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Speaker 1: Call from Tyler.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Hello, what's up?

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Speaker 3: Not the much?

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Speaker 1: How are you doing?

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Speaker 2: All right? What's your name?

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Speaker 3: My name is Tyler.

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Speaker 2: How can I get you today? Tyler?

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Speaker 3: Oh, you know, I've got a lot going on right now.

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Speaker 3: Actually it's a bit heavy, if that's all right.

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Speaker 2: You know what. I drank a Celsius and half a

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Speaker 2: bottle of diet Mountain Dew. So that's I'm on about

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Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty milligrams of caffeine. I feel alert,

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Speaker 2: I feel awake, I feel I feel as though I'm

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Speaker 2: going to try. I will try my best to tackle,

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Speaker 2: to tackle a heavy thing. Let's let's give it a shot.

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Speaker 3: Cool, let's go. Okay, So we'll start this off with

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Speaker 3: at the end of last year, I was diagnosed with ADHD,

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Speaker 3: depression and anxiety. Okay, in that I'm married and I

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Speaker 3: have a three year old son. It's a little bit

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Speaker 3: of information there. So after that diagnosis, I get on

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Speaker 3: proper medications and get into a good therapist. I've been

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Speaker 3: in therapy for a decade or so. I'm thirty four now.

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Speaker 3: Oh sorry, So I start doing that, and I'm starting

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Speaker 3: to realize some things about my life looking back, and

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Speaker 3: I realize that I have been for the past seven

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Speaker 3: or eight years been in a both physically and emotionally

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Speaker 3: abusive relationship, and for the past three years that has

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Speaker 3: been occurring in front of my son.

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Speaker 2: So this is with your wife, This is with my wife.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I've been with her marriage for five years, together

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Speaker 3: for ten.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 3: So as I realize these things, I start kind of

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Speaker 3: pushing back on some of the controlling, abusive types of

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Speaker 3: things and trying to fix some stuff, and she just

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Speaker 3: kind of starts to escalate and begins getting kind of

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Speaker 3: like paranoid. Our son was born like right in the

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Speaker 3: middle of COVID, so she's got like a pretty strong

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Speaker 3: protective attachment over him and has been always kind of

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Speaker 3: protective over him, but like doesn't let anybody else drive

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Speaker 3: him around rarely. I'll ever lette anybody watch him if

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Speaker 3: she's not around. And she started getting that way towards me.

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Speaker 3: She had been accusing me of becoming psychotic after getting

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Speaker 3: on my medications, which another little side thing. Just before

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Speaker 3: I got on my medication, my best friend killed himself,

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Speaker 3: So I kind of had a bit of a men

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Speaker 3: breakdown because of that. So I think because of that

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Speaker 3: occurring around the same time as the medication and me

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Speaker 3: pushing back on stuff. She just thought I was going

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Speaker 3: nuts or she's just nuts herself. I'm not really sure

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Speaker 3: at this point, but anyway, she started getting more and

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Speaker 3: more paranoid. She started calling the police to our house

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Speaker 3: and telling them that she felt threatened by me. I've

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Speaker 3: never done anything violent to her or the kid, but

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Speaker 3: because she said she felt threatened, the police would make

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Speaker 3: me leave. So for about a week or so she

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Speaker 3: was doing that, so I wasn't able to see my

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Speaker 3: son for that week. Anytime I would try and come home,

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Speaker 3: she would leave. She would pack them on it begone. Yeah, YadA, YadA.

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Speaker 3: The last time that she called the police, they didn't

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Speaker 3: recommend or tell me that I should leave, so I stayed.

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Speaker 3: She asked if she could leave, they said yeah, she

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Speaker 3: got in the car and left.

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Speaker 1: That was.

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Speaker 3: A little over a month ago, and I haven't seen

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Speaker 3: or heard from either of them since going out of me.

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Speaker 2: You even seen or heard from your son or your

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Speaker 2: wife in a month?

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Speaker 3: They have contacted me or my wife has. She texted

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Speaker 3: me once to remind me to water her plants while

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Speaker 3: she was gone, and then another time to offer to

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Speaker 3: do a video chat with him. But the wording and

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Speaker 3: the message is really suspicious, and I had already been

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Speaker 3: told by lawyers in my therapists not to respond to

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Speaker 3: any contact. Shit pretty apparent that she's trying to like

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Speaker 3: frame me for domestic violence or something. I'm not really

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Speaker 3: sure what is going on in her head, but.

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Speaker 2: Well, I I mean, first of all, oh, I'm sorry

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Speaker 2: that all this is happening to you. Second of all,

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Speaker 2: tell me more about what your therapists and lawyers are

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Speaker 3: Okay, So therapist says, no contact with her if she

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Speaker 3: shows up, don't be alone with her. She said. His

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Speaker 3: words were, I am at an extreme risk of being

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Speaker 3: with her. And I've only actually managed to see he's

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Speaker 3: I just started seeing him a month or two ago,

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Speaker 3: so I've only no more than a month or two ago.

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Speaker 3: Last month kind of doesn't really count for me right

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Speaker 3: now because it's been such a fucking weird, fucked up thing,

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Speaker 3: but two months like before then probably, so I've only

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Speaker 3: seen him three or four times and never gotten on

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Speaker 3: now since they left. So I haven't really been able

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Speaker 3: we're going to start seeing each other more or uh,

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Speaker 3: now that shit's really hit the sands. But the police

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Speaker 3: haven't really I haven't really been able to work with

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Speaker 3: the police too much. They don't like I live in Michigan,

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Speaker 3: so at least here, the police aren't allowed to like

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Speaker 3: interfere in any kind of custody situation. And even if

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Speaker 3: the courts. And I think because she is telling them

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Speaker 3: that I'm after her or hurt them or something, the

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Speaker 3: cops aren't really talking to me all that much. They

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Speaker 3: I think, caught on pretty quickly what was happening, so

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Speaker 3: they can kind of like encode say things to me.

