Speaker 1: Hello, Hi, Hi. What is your name?
Speaker 2: My name's Eric.
Speaker 1: Eric. Where are you calling from? Eric? I see a
Speaker 1: bizarre area code.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm calling from Austria.
Speaker 1: Austria. Austria is kind of like, it's kind of like
Speaker 1: a low key Germany, right because Germany, Germany became high
Speaker 1: key because they did all that World War two stuff,
Speaker 1: and Austria is still a little germany Ish, but it's
Speaker 1: not as high key because they didn't do that. Is
Speaker 1: that true?
Speaker 2: Is that?
Speaker 1: Am I talking crazy?
Speaker 2: Kind of? But Hitler was actually Austrian, so be kind.
Speaker 1: Of really Yeah, well Hitler was Austrian, yeah, I thought.
Speaker 1: But his whole thing was like Germany is going to
Speaker 1: take over the world and like German supremacy. So why
Speaker 1: would he go from Austria to Germany and then be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: German's rock and then was not was did one guy
Speaker 1: not be like, hey aren't you You're not even German?
Speaker 2: When he was young, he tried to be an artist
Speaker 2: and he failed at the University of Jenna, I think,
Speaker 2: and then he went to Germany to yeah, I get
Speaker 2: into politics. He took over Austria too, like Austria back
Speaker 2: then was a part of Germany.
Speaker 1: I think so yeah, okay, I'm on Wikipedia. Adolf Hitler
Speaker 1: was an Austrian born German politician. Okay, that makes sense. Germany, Okay, like, look,
Speaker 1: be honest with me here about this and tell me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: are Germany and Austria kind of the same thing, I.
Speaker 2: Guess for the rest of the world kind of, but
Speaker 2: here we definitely seasion differences, like yeah, Austria Austrian's talk
Speaker 2: a little bit different. Yeah, it's just.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is kind of I mean, I guess
Speaker 1: this is kind of like if like some Canadian dudes
Speaker 1: came down to America and he was like, He's like,
Speaker 1: America's number one, We're gonna make it the best thing.
Speaker 1: It's like, well, why do you give I thought you
Speaker 1: were Canadian?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's kind of love to the Canadian US.
Speaker 1: Well as as I say often on this show. Enough
Speaker 1: about Hitler, what's going on with you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny you called me. I actually thought about
Speaker 2: what I'm going to talk if you pick up. I
Speaker 2: called like one hundred times. My phone bill is going up,
Speaker 2: but I don't care, and I couldn't think of anything.
Speaker 2: I just wanted to tell you I'm going to your
Speaker 2: Cologne show. On the eighteenth of November.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's cool. No when Yes, So I'm doing
Speaker 1: a live show in Cologne, Germany. And when they asked
Speaker 1: me when when I saw that, when like the person
Speaker 1: who helps me do my tours was like, you want
Speaker 1: to do Colone Germany? I was like, yeah, I'll go
Speaker 1: to Cologne and do a show for the five people
Speaker 1: that'll show up to that. But but get this, I
Speaker 1: have sold board tickets in Cologne, Germany. Then like then, like,
Speaker 1: I fucking like North Carolina, which is kind of funny.
Speaker 1: One is much farther away.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's closest to me, but still like it's going
Speaker 2: to be like an eight nine hour car drift.
Speaker 1: So yeah, oh shit, No, I'm excited for that one.
Speaker 1: I'm excited. I there's I you know, I went, I
Speaker 1: did all the European I did a big European tour
Speaker 1: last year, and I didn't hit Cologne, And this is
Speaker 1: I'm gonna show up there and be like, who the
Speaker 1: fuck are all these people in Cologne. I don't even
Speaker 1: know what it is. I've never been anywhere in Germany
Speaker 1: except Berlin. So I'm excited. Yeah, if you know any
Speaker 1: good Cologne spots to do math or eat food. Let
Speaker 1: me know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, I need those spots too. I guess when
Speaker 2: I'm there. I ever been to Cologne, so it's going
Speaker 2: to be the first time for both of us.
Speaker 1: So okay, so well, enough about me, enough about Hitler.
Speaker 1: What's uh? What's up with you? What's your life like?
Speaker 2: I don't know right now. I'm kind of like hanging
Speaker 2: in there, I guess, or not much happening. I finished
Speaker 2: my degree in earlier this year, just like started working
Speaker 2: now yeah, living with my girlfriend like kind of like
Speaker 2: quiet life now, I guess been kind of not bad
Speaker 2: in the past. I'm enjoying it right now. I guess
Speaker 2: plan on traveling next year, moving away in here all
Speaker 2: my life so yeah, ready for something new.
Speaker 1: How old are you? I'm twenty four, twenty four and
Speaker 1: and where are you going to move to? You think.
Speaker 2: First we plan on going like on big travel. I
Speaker 2: guess like some world traveling type deal.
Speaker 1: Nice you say that you are so you feel like
Speaker 1: you're living a quiet life? Yes?
Speaker 2: Yeah, now now I do?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, now you do? What when wouldn't tell me about?
Speaker 1: Was your life previously loud?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I guess you could say, like just like until
Speaker 2: I found my girlfriend like two years ago. Was yeah,
Speaker 2: just dealing throughout my teen ures with a lot of
Speaker 2: mental health issues and drug use and stuff like that,
Speaker 2: and that all kinds of Yeah. I went to therapy
Speaker 2: and medication. I'm aut medication. Now done with therapy and
Speaker 2: it's all good now.
Speaker 1: Very cool. How long were you, I mean, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you want to talk about any
Speaker 1: of this stuff. You don't have to if you don't
Speaker 1: want to, But were you, like, how long were you
Speaker 1: struggling with that stuff before before you began your quiet life?
Speaker 2: I guess like all start back when I was fourteen fifteen,
Speaker 2: troubles at home, Yeah, trying drugs and just hanging out
Speaker 2: with different people a big I had a big friend circle.
Speaker 2: I feel like it was like kind of like family,
Speaker 2: and we just went through everything together. I guess a
Speaker 2: lot of bad times, but yeah, and this whole friend
Speaker 2: circle kind of broke apart when like major events happened.
Speaker 2: And since then, I'm more alone, but I actually enjoy it.
Speaker 2: It's more peaceful and I can't take much more care
Speaker 2: of myself. M So that happened there like three years ago,
Speaker 2: I think so, ah, six years I struggled pretty much.
Speaker 2: What's you say?
Speaker 1: You feel like it's interesting to me because I don't know.
Speaker 1: I've been thinking that. I always feel like the point
Speaker 1: of life is to, like, I guess, have as many
Speaker 1: like relationships and human connections as possible. I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's the entire point of life. And everyone's a
Speaker 1: little bit kind of like wired differently in that regard
Speaker 1: in terms of how much human interaction they want to have.
Speaker 1: And for some people, you know, that stuff energizes them.
