Ep. 144 - Addressing the Backlash, ICE Debate & Deep Thoughts

Don't Be Sour

Maxx Chewning

Entrepreneurship, Business, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.9 • 822 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to another chaotic episode of Don't Be Sour, where we somehow go from debating massage etiquette to dissecting international politics to arguing about whether snowboarding is cooler than skiing (spoiler: it obviously is). This week, David sold his entire house—furniture, gym equipment, and all—in like 48 hours to some cash-wielding strangers who apparently loved his interior design choices. Meanwhile, Shawley got catfished by a squat rack that looks like it was assembled by someone who'd never seen a gym before. Oh, and Maxx discovered books exist. Wild times.

We dive deep into the hard-hitting questions nobody asked for: Is it weird to ask your masseuse to go softer THREE times? Why do rich people shave their arms? Can dogs eventually learn English if we just keep talking at them? And most importantly—what's the protocol when your massage therapist offers "extras"? (Asking for a friend. That friend is Joe.) Plus, we get surprisingly serious about current events, ICE operations, and why everyone on the internet is mad at Joe again. Don't worry, he doubles down.

Stick around for heated debates about $89 basketballs, the correct air pressure for athletic performance and planning a snowboarding trip where Joe will definitely panic on the private jet, Maxx will force everyone to film his jumps seventeen times, and Shawley will discover that step-on bindings are life-changing. It's friendship, it's chaos, it's probably too long—but hey, that's the Don't Be Sour guarantee. See you next week (maybe).

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0:00.0	My name is Mackenzie and I started to GoFundMe for the adoptive mother of a nonverbal autistic child.
0:08.5	The mother had lost her job because she wasn't able to find adequate care for this autistic child.
0:14.9	So she really needed some help with living expenses, paying some back bills.
0:20.3	So I launched a GoFundMe to help
0:23.1	support them during this crisis. And we raised about $10,000 within just a couple of months.
0:32.2	I think that the surprising thing was by telling a clear story and just like really being very clear about what we
0:39.7	needed. We had some really generous donations from people who were really moved by the situation
0:44.8	that this family was struggling with. GoFundMe is the world's number one fundraising platform
0:49.7	trusted by over 200 million people. Start your GofundMe today at go go fund me.com that's gofundme.com
0:56.2	go fund me.com this podcast is supported by go fund me what's up guys welcome back another
1:05.7	episode of don't be sour I want to preface pre this. We got a five mic set up going on.
1:13.3	What's going on? Same sound board. I have no idea if this is going to work. I have no idea how David's mic's going to sound.
1:19.6	How many cameras we got today? A lot.
1:22.0	Yeah. Investing in this thing. Sorry we missed it last week. It was a pretty terrible weather here and the guys couldn't make it out. I mean, it was cold. I mean, there wasn't any, it didn't rain at all. It didn't snow at all. We had no ice anywhere. But it was kind of chilly outside and they just weren't able to trek the that was why he couldn't make it right because of
1:44.7	weather I just think of the and it didn't snow or anything you saying no ice anywhere
1:48.3	insensitive of you max we took a lot hiatus we're back we're back we've got a lot to talk about
1:58.5	today a lot to talk about maybe. A lot to talk about.
2:04.0	Maybe we just dive in to personal stuff first.
2:06.0	First, why don't we say it?
2:07.0	First, why is David here?
2:10.6	I sold my house in Austin.
2:13.0	For the time being, I'll be in Houston.
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