Speaker 1: Hello. We are here in Washington Square Park.
Speaker 2: I have been I have traversed not a I mean
Speaker 2: I've traversed a fair amount of places, and one of
Speaker 2: my favorite places on the earth is Washington Square Park.
Speaker 2: It brings together a diverse range of people. There's old people,
Speaker 2: there's young people. There's all kinds of people. Those are
Speaker 2: the two kinds of people. But there's a lot of
Speaker 2: people here. There's a lot of activity, there's a lot
Speaker 2: of life, and I love it. I feel like I'm
Speaker 2: at the center of the universe right now here in
Speaker 2: Washington Square Park.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I'm talking like I'm an announcer.
Speaker 2: Let's talk to some people. That's why we're here. We're
Speaker 2: here to be a gecko and talk to people about life.
Speaker 2: Do you want to talk to a gecko about life? No,
Speaker 2: he doesn't. Do you want to talk to a gecko
Speaker 2: about life? Have a seat? Have a seat. What's your name?
Speaker 3: My name is ChEls Parola.
Speaker 4: How are you doing?
Speaker 2: Charles's probably got a first end last Carls Parolas and
Speaker 2: last name Parlo Paralo. Up, Charles, how's life? Ah, I'm
Speaker 2: pretty good.
Speaker 3: I'm sitting next to a guy with a face like
Speaker 3: like face panton and dress as a get go. This
Speaker 3: is exactly what my parents envision for my life. They
Speaker 3: want me to get an investment banking instead of doing this.
Speaker 2: Okay, how's your relationship with your parents? They both passed away.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry to hear that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's kind of a that was kind of a
Speaker 3: rough segue there. I'm sorry I had how did you
Speaker 3: give you do that?
Speaker 4: There?
Speaker 1: Where did you have a good relationship with them?
Speaker 2: Like growing up?
Speaker 3: I go got good enough?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess so.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I had a like a kind
Speaker 3: of a rough relation with my dad until like a
Speaker 3: few like, like I said, the year before we passed away. Okay,
Speaker 3: so it's kind of nice. We actually got along for
Speaker 3: that final year.
Speaker 2: So that's not when you guys were getting along. Like
Speaker 2: what kind of stuff would you like do together?
Speaker 4: You know, I don't know if we would do.
Speaker 3: I mean, we would just hang out, you know, just
Speaker 3: like eat dinner things like that. But I think it
Speaker 3: was just like, you know, I didn't have the best
Speaker 3: career for like years, and then it kind of picked up,
Speaker 3: you know, and then I was like there was some
Speaker 3: kind of pride there. We had some fun, but yeah,
Speaker 3: it was kind of cool.
Speaker 2: Did you like, did you learn anything about like in
Speaker 2: that like little window of time, do you like, learn
Speaker 2: anything about him that you like didn't didn't know during
Speaker 2: your life that maybe like surprise you.
Speaker 3: So I mean occasionally, like because you know, my mom
Speaker 3: passed away years earlier, and he had another girlfriend, and
Speaker 3: he'd occasionally get drunk and talk about sexual things. So
Speaker 3: I learned some weird fetish ship. I learned he liked feet.
Speaker 3: He had that Dan Schneider thing going on. Yeah, so
Speaker 3: I don't you know, I don't you know that's gonna
Speaker 3: be broadcast now. But hey, you know doctor Kid's doctor
Speaker 3: Parola like feet, you know what?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 2: This actually brings up an interesting subject because it's like
Speaker 2: if your dad starts talking to you about sex in
Speaker 2: a weird way. It's like, you know, you only have
Speaker 2: one you know, your parents are your parents, and you
Speaker 2: know you want to know about them because they're your parents,
Speaker 2: but also because they're your parents, you don't want to
Speaker 2: know about their sex life. But there's also a weird
Speaker 2: thing where it's like, you know, I don't know, there's
Speaker 2: a there's a like your dad telling you that he's
Speaker 2: in defeat. There's like a vulnerability in there that does
Speaker 2: kind of a lot of alcohol to a lot of alcohol,
Speaker 2: but it's a vulnerability in there that is like kind
Speaker 2: of even though it's like, oh, that's my dad, I
Speaker 2: don't know if I necessarily wanted to know that, it's like, Oh,
Speaker 2: I'm kind of glad that I'm getting to know my dad,
Speaker 2: or is.
Speaker 3: That we never really talked about sex and he never
Speaker 3: gave me the talk. When I was a kid, I
Speaker 3: learned about sex from Jerry Seinfeld, I just watching Don Feldts.
Speaker 3: In fact, I remember the only time he tried talking
Speaker 3: about sex, I already had it.
Speaker 4: I was sixteen. We were watching the movie.
Speaker 3: The Ninth Gate and it was kind of crazy because
Speaker 3: there's a scene where Johnny Depp is having sex in
Speaker 3: front of a burning church and there's some woman who's
Speaker 3: who's actually the devil and her face is turning into
Speaker 3: a horse face for some weird reason. And that was
Speaker 3: the moment my dad's like, you know, you got to
Speaker 3: use protection and I'm like, wait, are we doing that?
Speaker 3: And he's like no, seriously, seriously, pregnancy that could be
Speaker 3: taken care of, but you know, ATDs are a thing,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, wait, are we seriously having a moment.
Speaker 1: Right now, he said, pregnancy that could be taken care of.
Speaker 3: But we were, we were, you know, it was weird.
Speaker 3: I was going to Catholic school at the time, but
Speaker 3: we were. We were like a kind of a liberal
Speaker 3: household in that respect, you know, we were we were
Speaker 3: the family. We had that like herschel Walker thought like, hey,
Speaker 3: you get some pregnant, you put four ndred dollars and
Speaker 3: a get well card and takes care of itself. Might
Speaker 3: not be the best joke for everybody around, but okay,
Speaker 3: it's you know, worked for them.
Speaker 2: I mean, you can abort chlamydia too, yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah you can.
Speaker 3: You can get rid of chlamydia. Can't get rid of
Speaker 3: some of the other ones. I mean I kind of
Speaker 3: was wondering at age like fifteen sixteen, who my dad
Speaker 3: thought I was hanging out with, Like, I mean, I
Speaker 3: don't think like the clap was a thing that was
Speaker 3: spreading around like with sophomores in high school. I mean,
Speaker 3: but maybe it was. Maybe I just wasn't active enough.
Speaker 2: Like no, so you said, okay, you said that, you're
Speaker 2: you're kind of when your career started picking up, your
Speaker 2: relationship with your dad started to give it what was
Speaker 2: your career?
Speaker 1: Picking up looking looking like, what what is your career?
Speaker 3: I'm a YouTuber, TikToker actually like yourself, and I would say,
Speaker 3: you know, like originally my dad kind of did it
Speaker 3: because I always tried working in startups and other projects.
Speaker 3: It didn't really go like the best, and there's a
Speaker 3: lot of failure, a lot of false hope like oh, hey,
Speaker 3: this is gonna work and it doesn't, and then the
Speaker 3: money really starts coming in, especially from the snapchat shows. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but I think like the best moment was, you know,
Speaker 3: the Marek Human interview. I interviewed him back in the day.
Speaker 3: I had him on for like almost two hours. Cool
Speaker 3: and my dad never watched it in my interviews before.
Speaker 3: He said I was interviewing has been celebrities, which a
Speaker 3: little bit true. And uh then he like watched the
Speaker 3: whole Mark Cuban interview on TV. I went out to
Speaker 3: like a club and then like I came back home
Speaker 3: actually and he was like, hey, I just want to
Speaker 3: say you did a really great job, but that that
Speaker 3: was a really nice thing. And I actually I actually
Speaker 3: told Mark after he passed away, I spoke to Cuban again,
Speaker 3: I mentioned that, yeah, and like, yeah, Mark Cuban, that
Speaker 3: was a that's a really cool dude. I mean there's
Speaker 3: two guys I can say I've met in this business
Speaker 3: that are like, you know, like doing this, that are
Speaker 3: just altern nice people. Mark Cuban's like exceptionalize.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: The other one, and this is the coolest thing, is
Speaker 3: a mister Beast. Actually. Yeah, like you know, end of
Speaker 3: last year, he followed me on Instagram and messaged me
Speaker 3: and like, uh he really enough wanted a phone call.
Speaker 3: And I was like almost crying afterwards, Like I told
Speaker 3: people that, and you probably get a little yourself, like
Speaker 3: that's almost like being like an actor on like a
Speaker 3: regular TV show. And then DiCaprio, who shoots you a text,
Speaker 3: great job like that's that was like it was like
Speaker 3: a tier moment. You get that feeling all.
Speaker 1: You know, it's fine.
Speaker 2: I I actually I'm I met mister Beast once a
Speaker 2: while ago. I was at some I was at vid
Speaker 2: Coon too. I went in.
Speaker 1: I was either twenty twenty two or twenty two three.
Speaker 3: I said it was twenty two twenty two. I've been
Speaker 3: the last couple, but not twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2: And I was there, and I was in this like
Speaker 2: room where like TikTok had a little like room where they.
Speaker 3: It was like it was like Brent Television, the SpongeBob
Speaker 3: popsicle guy. There buy a chance there's.
Speaker 1: A SpongeBob popsicle.
Speaker 2: I was just watching a I was just watching an
Speaker 2: hour long YouTube video about the SpongeBob pobstacle. Yeah, I was.
Speaker 2: I was there and I mister Beast walks into the
Speaker 2: room and dude, like, snap about me, dude. Immediately, all
Speaker 2: these people just start like swarming him, like camera first,
Speaker 2: being like, hey, mister beast, let me like show you
Speaker 2: a magic trick. Hey mister Beast, let me be in
Speaker 2: my video because they want to like get his space.
Speaker 1: And I felt like bad for him.
Speaker 3: It's kind of like this when I was when I
Speaker 3: was a kid, Like, uh, Pope, the Pope before the
Speaker 3: current One visited New York and I was watching it
Speaker 3: just on TV and there were tons of nuns jumping
Speaker 3: like saying, oh, we got to get close to him,
Speaker 3: got close with They're almost like groupies, and it's the Beatles.
Speaker 3: That's kind of what it's like. It's like you could
Speaker 3: have five million screw subscribers on YouTube and you're jumping
Speaker 3: to see mister Bees like you could be because there's
Speaker 3: like there's kind of like a level where I feel like,
Speaker 3: you know you and I might sort of be on
Speaker 3: it where people sort of know us, like you know,
Speaker 3: we get recognized. I mean, hell, that happened when you
Speaker 3: were setting up, Like one guy came to you, A
Speaker 3: bunch of people came up to you. One by guy
Speaker 3: came to me. But but then there's like then there's
Speaker 3: the megas and it's like there's like like god t here.
Speaker 3: It's like and that's that's what he is, and it's
Speaker 3: kind of that's what It's kind of sick to be
Speaker 3: noticed by that.
Speaker 2: That's cool, you know. I always wonder about mister Beast
Speaker 2: because like, uh, he keeps going and he's really young.
Speaker 2: He's he's younger than me, you know, but he just
Speaker 2: he keeps going. And I always wonder with dudes like that.
Speaker 2: I'm like, how do you keep going? Because you get
Speaker 2: to a certain point where you're like, uh, you know,
Speaker 2: like like what like after you achieve like this like
Speaker 2: your massive sess you're number one, like you can't how
Speaker 2: do you be?
Speaker 1: How do you keep being wanting to be more than
Speaker 1: number one.
Speaker 4: For like infinity.
Speaker 3: So I've had a few conversations with him about that actually,
Speaker 3: and I think at this point he has reached the
Speaker 3: number one status on YouTube, and I think now his
Speaker 3: big dream is to be someone like Walt Disney. Like
Speaker 3: I really think his vision is because he told me
Speaker 3: how many you know, I don't know if I can
Speaker 3: say the number on camera, but he told me how
Speaker 3: many candy bars they're selling. It's they're competitive with Hershey,
Speaker 3: now they are. This is a billion dollar company.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm a large portion of that pie buying those
Speaker 2: mister beets.
Speaker 3: I think they're just okay. And I told him that.
Speaker 3: I told him that I respect Oh yeah, I told him.
Speaker 3: I said I'd give the chocolate. I gave him a bee.
Speaker 3: I gave him a bee. I gave him a bee
Speaker 3: for beast.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're okay. I mean, well they're they're specifically not
Speaker 2: meant to have as much like sugar and crap in them, right,
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: Know about that. It's like, I think they're fine. I
Speaker 3: just think there could be some better chocolates out there.
Speaker 3: But he's a really cool guy and I think he
Speaker 3: will build a company worth ten billion dollars or more like,
Speaker 3: I mean it's already I think valued at a billion dollars.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, So back to you.
Speaker 4: Sure, back to me.
Speaker 2: You say, oh yeah, okay, So you interviewed these celebrities
Speaker 2: and you're like, so, how I gots I'm curious about this,
Speaker 2: like how do you how do you feel about your
Speaker 2: career and life?
Speaker 3: And I think we're at a little bit of a
Speaker 3: plateau right now. It's like there's nothing like, I mean,
Speaker 3: do you ever get that feeling yourself as a creator.
Speaker 2: I've been getting. That's twenty twenty five has been for
Speaker 2: me about about like, oh I have that plateau.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because it's like you could people don't realize it
Speaker 3: as a creator. It's like you get to that point,
Speaker 3: like the growth numbers aren't the same you get to
Speaker 3: because people always think, like, you know, you get a
Speaker 3: million subscribers, you're gonna have ten times as many views
Speaker 3: one hundred thousand. But you know, I don't know if
Speaker 3: you're more of a shorts or longer form or both.
