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Speaker 2: All from Mike.
Speaker 3: Hello, yow it up, Lyle.
Speaker 1: Mike, what's regalm me?
Speaker 3: Well, uh, you know, just kind of hanging out, wanting
Speaker 3: to call for a while, Life's Spin, Life's Crazy Man to.
Speaker 1: Be honest with me, because I take I take things
Speaker 1: like that seriously. If you tell me your life is crazy,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna believe you. Is your life crazy, and not
Speaker 1: to like any kind of not to anyone's standard except
Speaker 1: your own, to your standard of creason. This is your
Speaker 1: life crazy. It's chaotic, yes, okay, tell me more.
Speaker 3: Well, Uh, I mean, I wasn't in a relationship for
Speaker 3: like five years that ended recently, and you know, just
Speaker 3: kind of dealing with that living in a basement of
Speaker 3: a family member's house now with my cat, just taking
Speaker 3: it day by day. I guess.
Speaker 1: That's not that crazy.
Speaker 3: I guess if yeah, compared to most of the people
Speaker 3: you talk to.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, I'm not comparing it. I'm not comparing it
Speaker 1: to anyone. This is not in a comparison scale. This
Speaker 1: is in like, uh just kind of like going by
Speaker 1: the dictionary definition of craziness. What is the dictionary the diction.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I shouldn't have I'm I'm regretful of everything
Speaker 1: I've said to you on the phone so far.
Speaker 3: You don't gotta be regretful. I believe. I don't know
Speaker 3: if it's insanity that it's doing the same thing over
Speaker 3: and over again and expecting different results.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what, you're smart, because yes, that is
Speaker 1: what it was. An Einstein. I don't know. It's some
Speaker 1: fucking smart guy's definition of insanity, and so therefore something boring,
Speaker 1: the most boring thing you can think of is the
Speaker 1: most insane thing you can think of by that definition.
Speaker 1: So I was wrong and Albert Einstein was right just
Speaker 1: this one time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Albert Einstein's will have been right once.
Speaker 1: Okay, you broke up with a lady. Are you dating
Speaker 1: other ladies?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: I'm not taking you know, kind of time for myself.
Speaker 3: Been uh going to therapy. Oh that's nice. What do
Speaker 3: you talk about for the first time in my life?
Speaker 3: The first I don't know. We just kind of you know,
Speaker 3: I've been chatting with her now for I think like
Speaker 3: six weeks, and uh, turns out I kind of hate
Speaker 3: my dad. So there's that.
Speaker 1: That's kind of what What do you hate about your dad?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: He's kind of a douchebag, I guess, you know, he
Speaker 3: doesn't really talk to me or my siblings at all,
Speaker 3: and he tries to, but it's very Uh, it's like
Speaker 3: kind of awkward. I guess it's like when imagine like
Speaker 3: a stranger reaching out to you all the time, pretending
Speaker 3: that they think they know you, but they really don't.
Speaker 3: I'm sure you get that as a lot as a streamer,
Speaker 3: it would be sure.
Speaker 1: But that's what it'd be way weirder if they were,
Speaker 1: if they were my dad. My dad doesn't reach out
Speaker 1: to me like that. Well, I mean he does. I
Speaker 1: talk to my dad, but.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, uh, my grandma got cancer, so he
Speaker 3: asked me to go over to her house and fix
Speaker 3: up a bunch of stuff. Meanwhile, he was working on
Speaker 3: putting her in a nursing home so he could turn
Speaker 3: around and sell the house.
Speaker 1: So he asked you to fix the stuff and in
Speaker 1: your grandma's house so that the house would have a
Speaker 1: greater market value.
Speaker 3: Correct, And he's not even anywhere near here, so he
Speaker 3: expected me to do everything and then was going to
Speaker 3: turn around and sell the house and put my grandma
Speaker 3: in a home, which she asked him not to.
Speaker 1: Were you going to get a cut?
Speaker 3: Fuck?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: Probably not.
Speaker 1: Did you do it?
Speaker 3: No? I didn't. I've my aunt. His sister called me
Speaker 3: and was like, Yo, if your dad asked you to
Speaker 3: go over there, don't do it. And then she kind
Speaker 3: of filled me in and everything. So I tried to
Speaker 3: contact him and he's been like kind of ghost ever since.
Speaker 1: What's he do? Does he have a job?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: I don't know. Him and I are very much alike
Speaker 3: in the way that it's hard for us to keep jobs.
Speaker 3: I've jumped around from job to job ever since I
Speaker 3: was like fifteen years old. This is a lot the
Speaker 3: current driver has. Now I was my longest one.
Speaker 1: Why is it hard for you to keep a job?
Speaker 3: Uh? Well, that's kind of one. That's one thing I
Speaker 3: talked to my therapist about. I guess I have a
Speaker 3: problem with being told what to do and uh, you know,
Speaker 3: you can't get a short fuse sometimes, but working on it.
Speaker 1: You want to be your own guy. You don't want
Speaker 1: to have to answer to the man. Man.
Speaker 3: I would love to be my own guy one day.
Speaker 1: But buddy, what you can do whatever you want. I mean,
Speaker 1: you need money. You just gotta figure that out. How
Speaker 1: much money do you have?
Speaker 3: You want a nonence answer? Yeah, negative twenty.
Speaker 1: Four negative twenty four thousand, negative twenty four.
Speaker 3: Dollars, negative twenty four dollars.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's not that bad. That's not that bad.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, not really. I mean I do get paid.
Speaker 1: Some people are they have negative twenty four thousand dollars,
Speaker 1: but you have more than negative money.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I can't imagine having negative twenty four thousand. I
Speaker 3: wouldn't even know what to do.
Speaker 1: But you're richer that You're richer than somebody who has
Speaker 1: negative twenty four thousand dollars. Okay, So you need money?
Speaker 1: Do you have Do you have any skills that you
Speaker 1: can What are your skills?
Speaker 3: Uh? I play video games?
Speaker 1: Okay, and people have made a lot of money doing that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, unfortunately it doesn't work out for everybody.
Speaker 1: Let me think, what other skills do you have? Uh?
Speaker 3: I can change a windshield on a vehicle in less
Speaker 3: than thirty minutes.
Speaker 1: That's a good skill. Yeah, it's a good skill. That's
Speaker 1: a skill people would pay you to do to use.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And it's the cool thing about it is it's
Speaker 3: kind of like a job. Like there's cars everywhere. I
Speaker 3: could move anywhere, get a job, but I don't have
Speaker 3: the the money to do that.
Speaker 1: Why don't you have? What? How hard is it to
Speaker 1: start is a genuine question. How hard is it to
Speaker 1: start a windshield or replacement company?
Speaker 3: I can't imagine it's it's it's too hard. I don't
Speaker 3: know how hard it is to start a business. I've
Speaker 3: been doing it since twenty seventeen though, So okay, well.
Speaker 1: Got well, because that's the thing is, if you don't
Speaker 1: want to if you don't want to answer it to anyone,
Speaker 1: you just gotta start your own thing.
Speaker 3: Do you think I should start my own company?
Speaker 1: Well, I mean if you if your whole thing is
Speaker 1: you don't want to answer it anyone, then yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean that comes with its own not The desire to
Speaker 1: not want to answer to anyone is a legitimate desire,
Speaker 1: but it comes with its own set of problems. But
Speaker 1: as does I Answering to people comes with its own
Speaker 1: set of problems too, And you just got to examine
Speaker 1: both of those sets of problems and decide which one
Speaker 1: you would rather have.
