WEBVTT - “I WORK AT AN AUSTRIAN HOMELESS SHELTER" 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.200 Hello, Hi, Hi. What is your name? 0:00:02.560 --> 0:00:03.320 My name's Eric. 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:06.600 Eric. Where are you calling from? Eric? I see a 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:09.360 bizarre area code. 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:11.000 Yeah, I'm calling from Austria. 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:16.080 Austria. Austria is kind of like, it's kind of like 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:19.840 a low key Germany, right because Germany, Germany became high 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:22.799 key because they did all that World War two stuff, 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:26.400 and Austria is still a little germany Ish, but it's 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:28.800 not as high key because they didn't do that. Is 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:29.240 that true? 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:29.560 Is that? 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:30.720 Am I talking crazy? 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:35.560 Kind of? But Hitler was actually Austrian, so be kind. 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:41.360 Of really Yeah, well Hitler was Austrian, yeah, I thought. 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:44.560 But his whole thing was like Germany is going to 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:47.159 take over the world and like German supremacy. So why 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:53.120 would he go from Austria to Germany and then be like, yeah, 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:55.400 German's rock and then was not was did one guy 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:58.480 not be like, hey aren't you You're not even German? 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:02.640 When he was young, he tried to be an artist 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:05.160 and he failed at the University of Jenna, I think, 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:08.200 and then he went to Germany to yeah, I get 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:12.399 into politics. He took over Austria too, like Austria back 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:13.520 then was a part of Germany. 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:20.000 I think so yeah, okay, I'm on Wikipedia. Adolf Hitler 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:27.440 was an Austrian born German politician. Okay, that makes sense. Germany, Okay, like, look, 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:30.520 be honest with me here about this and tell me. Yeah, 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:38.119 are Germany and Austria kind of the same thing, I. 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:42.240 Guess for the rest of the world kind of, but 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:50.760 here we definitely seasion differences, like yeah, Austria Austrian's talk 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:53.440 a little bit different. Yeah, it's just. 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:57.240 I mean, this is kind of I mean, I guess 0:01:57.240 --> 0:01:59.960 this is kind of like if like some Canadian dudes 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:04.440 came down to America and he was like, He's like, 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:07.040 America's number one, We're gonna make it the best thing. 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:09.440 It's like, well, why do you give I thought you 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:10.000 were Canadian? 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:16.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's kind of love to the Canadian US. 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:19.119 Well as as I say often on this show. Enough 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:21.040 about Hitler, what's going on with you? 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:27.200 Yeah, it's funny you called me. I actually thought about 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:30.320 what I'm going to talk if you pick up. I 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:33.440 called like one hundred times. My phone bill is going up, 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:37.640 but I don't care, and I couldn't think of anything. 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:39.919 I just wanted to tell you I'm going to your 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:42.919 Cologne show. On the eighteenth of November. 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:47.640 Oh wow, that's cool. No when Yes, So I'm doing 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:52.200 a live show in Cologne, Germany. And when they asked 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:55.600 me when when I saw that, when like the person 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:58.079 who helps me do my tours was like, you want 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:01.040 to do Colone Germany? I was like, yeah, I'll go 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:03.680 to Cologne and do a show for the five people 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:08.320 that'll show up to that. But but get this, I 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:12.760 have sold board tickets in Cologne, Germany. Then like then, like, 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:16.400 I fucking like North Carolina, which is kind of funny. 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:18.320 One is much farther away. 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:22.000 Yeah, it's closest to me, but still like it's going 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:25.160 to be like an eight nine hour car drift. 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:28.440 So yeah, oh shit, No, I'm excited for that one. 