Speaker 1: Hello, Hi, Hey, what's some of them?
Speaker 2: Not much? Who is this? My name is Stephanie, Stephanie.
Speaker 2: What's up, Stephanie? How are you doing tonight? What you
Speaker 2: wanna talk about?
Speaker 3: Ship?
Speaker 1: There's there's a couple of things. I don't know what's
Speaker 1: more entertaining to talk about, to be honest, because I
Speaker 1: don't wanna Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2: You know what, I don't you know what I want.
Speaker 2: I want to nip this in the bud really quickly
Speaker 2: and and normal normally I'll say this too normally. I
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm like when I'm talking to callers, I
Speaker 2: am in a mindset of like, let's try our best.
Speaker 2: Let's like steer the conversation in a way that's entertaining
Speaker 2: to the people who are spending their time listening to this.
Speaker 2: But something about in this moment right now, I'm like,
Speaker 2: fuck it, let's you. It's you and me, Stephanie. Let's
Speaker 2: talk about whatever the fuck you'll want to talk about.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't care about If we could talk
Speaker 2: about your fucking grass and we're fine.
Speaker 1: That's really nice of you.
Speaker 2: So what do you want to talk about?
Speaker 1: I mean, so I broke my leg on the nineteenth
Speaker 1: of December, and that's been not fun.
Speaker 4: So there's that.
Speaker 2: Okay, what's the other one. I feel like I just
Speaker 2: totally broke everything I just said to you. Just now,
Speaker 2: what's the other one?
Speaker 1: The other one's kind of like a workplace issue that
Speaker 1: I wanted to get outside perspectives on because I'm having
Speaker 1: I don't even know what you would call it. There's
Speaker 1: it's a really long story, but there's a guy that
Speaker 1: I work with who recently came back to work, I guess,
Speaker 1: And this doesn't affect me right now because I'm not
Speaker 1: going to be able to go back to work, like
Speaker 1: with a broken leg for at least like a couple
Speaker 1: more months. But I did see him at work once,
Speaker 1: and I know that I will again. And I just
Speaker 1: don't really know like how I should approach this situation
Speaker 1: because it's really fucking awkward.
Speaker 2: All Right, So you were you were seeing this guy
Speaker 2: at work, and then he stopped working at your work
Speaker 2: and now he's coming back.
Speaker 1: Well, we both worked, so I worked for an airline.
Speaker 1: I'm a flight attendant, and we both worked for like
Speaker 1: the regional airline, and I transferred to mainline, and I
Speaker 1: thought I was rid of him, like I would never
Speaker 1: have to see him again. And then I guess he
Speaker 1: got an offer to come over and I saw him
Speaker 1: once and I know I'm probably going to run into
Speaker 1: him again, and it was so uncomfortable, and I.
Speaker 2: Were you were you guys like hooking up? Is that
Speaker 2: what you date? Or what was up?
Speaker 1: So we were dating for three months, so it wasn't
Speaker 1: a long time, but oh my god, it's so bad.
Speaker 1: He So we were together for three months and he
Speaker 1: was like calling me his girlfriend, Like he started calling
Speaker 1: me his girlfriend. He said I love you like really fast.
Speaker 1: And I kind of chalked it up to like maybe
Speaker 1: cultural differences, but you know, he said it like very quickly,
Speaker 1: which is kind of like weird, but I don't know,
Speaker 1: and he, uh, hold.
Speaker 2: On cultural, Like where's this guy from?
Speaker 1: Ethnically, he's Armenian, but he grew up in Iraq, so
Speaker 1: he's like like all of his friends are like Persian.
Speaker 2: Oh Okay, I thought you were gonna say he's like
Speaker 2: from Texas.
Speaker 1: No, No, I'm from Cana actually, so we both work
Speaker 1: for a Canadian airline.
Speaker 2: Okay, so he was calling you his girlfriend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was very like and he would always say like, oh,
Speaker 1: I want you to feel comfortable at my apartment. I
Speaker 1: want you to feel like this is your like second home.
Speaker 1: Like every time I would like leave his apartment, I
Speaker 1: would like go and gather my items, and he would
Speaker 1: be like, oh, just just leave your just tell me
Speaker 1: what shampoo you use, or like leave your shampoo here
Speaker 1: and it'll just be here for you. Like he was
Speaker 1: very like he's like, I want you to be comfortable whatever.
Speaker 2: And and and and at this point, are you well, Okay,
Speaker 2: first of all, how long had you guys been like,
Speaker 2: you know, buddy buddy for.
Speaker 1: At that point, it was probably like two months because
Speaker 1: I actually didn't sleep with him until like probably like
Speaker 1: three or four weeks into it, and then we were yeah,
Speaker 1: so like in total, it was like three three and
Speaker 1: a half months. And by the two month point, he
Speaker 1: was like referring to me as his girlfriend.
Speaker 2: That I liked you, and and okay, so this guy, he's, uh,
Speaker 2: he's getting your favorite shampoo. He's calling you his girlfriend. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you use his toothbrush. What how are you feeling about
Speaker 2: Are you like, oh, this is great, this is what
Speaker 2: I want. Or are you like, like, how are you
Speaker 2: feeling about it?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 1: I mean, like two months isn't very long. So I
Speaker 1: was feeling I don't know, I was just like looking
Speaker 1: how things were going, like it was good. He was
Speaker 1: a nice guy, he was handsome, culture, he had a
Speaker 1: good job. Like he's a pilot.
Speaker 2: He's a pilot. Yeah, pilot and a flat attendant. That's
Speaker 2: something about that feels something about that feels naughty.
Speaker 1: It Yeah, I mean when you start training as a
Speaker 1: flight attendant, the first thing they tell you is never
Speaker 1: sleep with pilots.
Speaker 2: Wait did they tell you that? Yeah, that's funny. Why
Speaker 2: do they tell you?
Speaker 1: Because it's always bad news, as as you will discover.
Speaker 1: So this is where the story gets.
Speaker 2: Uh, it is kind of funny because like when people
Speaker 2: talk about like power dynamics, right, I feel like guy
Speaker 2: driving the plane that I'm in, I would take that
Speaker 2: as a legitimate power dynamic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he was a first officer, though he
Speaker 1: wasn't a captain.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm mainly kidding.
Speaker 1: But so basically, forgive me if I backtrack, because the
Speaker 1: timeline of this just like it sometimes I remember certain
Speaker 1: things anyway, Okay, what happened was that I was working
Speaker 1: with this girl and she's asking me what's going on
Speaker 1: in my life, and I tell her, Oh, I have
Speaker 1: a newish boyfriend. She says, show me a picture. So
Speaker 1: I show a picture of this guy, the pilot, and
Speaker 1: he well, sorry. The girl that I'm working with says,
Speaker 1: that's not your boyfriend. That's Amy's boyfriend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but what do.
Speaker 1: You what do you mean? She said, Amy, this other
Speaker 1: flight attendant that we work with, and we know each
Speaker 1: other fairly well, because this is back when we were
Speaker 1: at the regional airline, which is like way smaller than
Speaker 1: the one that I work out at now. And she's like,
Speaker 1: that's Amy's boyfriend. And I was like, you're joking, Like,
Speaker 1: prove it. So she does, and I've found out that
Speaker 1: while so, he told me that he was going up
Speaker 1: north with his guy friends and going for like for
Speaker 1: a little trip to a cottage up north or something.
