Speaker 1: Hey, folks, it's Lyle here and I've got a big
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Speaker 1: no idea how this is going to go. I have
Speaker 1: no idea what people are going to submit to me.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm gonna get killed. I don't
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Speaker 1: let's get into our regularly scheduled programming. We got a
Speaker 1: great bunch of calls in here. I think this is
Speaker 1: a great episode and I'm excited for you guys to
Speaker 1: listen to it. And I'm gonna shut the hell up
Speaker 1: and let's get into the Calls.
Speaker 2: Goes on the line thinking of its own calls every night.
Speaker 2: Everything goes to its teaching your life an expert.
Speaker 3: All from Stevie.
Speaker 1: Stevie talk to me.
Speaker 4: Oh hey, dude, Wow, what's up?
Speaker 5: I got my second COVID vaccine today and I'm your second?
Speaker 6: Yeah, a dog? Sick as a dog?
Speaker 5: I feel like shit right now?
Speaker 1: You're sick as a dog. I don't like that term
Speaker 1: because I don't think that dog, because there's a lot
Speaker 1: of healthy dogs out there. I don't think when I
Speaker 1: think of a dog, I don't think of sickness. You
Speaker 1: ever seen a dog run? They're very fast, It's true.
Speaker 5: I actually don't really know where that term where phrase
Speaker 5: rather came from.
Speaker 1: M you're sick as a dog and a scuff and
Speaker 1: went to ten. I was sick are you? With ten
Speaker 1: being the sickest the one being the not sickest?
Speaker 5: I'd say like six just really like naxious and like dizzy.
Speaker 5: It honestly feels like I skipped my meds or something,
Speaker 5: but I know I.
Speaker 4: Didn't, so it was it was the vaccine. Glad I
Speaker 4: got it.
Speaker 5: So I work on COVID like call center for my state,
Speaker 5: so like, I know it's worth it. I it just
Speaker 5: sucks right now.
Speaker 1: Do you also end up telling a lot of people
Speaker 1: to turn the thing off and back on again?
Speaker 5: Whereas so I'm a manager actually, and a lot of
Speaker 5: the employees are like middle aged or like older and
Speaker 5: really shitty technology. So yeah, actually do just like our
Speaker 5: software needs turning off and that kind of thing. So yeah,
Speaker 5: I actually do end up dealing.
Speaker 4: With that a lot too.
Speaker 1: M Are you competitive?
Speaker 7: Mm?
Speaker 5: I didn't really like well, I didn't used to be,
Speaker 5: but I started doing like content creation and shit this year,
Speaker 5: which sounds really pretentious, but I realized like that the
Speaker 5: numbers care like I care about the numbers way more
Speaker 5: than I like used to, or more than I thought
Speaker 5: I would rather. It makes me feel kind of like,
Speaker 5: I don't know, I guess I never really wanted to
Speaker 5: like be that kind of person.
Speaker 4: I don't know if that makes.
Speaker 1: Sense what kind of content you create?
Speaker 5: So I'm on TikTok and I it's stupid, but I
Speaker 5: run a couple of segments. One is Confession Booth with
Speaker 5: Stevie and the other one is Stevie and the Monster Fuckers,
Speaker 5: and the second one is very fun. Both are fun,
Speaker 5: but I like the second one the most.
Speaker 4: And I literally.
Speaker 5: Yeah, people submit their monster crushes and I rate them
Speaker 5: and I scale of zero which is unfuckable to ten.
Speaker 5: Oh god, oh god, Yes, let me get in there.
Speaker 5: Uh and yeah, that's my whole st It is just
Speaker 5: that monsters.
Speaker 1: Now monsters on the scale of of of beast to human.
Speaker 1: Where are are they? Because there are some I mean,
Speaker 1: are these are these monsters human? Because best reality, are
Speaker 1: the monsters human enough a to consent to sex?
Speaker 5: Most Yeah, so this obviously is a is a huge
Speaker 5: this course in the community to where like, uh, the
Speaker 5: the conditions basically has to be that they are like
Speaker 5: sentient and able to consent, Like obviously, I think that's.
Speaker 1: A good qualification to have.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, But then there's still ones like someone submitted
Speaker 5: the fucking the chameleon from Tangled, and I'm like, I
Speaker 5: don't care if he's sentient.
Speaker 8: That's a pet.
Speaker 5: That's a pet. I feel horrible about that.
Speaker 1: No, can he talk? Can he communicate?
Speaker 5: He can communicate usually in like like pointing and nodding
Speaker 5: and symbols and like expressions these like a Disney character,
Speaker 5: so like he can communicate, But I don't that's a pet.
Speaker 5: I don't know, I don't know, So stuff like that.
Speaker 5: It's kind of like blurry. But then it's like werewolves
Speaker 5: not technically an animal, but that's like a human soul. Right,
Speaker 5: that's fuckable. That's fuckable.
Speaker 1: Obviously, I want to talk to you about the numbers
Speaker 1: thing because I, you know, look, i'm a content creator
Speaker 1: as well. I I you know, empathize with that a lot.
Speaker 1: But I also I just really have to know. And
Speaker 1: maybe this will break the illusion here and you don't
Speaker 1: want to answer this, but I just I need to
Speaker 1: know the monster fucking is this?
Speaker 3: Is?
Speaker 1: This?
Speaker 9: Is this?
Speaker 10: Like?
Speaker 1: What percentage of this? Maybe it's not. Maybe the answer
Speaker 1: to this is not all or nothing here, but what
Speaker 1: percentage of this is a joke versus you actually want
Speaker 1: to have sex with a monster?
Speaker 5: Oh no, I would have sex with a monster. I
Speaker 5: want to suck a dragon so bad?
Speaker 1: Really want to fuck a dragon?
Speaker 4: I would?
Speaker 5: I would no. Listen, I pretend like the whole series
Speaker 5: is like objective and this is this is me judging
Speaker 5: you for your taste, but it's solely base. It's very
Speaker 5: subjective because the skill that I use is based on
Speaker 5: how much I personally.
Speaker 11: Want to fuck them.
Speaker 5: So I constantly get people very angry at how I
Speaker 5: raided their crush, Like everyone's mad that I rated the
Speaker 5: Like Nick Wilde from Zutopia, I ridded him like a four.
Speaker 5: I don't want to fuck him. He makes me angry.
Speaker 5: He's very smug and I think he's a dick and
Speaker 5: I don't want to fuck him.
Speaker 4: But everyone's very angry about that.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I want to suck monsters.
Speaker 6: I do.
Speaker 1: What is there a character in the community that is
Speaker 1: generally rated as the sort of Maxim's sexiest monster that
Speaker 1: everyone wants to fuck?
Speaker 5: There have been a couple of The tall sexy vampire
Speaker 5: lady from Resident Evil was up there, and also why
Speaker 5: don't the Blue Fang from Castlevania? I really wanted to
Speaker 5: fuck him and everyone else started acting up too, and
Speaker 5: that's one of the more animalistic But people were really
Speaker 5: into him, mainly because he ended up like eating a
Speaker 5: corrupt priest or something and had a deep boys and like, yeah, Also,
Speaker 5: my community is like a bunch of like LGBTQ like
Speaker 5: teens and college students and like, I really love that.
Speaker 5: So a lot was of religious trauma, so that Cater's
Speaker 5: very heavily to that taste as well.
Speaker 1: So is there a monster that Okay, so you've told
Speaker 1: me that everyone wants to fuck the the Fox from
Speaker 1: Zutopia and you do not. Is there a monster that
Speaker 1: you that you want to fuck that everyone else is
Speaker 1: not interested in.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh what's that bitch?
Speaker 5: Bill Cipher from Gravit Falls and the.
Speaker 1: Problem Bill Cipher, No, No.
Speaker 5: I need to explain myself. I know it sounds bad.
Speaker 5: I need to explain myself I got I got into
Speaker 5: that fandom in high school. I was very impressionable and
Speaker 5: I was on Tumblr at the time, and Bill Ceipher
Speaker 5: got the Tumblr sexy man treatment. So they just took
Speaker 5: the character we were given and made like horny fan
Speaker 5: art of him and just made him look like a
Speaker 5: skinny little twink and everyone was in to him, and
Speaker 5: like I was too. But I'm now realizing that that
Speaker 5: has given me so much brain rot. I literally do
Speaker 5: not look at the triangle and see the triangle. I
Speaker 5: see the sexy little blonde guy who's like, I don't know,
Speaker 5: gonna choke you or whatever. And so I'm realizing I
Speaker 5: literally cannot look at that man as he is, which
Speaker 5: picks me off because now I'm rewatching the show and
Speaker 5: I'm like, I don't know if i'd actually fuck this man,
Speaker 5: but I'm in too deep now, so I really can't
Speaker 5: take that one back.
Speaker 1: It's a triangle, is anything, what's going in, what's going out?
Speaker 1: What's uh? I don't even logistically, how does that even work?
Speaker 5: Well, listen, he's a shape shifter, he's a.
Speaker 1: Shapefe So so you was okay, so, but okay, so
Speaker 1: that's so okay, all right in your perfect fantasy where
Speaker 1: you're having sex with Bill Seipher in what form or
Speaker 1: is he in?
Speaker 5: Well, I'm not realizing kind of falls apart when I
Speaker 5: have to think about it deeper than that.
Speaker 4: Usually it says that the because then you would.
Speaker 1: Have you would run have sex with what mainly whatever
Speaker 1: that form is? Or I guess I mean you're attracted
Speaker 1: to his personality, which is intact whatever wardless of the form.
Speaker 5: Oh evil, horrible personality. But I'm now realizing that I
Speaker 5: really messed up by rating him that night, because what
Speaker 5: the reason I was attracted to him was because of
Speaker 5: the fan art. But the fan art Droom is a human.
Speaker 5: Oh god, I read it.
Speaker 12: A human.
Speaker 4: I messed up.
Speaker 5: I met up.
Speaker 4: He doesn't.
Speaker 1: Stevie, Stevie, Stevie. Before we go, I have to be
Speaker 1: honest with you about something. Yeah, I think the reason
Speaker 1: why your numbers might be low is because having sex
Speaker 1: with monsters a little niche. Niche a niche if I
Speaker 1: do say so myself, No, you're.
Speaker 5: Right, it is, and I'm honestly okay with that niche.
Speaker 5: Although it is weird because I have been recognized in
Speaker 5: public and that does mean that in my favorite coffee
Speaker 5: shop a couple of people have found me and they go,
Speaker 5: the monsterfucker.
Speaker 12: Man.
Speaker 5: I'm like, okay, so I've really done this to myself
Speaker 5: and I'm really in deep now, so like I might
Speaker 5: as well embrace it, even if I'm not going to
Speaker 5: be like crazy off the charts. I love it because
Speaker 5: it's stupid as hell. It's a weird thing to be
Speaker 5: known for.
Speaker 4: But it's fun.
Speaker 1: I find interesting about someone recognizing you in public. About
Speaker 1: the monsterfucker is a think about how many times someone
Speaker 1: has gone up to you and gone, oh, are you
Speaker 1: Stevie the monsterfucker and then realizing it's not you. I
Speaker 1: never thought of that, and then they're like, am I who?
Speaker 1: And never mind when I listened Stevie the Monsterfucker. I
Speaker 1: wish you the best of luck in your continuing content career,
Speaker 1: and I hope one day it works out between you
Speaker 1: and Bill Cipher.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much. God, Bless God.
Speaker 1: Bless you ever won from night.
Speaker 3: You do.
Speaker 13: All from Lilah, Lilah.
Speaker 11: Yes, how are you?
Speaker 1: Lilah?
Speaker 3: I'm kind of nervous.
Speaker 1: Why are you nervous?
Speaker 7: Because I've really been thinking about shaving my head, but
Speaker 7: I'm scared of about.
Speaker 13: Other people would say to me.
Speaker 1: Yes, how old are you?
Speaker 14: I Am about to be nineteen.
Speaker 3: In like two days.
Speaker 1: You really want to shave your head, but you're afraid
Speaker 1: of what other people will think of you.
Speaker 10: Yeah, especially my parents. They're super judgies.
Speaker 1: Well, you're eighteen years old, right now?
Speaker 7: Do you?
Speaker 8: Are you?
Speaker 1: Do you still live with your parents? Or are you
Speaker 1: getting an apartment? Or are you on a.
Speaker 14: College I live in the same town.
Speaker 9: We're not with.
Speaker 1: Them, you know. Uh, this is actually a great opportunity because,
Speaker 1: you know, as you get older, you know, uh, I
Speaker 1: almost feel like shaving her head is a way to
Speaker 1: you know, sort of uh. You know, do a cannonball
Speaker 1: into the pool of no longer living uh, in accordance
Speaker 1: with your parents judgments of you, and with judgments of
Speaker 1: you by your friends and society at large, which is
Speaker 1: a you know, you get you. You take that cannonball,
Speaker 1: and my god, does the water feel nice once you
Speaker 1: get in there.
Speaker 14: The thing is, I can't swim.
Speaker 1: You can't swim. No, how do you know you can't swim?
Speaker 1: You ever been in the water before?
Speaker 14: Yeah, and I almost drowned.
Speaker 1: You can't drown in this metaphorical.
Speaker 14: Pool because it's.
Speaker 1: A yes, I'm trying to think, like, in the terms
Speaker 1: of this metaphor, we're jumping into the pool of not
Speaker 1: caring what other people think of you. I mean, what
Speaker 1: does it mean to drown? What are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: Die because other people think that you're weird because you
Speaker 1: shaved your head. No, you're cloaked, Lila, Lilah, Lila, listen.
Speaker 1: I know you're young, but god damn, now's a perfect
Speaker 1: opportunity for you to free yourself of the judgments of
Speaker 1: other people, especially your parents.
Speaker 14: Uh huh.
Speaker 1: I think you should do it.
Speaker 14: Well, okay, I feel so motivator right now, like I'm seeking.
Speaker 1: Good, good good. It's your life, it's your body, it's
Speaker 1: your hair, it's not your parents's, it's not anyone else's
Speaker 1: but yours, Lila.
Speaker 14: Uh huh.
Speaker 7: And it could always go back.
Speaker 1: It could always grow back. That's the perfect thing about.
Speaker 3: Hair, right, thank you?
Speaker 1: Of course, are you gonna do it.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I think I am going to do it.
Speaker 16: I don't think i'll reach it.
Speaker 1: On top of schieving it, go crazy, do what you
Speaker 1: want your life. You get one, then you die and
Speaker 1: then I don't know, maybe you get reincarnated as like
Speaker 1: a dog or something, but that's a maybe. That's not guaranteed.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 13: Oh, I don't wouldn't be bad.
Speaker 5: I'll be good.
Speaker 7: Oh, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Over you have won to us of the night.
Speaker 14: Uh huh you too?
Speaker 8: All from Noel? Holy shit, we're doing it yo?
Speaker 10: Oh my god, holy fun.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, Noel. Hi, how are you?
Speaker 7: I'm great? How are you?
Speaker 1: You're great? Why are you so? Why are you great?
Speaker 7: Because I just got home from work and I'm glad
Speaker 7: to be fucking home.
Speaker 1: What what's work like?
Speaker 6: Bullshit?
Speaker 16: I hate it?
Speaker 1: It's bullshit. Why is it bullshit? Dude?
Speaker 7: Because I work at a restaurant.
Speaker 1: Restaurants are fantastic places. You know they got mozzerellistics. Your
Speaker 1: restaurant have mozzarella sticks. No, no, damn, I can see
Speaker 1: why I do a lot of working there. Then you
Speaker 1: should quit that job. Start working at a restaurant there
Speaker 1: has mozzirellistics. That way, you can get free Mozzarelli sticks, Naomi. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's your name, right, Noel. That's basic. This is basically
Speaker 1: the same names. What what what's the what's the best
Speaker 1: dish that they serve at your restaurant? Mmmm?
Speaker 7: Probably the cold fall.
Speaker 1: I don't even eat coal slow.
Speaker 7: I don't either, but I've heard it's good.
Speaker 1: That's the best thing that you've eaten at the restaurant.
Speaker 11: I don't want to eat their food.
Speaker 1: What's the You sound like you really hate this place.
Speaker 1: What do you hate the most about it? Well?
Speaker 7: I like the place, don't get me wrong. It's one
Speaker 7: of the fucking my coworkers I don't like.
Speaker 1: Why don't you like them? Because she's just stuck up
Speaker 1: a little bitch?
Speaker 11: You said, yes, so.
