WEBVTT - GECK IRL: another lovely day at the park 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:00.520 Hello. 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:05.360 I am here in Washington Square Park. Want maybe my 0:00:05.640 --> 0:00:09.319 favorite park on the planet Earth. I've done a bunch 0:00:09.360 --> 0:00:13.440 of episodes here. I love this place. It's awesome. There's 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:17.320 so many different people, the sunlight is out. I feel awesome. 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:20.440 I've been talking on the podcast so much about existential 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:24.160 dread and crazy depressing shit, but I swear my life 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:26.840 in this moment. I'm basking in the sun. I'm surrounded 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:31.360 by life, surrounded by people. I love it here and 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:34.479 without further ado, let's let's start talking to the people 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:36.160 around this park. 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:37.159 Let's do that. 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:44.280 What is your name, man, Russell white House? We're getting 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:46.640 the first and last name. Yeah, yeah, right, nice to 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:49.400 meet you, Russell white House. Oh, Russell, give me a favorite. 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:51.000 Just hold the mic up, like all right, yeah, there 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:52.760 we go. How's life, Russell? 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:57.400 It's just been chilling up. I've kind of been like 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:01.640 floating around. I was just in Else Salvador for two weeks. 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:06.000 I was just doing photography, videography, hanging. 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:08.200 Out with people. Now I'm back here. 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:10.760 I'm kind of waiting for my next job to pick 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:15.040 up next month. Somebody just like floating around basically. 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:17.319 What why specifically El Salvador. 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:20.120 Well, it was in the news. 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:23.160 It's in the news for lots of things, some good things, 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:27.280 some controversial things, right, and it's very slept on as 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:34.080 a country. They get very few tourists, like especially non Latinos. 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:36.800 So I just thought it would be interesting as well, 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:37.680 and it was. 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:40.279 Do you know anyone there? Do you just go alone 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:40.759 with your camera? 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:41.959 Yeah? I just went cold. 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:42.720 Yeah. 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:45.479 I hit up a few people on Reddit though. 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:46.360 Yeah. 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:47.520 Yeah, I hung. 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:51.600 Out with this guy on Reddit in his hometown, Santa Tecla. 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:54.520 Wait that's so cool man, So wait, so you just 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:57.080 all right, so you were just like, fuck it, I 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:59.680 want to go to El Salvador. I don't know anyone there, 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:02.320 but there's this guy on Reddit who seems like he 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:04.120 could be cool. You just hit him up. Yeah, you 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:06.480 guys met for the first time in El Salvador. Yeah 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:10.240 what subreddit? Did you meet this guy on El Salvador? 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:13.799 What was So? Did you make a post? Like how 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:16.120 did you were you? Like hey, I'm yeah, yeah. 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:19.360 Yeah, like, hey I'm looking to meet people. Well I 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:22.000 had somewat have been posts. One I was looking for 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:25.960 a motorcyclist, one I was looking for like a fixer 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:31.560 kind of and then I'm in another post. 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:33.320 Oh you're good. 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:34.840 Sorry, I was just I was turning it down a 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:39.720 little bit. You have agree, you have a nice projecting voice. Okay, okay, 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:41.160 So did you so you found your fixer? 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:46.400 Uh? Yeah, yeah, he helped me out with some interviews. 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:51.239 I was interviewing people about this political situation there. 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:55.000 Okay, do you do so you do a lot of interviews, 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:57.960 like around you're like an investigative journalist. 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:02.520 Not a lot because I'm a freelancer, but like I 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:06.000 try to do what I can, like pick up stuff, photography, 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:15.600 I write essays, movie reviews, interviews, videography, concerts. 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:16.760 I do a little bit of everything. 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:18.919 Okay, what what did you learn when you went to 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:19.560 El Salvador? 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:28.320 Hmmm, Like do you have like could you be more specific? 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:29.640 Al right? Sure, sure, sure? 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:35.680 Did you learn anything interesting about the human condition by 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:40.560 going to L Salvador? Did you learn anything interesting about humanity? 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:41.440 Well? 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:47.320 I feel like the Salvadorennio mindset is like I feel 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:50.040 like it's been shaped by the trauma of the recent 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:53.520 violence that they had. They used to have one of 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:58.120 the highest motivates on the planet for many years now. 0:03:57.720 --> 0:03:59.880 It's one of the safest countries in the world. But 0:03:59.920 --> 0:04:00.640 I feel like. 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:04.560 There's a little bit of trauma in terms of like 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:07.360 I feel like the average Chavadoreno has a little bit 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:15.240 of like shyness around strangers, just being a little cautious. 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:19.479 A little bit. But at the same time, they're very. 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:24.279 Friendly people and like they they mind their business, so 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:27.920 like overall they are great people. 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:31.760 I mean friendly enough that they would show around a 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:34.320 stranger from Reddit, you know. 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:34.800 Yeah. 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:39.560 Yeah, Like people just were randomly come up to me, 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:43.240 like old people, especially when I would be hanging around 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:46.640 like one of the boyos, they would just say they 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:49.720 would just say hi, Like in the city center. They 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:53.560 are more like metropolitan, like more to themselves. 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:55.520 Like in the Boyos. 0:04:57.320 --> 0:04:59.919 I felt welcome, I felt safe, cool, I was in 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:03.920 and some of like the most low income I would 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:08.320 say Borrios and San Salvador, and I never felt in danger. 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:12.000 I felt welcome. So it was a great experience. 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:14.800 Have you is that something you've done before or just 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:17.360 going raw to some somewhere. 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:18.760 Tell me more where else have you been? 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:21.080 Yeah, we were talking off Cameron about this hat. I 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:22.520 got this hat in Kazakhstan. 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:25.280 Yeah, yeah, what was it like in kazakh Stan. 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:28.360 For a whole month. It was basically the same deal. 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:29.240 I just went in war. 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:33.880 Well technically I had I had an assignment I had 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:41.520 to do like a few reporting things around their elections. 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:44.080 I was supposed to do that for three days, but 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:46.839 I I did. I loved the country so much that 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:48.680 I stayed a whole month and I was just like 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:56.240 hanging around like chilling, exploring, and Kazakstan as the friendliest 0:05:56.279 --> 0:06:01.920 people I've ever met by wow, wow, like incredibly friendly, 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:08.240 even though my Russian is awful, like absolutely awful, And 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:13.680 like the young people in Kazakhstan, like a lot of 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:17.280 them speak some English, We're not like fluent, but they 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:21.000 are so welcoming, friendly, outgoing. 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:23.320 There were multiple. 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:26.279 Times where was I like out of like a cafe 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:30.400 and people would just buy me food. Really yeah, it 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:33.920 happened a couple of times. I didn't ask, Like one 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:36.560 time I was having trouble with the Apple pay thing 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:37.400 and the guy. 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:40.400 Just paid for it. Wow, completely unprompted. 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:46.600 But yeah, the Kazak people extremely friendly, intelligent, hardworking. They 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:50.240 have a scholarship program where if they can get into 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:53.920 any university worldwide, the government pays for it. So there's 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:59.360 a lot of Kazakhs that like Oxford, Harvard, USC all over. 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:02.320 So they're smart people, very kind people. 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:07.400 How when do you start doing things like this, like 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:11.960 going on adventures and documenting them and meeting folks. 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:19.680 Sorry what secon, I'm just making sure great? Okay, continue, sir. 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:26.840 Probably like three years ago I developed like Rondo less 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:30.480 because I started watching a lot of bloggers on YouTube 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:34.280 and Instagram. People would go like all over and like 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:38.200 do different kinds of things, interact with people in different 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:42.480 ways like you, like you, for instance, I've watched a 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:43.480 lot of your videos. 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:43.960 Oh cool. 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:47.840 It was kind of inspirational, like the way you and 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:51.360 like other creators like interact with like strangers in different 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:53.560 environments in different ways. 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:55.760 So that that was like. 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:59.400 One of the bigger inspirations to start, like like traveling 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:02.720 today different places and like doing different kinds of things 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:04.440 with strangers. 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:06.280 And I'm trying to do more of that. 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:10.080 We're playing a little bit of inspiration tennis right now 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:14.480 because I'm I'm feeling very inspired by your stories now. 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:17.160 You know, I want to go to uh check out 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:20.960 Al Salvador and Kazakhstan and where where else is on 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:21.520 your list? 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:21.760 Man? 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:24.640 All over Africa? 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:32.160 Yeah, Yeah, Southeast Asia more of Latin America, basically. 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:33.720 The quote unquote global South. 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:36.439 Yeah, that interests me more than the West because I've 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:38.520 been living in the West my whole life. 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:39.240 Where are you from? 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:45.360 I was born in Colombia bo guitar, but I grew 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:48.200 up in New York, so I'm kind of like, uh, 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:52.160 they would call me a no Sabo kid. I'm pretty 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:55.480 like Americanized. 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:57.520 Where do you still live in New York? 0:08:57.800 --> 0:08:58.000 Yeah? 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:02.120 Yeah, And what does it say that again? 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:03.120 No? No? 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:04.280 What does that mean? 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:06.520 No kid? 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:06.840 Like? 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:11.000 Uh, someone like browing in Latin America, but they grew 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:16.160 up in the US, so they're pretty like Americanized westernized. Honestly, 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:19.400 that would be like how you classify me objectively? 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:24.839 And then, uh so, in your travels and in your 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:29.680 attempts to yeah, interact with strangers and go crazy places 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:33.720 and whatnot, what kind of difficulties have you encountered? What's 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:36.880 been like the most uh yeah, hardest part of doing 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:37.360 that for you? 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:44.120 Uh, other than the travel costs? 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:46.280 It would be hard to say. 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:51.040 I mean, I haven't really had like any brad experiences traveling. 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:53.520 Even like I guess not bad, but like even like 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:56.680 emotionally like because you know, I've I've gone on you know, 0:09:56.760 --> 0:10:01.800 trips like that where you're alone and you know, again 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:04.960 trying to like, yeah, interface with with people, and there 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:09.880 is like a challenge of like putting yourself out there 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:11.880 and like having the confidence to do something like that, 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:14.679 But it seems like it comes naturally to you. 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:18.440 Yeah. I never hesitated, even in Kazakhstan, where I barely 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:21.840 spoke in Russian. I just like dove in head first. 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:24.840 I never like, I don't really get homesick or like 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:29.360 intimidated by like feign environments. 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:31.520 I never, like it never daunted me. 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:33.960 Honestly, Have you always been like that? 