WEBVTT - “I ESCAPED DARK TIMES” 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:01.480 Hello. How's it going, Lyle? 0:00:01.560 --> 0:00:02.960 It's going good? Man? How are you? 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:05.800 I'm doing good. I'm I'm at work right now and 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.840 it's pretty slow. We're just back here cleaning party equipment. 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:13.400 Uh, you're cleaning party equipment. 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:20.800 Yes, I work for a rental company. H I mean 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:23.239 we usually do. I'm usually on the equipment side, but 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:27.160 things definitely slow down in the winter. So I thought 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:30.960 you were taking calls and looks like I got through. 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:32.760 I'm pretty I'm pretty shooking up right now. 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:37.879 Honestly, what is the party equipment that you are cleaning? 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:41.680 Are you cleaning like a mechanical bull? Are you cleaning 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:45.040 a DJ boot set? What are you cleaning? 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:45.239 Right? 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:47.800 Are you cleaning a birthday cake? What are you cleaning? 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:55.800 It's resin chairs that people sit on. It's it's pretty handy, Honestly, 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:57.520 I like them. 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:00.400 Do you ever just sit in the chairs because you 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:02.880 can because they're in front of you. 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:07.520 Yeah, all the time. I'll eat lunch on them, and 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:11.760 fucking rad that's badass. 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:20.880 What's your name, Zachary, Zachary, Zachary, Zachary, Zachary. What brings 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:23.760 you to call the Gecko Show today? Zachary? 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:28.319 So I've been listening for a couple of years now, 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:33.640 and in my time listening, I got I struggled with 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:38.319 addiction for a couple of years. I'm a recovering drug 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:42.560 addict and alcoholic, and I wanted to see if I 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:47.360 can kind of share my struggles and share my story 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:50.000 with you and ponder with you on some things and 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:54.680 how far I've came, because I kind of came from 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:57.520 some dark areas in my life as of very recently, 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:03.600 and I went to rehab eight months ago and things 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:04.160 have changed. 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:10.000 I'll let you have the floor. Man, it sounds like 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.000 you have a particular arc you want to share. 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:17.840 Yeah, So, I mean sorry, I'm headed to the break room. 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:20.160 My boss was giving me the green light there. But 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:25.120 so when I was I grew up and I kind 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:28.760 of troubled home. Both of my parents are drug addicts. 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:31.640 Their primary drug of choice is meth, and uh, I 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:34.280 grew up in a pretty abusive home and I didn't 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:39.200 realize how much that kind of fucked with me, you know, 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:43.080 until I got a bit older. When I was in treatment, 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:49.680 I actually got diagnosed with PTSD, which shook me up 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:52.320 quite a bit when I was in there, because I mean, 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:56.600 there's definitely a stigma around that that I thought of that. 0:02:56.760 --> 0:03:00.079 I mean, you know, I didn't. I didn't think of 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:07.720 voibeling myself that way. And as I sorry, man, I'm 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:08.600 just a little nervous. 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:11.400 You're doing You're doing fine. 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:11.600 Man. 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:18.679 As I got older, I think I was twelve when 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:23.760 I had my first drink, and I got really wrapped 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:27.880 up in the crowd was like skateboarding, and the exposed 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:32.080 me to a lot of other things. Stuff started escalating, 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:36.720 and for a while it was just alcohol and cannabis 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:42.360 and weed actually was my primary drug a choice. I 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:48.520 was finishing a teach see cartridge within a few hours. 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:50.800 I could finish two a day by the time I 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:55.600 was like sixteen, and that started creating some pretty scary 0:03:56.440 --> 0:04:00.600 health issues in my life. Even at that age, my 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:04.800 time perception and like my thought processes started changing. 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:05.720 It felt like. 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:11.480 It was pretty extreme, Like my IQ had a significant 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:15.520 drop after Like some vendors you were, you. 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:18.120 Were ripping an entire cart a. 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:22.680 Day, Yeah, yeah, sometimes sometimes two. Once I got a 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:23.960 little bit, you have. 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:26.279 To how much do you have to smoke to rip 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:28.400 an entire cart a day? 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:32.800 It was, I mean I would just go until I 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:36.000 passed out. There's a certain point I would get to 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:42.240 where like I just wouldn't feel any any more high, 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:47.839 I guess, but it was like it it was pretty bad, man. 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:50.479 I mean I got myself when you're sixteen. 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:53.760 I'm nineteen now, oh you're. 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:56.080 Nineteen that well okay, yeah yeah, so this is when 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:57.200 you were sixteen. 0:04:57.920 --> 0:04:58.800 Yeah yeah. 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:02.039 And then uh, I mean it just kept getting worse. 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:02.240 Man. 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:06.520 I started going to trap houses and got wrapped up 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:08.600 in a party crowd. And I would go to raise 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:13.479 and so I started getting wrapped up in harder drugs, 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:18.680 and I was I got wrapped up felling drugs and 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:24.520 making money that way. And I was constantly driving around 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:28.279 drunk or high. And my dad started catching on like 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:30.880 I would. I shared a room with my younger brother 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:32.840 and he saw me passed out all the time, you know. 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:38.000 And I stopped showing up to school because this was 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:42.600 my senior year that I'm talking about now, before I graduated. 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:46.720 That's when it was probably at its worse, and I 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:52.000 was just I did not really care for my life anymore. 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:56.680 I was just kind of throwing things away. And it 0:05:56.720 --> 0:06:00.560 got to a point where I brought myself. I was 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:03.520 getting so fucked up that every after every bender, there 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:07.960 was like a very very noticeable, like cognitive decline, and 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:15.280 I started getting pretty pretty extreme withdrawal. I would wake 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:18.400 up thrown up every morning and they're I mean, I'd. 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:21.160 Just fucking horrible. 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:21.680 It was. 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:27.160 I'd wake up shitting myself and like, there's it's shit. 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:29.920 I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. Really, Like it's 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:34.200 it's a really scary point to be in where instead 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:37.680 of just like getting high, it's getting yourself normal. You know, 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:40.279 just to be able to function, you gotta put some 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:41.320 chemicals in your body. 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:44.320 It's like it's a scary place to be. 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:48.799 And at a certain point I ran out of money 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:50.880 and I was just about to graduate. 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:51.520 This was. 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:59.320 Just in June, and I I couldn't finish a sentence. 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:03.080 It was just like I knew at that point I 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:05.480 wasn't gonna be able to finish school. My grades were 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:08.120 still fine, my attendance was bad, but I was able 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:10.640 to I had a pretty solid GPA. It was like 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:14.360 three point five. I just got my schoolwork in and 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:17.160 I knew I was going to make a past finals. 