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Speaker 1: Hello. How's it going, Lyle?

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Speaker 2: It's going good? Man? How are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm doing good. I'm I'm at work right now and

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Speaker 1: it's pretty slow. We're just back here cleaning party equipment.

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Speaker 2: Uh, you're cleaning party equipment.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I work for a rental company. H I mean

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Speaker 1: we usually do. I'm usually on the equipment side, but

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Speaker 1: things definitely slow down in the winter. So I thought

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Speaker 1: you were taking calls and looks like I got through.

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty I'm pretty shooking up right now.

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Speaker 2: Honestly, what is the party equipment that you are cleaning?

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Speaker 2: Are you cleaning like a mechanical bull? Are you cleaning

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Speaker 2: a DJ boot set? What are you cleaning?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 2: Are you cleaning a birthday cake? What are you cleaning?

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Speaker 1: It's resin chairs that people sit on. It's it's pretty handy, Honestly,

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Speaker 1: I like them.

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Speaker 2: Do you ever just sit in the chairs because you

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Speaker 2: can because they're in front of you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all the time. I'll eat lunch on them, and

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Speaker 1: fucking rad that's badass.

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Speaker 2: What's your name, Zachary, Zachary, Zachary, Zachary, Zachary. What brings

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Speaker 2: you to call the Gecko Show today? Zachary?

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Speaker 1: So I've been listening for a couple of years now,

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Speaker 1: and in my time listening, I got I struggled with

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Speaker 1: addiction for a couple of years. I'm a recovering drug

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Speaker 1: addict and alcoholic, and I wanted to see if I

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Speaker 1: can kind of share my struggles and share my story

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Speaker 1: with you and ponder with you on some things and

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Speaker 1: how far I've came, because I kind of came from

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Speaker 1: some dark areas in my life as of very recently,

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Speaker 1: and I went to rehab eight months ago and things

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Speaker 1: have changed.

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Speaker 2: I'll let you have the floor. Man, it sounds like

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Speaker 2: you have a particular arc you want to share.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So, I mean sorry, I'm headed to the break room.

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Speaker 1: My boss was giving me the green light there. But

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Speaker 1: so when I was I grew up and I kind

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Speaker 1: of troubled home. Both of my parents are drug addicts.

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Speaker 1: Their primary drug of choice is meth, and uh, I

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Speaker 1: grew up in a pretty abusive home and I didn't

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Speaker 1: realize how much that kind of fucked with me, you know,

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Speaker 1: until I got a bit older. When I was in treatment,

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Speaker 1: I actually got diagnosed with PTSD, which shook me up

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Speaker 1: quite a bit when I was in there, because I mean,

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Speaker 1: there's definitely a stigma around that that I thought of that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I didn't. I didn't think of

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Speaker 1: voibeling myself that way. And as I sorry, man, I'm

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Speaker 2: You're doing You're doing fine.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 1: As I got older, I think I was twelve when

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Speaker 1: up in the crowd was like skateboarding, and the exposed

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Speaker 1: me to a lot of other things. Stuff started escalating,

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Speaker 1: and for a while it was just alcohol and cannabis

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Speaker 1: and weed actually was my primary drug a choice. I

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Speaker 1: health issues in my life. Even at that age, my

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Speaker 3: It felt like.

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Speaker 1: It was pretty extreme, Like my IQ had a significant

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Speaker 1: drop after Like some vendors you were, you.

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Speaker 2: Were ripping an entire cart a.

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Speaker 1: Day, Yeah, yeah, sometimes sometimes two. Once I got a

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Speaker 2: To how much do you have to smoke to rip

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Speaker 1: It was, I mean I would just go until I

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Speaker 1: I guess, but it was like it it was pretty bad, man.

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Speaker 2: I mean I got myself when you're sixteen.

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Speaker 1: I'm nineteen now, oh you're.

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Speaker 2: Nineteen that well okay, yeah yeah, so this is when

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Speaker 2: you were sixteen.

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Speaker 1: And then uh, I mean it just kept getting worse.

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Speaker 1: I started going to trap houses and got wrapped up

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Speaker 1: That's when it was probably at its worse, and I

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Speaker 3: Just fucking horrible.

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Speaker 1: I'd wake up shitting myself and like, there's it's shit.

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Speaker 3: It's like it's a scary place to be.

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Speaker 1: And at a certain point I ran out of money

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Speaker 3: This was.

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Speaker 1: Just in June, and I I couldn't finish a sentence.

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Speaker 1: It was just like I knew at that point I

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Speaker 1: And there was some other things that were going on

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Speaker 1: I knew I had to talk to somebody. So I'm

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Speaker 1: very very fortunate that my grandparents. I mean, my parents

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Speaker 1: But I got them to send me to rehab about

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Speaker 3: Did that.

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Speaker 1: Now I have a damn good job security. Now I'm

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Speaker 1: living out on my own with my roommate. It's one

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Speaker 1: now at the point I am in my life. It's

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Speaker 1: it's I was doing kind of a quick summary. There's

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Speaker 2: My man, goddamn, So you're nineteen, yeah man, And so

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Speaker 2: you're you're sober now?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, eight months cool.

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Speaker 2: Very cool. Congratulations man, Congratulations, you're a you're a hardened

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Speaker 2: You're you're a you're a real hardened veteran of this

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Speaker 1: Yeah, man, I could tell you some stories that I'm

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Speaker 1: sure I grew up. My parents were. My mom had

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Speaker 1: So I matured a lot in that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, so yeah, I mean I got a lot

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Speaker 2: of things. So you got a CDL. Can you say

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Speaker 1: A commercial driver's license?

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Speaker 1: I got a Class B. So I drive a rollback truck.

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Speaker 1: like for construction excavators, telehandler's worklifts, et cetera. It's a

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Speaker 2: And what's your relationship like with your grandparents?

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Speaker 1: Very good, especially since I got sober before I went

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Speaker 1: no matter what anybody tells you, it's just denial and destruction.

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Speaker 1: H Do you do you have friends acquaintances?

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Speaker 3: I have?

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Speaker 1: I have, I have a couple close friends.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. And where are they from? Like not like like

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Speaker 2: where are they from? In your life.

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Speaker 1: So Jamie my roommate. I met him when I started

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Speaker 1: working at the place I'm at now. I've actually been

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Speaker 1: But I mean it was when I was in high

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Speaker 1: about four years now. And then I have my buddy

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Speaker 2: So what is home like? Not the location, but are

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Speaker 2: Dude, forget about dude, forget about all the rehab and

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Speaker 2: What? What kind of retro games? Are you a Nintendo guy?

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Speaker 2: And you don't, you don't know all the crazy things

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Speaker 1: For real, dude, he's a beautiful man.

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Speaker 2: He's a beautiful man. He's really he's a he's a

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Speaker 1: The legend is Elda Majora's Mask never played the made

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Speaker 2: So you have one roommate, yes, sir, And how do

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Speaker 2: Man, I'm glad you didn't kill yourself. Man, You've got

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Speaker 1: I think myself every day for the path I'm on

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Speaker 2: being addicts like is uh that's a tough thing. It's like, uh,

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00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:10,160
Speaker 2: it's like a handicap on life. You know who so much? Dude,

442
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:12,240
Speaker 2: It's you know, it's crazy as I'm always thinking about

443
00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:17,040
Speaker 2: this shit about like uh I think, dude, I'm very

444
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:22,080
Speaker 2: this is like a whole uh determinism versus agency thing.

445
00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:26,720
Speaker 2: It's always better, it's always better to believe in agency, right,

446
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:29,480
Speaker 2: But even agency that you could go and there's a

447
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:31,600
Speaker 2: there's like an infinite mirror thing where you're like, well,

448
00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:34,600
Speaker 2: how much of agency is deterministic? Blah blah blah. But

449
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:39,840
Speaker 2: it is interesting how much of your life is influenced

450
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:43,919
Speaker 2: by where you are born and who you are born to,

451
00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:51,800
Speaker 2: and yet people are able to make it so far

452
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:57,560
Speaker 2: in their own direction regardless of those things. I always

453
00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:03,080
Speaker 2: find that very amazing because it's so impactful who you're

454
00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:05,160
Speaker 2: born to and where you where you're born.

455
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:05,800
Speaker 3: You know.

456
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:12,880
Speaker 2: So yeah, so I I continue from making your own

457
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 2: path in life. I think you're doing great.

