Speaker 1: Hello and welcome. I figured it out, folks, I figured
Speaker 1: it out. I figured out the cure to all that
Speaker 1: ails anyone that has ever been ailed. I figured out
Speaker 1: the answer. You'll never believe it. All you have to
Speaker 1: do is go outside. There's a whole world beyond the door.
Speaker 1: There's a whole world outside of the computer.
Speaker 2: I me.
Speaker 1: I guess if you're watching this, you're watching this on
Speaker 1: the computer right now, or you're listening to it on
Speaker 1: your phone or whatever. But Hi, my name is Lyle.
Speaker 1: I'm a gecko guy. I'm filled with energy. I'm here,
Speaker 1: truly at my favorite place on the planet, Washington Square Park.
Speaker 1: I haven't done one of these in I think a year,
Speaker 1: and I'm filled with joy to be back at this location.
Speaker 1: Just you know, I love this place so much because
Speaker 1: is every kind of person walks by here. Everyone of
Speaker 1: every age, every race, every socioeconomic demographic. They all come
Speaker 1: buying into this melting pot of everything and everyone in
Speaker 1: one place. The energy here is immaculate. There there's Uh,
Speaker 1: this is great. It's good. So I'm I'm feeling happy.
Speaker 1: I'm feeling great, and uh, what I'm gonna do today
Speaker 1: is I'm gonna talk to some of these people. Why,
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna see what's happening with them in their lives.
Speaker 1: We're outside, the weather's good. There's a jazz band nearby.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you can hear it in the
Speaker 1: soundtrack of the thing, but yeah, it's a good place.
Speaker 1: It's got good vibes. Let's talk to some people. This
Speaker 1: is being a gecko at the park. Yeah, come have
Speaker 1: a Yeah, you have a crazy story, come here, sit
Speaker 1: down with you crazy by the way, I just want
Speaker 1: you to know and why. I don't know if I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna say it. Typically if you ever have a
Speaker 1: crazy story. This is just some advice I guess if
Speaker 1: you ever have a create, never tell people you have
Speaker 1: a crazy story, because now I have, I have high expectations.
Speaker 3: You know, what's your name?
Speaker 4: My name is Lyle. What's your name?
Speaker 3: Austin?
Speaker 1: Austin. Nice to mess you, Austin. How's it going, man,
Speaker 1: how's pretty good? What's your crazy story?
Speaker 3: Long story short?
Speaker 5: I Uh, they put me in a cage in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 5: Oh Jesus, Yeah, and they were like, say you did it,
Speaker 5: you can go home. And I was like, I didn't
Speaker 5: do it, So let's go to trial. So they continue
Speaker 5: my case ninety days fifteen times, bro through COVID, so
Speaker 5: like I'm in Virginia Beach, Virginia, maintaining my innocence, waiting
Speaker 5: for waiting for trial, and they continue in ninety days
Speaker 5: fifteen times. I keep thinking I'm gonna go home in
Speaker 5: ninety days. So I come up with like ninety day
Speaker 5: programs to live, like the most optimal life ever. I'm like, yo,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna do push like meditate push ups, right, blah
Speaker 5: blah blah blah blah, do these ninety days and then
Speaker 5: go about my life. But then it continued, continued, continued
Speaker 5: like a like a soul breaking experience, dude. So when
Speaker 5: it was all said and done, I did one than
Speaker 5: three hundred and twenty one days.
Speaker 6: I left.
Speaker 5: I got released from Virginia. I moved up here with
Speaker 5: two hundred bucks and two outfits. I didn't know anyone,
Speaker 5: and uh, dude, I just tried my fucking hartist and
Speaker 5: like it's been a crazy, crazy ride.
Speaker 4: I have a million.
Speaker 1: First of all, I'm sorry, I dad had a crazy story.
Speaker 1: You have a crazy story. The second of all, they okay,
Speaker 1: your sorry. Started with they put me in a cage.
Speaker 1: What is what does that mean? Who is the who
Speaker 1: is they? I guess you would say my ex girlfriend. Okay,
Speaker 1: I got I got engaged to a girl, and uh,
Speaker 1: griming me, I was still hooking up with my ex girlfriend.
Speaker 3: Not cool, but it's not illegal. Dude, don't put me
Speaker 3: in a cage. But I shouldn't have done that. That
Speaker 3: wasn't cool.
Speaker 4: Wait, so you gotta engage with a girl you're still
Speaker 4: looking over with your ex girlfriend? And then what do
Speaker 4: you mean by a cage like jail?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 1: Okay, wait so your ex girlfriend called the cops on you?
Speaker 5: Yeah, said I beat her up, and okay, then I
Speaker 5: bonded out. She went back down, said I grabbed her
Speaker 5: by the titties, and then I bonded out. And she
Speaker 5: kept making stuff up, mind you, before she pressed any charges.
Speaker 5: She I was calling my probation officer I sold drug
Speaker 5: smarly twenties.
Speaker 6: I really did that.
Speaker 5: But she's called my probation officer anonymously, trying to get
Speaker 5: me in trouble for two weeks, dude, And when that
Speaker 5: didn't work, she's like, all right, he beat me up,
Speaker 5: all right, he choke and like, dude, it was crazy.
Speaker 5: So like nobody knows that at first, so they they
Speaker 5: when all the dust settled, that was like three years later,
Speaker 5: and they were like, oh my god, this kid's innocent
Speaker 5: and he's been sitting here like this whole time because
Speaker 5: of COVID.
Speaker 4: Wait you were so you were in there for ninety days.
Speaker 3: No, No, I was in there for one three hundred
Speaker 3: and twenty one days.
Speaker 4: Oh fuck you. Oh you were in there for three years?
Speaker 5: Yeah, bro, more than three years. Oh fuck yeah. And
Speaker 5: they were telling me because of COVID. Uh yeah yeah,
Speaker 5: because they were like, my court day was in ninety days, right, So,
Speaker 5: like I said, I came up with ninety day programs
Speaker 5: to live the most optimal life. Ninety days would go
Speaker 5: around and they'd be like, yo, we got to continue
Speaker 5: it another ninety days. They did that fifteen times, brother,
Speaker 5: fifteen times. So they in my head, I'm like, I
Speaker 5: go home in ninety days. I go home in ninety days.
Speaker 5: Three years later, I was still waiting.
Speaker 1: So isn't there like a I mean, okay, so isn't
Speaker 1: there supposed to be like a trial and they like
Speaker 1: they wait, so they wait. So there wasn't even like
Speaker 1: a trial where you were like found guilty of a
Speaker 1: thing and then putting.
Speaker 3: A waiting for trial.
Speaker 1: You were held you were in holding waiting for trial
Speaker 1: for three yes.
Speaker 3: In Virginia Beach.
Speaker 4: That's yeah, that's that's like super illegal, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: But they say because it was an act of God
Speaker 5: because of COVID, that it changed like the what's supposed
Speaker 5: to be constitutional rights, which is my right to a
Speaker 5: speedy trial, but that.
Speaker 3: That didn't count whatsoever.
Speaker 6: Bro.
Speaker 5: And then my dude, my public defender, who was my
Speaker 5: lawyer at Amanda T. Bowt year two, she became a
Speaker 5: prosecutor for the district. I was in the lady who
Speaker 5: was representing me prosecutor. I was like, you can't.
Speaker 3: Make this up.
Speaker 4: That's crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So like it literally was like whatever can go wrong
Speaker 5: went wrong in this situation. And it was like such
Speaker 5: an eye opening experience. So like basically I trained myself.
Speaker 5: Bron Nelson Mandela has this really cool quote. They're like,
Speaker 5: how did you survive those seven years? He goes, I
Speaker 5: didn't survive. I prepared, So I just locked in for
Speaker 5: for four years. I came here and I just worked
Speaker 5: as hard as I fucking possibly could for as long
Speaker 5: as I possibly could.
Speaker 3: Like I didn't drink. Yeah, I used to party, bro,
Speaker 3: I used to have fun. I used to hustle, I
Speaker 3: used to sell blow like whatever.
Speaker 5: But now it's like I just tried my best to
Speaker 5: be that corny, hardworking dude that you always think that
Speaker 5: you might be able to be.
Speaker 3: I became.
Speaker 4: That's where you are now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's wild.
Speaker 4: So what's your Yeah, what's your story now? Like, what
Speaker 4: are you up to?
Speaker 5: So now, if you can blank this out, that would
Speaker 5: be great. My company I had this event. There's these
Speaker 5: benches behind us, a bunch of kids.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 5: They designed a bunch of park benches to address like
Speaker 5: real world problems.
Speaker 3: It's actually super empowering.
Speaker 4: They're like, yeah, wait wait your company designed these benches. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's your company.
Speaker 5: Oh the kids did student Institute of the Public Schools
Speaker 5: I work with. I work for a nonprofit and like
Speaker 5: we find.
Speaker 4: Wait do we need to blurt? Is this private information?
Speaker 3: Uh no, it's not private. We'll just keep it. I
Speaker 3: work for a good entity that helps people.
Speaker 5: Okay, cool, it's I love it. Okay, we help kids
Speaker 5: and stuff. But yeah, my history though, is kind of suss.
Speaker 5: So I didn't want to endanger that or anything.
Speaker 4: Do people do people know about your history.
Speaker 5: H yeah, the ones that matter now, like other people,
Speaker 5: they kind of hear about it and then like I hope,
Speaker 5: I hope they ask, but people don't really like.
Speaker 4: Are you okay with being on the internet with this?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah for sure? Okay, all right, yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 5: it's just been wild, bro. And then I came here.
Speaker 5: I worked for this gym called Conbody shout out to
Speaker 5: coos Marte con Bud Conbody in the Lower East Side.
Speaker 3: It's like a prison style gym.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was like the first job that I had.
Speaker 5: And then like it's just all been a dream, bro.
Speaker 5: The first client I signed it, this gym I ended
Speaker 5: up befriending, and then.
Speaker 3: Like he this is the job that I have. Now
Speaker 3: it's like all these little threads that I pulled.
Speaker 4: These strings that I pulled, Yeah, yeah, and it's.
Speaker 5: Just unraveled into this experience. So it's been it's been wild.
Speaker 5: I have a thing too, like if you if you
Speaker 5: ever want to come through and like.
Speaker 4: Refresh, what's your thing? What's your thing?
Speaker 5: I have a terrorist in my house and I have
Speaker 5: a sauna out there on an ice bath and a
Speaker 5: massage table.
Speaker 4: So you give a sauna a terrace and ice bath
Speaker 4: in your house?
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, and uh, where do you what.
Speaker 1: I mean, not your address, but how do you how
Speaker 1: do you have a sauna in your house? It's terrorists
Speaker 1: Like oh okay, okay, you're in a building that has
Speaker 1: all that stuff.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, Well I just had it's my terrorists, like,
Speaker 5: not the buildings, it's just mine.