Speaker 3: Okay, that makes sense, I think so I think I'd rather.
Speaker 3: I think i'd rather, you know, tell people what to do, okay,
Speaker 3: and then have them. You know, there's obviously resentment with that.
Speaker 3: But if I treat people, what if I treat people right? Hate?
Speaker 3: Hate's kind of a strong word.
Speaker 1: No, if you treat I don't know, I don't think
Speaker 1: they're gonna hate you. You seem like a nice guy.
Speaker 3: Well, I appreciate that you're a nice guy too. And
Speaker 3: I was watching a stream earlier and you kept apologizing
Speaker 3: for talking about how much you're going on tour. And
Speaker 3: I don't think you should apologize for that. Thanks, because
Speaker 3: you're doing what you want to do and I think
Speaker 3: that's pretty cool. Man.
Speaker 1: Oh thanks, man, All right, enough about me. I want
Speaker 1: to hear about your Are you're going to start a
Speaker 1: window business?
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's do it, all right.
Speaker 1: What do you Well, here's the thing. You could take
Speaker 1: out a loan, but then you're gonna have negative twenty
Speaker 1: four thousand dollars. And we were just that's exact shit.
Speaker 3: I was thinking about that.
Speaker 1: Negative twenty four thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: So that's a quick way to make that's a quick
Speaker 3: way to become negative twenty four thousand dollars richer. Right,
Speaker 3: So maybe that's not a good idea.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if it's a good idea.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know anything about your industry. I
Speaker 1: only know about you and the fact that you don't
Speaker 1: want to answer to anyone. And I know that if
Speaker 1: you don't want to answer to anyone. I know. Here's
Speaker 1: what I know. I know that you need money to
Speaker 1: eat food and live in a place. I know that
Speaker 1: you can get money by having a business or having
Speaker 1: a job. And I know that if you have a job,
Speaker 1: you have to answer to somebody, and if you have
Speaker 1: a business, you don't. So I've used those conclusions to
Speaker 1: arrive to the to the idea that you should start
Speaker 1: a window company. But I don't know if, but I don't,
Speaker 1: I none of I don't know anything about windows, and
Speaker 1: I don't know anything about the window company market.
Speaker 3: But you do, right, Yeah, I mean everyone. I mean
Speaker 3: there's cars everywhere. You know, people break glass all the time,
Speaker 3: so it's like it's one of those industries that's needed everywhere.
Speaker 3: I don't know anywhere that doesn't have cars or glass period.
Speaker 1: Nobody in the chat. I don't like to read the chat,
Speaker 1: but I've been reading the chat lately.
Speaker 3: Somebody I closed chat the second you picked.
Speaker 1: Up the phone, and I appreciate that, and I should
Speaker 1: have done the same thing. But I'm I've been reading
Speaker 1: the chat. The chat says you should become a truck driver.
Speaker 1: You ever think about that?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Actually I moved furniture for like five years and
Speaker 3: drove UH from Michigan to Chicago pretty much all the time.
Speaker 3: But the company was paying like shit, they didn't pay overtime.
Speaker 3: And yeah, but yeah I can. I could see that.
Speaker 3: You got to get your CDL. Though I don't have
Speaker 3: a CDL.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that is. Certified driver's license.
Speaker 3: I think commercial. You might be right though, it's yeah.
Speaker 1: That's certified, right, Okay, all right, so so what's the what?
Speaker 1: What's the plan? I'm fired up by this.
Speaker 3: I'm glad you're fired up, because it's been hard to
Speaker 3: feel fired up recently.
Speaker 1: Are you feeling are you feeling fired?
Speaker 3: I feel I feel I feel good. I can't believe
Speaker 3: you picked the phone.
Speaker 1: Actually, no, I'm happy to you sound like you're I mean,
Speaker 1: you sound like these things are crazy.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, I guess you made me feel like
Speaker 3: things aren't that crazy though, So that that that that's good.
Speaker 3: I'm glad I called because of that because I'm I'm
Speaker 3: thinking I'm spiraling out of control and I don't have
Speaker 3: control of anything except for my cat, and he attacks
Speaker 3: me all the time, so there's kind of an asshole.
Speaker 3: So I can't really control him. But you know, the
Speaker 3: second that you say your life's not that crazy, it
Speaker 3: kind of kind of sticks with you.
Speaker 1: Okay, good, I'm glad that made you feel good because
Speaker 1: I thought I was being a dick.
Speaker 3: No, I don't think you're being a dick at all.
Speaker 3: You're talking to a complete stranger on the phone.
Speaker 1: Right, I am. I forgot about that. I thought I
Speaker 1: felt like i've I've begun, I've begun to felt like
Speaker 1: we know each other.
Speaker 3: Well, that's nice. I feel like I kind of know
Speaker 3: you because I listen to the podcast almost every day
Speaker 3: and I watch your streams whenever I can.
Speaker 1: But why do you why do you not like to
Speaker 1: other people telling you what to do? Where's that come from?
Speaker 3: I've been trying to figure that out with my therapist
Speaker 3: as well. I guess I don't know. Maybe it's the
Speaker 3: fact that I don't know. I grew up watching my
Speaker 3: dad take a bunch of shit from my mom and
Speaker 3: eventually just like pack up and leave. So maybe I
Speaker 3: figured if shit goes wrong, I could just pack up
Speaker 3: and leave.
Speaker 1: Are you cool with your mom?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love my mom. She's a saint.
Speaker 1: But you said that your mom, You said that your
Speaker 1: dad was taking shit from your mom.
Speaker 3: Right. Well, as a kid, that's what that was my perspective.
Speaker 3: Then you grow up and your parents tell you or
Speaker 3: my mom tells me stories and like how my dad
Speaker 3: actually was and then he turns around and treats his
Speaker 3: kids like he's a douchebag. So why I, you know,
Speaker 3: believe her at that point he he would lie about
Speaker 3: having jobs and like go and sit in a farmer
Speaker 3: Jack parking lot for like hours and then come home
Speaker 3: and be like, oh, what a hard day at work?
Speaker 1: Wait, what is farmer Jack.
Speaker 3: Farmer Jack is an old grocery chain. I don't think
Speaker 3: they're in a business anymore. It might be a Michigan thing.
Speaker 1: I don't know your way you're from? Are you from Michigan?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: So funny because I was gonna say, you sound a
Speaker 1: little a little bit.
Speaker 3: I got that midwestern accent, sound a little bit like
Speaker 3: Joe Para. I don't know who Joe Para is is.
Speaker 1: Not he's not from Michigan, but he is a little
Speaker 1: Michigan or he did the show from Michigan. But anyway,
Speaker 1: you don't even know who that is.
Speaker 3: Okay, anyway, I'll google it after I get out the
Speaker 3: fun with you.
Speaker 1: Have to do anything.
Speaker 3: You don't have to do any Sorry, I probably won't
Speaker 3: even remember the name.
