Speaker 1: Hello, Hey, what's that man?
Speaker 2: Well, it's passing, dude.
Speaker 1: What's your name?
Speaker 2: My name is Dusty.
Speaker 1: Are you all right? Dusty?
Speaker 2: But I'm all right. I like, I'm all right, I'm fine.
Speaker 1: Uh what's going on with you?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 1: You sound like I just woke you up?
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, I'm just I'm chilling. It's the long day,
Speaker 2: you know. Now we're here. Yeah, I'm awake.
Speaker 1: Well, Dusty, tell me my my good sir. What would
Speaker 1: you like to talk to a gecko about today?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean I texted you about this thing that happened.
Speaker 2: Basically I like to do uh, I like to do ketamine.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I can say that on here.
Speaker 1: But say whatever you want.
Speaker 2: Fuck yeah, I like doing that. And h one night
Speaker 2: I ended up doing that and like drinking some alcohol,
Speaker 2: which like makes you like kind of like black out,
Speaker 2: but it like also makes you stay conscious. And I
Speaker 2: like had like a fool on orgy with like my
Speaker 2: best friends and like our chicks, and then like do
Speaker 2: you not remember any of it? Was completely conscious through
Speaker 2: all of it. Woke up the next day like laying
Speaker 2: next to like a massive dildo, and like that's how
Speaker 2: like I found out I was like, oh, something went down,
Speaker 2: but yeah, so you.
Speaker 1: Got I was like, you got sucked up on ketamine
Speaker 1: and walk up next to a dildo?
Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty much. And then I asked my friends because
Speaker 2: they were they were not blacked out, but I asked
Speaker 2: them and they were like, yeah, no, we we definitely
Speaker 2: had an orgy. And I was like, yo was it
Speaker 2: was like was I good? And they were like, yeah,
Speaker 2: you were? You were you were good. Like I was
Speaker 2: like conscious, like did I like do anything weird? They're like, nah,
Speaker 2: you were, you were chilling. You did you did the thing?
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I mean I'll let me ask you that.
Speaker 1: How do you how do you feel about this experience?
Speaker 1: Is this like a like cause you sound like you
Speaker 1: sound like you feel like, oh this was this is sick.
Speaker 1: I had no orgy and I didn't even know it,
Speaker 1: but I know it. Do you feel that way or
Speaker 1: do you feel like, oh man, I should stop getting
Speaker 1: sucked up on ketamine?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 2: It's kind of like a little bit of both. It's
Speaker 2: like Yoda's cool, but at the same time, it's like
Speaker 2: it would have been cooler if I could have remembered it,
Speaker 2: and it probably would have still happened if I wasn't
Speaker 2: like on ketamine because it's like I don't know, but yeah,
Speaker 2: I do want to like not do ketamine and drink anymore.
Speaker 2: But it's kind of like when I do ketamine, alcohol
Speaker 2: is like already like in the premise, so I feel
Speaker 2: like it's just like already gonna happen. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1: Talk to us about ketamine for those who don't know,
Speaker 1: I feel like ketamine And maybe it's just because I'm whatever,
Speaker 1: but uh, I feel like ketamine has been a new
Speaker 1: thing that I've been hearing about, like it is a
Speaker 1: new new phenomenon. Tell us about it.
Speaker 2: It's uh, it's honestly probably like it's one of my
Speaker 2: favorite drugs. I wouldn't say's my favorite one, but it's
Speaker 2: like it's like I call it indo co cocaine because
Speaker 2: it's like you snored it and then but instead of
Speaker 2: like getting all hyped up, it's just like you chill out,
Speaker 2: and it's like it can get like psychedelic if you
Speaker 2: do a lot. Like for the most part, it's like
Speaker 2: it's just gonna like chill out. And yeah, sometimes I
Speaker 2: call it like portal hopping, like you like like you'll
Speaker 2: see ship from like third person and you're like you
Speaker 2: like it's like the Verde of the k Hole, but
Speaker 2: like you'll see shit from like third person and like,
Speaker 2: I don't know, it gets trippy, it gets real fucking trippy,
Speaker 2: but it's it's cool and like in a safe environment,
Speaker 2: it's like I think it's fun.
Speaker 1: That actually is that is? I've never heard it described
Speaker 1: like that. I know it's. Yeah, it's indy coo cocaine.
Speaker 1: I know you you snored it once. I tried it once.
Speaker 1: I only tried it once, and I didn't like it.
Speaker 1: It It just kind of like made my heart hurt
Speaker 1: and didn't do anything really Yeah.
Speaker 2: Huh no you should. You should, Like well, I wouldn't say,
Speaker 2: like I'm not trying to encourage you to like try
Speaker 2: it to get but like if you wanted to, like
Speaker 2: don't be like like I wouldn't like pray from it,
Speaker 2: you know, like be upen minded to it might have
Speaker 2: just been like not good stuff maybe, But yeah, I
Speaker 2: love it personally.
Speaker 1: Okay, so uh I love it?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 1: To do do you feel like you have a problem
Speaker 1: with it?
Speaker 2: I say, like I've had problems with it, but like
Speaker 2: at this moment, no, like what classifies a problem, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, Like I don't feel like I
Speaker 2: have a problem, but like to like a person who
Speaker 2: doesn't do ket of me, and they'd be like, yo,
Speaker 2: that's you got like a little bit of a problem.
Speaker 2: But like, I don't think I have a problem. I
Speaker 2: think there's a lot of people who do a lot
Speaker 2: mar ketamine than.
Speaker 1: Be that's true. What is what would have to happen
Speaker 1: for you to be like, ah, that's that's a problem.
Speaker 1: Uh looking up next to an even bigger dildo.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Maybe like
Speaker 2: like if I like a near death experience, or like
Speaker 2: if I like I went to like jail or something
Speaker 2: over it, but like I don't, I don't see that
Speaker 2: like happening. It's like more like I just like to
Speaker 2: go to the rave, get fucked up, and go home.
Speaker 2: But like you know, uber and things like that. So
Speaker 2: like I don't I feel like really like I feel
Speaker 2: like I'm pretty safe about it, but I don't what.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: What else has gone on in your life?
Speaker 2: Dude, Honestly, you want to hear some other crazy shit
Speaker 2: that just happened. Sure, Okay, So, like, uh, my ex
Speaker 2: we've like been broke up for like a little bit.
Speaker 2: Uh literally, just like on Saturday, I went to like
Speaker 2: this really chol party with my friends. I like played
Speaker 2: some music. It was a guit time, and my ex like, well,
Speaker 2: we like had the same friend group and so like
Speaker 2: she was like hitting everyone up to hang out, but
Speaker 2: they didn't want to make it awkward, so they were
Speaker 2: like kind of like ignoring her, like out of respect
Speaker 2: for me. But I guess like she looked up one
Speaker 2: of my friends that was there, She looked up her
Speaker 2: location on snapchat, showed up to where we were at
Speaker 2: and slashed all our tires and then dip the fuck out.