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Speaker 3: But I've had to send a couple of wellness checks

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Speaker 3: But I don't have a place where I could send

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Speaker 3: somebody to serve her divorce papers or a restraining order

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Speaker 3: or custody order or anything like that. But the lawyers

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Speaker 3: are I found a good lawyer. I think he's a

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Speaker 3: good lawyer. He seems to be doing everything they should be.

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Speaker 3: We're just trying to like track her down at this

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Speaker 3: point because I can't really do anything until I serve

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Speaker 2: And what has anyone given you advice about how like

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Speaker 2: you can get your son back?

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Speaker 3: It's pretty much just get her to come back in

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Speaker 3: one way or another. So the devor once she is served,

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Speaker 3: like come and sign something in front of a notary here,

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Speaker 3: but that one she gets served. So it's just a

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Speaker 3: respond to it, she'll be delinquent in the divorce. And

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Speaker 3: then it just goes however I want it to. So

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Speaker 3: I'm assuming she would come back, but I also never

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Speaker 2: That is very heavy. Yes, that is very heavy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah yeah.

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Speaker 2: How how how how are you doing?

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Speaker 3: Weird? It's very weird because, like I said, I'm in

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Speaker 3: So I like probably at least mentally besides the like

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Speaker 3: constant hellish turmoil and doing what good as I've ever

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Speaker 3: done my entire life. I'm like, and I think, like

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Speaker 3: her being gone, I'm realizing how much of an effect

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Speaker 3: just being in her relationship with an abusive person has

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Speaker 3: on your self esteem and well being in general, I suppose,

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Speaker 3: and for fucking eight years, practically tell.

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Speaker 2: Me more about how you're doing. You're doing better than

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Speaker 3: Well, I would love to tell you about that. So

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Speaker 3: I'm like calling friends and like hanging out with people

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Speaker 3: I'm kind of realizing that I have. I mean, I've

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Speaker 3: I've been friends with for like twenty five years. And

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Speaker 3: I've got a super supportive family. They're not really the

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Speaker 3: that they know how So I'm kind of just like

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Speaker 3: realizing my whole life, I've been kind of like my

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Speaker 3: life sucks and nobody loves me and everything's terrible and

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Speaker 3: there's no point. And then my son was born and

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Speaker 3: I was kind of like, oh, yeah, here's the point.

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Speaker 3: But it was still kind of not me. It wasn't

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Speaker 3: about me still. But now I'm like, oh, I can

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Speaker 3: or a show. And I'm a musician. Music has always

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Speaker 3: and I'm like super excited about making music again. I

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Speaker 3: haven't done it in like seven or eight years probably,

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Speaker 3: oh that's good. But the son getting kidnapped in my

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Speaker 2: Wow. So do you, I mean, looking back on it,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely. Never like it was never like outright like

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Speaker 3: So it's kind of like I'm trying to give myself

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Speaker 3: a little bit of grace because up until the end

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Speaker 3: of last year, I wasn't a mentally stable person and

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Speaker 3: I was kind of being controlled by another person. But

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Speaker 3: I feel bad for letting him be around it for

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Speaker 3: too long. But and then also after being in an

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Speaker 2: How has your depression been like recently?

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Speaker 3: I mean it's been since I got on the SYMBALTHA especially,

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Speaker 3: I've been doing pretty good on that. I haven't like

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Speaker 3: I used to and I didn't realize that this was

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Speaker 3: be something that I was beyond my mind on practically

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Speaker 3: a daily basis, Like just like just the thought passing

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I realized, sorry, go ahead, why don't you finish? Oh?

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Speaker 3: And then once and once I got into therapy and

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Speaker 3: got on the medication, that kind of went away for

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Speaker 3: the most part. And I think that's like the main thing,

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Speaker 3: just like not thinking about my own death all of

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Speaker 3: the time is probably good for my mental health, and

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Speaker 3: like I just feel legitimately, like for the first time,

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Speaker 3: I like can actually be happy. Like, uh, it's I'm

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Speaker 3: like I said, it's really fucking weird because it's like

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Speaker 3: I'm probably the most unhappy I've ever been my entire life. Also,

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Speaker 2: Too, Tyler, I'm going to pray for you, my brother.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate that I'm not religious, and I was for

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Speaker 3: Thank yeah, thanks for thanks for talking. I've been calling

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Speaker 2: When? When were you rude to me?

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Speaker 3: I think I got through. I wasn't sure because I

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Speaker 2: I forgive you.

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Speaker 3: Let's talk to people, talk to your friends, talk to

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Speaker 2: I don't know if. I don't know if I would

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Speaker 3: That would be fun.

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Speaker 3: Care of your mental health is what I would say

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Speaker 2: You know, folks, I've I've thought a billion thoughts and

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Speaker 2: Tickets are available right now at therapy geckotour dot com

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Speaker 2: or at the link in the episode description. These are

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Speaker 2: really fun shows. They're always wild, they're always unpredictable, and

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Speaker 1: From Sam.

452
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:39,360
Speaker 2: Hello, Hi, what is your name?

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Speaker 1: My name is Kiwi or Kulley Sam.

454
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Speaker 2: Either or what's going on? Sam?

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Speaker 1: Oh? My god? I am I am freaking out right now.

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Speaker 1: I'm so sorry?

