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Speaker 1: the episode. Call from John Hello, Hey GEK, Hey Johnny,

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Speaker 1: what's going on?

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Speaker 2: Not much? GEK? How are you tonight?

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Speaker 1: I'm doing good. I'm feeling better. I'm feeling actually a

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Speaker 1: lot better than I have in a while. So you've

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Speaker 1: caught me on a nice mental day. What's going on? Man?

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Speaker 2: You seem super refreshed and happy. It's good to see.

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Speaker 1: Man, Is that true? I don't. I didn't. I never

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Speaker 1: have any idea how I'm like, And I actually I

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Speaker 1: appreciate you saying this to me because I never have

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Speaker 1: any idea how I'm coming off. Do I have, Like

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Speaker 1: have I been acting depressed?

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Speaker 2: No, I don't mean to say that. I think like tonight,

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Speaker 2: it just seems like you're super You're super pumped, you know,

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Speaker 2: like like you're just like it's not to say your

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Speaker 2: baseline is bad, but man, you know, it's just like

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Speaker 2: I can tell that you're you're doing good tonight.

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Speaker 1: You know, well, good man, I'm glad. I you know. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's funny since I've been doing this for close to

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Speaker 1: three years now, it's not even three years. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: throughout that whole time, you know, sometimes I show up

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Speaker 1: to do this and I'm like, really, uh, I feel

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Speaker 1: very present and like with everybody and ready and excited.

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Speaker 1: And then other times I show up like fucking feeling

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Speaker 1: like I'm I'm dead, and and I hate I hate

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Speaker 1: that because it feels like it's it almost feel like

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Speaker 1: it's out of my control. But I don't know what.

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Speaker 1: I've always tried to find the equation, right, Like is

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Speaker 1: it should I drink an energy drink beforehand? Should I stop,

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Speaker 1: you know, eating weird? Is it just am I just

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Speaker 1: getting tired from doing it too much? I don't. I

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Speaker 2: The you know, like I had nights. I have nights

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Speaker 2: like that or like that when I show up to

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Speaker 2: work and I have like a really good day, and

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Speaker 2: I'm like, why can't I fucking have this good day

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Speaker 2: all the time? You know, Like why can't I be

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Speaker 2: You know, And it's almost like disappointed, you know, because

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Speaker 2: you're like, what the fuck am I doing? Every other time?

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Speaker 2: But man, I think that that's just like a human thing,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And you know, I've got I've gotten down on

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Speaker 2: I don't care, Like I don't care if you have

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Speaker 2: the happiest job ever. Like, if you're like a fucking

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Speaker 2: person who adores dogs and you just get to cuddle

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Speaker 2: cute dogs all day, you're gonna have days where you're

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Speaker 2: not fucking feeling your job. You know, you're gonna have

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Speaker 2: days even if you're doing the coolest thing ever. You're like,

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Speaker 2: I would rather be at home playing video games or whatever.

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Speaker 2: You know, man, So like you're doing, you're doing great,

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Speaker 2: and I'm super super pumped to see what you're doing.

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Speaker 2: It's really a cool time to be a gex Fand

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Speaker 1: Well pretty thanks, yeah, thanks, you know so, Yeah, you're right.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you have days where the dogs are nice, and

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Speaker 1: What is your name? My name is Johnny, Johnny, Johnny

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Speaker 1: be good, Johnny Rocket. You ever been to Johnny Rockets?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? The one near me closed like five years ago though,

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Speaker 1: What's going what's going on with you, Johnny, What's going

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm just kind of chilling. But I called

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Speaker 1: A nine one one discusion that sounds very intense.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, yes, it oscillated between being really intense and

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Speaker 1: Like I like that somebody getting shot in the stomach

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Speaker 1: makes you laugh that fond memory of that phone call.

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Speaker 1: I want to Okay, before we listen, I'm sure here's

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Speaker 1: I'm not shy of things that are horrific and depressing.

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Speaker 1: But before we do that, what are tell me? Have

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Speaker 1: you how many prank calls have you gotten? Or how

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Speaker 1: many people have like called nine one one because you know,

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Speaker 2: it's like or fucking nine one one, We don't know

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Speaker 2: So it's like stuff like that, or like people treating

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Speaker 2: there's like a Mexico Maine, you know, and they would

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Speaker 1: They were they prank were they they were they calling uh?

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Speaker 1: They thought they were prank calling Mexico.

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Speaker 2: No, No, it wasn't even a prank caller. It was

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Speaker 2: actually like people being like I haven't heard from my my,

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Speaker 2: it just was like that was super confusing for everyone

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Speaker 2: at BOB No that like it's not you're not you're

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Speaker 2: calling You're not calling Mexico the country.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like the cartel does not have a

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Speaker 2: No, not at all. No, not at all. Like I'm

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Speaker 2: and blah blah blah.

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Speaker 1: You know, like did anyone did anyone target you specifically?

