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Speaker 2: Is Aiden?
Speaker 3: Who are you?
Speaker 1: My name is Lyle Man. What's going on?
Speaker 3: Hey, Lyle?
Speaker 2: I was calling to talk about my work. I work
Speaker 2: at Dominoes and I'm a delivery driver there.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, what's that like?
Speaker 2: So within the first three weeks I had the classic
Speaker 2: delivery drivers situation. I went to a motel. This lady
Speaker 2: opens up the door completely but snaked, and then she
Speaker 2: kind of closed the door real quick, and then she
Speaker 2: opened it fully back up again, and she gave me
Speaker 2: the money. And yeah, that was like my third or
Speaker 2: fourth week there.
Speaker 1: Wait, you said she hold on, you said you said
Speaker 1: she opened the door. She so she opens the door,
Speaker 1: takes the piece, uh, closes the door, opens back up,
Speaker 1: gives you the money.
Speaker 2: No, no, So she she opens up the door like
Speaker 2: a little bit at first to see who it is,
Speaker 2: and like I could see like half of her body,
Speaker 2: and I can see that she's not wearing any clothes.
Speaker 2: She then closes the door a little bit as if
Speaker 2: she's gonna put clothes on or something. But then she
Speaker 2: just swam like swings it right back open and I
Speaker 2: just see her full.
Speaker 1: She's just there and we're talking completely naked, and there's
Speaker 1: no it's not like a robe. It's like completely fully,
Speaker 1: one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: Naked, not even socks nothing, that just yes, completely naked.
Speaker 1: What was her facial ex was it? Was she bashful
Speaker 1: about her or was she was it a very proud nakedness.
Speaker 2: That's what I don't know, man, because it got me
Speaker 2: thinking because she closed the door. It seemed like out
Speaker 2: of shame, right, but then she opens it back up,
Speaker 2: almost like you said, almost proud. So I don't know.
Speaker 2: It really baffled me and I still think about it sometimes.
Speaker 1: Uh did you have a like what was the extent
Speaker 1: of your interaction?
Speaker 2: She was at some motel and so someone pointed me
Speaker 2: in her direction because I was like my first time there,
Speaker 2: and so as soon as I get to the door,
Speaker 2: I just knock it. As soon as she opens it,
Speaker 2: I'm like, hey, how much it is? I try not
Speaker 2: to be I didn't acknowledge it in any way. I
Speaker 2: just kind of mad, tried to maintain eye contact.
Speaker 1: Respect. Respect was part of you secretly hoping that she
Speaker 1: would invite you in to share the pizza.
Speaker 2: No, no, not at all. I have I have a girlfriend.
Speaker 2: So I was more mortified than anything.
Speaker 1: Wow, you're a true professional Aiden.
Speaker 2: Thank you. It really took a lot of took a
Speaker 2: lot in me not to not to say anything. But
Speaker 2: you know, I told everyone at work right when I.
Speaker 1: Got back, and they were I did. Everyone at work
Speaker 1: was like, oh, yeah, I remember the first time that
Speaker 1: happened to me.
Speaker 2: One person said it happened to them, but everyone else
Speaker 2: was pretty shocked. But I mean I work in a
Speaker 2: pretty interesting area. We get a lot of interesting people.
Speaker 1: Anything else happened to you? The note h.
Speaker 2: There's a I mean there was a time that I
Speaker 2: delivered to someone at like nine or ten at night
Speaker 2: and they it looked like there was a gun on
Speaker 2: their waist and it kind of scared me because we
Speaker 2: were out and they were just like walking down the street.
Speaker 2: But I had nothing came from that. We have this
Speaker 2: old gun guy comes in all the time.
Speaker 1: Gun guy. I'll take the naked lady over the gun
Speaker 1: guy anytime.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, for sure. I think the gun guy happened
Speaker 2: on my second second night. It was one of my
Speaker 2: first nights, my first The few weeks there were the craziest.
Speaker 1: Have you ever encountered a naked lady with a gun?
Speaker 2: You know I have not yet. I'll keep an eye out.
Speaker 2: There is some guy who he always is walking down
Speaker 2: the street that my Dominoes is on and is there's
Speaker 2: no music, no headphones, nothing in his ears, but he's
Speaker 2: just dancing down the street. Sometimes he's got a like
Speaker 2: a bag or a shopping cart. I also sometimes see
Speaker 2: him at the dumpster right behind our store. So he
Speaker 2: makes it. He walks all the way.
Speaker 1: Do you think he knows something about the universe that
Speaker 1: we don't or do you think he's on drugs or both?
Speaker 2: Absolutely?
Speaker 3: Both.
Speaker 2: It's got to be something. I mean, there's no way
Speaker 2: someone's just that happy all the time.
Speaker 1: Are you happy?
Speaker 2: I am happy?
Speaker 1: What makes what makes you happy? Aiden?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: My girlfriend really makes me happy. Ah, she's waving at you.
Speaker 1: What else makes? I?
Speaker 2: Really? Love my job? I love driving, despite despite sometimes
Speaker 2: not getting you know, the best tips. I love doing it.
Speaker 2: I love the people I work with. My three cats
Speaker 2: make me happy.
Speaker 3: My dog.
Speaker 1: Who who tipped more between the gun guy and the
Speaker 1: naked lady? I'm gonna guess the naked lady.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: Any other characters that you wish to share from your journeys.
Speaker 2: Well, there's this older guy who comes in or sometimes
Speaker 2: delivers to us or me to be delivered to him,
Speaker 2: and we Uh, he's either always in a good mood
Speaker 2: or really pissed off. And I can't tell if he's
Speaker 2: racist or not because his neighbor is a black lady.
Speaker 2: Anytime she's over there, he's kind of very rude to her.
Speaker 1: Is he rude to you?
Speaker 2: He is? Sometimes it just depends, like if I don't
Speaker 2: get the pizza out of the bag quick enough when
Speaker 2: he's handing me the money, and he never tips, but
Speaker 2: I don't think.
Speaker 1: He knows, so he could be racist against all races.
Speaker 2: Huh. Yeah, which I guess that wouldn't even really be racist. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 2: my girlfriend actually just reminded me about someone who I
Speaker 2: had a heartfelt talk with when I was delivering. There
Speaker 2: was this guy who I delivered to and he was
Speaker 2: under the influence and when I got there or sorry,
Speaker 2: when I knocked on the door and he opened it up,
Speaker 2: I could clearly tell and I could smell the booze,
Speaker 2: and he just he just poured his heart out to me.
Speaker 2: I mean the first thing he said was like, Man,
Speaker 2: I really need help. I this alcohol is killing me. Man.