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:31.720 I'm excited. I there's I you know, I went, I 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:34.480 did all the European I did a big European tour 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:38.440 last year, and I didn't hit Cologne, And this is 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:40.760 I'm gonna show up there and be like, who the 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:43.720 fuck are all these people in Cologne. I don't even 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:46.080 know what it is. I've never been anywhere in Germany 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:50.600 except Berlin. So I'm excited. Yeah, if you know any 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:54.920 good Cologne spots to do math or eat food. Let 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:55.160 me know. 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:59.520 Yeah, man, I need those spots too. I guess when 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:01.400 I'm there. I ever been to Cologne, so it's going 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:03.520 to be the first time for both of us. 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:08.840 So okay, so well, enough about me, enough about Hitler. 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:11.800 What's uh? What's up with you? What's your life like? 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.880 I don't know right now. I'm kind of like hanging 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:22.360 in there, I guess, or not much happening. I finished 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:26.120 my degree in earlier this year, just like started working 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:30.800 now yeah, living with my girlfriend like kind of like 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:36.040 quiet life now, I guess been kind of not bad 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:39.520 in the past. I'm enjoying it right now. I guess 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:43.440 plan on traveling next year, moving away in here all 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:46.360 my life so yeah, ready for something new. 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:52.719 How old are you? I'm twenty four, twenty four and 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:55.600 and where are you going to move to? You think. 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:01.719 First we plan on going like on big travel. I 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:04.800 guess like some world traveling type deal. 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.120 Nice you say that you are so you feel like 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:10.000 you're living a quiet life? Yes? 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:11.920 Yeah, now now I do? 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:15.760 Yeah, okay, now you do? What when wouldn't tell me about? 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:18.920 Was your life previously loud? 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:24.440 Yeah? I guess you could say, like just like until 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:28.680 I found my girlfriend like two years ago. Was yeah, 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:32.160 just dealing throughout my teen ures with a lot of 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:36.600 mental health issues and drug use and stuff like that, 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:42.320 and that all kinds of Yeah. I went to therapy 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:46.400 and medication. I'm aut medication. Now done with therapy and 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:47.800 it's all good now. 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:51.640 Very cool. How long were you, I mean, I don't know, 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:53.000 I don't know if you want to talk about any 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:54.760 of this stuff. You don't have to if you don't 0:05:54.760 --> 0:06:00.000 want to, But were you, like, how long were you 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:07.000 struggling with that stuff before before you began your quiet life? 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:12.640 I guess like all start back when I was fourteen fifteen, 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:19.440 troubles at home, Yeah, trying drugs and just hanging out 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:23.800 with different people a big I had a big friend circle. 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:26.039 I feel like it was like kind of like family, 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:31.280 and we just went through everything together. I guess a 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:35.680 lot of bad times, but yeah, and this whole friend 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:41.080 circle kind of broke apart when like major events happened. 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:45.960 And since then, I'm more alone, but I actually enjoy it. 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:49.640 It's more peaceful and I can't take much more care 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:54.560 of myself. M So that happened there like three years ago, 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:59.840 I think so, ah, six years I struggled pretty much. 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:00.479 What's you say? 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:09.320 You feel like it's interesting to me because I don't know. 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:11.800 I've been thinking that. I always feel like the point 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:16.520 of life is to, like, I guess, have as many 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:21.200 like relationships and human connections as possible. I don't know 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:24.840 if that's the entire point of life. And everyone's a 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:30.400 little bit kind of like wired differently in that regard 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:33.000 in terms of how much human interaction they want to have. 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:36.120 And for some people, you know, that stuff energizes them. 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:40.080 For other people, it exhausts them. And you're telling me 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:44.880 you're feeling like, uh, you know, life without the big 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:47.520 group of folks, you know, just kind of hanging out 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:50.280 with your girlfriends, you're feeling you're feeling happier and better 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:52.200 that way. 