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Speaker 1: Know, right, those are the ones that call the emergency line.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, or like someone someone turned around in my driveway.

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Speaker 2: It's like okay, cool, like what what what do you

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Speaker 2: stole my pot pot, she was talking about terra cotta

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00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:05,720
Speaker 2: pots from the greenhouse. This greenhouse wasn't a pot greenhouse.

436
00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:08,440
Speaker 2: It was just like a place where it was a greenhouse,

437
00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:12,719
Speaker 2: like she sold. She sold plants, right, and she and

438
00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:15,480
Speaker 2: the lady who called nine one one forgot that she

439
00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:18,320
Speaker 2: told a bunch of her elderly friends that they could

440
00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:23,000
Speaker 2: borrow these pots. So these like three old ladies and

441
00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:27,680
Speaker 2: trucks were just loading up terracotta pots into the back

442
00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:31,080
Speaker 2: of their trucks that they were permitted to take, like

443
00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:34,000
Speaker 2: the lady told them she could take them. And they're

444
00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:36,560
Speaker 2: just like going about their like old lady like.

445
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:39,480
Speaker 1: Lives and all of a sudden getting tailed by the

446
00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:41,879
Speaker 1: police across state lines.

447
00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:45,400
Speaker 2: Getting pulled out at gunpoint. It was kind of awful,

448
00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:47,840
Speaker 2: but it was just like, oh my god.

449
00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:52,359
Speaker 1: Wait, well, way they were pulled over at gunpoints?

450
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:55,280
Speaker 2: Well okay, so my memory might be embellishing this a

451
00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:58,200
Speaker 2: little bit, but they the cops certainly were not nice

452
00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:00,480
Speaker 2: when they took them out of their car, you know,

453
00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:05,119
Speaker 2: so like I can't remember if it was gunpoint or not,

454
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:08,880
Speaker 2: but there I felt so fucking bad. I'm like these

455
00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:13,960
Speaker 2: poor old ladies, you know, like, uh, but that is.

456
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:16,480
Speaker 1: That's so interesting that where where was this again? This

457
00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:21,840
Speaker 1: was in Maine main. Yeah, and weed is legal. That's

458
00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:24,320
Speaker 1: so interesting that you know cops, Well, you used to

459
00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:26,640
Speaker 1: like if your weed was stolen, you can't do shit

460
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:28,840
Speaker 1: about it. But now you can actually call the cops

461
00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:32,960
Speaker 1: on people for stealing your weed and they will arrest

462
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:36,480
Speaker 1: them at gunpoints and then figure out that they're just

463
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:37,439
Speaker 1: nice old ladies.

464
00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:42,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is kind of funny, like we've made a

465
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:43,880
Speaker 2: lot of progress if you think about it like that.

466
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:46,280
Speaker 1: Well, now here's what I was, Here's what I wanted

467
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:49,320
Speaker 1: to Here's what I wanted to ask you, is so

468
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:52,320
Speaker 1: I know that it's like illegal to like call nine

469
00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:54,280
Speaker 1: on one and fuck with them and stuff. So like

470
00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:57,480
Speaker 1: this lady, for example, who was like, oh oopsie, I

471
00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:00,479
Speaker 1: forgot I could I lent them the fucking pop. Did

472
00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:01,959
Speaker 1: she like get in trouble?

473
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:03,440
Speaker 3: No?

474
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:07,240
Speaker 2: Probably not, because to be charged with like misuse of

475
00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 2: nine one one, it has you have to prove that

476
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:14,120
Speaker 2: you're intentionally fucking with the nine to one one system,

477
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:17,080
Speaker 2: you know, So like if you make a mistake in

478
00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:21,679
Speaker 2: good faith, then it's not like then it's not like

479
00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:25,040
Speaker 2: you're gonna get in any trouble, you know. It's more

480
00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:29,560
Speaker 2: like if you're intentionally like with the nine one one

481
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:33,480
Speaker 2: system or like millions because you don't like the response

482
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:35,720
Speaker 2: that you got and you want a better response or whatever.

483
00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:38,119
Speaker 2: You know, that's when you start to get into trouble.

484
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 2: But that lady probably didn't get in any trouble.

485
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:44,199
Speaker 1: Have you ever had somebody call you that got charged

486
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:47,479
Speaker 1: with misuse of nine on one a couple of times?

487
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:51,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, So it was like and most of the time,

488
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:53,840
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think of the specific story.

489
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:56,119
Speaker 3: What it comes down to most of the time is

490
00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:56,640
Speaker 3: you get.

