Speaker 1: Hello.
Speaker 2: I am here in Washington Square Park. Want maybe my
Speaker 2: favorite park on the planet Earth. I've done a bunch
Speaker 2: of episodes here. I love this place. It's awesome. There's
Speaker 2: so many different people, the sunlight is out. I feel awesome.
Speaker 2: I've been talking on the podcast so much about existential
Speaker 2: dread and crazy depressing shit, but I swear my life
Speaker 2: in this moment. I'm basking in the sun. I'm surrounded
Speaker 2: by life, surrounded by people. I love it here and
Speaker 2: without further ado, let's let's start talking to the people
Speaker 2: around this park.
Speaker 1: Let's do that.
Speaker 2: What is your name, man, Russell white House? We're getting
Speaker 2: the first and last name. Yeah, yeah, right, nice to
Speaker 2: meet you, Russell white House. Oh, Russell, give me a favorite.
Speaker 2: Just hold the mic up, like all right, yeah, there
Speaker 2: we go. How's life, Russell?
Speaker 3: It's just been chilling up. I've kind of been like
Speaker 3: floating around. I was just in Else Salvador for two weeks.
Speaker 3: I was just doing photography, videography, hanging.
Speaker 4: Out with people. Now I'm back here.
Speaker 3: I'm kind of waiting for my next job to pick
Speaker 3: up next month. Somebody just like floating around basically.
Speaker 1: What why specifically El Salvador.
Speaker 4: Well, it was in the news.
Speaker 3: It's in the news for lots of things, some good things,
Speaker 3: some controversial things, right, and it's very slept on as
Speaker 3: a country. They get very few tourists, like especially non Latinos.
Speaker 3: So I just thought it would be interesting as well,
Speaker 3: and it was.
Speaker 1: Do you know anyone there? Do you just go alone
Speaker 1: with your camera?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I just went cold.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I hit up a few people on Reddit though.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I hung.
Speaker 3: Out with this guy on Reddit in his hometown, Santa Tecla.
Speaker 2: Wait that's so cool man, So wait, so you just
Speaker 2: all right, so you were just like, fuck it, I
Speaker 2: want to go to El Salvador. I don't know anyone there,
Speaker 2: but there's this guy on Reddit who seems like he
Speaker 2: could be cool. You just hit him up. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: guys met for the first time in El Salvador. Yeah
Speaker 2: what subreddit? Did you meet this guy on El Salvador?
Speaker 2: What was So? Did you make a post? Like how
Speaker 2: did you were you? Like hey, I'm yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like, hey I'm looking to meet people. Well I
Speaker 3: had somewat have been posts. One I was looking for
Speaker 3: a motorcyclist, one I was looking for like a fixer
Speaker 3: kind of and then I'm in another post.
Speaker 1: Oh you're good.
Speaker 2: Sorry, I was just I was turning it down a
Speaker 2: little bit. You have agree, you have a nice projecting voice. Okay, okay,
Speaker 2: So did you so you found your fixer?
Speaker 4: Uh? Yeah, yeah, he helped me out with some interviews.
Speaker 3: I was interviewing people about this political situation there.
Speaker 2: Okay, do you do so you do a lot of interviews,
Speaker 2: like around you're like an investigative journalist.
Speaker 3: Not a lot because I'm a freelancer, but like I
Speaker 3: try to do what I can, like pick up stuff, photography,
Speaker 3: I write essays, movie reviews, interviews, videography, concerts.
Speaker 4: I do a little bit of everything.
Speaker 1: Okay, what what did you learn when you went to
Speaker 1: El Salvador?
Speaker 4: Hmmm, Like do you have like could you be more specific?
Speaker 1: Al right? Sure, sure, sure?
Speaker 2: Did you learn anything interesting about the human condition by
Speaker 2: going to L Salvador? Did you learn anything interesting about humanity?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 3: I feel like the Salvadorennio mindset is like I feel
Speaker 3: like it's been shaped by the trauma of the recent
Speaker 3: violence that they had. They used to have one of
Speaker 3: the highest motivates on the planet for many years now.
Speaker 4: It's one of the safest countries in the world. But
Speaker 4: I feel like.
Speaker 3: There's a little bit of trauma in terms of like
Speaker 3: I feel like the average Chavadoreno has a little bit
Speaker 3: of like shyness around strangers, just being a little cautious.
Speaker 4: A little bit. But at the same time, they're very.
Speaker 3: Friendly people and like they they mind their business, so
Speaker 3: like overall they are great people.
Speaker 2: I mean friendly enough that they would show around a
Speaker 2: stranger from Reddit, you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like people just were randomly come up to me,
Speaker 3: like old people, especially when I would be hanging around
Speaker 3: like one of the boyos, they would just say they
Speaker 3: would just say hi, Like in the city center. They
Speaker 3: are more like metropolitan, like more to themselves.
Speaker 4: Like in the Boyos.
Speaker 3: I felt welcome, I felt safe, cool, I was in
Speaker 3: and some of like the most low income I would
Speaker 3: say Borrios and San Salvador, and I never felt in danger.
Speaker 4: I felt welcome. So it was a great experience.
Speaker 2: Have you is that something you've done before or just
Speaker 2: going raw to some somewhere.
Speaker 1: Tell me more where else have you been?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we were talking off Cameron about this hat. I
Speaker 3: got this hat in Kazakhstan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, what was it like in kazakh Stan.
Speaker 4: For a whole month. It was basically the same deal.
Speaker 4: I just went in war.
Speaker 3: Well technically I had I had an assignment I had
Speaker 3: to do like a few reporting things around their elections.
Speaker 3: I was supposed to do that for three days, but
Speaker 3: I I did. I loved the country so much that
Speaker 3: I stayed a whole month and I was just like
Speaker 3: hanging around like chilling, exploring, and Kazakstan as the friendliest
Speaker 3: people I've ever met by wow, wow, like incredibly friendly,
Speaker 3: even though my Russian is awful, like absolutely awful, And
Speaker 3: like the young people in Kazakhstan, like a lot of
Speaker 3: them speak some English, We're not like fluent, but they
Speaker 3: are so welcoming, friendly, outgoing.
Speaker 4: There were multiple.
Speaker 3: Times where was I like out of like a cafe
Speaker 3: and people would just buy me food. Really yeah, it
Speaker 3: happened a couple of times. I didn't ask, Like one
Speaker 3: time I was having trouble with the Apple pay thing
Speaker 3: and the guy.
Speaker 4: Just paid for it. Wow, completely unprompted.
Speaker 3: But yeah, the Kazak people extremely friendly, intelligent, hardworking. They
Speaker 3: have a scholarship program where if they can get into
Speaker 3: any university worldwide, the government pays for it. So there's
Speaker 3: a lot of Kazakhs that like Oxford, Harvard, USC all over.
Speaker 4: So they're smart people, very kind people.
Speaker 2: How when do you start doing things like this, like
Speaker 2: going on adventures and documenting them and meeting folks.
Speaker 1: Sorry what secon, I'm just making sure great? Okay, continue, sir.
Speaker 3: Probably like three years ago I developed like Rondo less
Speaker 3: because I started watching a lot of bloggers on YouTube
Speaker 3: and Instagram. People would go like all over and like
Speaker 3: do different kinds of things, interact with people in different
Speaker 3: ways like you, like you, for instance, I've watched a
Speaker 3: lot of your videos.
Speaker 5: Oh cool.
Speaker 3: It was kind of inspirational, like the way you and
Speaker 3: like other creators like interact with like strangers in different
Speaker 3: environments in different ways.
Speaker 4: So that that was like.
Speaker 3: One of the bigger inspirations to start, like like traveling
Speaker 3: today different places and like doing different kinds of things
Speaker 3: with strangers.
Speaker 4: And I'm trying to do more of that.
Speaker 2: We're playing a little bit of inspiration tennis right now
Speaker 2: because I'm I'm feeling very inspired by your stories now.
Speaker 2: You know, I want to go to uh check out
Speaker 2: Al Salvador and Kazakhstan and where where else is on
Speaker 2: your list?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 4: All over Africa?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, Southeast Asia more of Latin America, basically.
Speaker 4: The quote unquote global South.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that interests me more than the West because I've
Speaker 3: been living in the West my whole life.
Speaker 1: Where are you from?
Speaker 3: I was born in Colombia bo guitar, but I grew
Speaker 3: up in New York, so I'm kind of like, uh,
Speaker 3: they would call me a no Sabo kid. I'm pretty
Speaker 3: like Americanized.
Speaker 1: Where do you still live in New York?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, And what does it say that again?
Speaker 6: No? No?
Speaker 1: What does that mean?
Speaker 6: No kid?
Speaker 7: Like?
Speaker 3: Uh, someone like browing in Latin America, but they grew
Speaker 3: up in the US, so they're pretty like Americanized westernized. Honestly,
Speaker 3: that would be like how you classify me objectively?
Speaker 2: And then, uh so, in your travels and in your
Speaker 2: attempts to yeah, interact with strangers and go crazy places
Speaker 2: and whatnot, what kind of difficulties have you encountered? What's
Speaker 2: been like the most uh yeah, hardest part of doing
Speaker 2: that for you?
Speaker 3: Uh, other than the travel costs?
Speaker 4: It would be hard to say.
Speaker 3: I mean, I haven't really had like any brad experiences traveling.
Speaker 2: Even like I guess not bad, but like even like
Speaker 2: emotionally like because you know, I've I've gone on you know,
Speaker 2: trips like that where you're alone and you know, again
Speaker 2: trying to like, yeah, interface with with people, and there
Speaker 2: is like a challenge of like putting yourself out there
Speaker 2: and like having the confidence to do something like that,
Speaker 2: But it seems like it comes naturally to you.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I never hesitated, even in Kazakhstan, where I barely
Speaker 3: spoke in Russian. I just like dove in head first.
Speaker 3: I never like, I don't really get homesick or like
Speaker 3: intimidated by like feign environments.
Speaker 4: I never, like it never daunted me.
Speaker 1: Honestly, Have you always been like that?
Speaker 2: Like when you were growing up, were you pretty good
Speaker 2: at like just going up to people and talking to
Speaker 2: them and whatnot?
Speaker 3: Ironically, no, because I was an extremely sheltered kid. My
Speaker 3: the people who raised me well lely like they sheltered
Speaker 3: me intentionally. And also in middle school I was kind
Speaker 3: of the outcast. But then in high school it flipped.
Speaker 3: I accidentally became one of the most popul little kids
Speaker 3: in my high school because I just started like going
Speaker 3: up to people and like hanging out with people, the
Speaker 3: football players, the basketball players, the emos. I would just
Speaker 3: like go up to them in a high school and
Speaker 3: I accidentally became one of the most popular kids in
Speaker 3: my high school, so that was kind.
Speaker 4: Of like the impetus.
Speaker 3: Also, I started leaving in sneaking out of the house
Speaker 3: to hang out with friends in high school, so I
Speaker 3: started becoming a lot more outgoing.
Speaker 4: And adventurous in high school.
Speaker 2: And your parents you said they like kind of like
Speaker 2: sheltered you intentionally, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my mother she had like good intentions, but she
Speaker 3: was She's.
Speaker 4: A very paranoid person.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and when I was a baby, the crime rate
Speaker 3: in my neighborhood was much higher, so that always stuck
Speaker 3: with her. So she liked to keep me very sheltered
Speaker 3: and focused on I could, so I didn't really have
Speaker 3: any like sleepovers.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 4: She deliberately kept me.
Speaker 3: Out of uh sports, so I didn't start taking up
Speaker 3: sports until high school. And also the sports was a
Speaker 3: good way to meet people as well. She had good intentions,
Speaker 3: but I was very sheltered until high school.
Speaker 2: Basically, And are your are your folks over in Columbia?
Speaker 1: Are they here in New York?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Right now they're in the suburbs, not not that far away.
Speaker 2: Okay, cool, How now I'm curious about that. How do
Speaker 2: they feel about all these like adventures that you're going on.
Speaker 2: Does your mom get paranoid about you going to Kazakhstown
Speaker 2: or else?
Speaker 1: Salvador.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when I told her I was going to Kazakhstan,
Speaker 3: she was a little hessiton.
Speaker 4: Yes, But I explained that.
Speaker 3: It's one of the nicest countries in Central Asia. I
Speaker 3: told her this before I left, Like they have a
Speaker 3: quarter trillion dollar GDP, low crime, like relatively like good
Speaker 3: like personal civil liberties for like Central Asia. So I
Speaker 3: told her this, and she was a little like she
Speaker 3: was a little assuage.
Speaker 1: Hmm.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I I also I have that thing where like, uh,
Speaker 2: you you almost kind of like get get like a
Speaker 2: hit of adrenaline from telling your mom you're gonna go
Speaker 2: do something that makes her paranoid, Like if you're if
Speaker 2: whatever you're gonna do, if it worries your mom, it's
Speaker 2: almost like a signal that you're like, all right, I'm
Speaker 2: heading in the right direction.
Speaker 4: Yeah, kind of an editiss type of thing.
Speaker 3: Because I was so sheltered as a kid, it was
Speaker 3: kind of fun like sneaking out of the house doing
Speaker 3: like crazy things in high school and then so I
Speaker 3: kind of like empathize with what you're saying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, do you still have a good relationship with
Speaker 2: your folks living out in the suburbs?