Speaker 1: I know you won't. You know, don't you don't. You
Speaker 1: don't have to lie to me and tell me that
Speaker 1: you're going to google my reference, because I do that
Speaker 1: to people. If somebody tells me something, I'll say I'll
Speaker 1: google it, and I won't do it. I would rather
Speaker 1: you just sit with me in reality. Okay, your father
Speaker 1: would go to the grocery store parking lots and sit
Speaker 1: there and do nothing and then say that he went
Speaker 1: to work.
Speaker 3: Yes, you'd come home like five five thirty and be like, oh,
Speaker 3: what a hard day at work? And my mom.
Speaker 1: Would shoot because he's Here's when sitting inside of the
Speaker 1: grocery store bagging car in the parking lot is not
Speaker 1: that much more strenuous than sitting in the parking lots
Speaker 1: doing nothing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so why not at that point just get the
Speaker 3: job right? I agree with you, But as a child,
Speaker 3: I didn't you know that all that stuff happened. I
Speaker 3: was like six seven years old, so I didn't know
Speaker 3: what was going. All I knew is mommy and daddy
Speaker 3: were fighting.
Speaker 1: I take back what I said now that I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about it, because I spent. I spent and still sometimes
Speaker 1: spend lots of time in the parking lots of Target,
Speaker 1: listening to music and eating food and stuff and.
Speaker 3: The target parking lot or here though, if you're gonna
Speaker 3: sit in a parking lot, targets a spot to go. Okay,
Speaker 3: the good people watching too?
Speaker 1: All right, before we go, Well, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: feel like there's there's more things I want to know about.
Speaker 1: You sound interesting now we started this out, I was
Speaker 1: debating you on you not being well. I didn't say
Speaker 1: you weren't interesting. I said your life wasn't crazy.
Speaker 3: Correct, no one's ever called me interesting before, So thank
Speaker 3: you for that.
Speaker 1: You're your your No, you are, And you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to say your life is crazy, but
Speaker 1: your life has conflict and drama and dilemmas which make
Speaker 1: it interesting.
Speaker 3: Right. But I don't want that?
Speaker 1: What do you want?
Speaker 3: I want to live. I want to move to Colorado
Speaker 3: and I want to live in the mountains and I
Speaker 3: want to, like, you know, see some things and drink
Speaker 3: water out of a creek.
Speaker 1: Well, there we go.
Speaker 2: That's you.
Speaker 1: Haven't you haven't brought that up. We've only been on
Speaker 1: the phone together for seventeen minutes. You haven't even brought
Speaker 1: that up.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, you know it didn't come up organically.
Speaker 3: You didn't ask, but now you asked. Yeah, it would
Speaker 3: be nice to live in the mountains. I don't want
Speaker 3: to be like a mountain person like Feral, but I
Speaker 3: think it would be cool to like live like like
Speaker 3: a little small town like South Park.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think here you you don't want to
Speaker 1: be a mountain person, but you want to live in
Speaker 1: the mountains. Yes, it's like how you're doing to be
Speaker 1: your Your dad doesn't want to work at grocery store,
Speaker 1: but he wants to hang out in the grocery store
Speaker 1: parking lot.
Speaker 3: I guess we're not that much different.
Speaker 1: You said you, and you said that earlier. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to I want I don't want to. I want
Speaker 1: to leave this phone call with like because, like I said,
Speaker 1: I'm fired up, but you're not fired up, And I
Speaker 1: want to leave this phone call with you, like thinking
Speaker 1: about like with a plan. Do we have a plan?
Speaker 1: Are we gonna start that window company? Are we gonna
Speaker 1: move to Colorado? Are we gonna are we gonna do something?
Speaker 1: Or are we gonna keep sitting by and letting life
Speaker 1: happen to us. What's your name.
Speaker 3: Again, Mike?
Speaker 1: Are we gonna see it by and let life happen
Speaker 1: to us? Mike?
Speaker 3: No, we're not. We're gonna grab life by the balls
Speaker 3: and twist.
Speaker 1: It, all right? So what are we doing? Are we
Speaker 1: taking out of Are we gonna go twenty four thousand
Speaker 1: dollars into debt? Are we gonna move total debt? Either way?
Speaker 1: Because either starting the windows company or moving to Denver,
Speaker 1: we're going into debt.
Speaker 3: We'll do. We'll go to Colorado and we'll open the
Speaker 3: window company in Colorado where there's falling rocks and people
Speaker 3: break glass all the time. Earth Earth will provide me
Speaker 3: customers by dropping rocks on people's vehicles while they're driving.
Speaker 1: You know what you brought. We brought them up at
Speaker 1: the beginning. And I think you're I think both of
Speaker 1: us combined are smarter than Albert Einstein.
Speaker 3: That's that's probably true. Actually it probably is. I agree
Speaker 3: you changed me. Thank you all right?
Speaker 1: Are you gonna actually do any of those things?
Speaker 3: I'm fired up right now.
Speaker 1: Okay, I was fired up for you and you weren't
Speaker 1: fired up. But I'm glad you're fired up.
Speaker 3: Now No, I'm fired up. Now let's do it. We're
Speaker 3: gonna we're gonna move to Colorado. We're gonna open a
Speaker 3: window company. Everybody who lives in colleg Colorado, come get class.
Speaker 3: I'll be there next year.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm not gonna do any of that, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna sit you have you. Yeah, it's true. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be in Colorado in like a week, but I'm gonna.
Speaker 1: I'm I hope you do those things because life's too
Speaker 1: You're you're I I have the similar I don't like
Speaker 1: being told what to do either. I don't either.
Speaker 3: Because I was gonna ask that. I don't know if
Speaker 3: that's like you can ask me. Like you said earlier,
Speaker 3: it's it's got to be a common thing, right, But
Speaker 3: how do you how do you control that?
Speaker 1: You don't. It's parties you're wiring as a human being.
Speaker 1: You gotta work around it. And it's a good It's
Speaker 1: a blessing and a curse, right because, like I said,
Speaker 1: those two things, but not wanting anyone to tell you
Speaker 1: what to do and being okay with people telling you
Speaker 1: what to do both have unique They neither one is
Speaker 1: favorable to the other. They both come with their own
Speaker 1: set of problems. You just decide which problems you're gonna have.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're dealing right now. You're dealing with the
Speaker 1: problems of your own wiring, right because yes, and the
Speaker 1: problem and you're you're you're wiring is inspiring you to
Speaker 1: go twenty four thousand dollars into debt and move to
Speaker 1: Denver and start a fucking rock fixing a window company,
Speaker 1: which is gonna be hard. There's infinite problems involved in
Speaker 1: doing that. But you're going to take on those problems
Speaker 1: because you're just wired, because those are the those are
Speaker 1: the problems of your wiring. You can't change your wiring,
Speaker 1: but you can decide you're going to take on the problems.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Wow, you're really good at this, man, Am I better
Speaker 1: than your real therapist?
Speaker 3: I mean yeah, I guess so. We I mean, she
Speaker 3: hasn't really talked to me like this. You you put
Speaker 3: things in terms that people like be can understand. I
Speaker 3: appreciate that.
Speaker 1: And you know what, you're real therapist. She went twenty
Speaker 1: four Thus, I didn't have to pay a penny to
Speaker 1: go live on the computer. You're a real therapist. She uh,
Speaker 1: you know, she spent twenty four thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's tired. She's tiring negative twenty four thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Right now, twenty four thousand dollars right.
Speaker 3: Paying it off, paying it off. You know what, I'm
Speaker 3: richer than my therapist. That's how we're gonna end that.