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:35.800 Like when you were growing up, were you pretty good 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:37.679 at like just going up to people and talking to 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:38.280 them and whatnot? 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:43.000 Ironically, no, because I was an extremely sheltered kid. My 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:48.840 the people who raised me well lely like they sheltered 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:53.080 me intentionally. And also in middle school I was kind 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:56.960 of the outcast. But then in high school it flipped. 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:00.760 I accidentally became one of the most popul little kids 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:04.839 in my high school because I just started like going 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.520 up to people and like hanging out with people, the 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:11.800 football players, the basketball players, the emos. I would just 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:13.400 like go up to them in a high school and 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:16.840 I accidentally became one of the most popular kids in 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:18.760 my high school, so that was kind. 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:19.920 Of like the impetus. 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:23.240 Also, I started leaving in sneaking out of the house 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:25.959 to hang out with friends in high school, so I 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:28.920 started becoming a lot more outgoing. 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:29.960 And adventurous in high school. 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:35.320 And your parents you said they like kind of like 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:37.000 sheltered you intentionally, right. 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:41.480 Yeah, my mother she had like good intentions, but she 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:43.160 was She's. 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:45.440 A very paranoid person. 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:50.800 Yeah, and when I was a baby, the crime rate 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:54.400 in my neighborhood was much higher, so that always stuck 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:57.760 with her. So she liked to keep me very sheltered 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:02.280 and focused on I could, so I didn't really have 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:03.720 any like sleepovers. 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:05.040 Uh. 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:06.559 She deliberately kept me. 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:12.199 Out of uh sports, so I didn't start taking up 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:16.200 sports until high school. And also the sports was a 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:19.960 good way to meet people as well. She had good intentions, 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:23.840 but I was very sheltered until high school. 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:28.040 Basically, And are your are your folks over in Columbia? 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:28.960 Are they here in New York? 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:30.000 Right? 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:30.320 Yeah? 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:33.959 Right now they're in the suburbs, not not that far away. 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:36.400 Okay, cool, How now I'm curious about that. How do 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:42.520 they feel about all these like adventures that you're going on. 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:45.040 Does your mom get paranoid about you going to Kazakhstown 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:45.360 or else? 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:45.800 Salvador. 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:49.040 Yeah, when I told her I was going to Kazakhstan, 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:50.320 she was a little hessiton. 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:52.719 Yes, But I explained that. 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:57.680 It's one of the nicest countries in Central Asia. I 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:00.280 told her this before I left, Like they have a 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:08.439 quarter trillion dollar GDP, low crime, like relatively like good 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:15.360 like personal civil liberties for like Central Asia. So I 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:18.800 told her this, and she was a little like she 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:20.000 was a little assuage. 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:21.680 Hmm. 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:22.440 Yeah. 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:25.720 I I also I have that thing where like, uh, 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:29.320 you you almost kind of like get get like a 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:32.080 hit of adrenaline from telling your mom you're gonna go 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:35.000 do something that makes her paranoid, Like if you're if 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:37.640 whatever you're gonna do, if it worries your mom, it's 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:40.120 almost like a signal that you're like, all right, I'm 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:41.280 heading in the right direction. 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:45.360 Yeah, kind of an editiss type of thing. 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:48.000 Because I was so sheltered as a kid, it was 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:50.959 kind of fun like sneaking out of the house doing 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:54.800 like crazy things in high school and then so I 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:57.160 kind of like empathize with what you're saying. 0:13:57.360 --> 0:14:00.360 Yeah, yeah, do you still have a good relationship with 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:02.240 your folks living out in the suburbs? 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:03.200 Yeah yeah yeah. 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:07.080 Like we're talking about my travels and like different things. 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:12.680 What's your ultimate dream for for this for this life? 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:13.720 I suppose. 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:19.440 Oh again, you're like you want to my bigger inspiration. 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:21.280 So I want to like make the way are you 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:24.600 already do? I make like content, but like like content 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:31.400 oriented around interacting with strangers, going different places, more of that, 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:34.240 and then like a bigger scale ship. 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:39.640 Hold on the sign. The sign just fell. We're getting 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:42.680 a nice cool breeze of water from the fountain. It 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:45.840 feels good. It's just enough that it doesn't drench us, 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:50.400 but it missed us. That's awesome. Do what so you 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:53.160 post on YouTube? Where do you post? Where can the 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:53.800 people find you? 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:56.280 I want to I want to shout you out. 0:14:57.200 --> 0:15:03.680 Uh mostly uh into policydigress dot org. 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:05.920 Sorry, slow down, say that again. 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:11.560 Int policy digress dot org. That's why most of my content. 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:13.840 Goes INTI how do you spell that? 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:19.800 I N C P O L I C why D 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:23.960 I G E S T dot O r. 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:26.360 G so And this is like so you have your 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:29.480 own website where you're putting this on, like this is 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:31.440 this your website or is this like. 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:33.560 A company or one of the editors there. I don't 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:34.160 like own it. 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:36.400 Okay, so you see work you work for this website. 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:40.360 Yeah, it was more olean. 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:42.640 I was like more into just like writing, but now 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:46.440 I'm doing more like photography and videography. 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.000 Nice, nice, cool man. 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:51.280 Where where if you like, you're what's your number one 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:55.200 place that you want to go to do videography and photography? 0:15:57.480 --> 0:15:57.920 Just one? 0:15:58.960 --> 0:15:59.640 I guess the. 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:01.520 Top one, like the one that you're like all right, 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:03.920 Like if like if you had a week to live, 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:06.120 you know, and that you only have one other place 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:09.280 that you could go before you know, where would you go? 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:17.080 I guess West West Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal. 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:21.520 If I had to dream, just one? 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:24.880 Well, cool man, like I like I'm saying, I'm uh, 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:27.760 I'm very flattered to hear that the gecko is uh 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:31.200 is an inspiration because I'm I'm inspired. I'm inspired by 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:35.760 you man, So again, it's inspiration Tennis, keep uh keep 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:38.760 doing great work. Many Likewise, is there anything else you 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:40.720 want to say to the people of the computer before 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:41.040 we go? 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:47.760 Yeah, yeah, just uh, don't be afraid to explore. Could 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:52.880 be like a couple of hours out. It could be Alsavador, 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:56.640 it could be U Brazil, Kazakhstan. 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:00.240 Uh, if you're in the math can inspire. 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:00.240 Sure. 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:03.800 You have the most powerful passport on the planet. You 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:06.879 could go so many places well out, even needing needing 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:07.399 a visa. 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:13.200 So don't be a way to explore. What's your name again, man, 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:17.280 Russell white House, Russell white House, Russell white House. Thank 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:18.480 you very much for talking, man. 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:19.040 This was great. 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:22.719 Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna check out. I'm gonna i'll 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:24.760 rewatch the footage and check out that website. I really 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:26.800 want to see your stuff. Kick ass man. Thank you 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:35.679 very much. See you, Russell. Nice to meet you Onnie. 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:36.320 How you. 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:39.399 I don't know if this is kosher to say, but 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:44.040 it like we were I was setting up and uh, 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:47.280 you know, actually I won't call you out. Okay, okay, 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:49.639 we were setting up and you came over to me 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:51.320 and you were like, hey, man, I've seen your stuff 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:53.199 on the internet. I was like, oh, thanks man, And 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:55.399 then you came back over with an eighth of weed. 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:57.800 You gave it to me, and I was like, oh, 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.320 that's so nice. Do you like, do you do? Is 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:01.760 that you grow that or is it? 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:02.360 Man? 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:06.240 It's our brand, man, It's called University AZA for twenty 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:10.040 so my brother he started a brand called Urban Exotics, 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:13.760 and like like things has been booming. So now we're 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:16.720 just like expanding. So now here comes us with a 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:20.479 Uniuniversity az A. We're giving back to the students that 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:22.400 helped us, supported us in the beginning. 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:24.560 So oh, Nikki, you do it, Fairy, just hold the 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:24.840 mic up. 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:29.520 Yeah, So yeah, everything is more of like great deals 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:32.280 and giving back to the communities that help us build 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:33.719 this empire in general. 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:37.560 But tell me about the tell me about the cannabis biz. 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:39.439 I'm curious when when did you start getting into it? 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:40.240 I mean. 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:45.119 Essentially he always been into it as like teens and 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:49.159 like younger adults, but like really like me and my brothers, 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:53.040 we started an entertainment business. We started like a music 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:55.840 group that turned in the label cool like so like 0:18:56.359 --> 0:19:00.840 now like we peaked that that in and we're expanding 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:03.639 from there. Now we're just going to new vengures in 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:04.600 new ways. 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:05.200 To like expand. 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:08.800 What was the music group It's called Org and Nothing 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:11.359 and the label is called or nothing records nice? 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:14.520 Nice? What kind of music do you? Guys make a. 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:17.680 Little bit of everything, but like primarily like hip hop, 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:20.960 R and B. Like we have a couple live live 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:25.560 instronment artists like Zachary Durham. He plays the trumpet. We 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:29.280 got like we got m full on the beats, like 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:32.040 he's like good and producing. So everything is like in 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:35.800 the house because just like kind of our like our 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:41.280 community because r RG stands for organized uh the signs. 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:45.080 Nope to put some rocks in the bottom of the sun, go. 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:47.680 Ahead, organized, radiat and grow. 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:50.879 So like we organized with the community because we had 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:53.840 a vision. We got the people together, we started grinding. 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:56.440 Now we're out elevating, we're living better. 0:19:56.480 --> 0:20:01.119 We're living great, I mean and uh, And so you 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:03.800 do the cannabis stuff with your brothers as well. 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:06.800 Yes, because I'm more I'm more of like media and 0:20:06.840 --> 0:20:08.360 like artists management. 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:10.520 And how many how many guys is it two? You 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:11.440 have two brothers three? 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:15.520 The founders is my me and my other two brothers, 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:18.720 cool man like like the artists is we got like 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:19.520 at least twelve. 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:21.879 What's so what's the dynamic between you and your brothers? 