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Speaker 2: Hello, Hello, how are you good?
Speaker 3: How are you?
Speaker 1: I am a gecko on the computer and your name
Speaker 1: is Megan. Correct correct it sounded it sounded weird, Megan?
Speaker 1: What's up? How's life?
Speaker 3: I sounded weird. A you sounded weird.
Speaker 1: I sounded weird. But you sound a little weird too, Hugh.
Speaker 1: The human voice is strange. It's no one's fault. What's up, Megan,
Speaker 1: How's life.
Speaker 3: Not too bad? Just got home from work so it
Speaker 3: was a very long day. But yeah, I've been listening
Speaker 3: to your show a lot recently and I decided I
Speaker 3: would call in to end my night.
Speaker 1: Well, Meghan, uh, it says here that you wanted to
Speaker 1: talk about a you wanted to talk about playing competitive
Speaker 1: nude volleyball around the country, and that HBO is doing
Speaker 1: a documentary about your nude volleyball group. MM.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I got introduced to it in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 3: You know, I grew up playing volleyball and a friend
Speaker 3: of mine, you know, mentioned that they go to it
Speaker 3: and the volleyball, you know, is really really good, and
Speaker 3: I was like, you know what, why not? So I went?
Speaker 3: And you know how they work is I call it
Speaker 3: a circuit. There are tournaments that the first tournament is
Speaker 3: in March, that's what opens this season, and then the
Speaker 3: last tournament is in September, and there's about one a
Speaker 3: month and they're at all you know, different nudest resorts.
Speaker 3: So there's two in Florida, three in Pennsylvania, one in Virginia,
Speaker 3: and so on. And basically, you know, it seems super
Speaker 3: strange when you first hear it. So for me, it
Speaker 3: was a lot of just pure curiosity of what is this.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean our biggest tournament, which is the
Speaker 3: one that HBO is at this year, is the one
Speaker 3: that closes this season in Pennsylvania, and there's about I
Speaker 3: would say between six hundred and seven hundred people that
Speaker 3: actually compete, and total, there's probably about a thousand people
Speaker 3: that go. You know, it's very serious quote unquote ball
Speaker 3: in that we have you know, separate divisions between Novice B,
Speaker 3: Double B A, and Double A, which is collegiate meaning
Speaker 3: that either they played professionally or you know, in college.
Speaker 3: So I mean, for example, in two thousand and nine,
Speaker 3: ESPN sent a team Olympians to the tournament and basically
Speaker 3: they were doing a story about out body image and
Speaker 3: how you can be an Olympic athlete and still have
Speaker 3: you know, body issues, and our best team beat them.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's a pretty incredible group. Again, we all
Speaker 3: travel from various places to these we all stay on
Speaker 3: quote unquote campus, so you either tent or you have
Speaker 3: an RV. Sometimes there's places to rent on the property.
Speaker 3: But at night, it basically is the music festival. There
Speaker 3: are definitely a lot of drugs done, and then we
Speaker 3: play volleyball nude all that.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I got to imagine the best part of traveling around
Speaker 1: the world to nudest resorts playing nude volleyball is what
Speaker 1: you don't have to check a bag because you don't
Speaker 1: need any clothes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the packing is really easy. I mean basically, all
Speaker 3: my stuff that I pack is for you know, stuff
Speaker 3: that we wear at night, like you know whatever. Like
Speaker 3: we'll have scenes at night and you know, whether it's
Speaker 3: like glow or four animal and I always have all
Speaker 3: the glitter. But yeah, so we have DJs who are
Speaker 3: just part of the group and bring all of their
Speaker 3: equipment and it's you know, basically an ed M festival
Speaker 3: at night. And they've actually started a nudist music festival
Speaker 3: that's coming up in a couple of weeks and there'll
Speaker 3: probably be about four hundred people there. This is their
Speaker 3: third year of doing it.
Speaker 1: I have a lot I got a lot of questions.
Speaker 1: Were you a nudist before you started doing this stuff
Speaker 1: or was like being a newdist something that was interesting
Speaker 1: to you.
Speaker 3: No, not even close. In fact, prior I would say,
Speaker 3: up until you know, I was twenty eight, twenty nine.
Speaker 3: I mean I was terrified of being nude. I mean
Speaker 3: I used to think that I had a boob phobia.
Speaker 3: My ex, who I was with for nearly twelve years
Speaker 3: starting at eighteen to twenty nine, he I don't think
Speaker 3: he could pick my boobs out of a lineup, truthfully,
Speaker 3: because I was so incredibly modest. But you know, it's
Speaker 3: it was just one of those things that you know,
Speaker 3: I figured why not, And it's not some resorts. It's
Speaker 3: not mandatory nude for everybody, meaning that like you can
Speaker 3: wear cover up, et cetera. It's only mandatory nude when
Speaker 3: you play. But yeah, I think you quickly. I know
Speaker 3: it sounds like crazy and shocking to a lot of
Speaker 3: people when they first hear about it, but you would
Speaker 3: be amazed at how quickly it loses its shock factor.
Speaker 3: You just don't think about it. And you know, I
Speaker 3: think that one of the things that makes this, you know,
Speaker 3: group of people so special is that when you don't
Speaker 3: have clothes on, you don't portray any like you know,
Speaker 3: first impression, so you know, based on what you how
Speaker 3: you dress like you kind of you know, portray a
Speaker 3: certain you know, what's the word I'm looking for, you know, characteristic,
Speaker 3: whatever the word. And you know, I think that again
Speaker 3: because nobody, you know, you're everybody's so vulnerable, and you know,
Speaker 3: it just allows you to and I know it sounds
Speaker 3: cheesy like connect with people on a whole different level.
Speaker 3: And you don't have your phones with you. You're not
Speaker 3: allowed to have your phones out of things.
Speaker 1: Right right right that. You know what that's an overlooked
Speaker 1: aspect of the newdest community is that everyone is a
Speaker 1: little bit more present because they're not on their phones.
Speaker 1: You never even thought about that.
Speaker 3: And I wouldn't call I'm not a true nudist. You know,
Speaker 3: there's a big true nudist can kind of be a
Speaker 3: little uppity and think that they're better than others, so
Speaker 3: to speak. And you know, so I'm not a true nudist.
Speaker 3: It's more so about this community. And I mean they're
Speaker 3: all my closest friends just coming and hanging out together.
Speaker 3: And again, I feel like there's no it's a lot
Speaker 3: harder to judge somebody when they don't have clothes on.
Speaker 3: That makes sense.
Speaker 1: This is a very interesting thing because you went from
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm curious what within you inspired you to
Speaker 1: make such a hard left turn, because you're telling me
Speaker 1: that you were so uh modest with your body that
Speaker 1: even like your your boyfriend like was barely seeing you
Speaker 1: naked all the way, your husband barely seeing you naked
Speaker 1: all the way, to you know, having a whole audience
Speaker 1: of people seeing a naked mm hmm.
Speaker 3: Well, you're also not alone in those environments. It's not
Speaker 3: like you're the only person standing there naked by yourself.
Speaker 3: But I will say so, like I can tell you
Speaker 3: when I was in seventh grade, it was the summer
Speaker 3: going into my eighth My family was down in Destin, Florida,
Speaker 3: and my stepsister and I met these two boys. Of course,
Speaker 3: I liked the asshole, and we were playing the stupid
Speaker 3: game to diddle, and at one point we agreed to
Speaker 3: flash them, and so you know, like we're super nervous,
Speaker 3: but whatever, So we flashed them and the guy that
Speaker 3: I liked, his first reaction was you have those kind
Speaker 3: of nipples? And I was like, holy shit, what kind
Speaker 3: of nipples do I have? And it's crazy to think
Speaker 3: that that small little, you know, moment just escalated into literally,
Speaker 3: I mean, me not wanting to be naked in front
Speaker 3: of myself. And when I separated my ex, I think
Speaker 3: I've just kind of had this. You know what if
Speaker 3: I don't like myself, nobody's gonna like myself. And you know,
Speaker 3: once you kind of just say fuck it, then you
Speaker 3: you know, you get positive reinforcement and you know, you
Speaker 3: just realize again and there are no two bodies alike,
Speaker 3: no two bodies. I joke that, you know, a woman's
Speaker 3: vagina is like a snowflake. There are no two alike,
Speaker 3: so you know, and it's just how you feel about yourself.