Speaker 1: And he asked me if I could go over to
Speaker 1: his apartment and like water his plants while he was gone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And while he was gone, he was actually up north
Speaker 1: with Amy fucking her in the tent that was my tent,
Speaker 1: and he brought up.
Speaker 2: With him, Well, he borrowed your tent and then sucked
Speaker 2: this girl. Yes, God, damn dude, that's I see, like,
Speaker 2: what's the I don't know. I don't that sounds stressful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because so I was thinking, Okay, he was dating
Speaker 1: me and then Amy was the side check, but no, he.
Speaker 2: Was dating chick.
Speaker 1: He was dating both of us full on. Neither of
Speaker 1: us were the side check. He had introduced both me
Speaker 1: and Amy on different days of the week to his
Speaker 1: friends and his fucking brother as his girlfriend, and they
Speaker 1: all kept the secret.
Speaker 2: That's why I don't know how the fuck he thought
Speaker 2: that would eventually end.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So he actually, like like
Speaker 1: a day after my coworker spilled the beans to me
Speaker 1: and told me like, hey, that's fucking Amy's boyfriend, he
Speaker 1: sent me a text and said it's not working out.
Speaker 1: He was like, you're an angel, but this just isn't
Speaker 1: isn't working out, So I think we should break up.
Speaker 1: And I just looked at that text and I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: so you like chose her over me, which like I
Speaker 1: don't like at this point, like I'm not heartbroken, like
Speaker 1: I'm just angry. But yeah, he thought it could all
Speaker 1: go away because he would like choose the other flight
Speaker 1: attendant over me, but I he didn't know that I knew.
Speaker 1: So it ended up getting really ugly because I did
Speaker 1: tell him that I knew, and I also told the
Speaker 1: other girl about the whole situation, and it wasn't good
Speaker 1: for him.
Speaker 2: So did the other girl break out with him too?
Speaker 1: Yeah, one hundred percent she But it was so bad
Speaker 1: because so I was kind of like iffy on this guy,
Speaker 1: Like there was things I liked about him, but there
Speaker 1: was also like a lot of stuff I didn't like
Speaker 1: about him, and I probably would have just broken up
Speaker 1: with him like in a few months myself. So I
Speaker 1: wasn't really like heartbroken at all. I was just like
Speaker 1: really angry that I had been made.
Speaker 4: A fool of.
Speaker 1: But this other girl that I work with, she thought
Speaker 1: that she was gonna like have babies with him and
Speaker 1: get married.
Speaker 2: Oh this girl Amy, Yeah, was she was when you
Speaker 2: talked to her, when you when you spilled the beans
Speaker 2: to her? What did she say?
Speaker 1: She was sobbing. It was extremely uncomfortable, and I felt
Speaker 1: guilty for having told her, But like, really, what else
Speaker 1: was I supposed.
Speaker 3: To do right?
Speaker 2: Right? It was part of you like wondering if you
Speaker 2: did the right thing even, Yeah, but.
Speaker 1: Like I should have told he, like what else then
Speaker 1: I supposed to be.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah right, yeah, God, there's just I think there's
Speaker 2: just something. There's gotta be something about, like defying gravity
Speaker 2: by piloting an airplane with you know, one hundred people
Speaker 2: in it to safety. That just makes you feel like
Speaker 2: you can do anything.
Speaker 1: No, he's a fucking idiot. He's a moron. I remember
Speaker 1: one time we were in a fucking Starbucks parking lot
Speaker 1: and he couldn't figure out why his car was making
Speaker 1: a funny noise when he was backing up, and I
Speaker 1: had to look him dead in the eyes and release
Speaker 1: the fucking emergency break.
Speaker 2: Damn. And this guy flies planes.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's why there's two of them.
Speaker 2: Hmmm. See, I feel like I feel like a co pilot.
Speaker 2: Co pilots are They're definitely like the nice guys of
Speaker 2: the pilot, you know what I mean. I feel like,
Speaker 2: if you're looking to really settle down, you go for
Speaker 2: a co pilot, not a pilot.
Speaker 1: No, that's that's him. He's he's the first officer. The
Speaker 1: first officer is in the right seat. They're the co pilot.
Speaker 2: He's not even a real.
Speaker 1: Pot that's oh my god, you don't say that. They're
Speaker 1: not real pilots to their faces.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's you know what, that's probably what it fucking is, right,
Speaker 2: is he's like he's he's so close to being a
Speaker 2: real pilot, and so he's just compensating for every for
Speaker 2: like he's like, I need to have as many girlfriends
Speaker 2: as possible. I need to like, like he's just I mean,
Speaker 2: the crushing insecurity of almost being a pilot that's got
Speaker 2: to get to someone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that, honestly, that might be a part of it,
Speaker 1: because I do know, like for a fact, that he
Speaker 1: must be super insecure to have to like juggle to
Speaker 1: women at the same time, because like, but yeah, I
Speaker 1: never thought about the the co pilot dynamic, Like yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe he does feel inadequate.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm mainly just saying these things as jokes, but
Speaker 2: that they could be.
Speaker 1: True.
Speaker 2: I don't know, So what do you what do you
Speaker 2: have to Oh, okay, so now he's coming back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I I transferred from regional to mainline and
Speaker 1: it's it's a way bigger airline. So I'm thinking, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm never gonna fucking see this guy again because he
Speaker 1: had like lower seniority than I did, and I thought
Speaker 1: he would just fucking stay at Regional and I saw
Speaker 1: him like right before I left for disability. I had
Speaker 1: a flight where he was there, and when we did
Speaker 1: the briefing together, I just totally zoned out and I
Speaker 1: didn't say a fucking word to him. And I, yeah,
Speaker 1: you do a briefing like before each each day, like
Speaker 1: before the first flight of the day.
Speaker 2: You have to be like a crew. Yeah that's wild, goddamn,
Speaker 2: But like.
Speaker 1: I just I like froze and like didn't know what's Like.
Speaker 1: I was like so angry because like it's it's just
Speaker 1: really bad terms. And also it's kind of like freaky
Speaker 1: because when we when I did find out what the
Speaker 1: fuck he was doing, I like reamed him out through
Speaker 1: text message. And I also went to his apartment and
Speaker 1: to get my stuff, Like he told me to like
Speaker 1: go to his apartment and get his stuff. So I
Speaker 1: like finally planned a date with him, like Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: coming on this day to go get my shit, and
Speaker 1: he wasn't there, Like he's like, oh, it'll be better
Speaker 1: if I just leave, and I'm not there when you
Speaker 1: get your stuff, I'm like, okay, you fucking pussy. So
Speaker 1: I like showed up and got my stuff, and while
Speaker 1: I was there, I stole his.
Speaker 2: Bike and stole his bike. Why did you?
Speaker 1: Because he was dragging me on bike rides all the
Speaker 1: time and I actually got really into it, and he
Speaker 1: had like multiple bikes, like bicycles, and I was like,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm going to use this more than
Speaker 1: you do. Oh wait, sorry, I'm missing car of the story.
Speaker 1: So Amy, the other woman, she lent him his car,
Speaker 1: her car, and when he had her car, he damaged it.