Speaker 3: Oh I got super lucky. I got super lucky. So
Speaker 3: I had this.
Speaker 5: Experience where you come through and like sauna, I teach
Speaker 5: people how to suffer.
Speaker 1: You teach people how to suffer. Yeah, how does what
Speaker 1: do you mean by that?
Speaker 5: Like have you ever heard the quote like how you
Speaker 5: do anything? It's how you do everything?
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think like we low key have become like epicureans,
Speaker 5: like we all want to get our dick sucked and
Speaker 5: our clips licked, and we just seek pleasure, pleasure, pleasure,
Speaker 5: Like we we seek to live a life that is like, uh,
Speaker 5: it does not have any discomfort in and whatsoever.
Speaker 4: Yeah, totally.
Speaker 5: And I think like we didn't really know what we
Speaker 5: were doing as we were building that type.
Speaker 1: Of like I mean, society wants to have a life
Speaker 1: without any Yeah, yeah, I feel I feel not I
Speaker 1: feel that Yeah, it's impossible.
Speaker 4: It is unfortunately impossible.
Speaker 5: So I find it's like very empowering if you just
Speaker 5: voluntarily learn.
Speaker 3: To get good. It's suffer like suffer with grace is
Speaker 3: what I like to say.
Speaker 5: So the sauna is like I just try and rewire
Speaker 5: how people experience discomfort. So like we'll be in the
Speaker 5: sauna and we'll be talking. Then we'll meditate, what do yoga,
Speaker 5: will ice bath and we'll just talk and just try
Speaker 5: and like reword this experience. I guess, like I don't
Speaker 5: want to lie to anyone or like like gaslight anyone,
Speaker 5: but just create opportunities to reinterpret this experience. Because like
Speaker 5: all of these symptoms good bad in between, they're all
Speaker 5: symptoms of existence.
Speaker 3: They should be celebrated.
Speaker 5: Like so yeah, sadness or pain, Like I know it's
Speaker 5: easy to say, but these are symptoms that you are
Speaker 5: alive and you are in this bitch.
Speaker 4: So but you ever, you know it's funny though, is
Speaker 4: like you ever? This is my thing?
Speaker 1: Is I feel like I constantly obviously you never really
Speaker 1: know what's going on with people and what I but
Speaker 1: you ever meet someone and you're like, I feel like
Speaker 1: the way you're living your life feels like it's so light,
Speaker 1: you know, and I'm like, oh, I wanna I want that.
Speaker 1: I want life to feel like it's light, like like yeah,
Speaker 1: like levity. I want life to feel like like sometimes
Speaker 1: life feels like heavy, emotions feel heavy all the time,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, don't you ever don't you ever
Speaker 1: feel like you meet somebody, you see something where're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'd like to live in that that levity that this
Speaker 1: person seems like they live in.
Speaker 5: Yes, you know, totally totally, man, Yeah, I can dig
Speaker 5: that for sure. It's just you never know what people
Speaker 5: got going on, you.
Speaker 4: Know, you never really know all these stories.
Speaker 5: And then like all these fronts and like it's just
Speaker 5: like you never really do you can we ever know
Speaker 5: what it's like to be a bat in a cave?
Speaker 5: Like you ever really know? Like you know, like I
Speaker 5: try and be positive and polite and shit, but I'm miserable.
Speaker 3: I'm just kidding. I'm not miserable, But are you?
Speaker 4: I do you feel now? I mean, you've been through
Speaker 4: some crazy stuff.
Speaker 5: Still fucking angry about it, Like I'm so mad because
Speaker 5: I'm just supposed to forget about it, like just call
Speaker 5: it a wash, you know what.
Speaker 3: I mean, like, that's what they that's what they.
Speaker 4: Expect me to. Did you ever get a trial or
Speaker 4: does that what happened?
Speaker 5: So a year three, they were like, yo, if you
Speaker 5: want a trial, you're gonna have to wait one more year.
Speaker 3: And I was like, I can't they just held you
Speaker 3: with a trial, brother, Yes.
Speaker 5: And they continue to continue. So year three, this guy
Speaker 5: was like, yo, if you want a jury trial, it's
Speaker 5: gonna take one more year.
Speaker 3: I was like, bro, I just want to go home.
Speaker 5: So I took a plea for a misdemeanor, like the
Speaker 5: lowest misdemeanor you could have, no time, no, no, nothing right.
Speaker 5: And I was like, dude, the only way I'll say
Speaker 5: I did this if it's no time, no, it's a misdemeanor,
Speaker 5: then there's no weird shit, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: That's the only way I'll say that I did this.
Speaker 5: And then sure enough I did it. I went home
Speaker 5: and now I'm just like, bro, I'm angry about it,
Speaker 5: like I'm the only way that I can feel better
Speaker 5: about it is to become successful. Like the only way
Speaker 5: that I can I've realized the only way that I
Speaker 5: can put this behind me is if all that that
Speaker 5: happening was part of the reason that I became successful. Like,
Speaker 5: so I'm actively determining if I have regret or not
Speaker 5: through my day to day actions, which is really fucking
Speaker 5: weird to be honest.
Speaker 3: Like it's an everyday fight or whatever.
Speaker 5: And then you can't like run around and tell these
Speaker 5: people your problems because they'll bank your fucking nuts. So
Speaker 5: you just kind of have to deal with it on
Speaker 5: your own and just just try your best, like.
Speaker 3: You know, because it's probably a lot even come.
Speaker 5: Up to you and be like, yo, I just was
Speaker 5: in a cage you and push ups and fighting for
Speaker 5: chicken for four years. Like it's like people don't really
Speaker 5: know how to handle me sometimes. But thank you for
Speaker 5: your time, by.
Speaker 4: The way, Oh, thank you for your time.
Speaker 1: So what, So what does being a successful mean to
Speaker 1: you in this context?
Speaker 5: It's a good question, brother, to summarize, To break it down,
Speaker 5: I would just say that I gave more than I
Speaker 5: took in this lifetime, that I helped more than I
Speaker 5: was helped.
Speaker 4: That's your definition of success.
Speaker 5: That's that's my definition of success as of now, and
Speaker 5: that's that's probably gonna change, you know what I mean,
Speaker 5: Like I'm still learning things about myself and about the world.
Speaker 5: But yeah, just to be free, like to be able
Speaker 5: to take care of the people that I care about,
Speaker 5: to be able to help, to have the capacity to
Speaker 5: help anyone that I bump into, Like that would be
Speaker 5: my idea of success. Because we're we're gonna have regrets,
Speaker 5: is what I'm learning, Like all these wealthy people and
Speaker 5: mentors that I have, like everyone has regrets. I'm realizing
Speaker 5: we just have to pick the ones we're okay with.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 5: I think that's like the pencil didn't rule, It's what
Speaker 5: I'm gathering. So yeah, just just to be my optimal Austin.
Speaker 1: You know, do you feel like you are on the
Speaker 1: path to that or do you feel like you're on
Speaker 1: an upward trajectory towards becoming that version of yourself?
Speaker 3: Yes, But at the same time, like you never fucking know, dude,
Speaker 3: You just don't ever know.
Speaker 5: So, like, as certain as I can say I've exhausted
Speaker 5: every possibility to be sure in what I'm doing, yeah,
Speaker 5: yes I have. But at the same time, it's just
Speaker 5: kind of like who fucking knows, dude. I feel like
Speaker 5: it's a constant process of assessing, Like am I full
Speaker 5: of shit, am I being honest with myself?
Speaker 3: What did I mean by that? What did they mean
Speaker 3: by that?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 5: And it's just like an everyday like tug a war
Speaker 5: kind and then not tug of war, but just like
Speaker 5: it doesn't stop. I don't think. I think this is
Speaker 5: just you just this till we die. So I don't
Speaker 5: know for sure.
Speaker 1: But huh no, I know, I know we do. We
Speaker 1: do kind of just do this until we die. That's
Speaker 1: so it's so stressful. But you know what's funny is
Speaker 1: it's it stresses me out that it's like, oh, we
Speaker 1: just do this and we die.
Speaker 4: But again, I see people.
Speaker 1: I see like older p I see people like I'm like,
Speaker 1: are bore we just talked to or like fot folks
Speaker 1: in the sixties seventies, and it's like.
Speaker 4: They're still doing it. And I'm like, all right, if
Speaker 4: they can do it for I'm like I can do it.
Speaker 5: You keep going and it happens in the blink of
Speaker 5: an eye. Like I could say, like I just did
Speaker 5: four years.
Speaker 3: And like to stay that.
Speaker 5: To anyone who has done time, it's like, oh my god,
Speaker 5: that's an insurmountable amount of time.
Speaker 4: I felt like, didn't feel like a long time ago.
Speaker 6: Bink.
Speaker 5: Really it felt like when you're going through it it
Speaker 5: takes forever.
Speaker 3: But now that I look back on my life, blink
Speaker 3: of an eye, Like.
Speaker 4: Have you I just watched this play? Uh Fear of thirteen?
Speaker 4: Have you heard of it? You should listen? You should
Speaker 4: actually listen to this. This is fuck.
Speaker 1: I literally forget the name of the guy, but it's
Speaker 1: based off a dude who was like falsely imprisoned for
Speaker 1: murder for like thirteen years.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: Look at it. Yeah Bro.
Speaker 5: That's another thing is I've realized, like, if this has
Speaker 5: happened to me, it has to have happened to other people, dude.
Speaker 5: And the feeling that you have is like, bro, it's
Speaker 5: so fucking alienating, like you you can't talk to anyone
Speaker 5: about it. And it scares me because if there's masses
Speaker 5: of people who have been wronged like I've been wrong, Bro,
Speaker 5: I don't think everyone's gonna have the same reserve to
Speaker 5: like try and be the best version of themselves or
Speaker 5: help society bro like it. I I'm scared if there's
Speaker 5: people out there who have been wrong like I've been
Speaker 5: wrong and they don't they don't have that same mentality, dude,
Speaker 5: because it's dude, it's like so alienating, like you feel
Speaker 5: you're just mad at the world. You're like, bro, they
Speaker 5: got me and nobody gives a fuck.
Speaker 1: And like it's do you've had Do you have a
Speaker 1: support system nowadays? Do you feel like you have a
Speaker 1: good supports good like your friend's family.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, not really, but like there's I have people,
Speaker 5: I have people who are there. But just like like
Speaker 5: I said, I came here. I came here and I
Speaker 5: didn't know anybody. I had an aunt in Prospect Park
Speaker 5: who hooked me up with an apartment.
Speaker 4: Well, how long have you been in New York?
Speaker 7: Again?