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:20.400 And there was some other things that were going on 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:24.080 were really fucking with me and the withdrawals and everything, 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:27.000 and I was I was at the point where I 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:29.640 was so fed up with myself and some other shit 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:32.280 I was dealing with at the time, along with addiction, 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:35.600 that it was either going to be I get sober 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:42.720 or you know, I kicked the bucket, and then I 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:45.120 with having that thought like that I was planning on 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:45.920 killing myself. 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:46.600 I was just. 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:53.120 I knew I had to talk to somebody. So I'm 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:59.720 very very fortunate that my grandparents. I mean, my parents 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:01.920 are not really somebody I would want to go to 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:06.520 because they're not really they're they're not very functional people. 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:11.760 But I got them to send me to rehab about 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:17.040 eight months ago. I went through. I went through treatment, 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:22.160 and honestly, it was it was definitely the best decision 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:25.560 I've ever made. I've made some of I mean, there's 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:29.000 there's a lot of hard things that happened in there, 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:31.280 but some of the best memories I've had were in there. 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:37.360 I was eighteen then, and they put me in leadership 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:39.160 towards the end of I stayed there, so the last 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:44.720 two weeks, I was running all the meetings like an 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:49.520 a meetings, get up in the morning and do the 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:54.439 little morning routines, get everybody ready and do the AA 0:08:54.679 --> 0:09:03.600 readings and whatnot. Yeah, I graduated rehab and got back 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:07.200 to work. I got really lucky. My my boss sent 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:08.520 me to school to go to CDL. 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:11.880 Did that. 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:18.160 Now I have a damn good job security. Now I'm 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:21.480 living out on my own with my roommate. It's one 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:23.760 of my best friends, Jamie. He's helped me a lot 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:27.840 through a lot of things too. And yeah, man, I 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:31.559 now at the point I am in my life. It's 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:35.280 probably the most fulfilling I've ever had it be. And 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:41.120 it's I was doing kind of a quick summary. There's 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:45.760 a lot more I can talk about, but that I 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:49.120 think that's kind of where I can let you put 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:50.880 in some input if you want to go any further 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:51.600 into anything. 0:09:52.559 --> 0:10:02.360 My man, goddamn, So you're nineteen, yeah man, And so 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:04.000 you're you're sober now? 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:05.560 Yeah? 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:07.680 Yeah, eight months cool. 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:13.200 Very cool. Congratulations man, Congratulations, you're a you're a hardened 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:17.280 You're you're a you're a real hardened veteran of this 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:18.480 crazy world we live in. 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:23.600 Yeah, man, I could tell you some stories that I'm 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:27.880 sure I grew up. My parents were. My mom had 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:31.199 some mental health issues that I kind of had to 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:34.120 step up while growing up, and I did a good 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:36.840 part of reasing my little brothers seven years younger than me. 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:38.800 So I matured a lot in that. 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:44.360 Yeah yeah, so yeah, I mean I got a lot 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:50.200 of things. So you got a CDL. Can you say 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:51.480 what that stands for? 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:54.840 A commercial driver's license? 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:55.440 Though? 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:59.960 I got a Class B. So I drive a rollback truck. 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:02.719 I uh, it's it's kind of like a tot I 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:05.440 think it is a tow truck. But I deliver excavation equipment, 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:11.920 like for construction excavators, telehandler's worklifts, et cetera. It's a 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:16.000 fun job. I actually I really enjoy it. In the future, 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:20.480 I have aspirations of giving a firefighter eventually, but I 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:24.120 gotta I gotta fulfill three years here. They paid for 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:27.160 my school and everything, so m hm. 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:32.400 And what's your relationship like with your grandparents? 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:36.160 Very good, especially since I got sober before I went 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:40.880 to treatment. They, I mean, they knew I was struggling. 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:43.640 I think they thought it was more mental health stuff 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:46.280 along with other things, because they knew how crazy my 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:49.840 mom was. They she's done a number on sucking up 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:52.600 a lot of my family's lives and she abandoned me 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:54.320 and my brother when we were a lot younger, so 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:59.120 I got closer to them then, and so towards the 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:00.760 end of my reign in the aiction, they saw me 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:05.320 more and more fucked up. And I think that they 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:07.880 my dad when he was fourteen, he started using maths, 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:10.240 so they've been through it before. But I think they 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:11.840 were kind of wanting I was still living with my 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:13.880 dad at the time. They were still wanting my dad 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:17.040 to kind of be able to handle things or let 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:20.160 him do things because he's sober off of myth. Now 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:24.760 he's an alcoholic but functioning, So they they trusted him 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:28.040 to do what he wanted to do with it. They 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:31.600 wanted to allow him to keep his boundaries and let 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:34.120 him parent me, but he just kind of I mean, 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:37.600 I was, I was out of control. So eventually I 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:40.920 had to I mean, that's really what it takes to 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:42.600 get so over. You got to really fucking want it, man, 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:49.520 no matter what anybody tells you, it's just denial and destruction. 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:57.679 H Do you do you have friends acquaintances? 0:12:57.960 --> 0:12:58.200 I have? 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:00.480 I have, I have a couple close friends. 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:03.719 Yeah. And where are they from? Like not like like 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:05.040 where are they from? In your life. 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:11.920 So Jamie my roommate. I met him when I started 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:13.839 working at the place I'm at now. I've actually been 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:21.880 working with this rental company for coming on four years. 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:24.240 But I mean it was when I was in high 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:26.440 school and then when I they took me back after 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:28.280 I got back from treatment. So I've known him for 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:33.000 about four years now. And then I have my buddy 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:36.560 Leonard very close with him. He's he's kind of always 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:39.520 been by my side through a lot. I always have 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:43.400 him to talk to. He's I got close with him. 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:47.160 I did powerlifting in high school. I've always been really 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:51.240 into well. When I was in middle school, I was 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:56.959 I was obese, and uh, I lost a ship ton 0:13:56.960 --> 0:14:00.400 of weight. I got, I mean pretty underweight. I developed 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:03.920 an eating disorder and then I from there eventually tried 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:06.080 to work on it. There's a lot of struggles with that, 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:09.800 but I got really into fitness. And he's kind of 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:10.640 the Jim Bro. 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:15.600 Cool Yeah you need that. This is like getting Yeah, 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:19.240 doing all that ship alone is just sucks compared to 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:21.320 I mean, it's it is what it is. I'm not 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:23.520 gonna say it sucks, but doing all that ship with 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:27.680 a bro is uh, you know, is a lead. It 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:29.840 makes it so much better to have someone else trying to, 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:32.000 you know, be on the same journey as you. 