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure of the specifics, but I guess
Speaker 1: he like damaged her car and it was like a
Speaker 1: couple hundred bucks of repairs. And before they broke up,
Speaker 1: he was like, oh, I'm going to cover it. I'm
Speaker 1: going to cover it. And then after they broke up,
Speaker 1: he went like radio silence. So I like was contacting
Speaker 1: Amy and like figuring, like I actually took Amy's stuff
Speaker 1: from his apartment as well, because she didn't want to
Speaker 1: go there, and she was telling me about all the
Speaker 1: money that he owed her. So I took the bike
Speaker 1: as collateral and said, I'll give you your bike back.
Speaker 2: It's too complicated at that point. Car, that's too complicated
Speaker 2: at that point. What okay, So what are you doing now, Like,
Speaker 2: are you are you are? Do you are you dating anyone?
Speaker 2: Are you chilling? What's what's going on?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm kind of over it. I'm just yeah, it's
Speaker 1: hard to trust people after finding out that they like, yeah,
Speaker 1: just some of the details of like what this guy
Speaker 1: did to juggle to women at the same time is
Speaker 1: like really fucking scary and like, I just don't trust
Speaker 1: people anymore.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm, yeah, yeah, I can see. Uh, I can
Speaker 2: see why. I can see why. It's crazy people trust
Speaker 2: that man every day. It's not well, I guess he's
Speaker 2: the co pilot. He doesn't really do anything. I was
Speaker 2: gonna say, if people trust him too so really so
Speaker 2: if you if you tell him he's not a real pilot,
Speaker 2: he'll get is so mad.
Speaker 1: Oh he could not take a joke, Like I remember,
Speaker 1: why do you.
Speaker 2: Think is he really? Is he not a real pilot?
Speaker 2: Is he a real pilot? I might be honest, is
Speaker 2: a real pilot.
Speaker 1: He's a real pilot. He's just he's a man child.
Speaker 2: I don't know what were you gonna say. You said
Speaker 2: you were making fun of him?
Speaker 1: Oh, he just he couldn't take a joke. Like I
Speaker 1: remember one time I made a joke about his landings
Speaker 1: being rough, and instead of laughing, he got like really upset.
Speaker 1: And that was like the moment I knew that it
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna work out.
Speaker 2: You made a joke about his landings being rough, did he?
Speaker 2: I think that's I think it's important for the landings,
Speaker 2: like the most the landings when most people like die right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, takeoff and landing is like eighty five percent of
Speaker 1: all accidents.
Speaker 2: So what's your name again, Stephanie, Stephanie, Sophie. I'm sorry that, uh,
Speaker 2: this has broken your trust in people, especially in pilots, you.
Speaker 1: Know, oh, oh my god. Yeah, it's to anyone listening.
Speaker 1: Never fuck a pilot, like I was stupid by doing
Speaker 1: it myself. But like they are notorious womanizers.
Speaker 3: The older they.
Speaker 1: Get they get, the more perverted and like fucking weird
Speaker 1: they get. Just just don't do.
Speaker 2: It, fucking fucking uber driver instead, they'll be much more grateful. Yeah, Stephanie,
Speaker 2: is there anything else you want to say to the
Speaker 2: people of the computer before we go?
Speaker 1: Probably just don't ship where you eat, like, never hook
Speaker 1: up with.
Speaker 2: A coworker mm hmm, especially not in the sky.
Speaker 1: But so my question is, should I be nice to
Speaker 1: him if I see him again? Or should I be
Speaker 1: mean to him? Like? Am I justified to be mean
Speaker 1: to him?
Speaker 2: All right, I'm going to answer that question with this
Speaker 2: question to you, and like you don't have to answer
Speaker 2: this right away, but like to answer that this is
Speaker 2: what this is what I would think about in this situation.
Speaker 2: Should you be nice to him? Should you be mean
Speaker 2: to him? Truly think about that. You don't have to
Speaker 2: answer right now, but like, which of those two things
Speaker 2: will make your life easier?
Speaker 1: Probably just ignoring him.
Speaker 2: M I can't answer that question for you, but that's
Speaker 2: how I would frame what you just asked.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just hard because part of me wants to
Speaker 1: like make his life miserable while we're working together, and
Speaker 1: then the other part of me is like you're like
Speaker 1: like you're an ass whole, or like you're pathetic if
Speaker 1: you like care so much.
Speaker 2: Again, it's a question of what's going to make your
Speaker 2: life and your day easier, right, Because sometimes harboring anger
Speaker 2: and trying to get back at people is a distraction
Speaker 2: from happiness, and then other times it feels good. But
Speaker 2: sometimes that that good feeling is like is a vice
Speaker 2: of some kind. But I you know, I can't answer
Speaker 2: that question for you, but that's how I would think
Speaker 2: about it. Okay, thank you for calling, Stephanie, and I
Speaker 2: hope maybe one day I will ask you in the
Speaker 2: sky for a bag of.
Speaker 1: Peanuts bag of pretzels. That sounds good too, all right,
Speaker 1: Thanks for taking my call, dude.
Speaker 2: Bye, Stephanie. Kay see Hey folks, this is Lyle. I
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Speaker 3: How you doing?
Speaker 2: I'm doing all right, man? What'd you want to talk
Speaker 2: about today?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 3: I've just moved into my apartment about two weeks ago,
Speaker 3: and the previous tenant came over last night and she
Speaker 3: knocked on my door. Let's me backtrack a little bit.
Speaker 3: Ten minutes. Part of her knocking on my door. The
Speaker 3: neighbor next door. I was walking in the hall ready
Speaker 3: to come back to my apartment, and he goes, hey,
Speaker 3: did you get new floors. I'm like, yeah, I think
Speaker 3: I got new floors. They looked fresh, they looked clean meat.
Speaker 3: So after that happened, ten minutes later, the previous tenant
Speaker 3: came by. She knocked on the door. I'm over here
Speaker 3: cooking in the kitchen, getting my gym prep bright, things
Speaker 3: of that nature. I looked through the peepole. It's this
Speaker 3: woman in all business attires. He looks a little older.
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, what's going on? The manager ain't coming
Speaker 3: to my apartment?
Speaker 1: Like, so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, keep going. I'm not I want to interrupt anymore.
Speaker 3: Okay, thank you, thank you. So I let her in
Speaker 3: and she showed me her id. She was explaining how
Speaker 3: she was the previous tennant and that she wanted to
Speaker 3: come in and see something about something she had to
Speaker 3: pay for. I believe it was something with the floors
Speaker 3: in the window and things of that nature. So I
Speaker 3: let her in, showed her around. And this is bold
Speaker 3: of me. I usually don't let strangers in. You know
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. I don't really like dealing with a
Speaker 3: whole lot of people coming into my personal space. Is
Speaker 3: my orders, is where my energy is high. You know
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. By the way, if I sow high,
Speaker 3: I am very high right now. I just took a
Speaker 3: dab with some Cereal milk and I'm said, look pretty good,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. So I'm not.
Speaker 2: Gonna story to ask what a dab of cereal milk means,
Speaker 2: but go.
Speaker 3: Ahead, Oh, a dab of cereal milk.
Speaker 2: Sogd Just continue?
Speaker 3: Okay, my bad. So so I let her in, I
Speaker 3: let her sew you know, I sold her around. And
Speaker 3: after I showed her around for a little bit, she
Speaker 3: was like starting to touch up on me a little bit,
Speaker 3: starting to touch my shoulder. In my head, I'm thinking,
Speaker 3: why is she touching me like this? But at the
Speaker 3: same time, I'm like, I watch a let her keep
Speaker 3: touching me. Fucking so she asked. I was in my head.