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:56.560 Yeah, I guess I still struggle with like loneliness. It's 0:07:56.560 --> 0:08:00.120 more like a lack of community, I think, And it's 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.840 I live in a more rural part here, so it's 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:07.080 not not that I would say, yeah, everyone knows everyone, 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:10.560 and so I feel like I'm kind of done here, 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.960 like also socially wise. So that's also a big reason 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:16.800 why I want to go travel and meet new people, 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:18.560 maybe find a community. 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:19.120 I'll fit in. 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:21.960 And that's why I'm also open to moving somewhere else, 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:27.360 because I got a desire to to meet new people. 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:31.040 And yeah, and like you said, I still have a 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:33.800 big wish for community and people I can connect to. 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:37.520 I just like that here a lot. But it's also 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:42.160 I also see the positive, I guess because yeah, like 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:45.760 I said, I could take the time and the energy 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:48.320 to focus more on myself in the time I really 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:48.839 needed it. 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:53.280 So yeah, yeah, I feel you man. I'm trying to 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:56.000 do I'm trying to do stuff like that too, you know, 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:58.840 form a form you know. I mean, I got, I got, 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:00.559 I got a whole internet thing, but I'm trying to 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:04.160 form a little bit more, you know, local community. I 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:08.240 think that stuff is important. Where where is all? Where 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:09.520 all is on your travel list? 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:17.360 We want to start, like go go east from central Europe, 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:27.079 start in Georgia, like India, Nepal, Thailand, Philippines, maybe Korea, 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:31.960 and also some some places and American continent, I guess, 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:35.200 like Canada. I want to I want to look at 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:38.560 I'm not too quite sure about the US, but also 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:41.000 Central and Latin America. 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:43.720 Why are you? Why are you not too sure about 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:44.800 the United States? 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.040 I don't know. I feel like it's so big and 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:53.000 I don't I can't really figure out where to go. 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:58.439 Uh, yeah, it is a little big. It is is 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:00.120 a little big. I mean, I don't know this. You 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:02.800 could just pick a place you can go to Asheville, 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:05.480 North Carolina. I don't know if you'll have a good time, 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:06.319 but you can go there. 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:11.120 Oh yeah, I'm gonna go Ashville, North Carolina. 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:15.680 Where do you what? What do you do for work? 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:17.920 Do you have like a remote gig? What's the what's 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:18.760 what's that whole thing? 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:20.880 I'm a social worker. 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:24.640 Oh okay, do you work online or do you like? 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:25.920 How how are you gonna? 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:33.640 I work at a homeless shelter, m so it'sficult to 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:34.360 do that remote. 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:41.880 Tell me about Yeah, sorry, go ahead. 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:45.079 Yeah, I guess there's some opportunities where you can work 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:49.320 social work online. I haven't looked into it too much. 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:53.120 Tell me about the working at the homeless shelter. What's that? 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:53.320 Like? 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:58.679 I always say, like, I think it kind of cured 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:00.800 me too, Like I started with the fashion and stuff 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:05.280 and just seeing I worked there like for two or 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:09.480 three years now. I worked during my education to a 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:12.760 few of my studies and yeah, I feel like just 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:16.160 meeting those people and they still all got hope and 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:20.480 smile on the face every day, but still lost everything, 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:24.400 And that's really inspiring. And yeah, kind of cured me 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:28.439 from being sad about stuff I was said about. I think. 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:33.480 Interesting. So when you so you're working at the homeless 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:36.920 shelter and like the you're telling you're telling me the 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:41.000 morale is better than one might expect. 