WEBVTT - “I AM A SLINKY ARTIST” 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:01.720 Hello, Hey, Oh what's up? 0:00:01.920 --> 0:00:02.160 Hey? 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:03.320 Who is this? 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:05.560 This is Marco. I'm guessing this is gig. 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:08.320 Yes, sir, have we ever spoken before? Marco? 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:13.600 We actually have at the Salt Lake City show. I'm 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:14.319 the Slinky Guy. 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:18.160 Oh you're the fucking slinky guy. 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:19.599 Yes I am. 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:22.360 Oh Mike, wait wait wait okay, wait wait wait we've 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:24.439 never spoken on this pot We've never spoken on the 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:25.840 podcast before though, right. 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:28.200 No, no, never on the phone, just that one. 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:31.600 Oh my god. All right, So all right, I'm gonna 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:35.120 give some context to the people listening. Uh So, you know, 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:37.440 as as some of you probably know, I do live 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:40.519 show versions of this show where I bring folks up 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:43.879 from the audience and we do a little interviews and whatnot. 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:46.640 And I did a show a few months ago in 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:51.480 Salt Lake City Shout Out Wise Guys Comedy Club, and 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:54.920 you know, every once in a while. The way the 0:00:54.960 --> 0:01:00.240 show works is that like people text me with like beforehand, 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:02.440 with like things that they want to talk about, and 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:05.959 I'll like write down like five of the text that 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:08.839 I get, and I'll call people up and uh, I'll 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:11.920 usually pick like I'll pick like one kind of serious one, 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:15.280 one kind of silly one, and then sometimes somebody will 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:19.040 text me something that is kind of just like kind 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:23.640 of boring, but uh, and I'm like, fuck, let's see 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:26.760 what this is. And usually those end up being the 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:31.440 best ones. Like I think in Louisville, Kentucky, Uh, somebody 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:34.640 texted me and they were like, I sell oreos for 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:37.360 a living, and that that guy ended up being the 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:40.640 most fun. And then in Salt Lake City someone texted 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:45.600 me saying I like to play with slinkies or it 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:46.320 was something like that. 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:49.960 Right, I knew exactly what I said. I said, I 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:51.720 brought a sleeky and I'm ready to talk. 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:54.280 Yeah, there it is, okay, I brought a slinky and 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:55.880 I'm ready to talk. I saw that and I was like, 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:59.480 this is stupid. Let's let's do this. And then uh, 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:02.200 you came up and I thought you were just gonna 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:05.560 bring a slinky on stage and fuck around with it. 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:09.600 And then this fucking guy who're on the phone with 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:16.280 right now, he busts out these like insane slinky dance moves, 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:19.600 like I didn't know that you could be good at 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:23.200 slinky and this dude is like, fucking I can't even 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:25.919 I cannot even with words describe what you were doing 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:30.040 with this slinky like you you were, you were you 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:33.359 were making all these It's like you were making fucking 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:35.919 constellations in the sky with it or something. I don't 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:37.959 even know how to describe it, but yeah, you you 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:40.799 you really brought the house down with that slinky act. 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:42.080 That was very impressive. 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:45.080 Yeah, dude, I appreciate all those good words. 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:47.240 It makes me feel good. Make you appreciate it. 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:51.280 Yeah, that was super cool. So and then I asked 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:53.120 you and then and then here's what really got me 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:55.160 is I was asking you. I asked you a bunch 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:57.800 of questions. I was like, have you ever like busked? 0:02:57.919 --> 0:02:59.520 Have you ever like, do you ever do you like 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:02.760 make slinky videos on the internet or something? And the 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:05.280 way you responded is you were like, I don't. I 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:07.359 don't do this. You're basically like, I don't do this 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:09.000 shit for cloud Er money, all right, I do it 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:11.440 for the love of the slinky game. I was like, damn, 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:13.320 I have so much respect for this fucking guy. 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:16.680 Yeah, dude. At most I post like one or two 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:20.600 videos like every two months when I'm finally feeling it. 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:22.919 Otherwise I just feel demotivated. I'm like, I'm just a 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:25.359 dude who like can say I. 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:27.120 Wish you did though, because I want to tell, like, 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:29.519 I want to like, if someone's listening to this, where 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:31.440 can I point them in the direction? Because I can't. 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:34.520 Words don't do justice to what you can do with 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:37.160 a slinky. How can I Like, if someone's listening to 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:38.440 this and they're like, I want to see what this 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:40.680 guy's really made of, can they listen? Can they find 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:41.240 you anywhere? 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:42.480 Yeah? 