Speaker 1: Do you like, are you You're not at a thing
Speaker 1: where you're like you do you compare yourself to other people?
Speaker 1: Like seeing all these other people naked at all?
Speaker 3: I mean, of course you do. And you know I
Speaker 3: will say, like, I'm relatively fit, and you know, I
Speaker 3: so for me, I think I don't feel I can't
Speaker 3: for somebody who you know, maybe doesn't feel.
Speaker 2: As positive about their body.
Speaker 3: But again, you know, women especially they're constantly encouraging each other,
Speaker 3: and you know it just you realize that so much
Speaker 3: is in your head and you know it. It's just yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, you put out a vulnerability that
Speaker 3: makes you feel really comfortable at the end of the
Speaker 3: day when everyone else is so vulnerable and we you know,
Speaker 3: in turn know each other so weirdly well because again
Speaker 3: I think it strips you of, you know, any kind
Speaker 3: of boundaries also in terms of you know, what is
Speaker 3: taboo or you know, when you all see each other
Speaker 3: naked again, it just kind of takes away any you know, shyness.
Speaker 3: So sometimes we know too much of each other's business.
Speaker 1: We got to get this part out of the way.
Speaker 1: Is there a sexually charged energy to the nudist resorts
Speaker 1: or to the nude volleyball.
Speaker 3: So again, that's a big misconception that like, basically nudists
Speaker 3: are swingers, when in fact, swingers are not at all
Speaker 3: naked people generally in the terms of like, I mean,
Speaker 3: they're very different. But I will say so with nudists,
Speaker 3: one of the big things is separating sex from nudity.
Speaker 3: So for example, you're not allowed to wear bathing suits
Speaker 3: because they think that sexualizes you. And it's funny. My
Speaker 3: boyfriend and I were recently in Florida, with his family
Speaker 3: and I was wearing a bathing suit and he was
Speaker 3: looking at me like, you know, oh my goodness. I
Speaker 3: was like, what are you doing? You see me naked
Speaker 3: all the time. Why are you looking at me like that?
Speaker 3: And he's like, I don't know, you just look hot.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean you know it's there. If you
Speaker 3: are walking around with a heart on, you're out immediately. Period.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's just weird really.
Speaker 1: But I would say somebody, if somebody is in the
Speaker 1: nudist So if somebody is a part of the newdist
Speaker 1: colony or they're watching the news, I assume, okay, I
Speaker 1: just real quick the audience that these things is naked too, right,
Speaker 1: because it's on a not all of them, but I
Speaker 1: assume a lot of them are.
Speaker 3: It's not mandatory nude, but yeah, as a whole, I
Speaker 3: mean people are in some shape or form, you know, nude.
Speaker 1: So look, obviously if somebody were like jacking off or something,
Speaker 1: that would be inappropriate. But like if just if they
Speaker 1: have a heart on, they're they're out.
Speaker 3: Oh They're they're out one hundred percent, like without any
Speaker 3: evans or butts. And you know, again that's a big thing,
Speaker 3: is safety. I mean, I have never experienced any issues
Speaker 3: with somebody making me feel uncomfortable. But again the reality
Speaker 3: is that everyone's new. So the assumption is that you
Speaker 3: have to be hyper aware of that versus you know,
Speaker 3: if you're at in any other scenario where there's creepers,
Speaker 3: it's just not as hyper aware. And so, you know, again,
Speaker 3: it's just a I mean, there's no tolerance for it.
Speaker 3: But in terms of like, you know, I mean, yes,
Speaker 3: people are we're all you know, adults, Well, I don't
Speaker 3: know people in our prime will say, and so yeah,
Speaker 3: of course sex and hooking up and you know, all
Speaker 3: of that is very prevalent, but it's not any more
Speaker 3: prevalent per se than it would be in another situation.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean it's you know again, I think
Speaker 3: that people are you know, you know, a lot more
Speaker 3: about sex, maybe because people are a lot more open
Speaker 3: and willing to share and we're all in sense, so
Speaker 3: you know, what's going on?
Speaker 1: Is that a thing? Just at the volleyball tournament, are
Speaker 1: like at all the nudist colonies, if you get a boner,
Speaker 1: you're out.
Speaker 3: Oh, I mean the volleyball tournaments they're a little bit
Speaker 3: more relaxed on the rules, But when it's not a
Speaker 3: volleyball tournament, they are psycho stritched interest and you know,
Speaker 3: so I would not go to a newdist resort just
Speaker 3: to go per se like I go because of the
Speaker 3: volleyball tournaments and so yeah, and it's not I know
Speaker 3: again like nudy and swingers kind of get you know,
Speaker 3: luve together. But it couldn't be further from the truth.
Speaker 3: And a lot of these places are family friendly, which
Speaker 3: I will say family friendly is outside of my comfort zone,
Speaker 3: you know that I don't like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be that sounds like it would be
Speaker 1: out of the government comfort zone as well.
Speaker 3: For families to see each other nude. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 3: but why out of the why would the gum or
Speaker 3: why would it be out of the government's comfort gun.
Speaker 1: I look, I'm open. I'm open to the the openness
Speaker 1: of d I am open to the idea of desexualizing nudity,
Speaker 1: but I keep the no.
Speaker 3: I completely agree it weirds me out. But again that's
Speaker 3: my comfort zone not there. So you know, I respect that.
Speaker 3: But do I what if I have a family, Am
Speaker 3: I gonna like, you know, raise my kids like that? No,
Speaker 3: But it's not per se about like separating sex from
Speaker 3: nudity in terms of like my friends in our volleyball tournament,
Speaker 3: it's just again a you know, it's a byproduct of
Speaker 3: you know, just our situation, Like we just happened to
Speaker 3: be nude, and I think that's a huge part of what,
Speaker 3: you know, has made us such a great and close group.
Speaker 2: Great.
Speaker 3: There's probably like four hundred of us that are you know, well,
Speaker 3: I would say two hundreds that are regulars at every tournament.
Speaker 3: But it's, you know, it's just a means of like
Speaker 3: hanging out with your friends, but on a totally different, crazier,
Speaker 3: more vulnerable level.
Speaker 1: I keep.
Speaker 3: I mean again, we party really hard, we play hard,
Speaker 3: but we're probably party harder.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, it sounds like, no, it's I'm so
Speaker 1: supri I'm just I guess I'm like, I'm sorry, I
Speaker 1: won't let the boner thing go. But it just seems like,
Speaker 1: I maybe this is where the misconceptions lie. But I
Speaker 1: assume actually, Okay, the more I'm thinking about it, I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, at first, I assumed that people would
Speaker 1: be walking around these places with boners all the time,
Speaker 1: hopefully not the family ones, but I assume people working
Speaker 1: on with boners with that, but also I'm like, I'm
Speaker 1: kind of putting myself there, right, I'm like, I'm naked,
Speaker 1: all these other people are naked. It does it? Actually?
Speaker 1: When I think about it, and I had to go
Speaker 1: to a nudist colony, i'd see what's going on over there.
Speaker 1: It kind of actually sounds like a pretty not sexually
Speaker 1: charged place when I think about it, When I really
Speaker 1: put myself out there, it seems like kind of a
Speaker 1: a very normal vibe, except everyone's naked, although I will
Speaker 1: say at night maybe a different story.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And again I think it's you know, like you
Speaker 3: were talking about going to Electric Chorus and like the
Speaker 3: music festival or like ban Aru, it would be similar
Speaker 3: issue to that, except for during the day you have
Speaker 3: you're playing various tournaments and each day is different whether
Speaker 3: you play sand grass or hardcourt. But and then at night,
Speaker 3: like everybody's partying, but you just don't have clothes on
Speaker 3: and we're not all dark nuds, so you can't don't
Speaker 3: like I'm sure like envisioning you looking out and everybody's
Speaker 3: dark nude, like that's just that's not really.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how this.