Speaker 1: It's funny because I it throughout all of history, I've
Speaker 1: been I'm very much. I am not. I'm leaned heavily
Speaker 1: into the I am not a real therapist, and I
Speaker 1: am not even slightly a substitute for real therapy. And
Speaker 1: I won't accept anybody telling me that I am. But
Speaker 1: for some reason, on this phone call, you have me
Speaker 1: fired up. I appreciate each other.
Speaker 3: You're right, we've fired each other up, Lyle, all right,
Speaker 3: thank you. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: What's the name of this business that you're gonna give
Speaker 1: us the name now, so that in a year, if
Speaker 1: we remember, we'll look it up.
Speaker 3: We're gonna call it, Uh, Mike's glass.
Speaker 1: Come on, well, thick again, just try it one more time.
Speaker 3: Okay, this is tough. You break it, we fix it.
Speaker 1: I like Mike's glass.
Speaker 3: Better do that one, all right, I'll do Mike's glass.
Speaker 1: Okay, Mike is there anything else you want to say
Speaker 1: to the people of the computer before we go.
Speaker 3: H thank you guys for your time. Can I can
Speaker 3: I plug my twitch channel?
Speaker 1: Oh? You have a twitch? Oh okay, yeah, if you
Speaker 1: you started saying that you play video games?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Tick Safty Pick Saucy two season thick Dick Saucy. Yeah,
Speaker 3: actually just uh kind of gave up on streaming and
Speaker 3: then you called me, and now I'll fight it.
Speaker 1: Up, Dick Saucy. Okay, I'll try to raid you at
Speaker 1: some point.
Speaker 3: Oh my man, and the next time you're in Detroit,
Speaker 3: or if if I'm in Colorado by then I'll come
Speaker 3: see you.
Speaker 1: Okay, Sick, don't come see me. And then we want
Speaker 1: to hear. I want to hear if you if you
Speaker 1: actually I don't know, I'm if you actually start this
Speaker 1: glass blaziness. I want to know. I want to know.
Speaker 3: I'll I'll send you an Instagram. I'll send you a
Speaker 3: message on Instagram on my sore front.
Speaker 1: Okay, don't do it for me though, because you don't
Speaker 1: like having people tell you what to do, so I
Speaker 1: you know anyway, all right, all right, we're gonna go
Speaker 1: in circles like Mike.
Speaker 3: Can I just say. Everyone says you sound different on
Speaker 3: the phone, and I don't think you sound any different
Speaker 3: on the phone at all.
Speaker 1: You don't know what I sound like when I'm not
Speaker 1: on the phone, because we've only talked over the phone.
Speaker 3: Touche.
Speaker 1: I'll talk to you soon, Mike.
Speaker 3: Goodbye, Lyle, goodbye.
Speaker 1: You know what I love? You know what. I liked
Speaker 1: that guy so much. I liked that guy so much
Speaker 1: that I'm gonna take a hammer and smash my car
Speaker 1: windshield just so I can support his small business. What
Speaker 1: a guy?
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, Hello, Hi, Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: Lyle, Hi, Hi, I'm all right. How are you doing.
Speaker 4: I'm doing good?
Speaker 1: Uh? What is your name?
Speaker 4: My name? We're gonna go with Jane.
Speaker 1: What's up? Jane? I like that's a good that's a
Speaker 1: classic name. Yes, yeah, what's going on, Jane? How are you?
Speaker 4: I'm doing good. I'm just drinking Cayman Jack's bacon bread.
Speaker 1: What's came? What is Cayman Jack's.
Speaker 4: They're like it's a margarita, but they don't use tequila,
Speaker 4: so I call it like a speak margarita.
Speaker 1: Okay, Monday night margarita. I like that that sounds fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I had a them day off, so I decided,
Speaker 4: why not.
Speaker 1: Well a random day off of what.
Speaker 4: Of work? I'm getting my car fixed, so I didn't
Speaker 4: have a way to get to work today.
Speaker 1: What do you do?
Speaker 4: I work at a large corporation that has a lot
Speaker 4: of warehouses.
Speaker 1: Okay, what's I I guess I could keep going what what's?
Speaker 1: What's in these warehouses? What are they housing?
Speaker 4: Just a lot of products and good groth?
Speaker 1: Oh do you work? You're for Amazon?
Speaker 4: I cannot answer that.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I'm not trying to get you fired. Can
Speaker 1: you get fired for talking about Amazon on a podcast?
Speaker 1: I feel like I've talked to like a ton of
Speaker 1: people who work for Amazon.
Speaker 4: On Well it's a very large company, so I'm sure
Speaker 4: that there are quite a few people that do work
Speaker 4: at Amazon.
Speaker 1: Well, anyway, okay, so you're on your day off. It's
Speaker 1: margueritea Monday what and some bread? What's your name again? Jane? Jane, Jane.
Speaker 1: It's okay. If not, we can just kind of shoot
Speaker 1: the ship. But is there anything in particular you wanted
Speaker 1: to talk about today?
Speaker 4: So I have two possible things that I would like
Speaker 4: to talk about. It depends on what kind of mood
Speaker 4: you're in on the first one has to do with
Speaker 4: just like my crazy mother and the fact that I
Speaker 4: didn't realize she was a little unhinged until I was
Speaker 4: an adult. Or I am thinking about getting plastic surgery,
Speaker 4: but I'm trying to figure out a way to fund it.
Speaker 1: What well, what kind of plastic surgery? Think am I getting?
Speaker 4: Okay, So it's not anything that's like per usual, I
Speaker 4: guess like LA standards, but I feel like I'm a
Speaker 4: pretty attractive woman. However, I was not really blessed with
Speaker 4: like like perfect attributes. I guess you can say and
Speaker 4: I don't want to get you in trouble with like
Speaker 4: twitch So I'm trying to figure out a way to
Speaker 4: see you.
Speaker 1: Can see, you can say you don't I think with
Speaker 1: I think with this has been my exp I've been
Speaker 1: streaming on here for almost three years, and I think
Speaker 1: with my experience, like you can say anything, but you
Speaker 1: can't show sexual things. So I mean, say whatever you want.
Speaker 4: And are you and you're comfortable with you know whatever?
Speaker 4: With words, I guess I am.
Speaker 1: I am. I am indeed comfortable with words cool.
Speaker 4: So I I has been commonly mistaken for as a
Speaker 4: man because I have a lot of fat in a
Speaker 4: certain area. If you kind of catch my.
Speaker 1: Drists say say that one more time.
Speaker 4: I have been mistaken for a man because I have
Speaker 4: a lot of fact in a certain area.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of. Oh oh okay.
Speaker 4: Uh huh. So when I wear clothes anything, people often
Speaker 4: mistake me for being a man, And no one ever
Speaker 4: really like comes out and like flat out asks me, oh,
Speaker 4: what are you a dude? The only time that that's
Speaker 4: ever happened is when I go on dates. A lot
Speaker 4: of people think that I'm like a trans female or
Speaker 4: male to female type of thing, and I'm not.
Speaker 1: So it's all You've like gone on dates with people
Speaker 1: who think that you're a man.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah yeah. And I've even been in a serious
Speaker 4: relationship where the guy thought I was trans and he
Speaker 4: was like surprising when we first like had sex that
Speaker 4: I was not a man.
