WEBVTT - “I’M A SCHOOL JANITOR”

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<v Speaker 1>Hello, Hey, what's up?

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<v Speaker 2>This is the Yeah?

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<v Speaker 1>Who is this?

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<v Speaker 3>Hey?

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<v Speaker 2>This is uh? Aaron?

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<v Speaker 1>Aaron? Aaron? Are you what are you doing right now?

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<v Speaker 1>There's a lot of activity going on.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, I am putting away equipment at the moment. Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>but uh, let me drop what I got going real quick.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, if you could just put your entire life on

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<v Speaker 1>hold to have this conversation with a get Oh.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, alrighty, how's it going going good?

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<v Speaker 1>I forgot your name already?

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<v Speaker 4>What is it?

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<v Speaker 2>Aon?

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<v Speaker 1>Aaron? Aaron? What's going on?

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<v Speaker 4>Man?

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<v Speaker 1>What do you what do you want to talk about today?

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<v Speaker 4>Hey?

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<v Speaker 2>Now, I just thought i'd uh, I thought i'd mentioned

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<v Speaker 2>kind of what I do for work. I've been trying

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<v Speaker 2>to call for geez. I want to say, yeah, i'd

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<v Speaker 2>say COVID. Since COVID I gave up, honestly, probably like

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<v Speaker 2>two months ago, a little more than that. And then

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<v Speaker 2>I was like, you know what, I'm gonna see send

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<v Speaker 2>a text and see how it went. I can't see

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<v Speaker 2>why everyone I see why everyone says it says they

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<v Speaker 2>get nervous.

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<v Speaker 1>No, it's just you and me, dude. I'm I'm alone

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<v Speaker 1>in my house. You're alone wherever you are yeah, tell

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<v Speaker 1>me about your job.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh man, So I'm a janitor or custodian for a

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<v Speaker 2>elementary school district. Shit, I've done it for a little

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<v Speaker 2>over ten years now, and uh yeah, I didn't know

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<v Speaker 2>if you'd want to hear some some crazy stories.

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<v Speaker 1>I would love to hear some crazy stories. I bet

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<v Speaker 1>you've seen truly horrific things.

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<v Speaker 2>I could honestly say I've seen some shit. Literally, yeah, yeah, no,

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<v Speaker 2>it's it's crazy. So now, so I used to do

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<v Speaker 2>like subbing, so I'd go to different schools. There's like

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<v Speaker 2>junior highs and elementaries and stuff. The junior highs, you

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<v Speaker 2>would think as the kids get older, they get they

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<v Speaker 2>get better, but nope, they don't. I have friends actually

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<v Speaker 2>who work in like colleges, so it's grown adults and

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<v Speaker 2>they they've seen some horrendous things that just from what

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<v Speaker 2>they describe, I'm like, oh, it's pretty crazy.

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<v Speaker 1>Do you. But look, I'm gonna tell you. I'm gonna

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<v Speaker 1>preface something for you. Okay, I want you to know

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<v Speaker 1>that this this is, this is uh, you know we're

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<v Speaker 1>on the Exam Network, all right, this is you can

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<v Speaker 1>graphically describe whatever fountain of piss and ship you desire

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<v Speaker 1>to describe what were some of the biggest messes that

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<v Speaker 1>you encountered.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, so I was a sub This was about I

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<v Speaker 2>want to say, like ten years ago. Nine ten years ago. Uh,

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<v Speaker 2>they shut down one of the restrooms and so I

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<v Speaker 2>got there, I got my keys. They're like, okay, here's

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<v Speaker 2>your map. It was my first time at the school,

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<v Speaker 2>so I had to get acquainted with where all the

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<v Speaker 2>supplies everything was. They're like, oh, by the way, we

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<v Speaker 2>want to let you want we want to let you know.

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<v Speaker 5>We shut down.

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<v Speaker 2>The boys' restroom and I'm like, oh okay. They're like, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>you got a little surprise in there. I'm like, all right, cool.

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<v Speaker 2>And so one of the og custodians, I forgot what

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<v Speaker 2>he called it. He had a certain name for it.

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<v Speaker 2>But it's where they they'll get a shit and they

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<v Speaker 2>use it as a marker and they'll just write whatever.

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<v Speaker 2>And then mind you, these are elementary school kids, and yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>just some of the things. Some of the things they

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<v Speaker 2>put is like how did you, for one, know how

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<v Speaker 2>to spell this? And then for two, they kind of

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<v Speaker 2>got lazy with it, and like they're running out of

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<v Speaker 2>running out of ammo with it. So they just kind

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<v Speaker 2>of started just spreading the shit. Literally, it was pretty horrible.

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<v Speaker 2>And that was my first time at the school. That

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<v Speaker 2>was my first time having a cleanup like that, and

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<v Speaker 2>uh yeah that that fucking sucked. I wanted to leave.

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<v Speaker 2>I wanted to leave. But uh yeah, so, I mean

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<v Speaker 2>there's that the junior high.

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<v Speaker 1>Hold on what what what did they write with this

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<v Speaker 1>ship marker?

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<v Speaker 2>I don't remember the teacher's name for the ship marker,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't remember the teacher's name, but they wrote one

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<v Speaker 2>of the teachers is a bitch. And then uh they said,

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<v Speaker 2>I forgot the principal's name, fuck so and so, and

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<v Speaker 2>then uh, mind you that side of the school was

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<v Speaker 2>probably like the first or second grade side. So yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>it was, it was. It was pretty Uh, it was

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<v Speaker 2>pretty crazy. I'm trying to recall what else too. It

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<v Speaker 2>was it was like more than that. But then, like

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<v Speaker 2>I said, towards the end, it started just getting getting

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<v Speaker 2>a little uh they just got lazy with it and

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<v Speaker 2>started wiping it. And yeah, that was fucked up. That

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<v Speaker 2>was pretty fuck.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>It's kind of depressing that at the It's kind of

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<v Speaker 1>sad that at first they were, you know, putting some

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<v Speaker 1>kind of artistry into it and then they just got

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<v Speaker 1>lazy and started smearing the ship everywhere.

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<v Speaker 2>No, yeah, it was definitely, uh, it was definitely pretty crazy.

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<v Speaker 2>But uh, junior high kids, it's they'll go in uh man,

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<v Speaker 2>So how do I put it? They'll get like we

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<v Speaker 2>call them a barbie box and that's where they get

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<v Speaker 2>the uh how do you put it? Like like basically

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<v Speaker 2>like you know, like the pads or whatever, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>use pads and they'll go and and fucking slam them

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<v Speaker 2>up on the mirror or slam them behind the uh

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<v Speaker 2>like the stalls the door, so you wouldn't even know

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<v Speaker 2>it's there, but if someone sat down, they're just staring

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<v Speaker 2>at this frightening, bloody mess. It's it's pretty crazy. So

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<v Speaker 2>there's like different protocols you have the queen because it's

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<v Speaker 2>different disinfectants and and whatnot. At the same time, they're

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<v Speaker 2>not trying to get you know, anything on yourself either,

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<v Speaker 2>so it's pretty uh pretty crazy.

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<v Speaker 1>What's the absolute worst thing that you have seen in

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<v Speaker 1>your ten years?

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<v Speaker 2>Ah? They like it's a reverse waffle stump of a vent.

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<v Speaker 2>So there's like a vent above the big handicap stall

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<v Speaker 2>and it's like a gritted vent and someone just got

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<v Speaker 2>like a patty of ship and just chucked it up there,

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<v Speaker 2>and uh that was pretty uh pretty nasty and we

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<v Speaker 2>had a Yeah, that was that was that was pretty fuck.

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<v Speaker 2>That was probably the worst. You have to take off.

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<v Speaker 2>You have to see the vent off and there's only

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<v Speaker 2>so much you couldn't get on the vent, like you know,

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<v Speaker 2>so you have to like physically take it off. And

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<v Speaker 2>then whatever's inside the walls of the duct cleaning that

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<v Speaker 2>as well.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh you know, I have a lot of respect for

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<v Speaker 1>you because the second I saw that, I probably would

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<v Speaker 1>have quit.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, no, uh yeah, I thought about it. There's

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<v Speaker 2>times and then uh yeah, I I honestly there's times

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<v Speaker 2>I'm like, fuck, I should have done something different in

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<v Speaker 2>my life, but you know, I'm trying to make money,

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<v Speaker 2>trying to you know, live. But uh, there's I've heard stories,

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<v Speaker 2>There's there's were stories and stuff I've come across, so

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<v Speaker 2>I know, I don't got it so bad.

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<v Speaker 1>What is it that kept you going for the entire ten.

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<v Speaker 2>Years aside from money? Family? Family?

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<v Speaker 1>Well, like I guess money for your family.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, well yeah, basically, you know i'd say that, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>there's Daisy coming. It's like you know, crazy, it's just small.

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<v Speaker 2>You'll you'll get like a fool, like just fucking mister

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<v Speaker 2>Hanky in the year and all, and like you'll just

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<v Speaker 2>come across different ways to you know, work, work smarter,

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<v Speaker 2>not harder. You know, I'm not trying to like physically.

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<v Speaker 2>But there's other dudes too there. You know, they don't care.

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<v Speaker 2>They'll just like double glove it, grab it and then

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<v Speaker 2>you know, jumping down the toilet or whatever. I'm just

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<v Speaker 2>kind of I still you know, it's still kind of like,

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<v Speaker 2>oh yeah, that's crazy. It's crazy. Job. You know, it's

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<v Speaker 2>not so bad. But like I said, once you get

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<v Speaker 2>to the high school, junior high is kind of bad.

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<v Speaker 2>High school and college is worse though.

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<v Speaker 1>So as the kids get older, the ship and piss

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<v Speaker 1>mess uh messes actually get worse.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh definitely colleges. I mean you you go to a

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<v Speaker 2>fucking Walmart. You know, you go to a random Walmart somewhere.

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<v Speaker 2>It's horrible there. That's another thing is I've I've come

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<v Speaker 2>across because I when I go on life, I'm on vacation,

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<v Speaker 2>whether it be a hotel, wherever I go, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>you go travel. And that's another thing is I'm looking

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<v Speaker 2>at cleanliness of everywhere that I go, especially like the

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<v Speaker 2>whole COVID and everything kind of kind of made it

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<v Speaker 2>crazy because a lot of how I put it, a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of supplies they give us new, different stuff, new chemicals.