457
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Speaker 2: How uh? How what would you? What did you? What

458
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Speaker 2: would you like to talk about on the Gecko podcast today?

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Speaker 1: Give me one, give me one second month. I want

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Speaker 1: to talk about moving to Australia. Oh, yeah, yeah, where

461
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Speaker 1: from California?

462
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Speaker 2: What's bringing you to Australia.

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Speaker 1: I am leaving everything behind. I am sick and tired

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Speaker 1: of the way my family treats me. And I've been

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Speaker 1: talking to all my friends in Australia and they are

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Speaker 1: so down to bring me over there.

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Speaker 2: Okay. I have two questions. First of all, how old

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Speaker 2: are you?

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Speaker 1: I am twenty okay.

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Speaker 2: And you just said I heard you just now. You

471
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Speaker 2: were like, hey, mom, give me one second. You're with

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Speaker 2: your mom right now.

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Speaker 1: No, she just knocked on my door.

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Speaker 2: Oh okay. And you why are you? What's wrong with

475
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Speaker 2: the way that your family treats you?

476
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Speaker 1: They are extremely religious, religious, and homophobic. So that's fun.

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Speaker 2: Okay. And so let me understand. So you are do

478
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:10,360
Speaker 2: you have a job? Are you in school? I?

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Speaker 1: I do. I did have a job. I just got

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Speaker 1: fired like a week ago.

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Speaker 2: Okay. What's tell me about the plan to move to Australia.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So it's like a long story. But like for

483
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Speaker 1: the past eight years or so ever, since like my

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Speaker 1: stepdad came into the pictures, like my life has just

485
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Speaker 1: been like terrible. Oh my god, I am I'm still

486
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 1: geeking out right now. I'm so sorry.

487
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Speaker 2: Are you all right?

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Speaker 1: Are you?

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Speaker 2: Are you all right?

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00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:45,720
Speaker 4: Brother?

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Speaker 1: I'm fine, I'm fine. I'm just like super excited. I

492
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 1: have been a major fan of the show. I've I've

493
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Speaker 1: watched you since uh the guy with the rivalry between

494
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Speaker 1: the top Gobel and the McDonald Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's a classic one. That's a classic one.

496
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Speaker 1: I will get the Tugo bill.

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Speaker 2: But so okay, so so sure, if you want to

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Speaker 2: give me the backstory, you can give me the backstory.

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Speaker 2: But then I'm curious about what the plan is to

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Speaker 2: have how are you going to get there?

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Speaker 1: So I am currently looking for a job, and I

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Speaker 1: have like a couple aspects like up and coming. One

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Speaker 1: of them is becoming a warehouse worker where I will

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Speaker 1: be making twenty eight an hour because my neighbor is

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Speaker 1: actually getting me that.

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Speaker 2: Job twenty eight astro twenty eight Australian dollars an hour,

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Speaker 2: no American. Oh, it's actually that's pretty good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And hopefully you know he's like he's not like

509
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Speaker 1: a hiring manager there, but he's like up in rank

510
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Speaker 1: at that company. So hopefully by the end of this

511
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 1: week I should be hearing back from him or like

512
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:11,719
Speaker 1: the company, and you know, it's looking pretty promising. So

513
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:17,640
Speaker 1: twenty eight dollars an hour, ten hour workdays, it's gonna

514
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 1: be crazy. I'm gonna be fucking loaded and I'm going

515
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:24,400
Speaker 1: to be So we're like, me and my Australian friends

516
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:28,840
Speaker 1: were kind of like still talking about it, but we're

517
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Speaker 1: hoping to have me over there by March.

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Speaker 2: And what's in where? Well a few questions. Where in

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00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:43,240
Speaker 2: Australia gone Adelaide, Adelaide, Adelaide? Hell yeah, I went to

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Speaker 2: Adelaide a year ago. It's a fun, fun town. How

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Speaker 2: what's the visa ship looking like?

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Speaker 1: Uh, we're we're just gonna get We're we had we're

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Speaker 1: talking about that currently. We're like they're giving me all

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Speaker 1: the information that I need personally to get over there,

525
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 1: but there's still like plans in motions that I have

526
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Speaker 1: to do before that because I am a trans person

527
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Speaker 1: male to female, So part one of this plans it's

528
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Speaker 1: already in motion. I have my like specialist appointment to

529
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Speaker 1: get me on hormones coming up within the next three weeks.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be August, I believe. The twenty second

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Speaker 1: is when I go in to see my specialist.

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Speaker 2: Wait, but how is this is this related to the

533
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Speaker 2: visa situation of how you have how you're gonna get

534
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Speaker 2: to Australia.

535
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 1: No, okay, so this is like plans before I go

536
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Speaker 1: to Australia. Like we're we're talking. We're talking like we're

537
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Speaker 1: getting me on the prescription so that it's easier for

538
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Speaker 1: me to get it in Australia and I don't have

539
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Speaker 1: to go through the entire process again. Sure, and then

540
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Speaker 1: after that it's going to be a legal name change.

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Speaker 1: After that, that's when we're going to do the visa

542
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Speaker 1: m And everything is being so fast, and it's just

543
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Speaker 1: like it's looking super promising.

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Speaker 2: That's very exciting. I think, well, look, I think if

545
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:31,520
Speaker 2: you have a job lined up there and you have

546
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Speaker 2: friends lined up there, I think twenty is actually a

547
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:36,240
Speaker 2: pretty good age to be like fuck it, I'm just

548
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Speaker 2: gonna leave my where I live and go to Australia.

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Speaker 4: No.