Speaker 1: You work at a restaurant with a coworker who I'm
Speaker 1: going to quote you on this is a stuck up
Speaker 1: little bitch. Yes, sir, explain why you explain why you
Speaker 1: believe that this person is a stuck up little bitch.
Speaker 7: Okay, all right, let me elaborate this for you.
Speaker 1: All right, sure, please?
Speaker 7: Of course I'm in the back, you know, I take
Speaker 7: care of all the dishes and ship. It's disgusting. She
Speaker 7: takes her sweet ass time, you know, all dainty. Putting
Speaker 7: the little dishes bag gives me side eye looking fucking looks,
Speaker 7: and I just want to like take the power hose
Speaker 7: and fucking sprayer and be like, can you move out
Speaker 7: of the way so I can get the dishes?
Speaker 1: Look here, Look, I'm not taking sides. I'm just you know,
Speaker 1: telling people. I'm just you know, mentioning what I observe.
Speaker 1: Nothing wrong with doing your dishes a little dainty, you know.
Speaker 1: I like to I like to look you while I'm
Speaker 1: doing my dishes too, you know. I like to do
Speaker 1: it a little dainty. Maybe you know, do a little spin,
Speaker 1: do a little dish spin when I'm doing I'm putting
Speaker 1: them away. Why you don't like the style in which
Speaker 1: she does the dishes, She like wipes.
Speaker 7: Her hand like all on her pants, and you know,
Speaker 7: like does like a little like Christy cat walk out
Speaker 7: into the front house. And it's just she takes too
Speaker 7: much time. I need to get the dishes over and
Speaker 7: get them done. You know, I'm trying to bust shit
Speaker 7: out and not take.
Speaker 1: My I can't rush style. Noel, Dude, she sounds like
Speaker 1: she's like she's trying to make she's trying. She sounds
Speaker 1: like he's trying to make it into an art of
Speaker 1: some kind.
Speaker 7: There's a time and place for everything, and that's not
Speaker 7: the time and place, you know.
Speaker 1: I want to actually be honest with you here and
Speaker 1: all seriousness. I don't understand why you're so bothered about
Speaker 1: this person. I mean, are they doing anything to you specifically?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 1: You know, Noel, you ever explore the concept of there's
Speaker 1: no word. I don't know if there's a word for this,
Speaker 1: but the idea that you know whether or not a
Speaker 1: person upsets you, the fact that you're upset, the fact
Speaker 1: that you're upset about this person who you described as
Speaker 1: a stuck up little bitch. I mean, I can tell
Speaker 1: that the anger that you have is a I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna use a metaphor here. It's the
Speaker 1: giant dark ball inside of your heart of this person.
Speaker 1: And look, even if you hate them, I think if
Speaker 1: you were to let it go and hate them a
Speaker 1: little less, it would only be in your benefits.
Speaker 7: I mean, I would like to get the number, but
Speaker 7: she won't talk to me. I don't know. I'm not
Speaker 7: the same person that's gonna go out of my way
Speaker 7: to talk to someone.
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 7: I like people talking to me. First. Then I'm actually
Speaker 7: a nice person. I know I probably come off as,
Speaker 7: you know, a bitch, but I'm actually a really sweet
Speaker 7: and caring person.
Speaker 1: No, I mean, look first, well, first of all, well,
Speaker 1: I mean there's a couple of things. First of all,
Speaker 1: you know, I think if you did try to get
Speaker 1: to know how be honest. Be honest with me? Noel,
Speaker 1: be honest? Are you? Will you be honest with me?
Speaker 1: If I asked you some yes, how many full conversations
Speaker 1: have you had with this person?
Speaker 17: One?
Speaker 1: One?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 1: Describe how that went.
Speaker 7: She dropped some dishes and I accidentally picked it up
Speaker 7: and got food on her and I said, I'm really sorry,
Speaker 7: and she was just like it's okay. And that's how
Speaker 7: the conversation went.
Speaker 1: No, listen, Noel, dude, come on, Noel, Noel, you gotta
Speaker 1: you gotta get to know this person. Dude, you gotta
Speaker 1: get to know this person. And better than that. There,
Speaker 1: you can't you can't, I mean, you can't form such
Speaker 1: I mean, this isn't even just like she seems like
Speaker 1: a little weird, like I don't this is you called
Speaker 1: her a stuck up little, but I mean that's strong
Speaker 1: in no well, you know, at least at least get
Speaker 1: you know, go in there, get some intel. Go and Noel,
Speaker 1: if you would please just you know, try to have
Speaker 1: a conversation with this person. And if you're gonna do that,
Speaker 1: try to drop any preconceived notions or expectations. I feel
Speaker 1: like we've been talking, we were talking earlier about dropping expectations.
Speaker 1: But you gotta go into this reading positive intent. Like
Speaker 1: if you are gonna go and you're gonna try to
Speaker 1: have a conversation with this Grog're gonna try to get
Speaker 1: to know her, you can't go into it like I'm
Speaker 1: gonna specifically be looking to get mad at her. I'm
Speaker 1: actually if you go the opposite, like you gotta specifically
Speaker 1: look with the aim of trying to find something you
Speaker 1: actually like about her and something you guys might have
Speaker 1: in common maybe, you know, Because I mean, this is
Speaker 1: this rage, it feels like it's totally hurting you, Noel.
Speaker 7: No, I'm I have all of my other coworkers, you know,
Speaker 7: I'm friends with them. It's just she doesn't talk to me.
Speaker 7: I mean, I guess I could go out of my
Speaker 7: way to be like, you know, hey, I shouldn't even
Speaker 7: know my name. I don't even know her name. I
Speaker 7: just know where.
Speaker 1: Of course you don't. You've only talked once.
Speaker 7: Okay, all right, I will turn a new leaf and
Speaker 7: I will be more positive tomorrow when I go into work.
Speaker 1: Good. And by the way, I want you to know
Speaker 1: something if even even if if you go up to
Speaker 1: let's what's this girl's name or a fake name, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna call her Kaitlin. If you go up to Kaitlin
Speaker 1: and you say, hey, you know, how's it going whatever,
Speaker 1: and she's like, you're a piece of shit, go fuck
Speaker 1: yourself and is mean to you, you still you still
Speaker 1: should not harbor such strong hatred of her because it's
Speaker 1: only it's only hurting you.
Speaker 7: No, I mean, at that point, that's the decision for
Speaker 7: me to make if words should affect to me.
Speaker 10: Because that's all up to me. If I want to
Speaker 10: let it upset me.
Speaker 14: That's my choice.
Speaker 7: But I could just brush it off and not give
Speaker 7: a fuck.
Speaker 1: I think that brushing it off and not giving a
Speaker 1: fuck is an excellent strategy.
Speaker 7: You a got some mind up here.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for calling them. Well you ever
Speaker 1: wonder for Rest of the night, and I wish you
Speaker 1: the best of luck you too, aw from shallon shallon,
Speaker 1: sallad shllon salad Salon? Can you can you spell that? Panatically?
Speaker 7: Hold on?
Speaker 10: I just turned off my streams. What'd you say?
Speaker 1: You said? Your name is Salin?
Speaker 10: Yes, with the F?
Speaker 1: Where is that F?
Speaker 14: Sallon F A.
Speaker 1: L l O n oh fat? Like Jimmy Fallon.
Speaker 10: Yeah, like Jimmy Fallon. Okay, So your question is what happened?
Speaker 10: And yesterday I broke up with my boyfriend, So that's
Speaker 10: what happens.
Speaker 1: Why'd you break up with them?
Speaker 10: He cheated on me, He cheated.
Speaker 1: On you, that's a good reason to break over him.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: How long were you guys together?
Speaker 3: A little over a year?
Speaker 1: Okay? And how are you feeling about it?
Speaker 10: Honestly, I'm doing pretty good. But my only problem is though,
Speaker 10: I don't know how to talk to people because I've
Speaker 10: been in a relationship so long, so I'm having trouble
Speaker 10: like getting out there.
Speaker 1: Well that's good, right, because you know, look, the longer
Speaker 1: you had stayed in that relationship, which was probably bad
Speaker 1: anyway because it ended with him cheating on you, the
Speaker 1: further your social skills would have deteriorated. So I actually
Speaker 1: feel like, you know, a year of you know, lacking
Speaker 1: the ability to talk to other people, that's getting off
Speaker 1: pretty good. You know, you could have been in deep,
Speaker 1: you know, ten years and got down and been like, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know how to interact with another human being.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 1: Exactly are you making any efforts? Are you on the
Speaker 1: the hinges, the bumbles, the tenders, the okay cupids, the
Speaker 1: jay dates?
Speaker 10: No, I didn't get on. I'm not gonna do any
Speaker 10: like dating websites. I just have been posting thirst traps.
Speaker 1: Basically posting thirst traps. What what is the goal of
Speaker 1: these thirst traps?
Speaker 10: Just for male validation?
Speaker 1: Why do you why do you feel as though you
Speaker 1: need male validation?
Speaker 10: I don't know, because I just got cheated on probably.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, look, I mean I feel like you
Speaker 1: have a double opportunity here. You have the opportunity to
Speaker 1: both you know, enhance your social skills and you know,
Speaker 1: kind of similar to a lot of a little bit
Speaker 1: similar to what I was talking about. Is your name Lila, No,
Speaker 1: your name is fan on a little bit similar to what
Speaker 1: us talk about Lillilah about you know, freeing herself from
Speaker 1: the chains of the you know, needing the validation of
Speaker 1: other people.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 1: I feel like this is an opportunity for you to,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe explore some time with yourself, you know,
Speaker 1: for yourself, from the chains of of needing validation from
Speaker 1: other people.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 16: M M.
Speaker 1: Do you have a dear friends? Yes, of course, you've
Speaker 1: been hanging out with your friends anymore. I feel like
Speaker 1: a lot of times when people they get into long relationships,
Speaker 1: they neglect their friendships. Sometimes it happens.
Speaker 10: You know, me and my friends, we all stayed pretty close,
Speaker 10: and I mean we're even closer now that we can
Speaker 10: all spend most of our time together because now it's
Speaker 10: summer too.
Speaker 1: Wait about how old are you?
Speaker 10: Nineteen?
Speaker 1: Oh? What the hell was I going to say? That's good?
Speaker 1: You know, it's good that you spend a time with
Speaker 1: your friends. You know. I know that when you're young,
Speaker 1: you want validation from everyone all the time. I get it,
Speaker 1: I understand, But you know, listen, fallon, you don't need it,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, you want to post those straps
Speaker 1: just because you know it's your body, your social media,
Speaker 1: you're you can do whatever you want, go ahead, but
Speaker 1: you know, you know, don't feel like you need validation
Speaker 1: from anyone to do anything.
Speaker 10: Yeah, true, Yeah, but that made me feel good.
Speaker 11: You know, I feel good about good good.
Speaker 1: I think that's a good reason to do it. Yeah, hmm,
Speaker 1: you should.
Speaker 10: Well what's been happening with you?
Speaker 1: Maybe, like, are there any skills you've always wanted to learn? Bowling?
Speaker 10: Uh? Fun fact, Actually I bowled for four years in
Speaker 10: high school.
Speaker 1: Really, I just made up bowling. Bowling was I tried
Speaker 1: to think of an activity and it was the first
Speaker 1: one that popped into my head.
Speaker 10: Well it must have popped up for a reason, because
Speaker 10: I played that for four years. I was pretty good too.
Speaker 1: You are you still good?
Speaker 10: I haven't bowled in a long time since I graduated
Speaker 10: in high school, but I think I would still be good.
Speaker 1: I still have Maybe that's your thing. Maybe that's your thing, dude.
Speaker 1: Maybe you joined a bowling league. You know, this propels
Speaker 1: you to like rediscover your long lost love of bowling,
Speaker 1: and then you become a champion. You get the seven
Speaker 1: ten splits, speak you bowl of three hundred. I like
Speaker 1: this path for you. I mean, look, you shouldn't do
Speaker 1: it just because I'm telling you to do it, But
Speaker 1: I'm just throwing ideas out here.
Speaker 10: I'm gonna do it just because you said it too.
Speaker 1: I take no responsibility for anything that happens to you.
Speaker 1: You have a good rest of the night.
Speaker 17: Leila.
Speaker 1: No, your name is not Leilah. Leila was the name
Speaker 1: of the last call. Your name is Fallon. You have
Speaker 1: a good rest of the night, Foulon. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for crawling.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 8: All from Parker.
Speaker 1: Parker Millson Patty Mister, how old are you? Parker?
Speaker 4: How old? Or how am I?
Speaker 1: How old are you?
Speaker 4: I am twenty three?
Speaker 1: Twenty three? Do you like me in twenty three?
Speaker 4: You know it's a Lebron and Jeordane's numbers, say, I
Speaker 4: guess they can't be too bay.
Speaker 1: Are you a big sports guy?
Speaker 4: Yeah, i'd say so.
Speaker 1: You ever thought about inventing your own sports? Parker Ball?
Speaker 4: Actually, actually a friend of mine has a sport he invented,
Speaker 4: but I take part in inventment. It's called pat.
Speaker 1: Ball, Patchball. Patball is your friend's name, Pat.
Speaker 4: His name is Pat.
Speaker 1: How do you play Patball?
Speaker 4: It's kind of like, uh, what say, like water polo?
Speaker 4: Almost like quidditch in the water.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's like water polo.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's kind of kind of water polo is, but
Speaker 4: just in an above ground pool.
Speaker 1: What if you have to say, even if it's only
Speaker 1: one thing, what is the key difference between pat boll,
Speaker 1: pat ball and water polo?
Speaker 4: Probably that his little brother gets the ball for us
Speaker 4: when it goes out of the pool.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm so specifically, so, the only way to play
Speaker 1: pat ball is for past little brother to be involved.
Speaker 1: You cannot play pat ball without pass little brother.
Speaker 4: Uh, yeah, you you can't play pat ball without Pats
Speaker 4: little brother. What we usually do is like when you
Speaker 4: throw the ball and you try to get a past
Speaker 4: the other person, you know, it goes out. So we
Speaker 4: tell him, We're like, hey, we'll time you and see
Speaker 4: how long it takes for you to go get the ball.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and what's what's pasts little Brother's best time?
Speaker 4: We never really time him, but we give him a
Speaker 4: fake time, you know what I mean?
Speaker 12: Mm hm?
Speaker 1: Do you guys give him a Do you at least
Speaker 1: give him a generous fake time, a time that makes
Speaker 1: him feel accomplished?
Speaker 4: Hell no, hell no.
Speaker 1: Every time he comes back is it always is too slow.
Speaker 1: It's it's been like forty five minutes that way.
Speaker 4: The next time he tries to get faster.
Speaker 1: You know, and that's very smart. Actually, yeah, yeah, mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Is this something you can see there being a league for?
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm sure Pat, Pat would like for there
Speaker 4: to be those leagues because you know, then we could
Speaker 4: then we could claim claim, you know, money or some
Speaker 4: some shift. I'm not really sure hell get money from
Speaker 4: creating leagues guys, but I would love for that to happen.
Speaker 1: He just asked pasts little brother for money, but actually
Speaker 1: he probably doesn't have any money. Hold his Pats little
Speaker 1: Bard like thirteen.
Speaker 4: Uh, yeah, he was at the beginning. Wow, that is
Speaker 4: a really close guest man, that's really I'm pretty sure
Speaker 4: he was like thirteen when we started with fat Ball.
Speaker 1: Interesting, thirteen is like I feel like thirteen. Maybe I'm Pat.
Speaker 1: What's your name, Parker, Parker? I love to know your opinion.
Speaker 1: Was I think thirteen is a little old to be
Speaker 1: tricked so easily. I was imagining him like eleven or something. Actually, no, No,
Speaker 1: tricking a thirteen year old shouldn't be that hard.
Speaker 4: No, no, it's not really that hard. No, I don't
Speaker 4: think so. But now now he's like sixteen, you know, say.
Speaker 1: Sixteen, is he as trickable as he was then is he.
Speaker 4: Still absolutely not. But we've moved on to the younger siblings.
Speaker 4: So there was a younger one and now we get
Speaker 4: her to do it most of the time, but she's
Speaker 4: not as reliable as he was.
Speaker 12: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Pat Baal just hasn't been the same since pat little brother.
Speaker 1: Pat's little brother grew up and stopped it and you know,
Speaker 1: gained a sense of awareness and time.
Speaker 4: Absolutely not absolutely.
