Speaker 1: Hello, Hey, what's up?
Speaker 2: This is the Yeah?
Speaker 1: Who is this?
Speaker 3: Hey?
Speaker 2: This is uh? Aaron?
Speaker 1: Aaron? Aaron? Are you what are you doing right now?
Speaker 1: There's a lot of activity going on.
Speaker 2: Yes, I am putting away equipment at the moment. Okay,
Speaker 2: but uh, let me drop what I got going real quick.
Speaker 1: Yes, if you could just put your entire life on
Speaker 1: hold to have this conversation with a get Oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, alrighty, how's it going going good?
Speaker 1: I forgot your name already?
Speaker 4: What is it?
Speaker 2: Aon?
Speaker 1: Aaron? Aaron? What's going on?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 1: What do you what do you want to talk about today?
Speaker 4: Hey?
Speaker 2: Now, I just thought i'd uh, I thought i'd mentioned
Speaker 2: kind of what I do for work. I've been trying
Speaker 2: to call for geez. I want to say, yeah, i'd
Speaker 2: say COVID. Since COVID I gave up, honestly, probably like
Speaker 2: two months ago, a little more than that. And then
Speaker 2: I was like, you know what, I'm gonna see send
Speaker 2: a text and see how it went. I can't see
Speaker 2: why everyone I see why everyone says it says they
Speaker 2: get nervous.
Speaker 1: No, it's just you and me, dude. I'm I'm alone
Speaker 1: in my house. You're alone wherever you are yeah, tell
Speaker 1: me about your job.
Speaker 2: Oh man, So I'm a janitor or custodian for a
Speaker 2: elementary school district. Shit, I've done it for a little
Speaker 2: over ten years now, and uh yeah, I didn't know
Speaker 2: if you'd want to hear some some crazy stories.
Speaker 1: I would love to hear some crazy stories. I bet
Speaker 1: you've seen truly horrific things.
Speaker 2: I could honestly say I've seen some shit. Literally, yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 2: it's it's crazy. So now, so I used to do
Speaker 2: like subbing, so I'd go to different schools. There's like
Speaker 2: junior highs and elementaries and stuff. The junior highs, you
Speaker 2: would think as the kids get older, they get they
Speaker 2: get better, but nope, they don't. I have friends actually
Speaker 2: who work in like colleges, so it's grown adults and
Speaker 2: they they've seen some horrendous things that just from what
Speaker 2: they describe, I'm like, oh, it's pretty crazy.
Speaker 1: Do you. But look, I'm gonna tell you. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: preface something for you. Okay, I want you to know
Speaker 1: that this this is, this is uh, you know we're
Speaker 1: on the Exam Network, all right, this is you can
Speaker 1: graphically describe whatever fountain of piss and ship you desire
Speaker 1: to describe what were some of the biggest messes that
Speaker 1: you encountered.
Speaker 2: Okay, so I was a sub This was about I
Speaker 2: want to say, like ten years ago. Nine ten years ago. Uh,
Speaker 2: they shut down one of the restrooms and so I
Speaker 2: got there, I got my keys. They're like, okay, here's
Speaker 2: your map. It was my first time at the school,
Speaker 2: so I had to get acquainted with where all the
Speaker 2: supplies everything was. They're like, oh, by the way, we
Speaker 2: want to let you want we want to let you know.
Speaker 5: We shut down.
Speaker 2: The boys' restroom and I'm like, oh okay. They're like, yeah,
Speaker 2: you got a little surprise in there. I'm like, all right, cool.
Speaker 2: And so one of the og custodians, I forgot what
Speaker 2: he called it. He had a certain name for it.
Speaker 2: But it's where they they'll get a shit and they
Speaker 2: use it as a marker and they'll just write whatever.
Speaker 2: And then mind you, these are elementary school kids, and yeah,
Speaker 2: just some of the things. Some of the things they
Speaker 2: put is like how did you, for one, know how
Speaker 2: to spell this? And then for two, they kind of
Speaker 2: got lazy with it, and like they're running out of
Speaker 2: running out of ammo with it. So they just kind
Speaker 2: of started just spreading the shit. Literally, it was pretty horrible.
Speaker 2: And that was my first time at the school. That
Speaker 2: was my first time having a cleanup like that, and
Speaker 2: uh yeah that that fucking sucked. I wanted to leave.
Speaker 2: I wanted to leave. But uh yeah, so, I mean
Speaker 2: there's that the junior high.
Speaker 1: Hold on what what what did they write with this
Speaker 1: ship marker?
Speaker 2: I don't remember the teacher's name for the ship marker,
Speaker 2: I don't remember the teacher's name, but they wrote one
Speaker 2: of the teachers is a bitch. And then uh they said,
Speaker 2: I forgot the principal's name, fuck so and so, and
Speaker 2: then uh, mind you that side of the school was
Speaker 2: probably like the first or second grade side. So yeah,
Speaker 2: it was, it was. It was pretty Uh, it was
Speaker 2: pretty crazy. I'm trying to recall what else too. It
Speaker 2: was it was like more than that. But then, like
Speaker 2: I said, towards the end, it started just getting getting
Speaker 2: a little uh they just got lazy with it and
Speaker 2: started wiping it. And yeah, that was fucked up. That
Speaker 2: was pretty fuck.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's kind of depressing that at the It's kind of
Speaker 1: sad that at first they were, you know, putting some
Speaker 1: kind of artistry into it and then they just got
Speaker 1: lazy and started smearing the ship everywhere.
Speaker 2: No, yeah, it was definitely, uh, it was definitely pretty crazy.
Speaker 2: But uh, junior high kids, it's they'll go in uh man,
Speaker 2: So how do I put it? They'll get like we
Speaker 2: call them a barbie box and that's where they get
Speaker 2: the uh how do you put it? Like like basically
Speaker 2: like you know, like the pads or whatever, you know,
Speaker 2: use pads and they'll go and and fucking slam them
Speaker 2: up on the mirror or slam them behind the uh
Speaker 2: like the stalls the door, so you wouldn't even know
Speaker 2: it's there, but if someone sat down, they're just staring
Speaker 2: at this frightening, bloody mess. It's it's pretty crazy. So
Speaker 2: there's like different protocols you have the queen because it's
Speaker 2: different disinfectants and and whatnot. At the same time, they're
Speaker 2: not trying to get you know, anything on yourself either,
Speaker 2: so it's pretty uh pretty crazy.
Speaker 1: What's the absolute worst thing that you have seen in
Speaker 1: your ten years?
Speaker 2: Ah? They like it's a reverse waffle stump of a vent.
Speaker 2: So there's like a vent above the big handicap stall
Speaker 2: and it's like a gritted vent and someone just got
Speaker 2: like a patty of ship and just chucked it up there,
Speaker 2: and uh that was pretty uh pretty nasty and we
Speaker 2: had a Yeah, that was that was that was pretty fuck.
Speaker 2: That was probably the worst. You have to take off.
