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Speaker 1: All right, let's get into the episode. Hello, Hi, Hi,
Speaker 1: I'm good.
Speaker 3: How are you?
Speaker 4: I am good. I am calling from Macedonia. My name
Speaker 4: is Marion. I love your show. I just started watching it.
Speaker 4: I am hell yeah, because I have Macedonia phone number.
Speaker 1: Where is Macedonia inn the freaking Balcons. It's in the
Speaker 1: freaking where.
Speaker 5: Balcan next to Serbia.
Speaker 1: Oh, Is that in God damn, I'm so Is that
Speaker 1: in the Middle East? Is that in Europe?
Speaker 5: It's in your man? You know where Greece is?
Speaker 1: No, I'm stupid. I don't know where anything is.
Speaker 5: What the fuck are you fucking serious? What the hell? Man?
Speaker 1: Well, let's hey, man, let'sten. Where are you from again? Macedonia?
Speaker 1: Where is say it again?
Speaker 5: Macedonia? Dude, it's in the balcons.
Speaker 1: Mass All right. Do you know where Baltimore, Maryland is?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 1: Wright, where is it the Maryland?
Speaker 5: Stupid?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 1: You got me? What's your name again? Maria?
Speaker 3: No, it's mod yun Marin.
Speaker 1: What's going on with you?
Speaker 5: Maria?
Speaker 1: And what How's how's life in Macedonia?
Speaker 5: I'm poor?
Speaker 1: Okay? Have you always been poor?
Speaker 5: Yes? I'm on my wood computer?
Speaker 1: Now you're on your You have a computer made out
Speaker 1: of wood? Yes, that actually sounds expensive.
Speaker 5: I mean I carved it out myself.
Speaker 1: Is there anything in particular that you called in to
Speaker 1: want to talk about? If not, we can just talk
Speaker 1: about you know. Actually, yeah, what's up? Hit man?
Speaker 5: Our gecko's popular in the United States.
Speaker 1: Our Gecko's popular in the United States. They're prevalent. We
Speaker 1: have an insurance fucking guy that I keep getting confused
Speaker 1: with and people seem to like him. How are geckos?
Speaker 1: What's the popularity of gecko's like in Macedonia?
Speaker 5: They're not really popular amount here. I mean, you know,
Speaker 5: just cats and dogs, that's the usual stuff. All right.
Speaker 1: I gotta go there and I gotta kind of bump
Speaker 1: our approval ratings up. Mmm yeah, sorry, Okay. So let's see.
Speaker 1: You said you're poor and you have a computer made
Speaker 1: out of wood that you carved yourself. I feel like
Speaker 1: that's a skill that you could monetize making a computer.
Speaker 5: You one do?
Speaker 1: I want you to mail me a computer made out
Speaker 1: of wood?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: How much is the shipping on that? I don't think
Speaker 1: either of us could afford that.
Speaker 5: I just send it via boat?
Speaker 1: Send it via boat. Again, I don't think either of
Speaker 1: us could afford you making a computer out of wood
Speaker 1: and sending it to me via a boat.
Speaker 5: I apologize.
Speaker 1: You don't have to be sorry for anything. What time
Speaker 1: is it in Macedonia.
Speaker 5: Currently? It's four nineteen am, almost a funny number.
Speaker 1: Why are you awake so early slash late?
Speaker 5: I mean, I gotta be honest if you have been
Speaker 5: playing talk off and I just want to check out
Speaker 5: your stream?
Speaker 1: Do you normally stay up this late?
Speaker 5: No, not really usually when I'm free right now, I
Speaker 5: don't have any work, so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, what do you normally do for work? Are
Speaker 1: you a student or do you have like a job?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I work from home.
Speaker 1: What do you do?
Speaker 5: All?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 5: Well, administration and whatnot?
Speaker 1: Okay? And do they not pay very well?
Speaker 5: Oh? They pay good?
Speaker 1: You're poor?
Speaker 5: Uh for American standards?
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, well everything's everyone's poor in American standards. Things
Speaker 1: are very expensive here. Have you been to America?
Speaker 5: Nope?
Speaker 1: Where have you traveled around Europe at all? Or have
Speaker 1: you never left Macedonia?
Speaker 5: Been a Serbia, Italy, France, Greece? That's about it. I
Speaker 5: think Slovenia as well, but I just passed through. It
Speaker 5: doesn't really count as a visit. So yeah, what.
Speaker 1: Do you like about Macedonia? Am I saying that?
Speaker 5: I got to be honest with you. I like the mountains? Yeah,
Speaker 5: you're singing it right, you're good.
Speaker 1: Okay, you like the mountains. Do you go into the
Speaker 1: mountains to think and reflect about life?
Speaker 5: I mostly hike and do that correct.
Speaker 1: Okay, And so you go into the mountains, you hike
Speaker 1: you gather wood to make computers with, you could probably work.
Speaker 1: I mean, you could work for any company if you
Speaker 1: know how to make a computer out of wood.
Speaker 3: Mm, you could work.
Speaker 5: For Affect Apple making wooden computers.
Speaker 1: Do you? Uh? What's your love life like? Do you
Speaker 1: are you in a relationship?
Speaker 5: No? Not currently about it? When?
Speaker 1: When was the last time you were in a relationship?
Speaker 5: About two years ago?
Speaker 1: Okay? What how long was that?
Speaker 5: Three months? I think I don't remember.
Speaker 1: Three months? Where'd you guys meet.
Speaker 5: I at a party?
Speaker 1: At a party?
Speaker 5: One of our friends hosted a party and birthday party
Speaker 5: and we just met there.
Speaker 1: And why why do you think it only lasted for
Speaker 1: three months?
Speaker 5: I don't know. I just really I wasn't really committed
Speaker 5: to it, you know, I feel that.
Speaker 1: I feel that. Are you like? How's your feelings about
Speaker 1: commitment in general?
Speaker 5: Currently? Yeah? I do want to commit about I don't know.