Speaker 3: I moved.
Speaker 5: I did burpies in a cell in Virginia January seventeen,
Speaker 5: twenty twenty three, and then I fell asleep and brook
Speaker 5: Park Slope, Brooklyn. That night, I took an Amtrak up
Speaker 5: here and then I fell asleep in brook New York
Speaker 5: that night. I think I got a peel bro with
Speaker 5: my job. But Bro, I would love.
Speaker 3: To talk again. I looked at your page you have
Speaker 3: You're really cool. Thanks for you and just here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thank thanks, thanks for sharing your story.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 1: I appreciate is there is the right if I put
Speaker 1: this on the on the computer.
Speaker 5: Study too, bro, and maybe I can chop it up
Speaker 5: again one day. Sure you can come work with me
Speaker 5: and help some kids or something.
Speaker 3: Bro, Sure, sure, sure movement.
Speaker 4: Anything else you want to say to the people of
Speaker 4: the computer before we go.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just want to say, uh yeah, I believe
Speaker 5: in you and just fucking do it, man, Like no
Speaker 5: one's coming for you, No one's coming for us, no
Speaker 5: one's coming to save the day.
Speaker 3: We have to come for each other.
Speaker 1: What's your name again, man, Austin Lyle. Nice to meet you, Austin.
Speaker 1: Thank you, ma'am.
Speaker 3: And hope we cross paths again.
Speaker 6: Bro.
Speaker 4: Yeah, dude, I'll uh, I'll uh, I'll see you on
Speaker 4: the universe.
Speaker 1: Maybe yeah, maybe maybe if I'm feeling in the right mindset,
Speaker 1: I'll take you up on that pain tolerance thing you
Speaker 1: got going on. All right, Thank you man, Thank you Austin.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you. Fascinating. That was very fascinating. I might I
Speaker 1: because I do agree with him on that thing of
Speaker 1: like pain being inevitable and kind of learning how to
Speaker 1: withstand it, you know.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: So yeah, maybe I'll go to this guy's Maybe I'll
Speaker 1: maybe I'll end up in some kind of fifty shades
Speaker 1: of gray situation or something. I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: even know that means. I don't know why I said that.
Speaker 1: I haven't read that book or seen the movie or anything.
Speaker 1: But uh yeah, maybe I'll go to this guy's house
Speaker 1: and go into his sauna, ice bath or something.
Speaker 4: That was very interesting. Thank you again, Austin for sharing
Speaker 4: your story. What's up man? What's what's your name?
Speaker 7: Dude? My name is.
Speaker 4: My name is Robert, Robert. Nice to meet you, Robert.
Speaker 7: What are you?
Speaker 1: My name is Lyle. What are you up to at
Speaker 1: the park today.
Speaker 7: Well, I come to the park here because I enjoyed
Speaker 7: this park is a beautiful park. But I'm just chilling,
Speaker 7: enjoying the sites, honestly, smoking some weed.
Speaker 4: Cool, I had a drink.
Speaker 7: I'm just chilling. I'm enjoying. This park is very interesting.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a beautiful play. Do you come here often?
Speaker 7: Yes? I come here every day right now. I'm one
Speaker 7: of the vacation Yes.
Speaker 4: Oh, where are you on vacation from just life? You're
Speaker 4: on vacation from life?
Speaker 7: Yes, you know, we're made the bill stress. I come
Speaker 7: here every day just to take a different view on life.
Speaker 7: I'm trying to the rat racial I con meet this
Speaker 7: and enjoy. I have to watch the artists, the individual
Speaker 7: people with their own businesses, people who might playing music,
Speaker 7: the chess play is the college students to events that
Speaker 7: go on. So this just make us enjoying the park.
Speaker 1: It truly is one of my favorite places on the planet.
Speaker 1: It's just it's it's fucking great. Wait, so what was
Speaker 1: the catalyst for for your vacation from life? There was
Speaker 1: a breaking point where you were like.
Speaker 7: The catalyst is, sometimes you go things in life. Life
Speaker 7: is not really that life is hard. Life can also
Speaker 7: be easy, and sometimes you have challenging issues that you facing.
Speaker 7: So I have some challenging issues and I just want
Speaker 7: to do something different. So instead of doing what I
Speaker 7: normally do and doing something difference, so I come to
Speaker 7: the park. So I've been coming here since last year
Speaker 7: just to do something different besides hanging out home and
Speaker 7: doing nothing, getting in trouble, doing every things I'm not
Speaker 7: supposed to be doing. So I come here. I met
Speaker 7: some new people with some new friends, and I'm just
Speaker 7: enjoying life differently today. Also, so the catalysis was I'm
Speaker 7: just had a breaking point where I just wanted to
Speaker 7: trust something difference, stopped doing the same routine I've been
Speaker 7: doing for many, many years.
Speaker 1: Was that scary to break out of your routine? Like,
Speaker 1: was there any fear behind it? Or was it like
Speaker 1: a natural thing?
Speaker 7: It's not scary. Listen, I'm fifty six years old. Well
Speaker 7: i'll be fifty sixtees July. I've been through a lot.
Speaker 7: But I'm a type of person I'm always jumping into
Speaker 7: different things. So it's not scary. Cool, I've revery. I'm
Speaker 7: ready adventurous in life. Like I said, one minute I
Speaker 7: could be here, one minute I could be there. You know,
Speaker 7: I've lived all over New York. I lived in Virginia,
Speaker 7: I lived in Upstate, I lived in Fairfield, North Carolina.
Speaker 7: I've been around. So I happens skipping jump all the time.
Speaker 1: And there's like, okay, So throughout your whole life, as
Speaker 1: you've been doing like the hop and the skip and
Speaker 1: the jumping, like intuitively, there's never been any fear. Like
Speaker 1: you're very intuitively able to like move from each life
Speaker 1: phase to the next.
Speaker 7: Yes, I just I just jumped into it. And things
Speaker 7: you gotta be you know, if I'm working, I'm making
Speaker 7: things happen. I'm doing stuff. You gotta make things happen.
Speaker 7: While you make them changes, you gonna have to move
Speaker 7: a few times, bad relationships, money flys. Uh. Sometimes you
Speaker 7: just gotta go go where life takes you to make
Speaker 7: it happen. You know, there's no I'm not fear. I
Speaker 7: don't have no fear of doing anything because I know
Speaker 7: that I'm able to do anything I wanted to put
Speaker 7: my mind to it. And I've been broke. Money comes around.
Speaker 7: I've had great jobs, I have great houses, i have
Speaker 7: great people in my life. Right now, I'm just focusing
Speaker 7: on me. But sometimes you just gotta take a plunge
Speaker 7: and see what happens. You know, if you don't try
Speaker 7: to the future, people actually have tried to do this,
Speaker 7: actually did that. I take chances, but you're gonna.
Speaker 4: Looking back on all of it.
Speaker 1: Do you do you have any regrets or do you
Speaker 1: feel like everything you did it you like at least
Speaker 1: tried to do everything you wanted to do.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 7: I haven't tried to do everything I want to do,
Speaker 7: but I'm really happy with most of my life. Yes,
Speaker 7: I'm gonna happy with some things in my life, but
Speaker 7: you know, it is what it is, and I've had
Speaker 7: fun and I've learned. I got to be fifty five
Speaker 7: without a lot of major drama, so I'm happy. But
Speaker 7: I still want to travel more. Right now, I want
Speaker 7: to travel. I've never been on a plane, but I
Speaker 7: want to travel more and do two fifteens. But right now, yeah,
Speaker 7: I'm satisfied. It is what it is, and I made
Speaker 7: the best off. I got kids that have grown thirty
Speaker 7: five and probably thirty right now.
Speaker 4: Nice, nice man grand kids.
Speaker 7: I got a big family. But right now I'm by myself.
Speaker 7: But I've done anything I want to do. I'm happy.
Speaker 7: I'm blessed God. My higher power has blessed me. Man
Speaker 7: so nice. I make loud mistakes, but I'm trying to
Speaker 7: get back on track.
Speaker 1: What's your what's your higher power look like to you?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Do you feel like it's like a Do you feel
Speaker 1: like it's like a singular entity or just like like
Speaker 1: just the ships all together.
Speaker 7: It's beyond me, but I think we all connected and
Speaker 7: my you know, I'm not gonna be I'm a Christian.
Speaker 7: I believe in God, but I've been to my phases
Speaker 7: where you know, aliens and all types of stuff and
Speaker 7: history in the past how we were made. But I
Speaker 7: just want it's a higher power and we all connected,
Speaker 7: from the trees to the worms, for the ants, to
Speaker 7: the air we breathe, to the universe. We all connected
Speaker 7: some house some way. I think you we all consciously
Speaker 7: dig together and focus together, we'd be more powerful as
Speaker 7: the people. You know we have. We have a lot
Speaker 7: of separation with things, but you know, my high power
Speaker 7: was everything. He created everything, and he knows everything, and
Speaker 7: I'm blessed. I just have to make decisions. You know,
Speaker 7: you go left, you go right.
Speaker 4: How was it having kids?
Speaker 1: It's not I like thinking about a lot because like
Speaker 1: I'm I'm twenty eight, I'm approaching into like like in
Speaker 1: my I guess thirties and shit where I'm like, oh
Speaker 1: for at some point, like you're saying, like you gotta
Speaker 1: make decisions, and I'm like, I know I.
Speaker 4: Want to do it at some point.
Speaker 1: But it's it's it's like it's such a freaky existential thing.
Speaker 4: I'm very in my head about like how was it
Speaker 4: for you?
Speaker 7: Well, I was young, I was twenty going to twenty
Speaker 7: when him I had my first child. I wish, well
Speaker 7: everything was fine, but I wish I would have had
Speaker 7: so you you had a good age where you can
Speaker 7: plan it.
Speaker 4: I wish I would have planned Yeah, sure, Yeah, so.
Speaker 7: You went up playing. You want to play in your future. Man,
Speaker 7: you know, kids are it's a big responsibility. Excuse me.
Speaker 7: Raising the family is a big responsibility. And you want
Speaker 7: to have everything. You order, money, school goals. You want
Speaker 7: to have a plan. I jumped into it. It happened.
Speaker 7: I had to be responsible. But everything didn't work out
Speaker 7: like we're supposed to work out, unfortunately because people were young,
Speaker 7: so we made mistakes, and you know, I ended up
Speaker 7: playing chasuble for twenty something years. Yea, honestly, you know
Speaker 7: what I'm saying. But I still love my kids and
Speaker 7: we didn't work out. But you gotta make sure you
Speaker 7: have the right partner. You gotta make sure you connect
Speaker 7: with the right partner to have a kid, because you know,
Speaker 7: you want to be together. You want to be a family.