Speaker 1: So you're trying to get like plastic surgery to correct this.
Speaker 4: Yes, because like I don't know, like I've grown up
Speaker 4: with it, so like it started like in puberty where
Speaker 4: like it started to like grow. I guess you can
Speaker 4: say it's just fat. And I wanted to get like
Speaker 4: libosection and like skin removal for it. But it costs
Speaker 4: where I'm at, like over ten thousand dollars and I
Speaker 4: only make Yeah, I only make forty thousand a year,
Speaker 4: and that's even working overtime. So I don't know how
Speaker 4: to fund it.
Speaker 1: So this is this is uh to get like fat
Speaker 1: removed from your your your pubic region.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's called a mon's plasty, a mon's plasty.
Speaker 1: And how long have you been? How long have you
Speaker 1: been looking into doing this?
Speaker 4: Since I was fourteen years old? Really, but it wasn't
Speaker 4: really a thing back then where I live because I
Speaker 4: don't live anywhere where plastic surgery is kind of big,
Speaker 4: and so it really became a thing around like twenty
Speaker 4: like twenty eighteen where I'm at.
Speaker 1: So okay, yeah, cass colj are.
Speaker 4: Now I'm twenty four years old.
Speaker 1: Okay, do you have you have you like talked to
Speaker 1: have you gotten my consultations with folks and stuff? Yes?
Speaker 4: So I I have paid for a consultation recently, and
Speaker 4: I like did everything I needed to do. I was
Speaker 4: waiting for insurance to come back and it's not approved,
Speaker 4: which I figured it wouldn't be. But I'm still I'm
Speaker 4: like working my ass off every day to save up
Speaker 4: for this. I started saving up for it like a
Speaker 4: month ago, when I already have one thousand dollars saved
Speaker 4: up because I've literally just been working sixty hour work weeks,
Speaker 4: like as much as I possibly can, and like door dashing.
Speaker 4: But I wanted your opinion on if I should start
Speaker 4: and only to sort of help fund this.
Speaker 1: You want in my opinion on if you should start
Speaker 1: and only fans?
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, because well, I mean I don't. Okay, here's
Speaker 4: the deal. I don't talk to anybody. I don't have
Speaker 4: like friends or any like confidants that I can go to.
Speaker 4: You're just a gecko on the internet who, okay, does
Speaker 4: not know who I am. So I feel like it's safe.
Speaker 1: Why I have I have several thoughts on all of
Speaker 1: these things that you're saying for the first one is,
Speaker 1: so you say you don't have any you don't have
Speaker 1: any friends.
Speaker 4: I do not have any friends?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Do you don't have you all? Have you always not
Speaker 1: had any friends?
Speaker 4: Yeah? And that sort of stems from like my childhood,
Speaker 4: do you do?
Speaker 1: You let me let's go back to this. So, okay,
Speaker 1: so you want to get the surgery because people keep
Speaker 1: mistaking you for a man.
Speaker 4: See I guess like that's not obviously the only reason.
Speaker 1: I just yeah, well, so that's what I wanted to ask,
Speaker 1: is what are the what are the reasons for why
Speaker 1: you want this? Like does it come from? Because I
Speaker 1: assume a lot of like plastic surgery stuff just comes
Speaker 1: from like uh, I don't know, like self esteem things
Speaker 1: and whatnot. What's what's what else is kind of is
Speaker 1: fueling this this uh desire.
Speaker 4: So I cannot go to like a mall or a
Speaker 4: store to find like specifically pants. I for example, will
Speaker 4: go to like a mall and spend the entire time
Speaker 4: that the mall is open just to try to find
Speaker 4: pants that like fit me in a way that like
Speaker 4: does it look terrifying and like meme worthy to everybody else?
Speaker 4: And I also like, excuse me, it is definitely like
Speaker 4: a self esteem thing. I like, we'll go and I'm
Speaker 4: not like not confident, but like it does kind of
Speaker 4: like beat you down eventually when you like are walking
Speaker 4: in public and like you see people visibly staring at
Speaker 4: that area, or like you try to have conversations with
Speaker 4: like I try to have conversations with people at work,
Speaker 4: which is kind of hard because I have social anxiety,
Speaker 4: but they often stare down there and like that triggers
Speaker 4: my anxiety even more so. It's not like I'm not confident,
Speaker 4: but it is. It is a noticeable thing, and it's
Speaker 4: definitely like something that everybody in a room is aware of.
Speaker 1: I feel like, huh okay, all right, So with this
Speaker 1: only fans thing, you said, how long have you been
Speaker 1: considering doing that?
Speaker 4: Maybe for the last six months now. I just am
Speaker 4: afraid of people that I know to find out that
Speaker 4: I'm doing it.
Speaker 1: Okay, m hmmm. Well, look, I can't tell you whether
Speaker 1: or not you should start in only fans. This is
Speaker 1: a personal decision. But huh yeah, I don't know. This
Speaker 1: is This is a tough one here. This is a
Speaker 1: tough one here because I get I understand why you uh,
Speaker 1: you know, don't like uh being stared at, or that
Speaker 1: you feel like your you're the center of attention that
Speaker 1: you didn't want that you don't know how to mitigate exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how long has this been an insecurity for you? Is it,
Speaker 1: as you said, since you were fourteen?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it started when I was like around twelve,
Speaker 4: but like it really became prominent when I was fourteen.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm hmmm mm hmm.
Speaker 5: Well, I guess and and you know, for forgive me
Speaker 5: if I am out of line, but like what's coming
Speaker 5: to mind now in my head is like, you know, look,
Speaker 5: if you're telling me, let's start about how how do
Speaker 5: you just feel as a person going through life?
Speaker 1: Do you feel good? Do you feel like uh.
Speaker 4: Oh no, no, no, no. If i'd be completely honest, well, okay,
Speaker 4: I feel like I have a good head on my shoulders.
Speaker 4: But okay, I've definitely been through like a lot of
Speaker 4: things that like I'm still working on and like it
Speaker 4: kind of is causing like a lot of like confusion
Speaker 4: on where I want to go like as an adult,
Speaker 4: because I do still feel very much like a child.
Speaker 1: Is that mean? Okay? Yeah, I guess in my head,
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, like I understand why you're might
Speaker 1: want to get this surgery to correct this thing that
Speaker 1: you're self conscious about. But I'm like, you know, and
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not saying that you shouldn't do it.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying you shouldn't you know, No, I do
Speaker 1: whatever it is that you want to do to go
Speaker 1: and get this this surgery. Whatever you feel like is
Speaker 1: the right move for you. But I'm also kind of thinking, like,
Speaker 1: you know, are there things? Are there things that you
Speaker 1: could go and work on and do that are not
Speaker 1: this big expensive surgery that you know could help you
Speaker 1: feel less self conscious or just kind of feel better
Speaker 1: in general? Do you think there are those things? I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're telling me that you don't have any friends
Speaker 1: or that you have like social anxiety, and those are
Speaker 1: very difficult. I'm not gonna say they're very difficult problems.
Speaker 1: I mean they're difficult, they're they're in my opinion, fixable problems.
Speaker 1: So have you like put more have you put thought
Speaker 1: into fixing those problems before like kind of tunnel visioning
Speaker 1: in on this surgery?