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: Like we're talking about my travels and like different things.
Speaker 1: What's your ultimate dream for for this for this life?
Speaker 1: I suppose.
Speaker 3: Oh again, you're like you want to my bigger inspiration.
Speaker 3: So I want to like make the way are you
Speaker 3: already do? I make like content, but like like content
Speaker 3: oriented around interacting with strangers, going different places, more of that,
Speaker 3: and then like a bigger scale ship.
Speaker 2: Hold on the sign. The sign just fell. We're getting
Speaker 2: a nice cool breeze of water from the fountain. It
Speaker 2: feels good. It's just enough that it doesn't drench us,
Speaker 2: but it missed us. That's awesome. Do what so you
Speaker 2: post on YouTube? Where do you post? Where can the
Speaker 2: people find you?
Speaker 1: I want to I want to shout you out.
Speaker 3: Uh mostly uh into policydigress dot org.
Speaker 1: Sorry, slow down, say that again.
Speaker 3: Int policy digress dot org. That's why most of my content.
Speaker 1: Goes INTI how do you spell that?
Speaker 3: I N C P O L I C why D
Speaker 3: I G E S T dot O r.
Speaker 2: G so And this is like so you have your
Speaker 2: own website where you're putting this on, like this is
Speaker 2: this your website or is this like.
Speaker 4: A company or one of the editors there. I don't
Speaker 4: like own it.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you see work you work for this website.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was more olean.
Speaker 3: I was like more into just like writing, but now
Speaker 3: I'm doing more like photography and videography.
Speaker 1: Nice, nice, cool man.
Speaker 2: Where where if you like, you're what's your number one
Speaker 2: place that you want to go to do videography and photography?
Speaker 5: Just one?
Speaker 1: I guess the.
Speaker 2: Top one, like the one that you're like all right,
Speaker 2: Like if like if you had a week to live,
Speaker 2: you know, and that you only have one other place
Speaker 2: that you could go before you know, where would you go?
Speaker 3: I guess West West Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal.
Speaker 4: If I had to dream, just one?
Speaker 2: Well, cool man, like I like I'm saying, I'm uh,
Speaker 2: I'm very flattered to hear that the gecko is uh
Speaker 2: is an inspiration because I'm I'm inspired. I'm inspired by
Speaker 2: you man, So again, it's inspiration Tennis, keep uh keep
Speaker 2: doing great work. Many Likewise, is there anything else you
Speaker 2: want to say to the people of the computer before
Speaker 2: we go?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, just uh, don't be afraid to explore. Could
Speaker 3: be like a couple of hours out. It could be Alsavador,
Speaker 3: it could be U Brazil, Kazakhstan.
Speaker 4: Uh, if you're in the math can inspire.
Speaker 6: Sure.
Speaker 3: You have the most powerful passport on the planet. You
Speaker 3: could go so many places well out, even needing needing
Speaker 3: a visa.
Speaker 2: So don't be a way to explore. What's your name again, man,
Speaker 2: Russell white House, Russell white House, Russell white House. Thank
Speaker 2: you very much for talking, man.
Speaker 1: This was great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna check out. I'm gonna i'll
Speaker 2: rewatch the footage and check out that website. I really
Speaker 2: want to see your stuff. Kick ass man. Thank you
Speaker 2: very much. See you, Russell. Nice to meet you Onnie.
Speaker 6: How you.
Speaker 2: I don't know if this is kosher to say, but
Speaker 2: it like we were I was setting up and uh,
Speaker 2: you know, actually I won't call you out. Okay, okay,
Speaker 2: we were setting up and you came over to me
Speaker 2: and you were like, hey, man, I've seen your stuff
Speaker 2: on the internet. I was like, oh, thanks man, And
Speaker 2: then you came back over with an eighth of weed.
Speaker 2: You gave it to me, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: that's so nice. Do you like, do you do? Is
Speaker 2: that you grow that or is it?
Speaker 9: Man?
Speaker 10: It's our brand, man, It's called University AZA for twenty
Speaker 10: so my brother he started a brand called Urban Exotics,
Speaker 10: and like like things has been booming. So now we're
Speaker 10: just like expanding. So now here comes us with a
Speaker 10: Uniuniversity az A. We're giving back to the students that
Speaker 10: helped us, supported us in the beginning.
Speaker 1: So oh, Nikki, you do it, Fairy, just hold the
Speaker 1: mic up.
Speaker 10: Yeah, So yeah, everything is more of like great deals
Speaker 10: and giving back to the communities that help us build
Speaker 10: this empire in general.
Speaker 2: But tell me about the tell me about the cannabis biz.
Speaker 2: I'm curious when when did you start getting into it?
Speaker 6: I mean.
Speaker 10: Essentially he always been into it as like teens and
Speaker 10: like younger adults, but like really like me and my brothers,
Speaker 10: we started an entertainment business. We started like a music
Speaker 10: group that turned in the label cool like so like
Speaker 10: now like we peaked that that in and we're expanding
Speaker 10: from there. Now we're just going to new vengures in
Speaker 10: new ways.
Speaker 9: To like expand.
Speaker 10: What was the music group It's called Org and Nothing
Speaker 10: and the label is called or nothing records nice?
Speaker 1: Nice? What kind of music do you? Guys make a.
Speaker 10: Little bit of everything, but like primarily like hip hop,
Speaker 10: R and B. Like we have a couple live live
Speaker 10: instronment artists like Zachary Durham. He plays the trumpet. We
Speaker 10: got like we got m full on the beats, like
Speaker 10: he's like good and producing. So everything is like in
Speaker 10: the house because just like kind of our like our
Speaker 10: community because r RG stands for organized uh the signs.
Speaker 1: Nope to put some rocks in the bottom of the sun, go.
Speaker 9: Ahead, organized, radiat and grow.
Speaker 10: So like we organized with the community because we had
Speaker 10: a vision. We got the people together, we started grinding.
Speaker 10: Now we're out elevating, we're living better.
Speaker 2: We're living great, I mean and uh, And so you
Speaker 2: do the cannabis stuff with your brothers as well.
Speaker 10: Yes, because I'm more I'm more of like media and
Speaker 10: like artists management.
Speaker 2: And how many how many guys is it two? You
Speaker 2: have two brothers three?
Speaker 10: The founders is my me and my other two brothers,
Speaker 10: cool man like like the artists is we got like
Speaker 10: at least twelve.
Speaker 2: What's so what's the dynamic between you and your brothers?
Speaker 2: Because that's a really nice thing to have, you know,
Speaker 2: be doing business with your family and like have other
Speaker 2: people to because as you know, the the entrepreneurial journey
Speaker 2: very lonely one. It's great to have family with you.
Speaker 9: It's complicated.
Speaker 1: But tell me, Marris, like.
Speaker 9: We're all now, we're all sitting.
Speaker 10: We're all about the great and the uplifting of ourself
Speaker 10: and our business.
Speaker 9: Yeah, we're all individual people.
Speaker 10: So like everybody has their own journey to go on.
Speaker 9: While like we're building this business.
Speaker 10: It is times we class, times we like took break,
Speaker 10: some some talking, but like at the end of the day,
Speaker 10: always come back from for business and once we come back,
Speaker 10: we always settle everything out the way and then we'd
Speaker 10: come back better than ever. So it's just like as
Speaker 10: years of like us trying to grow as a business
Speaker 10: and also us trying to grow as.
Speaker 9: Individuals and when are within ourselves.
Speaker 2: So tell me, uh, what would you say is like
Speaker 2: the number one or even a few different ways in
Speaker 2: which you feel like, uh, this this journey has grown
Speaker 2: you as an individual.
Speaker 9: I'm like a lie, how hasn't it like for me?
Speaker 10: Like in like personally, like I was more of like
Speaker 10: the knucklehead, the rebel rousers, so I was getting in trouble.
Speaker 10: I'm like actually doing great things, but I'm also getting
Speaker 10: in trouble.
Speaker 1: What kind of rabble were you rousing?
Speaker 10: Stuff around here and stuff around like he's sure a
Speaker 10: lot of trump I did.
Speaker 9: I went away for a while, and like.
Speaker 10: It took that for me to actually understand myself.
Speaker 9: So and and.
Speaker 10: That's the crazy part, Like, yeah, it's the unfortunate before
Speaker 10: like you know, get caught up, But like it took
Speaker 10: that for me to actually sit down and understand myself
Speaker 10: because I really I didn't have much to do. I
Speaker 10: graduated high school, earlier college, started a business. All I
Speaker 10: had to do was work out and just like focus
Speaker 10: on myself. So now I know myself and I know
Speaker 10: the things my likes, my dislikes, my life feeling like things.
Speaker 10: That's that's quarter you mental development. Like I had plenty
Speaker 10: of ego depths. I had plenty of moments where I
Speaker 10: was up and down. But it's it all comes with
Speaker 10: experience and it all comes with learning.
Speaker 1: Off of you said you have you've had plenty of
Speaker 1: ego deaths. What what is uh? What does an ego
Speaker 1: death feel like for you?
Speaker 10: It's a very very humbling experience, very humbling experience.
Speaker 2: Yeah, was this a drug induced to go death or
Speaker 2: just like a like a general life meditation I had.
Speaker 10: I had movement of both, like like taking silent taking
Speaker 10: like mushrooms or like like other psychoactors, but really like
Speaker 10: going through life and actually like having to go through
Speaker 10: your child's and tripulations. Actually is is more clear than
Speaker 10: any other jug than there is.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, people think you can just like take acid
Speaker 2: and then it'll change, you know, whateppen.
Speaker 1: No, you have to like be in your fucking life. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you really do. Like Yeah, So it's just.
Speaker 10: More like it's just more of like at times or
Speaker 10: I'm thinking I'm bigger and then program life knocks me
Speaker 10: right back.
Speaker 9: Down to peg too.
Speaker 10: So it's just like I feel like you can't you
Speaker 10: can't really really be bigger than the program.
Speaker 9: There's nothing bigger in the program.
Speaker 1: You know. It's funny.
Speaker 2: I was thinking about like the concept of the ego death,
Speaker 2: and it's like, I guess for me, it feels like
Speaker 2: the full knowledge that like what you understand as the
Speaker 2: self and what you understand is you is like so
Speaker 2: small compared to the greater universe that you're a part
Speaker 2: of and it kind of that comes. That's like kind
Speaker 2: of a scary thing because your ego and yourself is
Speaker 2: the only thing you can fucking grasp onto and if
Speaker 2: you can't grasp on to that, you feel like you're
Speaker 2: falling an endless abyss.
Speaker 10: And it's just like you're just lost in a source.
Speaker 10: You don't know what to do, you don't know where
Speaker 10: you're going.
Speaker 2: But then you cut, but you come, you come back
Speaker 2: out of it, and then you come back into yourself. Yes,
Speaker 2: and you're a little happier. I at least I felt
Speaker 2: that way after having like an ego death.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I'll be honest, because it's the thing is like
Speaker 10: insanity or madness is like the attempt to repeat the
Speaker 10: same actions that's putting you back in that predicament.
Speaker 9: So like if you don't learn, for you from.
Speaker 10: That experience, you didn't really like, Yeah, egos nearly isn't
Speaker 10: it dead?
Speaker 9: It's just in limbo.
Speaker 10: You just like like like like coddling like the truth.
Speaker 9: You can't coddle the truth up.
Speaker 1: You can't ca the truth of life.
Speaker 2: You can't like you can try you can try to
Speaker 2: coddle the truth of life.
Speaker 9: That's being delusional.
Speaker 10: If I want to be a delusional I'd just rather
Speaker 10: play the sims and then be a sim.
Speaker 2: Well that's what people do, they they they, I say,
Speaker 2: people as if it's not me doing that, I'm total
Speaker 2: I coddle the truth of life all the time by
Speaker 2: playing Nintendo and eating sandwiches and stuff.
Speaker 10: But is it more of like coddling or are you
Speaker 10: just like you have outlet to like escape like that, yes,
Speaker 10: so outlet to escape, like because coddling, like when I
Speaker 10: say coddingly, is more of like the the unacceptance of
Speaker 10: that truth, like you're.
Speaker 9: Eating regardless of regardless of the.
Speaker 10: Situation, They're always gonna think this is the right way
Speaker 10: or this is like.
Speaker 1: What do you what do you think?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: So let me ask you this when you say like
Speaker 2: coddling of the truth, Like is there a truth or
Speaker 2: a reality that you feel as though maybe you personally
Speaker 2: coddled for a long time and then came to accept
Speaker 2: like a like a fact of reality.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, I definitely did.
Speaker 1: What's an example of one, like.
Speaker 10: I can At one point in time, I was real
Speaker 10: I was a real like piece of shit like like oh,
Speaker 10: I'm like like, uh, how can I say like more
Speaker 10: of like my like my my wording or the things
Speaker 10: I deflect off the people like it's just more of
Speaker 10: like I try to.
Speaker 9: Push people away.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, like a coddling like coming to terms of
Speaker 2: like oh I've been like a jerk to folks.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 10: And it's like instead of like taking the accountability is
Speaker 10: more of like not you will be I or like
Speaker 10: you know, I'm just saying this because like you know,
Speaker 10: this is how I am like or this is the things.
Speaker 5: I've been through.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is.