Speaker 2: And you know, I was kind of taken aback and.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: That guy kind of messed me up for a little
Speaker 2: bit because I wish I could have done more for
Speaker 2: him a moment. Yeah, I've always been someone who I've
Speaker 2: always been someone who's when they see someone going through something,
Speaker 2: I just I want to be there for them, and
Speaker 2: I want to be the one that I want to
Speaker 2: be a piece of the puzzle that helps get them
Speaker 2: to where they need to be sure, sure.
Speaker 1: Uh, okay, tell me more about what so so that
Speaker 1: you'd go to deliver pizza to this guy and you
Speaker 1: are certainly the first person that this guy has seen
Speaker 1: in an possibly an extremely long time, possibly several weeks,
Speaker 1: and he looks at you in the eyes and asks
Speaker 1: you human being on the planet at the same time
Speaker 1: as him to other human being, brother, I need help.
Speaker 3: M hm.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he he was. He kept saying it over and over.
Speaker 2: He would say, I need help. This alcohol is going
Speaker 2: to kill me. I wish He's like, and he looked
Speaker 2: me dead in the eyes again, he was like, don't ever,
Speaker 2: don't ever be like me. Don't ever. And that kind
Speaker 2: of stuck with me.
Speaker 1: Okay, by the way, can I uh offer. I know
Speaker 1: you said that you felt upset that you couldn't help him,
Speaker 1: but you did give him a pizza, which traditionally does
Speaker 1: pair very well with alcohol.
Speaker 2: That's true, that's true. So if anything, I just helped
Speaker 2: him feel better in that moment.
Speaker 1: You did. You did help him feel better in that
Speaker 1: moment by giving him that pizza. Uh See. That's the thing,
Speaker 1: right is you can't You can't save everyone. You can't
Speaker 1: even you can't even try. I mean you can try,
Speaker 1: but you won't do it. You can really do the
Speaker 1: best you can. And what I think is cool about
Speaker 1: your job delivering pizzas is that you help you do
Speaker 1: you do help people in the moment by delivering them pizzas.
Speaker 1: You feed people. It's a noble profession delivering pizzas. That
Speaker 1: man got to eat. He didn't have to fucking leave
Speaker 1: his house. Maybe he couldn't, maybe he was too drunk
Speaker 1: to leave his house, but he still, you know, deserved
Speaker 1: to be able to eat, and so you delivered him
Speaker 1: as pizza and in that moment provided a service for
Speaker 1: another person that was valuable to them. Now, how much
Speaker 1: did he tip you?
Speaker 2: Oh man, I honestly don't remember. I know he tipped
Speaker 2: me though. That's nice, and that's more than it's more
Speaker 2: than a lot of people around here. So any tips
Speaker 2: are greatly just, you know, really appreciate.
Speaker 1: Tell me, tell me, tell me you say it's stuck
Speaker 1: with you. How tell me just a little bit more
Speaker 1: about how it stuck with you.
Speaker 2: I Uh, I have recently, I mean okay, uh, I
Speaker 2: feel like I could be maybe having developing a problem
Speaker 2: with alcohol.
Speaker 3: You and I do.
Speaker 2: I've been I I even when I met him, I
Speaker 2: was drinking pretty often. But now I've been drinking pretty
Speaker 2: It's been almost every night, but not like maybe two
Speaker 2: days of the week.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Did part of you see yourself in this guy?
Speaker 2: I did, and I think that's what scared me.
Speaker 1: Mmm mm hmmm. How what do you? Why do you?
Speaker 1: Why do you think you're drinking so much? I?
Speaker 2: Uh, I I just think it. I mean, I think
Speaker 2: it's fun to me. You know, it's fun to drink,
Speaker 2: and I don't have a very good sense on self control.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, mm hmm. It is fun to drink. You
Speaker 1: ingest brown water, sometimes clear water, and you go, oh,
Speaker 1: it's fun. Because sentience is is a noyse is tough.
Speaker 1: It's a lot. Yeah, so you want it. You gotta
Speaker 1: numb yourself down sometimes I understand the impulse. Yeah, do
Speaker 1: you have anything? Although you seem like I will say
Speaker 1: this about you from what I know about you from
Speaker 1: talking to you on the phone, which is, uh, you
Speaker 1: have a lovely partner who you enjoy very much. You
Speaker 1: have three cats.
Speaker 3: Who you like.
Speaker 1: Yes, you you said you like your job, that's rare
Speaker 1: as hell. You have a good life. You have a
Speaker 1: good life. Do you agree? You know, I don't want
Speaker 1: to tell you what you have because you know your life.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I do absolutely agree.
Speaker 1: Okay, So why do you feel compelled to to run
Speaker 1: to numb yourself from your sentient experience of your own
Speaker 1: wonderful life? Genuine question?
Speaker 2: And I don't know if I have a real answer
Speaker 2: to why other than I ah, I get the pole
Speaker 2: impulse to do it, and I just want to do it,
Speaker 2: and sometimes it feels like I am not. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: I want to set what oh my girlfriend saying that
Speaker 2: my parents have addictive personalities, which are.
Speaker 1: Okay, there we go. It's hereditary thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: My dad's definitely was or still is an alcoholic growing
Speaker 2: when I was growing up, to some extent, there was
Speaker 2: always he was, at least as far as when I
Speaker 2: say I alcoholic, I guess, I mean he was drinking
Speaker 2: every night and where there was no real uh control,
Speaker 2: I guess on his side.
Speaker 1: It didn't seem like, have you gone to a real
Speaker 1: therapist to talk about this?
Speaker 2: I not. I haven't been to So I went to
Speaker 2: therapy once and I had two sessions, and after that
Speaker 2: second session, I quit and I know that that's the
Speaker 2: thing that everyone does, and it's uh, I do. I
Speaker 2: do want to go back, and I've been trying to
Speaker 2: get that worked out. It's just a it's a process,
Speaker 2: I guess to get it done.
Speaker 1: Is any part of you drinking to forget the sight
Speaker 1: of that lady's boobs?
Speaker 2: Maybe that might be a little bit of it.
Speaker 1: Okay, when you go to therapy, you should talk about
Speaker 1: that as well. Definitely, Uh have you ever been to AA?
Speaker 1: I don't know shit about AA, so I'm not going
Speaker 1: to try to chill you on it, but I am.
Speaker 1: I'm curious if you've tried it.
Speaker 3: I have not.
Speaker 2: I have brought it up to my girlfriend once and
Speaker 2: I've looked it up. It is something that I think
Speaker 2: would be I think definitely is a helpful resource. I mean,
Speaker 2: I know it works. I've seen people. I know people
Speaker 2: have gone through it. My best friend gone went through
Speaker 2: it and he he's been sober for two three years.
