Speaker 1: As I walked in. It's literally just like like a
Speaker 1: two hundred kids, maybe three hundred kids in a lobby
Speaker 1: sprinting around like trying to tackle their favorite content creators,
Speaker 1: and the content creers like, oh no, I'm being chased
Speaker 1: by my fans, and it's like, okay, that's what this is.
Speaker 1: Sometimes there's an event that you would do anything to
Speaker 1: get into, like Coachella if you're into music, or the
Speaker 1: met Gala if you're into fashion, or a secret underground
Speaker 1: screening of the butthole cut of the movie Cats if
Speaker 1: you're into Cats. But the only thing that's better than
Speaker 1: getting invited to these exclusive events is successfully sneaking in.
Speaker 1: And people come up with some pretty clever schemes to
Speaker 1: smuggle themselves into these parties. Now that I would know
Speaker 1: as a straight cisgender white man with a mustache, I
Speaker 1: pretty much just walk into any place without anyone batting
Speaker 1: an eye, which is a problem. Now. My friend Lonnie
Speaker 1: March knows a thing or two about sneaking into an event.
Speaker 1: Lonnie is a twenty seven year old actor, content creator,
Speaker 1: and former Storytime guest checkout season three, episode four, and
Speaker 1: he's best known for his God and Gabriel's sketches on
Speaker 1: TikTok and Lonnie's got a great story about the lengths
Speaker 1: he went to to sneak into the biggest social media
Speaker 1: convention in all of Orlando. I'm your host, will catch
Speaker 1: me if you can McFadden And this is hashtag storytime
Speaker 1: brought to you by iHeartRadio. Do you do you have
Speaker 1: a story that you'd like to share with me? I
Speaker 1: do have a story about the time I snuck into Playlist.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, um, were you at Playlist twenty twenty? I've
Speaker 1: been at so many playlists. Yeah, Playlist twenty twenty was
Speaker 1: the last trip that I went on before, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember we were we were flying there and like
Speaker 1: when we were flying back, especially like everyone was just
Speaker 1: wiping down their seats and purelling everything. We were like,
Speaker 1: I don't know how to do. What do we do? Uh?
Speaker 1: Just we didn't have masks yet. It's a bug. There's
Speaker 1: a bug. They heard there's a bug. It was bad
Speaker 1: because like walking through that lobby plays I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: from Florida, so I like what happened was I had
Speaker 1: just gotten I had like just gone viral like in
Speaker 1: January and blown up to a couple million followers as
Speaker 1: it was so new, and I'm like, wow, I'm a
Speaker 1: real life content creator. Now I have to go to
Speaker 1: the playlist you know, I used It's my birth Right.
Speaker 1: Oh you went to British. I thought you were doing
Speaker 1: Owen Wilson for a second, like one Wilson. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's British, it's just yours. It's like the
Speaker 1: or just a kid on the playground who doesn't have
Speaker 1: all his teeth in yet. Um so I go to
Speaker 1: from Tom's. Yeah, I blew up on the internet. And
Speaker 1: then yeah, I had blown up on the Internet. And
Speaker 1: then I thought myself, I had to go to my
Speaker 1: own mosh. I play my birth Right, my trip Mecca.
Speaker 1: Have to do my mecca, um, which is playlist But
Speaker 1: what happened was well, for those of you who are
Speaker 1: listening who aren't familiar with Playlist Live, Playlist Live is
Speaker 1: it's It's there's two major social media conventions that happen.
Speaker 1: There's Vidcan, which is on the West Coast. It happens
Speaker 1: in Anaheim, which just just happened. We we were just
Speaker 1: hanging out there. And then Playlist Live. They used to
Speaker 1: do them in a couple of different areas, but the
Speaker 1: main playlist live is in Orlando, Florida. Yeah, and it
Speaker 1: is a massive social media convention where thousands and thousands
Speaker 1: of fans descend upon the Orlando Marriott Sin. They descend
Speaker 1: like a sin like locusts. Well, it's fans and people
Speaker 1: who wish they were invited. And then also and then
Speaker 1: also uh, disgruntled mothers who just sit at the ball.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. There cigarette that was. That was a
Speaker 1: pivotal part. So so so I had just gone borrow
Speaker 1: from my series God and Gabriel super fun um, and
Speaker 1: I think I had just kind of started working with
Speaker 1: Collab and I was like, hey, Collab, now then I'm famous.
Speaker 1: Can you guys like get me into playlist? And you
Speaker 1: guys were like, yeah, no, it's super closed like that.
Speaker 1: You needed that like six months ago. And I'm like okay, um,
Speaker 1: they're like, can't do anything to help you. I'm like,
Speaker 1: that's understandable. I get a lot. You should have reached
Speaker 1: out to me directly. I would have been like, I
Speaker 1: should have sate my guy. Yeah, I will get your
Speaker 1: wrist bands. I will sneak I'm all about sneaking people
Speaker 1: into stuff. So I would have good. Well then this
Speaker 1: is so this is what I did. So I was
Speaker 1: I was a little I was like, well, guys, I'm famous.
Speaker 1: I have to go to Playlist, like I'm now at
Speaker 1: that caliber. They just they would have gotten me, and
Speaker 1: they just didn't have the tickets. So I'm like, I'll
Speaker 1: just do it myself. I'll just get myself in so
Speaker 1: I know I'll do it. Yeahself, I'll do it myself.
Speaker 1: So here's what I did. Um, because I was in Jacksonville, Florida,
Speaker 1: home of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Like that's a two hour drive.
Speaker 1: I'll drive down there, and my buddy he's like like,
Speaker 1: do you want to go to Playlist? He's like you
Speaker 1: have tickets. I'm like, no, do you want to go
Speaker 1: to Playlist? And he's like yeah. And so we get
Speaker 1: our both our chaotic good brains together, maybe just chaotic
Speaker 1: at this point, and we're like, how are we gonna
Speaker 1: do this? And I'm like, we show up to the
Speaker 1: Playlist hotel, which, mind you, I don't know what I
Speaker 1: was thinking about as I walked in. It's literally just
Speaker 1: like like a two hundred kids, maybe three hundred kids
Speaker 1: in a lobby sprinting around like trying to tackle their
Speaker 1: favorite content creators, and the content cres like oh no,
Speaker 1: I'm being chased by my fans, and it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: that's what this is. And I think there might have
Speaker 1: been one stage in a conference room or like Charlie
Speaker 1: Damilia was maybe talking. But I didn't see any educational
Speaker 1: panels at all when I was there, like an industry
Speaker 1: day where like, you know, all the boring panels happen.
Speaker 1: I guess so, and I don't know. So it was nighttime.