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<v Speaker 2>They had like some backpack you'll see at like baseball

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<v Speaker 2>games and stuff you put like a solution and you

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<v Speaker 2>got to like sanitize ship during a whole col It

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<v Speaker 2>was crazy, you know. But yeah, it's pretty you know,

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<v Speaker 2>it's pretty pretty good ship some days and ship the

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<v Speaker 2>other days. It's pretty pretty cool, pretty chill.

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<v Speaker 6>You know.

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<v Speaker 1>Do you ever are you ever on vacation or just

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<v Speaker 1>kind of out and about in the world and you

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<v Speaker 1>see a horrible diarrhea mess all over the stall and

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<v Speaker 1>you think to yourself, thank God, I don't have to

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<v Speaker 1>clean this one.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah no, yeah, definitely. I feel definitely feel bad for

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<v Speaker 2>whoever has to ah blessed their little spirit. But uh, yeah, no,

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<v Speaker 2>it's it's pretty it's pretty crazy. I feel like not

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<v Speaker 2>like put it on the spot, but you know, like, uh,

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<v Speaker 2>how do I put it? I don't even expect to

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<v Speaker 2>get a call, so I'm just like trying to think

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<v Speaker 2>of what else because there, you know, there's a whole

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<v Speaker 2>bunch of stuff and a whole bunch of ship that

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<v Speaker 2>goes on.

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<v Speaker 1>But uh, I got to ask you this before we go.

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<v Speaker 1>Were the kids the kids themselves, were they dicks to you?

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<v Speaker 2>No? No, they're you know, they're they're pretty cool. You'll

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<v Speaker 2>see them. How's they go, mister Eric? And uh, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>they're they're really uh you know they're they're they're cool.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, the kids are cool. JUNIORI kids, of course,

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<v Speaker 2>they're you know, peop little. It's just like getting snotty

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<v Speaker 2>little shits. High school kids. Haven't dealt with high school kids.

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<v Speaker 2>But from what I hear, you know, some of them

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<v Speaker 2>are cool. Other ones they you know, glassholes. But I

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<v Speaker 2>guess it's on the on the parents too.

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<v Speaker 1>Have you ever unintentionally created a diarrhea mess in a

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<v Speaker 1>public bathroom?

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<v Speaker 2>No? No travelers pills, man.

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<v Speaker 1>Traveler skills.

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<v Speaker 2>No, the traveler pills.

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<v Speaker 1>What are the traveler pills?

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<v Speaker 2>There's like traveling. Uh how do you put it? Because

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<v Speaker 2>you never know, you know, like you ever go on

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<v Speaker 2>a trip and it's like your stomach will just fucking

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<v Speaker 2>hit you. So if I go like long travels, I

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<v Speaker 2>don't like having stomach issues, especially because I don't know

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<v Speaker 2>the way restrooms are and stuff. I'd rather wait till,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, if I get to the hotel, and then

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<v Speaker 2>of course I keep like Clorox wipes or shit like that,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, because I don't of course they clean the

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<v Speaker 2>restrooms and stuff, but you don't know if they really do.

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<v Speaker 2>Other people don't have the same standard of cleaning, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>so I just kind of I kind of don't, not

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<v Speaker 2>that I don't trust whoever's cleaning it, but you know,

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<v Speaker 2>you never know. You know, they can say they cleaned

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<v Speaker 2>it and you have no idea who's who's fucking using

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<v Speaker 2>it before you.

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<v Speaker 1>Do you think that you will continue to be a

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<v Speaker 1>janitor or do you desire to ever transition in careers?

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<v Speaker 2>I have thought multiple times of pursuing like doing school

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<v Speaker 2>and then being on the other side rather than getting

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<v Speaker 2>cleaning classes is being on the other side of the defense,

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<v Speaker 2>because I've heard a lot of stories like that too.

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<v Speaker 2>I just don't like schooling, you know, I don't. For me,

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<v Speaker 2>It's like, how do I put it, I don't know,

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<v Speaker 2>just the focus. As a kid, I was pretty you know,

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<v Speaker 2>I was more focused, but as I got older, I

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<v Speaker 2>was just like school kind of I don't know, but

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<v Speaker 2>you know, I think about it. There's times I've almost enrolled.

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<v Speaker 2>I've thought about switching actually moving out out of a

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<v Speaker 2>like going to a different state and trying to find

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<v Speaker 2>something there, you know, and you know, something different. But

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<v Speaker 2>there's also managers. You know, you can get managerial positions

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<v Speaker 2>and you know they request at least ten years experience,

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<v Speaker 2>so had over over ten, about twelve.

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<v Speaker 1>That sounds now, that sounds fun. That's I think after

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<v Speaker 1>ten years of cleaning up diarrhea, you've earned the right

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<v Speaker 1>to tell other people to go clean up diarrhea.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it just takes the I'd say it's that taking

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<v Speaker 2>that step to just do it, growing up the set

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<v Speaker 2>and the same fuck it, you know, to to you know,

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<v Speaker 2>of course, pick up, move out, and then you got

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<v Speaker 2>to put away, you know, and then and then you know,

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<v Speaker 2>stack enough to bring family over and you know, so

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<v Speaker 2>it'd be about a two months solitude kind of arc.

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<v Speaker 1>Being being we're we're talking about we're talking about like

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<v Speaker 1>being a manager of like a sanitation like thing.

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<v Speaker 2>Right, yeah, Like well yeah, because i I've found like

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<v Speaker 2>in different states, you know, they pay, they pay. I

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<v Speaker 2>mean I could find around here too, but it's just

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<v Speaker 2>you know around here is not so well. It just depends.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, you go to a different state when you

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<v Speaker 2>have to travel, and you know, it's like picking up

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<v Speaker 2>and starting all starting all over.

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<v Speaker 1>But it's kind of you know, it's kind of cool

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<v Speaker 1>because you're gonna have intel on which states in America

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<v Speaker 1>have the worst diarrhea.

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<v Speaker 5>Lay it out a map, you'll have a whole Yeah,

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<v Speaker 5>don't go to Texas.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, I've heard stories of barbecue.

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<v Speaker 5>What's your name again?

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<v Speaker 1>Wait, hold on, hold, don't tell me. I'm actually all right, Eric. Well, Eric,

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<v Speaker 1>thanks for talking about all this stuff. This was this

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<v Speaker 1>was fascinating. I didn't know that you could do a

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<v Speaker 1>reverse waffle stop. That's something that you really need some

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<v Speaker 1>true malice to pull off. Is there anything else you

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<v Speaker 1>want to say to the people of the computer before

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<v Speaker 1>we go, Eric.

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<v Speaker 2>Ship, it's pretty crazy to have that. Ask don't do

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<v Speaker 2>reverse waffle stumps, and uh, keep your local restrooms clean.

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks for calling Eric.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, well.

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<v Speaker 1>We got to make like an ASPCA style commercial, a

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<v Speaker 1>very sad janitors asking please do not do a reverse

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<v Speaker 1>waffle stomp.

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<v Speaker 4>Hello, we reconnected.

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, what's up?

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<v Speaker 7>Uh?

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<v Speaker 4>This must be the therapy?

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<v Speaker 1>Get go Yeah, yeah, is this Robbie.

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<v Speaker 4>This is Robbie Man. Glad to talk to you.

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<v Speaker 1>Robbie. What's what's up?

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<v Speaker 4>Man?

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<v Speaker 1>How's a go on?

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<v Speaker 4>Good man?

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<v Speaker 1>How's how's your life? I'm actually feeling pretty nice right now.

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<v Speaker 1>It's always kind of our roll of the dice depending

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<v Speaker 1>on the phase of the moon, but in this particular moment,

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<v Speaker 1>I feel pretty good. What about what about you?

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<v Speaker 4>Sure?

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<v Speaker 6>You know lunar cycles, whatever transpires. Glad you took my call, man,

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<v Speaker 6>So I did follow you. I've been watching you for

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<v Speaker 6>a little bit.

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<v Speaker 4>I wanted to pose a question to you.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, sure, all right.

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<v Speaker 6>So I have the opportunity to go, you know, travel

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<v Speaker 6>the world, use disability finances and X y Z from military.

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<v Speaker 4>So I was just to give a little backstory.

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<v Speaker 6>You know, previous Special Special Forces got injured, got out.

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<v Speaker 4>Went to school.

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<v Speaker 6>Really hasn't been my things in tough going going back

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<v Speaker 6>for biology. So I kind of just want to go

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<v Speaker 6>travel the world. But my conundrum is if I go

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<v Speaker 6>travel the world in this crazy state that it's in,

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<v Speaker 6>I'll leave my family behind.

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<v Speaker 4>So it's curious, it's a year insight on that.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, tell me about your family. What's your family is?

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<v Speaker 1>It your mom and dad? Is that a wife and kids?

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<v Speaker 1>Who's in the family?

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<v Speaker 4>Sure, No, it's just mom and dad. Five siblings. Mom

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<v Speaker 4>remarried added two more this year. We lost his oldest

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<v Speaker 4>brother to an overdose.

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<v Speaker 1>Sorry to hear that.

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<v Speaker 6>So yeah, yeah, it's a tough. It's been tough for

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<v Speaker 6>all of us. But it's part of the game, I suppose,

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<v Speaker 6>part of the game of life.

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<v Speaker 4>So you know, it's been hell of a year. Quite frankly.

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<v Speaker 6>I broke my neck on a TV show last year,

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<v Speaker 6>actually twelve months almost to the date.

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<v Speaker 4>Since then, you know, fiance had left.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm sorry before you continue, you you broke your neck

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<v Speaker 1>on a TV show.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, yeah, survival TV show.

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<v Speaker 1>What survival TV show were you on?

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<v Speaker 6>Oh yeah, right, uh no, no, it's out there now.

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<v Speaker 4>So the things, Yeah, it's called Fight to Survive, something

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<v Speaker 4>like Roku or whatever if you have that.

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<v Speaker 1>How did you get involved with Fight to Survive?

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<v Speaker 6>I actually got recruited from it from a different survival

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<v Speaker 6>TV show.

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<v Speaker 1>How many survival TV shows have you been on?

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<v Speaker 4>Just those two and then a couple other like low

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<v Speaker 4>level productions and.

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<v Speaker 6>Like Amazon Prime, things of that nature.

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<v Speaker 1>Do they find you because your special Forces.

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<v Speaker 6>Guy that was the initial reason they brought me out,

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<v Speaker 6>and then they you know, because my I don't know

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<v Speaker 6>chrismon camera or whatever you might want to call it.

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<v Speaker 1>Uh huh.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, it's odd hearing you talk to me while I

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<v Speaker 6>see you on the background flying away above space.

