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Speaker 1: that said, let's get into the episode. Hello. Hello, who
Speaker 1: is this? I don't know who is this? It's the
Speaker 1: Gecko guy.
Speaker 2: Hey, get go guy.
Speaker 1: You texted me and you said I'm kind of drunk
Speaker 1: at work.
Speaker 3: A little bit.
Speaker 1: That was it? That was it? Where do you work?
Speaker 1: Where are you are you going?
Speaker 3: I work in in middle school.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, you're at are you? It's like, well,
Speaker 1: all right, I mean I'll say this. It's right now.
Speaker 1: It's it's almost ten pm, so wherever you are in America,
Speaker 1: it can't be any earlier than seven. All right, what
Speaker 1: do you do? Go ahead? You talked?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, I don't know. Yeah, what do
Speaker 3: you What do you say?
Speaker 1: Okay, you're drunk at your job at a middle school.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that doesn't sound good when you say it.
Speaker 1: It doesn't. What do you do at the middle school?
Speaker 3: I cleaned shitters and desks in vacuum.
Speaker 1: Okay, you know what? Can I say something controversial? I
Speaker 1: think obviously you know it's not good if you're a
Speaker 1: teacher or a principle or whatever, of course, but but
Speaker 1: if you're a janitor, you should totally be able to
Speaker 1: get plastered.
Speaker 3: Why not that I'm saying, dude, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, what do you really? What do you
Speaker 1: really know? No one cares if you're No, there's not
Speaker 1: even any kids there right now.
Speaker 3: No, no, I was ten pm. They're all asleep or whatever. Okay,
Speaker 3: play video games or play Fortnite?
Speaker 1: What are you? What are you drinking?
Speaker 3: I'm upset what I'm drinking. I picked up It's called Bahamamaala,
Speaker 3: but it's made by Barsol. I don't really funck with
Speaker 3: barstool like that.
Speaker 1: Why'd you buy it that?
Speaker 3: Because I go into the gas station and I find
Speaker 3: the drink with the highest alcohol percentage and this was it.
Speaker 3: It was it like ten percent or whatever.
Speaker 1: Well, what's your name again?
Speaker 3: I don't know what is my name?
Speaker 1: Your name is Danny, Danny. This is the part of Danny.
Speaker 1: This is the part of the call where I ask
Speaker 1: you are you doing all right?
Speaker 3: Am? I? I don't know, Bro.
Speaker 1: Well, you're drunk at ten pm cleaning shit on the
Speaker 1: middle school floor.
Speaker 3: That doesn't sound so good, bro.
Speaker 1: But that's okay, that's okay. I don't think there's I
Speaker 1: don't think you should be ashamed.
Speaker 3: Maybe a little bit, maybe a little bit.
Speaker 1: I mean, how are are you doing? For real? You
Speaker 1: all right?
Speaker 3: Hanging in there?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: How long have you been at this middle school for?
Speaker 1: Not today, but you know, in general, I think since July.
Speaker 3: I think it started mid July. It's been a little
Speaker 3: bit of ago.
Speaker 1: What made you go into this this career?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean.
Speaker 3: I was in college for like computer science and stuff,
Speaker 3: but then COVID happened, and I developed problems with substances,
Speaker 3: and then I didn't really finish that. So I'm here
Speaker 3: getting drunk of middle at ten pm.
Speaker 1: Are you a bit and now are you a big?
Speaker 1: Are Do you get drunk every day?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: No, no, no way, no way.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So it sounds like you have yourself
Speaker 1: some hard and fast rules. By the way you answer
Speaker 1: that question, we'll say Ben those times, I think, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, happens. Yeah. Are you still dealing with substance
Speaker 1: abuse issues? No?
Speaker 3: I think I think I got them in check. I
Speaker 3: had a good nine month ramos. Nothing going on with
Speaker 3: any of that ship.
Speaker 1: Okay, pretty cool? Yeah, all right, Well let's go back
Speaker 1: to the question of if you're doing okay and uh
Speaker 1: sure on paper, drunk.
Speaker 3: On paper, out of middle.
Speaker 1: School, cleaning up ship traditionally you know whatever. But that's
Speaker 1: I don't care. I don't really care about that. I mean,
Speaker 1: how do you feel? How do you feel? This is
Speaker 1: all all of this is subjective.
Speaker 3: How do I I don't know how I feel, That's
Speaker 3: the thing.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Okay, are you how drunk are you right now?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 1: Give me one to ten?
Speaker 3: Oh, it's like a five. Not too bad.
Speaker 1: That's not too bad. That's you really are kind of
Speaker 1: drunk out of middle school right now.
Speaker 3: Yep, that's exactly That's exactly how it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, doesn't that does that like, uh impede your ability
Speaker 1: to like do you have a quota of like like
Speaker 1: stuff you got before you get out of there?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 2: So it's there's two floors.
Speaker 3: In a basement, but uh, the other cleaner called off today,
Speaker 3: so I got overtime. So I'm here till like two
Speaker 3: in the morning.
Speaker 8: It's just you fuck it.
Speaker 3: It's me and one other guy who's in the basement
Speaker 3: right now, and I'm up on the third floor, the
Speaker 3: second floor. However, you look at it.
Speaker 1: Does he know that? Does he know that you are
Speaker 1: drunk talking to a gecko?
Speaker 3: I don't know, but I think if he did, that
Speaker 3: be kind of funny.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not going to agree with that.
Speaker 3: He's like fifty five years old. He goes to the
Speaker 3: bar every Thursdays. He might be drunk too, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Well, Danny, uh, I don't like that name. I I well,
Speaker 1: I gave you the opportunity. I gave you the opportunity
Speaker 1: to give me a name.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I don't want to do that.
Speaker 1: Well, then you'll get the name that I give.
Speaker 3: To you, and I accept that.
Speaker 6: I take that.
Speaker 1: I'm Danny. Let me think here, all right, we'll ask you.
Speaker 1: I mean, i'll ask you this. At least you texted me.
Speaker 1: I do this thing where people text me and I
Speaker 1: call them back to you know, was there anything in
Speaker 1: particular that you wanted to talk about?
Speaker 3: Not really, No, I honestly didn't really think you told
Speaker 3: me so. I think I texted you like all week.
Speaker 3: You're so good. I said, you have a picture of
Speaker 3: a cat or something. I think I didn't really think
Speaker 3: you'd call me.
Speaker 9: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: What are you gonna do when you get off work?
Speaker 3: What am I gonna do when I get off work?
Speaker 2: I might, uh.
Speaker 3: Probably smoke a little lead and put some counter strike.
Speaker 3: I think that sounds nice.
Speaker 1: You know, you know, Danny, you're not doing too bad.
Speaker 1: You know you're not doing too bad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess so you're.
Speaker 1: All right, you got you're you're all right.
Speaker 3: I'm hanging in there.
Speaker 1: I mean, don't overdo it.
Speaker 3: Of course, No, no way, no way, I've already overdone it.
Speaker 8: I'm done with that.
Speaker 1: What's on the horizon for you, Danny.
Speaker 2: Well, what is on the horizon for me?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I guess we'll see. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: Is did you go to this middle school when you
Speaker 1: were a kid?
Speaker 3: I there was one. There's one closer to where I lived,
Speaker 3: and I went to that one instead of this one.
Speaker 3: So there's two of them when they merged into like
Speaker 3: a junior high.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, yeah, I didn't. You know what I'll do, Danny,
Speaker 1: I'll take I'll take a couple of questions from the
Speaker 1: chat if the chat has anything questions, if they were
Speaker 1: going to ask you, what is it you're drinking again?