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:45.880 I actually have an Instagram. It's blotter Fried b l 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:47.360 o t t e r. 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:53.440 Fried b l o t t e r Fried. Yep, 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:56.680 that's me, and you're and you do your slinking tricks 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:57.040 on there. 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:00.280 Yeah, dude, I fucked around with just more and just 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:03.360 slinky too. I had juggle, I have toy, I do 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:04.240 a bunch of stuff. 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:07.080 No, this guy's sick, definitely. As somebody who has seen 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:11.560 his slinky prowess in action, I recommend checking out his instagram. 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:14.640 Well cool man, I'm glad we got to I kind 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:18.040 of forget what we talked about on stage, so actually 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:20.160 this is good. How'd you how'd you get into doing 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:20.800 the slinky thing? 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:22.320 Uh? 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:25.520 I saw some dude on Instagram just fucking around the 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:29.359 slinky shout out Slinky Josh. I just saw him doing it, 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:31.680 and I had the mentality of monkey see monkey doo. 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:34.760 So I ordered one and I took like a few 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:39.159 months that it took to actually learn it. I've actually 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:42.240 realized something about myself. It's not hard for me to 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:45.640 learn something hands on, So I was surprised how how 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:48.560 easy it was to learn. But Slinky Josh was the 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:51.480 main guy. And then I found some other like Korean 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:54.279 guys on Instagram as well, who like would just set 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:58.599 up shop outside and do all these crazy fucking slinky tricks. 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:02.320 And yeah, mostly everything I've learned was just based off 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:05.839 of seeing somebody else doing it and being like, I 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:08.880 want to do that. I I just want to look, 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:10.520 I just want to do that. It looks cool. 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:15.520 Man shout out to Slinky Josh. Really pushing the slinky 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:17.719 metagame forward. That's cool. 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:18.440 You're real, dude. 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:20.880 What do you do with your life when you are 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:21.520 not slinkying? 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:26.160 I'm mostly hanging out with my buddies, nerding, geeking out, 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:29.720 playing magic. I work at a pizza shop. I fucking 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:33.719 spin pizzas and shit too. That's one of my other talents. 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.760 Wow, damn, So you're really like you're really just like 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:39.560 a sleight of hand guy. You're doing are you? Are 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:41.760 you spinning the pizzas and throwing them up and catching 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:42.480 them and all that shit? 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:46.279 Yeah, dude, I do all that shit. My coworkers like 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:49.520 they kind of become desensitized to it. But like new 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:51.440 people who get hired, they'll see me do that shit 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:54.640 and they're like, whoa, what the fuck? And then everybody's 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:55.599 just like, yeah, he does that. 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:59.360 Do you enjoy your job at the pizza shop. 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:02.880 When it's slow and easy? 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:04.080 I do enjoy it. 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:07.200 But when it's when you're getting bombarded with like eight 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:09.960 different tickets and you have this big order of like 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:13.880 seven extra large pieces, and you have somebody breathing down 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:16.600 your neck saying that you're taking too long, it kind 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:19.320 of sucks. But the people there make it worth it. 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:23.640 Dude, I really and I just I mean this so 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:26.120 much when I do. Remember when I was talking to 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:29.760 you on stage, I remember thinking like, I don't know 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:32.200 what is it? What it is about this guy, but 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:36.040 he seems as though he has life figured out. Do 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:37.719 you do you agree with me? Do you feel that 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:41.320 way something about something about just the I like, I 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:45.440 don't know you just seem as though you Obviously nobody's 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:48.480 life is perfect, and of course, you know, sometimes work 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:51.240 sucks and sometimes life sucks, and that's just going to 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:54.760 be a constant for every human being that has ever lived, 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.200 currently lives, or will ever live. But you just seem 0:06:58.320 --> 0:06:59.800 like you got it figured out. I don't know, what 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:01.000 do you agree with this? 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:06.880 There are days where I just I like to believe 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:09.440 I do, but I completely don't think I have it 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:12.000 figured out. But then when you have so many people 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:15.720 around you telling you, like, dude, you got something, like 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:20.160 you're different, like you you've got something figured out that 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:22.040 the rest of us don't, It's it's kind of hard 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:23.080 not to believe. 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:26.119 Is that true? To a lot of other people around 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:28.720 you tell you that you have you have life figured out? 