458
00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:16,399
Speaker 3: Thank you.

459
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was there was a lot of troubles that happened.

460
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:20,239
Speaker 3: Man.

461
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 1: I mean my mom, she she, I mean my dad.

462
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 1: I'm very grateful for him because he was still able

463
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 1: to take care for me, care of me. But my

464
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:32,080
Speaker 1: mom growing up, she was just like a fucking villain.

465
00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:32,280
Speaker 2: Man.

466
00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 1: She stole my first couple of paychecks. She like, it

467
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:39,480
Speaker 1: was very I mean just very abusive and growing up

468
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 1: and then now now now ever, since I got into treatment,

469
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:47,879
Speaker 1: I have blocked a number. I mean, she's homeless now

470
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:49,919
Speaker 1: and it's a lot harder for her to get to me.

471
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,399
Speaker 1: But when she still had a car and like I

472
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 1: was able to get to places, it was just she

473
00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:58,960
Speaker 1: was everything behind her path would fucking fall apart.

474
00:27:59,000 --> 00:27:59,160
Speaker 3: Man.

475
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,280
Speaker 1: It was a are grown up with that, And now

476
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:07,400
Speaker 1: that I'm kind of free of that and addiction, it's

477
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:11,680
Speaker 1: been able to allow myself to grow so much and

478
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:16,640
Speaker 1: to build the path where I really feel fulfilled and

479
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:20,000
Speaker 1: kind of that same thing. It's just that you were

480
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 1: saying earlier, it's I'm happy that you are out of that,

481
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:27,560
Speaker 1: you know, depression and what was it?

482
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:29,040
Speaker 3: How do you say? Existentialism?

483
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:32,439
Speaker 2: Something like that, something like that, something like that.

484
00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just being the best that you can be

485
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:37,560
Speaker 1: every day and showing up.

486
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:37,760
Speaker 2: Man.

487
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:41,360
Speaker 1: It's it's not fucking easy, but if you do it

488
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 1: for long enough, even if you just pretend to it

489
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 1: for a little bit, eventually it gets easier and things

490
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 1: just start falling into the place that they should.

491
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:52,960
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this, and I just to throw

492
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:56,760
Speaker 2: it out there before we go, because I'm invested in

493
00:28:56,800 --> 00:29:01,520
Speaker 2: your story and I know that you're uh an evolving

494
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:05,760
Speaker 2: thing in process. But you know, I'm glad you told

495
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:13,280
Speaker 2: us your whole story is there, Like, m are you.

496
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 2: Are you in any conflict right now moving forward that

497
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 2: that you want to talk through or do you feel

498
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:25,640
Speaker 2: pretty confident about the uh road ahead and just where

499
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:29,520
Speaker 2: your brain is at.

500
00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:32,000
Speaker 1: I mean, there's some things here and there.

501
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 3: I tried. Uh, I had a little bit of trouble with.

502
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 1: Dating when I first got sober, which I don't know

503
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:42,240
Speaker 1: because that was the best idea to get into. But

504
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 1: it seems like things are going all right right now.

505
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:46,880
Speaker 1: Like I kind of gave up on it because I

506
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 1: wanted to go just all all into fitness and fully

507
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:54,600
Speaker 1: focused on that. And I did that for a while

508
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:57,520
Speaker 1: and then, uh, this this girl that I was talking

509
00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:00,400
Speaker 1: to for a bit just hit me up recently and

510
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:03,560
Speaker 1: I never even really had done anything with her weoever,

511
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 1: but I'm planning on seeing her this weekend, so we'll

512
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:12,280
Speaker 1: see if that will happen. I mean, yeah, no, right

513
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 1: now in my life, everything's going as it should.

514
00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 3: There's no.

515
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:17,760
Speaker 1: Nothing I can think about.

516
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 2: I don't see you having any problems with dating.

517
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 3: Man.

518
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:24,560
Speaker 2: You gotta you have a very year I mean, uh,

519
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:28,720
Speaker 2: regardless of the tragic circumstances under which it was forged.

520
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:37,120
Speaker 2: You have a very mature demeanor. Thank you, and you

521
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:39,880
Speaker 2: know you're getting ripped, so you'll you'll be you'll be

522
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:43,200
Speaker 2: fine in that department. Zachary. You said your name is.

523
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:48,880
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, you remembered it. That's that's awesome. MM.

524
00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:53,600
Speaker 2: Good for you, well, Zachary. This is a pleasure talking

525
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:53,760
Speaker 2: to you.

526
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 3: Man.

527
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:57,480
Speaker 2: I appreciate you sharing your story. I'm I'm looking forward

528
00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:00,600
Speaker 2: to see what you do in your life. I have

529
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:03,880
Speaker 2: a deep, deep respect for it, deep deep respect. I

530
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 2: really mean this for anyone. I had this weird moment.

531
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 2: I'll talk. I'll talk for a second. I had this yeah,

532
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:12,480
Speaker 2: like I said, like things are I'm feeling pretty chill.

533
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:16,720
Speaker 2: I mean not everything's perfect, but like the I was

534
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:18,680
Speaker 2: just walking around today and I was like, oh shit,

535
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 2: I like thought many times I was gonna like die

536
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 2: and I didn't die and we're still just life kept

537
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 2: going and so you know these goods to take a

538
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:33,280
Speaker 2: second to be like, okay, all right this you know

539
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:37,000
Speaker 2: things have been worse. So I commend you. I commend

540
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:41,200
Speaker 2: you for doing all that, and I appreciate you coming

541
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:43,360
Speaker 2: on here and talking about it. Giving other people some

542
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:46,720
Speaker 2: hope that they can continue to thrive.

543
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 3: For sure.

544
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 1: Thank you for giving me the chance. Man, I'm I'm

545
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 1: sot fucking happy I got on here. I've been listening

546
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 1: to you for many years.

547
00:31:58,200 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 2: Is there anything else you want to say to the

548
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 2: folks of the computer before we go?

549
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:06,960
Speaker 1: Don't drink and drive, don't get high and drives. It's

550
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 1: not worth it. It's never worth it. Yeah, that's it.

551
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,240
Speaker 1: I love you, Lyle, Thank you, thank you for giving

552
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 1: me this chance.

553
00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:18,240
Speaker 2: Wait real quick, what's the most valuable thing in your collection?

554
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:21,720
Speaker 3: Uh?

555
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 1: Probably that? Probably that Sound Hill coffee. I got a

556
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 1: figure for it. It looks so fucking badass.

557
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:29,840
Speaker 2: Dude said, did you say Summit Hill Silent Hill?

558
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:30,800
Speaker 1: It's oh?

559
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 2: I thought, Oh, I know fucking Silent Hill. I thought

560
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:34,400
Speaker 2: you said Summit Hill.

561
00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:42,440
Speaker 1: No, No, it's uh I really I really enjoy Sounding Hill.

562
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:46,040
Speaker 2: Is that is that the Is it the pyramid? Like?

563
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 3: Wait?

564
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:48,160
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, okay, okay, now that I know what it is?

565
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:50,400
Speaker 2: What what is it a video game? Is it a figure?

566
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:51,240
Speaker 2: What did you say it was?

567
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 3: So?

568
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 1: I got I have a figure of the super Sexy

569
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 1: Nurse that's like covered in blood and it says welcome

570
00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:00,280
Speaker 1: and welcome to Silent Hill. Find it.

571
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 3: I got it from ETS.

572
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 1: Some guy three D printed it for me and painted

573
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:04,720
Speaker 1: it looks great and I.

574
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 2: Got Silent Hill blood is it? Wait? Hold? Oh oh?

575
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:16,680
Speaker 2: This is the sexy nurse with the crazy that looks

576
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:18,719
Speaker 2: like she has no she has no uh face?

577
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 3: Yes?

578
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:23,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think we're called bubbleheads. I think I

579
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:26,080
Speaker 1: think her head popped or something. The pyramid head dude,

580
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 1: he's from Silent Hill two. It's a great game. Yeah,

581
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 1: and then Silent Hill won. Yeah. I don't I don't

582
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 1: want to give too much away if anybody hasn't played it.

583
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 2: Well, all right, Well, thank you Zachary. Good luck to you, brother,

584
00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:43,720
Speaker 2: and I appreciate you calling.

585
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:43,959
Speaker 3: Man.

586
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 2: I hope you have a good rest of the day.