Speaker 3: Create like people a lot of well, like you know,
Speaker 3: I wear like not pasmin as, strongs, like a lot
Speaker 3: of people wear strongs that cover up some and you know,
Speaker 3: for some reason, onesies are huge at night. But you
Speaker 3: know it's again, I think it's a the fact that
Speaker 3: you're all nude and you're so comfortable being nude and
Speaker 3: you don't think about it. It just creates a bond
Speaker 3: and you know, connection with the other people that you
Speaker 3: don't find outside of that.
Speaker 1: Now, Megan and the other part, tell me, tell what's
Speaker 1: I mean you say you play hard, you party harder.
Speaker 1: What's what? What kind of crazy things are going on
Speaker 1: at these parties that I want to kind of get
Speaker 1: into that?
Speaker 3: So we have so we have well now four main
Speaker 3: dejas and again, I mean I can send you videos
Speaker 3: and pictures. I mean it's quite a production that you know,
Speaker 3: we put together. It's not like you know, somebody doing
Speaker 3: a playlist, and you know, there's definitely a lot of mushrooms,
Speaker 3: a lot of acids, a lot of molly, there's a
Speaker 3: lot of drug sets happened, and you know it's that's crazy.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, it's just people having a really
Speaker 3: good time, a lot of dancing.
Speaker 1: Like I've been reading the chat I'm sorry for reading
Speaker 1: the chat, but somebody in the chat asked. If somebody
Speaker 1: the chat asked if dogs are allowed at the newdest Colonies,
Speaker 1: I'll answer this one. They are, but they have to
Speaker 1: wear clothes.
Speaker 3: It depends on the resort. They all have different rules
Speaker 3: about whether or not dogs are allowed. I mean, we've
Speaker 3: brought our dog to a tournament before, but really they're
Speaker 3: just a pain in the ass to deal with because
Speaker 3: you have to watch them.
Speaker 1: What's your like you put? Let's I it was I.
Speaker 1: First of all, thanks for calling in and talking about
Speaker 1: all this stuff. This is fascinating. I might try to
Speaker 1: I don't know where a Newdiest colony is, but I
Speaker 1: have always been fascinated by the idea. I definitely want
Speaker 1: to try going to one at some point.
Speaker 3: You want to go during a volleyball tournament.
Speaker 1: When you give any volleyball tournaments going on in California
Speaker 1: and Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: None that I go to. So the like I said,
Speaker 3: we had the music festival coming up July twenty third,
Speaker 3: and that's outside of Philly, and then the big the
Speaker 3: biggest tournament, which you know, I think for newcomers because
Speaker 3: you see all like the traditions and we have like
Speaker 3: this group called the Teaki's and there's you know, all
Speaker 3: these rituals and it's just it's super fun. But that's
Speaker 3: in September, the weekend before Labor Day or after Labor Day,
Speaker 3: and that's a resort called White Thorn. But I promise
Speaker 3: you if you went and you would never look back.
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 3: Where the people that where is it? It's that White
Speaker 3: Thorn Lodge. Goodness, don't ask me where exactly? Vfi outside
Speaker 3: of Philly, Okay, I could see myself going there at
Speaker 3: some point. No, I mean, I'm it's you know, I do.
Speaker 3: You have to also think about the type of people
Speaker 3: who are willing to go to this also.
Speaker 1: I want to say something, really, I want to say something.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, keep in with you. But somebody else in
Speaker 1: the chat brought up an interesting point. They said, what
Speaker 1: about female boners? They're getting away with it.
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess, so sorry, I guess. But just
Speaker 3: putting yourself in a situation if you were at a
Speaker 3: day party and somebody's walking around with a boner through
Speaker 3: their pants, that's weird.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't. It's just the thing I think
Speaker 1: I feel I would feel bad for them, because a
Speaker 1: bone like a boner. Again, like I said, if somebody
Speaker 1: was like standing in the middle of the nudist colony
Speaker 1: jacking off, it's like, yeah, that guy's you know, he's
Speaker 1: got to go. But if he's I mean a boner,
Speaker 1: it's like, I feel bad for that guy because if
Speaker 1: you have if you're wearing clothes and you have a boner,
Speaker 1: you can like tuck it up into your thing or
Speaker 1: put your hand in your pocket. But if you're naked,
Speaker 1: it's like, what are you going to do? You can't.
Speaker 1: Even if you're being a gentleman and you have a
Speaker 1: boner out in public, you can do. You have you
Speaker 1: have choices that you can make to conceal your boner.
Speaker 3: You can walk away, Yeah, I guess happen, you know.
Speaker 1: Put your boner in time out.
Speaker 3: Basically, I mean I've messed with my boyfriend before and
Speaker 3: kind of pot uncle may happened. Are people on the
Speaker 3: dance floor. But again, there's a difference between like blatantly
Speaker 3: walking around with a boner and.
Speaker 1: A minute hold on, hold on, So you've you've you've
Speaker 1: been with your boyfriend, so you've done this thing where
Speaker 1: you've been with yours around.
Speaker 3: Like you've messed around a little bit to give him shit.
Speaker 1: You give him a boner and then you run away
Speaker 1: and he has a boner, Get him out of here.
Speaker 3: That would be hilarious if I did that. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, it's there's just again, it's a
Speaker 3: environment that is you know a lot of weird people
Speaker 3: could come around, and so it's just a very you know, HyperWare.
Speaker 3: Like if there was anybody who is making somebody feel uncomfortable,
Speaker 3: you go tell one of the you know, main people,
Speaker 3: and they're out. It's just a zero tolerance policy. And
Speaker 3: it's that simple, and you know, so you feel really safe.
Speaker 1: I guess, I guess I'll just I get it if
Speaker 1: somebody's like staring at you with a book, if someone's
Speaker 1: being a fucking weirdo about it. But if somebody is
Speaker 1: like looking ashamed with their head down on a bench
Speaker 1: away from the people, and he has a boner, let
Speaker 1: that guy's stay.
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, that's I mean absolutely, And you know, I
Speaker 3: will say that one thing that's fascinating when it comes
Speaker 3: to news, you would think that I would be. What
Speaker 3: I've learned about nude bodies is flaccid penises are so different,
Speaker 3: like there there are, Like it's just so fascinating to
Speaker 3: see because I guess I hadn't really seen many, but
Speaker 3: oh my goodness. I wish that we could do a
Speaker 3: competition where you had a picture of somebody's floscid penis
Speaker 3: and then a picture of a hard penis and you
Speaker 3: try to match them up. I want to do that.
Speaker 3: I want to see those difference.
Speaker 1: It sounds like an evening activity the nudist colony. You
Speaker 1: should definitely pitch that.
Speaker 3: Oh definitely could get people to do that. But yeah, no,
Speaker 3: So it's you know again, the people though that go
Speaker 3: for you to be open to it, you automatically aren't
Speaker 3: somebody that has a lot of like you know, preconceived
Speaker 3: like judgments against people like you have to be pretty
Speaker 3: open minded. But yeah, anybody out there, I promise you
Speaker 3: if you come, you won't you won't look back.
Speaker 1: Okay, what is it again, I'll unless Philly, I'll check
Speaker 1: it out.
Speaker 3: So it's actually I lied. It's it's outside of Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: It's called do you know what you do? You know
Speaker 1: any in California?
Speaker 3: Not in my circuit. There are ones in California, but
Speaker 3: the circuit I play in, we don't go that far.
Speaker 3: It's more up up and down the East coast, and
Speaker 3: there's several in Canada, but I haven't gone up there.
Speaker 1: York this year.