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:36.280 It is yeah, yeah, I mean I go to I 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:39.520 go to meetings and stuff I don't I don't do 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:45.560 a regularly. I go to a place called I'm not 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:47.200 I don't think this is gonna be docs in myself. 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:50.320 It's it's in Washington. It's called the Recovery Cafe. I 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:53.040 don't know if they have, I say've expanded outside of Washington, 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:58.280 but it's a city funded area where we all just 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:01.480 go and do our shares and it's a good community there. 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:04.240 Do that once a week and then that's kind of 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:06.080 the main meeting I go to for now. That's a 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:09.360 good place for keeping in my recovery. 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:15.400 How's how's your sort of relationship with your health now? 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:17.920 Because it sounds like you like kind of did a 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:20.000 lot of flip flopping and had it kind of on 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:21.800 a roller coaster vibe. How is it now? 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:27.000 I have been fucking locked in with I mean, I'm 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:29.920 losing I'm losing weight right now. I got I put 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:31.720 on a good amount of weight when I got first 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:35.080 got sober. I mean in the last two months, I'm 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:41.240 down thirty pounds and I've been really working on getting 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:46.200 my lists up and sweet. I've been eating clean. Man, 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:47.680 this is the cleanness I've ever eaten in my life. 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:49.160 I'm actually pretty proud of myself. 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:51.480 What's a clean eating day look like for you? 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:55.920 I kinda, I mean I eat the same things every day. Really, 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:59.400 I likely eat chicken and fish and freak yogurt and 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:07.920 rice and rice cakes. That's usually That's usually my my 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:08.560 daily feed. 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:14.880 And do you have friends where you work? 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:16.880 Oh? 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:20.240 Yeah, yeah, I was just I mean my coworker, Quileab 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:22.560 I was talking to while I was trying to get 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:27.240 on get on with you, right. I got a lot 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:29.720 of good guys here. I like all of them. 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:32.760 That's that's the one of the most important things in life. 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:37.760 I'm I'm sorry to hear that. Uh, things are a 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:40.840 little crazy with your parents, but it sounds like you 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:47.400 do have a good community of other people to interface 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:50.120 with on a day to day basis. So I'm glad 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:50.600 to hear that. 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:53.760 You ran. 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:57.720 You ran through it a little bit like finishing school 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:01.760 and whatnot. What are you what are your aspirations for 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:02.320 the future. 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.720 I'd want to stay sober for the rest of my life. 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:10.240 I mean, I'm kind of still trying to figure that out. Man. 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:14.520 I do the things I like to do, and I 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:16.600 kind of just let things go as I think they 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:19.240 should as long as I stay doing the right thing. 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:25.159 I just try to keep myself occupied and not fucking 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:28.680 just dopamine max if you will. 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:30.679 Try to. 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:34.479 I don't know, man, I, like I said, I have 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:37.600 I eventually want to become firefighter one day, but that 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:44.399 could change. I'd like to get super jacked and ripped 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:49.280 one day, which I am in the progress of doing, 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:55.959 in the process of doing. And shit, I don't know. 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:58.239 I mean, I have a family one day. I don't know. 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:03.479 All good stuff, all good stuff. That's a lot. That's honestly, 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:08.080 that's a full plate of aspirations. Considering where you're at. 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:12.600 That's pretty good man. Mmm, so so you you not 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:15.439 only correct me if I heard this wrong, but you 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:19.040 not only attend the meetings, you help run them. 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:25.040 I did when I was in rehab. They I mean, 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:27.560 when I was in there, I was kind of one 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:30.800 of the more responsible people, if you will. There's there's 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:35.399 a pretty crazy, crazy jumble of guys and girls that 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:37.920 they put in there. But when I was in there too. 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:41.880 There was some like fuck up they had where they 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:44.679 weren't This place I went to was for profit. It 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:47.600 wasn't a nonprofit. I don't know if rehabs are always 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:51.959 like that, but they weren't getting revenue for about like 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:54.000 six months before I got in there, and they had 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:58.040 just found that out right when I got admitted to 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:00.879 getting in there. So they started letting people in and 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:05.240 it was pretty overfilled. So there's a lot of shit 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:09.520 that was going on that was going under the radar 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:12.760 that shouldn't have been happening. But that honestly made it 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:16.240 for a pretty fun experience in some regards. Some regard 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:18.520 it made it a little scary, which I'm sure you 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:26.679 can understand why. I mean, now, I just I just 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:31.080 go and listen and talk and do that for an 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:33.159 hour once a week, and then I go home and 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:35.240 ponder on my life. 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:40.480 So what is home like? Not the location, but are 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:44.359 you dealer alone? Do you live with grandparents? Your roommates? 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:50.719 So I have an apartment. It's a one bedroom apartment 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:53.000 that I have with a roommate. I just live in 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:58.280 the living room and we actually we just started. We 0:19:58.359 --> 0:19:59.760 have we have a good amount of space in there 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:01.639 and we made it work pretty well. We got a 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:04.000 storage container to put a bunch of shit in because 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:08.119 it was getting kind of difficult with all the stuff 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:09.600 that we have and what we're trying to do now. 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:14.560 But we just started a like retro gaming collection me 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:16.280 and my roommate that we're putting together. 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:22.040 Dude, forget about dude, forget about all the rehab and 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:24.280 drug stuff you buried the lead. This is what I 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:28.679 want to talk about for the next entire duration of 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:32.080 this podcast. No, that's fucking awesome, dude, what what? 0:20:32.320 --> 0:20:32.760 Uh? 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:38.880 What? What kind of retro games? Are you a Nintendo guy? 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:40.720 So I am? 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:42.919 I am a Nintender guy. We don't have any the 0:20:43.040 --> 0:20:46.720 fucking retro and Nintendo consoles. The games are expensive as fuck, man, 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:50.000 They're like all the games I want majorities of mask 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:53.400 It's like one hundred and fifty. I mean I've spent 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:55.159 I spent a good money amount of money on some 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:58.800 of these, Like I have a we have a PlayStation one. 0:20:59.000 --> 0:21:03.160 That's the collection I'm only working on right now. Probably 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:04.680 the coolest thing I have on that. I don't know 0:21:04.720 --> 0:21:09.040 if you're familiar with Salmon Hill, but that that's pretty rare. 0:21:09.119 --> 0:21:11.520 The one that I have. I bought it for I 0:21:11.560 --> 0:21:13.600 think it was around two fifty and if I were 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:16.119 to resell it it goes around, I could get I 0:21:16.119 --> 0:21:18.000 could make some good money off of it. I'm never 0:21:18.000 --> 0:21:20.280 selling any of this ship, dude. It's priceless to me. 0:21:21.560 --> 0:21:25.560 Yeah, fucking I'm not a I'm not a big PlayStation guy, 0:21:26.359 --> 0:21:28.600 but uh so I don't know, Summitt Hill, but I'm 0:21:28.640 --> 0:21:31.280 a big Nintendo dude. 0:21:32.960 --> 0:21:36.560 What's your uh, what's your favorite Nintendo game of all time? 0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:38.000 Out of any out of any era? 0:21:38.520 --> 0:21:43.040 Super Smash Brothers Melee for the Nintendo GameCube? Easy call? 