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:46.640 I guess so yeah you could say it and h interesting. 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:49.400 I'm curious if you can touch a little bit more 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:53.680 on that, because yeah, that sounds like a big, a 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:58.760 big perspective shift of some kind. Like, so people, So 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:04.880 why do you think that that these people are able 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:07.280 to have a you know, still smile and still be 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:12.480 you know, happy despite their situation, Like what do you 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:14.040 what do you? What do you? What do you think 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:17.240 considering like what you've observed, what you've heard from talking 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:17.600 to them. 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:22.080 Yeah, the thing is when I'm meeting them, they're usually 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:25.520 getting helped in some form or another, like getting bad, 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:30.120 getting food, getting some money. So I guess when I 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:34.320 meet them at our institution, they're like more a thankful 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:38.480 mood and just appreciate a little help they get instead 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:42.240 of outside, they pretty much receive a lot of Yeah, 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:47.240 they're just stigmatized and yeah, they are literally on the 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:51.040 edges of our society. Yeah, and I think they just 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:54.320 it's like we also have like a meeting point for 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:57.440 the for the scene, so I feel like, yeah, it's 0:12:57.440 --> 0:13:01.360 just a positive place for them to to some Yeah, 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:04.800 like we mentioned earlier, community and and guess some of 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:08.920 their basic needs fulfills and that's positive thing I guess 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:14.520 for them. But also yeah, I guess if they would 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:19.520 lose their hope, there's there's not much reason to live 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:23.000 anymore for most of them. A lot of them are depressed, 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:27.520 but you can really feel that they have big hopes 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:31.120 and always tell themselves it's getting better, and yeah, that's 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:32.079 really good inspiring. 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:35.160 Mm hmm. How do you feel How do you feel 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:40.080 like that influenced your your perspective on your own life? 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:50.640 Mm hmm. Yeah, just just be thankful for what I got, 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:53.800 I guess. Yeah, I really started to appreciate the things 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:58.800 I have way more and I often just ask myself, 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:01.000 it's a really reason to be not happy right now? 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:04.360 We're not thankful and most of the time there there 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:08.680 isn't really a reason. So yeah, that that. Yeah, that 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:10.319 kind of stuck with me. 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:17.720 What's the is there? Like, what what's what's the homeless 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:21.000 situation like in Austria? Is it because you know in 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:25.000 in in many cities, uh, you know, across the US, 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:27.200 it's it's it's pretty bad, is it? Is it as 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:29.440 bad in in Austria. 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:33.400 I think you could generally say we have more, we 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:36.920 have a better social system, but you can feel that 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:41.720 there's like shift. And we also, since COVID happened, have 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:45.800 some yeah not so good economy and the price went 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:51.320 up like hell, especially in living and food. So we 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:55.480 have like opportunity to sleep in. Our beds are like 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:58.600 always full and this summer was like the first year 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:04.000 where it was all is full and I never saw 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:05.960 that in the summer time because most of the people 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:10.040 just leave outside when it's warm enough. So it's definitely 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:12.440 getting worse, but I think, like compared to the US, 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:16.320 it's still not that bad, especially like I said, I'm 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:20.040 kind of living in a rural part of Austria. But yeah, 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:23.560 we still we still have powerty here and it's definitely 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:30.520 a problem. But yeah, compared to other places on this planet, 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:34.600 we definitely yeah less, Yeah, is. 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:38.160 There because is there like a lot of drug use too, 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:39.840 or is that also not as been. 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:45.720 Well, the people I work with, like I would say, 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:51.320 like eighty ninety percent got some form of addiction, So yeah, 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:54.240 a lot of heroine and alcohol mostly. 