587
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 1: You too, Man, you too, Thank you very much.

588
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 2: See Zachary deus that gut rocks think got rocks. Good dude,

589
00:33:56,600 --> 00:34:00,479
Speaker 2: Jesus christ Man. I I dude, that's crazy. That guy's nineteen.

590
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:02,560
Speaker 2: You could tell that all that shit aged him up

591
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 2: like fucking ten years. Dude. Respect, mad respect, mad fucking respect.

592
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:11,759
Speaker 2: Also is interest like is I love? I love? Like

593
00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 2: you know, younger generation getting into retro video games and

594
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:23,920
Speaker 2: ship like it just always keeps that stuff is timeless.

595
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 2: I could I I spared you guys, but I could

596
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:29,600
Speaker 2: have talked about retro video games. Uh with that guy

597
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 2: for a full hour. Shout out Zachary, big respect? Hello, Hey,

598
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:44,279
Speaker 2: what's up man? What's your name?

599
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:45,799
Speaker 1: Oh?

600
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:48,080
Speaker 3: A J. I didn't think I was really gonna get home?

601
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:52,320
Speaker 2: What's up, a brother? How are you doing? My friends?

602
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:54,279
Speaker 3: I'm doing good? How about you? Man?

603
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:57,319
Speaker 2: How am I doing? I'm doing all right. I'm in

604
00:34:57,400 --> 00:34:59,520
Speaker 2: a room with no windows that I don't know if

605
00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:03,640
Speaker 2: I'm allowed to be in. But that's that just happens

606
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,040
Speaker 2: to you sometimes in life. Sometimes you find yourself in

607
00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:08,400
Speaker 2: a room with no windows in the script that you

608
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:09,600
Speaker 2: don't know if you're allowed to be in?

609
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:10,439
Speaker 1: What room?

610
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:11,279
Speaker 2: What room are you in?

611
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 3: A J? I'm in. I'm actually eating right now. I'm

612
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:20,840
Speaker 3: in my donner room. I guess you would call it

613
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 3: the way my house is set up. It's kind of

614
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 3: like the kitchen in the dining room is almost like

615
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:29,839
Speaker 3: in the same almost in the same spot. So yeah,

616
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:30,800
Speaker 3: I guess my dining.

617
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 2: Room Adrian did anything in particular? A J. Why say

618
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:39,800
Speaker 2: Adrian AJ? Sorry?

619
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:41,440
Speaker 3: A J.

620
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:45,279
Speaker 2: I think I think AJ is the name of one

621
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:47,880
Speaker 2: of Timmy Turner's friends, Chester and A J.

622
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:50,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, hell yeah.

623
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 2: Are you named after that kid?

624
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:59,640
Speaker 3: No, it's my nickname.

625
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 2: AJ. Is there a particular thing that you wanted to

626
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:09,760
Speaker 2: call in to talk about today?

627
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:12,120
Speaker 3: You know, I just always because I've been I've been

628
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:18,360
Speaker 3: watching for like two and a half years now, and

629
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 3: I always thought like it's crazy, because I always felt

630
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 3: like when I would call, I would actually get on.

631
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:27,400
Speaker 3: But then like it happened, and now I'm here and

632
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 3: I want to talk about like just life. You know

633
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:32,840
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. They do a lot of changes recently.

634
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:34,400
Speaker 2: Well what kind of changes.

635
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:40,239
Speaker 3: I actually just got out the military in March and

636
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 3: from there ended up picking up to a whole new

637
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 3: city and now I'm here and now I'm just trying

638
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:54,680
Speaker 3: to figure out like this whole new place I've never

639
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 3: been in before, and now I'm betting ready to be

640
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 3: a firefighter in a fire academy.

641
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:04,120
Speaker 2: Get the fuck out of here. The guy we just

642
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:07,400
Speaker 2: talked to, the guy we just talked to before you,

643
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:10,239
Speaker 2: it's so funny. He said his goal is to be

644
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:14,239
Speaker 2: a firefighter, and now we're talking to a firefighter.

645
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:18,239
Speaker 3: Well, I'm not actually a firefighter. I'm getting ready to

646
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:19,280
Speaker 3: go to a fire academy.

647
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 2: Guy, a gentleman becoming a firefighter. You're you're in the

648
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:31,640
Speaker 2: process of becoming a firefighter, right. Cool?

649
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:32,160
Speaker 3: Cool?

650
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:34,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, here, well let's get into a bunch of stuff.

651
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:36,920
Speaker 2: What what branch of the military were you in?

652
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 3: I was in an Air Force?

653
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:42,399
Speaker 2: Cool? What did you do?

654
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:51,760
Speaker 3: I did well, they called it a for a functional

655
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 3: code was foury oh x one. But it's really just

656
00:37:55,280 --> 00:38:00,919
Speaker 3: like I worked with insurance that I could do. Uh well,

657
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:04,840
Speaker 3: this is all medical, anything medical. So I work with experience,

658
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:08,319
Speaker 3: and then i'd be like check in at the front dance,

659
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 3: like if you got to the hospital, if you have

660
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 3: to check inn somewhere, like any type of clinic or

661
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:17,960
Speaker 3: anything like that. I'm a front desk person. I'm a

662
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:18,800
Speaker 3: front desk person.

663
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Speaker 2: So you were this was at a military health clinic.

664
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:27,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was actually up in Alaska. I just came

665
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:30,320
Speaker 3: from Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska.

666
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:31,440
Speaker 1: No ship.

667
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 2: Wait, what's it like in Anchorage, Alaska? Dude, I'm trying

668
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:36,719
Speaker 2: to go there. I'm actually I have I'm doing a

669
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:37,880
Speaker 2: show there in October.

670
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:41,879
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's cool, man. I always wanted to catch

671
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:44,359
Speaker 3: a show, like when you went on tour but I

672
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:47,400
Speaker 3: never got around to like it's fit in the perfect

673
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:49,000
Speaker 3: timing of my schedule, you know what I mean.

674
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 2: M hm, So what's so what's it like an uh

675
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 2: when you come to d oh Well.

676
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:58,759
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, no, I was saying, I'm up in uh

677
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 3: North Carolina now, so I haven't got a chance to

678
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:03,880
Speaker 3: look at your list yet. But when you come to

679
00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 3: North Carolina, I'm not trying to shoot that show.

680
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:09,440
Speaker 2: I'll be in Charlotte. I don't know exactly when, but

681
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:10,640
Speaker 2: I will be in Charlotte this year.

682
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:16,279
Speaker 3: Okay. Cool? Yeah, man, me and my husband we watch

683
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:20,440
Speaker 3: you We watch you man where we get done smoking

684
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:20,920
Speaker 3: and stuff.

685
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:27,919
Speaker 2: Yeah, So what is the vibe in in Anchorage?

686
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:33,000
Speaker 3: It's cool. I grew up in the city, like I'm

687
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:39,720
Speaker 3: from originally from the Church, Michigan. But it really forces

688
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:45,359
Speaker 3: you to be an outdoors person. Like when I was there,

689
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:50,560
Speaker 3: I wasn't used to doing like snowboarding or anything like that.

690
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:53,840
Speaker 3: It's not really a whole lot that's really going on

691
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 3: in the city. Like I'm used to like going out,

692
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 3: like going to clubs and things like that, and it's

693
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:02,799
Speaker 3: only like a few this meant to like two, but

694
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 3: it's not a lot of options mm, but it's more

695
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:10,360
Speaker 3: so like out for an outdoorsy person.

696
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:13,400
Speaker 2: Was your husband with you while you were there or

697
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:14,880
Speaker 2: were you guys a long distance?

698
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 3: Yeah? No, we met there.

699
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:17,959
Speaker 1: We met there.

700
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:19,040
Speaker 2: Oh no ship.

701
00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:25,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've been married for two years now. And we

702
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:26,320
Speaker 3: met in Alaska.

703
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:30,240
Speaker 2: No ship. And he was he also in the military.

704
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:33,400
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, no, no. I met him Actually he

705
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:35,600
Speaker 3: was just living there. His dad was in the military

706
00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:38,600
Speaker 3: and actually just got out, and so they were up

707
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:41,319
Speaker 3: there living there from where his dad had just got

708
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:44,839
Speaker 3: it out, and I ended up meeting him there. We

709
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 3: met at the club.

710
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:53,319
Speaker 2: Interesting, what like what how how did that encounter go?