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Speaker 1: I mean, like seriously, like the other night, like it's

551
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 1: always something in this house, Like I can just be like, hey,

552
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:51,000
Speaker 1: I'm going to go out with like by myself or

553
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,520
Speaker 1: something like I'm a I'm a big magic the Gathering fan.

554
00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:56,960
Speaker 1: So when I was working, I would go to like

555
00:33:57,040 --> 00:34:00,960
Speaker 1: pre releases and tournaments and stuff like that. And it

556
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:03,240
Speaker 1: was always an issue with like my mom and stepdad.

557
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:04,720
Speaker 1: They're like, oh, well, when are you going to come back?

558
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:06,720
Speaker 1: When is this? When is that? I'm like, I'm twenty

559
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:09,920
Speaker 1: years old already, Like you don't have to be on

560
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:12,959
Speaker 1: my ass, like I'm going to be home before like ten.

561
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:16,399
Speaker 2: Well that's well, well, well, well what's your name again?

562
00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 1: My name is Sam?

563
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 2: Sam? Well Sam, that's less of an issue of that's

564
00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:26,560
Speaker 2: just like in life. In life, it's like, look, all

565
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:28,560
Speaker 2: you have to do to not be under your parents

566
00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 2: rule is like, you know, make enough money that you

567
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:34,440
Speaker 2: don't have to live at their house, you know, no,

568
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:37,480
Speaker 2: And it sounds like and it sounds like you have

569
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Speaker 2: an I mean, look, if you're telling if what you're

570
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:41,320
Speaker 2: telling me is true, and you can line up a

571
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Speaker 2: twenty eight dollars an hour, twenty eight US dollars an

572
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 2: hour job working in Adelaide and uh, you know, you

573
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 2: don't have to go bankrupt. I have no idea what

574
00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:58,799
Speaker 2: the you know, uh bureaucracy of of you know, going

575
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:01,440
Speaker 2: to work in Australia. I don't know how expensive it

576
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:04,319
Speaker 2: is and job. But if you tell me that, if

577
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:06,279
Speaker 2: you tell me that everything is working out really well.

578
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 2: Then I'm incredibly excited for you. This sounds sounds really cool.

579
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 1: The job, the job is here in the States, So

580
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to save up at least eight.

581
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Speaker 4: Grand, at least eight grand and eight So so you're

582
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:25,759
Speaker 4: so you have a job lined up in California.

583
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:27,360
Speaker 2: This is not in Australia.

584
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is in California.

585
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 2: Oh okay, I thought you were moving. I thought you

586
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:33,759
Speaker 2: had a job lined up in Australia.

587
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:35,919
Speaker 1: No, I wish, Oh my god.

588
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 2: So okay, So this is a long term plan that

589
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:43,239
Speaker 2: you're talking about here.

590
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 1: This is like a year top plan.

591
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:51,120
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, So we are going to work at this.

592
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:56,160
Speaker 2: We're gonna work fucking whatever fifty hours a week at

593
00:35:56,200 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 2: our warehouse job in California. We're gonna live at our parents' house,

594
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:06,240
Speaker 2: and we're gonna save up a bunch of money until

595
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:09,279
Speaker 2: we can eventually afford to move to Australia. That's what

596
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:09,880
Speaker 2: you're telling me.

597
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:13,399
Speaker 1: Yes, I like that plan.

598
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 2: I think that's a cool plan.

599
00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 1: And you want to know what the best part of

600
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:21,680
Speaker 1: that plan is. I'm leaving without saying.

601
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:25,759
Speaker 2: A word to your family, to my family.

602
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna disappear in the night I'm leaving. All

603
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:32,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do is gonna leave a note be like

604
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:35,640
Speaker 1: I'm out ease pieces. Fuck you guys.

605
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 2: Well, I'm sorry to hear that you're not getting along

606
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:45,840
Speaker 2: with your family.

607
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:50,480
Speaker 1: It's always been an issue with my family, to be honest.

608
00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 2: So the plan, So have you looked into what the

609
00:36:57,560 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 2: costs are of immigrating to Austria.

610
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 1: We have so to get a visa. I believe it's

611
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:11,600
Speaker 1: like three fifty. They told me to like just apply

612
00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 1: for it. You have to put down like three fifty

613
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 1: or something like that.

614
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:20,480
Speaker 2: Okay, And so the plan, what are you gonna do

615
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:21,520
Speaker 2: when you get to Adelaide?

616
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Speaker 1: First thing when I get to Adelaide, I'm moving in

617
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:30,759
Speaker 1: with my friend sharky mm hmm. And like first week

618
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Speaker 1: of me getting situated, you know, we're gonna go to

619
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Speaker 1: like a furniture store, get me a bed. Like I'm

620
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:41,560
Speaker 1: I'm selling everything like within this year that I that

621
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Speaker 1: I'm that I plan on leaving. I'm selling everything that

622
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 1: I have, my TV, my PlayStation, fucking books, anime like

623
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:52,480
Speaker 1: you know.

624
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:54,959
Speaker 4: Shoot, people want okay.

625
00:37:56,480 --> 00:38:01,040
Speaker 1: To also like contribute to the fund.

626
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:06,040
Speaker 2: So do you have plans for like what, By the way,

627
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:09,040
Speaker 2: I'm not trying. Here's here's here's like what I like.