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<v Speaker 1>That's cool though, all right, So I'm you know, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>sure we could talk forever about these, uh, these these

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<v Speaker 1>reality TV experiences. But so okay, so you broke your neck,

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<v Speaker 1>you were kind of running down with for me all

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<v Speaker 1>the things that happened to you recently, right right.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, So what had inspired transpired?

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<v Speaker 2>After that?

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<v Speaker 4>Fiance left? Found out?

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<v Speaker 6>So I moved to a different city to be closer

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<v Speaker 6>to her, just to find out she had a different

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<v Speaker 6>boyfriend here left for him.

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<v Speaker 4>Makes sense. I just left her brother. I was in

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<v Speaker 4>a dark spot m hm. A couple months later, broke

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<v Speaker 4>my race and locked up. Still in school for biology.

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<v Speaker 6>Doing my best left handed. I'm a right handed dude,

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<v Speaker 6>so that's stuff. And I recently just got the cast off,

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<v Speaker 6>and my best friend is out in Southeast Asia just

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<v Speaker 6>exploring like Nepal, Tyland, Vietnam, hitting all those spots, and

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<v Speaker 6>he invited me out there to go, you know, come

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<v Speaker 6>and say what's up with him?

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<v Speaker 1>M hmm.

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<v Speaker 6>But my only like drawback is like, I'm gonna leave

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<v Speaker 6>my family in this type of situation where you know,

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<v Speaker 6>they already lost one son.

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<v Speaker 4>What's it like.

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<v Speaker 6>If I have to go overseas and they're gonna lose

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<v Speaker 6>another for a.

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<v Speaker 1>Bit, Robbie, I am, I I hope. I mean, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>dying and going on vacation or two very different things,

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<v Speaker 1>okare I I think that how long you plan on

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<v Speaker 1>being away.

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<v Speaker 4>From for indefinitely?

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<v Speaker 6>Mmmm?

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<v Speaker 1>So you're just gonna go and see what happens.

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<v Speaker 4>That's kind of my game plan.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, let me get into your head about this, Like,

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<v Speaker 1>are you who like I can't ask how old you are?

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I'm twenty six and.

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<v Speaker 1>Has family always been? Like I guess, I guess I

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<v Speaker 1>want to hear about like family is clearly important to you,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, because if it wasn't, you would be gone.

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<v Speaker 1>You wouldn't be calling a gecko to talk about this.

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<v Speaker 1>So you know what, what how did that come to be? Like,

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<v Speaker 1>tell me about the role of the family kind of

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<v Speaker 1>plays in your life, you know, throughout your life.

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<v Speaker 4>I guess that's a hard question. You know, I grew

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<v Speaker 4>up with five siblings.

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<v Speaker 6>You know, I got my hand me downs from my

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<v Speaker 6>cousins who ended up with my older brother who ended

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<v Speaker 6>up with me.

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<v Speaker 5>I guess I've.

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<v Speaker 4>Always had family around. But I also joined you know,

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<v Speaker 4>military Special Forces to But nobody ever said the same

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<v Speaker 4>things that they say now, really like oh what about

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<v Speaker 4>your family? Like are you abangoning in your family to

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<v Speaker 4>go do this?

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<v Speaker 6>I get that from them now, but nobody said that

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<v Speaker 6>when I went to leave for you know, Special Forces,

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<v Speaker 6>they were all totally fine.

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<v Speaker 4>Look at them. Mhm.

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<v Speaker 6>It's it's it's a strange conundrum that I found myself

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<v Speaker 6>in that.

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<v Speaker 4>Thank you for allowing me to talk to you about this.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I find this fascinating. Hmmm. So well, okay, what

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<v Speaker 1>kind of like do you do? You live with your parents?

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<v Speaker 4>I don't know.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm on my own, okay, So what kinds of like

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<v Speaker 1>stuff do you do for them? Where that there are?

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<v Speaker 1>They are? They dependent on you for anything?

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<v Speaker 4>Right now?

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<v Speaker 6>They're dependent as far as that community goes.

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<v Speaker 4>So any day that I'm not in school, so I

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<v Speaker 4>study biology one day a week at school and the

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<v Speaker 4>rest are online classes. Ah, but I.

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<v Speaker 6>Go home pretty much every opportunity I get to spend

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<v Speaker 6>as much time with family, especially considering this up you know,

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<v Speaker 6>this future operation that I might.

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<v Speaker 4>V mm hmmm hm.

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<v Speaker 1>And how many other How many siblings.

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<v Speaker 4>Do you have? Well? Now I have five?

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<v Speaker 1>Okay?

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<v Speaker 4>And are they all?

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<v Speaker 1>Are they all around? Is everyone everyone's around?

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<v Speaker 7>No?

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<v Speaker 4>Two of them pretty much? Stay? You know Colorado? Are

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<v Speaker 4>you familiar with Colorado?

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<v Speaker 7>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 1>I'm familiar with well are you? I?

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<v Speaker 2>Like?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I know Colorado. I don't know if I know everything.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know, like landsdown Colorado?

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, well no, I don't worry about it, the big numbs.

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<v Speaker 4>So I got two in Bolder.

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<v Speaker 6>My two brothers live together in Boulder, my sister lives

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<v Speaker 6>in Colorado Springs, and I live in Denver.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, so everyone's everyone's pretty close.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, not more than an hour and a half.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, Well, look, I mean all of that aside. Man.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, uh, this is an interesting one to think

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<v Speaker 1>about because I don't know if there's a right or

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<v Speaker 1>wrong answer. You know, it all depends on, like what

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<v Speaker 1>you value, And I don't think there's.

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<v Speaker 4>Help me out with that. Worth of value.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, well worth of value to me? Yeah yeah, Well

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<v Speaker 1>to me, family is very important and and and Robbie,

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<v Speaker 1>You've spent a god damn good amount of your life,

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<v Speaker 1>a good amount of your adult life too, servicing the

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<v Speaker 1>value that you have for your family, you know, but

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<v Speaker 1>clearly you also have a you also have a value.

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<v Speaker 1>You also value adventure, You value experience, do you not?

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<v Speaker 4>Absolutely?

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<v Speaker 1>And you gotta you know, serve those values as well.

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<v Speaker 1>And I think, I mean, you've never have you ever

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<v Speaker 1>been out side of the country before?

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, probably, like I don't know, thirteen fourteen countries or.

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<v Speaker 1>So, yeah, yeah, cool, I've been out in the cool

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<v Speaker 1>cool cool. I mean, look, man, you're first of all,

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<v Speaker 1>you saying and that the way you said indefinitely, it

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<v Speaker 1>was as if the gates would close it. Well, it was, Oh,

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<v Speaker 1>you're trying to expatriates in. You'd like, you're trying to

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<v Speaker 1>renounce your American citizenship.

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<v Speaker 6>Not in the sense of renouncing xt you know, you

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<v Speaker 6>don't have to renounce your citizenship, but you know, if

0:24:33.520 --> 0:24:36.000
<v Speaker 6>I never come back, you know, it might be for

0:24:36.080 --> 0:24:39.080
<v Speaker 6>good reason. Crazy shit's going on in America. I'm sorry,

0:24:39.119 --> 0:24:41.600
<v Speaker 6>Am I allowed to say that crazy stuff is going on?

0:24:41.760 --> 0:24:41.960
<v Speaker 4>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 1>You can, Yeah, you can say crazy. You can say

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<v Speaker 1>whatever you want.

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<v Speaker 4>It's going on in America.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, hmm, well, this could get very political, but what

0:24:51.840 --> 0:24:54.440
<v Speaker 1>what is it about America that you're trying to escape?

0:24:57.240 --> 0:24:58.760
<v Speaker 6>You know very well could and it could also get

0:24:58.840 --> 0:25:04.920
<v Speaker 6>very scientific, but which also, unfortunately is politicized. So I

0:25:04.960 --> 0:25:07.520
<v Speaker 6>don't know how much of that I'm allowed to disclose

0:25:07.560 --> 0:25:07.840
<v Speaker 6>with you.

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<v Speaker 1>Look, you can say whatever you want, but you know what,

0:25:11.800 --> 0:25:13.760
<v Speaker 1>we don't even really I don't even know if we

0:25:13.800 --> 0:25:17.679
<v Speaker 1>need to get into specifics because okay, okay, fair whatever,

0:25:17.800 --> 0:25:18.520
<v Speaker 1>who gives a shit?

0:25:18.720 --> 0:25:19.160
<v Speaker 2>Who cares?

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<v Speaker 4>No?

0:25:19.720 --> 0:25:21.200
<v Speaker 1>I feel you too, I feel you too. I feel

0:25:21.240 --> 0:25:22.200
<v Speaker 1>you too. There's a lot of.

0:25:22.200 --> 0:25:24.440
<v Speaker 4>Uh thought, that's my same thought.

0:25:24.960 --> 0:25:27.680
<v Speaker 1>There's a lot of believe, there's a lot of reasons

0:25:27.680 --> 0:25:32.399
<v Speaker 1>to want to leave America for whoever you are. I mean,

0:25:32.440 --> 0:25:34.119
<v Speaker 1>why does it have to be so I guess what

0:25:34.200 --> 0:25:35.719
<v Speaker 1>I'm lost on is why does it have to be

0:25:35.760 --> 0:25:39.760
<v Speaker 1>so dire? Like you can come back drastic? Yeah, you

0:25:39.800 --> 0:25:40.560
<v Speaker 1>can come back.

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<v Speaker 6>I guess I'd love to come back, you know, if

0:25:45.280 --> 0:25:48.480
<v Speaker 6>I sell it in a spot where it's.

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<v Speaker 3>Where it's the fuck that I want to be, and

0:25:51.960 --> 0:25:56.919
<v Speaker 3>it's not. It's just so detrimental the stuff that's going on.

0:25:57.760 --> 0:25:59.920
<v Speaker 3>I don't want to participate in it.

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<v Speaker 6>You know, I say, like our tax dollars are going

0:26:02.920 --> 0:26:04.960
<v Speaker 6>into it, whatever.

0:26:04.600 --> 0:26:05.160
<v Speaker 4>It might be.

0:26:07.560 --> 0:26:10.720
<v Speaker 6>If I'm a non participant in that, you know, it's

0:26:10.800 --> 0:26:13.000
<v Speaker 6>like I hate to use this comparison.

0:26:13.359 --> 0:26:16.120
<v Speaker 4>It's like the matrix, right, you know, red belt, bluepill.