Speaker 3: Mm hm New York City. My sense of direction is
Speaker 3: all kinds of uft of I mean, I guess it
Speaker 3: would be the Philly which, like I said, the Music Festival,
Speaker 3: which again is there's much more. I mean, it's all
Speaker 3: emphasis on music. But those volleyball tournaments going on during
Speaker 3: the day that is outside of Philadelphia in that's is
Speaker 3: an m But yeah, no, the music festival is you
Speaker 3: know again, you come and it's just something you can't
Speaker 3: describe until you experience it, and you you will quickly
Speaker 3: forget about the newtest like being naked, and if anything,
Speaker 3: I mean, it just will becomes Yeah.
Speaker 1: And you just got a very excited by the idea
Speaker 1: of several people hearing this and showing up to this
Speaker 1: nudest colony and being like a giant green gecko sent
Speaker 1: me here.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Throughout the duration of my stay, you have my word.
Speaker 3: You want to know a funny story. Recently, a lot
Speaker 3: of my friends, no not exactly, a lot of my friends,
Speaker 3: like I talk about therapy Gecko and they know I
Speaker 3: really like it. And recently I had taken some acid
Speaker 3: and started to go a little bit south, thinking I'm
Speaker 3: going well, And my boyfriend called our best friend Jody,
Speaker 3: and was like, I don't know what to do, and
Speaker 3: she said, take her in her room, turn off the lights,
Speaker 3: and put on therapy gecko.
Speaker 1: She'll be that's nice. Is that what happens?
Speaker 3: Exactly? What happened?
Speaker 1: That nice? What? Okay? How damn well? What do you
Speaker 1: remember what episode was playing?
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, Now.
Speaker 1: You were drooling, tripping fucking balls and freaking out and
Speaker 1: then you just like sat in a room and listened
Speaker 1: to the podcast.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I just love that she knew that's when
Speaker 3: I needed.
Speaker 1: That makes me feel good.
Speaker 3: Yeah. But I can post in the comment section, you know,
Speaker 3: the information about the music festival and if people am
Speaker 3: I allowed to get my Instagram? I never checked my
Speaker 3: Instagram And seriously, I mean you guys, I'm not kidding.
Speaker 3: If nothing else, like, why not? And you don't have
Speaker 3: to be nude, but you won't you won't regret it.
Speaker 1: I'm going to show up wearing just the head. I'm
Speaker 1: going to show up wearing just the head, the and
Speaker 1: the feet of the gecko.
Speaker 4: Suit.
Speaker 3: That would be yes, Now, that would be great. I
Speaker 3: have a friend who he has he's gotten melanoma, so
Speaker 3: he has to be covered. He cannot, like you know,
Speaker 3: have any sun exposure, and he had to get like
Speaker 3: all this documentation to show like prove that he has
Speaker 3: this and that's why he has to wear clothes. And
Speaker 3: basically he wears like head to toe the brightest colors
Speaker 3: possible and then like cuts a hole where his stick is.
Speaker 1: That's pretty fire.
Speaker 3: So that's his nudity. But yeah, it's again, I mean,
Speaker 3: you just have it's a vulnerability that you put out
Speaker 3: there that allows you to connect with people that I
Speaker 3: haven't found anywhere else.
Speaker 1: Well, Megan, any final thoughts you can share your Instagram
Speaker 1: if you still want to do that. Any any other thoughts,
Speaker 1: feeling sentiments you have share before we get No.
Speaker 3: I mean I hope that you guys you know, come
Speaker 3: and experience it and then you can call in and
Speaker 3: say I get it.
Speaker 1: Rock and roll all right, Megan, thank you very much
Speaker 1: for calling and you the the the I hope I
Speaker 1: hope we've brought some some some business to these to
Speaker 1: these newdist colonies.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I hope people have a better understanding are
Speaker 3: a little bit more intrigued by.
Speaker 5: The idea having ANNT.
Speaker 1: Megan Nice, Oh, you know what I'm gonna do. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna you know, those cock socks, you know I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to the nudist colony. Just the head,
Speaker 1: the gloves, the feet, and a and a bright green
Speaker 1: cock sock. That way. Nobody, nobody that way. You gotta
Speaker 1: have something case if you get a boner, man, I
Speaker 1: can't believe. I can't believe people will get kicked out
Speaker 1: of these places for having boners. Again, I get like,
Speaker 1: I get it if you're like being being weird about it.
Speaker 1: But if you are just like I mean, we've all
Speaker 1: been out in public or somewhere where, like you just
Speaker 1: randomly get a boner for no reason, but you have,
Speaker 1: you have, Like I mean, even getting one with sweatpants
Speaker 1: is stressful, but getting I mean, imagine being out and
Speaker 1: you're just naked, you have no tools whatsoever. I mean,
Speaker 1: I feel I feel bad for that guy, this theoretical
Speaker 1: guy that I'm making up that doesn't exist. All right,
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, hello, hello, Hey, how you doing, buddy?
Speaker 2: Oh Hey, what's up? Man?
Speaker 1: What's your name? My name is Sid sid Well, Sid,
Speaker 1: my name is Lyle. How's it going on?
Speaker 2: It's going pretty good.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 2: My semester just ended. I'm back home. I'm chilling.
Speaker 1: Ah Well said, what's your relationship like with your parents?
Speaker 2: It's pretty good. It's actually it's actually really good. You know,
Speaker 2: they're actually in India right now. They're not at home,
Speaker 2: so I'm home alone. So you know, I'm just hilling them.
Speaker 2: They're real nice. They they financially support me.
Speaker 1: How come you didn't go to go to India with them?
Speaker 1: You were too busy with school?
Speaker 2: Uh No, I couldn't. My sister, My little sister is
Speaker 2: here and she she still has school, so I gotta
Speaker 2: watch her in the house and the dogs.
Speaker 1: What what are they doing in India?
Speaker 2: It's actually so last year I got I got diagnosed
Speaker 2: with cancer, so they wanted to go to India and
Speaker 2: go to the it's like like religious like temple and
Speaker 2: like go pray for me, I guess. And also my
Speaker 2: grandma died a couple of months ago, so they went
Speaker 2: to do some religious rights with their ashes.
Speaker 1: Do you think you can be ho Look they're gone
Speaker 1: all right, so you can be honest with me. Do
Speaker 1: you think that's gonna do shit.
Speaker 2: I don't know, man, Like I don't think anybody has
Speaker 2: as the real answers, you know what I mean. So
Speaker 2: if they want to do it, I'm gonna let them
Speaker 2: do it. And if it does something, it does something,
Speaker 2: and if it doesn't, it's all good.
Speaker 1: When were you When were you diagnosed with the cancer?
Speaker 2: It was last April. I don't I don't have it anymore, luckily.
Speaker 1: I Oh, wait, so they're going to pray for cancer
Speaker 1: that you don't even have.
Speaker 2: I guess so, I mean, I guess they're just like trying.
Speaker 1: To sounds like a waste of a prayer. I guess.
Speaker 2: I guess so. I guess.
Speaker 1: So they could pray for like a million dollars or something,
Speaker 1: but they're they're praying for something that already happens.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I.
Speaker 3: Would.
Speaker 2: I'd rather have a million dollars than not have cancer,
Speaker 2: which I already don't have cancer.
Speaker 1: What kind of cancer? Uh did you have?
Speaker 2: It was testicular cancer, So you know, prognosis is pretty good.
Speaker 2: You know, it's not as serious as other types.
Speaker 1: Is it a bummer? Is it a bummer to have
Speaker 1: the funniest type of cancer?
Speaker 2: It? Yes, it actually very much is because when I
Speaker 2: have when I tell people I have cancer and ask
Speaker 2: what type I know, I have to say testicular, and
Speaker 2: like it's just it's just a little bit awkward. Like
Speaker 2: to me, it's not awkward like I'm I'm over, I'm cool,
Speaker 2: like it happens done, but like it's it's just a
Speaker 2: little bit awkward.