Speaker 2: You have to see the vent off and there's only
Speaker 2: so much you couldn't get on the vent, like you know,
Speaker 2: so you have to like physically take it off. And
Speaker 2: then whatever's inside the walls of the duct cleaning that
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 1: Oh you know, I have a lot of respect for
Speaker 1: you because the second I saw that, I probably would
Speaker 1: have quit.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, uh yeah, I thought about it. There's
Speaker 2: times and then uh yeah, I I honestly there's times
Speaker 2: I'm like, fuck, I should have done something different in
Speaker 2: my life, but you know, I'm trying to make money,
Speaker 2: trying to you know, live. But uh, there's I've heard stories,
Speaker 2: There's there's were stories and stuff I've come across, so
Speaker 2: I know, I don't got it so bad.
Speaker 1: What is it that kept you going for the entire ten.
Speaker 2: Years aside from money? Family? Family?
Speaker 1: Well, like I guess money for your family.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well yeah, basically, you know i'd say that, yeah,
Speaker 2: there's Daisy coming. It's like you know, crazy, it's just small.
Speaker 2: You'll you'll get like a fool, like just fucking mister
Speaker 2: Hanky in the year and all, and like you'll just
Speaker 2: come across different ways to you know, work, work smarter,
Speaker 2: not harder. You know, I'm not trying to like physically.
Speaker 2: But there's other dudes too there. You know, they don't care.
Speaker 2: They'll just like double glove it, grab it and then
Speaker 2: you know, jumping down the toilet or whatever. I'm just
Speaker 2: kind of I still you know, it's still kind of like,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, that's crazy. It's crazy. Job. You know, it's
Speaker 2: not so bad. But like I said, once you get
Speaker 2: to the high school, junior high is kind of bad.
Speaker 2: High school and college is worse though.
Speaker 1: So as the kids get older, the ship and piss
Speaker 1: mess uh messes actually get worse.
Speaker 2: Oh definitely colleges. I mean you you go to a
Speaker 2: fucking Walmart. You know, you go to a random Walmart somewhere.
Speaker 2: It's horrible there. That's another thing is I've I've come
Speaker 2: across because I when I go on life, I'm on vacation,
Speaker 2: whether it be a hotel, wherever I go, you know,
Speaker 2: you go travel. And that's another thing is I'm looking
Speaker 2: at cleanliness of everywhere that I go, especially like the
Speaker 2: whole COVID and everything kind of kind of made it
Speaker 2: crazy because a lot of how I put it, a
Speaker 2: lot of supplies they give us new, different stuff, new chemicals.
Speaker 2: They had like some backpack you'll see at like baseball
Speaker 2: games and stuff you put like a solution and you
Speaker 2: got to like sanitize ship during a whole col It
Speaker 2: was crazy, you know. But yeah, it's pretty you know,
Speaker 2: it's pretty pretty good ship some days and ship the
Speaker 2: other days. It's pretty pretty cool, pretty chill.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 1: Do you ever are you ever on vacation or just
Speaker 1: kind of out and about in the world and you
Speaker 1: see a horrible diarrhea mess all over the stall and
Speaker 1: you think to yourself, thank God, I don't have to
Speaker 1: clean this one.
Speaker 2: Yeah no, yeah, definitely. I feel definitely feel bad for
Speaker 2: whoever has to ah blessed their little spirit. But uh, yeah, no,
Speaker 2: it's it's pretty it's pretty crazy. I feel like not
Speaker 2: like put it on the spot, but you know, like, uh,
Speaker 2: how do I put it? I don't even expect to
Speaker 2: get a call, so I'm just like trying to think
Speaker 2: of what else because there, you know, there's a whole
Speaker 2: bunch of stuff and a whole bunch of ship that
Speaker 2: goes on.
Speaker 1: But uh, I got to ask you this before we go.
Speaker 1: Were the kids the kids themselves, were they dicks to you?
Speaker 2: No? No, they're you know, they're they're pretty cool. You'll
Speaker 2: see them. How's they go, mister Eric? And uh, you know,
Speaker 2: they're they're really uh you know they're they're they're cool.
Speaker 2: You know, the kids are cool. JUNIORI kids, of course,
Speaker 2: they're you know, peop little. It's just like getting snotty
Speaker 2: little shits. High school kids. Haven't dealt with high school kids.
Speaker 2: But from what I hear, you know, some of them
Speaker 2: are cool. Other ones they you know, glassholes. But I
Speaker 2: guess it's on the on the parents too.
Speaker 1: Have you ever unintentionally created a diarrhea mess in a
Speaker 1: public bathroom?
Speaker 2: No? No travelers pills, man.
Speaker 1: Traveler skills.
Speaker 2: No, the traveler pills.
Speaker 1: What are the traveler pills?
Speaker 2: There's like traveling. Uh how do you put it? Because
Speaker 2: you never know, you know, like you ever go on
Speaker 2: a trip and it's like your stomach will just fucking
Speaker 2: hit you. So if I go like long travels, I
Speaker 2: don't like having stomach issues, especially because I don't know
Speaker 2: the way restrooms are and stuff. I'd rather wait till,
Speaker 2: you know, if I get to the hotel, and then
Speaker 2: of course I keep like Clorox wipes or shit like that,
Speaker 2: you know, because I don't of course they clean the
Speaker 2: restrooms and stuff, but you don't know if they really do.
Speaker 2: Other people don't have the same standard of cleaning, you know,
Speaker 2: so I just kind of I kind of don't, not
Speaker 2: that I don't trust whoever's cleaning it, but you know,
Speaker 2: you never know. You know, they can say they cleaned
Speaker 2: it and you have no idea who's who's fucking using
Speaker 2: it before you.
Speaker 1: Do you think that you will continue to be a
Speaker 1: janitor or do you desire to ever transition in careers?
Speaker 2: I have thought multiple times of pursuing like doing school
Speaker 2: and then being on the other side rather than getting
Speaker 2: cleaning classes is being on the other side of the defense,
Speaker 2: because I've heard a lot of stories like that too.
Speaker 2: I just don't like schooling, you know, I don't. For me,
Speaker 2: It's like, how do I put it, I don't know,
Speaker 2: just the focus. As a kid, I was pretty you know,
Speaker 2: I was more focused, but as I got older, I
Speaker 2: was just like school kind of I don't know, but
Speaker 2: you know, I think about it. There's times I've almost enrolled.
Speaker 2: I've thought about switching actually moving out out of a
Speaker 2: like going to a different state and trying to find
Speaker 2: something there, you know, and you know, something different. But
Speaker 2: there's also managers. You know, you can get managerial positions
Speaker 2: and you know they request at least ten years experience,
Speaker 2: so had over over ten, about twelve.
Speaker 1: That sounds now, that sounds fun. That's I think after
Speaker 1: ten years of cleaning up diarrhea, you've earned the right
Speaker 1: to tell other people to go clean up diarrhea.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it just takes the I'd say it's that taking
Speaker 2: that step to just do it, growing up the set
Speaker 2: and the same fuck it, you know, to to you know,
Speaker 2: of course, pick up, move out, and then you got
Speaker 2: to put away, you know, and then and then you know,
Speaker 2: stack enough to bring family over and you know, so
Speaker 2: it'd be about a two months solitude kind of arc.