Speaker 7: So you don't want to be somebody that's not gonna
Speaker 7: work out. I want to get married. You want to
Speaker 7: do it right and hopefully somebody that loves you, you
Speaker 7: love them, they want to build together. Just don't have
Speaker 7: kids that have kids. Yeah, it's a big responsibility. It's
Speaker 7: another person on this earth that you're responsible for, and
Speaker 7: you want them to grow up and be successful in
Speaker 7: as well.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like you've ever been it? Like, definitively
Speaker 1: you're one hundred, so you feel like you've ever been
Speaker 1: in love?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I've been in love with it. I was with
Speaker 7: a girl for I always say twenty she said eighteen
Speaker 7: the eighteen years, and I'm still in love. I still
Speaker 7: love her to this day. Her nickname was may Mae.
Speaker 7: My nickname was Chinky, and I love the lot she
Speaker 7: loved me. I still love her to this day. You know,
Speaker 7: there's been we haven't been together since twenty two thousand
Speaker 7: and eight. But yeah, I've been in love, deeply in love.
Speaker 7: Like I said, I still go. I still can't go
Speaker 7: a day without thinking about this. Girls. Really yeah?
Speaker 8: Really?
Speaker 7: Do you.
Speaker 1: Feel like you will ever love again, like love another person?
Speaker 7: Yeah, because the love is in my heart. I love everybody.
Speaker 7: But I'm saying fall in love with another person. Yes,
Speaker 7: I have several relationships, and like I said, you have
Speaker 7: to find the right person to fall in love with
Speaker 7: it when it was connected with you. I did have
Speaker 7: when I blew it, but I believe there might be
Speaker 7: a second time around. I'm fifty fifty five going on
Speaker 7: fifty six right now, I'm not really focused on that,
Speaker 7: focusing on me, but in the future if it comes along, Yeah,
Speaker 7: I've love for the mature a woman, and I could
Speaker 7: uh bond waiting for the love and be happy and
Speaker 7: enjoy the rest of my days. Of course.
Speaker 1: Well, the person that you uh were initially kind of
Speaker 1: we're talking about, what was it that.
Speaker 4: Made you so in love with her?
Speaker 7: Everything? I mean, you build a bomb with the person,
Speaker 7: you know. At first it was really.
Speaker 4: Hey almost ran into us, so it was sut of
Speaker 4: love with me.
Speaker 7: But we just bonded. Man, We were we She was
Speaker 7: a pisces, she was one, she was the same age
Speaker 7: as me, a birthday in main streets, a couple of
Speaker 7: months in their own buddy. But yeah, we connected. Man.
Speaker 7: It was passion, it was love. It was mystery. It
Speaker 7: was a lot of other stuff going around with the
Speaker 7: family unit. But we stuck together, man, And you know,
Speaker 7: we at that young age, I didn't know what I
Speaker 7: was going. We didn't we didn't plan a playing a
Speaker 7: life together. But we just stuck together through all all
Speaker 7: the stuff that I her through. She didn't really put
Speaker 7: me through anything. But she was invited to die chicken.
Speaker 7: She just never went nowhere until I had to leave,
Speaker 7: and I left for two thiys and because I put
Speaker 7: it through a lot of stuff.
Speaker 4: But you you were like you laugh for her.
Speaker 7: Yeah, because I was. You know, actually I have two
Speaker 7: kids not with that person. So sometimes women, for love
Speaker 7: and other different reasons, they'll put up with you because
Speaker 7: sometimes they don't have nowhere to go or reasons they're
Speaker 7: in and you know, uh, everybody's situation is different. So
Speaker 7: sometimes people tolerate with they have to tolerate when they
Speaker 7: don't want to because they're in the best situation. But
Speaker 7: we we fought, We went to a whole bunch of stuff.
Speaker 7: But I wish it would have been better. I wish
Speaker 7: I would have did that differently. I wish I would
Speaker 7: have married her and been faithful and did a lot
Speaker 7: of things differently. But you know, I don't know if
Speaker 7: I got out a track on that good question.
Speaker 4: No no, no, no no.
Speaker 1: You're making me think about just like uh now, you're
Speaker 1: making me think about love and life. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm just like, oh fuck, I want to do Like
Speaker 1: I have this thing and I think a lot of
Speaker 1: young people have this thing where they're like, fuck, I
Speaker 1: want to do everything perfect, but it's like you.
Speaker 4: But you can't.
Speaker 1: And I just I'm having trub Like in my personal
Speaker 1: lif I'm having trouble like accepting that you know what
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 7: Perfect and it's the way you think. You know, you're
Speaker 7: going to try to think for the situation communication, what's
Speaker 7: best for you and the person. If it's you and
Speaker 7: the person, it's complicated, can say what's best for you
Speaker 7: and the kids? You know, are you selfish and you
Speaker 7: know it's it all about you? But you know everything
Speaker 7: nothing is perfect. Man, you gotta work through it. Make
Speaker 7: it work. Like life, you know, it's like sometimes you
Speaker 7: make mistakes and you gotta get back on track. And
Speaker 7: you know you got money, management, goals, work, bills, kids, food,
Speaker 7: It's a lot that goes with just life enough. You know,
Speaker 7: like you should not hear in a GUYE go suit
Speaker 7: with get go suit, like you know, I'm just saying,
Speaker 7: I know, I'm sure all your interviews not perfect.
Speaker 1: It's true now, it's true that these are not these conversations.
Speaker 1: You know, so just keep going, you keep going, you know,
Speaker 1: you keep going, You just keep going.
Speaker 7: There you go, you keep going.
Speaker 1: Do you have you ever like Okay, let me ask
Speaker 1: you this too, as of currently, do you have hope?
Speaker 7: Well? I have hope. Yes, it was many times I
Speaker 7: didn't have hope.
Speaker 4: That's all I was gonna ask. But that's what I
Speaker 4: was gonna ask, is in the past did you not
Speaker 4: have hope?
Speaker 1: And then in those moments where you didn't have hope,
Speaker 1: how did you regain the hope?
Speaker 7: Well, if you knew my whole life story, I went
Speaker 7: through ups and downs and depression is part of my life.
Speaker 7: You know. Drugs and alcohol can put you through a spin.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So it's many times where I had no hope, many
Speaker 7: times where I want to die. Yeah, many times I
Speaker 7: asked my man upstairs and go with you tomorrow morning.
Speaker 4: He said what he said, what tomorrow morning?
Speaker 7: Don't wake me up tomorrow morning?
Speaker 4: Oh God, God said, don't you saw you said to God,
Speaker 4: don't wake me up to morning up.
Speaker 7: In the morning. You know, I say life is hard.
Speaker 7: I said, nothing is perfect, and you go through charging tipulations.
Speaker 7: You have to be strong and it's real mentally, physically, spiritually.
Speaker 7: You know, you gotta have family, you have to have
Speaker 7: to support because sometimes you do lose, so people lose
Speaker 7: their job. It's hard out here. You know, people got bills,
Speaker 7: it's hard out here. So you have to stay positive. Man.
Speaker 7: I always have a positive image, but there there's been
Speaker 7: times where I didn't want to get out of bed.
Speaker 7: You know, I've tried. I've tried those attempts several times
Speaker 7: because I was in a real big rep. But you know,
Speaker 7: sometimes you go through it. But like you said, you
Speaker 7: gotta keep it going.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you gotta keep it going.
Speaker 7: But some people snap.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 7: You got people here killing their own families and shooting
Speaker 7: up everybody else, and you shooting schools and going crazy.
Speaker 7: But you gotta keep pushing through something.
Speaker 4: And sometimes I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1: But even in those moments, I'm like, you get a
Speaker 1: little air bubble that tells you, like you just gotta
Speaker 1: keep fucking keep.
Speaker 4: Moving, keep moving, you know, yeah, keep moving, Yeah, keep moving.
Speaker 7: At the same time, you gotta have a goal, you
Speaker 7: gotta you gotta have a plan, and you gotta, you know,
Speaker 7: follow through what you're playing. Nothing's gonna happen if you
Speaker 7: don't make it happen. And I guessaid there's gonna be
Speaker 7: some ups and downs, but you gotta keep pushing.
Speaker 4: So what do you have a plan for?
Speaker 7: Uh, no plan. I'm just going that's my life going.
Speaker 4: Cool, cool man, honestly cool man. Do you have like
Speaker 4: friends at this park? Like people?
Speaker 7: Yeah, there's a whole section of people are sitting on
Speaker 7: a basis day and everybody is different from different backgrounds, cool,
Speaker 7: different situations, and they love each other. Man, they got
Speaker 7: feed each other and sure enough, So yeah, I love
Speaker 7: this park. I met a lot of people. Gets that
Speaker 7: from the chest tables to overhead, to the dance people
Speaker 7: over there, to the past drug addictkes you to be
Speaker 7: of Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know its pro you know,
Speaker 7: to the artists, to the musicians, to the people with
Speaker 7: their new businesses. And I meant it's a lot of
Speaker 7: people out here. People just come through old young ages.
Speaker 4: It's the best. But how long have you do you?
Speaker 7: I'm I'm sorry, I coming back from the last since
Speaker 7: last year?
Speaker 4: How long have you lived in living in New York?
Speaker 7: For I been born in New York, born in Harlem,
Speaker 7: born in Harlem, raised and once uh and Douglas probably
Speaker 7: Stad one hundred third Street, Columbus Avenue in every Boro, Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, queens.
Speaker 7: I'm over so I'm I'm a staple to uh New
Speaker 7: York and I love New York.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like New York has uh changed significantly?
Speaker 1: Because well, because it's it's funny because and I've talked
Speaker 1: about this a lot on this show, because I do
Speaker 1: this in the park pretty often. Is like, uh, this
Speaker 1: obviously whatever technology and you know, uh, things change or whatever.
Speaker 1: But like the essence of like like people from all
Speaker 1: over the place gavi ring to be amongst each other.
Speaker 1: Seems like it is like the driving the thing that
Speaker 1: drives people to New York. It seems like it's still here.
Speaker 1: Do you feel that word? Do you feel like it
Speaker 1: was different?
Speaker 7: New York is New York. New York is always gonna
Speaker 7: be the best, say to come to no matter what
Speaker 7: you know we have. New York is just the greatest.
Speaker 7: I mean, And we have gotten better, you know, for
Speaker 7: ee checking, she's gotten better. Uptown, It's gotting better. They
Speaker 7: have more patis, things are building up, They've got more paces.
Speaker 7: Go see. Look, you know what I'm saying, Like New
Speaker 7: York's can always be number one. New York is always
Speaker 7: gonna be the best of you to beat, no matter
Speaker 7: what all the other states. I'm sorry, but New York
Speaker 7: is number one. Other people have come up. New York
Speaker 7: is always gonna be the best one. It's just so
Speaker 7: much to do in New York. See, you can said,
Speaker 7: the people just just just the vibe in New York.