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:24.520 Because that's a really nice thing to have, you know, 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:27.600 be doing business with your family and like have other 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:30.720 people to because as you know, the the entrepreneurial journey 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:32.879 very lonely one. It's great to have family with you. 0:20:33.119 --> 0:20:34.160 It's complicated. 0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:36.840 But tell me, Marris, like. 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:38.399 We're all now, we're all sitting. 0:20:38.480 --> 0:20:43.639 We're all about the great and the uplifting of ourself 0:20:43.720 --> 0:20:44.480 and our business. 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:47.200 Yeah, we're all individual people. 0:20:47.280 --> 0:20:49.879 So like everybody has their own journey to go on. 0:20:50.400 --> 0:20:52.960 While like we're building this business. 0:20:53.160 --> 0:20:57.040 It is times we class, times we like took break, 0:20:57.119 --> 0:20:59.720 some some talking, but like at the end of the day, 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:03.320 always come back from for business and once we come back, 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:06.120 we always settle everything out the way and then we'd 0:21:06.200 --> 0:21:08.960 come back better than ever. So it's just like as 0:21:09.119 --> 0:21:12.000 years of like us trying to grow as a business 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:13.720 and also us trying to grow as. 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:15.960 Individuals and when are within ourselves. 0:21:16.320 --> 0:21:19.159 So tell me, uh, what would you say is like 0:21:19.160 --> 0:21:21.800 the number one or even a few different ways in 0:21:21.880 --> 0:21:25.200 which you feel like, uh, this this journey has grown 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:26.280 you as an individual. 0:21:28.080 --> 0:21:31.720 I'm like a lie, how hasn't it like for me? 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:35.679 Like in like personally, like I was more of like 0:21:35.800 --> 0:21:40.040 the knucklehead, the rebel rousers, so I was getting in trouble. 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:43.399 I'm like actually doing great things, but I'm also getting 0:21:43.400 --> 0:21:43.879 in trouble. 0:21:43.960 --> 0:21:45.600 What kind of rabble were you rousing? 0:21:47.320 --> 0:21:51.240 Stuff around here and stuff around like he's sure a 0:21:51.920 --> 0:21:54.280 lot of trump I did. 0:21:54.400 --> 0:21:56.240 I went away for a while, and like. 0:21:57.640 --> 0:22:01.720 It took that for me to actually understand myself. 0:22:02.200 --> 0:22:03.520 So and and. 0:22:03.520 --> 0:22:06.360 That's the crazy part, Like, yeah, it's the unfortunate before 0:22:06.600 --> 0:22:08.760 like you know, get caught up, But like it took 0:22:08.800 --> 0:22:12.160 that for me to actually sit down and understand myself 0:22:12.200 --> 0:22:14.560 because I really I didn't have much to do. I 0:22:14.720 --> 0:22:18.239 graduated high school, earlier college, started a business. All I 0:22:18.240 --> 0:22:20.679 had to do was work out and just like focus 0:22:20.760 --> 0:22:23.240 on myself. So now I know myself and I know 0:22:23.400 --> 0:22:27.440 the things my likes, my dislikes, my life feeling like things. 0:22:27.480 --> 0:22:32.479 That's that's quarter you mental development. Like I had plenty 0:22:32.480 --> 0:22:35.000 of ego depths. I had plenty of moments where I 0:22:35.040 --> 0:22:37.639 was up and down. But it's it all comes with 0:22:37.840 --> 0:22:40.000 experience and it all comes with learning. 0:22:39.840 --> 0:22:41.719 Off of you said you have you've had plenty of 0:22:41.720 --> 0:22:45.359 ego deaths. What what is uh? What does an ego 0:22:45.400 --> 0:22:46.440 death feel like for you? 0:22:47.280 --> 0:22:52.520 It's a very very humbling experience, very humbling experience. 0:22:52.560 --> 0:22:54.720 Yeah, was this a drug induced to go death or 0:22:54.800 --> 0:22:57.640 just like a like a general life meditation I had. 0:22:57.760 --> 0:23:01.840 I had movement of both, like like taking silent taking 0:23:02.200 --> 0:23:06.520 like mushrooms or like like other psychoactors, but really like 0:23:06.760 --> 0:23:11.040 going through life and actually like having to go through 0:23:11.040 --> 0:23:14.800 your child's and tripulations. Actually is is more clear than 0:23:14.880 --> 0:23:17.440 any other jug than there is. 0:23:17.640 --> 0:23:17.840 Yeah. 0:23:17.960 --> 0:23:20.440 Yeah, No, people think you can just like take acid 0:23:20.520 --> 0:23:22.480 and then it'll change, you know, whateppen. 0:23:22.520 --> 0:23:25.840 No, you have to like be in your fucking life. Yeah, 0:23:25.960 --> 0:23:28.760 you really do. Like Yeah, So it's just. 0:23:28.680 --> 0:23:32.720 More like it's just more of like at times or 0:23:32.760 --> 0:23:37.119 I'm thinking I'm bigger and then program life knocks me 0:23:37.600 --> 0:23:38.360 right back. 0:23:38.160 --> 0:23:39.320 Down to peg too. 0:23:39.440 --> 0:23:41.720 So it's just like I feel like you can't you 0:23:41.760 --> 0:23:43.600 can't really really be bigger than the program. 0:23:43.640 --> 0:23:45.800 There's nothing bigger in the program. 0:23:45.760 --> 0:23:46.359 You know. It's funny. 0:23:46.400 --> 0:23:48.480 I was thinking about like the concept of the ego death, 0:23:48.480 --> 0:23:51.639 and it's like, I guess for me, it feels like 0:23:51.880 --> 0:23:56.879 the full knowledge that like what you understand as the 0:23:56.960 --> 0:24:01.280 self and what you understand is you is like so 0:24:01.359 --> 0:24:05.960 small compared to the greater universe that you're a part 0:24:06.000 --> 0:24:08.560 of and it kind of that comes. That's like kind 0:24:08.560 --> 0:24:12.000 of a scary thing because your ego and yourself is 0:24:12.040 --> 0:24:15.879 the only thing you can fucking grasp onto and if 0:24:15.920 --> 0:24:17.560 you can't grasp on to that, you feel like you're 0:24:17.600 --> 0:24:19.600 falling an endless abyss. 0:24:19.119 --> 0:24:21.080 And it's just like you're just lost in a source. 0:24:21.119 --> 0:24:23.040 You don't know what to do, you don't know where 0:24:23.040 --> 0:24:23.480 you're going. 0:24:23.520 --> 0:24:25.520 But then you cut, but you come, you come back 0:24:25.560 --> 0:24:27.720 out of it, and then you come back into yourself. Yes, 0:24:27.920 --> 0:24:31.480 and you're a little happier. I at least I felt 0:24:31.480 --> 0:24:33.080 that way after having like an ego death. 0:24:33.200 --> 0:24:36.159 Yeah, I'll be honest, because it's the thing is like 0:24:38.080 --> 0:24:41.479 insanity or madness is like the attempt to repeat the 0:24:41.520 --> 0:24:44.440 same actions that's putting you back in that predicament. 0:24:44.800 --> 0:24:47.840 So like if you don't learn, for you from. 0:24:47.640 --> 0:24:51.800 That experience, you didn't really like, Yeah, egos nearly isn't 0:24:51.800 --> 0:24:52.200 it dead? 0:24:52.320 --> 0:24:53.160 It's just in limbo. 0:24:53.280 --> 0:24:57.879 You just like like like like coddling like the truth. 0:24:57.960 --> 0:24:59.359 You can't coddle the truth up. 0:24:59.400 --> 0:25:01.040 You can't ca the truth of life. 0:25:01.119 --> 0:25:04.520 You can't like you can try you can try to 0:25:04.520 --> 0:25:05.560 coddle the truth of life. 0:25:05.640 --> 0:25:06.760 That's being delusional. 0:25:06.880 --> 0:25:09.240 If I want to be a delusional I'd just rather 0:25:09.480 --> 0:25:11.240 play the sims and then be a sim. 0:25:11.280 --> 0:25:14.360 Well that's what people do, they they they, I say, 0:25:14.400 --> 0:25:17.040 people as if it's not me doing that, I'm total 0:25:17.119 --> 0:25:19.000 I coddle the truth of life all the time by 0:25:19.359 --> 0:25:22.680 playing Nintendo and eating sandwiches and stuff. 0:25:23.040 --> 0:25:25.560 But is it more of like coddling or are you 0:25:25.720 --> 0:25:29.160 just like you have outlet to like escape like that, yes, 0:25:29.200 --> 0:25:32.080 so outlet to escape, like because coddling, like when I 0:25:32.080 --> 0:25:36.359 say coddingly, is more of like the the unacceptance of 0:25:36.480 --> 0:25:37.880 that truth, like you're. 0:25:37.920 --> 0:25:40.880 Eating regardless of regardless of the. 0:25:40.840 --> 0:25:43.480 Situation, They're always gonna think this is the right way 0:25:43.560 --> 0:25:44.240 or this is like. 0:25:44.320 --> 0:25:45.560 What do you what do you think? 0:25:45.720 --> 0:25:46.040 Uh? 0:25:46.080 --> 0:25:47.760 So let me ask you this when you say like 0:25:47.840 --> 0:25:52.320 coddling of the truth, Like is there a truth or 0:25:52.560 --> 0:25:57.640 a reality that you feel as though maybe you personally 0:25:57.920 --> 0:26:00.400 coddled for a long time and then came to accept 0:26:00.920 --> 0:26:03.240 like a like a fact of reality. 0:26:03.320 --> 0:26:04.920 Oh yeah, I definitely did. 0:26:05.160 --> 0:26:07.480 What's an example of one, like. 0:26:09.240 --> 0:26:12.640 I can At one point in time, I was real 0:26:13.000 --> 0:26:16.720 I was a real like piece of shit like like oh, 0:26:16.800 --> 0:26:21.800 I'm like like, uh, how can I say like more 0:26:21.840 --> 0:26:26.000 of like my like my my wording or the things 0:26:26.119 --> 0:26:28.760 I deflect off the people like it's just more of 0:26:28.840 --> 0:26:29.920 like I try to. 0:26:29.840 --> 0:26:30.720 Push people away. 0:26:30.960 --> 0:26:33.960 Yeah yeah, like a coddling like coming to terms of 0:26:34.000 --> 0:26:36.800 like oh I've been like a jerk to folks. 0:26:37.040 --> 0:26:37.560 Yeah yeah. 0:26:37.880 --> 0:26:41.280 And it's like instead of like taking the accountability is 0:26:41.359 --> 0:26:43.560 more of like not you will be I or like 0:26:43.640 --> 0:26:46.399 you know, I'm just saying this because like you know, 0:26:46.480 --> 0:26:49.000 this is how I am like or this is the things. 0:26:48.800 --> 0:26:49.400 I've been through. 0:26:49.720 --> 0:26:50.840 Yeah, this is. 0:26:50.840 --> 0:26:54.760 My defense mechanisms like yeah, sometimes you got it and 0:26:54.840 --> 0:26:57.320 it took and it took certain things to happen for 0:26:57.400 --> 0:27:00.840 me to be like I can't hold everything in or 0:27:00.920 --> 0:27:03.399 I can't be the type of person to be like 0:27:04.480 --> 0:27:06.960 only give you a part of my life, or like 0:27:07.200 --> 0:27:10.800 I'm trying to like solely trust you but also give 0:27:10.840 --> 0:27:14.840 you that same like the vulginess of infinitation or like 0:27:14.960 --> 0:27:18.439 that same recification without having him be like a like 0:27:18.480 --> 0:27:19.240 a rocket. 0:27:18.960 --> 0:27:21.200 Irra coon in a sense like the level. 0:27:22.359 --> 0:27:25.720 Oh yeah, sure, sure, sure, sure, I empathize with rock 0:27:25.720 --> 0:27:29.240 and Raccoon only because he's we're both technically critters. 0:27:29.560 --> 0:27:35.080 Yes, what did you say your name was? Again? Hmmm, 0:27:36.720 --> 0:27:38.080 what are you. What are you getting up to today? 0:27:38.080 --> 0:27:41.399 Onnie, I'm just like a little bit more promotion for 0:27:41.480 --> 0:27:45.040 the brand, and I'm just like also just enjoying the sunshine, 0:27:45.080 --> 0:27:46.040 like just trying. 0:27:45.800 --> 0:27:46.720 To vibe with the people. 0:27:47.200 --> 0:27:50.320 Like that's been my new thing, trying to like reintegrate 0:27:50.400 --> 0:27:55.120 myself back into like small talk, casual conversations, meeting new people. 0:27:55.480 --> 0:27:59.440 Just like, yeah, trying to bring trying to bring down 0:27:59.440 --> 0:28:01.320 the walls reasonability enough. 0:28:02.480 --> 0:28:05.320 Yes, yes, you don't want to put up too many walls. 0:28:05.480 --> 0:28:08.600 If you isolate yourself, you'll go crazy. Yeah, you want 0:28:08.600 --> 0:28:13.359 to interface with people. It's it's I think probably the 0:28:13.400 --> 0:28:17.639 meaning of life is to just talk to folks, like 0:28:18.000 --> 0:28:20.960 even in any way, even in any small way, like waving, 0:28:21.520 --> 0:28:24.200 waving at somebody or just being like. 0:28:24.440 --> 0:28:26.840 Sometimes like I'm not a lot, I'm like I'm I'm 0:28:26.840 --> 0:28:29.920 like a clothing person. So I see some My thing 0:28:30.040 --> 0:28:33.120 new thing now is I see something I like someone wearing. 0:28:33.440 --> 0:28:38.160 I just say it, like because sometimes you be so like, 0:28:38.320 --> 0:28:41.360 especially being a broad brand in New York, we're so 0:28:41.560 --> 0:28:44.760 like like individualized, like we like. 0:28:45.400 --> 0:28:48.000 You little talk to show or like, so it's just 0:28:48.000 --> 0:28:50.960 like you know, I'm peeping from a distance. I might 0:28:51.080 --> 0:28:51.280 like it. 0:28:51.320 --> 0:28:54.560 But I'm it looks like I'm just grilling you. Not Hey, yo, 0:28:54.680 --> 0:28:55.280 I'm not a lot. 0:28:55.520 --> 0:28:57.560 That's fine. Would you give that from for me? 0:28:57.600 --> 0:28:59.760 Like, it's just that it makes a whole day, makes 0:28:59.760 --> 0:29:00.520 a whole life. 0:29:00.880 --> 0:29:05.160 Someone be like, hey, I like your shirt onny is Uh? 0:29:05.280 --> 0:29:06.440 Is there anything else you want to say to the 0:29:06.440 --> 0:29:07.680 people of the computer before we go? 0:29:08.080 --> 0:29:12.520 Man, listen, everything is great. You got to organize radio 0:29:12.520 --> 0:29:15.200 and grow. That's it, man or nothing. 0:29:15.080 --> 0:29:19.600 Records, organize radiate and grow. Man, two people in a 0:29:19.680 --> 0:29:24.080 row who have orgs pretty crazy, Honey, Thank you very 0:29:24.120 --> 0:29:27.080 much for talking. Man, I really appreciate it. Uh, I'm 0:29:27.120 --> 0:29:29.120 gonna smoke some of this weed that you gave men. 0:29:29.120 --> 0:29:33.600 I'll let you know how it is. Take care of one. 0:29:33.600 --> 0:29:34.680 Thank you very much for talking. Man. 0:29:35.960 --> 0:29:39.000 I I like that guy. It is true. 0:29:39.560 --> 0:29:44.600 Is I do think the meaning of life is uh 0:29:46.600 --> 0:29:49.480 wrapped up somehow and telling someone that you like their shirt. 0:29:50.120 --> 0:29:51.280 It's very simple stuff. 0:29:52.120 --> 0:29:52.520 I mean this. 0:29:52.840 --> 0:29:55.000 That's why I like doing this is it's kind of 0:29:55.040 --> 0:30:00.680 the It's kind of my own way of getting to 0:30:00.720 --> 0:30:04.600 interface with the world and get to share it with 0:30:04.680 --> 0:30:05.200 other people. 0:30:06.040 --> 0:30:08.080 So let's keep doing this, keep talking to people. What 0:30:08.600 --> 0:30:12.560 is your name. I'm Ava, Ava. Nice to meet you. 0:30:12.720 --> 0:30:14.000 How's life Ava? What's up? 0:30:14.240 --> 0:30:17.200 Life is beautiful right now. I'm really enjoying the weather. 0:30:17.320 --> 0:30:19.040 I love being in Washington Square Park. 0:30:19.120 --> 0:30:22.840 It's the city. It's great. I love this fucking place. Man. 0:30:22.960 --> 0:30:25.600 I really want to play chess. What's up? Man? I 0:30:25.640 --> 0:30:27.760 really want to play chess with one of those people 0:30:27.800 --> 0:30:28.120 over there. 0:30:28.160 --> 0:30:29.760 Oh, I would love to know how to play chess. 0:30:29.800 --> 0:30:31.680 One game that I wish that they played more out 0:30:31.680 --> 0:30:33.720 here is scrabble, because that's something I would say that 0:30:33.720 --> 0:30:34.440 I'm pretty good at. 0:30:34.560 --> 0:30:37.080 What's give me your all time scrabble? Play? 0:30:37.120 --> 0:30:37.640 What word? 0:30:38.320 --> 0:30:39.200 Did you get. 0:30:39.320 --> 0:30:41.560 Something with a queue? Something in one of the corners 0:30:41.600 --> 0:30:42.640 that gets you like a triple? 0:30:42.680 --> 0:30:42.840 Oh? 0:30:42.960 --> 0:30:44.120 Yeah, cople word for sure? 0:30:44.200 --> 0:30:48.160 Yeah, yeah, it's all. It's nice to have a queue. So, Ava, 0:30:49.120 --> 0:30:50.200 what's the meaning of life? 0:30:52.520 --> 0:30:55.960 You know, recently, I've been feeling like in such a 0:30:56.000 --> 0:30:59.480 crazy time with so much uncertainty. The meaning of life 0:30:59.480 --> 0:31:03.040 really does become your personal journey of resilience that you 0:31:03.120 --> 0:31:06.320 face and how you begin to kind of listen to 0:31:07.280 --> 0:31:09.880 the aspirations that you had when you were younger, yeah, 0:31:09.880 --> 0:31:13.040 and pursue them and be yourself despite a world that's 0:31:13.080 --> 0:31:17.120 kind of in an epidemic of hate. And as cheesy 0:31:17.120 --> 0:31:18.520 as this sounds, I think that a lot of people 0:31:18.560 --> 0:31:21.000 are scared of coming off as cringe right now, because 0:31:21.040 --> 0:31:26.160 that's something in my generation that has become a massive issue, 0:31:26.280 --> 0:31:28.840 is like this kind of jumping out to hatred, and 0:31:29.120 --> 0:31:32.760 any time someone is deemed slightly unconventionally quirky or annoying, 0:31:32.800 --> 0:31:35.239 it's kind of become cringe. And I think that in 0:31:35.280 --> 0:31:38.880 spite of all of that, you really have to love yourself, 0:31:38.960 --> 0:31:42.160 follow through with what makes you you and what really 0:31:42.160 --> 0:31:43.840 interests you, and flows your boat. 0:31:43.960 --> 0:31:46.719 Bro, I've been on a kick for a while. I've 0:31:46.720 --> 0:31:50.040 been saying this for a while. I think being like 0:31:50.520 --> 0:31:54.920 being annoying, even if you are really annoying, it's not 0:31:55.080 --> 0:31:57.720 that bad, you know what I mean. Like, there's so 0:31:57.840 --> 0:32:02.160 much worse things to be annoying. You could be insidious 0:32:02.440 --> 0:32:06.640 or like malicious, but just like being kind of fucking annoying, 0:32:07.120 --> 0:32:07.840 it's not that bad. 0:32:07.920 --> 0:32:10.720 And that's the things that we actually deem as you know, 0:32:10.760 --> 0:32:13.000 when a woman kind of is annoying in our society, 0:32:13.040 --> 0:32:15.520 that's what we really like pick at and just make 0:32:15.560 --> 0:32:17.560 into an entire internet meme instead of the people that 0:32:17.600 --> 0:32:20.680 are actually causing like systemic oppression in our you know, 0:32:21.280 --> 0:32:21.840 in our nation. 0:32:22.280 --> 0:32:26.520 I do you feel like people are are afraid of 0:32:26.720 --> 0:32:27.480 being cringe? 0:32:27.520 --> 0:32:27.600 Like? 0:32:27.640 --> 0:32:29.880 Is that something you experience in your. 0:32:30.480 --> 0:32:34.480 I do life so, But I also think that the 0:32:34.560 --> 0:32:37.200 people that do take risks are the one that do 0:32:37.400 --> 0:32:40.240 end up with a higher success rate in their lives. 0:32:40.600 --> 0:32:44.040 Of course, yeah, But I have noticed that we are 0:32:44.080 --> 0:32:46.400 in an epidemic of nonchalance, and that's something that I 0:32:46.440 --> 0:32:47.120 don't agree with. 0:32:47.280 --> 0:32:50.360 We're in an epidemic of nonchalance. What makes you feel 0:32:50.360 --> 0:32:52.320 like we're in an epidemic of nonchalance? 0:32:54.280 --> 0:32:58.600 I think that believing so firmly in trends and hopping 0:32:58.640 --> 0:33:02.080 onto trends and not listening to what actually interests you 0:33:02.280 --> 0:33:05.680 or what things actually shape your perception of who you 0:33:05.760 --> 0:33:06.320 are and. 0:33:06.200 --> 0:33:06.800 What you like. 0:33:08.280 --> 0:33:11.760 But that's, you know, it's just I think something I've 0:33:11.800 --> 0:33:15.080 noticed anecdotally. I'm not sure how much research based. 