Speaker 2: So I just it's just taking that step really.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, well, Aiden, uh uh huh huh. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think I'm happy. I'm I'm so happy to hear
Speaker 1: that you're happy with your life. It's aspiring to me. Actually,
Speaker 1: I've been thinking a lot. I know this sounds like
Speaker 1: I'm being facetious maybe, but I'm not. I've been thinking
Speaker 1: a lot lately about how to be happy in my
Speaker 1: own life. And I'm inspired by you because you seem
Speaker 1: so happy in yours. So but yet you know, your
Speaker 1: parents had this hereditary Your parents had this addictive personality.
Speaker 1: And when you when your dad there was there was,
Speaker 1: there was, there was that that gene was in his
Speaker 1: come and that was put into your mom's vagina. Then
Speaker 1: there was you, and you had no control over that.
Speaker 1: Every aspect of your life that you had control over,
Speaker 1: your decisions, your perceptions. You you've done a great job,
Speaker 1: it seems, of steering them in a positive direction to
Speaker 1: be happy. But you you were tainted come from the start,
Speaker 1: and you couldn't control that. And now you're dealing with that.
Speaker 1: But everything again that was within your control. It's doing
Speaker 1: pretty good. So I'm inspired by that, and I hope
Speaker 1: that you find a way to positively deal with you know,
Speaker 1: this hereditary issue. I don't know how much that's worth, but.
Speaker 2: No, I appreciate it. Man, it means a lot coming
Speaker 2: from you.
Speaker 1: Let me talk to your wife real quick.
Speaker 3: I watch your thoughts.
Speaker 2: Okay, sure, she wanted to talk anyway.
Speaker 3: You are good, good?
Speaker 1: Hey, while Hi, what's your name? My name is Natalie, Natalie, Natalie.
Speaker 1: I've been talking to I forget his name, but I've
Speaker 1: been talking to him aiden for twenty minutes. I like
Speaker 1: him a lot. He's got a cool life. He's a
Speaker 1: good guy. He's a good he's a sweet guy. Do
Speaker 1: you and before we move on, I wanted to get
Speaker 1: you know, your thoughts on him as a person on Uh,
Speaker 1: it sounds like you've been standing there while you've been talking.
Speaker 1: I want to I want to hear your wrap up
Speaker 1: on this. Any any thoughts you have on on our conversation.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well I was in the other room listening to
Speaker 4: it because I just wanted to hear what you are
Speaker 4: saying without being in the same room. But he's he
Speaker 4: loves this job, and he's been working really hard to
Speaker 4: try to support us and everything while I'm in school.
Speaker 4: So he's doing amazing and he loves me a lot,
Speaker 4: so helping me out with all I'm going through.
Speaker 1: That's good. That's good. And you know what's great about
Speaker 1: his you know, you know, it's a nice thing about
Speaker 1: his job. Actually, I'm gonna I'm gonna tell this to him.
Speaker 1: Can you can hand the phone back?
Speaker 2: Hello?
Speaker 1: You know what I like? You know, it must be
Speaker 1: fun about being a pizza delivery driver.
Speaker 2: What's up?
Speaker 1: Everyone's always happy to see you.
Speaker 2: There. Yeah, that's true for the for the most part.
Speaker 2: There's been a few times where they're just are away
Speaker 2: already just pissed off because their order has been waiting
Speaker 2: for a while. Yeah, sometimes we get really busy, But
Speaker 2: for the most part, that's true.
Speaker 1: And I'll say, well, then never minds I was going
Speaker 1: to say. I was going to say everyone's always happy
Speaker 1: to see you, and that's intoxicating in and of itself,
Speaker 1: but that you know what, I'm glad you saved me
Speaker 1: from saying that, because that would have been a really
Speaker 1: stupid way to end this call. Aiden. You're a great guy.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you sharing all the stuff with us, and
Speaker 1: I wish you the best of luck. Is there anything
Speaker 1: else that you want to say to the people of
Speaker 1: the computer before we go.
Speaker 2: Not necessarily to the people of the computer, but to you.
Speaker 2: I just want to say thank you for what you do,
Speaker 2: your show, is amazing. I've been watching you quite a
Speaker 2: while now, and me and my girlfriend are going to
Speaker 2: be seeing you live in September, so I can't wait.
Speaker 1: Oh shit, we're at interested Charlotte, Charlotte. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: that's at least thirty years from now. I'll try to
Speaker 1: I'll try to get good at this before then.
Speaker 2: Oh dude, you'll be fine. It's gonna be great.
Speaker 1: Hey, thank you.
Speaker 3: Show up when we get work, Yes, sir, I hope.
Speaker 1: You bring a pizza.
Speaker 2: All right, I just.
Speaker 1: Might Okay, take care eden.
Speaker 3: A you too.
Speaker 2: Bye bye.
Speaker 1: And if he doesn't, I'm not letting him in.
Speaker 3: Kidding.
Speaker 1: Hello.
Speaker 3: Hello? Is this?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Who is this?
Speaker 3: This is fat Mike?
Speaker 1: Fat Mike.
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: How are you doing? Fat Mike?
Speaker 3: Doing pretty good?
Speaker 1: Are you? Uh? Fat Mike? It says here that you
Speaker 1: and your brother have been gambling a lot, but you
Speaker 1: keep winning, so you're not sure if it's a problem.
Speaker 3: Yeah, wow, right now we're winning.
Speaker 1: Project have you ever have you you say, you know,
Speaker 1: the way that you said that was very contemplative. It
Speaker 1: seems as though you're aware perhaps you have this like premonition,
Speaker 1: this almost like it's a prophecy or something, you know,
Speaker 1: how dogs can sense natural disasters. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's actually true, but that's like the energy. That's the
Speaker 1: energy that you gave off just now as you were
Speaker 1: talking that you're sensing the disaster of you soon losing.
Speaker 3: Well, actually i'm losing today.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you just said you were saying that you
Speaker 1: were winning right now, but you're losing.
Speaker 3: Well, in total, I'm up. It's like a week five
Speaker 3: week basis.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you're up in total, but you're down.
Speaker 3: Today, that's true. Yep.
Speaker 1: Have you Is this the first time in a while
Speaker 1: that you've been down?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I started by probably two months ago.
Speaker 1: And the first time you've been up in a month
Speaker 1: and the first time you've been down in two months?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not true.
Speaker 1: How's it feel to be down?
Speaker 3: Uh? It's a sad I gotta tell you, Like, I
Speaker 3: wake up and I'm like, ah, got to make that
Speaker 3: money back, right m hm.
Speaker 1: So you're trying to decide whether or not it's a problem.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess you could say that. I just want
Speaker 3: to hear.
Speaker 1: What's the what's the hesitancy? What are you not caring?
Speaker 1: If it's a problem, you cared at least enough to
Speaker 1: call me.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, it shouldn't get a.
Speaker 1: Problem say that. Say that again, It.
Speaker 3: Probably shouldn't be a problem. But like, I'm not betting
Speaker 3: like my rent.