Speaker 5: I want to I wanted to try streaming, but I
Speaker 5: got a shitty internet connection. I got one hundred megabyte
Speaker 5: mega bit I mean uploading five megabit downloads.
Speaker 3: And that ship mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess your wooden computer doesn't get very good internet?
Speaker 5: Correct?
Speaker 1: Okay, So so you didn't really feel like committing. I understand.
Speaker 1: I also I have a big I'm bad at committing too.
Speaker 1: That's one of my flaws, although I don't know is
Speaker 1: it a flaw. I don't know if if, what do
Speaker 1: you think? Because I I definitely have a fear of commitment,
Speaker 1: and one could view it as a flaw, but I
Speaker 1: don't know. Commitment has commitment and non commitment have their
Speaker 1: own sets of pros and cons to them. What do
Speaker 1: you think about that?
Speaker 5: I agree, some have pros, some have cons. You know,
Speaker 5: m hmm.
Speaker 1: What are your current pros of being uncommitted to anything?
Speaker 5: I mean, I got a bit more free time, I guess,
Speaker 5: I got more time to think about my future and
Speaker 5: my career and whatnot. The cons are I'm kind of lazy.
Speaker 1: Ah me too? Fuck man, am I lazy? I've been.
Speaker 1: I've been. You know what sucks. I've been collecting a
Speaker 1: lot of trash around my room because last time I
Speaker 1: took out the trash, I didn't put another trash bag
Speaker 1: lining on my trash can, and so I've been like
Speaker 1: procrastinating doing that, and as a result, I haven't been
Speaker 1: able to put any trash in the trash can. Until
Speaker 1: I put the liner on it. And so this is
Speaker 1: uch a trash around my room that where I'm like
Speaker 1: waiting for me to put the liner on there, as
Speaker 1: if I'm like a different as if I'm like a
Speaker 1: different fucking person and I'm waiting on myself to do it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I got the statue of fucking Yoss Tito hanging
Speaker 5: in my computer desk here for a couple of months.
Speaker 5: And I also got a bottle of moonshine here next
Speaker 5: to me as well.
Speaker 1: Who is that guy that you have a statue of?
Speaker 5: Yo, see bros Tito?
Speaker 1: Well, what does he do?
Speaker 5: I was a dictator Yugoslavia dictator?
Speaker 1: What what about him? Uh? Made you want to get
Speaker 1: a bottle a bobblehead of him?
Speaker 5: No, it's not a otto, it's an actual statue.
Speaker 3: I got a little statue of him right here.
Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know why. In my mind, you can't
Speaker 1: have a statue of someone without it being a bobblehead.
Speaker 1: But what is it about him that made you want
Speaker 1: to get a statue of him in your room?
Speaker 5: Not gonna lie funny. And plus I collect old shit.
Speaker 5: I got a bunch of old communist badges next to me,
Speaker 5: as well, let me let me see what I've got.
Speaker 5: I got the Kunam. I got a bunch of tudo
Speaker 5: badges here of Vladimir Lenin. I got nineteen seventy nine badges.
Speaker 5: Bought these badges a lot of stuff. I like collecting
Speaker 5: old stuff.
Speaker 1: So you have a lot of communist memorabilia because it's funny.
Speaker 5: No, I just find it interesting. I'm not I myself.
Speaker 5: I'm not communist. I don't really find myself on the
Speaker 5: political trit terra, you know. I just find an interesting
Speaker 5: because it's old.
Speaker 3: I like, do you I like this story?
Speaker 1: Do you know what is this guy's name again? That
Speaker 1: you I mean, what's the guy's name again? That you
Speaker 1: have the statue of.
Speaker 5: Yo?
Speaker 1: What is he?
Speaker 5: What is like?
Speaker 1: If you have to pick one thing about him that
Speaker 1: you think he is most known for, what what what
Speaker 1: would that be?
Speaker 5: I mean? In my opinion, I think that he kept
Speaker 5: Yugoslavia well. As soon as he died, Yugoslavia just separated,
Speaker 5: you know. And fun fact about Macedonia, we separated peacefully.
Speaker 1: Uh has Macedonia typically like had a lot of dictators
Speaker 1: coming in and out of it?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: Not really, No, you know, a dictatorship it's it's almost
Speaker 1: it's like the ultimate form of commitment, like you get
Speaker 1: like you get one guy. You don't even get like
Speaker 1: to choose from a bunch of like different I don't
Speaker 1: know a board of people. It's one guy.
Speaker 5: I mean, come to think of it, like Stalin had
Speaker 5: the power to like he's gonna snap his finger boom boom,
Speaker 5: top topic. That guy's gonna disappear, you know. Yeah, fascinating
Speaker 5: about dictators. It's also sad about it as well. I
Speaker 5: don't really excuse me. I don't, As I said, I
Speaker 5: don't really find myself in the political criteria. I'm not
Speaker 5: a communist or anything. I just don't find any political
Speaker 5: politics interesting. Are just like old ship.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I would say that's one of Like we
Speaker 1: were talking about the pros and cons of commitment, I
Speaker 1: would say that that's that would fall into the cons.
Speaker 5: Mm correct.
Speaker 1: All right, you told me that you like to have
Speaker 1: time to think about your career and your future. What
Speaker 1: do you think about when you when you have these
Speaker 1: thinking sessions. Have you come to any conclusions.
Speaker 5: I just want to get a stable life of a wife.
Speaker 5: I guess, get some kids. You know, have a good
Speaker 5: feature to get myself. I mean already have a house.
Speaker 1: But yeah, okay, that sounds like a lot of that
Speaker 1: sounds like commitment, thank you. I guess you do want commitment, Yes, okay, good? Good?
Speaker 3: Where do you?
Speaker 1: Uh what when when you when you are like out
Speaker 1: there looking for you know, dates and stuff? Where do you?
Speaker 1: How do you do that?
