Speaker 1: All from Lyle. Lyle, Yeah, Lyle, I want to get
Speaker 1: right to the chase here. Okay, how much for you
Speaker 1: to take the suit off?
Speaker 2: How much for me to take the suit off?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Like how much? Like how much of it? All of it,
Speaker 2: like down to my underwear, like with my ponis.
Speaker 1: Uh uh, Well we'll go We'll go stream. We'll go
Speaker 1: stream appropriate.
Speaker 2: Okay, because if if you want me to take off
Speaker 2: like literally all my clothes get button aked, first of all,
Speaker 2: I'm not doing it just based like there would need
Speaker 2: to be some sort of like third party inter meet
Speaker 2: like something where like I just I knew for a
Speaker 2: fact I was going to get the money for maybe
Speaker 2: like a million dollars. Oh, I would go fully naked,
Speaker 2: because I'll get banned from Twitch. If I were only
Speaker 2: banned from Twitch for like a month for doing that,
Speaker 2: I would do it for a million dollars.
Speaker 1: We can do like the only.
Speaker 2: Definitely from Twitch that would have to I mean that
Speaker 2: have to be a ton of money.
Speaker 1: Though, yeah, well only fans, we could, we could, We
Speaker 1: could set that up. You want to set that up
Speaker 1: because I think you got a lot of people that
Speaker 1: would would take good, good, good money for that.
Speaker 2: How like what are we talking here? Like just pictures
Speaker 2: of my fans and asshole?
Speaker 3: Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa.
Speaker 4: You don't have to go that far.
Speaker 2: You hit this up. This is a conversation of your creation.
Speaker 1: Hey, I didn't, but I didn't. I didn't you know,
Speaker 1: ask for all that? I just said, off, I said, I.
Speaker 2: Said, the suit, This suit is clothes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you gotta be wearing something under that, don't.
Speaker 2: You Wouldn't you like to know, dude?
Speaker 4: I would?
Speaker 2: What's what's tell me about? Why do you have such
Speaker 2: a fascination with my body?
Speaker 1: Because you look beautiful and I see you every time
Speaker 1: you stream. I'm just like, what's he? What's he got
Speaker 1: going on? Another suit?
Speaker 2: But don't you almost feel like if I showed you? Okay,
Speaker 2: think about this. Your imagination of what I've got going
Speaker 2: on underneath the suit is infinite. You can imagine me
Speaker 2: as whatever you want. You can fit your imagination to
Speaker 2: your fantasy, Okay. And if you found out the reality
Speaker 2: your enjoyments, your imagination would all of a sudden be
Speaker 2: limited to your reality. Then I don't know if that's
Speaker 2: necessarily a good thing. I mean, if you're trying to
Speaker 2: maximize truth, then it would be. But if you're trying
Speaker 2: to maximize your personal enjoyment of my body, it might
Speaker 2: even be more beneficial to you to keep some of
Speaker 2: it a secret.
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna I think I'm gonna keep it
Speaker 1: a secret. I think I'm gonna think about it and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep it all a secret.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, but.
Speaker 1: You think about that only fans, you think about that.
Speaker 1: That's that's something for you to think about.
Speaker 2: Okay, I will, I will. I actually have fans, but
Speaker 2: I am and I haven't gotten around to it. Well, listen,
Speaker 2: I hope you enjoyed this conversation. Did you have a
Speaker 2: good rest of the night?
Speaker 1: Man? You too?
Speaker 4: Love you?
Speaker 5: The line.
Speaker 2: Li aw from Austin Austin, how long can we keep living?
Speaker 2: How came? How long can we keep going? For?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 4: Sustainability is something that I always think about on a
Speaker 4: broad term and a intermediate term. So if we're going
Speaker 4: to live, what is living? You got to find that first?
Speaker 4: So what do you think that is?
Speaker 2: I think living is having enough resources to do what
Speaker 2: you wish to do.
Speaker 4: Right, So that's a society question. What does that society
Speaker 4: wish to do?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't think about society a lot.
Speaker 2: I think about like the individual, not just like, not
Speaker 2: meaning like I do only think about my own life,
Speaker 2: But I think about like I try to think about
Speaker 2: people as individuals more than I think about them as
Speaker 2: as clusters of people.
Speaker 4: H So, how how do you separate a community from
Speaker 4: an individual?
Speaker 2: Well, you kind of can't, because you know, communities are individuals.
Speaker 4: Right, So how do you sustain that over a long
Speaker 4: period of time?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know how you sustain anything
Speaker 2: for over a long period of time. I have not
Speaker 2: really been around for a long period of time, nor
Speaker 2: have I really taken the time to study anything that
Speaker 2: has been around for a long period of time, you know,
Speaker 2: like dynasties or governments, or or earth or artists. I mean,
Speaker 2: how long is a long time? It's all it's all comparative,
Speaker 2: it's all relative, right, Hey, Austin, Yes, what do you
Speaker 2: do all day?
Speaker 4: I do a lot of things all day. It really
Speaker 4: depends on the day. One of my favorite things to do, though,
Speaker 4: is I like to swim a lot. I swim almost
Speaker 4: every day.
Speaker 2: M hmmm, where do you swim? Do you swim in
Speaker 2: a lake?
Speaker 4: Do you swim in a pool, pool, ocean, nice clean
Speaker 4: body of water.
Speaker 2: M Do you do you like being wet?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I do.
Speaker 4: I was actually just in the desert this past weekend,
Speaker 4: went out to Joshua Tree. I don't know if you've
Speaker 4: ever been there. I heard you're going on a world tour.
Speaker 6: But.
Speaker 4: You have. What did you think about it?
Speaker 2: I thought it was nice. I thought it was nice.
Speaker 4: Not a lot of water out there, I'll tell you
Speaker 4: that much.
Speaker 2: Were you there steal a lot when you were there?
Speaker 4: Well, I brought some some tasty beverages and that was nice.
Speaker 4: But my body, my body was thirsty.
Speaker 5: My body was very thirsty.
Speaker 2: Right, So what would be cool for you is if
Speaker 2: you had a little device that could shrink you down
Speaker 2: to like tiny size and you could just jump into
Speaker 2: You could your your your big wife could open the
Speaker 2: thing for you and then you're a tiny little guy
Speaker 2: and she'll she can pick you up and pluck you
Speaker 2: into the water bottle and you can swim around for
Speaker 2: a little bit.
Speaker 4: That would be like having a pool anywhere in the world. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's where I'm at, like, because pools are amazing. One,
Speaker 4: you could exercise in them, you know. Two, you could
Speaker 4: lounge by them or in them. You put some music
Speaker 4: next to it, like seriously, you get a little Baja
Speaker 4: step and you could just lounge all day.
Speaker 5: Pools are the best.
Speaker 4: And if you could have.
Speaker 2: That want, what would you do if your wife this
Speaker 2: is actually if you were like if you like you
Speaker 2: like from like like, this is this is what your
Speaker 2: voice sounds like to her. You're sitting in the thing
Speaker 2: and you're like, I really, I'm ready took it out
Speaker 2: now because you have a high voice because you're all
Speaker 2: tiny and stuff, and it would be like that, yeah,
Speaker 2: and then your wife is like, who knows what I'm mean?
Speaker 2: And then and now this is this is her voice
Speaker 2: from your perspective. Actually, I'm actually feeling very thirsty, and
Speaker 2: she and then this is your voice from her perspective.
Speaker 2: And she starts taking a drinking you.
Speaker 7: And you go, wait, what are you doing now?
Speaker 2: And then you and then she drinks you and eats you.
Speaker 4: Well, I don't think she would first.
Speaker 2: Off, and then she goes and then she goes, that
Speaker 2: was really good. And that's her voice from her own perspective.
Speaker 2: Because you don't have a perspect you wouldn't have a
Speaker 2: respective and at that point because you'd be dead, you'd
Speaker 2: be and hurt, you'd be being digested.