Speaker 1: I was walking by. I was seeing like Gabe Irwin, like,
Speaker 1: go to sleep, guy, you've been strolling up for quite
Speaker 1: a while. I saw Gabe, like Brent Riviera, and I'm
Speaker 1: just like, oh wow, they're just here. This is crazy.
Speaker 1: It's my first kind of real exposure and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I absolutely need to be here. I need to be
Speaker 1: in this. I have to get into. I didn't even
Speaker 1: know it. I guess just a back state. I didn't
Speaker 1: have a pass, and I'm like, I don't have a pass.
Speaker 1: I don't know what I can't do because I don't
Speaker 1: know what people are doing here besides standing around the lobby.
Speaker 1: But I have to get in. So I look at
Speaker 1: my friend, I said, Hey, we're gonna sneak in to
Speaker 1: the back rooms, like the lounge areas, okay, and he
Speaker 1: had just gotten off of work. There's like a whole
Speaker 1: underbelly of the Marriott where all the creators travel. And
Speaker 1: then yeah, there's like some like set aside green rooms
Speaker 1: for feature creators to kind of help keep them separate
Speaker 1: and have them like a safe space for them to
Speaker 1: gather where the fans aren't just clawing at them apparently.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, I'm gonna get into those spaces because
Speaker 1: I'm a good creator, and this is where this is
Speaker 1: where the journey begins. My friend, he had just gotten
Speaker 1: off of work and he was working at a bank,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, this is perfect. This is absolutely perfect.
Speaker 1: You look like you could work here, and that is
Speaker 1: all I need. So he's like Oceans eleven, but it's
Speaker 1: just oceans too, just oceans because we're stupid, And I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: this is we're gonna do. Man. You are gonna go
Speaker 1: over to where all those tired, anxious moms are who
Speaker 1: are drinking their wine, and you're gonna start picking up
Speaker 1: their wine glasses and you're gonna take one of those
Speaker 1: trays and you're gonna start collecting and say, hey, can
Speaker 1: I get you anything else? Can I help you with that?
Speaker 1: Start cleaning off those tables? Okay, He's like, why am
Speaker 1: I doing them? Like, trust me, you can set up
Speaker 1: the foundation here, trust me, brother, And so he goes.
Speaker 1: He's like, all right, I'll trust you. And so fortunately
Speaker 1: he was in theater, yes, the ass the theater. So
Speaker 1: he does a great job, puts on a great performance,
Speaker 1: walks over there. It's like, man, he looks so tired.
Speaker 1: I hope you're having a good time as your kid
Speaker 1: and a good so great starting like grabs a random tray.
Speaker 1: Like the people who actually work, they are like more help,
Speaker 1: I don't care whatever, you know, they're just annoyed. So
Speaker 1: he picks it up. He grabs all these glasses and
Speaker 1: stuff like that in his hands, and he's like, I'm Mike.
Speaker 1: He comes back to me. He's like, what do I
Speaker 1: do now? I'm like, now, you see those two guards
Speaker 1: over there at that door, You're gonna walk right past
Speaker 1: them and go right into the lounge area and then
Speaker 1: we're in. We're in, baby, We're in the clear. And
Speaker 1: he's like that, he's exacts. It's not gonna work. I'm like,
Speaker 1: it's gonna work. Go up to it, and he's like,
Speaker 1: I'm not so sure. I'm like, okay, okay, okay, here here, here,
Speaker 1: tell them Zach from the Kitchen sent you. It's gonna work.
Speaker 1: Every time, anytime somebody is like, oh so and so
Speaker 1: I don't know from somewhere. If they're from somewhere, it
Speaker 1: adds more validity. I'm like, that's that's a name I
Speaker 1: don't know in a play I'm unfamiliar with. So I'm
Speaker 1: he's like, Okay, I'm gonna give it a try. And
Speaker 1: so he's going up to go do it and thank
Speaker 1: god at the same time because I'm like, it might
Speaker 1: not work. He might just get kicked out. This horde
Speaker 1: of girls comes chasing after Brita Riveria or something like that, like,
Speaker 1: and so they like crowd up the security area as
Speaker 1: he's about to go through, and so he's like able
Speaker 1: to sneak by, and I'm like, okay, perbe he didn't
Speaker 1: have to use the thing. But one of the security
Speaker 1: guards like, seas hey, stop, stop, stop, where are you going?
Speaker 1: Where are you going? And I'm like, oh, almost no.
Speaker 1: He I was standing back at this, but He caught
Speaker 1: my friend right as he tried to sneak by at
Speaker 1: the same time as the girls in the crowd on
Speaker 1: all the commotion. He's like, where are you going? And
Speaker 1: he's like, oh, Ken from the kitchen sent me. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's not even what I said to say.
Speaker 1: I said up and the guy's like, yeah, okay, go
Speaker 1: just go, just go, and I'm like it have walked,
Speaker 1: it walked And he's back there. He like he starts
Speaker 1: walk around and I'm like, yes, yes, wait, I'm not
Speaker 1: back there. Does this help you? I'm not back there? What?
Speaker 1: And so I call I said, hey, I didn't think
Speaker 1: this all the way through. Come back out, come back out,
Speaker 1: And so he comes back out and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: plan too. This is how I'm going to get back there.
Speaker 1: Now this works. We know that security guards can be
Speaker 1: like tricked deceived. This is totally gonna work. Also then,
Speaker 1: just for context to the security guards at Playlist are
Speaker 1: like mad with power. They're all like they have no
Speaker 1: information as to like no information, they never pass goes
Speaker 1: where or what wristband means what, And they're all just
Speaker 1: like I am blocking the store and nobody gets by it.
Speaker 1: So They're like they're a stone wall. It's it is.
Speaker 1: They don't know what they're doing. They've just been told
Speaker 1: something by Larry up in the tower, and I don't
Speaker 1: know who that is, but it sounds like somebody who'd
Speaker 1: be telling them things. And this is where we got
Speaker 1: This is how we got kicked out. So I have
Speaker 1: to realize that we both needed to get through. I'm like,
Speaker 1: new plan, time time to take over the world. And
Speaker 1: there's I see everybody walking by with their badges, right,
Speaker 1: it's when the plan hatches. I'm like, oh, I'll just
Speaker 1: make my own. And so I'm like, okay, so this
Speaker 1: is where it was stupid. I'm like, yeah, but this
Speaker 1: is what this is the mistake I made. So as
Speaker 1: everybody was walking by, I'm like, I gotta be slying.
Speaker 1: Get a picture of somebody somebody's bad so I can
Speaker 1: like recreate it. I have some photoshop skills. I got
Speaker 1: a photo, I got like Photoshop whatever photoshop version. Like
Speaker 1: in two thousand and six, whenever YouTube was just coming out,
Speaker 1: and I was like, yeah, internet making photos. You know,
Speaker 1: I didn't make the banners and thumbnails for people on
Speaker 1: forums and stupid stuff like that. So I have skill
Speaker 1: is what I'm saying, Yeah, you do. Some lady was
Speaker 1: walking by and I saw her all access badge, like
Speaker 1: that's the one snapped a picture and then I'm like perfect.