Speaker 5: I mean? Typically? I mean I use tender for ships
Speaker 5: and giggles. But if I actually want to get myself
Speaker 5: a date, I just go out with friends. You know,
Speaker 5: I meet you people, get to know them a little better. Better, sorry,
Speaker 5: and uh, you know, if it goes well, it goes well.
Speaker 1: Have you been on any dates recently?
Speaker 5: Not as if right now? I just out this job
Speaker 5: actually a week ago, and I'm kind of committed to
Speaker 5: my job currently. But I do when I you know,
Speaker 5: experienced life in the future. I just don't want to
Speaker 5: sit in my freaking home all day?
Speaker 1: Are you like lately? Have you found yourself just sitting
Speaker 1: in your home all day?
Speaker 5: Most of my friends are in the capitals, so I
Speaker 5: have no one to hang out here. So yes, m.
Speaker 1: How far is the capital from where you are.
Speaker 5: Around one hundred and seventy kilometers.
Speaker 1: That means absolutely nothing to.
Speaker 5: Me somewhere around there, one hundred and fifteen, one hundred
Speaker 5: and thirty somewhere on there. What'd you say? I'm sorry?
Speaker 1: Oh, I said that? Does I I live in I
Speaker 1: have no idea what a kilometer is.
Speaker 5: Let me convert them for you.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, typing on that eighty miles. Okay, that's like.
Speaker 5: That.
Speaker 1: So that was what that's like from here to sand Diego.
Speaker 1: All right, So it's like an hour.
Speaker 5: I mean yeah, if you're with a car, if you're
Speaker 5: traveling by trains, the trains here fucking suck ass. That's
Speaker 5: gonna take you three hours, and buses usually take two
Speaker 5: hours to get there.
Speaker 3: It is?
Speaker 1: Is it lonely that all your friends live so far away?
Speaker 5: Yes? And no they visit here. I visit them as well,
Speaker 5: so I find that fun. When I get over there,
Speaker 5: there's like a there's like tons of shit to do
Speaker 5: at the capitol, so we go to parties and whatnot,
Speaker 5: hang out, you know the usual.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you you don't feel super isolated, but you
Speaker 1: feel like there's nothing to really do where you are.
Speaker 5: Yes, there actually has nothing to do where I'm at.
Speaker 1: How come you decided to live where you live instead
Speaker 1: of moving instead of trying to get a house on
Speaker 1: the capitol.
Speaker 5: Is it?
Speaker 1: Is it a money thing?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Makes sense. Okay, you have friends in the cat What
Speaker 1: do your friends do with their lives currently?
Speaker 5: They are studying during faculty.
Speaker 1: That's interesting. What language do you guys speak?
Speaker 5: We'll take a guess.
Speaker 1: Macedonian? Yep, can you say something in Macedonian? I don't
Speaker 1: really know. I don't even know what that sounds like.
Speaker 5: I mean it's freaking it sounds like Russian kind of Well,
Speaker 5: I'll go ahead and introduce myself. Okay, Oh, yes, if
Speaker 5: you come Maria, Yes, moment forever. I just said Hi,
Speaker 5: my name is Marian and I'm currently watching the LAO foreverstream.
Speaker 1: Ah. I like that.
Speaker 3: How do you say thank you?
Speaker 1: How do you say? How do you say fuck?
Speaker 5: Ah? Ah, that's weird, it's abbey abby.
Speaker 1: How do you say piss? Mochka? I like that. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna use that mochka. Should I come? Should I come
Speaker 1: to Macedonia? I've been doing this thing where I put
Speaker 1: all my gecko shit in a suitcase and go to
Speaker 1: a random place. Should I put Macedonia on the list?
Speaker 5: I mean that'd be cool. I'd be happy to host
Speaker 5: you in my place.
Speaker 1: You know, Okay, I'm into that. I you know, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm at a I feel like if I have the
Speaker 1: opportunity to go to Macedonia and hang out of the
Speaker 1: stranger's house and experience life there, I've why not? And
Speaker 1: I can see if you're lying about this wooden computer.
Speaker 5: I gotta be honest. I was lying about the wood computer, partner.
Speaker 1: I knew you were lying about the web computer. I
Speaker 1: don't have all the way to Macedoni. You do that,
Speaker 1: I would just go are there to hang out? What
Speaker 1: kind of food do they have?
Speaker 5: Oh? We got typically, we got the grilled stuff. We
Speaker 5: got a traditional thing it's called sodoma. We got bucklob.
Speaker 5: I guess baked beech.
Speaker 1: Dude, I didn't. I honestly kind of forgot. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm realizing right now. I don't know all of
Speaker 1: the countries. You know what I'm realizing right now? I
Speaker 1: don't know all of the countries.
Speaker 5: Which country do you not know?
Speaker 1: I can't answer that. How am I supposed to answer
Speaker 1: that question?
Speaker 5: Like? What part of the world are they? Like, are
Speaker 5: in the Middle East, Europe? East Europe? Which country?
Speaker 3: Do not know?
Speaker 5: What? Most I prob.
Speaker 1: I mean every continent except Australia and North America, probably
Speaker 1: as countries that I don't know where, Like if you
Speaker 1: brought that, see what, there's like one hundred and ninety
Speaker 1: three countries, I think, and there's no way I know
Speaker 1: all of them.
Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, no, man's going to know all of them?
Speaker 1: Well, I can't. Here's the thing is, like I'm not
Speaker 1: saying I'm not.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think like I couldn't sit there
Speaker 1: and name all of them. But I'm talking about like,
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's countries where somebody could bring the name
Speaker 1: up to me and I'd be like, oh I never
Speaker 1: heard of that one.
Speaker 5: Wow, have you heard of Germany?
Speaker 1: I've heard of Germany. Germany is easy. Macedonia was definitely
Speaker 1: like I I've heard of it before, but it was
Speaker 1: on that line.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's see, let's see. Let me get you a
Speaker 5: harder one.