Speaker 1: For other people, it exhausts them. And you're telling me
Speaker 1: you're feeling like, uh, you know, life without the big
Speaker 1: group of folks, you know, just kind of hanging out
Speaker 1: with your girlfriends, you're feeling you're feeling happier and better
Speaker 1: that way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess I still struggle with like loneliness. It's
Speaker 2: more like a lack of community, I think, And it's
Speaker 2: I live in a more rural part here, so it's
Speaker 2: not not that I would say, yeah, everyone knows everyone,
Speaker 2: and so I feel like I'm kind of done here,
Speaker 2: like also socially wise. So that's also a big reason
Speaker 2: why I want to go travel and meet new people,
Speaker 2: maybe find a community.
Speaker 3: I'll fit in.
Speaker 2: And that's why I'm also open to moving somewhere else,
Speaker 2: because I got a desire to to meet new people.
Speaker 2: And yeah, and like you said, I still have a
Speaker 2: big wish for community and people I can connect to.
Speaker 2: I just like that here a lot. But it's also
Speaker 2: I also see the positive, I guess because yeah, like
Speaker 2: I said, I could take the time and the energy
Speaker 2: to focus more on myself in the time I really
Speaker 2: needed it.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, I feel you man. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: do I'm trying to do stuff like that too, you know,
Speaker 1: form a form you know. I mean, I got, I got,
Speaker 1: I got a whole internet thing, but I'm trying to
Speaker 1: form a little bit more, you know, local community. I
Speaker 1: think that stuff is important. Where where is all? Where
Speaker 1: all is on your travel list?
Speaker 2: We want to start, like go go east from central Europe,
Speaker 2: start in Georgia, like India, Nepal, Thailand, Philippines, maybe Korea,
Speaker 2: and also some some places and American continent, I guess,
Speaker 2: like Canada. I want to I want to look at
Speaker 2: I'm not too quite sure about the US, but also
Speaker 2: Central and Latin America.
Speaker 1: Why are you? Why are you not too sure about
Speaker 1: the United States?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I feel like it's so big and
Speaker 2: I don't I can't really figure out where to go.
Speaker 1: Uh, yeah, it is a little big. It is is
Speaker 1: a little big. I mean, I don't know this. You
Speaker 1: could just pick a place you can go to Asheville,
Speaker 1: North Carolina. I don't know if you'll have a good time,
Speaker 1: but you can go there.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'm gonna go Ashville, North Carolina.
Speaker 1: Where do you what? What do you do for work?
Speaker 1: Do you have like a remote gig? What's the what's
Speaker 1: what's that whole thing?
Speaker 2: I'm a social worker.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, do you work online or do you like?
Speaker 1: How how are you gonna?
Speaker 2: I work at a homeless shelter, m so it'sficult to
Speaker 2: do that remote.
Speaker 1: Tell me about Yeah, sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess there's some opportunities where you can work
Speaker 2: social work online. I haven't looked into it too much.
Speaker 1: Tell me about the working at the homeless shelter. What's that?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 2: I always say, like, I think it kind of cured
Speaker 2: me too, Like I started with the fashion and stuff
Speaker 2: and just seeing I worked there like for two or
Speaker 2: three years now. I worked during my education to a
Speaker 2: few of my studies and yeah, I feel like just
Speaker 2: meeting those people and they still all got hope and
Speaker 2: smile on the face every day, but still lost everything,
Speaker 2: And that's really inspiring. And yeah, kind of cured me
Speaker 2: from being sad about stuff I was said about. I think.
Speaker 1: Interesting. So when you so you're working at the homeless
Speaker 1: shelter and like the you're telling you're telling me the
Speaker 1: morale is better than one might expect.
Speaker 2: I guess so yeah you could say it and h interesting.
Speaker 1: I'm curious if you can touch a little bit more
Speaker 1: on that, because yeah, that sounds like a big, a
Speaker 1: big perspective shift of some kind. Like, so people, So
Speaker 1: why do you think that that these people are able
Speaker 1: to have a you know, still smile and still be
Speaker 1: you know, happy despite their situation, Like what do you
Speaker 1: what do you? What do you? What do you think
Speaker 1: considering like what you've observed, what you've heard from talking
Speaker 1: to them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the thing is when I'm meeting them, they're usually
Speaker 2: getting helped in some form or another, like getting bad,
Speaker 2: getting food, getting some money. So I guess when I
Speaker 2: meet them at our institution, they're like more a thankful
Speaker 2: mood and just appreciate a little help they get instead
Speaker 2: of outside, they pretty much receive a lot of Yeah,
Speaker 2: they're just stigmatized and yeah, they are literally on the
Speaker 2: edges of our society. Yeah, and I think they just
Speaker 2: it's like we also have like a meeting point for
Speaker 2: the for the scene, so I feel like, yeah, it's
Speaker 2: just a positive place for them to to some Yeah,
Speaker 2: like we mentioned earlier, community and and guess some of
Speaker 2: their basic needs fulfills and that's positive thing I guess
Speaker 2: for them. But also yeah, I guess if they would
Speaker 2: lose their hope, there's there's not much reason to live
Speaker 2: anymore for most of them. A lot of them are depressed,
Speaker 2: but you can really feel that they have big hopes
Speaker 2: and always tell themselves it's getting better, and yeah, that's
Speaker 2: really good inspiring.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. How do you feel How do you feel
Speaker 1: like that influenced your your perspective on your own life?
Speaker 2: Mm hmm. Yeah, just just be thankful for what I got,
Speaker 2: I guess. Yeah, I really started to appreciate the things
Speaker 2: I have way more and I often just ask myself,
Speaker 2: it's a really reason to be not happy right now?
Speaker 2: We're not thankful and most of the time there there
Speaker 2: isn't really a reason. So yeah, that that. Yeah, that
Speaker 2: kind of stuck with me.
Speaker 1: What's the is there? Like, what what's what's the homeless
Speaker 1: situation like in Austria? Is it because you know in
Speaker 1: in in many cities, uh, you know, across the US,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's pretty bad, is it? Is it as
Speaker 1: bad in in Austria.
Speaker 2: I think you could generally say we have more, we
Speaker 2: have a better social system, but you can feel that
Speaker 2: there's like shift. And we also, since COVID happened, have
Speaker 2: some yeah not so good economy and the price went
Speaker 2: up like hell, especially in living and food. So we
Speaker 2: have like opportunity to sleep in. Our beds are like
Speaker 2: always full and this summer was like the first year
Speaker 2: where it was all is full and I never saw
Speaker 2: that in the summer time because most of the people
Speaker 2: just leave outside when it's warm enough. So it's definitely
Speaker 2: getting worse, but I think, like compared to the US,
Speaker 2: it's still not that bad, especially like I said, I'm
Speaker 2: kind of living in a rural part of Austria. But yeah,
Speaker 2: we still we still have powerty here and it's definitely
Speaker 2: a problem. But yeah, compared to other places on this planet,
Speaker 2: we definitely yeah less, Yeah, is.