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:46.040 That makes sense from what you used to compete, right. 0:21:46.640 --> 0:21:48.679 Yeah, yeah, I still I haven't. I haven't played in 0:21:48.680 --> 0:21:50.520 like a tournament in a long time, but I still 0:21:50.560 --> 0:21:53.840 I have like a deep love for that game and 0:21:53.880 --> 0:21:58.000 that uh tournament community. But wait, what year were you born? 0:22:00.040 --> 0:22:00.960 Two thousand and six? 0:22:01.520 --> 0:22:07.879 Two thousand and six, So your first console, well, you 0:22:07.920 --> 0:22:10.240 were born right around the time the Wei came out, 0:22:10.960 --> 0:22:13.199 and then you had to you had to develop a 0:22:13.200 --> 0:22:15.440 little bit as a human being before you could hold 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:17.080 a thing. What was so, what was the first video 0:22:17.119 --> 0:22:18.040 game console you played? 0:22:19.600 --> 0:22:20.880 The the Wi? 0:22:21.160 --> 0:22:21.520 That was? 0:22:21.600 --> 0:22:26.520 That was I had we sports Twilight Princess. 0:22:27.320 --> 0:22:29.840 All of them, dude. I mean I was I was 0:22:29.920 --> 0:22:33.000 really young when I played Twilet Princess. But I think 0:22:33.080 --> 0:22:36.320 my favorite favorite games on the Wii was Super Mario 0:22:36.400 --> 0:22:41.800 Yalax two. Yeah and yeah, I got to replay Twilight Princess. 0:22:41.880 --> 0:22:45.720 I've revisited all the big Zelda titles, all the big 0:22:45.720 --> 0:22:50.359 Mario titles. I'm a huge as all the fan there's 0:22:51.080 --> 0:22:53.040 I got to get started on a Nintendo collection, dude. 0:22:53.040 --> 0:22:54.960 That's it's just expensive. 0:22:55.400 --> 0:22:58.320 I yeah, yeah, Nintenda shit is expensive. I've been ripping 0:22:58.359 --> 0:23:00.240 it on the switch. They re really I don't know 0:23:00.240 --> 0:23:02.120 if this is interesting to anyone at all, but I'm 0:23:02.320 --> 0:23:06.240 still going to talk about it. They re released Mario 0:23:06.320 --> 0:23:09.240 Galaxy one and two on the switch, so I've just 0:23:09.240 --> 0:23:13.359 been ripping them on the subway. It's so awesome. Uh yeah, dude, 0:23:13.400 --> 0:23:14.919 I like, I don't know, I don't know if I've 0:23:14.920 --> 0:23:18.760 talked about this before, but like I'm at a point 0:23:18.760 --> 0:23:23.000 in life right now where, fuck man, like the whole 0:23:23.000 --> 0:23:25.760 thing of like discovering your inner like not discovering like 0:23:25.760 --> 0:23:28.920 like being in contact with your inner child. Dude, all 0:23:28.960 --> 0:23:32.840 the shit in the universe. I mean I like life. 0:23:33.080 --> 0:23:35.600 I'm actually feeling like pretty good and gentle man. I 0:23:35.600 --> 0:23:38.040 have problems like everyone else does, but like I'm not 0:23:38.280 --> 0:23:43.800 you know, in uh some crazy existential depression modes that 0:23:43.840 --> 0:23:46.040 I've been in the past. Life's pretty good. But still 0:23:47.640 --> 0:23:51.800 but still, I have a thing where just when I 0:23:52.000 --> 0:23:58.159 see Mario, I'm just like, I feel so safe. I 0:23:58.359 --> 0:24:01.399 just feel so safe when I look at his face. 0:24:02.240 --> 0:24:05.840 He's just it's just the most pure I remember being 0:24:07.080 --> 0:24:09.600 like it just brings me back to being a kid. 0:24:09.680 --> 0:24:14.320 And you don't, you don't know all the crazy things 0:24:15.000 --> 0:24:17.320 you know, And I'm I'm I'm happy to I don't. 0:24:17.359 --> 0:24:19.119 You don't you don't want to stay that way. You 0:24:19.280 --> 0:24:21.160 I think it's good to know all the crazy things. 0:24:21.480 --> 0:24:26.760 But you just when Mario's around and you're jumping through 0:24:27.080 --> 0:24:31.840 colorful lands, I'm just like, fuck, man, this is forget 0:24:31.840 --> 0:24:33.960 about anything else, you know what I mean? 0:24:36.160 --> 0:24:39.200 For real, dude, he's a beautiful man. 0:24:39.640 --> 0:24:42.919 He's a beautiful man. He's really he's a he's a 0:24:42.960 --> 0:24:46.160 real hero. What's your favorite video game of all time? 0:24:48.320 --> 0:24:52.200 The legend is Elda Majora's Mask never played the made 0:24:52.200 --> 0:24:55.840 In my opinion, you have to, dude, it's a fucking incredible, 0:24:56.000 --> 0:24:56.760 incredible game. 0:24:58.720 --> 0:25:03.439 So you have one roommate, yes, sir, And how do 0:25:03.520 --> 0:25:04.359 you know him? Again? 0:25:06.119 --> 0:25:08.919 Through work? He kind of got me my job actually 0:25:09.080 --> 0:25:13.159 is through I met him through his brother because we 0:25:13.200 --> 0:25:17.200 were friends in school, and then he his brother told 0:25:17.240 --> 0:25:19.800 me to get him my job I have now, And 0:25:19.840 --> 0:25:22.359 then that worked out very well because it supports my 0:25:22.480 --> 0:25:24.240 life and I could go to the gym and eat 0:25:24.280 --> 0:25:27.679 a lot of food and live and buy video games. 0:25:28.760 --> 0:25:29.040 Cool. 0:25:29.080 --> 0:25:31.600 Man, I'm glad you didn't kill yourself. Man, You've got 0:25:31.640 --> 0:25:32.200 a good life. 0:25:33.720 --> 0:25:34.040 I am. 0:25:34.280 --> 0:25:37.760 I think myself every day for the path I'm on 0:25:37.800 --> 0:25:43.000 now because it's it's incredible. Man. It's it's scary where 0:25:43.920 --> 0:25:46.800 I have brought myself, and it's scary where a lot 0:25:46.800 --> 0:25:50.280 of people can just go wrong and things can kind 0:25:50.280 --> 0:25:54.360 of get disastrous. I am very grateful for the life 0:25:54.400 --> 0:25:54.919 I have today. 0:25:55.880 --> 0:26:00.280 Well yeah, man, I mean shit, you're your folks uh 0:26:00.720 --> 0:26:04.960 being addicts like is uh that's a tough thing. It's like, uh, 0:26:06.240 --> 0:26:10.160 it's like a handicap on life. You know who so much? Dude, 0:26:10.200 --> 0:26:12.240 It's you know, it's crazy as I'm always thinking about 0:26:12.280 --> 0:26:17.040 this shit about like uh I think, dude, I'm very 0:26:17.160 --> 0:26:22.080 this is like a whole uh determinism versus agency thing. 0:26:22.400 --> 0:26:26.720 It's always better, it's always better to believe in agency, right, 0:26:27.240 --> 0:26:29.480 But even agency that you could go and there's a 0:26:29.720 --> 0:26:31.600 there's like an infinite mirror thing where you're like, well, 0:26:31.600 --> 0:26:34.600 how much of agency is deterministic? Blah blah blah. But 0:26:37.040 --> 0:26:39.840 it is interesting how much of your life is influenced 0:26:39.880 --> 0:26:43.919 by where you are born and who you are born to, 0:26:46.920 --> 0:26:51.800 and yet people are able to make it so far 0:26:52.680 --> 0:26:57.560 in their own direction regardless of those things. I always 0:26:57.600 --> 0:27:03.080 find that very amazing because it's so impactful who you're 0:27:03.119 --> 0:27:05.160 born to and where you where you're born. 0:27:05.600 --> 0:27:05.800 You know. 0:27:08.240 --> 0:27:12.880 So yeah, so I I continue from making your own 0:27:12.920 --> 0:27:14.600 path in life. I think you're doing great. 0:27:16.040 --> 0:27:16.399 Thank you. 0:27:16.720 --> 0:27:20.080 Yeah, there was there was a lot of troubles that happened. 0:27:20.119 --> 0:27:20.239 Man. 0:27:20.280 --> 0:27:24.280 I mean my mom, she she, I mean my dad. 0:27:24.720 --> 0:27:26.760 I'm very grateful for him because he was still able 0:27:26.760 --> 0:27:29.320 to take care for me, care of me. But my 0:27:29.400 --> 0:27:32.080 mom growing up, she was just like a fucking villain. 0:27:32.119 --> 0:27:32.280 Man. 0:27:32.359 --> 0:27:35.760 She stole my first couple of paychecks. She like, it 0:27:35.800 --> 0:27:39.480 was very I mean just very abusive and growing up 0:27:39.520 --> 0:27:43.520 and then now now now ever, since I got into treatment, 0:27:44.640 --> 0:27:47.879 I have blocked a number. I mean, she's homeless now 0:27:48.040 --> 0:27:49.919 and it's a lot harder for her to get to me. 0:27:50.000 --> 0:27:52.399 But when she still had a car and like I 0:27:52.560 --> 0:27:56.000 was able to get to places, it was just she 0:27:56.160 --> 0:27:58.960 was everything behind her path would fucking fall apart. 0:27:59.000 --> 0:27:59.160 Man. 0:27:59.400 --> 0:28:02.280 It was a are grown up with that, And now 0:28:02.359 --> 0:28:07.400 that I'm kind of free of that and addiction, it's 0:28:07.440 --> 0:28:11.680 been able to allow myself to grow so much and 0:28:11.760 --> 0:28:16.640 to build the path where I really feel fulfilled and 0:28:17.720 --> 0:28:20.000 kind of that same thing. It's just that you were 0:28:20.000 --> 0:28:24.800 saying earlier, it's I'm happy that you are out of that, 0:28:24.920 --> 0:28:27.560 you know, depression and what was it? 0:28:27.600 --> 0:28:29.040 How do you say? Existentialism? 0:28:29.880 --> 0:28:32.439 Something like that, something like that, something like that. 0:28:32.600 --> 0:28:36.040 Yeah, it's just being the best that you can be 0:28:36.520 --> 0:28:37.560 every day and showing up. 0:28:37.600 --> 0:28:37.760 Man. 0:28:37.840 --> 0:28:41.360 It's it's not fucking easy, but if you do it 0:28:41.400 --> 0:28:43.800 for long enough, even if you just pretend to it 0:28:43.840 --> 0:28:46.360 for a little bit, eventually it gets easier and things 0:28:46.400 --> 0:28:48.560 just start falling into the place that they should. 0:28:49.720 --> 0:28:52.960 Let me ask you this, and I just to throw 0:28:53.000 --> 0:28:56.760 it out there before we go, because I'm invested in 0:28:56.800 --> 0:29:01.520 your story and I know that you're uh an evolving 0:29:01.880 --> 0:29:05.760 thing in process. But you know, I'm glad you told 0:29:05.880 --> 0:29:13.280 us your whole story is there, Like, m are you. 0:29:13.440 --> 0:29:17.640 Are you in any conflict right now moving forward that 0:29:17.640 --> 0:29:20.520 that you want to talk through or do you feel 0:29:21.160 --> 0:29:25.640 pretty confident about the uh road ahead and just where 0:29:25.720 --> 0:29:29.520 your brain is at. 0:29:30.040 --> 0:29:32.000 I mean, there's some things here and there. 0:29:32.080 --> 0:29:35.280 I tried. Uh, I had a little bit of trouble with. 0:29:35.320 --> 0:29:37.880 Dating when I first got sober, which I don't know 0:29:38.360 --> 0:29:42.240 because that was the best idea to get into. But 0:29:42.400 --> 0:29:45.160 it seems like things are going all right right now. 0:29:45.360 --> 0:29:46.880 Like I kind of gave up on it because I 0:29:46.880 --> 0:29:52.840 wanted to go just all all into fitness and fully 0:29:52.880 --> 0:29:54.600 focused on that. And I did that for a while 0:29:54.800 --> 0:29:57.520 and then, uh, this this girl that I was talking 0:29:57.520 --> 0:30:00.400 to for a bit just hit me up recently and 0:30:00.600 --> 0:30:03.560 I never even really had done anything with her weoever, 0:30:03.680 --> 0:30:06.240 but I'm planning on seeing her this weekend, so we'll 0:30:06.240 --> 0:30:12.280 see if that will happen. I mean, yeah, no, right 0:30:12.280 --> 0:30:14.040 now in my life, everything's going as it should. 0:30:14.800 --> 0:30:15.320 There's no. 0:30:16.840 --> 0:30:17.760 Nothing I can think about. 0:30:18.200 --> 0:30:19.920 I don't see you having any problems with dating. 0:30:19.960 --> 0:30:20.120 Man. 0:30:20.160 --> 0:30:24.560 You gotta you have a very year I mean, uh, 0:30:25.640 --> 0:30:28.720 regardless of the tragic circumstances under which it was forged. 0:30:28.880 --> 0:30:37.120 You have a very mature demeanor. Thank you, and you 0:30:37.160 --> 0:30:39.880 know you're getting ripped, so you'll you'll be you'll be 0:30:39.920 --> 0:30:43.200 fine in that department. Zachary. You said your name is. 0:30:44.440 --> 0:30:48.880 Yes, sir, you remembered it. That's that's awesome. MM. 0:30:48.920 --> 0:30:53.600 Good for you, well, Zachary. This is a pleasure talking 0:30:53.600 --> 0:30:53.760 to you. 0:30:53.800 --> 0:30:53.920 Man. 0:30:53.960 --> 0:30:57.480 I appreciate you sharing your story. I'm I'm looking forward 0:30:57.480 --> 0:31:00.600 to see what you do in your life. I have 0:31:00.680 --> 0:31:03.880 a deep, deep respect for it, deep deep respect. I 0:31:03.960 --> 0:31:06.560 really mean this for anyone. I had this weird moment. 