Speaker 3: I was like, should I tell her my egg, which
Speaker 3: I'm twenty four, by the way, Should I tell her
Speaker 3: my egg? Or should I? I said?
Speaker 2: Fuck? All right, you haul on it. You're cutting out.
Speaker 2: I don't know what your your your phone is like
Speaker 2: getting horny listening you tell the story, and it's it's
Speaker 2: driving a car, so you're cutting What do you keep
Speaker 2: repeat where you were saying? You were cutting out? And
Speaker 2: I know that you're You're probably horny and running all
Speaker 2: around your house right now, so just stay in one
Speaker 2: place and continue speaking.
Speaker 1: All right, I'll sit down.
Speaker 3: I'll sit down on my bed.
Speaker 2: Okay, great?
Speaker 3: You I love you too. So well, she started rubbing
Speaker 3: up on my shoulder, and in my head I was thinking, damn,
Speaker 3: should I tell her? No? No, no, I was son her
Speaker 3: my age. She hasked about my age, so I told
Speaker 3: her I was twenty four, and she was like, damn,
Speaker 3: I'm double your age. I'm like, what do you mean
Speaker 3: you're double my age? She pulls out her id again.
Speaker 3: Turns out she was double my age. She was born
Speaker 3: I believe nineteen seventy eight, which I thought was crazy.
Speaker 3: I'm like, damn, you want to rub up on me?
Speaker 3: Fucking coolgar over here plotting and shit. So I offered
Speaker 3: her a glass of wine because I'm a wine clumps through.
Speaker 3: I love wine, and she was a patriot seft but
Speaker 3: she said, when you were talking a little bit, so
Speaker 3: I offered her some wine. We drank a little bit
Speaker 3: of wine. We listened to music, chopping it up, and
Speaker 3: then she come on to me and start kissing me,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, this shit is crazy. I had like
Speaker 3: a a that's soul raven moment when time she had
Speaker 3: stopped and I'm over here thinking about the motors, is
Speaker 3: thinking about everything that's going on. And then after you know,
Speaker 3: she started kissing the ball me, she tried to touch
Speaker 3: upon me. She was like, oh, I got to go
Speaker 3: back home to my daughters. So then she was like,
Speaker 3: let me get your Instagram and your phone number. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna catch you later. So I hadn't heard from her since,
Speaker 3: but that shit was weird yesterday.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's uh, that's fucking awesome. Man, that's a that's.
Speaker 3: It was cool.
Speaker 2: That's really hard to come back over. That's really cool.
Speaker 2: Did she message you again? What's what?
Speaker 4: Are you?
Speaker 2: Are you going to message her? What's up?
Speaker 3: So I messaged her the pictures that she needed for
Speaker 3: her little apartment and then she said, oh, thank you. You know,
Speaker 3: I really want to get back together sometime with you.
Speaker 3: And I said, whenever you're free, you're more than welcome
Speaker 3: to come over. And then she just hearted my message
Speaker 3: and loved it on red.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I mean when something like that happens to you,
Speaker 2: I you probably you know, she leaves right, and then
Speaker 2: you just start fantasizing all the fucking crazy porn scenarios
Speaker 2: that you have and you're like, oh my god, and
Speaker 2: then you're like, oh, it's all gonna happen, and then
Speaker 2: she hearts your message and you're like, oh no, it's over. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's over. It's gone. So yeah, whatever was up with
Speaker 2: her that day was is the Is she is fixed?
Speaker 3: I don't know, But between me and you, I think
Speaker 3: she want to fuck sheet this weekend.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Man. The heart react on the message
Speaker 2: followed by nothing is it tells a different story. But
Speaker 2: I'm I look, I'm I'm, I'm I. I hope that
Speaker 2: you live your fairy tale dream.
Speaker 3: I really hope I do too, man, because there's some
Speaker 3: ship out of a movie and I couldn't leave it.
Speaker 3: I still can't believe it.
Speaker 2: How's your sex life going otherwise?
Speaker 3: Besides that, it's honestly been very quiet. I was living
Speaker 3: up my grandmothers for two years, saving up trying to
Speaker 3: get back out of debt to be able to get
Speaker 3: into this new apartment that I'm in, so thank God
Speaker 3: for that. God did so once I moved out of
Speaker 3: the apartment. Now I'm really trying to explore more being
Speaker 3: into sexually active and things of that nature. But I
Speaker 3: don't want to go around fucking everything to have the
Speaker 3: ad and that wear some fucking genes. So we're gonna see.
Speaker 3: I mean, I might rebuttal what I'm saying because I
Speaker 3: really want to fuck that milk. But outside of that,
Speaker 3: I'm talking to this girl right now. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 3: We work together, so we don't have to see how
Speaker 3: that go.
Speaker 2: Um. Yeah, man, you know this, I'm trying to think
Speaker 2: of why this woman started making out with you, and
Speaker 2: if there's any like a weird alternative, well, like maybe
Speaker 2: she's trying to like sue the landlord and like having
Speaker 2: you as a booty call is like away into the apartment.
Speaker 3: You know that might be what it truly is, because
Speaker 3: I truly don't understand either. What does a person double
Speaker 3: my age have any business doing at seven o'clock at nine?
Speaker 3: By the way, she mentioned she had an eighteen year
Speaker 3: old daughter, So what you doing coming over here trying
Speaker 3: to fuck around and then go back home? To your daughter, like,
Speaker 3: get the fuck.
Speaker 1: Out of here.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know. I don't know why
Speaker 2: anyone ever does anything, but I sometimes that is true.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you don't even sometimes you don't want to know
Speaker 2: the answers to those questions.
Speaker 3: Absolutely absolutely, I might have to discover. I might not
Speaker 3: will allow to see.
Speaker 4: We'll have to see.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm. Some people. I think some people are saying
Speaker 2: that your brag you called in just a brag, but
Speaker 2: I don't, which my don't say anything, which might be true,
Speaker 2: but I don't. I don't care. That was Look I
Speaker 2: wish I that's a fun brag, it's a worthy brag.
Speaker 2: Brag away. Are you still there?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I'm still here. To cut out a little bit.
Speaker 2: Okay, I just don't let this woman murder you.
Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely not. We'll have to see and chat. I
Speaker 3: did not come into brag. Honestly. This was just so spontaneous,
Speaker 3: and you got to keep in mind, I haven't been
Speaker 3: sexually active in two years, so for this.
Speaker 2: Whole time to come up that it is crast do
Speaker 2: you why do you think you had? Why do you
Speaker 2: feel like you haven't been sexually active in two years?
Speaker 2: What's been going on?
Speaker 3: Because I've been living at my grating's house. Like, what
Speaker 3: am I supposed to do? Have a woman come over
Speaker 3: and be like, hey, granny going to the other room,
Speaker 3: I'm about to fuck this trick or real quick, Like, no, I.
Speaker 5: Can't do that.
Speaker 2: Rect And you could always you could have sex with
Speaker 2: your grandmother. I don't know why I said that. I
Speaker 2: really I don't want to do it, and I don't
Speaker 2: regret I don't and I don't regret saying it. I
Speaker 2: did and I can't take it back, and we're putting
Speaker 2: it on the internet forever. What's your name again?
Speaker 3: My name is Cereal Milk.