Speaker 4: That that that story escalated quickly, but I respect it.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Austin. I respect you too, because you seem
Speaker 2: like you like know things. You came into this prepared
Speaker 2: to have a conversation about like sustainability. I could tell
Speaker 2: you've read at least three books in your entire life,
Speaker 2: which is more than I have. And I think that that,
Speaker 2: like that means that you outrank me in terms of
Speaker 2: your intelligence, which is great.
Speaker 4: How dare you? How dare you? How dare you? You're
Speaker 4: a very intelligent get go?
Speaker 2: No, no, well, look, I'm just I'm about to fart. I
Speaker 2: just uh, I'm happy that. I'm happy that people like
Speaker 2: you exist to make just there it was to make
Speaker 2: like rocket ships and ship to make us to get
Speaker 2: us to Mars, because I don't know how to do that,
Speaker 2: And I would like if all of that, if it
Speaker 2: were my job to make science things to help us
Speaker 2: stain ourselves, we'd all be fucked. So I'm glad that
Speaker 2: you exist.
Speaker 4: Well, the first thing to being sustainable is what you
Speaker 4: just talked about, is understanding we exist and being happy
Speaker 4: about it. And if you're not happy about existing, then
Speaker 4: why would you want to sustain that? So think about that.
Speaker 2: It's true. Thank you so much for sharing, Austin. You
Speaker 2: have a good rest of then, you know what.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much. Love you man, Love you.
Speaker 2: Too, baby.
Speaker 7: All from.
Speaker 8: To accept Press.
Speaker 2: Mysterious Mystery anonymous person.
Speaker 7: Hello, Oh hi, it was it was like litten out.
Speaker 2: It's Cheryl, Cheryl.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Cheryl?
Speaker 2: How are you? Cheryl?
Speaker 9: Pretty good? I'm just like making sushi at home.
Speaker 2: You can't hear this, No one can hear this. My
Speaker 2: bathroom is right over there, and I clogged it before
Speaker 2: I started the stream. I have time to on clog it,
Speaker 2: and I just heard it unclogged on its own.
Speaker 9: Well that's nice.
Speaker 2: What did you say you were making?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 9: I was making sushi.
Speaker 2: You're making sushi.
Speaker 7: Yeah, like some vegetarian sushi.
Speaker 2: I respect that. It's so much easier to buy it
Speaker 2: and to make it.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Man, it's a process, but it's the ingredients are pretty cheap,
Speaker 7: and it's like satisfying Cheryl.
Speaker 2: Do you find yourself doing things the hard way typical? Typically?
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2: Absolutely tell me something else that you do the hard way.
Speaker 4: Let's see.
Speaker 9: I mean.
Speaker 7: I decided to go to art school, but I have
Speaker 7: a ceramic arts degree, so that's choosing a lot of
Speaker 7: things the hard way.
Speaker 2: Mm.
Speaker 9: But making like pottery from scrap, It's like.
Speaker 7: Do I need to go to ike and buy a
Speaker 7: bowl or maybe I'll just make one over the course
Speaker 7: of like two weeks.
Speaker 2: You know, you went to you acquired a ceramic arts degree.
Speaker 9: Mm hmmm, yeap.
Speaker 2: And has that been useful for you as you progress
Speaker 2: through your life?
Speaker 7: You know, it's like use it's pretty damn useful in
Speaker 7: the sense that it's like really enjoyable for me. Like
Speaker 7: on your question today, like what do we do all day?
Speaker 7: I have been on unemployment for over a year, so
Speaker 7: I kind of do whatever I want and it's really
Speaker 7: nice and I don't want to go back because I
Speaker 7: was working multiple service industry jobs before this happened.
Speaker 2: I've had been reading about this a lot of like
Speaker 2: there's like a I'm dumb, so I only read headlines.
Speaker 2: But wasn't there like a labor shortage because people don't
Speaker 2: want to go.
Speaker 7: Back to wells them they need to they can pay
Speaker 7: me more. But like I'm really conflicted about that because
Speaker 7: I'm one of those like piece of shit people who's like,
Speaker 7: I really really don't want to go back.
Speaker 9: You know, I'm like thirty one.
Speaker 7: I've only worked in restaurants at this.
Speaker 4: Point, but.
Speaker 7: Like, my day to day now is the most pleasant
Speaker 7: it's ever been. And I'm the happiest I've ever been,
Speaker 7: and I don't want to not be happy anymore going
Speaker 7: back to work.
Speaker 9: You know, we're fucking sucks.
Speaker 2: Can you still get like, what's the what's the deal
Speaker 2: with unemployment? How do you like, do you need to
Speaker 2: prove that you're unemployed?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 2: How long? I mean, like, I guess I'm trying to
Speaker 2: say's like how long? I hope you no, here's okay
Speaker 2: to say, how long? Can you be on it for
Speaker 2: a reasonable Don't they eventually go like, you got to
Speaker 2: start working now?
Speaker 7: Well, I'm going to go for it as long as
Speaker 7: humanly possible, But don't I don't know if the government
Speaker 7: can hear this phone call or what. You just have
Speaker 7: to prove that you've been searching for work, but you know,
Speaker 7: some kind of doing that.
Speaker 4: I guess.
Speaker 2: Do you sell Do you sell pottery? Do you like
Speaker 2: to have like a little pottery store or something like
Speaker 2: that on the internet.
Speaker 9: Well, I do have a pottery store on the internet.
Speaker 9: So if I if I do sell a bunch.
Speaker 7: I have to I guess I have to claim that
Speaker 7: on the documents. But really, yeah, I sell some pots.
Speaker 7: I'm technically like an unpaid intern at a studio. So
Speaker 7: I just kind of wake up, mosey along, have my coffee,
Speaker 7: go make some pots.
Speaker 9: Go for a walk in the woods.
Speaker 7: Did you shoulday I took my I know, I took
Speaker 7: a canoe out on a river today. It's like, why
Speaker 7: would I want to Why would I want to go
Speaker 7: back to like selling people mimosas?
Speaker 2: I understand that. I mean, what was the most horrible
Speaker 2: thing about working where you worked? Did people yell at you?
Speaker 2: They're mimosas being arriving?
Speaker 7: Oh god, well the customers are.
Speaker 9: They can be bad. But a lot of it has
Speaker 9: to do with like.
Speaker 7: The social structure of working in a restaurant, And depending
Speaker 7: on where you're working, it could be really fun or
Speaker 7: just like like this high school hierarchy shit where your
Speaker 7: manager is trying to like punish you in different ways,
Speaker 7: put you in like a shitty section or something in
Speaker 7: the back corner where you don't make any money, and
Speaker 7: then you're like at the whim of these like random
Speaker 7: businessmen for your livelihood though, So yeah, I don't want
Speaker 7: to go back to that, but because I don't know
Speaker 7: what other life skills I have at this point, Like
Speaker 7: I know how to wait tables and make pots, I
Speaker 7: don't really know how to use a computer too.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 7: It's kind of like you being a gecko, you know,
Speaker 7: you just like ride it up along as as long.
Speaker 9: As you can.
Speaker 2: That's this is exactly why this is sort of like
Speaker 2: my version of being on unemployment is streaming on Twitch
Speaker 2: and seeing how long I can do that for and
Speaker 2: when it at what? And I always think, like what
Speaker 2: am I going to do when it ends? If it ends?
Speaker 2: Who knows yeah about anything? And I'm like, I'm like,
Speaker 2: I think I'll just I'm literally like I think I'll
Speaker 2: just fucking move to like a I don't know. Can
Speaker 2: you like live for fifteen thousand dollars a year in
Speaker 2: like Indonesia or something.
Speaker 7: Probably or like rural America if you wanted to do.
Speaker 2: That, Yeah, I could do that. I could. You could
Speaker 2: probably live in Wyoming. Could you do you think I
Speaker 2: can live in Wyoming for fifteen thousand dollars a year?