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:59.000 Have you so working how long have you worked? Have 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:00.119 you worked at the shelter. 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:02.960 It's like my third year now. 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:09.200 Have you had any experiences where like you knew someone 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:12.000 at the shelter who was like addicted to drugs and 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:15.920 like really having a having a shitty time, and like you, 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:20.200 over time you saw them get better and improve their life. 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:25.800 Oh yeah, definitely. I had one girl and she was 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:28.640 pretty crazy. She had a boyfriend and they always came 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:31.000 together to our shelter. It was like in the beginning 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:36.640 when I started, and they were addicted to Benzo's alcohol 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:40.920 and opiates, always eating the shit out of each other. 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:43.080 It was really like you needed the police a couple 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:46.760 of times, and then we just didn't hear anything from them. 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:50.000 Like two months ago, we received an email they just 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:54.000 moved to Vienna, like our capital, moved away from the 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:58.120 scene and got clean and got a job now to 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:02.760 live together. So yeah, they definitely got better. But most 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:07.400 of the time I always say, it's a pretty hard 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:13.359 job because you don't see those moments of success, you know, 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:16.320 because people come when they need help, and when they're better, 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:20.280 they usually don't come. So it's it's very hard to 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:24.280 notice if someone gets better because usually they just disappear. 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:25.880 And that could mean a lot of things. 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:29.320 So yeah, right right, I guess that's true. I guess 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:32.960 if someone comes to you for help at the shelter 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:37.080 and you don't see them again, it either means you 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:39.679 know that they got better they got worse, but you 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:42.440 don't really you can't really tell. I mean, it's cool 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:44.320 that you got an email from those people, so you 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:49.200 can like be there that situation, right right. 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:53.320 Some people, like years later they just come over and say, yeah, 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:55.560 you helped us in the situation. It was really nice 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:59.000 and we got better. Now that's nice to see. But yeah, 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:02.520 like I said, most of the people just vanish kind 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:03.960 of now. 0:18:04.040 --> 0:18:07.359 I don't know if this is a question of like 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:10.640 your experience or if this is just whether you want 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:14.640 to be optimistic or pessimistic. But when you don't see 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:19.920 someone after you know anymore, do you assume that things 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:21.359 got better or things got worse? 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:26.680 Depends on the person. I would say, like the generation 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:29.200 of the life they're in. Yeah, I can't say it, 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:32.360 but most of the time they're out of my head, 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:35.320 out of side, out of mind kind of because we 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:38.760 got a lot of people there. And yeah, I just 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:42.679 focus on the people that that are here and in 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:47.080 front of me, and I try to distance myself as 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:49.760 much as I can when I'm not in contact with 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:53.399 those people. I would say, but yeah, obviously your mind 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:57.439 you start to think. But I would say, I'm more 0:18:57.480 --> 0:19:01.200 of an optimistic person now, and yeah, just generally better 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:03.600 for my mental health if I don't assume the worst. 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:10.120 I guess what is your ultimate dream? Eric? It's Eric, right, Yeah, 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:13.240 I always forget everyone's fucking name. 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:19.760 Yeah, I feel honored. Yeah, my ultimate dream is too, 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:24.119 to live in a self sustaining community somewhere on the 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:27.720 countryside or something like on a farm. I always dreamed 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:28.040 about that. 