Speaker 1: Ever, since Pat's little brother learned how long a minute
Speaker 1: was exactly has been a terrible experience.
Speaker 4: Pat Ball has went downhill drastically since the loss of
Speaker 4: pat Ball retriever or Carter.
Speaker 1: Well, what the hell are you gonna do now, Parker?
Speaker 4: I don't know, man, I don't know. We're trying to
Speaker 4: figure out the system. Maybe a dog or like arm
Speaker 4: that will like stretch out of the pool and grab
Speaker 4: it for us. I ain't really I ain't really too sure.
Speaker 1: Try the dog, Try the dog. Let me know how
Speaker 1: the dog goes. I like the idea of the dog.
Speaker 4: I mean, I definitely, I definitely will. You know, it's
Speaker 4: more of his sports, so I expect him to come
Speaker 4: up with the come, you know, bring the dog and
Speaker 4: the retrieving dog to the table.
Speaker 12: Yeah you all right?
Speaker 1: Parker? Doing okay?
Speaker 4: I'll say him all right, I ain't doing too bad.
Speaker 1: That's good much, Parker.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, thank you, thank you for thank you for
Speaker 4: letting me get through man, great time.
Speaker 1: It's been an honor. Yeah, you have a good name.
Speaker 4: You see man? Thank you.
Speaker 3: All from I'm not me?
Speaker 16: Not me?
Speaker 11: Is that you? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I'm Lemma. Can you turn your stream?
Speaker 18: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I can do that.
Speaker 13: Yeah, what's up?
Speaker 1: What's up? Thank you for giving me like twenty dollars?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 4: Is that how it like?
Speaker 12: It?
Speaker 2: Quits?
Speaker 13: I don't know how this works.
Speaker 1: Oh do you do you want it back?
Speaker 13: No?
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you of course.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 13: I wanted to be on your Gecko dating show and
Speaker 13: just never worked out.
Speaker 1: I guess did you did you apply?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I did.
Speaker 13: We even talked about it in your DMS before the
Speaker 13: night before it.
Speaker 4: Happened, did we?
Speaker 1: Yeah? It's your name? What's what was your name? Not me?
Speaker 13: Samuel?
Speaker 1: What's up, Taylor, Samuel? We talked about it in my DMS?
Speaker 1: What did you say? Oh?
Speaker 13: I think I had responded to a background choice you
Speaker 13: were trying to choose what to stream too?
Speaker 1: And then you said, you said gek date or something.
Speaker 13: I don't remember what my what my idea was. I've
Speaker 13: deactivated and reactivated my Instagram so many times. I'm not
Speaker 13: even sure our messages are still there.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think if they're because I look. I
Speaker 1: look at all the I look at all the people.
Speaker 13: Oh yeah, no, you responded, we talked. You said something kind.
Speaker 1: What did I say?
Speaker 13: I don't know it was kind, though. My impression is good,
Speaker 13: or I wouldn't have given you.
Speaker 3: Any money tonight the rock and roll.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. All right, we'll get you on the
Speaker 1: next one. Apply to the next one.
Speaker 13: All right, I'll try. What is the next one?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 1: So you think it's probably either the last week of
Speaker 1: May or the second to last week of May, one
Speaker 1: of those two.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it just depends on work. I'm working like a
Speaker 13: dog now that entertainment is back.
Speaker 1: We'll figure it out. By the way, we had another
Speaker 1: person we had another person earlier say that she was
Speaker 1: sick as a dog. Person another person's sick as a dog,
Speaker 1: which I didn't like because it generalizes all dogs are sick,
Speaker 1: which is not true. You said work like a dog.
Speaker 1: I don't like that either. I have a dog.
Speaker 7: All day.
Speaker 1: It doesn't do anything, doesn't pay rent, there's no job.
Speaker 1: I hope you're not working like that dog. I hope
Speaker 1: you're working like a huge, like a human.
Speaker 13: I mean, I guess it's just I'm trying to I'm
Speaker 13: trying to adjust back to not COVID life. You know,
Speaker 13: I was working like a dog. I guess if we're
Speaker 13: just you know, generalizing dogs is lazy.
Speaker 1: What is not working? Okay? I guess that makes sense.
Speaker 1: What does what does your COVID not COVID life look like.
Speaker 13: My not COVID life. I work in entertainment. I'm a
Speaker 13: live audio technician, so it's pretty you know, I kind
Speaker 13: of make my living on events. Man, it's been really
Speaker 13: rough without technician.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what do you audio tech?
Speaker 10: Like?
Speaker 13: Live mixing? So like bands and stuff. I mike up
Speaker 13: all the instruments on stage and kind of balance the
Speaker 13: sounds out so that everyone gets.
Speaker 7: To enjoy shows.
Speaker 1: That's cool. Do you run your own business doing that?
Speaker 1: Do you work for a company?
Speaker 13: I work for a company. I'm working at a casino on
Speaker 13: the East Coast.
Speaker 1: I feel I feel like we've gotten a lot of
Speaker 1: casino callers.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I heard that dude with the security poop. That's
Speaker 13: pretty dope surveillance.
Speaker 1: Huh yeah, how do you know? Hey, maybe he who knows,
Speaker 1: maybe he works at your casino. Maybe you got to
Speaker 1: maybe you got a secret deck guy thing going on.
Speaker 13: You see. There you go, there's good. This is like
Speaker 13: b sides of.
Speaker 6: Geck gay man.
Speaker 1: If I could get hitted now, if okay, if I
Speaker 1: could get the casino guy to apply for gat THEAD
Speaker 1: and you apply for Get Dead, I'll hook you guys up.
Speaker 13: That's That's what I'm talking about. I like, how though
Speaker 13: this is good thinking, this is a good thing. I
Speaker 13: need to think outside the box. And I'm going through
Speaker 13: kind of like this weird, traubatic, unexplainable heartbreak experience, and
Speaker 13: that's kind of why I wanted to, like talk. I
Speaker 13: was like, my therapist isn't really helping, so maybe to
Speaker 13: get go, Well.
Speaker 1: Why is it your therapist helping?
Speaker 13: What's don't it's what's the matter. So there's this guy
Speaker 13: that I've really liked for quite some time, and only
Speaker 13: because I found his Spotify and started like creeping his
Speaker 13: playlist and was like, I don't know, I guess I
Speaker 13: fell in love with his taste in music. You know,
Speaker 13: it's like a millennial tragedy because it's one sided. Right.
Speaker 13: So I bought him one hundred dollars bouquet of flowers
Speaker 13: on Valentine's Day and sent it to him like anonymously,
Speaker 13: and he immediately texted me he must have obviously known
Speaker 13: I'm the only Bush that would do something like that.
Speaker 13: And he still hasn't asked me out, still hasn't like
Speaker 13: tried to hang It's just like it's kind of just
Speaker 13: left as is.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean you can't you can't look if you're
Speaker 1: going to give something like that. I mean, you can't
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 13: Conditionally, know exactly. And I've had I've let that go,
Speaker 13: Let it go, you know, which is I feel like
Speaker 13: he doesn't understand why I.
Speaker 7: Would do something like that.
Speaker 1: Okay, So is this like a musician that you liked
Speaker 1: his music or is just a regular guy not the
Speaker 1: regular playlist, just a regular just like, how did you
Speaker 1: here's hold on? Actually we skipped a step that I
Speaker 1: actually is very important. How did you find his dress
Speaker 1: to send him flowers?
Speaker 13: So this is a small town and he's actually sent
Speaker 13: me the dress before we hung out like one.
Speaker 1: So he's not so he's not a mystery He's not
Speaker 1: a mystery guy.
Speaker 13: You know, he exists, He exists in my life. I
Speaker 13: sent it to his job, though, so he owns this
Speaker 13: like ice cream parlor near me?
Speaker 1: And give the timeline. I'm getting the time. Mine all
Speaker 1: totally confused because you're telling me that you have no
Speaker 1: idea who this guy was. It was one side and
Speaker 1: he didn't know who you were.
Speaker 19: You found playlists, say it was one sided in a
Speaker 19: way that like, he only you know.
Speaker 13: I'm interested in him because of his music caste, but
Speaker 13: I don't know if he has anything to be interested
Speaker 13: in me for I just.
Speaker 1: Think you guys know each other.
Speaker 14: Yea.
Speaker 1: And you sent him a hundred dollar a bouquet of flowers.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 1: First of all, men don't really care about flowers that much.
Speaker 1: I don't think right, I have it wrong.
Speaker 13: I'm the gesture. I would be flattered as if I
Speaker 13: had a I.
Speaker 1: Look, it was a very sweet gesture.
Speaker 13: Does that get acknowledged by men?
Speaker 1: If someone sent me a one hundred dollars bouquet of flowers,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. Those flowers would be dead in
Speaker 1: two days, like probably less than that. Because I don't
Speaker 1: I'm not good at taking care of living things like
Speaker 1: I'm barely taking care of myself. Wheat thins for breakfast, lunch,
Speaker 1: and dinner today, I would send, but yeah, I would
Speaker 1: send a thank.
Speaker 13: You, Okay, But you wouldn't necessarily want to like see
Speaker 13: that person to like here.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think it would be inherent
Speaker 1: I don't think it would inherently right. Would I want
Speaker 1: to see them?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Like what? I want to know who they are, but
Speaker 1: I want to go on a date with them if
Speaker 1: they sent me away on a personal level, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think that's a lot upfront. Oh, you had his number,
Speaker 1: don't you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know I.
Speaker 13: Could response to this from time to time and stuff and.
Speaker 11: Working together.
Speaker 13: Kind of I get his attention once.
Speaker 7: In a while.
Speaker 1: I'm so, I'm highly confused about your relationship with this guy,
Speaker 1: because one day I thought you didn't know each other,
Speaker 1: you know his stuff. But you know, you said you've
Speaker 1: hanged You said you've hung out once.
Speaker 13: Yeah, we used to work together and we hung out
Speaker 13: one time, and it was just like, you know, he's
Speaker 13: always been so complimenting to me through messages and like
Speaker 13: kind and so I've seen him, like we've taken small
Speaker 13: like strolls together, like brief strolls because we live in
Speaker 13: the same area.
Speaker 10: Right, So I just like I got it.
Speaker 13: I developed a little crush because I looked him up
Speaker 13: on Spotify and essentially just like kind of gush my
Speaker 13: heart out. And now I'm just existing.
Speaker 1: Did you look him up on Spotify before or after
Speaker 1: you like hung out with him in person after? Okay,
Speaker 1: I think I think I'm starting to make sense of
Speaker 1: this situation. I think here's what I think you should do.
Speaker 1: Why don't you just ask him if he wants to
Speaker 1: hang out with you.
Speaker 13: I've tried, and I even and then it's just like
Speaker 13: he's all was busy. There's always a reason.
Speaker 10: So I stopped trying and instead.
Speaker 13: I wrote a song for him. I wrote a song
Speaker 13: and sent it to him.
Speaker 1: Like I'm gonna listen, not me. I'm gonna be honest
Speaker 1: with you. I think if if, if you're and and
Speaker 1: I would say, this's just anyone, regardless of any dynamic
Speaker 1: and or anything at all. If you are interested in
Speaker 1: someone and you're kind of getting the idea they're not
Speaker 1: interested in you back, and you just move on to
Speaker 1: someone else.
Speaker 13: Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: You know this is a concept that's called fuck yes
Speaker 1: or no. Like, I really do believe that you can
Speaker 1: kind of tell when people are into you or not,
Speaker 1: and if they're not, then you just move on. You know,
Speaker 1: there's eight trillion people and planet Earth probably, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know there's other there's still a little bit little
Speaker 1: bit of other people, you know, and you don't have
Speaker 1: to go you don't have to you know, open up
Speaker 1: with grand gestures or anything. You can just ask people
Speaker 1: if they want to hang out with you, and if
Speaker 1: they don't, you move on. There's other people that might
Speaker 1: be a be even more compatible.
Speaker 13: With that's true, So don't tell him he was my
Speaker 13: music for a song and then send it to him
Speaker 13: and hope that he responds to it.
Speaker 6: Probably not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think you'd be better off finding
Speaker 1: finding someone who you think would be more receptive to that.
Speaker 13: Oh see, but maybe it's the resistance I enjoy. I
Speaker 13: know I'm not the only one.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, maybe that's something. Maybe maybe that's something
Speaker 1: you can talk to your therapist.
Speaker 10: About that that's what you were for.
Speaker 1: No, I'm just a gecko, all right.
Speaker 13: Well I tried, you know, I tried to rebound. I
Speaker 13: tried to do the gecko date thing, and now what
Speaker 13: get you.
Speaker 1: On the next one, dude, We'll get you on the
Speaker 1: next one. Taylor, thank you so much for coming and man,
Speaker 1: you have a wonderful.
Speaker 7: Rest of the night time, my dear thanks.
Speaker 1: Aw from Boba Fett, Boba fat Gecko. What's up?
Speaker 6: How are you now? U?
Speaker 1: How am I now?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: In comparison to win.
Speaker 6: Well, I don't know other times have you spoken before,
Speaker 6: Baba Fett? Uh No, No, not that I know of.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's a weird answer to that question.
Speaker 6: I mean, you didn't know.
Speaker 1: Are you okay? Oh you know?
Speaker 6: Yeah, Yeah, I'm okay. I'm okay, not great, I'm not bad.
Speaker 1: You don't sound okay. You sound like you sound like
Speaker 1: you're like trying to kill a fly in your apartment
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 6: Well, i'd say I'm trying to kill a fly in life,
Speaker 6: not any apartment. I'm not really in life. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 6: there's there's always a fly around. There's always something then
Speaker 6: that's getting in the way. It's always bugging bugging you out,
Speaker 6: you know. And I'm just trying to get those flies
Speaker 6: out of here and get my life a little bit more.
Speaker 1: Talking about these flies that you're sweating currently.
Speaker 6: Oh, well, you know, I guess I'm trying to just stabilize.
Speaker 6: It's been things have been tossing and turning, and right
Speaker 6: now I'm trying to, you know, trying to get into
Speaker 6: a steady situation, trying to kind of buy a house
Speaker 6: at some point.
Speaker 1: Trying to talk about tossed.
Speaker 6: The last thing that tossed. I guess I recently went
Speaker 6: through a breakup. It was not a bad breakup. It
Speaker 6: was very breakup. Yeah, yeah, I guess the team. But yeah,
Speaker 6: it was a pretty like, you know, amicable one. It
Speaker 6: was just kind of like one of those Hey, I
Speaker 6: think it's time to time to be done. And uh,
Speaker 6: you know, I just moved into a new place. She
Speaker 6: just moved out of the state, and uh, yeah, I
Speaker 6: don't know. So I'm like sitting by myself in a
Speaker 6: little cabin in the woods, and you know, it's not
Speaker 6: so bad. It's really not bad.
Speaker 1: You're in a cabin in the woods right now. Yeah, ye,
Speaker 1: where in the woods? How do you is it? I
Speaker 1: guess it's not far enough from move that you don't
Speaker 1: have internet connection.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's not it's not great internet connection, but it works.
Speaker 1: Is it in the middle of nowhere? Is an isolated cabin?
Speaker 6: No, Like I'm on a road, you know, I'm in
Speaker 6: a we're I'm in a small town. I think there's
Speaker 6: maybe like a thousand people in this town. You know,
Speaker 6: it's not I'm not like. No, No, I moved here.
Speaker 6: This is where I live. I mean, I wish I
Speaker 6: wish vacation, vacation.
Speaker 1: What do you mean by that, you wish lived was
Speaker 1: a vacation.
Speaker 6: No, I wish. I wish I felt a bit more
Speaker 6: like vacation.
Speaker 16: I have.
Speaker 6: I've been working. I've been actually been an instacart shopper lately.
Speaker 6: That's been my thing since I moved moved back to
Speaker 6: my home state a few months ago.
Speaker 17: I'll tell you what's that.
Speaker 1: Has that been lucrative?
Speaker 18: You know it?
Speaker 6: Actually it has. So when I first I first moved
Speaker 6: back to my home state, and I lived in this
Speaker 6: other town where I lived with my girlfriend, and in
Speaker 6: that area, it was really good. I was making like
Speaker 6: thirty five bucks an hour. But now I live out
Speaker 6: in a little cabin in the woods, and there's not
Speaker 6: really as many people that need their groceries delivered this way.
Speaker 17: So right.