Speaker 7: I think there's some very wealthy people who own properties
Speaker 7: in Wyoming. It's like, you know, like, uh, the guy
Speaker 7: who owns Facebook, right, he probably owns some property out there.
Speaker 2: What's what's your plan? What are you going to do
Speaker 2: if if, if they make you have to do stuff again?
Speaker 7: Oh god, I mean at this point, I don't think
Speaker 7: I can go back to working in food service, so
Speaker 7: I'm probably gonna like be an art teacher.
Speaker 2: I like that. That's good. That's good. That's a good gig.
Speaker 7: It's a it's a decent a decent pivot. But then
Speaker 7: I'm like, man, the Get Go Show like is pretty inspiring.
Speaker 7: Maybe I should just like stream some pottery stuff, as
Speaker 7: long as it's not like sexual, you know, like it
Speaker 7: kind of gets like that on Twitch, doesn't it you.
Speaker 2: I mean you know I I I get a little
Speaker 2: sexual here and then, But you know, I mean that's.
Speaker 7: That's my true people love it and we have not
Speaker 7: seen it in a while.
Speaker 2: I like the you should do that. You should stream
Speaker 2: some pottery maybe on r pan or on Twitch. I
Speaker 2: like that idea freaking to think about it. You should
Speaker 2: do it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: In the meantime, just like ride in, rideing as along
Speaker 7: as long as possible, like I said, don't tell the
Speaker 7: don't tell the Department of Revenue or the I R
Speaker 7: s Okay, I.
Speaker 2: Won't tell them. You're a thing if you won't tell
Speaker 2: them mine, dude, sounds good. Well what'd you say your
Speaker 2: name was?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 2: Cheryl, keep on keep keep keep on trucking, Cheryl. There's
Speaker 2: a pleasure talking to you.
Speaker 9: Thanks.
Speaker 7: I'll have a good night, all from Charlotte.
Speaker 2: Charlotte. Awesome, Surete, Charlotte. Crap, what's up?
Speaker 3: I'm chilling and eating Thai food?
Speaker 2: Charlotte. Am I on speakerphone right now?
Speaker 8: I am just taking you off speaker phone.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Surely you have nothing to apot. Charlotte. You're gonna be
Speaker 2: my guinea pig for just a second here. How did
Speaker 2: can you guys hear Charlotte with the music and everything,
Speaker 2: it's the whole thing here, all right. I just got
Speaker 2: a bunch of people saying, yes, that's awesome. This is
Speaker 2: so great. Charlotte. Charlotte, Charlotte, Charlotte, Charlotte. How old are
Speaker 2: you I am?
Speaker 3: How old am I am?
Speaker 9: I twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3: I was born in ninety eight.
Speaker 2: Okay, you you started to talk just now as if
Speaker 2: you sort of came here prepared with something you wanted
Speaker 2: to talk about.
Speaker 3: Well, the topic is what do I do all day?
Speaker 10: Right?
Speaker 3: And I actually run a rescue. I run a rescue
Speaker 3: called My Safe Place Rescue, and we're in Florida and
Speaker 3: were taken cats and I rest you cats all day.
Speaker 3: And I have like ten cats in my house and
Speaker 3: all I do is save cats. And it's really great.
Speaker 2: You rescue cats all day. Interesting, Now, use what worries
Speaker 2: me is if I did something like that is do
Speaker 2: you ever deal with like a lack of resources to
Speaker 2: a point where you have so many cats to take
Speaker 2: care of and another one comes wandering by and you're
Speaker 2: just like you can't do it, or you take every
Speaker 2: single goddamn cat if it kills you.
Speaker 3: Well, I pretty much try to take every single one.
Speaker 3: My husband hates it, but I try to take all
Speaker 3: of them. Like I just got one back, and his
Speaker 3: name is Shadow, and he's blind and he's only has
Speaker 3: one eye, but he's really sweet and he plays like
Speaker 3: any other normal cat. And then I've got two kittens,
Speaker 3: and then I had three that I rescued from a
Speaker 3: sewer drain, and Jimmy John's a.
Speaker 5: Little while that's a.
Speaker 2: Sewer drain.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they'll get because they'll get stuck in there because
Speaker 3: it's fired McDonald's and a Jimmy John. So the mama
Speaker 3: cats will hide their kittens there and then unfortunately, the
Speaker 3: mama cats will get hit by cars or something, and
Speaker 3: then the babies are stuck in the drains and if
Speaker 3: it rains, it'll flood, and so I have to go
Speaker 3: get the.
Speaker 2: Kittens Outum, that is God. That is the opening scene
Speaker 2: of a Disney movie. But it sounds exactly like the
Speaker 2: opening scene of a Disney movie that you should write.
Speaker 2: There are three brother cats or sis sibling cats.
Speaker 6: Yes, three siblings.
Speaker 3: There are two brothers and a sister and I made
Speaker 3: them thin Jake and Bonnie like from Adventure Time.
Speaker 2: Interesting. Now you said your husband hates it. What's his deal?
Speaker 7: What is it?
Speaker 3: What is does he he helps out? I mean he
Speaker 3: has the house and he pays Bill got to put
Speaker 3: the cats in, So I would say that that's helpful.
Speaker 3: And he does love the cats.
Speaker 2: He loves the cats. Okay, I was gonna say he
Speaker 2: either has to love the cats or really love you.
Speaker 3: I think it's both.
Speaker 2: Okay, good, it's good because you know if he because
Speaker 2: because I mean, if he didn't love the cats, he
Speaker 2: would have to just you know, you'd have to be
Speaker 2: the most amazing human being in the entire world for
Speaker 2: him to still want to be with you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm not that great.
Speaker 2: No, No, no, I'm sure, I'm sure that's not true.
Speaker 2: Charlotte's yes. I mean, I don't know. I don't know
Speaker 2: what you do when you're not rescuing cats. Maybe you're
Speaker 2: intentionally putting them in dangerous situations so you could rescue
Speaker 2: them later. I don't have that much INFT.
Speaker 3: If I'm not rescuing cats, then I'm smoking my medical.
Speaker 2: Interesting. Can you get cats high? Is that a thing?
Speaker 2: Do cats get high? Can cats ever get?
Speaker 7: Like?
Speaker 3: I think you can't, but I've never tried to do it.
Speaker 3: You definitely can't get like CBD stuff for them. There's
Speaker 3: actually been lectures on like medicinal marijuana products for pets
Speaker 3: with arthritis and stuff. I just I personally don't get cats.
Speaker 2: High, now, Charlotte, real quick. Anyone out there who aims
Speaker 2: of doing something similar, perhaps working with animals, partaking in
Speaker 2: acts of organizational altruism such as this, any any advice
Speaker 2: for anyone out there interested in a pursuit like that.
Speaker 3: My advice would be just to not give up hope
Speaker 3: because there's a lot of negativity surrounding it. But if
Speaker 3: you can just be positive, then you know, things will
Speaker 3: kind of turn out.
Speaker 6: Bro.
Speaker 3: I mean, I've had a lot of issues before. I
Speaker 3: mean my cat Shadow that I just got back. He
Speaker 3: was a rescue and then he got adopted and then
Speaker 3: he should back up. So we've had problems with him,
Speaker 3: but I'm not going to give up on him. There's
Speaker 3: no point because, like we're all gonna live and die,
Speaker 3: so you know, maybe everything's for nothing, so we may
Speaker 3: as well do something.
Speaker 2: I love that. Charlotte, You're a gift to the cats.
Speaker 2: Thanks the world. Thank you so much for calling in.
Speaker 7: Thank you. BI.
Speaker 1: Get all from Alexandra Alexandra.
Speaker 5: Hello, are you there?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 2: I am.
Speaker 5: What's up, dude?
Speaker 2: What are you doing?
Speaker 11: Nothing?
Speaker 9: What are you doing?