Speaker 1: There because is there like a lot of drug use too,
Speaker 1: or is that also not as been.
Speaker 2: Well, the people I work with, like I would say,
Speaker 2: like eighty ninety percent got some form of addiction, So yeah,
Speaker 2: a lot of heroine and alcohol mostly.
Speaker 1: Have you so working how long have you worked? Have
Speaker 1: you worked at the shelter.
Speaker 2: It's like my third year now.
Speaker 1: Have you had any experiences where like you knew someone
Speaker 1: at the shelter who was like addicted to drugs and
Speaker 1: like really having a having a shitty time, and like you,
Speaker 1: over time you saw them get better and improve their life.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, definitely. I had one girl and she was
Speaker 2: pretty crazy. She had a boyfriend and they always came
Speaker 2: together to our shelter. It was like in the beginning
Speaker 2: when I started, and they were addicted to Benzo's alcohol
Speaker 2: and opiates, always eating the shit out of each other.
Speaker 2: It was really like you needed the police a couple
Speaker 2: of times, and then we just didn't hear anything from them.
Speaker 2: Like two months ago, we received an email they just
Speaker 2: moved to Vienna, like our capital, moved away from the
Speaker 2: scene and got clean and got a job now to
Speaker 2: live together. So yeah, they definitely got better. But most
Speaker 2: of the time I always say, it's a pretty hard
Speaker 2: job because you don't see those moments of success, you know,
Speaker 2: because people come when they need help, and when they're better,
Speaker 2: they usually don't come. So it's it's very hard to
Speaker 2: notice if someone gets better because usually they just disappear.
Speaker 2: And that could mean a lot of things.
Speaker 1: So yeah, right right, I guess that's true. I guess
Speaker 1: if someone comes to you for help at the shelter
Speaker 1: and you don't see them again, it either means you
Speaker 1: know that they got better they got worse, but you
Speaker 1: don't really you can't really tell. I mean, it's cool
Speaker 1: that you got an email from those people, so you
Speaker 1: can like be there that situation, right right.
Speaker 2: Some people, like years later they just come over and say, yeah,
Speaker 2: you helped us in the situation. It was really nice
Speaker 2: and we got better. Now that's nice to see. But yeah,
Speaker 2: like I said, most of the people just vanish kind
Speaker 2: of now.
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is a question of like
Speaker 1: your experience or if this is just whether you want
Speaker 1: to be optimistic or pessimistic. But when you don't see
Speaker 1: someone after you know anymore, do you assume that things
Speaker 1: got better or things got worse?
Speaker 2: Depends on the person. I would say, like the generation
Speaker 2: of the life they're in. Yeah, I can't say it,
Speaker 2: but most of the time they're out of my head,
Speaker 2: out of side, out of mind kind of because we
Speaker 2: got a lot of people there. And yeah, I just
Speaker 2: focus on the people that that are here and in
Speaker 2: front of me, and I try to distance myself as
Speaker 2: much as I can when I'm not in contact with
Speaker 2: those people. I would say, but yeah, obviously your mind
Speaker 2: you start to think. But I would say, I'm more
Speaker 2: of an optimistic person now, and yeah, just generally better
Speaker 2: for my mental health if I don't assume the worst.
Speaker 1: I guess what is your ultimate dream? Eric? It's Eric, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I always forget everyone's fucking name.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel honored. Yeah, my ultimate dream is too,
Speaker 2: to live in a self sustaining community somewhere on the
Speaker 2: countryside or something like on a farm. I always dreamed
Speaker 2: about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hmm, you know what I wanted to I'm curious
Speaker 1: about this. I'm gonna take questions from the chat for you. Uh,
Speaker 1: except this. I was talking to this guy. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you guys hurt. So I was talking to
Speaker 1: this guy on one of the other podcasts and I
Speaker 1: was about to hang up, well and not hang up,
Speaker 1: but you know, the conversation was ending, and he was like, what,
Speaker 1: I don't get any questions from the chat? And I
Speaker 1: was like, I was like, nah, you know, because I well,
Speaker 1: I don't give you. By the way, it's not like
Speaker 1: it's it's not like getting questions from the chat. It's
Speaker 1: not like a you know, Tonight Show Johnny Carshon invites
Speaker 1: you over to the couch kind of thing. It's just
Speaker 1: sometimes sometimes I feel it. Sometimes I don't, you know,
Speaker 1: but for I don't know, for you seem like a
Speaker 1: cool guy, So I want to get some questions from
Speaker 1: the chat. If the chat has any questions, I'll see,
Speaker 1: it'll take a little bit of them to time for
Speaker 1: them to A lot of the time chat is just
Speaker 1: dumb ass emojis and people talking about something that's nothing
Speaker 1: to do with anything. Okay, we got a we got
Speaker 1: a real quiet but not but not today, we got
Speaker 1: some real questions. All right. Someone said, if you weren't
Speaker 1: working in a homeless shelter, what other area of social
Speaker 1: work would interest you?
Speaker 2: Before I worked at the shelter, I was working like
Speaker 2: like youth center in my town. I guess that was
Speaker 2: really cool. I could like skateboard all day with the
Speaker 2: guys there and just two cool stuff. I guess, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's more positive and more chill. But I kind of
Speaker 2: got bored after while, so I figured, yeah, I need
Speaker 2: something a little bit more action. I would say, so, yeah,
Speaker 2: but I guess something with like young people, teenagers, stuff
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 1: Someone wants to know how you plan to fund your
Speaker 1: trips around the world.
Speaker 2: The last years I managed to save a little money. Now,
Speaker 2: my girlfriend also is a social worker. We studying. We're
Speaker 2: both earning not that bad, so we're just saving up
Speaker 2: and yeah, just focus on saving for a year now
Speaker 2: and then I think it would be enough.
Speaker 1: Someone wants to know if you think who would win
Speaker 1: in a fight between Goku and Superman.
Speaker 2: Oh damn, I'm not into any of those.
Speaker 1: Fuck sorry chatter. This guy has a life, all right.
Speaker 1: Someone said, let's see here. Someone's said, what city in
Speaker 1: Austria is this shelter? I went to Vienna and did
Speaker 1: not see any poverty at all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not Vienna. It's it's actually on the other
Speaker 2: side of Austria. But I'm not going to give the location.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's generally pretty clean. But if you if
Speaker 2: you get into some areas here also Vienna, also my town,
Speaker 2: you you definitely notice some some poverty. Yeah, like I said,
Speaker 2: it's definitely not that much like different places place.
Speaker 1: So someone someone asked, uh, what is your favorite Austrian food?
Speaker 2: Damn cash Bedsler.
Speaker 1: What what did you just say?
Speaker 2: It's called cash Beretsler. It means like, yeah, it's basically
Speaker 2: mac and cheese, but with like different noodles and a
Speaker 2: lot of local cheese. So it's pretty nice.
Speaker 1: Let's say okay, catspin say one say very slowly time
Speaker 1: cash sper cash Spetzler.