Speaker 1: It makes sense that you would get a little bit
Speaker 1: less work where there's a lot less people if you're
Speaker 1: living in a town of a thousand, Yes, exactly.
Speaker 6: So, you know, trying to find different things to make
Speaker 6: the money. I've been I've been foraging and trying to
Speaker 6: sell my wares.
Speaker 1: Foraging. What's the last thing you forged?
Speaker 11: Uh?
Speaker 6: Not forged? Foraged, like I pick things out of the ground.
Speaker 6: I don't know if that's what you heard or said,
Speaker 6: but I foraged.
Speaker 1: I think the word I said was pretty similar to
Speaker 1: what the word that is the real word.
Speaker 6: Okay, but yeah, no, I forged some ramps. Uh they're
Speaker 6: like wild weeks, that's what That's what I've been picking today.
Speaker 6: And uh some fiddleheads, you know, and uh yeah, trying
Speaker 6: to sell those restaurants and people and you know, just
Speaker 6: make an extra buck here and there.
Speaker 1: So why would you why why not just cut out
Speaker 1: the middleman here? I mean, what do you what do
Speaker 1: you know, need money for to purchase various wares and
Speaker 1: food and stuff. Why don't you just Yeah, we're so
Speaker 1: close to just getting rid of the middleman of the
Speaker 1: economy and just forging your own wares and growing your
Speaker 1: own food.
Speaker 6: That's what I want to do. I don't know if
Speaker 6: my my current landlords will accept you know, ramps and
Speaker 6: subtle heads in exchange for rent at the moment, so
Speaker 6: I haven't asked. So it's maybe I.
Speaker 1: Could build a cabin out of fiddles. The cabin.
Speaker 6: You know, it's not a bad idea, it's not. Well, yeah,
Speaker 6: I'll give that some some good thought.
Speaker 4: We'll see.
Speaker 6: I do want to build my own cabin. That's that's
Speaker 6: kind of the end goal here. You know, maybe I'll
Speaker 6: use a couple of sticks and twigs as well.
Speaker 1: I think you're on the right path.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I thinks you know, you really really helped
Speaker 6: me figure my stuff out.
Speaker 1: I'm glad so I got I.
Speaker 6: Got one question for you though, what what happened?
Speaker 1: What did you say? Name was? Uh?
Speaker 4: Baba?
Speaker 1: You have a g rest of the night, baba, Thank
Speaker 1: you very much.
Speaker 6: Wait, wait, I have one question for you.
Speaker 17: What happened?
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Speaker 18: All from Jason Todd.
Speaker 11: I'm Scoola Stevens of the name as well an Jason Todd.
Speaker 17: As well.
Speaker 1: Ah, oh my god, is this Luke?
Speaker 18: This is not Luke.
Speaker 1: No, that's what I thought. I thought it wasn't Luke.
Speaker 1: It's Jason Todd. I was asking if it was Luke
Speaker 1: because I wanted you to say no, because I didn't
Speaker 1: think it was Luke. And so if you said Luke,
Speaker 1: I would be like, all right, my suspicions are correct.
Speaker 1: This is not Luke. This is Jason. This is Jason.
Speaker 18: Yeah. You you were right whole time. Man. I mean,
Speaker 18: I'm not going to question your your Jedi powers.
Speaker 1: I don't have Jedi powers. I have Gecko powers, which
Speaker 1: and that's way look worse jedis they have mind control,
Speaker 1: they have the big laser swords. But you know what
Speaker 1: geckos can do what nothing. That's why they're not very
Speaker 1: popular to keep his pets. They're very boring. They just
Speaker 1: want to write. They slither around. They don't do a lot.
Speaker 17: That's true.
Speaker 1: Oh do you have what kind of what powers? Do
Speaker 1: you have?
Speaker 18: My powers?
Speaker 1: And powers?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 18: I can I can die over and over again, but
Speaker 18: I will always come back, really really I'm basically immortal.
Speaker 18: I died when I keep coming back.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm. When was the last time he died on
Speaker 1: the inside?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 18: This year?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 18: My girl left, we split, I had to move into
Speaker 18: a single apartment. I had to like work, like a
Speaker 18: really horrible job, and I got diagnosed with bb D.
Speaker 18: And there's a lot of bad stuff. It seems to
Speaker 18: have happened recently past couple of one.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Around your your your judging along anyway, I'm.
Speaker 18: I'm going anyway. I was pretty down, but like you know,
Speaker 18: some I'm back up.
Speaker 1: I'm glad to hear back up going forward.
Speaker 18: I have some advice or I need some advice from you.
Speaker 1: I will do the best I can. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you've been watching the stream. I've given some advice
Speaker 1: about things that I don't know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm not opposed to doing that, but
Speaker 1: I am opposed to doing that without exclaiming without Uh
Speaker 1: it's not exclaim is it exclaim disclaiming that first?
Speaker 18: Yeah, Now, I know you're not a real therapist and
Speaker 18: you're just you know, the get go that lives underwater
Speaker 18: right now.
Speaker 1: The world, I'm just visiting I'm sorry. Would would let's
Speaker 1: start over? Uh? Yeah, what's up? Men? Would you want
Speaker 1: to talk about?
Speaker 18: Okay? So me and my ex were like friends for
Speaker 18: a while, like friends with benefits, you know what I mean. Sure,
Speaker 18: And that was after we yeah, after we broke up,
Speaker 18: and she was still like we moved into two separate
Speaker 18: apartments that are at the same apartment complex as the
Speaker 18: one like the two veteran we used to have.
Speaker 16: Yeah.
Speaker 18: So and she looks like across the parking lot. Yeah,
Speaker 18: and we were still having sex and it was, you know,
Speaker 18: it was really awesome sex. I don't know what kind
Speaker 18: of sex Gettos have. I gotta imagine that's pretty good too,
Speaker 18: but like, this is really good human sex.
Speaker 1: Sure.
Speaker 18: And anyway, and now when I met her, she was by,
Speaker 18: and she was by for like a long time. And
Speaker 18: then she tell me towards the end of our relationship,
Speaker 18: she's like, I think you're gonna be the last dude
Speaker 18: I'm going to like date. And I said, okay, And
Speaker 18: then she would jump me, and then she would run
Speaker 18: over to my new apartment and like jump me again
Speaker 18: and again, and and then like the last time we
Speaker 18: started to something started to happen. She got very uncomfortable
Speaker 18: and like we obviously you know, stopped and anyway, she
Speaker 18: made it clear like from that point you know that
Speaker 18: we're not going to be doing that anymore. And like
Speaker 18: I said, fine, going to be you know, your friend
Speaker 18: and all that, and and I am always still can't
Speaker 18: hang out and like benship and stuff, and uh I
Speaker 18: got as share the chat that this is a real story.
Speaker 18: If I was making up the story, much cooler.
Speaker 1: Anyway, the chatacheck, the only check going on was with
Speaker 1: you and me and my friend.
Speaker 18: Okay, anyway, and uh so we start kind of dating
Speaker 18: around seeing other people, you know, going through the moving
Speaker 18: on phase or whatever. And she we're talking about these
Speaker 18: people we're talking to, and she showed me a picture
Speaker 18: of this person and this person was like really shitty
Speaker 18: to me at the h that horrible place I worked
Speaker 18: at for like a couple of months.
Speaker 1: She started seeing all right, so you guys, just sounds
Speaker 1: like our remaining friends if you're showing each other who
Speaker 1: you're dating now. And so she started dating someone that
Speaker 1: you knew already, h.
Speaker 18: Yes, yeah, and this person was like like treated me
Speaker 18: like shit, and it was that was was one of
Speaker 18: the employees I had with this very toxic like fast
Speaker 18: food place, like local fast food place was working at
Speaker 18: for a while to like make against me and uh anyway,
Speaker 18: and I told her, I was like, oh, that person's horrible.
Speaker 18: They you know. I told all the mess up stuff
Speaker 18: this person did and how they would make fun of
Speaker 18: the mentally challenged person that worked there, and how they
Speaker 18: would like call me names and like treat me like shit,
Speaker 18: and that they slept with one of the cooks that
Speaker 18: used to work there, like they slept with his uh
Speaker 18: his his life, she slept with his wife. I told
Speaker 18: her all this horrible stuff. And then she was like, oh,
Speaker 18: well I would never like I would never be with
Speaker 18: somebody like that. I wouldn't do that to you. And
Speaker 18: then she'd be like, oh, I'm just talking to them,
Speaker 18: never actually going to meet them. I'm just toying with them.
Speaker 18: And then it came out the other Yeah, yeah, it's
Speaker 18: pretty weird and uh and then like we went to
Speaker 18: like uh like ike a while back and I noticed,
Speaker 18: like she's still texting this person. Was like, what are
Speaker 18: you are you are you still wrong with that plan
Speaker 18: or whatever?
Speaker 1: So here's here's is the advice sort of like you
Speaker 1: know what you do about your friend wanting to see
Speaker 1: this person. That is shitty because to me, it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, you did your part right, like you warned
Speaker 1: this person's your friends, you care about them, they're they're
Speaker 1: your friends. You know you did your part to warn
Speaker 1: them about this person that they're seeing. This is shitty.
Speaker 1: But after that, I mean, there's nothing you can do.
Speaker 1: You know, they're right, you know.
Speaker 18: And anyway, we get to the point of like her
Speaker 18: like gaslighting me and somehow making me feel bad about
Speaker 18: this ship, and she just eventually kind of cops to
Speaker 18: her true feelings, which are and I quote, I don't
Speaker 18: care about your feelings. I'm just gonna go ahead and
Speaker 18: do this anyway. And I was like, oh, okay, okay, whatever.
Speaker 18: And then she comes to my place whether you need
Speaker 18: to borrow something or whatever, and she's like, oh, we're
Speaker 18: not going to be friends. It's been talking in a while.
Speaker 18: And I was like, no, you fucked that up, Like
Speaker 18: we're not gonna there's no way for us to be
Speaker 18: friends anymore.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 18: To me, that's a trail. So like, I guess what
Speaker 18: I'm asking is can I be friends with this person
Speaker 18: or not?
Speaker 1: No, you shouldn't be well, it's not about ken you,
Speaker 1: it's about you know, look, what's what's the best for
Speaker 1: your own life? And it sounds like this person straight
Speaker 1: up told you that she doesn't care about your feelings.
Speaker 1: So she doesn't care about your feelings, then you know,
Speaker 1: why should you be friends with her? Granted, I don't
Speaker 1: think it's any of your business. You know who she
Speaker 1: is seeing. You know, if you're seeing someone that's horrible,
Speaker 1: and because you care about her, you don't want her
Speaker 1: to see a whole person. You warn't her the person
Speaker 1: as horrible. I think that was you know, good on
Speaker 1: you as a friend. But you know you've given her
Speaker 1: that information. She can do whatever she wants with that information.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't. I mean, it doesn't seem to me,
Speaker 1: especially if you're like, you know, coming here and complaining
Speaker 1: about it and wondering even why you know, even if
Speaker 1: you should be in this friendship, then I don't know,
Speaker 1: that kind of sickles to me that you shouldn't because
Speaker 1: it's it's a sort of a place of stress for you.
Speaker 1: So yeah, no, I would definitely support you getting out
Speaker 1: of this friendship where a person tells you straight up
Speaker 1: that they don't care about your feelings.
Speaker 18: Okay, yeah, no, you're right. It's been a couple of
Speaker 18: weeks and like she sent me like tiktoks and shit
Speaker 18: and like snapchat like here and there, and I've been
Speaker 18: kind of ignoring them.
Speaker 1: But yeah, if you got feeling it, then you know
Speaker 1: you got to listen. It tends like if this person's
Speaker 1: trying to contact you and you've been ignoring it, sounds
Speaker 1: like you're not It sounds like you're not feeling it.
Speaker 1: So getting red on to your friends with this person.
Speaker 18: I mean, it's just it's been a lot. It seems like,
Speaker 18: I don't know, it seems like she would play head
Speaker 18: games with me, and I don't know, I'm just tired
Speaker 18: of it.
Speaker 17: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, I don't think you should be in any sort
Speaker 1: of relationship, platonic or not, with anyone who's playing any
Speaker 1: kind of head games with you. You know, you shouldn't
Speaker 1: make time for that.
Speaker 18: So I'm on the right hand.
Speaker 1: You can play more level head of games with exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you're on that path.
Speaker 18: All right, cool, cool, all right, man, that's all I
Speaker 18: needed to hear it, just needed to hear it from
Speaker 18: my spirit, which is.
Speaker 1: For sure, for sure, for sure look always you the
Speaker 1: best to look man.
Speaker 18: All right, thank you? I love you and I agree?
Speaker 3: Who all from Tiff?
Speaker 4: Tif?
Speaker 12: Oh?
Speaker 3: Hy, hello Tiff?
Speaker 19: How are you.
Speaker 14: All right?
Speaker 1: If we spoken before, Tiff?
Speaker 19: We have not. But I actually drew a picture of
Speaker 19: you last week.
Speaker 1: You drew a picture of me last week.
Speaker 8: I did.
Speaker 19: You were sitting in the grocery cart.
Speaker 1: Uh wait was it the Oh it's the Is it
Speaker 1: the little cartoon, the one that looks like Calvin Hobbsey, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the discord?
Speaker 3: Yeah that was me.
Speaker 1: How you doing that? I think that looks awesome. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to I'm gonna post it on my next little
Speaker 1: fan art Instagram thing. I think it was sick. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much for drawing that.
Speaker 19: You're very welcome.
Speaker 1: Are you an artist by trade?
Speaker 16: Uh?
Speaker 19: No, just by hobby, because I feel like if you
Speaker 19: do art for money, it's a really easy way to
Speaker 19: kill your passion.
Speaker 1: Oh for sure. But I mean, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's an interesting thing. I've heard people say that all
Speaker 1: the time. You know, I'm always talking all this kind
Speaker 1: of shit about you know, Hey, if you hate your job,
Speaker 1: you can just monetize whatever you like to do by
Speaker 1: going on TikTok, and then you know, other people are like,
Speaker 1: you know, well no, because then if you do it
Speaker 1: for a living, you'll start to hate it. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't know. My retort to that is like, well,
Speaker 1: you're already do something that you for a living that
Speaker 1: you don't like, so you know, I don't know.
Speaker 19: Yeah, I guess this is my way to blow off steam.
Speaker 1: Though.
Speaker 19: If I got caught up in the rat race trying
Speaker 19: to create art for money all the time, I think
Speaker 19: I'll just start to despise it. So yeah, I kind
Speaker 19: of keep that little slice of nirvana for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I like the idea, though, of being
Speaker 1: able to do something for a living that is yours
Speaker 1: as opposed for sure, you know, something that owns someone
Speaker 1: else owns for sure.
Speaker 19: For sure. I think we are here for a very
Speaker 19: short amount of time, and we should be the masters
Speaker 19: of our own destiny. So you know, do what you
Speaker 19: want to do.
Speaker 1: They're the master of your own destiny.
Speaker 19: Sometimes it depends on the day.
Speaker 1: Dude, were you a master of your own destiny today?
Speaker 18: I hope?
Speaker 19: Yeah, Yeah, yeah, I think I was. I tackled Monday
Speaker 19: with a pretty positive attitude.
Speaker 11: Nice I made it.
Speaker 8: Through the day.
Speaker 1: In what ways do you try being in what ways
Speaker 1: do you put effort towards being the master of your
Speaker 1: own destiny.
Speaker 19: I try to keep a positive attitude about the people
Speaker 19: that I encounter. I work in customer service, so I
Speaker 19: talk to a lot of people all day every day,
Speaker 19: and you know, I feel like with the way twenty
Speaker 19: twenty went, a lot of people are losing their minds
Speaker 19: right now. A lot of people are very short patients.
Speaker 19: And how I approach them, you know, kind of I
Speaker 19: choose how I react to those.
Speaker 11: Kind of people.
Speaker 8: I guess, yeah, I try to blow it off.
Speaker 1: It's a great example of being the master of the
Speaker 1: own destiny. You are true, You're not letting other people
Speaker 1: decide how you feel. You're deciding, I enjue. I don't
Speaker 1: like being upset and angry all the time. I like
Speaker 1: being positive, and I'm not going to let other people
Speaker 1: decide to make me feel in a way in which
Speaker 1: I did not feel. I like that's a perfect example
Speaker 1: of being a master of your own domain.
Speaker 19: Exactly exactly, m.
Speaker 1: Uh where what kind of customers?
Speaker 8: So?