0:26:16.119 --> 0:26:20.120
<v Speaker 6>You can be ignorant and bliss or you can recognize

0:26:20.160 --> 0:26:24.960
<v Speaker 6>what's going on in non participant, be a non participant

0:26:25.000 --> 0:26:25.720
<v Speaker 6>in that fact.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, M I don't know, man, I don't know that,

0:26:31.480 --> 0:26:33.240
<v Speaker 4>you know. That's why I'm calling to talk to somebody

0:26:33.240 --> 0:26:33.639
<v Speaker 4>about it.

0:26:34.160 --> 0:26:37.800
<v Speaker 1>Sure, but I think I think we're getting I just

0:26:38.000 --> 0:26:40.600
<v Speaker 1>if I could say something, and this is just like

0:26:41.400 --> 0:26:43.400
<v Speaker 1>how I think about shit, and I might be wrong,

0:26:43.480 --> 0:26:46.879
<v Speaker 1>but whatever, I think it's more important to think about

0:26:46.920 --> 0:26:50.600
<v Speaker 1>you than it is to think about like society and

0:26:50.680 --> 0:26:53.840
<v Speaker 1>culture at large right now, right because what I'm hearing,

0:26:53.960 --> 0:26:58.120
<v Speaker 1>and I know that there's you have some cultural political

0:26:58.160 --> 0:27:01.399
<v Speaker 1>whatever hang ups with with America is a place that

0:27:01.480 --> 0:27:06.040
<v Speaker 1>you want to you know, not participate with you. But

0:27:06.560 --> 0:27:10.919
<v Speaker 1>what I'm reading more into this argument you have with

0:27:11.000 --> 0:27:15.119
<v Speaker 1>yourself about wanting to go and live your life for

0:27:15.200 --> 0:27:18.520
<v Speaker 1>yourself an adventure versus wanting to you know, be there

0:27:18.560 --> 0:27:21.080
<v Speaker 1>to support your family. Because both of those things are

0:27:21.160 --> 0:27:27.119
<v Speaker 1>very important to you. And yeah, so second, yeah, no,

0:27:27.160 --> 0:27:29.840
<v Speaker 1>you're right, correct, that's the hangoup. And so look, I

0:27:30.080 --> 0:27:33.520
<v Speaker 1>guess what. I guess I don't understand why. And maybe

0:27:33.560 --> 0:27:37.480
<v Speaker 1>it's the has something to do with the political cultural

0:27:37.480 --> 0:27:40.440
<v Speaker 1>hang ups that you have. But uh, I don't see

0:27:40.440 --> 0:27:47.240
<v Speaker 1>why this is a drastic, indefinite move. You know, you

0:27:47.240 --> 0:27:51.560
<v Speaker 1>you can go. Many people will go to Southeast Asia

0:27:52.000 --> 0:27:55.000
<v Speaker 1>for a month, two months, three months, four months, five

0:27:55.000 --> 0:27:57.359
<v Speaker 1>months and then come back. You know, it doesn't have

0:27:57.480 --> 0:28:01.800
<v Speaker 1>to be the most you know you can you can

0:28:01.920 --> 0:28:04.720
<v Speaker 1>you don't have to live your life decades at a time.

0:28:04.960 --> 0:28:07.359
<v Speaker 1>You can do it a couple days, weeks, months at

0:28:07.400 --> 0:28:08.600
<v Speaker 1>a time. You know what I'm saying.

0:28:09.800 --> 0:28:13.480
<v Speaker 6>No, I totally do I get it. I'm concerned, Yeah,

0:28:13.640 --> 0:28:16.840
<v Speaker 6>concerned about you know what is the next decade, weeks,

0:28:16.920 --> 0:28:19.240
<v Speaker 6>months of you I mean even this current nation.

0:28:19.920 --> 0:28:21.679
<v Speaker 4>I don't want to get political with it. We already

0:28:21.680 --> 0:28:22.760
<v Speaker 4>talked about that. That's not.

0:28:24.240 --> 0:28:27.119
<v Speaker 1>It's yeah, well let's let's let's do here. Do you

0:28:27.119 --> 0:28:29.919
<v Speaker 1>you are you you're collecting disability money? How are you

0:28:29.960 --> 0:28:31.040
<v Speaker 1>making money?

0:28:31.320 --> 0:28:33.520
<v Speaker 4>Yeah? Yeah, that's correct. And then I collect money to

0:28:33.560 --> 0:28:37.960
<v Speaker 4>go to school? Okay, are you dropping out relatively handsomely.

0:28:38.600 --> 0:28:40.040
<v Speaker 1>Are you dropping out of school?

0:28:41.680 --> 0:28:44.440
<v Speaker 4>I might transition to online to complete my degree.

0:28:44.880 --> 0:28:47.920
<v Speaker 1>Cool. Yeah, and that you can do from anywhere. So okay, great,

0:28:47.960 --> 0:28:51.400
<v Speaker 1>So you're entire so you're in Thailand, you're living the

0:28:51.520 --> 0:28:53.800
<v Speaker 1>laptop lifestyle, as they call it.

0:28:54.480 --> 0:28:56.560
<v Speaker 6>Well, I would do that and then also train mixed

0:28:56.560 --> 0:28:57.840
<v Speaker 6>martial arts NonStop.

0:28:57.920 --> 0:28:58.600
<v Speaker 4>So I have a couple.

0:28:59.080 --> 0:29:01.800
<v Speaker 6>I have one profession from a fight, you know, numerous

0:29:01.840 --> 0:29:03.720
<v Speaker 6>amateur Yeah.

0:29:03.920 --> 0:29:04.920
<v Speaker 1>It kind of sounds sick.

0:29:06.160 --> 0:29:08.400
<v Speaker 4>It's it kind of sounds like a sick life, right

0:29:08.720 --> 0:29:09.160
<v Speaker 4>what I do.

0:29:09.320 --> 0:29:11.600
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, But the only thing is like I got my

0:29:11.680 --> 0:29:15.080
<v Speaker 6>family here and they just like we all just lost

0:29:15.120 --> 0:29:20.520
<v Speaker 6>one of our five to suicide m and I would

0:29:20.640 --> 0:29:21.600
<v Speaker 6>hate for my mom.

0:29:21.760 --> 0:29:25.000
<v Speaker 4>Really, That's what hurts me. It's like thinking my mom's

0:29:25.080 --> 0:29:26.480
<v Speaker 4>gonna lose another one.

0:29:27.840 --> 0:29:30.320
<v Speaker 6>And I'm not. But at the same time, I also

0:29:30.360 --> 0:29:31.760
<v Speaker 6>don't really want to come back.

0:29:31.800 --> 0:29:33.240
<v Speaker 4>If it's that awesome out there.

0:29:34.560 --> 0:29:37.840
<v Speaker 1>I will say, I will say I've never I'm the

0:29:37.840 --> 0:29:41.600
<v Speaker 1>most out of shape person that you've talked to, at

0:29:41.680 --> 0:29:43.040
<v Speaker 1>least in the past month.

0:29:43.920 --> 0:29:45.719
<v Speaker 4>And dude, I see you saying it.

0:29:45.720 --> 0:29:50.680
<v Speaker 1>You're good even I even I have had weird three

0:29:50.720 --> 0:29:55.520
<v Speaker 1>am fantasies about going training martial arts in Thailand. It

0:29:55.640 --> 0:30:01.040
<v Speaker 1>sounds cool. But anyway, anyway, have you read so have

0:30:01.160 --> 0:30:03.200
<v Speaker 1>you talked to your mom about this? I'm curious.

0:30:03.920 --> 0:30:10.960
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, mom knows, Grandpa knows. Siblings all know that this

0:30:11.040 --> 0:30:12.880
<v Speaker 6>is where my heart's at. This is kind of where

0:30:12.920 --> 0:30:17.880
<v Speaker 6>I want to go. And we'll just be completely forthcoming.

0:30:18.680 --> 0:30:21.080
<v Speaker 6>I tried calling you a couple of times prior, but

0:30:22.160 --> 0:30:22.640
<v Speaker 6>at this.

0:30:22.560 --> 0:30:27.520
<v Speaker 4>Point in time, taking your book and I'm sending it.

0:30:27.960 --> 0:30:30.520
<v Speaker 1>Oh so you, oh so you you're going. This isn't

0:30:30.520 --> 0:30:32.880
<v Speaker 1>even I'm a decision.

0:30:32.960 --> 0:30:35.200
<v Speaker 6>It's more of a it's more of a like, hey,

0:30:35.240 --> 0:30:38.880
<v Speaker 6>can you cancel me? Counsel me in a spot? Where

0:30:39.840 --> 0:30:41.240
<v Speaker 6>is there anything that I'm doing wrong?

0:30:43.200 --> 0:30:45.360
<v Speaker 1>Look, I don't. I don't. I'm not in the business

0:30:45.360 --> 0:30:47.960
<v Speaker 1>of telling people what to do or what not to do.

0:30:48.080 --> 0:30:54.880
<v Speaker 1>But this is a tough one because I've got a

0:30:55.000 --> 0:31:01.760
<v Speaker 1>big adventure bug myself, and when I do that kind

0:31:01.800 --> 0:31:05.960
<v Speaker 1>of thing, I really do think to myself, like, oh man,

0:31:06.040 --> 0:31:09.280
<v Speaker 1>this is this is really just living your life to

0:31:09.320 --> 0:31:13.800
<v Speaker 1>the fullest, and if that's what you want to do,

0:31:13.880 --> 0:31:16.640
<v Speaker 1>that's the way to do it. Just to travel. It's

0:31:16.760 --> 0:31:18.640
<v Speaker 1>very scary, it's very scary to live your life to

0:31:18.640 --> 0:31:19.479
<v Speaker 1>the fullest in that way.

0:31:19.560 --> 0:31:21.080
<v Speaker 4>Do you what do you think about that type of

0:31:21.120 --> 0:31:22.160
<v Speaker 4>fear of the unknown.

0:31:26.960 --> 0:31:30.320
<v Speaker 1>I think it's so funny that you're like a badass,

0:31:30.360 --> 0:31:37.640
<v Speaker 1>fucking special Ops guy and you probably could fucking kill

0:31:37.680 --> 0:31:41.280
<v Speaker 1>me by touching me, and uh, the only thing that

0:31:41.320 --> 0:31:44.880
<v Speaker 1>you're afraid of it's not you know, guys with guns

0:31:45.080 --> 0:31:48.280
<v Speaker 1>or big alligators, it's the unknown.

0:31:50.760 --> 0:31:55.760
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, that's an interesting that's an interesting thought, right there,

0:31:55.880 --> 0:31:56.160
<v Speaker 6>Get go.