Speaker 7: East Borough is different, and it's just it's just so
Speaker 7: much to do. So, you know, come to New York.
Speaker 7: Love New York. Sometimes I want some quiet, but I
Speaker 7: live in a quiet block, so I can stay home,
Speaker 7: but I love to come out and see people. Even
Speaker 7: though people can be rude, disrespectful and you know, just
Speaker 7: you know, just evil. But then you have a lot
Speaker 7: of good people in New York too. If you go
Speaker 7: down South, people say hi, good morning, they welcome you to
Speaker 7: New York. Don't do that. Anybody has a serious face.
Speaker 7: There's no there's no there's no what is the what
Speaker 7: I'm looking for?
Speaker 4: Fake politeness, sir.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there's no real politeness around the New York.
Speaker 4: But it feels real. It feels like a real place.
Speaker 7: Yeah, what you mean, it feels really New York is
Speaker 7: really It could be crime, mugging, drugs, fight in New York. Yeah,
Speaker 7: and the next the next is gonna do it this
Speaker 7: year nixt on the road. I just wanna say one thing.
Speaker 7: I'm sweat and sitting in the sun and I'm hot.
Speaker 7: My man got on the deco suit and I'm sweating.
Speaker 7: I know he's in here. Sweat.
Speaker 4: My body is adapted to be in this. What's your
Speaker 4: name again, Robert? Robert?
Speaker 1: Dude, Robert, thank you very much for sitting down talking
Speaker 1: to me, and I really appreciate it. Is there anything
Speaker 1: else you want to say to the people before we go?
Speaker 7: Support? Uh, talk to you, talk to support, talk to
Speaker 7: a real gecko?
Speaker 4: Thanks man.
Speaker 7: Anybody high fromed me up?
Speaker 4: I'm wrong?
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you, Robert. I appreciate your time. Man, Thank
Speaker 1: you very very much. Hope you remember if you get
Speaker 1: it out of use my money, we'll get it to you,
Speaker 1: see Robert.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 4: That was awesome.
Speaker 1: That was great. Oh that was perfect. That was amazing.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Robert. Oh that was great. I
Speaker 1: was good. Oh man, I remember why, I remember why
Speaker 1: I like doing this so fun, so great. Oh man,
Speaker 1: shout out Robert. What a fucking o. G Hey man,
Speaker 1: you want to talk to a gecko about life? It'll
Speaker 1: be fun. Yo, dude, you got an ice cream right now?
Speaker 1: Where we're did you get this ice cream at?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 4: Cool? Wait, this is dude, this ice cream is severely
Speaker 4: melting right now.
Speaker 6: I don't know why they gave it.
Speaker 4: To me, like what they gave it to you like that.
Speaker 10: And in mind you, he didn't give me a paper
Speaker 10: towel or a napking. So I had to come all
Speaker 10: the way over here, and then there was a stand
Speaker 10: and I had to ask some random lady for it.
Speaker 1: They just okay, these people, they just gave you a
Speaker 1: melted ice cream already.
Speaker 10: Honestly, yeah, you see, and it cost me ten dollars
Speaker 10: for like three schools.
Speaker 1: You know what You're like, you're like the chillist guy ever,
Speaker 1: because you it really feels like they handed you this
Speaker 1: melted ice cream, and like nine out of ten people
Speaker 1: would be like, yo, what the fuck is this? But
Speaker 1: you kind of seem like you're a chill enough guy
Speaker 1: that you're like, all right, I guess that's what I get.
Speaker 10: I mean, honestly, that's how you gotta look at life
Speaker 10: for selfie.
Speaker 4: You really feel that way, Yeah, that's how.
Speaker 6: You gotta it's melting you mind if I drop?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, you feel like that's how you have to
Speaker 4: look at life.
Speaker 10: That's really how you have to look at life itself.
Speaker 10: You know, you can't really not everything is a big deal,
Speaker 10: you know, the same way how I left there and
Speaker 10: I came over here and I got a paper towel
Speaker 10: and some random lady.
Speaker 6: You just got to go about life like that.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't get this, You don't get uh
Speaker 1: triggered very easily by life's things.
Speaker 6: I do, I do, I do, I do.
Speaker 10: But I feel like I'm just at a point in
Speaker 10: life where that's that's that's not all I look forward to.
Speaker 6: You know, It's like it's life.
Speaker 10: Life itself has so much things to offer that I
Speaker 10: really look at it from a point of view of
Speaker 10: why would I let a little situation really affect how
Speaker 10: the rest of my day will go?
Speaker 1: You know, when was the last time you can remember,
Speaker 1: metaphorically speaking, that life handed you a melted ice cream cone?
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's that's a good Honestly, I would say for
Speaker 10: sure the whole year of twenty.
Speaker 4: Five, why it was going on.
Speaker 10: Honestly, I was just dealing with a lot, you know, yeah,
Speaker 10: not financially, but just mentally yourself. You know, I haven't
Speaker 10: seen my mom in over like what sixteen years and
Speaker 10: then I was dealing with a significant other, you know,
Speaker 10: and then just to self school and then having a
Speaker 10: the worries of feeling like you're not really moving forward
Speaker 10: in life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, do you feel like, I mean, okay,
Speaker 1: compared to that time, do you feel now like you're
Speaker 1: moving forward in life?
Speaker 10: Honestly, you would think a whole year would be something.
Speaker 10: You would think that a whole year would be you know,
Speaker 10: past past a whole year, I would change, But it's
Speaker 10: like some days you just wake up and you still
Speaker 10: feel the same, you know. Yeah, And honestly, it's all
Speaker 10: about me trying to change who I am because the
Speaker 10: person that I was before is not the person that
Speaker 10: I want to be moving forward. So it's just a
Speaker 10: sense of me trying to better myself that as I'm
Speaker 10: really starting to feel like who am I, you know,
Speaker 10: trying to figure out who I am?
Speaker 4: So to you, what's the answer to that question? Like who?
Speaker 4: What is the ideal version of yourself?
Speaker 10: Honestly, I'm a person that like to help others. I'm
Speaker 10: a person that likes to be there for other people.
Speaker 10: I'm a person that, you know, just I like to
Speaker 10: be isolated that's one thing that I learned about.
Speaker 6: Myself this year.
Speaker 4: You like to be isolated.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's one thing that I.
Speaker 1: Thought you're You just said two contradicting things. You said,
Speaker 1: like to be there for other people like that, but
Speaker 1: you like to be isolated.
Speaker 10: Okay, let me go more in depth about it. Right,
Speaker 10: when it comes to like when it comes to like
Speaker 10: helping other people or just helping problems, like problems yourself.
Speaker 10: I like to be there for other people, but when
Speaker 10: it comes to like my own personal problems, like I
Speaker 10: tend to just like isolate myself or like I'll go
Speaker 10: for a walk, or I don't I don't like to,
Speaker 10: you know, talk to people about stuff.
Speaker 4: Do you have a lot of friends?
Speaker 6: I do have friends.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you see, Okay you have I'm trying to
Speaker 1: I can't buy that.
Speaker 4: You're like, are you lonely?
Speaker 6: No? No, no, no, no, I'm not lonely.
Speaker 4: You seem like if you're connected in some way.
Speaker 6: Yeah, of course, you know.
Speaker 10: I have friends, I have family members, and you know,
Speaker 10: I'm always connected.
Speaker 6: But it's like.
Speaker 10: Being around people for too long, like I said, you
Speaker 10: could tend to really lose uh self love self away.
Speaker 10: I feel like as a human being, you should really
Speaker 10: just take time to yourself, even if it's like a
Speaker 10: week or whatever, days, hours or whatever, just take time
Speaker 10: to yourself and really just have your own self reflection,
Speaker 10: you know, self isolation. That's the best thing that you
Speaker 10: could really do for yourself.
Speaker 1: When was the last time you took a period of
Speaker 1: self reflection?
Speaker 6: That's a good question. I feel like I always do
Speaker 6: even now.
Speaker 10: Honestly, I'm on break with work and stuff, so I'll
Speaker 10: just walk around really just taking nature and think about
Speaker 10: life and just where I want to be and where
Speaker 10: I'm going and where I'm at.
Speaker 4: What are you doing in the park here today?
Speaker 10: I mean I was just passing by, but I just
Speaker 10: sat down and I said, it's a nice day, everybody's outside.
Speaker 10: Why not just sit down and just eat ice cream?
Speaker 10: Reflect my life?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: All right, you mentioned problems with the significant other. Are
Speaker 1: you still with this lady? Are you with a new lady?
Speaker 4: Are you dating?
Speaker 10: It's a long it's a long, complicated story.
Speaker 4: Okay, if if it's a whole thing, you don't want
Speaker 4: to put it on a TV show. Whatever, it's okay.
Speaker 10: It's just the best thing that I could really say
Speaker 10: is having self accountability. They really take you far in life.
Speaker 10: And also you know, just accepting your wrongs and yeah,
Speaker 10: but besides that, I've been I've been single for like
Speaker 10: what eleven months?
Speaker 4: Now, Okay, how's the single life?
Speaker 10: It's boring, man, This is the first time in the
Speaker 10: while that I haven't, like, you know, really taken the
Speaker 10: time to like meet new people or being in a relationship.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's new to me.
Speaker 1: You know, relationships are tough, but it truly is a
Speaker 1: damned if you do, damned if you don't. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: there is no path, there is no if you're in
Speaker 1: a relationship, it's like, okay, now you have to it's.
Speaker 4: A lot of work. Yeah, So like, uh.
Speaker 1: Because now you're because you can because when you're alone,
Speaker 1: you can.
Speaker 4: Just be a piece of ship and you can just
Speaker 4: like be whatever you are.
Speaker 1: But then when you have like someone else like to
Speaker 1: get checking you, like, no, you have to, like you're
Speaker 1: you're a big part of someone else's life, so you
Speaker 1: have to now be a better version of yourself, whereas
Speaker 1: if you're just alone, there's no accountability to be a
Speaker 1: better version of yourself, you know.
Speaker 10: And it's it's also about having to be president too.
Speaker 10: Like constantly, Yes you have to be president another person. Yeah,
Speaker 10: you can't just zone the fuck out.
Speaker 6: You can't just zone out.
Speaker 10: And that's what I'm saying, Like, in order for you
Speaker 10: to like really be truly in a relationship or be
Speaker 10: in a relationship where you better each other, you first
Speaker 10: have to really find out who you are at first.