Speaker 1: So we go back to his house that night. I'm
Speaker 1: staying up in bed until three am, looking cross orfencing
Speaker 1: the picture, putting everything together in photoshop, like adding little lines,
Speaker 1: adding my name. I'm like, oh, and I'll even do
Speaker 1: like Marx Media LLC. So I look official. And then
Speaker 1: fortunately he was. He was how do I say the
Speaker 1: badges were done right? But we needed to print them
Speaker 1: somewhere and laminate them, yeah, because they're all laminated or whatever,
Speaker 1: and fortunately he was. Um. He was flirting with the
Speaker 1: with the leasing office, the head of the leasing office,
Speaker 1: as as his apartment complex. Next morning, it was like
Speaker 1: the last day of playlist. We go over there and
Speaker 1: I'm like, can you get us a can you like
Speaker 1: get her to let us laminate this stuff. He's like,
Speaker 1: I'll put on my charm. I'll do what I have
Speaker 1: to do for a playlist. So we go in there,
Speaker 1: he's like flirting with them. I'm like in the back,
Speaker 1: like trying to laminate everything. And then she's like, you
Speaker 1: can use the laminator. It's fine. It's like we don't.
Speaker 1: It's you can. You don't have to sneak around. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: do you have any lanyards? And she gives us like
Speaker 1: a Disney World lanyard and then like a Kinko's lanyard,
Speaker 1: and I don't even know what the Playlist's actual lanyards where.
Speaker 1: I'm like, it's gonna have to work. We cut it
Speaker 1: out and the badges look good. It looks like a replica.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, look a picture. I have the picture
Speaker 1: of Oh do I have the picture of it? I
Speaker 1: have the picture of the bag. Would never I would
Speaker 1: keep that forever. I don't. I think it fell apart.
Speaker 1: So so we get done up. We're like sitting in
Speaker 1: the car on the way there. We're like, oh, we're
Speaker 1: a playlist. We're official. I'm an official creator. Now Here
Speaker 1: we go and this is how we got this is
Speaker 1: where I went bad. So we get to the parking
Speaker 1: lot and the first guard we're like, I'm like, I haven't.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to like to be subtle about it, but
Speaker 1: I'm also trying to make sure they see that I
Speaker 1: have a badge, you know. So like the first guy
Speaker 1: in the parking lot, I like, in like this the
Speaker 1: Creator only area he's guarding. We walk up and we're
Speaker 1: like flashing our badges and it's like nighttime and it's
Speaker 1: kind of dark. He like looks and gave us off.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, buddy, buddy, we're in this now. This
Speaker 1: is what this is how you defeat capitalism. This is
Speaker 1: how you defeat capitalism. You steal from the rich and
Speaker 1: you make your own products, you know. And so we
Speaker 1: can up to the stairs going up into the massive
Speaker 1: like the hotel or whatever from the Creator side mind you,
Speaker 1: and then we're about to walk by another Curity guy.
Speaker 1: He says, hey, boys, come come on, come on, come
Speaker 1: over here, come over here real quick. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: what's the problem. Officer like, what's going on? What's what's happening?
Speaker 1: A special Creator Only update, and he like grabs both
Speaker 1: of our badges. He grabs both of our badges as hey,
Speaker 1: i's gotta put hands on these because some people have
Speaker 1: been making fake badges, so they're requiring us to touch
Speaker 1: all of these before we let anybody in. You guys
Speaker 1: have a good time, go have fun. What I'm like,
Speaker 1: of course, sir, of course, my buddy is crapped himself.
Speaker 1: At his point, he's like the single bead of sweat
Speaker 1: running down and I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like,
Speaker 1: there's no way he knew. These are mint. They're perfect,
Speaker 1: like exact copies are laminated, we have lanyards, they're fine.
Speaker 1: There's no way he knew. He's just doing his job.
Speaker 1: These are perfect. And so we get inside and I
Speaker 1: realized this is where we left up and probably why
Speaker 1: he called us out and was being so kind to
Speaker 1: not kick us out. The picture I took was of
Speaker 1: a woman who was like four feet tall, so on
Speaker 1: her the badge looked very big. So I made my
Speaker 1: badge about the size of a sheet of paper. Everybody
Speaker 1: else's playlist badge was the size of a credit card. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's they're definitely the perspective was off. The perspective was off.
Speaker 1: It's like I was in motion when I took that picture,
Speaker 1: and that's where I messed up. And to make it
Speaker 1: even worse, because it's a photo not a video, I
Speaker 1: didn't know that it was double that it was double sided.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, definitely knew. Could you flip that badge over
Speaker 1: real quick? I supposed to what the back looks like.
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is what I'm panicking, Like, we come
Speaker 1: so far, it's the last day. We did all that work.
Speaker 1: You had to flirt and snoo snow with the leasing
Speaker 1: office lady to get these laminated. We have to do this.
Speaker 1: We have to see if it'll let us in the back.
Speaker 1: And so he's like, I don't know, man, this looks
Speaker 1: really stupid. Like we're saying he were like a poster
Speaker 1: on our chest and everybody else has like the sides
Speaker 1: of the credit card, Like we're dumb. We're we're like
Speaker 1: super featured creators, like exactly meat creators and or they're
Speaker 1: like we're like we're cause playing. We're gonna this is
Speaker 1: our cost, but we're creators, cosplaying creators, that's all this is.
Speaker 1: And so I'm like, we're just gonna, We're just gonna try,
Speaker 1: And by we, I mean him again, because I realize
Speaker 1: that I am too scared to get in trouble because
Speaker 1: like Josh, if I get kicked out, I can't come back.
Speaker 1: So you have to do it for us. And he's like,
Speaker 1: what am I supposed to do? I'm like, just kind
Speaker 1: of cover it with your arms, and it would be fine,
Speaker 1: just kind of like say as you know and show
Speaker 1: it a little bit, but then keep like your arms
Speaker 1: like you're just just you're annoyed, you're just grawntiled the
Speaker 1: full access bad. You're fine. Yeah, you've got somewhere to be,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like I don't handle I
Speaker 1: don't have to time to show you my past. You know,
Speaker 1: I've got a panel to be on. Like I said,
Speaker 1: this is where we messed up. But if anybody's listening,
Speaker 1: if you're on the phone, people are way less likely
Speaker 1: to stop you, and especially if you're an intense conversation.