0:31:57.360 --> 0:32:01.280
<v Speaker 1>It's very it's a very funny observation, the fear of

0:32:01.320 --> 0:32:02.840
<v Speaker 1>the unknown. I don't know, man, I have a lot

0:32:02.880 --> 0:32:05.200
<v Speaker 1>of the fear of the unknown myself. I have a

0:32:05.200 --> 0:32:08.400
<v Speaker 1>lot of the fear of the unknown myself. And I think,

0:32:09.480 --> 0:32:12.720
<v Speaker 1>here lately, here's how I've been dealing with the fear

0:32:12.760 --> 0:32:19.560
<v Speaker 1>of the unknown's if you know, I try to be

0:32:19.680 --> 0:32:24.880
<v Speaker 1>grateful when I'm facing the unknown, because well, a lot

0:32:24.880 --> 0:32:26.040
<v Speaker 1>of the fear of Like when I have fear of

0:32:26.080 --> 0:32:28.640
<v Speaker 1>the unknown and I'm like, oh man, life's been cool

0:32:28.720 --> 0:32:31.880
<v Speaker 1>so far. Is it going to stay cool or is

0:32:31.920 --> 0:32:35.880
<v Speaker 1>it going to suck? You know, it's either the bad

0:32:35.920 --> 0:32:39.720
<v Speaker 1>things that it could do is not stay cool and suck.

0:32:40.160 --> 0:32:42.320
<v Speaker 1>But I try to be grateful. Right, So I'm like, well,

0:32:42.360 --> 0:32:46.560
<v Speaker 1>even if the future isn't as cool as how things

0:32:46.560 --> 0:32:49.280
<v Speaker 1>have been, or if it sucks, it's like, well, I

0:32:49.320 --> 0:32:53.320
<v Speaker 1>got to have everything, I got to live everything that

0:32:53.520 --> 0:32:56.800
<v Speaker 1>was cool. I got to already have all these great experiences.

0:32:56.800 --> 0:33:00.120
<v Speaker 1>I got to have this time with my family, these

0:33:00.200 --> 0:33:03.480
<v Speaker 1>other good experiences, this time with my friends. I already

0:33:03.760 --> 0:33:08.200
<v Speaker 1>lived so much great life. So I'm grateful for whatever

0:33:08.280 --> 0:33:10.600
<v Speaker 1>great life I got to live. And so I'm not

0:33:10.720 --> 0:33:13.200
<v Speaker 1>anxious about whether or not there's gonna be more, because

0:33:13.200 --> 0:33:15.840
<v Speaker 1>if there is, then that's a beautiful bonus and I'm

0:33:15.880 --> 0:33:19.280
<v Speaker 1>thankful for it. But if there's never any again, then

0:33:19.440 --> 0:33:23.040
<v Speaker 1>you know, I already already had my feel of life

0:33:23.120 --> 0:33:24.240
<v Speaker 1>being good.

0:33:24.760 --> 0:33:24.960
<v Speaker 4>You know.

0:33:25.200 --> 0:33:26.560
<v Speaker 1>I don't know if any of that makes sense, but

0:33:26.720 --> 0:33:27.320
<v Speaker 1>that's one thing.

0:33:27.400 --> 0:33:29.840
<v Speaker 4>Can you yeah, can you? Can you like keep me

0:33:29.920 --> 0:33:31.600
<v Speaker 4>with bullet points of that? I get hit in the

0:33:31.600 --> 0:33:33.600
<v Speaker 4>head a lot. Can you hit me with bullet points?

0:33:34.920 --> 0:33:40.200
<v Speaker 1>Oh God, bullet points of that. I guess what I'm

0:33:40.240 --> 0:33:46.840
<v Speaker 1>trying to say, in short, is that I'm grateful for

0:33:47.880 --> 0:33:51.640
<v Speaker 1>my life as it has been so far, right, and

0:33:51.680 --> 0:33:55.920
<v Speaker 1>so that makes me worry less about the future because

0:33:56.080 --> 0:34:00.400
<v Speaker 1>I'm grateful for the past and the present enough that

0:34:00.440 --> 0:34:03.920
<v Speaker 1>it quells my fear of the future. Does that make

0:34:03.920 --> 0:34:04.480
<v Speaker 1>any sense?

0:34:05.200 --> 0:34:06.120
<v Speaker 4>It absolutely does.

0:34:06.760 --> 0:34:11.680
<v Speaker 6>Do You you must believe in some type of defining power, then.

0:34:16.600 --> 0:34:21.040
<v Speaker 1>I don't really believe in Not really, I don't believe

0:34:21.040 --> 0:34:26.200
<v Speaker 1>in God or karmic forces or any any kind of

0:34:26.320 --> 0:34:31.279
<v Speaker 1>higher power that exists to intentionally move things around to

0:34:31.320 --> 0:34:32.480
<v Speaker 1>make them the way that they are.

0:34:33.480 --> 0:34:36.680
<v Speaker 6>What about I mean, you believe in yourself, right, you

0:34:36.680 --> 0:34:38.919
<v Speaker 6>can move things around to make things how they are.

0:34:39.360 --> 0:34:41.799
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I do. I believe. I believe in myself in

0:34:41.880 --> 0:34:42.399
<v Speaker 1>terms of.

0:34:43.080 --> 0:34:44.960
<v Speaker 6>And not as far as it goes as far as

0:34:45.200 --> 0:34:47.479
<v Speaker 6>belief like what can change things?

0:34:47.520 --> 0:34:51.000
<v Speaker 4>It's just strictly your third dimensional entity.

0:34:51.760 --> 0:34:53.920
<v Speaker 1>No, it's well, I have a little bit of control,

0:34:54.320 --> 0:34:57.200
<v Speaker 1>and then there's a lot of other forces that are

0:34:57.239 --> 0:35:00.279
<v Speaker 1>outside of my control. And those forces outside of my

0:35:00.320 --> 0:35:06.160
<v Speaker 1>control are a little bit like God, you know, like, uh, okay,

0:35:06.239 --> 0:35:09.360
<v Speaker 1>the weather man is kind of like God. He controls

0:35:09.360 --> 0:35:12.880
<v Speaker 1>the weather. It is a control the weather, but I

0:35:12.920 --> 0:35:15.120
<v Speaker 1>don't know, I'm not in control of what I'm not

0:35:15.120 --> 0:35:17.359
<v Speaker 1>in control of what weather he reports. So I guess

0:35:17.400 --> 0:35:21.839
<v Speaker 1>that kind of makes him like God. Hm hmm.

0:35:22.200 --> 0:35:25.560
<v Speaker 6>You know your psychology I mean, if you want, if

0:35:25.560 --> 0:35:26.879
<v Speaker 6>you're gonna call it, let's call it.

0:35:27.440 --> 0:35:30.160
<v Speaker 4>But yeah, ends up cool.

0:35:30.480 --> 0:35:31.919
<v Speaker 1>I was I was gonna say, I was gonna say,

0:35:33.280 --> 0:35:35.640
<v Speaker 1>what about the unknown? Are you afraid of.

0:35:38.680 --> 0:35:39.160
<v Speaker 2>Failure?

0:35:39.200 --> 0:35:40.320
<v Speaker 4>To a chief? Potential?

0:35:40.880 --> 0:35:43.319
<v Speaker 6>Would be my greatest fear, And you know I can

0:35:43.440 --> 0:35:46.520
<v Speaker 6>smack mad potential here in the States if I really

0:35:46.560 --> 0:35:48.160
<v Speaker 6>sat down and like worked it.

0:35:49.080 --> 0:35:51.560
<v Speaker 4>I guess I'm afraid of real work. I just want

0:35:51.600 --> 0:35:52.640
<v Speaker 4>to do what I like doing.

0:35:53.239 --> 0:35:57.080
<v Speaker 6>And what I like doing is training and traveling and

0:35:57.160 --> 0:35:58.080
<v Speaker 6>meeting new people.

0:35:58.920 --> 0:36:03.319
<v Speaker 1>And Buddy, it's so yeah, yeah, yeah, Well finish your

0:36:03.360 --> 0:36:05.000
<v Speaker 1>thought before I interrupt you.

0:36:05.040 --> 0:36:06.399
<v Speaker 4>No, that was that pretty much?

0:36:06.440 --> 0:36:09.440
<v Speaker 6>Was? I like creaning, I like traveling, I like meeting

0:36:09.480 --> 0:36:10.440
<v Speaker 6>new people, and I.

0:36:10.520 --> 0:36:13.759
<v Speaker 4>Like I'm pretty much just experiencing the world as it is.

0:36:14.360 --> 0:36:20.680
<v Speaker 1>Buddy, I'm also having fun. I'm also afraid of not

0:36:21.280 --> 0:36:24.000
<v Speaker 1>I'm also I'm also afraid of a real job. That's

0:36:24.000 --> 0:36:28.480
<v Speaker 1>why I'm wearing a Gecko costume right now and why

0:36:28.480 --> 0:36:31.880
<v Speaker 1>I'm asking people to subscribe to my super cast accounts.

0:36:33.800 --> 0:36:37.560
<v Speaker 1>And I'm also afraid of not reaching my potential. And actually,

0:36:37.560 --> 0:36:40.279
<v Speaker 1>what I just told you, what about the whole being

0:36:40.320 --> 0:36:41.960
<v Speaker 1>grateful for the what I just told you about being

0:36:41.960 --> 0:36:44.880
<v Speaker 1>grateful for the past and the present has kind of

0:36:44.920 --> 0:36:47.600
<v Speaker 1>helped me quell my fear of not reaching my potential

0:36:47.880 --> 0:36:49.760
<v Speaker 1>because I can look at my past and my present

0:36:49.760 --> 0:36:52.479
<v Speaker 1>and be like, well, I did these things. I tried

0:36:52.560 --> 0:36:54.000
<v Speaker 1>in this way, I kind of gave it my all.

0:36:54.160 --> 0:36:57.160
<v Speaker 1>So maybe maybe maybe in that sense, I did reach

0:36:57.239 --> 0:37:02.080
<v Speaker 1>my potential, you know, or does potentially even exist?

0:37:02.440 --> 0:37:02.640
<v Speaker 7>Right?

0:37:02.800 --> 0:37:06.640
<v Speaker 1>Or it is potential just like a completely made up thing?

0:37:07.680 --> 0:37:10.239
<v Speaker 4>What would mean potential is a made up thing?

0:37:10.760 --> 0:37:14.839
<v Speaker 1>Okay, I don't, I don't, I don't know. These these

0:37:14.840 --> 0:37:18.880
<v Speaker 1>are not fully formed. These are not fully formed thoughts.