Speaker 2: I'm talking to you, Alexandra.
Speaker 9: That's good.
Speaker 8: That's good.
Speaker 9: So tell me how is your night going?
Speaker 2: Have we spoken before, Alexandra?
Speaker 7: Have we spoken before?
Speaker 1: No, We've never spoken before.
Speaker 5: This is our first.
Speaker 9: This is my first time talking to you.
Speaker 2: Damn. How'd you find this?
Speaker 11: How did I find this?
Speaker 4: Stream?
Speaker 11: A friend told me about it.
Speaker 2: Who's their friend? Who's your friends?
Speaker 11: Actually, my friend Ashley told me about it. She told
Speaker 11: me there's this green little man giving therapy. And I said, well,
Speaker 11: I kind of do need help, and you know, especially
Speaker 11: need help saving on car insurance. Man, I'm sure you
Speaker 11: could do that for me, right.
Speaker 2: You know, Look, normally when people say things like that,
Speaker 2: it pisces me off to my core. But I you know,
Speaker 2: I you know what, you got a good energy about you.
Speaker 2: So I'm not gonna I'm not gonna tell you how
Speaker 2: the stuff I am because I'm actually not that pistol.
Speaker 2: You said, how old are you, Alexandre, I'm twenty three.
Speaker 2: Well you said, look, look I'm not a real therapist.
Speaker 2: I'm not even a fake therapist. I have no idea
Speaker 2: what I'm doing. But you know, i'd love to see
Speaker 2: what's what's going on. You said you need something, tell me,
Speaker 2: Please tell me how I can help you.
Speaker 11: Now, I don't really need anything. I was just I
Speaker 11: was curious, and I just called you're curious.
Speaker 2: Tell me more about this curiosity. I want to explore
Speaker 2: it with you. What are you curious about exactly?
Speaker 11: I'm curious why man would be on a video dressing
Speaker 11: in a gecko soup. So it's just interesting.
Speaker 5: It's very fascinating to me.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 2: My answer to that is, I mean, look at life, right,
Speaker 2: It's infinite, there's infinite possibilities. You ever heard the story
Speaker 2: of there's a child looking up at a big tree
Speaker 2: and it's got all these different fruits on it, and
Speaker 2: it's got juicy pears and big luscious apples and pineapples and.
Speaker 3: Grapes and something starting to get dirty.
Speaker 2: And the child's no, I promise it's not. The child
Speaker 2: is looking at these uh fruits and he's like, oh
Speaker 2: my god, look at all these delicious, wonderful fruits that
Speaker 2: I could have. Which which one should I pick? I
Speaker 2: don't know which? Which are these fruits I should pluck first?
Speaker 2: There's so many things, there's so many options here. And
Speaker 2: as as he's trying to make his decision, the fruit
Speaker 2: it starts rotting and he's like, oh no. He starts
Speaker 2: He's like, oh no, I I I still don't know
Speaker 2: what to pick, and the fruit starts rotting, and eventually
Speaker 2: it's all withers away because he could he couldn't pick.
Speaker 2: He couldn't pick one to eat. And so you know,
Speaker 2: I look at uh, I look at being a gecko
Speaker 2: on the computer as a big juicy watermelon, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: I could have had a pair. I could have had
Speaker 2: some grapes, but it doesn't matter what I could have had. Dude,
Speaker 2: I got my watermelon. You know, does that make sense?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 2: What do you mean?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 2: You know? Of all the options available to a.
Speaker 5: Human being, a green get go.
Speaker 9: That's what's so fascinating.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I thought to myself, well, if that were
Speaker 2: an option available to me, and I'm doing it right now,
Speaker 2: so it is an option available to me. Why not
Speaker 2: pick this option?
Speaker 5: Well, there you go.
Speaker 11: Hey, if you're happy, that's cool.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 2: I don't even know if happiness is. I don't even
Speaker 2: know if it's about happiness.
Speaker 11: So why do you do it?
Speaker 2: Why do I do it? Because? I you know, I
Speaker 2: like uh? I like it. I like doing it. It's good.
Speaker 2: It's a good gig. I like, I'm talking to you
Speaker 2: right now, no idea who you are? You don't know
Speaker 2: who I am. Uh. It's it's interesting, it's fun. I
Speaker 2: can do it from anywhere. I like. I like doing it.
Speaker 2: I like being a gecko. I'm excited to be a gecko.
Speaker 2: You can be a gecko.
Speaker 11: I'm going to I'm going to be a damn gecko.
Speaker 2: Go be a gecko.
Speaker 10: Let's do it.
Speaker 11: Let's be geckos.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing, though, is I think your version of
Speaker 2: being a gecko can't literally be being a gecko, because
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess it could be. I was hoping to, well,
Speaker 2: what's your I mean, you got to find your version
Speaker 2: of being a gecko? You know what I'm saying, Like something.
Speaker 11: That you can do that was a gecko, I would
Speaker 11: probably work in retail.
Speaker 2: If you were a gecko, you would work in retail.
Speaker 11: I don't know if you got that.
Speaker 2: No, what I mean is like you gotta find you
Speaker 2: know what being a you know, what's your own version
Speaker 2: of like a thing that you just are, Like, fuck it,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna make this thing into something.
Speaker 7: Well it's quite amazing.
Speaker 11: I mean, look at you dressed like the green gecko,
Speaker 11: and you have all these people viewing you dressed as
Speaker 11: a green gecko. So congratulations, then, oh ship what people?
Speaker 2: What I thought that we were? I thought this was
Speaker 2: a private phone line. I thought I didn't even know
Speaker 2: I was streaming right now, dude, Alexander, that's correct. How
Speaker 2: do you how do you feel about how this conversation went?
Speaker 11: Like from a one to ten?
Speaker 1: Or what?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 11: I guess I would say like a four?
Speaker 2: Really? Why a four?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 11: I guess I don't know, just the first moment that
Speaker 11: came out of my head.
Speaker 9: So before it is.
Speaker 2: All right, I'll take that cool. Yes, well, thank you
Speaker 2: to give.
Speaker 11: You anything else, no problem, no problem, Thank you for
Speaker 11: talking to me.
Speaker 5: Appreciate of course.
Speaker 2: You have a good night, well you too, goodbye.
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Speaker 5: All from Patrick?
Speaker 2: Patrick?
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, hello? Why is there silence?
Speaker 2: Where do we go when we die?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 5: That's tough? Where do we go?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 5: I I have very mixed feelings about that. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Have you ever? Do you ever play Pokemon?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 5: I I don't know if I should be a shamed
Speaker 5: to say that or not, because I am not I
Speaker 5: am from that generation, but because I have friends who
Speaker 5: are all about it, and I just I just personally,
Speaker 5: I don't. I don't get it. It's not my It's
Speaker 5: not my thing.
Speaker 2: Now, what is some thing that you you this is
Speaker 2: something that you're not sure if you should be ashamed of?
Speaker 2: What is something about you that you are one hundred
Speaker 2: percent sure that you are ashamed of?
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm not ashamed of anything.
Speaker 2: Really, you're not ashamed of anything.
Speaker 5: I don't think so.
Speaker 2: That's awesome.
Speaker 5: Maybe I not that I can think of off the
Speaker 5: top of my head.
Speaker 2: No, we can, Well wait, do you think?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 2: Hold on, let me let me ask you this question.
Speaker 2: Do you think if I gave if I gave you
Speaker 2: some time, you could think of something? And I'm not
Speaker 2: going to I just want to, like you think so.
Speaker 5: No, I I think I'm ashamed of not standing up
Speaker 5: for myself. Uh sooner regarding my my my job. I
Speaker 5: like that standing up for myself sooner than I than
Speaker 5: I have. And now I'm starting to reap the benefits
Speaker 5: of that, and when I should have done it a
Speaker 5: long time.