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:33.360 Yeah, and I believe them. I believe more than I 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:36.400 believe myself. But whenever I figure that I don't and 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:39.360 I'm doing shit, I just kind of think back to them, 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:43.880 and like gets me emotional. But yeah, yeah, just knowing 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:46.400 that my buddies and my family just tell me that 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:49.920 I got it figured out makes me believe that I do, 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:53.720 even though in my head I don't feel like I do. 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:56.680 Everybody telling me I do. I believe them more so 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:57.920 than I do believe myself. 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:00.400 Why do you think so many people have told you 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:01.520 that you haven't figured. 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:05.680 Out just because what I do, the self discipline I 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:12.240 have on myself, everything I've learned, and just like you said, 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:16.480 everybody has shit that they're going through. The trauma that 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:19.080 I've had in my life made me who I am today, 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:22.880 and like, I just kind of kind of feel like 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:26.480 through it all after talking to so many people about 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:29.720 their problems in mind, I just kind of figured out 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:34.000 like something mentally inside of me just knows how it works. Now. 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:37.360 I don't know how to put it into words other 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:42.559 than like I just I just kind of know instinctively 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:45.160 what to do in a situation or how to feel. 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:49.080 I know how to cope with my emotions better. A 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:51.400 lot of people come to me for advice when it's 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:55.400 something really really hard to deal with. Because I'm a 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:58.000 very level headed guy. I'll say what I want to 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:01.120 say when I say it, and people enjoy that about me. 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:01.480 I don't. 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:05.920 I don't try and sugarcoat anything. So when somebody tells 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:07.960 me this, I tell them they're acting stupid and they 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:10.320 shouldn't do it, and then they respect me for that 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:13.600 because not a lot of people tell them up front that, hey, 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:15.400 you're kind of being dumb. Don't do that. 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:21.560 Mmm mmm what you don't have to talk about it? 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:25.640 But like, can I what's the dark backstory of of 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:26.520 the slinky guy? 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:28.680 Oh? 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:29.040 Man? 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:34.160 I won't get too specific with people because like, it's 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:36.679 other it's other people's problems that. 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:38.960 That's okay, you know, you don't have to you know it, 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:40.680 here's the thing you actually don't have. You don't have 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:42.800 to actually give him the answer. I just wanted to 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:46.160 say I only I only asked you that question, not 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:49.240 even because I I really like needed you to tell 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:51.360 me the answer, but I just wanted to say the 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:54.680 phrase the dark backstory of the slinky guy. So if 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:55.960 you don't want to talk about it's. 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:59.640 Fine, No, dude, I'll give the backstory. A lot of 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:02.880 people well I grew up with and are very close with, 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.679 kind of gotten take advantage of as kids, you know, 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:09.679 the not the good stuff, very very horrible stuff, and 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:14.520 like talking to them about it kind of gave me 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:18.480 a different perspective on life. There's that, And like I 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:23.800 have people all around me with these sort of diseases 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:26.480 and stuff, and it's hard to see him, hard to 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:28.880 see him worry about their lives because I worry about 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:33.440 them too. I know people with like cerebral palsy. I 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:36.760 can't say I suck at talking, but talking to them 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:39.560 and just hearing the thoughts about how they have a 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:42.720 time limit and that time limits way shorter than mine 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:48.199 really pushed me to just learn a lot more. And 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:51.360 I also have buddies like my closest friends. I fucking 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:53.800 love them so much because we just all trauma bond. 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:58.000 Hearing about how they had to deal with abusive relationships 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:02.120 with their parents, or hearing how dad was never around 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:04.200 to love him as much and now he's trying to 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:07.640 get back into their lives, and all this stuff made 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:10.360 me realize how much I had it kind of good, 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:14.800 even though there was a lot going on that wasn't 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:18.200 very good. It wasn't it's It's one of those things 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:21.079 where I talked to a lot of people about their 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:22.920 problems and realize. 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:25.720 It's a lot. 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:29.000 There's there's a lot more to life than just kind 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:32.600 of dwelling on the past, because they go through it 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:36.800 and they fucking make themselves like the best person They 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:39.480 can be and it just encourages me so much more. 