0:37:18.920 --> 0:37:20.520
<v Speaker 1>This might be just kind of a bunch of bullshit.

0:37:20.800 --> 0:37:26.760
<v Speaker 1>But with me, I kind of feel like with like

0:37:26.760 --> 0:37:31.040
<v Speaker 1>like say this right, like I'm I'm not in great shape. Okay,

0:37:31.200 --> 0:37:34.640
<v Speaker 1>So let's say I had the potent. Let's say I

0:37:34.719 --> 0:37:39.640
<v Speaker 1>have the potential theoretically to become an Olympic athlete, right,

0:37:42.800 --> 0:37:46.840
<v Speaker 1>But did I ever really Because at the end of

0:37:46.840 --> 0:37:50.400
<v Speaker 1>the day, there's certain and I don't know. This is

0:37:50.400 --> 0:37:52.880
<v Speaker 1>where I reconcile with like what what is and not

0:37:53.000 --> 0:37:55.360
<v Speaker 1>of my what is? And what is not in my control?

0:37:55.880 --> 0:37:58.120
<v Speaker 1>Right because at the end of the day, there's certain

0:37:58.239 --> 0:38:02.040
<v Speaker 1>fucking things in your brain that you don't really even

0:38:02.120 --> 0:38:08.040
<v Speaker 1>understand that ye have influence over you and the decisions

0:38:08.520 --> 0:38:11.120
<v Speaker 1>that you make and the way that you live your life.

0:38:11.920 --> 0:38:15.680
<v Speaker 1>And in a this is what's fucking weird to me

0:38:15.760 --> 0:38:17.640
<v Speaker 1>is in a way, like I do believe that brain

0:38:17.719 --> 0:38:22.200
<v Speaker 1>chemistry and just shit going on with you psychologically, in

0:38:22.239 --> 0:38:25.400
<v Speaker 1>your environment and whatever influence you to make the decisions

0:38:25.480 --> 0:38:29.279
<v Speaker 1>that you make. So in some way they are your decisions,

0:38:29.400 --> 0:38:31.719
<v Speaker 1>and you were in control of whether or not you

0:38:31.800 --> 0:38:35.440
<v Speaker 1>went out and became an Olympic athlete, but also in

0:38:35.560 --> 0:38:39.520
<v Speaker 1>some ways you kind of weren't. But the it's also

0:38:39.560 --> 0:38:42.319
<v Speaker 1>I get wrapped up to this because the more I

0:38:42.360 --> 0:38:46.439
<v Speaker 1>feed the side of my brain that I think I'm

0:38:46.440 --> 0:38:48.279
<v Speaker 1>not in controller, the more I feed that idea that

0:38:48.320 --> 0:38:51.720
<v Speaker 1>I'm not in control, the more I get complacent and

0:38:51.960 --> 0:38:56.280
<v Speaker 1>want to.

0:38:54.760 --> 0:38:57.080
<v Speaker 4>You're not in control of it, than what is in

0:38:57.120 --> 0:38:57.879
<v Speaker 4>control of it.

0:38:58.160 --> 0:38:59.480
<v Speaker 1>I had no fucking idea.

0:39:00.080 --> 0:39:02.359
<v Speaker 6>Got to be subconscious. It's got to be some type

0:39:02.400 --> 0:39:06.080
<v Speaker 6>of chemical reaction. And if you break down chemical reactions,

0:39:06.160 --> 0:39:11.080
<v Speaker 6>what causes chemical reactions, what causes the mechanics, what causes

0:39:11.280 --> 0:39:15.439
<v Speaker 6>you know, micro electronic If you really break it all down.

0:39:15.560 --> 0:39:18.200
<v Speaker 6>I would you know, I hate to counter you on

0:39:18.239 --> 0:39:21.600
<v Speaker 6>this one. I feel like it comes down to creedive force,

0:39:23.360 --> 0:39:28.480
<v Speaker 6>a destiny, destiny, oh, like a god consciousness, Yeah, like

0:39:28.560 --> 0:39:28.919
<v Speaker 6>a god.

0:39:30.320 --> 0:39:33.160
<v Speaker 1>They could be there could be. I don't know.

0:39:33.719 --> 0:39:36.200
<v Speaker 4>Well, yeah, we've gotten I don't know either.

0:39:36.760 --> 0:39:40.759
<v Speaker 1>We've gotten so off track here, we're actually no, I

0:39:40.760 --> 0:39:42.400
<v Speaker 1>don't even think. I don't even I don't even know. No.

0:39:42.719 --> 0:39:45.239
<v Speaker 1>I totally take back what we said. I totally take

0:39:45.280 --> 0:39:47.680
<v Speaker 1>back what I just said. I totally regret saying that

0:39:47.719 --> 0:39:50.640
<v Speaker 1>just now. That's antithetical to how I feel about this

0:39:50.719 --> 0:39:53.600
<v Speaker 1>podcast because there is no track or whatever track we

0:39:53.600 --> 0:39:54.720
<v Speaker 1>were on was the track.

0:39:55.640 --> 0:39:57.200
<v Speaker 4>Okur, dude, this is a great combo.

0:39:58.840 --> 0:40:05.320
<v Speaker 1>So look, well you bought the tickets. That's awesome. Yeah, dude,

0:40:05.360 --> 0:40:09.399
<v Speaker 1>I think, I think. I think when you're when you're

0:40:09.480 --> 0:40:12.560
<v Speaker 1>fucking dying, I think you're going to be happy that

0:40:12.640 --> 0:40:16.560
<v Speaker 1>you left your comfort zone and went and to experience

0:40:16.640 --> 0:40:18.600
<v Speaker 1>the world. And clearly that's what you want to do.

0:40:18.680 --> 0:40:21.319
<v Speaker 1>You want you want to be out and about, you

0:40:21.360 --> 0:40:26.759
<v Speaker 1>want to be meeting people, doing things, awake, alive in

0:40:26.800 --> 0:40:29.279
<v Speaker 1>the universe. That's where you want to be, you know.

0:40:30.800 --> 0:40:32.880
<v Speaker 1>But the only to get you I'm the same way normally.

0:40:32.960 --> 0:40:37.560
<v Speaker 6>Concurrence is that damn my mom, like our whole family

0:40:37.600 --> 0:40:41.719
<v Speaker 6>had just lost a sibling to something stupid. I want

0:40:41.719 --> 0:40:45.320
<v Speaker 6>to man if I did that twice. That's my only fear.

0:40:45.680 --> 0:40:47.680
<v Speaker 6>That's my biggest fear. I don't care about if I

0:40:47.719 --> 0:40:50.239
<v Speaker 6>got eight by a great worshak. I don't care. Well

0:40:50.280 --> 0:40:54.440
<v Speaker 6>I'm surfing in Australia or got bit by snake in Thailand, Like,

0:40:54.520 --> 0:40:57.959
<v Speaker 6>I don't get it. But what I'm really worried about

0:40:58.040 --> 0:40:59.759
<v Speaker 6>is like, how is my family going to deal with

0:41:00.040 --> 0:41:00.960
<v Speaker 6>maybe two losses?

0:41:01.000 --> 0:41:03.719
<v Speaker 4>Because that's dangerous out there. It's not the.

0:41:03.640 --> 0:41:07.560
<v Speaker 1>Same as when you say, dude, when you say two losses,

0:41:07.680 --> 0:41:12.120
<v Speaker 1>do you are you referring to yourself, yeah, leaving America?

0:41:12.120 --> 0:41:14.279
<v Speaker 1>Are you are you referring to yourself leaving and not

0:41:14.320 --> 0:41:17.960
<v Speaker 1>coming back? Or are you referring to some possible danger that.

0:41:17.960 --> 0:41:19.920
<v Speaker 6>You'll die like I get knocked out, Like I get

0:41:20.040 --> 0:41:23.439
<v Speaker 6>knocked out of the game, Yeah eliminated?

0:41:26.040 --> 0:41:28.760
<v Speaker 1>Well, well in that in that case, before you fucking

0:41:29.600 --> 0:41:31.880
<v Speaker 1>get in your car and drive down the street, you

0:41:31.880 --> 0:41:34.280
<v Speaker 1>could think that about yourself. Man, I mean you're gonna

0:41:34.560 --> 0:41:38.120
<v Speaker 1>you're gonna die, and you could die. You could die

0:41:38.360 --> 0:41:41.600
<v Speaker 1>at home in America, or you could die in Thailand.

0:41:42.239 --> 0:41:44.200
<v Speaker 4>Damn, that's a good thing you could.

0:41:44.440 --> 0:41:46.520
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I didn't realize that's what you were talking about.

0:41:46.560 --> 0:41:48.600
<v Speaker 1>If that's what you were talking about, then that's you know.

0:41:49.239 --> 0:41:51.600
<v Speaker 1>I mean, that's crazy. You have no control over whether

0:41:51.640 --> 0:41:54.239
<v Speaker 1>or not some random fucking thing happens to you that

0:41:55.000 --> 0:41:55.480
<v Speaker 1>kills you.

0:41:56.680 --> 0:41:59.000
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, you know, that's kind of why I say.

0:41:59.000 --> 0:42:02.080
<v Speaker 6>It always happens, and God hands I suppose I should

0:42:02.080 --> 0:42:04.000
<v Speaker 6>have died maybe three or four times already.

0:42:04.320 --> 0:42:06.200
<v Speaker 4>I know that's not your game, which is cool. I

0:42:06.200 --> 0:42:09.280
<v Speaker 4>won't push that. No politics, no religion will do that.

0:42:09.280 --> 0:42:09.760
<v Speaker 4>That's cool.

0:42:10.600 --> 0:42:12.879
<v Speaker 1>Doh well, I are you? Were you trying to say

0:42:12.920 --> 0:42:15.520
<v Speaker 1>that you feel like like God is watching over you

0:42:15.600 --> 0:42:17.160
<v Speaker 1>to make sure that you don't die.

0:42:17.400 --> 0:42:19.960
<v Speaker 6>No, I just know that every single person has been

0:42:20.000 --> 0:42:21.320
<v Speaker 6>put here for a purpose.

0:42:22.160 --> 0:42:22.839
<v Speaker 1>And what do you think?

0:42:25.040 --> 0:42:27.120
<v Speaker 4>Dude? Who am I to say what my purpose is?

0:42:27.160 --> 0:42:29.160
<v Speaker 4>You know what I'm saying, like, I have no idea,

0:42:30.040 --> 0:42:32.560
<v Speaker 4>not the chance do. My purpose for a little while

0:42:33.200 --> 0:42:35.320
<v Speaker 4>was to make people laugh with syd up comedy.