628
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:13,160
Speaker 2: My genuine feeling is like I think that you know,

629
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 2: at twenty is actually a pretty good age to be like,

630
00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 2: fuck it, I'm gonna move to Adelaide with no plan

631
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,200
Speaker 2: and just fucking get there and then I'll figure it

632
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:27,000
Speaker 2: out from there. I actually like that idea. I just

633
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:31,279
Speaker 2: I'm just like, Okay, how do we get a baseline

634
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:34,920
Speaker 2: so that you don't uh starve and die or honestly

635
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 2: even less even less dramatic than that, just you like,

636
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:44,480
Speaker 2: you know, having to be like I don't know, dependent

637
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:49,239
Speaker 2: on your friends for money or like just shit like that.

638
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:50,440
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. You don't want to You

639
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 2: just don't want to get You just want to like

640
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 2: you know, you are like like I like again again,

641
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:56,840
Speaker 2: I like the idea of taking a big risk, but

642
00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:02,200
Speaker 2: I would plan it out, legit sticklarly enough so you're like,

643
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:05,560
Speaker 2: I'm not going to end up in like a fucking

644
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:10,799
Speaker 2: situation where you know, shark heat turns out to be

645
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 2: crazy and you know I have to rely on them

646
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 2: for said you know, you just know what I'm talking about.

647
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:19,400
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, yeah, I know what you're talking about,

648
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:23,839
Speaker 1: but it's like I'm gonna have enough money to where

649
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have to rely on them. So, like I said,

650
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:30,239
Speaker 1: I want to save up eight thousand, at minimum eight

651
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 1: thousand US d and I believe that translates to like

652
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:38,800
Speaker 1: nine or ten k in aud.

653
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, can you say that one more time?

654
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 1: I'm gonna save up about eight thousand US dollars And

655
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Speaker 1: I believe I found that too, like I wouldn't. Don't

656
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Speaker 1: take my word for it, but I believe it translate

657
00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:59,200
Speaker 1: is to like nine to ten k and aud.

658
00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:07,720
Speaker 2: Aud Australian dollars are worth sixty five percent. If you

659
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:09,960
Speaker 2: you take an Australia, you take whatever you have in

660
00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:13,479
Speaker 2: US dollars and you divide it by point sixty five

661
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:14,840
Speaker 2: and that's what you got in Australia.

662
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 1: I thought it was more. Wait, do you have Google

663
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:26,719
Speaker 1: or divide it? Is it times? Did? I thought it

664
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:27,680
Speaker 1: was time you divide it?

665
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:30,759
Speaker 2: You divide it. So you take your eight thousand dollars,

666
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:33,880
Speaker 2: you divide you you go in your calculator app, you

667
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:37,200
Speaker 2: type eight thousand divided by point sixty five and that

668
00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 2: is how much you will have in Australian dollars.

669
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:44,440
Speaker 1: No, but I mean one one American dollars is sixty

670
00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:49,760
Speaker 1: sixty seven cents in aud I believe.

671
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 2: Uh, I don't think you're you will have If you

672
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:02,880
Speaker 2: take your American money, you will have more and converted

673
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 2: to Australian dollars it will be more money. Yeah, yeah, Okay,

674
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 2: we're on the same page. Whatever. Whatever we're arguing about

675
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,319
Speaker 2: something that's google We're not arguing. We're discussing something that

676
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:22,640
Speaker 2: is googleable. But anyway, whatever, math aside, what are you

677
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:24,040
Speaker 2: gonna do when you get when you get.

678
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:26,239
Speaker 1: There, I don't I don't know. I think I'm just

679
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:30,400
Speaker 1: gonna live life like I'm gonna enjoy life the fullest. Finally,

680
00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 1: spread my wings man, you know. Cool cool, And also,

681
00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:41,800
Speaker 1: don't tell the Australian government. But I think I'm gonna

682
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:43,840
Speaker 1: be smuggling weed seeds.

683
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:52,560
Speaker 2: Sam, I'm gonna give you some advice, all right, Okay, you,

684
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:57,480
Speaker 2: as you are attempting to immigrate into this country, I

685
00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:02,800
Speaker 2: strongly advise you keep no secrets from the Australian governments.

686
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:08,200
Speaker 1: But but I mean, come on, how am I gonna

687
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 1: live without looking to weeds?

688
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:13,759
Speaker 2: Weeds isn't weed. We's fucking legal in Australia, isn't it?

689
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:14,360
Speaker 1: No, it's not.

690
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:19,040
Speaker 2: Oh, I'll find Listen, you, you, you and sharky. You

691
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:21,640
Speaker 2: can probably find weed in about two seconds. You don't

692
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 2: need to bring it a seed. You don't need to

693
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:26,239
Speaker 2: shove seeds up your ass and bring them to Australia.

694
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:29,880
Speaker 1: Hey, I never said anything about shoving them up my ass.

695
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:39,279
Speaker 2: Okay again saying look, I'm excited for you. I just uh,

696
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 2: you know, don't don't don't don't do anything to pissed

697
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 2: off Australia, right because you like you don't wanna, don't

698
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:51,759
Speaker 2: don't smuggle weed into Australia.

699
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:55,799
Speaker 1: Okay, maybe, okay, okay, maybe the second time I come

700
00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:59,160
Speaker 1: back to Australia. Let's say I go back to California.

701
00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:03,440
Speaker 1: Let's say I forget something or you know, I go

702
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:06,120
Speaker 1: back for some reason, some some reason, some way, I

703
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:08,960
Speaker 1: go back. Right, Can I can?

704
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:10,440
Speaker 2: I can I give you? Can I give you another?

705
00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:11,880
Speaker 2: Can I give you another piece of advice?

706
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 1: What's up?

707
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:20,360
Speaker 2: Have you thought about? You've never been there? Right? I

708
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:26,080
Speaker 2: have not considered you can? Have you considered taking a

709
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:27,359
Speaker 2: trip before you move?