Speaker 1: Yet you keep you keep talking without talking, you keep saying,
Speaker 1: you keep doing all these things that say, you started
Speaker 1: off with this, well we're winning today, then you did,
Speaker 1: then you added the yet at the end, and you
Speaker 1: are doing all these contemplation. You're like saying so much
Speaker 1: without saying anything. What it? Just tell me what it
Speaker 1: is that you're trying to say with it with all
Speaker 1: these things, do you understand what I'm talking about?
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, okay, let me let me let me let
Speaker 3: me hand you off to my brother. He's my betting partner.
Speaker 3: Got it.
Speaker 1: Hey, Gecko, how are you.
Speaker 2: Good?
Speaker 3: Good? How are you doing tonight?
Speaker 1: Have you so? What's your take on on the gambling?
Speaker 3: I mean, we're both like college students, so it's kind
Speaker 3: of just something we do for a little bit of
Speaker 3: extra money. But it's I mean, it's been working out
Speaker 3: well so far. I'm like, I think I'm up like
Speaker 3: two fifty in a month. My brother's down a little
Speaker 3: bit because he has some issues following what I feel
Speaker 3: like I'm probably more sensible of it better than he is.
Speaker 3: So sometimes he doesn't doesn't follow my bets or listen
Speaker 3: to me, So he's down a little bit.
Speaker 1: But what is your definition.
Speaker 3: That knowing, knowing the risks you're taking, and like also
Speaker 3: doing the research, Like I feel like I do probably
Speaker 3: an hour and hour half research every day about like
Speaker 3: that's that I'm going to place m hmm.
Speaker 1: And he doesn't uh huh.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean he does a little bit, but usually
Speaker 3: he'll just listen to me or his own research. But
Speaker 3: I don't think it's process is as well refined as
Speaker 3: mind as m.
Speaker 1: So he was on the phone with me talking about
Speaker 1: whether or not it was a problem. That's a that's
Speaker 1: that's initially why he called in was to discuss whether, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, it was a problem.
Speaker 3: I'm curious what your take on it is is like,
Speaker 3: because we're winning right now, and obviously that's a good thing.
Speaker 3: But if you start losing, does it become a problem
Speaker 3: the frequency of how much you do it?
Speaker 1: If I could give you, I'll I can give you
Speaker 1: a take. I think that whether or not is a problem.
Speaker 1: I think whether or not it's a problem has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with if you're winning. Or losing. It's not
Speaker 1: even part of the equation. You could be only winning
Speaker 1: and it could be a problem, right, I think, like
Speaker 1: the only thing. I'm not a real therapist, but I think,
Speaker 1: first of all, I can't decide if it's a problem.
Speaker 1: You can't decide if it's a problem. You know, only
Speaker 1: he can really decide if it's a problem. But if
Speaker 1: it were me, I would think it was problem once
Speaker 1: it started to negatively affect his life or steer him
Speaker 1: away from directions he's trying to go. Because I mean,
Speaker 1: he was telling me that he wakes up and the
Speaker 1: first thing he's thinking is, Okay, we got to make
Speaker 1: this money. So it's like the first thing he does
Speaker 1: when he wakes up, right.
Speaker 3: So that, yeah, I mean that that might be a
Speaker 3: little bit concerning.
Speaker 1: I have a problem with fucking Instagram. I look at
Speaker 1: Instagram to the first thing I look at when I
Speaker 1: wake up. It's a problem, right, all right, So again
Speaker 1: the whole way I mean, that's the thing, right is
Speaker 1: even if he's winning, if he wakes up and the
Speaker 1: first thing he's thinking about his wins, it takes it
Speaker 1: takes takes control over his day, which would make it problem.
Speaker 1: My opinion, but my opinion is worthless. It's about his opinion.
Speaker 3: Right right now. It's kind of like just a side hustle.
Speaker 3: I guess, like I'm not really we don't really bet
Speaker 3: anything that we can't afford to pay. So I think
Speaker 3: as long as we stay in like sensible ground and
Speaker 3: not go off the rails, I think I feel like.
Speaker 2: That it's not that bad.
Speaker 3: But if if it is something that takes over like
Speaker 3: his brain in his mind, and he's just thinking about
Speaker 3: that all the time, then it could definitely be a problem.
Speaker 1: Is can he hear all this right now? Can he
Speaker 1: hear our conversation?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're on speakers.
Speaker 1: Uh, what do you think about this all? Fat?
Speaker 3: Mike? Yeah, come on, like I like it a lot.
Speaker 3: I have a lot to think about.
Speaker 1: Okay, do you want to share anything right now?
Speaker 3: I think I might take a break for a little bit.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: It seems like I'm on my phone a little bit
Speaker 3: too much because of it, because I kind of cut
Speaker 3: all those social media platforms out. So this is like
Speaker 3: what I do when I'm board.
Speaker 1: Interesting. Okay, So you had an experience where you diagnosed
Speaker 1: that you had a problem with so I hate the
Speaker 1: word diagnosed, but you realized that you had a problem
Speaker 1: with social media, and so you cut all that stuff out.
Speaker 1: So you have before in your life realized you had
Speaker 1: a problem and cut the shit out.
Speaker 3: Well, I just think social media is kind of unhealthy, okay,
Speaker 3: looking at perfect things all day.
Speaker 1: Hmm, Well, fat Mike, is there anything else you want
Speaker 1: to say to the people of the computer before we go?
Speaker 3: I just want to say thank you. I work a
Speaker 3: summer job of like a mosquito business, and I listen
Speaker 3: to you all the time, and you keep me entertained
Speaker 3: all the time.
Speaker 1: Thank you, man. I have always wanted to contribute in
Speaker 1: some way, shape or form to the mosquito business. Not
Speaker 1: on the side of the mosquitoes, on the side that
Speaker 1: you're on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course not. We're exterminating them soon.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys for the work that you're doing for
Speaker 1: the country of America.
Speaker 3: All right, thank you, sir, Great night.
Speaker 1: Those are good guys. They're making me think about my
Speaker 1: own problems. I'm trying to do that more so. It's
Speaker 1: the easiest thing in the entire planet to sit here
Speaker 1: and try to work out with people if they have problems.
Speaker 1: But now I'm working out with myself to have a problem.
Speaker 1: But of course I have a problem. Of course I
Speaker 1: have a problem. I wake up in the morning and
Speaker 1: I'm like, this happened to me this morning. I woke
Speaker 1: up and I was like, you know what, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do my journal before I look at Instagram. I said
Speaker 1: that to myself, and then I didn't. He just looked
Speaker 1: at it and he didn't even do the journal because
Speaker 1: I have a problem. I exist day to day alongside
Speaker 1: many human beings like me with fucking problems. What's that song?