491
00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:58,639
Speaker 2: Someone We deal with a lot of people who are

492
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:01,159
Speaker 2: just like drunk or starf owned or high or whatever,

493
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:04,400
Speaker 2: you know, and they're in some sort of like distress

494
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:07,159
Speaker 2: and that's awful, but you know, they don't like the

495
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:10,199
Speaker 2: response that they got. So they're like I wanted, like

496
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:13,440
Speaker 2: I wanted this person to be arrested, or I wanted

497
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:17,359
Speaker 2: this cop to do this thing or this whatever. So

498
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 2: they keep calling and calling and calling and like expecting

499
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 2: a different response, you know, And that's when people start.

500
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 2: That's when people start to like misuse and I don't

501
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:33,119
Speaker 2: want from Like my experience is when they're like, you

502
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 2: didn't arrest this person, like come back and arrest them

503
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:41,160
Speaker 2: right now, like or you know you didn't this person,

504
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:44,560
Speaker 2: or like I don't know this person's dog is still

505
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 2: in my yard. Come back right this second, you know.

506
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:57,080
Speaker 2: But then like yeah, yeah, so I.

507
00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:59,920
Speaker 1: At the time this is being recorded, it's April nineteen,

508
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:01,600
Speaker 1: and then you're having me wonder what it would be

509
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:05,680
Speaker 1: like to uh, you know, uh uh run the phones

510
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 1: on four to twenty. I bet you get a lot

511
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:12,080
Speaker 1: of very interesting calls.

512
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:18,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like it's funny because I'm trying to think, like, man,

513
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 2: four twenty is is is? I would much rather I

514
00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:28,120
Speaker 2: would much rather not be working on like Saint Patrick's

515
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:31,840
Speaker 2: day right like four twenty. I feel like it's kind

516
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:34,480
Speaker 2: of just the thing where people chill, they like they

517
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:36,120
Speaker 2: smoke and they just fucking like.

518
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:38,000
Speaker 1: Chill, you know, like right then, ever they get into

519
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:38,600
Speaker 1: a lot of trouble.

520
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like if you're stone, I feel like you don't

521
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:44,240
Speaker 2: really want to call nine one one. Like that's every

522
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:46,680
Speaker 2: time I've been high, I've been like calling nine one

523
00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:49,880
Speaker 2: one unless I'm like tripping my fucking balls off. Has

524
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 2: not been on my agenda, you know. But like when

525
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 2: your shit faced, that's when you start to well, that's

526
00:29:57,200 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 2: when you start to make some questionable nine that's when

527
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:01,920
Speaker 2: you're more aptic all.

528
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:02,440
Speaker 1: Nine one one.

529
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 2: I feel like like dealing with do uys on like

530
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:11,800
Speaker 2: New Year's is like crazy, Like, oh.

531
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:14,560
Speaker 1: I bet there's a ship ton of them.

532
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 2: There are so many. It's like because I did I

533
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 2: worked in this, I worked at uh that rural main county,

534
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:25,920
Speaker 2: and then I worked for like the highway police uh

535
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:29,400
Speaker 2: for like a couple of months. Uh but like the

536
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 2: highway police on the like like the Turnpike police on

537
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 2: those holidays. Just do u I after do you? I

538
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 2: Like it's fucking crazy.

539
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:46,240
Speaker 1: Mm hmm yeah. So so what do you do now?

540
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:49,800
Speaker 2: I am studying to be a teacher.

541
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:52,360
Speaker 1: What kind of thing?

542
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 2: I want to be? A middle or high school English teacher?

543
00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,720
Speaker 1: A middle or high school English teacher. I'm really debating

544
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,280
Speaker 1: now what is going to be. I'm I'm excited for

545
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 1: you to come back and let me know what is

546
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 1: more traumatic for you between being a nine one one

547
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:13,760
Speaker 1: dispatcher and being a middle school teacher.

548
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think like it's gonna probably be a nine

549
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:19,560
Speaker 2: to one one dispatcher.

550
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 1: I know, like I know, no, go ahead, go ahead, no.

551
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:31,680
Speaker 2: No, no gek I. So it's it's funny because it's

552
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 2: like a whole different kind of uh like stress, you know,

553
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 2: like being a teacher. It's a whole different kind of

554
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:43,760
Speaker 2: like problems that you have to solve, right.

555
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:46,480
Speaker 4: But you know, you've you've all you've been through, You've

556
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 4: experienced so much fucked up ship already that I feel

557
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 4: like your skin is hardened to deal with, you know,

558
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:54,080
Speaker 4: getting pencils thrown at you.

559
00:31:55,040 --> 00:32:03,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah exactly. It's it's like, you know, it's

560
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:08,040
Speaker 2: kind of like the problems are solvable, you know, like

561
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 2: like it's not like, oh my god, I have this

562
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 2: emergent thing. It's like, Okay, let's take a seat and

563
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 2: talk about what you did and why you fucked up

564
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,400
Speaker 2: and how you're not gonna do this again.

565
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:22,240
Speaker 1: Kind of thing. Right. When I was in middle school,

566
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 1: I did either I think it was seventh grade or something.