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:32.679 Yeah, hmm, you know what I wanted to I'm curious 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:38.159 about this. I'm gonna take questions from the chat for you. Uh, 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:41.080 except this. I was talking to this guy. I don't 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:42.520 know if you guys hurt. So I was talking to 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:44.959 this guy on one of the other podcasts and I 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:46.359 was about to hang up, well and not hang up, 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:49.240 but you know, the conversation was ending, and he was like, what, 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:51.719 I don't get any questions from the chat? And I 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:53.920 was like, I was like, nah, you know, because I well, 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:56.080 I don't give you. By the way, it's not like 0:19:57.440 --> 0:19:59.840 it's it's not like getting questions from the chat. It's 0:19:59.840 --> 0:20:02.600 not like a you know, Tonight Show Johnny Carshon invites 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:03.919 you over to the couch kind of thing. It's just 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:07.280 sometimes sometimes I feel it. Sometimes I don't, you know, 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:09.720 but for I don't know, for you seem like a 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:11.880 cool guy, So I want to get some questions from 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:15.280 the chat. If the chat has any questions, I'll see, 0:20:15.280 --> 0:20:18.119 it'll take a little bit of them to time for 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:20.359 them to A lot of the time chat is just 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:23.720 dumb ass emojis and people talking about something that's nothing 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:26.679 to do with anything. Okay, we got a we got 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:28.720 a real quiet but not but not today, we got 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:33.320 some real questions. All right. Someone said, if you weren't 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:36.760 working in a homeless shelter, what other area of social 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:37.879 work would interest you? 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:42.879 Before I worked at the shelter, I was working like 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:48.320 like youth center in my town. I guess that was 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:52.400 really cool. I could like skateboard all day with the 0:20:52.440 --> 0:20:56.520 guys there and just two cool stuff. I guess, yeah, 0:20:56.640 --> 0:20:58.920 it's more positive and more chill. But I kind of 0:20:58.960 --> 0:21:01.360 got bored after while, so I figured, yeah, I need 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:05.280 something a little bit more action. I would say, so, yeah, 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:09.679 but I guess something with like young people, teenagers, stuff 0:21:09.680 --> 0:21:10.040 like that. 0:21:11.480 --> 0:21:13.880 Someone wants to know how you plan to fund your 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:15.359 trips around the world. 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:21.879 The last years I managed to save a little money. Now, 0:21:22.119 --> 0:21:26.680 my girlfriend also is a social worker. We studying. We're 0:21:26.680 --> 0:21:31.080 both earning not that bad, so we're just saving up 0:21:31.160 --> 0:21:34.080 and yeah, just focus on saving for a year now 0:21:34.119 --> 0:21:35.840 and then I think it would be enough. 0:21:37.440 --> 0:21:39.320 Someone wants to know if you think who would win 0:21:39.359 --> 0:21:41.160 in a fight between Goku and Superman. 0:21:43.320 --> 0:21:45.240 Oh damn, I'm not into any of those. 0:21:48.840 --> 0:21:54.119 Fuck sorry chatter. This guy has a life, all right. 0:21:54.200 --> 0:22:01.040 Someone said, let's see here. Someone's said, what city in 0:22:01.119 --> 0:22:04.560 Austria is this shelter? I went to Vienna and did 0:22:04.600 --> 0:22:06.440 not see any poverty at all. 0:22:09.280 --> 0:22:12.920 Yeah, it's not Vienna. It's it's actually on the other 0:22:13.000 --> 0:22:15.320 side of Austria. But I'm not going to give the location. 0:22:15.800 --> 0:22:19.920 But yeah, it's generally pretty clean. But if you if 0:22:19.920 --> 0:22:22.880 you get into some areas here also Vienna, also my town, 0:22:23.000 --> 0:22:27.760 you you definitely notice some some poverty. Yeah, like I said, 0:22:27.760 --> 0:22:31.440 it's definitely not that much like different places place. 0:22:31.560 --> 0:22:35.800 So someone someone asked, uh, what is your favorite Austrian food? 0:22:37.440 --> 0:22:38.800 Damn cash Bedsler. 0:22:40.240 --> 0:22:41.680 What what did you just say? 0:22:43.760 --> 0:22:48.080 It's called cash Beretsler. It means like, yeah, it's basically 0:22:48.119 --> 0:22:50.800 mac and cheese, but with like different noodles and a 0:22:50.840 --> 0:22:54.000 lot of local cheese. So it's pretty nice. 0:22:55.560 --> 0:23:00.360 Let's say okay, catspin say one say very slowly time 0:23:01.440 --> 0:23:05.119 cash sper cash Spetzler. 0:23:06.200 --> 0:23:06.719 You got it. 0:23:07.520 --> 0:23:11.080 Oh cool, we have we have craft here which is 0:23:11.160 --> 0:23:13.119 quits this rat shitty mac and cheese. 0:23:14.800 --> 0:23:17.720 No, it's not like that. It's way better all right. 0:23:17.920 --> 0:23:20.360 Uh okay, last question, So I want to know how 0:23:20.359 --> 0:23:22.200 you met your girlfriends. 0:23:22.920 --> 0:23:25.680 Yeah, we met at the university. She's she's a social 0:23:25.680 --> 0:23:30.080 worker too. We graduated together. So yeah, basically just studying. 0:23:32.920 --> 0:23:36.480 Cool, cool, cool. You seem like a cool guy. 0:23:36.600 --> 0:23:36.760 Eric. 0:23:37.080 --> 0:23:39.880 I hope that I like what you're doing. I'm glad 0:23:39.960 --> 0:23:43.360 you're out here doing uh real ship in the universe. 0:23:44.440 --> 0:23:47.280 You deserve all the mac and cheese that you deserve, 0:23:47.320 --> 0:23:50.000 all the weird Austrian mac and cheese that you can 0:23:50.040 --> 0:23:54.120 get your hands on and all right, and so I'm 0:23:54.119 --> 0:23:56.320 gonna meet you. You're coming to Colonna. 0:23:57.520 --> 0:23:58.719 Yeah, I hope we're going all right? 0:23:58.880 --> 0:24:01.480 Sick. Yeah, Well, I I meet it. I try to. 0:24:01.600 --> 0:24:03.600 I try to meet everyone after the shows. I like, 0:24:03.720 --> 0:24:08.159 you know, so yeah, when we meet, be like, I'm 0:24:08.200 --> 0:24:09.919 the guy who works at the shelter, and I'll be like, 0:24:09.920 --> 0:24:13.960