Speaker 3: You got it.
Speaker 1: Oh cool, we have we have craft here which is
Speaker 1: quits this rat shitty mac and cheese.
Speaker 2: No, it's not like that. It's way better all right.
Speaker 1: Uh okay, last question, So I want to know how
Speaker 1: you met your girlfriends.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we met at the university. She's she's a social
Speaker 2: worker too. We graduated together. So yeah, basically just studying.
Speaker 1: Cool, cool, cool. You seem like a cool guy.
Speaker 4: Eric.
Speaker 1: I hope that I like what you're doing. I'm glad
Speaker 1: you're out here doing uh real ship in the universe.
Speaker 1: You deserve all the mac and cheese that you deserve,
Speaker 1: all the weird Austrian mac and cheese that you can
Speaker 1: get your hands on and all right, and so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna meet you. You're coming to Colonna.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hope we're going all right?
Speaker 1: Sick. Yeah, Well, I I meet it. I try to.
Speaker 1: I try to meet everyone after the shows. I like,
Speaker 1: you know, so yeah, when we meet, be like, I'm
Speaker 1: the guy who works at the shelter, and I'll be like,
Speaker 1: oh fuck, you're that guy. So we'll uh and then
Speaker 1: we'll and then we can stare at each other or whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: is there anything else? I'm looking forward to staring at YouTube? Brother?
Speaker 1: Is there anything else you want to say to the
Speaker 1: people of the computer before we go?
Speaker 2: Love y'all, have a good night, Love.
Speaker 1: You grek, Hey you too, take care brother?
Speaker 2: Bye. Man.
Speaker 1: I like that guy. He was chill, he had a
Speaker 1: good demeanor to himself, talked about I know some people
Speaker 1: are just they just got good vibes. That guy had
Speaker 1: a good vibe. He's uh uh yeah. I don't know,
Speaker 1: do I have Do I have anything else to say
Speaker 1: about the state about what we have learned over the
Speaker 1: past twenty five minutes about the state of mental health
Speaker 1: in Austria. I don't think I do. I think I'm
Speaker 1: just rambling to pad out the time of this call.
Speaker 1: I think it's what I'm doing, and I'm gonna stop
Speaker 1: doing that in three two one, Hello, Hello? What is
Speaker 1: your name?
Speaker 4: My name is Linda.
Speaker 1: Linda. What's going on? How's life?
Speaker 4: Life is great? I just I won a pinball tournament
Speaker 4: last night, so I want to talk about that. It
Speaker 4: was great.
Speaker 1: Many how many people were we're in this pinball tournament?
Speaker 4: We had seven people?
Speaker 1: Okay? How does a pinball tournament work? Is it like
Speaker 1: people go back and forth to see who can get
Speaker 1: the biggest score.
Speaker 4: So I was also running it. We use this thing
Speaker 4: called match play where it has like a set number
Speaker 4: of machines you're playing and you get randomized with like
Speaker 4: two people on each machine. So whoever gets the highest
Speaker 4: score then they get a point for that round you
Speaker 4: go onto the next one.
Speaker 1: That space. Okay, so you you organized the pinball tournament?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, how did you go about? Tell me? I'm curious
Speaker 1: because you know, I'm in a headspace right now where
Speaker 1: I really want to put on more events. I mean,
Speaker 1: I have my tour, which is great, but I want
Speaker 1: to do more like local fun things. So tell and
Speaker 1: I also, you know, I want to encourage the people
Speaker 1: who listen to this to organize doing more fun local
Speaker 1: things because I think it's an incredible uh benefit to
Speaker 1: one as a human being. So tell us from the
Speaker 1: ground up, how did you organize this pinball tournament?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, so I totally agree with that. I think
Speaker 4: it's great to have like small spaces for anyone to
Speaker 4: just either learn or you know, dive into it if
Speaker 4: they're really into that environment. But I end up getting
Speaker 4: into the pinball in tournaments and all that stuff primarily
Speaker 4: just from going to conventions and having arcades available. So
Speaker 4: I just played a whole bunch of pinball there since
Speaker 4: it was on free play, and that kind of opened
Speaker 4: the doors to like, there's this app called pinball Map
Speaker 4: where you can find different locations that have a whole
Speaker 4: bunch of pinball machines. I moved to a new city
Speaker 4: and started playing at the local arcade there, and since
Speaker 4: I was there pretty often, they asked me if I
Speaker 4: wanted to like host a women's tournament so that way,
Speaker 4: you know, women can have a safe place to play
Speaker 4: and you know, hang out and ask questions and learn
Speaker 4: where it's not like a stressful environment for some people
Speaker 4: because sometimes it could be a little cut throat. Women's
Speaker 4: tournaments are usually pretty chill.
Speaker 1: The pinball scene is cutthroat.
Speaker 4: It can be, yeah, in what sense. There's a lot
Speaker 4: of rules to some of the machines, and like if
Speaker 4: you accidentally mess up somehow, then sometimes people get really
Speaker 4: up at these and they're like, well, you can't do that,
Speaker 4: we have to like disqualify you from the tournament. Also
Speaker 4: the crap whever.
Speaker 1: So I want to just I just want to get
Speaker 1: into this for just a second, because here's the thing
Speaker 1: about he's saying about pinball is like the the amount
Speaker 1: of inputs that you can make in this game. It's
Speaker 1: like in most games have like uh you know, kind
Speaker 1: of like an not an infinite, but like they have
Speaker 1: there's they have several buttons that you can press many inputs.
Speaker 1: I'm a big super Smash pros guy, and you know
Speaker 1: we have on the controller there's like ten fucking buttons.
Speaker 1: Pinball really only has two inputs. It's the right trigger
Speaker 1: and the left the left bumper, the left fucking thing
Speaker 1: and the right fucking thing. And so I don't obviously
Speaker 1: you're not supposed to pick up the machine and fucking
Speaker 1: tilt the thing. But outside of that, I mean, how
Speaker 1: much of a how much is there really to fuck
Speaker 1: up or cheats? You know, with such a limited amount
Speaker 1: of input into the game and a role.
Speaker 4: Well, I this has happened in a handful of times
Speaker 4: where I've seen people. I've done this myself, where if
Speaker 4: you're playing against someone else and you accidentally play their
Speaker 4: ball instead, oh yeah, you can mess up because sometimes
Speaker 4: it's very easy to think that it's your ball the
Speaker 4: excellent place one else is. Or if there's some other
Speaker 4: in the game where you can get an extra ball
Speaker 4: and you're not supposed to play those usually, so if
Speaker 4: you play it, sometimes I can just qualify you. Yeah,
Speaker 4: people are just like really picky about some of those rules.
Speaker 4: But yeah, it's kind of silly. I'm a pretty casual
Speaker 4: player for a tournament player, but yeah, some people are
Speaker 4: just like really sticklers about it.
Speaker 1: So this is cool. You move to a new city,
Speaker 1: do you know anyone in the new city?