711
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:53,680
Speaker 3: Like?

712
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 2: What was the initiation?

713
00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:02,040
Speaker 3: We It was no, we just kind of like I

714
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:03,960
Speaker 3: was a little loose, you know, I was drinking at

715
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 3: that point, and I assume he was too, and we

716
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:11,920
Speaker 3: just kind of made eye contact and then we ended

717
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:14,480
Speaker 3: up dancing together and stuff because I'm a big dancer.

718
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:17,319
Speaker 3: You know, when I get some tequila in my system

719
00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:19,160
Speaker 3: that I can dance a little bit, you know what

720
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 3: I'm saying. Yeah, So we just kind of started dancing together,

721
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:30,360
Speaker 3: and from that night we met, we just kind of

722
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:35,840
Speaker 3: never stopped talking. And we had actually been together for

723
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:37,280
Speaker 3: that long before we got married.

724
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:39,719
Speaker 2: How long were yougether for?

725
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:47,080
Speaker 3: Like five and a half months?

726
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:50,680
Speaker 2: Wow? What was it that made it so much like,

727
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 2: oh shit, let's just let's get married.

728
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 3: So I was just leaving Texas like I had just

729
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:06,400
Speaker 3: came there from Texas because I was there doing my

730
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:10,279
Speaker 3: my tech school there, and we it was a big

731
00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:14,239
Speaker 3: thing to talk about, like if I had to get

732
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:18,040
Speaker 3: stationed anywhere else, to go ahead and get him on

733
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 3: my orders and stuff like that. And also it was

734
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:24,400
Speaker 3: just like a good time, like we weren't it was nothing.

735
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:28,120
Speaker 3: We were really waiting on per se and I just

736
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 3: always felt like he was my person. So I didn't

737
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:35,759
Speaker 3: really have the take when he actually asked me to

738
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 3: marry him, which I never thought i'd have somebody like,

739
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 3: you know, proposed to me, but it happened, and I

740
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:47,960
Speaker 3: made the decision to say yes. At the time, there

741
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:52,440
Speaker 3: were no it was nothing that was like telling me

742
00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:54,439
Speaker 3: to say no at that point, so I just kind

743
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:56,520
Speaker 3: of like, you know, I went with it, and we've

744
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:59,279
Speaker 3: been together ever since. So mhm.

745
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:01,480
Speaker 1: Hm hm.

746
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:09,400
Speaker 2: Mm hmm. And so what where did you Where did

747
00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:16,920
Speaker 2: you move to from Alaska? You said, moved to North Carolina.

748
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 3: I'm in a small.

749
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:22,880
Speaker 2: North Carolina, North Carolina. And what are you doing in

750
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:23,600
Speaker 2: North Carolina?

751
00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:29,920
Speaker 3: I actually, when I got here, I was a manager

752
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:33,080
Speaker 3: at chick fil A.

753
00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:35,920
Speaker 2: All Right, the plot thickens, The plot thickens, dude. I

754
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:38,000
Speaker 2: just came up with ten more questions to ask.

755
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:42,839
Speaker 4: You, because because because being because being the manager at

756
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:46,320
Speaker 4: Chick fil A is not like, at least from my perspective,

757
00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:51,920
Speaker 4: it is not like you know, any old retail management job.

758
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:55,319
Speaker 2: Because the Chick fil A, I I don't know how

759
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:57,040
Speaker 2: they do it, dude, I don't know how they fucking

760
00:43:57,080 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 2: do it, but they manage to standard the Chick fil

761
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:06,839
Speaker 2: A experience across the nation. So you go into any

762
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:09,880
Speaker 2: like cause you know, like there's shitty Wendy's, right, and

763
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:13,319
Speaker 2: then there's good Wendy's, and there's shitty McDonald's. There's good McDonald's,

764
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:17,719
Speaker 2: but all chick fil as a. No, I've never been

765
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:19,960
Speaker 2: to a shitty chick fil A in my life and

766
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:22,680
Speaker 2: I've been to Why is that? Why have I never

767
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:23,600
Speaker 2: been to a shitty chick Fila?

768
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:28,560
Speaker 3: Through that? Look? So, when I first started working there,

769
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 3: they pretty much preached about quality. It's more so and

770
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:39,000
Speaker 3: if not even leaning towards more quality than anything goes.

771
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:43,480
Speaker 3: It's both they lean into quality and how fast you

772
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:47,080
Speaker 3: do it, so like they really like put it on you,

773
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:50,040
Speaker 3: especially for a manager. They put it on you to

774
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:52,200
Speaker 3: make sure that the quality of the food is always

775
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:56,800
Speaker 3: right and that we getting it out fast enough, because

776
00:44:56,800 --> 00:44:58,279
Speaker 3: I bet you've never been out of Chick fil A

777
00:44:58,360 --> 00:44:59,040
Speaker 3: for long either.

778
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:02,040
Speaker 2: No, I don't know how they fucking do do do?

779
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:04,799
Speaker 2: Let me here's the real question is, like do they

780
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:06,719
Speaker 2: pay well? Like how do they get people to give

781
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:11,680
Speaker 2: a fuck? Because because like pretty okay, because I like,

782
00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:13,359
Speaker 2: you know, you go into a Wendy's and it's like

783
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:15,560
Speaker 2: this person doesn't give a ship about anything. But then

784
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:17,400
Speaker 2: it's also like, well, why the hell would they you

785
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:21,319
Speaker 2: know mm hm, I mean like, yeah, what are they

786
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:22,160
Speaker 2: putting that sauce?

787
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:28,120
Speaker 3: You know? I mean they pretty they paid pretty okay.

788
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:34,279
Speaker 3: I was making like because they don't Rocky because I

789
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:39,120
Speaker 3: stay in the city called Rocky Mount, and they don't

790
00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:42,720
Speaker 3: really pay a whole lot here, so it's not really

791
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:46,319
Speaker 3: a lot of it's it's very cheap here, and so

792
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 3: the pay at the Chick fil A was more so

793
00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 3: I think it was like I talked them up to

794
00:45:54,719 --> 00:45:57,480
Speaker 3: nineteen fifteen, just because I had experience and stuff in

795
00:45:57,480 --> 00:46:03,319
Speaker 3: the military, you know, leader and all that. But yeah,

796
00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:05,799
Speaker 3: I talked about the nineteen stafty. I don't I never

797
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:07,759
Speaker 3: really asked I mentioned anybody else is going to pay.

798
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:10,399
Speaker 3: But they take me a lot to give a fuck.

799
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:17,520
Speaker 2: So pretty good, pretty good. I love it today. It's

800
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:20,160
Speaker 2: that's so fun. There's something funny to me about like, uh,

801
00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:28,319
Speaker 2: like you're bringing your military experience to managing because that

802
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 2: is really what it takes.

803
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:35,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, honestly, because the way that it was like runs,

804
00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:39,480
Speaker 3: it's like a fucking it reminds me so much to

805
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:42,480
Speaker 3: the military, Like you have to keep a clean shave,

806
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:46,880
Speaker 3: you have to like have your shirt took t if

807
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:50,239
Speaker 3: you work in the France, and it's all different types

808
00:46:50,239 --> 00:46:54,280
Speaker 3: of stuff that relates to the military. Chick fil A, honestly, did.

809
00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:59,759
Speaker 2: You encounter more assholes? Uh, civilians or people working with you?

810
00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:02,480
Speaker 2: Either one is to slump them all in. Did you

811
00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:05,000
Speaker 2: encounter more assholes working in the military or at Chick

812
00:47:05,040 --> 00:47:05,560
Speaker 2: fil a?

813
00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:14,719
Speaker 3: H that's a good I asked question. Uh, I say

814
00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:19,040
Speaker 3: Chick fil A. My military experience wasn't great, but I

815
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:27,160
Speaker 3: definitely net more assholes at Chick fil A, especially like

816
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:29,960
Speaker 3: the people that they just bring in, you know what

817
00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:34,160
Speaker 3: I'm saying, like to work. Like they're not really the

818
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:38,080
Speaker 3: smartest people, but I don't like they're they're they're fine,

819
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:45,520
Speaker 3: but some of them are just working. Did what about

820
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:45,920
Speaker 3: the uh?