Speaker 4: Well, while I I feel like or GEK, I don't
Speaker 4: know which one you prefer, but okay, I you know,
Speaker 4: I throughout my whole life sort of knew that, like
Speaker 4: I had a lot of stuff I needed to work on,
Speaker 4: and I would say that like it's I started working on,
Speaker 4: like obviously the issues that caused me to have social
Speaker 4: anxiety and anxiety and depression in general, as well as
Speaker 4: like like the whole not having friends thing. Like I
Speaker 4: have been really focused on that, and like I'm in
Speaker 4: therapy and I have assessed like the relationships that I
Speaker 4: have in my life and like which relationships I need
Speaker 4: to let go in order to like improve myself. And
Speaker 4: I do feel like I am in like the best
Speaker 4: spot I has been mentally and physically even and this
Speaker 4: is just like one step towards to being like the
Speaker 4: person that like I see on.
Speaker 1: The inside, you know, one step closer to being the
Speaker 1: person that I see on the inside. You you look
Speaker 1: at you look at getting a surgery.
Speaker 4: As as that, Yeah, because I it probably like is
Speaker 4: attributed by like I'm sure body dysmorphia, but I definitely
Speaker 4: feel like I look different, Like like when I'm not
Speaker 4: looking in a mirror, I feel like I am just
Speaker 4: like this completely different human being. And then when I
Speaker 4: look at the mirror, I'm like, oh yeah, and it's
Speaker 4: like just like a red bull's eye to that like
Speaker 4: one thing, you know, so and I know that it
Speaker 4: wouldn't cure like all of my problems getting this thing done, sure,
Speaker 4: And like I even had a discussion with that, like
Speaker 4: it's the doctor and with my therapist, because they were
Speaker 4: both were really concerned, like why are you even doing this?
Speaker 1: And it's the same questions.
Speaker 4: I'm thinking, yeah, and I I you know, the honest
Speaker 4: answer is, you know, like I know this is sorry,
Speaker 4: I'm a little nervous. I didn't think I was going
Speaker 4: to get through today. My honest answer to them was,
Speaker 4: I know that this isn't going to be like a
Speaker 4: one like a one six to all of my problems,
Speaker 4: Like I know that there's going to be steps, and
Speaker 4: in reality, like I do understand that I'm probably gonna
Speaker 4: be in therapy and working at myself, well obviously working
Speaker 4: on myself for all of my life, but specifically the
Speaker 4: whole therapy part, like I am probably going to be
Speaker 4: in for the rest of my life, and like I'm
Speaker 4: okay with it.
Speaker 1: What is your uh, what does your therapist take on
Speaker 1: this whole thing?
Speaker 4: She told me straight up that like I haven't done
Speaker 4: anything for myself my whole entire life, and that if
Speaker 4: this is something that I want and I can find
Speaker 4: a reasonable way to do it and pay for it
Speaker 4: in a way that like I feel like is smart
Speaker 4: because I'm not a big believer on like putting myself
Speaker 4: in a lot of debt. I'm actually just almost done
Speaker 4: finishing off like all my payments towards my debt. Yeah,
Speaker 4: she told me. You know, like, if you can find
Speaker 4: a way to reasonably do this, then I think you
Speaker 4: should do it because you haven't really been able to
Speaker 4: do anything for yourself your whole life.
Speaker 1: So huh okay, mmm, well you know, listen, I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean, look, I'm on a level with you here.
Speaker 1: I think that you're you know, definitely dealing with things
Speaker 1: that are you know, real therapist territory.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, hmmmmmm, I guess you know, well, I don't
Speaker 4: really need your opinion on the whole only fan thing.
Speaker 4: I guess you would be a good person to ask
Speaker 4: for like how to like promote yourself.
Speaker 1: You you want, you want, you want market you want
Speaker 1: marketing advice for for your only I could give you
Speaker 1: more if you looks, I can't. Here's the thing is
Speaker 1: I cannot. I'm I I cannot tell you whether or
Speaker 1: not you should start an only fans is a personal decision.
Speaker 1: But if you have made the decision yourself to start one,
Speaker 1: and you would like marketing advice, I you know, I
Speaker 1: could give you marketing advice perhaps, but but so so
Speaker 1: so listen, so huh huh, Well, I you know, look,
Speaker 1: your therapist obviously knows you more than I do. And
Speaker 1: if they think that's a good decision for you to
Speaker 1: do it for yourself, then you know, I I would,
Speaker 1: I would heed whatever they tell you. Huh huh, But
Speaker 1: I I guess you know, we had the same questions, right,
Speaker 1: which was like what is the purpose? Which was like
Speaker 1: what is the purpose behind this? Because I would hope
Speaker 1: I hope that you're not it doesn't sound like you are,
Speaker 1: you know, looking at this surgery as some kind kind
Speaker 1: of like cure all to all of your life's problems,
Speaker 1: or even that, or even that it would make a
Speaker 1: dent in them. You know, I don't know, but you know,
Speaker 1: when it comes to like fucking self esteem and put
Speaker 1: learning how to put yourself out there, and learning how
Speaker 1: to go make friends, you know, I mean, those are
Speaker 1: all things that are are tough to learn, but you
Speaker 1: can do them for free and they're not mutually exclusive.
Speaker 1: You know, look, go out and do your OnlyFans and
Speaker 1: and make you make your money. And you know, in
Speaker 1: the meantime, you know, I hope that you're not sitting
Speaker 1: there going like Okay, Once the surgery is it, you know,
Speaker 1: then that's it. Then my life is, you know, it's
Speaker 1: I'm i'm a I'm a i'm a before surgery, after
Speaker 1: surgery kind of a life is going to happen, you know,
Speaker 1: in the meantime if you can make some time to
Speaker 1: you know, learn how to put yourself out there and
Speaker 1: try to make friends, whether that's at your job or
Speaker 1: at some kind of extracurricular activity type of thing, and
Speaker 1: that those things aren't mutually exclusive. I think you can
Speaker 1: make it work. I'm glad that you're your you know,
Speaker 1: therapist has been helpful about this though.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my therapist is great. I started seeing her recently,
Speaker 4: so it's going good.
Speaker 1: Redd. It's a good place to promote your only fans,
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 4: Okay, cool, thank you, you're well.
Speaker 1: I'm glad I could do something.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it was either that or like my whole
Speaker 4: thing with my mom. So I'm kind of glad that
Speaker 4: you chose that because that was probably smarter.
Speaker 1: So do you have any kind of like other final
Speaker 1: thoughts on this that you wanted to share before we go?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's okay to struggle and it's not abrout perfection,
Speaker 4: but progression.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 4: I like that.
Speaker 1: Jane, all Right, I got it. Right. I got your
Speaker 1: I remembered your fake name. And that's a thank you
Speaker 1: for calling Jane. I appreciate it. You have a good one.
Speaker 4: You two get thank you.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes I feel as though my gecko head
Speaker 1: is a bit too bulbous. I don't know how much
Speaker 1: money that surgery would cost to get it thinned out.
Speaker 1: But I've learned to love it. I've learned to love it.
Speaker 2: Call from a j Hello is this file?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Who is this? This is aj Hi aj?
Speaker 3: What's up?
Speaker 1: Not much? Just being a gecko on the internet. What's
Speaker 1: up with you?