Speaker 4: I like a handful of people, like maybe three or
Speaker 4: four people.
Speaker 1: What city is it? Richmond, Richmond, Virginia? How does one
Speaker 1: How does one revive their life by picking up leaving
Speaker 1: everything they know? And moving to Richmond, Virginia. They do
Speaker 1: it by hosting a pinball tournament. Of course. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: like that. I actually think that's sick. No, I think
Speaker 1: I fucking rocks. What what is there? Do you want
Speaker 1: to shout out this arcade at all? Does that interest you? So?
Speaker 4: My favorite thought is wax Moon Records. They're ever in
Speaker 4: Scott's Edition. And yeah, it's like a horror themed arcade
Speaker 4: as well. So they have a lot of like you know,
Speaker 4: I guess Franken Stebeine, Santama's Opera, and Halldeen. So they
Speaker 4: have a ton of like horror specific arcade cabinets, which
Speaker 4: is great.
Speaker 1: What cabinet did you run this tournament on?
Speaker 4: We had about ten last night that we kind of
Speaker 4: you know, rotated around. You didn't get too bored, but yeah,
Speaker 4: we had you had stranger things. There was Iron Maiden,
Speaker 4: Venom was in the mix, Halloween Fan the opera, Frankenstein,
Speaker 4: and some other ones I forgot. I think, uh Kials
Speaker 4: from the Crypt or something like that. I remember. But
Speaker 4: there's a couple of them.
Speaker 1: Which one is your favorite?
Speaker 4: Which is my favorite of all time or at that event.
Speaker 1: Or at I want of all time of all time?
Speaker 4: Okay, my favorite of all time is Cubert.
Speaker 1: It's a pretty Hubert pinball.
Speaker 4: Yeah, dude, So that one came out a long time
Speaker 4: ago and has you inverted flippers at the bottom, like
Speaker 4: royally mess up.
Speaker 1: If you're playing, well, there's inverted What do you mean
Speaker 1: inverted flippers?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: I see it. Oh oh that's bizarre at the bottom. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's really bizarre. Yeah, it's inverted. It's like going to
Speaker 1: the left. Very interesting, very interesting. Do they have that cool?
Speaker 1: Where do they have that?
Speaker 4: I've only seen it at this event called Pin Baltimore,
Speaker 4: which is up in Baltimore, of course, and that's the
Speaker 4: only place I've ever seen it, so it's kind of rare.
Speaker 1: Bro Hold the fucking but hold the fucking phone. I
Speaker 1: uh well, I don't live there right now, but I'm
Speaker 1: originally from Baltimore, Maryland's and I have never in my
Speaker 1: life heard of PIN Baltimore. And I'm looking at the
Speaker 1: website right now and they have a music lineup. What
Speaker 1: is this? This is awesome? This is so cool. Holy crap.
Speaker 4: I usually go every year, but this year they're not
Speaker 4: hosting it. But yeah, Pin Baltimore is over at Holy
Speaker 4: Free Holies in Hamden, Baltimore, so just north of Baltimore City.
Speaker 4: It's just like a bunch of local bands. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 4: Holy Free Holies is like really great food and like
Speaker 4: at least like fifty to seventy pinball machines. They have
Speaker 4: like some crazy tournaments too. They do like split slipper tournaments.
Speaker 4: We have one for and then the left one on the right,
Speaker 4: So they get kind of creative with like the different
Speaker 4: types of tournaments there. It's really cool though.
Speaker 1: That is really cool. So you won the tournament, and
Speaker 1: I say, okay, so you say you're a casual, you
Speaker 1: say you're a novice, but I I personally believe that
Speaker 1: you are being humble because I mean, you won the
Speaker 1: fucking tournament. Tell me this, what do you have any
Speaker 1: strategies that you want to share for maybe other pinball
Speaker 1: layman's who you know, maybe that maybe they're on a
Speaker 1: date at an arcade, they want to impress their date
Speaker 1: with pinball skills? What what what should they what should
Speaker 1: they do? What should they know?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, So honestly, what I always tell new people,
Speaker 4: I always ask them if they want to learn about
Speaker 4: the machine. So otherwise I don't want to like mansplain
Speaker 4: you know not cool, but I'll go ahead and let
Speaker 4: them know, like try to slow down the ball as
Speaker 4: much as possible, because you want to aim your shots.
Speaker 4: It's not like just hitting random stuff. Like every game
Speaker 4: does have a story to it where you can unlock
Speaker 4: certain things. Anything that's more of a stationary light, aim
Speaker 4: for that. If it's a blinking light, that's kind of
Speaker 4: like a bonus. And usually most games have like like
Speaker 4: a skill shot option where you get a ton of
Speaker 4: points or multi ball option, so I like to point
Speaker 4: those out. But there's usually a card in the bottom
Speaker 4: left corner that gives you some of the steps and
Speaker 4: instruction so that what you get the most out of,
Speaker 4: like how many quarters you're putting in the machine. But
Speaker 4: it's pretty cool. You can also watch it on like
Speaker 4: watch games on YouTube to learn strategy if you're interested.
Speaker 4: I don't really do that too much because I like
Speaker 4: learning as they go one more hands on rather than
Speaker 4: just observing. Yeah, if you have any questions, though, I
Speaker 4: feel like asking other people what their strategy is while
Speaker 4: they're playing, or like after they play, because don't want
Speaker 4: to interrupt them while they're playing, can be really helpful.
Speaker 4: And I think everyone who really loves pinball. They light
Speaker 4: up when they get a chance to talk about it,
Speaker 4: like myself. So oh yeah, no it should have been though,
Speaker 4: but yeah, you say a flip out over it.
Speaker 1: Uh So, what I guess if the people, let's say
Speaker 1: someone's listening to this, they want to go to one
Speaker 1: of your pinball tournaments, when's the next one you're hosting?
Speaker 1: Is there a thing or that you can follow or
Speaker 1: because like, I don't know when the next time I'm
Speaker 1: ever going to be in Richmond, Virginia is But how
Speaker 1: can people follow these pinball tournaments?
Speaker 4: Yeah? For sure, I know wax Moon they post about
Speaker 4: it on our Instagram pretty often. So they do like
Speaker 4: a main monthly tournament for all walks of life, and
Speaker 4: then I host the women's tournament usually in the middle
Speaker 4: of the month. So but yeah, we just started doing
Speaker 4: the women's tournament about a month ago, so it's very
Speaker 4: very new. Welcome all all people. But yeah, definitely worth
Speaker 4: checking out if you're in Richmond.
Speaker 1: What do you can I I'm just curious about your
Speaker 1: actual life. What do you do? Uh like for life?
Speaker 4: For life?
Speaker 1: Yeah, like do you have a job.
Speaker 4: I do have a job. Yeah, so that you know
Speaker 4: pays the build, but I work for like a software company.