Speaker 1: All of your tires, yes, my.
Speaker 2: Tires, and then my friends they rode there together, but
Speaker 2: she slashed their tires too, and they didn't even find out.
Speaker 2: So they were like on the freeway in Dallas and shit,
Speaker 2: and they were like, what the fuck's happening with her core?
Speaker 2: And they like sent me a snapchat and I was like, Yo,
Speaker 2: it's crazy, all right, I have a flat tire too,
Speaker 2: and like, what.
Speaker 1: Is it is?
Speaker 2: It?
Speaker 1: Is it bad to me if the worst thing I've
Speaker 1: heard from you so far as that you're still using Snapchat. Ah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's a classic. I feel like I still
Speaker 1: like Snapchat is a classic. I'll log into my Snapchat
Speaker 1: once a year or something like that, but I feel
Speaker 1: like Snapchat is a classic. Like a place to buy drugs.
Speaker 1: I remember like pot dealers used to like put their
Speaker 1: ship on their story.
Speaker 2: I don't know, you gotta get a telegram now, really
Speaker 2: do you?
Speaker 1: Do you really like the whole the whole way. I'm
Speaker 1: curious about this, the whole telegram thing, like like the
Speaker 1: whole uh are people actually like it's like if you
Speaker 1: organized a ketamine uh exchange over a Facebook messenger? Like
Speaker 1: is anyone do you actually think anyone's like looking at
Speaker 1: your messenger to see if you're buying ketamine? Like does
Speaker 1: anyone actually care that much about you?
Speaker 2: Not about me? But maybe like the person sewing it
Speaker 2: to me? Sure, But I mean I'm not I'm not
Speaker 2: only a very paranoid person. I just I don't know,
Speaker 2: maybe I'm maybe that's a bad thing, you know, like
Speaker 2: maybe I was gonna.
Speaker 1: Say that that could that could be the ketaman.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe it could be. It could be a lot
Speaker 2: of things. Honestly, I'm just like, I just like don't
Speaker 2: like the feeling of being paranoid, and so I like
Speaker 2: don't like focus on that, like if I see a cop,
Speaker 2: like I just like I'm like, cool, there's a cop there.
Speaker 2: But like if he worried about me, probably not been
Speaker 2: with like online things.
Speaker 1: So so tell me this, why do you think your
Speaker 1: ex girlfriend slashed your tires?
Speaker 2: Oh? She told me so, like because I called her
Speaker 2: and I like psyched her out. I was like, I
Speaker 2: got you on a ring camera doing it, so like
Speaker 2: I'm gonna call the cops on you right now. She's
Speaker 2: like she like busted, like real fast. I had no
Speaker 2: camera evidence, like I didn't.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Someone might have had a ring, but I didn't have it.
Speaker 2: So she told me and like she like she like
Speaker 2: told me everything. She's like, I just like felt like
Speaker 2: my friends tool chose you over me and all this stuff.
Speaker 2: And I was like, damn, that doesn't have to be
Speaker 2: like that, and that's some psycho shit to like find
Speaker 2: us and then slash our tires. But yeah, I like
Speaker 2: more like a jealousy thing because her friends chose me.
Speaker 2: I don't know sure, but it wasn't even like that.
Speaker 1: Are you in a new relationship now?
Speaker 2: No? No, not at all. I'm big chilling just being single.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna soak it up for a minute.
Speaker 1: Very nice. Are you? So is anything is anything good
Speaker 1: and reasonable happening in your life?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Indeed? Uh, I like pretty recently moved to like
Speaker 2: Dallas and like got a really dope ass job I
Speaker 2: like do music, and my music's like actually doing some shit.
Speaker 2: I got booked in like Colorado and Oklahoma and Arkansas,
Speaker 2: and yeah, it's like going really good. That's why I'm like,
Speaker 2: honestly like this beach just like I slash my tires
Speaker 2: is like out of my life really good. So that's
Speaker 2: a really good thing. And like, I don't know, life
Speaker 2: is a great thing and I'm really happy to be here.
Speaker 1: That's good. Well, well, I guess you can't possibly be
Speaker 1: addicted to drugs if you feel.
Speaker 2: Good, right, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I don't don't take, don't take, don't take anything. I say, seriously,
Speaker 1: I have no fucking idea, you know.
Speaker 2: You know what I always say is it's not an
Speaker 2: addiction until it's affecting, uh, the people you love around you.
Speaker 2: If it's affecting their life, that it's an addiction.
Speaker 1: I don't know I'm not gonna sit here, and uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm going to sit here and
Speaker 1: figure out the the precise definition of what an addiction
Speaker 1: would be. But I mean, I'm glad you sound like
Speaker 1: you're uh doing cool stuff. This DJ thing seems like
Speaker 1: it's it's it's panning out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like it's fun make some weird, weird noises
Speaker 2: and get to go cool place to show people my
Speaker 2: weird noises.
Speaker 1: So who all was in this orgy?
Speaker 2: Oh? Okay, so it was this Uh So I was like, a,
Speaker 2: it's just like not my girlfriend, but like we like
Speaker 2: hang out quite a bit. It was with her, my
Speaker 2: best friend and his fiance. And then I guess it's
Speaker 2: just a foursome. But that's like that's enough. But and
Speaker 2: then yeah, but I don't remember any of the leading
Speaker 2: up to We were like apparently like in the back
Speaker 2: of a car in a Whataburger parking lot, like getting
Speaker 2: it on in the back seat, like going through the
Speaker 2: drive through. I don't remember any of it.
Speaker 1: Dude, This took place in the drive through of a Whataburger.
Speaker 2: No, it started to take place, and then we got
Speaker 2: the food, went to my best friend's house, and then
Speaker 2: it like escalated from there, like no one even ate
Speaker 2: what a burger like. I woke up to like completely
Speaker 2: fool beals of what aburger like out in front of me.
Speaker 2: It was the best thing ever, honestly, Like, if you
Speaker 2: think about it, like hungover suck you wake up and
Speaker 2: full with a burger meal right there in front of
Speaker 2: your face.
Speaker 1: Did you have se Do you have sex with your
Speaker 1: friend's fiance?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's like it's it's like love. It's like
Speaker 2: it's like a love thing. Now, it's not like a
Speaker 2: weird thing. It's like I don't know, it's not you know,
Speaker 2: it's kind of weird to explain. It's more like a
Speaker 2: like they're polyamorous, and me and my like lady friend
Speaker 2: are also pretty poly. So it was just like a
Speaker 2: good time, good night. You know.