Speaker 2: I don't think you should be ashamed. I'm you know,
Speaker 2: I'm glad that some people. Look, some people never do
Speaker 2: it at all.
Speaker 5: Right, Like, I've been working for my boss for six
Speaker 5: years now and I've finally stood up. And I'm in
Speaker 5: a very unique scenario regarding work. And I'm a salaried employee,
Speaker 5: but I work for an independent contractor. So that being said,
Speaker 5: I should be just an independent contractor. But I do
Speaker 5: get a salary. And you know, I kind of negotiated
Speaker 5: against myself when we had those discussions and he offered
Speaker 5: me a hi higher salary. I suggested a lower salary
Speaker 5: for a portion of commissions, and he agreed to that.
Speaker 5: But then the commission part never happened over all these years,
Speaker 5: and now all of a sudden, it is because I said, hey, look,
Speaker 5: come on, six years, this is getting ridiculous. Are you
Speaker 5: sticking to your into the bargain or not.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you stopped for yourself. I mean, I don't know,
Speaker 2: do you feel like you had anything to gain from
Speaker 2: having done it earlier. I mean, what's what's the point
Speaker 2: of of dwelling on that? What's the point of dwelling
Speaker 2: on that?
Speaker 5: Well, dwelling on it. I mean, it's hard not to
Speaker 5: dwell about money over the course of six years when
Speaker 5: I do all the work, and you know, it's it's
Speaker 5: hard not to dwell on that. But I get what
Speaker 5: you're saying.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean what I'm saying is you know you
Speaker 2: could have dwelled on it. I mean, you know, I
Speaker 2: understand that necessity, not necessarily the tenancy to dwell on it.
Speaker 2: But I mean there's so much pride you could take
Speaker 2: as well, Well, you finally did it. You finally did
Speaker 2: stand up for this thing that was important to you.
Speaker 5: My pride is and well, I guess cynicism too, is
Speaker 5: that if I were to leave him my employer after
Speaker 5: all these years, basically the business crumbles because I run it.
Speaker 2: What is this business?
Speaker 5: Real estate? M I worked for a very successful real
Speaker 5: estate agent.
Speaker 2: Have you ever thought about, you know, if you're so
Speaker 2: great at running this guy's business thought of running around.
Speaker 5: Yes, However, he's very very well connected and in our
Speaker 5: general in this the place in the state where we work,
Speaker 5: the city where we work, I am not. But so
Speaker 5: I don't think it would work out here. But I'm
Speaker 5: pretty well connected back home, and that's kind of been
Speaker 5: in the back of my mind for a while.
Speaker 2: I like that idea, So, I.
Speaker 5: Mean, it's not out of the question. I mean, I
Speaker 5: feel like I could be very very successful on my
Speaker 5: own back home, but not necessarily here. Right right now,
Speaker 5: I'm kind of just riding the riding the wave of
Speaker 5: you know where we are now, and I guess I
Speaker 5: could say it New York City.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 5: So I mean, we're not talking, you know, a million
Speaker 5: dollar apartment, because that gets you a studio here.
Speaker 2: We're talking We're talking, yeah, a million.
Speaker 5: Several million dollars, crazy celebrity client, that kind of thing.
Speaker 2: Did you ever move home?
Speaker 5: You know, my mom passed away in twenty seventeen, and
Speaker 5: ever since then, I've had a really really strong urge
Speaker 5: to go home because about a year later, Dad had
Speaker 5: a really bad art episode. He's perfectly fine now, he's
Speaker 5: on a pacemaker and everything. So, I mean, God, willing.
Speaker 5: As long as that battery keeps ticking, we're good. But
Speaker 5: my brother's also there, my niece is there. I do
Speaker 5: kind of want to be closer to home, but you know,
Speaker 5: here I am in New York City and where dreams
Speaker 5: are made of. So it's a very tough decision. It's
Speaker 5: a real struggle in my head whether I make that
Speaker 5: choice to go home or not, Like I want to
Speaker 5: be close to my grandmother's ninety six years old in
Speaker 5: South Carolina, my parents, or whether my dad and my
Speaker 5: brother are both in North Carolina. So like, I really
Speaker 5: want to go home. I love home. Home is beautiful.
Speaker 5: But at the same time, it's like I get to be,
Speaker 5: you know, a free, independent person in New York.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean would' there be a lot of Not
Speaker 2: that I have any vested interests or swaying you either way.
Speaker 2: But when you mentioned like freedom and independence, isn't there
Speaker 2: also a greater amount of freedom independence that you can
Speaker 2: gain from doing things your own way business wise?
Speaker 5: Well, don't get me wrong, I do things my own
Speaker 5: way regardless of what anybody else thinks. Sure, but like
Speaker 5: I have like complete I mean I would have complete
Speaker 5: independence and freedom down there too. But it's just such
Speaker 5: a small bubble, you know, a tiny sphere of influence
Speaker 5: if you will. In the mountains of North Carolina. You know,
Speaker 5: that's where I'm from. It's where I grew up. But
Speaker 5: I moved to New York. It's going on seventeen eighteen
Speaker 5: years ago, and the reason I came here was to
Speaker 5: get away from there. But now that you know, life
Speaker 5: circumstances have changed a little bit in in you know,
Speaker 5: my mom's passing and everything, and and you know, Dad's
Speaker 5: helped otherwise other than a part issue is completely fine.
Speaker 5: But I just have a desire to be there with them.
Speaker 5: Does that make any sense to you? Like?
Speaker 2: What like?
Speaker 9: What?
Speaker 5: Like? Like I love my life in New York, but
Speaker 5: I could also see myself loving life there. So I'm
Speaker 5: kind of at a crossroads. Really. I mean, I guess
Speaker 5: to give a little more insight, I'm thirty seven years old,
Speaker 5: so I mean I've got God willing a long time ago.
Speaker 5: Dad's seventy two, I think seventy one seven two. But
Speaker 5: it's also my niece, she's she's uh just turned five, uh,
Speaker 5: and she's to the age now where she's starting to realize,
Speaker 5: you know, who I am, Like for the past, you know,
Speaker 5: five years, it didn't matter that I wasn't there. But
Speaker 5: now she's you know, my my brother and niece and
Speaker 5: his wife and my dad and his new girlfriend are
Speaker 5: going on a beach trip next week, and she asked
Speaker 5: if I was coming, And that really kind of pulls
Speaker 5: at my heart a little bit, like I should be there.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, in this, in this conversation alone,
Speaker 2: you know, I don't know how you're on thoughts about
Speaker 2: this works, but in this conversation alone, you've brought up
Speaker 2: many more good reasons for going home than you have
Speaker 2: reasons for staying where you are.
Speaker 5: That's yeah, that's fair enough.
Speaker 2: I mean, at the end of the day, the way
Speaker 2: that you have described it sounds like you'll be happy
Speaker 2: either place, and I think I would be. You know,
Speaker 2: that's great because it'll make it easier for And I
Speaker 2: was telling this to a caller previously today, the best
Speaker 2: decision making advice I ever heard was to make whatever
Speaker 2: decision you make into the right decision. You know, So
Speaker 2: if you're going to move back home and you're gonna
Speaker 2: be with your niece, you gonna be with your dad,
Speaker 2: you're gonna run your own thing, I mean, get really
Speaker 2: into it, you know, put your phone away and be
Speaker 2: with your family and speak conscious of all your experiences
Speaker 2: and live it up.
Speaker 5: I like that. It sounds good. It's it sounds It's
Speaker 5: a lot easier to talk about than having like the
Speaker 5: internal dialogue about it back and forth, you know, because
Speaker 5: I get you know, I feel like my arms are
Speaker 5: getting separated from my shoulders, like because that one, you know,
Speaker 5: one reason is pulling keeping me in New York, and
Speaker 5: the other is pulling me back home. And I mean,
Speaker 5: truth be told, Other than my job, there's nothing keeping
Speaker 5: me here in New York. My my best friend and
Speaker 5: roommate here in New York is also from North Carolina
Speaker 5: and couldn't just as easily go home too, you know.