Speaker 3: I don't even want to say it because I don't
Speaker 3: want to give them, like any credit.
Speaker 1: Someone asked, what's the craziest thing you found while cleaning up?
Speaker 3: That's the thing is I used to work in an
Speaker 3: amusement park and I'd find some crazy ship there. I'd
Speaker 3: fucking peel raccoons off of the fucking roller coasters and ship.
Speaker 3: But this, this is kind of tame compared to that.
Speaker 3: Anything cool, like fucking I think the coolest thing I
Speaker 3: found was a gangar in a recycle tin.
Speaker 1: You found a gangar? Like it was a car. It
Speaker 1: was a Pokemon car.
Speaker 3: Pokemon. Yeah, that's probably the coolest thing I thought so far.
Speaker 8: I think.
Speaker 1: Multiple people are asking me if you ever flirt with
Speaker 1: the teachers.
Speaker 3: No, the teachers hate me. This is funny. They don't
Speaker 3: like me at all. I go in their rooms and
Speaker 3: I clean up after all their kids, and they leave
Speaker 3: a fucking mass.
Speaker 1: It's like, they leave, why do you Why do you
Speaker 1: think they hate you? They don't.
Speaker 3: I say high to that.
Speaker 1: I'm like, have a good night.
Speaker 3: They don't say anything. They just walked by. And I'm
Speaker 3: not even drunk when I say that to them. I'll
Speaker 3: just say, hey, have a good night, but just leave.
Speaker 1: Is there any school drama that we should know about.
Speaker 3: Uh No. There's one kid that draws really cool shit
Speaker 3: on their desk, though, and it makes me sad when
Speaker 3: I have to lop it off. So they draw like
Speaker 3: cool like eyeballs and like Spike reps and shiit on
Speaker 3: like the corners of the best. That makes me sad.
Speaker 1: Oh, well, let him know. He should just carve it in,
Speaker 1: because then you can't do anything about it.
Speaker 3: I honestly, I thought about like leaving them a note
Speaker 3: and they're desk and be like Hey, dude, put this
Speaker 3: on paper. Bro, you're talented, you got like you're good
Speaker 3: at this. Don't don't make me wipe this off every night.
Speaker 1: That's that'd be cool. That's like a cool that's what
Speaker 1: you'd be, like a fun drunk mentor guy.
Speaker 3: I don't think I'm a very good mentor.
Speaker 1: Well, Danny again, I know you don't have an answer
Speaker 1: to this question, but I hope you're doing all right.
Speaker 2: I hope you are too.
Speaker 1: Gech yeah, man, well this was fun. Is there anything
Speaker 1: else you want to say to the people of the
Speaker 1: computer before we go?
Speaker 3: Uh? Yeah, don't try public restrooms? Like, what the fuck
Speaker 3: is your problem? Why do people do that? It's a
Speaker 3: fucking bathroom while you're throwing shit her out.
Speaker 1: I get the feeling. I get the feeling that when
Speaker 1: you're done with your shift, you're about to go trash
Speaker 1: the fuck out of a Taco Bell bathroom.
Speaker 3: No, I'm actually allergic to Taco Bell.
Speaker 8: I can't eat that.
Speaker 1: Have a good night, Danny, you too, get go.
Speaker 8: This is nice. Thank you?
Speaker 1: Hello, Hi, Hi, what's your name?
Speaker 6: My name is Vanessa?
Speaker 1: Vanessa? What's going on? How's life?
Speaker 6: I'm gonna say right now, it's pretty good.
Speaker 1: You might can you turn that off? I don't know
Speaker 1: what you're what you got going on back there?
Speaker 6: But yeah, let me go find a private area. That
Speaker 6: way I can speak freely and I'll have people I
Speaker 6: bother me.
Speaker 1: Yes, we must have this conversation in front of thousands
Speaker 1: of people privately, as long as.
Speaker 6: I don't know any of buddy, So I'm alright with that.
Speaker 6: But here, I don't want people to know understandable I'm
Speaker 6: another plays music too, because I'm at the store right
Speaker 6: now too.
Speaker 1: You're at the store, Yeah, what's store?
Speaker 6: I'm at home depot? Okay, we like they're blasting everything.
Speaker 1: Okay, why are you going? Where?
Speaker 4: Where?
Speaker 1: Where are we going to have this private conversation at
Speaker 1: home depot?
Speaker 6: Oh, I'm going to go to the garden area. They
Speaker 6: don't have the music as well from what I can,
Speaker 6: Okay sense right now, but yeah, let's talk.
Speaker 1: At the garden era of home era area of home depot.
Speaker 1: I don't know why that. I struggled so hard to say, Aria, just.
Speaker 6: Now, yeah, where do you?
Speaker 1: Where do I?
Speaker 8: Where?
Speaker 6: Where should I start? So I would say, about like
Speaker 6: three years ago, my husband and I separated kind of
Speaker 6: I left them pretty much in another country, and then
Speaker 6: I came back by myself. I took everything out of
Speaker 6: the house that was just mine, but I didn't like
Speaker 6: take anything of value. I just took my stuff. So
Speaker 6: for the longest time I had tried to work things out,
Speaker 6: he wasn't wanting to work things out, and then we
Speaker 6: were still kind of hooking up here and there, and
Speaker 6: then I found out Christmas Day that he got back
Speaker 6: with his first ex wife. That was like devastated. I
Speaker 6: was crying. My parents were like pissed and like, you're
Speaker 6: a dummy. I don't know why you still wanted to
Speaker 6: work things. That was his so he never really told me.
Speaker 6: I found out through his cousin's Instagram because I was
Speaker 6: still following all his fun family, so I saw, like
Speaker 6: I was like, what is she doing there? Like I
Speaker 6: thought they hated each other. So I was super bitter
Speaker 6: about that. So like fast forward to maybe a month ago,
Speaker 6: I was like, I'm gonna test the waters because he
Speaker 6: was hitting me up here like flirty text messages and
Speaker 6: I knew that she even like moved into the house,
Speaker 6: moved in her kids into the house, everything. So I
Speaker 6: like sent a flirty text and he like replied right
Speaker 6: away was super into it. So I was like I
Speaker 6: pretty much said like, hey, do you want to hook up?
Speaker 6: And at first he was like no, like I'm already
Speaker 6: in a relationship and I don't want to hurt you,
Speaker 6: you know, the basic things that they say. And then
Speaker 6: pretty much I had sent him like a super like
Speaker 6: dirty picture and he was like, yeah, I'm for it.
Speaker 6: So we met up at a grocery store. We had
Speaker 6: sex in the car, and then that was it. I
Speaker 6: was like completely content because I was like, I knew
Speaker 6: that I could still sleep with you, and you're with
Speaker 6: your ex wife, supposedly living this happy life, but you're
Speaker 6: still willing to sleep with me. I was like, I
Speaker 6: think I made the right choice by leaving you. And
Speaker 6: it was like kind of a wrenge to her to
Speaker 6: be like, oh now we're even and I don't really
Speaker 6: care anymore.
Speaker 8: Like this was like is that a bad thing that
Speaker 8: I did?
Speaker 6: Should I have not done it? Like so I just
Speaker 6: moved on and forget about it.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna recap this situation,
Speaker 1: so make sure I understand it. So you were married
Speaker 1: to this guy and then you you you divorced him.