Speaker 1: Being being we're we're talking about we're talking about like
Speaker 1: being a manager of like a sanitation like thing.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, Like well yeah, because i I've found like
Speaker 2: in different states, you know, they pay, they pay. I
Speaker 2: mean I could find around here too, but it's just
Speaker 2: you know around here is not so well. It just depends.
Speaker 2: You know, you go to a different state when you
Speaker 2: have to travel, and you know, it's like picking up
Speaker 2: and starting all starting all over.
Speaker 1: But it's kind of you know, it's kind of cool
Speaker 1: because you're gonna have intel on which states in America
Speaker 1: have the worst diarrhea.
Speaker 5: Lay it out a map, you'll have a whole Yeah,
Speaker 5: don't go to Texas.
Speaker 2: Oh, I've heard stories of barbecue.
Speaker 5: What's your name again?
Speaker 1: Wait, hold on, hold, don't tell me. I'm actually all right, Eric. Well, Eric,
Speaker 1: thanks for talking about all this stuff. This was this
Speaker 1: was fascinating. I didn't know that you could do a
Speaker 1: reverse waffle stop. That's something that you really need some
Speaker 1: true malice to pull off. Is there anything else you
Speaker 1: want to say to the people of the computer before
Speaker 1: we go, Eric.
Speaker 2: Ship, it's pretty crazy to have that. Ask don't do
Speaker 2: reverse waffle stumps, and uh, keep your local restrooms clean.
Speaker 1: Thanks for calling Eric.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well.
Speaker 1: We got to make like an ASPCA style commercial, a
Speaker 1: very sad janitors asking please do not do a reverse
Speaker 1: waffle stomp.
Speaker 4: Hello, we reconnected.
Speaker 1: Hey, what's up?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 4: This must be the therapy?
Speaker 1: Get go Yeah, yeah, is this Robbie.
Speaker 4: This is Robbie Man. Glad to talk to you.
Speaker 1: Robbie. What's what's up?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 1: How's a go on?
Speaker 4: Good man?
Speaker 1: How's how's your life? I'm actually feeling pretty nice right now.
Speaker 1: It's always kind of our roll of the dice depending
Speaker 1: on the phase of the moon, but in this particular moment,
Speaker 1: I feel pretty good. What about what about you?
Speaker 4: Sure?
Speaker 6: You know lunar cycles, whatever transpires. Glad you took my call, man,
Speaker 6: So I did follow you. I've been watching you for
Speaker 6: a little bit.
Speaker 4: I wanted to pose a question to you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, all right.
Speaker 6: So I have the opportunity to go, you know, travel
Speaker 6: the world, use disability finances and X y Z from military.
Speaker 4: So I was just to give a little backstory.
Speaker 6: You know, previous Special Special Forces got injured, got out.
Speaker 4: Went to school.
Speaker 6: Really hasn't been my things in tough going going back
Speaker 6: for biology. So I kind of just want to go
Speaker 6: travel the world. But my conundrum is if I go
Speaker 6: travel the world in this crazy state that it's in,
Speaker 6: I'll leave my family behind.
Speaker 4: So it's curious, it's a year insight on that.
Speaker 1: Well, tell me about your family. What's your family is?
Speaker 1: It your mom and dad? Is that a wife and kids?
Speaker 1: Who's in the family?
Speaker 4: Sure, No, it's just mom and dad. Five siblings. Mom
Speaker 4: remarried added two more this year. We lost his oldest
Speaker 4: brother to an overdose.
Speaker 1: Sorry to hear that.
Speaker 6: So yeah, yeah, it's a tough. It's been tough for
Speaker 6: all of us. But it's part of the game, I suppose,
Speaker 6: part of the game of life.
Speaker 4: So you know, it's been hell of a year. Quite frankly.
Speaker 6: I broke my neck on a TV show last year,
Speaker 6: actually twelve months almost to the date.
Speaker 4: Since then, you know, fiance had left.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry before you continue, you you broke your neck
Speaker 1: on a TV show.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, survival TV show.
Speaker 1: What survival TV show were you on?
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, right, uh no, no, it's out there now.
Speaker 4: So the things, Yeah, it's called Fight to Survive, something
Speaker 4: like Roku or whatever if you have that.
Speaker 1: How did you get involved with Fight to Survive?
Speaker 6: I actually got recruited from it from a different survival
Speaker 6: TV show.
Speaker 1: How many survival TV shows have you been on?
Speaker 4: Just those two and then a couple other like low
Speaker 4: level productions and.
Speaker 6: Like Amazon Prime, things of that nature.
Speaker 1: Do they find you because your special Forces.
Speaker 6: Guy that was the initial reason they brought me out,
Speaker 6: and then they you know, because my I don't know
Speaker 6: chrismon camera or whatever you might want to call it.
Speaker 1: Uh huh.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's odd hearing you talk to me while I
Speaker 6: see you on the background flying away above space.
Speaker 1: That's cool though, all right, So I'm you know, I'm
Speaker 1: sure we could talk forever about these, uh, these these
Speaker 1: reality TV experiences. But so okay, so you broke your neck,
Speaker 1: you were kind of running down with for me all
Speaker 1: the things that happened to you recently, right right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So what had inspired transpired?
Speaker 2: After that?
Speaker 4: Fiance left? Found out?
Speaker 6: So I moved to a different city to be closer
Speaker 6: to her, just to find out she had a different
Speaker 6: boyfriend here left for him.
Speaker 4: Makes sense. I just left her brother. I was in
Speaker 4: a dark spot m hm. A couple months later, broke
Speaker 4: my race and locked up. Still in school for biology.
Speaker 6: Doing my best left handed. I'm a right handed dude,
Speaker 6: so that's stuff. And I recently just got the cast off,
Speaker 6: and my best friend is out in Southeast Asia just
Speaker 6: exploring like Nepal, Tyland, Vietnam, hitting all those spots, and
Speaker 6: he invited me out there to go, you know, come
Speaker 6: and say what's up with him?
Speaker 1: M hmm.
Speaker 6: But my only like drawback is like, I'm gonna leave
Speaker 6: my family in this type of situation where you know,
Speaker 6: they already lost one son.
Speaker 4: What's it like.
Speaker 6: If I have to go overseas and they're gonna lose
Speaker 6: another for a.
Speaker 1: Bit, Robbie, I am, I I hope. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: dying and going on vacation or two very different things,
Speaker 1: okare I I think that how long you plan on
Speaker 1: being away.
Speaker 4: From for indefinitely?
Speaker 6: Mmmm?
Speaker 1: So you're just gonna go and see what happens.
Speaker 4: That's kind of my game plan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me get into your head about this, Like,
Speaker 1: are you who like I can't ask how old you are?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm twenty six and.
Speaker 1: Has family always been? Like I guess, I guess I
Speaker 1: want to hear about like family is clearly important to you,
Speaker 1: you know, because if it wasn't, you would be gone.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't be calling a gecko to talk about this.
