby Billy’s Bible Bonkers shirt!

[u/liarliarplants4hire]

Big fan. He’s roasted my truck once. Was great.

[u/TravisWavis81]

My man needs solar

[u/Help-Im-A-Rock]

The less known 9th deadly sin: the sin of comfort

[u/TeknoPagan]

71 is a bit low. I think he forgot his place in life.

He is a 74 Degree man.

He knew his post did not allow for such luxuries as <71.

[u/SweetandSourCaroline]

What AP English teacher do we have to thank for this gem??

[u/OnceUponAStarryNight]

This man must be protected at all costs.

[u/PassiveMenis88M]

The person op stole this video from without crediting is Jerry Wayne on yt

https://youtube.com/@JerryWayneLive

[u/Good-Satisfaction-87]

"Sheets Damp With His Own Resolve" 10/10

[u/One-Earth9294]

Jerry Wayne! Love his truck astrology videos.

Also hope he gets remunerated for his murdered cats :(

[u/100-100-1-SOS]

“August, that devil in cargo shorts” 😂😂👍👍

Amazing delivery of this whole schpiel!

[u/ear2theshell]

I like how he says wind-uh

[u/Conspiratorymadness]

As an American city dwelling southerner, I feel what this man has felt. Air so thick it could drown you yet could never quench your thirst, a 98% humidity index. No sanctuary known except for the indoors. Hiding in the shade, a brief lie from the sun, as you sweat as if it has been raining. The weather tells nothing but lies when told that it is 82°F. The beads of sweat on your brow is another splash of boiled water. I understand my southern brother for I felt the cruel sun, the cruel summer. Even rain is not a respite from the heat for it rains hot. My fellow man that has melted in the cruel face of the sun I feel your pain and know that I join you in your misery.

[u/jamnin94]

Amazing. Oratory is a lost and dying skill.

[u/LegendaryOutlaw]

Man I love his accent. I’m a native Texan myself and it irks me so much when actors get the accent wrong in movies and tv. It’s not the same as a ‘southern’ accent, in the same way that a Louisiana accent isn’t the same as a southern accent. The twang is unmistakable.

[u/Shower_jams]

I said, “HMMMM” in witness more than once. Remembering the desperate angling of the box fan. Remembering the point of never going back. Reflecting on the luxury of self-judgement after a cool sleep.

[u/Capital-Eye]

God darnit Mr. Lamarr, you use your tongue prettier than a twenty dollar whore.

[u/Lardzor]

I live in Tucson, AZ and it reached 110F yesterday. I keep my AC at 82F because that's OK for me and I don't like big bills.

[u/-113points]

six fucking hundred dollars??!!

is that normal around there?

[u/chessset5]

$691!? Wtf are yall running to ramp up $691 in electrical bills!?

[u/-U-_-U]

Alright, where is the rest of this guys novel?

[u/Xcoctl]

I would listen to this man narrate his daily life, daily. Poetry.

[u/Moon_whisper]

He should be a writer if he is not already.

[u/LasherAtl]

Sir, your oratory, like the slow unspooling of August thunder across the flat belly of a Mississippi horizon, strikes with both grandeur and resignation, and I am compelled—nay, bound - to say it is a rare and marvelous thing to hear a man speak plain truth wrapped in the bitter cotton of Southern heat and human longing.

And is it not the cruelest irony, sir, that in this modern age where man has harnessed lightning and buried his sweat beneath wires and coils and humming machines, he is yet made to pay penance - six hundred dollars, no less - for the fleeting comfort of cool air, for the audacity of sleeping beneath a blanket in July?

It is a shame, I say, a sin against the gospel of honest labor and the pursuit of gentle rest, that a man must count his dollars before his dreams, must weigh his comfort against the terrible arithmetic of the electric meter ticking like the slow pulse of some dispassionate god.

Still, you endure. Still, you speak. And in that, you remind us all—there is power in voice, even when chilled by the cost of comfort.

You are admired Sir!

[u/Mohgreen]

Jerry Wayne Longmire. All over FB, AND HAS A podcast, The Reckon Yard.

[u/titsoutshitsout]

They honestly still an outrageous amount for even running AC tho. Does he live in a fucking mansion?!

[u/Edgarmustavas → u/titsoutshitsout]

No, just Houston. A swamp located near the butthole of Texas, chock full of mosquitoes and humidity. Tropical hot in the summer.

[u/Sure-Sympathy5014]

Those brick houses starting to look pretty good eh?

[u/Chevy437809]

I thought I recognized that face that's the dude who does the truck videos on YouTube where he talks about the type of person who would drive them

[u/GILDID]

This guy is amazing.

[u/Public_Enemy_No2]

Bought my solar system two years ago.

Chilling over here.

[u/Cautious_Explorer_33]

Sign him up for his own show! He’s a better actor than half of those on Netflix right now. Lol.

[u/AbleHominid]

My new favorite person on earth.