Speaker 1: I think you're someone that we can all aspire to be,
Speaker 1: like Dusty.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, thanks, man, I don't aspire to be like
Speaker 2: you in some ways too, man, Like you you're a
Speaker 2: very inspirational person.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know if I don't know if
Speaker 1: you're addicted to academene, but uh, whenever you realize that
Speaker 1: you are, you're gonna have some pretty interesting stories to
Speaker 1: tell in narcotics. Anonymous.
Speaker 5: Hell, yeah, stay stay stay okay, all right, just uh
Speaker 5: don't I mean, I don't, I don't know, man, I
Speaker 5: just don't.
Speaker 1: Don't go too crazy, don't like, uh, don't black out
Speaker 1: and uh be just be careful who you're with whenever
Speaker 1: you black out in the drive through of fast food restaurants.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, all right, Hey, man, it is dope, dopes he'll talk.
Speaker 1: To Yeah, it was cool talking to you too.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm deciding. I'm deciding. I'm not worried about you.
Speaker 1: I'm deciding you're gonna be.
Speaker 2: No, don't be not at all. I've like like, I'm
Speaker 2: like like a like, I feel like I don't have
Speaker 2: a problem in like I gotta think going. You know,
Speaker 2: I keep things together in my life for.
Speaker 1: The most part, Dusty, is there anything else you want
Speaker 1: to say to the people of the computer before we go?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely, Uh love everybody for real, like show love,
Speaker 2: spread love.
Speaker 1: Hey, what's your snapchat? My snapchet No, don't don't get us,
Speaker 1: don't give it. Get your snapchat? All right, thank you, Dusty,
Speaker 1: I have a good night. I agree with him. There
Speaker 1: is something kind of awesome about waking up to old
Speaker 1: What a burger that you can eat? Hey, folks, this
Speaker 1: is Lyle. I am very excited to announce that I
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Speaker 3: Hello.
Speaker 1: Oh Jesus, where are you?
Speaker 3: Man? I'm that word right now.
Speaker 1: Oh well, I want to talk to you, but you
Speaker 1: you I there's so many things going on in the background.
Speaker 3: Hang on, it got better.
Speaker 1: No, No, where do you work?
Speaker 3: I work at the so like an amusing place like
Speaker 3: a Day and Busters. But it's called Whirlelyballs.
Speaker 1: Can you take me off of the speakerphone.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you're not on speakerphone right now, man.
Speaker 1: So Whorleyballs. What is Whirlelyballs.
Speaker 3: It's it's got like laser tag and their signature game Warllyball,
Speaker 3: which is like basketball and lacrosse, but you're in a
Speaker 3: little bumper car and ship. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: That actually sounds Do they just have that or do
Speaker 1: they have that plus like different like arcade games and ship?
Speaker 3: Uh well, I mean it's kind of like their main
Speaker 3: thing is they get their game warleyball, but they have
Speaker 3: bowling alleys and they have laser tag. They have like
Speaker 3: a two story laser tag.
Speaker 2: They hear.
Speaker 1: That sounds sick. How many warleyballs are there around the world?
Speaker 1: And I've never I we had a place called Players,
Speaker 1: which is a similar similar stick, but I've never heard
Speaker 1: of a whirlly ball.
Speaker 3: I mean there's there's like five on five you know,
Speaker 3: that's like the max we allow. And do you have
Speaker 3: like a little like plastic racket you scoop up a
Speaker 3: with football at the passage your teammates and you score
Speaker 3: on the backboard going on. It's pretty cool. I just
Speaker 3: got done with the party because I'm a referee.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Do people ever get mad at you for
Speaker 1: bullshit calls?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes they do, and I tell them don't argue
Speaker 3: with the rest for I'm kicking you out.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. That must feel. That must feel so good.
Speaker 1: That must feel like you run a country or something.
Speaker 3: It is it is. It is my favorite part of
Speaker 3: the job. It's calling people out and then making fun
Speaker 3: of them when they miss wide open shots.
Speaker 1: M M yeah, So Xavier, what town are you in? Xavier?
Speaker 1: Where's the word? Is this Warlely ball at?
Speaker 3: It is in Naperville, Illinois.
Speaker 1: Naperville, Illinois. What time is it there?
Speaker 2: It is?
Speaker 3: What? Let me see? It is just about eight thirty here?
Speaker 1: Wow? Okay, So so club going up on a Tuesday
Speaker 1: in Naperville, Illinois.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, yes, sir, And I'm here talking to a
Speaker 3: wonderful get go bet all right?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 1: Is well? Thank you? I just don't have to ask.
Speaker 1: Is anyone get pissed off that you're on the phone
Speaker 1: right now instead of shit?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: I mean it's very slow right now. I just got
Speaker 3: done at the party and I have like two hours
Speaker 3: to close up shops. So okay, right now?
Speaker 1: Great? Well, x Avier, I saw you texted something you
Speaker 1: wanted to talk about. But I'll just I'll ask you
Speaker 1: what what did you want to talk about?
Speaker 3: Well, I wanted to talk to you about being a
Speaker 3: black being a black kid in a white town, raised
Speaker 3: white parents. He's been like one of the only ones
Speaker 3: out there.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, I think somebody just got to strike in
Speaker 1: bowling when you said that you want to are you you?
Speaker 1: It's so funny that you decided to call me from
Speaker 1: a fucking bowling alley anyway, but you seem like an
Speaker 1: interesting guy, So I'm going to try to talk to
Speaker 1: you through the noise. Oh my god, it's really a
Speaker 1: bowling alley. Jesus Christ, is there any way? You're gonna like,
Speaker 1: we're here's the thing we're gonna get. We're gonna get
Speaker 1: into like a really serious part of this conversation, and
Speaker 1: you're gonna be talking about a revelation you had in
Speaker 1: your youth, and you know how you want to repair
Speaker 1: your relationship with your father and then someone it's a strike.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm running to the Breaker network right now.
Speaker 1: I'm okay, all right, I'll walk.
Speaker 3: In through the kitchen about the thank the elevator.
Speaker 1: So you said that you were you were raised by
Speaker 1: white parents in an all white town.
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Are you are? Are you adopted?
Speaker 3: Yes? I am.
Speaker 1: Well I'll let you start, uh tell me about this,
Speaker 1: however you would like to start, Well.