567
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:31,480
Speaker 1: I had a music teacher and he had like he

568
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:37,040
Speaker 1: had like a these keys dangling from his belt, and

569
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 1: I would like, whenever he would walk by my desk,

570
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:43,840
Speaker 1: I would like swat at his keys all the time. Yeah,

571
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 1: And he would tell me to and he would tell

572
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 1: me to stop, but I was a little shit, so

573
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 1: I wouldn't, and so I would. I was swatting at

574
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 1: his keys, and he at one point looked at me

575
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 1: and he said, if you touch my keys one more time,

576
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 1: I'm gonna punch you in the face. And dude, part

577
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:01,800
Speaker 1: and like, look that guy, like look, I didn't do it.

578
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:04,080
Speaker 1: But part of me was like, what's he gonna can't

579
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:06,840
Speaker 1: punch me in the face, you know? Yeah, And so

580
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 1: I'm so right, but I did. I didn't. I feel like,

581
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:11,800
Speaker 1: I feel like, here's the thing. If he had punched

582
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 1: me in the face, I probably would have deserved it.

583
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 1: But he I don't think he would have continued to

584
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 1: be a teacher. No, it's true, So don't punch kids

585
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 1: in the face, is I guess what I'm I don't

586
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 1: know why I told you that, but.

587
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 2: Look, but but it's also like it was a different

588
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 2: time back then, you know, like and I like the

589
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:34,160
Speaker 2: way that teaching has progressed because it's all about like

590
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:38,960
Speaker 2: positive ways to solve problems and like, you know, but

591
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 2: also sometimes like the old school teachers that at the

592
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:45,280
Speaker 2: school are just like, yeah, okay, if you keep doing this,

593
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 2: like like you know, same same kind of deal, you know,

594
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 2: And yeah, I think there's like I'm glad we don't

595
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 2: do that anymore.

596
00:33:56,920 --> 00:34:00,960
Speaker 1: Me too, me too. But I'm not gonna pretend like

597
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 1: I don't get why. I mean, look, here's the thing,

598
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:09,800
Speaker 1: is I I being a middle school teacher. It sounds

599
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 1: so hard that, you know, I understand why the you know,

600
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 1: human brain eventually throws up their hands and goes, I'm

601
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:22,920
Speaker 1: gonna fucking kick the shit out of this kid right now,

602
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:26,880
Speaker 1: swatting my keys. Yeah, I mean, oh my god, I

603
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:28,960
Speaker 1: bet back in like you know, when, I don't know

604
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 1: when when Aristotle was teaching people about philosophy and stuff,

605
00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:37,840
Speaker 1: he probably wanted to, you know, punt those kids into oblivion.

606
00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 2: But you know what, back in those days, just as

607
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:44,600
Speaker 2: just as there are in this days like today, there

608
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:48,239
Speaker 2: was probably like rich parents, like rich Roman parents who

609
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 2: would have like waddled over in their fucking sandals and

610
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:53,759
Speaker 2: togas over to Aristotle and been like, if you touch

611
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 2: my kid again, I'm gonna fucking hang you or whatever.

612
00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:57,560
Speaker 1: You know, Yeah, that's true.

613
00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:02,000
Speaker 2: Like there's been shitty parents and like entitled parents and

614
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:05,280
Speaker 2: parents that don't actually parent and let their kids fucking

615
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 2: run wild, like since forever.

616
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 1: You know, what got you into doing the nine one

617
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:14,359
Speaker 1: one dispatching thing?

618
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:20,080
Speaker 2: I was, Yeah, I kind of job hopped for a while.

619
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:23,440
Speaker 2: I got a degree in journalism, and I like was

620
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:27,600
Speaker 2: working at a newspaper making like and it was more

621
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:30,399
Speaker 2: just like I wasn't making enough money, you know, And

622
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 2: I saw that this nine to one dispatching agency was hiring,

623
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:38,919
Speaker 2: and I was like, this sounds cool and it pays more,

624
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:42,719
Speaker 2: so like kind of on a whim, I applied and

625
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 2: got it like I was not expecting to get it

626
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:51,080
Speaker 2: and just kind of like wound up there. And I

627
00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:55,120
Speaker 2: mean like I stayed for two years, and then the

628
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:59,279
Speaker 2: burnout was just in blake insane, like it.

629
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:00,640
Speaker 1: Was, well, you only met, we only were able to

630
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:01,799
Speaker 1: do it for two years.