0:33:15.760 --> 0:33:18.880 I think anecdotally it well, because we're inundated with like 0:33:19.000 --> 0:33:22.760 so much information and the content that it's like you 0:33:22.760 --> 0:33:26.480 don't have a second to like think your own thoughts, 0:33:27.000 --> 0:33:29.440 Like I think, I honestly even think that I talked 0:33:29.480 --> 0:33:33.240 about this in a fucking episode of this show recently. 0:33:33.280 --> 0:33:37.239 But it's like, yeah, you kind of need to be 0:33:37.320 --> 0:33:41.760 able to like not be ingesting any media so you 0:33:41.800 --> 0:33:45.280 can form your own thoughts and opinions and observations about 0:33:45.320 --> 0:33:49.560 life and allow yourself to be bored. It's spooky. I'm spooked. 0:33:49.600 --> 0:33:52.480 I'm a little spooked by it. What do you go 0:33:52.520 --> 0:33:53.080 to n y U? 0:33:53.280 --> 0:33:53.520 I do? 0:33:53.600 --> 0:33:54.480 I'm an English major? 0:33:54.600 --> 0:33:55.920 An English major? Okay? 0:33:56.040 --> 0:33:56.880 What uh? 0:33:57.640 --> 0:33:59.840 Give me a book? You like books? Look at a book? 0:34:00.120 --> 0:34:00.600 Books. 0:34:01.400 --> 0:34:04.200 The Overstory by Richard Powers is one of my favorite, 0:34:04.680 --> 0:34:09.400 as well as the series My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, 0:34:10.120 --> 0:34:12.760 super incredible, credible book series. I'd highly recommend. 0:34:13.120 --> 0:34:15.120 What do you Hope to Do with your life? 0:34:15.200 --> 0:34:15.480 Ava? 0:34:15.520 --> 0:34:17.000 What's the Dream? 0:34:17.560 --> 0:34:19.880 I've always really been interested in the creative fields. 0:34:19.960 --> 0:34:20.840 I love to write. 0:34:21.239 --> 0:34:26.640 I really have always enjoyed film, theater, art acting. If 0:34:26.680 --> 0:34:28.279 I if I had it my way, I would go 0:34:28.360 --> 0:34:30.840 off and do do a million side quests, pursue whatever 0:34:30.880 --> 0:34:33.520 creative thing I could. But I really enjoy writing poetry. 0:34:33.600 --> 0:34:36.040 I really think the publishing field is something I'd be 0:34:36.080 --> 0:34:39.480 interested in. I've done I did teaching seventh graders for 0:34:39.520 --> 0:34:43.440 a few years. For some summer internships. But my pipe 0:34:43.480 --> 0:34:45.879 dream is to be in film. But I haven't really 0:34:45.920 --> 0:34:48.640 pursued that academically, so I'm not really sure what could 0:34:48.680 --> 0:34:49.239 come out of it. 0:34:49.360 --> 0:34:51.200 Oh well, I'll tell you. 0:34:51.280 --> 0:34:54.920 I'll tell you firsthand as somebody who quote unquote pursued 0:34:54.960 --> 0:34:58.359 film academically, that it is. You don't need to do 0:34:58.400 --> 0:35:00.680 that to just make movies. You know, you can make 0:35:00.680 --> 0:35:04.200 sure with your phone and everything. AB's anything else you 0:35:04.200 --> 0:35:05.799 gonna say to the people of the computer before we go. 0:35:08.400 --> 0:35:10.560 Listen to your gut. 0:35:10.840 --> 0:35:14.560 Oh we're in a little We're in a little splash. 0:35:15.480 --> 0:35:19.680 Be yourself and continue to question the world around you 0:35:19.800 --> 0:35:22.080 while you form your own assumptions about other people. 0:35:22.480 --> 0:35:25.200 Thank you for talking to I saw you over there 0:35:25.320 --> 0:35:27.799 smoking a cigar, looking all cool, and I was like, 0:35:28.000 --> 0:35:29.280 I gotta talk to this guy. 0:35:29.640 --> 0:35:30.200 What's your name? 0:35:30.239 --> 0:35:34.359 Man Z twenty VBB. Real names O Gray, Zone, Gray 0:35:34.800 --> 0:35:37.000 so z Oe. Last name is j I A. 0:35:37.160 --> 0:35:37.319 Wy. 0:35:37.760 --> 0:35:40.080 I'm the oldest of eight kids. I'm thirty two years old. 0:35:40.600 --> 0:35:42.440 You're the oldest of eight kids. 0:35:42.640 --> 0:35:43.080 What uh? 0:35:43.480 --> 0:35:43.840 What? 0:35:43.840 --> 0:35:46.799 What are what are your siblings doing right now? Do 0:35:46.840 --> 0:35:47.719 they still live in New York? 0:35:48.000 --> 0:35:49.200 They still live in New York? 0:35:50.880 --> 0:35:54.120 They just don't step in the spotlight, got like I would. 0:35:54.800 --> 0:35:55.960 They don't step in the spotlight. 0:35:56.440 --> 0:35:59.160 They wouldn't step in on they wouldn't step over here, 0:35:59.480 --> 0:36:00.920 And there was four for anything. 0:36:01.840 --> 0:36:02.759 What have you have? 0:36:02.920 --> 0:36:06.759 You had other opportunities besides just right now where you've 0:36:06.760 --> 0:36:07.720 stepped in the spotlight. 0:36:09.400 --> 0:36:13.120 I had times where I could just stay stay in prison, 0:36:13.200 --> 0:36:14.319 but I decide not to. 0:36:15.160 --> 0:36:16.279 H what uh? 0:36:17.000 --> 0:36:18.200 What did you see? 0:36:18.200 --> 0:36:19.919 You said you had times where you could have stayed 0:36:19.920 --> 0:36:22.279 in prison but decided not to. What was it that 0:36:22.360 --> 0:36:23.239 made you decide not to? 0:36:25.160 --> 0:36:30.560 On wordplay and the way I do things on stage? 0:36:31.040 --> 0:36:32.080 What do you do on stage? 0:36:32.840 --> 0:36:33.520 Make music? 0:36:34.200 --> 0:36:35.719 What do you make music about? 0:36:36.800 --> 0:36:41.040 Almost about everything that comes to mind. It's like all genres. 0:36:41.280 --> 0:36:44.560 So it's not rap because you know they usually see 0:36:44.560 --> 0:36:46.120 a darn scaped person they see rap. 0:36:46.320 --> 0:36:48.960 Nah, it's I do all genres. I even do. 0:36:49.400 --> 0:36:51.800 I stick up for the Muslims, the five percenters and 0:36:51.840 --> 0:36:56.880 everybody else. I even deal with the LGBTQ community. Like 0:36:56.920 --> 0:36:59.560 I go to the church and I stayed there and 0:36:59.600 --> 0:37:02.080 I eat and they gave me, give me food and clothes. 0:37:02.920 --> 0:37:06.280 And this is the first time that I made music 0:37:07.320 --> 0:37:11.600 in years. You know what I'm saying on the local app, 0:37:12.200 --> 0:37:16.560 the local app is free, It's for everybody. My name 0:37:16.600 --> 0:37:20.520 is Z twenty VVV and I made over three hundred tracks. 0:37:21.719 --> 0:37:27.359 What is it that inspires your music struggle? What kinds 0:37:27.400 --> 0:37:29.880 of things have you have you struggled with that that 0:37:29.960 --> 0:37:31.000 have inspired your music? 0:37:31.440 --> 0:37:35.600 Anxiety, you know, rejection. 0:37:36.600 --> 0:37:42.720 And being the identity that I am. I'm opium, which 0:37:42.760 --> 0:37:45.400 is something that Playboy Cardi is into. 0:37:46.520 --> 0:37:46.879 Mm hmm. 0:37:47.719 --> 0:37:49.960 They say, they say it's not a sex. When I 0:37:50.000 --> 0:37:52.560 go to the LGBTQ community, they say, what are you? 0:37:52.640 --> 0:37:56.040 I say, I'm opium, And I respect that they're who 0:37:56.080 --> 0:37:58.200 they are, But why they they don't respect who I am? 0:37:58.600 --> 0:38:00.759 What do you mean by you are opium? 0:38:00.960 --> 0:38:05.080 Opium is my lifestyle, Opium is my sex. Mom, I don't, 0:38:05.160 --> 0:38:08.239 I don't. I don't be around females all the time. 0:38:08.280 --> 0:38:10.480 I could I just do straight music and work out 0:38:10.520 --> 0:38:12.560 all day and I be to myself. I'm kind of like, 0:38:13.040 --> 0:38:14.839 I'm kind of like if I was in a party, 0:38:14.880 --> 0:38:17.360 i'd be more like a bouncer more than the partying. 0:38:17.800 --> 0:38:20.719 Yeah yeah, yeah, but so you're so you're watching over 0:38:20.800 --> 0:38:25.000 the party but not necessarily participating in it yourself. That's 0:38:25.000 --> 0:38:29.200 a majority of time, do you ever have the desire 0:38:29.280 --> 0:38:31.479 to participate in the party or you like exactly where 0:38:31.480 --> 0:38:32.360 you're at in the party. 0:38:32.520 --> 0:38:34.920 It's like like it happens at the same time that 0:38:35.360 --> 0:38:38.120 I'm protecting the party, but they people don't notice it, 0:38:38.239 --> 0:38:39.280 So that makes me happier. 0:38:40.400 --> 0:38:41.640 You feel like you're protecting the party. 0:38:42.920 --> 0:38:43.839 I actually I am. 0:38:44.040 --> 0:38:47.920 I don't feel it just embedded because that's just in 0:38:48.000 --> 0:38:49.000 my past life too. 0:38:50.280 --> 0:38:52.840 You said, like struggling with anxiety and stuff. Is that 0:38:52.920 --> 0:38:54.479 something you've You've struggled with your whole life? 0:38:54.680 --> 0:38:56.840 Yeah, I got a mental health and I'm autistic. 0:38:57.920 --> 0:39:00.319 What what usually like in your life? Hell helps you 0:39:00.440 --> 0:39:01.600 deal with your anxiety? 0:39:02.239 --> 0:39:02.959 Frequencies? 0:39:03.560 --> 0:39:05.640 Frequencies? What kind of frequencies? 0:39:05.800 --> 0:39:06.920 Frequencies and music? 0:39:07.760 --> 0:39:11.360 M do you typically feel like like when you're making music, 0:39:11.640 --> 0:39:13.320 does the anxiety kind of go away? 0:39:13.800 --> 0:39:18.240 It does, it does, but there's always something attatched to music. 0:39:19.120 --> 0:39:25.040 It actually physically hurts me and my heart like it 0:39:25.640 --> 0:39:28.759 pumps and all that so fast. And I feel like 0:39:28.920 --> 0:39:32.560 every time I do a song, I'm gonna, like, you know, fade. 0:39:32.280 --> 0:39:33.560 Out or pass out. 0:39:35.000 --> 0:39:37.879 Really yeah, yeah, really, I feel like I'm gonna pass 0:39:37.920 --> 0:39:39.920 out every time I do a song. So it's like 0:39:40.280 --> 0:39:43.239 three hundred songs I've been I go, I'm passed. 0:39:43.000 --> 0:39:44.200 Three hundred songs already. 0:39:44.440 --> 0:39:46.120 So every time I do a song, I feel like 0:39:46.120 --> 0:39:48.440 I'm gonna pass out or like I'm about to go 0:39:48.440 --> 0:39:49.400 to the hospital or something. 0:39:49.480 --> 0:39:51.040 Can I ask you more about that? Why? Doy? What 0:39:51.160 --> 0:39:53.200 is it that makes you feel so? 0:39:53.440 --> 0:39:53.520 Like? 0:39:53.600 --> 0:39:56.080 What is it that gives you such a strong physical 0:39:56.120 --> 0:39:57.160 reaction when you make it? 0:39:57.400 --> 0:40:00.480 The energy that I'm given to the to the vocal 0:40:00.560 --> 0:40:01.480 cords and everything? 0:40:02.560 --> 0:40:05.200 Oh yeah, so like I mean physically like are you? 0:40:05.239 --> 0:40:05.480 Are you? 0:40:05.600 --> 0:40:09.680 Are you like really singing loudly on my. 0:40:09.719 --> 0:40:12.759 Heart and mind and using my mind and my heart? 0:40:13.000 --> 0:40:15.279 Hmmm? How long you've been making music for it? 0:40:15.760 --> 0:40:19.520 I've been making music for a month making the music, 0:40:19.600 --> 0:40:23.080 but I've been doing this freestyling for years, since I 0:40:23.120 --> 0:40:24.160 was fourteen years old. 0:40:24.239 --> 0:40:27.040 You've been freestyling for years, freestyling. 0:40:26.520 --> 0:40:29.120 For years, but a whole month I've been making music. 0:40:29.719 --> 0:40:32.360 I don't want to put you on the spot, but 0:40:32.480 --> 0:40:35.840 if you so desire, would you want to do a freestyle? 0:40:36.360 --> 0:40:37.200 Yeah? 0:40:37.560 --> 0:40:38.160 Can I hear it? 0:40:38.880 --> 0:40:41.239 My fordy Keiston feel like the bottle of my call 0:40:41.360 --> 0:40:43.239 center is the feeling like you need and call the 0:40:43.360 --> 0:40:46.280 dreaming by the feel like you're reading pulling a styning 0:40:46.520 --> 0:40:49.279 or my goal Jesus pieces. I'm a reptilian, so I'm 0:40:49.280 --> 0:40:51.680 sitting next to that guy called my soul Sido put 0:40:51.760 --> 0:40:54.120 ways up. Been a mito here that let my color 0:40:54.160 --> 0:40:57.000 sweats thirty plus phone nus, I don't got planes with 0:40:57.200 --> 0:40:59.720 whole things and the old pains depelled on my drone, 0:40:59.760 --> 0:41:03.359 say upside down crosses, feel losses three sixes, fell off 0:41:03.400 --> 0:41:07.399 in the causes three v's. That's the twenty vision collision. 0:41:07.520 --> 0:41:10.279 Feel like somebody get humby, feeling a domb vision, thought 0:41:10.280 --> 0:41:12.799 of a blooder cook because I was wearing colors, fell long, 0:41:12.920 --> 0:41:15.759 somebody travel all feeling to these brothers. I'm the old 0:41:15.760 --> 0:41:18.279 it's an eight. Feeling like somebody lose a plate. This 0:41:18.440 --> 0:41:20.840 is easy talking about somebody KNDA losing grace. 0:41:22.040 --> 0:41:24.080 That was great. I like that. 0:41:24.160 --> 0:41:28.080 You you you uh you you reference the reptilian. 0:41:28.400 --> 0:41:31.120 Because I'm half white or. 0:41:31.200 --> 0:41:33.600 Is is being half white being half reptilian? 0:41:33.960 --> 0:41:34.280 Yes? 0:41:34.600 --> 0:41:36.560 Interesting? What what else? 0:41:36.680 --> 0:41:37.279 Uh? 0:41:38.000 --> 0:41:41.560 What else do you know about reptilians. 0:41:40.920 --> 0:41:45.880 That they have power too? I have both sides of 0:41:46.000 --> 0:41:46.440 the story. 0:41:48.320 --> 0:41:49.160 What was I gonna say? 0:41:49.160 --> 0:41:49.279 Oh? 0:41:49.280 --> 0:41:53.920 This bubbles aries or what is a I'm not a 0:41:53.960 --> 0:41:56.239 big like astrology guy. What is what are like? 0:41:56.800 --> 0:41:57.120 What? 0:41:57.120 --> 0:41:59.600 What are the traditional traits of an aris that you 0:41:59.719 --> 0:42:00.480 ident with? 0:42:01.440 --> 0:42:02.239 Is a god of war? 0:42:02.800 --> 0:42:05.480 He steps in enemy lines and he's the first person 0:42:05.480 --> 0:42:09.400 to ask questions and and he the first person to 0:42:09.440 --> 0:42:12.840 do stuff and ask questions later. He's in the first 0:42:13.000 --> 0:42:16.279 enemy lines and everybody else is falls in place. But 0:42:16.640 --> 0:42:21.520 every Harvescope wants to try to be above it arees. 0:42:21.560 --> 0:42:25.239 But it's hard to say that we're the first in 0:42:25.280 --> 0:42:26.040 the horrodscope. 0:42:26.160 --> 0:42:29.719 We're the main people. Everybody else we just let y'all, 0:42:30.280 --> 0:42:31.319 I mean, do y'all do? 0:42:33.080 --> 0:42:33.440 What are you? 0:42:33.640 --> 0:42:35.360 What are you most proud of in life? 0:42:36.800 --> 0:42:39.360 I'm proud of not having any kids right now? 0:42:40.239 --> 0:42:42.880 Interesting? What makes you feel proud of not having any 0:42:43.280 --> 0:42:44.200 any kids. 0:42:43.920 --> 0:42:46.160 Because I sold my mom and my father went through. 0:42:46.600 --> 0:42:51.400 Mm hmmm, do you uh uh? Do you desire to 0:42:51.440 --> 0:42:53.240 have kids at some point in your life. 0:42:53.640 --> 0:42:58.960 With somebody that that that's that's like, I don't want 0:42:58.960 --> 0:43:02.880 a normal person because a normal person is aggravation, Like 0:43:03.320 --> 0:43:06.000 a normal person is gonna do dirty. So I'd rather 0:43:06.080 --> 0:43:09.759 have a person that's astronomy, you know, I want a 0:43:09.880 --> 0:43:11.320 very person that's out of this world? 0:43:11.480 --> 0:43:11.719 You know? 0:43:11.760 --> 0:43:15.239 Interesting? Interesting? Where do you feel like have you ever 0:43:15.360 --> 0:43:17.040 met a person? 0:43:17.719 --> 0:43:18.839 Fact, I'm from the Bronx too. 0:43:19.320 --> 0:43:21.200 Oh yeah, well have you remember have you ever met 0:43:21.280 --> 0:43:22.799 a person that you feel like. 0:43:24.280 --> 0:43:25.800 Is out of out of this world? 0:43:25.880 --> 0:43:27.880 And in the in the way that you're describing, not 0:43:27.920 --> 0:43:30.399 even just like in a romantic sense, but like even 0:43:30.440 --> 0:43:32.759 like a friend or a mentor or anything like that. 0:43:35.440 --> 0:43:42.680 Basically actually cooking with Cairo, time, cooking with Cairo, cooking 0:43:42.719 --> 0:43:44.760 with Caira, Yeah, cooking with Kaya. 0:43:45.040 --> 0:43:46.319 Who's who's cooking with Kaya? 0:43:47.000 --> 0:43:49.719 She's on the internet, She's on YouTube and everything, and 0:43:49.760 --> 0:43:52.239 she gave me inspiration because she did so many videos. 0:43:52.440 --> 0:43:55.400 So I started doing my little Live Means and and 0:43:55.520 --> 0:43:58.160 my little Bagle. I'm on Beagle too, so and I 0:43:58.200 --> 0:44:01.880 do the Loco. So I've been sharing social media. She started, 0:44:02.040 --> 0:44:04.719 she's when she started her stuff. I really took a 0:44:04.760 --> 0:44:07.840 look at it, not because of her gyrating her body, 0:44:07.960 --> 0:44:10.080 because how much social media. 0:44:09.920 --> 0:44:11.880 She has made in her life. 0:44:13.200 --> 0:44:15.960 Why Voloko and what's the other what's their one? Be 0:44:16.520 --> 0:44:19.800 the bag and Bigel? Why not just like Instagram and YouTube. 0:44:19.400 --> 0:44:21.120 Because Bigle's where the music is at. 0:44:21.320 --> 0:44:26.080 This got a billion artists and a billion beats, a 0:44:26.200 --> 0:44:31.160 billion people loving your stuff. It's passing with people like 0:44:31.239 --> 0:44:35.360 on your Facebook. See I share my music with the 0:44:35.440 --> 0:44:39.360 Loco through face. I get on, I get on Loco, 0:44:40.040 --> 0:44:43.160 do my music, send mad In my music to Facebook. 0:44:43.320 --> 0:44:46.720 So I got more views. They listening to my music. 0:44:47.680 --> 0:44:50.359 They I got people in Nigeria listen to my music 0:44:50.400 --> 0:44:50.880 right now. 0:44:50.920 --> 0:44:53.880 So what so if the people people listening to this 0:44:54.000 --> 0:44:57.000 want to find you, they'll find you on Volco. 0:44:56.640 --> 0:44:58.480 Yeah they if I'm me on YouTube too, okay? 0:44:58.560 --> 0:45:02.880 And what's what's what's the name? Z twenty vvv Z 0:45:03.120 --> 0:45:04.040 twenty vvv. 0:45:04.280 --> 0:45:07.080 My first song is called merv and it's called and 0:45:07.120 --> 0:45:09.520 then the next song is called sex Body Respect. I 0:45:09.600 --> 0:45:14.760 got like ten songs on there already. I got four reels. 0:45:15.200 --> 0:45:20.640 I got chiropractory videos, chiro practical like where you're like. 0:45:20.640 --> 0:45:21.799 No, no, there's a guy. 0:45:21.960 --> 0:45:24.760 He has a lot of he does good in chiropractory 0:45:25.080 --> 0:45:27.719 and people like that, like you know, cracking backs and 0:45:27.719 --> 0:45:28.319 stuff like that. 0:45:28.480 --> 0:45:29.600 He cracks your back. 0:45:29.640 --> 0:45:33.800 No, he cracks other people's backs, like like famous people. 0:45:34.120 --> 0:45:34.800 You know what I'm saying. 0:45:35.000 --> 0:45:36.680 So it's like a network with a lot of people 0:45:36.760 --> 0:45:39.799 that are already up there. But I don't have to 0:45:39.840 --> 0:45:42.000 be like, oh, I need their money to be good. 0:45:42.120 --> 0:45:43.120 I could give somebody a. 0:45:43.080 --> 0:45:46.440 Thousand dollars and they rich already because I cheer with 0:45:46.480 --> 0:45:48.600 them because I know what they're doing. 0:45:49.320 --> 0:45:52.080 What's your what's your ultimate dream in life? Man? Where 0:45:52.080 --> 0:45:54.760 do you what's your greatest ultimate dream? 0:45:54.880 --> 0:45:56.439 Is everybody networking with each other? 0:45:56.680 --> 0:45:57.480 Yeah? 0:45:57.920 --> 0:46:00.520 Yeah, everybody network with each other. 0:46:02.080 --> 0:46:04.879 Do you believe in like a collective consciousness of any kind? 0:46:04.920 --> 0:46:06.359 Like we all kind of are each other? 0:46:06.480 --> 0:46:07.640 Yes, a big one. 0:46:07.760 --> 0:46:10.200 It doesn't matter who you are, It doesn't matter what 0:46:10.320 --> 0:46:12.360 you wear, who you is, what. 0:46:12.520 --> 0:46:14.719 Kind of sex y'all show a network with each other 0:46:14.760 --> 0:46:17.480 because y'all don't know what y'all just walk around each other. 0:46:17.600 --> 0:46:20.440 Y'all don't want to talk to each other. If I 0:46:20.719 --> 0:46:22.719 walk around right now, nobody gonna talk to me because 0:46:22.760 --> 0:46:23.319 they don't want to. 0:46:23.719 --> 0:46:26.720 They see a dark skinned person, they don't open their mouth. 