Speaker 1: He divorced you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was neutral at the time.
Speaker 1: Okay, you got a divorce. He got back together with
Speaker 1: his uh first ex wife, yes, and then his ex
Speaker 1: wife who was then what what did he did? He
Speaker 1: remarry his first ex wife?
Speaker 6: No, I think that's just dating or their like official,
Speaker 6: I haven't really hooked around.
Speaker 1: And then well, and then so he moves in with
Speaker 1: her and her kids. Yes, and then you find out
Speaker 1: about this, so you send him a picture of your
Speaker 1: boobs pretty much, and then he's like, I like your boobs.
Speaker 1: And then you guys have sex in his car in
Speaker 1: the parking lot of a grocery store. Yeah, And then
Speaker 1: do you do you ever talk to him after that?
Speaker 6: I did. I was like, hey, that was fun, hit
Speaker 6: me up if you want it, like if she doesn't
Speaker 6: meet your need, but obviously I was. I really didn't
Speaker 6: act on it afterwards. I was like, oh, I already
Speaker 6: had my fun, Like I'm fine. But then he had
Speaker 6: text me like a day, a week, two weeks later saying, hey,
Speaker 6: I got in trouble. She found out, and I was
Speaker 6: like panicking. I was like, oh crap, Like I shouldn't
Speaker 6: even care. But I guess later on. I talked to him.
Speaker 6: I was like, well, what should find out? He's like, well,
Speaker 6: she found out we were kind of talking here and there.
Speaker 6: She doesn't know we hooked up. But I have to
Speaker 6: lay low but for the meantime. But I'm willing to
Speaker 6: continue this.
Speaker 1: And you're well, you said you're freaking out. What are
Speaker 1: you afraid is going to happen?
Speaker 8: I think I was just like.
Speaker 6: Oh, would she like come after me, try to fight me,
Speaker 6: like kind of things like that. Not that I would
Speaker 6: be afraid, but like, we do have a daughter in comment,
Speaker 6: so I didn't want her to take it out on
Speaker 6: my daughter, to be like, Oh, your mom's a whore.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna be super mean to you because you're because
Speaker 6: of Wait, so you.
Speaker 1: Are right, so let me understand. So you oh so
Speaker 1: you have a kid? You have a kid with this guy? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and where's who's what's the deal with the kid? Who's
Speaker 1: the kid with.
Speaker 8: We?
Speaker 6: Trim or we have her half and half. So half
Speaker 6: of the week she's with me, half of the week
Speaker 6: he's with her or with him. So we have fifty fifty.
Speaker 1: How old is this kid?
Speaker 8: She is five?
Speaker 1: Wow? Geez? And he had this and he has kids
Speaker 1: also with the woman.
Speaker 6: Yeah, another kid in common. He is, I believe like
Speaker 6: maybe twelve.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 6: Yeah, kids are going.
Speaker 1: These kids are going to have a whole podcast about
Speaker 1: all the shit you guys are doing when they get.
Speaker 6: Older, right, Like hey, that kind of sounds like what's
Speaker 6: your face's voice?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 1: So uh and are you what about are you You
Speaker 1: don't have a boyfriend or anything like that or or.
Speaker 6: No, But I did recently talk to someone like and
Speaker 6: I'm kind of it's moving towards that. So eventually I
Speaker 6: did text them like a couple like a week ago,
Speaker 6: being like, hey, I don't want to continue this anymore.
Speaker 6: Not that it was, but I kind of just ended everything.
Speaker 6: And you can tell like his ego was a little
Speaker 6: bruised because he just replied, Okay, I think that's the best.
Speaker 6: Whereas before he would like write paragraphs. We would be
Speaker 6: texting back and forth. But after I told him I
Speaker 6: didn't want to continue, and after that first time that,
Speaker 6: you can tell his ego was bruised.
Speaker 1: Now. But this guy, this guy is like he's kind
Speaker 1: of in your life forever no matter what, because you
Speaker 1: have a kid together.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And that was my other thing. I'm like, do
Speaker 6: I really want to do this to where I have to.
Speaker 6: I'm sure eventually I would have to meet her. Do
Speaker 6: I want to have that awkwardness all the time, or
Speaker 6: do I want.
Speaker 8: To be cordial with it?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, Oh, I mean her finding out that you
Speaker 1: guys had sex is definitely going to make the pickups
Speaker 1: and draw off, the pickups and drop offs less enjoyable
Speaker 1: for everyone involved.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but that's the other thing, Like he hasn't picked
Speaker 6: up our daughter like for the last year. He'll he'll
Speaker 6: send like his sister or somebody else. So I don't
Speaker 6: ever see him during drop off so or her as
Speaker 6: a matter of fact, because I had I'm like, I
Speaker 6: never want to see her ever again around my daughter.
Speaker 6: This far, he's respected it to a point. I don't know.
Speaker 6: I'm not constantly watching or monitoring, but I know eventually
Speaker 6: she senses something because he always has to delete his
Speaker 6: phone like our conversations and be like, hey, can you
Speaker 6: just text me okay do this, And I'm all right,
Speaker 6: Like I'm like, you're a kind of shitty guy. I
Speaker 6: don't know why I was so in.
Speaker 8: Love with you.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, fun, what is this? So you're asking,
Speaker 1: like I'm not I don't like I don't do uh,
Speaker 1: I don't do? Am I the asshole? I mean I
Speaker 1: guess what sometimes I do? But are you saying, like
Speaker 1: what should you do?
Speaker 6: I guess my what I've had like conversations doing with
Speaker 6: like my therapist and my girlfriends are like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what'd your therapist have to say about this?
Speaker 6: She was disappointed in me because she was like, you
Speaker 6: were doing so good. She's like, I understand, like he's
Speaker 6: gonna always be in your life, so it's kind of
Speaker 6: hard to just cut and dry, but you should have
Speaker 6: respected his and her relationship even though you don't like her,
Speaker 6: and you know, she kind of came in between you guys.
Speaker 6: But she's like, you're you. You should know better and
Speaker 6: you shouldn't have done that. But I understand.
Speaker 1: That sounds like something a healthy professional would say.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So she's like, are you going to continue it?
Speaker 6: I was like, no, I think I've had my one
Speaker 6: and done and I feel better about it. And I
Speaker 6: do secretly still want her to find out that we
Speaker 6: did that, but I'm not going to like force it
Speaker 6: or like send her textool, Well.
Speaker 1: Hold on, why do you secretly why do you secretly
Speaker 1: want her to find out I think because.
Speaker 6: Right when we divorced, like she right away like was
Speaker 6: hitting him up, trying to kind of wedge that wedge
Speaker 6: between us even bigger, kind of like oh, she's such
Speaker 6: a bitch this and not like, oh, you just are better,
Speaker 6: like I'll treat you better than the first time.
Speaker 8: So I was like, like, what's so I.
Speaker 1: Gotta, I gotta what's so cool about this guy that
Speaker 1: everyone wants to in his car?
Speaker 6: I don't know. I mean, obviously say this it was good,
Speaker 6: but I don't think it at this point. I don't
Speaker 6: think it's worth my mental health because then afterwards I'd
Speaker 6: be crying. I'm like, I don't know why I like
Speaker 6: this douche guy so much. But it was always he's
Speaker 6: he was an apple at the end, Like now I
Speaker 6: realize that, but he he was pretty successful, and I
Speaker 6: think that's what she liked in him, because he had
Speaker 6: like his own car or like multiple cars, had a
Speaker 6: big nice house, like we had a nice house together,
Speaker 6: and she was living in like an apartment with three
Speaker 6: other people and four kids and a grown dog. So yeah,
Speaker 6: I think she saw the spot.