Speaker 1: Then m hm, did your did they have to cut
Speaker 1: off your balls or you still got balls?
Speaker 2: I got one? I got one?
Speaker 1: Oh so they cut off with them?
Speaker 2: They did? Could they cut off one of them? But
Speaker 2: you know other ones carrying the weight?
Speaker 1: Oh shit, okay, so this wasn't even like no, so
Speaker 1: the cancer didn't go The cancer didn't go away. The
Speaker 1: cancer was cut out of your ball set.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah it didn't. I mean, I don't
Speaker 2: think cancer just ever goes away on its own, but yeah,
Speaker 2: I guess you could say it was cut out. I
Speaker 2: had some I had like a monk of chemotherapy just
Speaker 2: so like it wouldn't come back or whatever. And I
Speaker 2: think I think we're good.
Speaker 1: It sounds like God really really didn't do shit on
Speaker 1: this one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, God, it sounds like God tried to do shit.
Speaker 2: But couldn't do it.
Speaker 1: It's true God tried to. You know. Do you think
Speaker 1: maybe it was like God, part of God's plan was
Speaker 1: to kill you, but uh, innovations in medical technology foiled him.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 2: Actually, the way I like to look at it is
Speaker 2: that this is something, you know, I just had to
Speaker 2: go through sticking in some perspective. You know. Uh, I
Speaker 2: think I was talking to you in the chat. I'm
Speaker 2: actually pre med. So sorry, I'm actually like a little
Speaker 2: bit nervous right now. I watch I watched this every day.
Speaker 1: That's oh fucky fuck yeah fuck yeah, that's what you're saying,
Speaker 1: all right, right right, Okay, you were in the chat
Speaker 1: and you said that you got to Temple, which is
Speaker 1: where I went to college.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I heard you went to the Temple a
Speaker 2: couple of days ago, which is crazy. I'm actually wearing
Speaker 2: a Temple shirt right now.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, but you're in I went for something stupid.
Speaker 1: You went for like how to you? You said you're
Speaker 1: in pre med, right, so you're learning how to cut
Speaker 1: off people's balls when they start to try to kill them.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So like the way I see it, I have
Speaker 2: the perfect medical school essay to right now.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that is a good That is a good
Speaker 1: way to see it. You got good perspective on this issue.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, I mean I just gotta I mean it.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm just thankful that it wasn't anything a
Speaker 2: lot worse. So the best I can do is take
Speaker 2: away from positive from it. Use it as like motivation,
Speaker 2: you know, to be a good doctor, to be a
Speaker 2: successful doctor who helps people.
Speaker 1: I like that. What are what's your sister's deal? Is
Speaker 1: she like also in school?
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's in high school. So that's why that's why
Speaker 2: I got to stay home because I need to pick
Speaker 2: her up from school, drop her off, watch over the dog.
Speaker 2: She still has her semester going on. It's about your soon.
Speaker 2: Do you have a good sphomore?
Speaker 1: Do you have a good relationship with her?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty good. We don't talk like that much,
Speaker 2: but I feel like every since I went to college,
Speaker 2: we got a little bit closer.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: They say, like, what's the phrase like distance makes the
Speaker 2: heart heart.
Speaker 1: Grow fonder, which I I is one of my favorite
Speaker 1: phrases because I probably fully believe it.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, no, for sure, that's it's definitely true.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. So what's your dream in life? Which I
Speaker 1: know that there's a lot of different kinds of doctors.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you necessarily want to be the
Speaker 1: testical kind, But what kind do you want to be?
Speaker 2: That's a tough question. I honestly don't know right now.
Speaker 2: I feel like I would have to like have some
Speaker 2: experience in the field, figure some things I would, you know,
Speaker 2: see what I'm interested in. Ultimately, I just want to
Speaker 2: do something that helps people. You know. I know I'm
Speaker 2: a smart guy. I know I can get through pre
Speaker 2: med and medical school. So I just want to use
Speaker 2: the talents that I have to you know, give back
Speaker 2: to the world. Just something meaningful.
Speaker 1: M I like that. Do you what do you do
Speaker 1: outside of school? Do you have hobbies? Interests?
Speaker 2: Yeah, some hobbies. I honestly hate that question because like
Speaker 2: whenever people ask me, like what hobbies I have, I
Speaker 2: just go blank. But off the top of my head,
Speaker 2: I play a little bit of tennis. I've been playing
Speaker 2: I'm playing Zelda recently. That has been taking up a
Speaker 2: lot of my time.
Speaker 1: The new one, Yeah, the new one.
Speaker 2: I heard you were just hitting on a gig.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, two seconds before you called in, I was
Speaker 1: talking to the stream and I was talking I was
Speaker 1: just talking a ton of shit on uh the I bought.
Speaker 1: I bought the new one because uh, I need, I
Speaker 1: wanted something to play on the planes and stuff. But
Speaker 1: the old one I didn't like it. I actually don't
Speaker 1: know why about the note. I really did not like
Speaker 1: the Breath of the Wild. Yeah, it's like fucking it's
Speaker 1: kind of a bullshit game. It's like padded and padded
Speaker 1: and padded with grass, and dude, people love this grass.
Speaker 1: People are like, I love the open world dynamic of
Speaker 1: the game. I love how much grass there is to explore.
Speaker 1: Ten out of ten.
Speaker 2: No, I feel like I mean, I feel like, you know,
Speaker 2: his breath of the wild, so there has to be
Speaker 2: some some wild you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Right, they should have called it breath of the Grass,
Speaker 1: part of the grass, and I would have been a
Speaker 1: more apt title. Anyway, that was a stupid thing that
Speaker 1: I shouldn't have said. But oh, yes, have you had
Speaker 1: sex since they cut your balls off?
Speaker 2: No, I've actually, like, I've never had sex. Like, I'm
Speaker 2: a version.
Speaker 1: Okay, are you are you freshman in college?
Speaker 2: No, I'm a I'm a sophomore. Actually I just finished
Speaker 2: my sophomore years.
Speaker 1: Okay, are you out. Are you out there? Are you
Speaker 1: like going on the apps? Or are you focused on
Speaker 1: the grind? Are you religiously abstinent? What's what's your do?
Speaker 1: What's the deal?
Speaker 2: No, I mean that's a tough question. Like I wouldn't
Speaker 2: like I'm not out there just because like I feel like,
Speaker 2: I feel like I on really put myself in a
Speaker 2: lot of situations like that. But you know, I'm working
Speaker 2: on it. I was last semester. It was just really
Speaker 2: really tough with school and extra curriculars and stuff. So
Speaker 2: I was really busy and I've been I had this
Speaker 2: like pretty bad weed habit that I've been trying to
Speaker 2: get rid of, and I haven't smoked in like a week,
Speaker 2: and I feel a lot better, honestly.
Speaker 1: MM, why do you think you're having trouble putting yourself
Speaker 1: out there?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I just you know, I feel like
Speaker 2: I'm not. I haven't really like developed socially in the
Speaker 2: best way. I feel like half of my high school
Speaker 2: I was gone because of COVID. I was just at home, isolated,
Speaker 2: and then suddenly it's like freshman year and now I'm
Speaker 2: at Temple, which is a huge school, and it's kind
Speaker 2: of overwhelming. It's kind of overwhelming, but you know, I'm
Speaker 2: working on it. I have confidence that I can, Like
Speaker 2: I'm not worried about it. Like, I have confidence that
Speaker 2: I can, you know, like put myself out there and
Speaker 2: be successful with it if I really try.
Speaker 1: You seem like a noise. You seem like a well
Speaker 1: adjusted person. Do you believe that about yourself?
Speaker 2: I don't know. That's that's hard to say. I'm yeah,
Speaker 2: you know what, I feel like, I'm well logisted. I'm
Speaker 2: I'm doing a good job taking care of myself, you know,
Speaker 2: working hard for a right future.
Speaker 1: How is the ball? How is the one ball thing
Speaker 1: affected your ability to produce? Come? Do you do it? Really?