Speaker 1: This is like real espionage hacks here, I'm giving out
Speaker 1: for free. Yeah. But I'm like, Josh, I'm just standing
Speaker 1: in the lobby with my like posterboard posterboard padge And
Speaker 1: he is like, I'm like, hey, buddy, just go see
Speaker 1: see if you just flash it and get by and
Speaker 1: then call me and if it works, I'm gonna come
Speaker 1: right behind you. It's gonna work. It's fine, you know,
Speaker 1: as long as no other secuity guards like grabbing him
Speaker 1: clipping over our badges were fine. So we go back
Speaker 1: to the same VIP area that security guard is there
Speaker 1: or whatever. Now Josh has like normal like creator clothes on.
Speaker 1: He doesn't look like he's like working at a bank.
Speaker 1: So he like is able to just like flash the
Speaker 1: badge and go right in. And I'm like, it's still worked.
Speaker 1: It's still worked. This is perfect. We're smart. You got this.
Speaker 1: It's the confidence that will work every time. It's the confidence,
Speaker 1: and that's what I learned here. So I'm like, I'm
Speaker 1: about to go back there. I call and said her,
Speaker 1: are you in? Are you okay? What's up? He's like,
Speaker 1: were There's some areas that you need wristbands get into,
Speaker 1: but I'm in the general areas. I can just kind
Speaker 1: of go in and stuff like that. So coming in
Speaker 1: like five minutes, he's like, I'm renegading right now with
Speaker 1: Addison Ray Like we're exactly just doing the Renegade with
Speaker 1: Addison and Charlie, And so I'm about to go back then,
Speaker 1: I'm like, we've done it. I'm an official creator. And
Speaker 1: then he calls me back and says, they kicked me out,
Speaker 1: And I said, how what do you mean that? Who
Speaker 1: would kick you out? You had the badge? You're good.
Speaker 1: He's like, some schmuck came up to me. Some random
Speaker 1: guy was like, oh, hey, buddy, where'd you get that badge?
Speaker 1: And he's like, oh, don't worry about don't worry about that.
Speaker 1: It's mine. I got it. I got it from me.
Speaker 1: And the guy's like no, no, no no, let me see
Speaker 1: it and like grabs the badge and flips it over
Speaker 1: and starts yelling this guy's got a fake badge. He's
Speaker 1: got a fake badge. And I'm like, who, who are you?
Speaker 1: Why are you living in life? And joy like in
Speaker 1: the security guard he's like he's like in Josh like.
Speaker 1: The security guard was like, nah, dude, I knew it
Speaker 1: was fake. I wasn't about to kick you out, but
Speaker 1: once that guy said something, I had to. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: I worked so hard on the I sit up to
Speaker 1: like three amm like working on these they were perfect
Speaker 1: except where they weren't. And so he got kicked out.
Speaker 1: At that point, I'm like, well, I can't risk my career.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go ahead and meet him outside. So
Speaker 1: then we left outside. But I bowed that the next
Speaker 1: time I went to one of these conferences I would
Speaker 1: be invited. Unfortunately, at big Con last week, I was
Speaker 1: invited as as a guest and a speaker on one
Speaker 1: of the panels for Meta and I did not have
Speaker 1: to make a fake badge. And that's good because those
Speaker 1: would have been very difficult to replicate because they were
Speaker 1: like hardboard, double sided and like laminated on one side
Speaker 1: and like rough on the other. I'm like, oh, they're
Speaker 1: getting good, So I gotta father technique. You can have
Speaker 1: start a whole business of fake fake badges, fake pass dude.
Speaker 1: The The ultimate would have been if you got in
Speaker 1: with the fake badge and then just walked on stage
Speaker 1: for a panel like that, you had no idea. Imagine.
Speaker 1: Stop giving me ideas because next year a big con
Speaker 1: I might, but imagine with the confidence, Oh my god. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like, oh and we uh here we are the
Speaker 1: Beauty on Budget panel. Yeah, Lonnie, I ivy um going.
Speaker 1: When are we opening up the flour for questions? And
Speaker 1: thank you Karen? Yeah you're moderating now. Yeah, It's like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tackle this one first. So when it comes
Speaker 1: to beauty, it's all about the external factors. Um, the
Speaker 1: inside does not matter. As long as you look good
Speaker 1: on the outside. That's where true validation comes from. Good
Speaker 1: question Mike dropped, does anybody else want to touch on
Speaker 1: that best? Just such an honest panel. Really, we are
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, California, and I'm gonna be honest with you.
Speaker 1: If you are not pretty, you will not have privileges.
Speaker 1: So okay, so next question. I feel good about that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: good question, good question. So wait, are you going to
Speaker 1: Playlist Live this year? Absolutely? And if they don't invite
Speaker 1: me back, I'm repeating the process. I am absolutely making
Speaker 1: another badge. It's something about the challenge and the thrill.
Speaker 1: I hope one day the CIA hires me from my
Speaker 1: skills h and they're like, you know, Lonnie, we saw
Speaker 1: what you did at least we think you got. We
Speaker 1: think you got Gusto kid. We like what you did
Speaker 1: at Playlists, how you made those badges and were too
Speaker 1: scared to use them. Your mediocre photoshop skills aside the
Speaker 1: way that you the way that you use your friend
Speaker 1: as a shield and test and test guinea pig, we
Speaker 1: think we got a butt for you on the force.
Speaker 1: How about you come do some training at Quantico. You know,
Speaker 1: your sticktuitiveness really showed through and whatever. You bailed out
Speaker 1: twice because your plan looked like it might not work.
Speaker 1: Perfect Operation playlist. Can you also make passes for my
Speaker 1: fourteen year old daughter. My daughter's been trying to get
Speaker 1: in there for a while. She really wants to meet
Speaker 1: Charlie and Dickson. If you could please help us out.
Speaker 1: We got you a spot on the force. Well, mister President,
Speaker 1: I think I can do that. I would be like,
Speaker 1: that's a hard pass for me. It was I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know something about like whenever I was in
Speaker 1: like middle school, I always loved like breaking onto the
Speaker 1: roofs of buildings. So I just like different bandage point.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's like, oh, STI like, I would
Speaker 1: never lock pick because I can't. I'm not I'm skilled.
Speaker 1: I don't know how to do that. I would just
Speaker 1: hope the door was open. I've thought about that often
Speaker 1: of like I need to just learn how to lock pick,
Speaker 1: because so often I get to a lock door and
Speaker 1: I'm like, ah, shocks. But if I would have the
Speaker 1: guy with the kid, and it's like, can't be that hard,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think, because I mean, like there's so
Speaker 1: many rooftops I haven't been able to access because of
Speaker 1: a simple lock, and security is merely an illusion and
Speaker 1: all can be all can be overcome and like navigated
Speaker 1: through with the proper like sticktuitiveness, determination or proper set
Speaker 1: of skills. And um, I like to think that is
Speaker 1: what's made me the creator I am today. And do
Speaker 1: you see those channels too, the like lock picking channels,
Speaker 1: Like so I gets I get in a black hole
Speaker 1: of those, Like I had a friend who actually snuck
Speaker 1: into them. I think it was the um the logan
Speaker 1: paul KSI fight by making a fake badge and I'm like,
Speaker 1: that's that's a lot one of my friends got. He
Speaker 1: got Actually, I think this is the same dude. He
Speaker 1: got a warrant out for his arrest and didn't get
Speaker 1: arrested till a year later. I mean, because that's Vegas,
Speaker 1: Like you're sneaking in because that one was that one
Speaker 1: in Vegas or was it in London? I think it
Speaker 1: was Vegas. But it's like, I don't recommend doing these things.