Speaker 3: But I actually told people it's like, oh, my most
Speaker 3: viewed month ever on YouTube was eighty five million views,
Speaker 3: and I had under fifty thousand subscribers. Yeah, now it's
Speaker 3: like I have a million subscribers. I can get like
Speaker 3: a quarter of that. So it's like there's a little
Speaker 3: bit of a plateau. So it's trying to break the
Speaker 3: plateau and doing things like you know, I hired a
Speaker 3: guy to do an animatedor we're gonna try to do an
Speaker 3: animated videos. New app I'm trying to launch. So there's
Speaker 3: so many new things you try to do because if
Speaker 3: you because if you do have a plateau, you just
Speaker 3: have a regular job like everyone else.
Speaker 1: That's all you're hundredercent correct.
Speaker 2: The thing though, is that, like, you know, I've experienced
Speaker 2: posting a video on Instagram and TikTok or whatever and
Speaker 2: having it get a million views or whatever, and I,
Speaker 2: you know, I look at my YouTube or whatever and
Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't know if it's like views that
Speaker 2: I'm chasing more so than it is like, uh, I
Speaker 2: don't know a novelty in like like like I don't
Speaker 2: know if the plateau is necessarily about like a number
Speaker 2: more than it is about like, you know, what you're
Speaker 2: actually doing.
Speaker 5: It gets the.
Speaker 3: Point I feel a little bit more almost about money, sadly,
Speaker 3: because it's like, because the thing is when I first
Speaker 3: when I first went viral on TikTok, and like, cause
Speaker 3: you said you did this for five years, right, so
Speaker 3: around the same for me as well. It was like
Speaker 3: I started, like I really started going viral on like
Speaker 3: twenty twenty one. And I remember the first time I
Speaker 3: did a video. I was living with my brother and
Speaker 3: like when they do the one viral, it was about
Speaker 3: Adam Sandler. I posted two videos that day I made
Speaker 3: the night before. The first got eight views in two hours,
Speaker 3: which eight likes in two hours, and then the second
Speaker 3: one got seventeen thousand two hours and ended up getting
Speaker 3: three and a half million views. And that's when I
Speaker 3: was like, Okay, the celebrity stuff is really starting to sell.
Speaker 3: And I did that and I was really, you know,
Speaker 3: happy with how things were going. But but then it's like,
Speaker 3: you know, and I wasn't even making money the first
Speaker 3: six months because there was that rumor TikTok they wouldn't
Speaker 3: pay you if you monetize, and I believed it and
Speaker 3: I was more into getting that two million view a
Speaker 3: day number that I was making money, and I didn't,
Speaker 3: you know, so I went like, you know, six months.
Speaker 2: I remember there was a rumor that if you joined
Speaker 2: the Creator Fund, like they don't want to.
Speaker 3: Pay out, yeah, which was false, and you know, so
Speaker 3: I didn't monetize, but it was more important to get
Speaker 3: the views. Now it's like, oh hey, whippy, do get
Speaker 3: get a million views. It's like I've done that hundreds
Speaker 3: of times. So now it's like, okay, the money but
Speaker 3: it got it's got to stop doing that. So it's
Speaker 3: like now about long form content. Now it's about new
Speaker 3: projects because.
Speaker 1: Do you like well, do you like do you like
Speaker 1: covering celebrities?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 3: So the thing is this, there's a line in Hollywood
Speaker 3: because they say with directing, one for me, one for you,
Speaker 3: And I think the biggest example of that is Tim Burdon.
Speaker 3: Tim burd And did the movie Als in Wonderland. He
Speaker 3: did not want to direct that movie. He didn't direct
Speaker 3: the sequel.
Speaker 4: He didn't care.
Speaker 3: He did it just so they would fund franken Weeni,
Speaker 3: which was one of his early projects. It was one
Speaker 3: for me, one for you moment. So with me, there's
Speaker 3: some videos I really love covering. When I get to
Speaker 3: do celebrity financials and movie financials and there's some cool stuff.
Speaker 3: But then there's other times where yeah, it's not it's
Speaker 3: like it's like just a video. Like like I mentioned earlier,
Speaker 3: I did want about Hayley jaw Osman today about him
Speaker 3: getting arrested, and at the end of the video, I said, hey,
Speaker 3: we all deserve to be forgiven, like and that was
Speaker 3: like kind of a message there. But then again, I
Speaker 3: like to sprinkle some stuff I'm interested in because you know,
Speaker 3: he got paid one hundred and fifty k for six cents.
Speaker 3: Bruce Will's got one hundred and twelve million. I think
Speaker 3: that's a fact that should be known because it shows
Speaker 3: how child actors, I think, are getting ripped off. So
Speaker 3: I think, so, yeah, I am happy with the work,
Speaker 3: but it could be better.
Speaker 2: I think that I like the application of the one
Speaker 2: for me, one for you thing to you know, the
Speaker 2: Internet universe.
Speaker 1: And I was all right, a little bit about like life.
Speaker 2: You know, I mean in general, if you want to
Speaker 2: pursue some kind of creative thing, you know, everyone has
Speaker 2: to make money and feed themselves. And it's like, you know, look,
Speaker 2: you go to your job, you do one for yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: you give one up for capitalism, and then you yeah,
Speaker 2: you do one for yourself. You know, it's it's you
Speaker 2: can do both.
Speaker 3: I think it's a lot of careers. My dad was
Speaker 3: a doctor and one thing he told me was he
Speaker 3: loved doing surgery. Surgeries is fun. Pretty much every surgeon
Speaker 3: love surgery. They hate seeing eighty patients in one day
Speaker 3: having them complain getting the BS.
Speaker 5: But it's like a one.
Speaker 3: For me, one for you is you do those days
Speaker 3: so you can do the days you like.
Speaker 4: Yep. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3: Maybe there's some interviews you don't love doing, but some
Speaker 3: videos do well.
Speaker 1: I'm having fun doing that. I like being outside.
Speaker 4: This is cool.
Speaker 2: You know you.
Speaker 1: Now, I gotta ask you a question, Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 3: What's the craziest interview you've done so far?
Speaker 1: Craziest well, craziest location, craziest.
Speaker 2: Location I've done. I mean, I've done this in Thailand,
Speaker 2: I've done this in Japan. I've done this in Guatemala, Mexico.
Speaker 2: I want to do more of that stuff, but okay,
Speaker 2: you know, I don't know right now. Now, I'm enjoying
Speaker 2: being in in New York. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 3: It's a cool world we live in.
Speaker 2: What's your name again, brother, Charles, Charles part what's your
Speaker 2: YouTube channel? Gotta check it out.
Speaker 1: My name Charles Parot Parol.
Speaker 4: You have a card, I'll give you my card.
Speaker 6: Car.
Speaker 2: I gotta get a car. I gotta get a Gecko card.
Speaker 2: I can have my illustrator make you want to be
Speaker 2: Oh it's oh, it's oh crap shit, oh dar okay.
Speaker 2: Oh I love this. It's a Pokemon. I'm gonna show
Speaker 2: this to the camera. This is pretty cool.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a Pokemon business card.
Speaker 2: It's pretty sweet. Viral rush the ability to make any
Speaker 2: topic viral and turn it into a million views. This
Speaker 2: is cool, man.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's gotta go. Pole boy.
Speaker 3: I'm known for like the YouTube polls too and now,
Speaker 3: and I'm wondering if people are gonna watch that and
Speaker 3: start calling me because my own numbers on it.
Speaker 2: But it's pretty cool, Charles Man, thanks for sitting out.
Speaker 2: Anything else you want to say to the people of
Speaker 2: the computer before we go.
Speaker 3: Uh, twenty twenty five. We're one third into the year.
Speaker 3: I enjoy the rest of the two thirds and have fun.
Speaker 2: Charles speach Man, what's your name? My friend? Terrence, Terrence Pleasure.
Speaker 2: What's up with you? Man? Do you have people in
Speaker 2: your life for you alone?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I got people right here just as well. Yeah,
Speaker 5: told me from Italy?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Nice?
Speaker 5: And that's my girlfriend. These are friends from Italy.
Speaker 2: My friends for are you from Italy? No?
Speaker 8: No, just my girlfriend is okay, yeah, okay, I'm not
Speaker 8: that interesting. I'm from South Jersey, so nice. What's got
Speaker 8: what's what's got you here in New York City?
Speaker 6: Work?
Speaker 2: Wait? You for work?
Speaker 5: Finance?
Speaker 2: So okay? Yeah, so it brought me a lot of money.
Speaker 2: You don't have to say you don't want to Actually.
Speaker 5: I make Yeah, it's not bad. It keeps keeps me
Speaker 5: in an apartment.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 2: Nice.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: What do you like about life?
Speaker 5: Possibility, opportunity, basically.
Speaker 8: Dune trying to you know, survive, get get them by nice?
Speaker 5: Uh art, I guess yeah. Are and culture great thing
Speaker 5: about life?
Speaker 2: I don't know if they can and uh hear it
Speaker 2: on the microphones. But where there's a guy over there
Speaker 2: playing the violin. Oh yes, and it's very beautiful.
Speaker 5: Very talented. I wish I was half as talented.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: I want to say I want to say something about
Speaker 2: because I actually I do this a lot, not to
Speaker 2: I don't know why I'm making what you said into
Speaker 2: a whole thing, but I'm projecting right now. I'm projecting
Speaker 2: right now. But I'll like, if I see somebody like
Speaker 2: doing something cool, I do. I do kind of have
Speaker 2: this like ego thing that I do. Why I bring
Speaker 2: everything back to me Like I'm like, oh, I wish
Speaker 2: I was that good or I wish I was I
Speaker 2: wish I was that. And I've been lately trying to
Speaker 2: catch myself and just be like, just appreciate that this this.
Speaker 5: Thing, that this is a part of life. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: part of it. Yeah, I guess, yeah, maybe I am selfish.
Speaker 8: Maybe I think that's I think I know I have
Speaker 8: to steal bros, you know, talent, Like I like, I
Speaker 8: don't know.
Speaker 2: You ever, like you ever on Instagram or look at
Speaker 2: that dog you everyone like Instagram or like like I'll
Speaker 2: go to a comedy club or whatever, I'll see someone
Speaker 2: perform something and I'll be like, Oh, that person's so good.
Speaker 2: I wish I was like this talented as something. And
Speaker 2: sometimes I try to knock myself in the head and
Speaker 2: be like, just.
Speaker 1: Appreciate that you live. You can't you can't be God,
Speaker 1: you can't.
Speaker 2: Be the best thing at everything, in all things at all.
Speaker 2: There's a reason that there's more than one person creating
Speaker 2: the entire planet that we live in, you know.
Speaker 8: And that's what sucks. Like Damn, I can't be a
Speaker 8: violin player. I can't be you know, a therapy keechout.
Speaker 8: Like I guess I'm just me just doing whatever I
Speaker 8: can do. That's pretty good.
Speaker 1: What is it? What is what is being you?
Speaker 5: Music? Producing?
Speaker 2: Really?
Speaker 5: Okay that's my passion.
Speaker 2: But yeah, what who do you like in the music universe?
Speaker 5: Music universe?
Speaker 8: You gotta say, like paral m F Doom is kind
Speaker 8: of like everyone's like saying Tom F Doom, Trap call
Speaker 8: Quest was like my big ye, my biggest thing.
Speaker 5: Great picks, Yeah, dayla soul.
Speaker 8: I mean I love I grew up on like nineties rap,
Speaker 8: so like I love all those guys, Like do you
Speaker 8: know you know King Dora, King Dora, Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 8: the Doom and uh Victor Vaughan.
Speaker 5: And all of them.
Speaker 2: I have I have. I have many memories of over
Speaker 2: ten years ago, uh smoking weed in a car parked
Speaker 2: on the side of the road in a random neighborhood,
Speaker 2: gating to listening to King gy Dora Take me to
Speaker 2: your Leader.
Speaker 5: The best, great ship, the best times. Can't really beat that.
Speaker 1: What's your what's your ultimate dream in life?
Speaker 5: A music producer?
Speaker 8: Yes, yeah, for sure, produced for some of my favorite artists.
Speaker 5: Meet just really meet some of my idols.
Speaker 2: Really, that's who would you want to meet? If you
Speaker 2: could meet anyone?
Speaker 8: Well, I could check you off the list, Okay, hell yeah,
Speaker 8: like Dave Chappelle, Larry Bird, not Larry Bird, Larry David
Speaker 8: and then uh yeah.
Speaker 5: Far our Q Tip did you did you?
Speaker 2: Is you Tip alive?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Fife Dog, Fife Fife Dog. Don't quote me. I
Speaker 5: think he's the one that passed away.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh, what the hell was I gonna What was
Speaker 2: I gonna say? Oh, I forget I was just about
Speaker 2: it was about celebrities, Larry David or Dave Chappellerry David,
Speaker 2: Dave Chappelle, Dave meeting people, meeting people. My brain's not
Speaker 2: working right now. Why do I not know what I'm
Speaker 2: talking about?
Speaker 5: Comedy shows?
Speaker 2: Comedy show? Do you like comedy? Who do you like?
Speaker 5: Love comedy?
Speaker 10: Me?
Speaker 8: And uh, me and my girlfriend actually have a kind
Speaker 8: of an addiction of going to the comedy seller.
Speaker 1: So, oh yeah, who who do you see? It to
Speaker 1: that comedy seller.
Speaker 4: One of the.
Speaker 8: Biggest surprises Andrew Schultz like he just he just pulled
Speaker 8: up randomly hit us with a couple of jokes.
Speaker 5: We saw at.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, yeah, when when see you there, he put
Speaker 8: up randomly.
Speaker 5: Shoot, I'm asking like for validation.
Speaker 1: I didn't know he still didn't stand up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he pulled up randomly, and I was kind of.
Speaker 1: In the last five years.
Speaker 5: Yes, this was within the last year.
Speaker 2: I want to say, yeah, he's still doing stand up.