710
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:34,320
Speaker 1: I have not, But plane tickets are like super expensive.

711
00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:39,320
Speaker 1: It's like two K right now, and I'm just for

712
00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:40,440
Speaker 1: a one way.

713
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 2: All right, Well, so you have about so so you've

714
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:51,480
Speaker 2: you've decided that Okay, logistically, if I stay in my

715
00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:56,319
Speaker 2: family house for a year, then I'll have enough to go.

716
00:43:57,920 --> 00:43:58,359
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.

717
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:02,480
Speaker 2: Why do you want to leave your family with? Why

718
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:03,760
Speaker 2: do you why do you want to leave your family

719
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:05,200
Speaker 2: without saying anything to them?

720
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:15,360
Speaker 1: Because like the it's it's hard like living here, Like

721
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:17,640
Speaker 1: I'm like ninety nine percent sure after I hang up

722
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:19,879
Speaker 1: the phone with you, my mom's gonna be like, who

723
00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:25,960
Speaker 1: the fuck are you on the phone with talking about Australia? Okay,

724
00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:30,680
Speaker 1: Like okay, so my my my parents are very transphobic,

725
00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 1: like they said, if I'm ever to start start that

726
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:38,360
Speaker 1: whole thing, you know, I will never be welcomed in

727
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:38,840
Speaker 1: their house.

728
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:44,719
Speaker 2: I'm sorry to hear that. I I genuine I really am.

729
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:48,600
Speaker 2: I'm I'm I'm very sorry to hear that. I think

730
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 2: it's a bummer that your family, Uh you know it

731
00:44:54,120 --> 00:45:02,960
Speaker 2: doesn't is like that. So yeah, uh but I just

732
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 2: again the really the theme of what I am trying to

733
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:13,680
Speaker 2: get at in this is that you know, I'm as

734
00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:18,080
Speaker 2: good that you're excited, but make sure you got your

735
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:20,880
Speaker 2: logistics down before you just move one way to a

736
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:23,600
Speaker 2: foreign country. But again, I mean, it's worked out for

737
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:25,719
Speaker 2: some people, So I don't know.

738
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:29,959
Speaker 1: Just don't die, I mean how I mean, the only

739
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:32,880
Speaker 1: way I die getting to Australia is if the plane

740
00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:35,440
Speaker 1: crashes or if I have a fucking panic attack on

741
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:41,920
Speaker 1: a plane and have a heart attack. Also, I've never

742
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:45,880
Speaker 1: flown in a plane before, so that's that's also fun.

743
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:49,359
Speaker 2: Just I guess the thing that worries me is you're like,

744
00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:54,040
Speaker 2: is you're like, fuck it, I'm gonna go one way

745
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:58,600
Speaker 2: and you know, I'll stay it my homies house and

746
00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:01,880
Speaker 2: I'm gonna bring we there. But don't tell anyone.

747
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:06,759
Speaker 1: Hey, you're you're you're revealing the secret man.

748
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:10,919
Speaker 2: Come on, don't keep secrets Sam for the don't keep

749
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:14,720
Speaker 2: any secrets from the Australian government. All right, Well, okay,

750
00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 2: before we go, is there any other aspect of this

751
00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:19,920
Speaker 2: that you wanted to talk about or think through or

752
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 2: anything like that.

753
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:25,440
Speaker 1: I want to know what you think about it. Should

754
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:30,040
Speaker 1: I should I at least give a goodbye?

755
00:46:30,719 --> 00:46:34,600
Speaker 2: Should you at least give a goodbye to your family?

756
00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:42,319
Speaker 2: That I actually was thinking about that because you told

757
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:44,799
Speaker 2: me that you were gonna leave without saying a note,

758
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:46,640
Speaker 2: and I was trying to think about what I think

759
00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:52,440
Speaker 2: about that. At the end of the day, It's like,

760
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:56,120
Speaker 2: to me, what would make you feel good?

761
00:46:56,680 --> 00:46:58,120
Speaker 1: Right? Mm hmm.

762
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:01,560
Speaker 2: And I'm not talking about what would make you feel

763
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:05,160
Speaker 2: good in the moments. I'm talking about you know, when

764
00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:09,280
Speaker 2: you're older and you look back on everything, like, what

765
00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:12,400
Speaker 2: what's the decision that's going to make you feel like

766
00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:16,640
Speaker 2: you did everything you could?

767
00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:21,239
Speaker 1: Right? Well? I mean well, like from my perspective, right,

768
00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:27,399
Speaker 1: I see it as like, you know, like if I'm

769
00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:29,800
Speaker 1: to start doing what i want to do with my body,

770
00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:34,440
Speaker 1: I'm not welcome to see my family ever again. And

771
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:37,600
Speaker 1: you know, it kind of sucks because I do have

772
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:43,719
Speaker 1: younger siblings, you know, like I've seen both of them

773
00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:46,880
Speaker 1: grow up and to know that, like, if I'm to

774
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:49,000
Speaker 1: do what I want to do, if I want to

775
00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:53,319
Speaker 1: be happy, I can't see them be happy, if that

776
00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:53,880
Speaker 1: makes sense.

777
00:47:57,440 --> 00:48:00,880
Speaker 2: Your siblings, Yeah, how old are your siblings?

778
00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:04,960
Speaker 1: I have a thirteen year old sister and a six

779
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:06,160
Speaker 1: year old little brother.

780
00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:08,960
Speaker 2: Okay, and are you cool with them? You have a

781
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:11,520
Speaker 2: good relationship with them?

782
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:16,879
Speaker 1: My sister for sure, okay, and not your brother well,

783
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:20,160
Speaker 1: I mean he's younger. You know, I'm always like watching him.