Speaker 2: I'm watching the Gecko on the Internet. I actually I
Speaker 2: tried calling a little more than a year ago and
Speaker 2: got a hold of one of the screeners and it
Speaker 2: was like towards the end of an episode, and I
Speaker 2: was going through an episode.
Speaker 3: And I'm a lot.
Speaker 2: Better now, So okay, it's cool to connect with the
Speaker 2: get go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, is there anything in particular that you wanted
Speaker 1: to talk about today?
Speaker 2: Well, I suppose I could talk about what I was
Speaker 2: going to talk about. I got fired from Starbucks for
Speaker 2: eating a brownie that I didn't pay for.
Speaker 1: Damn, well, you got fired from Starbucks for eating a brownie?
Speaker 1: That you didn't pay for.
Speaker 2: Tell me more, well, it was a university, like a
Speaker 2: campus Starbucks, and a part of the culture for everyone
Speaker 2: working there was to like eat the food, make drinks
Speaker 2: for yourself.
Speaker 3: It wasn't like a.
Speaker 2: It was just weird, like the fact that I got fired,
Speaker 2: terminated on the spot, like it was just a little bizarre,
Speaker 2: a lot to handle.
Speaker 1: Was it like a special brownie where it was dected
Speaker 1: to have nuts in it?
Speaker 2: No, man, it was like a preprocessed, pre package two
Speaker 2: packed brownie in a plastic sleeve. And iuse have you
Speaker 2: worked in food before? You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Like, because I would understand if it was if it
Speaker 1: had nuts in it, because nuts are they're pretty expensive,
Speaker 1: so I would probably, you know, would make sense to
Speaker 1: fire you for eating a brownie with nuts in it.
Speaker 1: But just a regular brownie, I feel like that's that's illegitimate.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but on corporate standard, like on paper, it's like
Speaker 2: that's aft and theft it.
Speaker 1: To answer your question, I used to work at a
Speaker 1: frozen yogurt store, and you better believe that I fieved
Speaker 1: lots of cookies and cream yogurt directly from the fucking
Speaker 1: dispenser into my mouth.
Speaker 2: Oh what about like the fridge in the back with
Speaker 2: the toppings.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well I worked at it. I worked at
Speaker 1: a frozen yogurt I worked at the best I worked
Speaker 1: at the best kind of job, which is a job
Speaker 1: at a failing business. It's the best kind of job because.
Speaker 2: I it's all on the way out, It's all.
Speaker 1: The way out. So I would I mean I worked
Speaker 1: at this frozen yogurt store. All the candy there was stale,
Speaker 1: and nobody would come in. It would like maybe one
Speaker 1: person would maybe come in, uh every shift, And so
Speaker 1: I was just like kind of I was more guarding
Speaker 1: it than I was like watching it. And dude, I
Speaker 1: was in there fucking eating cookie though bites and making milkshit.
Speaker 1: I mean it was not good.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so you know because at one point in
Speaker 2: my life I also worked at a frozeny ever play,
Speaker 2: can you tell me what is your because like building
Speaker 2: a yogurt cup, there's a process to it. What is
Speaker 2: your bottom layer?
Speaker 1: Uh, let's see. I usually mixed cookies and cream with
Speaker 1: red velvet cake. I put a white chocolate drizzle on it. Uh,
Speaker 1: some butterfinger and uh yeah, that was that was it.
Speaker 1: I mean, that was so damn. Even thinking about that
Speaker 1: right now is making me. Yeah, okay, all right, So
Speaker 1: so what's so you got fired from Starbucks for eating
Speaker 1: a brownie? You know, good? Justified? What uh what are
Speaker 1: you gonna what are you gonna do now?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: I am an elementary school teacher and I teach yoga.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, don't eat one of the kids.
Speaker 4: I won't.
Speaker 1: That'll get you for that'll get you fired as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah uh what so you teach yoga? Yeah? How is that?
Speaker 2: It's it's pretty cool.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: I was practicing for a while at a studio, and
Speaker 2: by going more and more, my healing process started to
Speaker 2: go a certain way. And I thought, maybe if this
Speaker 2: is working for me, I can share this with other people.
Speaker 2: And and I've been teaching for a little more than
Speaker 2: a year now and I'm kind of hitting a stride
Speaker 2: and have a consistent following at the studio that I
Speaker 2: teach at. And it's pretty good, man, Like, I just
Speaker 2: enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: Do you have a man? Bun?
Speaker 2: I am bald?
Speaker 1: I like, I feel like that's even better for a
Speaker 1: yoga teacher. Look, what do you? Go ahead? Go ahead?
Speaker 1: No you what do you teach at the school?
Speaker 2: So I'm the permanent substitute teacher. It's different every day,
Speaker 2: but I'm also in the process of going through a
Speaker 2: teacher license online so to eventually be I would like
Speaker 2: to be an elementary school teacher.
Speaker 1: You know, I was thinking we had some wild substitute teachers,
Speaker 1: uh back in the day that had they really had
Speaker 1: no idea deea what they were doing. And like I'm
Speaker 1: looking back on it as an adult and I'm like,
Speaker 1: where did they fucking find these people?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's uh, especially now with the state of education
Speaker 2: across the board. If you have a pulse, you can
Speaker 2: have a substute teacher's license, and there are there are
Speaker 2: some weird ones.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: I remember having a substue teacher back when I was
Speaker 2: in middle school that was pulling from a bottle like
Speaker 2: behind the desk. We didn't We didn't know it at
Speaker 2: the time, but you know, like you get older and
Speaker 2: you think that probably wasn't Coca cola.
Speaker 1: Oh she was. She was getting drunkn a class. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: there are movies that make that look cool, so I
Speaker 1: kind of understand.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but uh, I think where I that, like most
Speaker 2: of our subs are pretty tame. Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: I think if you're I think if if you can
Speaker 1: somehow prove that you are better at teaching world history
Speaker 1: when you're drunk, you should be allowed to do it.
Speaker 2: Oh, I mean that's what is What was that series?
Speaker 2: Drunk History?
Speaker 3: Was that on? Like?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, there was, there was There was Yeah like that,
Speaker 1: I mean there was that. There was that, So that.
Speaker 2: Would be reason we're so passionate. But it was like
Speaker 2: they a little bit more. It unlocked these hidden memories
Speaker 2: and they were able to make connections they didn't know
Speaker 2: that they could make before.
Speaker 1: All right, So yeah, I mean that's alcohol. It's like
Speaker 1: you know how people you know how people say that
Speaker 1: like taking shrooms like will unlock your mind and make
Speaker 1: you smarter and stuff. How Come no one, no one
Speaker 1: ever says that about getting.
Speaker 2: Wasted because you can't remember it.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's because you're Maybe it's because you were too powerful.
Speaker 2: I don't know, man, I think there's some like blacking out.
Speaker 2: I think there's some truth to that. Like you I
Speaker 2: don't remember if you're on it grid that sticks with you,
Speaker 2: like it's the only thing you think about for a
Speaker 2: few days after.
Speaker 1: So are you happy?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Man?
Speaker 1: Are you? Are you happier? Than you were. When are
Speaker 1: you happier than you were when you, uh were a
Speaker 1: fucking working at Starbucks?