Speaker 5: So and and it's kind of I think waiting on
Speaker 5: me to make the decision like Okay, this is it,
Speaker 5: let's go and and we do it. And maybe that's
Speaker 5: not case. Maybe I'm maybe that's not the case. Maybe
Speaker 5: I'm I'm just speaking, you know what I I believe.
Speaker 5: I don't know, but you know, like I said, there's
Speaker 5: there's just part of me that says, you know, stay
Speaker 5: in New York for as long as you can keep
Speaker 5: making the money because, trust me, the commissions from what
Speaker 5: I do here in New York are much different from
Speaker 5: what they are in North Carolina.
Speaker 2: Where we as are spending more money, you know being
Speaker 2: there North Carolina.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, I mean I don't give me my rent
Speaker 5: payment in New York City for a four bedroom apartments
Speaker 5: four thousand dollars And that's cheap because we live in
Speaker 5: the shithole you know of West Harlem.
Speaker 3: But you know.
Speaker 5: It's but it's all you know, four thousand dollars a
Speaker 5: month in North Carolina. I mean that's that's a that's
Speaker 5: a ten bedroom home. You know.
Speaker 2: Well, well, listen, man, what's your name was, Patrick Trick?
Speaker 2: Whatever you do, like I said, you'll be happy. It
Speaker 2: sounds like I appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Get thanks for being a sounding board for.
Speaker 2: Sure, for sure, and uh again, you'll make it the
Speaker 2: right decision. It sounds to me like you really want
Speaker 2: to go home. Just you know, I'm not an expert. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's still very I from you.
Speaker 5: I'm still very torn. But uh again, I appreciate you
Speaker 5: being a sounding board and let me letting me sound
Speaker 5: it off, you know, bounce it off of you and
Speaker 5: get your input of course it comes off a little
Speaker 5: differently that way to me.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you so much for sharing. Man, you have
Speaker 2: a good rest of the.
Speaker 5: Night too, Take care. Thanks yet.
Speaker 7: How from Lily?
Speaker 2: Lily? Helloh Lily, what's up? Dude?
Speaker 8: I just finished eating some totsy pops?
Speaker 2: How old are you, Lily?
Speaker 8: I'm twenty. Do I sound young?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 6: You do?
Speaker 8: I get told I will k young a lot, but
Speaker 8: I'm twenty, which is weird.
Speaker 2: To just eating some titty pops. I like totty pups.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I got stuff for taking pokes the other day
Speaker 8: with my friend, and I had some extra money, and
Speaker 8: so I decided to get like a two hundred pack
Speaker 8: of titsy pops standing there in my room, and I've
Speaker 8: just been eating them all the time when I'm hungry.
Speaker 2: It's a little dangerous.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I need to bring them downstairs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got it. I I I've gone so long
Speaker 2: in my life just without eating like a normal person.
Speaker 2: I mean, I feel I'm like ted, to be serious,
Speaker 2: I'm tired all the time. I don't know if and
Speaker 2: there's it could be many different variables, but I'm like shit,
Speaker 2: if I want to actually like be able to live
Speaker 2: my life, properly. I gotta gotta get you know, eating
Speaker 2: some fucking broccoli.
Speaker 8: Yeah. I get a little worried sometimes when I realize
Speaker 8: like how bad my eating has been for so long,
Speaker 8: But I try to give myself some like lenience for
Speaker 8: it because of school and everything that's gone on, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: What do you do all day?
Speaker 8: Not many things currently, but I'm doing summer school right now.
Speaker 8: I have like one class, so that's like my main
Speaker 8: focus because I'm trying to get ahead. I'm visiting my
Speaker 8: sister in Chicago soon, so I want to be able
Speaker 8: to like spend my time with her instead of doing.
Speaker 3: School work all day.
Speaker 2: What's the one class?
Speaker 8: It's art history, which is really not related to what
Speaker 8: I want to do, but I needed to get.
Speaker 3: An elective out of the way.
Speaker 2: What is it do you want to do?
Speaker 8: I want to be a therapist.
Speaker 2: I want to be a therapist. Mm hmm, Now why
Speaker 2: do you want to be a therapist?
Speaker 8: I struggle a lot with mental health issues, and so
Speaker 8: I've just I've been in and out of some like
Speaker 8: programs for it, and so I've met a lot of
Speaker 8: people who have also struggled with it, and I've and
Speaker 8: then a lot of like therapy groups as well. And
Speaker 8: I think just watching the people that have helped me,
Speaker 8: like in all the work they put into other people
Speaker 8: wanted like inspire me to do the same thing. Obviously
Speaker 8: they've changed my life a lot too. But yeah, really
Speaker 8: getting to know the people that I've like lived with
Speaker 8: in the time that I've been in those programs made
Speaker 8: me realize like how much you can impact someone through
Speaker 8: that line of work. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Right, you have a good role models as you've gone
Speaker 2: through the processes and having been on the other side
Speaker 2: of the couch gives you a lot of insight. I
Speaker 2: feel into the professional and you know, you get the
Speaker 2: idea of being on the receiving ends, how you would
Speaker 2: like your receiving end to feel when you be a therapist.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 8: Yeah. I was kind of scared in the beginning to
Speaker 8: go for that, just because I didn't know if it
Speaker 8: would be kind of hard for me not to get
Speaker 8: too attached to the people that I'm working with, just
Speaker 8: because I feel like I want to, like I'll get
Speaker 8: to invested into the relationship, not like I don't know,
Speaker 8: I just feel like I would feel for them so
Speaker 8: much that I would have a hard time keeping it
Speaker 8: professional or just like not showing like the emotion that
Speaker 8: I'm feeling, because I know you have to kind of
Speaker 8: keep that to yourself when you are trying to help them.
Speaker 8: But it was like, even when I'm like talking to
Speaker 8: someone about it, it's hard for me to like not
Speaker 8: cry if I see someone else crying. So you know,
Speaker 8: I'll I'll learn how to do that.
Speaker 2: That's interesting because I don't really know like what the
Speaker 2: whole standard is for that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's weird. I've actually had a therapist who did
Speaker 8: kind of start crying when talking to me, but and
Speaker 8: she's like, oh, sorry, like you're not really supposed to
Speaker 8: do that, just because it almost like you want to
Speaker 8: make it a safe space to open up about anything
Speaker 8: without getting any judgment. Obviously like crying or showing empathy
Speaker 8: as not judgment, but I think it kind of like
Speaker 8: makes the other person be like shit, like they're really
Speaker 8: taking this in and it almost just kind of feels like,
Speaker 8: I don't know, it just feels it takes away almost
Speaker 8: that like safety net. At least that what I feel
Speaker 8: when I'm in therapy, just because I don't want to
Speaker 8: feel like it's like going into their personal lives. I
Speaker 8: don't know if I'm thinking.
Speaker 6: I kind of feel like i'm rambling, you know what
Speaker 6: I mean.
Speaker 2: Yes, well, look, I'm I'm happy to hear that you
Speaker 2: found something for you and you know, good on you
Speaker 2: for going and getting the license and doing it real
Speaker 2: instead of, you know, being a fake therapist on the internet.
Speaker 8: No, no, well you do. It's really cool, dude.
Speaker 2: Yeah, getting you know, do actually doing therapy sounds very tough. Uh,
Speaker 2: definitely requires a lot of resilience. Mmm.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm very passionate about it, so I think it's
Speaker 8: worth it.
Speaker 2: Well, good luck to you, Lily. I'm proud of you.
Speaker 8: Thank you. I hope you have a good night.
Speaker 2: Gek you too, man, take care YouTube bye.
Speaker 7: Call from Ashley Ashley.
Speaker 2: Hey is this Have we spoken before? Ashley?
Speaker 3: No, we have not.