Speaker 10: You know, know who you are and know what you like,
Speaker 10: know the type of person that you want to be
Speaker 10: in a relationship. And I feel like that's the reason
Speaker 10: why I've really taken this long of a period of
Speaker 10: not being in a relationship because I don't want to
Speaker 10: be in a relationship where it's like the same thing
Speaker 10: with peace of self and knowing the type of person
Speaker 10: that I am. I feel like if a problem, do
Speaker 10: cause it's probably gonna come for me. But so I'd
Speaker 10: rather not put myself in that predictament or put the
Speaker 10: other person in that predictament. So I gotta better myself
Speaker 10: before be in a relationship basically, But.
Speaker 1: The whole thing of like knowing who you want to be,
Speaker 1: because I feel like you sometimes you like you meet people,
Speaker 1: you fall in love, whatever it is, and then by
Speaker 1: that process you discover more things about yourself. That's how
Speaker 1: it felt about relationships and stuff. Is like I've learned.
Speaker 1: I learned more about myself. I learn more about like
Speaker 1: what I'm capable of and what I like, and I
Speaker 1: also learn more about like oh fuck, I'm not. You learn,
Speaker 1: you learn, You learn both things that you didn't know
Speaker 1: about yourself that are good and that are bad.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know. And then that's that's that is very true.
Speaker 10: And that's what I'm saying, Like, you know, I feel
Speaker 10: like my bad outweights my goods really, so that's the.
Speaker 6: Reason why I really need to isolate myself.
Speaker 1: But when you were in a relationship with this lady, right,
Speaker 1: did you ever have points where you were like, oh,
Speaker 1: I didn't know I could be that guy, like in
Speaker 1: a good way, you know, like any like any times
Speaker 1: you're like had to like she kind of forced you
Speaker 1: to like step up in some way or she forced
Speaker 1: you to like be some way where you were like, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know I could even do that.
Speaker 10: I mean yes and no, because yes, because I always
Speaker 10: knew that I could be a better version of myself
Speaker 10: in a relationship.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So that's that's the yes.
Speaker 10: No, because I'm not the type of person that like
Speaker 10: to be pressure to, like, you know, like go out
Speaker 10: of my way and stuff.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I feel like I get you. I got you, man.
Speaker 10: I mean, but I feel like a relationship, if you're
Speaker 10: going to be in a relationship, you should always have
Speaker 10: a future.
Speaker 6: Version of an outcome that you want.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, Like go into it with a plan.
Speaker 10: Go with it with a plan, you know, because if
Speaker 10: you're just going into it just to go into it
Speaker 10: and see how it goes, it's not really gonna go anywhere.
Speaker 4: What's your name again, man, my name is Well, let's listen.
Speaker 4: I'll let you get back to that.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the ice cream right now, and it's
Speaker 1: just like the top, it's fully melted. It's just a
Speaker 1: cup of ice cream juice. I mean, I if I
Speaker 1: were you, I would still like I would drink the
Speaker 1: cup of melted ice cream.
Speaker 4: Is that what you're to do? You're gonna still consume
Speaker 4: whatever that is? Okay?
Speaker 6: Cool, I'm not gonna let let it go for waste, dude.
Speaker 4: That's life.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 1: Sometimes life gives you a melted ice cream cup and
Speaker 1: you're like, we're gonna roll with this.
Speaker 6: I mean, I got a one question for you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, please.
Speaker 10: Being that you interview a lot of people, right, What's
Speaker 10: something that you take away from me?
Speaker 4: What's something I take away from it?
Speaker 1: If I could be completely honest about that, the more
Speaker 1: I interview people, and the more I expand myself outwards,
Speaker 1: I actually feel like the less I know, I really
Speaker 1: do feel that, the more I'm like, Oh, there's no
Speaker 1: right answer to anything. Everyone has their own perspective and
Speaker 1: their own thing that works for you. Which I can
Speaker 1: conclude from that that you are, in some way, shape
Speaker 1: or form, the decider and maker of your own destiny
Speaker 1: because you have no there is no objective right or
Speaker 1: wrong to say, visions by which to.
Speaker 4: Hold yourself too. I think I understand if that makes sense.
Speaker 10: It makes perfect sense, you know. I mean, well, I
Speaker 10: hope you keep going. Thank you, that you grow from this.
Speaker 1: Thank you all. It's nice talking your chill, fucking dude,
Speaker 1: I'm sure whatever. I hope you achieve all your dreams. Man,
Speaker 1: one day, one day, life's gonna hand you a fucking nice, firm, hard,
Speaker 1: fucking uh scoop of ice cream.
Speaker 4: You know none of this?
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you a do. I'll see you around the universe.
Speaker 1: Take care of man, you too. Man, No, don't worry.
Speaker 1: Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. Take care
Speaker 1: of man. For the For those listening on the audio version,
Speaker 1: he got up and the ice cream just melted all
Speaker 1: over these these wires that I have. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: a little harder to get someone to sit down on
Speaker 1: the chair now because, uh, there's a little bit of
Speaker 1: melted ice cream not on it, but like near it.
Speaker 1: But uh, it's okay, we'll figure that out. Do either
Speaker 1: of you want to talk to a gecko about life?
Speaker 4: Here? Have a seat.
Speaker 1: Hi, what's your name? Mush mushfirat, listen to me?
Speaker 4: You mush for rap? No, that's okay.
Speaker 3: What do you What do you eat?
Speaker 4: And you got a sandwich?
Speaker 1: There?
Speaker 4: Oh you got a hot dog? A hold dog.
Speaker 2: I'm from Britain, so.
Speaker 1: Okay, from Britain. Wait, you've never had a hot dog? Wait,
Speaker 1: I'm about to watch you. I'm about to watch wait,
Speaker 1: this is a wait, hold on, this is I'm about
Speaker 1: to watch a person who's never eaten the hot dog
Speaker 1: before eat a hot dog. Okay, I mean, I I
Speaker 1: mean you know this is a big deal.
Speaker 4: I'll let you go. You're on pace. But I'm I'm ready,
Speaker 4: all right, let's hear it, let's see it.
Speaker 1: Thoughts, it's a bit celting, It's nice.
Speaker 4: What are you doing? What are you doing here? From?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 4: From from Britain, from London, from London.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm interning with these girls.
Speaker 4: Girls. Oh cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm just interning for like three months. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna be here for five days and then I'm going.
Speaker 4: After And uh, what do you think of New York
Speaker 4: so far?
Speaker 2: Unique?
Speaker 3: It's really unique.
Speaker 2: London is that kind of similar with sub boys and anything.
Speaker 2: But I feel like New York City has look at you.
Speaker 2: You wouldn't see this in London.
Speaker 1: My my understanding of London is that, oh, there's police
Speaker 1: officers here. This is the one every time I go
Speaker 1: and do this, I get kicked out of wherever I am.
Speaker 1: But this is the one place I never get kicked out,
Speaker 1: So I don't get as anxious when I see police.
Speaker 4: Sorry. So I feel like we have a bad rap
Speaker 4: bad in London. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't like you guys.
Speaker 4: Now, yeah, yeah, but this is your first time in America.
Speaker 2: No, I love it. I thought I was like, I
Speaker 2: love I love the subway. I love how people saying yeah,
Speaker 2: people stressed up like you. I love that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I love it so much. And what's the
Speaker 4: what company you're in turning at?
Speaker 2: It's a company to be confidential so comedies?
Speaker 4: Sure, sure, sure.
Speaker 2: But yeah it's just a normal company.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, well okay, so what are you gonna do
Speaker 4: in DC? What's the plan? So DC?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be working there for two moms as finance,
Speaker 2: some even finance. Yeah, all I can say this is
Speaker 2: an aerospace company that's about air, but not too much.
Speaker 1: So you seem fairly underwhelmed by the hot dog. It
Speaker 1: seems like it's not exactly changing your life.
Speaker 2: No really, no, it's plain. Yeah, I'm not gonna know.
Speaker 1: Someone just said someone just yelled at her from off screen.
Speaker 1: You need to save the hot dog. We need it
Speaker 1: for the picture.
Speaker 3: Yeah what the picture?
Speaker 1: What's this picture? So basically you're making content. Everyone here
Speaker 1: is making content.
Speaker 2: We need to help with that.
Speaker 4: Okay, you might help with that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, taking a picture for a company, and whoever wins,
Speaker 2: it's basically between groups and you have to get the
Speaker 2: best New York picture.
Speaker 1: You're the best that I'm so okay, I'm honored so this,
Speaker 1: so we'll take a picture yeah.
Speaker 2: With the hot dog, and we're gonna take a picture
Speaker 2: with them as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, of course, yeah, of course, okay, cool, all right,
Speaker 1: well let's do it.
Speaker 4: Let's see the arch in.
Speaker 2: The back too.
Speaker 11: Okay, cool, Okay.
Speaker 1: We are taking a photo with a bunch of people
Speaker 1: we're helping. So this is like us, this is like
Speaker 1: this is like a scavenger hunt that we're doing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, we need the bag.
Speaker 4: We'll do one more. We gotta get say three T.
Speaker 2: One, just all die love three T one.
Speaker 4: Oh this is perfect, we got you got the cow
Speaker 4: guy in it.
Speaker 3: Too, exactly.
Speaker 4: Oh hell yeah, thank you so much for the interview.
Speaker 1: Of course, of course, is there anything else that you
Speaker 1: want to say to the people of the computer before
Speaker 1: we go?
Speaker 2: I love New York City. You guys should visit here
Speaker 2: from anyone from non then come to New York City.
Speaker 4: Come America.
Speaker 1: Beautiful, beautiful. Yeah, thank you very much. Did appreciate you.
Speaker 1: A good day, enjoy the hot dogs.
Speaker 3: Going on?
Speaker 4: What's up?
Speaker 1: Man, So you're you're in a you got a cow
Speaker 1: outfit on? And what is the occasion for this cow out.
Speaker 3: So NBA Game one of the finals tomorrow night.
Speaker 12: I'm trying to get five hundred cows outside MSG for
Speaker 12: the watch party. You know, after the game, all the
Speaker 12: fans are on Seventh Avenue going nuts.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're trying to get five You're trying to ge
Speaker 4: five hundred people cows.
Speaker 3: A herd of cows?
Speaker 4: Why a herd of cows?
Speaker 12: To be honest, I came to I think game two
Speaker 12: of the first round just by myself as a cow
Speaker 12: because I was like, I want to make some content.
Speaker 12: I've been doing content for about a year, and so
Speaker 12: I showed up as a cow because my parents were
Speaker 12: cows at Halloween back in like eighty six at Penn
Speaker 12: State or something like that, and so I asked him.
Speaker 12: I was like, Hey, do you have anything ridiculous I
Speaker 12: can wear for the game. They're like, yes, we have
Speaker 12: a cow costume for you.
Speaker 3: So I wore it.