Speaker 1: Fucking problems? Who does that? Who does the song? Fucking problems? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like to fuck. I got a fucking problem that
Speaker 1: guy whoever, I forget who does the song, But he's
Speaker 1: got fucking problems. He likes to fuck, and that's for him,
Speaker 1: a fucking problem. I got Insta I have the Instagram thing.
Speaker 1: That's a fucking problem. And Fat Mike has gambling. And
Speaker 1: he realized for himself it was a fucking problem, and uh,
Speaker 1: good for him. I'm inspired by him. He's like, I
Speaker 1: have a problem. I'm gonna do something to fix it.
Speaker 1: I'll take note of that. Hello, hello, saw A Mean,
Speaker 1: what's happening? What's going on? What's your life like?
Speaker 3: So right now I was talking to guy before, trying
Speaker 3: to figure out where my life is going after this. Man,
Speaker 3: I opened a dealership out here in Houston, car dealership
Speaker 3: and me and my best friend opened it together, and
Speaker 3: basically the bank's game gave us a bunch of money
Speaker 3: to buy cars, and we fucking blew it.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: We we bought way too many cars that we couldn't
Speaker 3: sell the time, and you know, put a strain on me,
Speaker 3: my best friend's relationship. We've been busting our ass for
Speaker 3: two years in a row. And now it's you know,
Speaker 3: everything is pretty much all packed up ready to go.
Speaker 3: Everything's done. Now, it's just like now what you know?
Speaker 1: So you a chance and you started your own car
Speaker 1: dealership and a bank gave you alone to buy your
Speaker 1: initial inventory. Yep, So dude, you know what's crazy is that?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: I mean for any business, like, buying your initial inventory
Speaker 1: and holding on to inventory is risky because you never
Speaker 1: know if you're going to sell it. But buying an
Speaker 1: inventory of cars sounds kind of terrifying because you're buying
Speaker 1: a giant inventory of really highly priced stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, one point two five million, the worth.
Speaker 1: One point two five million dollars worth of cars.
Speaker 3: It's about that's been the worn cars.
Speaker 1: Wow. Wow. So when you decided to close down, how
Speaker 1: many dollars worth of cars did you have in your
Speaker 1: lot unsold?
Speaker 3: About four hundred and ninety.
Speaker 1: About four hundred and ninety thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And so as you go along with these cars,
Speaker 3: as you go along, you're pretty much pay So, say
Speaker 3: you have a just for maths stake, you have one
Speaker 3: hundred thousand dollars flow pay, right, so you buy ten
Speaker 3: cars at ten thousand dollars. Every month you pay one
Speaker 3: thousand dollars on each car. Right, About nine hundred goals
Speaker 3: towards the principle, which is what you owe on the car,
Speaker 3: which is ten thousand dollars and AD, and one hundred
Speaker 3: goes towards the interest, the fees the audiata.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: So some of these cars at four hundred eighty thousand, Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's what it's valued at. But say we owe the
Speaker 3: bank twelve thousand dollars on a twenty five thousand dollars
Speaker 3: car and they want their money. Now, you're gonna have
Speaker 3: to send those to the auction and possibly take a loss.
Speaker 3: You know, the worst loss I took was twenty thousand
Speaker 3: dollars on a Ford Bunco. You know, it wasn't it
Speaker 3: was bad man, you know. And it wasn't just my money.
Speaker 3: It was my money in my best friend's money. You know.
Speaker 3: We granted me and him worked at the same dealerships,
Speaker 3: like we've always worked at the same dealerships. You know,
Speaker 3: when you take a big step like that, you don't
Speaker 3: you don't really think about all the all the other
Speaker 3: ship that comes with it.
Speaker 1: So you said that, you said that you this, You
Speaker 1: said that this ruined your friendship a little bit, or
Speaker 1: or maybe if not ruined, at least put a dent
Speaker 1: into it. How did this affect your personal relationship.
Speaker 3: So pretty much made him dying out anymore? I was
Speaker 3: out of work with the workship. Mm hmmm, just because also,
Speaker 3: like we've we didn't we haven't seen anybody else in
Speaker 3: the past two years other than each other, just building
Speaker 3: at this dealership and pretty much just fucking it up,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm. Was there a particular instance of a thing
Speaker 1: that that hurt your guys's friendship or was it just
Speaker 1: a general degradation over time?
Speaker 3: It was just you know, when you're working eighty hours
Speaker 3: a week, you know what I mean, And certain things
Speaker 3: aren't getting done certain weeks, you're not getting paid because
Speaker 3: you know, you have to pay your employees and shit
Speaker 3: like that. Of course, over time, it's it's just gonna
Speaker 3: wear you down, you know what I mean. It gets tired.
Speaker 3: It's real tired. Wow. And you know you have angry customers,
Speaker 3: angry employees, angry banks. It all comes down on two
Speaker 3: people's heads, you know what I mean. We're not old either, man,
Speaker 3: Like I'm thirty twenty seven, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: That is really good.
Speaker 1: So where are you at now? What kinds of lasting
Speaker 1: effects are you having to deal with as a result
Speaker 1: of the failure of the dealership.
Speaker 3: So this was I've been in the car business for
Speaker 3: nine years, so this was kind of like gonna be
Speaker 3: like my dream, you know what I mean. Holy shit,
Speaker 3: I'm opening up my own dealership with my own name.
Speaker 3: I'm not working for newbody anymore. But doing this actually
Speaker 3: made me realize how much I hate the car business.
Speaker 1: Mmmm.
Speaker 3: So that within itself is a blessing. I guess it
Speaker 3: cost me a lot of fucking money. In a lot
Speaker 3: of times, God could have picked a different, different way
Speaker 3: to show me that I shouldn't be in the car
Speaker 3: business anymore. But like now that I see it for
Speaker 3: what it is, and especially that I see all like
Speaker 3: all facets of it, the fucking tax side, the title side,
Speaker 3: the bank side, the floor plan side, it is it's
Speaker 3: not for me, not for me.
Speaker 1: What was it about the the car life that you
Speaker 1: thought was for you? What was the idyllic version, the.
Speaker 3: Hustle and bustle? Man? I just I loved getting up.
Speaker 3: I love talking to people. I love convincing people. I
Speaker 3: love the finance side of it, just helping people out,
Speaker 3: like believe it or not, Like a couple of times
Speaker 3: in my dealership I had I would sign people up
Speaker 3: for Uber like you know, so that way they could
Speaker 3: help that could help them with the car payment or whatever,
Speaker 3: like stupid shit like that. It just it went a
Speaker 3: long way with me, you know what I mean. And
Speaker 3: I just you know, like when you own a dealership,
Speaker 3: you're going to the DMV, you're going to the tax office,
Speaker 3: you're dealing with an accounting, you're going through the auction.