Speaker 4: I work remotely, and honestly, I love it. It's great,
Speaker 4: but it kind of forces me to go out and like,
Speaker 4: because I'm working from home, you don't really interact with
Speaker 4: people day to day, like face to face, So it
Speaker 4: encourages me to like go out and meet new people
Speaker 4: in the city. So got to fill that social meter.
Speaker 1: Rock and roll. Well, thank you Linda's and anything else
Speaker 1: you want to say to the people the computer before
Speaker 1: we go.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think just keeping kind to yourself and that
Speaker 4: can go a long way. Good night, Linda, all right,
Speaker 4: good bye, Geck.
Speaker 1: That was cool. I really like that call because that's uh,
Speaker 1: this is kind of a theme I think about in
Speaker 1: my own life, and a theme that we kind of
Speaker 1: talk about on this podcast is like, you know, how
Speaker 1: do you meet new people? How do you do uh,
Speaker 1: how do you become how do you get how do
Speaker 1: you get involved in a community of some kind?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: You know, Linda moves to Richmond, Virginia. I mean, what
Speaker 1: the fuck is going on in Richmond, Virginia. She moves there.
Speaker 1: She's got this work from home job, and you know,
Speaker 1: instead of sitting around and going ah, I'm in this
Speaker 1: fucking what. I don't know how to get to me
Speaker 1: instead of moping around. Linda's like, Linda's like, let me
Speaker 1: start hosting fucking pinball tournaments, you know, just like I
Speaker 1: love that. I love that kind of creative thinking. Right,
Speaker 1: And now she's like the dawn of women's pinball in Richmond, Virginia,
Speaker 1: which is the most specific fucking thing I think I
Speaker 1: could think of, And I think, I think that's awesome
Speaker 1: and I'm inspired by that. So I'm also I got
Speaker 1: to check out pin So I do like pinball.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: I've been looking for a while for the uh the
Speaker 1: south Park pinball machine. I finally tried that at one up.
Speaker 1: I think it's called over in uh Denver, and that's sick.
Speaker 1: So I might maybe I'll go to a pinball tournament.
Speaker 1: I know they have those.
Speaker 4: What do you mean?
Speaker 1: I know they have those. We just talked about it.
Speaker 1: Uh cool? No, I like this, shout out Linda, Linda, Hello,
Speaker 1: how are you? Uh? You know I'm doing all right?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: I feel I feel optimistic. I don't know why I've
Speaker 1: been thinking a lot. I've I talk about this all
Speaker 1: the time, but I'll talk about it again when I
Speaker 1: get like uh uh I when I feel like depressed
Speaker 1: or whatever, I think to myself, I don't think life
Speaker 1: is about perspective. I think it's about like you either
Speaker 1: either you have problems that are solved or or not,
Speaker 1: and whatever's going on in your eternal brain that has
Speaker 1: nothing to fucking do with anything, idiot. And then and
Speaker 1: then I and then I think think, well, I think
Speaker 1: if I change my perspective a little bit, it does
Speaker 1: make me feel better. So I am car As the
Speaker 1: version of myself let's talking to you right now, is
Speaker 1: optimistic about life. But well we'll see how long that
Speaker 1: fucking lasts. But enough about me. What's up with you?
Speaker 1: What's going on? How can I get you today?
Speaker 3: Well, right now, I've got some ribs in the oven
Speaker 3: and I'm getting ready to go over to my parents'
Speaker 3: house to hang out with them and my sister in
Speaker 3: law and her little baby. So we'll do that later today.
Speaker 3: But right now I'm just chilling And saw your noticification
Speaker 3: come up, and I was like, all right, today is
Speaker 3: the day. Today's day. I'm going to get on and
Speaker 3: the stream and you picked up. So here we are.
Speaker 1: Well, let me ask you this, is there anything in
Speaker 1: particular that you wanted to talk about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 4: So, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I feel like I'm at a kind of a crossroads
Speaker 3: in my life. Just I don't know. I guess things
Speaker 3: are going pretty good. I've got a pretty solid job
Speaker 3: and we're moving to a new place. It's just been
Speaker 3: a whirlwind of change and different things like that. So
Speaker 3: just kind of working through, working through some stuff. But nothing, uh, nothing,
Speaker 3: end of the world. It's so funny. I every time
Speaker 3: I I think I've texted a couple of times and
Speaker 3: I'm like, you literally use like chat GBT to try
Speaker 3: and be like CHATGBT, write a text that will get
Speaker 3: gets interest or something so you could come me back,
Speaker 3: and it never comes up with anything.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't like. I don't like that. Not anything
Speaker 1: to do with AI. But I just like, I don't think,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, look, I get it, I understand that.
Speaker 1: Uh the like the I try, yes, I try to
Speaker 1: take the phone calls that I think will be the
Speaker 1: most interesting. Sure, but I don't I that's that's weird.
Speaker 1: That's turned this into I don't want that to turn
Speaker 1: this into a competition to see who can be the
Speaker 1: most crazy, you know, Yeah, because.
Speaker 4: It's just feel better.
Speaker 3: It makes me feel better if you look back, I
Speaker 3: text you pretty normal things and never go with the
Speaker 3: CHEDGBT thing. I'm just like pretty normal, Like what's the well.
Speaker 1: I just I don't want people to like lie and
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't, by the way, I don't think
Speaker 1: most people on this show are lying. I just I
Speaker 1: don't want people to be like I got to think
Speaker 1: of a crazy thing. And and also I'm going to
Speaker 1: say this too, I I the conversations that I enjoy
Speaker 1: having the most on this show are not necessarily the
Speaker 1: craziest ones. I just I like when people are being
Speaker 1: authentic and you can kind of tell, like you can
Speaker 1: tell when somebody is approaching this authentically versus being like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm I want to be on the show because I'm crazy,
Speaker 1: you know, And somebody can be a part. Somebody can
Speaker 1: have a crazy thing, But if they're approaching it in
Speaker 1: an inauthentic way, I don't. I don't talking to them
Speaker 1: as kind of boring, you know.
Speaker 3: No, I get you, I get Wait me.
Speaker 1: So I'm had whatever. I'm happy to talk about your
Speaker 1: boring life, is what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, I guess I can I can tell you
Speaker 3: a little bit about my boring life. Like, so right
Speaker 3: now I work full time. I work in quality and
Speaker 3: aerospace and defense manufacturing, so that's pretty cool. But on
Speaker 3: the side, I do like dog walking and babysitting and
Speaker 3: house cleaning and all that. So I've been out straight
Speaker 3: just completely murdering myself with work because I'm trying to
Speaker 3: prepare for a move and even though like you have
Speaker 3: a solid job, like, everything is still very expensive.
Speaker 1: So what part of the what part of the country
Speaker 1: do you live in?
Speaker 3: New England?
Speaker 1: New England? I can I say something insane like forever
Speaker 1: when I hear the phrase New England, I don't know
Speaker 1: what people are talking about.