Speaker 10: My defense mechanisms like yeah, sometimes you got it and
Speaker 10: it took and it took certain things to happen for
Speaker 10: me to be like I can't hold everything in or
Speaker 10: I can't be the type of person to be like
Speaker 10: only give you a part of my life, or like
Speaker 10: I'm trying to like solely trust you but also give
Speaker 10: you that same like the vulginess of infinitation or like
Speaker 10: that same recification without having him be like a like
Speaker 10: a rocket.
Speaker 9: Irra coon in a sense like the level.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, sure, sure, sure, sure, I empathize with rock
Speaker 2: and Raccoon only because he's we're both technically critters.
Speaker 1: Yes, what did you say your name was? Again? Hmmm,
Speaker 1: what are you. What are you getting up to today?
Speaker 10: Onnie, I'm just like a little bit more promotion for
Speaker 10: the brand, and I'm just like also just enjoying the sunshine,
Speaker 10: like just trying.
Speaker 9: To vibe with the people.
Speaker 10: Like that's been my new thing, trying to like reintegrate
Speaker 10: myself back into like small talk, casual conversations, meeting new people.
Speaker 10: Just like, yeah, trying to bring trying to bring down
Speaker 10: the walls reasonability enough.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, you don't want to put up too many walls.
Speaker 2: If you isolate yourself, you'll go crazy. Yeah, you want
Speaker 2: to interface with people. It's it's I think probably the
Speaker 2: meaning of life is to just talk to folks, like
Speaker 2: even in any way, even in any small way, like waving,
Speaker 2: waving at somebody or just being like.
Speaker 10: Sometimes like I'm not a lot, I'm like I'm I'm
Speaker 10: like a clothing person. So I see some My thing
Speaker 10: new thing now is I see something I like someone wearing.
Speaker 10: I just say it, like because sometimes you be so like,
Speaker 10: especially being a broad brand in New York, we're so
Speaker 10: like like individualized, like we like.
Speaker 9: You little talk to show or like, so it's just
Speaker 9: like you know, I'm peeping from a distance. I might
Speaker 9: like it.
Speaker 10: But I'm it looks like I'm just grilling you. Not Hey, yo,
Speaker 10: I'm not a lot.
Speaker 9: That's fine. Would you give that from for me?
Speaker 1: Like, it's just that it makes a whole day, makes
Speaker 1: a whole life.
Speaker 2: Someone be like, hey, I like your shirt onny is Uh?
Speaker 2: Is there anything else you want to say to the
Speaker 2: people of the computer before we go?
Speaker 10: Man, listen, everything is great. You got to organize radio
Speaker 10: and grow. That's it, man or nothing.
Speaker 2: Records, organize radiate and grow. Man, two people in a
Speaker 2: row who have orgs pretty crazy, Honey, Thank you very
Speaker 2: much for talking. Man, I really appreciate it. Uh, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna smoke some of this weed that you gave men.
Speaker 2: I'll let you know how it is. Take care of one.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much for talking. Man.
Speaker 1: I I like that guy. It is true.
Speaker 2: Is I do think the meaning of life is uh
Speaker 2: wrapped up somehow and telling someone that you like their shirt.
Speaker 2: It's very simple stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean this.
Speaker 2: That's why I like doing this is it's kind of
Speaker 2: the It's kind of my own way of getting to
Speaker 2: interface with the world and get to share it with
Speaker 2: other people.
Speaker 1: So let's keep doing this, keep talking to people. What
Speaker 1: is your name. I'm Ava, Ava. Nice to meet you.
Speaker 1: How's life Ava? What's up?
Speaker 11: Life is beautiful right now. I'm really enjoying the weather.
Speaker 11: I love being in Washington Square Park.
Speaker 1: It's the city. It's great. I love this fucking place. Man.
Speaker 1: I really want to play chess. What's up? Man? I
Speaker 1: really want to play chess with one of those people
Speaker 1: over there.
Speaker 11: Oh, I would love to know how to play chess.
Speaker 11: One game that I wish that they played more out
Speaker 11: here is scrabble, because that's something I would say that
Speaker 11: I'm pretty good at.
Speaker 1: What's give me your all time scrabble? Play?
Speaker 5: What word?
Speaker 1: Did you get.
Speaker 11: Something with a queue? Something in one of the corners
Speaker 11: that gets you like a triple?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, cople word for sure?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's all. It's nice to have a queue. So, Ava,
Speaker 2: what's the meaning of life?
Speaker 11: You know, recently, I've been feeling like in such a
Speaker 11: crazy time with so much uncertainty. The meaning of life
Speaker 11: really does become your personal journey of resilience that you
Speaker 11: face and how you begin to kind of listen to
Speaker 11: the aspirations that you had when you were younger, yeah,
Speaker 11: and pursue them and be yourself despite a world that's
Speaker 11: kind of in an epidemic of hate. And as cheesy
Speaker 11: as this sounds, I think that a lot of people
Speaker 11: are scared of coming off as cringe right now, because
Speaker 11: that's something in my generation that has become a massive issue,
Speaker 11: is like this kind of jumping out to hatred, and
Speaker 11: any time someone is deemed slightly unconventionally quirky or annoying,
Speaker 11: it's kind of become cringe. And I think that in
Speaker 11: spite of all of that, you really have to love yourself,
Speaker 11: follow through with what makes you you and what really
Speaker 11: interests you, and flows your boat.
Speaker 2: Bro, I've been on a kick for a while. I've
Speaker 2: been saying this for a while. I think being like
Speaker 2: being annoying, even if you are really annoying, it's not
Speaker 2: that bad, you know what I mean. Like, there's so
Speaker 2: much worse things to be annoying. You could be insidious
Speaker 2: or like malicious, but just like being kind of fucking annoying,
Speaker 2: it's not that bad.
Speaker 11: And that's the things that we actually deem as you know,
Speaker 11: when a woman kind of is annoying in our society,
Speaker 11: that's what we really like pick at and just make
Speaker 11: into an entire internet meme instead of the people that
Speaker 11: are actually causing like systemic oppression in our you know,
Speaker 11: in our nation.
Speaker 2: I do you feel like people are are afraid of
Speaker 2: being cringe?
Speaker 7: Like?
Speaker 1: Is that something you experience in your.
Speaker 11: I do life so, But I also think that the
Speaker 11: people that do take risks are the one that do
Speaker 11: end up with a higher success rate in their lives.
Speaker 11: Of course, yeah, But I have noticed that we are
Speaker 11: in an epidemic of nonchalance, and that's something that I
Speaker 11: don't agree with.
Speaker 2: We're in an epidemic of nonchalance. What makes you feel
Speaker 2: like we're in an epidemic of nonchalance?
Speaker 11: I think that believing so firmly in trends and hopping
Speaker 11: onto trends and not listening to what actually interests you
Speaker 11: or what things actually shape your perception of who you
Speaker 11: are and.
Speaker 1: What you like.
Speaker 11: But that's, you know, it's just I think something I've
Speaker 11: noticed anecdotally. I'm not sure how much research based.
Speaker 2: I think anecdotally it well, because we're inundated with like
Speaker 2: so much information and the content that it's like you
Speaker 2: don't have a second to like think your own thoughts,
Speaker 2: Like I think, I honestly even think that I talked
Speaker 2: about this in a fucking episode of this show recently.
Speaker 2: But it's like, yeah, you kind of need to be
Speaker 2: able to like not be ingesting any media so you
Speaker 2: can form your own thoughts and opinions and observations about
Speaker 2: life and allow yourself to be bored. It's spooky. I'm spooked.
Speaker 2: I'm a little spooked by it. What do you go
Speaker 2: to n y U?
Speaker 12: I do?
Speaker 11: I'm an English major?
Speaker 1: An English major? Okay?
Speaker 12: What uh?
Speaker 1: Give me a book? You like books? Look at a book?
Speaker 13: Books.
Speaker 11: The Overstory by Richard Powers is one of my favorite,
Speaker 11: as well as the series My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante,
Speaker 11: super incredible, credible book series. I'd highly recommend.
Speaker 1: What do you Hope to Do with your life?
Speaker 6: Ava?
Speaker 1: What's the Dream?
Speaker 11: I've always really been interested in the creative fields.
Speaker 1: I love to write.
Speaker 11: I really have always enjoyed film, theater, art acting. If
Speaker 11: I if I had it my way, I would go
Speaker 11: off and do do a million side quests, pursue whatever
Speaker 11: creative thing I could. But I really enjoy writing poetry.
Speaker 11: I really think the publishing field is something I'd be
Speaker 11: interested in. I've done I did teaching seventh graders for
Speaker 11: a few years. For some summer internships. But my pipe
Speaker 11: dream is to be in film. But I haven't really
Speaker 11: pursued that academically, so I'm not really sure what could
Speaker 11: come out of it.
Speaker 1: Oh well, I'll tell you.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you firsthand as somebody who quote unquote pursued
Speaker 2: film academically, that it is. You don't need to do
Speaker 2: that to just make movies. You know, you can make
Speaker 2: sure with your phone and everything. AB's anything else you
Speaker 2: gonna say to the people of the computer before we go.
Speaker 11: Listen to your gut.
Speaker 1: Oh we're in a little We're in a little splash.
Speaker 11: Be yourself and continue to question the world around you
Speaker 11: while you form your own assumptions about other people.
Speaker 2: Thank you for talking to I saw you over there
Speaker 2: smoking a cigar, looking all cool, and I was like,
Speaker 2: I gotta talk to this guy.
Speaker 1: What's your name?
Speaker 14: Man Z twenty VBB. Real names O Gray, Zone, Gray
Speaker 14: so z Oe. Last name is j I A.
Speaker 7: Wy.
Speaker 12: I'm the oldest of eight kids. I'm thirty two years old.
Speaker 1: You're the oldest of eight kids.
Speaker 6: What uh?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 2: What are what are your siblings doing right now? Do
Speaker 2: they still live in New York?
Speaker 12: They still live in New York?
Speaker 14: They just don't step in the spotlight, got like I would.
Speaker 1: They don't step in the spotlight.
Speaker 14: They wouldn't step in on they wouldn't step over here,
Speaker 14: And there was four for anything.
Speaker 1: What have you have?
Speaker 2: You had other opportunities besides just right now where you've
Speaker 2: stepped in the spotlight.
Speaker 14: I had times where I could just stay stay in prison,
Speaker 14: but I decide not to.
Speaker 6: H what uh?
Speaker 1: What did you see?
Speaker 2: You said you had times where you could have stayed
Speaker 2: in prison but decided not to. What was it that
Speaker 2: made you decide not to?
Speaker 12: On wordplay and the way I do things on stage?
Speaker 1: What do you do on stage?
Speaker 12: Make music?
Speaker 1: What do you make music about?
Speaker 14: Almost about everything that comes to mind. It's like all genres.
Speaker 14: So it's not rap because you know they usually see
Speaker 14: a darn scaped person they see rap.
Speaker 12: Nah, it's I do all genres. I even do.
Speaker 14: I stick up for the Muslims, the five percenters and
Speaker 14: everybody else. I even deal with the LGBTQ community. Like
Speaker 14: I go to the church and I stayed there and
Speaker 14: I eat and they gave me, give me food and clothes.
Speaker 14: And this is the first time that I made music
Speaker 14: in years. You know what I'm saying on the local app,
Speaker 14: the local app is free, It's for everybody. My name
Speaker 14: is Z twenty VVV and I made over three hundred tracks.
Speaker 2: What is it that inspires your music struggle? What kinds
Speaker 2: of things have you have you struggled with that that
Speaker 2: have inspired your music?
Speaker 12: Anxiety, you know, rejection.
Speaker 14: And being the identity that I am. I'm opium, which
Speaker 14: is something that Playboy Cardi is into.
Speaker 6: Mm hmm.
Speaker 14: They say, they say it's not a sex. When I
Speaker 14: go to the LGBTQ community, they say, what are you?
Speaker 14: I say, I'm opium, And I respect that they're who
Speaker 14: they are, But why they they don't respect who I am?
Speaker 1: What do you mean by you are opium?
Speaker 14: Opium is my lifestyle, Opium is my sex. Mom, I don't,
Speaker 14: I don't. I don't be around females all the time.
Speaker 14: I could I just do straight music and work out
Speaker 14: all day and I be to myself. I'm kind of like,
Speaker 14: I'm kind of like if I was in a party,
Speaker 14: i'd be more like a bouncer more than the partying.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, but so you're so you're watching over
Speaker 2: the party but not necessarily participating in it yourself. That's
Speaker 2: a majority of time, do you ever have the desire
Speaker 2: to participate in the party or you like exactly where
Speaker 2: you're at in the party.
Speaker 14: It's like like it happens at the same time that
Speaker 14: I'm protecting the party, but they people don't notice it,
Speaker 14: So that makes me happier.
Speaker 1: You feel like you're protecting the party.
Speaker 12: I actually I am.
Speaker 14: I don't feel it just embedded because that's just in
Speaker 14: my past life too.
Speaker 2: You said, like struggling with anxiety and stuff. Is that
Speaker 2: something you've You've struggled with your whole life?
Speaker 12: Yeah, I got a mental health and I'm autistic.
Speaker 2: What what usually like in your life? Hell helps you
Speaker 2: deal with your anxiety?
Speaker 12: Frequencies?
Speaker 1: Frequencies? What kind of frequencies?
Speaker 12: Frequencies and music?