Speaker 5: And I started freaking out. I tried to tap her, like, hey,
Speaker 5: that's that's Judd Apatow.
Speaker 4: She was like, who's that?
Speaker 5: And I was like that dude.
Speaker 2: You get to a point where you're like, nobody knows
Speaker 2: who you know anymore, and the door keeps revolving. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, nobody knows who you know. You don't know
Speaker 2: anyone else knows.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, it's crazy. I mean I was
Speaker 5: freaking out when I saw you. So she was like,
Speaker 5: who's that?
Speaker 8: High school Okay, yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 5: I'm uh pretty good high school life. Yeah. I had
Speaker 5: a crush on her. It took me a while to
Speaker 5: get there, but we made it happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like you seem like you're living a nice life.
Speaker 5: I'm doing all right. I appreciate or kunt of my blessings.
Speaker 2: I guess yeah, yeah, I'm trying to do the same thing.
Speaker 4: This is a good place to do that.
Speaker 8: This park, New York. Yeah, this park. Yeah, a lot
Speaker 8: of stuff going on. This guy's killing it, like I wish.
Speaker 2: I wish this camera was three sixty degrees. Yeah, show off.
Speaker 8: But we can't do multitude. I can't wish for a
Speaker 8: unicycle right now, but.
Speaker 2: You can wish for whatever you want.
Speaker 5: I would love a unicycle right now. One of those
Speaker 5: guys right now.
Speaker 2: What's your name again, Terrence? Terrence? Is there anything else
Speaker 2: you gonna say? The people, the computer before we go?
Speaker 8: Yeah, follow my music page, skateboard Tea, Yeah, skateboard Tea, yes,
Speaker 8: follow skateboard TA.
Speaker 5: Producer, producer life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you very much, skateboard TA. See you around
Speaker 2: the universe.
Speaker 4: How much this means?
Speaker 2: Oh, thanks man, thanks man, good luck on your dreams.
Speaker 2: My friends. Well, Hi, what's your name?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Can you hold your uh?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: There we go.
Speaker 6: Yeah, like if Mike Tyson said, Gay's Gai.
Speaker 2: Gaith Oh, Oh, okay, okay, got what's kay?
Speaker 4: What's your actual name?
Speaker 2: My name is Lyle, Lyle.
Speaker 1: Nice to meet you.
Speaker 2: Gae. You formally how's life? You look cool? I like
Speaker 2: this jewelry that you have.
Speaker 6: You can look fish cooler than me, actually look but
Speaker 6: uh a little more confident.
Speaker 2: Oh, look at this King Kong I'm looking look at
Speaker 2: the King Kong Ring.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I actually just found it today. It's the first
Speaker 6: day of warn it, first couple of hours of worn it.
Speaker 6: So I'm glad you enjoy it.
Speaker 2: So, Gaith, what's up? Tell me everything? Tell me nothing?
Speaker 2: What's what do? What do we? What do we do?
Speaker 6: Just?
Speaker 4: What do we do?
Speaker 2: I'm looking, I'm at the park. I'm looking for answers. Man,
Speaker 2: do you have any answers? Answers or not, they don't
Speaker 2: have to be the answer. But what are your answers?
Speaker 2: Do you have answers?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 6: I'm basking the sun while we I guess we don't
Speaker 6: really gut as much as kind of cloudy out.
Speaker 4: But it seems like a really beautiful day.
Speaker 6: If one guy knows what they're doing, they're all finding
Speaker 6: their time to just enjoy themselves.
Speaker 4: So I like walking through parts like this. It's just
Speaker 4: doesn't seem like anyone's.
Speaker 2: In a rush.
Speaker 1: You ever get freaked out how many people there are?
Speaker 4: Sometimes?
Speaker 6: Yeah, not like over but like the idea of how
Speaker 6: many variables of people.
Speaker 2: There are so many variables, and it's weird because it's
Speaker 2: like you only get to be there's eight billion people,
Speaker 2: and you only get to be one person. You only
Speaker 2: get you get to be one of the eight billion people.
Speaker 2: The more the older I get, the more I'm like
Speaker 2: believing more, and you know, like you know, like somebody
Speaker 2: will like be on ayahuasca and start talking about shit
Speaker 2: and you have no idea what they're talking about. The
Speaker 2: more the more I think about it, I'm like, those
Speaker 2: people are probably right, there is got there's gotta be
Speaker 2: something underneath.
Speaker 4: They're delving into.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, they're delving in areas that people aren't used to,
Speaker 6: so I think we usually tend to think they're crazy. Yeah,
Speaker 6: but uh yeah, it's just all about perspective, isn't it. Yeah,
Speaker 6: everybody's entire personality, where you're born, where you see things.
Speaker 2: Do you know this word? I think I don't know
Speaker 2: if I'm pronouncing it right. It's sollipicism.
Speaker 6: Yea.
Speaker 2: It's like the the theory that, uh, it's kind of
Speaker 2: a it's a very ego full theory.
Speaker 1: It's like the idea that your.
Speaker 2: Consciousness like the whole world is just exists in your
Speaker 2: brain because your consciousness is the only verifiable one to you.
Speaker 2: So like the idea that the world is a simulation
Speaker 2: for you, and that's the other thing that you can verify,
Speaker 2: because again, you can only physically exist in your own consciousness.
Speaker 2: It's kind of a spooky thing to think if you
Speaker 2: really get wrapped up in it.
Speaker 6: I don't know if it's the same thought but or
Speaker 6: a school thought, but someone's telling me about how they
Speaker 6: believe in the idea that the afterlife is what we
Speaker 6: deem it in a sense that if you live a
Speaker 6: life that was good or bad, you would know more
Speaker 6: than anyone.
Speaker 4: You would be your own judge.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and then your moments of death, no matter how
Speaker 6: long it would be, would be either heaven or.
Speaker 4: Hell for you for what you deserve. You would know,
Speaker 4: but your brain would go, this is where I'm going.
Speaker 4: I have an idea. I know, I know I'm going here, But.
Speaker 11: Is that true?
Speaker 1: Like because it because like classically, like.
Speaker 2: Villains in like you know, movies or whatever, they think
Speaker 2: they're a good guy, right, So like that you could
Speaker 2: do like a bunch of crazy stuff. And then when
Speaker 2: you're about to die, be like on our way to Heaven, Baby,
Speaker 2: It's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 6: I guess that's the idea, the whole part of the
Speaker 6: brain being the simulation.
Speaker 4: They I guess they really truly believe it was their way.
Speaker 6: I mean, you could be a whole disgusting person, a
Speaker 6: vile person, and think you're the greatest person and wow,
Speaker 6: I guess you beat the system.
Speaker 4: Yeah, kind of terrible to think in that way.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I think about I think about evil.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm always getting fucking existential. But I've been thinking about
Speaker 2: good and evil differently, because good and evil, you think,
Speaker 2: are like kind of like there's good people and evil people.
Speaker 1: But I do feel as though.
Speaker 2: This sound this sounds like it's like ayahuasca hippie ship,
Speaker 2: but it feels very like real to me that we
Speaker 2: are in like a collective consciousness. So any evil committed
Speaker 2: is evil committed by the fucking collective consciousness of humanity,
Speaker 2: and same with any good. You know, we're all each
Speaker 2: other that kind of ship. I mean, that's how I
Speaker 2: think when I'm you know, in a in a heady mood. Normally,
Speaker 2: I'm actually lately, i've normally been in a heady mood.
Speaker 2: But you know what I mean. Then sometimes you're just
Speaker 2: you're just you're eating food and you're not thinking about anything.
Speaker 2: I've been really into I love watching. I watched a
Speaker 2: fucking hour long YouTube video that did a a deep
Speaker 2: dive into the special features on all the different SpongeBob
Speaker 2: DVDs throughout the years, and I was like, this is awesome.
Speaker 2: I never want to think about death again. I want
Speaker 2: to watch I'm trying. Oh, there was a VHS tape called,
Speaker 2: I think it was a VHS tape called A Day
Speaker 2: in the Life of SpongeBob, and I think it's like
Speaker 2: about a kid who hangs out with SpongeBob, but like
Speaker 2: it's like lost media or whatever.
Speaker 4: So I was watching that human kid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, human kid. I think he goes under the sea.
Speaker 2: But no, no, no, you got the right idea. You
Speaker 2: got the right idea. What's your life?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 6: I just moved out here about a month back. I
Speaker 6: visited a lot in the past, like five years. Cooluh,
Speaker 6: I was raised in a restaurant, so I want to
Speaker 6: be a chef.
Speaker 4: I am a chef.
Speaker 2: You're raised in a restaurant, yeah, like like you grew
Speaker 2: up like yeahs.
Speaker 1: Like you like you slept in the oven like you.
Speaker 1: I would sleep in.
Speaker 4: The booths every really busy weekad my mom. I was
Speaker 4: a job before I worked.
Speaker 6: They would be like, oh, put a PlayStation in a
Speaker 6: little chair upstairs for me, you'll pass out and cool things.
Speaker 6: So cool, but uh yeah, I love food. I love
Speaker 6: creative things.
Speaker 2: What kind of restaurant was this?
Speaker 6: It was an Indian restaurant run by a Middle Eastern
Speaker 6: family because there was already a Middle Eastern restaurant in
Speaker 6: the area and they weren't allowing a double down. So
Speaker 6: my mom was like, I need to pay rent and
Speaker 6: she picked up an Indian cookbook from the story were
Speaker 6: they uh like, it's a I'm from Kansas City and
Speaker 6: there's a uh like a river market city market and
Speaker 6: they don't want just like five of the same thing.
Speaker 4: So their idea was the cater or like curate a dive.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, So this was like you know, uh what
Speaker 2: a reading terminal market is.
Speaker 1: It was like that kind of vibe.
Speaker 2: Is this like like did you have was it like
Speaker 2: a booth or was it like a standalone restaurant?
Speaker 6: You had a stand alone restaurant latched door that was
Speaker 6: always open within a hallway, and we had a produce
Speaker 6: spot next.
Speaker 2: To us within a hallway.
Speaker 1: So it's a restaurant as part of a complex of
Speaker 1: a bunch.
Speaker 6: Of like a giant L shaped hallway with a big
Speaker 6: farmer's market. You got little lomash people and all the
Speaker 6: people selling stuff.
Speaker 2: On the outside and that, and you're in this restaurant.
Speaker 1: You're like whole life.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: No, at least until since early elementary school, well past
Speaker 6: graduating high school. It's I just started like catering and
Speaker 6: doing my own thing outside of it. And it's always
Speaker 6: been a beautiful safety net of mine because it's a
Speaker 6: guaranteed job. But I felt like the safety net kind
Speaker 6: of became a hammock. I was just sitting.
Speaker 2: Oh, I've never heard that before. I like film you
Speaker 2: come up with that. I guess, yeah, that's the safety
Speaker 2: net becomes a hammock.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just like I feel you just lay there too long.
Speaker 2: That's something that I would see on like a business
Speaker 2: success Instagram.
Speaker 4: It's yours just say it again.
Speaker 2: So I was I gonna say the so you cater
Speaker 2: stuff now?
Speaker 6: Yeah, more like fusion dining quick events. When I would travel,
Speaker 6: I would sell T shirts and art prints and whatnot,
Speaker 6: and then I would also, like the last time I
Speaker 6: did Lamberia, like Palestinian focused with like our fusion of
Speaker 6: like middle like Mexican beeria.
Speaker 4: It was delicious, it was great. I had a great time.
Speaker 6: But lately, more for friends, I've been trying to find
Speaker 6: work out here, try to work somewhere that can learn,
Speaker 6: like I was looking at just different restaurants and spots whatever.
Speaker 4: It's a bit different.
Speaker 1: So why'd you come here from Kansas City.
Speaker 6: I had a friend who was doing great for themselves
Speaker 6: that told me it was either this or Jordan. I
Speaker 6: was gonna go to Jordan and stay with family, or
Speaker 6: I was gonna come out here, which I did, and
Speaker 6: I stay with a friend. And I'm lucky. I don't
Speaker 6: pay rent, I don't play utilities. I just live here
Speaker 6: now and.
Speaker 2: Try Oh cool, yeah cool. How is your friend cool
Speaker 2: with you just not paying rent and living with them? Yeah.
Speaker 4: They missed me immensely.
Speaker 6: They wanted me to come out like five years back,
Speaker 6: and they just simply wanted their They're like, they're not
Speaker 6: the most social person.
Speaker 4: They're very friendly and an amazing person, but they're a
Speaker 4: bit of a hermit.
Speaker 1: It what a homie, just being like, I'm lonely just
Speaker 1: living in my house.
Speaker 4: I'm very fortunate for them.
Speaker 2: That's awesome. Do you know this guy?
Speaker 4: It's actually a friend. I knew her she.
Speaker 6: I knew her from middle school and we have been
Speaker 6: friends since. We were close in all types of ways.
Speaker 6: And after they moved out here, we just missed each
Speaker 6: other and they gave me the option.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is like like a romantic thing.
Speaker 6: It was briefly, but I'd say at least like seventy
Speaker 6: five percent of our relationship was bor platonic than it
Speaker 6: was romantic. It was one of those why would you
Speaker 6: date your friend because you're both attractive and you like
Speaker 6: each other, It's.
Speaker 2: Not enough, you know? Is that not enough?
Speaker 4: I don't think it's enough.
Speaker 2: I feel like, wait, wait, by the way, not to
Speaker 2: comment in your life, but but what you just said
Speaker 2: was fascinating to me. You're one of my best friends,
Speaker 2: and we're both physically attracted to each other and we
Speaker 2: like each other a lot. Not enough.
Speaker 4: We weren't compatible.
Speaker 6: It wasn't a compatible emotionally, and it wasn't compatible uh
Speaker 6: where we were at the current moments in our lives.