Speaker 3: It's so funny that you say that, because my niece
Speaker 3: the other day didn't She didn't know that New England
Speaker 3: wasn't like a place in Europe. She thought it was
Speaker 3: I didn't even know that New England was a readon
Speaker 3: in the US. I was like, what, it's just funny.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, sow, okay, New England. What what state do
Speaker 1: you live in?
Speaker 3: I live in New Hampshire.
Speaker 1: Okay, so yeah, see if you said New Hampshire'd be like, okay,
Speaker 1: I know where she lives. But you said New England. No,
Speaker 1: I've since come to understand that New England is a
Speaker 1: region of America comprised of like Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont's, Connecticut,
Speaker 1: Rhode Island, right.
Speaker 3: Rhode Island, and Maine. Yeah, well, it's just easy. You
Speaker 3: have to be fair. You did what reason I lived in.
Speaker 3: I don't think you asked me what state. But that's
Speaker 3: probably why.
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't think I said that, but also that
Speaker 1: we have I said it on record. No, no, be wrong.
Speaker 1: It's more likely that I'm wrong than that you're wrong.
Speaker 1: But we said it on a record. Whoever's listening to
Speaker 1: this can play it back and see who's right. Do
Speaker 1: you see New Hampshire. Is New Hampshire an expensive place?
Speaker 3: I would say it can be. It depends on where
Speaker 3: you live.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it can be.
Speaker 3: I mean New England's a pretty expensive cost of living
Speaker 3: for the country, so it can be. I mean I
Speaker 3: got lucky. I mean I got a good job. I
Speaker 3: knew somebody and they told me to apply, and so
Speaker 3: I got a good job. So I got lucky in
Speaker 3: that regard. But it can be expensive. There's not a
Speaker 3: whole lot of I guess opportunity here, I would say,
Speaker 3: like it depends on where you live in this state.
Speaker 3: I would say if you're in the southern region, you
Speaker 3: might have more opportunities, but the more rurall you get,
Speaker 3: it tends to be the same small businesses. Not that
Speaker 3: small businesses are bad, but like the same things in
Speaker 3: life doesn't really change that much. So if you're looking
Speaker 3: for a change or if you're looking to like really
Speaker 3: go far with your peer, you kind of have to
Speaker 3: lead the era you're in.
Speaker 1: Okay, I have one more New England thing. Okay, the Patriots,
Speaker 1: the football team. Yes they're the New England Patriots, right.
Speaker 4: Yes, they are the New England Patriots.
Speaker 1: So that's so the okay because I always that always
Speaker 1: confused me because that's like what how many states? Like
Speaker 1: six states? I don't know if it's exactly six, don't
Speaker 1: who cares, but it's like it's several states sharing one
Speaker 1: football team.
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess it kind of makes sense because
Speaker 3: some of those states are pretty small. It's not like
Speaker 3: it's Texas and like the Dallas, Like New England is
Speaker 3: probably the size of Texas, And so it makes like
Speaker 3: different states can be tend to be bigger than our
Speaker 3: smaller ones, so it kind of makes sense that we
Speaker 3: have united behind rue teams.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they all they all pulled together for one football team.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, you know, growing up, I never, like embarrassingly recently
Speaker 1: have I learned what exactly New England is. But well,
Speaker 1: I'm glad that. Uh, I mean, is it? What's you've?
Speaker 1: Is life good? Sorry, that's I'm being a fucking idiot?
Speaker 1: Is life good?
Speaker 3: I think life? For me, life can be good on
Speaker 3: a positive Like, I've been in therapy for like nine
Speaker 3: months now and it's really changed my life. Yeah, I was, Yeah,
Speaker 3: it really has. I mean, it can be so hard
Speaker 3: to find the right person and like feel like it
Speaker 3: is I feel like you're not sometimes, like when you're
Speaker 3: trying to explain things to somebody, they're not really it
Speaker 3: doesn't feel like they understand or listen or it's it's
Speaker 3: just really hard to find a good therapist period, right.
Speaker 3: So I finally found somebody that really works for me,
Speaker 3: and I've made it. I think I've done a lot
Speaker 3: of work on myself and I can really tell the
Speaker 3: difference in my own life. So I would say life
Speaker 3: is pretty good. I mean, I have my own challenges
Speaker 3: and stress and trying to figure things out and family
Speaker 3: drama stuff. But I think to navigate those things like
Speaker 3: you have to be pretty.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Life is going to be stressful no matter what, right
Speaker 3: I guess, and in some regards, no matter who you are,
Speaker 3: what your situation is. But if you're not like good
Speaker 3: with yourself, it could be like ten times harder to
Speaker 3: navigate those things.
Speaker 1: Yeah and yeah, yeah, I know that from some experience. Yeah, uh,
Speaker 1: life is man. I have a I say this a
Speaker 1: lot on this show, and not just on this show,
Speaker 1: but just in real life. Life is crazy, which I
Speaker 1: believe truly. I'm innna. I have a friend and she
Speaker 1: listens to this show and we argue over that a
Speaker 1: lot because she thinks. She thinks saying life is crazy
Speaker 1: is lazy. She thinks it's like, uh, that life is
Speaker 1: more complex than just crazy. But I just agree. I
Speaker 1: think that I think life is crazy, and I think
Speaker 1: that life. I believe that saying life is crazy is
Speaker 1: an acknowledgment of the complexities of life. I don't know
Speaker 1: how you feel about the term.
Speaker 3: I mean, I kind of agree because I was listening
Speaker 3: to the podcast a couple of days ago. And you
Speaker 3: were probably going on about life is crazy, and I
Speaker 3: thought about it after I was after I had finished
Speaker 3: the episode. I'm like, no, it kind of is, because
Speaker 3: like I was, I was driving down the street and
Speaker 3: I was looking at buildings and like you know, fancy
Speaker 3: buildings and pavement, and like all that is is just
Speaker 3: like compressed earth and we've like made all these fancy
Speaker 3: things in cars or whatever. It's just elements that we've
Speaker 3: combined to do certain things, and we've made like certain
Speaker 3: rules and you do this and you do that, and
Speaker 3: like certain cultures and societies have different rights and different
Speaker 3: wrongs and different things. So like life is literally crazy
Speaker 3: if you really just want to dive deep into it.
Speaker 3: So it does make sense what you're saying. I don't
Speaker 3: know if i'd call it lazy. It's just how you're
Speaker 3: how you're encapsulating, like you can't, you can't. It's like
Speaker 3: the perfect couple of words to uh condense how complex
Speaker 3: life is for everybody.
Speaker 1: I was saying, like, if you asked you talked about
Speaker 1: chat Cheapt. I think if you ask chat Cheapt to
Speaker 1: take all of Stephen Hawking's books, how many book he
Speaker 1: probably wrote, like twenty books. I don't know. He wrote
Speaker 1: one What was it? What was the one book he wrote?
Speaker 1: Hold on, I have my computer in front of me.