Speaker 2: Cereal Milk. Is there anything else you want to say
Speaker 2: to the people of the computer before we go?
Speaker 3: You know what? Man Alaska is the Sydney out of state.
Speaker 3: And by the way, Loud, I came to the show
Speaker 3: in Vegas last year. It was amazing.
Speaker 2: Oh cool.
Speaker 3: I wish Vegas was on the tour list again. But
Speaker 3: it's all good.
Speaker 2: I might have to buy you know, all right? You
Speaker 2: know what, I'm gonna tell you something. I was like
Speaker 2: you mother, I was I got offered to go back
Speaker 2: to Vegas today and I was debating if I was
Speaker 2: going to do it. But now I'll I guess I'll
Speaker 2: do it.
Speaker 3: Now, Please do it? Please do it?
Speaker 2: All right, I'll go all right, man, appreciate. Is there
Speaker 2: anything else you want to say to the I guess
Speaker 2: I think I asked you that already. But take care
Speaker 2: of cereal milk and God bless.
Speaker 3: You, God bless you. Wow forever.
Speaker 2: Thanks man. Why did I say that? If that that
Speaker 2: guy could have sex with his grandma? Because sometimes it's
Speaker 2: fun to say horrible things. Oh my god, Hey, what's up?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 2: Hey? This gag?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Is this? Who is this?
Speaker 5: This is Paris?
Speaker 2: Well, what's going on Paris?
Speaker 4: Well, I'm not doing too good right now, to be
Speaker 4: honest with you. I got four broken ribs and like
Speaker 4: five or six more that are fractured, and then two
Speaker 4: of my spinal things got knocked out of alignment when
Speaker 4: I got into a car accident two days ago, and
Speaker 4: this woman pulled me from the burning car. So that
Speaker 4: was quite good, kind of a little Guardian angel moment.
Speaker 4: But yeah, so that was basically how I've been feeling
Speaker 4: for the past couple of days. Because that's a little
Speaker 4: bit of a wreck. I mean, I'm sure you can't
Speaker 4: receive texts through the message line because people would probably
Speaker 4: just send you but I tried.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, I'm looking at I'm looking
Speaker 2: at there we go. Yeah, this is a picture of
Speaker 2: you in the hospital bed. Oh shit, this is a
Speaker 2: picture of the car. The car looks pretty fucked.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the car is fucked.
Speaker 2: And then right underneath that is is yep, a big
Speaker 2: picture of your cock.
Speaker 4: Oh that I didn't mean to send you. That's my fault.
Speaker 2: No, these pictures look crazy.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: This car looks like it's uh, that was the car.
Speaker 2: I wish I could. I mean, it's like a reactions enough.
Speaker 2: This is an audio medium. But yeah, this car looks
Speaker 2: like it's completely Oh yeah, it was on fucking fire man,
Speaker 2: So like, how'd you get out?
Speaker 4: Literally exploded?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 4: I was knocked out, unconscious and this woman, ah, well,
Speaker 4: actually first I was in the passenger seat, right, So
Speaker 4: first the guy who's in the driver's seat, who is
Speaker 4: a friend but so an acid dealer and had acid
Speaker 4: on him. So he pulled me out of the car
Speaker 4: and then started running because I guess it wasn't on
Speaker 4: fire at that point. And then the woman across the
Speaker 4: street noticed it was on fire and saw me laying
Speaker 4: in the middle of the road and pulled me away
Speaker 4: from the the fire. And then that's when I woke up.
Speaker 4: And then I saw that it was about to explode,
Speaker 4: and then it did and it was quite alarming.
Speaker 2: Damn, dude, that's some action movie shit that you just
Speaker 2: escaped out of.
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely felt like it. We got t boned into
Speaker 4: two telephone poles, I guess, according to you know what
Speaker 4: they told me at the afterwards at the accident site.
Speaker 4: But then I just kind of went in the ambulance.
Speaker 4: But the biggest problem was since that he wasn't there,
Speaker 4: they thought I was driving, and I said my name
Speaker 4: was my brother's name, and I don't even really remember
Speaker 4: doing that, but I was really out of it. And uh,
Speaker 4: then I was what I was in the hospital and
Speaker 4: then discharged from the hospital under my brother's name, which
Speaker 4: I'm scared is fraud.
Speaker 2: Is that is that pause to ask me if that's fraud?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not the guy for any of your
Speaker 2: legal questions. Unfortunately, probably not. But it's okay though, I
Speaker 2: don't know. Man, Yeah, that's a that's an attorney tom question.
Speaker 2: But well, I hear, let's talk about this though, how
Speaker 2: do you feel? Uh, I mean, just how do you
Speaker 2: feel in general? Are you have you are you making
Speaker 2: any changes to your life now that you almost died?
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely, I kinda. I mean I was obviously a
Speaker 4: little messed up to be in the passenger seat of
Speaker 4: my own car, you know what I mean? So I
Speaker 4: uh well, well, I say, in my own car, but
Speaker 4: it was a family car. We kind of me and
Speaker 4: my brother share a vehicle, shared a vehicle.
Speaker 2: Mh.
Speaker 4: I no longer have that right at this point.
Speaker 2: The vehicle yeah, oh, but he got a.
Speaker 4: Rental and obvious and I'm not going to ask to
Speaker 4: drive it anytime soon.
Speaker 2: Okay. Anyway, so all right, man, So like, how did
Speaker 2: you how do you feel about you had a near
Speaker 2: death experience? You know, how does that? Yeah, how did
Speaker 2: that be anything? What did that become for you?
Speaker 4: Uh? Well, I was pretty at first, I was pretty
Speaker 4: like sad in the way that I was like, oh, man,
Speaker 4: I kind of wish I had died. But then a
Speaker 4: lot of that is because I had a best friend
Speaker 4: who died very recently, so that like added to my
Speaker 4: sadness a bit. But then once I was in the
Speaker 4: hospit and they like told me about all my wounds
Speaker 4: and whatnot and started like helping me heal. I stopped
Speaker 4: feeling that way and then tried to more think about
Speaker 4: what kind of decisions I can make to not put
Speaker 4: myself in that position, such as like you know, making
Speaker 4: sure I I mean, we were driving too late at night.
Speaker 4: It was stupid. The other guy hitt and ran, so
Speaker 4: he was probably drunk or in a stolen car or
Speaker 4: some shit. And yeah, I just feel I mean, one
Speaker 4: of my friends is really trying to push me towards
Speaker 4: like religion at this point and God and spirituality, but
Speaker 4: I've always been a little bit hesitant on that. I
Speaker 4: don't know, how do you feel about it?
Speaker 2: Well? Why did you? And you know, luck can get
Speaker 2: into this if you if you want, or we don't
Speaker 2: have to if you don't want to. But why did
Speaker 2: you feel like you wish you would have dined?
Speaker 4: Well, just because I've been pretty depressed since he died,
Speaker 4: and I was really upset with myself for having you know,
Speaker 4: been out that late at night and letting all this happen,
Speaker 4: and also in a lot of pain, I guess too,
Speaker 4: So it was just kind of a combination of all
Speaker 4: that because I usually I would say, I'm like, not suicidal,
Speaker 4: but maybe wish I had been aborted, But like, uh I,
Speaker 4: I did genuinely feel like it in the moments, not
Speaker 4: in the moments afterwards, but once I kind of was
Speaker 4: coming to grips with like the fact that I almost
Speaker 4: just die because I was like too out of it
Speaker 4: and because to really process it through the very beginning mhm.