Speaker 4: And because of that, now where we're at we just
Speaker 4: it doesn't work like that.
Speaker 12: Are you dating?
Speaker 2: Are you dating around?
Speaker 4: I do date around. Uh yeah, I'm definitely a bit
Speaker 4: of a.
Speaker 2: Whore, but like it's okay, So being a bit of
Speaker 2: a whore is it? Do you bring girls back to
Speaker 2: your place? Because I bet I was about to say,
Speaker 2: is that that would be like, Hey, I live have
Speaker 2: a complicated situation. I live rent for you with quasi X.
Speaker 4: Well, I don't remember.
Speaker 6: Bring girls like I don't bring that many homies back
Speaker 6: because they don't.
Speaker 4: Again, they're not social.
Speaker 6: They don't want random people they don't know, and they
Speaker 6: don't like being introduced to new people.
Speaker 4: Like they're very happy with their stuff.
Speaker 6: But no, the idea of like fucking someone like in
Speaker 6: their spot is a little nutty to me. I would
Speaker 6: I always tend to just like either go to someone
Speaker 6: else's place, or I'll get a room, or I'll do
Speaker 6: you know, okay, but more often not My dating situation
Speaker 6: is more back home out here, it's been more just
Speaker 6: meeting people, hasn't been as flirty.
Speaker 2: So you're telling me so you were slutting it up
Speaker 2: around Kansas Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, Kansas City, it's a bit of a smaller pool.
Speaker 2: Let's go. I'm very curious, what the uh what's the
Speaker 2: Kansas City dating scene?
Speaker 1: Like, how's it compared to New York?
Speaker 2: Because people, because you know, the whole New York dating
Speaker 2: scene thing is like this infinite people here, and so
Speaker 2: some people feel like that makes it a bad place today.
Speaker 2: Some people makes it feel like it's a good place today.
Speaker 2: How's that compared to Kansas City?
Speaker 6: Casey has like five good spots once every other week
Speaker 6: that are like popping off that people can meet and
Speaker 6: hang out and do things.
Speaker 1: Oh so you're not an app guy?
Speaker 4: I am?
Speaker 6: Oh no, and I actually know act things don't work
Speaker 6: for me. I always I'm so much better in person.
Speaker 6: I sound like a loser. I feel it doesn't really
Speaker 6: like feel natural texting and messaging, but when I'm in
Speaker 6: front of somebody, it feels.
Speaker 4: So much more genuine.
Speaker 6: But uh no, compared to case everybody knows everybody literally,
Speaker 6: It's just it's like small town stuff.
Speaker 4: It's the biggest small town ever. And uh it's a
Speaker 4: very small.
Speaker 6: Pool compared to out here. I think, oh, here, you're
Speaker 6: actually gonna meet someone unique. You're actually gonna meet someone
Speaker 6: The variables are all over and it being a walking city,
Speaker 6: you never know when the next corner might have someone
Speaker 6: you know, it might be a next conversation.
Speaker 2: Interested, so are you do you? Have you ever like
Speaker 2: seen someone that you thought was attractive on the street
Speaker 2: or at the park and just struck up a conversation
Speaker 2: with them.
Speaker 6: I tend to respond more than initiate because I feel like,
Speaker 6: I don't know, I feel weird approaching people too much
Speaker 6: of the city or in general.
Speaker 4: I don't want to bother.
Speaker 6: The most I'll do is say, hey, you're beautiful, just
Speaker 6: wanted you to know that, and I'll leave it alone
Speaker 6: at that, and if it was meant to be, they
Speaker 6: might hit me up again.
Speaker 4: I don't ask for information.
Speaker 2: I remember when I was a kid. There's an episode
Speaker 2: of Drake and Josh. Do you know the one I'm
Speaker 2: about to talk about. No episode of Drake and Josh
Speaker 2: where like they're at the movie theater and Josh goes
Speaker 2: up to this Josh goes up to this girl and
Speaker 2: he's like, I like your shoes.
Speaker 4: Oh is this the deep voice?
Speaker 2: I think so, because I'm sorry, And he says I
Speaker 2: like your shoes and then she says thanks, and then
Speaker 2: he walks away, and then she I mean, obviously this
Speaker 2: is all a sitcom, so I don't know if this
Speaker 2: is actually this would not happen in real life, I
Speaker 2: don't think. But he walks away and the girl goes
Speaker 2: up to hit This is like someone's fantasy. They walk
Speaker 2: the girl walks up to them and goes, you're not
Speaker 2: hitting on me, You're just gonna compliment my shoes and
Speaker 2: walk away.
Speaker 1: That's so cool. Let me get your number.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think that's gonna find I don't. That's
Speaker 4: not what I'm expecting at all.
Speaker 6: I think it's more one of those things where I'm like,
Speaker 6: I feel like such a lame for not saying something too,
Speaker 6: because I'm like, Wow, that person, they elicited something that
Speaker 6: made my heart flutter just briefly. I want them to
Speaker 6: know that, even slightly. And yeah, I think that's the satisfaction,
Speaker 6: just knowing that I made them smile, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah nice.
Speaker 6: But yeah, I more often than not, someone is my
Speaker 6: most flirtationous thing is a woman will go up to
Speaker 6: me and tell me they like me, and I will
Speaker 6: on the street, well, in general, like wherever in the world,
Speaker 6: Like it could be in the streets, it could be
Speaker 6: what it could be like more meeting friends and whatnot
Speaker 6: or random events. But yeah, they showed me they have
Speaker 6: something of interest in me, and I feel it back.
Speaker 2: Then, I will like all initiate that tell me about
Speaker 2: a Jordan, Like what's what's the city that you do?
Speaker 4: You have?
Speaker 1: You hung out there a lot in you're life.
Speaker 6: I got to go there when in uh middle school
Speaker 6: and in high school. Okay, when I went the first time,
Speaker 6: it was meeting a bunch of people that I've never
Speaker 6: met before that looked just like me, and seeing the
Speaker 6: whole side of my father's family and completely being shell shocked.
Speaker 4: But it was beautiful.
Speaker 6: I missed my Uh the cities would be like it
Speaker 6: a bit Zeega a man was the capital.
Speaker 4: Agaba is beautiful. It's on the ocean.
Speaker 6: You see it is a phenomenal thing to see. I
Speaker 6: think you think see Petro watty Rum. But my favorite
Speaker 6: things about Jordan were my grandma's courtyard. She had a
Speaker 6: lementary and it was serene and I miss it immenseally.
Speaker 6: She passed, and that's not really suthing I experienced anymore.
Speaker 6: I think it's more family than is Jordan, but it's it's.
Speaker 4: I mean, you've traveled so much I've meant to. I've
Speaker 4: traveled a bait like I've been at the Pan and whatnot.
Speaker 4: And no, it's really interesting.
Speaker 6: To be into a whole, complete, different culture. It makes
Speaker 6: me feel like a space.
Speaker 4: Traveling makes me feel like I'm on a different planet.
Speaker 2: But I love it. What fuck I think I hold
Speaker 2: of this yet? A sign is for those listening on audio,
Speaker 2: the sign just got fucked up. But that's fine. I
Speaker 2: might just get rid of this way. Hold on, I
Speaker 2: need to get a new one of these. Sorry, it's
Speaker 2: that's that's good enough. So would you are you planning?
Speaker 2: Are you planning on making any trips back to Jordan
Speaker 2: anytime soon? Because it was between here and there.
Speaker 4: I'm I'm fortunate enough.
Speaker 6: My family has uh earned enough money and security in
Speaker 6: their lives that they're able to be like, hey, if
Speaker 6: you want to go Jordan, we will buy your ticket.
Speaker 4: We want you to experience your culture and your family. Again. Cool,
Speaker 4: that's great, But yeah, I just this New York things
Speaker 4: seemed a little more. The timing was a little more.
Speaker 2: Uh now, I mean you got a good setup.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm like, how often I want to get a
Speaker 4: chance like that?
Speaker 6: A little summer in a little five months in New
Speaker 6: York and experience as much as I can't compare to
Speaker 6: my family, saying my mother, being the sweetheart she is saying,
Speaker 6: whenever you want to go, I will let you go
Speaker 6: see my sisters.
Speaker 1: So you've okay. But you moved here, you said a
Speaker 1: month ago.
Speaker 4: I moved here.
Speaker 6: I was born in America, and I moved here a
Speaker 6: month back. I to travel all the times because I
Speaker 6: enjoy the city. But uh, yeah, I was just at
Speaker 6: a point in my life where I got it, said
Speaker 6: the whole handmaking sitting. I wanted to just change an
Speaker 6: environment entirely to see how I could do.
Speaker 2: So, Gief, Gay, Gaith, Gaith, what's your Uh? What's what's
Speaker 2: the dream?
Speaker 6: I kind of want to have like a Bob's Burgers
Speaker 6: set up and no family, Like you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I guess that's that's because you grew up
Speaker 1: in the restaurant.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I want to be able to live above a restaurant,
Speaker 6: feed people and play the music I like and do
Speaker 6: the things I want to do well, all the while
Speaker 6: having my own space to curate. And then you know,
Speaker 6: if a family happens, that happens. But the idea of
Speaker 6: closing up the shop and going upstairs and knocking out
Speaker 6: just sounds like a dream.
Speaker 2: It does sound like a dream, you know, Gaith, it's
Speaker 2: doing nice talking to you, man. Is there anything else
Speaker 2: you want to say to the people of the computer
Speaker 2: before we go?
Speaker 6: Uh, piece for my people, freedom for those who are oppressed,
Speaker 6: and uh, Honestly, I'm very happy to have a conversation
Speaker 6: with you. You're in detained me on occasion, so.
Speaker 2: It's great to talk to you too. This is a
Speaker 2: great interview. Thank you, have a good One's get go. Hey,
Speaker 2: what's up?
Speaker 5: Hi?
Speaker 2: What's your name?
Speaker 13: Julia?
Speaker 4: Julia?
Speaker 2: Nice to meet you? Or am I Gecko? That's a
Speaker 2: loaded questions? I am I guess I am Gecko.
Speaker 13: Congratulations. I'm really proud of you.
Speaker 2: Thank thank you. It didn't it didn't take that much work.
Speaker 2: Anyone could buy this costume on Amazon.
Speaker 13: No, this is you? This is the real you?
Speaker 2: Is this is this the real me?
Speaker 1: What's up? How's life? Tell me everything? Tell me nothing?
Speaker 10: Life is insane? Bro figured my ship out. I was
Speaker 10: homeless for like eight months. I'm not anymore. Beautiful City
Speaker 10: of New York. Now I'm a hardcore activist trying to.
Speaker 2: Help the people out here homeless for eight months?
Speaker 1: Do you want to talk about that?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 13: Things get better though?
Speaker 1: Can I ask how things got better?
Speaker 13: Determination?
Speaker 10: You have to get your You have to get in
Speaker 10: your mind state that like anything is better than where
Speaker 10: you before.
Speaker 11: Got to keep moving forward.
Speaker 10: If you keep the aspects in your head that's like
Speaker 10: I deserve better, I want better, things will get better
Speaker 10: for me.
Speaker 13: Then you keep pushing yourself to until you reach like.
Speaker 10: A state in your mind where you're like this, this can,
Speaker 10: this can get better, and this will get better, and
Speaker 10: then things end up doing get better.
Speaker 1: Were you were you homeless here in New York?
Speaker 13: I was in New Jersey.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, let to figure stuff out.
Speaker 13: Got an apartment lined up for May first, Very nice,
Speaker 13: feeling good, very nice?
Speaker 1: What was so like? If I guess, I guess like like, let's.
Speaker 2: Say somebody's listening to this that maybe is like in
Speaker 2: a similar struggle or something like that, Like what what
Speaker 2: is it that that got that got you out that
Speaker 2: you know you feel like other people could learn from.
Speaker 10: If you can't do it day by day, just take
Speaker 10: it minute by minute, hour by hour, minute by minute.
Speaker 11: Just keep breathing.
Speaker 13: You got to keep moving.
Speaker 11: That's all you need in.
Speaker 5: Times like these.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I like that.
Speaker 13: Time doesn't heal all wounds, but determination does.
Speaker 4: Well. I like that.
Speaker 1: Do you have a I give a gig, give a
Speaker 1: job you do.
Speaker 10: I'm a full time nanny right now, but I also
Speaker 10: do live music, photography, stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Cool? Cool?
Speaker 1: Who is crashing with?
Speaker 2: Oh? Grab ship? Someone's talking about career, believe in Jesus.
Speaker 13: Good Friday, fella.
Speaker 2: That's cool.
Speaker 1: Oh today's good for stay good Friday?
Speaker 11: I think so he is.
Speaker 2: When's Easter Sunday?
Speaker 13: This Sunday?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: I don't know Christians? Are you Christians? Jewish?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 13: I'm just me.
Speaker 2: I like that. It's good. It's good to be you.
Speaker 2: Let's see. Julie, Julia, Yeah, what's uh? What's what's what's
Speaker 2: your dream in life? Julie? Uh?
Speaker 10: My goal, my dream in life is to just spread
Speaker 10: the energy, spread the positivity.
Speaker 2: We need it.
Speaker 10: Yeah, we need it so much, so much, especially the
Speaker 10: way our world's going. Got these pins on my bag,
Speaker 10: Keep loving, keep fighting. None of us are free until
Speaker 10: all of us are free, and our struggles are connected
Speaker 10: because they are, they really are.
Speaker 2: Struggles are connected in how to tell? How do you
Speaker 2: how do you how do you mean.
Speaker 10: When I when it comes to the end of the day,
Speaker 10: everything dials down to the same thing. So the fact
Speaker 10: of the matter is is that the patriarchy, the one percent,
Speaker 10: they're gonna keep getting richer, and we have to and
Speaker 10: we have to understand that it's all of us against
Speaker 10: against the one percent, and all of us together when
Speaker 10: you stop fighting each other.