Speaker 1: That's my disclaimer. Um, because he got a warrant and
Speaker 1: didn't think anything of it, but then got arrested in
Speaker 1: a separate state like a year later. Yes, And I'm like, UFC,
Speaker 1: don't play. But I'm like, okay, noted because he posted
Speaker 1: about it. He posted and went viral, so they're like, okay, cool,
Speaker 1: we'll find you. That's where he fucked up. I guess
Speaker 1: I keep it to yourself, Like that's what I'm saying, like,
Speaker 1: just if if you get kicked out, it's like, my
Speaker 1: name is my name is Morgan. Morgan's for the people
Speaker 1: and you I'm never coming Sorry. You know, I made
Speaker 1: an honest mistake. I was looking for my wife, I said, I,
Speaker 1: like I always said, don't tell anyone about you know
Speaker 1: this as we're doing a podcast where you're telling everyone's
Speaker 1: name is to remain unnamed. No, no, but I'm saying
Speaker 1: your experience, like, oh but you got caught, you got
Speaker 1: kicked out, you didn't get arrested, everything was fine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I we're coming back. We're going back to playlists
Speaker 1: exactly what I'm gonna invited this time. And I won't
Speaker 1: have to make a fake badger. Maybe I'll make a
Speaker 1: fake badge just to see if I can do it,
Speaker 1: you know, just to test my abilities. Yeah, yeah, but
Speaker 1: I I don't know something about just like sneaking into
Speaker 1: places just to see if you can. Like that social
Speaker 1: engineering bit is a fun piece too, but definitely there
Speaker 1: are risks involved, and you can go to prison. Good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a moral of the story. That's the moral of
Speaker 1: the story. Follow your dreams and know that you can't
Speaker 1: go to prison. Yeah, and walk walk swiftly with let's review.
Speaker 1: Let's review the key takeaways. Confidence is key. Yes. Whenever
Speaker 1: Josh had his outfit on and started picking up the
Speaker 1: drinks from the moms and just kind of walked by
Speaker 1: and said, Kenny from the kitchen sent me the security
Speaker 1: guard is like the confidence was matched. Also, dress the part.
Speaker 1: Dress the part. Give them less reasons to question you
Speaker 1: and less reasons to notice you. All right, Um, rely
Speaker 1: on the skills you do have. I am a charmer,
Speaker 1: so if I really need to too, I could have
Speaker 1: charmed the pants off those security gardens. Has been anywhere,
Speaker 1: but I just chose not to. Um. Josh had experienced
Speaker 1: in the theater, so he acted confidence. Um. And the
Speaker 1: last tip is phone. Yeah, fake the phone call. Fake
Speaker 1: the phone call, you know, and just keep on walking.
Speaker 1: Fake the phone call, keep walking. Do all these things
Speaker 1: and you can get in anywhere. I think. Also, if
Speaker 1: you have a ladder, that'll do it to ladders are
Speaker 1: letters are a key. Nobody wants to stop to you.
Speaker 1: In fact, they want to help you. They want to
Speaker 1: get the four for you, and basic photoshopping skills too.
Speaker 1: That is a requirement. And if you're a hacker. I
Speaker 1: actually called up one of my buddies who's a hacker.
Speaker 1: I'm like, can you get me? Like, can you hack
Speaker 1: the list? He's like, what do you mean hack the list?
Speaker 1: He's I'm like, can you like get into the database
Speaker 1: or something. He's like, it's probably just a Google Drive sheet.
Speaker 1: I'm like, hack it, damn it. I don't get into
Speaker 1: the main frame, darts, hack it. Just get me through
Speaker 1: the firewall. He's like, I don't want to know how
Speaker 1: you hack it. I don't care how you do it.
Speaker 1: Just do it. You just should go full Jack bower
Speaker 1: Tony exactly like you. So yeah, those are the morals
Speaker 1: of my story. It was a good time. Ten out
Speaker 1: of ten would do it again. I love it. We've
Speaker 1: been doing another little little mini segment that I'd love
Speaker 1: to run by you and see if you want to participate.
Speaker 1: But it's it's a little storytelling game. It's called first, Last, Best, Worst,
Speaker 1: and so we pick a category and then you briefly
Speaker 1: tell us what your first experience, was your last experience?
Speaker 1: Was your best experience and your worst experience? What was
Speaker 1: the first vacation you remember going on? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: the first vacation I remember going on, Um was on
Speaker 1: the Disney cruise. Actually it was yeah, and oh I
Speaker 1: don't know. Yeah, yeah, well it was like six months ago,
Speaker 1: so six maybe it was awesome. I couldn't even get
Speaker 1: into the kiddie pool. What's up with that? He made
Speaker 1: a fake lamb in it to get in the kiddie pool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I am a I am a child. I am a
Speaker 1: baby walking with confidence on them on my baby. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get into the kiddie pool. I'm your
Speaker 1: security guard won't let me. I'm a child. Look at
Speaker 1: my badge. Um, like, sir, did you steal that wristband
Speaker 1: from a child? I said, I'm a child. What do
Speaker 1: you mean four year old going on a Disney cruise? Dude? Okay,
Speaker 1: So these are the things I remember. Um. They say
Speaker 1: you don't remember things after the age of three, and
Speaker 1: I was four or five and barely remember things. But
Speaker 1: I remember they had ice cream all you can eat
Speaker 1: ice cream by the pool side with sprinkles and that
Speaker 1: just that was like that was like, oh wow, so
Speaker 1: this is what living is. Yeah, that's that's core memory
Speaker 1: right there. This is why, this is what life's all about.
Speaker 1: Like some people grew up with trauma, I was fortunate
Speaker 1: to grow up thinking about's the next time I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get to go to the the pool side at the Disney
Speaker 1: Cruising get some like sprinkles with ice cream and sprinkles. Um.