0:42:35.880 --> 0:42:37.960
<v Speaker 6>For a little while, it was to entertain people with

0:42:38.040 --> 0:42:40.919
<v Speaker 6>this with this TV show. From before that, it was

0:42:40.960 --> 0:42:43.319
<v Speaker 6>it was for a little while to entertain people with

0:42:43.400 --> 0:42:44.760
<v Speaker 6>an MMA fighting career.

0:42:45.440 --> 0:42:50.600
<v Speaker 4>Before that, it was I guess learning probably before that.

0:42:51.040 --> 0:42:52.319
<v Speaker 4>I don't know what my purpose is.

0:42:52.840 --> 0:42:56.360
<v Speaker 1>It's very funny to me that you're about my age

0:42:56.440 --> 0:42:59.040
<v Speaker 1>because you talk like you're forty seven.

0:42:59.360 --> 0:43:03.080
<v Speaker 4>Yamn. Is that good or does that mean closer to death?

0:43:03.960 --> 0:43:04.000
<v Speaker 7>No?

0:43:05.800 --> 0:43:08.520
<v Speaker 1>No, I think, Uh, I don't. I don't know. I don't.

0:43:08.560 --> 0:43:11.760
<v Speaker 1>I don't know what that means. It's uh, it's cool.

0:43:11.800 --> 0:43:15.279
<v Speaker 1>You're a cool guy. I imagine I imagine you to

0:43:15.320 --> 0:43:22.520
<v Speaker 1>be about about twice my height. Yeah, you're probably about

0:43:22.520 --> 0:43:25.280
<v Speaker 1>what that would make you seven foot two, you're about

0:43:25.280 --> 0:43:27.040
<v Speaker 1>seventy six.

0:43:27.160 --> 0:43:28.919
<v Speaker 4>I'm like five to eleven point eight.

0:43:30.800 --> 0:43:34.560
<v Speaker 1>That's awesome. Yeah, Man, go to Thailand's. You're already there.

0:43:34.600 --> 0:43:35.560
<v Speaker 1>You're alady about the tickets?

0:43:35.880 --> 0:43:38.080
<v Speaker 4>Send it? Yeah, send it.

0:43:38.320 --> 0:43:40.560
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's what I That's what I would do. That's

0:43:40.600 --> 0:43:42.920
<v Speaker 1>what I'm probably going. That's what I'm probably going to do.

0:43:43.440 --> 0:43:45.360
<v Speaker 1>You know, I can do my stream from anywhere. I

0:43:45.400 --> 0:43:47.480
<v Speaker 1>always think I'm calling ass over.

0:43:48.480 --> 0:43:51.320
<v Speaker 6>Up, get your ass out there, because I'm going I'm

0:43:51.400 --> 0:43:53.080
<v Speaker 6>being honest, I already have my heart set on it.

0:43:53.120 --> 0:43:54.320
<v Speaker 6>I was trying to call you for a couple of

0:43:54.360 --> 0:43:57.399
<v Speaker 6>months prior to this to like, you know, deliver it

0:43:57.520 --> 0:44:00.920
<v Speaker 6>a little bit, you know, deliberate, excuse me a little bit,

0:44:01.280 --> 0:44:02.879
<v Speaker 6>try to figure this whole thing out.

0:44:02.960 --> 0:44:05.399
<v Speaker 4>But uh yeah, I came to my own conclusion. I'm

0:44:05.640 --> 0:44:08.120
<v Speaker 4>I'm sending it. Yeah, if you ever want to like

0:44:08.160 --> 0:44:09.280
<v Speaker 4>connect thoughts too.

0:44:09.560 --> 0:44:11.440
<v Speaker 1>I was gonna say, if you ever, if you start,

0:44:11.480 --> 0:44:16.080
<v Speaker 1>if you ever start a fucking dojo out there, you

0:44:16.160 --> 0:44:18.120
<v Speaker 1>let me know. I'll go. That would be a fun

0:44:18.120 --> 0:44:20.520
<v Speaker 1>That would be a crazy ass video if I if

0:44:20.560 --> 0:44:24.840
<v Speaker 1>I trained in the Gecko suit, you could.

0:44:24.600 --> 0:44:27.480
<v Speaker 4>Do that with yo. How far away are you? I'm

0:44:27.520 --> 0:44:29.160
<v Speaker 4>c Springs, Colorado Springs.

0:44:29.320 --> 0:44:30.960
<v Speaker 6>You know, if you ever, if you ever feel like

0:44:31.560 --> 0:44:34.400
<v Speaker 6>swinging through, shoot me a message. You got the you

0:44:34.480 --> 0:44:38.319
<v Speaker 6>got the numeros souh Yeah, absolutely no joke.

0:44:38.440 --> 0:44:39.800
<v Speaker 4>That would be a fun podcast.

0:44:39.880 --> 0:44:42.319
<v Speaker 6>Plus, I feel like you can you and I could

0:44:42.320 --> 0:44:43.920
<v Speaker 6>have a long form type discussion.

0:44:44.440 --> 0:44:46.919
<v Speaker 1>All right. I appreciate you putting that feeler out there.

0:44:46.960 --> 0:44:49.880
<v Speaker 1>I Uh, one of these days, I'll one of these

0:44:49.960 --> 0:44:53.640
<v Speaker 1>days I'll put down the fucking touts your roles and

0:44:54.440 --> 0:44:57.359
<v Speaker 1>go try to what you're doing.

0:44:57.400 --> 0:44:59.640
<v Speaker 4>Bro, do what you're doing. You are doing.

0:45:00.280 --> 0:45:04.839
<v Speaker 6>Thanks, you are doing great things. Thanks Robbie, I love

0:45:04.880 --> 0:45:08.279
<v Speaker 6>listening to your podcast. You're catching all stars on your

0:45:08.280 --> 0:45:12.320
<v Speaker 6>podcast now, fire Bro, you are literally catching fire.

0:45:12.480 --> 0:45:15.279
<v Speaker 4>I'd love seeing it, love listening to it. Thank you

0:45:15.320 --> 0:45:17.200
<v Speaker 4>for taking my call. I know I'm not supposed to

0:45:17.239 --> 0:45:20.399
<v Speaker 4>say that. You got you rock.

0:45:21.080 --> 0:45:23.399
<v Speaker 1>Thanks Robbie. And and look, man, you're you're a good

0:45:23.400 --> 0:45:23.799
<v Speaker 1>guy too.

0:45:23.840 --> 0:45:24.120
<v Speaker 2>All right.

0:45:24.200 --> 0:45:28.520
<v Speaker 1>I hope that you make Just do me a favor.

0:45:29.040 --> 0:45:32.120
<v Speaker 1>You made the decision, you made the decision, you're going,

0:45:32.160 --> 0:45:35.239
<v Speaker 1>you're doing it. Feel good about it. Feel happy about it,

0:45:35.280 --> 0:45:40.279
<v Speaker 1>because making a decision, that making a definitive decision, and

0:45:40.320 --> 0:45:43.680
<v Speaker 1>then feeling bad about your decision. It's the opposite of

0:45:43.800 --> 0:45:46.400
<v Speaker 1>having your cake and eating it too. It's like taking

0:45:46.440 --> 0:45:49.920
<v Speaker 1>your cake and diarrhea ing on it and then eating

0:45:49.920 --> 0:45:53.560
<v Speaker 1>the diarrhea cake. Just eat the cake with no diarrhea.

0:45:55.480 --> 0:45:56.879
<v Speaker 4>You you know what, You're a smart man.

0:45:56.960 --> 0:46:00.000
<v Speaker 1>Geka all right, you take care, Robbie, Thank you man.

0:46:00.480 --> 0:46:02.480
<v Speaker 4>Love brother, take it see ya.

0:46:04.320 --> 0:46:05.759
<v Speaker 1>I think he was trying to say I love you

0:46:05.800 --> 0:46:08.200
<v Speaker 1>at the end, but he just couldn't do it. And

0:46:08.239 --> 0:46:13.840
<v Speaker 1>I feel the same way. I love you too, Robbie.

0:46:14.360 --> 0:46:17.759
<v Speaker 1>Thanks for calling. Good luck. Hey guys, it's Lyle here.

0:46:17.920 --> 0:46:20.960
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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, Hello, Hey, what's up?

0:47:05.880 --> 0:47:06.040
<v Speaker 1>Man?

0:47:06.360 --> 0:47:06.640
<v Speaker 2>Is this?

0:47:06.920 --> 0:47:08.560
<v Speaker 7>Am I speaking to the Gecko right now?

0:47:09.000 --> 0:47:09.239
<v Speaker 4>Yeah?

0:47:09.280 --> 0:47:10.960
<v Speaker 1>You are? Am I speaking to Tyler?

0:47:12.920 --> 0:47:14.799
<v Speaker 5>Yes you are, Hello, Tally?

0:47:14.840 --> 0:47:17.359
<v Speaker 1>Can you get off discord real quick? Tyler?

0:47:17.440 --> 0:47:17.960
<v Speaker 5>Can you?

0:47:18.000 --> 0:47:20.719
<v Speaker 1>Can you turn off every single appliance in your home

0:47:20.760 --> 0:47:22.280
<v Speaker 1>except for your phone?

0:47:22.680 --> 0:47:26.000
<v Speaker 7>Okay, I will make sure my refrigerator is not running good?

0:47:27.200 --> 0:47:28.560
<v Speaker 5>All right, what's up man?

0:47:29.080 --> 0:47:32.239
<v Speaker 1>It says here that you wanted to talk about how

0:47:32.280 --> 0:47:33.720
<v Speaker 1>you feel like you're a hoarder.

0:47:35.719 --> 0:47:42.520
<v Speaker 7>Yeah, so basically, I just collect anything that I get

0:47:42.560 --> 0:47:50.520
<v Speaker 7>my hands on. H I got a collection of those

0:47:50.920 --> 0:47:56.200
<v Speaker 7>stupid little five nettet Freddy's figures. I got little Minecraft figurines.

0:47:56.239 --> 0:47:59.160
<v Speaker 7>I got posters all around my room. I don't know

0:47:59.200 --> 0:48:03.439
<v Speaker 7>if you remember that one promotional item that McDonald's did

0:48:03.480 --> 0:48:07.320
<v Speaker 7>with that one clothing brand where they had the four eyes,

0:48:07.360 --> 0:48:10.759
<v Speaker 7>But I have all of those figures. I have a

0:48:10.800 --> 0:48:15.040
<v Speaker 7>box of Cause Cereal, I have a lot.

0:48:15.960 --> 0:48:18.360
<v Speaker 1>I feel like there's a difference between just being a hoarder.