Speaker 1: What kind of customers do you serve?
Speaker 19: This? So I run an office for a lawn care company,
Speaker 19: and right now everybody is kind of just wanting to
Speaker 19: control their laws and just trying to make things look nice.
Speaker 19: And you know, it's been a struggle for us because
Speaker 19: we're we're having trouble finding people to go out and
Speaker 19: do things. We're having trouble hiring, so we're a little behind,
Speaker 19: and people are.
Speaker 3: Quite upset about that.
Speaker 19: But I just tried to stay positive, stay nice, you know,
Speaker 19: try to assure them that I'm going to do what
Speaker 19: I can to help them. And yeah, some people are
Speaker 19: really understanding. Some people are not.
Speaker 1: Have you encountered any that Actually, that's interue that That
Speaker 1: brings me to the question I was going to ask you.
Speaker 1: Have you encountered any situations, perhaps recently, in which staying
Speaker 1: positive was very difficult?
Speaker 12: Yes.
Speaker 19: Actually, we had a new customer call us and she
Speaker 19: was really rattling my employees. You know, she's calling with
Speaker 19: really crazy demands, very abusive language. So I have the
Speaker 19: chance to talk to her the other day, and she
Speaker 19: was very demanding. She used some scary language that I'm
Speaker 19: not going to repeat here because we don't need to
Speaker 19: put that out there. She was just generally not a
Speaker 19: pleasant person. So I looked her up after I got
Speaker 19: off the phone with her, I'm like, man, because she
Speaker 19: kept referring to herself as doctor. Some people like to
Speaker 19: do that because you know, they went to medical school
Speaker 19: or they got their doctorate, so they want to use doctor,
Speaker 19: they want to be referred to as doctor. So I
Speaker 19: looked her up and she's actually a domestic abuse She
Speaker 19: has her doctorate and domestic abuse. It was just really
Speaker 19: wild to me that she would behave this way person
Speaker 19: that she doesn't even know, and that's her profession. I guess,
Speaker 19: I don't know it really it really rocked me. So, yeah,
Speaker 19: that that's something I'm going to think about for a
Speaker 19: little bit.
Speaker 1: Interesting. Maybe, dude, maybe it's just that, like you know,
Speaker 1: she's dealing with the heaviest stuff all day.
Speaker 11: She might you know, she takes.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's something where like she just she takes in
Speaker 1: all this this tough stuff. I just she comes upon
Speaker 1: you and it's like I got take all this, you know, I.
Speaker 19: Guess, yeah, exactly exactly. And that that I think that
Speaker 19: is part of customer service. And I know there's probably
Speaker 19: a lot of people that can relate to this, is
Speaker 19: that you know, you can never take it personally. Everybody's
Speaker 19: fighting their own battles, and if they want to be
Speaker 19: an asshole to you on the phone, then they're going
Speaker 19: to be an asshole to you on the phone or
Speaker 19: in person, which is even worse. I feel like people
Speaker 19: are more brave when they can't see your face. But yeah,
Speaker 19: she she may have some demons that she's dealing with.
Speaker 18: I don't know. We'll see.
Speaker 19: We'll see if she calls us back and has any
Speaker 19: more colorful commentary for me or my staff. But you know,
Speaker 19: we're going to try to make her happy.
Speaker 8: That's what we do.
Speaker 1: Mm hm hm hmm.
Speaker 16: Shit.
Speaker 1: Was I gonna say, uh, have you ever worked in
Speaker 1: customer service? I haven't, but I take a lot of
Speaker 1: phone calls.
Speaker 11: Okay, well, yeah.
Speaker 1: You know what was I gonna say? Oh? Yeah, the
Speaker 1: the whole don't take a personally thing. I agree. I
Speaker 1: agree with that. I was talking to someone like months
Speaker 1: ago who worked out of call center and he got
Speaker 1: abused all the time, just people cussing him out on
Speaker 1: the phone, and it's like, you know, at the very least,
Speaker 1: it's like at least they're not they're not upset at you.
Speaker 1: They're not. No one's angry at you, specifically.
Speaker 8: Exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: Now, tell me all this negative energy that you take in,
Speaker 1: do you do you let it out anywhere?
Speaker 2: Not?
Speaker 1: You know, I mean, you seem like a good person.
Speaker 1: You seem like you maybe let it out in uh
Speaker 1: less destructive ways. But do you do you have a
Speaker 1: way of blowing off steam? Is that maybe where the
Speaker 1: art comes?
Speaker 19: I go outside and I touch grass sometimes this is no.
Speaker 19: I mean it just I have a I have a
Speaker 19: support group. I have friends who I love deeply and dearly.
Speaker 19: We play video games together. I know it's been really
Speaker 19: hard because I haven't been able to go out and
Speaker 19: see anybody. But we play a lot of video games.
Speaker 19: I have my art. I get to watch, you know,
Speaker 19: streams on Twitch. I just you need to give yourself
Speaker 19: that time at the end of the day to unwind,
Speaker 19: because if you just sit there and steal on it constantly,
Speaker 19: that just raises your stress levels through the roof.
Speaker 4: It's not good for you.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. What did you say? Your name was?
Speaker 7: My name's Tiff.
Speaker 1: I thank you so much for thank you so much
Speaker 1: for sharing Tiff. Tiff. Did you did you post your
Speaker 1: Instagram in the in the discord? Because I want to
Speaker 1: tag you when I reposted that I repost that thing.
Speaker 19: I did, I did, I responded to you so yeah.
Speaker 1: Awesome, Thank you so much, Tiff, you ever want to
Speaker 1: for rest the night?
Speaker 19: Thank you too.
Speaker 18: Have a good one, Tiff.
Speaker 4: All from Tony Stark.
Speaker 1: Accept Tony Stark?
Speaker 2: Baby?
Speaker 1: How you doing?
Speaker 17: I'm doing good?
Speaker 1: What's up?
Speaker 17: All right?
Speaker 11: So I got a you know, it's just a simple question.
Speaker 1: Hold on, wait, Tony Stark. Listen. Look, look, Tony Stark.
Speaker 1: We I don't even know don't know anything about you.
Speaker 1: We haven't even exchanged any amount of pleasantries before. You're
Speaker 1: gonna much right into a story. We could we could?
Speaker 1: I think I I I think we could you know,
Speaker 1: spend a little bit of time in interacting with each other?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 17: I live in New York. Uh yeah, my birth was
Speaker 17: a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: How old did you turn?
Speaker 17: Twenty four?
Speaker 1: How much money do you currently have in your name?
Speaker 11: Jesus, what kind of questions that?
Speaker 17: Man?
Speaker 1: This is a question. How much money is in your
Speaker 1: bank account right now?
Speaker 11: How much cunny is in my bank account? My bankuet
Speaker 11: a bank with a city bank.
Speaker 1: But do you do you like? What would you how
Speaker 1: would you rate them out out of five?
Speaker 17: Trash why.
Speaker 11: Because they don't know what they're doing. I was gonna,
Speaker 11: you know, gonda get to the story.
Speaker 1: Why why do you want Tony? Why do you want
Speaker 1: to what's so what you don't even want to get?
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, I feel like I have established
Speaker 1: any amount of relationship with each other.
Speaker 11: Because I need I need to know I'm crazy or
Speaker 11: if it's or if it's just like or if if
Speaker 11: if you know, the situation is crazy. You know what
Speaker 11: I'm saying.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, tell me, tell me what's going on, Tony?
Speaker 17: All right.
Speaker 11: So, like I said a couple of weeks ago, it
Speaker 11: was my birthday, right, four twenty is my birthday?
Speaker 17: All right?
Speaker 11: You know you know, all right, you know I'm at
Speaker 11: my friend's house. You know, this girl invites me over
Speaker 11: at like ten o'clock at night to come smoke or whatever.
Speaker 17: You know, it's four twenty. She's like, all right, come smoke.
Speaker 11: At your birthday whatever.
Speaker 17: I'm like, all right, whatever, ten o'clock, you know whatever,
Speaker 17: I'll just go over there. Whatever.
Speaker 11: So I go over there, whatever we smoke or whatever,
Speaker 11: we chill, whatever we like.
Speaker 17: It's like it's like an apartment complex type thing, you know,
Speaker 17: they have like a little rec room. You know, we're
Speaker 17: chilling out.
Speaker 11: And like the outside portion smoking whatever, we go into
Speaker 11: the inside portion, you know, they're chilling like the little
Speaker 11: rec room, you know. You know, I like you tend
Speaker 11: to talk at night, you know, I'm just invite me.
Speaker 17: Over your almost and what's up. And then I'm.
Speaker 11: Like, yo, so let's go watch like I was shower or.
Speaker 17: Something, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 11: And she's like, she's like, nah, like my roommates don't
Speaker 11: allow guys. And and I'm like, all right, okay whatever,
Speaker 11: you know, all right, I got the death is whatever, whatever,
Speaker 11: it's whatever, I'll take the l And then I'm like,
Speaker 11: all right, whatever.
Speaker 17: So I'm gonna head home. It's late.
Speaker 11: I got school tomorrow. She's like, all right, we should
Speaker 11: like hang out some other times, you know, playing something.
Speaker 17: I'm like, all right.
Speaker 11: So I get to the bottom floor of her apartment.
Speaker 11: I check my phone, and my phone's on like ten
Speaker 11: percent batteries.
Speaker 17: I check the train times. The next train is.
Speaker 11: At eleven or nine.
Speaker 17: It's eleven o'clock.
Speaker 11: I'm not making that train the next The next thing
Speaker 11: is the next trains at twelve nineteen. As ten percent battery,
Speaker 11: the tickets.
Speaker 17: On my phone. So you know, I'm not gonna make it.
Speaker 17: You know what I'm saying, I'm not gonna make it.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 17: So I'm still in her apartment.
Speaker 11: Building and I call her and I'm like, hey, can
Speaker 11: I use your charger? Like my phone's on ten percent?
Speaker 11: I explained the whole situation. I'm like, my phone's on
Speaker 11: ten percent? Can I just charge it for like ten minutes?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 11: It's like yeah, yeah, come on up, come on up, you.
Speaker 17: Piece my charge.
Speaker 11: So I go back up to the top floor. I
Speaker 11: reach there for like ten minutes, nothing like all right.
Speaker 11: Maybe she's like I don't know, maybe she's from nothing the.
Speaker 17: Roommates and he's just gonna let me in or whatever.
Speaker 17: You no, maybe it's a good night with him.
Speaker 11: And then twenty minutes go by, still I give her
Speaker 11: a phone call.
Speaker 17: No answer.
Speaker 11: I'm like, all right, okay, that's a little hot.
Speaker 17: Thirty minutes go by, still nothing, okay, nothing, okay. Fifteen
Speaker 17: minutes go by.
Speaker 11: I'm like, all right, I should probably just figured this
Speaker 11: ship out and dip. And from that point, and from
Speaker 11: that point, I've never heard from that girl ever in
Speaker 11: my entire life ever again.
Speaker 1: But she maybe she was scared you.
Speaker 11: She told me she wanted to see me again. I
Speaker 11: never I never asked her to hang out again. I
Speaker 11: never she incited me.
Speaker 17: She was like, all right, you know, let's let's go
Speaker 17: do something. Sometimes I was like, all right.
Speaker 11: Said all right, why did I just tell me not
Speaker 11: to use the charge of it?
Speaker 1: She could, Look, you gotta move you gotta move on.
Speaker 12: Man.
Speaker 1: Look you said it yourself. Look at yeah, you know, no.
Speaker 17: That's that's completely fine though.
Speaker 1: But he's wondering or what are you wondering? What? What
Speaker 1: do you what are you confused about? Why she's what
Speaker 1: if I was straining.
Speaker 11: Out in the middle of nowhere with a death phone?
Speaker 11: Isn't it this human decency to lesson a charge a
Speaker 11: phone for five minutes?
Speaker 4: Do you know?
Speaker 1: Look, I think this isn't even worth It's I think
Speaker 1: it's so in the past, man, I think it's not
Speaker 1: even worth running about because it seems like here's here's
Speaker 1: your problem. Really is that? I mean, this seems like
Speaker 1: it's very actively bothering you. How long ago did this happen?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 11: Well, I bred it was on four twenty so, three
Speaker 11: weeks ago, two weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Oh listen, my guy, you got to live in the past.
Speaker 1: You're living in the past over here two weeks ago.
Speaker 1: That's like two weeks is the new two years. She's
Speaker 1: living her life. Why didn't she want you to charge
Speaker 1: your phone? I don't know. Maybe she thought you were
Speaker 1: crazy or something.
Speaker 11: Okay, So that's so, that's so, that is at least
Speaker 11: that's the part I didn't understand. It's craziness.
Speaker 1: Do you do you feel like you have can I
Speaker 1: ask you?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 1: Do you feel like you have? A very do you
Speaker 1: how would you rate yourself awareness in terms of how
Speaker 1: you come off to other people? Do you think you
Speaker 1: have a good idea of how you come off to
Speaker 1: other people when you're talking when you're talking to them?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 17: Yeah, with them?
Speaker 11: Like I feel like if I was coming off crazy
Speaker 11: in a situation, I know, and I'm like, all right, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: So in that and when you were hanging out with her,
Speaker 1: did you feel did you were like all right coming off.
Speaker 11: The whole five? I did not get it one time.
Speaker 11: And and even like, even if I did, she stop
Speaker 11: it by inviting me to go hang out another time.
Speaker 17: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I understand that, hm, And you never spoke.
Speaker 11: I'm just wondering the human decency part. Like if if
Speaker 11: I hated a person, Like if I went on a
Speaker 11: date with a person and I hated them and they
Speaker 11: were like, Yo, my phone's on five percent and I
Speaker 11: just charged it for ten minutes, I wouldn't be like
Speaker 11: vanished off the face of the earth, you know what
Speaker 11: I mean. I would give the starger and never.
Speaker 17: Talk to them again.
Speaker 1: Well, you know what I would say to you, then,
Speaker 1: what's your name again?
Speaker 17: Uh, Tony Stark?
Speaker 1: I believe Tony Stark? Listen, I would say to you.
Speaker 1: Then if you believe that you know what she did
Speaker 1: was was you know, a sign of of of indecency,
Speaker 1: then I would say that you are very lucky that
Speaker 1: she did not contact you again. You did not contact
Speaker 1: her again, because it doesn't seem like you would be
Speaker 1: a good match with each other. Seems like you have
Speaker 1: their values. So I would say you got off easy.
Speaker 1: I would say you should leave it in the past.
Speaker 1: You should move move forward toward you know, other romantic endeavors.
Speaker 17: That's a fair point, all right, Okay.
Speaker 1: Okay, Do you have any suggested alternatives to City Bank
Speaker 1: or are you gonna.
Speaker 3: Stick with them?
Speaker 17: You know I could perly go to a smaller bank
Speaker 17: just because I feel like they're more. They're more.
Speaker 1: What's the way I'm looking for supporting small.
Speaker 17: Business well not even supporting small businesses, but they're more.
Speaker 17: You're not gonna get a ropeo.
Speaker 11: You're not going to get some person that doesn't care,
Speaker 11: you know what I mean. You're going to get the
Speaker 11: person that's actually talk to you.
Speaker 1: You got to thank you so much. You're calling in
Speaker 1: Tony Stark, You ever wonder for us of the night?
Speaker 3: All from Sabrina.
Speaker 1: Sabrina, Oh my gosh, wait am I on? Yes?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness. I I literally just had to refresh
Speaker 3: the page, like right now because actually.
Speaker 1: Now that now that you mentioned I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: you're on, because I'm not sure what you mean by
Speaker 1: when you say you are you on? Are you on?
Speaker 1: When you say are you on?
Speaker 4: On?
Speaker 1: What exactly?
Speaker 16: On?
Speaker 7: Therapy?
Speaker 3: Gecko on a call with Lyle They Oh my god,
Speaker 3: I didn't know how to expect this.
Speaker 4: So, hey, Hey, what's up?
Speaker 1: Are you okay? Everything right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm doing great, I'm doing great. Oh my goodness,
Speaker 3: I'm just really really shocked.
Speaker 1: Have you ever spoken before your brain?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 1: So you said you did not expect this.
Speaker 6: No, I did not.
Speaker 3: I did not expect this.
Speaker 1: What did you expect.
Speaker 3: I expected to be?
Speaker 18: You know, just.
Speaker 3: Uh not you know, picked up on in terms of
Speaker 3: a call.