0:46:28.160 --> 0:46:31.200 But when they see even when a white person, they 0:46:31.320 --> 0:46:32.120 it's the same thing. 0:46:32.160 --> 0:46:34.359 They just scared. People are just scared all over. It's 0:46:34.440 --> 0:46:37.640 New York City. People don't know people. If you if 0:46:37.680 --> 0:46:41.719 you talk to somebody right now, they gonna want it. 0:46:41.880 --> 0:46:44.960 They think it's always some wish a catch behind it. 0:46:45.280 --> 0:46:47.360 When I'm trying to share this ad, nobody want to 0:46:47.400 --> 0:46:50.279 get on. It's free money on Bigle. You could do 0:46:50.320 --> 0:46:52.760 a Bigle live right now instead of you scrolling on 0:46:52.840 --> 0:46:56.200 Facebook for nothing. This is wild apps out here that 0:46:56.280 --> 0:47:00.560 you can make money on and people out here sellingate whatever. 0:47:01.440 --> 0:47:04.280 All right, I gotta check out Beagle Bagle. 0:47:04.600 --> 0:47:06.680 Good on local if you want to do music, or 0:47:06.719 --> 0:47:09.719 you could check out other people's music. This thousands of 0:47:09.760 --> 0:47:13.239 people you laughing, you're laughing, but this mad people that. 0:47:13.200 --> 0:47:15.800 Got music, got scousel here, that's looking for people. 0:47:15.880 --> 0:47:17.640 I don't doubt you. I don't, I don't, I don't 0:47:17.680 --> 0:47:18.799 doubt I don't doubt you at all. 0:47:19.120 --> 0:47:20.920 The local app is where is that? 0:47:21.680 --> 0:47:22.719 What's your name again? Man? 0:47:22.719 --> 0:47:25.839 My name is Z twenty vvv, Z twenty vvv. Thanks 0:47:25.880 --> 0:47:27.920 for sitting down and talking with me. Man, I appreciate it. 0:47:27.960 --> 0:47:29.200 Is Is there anything else you want to say to 0:47:29.239 --> 0:47:30.680 the people before we go anything at all? 0:47:31.080 --> 0:47:33.160 I want I want you to just think about what 0:47:33.200 --> 0:47:40.160 I said and be positive and uh, God is within you. 0:47:38.880 --> 0:47:41.040 You know the vibes. 0:47:41.840 --> 0:47:42.600 God bless you man. 0:47:42.719 --> 0:47:45.600 Thank you for calling or calling, Thank you for sitting 0:47:45.600 --> 0:47:48.399 down chatting man, what's your name? 0:47:48.480 --> 0:47:52.040 My friend Rob rob Lyle. Nice to meet your Rob. 0:47:52.120 --> 0:47:52.560 Thank you. 0:47:52.600 --> 0:47:54.520 How's how's a gun good? 0:47:54.600 --> 0:47:57.760 I go to therapy every three months. We do a plan. 0:47:58.000 --> 0:48:00.520 I have to do ship like that. But this is 0:48:00.600 --> 0:48:01.560 different a lot. 0:48:02.280 --> 0:48:05.000 You go to therapy once only only once every three months. 0:48:05.080 --> 0:48:07.440 Yes, I don't like to go. I just bullshit. I 0:48:07.480 --> 0:48:10.040 got none to complain about, have you? 0:48:10.239 --> 0:48:10.680 Uh? 0:48:10.800 --> 0:48:12.400 Is that a recent thing where you've had nothing to 0:48:12.440 --> 0:48:14.160 complain about? Or have you always had. 0:48:14.160 --> 0:48:15.840 No reason the last few years? 0:48:15.920 --> 0:48:19.719 My friend's Nico Adam, I come out, They give me cigarettes, 0:48:20.200 --> 0:48:22.440 iced coffee, I lay out and some with the music. 0:48:22.480 --> 0:48:24.200 No one got it better than me. I tell you, 0:48:25.560 --> 0:48:26.960 how uh? 0:48:27.239 --> 0:48:28.319 What are you doing today? Man? 0:48:28.760 --> 0:48:29.000 You know? 0:48:29.400 --> 0:48:31.840 I was out in Vegas because my mom passed. 0:48:31.840 --> 0:48:34.520 She was ninety. It's okay, she was ninety five. She 0:48:34.560 --> 0:48:37.480 had great grandchildren, lived a long life. So I got 0:48:37.520 --> 0:48:41.160 together with my brother, my two sisters, my nephews, my niece. 0:48:41.640 --> 0:48:44.600 We bonded, had a lot of love, family time, and 0:48:44.640 --> 0:48:46.040 I came back last week. 0:48:46.080 --> 0:48:49.360 But I've been like gently sleeping for days in Queens. 0:48:49.800 --> 0:48:51.880 So my friends said, come out party. 0:48:51.960 --> 0:48:54.200 I was like, yes, som much? 0:48:55.320 --> 0:48:55.759 What uh? 0:48:55.920 --> 0:48:57.640 What do you like to do when you're partying. Man. 0:48:58.000 --> 0:49:00.600 You know, I got friends here from me ten years. 0:49:00.640 --> 0:49:03.719 I just hang out. They bring out the guitars, the drums. 0:49:03.760 --> 0:49:06.560 I get cigarettes, I get coffee, we get weed. 0:49:06.640 --> 0:49:07.520 We have a party. 0:49:07.600 --> 0:49:07.799 Man. 0:49:08.640 --> 0:49:13.560 Yeah, okay, so you said that you have nothing to 0:49:13.600 --> 0:49:14.200 complain about. 0:49:14.239 --> 0:49:15.439 But it wasn't always like that. 0:49:15.640 --> 0:49:18.120 No. I used to just stay in bed with depression 0:49:18.200 --> 0:49:21.960 for years. But then, you know, one day I woke up, 0:49:21.960 --> 0:49:24.359 I said, the sun down, I'm gonna get the fuck out, 0:49:24.480 --> 0:49:26.279 smile at people just hang out. 0:49:26.800 --> 0:49:29.400 So so I'm very curious about that because you know, 0:49:29.560 --> 0:49:31.640 I think a lot of people definitely listen to this 0:49:31.840 --> 0:49:35.080 podcast who have like struggled with depression and whatnot. And 0:49:35.080 --> 0:49:38.799 you're telling me you just woke up one day and like, like, 0:49:38.840 --> 0:49:40.200 what was what was what's kind of. 0:49:40.200 --> 0:49:42.280 Been your process of things? 0:49:42.440 --> 0:49:44.600 You know, I was young, I was in uh see, 0:49:44.640 --> 0:49:46.480 I was hanging out here in the eighties, but I 0:49:46.520 --> 0:49:47.680 was doing a lot of acid. 0:49:48.520 --> 0:49:50.520 So you know, I flipped out at seventeen. 0:49:50.640 --> 0:49:53.320 I was in a psych wood, but they gave me depico, 0:49:53.440 --> 0:49:55.400 which is a medicaid T manic depression. 0:49:55.920 --> 0:49:56.520 So I sailed. 0:49:56.560 --> 0:50:00.080 When I met a girl, we got an apartment. I 0:50:00.120 --> 0:50:03.320 went back to school, had a good life for many years. 0:50:03.400 --> 0:50:06.000 But she was on dialysis for three years, so I 0:50:06.040 --> 0:50:09.320 gave her a kidney. Now I was sober for three years. 0:50:09.520 --> 0:50:12.160 But then when after the surgery, they said here, here's 0:50:12.160 --> 0:50:16.080 some morphine. So for years I was taking the pills 0:50:16.080 --> 0:50:18.160 and stuff. And now I just smoked the weed and 0:50:18.239 --> 0:50:21.399 I'm okay. Now, you know, I said to my doctor, hey, 0:50:21.440 --> 0:50:22.799 give me some valume out of man. 0:50:23.080 --> 0:50:25.319 He's like, nah, you pop him my candy. You got 0:50:25.320 --> 0:50:28.240 the weed. You're good. So I see him. He gives 0:50:28.239 --> 0:50:31.239 me the epicode. You know, it's like, get out of here, Robert. 0:50:31.239 --> 0:50:32.880 Can you you a favorite? If you're talking, they just 0:50:32.920 --> 0:50:35.640 hold the. 0:50:34.560 --> 0:50:39.160 Okay, I'll try. So how long you been doing this? 0:50:39.320 --> 0:50:41.080 I've been doing this for about five years? 0:50:41.200 --> 0:50:44.720 Okay, And you have a master's in social wor because, oh. 0:50:44.840 --> 0:50:47.880 No, I have a master's in nothing. I'm just fucking 0:50:47.960 --> 0:50:49.080 crazy guy. 0:50:48.880 --> 0:50:49.399 That's cool. 0:50:49.440 --> 0:50:51.799 I went back to school to be a physiced Maje. 0:50:51.840 --> 0:50:54.799 I was playing a lot of tennis, volleyball, softball, but 0:50:54.840 --> 0:50:58.440 then I failed chemistry and need the sciences. So I 0:50:58.440 --> 0:51:01.719 started hanging out volunteer with some blind people, met some 0:51:01.800 --> 0:51:02.760 people in the park. 0:51:03.239 --> 0:51:05.120 It's an easy life. Man, it's a good. 0:51:05.000 --> 0:51:05.560 Lie, dude. 0:51:05.640 --> 0:51:09.960 This is truly like, this might be the best park 0:51:10.000 --> 0:51:10.720 on the whole planet. 0:51:10.760 --> 0:51:13.080 I love this park so much, you know. 0:51:13.800 --> 0:51:14.239 I'm by. 0:51:14.600 --> 0:51:17.839 I lived in by Flushing Meadow and Flushing Queens for years, 0:51:17.920 --> 0:51:20.000 and I was some people. It's nice at the Unispeed. 0:51:20.120 --> 0:51:22.799 They got minish of gop, a lot of land, a lake. 0:51:23.320 --> 0:51:25.920 But it's not the city where you got art culture, 0:51:26.440 --> 0:51:30.239 you know, music history, everything down here, you know. So 0:51:30.320 --> 0:51:32.640 I even though it's a now and fifteen minutes by 0:51:32.719 --> 0:51:35.000 bus and train in a good weather, I'll just hang 0:51:35.080 --> 0:51:37.040 out in the city all night and party, you know, 0:51:37.160 --> 0:51:37.880 with my friends. 0:51:38.400 --> 0:51:38.799 Mm hmm. 0:51:38.920 --> 0:51:40.000 We live large man. 0:51:41.239 --> 0:51:46.200 How hmmmm, I guess tell me more about like you said. Yeah, 0:51:46.320 --> 0:51:48.840 Like it's a process, like getting over depression. Like what 0:51:49.600 --> 0:51:51.920 what would you say have been like all the different 0:51:51.960 --> 0:51:53.160 parts of your process. 0:51:53.960 --> 0:51:56.759 You know. I was alone for many years, but then 0:51:56.840 --> 0:51:59.879 I met a girl and she loved me, she wanted 0:52:00.160 --> 0:52:03.680 best for me. And then after she passed, I was 0:52:03.719 --> 0:52:05.239 hanging out in the park all the years, you know, 0:52:05.280 --> 0:52:08.200 I'll come down here sometimes always some music would cheer 0:52:08.280 --> 0:52:10.920 me up with my friends. And then I met Niko, 0:52:11.600 --> 0:52:14.000 and he hooked me up with Adam and they did 0:52:14.080 --> 0:52:17.239 my portrait of by Goring's someversationis some lady came home 0:52:17.280 --> 0:52:19.680 and she was like, Yo, you look like a crazy chatter. 0:52:19.680 --> 0:52:21.960 I want to put you in a movie. So they 0:52:22.000 --> 0:52:25.080 put me in an extra with Timothy Chaloman in a movie. 0:52:24.920 --> 0:52:27.520 Coming out next to here called Marty Supreme about some 0:52:27.800 --> 0:52:31.640 crazy uh ping punk played on one gold and he 0:52:31.800 --> 0:52:32.920 was like a character. 0:52:32.680 --> 0:52:35.000 In a village and I'm they caught my hand. 0:52:35.040 --> 0:52:38.399 Oh I had good hair, so like for two days, 0:52:38.440 --> 0:52:40.880 it was twelve hours a day just standing around it, 0:52:41.000 --> 0:52:44.520 dressed me up as a fifties peasant, and then they said, 0:52:44.520 --> 0:52:46.200 don't come in the third day you get paid. 0:52:46.239 --> 0:52:49.040 I made like seven fifty for like two days. 0:52:49.600 --> 0:52:51.600 And then it's coming out and I don't know if 0:52:51.600 --> 0:52:53.560 I'll get red coffee, but I tell I'm gonna get 0:52:53.560 --> 0:52:54.879 some popcorn and hang out. 0:52:55.000 --> 0:52:55.200 Man. 0:52:56.320 --> 0:52:58.560 Oh yeah, what's the name of this movie again? 0:52:58.960 --> 0:52:59.880 What's a Komatis? 0:53:00.680 --> 0:53:05.480 Right? Yeah, Marty. Did you get to meet Timothy Shallow. 0:53:05.520 --> 0:53:07.239 Because he can't talk to him, but he was in 0:53:07.360 --> 0:53:09.920 the scene. He ran up a fire's gate, came down, 0:53:10.040 --> 0:53:13.040 stole some money. The cops backed up after him knocking 0:53:13.120 --> 0:53:15.200 little watermelon caught the watermelons. 0:53:15.520 --> 0:53:17.120 I'm just hanging out in the street. 0:53:17.680 --> 0:53:21.239 Fran dresser and another actress was in the shoe, so 0:53:21.400 --> 0:53:23.600 I didn't see them. But it was just a lot 0:53:23.640 --> 0:53:26.520 of fun. And Niko actually was coming through the city 0:53:26.600 --> 0:53:29.920 on his bike and he just stopped icy ball but 0:53:30.000 --> 0:53:30.359 he dies. 0:53:30.400 --> 0:53:31.560 I don't want that, man. 0:53:31.640 --> 0:53:34.120 He gave me a few bucks of seawettes. I was like, Yo, 0:53:34.320 --> 0:53:36.360 it's a good summer and this summer's gonna be. 0:53:37.480 --> 0:53:38.720 What are her plans for the summer? 0:53:39.080 --> 0:53:43.080 You know, I don't know the stay out late, enjoy 0:53:43.160 --> 0:53:46.400 the music. You know, I don't know what to do. 0:53:46.600 --> 0:53:48.359 Man, It's just so good to do it the good 0:53:48.400 --> 0:53:51.960 weather because you know, when it's like rainy and cold, 0:53:52.239 --> 0:53:54.399 I stay in Queens and I sleep and I watch 0:53:54.440 --> 0:53:55.080 the grass squaw. 0:53:55.200 --> 0:53:57.880 It sucks, man. So I'm so excited to be out 0:53:57.960 --> 0:53:59.560 with my friends having a great time. 0:54:00.000 --> 0:54:01.680 You know you were were you born in New York? 0:54:01.880 --> 0:54:04.240 Yes, I grew up in white Stone, Queens. 0:54:04.360 --> 0:54:07.680 You know what and uh how I mean, it's a 0:54:07.719 --> 0:54:09.680 bit of a load of question, but how has New 0:54:09.760 --> 0:54:13.719 York changed over the years. I know it's a load 0:54:13.760 --> 0:54:16.920 of question, but I'm curious if you have like specific 0:54:17.000 --> 0:54:19.359 things that you've noticed are really really different from when 0:54:19.360 --> 0:54:19.960 you were growing up. 0:54:20.120 --> 0:54:22.719 You know, in the seventies, I would hang out in 0:54:22.840 --> 0:54:24.759 times grim My dad would take me to and my 0:54:24.880 --> 0:54:27.560 friends to the movies and stuff, and you'd see people 0:54:27.719 --> 0:54:29.960 strung out and prostitutes and everything. 0:54:30.000 --> 0:54:31.840 And now it's a whole family cleaned up. 0:54:32.000 --> 0:54:33.480 So that's a little different. I mean, I used to 0:54:33.480 --> 0:54:36.239 go over to Coney Island, my grandparents lived over there, 0:54:36.239 --> 0:54:38.920 and it was all you know, dirties, strung out everything. 0:54:39.280 --> 0:54:41.480 Now it's like I went there last year. We went 0:54:41.560 --> 0:54:45.960 and sort of fireworks boardwark. Well it's god man, New 0:54:46.040 --> 0:54:47.840 York's thriving now, Yeah. 0:54:48.680 --> 0:54:52.000 I guess so, I guess I'm actually even more curious 0:54:52.000 --> 0:54:54.200 about this. What stayed the same? 0:54:56.200 --> 0:54:59.520 It's always lot, there's always something happened in some movement 0:54:59.560 --> 0:55:01.040 when you or hard. 0:55:01.200 --> 0:55:03.680 It's always on the edge, you know, before the rest 0:55:03.719 --> 0:55:04.560 of the world gets it. 0:55:04.600 --> 0:55:07.040 It's always happening in New York, right, you come here, 0:55:07.280 --> 0:55:08.600 it happens first, man. 0:55:09.400 --> 0:55:09.680 True. 0:55:11.000 --> 0:55:15.040 What's hmmmm? Is there anything about like you said, you 0:55:15.080 --> 0:55:16.800 said you grew up like manly like in the seventies. 0:55:16.960 --> 0:55:18.880 Yeah, yeah, born in seventies. 0:55:19.080 --> 0:55:19.440 What it is? 0:55:19.560 --> 0:55:22.640 What is it about the seventies? Is there any particular 0:55:22.719 --> 0:55:24.640 aspect of the seventies that you missed the most? 0:55:25.120 --> 0:55:27.719 The Yankees had the great team in the late seventies. 0:55:27.840 --> 0:55:29.879 My father and sister would take me and my friends 0:55:30.000 --> 0:55:32.080 up to the Bronx. We'd get bleach your seats for 0:55:32.160 --> 0:55:34.480 a dollar fifty, get beast filedovs. 0:55:34.520 --> 0:55:34.960 It was great. 0:55:35.040 --> 0:55:39.439 Reggie Jackson, Ron Guidwy come on, you know, I know, yeah, 0:55:39.640 --> 0:55:41.400 that had one d and then the Mets had a run. 0:55:41.520 --> 0:55:44.279 And see I lived in Queens near Shay, but my 0:55:44.480 --> 0:55:46.640 dad grew up in the Bronx. So they would always 0:55:46.640 --> 0:55:49.200 say this, the Yankees stated, and we had a ball 0:55:49.440 --> 0:55:50.520 man all the time. 0:55:51.719 --> 0:55:52.480 That's awesome, man. 0:55:52.560 --> 0:55:55.279 I love I love that you're fucking enjoyed. You seem 0:55:55.400 --> 0:55:58.279 so happy. Man, you I haven't, I mean we we 0:55:58.800 --> 0:56:01.400 actually so. I ran into you and Nico while I 0:56:01.560 --> 0:56:06.040 was setting up, and you haven't stopped smiling since I 0:56:06.160 --> 0:56:06.719 read into you. 0:56:06.920 --> 0:56:08.920 Glad. I tried to put out that vibe. 0:56:09.080 --> 0:56:12.319 I mean, Adam been doing portraits of me, small ones. 0:56:12.400 --> 0:56:14.920 He's working on a big one, and he was showing 0:56:15.000 --> 0:56:16.640 people and when I first saw it, I said, Oh no, 0:56:16.719 --> 0:56:18.840 do love a grimace because I don't want to portray 0:56:19.000 --> 0:56:22.000 at him. We're doing a survey with people because I 0:56:22.239 --> 0:56:24.399 don't is it a smile or a grimace. I want 0:56:24.440 --> 0:56:27.440 to portray that I'm smiling, you know, people, not only 0:56:27.520 --> 0:56:28.279 small bag man. 0:56:28.360 --> 0:56:29.319 But that's all I got. 0:56:30.440 --> 0:56:33.719 What makes you the happiest in life right now? 0:56:34.960 --> 0:56:39.560 Just a good weather, cigarettes, coffee, friends, knowing later on 0:56:39.760 --> 0:56:42.560 it will cool down, My friends will come out to musicians. 0:56:42.640 --> 0:56:46.840 I'll lie around, have a good time. It's good in 0:56:46.920 --> 0:56:48.960 the York. Man, I'm blessed. 0:56:49.880 --> 0:56:52.239 Yeah, I'll ask one more question. 0:56:52.320 --> 0:56:52.759 I don't know why. 0:56:52.800 --> 0:56:54.400 I've been thinking about this a lot. What are you? 0:56:54.920 --> 0:56:56.200 What are you the most proud of? 0:56:57.320 --> 0:57:00.120 You know, my mom just passed and for years I 0:57:00.239 --> 0:57:02.480 used to bother hunt fight, wouldn't be like, I'd give 0:57:02.520 --> 0:57:06.080 me money, but bat that. But then the last few 0:57:06.200 --> 0:57:08.640 years I went out and saw and we made peace. 0:57:08.880 --> 0:57:12.799 And then she called me in the last two months 0:57:12.840 --> 0:57:15.200 before she passed away and she was like, hey, are 0:57:15.239 --> 0:57:16.760 you seeing your friends in the city. 0:57:16.920 --> 0:57:18.680 Are you voluntain with the blind pever? 0:57:19.120 --> 0:57:21.400 I was like yes, my. 0:57:21.520 --> 0:57:24.480 Brother said it made it very happy that I'm doing well. 0:57:24.600 --> 0:57:27.400 So that's it. You know it's a good life. 0:57:28.320 --> 0:57:29.800 That's beautiful, Robert I. 0:57:29.960 --> 0:57:33.640 I I love that hanging out here, will get some 0:57:33.760 --> 0:57:34.600 butt and smoke. 0:57:35.760 --> 0:57:36.520 You got that right? 0:57:38.040 --> 0:57:38.240 Yeah? 0:57:39.400 --> 0:57:42.680 Yeah, I'll be hanging out after it. Dude, Is there 0:57:42.680 --> 0:57:44.200 anything else you want to say to the people of 0:57:44.280 --> 0:57:45.200 the computer before we go? 0:57:45.560 --> 0:57:45.720 Oh? 0:57:45.840 --> 0:57:48.280 I don't know who got some buds? I got cigarettes, 0:57:48.320 --> 0:57:51.919 but we got to get some buds. I got three bucks, man, Yeah, 0:57:52.400 --> 0:57:53.120 we'll get high. 0:57:54.280 --> 0:58:00.160 That sounds awesome. I'll see at the party. Brother, Thanks 0:58:00.160 --> 0:58:01.080 for talking about I appreciate it. 0:58:03.000 --> 0:58:03.480 Thank you man. 0:58:03.640 --> 0:58:06.360 Oh you're right, man. 0:58:08.520 --> 0:58:12.280 Sorry, Oh that was awesome. Hell yah, I love that. 0:58:12.720 --> 0:58:15.040 I love that, man. Goddamn is it the simple things? 0:58:15.640 --> 0:58:15.800 God? 0:58:16.040 --> 0:58:18.120 I wish I had something more eloquent to say other 0:58:18.160 --> 0:58:20.840 than I just love this park and I love the 0:58:20.960 --> 0:58:23.280 nice weather, and I love getting to talk to all 0:58:23.320 --> 0:58:23.800 these people. 0:58:23.920 --> 0:58:30.400 But that's that's That's really it. What's your name? One 0:58:30.400 --> 0:58:32.200 more times? 