Speaker 2: And then in terms of how you feel like you're
Speaker 2: going to act differently in the future, you know, tell
Speaker 2: me more about that.
Speaker 4: Uh well, first of all, I am gonna make sure
Speaker 4: that I trust more sparingly. I mean, I shouldn't have
Speaker 4: put I should have not put anyone in that position
Speaker 4: to be driving my car unless like they're my brother
Speaker 4: or something like that. If I wasn't, you know, ah
Speaker 4: affed up on the asset, I would have you know,
Speaker 4: been fine to drive myself home. And I also in
Speaker 4: the past have had.
Speaker 3: Some like.
Speaker 4: I would say, issues with drinking. But this kind of
Speaker 4: made me realize that I can't, you like, use any
Speaker 4: mind altering substance that much for sure. And then also
Speaker 4: just being more cautious with like, well, I guess it
Speaker 4: was kind of out a character for me. To do
Speaker 4: that in the first place, but just making sure that
Speaker 4: I realized when I'm like about to do something that's
Speaker 4: dumb and like manage or something, I give it was
Speaker 4: a bad decision to go out late at night to
Speaker 4: do acid in the first place.
Speaker 2: M hmm, well, you know, I mean, look, going out
Speaker 2: late at night and doing acid, I think I don't
Speaker 2: think that was a horrible decision until you involved a car.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm glad to hear that you're uh processing this
Speaker 2: in a in a beneficial way, right, because man, you
Speaker 2: totally could have died and you didn't, and now you're
Speaker 2: you're giving a new chance to make better decisions.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's I'm still kind of feeling like I'm coming
Speaker 4: to terms with the whole like near death aspect of
Speaker 4: it all. Like I feel like I haven't fully sank in,
Speaker 4: but I definitely feel a lot more grateful than I
Speaker 4: had in the past, like for being alive.
Speaker 2: That's good. That sounds like the opposite of suicidal.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well now, yeah, I feel I feel more like,
Speaker 4: uh engaged to not want to, uh you know, have
Speaker 4: anything like that happen again, or you know, die in
Speaker 4: some kind of accident or something like that I want
Speaker 4: to make sure that I can do something that, uh,
Speaker 4: you know, at the end of the day, matters a
Speaker 4: little bit.
Speaker 2: What do you want to do that you think will matter?
Speaker 4: Well, I went to film school. I went to ny
Speaker 4: U Tish for UH filmmaking and minored in uh screenwriting,
Speaker 4: And so I've been trying. I've been trying to uh
Speaker 4: sell scripts and stuff like that. I mean, I've sold
Speaker 4: a couple, but there's not a lot of buzz on
Speaker 4: my name right now. After the writer's strike and everything,
Speaker 4: things kind of uh reset. I feel like I'm back
Speaker 4: kind of almost as square one. I mean that maybe
Speaker 4: square two because I have an agent still, but I'm
Speaker 4: like still kind of struggling trying to make some smaller
Speaker 4: short films and convince people to do it for a
Speaker 4: little to know money and shit like that.
Speaker 2: Are you going to adapt any of this into into
Speaker 2: your writing at all?
Speaker 4: I mean, if I got a budget where I could
Speaker 4: crash a car, I would do it. But I don't
Speaker 4: think I would go out of my way to do
Speaker 4: that on a on a you know, personal budget. But
Speaker 4: I think that it definitely would be good for a
Speaker 4: screen writing And that's a actually a really beneficial idea
Speaker 4: that I don't know why I didn't think of, like sooner.
Speaker 2: What's your name again, man, Paris, like to be in France, Paris. Well,
Speaker 2: thanks for sharing the story, Paris. Yeah again, I'm happy
Speaker 2: to hear that you're processing it very well. You know,
Speaker 2: is there any other aspect of any of this or
Speaker 2: anything at all that you want to shore or say
Speaker 2: before we go?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I mean, I guess what would be your general
Speaker 4: take on like near death experiences and stuff like that,
Speaker 4: and how to kind of you know, how they might
Speaker 4: like either change your life or how they can make
Speaker 4: your outlook better.
Speaker 2: Well, that one's easy. I mean, look, man, you got
Speaker 2: nothing if you're dead, right, And so the things that
Speaker 2: stress you out in life, like you know, I'm not
Speaker 2: selling enough screenplays, or oh my friend's mad at me,
Speaker 2: or oh this or that, any day to day problemly,
Speaker 2: even if it's a big one, I mean, any day
Speaker 2: to day stress or whatever, it just fucking pales in
Speaker 2: comparison to the stress that you you've experienced of being
Speaker 2: on a car, of being in a car on fire.
Speaker 2: So next time somebody's not responding to your email fast
Speaker 2: enough after you sent them your script, you can just
Speaker 2: be like, well, at least I'm not in a car
Speaker 2: that's on fire. You can use, you get to use
Speaker 2: and you're actually you're even lucky because you get to
Speaker 2: use that every day for the for the rest of
Speaker 2: your life. Anytime anything bad happens to you, you can go, well,
Speaker 2: at least I'm not in a car that's on fire,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: I Uh.
Speaker 2: One of my one of someone of my family actually
Speaker 2: was in it was in a car accident. And she
Speaker 2: told me that every time something annoying happens to her, like,
Speaker 2: you know whatever, there's there's like a long line at
Speaker 2: the grocery store. She she imagines this. She's like, she
Speaker 2: imagines herself in a burning car and and and an
Speaker 2: angel comes to her and says, now listen, now the
Speaker 2: car is on fire. And the angel says, now listen,
Speaker 2: I can cut you with deal. I can let you
Speaker 2: out of this burning car, but in return you have
Speaker 2: to wait in a long line at the grocery store. Yes,
Speaker 2: of course, let me have the car. Jesus right now,
Speaker 2: I'll do it. So think about that.
Speaker 4: I guess is more of a literal case with me,
Speaker 4: because I did have a woman physically pulled me out
Speaker 4: of the car. Kind of a guardian angel situation, so
Speaker 4: I can take that one literally.
Speaker 2: Take care, Paris. Thank you very much for calling.
Speaker 4: Love you, ghek, Thank you so much. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 4: First time call a long time.
Speaker 2: Take care. I hope to see your name on a
Speaker 2: on a movie someday.
Speaker 4: Yes, sir, when you do, make sure to shout it out.
Speaker 4: And you know, if I get to direct it, I'll
Speaker 4: throw you a bone and give you a cameo. If
Speaker 4: you want to old roll, I'll give you a big one.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: When I you know, when when my career is uh
Speaker 2: all the way at its bottom, I will very much
Speaker 2: accept your bone. Take care of parts. Hello, Hi, what
Speaker 2: is your name?
Speaker 1: Holy shit?
Speaker 5: Oh, my name's Steph.
Speaker 2: What's up Steph? Would you want to talk about today?
Speaker 5: I don't really have anything too crazy going on. I mean,
Speaker 5: there's always stuff, but nothing that I need like urgent
Speaker 5: advice on.
Speaker 2: That's good. So your life is perfect and nothing bad
Speaker 2: has happened to you.
Speaker 5: It's pretty no no, no, definitely bad stuff a lot,
Speaker 5: but like I feel like I don't know, like you've
Speaker 5: had some crazy stuff on yours, Like I none of
Speaker 5: my stories are as crazy you know.