Speaker 1: Mm interesting yeah, hm hmmm, uh what I mean? Just
Speaker 1: what you know?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 1: Why even ad? Why even answer that?
Speaker 4: Why?
Speaker 1: Why do I need to do?
Speaker 18: You know?
Speaker 1: I think it's a perfect question. What it has? Everything
Speaker 1: that you could possibly wanted? A question? Why not just
Speaker 1: leave it at that?
Speaker 3: I think it's because we always want more?
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. We always want more? Do you believe that
Speaker 1: you want more? Do you want more? Do you have
Speaker 1: everything that you need? Or do you want more?
Speaker 3: I think that I want I think I want a
Speaker 3: little bit more out of life.
Speaker 12: M m.
Speaker 3: But that's something that I that's something that.
Speaker 9: Only I can get out of it, you know, by
Speaker 9: taking opportunities and stuff.
Speaker 1: You think you want a little bit more out of life?
Speaker 1: Do you know what it is? Or do you just
Speaker 1: have this sort of nameless, intangible want.
Speaker 3: I think it's just my intuition that's telling me that.
Speaker 1: M M. Intuition is telling you that you want more?
Speaker 12: Yeah, what do you have?
Speaker 3: I have a pretty comfortable life.
Speaker 1: Tell me about it.
Speaker 9: Well, I uh, I live in a nice home, I
Speaker 9: have two loving, supporting parents. I have a good relationship
Speaker 9: with my sister. I'm glad.
Speaker 1: I awesome.
Speaker 9: Yeah, things got better and I have a good group
Speaker 9: of friends.
Speaker 1: You're killing it. You got a lot mhm. You know
Speaker 1: you'll be a lot happier. I've noticed, Hey, I have
Speaker 1: this problem right where you know you'll be so much
Speaker 1: happier if you just focus on what you have instead
Speaker 1: of what you want. But I think wanting things it's like,
Speaker 1: I mean, we get up out of bed in the
Speaker 1: morning because we want things. If we had everything we wanted,
Speaker 1: we would What's what's the point of what do we do?
Speaker 1: So there's no game?
Speaker 9: I think, you know, once we have everything that we need.
Speaker 9: I think that want is that desire to give someone
Speaker 9: else something?
Speaker 8: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Do you hm? Essentially, do you feel as though it's
Speaker 1: easier to give people what they want if you already
Speaker 1: have what you want, if you've filled your own glass?
Speaker 3: Sometimes, like whenever people say that, like whenever people say like, oh.
Speaker 9: You can't you know, love someone unless you start loving yourself, Well,
Speaker 9: sometimes I agree with that, but also sometimes I feel like,
Speaker 9: how can we know what true. How it's sometimes it's
Speaker 9: so hard for us to accept self love when we
Speaker 9: ourselves don't see anything good about ourselves, you know, if
Speaker 9: we if it's it's so easy to say, why don't
Speaker 9: you start loving yourself? It's hard to love yourself whenever
Speaker 9: you don't see anything good. That's why I feel like
Speaker 9: it's whenever someone says that they love you that you
Speaker 9: can truly start to you know, start loving yourself. And
Speaker 9: because they're seeing that value in you, maybe, well that's
Speaker 9: what I think.
Speaker 1: I hate that though, because I hate I hate that
Speaker 1: that is, like, you know, I hate the idea that
Speaker 1: you need someone to love you before you love yourself,
Speaker 1: because you know, there's no reason for you to be
Speaker 1: dependent on other people like that. You know, I feel
Speaker 1: like that just puts you in a bad spot.
Speaker 9: Hmmm, what do you mean by bad spots?
Speaker 1: I don't know, Like I feel like, I mean, this
Speaker 1: is just my own personal, personal thoughts that I strongly
Speaker 1: believe in that, you know, I mean, I actually I
Speaker 1: do think you need to love yourself. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: say you need to love yourself before you love other people,
Speaker 1: but I think that we're needing other people to love
Speaker 1: you before you love yourself is a trap that people.
Speaker 1: People tend to fall into where they need other people's
Speaker 1: validation share they need other people to think that they
Speaker 1: are something before they can think that they're that thing.
Speaker 1: Do you know? It's a trap. It's a skill that
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't take the time to develop
Speaker 1: when they fucks themselves. Maybe they like, you know, get
Speaker 1: into a relationship or something, you know, maybe at an
Speaker 1: early age, and they're in it for a long time,
Speaker 1: you know, and so much of their love for themselves
Speaker 1: is just a spin off of their partner's love for them.
Speaker 1: And then the partner leaves or something, and then they
Speaker 1: get fucked because they their love for themselves wasn't based
Speaker 1: off of a solid internal rock, and they get fucked,
Speaker 1: And you want to get fucked like that, dude. That's
Speaker 1: why you gotta build it. It's why you gotta build
Speaker 1: your rock. You gotta build your internal belief in yourself
Speaker 1: and your internal love.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 9: Hm hmm, that's very true.
Speaker 1: Now, how exactly one goes about doing that?
Speaker 10: Know?
Speaker 12: What do you mean?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just thinking out loud. What what your name was?
Speaker 1: Natalie Sabrina Sabrina? I like that name.
Speaker 3: Thanks, do you have n I kind of really have
Speaker 3: like iffy feelings about it because it sounds a lot
Speaker 3: like my sister's name, so growing up, like my parents
Speaker 3: would always get our names confused.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 1: What do you do, Sabrina?
Speaker 3: I'm a college student?
Speaker 1: College do? What do you study?
Speaker 9: I'm just currently getting my basics right now. I'm at
Speaker 9: community college. I'm a liberal arts major.
Speaker 1: Nice. Do you have any idea what you want to
Speaker 1: do in life?
Speaker 12: No?
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 9: Kind of worried about that. I know it, like because
Speaker 9: I know what I don't like, but I don't really know,
Speaker 9: like if I want to pursue something that I'm really
Speaker 9: passionate about, like I really like writing, but I get
Speaker 9: a little bit scared about that because you know, I
Speaker 9: get very apprehensive as to whether or not I can,
Speaker 9: you know, continue to have it as a passion if
Speaker 9: it's slowly, you know, becomes something that you know is like,
Speaker 9: you know, a job to make money, and it's you know,
Speaker 9: something that you know no longer becomes a hobby but
Speaker 9: gets like that middle ground.
Speaker 1: Exactly. We were talking to Tiff about this. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you were there for that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I listened in on Tiff, mentioning that, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's a tough thing. I feel like I feel like
Speaker 3: because like I'm only nineteen, so like I feel like
Speaker 3: people at my age, I feel like we still have
Speaker 3: a little bit of time to decide what we want
Speaker 3: to do for the rest of our lives, which sounds
Speaker 3: a little bit weird considering it's only you know, so
Speaker 3: you know, it's you've only been alive for so long.
Speaker 7: So.
Speaker 1: A little bit of time. I think you have a
Speaker 1: lot more than a little bit of time.
Speaker 4: You have.
Speaker 1: Actually, Actually, the funny part is you have until you
Speaker 1: are dead.
Speaker 9: Damn to do.
Speaker 1: Things in the world. I mean, you say you want
Speaker 1: to write, I mean you can write at any age.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. When you're thirty six and
Speaker 1: you decide that writing is stupid and you want to
Speaker 1: play guitar, you can play guitar. You know, you can
Speaker 1: do whatever you want all the time. Kind of pretty much,
Speaker 1: you pretty much do whatever you wants all the time,
Speaker 1: unless if you murder someone and go to jail, or
Speaker 1: you get pregnant and you're responsible for a child, you
Speaker 1: can't do whatever you wants all the time, and you
Speaker 1: get so you can't get pregnant or kill anyone. But
Speaker 1: if if you don't, if you don't, if you if
Speaker 1: you don't have a kid or go to jail, you
Speaker 1: can pretty much do whatever you want.
Speaker 3: That is true, That's very true.
Speaker 1: How do you think this conversation went?
Speaker 3: You can be honest, I think it went pretty okay.
Speaker 10: I think it went.
Speaker 3: Pretty good, pretty well. I mean, I again, I wasn't
Speaker 3: expecting it, so the surprise element definitely, it definitely increased
Speaker 3: my enjoyment totally.
Speaker 1: You were definitely. You definitely started off extremely excited about this,
Speaker 1: and then as we got more into it, I think
Speaker 1: your enthusiasm died down as you encountered the reality of
Speaker 1: Do you know what the conversation was?
Speaker 3: Hmm, well, I feel like it's because I think I
Speaker 3: got a little bit more comfortable. Maybe that was it.
Speaker 1: Totally totally. That's good though.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess sorry, I was looking at the chat.
Speaker 3: Let me close out of that.
Speaker 1: Did you see anything good? Anything in there?
Speaker 3: It's whatever? I mean, Hey, it's like it's like your
Speaker 3: callers said earlier, got to do you?
Speaker 1: You know absolutely I agree with that. Hey, Sabrina, I
Speaker 1: have one quick question before we go. Yep, what happened.
Speaker 3: Shit happened.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for calling Sabrini, you everyone for us
Speaker 1: the night's pleasure talking to m H.
Speaker 3: All from Eli.
Speaker 14: Eli, hey gg.
Speaker 1: How are you Eli?
Speaker 15: Good?
Speaker 1: Elijah? Is that sort for Elijah?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 12: Just Eli.
Speaker 1: Eli? Elijah is the name of the oh you had?
Speaker 1: You know what I was gonna go on. Here's what
Speaker 1: all right? Just now, just now I said, I said,
Speaker 1: Elijah is the name of it? You said, you're gonna
Speaker 1: say the thing I interrupted you. I was gonna go
Speaker 1: on a tangent about how Elijah is the name of
Speaker 1: like some god or something that you leave the door
Speaker 1: open to come in to your house during shapat, But
Speaker 1: that would that would have been a stupid thing to say.
Speaker 1: So I'll let you say the thing that you were
Speaker 1: going to say when I interrupted you to say that.
Speaker 1: And I actually made my explanation probably took longer than
Speaker 1: what I just said, especially because what I was going
Speaker 1: to say. I said it anyway in my explanation. But
Speaker 1: I want you to ignore the fact that I'm doing
Speaker 1: what I'm doing right now and say exactly what you're
Speaker 1: going to say before I interrupted you.
Speaker 3: Well, I was gonna kind of I think you're wrong
Speaker 3: about the bet.
Speaker 15: I'm sorry you made me past this, Okay, I mean
Speaker 15: it was under the assumption that it was the bet
Speaker 15: was placed on the game that was in the background.
Speaker 1: So no, it was not under the assumption I said.
Speaker 1: It was said the nineteen ninety seven super Bowl. I
Speaker 1: said we were betting on the nineteen ninety seven super Bowl.
Speaker 1: There's no assumptions to be made when I say specifically,
Speaker 1: I am betting on the nineteenth ninety seven Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: All right, maybe I don't know that the collar fully understand.
Speaker 4: Did that, But.
Speaker 1: Well, whose fault is that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was a miscommunication.
Speaker 1: I guess maybe I'm past them, So past the sea line.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm on the next thing. Have you ever thought
Speaker 3: about how often we talk in idioms?
Speaker 1: How often we talk in idioms?
Speaker 3: So you had two callers both say that they were
Speaker 3: working or that they were like working as hard as dogs.
Speaker 1: Yes, well they both mentioned dogs. One was sick as
Speaker 1: a dog, one was working as hard as a dog.
Speaker 3: Right, those are both idioms. Yes, And so many times
Speaker 3: when we're talking about like games, you know, some people
Speaker 3: say that they were real barn burners.
Speaker 1: What is it. I've never heard that before. It is
Speaker 1: a barn burner.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's like a really good game, like a real
Speaker 3: nail ighter. Again another idiom mhmyard a barn burner.
Speaker 1: Barn burner means a good game? Is this bar? Does
Speaker 1: this bar and burner mean the same thing as a
Speaker 1: nail bier?
Speaker 16: Yes?
Speaker 7: Do you?
Speaker 1: I've never heard the barn burner before. Do you know,
Speaker 1: like sort of what that the nail bier? Like you're
Speaker 1: biting your nails because you're like nervous about what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: But I don't understand the barn burner one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I looked it up once, but I can't remember
Speaker 3: exactly the etymology of it.
Speaker 1: What do you if you have to take a wild
Speaker 1: guess of an explanation of the idea, how do you?
Speaker 1: What do you? What do you think it means?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's like people all would like stand around watching a
Speaker 3: bar and burn because like back in the day, perhaps
Speaker 3: there wasn't a lot of entertainment, and so if there
Speaker 3: was a bar and burning down, everyone would like go
Speaker 3: and watch.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's a little said, that's kind of song. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know, I think he might be right. I think
Speaker 1: he might be right, a barn burner. I like that, right,
Speaker 1: But people people, you know, back before there was entertainment,
Speaker 1: people found entertainment and destruction, which is very a little
Speaker 1: sad when you think about it.
Speaker 3: It is sad. Hopefully they got all the.
Speaker 1: Animals out, Ah, I feel like they didn't. I feel
Speaker 1: like that was part of the entertainment for them, which, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think I think that I've I
Speaker 1: think we've we've discovered the reason why that's not as
Speaker 1: popular as an idiom as a nail butter, because it's
Speaker 1: a little bit dark.
Speaker 3: Maybe you're probably right on that.
Speaker 1: What did you say? Your name was Eli? Eli. Are
Speaker 1: you competitive?
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm very competitive, but there's a caveat to it.
Speaker 3: I'm competitive about things that I think I can win.
Speaker 1: Competitive about things that you think you can win.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so if there's no chance of me winning, then
Speaker 3: I don't give a shit.
Speaker 1: This is interesting because this is sort of builds off
Speaker 1: of I don't know if you heard the conversation I
Speaker 1: just had. You did, because you brought up the we
Speaker 1: were talking about ignorance. You're not ignorantly. You're not competitive
Speaker 1: ignorantly because if you were, because you're only a better
Speaker 1: of things that you know that you have a shot
Speaker 1: at winning.
Speaker 3: Correct and like betting on sports or something. I feel
Speaker 3: like a lot of that is chance unless you can develop,
Speaker 3: you know, some really good mathematical models to potentially predict
Speaker 3: the outcomes with a higher probability. But regardless, you know,
Speaker 3: that's just chance. So that's not really a competitive.
Speaker 5: Thing.
Speaker 1: I feel like That's what I said to our very
Speaker 1: first caller who told us that she was competitive in monopoly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then I mean there is some strategies of monopoly, though, I.
Speaker 1: Got I guess there's like, how would you describe the
Speaker 1: strategy of monopoly, because to me, it's all about the
Speaker 1: dice rolls and who lands on what first.
Speaker 3: Well, yes, that is a big part of it. But
Speaker 3: then there's also the strategy of like buying only houses
Speaker 3: so that you can like remove anybody else the opportunity
Speaker 3: to buy.
Speaker 1: Houses interesting and run out of houses. Is that a thing?
Speaker 3: Yes, that's the thing.
Speaker 1: I did not know that.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: What were you going to say?
Speaker 3: I kind of lost my train of thought. I'm sorry, No, No,
Speaker 3: I don't know if it was about monopoly or it'll
Speaker 3: come back to me.
Speaker 1: Probably actually competitive about things that you believe that you
Speaker 1: have a chance at succeeding. And what are some things
Speaker 1: that you are competitive about that you believe you have
Speaker 1: a chances exceeding.
Speaker 3: Okay, sorry, I'm gonna I just remembered it. I'm a
Speaker 3: big rule follower, so hence in monopoly then I am
Speaker 3: competitive like about following rules as well, because if somebody
Speaker 3: like doesn't follow the same rules or you're not, you know,
Speaker 3: playing by the same yeah, by the same rules, then.
Speaker 4: I mean it's rigged.
Speaker 3: It's not a fair competition.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you a question here. Your passion for
Speaker 1: rule following does it extend beyond the realm of board
Speaker 1: games and into life? Were you always do it at
Speaker 1: Following rules in school, following rules in society?
Speaker 3: No? No, And I think that society has built too
Speaker 3: many rules that are unnecessary to follow.
Speaker 1: So if you can here's what I don't get. Then
Speaker 1: if you can admit that some of society's rules are unnecessary,
Speaker 1: why are you so stubborn on the idea that you
Speaker 1: know some of monopolies rules might be unnecessary, such as
Speaker 1: the ones that there are a finite amount of houses.