Speaker 2: Well, okay, So I'm curious with you because here's the
Speaker 2: thing is like there's nothing because like all right, Like
Speaker 2: I'll be on Reddit or whatever and and read it.
Speaker 2: It's like like right, It's like here's this new thing
Speaker 2: Elon Musk is doing. All right, Elon, And I'm just like, well, yeah,
Speaker 2: but I'm just like at a certain point, I'm just like, yeah,
Speaker 2: but what you know, what can I I'm not what
Speaker 2: can I?
Speaker 4: What can you do?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 13: Keep talking.
Speaker 10: I've been I don't have any on me right now,
Speaker 10: but the past few days I've been passing around I
Speaker 10: Know your Rights cards so people can know their rights if.
Speaker 13: Ice were to try and come down to them.
Speaker 10: Thought a warrant, Elon, he's a money hungry there's a
Speaker 10: child he's among you hungry pig Ah.
Speaker 2: That guy's got a Nintendo bag. See, that's what I
Speaker 2: do when the world gets when I get to when
Speaker 2: I get too freaked out about the world is I
Speaker 2: play video games.
Speaker 10: That's the way I go out and talk to people
Speaker 10: and also.
Speaker 2: Go out and talk to people. Going out and talk
Speaker 2: to people is fun. Do you have a lot of
Speaker 2: friends around the city?
Speaker 13: Not yet?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 4: Did you?
Speaker 13: Just like, I've been here a month?
Speaker 1: Okay, how's your month here?
Speaker 10: But oh amazing, I've never I came here for the
Speaker 10: first time yesterday, I'm like, fuck it, I'm coming back.
Speaker 10: The inspiration is incredible. I've never felt so much creativity
Speaker 10: in my life to just.
Speaker 2: Me me, it's great.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, have you been meeting a lot of people?
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, that's some that's some guy that uh works
Speaker 10: for like Vice magazine yesterday just like on a whim
Speaker 10: who smoked a jag with him.
Speaker 11: Was pretty cool.
Speaker 2: Smoking a j with the guy who works at Vice
Speaker 2: magazine is a very New York, young New York thing
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think so so New York.
Speaker 2: Uh, well, Julie, is there anything else? Donna say that?
Speaker 2: People the computer before we go, People on the computer.
Speaker 2: I care about you. I love you. You'll be okay
Speaker 2: and you matter. Don't give up later, dude, God bless.
Speaker 2: What's I'm Sam? Sam? That's good, nice to meet you.
Speaker 12: Like your like your outfits.
Speaker 2: Thanks, I like yours?
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: What's up has life?
Speaker 12: It's been okay? You know, like a cowboy had shirt?
Speaker 12: It's not cowboy?
Speaker 2: Was was that this? Oh no, I'm sorry, not the
Speaker 2: shirt the O I was gonna be on a birth
Speaker 2: the key Chaine.
Speaker 12: Oh yeah, yeah, my dad got this from Hon Dura's nice.
Speaker 12: But how's life been treating you?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 1: How's life been treating me? A big fan of yours,
Speaker 1: by the way, what thanks man?
Speaker 12: Yeah, you've been gett You've showed up occasionally on the internet,
Speaker 12: you know, while on my phone.
Speaker 2: Thanks man. Life life right now is good. I like
Speaker 2: being outside. It's nice.
Speaker 12: Actually, yeah, I need to get out more like I
Speaker 12: feel like I cooped myself up in like my house
Speaker 12: or in like a room.
Speaker 7: Bro.
Speaker 1: You can really lose today.
Speaker 2: I was like, I might have spent like two hours
Speaker 2: or is just like re checking the social media refrigerator
Speaker 2: and ship you got on Twitter and then you go, yeah.
Speaker 12: You go on the I'm only on like Instagram? Maybe
Speaker 12: read it, you know, Yeah, it's like it's like an
Speaker 12: endless cycle.
Speaker 2: It's an endless like dopamine cycle, killing your fu my
Speaker 2: dreams that I'm like, am.
Speaker 12: I Yeah, I got some I get some real dopamine
Speaker 12: for once, and I'm like, wow, I forget how good
Speaker 12: this feels. Yeah, it's not so fake?
Speaker 4: Ship?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, what's.
Speaker 4: What do you believe in?
Speaker 2: What do you think happens after we die? Yeah?
Speaker 12: I don't think anything happens. We just kind of fizzle out.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 2: Are you excited about that or you?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, I am.
Speaker 12: Hopefully I got to keep a couple of like fragments
Speaker 12: of like my life on earth. But like even if
Speaker 12: I don't, I mean, I'm not going to exist. So
Speaker 12: what am I really gonna be thinking about?
Speaker 14: Nothing?
Speaker 1: I was hanged.
Speaker 2: I was talking to my best friend on the phone
Speaker 2: a few months ago because I was fucked the sign
Speaker 2: the signs, the signs.
Speaker 1: Fucked I can hold oh yeah, we'll just hold it
Speaker 1: all uh.
Speaker 2: And I was talking. I was talking to him and
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, I'm fucking depressed, and he was like,
Speaker 2: you know, well, because I was depressed about I was
Speaker 2: thinking of like death a lot. And he was like, well,
Speaker 2: the thing is like death is a zero, but depression
Speaker 2: is negative. He was. I thought that was fascination, Like
Speaker 2: death is like a zero, like you're not anything, You're not,
Speaker 2: like depression is worse than being dead.
Speaker 12: It's like the opposite of love is indifference.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's probably a bad thing to say. Actually,
Speaker 2: why that depression is worse than being dead? Oh?
Speaker 12: Actually, I mean if to the right people, it will
Speaker 12: be to certain people, will be a bad idea to suggest.
Speaker 1: But but I got but it makes sense. Well okay, no,
Speaker 1: hold on.
Speaker 12: I was for those of us who are alive, I
Speaker 12: think it's a good point. It's an optimistic, good way.
Speaker 2: But when he said that, I was like, yeah, you're right,
Speaker 2: Why don't I Why am I so afraid of death? Why? Like,
Speaker 2: I'm afraid of death to But here's why I was,
Speaker 2: I'm afraid of death to the bar was making me depressed.
Speaker 2: But then it's like the depression is making is worse
Speaker 2: than the fear. So just stop.
Speaker 4: Do you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 12: You know, I guess you don't want to get a
Speaker 12: point where you're just so sad you don't feel anything. Yeah,
Speaker 12: because then I would be like, what's the difference between
Speaker 12: that and death? Like I don't know.
Speaker 2: What makes you? What makes you?
Speaker 12: I mean not like achieved my dreams, you know dreams.
Speaker 12: One of my dreams. I want to be a jazz musician. Okay, cool, Yeah,
Speaker 12: I play the bass, a little big guitar, played the drums.
Speaker 12: You know, I kind of maybe I'm spreading myself a
Speaker 12: little too thin, but I'm hoping maybe one day I'll
Speaker 12: be there. I'll be somewhere, you know, performing some cool
Speaker 12: jazz music or just music. Would you ever busk? Like
Speaker 12: I was gonna mention that, Actually, I've seen plenty of people.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 12: Maybe if I maybe, if I like try like shoot
Speaker 12: for the stars and don't make it, maybe I'll just
Speaker 12: end up a busker. But I think i'd be content
Speaker 12: for that. You know, it looks fun.
Speaker 1: I mean, look this guy, like we're well I'm looking
Speaker 1: at We're looking at a guy right now.
Speaker 12: He's just playing people like playing drums, you know, they
Speaker 12: like they have Some people don't even have instruments to
Speaker 12: just bring like like egg shakers and stuff.
Speaker 2: Look, here's whether you're this guy or you're playing in
Speaker 2: like the Manhattan Symphony Orchestra. You're doing the same thing.
Speaker 2: You're playing the fucking violine in.
Speaker 12: Front of people. That's that's the whole point of music,
Speaker 12: the whole point of music. Yeah, even if I like
Speaker 12: play is shown there's like three people, I don't give
Speaker 12: a fuck. Yeah, I'm as long as hey if they
Speaker 12: dig it. If they don't, then I'm doing it for
Speaker 12: myself at that point.
Speaker 2: You know, did you play any video games?
Speaker 12: Yeah, occasionally, I used to play. I used to be
Speaker 12: a big gamer when I was a young boy. You know,
Speaker 12: probably should have been focusing on the books. But you know,
Speaker 12: out of PS three.
Speaker 2: And what else?
Speaker 4: Said?
Speaker 12: I have at a GameCube? Actually, when I was a
Speaker 12: little kid. I think it was a little I don't
Speaker 12: think that was the right console for me at that time.
Speaker 2: But what did you play on the game cube?
Speaker 12: I had a Superman game that was really sick. Oh yeah,
Speaker 12: there's just one level where you had to beat like
Speaker 12: you were on a timer. You have to save a
Speaker 12: damn from getting blown up, and that shit gave me
Speaker 12: really mad anxiety. I would always freak out on that
Speaker 12: level and I never beat the game. Unfortunately. I think
Speaker 12: i'd be able to do it now now that I'm older,
Speaker 12: But you know, a lot of things were scary when
Speaker 12: I was a little kid, you know, like Damn's explode
Speaker 12: and uh.
Speaker 2: And then you realize that a damn exploding is if well,
Speaker 2: depending on who he's.
Speaker 12: Also the responsibility that I was supposed to be Superman.
Speaker 12: So like, yeah, like the damn exploding. If Superman let
Speaker 12: a damn blow up, that's kind of disappointing. You know,
Speaker 12: you expect him to be able to do it.
Speaker 2: Depending on who you are, the fear of a damn
Speaker 2: exploding is not going to be quite relevant to your life.
Speaker 2: That's true, but it was to me because I was Superman.
Speaker 2: Being Superman probably sucks probably too. It's I mean, I'm
Speaker 2: sure it's probably ful failing that he.
Speaker 12: Has a capacity to handle it, But if I was Superman,
Speaker 12: I would be freaking out every day.
Speaker 2: But that that makes sense because if you were Superman,
Speaker 2: you would have the capacity to handle it.
Speaker 12: Okay, Yeah, maybe maybe I just don't have the mindset
Speaker 12: to be Superman. Maybe that's why I'm not Superman.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't think anyone could be Superman because he's
Speaker 2: a fictional Yeah, he's a fictional character.
Speaker 12: He's also an alien. If he was really wouldn't be human.
Speaker 12: So do you like superheroes?
Speaker 2: Do I like superheroes?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 12: What's your favorite superhero?
Speaker 2: Or probably Spider Man because he's relatable. He's just a kid, right.
Speaker 2: So it's like you can see yourself beating.
Speaker 12: I've been by bugs before, you know, and you didn't
Speaker 12: turn it out.
Speaker 2: No, it just makes your skin red.
Speaker 12: Yeah, it just makes it really itchy.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 12: It's unfortunate. We were you bit by a get go
Speaker 12: or something? Are you just a get go?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: I spout this on Amazon. He's about this Amazon. What's
Speaker 2: your name again? I'm Sam? Sam? Is there anything else
Speaker 2: you want to say? That the people a computer? Before
Speaker 2: we go, Sam, learn an instrument. It will make your
Speaker 2: life better. But that's about it, like very much talking
Speaker 2: to talk to me, of course. I hope you uh
Speaker 2: achieve all your dreams.
Speaker 12: You achieve all your dreams.
Speaker 1: I've already done it. I've achieved all my.
Speaker 12: Dream achieved more than your dreams.
Speaker 2: Thank you, all right, thank you? How going man? What
Speaker 2: is your name Isabel? My name is Lyle. Nice to
Speaker 2: meet you. How's life what's going on?
Speaker 15: Life is going great?
Speaker 2: Just got off of work, okay, what do you do
Speaker 2: for work?
Speaker 15: Well, I'm a student at a university and I also
Speaker 15: am a waitress a host.
Speaker 2: Okay, where do you Where do you wait or I mean,
Speaker 2: not where do your waitress?
Speaker 1: But what kind of well what kind of food?
Speaker 16: Mexican restaurant? Okay, so I work around this area. Okay,
Speaker 16: it's a beautiful day outside. You know, I don't really
Speaker 16: have any problems.
Speaker 1: You don't need to have problem. Who told you need
Speaker 1: to have problems?
Speaker 15: No one needs You don't need to have problem.
Speaker 2: You don't have Oh, actually this is kind of you
Speaker 2: don't have wait hold on, you don't have any problems.
Speaker 2: I don't think anyone. I'm getting hol on la, I'm
Speaker 2: getting rid of this sign. The signs fucked. Any Way,
Speaker 2: you were talking about how you have no problems.
Speaker 16: That's not exactly what I said. I was like, I
Speaker 16: don't have that many. I mean finals are coming up.
Speaker 16: I just solved my biggest problem, which was unemployment. Well,
Speaker 16: my the old restaurant used to work at. They've decided
Speaker 16: to sell and gave us four day notice. Yeah, they
Speaker 16: told us on April ninth that we had four days
Speaker 16: to go find a new job because they were closing
Speaker 16: the store April thirteenth. So but that's all figured it out.
Speaker 16: We got a new job, we have money coming in
Speaker 16: the bank.
Speaker 15: I'm trying to keep my blessings and be grateful. What
Speaker 15: about you?
Speaker 2: What about me? I am uh, I'm enjoying life in
Speaker 2: this very moment. You come out, Yeah, you come out
Speaker 2: to the park and you're like, oh, everyone's here.
Speaker 16: I feel like it's over stimulation Central right now because
Speaker 16: there's just so much going on. We got skaters over there,
Speaker 16: we got like people selling shit, like there's just everything.