Speaker 1: All right, you talk to your therapist, your girlfriends with
Speaker 1: your girlfriends, say.
Speaker 6: She was super mad. She's like, are you serious. You're
Speaker 6: such a dumb bitch. I don't know why you did that.
Speaker 6: So she wasn't happy that I did it, but she's
Speaker 6: like that I get it, but don't you're giving him
Speaker 6: a bigger head, Like you're giving him a bigger ego
Speaker 6: to know that he still has you wrapped around his finger.
Speaker 1: How many kids are involved in this?
Speaker 6: So between him and I, we have one daughter. Between
Speaker 6: him and the ex wife there is one in common.
Speaker 6: And then she remarried and had four other kids with
Speaker 6: the other ex husband, So there's a total of like
Speaker 6: six kids living under his roof.
Speaker 1: Now that's a fucking whole mess, dude. Geez.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So I'm like, is this like a silver like clinging
Speaker 6: where I'm like, ah, I think I left during a
Speaker 6: good time. I'm not too old to find someone better
Speaker 6: for good, you know. But I was like, I don't know,
Speaker 6: I feel like maybe I shouldn't have done that because
Speaker 6: Karma's gonna buy me back in.
Speaker 2: The ass.
Speaker 1: And this other will like who's and the kid there
Speaker 1: are these are like kind of these are young like
Speaker 1: little kids?
Speaker 6: Yeah, oh yeah, they're under like fifteen.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean I wouldn't do it again. I don't think.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I hope that I can fight the urge to want
Speaker 6: to do it again, But so far I've been good.
Speaker 6: I think the other guy is kind of keeping me
Speaker 6: busy and wanting to stay away from that guy.
Speaker 1: I mean, what do you what's your name, Vanessa? What
Speaker 1: do you want? What do you? What do you want Vanessa?
Speaker 6: I think I would be they're all right, just to
Speaker 6: kind of put all this behind me and be like, yeah,
Speaker 6: I did that once I was stupid. I kind of
Speaker 6: blew his head up to where I was kind of
Speaker 6: teasing him and he knew that he still had me.
Speaker 6: But I mean, eventually I would like to be like,
Speaker 6: I don't know what I saw him, but be friendly,
Speaker 6: like a good cope partnership, rather than like I still
Speaker 6: hate his guts and the other girl, Like I want
Speaker 6: to be over the betrayal I felt when he got
Speaker 6: back with her.
Speaker 4: M H.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think if that's the goal, then yeah,
Speaker 1: If if that's the goal, I would I would stay
Speaker 1: away from the grocery store, parking lot.
Speaker 6: And pet marks too.
Speaker 1: Are you I don't know if we cut this part
Speaker 1: out of the call or not, but are you still
Speaker 1: at home depot.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I'm just in the parking lot now, So
Speaker 6: I have like people walking by and they're like kind
Speaker 6: of staring, And then I'm watching people cut trees because
Speaker 6: they have the tree lot right now, what's the tree law?
Speaker 6: So here where i'm they don't have like we're like
Speaker 6: Oregon or like Washington where you can go out and
Speaker 6: cut your own tree, So they're already like pre cut
Speaker 6: to a point. We just trim They trim it down
Speaker 6: for you guys or like whoever buys them to make
Speaker 6: sure that it fits in your car and everything. So
Speaker 6: I'm just watching mad action.
Speaker 1: Well I'm glad that we could end this very spicy
Speaker 1: story with the most boring thing ever.
Speaker 8: Right Yeah.
Speaker 6: I kind of thought that was like, uh, is this
Speaker 6: really just really happening? Like I'm freaking that right now.
Speaker 1: Well, Vanessa, is there anything else that you want to
Speaker 1: say to the people of look or just about any
Speaker 1: of this stuff at all? Well, let's do this. Let
Speaker 1: me uh, let me see if the chat has any
Speaker 1: questions before we get out of here. Chat, any questions
Speaker 1: from the chat about uh, the ongoing affair or Oregon
Speaker 1: tree laws. We'll take questions about either one. Let's see here,
Speaker 1: how old is this person? They wanted how old you are, Vanessa?
Speaker 6: I am thirty one, so I'm a little old to
Speaker 6: be doing this.
Speaker 1: Someone wants to know how was Vanessa's relationship with her father.
Speaker 6: I think, if anything, I've I think I have more
Speaker 6: mommy issues because I still actively wanted, like apparently I
Speaker 6: have like this codependency where I want to fix everything.
Speaker 6: But my dad was always around, like he's not a
Speaker 6: bad guy. Like so I don't know where, but it's
Speaker 6: like in the Hispanic culture, you have like that machismo
Speaker 6: and the like oh I'm bigger, better, So I think
Speaker 6: that's kind of where they're similar. But I have a
Speaker 6: good relationship with my dad.
Speaker 1: Someone said, was the car sex even good?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 8: Yeah it was.
Speaker 6: It was. We even had some guy that was cleaning there,
Speaker 6: like the parking lot, but he was trying to like
Speaker 6: he saw obviously like the car moving, so we kind
Speaker 6: of try to look and then I remember he's like
Speaker 6: I can't, and I'm like why. He's like, there's a
Speaker 6: guy looking into the car right now.
Speaker 8: So I like peeked and I.
Speaker 6: Was like, it's fine. You have blackout windows, like nobody's gonna.
Speaker 1: Look like keep going, and then we have someone someone said,
Speaker 1: uh as an oregon asn't as an oregony in an
Speaker 1: oregony in. I love being able to cut my own
Speaker 1: Christmas trees.
Speaker 6: I think that this whole tree lot defeats the whole purpose,
Speaker 6: like it robs you of that experience.
Speaker 1: Is there anything else you want to say to the
Speaker 1: people of the computer before we go, Vanessa?
Speaker 6: Uh? No, I just I appreciate you giving me the
Speaker 6: time to vent about everything and not making me feel
Speaker 6: such a shitty person. And everyone in the chat, I
Speaker 6: hope everyone kind of doesn't do what I do and
Speaker 6: keep moving forward instead of looking bad or back or
Speaker 6: trying to get revenge on something that really isn't worth it.
Speaker 6: I see.
Speaker 1: Now, Well, go ahead and get yourself out of out
Speaker 1: of the you've spent You've spent far too much time
Speaker 1: in parking lots. Vanessa. You should go home.
Speaker 8: Yeah, go home right now?
Speaker 1: All right, take care of Vanessa, you buys. I wonder
Speaker 1: if the X shops at Low's.
Speaker 2: Lyle.
Speaker 9: Hello, is this really happening?
Speaker 7: Thank you for calling me back?
Speaker 1: Yeah? What's your what's your name?
Speaker 8: Melissa?
Speaker 1: What does z Melissa? Do you do? You is it
Speaker 1: with a Z. Is that do you pronounce the z?
Speaker 4: Do you go?
Speaker 1: Melissa?
Speaker 8: So, I'm Mexican. And when you say with the accent,
Speaker 8: does the sounds you can hear the.
Speaker 1: Am I allowed to do that? Or will the people
Speaker 1: get mad at me?
Speaker 8: It's cultural appropriation if you do it.
Speaker 1: No, of course, Malise, that was Italian.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's more Italian.