821
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:49,120
Speaker 2: Like, I feel like there's something about Chick fil A

822
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:53,759
Speaker 2: where like, uh, I sorry for Dick writing Chick fil

823
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:55,560
Speaker 2: A so much. It's just I'm just it's it's not

824
00:47:55,560 --> 00:47:57,880
Speaker 2: even Dick writing. I'm just like genuinely amazed. Like it

825
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:02,600
Speaker 2: seems like it's the kind of place where like, uh,

826
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:05,360
Speaker 2: like people at Wendy's are going up to the cashier

827
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:08,000
Speaker 2: and like screaming at them and stuff. Do you do you?

828
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:09,920
Speaker 2: Chick fil A? Seems like you don't have a lot

829
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:13,800
Speaker 2: of angry, yelling customers. Is that wrong?

830
00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:22,120
Speaker 3: No, that's not wrong. I mean I've never really encountered

831
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:28,200
Speaker 3: a whole lot of like angry customers. But there are

832
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:30,440
Speaker 3: a lot of Karens that come.

833
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:33,080
Speaker 2: To chicks Karen's what I Karen is what I mean? Okay,

834
00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:35,120
Speaker 2: so I was wrong. Karen's what I'm referring to.

835
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:39,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, there are a lot of Karens that come

836
00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:40,000
Speaker 3: to here.

837
00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:43,680
Speaker 2: What is what are their main what are their main complaints?

838
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 3: What was that?

839
00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:46,480
Speaker 2: What was the nastiest Karen that you encountered?

840
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:51,760
Speaker 3: So I worked in the back, I ran in the kitchen,

841
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:56,120
Speaker 3: m M. I didn't really like encounter a whole lot

842
00:48:56,160 --> 00:49:00,279
Speaker 3: with the guests. So there wasn't really nothing too easy

843
00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:06,440
Speaker 3: that I can really like pinpoint right now. But we

844
00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:09,040
Speaker 3: have somebody come in here and not even a Karen,

845
00:49:09,160 --> 00:49:11,560
Speaker 3: like we have the only or we work because I

846
00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:14,239
Speaker 3: don't wait there anymore. And I and I start Fire

847
00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:19,080
Speaker 3: Academy the day after tomorrow because it's snow here in

848
00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:24,640
Speaker 3: North Carolina. So but we're the only chicks fil a.

849
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:30,120
Speaker 3: So everybody from around the city comes here, no matter

850
00:49:30,200 --> 00:49:32,759
Speaker 3: who for like who they are, and sometimes we get

851
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:35,440
Speaker 3: like just people that come in and they just like

852
00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:37,920
Speaker 3: stay there, just to stay there, and they try to

853
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:41,960
Speaker 3: sell stuff in there, and then like they grab one

854
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:44,279
Speaker 3: of the managers from the back to be like, hey,

855
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:48,600
Speaker 3: I'm gonna easy to get out, and I've had to

856
00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:49,240
Speaker 3: do that before.

857
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:53,640
Speaker 2: But they try to have people come out here probably right.

858
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:58,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, like some guy was trying to promote his car

859
00:49:58,640 --> 00:50:03,160
Speaker 3: washing business, but I'm like right home, I'm not right home.

860
00:50:03,239 --> 00:50:05,600
Speaker 3: But you can't do that in here.

861
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:10,200
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm, did you get any like people making tiktoks

862
00:50:10,239 --> 00:50:11,239
Speaker 2: in there and ship like that?

863
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:24,600
Speaker 3: Our fucking are Unfortunately, we do somethings on our whoever

864
00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:32,160
Speaker 3: controls our like page, you know the not entertainment but

865
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:38,400
Speaker 3: not promotional, but you know whatever, like make videos for

866
00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:42,759
Speaker 3: the for the stuff like that. Yeah, so sometimes we

867
00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:47,920
Speaker 3: do TikTok, but I never like mate anybody in or

868
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:50,319
Speaker 3: see anybody in there do TikTok. It's a lot of kids,

869
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:54,200
Speaker 3: they're coming there. It's a lot of like babies. I

870
00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:56,239
Speaker 3: always hear a baby crying at chickil.

871
00:50:55,920 --> 00:51:01,839
Speaker 2: Me fuck another chick fil A thing because oh yeah,

872
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:04,439
Speaker 2: because I'll see uh dude, I'll see videos like that.

873
00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:07,920
Speaker 2: Like I saw a video of a guy who brought

874
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:13,279
Speaker 2: a horse into Target. And I'm very conflicted about these

875
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:20,760
Speaker 2: videos because on one hand, I'm like, that's so undeniably

876
00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:26,880
Speaker 2: funny to bring a horse in this funny. Some of

877
00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:28,560
Speaker 2: those videos are not funny. Some of those videos are

878
00:51:28,719 --> 00:51:31,000
Speaker 2: just people. Some of those videos are just people going

879
00:51:31,040 --> 00:51:34,200
Speaker 2: in and making a mess and being assholes, which and

880
00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:37,000
Speaker 2: I mean bringing the horse in there, you are making

881
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:39,560
Speaker 2: a mess and being an asshole. But but there's you

882
00:51:39,719 --> 00:51:42,239
Speaker 2: have to really put in a lot of effort to

883
00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:44,759
Speaker 2: get that horse into target. So I'm not gonna say

884
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:49,680
Speaker 2: I respect the content necessarily, but it's but the content

885
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:54,240
Speaker 2: is undeniable. I can't be like, oh, that's you shouldn't

886
00:51:54,239 --> 00:52:00,279
Speaker 2: do that because it's just it's just an undeniable thing. Yeah,

887
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:02,400
Speaker 2: it's probably more work for the people working there, but

888
00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:06,040
Speaker 2: it's it's just an undeniable thing. Bring on, you know,

889
00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:07,520
Speaker 2: I get what I'm saying, Like, what do you think

890
00:52:07,520 --> 00:52:09,600
Speaker 2: about that? What do you think about the horse and

891
00:52:09,640 --> 00:52:10,400
Speaker 2: the target?

892
00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:18,319
Speaker 3: I feel like I don't know, man, I just I

893
00:52:18,360 --> 00:52:20,560
Speaker 3: don't really like look at it on that whole deeper

894
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:21,319
Speaker 3: level like.

895
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:24,279
Speaker 1: You do.

896
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:28,040
Speaker 2: Okay, but no, no, no for real.

897
00:52:28,120 --> 00:52:30,880
Speaker 3: But I just I just kind of look at it

898
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:35,239
Speaker 3: and I don't know.

899
00:52:35,320 --> 00:52:39,200
Speaker 2: I mean, if you if you if you were okay,

900
00:52:39,239 --> 00:52:42,040
Speaker 2: I'll ask you this and and then uh, I'll let

901
00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:46,480
Speaker 2: you go a j If you were working in the

902
00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:50,359
Speaker 2: back at the Chick fil A, right and someone came

903
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:54,080
Speaker 2: into the Chick fil A with a horse, would you

904
00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:56,200
Speaker 2: be pissed off? Or would you be like this guy

905
00:52:56,239 --> 00:52:58,759
Speaker 2: brought a horse into the Chick fil A? How would

906
00:52:58,760 --> 00:52:59,120
Speaker 2: you feel?

907
00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:08,239
Speaker 3: I would be like, what the fuck. I mean, because like,

908
00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:10,239
Speaker 3: what the fuck just brings a horse in the in

909
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:13,120
Speaker 3: the fucking Chick fil A. It was just I don't know.

910
00:53:13,160 --> 00:53:16,080
Speaker 3: I wouldn't do anything about it. I wouldn't be mad

911
00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:19,239
Speaker 3: about it. It would be funny as hell, and I'm

912
00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:20,839
Speaker 3: sure they'll get a lot of use for it.

913
00:53:21,239 --> 00:53:24,719
Speaker 2: But did everyone everyone's search guy brings horse into Chick

914
00:53:24,760 --> 00:53:27,200
Speaker 2: fil A and not everyone's he. Maybe he's he, maybe

915
00:53:27,239 --> 00:53:29,600
Speaker 2: he maybe has done Chick fil A. His whole thing

916
00:53:29,640 --> 00:53:32,400
Speaker 2: is bringing a horse to places he shouldn't do it.

917
00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:34,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I don't. I don't. I don't work at

918
00:53:34,239 --> 00:53:35,080
Speaker 3: Chick fil A anymore.

919
00:53:35,719 --> 00:53:38,120
Speaker 2: I just actually I know you, I know you. I

920
00:53:38,160 --> 00:53:41,239
Speaker 2: know you don't. I was just if you have having

921
00:53:41,320 --> 00:53:43,520
Speaker 2: had the experience, where did you say you work now again?