Speaker 16: Everyone's here today because it's a nice day out. Also,
Speaker 16: whenever the weather hits above seventy degrees, nobody knows how
Speaker 16: to act.
Speaker 1: So nobody knows how to act.
Speaker 2: Yeah wait, like wait when the when the weather hits
Speaker 2: above seventy degrees? Like, and what what makes you feel
Speaker 2: that way?
Speaker 15: Hmmm, I don't know. Maybe just be I don't know.
Speaker 16: People just tend to be a little bit louder. I'm
Speaker 16: not trying to say that as a bad thing. I'm
Speaker 16: trying to say that as like, you know, everyone wants
Speaker 16: to enjoy the nice day out, and they aren't very
Speaker 16: They are less considerate than they were when it's colder
Speaker 16: out because everyone's trying to get home, you.
Speaker 1: Know what I mean, Well, this is like, okay, like it.
Speaker 16: Is a very public park. I'm not saying nobody knows
Speaker 16: how to act. Everyone's very respectful here.
Speaker 2: But I guess the thing about like New York City
Speaker 2: is that like there almost is like there's very little
Speaker 2: x spectation. Like if some guy was just like on
Speaker 2: a on a nice quiet like this isn't like a
Speaker 2: quiet park. For fact, like if some guy came through
Speaker 2: with like a giant fucking like boombox and was just
Speaker 2: blasting music.
Speaker 15: That's pretty typical.
Speaker 1: Actually, yeah, that's.
Speaker 2: Like, well, you wouldn't bad an eye. It's you're not
Speaker 2: gonna be like, oh, how rude. It's like we're it's
Speaker 2: fucking you know in New York City.
Speaker 15: It's New York.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, but but did you did you see someone
Speaker 2: where you were like that little that's a little out
Speaker 2: of line.
Speaker 16: No, Honestly, today everyone's being chill today. I honestly appreciate it.
Speaker 13: Thank you.
Speaker 16: We should keep it up just the you know, being
Speaker 16: with your friends and keeping at a normal level. However,
Speaker 16: I did see some people pie each other in the face,
Speaker 16: and that was kind of funny, but they were a
Speaker 16: little scary.
Speaker 2: Uh where they scared?
Speaker 1: Where they clown people?
Speaker 16: No, they were just like pie each other in their
Speaker 16: faces and like running around.
Speaker 15: But that was really it. That's none of my business though.
Speaker 2: What's your name again, Isabelle? What's your dream Isabelle? What
Speaker 2: do you wanna do with with your fleeting existence in
Speaker 2: this universe?
Speaker 15: My sweet existence in this universe?
Speaker 4: Oh? Sure?
Speaker 1: Well if I said fleeting existence, but are you sweet?
Speaker 2: Is better?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 11: Okay?
Speaker 16: Well I want to be a lawyer one day, specifically
Speaker 16: with intellectual property AI and cybersecurity law.
Speaker 1: Whoa Okay, do you know a lot about AI?
Speaker 15: I'm a computer science major, so yes?
Speaker 2: Oh no, shit, Okay, are you scared or are you optimistic?
Speaker 11: Quite?
Speaker 16: Terrified with the way that job prospects are going right
Speaker 16: now and like the job market, but other than that,
Speaker 16: trying to stay positive because I do graduate next year.
Speaker 2: Oh I guess I meant like it, like, are you
Speaker 2: optimistic about the future? Because because we are on I've
Speaker 2: talked about this before, like we're on like the chat,
Speaker 2: we're on the iPhone one of chat GPT right now, correct,
Speaker 2: and so it's only gonna get crazier.
Speaker 16: I mean people are right now writing like breakup letters
Speaker 16: through chat GPT.
Speaker 15: So I mean I don't something that happened to you,
Speaker 15: it happened to me.
Speaker 1: No, at least I don't think so okay.
Speaker 16: I mean I happened to feel like acquaintances, I guess.
Speaker 16: But like you were, what were you saying, like the.
Speaker 2: Last thing you just said, like are you okay? Because
Speaker 2: you study this stuff, yes, and you study AI? Are
Speaker 2: do you are you afraid of what's happening?
Speaker 13: I am.
Speaker 16: I do think that a lot of people are using
Speaker 16: artificial intelligence in a way to benefit them and profit
Speaker 16: off of it rather than use it as a tool.
Speaker 1: Isn't that basically that what we've been doing with technology
Speaker 1: for instead.
Speaker 15: Of using those tools. I mean yeah, but you know there's.
Speaker 16: A difference between profit and then capitalistic reed at the
Speaker 16: point like you're using AI to replace like let's just like,
Speaker 16: what's one example, I'm being put on a spot right now.
Speaker 15: Let's say you're.
Speaker 16: Using AI to.
Speaker 15: Cut this part out because I'm thinking so hard right now.
Speaker 1: I'm better, Okay, we're leaving it in shut No. Look look,
Speaker 1: look you got look that's life all right?
Speaker 16: Sometimes Okay, you know what life cake go my way.
Speaker 16: It's fine artificial intelligence when it comes down to, like.
Speaker 15: You used to Well, if you're using it for homework,
Speaker 15: it's one thing.
Speaker 16: But if you're using it for like to write off
Speaker 16: I guess Tara, for tax plans, it's something completely different.
Speaker 16: But I really can't think of a single like right now.
Speaker 16: My brain is so farted out. I'm so sorry. I'm
Speaker 16: promise I'm better at talking to you.
Speaker 2: Well, all right, do you think we'll eventually get to
Speaker 2: the point where like because here's because here's the thing is, uh,
Speaker 2: I don't like the new seasons of Family Guy. I
Speaker 2: think Family Guy used to be better, and I want
Speaker 2: and when when is chat? When is chat gpt gonna
Speaker 2: be able to write Family Guy like they used to
Speaker 2: in the in the in the you know, two thousand.
Speaker 15: Family Guy can be recreated.
Speaker 16: I think those minds are brilliant and they cannot be
Speaker 16: recreated by aim.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, what my AI is gonna get to a point
Speaker 2: where it can write better Family Guy than the Family
Speaker 2: Guy writers? Right, Because if it's not that.
Speaker 11: I guess, I mean to each their own.
Speaker 16: Everyone has a different opinion about like how about like
Speaker 16: Family Guy? So if they think the most recent seasons
Speaker 16: are better than the old seasons. There's always gonna be
Speaker 16: someone who thinks that. There's also someone's gonna think that
Speaker 16: the old seasons are better than you. But I personally
Speaker 16: think that AI cannot. I'll do the old ones.
Speaker 2: Do you use chatchept for stuff?
Speaker 16: I do use it to explain my calculus homework because
Speaker 16: my teachers aren't that great at explaining stuff. So yes,
Speaker 16: I do support using chatchept when you need stuff explain. However,
Speaker 16: maybe you shouldn't be writing your entire essays with a
Speaker 16: literacy skills are important.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, if I had, dude, if I had
Speaker 2: chat cheapt in high school and college, I would use
Speaker 2: it for fucking everything. I would never ever write an
Speaker 2: essay in my entire life.
Speaker 11: That is so fair.
Speaker 15: That is so fair.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you have used it.
Speaker 16: To write essays and shit, no, I've used it to
Speaker 16: write out my outlines though, Okay, so I'll use I'll
Speaker 16: take an outline that the chrat GPT has made and
Speaker 16: then base my essay off of that.
Speaker 2: The funny thing is is that they say that there's
Speaker 2: like software that you can run the ship through to
Speaker 2: like tell you if it's been AI generated, but there's
Speaker 2: no way that it can do.
Speaker 16: It's all boof, it's all like stupid as well. There
Speaker 16: it's like this AI generator that you put the Declaration
Speaker 16: of Independence in it.
Speaker 11: And it is said that.
Speaker 16: There's yeah right right, So I don't think it's like yeah, no,
Speaker 16: it is completely fun because there's some people who genuinely
Speaker 16: write their papers and then they get flag for plagiarism
Speaker 16: with AI and they have to go, you know, talk
Speaker 16: to the deans about it, and then it revokes their students,
Speaker 16: that is, if they found if they found like guilty
Speaker 16: or whatever. It's kind of crazy because AI checkers aren't
Speaker 16: even that great in first place. Because I can sound
Speaker 16: all professional and smart as I want an essay. If
Speaker 16: I sound too professional or too smart, they're gonna be like,
Speaker 16: oh a, I wrote this.
Speaker 2: Well, but why not let AI do stuff that we
Speaker 2: don't want to do.
Speaker 16: I feel like then we'll just start getting lazier and
Speaker 16: lazier and lazier.
Speaker 2: You know we are we not already pretty fucking lazy?
Speaker 2: Who I mean, we order thirty dollars burritos to our house?
Speaker 15: You ordered thirty dollars burritos to my house.
Speaker 2: I do not you've never you've never ordered a thirty
Speaker 2: dollar burrito.
Speaker 15: A thirty dollar burrito's kind of insane.
Speaker 2: You've never you've Okay, look, we all know you've never.
Speaker 2: You've never uber eat food before in your life.
Speaker 16: I've never said that. I said I'd never uber eats
Speaker 16: the thirty dollars burrito.
Speaker 1: If you've uber eased anything, it's been thirty dollars. I
Speaker 1: used door dash, What did you door dish?
Speaker 16: I haven't used that app in like, honestly two years
Speaker 16: because I needed to cut it out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, but so if you use DoorDash at all
Speaker 2: for anything, like like if you door dashed anything, it
Speaker 2: was probably thirty dollars.
Speaker 16: I mean the most expensive thing that I DoorDash was
Speaker 16: a space heater to my apartment because I didn't want
Speaker 16: to go to Low's and the Lows was too far
Speaker 16: from me, and that was more than thirty dollars.
Speaker 15: But I think it's kind of crazy to.
Speaker 1: Spend I let me just.
Speaker 16: I live next to good restaurant, so like there's like
Speaker 16: so many like little mom and pop shops that are
Speaker 16: like up and down the streets that I live from.
Speaker 15: It's I can just walk.
Speaker 2: If you're door dashing a space heater to your house.
Speaker 2: I don't think you can claim to be above door
Speaker 2: dashing a thirty dollars burrita to your house. I am not.
Speaker 13: I am above that.
Speaker 15: Why are you spending thirty dollars on a burrito?
Speaker 4: Why? Why?
Speaker 1: Why not just go buy the space heater?
Speaker 15: The space heater was like you see, a Brooklyn trains suck.
Speaker 16: I would have to take the queue to downtown Brooklyn
Speaker 16: and then I would have to take the R down
Speaker 16: to Sunset.
Speaker 2: Or what about someone who asked have a car? Nobody
Speaker 2: here has a car. I mean they do, That's why
Speaker 2: they have streets. What's your name? What's your name again, Isabelle?
Speaker 2: How many times did I ask you that? I'm not
Speaker 2: good with names? Isabelle? Is there anything else you want
Speaker 2: to say to the people of.
Speaker 16: The computer Kelly, guys, I hope we all find it's
Speaker 16: rough out here, Isabelle. Nice to meet you.
Speaker 2: Good God, bless blessed, see you around the universe. Apologize
Speaker 2: for nothing, see you around the universe as all. Hi,
Speaker 2: what's your name?
Speaker 11: I'm Lily, I'm Scarlet.
Speaker 2: And what's what are you guys doing out in the
Speaker 2: town today?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 17: My god everything. I just saw you and I had
Speaker 17: to come over. I was like, I know that guy,
Speaker 17: Hell yeah, hell yeah John to me?
Speaker 2: Really yes, I hold I hold you all like the.
Speaker 17: Same regard as like Jack Black Tanner from Love on
Speaker 17: the Spectrum I like have like y'all are like my favorite.
Speaker 2: Who's Who's Tanner from Love on the Spectrum. He's just
Speaker 2: a Tanner I've never seen.
Speaker 15: He's from Georgia.
Speaker 11: He's a wonderful man.
Speaker 2: He He's like, do.
Speaker 11: You want to know everything?
Speaker 2: I like?
Speaker 15: I like donkeys, I love chickens.
Speaker 11: I don't like pigs.
Speaker 2: You or him?
Speaker 1: What do you like?
Speaker 11: Kind of Tanner? A little bit?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 11: I like to listwigs, legs. New York. I love New York.
Speaker 11: I love this city.
Speaker 1: Did you guys just move here?
Speaker 11: Uh? Three years? Yeah? So pretty new?
Speaker 1: But what do you guys do here? Are your students?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 14: What do we?
Speaker 2: What do we study?
Speaker 11: I study journalism. I'm child psych so hopefully that's lucrative.
Speaker 11: I don't think it will be.
Speaker 2: Okay, what what do you What do you guys hope
Speaker 2: to do with your future?
Speaker 7: I would like to talk about culture because my entire
Speaker 7: the reason I hesitate so much on my major is.
Speaker 7: My major is communications and Media studies and journalism and
Speaker 7: digital storytelling.
Speaker 2: Okay, but I say.
Speaker 7: Journalism, but I have to talk about culture, Okay if
Speaker 7: I'm being completely honest, Like I totally don't want to
Speaker 7: go into psychology.
Speaker 17: If I could be anything, I would just like this
Speaker 17: is so stupid, but I would love to be rich,
Speaker 17: like no talent, no job. I just want like money
Speaker 17: to like travel and like I want to be fashioning
Speaker 17: stuff like that would be great or like a socialite
Speaker 17: but kind of baby yeah exactly, baby, Like.
Speaker 2: Really you would get bored. I grew up poor.
Speaker 11: Girl, so I feel like I would never get bored.
Speaker 17: Like they've experienced things I've never experienced, probably won't ever.
Speaker 1: So the idea, who's who's the rich?
Speaker 17: Like traveling bro, I can't just fucking drop money and
Speaker 17: go to England like I would like the like.
Speaker 11: Fake jobs they have.