Speaker 2: M do you typically feel like like when you're making music,
Speaker 2: does the anxiety kind of go away?
Speaker 14: It does, it does, but there's always something attatched to music.
Speaker 14: It actually physically hurts me and my heart like it
Speaker 14: pumps and all that so fast. And I feel like
Speaker 14: every time I do a song, I'm gonna, like, you know, fade.
Speaker 12: Out or pass out.
Speaker 14: Really yeah, yeah, really, I feel like I'm gonna pass
Speaker 14: out every time I do a song. So it's like
Speaker 14: three hundred songs I've been I go, I'm passed.
Speaker 12: Three hundred songs already.
Speaker 14: So every time I do a song, I feel like
Speaker 14: I'm gonna pass out or like I'm about to go
Speaker 14: to the hospital or something.
Speaker 1: Can I ask you more about that? Why? Doy? What
Speaker 1: is it that makes you feel so?
Speaker 7: Like?
Speaker 2: What is it that gives you such a strong physical
Speaker 2: reaction when you make it?
Speaker 14: The energy that I'm given to the to the vocal
Speaker 14: cords and everything?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so like I mean physically like are you?
Speaker 5: Are you?
Speaker 1: Are you like really singing loudly on my.
Speaker 12: Heart and mind and using my mind and my heart?
Speaker 1: Hmmm? How long you've been making music for it?
Speaker 14: I've been making music for a month making the music,
Speaker 14: but I've been doing this freestyling for years, since I
Speaker 14: was fourteen years old.
Speaker 1: You've been freestyling for years, freestyling.
Speaker 12: For years, but a whole month I've been making music.
Speaker 2: I don't want to put you on the spot, but
Speaker 2: if you so desire, would you want to do a freestyle?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Can I hear it?
Speaker 14: My fordy Keiston feel like the bottle of my call
Speaker 14: center is the feeling like you need and call the
Speaker 14: dreaming by the feel like you're reading pulling a styning
Speaker 14: or my goal Jesus pieces. I'm a reptilian, so I'm
Speaker 14: sitting next to that guy called my soul Sido put
Speaker 14: ways up. Been a mito here that let my color
Speaker 14: sweats thirty plus phone nus, I don't got planes with
Speaker 14: whole things and the old pains depelled on my drone,
Speaker 14: say upside down crosses, feel losses three sixes, fell off
Speaker 14: in the causes three v's. That's the twenty vision collision.
Speaker 14: Feel like somebody get humby, feeling a domb vision, thought
Speaker 14: of a blooder cook because I was wearing colors, fell long,
Speaker 14: somebody travel all feeling to these brothers. I'm the old
Speaker 14: it's an eight. Feeling like somebody lose a plate. This
Speaker 14: is easy talking about somebody KNDA losing grace.
Speaker 1: That was great. I like that.
Speaker 2: You you you uh you you reference the reptilian.
Speaker 12: Because I'm half white or.
Speaker 2: Is is being half white being half reptilian?
Speaker 12: Yes?
Speaker 1: Interesting? What what else?
Speaker 12: Uh?
Speaker 1: What else do you know about reptilians.
Speaker 12: That they have power too? I have both sides of
Speaker 12: the story.
Speaker 1: What was I gonna say?
Speaker 15: Oh?
Speaker 1: This bubbles aries or what is a I'm not a
Speaker 1: big like astrology guy. What is what are like?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 1: What are the traditional traits of an aris that you
Speaker 1: ident with?
Speaker 12: Is a god of war?
Speaker 14: He steps in enemy lines and he's the first person
Speaker 14: to ask questions and and he the first person to
Speaker 14: do stuff and ask questions later. He's in the first
Speaker 14: enemy lines and everybody else is falls in place. But
Speaker 14: every Harvescope wants to try to be above it arees.
Speaker 14: But it's hard to say that we're the first in
Speaker 14: the horrodscope.
Speaker 12: We're the main people. Everybody else we just let y'all,
Speaker 12: I mean, do y'all do?
Speaker 6: What are you?
Speaker 1: What are you most proud of in life?
Speaker 12: I'm proud of not having any kids right now?
Speaker 2: Interesting? What makes you feel proud of not having any
Speaker 2: any kids.
Speaker 12: Because I sold my mom and my father went through.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm, do you uh uh? Do you desire to
Speaker 2: have kids at some point in your life.
Speaker 14: With somebody that that that's that's like, I don't want
Speaker 14: a normal person because a normal person is aggravation, Like
Speaker 14: a normal person is gonna do dirty. So I'd rather
Speaker 14: have a person that's astronomy, you know, I want a
Speaker 14: very person that's out of this world?
Speaker 12: You know?
Speaker 1: Interesting? Interesting? Where do you feel like have you ever
Speaker 1: met a person?
Speaker 12: Fact, I'm from the Bronx too.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well have you remember have you ever met
Speaker 2: a person that you feel like.
Speaker 1: Is out of out of this world?
Speaker 2: And in the in the way that you're describing, not
Speaker 2: even just like in a romantic sense, but like even
Speaker 2: like a friend or a mentor or anything like that.
Speaker 14: Basically actually cooking with Cairo, time, cooking with Cairo, cooking
Speaker 14: with Caira, Yeah, cooking with Kaya.
Speaker 1: Who's who's cooking with Kaya?
Speaker 14: She's on the internet, She's on YouTube and everything, and
Speaker 14: she gave me inspiration because she did so many videos.
Speaker 14: So I started doing my little Live Means and and
Speaker 14: my little Bagle. I'm on Beagle too, so and I
Speaker 14: do the Loco. So I've been sharing social media. She started,
Speaker 14: she's when she started her stuff. I really took a
Speaker 14: look at it, not because of her gyrating her body,
Speaker 14: because how much social media.
Speaker 12: She has made in her life.
Speaker 2: Why Voloko and what's the other what's their one? Be
Speaker 2: the bag and Bigel? Why not just like Instagram and YouTube.
Speaker 12: Because Bigle's where the music is at.
Speaker 14: This got a billion artists and a billion beats, a
Speaker 14: billion people loving your stuff. It's passing with people like
Speaker 14: on your Facebook. See I share my music with the
Speaker 14: Loco through face. I get on, I get on Loco,
Speaker 14: do my music, send mad In my music to Facebook.
Speaker 14: So I got more views. They listening to my music.
Speaker 14: They I got people in Nigeria listen to my music
Speaker 14: right now.
Speaker 2: So what so if the people people listening to this
Speaker 2: want to find you, they'll find you on Volco.
Speaker 12: Yeah they if I'm me on YouTube too, okay?
Speaker 1: And what's what's what's the name? Z twenty vvv Z
Speaker 1: twenty vvv.
Speaker 14: My first song is called merv and it's called and
Speaker 14: then the next song is called sex Body Respect. I
Speaker 14: got like ten songs on there already. I got four reels.
Speaker 14: I got chiropractory videos, chiro practical like where you're like.
Speaker 12: No, no, there's a guy.
Speaker 14: He has a lot of he does good in chiropractory
Speaker 14: and people like that, like you know, cracking backs and
Speaker 14: stuff like that.
Speaker 1: He cracks your back.
Speaker 14: No, he cracks other people's backs, like like famous people.
Speaker 12: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 14: So it's like a network with a lot of people
Speaker 14: that are already up there. But I don't have to
Speaker 14: be like, oh, I need their money to be good.
Speaker 12: I could give somebody a.
Speaker 14: Thousand dollars and they rich already because I cheer with
Speaker 14: them because I know what they're doing.
Speaker 1: What's your what's your ultimate dream in life? Man? Where
Speaker 1: do you what's your greatest ultimate dream?
Speaker 12: Is everybody networking with each other?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 12: Yeah, everybody network with each other.
Speaker 2: Do you believe in like a collective consciousness of any kind?
Speaker 1: Like we all kind of are each other?
Speaker 12: Yes, a big one.
Speaker 14: It doesn't matter who you are, It doesn't matter what
Speaker 14: you wear, who you is, what.
Speaker 12: Kind of sex y'all show a network with each other
Speaker 12: because y'all don't know what y'all just walk around each other.
Speaker 12: Y'all don't want to talk to each other. If I
Speaker 12: walk around right now, nobody gonna talk to me because
Speaker 12: they don't want to.
Speaker 14: They see a dark skinned person, they don't open their mouth.
Speaker 14: But when they see even when a white person, they
Speaker 14: it's the same thing.
Speaker 12: They just scared. People are just scared all over. It's
Speaker 12: New York City. People don't know people. If you if
Speaker 12: you talk to somebody right now, they gonna want it.
Speaker 14: They think it's always some wish a catch behind it.
Speaker 14: When I'm trying to share this ad, nobody want to
Speaker 14: get on. It's free money on Bigle. You could do
Speaker 14: a Bigle live right now instead of you scrolling on
Speaker 14: Facebook for nothing. This is wild apps out here that
Speaker 14: you can make money on and people out here sellingate whatever.
Speaker 1: All right, I gotta check out Beagle Bagle.
Speaker 14: Good on local if you want to do music, or
Speaker 14: you could check out other people's music. This thousands of
Speaker 14: people you laughing, you're laughing, but this mad people that.
Speaker 12: Got music, got scousel here, that's looking for people.
Speaker 1: I don't doubt you. I don't, I don't, I don't
Speaker 1: doubt I don't doubt you at all.
Speaker 12: The local app is where is that?
Speaker 1: What's your name again? Man?
Speaker 2: My name is Z twenty vvv, Z twenty vvv. Thanks
Speaker 2: for sitting down and talking with me. Man, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Is Is there anything else you want to say to
Speaker 2: the people before we go anything at all?
Speaker 14: I want I want you to just think about what
Speaker 14: I said and be positive and uh, God is within you.
Speaker 12: You know the vibes.
Speaker 1: God bless you man.
Speaker 2: Thank you for calling or calling, Thank you for sitting
Speaker 2: down chatting man, what's your name?
Speaker 1: My friend Rob rob Lyle. Nice to meet your Rob.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 1: How's how's a gun good?
Speaker 7: I go to therapy every three months. We do a plan.
Speaker 7: I have to do ship like that. But this is
Speaker 7: different a lot.
Speaker 1: You go to therapy once only only once every three months.
Speaker 6: Yes, I don't like to go. I just bullshit. I
Speaker 6: got none to complain about, have you?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: Is that a recent thing where you've had nothing to
Speaker 1: complain about? Or have you always had.
Speaker 6: No reason the last few years?
Speaker 7: My friend's Nico Adam, I come out, They give me cigarettes,
Speaker 7: iced coffee, I lay out and some with the music.
Speaker 6: No one got it better than me. I tell you,
Speaker 6: how uh?
Speaker 1: What are you doing today? Man?
Speaker 7: You know?
Speaker 6: I was out in Vegas because my mom passed.
Speaker 7: She was ninety. It's okay, she was ninety five. She
Speaker 7: had great grandchildren, lived a long life. So I got
Speaker 7: together with my brother, my two sisters, my nephews, my niece.
Speaker 7: We bonded, had a lot of love, family time, and
Speaker 7: I came back last week.
Speaker 6: But I've been like gently sleeping for days in Queens.
Speaker 6: So my friends said, come out party.
Speaker 4: I was like, yes, som much?
Speaker 6: What uh?
Speaker 1: What do you like to do when you're partying. Man.
Speaker 7: You know, I got friends here from me ten years.
Speaker 7: I just hang out. They bring out the guitars, the drums.
Speaker 7: I get cigarettes, I get coffee, we get weed.
Speaker 6: We have a party.
Speaker 13: Man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so you said that you have nothing to
Speaker 2: complain about.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't always like that.
Speaker 7: No. I used to just stay in bed with depression
Speaker 7: for years. But then, you know, one day I woke up,
Speaker 7: I said, the sun down, I'm gonna get the fuck out,
Speaker 7: smile at people just hang out.
Speaker 2: So so I'm very curious about that because you know,
Speaker 2: I think a lot of people definitely listen to this
Speaker 2: podcast who have like struggled with depression and whatnot. And
Speaker 2: you're telling me you just woke up one day and like, like,
Speaker 2: what was what was what's kind of.
Speaker 6: Been your process of things?
Speaker 7: You know, I was young, I was in uh see,
Speaker 7: I was hanging out here in the eighties, but I
Speaker 7: was doing a lot of acid.
Speaker 6: So you know, I flipped out at seventeen.
Speaker 7: I was in a psych wood, but they gave me depico,
Speaker 7: which is a medicaid T manic depression.
Speaker 6: So I sailed.
Speaker 7: When I met a girl, we got an apartment. I
Speaker 7: went back to school, had a good life for many years.
Speaker 7: But she was on dialysis for three years, so I
Speaker 7: gave her a kidney. Now I was sober for three years.
Speaker 7: But then when after the surgery, they said here, here's
Speaker 7: some morphine. So for years I was taking the pills
Speaker 7: and stuff. And now I just smoked the weed and
Speaker 7: I'm okay. Now, you know, I said to my doctor, hey,
Speaker 7: give me some valume out of man.
Speaker 6: He's like, nah, you pop him my candy. You got
Speaker 6: the weed. You're good. So I see him. He gives
Speaker 6: me the epicode. You know, it's like, get out of here, Robert.
Speaker 1: Can you you a favorite? If you're talking, they just
Speaker 1: hold the.
Speaker 6: Okay, I'll try. So how long you been doing this?