0:31:06.680 --> 0:31:10.200 I'll talk. I'll talk for a second. I had this yeah, 0:31:10.200 --> 0:31:12.480 like I said, like things are I'm feeling pretty chill. 0:31:13.440 --> 0:31:16.720 I mean not everything's perfect, but like the I was 0:31:16.760 --> 0:31:18.680 just walking around today and I was like, oh shit, 0:31:18.880 --> 0:31:22.360 I like thought many times I was gonna like die 0:31:23.120 --> 0:31:27.160 and I didn't die and we're still just life kept 0:31:27.440 --> 0:31:30.800 going and so you know these goods to take a 0:31:30.840 --> 0:31:33.280 second to be like, okay, all right this you know 0:31:33.840 --> 0:31:37.000 things have been worse. So I commend you. I commend 0:31:37.040 --> 0:31:41.200 you for doing all that, and I appreciate you coming 0:31:41.240 --> 0:31:43.360 on here and talking about it. Giving other people some 0:31:44.080 --> 0:31:46.720 hope that they can continue to thrive. 0:31:49.320 --> 0:31:49.760 For sure. 0:31:49.920 --> 0:31:52.960 Thank you for giving me the chance. Man, I'm I'm 0:31:53.000 --> 0:31:55.040 sot fucking happy I got on here. I've been listening 0:31:55.040 --> 0:31:57.600 to you for many years. 0:31:58.200 --> 0:31:59.440 Is there anything else you want to say to the 0:31:59.480 --> 0:32:01.040 folks of the computer before we go? 0:32:03.840 --> 0:32:06.960 Don't drink and drive, don't get high and drives. It's 0:32:07.000 --> 0:32:10.680 not worth it. It's never worth it. Yeah, that's it. 0:32:10.800 --> 0:32:13.240 I love you, Lyle, Thank you, thank you for giving 0:32:13.240 --> 0:32:13.760 me this chance. 0:32:14.360 --> 0:32:18.240 Wait real quick, what's the most valuable thing in your collection? 0:32:20.840 --> 0:32:21.720 Uh? 0:32:21.960 --> 0:32:23.960 Probably that? Probably that Sound Hill coffee. I got a 0:32:23.960 --> 0:32:26.160 figure for it. It looks so fucking badass. 0:32:25.800 --> 0:32:29.840 Dude said, did you say Summit Hill Silent Hill? 0:32:29.880 --> 0:32:30.800 It's oh? 0:32:30.840 --> 0:32:33.120 I thought, Oh, I know fucking Silent Hill. I thought 0:32:33.120 --> 0:32:34.400 you said Summit Hill. 0:32:37.840 --> 0:32:42.440 No, No, it's uh I really I really enjoy Sounding Hill. 0:32:43.040 --> 0:32:46.040 Is that is that the Is it the pyramid? Like? 0:32:46.200 --> 0:32:46.400 Wait? 0:32:46.440 --> 0:32:48.160 I'm sorry, okay, okay, now that I know what it is? 0:32:48.200 --> 0:32:50.400 What what is it a video game? Is it a figure? 0:32:50.480 --> 0:32:51.240 What did you say it was? 0:32:52.240 --> 0:32:52.320 So? 0:32:52.440 --> 0:32:55.280 I got I have a figure of the super Sexy 0:32:55.360 --> 0:32:58.000 Nurse that's like covered in blood and it says welcome 0:32:58.040 --> 0:33:00.280 and welcome to Silent Hill. Find it. 0:33:00.320 --> 0:33:00.920 I got it from ETS. 0:33:01.080 --> 0:33:02.640 Some guy three D printed it for me and painted 0:33:02.640 --> 0:33:04.720 it looks great and I. 0:33:04.720 --> 0:33:13.360 Got Silent Hill blood is it? Wait? Hold? Oh oh? 0:33:13.440 --> 0:33:16.680 This is the sexy nurse with the crazy that looks 0:33:16.680 --> 0:33:18.719 like she has no she has no uh face? 0:33:20.120 --> 0:33:20.360 Yes? 0:33:20.640 --> 0:33:23.160 Yeah, yeah, I think we're called bubbleheads. I think I 0:33:23.200 --> 0:33:26.080 think her head popped or something. The pyramid head dude, 0:33:26.360 --> 0:33:31.840 he's from Silent Hill two. It's a great game. Yeah, 0:33:31.960 --> 0:33:35.480 and then Silent Hill won. Yeah. I don't I don't 0:33:35.480 --> 0:33:38.160 want to give too much away if anybody hasn't played it. 0:33:38.960 --> 0:33:42.360 Well, all right, Well, thank you Zachary. Good luck to you, brother, 0:33:42.440 --> 0:33:43.720 and I appreciate you calling. 0:33:43.840 --> 0:33:43.959 Man. 0:33:43.960 --> 0:33:45.200 I hope you have a good rest of the day. 0:33:46.520 --> 0:33:48.400 You too, Man, you too, Thank you very much. 0:33:49.120 --> 0:33:56.320 See Zachary deus that gut rocks think got rocks. Good dude, 0:33:56.600 --> 0:34:00.479 Jesus christ Man. I I dude, that's crazy. That guy's nineteen. 0:34:00.560 --> 0:34:02.560 You could tell that all that shit aged him up 0:34:02.600 --> 0:34:08.680 like fucking ten years. Dude. Respect, mad respect, mad fucking respect. 0:34:08.880 --> 0:34:11.759 Also is interest like is I love? I love? Like 0:34:14.040 --> 0:34:20.640 you know, younger generation getting into retro video games and 0:34:20.640 --> 0:34:23.920 ship like it just always keeps that stuff is timeless. 0:34:24.200 --> 0:34:26.120 I could I I spared you guys, but I could 0:34:26.120 --> 0:34:29.600 have talked about retro video games. Uh with that guy 0:34:29.680 --> 0:34:43.040 for a full hour. Shout out Zachary, big respect? Hello, Hey, 0:34:43.080 --> 0:34:44.279 what's up man? What's your name? 0:34:45.600 --> 0:34:45.799 Oh? 0:34:45.880 --> 0:34:48.080 A J. I didn't think I was really gonna get home? 0:34:48.719 --> 0:34:52.320 What's up, a brother? How are you doing? My friends? 0:34:52.719 --> 0:34:54.279 I'm doing good? How about you? Man? 0:34:54.719 --> 0:34:57.319 How am I doing? I'm doing all right. I'm in 0:34:57.400 --> 0:34:59.520 a room with no windows that I don't know if 0:34:59.560 --> 0:35:03.640 I'm allowed to be in. But that's that just happens 0:35:03.640 --> 0:35:06.040 to you sometimes in life. Sometimes you find yourself in 0:35:06.040 --> 0:35:08.400 a room with no windows in the script that you 0:35:08.440 --> 0:35:09.600 don't know if you're allowed to be in? 0:35:10.000 --> 0:35:10.439 What room? 0:35:10.520 --> 0:35:11.279 What room are you in? 0:35:11.360 --> 0:35:18.200 A J? I'm in. I'm actually eating right now. I'm 0:35:18.200 --> 0:35:20.840 in my donner room. I guess you would call it 0:35:20.920 --> 0:35:23.000 the way my house is set up. It's kind of 0:35:23.080 --> 0:35:26.520 like the kitchen in the dining room is almost like 0:35:26.560 --> 0:35:29.839 in the same almost in the same spot. So yeah, 0:35:29.840 --> 0:35:30.800 I guess my dining. 0:35:30.640 --> 0:35:38.160 Room Adrian did anything in particular? A J. Why say 0:35:38.160 --> 0:35:39.800 Adrian AJ? Sorry? 0:35:41.239 --> 0:35:41.440 A J. 0:35:41.719 --> 0:35:45.279 I think I think AJ is the name of one 0:35:45.320 --> 0:35:47.880 of Timmy Turner's friends, Chester and A J. 0:35:49.400 --> 0:35:50.759 Yeah, hell yeah. 0:35:51.360 --> 0:35:53.560 Are you named after that kid? 0:35:54.840 --> 0:35:59.640 No, it's my nickname. 0:35:59.680 --> 0:36:03.000 AJ. Is there a particular thing that you wanted to 0:36:03.000 --> 0:36:09.760 call in to talk about today? 0:36:09.840 --> 0:36:12.120 You know, I just always because I've been I've been 0:36:12.160 --> 0:36:18.360 watching for like two and a half years now, and 0:36:18.840 --> 0:36:22.120 I always thought like it's crazy, because I always felt 0:36:22.160 --> 0:36:24.440 like when I would call, I would actually get on. 0:36:24.760 --> 0:36:27.400 But then like it happened, and now I'm here and 0:36:27.480 --> 0:36:30.920 I want to talk about like just life. You know 0:36:30.920 --> 0:36:32.840 what I'm saying. They do a lot of changes recently. 0:36:33.400 --> 0:36:34.400 Well what kind of changes. 0:36:36.480 --> 0:36:40.239 I actually just got out the military in March and 0:36:42.000 --> 0:36:44.560 from there ended up picking up to a whole new 0:36:45.160 --> 0:36:52.560 city and now I'm here and now I'm just trying 0:36:52.600 --> 0:36:54.680 to figure out like this whole new place I've never 0:36:54.680 --> 0:36:59.080 been in before, and now I'm betting ready to be 0:36:59.160 --> 0:37:01.040 a firefighter in a fire academy. 0:37:01.880 --> 0:37:04.120 Get the fuck out of here. The guy we just 0:37:04.239 --> 0:37:07.400 talked to, the guy we just talked to before you, 0:37:07.520 --> 0:37:10.239 it's so funny. He said his goal is to be 0:37:10.280 --> 0:37:14.239 a firefighter, and now we're talking to a firefighter. 0:37:16.200 --> 0:37:18.239 Well, I'm not actually a firefighter. I'm getting ready to 0:37:18.280 --> 0:37:19.280 go to a fire academy. 0:37:19.800 --> 0:37:25.520 Guy, a gentleman becoming a firefighter. You're you're in the 0:37:25.560 --> 0:37:31.640 process of becoming a firefighter, right. Cool? 0:37:31.440 --> 0:37:32.160 Cool? 0:37:32.680 --> 0:37:34.720 Yeah, here, well let's get into a bunch of stuff. 0:37:35.200 --> 0:37:36.920 What what branch of the military were you in? 0:37:38.280 --> 0:37:39.200 I was in an Air Force? 0:37:40.160 --> 0:37:42.399 Cool? What did you do? 0:37:44.400 --> 0:37:51.760 I did well, they called it a for a functional 0:37:51.800 --> 0:37:55.200 code was foury oh x one. But it's really just 0:37:55.280 --> 0:38:00.919 like I worked with insurance that I could do. Uh well, 0:38:00.920 --> 0:38:04.840 this is all medical, anything medical. So I work with experience, 0:38:05.440 --> 0:38:08.319 and then i'd be like check in at the front dance, 0:38:08.440 --> 0:38:10.719 like if you got to the hospital, if you have 0:38:10.760 --> 0:38:15.080 to check inn somewhere, like any type of clinic or 0:38:15.120 --> 0:38:17.960 anything like that. I'm a front desk person. I'm a 0:38:18.000 --> 0:38:18.800 front desk person. 0:38:19.239 --> 0:38:23.200 So you were this was at a military health clinic. 0:38:24.840 --> 0:38:27.359 Yeah, I was actually up in Alaska. I just came 0:38:27.440 --> 0:38:30.320 from Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska. 0:38:30.960 --> 0:38:31.440 No ship. 0:38:32.200 --> 0:38:34.719 Wait, what's it like in Anchorage, Alaska? Dude, I'm trying 0:38:34.760 --> 0:38:36.719 to go there. I'm actually I have I'm doing a 0:38:36.719 --> 0:38:37.880 show there in October. 0:38:39.600 --> 0:38:41.879 Oh yeah, that's cool, man. I always wanted to catch 0:38:41.880 --> 0:38:44.359 a show, like when you went on tour but I 0:38:44.440 --> 0:38:47.400 never got around to like it's fit in the perfect 0:38:47.440 --> 0:38:49.000 timing of my schedule, you know what I mean. 0:38:49.400 --> 0:38:52.480 M hm, So what's so what's it like an uh 0:38:52.640 --> 0:38:55.080 when you come to d oh Well. 0:38:55.000 --> 0:38:58.759 I'm sorry, no, I was saying, I'm up in uh 0:38:58.960 --> 0:39:01.600 North Carolina now, so I haven't got a chance to 0:39:01.640 --> 0:39:03.880 look at your list yet. But when you come to 0:39:04.080 --> 0:39:06.200 North Carolina, I'm not trying to shoot that show. 0:39:06.840 --> 0:39:09.440 I'll be in Charlotte. I don't know exactly when, but 0:39:09.440 --> 0:39:10.640 I will be in Charlotte this year. 0:39:12.160 --> 0:39:16.279 Okay. Cool? Yeah, man, me and my husband we watch 0:39:16.320 --> 0:39:20.440 you We watch you man where we get done smoking 0:39:20.480 --> 0:39:20.920 and stuff. 0:39:24.640 --> 0:39:27.919 Yeah, So what is the vibe in in Anchorage? 0:39:28.160 --> 0:39:33.000 It's cool. I grew up in the city, like I'm 0:39:33.000 --> 0:39:39.720 from originally from the Church, Michigan. But it really forces 0:39:39.760 --> 0:39:45.359 you to be an outdoors person. Like when I was there, 0:39:45.360 --> 0:39:50.560 I wasn't used to doing like snowboarding or anything like that. 0:39:51.560 --> 0:39:53.840 It's not really a whole lot that's really going on 0:39:54.000 --> 0:39:58.520 in the city. Like I'm used to like going out, 0:39:58.920 --> 0:40:00.600 like going to clubs and things like that, and it's 0:40:00.600 --> 0:40:02.799 only like a few this meant to like two, but 0:40:02.800 --> 0:40:07.080 it's not a lot of options mm, but it's more 0:40:07.120 --> 0:40:10.360 so like out for an outdoorsy person. 0:40:11.320 --> 0:40:13.400 Was your husband with you while you were there or 0:40:13.440 --> 0:40:14.880 were you guys a long distance? 0:40:16.160 --> 0:40:17.160 Yeah? No, we met there. 0:40:17.360 --> 0:40:17.959 We met there. 0:40:18.440 --> 0:40:19.040 Oh no ship. 0:40:20.520 --> 0:40:25.480 Yeah, we've been married for two years now. And we 0:40:25.520 --> 0:40:26.320 met in Alaska. 0:40:27.480 --> 0:40:30.240 No ship. And he was he also in the military. 