Speaker 2: It's fun Okay, so there's a phone there was a caller.
Speaker 2: It's always funny when people say that. They're like, oh,
Speaker 2: I feel like I have nothing to talk about because
Speaker 2: you you know, you have all these crazy stories of people,
Speaker 2: you know, getting into a weird sex colts and doing
Speaker 2: methamphetamine and running from the cops in Argentina. But you know,
Speaker 2: one of my favorite phone calls, and maybe it wasn't
Speaker 2: the call itself, what it was the idea behind it.
Speaker 2: There was this guy who called in. This was a
Speaker 2: while ago, this is over of one or two years ago.
Speaker 2: Is this guy called in to talk about how he
Speaker 2: has this pizza place that he really likes in the
Speaker 2: state that he lives in. But then he took a
Speaker 2: trip to the state right over, like one stayed over
Speaker 2: and he had pizza at their pizza place and it
Speaker 2: was better. And so now when he eats pizza at
Speaker 2: the pizza place in his state, it's not as good anymore,
Speaker 2: even though even though he liked it before he tried
Speaker 2: the other pizza place. Isn't that fascinating? Isn't that There's
Speaker 2: so much there's like life in that story, and that
Speaker 2: is nothing that is like I that's not interesting at all,
Speaker 2: but it is. It is interesting. It's like the micro
Speaker 2: cosm of I don't know, a desire for a never
Speaker 2: a never ending lust for novelty or something. I think.
Speaker 2: I think about that guy every time people say that
Speaker 2: they don't have anything to talk about, because the things
Speaker 2: at least that I want to hear about, I mean,
Speaker 2: people will call it like people will call in and
Speaker 2: be like, yeah, man, I once did acid and ran
Speaker 2: from the cops, And I'll be like, all right, but
Speaker 2: that's not really a story there. There's no humanity and
Speaker 2: they didn't learn anything. You didn't discover anything. You know,
Speaker 2: There's much more interesting stories that are lower concepts. So
Speaker 2: that's I guess I'm saying that to make you hopefully
Speaker 2: think of anything that you you know, it's going on
Speaker 2: that you know, maybe you've ruled out as too minute, gotcha.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess it's about like how you tell it
Speaker 5: versus like the actual content. Sometimes I don't know. Well,
Speaker 5: I guess the main thing on my mind is I
Speaker 5: have like five more months on my lease in my
Speaker 5: current city, and I'm trying to think about like my
Speaker 5: next moves. I'm like, should I move home for a
Speaker 5: couple of months and save it and then move. Or
Speaker 5: should I just move straight to another city and just
Speaker 5: be struggling again?
Speaker 2: Or you're struggling with paying rent?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm only like a couple years postgrad, but yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm like struggling to pay rent, which is fine. You know,
Speaker 5: I don't really live like a super expensive lifestyle anyway,
Speaker 5: but it would be nice to like have a little
Speaker 5: extra money. So I've thought about when my lease is up,
Speaker 5: like moving home for a couple months, which I would hate,
Speaker 5: Like I wouldn't even have like a room, Like I'd
Speaker 5: be like on my mom's like couch. But I'm like,
Speaker 5: is it worth it to do that just for the
Speaker 5: summer to get like, you know, like five six thousand
Speaker 5: dollars to help me move somewhere else?
Speaker 2: What do you do?
Speaker 5: I'm a graphic designer?
Speaker 2: Okay, cool? What do you like? Are you cool with
Speaker 2: your parents? Uh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's fine, all right.
Speaker 2: I mean, listen, man, I've said this a billion times
Speaker 2: on here, but I've done that. I mean, I started
Speaker 2: doing this podcast in my mom's basement. Granted, if I
Speaker 2: didn't have my own room, and if I didn't have
Speaker 2: my own private like space, I think that would drive
Speaker 2: me significantly more insane.
Speaker 5: But yeah, that's the thing, like she it's just my
Speaker 5: mom because my dad lives somewhere else. She just has
Speaker 5: like a small apartment now, so I'm like it would
Speaker 5: be really cramped and like my younger brother would probably
Speaker 5: be there this summer too.
Speaker 2: M hm.
Speaker 5: So it's like, where is it?
Speaker 2: Look, I don't think it's a terrible idea. Uh, this
Speaker 2: is this is we're getting into financial advice gecko now.
Speaker 2: But I don't think that living at home to save
Speaker 2: money is a is a horrible idea. I mean, can
Speaker 2: you what what city? What city are you in?
Speaker 5: I'm silly.
Speaker 2: Why don't you get once you get Like I lived
Speaker 2: in Philly. I had like a bunch of roommates and
Speaker 2: the rent was cheap as hell. There's so many like
Speaker 2: there's can't you live in? Uh? Can't you live in
Speaker 2: like one of the neighborhood in Philly and get a
Speaker 2: bunch of roommates? And I.
Speaker 5: Don't like Philly, Like I'm trying to.
Speaker 2: Leave Silly, No Philly rocks. What are you doing you
Speaker 2: like about Philly? Oh?
Speaker 5: I don't know, Like I don't really like the cold.
Speaker 5: So that's like one thing, and I don't know, it
Speaker 5: feels a little bit limited. And I grew up in
Speaker 5: New York, so it just feels a little bit like
Speaker 5: small comparison.
Speaker 2: Mm hm hmmm. I don't know, man, I think Phillys
Speaker 2: is six. Are you trying to move to New York
Speaker 2: because if that's the case, you're gonna have to live
Speaker 2: on your mom's couch for the next five years.
Speaker 5: That's true. No, I kind of want to move to
Speaker 5: like the West Coast. That's why I'm like, I probably
Speaker 5: should save money first.
Speaker 2: What's a nice I mean, not La right, m hmm,
Speaker 2: maybe okay, because I mean I'm trying to think of, like,
Speaker 2: what are some cheap nice city. I think Phoenix is like,
Speaker 2: and correct me if I'm wrong, Phoenicians. But I think
Speaker 2: Phoenix is like like an up and coming, moderately affordable
Speaker 2: West Coast cities. And it's hot as balls there, so
Speaker 2: it's it's hot enough to make up for however many
Speaker 2: cold years you spent in Philadelphia.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I have heard about Phoenix. I'm thinking about it.
Speaker 5: I'm not really thinking too much about where I'm gonna
Speaker 5: move yet more, just like if I should just send
Speaker 5: it or not?
Speaker 2: Do you do you have a job you have to like, like,
Speaker 2: as a designer, do you have to like go into
Speaker 2: a place or are you beat booping on the computer.
Speaker 5: So I work like at a law firm, so it's
Speaker 5: like all remote. I mean they have offices places, and
Speaker 5: I do go in, but like it's not really essential
Speaker 5: that I go in every.
Speaker 2: Day, live your live, your digital nomad life. Dog.
Speaker 5: Well, the thing is like technically we're supposed to even
Speaker 5: like when I go in, it's really just to like
Speaker 5: hang out with my coworkers that are my friends. But
Speaker 5: like technically we have to go in like a couple
Speaker 5: of times a week.
Speaker 2: So mm hmmm.
Speaker 5: So I just have to move somewhere where they have
Speaker 5: an office.
Speaker 2: Where do they have offices?
Speaker 5: Like a lot of places?