Speaker 12: I got on the Jumbo Tron, made some videos. They
Speaker 12: did pretty well, and so I wore it to a
Speaker 12: couple other events after that, and then heading into the finals,
Speaker 12: I knew that, you know, the final, the Knicks Finals
Speaker 12: is the biggest thing that's happened to New York sports
Speaker 12: in the last ten years since the Giants won the
Speaker 12: Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: So I figured, let's go big or go home.
Speaker 12: Let's get five hundred cows by time, maybe game four roles.
Speaker 4: And how many cows have you recruited so far?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 12: I have a group chat on Instagram of about one
Speaker 12: hundred cows.
Speaker 4: I'd say, okay, I know, how did listen? Man, listen.
Speaker 1: I appreciate the ambition of trying to get five hundred people,
Speaker 1: but one hundred's pretty good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, how did you recruit? How did you recruit those people?
Speaker 3: I'd say, I know personally maybe half of them.
Speaker 1: You know, you know fifty people you know you no, no, no,
Speaker 1: this is you know fifty people who are you're close
Speaker 1: enough with that you can convince them to dress up
Speaker 1: as cows.
Speaker 3: Or at least verbally verbally verbally.
Speaker 4: Confirmed that they were okay. So we'll find out, Yeah you got.
Speaker 1: You gotta imagine that of the one hundred, at least,
Speaker 1: you know, at least a thirty percent of them will bail.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I'm said my expectations low, Like, there's a chance
Speaker 12: that four people show up tomorrow.
Speaker 3: But if you get.
Speaker 1: Four people, if you have four friends who are willing
Speaker 1: to be dressed up in a costume for you, that's
Speaker 1: pretty good. Where are you getting these costs? Like everyone
Speaker 1: has to because there's a financial commitment. I mean this,
Speaker 1: how much money do you think this costume is?
Speaker 3: I tell you about seventy maybe?
Speaker 1: Okay, this guy buys fucking animal costume. Yeah that's you know,
Speaker 1: that's a big buy in. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 12: So I've been doing content for about a year now.
Speaker 12: I started with a podcast, and over time I was like,
Speaker 12: I want to do more man on the street type
Speaker 12: of deal.
Speaker 1: And I see you got a microphone with you. We're
Speaker 1: on your we're on your podcast. What's the microphone say?
Speaker 3: Let me see.
Speaker 12: I was a kicker in college and I started a
Speaker 12: podcast around about like niche athletes in sports, cool man whatnot.
Speaker 12: And then I me and my buddy that's behind the
Speaker 12: camera over there, we went to a celebrity golf tournament
Speaker 12: last summer and we started interviewing athletes at the tour
Speaker 12: and I was like, I love the man on the
Speaker 12: street type deal. It's a lot of fun, it's entertaining.
Speaker 12: I kind of like to be in the mix.
Speaker 1: So it's I'm not done with this cow thing. So
Speaker 1: how did you recruit those hundred peep? The other fifty
Speaker 1: like just random volks.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 12: So when it first started, I opened it up and
Speaker 12: I put some of my story and I said, whoever
Speaker 12: wants to join the group chat, I'm trying to get
Speaker 12: a hurd of cows together. Gave my initial pitch, and
Speaker 12: then about five people joined, and I was like, hey,
Speaker 12: spread the word. Tell your buddies, like, let's get them
Speaker 12: as many cows as we can. So of the five,
Speaker 12: they brought on maybe five more of their own buddies
Speaker 12: than it grew a twenty five. And then I just
Speaker 12: invited a bunch of celebrities, some of them have probably
Speaker 12: never opened a chat in the last couple of days,
Speaker 12: but it's all good.
Speaker 3: You gotta shoot your shots.
Speaker 12: And then over time it got to about eighty five
Speaker 12: i'd say, real people, and then fifteen or celebrities that
Speaker 12: I just invited to the chat.
Speaker 3: They probably never look at.
Speaker 1: It, Okay, So you got them out eighty five real people,
Speaker 1: and everyone's gonna buy their own costume. Everyone's throwing in
Speaker 1: the seventy bucks yeah for the costume.
Speaker 12: This is forty bucks off Amazon, So I here, this
Speaker 12: is forty yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 12: So at first I threw I told everyone I was
Speaker 12: gonna buy the cow costume.
Speaker 3: So that was when it was like four people in.
Speaker 1: This that was Yeah, that would have been you're yeah,
Speaker 1: you're out like what four thousand dollars?
Speaker 12: Yeah, if I were to, but I'm I'm not at
Speaker 12: that point yet. So I said, I'll throw in the
Speaker 12: Amazon link. Whoever can do it would love to have you.
Speaker 3: Let's hurt up.
Speaker 4: Let's okay, okay, all right? Cool man? So and when
Speaker 4: is uh? When? When is the next thing?
Speaker 3: When is the next game?
Speaker 12: One of the finals of tomorrow night at msg OH
Speaker 12: playing is to congregate before the game at around The
Speaker 12: game's at eight thirty, I believe, So we'll get there
Speaker 12: at like six.
Speaker 1: This will come by the way. I just I don't
Speaker 1: want you to waste your breath. This episode is coming
Speaker 1: out way after that. This episode is coming out, so
Speaker 1: you so we'll find out. Yeah, if you were able
Speaker 1: to pull it off, well, okay, I'm up the opinion
Speaker 1: that if you can get if you can convince one
Speaker 1: other person, I mean again, Jesus had what thirteen followers.
Speaker 4: Something like that.
Speaker 1: If you can convince you know, four other people to
Speaker 1: dress up in a costume, that's pretty good.
Speaker 12: Yes, sir, Yeah, absolutely, I think after game one, if
Speaker 12: we make some noise, who knows, maybe a bar store
Speaker 12: one of the major news networks gets the word out,
Speaker 12: and then maybe by game two we double and go
Speaker 12: from there, so we'll see cool man.
Speaker 1: Well look, I'm just saying this, like, you know, it's
Speaker 1: exciting to chase the numbers and be like, oh, we'll
Speaker 1: double it. But God, I'm telling you, if tomorrow ten
Speaker 1: people show up wearing that cow costume, just fucking be like, Wow,
Speaker 1: that's sick. Absolutely, you gotta be because if you can't
Speaker 1: be stoked with whoever is yeah, with your thing, you
Speaker 1: won't be stoked when there's you know, eighty billion people.
Speaker 12: No, Yeah, absolutely, And I was having fun just doing
Speaker 12: it by myself, you know, last week, two weeks ago,
Speaker 12: so everything else.
Speaker 4: Who is this camera guy? How do you know? You're
Speaker 4: a high school friend?
Speaker 3: One of my best budds from high school.
Speaker 12: Last summer he came with me to the Lake Tahoe
Speaker 12: golf tournament and we had a ton of fun. We
Speaker 12: were we must have walked fifteen miles every day during
Speaker 12: a three day tournament, doing a bunch of videos. And
Speaker 12: then we both graduate from school about a week and
Speaker 12: a half ago.
Speaker 3: From high school from college.
Speaker 4: Cool?
Speaker 12: Yeah, yes, sir so, and then he was like, you know,
Speaker 12: I love to maybe hop on with you full time.
Speaker 12: So actually our plan is we're gonna fly out. He
Speaker 12: went to San Diego State for school. I don't know
Speaker 12: if we can disclose that, if that's all right. Yeah,
Speaker 12: So we're going out there and we're gonna he drove
Speaker 12: out to school at the start of the year, So
Speaker 12: we're gonna fly out there and then drive his car
Speaker 12: all the way back home.
Speaker 3: Do like a ten day road trip across the US.
Speaker 4: Did cool? Doe. Honestly, you guys seem like you're living
Speaker 4: a good life.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 4: Just enjoy the fucking present.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 4: You guys got good lives. Yes, sir, what's your name? Man,
Speaker 4: I'm Nick Nick. Nice to meet you. Nick.
Speaker 1: I hope that uh, I hope everything goes well with
Speaker 1: your your cow Endever, let me how do I how
Speaker 1: do I figure out? If this worked? What do I
Speaker 1: Where do I go? Yes, I'll let you do a
Speaker 1: plug go ahead?
Speaker 6: If is it?
Speaker 3: Is it going?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: So I guess I'll do double mic here.
Speaker 12: But yeah, so nich So on Wednesday, tomorrow night, we're
Speaker 12: getting herd of cowsgether The goal originally was five hundred.
Speaker 12: We'll just see how many we can get tomorrow before
Speaker 12: the game, congregating.
Speaker 3: Who's ready to utter up?
Speaker 1: I like that utter up? Yeah, okay, I'll sign off
Speaker 1: on that. I'm not gonna be there, but i'll sign off.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Do you have mootion?
Speaker 4: Do I have mootion? Uh? Sure?
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: That sounds like a low steaks thing to have. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll accept that. I'll be on this. That sounds I don't.
Speaker 1: That doesn't sound like a strong like position where it's yeah, okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a low stakes commitment.
Speaker 4: To have motion. Yeah, I'll have motion.
Speaker 3: You do, all right?
Speaker 4: Nice me, and let's meet you too.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 1: Take care Nick, thanks man, thanks for coming. Thank you, man,
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Have it going, guys.
Speaker 4: All right, let's talk to one more person. Have a seat,
Speaker 4: have a seat, my friend. What's up?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 4: What's your name? I'm Ezra. Nice to meet you, Ezra,
Speaker 4: nice to meet you. I'm familiar with your content.
Speaker 1: Oh, swag, swag? How's uh? How's your life going?
Speaker 7: Man?
Speaker 8: It's all right, you know, okay, classic day, beautiful day,
Speaker 8: beautiful day, son son out.
Speaker 4: What are you doing here at the park today? I'm
Speaker 4: I'm meeting with a friend. How do you know this friends?
Speaker 3: High school?
Speaker 4: Okay? Yeah, are you in high school?
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 4: You met him in high school?
Speaker 1: Do you remember what the situation was, what the context
Speaker 1: was that you met this friends?
Speaker 3: In class?
Speaker 4: Do you remember what the class was?
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's a seventh grade humanities?
Speaker 4: What what is humanities?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 6: English?
Speaker 4: Reading?
Speaker 6: Okay? History?
Speaker 4: Okay? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And uh, well, do you remember what it was about
Speaker 1: this guy that first attracted you to him, that made
Speaker 1: you feel like you wanted to be his friends?
Speaker 8: I remember him being a very nice guy, very forthcoming.
Speaker 8: You know, he has a great sense of style, kind
Speaker 8: of looks like a mob boss.
Speaker 4: Really, where is he?
Speaker 1: He?
Speaker 4: He's not here? Yeah, this is wait that way. Can
Speaker 4: you come here for a second.
Speaker 1: I just you don't have you don't have to talk,
Speaker 1: but you can you crouch that you actually have a
Speaker 1: great you?