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:45.400 Right, Yeah, yeah, it is. It is, like I was, 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:47.920 I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and like 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:52.360 when you when you really think about it, for most 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:58.680 I mean, you know, setting aside even just examples that 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:01.160 you know, you and I may gleaned from you know, 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:06.080 our our anecdotal personal lives or you know, uh, you know, 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:08.120 stuff stuff I've seen, you know, or listened to from 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:11.199 this show, or just like in general, it's like my 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:16.520 fucking most for like most people that have ever lived, 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:21.600 life has been like horrible, you know, so oh yeah, 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:24.079 so so just like that's kind of the perspective I'm 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:28.800 trying to have. It's like, for most people, life is horrible, 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:30.800 and for most of the people that I've ever lived, 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.600 life has been kind of shitty. So if you're able 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:37.600 to live, you know, if you're lucky enough to live 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:42.000 even in a brief moment of not horribleness, you know, 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:43.640 you're you're kind of killing it. 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:45.920 Yeah. 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:49.719 Yeah, that's what I tell my buddies. Lately, I've been 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:55.800 trying to you know, enjoy the little things, like I'll 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:58.200 always just kind of be in a horrible mindset because 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:03.360 like shit happen, but being able to show off my 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:07.240 slinky skills and get like a simple smile or a hey, dude, 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:10.280 that's fucking awesome. Keep it up. It keeps me going 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:13.800 and it kind of really thins out the bad that's 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:16.520 happened in my life, makes me makes me feel better 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:17.080 about the day. 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:22.000 What's your ultimate dream, mister slinky man, What's what's the 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:23.960 what's the goal or are you just kind of living 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:24.800 life day by day? 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:30.160 My end goal in life is to just become a 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:34.520 DJ or some sort of influencer with my juggling skills, because, 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:37.120 like you said, I I have people all around me 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:39.559 telling me I know something, and like if I could 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:42.280 push that agendas to somebody else and get them out 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:45.040 of the hole that they're in, that'll be enough for me. 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:48.120 But like, if I could get it the way I wanted, 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:52.000 I'd be a top DJ playing rhythm or fucking dove 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:57.360 step on at like some sort of big excision show 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:00.200 or something. But you know, as of right now, I 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:01.440 just lived day by day. 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:06.720 I have the I have a buddy who he's on 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:09.840 he goes on he got popular on TikTok for like 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:15.440 giving life advice while he chops vegetables. Ah, and I 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:19.040 feel like you could do something like that, except instead 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:22.880 of chopping vegetables, you're doing slinky tricks. 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:23.800 Yeah. 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:27.320 I would, I would subscribe. I would subscribe, I would 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:29.280 have I would love to hear oh yeah, I would 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:32.800 love to hear your your observations as you do your 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:35.760 crazy slinky tricks. They're cool slinky tricks. I'll keep piping 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:36.120 them up. 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:39.240 Oh dude, I love it when people head me up, 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:42.160 especially you get a fucking that's that's the top tier 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:44.000 thing for me. When I went to your show and 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:45.800 like did all that in front of you, and how 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:49.160 much you like, I loved it, it made my whole 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:50.640 entire No. 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:53.400 That was that was. That was sick. That was that was. 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:56.480 That was a cool, fucking, cool fucking moment because it 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:57.600 just took me by so surprise. 0:14:57.640 --> 0:14:57.840 I was. 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:00.040 I was really I picked it because I thought it 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:02.880 was gonna be funny. How boring it was that you 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:05.800 were just like had nothing to talk about and we're 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:08.200 just like gonna fuck around with a slinky. I didn't 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:13.920 realize you had a whole circus act planned. But that rocks, man, 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:18.360 That rocks, so uh well, let's see, man, Uh, well, 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:22.320 I'm glad we got to we got to reunite. Yeah, 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:24.880 is there anything else that you wanted to talk about 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:27.680 or say to the people of the computer before we go. 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:34.760 Well, I do want to hurry and tell you this 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:38.160 about that whole entire thing. The way I got into 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:41.400 that show is I used my brother's ID because I'm 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:43.880 only twenty and that ship was twenty one plus. 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:45.080 Oh I didn't realize. 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:48.760 Well, yeah, that's I just wanted to get that off 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:50.840 my chest because I thought that was pretty funny. I 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:52.600 go to a lot of raves using my brother's I 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:54.360 d I don't ever drink or any of that. I 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:56.200 just like to go to shows. 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:58.320 Well, I don't want to get the venue in trouble, 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:00.440 so I'm not I'm not gonna I'm gonna tend like 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:01.120 you didn't say that. 