Speaker 1: Give me two seconds. Stephen Hawking? All right, he what
Speaker 1: did he write? He wrote a book I think it
Speaker 1: was called, uh, the the Something to the Universe. What
Speaker 1: do you publish?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Wait, A Brief History of Time? Okay? He published a
Speaker 1: book called A Brief History History of Time. He published
Speaker 1: another book called the Universe in a Nutshell and whatever.
Speaker 1: I believe. If you asked chat GBT and you were like,
Speaker 1: summarize all of Stephen Hawking's books in three words, it
Speaker 1: would spit back. Life is crazy. Hold on, hold on,
Speaker 1: hold on, hold on, I'm gonna do that. Right I'm
Speaker 1: in front of my computer. I'm gonna do that right now.
Speaker 1: Stay logged out, Okay, hold on, summer summarize, summarize all
Speaker 1: of Steve Vin Hawking's books in three words. Let's see
Speaker 1: what it says. Okay, it says Cosmo's black holes. But
Speaker 1: that's the same thing. That's the same thing as life.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. Well, you know, what's your name again?
Speaker 3: It's Linda.
Speaker 1: Did you say Melinda or Linda Linda? Okay, Melinda is
Speaker 1: the name of Stephen Hawking's wife. Oh wait, no, that's
Speaker 1: I'm thinking of Bill Gates. They're both guys.
Speaker 3: Can we talk about Stephen Hawking's wife?
Speaker 2: Bro Quick?
Speaker 1: Uh? Sure, I don't know. I don't know if I
Speaker 1: prepared to talk about it because I don't know anything
Speaker 1: about her because I didn't even know her name.
Speaker 3: Just now, I'll keep it real short. But they had
Speaker 3: like they got married, they had like three kids together,
Speaker 3: and then he had like a cair nurse. Stephen Hawking
Speaker 3: cheated on his wife with his cairners, left her for
Speaker 3: this woman. I think they've been together until he died
Speaker 3: or something like that. But yeah, Stephen Hawking was a
Speaker 3: dog man.
Speaker 1: Did he do that while he was like in the
Speaker 1: wheelchair with the voice and stuff?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 1: She is pretty That's that's pretty wild. That's pretty wild.
Speaker 1: Is his wife still alive? What's she doing?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I I'm checking my bookshelf right now,
Speaker 3: because I'm pretty sure I had a book that she
Speaker 3: wrote at some point, The Beginning of Everything or some something.
Speaker 3: They made a movie Theory of Everything, The Theory of Everything. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I have the book once, but I don't know if
Speaker 3: I have it now. But yeah, it's pretty wild. So
Speaker 3: I guess maybe that can help us all feel better.
Speaker 3: Like if Stephen Hawking can still get it well in
Speaker 3: live in life at its fullest, in the condition he is,
Speaker 3: we can do it too.
Speaker 1: You know what, I you know what I think that
Speaker 1: you know what that says to me, The fact that
Speaker 1: Stephen Hawkin did that while he was in a wheelchair,
Speaker 1: You know it says to me, I'd say, it tells
Speaker 1: me that life is crazy? Do I really? I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna and I'm gonna end this conversation in two seconds.
Speaker 1: But you said I was you said you said her,
Speaker 1: you were like you were like I was listening to
Speaker 1: the podcast and you were going on about how life
Speaker 1: is crazy. Do I do? I rant about that a lot.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm not trying to make you feel self conscious, No, no, no,
Speaker 3: I'm just curious.
Speaker 1: It was collecting information.
Speaker 4: A little bit.
Speaker 3: I would say, like just a little bit. It comes
Speaker 3: up a lot, But sometimes you do a good job
Speaker 3: like explaining like where you're at and like what it
Speaker 3: is that you mean by it, So I wouldn't worry
Speaker 3: about it too much.
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't have a good I'm not good at
Speaker 1: understanding how I come off on this thing because I
Speaker 1: just do it and post it and then on other people.
Speaker 1: Like my experience of talking, my experience of the words
Speaker 1: I'm saying from the point of view of the guy
Speaker 1: saying them is very different from the experience of the
Speaker 1: words I'm saying from the point of view of someone
Speaker 1: listening to them.
Speaker 3: If that makes sense, No, it does make sense. I
Speaker 3: mean it's kind of like watching a video of yourself, right,
Speaker 3: and then you're like, oh, I sound like that or
Speaker 3: I'm saying that and realized like that's how it's coming across.
Speaker 3: But you have such a like a good following of
Speaker 3: people like we listen to you because we like yourself.
Speaker 3: So don't worry about that.
Speaker 1: Man. Thanks, I'm uh, I'll keep I'll keep trying. I'll
Speaker 1: keep trying it. I'm gonna go back to the lab
Speaker 1: and try to come up with other things to say
Speaker 1: besides life is crazy. Uh, thank you for calling Linda,
Speaker 1: of course, have good day, Thank you too. It is
Speaker 1: I mean, it is crazy. Maybe I go on too
Speaker 1: many rants about life being crazy, but that's that's the
Speaker 1: conclusion that I have about life. And I'm I also
Speaker 1: I was thinking about this recently, you know, I'm twenty
Speaker 1: six years old, which I think is pretty is fairly
Speaker 1: is pretty young, and it feels weird. I feel kind
Speaker 1: of weird being uh, I don't this podcast, it's not
Speaker 1: like a I guess it is seen by some as
Speaker 1: an advice show. Maybe I try to make it more
Speaker 1: of a interview. I like to think. I don't. I
Speaker 1: like to think that I am interviewing people more than
Speaker 1: I am advising them. But I'm sure i'm you know whatever.
Speaker 1: It's a little mix, I guess, but I don't. I
Speaker 1: think i'd be a lot better at this show if
Speaker 1: I did it when I was like seventy. Maybe I'll
Speaker 1: maybe that'll maybe that's what will happen, is you know,
Speaker 1: I'll go on hiatus for forty year, for forty four years,
Speaker 1: and then pick it back up and be like, Okay,
Speaker 1: after forty four years, I have a greater breadth of
Speaker 1: knowledge and life experience to talk to people about their
Speaker 1: life and stuff. I feel like I'm flying. I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm flying blind doing this because I feel like
Speaker 1: a little boy all the time. And so maybe when
Speaker 1: I'm seventy seventy years old, I'll else. Part of me
Speaker 1: thinks that when I'm seventy years old. I'm also going
Speaker 1: to be like, you know what, after forty four years,
Speaker 1: which isn't that long really in the scope of time,
Speaker 1: it's really not that long. I still part of me
Speaker 1: still believes that after forty four years, I'll have no
Speaker 1: further conclusions about life other than the fact that it
Speaker 1: is crazy. I don't think I don't think life is
Speaker 1: going to get less crazy in the next forty four
Speaker 1: years for anyone, but who knows.
Speaker 4: Really, again goes on the line, taking your phone calls
Speaker 4: every night.
Speaker 1: Ever, Beacon goes to just teaching yous loud in the
Speaker 1: mid of your life, but he's not ready an expert