784
00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:23,040
Speaker 2: So when you say you're going to leave without saying anything,

785
00:48:23,080 --> 00:48:24,440
Speaker 2: does that mean you're going to not say anything to

786
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:25,640
Speaker 2: them too?

787
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 1: I don't know. I feel like I might tell my

788
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:31,680
Speaker 1: sister Ruby, but at the same time, I'm like, I

789
00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:35,520
Speaker 1: don't want to break her heart.

790
00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:44,520
Speaker 2: Well again, I'll ask you again. I mean, what do

791
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:48,640
Speaker 2: you think would make you feel is the right way

792
00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:53,080
Speaker 2: to move forward? Also also also you have a year

793
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:53,960
Speaker 2: to think about this.

794
00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:56,480
Speaker 1: I do have a year to think about this. But

795
00:48:56,560 --> 00:49:01,920
Speaker 1: it's like, God, it's like with how fast everything's moving

796
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:05,440
Speaker 1: right now, It's just like it time's gonna fly.

797
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:08,359
Speaker 2: How fast is everything moving? Yeah, you don't even have

798
00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:12,960
Speaker 2: any of the anything, but I have you have you

799
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:15,640
Speaker 2: have you applied for an Australian visa yet?

800
00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:16,600
Speaker 1: Okay?

801
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:16,719
Speaker 4: No?

802
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:17,279
Speaker 1: Not yet?

803
00:49:17,719 --> 00:49:20,520
Speaker 2: Okay, dog, dog, this ain't moved. Dog, this ain't moving

804
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:22,520
Speaker 2: as fast as you think it is. If you all

805
00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:25,680
Speaker 2: have any of the paperwork or the job or the

806
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 2: like it like it's all again, I really like, I don't.

807
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:31,920
Speaker 2: I don't want to be a downer. I believe in

808
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:35,319
Speaker 2: the vision, but like Jesus not You're not moving to

809
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:36,320
Speaker 2: Australia tomorrow.

810
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:40,400
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know that, but it's like, like,

811
00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:44,080
Speaker 1: for the next year, I'm going to have to hide

812
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:51,360
Speaker 1: my medication from fucking everyone because remember I'm seeing a

813
00:49:51,360 --> 00:50:04,839
Speaker 1: specialist on the twenty second of this month, I'm gonna

814
00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 1: have to go black ops. Okay, it's secret operation.

815
00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:20,960
Speaker 2: Well I again, I'm I'm sorry that your your family

816
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:26,919
Speaker 2: has has made the mistake of uh, of their love

817
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:27,799
Speaker 2: being conditional.

818
00:50:29,640 --> 00:50:32,120
Speaker 1: It's always been that way. I mean, I've gotten used

819
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:35,840
Speaker 1: to it. Like I've been called the F slurry, the

820
00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:40,480
Speaker 1: T slurry, you know, being told I'm gonna go to

821
00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:43,319
Speaker 1: hell because I want to live this way, and it's

822
00:50:43,360 --> 00:50:46,359
Speaker 1: just like I hear it so often. I'm like, yeah,

823
00:50:47,360 --> 00:50:50,400
Speaker 1: maybe you're right, but like, at least I'm gonna be happy.

824
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:54,719
Speaker 2: Is there anything else you want to say or talk

825
00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:58,560
Speaker 2: about or anything like that before we go? Uh?

826
00:50:59,239 --> 00:51:01,200
Speaker 1: I do want to say one thing because I know

827
00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:04,520
Speaker 1: my coworker who made me lose my job listens to

828
00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:05,279
Speaker 1: the podcast.

829
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:06,600
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.

830
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:10,319
Speaker 1: So like I, like I said at the beginning of

831
00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:14,440
Speaker 1: this call, I lost my job and this is because

832
00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:18,840
Speaker 1: a girl at my work who is a terrible person

833
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:23,359
Speaker 1: to work with. She'll make her dumb ass comments like oh,

834
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:25,960
Speaker 1: you're fat, you're this, you're that, and I'm just like,

835
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:27,759
Speaker 1: can you do shut the fuck up. I'm trying at

836
00:51:27,760 --> 00:51:31,799
Speaker 1: work right. She even told me I was going to

837
00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:36,120
Speaker 1: hell one. You know, I know she listens to this podcast.

838
00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:39,120
Speaker 1: So fuck you, Jackie, you big back bitch. I fucking

839
00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:39,560
Speaker 1: hate you.

840
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:43,399
Speaker 2: No, No, Sam, don't do Sam. Don't Sam. I want

841
00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:43,759
Speaker 2: to Sam.

842
00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:46,359
Speaker 1: Look, okay, you can cut that out. You can cut

843
00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:47,319
Speaker 1: that out. You can cut that out.

844
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:49,399
Speaker 2: No, dude, it's just like.

845
00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:56,160
Speaker 1: Dude, he accused me of stealing from the store.

846
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:06,399
Speaker 2: Look, fucking let them. I don't know. I'm Sam. I

847
00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:12,280
Speaker 2: I I'll Sam, I I I really uh I. I hope,

848
00:52:12,320 --> 00:52:14,839
Speaker 2: I'll hope you're find happiness in your life.

849
00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:17,000
Speaker 1: I am happy. I am happy. I am happy.

850
00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:23,080
Speaker 2: I'm happy to I'm happy to hear that. Well, good luck.

851
00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:28,239
Speaker 2: I hope you make many Australian dollars. I hope you.