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:03.280 Oh I never said it. 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:06.240 But anyway, Well, thanks for coming man to good luck. 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:09.520 I think you'll I'm not I'm not worried about you. 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:11.040 I think you'll continue to live a good life. 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:14.880 Thank you, Gick And Uh to end it off, fucking 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:17.440 pirate Adobe products. Fuck them? 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:20.320 Uh give me what give me? Let's say, what's the 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:22.560 Instagram again? Where people can look at your slinky ship. 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:27.240 Blatter fry b l O T T E R F 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:32.520 R I E D beautiful, take care slinky boy. Yes 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:40.120 you two. Geck bye bye, Hello, Hello, Hi? 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:40.840 What is your name? 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:43.040 My name is uh? 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:43.920 I think I said. 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:47.240 Vivia Blix vi VI Vivia Blix. 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:52.880 Yeah, it's uh an edgy teenage gamer tag that I 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:54.000 decided to stick with. 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:58.160 Very cool, very cool Vivi Blix. That is a cool 0:16:58.200 --> 0:16:59.880 gamer tag. I like that one. When I was a kid, 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:02.880 gamer tag was Red Treks or something like that. 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:05.560 Significantly less cool. 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:09.480 Yeah, Vivia Blix is a vampires that suck life rather 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:12.879 than blood, like vitality youth out of someone. And I 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:15.960 played a lot of like can't be Shitty smash bros 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:17.439 in my youth. So I was like, I'm gonna be 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:18.440 I'm gonna be Vivi Blix. 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:22.840 That sounds sick Vivia Bleix. Well, Vivi Blix. Uh, what's 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:23.800 going on? How? 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:23.960 What? 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:26.719 What brings you to this show today? 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:28.840 Yeah? 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:31.720 Gek, So I mean, I uh, I find myself at 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:35.840 a crossroads in life. To be honest with you, I 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:40.880 feel like I've always kind of done what people not 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:43.160 necessarily what people have told me but I've always taken 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:47.600 advice very seriously and it's led me to a pretty 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:50.879 sweet spot. I mean, I'm married to the love of 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:54.439 my life, I'm in my mid to late twenties, and 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:56.359 I own a home, which I was told I would 0:17:56.359 --> 0:18:00.280 never do, you know, all these awful things. But I've 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:04.560 kind of been given a decision to either keep doing 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:10.600 that and potentially being more and more happy, or doing 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:13.240 something I've wanted to do for a really, really long time. 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:15.800 So I guess that decision comes down to I've always 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:21.400 wanted to move abroad, specifically to Spain. Ideally I work 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:23.800 in the wine business, as Spain has always seemed very 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:29.680 attractive to me as a place to move, and a 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:32.400 friend of mine in a small town where I'm currently 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:36.159 living doing the wine thing in the United States is 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:40.640 selling a bunch of his sheep. So my options, it seems, 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:43.800 are to stay where I am on property that I 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:47.360 own and become a sheep farmer, which I never thought 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:51.560 i'd say in my entire life, or follow my dreams 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:54.760 and move abroad and kind of ignore the advice that 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:57.040 people have tried to give me up to this point. 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:00.520 Wow, you know, by the way, can I just say this, 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:05.080 and I'm not saying this to be mean, but I 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:07.720 think I had a different idea of what your life 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:10.320 might be like by the fact that you called in 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:15.920 using your gamer tag, and I'm pleasantly surprised to hear 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:18.639 that it's way cooler than I thought it would be. 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:24.920 Well, I am pleasantly surprised that it is that as well. 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:27.359 I supse, I am, I am. I You've got a 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:31.840 cool thing going on. Man, congratulations, thank you. 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:34.439 So one of those things where it feels hard to 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:37.960 complain about because it's like, I have two cool sounding options, 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:41.720 but unfortunately they are still mutually exclusive options. 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:44.920 So let me understand this. You work in the wine business. 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:48.520 Your friend is selling their sheep, and uh, you can 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:52.920 either buy your friend's sheep and become a fucking cheap guy. 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:55.359 Where you live, what you have like land? What are 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:57.040 you where you keeping these sheep? 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:01.320 Yeah, it's it's not a whole lot. I live in Texas, 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:02.920 so I mean there's plenty of land out here. It's 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:05.040 like five acres, so, I mean it's not like one 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:08.199 hundred acre ranch or anything crazy, but it's enough to like, 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:12.000 you know, get some some homestead exemptions on taxes. Going 0:20:12.080 --> 0:20:14.320 and all that cool stuff and keep doing what I'm doing. 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:18.000 But it's also like, yeah, I can't. I can't buy 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:20.080 a flock or a herd or I guess, yeah, a 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:23.320