Speaker 3: Well, they might be, but you have to agree to
Speaker 3: how you're going to play the games as with whoever
Speaker 3: you're playing the game with. So if you if everyone
Speaker 3: agrees to abide by a new set of rules for
Speaker 3: monopoly like free parking and getting cash that's in the middle,
Speaker 3: then that's an okay rule to.
Speaker 8: Institute.
Speaker 3: But if you don't have that baseline of everyone having
Speaker 3: the same expectation and the same rules, then it's totally unfair.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you believe that monopolies rules are backed by
Speaker 1: the fact that everyone participating in the game aim has
Speaker 1: agreed to the rules before beginning to participate in the game.
Speaker 1: But wouldn't you say that we live by a social
Speaker 1: contract that we have all agreed to, for example, the
Speaker 1: rule that we can't murder each other. By living in society,
Speaker 1: we all sort of agree to certain rules.
Speaker 3: Yes we do, we do, But that's also you're kind
Speaker 3: of like going over into like morality. So they're not
Speaker 3: they're not rules per se. They're not Well, yeah, I
Speaker 3: guess they are laws, but do.
Speaker 10: You understand what I mean?
Speaker 3: Like there's like some laws like does everyone wear seatbelts?
Speaker 3: People speed all of the time? Like those are laws,
Speaker 3: Those are rules, not everyone to buy them.
Speaker 1: Do you think that people should speed less.
Speaker 3: I don't know, probably would cause less deaths.
Speaker 1: Probably would.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's there for a reason, right, and wearing
Speaker 3: seatbelts is there for a reason.
Speaker 1: It's no. So theoretically, if I were to play a
Speaker 1: game Monopoly, and then I wanted to buy a house
Speaker 1: and you said no, there's no more houses, and I said,
Speaker 1: we can just use the dog or the iron, and
Speaker 1: you said, no, that's not part of the rules, I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: I almost hit an old lady on the way over
Speaker 1: here because I was going seventy miles an hour in
Speaker 1: a forty and I broke that rule. So I'm on
Speaker 1: a roll right now. I should just break every rule
Speaker 1: that there is to break that I see in front
Speaker 1: of me.
Speaker 3: Would right, Well, so then that's where my competitive edge
Speaker 3: would come in and I would start getting really angry
Speaker 3: at the game. I would say, no, that's not fair.
Speaker 1: What did your name was?
Speaker 10: Eli?
Speaker 1: Eli?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 1: How do you think this conversation went?
Speaker 3: I think it went great. I had a great time.
Speaker 3: I think we both heard each other's sides and yeah.
Speaker 1: I think so. I think this is very civil discussion.
Speaker 8: I agree.
Speaker 1: Do you ever want to for.
Speaker 3: Us to night get yep?
Speaker 8: All from.
Speaker 1: The Hello, Hey, what's your name? My friend?
Speaker 16: Taylor?
Speaker 1: Taylor? Taylor. We have we spoken before?
Speaker 16: No, but I comment sometimes.
Speaker 1: Okay, we have not spoken, but we've commented. So we've
Speaker 1: engaged in sort of a one way dialogue, a one
Speaker 1: way monologue, a one way form of communicat one way
Speaker 1: conversation of some kind in a way.
Speaker 16: Yes, I mean there's been like a quick two ways sometimes,
Speaker 16: but mostly are one way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what kinds of comments do you leave? Do you
Speaker 1: leave mean comments? Nice comments, neutral comments of all?
Speaker 16: Definitely nice? I keep it nice?
Speaker 1: You keep it nice? Do you ever let anything mean slip?
Speaker 1: It starts to be nice all the time.
Speaker 16: Not on the twitch, you know, I try to keep
Speaker 16: it pretty pretty good on the.
Speaker 1: Twitch, pretty good on the twitch. So when you say
Speaker 1: on the twitch, does that mean that there are other
Speaker 1: places in which you do leave me in comments? Maybe
Speaker 1: even in your head?
Speaker 16: I mean in my head. Yeah, I'm trying to keep
Speaker 16: it out of like the typing part, but in my
Speaker 16: head yeah.
Speaker 1: M hm hmmm. What kind of comments do you think
Speaker 1: up in your head?
Speaker 16: In what context?
Speaker 1: You say you're thinking of mean comments in your head?
Speaker 1: But so whenever you you know, think of something that
Speaker 1: is not nice, it's something that is unsavory. You like
Speaker 1: to keep it in your head. You think to yourself, Oh,
Speaker 1: this will be best if I kept myself and not sure
Speaker 1: with others.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean I try to keep.
Speaker 16: In general.
Speaker 1: In general, we say you're a positive person.
Speaker 16: I would say in general, yeah, I think everyone like
Speaker 16: this normally a little critical, but those are the things
Speaker 16: we don't type on twitch.
Speaker 1: I like that. Mm hmm. Would you say that your
Speaker 1: gut reaction, your gut judgment of things is critical and
Speaker 1: then you sort of consciously make aims to be less
Speaker 1: critical or which is commendable if that is the tra
Speaker 1: if that is the case, or is your gut to
Speaker 1: be positive?
Speaker 4: Gut's positive, You're lucky.
Speaker 1: We Has it always been or did you have to
Speaker 1: train it to be that way?
Speaker 16: I think it's like a training kind of thing. I
Speaker 16: feel like you go, like my experience is like junior high.
Speaker 16: You go through like a part where like you start
Speaker 16: to kind of see other people doing the negative. You
Speaker 16: kind of go for the negative a little bit, but
Speaker 16: then like you learn from that and then be more positive. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, definitely very impressionable at a young age, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why Actually, that actually is interesting that you mentioned that,
Speaker 1: because I think about that a lot, especially when I
Speaker 1: see what's popular on the internet on TikTok negativity scarily
Speaker 1: very popular with the kids these days.
Speaker 16: Yeah, and also someone I know I'm not supposed to
Speaker 16: read the chat, but I just saw someone say it's
Speaker 16: just the guy from the hot tub and I am definitely.
Speaker 1: Female the guy from the hot tub.
Speaker 16: Oh is this the guy the one from the hot tub.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what we're talking about.
Speaker 16: It was just something in the chat, but I don't know.
Speaker 16: I'm a girl other than that.
Speaker 3: Sorry, I got distracted.
Speaker 1: It's okay. This is the chat. Did you and me?
Speaker 1: We're having a chat right now.
Speaker 16: Yeah, it's true. It's pretty wild.
Speaker 1: Great, I think it's wild. It is.
Speaker 16: You're in like the States somewhere, I'm guessing somewhere. Yes,
Speaker 16: I am having Canada, which is like, I mean, I'm
Speaker 16: not the guy in Turkey or whatever.
Speaker 1: But I know, through the gracious so the graces of technology.
Speaker 1: You know, we're really standing on the shoulders of the
Speaker 1: giants who came before us. Alexander Graham bell al Gore,
Speaker 1: who invented the internet.
Speaker 16: Was that in Nova Scotia reference. Did you know that I.
Speaker 1: Don't know what.
Speaker 16: That Alexander Graham Bell is from Nova Scotia.
Speaker 1: No, Alexander Graham Bell went to the telephone.
Speaker 16: Yeah, and he's from Nova Scotia, which is where.
Speaker 1: Well, I didn't know that I thought he was. I
Speaker 1: thought he was from America. Actually, I actually didn't think
Speaker 1: he was from America. I didn't I never thought about
Speaker 1: where he was from. I just know who that he
Speaker 1: met the.
Speaker 16: Telephone Bully Canadian, which I mean that's from I'm from
Speaker 16: Nova Scotia. That's a pretty small place. That was pretty impressive.
Speaker 1: Tell I have a question for you.
Speaker 12: What happened?
Speaker 1: What happened?
Speaker 16: Okay, So the thing that into my mind, do you
Speaker 16: know how yourself thought, like your your iPhone, it comes
Speaker 16: up with these little stories that come up with like oh,
Speaker 16: like here's a time in your life and it shows
Speaker 16: these little thing of your pictures.
Speaker 1: Sure, yes, the memories of your pictures.
Speaker 16: Yep, iPhone does it Apple whatever? Yeah, So it came
Speaker 16: up with this story that it thought that I wanted,
Speaker 16: like picked it from my pictures, put it together into
Speaker 16: this like video thing and it picks it from like
Speaker 16: a time in your life, and it picked March twenty eight,
Speaker 16: twenty twenty twenty, which is the day that my parents
Speaker 16: house burnt down. Oh no, so put like a video
Speaker 16: together being like you're gonna like this, this is your
Speaker 16: memories and then that's that who day?
Speaker 1: Was there happy music behind it? Yep?
Speaker 16: Totally very inspirational.
Speaker 1: What kind of music did they put behind it?
Speaker 11: Like that?
Speaker 16: Really like things are great chilling in like very like
Speaker 16: stock music kind of thing.
Speaker 12: Mm hm.
Speaker 1: And what was your reaction?
Speaker 16: I guess not like surprised. The old apple the computer
Speaker 16: doesn't really get you. But it's just interesting that I
Speaker 16: didn't know that, like, you know, house burning down photos
Speaker 16: were not something I wanted to see, you know.
Speaker 1: Hmm. Do you think it's possible that the iPhone was
Speaker 1: taunting you?
Speaker 10: I could see it.
Speaker 16: Intentionally, Yeah, like for whatever reason, that just that's what
Speaker 16: the computer, like it was programmed to do.
Speaker 8: Hmm.
Speaker 16: I guess we'll ever go.
Speaker 1: Did you keep the slide show or did you delete it?
Speaker 16: I did keep it. It's you know, it's been traumatic,
Speaker 16: but now I'm just kind of like, that's actually pretty funny.
Speaker 4: So it is.
Speaker 1: It is a little funny in retrospect, not your parents
Speaker 1: burning house burning down but the fact that your phone
Speaker 1: made a happy slide show of it, that's uh.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 1: So, how do you think this phone call went?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 16: The chap still thinks I'm a guy, so that tror
Speaker 16: female all Taylor.
Speaker 1: Taylor, don't read the chat. Taylor.
Speaker 16: I know, I know. I should have learned my lesson
Speaker 16: by now.
Speaker 1: It's honestly, it's a little rude, Taylor. Like imagine if
Speaker 1: we were just talking, you know, face to face, and
Speaker 1: you were like on your phone, you know, while we're talking.
Speaker 1: You know, you're on your computer while we're talking, just
Speaker 1: like reading you know, the texts. It's so rude. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, I forgive you, Taylor. I believe that you
Speaker 1: have positive intentions. I believe you're a pure soul. I'm
Speaker 1: not here to diss you, but I Taylor, you never
Speaker 1: have to apologize to me for anything ever. I appreciate
Speaker 1: you calling in. You have great nights as well.
Speaker 3: Pull from to accept press one.
Speaker 1: Hello scholar, Hello, hey man, I can't hear you at all.
Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta either take yourself off speakerphone or
Speaker 1: speak up, or you know I can hear you. I
Speaker 1: can hear you a little bit better. What's your name,
Speaker 1: my friend, my child, I'm Josh, Josh, Josh. What size?
Speaker 1: How big is your head in comparison to the rest
Speaker 1: of your body?
Speaker 12: It's twice as big.
Speaker 1: Your head is twice as big as the rest of
Speaker 1: your Your head is twice as big as the normal head,
Speaker 1: or twice as big as the size of your body.
Speaker 1: Both look, uh, Josh, just because I asked you a
Speaker 1: silly question does not give you permission to lie to me.
Speaker 12: Okay, I'm sorry. My head is the average size.
Speaker 1: Good. So I asked the silly question, and I and
Speaker 1: you know, if someone gives me a silly answer, then
Speaker 1: they're silly person, that they're a silly guy. And I
Speaker 1: could tell that you're a silly guy because he gave
Speaker 1: a silly answer to the silly question. But you know,
Speaker 1: I'm in a serious mood. I'm in the mood to
Speaker 1: have a serious a silly discussion. I was merely I
Speaker 1: merely began this discussion silly to kind of feel you out,
Speaker 1: make sure that you would be suited to have the
Speaker 1: kind of serious discussion that I'm interested in having this evening.
Speaker 1: And I could tell that you are not so fine.
Speaker 1: We won't have a serious discussion.
Speaker 12: I want to have a man. This is the second
Speaker 12: time I got on. I can't believe it.
Speaker 1: I have a questions for you. Okay, what happened?
Speaker 12: What happened or what happens?
Speaker 1: I have a question for you, Josh, Yeah, what happened.
Speaker 11: Life?
Speaker 1: What about life?
Speaker 12: It happens?
Speaker 1: Did it happen today?
Speaker 17: Yeah?
Speaker 1: What happened today? In life?
Speaker 16: You know?
Speaker 12: Death happened in my life recently. Let me talk about that.
Speaker 1: Sorry to hear that.
Speaker 12: Yeah, So last can I tell a story real quick?
Speaker 1: Sure? Why not?
Speaker 12: So last time I called you, I played the ukulele.
Speaker 1: Right, I don't know if you remember that you played
Speaker 1: the ukulele? Was this while I was so sleep?
Speaker 12: No, you were awake, you were. I saw that sleeping stream.
Speaker 12: That was awesome, all right.
Speaker 1: The last time he called you played the ale.
Speaker 12: And then so my friend was over. His name is Johnny,
Speaker 12: and we were getting certified to be welders weld metal right,
Speaker 12: and he's a certified welder welding inspector. And I was
Speaker 12: talking to you on the phone with him, and about
Speaker 12: a week later, I don't know, about three days later,
Speaker 12: he passed away.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.
Speaker 12: Man, It's kind of reminded me, like that's why it
Speaker 12: kind of called you his because last time I talked
Speaker 12: to you, he was he was here, actually at my house.
Speaker 12: Did I talk to him, No, he was in he
Speaker 12: was in the garage. I was talking to you on
Speaker 12: the phone and we were getting it was kind of later.
Speaker 12: We were he was certifying us to get welding uh certified.
Speaker 12: Uh you know, welders three of us.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 12: I'm a I'm a large scale sculpture artists, so I
Speaker 12: do like big metal sculptures and uh so I needed
Speaker 12: to be certified for this project. And he was over
Speaker 12: at the house and that was the last time I
Speaker 12: saw him. Mm hmm was about three four weeks ago.
Speaker 1: How are you feeling since?
Speaker 12: You know, I was kind of I was angry at first.
Speaker 12: I was angry as a lot of people, and I'm
Speaker 12: not as angry anymore, but you know, I do miss
Speaker 12: him for sure.
Speaker 1: What do you make metal sculptures of.
Speaker 12: I'm a big burning Man sculpture artist. Interesting, I've done
Speaker 12: some of the biggest sculptures at burning Man over the
Speaker 12: last twenty years. And I'm a professional sculpture artist with
Speaker 12: like commercial commissions and I'm an architect too.
Speaker 1: That's cool. I was actually thinking I was looking into
Speaker 1: burning Man recently. I think it would I don't know
Speaker 1: a lot about it, but someone told me that I
Speaker 1: could set up a the tenth. I have no idea
Speaker 1: what that means.
Speaker 12: Yep. So there's a big city, you know that everybody
Speaker 12: camps at at burning Man, and that's where everybody kind
Speaker 12: of lives in the city. And people will do that
Speaker 12: in camps They'll have like events and bars and you know,
Speaker 12: ted talks and kind of lectures. I mean, anything goes
Speaker 12: at bernie Man really, but yeah, that would definitely go.
Speaker 1: Okay, maybe I'll do that. That sounds kind of fun.
Speaker 12: Yeah. So yeah, I've been going out to Bernie Man
Speaker 12: for over twenty years and made like a you know,
Speaker 12: four story glass and steel jellyfish, twenty foot robot, twenty
Speaker 12: foot tall robot, and a bunch of other stuff.
Speaker 1: When is the next Oh what are you gonna say?
Speaker 12: Oh? I was gonna say my friend who passed the
Speaker 12: way he was also he went to burning Man with us,
Speaker 12: and he helped us build a lot of these big projects.
Speaker 1: Nice. Are you planning on building something for him?
Speaker 12: Yes? So I have a robot. Well, I have a
Speaker 12: robot that he worked on. It's called I Robot and
Speaker 12: it was a burning Man twenty eighteen in the Center
Speaker 12: Camp and he helped weld it. And I want to
Speaker 12: It's in my front yard right now. Yeah, I think
Speaker 12: I'm gonna it's gonna get installed in California hopefully pretty soon.
Speaker 12: I'm from Nevada.