631
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:05,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, and like what that mostly was, Like I think

632
00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 2: I would have got burned out no matter what. But

633
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:11,160
Speaker 2: I was stuff on night shifts and like acclimating your

634
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:15,720
Speaker 2: body to like working consistently, like living a night shift

635
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:18,719
Speaker 2: life is like really rough, you know. And I was

636
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:22,399
Speaker 2: also I switched to agencies that I was working for,

637
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 2: and the second and the last one when I got out,

638
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:29,480
Speaker 2: I was working like tons of forced overtime shifts, so

639
00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 2: like I would get I would work from like eleven

640
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:38,200
Speaker 2: pm to like seven am, but basically any time that

641
00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 2: they needed me to stay, they would like force me

642
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:47,719
Speaker 2: to stay until three pm. So like three times a week,

643
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:51,319
Speaker 2: I was working from eleven pm to three pm, and

644
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:53,959
Speaker 2: then I would have an hour drive home and get

645
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:56,480
Speaker 2: like five hours like four four and a half hours

646
00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:58,080
Speaker 2: of sleep, actually have to come back.

647
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:01,800
Speaker 1: Did you ever have fucked up dreams about the calls?

648
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 3: Yes?

649
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 2: All, okay, So like you know, like we we have

650
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:10,720
Speaker 2: like radio codes like this is a nineteen forty seven

651
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:14,760
Speaker 2: one four seven over on North Boulevard, you know, yeah,

652
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:18,359
Speaker 2: and I would like recite codes in my sleep, Like

653
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:20,840
Speaker 2: I would be like I would like wake up and

654
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 2: I'm like why am I rattling off codes right now?

655
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:23,880
Speaker 1: You know?

656
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:27,319
Speaker 2: And then like I have three cats, so like my

657
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:31,840
Speaker 2: cats got incorporated into my weird fever like dispatch dreams,

658
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:34,960
Speaker 2: so I'd be like like, I'd be like, Coda has

659
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 2: a ninety nine on tenth Avenue and we have to

660
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:42,359
Speaker 2: spend like the ambulance, and then my other cats would

661
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:44,960
Speaker 2: like be characters in these dreams and be like, what

662
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:48,840
Speaker 2: isn't the ambulance there yet? And it was just the best,

663
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 2: Like my psyche was fucked up that.

664
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:54,840
Speaker 1: Actually it's that actually sounds a nine to one one

665
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:59,879
Speaker 1: dispatcher ran by cats actually sounds kind of adorable. Yeah,

666
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:02,480
Speaker 1: it would be very unhelpful, but adorable.

667
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:06,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'd be like, oh, you're having a heart attack

668
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:08,600
Speaker 2: if you swat if you tried swatting a full glass

669
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 2: of water down from the cabinet, that might help.

670
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 3: Well.

671
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:17,440
Speaker 1: Uh, it sounds as though, uh uh, middle school teaching

672
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 1: is going to be a little bit easier on your side.

673
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:22,360
Speaker 1: I mean, look, not that much easier, but slightly easier

674
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:25,880
Speaker 1: than hearing about death and decay and you know the

675
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:28,239
Speaker 1: horrors of blocked parking spots all day.

676
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:31,839
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna be better for sure.

677
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:34,480
Speaker 1: All right, let me just did anybody I was one

678
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:35,960
Speaker 1: of the first thing I wanted to ask you with

679
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:39,600
Speaker 1: you know a half hour ago, is did anyone do

680
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:43,640
Speaker 1: any prank calls that were intentionally to waste your time

681
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:47,279
Speaker 1: but that also were undeniably funny?

682
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:54,880
Speaker 2: Let me think, uh no, most people are unoriginal, Like

683
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:57,160
Speaker 2: most people are just boring. Like there was nothing where

684
00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 2: I was like, this is actually clever, you know.

685
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 1: Give me, me, give me one, give me one of

686
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 1: the boring ones.

687
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:13,480
Speaker 2: I literally got the refrigerator running once, okay, and I

688
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:17,720
Speaker 2: was like the fuck man, I don't.

689
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 1: Know why this is.

690
00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:23,840
Speaker 2: And like, okay, so you know, have you ever accidentally

691
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 2: butt dialed nine one one?

692
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 1: Like that common thing?

693
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:32,759
Speaker 2: It's super easy to do, and like very many of

694
00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:36,160
Speaker 2: our calls are like butt dials, right, so it'll be

695
00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:39,400
Speaker 2: like someone calling in on like they don't even realize

696
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 2: that they call nine one one, and like we're illegally

697
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:44,359
Speaker 2: obligated to like make sure that there's no emergency no

698
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:46,879
Speaker 2: matter what. So like we have to go through and

699
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:50,279
Speaker 2: respond to every single accidental nine on one call, Right,

700
00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:55,880
Speaker 2: so I would like call people like my favorite Okay,

701
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:59,240
Speaker 2: this is my favorite one. So it was like five

702
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:03,640
Speaker 2: five in the morning, someone called just like standard camming back, right,

703
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:07,719
Speaker 2: and this guy was clearly asleep. All right, I say, Hi,

704
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 2: this is nine one one. You dialed our emergency number.

705
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:17,839
Speaker 2: You have an emergency. And he's like, oh what. I'm like, hime, yeah,

706
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:20,520
Speaker 2: I'm like this nine on one. He's like, oh no,

707
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:24,480
Speaker 2: I'm fine. And I'm like like, uh, what's your name?