Speaker 1: There was a giant There was a giant slide, which honestly,
Speaker 1: the slide is probably maybe one story high, but obviously
Speaker 1: it was a massive slide in a massive pool to
Speaker 1: a four year old, and it had Mickey Mouse's face
Speaker 1: at the bottom of it, and I thought it was
Speaker 1: a giant pool, okay, And it was probably just like
Speaker 1: an inflatable tub on the deck, who knows, but it
Speaker 1: was a beautiful um. We went off, We went to
Speaker 1: one of the beaches, I guess or whatever, and I
Speaker 1: just think remember floating away. It's like, as a kid,
Speaker 1: everything is way more dramatic than it really was. But
Speaker 1: I think I remember floating away from the shoreline in
Speaker 1: an inner tube and like sharks swimming underneath me, when
Speaker 1: in reality it is probably like some minnows And I
Speaker 1: was like a foot away from the from the beach
Speaker 1: or whatever. But it was a lot of I think
Speaker 1: we saw Tarzan. Maybe Tarzan had just come out or
Speaker 1: something like that. They showed him on the Disney movie
Speaker 1: Super Cool the movie, yeah, or like I like he
Speaker 1: swung in onto the cruise the movie just the movie.
Speaker 1: If he was there, I don't remember seeing him, but
Speaker 1: I remember seeing the Tarzan movie and Phil Collins going
Speaker 1: hard in that sounds like there was so much cool stuff.
Speaker 1: And I actually haven't been back since, which makes me
Speaker 1: very sad, but that was probably the I think that
Speaker 1: was a first vacation I went on. All right, that's
Speaker 1: a that's a solid first vaca. Very hard to compare.
Speaker 1: Everything whenever you're a child in ignorance is bliss and
Speaker 1: you don't realize that the Kidi Pool year and it's
Speaker 1: probably filled with urine, just unlimited for you with sprinkles. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so because that's all I needed. That's honestly, as a kid,
Speaker 1: Why didn't that kill us? Like that? Kids are resilient? Man,
Speaker 1: Like like that shi all the ice cream, I ate
Speaker 1: should kill a child, but it didn't. I was just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: rally bag puke and rally let's go baby day two
Speaker 1: at the pool, Like, can I put some chocolate sprinkles
Speaker 1: on it? This time my last vacation. Ah, what conscert
Speaker 1: is a vacation? I went to, I went to I
Speaker 1: went to I went to New York for like twenty
Speaker 1: four hours. I saw that. I saw a video that
Speaker 1: you posted that one. Um. The gross thing. The thing
Speaker 1: I didn't realize about New York is that every Airbnb
Speaker 1: in New York, if you're in like Manhattan, that area,
Speaker 1: like our airbnb was it slept eight people and had
Speaker 1: one bathroom. Oh my god. Yeah, I mean it's space
Speaker 1: is a commodity in New York. So I get that.
Speaker 1: I get that, But why is toilet's a commodity too?
Speaker 1: A commodity a commode? Come mode? Um? We went to go.
Speaker 1: It was the premiere of The Boys season three, which
Speaker 1: is the first time UM and season three episode one
Speaker 1: it hits hard I did. I was just like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is this is what it is happening. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: is a kind of blown up. It is Genitalia is
Speaker 1: on the stream. Um, but I love news. I realized,
Speaker 1: I like really like New York because you could walk
Speaker 1: out of your building and find like whatever you need,
Speaker 1: so you can just like drop like walk out. It's
Speaker 1: like boom over here is like a lady who's like
Speaker 1: naked on crack and like gonna sell you some Tarot cards.
Speaker 1: Get it over there. It's like a library. Um, and
Speaker 1: it's super fun. Like it's like, oh, the Dichotomy of
Speaker 1: Man and that's super fun. Like the rats are cute.
Speaker 1: I kind of like the rats. Yeah, it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's a big Like, Oh, he's brought me a slice
Speaker 1: of pizza and the black plague. How sweet of him. Um.
Speaker 1: I got lost on the subway system. Oh yeah, got
Speaker 1: on the way to the airport. Everything Like. I like
Speaker 1: that you can just use your Apple pay to get
Speaker 1: on the subway though, that's kind of cradd that it
Speaker 1: caused like two dollars or something something like. That's fine.
Speaker 1: You can be out in the city kind of at
Speaker 1: any time and night. It feels like and you're probably
Speaker 1: not going to get stabbed depending on where you go. Um.
Speaker 1: But that was the last one I took, um so
Speaker 1: quick twenty four hour New York trip. Okay, what was
Speaker 1: the what was the best vacation? That's vacation was my
Speaker 1: senior trip our class president convinced us that we should
Speaker 1: go on our senior cruise. And so again, cruises are
Speaker 1: a common thing with me, Royal Caribbean, what's up? Or
Speaker 1: Disney Cruise. But it was like I went to a school.
Speaker 1: First of all, we had one hundred kids in our
Speaker 1: high school fourteen and my graduating class small private Christian
Speaker 1: school woohoo and fourteen. So we're all like, yeah, we're
Speaker 1: gonna be hanging out. You know, it's just us. If
Speaker 1: someone's missing, bull no, and if two people are missing,
Speaker 1: you guys are definitely hooking up. Um, like we know
Speaker 1: where you are, Like it's not that hard to guess
Speaker 1: what's happening wherever. But that was fantastic. Yeah, after the
Speaker 1: long football season, I did football. Football season's done, went
Speaker 1: to the playoffs. It's like, you know what school, high
Speaker 1: school has done? My year of like mandatory schooling are
Speaker 1: done with my skip, I'm no longer a truant. And
Speaker 1: so it's like the perfect way to celebrate that is
Speaker 1: a cruise. So we went to Cosmo. When scuba diving
Speaker 1: out there, rising scuba diving is kind of hard, you
Speaker 1: have to hold your breath. Not for me, why not?
Speaker 1: What's up? I generally, it's kind of don't like the
Speaker 1: ocean as a whoa, stop, don't say that thing. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's a lot, it's it is a lot of planet.
Speaker 1: It's like, and I'm just not a great swimmer. I'm
Speaker 1: a land mammal. Okay, I'm great on land. It's just
Speaker 1: you get me in the water. I'm like, what are
Speaker 1: some of your best land skills? Box jumps? Jumps? You
Speaker 1: can't do box jumps in the water. Cannot That's that's
Speaker 1: the thing. Uh uh. Rowing but just rowing on land,
Speaker 1: like using the rowing machine. I'm a good rope but
Speaker 1: I don't like to do it on the ocean, on
Speaker 1: the water, on the wet I just don't like not
Speaker 1: knowing what's beneath me. And it's are you scared of whales?
Speaker 1: Uh No, not really. I did go not Scooba snorkeling
Speaker 1: in Belize and there were whale sharks and I swim
Speaker 1: with whale sharks and that's so cool. It was really cool.
Speaker 1: But just in general, I just don't like being I
Speaker 1: feel like it's I'm just out of my element, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. It feels like it feels like
Speaker 1: outer space, you know. Yeah, But worse, nothing swimming above
Speaker 1: you or beside you or underneath you in outer space exactly,
Speaker 1: and they can't just change direction and eat you. I
Speaker 1: can also kind of pinpoint where it went wrong. I was.