Speaker 2: Absolutely? Immediately after that job, I started working in landscaping
Speaker 2: for the summer, and those were you know, ten hour
Speaker 2: twelve hour days and Starbucks was only ever an eight
Speaker 2: hour day. I was more stressed out and miserable in
Speaker 2: those eight hours of Starbucks than I ever was working outside.
Speaker 1: Huh, huh uh do the call? Oh, okay, all right,
Speaker 1: important question. Who is more obnoxious Starbucks patrons or a children.
Speaker 2: Starbucks patrons?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Without a question, I mean, what's.
Speaker 4: The uh.
Speaker 2: But it's also through in the context of a Starbucks
Speaker 2: that is on a campus like that is a very
Speaker 2: specific population.
Speaker 1: Oh you were at it. You were at an on
Speaker 1: campus star so everyone was a college kid.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh, tell me about these fuckers. What kind of things
Speaker 1: were they doing?
Speaker 2: I mean, like white mocha with ten pumps of white mocha,
Speaker 2: extra phone or green tea, lemonade, ten pumps liucaine, no eyes,
Speaker 2: you know, just like the the most time maintenance stuff,
Speaker 2: and it's for them. I think it's more like a
Speaker 2: control thing. I want this person to make my treat
Speaker 2: exactly the way I want it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, they Well, when you're in college, you're just
Speaker 1: saddled up with debt and uh you're upsettl yeah, and
Speaker 1: everyone's telling you what to do. I feel like I
Speaker 1: feel like, uh, the one bastion of control they have
Speaker 1: is like making the Starbucks guy through their white mocha
Speaker 1: exactly the way they want it. That's what they regrets for.
Speaker 2: Yes, and it wasn't you know, they were using their
Speaker 2: meal swipes for Starbucks. You know, it was not even
Speaker 2: real money for them, and they were just so demanded.
Speaker 1: Can I want to say this too? I hate I'll
Speaker 1: say I will say this on record. I don't care
Speaker 1: if they reach out and they're like promote Starbucks for
Speaker 1: actually know, if they reach out and they want me
Speaker 1: to they want to give me a lot of money,
Speaker 1: then I'll take this off the record. But I hate Starbucks.
Speaker 1: I hate it. I really do for a lot of reasons.
Speaker 1: For a lot of reasons. I don't like their coffee,
Speaker 1: and everything they do is so expensive, like those fucking
Speaker 1: cake pops, the little one bite of cake.
Speaker 2: It's like for for no reason.
Speaker 1: And you know what's worse is people pay it and
Speaker 1: they love fucking Starbucks and they love.
Speaker 2: They prop their phone up and gets the sunshine right
Speaker 2: behind them and get their selfie and tagging.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I mean I mean Duncan Donuts far superior brands,
Speaker 1: far superior. Yeah, they have a better connection. But the
Speaker 1: thing about Duncan is that it's less. It's less like
Speaker 1: high class advertising, like like Starbucks is kind of advertised
Speaker 1: as like a legitimate fancy coffee shop, and Tunkan is
Speaker 1: a little bit more fast foodie, but it's it's superior.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you though, man, Starbucks food is fast food.
Speaker 2: Everything is in a plastic bag and you throw it
Speaker 2: in a microwave and you give.
Speaker 3: It to him.
Speaker 2: You know, they're paying eight dollars for a hot pucket.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, well was it worth it stealing fast food
Speaker 1: to get fired? It sounds like it was.
Speaker 2: I think. I mean the manager taught me like mid bite,
Speaker 2: I mean, I took it off of the tray, walked
Speaker 2: into the bag. It was like, you know, a line
Speaker 2: past the door. I was super stressed out, just like
Speaker 2: ripped the bag open, took a bite out of the
Speaker 2: brownie as a manager opened the door and saw me
Speaker 2: and then turned around, walked away and then a week later,
Speaker 2: I was terminated.
Speaker 1: What's your name again? Will?
Speaker 4: Huh?
Speaker 1: What's your is your name? Will a? J oh? What's next?
Speaker 1: What's next for you? You were you worked at Starbucks, then
Speaker 1: you were a yoga elementary school guy? What's your deal?
Speaker 1: What's how's your life end?
Speaker 2: It's it seems like everything is always in transition. But
Speaker 2: I'm working at the school and landscaping season is starting
Speaker 2: up again in a couple of weeks, so I'm preparing
Speaker 2: for that, you know, and uh just living, you know,
Speaker 2: plugging away as a teaching license. So this summer hopefully
Speaker 2: is the last summer eight landscaping, and then I can
Speaker 2: get a teaching position for the next school year and
Speaker 2: just be school teacher.
Speaker 1: Well, I hope that doesn't suck as much as it
Speaker 1: sounds like it does.
Speaker 2: It's I can also say, though, like as far as
Speaker 2: landscaping companies go, the particular one that I'm at is
Speaker 2: I don't have some foreman breathing down my neck, you know.
Speaker 2: It's most people are pretty cool. It's just long hours,
Speaker 2: but it's good working. You don't know, man, Like you're outside,
Speaker 2: you have your hands in the dirt. At the end
Speaker 2: of the day, you can see that you've done something well.
Speaker 1: Listen, Will Is there anything else you want to say
Speaker 1: to the people of the computer before we go.
Speaker 2: Be well and know that you can choose to be well.
Speaker 2: I'd like to ask you one thing though.
Speaker 1: It's true you can choose to be well unless if
Speaker 1: you have terminal cancer. What were you gonna ask me?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, that is true. What is the best console
Speaker 2: Velda game?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: I don't know what I played. I haven't played. I
Speaker 1: haven't my I haven't. I haven't played them all to
Speaker 1: say so, I can't answer your question just yet. But
Speaker 1: I asked me, ask me again when I asked me
Speaker 1: again at the end of this year. I'm probably gonna
Speaker 1: start playing them again. But uh, I mean, I like
Speaker 1: Breath of the Wild, but I I haven't give me
Speaker 1: some I can't answer that question. I haven't fully played
Speaker 1: them all yet. Okay, it's yours.
Speaker 2: It was always offering of time, but in more recent years,
Speaker 2: I'm like more a Twilight Princess guy, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Okay, I want to play Twilight Princess on the Twitch
Speaker 1: on the switch, but it's it's on. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's on there yet. I'm gonna play sky Words Sword soon,
Speaker 1: so we'll see how that is.
Speaker 2: It is you played that, Yeah, I'm actually playing that
Speaker 2: one now.
Speaker 1: Is good?
Speaker 2: Yes, and no, I think it has the best storyline.
Speaker 2: But as far as because it's like we game, we
Speaker 2: mechanics late games, Skyward Sword is kind of bad, but
Speaker 2: the storyline is amazing.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, I'll play. I'm gonna play it despite
Speaker 1: your scathing review.
Speaker 2: It's not I mean, the storyline even just like the
Speaker 2: tut seams and you know, Lincoln's all to talking to
Speaker 2: each other. It made me cry and that's you know,
Speaker 2: it's great.
Speaker 1: Well, you know that's I think that's really pathetic. That's okay,
Speaker 1: I'm bekicking. I'm probably gonna cry too. I'm probably gonna
Speaker 1: cry too.
Speaker 3: Mhm.
Speaker 2: Right on, man, this uh, this made my night. I
Speaker 2: appreciate your time. Keep getting hey.
Speaker 1: You too, take care will all right, thank you song,
Speaker 1: every teaching you.
Speaker 4: M