Speaker 3: The auction's one, don't get me wrong, but it's just
Speaker 3: everything fun about the car dealership business. I couldn't do
Speaker 3: because I had to deal with the bigger.
Speaker 1: Ship and what is your plan now?
Speaker 3: So pretty much me and him are cashing out whatever
Speaker 3: money's left, and to be honest with you, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I just I know I'm going to go into some
Speaker 3: kind of business venture right now. Like I picked up
Speaker 3: bounty hunting on the side for fun. That's been interesting
Speaker 3: to say the least.
Speaker 1: You picked up by hunting on the side. What how
Speaker 1: does one yeah, pick up bounty hunting.
Speaker 3: So, so I sold this guy he owns his own security,
Speaker 3: private security company that also does future of recovery. I
Speaker 3: sold him a Tundra, a twenty twenty Tundra, and I
Speaker 3: was like so yeah, Like I was like, yeah, so
Speaker 3: this is what you do.
Speaker 5: He's like yeah.
Speaker 3: I was like yeah, I'd love to come along for bounty.
Speaker 3: And I was like, yeah, sure, fuck it. Come So
Speaker 3: I go along one day and I was like, holy shit,
Speaker 3: this is fucking awesome. Can I do this all the time.
Speaker 3: He's like, yeah, I'll call you every time we have
Speaker 3: a bounty. So I've been actually like doing little bounties
Speaker 3: here and there. It's pretty it's pretty fucking fun and
Speaker 3: it's not like it's something stupid like, we don't go
Speaker 3: after kids who missed their court date for weed and ship,
Speaker 3: like he goes, he goes after some serious people and
Speaker 3: it's it's it's fun. It's fun to say the least. Oh,
Speaker 3: but it is. It is quite dangerous. It's it's a
Speaker 3: different lifestyle. But yeah, I do it parts, that's all right.
Speaker 1: It's an interesting thing when you have this idellic thing
Speaker 1: that you are going after for so long, and then
Speaker 1: after going out it for so long, you realize that
Speaker 1: it's not for you. It puts you in a scary
Speaker 1: yet also interesting place with a lot of potential energy
Speaker 1: because now that you're no longer chained to the pursuit
Speaker 1: of your dreams, you can kind of do anything.
Speaker 3: And that's what I feel like. I feel like my
Speaker 3: life is kind of like Grandtoft thoughto right now, I
Speaker 3: could do whatever the fuck I want. But like it's
Speaker 3: like what do I want? You know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Like I thought the dealership was what I wanted. I
Speaker 3: attained it. Now it's not what I want, So what
Speaker 3: do I want? I kind of have to sit down
Speaker 3: with myself and think about that, especially, like you know,
Speaker 3: my parents were telling about it. They were like all right, Well,
Speaker 3: you're gonna get all this money, what are you gonna
Speaker 3: do with it? Obviously, I don't know. I'm not just
Speaker 3: like just relax for like a year, kind of like
Speaker 3: how I did with like high school to college. I
Speaker 3: just relaxed for a year before I did anything, just
Speaker 3: thought about my plan.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Said you're gonna do other You said that
Speaker 1: you're gonna do other entrepreneurial ventures.
Speaker 3: Correct, Yeah, that's all what I'm trying to do.
Speaker 1: What adventures? A restaurant, Yeah, either a restaurant, all right.
Speaker 3: Saw, what I was thinking about doing was generally just
Speaker 3: buying out like dying businesses. I sawt like like I
Speaker 3: went around and looked at a couple of businesses, you know,
Speaker 3: like a restaurant and al salon. I thinking about just
Speaker 3: taking those over, sprucing them up, uh, you know, taking
Speaker 3: care of them for like a year or two, building
Speaker 3: up the clientele, building up the customer base, and then
Speaker 3: just selling them off for a product.
Speaker 1: Now isn't But now isn't a lot of the stuff
Speaker 1: that kind of made you realize that you don't want
Speaker 1: to get into cars, like the bureaucracy, the taxes, the banks,
Speaker 1: just just I mean the the way that you described
Speaker 1: it to me was like, you had this idea of
Speaker 1: what not even not even a car well not even
Speaker 1: running a car dealership is like, but just the idea
Speaker 1: of like what running a business is like, and then
Speaker 1: when you actually went and do it, you realized, oh,
Speaker 1: this actually fucking sucks. And the things about it that
Speaker 1: you were describing sucked seemed to be things that weren't
Speaker 1: just you know, car things. They were constants in the
Speaker 1: pursuit of doing your own business. And I feel like,
Speaker 1: would you not run into a lot of those again
Speaker 1: if you were to do something like, you know, running
Speaker 1: a restaurant. Not to be a downer, but.
Speaker 3: No, but you're right, whuh yeah, that shit would just
Speaker 3: suck just as bad it's not. It'd be worse because
Speaker 3: now I have to worry about food, I have to
Speaker 3: worry about fucking health organizations. I got to worry about
Speaker 3: people not getting sick. That would be a lot worse.
Speaker 1: I get the sense from you that you're very you know,
Speaker 1: you're a hustler. You like entrepreneurship and whatnot, and you
Speaker 1: like the freedom of it. But uh, it's it's a
Speaker 1: that's a that's a hard place to be in because
Speaker 1: there's there's a lot of rewarding stuff you can get
Speaker 1: out of that, but then also just a ton of
Speaker 1: stress and headaches and and bullshit that you really got
Speaker 1: to have a strong stomach for.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is this is the ship that kind of
Speaker 3: sucks about life. Sometimes it's just like, Okay, I have
Speaker 3: the means, but I just I don't know what to
Speaker 3: do at this point. I just I kind of just
Speaker 3: want to take like a year to just live, explore
Speaker 3: it's out there, see what's up. Maybe fault, maybe chase
Speaker 3: this bounty hunting thing for a little bit, because that
Speaker 3: seems to be the only thing that's like that I'm
Speaker 3: I look forward to now, you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: Like jobs forward to I haven't. Yeah, it's fun, man,
Speaker 3: it's fun. You know. I feel like I'm doing something
Speaker 3: with my life. You know, I'm making it somehow some way.
Speaker 3: I'm making a difference, you know, And that's all that
Speaker 3: ever matter to me. And I only kind of sold
Speaker 3: out to for all this business ship just because money.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it is what it is.
Speaker 1: No, it sounds like you like to do anything where
Speaker 1: you get a little bit of a gratification from it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Man, of course.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Now you do bring up a very interesting dilemma
Speaker 1: that I think about in my own life too, which
Speaker 1: is like, you know, you have things that you want
Speaker 1: to do that bring you lots of joy and benefit,
Speaker 1: but they also come at the cost of just driving
Speaker 1: you insane with a lot of the peripherals of them,
Speaker 1: and then you wonder and way the peripherals against uh,
Speaker 1: you know, how happy doing the thing makes you. And
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, that's that's a decision
Speaker 1: that you've got to make for yourself. Who have you
Speaker 1: caught anyone with this bounty hunter?