Speaker 1: Mali is h bell la malis belle la mals cat
Speaker 1: got so malis ay ay aye? Melissa? What's up?
Speaker 8: That's Italian? All right, I'm gonna stop you there.
Speaker 1: That's going on?
Speaker 9: All right?
Speaker 8: Not much. I didn't think you're gonna call me back.
Speaker 8: Oh my god, I'm.
Speaker 1: Shaking, Melissa, what's what's up? What do you want to
Speaker 1: talk about today?
Speaker 8: Well, you know, I sent you a couple of text messages,
Speaker 8: so I don't know which one made you want to
Speaker 8: call me and you want to talk about our day?
Speaker 8: We can?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 1: You said, yeah, you sent me a text and you
Speaker 1: said I want to talk about your laugh?
Speaker 8: Yes, Oh my god, wow, you have the cutest freaking
Speaker 8: laugh ever. I don't know if it's a giggle. I
Speaker 8: don't know if it's a legit laugh. I don't know
Speaker 8: if you're just it's a nervous little it's the best.
Speaker 8: So I think I got to figure out how to
Speaker 8: make you laugh.
Speaker 1: Thanks. Well, that's cooet. I thought you thought this was
Speaker 1: that's very sweet. I thought it was going to be
Speaker 1: a bad thing. I thought you were going to say
Speaker 1: that it sounded bad.
Speaker 8: I'll be I'll be anyone up who talks crap about
Speaker 8: the GEK.
Speaker 1: You don't have to do that.
Speaker 8: I take my cat on them.
Speaker 1: Let's see. You also said, uh, I want to talk
Speaker 1: about my age gap relationship.
Speaker 8: Oh, oh my god, my boyfriend's here too. He just
Speaker 8: made a bar face. Okay, everyone in the town.
Speaker 1: Now hold on, now, hold on, now, hold on, hold on,
Speaker 1: hold on, Melissa. I'm very curious about this because it
Speaker 1: says here that you are twenty seven years old. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'm very curious. You're either dating an eighteen year
Speaker 1: old or a fifty three year old.
Speaker 8: Oh that's that's close. Okay, those are your guesses. He
Speaker 8: is sixty four, a thirty seven year age gap.
Speaker 1: End before.
Speaker 8: Yes, I'm going to say this. Also, it's not a
Speaker 8: sugar baby relationship. That's what people always assume right away.
Speaker 8: But we've been together for four and a half years.
Speaker 8: I just I did the math the other day. Four
Speaker 8: and a half years together. We live together, we vacation together.
Speaker 8: He's met my family. I've met some of his family. Yeah,
Speaker 8: most of your family. Some baby say, Blake, Hey, what's
Speaker 8: that man?
Speaker 1: We're just showing that's cool. I mean, how's it. How's
Speaker 1: it going? It sounds like it's going.
Speaker 2: All right, amazing?
Speaker 10: Actually, you know, we're both really lucky and blessed.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and like some people look at us and me,
Speaker 8: like I've had people tell they'll say, like, oh, is
Speaker 8: that your dad or cool you're hanging out with your dad.
Speaker 8: It's always dad, And it's always awkward because it's like, no,
Speaker 8: what we do is not no, that's not no, it's
Speaker 8: but that's normally what people think. And I think one
Speaker 8: time he came to a sports practice of mine just
Speaker 8: to cheer me on, and nobody knew about him, and
Speaker 8: we kissed, and my coworker at first thought he was
Speaker 8: my dad. And she saw us kiss and she said,
Speaker 8: holy crap, yeah, that's not her dad. And she thought
Speaker 8: it was cute that my dad came, but it's my boyfriend.
Speaker 8: And that was funny when she told.
Speaker 1: Me about that what's sports practice or you know, I
Speaker 1: will I will say this. It's it doesn't sound good
Speaker 1: on paper when you say my sixty four year old
Speaker 1: boyfriend came to my sports practice.
Speaker 8: Yeah agreed. Yeah, okay. So it's like at my job,
Speaker 8: we have uh they do these like outside of work
Speaker 8: things to get people to become friends. And one of
Speaker 8: the sports that they, I guess sponsor, yeah, team building.
Speaker 8: One of the team building sports a sponsor is called
Speaker 8: dragon boat. So it's like this big long boat with
Speaker 8: dragon a dragon head at the front and a dragontail
Speaker 8: at the end, and there's like twelve or ten people
Speaker 8: on the boat and you row in synchrony and you race.
Speaker 8: And I joined the team. And that's how I'm at
Speaker 8: my coworker because I was in a different department before.
Speaker 8: But there's that, And then we also do whitewater. There's
Speaker 8: a whitewater team that's really fun. There's rowing. I think
Speaker 8: that's I think those are the only three sports that
Speaker 8: we do. But dragon boat's really boring. So I moved
Speaker 8: over to whitewater, and whitewater is like really fun, so
Speaker 8: much adrenaline, and every time I get on there, I'm
Speaker 8: like okay, okay, I might die, but it's in a
Speaker 8: contained environment, so I will likely survive, so it's fine.
Speaker 1: Let's see if the chat has any questions for you.
Speaker 1: Sticky Greg wants to know what do you like about him.
Speaker 8: His music taste immediately because I listened to like eighties music,
Speaker 8: old music, specifically eighties music, but all of his music
Speaker 8: tastes is my favorite music taste. I don't know. I
Speaker 8: wouldn't say all of it because you like jazz and
Speaker 8: I hate jazz. That's a controversial take because or a
Speaker 8: hot take because because of the jazz.
Speaker 1: Rotten Rosen wants to know how is the sex?
Speaker 8: Oh, Greg, I was hoping you would call me back
Speaker 8: before we started doing it because I was planning on it.
Speaker 8: I was like, if he calls me back and we're
Speaker 8: doing it, I don't know. I mean, it could be worse.
Speaker 8: It could be like that person who came when their
Speaker 8: grandpa died.
Speaker 1: You know what I'd be like. I'd be like, like
Speaker 1: like the pet gecko in the room while you guys
Speaker 1: are doing it. You know what I mean?
Speaker 8: Our cat likes to be in the room. Sometimes she
Speaker 8: jumps Ben and we have to kick her out.
Speaker 1: A cruel world wants to know. How did you guys meet.
Speaker 8: Oh that's actually a really cool story. I love telling
Speaker 8: the story, but I'll tell just the short version. I
Speaker 8: used to wear at the bank. He is a bank teller,
Speaker 8: and he would come in as one of the regular
Speaker 8: clients that came in like twice a week. That's why
Speaker 8: I met him. But we started talking because he was
Speaker 8: wearing an Iggy Pop shirt and I said, what do
Speaker 8: you know about Iggy Pop? You know, like one of
Speaker 8: those like metal alitis who says name three songs and
Speaker 8: Iggy Pop is his favorite artist.
Speaker 1: Isn't that? Isn't that crazy? I don't know if he's here,
Speaker 1: but isn't isn't that crazy? That? Like your life is
Speaker 1: different because you wore a certain shirt one day. I
Speaker 1: really don't really think about that kind I mean that
Speaker 1: kind of shit's crazy, like people who you know meet
Speaker 1: because of things like that, or like I I've talked
Speaker 1: to I said this on the podcast before, but there's
Speaker 1: a h I knew a couple once who met on
Speaker 1: the fucking the train. You know, It's like you just
Speaker 1: made a split second decision to throw on that shirt
Speaker 1: or or or be at that train at that specific time,
Speaker 1: and you stop to tie your shoes. So you get
Speaker 1: on one car and steady the other car and changes
Speaker 1: the you know, entire course of your life. It's really
Speaker 1: crazy to think about, but it's.