922
00:53:45,360 --> 00:53:49,120
Speaker 3: I actually don't. So I just this whole time I've

923
00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:51,759
Speaker 3: been in North Carolina, I've been working on getting like

924
00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:54,360
Speaker 3: my benefits from the military because I ended up getting

925
00:53:54,360 --> 00:53:59,399
Speaker 3: out like earlier than my contract. So I've been working

926
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:02,440
Speaker 3: on getting my benefits and I've just got one hundred

927
00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:09,080
Speaker 3: percent disability. So I am I get paid like I

928
00:54:09,080 --> 00:54:10,520
Speaker 3: don't have to work again if I don't want to.

929
00:54:10,560 --> 00:54:11,759
Speaker 3: But I want to be a firefighter?

930
00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:16,200
Speaker 2: Cool? Are you going to be like a wait, so

931
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:22,000
Speaker 2: wait interesting? So are and I assume are you able

932
00:54:22,560 --> 00:54:28,319
Speaker 2: to still like, how are you able to qualify for

933
00:54:28,360 --> 00:54:31,840
Speaker 2: disability but also able to be a firefighter when you

934
00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:33,600
Speaker 2: become a firefighter or you not? Are you no longer

935
00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:36,359
Speaker 2: able to get their disability?

936
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:38,600
Speaker 3: No? No, no, no no no. And I thought about that too,

937
00:54:38,680 --> 00:54:41,440
Speaker 3: But they call it like permenading totaled or something like

938
00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:45,640
Speaker 3: that where they can't they can't touch it at all.

939
00:54:46,080 --> 00:54:49,600
Speaker 3: So but it doesn't prevent you from working either, like

940
00:54:49,719 --> 00:54:52,520
Speaker 3: sometimes they put you on they put people on the

941
00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:58,759
Speaker 3: disability where they can't like where they can't work, or

942
00:54:58,880 --> 00:55:01,279
Speaker 3: they have to get it reviewed every like for after

943
00:55:01,320 --> 00:55:04,759
Speaker 3: a certain amount of time. But I got the good one,

944
00:55:04,920 --> 00:55:05,479
Speaker 3: So I'm good.

945
00:55:06,600 --> 00:55:13,279
Speaker 2: Sweet sweet mm hmm, hey ja, I hope you are successful.

946
00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:18,360
Speaker 2: I hope everyone on the podcast today is is greatly

947
00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:23,480
Speaker 2: successful in any and all fighter firefighter becoming endeavors.

948
00:55:23,880 --> 00:55:26,160
Speaker 3: I appreciate that and my birthdays just.

949
00:55:26,120 --> 00:55:28,400
Speaker 2: Pad oh shit, happy birthday, brother.

950
00:55:29,360 --> 00:55:31,560
Speaker 3: Appreciate it. It was on the twenty seven.

951
00:55:31,880 --> 00:55:35,200
Speaker 2: What'd you do for it? Anything fun? Uh?

952
00:55:35,360 --> 00:55:39,400
Speaker 3: Nothing too crazy? No, I just kind of went out

953
00:55:39,440 --> 00:55:42,480
Speaker 3: to dinner you just went out to dinner and I

954
00:55:42,560 --> 00:55:43,320
Speaker 3: had some tequila.

955
00:55:45,200 --> 00:55:49,640
Speaker 2: Not too bad, nothing to anything take much for me.

956
00:55:51,160 --> 00:55:51,760
Speaker 3: I'm sorry.

957
00:55:52,040 --> 00:55:52,720
Speaker 2: No, you go ahead.

958
00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:54,800
Speaker 3: No, I'm just saying it doesn't It doesn't take a

959
00:55:54,840 --> 00:55:58,000
Speaker 3: whole lot for me to know I'm one of those people.

960
00:55:58,000 --> 00:55:59,719
Speaker 3: It doesn't take a whole lot for me to have fun.

961
00:56:00,040 --> 00:56:01,560
Speaker 3: I'm saying, like, it doesn't take a whole lot for

962
00:56:01,600 --> 00:56:03,520
Speaker 3: me to be happy.

963
00:56:04,280 --> 00:56:08,200
Speaker 2: Did you get Did you get sucked up on your birthday?

964
00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:09,279
Speaker 3: I did.

965
00:56:11,160 --> 00:56:13,919
Speaker 2: He's saying it like it's an admission to something.

966
00:56:15,360 --> 00:56:17,759
Speaker 3: I did. No, I did. I did because I told

967
00:56:17,840 --> 00:56:21,520
Speaker 3: myself I would stop drinking because I'm trying to, you know,

968
00:56:21,640 --> 00:56:25,359
Speaker 3: be locked in for this whole process. But I ended

969
00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:28,040
Speaker 3: up getting blasted on my birthday, and then I went

970
00:56:28,080 --> 00:56:30,719
Speaker 3: out to dinner, and then I came home and went

971
00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:35,160
Speaker 3: to sleep. You know, it was it was cool. It is.

972
00:56:35,239 --> 00:56:36,680
Speaker 2: It is pretty fun to get blasted.

973
00:56:38,160 --> 00:56:40,160
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, mhm.

974
00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:41,320
Speaker 2: Is there anything else you want to say to the

975
00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:42,440
Speaker 2: people of the computer before we go?

976
00:56:43,520 --> 00:56:49,759
Speaker 3: Uh? You can do anything you want if you want

977
00:56:49,800 --> 00:56:50,560
Speaker 3: to do it.

978
00:56:50,680 --> 00:56:52,960
Speaker 2: Swag. Thank you.

979
00:56:53,239 --> 00:56:54,200
Speaker 3: I appreciate it talking to me.

980
00:56:54,360 --> 00:56:56,960
Speaker 2: Man, have a good rest of your day, dude.

981
00:56:56,920 --> 00:56:58,280
Speaker 3: Appreciate it Man, you too.

982
00:56:58,800 --> 00:57:05,040
Speaker 2: AJ Forever. That was aj Man. That's crazy. If you

983
00:57:05,120 --> 00:57:10,520
Speaker 2: got two firefighter becoming people, that's what I call someone

984
00:57:10,560 --> 00:57:13,600
Speaker 2: who wants to become a firefighter. Is a firefighter becoming person?

985
00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:21,800
Speaker 2: Two firefighters, one podcast. I hope they both become successful,

986
00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:23,560
Speaker 2: and I hope that they get to take a ride

987
00:57:23,560 --> 00:57:26,160
Speaker 2: around in the truck because it looks fun and you

988
00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:28,280
Speaker 2: can spray people with the hose. I don't think you

989
00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:31,160
Speaker 2: can just spray whoever you want with the hose. I

990
00:57:31,160 --> 00:57:34,160
Speaker 2: think you get fired. If you do that, you'd be

991
00:57:34,200 --> 00:57:44,560
Speaker 2: a fired firefighter. All right, Sorry, hello everyone, It's Lyle

992
00:57:44,880 --> 00:57:48,280
Speaker 2: and this is a segment that I do on the podcast.

993
00:57:48,320 --> 00:57:54,480
Speaker 2: It's called gek Mail and get this. It's when I

994
00:57:54,760 --> 00:58:01,200
Speaker 2: read emails that people have wrote me to the email

995
00:58:01,520 --> 00:58:06,320
Speaker 2: therapy Gecko mail at gmail dot com. We have a

996
00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:11,240
Speaker 2: lot of emails, and I'm gonna read a couple of

997
00:58:11,280 --> 00:58:16,920
Speaker 2: them just to sue this out as we end the

998
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:24,320
Speaker 2: program today, we're gonna read some emails. All right, this

999
00:58:24,360 --> 00:58:29,720
Speaker 2: is from Tiffany subject line They're turning my workplace into

1000
00:58:29,840 --> 00:58:33,720
Speaker 2: a casino. Hey, Gek, I hope this email finds you

1001
00:58:33,840 --> 00:58:39,440
Speaker 2: well and full of taco bell or something you enjoy.

1002
00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:44,640
Speaker 2: I work at a live entertainment venue full time in marketing,

1003
00:58:44,680 --> 00:58:46,800
Speaker 2: and I can honestly say I have my dream job.