Speaker 1: So you know what, what how did that come to be? Like,
Speaker 1: tell me about the role of the family kind of
Speaker 1: plays in your life, you know, throughout your life.
Speaker 4: I guess that's a hard question. You know, I grew
Speaker 4: up with five siblings.
Speaker 6: You know, I got my hand me downs from my
Speaker 6: cousins who ended up with my older brother who ended
Speaker 6: up with me.
Speaker 5: I guess I've.
Speaker 4: Always had family around. But I also joined you know,
Speaker 4: military Special Forces to But nobody ever said the same
Speaker 4: things that they say now, really like oh what about
Speaker 4: your family? Like are you abangoning in your family to
Speaker 4: go do this?
Speaker 6: I get that from them now, but nobody said that
Speaker 6: when I went to leave for you know, Special Forces,
Speaker 6: they were all totally fine.
Speaker 4: Look at them. Mhm.
Speaker 6: It's it's it's a strange conundrum that I found myself
Speaker 6: in that.
Speaker 4: Thank you for allowing me to talk to you about this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I find this fascinating. Hmmm. So well, okay, what
Speaker 1: kind of like do you do? You live with your parents?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm on my own, okay, So what kinds of like
Speaker 1: stuff do you do for them? Where that there are?
Speaker 1: They are? They dependent on you for anything?
Speaker 4: Right now?
Speaker 6: They're dependent as far as that community goes.
Speaker 4: So any day that I'm not in school, so I
Speaker 4: study biology one day a week at school and the
Speaker 4: rest are online classes. Ah, but I.
Speaker 6: Go home pretty much every opportunity I get to spend
Speaker 6: as much time with family, especially considering this up you know,
Speaker 6: this future operation that I might.
Speaker 4: V mm hmmm hm.
Speaker 1: And how many other How many siblings.
Speaker 4: Do you have? Well? Now I have five?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 4: And are they all?
Speaker 1: Are they all around? Is everyone everyone's around?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 4: Two of them pretty much? Stay? You know Colorado? Are
Speaker 4: you familiar with Colorado?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I'm familiar with well are you? I?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know Colorado. I don't know if I know everything.
Speaker 1: I don't know, like landsdown Colorado?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well no, I don't worry about it, the big numbs.
Speaker 4: So I got two in Bolder.
Speaker 6: My two brothers live together in Boulder, my sister lives
Speaker 6: in Colorado Springs, and I live in Denver.
Speaker 1: Okay, so everyone's everyone's pretty close.
Speaker 4: Yeah, not more than an hour and a half.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, look, I mean all of that aside. Man.
Speaker 1: You know, uh, this is an interesting one to think
Speaker 1: about because I don't know if there's a right or
Speaker 1: wrong answer. You know, it all depends on, like what
Speaker 1: you value, And I don't think there's.
Speaker 4: Help me out with that. Worth of value.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well worth of value to me? Yeah yeah, Well
Speaker 1: to me, family is very important and and and Robbie,
Speaker 1: You've spent a god damn good amount of your life,
Speaker 1: a good amount of your adult life too, servicing the
Speaker 1: value that you have for your family, you know, but
Speaker 1: clearly you also have a you also have a value.
Speaker 1: You also value adventure, You value experience, do you not?
Speaker 4: Absolutely?
Speaker 1: And you gotta you know, serve those values as well.
Speaker 1: And I think, I mean, you've never have you ever
Speaker 1: been out side of the country before?
Speaker 6: Yeah, probably, like I don't know, thirteen fourteen countries or.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, yeah, cool, I've been out in the cool
Speaker 1: cool cool. I mean, look, man, you're first of all,
Speaker 1: you saying and that the way you said indefinitely, it
Speaker 1: was as if the gates would close it. Well, it was, Oh,
Speaker 1: you're trying to expatriates in. You'd like, you're trying to
Speaker 1: renounce your American citizenship.
Speaker 6: Not in the sense of renouncing xt you know, you
Speaker 6: don't have to renounce your citizenship, but you know, if
Speaker 6: I never come back, you know, it might be for
Speaker 6: good reason. Crazy shit's going on in America. I'm sorry,
Speaker 6: Am I allowed to say that crazy stuff is going on?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: You can, Yeah, you can say crazy. You can say
Speaker 1: whatever you want.
Speaker 4: It's going on in America.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hmm, well, this could get very political, but what
Speaker 1: what is it about America that you're trying to escape?
Speaker 6: You know very well could and it could also get
Speaker 6: very scientific, but which also, unfortunately is politicized. So I
Speaker 6: don't know how much of that I'm allowed to disclose
Speaker 6: with you.
Speaker 1: Look, you can say whatever you want, but you know what,
Speaker 1: we don't even really I don't even know if we
Speaker 1: need to get into specifics because okay, okay, fair whatever,
Speaker 1: who gives a shit?
Speaker 2: Who cares?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: I feel you too, I feel you too. I feel
Speaker 1: you too. There's a lot of.
Speaker 4: Uh thought, that's my same thought.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of believe, there's a lot of reasons
Speaker 1: to want to leave America for whoever you are. I mean,
Speaker 1: why does it have to be so I guess what
Speaker 1: I'm lost on is why does it have to be
Speaker 1: so dire? Like you can come back drastic? Yeah, you
Speaker 1: can come back.
Speaker 6: I guess I'd love to come back, you know, if
Speaker 6: I sell it in a spot where it's.
Speaker 3: Where it's the fuck that I want to be, and
Speaker 3: it's not. It's just so detrimental the stuff that's going on.
Speaker 3: I don't want to participate in it.
Speaker 6: You know, I say, like our tax dollars are going
Speaker 6: into it, whatever.
Speaker 4: It might be.
Speaker 6: If I'm a non participant in that, you know, it's
Speaker 6: like I hate to use this comparison.
Speaker 4: It's like the matrix, right, you know, red belt, bluepill.
Speaker 6: You can be ignorant and bliss or you can recognize
Speaker 6: what's going on in non participant, be a non participant
Speaker 6: in that fact.
Speaker 4: Yeah, M I don't know, man, I don't know that,
Speaker 4: you know. That's why I'm calling to talk to somebody
Speaker 4: about it.
Speaker 1: Sure, but I think I think we're getting I just
Speaker 1: if I could say something, and this is just like
Speaker 1: how I think about shit, and I might be wrong,
Speaker 1: but whatever, I think it's more important to think about
Speaker 1: you than it is to think about like society and
Speaker 1: culture at large right now, right because what I'm hearing,
Speaker 1: and I know that there's you have some cultural political
Speaker 1: whatever hang ups with with America is a place that
Speaker 1: you want to you know, not participate with you. But
Speaker 1: what I'm reading more into this argument you have with
Speaker 1: yourself about wanting to go and live your life for
Speaker 1: yourself an adventure versus wanting to you know, be there
Speaker 1: to support your family. Because both of those things are
Speaker 1: very important to you. And yeah, so second, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: you're right, correct, that's the hangoup. And so look, I
Speaker 1: guess what. I guess I don't understand why. And maybe
Speaker 1: it's the has something to do with the political cultural
Speaker 1: hang ups that you have. But uh, I don't see
Speaker 1: why this is a drastic, indefinite move. You know, you
Speaker 1: you can go. Many people will go to Southeast Asia
Speaker 1: for a month, two months, three months, four months, five
Speaker 1: months and then come back. You know, it doesn't have
Speaker 1: to be the most you know you can you can
Speaker 1: you don't have to live your life decades at a time.