Speaker 1: I've been doing this for about five years?
Speaker 7: Okay, And you have a master's in social wor because, oh.
Speaker 2: No, I have a master's in nothing. I'm just fucking
Speaker 2: crazy guy.
Speaker 1: That's cool.
Speaker 6: I went back to school to be a physiced Maje.
Speaker 7: I was playing a lot of tennis, volleyball, softball, but
Speaker 7: then I failed chemistry and need the sciences. So I
Speaker 7: started hanging out volunteer with some blind people, met some
Speaker 7: people in the park.
Speaker 6: It's an easy life. Man, it's a good.
Speaker 1: Lie, dude.
Speaker 2: This is truly like, this might be the best park
Speaker 2: on the whole planet.
Speaker 1: I love this park so much, you know.
Speaker 6: I'm by.
Speaker 7: I lived in by Flushing Meadow and Flushing Queens for years,
Speaker 7: and I was some people. It's nice at the Unispeed.
Speaker 7: They got minish of gop, a lot of land, a lake.
Speaker 7: But it's not the city where you got art culture,
Speaker 7: you know, music history, everything down here, you know. So
Speaker 7: I even though it's a now and fifteen minutes by
Speaker 7: bus and train in a good weather, I'll just hang
Speaker 7: out in the city all night and party, you know,
Speaker 7: with my friends.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 6: We live large man.
Speaker 2: How hmmmm, I guess tell me more about like you said. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Like it's a process, like getting over depression. Like what
Speaker 2: what would you say have been like all the different
Speaker 2: parts of your process.
Speaker 7: You know. I was alone for many years, but then
Speaker 7: I met a girl and she loved me, she wanted
Speaker 7: best for me. And then after she passed, I was
Speaker 7: hanging out in the park all the years, you know,
Speaker 7: I'll come down here sometimes always some music would cheer
Speaker 7: me up with my friends. And then I met Niko,
Speaker 7: and he hooked me up with Adam and they did
Speaker 7: my portrait of by Goring's someversationis some lady came home
Speaker 7: and she was like, Yo, you look like a crazy chatter.
Speaker 6: I want to put you in a movie. So they
Speaker 6: put me in an extra with Timothy Chaloman in a movie.
Speaker 7: Coming out next to here called Marty Supreme about some
Speaker 7: crazy uh ping punk played on one gold and he
Speaker 7: was like a character.
Speaker 6: In a village and I'm they caught my hand.
Speaker 7: Oh I had good hair, so like for two days,
Speaker 7: it was twelve hours a day just standing around it,
Speaker 7: dressed me up as a fifties peasant, and then they said,
Speaker 7: don't come in the third day you get paid.
Speaker 6: I made like seven fifty for like two days.
Speaker 7: And then it's coming out and I don't know if
Speaker 7: I'll get red coffee, but I tell I'm gonna get
Speaker 7: some popcorn and hang out.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, what's the name of this movie again?
Speaker 6: What's a Komatis?
Speaker 1: Right? Yeah, Marty. Did you get to meet Timothy Shallow.
Speaker 7: Because he can't talk to him, but he was in
Speaker 7: the scene. He ran up a fire's gate, came down,
Speaker 7: stole some money. The cops backed up after him knocking
Speaker 7: little watermelon caught the watermelons.
Speaker 6: I'm just hanging out in the street.
Speaker 7: Fran dresser and another actress was in the shoe, so
Speaker 7: I didn't see them. But it was just a lot
Speaker 7: of fun. And Niko actually was coming through the city
Speaker 7: on his bike and he just stopped icy ball but
Speaker 7: he dies.
Speaker 4: I don't want that, man.
Speaker 7: He gave me a few bucks of seawettes. I was like, Yo,
Speaker 7: it's a good summer and this summer's gonna be.
Speaker 1: What are her plans for the summer?
Speaker 6: You know, I don't know the stay out late, enjoy
Speaker 6: the music. You know, I don't know what to do.
Speaker 7: Man, It's just so good to do it the good
Speaker 7: weather because you know, when it's like rainy and cold,
Speaker 7: I stay in Queens and I sleep and I watch
Speaker 7: the grass squaw.
Speaker 6: It sucks, man. So I'm so excited to be out
Speaker 6: with my friends having a great time.
Speaker 1: You know you were were you born in New York?
Speaker 6: Yes, I grew up in white Stone, Queens.
Speaker 2: You know what and uh how I mean, it's a
Speaker 2: bit of a load of question, but how has New
Speaker 2: York changed over the years. I know it's a load
Speaker 2: of question, but I'm curious if you have like specific
Speaker 2: things that you've noticed are really really different from when
Speaker 2: you were growing up.
Speaker 7: You know, in the seventies, I would hang out in
Speaker 7: times grim My dad would take me to and my
Speaker 7: friends to the movies and stuff, and you'd see people
Speaker 7: strung out and prostitutes and everything.
Speaker 6: And now it's a whole family cleaned up.
Speaker 7: So that's a little different. I mean, I used to
Speaker 7: go over to Coney Island, my grandparents lived over there,
Speaker 7: and it was all you know, dirties, strung out everything.
Speaker 7: Now it's like I went there last year. We went
Speaker 7: and sort of fireworks boardwark. Well it's god man, New
Speaker 7: York's thriving now, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I guess so, I guess I'm actually even more curious
Speaker 1: about this. What stayed the same?
Speaker 7: It's always lot, there's always something happened in some movement
Speaker 7: when you or hard.
Speaker 6: It's always on the edge, you know, before the rest
Speaker 6: of the world gets it.
Speaker 7: It's always happening in New York, right, you come here,
Speaker 7: it happens first, man.
Speaker 4: True.
Speaker 1: What's hmmmm? Is there anything about like you said, you
Speaker 1: said you grew up like manly like in the seventies.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, born in seventies.
Speaker 15: What it is?
Speaker 2: What is it about the seventies? Is there any particular
Speaker 2: aspect of the seventies that you missed the most?
Speaker 7: The Yankees had the great team in the late seventies.
Speaker 7: My father and sister would take me and my friends
Speaker 7: up to the Bronx. We'd get bleach your seats for
Speaker 7: a dollar fifty, get beast filedovs.
Speaker 6: It was great.
Speaker 7: Reggie Jackson, Ron Guidwy come on, you know, I know, yeah,
Speaker 7: that had one d and then the Mets had a run.
Speaker 7: And see I lived in Queens near Shay, but my
Speaker 7: dad grew up in the Bronx. So they would always
Speaker 7: say this, the Yankees stated, and we had a ball
Speaker 7: man all the time.
Speaker 1: That's awesome, man.
Speaker 2: I love I love that you're fucking enjoyed. You seem
Speaker 2: so happy. Man, you I haven't, I mean we we
Speaker 2: actually so. I ran into you and Nico while I
Speaker 2: was setting up, and you haven't stopped smiling since I
Speaker 2: read into you.
Speaker 4: Glad. I tried to put out that vibe.
Speaker 7: I mean, Adam been doing portraits of me, small ones.
Speaker 7: He's working on a big one, and he was showing
Speaker 7: people and when I first saw it, I said, Oh no,
Speaker 7: do love a grimace because I don't want to portray
Speaker 7: at him. We're doing a survey with people because I
Speaker 7: don't is it a smile or a grimace. I want
Speaker 7: to portray that I'm smiling, you know, people, not only
Speaker 7: small bag man.
Speaker 6: But that's all I got.
Speaker 1: What makes you the happiest in life right now?
Speaker 7: Just a good weather, cigarettes, coffee, friends, knowing later on
Speaker 7: it will cool down, My friends will come out to musicians.
Speaker 7: I'll lie around, have a good time. It's good in
Speaker 7: the York. Man, I'm blessed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll ask one more question.
Speaker 5: I don't know why.
Speaker 1: I've been thinking about this a lot. What are you?
Speaker 1: What are you the most proud of?
Speaker 7: You know, my mom just passed and for years I
Speaker 7: used to bother hunt fight, wouldn't be like, I'd give
Speaker 7: me money, but bat that. But then the last few
Speaker 7: years I went out and saw and we made peace.
Speaker 7: And then she called me in the last two months
Speaker 7: before she passed away and she was like, hey, are
Speaker 7: you seeing your friends in the city.
Speaker 6: Are you voluntain with the blind pever?
Speaker 9: I was like yes, my.
Speaker 6: Brother said it made it very happy that I'm doing well.
Speaker 6: So that's it. You know it's a good life.
Speaker 1: That's beautiful, Robert I.
Speaker 6: I I love that hanging out here, will get some
Speaker 6: butt and smoke.
Speaker 1: You got that right?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll be hanging out after it. Dude, Is there
Speaker 1: anything else you want to say to the people of
Speaker 1: the computer before we go?
Speaker 13: Oh?
Speaker 7: I don't know who got some buds? I got cigarettes,
Speaker 7: but we got to get some buds. I got three bucks, man, Yeah,
Speaker 7: we'll get high.
Speaker 2: That sounds awesome. I'll see at the party. Brother, Thanks
Speaker 2: for talking about I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Thank you man.
Speaker 6: Oh you're right, man.
Speaker 1: Sorry, Oh that was awesome. Hell yah, I love that.
Speaker 1: I love that, man. Goddamn is it the simple things?
Speaker 4: God?
Speaker 2: I wish I had something more eloquent to say other
Speaker 2: than I just love this park and I love the
Speaker 2: nice weather, and I love getting to talk to all
Speaker 2: these people.
Speaker 1: But that's that's That's really it. What's your name? One
Speaker 1: more times?
Speaker 6: What's up?
Speaker 1: Far do I'm just being a gecko hanging out?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 2: Sorry for can you just make sure when we're talking
Speaker 2: if you hold the mic like? Thank Yeah, that's great,
Speaker 2: that's great. Are you do you live in New York
Speaker 2: or are you from out of town?
Speaker 13: I am an international student from Norway. So I've been
Speaker 13: here for like one and a half years.
Speaker 2: Oh, we're in Norway, like nearby the city Oslo. Okay,
Speaker 2: I was in Oslo a couple of years ago. Really yeah,
Speaker 2: yeah it was cool.
Speaker 5: It was cool.
Speaker 13: It looks like you didn't enjoy it.
Speaker 2: No, it's not you know what, No, that's not a
Speaker 2: look I didn't enjoy. It's a look of I wish
Speaker 2: I had a specific I wish I had an Oslo thing. Oh,
Speaker 2: I mean I did.
Speaker 1: I did a show there a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: It's a fun time. Uh where there's like a wharf area.
Speaker 1: Yeah wharf what is warf?
Speaker 2: Like, like you're near water and stuff like boats and shit.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah I know, yeah yeah yeah. It was just
Speaker 2: pretty cool. Well okay, so you've been here for a
Speaker 2: year and a half now, and uh, give me, give
Speaker 2: me some differences between Oslo and New York.
Speaker 13: I think the biggest difference is like the people, because
Speaker 13: here everyone's like, do anything you want and nobody gives
Speaker 13: a fuck. But like, if you do that in like
Speaker 13: Norway in general, people will not like it.
Speaker 1: Really yeah they will.
Speaker 13: Everyone's like, so just intervert in that country and it's
Speaker 13: just like you cannot be yourself in a way. That's
Speaker 13: why the main thing I moved here because I can
Speaker 13: like be whatever and nobody would give a fuck.
Speaker 2: Do you have any specific examples of like things that
Speaker 2: you would be comfortable doing here in the States that
Speaker 2: you wouldn't be comfortable doing in Norway?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 13: Like you know those people that just like talk loudly
Speaker 13: in their buses, and if you did that in Norway,
Speaker 13: people will hate you. You know, they will literally literally
Speaker 13: drive you, like they hate that shit. And just like
Speaker 13: if you wear different clothings, they don't like that. A
Speaker 13: lot of people in Norway have like very specific outfits
Speaker 13: and if you are like out there showing more skin
Speaker 13: than they're not gonna like it.
Speaker 2: You know, it is it is cool man, like in
Speaker 2: like you could go be in the New York City
Speaker 2: subway and somebody could come on there blasting music and
Speaker 2: then like doing pull ups on the fucking subway train
Speaker 2: or like spinning around or throwing and no and nobody
Speaker 2: gives a shit, And it's there's kind of some beauty
Speaker 2: in that everyone is just kind of minding your own business.
Speaker 2: I mean, this park is a perfect example of like
Speaker 2: you could run around here fucking in your underwear and
Speaker 2: do whatever. And what I'm saying, it's such a beautiful
Speaker 2: like so much expression going on, whereas, yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: places in Asia and in Europe are not as much
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 13: That's that's what I love about New York, Like you
Speaker 13: can do anything and nobody will care. But if you
Speaker 13: did that back home, you would have backlashes.
Speaker 2: So what do you what are you studying? I'm studying acting,
Speaker 2: sitting acting. What's your dream role?
Speaker 13: Oh? My dream role is to be the main lead
Speaker 13: in every movie.
Speaker 6: Hold on, hold on, the.
Speaker 2: Main lead in every movie, in every movie, every movie,
Speaker 2: even like shitty like even like YouTube videos, like every movie.
Speaker 13: I love YouTube videos. I'm trying actually to become those
Speaker 13: YouTube influences nowadays.
Speaker 1: Okay, what do you want to make a YouTube influence about?
Speaker 13: Like daily life?