708
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:27,719
Speaker 2: Speaking from your address? And he's like, you know, I

709
00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:31,440
Speaker 2: don't really feel like doing that right now. Sorry. Then

710
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 2: he's like hung up. So of course, like I have

711
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:38,680
Speaker 2: to keep calling back because like I need his information

712
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:41,719
Speaker 2: and stuff, you know, And like he gradually got more

713
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 2: awake and like apologized. He's like I didn't know if

714
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:46,080
Speaker 2: it was a dream or not.

715
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:50,040
Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh, okay, so that guy, you don't

716
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:52,319
Speaker 1: charge that guy. That guy you give him the benefit.

717
00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:55,880
Speaker 2: Of the day. No, no, no, no no, and okay. Also,

718
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 2: like a PSA for anyone like listening to this, right,

719
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:01,839
Speaker 2: is that if you accidentally call nine one one, you

720
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:05,719
Speaker 2: are not in trouble, Like just answer the phone when

721
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:07,720
Speaker 2: the nine one one dispatcher calls you back and explain

722
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:11,360
Speaker 2: that this is not an emergency, right, Because when you don't,

723
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:15,040
Speaker 2: we have to spend like an hour trying to like

724
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:18,759
Speaker 2: locate where you are, Like send you text, Like, it's

725
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:21,920
Speaker 2: so much easier if you either like call in again

726
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:24,879
Speaker 2: and are like, sorry, I fucked up, you know, then

727
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 2: try to like actively avoid the situation, you know, like

728
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:32,239
Speaker 2: there's no trouble that comes from accidentally calling nine to

729
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 2: one one.

730
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:34,759
Speaker 1: Well, that's a shame that you don't. You don't have

731
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:38,879
Speaker 1: any good prank calls. I know, I know, I don't

732
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:42,400
Speaker 1: know why I'm I'm I'm inserting various things from my

733
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:45,960
Speaker 1: life into this conversation, but uh, what my one of

734
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:50,840
Speaker 1: the funniest things from my childhood that I can remember

735
00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:53,719
Speaker 1: and I don't and looking back on, I don't know

736
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:55,440
Speaker 1: if it's the Actually, no, you don't know. I'll defend

737
00:41:55,440 --> 00:42:01,200
Speaker 1: this is still very funny. My friend once called Red Robin. Yeah,

738
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:03,399
Speaker 1: we we were doing prank calls. He called a red

739
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:05,840
Speaker 1: Robin and he was like, Hi, can I get a

740
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:12,319
Speaker 1: table for a thousand? Isn't that good?

741
00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:13,839
Speaker 3: Yeah?

742
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:17,160
Speaker 1: I'm not crazy, right, that's hilarious.

743
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:20,399
Speaker 2: That's pretty that's pretty funny. That's that's pretty funny. I'm

744
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 2: just anyway, I was a clever, like clever enough to

745
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:26,520
Speaker 2: do stuff like that, or I would like try, like

746
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:28,720
Speaker 2: I remember I tried to do a prank call once,

747
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:31,400
Speaker 2: but I like got so sweaty and nervous that I

748
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:35,279
Speaker 2: like just hung up. I couldn't do it when I

749
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 2: was like a teenager.

750
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 1: Like, man, what's your what's your name again?

751
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:40,480
Speaker 2: Johnny?

752
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:44,000
Speaker 1: Johnny, Johnny? Be good? John? Well, Johnny?

753
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 3: Are you?

754
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:48,759
Speaker 1: Thanks for talking to me for so long about nine

755
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:52,640
Speaker 1: one one. I'm glad that you're transitioning into something. Actually

756
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I'm glad you're transitioning into something

757
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:57,160
Speaker 1: less stressful, but it could be way worse. So I'm

758
00:42:57,160 --> 00:43:01,360
Speaker 1: not gonna I'm not gonna hold my breath. But I

759
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:03,480
Speaker 1: think you'll be okay. Like I said, I think you're

760
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:06,840
Speaker 1: I think if you can handle all the fucked up

761
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:08,840
Speaker 1: ship that you get as a nominal one operator, you

762
00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:12,879
Speaker 1: know you can handle you know, kids, I don't know, man,

763
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:14,600
Speaker 1: middle school. You know this is gonna launch us into

764
00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:18,200
Speaker 1: a whole other conversation. But I I shudder to think

765
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 1: what the fuck is going on with middle schoolers these

766
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:24,040
Speaker 1: days because with all the I'm gonna sound like an idiot,

767
00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:28,319
Speaker 1: but all the snap chatting, tiktoking, yeah shit, you know,

768
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:31,080
Speaker 1: just navigating that universe. But but I think you're gonna

769
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:33,560
Speaker 1: do a great job, Johnny. I I I believe in you.

770
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 2: I appreciate it. Thank you very much.