Speaker 8: Kind of like sometimes some things are meant to be.
Speaker 8: Is like I always think about it like this, Like
Speaker 8: the people who were supposed to be in the Twin
Speaker 8: Towers of nine to eleven happened, but their alarm didn't
Speaker 8: go off or they missed the bus, And it's like,
Speaker 8: you know, I think when things go wrong, sometimes they
Speaker 8: go wrong for good reasons. Or do you want our
Speaker 8: T shirt? That's like such a simple thing. And like
Speaker 8: now here we are almost five years later, and I
Speaker 8: could not imagine my life here five years ago.
Speaker 1: Does he have any utters from any previous marriages or
Speaker 1: relationships or anything like that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, he has one, and she doesn't particularly like me.
Speaker 1: How old is she?
Speaker 8: How old is she? She's thirty two, so she's older
Speaker 8: than I am. But she's never met me. He's offered
Speaker 8: to have her meet me multiple times. She's just uncomfortable
Speaker 8: with it. But like his other son, he has three kids,
Speaker 8: So I think the son that I've met is a
Speaker 8: middle child, right, Okay, he's a middle child, and he
Speaker 8: lives here where we live, and he helps me out
Speaker 8: a lot, like, or we talk a lot, like he
Speaker 8: hooked me up with mushrooms.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so you so? You so he has he
Speaker 1: has three kids, yes, and two of them are cool
Speaker 1: with you and the other one's not.
Speaker 8: Well the okay, so the daughter doesn't like me. The
Speaker 8: middle son, he's he likes me, yeah, and then the
Speaker 8: older son doesn't live here and I've never met him,
Speaker 8: but he knows of me. He's indifferent.
Speaker 1: Okay what I mean? But so you have what the
Speaker 1: one son likes you? What's your relationship like with him?
Speaker 8: I mean, he gives me drugs, so we're pretty cool.
Speaker 8: He's a car guy. He's like an anime weed, so
Speaker 8: he's really cool. No, Like, it's just it's just mushrooms.
Speaker 8: And you know, mushrooms aren't addictive, and they're just fun
Speaker 8: to do and like the controlled environment. And I only
Speaker 8: ever do them when I'm at home and my boyfriend
Speaker 8: is here to watch me, so that I don't i
Speaker 8: don't know, accidentally throw myself off the roof.
Speaker 1: I asked this genuinely, Why why do you think that
Speaker 1: your the daughter doesn't like you personally?
Speaker 8: My boyfriend's shrugging his arms. Personally, I think it's because
Speaker 8: she probably thinks that I'm just after his money, which
Speaker 8: is seeing that.
Speaker 1: It was hold on. But I do, I do have
Speaker 1: to ask. I do have to ask, And again there's
Speaker 1: no judgment, but I am curious. Does he have a
Speaker 1: lot of money.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna let him answer that.
Speaker 1: He said he's well off. Yes, well it is, it is, okay,
Speaker 1: it is. It is kind of funny. And again there's
Speaker 1: no judgment, but it is kind of funny that you
Speaker 1: met at a bank.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it is. I never thought that I would if
Speaker 9: I worked at the bank for four years, and never
Speaker 9: thought I would actually date an older guy or anyone
Speaker 9: who was who made more money than me, at least
Speaker 9: in that way, because I like, I can be honest,
Speaker 9: I make like forty thousand a year, which is very comfortable.
Speaker 9: That's a good amount to make. I think it's not
Speaker 9: half a million, But.
Speaker 2: No, you want to make a million of years?
Speaker 3: Another kid?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 10: What?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 1: Other?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 1: Kid?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah? What?
Speaker 8: What?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 6: What is?
Speaker 1: What do you? What does he do?
Speaker 8: He he's a glorified landlord. He owns warehouses and he
Speaker 8: runs them out to companies. So he's not like a
Speaker 8: slum lord. He takes care of his his tenants. Like
Speaker 8: when COVID was happening, he was letting people just pay
Speaker 8: what they could, or he was letting them like skip
Speaker 8: a month. You know, he was taking care of Does do.
Speaker 1: You think he would let do you think he would
Speaker 1: rent out his warehouses to do like cool raves?
Speaker 7: No, I don't want the lot of ability. No liability,
Speaker 7: he said, no for the liability otherwise, Yeah, I mean
Speaker 7: we've done punk rock shows before. Yeah, he said he's
Speaker 7: done punk rock shows at some of his warehouses before.
Speaker 7: But I feel like that's worse than a race.
Speaker 2: But I knew all those people.
Speaker 8: Oh but he knew all those people, so it's more
Speaker 8: like a personal party.
Speaker 1: Someone in the chat. Someone in the chat wants to
Speaker 1: know what does your family think about their relationship.
Speaker 8: So I have a younger sister, she's nineteen. She loves Blake.
Speaker 8: I'm sure she thinks it's weird at first. She thought
Speaker 8: it was weird at first. I have an older brother
Speaker 8: who he is not doing very well with his life.
Speaker 8: He's done a lot of drugs, so he's not in
Speaker 8: the right mindset. But like literally the other day he
Speaker 8: said that we were rich, and I mean compared to him,
Speaker 8: who was like basically living on the streets and going
Speaker 8: couch surfing. Yeah, I guess so my mom she likes him. Yeah,
Speaker 8: we have Thanksgiving and Christmas and birthday parties and you know,
Speaker 8: they talk off. My mom only speaks she's so we're Mexican,
Speaker 8: so she speaks Spanish and she only speaks a little English.
Speaker 8: But they can get.
Speaker 1: By, you know. Somebody, somebody in the chat said that
Speaker 1: al Pacino is eighty three and his girlfriend is twenty nine.
Speaker 8: That's a huge gap. Yeah, it is way more than us.
Speaker 8: But you know, like if it makes them happy, you know,
Speaker 8: and everybody is legal and consenting, nobody's getting hurt.
Speaker 1: What does your dad think?
Speaker 8: Oh, my dad is a piece of crap? Who is
Speaker 8: he was? He's not in my life that he was
Speaker 8: deported to Mexico, So he doesn't know as far as
Speaker 8: I know, but I don't care.
Speaker 1: Well, huh, Melissa, right, yes, Lyle correct, Melissa is there? Well,
Speaker 1: you know, look here's I mean, you're you're twenty seven
Speaker 1: years old, you're older than I am. You're you can
Speaker 1: you can do whatever you want with your life.
Speaker 8: Yeah, as long as I'm happy and not hurting anybody
Speaker 8: or murdering people specifically.
Speaker 1: Do you think they would ever change that? Do you
Speaker 1: think they would ever make murder legal? Uh?
Speaker 8: If the Purge came to life, Yeah, for one day maybe,
Speaker 8: But actually no, I don't think so. I mean, it
Speaker 8: is kind of legal if you're a rich person with
Speaker 8: the right contact.
Speaker 1: I'm by the way, I'm you know, I'm I I
Speaker 1: I do I think that people should. I think people
Speaker 1: should do whatever they want to do with their lives,
Speaker 1: as long as they're not hurting anyone, you know, as
Speaker 1: long as they're not killing people. And I think that's
Speaker 1: a that's a pretty low bar, right, I mean, all
Speaker 1: you got to do is not kill anyone or steal stuff.
Speaker 8: I think in this world the bar is pretty low.