Speaker 4: You know blogs?
Speaker 1: I love that share Okay.
Speaker 13: I don't like when people like look down on those
Speaker 13: YouTube videos. I find that so funny when people like
Speaker 13: put themselves out there.
Speaker 6: I like, I.
Speaker 2: I guess like you there is And it's funny because
Speaker 2: I was just talking to someone else about this about
Speaker 2: like like people have a adversion to being cringe.
Speaker 1: Oh, people have an aversion to being cringe.
Speaker 2: People have an aversion to putting themselves out there, And
Speaker 2: it's like why, there's no real point.
Speaker 13: It depends like what do you find cringe?
Speaker 1: What do I find cringe?
Speaker 4: There's very little that I actually.
Speaker 2: Maybe there is a little bit that I find cringe.
Speaker 2: But I find like like like I don't like like
Speaker 2: drama YouTube people or like people who like all their
Speaker 2: like content is about like fuck this person or whatever.
Speaker 13: People that just like hate another people. But I do
Speaker 13: find people that put themselves out there. I love those people,
Speaker 13: even though if other people find it cringe, fuck them. Yeah,
Speaker 13: but if they like like those couple of videos, I
Speaker 13: don't like those videos. Which videos those people that pretending
Speaker 13: to be a couple on YouTube?
Speaker 1: Oh sure sure, sure not like those sure?
Speaker 2: Well okay, actually I'll say this like I don't know
Speaker 2: if I find I don't have cringe is the right word,
Speaker 2: But I don't. I don't like people who uh like
Speaker 2: like like family vlaw Oh no.
Speaker 13: I hate that shit.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 13: No, I do believe that people that below eighteen should
Speaker 13: not be on like posting shit you know those family yeah,
Speaker 13: people that like five year old though children.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't like that.
Speaker 2: Although I so I first started doing YouTube in two
Speaker 2: thousand and eight when I was ten, But that was
Speaker 2: different because when I was in two thousand and eight,
Speaker 2: if you were making YouTube videos, nobody would I mean maybe,
Speaker 2: but like nobody would see them like that. The algorithm
Speaker 2: and the way that things worked back then was not
Speaker 2: the way it is now, because you could be ten
Speaker 2: years old fucking around on TikTok and just go viral
Speaker 2: like that, fucking like the Wrizzler. Like I think, like
Speaker 2: like like like the Wrizzler is like it's kind of
Speaker 2: fucked up, you know, like the whole thing is like
Speaker 2: you know, I don't know, just like there's something weird
Speaker 2: about like whurring out like a nine year old.
Speaker 13: Yeah, and then the fact that the people finally like
Speaker 13: cute watching nine year olds make videos. It's just gross
Speaker 13: to me.
Speaker 2: What uh okay, So what who's your as an actress?
Speaker 2: Who's your like favorite actor?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 13: Right now it is because I just finished you, so
Speaker 13: I have to say Ben Batchley, who is that the
Speaker 13: guy on Gossip Girl?
Speaker 7: You know?
Speaker 1: Okay Ben Batchley?
Speaker 13: Yeah, he played like Dan Humphrey and he's like playing
Speaker 13: Joe Goldberg. He did such an amazing job on you
Speaker 13: and I Underson. You should watch it. You will literally
Speaker 13: such an amazing.
Speaker 1: Check that out.
Speaker 6: What's uh?
Speaker 2: What's let me see? What in the future? Do you
Speaker 2: see yourself back to Osla? Are you gonna stay here?
Speaker 13: No, I'm gonna stay here. I love New York. I
Speaker 13: want to live here for the rest of my life,
Speaker 13: So I'm gonna stay here.
Speaker 1: Rock and roll man, what's up? Where do we go
Speaker 1: when we die? Oh?
Speaker 13: The thing is I am I am Muslim, So I
Speaker 13: already I already know where I'm going.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, tell me more.
Speaker 13: So either hell, Heaven or Hell. Yeah, so I if
Speaker 13: you're a good Muslim, of course you're going to go
Speaker 13: to heaven if you die. If there's there's two options,
Speaker 13: you can go to hell. Are you going to heaven?
Speaker 15: So?
Speaker 2: If if you get an egg and cheese sandwich at
Speaker 2: the Boydegga and then you you take a bite, you
Speaker 2: look there's bacon on it, are you going to hell?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 13: No, No, that's not how it works. The thing is
Speaker 13: you cannot control something that you don't have control over. Okay,
Speaker 13: So if you eat something that you don't know, like
Speaker 13: if you eat by accident, that's okay.
Speaker 1: But you don't. You don't have to like punch yourself
Speaker 1: in the face ten times or something, but so.
Speaker 13: Dramatic, like if you do something by accident or like
Speaker 13: you don't intend to do it, that's totally fine. You
Speaker 13: like go to hell for it.
Speaker 2: I have to sneeze, Like, Okay, I might be completely
Speaker 2: making this up right now, but I'm I'm I'm. I
Speaker 2: grew up Jewish, and like there's all these like rituals
Speaker 2: where like you're carrying a tora around and I think
Speaker 2: there's some ship where like if you drop the tora,
Speaker 2: you have to like kiss it a thousand times, or
Speaker 2: like if you drop like a sea door, you have
Speaker 2: to kiss it a bunch of times, like you have
Speaker 2: to like I don't, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think you have to like tongue it or
Speaker 1: anything like that.
Speaker 13: But there's also the same if you drop the quran
Speaker 13: you have to like kiss it also, yeah, like three times.
Speaker 13: I think it's just to just show respect, you know.
Speaker 2: Okay, Oh but okay, So but if you eat, like
Speaker 2: if I'm like, hey, you should have some bacon, and
Speaker 2: then you have it, no okay, and then if you
Speaker 2: have it, you would go to hell, No.
Speaker 13: No, no, I'm gonna say no if I have it
Speaker 13: knowing it's bacon. Yeah, that's a different story.
Speaker 1: Okay, what do you think hell is like.
Speaker 13: A place of torture, a place where you're gonna hate it,
Speaker 13: You're just gonna be tortured like eternity, a place you
Speaker 13: just not gonna like it.
Speaker 2: Basically, what do you think hell is like personalized? Or
Speaker 2: it's like a one not like because I mean, I
Speaker 2: guess across the board, getting like a pitchfork up the
Speaker 2: ass is an unenjoyable experience. But like if Hell is
Speaker 2: probably personalized because there's some there do exist. You know,
Speaker 2: we're in New York City. There do exist people who
Speaker 2: heaven is getting a pitchfork up the ass. So it's
Speaker 2: gotta inherently because everyone experiences different pleasure and pain be personalized,
Speaker 2: right or what do you think you think it's cross're.
Speaker 13: Gonna be personalized? Okay, because there's some people there's something
Speaker 13: that you can like get, like your health. If we
Speaker 13: have the same hell, there's something that you can tolerate
Speaker 13: that I can't tolerate. So they have to like torture
Speaker 13: you much more to tolerate that.
Speaker 1: What's your personal hell.
Speaker 13: Oh, I don't want I don't like being burnt alive.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's so scary.
Speaker 13: I was like getting burned alive for eternity. I would
Speaker 13: hate that.
Speaker 2: Well, you know what, being trapped alone in an in
Speaker 2: an empty room with a with a constant ringing in
Speaker 2: my ear.
Speaker 1: Damn for eternity. That would suck, right, that would suck.
Speaker 2: Eternal ringing. You can never sleep. Oh sh this eternity.
Speaker 2: Oh god, that sounds horrida. It's your personal heaven.
Speaker 13: Oh my god, oh personal heaven. I uh, First of all,
Speaker 13: I want to be rich. So hopefully I am rich, successful,
Speaker 13: and I have anything and everything I want in life.
Speaker 2: Okay, so your personal heaven would be being very rich.
Speaker 2: What do you want to do with all your money?
Speaker 13: I wouldn't, to be honest, I would just go no,
Speaker 13: everybody's going to be rich in heaven anyways. But if
Speaker 13: I had, oh that's a very good question.
Speaker 2: Hold on, hold on, hold start real quick, because this
Speaker 2: is what's interesting to me is you You you desire
Speaker 2: to be rich, but you haven't even thought about what
Speaker 2: you would do with the money. Because if you because
Speaker 2: being like just having the money, the money isn't anything
Speaker 2: unless if you're like, what's the point of being the
Speaker 2: rich if you.
Speaker 1: Haven't thought about what you would do with the money?
Speaker 13: I mean, like I would take care. I mean my
Speaker 13: family also will be rich. That's the thing.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 1: You don't know. This is your ultimate dream and you
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 13: Okay, Okay, I'll change it. I will say happiness. I
Speaker 13: would wish to be happy for the rest of my life.
Speaker 1: What makes you happy being rich?
Speaker 4: Fair enough?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: Well what not?
Speaker 2: Even like you don't have anything? You're not like, Oh,
Speaker 2: I want a Simpsons pinball machine in my apartment.
Speaker 13: I want to have a penthouse.
Speaker 1: How are you gonna get rich with?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 1: With acting?
Speaker 13: I hope so I do a little bit of TikTok
Speaker 13: So I hope to be rich by the by next year.
Speaker 1: You have to be rich by next year. You're gonna
Speaker 1: need a lot of TikTok.
Speaker 13: No, But I'm gonna make it. I feel like I'm
Speaker 13: gonna make it. If I put my mind into something,
Speaker 13: I'm gonna I'm gonna make it.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: So, uh so you subscribe to the Muslim faith and
Speaker 2: you said that you know where you're going to go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, where are you gonna go person.
Speaker 13: I'm a good person. I do pray five times a day,
Speaker 13: So I'm gonna go to Johnnaw.
Speaker 1: You pray five times a day? Yeah, how do you
Speaker 1: make time for that?
Speaker 13: It's just five minutes?
Speaker 7: Is it? Like? Uh?
Speaker 2: When you pray five times a day? Are you like
Speaker 2: like like how detailed does the prayer have to be?
Speaker 2: Can you just like mentally be like all right, we're
Speaker 2: good or do you have to like do a whole
Speaker 2: thing five times?
Speaker 13: I mean you have to do the whole thing also
Speaker 13: before they dude, you know, like the water thing.
Speaker 1: What's the water? What's the water thing?
Speaker 7: You do?
Speaker 13: You wash your hands, you wash your face, you wash
Speaker 13: your feet, and then you pray. But it just takes
Speaker 13: five minutes of your day and then all of them combine,
Speaker 13: it's twenty five minutes.
Speaker 1: I feel like you have time for God for to
Speaker 1: do you have to roll out the mat and everything?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 13: Yeah, roll out and I have to cover my hair
Speaker 13: and stuff. But you have time five minutes, twenty five
Speaker 13: minutes a day for God. You have time for that.
Speaker 1: So when did you start praying five times a day?
Speaker 7: Like?
Speaker 1: How old are you?
Speaker 13: I was born Muslim, so I have been doing that
Speaker 13: my entire life.
Speaker 2: Will I have a lot of respect for cause I
Speaker 2: don't think I I don't even I sometimes I'll skip
Speaker 2: a day of brushing my teeth, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Like I don't like to do anything consistently, let alone
Speaker 2: fun well, do anything consistently once, like if you if
Speaker 2: I had to, you know, like I'll go to the
Speaker 2: dentist and they're like, you have to floss twice a day,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, fuck you, I'm not doing that. You
Speaker 2: live a different kind of life than me. That if
Speaker 2: you're if you're asking me that, that's that's wild. You
Speaker 2: lost every day.
Speaker 13: I brush my teeth every day.
Speaker 2: You brush your teeth twice a day. Yeah, you brush
Speaker 2: your teeth twice to day. You pray five times a day.
Speaker 2: You lost once a day.
Speaker 13: It's also called like being disciplined. You know, if you're discipline,
Speaker 13: you can do anything.
Speaker 2: You know, do you work out the extra? I work
Speaker 2: out every day every day? Yeah, you work out every day.
Speaker 2: You pray five times a day, you brush your teeth.
Speaker 4: That's the bare minimum.
Speaker 1: It's not like huge, it's a huge thing.
Speaker 13: It's not what is the one thing that you do
Speaker 13: every day?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 1: Check Instagram?
Speaker 6: And cry.
Speaker 13: I do that too. We have something in common.
Speaker 2: You're out of your mind, dude. Anything what else will
Speaker 2: give me some other? What else do you do every day?
Speaker 13: Probably do my work, you know, school work and stuff.
Speaker 2: You'll be successful, I hope no, because you have this,
Speaker 2: you have discipline, you have the thing.
Speaker 13: I feel like you're going to be successful, though. Look
Speaker 13: where you are right now.
Speaker 1: Well, I guess success is.
Speaker 13: What is success to you?
Speaker 2: What is success to me? I guess success is I
Speaker 2: don't know. I wish I had an answer to that question. Yeah, success,
Speaker 2: the idea of success for me is constantly evolving. I
Speaker 2: mean I think, look, if you you know, having money
Speaker 2: that you're not worried, and you have enough friends and
Speaker 2: family around you that you're not worried, and you know
Speaker 2: all that lame.
Speaker 13: Shit, you know, that's a that's interesting answer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, a Simpsons pinball machine would be cool. Wow,
Speaker 2: But they're getting up there in price.
Speaker 13: They're like, I need to check that out because I
Speaker 13: have no idea what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: What do you mean you don't know what? You don't
Speaker 1: know the Simpsons?