0:40:30.480 --> 0:40:33.400 No, no, no, no, no, no. I met him Actually he 0:40:33.560 --> 0:40:35.600 was just living there. His dad was in the military 0:40:35.680 --> 0:40:38.600 and actually just got out, and so they were up 0:40:38.640 --> 0:40:41.319 there living there from where his dad had just got 0:40:41.320 --> 0:40:44.839 it out, and I ended up meeting him there. We 0:40:44.880 --> 0:40:45.600 met at the club. 0:40:47.520 --> 0:40:53.319 Interesting, what like what how how did that encounter go? 0:40:53.600 --> 0:40:53.680 Like? 0:40:53.680 --> 0:40:54.640 What was the initiation? 0:40:57.600 --> 0:41:02.040 We It was no, we just kind of like I 0:41:02.120 --> 0:41:03.960 was a little loose, you know, I was drinking at 0:41:04.000 --> 0:41:09.600 that point, and I assume he was too, and we 0:41:09.680 --> 0:41:11.920 just kind of made eye contact and then we ended 0:41:12.000 --> 0:41:14.480 up dancing together and stuff because I'm a big dancer. 0:41:14.520 --> 0:41:17.319 You know, when I get some tequila in my system 0:41:17.640 --> 0:41:19.160 that I can dance a little bit, you know what 0:41:19.200 --> 0:41:26.120 I'm saying. Yeah, So we just kind of started dancing together, 0:41:26.280 --> 0:41:30.360 and from that night we met, we just kind of 0:41:30.400 --> 0:41:35.840 never stopped talking. And we had actually been together for 0:41:35.880 --> 0:41:37.280 that long before we got married. 0:41:38.840 --> 0:41:39.719 How long were yougether for? 0:41:43.200 --> 0:41:47.080 Like five and a half months? 0:41:48.120 --> 0:41:50.680 Wow? What was it that made it so much like, 0:41:50.920 --> 0:41:52.520 oh shit, let's just let's get married. 0:41:53.920 --> 0:41:59.520 So I was just leaving Texas like I had just 0:41:59.560 --> 0:42:06.400 came there from Texas because I was there doing my 0:42:06.400 --> 0:42:10.279 my tech school there, and we it was a big 0:42:10.280 --> 0:42:14.239 thing to talk about, like if I had to get 0:42:14.280 --> 0:42:18.040 stationed anywhere else, to go ahead and get him on 0:42:18.320 --> 0:42:21.480 my orders and stuff like that. And also it was 0:42:21.560 --> 0:42:24.400 just like a good time, like we weren't it was nothing. 0:42:24.440 --> 0:42:28.120 We were really waiting on per se and I just 0:42:28.160 --> 0:42:32.200 always felt like he was my person. So I didn't 0:42:32.200 --> 0:42:35.759 really have the take when he actually asked me to 0:42:35.800 --> 0:42:41.640 marry him, which I never thought i'd have somebody like, 0:42:41.719 --> 0:42:44.600 you know, proposed to me, but it happened, and I 0:42:44.680 --> 0:42:47.960 made the decision to say yes. At the time, there 0:42:47.960 --> 0:42:52.440 were no it was nothing that was like telling me 0:42:52.520 --> 0:42:54.439 to say no at that point, so I just kind 0:42:54.440 --> 0:42:56.520 of like, you know, I went with it, and we've 0:42:56.560 --> 0:42:59.279 been together ever since. So mhm. 0:43:01.120 --> 0:43:01.480 Hm hm. 0:43:03.040 --> 0:43:09.400 Mm hmm. And so what where did you Where did 0:43:09.440 --> 0:43:16.920 you move to from Alaska? You said, moved to North Carolina. 0:43:17.000 --> 0:43:17.960 I'm in a small. 0:43:18.239 --> 0:43:22.880 North Carolina, North Carolina. And what are you doing in 0:43:22.880 --> 0:43:23.600 North Carolina? 0:43:25.560 --> 0:43:29.920 I actually, when I got here, I was a manager 0:43:30.160 --> 0:43:33.080 at chick fil A. 0:43:33.080 --> 0:43:35.920 All Right, the plot thickens, The plot thickens, dude. I 0:43:35.960 --> 0:43:38.000 just came up with ten more questions to ask. 0:43:37.840 --> 0:43:42.839 You, because because because being because being the manager at 0:43:42.880 --> 0:43:46.320 Chick fil A is not like, at least from my perspective, 0:43:46.480 --> 0:43:51.920 it is not like you know, any old retail management job. 0:43:51.960 --> 0:43:55.319 Because the Chick fil A, I I don't know how 0:43:55.360 --> 0:43:57.040 they do it, dude, I don't know how they fucking 0:43:57.080 --> 0:44:02.000 do it, but they manage to standard the Chick fil 0:44:02.040 --> 0:44:06.839 A experience across the nation. So you go into any 0:44:07.120 --> 0:44:09.880 like cause you know, like there's shitty Wendy's, right, and 0:44:09.880 --> 0:44:13.319 then there's good Wendy's, and there's shitty McDonald's. There's good McDonald's, 0:44:13.640 --> 0:44:17.719 but all chick fil as a. No, I've never been 0:44:17.800 --> 0:44:19.960 to a shitty chick fil A in my life and 0:44:20.000 --> 0:44:22.680 I've been to Why is that? Why have I never 0:44:22.680 --> 0:44:23.600 been to a shitty chick Fila? 0:44:24.120 --> 0:44:28.560 Through that? Look? So, when I first started working there, 0:44:30.520 --> 0:44:35.680 they pretty much preached about quality. It's more so and 0:44:35.760 --> 0:44:39.000 if not even leaning towards more quality than anything goes. 0:44:39.600 --> 0:44:43.480 It's both they lean into quality and how fast you 0:44:43.560 --> 0:44:47.080 do it, so like they really like put it on you, 0:44:47.239 --> 0:44:50.040 especially for a manager. They put it on you to 0:44:50.080 --> 0:44:52.200 make sure that the quality of the food is always 0:44:52.280 --> 0:44:56.800 right and that we getting it out fast enough, because 0:44:56.800 --> 0:44:58.279 I bet you've never been out of Chick fil A 0:44:58.360 --> 0:44:59.040 for long either. 0:44:59.600 --> 0:45:02.040 No, I don't know how they fucking do do do? 0:45:02.440 --> 0:45:04.799 Let me here's the real question is, like do they 0:45:04.840 --> 0:45:06.719 pay well? Like how do they get people to give 0:45:06.719 --> 0:45:11.680 a fuck? Because because like pretty okay, because I like, 0:45:11.719 --> 0:45:13.359 you know, you go into a Wendy's and it's like 0:45:13.400 --> 0:45:15.560 this person doesn't give a ship about anything. But then 0:45:15.600 --> 0:45:17.400 it's also like, well, why the hell would they you 0:45:17.400 --> 0:45:21.319 know mm hm, I mean like, yeah, what are they 0:45:21.320 --> 0:45:22.160 putting that sauce? 0:45:22.320 --> 0:45:28.120 You know? I mean they pretty they paid pretty okay. 0:45:29.800 --> 0:45:34.279 I was making like because they don't Rocky because I 0:45:34.360 --> 0:45:39.120 stay in the city called Rocky Mount, and they don't 0:45:39.160 --> 0:45:42.720 really pay a whole lot here, so it's not really 0:45:42.760 --> 0:45:46.319 a lot of it's it's very cheap here, and so 0:45:46.960 --> 0:45:50.640 the pay at the Chick fil A was more so 0:45:50.719 --> 0:45:54.600 I think it was like I talked them up to 0:45:54.719 --> 0:45:57.480 nineteen fifteen, just because I had experience and stuff in 0:45:57.480 --> 0:46:03.319 the military, you know, leader and all that. But yeah, 0:46:03.440 --> 0:46:05.799 I talked about the nineteen stafty. I don't I never 0:46:05.800 --> 0:46:07.759 really asked I mentioned anybody else is going to pay. 0:46:08.640 --> 0:46:10.399 But they take me a lot to give a fuck. 0:46:10.520 --> 0:46:17.520 So pretty good, pretty good. I love it today. It's 0:46:17.560 --> 0:46:20.160 that's so fun. There's something funny to me about like, uh, 0:46:21.880 --> 0:46:28.319 like you're bringing your military experience to managing because that 0:46:28.480 --> 0:46:30.000 is really what it takes. 0:46:31.160 --> 0:46:35.440 Yeah, honestly, because the way that it was like runs, 0:46:35.800 --> 0:46:39.480 it's like a fucking it reminds me so much to 0:46:39.560 --> 0:46:42.480 the military, Like you have to keep a clean shave, 0:46:43.520 --> 0:46:46.880 you have to like have your shirt took t if 0:46:46.880 --> 0:46:50.239 you work in the France, and it's all different types 0:46:50.239 --> 0:46:54.280 of stuff that relates to the military. Chick fil A, honestly, did. 0:46:54.160 --> 0:46:59.759 You encounter more assholes? Uh, civilians or people working with you? 0:47:00.200 --> 0:47:02.480 Either one is to slump them all in. Did you 0:47:02.520 --> 0:47:05.000 encounter more assholes working in the military or at Chick 0:47:05.040 --> 0:47:05.560 fil a? 0:47:07.760 --> 0:47:14.719 H that's a good I asked question. Uh, I say 0:47:14.840 --> 0:47:19.040 Chick fil A. My military experience wasn't great, but I 0:47:19.120 --> 0:47:27.160 definitely net more assholes at Chick fil A, especially like 0:47:27.200 --> 0:47:29.960 the people that they just bring in, you know what 0:47:30.040 --> 0:47:34.160 I'm saying, like to work. Like they're not really the 0:47:34.200 --> 0:47:38.080 smartest people, but I don't like they're they're they're fine, 0:47:39.080 --> 0:47:45.520 but some of them are just working. Did what about 0:47:45.520 --> 0:47:45.920 the uh? 0:47:47.000 --> 0:47:49.120 Like, I feel like there's something about Chick fil A 0:47:49.560 --> 0:47:53.759 where like, uh, I sorry for Dick writing Chick fil 0:47:53.760 --> 0:47:55.560 A so much. It's just I'm just it's it's not 0:47:55.560 --> 0:47:57.880 even Dick writing. I'm just like genuinely amazed. Like it 0:47:58.000 --> 0:48:02.600 seems like it's the kind of place where like, uh, 0:48:03.160 --> 0:48:05.360 like people at Wendy's are going up to the cashier 0:48:05.360 --> 0:48:08.000 and like screaming at them and stuff. Do you do you? 0:48:08.160 --> 0:48:09.920 Chick fil A? Seems like you don't have a lot 0:48:09.920 --> 0:48:13.800 of angry, yelling customers. Is that wrong? 0:48:17.160 --> 0:48:22.120 No, that's not wrong. I mean I've never really encountered 0:48:23.360 --> 0:48:28.200 a whole lot of like angry customers. But there are 0:48:28.239 --> 0:48:30.440 a lot of Karens that come. 0:48:30.360 --> 0:48:33.080 To chicks Karen's what I Karen is what I mean? Okay, 0:48:33.120 --> 0:48:35.120 so I was wrong. Karen's what I'm referring to. 0:48:36.400 --> 0:48:39.560 Yeah, yeah, there are a lot of Karens that come 0:48:39.600 --> 0:48:40.000 to here. 0:48:40.880 --> 0:48:43.680 What is what are their main what are their main complaints? 0:48:43.800 --> 0:48:44.080 What was that? 0:48:44.160 --> 0:48:46.480 What was the nastiest Karen that you encountered? 0:48:49.880 --> 0:48:51.760 So I worked in the back, I ran in the kitchen, 0:48:52.360 --> 0:48:56.120 m M. I didn't really like encounter a whole lot 0:48:56.160 --> 0:49:00.279 with the guests. So there wasn't really nothing too easy 0:49:00.360 --> 0:49:06.440 that I can really like pinpoint right now. But we 0:49:06.520 --> 0:49:09.040 have somebody come in here and not even a Karen, 0:49:09.160 --> 0:49:11.560 like we have the only or we work because I 0:49:11.560 --> 0:49:14.239 don't wait there anymore. And I and I start Fire 0:49:14.280 --> 0:49:19.080 Academy the day after tomorrow because it's snow here in 0:49:19.120 --> 0:49:24.640 North Carolina. So but we're the only chicks fil a. 0:49:26.480 --> 0:49:30.120 So everybody from around the city comes here, no matter 0:49:30.200 --> 0:49:32.759 who for like who they are, and sometimes we get 0:49:32.800 --> 0:49:35.440 like just people that come in and they just like 0:49:35.520 --> 0:49:37.920 stay there, just to stay there, and they try to 0:49:37.960 --> 0:49:41.960 sell stuff in there, and then like they grab one 0:49:41.960 --> 0:49:44.279 of the managers from the back to be like, hey, 0:49:44.440 --> 0:49:48.600 I'm gonna easy to get out, and I've had to 0:49:48.640 --> 0:49:49.240 do that before. 0:49:49.440 --> 0:49:53.640 But they try to have people come out here probably right. 0:49:54.800 --> 0:49:58.480 Yeah, like some guy was trying to promote his car 0:49:58.640 --> 0:50:03.160 washing business, but I'm like right home, I'm not right home. 0:50:03.239 --> 0:50:05.600 But you can't do that in here. 0:50:06.400 --> 0:50:10.200 Mm hmmm, did you get any like people making tiktoks 0:50:10.239 --> 0:50:11.239 in there and ship like that? 0:50:16.440 --> 0:50:24.600 Our fucking are Unfortunately, we do somethings on our whoever 0:50:24.800 --> 0:50:32.160 controls our like page, you know the not entertainment but 0:50:35.600 --> 0:50:38.400 not promotional, but you know whatever, like make videos for 0:50:38.480 --> 0:50:42.759 the for the stuff like that. Yeah, so sometimes we 0:50:44.040 --> 0:50:47.920 do TikTok, but I never like mate anybody in or 0:50:48.000 --> 0:50:50.319 see anybody in there do TikTok. It's a lot of kids, 0:50:50.320 --> 0:50:54.200 they're coming there. It's a lot of like babies. I 0:50:54.200 --> 0:50:56.239 always hear a baby crying at chickil. 