Speaker 1: Give me Estonia. Yeah no, I never heard of Estonia before.
Speaker 5: Do you know Albania?
Speaker 1: I know Albania. I didn't have.
Speaker 3: A friend Albania.
Speaker 1: I said, I knew it. I just did. I just
Speaker 1: kind of knew it. I didn't fully know it. I
Speaker 1: thought it was a cookie.
Speaker 5: You thought it was a cookie.
Speaker 1: Isn't it a cookie?
Speaker 5: Nah?
Speaker 1: All right, So in the future you want a wife
Speaker 1: and a child. What about for your career? What do
Speaker 1: you want to do for your career?
Speaker 5: I mean you currently like working from home, but I
Speaker 5: like pursuing technological stuff. From my standpoint right now, I'm
Speaker 5: doing like administrative, administrative and whatnot. I like mm hmmm,
Speaker 5: that's that's kind of hard.
Speaker 1: Where do you think we go when we pass away
Speaker 1: and die?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 1: Heaven? It depends you believe in heaven. Yeah, tell me
Speaker 1: tell me this honestly, I think, Well, you've lied to
Speaker 1: me once about the computer.
Speaker 3: No I'm being but on it.
Speaker 1: But but you came, but you came clean to me.
Speaker 1: So I have I have another I feel like you're
Speaker 1: being I feel like I've gotten you to a point
Speaker 1: now where you're not gonna lie to me again. And
Speaker 1: so I want to ask you this question.
Speaker 5: What's up?
Speaker 1: Do you believe that you're going to go to heaven?
Speaker 5: Uh? Uh? Yes?
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 5: I mean I try my best to be good. If
Speaker 5: I think if I do something bad, I go to
Speaker 5: church and I just you know, in Macedonia here we're
Speaker 5: not Catholics were Orthodox, and what we usually do is
Speaker 5: my guess, we light a candle and a monastery for
Speaker 5: the dead, or if you if you want to wish
Speaker 5: something good upon someone else, For example, I would light
Speaker 5: up a candle to wish good help for my for
Speaker 5: my family.
Speaker 1: You know, you ever do something fucked up and you're like,
Speaker 1: I can get away with this because I can just
Speaker 1: repent for it later and it's like it didn't happen.
Speaker 5: Oh no, no, no no, I always have it on
Speaker 5: my mind.
Speaker 1: See if I were Catholic, I would do that all
Speaker 1: the time.
Speaker 5: That's just that's just abuse, you know.
Speaker 1: And Judaism, I don't think we believe in a heller
Speaker 1: of all kinds, of any kind. I think it's just
Speaker 1: I think it's just heaven so we can do this.
Speaker 1: I think we can still do whatever we want. I
Speaker 1: am Jewish, I don't know, I'm not. I'm like, I
Speaker 1: was raised Jewish and shit, but I'm not like I'll
Speaker 1: go to synagogue once every three years.
Speaker 5: What's the synagogue?
Speaker 1: Ironically, a synagogue is like a Jewish church.
Speaker 5: I know that I don't know much about Judaism, but
Speaker 5: I I guess you're the second Jewish guy. I've spoken
Speaker 5: to him in my life.
Speaker 1: Who's the first.
Speaker 5: A friend from Steam. He's from Israel.
Speaker 1: Actually, Ah, I've heard of Israel. That's one of the
Speaker 1: countries I know.
Speaker 5: Israel's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you think you're going to heaven. What do
Speaker 1: you think it's like in heaven?
Speaker 5: Well, pleasant clouds. I can't really explain, you haven't as
Speaker 5: I don't know. I just know that it's a pleasant place.
Speaker 1: What do you think hell is like?
Speaker 5: Well, one of my favorite movies is Constantine. Have you
Speaker 5: seen Constantine?
Speaker 1: I haven't.
Speaker 5: Well, I would like to imagine Hell as it were
Speaker 5: in Constantine. Like how to explain? It's like fire and everything?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 1: Now, what now, a pyromaniac, somebody who likes fire, perhaps sexually.
Speaker 1: Where do they go when they die?
Speaker 5: The people that exist that like that? What the hell?
Speaker 1: You didn't know that?
Speaker 5: I mean, I know about proomanius, I didn't know that
Speaker 5: they would get a sexual stem out of that, you know.
Speaker 1: See, I think it's stranger that you don't know that
Speaker 1: there's people out there that are sexually stimulated by letting
Speaker 1: themselves on fire. Then it is that I didn't know
Speaker 1: where Macedonia is I think the I think the first
Speaker 1: one is more common knowledge. I guess we are even.
Speaker 5: Yep, we are.
Speaker 1: You know what's crazy? You could be one of those people.
Speaker 1: You just don't. Have you ever been on fire before? No,
Speaker 1: so you don't know if it would turn you on
Speaker 1: or not.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm gonna go place my hand on the
Speaker 5: stove and i'll see. I'llh You want me to update you?
Speaker 1: No, I don't want you to do that. Although I
Speaker 1: guess if you did it and it did turn you
Speaker 1: on and that brought forth like a new, beautiful sexual
Speaker 1: awakening for you, that changed your life for the better,
Speaker 1: I would want to take credit for that.
Speaker 5: AHH. I don't know. I'm kind of afraid now. I
Speaker 5: don't want to do that. Fire scares me, you know.
Speaker 1: Fire scares you. Are you scared of the fire or
Speaker 1: are you scared of the idea that it might turn
Speaker 1: you on? And then they want around one anymore? Some
Speaker 1: people like pain sexually?
Speaker 5: You did?
Speaker 1: Okay? Did you at least know that there are people
Speaker 1: out there who like pain sexually?
Speaker 5: Yes, they're called masochists.
Speaker 1: Yes, they're called masochists. Wait a minute, no, no, no, no, no, no, yes,
Speaker 1: they're called massacusts. I was thinking, I always get massacists
Speaker 1: and sadists mixed up. The sadists are the ones that
Speaker 1: enjoy inflicting pain. Do you know about them?