Speaker 4: No, I know the.
Speaker 13: Simpsons the show. Yeah, oh so it's based on the show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a Simpsons pinball machine.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Oh okay. This whole time, I was like, what the
Speaker 13: fuck are you talking about?
Speaker 12: Dude?
Speaker 2: What's your name again? Far Dosa. I hope to be
Speaker 2: seeing you in every movie, Yes, you will. Is there
Speaker 2: anything else you want to say to the people of
Speaker 2: the computer before we go.
Speaker 13: I hope to see you guys on my Instagrams and
Speaker 13: social media's I hope.
Speaker 12: To see you.
Speaker 9: I hope.
Speaker 2: I actually don't see you on social media only because
Speaker 2: in my ideal version of life, I've thrown my phone
Speaker 2: in a landfill and it's it's in it's a dolphin.
Speaker 2: It's inside of a dolphin or something, a dolphin ate
Speaker 2: it is oh this, Oh yeah, well that's that's a
Speaker 2: that's a phone that I use as a camera.
Speaker 4: Ah.
Speaker 13: Interesting. Interesting, You're a very interesting guy.
Speaker 1: You're a very interesting guy.
Speaker 13: I'm so glad I meet you.
Speaker 1: I'm glad. I'm glad. I'm so glad I met you.
Speaker 1: For those I'll uh, I'll see you around the universe.
Speaker 13: Okay, is your real name?
Speaker 2: My name is Lyle FARDA. Very nice to meet you.
Speaker 2: I'll see you around the universe. Good luck with all
Speaker 2: your hopes and dreams have a seed. What's your name, sar, Oh,
Speaker 2: here have it. I'll let you get settled.
Speaker 5: My name is Peter.
Speaker 1: Peter.
Speaker 5: Yeah, nice to meet you.
Speaker 8: Nice to meet you, Peter, like like the rabbit pretty much,
Speaker 8: that's weird coming from a get go.
Speaker 1: Peter. What's up man?
Speaker 6: Not much?
Speaker 8: I look, he came out here to get some coffee
Speaker 8: and then it got like so crowded your so fast
Speaker 8: that dude's been flexing behind us, Like the entire interview
Speaker 8: is still Yeah, he's still there.
Speaker 1: This guy there, he just he just whoa that guy's rip.
Speaker 5: Yeah, dude, that could totally kick my am.
Speaker 1: I allowed to cuss here, you'd say whatever you want.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, that dude could totally kick my ass just
Speaker 5: like one hundred percent.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 1: How does that feel?
Speaker 2: Because I also, like, uh, I think like in in
Speaker 2: olden days or whatever, like you had to be ready
Speaker 2: to protect yourself from like other whatever tribes that were
Speaker 2: gonna kill you or like lions or whatever.
Speaker 1: But we've evolved past that where like it's totally fine
Speaker 1: to just be weak, you know.
Speaker 5: I totally agree that there's this.
Speaker 8: Debate going online right now about gorillas. Gorillas versus one
Speaker 8: hundred men.
Speaker 5: Where are you on this?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 2: Yes, there's a debate going on online about could one
Speaker 2: hundred men kill one gorilla?
Speaker 1: But that does does that debate? Like what shape are
Speaker 1: these guys in?
Speaker 5: So here's the thing.
Speaker 8: Everybody's assuming it's a silver backed gorilla, right, And I
Speaker 8: was just arguing with my roommate about it this morning,
Speaker 8: Like it is a very heated debate. There are people
Speaker 8: going on for hour is talking about this. I personally
Speaker 8: think the gorilla would like like like rip anybody apart.
Speaker 8: Even if assume all one hundred people are attacking at
Speaker 8: the same time, there's.
Speaker 2: No way logistically one hundred people cannot attack one thing
Speaker 2: at a time.
Speaker 8: No, that would require like everybody working towards one common goal.
Speaker 8: And as I highly doubt that's gonna work in the
Speaker 8: society right now.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I was messing around with my ones and twos. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess it would require everyone be at a common goal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know, even even like coordinated one hundred
Speaker 2: people to they can they like okay, obviously, like people
Speaker 2: have been able to sedate a gorilla before in history,
Speaker 2: but they have tools. This is a conversation about there's
Speaker 2: no tools, No, no, you have to use your bare hands.
Speaker 5: If it's a hundred of that guy, I think I
Speaker 5: think we might have.
Speaker 1: Not no, no, no, A hundred of that guy probably
Speaker 1: could do it.
Speaker 5: I don't, I don't. I don't see it.
Speaker 8: Man, I gotta be like I just I hope mister
Speaker 8: Beast doesn't like catch onto this because we're.
Speaker 5: Screwed if that happens.
Speaker 1: A hundred of me couldn't do it.
Speaker 8: I think one hundred geckos might be able. They got
Speaker 8: a shot there. You know, y'all can climb up walls
Speaker 8: and shit, I feel like there's a shot. What do
Speaker 8: you think about all day?
Speaker 7: Peter?
Speaker 8: Honestly, I work at Trader Joe's right now. I just
Speaker 8: recently moved to New York. All I'm thinking about is
Speaker 8: how much I hate my master's program and I'm just
Speaker 8: trying to find a better job.
Speaker 1: Why do you hate your master's program?
Speaker 9: I don't even know.
Speaker 5: Where to start with that one.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 8: I guess it kind of stems down to I just
Speaker 8: want to make sure I got sustainability for my family
Speaker 8: because I'm the first generation cool and like, I got
Speaker 8: a ton of family kind of depending on me making
Speaker 8: sure I do everything.
Speaker 5: And I guess the safest way possible.
Speaker 1: You've got a ton of where is your family?
Speaker 5: So I'm Egyptian, but a lot of them reside over
Speaker 5: in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: Okay, and they're and you're the first generation to go.
Speaker 2: So are they Are they counting on you to like
Speaker 2: hook them up?
Speaker 12: Well?
Speaker 5: I got a brother, shout out my brother Mark.
Speaker 8: He is he's actually doing pretty well while he works
Speaker 8: in the er, so you know, no pressure at all,
Speaker 8: but it's going pretty good.
Speaker 5: I studied engineering, but I also work in film and
Speaker 5: TV when I can.
Speaker 2: Okay, So if things don't work out for you that
Speaker 2: your brother can hook everyone up.
Speaker 8: Oh I'm praying I get to mooch off of him
Speaker 8: as soon as he finishes his residency.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hell yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2: So I mean, look as long as he's as long
Speaker 2: as one of the other brothers. It's look at someone
Speaker 2: in their family is doing something sensible. Why not go
Speaker 2: study TV?
Speaker 8: That's such a good yo, can I get I'll get
Speaker 8: my mom on the line and see if you can
Speaker 8: convince such a convincing argument. And honestly, I think I
Speaker 8: think you might be able to win that argument. I'm
Speaker 8: not gonna lie, But what like, what got you to
Speaker 8: New York if you don't wind me asking.
Speaker 1: What brought me to New York?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Uh, the truth.
Speaker 2: Well, so I was living in Los Angeles for a well,
Speaker 2: I grew up in Baltimore, and then I started doing
Speaker 2: this in my mom's basement in Baltimore for I did
Speaker 2: that for like a couple of years, and then I
Speaker 2: moved out to Los Angeles for a couple of years,
Speaker 2: and then, uh, you know, I always wanted to be
Speaker 2: in a big city because I love like this. I
Speaker 2: love like being being around tons of people and being
Speaker 2: able to do whatever I want. And you know, and
Speaker 2: you know, New York's close to Baltimore, so it's kind
Speaker 2: of a perfect place for me to live. So that
Speaker 2: that's like the main reason I came here.
Speaker 5: It sounds like it's a really good situation for you,
Speaker 5: and I feel like you're doing pretty well.
Speaker 1: Oh thanks man. No, No, New York.
Speaker 2: New York has been uh has been nice. The only
Speaker 2: problem with it is it's like, uh uninhabitably expensive, yes, sir, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's like twice as expensive as anywhere else on the
Speaker 2: planet that you could go to live.
Speaker 5: I I why is a water bottle three dollars?
Speaker 13: Right?
Speaker 1: Now I three, it was getting three at least five. Well,
Speaker 1: what kind of water bottle?
Speaker 8: My brother in Christ? It was not a Saratoga. It
Speaker 8: was literally just like an aquafina.
Speaker 1: Probably have you ever seen those Visco water bottles?
Speaker 5: Visco Risco, Visio.
Speaker 1: You guys know what I'm talking.
Speaker 5: Boss boss Okay, boss us ones. You're like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: I've seen them. I don't. I don't get it. I
Speaker 5: like Fiji water, but that's just me treating myself. But
Speaker 5: like they all taste a lot, it does not taste
Speaker 5: the same. I'm not Society is my favorite.
Speaker 2: I bet there's no one on the planet. There's a
Speaker 2: guy over there with a cat on his shoulder, as
Speaker 2: majestic as fuck. Oh my god, that's so awesome.
Speaker 1: Hold on, there's a guy with a thing. We're gonna
Speaker 1: get d M c A. That's fine, Who cares?
Speaker 6: Why do they?
Speaker 1: It's honestly such. It's dystopian that they even make Fiji water,
Speaker 1: isn't it.
Speaker 8: It's dystopian that water is not a human right? Any
Speaker 8: chance you saw that un meeting?
Speaker 2: I'm too busy watching videos ranking all the warrior wear games.
Speaker 8: I'll break it down for you. There's two countries that
Speaker 8: decided water was not a human right. Oh god, one
Speaker 8: is the United States and the other one is Israel
Speaker 8: and all of the other ones tried to make water
Speaker 8: a human right, and now water is not a human right.
Speaker 5: Great time to be alive, Am I right?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 1: Water is ah? Well, okay, at least it's diet coca
Speaker 1: human right.
Speaker 5: I wish, brother, it would. It would definitely make my
Speaker 5: life easier.
Speaker 2: That'll take Which one do you think will be easier
Speaker 2: to pass, like making diet coca human right or making
Speaker 2: water human right?
Speaker 8: Considering Coca Cola has a lot of like pockets in
Speaker 8: higher end lobbies. I'm pretty I feel like I'm pretty
Speaker 8: sure Coca Cola could probably get it passed faster because
Speaker 8: they wouldn't make more money out of it, sadly, we.
Speaker 1: Would they make would I guess they would make less
Speaker 1: money if it was a human right?
Speaker 8: Oh no, no, no, brother, you think Coca Cola is everywhere,
Speaker 8: it would get even worse. Like, I'm pretty sure the
Speaker 8: second they can access our dreams, we're gonna be getting
Speaker 8: commercials as we sleep.
Speaker 1: Do you think that? Do you think that that's the
Speaker 1: future we're heading towards?
Speaker 5: I got I hope not.
Speaker 2: I work.
Speaker 8: I'd studied computer engineering. I do a lot of hardware
Speaker 8: and software work. And yeah, they assume all these tech
Speaker 8: guys really like have like such high intellct that they
Speaker 8: should be making these political decisions.
Speaker 5: And I truly don't think so.
Speaker 2: But bro, the tech guys are like, they're like Thanos,
Speaker 2: where they're like I have gotten to a point of
Speaker 2: intelligence where I have decided that we should eradicate half
Speaker 2: the human race, and I am so smart that I
Speaker 2: should be allowed to.
Speaker 5: Do it, dude.
Speaker 8: But the thing is, we gave them this intelligence to
Speaker 8: make them think that they're this smart. Everybody just assumes, oh,
Speaker 8: I don't know how to code, but these guys do
Speaker 8: so boom automatically. I'm gonna have faith that these guys
Speaker 8: should make the decisions.
Speaker 5: You should have seen.
Speaker 8: Do you remember when Mark Zuckerberg went to Congress and
Speaker 8: you saw him drink of water like like a fucking alien.
Speaker 1: You're just like, yeah, he has done a lot of
Speaker 1: like lizard ass shit.
Speaker 8: Yeah, dude, it's it is what it is. I wish
Speaker 8: I had a better answer. Again, I'm only twenty seven
Speaker 8: and I just want to work on movies. I gave
Speaker 8: up working in tech. It's it's too depressing.
Speaker 2: But you know what, the crazy you know what, I
Speaker 2: have these sort of like I have no set in
Speaker 2: stone philosophy. Of course I think it'd be crazy too,
Speaker 2: But I have this weird thing where it's like, look,
Speaker 2: all right, first of all, I mean like Mark Zuckerberg
Speaker 2: and like all the like whatever guys who are like
Speaker 2: the stroying the planet. It almost I have like a
Speaker 2: weirdly and this might be defeatist, but I have a
Speaker 2: weird thing where I'm like, oh, everything that's happening is
Speaker 2: what was supposed to happen, like like the downfall of
Speaker 2: human society, Like whatever happened is what was supposed to happen,
Speaker 2: because it happened.
Speaker 5: So that's the idea of if free if we do
Speaker 5: we really have free will?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wonder about that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I you know, I'm cop to Christian.
Speaker 8: I'm a very like my type of orthodoxy is like
Speaker 8: a very very old school type ship and it's very
Speaker 8: hard to kind of grasp the idea that we we
Speaker 8: we do have free will. And I'm I wish I
Speaker 8: was smart enough to have that answer, but I don't know, well,
Speaker 8: I don't think it's a question of being smart. I
Speaker 8: don't think anyone there is no Like, I'm.