1004
00:58:47,280 --> 00:58:50,360
Speaker 2: I've always wanted to work in live music slash entertainment,

1005
00:58:50,640 --> 00:58:52,960
Speaker 2: So when I got the opportunity three years ago, I

1006
00:58:53,080 --> 00:58:55,880
Speaker 2: was stoked and planning on staying here and climbing the

1007
00:58:55,920 --> 00:58:59,040
Speaker 2: ladder to be a general manager. One day, my dreams

1008
00:58:59,080 --> 00:59:03,600
Speaker 2: all came crash ushing down recently when the city that

1009
00:59:03,640 --> 00:59:06,960
Speaker 2: this venue is in that owns the venue. Wait, the

1010
00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:09,440
Speaker 2: city that this venue is in and owns the venue.

1011
00:59:09,520 --> 00:59:14,440
Speaker 2: The city owns the venue. Hold on? Okay, whatever the

1012
00:59:14,520 --> 00:59:17,200
Speaker 2: city is in owns the venue is talking about getting

1013
00:59:17,280 --> 00:59:21,440
Speaker 2: rid of the music venue's entire campus and turning the

1014
00:59:21,480 --> 00:59:25,600
Speaker 2: complex into a casino. Okay, now I'm I don't I

1015
00:59:25,680 --> 00:59:28,720
Speaker 2: the idea of a city owning a music venue. Is

1016
00:59:28,720 --> 00:59:34,160
Speaker 2: that a thing? That's got to be a thing, right anyway?

1017
00:59:34,280 --> 00:59:36,600
Speaker 2: Yeah's that's a thing? Hold on? Is thatther thing? I'm

1018
00:59:36,680 --> 00:59:47,800
Speaker 2: an idiot? Are there city owned music venues? Uh? Okay, yeah,

1019
00:59:47,800 --> 00:59:52,320
Speaker 2: there's plenty, all right, there's several of them. There's cultural institutions. Okay,

1020
00:59:52,320 --> 00:59:55,520
Speaker 2: I'm assuming this is like a cultural institution or something

1021
00:59:55,560 --> 00:59:59,160
Speaker 2: like that they're turning the complex into a casino, which

1022
00:59:59,160 --> 01:00:01,040
Speaker 2: means I would no longer have this job and would

1023
01:00:01,120 --> 01:00:03,600
Speaker 2: potentially have to move and start over in a different

1024
01:00:03,680 --> 01:00:06,760
Speaker 2: music venue hours away, which would be tough because my

1025
01:00:06,880 --> 01:00:10,520
Speaker 2: entire life is here, my family, my serious boyfriend who

1026
01:00:10,520 --> 01:00:12,800
Speaker 2: can't move with me because of his job in this

1027
01:00:12,920 --> 01:00:15,800
Speaker 2: small city that this music venue is in. The city

1028
01:00:15,840 --> 01:00:18,920
Speaker 2: has major money problems and is grasping its straws to

1029
01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:23,000
Speaker 2: recoup this money that was mismanaged years before. I love

1030
01:00:23,080 --> 01:00:26,360
Speaker 2: this city, but there are no opportunities for what I

1031
01:00:26,400 --> 01:00:28,960
Speaker 2: want to do here. I'm pretty torn up about it

1032
01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:31,240
Speaker 2: since it was announced, and although it's something out of

1033
01:00:31,240 --> 01:00:34,520
Speaker 2: my control and not one hundred percent done yet, I

1034
01:00:34,560 --> 01:00:36,320
Speaker 2: can't help but worry and feel like what I do

1035
01:00:36,360 --> 01:00:39,200
Speaker 2: at my job now no longer has any impact, and

1036
01:00:39,320 --> 01:00:42,640
Speaker 2: finding an opportunity somewhere else is going to be extremely competitive.

1037
01:00:43,040 --> 01:00:52,520
Speaker 2: Any advice, Tiffany, hm hmm. I wish I knew what

1038
01:00:52,560 --> 01:00:55,160
Speaker 2: city this was, but I'm just gonna assume it's like

1039
01:00:56,520 --> 01:01:00,480
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna say, if it's some city in buck

1040
01:01:00,520 --> 01:01:02,920
Speaker 2: asss Wyoming or something like that, no offense if you

1041
01:01:02,960 --> 01:01:05,200
Speaker 2: live in buck Ass, Wyoming is that a real city. No,

1042
01:01:05,280 --> 01:01:05,560
Speaker 2: it's not.

1043
01:01:08,040 --> 01:01:08,320
Speaker 3: Hmm.

1044
01:01:09,680 --> 01:01:15,080
Speaker 2: This is a tough one. I mean I think, first

1045
01:01:15,080 --> 01:01:19,040
Speaker 2: of all, as I would, I would figure out why

1046
01:01:19,120 --> 01:01:22,800
Speaker 2: you like this job that's going away. I'm sorry this

1047
01:01:22,880 --> 01:01:26,560
Speaker 2: job is going away. Why did you like it? Why

1048
01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:30,760
Speaker 2: do you like working in live music and entertainment? Why

1049
01:01:30,800 --> 01:01:32,280
Speaker 2: do you like working at this venue?

1050
01:01:32,720 --> 01:01:32,840
Speaker 3: Like?

1051
01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:37,440
Speaker 2: Really, if I were Tiffany, I would like a journal

1052
01:01:37,720 --> 01:01:45,800
Speaker 2: about the answers to those questions, because rarely is there

1053
01:01:46,280 --> 01:01:52,000
Speaker 2: just one thing that tickles our fancy. And if we

1054
01:01:52,240 --> 01:01:54,400
Speaker 2: and if there is just one thing in our brains

1055
01:01:54,400 --> 01:01:57,200
Speaker 2: that tickles our fancy, it tickles our fancy for certain

1056
01:01:57,240 --> 01:02:01,919
Speaker 2: reasons that could very well be applied to a different thing,

1057
01:02:02,160 --> 01:02:09,080
Speaker 2: should this thing no longer be a viable option for us?

1058
01:02:09,120 --> 01:02:12,439
Speaker 2: And so if you are like, well, I like being

1059
01:02:12,480 --> 01:02:14,920
Speaker 2: in a working in a music venue because I like

1060
01:02:17,160 --> 01:02:21,640
Speaker 2: seeing a show get put together, or I like working

1061
01:02:21,680 --> 01:02:26,520
Speaker 2: in music because I like I fucking like music, or

1062
01:02:26,520 --> 01:02:31,560
Speaker 2: whatever it is, if you boil down the reasons why

1063
01:02:31,600 --> 01:02:35,440
Speaker 2: this job was important to you, I don't know what

1064
01:02:35,600 --> 01:02:39,480
Speaker 2: time you live in, and I don't know what opportunities

1065
01:02:39,520 --> 01:02:43,680
Speaker 2: are or are or aren't there. But if you reframe

1066
01:02:44,720 --> 01:02:49,080
Speaker 2: why you like this job, and then you ask yourself again, hey,

1067
01:02:49,120 --> 01:02:54,520
Speaker 2: are there any opportunities in this town that I might

1068
01:02:54,560 --> 01:03:00,400
Speaker 2: be able to to to do. If the answer to

1069
01:03:00,400 --> 01:03:06,439
Speaker 2: that is still no, then I'm like, well, okay, what's

1070
01:03:06,440 --> 01:03:11,800
Speaker 2: the who's this boyfriend? What's his job? Is he so great?

1071
01:03:12,480 --> 01:03:18,960
Speaker 2: Who's your your family? Are they so awesome? You know?

1072
01:03:19,160 --> 01:03:21,600
Speaker 2: How old are you? Are you forty seven? And you

1073
01:03:21,680 --> 01:03:23,880
Speaker 2: really are like, I'm not going to fucking start over.

1074
01:03:24,440 --> 01:03:27,320
Speaker 2: I mean, you can you start over when you're forty seven?