Speaker 5: About what?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, sadists.
Speaker 5: Sadists? Yes, that's like liking inflicting people pain upon other people? Correct?
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, have you ever inflicted pain upon a person?
Speaker 5: I mean in what sense?
Speaker 1: I I I would say, I guess physical. I think
Speaker 1: when I think of saydism, I think mainly a physical pain.
Speaker 5: A you mainly think of physical pain. I mean, yes,
Speaker 5: we've all done that, you know, joke where we like,
Speaker 5: I don't know, push people. I mean by people, I
Speaker 5: mean friends, of course, just push them away or something,
Speaker 5: push them in the pool. That's kind of funny. You know.
Speaker 1: Have you ever pushed your friends in a pool and
Speaker 1: then looked down and you had a boner?
Speaker 5: What the fuck?
Speaker 1: No, Okay, it's not. It wouldn't look it wouldn't be
Speaker 1: that weird if you did.
Speaker 5: I mean, it'd be funny.
Speaker 1: It would be a little funny.
Speaker 5: You just see some guy push his friend on the
Speaker 5: pool and get a boner afterwards. That'd be really funny.
Speaker 1: You know what I'll come to Macedonia. I don't know
Speaker 1: what to explase it. Uh, how's it? Is it safe there?
Speaker 1: What's the what's sort of the the vibe of it's
Speaker 1: probably I would assume. I assume it's safer than Los
Speaker 1: Angeles in Macedonia.
Speaker 5: It is correct, unless if you go at the gypsy slums?
Speaker 1: What are the gypsy slums? Gypsy? Is gypsy a bad word?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 1: Oh? Fuck? All right? Well I take back saying it.
Speaker 5: Well, you don't know what a gypsy is?
Speaker 1: I know, I don't. I mean, I've heard the word,
Speaker 1: but I've heard it in like many different contexts, so
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's offensive or not.
Speaker 5: Well, shit, how to explain it to you? Well, it's
Speaker 5: like me saying the N word tool.
Speaker 3: It's like the N word, you know, for who.
Speaker 5: Gypsies like they're brown people. I don't know how to
Speaker 5: explain it to you without you know, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: M okay, what about the part of Macedona? What about
Speaker 1: the part of Macedonia you live? Is it's safe? Can
Speaker 1: I walk around in like the middle of the night
Speaker 1: of my gecko costume?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Of course?
Speaker 1: Man, all right, will you accompany me?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Of course? Why not?
Speaker 1: Will you defend me if something does happen.
Speaker 5: Dude, don't fucking drive you around the car. You can
Speaker 5: open the car door and yell as I don't give
Speaker 5: a shit.
Speaker 1: I'll defend you, man, okay, And if you see me
Speaker 1: getting beaten up, you won't get a boner and start
Speaker 1: jacking off.
Speaker 5: No, man, I withdraw my pistol and defend you.
Speaker 1: Okay. Do you have a gun?
Speaker 5: Nah? I'm kidding.
Speaker 1: What's your relationship with your mother?
Speaker 5: Like? But and my father is?
Speaker 1: Well, that's good. Do you have siblings?
Speaker 5: Nope, I'm alone. How about you?
Speaker 1: I have a great relationship with both of my parents,
Speaker 1: and I have an older sister and I have a
Speaker 1: I have a good relationship with her too.
Speaker 5: Oh that's nice.
Speaker 1: So you're an only child and all your Okay, so
Speaker 1: you're an only child. What about your parents? Do your
Speaker 1: parents live in in Macedonia too?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 1: Are they they do? They live in the same part
Speaker 1: of it as you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we live in the same house. Two separate Yeah,
Speaker 5: there's like two separate stories that are like, how do
Speaker 5: I tell you? They're not like your average American home
Speaker 5: where like the stairs are located inside. It's actually quite separate.
Speaker 5: So I don't know how to explain it to you.
Speaker 1: It's like they're two different units but the same building.
Speaker 5: Yeah, two different units.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, we have that. We have that, and you
Speaker 1: own your unit. They own their unit.
Speaker 5: Currently. No, I'm downstairs with them. I got my computer
Speaker 5: here and everything. But if I were, I could have
Speaker 5: just moved to the other unit if I want it.
Speaker 5: I just don't want to be alone.
Speaker 1: You know, that's good. I was gonna say it sounded
Speaker 1: kind of lonely being out of the way out in
Speaker 1: like the countryside while all your friends are in the capitol.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it tends to be boring. I'm not in the countryside.
Speaker 5: I'm in a small town. I don't want to say
Speaker 5: which town for obvious reasons, but yeah, it's I got
Speaker 5: some friends here as well, but they're not my Actually,
Speaker 5: how to explain it, they're not my close friends. You know,
Speaker 5: I don't have the same relationship with them.
Speaker 1: Okay, so, Arlie, So you have friends in the small town,
Speaker 1: but you don't have you're all your close friends they
Speaker 1: live in the capitol.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's why I don't go out.
Speaker 1: Well, all right, what is the number one thing to
Speaker 1: do in this small town in Macedonia.
Speaker 5: Well, if you're an alcoholic, you can go out and
Speaker 5: drunk drunk. Aside from that, nothing really.
Speaker 1: That is what every I was gonna I knew that
Speaker 1: you were gonna say that. That is what every single
Speaker 1: person says who doesn't live in a big city when
Speaker 1: I ask him that question.
Speaker 5: I mean, the party stuck ass because there's a lot
Speaker 5: of fucking falcon Serbian music because we're freaking Balconites, and
Speaker 5: it fucking sucks ass. There's no there. Used to be
Speaker 5: like this little club that I loved going. They only
Speaker 5: played like rock music and whatnot. But I fucking closed
Speaker 5: down because of a bar fight I think or something
Speaker 5: I don't remember, but that was the only good club
Speaker 5: that I went out. But no, I was just boring.
Speaker 1: Are you a big club guy?