Speaker 1: You can do it a couple days, weeks, months at
Speaker 1: a time. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: No, I totally do I get it. I'm concerned, Yeah,
Speaker 6: concerned about you know what is the next decade, weeks,
Speaker 6: months of you I mean even this current nation.
Speaker 4: I don't want to get political with it. We already
Speaker 4: talked about that. That's not.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, well let's let's let's do here. Do you
Speaker 1: you are you you're collecting disability money? How are you
Speaker 1: making money?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, that's correct. And then I collect money to
Speaker 4: go to school? Okay, are you dropping out relatively handsomely.
Speaker 1: Are you dropping out of school?
Speaker 4: I might transition to online to complete my degree.
Speaker 1: Cool. Yeah, and that you can do from anywhere. So okay, great,
Speaker 1: So you're entire so you're in Thailand, you're living the
Speaker 1: laptop lifestyle, as they call it.
Speaker 6: Well, I would do that and then also train mixed
Speaker 6: martial arts NonStop.
Speaker 4: So I have a couple.
Speaker 6: I have one profession from a fight, you know, numerous
Speaker 6: amateur Yeah.
Speaker 1: It kind of sounds sick.
Speaker 4: It's it kind of sounds like a sick life, right
Speaker 4: what I do.
Speaker 6: Yeah, But the only thing is like I got my
Speaker 6: family here and they just like we all just lost
Speaker 6: one of our five to suicide m and I would
Speaker 6: hate for my mom.
Speaker 4: Really, That's what hurts me. It's like thinking my mom's
Speaker 4: gonna lose another one.
Speaker 6: And I'm not. But at the same time, I also
Speaker 6: don't really want to come back.
Speaker 4: If it's that awesome out there.
Speaker 1: I will say, I will say I've never I'm the
Speaker 1: most out of shape person that you've talked to, at
Speaker 1: least in the past month.
Speaker 4: And dude, I see you saying it.
Speaker 1: You're good even I even I have had weird three
Speaker 1: am fantasies about going training martial arts in Thailand. It
Speaker 1: sounds cool. But anyway, anyway, have you read so have
Speaker 1: you talked to your mom about this? I'm curious.
Speaker 6: Yeah, mom knows, Grandpa knows. Siblings all know that this
Speaker 6: is where my heart's at. This is kind of where
Speaker 6: I want to go. And we'll just be completely forthcoming.
Speaker 6: I tried calling you a couple of times prior, but
Speaker 6: at this.
Speaker 4: Point in time, taking your book and I'm sending it.
Speaker 1: Oh so you, oh so you you're going. This isn't
Speaker 1: even I'm a decision.
Speaker 6: It's more of a it's more of a like, hey,
Speaker 6: can you cancel me? Counsel me in a spot? Where
Speaker 6: is there anything that I'm doing wrong?
Speaker 1: Look, I don't. I don't. I'm not in the business
Speaker 1: of telling people what to do or what not to do.
Speaker 1: But this is a tough one because I've got a
Speaker 1: big adventure bug myself, and when I do that kind
Speaker 1: of thing, I really do think to myself, like, oh man,
Speaker 1: this is this is really just living your life to
Speaker 1: the fullest, and if that's what you want to do,
Speaker 1: that's the way to do it. Just to travel. It's
Speaker 1: very scary, it's very scary to live your life to
Speaker 1: the fullest in that way.
Speaker 4: Do you what do you think about that type of
Speaker 4: fear of the unknown.
Speaker 1: I think it's so funny that you're like a badass,
Speaker 1: fucking special Ops guy and you probably could fucking kill
Speaker 1: me by touching me, and uh, the only thing that
Speaker 1: you're afraid of it's not you know, guys with guns
Speaker 1: or big alligators, it's the unknown.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's an interesting that's an interesting thought, right there,
Speaker 6: Get go.
Speaker 1: It's very it's a very funny observation, the fear of
Speaker 1: the unknown. I don't know, man, I have a lot
Speaker 1: of the fear of the unknown myself. I have a
Speaker 1: lot of the fear of the unknown myself. And I think,
Speaker 1: here lately, here's how I've been dealing with the fear
Speaker 1: of the unknown's if you know, I try to be
Speaker 1: grateful when I'm facing the unknown, because well, a lot
Speaker 1: of the fear of Like when I have fear of
Speaker 1: the unknown and I'm like, oh man, life's been cool
Speaker 1: so far. Is it going to stay cool or is
Speaker 1: it going to suck? You know, it's either the bad
Speaker 1: things that it could do is not stay cool and suck.
Speaker 1: But I try to be grateful. Right, So I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: even if the future isn't as cool as how things
Speaker 1: have been, or if it sucks, it's like, well, I
Speaker 1: got to have everything, I got to live everything that
Speaker 1: was cool. I got to already have all these great experiences.
Speaker 1: I got to have this time with my family, these
Speaker 1: other good experiences, this time with my friends. I already
Speaker 1: lived so much great life. So I'm grateful for whatever
Speaker 1: great life I got to live. And so I'm not
Speaker 1: anxious about whether or not there's gonna be more, because
Speaker 1: if there is, then that's a beautiful bonus and I'm
Speaker 1: thankful for it. But if there's never any again, then
Speaker 1: you know, I already already had my feel of life
Speaker 1: being good.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: I don't know if any of that makes sense, but
Speaker 1: that's one thing.
Speaker 4: Can you yeah, can you? Can you like keep me
Speaker 4: with bullet points of that? I get hit in the
Speaker 4: head a lot. Can you hit me with bullet points?
Speaker 1: Oh God, bullet points of that. I guess what I'm
Speaker 1: trying to say, in short, is that I'm grateful for
Speaker 1: my life as it has been so far, right, and
Speaker 1: so that makes me worry less about the future because
Speaker 1: I'm grateful for the past and the present enough that
Speaker 1: it quells my fear of the future. Does that make
Speaker 1: any sense?
Speaker 4: It absolutely does.
Speaker 6: Do You you must believe in some type of defining power, then.
Speaker 1: I don't really believe in Not really, I don't believe
Speaker 1: in God or karmic forces or any any kind of
Speaker 1: higher power that exists to intentionally move things around to
Speaker 1: make them the way that they are.
Speaker 6: What about I mean, you believe in yourself, right, you
Speaker 6: can move things around to make things how they are.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do. I believe. I believe in myself in
Speaker 1: terms of.
Speaker 6: And not as far as it goes as far as
Speaker 6: belief like what can change things?
Speaker 4: It's just strictly your third dimensional entity.