Speaker 7: We're influencer, well influencer, and they're like my job is
Speaker 7: to like try the air wan Strawberry.
Speaker 11: I want that job, yeah.
Speaker 17: Or like take photos for like clothes yeah, like but
Speaker 17: like on your Instagram, so it's not even like good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I have a fake, funny job yeah.
Speaker 17: But yours is like, yeah, yeah, you're out here with
Speaker 17: You've got a gimmick. You've got a gimmick, you got
Speaker 17: a thing, like it makes sense. Like I'm just so
Speaker 17: tired of seeing like a blonde white girl be like.
Speaker 11: Com with me to pilates in New York City. I'm like,
Speaker 11: that's actually not what we have about. The thing is
Speaker 11: that's what I want. That's true.
Speaker 2: Well why do you do it? Why don't you do
Speaker 2: why don't you come with me to plates in New
Speaker 2: York whatever your version of that.
Speaker 11: That's also like an issue.
Speaker 17: I'm just like so incredibly lazy that I'm like I
Speaker 17: have to work for things, and it's just like I
Speaker 17: want to have fun.
Speaker 11: Like life is always work, work, work all the time.
Speaker 11: I want to go out.
Speaker 17: I want to see things and see people and like
Speaker 17: do shit, Like I don't.
Speaker 11: Know, Yeah, I wan to be rich. That would be great,
Speaker 11: like to not have financial burdens.
Speaker 15: Yeah, Like Pooky and Jet a little bit like I don't.
Speaker 1: Agree you are Pooky and Jet.
Speaker 11: I'm just dropping all the people.
Speaker 7: Pooky and Jet are this southern couple and then Jet
Speaker 7: is kind of like a little bit of a bad
Speaker 7: guy unfortunately, like he works in dental insurance and like
Speaker 7: actively takes away people's dental insurance. But they're so happy
Speaker 7: and they're like, we're going to asking.
Speaker 2: For fact, Well, how do we know these people? Who
Speaker 2: are these people? How do we know them? Okay?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Are they rich? Very very Why don't you guys do
Speaker 2: a Pooky and Jet thing?
Speaker 11: Actually? Yeah, I'm actually we're actually gonna steal their content.
Speaker 1: God, do your version of Bookie and Jet?
Speaker 2: You know, why don't you? Because like what, I don't
Speaker 2: know you could? You guys could be influencers. Why not?
Speaker 17: Oh honestly, I was thinking about it, But I think
Speaker 17: I'm like too dislike to like, I don't know, I
Speaker 17: feel like my my you disliked. Yeah, Like my personality
Speaker 17: is abrasive I've heard or like polarizing is a good word.
Speaker 17: And I feel like you either really like me or
Speaker 17: really not like me on the internet.
Speaker 1: But that I mean that.
Speaker 2: But isn't the internet full of like abrasive personalities? Aren't
Speaker 2: the most famous people on the internet people who like
Speaker 2: everyone hates.
Speaker 11: Yeah, what type of reputation is that?
Speaker 7: Though?
Speaker 11: I don't want to be like that for.
Speaker 7: Who they're like a podcast that's always been kind of controversial.
Speaker 11: I dub just did like a content cop.
Speaker 2: Oh no, sure, I know. I was on the Age
Speaker 2: three podcast a couple of times.
Speaker 11: Yeah yeah nice in person.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah yeah yeah, I'm f a shout out my
Speaker 2: boy cam.
Speaker 11: Oh my god. I used to like I used to
Speaker 11: like watch the podcast and stuff.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I always was.
Speaker 11: Like, they should call me on, let me on.
Speaker 2: What would you talk about if you're if you're on there.
Speaker 17: I love the way he argues, Like, I love the
Speaker 17: way he argues, and like, I just want to see if,
Speaker 17: like I could outsmart him because sometimes, like I watched
Speaker 17: this just Pearly Things debate and that one got me, like,
Speaker 17: I hate her with every fiber of my being.
Speaker 11: I hate that woman.
Speaker 17: So seeing him absolutely destroy her like intellectually made me
Speaker 17: really happy.
Speaker 2: You guys used the internet a lot.
Speaker 11: Media studies, Yeah, media, I'm bored.
Speaker 17: I love the Internet and it's great, Like what a
Speaker 17: fantastic thing that has been created.
Speaker 2: I don't know sometimes I don't know, man, sometimes. But
Speaker 2: you know, also that was out of pot because I
Speaker 2: also use the Internet a lot. I just don't know.
Speaker 11: I mean right now, like we're on the internet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I guess that's true, But.
Speaker 17: How joyous is I think all we were born in
Speaker 17: two thousands.
Speaker 1: For like you like being born.
Speaker 7: I think we were right before, like not either of us.
Speaker 7: I believe we're given. I had as babies, I had
Speaker 7: my DS.
Speaker 11: And I was in it.
Speaker 2: Or would you play on the DS?
Speaker 11: I played Mario.
Speaker 7: I played a lot of Pokemon, Pokemon Sapphire.
Speaker 11: And oh what was it cooking Mama? I played Monster High?
Speaker 11: That was great. Yeah, we did a different very different people.
Speaker 1: Are you guys gonna get the switch to?
Speaker 11: Absolutely not?
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 11: What a money grab? I can't believe that, Like and
Speaker 11: it is.
Speaker 17: Like ninety dollars to buy like the game to teach
Speaker 17: you how to use, like the switch.
Speaker 2: I heard it is kind of funny. It's ninety dollars
Speaker 2: to get the game.
Speaker 11: That incredibly insane.
Speaker 2: But they look cool, like the new Marri Kart does
Speaker 2: look sick where you can like drive, I do point like.
Speaker 7: I had wow and multiple friendships start through playing Mario Kart.
Speaker 17: But like the Little app, the Little app uh huh.
Speaker 17: I was always bad at Mario Kart. So I literally
Speaker 17: don't play any Mario games. I'm a saunic girl.
Speaker 1: Well, what's your guys' names again.
Speaker 11: I'm Lily, I'm Scarlet.
Speaker 2: Is there anything else you guys want to say to
Speaker 2: the people of the computer before we go?
Speaker 11: Stay good and distrust the government? Play Mario Kart.
Speaker 2: Hello, sir, what's your name?
Speaker 14: My name is Adam. What's your name?
Speaker 2: Adam? My name is Lyle.
Speaker 7: Hi.
Speaker 2: How's it going? Adam has life?
Speaker 14: Life is excellent, really excellent.
Speaker 2: I'm so uh oh, Adam, give me if favorite hold
Speaker 2: the mic like a little I thank you, Adam, got
Speaker 2: your life is excellent. I want you to know. And
Speaker 2: I'm not saying I'm not blowing smoke up your ass,
Speaker 2: but looking at your face and the way that you
Speaker 2: say that life is excellent, I can tell that you're
Speaker 2: telling the truth. And that excites me because you know,
Speaker 2: I don't know. Life is filled with lots of like
Speaker 2: uncertainty and fear and weirdness, and so to look at
Speaker 2: someone's face and have them say that life is excellent
Speaker 2: and fills me with a lot of joy.
Speaker 1: So I'm ko, why is life excellent? Tell me more?
Speaker 9: That's that's a longer answer, but life is life is excellent.
Speaker 14: Life is fun. I'm having a great time.
Speaker 2: What's what's having what's causing you to have that's a
Speaker 2: great time. I mean, I see you have your family here.
Speaker 2: I'm sure that that's a big part of its huge, huge.
Speaker 9: I love my work, I love my family. I have
Speaker 9: a wonderful wife. I have a fun life.
Speaker 1: Tell me what's your what you do for work?
Speaker 14: I own a guitar company?
Speaker 6: Cool?
Speaker 2: How long are you doing that?
Speaker 14: About thirty years?
Speaker 1: And it's been exciting for all thirty years?
Speaker 14: That exactly excited?
Speaker 2: Wow? What is it that makes it so exciting?
Speaker 9: That's an interesting question? Why is it exciting? I get
Speaker 9: to do what I love. First, I work with a
Speaker 9: lot of exciting people, a lot of guitar players that
Speaker 9: are fun to be around and exciting to work with.
Speaker 9: So I enjoy what I do every day. I've never
Speaker 9: once scotten up and said, oh I got to go
Speaker 9: to work today.
Speaker 14: Wow, I love it.
Speaker 2: Has that been your whole life?
Speaker 14: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, tell me about before?
Speaker 9: Well, that wasn't as much fun, and that wasn't as
Speaker 9: much is excellent? I did you have to go through
Speaker 9: that till you figure out where you want to be.
Speaker 2: But that's what I want to hear is I want
Speaker 2: to hear about when it wasn't so excellent, and then
Speaker 2: how it became excellent.
Speaker 14: That's not a good story.
Speaker 2: What do you mean that's not because that's a great story.
Speaker 2: What do you mean that's not that it's a wonderful story.
Speaker 2: That's the story I want to hear everything is great
Speaker 2: all the time. That's not a good story. Everything wasn't
Speaker 2: so great, and then it becomes because no one else
Speaker 2: says that, no one else will say that.
Speaker 14: You were amazed that.
Speaker 2: So stay with the good part, okay, because.
Speaker 9: The boring prequel to the amazing was the same as
Speaker 9: everyone else's story was terrible?
Speaker 2: And then how did it become not terrible?
Speaker 14: I decided it was time for it not to be terrible?
Speaker 2: Was there something? Was there something that happened or did
Speaker 2: you wake up one day or how what made you
Speaker 2: decide for it? I don't want this to be terrible anymore.
Speaker 9: I decided that I wanted to do something I love
Speaker 9: every day, and then I decided who I wanted to
Speaker 9: be with. That's when I met my wife, and you
Speaker 9: put those two together, and that's when it became amazing.
Speaker 2: When did you meet your wife.
Speaker 14: Five years ago? Four or five years ago?
Speaker 2: How'd you guys meet.
Speaker 9: She's a photographer shooting pictures for me. Love guitars?
Speaker 2: Cool?
Speaker 14: Yeah, that's how we met.
Speaker 2: And how old is your son?
Speaker 14: That's the grandson.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's your grandson.
Speaker 14: You believe that? Can you believe?
Speaker 2: That's my Wow?
Speaker 14: That's the grandson.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's awesome. How how old? Five? Wow? So how
Speaker 2: many kids do you have?
Speaker 14: She has two girls and I have two girls. Those
Speaker 14: are her two girls?
Speaker 2: Cool cool man?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Wow, twenty three and twenty wow, twenty three today?
Speaker 2: And those are those twenty four today?
Speaker 14: Twenty three?
Speaker 2: You're twenty four today? Oh, happy birthday? And so the
Speaker 2: are these your wife?
Speaker 4: Kids?
Speaker 2: Are your kids?
Speaker 14: Those were her kids?
Speaker 2: Cool man? What are your kids up to?
Speaker 14: My kids?
Speaker 9: I have two girls too. One's a psychologist, one is
Speaker 9: a flight attendant.
Speaker 14: Wow, everyone's happy.
Speaker 9: All good kids. It's good fun. We do what we
Speaker 9: love and we're here.
Speaker 2: Can I so if I can? I can I ask
Speaker 2: you some questions? I'm I'm curious if you're willing to answer.
Speaker 2: So you said things before like you seem correct me
Speaker 2: if I'm wrong, But as I'm interviewing you, it seems
Speaker 2: as though one could separate your life into distinctly like
Speaker 2: when things you say we're terrible when things you say
Speaker 2: were great terrible, but that's good. Can I ask how
Speaker 2: old you were when you felt like things started to
Speaker 2: become good?
Speaker 9: There was always pieces of good things, but I never
Speaker 9: had the whole package until recently.
Speaker 2: Until recently. What was it about recently where you like,
Speaker 2: I have the whole package?
Speaker 14: I don't.
Speaker 9: When I got remarried and and the business was already going,
Speaker 9: so that was good.
Speaker 14: That was only half of the package. Only you know
Speaker 14: it's not enough.
Speaker 9: Well.
Speaker 2: I like hearing these is because a lot of people
Speaker 2: think that, like, oh, if you know, I don't have
Speaker 2: this by a certain age, or this isn't or you know,
Speaker 2: you know, you break up with your first significant other
Speaker 2: and you're like, oh, I'll never find love again, this
Speaker 2: will never happen again. This will never happen again. I'm dying,
Speaker 2: you know whatever, And then yeah, so it's cool to
Speaker 2: hear stories of that not being true.
Speaker 14: How did you end.
Speaker 9: Up in Washington Square Park as a get go asking questions?
Speaker 14: Well?
Speaker 2: Today, how I ended up as a get go in
Speaker 2: Washington Square Park asking questions? Is I wanted to get
Speaker 2: out of the house, But I mean, I've been doing
Speaker 2: this for like five years just being a lizard and
Speaker 2: talking to folks.
Speaker 14: Why a lizard?
Speaker 9: What was it about a lizard that made you go
Speaker 9: in that direction?
Speaker 2: I just had the costume, so it could have been
Speaker 2: anything like a giraffe.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I kind of fell into this weirdly enough.
Speaker 9: And how is it the lizard business? Asking questions?
Speaker 2: It's cool? Ycause this is enjoyable. It's not I'm out,
Speaker 2: I'm in. I'm in real life. I meet people I
Speaker 2: wouldn't have never met before.
Speaker 14: And what do you do with the content? YouTube?
Speaker 2: I put it on YouTube, I put it on a TikTok.
Speaker 14: How is the YouTube and TikTok business for you?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: It's good, it's nice. It's fun. It's good to be
Speaker 1: I mean I do.
Speaker 2: I do this version of it, and then I do
Speaker 2: a version of it where I talk to people on
Speaker 2: the phone. You know, this version is fun because I
Speaker 2: get to be face to face with people.
Speaker 14: It's interesting.