Speaker 5: No, not really. But if there was a party with
Speaker 5: like electro music or rock music, I'd be there.
Speaker 1: H Are you a good dancer?
Speaker 5: I woul't think yes. I would like to think that
Speaker 5: I'm a good dancer, but I doubt on someone else's eyes.
Speaker 5: In my eyes, I think I'm a good answer.
Speaker 1: Do you believe you're a good dancer? But you think
Speaker 1: that other people if they saw you dance would not
Speaker 1: agree with you.
Speaker 5: I mean it's like you just gotta have fun and left,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, definitely. I think I think as long as
Speaker 1: you're having fun. You know that phrase, that phrase dance
Speaker 1: like no one's watching. That's what that means. You know,
Speaker 1: just have fun, doesn't matter.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know that phrase exactly.
Speaker 1: All right, give me one more country that you think.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 5: One more country? Uh, Lithuania, I know, Lithuania.
Speaker 1: Keep going, You're gonna stop.
Speaker 3: Me eventually, Gods, look's done.
Speaker 1: Okay, everyone knows Kazaks you everything You've ever seen?
Speaker 3: Bor At Moldova I don't know.
Speaker 1: Never heard of Moldova. All right, you got me. I've
Speaker 1: never heard of Moldova. Where's that?
Speaker 5: It's quite close to Russia. I think it's neighboring with Ukraine.
Speaker 1: You ever been there?
Speaker 5: Nope? You know that?
Speaker 1: Yes, I do know that song new Manuva raise that play?
Speaker 1: All right? So they they got good stuff coming out
Speaker 1: of Moldova.
Speaker 5: Let me see. I think they are yep, Moldovan. That
Speaker 5: was correct.
Speaker 1: So the lyrics, So the lyrics of that song are Moldovian, yes, man.
Speaker 5: I think they're Romanian some some people say they're Romanian,
Speaker 5: some people say Moldova. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: I see, I'm so heavily influenced by all these different
Speaker 1: countries in the world, and I didn't even know. I
Speaker 1: didn't even know. I didn't even know what they were.
Speaker 5: Mm hmm. I think that there's an actual country. Uh.
Speaker 5: I doubt that you know a lot of African countries
Speaker 5: aside from Niger and uh, what's the other one called
Speaker 5: Zimbabwe and Kenya?
Speaker 1: Okay, give me, give me some African countries.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't know myself. Uganda, Okay, everyone knows you, I
Speaker 5: know Uganda, I don't know. I don't know. I'm gonna
Speaker 5: be honest.
Speaker 1: As yeah, okay, sorry, So you also don't know all
Speaker 1: the countries I think most people there is there. Most
Speaker 1: people have at least one or two countries that somebody
Speaker 1: could bring up and be like, I've just never heard
Speaker 1: of that.
Speaker 5: Mm hmm. Well how about you? Have you been in Europe?
Speaker 1: I've been to Europe. I'm going back there soon to
Speaker 1: do to do live shows and stuff. Oh where Denmark, Amsterdam,
Speaker 1: uh fucking Sweden, Berlin, all sorts of places.
Speaker 5: Are you gonna come to Macedonia.
Speaker 1: I think I think if I came to Macedonia to
Speaker 1: do a show, I think you would be the only
Speaker 1: person that showed up.
Speaker 5: I'll get my friends on it as well.
Speaker 1: Man, Come on, okay, how many friends do you have?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 5: Wrong? Ten?
Speaker 1: You have ten friends?
Speaker 5: Maybe more? Maybe more?
Speaker 1: Do you think if I did a show in Macedonia?
Speaker 1: You could get all ten of your friends to show
Speaker 1: up and your parents.
Speaker 5: Do no problem. I could get them show up without
Speaker 5: a problem.
Speaker 1: Would they how.
Speaker 5: How many?
Speaker 1: What? What currency do they have in Macedonia?
Speaker 5: We've got dinars?
Speaker 1: Dinars? How many dinars would they pay me to go there?
Speaker 5: Mm hmmm, I don't know. Are the people m I
Speaker 5: don't know?
Speaker 1: You want to open for me?
Speaker 5: Uh sha? How much would it cost to get you here?
Speaker 1: I have no idea?
Speaker 5: One? Bazidian books?
Speaker 1: H let's your name again?
Speaker 5: Maria?
Speaker 1: Maria? Maria? Is there anything else you want to say
Speaker 1: to the people at the computer before we go?
Speaker 5: I just want to say that I hope you all
Speaker 5: have a good way. Let me see what time is
Speaker 5: it over there? Hope you have good night. I think
Speaker 5: it's eleven pm Eastern time over there. Yeah, And I
Speaker 5: just want to say you met, meaning does that have
Speaker 5: a good night, have a good life.
Speaker 1: Hey, you have a good night and a good life too.
Speaker 1: All right? You know what hit me up on Instagram?
Speaker 1: If I ever go to fucking Macedonia, if I'm ever
Speaker 1: in a some country it's near Macedonia, I might. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think I would go specifically there, but if
Speaker 1: I'm somewhere near there, I might go.
Speaker 5: Just shut you a follow man, I'm a message you
Speaker 5: as well, all right.
Speaker 1: Else, I'll I'll see you. I'll see you soon. I'll
Speaker 1: see you soon. I'll go, I'll go to Macedonia. I
Speaker 1: got nothing else to do with my life? Why not
Speaker 1: fuck it?
Speaker 5: Uh shit? All right? All right? Uh did everything? Jesus Christ? Well,
Speaker 5: so I got a question. I got my last question here?
Speaker 5: How much did that gick was to cost you?
Speaker 1: It wanes in price, but sometimes it's sixty dollars, sometimes
Speaker 1: it's sometimes it's one hundred fucking dollars.
Speaker 5: Mmmm, Jesus, that's like five thousand. No wait, let me
Speaker 5: see how much is the dollar?