Speaker 1: No, it's well, I have a little bit of control,
Speaker 1: and then there's a lot of other forces that are
Speaker 1: outside of my control. And those forces outside of my
Speaker 1: control are a little bit like God, you know, like, uh, okay,
Speaker 1: the weather man is kind of like God. He controls
Speaker 1: the weather. It is a control the weather, but I
Speaker 1: don't know, I'm not in control of what I'm not
Speaker 1: in control of what weather he reports. So I guess
Speaker 1: that kind of makes him like God. Hm hmm.
Speaker 6: You know your psychology I mean, if you want, if
Speaker 6: you're gonna call it, let's call it.
Speaker 4: But yeah, ends up cool.
Speaker 1: I was I was gonna say, I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: what about the unknown? Are you afraid of.
Speaker 2: Failure?
Speaker 4: To a chief? Potential?
Speaker 6: Would be my greatest fear, And you know I can
Speaker 6: smack mad potential here in the States if I really
Speaker 6: sat down and like worked it.
Speaker 4: I guess I'm afraid of real work. I just want
Speaker 4: to do what I like doing.
Speaker 6: And what I like doing is training and traveling and
Speaker 6: meeting new people.
Speaker 1: And Buddy, it's so yeah, yeah, yeah, Well finish your
Speaker 1: thought before I interrupt you.
Speaker 4: No, that was that pretty much?
Speaker 6: Was? I like creaning, I like traveling, I like meeting
Speaker 6: new people, and I.
Speaker 4: Like I'm pretty much just experiencing the world as it is.
Speaker 1: Buddy, I'm also having fun. I'm also afraid of not
Speaker 1: I'm also I'm also afraid of a real job. That's
Speaker 1: why I'm wearing a Gecko costume right now and why
Speaker 1: I'm asking people to subscribe to my super cast accounts.
Speaker 1: And I'm also afraid of not reaching my potential. And actually,
Speaker 1: what I just told you, what about the whole being
Speaker 1: grateful for the what I just told you about being
Speaker 1: grateful for the past and the present has kind of
Speaker 1: helped me quell my fear of not reaching my potential
Speaker 1: because I can look at my past and my present
Speaker 1: and be like, well, I did these things. I tried
Speaker 1: in this way, I kind of gave it my all.
Speaker 1: So maybe maybe maybe in that sense, I did reach
Speaker 1: my potential, you know, or does potentially even exist?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 1: Or it is potential just like a completely made up thing?
Speaker 4: What would mean potential is a made up thing?
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't, I don't, I don't know. These these
Speaker 1: are not fully formed. These are not fully formed thoughts.
Speaker 1: This might be just kind of a bunch of bullshit.
Speaker 1: But with me, I kind of feel like with like
Speaker 1: like say this right, like I'm I'm not in great shape. Okay,
Speaker 1: So let's say I had the potent. Let's say I
Speaker 1: have the potential theoretically to become an Olympic athlete, right,
Speaker 1: But did I ever really Because at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, there's certain and I don't know. This is
Speaker 1: where I reconcile with like what what is and not
Speaker 1: of my what is? And what is not in my control?
Speaker 1: Right because at the end of the day, there's certain
Speaker 1: fucking things in your brain that you don't really even
Speaker 1: understand that ye have influence over you and the decisions
Speaker 1: that you make and the way that you live your life.
Speaker 1: And in a this is what's fucking weird to me
Speaker 1: is in a way, like I do believe that brain
Speaker 1: chemistry and just shit going on with you psychologically, in
Speaker 1: your environment and whatever influence you to make the decisions
Speaker 1: that you make. So in some way they are your decisions,
Speaker 1: and you were in control of whether or not you
Speaker 1: went out and became an Olympic athlete, but also in
Speaker 1: some ways you kind of weren't. But the it's also
Speaker 1: I get wrapped up to this because the more I
Speaker 1: feed the side of my brain that I think I'm
Speaker 1: not in controller, the more I feed that idea that
Speaker 1: I'm not in control, the more I get complacent and
Speaker 1: want to.
Speaker 4: You're not in control of it, than what is in
Speaker 4: control of it.
Speaker 1: I had no fucking idea.
Speaker 6: Got to be subconscious. It's got to be some type
Speaker 6: of chemical reaction. And if you break down chemical reactions,
Speaker 6: what causes chemical reactions, what causes the mechanics, what causes
Speaker 6: you know, micro electronic If you really break it all down.
Speaker 6: I would you know, I hate to counter you on
Speaker 6: this one. I feel like it comes down to creedive force,
Speaker 6: a destiny, destiny, oh, like a god consciousness, Yeah, like
Speaker 6: a god.
Speaker 1: They could be there could be. I don't know.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, we've gotten I don't know either.
Speaker 1: We've gotten so off track here, we're actually no, I
Speaker 1: don't even think. I don't even I don't even know. No.
Speaker 1: I totally take back what we said. I totally take
Speaker 1: back what I just said. I totally regret saying that
Speaker 1: just now. That's antithetical to how I feel about this
Speaker 1: podcast because there is no track or whatever track we
Speaker 1: were on was the track.
Speaker 4: Okur, dude, this is a great combo.
Speaker 1: So look, well you bought the tickets. That's awesome. Yeah, dude,
Speaker 1: I think, I think. I think when you're when you're
Speaker 1: fucking dying, I think you're going to be happy that
Speaker 1: you left your comfort zone and went and to experience
Speaker 1: the world. And clearly that's what you want to do.
Speaker 1: You want you want to be out and about, you
Speaker 1: want to be meeting people, doing things, awake, alive in
Speaker 1: the universe. That's where you want to be, you know.
Speaker 1: But the only to get you I'm the same way normally.
Speaker 6: Concurrence is that damn my mom, like our whole family
Speaker 6: had just lost a sibling to something stupid. I want
Speaker 6: to man if I did that twice. That's my only fear.
Speaker 6: That's my biggest fear. I don't care about if I
Speaker 6: got eight by a great worshak. I don't care. Well
Speaker 6: I'm surfing in Australia or got bit by snake in Thailand, Like,
Speaker 6: I don't get it. But what I'm really worried about
Speaker 6: is like, how is my family going to deal with
Speaker 6: maybe two losses?
Speaker 4: Because that's dangerous out there. It's not the.
Speaker 1: Same as when you say, dude, when you say two losses,
Speaker 1: do you are you referring to yourself, yeah, leaving America?
Speaker 1: Are you are you referring to yourself leaving and not
Speaker 1: coming back? Or are you referring to some possible danger that.
Speaker 6: You'll die like I get knocked out, Like I get
Speaker 6: knocked out of the game, Yeah eliminated?
Speaker 1: Well, well in that in that case, before you fucking
Speaker 1: get in your car and drive down the street, you
Speaker 1: could think that about yourself. Man, I mean you're gonna
Speaker 1: you're gonna die, and you could die. You could die
Speaker 1: at home in America, or you could die in Thailand.
Speaker 4: Damn, that's a good thing you could.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't realize that's what you were talking about.
Speaker 1: If that's what you were talking about, then that's you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's crazy. You have no control over whether
Speaker 1: or not some random fucking thing happens to you that
Speaker 1: kills you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, that's kind of why I say.