Speaker 2: Okay, do they have Do they have offices in Phoenix, Arizona?
Speaker 5: Unfortunately no?
Speaker 2: Do they exclusively have offices in cities with extremely high
Speaker 2: cost of living but also can't pay in those fucking cities.
Speaker 5: Yeah that sounds about right.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know, man, I mean I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean I like Philly, but that well, I don't
Speaker 2: know why I'm telling you that. That's me liking Philly
Speaker 2: has absolutely nothing to do with your situation at all. Uh,
Speaker 2: you could live, I don't know where you could live?
Speaker 2: Where could you live? Where do you want to live?
Speaker 5: I don't know. I mean I've thought about like spending
Speaker 5: a year like abroad or something like I think that'd
Speaker 5: be really cool, but I don't know. He's like, I
Speaker 5: have this issue where like I'm like twenty four, and
Speaker 5: I'm so scared to like go live abroad that or
Speaker 5: like go fuck around for another year and then like
Speaker 5: first I don't know. I always just like worry about
Speaker 5: like being forever alone. You know, I'm like single of
Speaker 5: like no strings, and I'm scared to like leave and
Speaker 5: then first come and start like looking for a husband
Speaker 5: basically like first at like twenty eight or twenty nine,
Speaker 5: Like that is kind of scary.
Speaker 2: You are you're afraid to start looking for a husband
Speaker 2: at twenty eight.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, I guess like I'm afraid to waste time
Speaker 5: abroad and then first start settling down like kind of late.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't understand why you look at it as a
Speaker 2: waste of time.
Speaker 5: I know that's true. That's what people are telling me.
Speaker 5: Like I can't like think about a timeline. It's just
Speaker 5: like live in a moment and then you know, whatever happens.
Speaker 2: Look, anytime I've ever left the country, I've never been like,
Speaker 2: you know, I wish I actually Okay, well, okay, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna tell you what I was about to say, and
Speaker 2: then I'm gonna tell you I second guessed it. I
Speaker 2: was about to say, I've never left the country and
Speaker 2: then been like and then came back and been like,
Speaker 2: I wish I spent that time looking for a wife.
Speaker 2: But I second guessed it because maybe I should have
Speaker 2: spent that time looking for a wife. I don't know,
Speaker 2: I don't know. But the point, I've never left the
Speaker 2: country and regretted it. I've never That's not true. I've
Speaker 2: never left the country and regretted it. I've never left
Speaker 2: the country and been like, I should have spent that
Speaker 2: time looking for a wife. I've never done that in
Speaker 2: any of the times that I've left the country. It's
Speaker 2: always and there's places you can go that are like
Speaker 2: relatively cheap, you know, that are significantly cheaper than fucking Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: Even so, if it's I mean, I'm biased because I
Speaker 2: like doing it. But if you have any inkling of
Speaker 2: a of a sense that you might enjoy leaving the country,
Speaker 2: and and you, you know, can save up enough money
Speaker 2: on your mom's couch to do it, then I mean
Speaker 2: I'd go for it, but that's just that's just me. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and there will be plenty of husbands left at twenty eight.
Speaker 5: Yeah. No, that's definitely true. That's definitely true.
Speaker 2: That's cool, man. I don't know. My my and my
Speaker 2: parents met their current spouses when they were like forty something,
Speaker 2: so this time.
Speaker 5: Wow, but did they have kids? El eight two.
Speaker 4: Old?
Speaker 2: How old am I? How old is anyone? I think
Speaker 2: my parents had me when they were in like their
Speaker 2: late thirties or something like that.
Speaker 5: Let's good to know.
Speaker 2: Plus, Hey, maybe you go abroad and you meet a
Speaker 2: foreign guy. Yeah that could be cool. Isn't that everyone's
Speaker 2: fantasy to like meet a hot European dude and get
Speaker 2: on his moped and never come back. Not well, that
Speaker 2: never comes back. That sounds like that sounds like taken.
Speaker 2: That doesn't sound like the fantasy. But you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know. I feel like most of my
Speaker 5: friends like have no interest in that that specific fantasy
Speaker 5: or most of you most.
Speaker 2: Of your friends are married to their rural Pennsylvania boyfriends.
Speaker 5: No, not necessarily, but like I don't know the whole
Speaker 5: like being like in a whole nother country and like
Speaker 5: finding someone there, like so far away from like friends
Speaker 5: and family, Like isn't super appealing to me?
Speaker 2: To you?
Speaker 5: Yeah, like to me, like, I'm not.
Speaker 2: But I thought you just said you wanted to you
Speaker 2: were thought about living.
Speaker 5: Abroad, Yeah, but it would only be for like a
Speaker 5: year or two probably, mm hmm.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know. I I would I mean, if
Speaker 2: if I were, if you're asking, I'm not going to
Speaker 2: tell you what to do, even though I if you're
Speaker 2: asking me what I think about this situation, I would
Speaker 2: tell you that you're not going to be old and
Speaker 2: decrepit at the age of twenty eight.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know. I don't know why I think I am.
Speaker 5: Like when I hit twenty two, I feel like I
Speaker 5: just spent downhill.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I haven't. I've never left the country
Speaker 2: and came back and been like I should have spent
Speaker 2: time looking for a wife. But maybe I should have.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I this is why it's weird having
Speaker 2: a I wouldn't call this an advice show. This is
Speaker 2: a This is a Gecko Show more than anything. But
Speaker 2: it's weird because I don't know what makes any I
Speaker 2: don't know. I don't know it's going to make you
Speaker 2: stoked in life, Steph. But I do know that you're
Speaker 2: not gonna be that when you turn twenty eight, if
Speaker 2: you're lucky enough to turn twenty eight, you're not gonna
Speaker 2: be like You're not gonna be like that lady, the
Speaker 2: chocolate lady from SpongeBob.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: No, I mean it's not just that. I just always worry, like,
Speaker 5: oh if I send you here to abroad and come back,
Speaker 5: like I'm not gonna be behind in my job and
Speaker 5: like other stuff. But I gotta live in the.
Speaker 2: Present, Stephanie. Is there anything else you want to say
Speaker 2: to the people of the computer before we go? No,
Speaker 2: that was decisive. I like that. Thank you for calling Stephanie.
Speaker 5: Good luck, Thank you, have a good night.
Speaker 2: I think I'm gonna I'm gonna end up on one
Speaker 2: of those like reality show like I wanna, Oh you
Speaker 2: know what I should do? I should do The Bachelor.
Speaker 2: Gek like it like a player. That's a sound as
Speaker 2: good as I thought it. I thought it was gonna
Speaker 2: I thought I was gonna be able to successfully rhyme
Speaker 2: Bachelorette with Bachelor gek, but that didn't work. I think
Speaker 2: that's what's gonna end up happening is I'm just gonna
Speaker 2: everyone has to try on a gecko costume, and whoever
Speaker 2: can be a gecko, the best I will give. I
Speaker 2: will give a single rose. I give them a single
Speaker 2: green rose.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: Now, I'm actually kind of into this idea. I think
Speaker 2: that sounds cool. Who gets the green rose? All right,
Speaker 2: we're doing it. We're doing the Bachelor. Ghak. All I
Speaker 2: need is, uh, how much money does it cost to
Speaker 2: make a reality TV show? Actually, now I'm thinking about it,
Speaker 2: sounds like a lot of work. I'll think of something.
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