Speaker 5: Sure somebody's got to ride.
Speaker 8: There's like eight billion people somebody, somebody's got to be
Speaker 8: in the basement being like this, there's.
Speaker 2: No you can't scientifically prove or it's and I mean
Speaker 2: maybe I'm also not smart enough. Brother, I just sat
Speaker 2: down to talk to a get Yes. Yeah, but it's
Speaker 2: like I I reading that said like some smart science
Speaker 2: philosophy douche guy said something where he was like, there
Speaker 2: almost is no free will because you do what you
Speaker 2: do because of how because of who you are. And
Speaker 2: I do believe that and who you are is kind
Speaker 2: of in your control. That's that's all it's up for me.
Speaker 5: I think it is.
Speaker 8: But also we're kind of genetically from our parents, so
Speaker 8: like the first eighteen years, you're kind of getting a
Speaker 8: lot of what they like to that to you, your
Speaker 8: dad's a superhero.
Speaker 5: He's like one of four people you've ever met.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and that's either really good, really bad, or like
Speaker 8: fucking your therapist is gonna tell you, Like I'm I'm
Speaker 8: not too sure where like somebody could stand because I
Speaker 8: know people can change, like I've seen it totally and
Speaker 8: like a lot of a lot of people don't even
Speaker 8: believe that. And I do think a lot of the
Speaker 8: choices we make are based off the experiences we've had.
Speaker 5: Some people have had a very privileged.
Speaker 8: Life and they don't really understand what a struggle is,
Speaker 8: or they have no reason to kind of look into
Speaker 8: politics because it doesn't affect them directly, versus somebody who's struggling,
Speaker 8: who actually needs to see the change happen fast, but
Speaker 8: they don't have the connections needed to make that happen.
Speaker 2: You know, it is true that, like, yeah, your experiences
Speaker 2: make who you are, and you can't you can't exactly
Speaker 2: choose your experiences.
Speaker 1: So I guess I don't know. Sometimes I like it,
Speaker 1: you know what, you know what it is my my my.
Speaker 2: My philosophy on whether or not there is free will
Speaker 2: or determinism depends on how lazy I'm feeling that day.
Speaker 2: Fun because because if I'm feeling lazy and I don't
Speaker 2: want to do anything, I I I relinquish the guilt
Speaker 2: by being like, well, I was never gonna do anything anyway.
Speaker 1: And then if I'm feeling motivated, I'm like, no, we
Speaker 1: have free will. I can change, we can change.
Speaker 5: This, No, I agree, And also, yeah, it's also a
Speaker 5: mind state thing. I think you're right.
Speaker 8: I can totally see that happening with a lot of
Speaker 8: different people, and people get self motivated all the time
Speaker 8: to try to make stuff happen, and maybe that's cause change.
Speaker 5: I don't, I'm not too sure.
Speaker 13: I don't know.
Speaker 8: The man, do you do you think that it's possible
Speaker 8: that we can like one eighty everything that's going on
Speaker 8: right now in this world one eighty?
Speaker 2: Well, it's not a that's like that saying that we
Speaker 2: can one eighty everything that's going on is like saying
Speaker 2: that there's like a it's to say that everything going
Speaker 2: on is some kind of mathematical equation.
Speaker 5: One hundred and twenty, like not everything, but just like
Speaker 5: one little.
Speaker 2: Like fucking just but again it's like, well, you can't
Speaker 2: put like numbers on it, that's true, you know, it's
Speaker 2: like every there's there's no it's not like everything going
Speaker 2: on is not a mathematical equation. It's just it's it's
Speaker 2: this intangible weird goo that neither of us can understand
Speaker 2: because we're not supercomputers or even I don't even know
Speaker 2: if a super computer can understand it.
Speaker 1: Oh god, do you like to smoke weed and play
Speaker 1: video games?
Speaker 5: You smoke weed? Sorry?
Speaker 7: Mom?
Speaker 16: Uh yeah, no, I mean it's a good way to
Speaker 16: help with your anxiety. It's either that or or oh yeah, bro,
Speaker 16: my my, I was Okay, let me tell you something.
Speaker 16: I started taking solof five weeks ago. For the past
Speaker 16: five weeks, I've been like, this sucks. I'm getting off
Speaker 16: of it. I'm talking to my sych today, I'm telling
Speaker 16: him he's an asshole. And then today I was like,
Speaker 16: you know what, he was right and.
Speaker 4: Zoloft.
Speaker 2: It's been bad. I don't know if it's a zolof.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's the weather. But I'm feeling
Speaker 2: good today and today's all we got so that.
Speaker 8: Sun man, Peter, even though geckos could get zolof, that's amazing.
Speaker 2: Oh we have a that's what we run on, Peter,
Speaker 2: is anything else you want to say to the people
Speaker 2: of the computer before we go?
Speaker 5: It's been a pleasure.
Speaker 8: And yeah, my name is Peter as me and I'm
Speaker 8: definitely gonna look this up whenever this airs.
Speaker 1: I hope. Cool.
Speaker 7: What is this on?
Speaker 1: By the way, It's on YouTube and Spotify and stuff.
Speaker 6: Oh cool?
Speaker 5: Well, it was a nice meeting, Peter pleasure.
Speaker 1: I'll uh hopefully I'll see you in whatever the afterlife
Speaker 1: is hell?
Speaker 5: Yes, man, I believe geckos can go to heaven later.
Speaker 1: Brother, what am I gonna be back in the park?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: I don't know on every nice day? What's your name?
Speaker 1: My name is Jules's jewels. My name is Lyle. Dear god, Jules.
Speaker 1: What do you want to talk about?
Speaker 15: I'm honestly I just wanted to talk about whatever you
Speaker 15: wanted to talk about.
Speaker 2: All right, I want to talk about. Oh you want
Speaker 2: to talk Let's talk about food.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 1: Oh, I love food. That's your favorite food. We don't
Speaker 1: have to do anything crazy, dang, Like I really like food.
Speaker 1: Maybe sushi great, French fries are great. I was supposed
Speaker 1: to fast today. I woke up today and I was like,
Speaker 1: let me fast.
Speaker 13: No, don't do that. Why would you do that?
Speaker 2: Well to lose weight because you don't want food. Food
Speaker 2: is a tricky because it's a vice and it's a pleasure.
Speaker 2: I was just talking about this on the podcast yesterday
Speaker 2: of like, I'm curious what your take is is.
Speaker 1: Fat?
Speaker 2: Being disciplined with food and exercise feels good, but indulgence
Speaker 2: as we know also feels good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I don't know where to toe the line necessarily.
Speaker 15: So I have like pretty big food allergies, and like
Speaker 15: not eating specific foods is like annoying and hard, but like,
Speaker 15: I also really love eating food, so I don't I
Speaker 15: think eating is better. Honestly, yeah, eating is better.
Speaker 1: Guys, what's your name again? Jewels? Jewels, Jewels? What's who
Speaker 1: are you? I'm Jewels, Robin. Okay, I'm from La.
Speaker 15: I heard you say you were from La.
Speaker 2: I'm not from La. I lived there for a little bit. Oh, Jewls,
Speaker 2: can you just keep the microphone?
Speaker 9: Sorry?
Speaker 1: Oh that breezes from the fat the wind.
Speaker 15: It's kind of a little nice though, It's.
Speaker 1: Really fucking nice. Do you live here now or are
Speaker 1: you in town?
Speaker 13: I go to Yo?
Speaker 1: Okay? How's are you freshman?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 4: I am?
Speaker 1: Oh ship all right, so you're like nude? What are
Speaker 1: you eighteen? I'm twenty twenty?
Speaker 2: Okay, so your how's being a? How's being twenty? At NYU?
Speaker 2: That sounds fun as fuck.
Speaker 1: It's awesome.
Speaker 15: New York is awesome, especially with the weather. I honestly
Speaker 15: like literally when it was called outside, New York was
Speaker 15: like horrible. It's disgusting. It's disgusting when it's called but
Speaker 15: now that the weather's nice, like, I love it here.
Speaker 1: What do you study?
Speaker 15: I take a business.
Speaker 1: Okay, do you hope to be a be a business person? Yes?
Speaker 1: What kind of business you want to do?
Speaker 15: I want to work in healthcare.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 15: You know, I don't think i'd be like the most
Speaker 15: amazing doctor, so I feel like I could help in
Speaker 15: like a business aspect.
Speaker 1: You know, you want to raise those insulin prices.
Speaker 13: No, I want to lower them.
Speaker 1: Okay, but you make more money if you've raised them.
Speaker 1: That's it's better.
Speaker 2: Hold on, okay, look, humanity, it's better for business if
Speaker 2: they if they go up.
Speaker 15: Yeah, but God willing, I will have a husband and
Speaker 15: I will not have to worry about being the primary
Speaker 15: Tarey kicker caretaker in like the money sense, Okay, I'll
Speaker 15: be able to put the insulin prices down.
Speaker 2: So I will pray that you have a husband who
Speaker 2: has a good job so that insulin prices can go down.
Speaker 15: Yes, I'll keep it. I'll keep the insulin rices down.
Speaker 15: Vote for me for healthcare and a really really.
Speaker 1: Good gonna live on the internet.
Speaker 2: But hold on when you get in like business, classes,
Speaker 2: are they not like, all right, here's how we're gonna
Speaker 2: make everything cost more money so that we can do
Speaker 2: more business.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 15: Actually, right now I'm in like a microeconomics class. Shout
Speaker 15: out to Isakar beginning, you're awesome teacher, And we learn
Speaker 15: all about how like global warming sucks and how like
Speaker 15: the CEOs need to like work harder on like keeping
Speaker 15: like the economy like leveled out and like helping out
Speaker 15: with like the city and everyone who lives in it
Speaker 15: and the people who and all this money that they have,
Speaker 15: all this money that they have, and now they just
Speaker 15: have to like help everyone out at the bottom. Like,
Speaker 15: my classes are awesome.
Speaker 5: I love them.
Speaker 9: Nice.
Speaker 1: What's the best thing you've eaten here and New York?
Speaker 9: I eat a lot here.
Speaker 15: It's like there's so many food places best. That's a
Speaker 15: hard question. I don't know if that's possible.
Speaker 1: What about a pizza?
Speaker 13: I don't I'm not.
Speaker 6: I'm not.
Speaker 13: I'm not a pizza.
Speaker 2: You don't eat walking pizza, I've do any of you
Speaker 2: not eat pizza? You don't eat pizza? Oh you eat
Speaker 2: pizza with a fork and everyone eats pizza. No, one
Speaker 2: doesn't eat pizza. Man, one doesn't eat pizza.
Speaker 6: Guys.
Speaker 13: I don't say it proudly. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: I don't say proudly like that's not I don't know.
Speaker 15: It's never like been like the whole like the whole
Speaker 15: situation for me.
Speaker 13: But I'm also I'm also gluten and dairy free.
Speaker 1: Also embarrassing.
Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, so like the sauce, I don't know, I don't.
Speaker 15: I don't like feel they need to drink tomato sauce
Speaker 15: on like the days of the week.
Speaker 1: This is incredibly anti climactic.
Speaker 2: But this conversation has made me very hungry, and I
Speaker 2: think I think, I think I'm done interviewing for the day.
Speaker 2: I think I'm gonna get I'm gonna smoke some of
Speaker 2: the weed that the guy gave me earlier and eat something.
Speaker 2: Go do that, Julie, Jules, Jewels, jewels, get bring us home, jewels,
Speaker 2: anything else you want to say to the people of
Speaker 2: the computer.
Speaker 15: We love you, We love New York. And seasonal depression
Speaker 15: is real, and I hope you're feeling great today.
Speaker 2: Sure, goddamn is, have a good one, Julis. Thank you
Speaker 2: very much for talking you around the universe. Bye, folks,
Speaker 2: this has been being a gecko at Washington Square Park.
Speaker 2: Let me know in the I'm curious. Let me know
Speaker 2: in the comments if you guys like the I r
Speaker 2: L episodes. I love doing them. They're my favorite ones
Speaker 2: to do, between the gek males and the in studio
Speaker 2: ones and the the the the these.
Speaker 1: Ones I love.
Speaker 2: I love doing this stuff. I love getting to meet people.
Speaker 2: I I hope that you guys get to enjoy ye vite.
Speaker 1: Oh we have a way.
Speaker 13: I got this from someone.
Speaker 15: I got this from someone in the park.
Speaker 1: Oh, I wanted to pass it on. Let me see.
Speaker 2: It says fuck forget repeat and there's a QR code
Speaker 2: on it and it's two guys kissing. I will be
Speaker 2: scanning this QR code when I get home. Yeah, let
Speaker 2: me know in the comments of Spotify or YouTube if
Speaker 2: you like these episodes.
Speaker 1: I I don't know.
Speaker 2: I feel I take a lot of enjoyment getting to
Speaker 2: meet all these people that I just wouldn't have been
Speaker 2: able to meet if I if I weren't dressed as
Speaker 2: a gecko in the park. So I hope that you're
Speaker 2: enjoying vicariously meeting them through this podcast.
Speaker 1: Thank you all for listening. Thanks for sitting through the ads.
Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to me ramble and rants, and uh,
Speaker 2: I'll catch you guys on the next one yet.
Speaker 1: Bless you all.