Speaker 3: It all kind of started when I was like really little. Actually,
Speaker 3: so I have two other siblings, one older and one younger,
Speaker 3: so we were all putting foster care for the young
Speaker 3: and my sister was too old. So like, me and
Speaker 3: my younger brother are really ones that were like, you know,
Speaker 3: sought after, and we were actually kind of lucky. We're
Speaker 3: with the first families where that took us in, you know,
Speaker 3: which doesn't really ever happen because the adoption system is
Speaker 3: fucking and traumatizing kids beyond belief. So it's it's kind
Speaker 3: of a shitty experience as a whole. But me and
Speaker 3: my younger brother were lucky ones. My sister wasn't so lucky.
Speaker 3: She didn't end up getting adopted by a family. But
Speaker 3: she's all right, wait a.
Speaker 1: Minute, so you so so you're you're you got separated
Speaker 1: from your siblings. Yes, yes, really they do that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's not as bad as it wasn't as
Speaker 3: bad as like it could.
Speaker 1: Have done, you know, because what do you mean it
Speaker 1: could have It wasn't as bad as it could have been.
Speaker 3: So actually it ended up that, uh, the family that
Speaker 3: adopted me and the family that adopted my younger brother,
Speaker 3: they they knew each other.
Speaker 1: Whoa.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so like we were we and my younger brother.
Speaker 3: Ever stay in touch.
Speaker 1: You're like your family friends with your brother.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, which was really nice.
Speaker 1: That's fascinating.
Speaker 3: This sister actually got taken in by my biological grandma,
Speaker 3: but she wasn't very fond of the families that took
Speaker 3: me or my younger brother in, so it's kind of
Speaker 3: hard to stay in contact with her during our younger years.
Speaker 1: By the way, I try not to read the comments,
Speaker 1: but people are talking a lot of shit about Naperville
Speaker 1: in the chat.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's horrible. It's horrible. Thankfully I don't live
Speaker 3: out here.
Speaker 1: What makes it so horrible?
Speaker 3: It's so fun stilly actually, So I used to date
Speaker 3: a girl out in Aperville, right, And I used to
Speaker 3: live soutly, like about half an hour south in Aprilville,
Speaker 3: and I would every time i'd leave her neighborhood, I'd
Speaker 3: get followed by a car to the highway. Jesus, it
Speaker 3: was the same car every time. And like there's a
Speaker 3: bunch of like there's a bunch of rich, preppy, racist
Speaker 3: white people out here, you know, so like it's it's
Speaker 3: not it's not a great place. And a lot of them,
Speaker 3: like a lot of like their kids, like their teenage.
Speaker 3: Their children, especially their sons, like to put on a
Speaker 3: performative act of like being gangster, almost for acting hood
Speaker 3: in a way, and it's it's it's almost idios. It
Speaker 3: is idiotic. It's idiotic and really stupid.
Speaker 1: And so how long how long have you did you when?
Speaker 1: What age were you at when you were adopted?
Speaker 3: I was adopted at five, okay?
Speaker 1: And how old are yeah?
Speaker 3: I am twenty two about to be twenty three.
Speaker 1: March okay, So you you basically lived your whole life
Speaker 1: with this family and in this neighborhood. Yes, what was
Speaker 1: it like growing up?
Speaker 3: It was weird. It was weird because there was like
Speaker 3: one other black kid down the street, but he moved
Speaker 3: away when I was really young. Shout out to that man,
Speaker 3: j Justin Smith. I miss you every day, bro. But yeah,
Speaker 3: after once he moved, I was I was like flying solos,
Speaker 3: like you only black kid in my grade or in
Speaker 3: my school for the longest time, And it was it
Speaker 3: was weird and I didn't really understand it until a
Speaker 3: little bit later. Like you ever heard of the you know,
Speaker 3: the rapper Earl Sweatsher? Uh?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, he said in the songs that he was a
Speaker 3: he said in the song it was a too black
Speaker 3: for the white kids and too white for the blacks,
Speaker 3: you know, And at that point it kind of clicked
Speaker 3: because I heard that when I was like when it
Speaker 3: was like early on Future Days, So I was like
Speaker 3: I've been like a fancist like day once. Like when
Speaker 3: I heard that, it clicked, you know, and like it
Speaker 3: kind of made sense, but it still left me feeling alienated,
Speaker 3: you know, but like it also let me know. It
Speaker 3: was like that whole lot of future collective kind of
Speaker 3: let me know that it's okay to not follow the
Speaker 3: you know, the normal African American stereotype, you know, because
Speaker 3: like I'm far from it. I'm far from it, you know,
Speaker 3: Like I don't I'm not big on sports. You know,
Speaker 3: I'm not a violent person, you know, I'm not. I'm
Speaker 3: not you know, I'm very far from like the stereotypical
Speaker 3: archetype of a black man.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: You know, like, do you do you not now as
Speaker 1: an adult? Do you do you now have black friends?
Speaker 3: That's the thing, it's really it's I've been having, Like
Speaker 3: that's that's one thing I've been striving to have and
Speaker 3: I've been struggling to find it?
Speaker 1: Can you go can you like meet is there? Like
Speaker 1: you know how there's black people meet dot com? Right,
Speaker 1: can you go on there for friends?
Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't think so yeah, Like I
Speaker 3: have a girlfriend, you know, and she's mixed, so like, hm,
Speaker 3: well she has she's white. She doesn't really identified as
Speaker 3: like a white person because like she hasn't like all
Speaker 3: like the negative connotations that come to like that come
Speaker 3: with white people, and she's not she doesn't act like
Speaker 3: a stereotypical white person, you know. So it's like we
Speaker 3: we jokingly classify as a person who happens to be white,
Speaker 3: you know, mm hmm.
Speaker 1: You know she can she does, she say the word.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no no, but she is. She is
Speaker 3: very understanding of black culture, which is wonderful m hm,
Speaker 3: very very supportive.
Speaker 1: And so like when you were growing up as a kid,
Speaker 1: like middle school, high school, you're still friends with those folks.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I didn't have very many friends. I had
Speaker 3: like one, so my best friend Colton, he's so as
Speaker 3: you know, I'm twenty two by be twenty three. This
Speaker 3: man has been my friend for twenty years. And our
Speaker 3: dads were friends and our friends were friends in middle
Speaker 3: school and because of that, we met each other and
Speaker 3: we've been friends since we were two m And that
Speaker 3: is something I can proudly say because I know that
Speaker 3: not very many people within my age range can say
Speaker 3: they've had a friend for twenty years. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now what about your your So you said you're you
Speaker 1: have a brother and a sister, and your brother was
Speaker 1: adopted by a family that is friends with the family
Speaker 1: that you were adopted by. Yes, and do you are
Speaker 1: you still hanging Are you still cool with that brother?
Speaker 1: You still hang out with him?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's harder now because I'm working full time and
Speaker 3: he's in college and so it's it's hard to find time.