Speaker 1: Not at all?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't affect anything, like it carries like like
Speaker 2: I said, the one ball carries all the weight, does everything?
Speaker 1: Dude, I don't know. I feel like some girls might
Speaker 1: be interested in you as an anomaly. I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's what you're going for, but it is hard
Speaker 1: to play.
Speaker 2: Like, I honestly don't know like what girls would think
Speaker 2: about it. Like, I'm really like not sure. I feel like, honestly,
Speaker 2: like other than the incision which is like on my
Speaker 2: lower abdomen area. It's not really too noticeable, so I
Speaker 2: feel like I would have to like draw attention to
Speaker 2: it for them to actually notice.
Speaker 1: Listen. I'm no online dating experts, but a tender profile
Speaker 1: where your bio just says I have one testicle would
Speaker 1: definitely pique some people's interest. It's an interesting conversation starter.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I wouldn't I wouldn't like message a
Speaker 1: girl saying that, But if you put it in your
Speaker 1: bio could drum up you know some you know, I
Speaker 1: mean there's a lot of like, you know, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of people who are like into oddities and ship
Speaker 1: and you might catch some of those.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 1: Maybe you seem like a nice guy, are you, like,
Speaker 1: let me ask you this question, are you like bummed
Speaker 1: about it? Like, do you wish you were putting yourself
Speaker 1: up there out there more often? Or is it not
Speaker 1: really even a priority in your life?
Speaker 2: No, I mean, I definitely do wish I was putting
Speaker 2: myself out there a little bit more. I feel like
Speaker 2: like a lot of things in my life have gotten
Speaker 2: in the way. But I'm not sure if I'm just
Speaker 2: using that as an excuse. I mean, last year I
Speaker 2: had cancers. So I made thinks a little bit tough
Speaker 2: this past year. Yeah, this past year's school has just
Speaker 2: been pretty difficult. And like I said, I had like
Speaker 2: a pretty bad Like I wouldn't say it's a problem,
Speaker 2: but like I was coping with weed pretty heavily. And
Speaker 2: I feel like once you start doing that, like you
Speaker 2: kind of just like get comfortable with isolating yourself, which
Speaker 2: I don't want to do anymore. No, it's not just
Speaker 2: buying it off the street.
Speaker 1: Okay, which, what did you buy it? In Narnia? You
Speaker 1: know what Narnia is?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1: In Narnia they still call it Narnia. There's this fucking
Speaker 1: it's in at Temple University. There's this dude, what is it?
Speaker 1: Explain Narnia.
Speaker 2: So basically, like like by this like Bell Tower area,
Speaker 2: there's this like little alleyway that's kind of secluded, but
Speaker 2: like everybody knows about it, so it's not super secluded.
Speaker 2: But there's this little area with some benches and some
Speaker 2: grass where people usually go to smoke. It's a nice
Speaker 2: little spot.
Speaker 1: And it's called Narnia. It's called that's crazy that it's
Speaker 1: that it's still called that that that I has lived on.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean actually I smoked there a lot. But
Speaker 2: I've only recently learned, like a couple of months ago,
Speaker 2: that it's called Narnia.
Speaker 1: There's this I used to smoke weed all the time
Speaker 1: on the lawn where that bell tower is.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, right outside Bury.
Speaker 1: Hall Beury Beach. I think it's called or the Beach.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, I had a lot of time. I had
Speaker 1: a lot of great times walking around that whole city
Speaker 1: and uh, smoking weed. That's really my favorite thing to do.
Speaker 1: I don't I try to talk. I I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: kind of a fucking owner right now, but it's just
Speaker 1: it just has always been my favorite thing to do
Speaker 1: is walk around and smoke weed. And I've only recently
Speaker 1: been reconciling with the fact that that's bad for my health.
Speaker 1: But I don't want to give it up. I don't
Speaker 1: want to give all the things that are bad for me.
Speaker 1: I just fucking don't want to give up. I love
Speaker 1: what's your name again, My name is Sid. Sid. I
Speaker 1: fucking love getting stoned, going for a walk and eating
Speaker 1: a big hamburger. I love it, so I might love
Speaker 1: it more than I would hate dying.
Speaker 3: Shit.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 2: I mean, if that's like, that's completely valid. If that's
Speaker 2: what you want, that's what you want. And being outside
Speaker 2: and smoking and just eating something that's absolutely terrible for
Speaker 2: you and it is probably going to give you a
Speaker 2: heart attack is probably one of the best activities.
Speaker 1: God damn it, City, You're supposed to be a medical profer.
Speaker 1: What the hell are you talking about?
Speaker 2: Not yet? Not yet.
Speaker 1: This was a test and you failed. I'm calling the dean.
Speaker 2: We don't have a dean right now. Actually he quit.
Speaker 1: Oh I would too, Sid. Sid. Sid said, all right,
Speaker 1: you have cancer or you don't have cancer anymore, but
Speaker 1: you do have one ball. You've never had sex? Have
Speaker 1: you ever had any kind of sex? Have you ever
Speaker 1: had like a blowjob or a hand job?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: I haven't. I mean I've had a couple of situations
Speaker 2: here and there, but it's never it's never really like
Speaker 2: led to that. Okay, you know, like I'm not really
Speaker 2: too worried about it or anything. I feel like I
Speaker 2: just you know, need to like work on myself a
Speaker 2: little bit and just continue like meditating, stop smoking weed.
Speaker 2: I'll be fine.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Sid, I'm how old are you? Like nineteen?
Speaker 2: I'm twenty.
Speaker 1: You're twenty. Oh my fucking gun man, I'm jealous of
Speaker 1: you because when I, dude, when I was twenty and
Speaker 1: I was Temple University, I was a fucking idiot and all,
Speaker 1: and you know, getting laid was like all I was
Speaker 1: obsessed with. And I look back at it and now
Speaker 1: and I'm listening to you be like, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna hang out and work on myself and meditate,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I fucking wish I was as smart
Speaker 1: as you were. I would wish I was as smart
Speaker 1: as you are when I was twenty and going to Temple.
Speaker 1: So good idea, you're going to have a great life.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that, man, But like to be honest with you,
Speaker 2: like it's not always, you know, I'm not always having
Speaker 2: this monthset. You know, sometimes it feels it feels kind
Speaker 2: of bad. I get in my head a little bit
Speaker 2: about it, but ultimately I know, you know, I'll be good.
Speaker 1: What is what? What? Tell me? What? What you getting
Speaker 1: in your head? Looks like.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I guess like when you like, I
Speaker 2: feel like the word virgin is us like as an
Speaker 2: insult pretty frequently, and like there's just a level of
Speaker 2: like like you know, there's like it's like toxic masculinity. Sure,
Speaker 2: the fact that you have to like lose your virginity
Speaker 2: at a certain age, and like you just start comparing
Speaker 2: yourself to people. And actually, Temple is I think the
Speaker 2: most sexually active campus in the United States, so like
Speaker 2: that's true. You know, everybody around me is, you know,
Speaker 2: running around fucking each other. So it's hard to not
Speaker 2: get in your head about comparisons.
Speaker 1: But okay, well, every time I want you to know,
Speaker 1: I want you to notice every time you do start
Speaker 1: to get in your head about comparisons, I want you
Speaker 1: to know that I wish I was doing what you
Speaker 1: were doing when I was twenty and go into Temple.
Speaker 1: So well, I don't know if that's worth anything.
Speaker 2: No, that's definitely worth something. I appreciate that. That's nice
Speaker 2: to hear.
Speaker 1: No, a lot of my obsession with like sex at
Speaker 1: that time like held me back from like because you know,
Speaker 1: I was just like on the fucking Tinder and all
Speaker 1: the apps all the time, and like you know, on
Speaker 1: fucking Snapchat, like like spending my whole day like like
Speaker 1: waiting for somebody to respond. I mean, it's a whole
Speaker 1: fucking horrible, shitty thing to be obsessed with. And so
Speaker 1: I think the mindset that you have of like I'm
Speaker 1: just going to meditate and hang out and get on
Speaker 1: my grind. You know, that's that's that's where you want
Speaker 1: to be. You're doing it. You're doing it right, sid.