Speaker 1: I was surfing in Costa Rica when I was like
Speaker 1: eighteen years old, and we were right where the leatherback
Speaker 1: turtles mate. And leatherback turtles are six foot sea turtles.
Speaker 1: They're freaking dinosaurs. They're massive, and one I was like
Speaker 1: enjoying sunset and like, oh, what a beautiful view, and
Speaker 1: then one came up right next to my board with
Speaker 1: its mouth a gape. And you've ever looked inside the
Speaker 1: mouth of a leatherback turtle, it is a nightmare's nightmare.
Speaker 1: Fuel They eat jellyfish, so it's all spiny and crazy.
Speaker 1: And that thing came up right next to my leg
Speaker 1: and I was like, I fucking paddled faster than I've
Speaker 1: piddle in my life. That's when you were done. And
Speaker 1: then I was like, yeah, fuck the ocean. I was
Speaker 1: like that place. Actually, honestly, I would agree if that
Speaker 1: happened to me, I'd probably like, yeah, we're good, We're good.
Speaker 1: I was probably trying to eat you. It's another core memory.
Speaker 1: I think he was just saying hi. He was just
Speaker 1: like He's like, yeah, but I was. Then You're like
Speaker 1: it looked like a dinosaur. It was especially out of
Speaker 1: nowhere too, like you're just peacefully enjoying it, and yeah,
Speaker 1: there's such a serene, beautiful moment, just like he's like,
Speaker 1: I would like to enjoy as well. Hey that's not
Speaker 1: so fun fair enough. Yeah, so the cruise was fun
Speaker 1: Cosmo scuba diving. Um. One of my friends confessed her
Speaker 1: love for me and I rejected it, and then we
Speaker 1: were still stuck on a boat with each two days.
Speaker 1: I'm like, why would you not do this on the
Speaker 1: last day? Like, why would you do this midway through?
Speaker 1: She was like maybe there wasn't because if you were
Speaker 1: into it, you would have been like why didn't you
Speaker 1: do this on the first day? Absolutely, so yeah, maybe
Speaker 1: she shot for the middle. You know, I guess staphysically speaking,
Speaker 1: she picked a good it was a good option, yeah,
Speaker 1: But statisically speaking, I feel like there could have been
Speaker 1: other options, like maybe should have gathered more stats first, Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: a little reconnaissance. More overall, the there's fourteen of you
Speaker 1: in class, Like, you guys haven't figured out over the year.
Speaker 1: You could do the recon. You could ask anybody literally, wait,
Speaker 1: do you think I don't think so. You're like, I'm
Speaker 1: in the middle of some fro yo and sprinkles. I
Speaker 1: got my sprinkles and frolio. I'm really living my chaha memory.
Speaker 1: Will you talk about loves before right now? You know?
Speaker 1: Not the time? Yeah? No, not the tom I'm in
Speaker 1: between the mamma yo sprinkles. Um weird weird weird flex.
Speaker 1: I won the U the karaoke competition on a Princess cruise. Congratulations.
Speaker 1: I was the Princess Karaoke King. Yep, Princess Karaoke King,
Speaker 1: and I sang h lean on me and all the
Speaker 1: old folks were just like for the rest of the trip,
Speaker 1: We're just like King Karaoke. Voted for you. I voted
Speaker 1: for you. I knew you had something special. Mcfannin thanks Herb, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you could call me her. But we were the only
Speaker 1: my girlfriend and I were the only two young people
Speaker 1: on the cruise, and everyone was just like, look at
Speaker 1: you too, Oh, come on, I love you. Guys are
Speaker 1: outliving your life because no, because no, me and me
Speaker 1: and Harb, we didn't go out on the cruiseeas until
Speaker 1: we were in our sixties, and I loved it. You
Speaker 1: guys are doing it now, Yeah, we were, I love
Speaker 1: we had We had different outfits for every night. We
Speaker 1: pretended like it was a different decade. So we had like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's not twenties thing and there and they're the old
Speaker 1: people are just like I remember twenties. Yeah, my friend
Speaker 1: Margaret died in the twenties. She was such a sweet soul.
Speaker 1: Thank you for making thank you for reliving that horrible memory.
Speaker 1: Thank you for bringing this back to my psyche. Okay,
Speaker 1: so that was the best. That was the best one,
Speaker 1: and then we've got the last one, which is what
Speaker 1: is the worst worst vacation? The worst vacation I ever
Speaker 1: went on was probably with my mom, Um, shout out mom, Yeah, God,
Speaker 1: the worst vacation. Ah. It's tough because like part of
Speaker 1: the best I think it mine is maybe mixed with
Speaker 1: like it was a really good one, and it's when
Speaker 1: I moved across YEP, when I moved across the country
Speaker 1: last year, I'm like, I'm like, I'm graduated college now something.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm trying to do this whole coming of
Speaker 1: age thing I saw in the Disney Channel growing up.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, I have to do my cross country
Speaker 1: road trip to find myself and to find my place
Speaker 1: as such a Disney themed episode, because we're talking about
Speaker 1: we're talking Playlist Live in Orlando, We're talking about the
Speaker 1: Disney Cruise as a child, and then now all I
Speaker 1: know is Disney. I don't know how other people navigate
Speaker 1: the world that they haven't seen it in a Disney
Speaker 1: movie like this. This is my point of reference. So
Speaker 1: I'm like, like, this is gonna be my big coming
Speaker 1: of age cross country trip. Um. And I decide I'm
Speaker 1: going to visit like fifteen friends over thirty days while
Speaker 1: I moved from Florida Jacksonville, Florida, like I ten east
Speaker 1: basically over to Los Angeles, which West. Yeah, and my
Speaker 1: friends like, you're an idiot. I'm like, why are you
Speaker 1: saying I'm an idiot? For friendship? That's not a bad idea.
Speaker 1: This is a life changing and it wasn't a straight shot.
Speaker 1: I decided that I would drive up to Boston, Okay,
Speaker 1: back down to the Carolinas that was a mist like,
Speaker 1: and then go across and I spent the first week
Speaker 1: driving up and down the coast so like this just
Speaker 1: from Jacksonville to South Carolina is like a ten hour drive,
Speaker 1: yea myself, And after the first two hours, I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh no, if you haven't been able to tell I'm
Speaker 1: a talkative person, I'm a social being. Every one of
Speaker 1: my trips have been very social. And now I'm like,
Speaker 1: what did I do? I'm stupid, this is dumb. And
Speaker 1: I spent the first week and every stop I had
Speaker 1: was overnight. It wasn't like I spent a week there.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I got thirty days to make it over there.