0:50:55.920 --> 0:51:01.839 Me fuck another chick fil A thing because oh yeah, 0:51:01.880 --> 0:51:04.439 because I'll see uh dude, I'll see videos like that. 0:51:04.600 --> 0:51:07.920 Like I saw a video of a guy who brought 0:51:07.960 --> 0:51:13.279 a horse into Target. And I'm very conflicted about these 0:51:13.360 --> 0:51:20.760 videos because on one hand, I'm like, that's so undeniably 0:51:20.800 --> 0:51:26.880 funny to bring a horse in this funny. Some of 0:51:26.920 --> 0:51:28.560 those videos are not funny. Some of those videos are 0:51:28.719 --> 0:51:31.000 just people. Some of those videos are just people going 0:51:31.040 --> 0:51:34.200 in and making a mess and being assholes, which and 0:51:34.600 --> 0:51:37.000 I mean bringing the horse in there, you are making 0:51:37.040 --> 0:51:39.560 a mess and being an asshole. But but there's you 0:51:39.719 --> 0:51:42.239 have to really put in a lot of effort to 0:51:42.280 --> 0:51:44.759 get that horse into target. So I'm not gonna say 0:51:44.760 --> 0:51:49.680 I respect the content necessarily, but it's but the content 0:51:49.840 --> 0:51:54.240 is undeniable. I can't be like, oh, that's you shouldn't 0:51:54.239 --> 0:52:00.279 do that because it's just it's just an undeniable thing. Yeah, 0:52:00.360 --> 0:52:02.400 it's probably more work for the people working there, but 0:52:02.520 --> 0:52:06.040 it's it's just an undeniable thing. Bring on, you know, 0:52:06.120 --> 0:52:07.520 I get what I'm saying, Like, what do you think 0:52:07.520 --> 0:52:09.600 about that? What do you think about the horse and 0:52:09.640 --> 0:52:10.400 the target? 0:52:11.960 --> 0:52:18.319 I feel like I don't know, man, I just I 0:52:18.360 --> 0:52:20.560 don't really like look at it on that whole deeper 0:52:20.680 --> 0:52:21.319 level like. 0:52:24.000 --> 0:52:24.279 You do. 0:52:25.000 --> 0:52:28.040 Okay, but no, no, no for real. 0:52:28.120 --> 0:52:30.880 But I just I just kind of look at it 0:52:30.960 --> 0:52:35.239 and I don't know. 0:52:35.320 --> 0:52:39.200 I mean, if you if you if you were okay, 0:52:39.239 --> 0:52:42.040 I'll ask you this and and then uh, I'll let 0:52:42.080 --> 0:52:46.480 you go a j If you were working in the 0:52:46.560 --> 0:52:50.359 back at the Chick fil A, right and someone came 0:52:50.400 --> 0:52:54.080 into the Chick fil A with a horse, would you 0:52:54.160 --> 0:52:56.200 be pissed off? Or would you be like this guy 0:52:56.239 --> 0:52:58.759 brought a horse into the Chick fil A? How would 0:52:58.760 --> 0:52:59.120 you feel? 0:53:00.320 --> 0:53:08.239 I would be like, what the fuck. I mean, because like, 0:53:08.280 --> 0:53:10.239 what the fuck just brings a horse in the in 0:53:10.320 --> 0:53:13.120 the fucking Chick fil A. It was just I don't know. 0:53:13.160 --> 0:53:16.080 I wouldn't do anything about it. I wouldn't be mad 0:53:16.120 --> 0:53:19.239 about it. It would be funny as hell, and I'm 0:53:19.239 --> 0:53:20.839 sure they'll get a lot of use for it. 0:53:21.239 --> 0:53:24.719 But did everyone everyone's search guy brings horse into Chick 0:53:24.760 --> 0:53:27.200 fil A and not everyone's he. Maybe he's he, maybe 0:53:27.239 --> 0:53:29.600 he maybe has done Chick fil A. His whole thing 0:53:29.640 --> 0:53:32.400 is bringing a horse to places he shouldn't do it. 0:53:32.520 --> 0:53:34.160 Yeah, but I don't. I don't. I don't work at 0:53:34.239 --> 0:53:35.080 Chick fil A anymore. 0:53:35.719 --> 0:53:38.120 I just actually I know you, I know you. I 0:53:38.160 --> 0:53:41.239 know you don't. I was just if you have having 0:53:41.320 --> 0:53:43.520 had the experience, where did you say you work now again? 0:53:45.360 --> 0:53:49.120 I actually don't. So I just this whole time I've 0:53:49.120 --> 0:53:51.759 been in North Carolina, I've been working on getting like 0:53:51.800 --> 0:53:54.360 my benefits from the military because I ended up getting 0:53:54.360 --> 0:53:59.399 out like earlier than my contract. So I've been working 0:53:59.440 --> 0:54:02.440 on getting my benefits and I've just got one hundred 0:54:02.440 --> 0:54:09.080 percent disability. So I am I get paid like I 0:54:09.080 --> 0:54:10.520 don't have to work again if I don't want to. 0:54:10.560 --> 0:54:11.759 But I want to be a firefighter? 0:54:13.200 --> 0:54:16.200 Cool? Are you going to be like a wait, so 0:54:16.440 --> 0:54:22.000 wait interesting? So are and I assume are you able 0:54:22.560 --> 0:54:28.319 to still like, how are you able to qualify for 0:54:28.360 --> 0:54:31.840 disability but also able to be a firefighter when you 0:54:31.880 --> 0:54:33.600 become a firefighter or you not? Are you no longer 0:54:33.600 --> 0:54:36.359 able to get their disability? 0:54:36.480 --> 0:54:38.600 No? No, no, no no no. And I thought about that too, 0:54:38.680 --> 0:54:41.440 But they call it like permenading totaled or something like 0:54:41.480 --> 0:54:45.640 that where they can't they can't touch it at all. 0:54:46.080 --> 0:54:49.600 So but it doesn't prevent you from working either, like 0:54:49.719 --> 0:54:52.520 sometimes they put you on they put people on the 0:54:52.560 --> 0:54:58.759 disability where they can't like where they can't work, or 0:54:58.880 --> 0:55:01.279 they have to get it reviewed every like for after 0:55:01.320 --> 0:55:04.759 a certain amount of time. But I got the good one, 0:55:04.920 --> 0:55:05.479 So I'm good. 0:55:06.600 --> 0:55:13.279 Sweet sweet mm hmm, hey ja, I hope you are successful. 0:55:13.560 --> 0:55:18.360 I hope everyone on the podcast today is is greatly 0:55:18.440 --> 0:55:23.480 successful in any and all fighter firefighter becoming endeavors. 0:55:23.880 --> 0:55:26.160 I appreciate that and my birthdays just. 0:55:26.120 --> 0:55:28.400 Pad oh shit, happy birthday, brother. 0:55:29.360 --> 0:55:31.560 Appreciate it. It was on the twenty seven. 0:55:31.880 --> 0:55:35.200 What'd you do for it? Anything fun? Uh? 0:55:35.360 --> 0:55:39.400 Nothing too crazy? No, I just kind of went out 0:55:39.440 --> 0:55:42.480 to dinner you just went out to dinner and I 0:55:42.560 --> 0:55:43.320 had some tequila. 0:55:45.200 --> 0:55:49.640 Not too bad, nothing to anything take much for me. 0:55:51.160 --> 0:55:51.760 I'm sorry. 0:55:52.040 --> 0:55:52.720 No, you go ahead. 0:55:53.040 --> 0:55:54.800 No, I'm just saying it doesn't It doesn't take a 0:55:54.840 --> 0:55:58.000 whole lot for me to know I'm one of those people. 0:55:58.000 --> 0:55:59.719 It doesn't take a whole lot for me to have fun. 0:56:00.040 --> 0:56:01.560 I'm saying, like, it doesn't take a whole lot for 0:56:01.600 --> 0:56:03.520 me to be happy. 0:56:04.280 --> 0:56:08.200 Did you get Did you get sucked up on your birthday? 0:56:08.920 --> 0:56:09.279 I did. 0:56:11.160 --> 0:56:13.919 He's saying it like it's an admission to something. 0:56:15.360 --> 0:56:17.759 I did. No, I did. I did because I told 0:56:17.840 --> 0:56:21.520 myself I would stop drinking because I'm trying to, you know, 0:56:21.640 --> 0:56:25.359 be locked in for this whole process. But I ended 0:56:25.440 --> 0:56:28.040 up getting blasted on my birthday, and then I went 0:56:28.080 --> 0:56:30.719 out to dinner, and then I came home and went 0:56:30.760 --> 0:56:35.160 to sleep. You know, it was it was cool. It is. 0:56:35.239 --> 0:56:36.680 It is pretty fun to get blasted. 0:56:38.160 --> 0:56:40.160 Hell yeah, mhm. 0:56:40.360 --> 0:56:41.320 Is there anything else you want to say to the 0:56:41.360 --> 0:56:42.440 people of the computer before we go? 0:56:43.520 --> 0:56:49.759 Uh? You can do anything you want if you want 0:56:49.800 --> 0:56:50.560 to do it. 0:56:50.680 --> 0:56:52.960 Swag. Thank you. 0:56:53.239 --> 0:56:54.200 I appreciate it talking to me. 0:56:54.360 --> 0:56:56.960 Man, have a good rest of your day, dude. 0:56:56.920 --> 0:56:58.280 Appreciate it Man, you too. 0:56:58.800 --> 0:57:05.040 AJ Forever. That was aj Man. That's crazy. If you 0:57:05.120 --> 0:57:10.520 got two firefighter becoming people, that's what I call someone 0:57:10.560 --> 0:57:13.600 who wants to become a firefighter. Is a firefighter becoming person? 0:57:15.560 --> 0:57:21.800 Two firefighters, one podcast. I hope they both become successful, 0:57:21.800 --> 0:57:23.560 and I hope that they get to take a ride 0:57:23.560 --> 0:57:26.160 around in the truck because it looks fun and you 0:57:26.200 --> 0:57:28.280 can spray people with the hose. I don't think you 0:57:28.320 --> 0:57:31.160 can just spray whoever you want with the hose. I 0:57:31.160 --> 0:57:34.160 think you get fired. If you do that, you'd be 0:57:34.200 --> 0:57:44.560 a fired firefighter. All right, Sorry, hello everyone, It's Lyle 0:57:44.880 --> 0:57:48.280 and this is a segment that I do on the podcast. 0:57:48.320 --> 0:57:54.480 It's called gek Mail and get this. It's when I 0:57:54.760 --> 0:58:01.200 read emails that people have wrote me to the email 0:58:01.520 --> 0:58:06.320 therapy Gecko mail at gmail dot com. We have a 0:58:06.320 --> 0:58:11.240 lot of emails, and I'm gonna read a couple of 0:58:11.280 --> 0:58:16.920 them just to sue this out as we end the 0:58:17.000 --> 0:58:24.320 program today, we're gonna read some emails. All right, this 0:58:24.360 --> 0:58:29.720 is from Tiffany subject line They're turning my workplace into 0:58:29.840 --> 0:58:33.720 a casino. Hey, Gek, I hope this email finds you 0:58:33.840 --> 0:58:39.440 well and full of taco bell or something you enjoy. 0:58:40.920 --> 0:58:44.640 I work at a live entertainment venue full time in marketing, 0:58:44.680 --> 0:58:46.800 and I can honestly say I have my dream job. 0:58:47.280 --> 0:58:50.360 I've always wanted to work in live music slash entertainment, 0:58:50.640 --> 0:58:52.960 So when I got the opportunity three years ago, I 0:58:53.080 --> 0:58:55.880 was stoked and planning on staying here and climbing the 0:58:55.920 --> 0:58:59.040 ladder to be a general manager. One day, my dreams 0:58:59.080 --> 0:59:03.600 all came crash ushing down recently when the city that 0:59:03.640 --> 0:59:06.960 this venue is in that owns the venue. Wait, the 0:59:07.000 --> 0:59:09.440 city that this venue is in and owns the venue. 0:59:09.520 --> 0:59:14.440 The city owns the venue. Hold on? Okay, whatever the 0:59:14.520 --> 0:59:17.200 city is in owns the venue is talking about getting 0:59:17.280 --> 0:59:21.440 rid of the music venue's entire campus and turning the 0:59:21.480 --> 0:59:25.600 complex into a casino. Okay, now I'm I don't I 0:59:25.680 --> 0:59:28.720 the idea of a city owning a music venue. Is 0:59:28.720 --> 0:59:34.160 that a thing? That's got to be a thing, right anyway? 0:59:34.280 --> 0:59:36.600 Yeah's that's a thing? Hold on? Is thatther thing? I'm 0:59:36.680 --> 0:59:47.800 an idiot? Are there city owned music venues? Uh? Okay, yeah, 0:59:47.800 --> 0:59:52.320 there's plenty, all right, there's several of them. There's cultural institutions. Okay, 0:59:52.320 --> 0:59:55.520 I'm assuming this is like a cultural institution or something 0:59:55.560 --> 0:59:59.160 like that they're turning the complex into a casino, which 0:59:59.160 --> 1:00:01.040 means I would no longer have this job and would 1:00:01.120 --> 1:00:03.600 potentially have to move and start over in a different 1:00:03.680 --> 1:00:06.760 music venue hours away, which would be tough because my 1:00:06.880 --> 1:00:10.520 entire life is here, my family, my serious boyfriend who 1:00:10.520 --> 1:00:12.800 can't move with me because of his job in this 1:00:12.920 --> 1:00:15.800 small city that this music venue is in. The city 1:00:15.840 --> 1:00:18.920 has major money problems and is grasping its straws to 1:00:18.960 --> 1:00:23.000 recoup this money that was mismanaged years before. I love 1:00:23.080 --> 1:00:26.360 this city, but there are no opportunities for what I 1:00:26.400 --> 1:00:28.960 want to do here. I'm pretty torn up about it 1:00:29.000 --> 1:00:31.240 since it was announced, and although it's something out of 1:00:31.240 --> 1:00:34.520 my control and not one hundred percent done yet, I 1:00:34.560 --> 1:00:36.320 can't help but worry and feel like what I do 1:00:36.360 --> 1:00:39.200 at my job now no longer has any impact, and 1:00:39.320 --> 1:00:42.640 finding an opportunity somewhere else is going to be extremely competitive. 