Speaker 6: It always happens, and God hands I suppose I should
Speaker 6: have died maybe three or four times already.
Speaker 4: I know that's not your game, which is cool. I
Speaker 4: won't push that. No politics, no religion will do that.
Speaker 4: That's cool.
Speaker 1: Doh well, I are you? Were you trying to say
Speaker 1: that you feel like like God is watching over you
Speaker 1: to make sure that you don't die.
Speaker 6: No, I just know that every single person has been
Speaker 6: put here for a purpose.
Speaker 1: And what do you think?
Speaker 4: Dude? Who am I to say what my purpose is?
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, like, I have no idea,
Speaker 4: not the chance do. My purpose for a little while
Speaker 4: was to make people laugh with syd up comedy.
Speaker 6: For a little while, it was to entertain people with
Speaker 6: this with this TV show. From before that, it was
Speaker 6: it was for a little while to entertain people with
Speaker 6: an MMA fighting career.
Speaker 4: Before that, it was I guess learning probably before that.
Speaker 4: I don't know what my purpose is.
Speaker 1: It's very funny to me that you're about my age
Speaker 1: because you talk like you're forty seven.
Speaker 4: Yamn. Is that good or does that mean closer to death?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 1: No, I think, Uh, I don't. I don't know. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that means. It's uh, it's cool.
Speaker 1: You're a cool guy. I imagine I imagine you to
Speaker 1: be about about twice my height. Yeah, you're probably about
Speaker 1: what that would make you seven foot two, you're about
Speaker 1: seventy six.
Speaker 4: I'm like five to eleven point eight.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Yeah, Man, go to Thailand's. You're already there.
Speaker 1: You're alady about the tickets?
Speaker 4: Send it? Yeah, send it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I That's what I would do. That's
Speaker 1: what I'm probably going. That's what I'm probably going to do.
Speaker 1: You know, I can do my stream from anywhere. I
Speaker 1: always think I'm calling ass over.
Speaker 6: Up, get your ass out there, because I'm going I'm
Speaker 6: being honest, I already have my heart set on it.
Speaker 6: I was trying to call you for a couple of
Speaker 6: months prior to this to like, you know, deliver it
Speaker 6: a little bit, you know, deliberate, excuse me a little bit,
Speaker 6: try to figure this whole thing out.
Speaker 4: But uh yeah, I came to my own conclusion. I'm
Speaker 4: I'm sending it. Yeah, if you ever want to like
Speaker 4: connect thoughts too.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, if you ever, if you start,
Speaker 1: if you ever start a fucking dojo out there, you
Speaker 1: let me know. I'll go. That would be a fun
Speaker 1: That would be a crazy ass video if I if
Speaker 1: I trained in the Gecko suit, you could.
Speaker 4: Do that with yo. How far away are you? I'm
Speaker 4: c Springs, Colorado Springs.
Speaker 6: You know, if you ever, if you ever feel like
Speaker 6: swinging through, shoot me a message. You got the you
Speaker 6: got the numeros souh Yeah, absolutely no joke.
Speaker 4: That would be a fun podcast.
Speaker 6: Plus, I feel like you can you and I could
Speaker 6: have a long form type discussion.
Speaker 1: All right. I appreciate you putting that feeler out there.
Speaker 1: I Uh, one of these days, I'll one of these
Speaker 1: days I'll put down the fucking touts your roles and
Speaker 1: go try to what you're doing.
Speaker 4: Bro, do what you're doing. You are doing.
Speaker 6: Thanks, you are doing great things. Thanks Robbie, I love
Speaker 6: listening to your podcast. You're catching all stars on your
Speaker 6: podcast now, fire Bro, you are literally catching fire.
Speaker 4: I'd love seeing it, love listening to it. Thank you
Speaker 4: for taking my call. I know I'm not supposed to
Speaker 4: say that. You got you rock.
Speaker 1: Thanks Robbie. And and look, man, you're you're a good
Speaker 1: guy too.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: I hope that you make Just do me a favor.
Speaker 1: You made the decision, you made the decision, you're going,
Speaker 1: you're doing it. Feel good about it. Feel happy about it,
Speaker 1: because making a decision, that making a definitive decision, and
Speaker 1: then feeling bad about your decision. It's the opposite of
Speaker 1: having your cake and eating it too. It's like taking
Speaker 1: your cake and diarrhea ing on it and then eating
Speaker 1: the diarrhea cake. Just eat the cake with no diarrhea.
Speaker 4: You you know what, You're a smart man.
Speaker 1: Geka all right, you take care, Robbie, Thank you man.
Speaker 4: Love brother, take it see ya.
Speaker 1: I think he was trying to say I love you
Speaker 1: at the end, but he just couldn't do it. And
Speaker 1: I feel the same way. I love you too, Robbie.
Speaker 1: Thanks for calling. Good luck. Hey guys, it's Lyle here.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, Hello, Hey, what's up?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 2: Is this?
Speaker 7: Am I speaking to the Gecko right now?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: You are? Am I speaking to Tyler?
Speaker 5: Yes you are, Hello, Tally?
Speaker 1: Can you get off discord real quick? Tyler?
Speaker 5: Can you?
Speaker 1: Can you turn off every single appliance in your home
Speaker 1: except for your phone?
Speaker 7: Okay, I will make sure my refrigerator is not running good?
Speaker 5: All right, what's up man?
Speaker 1: It says here that you wanted to talk about how
Speaker 1: you feel like you're a hoarder.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so basically, I just collect anything that I get
Speaker 7: my hands on. H I got a collection of those
Speaker 7: stupid little five nettet Freddy's figures. I got little Minecraft figurines.
Speaker 7: I got posters all around my room. I don't know
Speaker 7: if you remember that one promotional item that McDonald's did
Speaker 7: with that one clothing brand where they had the four eyes,
Speaker 7: But I have all of those figures. I have a
Speaker 7: box of Cause Cereal, I have a lot.
Speaker 1: I feel like there's a difference between just being a hoarder.
Speaker 1: I feel like there's a difference between being a hoarder
Speaker 1: and just decorating your room with stuff that you like.
Speaker 7: I guess so, but a lot of it is just unnecessary.
Speaker 7: Like I have a collection of mountain dew bottles. Mind you,
Speaker 7: they're filled with food coloring, so it looks like it
Speaker 7: has the soda still in them, so it kind of
Speaker 7: looks cool, but it's still just like garbage.
Speaker 1: Would you consider those mountain dew bottles to be trash
Speaker 1: or decorations.
Speaker 2: Or memory a little bit of both?
Speaker 7: Probably?
Speaker 4: Mhm.
Speaker 1: How many mountain dew bottles are sitting around your room
Speaker 1: right now?
Speaker 7: Are we going to count the actual bottles? Because I have.
Speaker 1: What do you mean by actual bottles?
Speaker 7: All right? So I'm I'm kind of addicted to mountain
Speaker 7: dew as well as hoarding things. I have four separate
Speaker 7: boxes of cans, a mini box of Baja Blast, and
Speaker 7: eleven different bottles of just soda.