Speaker 3: But like it's all love, you know, we still look
Speaker 3: after each other. We still like hang out whatever we can,
Speaker 3: you know. And our older sister is more in our
Speaker 3: lives now, you know.
Speaker 1: Interesting, where did where did she go? Is it hard
Speaker 1: to find her?
Speaker 3: No, she's actually so I was in my hometown and
Speaker 3: we were actually like we were each in a town
Speaker 3: over from each other. So like I was in the
Speaker 3: middle town, my brother was in the eastern town right
Speaker 3: next to me, and my sister was in the western
Speaker 3: town right next to me.
Speaker 1: MM hmm.
Speaker 3: So she still is there, and so like I've moved farther.
Speaker 3: I'm like almost an hour away from my hometown right
Speaker 3: now because I love with my girlfriend. And but yeah, wait.
Speaker 1: So you okay, so you work at a uh uh
Speaker 1: an entertainment center in Naperville, but ye live an hour out.
Speaker 3: I live half an hour out.
Speaker 1: Why do you still work there?
Speaker 3: The job market is horrible? Well, job market is horrible.
Speaker 3: The job market is whole. I used to do warehouse work,
Speaker 3: but just ever since I moved, he's been terrible to find,
Speaker 3: like warehouse work that's willing, like they're hiring, but they
Speaker 3: won't hire anybody.
Speaker 2: M hmm.
Speaker 1: And are you are you? Are you a lifelong Floridian?
Speaker 1: Would you ever move anywhere else?
Speaker 3: I do want to move to Virginia?
Speaker 1: What's going on in Virginia?
Speaker 3: I went out? So in August I went out for
Speaker 3: one of my really good friend's weddings with a couple
Speaker 3: of my buddies. We took a road trip there. It
Speaker 3: was like two thousand miles round trip, like from because
Speaker 3: they went to Western Michigan at the time. I drove
Speaker 3: from Chicago to Western Michigan University all the way to
Speaker 3: Virginia Beach. So it was like a thousand miles just
Speaker 3: in one direction, but it was Virginia Beach is a
Speaker 3: beautiful area. It was beautiful from what I saw. It
Speaker 3: was warm, there was a very diverse crowd. You had
Speaker 3: very small town vibes in certain areas, but it was
Speaker 3: also like a whole big it's a big area. You know,
Speaker 3: you have the ocean right there. It's it's just from
Speaker 3: what I witnessed, it was a it's a beautiful place.
Speaker 1: What would you do? What would you do there?
Speaker 3: Honestly, I'd find work. I mean, I'm right now I'm
Speaker 3: taking classes for User Experience Designs MHM, which is I'm
Speaker 3: not sure if you're aware of what that is, but u.
Speaker 1: X design it's like, uh, you make you make uh yeah,
Speaker 1: you make apps hard to use?
Speaker 3: No, you actually make them easier to use. If something's
Speaker 3: ever really hard to use, like and it's confusing, that
Speaker 3: usually means they only had one designer but within their team,
Speaker 3: or they didn't have any designers and they just kind
Speaker 3: of threw it together.
Speaker 1: I want to know this and if if you want
Speaker 1: to talk about it, did you ever get to uh
Speaker 1: like back into context, because it's interesting because so you're
Speaker 1: in contact with your your biological grandma. Were you ever
Speaker 1: in contact with your mom or dad or any of
Speaker 1: your other biological family?
Speaker 3: Uh? No, No, I have not seen my biological mother
Speaker 3: since I was four, and I've never seen my biological father.
Speaker 1: So then does your are you still cool with? Uh?
Speaker 1: The grandma?
Speaker 3: She lives in Texas and I never really got any
Speaker 3: way to contact her, you know, so well, she's she's around.
Speaker 3: It's all love, you know, But like I don't really
Speaker 3: ever communicate with her.
Speaker 1: What about any of your other siblings? Do they do
Speaker 1: they communicate with them?
Speaker 3: My sister, my older sister is that's because that's like
Speaker 3: basically her mom, my grandma. My brother's her grandma raised
Speaker 3: my older sister.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: So like my older sister loves my grandma mm hm.
Speaker 1: And what else is they going to say? Are you
Speaker 1: still so like your your adopted parents? What's their deal?
Speaker 1: Who are they?
Speaker 2: They were?
Speaker 3: I was actually the first child they adopted. They they're
Speaker 3: wonderful people. They're wonderful people. They've given me a life
Speaker 3: more than I could even ask for. You know, They've
Speaker 3: they've set me up in the with within their best abilities.
Speaker 3: You know, they've bent over back. It's time and time
Speaker 3: again to give me the best life that I could
Speaker 3: possibly have, and I'm forever grateful for that.
Speaker 1: But that's awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean obviously, you know, there's ups and downs,
Speaker 3: you know, like there's no right way to pairing a
Speaker 3: kid if there's no like you know, like I wasn't
Speaker 3: a perfect kids. Like, obviously there's up and downs, you know,
Speaker 3: and there's some things we still don't see eye to
Speaker 3: eye on, you know, even though I'm glown, you know,
Speaker 3: and there's still like some that there's still some issues.
Speaker 3: But like at the end of the day, I mean,
Speaker 3: I love them dearly. You know, they've done more for
Speaker 3: me than I could ever even ask.
Speaker 2: You know, do you.
Speaker 1: Do you are you still close with them now that
Speaker 1: you are live an hour out?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, honestly, Like at first, it was like the relationship
Speaker 3: with my my foster mom was a bit rocky towards
Speaker 3: the end of like me moving out, But ever since
Speaker 3: I moved out, it's gotten better. I think it was
Speaker 3: at that point where it was like we just kind
Speaker 3: of made it stay for each other. Yeah, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and on top of that, like a bunch of my
Speaker 3: other foster siblings have moved out, you know. So, I
Speaker 3: mean it's really just a lot of the birds are
Speaker 3: leaving the nest so to speak right now.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Yeah. So what's your ultimate goal here then?
Speaker 1: Ux designing? What's the if you could wave a magic wand,
Speaker 1: what would you what would you?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: What would your life be?
Speaker 3: If I could wave a magic wand and have my
Speaker 3: life be perfect?
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: If it was actually perfect and everything like was like
Speaker 3: my way, I probably I'd end up owning three different
Speaker 3: different brands I have like my three favorite cards, live
Speaker 3: in a good house with my girlfriend, and we'd be married,
Speaker 3: and she'd be having the best barbering career of her life.
Speaker 1: Barbering career like she cuts her.
Speaker 3: Yes, my girlfriend's a barber, cosmetologist and raider. Oh, very exactly.