Speaker 3: Yeah. Actually, like my most like my most aff the
Speaker 3: wall kind of case was a he's a criminal defense attorney,
Speaker 3: and with him we had to be you know, like
Speaker 3: he's a criminal defense attorney, so you have to literally
Speaker 3: do everything by the book otherwise it's it's trouble. But
Speaker 3: he couldn't stop being the shit out of his wife.
Speaker 3: So the county pretty much had it. It was just
Speaker 3: like it go get him. So we went and he
Speaker 3: knew the law. He knew the law really well. So
Speaker 3: we went there like eight o'clock right and from eight
Speaker 3: o'clock till about three point thirty, he wouldn't come out
Speaker 3: of his house because he knows that, like, you know,
Speaker 3: we didn't have it's not technically a felony warrant, so
Speaker 3: we couldn't just break his door in. So he literally
Speaker 3: just sat us out until we finally, like finally, finally
Speaker 3: we got permission from the lamp border. She was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's my building. You kicked the door anywhere. Thank you
Speaker 3: kicked the door and grabbed him up. I saw him. Oh, friend, Man,
Speaker 3: that wasn't pretty. Man, that was pretty a piece of shit.
Speaker 1: But well, I mean, man, listen, good luck in your
Speaker 1: future endeavors. I hope you'll find out something to do
Speaker 1: or or at the very least, I hope you're able
Speaker 1: to do a string of things that bring you momentary
Speaker 1: enjoyment in the moment that you're doing them before you die.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I appreciate you, man, talking to you is one
Speaker 3: of them. So I appreciate you giving me the opportunity
Speaker 3: to check that off my bucket list.
Speaker 1: Buck Yeah, thank you. I mean, I'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 3: Thank Eric.
Speaker 1: Brother, he was a nice guy.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, Hi.
Speaker 5: Is this the gag?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Who is this?
Speaker 3: Fuckay?
Speaker 5: This is Hannah?
Speaker 1: Hannah, what's cracking with you, uh much?
Speaker 4: Just laying on my bed.
Speaker 3: Hanging?
Speaker 1: What do you what is your life normally? Like are you?
Speaker 1: Are you always laying on a bed hanging? What are
Speaker 1: you doing when you're not laying on a bed hanging?
Speaker 5: I am a teacher.
Speaker 1: Okay, how's that going?
Speaker 6: Oh, it's going, it's going on light.
Speaker 5: I am very super busy this year, and I'm like
Speaker 5: debating whether I want to renew my contract or not
Speaker 5: and like go off and do something else.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it says here you uh, okay, hold on, I
Speaker 1: have to just ask you about this real quick. It
Speaker 1: says your name is Hannah.
Speaker 5: I'm ready.
Speaker 1: You're twenty seven years old. It says your name is Hannah.
Speaker 1: You're twenty seven years old. You live in Montana. Is
Speaker 1: that true?
Speaker 5: Unfortunately?
Speaker 1: Yes, your name is Hannah and you live in Montana.
Speaker 1: I thought you were working with me.
Speaker 5: Born and raised baby.
Speaker 1: Girl, Hannah, Montana. It says here that you you've been
Speaker 1: a teacher for five years and you're thinking you might
Speaker 1: not want to do it anymore because you're feeling underpaid
Speaker 1: and overworked. So tell me about your your thought process here.
Speaker 1: Why are you feeling as though you might not want
Speaker 1: to do this anymore.
Speaker 5: It's like super stressful, and I feel like sometimes I
Speaker 5: don't have the emotional capacity to like get that stressed
Speaker 5: out as I've gotten this year already.
Speaker 1: When you first started the year, I mean, when you
Speaker 1: first started this five years ago, was your emotional capacity
Speaker 1: greater than it is now.
Speaker 5: I think this is the hardest job that I've had
Speaker 5: in the past, Like, like, this is the hardest job
Speaker 5: I've gotten so far, the hardest job I've got five
Speaker 5: years because I've worked a different Yeah okay, because.
Speaker 1: You've worked at different schools. I think I've been the
Speaker 1: same school for five years. Yeah, yeah, okay, what makes
Speaker 1: this the hardest around you've gotten so far?
Speaker 5: Fuck, dude, I'm busy, like all the time. I literally
Speaker 5: teach nine classes a day. I teach two hundred and
Speaker 5: sixty two students every fucking day.
Speaker 1: You teach nine classes. I didn't when I was in school,
Speaker 1: I didn't even go to nine classes a day.
Speaker 6: Because I teach K through twelve.
Speaker 1: Dude.
Speaker 5: I live in a tiny town and so I teach
Speaker 5: literally kindergarten all the way up through seniors in high school.
Speaker 1: What is it about this particular job besides just the
Speaker 1: workload itself, the sheer quality quantity of the work. How
Speaker 1: are the kids?
Speaker 5: It depends on what age you're talking about, Which one.
Speaker 1: Which? Okay, which age grape is the worst?
Speaker 5: Fucking seventh and eighth graders, Dude, that's.
Speaker 1: What I thought, if I had to put my money on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I thought. It has to be the seventh thing.
Speaker 1: Tell me why, in your opinion, it's been the seventh
Speaker 1: and eighth graders.
Speaker 5: They like don't listen at all. Like they'll seriously be
Speaker 5: like wrestling on the floor and they'll be like, guys, stop, guys, stop, guys,
Speaker 5: oh my god, stop, and they'll just like don't and
Speaker 5: I'm like, okay, well, and then one of them is like,
Speaker 5: oh my god, they heard me, and I'm like, whoa,
Speaker 5: I don't feel bad for you.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been there? Have you ever had to
Speaker 1: Have you ever had to like actually take a part
Speaker 1: a physical confrontation.
Speaker 5: No, because they all like, since it's a small town,
Speaker 5: everybody knows each other, so everybody's friends with each other,
Speaker 5: so it's more just like they're at their house just
Speaker 5: wrestling around, but unfortunately they're doing it in my room.
Speaker 1: Tell me what made you want to start doing this job.
Speaker 1: What we've covered a little bit of the negative. I mean,
Speaker 1: what's the positive? What what got you into this? And
Speaker 1: is that glimmer of hope still hiding anywhere.
Speaker 5: Somewhere like it is? I don't. I'm honestly not really
Speaker 5: sure why I chose the route so that I chose.
Speaker 5: I know, like cause I'm a music teacher and I
Speaker 5: love I love music and singing and like being in
Speaker 5: musicals and shit like that. But like now that I'm teaching,
Speaker 5: it's like it's not as fun anymore. I guess, like
Speaker 5: I'd rather be in a musical or like in a
Speaker 5: big choir than teaching kindergarteners with golf of the red
Speaker 5: nosing here.