1:00:43.040 --> 1:00:52.520 Any advice, Tiffany, hm hmm. I wish I knew what 1:00:52.560 --> 1:00:55.160 city this was, but I'm just gonna assume it's like 1:00:56.520 --> 1:01:00.480 I'm just gonna say, if it's some city in buck 1:01:00.520 --> 1:01:02.920 asss Wyoming or something like that, no offense if you 1:01:02.960 --> 1:01:05.200 live in buck Ass, Wyoming is that a real city. No, 1:01:05.280 --> 1:01:05.560 it's not. 1:01:08.040 --> 1:01:08.320 Hmm. 1:01:09.680 --> 1:01:15.080 This is a tough one. I mean I think, first 1:01:15.080 --> 1:01:19.040 of all, as I would, I would figure out why 1:01:19.120 --> 1:01:22.800 you like this job that's going away. I'm sorry this 1:01:22.880 --> 1:01:26.560 job is going away. Why did you like it? Why 1:01:27.000 --> 1:01:30.760 do you like working in live music and entertainment? Why 1:01:30.800 --> 1:01:32.280 do you like working at this venue? 1:01:32.720 --> 1:01:32.840 Like? 1:01:32.960 --> 1:01:37.440 Really, if I were Tiffany, I would like a journal 1:01:37.720 --> 1:01:45.800 about the answers to those questions, because rarely is there 1:01:46.280 --> 1:01:52.000 just one thing that tickles our fancy. And if we 1:01:52.240 --> 1:01:54.400 and if there is just one thing in our brains 1:01:54.400 --> 1:01:57.200 that tickles our fancy, it tickles our fancy for certain 1:01:57.240 --> 1:02:01.919 reasons that could very well be applied to a different thing, 1:02:02.160 --> 1:02:09.080 should this thing no longer be a viable option for us? 1:02:09.120 --> 1:02:12.439 And so if you are like, well, I like being 1:02:12.480 --> 1:02:14.920 in a working in a music venue because I like 1:02:17.160 --> 1:02:21.640 seeing a show get put together, or I like working 1:02:21.680 --> 1:02:26.520 in music because I like I fucking like music, or 1:02:26.520 --> 1:02:31.560 whatever it is, if you boil down the reasons why 1:02:31.600 --> 1:02:35.440 this job was important to you, I don't know what 1:02:35.600 --> 1:02:39.480 time you live in, and I don't know what opportunities 1:02:39.520 --> 1:02:43.680 are or are or aren't there. But if you reframe 1:02:44.720 --> 1:02:49.080 why you like this job, and then you ask yourself again, hey, 1:02:49.120 --> 1:02:54.520 are there any opportunities in this town that I might 1:02:54.560 --> 1:03:00.400 be able to to to do. If the answer to 1:03:00.400 --> 1:03:06.439 that is still no, then I'm like, well, okay, what's 1:03:06.440 --> 1:03:11.800 the who's this boyfriend? What's his job? Is he so great? 1:03:12.480 --> 1:03:18.960 Who's your your family? Are they so awesome? You know? 1:03:19.160 --> 1:03:21.600 How old are you? Are you forty seven? And you 1:03:21.680 --> 1:03:23.880 really are like, I'm not going to fucking start over. 1:03:24.440 --> 1:03:27.320 I mean, you can you start over when you're forty seven? 1:03:27.360 --> 1:03:29.120 Who gives a shit? You can start over. You can 1:03:29.160 --> 1:03:32.040 do whatever, you can do whatever you want at any time, Tiffany, 1:03:32.200 --> 1:03:38.920 you whatever you want at any time. So that's my 1:03:39.000 --> 1:03:43.240 pondering of this is, see if if there are any 1:03:47.040 --> 1:03:50.240 opportunities in your town, once you boil down the actual 1:03:50.280 --> 1:03:53.080 reasons why you like the job and and not needing 1:03:53.480 --> 1:03:59.080 those those inner kind of core desires to have such 1:03:59.120 --> 1:04:03.560 a rigid four And then also if your family is 1:04:03.960 --> 1:04:08.000 that great that you can't move, Nothing wrong with starting over, 1:04:08.200 --> 1:04:10.760 nothing wrong at all with starting over life. It's good 1:04:10.760 --> 1:04:13.560 when you start over, you know, life should be. It's 1:04:13.600 --> 1:04:20.080 fun to live multiple lives. I think. Okay. This is 1:04:20.080 --> 1:04:29.160 from crash subject line porn parodies. Oh shit, this person's email, 1:04:30.520 --> 1:04:33.160 I don't want to fight out whatever. There's like numbers 1:04:33.160 --> 1:04:36.440 and whatever in it. But this person's email is a 1:04:36.560 --> 1:04:42.480 crash bandicouci, which they spelled it differently, so you're not 1:04:42.480 --> 1:04:44.600 gonna be able to end. There's numbers and letters and 1:04:44.640 --> 1:04:52.120 symbols and shit, but crash bandicoucci is a great email. Okay, Hey, Gag, 1:04:52.120 --> 1:04:54.080 I've been listening to your podcast since two thousand and 1:04:54.080 --> 1:04:58.520 one and I love the show. I'm noticing an uptick 1:04:58.720 --> 1:05:01.640 and talk about porn parodies, and I was wondering if 1:05:01.640 --> 1:05:12.000 you've seen this one enjoy and there's a link. There's 1:05:12.040 --> 1:05:19.080 a link here to e Porner dot com. Should I 1:05:19.080 --> 1:05:23.440 click on it? Fuck it? Okay? 1:05:23.440 --> 1:05:24.000 This is. 1:05:25.560 --> 1:05:29.520 What is this? Princess Leah sucks a dick and then 1:05:29.640 --> 1:05:33.920 is fucked by a spaceman and then two brunettes have 1:05:34.040 --> 1:05:40.000 lesbian sex. Okay, Oh holy wait, this one's kind of cool. 1:05:40.000 --> 1:05:42.760 Oh shit, what the fuck they have? Great dude, Greedo 1:05:42.800 --> 1:05:46.880 is in this. He Greto is in this and he's 1:05:46.920 --> 1:05:52.840 just like a CGI Greedo. Well, does Greto have sex? No, 1:05:52.960 --> 1:05:58.200 Greedo gets shot? Yeah, okay, Grido got shot, So he's 1:05:58.200 --> 1:06:00.800 not having sex with anyone. But this is real, this 1:06:00.840 --> 1:06:03.560 is produced really well, what is it's called? If search 1:06:03.640 --> 1:06:08.000 up Wicked Pictures porn parody? They have like actual CGI 1:06:08.120 --> 1:06:15.880 going on here, Wicked Pictures, Star Wars porn parody. You 1:06:15.880 --> 1:06:18.920 know what, I don't get what like, dude, I don't 1:06:18.920 --> 1:06:21.280 know about you guys, but like my like sex horny 1:06:21.360 --> 1:06:24.400 brain and my like sitting down to watch a movie 1:06:25.120 --> 1:06:29.280 brain are very different brains. I never understood what the 1:06:29.320 --> 1:06:35.160 appeal is of porn parodies, right, Like, it's like I 1:06:35.160 --> 1:06:38.040 don't like. I guess they're supposed to be kind of funny, 1:06:38.840 --> 1:06:44.080 but like, my sex isn't like I don't know, like 1:06:44.120 --> 1:06:45.640 when you're and I'm not talking about like sex as 1:06:45.680 --> 1:06:47.560 a con sex as a concept is funny, but like 1:06:47.600 --> 1:06:51.120 when you're really into it, it's not like I don't 1:06:51.120 --> 1:06:54.080 feel like it's humorous. You know, it's like a very 1:06:54.280 --> 1:06:57.800 not humorous part of the brain. So why is there 1:06:57.800 --> 1:06:59.760 all these like sex parodies? I guess I get it 1:06:59.760 --> 1:07:01.400 if it's it's like okay, you like people have a 1:07:01.400 --> 1:07:03.840 crush on Princess Leia or Marge Simpson or whatever, and 1:07:03.880 --> 1:07:07.960 they want to see her have sex. But a lot 1:07:07.960 --> 1:07:11.720 of these, a lot of these parodies seem like they're unnecessary. Okay, 1:07:11.720 --> 1:07:15.560 thanks for sharing that. Crash BANDICOOCI. Now crash BANDICOOCI. That 1:07:16.720 --> 1:07:18.080 is a porn parody that I would watch. 1:07:19.320 --> 1:07:19.680 All right? 1:07:19.920 --> 1:07:26.480 Uh okay, this is from Ken subject line come to 1:07:26.560 --> 1:07:31.480 the Nassau Reptile Expo. Yo, what the fuck? Hold on? Hello, Gek, 1:07:31.800 --> 1:07:34.640 my name is Kevin. We spoke a few months ago. 1:07:35.040 --> 1:07:38.920 I discovered there was a reptile expo going on in 1:07:39.000 --> 1:07:42.320 Nassau County on Long Island, not too far from New 1:07:42.400 --> 1:07:45.200 York City, and my friends and I are going to 1:07:45.280 --> 1:07:49.960 go hang out with reptile enthusiasts. I love reptiles, but 1:07:50.000 --> 1:07:52.440 I can't afford to own one since I'm still in school. 1:07:52.680 --> 1:07:55.080 So I'm getting a fix from this. I'm getting my 1:07:55.160 --> 1:07:57.840 fix from this. You should totally pull up. It seems 1:07:57.880 --> 1:08:01.280 like a cool vibe. Tickets are six teen bucks. That's honest. 1:08:01.320 --> 1:08:04.480 Sixteen dollars is a great value ticket for anything, and 1:08:04.560 --> 1:08:07.160 you can get them here. Oh crap, all right, it's 1:08:07.240 --> 1:08:14.360 this weekend the Nasau Reptile Expo. I'm gonna be totally honest. 1:08:14.360 --> 1:08:16.720 I don't think I'm gonna go all the way to 1:08:16.800 --> 1:08:20.439 Nassau to attend this. It would be kind of cute 1:08:20.439 --> 1:08:22.400 to do a video. It would be cute to do 1:08:22.439 --> 1:08:24.160 a video there. It would be cute to do a 1:08:24.160 --> 1:08:26.439 reptile You know what it is is it would be 1:08:26.560 --> 1:08:28.559 cute to do a video at a reptile expo. And 1:08:28.560 --> 1:08:31.320 I also, just as a human being, would enjoy going 1:08:31.360 --> 1:08:38.400 to a reptile expo. That sounds fun, But I such 1:08:38.560 --> 1:08:46.240 so little of my gecko existence is like, actually about geckos. 1:08:48.320 --> 1:08:50.720 That's all the way in Nassau on a Saturday. I 1:08:50.720 --> 1:08:51.160 don't want to. 1:08:53.240 --> 1:08:53.720 I don't know. 1:08:54.760 --> 1:08:56.720 Actually, I mean the days of the week. I guess, 1:08:56.720 --> 1:09:00.439 who gives a fuck? Hosted by Uncle Tony's Reptile Show. 1:09:02.280 --> 1:09:05.599 Let me read the schedule. What's on the schedule. Okay, 1:09:05.600 --> 1:09:07.439 wait a minute, wait wait wait, Okay, there's another. Okay, 1:09:07.439 --> 1:09:10.160 there's another rep Nasau Reptile Expo. They do it three 1:09:10.160 --> 1:09:11.840 times a year. Okay, I'll go to the next one, 1:09:13.520 --> 1:09:15.600 June thirteenth, twenty twenty six. I'll try to go to 1:09:15.640 --> 1:09:23.120 that one. There's no frequently asked questions. Let's see, Uh, 1:09:23.160 --> 1:09:25.559 what the heck is a reptile expo? A reptile Expo 1:09:25.640 --> 1:09:27.840 is a one stop experience for anyone with an interest 1:09:27.840 --> 1:09:32.440 in reptiles, amphibians, plants, or invertebrates. It's an exciting experience 1:09:32.479 --> 1:09:36.720 for families and seasoned reptile hobbyists alike. Dude, this is 1:09:36.720 --> 1:09:38.160 the kind of shit where I wish I had a kid, 1:09:38.200 --> 1:09:41.360 because I was like, like, I would take I would 1:09:41.400 --> 1:09:45.200 take like a five year old to the Nasau Reptile Expo. 1:09:45.280 --> 1:09:52.560 That's that sounds pretty awesome. Or I'd go myself. I 1:09:52.600 --> 1:09:57.600 don't know anyway, Thanks for sharing that, Ken, I appreciate you. 1:09:57.920 --> 1:09:59.640 I appreciate all of you guys. Thanks for listening to 1:09:59.640 --> 1:10:05.000 this podca Yes, thanks for uh, thanks for being a friend. 1:10:05.880 --> 1:10:07.679 Thanks for listening to the show. My name is Lyle 1:10:07.720 --> 1:10:10.000 I dressed. I dress up as a gecko and I 1:10:10.040 --> 1:10:12.760 talk to people on the phone about life and I 1:10:12.840 --> 1:10:16.519 make documentaries. I'm working on the Ukraine one. I think 1:10:16.520 --> 1:10:20.519 it should be done hopefully in the next month or so. 1:10:20.600 --> 1:10:26.080 We shall see. I'm going on tour soon Therapy Gecko 1:10:26.160 --> 1:10:30.040 Tour at gmail dot com. Some of the dates have 1:10:30.120 --> 1:10:33.200 tickets available right now. Some I don't have the ticket 1:10:33.200 --> 1:10:36.840 links for just yet, but you can rs VP and 1:10:36.880 --> 1:10:39.559 I will text you when I do, and I will 1:10:39.560 --> 1:10:41.880 never text you ever again. I just for that one thing. 1:10:42.680 --> 1:10:44.599 I will not spam you or know you. I don't 1:10:44.600 --> 1:10:49.200 do that. So yeah, go to therapy, Gecko tour dot com, 1:10:50.280 --> 1:10:54.639 eat a piece of salmon, try not to kill yourself, 1:10:55.360 --> 1:10:58.720 play a play a game on your phone, watch a 1:10:58.800 --> 1:11:03.439 YouTube video, rink a diet coke, and live your life. 1:11:03.680 --> 1:11:07.280 Try your best. Everything's gonna be fine, probably for someone 1:11:07.560 --> 1:11:11.800 at least. Ghak bless you guys, have a good day 1:11:12.000 --> 1:11:16.800 until next time goes on the line taking your phone calls. 1:11:16.880 --> 1:11:17.439 Every night. 1:11:17.800 --> 1:11:21.360 Deacon goes to Ye's teaching you aloud in the mind 1:11:21.400 --> 1:11:24.479 of your life, but he's not really an expert.