0:48:18.680 --> 0:48:20.880
<v Speaker 1>I feel like there's a difference between being a hoarder

0:48:20.880 --> 0:48:23.799
<v Speaker 1>and just decorating your room with stuff that you like.

0:48:25.560 --> 0:48:28.720
<v Speaker 7>I guess so, but a lot of it is just unnecessary.

0:48:29.400 --> 0:48:33.319
<v Speaker 7>Like I have a collection of mountain dew bottles. Mind you,

0:48:33.400 --> 0:48:36.520
<v Speaker 7>they're filled with food coloring, so it looks like it

0:48:36.560 --> 0:48:39.799
<v Speaker 7>has the soda still in them, so it kind of

0:48:39.840 --> 0:48:43.319
<v Speaker 7>looks cool, but it's still just like garbage.

0:48:44.600 --> 0:48:47.720
<v Speaker 1>Would you consider those mountain dew bottles to be trash

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<v Speaker 1>or decorations.

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<v Speaker 2>Or memory a little bit of both?

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<v Speaker 7>Probably?

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<v Speaker 4>Mhm.

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<v Speaker 1>How many mountain dew bottles are sitting around your room

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<v Speaker 1>right now?

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<v Speaker 7>Are we going to count the actual bottles? Because I have.

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<v Speaker 1>What do you mean by actual bottles?

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<v Speaker 7>All right? So I'm I'm kind of addicted to mountain

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<v Speaker 7>dew as well as hoarding things. I have four separate

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<v Speaker 7>boxes of cans, a mini box of Baja Blast, and

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<v Speaker 7>eleven different bottles of just soda.

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<v Speaker 1>Are these like special bottles or are they?

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<v Speaker 7>Oh? Yeah, these are these are limited? These are limited?

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<v Speaker 1>Okay? How many of the mountain dew bottles are limited

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<v Speaker 1>edition collectors items? And then how many of them are

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<v Speaker 1>just regular mountain dew bottles?

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<v Speaker 7>Technically all eleven?

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<v Speaker 4>Oh?

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<v Speaker 7>Wait, are we talking about the ones that are filled

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<v Speaker 7>with the soda or the ones that are filled with

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<v Speaker 7>the water?

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<v Speaker 1>How many of these are filled with soda? How many

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<v Speaker 1>of these are filled with water?

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<v Speaker 7>I have? Let me let me count them. Three, six, nine, twelve, fourteen, sixteen, seventeen.

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<v Speaker 7>I have seventeen filled with water.

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<v Speaker 1>Why do you have seventeen mountain dew bottles filled with water?

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<v Speaker 7>Well, it's it's color. It has food coloring in it,

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<v Speaker 7>so it's like it looks like the soda is still

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<v Speaker 7>in it.

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<v Speaker 1>Did you put the food coloring in it?

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<v Speaker 7>Okay, hold on somewhat, mister Annoy just said and how

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<v Speaker 7>many pisss? So I have a funny story with that.

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<v Speaker 7>I'm sorry, I'm getting sidetracked. There's a flavor where it's

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<v Speaker 7>lemonade and there's another flavor with peach.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't like either flavor.

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<v Speaker 7>But when they're mixed together, it is very good. It's

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<v Speaker 7>like a peach lemonade and it looks like piss. So

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<v Speaker 7>I have an empty bottle of mountain dew with the

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<v Speaker 7>word piss on it, and I fill it up with

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<v Speaker 7>my like piss yellow soda flavor and it looks like piss.

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<v Speaker 7>I just thought it was very funny.

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<v Speaker 1>I think that crosses the line into hoarding.

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<v Speaker 7>Yeah, see, I told you.

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<v Speaker 2>It was hoorting.

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<v Speaker 1>How hard would it be for you to throw these away?

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<v Speaker 7>Oh, it's gonna be hard because I have another.

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<v Speaker 1>Six I can.

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<v Speaker 7>I have another sixteen empty cans?

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<v Speaker 1>What do you feel like you have an emotional or

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<v Speaker 1>sentimental attachment to these bottles?

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<v Speaker 7>Not really, I could probably throw them out easy, But

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<v Speaker 7>my friend got me into it, so it's like kind

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<v Speaker 7>of like a duo, me and him. I actually went

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<v Speaker 7>to his house one time to try a flavor. He got,

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<v Speaker 7>like a birthday cake flavor, and it was like terrible.

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<v Speaker 1>I hated it. Do you think that your life would

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<v Speaker 1>improve with the absence of these bottles or is it

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<v Speaker 1>better with the presence of these bottles.

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<v Speaker 7>I mean, I feel like it adds character, But if

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<v Speaker 7>I stopped drinking the soda, it would probably be better.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not a nutritionist, but I think that's probably true too.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, Okay, is.

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<v Speaker 1>There anything just while we're on the phone and you're

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<v Speaker 1>looking around the room, is there anything that you're like

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<v Speaker 1>one hundred percent sure you don't need that you can

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<v Speaker 1>throw away?

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<v Speaker 4>Hmm?

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<v Speaker 7>I'm looking around now.

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<v Speaker 4>I don't.

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<v Speaker 7>Actually, that's not true. I ate a whole bag of

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<v Speaker 7>potato ships last night, can you think? Yeah? I just

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<v Speaker 7>do way, I got a little case of the munchies.

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<v Speaker 1>You just throw it away?

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<v Speaker 7>Yeah, I just threw it away.

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<v Speaker 5>No more like just now, just now it's here.

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<v Speaker 7>And listen, it's it's in the garbage.

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<v Speaker 2>Don't worry.

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<v Speaker 1>We made some progress.

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<v Speaker 7>We're making progress. I don't see anything else. It's probably

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<v Speaker 7>just little papers on the floor that I could pick

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<v Speaker 7>up later.

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<v Speaker 1>Tyler, you said your name was yep, mm hmm. Is

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<v Speaker 1>there anything else that you want to tell me about this?

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<v Speaker 7>So I wanted to get into this a little bit.

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<v Speaker 7>I have a flavor, the birthday cake flavor. Yeah, I

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<v Speaker 7>love riding my bike around a lot. It's like she like,

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<v Speaker 7>my bike is my little baby.

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<v Speaker 1>Mhm.

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<v Speaker 7>So I ride my bike to a friend's house sometimes

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<v Speaker 7>when I collect Mountain do with and we sit on

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<v Speaker 7>this front porch like King of the Hill and we

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<v Speaker 7>just drink SODA's. It's it's pretty chill.

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<v Speaker 1>That actually sounds awesome.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, it's really cool to see.

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<v Speaker 1>Now that you told me that, I understand. Okay, now

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<v Speaker 1>I understand why you keep the bottles because it's like

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<v Speaker 1>they remind you of of this time that you have

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<v Speaker 1>with your friend, Like like you were kind of explaining

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<v Speaker 1>to me, it's like a it's like a thing with

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<v Speaker 1>you and your friend. You're not just collecting trash around

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<v Speaker 1>your room.

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<v Speaker 4>No.

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<v Speaker 7>And they're neatly organized too. It's not like they're just

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<v Speaker 7>in some peep it's on a shelf and the all

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<v Speaker 7>mice and meat. I could probably text you a picture.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I'll look at a picture.

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<v Speaker 7>Yeah, oh cool.

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<v Speaker 2>I could just.

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<v Speaker 7>Let me see.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, this is my collection I have.

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<v Speaker 1>I have a lot. What's the most valuable bottle the

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<v Speaker 1>you have in this collection?

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<v Speaker 7>I don't really know. Most of them are just filled

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<v Speaker 7>up with water, so probably none of them the red

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<v Speaker 7>Solo cup was the cake flavor.

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<v Speaker 1>Wait, so these have these have? Oh you have some

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<v Speaker 1>kickstarters in there too, So these are none of these

0:55:24.680 --> 0:55:28.520
<v Speaker 1>are actually full? Do you just put food coloring in them? Uh?

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<v Speaker 7>Yeah, if you in the back or fall because of

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<v Speaker 7>their diet And I don't really care about diet.

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<v Speaker 1>I like that the diets are like worthless to you.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, that's a worthless well.

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<v Speaker 1>Tyler, thanks for sharing this with me. Man, is there

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<v Speaker 1>anything else that you want to say to the people

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<v Speaker 1>of the computer before we go?

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<v Speaker 7>There's this kid in my school. His name is Paul.

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<v Speaker 7>He's a really he's a really nice guy, and I

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<v Speaker 7>just wish I was able to be friends with him,

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<v Speaker 7>And I don't really know how I can be friends

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<v Speaker 7>with him.

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<v Speaker 5>Give him a do you have.

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<v Speaker 7>Any little kid pits of advice? He's really chill, he's

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<v Speaker 7>really nice. I just want to be friends with Paul.

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<v Speaker 1>Why don't you invite him to come over to your

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<v Speaker 1>house and look at your rare mountain dew collection.

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<v Speaker 2>That's not a bad idea, all right? Thank you, Lyle?

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, thank you. You made mine have a wonderful night.

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<v Speaker 2>Wait a man better?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Tyler, if you're still listening. Dude, If if, if,

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<v Speaker 1>if someone came up to me and was like, hey,

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<v Speaker 1>me and my friends are going to go drink rare

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<v Speaker 1>Mountain dews on a stoop like they do in King

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<v Speaker 1>of the Hill. Do you want to come? I would

0:56:43.920 --> 0:56:47.359
<v Speaker 1>accept that invitation immediately. That's a good invitation to put

0:56:47.360 --> 0:56:50.120
<v Speaker 1>out into the universe. It's a good activity to invite

0:56:50.120 --> 0:56:52.880
<v Speaker 1>someone to. If I were if I were Paul, I

0:56:52.880 --> 0:56:55.800
<v Speaker 1>would want to be a part of that activity. Hello, folks,

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<v Speaker 1>You texted me something. Can I read what you texted me?

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<v Speaker 1>Of course, you said, Hey, Lyle, my name is Drew,

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<v Speaker 1>I've become obsessed with the idea of becoming the guy

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<v Speaker 1>that gives the best head, to the point where I

0:57:52.760 --> 0:57:56.919
<v Speaker 1>am considering breaking up with my girlfriend so I can

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<v Speaker 1>get better at giving head.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, that's that's pretty much accurate.

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<v Speaker 1>dot supercast dot com. All right, I have nothing else

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<v Speaker 1>to say.

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<v Speaker 4>Goes on the line taking your phone calls every night.

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<v Speaker 6>They goes to who's teaching you amory life?

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<v Speaker 1>Not an expert