0:58:32.600 --> 0:58:32.920 What's up? 0:58:33.000 --> 0:58:36.560 Far do I'm just being a gecko hanging out? 0:58:36.560 --> 0:58:36.640 Oh? 0:58:36.720 --> 0:58:38.720 Sorry for can you just make sure when we're talking 0:58:38.760 --> 0:58:41.360 if you hold the mic like? Thank Yeah, that's great, 0:58:41.400 --> 0:58:43.440 that's great. Are you do you live in New York 0:58:43.480 --> 0:58:44.280 or are you from out of town? 0:58:44.760 --> 0:58:48.080 I am an international student from Norway. So I've been 0:58:48.120 --> 0:58:49.880 here for like one and a half years. 0:58:50.080 --> 0:58:53.640 Oh, we're in Norway, like nearby the city Oslo. Okay, 0:58:53.680 --> 0:58:56.680 I was in Oslo a couple of years ago. Really yeah, 0:58:58.240 --> 0:58:59.040 yeah it was cool. 0:58:59.520 --> 0:58:59.960 It was cool. 0:59:00.040 --> 0:59:01.080 It looks like you didn't enjoy it. 0:59:01.320 --> 0:59:03.440 No, it's not you know what, No, that's not a 0:59:03.480 --> 0:59:05.160 look I didn't enjoy. It's a look of I wish 0:59:05.200 --> 0:59:08.000 I had a specific I wish I had an Oslo thing. Oh, 0:59:08.400 --> 0:59:08.880 I mean I did. 0:59:09.040 --> 0:59:10.480 I did a show there a couple of years ago. 0:59:10.840 --> 0:59:15.160 It's a fun time. Uh where there's like a wharf area. 0:59:16.720 --> 0:59:18.760 Yeah wharf what is warf? 0:59:19.040 --> 0:59:21.640 Like, like you're near water and stuff like boats and shit. 0:59:21.760 --> 0:59:25.080 Yeah yeah I know, yeah yeah yeah. It was just 0:59:25.160 --> 0:59:27.720 pretty cool. Well okay, so you've been here for a 0:59:27.840 --> 0:59:31.200 year and a half now, and uh, give me, give 0:59:31.240 --> 0:59:34.200 me some differences between Oslo and New York. 0:59:34.720 --> 0:59:38.560 I think the biggest difference is like the people, because 0:59:38.600 --> 0:59:41.840 here everyone's like, do anything you want and nobody gives 0:59:41.880 --> 0:59:43.320 a fuck. But like, if you do that in like 0:59:43.440 --> 0:59:45.720 Norway in general, people will not like it. 0:59:46.240 --> 0:59:47.520 Really yeah they will. 0:59:47.760 --> 0:59:50.800 Everyone's like, so just intervert in that country and it's 0:59:50.880 --> 0:59:54.560 just like you cannot be yourself in a way. That's 0:59:54.600 --> 0:59:56.800 why the main thing I moved here because I can 0:59:56.920 --> 0:59:58.919 like be whatever and nobody would give a fuck. 1:00:00.200 --> 1:00:04.800 Do you have any specific examples of like things that 1:00:05.080 --> 1:00:08.240 you would be comfortable doing here in the States that 1:00:08.280 --> 1:00:09.960 you wouldn't be comfortable doing in Norway? 1:00:10.080 --> 1:00:10.280 Oh? 1:00:11.200 --> 1:00:13.640 Like you know those people that just like talk loudly 1:00:14.560 --> 1:00:17.040 in their buses, and if you did that in Norway, 1:00:17.080 --> 1:00:20.160 people will hate you. You know, they will literally literally 1:00:20.320 --> 1:00:22.600 drive you, like they hate that shit. And just like 1:00:23.240 --> 1:00:27.680 if you wear different clothings, they don't like that. A 1:00:27.800 --> 1:00:30.760 lot of people in Norway have like very specific outfits 1:00:30.880 --> 1:00:34.000 and if you are like out there showing more skin 1:00:34.080 --> 1:00:35.240 than they're not gonna like it. 1:00:35.520 --> 1:00:37.480 You know, it is it is cool man, like in 1:00:37.680 --> 1:00:39.160 like you could go be in the New York City 1:00:39.240 --> 1:00:42.880 subway and somebody could come on there blasting music and 1:00:42.960 --> 1:00:47.680 then like doing pull ups on the fucking subway train 1:00:48.080 --> 1:00:52.120 or like spinning around or throwing and no and nobody 1:00:52.200 --> 1:00:56.480 gives a shit, And it's there's kind of some beauty 1:00:56.560 --> 1:01:00.760 in that everyone is just kind of minding your own business. 1:01:00.800 --> 1:01:03.240 I mean, this park is a perfect example of like 1:01:03.680 --> 1:01:06.520 you could run around here fucking in your underwear and 1:01:06.840 --> 1:01:10.080 do whatever. And what I'm saying, it's such a beautiful 1:01:10.680 --> 1:01:14.400 like so much expression going on, whereas, yeah, you know, 1:01:14.520 --> 1:01:16.720 places in Asia and in Europe are not as much 1:01:16.840 --> 1:01:17.000 like that. 1:01:17.560 --> 1:01:19.720 That's that's what I love about New York, Like you 1:01:19.760 --> 1:01:22.680 can do anything and nobody will care. But if you 1:01:22.800 --> 1:01:25.960 did that back home, you would have backlashes. 1:01:26.160 --> 1:01:28.400 So what do you what are you studying? I'm studying acting, 1:01:28.760 --> 1:01:30.960 sitting acting. What's your dream role? 1:01:31.960 --> 1:01:36.480 Oh? My dream role is to be the main lead 1:01:36.560 --> 1:01:37.320 in every movie. 1:01:38.120 --> 1:01:38.920 Hold on, hold on, the. 1:01:39.440 --> 1:01:44.440 Main lead in every movie, in every movie, every movie, 1:01:45.280 --> 1:01:48.920 even like shitty like even like YouTube videos, like every movie. 1:01:49.120 --> 1:01:52.479 I love YouTube videos. I'm trying actually to become those 1:01:52.520 --> 1:01:54.080 YouTube influences nowadays. 1:01:54.240 --> 1:01:57.240 Okay, what do you want to make a YouTube influence about? 1:01:57.640 --> 1:01:58.640 Like daily life? 1:01:58.760 --> 1:01:59.880 You know blogs? 1:02:00.080 --> 1:02:01.720 I love that share Okay. 1:02:01.960 --> 1:02:04.120 I don't like when people like look down on those 1:02:04.200 --> 1:02:07.000 YouTube videos. I find that so funny when people like 1:02:07.040 --> 1:02:07.960 put themselves out there. 1:02:08.280 --> 1:02:09.000 I like, I. 1:02:10.680 --> 1:02:13.280 I guess like you there is And it's funny because 1:02:13.280 --> 1:02:17.320 I was just talking to someone else about this about 1:02:17.360 --> 1:02:22.240 like like people have a adversion to being cringe. 1:02:22.760 --> 1:02:25.480 Oh, people have an aversion to being cringe. 1:02:25.560 --> 1:02:28.680 People have an aversion to putting themselves out there, And 1:02:28.880 --> 1:02:31.600 it's like why, there's no real point. 1:02:31.760 --> 1:02:33.440 It depends like what do you find cringe? 1:02:33.840 --> 1:02:34.960 What do I find cringe? 1:02:35.440 --> 1:02:37.720 There's very little that I actually. 1:02:37.440 --> 1:02:40.600 Maybe there is a little bit that I find cringe. 1:02:40.760 --> 1:02:44.400 But I find like like like I don't like like 1:02:44.600 --> 1:02:49.520 drama YouTube people or like people who like all their 1:02:49.680 --> 1:02:53.640 like content is about like fuck this person or whatever. 1:02:53.600 --> 1:02:56.280 People that just like hate another people. But I do 1:02:56.480 --> 1:02:59.680 find people that put themselves out there. I love those people, 1:03:00.040 --> 1:03:02.680 even though if other people find it cringe, fuck them. Yeah, 1:03:02.760 --> 1:03:05.720 but if they like like those couple of videos, I 1:03:05.760 --> 1:03:09.000 don't like those videos. Which videos those people that pretending 1:03:09.040 --> 1:03:10.120 to be a couple on YouTube? 1:03:10.200 --> 1:03:12.880 Oh sure sure, sure not like those sure? 1:03:13.080 --> 1:03:14.560 Well okay, actually I'll say this like I don't know 1:03:14.560 --> 1:03:16.280 if I find I don't have cringe is the right word, 1:03:16.320 --> 1:03:19.080 But I don't. I don't like people who uh like 1:03:19.600 --> 1:03:22.040 like like family vlaw Oh no. 1:03:22.120 --> 1:03:22.880 I hate that shit. 1:03:23.120 --> 1:03:23.320 Yeah. 1:03:23.440 --> 1:03:27.760 No, I do believe that people that below eighteen should 1:03:27.840 --> 1:03:31.280 not be on like posting shit you know those family yeah, 1:03:31.400 --> 1:03:33.120 people that like five year old though children. 1:03:33.240 --> 1:03:33.840 Yeah, I don't like that. 1:03:34.680 --> 1:03:37.960 Although I so I first started doing YouTube in two 1:03:38.000 --> 1:03:44.120 thousand and eight when I was ten, But that was 1:03:44.280 --> 1:03:46.760 different because when I was in two thousand and eight, 1:03:46.840 --> 1:03:50.800 if you were making YouTube videos, nobody would I mean maybe, 1:03:50.920 --> 1:03:53.760 but like nobody would see them like that. The algorithm 1:03:53.880 --> 1:03:55.480 and the way that things worked back then was not 1:03:55.560 --> 1:03:57.600 the way it is now, because you could be ten 1:03:57.720 --> 1:04:01.040 years old fucking around on TikTok and just go viral 1:04:01.440 --> 1:04:03.960 like that, fucking like the Wrizzler. Like I think, like 1:04:04.320 --> 1:04:06.520 like like like the Wrizzler is like it's kind of 1:04:06.560 --> 1:04:09.880 fucked up, you know, like the whole thing is like 1:04:11.000 --> 1:04:13.640 you know, I don't know, just like there's something weird 1:04:13.680 --> 1:04:16.600 about like whurring out like a nine year old. 1:04:16.960 --> 1:04:19.880 Yeah, and then the fact that the people finally like 1:04:20.520 --> 1:04:24.200 cute watching nine year olds make videos. It's just gross 1:04:24.280 --> 1:04:24.440 to me. 1:04:25.200 --> 1:04:29.520 What uh okay, So what who's your as an actress? 1:04:30.160 --> 1:04:32.880 Who's your like favorite actor? 1:04:33.040 --> 1:04:33.280 Yeah? 1:04:33.880 --> 1:04:36.240 Right now it is because I just finished you, so 1:04:36.360 --> 1:04:39.920 I have to say Ben Batchley, who is that the 1:04:40.000 --> 1:04:41.160 guy on Gossip Girl? 1:04:41.520 --> 1:04:41.680 You know? 1:04:41.800 --> 1:04:43.040 Okay Ben Batchley? 1:04:43.160 --> 1:04:45.400 Yeah, he played like Dan Humphrey and he's like playing 1:04:45.480 --> 1:04:49.360 Joe Goldberg. He did such an amazing job on you 1:04:49.680 --> 1:04:52.320 and I Underson. You should watch it. You will literally 1:04:53.800 --> 1:04:54.680 such an amazing. 1:04:54.640 --> 1:04:55.160 Check that out. 1:04:55.600 --> 1:04:56.120 What's uh? 1:04:56.880 --> 1:04:59.440 What's let me see? What in the future? Do you 1:04:59.440 --> 1:05:01.440 see yourself back to Osla? Are you gonna stay here? 1:05:01.840 --> 1:05:04.000 No, I'm gonna stay here. I love New York. I 1:05:04.160 --> 1:05:05.760 want to live here for the rest of my life, 1:05:05.840 --> 1:05:06.760 So I'm gonna stay here. 1:05:07.160 --> 1:05:09.680 Rock and roll man, what's up? Where do we go 1:05:09.760 --> 1:05:11.640 when we die? Oh? 1:05:11.920 --> 1:05:13.840 The thing is I am I am Muslim, So I 1:05:13.840 --> 1:05:15.760 already I already know where I'm going. 1:05:15.920 --> 1:05:16.800 Well, okay, tell me more. 1:05:17.080 --> 1:05:22.240 So either hell, Heaven or Hell. Yeah, so I if 1:05:22.280 --> 1:05:23.800 you're a good Muslim, of course you're going to go 1:05:23.840 --> 1:05:28.560 to heaven if you die. If there's there's two options, 1:05:28.640 --> 1:05:29.919 you can go to hell. Are you going to heaven? 1:05:30.200 --> 1:05:30.240 So? 1:05:30.560 --> 1:05:33.560 If if you get an egg and cheese sandwich at 1:05:33.600 --> 1:05:36.400 the Boydegga and then you you take a bite, you 1:05:36.520 --> 1:05:38.520 look there's bacon on it, are you going to hell? 1:05:38.600 --> 1:05:38.680 Oh? 1:05:38.760 --> 1:05:41.160 No, No, that's not how it works. The thing is 1:05:41.200 --> 1:05:44.320 you cannot control something that you don't have control over. Okay, 1:05:44.360 --> 1:05:47.200 So if you eat something that you don't know, like 1:05:47.320 --> 1:05:50.040 if you eat by accident, that's okay. 1:05:50.240 --> 1:05:52.520 But you don't. You don't have to like punch yourself 1:05:52.560 --> 1:05:54.560 in the face ten times or something, but so. 1:05:54.760 --> 1:05:58.880 Dramatic, like if you do something by accident or like 1:05:59.200 --> 1:06:01.400 you don't intend to do it, that's totally fine. You 1:06:01.920 --> 1:06:02.800 like go to hell for it. 1:06:03.320 --> 1:06:09.240 I have to sneeze, Like, Okay, I might be completely 1:06:09.480 --> 1:06:11.720 making this up right now, but I'm I'm I'm. I 1:06:11.840 --> 1:06:14.800 grew up Jewish, and like there's all these like rituals 1:06:14.840 --> 1:06:17.360 where like you're carrying a tora around and I think 1:06:17.360 --> 1:06:19.160 there's some ship where like if you drop the tora, 1:06:19.280 --> 1:06:22.680 you have to like kiss it a thousand times, or 1:06:22.760 --> 1:06:24.560 like if you drop like a sea door, you have 1:06:24.640 --> 1:06:27.160 to kiss it a bunch of times, like you have 1:06:27.200 --> 1:06:28.200 to like I don't, I don't. 1:06:28.200 --> 1:06:29.360 I don't think you have to like tongue it or 1:06:29.400 --> 1:06:29.960 anything like that. 1:06:30.120 --> 1:06:32.080 But there's also the same if you drop the quran 1:06:32.160 --> 1:06:34.920 you have to like kiss it also, yeah, like three times. 1:06:35.320 --> 1:06:37.640 I think it's just to just show respect, you know. 1:06:39.280 --> 1:06:41.640 Okay, Oh but okay, So but if you eat, like 1:06:41.720 --> 1:06:45.840 if I'm like, hey, you should have some bacon, and 1:06:45.840 --> 1:06:48.400 then you have it, no okay, and then if you 1:06:48.440 --> 1:06:50.000 have it, you would go to hell, No. 1:06:50.040 --> 1:06:52.320 No, no, I'm gonna say no if I have it 1:06:52.880 --> 1:06:55.080 knowing it's bacon. Yeah, that's a different story. 1:06:55.160 --> 1:06:56.960 Okay, what do you think hell is like. 1:06:58.160 --> 1:07:02.760 A place of torture, a place where you're gonna hate it, 1:07:03.200 --> 1:07:07.360 You're just gonna be tortured like eternity, a place you 1:07:08.000 --> 1:07:09.240 just not gonna like it. 1:07:09.400 --> 1:07:12.400 Basically, what do you think hell is like personalized? Or 1:07:12.440 --> 1:07:15.160 it's like a one not like because I mean, I 1:07:15.240 --> 1:07:19.360 guess across the board, getting like a pitchfork up the 1:07:19.480 --> 1:07:24.280 ass is an unenjoyable experience. But like if Hell is 1:07:24.320 --> 1:07:27.120 probably personalized because there's some there do exist. You know, 1:07:27.160 --> 1:07:30.000 we're in New York City. There do exist people who 1:07:31.440 --> 1:07:34.200 heaven is getting a pitchfork up the ass. So it's 1:07:34.240 --> 1:07:40.040 gotta inherently because everyone experiences different pleasure and pain be personalized, 1:07:40.120 --> 1:07:42.520 right or what do you think you think it's cross're. 1:07:42.040 --> 1:07:45.160 Gonna be personalized? Okay, because there's some people there's something 1:07:45.200 --> 1:07:48.760 that you can like get, like your health. If we 1:07:48.840 --> 1:07:51.320 have the same hell, there's something that you can tolerate 1:07:51.360 --> 1:07:54.040 that I can't tolerate. So they have to like torture 1:07:54.040 --> 1:07:56.040 you much more to tolerate that. 1:07:56.400 --> 1:07:57.760 What's your personal hell. 1:07:58.520 --> 1:08:02.120 Oh, I don't want I don't like being burnt alive. 1:08:02.560 --> 1:08:04.040 Yes, it's so scary. 1:08:05.160 --> 1:08:07.640 I was like getting burned alive for eternity. I would 1:08:07.680 --> 1:08:07.960 hate that. 1:08:08.680 --> 1:08:15.560 Well, you know what, being trapped alone in an in 1:08:15.640 --> 1:08:19.680 an empty room with a with a constant ringing in 1:08:19.800 --> 1:08:20.200 my ear. 1:08:20.920 --> 1:08:25.559 Damn for eternity. That would suck, right, that would suck. 1:08:25.840 --> 1:08:30.080 Eternal ringing. You can never sleep. Oh sh this eternity. 1:08:30.240 --> 1:08:32.680 Oh god, that sounds horrida. It's your personal heaven. 1:08:32.560 --> 1:08:37.120 Oh my god, oh personal heaven. I uh, First of all, 1:08:37.160 --> 1:08:40.160 I want to be rich. So hopefully I am rich, successful, 1:08:40.840 --> 1:08:44.040 and I have anything and everything I want in life. 1:08:45.320 --> 1:08:48.040 Okay, so your personal heaven would be being very rich. 1:08:48.720 --> 1:08:50.240 What do you want to do with all your money? 1:08:50.920 --> 1:08:53.360 I wouldn't, to be honest, I would just go no, 1:08:54.040 --> 1:08:57.120 everybody's going to be rich in heaven anyways. But if 1:08:57.160 --> 1:08:59.880 I had, oh that's a very good question. 1:09:00.479 --> 1:09:04.560 Hold on, hold on, hold start real quick, because this 1:09:04.680 --> 1:09:07.040 is what's interesting to me is you You you desire 1:09:07.120 --> 1:09:09.200 to be rich, but you haven't even thought about what 1:09:09.240 --> 1:09:11.240 you would do with the money. Because if you because 1:09:11.320 --> 1:09:15.839 being like just having the money, the money isn't anything 1:09:15.920 --> 1:09:18.479 unless if you're like, what's the point of being the 1:09:18.560 --> 1:09:18.880 rich if you. 1:09:18.880 --> 1:09:20.200 Haven't thought about what you would do with the money? 1:09:20.840 --> 1:09:22.600 I mean, like I would take care. I mean my 1:09:22.720 --> 1:09:25.160 family also will be rich. That's the thing. 1:09:25.439 --> 1:09:25.920 I don't know. 1:09:26.800 --> 1:09:29.000 You don't know. This is your ultimate dream and you 1:09:29.040 --> 1:09:29.280 don't know. 1:09:29.439 --> 1:09:34.439 Okay, Okay, I'll change it. I will say happiness. I 1:09:34.479 --> 1:09:36.479 would wish to be happy for the rest of my life. 1:09:36.560 --> 1:09:39.200 What makes you happy being rich? 1:09:41.240 --> 1:09:41.680 Fair enough? 1:09:42.800 --> 1:09:42.920 You know? 1:09:43.600 --> 1:09:44.080 Well what not? 1:09:44.160 --> 1:09:45.600 Even like you don't have anything? You're not like, Oh, 1:09:45.640 --> 1:09:48.200 I want a Simpsons pinball machine in my apartment. 1:09:48.400 --> 1:09:49.600 I want to have a penthouse. 1:09:50.560 --> 1:09:52.320 How are you gonna get rich with? 1:09:52.520 --> 1:09:52.600 Uh? 1:09:53.439 --> 1:09:53.960 With acting? 1:09:54.600 --> 1:09:57.479 I hope so I do a little bit of TikTok 1:09:57.600 --> 1:10:00.599 So I hope to be rich by the by next year. 1:10:01.200 --> 1:10:03.160 You have to be rich by next year. You're gonna 1:10:03.200 --> 1:10:04.080 need a lot of TikTok. 1:10:04.600 --> 1:10:06.559 No, But I'm gonna make it. I feel like I'm 1:10:06.600 --> 1:10:08.840 gonna make it. If I put my mind into something, 1:10:08.880 --> 1:10:10.080 I'm gonna I'm gonna make it. 1:10:10.680 --> 1:10:11.000 Okay. 1:10:11.160 --> 1:10:15.280 So, uh so you subscribe to the Muslim faith and 1:10:15.320 --> 1:10:17.400 you said that you know where you're going to go. 1:10:17.800 --> 1:10:19.320 Yeah, where are you gonna go person. 1:10:20.040 --> 1:10:22.439 I'm a good person. I do pray five times a day, 1:10:22.479 --> 1:10:24.000 So I'm gonna go to Johnnaw. 1:10:23.800 --> 1:10:26.400 You pray five times a day? Yeah, how do you 1:10:26.479 --> 1:10:27.080 make time for that? 1:10:27.479 --> 1:10:28.679 It's just five minutes? 1:10:29.080 --> 1:10:29.800 Is it? Like? Uh? 1:10:29.920 --> 1:10:31.720 When you pray five times a day? Are you like 1:10:32.600 --> 1:10:35.200 like like how detailed does the prayer have to be? 1:10:35.280 --> 1:10:38.280 Can you just like mentally be like all right, we're 1:10:38.320 --> 1:10:39.679 good or do you have to like do a whole 1:10:39.720 --> 1:10:40.479 thing five times? 1:10:40.520 --> 1:10:42.280 I mean you have to do the whole thing also 1:10:42.360 --> 1:10:45.559 before they dude, you know, like the water thing. 1:10:45.880 --> 1:10:47.080 What's the water? What's the water thing? 1:10:47.240 --> 1:10:47.439 You do? 1:10:47.920 --> 1:10:50.599 You wash your hands, you wash your face, you wash 1:10:50.640 --> 1:10:53.200 your feet, and then you pray. But it just takes 1:10:53.320 --> 1:10:56.920 five minutes of your day and then all of them combine, 1:10:56.920 --> 1:10:57.800 it's twenty five minutes. 1:10:57.840 --> 1:10:59.880 I feel like you have time for God for to 1:11:00.200 --> 1:11:01.559 do you have to roll out the mat and everything? 