Speaker 1: I want you to know that I'm.
Speaker 2: Trying, man, But like like I said, it's not always
Speaker 2: like that. Like just yesterday, you know, I was pretty horny.
Speaker 2: I was on those apps.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I actually got two numbers and I was talking
Speaker 2: to girls a little bit. But after a while, it's
Speaker 2: just like do I really want to keep like mindlessly
Speaker 2: talking to them? And like, I don't know, bro, Like
Speaker 2: if I'd rather just stay at home, I'd rather just
Speaker 2: stay at home and play.
Speaker 1: No No City. You don't want to do any of that.
Speaker 1: You want to you want to meditate for two hours
Speaker 1: a day and learn how to cut test cut cut counts.
Speaker 1: You want to meditate for two hours a day and
Speaker 1: learn how to cut cancer out of people's testicles. That's
Speaker 1: what you wanted.
Speaker 2: That that will be great.
Speaker 1: That's what you want. Just I want you to listen, like,
Speaker 1: listen to this phone call again. I'm gonna post it
Speaker 1: on something. Listen to this phone call again. Every time,
Speaker 1: every time you get all every time you get horny,
Speaker 1: I want you to listen to my voice. Okay, and
Speaker 1: and and listen to me tell you that you're gonna
Speaker 1: be okay, that you can just uh, that you can
Speaker 1: ignore all those feelings and do something productive with your
Speaker 1: life instead.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Man, Well, what do we do now?
Speaker 2: What is there to do?
Speaker 1: So anything else you want to say to the people
Speaker 1: of the computer before we go.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Kind of on the spot. You know, everybody stays strong
Speaker 2: and I hear people call it every day with some
Speaker 2: real serious issues, real serious topics. And you know, I
Speaker 2: hope everyone's doing okay. It's feel bad, trying to meditate,
Speaker 2: it's better and that's all.
Speaker 1: Hey, God bless you said you're you're my role model.
Speaker 2: God bless you too. Good.
Speaker 1: Thank you care brother than you too. Man. All right,
Speaker 1: when I come to Philly in September, I'm gonna do uh,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do the after I'm coming to Philly. I'm
Speaker 1: doing underground Arts. I'm doing my after party at Narnia.
Speaker 1: You're all invited. Hello, folks, it is Lyle back again
Speaker 1: to end the podcast with a little interview that I
Speaker 1: did on the streets of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, which
Speaker 1: is one of my favorite countries in the world. And
Speaker 1: this was an interview that I did with a young
Speaker 1: dutch Man, a student filmmaker. We talked a little bit
Speaker 1: about life and the Netherlands. We talked a little bit
Speaker 1: about being a student filmmaker. We talked a little bit
Speaker 1: about the Dutch perception of American which is an interesting thing.
Speaker 1: But anyway, you should listen to this. It's it's fun,
Speaker 1: you know, it's something a little different than the phone calls.
Speaker 1: And also everyone that we talked to on the show
Speaker 1: is mostly like American people. There are some non Americans
Speaker 1: here and there, but it's mostly American folks. So it's
Speaker 1: cool to like actually go to physical, real places and
Speaker 1: talk to people who are who don't live in America.
Speaker 1: It's fun. Come come along with me to the streets
Speaker 1: of Amsterdam to talk to a guy right now. What's
Speaker 1: your name?
Speaker 5: My name is Nino, to meet.
Speaker 1: Nice to meet you man. You live here in the Netherlands, Yes,
Speaker 1: I do. Born erased in Amsterdam. I feel like nobody
Speaker 1: in Amsterdam is Dutch.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we have a lot of tourists.
Speaker 4: Amsterdam is the most diverse country when it comes to
Speaker 4: nass in the world.
Speaker 1: And how do you guys feel about the tourists.
Speaker 5: It's quite fun to mess with them.
Speaker 1: I will say, how do you in what ways do
Speaker 1: you mess with the tourists?
Speaker 4: If they ask where the Rights Museum is? I say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: go dead way and then it's that way now.
Speaker 5: Just we have we have our.
Speaker 4: Fun with them. But I don't mind. You know, I'm
Speaker 4: overall pretty chill, so you know, I don't really care
Speaker 4: if there's a lot of tourists. You know, sometimes they
Speaker 4: get in a way and I don't know how to
Speaker 4: ride a bike.
Speaker 5: But it's fine. You want to experience something new, go
Speaker 5: for it.
Speaker 1: Do have you ever given someone the wrong directions and
Speaker 1: then they run into them later?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: Good question.
Speaker 4: I have not No, that will be really funny and
Speaker 4: I would just say I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: I'm also a little new here.
Speaker 1: Do you have an American accent that you can do
Speaker 1: that you can like an American mask, the fact that
Speaker 1: you're that you're not a tourist.
Speaker 4: I can try, you know, maybe American accents, so you know,
Speaker 4: I'm from California, so I'm not really from Amsterdam specifically,
Speaker 4: I'm like from l A.
Speaker 1: There's a little English in there, yeah, there's.
Speaker 4: You know, our accents in the Netherlands are pretty fucked
Speaker 4: up because we have like the English TV shows and
Speaker 4: sometimes they're American, but mostly the TV shows we watch
Speaker 4: our American But then in school we get taught British
Speaker 4: British English, so it's like a weird mix between the two.
Speaker 5: And then of course we're Dutch.
Speaker 4: So a lot of people also have to like, yeah,
Speaker 4: I can speak English very well and you know, but
Speaker 4: I'm a little bit ditch.
Speaker 5: So I have an action.
Speaker 1: Okay, what do you do here for school?
Speaker 4: I'm right now in between school years, so like I
Speaker 4: have a tuscar, which means I don't go to school
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 5: But I want to study film because.
Speaker 1: You want to study film? Yeah, I studied film.
Speaker 5: Really yeah, any any advice?
Speaker 1: Don't do it?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well just because us the thing, well, you know,
Speaker 1: are you going to go into debt?
Speaker 4: No, So that's the thing in the Netherlands. Well, you
Speaker 4: do have private schools which have like American fees, I
Speaker 4: like to call them. So it's like like twenty thousands
Speaker 4: a year. But there's two like serious film schools in
Speaker 4: the Netherlands, which are the Dutch Film Academy and you
Speaker 4: have to hack you in and they're.
Speaker 5: Both like two k yere basically and they're horrible.
Speaker 4: Yeah, those are really like professional schools and they really
Speaker 4: go into detail. They're not like, oh, yeah, I made
Speaker 4: a film once so I can teach it.
Speaker 1: You know, they're what what do you so, what do
Speaker 1: you want to do with film? Like, what do you
Speaker 1: want to make films about?
Speaker 4: Well, it's it's pretty difverse. I want to make like
Speaker 4: realistic films. I do like sci fi, but for my
Speaker 4: own work, I like to do like realistic stuff. So,
Speaker 4: for example, I made a film about a school shooting
Speaker 4: from the perspective of one of the people that was
Speaker 4: in a school shooting because I have a niece that
Speaker 4: lives in Denver. Yeah, Denver in Colorado, and is that correct, Yes,
Speaker 4: But I've a niece that lives in Denver and there
Speaker 4: was a school shooting and her school and it went
Speaker 4: yeah in twenty nineteen, I believe maybe twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: I remember if I heard keep going yeh.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that was pretty shocking, you know. I remember
Speaker 4: my mom telling me that it had happened and that
Speaker 4: my niece was okay.
Speaker 5: But then I went to school and it didn't really compute.