Speaker 2: Actually it's a pleasure. It's an honor. Even I would
Speaker 2: say it actually is an honor. You really took a time.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm that serious. You took the time out
Speaker 2: of your day to call me. I did what I mean,
Speaker 2: that's that's cool.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 2: You could have called like you know that your phone theoretically,
Speaker 2: theoretically your phone could call like the press. They could
Speaker 2: call the president if you but like, there is a
Speaker 2: sequence available to you right now where you could call
Speaker 2: the president, but you just don't know the number.
Speaker 9: It's just this.
Speaker 6: Weird electronic portal of sound. You know, it's crazy.
Speaker 2: So how can I help you today, Ashley?
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 6: How can I help you?
Speaker 9: Get? I don't know.
Speaker 6: This is weird to me. I do customer service and
Speaker 6: I'm working from home, so I kind of feel like
Speaker 6: when I'm on the phone, that's that's my job is
Speaker 6: to help people.
Speaker 2: So how do you feel that I'm offering to help
Speaker 2: you when you know normally other people call them for
Speaker 2: you to help them. How do you feel being on
Speaker 2: the opposite side of this, uh, this interaction?
Speaker 6: You know, it feels nice, it feels odd in a way.
Speaker 6: It feels like an adventure, like an adventure.
Speaker 9: Sure, sure, I try.
Speaker 6: To think of things as adventures because if you can
Speaker 6: make something sound exciting, maybe it'll give you motivation to
Speaker 6: do it, and then if you do it, maybe it
Speaker 6: will be exciting. You don't know unless you try.
Speaker 2: I like that. That's like a framing technique.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I've been working on that lately.
Speaker 2: Walk me through this. I want to do a live
Speaker 2: one here. You work in customer service, which traditionally one
Speaker 2: would think of as standard, possibly a little boring of
Speaker 2: a thing to do, and I want to hear the
Speaker 2: way in which you reframe it as an adventure.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, sometimes I really have to think about
Speaker 6: that when I wake up and walk like the fifteen
Speaker 6: feet to my computer. I just try to think about Like,
Speaker 6: I mean, I've worked like a retail person, like in
Speaker 6: person before, and it wasn't always the most exciting, you know,
Speaker 6: It's kind of like what you make of it. But
Speaker 6: I kind of just have to pretend, like pretend like
Speaker 6: even though I'm like staring at a computer screen with
Speaker 6: like this headset that I have like an actual person
Speaker 6: in front of me, like as if they were on
Speaker 6: the other side of the counter and they took their
Speaker 6: time out of their day to come to my place
Speaker 6: of business to ask me for help, and I'm the
Speaker 6: person with the information and the knowledge and the means
Speaker 6: to help them in the way that they need. And
Speaker 6: I guess the people I've always looked up to the
Speaker 6: most in my life for the people who who were
Speaker 6: around to help, like teachers, And I don't know, I
Speaker 6: just I think it's cool to help. I like to help.
Speaker 6: It can be taxing to help sometimes, but it's rewarding.
Speaker 2: You touched on a couple things there that I thought
Speaker 2: were interesting. First was the shift in dynamic between talking
Speaker 2: to someone over the phone and talking to someone in person,
Speaker 2: and you still trying to keep the important parts of
Speaker 2: the in person interaction present as you were helping someone
Speaker 2: through the phone. Try to keep in mind, you know,
Speaker 2: when you're talking to someone. You know, if you and I,
Speaker 2: if we're looking into your eyes right now and talking
Speaker 2: to you, I wouldn't have to actively think, oh, I'm
Speaker 2: actually talking to a real human being. I would just
Speaker 2: I would just be talking to an actual human being.
Speaker 2: But when it's over the phone, I have to sort
Speaker 2: of make a concentrated effort to think of you as
Speaker 2: a real human being. And then you touched on what
Speaker 2: was it that you like to help people, which you
Speaker 2: know is great? Why would you not? Isn't that exciting something?
Speaker 2: I mean, for anything, someone comes to you for a
Speaker 2: cup of coffee and you work at a coffee shop
Speaker 2: and you're like, oh, this is cool. This person wants
Speaker 2: a cup of coffee and I got I got beans
Speaker 2: and a cup, and I can I don't know. It's
Speaker 2: there's something interesting about being able to help people in
Speaker 2: such an immediate direct way. I understand the appeal in that.
Speaker 9: Definitely.
Speaker 2: See if we were in person, we would just be
Speaker 2: kind of staring at each other just now, and that
Speaker 2: would be more weird. But I feel like it's less
Speaker 2: weird because we're on the phone. Yeah, well, anyway, would
Speaker 2: you say your name was Ashley?
Speaker 9: Ashley? Yep, you got it.
Speaker 2: It was a pleasure talking to you. Thank you so
Speaker 2: much for calling in and share.
Speaker 6: Yeah, thanks for talking gig.
Speaker 4: How good one.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 7: All from Nick?
Speaker 4: Nick Baby, Hey buddy, how are you doing?
Speaker 2: I'm doing pretty good?
Speaker 5: Nick?
Speaker 2: What uh? How can I help you this evening? Oh?
Speaker 4: Man, man, I don't know. What was the question of
Speaker 4: the night? Again?
Speaker 2: The question of the night? I never liked having a
Speaker 2: question of the night. I know I have to. I
Speaker 2: don't gotta have one because it's like there's to be
Speaker 2: some semblance of structure. But yeah, for sure, you know, look,
Speaker 2: what's the question? What's let me ask you a question? Okay, sir,
Speaker 2: what's the question of the night? Nick?
Speaker 4: Question the night? Question of the night is how are
Speaker 4: you doing?
Speaker 2: I hate that question?
Speaker 10: Nick?
Speaker 2: What did you do all nick? Nick?
Speaker 4: Nick, Yes, there, I really I do.
Speaker 2: I do hate that question.
Speaker 4: No, I do too, I absolutely hate it. I just
Speaker 4: couldn't think of anything else. Honestly, I say.
Speaker 2: That's the thing is, I think everyone hates that question,
Speaker 2: but it's.
Speaker 4: It's like, yeah, it's a formality.
Speaker 2: What do you do all day? Nick?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what it was. Well, right now I'm kind
Speaker 4: of in between jobs because the last one was like
Speaker 4: really everybody was just really shitty there. So right now
Speaker 4: I just kind of wake up. We've been cleaning the house.
Speaker 4: I guess because we're getting a cat. I don't know,
Speaker 4: just vibes.
Speaker 2: Down because apparently you were screaming. But I like, but
Speaker 2: but but I'll take I'll take a car that's too
Speaker 2: loud or were clothes too quiet any day of the week.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I I wasn't even talking about I'm just
Speaker 4: giving move my mouth away from the phone.
Speaker 2: Not bad, no, no, no, no, no, no, It's not your fault.
Speaker 2: Don't feel self conscious right now. It's not your fault.
Speaker 2: It's something with the technology. You're like, if we were
Speaker 2: talking on Parsons, you'd be fine.
Speaker 4: But listen, Yeah, I know you're good.
Speaker 2: Uh you said you all got I'm so sorry. I
Speaker 2: was trying to deal with that, and I'm gonna be
Speaker 2: honest with you. I was to pay full attention to
Speaker 2: what you said.
Speaker 4: You're good man. Uh No, pretty much, pretty much. I
Speaker 4: uh so, I had been I had a job building
Speaker 4: bikes for I had it for like three weeks, but
Speaker 4: everybody there was just honestly, just steady, just terrible, terrible people,
Speaker 4: And so I got right out of that. So I
Speaker 4: don't really want to be in that situation.
Speaker 2: M that's what are you doing now?
Speaker 4: So right now I'm applying to jobs picking up the
Speaker 4: house where my girlfriend and I are planning on getting
Speaker 4: a cat. So I don't know, not a whole lot interesting.