Speaker 1: That's got to be like at least donars. That's a
Speaker 1: lot of dinars, are yeap?
Speaker 5: That would lend you a really good meal? And a
Speaker 5: really good day overall.
Speaker 1: Actually, okay, maybe I'll buy less gecko suits that I
Speaker 1: can have affo at a better time when I go
Speaker 1: to Macedonia, you.
Speaker 5: Know, actually buy me a gecko suit when you come
Speaker 5: over your second stroll along with you, because he said
Speaker 5: that you were the only guy that was going to
Speaker 5: stroll around, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can buy you a gecko suit. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I can bring I can bring one and they already have.
Speaker 5: But it's not going to be washed, all Right's all right, man,
Speaker 5: I'll wash it.
Speaker 1: Do they have washers and dryers in Macedonia?
Speaker 5: We don't have dry I think we do have, but me,
Speaker 5: I don't have a dryer, but we do have washers.
Speaker 1: Here, all right, I'll bring a wet one, all right.
Speaker 5: All right, I'll just hang it out in front of
Speaker 5: my house for it to dry, and estimately feet or
Speaker 5: four hours from then it should be dry out. You know.
Speaker 1: I liked talking to you.
Speaker 5: Hey me too, man, Nice to meet you.
Speaker 1: Nice to meet you too, Maria.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, what the hell man, No, Marion, you
Speaker 5: can call me Rusky.
Speaker 1: Now, don't say what the hell is if what I
Speaker 1: said was not like kind of similar to what I
Speaker 1: didn't say, like your name was Tom or something. I said, Marius, what's.
Speaker 3: Your real name? Mario Yan, Marian, Marian.
Speaker 1: Nice to meet you, Marian.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I hope you have a good rest.
Speaker 3: Of your life.
Speaker 5: Thank you you too, Take care, take care, Bud, goodbye?
Speaker 1: All right? I mean why not? Why not? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I like sometimes I look at a map of the
Speaker 1: world and I'm like, I'll just zoom in on a
Speaker 1: random place. I'll do I'll do this with China and
Speaker 1: Russia a lot, because they're so big. I'll zoom in
Speaker 1: on a random place and I'll be like, I'm never
Speaker 1: gonna go there, but why. That's the thing about life
Speaker 1: is if you wait for magical circumstances to bring you
Speaker 1: to Macedonia, you're never gonna go there. So you have
Speaker 1: to just pick yourself up and decide you're not gonna
Speaker 1: wait for the circumstances to bring you to Macedonia. You're
Speaker 1: gonna create the circumstances that bring you to Macedonia. That's
Speaker 1: what you gotta do. Am I going to do it?
Speaker 1: Probably not? But who knows? Who knows? Hi is this Stephen? Yes,
Speaker 1: what's up? This is a lizard man?
Speaker 6: That's great lizard man. Yes, so you're a huge Well,
Speaker 6: I'm here for you to talk about what I said
Speaker 6: to the cal screener.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing you what what did you say to the
Speaker 1: clall screener.
Speaker 6: I said to the cold screener that I want to
Speaker 6: buy a boat and sail the world, see the world.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you also said here that you want to be
Speaker 1: an influencer on Chinese social media. What's that about?
Speaker 6: Yes, Oh, that's how I get the money to buy
Speaker 6: a boat.
Speaker 1: Okay, So let's get this straight here. You currently live
Speaker 1: in the United Kingdom. You have a desire to sail
Speaker 1: across the world, and you're going to fund this dream
Speaker 1: by becoming a social media influencer on Chinese social media.
Speaker 6: Yes, that's exactly right.
Speaker 1: Okay from here? How yeah, please go ahead, take the floor?
Speaker 1: Is yours?
Speaker 6: So my good friends from China, and from what she
Speaker 6: told me, white people are very marketable in China, and
Speaker 6: I am ready to sell my soul in order to
Speaker 6: make money in order to buy a boat.
Speaker 1: Okay, So your girlfriend lives in China and she's saying that.
Speaker 6: If you are no, no, she lives she lives in the UK.
Speaker 6: She is from China, Okay.
Speaker 1: So she's from China, she lives in the UK, and
Speaker 1: she has told you that being white is a cheat
Speaker 1: code to stardom on Chinese social media. Yes, okay, so exactly,
Speaker 1: I have a few questions. So aside from just being white,
Speaker 1: what will your content consist of?
Speaker 5: It'd be like.
Speaker 6: Teaching my boyfriend Chinese Chinese language, trying Chinese food, whatever,
Speaker 6: and then it'd be like I don't know, I wouldn't
Speaker 6: mind even going to China, but it all gets worked
Speaker 6: out in the end us in you see what gets
Speaker 6: the views and you keep going with that.
Speaker 1: So so is your girlfriend in on this, she's she's
Speaker 1: Chinese and she yeah, yeah, you and her? You and
Speaker 1: her would make the content together? Yes, okay? Does she
Speaker 1: have like this the like like what is the Chinese
Speaker 1: what's the name of this app?
Speaker 5: This?
Speaker 1: It's like Dogian or something like that.
Speaker 6: Right, there's a there's a couple of them. There's one
Speaker 6: called like Billy bally uh, which is like the equivalent
Speaker 6: of YouTube.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 6: I forgot to what's the Chinese equivalent.
Speaker 5: Of TikTok called?
Speaker 6: But there is one for sure.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 6: There's a couple of them mm hmm.
Speaker 1: So how exactly do you make money by having your
Speaker 1: girlfriend teach you Chinese on YouTube?
Speaker 6: Product place?
Speaker 1: Where's the money? Product placements? Okay, have you guys ever
Speaker 1: made the video?
Speaker 5: Again?
Speaker 1: Sorry? Have you guys ever made and posted a video before?
Speaker 6: I myself haven't. I helped my girlfriend make a couple
Speaker 6: of them because she has been making videos on social media.
Speaker 6: I helped. I've been a cameraman for a couple of them, so.
Speaker 5: It's not that hard.