771
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:40,320
Speaker 1: Is there anything else you want to say? Uh to

772
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:42,719
Speaker 1: to the people of the computer before you go.

773
00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:46,120
Speaker 2: If you ever have to call nine on one, don't

774
00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:48,760
Speaker 2: be a jerk. That's about it. Not that you would,

775
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:51,560
Speaker 2: but don't be a jerky.

776
00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:53,080
Speaker 1: Thanks for calling Johnny.

777
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:55,120
Speaker 2: You're welcome, Jack. I love you, man steel it.

778
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:58,479
Speaker 1: Hey, take care man. Thank you. Here's the thing. If

779
00:43:58,520 --> 00:44:01,480
Speaker 1: you ever want to call some if you're thinking about

780
00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:05,560
Speaker 1: calling nine one one just to yell and cuss them

781
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 1: out and say horrible things, just call me instead. Well,

782
00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:11,480
Speaker 1: I'll talk to you. I don't care. You can call

783
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:15,560
Speaker 1: me and cuss me out and say mean things to me.

784
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 1: Take if you are thinking about prank calling nine one one,

785
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 1: just I want you to call me, okay instead on

786
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:30,919
Speaker 1: this Twitch stream and I'll I'll take your abuse. You'll

787
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:33,000
Speaker 1: take your boot your a boot, I said a boose,

788
00:44:33,719 --> 00:44:37,799
Speaker 1: I'll take That's what abuse is in Canada, abouse. I'll

789
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 1: take your abuse. And so that Johnny doesn't have to

790
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 1: or people like Johnny nine what's a what's G? I

791
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 1: need a G one one? What what's G? On the

792
00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:55,400
Speaker 1: number scale? All right, I'm done with this thing that

793
00:44:55,400 --> 00:45:02,879
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Thank you, Johnny all from Alex. Hello, Oh

794
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:06,359
Speaker 1: no way, I really got on you did. What's up?

795
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:07,000
Speaker 1: What's your name?

796
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 3: I'm Alex.

797
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:12,520
Speaker 1: How are you Alex? I'm Lile, nice to meet show.

798
00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:13,120
Speaker 1: What's going on?

799
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:14,320
Speaker 2: Oh?

800
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:17,560
Speaker 3: Not much? I'm cleaning my house up, sitting here with

801
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:20,319
Speaker 3: my cat. I now, I had so many things I

802
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:21,839
Speaker 3: wanted to talk to you about, and I can believe

803
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:22,200
Speaker 3: they got on.

804
00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:26,880
Speaker 1: Let's call you cleaned your house? I'm I don't. I

805
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:29,080
Speaker 1: won't shut up about this tour that I'm on. But uh,

806
00:45:29,239 --> 00:45:32,960
Speaker 1: I A large thing fueling me wanted to do this

807
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:35,200
Speaker 1: tour is and I'm and I say that it sounds

808
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:38,680
Speaker 1: like I'm joking, but I'm saying this with a disturbing

809
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:43,000
Speaker 1: amount of sincerity. Is it's a it's a big excuse

810
00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:45,960
Speaker 1: to not clean my house and also leave because the

811
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:49,200
Speaker 1: problem with the problem with continually avoiding cleaning your house

812
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:50,880
Speaker 1: to the point where it gets really gross is that

813
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:53,560
Speaker 1: you have to Then the consequence of that is that

814
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:56,359
Speaker 1: you have to live in that house. But I came

815
00:45:56,400 --> 00:46:00,239
Speaker 1: up with a big brain play Alex, a world old

816
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:03,680
Speaker 1: tour that allows me to make my house clean, dirty,

817
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:06,000
Speaker 1: and not have to live in it. I have my

818
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:10,960
Speaker 1: cake and eat it too. Okay, tell me that's not genius.

819
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:12,839
Speaker 3: That's a little genius.

820
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:15,839
Speaker 1: Oh, Alex, you said you had a billion, You said

821
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 1: you had a lot of stuff. You want talking about

822
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:19,120
Speaker 1: anything and anything jumping in your mind right now?

823
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:22,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, let me see here. So I don't know. I

824
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:28,399
Speaker 3: think I have to sue my friend. So I don't know. Well, okay,

825
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:31,040
Speaker 3: so he came over to my house and he like

826
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:34,400
Speaker 3: he got drunk, I guess a little bit. But he

827
00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:37,319
Speaker 3: like wrestled me in my bathroom and like the sink

828
00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:41,360
Speaker 3: cell off like as he's wrestling me, and so water

829
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:43,920
Speaker 3: goes everywhere in my house, and I like messed up

830
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:46,640
Speaker 3: my heart with floors. So now I don't know if

831
00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:49,000
Speaker 3: I sue him or I like he said he was

832
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:50,440
Speaker 3: gonna help me pay for it, and then he like

833
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:52,759
Speaker 3: ghosted me. So like now I don't know what to do.