1:11:01.640 --> 1:11:01.800 Yeah? 1:11:01.840 --> 1:11:03.439 Yeah, roll out and I have to cover my hair 1:11:03.520 --> 1:11:06.840 and stuff. But you have time five minutes, twenty five 1:11:06.920 --> 1:11:09.240 minutes a day for God. You have time for that. 1:11:09.680 --> 1:11:12.400 So when did you start praying five times a day? 1:11:12.400 --> 1:11:12.439 Like? 1:11:12.479 --> 1:11:12.880 How old are you? 1:11:13.520 --> 1:11:16.960 I was born Muslim, so I have been doing that 1:11:17.040 --> 1:11:17.800 my entire life. 1:11:18.640 --> 1:11:20.960 Will I have a lot of respect for cause I 1:11:21.040 --> 1:11:24.120 don't think I I don't even I sometimes I'll skip 1:11:24.160 --> 1:11:25.800 a day of brushing my teeth, you know what I mean? 1:11:25.920 --> 1:11:30.479 Like I don't like to do anything consistently, let alone 1:11:30.520 --> 1:11:32.760 fun well, do anything consistently once, like if you if 1:11:32.760 --> 1:11:34.760 I had to, you know, like I'll go to the 1:11:34.880 --> 1:11:37.240 dentist and they're like, you have to floss twice a day, 1:11:37.240 --> 1:11:40.880 and I'm like, fuck you, I'm not doing that. You 1:11:41.040 --> 1:11:42.920 live a different kind of life than me. That if 1:11:42.920 --> 1:11:45.519 you're if you're asking me that, that's that's wild. You 1:11:45.680 --> 1:11:46.360 lost every day. 1:11:47.320 --> 1:11:48.519 I brush my teeth every day. 1:11:48.600 --> 1:11:50.280 You brush your teeth twice a day. Yeah, you brush 1:11:50.320 --> 1:11:52.120 your teeth twice to day. You pray five times a day. 1:11:52.120 --> 1:11:52.960 You lost once a day. 1:11:53.320 --> 1:11:57.200 It's also called like being disciplined. You know, if you're discipline, 1:11:57.680 --> 1:11:58.400 you can do anything. 1:11:58.760 --> 1:12:01.160 You know, do you work out the extra? I work 1:12:01.200 --> 1:12:03.840 out every day every day? Yeah, you work out every day. 1:12:03.880 --> 1:12:05.720 You pray five times a day, you brush your teeth. 1:12:06.240 --> 1:12:07.479 That's the bare minimum. 1:12:08.720 --> 1:12:10.840 It's not like huge, it's a huge thing. 1:12:11.040 --> 1:12:13.240 It's not what is the one thing that you do 1:12:13.320 --> 1:12:13.680 every day? 1:12:13.960 --> 1:12:14.080 Uh? 1:12:14.640 --> 1:12:15.400 Check Instagram? 1:12:15.520 --> 1:12:15.960 And cry. 1:12:16.479 --> 1:12:19.920 I do that too. We have something in common. 1:12:21.000 --> 1:12:22.760 You're out of your mind, dude. Anything what else will 1:12:22.760 --> 1:12:24.240 give me some other? What else do you do every day? 1:12:25.160 --> 1:12:28.400 Probably do my work, you know, school work and stuff. 1:12:29.640 --> 1:12:32.600 You'll be successful, I hope no, because you have this, 1:12:32.800 --> 1:12:34.120 you have discipline, you have the thing. 1:12:35.160 --> 1:12:36.960 I feel like you're going to be successful, though. Look 1:12:37.000 --> 1:12:37.680 where you are right now. 1:12:38.880 --> 1:12:40.240 Well, I guess success is. 1:12:41.800 --> 1:12:42.640 What is success to you? 1:12:43.200 --> 1:12:48.280 What is success to me? I guess success is I 1:12:48.360 --> 1:12:53.160 don't know. I wish I had an answer to that question. Yeah, success, 1:12:53.200 --> 1:12:56.840 the idea of success for me is constantly evolving. I 1:12:56.920 --> 1:13:00.519 mean I think, look, if you you know, having money 1:13:00.560 --> 1:13:03.760 that you're not worried, and you have enough friends and 1:13:03.880 --> 1:13:06.439 family around you that you're not worried, and you know 1:13:06.560 --> 1:13:07.439 all that lame. 1:13:07.800 --> 1:13:11.400 Shit, you know, that's a that's interesting answer. 1:13:11.720 --> 1:13:15.400 Yeah, you know, a Simpsons pinball machine would be cool. Wow, 1:13:16.040 --> 1:13:17.360 But they're getting up there in price. 1:13:17.400 --> 1:13:19.840 They're like, I need to check that out because I 1:13:19.920 --> 1:13:21.160 have no idea what you're talking about. 1:13:21.680 --> 1:13:22.880 What do you mean you don't know what? You don't 1:13:22.880 --> 1:13:23.439 know the Simpsons? 1:13:23.600 --> 1:13:24.240 No, I know the. 1:13:24.280 --> 1:13:27.360 Simpsons the show. Yeah, oh so it's based on the show. 1:13:27.479 --> 1:13:28.960 Yeah, it's a Simpsons pinball machine. 1:13:29.040 --> 1:13:29.200 Yeah. 1:13:29.320 --> 1:13:31.400 Oh okay. This whole time, I was like, what the 1:13:31.560 --> 1:13:32.599 fuck are you talking about? 1:13:32.720 --> 1:13:32.880 Dude? 1:13:32.880 --> 1:13:37.400 What's your name again? Far Dosa. I hope to be 1:13:37.479 --> 1:13:42.240 seeing you in every movie, Yes, you will. Is there 1:13:42.280 --> 1:13:43.439 anything else you want to say to the people of 1:13:43.479 --> 1:13:44.360 the computer before we go. 1:13:45.280 --> 1:13:49.720 I hope to see you guys on my Instagrams and 1:13:49.800 --> 1:13:51.879 social media's I hope. 1:13:51.720 --> 1:13:52.160 To see you. 1:13:53.000 --> 1:13:53.559 I hope. 1:13:53.600 --> 1:13:55.960 I actually don't see you on social media only because 1:13:56.120 --> 1:13:59.800 in my ideal version of life, I've thrown my phone 1:14:00.080 --> 1:14:03.839 in a landfill and it's it's in it's a dolphin. 1:14:04.760 --> 1:14:07.040 It's inside of a dolphin or something, a dolphin ate 1:14:07.080 --> 1:14:11.960 it is oh this, Oh yeah, well that's that's a 1:14:12.280 --> 1:14:13.679 that's a phone that I use as a camera. 1:14:14.040 --> 1:14:14.280 Ah. 1:14:15.200 --> 1:14:17.840 Interesting. Interesting, You're a very interesting guy. 1:14:18.000 --> 1:14:19.080 You're a very interesting guy. 1:14:19.560 --> 1:14:20.519 I'm so glad I meet you. 1:14:20.760 --> 1:14:22.400 I'm glad. I'm glad. I'm so glad I met you. 1:14:22.520 --> 1:14:26.559 For those I'll uh, I'll see you around the universe. 1:14:26.640 --> 1:14:28.439 Okay, is your real name? 1:14:28.840 --> 1:14:31.960 My name is Lyle FARDA. Very nice to meet you. 1:14:32.360 --> 1:14:33.960 I'll see you around the universe. Good luck with all 1:14:34.000 --> 1:14:37.920 your hopes and dreams have a seed. What's your name, sar, Oh, 1:14:38.080 --> 1:14:39.960 here have it. I'll let you get settled. 1:14:40.920 --> 1:14:41.519 My name is Peter. 1:14:41.920 --> 1:14:42.160 Peter. 1:14:42.320 --> 1:14:43.040 Yeah, nice to meet you. 1:14:43.160 --> 1:14:47.240 Nice to meet you, Peter, like like the rabbit pretty much, 1:14:47.680 --> 1:14:48.960 that's weird coming from a get go. 1:14:50.520 --> 1:14:54.080 Peter. What's up man? 1:14:54.840 --> 1:14:55.280 Not much? 1:14:55.479 --> 1:14:57.599 I look, he came out here to get some coffee 1:14:57.720 --> 1:15:00.479 and then it got like so crowded your so fast 1:15:00.720 --> 1:15:03.200 that dude's been flexing behind us, Like the entire interview 1:15:03.200 --> 1:15:04.400 is still Yeah, he's still there. 1:15:04.520 --> 1:15:07.040 This guy there, he just he just whoa that guy's rip. 1:15:07.120 --> 1:15:08.800 Yeah, dude, that could totally kick my am. 1:15:08.800 --> 1:15:10.240 I allowed to cuss here, you'd say whatever you want. 1:15:10.280 --> 1:15:12.080 Oh yeah, that dude could totally kick my ass just 1:15:12.120 --> 1:15:12.800 like one hundred percent. 1:15:13.040 --> 1:15:13.240 Yeah. 1:15:13.360 --> 1:15:14.280 How does that feel? 1:15:14.760 --> 1:15:18.800 Because I also, like, uh, I think like in in 1:15:18.960 --> 1:15:22.719 olden days or whatever, like you had to be ready 1:15:22.760 --> 1:15:26.760 to protect yourself from like other whatever tribes that were 1:15:26.760 --> 1:15:28.599 gonna kill you or like lions or whatever. 1:15:28.680 --> 1:15:32.040 But we've evolved past that where like it's totally fine 1:15:32.080 --> 1:15:35.200 to just be weak, you know. 1:15:35.560 --> 1:15:36.920 I totally agree that there's this. 1:15:36.960 --> 1:15:40.680 Debate going online right now about gorillas. Gorillas versus one 1:15:40.760 --> 1:15:41.240 hundred men. 1:15:41.280 --> 1:15:41.960 Where are you on this? 1:15:42.479 --> 1:15:42.599 Uh? 1:15:42.720 --> 1:15:45.160 Yes, there's a debate going on online about could one 1:15:45.280 --> 1:15:47.599 hundred men kill one gorilla? 1:15:47.800 --> 1:15:50.880 But that does does that debate? Like what shape are 1:15:50.920 --> 1:15:51.479 these guys in? 1:15:51.720 --> 1:15:52.400 So here's the thing. 1:15:52.479 --> 1:15:55.080 Everybody's assuming it's a silver backed gorilla, right, And I 1:15:55.280 --> 1:15:57.439 was just arguing with my roommate about it this morning, 1:15:57.560 --> 1:15:59.280 Like it is a very heated debate. There are people 1:15:59.320 --> 1:16:01.839 going on for hour is talking about this. I personally 1:16:01.880 --> 1:16:05.160 think the gorilla would like like like rip anybody apart. 1:16:05.200 --> 1:16:07.400 Even if assume all one hundred people are attacking at 1:16:07.439 --> 1:16:09.759 the same time, there's. 1:16:09.600 --> 1:16:13.320 No way logistically one hundred people cannot attack one thing 1:16:13.360 --> 1:16:13.840 at a time. 1:16:14.080 --> 1:16:17.920 No, that would require like everybody working towards one common goal. 1:16:18.200 --> 1:16:21.640 And as I highly doubt that's gonna work in the 1:16:21.680 --> 1:16:22.400 society right now. 1:16:26.600 --> 1:16:31.720 Sorry, I was messing around with my ones and twos. Yeah, 1:16:31.720 --> 1:16:34.920 I guess it would require everyone be at a common goal. 1:16:36.760 --> 1:16:39.160 Yeah, well, you know, even even like coordinated one hundred 1:16:39.160 --> 1:16:43.320 people to they can they like okay, obviously, like people 1:16:43.479 --> 1:16:47.000 have been able to sedate a gorilla before in history, 1:16:47.600 --> 1:16:51.519 but they have tools. This is a conversation about there's 1:16:51.560 --> 1:16:53.800 no tools, No, no, you have to use your bare hands. 1:16:54.280 --> 1:16:56.120 If it's a hundred of that guy, I think I 1:16:56.240 --> 1:16:56.920 think we might have. 1:16:57.080 --> 1:16:59.160 Not no, no, no, A hundred of that guy probably 1:16:59.200 --> 1:16:59.560 could do it. 1:17:00.080 --> 1:17:01.400 I don't, I don't. I don't see it. 1:17:01.479 --> 1:17:05.120 Man, I gotta be like I just I hope mister 1:17:05.200 --> 1:17:07.120 Beast doesn't like catch onto this because we're. 1:17:07.000 --> 1:17:07.920 Screwed if that happens. 1:17:08.479 --> 1:17:10.080 A hundred of me couldn't do it. 1:17:10.680 --> 1:17:12.479 I think one hundred geckos might be able. They got 1:17:12.520 --> 1:17:14.360 a shot there. You know, y'all can climb up walls 1:17:14.400 --> 1:17:16.680 and shit, I feel like there's a shot. What do 1:17:16.720 --> 1:17:17.519 you think about all day? 1:17:17.560 --> 1:17:17.800 Peter? 1:17:18.560 --> 1:17:21.040 Honestly, I work at Trader Joe's right now. I just 1:17:21.160 --> 1:17:24.360 recently moved to New York. All I'm thinking about is 1:17:24.760 --> 1:17:26.600 how much I hate my master's program and I'm just 1:17:26.680 --> 1:17:27.720 trying to find a better job. 1:17:28.000 --> 1:17:29.320 Why do you hate your master's program? 1:17:31.120 --> 1:17:31.640 I don't even know. 1:17:31.600 --> 1:17:32.479 Where to start with that one. 1:17:32.720 --> 1:17:32.840 Uh. 1:17:34.240 --> 1:17:35.920 I guess it kind of stems down to I just 1:17:35.960 --> 1:17:38.160 want to make sure I got sustainability for my family 1:17:38.200 --> 1:17:40.840 because I'm the first generation cool and like, I got 1:17:40.880 --> 1:17:42.559 a ton of family kind of depending on me making 1:17:42.600 --> 1:17:43.360 sure I do everything. 1:17:43.560 --> 1:17:45.599 And I guess the safest way possible. 1:17:46.439 --> 1:17:48.040 You've got a ton of where is your family? 1:17:49.040 --> 1:17:51.000 So I'm Egyptian, but a lot of them reside over 1:17:51.040 --> 1:17:51.759 in Los Angeles. 1:17:51.960 --> 1:17:54.360 Okay, and they're and you're the first generation to go. 1:17:54.720 --> 1:17:56.960 So are they Are they counting on you to like 1:17:57.080 --> 1:17:57.640 hook them up? 1:17:57.720 --> 1:17:57.880 Well? 1:17:57.880 --> 1:17:59.679 I got a brother, shout out my brother Mark. 1:17:59.720 --> 1:18:01.519 He is he's actually doing pretty well while he works 1:18:01.520 --> 1:18:05.000 in the er, so you know, no pressure at all, 1:18:05.680 --> 1:18:07.240 but it's going pretty good. 1:18:07.240 --> 1:18:09.200 I studied engineering, but I also work in film and 1:18:09.240 --> 1:18:09.880 TV when I can. 1:18:10.000 --> 1:18:12.000 Okay, So if things don't work out for you that 1:18:12.080 --> 1:18:13.439 your brother can hook everyone up. 1:18:13.479 --> 1:18:15.280 Oh I'm praying I get to mooch off of him 1:18:15.280 --> 1:18:16.840 as soon as he finishes his residency. 1:18:17.200 --> 1:18:18.719 Yeah, hell yeah, yeah, okay. 1:18:18.800 --> 1:18:20.960 So I mean, look as long as he's as long 1:18:21.000 --> 1:18:23.040 as one of the other brothers. It's look at someone 1:18:23.080 --> 1:18:25.680 in their family is doing something sensible. Why not go 1:18:26.640 --> 1:18:27.240 study TV? 1:18:30.760 --> 1:18:32.439 That's such a good yo, can I get I'll get 1:18:32.439 --> 1:18:33.800 my mom on the line and see if you can 1:18:33.880 --> 1:18:38.479 convince such a convincing argument. And honestly, I think I 1:18:38.520 --> 1:18:40.080 think you might be able to win that argument. I'm 1:18:40.120 --> 1:18:41.640 not gonna lie, But what like, what got you to 1:18:41.720 --> 1:18:43.080 New York if you don't wind me asking. 1:18:42.960 --> 1:18:43.920 What brought me to New York? 1:18:44.000 --> 1:18:45.639 Yeah, Uh, the truth. 1:18:45.720 --> 1:18:48.040 Well, so I was living in Los Angeles for a well, 1:18:48.080 --> 1:18:51.639 I grew up in Baltimore, and then I started doing 1:18:51.720 --> 1:18:55.160 this in my mom's basement in Baltimore for I did 1:18:55.240 --> 1:18:57.439 that for like a couple of years, and then I 1:18:57.479 --> 1:18:59.439 moved out to Los Angeles for a couple of years, 1:19:00.240 --> 1:19:03.000 and then, uh, you know, I always wanted to be 1:19:03.080 --> 1:19:05.080 in a big city because I love like this. I 1:19:05.200 --> 1:19:08.599 love like being being around tons of people and being 1:19:08.600 --> 1:19:10.840 able to do whatever I want. And you know, and 1:19:11.120 --> 1:19:13.240 you know, New York's close to Baltimore, so it's kind 1:19:13.280 --> 1:19:15.280 of a perfect place for me to live. So that 1:19:15.400 --> 1:19:17.280 that's like the main reason I came here. 1:19:17.320 --> 1:19:18.880 It sounds like it's a really good situation for you, 1:19:18.960 --> 1:19:20.200 and I feel like you're doing pretty well. 1:19:20.479 --> 1:19:22.120 Oh thanks man. No, No, New York. 1:19:22.200 --> 1:19:25.000 New York has been uh has been nice. The only 1:19:25.080 --> 1:19:31.920 problem with it is it's like, uh uninhabitably expensive, yes, sir, yeah, yeah, 1:19:33.040 --> 1:19:36.800 it's like twice as expensive as anywhere else on the 1:19:36.840 --> 1:19:38.160 planet that you could go to live. 1:19:38.920 --> 1:19:41.160 I I why is a water bottle three dollars? 1:19:41.240 --> 1:19:41.360 Right? 1:19:41.400 --> 1:19:47.280 Now I three, it was getting three at least five. Well, 1:19:47.360 --> 1:19:48.320 what kind of water bottle? 1:19:48.400 --> 1:19:50.479 My brother in Christ? It was not a Saratoga. It 1:19:50.560 --> 1:19:52.440 was literally just like an aquafina. 1:19:52.680 --> 1:19:55.160 Probably have you ever seen those Visco water bottles? 1:19:56.160 --> 1:19:58.040 Visco Risco, Visio. 1:19:59.160 --> 1:19:59.960 You guys know what I'm talking. 1:20:00.640 --> 1:20:04.599 Boss boss Okay, boss us ones. You're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, 1:20:04.640 --> 1:20:06.760 I've seen them. I don't. I don't get it. I 1:20:06.880 --> 1:20:08.800 like Fiji water, but that's just me treating myself. But 1:20:08.920 --> 1:20:12.719 like they all taste a lot, it does not taste 1:20:12.720 --> 1:20:16.080 the same. I'm not Society is my favorite. 1:20:16.880 --> 1:20:18.800 I bet there's no one on the planet. There's a 1:20:18.840 --> 1:20:20.680 guy over there with a cat on his shoulder, as 1:20:20.840 --> 1:20:23.080 majestic as fuck. Oh my god, that's so awesome. 1:20:24.439 --> 1:20:28.000 Hold on, there's a guy with a thing. We're gonna 1:20:28.000 --> 1:20:29.679 get d M c A. That's fine, Who cares? 1:20:31.800 --> 1:20:32.240 Why do they? 1:20:32.360 --> 1:20:36.800 It's honestly such. It's dystopian that they even make Fiji water, 1:20:36.960 --> 1:20:37.200 isn't it. 1:20:37.240 --> 1:20:40.880 It's dystopian that water is not a human right? Any 1:20:40.960 --> 1:20:42.120 chance you saw that un meeting? 1:20:43.000 --> 1:20:48.719 I'm too busy watching videos ranking all the warrior wear games. 1:20:48.840 --> 1:20:51.040 I'll break it down for you. There's two countries that 1:20:51.120 --> 1:20:54.599 decided water was not a human right. Oh god, one 1:20:54.680 --> 1:20:57.080 is the United States and the other one is Israel 1:20:57.640 --> 1:20:59.559 and all of the other ones tried to make water 1:20:59.560 --> 1:21:02.479 a human right, and now water is not a human right. 1:21:03.479 --> 1:21:04.880 Great time to be alive, Am I right? 1:21:05.360 --> 1:21:05.559 Man? 1:21:06.080 --> 1:21:09.280 Water is ah? Well, okay, at least it's diet coca 1:21:09.400 --> 1:21:09.880 human right. 1:21:10.160 --> 1:21:12.800 I wish, brother, it would. It would definitely make my 1:21:12.840 --> 1:21:13.400 life easier. 1:21:13.479 --> 1:21:15.439 That'll take Which one do you think will be easier 1:21:15.520 --> 1:21:17.840 to pass, like making diet coca human right or making 1:21:17.880 --> 1:21:18.599 water human right? 1:21:18.800 --> 1:21:22.120 Considering Coca Cola has a lot of like pockets in 1:21:22.240 --> 1:21:25.120 higher end lobbies. I'm pretty I feel like I'm pretty 1:21:25.160 --> 1:21:28.639 sure Coca Cola could probably get it passed faster because 1:21:28.640 --> 1:21:32.000 they wouldn't make more money out of it, sadly, we. 1:21:32.080 --> 1:21:33.840 Would they make would I guess they would make less 1:21:33.880 --> 1:21:35.000 money if it was a human right? 1:21:35.120 --> 1:21:37.719 Oh no, no, no, brother, you think Coca Cola is everywhere, 1:21:37.760 --> 1:21:40.680 it would get even worse. Like, I'm pretty sure the 1:21:40.760 --> 1:21:42.719 second they can access our dreams, we're gonna be getting 1:21:42.720 --> 1:21:43.880 commercials as we sleep. 1:21:44.280 --> 1:21:45.600 Do you think that? Do you think that that's the 1:21:45.640 --> 1:21:46.559 future we're heading towards? 1:21:46.760 --> 1:21:48.000 I got I hope not. 1:21:48.479 --> 1:21:48.800 I work. 1:21:48.880 --> 1:21:50.920 I'd studied computer engineering. I do a lot of hardware 1:21:50.920 --> 1:21:54.840 and software work. And yeah, they assume all these tech 1:21:54.880 --> 1:21:57.479 guys really like have like such high intellct that they 1:21:57.520 --> 1:21:59.120 should be making these political decisions. 1:21:59.200 --> 1:22:01.840 And I truly don't think so. 1:22:02.000 --> 1:22:04.120 But bro, the tech guys are like, they're like Thanos, 1:22:04.200 --> 1:22:06.120 where they're like I have gotten to a point of 1:22:06.200 --> 1:22:10.200 intelligence where I have decided that we should eradicate half 1:22:10.240 --> 1:22:12.600 the human race, and I am so smart that I 1:22:12.640 --> 1:22:13.320 should be allowed to. 1:22:13.360 --> 1:22:13.880 Do it, dude. 1:22:13.880 --> 1:22:16.200 But the thing is, we gave them this intelligence to 1:22:16.280 --> 1:22:19.120 make them think that they're this smart. Everybody just assumes, oh, 1:22:19.160 --> 1:22:20.720 I don't know how to code, but these guys do 1:22:21.160 --> 1:22:23.920 so boom automatically. I'm gonna have faith that these guys 1:22:23.920 --> 1:22:24.919 should make the decisions. 