1075
01:03:27,360 --> 01:03:29,120
Speaker 2: Who gives a shit? You can start over. You can

1076
01:03:29,160 --> 01:03:32,040
Speaker 2: do whatever, you can do whatever you want at any time, Tiffany,

1077
01:03:32,200 --> 01:03:38,920
Speaker 2: you whatever you want at any time. So that's my

1078
01:03:39,000 --> 01:03:43,240
Speaker 2: pondering of this is, see if if there are any

1079
01:03:47,040 --> 01:03:50,240
Speaker 2: opportunities in your town, once you boil down the actual

1080
01:03:50,280 --> 01:03:53,080
Speaker 2: reasons why you like the job and and not needing

1081
01:03:53,480 --> 01:03:59,080
Speaker 2: those those inner kind of core desires to have such

1082
01:03:59,120 --> 01:04:03,560
Speaker 2: a rigid four And then also if your family is

1083
01:04:03,960 --> 01:04:08,000
Speaker 2: that great that you can't move, Nothing wrong with starting over,

1084
01:04:08,200 --> 01:04:10,760
Speaker 2: nothing wrong at all with starting over life. It's good

1085
01:04:10,760 --> 01:04:13,560
Speaker 2: when you start over, you know, life should be. It's

1086
01:04:13,600 --> 01:04:20,080
Speaker 2: fun to live multiple lives. I think. Okay. This is

1087
01:04:20,080 --> 01:04:29,160
Speaker 2: from crash subject line porn parodies. Oh shit, this person's email,

1088
01:04:30,520 --> 01:04:33,160
Speaker 2: I don't want to fight out whatever. There's like numbers

1089
01:04:33,160 --> 01:04:36,440
Speaker 2: and whatever in it. But this person's email is a

1090
01:04:36,560 --> 01:04:42,480
Speaker 2: crash bandicouci, which they spelled it differently, so you're not

1091
01:04:42,480 --> 01:04:44,600
Speaker 2: gonna be able to end. There's numbers and letters and

1092
01:04:44,640 --> 01:04:52,120
Speaker 2: symbols and shit, but crash bandicoucci is a great email. Okay, Hey, Gag,

1093
01:04:52,120 --> 01:04:54,080
Speaker 2: I've been listening to your podcast since two thousand and

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Speaker 2: one and I love the show. I'm noticing an uptick

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Speaker 2: and talk about porn parodies, and I was wondering if

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Speaker 2: you've seen this one enjoy and there's a link. There's

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Speaker 2: a link here to e Porner dot com. Should I

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Speaker 2: click on it? Fuck it? Okay?

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Speaker 1: This is.

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Speaker 2: What is this? Princess Leah sucks a dick and then

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Speaker 2: is fucked by a spaceman and then two brunettes have

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Speaker 2: lesbian sex. Okay, Oh holy wait, this one's kind of cool.

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Speaker 2: Oh shit, what the fuck they have? Great dude, Greedo

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Speaker 2: is in this. He Greto is in this and he's

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Speaker 2: just like a CGI Greedo. Well, does Greto have sex? No,

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Speaker 2: Greedo gets shot? Yeah, okay, Grido got shot, So he's

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Speaker 2: not having sex with anyone. But this is real, this

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Speaker 2: is produced really well, what is it's called? If search

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Speaker 2: up Wicked Pictures porn parody? They have like actual CGI

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Speaker 2: going on here, Wicked Pictures, Star Wars porn parody. You

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Speaker 2: know what, I don't get what like, dude, I don't

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Speaker 2: know about you guys, but like my like sex horny

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Speaker 2: brain and my like sitting down to watch a movie

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Speaker 2: brain are very different brains. I never understood what the

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Speaker 2: appeal is of porn parodies, right, Like, it's like I

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Speaker 2: don't like. I guess they're supposed to be kind of funny,

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Speaker 2: but like, my sex isn't like I don't know, like

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Speaker 2: when you're and I'm not talking about like sex as

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Speaker 2: a con sex as a concept is funny, but like

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Speaker 2: when you're really into it, it's not like I don't

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Speaker 2: feel like it's humorous. You know, it's like a very

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Speaker 2: not humorous part of the brain. So why is there

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Speaker 2: all these like sex parodies? I guess I get it

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Speaker 2: if it's it's like okay, you like people have a

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Speaker 2: crush on Princess Leia or Marge Simpson or whatever, and

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Speaker 2: they want to see her have sex. But a lot

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Speaker 2: of these, a lot of these parodies seem like they're unnecessary. Okay,

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Speaker 2: thanks for sharing that. Crash BANDICOOCI. Now crash BANDICOOCI. That

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Speaker 2: is a porn parody that I would watch.

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Speaker 1: All right?

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Speaker 2: Uh okay, this is from Ken subject line come to

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Speaker 2: the Nassau Reptile Expo. Yo, what the fuck? Hold on? Hello, Gek,

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Speaker 2: my name is Kevin. We spoke a few months ago.

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Speaker 2: I discovered there was a reptile expo going on in

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Speaker 2: Nassau County on Long Island, not too far from New

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Speaker 2: York City, and my friends and I are going to

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Speaker 2: go hang out with reptile enthusiasts. I love reptiles, but

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Speaker 2: I can't afford to own one since I'm still in school.

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Speaker 2: So I'm getting a fix from this. I'm getting my

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Speaker 2: fix from this. You should totally pull up. It seems

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Speaker 2: like a cool vibe. Tickets are six teen bucks. That's honest.

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Speaker 2: Sixteen dollars is a great value ticket for anything, and

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Speaker 2: you can get them here. Oh crap, all right, it's

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Speaker 2: this weekend the Nasau Reptile Expo. I'm gonna be totally honest.

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Speaker 2: I don't think I'm gonna go all the way to

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Speaker 2: Nassau to attend this. It would be kind of cute

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Speaker 2: to do a video. It would be cute to do

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Speaker 2: a video there. It would be cute to do a

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Speaker 2: reptile You know what it is is it would be

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Speaker 2: cute to do a video at a reptile expo. And

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Speaker 2: I also, just as a human being, would enjoy going

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Speaker 2: to a reptile expo. That sounds fun, But I such

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Speaker 2: so little of my gecko existence is like, actually about geckos.

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Speaker 2: That's all the way in Nassau on a Saturday. I

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Speaker 2: don't want to.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Actually, I mean the days of the week. I guess,

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Speaker 2: who gives a fuck? Hosted by Uncle Tony's Reptile Show.

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Speaker 2: Let me read the schedule. What's on the schedule. Okay,

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Speaker 2: wait a minute, wait wait wait, Okay, there's another. Okay,

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Speaker 2: there's another rep Nasau Reptile Expo. They do it three

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Speaker 2: times a year. Okay, I'll go to the next one,

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Speaker 2: June thirteenth, twenty twenty six. I'll try to go to

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Speaker 2: that one. There's no frequently asked questions. Let's see, Uh,

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Speaker 2: what the heck is a reptile expo? A reptile Expo

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Speaker 2: is a one stop experience for anyone with an interest

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Speaker 2: in reptiles, amphibians, plants, or invertebrates. It's an exciting experience

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Speaker 2: for families and seasoned reptile hobbyists alike. Dude, this is

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Speaker 2: the kind of shit where I wish I had a kid,

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Speaker 2: because I was like, like, I would take I would

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Speaker 2: take like a five year old to the Nasau Reptile Expo.

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Speaker 2: That's that sounds pretty awesome. Or I'd go myself. I

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Speaker 2: don't know anyway, Thanks for sharing that, Ken, I appreciate you.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate all of you guys. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 2: this podca Yes, thanks for uh, thanks for being a friend.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to the show. My name is Lyle

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Speaker 2: I dressed. I dress up as a gecko and I

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Speaker 2: talk to people on the phone about life and I

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Speaker 2: make documentaries. I'm working on the Ukraine one. I think

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Speaker 2: it should be done hopefully in the next month or so.

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Speaker 2: We shall see. I'm going on tour soon Therapy Gecko

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Speaker 2: Tour at gmail dot com. Some of the dates have

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Speaker 2: tickets available right now. Some I don't have the ticket

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Speaker 2: links for just yet, but you can rs VP and

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Speaker 2: I will text you when I do, and I will

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Speaker 2: never text you ever again. I just for that one thing.

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Speaker 2: I will not spam you or know you. I don't

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Speaker 2: do that. So yeah, go to therapy, Gecko tour dot com,

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Speaker 2: eat a piece of salmon, try not to kill yourself,

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Speaker 2: play a play a game on your phone, watch a

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Speaker 2: YouTube video, rink a diet coke, and live your life.

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Speaker 2: Try your best. Everything's gonna be fine, probably for someone

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Speaker 2: at least. Ghak bless you guys, have a good day

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Speaker 2: until next time goes on the line taking your phone calls.

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Speaker 3: Every night.

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Speaker 2: Deacon goes to Ye's teaching you aloud in the mind

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Speaker 2: of your life, but he's not really an expert.