Speaker 5: It is, Yeah, especially for older guys.
Speaker 8: That's what.
Speaker 1: How you doing back? I don't even know, you know,
Speaker 1: what's his name?
Speaker 10: I'm Blake.
Speaker 1: How you doing, Blake?
Speaker 10: I'm good, I'm great.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 10: We just had a nice dinner, grilled up some tuna
Speaker 10: steaks and made some rice, and Melissa made a salad,
Speaker 10: and then all of a sudden I heard her freaking
Speaker 10: out in the other room because she missed her phone
Speaker 10: call an hour ago whenever that was because she's been
Speaker 10: waiting for your phone call forever forever. But we're great.
Speaker 2: We're good.
Speaker 1: Do you know, are you I assume that she's the
Speaker 1: one who's showed you this?
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, no, this is not in my wheelhouse. But
Speaker 10: that's kind of the fun of our relationship. We share
Speaker 10: a lot of things that wouldn't necessarily cross over from
Speaker 10: an age perspective, but uh, it works out really well,
Speaker 10: and we're both really accepting of what goes on in
Speaker 10: each other's lives as far as me being an older
Speaker 10: person and her being a younger person. And we we like,
Speaker 10: you know, like Melissa said, we share a lot in
Speaker 10: common with music, and we travel. We've traveled all over
Speaker 10: the world to follow follow bands and go to concerts,
Speaker 10: and we we have a pretty good life.
Speaker 7: We're very, very blushed.
Speaker 1: What do you what's the last concert you guys traveled
Speaker 1: around with to follow?
Speaker 8: Can answer this? We went to see Iron Maiden in London.
Speaker 2: Can tell.
Speaker 1: Very cool?
Speaker 7: Yeah, sixteen.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we went to sixteen concerts this year. That was
Speaker 8: the last big travel show and we actually just got
Speaker 8: tickets to see them, to see Iron Maiden in New.
Speaker 1: Zealand in a year from now, oh ship.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and we're from a little town, little state of Oklahoma.
Speaker 8: You know, you know the biggest Republican state in America. Wait,
Speaker 8: now that's Texas.
Speaker 1: It sounds well, it sounds like you both are killing it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we are. And you know what, Jack, you are too, Dave.
Speaker 8: I've seen people comment about you, know how you look
Speaker 8: sad and sometimes.
Speaker 1: Why does that? What do you hold on done? What
Speaker 1: do you Who's common thing that I look sad?
Speaker 8: The comments, the comment ters for comment ters, commenters.
Speaker 1: Whatever, I'm not sad right now. I actually feel.
Speaker 8: I have noticed you see them a lot happier lately,
Speaker 8: and I love that. I love to see you thriving.
Speaker 8: I haven't see the part of.
Speaker 1: The little I'm well, here's I'll tell you this. I'm
Speaker 1: happy right now because I'm like live on my stream
Speaker 1: and I'm I feel awake and alert and I'm talking
Speaker 1: to people and stuff. But I'm gonnabout I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: really sad in about two or three hours probably.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 5: The good thing of okay, it's not good that you're sad,
Speaker 5: but it's good that you feel emotions, because that means
Speaker 5: you're human and emotions pass, so you will be happy again,
Speaker 5: maybe tomorrow, but you'll be happy. And you just got
Speaker 5: to remember. What is it that the Karl Seton geisas
Speaker 5: we are all star stuff.
Speaker 8: That's how amazing we are. We are all made out
Speaker 8: of stars. I don't know how to prove that, but
Speaker 8: the Carl Sagan guy says it, so it must be true.
Speaker 1: Melisa, is there anything else you want to say to
Speaker 1: the people of the computer before we go.
Speaker 8: Yes, Melissa would like to say comparison is a thief
Speaker 8: of joy. So just because your friends are making a
Speaker 8: million dollars doesn't mean that you should feel bad that
Speaker 8: you're not making a million dollars.
Speaker 1: You got any bits like what isn't isn't that your
Speaker 1: boyfriend's name, Blake?
Speaker 4: Blake?
Speaker 10: Oh, be nice to people. It's not that hard.
Speaker 1: Take care gang, Thank you, guys, to love you guys.
Speaker 1: Have fun at the Iron, have fun at Iron Maiden.
Speaker 8: Hell Yeah, good night, bye chat bye.
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Speaker 1: I think it's a standard laugh. Hey, guys, it's Lyle here.
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Speaker 2: How you doing doing?
Speaker 8: All right?
Speaker 1: Dude? What is it you wanted to talk about today?
Speaker 2: Well? I wanted to tell you about the time that
Speaker 2: me and my family took a bunch of acid and
Speaker 2: all had kind of a weird experience.
Speaker 1: Now, I think this is an interesting thing, doing psychedelic
Speaker 1: drugs with your family, because it feels to me like,
Speaker 1: I mean, look, a lot of people have all sorts
Speaker 1: of different dynamics with their family. But I think doing
Speaker 1: acid with my mom or my dad, I actually think
Speaker 1: could be a really interesting experience, but it would be
Speaker 1: incredibly vulnerable. So I'm curious about how it went for you.
Speaker 2: It was pretty vulnerable. The thing is like, like my
Speaker 2: dad sounds like that's plenty when he was you know,
Speaker 2: my age hadn't as much now that he's older. But
Speaker 2: so I didn't really like, I didn't have any hesitation
Speaker 2: at first, and me and myself, I'd done it plenty
Speaker 2: as well, So it didn't seem like something that would
Speaker 2: be that big of a deal, the thing. And it
Speaker 2: was on Christmas, so that just made it so much worse.
Speaker 1: Whose idea was it to do this?
Speaker 2: It was his idea. So this was his Christmas present?
Speaker 2: A tap of acid, like an eighth the weed and
Speaker 2: some mushrooms. M hmm to me, my two brothers, my stepmom, and.
Speaker 1: Himself all that a tab of acid? Yes, And how
Speaker 1: was it? What did you guys do? Did you all
Speaker 1: just sit around and stare at each other?
Speaker 2: No, I mean everyone kind of like did their own
Speaker 2: thing really.
Speaker 1: Just around the house, just kind of hanging out around
Speaker 1: the house.
Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty much like I was mainly chill with my
Speaker 2: brothers until like until everyone started peeking, and then shit
Speaker 2: just started going south?
Speaker 1: How so.
Speaker 2: It all it started with my dad, Like I could
Speaker 2: tell my dad was not handling himself very well, like
Speaker 2: he was. He was talking about like how he would
Speaker 2: had fucking died in a past life, and like he
Speaker 2: just started getting very agitated, and like I remember he
Speaker 2: was talking to my brother Tony and he was like
Speaker 2: he was like amping my brother Tony up, talking about
Speaker 2: how he's like like I can't remember what he said exactly,
Speaker 2: but I remember and telling him he was like a
Speaker 2: like a cat list like a bomb.
Speaker 1: He was telling your brother Tony that he was a bomb.
Speaker 2: Yes, Like he was like hyping him up, like getting him.
Speaker 1: All rouled up in a good way or a bad.
Speaker 2: Way, Uh, not a good way at all.
Speaker 1: So, well, how did your brother react to that?
Speaker 2: At first? He was like pacing around the house like
Speaker 2: freaking out. I could tell I could see on his
Speaker 2: face that he was not doing that good. He was
Speaker 2: not because once my dad started freaking him out, he couldn't.