Speaker 4: Do you look like this all the time? Really?
Speaker 7: Wait?
Speaker 4: Can you? I'm sorry? Could you guys share? Do you
Speaker 4: want to be on the thing?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 4: Cool, dude, you look awesome?
Speaker 3: This awesome?
Speaker 4: You got like a Tony soprano vine.
Speaker 3: That's my ship. I love that show.
Speaker 4: What's your name, Nicky? Nice to meet you, Nikki dude.
Speaker 1: Wait, you you two have two completely different you guys
Speaker 1: both look very different though, really tell me more, But
Speaker 1: do you feel like opposite attractive?
Speaker 3: I like.
Speaker 9: I like talking to people that are different from me.
Speaker 9: It's more interesting, you know.
Speaker 1: And are you uh so? Are you guys both in
Speaker 1: college right now?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Are you like?
Speaker 5: M y u?
Speaker 3: No, we're from here. We're from the city.
Speaker 4: You're from the city. Okay, cool?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're both upstate for college.
Speaker 1: What's your deal? Who are your parents? What's your deal?
Speaker 1: You feel something to you? I'm trying to figure it out.
Speaker 3: It's a chef.
Speaker 9: My dad's in a lot of businesses. Actually, I'm sure
Speaker 9: he is. And my mom's a teacher.
Speaker 4: Okay, so I know, I gotta get another chair. His
Speaker 4: dad's in the mafia. His dad seems like he's in
Speaker 4: the mafia.
Speaker 9: A lot of different businesses. You know, he's in a
Speaker 9: lot of different businesses. He's not in the mom though.
Speaker 1: And so what are what are you training to become
Speaker 1: in college? What is your what is your goal for college?
Speaker 9: I kind of want to do law, like a criminal
Speaker 9: defense criminal defense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, help out some of your homies in the mob,
Speaker 1: help with some of the wise, guys. You know what's funny.
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is related. Have you ever
Speaker 1: played the video game? This just happens to be the
Speaker 1: video game I'm playing at the moment. Is if you're
Speaker 1: played Phoenix right Ace Attorney. It's a it's a video
Speaker 1: game about a defense attorney. That's the only reason it
Speaker 1: came up to me. So if you're if your homie
Speaker 1: is in trouble, would you defend him?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 9: Yeah, you gotta stick by your friends, never betray your friends.
Speaker 4: Nice man, Nice, What are you guys about to go do?
Speaker 9: We're about to take our other friend shopping for his
Speaker 9: prom suit.
Speaker 3: We gotta do him right. We gotta make sure he's
Speaker 3: dripped out for a senior prom.
Speaker 1: Really yeah, you guys are like you guys have a
Speaker 1: good friendship together.
Speaker 4: This is really sweet. Thanks nice, This is nice. What's
Speaker 4: your name again? I'm Ezra, Ezra, Ezra.
Speaker 1: Well, before we go, is there anything that you feel
Speaker 1: like you want to tell the people about friendship? What
Speaker 1: have you learned about friendship through being friends with this
Speaker 1: cool looking guy?
Speaker 8: I think that I've learned friendship is one of the
Speaker 8: most important things in life, especially you got to become
Speaker 8: friends with the the mob type that people like that,
Speaker 8: you know, the people that can benefit you later in
Speaker 8: your life if you get into some kind of trouble
Speaker 8: or something, and uh, it's just about I think friendship
Speaker 8: is just about friendship, you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Nikki, you got anything? Is that get away?
Speaker 7: Nikki?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Nikki is do you have anything you want to
Speaker 4: say about friendship? Nikki?
Speaker 2: Listen?
Speaker 9: And in life, there's nothing more important than friendship. You
Speaker 9: gotta stand by your friends, even if they do some
Speaker 9: really fuck ship. I meant to point. Always got to
Speaker 9: stand by your boys. You know, you gotta talk good
Speaker 9: about them behind their back and to the front.
Speaker 1: That's a class. This man was born to be a
Speaker 1: criminal defense attorney. His friend's doing some fucked up ship,
Speaker 1: He's like, nah, I got your back the hell?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yo?
Speaker 1: What's your your name? Ezra, Ezra Nicky? Nice to meet you, guys, man.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much for for for grace in the pod.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you, bless you guys. Well, folks, I think how
Speaker 1: long have we been going? I think I think we
Speaker 1: did it. I think we did a podcast. I think
Speaker 1: we I think we beat a gecko. That was that
Speaker 1: was great. That was a really fun time. Thank you
Speaker 1: guys very much for joining. This reminded me how much
Speaker 1: I love doing this outside. I feel like it's it's
Speaker 1: been probably like a year since we've done our last
Speaker 1: episode outside, so I'm definitely gonna keep doing these.
Speaker 4: I'll be back.
Speaker 1: Thanks for watching. If you're watching this on YouTube, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I haven't uploaded the podcast on YouTube in a while.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out what the hell I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do with that. But anyway, do I have anything to plug? No, now,
Speaker 1: I'm not plugging. I'll plug outside. I think outside is
Speaker 1: a good place to be. I think outside is a
Speaker 1: great time. I think you should go outside and should
Speaker 1: talk to people, live your life.
Speaker 4: And uh that's it.
Speaker 1: Uh waite second, Oh sorry, I'm I'm about to pack up.
Speaker 1: I'm about to pack up, but but I will be back.
Speaker 1: I will return. We will do more of these. We
Speaker 1: have one question, yeah, okay, one we can do one.
Speaker 1: We'll do one question. You got one question, We got
Speaker 1: time for one question?
Speaker 4: Hit me, hit me?
Speaker 7: All right?
Speaker 4: What's the one question? If you had to live anywhere
Speaker 4: on this earth that we live on, yes, where would
Speaker 4: you live? I would live right here in New York City.
Speaker 4: That's a great answer. What about what about you? Barcelona? Barcelona?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Where do you live right now? I live in Harlem? Oh?
Speaker 1: How come you don't move to Barcelona? It can never
Speaker 1: be just one question. I always gotta always get into it.
Speaker 1: That's my that's my fault. That's my fault. That's my fault.
Speaker 1: That's my fault. That's my fault.
Speaker 4: Why how come you're not in How come you're not
Speaker 4: in Barcelona? I love someone here? You love someone here?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 4: How did you fall in love with them? You met
Speaker 4: her right there?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh wow, oh wow, four years ago. Oh that's beautiful.
Speaker 1: Oh that's amazing how it goes when you feel this deeply.
Speaker 11: So that's why, although I feel deeply about Barcelona, it's
Speaker 11: hard for me to separate. I feel self you love
Speaker 11: her more than you love being in Barcelona or being
Speaker 11: in the place where I think eventually we both will
Speaker 11: And this is a test for me need to I'm
Speaker 11: not a patient person to kind of live out the
Speaker 11: practice of being patient, like she has work to do
Speaker 11: and I know our eventual That makes.
Speaker 4: Sense, Yeah, of course, of course, of course.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 4: So wait, how did you guys meet?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 4: What was the I just saw her, and.
Speaker 11: I said, I've only had like five girlfriends.
Speaker 7: In my life.
Speaker 1: That's that's the way. That's a lot of girlfriends. Well,
Speaker 1: i'm fifty, that's no, that's a lot. That's like one,
Speaker 1: that's one per decade. One girlfriend per decade is pretty good.
Speaker 4: Twenty four years. You're right, you're right usually, and I'm
Speaker 4: that type of person.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 13: You you fall in love and you kind of commit.
Speaker 13: Yeah yeah, but I saw her and this is my hangout,
Speaker 13: I live over there, cool, and it was just like
Speaker 13: you couldn't deny it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: What was your opening line? Would you say to her?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 11: She was talking to another musician, and I said, Lee,
Speaker 11: please stop talking to her.
Speaker 7: I need to talk to her.
Speaker 4: Well, oh, this is you're second a musician that you know. Well,
Speaker 4: she's kind of in the circle.
Speaker 11: But she was just over there and it just hit me.
Speaker 11: So I asked Lee, and he's a singer too, and
Speaker 11: she's a singer, to just please step aside because I
Speaker 11: felt that adamant about Mike Keeling to tell her that
Speaker 11: you're the one.
Speaker 4: So to this day, she's the one. That's beautiful, man,
Speaker 4: that's goddamn. That's beautiful.
Speaker 1: Man. Shit, I feel like, uh, I feel like we
Speaker 1: learned a lot about love today. I'm glad to hear
Speaker 1: that it's working out. But well, dude, because I don't know,
Speaker 1: because like I will, like you said, you're fifty, so
Speaker 1: you found this.
Speaker 4: So you're in love with a woman that you met
Speaker 4: when you were forty six. That gives me. You have
Speaker 4: no idea how much that gives me hope. You should
Speaker 4: give all the hope everywhere.
Speaker 1: That gives me so much. I'm twenty eight, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: it's over. I gotta pack it up. I'm gonna die.
Speaker 1: Fuck it all. But then I hear something my dad,
Speaker 1: my actually both of my parents they met who they're
Speaker 1: currently with when they were around the age you met
Speaker 1: the little lady that you're with. I hear stuff like that,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I can't kill myself. I gotta keep going.
Speaker 7: Right, and it just does.
Speaker 4: That's what I mean.
Speaker 1: I saw her and it was just like that, that's beautiful.
Speaker 1: But you have to stay in tune to be open
Speaker 1: one hundred percent. Yeah, I know, I know exactly what
Speaker 1: you're talking about. You have to stay in tune.
Speaker 4: I agree. You have to say too, you have to
Speaker 4: be a tuned with because one because if you're a comic,
Speaker 4: I know what you mean. I know exactly what you mean,
Speaker 4: I know exactly way.
Speaker 1: It's once you give up, Once you give up and
Speaker 1: you're like, everyone sucks, I'm never gonna find I'm too old,
Speaker 1: I'm too fad, I'm too whatever. Once no, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's true. Once you say it, it becomes true. But
Speaker 1: it is once you stay tuned and you stay open.
Speaker 1: That's the struggle, dude. That's the struggle is to just
Speaker 1: stay a tuned and to stay open. Then something you
Speaker 1: know clicks. Respect. Thanks for giving me hope today. Thanks
Speaker 1: for giving us all hope. Man.
Speaker 4: Is there anything you want to say to the people
Speaker 4: of the computer before we go?
Speaker 11: Stay true to yourself and love yourself and be kind
Speaker 11: to yourself and the ones next.
Speaker 1: Ghek Bless you guys, Thanks for listening, see you all
Speaker 1: around the universe.
Speaker 6: Never goes on the line taking your phone calls.
Speaker 5: Every night, never goes to.
Speaker 3: Just teaching you loud in your life.
Speaker 6: He's not really an expert.