Speaker 3: My girlfriend's fucking awesome. I love my girlfriends so much.
Speaker 1: That's very sweet.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: How'd you guys meet?
Speaker 3: So funny story, Actually we met through two people. So
Speaker 3: like I used to be. I used to be kind
Speaker 3: of like a bar junkie. So I used to go
Speaker 3: to the bars all the time, like when I was
Speaker 3: like twenty one, because it was I just got it
Speaker 3: out of my system earlier. I don't really drink anymore.
Speaker 1: But you're twenty two, right, Yes, okay, you're talking about
Speaker 1: just like it was, like it was ten years ago.
Speaker 3: No, I know, it's it's weird. It's weird when I
Speaker 3: say it, but like it's true. Like I just I
Speaker 3: got bored of it really fucking quick. But I don't
Speaker 3: do it anymore. But So, I had this drinking partner
Speaker 3: right at the time, who was a forty eight year
Speaker 3: old lesbian.
Speaker 4: Momouldn't because she's like now like a godmother figure to me.
Speaker 4: So she was dating somebody who knew my girlfriend through
Speaker 4: like a similar circle, right, and we both met.
Speaker 3: We both end up running into each other because we
Speaker 3: were both invited out to his karaoke bar, right, And
Speaker 3: I'm outside and I see her and I go, hey,
Speaker 3: I like your outfit, and she says, hey, I like
Speaker 3: yours too, Because that's just how I am. Like, if
Speaker 3: I see somebody with a nice outfit, I'm gonna tell
Speaker 3: them like their outfit. You know, it's not that deep.
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna say it, you know. But I've thought
Speaker 3: nothing of it. I was like, I'm probably never gonna
Speaker 3: see this person again. And then I go back inside
Speaker 3: to sit down and we see each other and it
Speaker 3: was like the Spider Man me mother fun at each other.
Speaker 3: We both looked at each other and immediately like we
Speaker 3: just started hitting it off. And in my mind the
Speaker 3: whole time I'm talking to her, I'm like, this person
Speaker 3: is like the coolest fucking person ever. This person's amazing, right,
Speaker 3: And I ended up getting her snapchat and I find
Speaker 3: out she's a barber. I'm like, well, next time I
Speaker 3: get a haircut, I'm coming to you, and if you
Speaker 3: do a great job, You're the only person I'm seeing
Speaker 3: from my head. She goes all right, cool, but I
Speaker 3: never got the information on how to book an appointment,
Speaker 3: and I never asked where she works. So, like six
Speaker 3: months later, after I finally built up enough courage to
Speaker 3: like reach out to her because I'm like, this person
Speaker 3: is too fucking cool, I asked him, like, hey, how
Speaker 3: do I book an appointment? She sends me the link.
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, damn, okay, so I book an appointment. Anyway.
Speaker 3: Two months later, I come in and she's like ecstatic
Speaker 3: to see me after like so long, and I'm like,
Speaker 3: holy shit, yes, So I sit down. We started she
Speaker 3: starts cutting my hair, and it was like we never
Speaker 3: missed a beat. M it was. And then we started
Speaker 3: actually communicating and snapchatting, you know, like actually like you know,
Speaker 3: talking to her like friends. And then after that we
Speaker 3: kind of realized, holy shit, we have a lot of
Speaker 3: stuff in common, right, And they're like, do we just
Speaker 3: become best friends? She's like yeah, And then we started
Speaker 3: hanging out more and then next thing, you know, we
Speaker 3: kind of catch feelings for each other and now we're
Speaker 3: dating and.
Speaker 1: That's very sweet. How long he is been dating for?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: We are approaching seven months now.
Speaker 1: Very sweet, very sweet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, seven months together, almost a year of like, you know,
Speaker 3: just like talking on a romantic way. M.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, I guess before we go, I'll ask you.
Speaker 1: I mean, the original subject that you wanted to talk
Speaker 1: about was like specifically the experience of of being the
Speaker 1: only black guy in town. And I don't know, do
Speaker 1: you do you was there anything else that like about
Speaker 1: that subject specifically that you wanted to to to share
Speaker 1: or do you feel like we covered it?
Speaker 3: I mean, there's there's a hell of a lot more,
Speaker 3: but I'll leave it with this. My message to the
Speaker 3: people of the computer if you ever feel like an
Speaker 3: our test, Just know there's other people who feel the
Speaker 3: same way. You are not alone in your feelings. Embrace
Speaker 3: your true self.
Speaker 1: What's the absolute worst part of Naperville? Like, give us
Speaker 1: the reason, not like, the biggest reason not to go
Speaker 1: to Naperville, Florida.
Speaker 3: Oh, this is Naperville, Illinois. This is Naperville, Illinois.
Speaker 1: Oh why the fuck did I think it was Florida?
Speaker 1: Thought this was Florida the whole fucking time.
Speaker 3: No, this is Illinois, this is Illin.
Speaker 1: It just sounds like a place in Florida. Okay, tell
Speaker 1: us why not to go to Neighborville, Illinois.
Speaker 3: It's fucking horrible. It's a bunch of snotty, snobby knows
Speaker 3: white people. There's no diversity of culture. It's like if
Speaker 3: you saw a corner field and was like a Starbucks
Speaker 3: will looked really fucking nice here. That's basically the embodiment
Speaker 3: of Naperville.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Well, it's like.
Speaker 3: Naperville wants to be Chicago so bad.
Speaker 1: You know, at the very least they have a bumper
Speaker 1: car basketball facility.
Speaker 3: That's Yeah, it's a pretty decent way to describe it.
Speaker 1: Well, I guess you already said it, But is there
Speaker 1: any final thing you want to say to the people
Speaker 1: of the computer before we go.
Speaker 3: Stay true to yourself, don't change for other people. Let
Speaker 3: your let your life decide who you're supposed to be.
Speaker 3: Follow your gut and stay true.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the uh, the the kind word, Xavier. Now
Speaker 1: go yell at some kids to stop running.
Speaker 3: I will get buss gek blood.
Speaker 1: Take care, Take care man, you.
Speaker 4: Dude.
Speaker 1: Does anyone remember I'm trying to remember. There was a
Speaker 1: place called Jeepers. There was a place called Jeepers. They
Speaker 1: had this like banana ride and it was kind of
Speaker 1: half rides, half arcade. There's a place called jeep I
Speaker 1: think there was a few Jeepers. Shout out to Jeepers.