Speaker 1: How do how are how have her videos been doing? Uh?
Speaker 6: Pretty good? A couple of thousand these here, ten something
Speaker 6: vis there, ten thousand someone the's there?
Speaker 1: So she told you that, you know, she's not getting
Speaker 1: as many views, but that if she had a white
Speaker 1: guy in the video, she would blow up.
Speaker 6: No, it wasn't like that. It started by her saying
Speaker 6: that that she saw some white guy on Chinese website,
Speaker 6: Chinese social media, and he's not even that good looking,
Speaker 6: but they're giving him all kinds of promotions, which is
Speaker 6: actually a quite unimportant thing in China to be good looking,
Speaker 6: because they pay a lot of attention to your luke's
Speaker 6: And she said pretty much anything anyone can do it.
Speaker 1: Are you a good looking guy?
Speaker 6: Sagan?
Speaker 1: Are you a good looking guy, I'd say above a bridge. Okay,
Speaker 1: is is that all it takes?
Speaker 3: I'd have to.
Speaker 6: Shave the beer though, which would be a minus.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, listen, you know, go for it? Why not, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what I don't think. Maybe maybe maybe
Speaker 1: she's right? And uh you you know you? I mean,
Speaker 1: but do you do you like baking videos?
Speaker 6: I don't mind them if it makes thing money?
Speaker 5: Why not?
Speaker 1: Do you have more than one idea for a video?
Speaker 1: Because I don't know how long uh you know, your
Speaker 1: girlfriend teaching you Chinese words will last. Actually, as soon
Speaker 1: as that came out of my mouth, I disagreed with it.
Speaker 5: Oh no, I could probably just started off.
Speaker 6: Okay, I would have to divers ify eventually.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of Chinese words. It's a whole
Speaker 1: entire language.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that would.
Speaker 6: Last me for a while, but eventually I would have
Speaker 6: to diversify.
Speaker 1: Okay, give me some other ideas.
Speaker 6: A bunch of Chinese holidays. I could be trying on
Speaker 6: Chinese traditional costumes. I could be trying trying some like
Speaker 6: I don't know how I would say that. Sorry, English
Speaker 6: isn't my first language. By the way, more traditional not
Speaker 6: only food, but also the self they do during their holidays,
Speaker 6: as in, you know how for Thanksgiving in America, people
Speaker 6: come together and they kill the turkey or whatever you
Speaker 6: guys do over there, they pray to their long lost ancestors.
Speaker 6: I could try some of that.
Speaker 1: What is your first language?
Speaker 6: It's actually Polish?
Speaker 1: Polish, like I sa, you're a white Polish guy. Yes,
Speaker 1: now here's my question. You can't possibly be the only
Speaker 1: guy who's come up with a scheme before, Like I'm
Speaker 1: there's gotta be you know, at least ten. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't I've never heard of this before.
Speaker 1: But there's got to be several other you know, white
Speaker 1: guy learning Chinese words.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, there's glues.
Speaker 1: Glues. So how how what's going to be so great
Speaker 1: about yours that people want to watch that instead of
Speaker 1: the other guys? If the only thing that you're bringing
Speaker 1: to the table is that you're away.
Speaker 6: Well, see, the thing is, there are so many people
Speaker 6: in China, someone is going to watch that anyway.
Speaker 1: Fuck, that's a good point. Well, so should I start
Speaker 1: dubbing my stuff in Chinese to like, you know, get
Speaker 1: a Chinese audience?
Speaker 6: You should?
Speaker 1: Where do you want to sail in the universe. Before
Speaker 1: we go what what is?
Speaker 3: What is?
Speaker 1: All the Chinese social media.
Speaker 6: Go towards the first plans, go down south, Trance, Spain, Gibraltar, Mediterranean.
Speaker 6: I'll stick around there for a while. I have a
Speaker 6: European passport, so if I needed extra money, I could
Speaker 6: work in a bar. I'm a bartender as well, a
Speaker 6: bar time.
Speaker 5: Or whatever.
Speaker 6: Then hopefully the Canal and in Egypt whatever you call it.
Speaker 5: I forgot.
Speaker 6: I'm currently not really sober right now. But go down
Speaker 6: south there, down the Asian coast at North Japan, then
Speaker 6: America West Coast, Panama, Panoa Canal, East Coast, and back
Speaker 6: to UK.
Speaker 1: Real tell me before we go, there's the last thing
Speaker 1: on Yes, how much money are you realistically expecting to
Speaker 1: make by becoming a Chinese social media influencer.
Speaker 6: I don't know. I'm hoping at least twenty thousand, but
Speaker 6: I'm also finishing my degree, which is currently my main priority,
Speaker 6: which is hopefully and got to bring me money as well,
Speaker 6: So it's just going to be a supplementary thing to
Speaker 6: bring me faster to my goal than I would be otherwise.
Speaker 1: Hey, you know, fuck if you listen, I don't know
Speaker 1: if you speak Chinese, but you know you look do
Speaker 1: a Chinese therapy gecko. If you really want to, you
Speaker 1: can steal my idea. Okay, yes, all right, I'll talk
Speaker 1: to you soon.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 1: Let me know how this pans out for you.
Speaker 6: I will hopefully follow up. Yes, thank you very much,
Speaker 6: mister lizard.
Speaker 1: Okay, take care, Steven. Thanks, all right, I'm thinking about
Speaker 1: this now. What is the fuck What was the name
Speaker 1: of that platform that he said? Okay, listen, if you're
Speaker 1: listening to this and you speak fluent Chinese, you know,
Speaker 1: hit me up so that we can make a Chinese
Speaker 1: version of this podcast so that I can uh sail
Speaker 1: around the world.
Speaker 5: The repeat goes on the line, taking your phone calls
Speaker 5: every night.
Speaker 1: The repak kid goes to any ride. He's teaching you
Speaker 1: cloud to liver your life, but
Speaker 3: He's not really an expert.