Speaker 1: Hmm uh So if you were to quit teaching, what
Speaker 1: is it that you would do?
Speaker 6: I was fucking no, dude, I like straight out of
Speaker 6: high school, I went to college, graduated in four years,
Speaker 6: and then I've been teaching since I've graduated and then
Speaker 6: so I really.
Speaker 5: Not questioned anything until like recently, and now I'm like,
Speaker 5: oh my gosh, or if I don't want to do
Speaker 5: this anymore, what do I do?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 5: No, I'm gonna have to go back to college. But
Speaker 5: I don't have the money for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a tough thing when
Speaker 1: you've like dedicated your life to something and then you
Speaker 1: realize you don't want to do it anymore. It's interesting
Speaker 1: because it's a it's a double edged sword because on
Speaker 1: one hand, you get out of it and you're like,
Speaker 1: oh no, this was I don't I don't even know
Speaker 1: how to walk or breathe or talk anymore because all
Speaker 1: of my walking, breathing and talking was related to this
Speaker 1: thing that I've been invested in for so long. But then, yeah,
Speaker 1: on the flip side, you could do anything. You're a
Speaker 1: human being. I'm alive in the universe. You're alive. How
Speaker 1: old are you now?
Speaker 5: Seven?
Speaker 1: You're twenty seven? Do you have arms and legs all four?
Speaker 1: You're amazing. You could do anything. This is crazy. This
Speaker 1: is a weird This is wild. Why what do you
Speaker 1: what do you want to do? You feel like you
Speaker 1: couldn't do.
Speaker 5: Dude, I've always wanted to get into voice acting.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, Like.
Speaker 5: I think, as funny as it sounds like, my dream
Speaker 5: job would be like a Disney princess where I get
Speaker 5: a voice act dancing all at.
Speaker 3: The same time.
Speaker 1: Do you know it? Can you do any voices for us?
Speaker 6: I can talk in.
Speaker 5: My book lin Exit like this. I do it in
Speaker 5: front of my sixth grades all the time, and they
Speaker 5: absolutely love it.
Speaker 1: I like that. I like that you want to be
Speaker 1: a voice actor. And have you done any like do
Speaker 1: you make videos? Do you make tiktoks or YouTube videos
Speaker 1: where you're doing your voices?
Speaker 5: I totally would and I could. I'm just afraid because
Speaker 5: I don't want my students to find my page.
Speaker 1: Ah okay, well then, but if you don't have your
Speaker 1: teaching job, then I have.
Speaker 6: To like really monitor.
Speaker 5: I guess that's true. I guess that's true. They ain't
Speaker 5: pay me no more.
Speaker 1: It's true. But I'm not going to tell you to
Speaker 1: quit your teaching job because I'm not here to tell
Speaker 1: you what to do.
Speaker 5: But no, oh okay, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: And also, even if I did tell you to quit
Speaker 1: your teaching job, I would hope you seem like you're
Speaker 1: smart enough that me telling you to quit your teaching
Speaker 1: job wouldn't be much of a factor in you actually
Speaker 1: making that decision.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 5: My counselor thinks I'm pretty smart too.
Speaker 1: What's your name again, Hannah? From Montana. How the fuck
Speaker 1: did I forget that?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Well, Hannah Montana, what do you have kids?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, give a husband or a wife or a dog.
Speaker 4: I have a fiance.
Speaker 5: It's been engaged for like five and a half almost
Speaker 5: six years, so husband eventually.
Speaker 1: But yeah, how come how come you guys guys haven't
Speaker 1: gotten married married yet?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 5: There have been like different levels that we wanted to
Speaker 5: get past before we do it, And one of them
Speaker 5: was graduate college, then like get jobs and then be
Speaker 5: financially independent. And I didn't become financially dependent until like
Speaker 5: last year, and they were like, oh shit, Uh, I
Speaker 5: guess we could.
Speaker 1: What does he do?
Speaker 5: But we just haven't done it. Uh he works for
Speaker 5: the Department of Agriculture.
Speaker 1: Does he like doing that? Sorta? Okay? All right? And
Speaker 1: you sort of liked teacher?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know, dude. I have such
Speaker 5: a hard time.
Speaker 6: Like I get to work and.
Speaker 5: I'm like, oh my gosh, I love the kids, They're
Speaker 5: so amazing. And then I get home and I'm like,
Speaker 5: oh my fucking god, what have I gotten myself into?
Speaker 1: Mm? Okay, So, so what you just said just now,
Speaker 1: so you're feeling like in the moment you're there, you're
Speaker 1: with the kids, you are enjoying the thing, but then
Speaker 1: reflecting upon your life as a whole, you're like.
Speaker 5: I gotta get out of here, surely, yeah, not like
Speaker 5: I gotta get the fuck out of here, but like,
Speaker 5: do I want to be here? Edison in general have
Speaker 5: a lot of anxiety.
Speaker 1: It's hard because not every single thing you could choose
Speaker 1: to do has pros and cons to it. I mean,
Speaker 1: even if you're a voice actor, there's a whole lot
Speaker 1: there's the whole thing of getting inconsistent work. There's you know,
Speaker 1: you would have to kiss a lot of frogs if
Speaker 1: you are a Disney princess.
Speaker 5: That's fine.
Speaker 1: I'm that was a really silly joke that I just made.
Speaker 5: I know, I love it very quick.
Speaker 1: I was trying to think of something. That's all I
Speaker 1: could think of. H I don't know, man, I don't
Speaker 1: know has talking about test talking about this helped at all.
Speaker 5: Like a little bit, Like I know, I've thought about
Speaker 5: making tiktoks before of like singing me singing and stuff
Speaker 5: like that. I've just been too lazy to do it.
Speaker 5: And it's just given me another chance to think about like,
Speaker 5: you know, maybe it's not like a bad idea, And
Speaker 5: so what if my students find it, maybe they'll be
Speaker 5: the only views that I get.
Speaker 1: See, there we go. That's how I think. That's a
Speaker 1: good way to think about your students finding your your
Speaker 1: your tiktoks. Is this just more views for you?
Speaker 6: True?
Speaker 5: True? This is a positive. Gotta look at the positive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Hannah Montana, Is there anything else you want to
Speaker 1: say to the people of the computer before we go?
Speaker 5: Only do one illegal thing at a time.
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: I like that idea.
Speaker 5: You got it?
Speaker 1: Thanks for calling man.
Speaker 5: You never can.
Speaker 1: Goes on the line taking your phone calls every night.
Speaker 2: Never be can goes to a tide.
Speaker 3: He's teaching you cloud to the men of your life
Speaker 3: that it's not really an expert