Speaker 1: So I visited fifteen people, seven of them on this coast.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, I'm doing night by night driving six
Speaker 1: hours to a different place. As soon as I wake
Speaker 1: up to spend like four hours awake with the person,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I have to go to sleep because I
Speaker 1: have to leave at six am because I have to
Speaker 1: drive seven hours up to New York tomorrow. Like that
Speaker 1: was awful. It was so stupid. I should have done
Speaker 1: a straight shot or giving myself more than thirty days.
Speaker 1: The lesson I learned were spending at least spend at
Speaker 1: least like two nights at a place, don't or just
Speaker 1: snight or just have the like itinerary open ended, you
Speaker 1: know where you're like, so you can shift it. I
Speaker 1: feel like I am, but people had worked, so I'm like,
Speaker 1: I gotta get there because they have work tomorrow. Otherwise
Speaker 1: they can't hang out with me for two hours when
Speaker 1: I get to their house at twelve pm that or
Speaker 1: twelve m at night. You know, it was so dumb.
Speaker 1: Like the highlight was that I got to take my
Speaker 1: mom to Niagara Falls. We wound up getting up there
Speaker 1: somehow and then driving back down, which was great all
Speaker 1: the way up to Niagara Falls. Niagara Falls is so
Speaker 1: lame too. Okay, the falls are beautiful, but everything around
Speaker 1: it is shut down from the pandemic. Like there's no
Speaker 1: tourists anything. Like the Canadian side had like a ferris
Speaker 1: wheel going. They were shooting off fireworks and on the
Speaker 1: American side they're like, we have the disease, and the
Speaker 1: disease is stricken us. We are not allowed to be
Speaker 1: commercing or whatever. So it's just the boat. But it
Speaker 1: was cool to be. I would fly it. Don't drive
Speaker 1: to Niagara Falls. There's no But the one thing is
Speaker 1: now that you've moved out to LA, you're never gonna
Speaker 1: do that coast road trip again. So you're getting like, yeah, like,
Speaker 1: at least you got that, you know, it would have
Speaker 1: made it better if I is, if I had someone
Speaker 1: with me the whole time. And funny enough, the Snickle
Speaker 1: another content creator. I picked him up halfway through in
Speaker 1: Minnesota to finish out the drive through like Utah, Vegas, La,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, this is gonna be great. We're gonna
Speaker 1: talk the whole time, hang out this this is the
Speaker 1: coming of age road trip movie. I need to know
Speaker 1: what happened. He had a girlfriend at the time who
Speaker 1: was in Scotland. She's on a different time zone, so
Speaker 1: he the whole time I'm driving, he is either on
Speaker 1: the phone with his girlfriend in a one side of
Speaker 1: conversation I cannot hear, or he's watching TikTok's loudly and
Speaker 1: I'm like, I can't play music because he's on the phone.
Speaker 1: And then when I'm trying to play music, he's like
Speaker 1: watching TikTok's and laughing and I can only hear it,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I wish I could watch that too. See, yeah,
Speaker 1: that'd be crazy if I could see something. Let me
Speaker 1: just turn off the music, you know, and then you're
Speaker 1: just also hearing like no, I love you more. No,
Speaker 1: And I'm like, I think I'd rather die at Nebraska. No,
Speaker 1: you hang up first up. I just once we got
Speaker 1: to the corn Palace in Nebraska, I'm like, I think
Speaker 1: the corn Palace. I thought the Corn Palace was in
Speaker 1: South Dakota. Is it South Dakota. I think they're all
Speaker 1: the same. They're all the same. I hate that, you
Speaker 1: know where it is with respect on the corn palaces.
Speaker 1: Go to the corn pads. You get the chance that was.
Speaker 1: It was so dumb. It was so dumb, and it
Speaker 1: was the only thing for like twenty miles. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: we have to go to the corn Palace. It really
Speaker 1: is a palace made of corn. It is all made
Speaker 1: of corn. It was like it look like a school
Speaker 1: gym but also a corn corn palace. And I just
Speaker 1: I'm like, who are you people? Why is this what
Speaker 1: you do out here? And it was got time on
Speaker 1: their hands. The moral of the story is like, like,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna do that cross country road trip, do it.
Speaker 1: Give yourself more time. Don't spend one night in a place,
Speaker 1: give yourself like three nights and leave it kind of open.
Speaker 1: Ended and make it what adventures may come. You know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. I would do it again, but I would
Speaker 1: do it a lot slower, and I'd make sure someone
Speaker 1: was with me at every part of the drive, because
Speaker 1: driving nine hours through the night is not the move. Yeah,
Speaker 1: to it in an electric vehicle to at this point,
Speaker 1: because gas prices are a little it's like eight dollars
Speaker 1: in here another. Yeah, so like the road trip is
Speaker 1: dead at the moment. Yeah, unless even if the tesla.
Speaker 1: It's like, don't go through the desert in a tesla. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a little dangerous. Well, I mean unless you go
Speaker 1: in a place that's rural and then you can get
Speaker 1: gas for only four dollars, which is very high in
Speaker 1: the rest of the country, but a great deal if
Speaker 1: you're from La. I think that sums it up. I
Speaker 1: think I think we've learned a lot. There's been a
Speaker 1: lot of messages. I think what we learned is we
Speaker 1: need to go on a cruise together. We need to sneak.
Speaker 1: We need to sneak onto a cruise. What happens if
Speaker 1: they catch us, I don't know. I think they just
Speaker 1: drop you off in international waters. Oh you think, so,
Speaker 1: what kind of boat where they put us on men
Speaker 1: like wood or just no. I think they just hurl
Speaker 1: you off the side. They can't do that legally. What
Speaker 1: if they like airlift us out, like you can't be
Speaker 1: here for your helicopter, Right, that's what it sounds like
Speaker 1: to me. The nearest island and then probably yelled at
Speaker 1: by the local authorities and adventures when I'm hearing I
Speaker 1: don't like the sound of this. I'd like to go
Speaker 1: to Jamaica. Let's do it on, okay, Jamaican cruise. We're
Speaker 1: sneaking on. I mean, guys, if I do it though,
Speaker 1: the CIA will definitely want me then yeah, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: we just gotta we gotta like figure out the outfits.
Speaker 1: I'm sure we could sneak on is some sort of
Speaker 1: a like or we could be like or we could
Speaker 1: be like we're we're the crew's performers. We're the Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're we're the entertainment. We have a we have a
Speaker 1: two man show, like I'm a ventriloquist and he's Jess.
Speaker 1: I'm the dummy. I'm a dummy stripper. That's the other
Speaker 1: part two is we have to improvise the whole thing.
Speaker 1: We can't have any dummy Stripper and like, wow, how
Speaker 1: does that work? I'm like, Hilarius, the show goes, I'm
Speaker 1: the show and you can see it. Well, that about
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