1:22:25.240 --> 1:22:25.920 You should have seen. 1:22:26.240 --> 1:22:28.680 Do you remember when Mark Zuckerberg went to Congress and 1:22:28.760 --> 1:22:31.080 you saw him drink of water like like a fucking alien. 1:22:31.120 --> 1:22:32.400 You're just like, yeah, he has done a lot of 1:22:32.439 --> 1:22:33.400 like lizard ass shit. 1:22:33.560 --> 1:22:36.320 Yeah, dude, it's it is what it is. I wish 1:22:36.400 --> 1:22:38.320 I had a better answer. Again, I'm only twenty seven 1:22:38.400 --> 1:22:40.160 and I just want to work on movies. I gave 1:22:40.280 --> 1:22:42.280 up working in tech. It's it's too depressing. 1:22:42.920 --> 1:22:44.160 But you know what, the crazy you know what, I 1:22:44.720 --> 1:22:49.240 have these sort of like I have no set in 1:22:49.320 --> 1:22:51.800 stone philosophy. Of course I think it'd be crazy too, 1:22:52.120 --> 1:22:54.479 But I have this weird thing where it's like, look, 1:22:55.520 --> 1:22:58.040 all right, first of all, I mean like Mark Zuckerberg 1:22:58.120 --> 1:22:59.800 and like all the like whatever guys who are like 1:22:59.840 --> 1:23:02.600 the stroying the planet. It almost I have like a 1:23:02.800 --> 1:23:05.519 weirdly and this might be defeatist, but I have a 1:23:05.600 --> 1:23:08.600 weird thing where I'm like, oh, everything that's happening is 1:23:08.640 --> 1:23:11.240 what was supposed to happen, like like the downfall of 1:23:11.320 --> 1:23:16.920 human society, Like whatever happened is what was supposed to happen, 1:23:17.240 --> 1:23:18.200 because it happened. 1:23:18.320 --> 1:23:20.320 So that's the idea of if free if we do 1:23:20.439 --> 1:23:21.479 we really have free will? 1:23:21.600 --> 1:23:22.400 Yeah, I wonder about that. 1:23:22.600 --> 1:23:24.840 Yeah, I you know, I'm cop to Christian. 1:23:24.920 --> 1:23:26.960 I'm a very like my type of orthodoxy is like 1:23:27.000 --> 1:23:30.559 a very very old school type ship and it's very 1:23:30.680 --> 1:23:33.000 hard to kind of grasp the idea that we we 1:23:33.280 --> 1:23:36.160 we do have free will. And I'm I wish I 1:23:36.439 --> 1:23:39.479 was smart enough to have that answer, but I don't know, well, 1:23:39.479 --> 1:23:40.840 I don't think it's a question of being smart. I 1:23:40.840 --> 1:23:43.519 don't think anyone there is no Like, I'm. 1:23:43.400 --> 1:23:44.360 Sure somebody's got to ride. 1:23:44.360 --> 1:23:46.240 There's like eight billion people somebody, somebody's got to be 1:23:46.280 --> 1:23:49.559 in the basement being like this, there's. 1:23:48.560 --> 1:23:51.120 No you can't scientifically prove or it's and I mean 1:23:51.200 --> 1:23:55.240 maybe I'm also not smart enough. Brother, I just sat 1:23:55.280 --> 1:23:57.280 down to talk to a get Yes. Yeah, but it's 1:23:57.400 --> 1:24:03.200 like I I reading that said like some smart science 1:24:03.320 --> 1:24:06.880 philosophy douche guy said something where he was like, there 1:24:06.920 --> 1:24:09.479 almost is no free will because you do what you 1:24:09.640 --> 1:24:12.439 do because of how because of who you are. And 1:24:12.520 --> 1:24:18.439 I do believe that and who you are is kind 1:24:18.560 --> 1:24:21.120 of in your control. That's that's all it's up for me. 1:24:21.520 --> 1:24:22.120 I think it is. 1:24:22.280 --> 1:24:25.560 But also we're kind of genetically from our parents, so 1:24:25.840 --> 1:24:28.640 like the first eighteen years, you're kind of getting a 1:24:28.680 --> 1:24:30.519 lot of what they like to that to you, your 1:24:30.600 --> 1:24:31.400 dad's a superhero. 1:24:31.720 --> 1:24:33.320 He's like one of four people you've ever met. 1:24:33.479 --> 1:24:37.400 Yeah, and that's either really good, really bad, or like 1:24:37.520 --> 1:24:41.080 fucking your therapist is gonna tell you, Like I'm I'm 1:24:41.160 --> 1:24:43.519 not too sure where like somebody could stand because I 1:24:43.560 --> 1:24:46.680 know people can change, like I've seen it totally and 1:24:46.880 --> 1:24:48.479 like a lot of a lot of people don't even 1:24:48.479 --> 1:24:51.320 believe that. And I do think a lot of the 1:24:51.439 --> 1:24:53.400 choices we make are based off the experiences we've had. 1:24:53.520 --> 1:24:55.960 Some people have had a very privileged. 1:24:55.560 --> 1:24:57.400 Life and they don't really understand what a struggle is, 1:24:57.560 --> 1:24:59.320 or they have no reason to kind of look into 1:24:59.360 --> 1:25:03.160 politics because it doesn't affect them directly, versus somebody who's struggling, 1:25:03.240 --> 1:25:06.080 who actually needs to see the change happen fast, but 1:25:06.200 --> 1:25:07.960 they don't have the connections needed to make that happen. 1:25:08.040 --> 1:25:11.400 You know, it is true that, like, yeah, your experiences 1:25:11.479 --> 1:25:14.000 make who you are, and you can't you can't exactly 1:25:14.240 --> 1:25:15.280 choose your experiences. 1:25:15.840 --> 1:25:19.640 So I guess I don't know. Sometimes I like it, 1:25:19.800 --> 1:25:22.040 you know what, you know what it is my my my. 1:25:24.160 --> 1:25:27.360 My philosophy on whether or not there is free will 1:25:27.439 --> 1:25:30.479 or determinism depends on how lazy I'm feeling that day. 1:25:30.680 --> 1:25:33.240 Fun because because if I'm feeling lazy and I don't 1:25:33.280 --> 1:25:36.160 want to do anything, I I I relinquish the guilt 1:25:36.560 --> 1:25:40.040 by being like, well, I was never gonna do anything anyway. 1:25:40.600 --> 1:25:42.560 And then if I'm feeling motivated, I'm like, no, we 1:25:42.640 --> 1:25:45.280 have free will. I can change, we can change. 1:25:45.120 --> 1:25:47.400 This, No, I agree, And also, yeah, it's also a 1:25:47.520 --> 1:25:48.840 mind state thing. I think you're right. 1:25:49.080 --> 1:25:50.800 I can totally see that happening with a lot of 1:25:50.840 --> 1:25:53.400 different people, and people get self motivated all the time 1:25:53.439 --> 1:25:56.040 to try to make stuff happen, and maybe that's cause change. 1:25:56.120 --> 1:25:57.240 I don't, I'm not too sure. 1:25:57.520 --> 1:25:58.080 I don't know. 1:25:58.360 --> 1:26:01.200 The man, do you do you think that it's possible 1:26:01.240 --> 1:26:03.280 that we can like one eighty everything that's going on 1:26:03.439 --> 1:26:05.880 right now in this world one eighty? 1:26:05.960 --> 1:26:09.360 Well, it's not a that's like that saying that we 1:26:09.479 --> 1:26:12.200 can one eighty everything that's going on is like saying 1:26:12.320 --> 1:26:15.599 that there's like a it's to say that everything going 1:26:15.640 --> 1:26:17.880 on is some kind of mathematical equation. 1:26:17.640 --> 1:26:19.960 One hundred and twenty, like not everything, but just like 1:26:20.000 --> 1:26:20.719 one little. 1:26:20.560 --> 1:26:23.000 Like fucking just but again it's like, well, you can't 1:26:23.040 --> 1:26:26.240 put like numbers on it, that's true, you know, it's 1:26:26.280 --> 1:26:29.760 like every there's there's no it's not like everything going 1:26:29.800 --> 1:26:33.360 on is not a mathematical equation. It's just it's it's 1:26:33.439 --> 1:26:37.639 this intangible weird goo that neither of us can understand 1:26:37.760 --> 1:26:40.840 because we're not supercomputers or even I don't even know 1:26:40.880 --> 1:26:42.360 if a super computer can understand it. 1:26:43.160 --> 1:26:45.519 Oh god, do you like to smoke weed and play 1:26:45.640 --> 1:26:46.160 video games? 1:26:46.200 --> 1:26:47.559 You smoke weed? Sorry? 1:26:47.680 --> 1:26:47.880 Mom? 1:26:48.160 --> 1:26:50.560 Uh yeah, no, I mean it's a good way to 1:26:50.600 --> 1:26:53.880 help with your anxiety. It's either that or or oh yeah, bro, 1:26:54.040 --> 1:26:56.320 my my, I was Okay, let me tell you something. 1:26:56.720 --> 1:26:59.920 I started taking solof five weeks ago. For the past 1:27:00.200 --> 1:27:02.640 five weeks, I've been like, this sucks. I'm getting off 1:27:02.680 --> 1:27:04.320 of it. I'm talking to my sych today, I'm telling 1:27:04.400 --> 1:27:08.360 him he's an asshole. And then today I was like, 1:27:08.880 --> 1:27:11.320 you know what, he was right and. 1:27:13.080 --> 1:27:13.559 Zoloft. 1:27:13.800 --> 1:27:15.519 It's been bad. I don't know if it's a zolof. 1:27:15.600 --> 1:27:17.280 I don't know if it's the weather. But I'm feeling 1:27:17.320 --> 1:27:19.200 good today and today's all we got so that. 1:27:19.360 --> 1:27:23.479 Sun man, Peter, even though geckos could get zolof, that's amazing. 1:27:23.680 --> 1:27:27.320 Oh we have a that's what we run on, Peter, 1:27:27.439 --> 1:27:28.639 is anything else you want to say to the people 1:27:28.640 --> 1:27:29.519 of the computer before we go? 1:27:31.680 --> 1:27:32.559 It's been a pleasure. 1:27:32.880 --> 1:27:36.160 And yeah, my name is Peter as me and I'm 1:27:36.200 --> 1:27:38.519 definitely gonna look this up whenever this airs. 1:27:38.600 --> 1:27:39.840 I hope. Cool. 1:27:40.240 --> 1:27:40.760 What is this on? 1:27:40.920 --> 1:27:43.679 By the way, It's on YouTube and Spotify and stuff. 1:27:43.880 --> 1:27:44.639 Oh cool? 1:27:45.040 --> 1:27:48.559 Well, it was a nice meeting, Peter pleasure. 1:27:48.560 --> 1:27:52.040 I'll uh hopefully I'll see you in whatever the afterlife 1:27:52.160 --> 1:27:52.639 is hell? 1:27:52.760 --> 1:27:54.880 Yes, man, I believe geckos can go to heaven later. 1:27:55.000 --> 1:27:57.800 Brother, what am I gonna be back in the park? 1:27:58.160 --> 1:27:58.320 Uh? 1:27:59.200 --> 1:28:02.000 I don't know on every nice day? What's your name? 1:28:02.360 --> 1:28:07.599 My name is Jules's jewels. My name is Lyle. Dear god, Jules. 1:28:07.760 --> 1:28:08.840 What do you want to talk about? 1:28:08.880 --> 1:28:12.640 I'm honestly I just wanted to talk about whatever you 1:28:12.720 --> 1:28:13.479 wanted to talk about. 1:28:13.880 --> 1:28:18.000 All right, I want to talk about. Oh you want 1:28:18.000 --> 1:28:19.120 to talk Let's talk about food. 1:28:19.280 --> 1:28:19.439 Man. 1:28:19.960 --> 1:28:23.439 Oh, I love food. That's your favorite food. We don't 1:28:23.479 --> 1:28:26.160 have to do anything crazy, dang, Like I really like food. 1:28:26.960 --> 1:28:31.679 Maybe sushi great, French fries are great. I was supposed 1:28:31.720 --> 1:28:33.439 to fast today. I woke up today and I was like, 1:28:33.520 --> 1:28:34.120 let me fast. 1:28:34.320 --> 1:28:37.120 No, don't do that. Why would you do that? 1:28:37.360 --> 1:28:40.200 Well to lose weight because you don't want food. Food 1:28:40.320 --> 1:28:43.280 is a tricky because it's a vice and it's a pleasure. 1:28:45.280 --> 1:28:48.040 I was just talking about this on the podcast yesterday 1:28:48.120 --> 1:28:50.559 of like, I'm curious what your take is is. 1:28:53.200 --> 1:28:53.479 Fat? 1:28:53.680 --> 1:28:59.760 Being disciplined with food and exercise feels good, but indulgence 1:29:00.680 --> 1:29:02.439 as we know also feels good. 1:29:03.360 --> 1:29:06.400 Yeah, so I don't know where to toe the line necessarily. 1:29:08.360 --> 1:29:11.080 So I have like pretty big food allergies, and like 1:29:11.240 --> 1:29:15.360 not eating specific foods is like annoying and hard, but like, 1:29:16.520 --> 1:29:19.600 I also really love eating food, so I don't I 1:29:19.680 --> 1:29:22.320 think eating is better. Honestly, yeah, eating is better. 1:29:22.400 --> 1:29:27.760 Guys, what's your name again? Jewels? Jewels, Jewels? What's who 1:29:27.840 --> 1:29:31.880 are you? I'm Jewels, Robin. Okay, I'm from La. 1:29:32.080 --> 1:29:33.280 I heard you say you were from La. 1:29:33.360 --> 1:29:36.080 I'm not from La. I lived there for a little bit. Oh, Jewls, 1:29:36.080 --> 1:29:37.120 can you just keep the microphone? 1:29:37.360 --> 1:29:37.639 Sorry? 1:29:39.000 --> 1:29:40.800 Oh that breezes from the fat the wind. 1:29:40.880 --> 1:29:42.400 It's kind of a little nice though, It's. 1:29:42.320 --> 1:29:46.280 Really fucking nice. Do you live here now or are 1:29:46.320 --> 1:29:46.800 you in town? 1:29:47.160 --> 1:29:47.960 I go to Yo? 1:29:48.160 --> 1:29:50.040 Okay? How's are you freshman? 1:29:50.320 --> 1:29:50.479 Yes? 1:29:50.600 --> 1:29:50.840 I am? 1:29:51.160 --> 1:29:55.120 Oh ship all right, so you're like nude? What are 1:29:55.160 --> 1:29:57.200 you eighteen? I'm twenty twenty? 1:29:57.320 --> 1:30:01.400 Okay, so your how's being a? How's being twenty? At NYU? 1:30:01.520 --> 1:30:03.920 That sounds fun as fuck. 1:30:04.360 --> 1:30:05.000 It's awesome. 1:30:05.520 --> 1:30:09.360 New York is awesome, especially with the weather. I honestly 1:30:09.560 --> 1:30:12.560 like literally when it was called outside, New York was 1:30:12.640 --> 1:30:16.840 like horrible. It's disgusting. It's disgusting when it's called but 1:30:17.000 --> 1:30:19.160 now that the weather's nice, like, I love it here. 1:30:19.479 --> 1:30:20.120 What do you study? 1:30:21.479 --> 1:30:22.519 I take a business. 1:30:22.960 --> 1:30:27.240 Okay, do you hope to be a be a business person? Yes? 1:30:27.400 --> 1:30:28.680 What kind of business you want to do? 1:30:29.400 --> 1:30:30.719 I want to work in healthcare. 1:30:31.000 --> 1:30:31.280 Okay. 1:30:31.320 --> 1:30:32.800 You know, I don't think i'd be like the most 1:30:32.880 --> 1:30:35.680 amazing doctor, so I feel like I could help in 1:30:35.760 --> 1:30:36.759 like a business aspect. 1:30:36.960 --> 1:30:39.599 You know, you want to raise those insulin prices. 1:30:40.080 --> 1:30:41.160 No, I want to lower them. 1:30:41.280 --> 1:30:43.599 Okay, but you make more money if you've raised them. 1:30:43.600 --> 1:30:44.360 That's it's better. 1:30:44.520 --> 1:30:48.559 Hold on, okay, look, humanity, it's better for business if 1:30:48.640 --> 1:30:49.639 they if they go up. 1:30:50.320 --> 1:30:53.720 Yeah, but God willing, I will have a husband and 1:30:54.439 --> 1:30:56.679 I will not have to worry about being the primary 1:30:56.760 --> 1:31:00.240 Tarey kicker caretaker in like the money sense, Okay, I'll 1:31:00.240 --> 1:31:02.120 be able to put the insulin prices down. 1:31:02.240 --> 1:31:06.000 So I will pray that you have a husband who 1:31:06.080 --> 1:31:08.880 has a good job so that insulin prices can go down. 1:31:09.080 --> 1:31:12.800 Yes, I'll keep it. I'll keep the insulin rices down. 1:31:13.560 --> 1:31:16.559 Vote for me for healthcare and a really really. 1:31:16.400 --> 1:31:18.639 Good gonna live on the internet. 1:31:19.360 --> 1:31:21.599 But hold on when you get in like business, classes, 1:31:21.680 --> 1:31:23.960 are they not like, all right, here's how we're gonna 1:31:24.560 --> 1:31:27.240 make everything cost more money so that we can do 1:31:27.360 --> 1:31:27.880 more business. 1:31:28.120 --> 1:31:28.160 No. 1:31:28.400 --> 1:31:32.400 Actually, right now I'm in like a microeconomics class. Shout 1:31:32.439 --> 1:31:36.240 out to Isakar beginning, you're awesome teacher, And we learn 1:31:36.280 --> 1:31:38.880 all about how like global warming sucks and how like 1:31:39.240 --> 1:31:42.719 the CEOs need to like work harder on like keeping 1:31:42.960 --> 1:31:45.639 like the economy like leveled out and like helping out 1:31:45.680 --> 1:31:48.320 with like the city and everyone who lives in it 1:31:48.439 --> 1:31:50.439 and the people who and all this money that they have, 1:31:50.720 --> 1:31:53.040 all this money that they have, and now they just 1:31:53.160 --> 1:31:55.439 have to like help everyone out at the bottom. Like, 1:31:55.560 --> 1:31:56.519 my classes are awesome. 1:31:56.560 --> 1:31:57.000 I love them. 1:31:57.439 --> 1:31:57.679 Nice. 1:31:58.160 --> 1:32:00.439 What's the best thing you've eaten here and New York? 1:32:03.000 --> 1:32:03.800 I eat a lot here. 1:32:04.720 --> 1:32:10.479 It's like there's so many food places best. That's a 1:32:10.560 --> 1:32:13.320 hard question. I don't know if that's possible. 1:32:14.920 --> 1:32:16.679 What about a pizza? 1:32:17.720 --> 1:32:18.360 I don't I'm not. 1:32:18.560 --> 1:32:18.800 I'm not. 1:32:19.040 --> 1:32:19.679 I'm not a pizza. 1:32:19.920 --> 1:32:24.920 You don't eat walking pizza, I've do any of you 1:32:25.080 --> 1:32:31.320 not eat pizza? You don't eat pizza? Oh you eat 1:32:31.320 --> 1:32:33.320 pizza with a fork and everyone eats pizza. No, one 1:32:33.360 --> 1:32:35.800 doesn't eat pizza. Man, one doesn't eat pizza. 1:32:35.840 --> 1:32:36.040 Guys. 1:32:36.040 --> 1:32:37.840 I don't say it proudly. I'm not gonna lie. 1:32:37.840 --> 1:32:40.360 I don't say proudly like that's not I don't know. 1:32:40.439 --> 1:32:44.160 It's never like been like the whole like the whole 1:32:44.200 --> 1:32:45.040 situation for me. 1:32:45.760 --> 1:32:48.080 But I'm also I'm also gluten and dairy free. 1:32:48.200 --> 1:32:49.040 Also embarrassing. 1:32:51.400 --> 1:32:55.200 Yeah, yeah, so like the sauce, I don't know, I don't. 1:32:55.479 --> 1:32:57.400 I don't like feel they need to drink tomato sauce 1:32:57.479 --> 1:32:58.679 on like the days of the week. 1:32:59.080 --> 1:33:00.599 This is incredibly anti climactic. 1:33:00.680 --> 1:33:03.200 But this conversation has made me very hungry, and I 1:33:03.280 --> 1:33:06.400 think I think, I think I'm done interviewing for the day. 1:33:07.000 --> 1:33:09.560 I think I'm gonna get I'm gonna smoke some of 1:33:09.600 --> 1:33:12.719 the weed that the guy gave me earlier and eat something. 1:33:12.920 --> 1:33:17.719 Go do that, Julie, Jules, Jewels, jewels, get bring us home, jewels, 1:33:17.760 --> 1:33:19.200 anything else you want to say to the people of 1:33:19.240 --> 1:33:19.639 the computer. 1:33:20.600 --> 1:33:24.040 We love you, We love New York. And seasonal depression 1:33:24.160 --> 1:33:25.920 is real, and I hope you're feeling great today. 1:33:26.160 --> 1:33:29.000 Sure, goddamn is, have a good one, Julis. Thank you 1:33:29.080 --> 1:33:32.639 very much for talking you around the universe. Bye, folks, 1:33:32.720 --> 1:33:36.439 this has been being a gecko at Washington Square Park. 1:33:37.080 --> 1:33:39.040 Let me know in the I'm curious. Let me know 1:33:39.160 --> 1:33:42.320 in the comments if you guys like the I r 1:33:42.479 --> 1:33:45.360 L episodes. I love doing them. They're my favorite ones 1:33:45.960 --> 1:33:48.599 to do, between the gek males and the in studio 1:33:48.720 --> 1:33:52.440 ones and the the the the these. 1:33:52.200 --> 1:33:53.559 Ones I love. 1:33:53.680 --> 1:33:55.599 I love doing this stuff. I love getting to meet people. 1:33:55.640 --> 1:34:00.920 I I hope that you guys get to enjoy ye vite. 1:34:00.920 --> 1:34:01.599 Oh we have a way. 1:34:01.760 --> 1:34:02.719 I got this from someone. 1:34:02.880 --> 1:34:04.240 I got this from someone in the park. 1:34:04.640 --> 1:34:07.479 Oh, I wanted to pass it on. Let me see. 1:34:07.760 --> 1:34:10.840 It says fuck forget repeat and there's a QR code 1:34:10.880 --> 1:34:13.360 on it and it's two guys kissing. I will be 1:34:13.439 --> 1:34:18.320 scanning this QR code when I get home. Yeah, let 1:34:18.360 --> 1:34:21.160 me know in the comments of Spotify or YouTube if 1:34:21.200 --> 1:34:22.240 you like these episodes. 1:34:22.520 --> 1:34:23.360 I I don't know. 1:34:23.479 --> 1:34:27.160 I feel I take a lot of enjoyment getting to 1:34:28.680 --> 1:34:30.920 meet all these people that I just wouldn't have been 1:34:30.960 --> 1:34:35.760 able to meet if I if I weren't dressed as 1:34:35.760 --> 1:34:37.720 a gecko in the park. So I hope that you're 1:34:37.840 --> 1:34:41.600 enjoying vicariously meeting them through this podcast. 1:34:42.640 --> 1:34:46.040 Thank you all for listening. Thanks for sitting through the ads. 1:34:46.560 --> 1:34:49.400 Thanks for listening to me ramble and rants, and uh, 1:34:49.840 --> 1:34:51.720 I'll catch you guys on the next one yet. 1:34:51.800 --> 1:34:52.360 Bless you all.