852
00:52:28,239 --> 00:52:30,520
Speaker 2: You know you get to hang out in the Kangaroo's

853
00:52:30,560 --> 00:52:34,440
Speaker 2: pouch and uh you to Koala and do all the

854
00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:37,600
Speaker 2: fun things you get to do over there. Have a

855
00:52:37,640 --> 00:52:38,280
Speaker 2: good night, Sam.

856
00:52:38,719 --> 00:52:40,680
Speaker 1: Wait, hold on, hold on, hold on, Lyle.

857
00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:41,879
Speaker 2: What what's up?

858
00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:44,840
Speaker 1: One thing before I go okay, I want to thank

859
00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:49,720
Speaker 1: you for everything you've done, man like best. You've gotten

860
00:52:49,760 --> 00:52:51,320
Speaker 1: me through some tough ship.

861
00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:52,120
Speaker 4: Dude.

862
00:52:52,360 --> 00:52:56,839
Speaker 1: The calls are the best, and man, I just want

863
00:52:56,840 --> 00:52:59,200
Speaker 1: to thank you for having me on again, like you

864
00:52:59,239 --> 00:53:07,240
Speaker 1: don't talk for no I have called you literally just today,

865
00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:10,760
Speaker 1: I called you two hundred and twenty times just to get.

866
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:19,000
Speaker 2: In Well, Sam, thanks for listening, good good luck. Just

867
00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:23,759
Speaker 2: I just hope, I hope it all works out for you.

868
00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:25,439
Speaker 2: All right, have a good night, Say.

869
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:27,480
Speaker 1: Thank you you too, Love you.

870
00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:37,640
Speaker 2: That was interesting. I have a lot of thoughts about that. Again,

871
00:53:37,760 --> 00:53:40,279
Speaker 2: I want to reiterate a few things. One is, I

872
00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:44,760
Speaker 2: genuinely do believe that if there ever was a time

873
00:53:44,920 --> 00:53:48,839
Speaker 2: to move to a foreign country and abandon all you know,

874
00:53:48,920 --> 00:53:55,879
Speaker 2: it's probably like high risk decisions are probably better made

875
00:53:55,880 --> 00:53:57,680
Speaker 2: when you're younger than when you're older. You know, you

876
00:53:57,680 --> 00:53:59,200
Speaker 2: don't have kids, you don't have a family, you don't

877
00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:04,839
Speaker 2: really have any responsibility. You're really only responsibility is to

878
00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:09,359
Speaker 2: eat enough food and sleep inside enough that you don't die.

879
00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:14,200
Speaker 2: So as long as you can, as long as you

880
00:54:14,200 --> 00:54:19,799
Speaker 2: can meet that responsibility, you're probably good. I the whole

881
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:22,880
Speaker 2: thing about like whether or not Sam should say goodbye

882
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:29,400
Speaker 2: to their family. I was really thinking about that because

883
00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:35,520
Speaker 2: it is a bummer when you're when your family is like,

884
00:54:37,120 --> 00:54:39,640
Speaker 2: you know, I'm a family's fight and there's you know,

885
00:54:40,600 --> 00:54:46,520
Speaker 2: things that people like don't like or don't approve of

886
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:50,400
Speaker 2: or whatever, and you can kind of like reconcile that,

887
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:53,360
Speaker 2: but to have it like be at the point where

888
00:54:53,440 --> 00:54:56,040
Speaker 2: like you can't be in I can't. I won't be

889
00:54:56,080 --> 00:55:00,239
Speaker 2: in your life anymore, you know, I won't. You know,

890
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:02,279
Speaker 2: even if I don't approve of this thing or don't

891
00:55:02,320 --> 00:55:04,520
Speaker 2: like this, it's it's not even like I don't approve,

892
00:55:04,760 --> 00:55:10,040
Speaker 2: but like of you know, you're my you're my child,

893
00:55:10,719 --> 00:55:14,279
Speaker 2: like that nothing will ever change that, you know. I

894
00:55:14,480 --> 00:55:16,160
Speaker 2: think when it goes beyond that to a point of

895
00:55:16,239 --> 00:55:18,240
Speaker 2: like you can't be in the house, you can't fucking

896
00:55:18,960 --> 00:55:27,680
Speaker 2: call me, it's it's sad. But I'm also like Sam

897
00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:30,760
Speaker 2: was saying a bunch of things where I was like, slow,

898
00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:36,640
Speaker 2: slow down for a second. Here, let's let's let's make

899
00:55:36,719 --> 00:55:40,240
Speaker 2: sure we know the conversion rate of the currency first.

900
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:44,640
Speaker 2: Uh know, the bureaucracy involved in doing the stuff that

901
00:55:44,640 --> 00:55:48,399
Speaker 2: we want to do, So I don't know I hope.

902
00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:51,800
Speaker 2: I hope they're all right. I hope they do stuff,

903
00:55:51,840 --> 00:55:55,840
Speaker 2: and I hope everything works out. I like I like Adelaide.

904
00:55:55,920 --> 00:55:58,600
Speaker 2: Shout out to uh, where the fuck did I do

905
00:55:58,680 --> 00:56:02,200
Speaker 2: my show? There? The Lions something. I had a good time,

906
00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:12,520
Speaker 2: so yeah. Shout out Australia, Shout out life, God bless

907
00:56:12,520 --> 00:56:16,560
Speaker 2: Mickey Mouse. Rep Ken goes on the line, taking your

908
00:56:16,680 --> 00:56:20,240
Speaker 2: phone calls every night. The Repink goes to on his eye.

909
00:56:20,320 --> 00:56:22,480
Speaker 2: He's teaching you a loud in the mid of your life,

910
00:56:22,880 --> 00:56:25,040
Speaker 2: but he's not really an expert.