Speaker 1: Just wanted to end this call by saying, shout out
Speaker 1: to Jeepers. Shout out to players in Maryland. Shout out
Speaker 1: to Chuck E Cheese. Can you still get into Chuck
Speaker 1: E Cheese? Can you get into Chuck E Cheese without
Speaker 1: an adult? They have the best pizza, dude, They have
Speaker 1: the best pizza. There was this thing where they ran
Speaker 1: a ghost kitchen where you could order Chuck E Cheese pizza,
Speaker 1: like just from Uber Eats. Or whatever the fuck, and
Speaker 1: I never did it, but I wish I did, because
Speaker 1: they have the best piece I've been I went to
Speaker 1: Italy a while ago and I had pizza and it
Speaker 1: wasn't as good as the chuck E cheese pizza. So
Speaker 1: so yeah, hello, Hello, Hi. What is your name?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 6: My god, my name is Scarlet?
Speaker 1: Scarlet? What's going on? How's life?
Speaker 6: It's great? How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm a gecko on the computer and I'm actually having
Speaker 1: a pretty I'm having a pretty nice night. I'm having
Speaker 1: a pretty good recording session. I'm enjoying talking to people.
Speaker 1: I'm enjoying being alive. I'm feeling like a real person.
Speaker 1: Slowly but surely, I'm doing like.
Speaker 7: A real person too.
Speaker 6: I was watching the stream and I kind.
Speaker 7: Of gave up on calling, so.
Speaker 6: I was watching videos on cats and trapped neuter returned.
Speaker 7: Do you know about that?
Speaker 1: Trapped neutered returned? What is that?
Speaker 7: It's a program?
Speaker 6: You know how there's like so many feral cats on
Speaker 6: the street. It's a program where you go and you
Speaker 6: trap cats and you take them so that way they
Speaker 6: don't have babies anymore, and.
Speaker 7: Then you put them back in the community.
Speaker 1: MM.
Speaker 6: The only way to decrease the cat population.
Speaker 1: Is that a good thing to cut off cat cocks?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 6: It is actually so that way they don't have babies
Speaker 6: and then there's not like thousands of kittens on the
Speaker 6: street without a home.
Speaker 1: Because I feel like like if aliens came down to
Speaker 1: Earth and they were like, hey, we're gonna help solve
Speaker 1: human population by cutting guys cocks off, we I think
Speaker 1: a few of us would probably be like, I I
Speaker 1: don't know about that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean it's a it's a thing.
Speaker 7: But I have a colony of cat that live outside
Speaker 7: my house. So I got it.
Speaker 1: Do you assemble this colin Did you assemble this colony?
Speaker 1: Or did this company Colinie just come well?
Speaker 6: I mean we kind of did because we said them.
Speaker 6: So they were like, oh, you have food, let me
Speaker 6: come over. So now we have like six cats living
Speaker 6: in our backyard.
Speaker 1: That's pretty cool.
Speaker 7: But I love cats, so all is good.
Speaker 1: Well here's what. Okay, you're a contradiction, scarlet, because if
Speaker 1: you love cats so much, why don't you want more
Speaker 1: of them running around? Why shn't you curb the population?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 6: You see, I'm an opera singer and my boyfriend's an
Speaker 6: opera singer, and we move around a lot, so we
Speaker 6: can only really have like one or two cats. If
Speaker 6: I had like a stationary job and I could like
Speaker 6: live in one place forever, I'd have like a colony
Speaker 6: of cats. I'd have like thirty cats.
Speaker 1: What are so you guys are always on tour doing
Speaker 1: the opera.
Speaker 6: No, we're not on tour. We're pretty young, and being
Speaker 6: opera singers is tough. I mean, do you know anybody
Speaker 6: that's an opera singer?
Speaker 1: How old are you guys?
Speaker 7: I'm twenty six and he's twenty four.
Speaker 3: Oh, twenty five.
Speaker 1: Very nice. Did you guys meet at the opera?
Speaker 7: We met in school in university.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, very cool, Very cool. It's you sound like
Speaker 1: you guys have a good life.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we're good.
Speaker 6: We live in South Florida. Now, I'm from South Florida,
Speaker 6: so it's nice to.
Speaker 7: Be close to home. But I'd love to move to Europe.
Speaker 6: I'm being completely honest.
Speaker 7: That's like the dream.
Speaker 1: What's the So, what's the worst thing about being an
Speaker 1: opera singer?
Speaker 6: The worst thing about being an opera singer?
Speaker 7: Well, okay, I'm an opera singer, but I'm also.
Speaker 6: Like a marketer. I'm a social media girly and I
Speaker 6: work in social media, so I.
Speaker 7: Kind of do both things. And I would say the
Speaker 7: worst thing about being an opera.
Speaker 6: Singer is like a lot of people don't understand what
Speaker 6: you do. So it's like hard to find like a
Speaker 6: community that loves opera, if that makes sense, for like
Speaker 6: people appreciating like what you do and like the work
Speaker 6: that goes behind it. And I guess you could say
Speaker 6: that for any artist, like a visual artist or a dancer,
Speaker 6: Like the amount of time and at furt that goes
Speaker 6: into like the art that you're doing is like astounding,
Speaker 6: and unless you're an artist, you like can't really comprehend.
Speaker 7: Does that make sense?
Speaker 1: Just a general feeling of being unappreciated.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: That's how I feel. Like the folks who do those
Speaker 1: special effects on those Marvel movies must feel, right because
Speaker 1: they spend oh.
Speaker 6: My god, yeah, they spend like their whole lives.
Speaker 1: Yeah, They're like they spend like eight hours a day
Speaker 1: for about seven years just on Adobe whatever, clicking and
Speaker 1: dragging key frames around. And then Robert Downey Junior shows
Speaker 1: up for like two days and then it's Robert Downey
Speaker 1: Junior's fucking Iron Man. You know it should be uh
Speaker 1: but Mark Finnegan's Iron Man.
Speaker 7: You're absolutely right.
Speaker 6: And then you go to the theater one day of
Speaker 6: your life, for like an hour and a half, two hours,
Speaker 6: you watch the movie and then that's it.
Speaker 1: No, not even Scarlett, not even Scarlett. You have the
Speaker 1: movie in the background while you are on your phone
Speaker 1: doing something in a different God.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you're like or yeah, you're talking to therapy. Get
Speaker 6: go mm hmm.
Speaker 1: So I guess I guess at the very not to
Speaker 1: make this ay, it could be worse, but you know,
Speaker 1: it could be worse. You could You could do special
Speaker 1: effects for Marvel movies that people watch, well, that people
Speaker 1: don't watch while they're in the bathroom in another room.
Speaker 1: At least. The cool thing about opera is that I
Speaker 1: guess people people are are captive audience for you.
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, yeah, yeah, I guess, I guess.
Speaker 1: So what's the best thing about being an opera singer?
Speaker 1: What do you enjoy about it?
Speaker 6: I really love learning languages. Do you like watching things
Speaker 6: in different languages?