Speaker 9: So how many followers do you have on the on
Speaker 9: your platforms?
Speaker 2: Several several more than more than one hundred, more than
Speaker 2: a less than less than less than a billion, more
Speaker 2: than one hundred. What's your guitar company? F you Tone,
Speaker 2: f U Tone, do you play?
Speaker 14: Yeah, you have to.
Speaker 2: Are you in a band?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: Okay, but I have to play.
Speaker 1: You even't stop smiling since you sat down.
Speaker 14: I'm a happy guy.
Speaker 4: You wake up like this?
Speaker 14: Yeah, go through your lasts?
Speaker 2: Really? Wow? This is this is cool man, It's cool
Speaker 2: to see. It's cool seeing someone enjoy their life so much.
Speaker 14: Are most people miserable?
Speaker 1: Do you think most people are miserable?
Speaker 14: Are most people not? Maybe not miserable? Unhappy?
Speaker 2: Why do you think most people are unhappy?
Speaker 9: Just my experience in dealing with people, Most people are
Speaker 9: unhappy that I come across.
Speaker 2: What about Okay, so you're in the let me ask
Speaker 2: you this. You're in the music industry. I bet you
Speaker 2: meet a lot of hot shots. You meet a lot
Speaker 2: of I'm sure, like rich artists, people or whatever. Do
Speaker 2: they seem happy or do you think like what do
Speaker 2: you think the correlation is?
Speaker 9: Believe it or not, it doesn't equate to happiness? Okay,
Speaker 9: super famous, super rich? Do you think you want some
Speaker 9: pretty unhappy?
Speaker 2: Why do you think that is?
Speaker 14: Because the truth.
Speaker 9: Is that money doesn't buy happiness, which is what we
Speaker 9: were just talking about, but it does give you freedom
Speaker 9: to pursue your happy. Of course, of course, big difference.
Speaker 2: I agree it gives you the freedom to pursue things,
Speaker 2: but it completely in and of itself pursue your happiness.
Speaker 13: Though.
Speaker 9: Sure, all if all things were said, if you had
Speaker 9: whatever amount of money it is that you think would
Speaker 9: make you happy, that you didn't have to do anything,
Speaker 9: what would you do with the money?
Speaker 2: I think I think it. I think it can free
Speaker 2: you from a lot of if you had it, so.
Speaker 14: That everyone has a number. I have the numbers. You
Speaker 14: have a number.
Speaker 9: If if you had that number, would you be out
Speaker 9: here interviewing me?
Speaker 2: I think I would.
Speaker 9: It's a great answer because I always tell my wife
Speaker 9: if I hit the mega millions, and if I if
Speaker 9: I hit the one hundred million dollars, all I would
Speaker 9: do is build a bigger.
Speaker 2: Guitar company, because yeah.
Speaker 9: And just do it bigger. And that's it. So I
Speaker 9: do what I love because I love it. But I
Speaker 9: would still do it if I didn't have to do it.
Speaker 9: Most people have to go where they go every day,
Speaker 9: and if they had a.
Speaker 14: Choice, they wouldn't. One day, I made a choice.
Speaker 9: Instead, we're going to pursue what makes me happy instead
Speaker 9: of what makes me the most money.
Speaker 14: And was when I made that move.
Speaker 9: I was making a lot more money to risk it
Speaker 9: all for next to no money.
Speaker 2: And those first few years when you were building the
Speaker 2: guitar company and making much less money than you were making,
Speaker 2: what was that like?
Speaker 14: And sometimes no money?
Speaker 2: What was that like?
Speaker 14: Scary at times? But I was happy every day?
Speaker 2: Really?
Speaker 14: Yep?
Speaker 1: Where was that? Is this all in New York City?
Speaker 14: Right outside of Philadelphia?
Speaker 2: Oh? Cool? Cool? How long did it take you before
Speaker 2: you started like making money and feeling like, Okay, this
Speaker 2: is a stable thing.
Speaker 14: That's a good question too. I don't know.
Speaker 9: It wasn't It wasn't horribly long, but it wasn't an
Speaker 9: overnight thing either. It's it's a long road and it
Speaker 9: wasn't a straight line. I was all over the place.
Speaker 2: Do you feel like, what's your sense of peace been
Speaker 2: like throughout your life? But do you feel like you've
Speaker 2: been peaceful for most of your life? Or is your
Speaker 2: piece a recent thing? You seem you seem extremely at
Speaker 2: peace and that's recent.
Speaker 14: Five years? Wow, out out of my entire life, that's
Speaker 14: not a lot of time. No, Now, I have to
Speaker 14: live a very long time to.
Speaker 2: Get even can I can I ask you how old
Speaker 2: you are fifty eight, fifty eight.
Speaker 14: I'll be fifty eight this year, fifty seven.
Speaker 2: And in the past five years is when you've felt
Speaker 2: the most peace five six years. That's really cool, that's right.
Speaker 2: I'm very I like, on a personal level, I'm very
Speaker 2: inspired by that.
Speaker 9: That's great. Yeah, this was worthwhile. If you're inspired and
Speaker 9: feel good, Yeah, be happy every day.
Speaker 2: But like, have you found pockets of peace throughout your life?
Speaker 1: What gave you those pockets of peace?
Speaker 9: I would say small pieces of the puzzle that I
Speaker 9: have now, just in smaller doses and as not is
Speaker 9: not a concentrated level. So the moments of happiness, moments
Speaker 9: of good things, you know, not constant now, it's.
Speaker 1: Just now it's concentrated because of your family.
Speaker 9: Because of everything. But it's everything my wife, my family,
Speaker 9: my business, and my friends. I have a nice little
Speaker 9: balance circle.
Speaker 1: And it took you a lot till it took you
Speaker 1: a lifetime to.
Speaker 9: Get to figured out, to figure it out. And I
Speaker 9: didn't figure it out before. And there was time when
Speaker 9: I was very young where I actually made a lot
Speaker 9: of money at.
Speaker 14: A very young age and was miserable.
Speaker 1: Because why why were you so miserable? During that time?
Speaker 9: I was young and maybe not clear on what happiness was.
Speaker 9: I thought money was happiness, and it's like a band aid.
Speaker 9: It's almost like a drug fix. It's just short term happiness.
Speaker 9: So you finally get it, or you buy something you
Speaker 9: want or do something you want, then it's over. It
Speaker 9: wasn't true happiness, it was just stuff.
Speaker 2: Let's say, if somebody is looking for peace out there,
Speaker 2: what would you tell them?
Speaker 14: I don't know if I'm the best person to give advice.
Speaker 2: But well, look, you're peaceful in this very moment, and
Speaker 2: so I declare that to mean that you would be
Speaker 2: good at giving me.
Speaker 9: My advice would be do something you love every day
Speaker 9: to start. And if you're not doing something that you
Speaker 9: love or you're passionate about, you're you're on the wrong
Speaker 9: path if you want to be happy.
Speaker 2: I got I got this question for you. How'd you
Speaker 2: know you were ready to become a father?
Speaker 14: How well I know it is?
Speaker 9: That's it's also an interesting question. My I was twenty
Speaker 9: six when my first daughter was born, and I knew that.
Speaker 14: I wanted to be a young father really and I
Speaker 14: was so it was great.
Speaker 2: How do you know you wanted to be a young father?
Speaker 9: It's a deep question because I had such a shitty father,
Speaker 9: so I thought I could do a better job and
Speaker 9: I wanted to prove it and I did.
Speaker 2: That's awesome. Man, was it hard being a young father
Speaker 2: because I'm I'm I'm twenty seven now and I.
Speaker 14: Have little get gos.
Speaker 2: No, No, I don't have kids, but I want I
Speaker 2: don't have I don't have kids. But like when I imagine
Speaker 2: I don't have kids, but when I imagine, like you know,
Speaker 2: my the the latter half of my life, I imagine
Speaker 2: wanting to have a family. But I'm like, I don't
Speaker 2: know if but like if I if I had a
Speaker 2: kid right now, I think that kid would be fucked.
Speaker 14: You know why.
Speaker 2: I don't know, just because it's like I don't feel
Speaker 2: I don't feel ready right now, but.
Speaker 14: I'm like responsible, get go.
Speaker 2: I think like right now, like my right now, I'm
Speaker 2: like wrapped up in like my own life and figuring
Speaker 2: out myself that like if you handed me a baby,
Speaker 2: I'd be like, oh shit, you know, but I don't know.
Speaker 14: You don't want to be too old, you don't want
Speaker 14: to be there.
Speaker 9: Did you have any friends when you were younger that
Speaker 9: had the old dad like he was like an old guy,
Speaker 9: like an old man.
Speaker 2: I mean my parents are in their like late sixties,
Speaker 2: their sixties, my dad, yeah, my dad, my parents, everyone
Speaker 2: in there, like mid late thirties.
Speaker 14: Yeah, that's on that.
Speaker 9: That's on the back end of I think of having
Speaker 9: kids interesting. You know, you want to be able to
Speaker 9: be the dad down on your hands and knees and.
Speaker 14: Yeah, playing with the kids.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 14: I was just playing on the monkey bars with their grandson.
Speaker 14: I still love it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's awesome, man, But it was it must have
Speaker 2: been hard at twenty six.
Speaker 14: No, I don't know it was. It was.
Speaker 9: I considered it an accomplishment and I enjoyed it.
Speaker 2: That's awesome.
Speaker 9: And when I look back on it, I don't regret
Speaker 9: that at all. I set out for that, I got that,
Speaker 9: and I think it was good.
Speaker 2: Do you do you regret anything?
Speaker 9: I regret lots of things, tons of things I regret,
Speaker 9: but I wouldn't give that up. I can't give it up.
Speaker 9: I'm just happy now. It's great. Look at my wife's smiling. Okay,
Speaker 9: she's happy too. Are we happy?
Speaker 14: Every day?
Speaker 9: I tell her every day? We got no.
Speaker 2: His wife, his wife. Just for people who can't hear
Speaker 2: his wife just said, tell him about when the day?
Speaker 9: When the Day's my motto years ago. My my one
Speaker 9: daughter is heavy into it with me. Till at the
Speaker 9: end of every day, I keep scoring to see if
Speaker 9: I won the day, and what do I mean by winning.
Speaker 2: The What do you mean by winning the day?
Speaker 9: Was I happy that day? Did I have a good day?
Speaker 9: Did I feel good about myself? Did I accomplish things
Speaker 9: I wanted to accomplish?
Speaker 14: And was I happy?
Speaker 9: As opposed to losing a day where at the end
Speaker 9: of the day you're miserable, you're regretful, You're like, today sucked.
Speaker 14: I don't want to do this again.
Speaker 9: And it has nothing to do with money, because there's
Speaker 9: been plenty of days where I'd make great money where
Speaker 9: I lost the day where I was unhappy, but I
Speaker 9: made a lot of money, I was unhappy. And there's
Speaker 9: been plenty of days where I've lost money or made
Speaker 9: no money and been happy with myself and my relationships
Speaker 9: in my day. And at the end of the day,
Speaker 9: I say to myself every night, did I win today?
Speaker 9: And most days now I say, yeah, I won today.
Speaker 9: My goal is to die with a winning.
Speaker 2: Record where you won more days than you lost.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 2: I'm still still behind.
Speaker 9: Oh way behind. But I'm on a major wind streak.
Speaker 9: I'm on a great dynasty type wind streak. But I've
Speaker 9: got years to go to break even. Too many years
Speaker 9: wasted on the wrong people, the wrong things, the wrong ideas,
Speaker 9: wasted time.
Speaker 14: You know what I'm talking about. Yeah, yeah, you know
Speaker 14: exactly what.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about. Man, you know that's awesome. That's awesome.
Speaker 2: What's your name again, man, Adam? Adam?
Speaker 1: A great pleasure to meet you.
Speaker 2: Man, it was a pleasure.
Speaker 14: Where could I see this?
Speaker 2: Uh, it's on YouTube dot com slash Lyle.
Speaker 14: Forever, Lyle forever.
Speaker 2: Is there anything else you want to say to the
Speaker 2: people of the computer before we go, Adam, This was.
Speaker 9: A great experience talking to Lyle the get go. I
Speaker 9: had a blast here in New York today with my
Speaker 9: wife having fun. Happy birthday to Maddie. We're having a blast.
Speaker 9: This was great. And and if one person got a
Speaker 9: positive message from me, I'm glad I stopped.
Speaker 1: I got a positive message for you. So you got
Speaker 1: the one person.
Speaker 14: We won the day.
Speaker 2: We won the day. Nice to meetch Adam, Thank you
Speaker 2: very much, man. That was awesome. This was a great
Speaker 2: Gecko session. This was a lot of fun, folks. Just
Speaker 2: goes to show if you're fucking feeling insane in your house,
Speaker 2: just go outside, try to talk to people. You'll feel better.
Speaker 2: I'm saying that from my personal experience. It was great
Speaker 2: talking to that guy because I don't know, if you
Speaker 2: listen to the podcast, you know that I've been talking
Speaker 2: about all kinds of existential crazy bullshit. But isn't it
Speaker 2: so cool? Doesn't it give you so much hope when
Speaker 2: you meet someone who's like I fucking kept fighting for
Speaker 2: my fucking piece and I eventually found It took until
Speaker 2: he was goddamn fifty three years old, but he found
Speaker 2: the piece.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's cool, man, It's cool. It just makes you want
Speaker 2: to not give up on finding peace. So that was cool.
Speaker 2: Shout out Adam, Shout out New York. Thank you guys
Speaker 2: for watching on YouTube or listening on the On the podcast,
Speaker 2: my name is Lyle. I am a gecko and I
Speaker 2: will I will see you all around the universe. Maybe
Speaker 2: at some point in the future, get blessed, see you around.
Speaker 4: Thanks for listening.