Speaker 2: He wasn't handling his shit. And like acid is a
Speaker 2: drug that you have to be like, you have to
Speaker 2: set up good intention. You have to be in an
Speaker 2: an uplifting mood to have a good time. So if
Speaker 2: somebody's freaking out and like yelling at you, you're gonna
Speaker 2: have a bad time.
Speaker 1: Why do you think your dad was yelling at your brother?
Speaker 2: I don't know. He was going through something he kept
Speaker 2: He was like talking to me and my brother about
Speaker 2: how he had died in a past life and like
Speaker 2: we were all like experiencing his life.
Speaker 1: Did he return to normal after the acid trip?
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't know what normal is for him,
Speaker 2: but I would say, yes, who are.
Speaker 1: You laughing with.
Speaker 2: My girls friend?
Speaker 1: Was she there?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 1: Okay? So once it was you said, it went south
Speaker 1: and your dad started yelling at your brother. I feel like,
Speaker 1: I'm HONESTID talking to you to be completely honest when
Speaker 1: when you know you don't have to apologize it wasn't
Speaker 1: It wasn't an insult. Maybe it came off that way.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm a dick and if I and in that case,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, But uh, why was your dad yelling at you? Like?
Speaker 1: What what happened after that was there was resolution to
Speaker 1: this conflict or the whole thing just stayed stiff and weird.
Speaker 2: I get it gets worse. So after my brother Tony
Speaker 2: gets all amped up, like he disappears for a second
Speaker 2: and he walks downstairs and apparently he like he had
Speaker 2: an altercation with my step mom and she gets punched
Speaker 2: in the face.
Speaker 1: Okay, your dad punched your step mom in the face
Speaker 1: while they were on acid together.
Speaker 2: It was my brother that punched my step mom.
Speaker 1: Why did your brother punch your step mom.
Speaker 2: The explanation that he gave was that like he was
Speaker 2: envisioning our stepmom as his actual mother and that he
Speaker 2: was like taking out his emotions on her.
Speaker 1: You know, I've I've only done mushrooms. I've never done
Speaker 1: acid before. I actually I have plans to do acid
Speaker 1: and like a couple of weeks and I'll report back
Speaker 1: on that. But it does acid really Like I don't know,
Speaker 1: when I took mushrooms, it didn't make me think the
Speaker 1: way I thought mushrooms would make you feel, like it
Speaker 1: make you feel like everything's a carnival or something like that.
Speaker 1: And you know, does acid really make you do this
Speaker 1: shit like envision people as goblins that you punch in
Speaker 1: the face, Like, is that really what happens?
Speaker 2: It's like it's a slippery slope. So you have to, like,
Speaker 2: like I said, you have to say good intentions. You
Speaker 2: have to really hope for good things to happen, put
Speaker 2: yourself in a good setting. Like that was all things
Speaker 2: that didn't happen.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, and there was This is like the
Speaker 1: full house acid trip. There's other people and this is
Speaker 1: a step family. How many other people are tripping at
Speaker 1: this point?
Speaker 2: So it's me, my two younger brothers, my dad, and
Speaker 2: my step mother.
Speaker 1: Okay, my brother Tony.
Speaker 2: Is an adopted brother. We adopted him, you know later
Speaker 2: when he was older.
Speaker 1: Did anyone else freak out? No?
Speaker 2: Me and my brother Javonne were kind of like the
Speaker 2: only people that could keep the situation level, Like I mean,
Speaker 2: as as much as we could.
Speaker 1: Did you guys get Christmas presents? You know?
Speaker 2: The day after I couldn't even look at my dad straight,
Speaker 2: like two days hm hm.
Speaker 1: Hm hmm. This is man. I gotta tell you some
Speaker 1: shit like this would never happen to Hanukah. Never. Hey,
Speaker 1: we would never ever ever do acid at Hanukkah, although
Speaker 1: it would be kind of nice to do it and
Speaker 1: look at the lights.
Speaker 2: That I thought, like we were looking at Christmas lights
Speaker 2: in my room, like, yeah, it's really it's very nice
Speaker 2: in theory.
Speaker 1: It's nice in theory until your brother punches your step
Speaker 1: mom in the face and then the you know, she
Speaker 1: falls back and ruins the fruitcake.
Speaker 2: That's the thing. It's it's Christmas night, so we're all
Speaker 2: fucking trying to have a good time. M like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, dude, this is crazy. Uh I uh are you are? Howard?
Speaker 8: Do you?
Speaker 1: Honestly? You sound I don't know if it's because and
Speaker 1: I mean this so genuinely, I'm not like coming at you.
Speaker 1: You sound very spacey about this whole thing. Is it
Speaker 1: because it's your like nervous talking or is it because
Speaker 1: you're like processing it all and trying to figure out
Speaker 1: what the hell happens, Like, what's what's going on with you?
Speaker 2: Definitely more nervous talking.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right. I didn't know if you were having
Speaker 1: like really complex internal feelings about this acid trip you
Speaker 1: did with your family on on Christmas.
Speaker 2: No, it's been like three years. I've been able to process.
Speaker 1: Okay. Oh so it's been three years. Do you still
Speaker 1: talk to your dad?
Speaker 2: Oh for sure, yeah all the time.
Speaker 1: How's he doing.
Speaker 2: He's good, he's he's dead. I mean, he's a dad
Speaker 2: that does acid like he's never been quite a normal dad.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: How about your mom, She's the exact opposite, pretty much.
Speaker 1: Really no acid on the mom, No, step my, she's
Speaker 1: more like that. Okay, what about you? What's your d
Speaker 1: are you? Are you still? Are you doing acid every day?
Speaker 1: Are you on acid right now?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: No, okay, I haven't taken acid since then.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that seems like a good place to stop.
Speaker 2: Not saying that I wouldn't, but like, I know, I
Speaker 2: know my level like mcause, I I don't know. I've
Speaker 2: had my own crazy trips on acid before. Sure, the
Speaker 2: first time I've ever actually did it, I had a
Speaker 2: freaking terrible time. I took two tabs and freaked out myself.
Speaker 1: What is it that made you want to do it?
Speaker 1: If you had such a terrible time, what was it
Speaker 1: that made you want to do it again with your
Speaker 1: whole family on Christmas?
Speaker 2: Love of the game.
Speaker 8: I don't.
Speaker 2: Like getting sucked up.
Speaker 1: I have a lot of respect for you, Caleb. No,
Speaker 1: I'm serious. I really do. I really do, I really do.
Speaker 1: I have a lot of respect for you. Man. You're
Speaker 1: keeping it. You're keeping it very cool today despite all
Speaker 1: just despite the weirdness of your life, you're keeping it
Speaker 1: real cool. I respect that about you. Well, what have
Speaker 1: we learned from this conversation? O Caleb? What do you think?
Speaker 1: What did? What do we all learn?
Speaker 2: Probably don't do acid on Christmas with your family, and
Speaker 2: if you do, don't let your brother punch somebody.
Speaker 1: That's all I needed to hear.
Speaker 2: If you're beyond that, is there.
Speaker 1: Anything else you want to say to the people of
Speaker 1: the computer before we go?
Speaker 2: Caleb, keep on doing your thing, my man?
Speaker 1: Hey, you too, man. Well, whatever your thing is right now,
Speaker 1: your thing just seems to be being cool. So keep
Speaker 1: doing that.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it. Have a good night.
Speaker 1: Take care Caleb. Now, actually, now that I'm thinking about it,
Speaker 1: acid honica sounds sick, Yo. You can eat these coins?
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