Speaker 1: I'm trying. I'd like to learn I I knew a
Speaker 1: little bit of Italian, but I want to I want
Speaker 1: to Spanish seems fun. I've been there's a few stores
Speaker 1: I've been to around my h around around the city,
Speaker 1: and like they only speak Spanish.
Speaker 7: Oh that's awesome.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 6: I really love that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, learning languages is fun, and I feel like.
Speaker 6: So many more things and like the world could be
Speaker 6: better if we could watch things in different languages. Like
Speaker 6: I feel like we could come to appreciate like cultures
Speaker 6: and people if we like watched more things in different languages.
Speaker 7: And same thing with opera, it's like it's it's a play.
Speaker 6: There's costumes, you read subtitles the whole time. But it's
Speaker 6: like there's so many things to look at. It's so engrossing,
Speaker 6: and it's so like opera can be so scary, but
Speaker 6: I want to tell people that it's not scary. Just
Speaker 6: like literally, wear a get go suit and go to
Speaker 6: the opera and nobody's like, nobody can tell.
Speaker 7: You what to do.
Speaker 1: Somebody in the chat just said my roommate dated an
Speaker 1: opera singer in college and it sucked because the asshole
Speaker 1: would start warming up at nine to thirty am. Well,
Speaker 1: by the way, at nine is not that bad. That's
Speaker 1: like that's the workday.
Speaker 6: True, but opera singers can be pretty loud, so it
Speaker 6: would wake everybody up. So I get where that person's
Speaker 6: coming from.
Speaker 7: And that's just that's just a rude person.
Speaker 6: That's not like an opera singer traite, that's just that's
Speaker 6: just being rude.
Speaker 1: What have you ever done something like that?
Speaker 7: No, because I'm.
Speaker 6: I'm pretty considerate.
Speaker 7: Also, I don't.
Speaker 6: Like like singing in front of people when I don't
Speaker 6: have to, if.
Speaker 7: That makes sense.
Speaker 1: Okay, yes, some people in the chat were also saying
Speaker 1: they wanted you to belt out right now, but that
Speaker 1: probably would wake up ye see ibras.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 6: I live in a house, so no, not really, but
Speaker 6: I freaking knew that would happened.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 6: One of my side projects, I'm Gonna I'm Gonna self
Speaker 6: smote here is an opera paid and literally my second
Speaker 6: to Las video is a meme talking about how people
Speaker 6: are like.
Speaker 7: Oh, you're an opera singer, can you sing something?
Speaker 6: And it just happened on on Therapy Get Go.
Speaker 7: So thank you for affirming it.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Yea, I guess I guess this means you're not going
Speaker 1: to do it.
Speaker 7: No I'm not, I'm not. Thank you. Thank you for
Speaker 7: your curiosity, but unless I'm getting paid. No, thank you.
Speaker 1: Well, you invited me to come to the opera in
Speaker 1: this text? Where where where's this opera?
Speaker 7: It's anywhere you want it to be there.
Speaker 6: Okay, I will go to the opera with you wherever,
Speaker 6: wherever you go, I will be there.
Speaker 7: Okay. We can go to New York, we can.
Speaker 6: Go to Self, Sorida, anywhere opera's happening, I'll be there.
Speaker 1: Oh I thought this was like you. I assumed it was.
Speaker 1: It was like your opera. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: just meant the.
Speaker 7: Opera No, I just mean like the opera in general.
Speaker 1: Oh okay.
Speaker 7: I think it would be.
Speaker 6: Really fun for you to go to the opera because
Speaker 6: people are like, oh, operas so like I don't know,
Speaker 6: like when you think of the opera, you probably think
Speaker 6: of like, oh, people dressing like really nice suits, and
Speaker 6: like it's really nice and and everybody's very you know,
Speaker 6: got the noses in the air.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very posh.
Speaker 6: But it doesn't need to be like that. I feel
Speaker 6: like you showing up, people would be like, what's going
Speaker 6: on at the opera?
Speaker 1: No, but I would I see some thing. I would
Speaker 1: show up in a suit and I would just be like.
Speaker 1: I know, I would be a dick to everyone. I
Speaker 1: would like. I wouldn't. I wouldn't. I wouldn't tip the bartender,
Speaker 1: and I would send the drink back, and I would
Speaker 1: fart really loudly and it would smell bad, and you'd yeah,
Speaker 1: I would. I would be bad if if I would
Speaker 1: yell out lame, if I didn't like one of the singers,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I wouldn't be good.
Speaker 6: Honestly, Please just yell boo.
Speaker 1: I would boo. I would. I would if somebody was good,
Speaker 1: I would boo just because I'm jealous. Well, Scarlett, I
Speaker 1: appreciate you giving us this little uh uh tidbit into
Speaker 1: into into another portal of of opera. Yeah, into the
Speaker 1: opera universe. Is there anything else that you want to
Speaker 1: say or share or or express to the people of
Speaker 1: the computer before we go, Yeah.
Speaker 6: Go follow my opera account if you want to hear
Speaker 6: a little bit of opera music.
Speaker 7: It's on Instagram.
Speaker 6: Simply bell kanto, simply.
Speaker 7: B E L kanto, c A N t o oh.
Speaker 7: Also therapy go go.
Speaker 6: You went to Guatemala, I'm Waatemalan freaking very cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, I'm very fond of Guatemala. Well, some girls
Speaker 1: just died there at the same place that that I
Speaker 1: went to, and I was like, damn, that sucks.
Speaker 7: Are you talking about Lake Titlan.
Speaker 1: Yes, lake Titlan, Yes.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I saw that. That was really messed up.
Speaker 6: But it's a beautiful place. It's messed up, but one
Speaker 6: of my beautiful places.
Speaker 1: Side note, Yeah, I mean I lived in Los Angeles
Speaker 1: for a hot second and a lot of people died
Speaker 1: there too, So people people pretty much anywhere that there
Speaker 1: are people, those people.
Speaker 7: Die, so even yeah, that's that's life.
Speaker 1: Have a go rest of the night, Scarlet.
Speaker 7: Thank you so much for talking to me.
Speaker 6: This made my night. I hope I trapped some cats
Speaker 6: tonight in your honor.
Speaker 1: Beautiful Bye Scarlet.
Speaker 6: Alrighty go bye.
Speaker 1: I'll do. I'll sing opera right now. I don't give
Speaker 1: a fuck what wdier, I'll stop.
Speaker 2: Never be Get goes on the line, taking your phone
Speaker 2: calls every night. Never be cant goes do on his ride.
Speaker 2: He's teaching you loud in the lid of your life,
Speaker 2: but he's not really an expert.