Speaker 1: Are these like special bottles or are they?
Speaker 7: Oh? Yeah, these are these are limited? These are limited?
Speaker 1: Okay? How many of the mountain dew bottles are limited
Speaker 1: edition collectors items? And then how many of them are
Speaker 1: just regular mountain dew bottles?
Speaker 7: Technically all eleven?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 7: Wait, are we talking about the ones that are filled
Speaker 7: with the soda or the ones that are filled with
Speaker 7: the water?
Speaker 1: How many of these are filled with soda? How many
Speaker 1: of these are filled with water?
Speaker 7: I have? Let me let me count them. Three, six, nine, twelve, fourteen, sixteen, seventeen.
Speaker 7: I have seventeen filled with water.
Speaker 1: Why do you have seventeen mountain dew bottles filled with water?
Speaker 7: Well, it's it's color. It has food coloring in it,
Speaker 7: so it's like it looks like the soda is still
Speaker 7: in it.
Speaker 1: Did you put the food coloring in it?
Speaker 7: Okay, hold on somewhat, mister Annoy just said and how
Speaker 7: many pisss? So I have a funny story with that.
Speaker 7: I'm sorry, I'm getting sidetracked. There's a flavor where it's
Speaker 7: lemonade and there's another flavor with peach.
Speaker 2: I don't like either flavor.
Speaker 7: But when they're mixed together, it is very good. It's
Speaker 7: like a peach lemonade and it looks like piss. So
Speaker 7: I have an empty bottle of mountain dew with the
Speaker 7: word piss on it, and I fill it up with
Speaker 7: my like piss yellow soda flavor and it looks like piss.
Speaker 7: I just thought it was very funny.
Speaker 1: I think that crosses the line into hoarding.
Speaker 7: Yeah, see, I told you.
Speaker 2: It was hoorting.
Speaker 1: How hard would it be for you to throw these away?
Speaker 7: Oh, it's gonna be hard because I have another.
Speaker 1: Six I can.
Speaker 7: I have another sixteen empty cans?
Speaker 1: What do you feel like you have an emotional or
Speaker 1: sentimental attachment to these bottles?
Speaker 7: Not really, I could probably throw them out easy, But
Speaker 7: my friend got me into it, so it's like kind
Speaker 7: of like a duo, me and him. I actually went
Speaker 7: to his house one time to try a flavor. He got,
Speaker 7: like a birthday cake flavor, and it was like terrible.
Speaker 1: I hated it. Do you think that your life would
Speaker 1: improve with the absence of these bottles or is it
Speaker 1: better with the presence of these bottles.
Speaker 7: I mean, I feel like it adds character, But if
Speaker 7: I stopped drinking the soda, it would probably be better.
Speaker 1: I'm not a nutritionist, but I think that's probably true too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Okay, is.
Speaker 1: There anything just while we're on the phone and you're
Speaker 1: looking around the room, is there anything that you're like
Speaker 1: one hundred percent sure you don't need that you can
Speaker 1: throw away?
Speaker 4: Hmm?
Speaker 7: I'm looking around now.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 7: Actually, that's not true. I ate a whole bag of
Speaker 7: potato ships last night, can you think? Yeah? I just
Speaker 7: do way, I got a little case of the munchies.
Speaker 1: You just throw it away?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I just threw it away.
Speaker 5: No more like just now, just now it's here.
Speaker 7: And listen, it's it's in the garbage.
Speaker 2: Don't worry.
Speaker 1: We made some progress.
Speaker 7: We're making progress. I don't see anything else. It's probably
Speaker 7: just little papers on the floor that I could pick
Speaker 7: up later.
Speaker 1: Tyler, you said your name was yep, mm hmm. Is
Speaker 1: there anything else that you want to tell me about this?
Speaker 7: So I wanted to get into this a little bit.
Speaker 7: I have a flavor, the birthday cake flavor. Yeah, I
Speaker 7: love riding my bike around a lot. It's like she like,
Speaker 7: my bike is my little baby.
Speaker 1: Mhm.
Speaker 7: So I ride my bike to a friend's house sometimes
Speaker 7: when I collect Mountain do with and we sit on
Speaker 7: this front porch like King of the Hill and we
Speaker 7: just drink SODA's. It's it's pretty chill.
Speaker 1: That actually sounds awesome.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's really cool to see.
Speaker 1: Now that you told me that, I understand. Okay, now
Speaker 1: I understand why you keep the bottles because it's like
Speaker 1: they remind you of of this time that you have
Speaker 1: with your friend, Like like you were kind of explaining
Speaker 1: to me, it's like a it's like a thing with
Speaker 1: you and your friend. You're not just collecting trash around
Speaker 1: your room.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 7: And they're neatly organized too. It's not like they're just
Speaker 7: in some peep it's on a shelf and the all
Speaker 7: mice and meat. I could probably text you a picture.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll look at a picture.
Speaker 7: Yeah, oh cool.
Speaker 2: I could just.
Speaker 7: Let me see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is my collection I have.
Speaker 1: I have a lot. What's the most valuable bottle the
Speaker 1: you have in this collection?
Speaker 7: I don't really know. Most of them are just filled
Speaker 7: up with water, so probably none of them the red
Speaker 7: Solo cup was the cake flavor.
Speaker 1: Wait, so these have these have? Oh you have some
Speaker 1: kickstarters in there too, So these are none of these
Speaker 1: are actually full? Do you just put food coloring in them? Uh?
Speaker 7: Yeah, if you in the back or fall because of
Speaker 7: their diet And I don't really care about diet.
Speaker 1: I like that the diets are like worthless to you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a worthless well.
Speaker 1: Tyler, thanks for sharing this with me. Man, is there
Speaker 1: anything else that you want to say to the people
Speaker 1: of the computer before we go?
Speaker 7: There's this kid in my school. His name is Paul.
Speaker 7: He's a really he's a really nice guy, and I
Speaker 7: just wish I was able to be friends with him,
Speaker 7: And I don't really know how I can be friends
Speaker 7: with him.
Speaker 5: Give him a do you have.
Speaker 7: Any little kid pits of advice? He's really chill, he's
Speaker 7: really nice. I just want to be friends with Paul.
Speaker 1: Why don't you invite him to come over to your
Speaker 1: house and look at your rare mountain dew collection.
Speaker 2: That's not a bad idea, all right? Thank you, Lyle?
Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you. You made mine have a wonderful night.
Speaker 2: Wait a man better?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Tyler, if you're still listening. Dude, If if, if,
Speaker 1: if someone came up to me and was like, hey,
Speaker 1: me and my friends are going to go drink rare
Speaker 1: Mountain dews on a stoop like they do in King
Speaker 1: of the Hill. Do you want to come? I would
Speaker 1: accept that invitation immediately. That's a good invitation to put
Speaker 1: out into the universe. It's a good activity to invite
Speaker 1: someone to. If I were if I were Paul, I
Speaker 1: would want to be a part of that activity. Hello, folks,
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