Speaker 1: That sounds awesome.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I would definitely honor him. His name was Johnny,
Speaker 12: and he helped us a lot and in our community
Speaker 12: to you know, built really big art, and yeah, I
Speaker 12: definitely need to. I want to honor him several ways
Speaker 12: with that piece. And I have another piece I started
Speaker 12: working on to memorialize him.
Speaker 1: Is this this piece, this robot piece, is it going
Speaker 1: to be at the next Burning Man in California?
Speaker 12: Well, berniinge Man got canceled again this year because of COVID.
Speaker 12: Just got canceled like a week ago, uh now, like
Speaker 12: three or four days ago, and so there's no burning
Speaker 12: Man this year. I probably won't go back to Bernie Man. Honestly, again,
Speaker 12: why not a little corrupt?
Speaker 1: It's corrupt?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 1: How is it corrupt?
Speaker 12: Maybe pretty controversial? I don't know. I have my opinions
Speaker 12: interesting Burning Man. A lot of people think it's just
Speaker 12: a bunch of naked people, you know, running around in
Speaker 12: the desert doing drugs and you know, fucking each other.
Speaker 12: Oh can I say that.
Speaker 1: I can't gonna say whatever you wanted.
Speaker 12: It kind of is you know, a lot of CD
Speaker 12: stuff goes on a Burning Man.
Speaker 1: Is your perception of it sort of more spiritual and
Speaker 1: less let's all get naked and do drugs in the desert.
Speaker 12: It's the biggest art show in the world. So that's
Speaker 12: why that's gone for the last twenty years. For the art.
Speaker 12: Strictly for the art, you know, I go there every
Speaker 12: year to build. You know, it's the hardest place to
Speaker 12: do art, honestly. You know, I do public amenity art,
Speaker 12: you know, sculpture, public art, So doing art outside is challenging,
Speaker 12: you know, large scale art, and then doing it in
Speaker 12: the middle of the desert is even more. Is the
Speaker 12: hardest place to do art, I think. So I go
Speaker 12: strictly to build some of the biggest art in the
Speaker 12: world and to design it.
Speaker 1: Who did you say your name was, Josh, Josh, Josh,
Speaker 1: Listen before we go, I'm curious, is there anywhere that
Speaker 1: we can find your art? Are you on Instagram? You
Speaker 1: got a website? You got something? I'd love to see
Speaker 1: your sculptures?
Speaker 12: Yeah, I got. I'm a little weird, So I got
Speaker 12: rid of my social media. I just got on Twitch.
Speaker 12: I got my own Twitch Josh Fail artists.
Speaker 1: Josh Veil artist. Yep, oh, I think I saw. I
Speaker 1: saw you in the chat saying I don't have any ears.
Speaker 12: That's right, Yeah, that's me. So, and do you have
Speaker 12: an email too?
Speaker 1: Do I have an email? Yeah?
Speaker 12: Can email?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 12: I don't do social media, and I've been twitching a
Speaker 12: little bit lately. I love Twitch.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I don't know if you're alive. We'll have
Speaker 1: to raid you sometime. I want to see that you're
Speaker 1: like building sculptures on there or something.
Speaker 12: Yeah. Yeah, I'm building that. Yeah, building like an eight
Speaker 12: ton dream catcher right now, made out.
Speaker 1: Of steel with a ton dream that's like the size
Speaker 1: of that's like.
Speaker 12: Two cars, forty feet long. It has four hundred pounds feathers,
Speaker 12: twenty four of them.
Speaker 1: Jesus, the feathers actually.
Speaker 12: Steal So y'all, it'd be cool if you, yeah, raided
Speaker 12: me sometimes because I have neuro followers.
Speaker 1: Do you hit me up, dude, I'm Lile Forever endevor
Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. Anyone that goes for anyone, Dude,
Speaker 1: I'm Lile Forever and Ever at gmail dot com. Yeah, dude, listen, Josh.
Speaker 1: It was a pleasure, a pleasure getting to speak with you.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry for your loss, and it sounds like you're
Speaker 1: doing a lot of really interesting stuff. I'm excited to
Speaker 1: go check it out for the rest of tonight, of course.
Speaker 12: All right, thanks back.
Speaker 19: All from is Iirah is Zirah.
Speaker 1: Isira.
Speaker 14: Hello?
Speaker 1: Are you a Zira?
Speaker 3: Can you hear me?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: What's up?
Speaker 14: Hi?
Speaker 10: How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm doing the best I can. I'm a get go
Speaker 1: on the computer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I see.
Speaker 1: What what's your ultimate gold in life? What do you
Speaker 1: want to do before you die?
Speaker 14: I would love to that's a good question. I would
Speaker 14: love to perform on stage because I'm like a singer,
Speaker 14: So I would love to perform on stage at like
Speaker 14: a big concert event like Coachella or something in front
Speaker 14: of like thousands of people.
Speaker 1: Mm hm, you're a singer, what kind what kind of
Speaker 1: music do you sing? I?
Speaker 14: I write songs about like love, the.
Speaker 1: Typical stuff songs about love. Are these songs about love?
Speaker 1: Are they inspired by your own personal experiences with love?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 14: They are, all of them.
Speaker 1: Are, and they about Oh I'm sorry you go ahead.
Speaker 14: Oh no, yeah, all my songs are inspired from my
Speaker 14: experiences with love and heartbreak and stuff.
Speaker 1: So there's all My question is going to be is
Speaker 1: so it's all romantic love?
Speaker 14: Uh yeah, romantic bad relationships, toxic love of it?
Speaker 1: M M. Now, Adele, she's always writing about her heartbreak, right, Yes,
Speaker 1: A lot of people, A lot of people have speculated that,
Speaker 1: you know, Adele actually actively seeks out heartbreak to give
Speaker 1: you know, they've said this about Taylor Swift too, They
Speaker 1: actively intentionally sabotage their own relationships to gain fodder for
Speaker 1: their wow, their art, which of course is ridiculous. I
Speaker 1: also made that up, just actually thinks. But I mean,
Speaker 1: that's a ridiculous thing that a lot of people think.
Speaker 1: And I'm curious is that What do you think is
Speaker 1: that true for you personally as someone who minds a
Speaker 1: similar place for material.
Speaker 14: No, I don't think anyone would actually go and like
Speaker 14: sabotage their relationship to make a song about it. I
Speaker 14: know I wouldn't, But that's that's pretty crazy. If someone, would.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: Another thing that I find interesting about artists who mine
Speaker 1: their emotions for their art is that emotion is very
Speaker 1: intense and very fleeting, very sort of in the moment.
Speaker 1: It doesn't last very long. And for you to take
Speaker 1: I mean for you to transmute these very raw feelings
Speaker 1: of you know, anger and sadness and and put them
Speaker 1: into a song. I mean, you've you've got to You've
Speaker 1: got to take that raw feeling and it's got to
Speaker 1: go from writing to recording, to mixing to sitting with
Speaker 1: a dude in a booth, go and do how do
Speaker 1: we do with the levels and ship to this to
Speaker 1: that to put it on Instagram? You know, how do you?
Speaker 1: How do you? How do you keep focused on on
Speaker 1: what really matters through that whole process.
Speaker 14: Absolutely, I always remember, like why I'm doing this, and
Speaker 14: like why I'm sharing my story because I want people
Speaker 14: to hear and I know people can relate, So I
Speaker 14: always remember that. And like, I love music, so writing
Speaker 14: lyrics and talk about my experiences through music is like
Speaker 14: the best thing I could do for myself and other people.
Speaker 1: So you have you performed live before? Have you ever
Speaker 1: performed in front of people? Yeah?
Speaker 14: I have many times. Yeah, and it's always been great,
Speaker 14: but I haven't performed anywhere recently because of COVID. Like
Speaker 14: very soon I will, and I'm like working on the
Speaker 14: song right now that I plan on releasing in June.
Speaker 14: So I'm pretty excited.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. I'm gonna annoy you about this. There are
Speaker 1: you on TikTok uh?
Speaker 14: Yes, I'm come on TikTok and Instagram. My Instagram is
Speaker 14: tbh dot Memories.
Speaker 1: Tbh dot Memories, okay.
Speaker 14: Yeah, and then my TikTok is like linked in like
Speaker 14: my bio and my Instagram, so you can just find
Speaker 14: it there.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 12: Cool.
Speaker 1: The reason I was asking is because I feel like
Speaker 1: if I were, you know, trying to you know, if
Speaker 1: you're trying to do anything but a lot, specifically, if
Speaker 1: you're trying to be a musician, I feel like TikTok
Speaker 1: is the number one way to go to get your
Speaker 1: stuff out there.
Speaker 16: Yeah.
Speaker 14: I always post on TikTok too, like my singing videos
Speaker 14: and whatnot.
Speaker 1: What did you say your name was? Again?
Speaker 14: Isira?
Speaker 1: Isira? Are you competitive?
Speaker 15: Not?
Speaker 18: Really?
Speaker 14: No? Depending on what it is, I might be, but
Speaker 14: overall no, not really.
Speaker 1: Even in your music career would you consider yourself to
Speaker 1: be competitive?
Speaker 14: No, I just I just love music and I do
Speaker 14: it because I love it. I'm not trying to like
Speaker 14: be like on top of anyone or anything like that.
Speaker 14: Like I just do it. I love it.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 1: The cool thing about music as opposed to I think
Speaker 1: about this a lot. The thing about you know, music
Speaker 1: and the arts that has an advantage over something like sports,
Speaker 1: for instance, is there can be multiple amazing musicians. There
Speaker 1: can be infinite musicians of infinite genres. All you know,
Speaker 1: you can build your own following and you can one
Speaker 1: person can like many different musicians. But you know, let's
Speaker 1: say if you wanted to be like like if you
Speaker 1: wanted to be the champion heavyweight boxer rights or something
Speaker 1: that it could only be one. It's directly competitive. This
Speaker 1: is not a a mixed market. So it's an advantage.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I understand.
Speaker 8: That, but.
Speaker 1: Well listen, is is Ira? Yes, is Ira. This is
Speaker 1: a pleasure talking to you. Would you say what was
Speaker 1: your what was your Instagram?
Speaker 3: Again?
Speaker 1: I want to want I'm gonna go check.
Speaker 14: You out a t h dot memories.
Speaker 1: Tb h dot memory is awesome. Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for calling in AIRA, you have a wonder for rest
Speaker 1: of the night, you too, all from Trey Wan Trey Wan.
Speaker 13: Trey.
Speaker 1: I need you right now?
Speaker 8: You need me right now?
Speaker 1: What do you need me right now?
Speaker 8: I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know exactly what it is, but it's just
Speaker 1: your presence. You're giving me everything I need from you
Speaker 1: right now. How you doing? Try one?
Speaker 8: I'm pretty good? But I think I have a deeper
Speaker 8: problem with that. A.
Speaker 1: Are you gonna all right? What's what's up? Man? What's
Speaker 1: the problem?
Speaker 8: So let's keep this PG and let's just say I
Speaker 8: think I'm addicted to like xxx videos.
Speaker 4: Oh and I just I just.
Speaker 1: Can't seem to stop your addiction to pornography?
Speaker 8: Yes, indeed, how old you I am? Twenty years old?
Speaker 1: Your addiction to pornography? What makes you said that you're
Speaker 1: addicted to pornography?
Speaker 8: I do it like approximately nine times a day?
Speaker 1: Really?
Speaker 4: Not?
Speaker 16: You?
Speaker 1: Do you really jack off nine times a day?
Speaker 17: Yeah?
Speaker 8: About sometimes?
Speaker 9: Again?
Speaker 8: Twelve?
Speaker 4: Let me?
Speaker 1: Are are you the same A long time ago? Like
Speaker 1: six months ago? I had someone call in and say
Speaker 1: the same exact thing. Are you the same person if
Speaker 1: you called them before?
Speaker 8: I wish I was, But that's not me. I need help.
Speaker 1: Okay does it? How does it make you feel that
Speaker 1: someone else has had this exact same issue that you have?
Speaker 8: I makes me feel welcome in that there's people out
Speaker 8: there like me.
Speaker 1: Look, I'm gonna be honest with you. I will treat
Speaker 1: this the same no matter what you answer this. I
Speaker 1: swear to God. I swear to God. If you say yes,
Speaker 1: I swear to God We're gonna have the exact same
Speaker 1: conversation then if you said no. But are you being
Speaker 1: serious right now?
Speaker 8: I am being serious right now?
Speaker 1: Okay, Well what makes it?
Speaker 16: What?
Speaker 10: What?
Speaker 1: What do you what makes poor in an addiction? What
Speaker 1: do you think? You know?
Speaker 8: Like it's I don't. I don't even think it's it's
Speaker 8: porn anymore. I think it's just a satisfaction of just
Speaker 8: releasing all the stress.
Speaker 1: Mhm yeah. Look I up in there.
Speaker 8: I'm glad, but it's getting bad. Like it's like I'll
Speaker 8: be out in public and I would I would be
Speaker 8: thinking about it, like I'll be going like damn, I
Speaker 8: could be home right now doing my own thing.
Speaker 1: Mm. Yeah, me. Have you spoken to a real thingrapist
Speaker 1: about this?
Speaker 2: I have not.
Speaker 1: You should do that. You should see what they say, Hmmm,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean just any sort of regular therapist.
Speaker 1: But have you ever got you ever gone to therapist.
Speaker 8: I've never gone to therapy.
Speaker 1: Try it. You see what they have to say. I'd
Speaker 1: be curious what a professional's opinion is on this situation.
Speaker 1: As an unprofessional lizard Douche, I found that the let
Speaker 1: the frequency with which I masturbate directly correlates. It correlates
Speaker 1: inversely with the amount of stuff I have to do.
Speaker 1: So if you're jacking off nine times a day, you
Speaker 1: must have a lot of time on your hands.
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 8: I I kind of like go at it back to
Speaker 8: back sometimes, which is really just not healthy, but it's
Speaker 8: like I just have that urge.
Speaker 1: See. I think that your main focus in coming over
Speaker 1: this problem is going to have to be in finding
Speaker 1: something to replace masturbation with that also gives you feelings
Speaker 1: of chemicals and feelings of flow. You don't flow is Yes,
Speaker 1: you're familiar with the idea of flow, like you're completely
Speaker 1: focused on the activity that you are in the in
Speaker 1: the in the process of doing Yes, you got to
Speaker 1: find activities that give you flow. Doing that is difficult,
Speaker 1: but I think that that is sort of going to
Speaker 1: be the key to solving your issue is finding things
Speaker 1: to replace masturbation with, because if you're just trying to
Speaker 1: quit cold turkey, like you need something productive to replace
Speaker 1: the habit with or else. That's that's where I think
Speaker 1: you're going to start doing it nine times a day,
Speaker 1: because that's when those are the times when I'm like masturbating,
Speaker 1: Like five times a day is when I don't have
Speaker 1: anything to do. You know, you got to start filling
Speaker 1: your plate with stuff.
Speaker 8: Okay, I appreciate it. I'm gonna if they start going
Speaker 8: to the gym and just strake my mind off porn
Speaker 8: and really in my stressed different way.
Speaker 1: Is there anything you could think about that, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe would fit unto the category of of you know,
Speaker 1: hobbies or projects that you could work on, or just
Speaker 1: anything that you could be doing that's not masturbating.
Speaker 8: No, not not really. I kind of just go on
Speaker 8: TikTok and it's kind of just school.
Speaker 4: That's about it.
Speaker 8: I feel like the school park plays a very big
Speaker 8: role in this.
Speaker 1: Well, I guess it's stressing you out.
Speaker 8: I guess because I just get bored, Like I'll be
Speaker 8: studying for like hours and I would just be like,
Speaker 8: I'm bored, let's just go and then you know, an
Speaker 8: hour passes and I'll be like, let's just go again,
Speaker 8: and then you know, another hour. It just goes It
Speaker 8: just goes by like that. It just goes really quick.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, listen, if school is not interesting you, I
Speaker 1: think you know you don't. Like I said, I'm kind
Speaker 1: of repeating myself here, but you know, definitely go out
Speaker 1: in search of something that puts you in that flow
Speaker 1: state so that you're not, you know, consistently masturbating all day.
Speaker 8: Perfect. Thank you. I'm I'm gonna try that of course.
Speaker 1: Man, what you say you name was Hi, Trey. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much, Trey. You have a one for us
Speaker 1: to night. Osh you good luck, to take care.
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Speaker 2: E's teaching you aloud in the life bod. He's not
Speaker 2: really an expert.