Speaker 7: But.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm, you sound like an interesting guy. What where'd
Speaker 2: you meet your girlfriends?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 4: We met h through a group chat for a band.
Speaker 2: Through a group chat for a band? Is this a
Speaker 2: group chat to discuss a band? Or group chat like
Speaker 2: you guys are both in a band, like you're in.
Speaker 4: A band to discuss.
Speaker 2: What? What band were you discussing?
Speaker 4: It was a band called the Deer Hunter. The Deer Hunter, Yeah,
Speaker 4: they're kind of like an indie band. But she was
Speaker 4: in New York and I was in Michigan and uh,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 2: The deer Hunter. Oh, people in the chat know the
Speaker 2: deer Hunter.
Speaker 4: Oh boy, yes, I love seeing that. No, it's not
Speaker 4: the e E R Hunter. It's with d e A
Speaker 4: R Hunter. Because I'm seeing this is yeah, yeah, somebody
Speaker 4: whose name is yeah. But yeah, I met her through that.
Speaker 4: She was in New York and I was in Michigan
Speaker 4: and so but we finally moved in.
Speaker 2: It's interesting that, you know, you start off, you have
Speaker 2: one thing, and do you feel as though having the
Speaker 2: deer Hunter in common?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 2: Do you feel like that made it made for a
Speaker 2: good foundation of your relationship?
Speaker 4: For sure? It definitely. It definitely helped having that kind
Speaker 4: of common ground to start with, to kind of break
Speaker 4: the ice. So it wasn't like, you know, uncomfortable like
Speaker 4: I feel most of the time, quite honest.
Speaker 2: What do you feel uncomfortable most of the time?
Speaker 4: Yes, sir?
Speaker 2: Why what do you when? Why what do you feel
Speaker 2: uncomfortable most of the time?
Speaker 4: Oh boy, I don't know. Probably probably some some deep
Speaker 4: seated mental issues, a lot of a lot of anxiety.
Speaker 2: Yeah you talk You ever talked to a real therapist
Speaker 2: about that?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no, no, no, we're good. No, okay, I
Speaker 4: don't want to give that. I'm good. I'm doing I'm
Speaker 4: doing really good right now.
Speaker 2: Especially Oh no, Nick, you uh, you've been totally pleasant, don't.
Speaker 4: Oh, thank you.
Speaker 2: It's a freak out, man.
Speaker 4: No, I'm not no right now. I mean obviously a
Speaker 4: little bit, but like I mean, I'm just I'm honestly
Speaker 4: too tired to freak out.
Speaker 2: To be quite honest, man, I'm a little tired too.
Speaker 2: I hate I hate being tired. I want, like, dude,
Speaker 2: what sucks. It's one thing if you're like somewhere you
Speaker 2: don't want to be in your tired, but it sucks
Speaker 2: when like you, like, I want I want to be here,
Speaker 2: so I don't I want to not be tired so
Speaker 2: I can like be here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I saw you talking about that earlier in
Speaker 4: the stream. But as you say, you just got to
Speaker 4: kind of go with it. Like I've I've been I had, like,
Speaker 4: especially in high school, I had a lot of sleepless
Speaker 4: nights where I just like would spend days awake. And
Speaker 4: I mean, aside from like caffeine and stuff that you know,
Speaker 4: you get to kind of help guide you along. You
Speaker 4: just kind of I've just kind of learned to just
Speaker 4: kind of just vibe with it, just kind of go you.
Speaker 2: Know, yeah, yeah, that's what I try to do. That's
Speaker 2: what I try to do. Let's just go with it,
Speaker 2: be low key.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, you're a very pleasant person to.
Speaker 2: Watch so well, thank you. I appreciate that. Yeah, you're
Speaker 2: a pleasant person to listen to too, Like you, Nick,
Speaker 2: you got a good cut to your jib.
Speaker 4: Oh, I appreciate it. Thank you.
Speaker 2: It's so interesting. You met in a group chat for
Speaker 2: this band. That's uh wait what was it a Messenger
Speaker 2: group chat?
Speaker 4: It was a Snapchat group chat that I I I will,
Speaker 4: I will admit I made it definitely to make friends,
Speaker 4: and it definitely worked. We ended up meeting up at
Speaker 4: a show and stuff.
Speaker 2: So that's romantic. Well okay, but you're actually like, was
Speaker 2: it through a how'd you get involved in the group chat?
Speaker 2: And first? Was it through a mutual friend?
Speaker 4: I started it. I I kind of uh like run
Speaker 4: around in the uh the circles like similar like like
Speaker 4: for like fandoms of the band and stuff, and so
Speaker 4: I was like, hey, it was around Thanksgiving and so
Speaker 4: you know, like the whole seasonal kind of loneliness, and
Speaker 4: so I was like, hey, yo, anybody want uh started
Speaker 4: to start a chat and so I got it filled
Speaker 4: up really quick, and she and I hit it off,
Speaker 4: and I slid into those d ms and uh, now
Speaker 4: she's sitting about three feet away from me?
Speaker 2: Is she sitting there? Can I talk to her?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, you can talk to her? Here you go?
Speaker 6: Hello?
Speaker 4: How are you pretty good?
Speaker 9: How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm good?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 2: Uh? What do you do all day?
Speaker 4: Well? I'm just chilling right now.
Speaker 3: I'm in between school and uh an internship, So I
Speaker 3: am very much just chilling.
Speaker 2: How what do you do to chill?
Speaker 4: Some video games? Like I think Nick was talking about earlier.
Speaker 7: We were we've been doing a lot of cleaning, which.
Speaker 9: I know I find fairly therapeutic.
Speaker 2: I've never liked cleaning because cleaning always pissed me off
Speaker 2: because you clean something. That's why I don't clean a lot,
Speaker 2: because what are you clean something? Right? And then what
Speaker 2: happens two seconds later? It gets dirty again? Clean, and
Speaker 2: it just you know, eventually, eventually you just got to
Speaker 2: make the decision to go. The floor is dirty. The flipping,
Speaker 2: the flip, it's really the bipolar, the flip flopness that bothered.
Speaker 2: The floor being dirty doesn't bother me as much as
Speaker 2: the floor is sometimes being clean and sometimes being dirty.
Speaker 2: I'd rather have the constant of it being dirty than
Speaker 2: have it sometimes clean sometimes dirty.
Speaker 7: Right, but then what happens when like the insects and
Speaker 7: the mice indade?
Speaker 9: That's the time.
Speaker 2: Look, I accept what happens to me in life, you know,
Speaker 2: I try to go with the flow.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 9: They need a home too, I guess.
Speaker 2: Still talk in this group?
Speaker 1: Chat?
Speaker 3: No, No, that that died fairly quickly?
Speaker 2: Really? Yeah, dude, are you tired too? I'm tired tired. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you guys should take a nap.
Speaker 9: Perhaps, yeah, maybe an extended nap.
Speaker 2: Well, listen, woud you say your name was Mathe?
Speaker 5: Yep?
Speaker 2: I like that name, maybe, well, Mayve? And your boyfriend's
Speaker 2: name is fuck it's not Chris, is it? No?
Speaker 9: It is not?
Speaker 2: Oh no, let me talk to him again real quick?
Speaker 5: Okay, here you go.
Speaker 2: Hello, hey man, Look, it was a pleasure talking to you.
Speaker 2: What's your name again?
Speaker 4: Nick? It was great talking to you too, yes, sir?
Speaker 5: Fuck?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yo? Good rest of the night.
Speaker 4: Nick, Yeah, you too, buddy, it's good talking to you.
Speaker 2: Take care of our good sleeps.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we will, We fucking will.
Speaker 2: That was ten minutes. That was eleven minutes. I'm losing
Speaker 2: my mind.
Speaker 5: Never goes on the line, making your phone calls every night,
Speaker 5: never goes to his high.
Speaker 2: He's teaching you loud.
Speaker 5: In the middle of your life.
Speaker 2: Body's not really an expert.