Speaker 4: You know, And then I got to class and I
Speaker 4: sat there in class and I just at this moment
Speaker 4: where I thought like, wow, someone was trying to kill
Speaker 4: people in that school, and it really hit me and
Speaker 4: I just started crying. And I guess one of my
Speaker 4: coping mechanisms was just writing about it, writing a film
Speaker 4: about it. And it wasn't specifically about that school shooting,
Speaker 4: but it was like a school shooting.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you've seen nineteen.
Speaker 1: Seventeen, nineteen seventeen, the film I'm familiar with that, I've
Speaker 1: never seen it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so basically it's like one take, or it's supposed
Speaker 4: to look like one take all the way through except
Speaker 4: for one cut. And my idea was the same that
Speaker 4: it's like, it looks like one long take of a
Speaker 4: school shooting. And you know, it was a pretty It
Speaker 4: was the biggest project I've done so far, but it
Speaker 4: was really fulfilling because it was also like it gave
Speaker 4: me something to process the feelings I had about the
Speaker 4: school shootings. So yeah, it was nice it sucked, of course,
Speaker 4: but it was nice in a way.
Speaker 1: What is your niece do in Denver?
Speaker 4: Well, well, right now, she wants to she wants to
Speaker 4: join the police because her reaction was also she was
Speaker 4: really shocked, of course, you know, and to be robbed
Speaker 4: of your security like that is is life changing. And
Speaker 4: she just said, I never want anyone else to feel
Speaker 4: like that ever again.
Speaker 5: So she she wants to join the police.
Speaker 4: And you know, in America, of course, the police it's
Speaker 4: always you know, a case of whether.
Speaker 5: They actually help or not, I believe.
Speaker 4: But I think in her own way, she's she's trying
Speaker 4: to help people, and I think that should be the
Speaker 4: way for the police to handle things, you know, make
Speaker 4: people feel secure.
Speaker 5: And I think in the Netherlands that's handled pretty well.
Speaker 5: But in America, you know.
Speaker 4: From the videos I've seen, it's it's, I don't know,
Speaker 4: they seem a little angrier there for some reason.
Speaker 1: They just.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's they tend to escalate things in de escalate them,
Speaker 4: and I think that should be the first lesson thought
Speaker 4: in police academy. But something's going wrong there. I don't
Speaker 4: know if you have more to say about that.
Speaker 1: Fuck, I don't know. I'm not I'm not a very
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm not like a political social takes,
Speaker 1: but it is interesting to hear what other people's perspectives are,
Speaker 1: and you know, from outside of America.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's fair.
Speaker 1: What's your next plan for Yes, for a film you
Speaker 1: want to make?
Speaker 5: So I am of my next film I want to make. Well.
Speaker 5: I have this one idea where I envisioned like a hotel.
Speaker 4: And it's split into two parts, and in one side
Speaker 4: of the hotel the people live there that know they're
Speaker 4: going to die one day, and the other part is
Speaker 4: for the people who.
Speaker 5: Don't know they're gonna die.
Speaker 4: It's basically based on a quote from Confusius Confusions. Confucius, Yeah,
Speaker 4: and he said a man has two lives, and the
Speaker 4: second one starts when he realizes he only has one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, another one yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5: So I founded a really nice quote.
Speaker 4: And I I don't know if I've quite figured out
Speaker 4: that if if the reality has set in, if I'm
Speaker 4: gonna die one day. Yeah, but you know, the school
Speaker 4: shooting made it a little closer. So that's you know,
Speaker 4: one of one of the things that can make you
Speaker 4: come closer to.
Speaker 1: Death is is that realization that you only have one life. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I mean that's why I wanted to come
Speaker 1: here and do this because you know, I don't know
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna die, so I might as well travel
Speaker 1: as much as I can and try to be a
Speaker 1: lizard and talk to people. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's also why I want to make films because
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I I that that's what I want to do, you know,
Speaker 4: And I could just go for job security and a
Speaker 4: lot of people tell me, like, you're really gonna study film?
Speaker 5: You know, I did the highest form of.
Speaker 4: Education for like middle school here, so I have a
Speaker 4: lot of options and going into film is not.
Speaker 5: Basically the most job secure way to go.
Speaker 4: Sure, but I like to think if I'm going to
Speaker 4: die within a year, what would I do? And well,
Speaker 4: what I want to do is make films and write.
Speaker 4: So yeah, that's the plan basically for now.
Speaker 1: Well congrats on following your dreams. Man.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's scary, but that's what makes life fun.
Speaker 1: I think. Well, man, I mean, you know it's cool.
Speaker 1: Now I've had I've talked to people about film school before,
Speaker 1: and it's like, if you're going into a crazy amount
Speaker 1: of two k years not horrible because in the States,
Speaker 1: I mean that would cost like, yeah, about three hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty million thousand dollars Jillian. Yeah, especially in considering
Speaker 1: in a world where you can just you know, make
Speaker 1: films on your phone and shit.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: And you know, of course, film school not to be
Speaker 4: like to be pompous about it or something, but I
Speaker 4: think film school it's not gonna teach me a lot.
Speaker 5: It's more about the connections.
Speaker 4: You make, you know, and you know, getting get food
Speaker 4: into the door with the film industry.
Speaker 5: I've already tried to.
Speaker 4: Get I've already tried to get into like film jobs,
Speaker 4: you know, just work on the sets, grab coffee for
Speaker 4: the actors, you know, anything work, Yeah, of course, anything that's.
Speaker 5: That can make a little bit of that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, But they won't accept me because I'm not into
Speaker 4: a film school.
Speaker 1: So well, you know what, here's the thing. I think.
Speaker 1: I think it's great. I think you should go to
Speaker 1: film school if if you can afford that, that too, Ok,
Speaker 1: it's not horrible. But in the meantime, make movies on
Speaker 1: your own, dude. Yeah, I'm which you're already already doing.
Speaker 1: You're making I'm trying to write stuff, So I think
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna be okay. You know, a lot
Speaker 1: of the people I went to film school with, they
Speaker 1: they were just kind of sitting around waiting for somebody
Speaker 1: to tell them that they can make a movie. But
Speaker 1: you can, obviously you've already gone beyond that. So I
Speaker 1: think you're gonna do great.
Speaker 5: Well, that's very nice here. Thank you.
Speaker 1: What's your name again?
Speaker 5: My name is Nino.
Speaker 1: Nino. Thank you for sharing all this stuff with me.
Speaker 5: No problem. That's a very nice time too.
Speaker 4: I've seen some of some of your videos, so I
Speaker 4: thought maybe talk with the guy once.
Speaker 1: He was like, yeah, you did you have a good experience? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was mostly me talking, but I don't mind.
Speaker 4: I I like staring my shot.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad it's mostly I didn't come all the
Speaker 1: way to fucking Amsterdam to hear myself talking. Yeah, fair
Speaker 1: enough enough, So thank you for sharing me. Is there
Speaker 1: anything else you want to say to the people of
Speaker 1: the computer before we go?
Speaker 4: I'd like to see it to say, don't be scared
Speaker 4: to follow your dreams. You know, it's a wise man
Speaker 4: once said. The thing that makes me hope most happy
Speaker 4: is sticking to my values. And sticking to my dreams,
Speaker 4: and I wholeheartedly believe in that.
Speaker 1: So this guy's got quotes. This guy's got quotes.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Nina. It was very nice time,
Speaker 1: you know, you said, yes, you know, nice to meet you.
Speaker 1: Have a nice day, youtuboe man, take care.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Hey, folks, it's Lyle once again. If you enjoyed that
Speaker 1: little interview and you want to hear all of the
Speaker 1: interviews that I did on the streets of Amsterdam, you
Speaker 1: can go to YouTube dot com slash Lyele forever and
Speaker 1: look for a video called being a Gecko in Amsterdam,
Speaker 1: or you can just check the description of this podcast
Speaker 1: episode and the link will be in there. All right,
Speaker 1: God bless you, thanks for listening. Ever goes on the
Speaker 1: line thanking your phone calls every night. Ever be Ad
Speaker 1: goes to a dry staging your cloud in the mind
Speaker 1: of your life. He's not really an expert.