834
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:55,560
Speaker 1: Damn how much? How much? How much are you out?

835
00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:58,759
Speaker 3: Oh? So far? I got the sink prepared, which was

836
00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:01,640
Speaker 3: like a thousand bucks. But then the floors, like the

837
00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:05,120
Speaker 3: floor's worked so like he hasn't even inspected that yet.

838
00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:06,040
Speaker 3: But I think it's gonna be a.

839
00:47:06,040 --> 00:47:09,720
Speaker 1: Couple of graham mm hm, and your friend just totally

840
00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:10,319
Speaker 1: ghosted you.

841
00:47:11,560 --> 00:47:13,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, he said he had a like when it happened,

842
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:16,200
Speaker 3: he said he had a switch. So like, now, I

843
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:19,080
Speaker 3: don't know if it's like like why why why would

844
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 3: you do that in my house? You know?

845
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:24,920
Speaker 1: So I don't know what's that You said he had

846
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:25,880
Speaker 1: a switch? What is that?

847
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:27,000
Speaker 2: Man? Yeah?

848
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:29,160
Speaker 3: I guess he went into like attack mood when we

849
00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:31,799
Speaker 3: were like in the bathroom. So I was like, like,

850
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:34,040
Speaker 3: that's what That's what confused me. I was like, dang,

851
00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:37,880
Speaker 3: I thought we were friends. So it's like a whole mess.

852
00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:41,440
Speaker 1: So let me get the straight he got so drunk

853
00:47:41,719 --> 00:47:45,359
Speaker 1: that a switch flipped in his head to make him

854
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 1: wrestle you and break your sink.

855
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:51,400
Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't even think he was that drunk. I

856
00:47:51,719 --> 00:47:54,000
Speaker 3: just think he's just a little bit violent.

857
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:56,880
Speaker 1: Okay. You know, well, I was going to say if

858
00:47:56,920 --> 00:47:58,480
Speaker 1: you do, if you do decide to sue him, I

859
00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:00,200
Speaker 1: don't think his defense is going to hold up very

860
00:48:00,200 --> 00:48:00,759
Speaker 1: well in court.

861
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:03,960
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, I got like like text messages where he

862
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:06,640
Speaker 3: sent like he was like I'm sorry, Alex, I have

863
00:48:06,719 --> 00:48:09,000
Speaker 3: a switch in every two So I think I got

864
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:10,839
Speaker 3: a little bit of proof, but then I'm stressed because

865
00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:13,040
Speaker 3: I'm like, what if they don't believe me? You know,

866
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:15,600
Speaker 3: there's always a risk. And then like if they don't

867
00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:18,480
Speaker 3: believe me, then it's like wow, does that meet him right?

868
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:21,640
Speaker 3: And the whole thing, you know, and then like it's

869
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:24,239
Speaker 3: kind of curious. I'm like adultish, you know.

870
00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:29,400
Speaker 1: I guess what I'm curious about is so, so he

871
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:31,759
Speaker 1: owes you three thousand dollars.

872
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:33,520
Speaker 3: But then I hire deposit.

873
00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:35,880
Speaker 1: Well, so you then you need to hire Oh and

874
00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:37,359
Speaker 1: then there's that too, so a lot. So he owes

875
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:39,359
Speaker 1: your security deposit mm hmm.

876
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 3: Yeah.

877
00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:42,360
Speaker 1: So then but you need to hire a lawyer. And

878
00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:43,560
Speaker 1: how much is a fucking lawyer?

879
00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:46,799
Speaker 3: Well? Okay, so I called the lawyer and like I

880
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:49,120
Speaker 3: call like the Urman people. They get you in touch,

881
00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:52,520
Speaker 3: but they say, like under ten k it's like small claims,

882
00:48:52,520 --> 00:48:54,839
Speaker 3: so it's not even worth keeping a lawyer. So it's

883
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:58,359
Speaker 3: like literally me talking to someone and explaining the whole thing,

884
00:48:58,640 --> 00:49:00,480
Speaker 3: and then part of me is like do I just

885
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:03,319
Speaker 3: soak up the cost and like take an l And

886
00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:05,040
Speaker 3: That's where I'm like, can I just suck it up

887
00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 3: and just like move on and just like cut him out,

888
00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:09,160
Speaker 3: but like I kind of want my money.

889
00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:12,640
Speaker 1: Uh you know, Okay, I'm might tell you I have

890
00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:18,600
Speaker 1: a few thoughts. Yeah, that it sounds to me like

891
00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:22,160
Speaker 1: if it's only for three thousand dollars that you're not

892
00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:23,879
Speaker 1: gonna able to hire a lawyercause theawy' is probably gonna

893
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:32,839
Speaker 1: cost more than that. So you're and then you're all like, well, fuck,

894
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:35,120
Speaker 1: now I have to fucking go to small I don't

895
00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:37,160
Speaker 1: know how does small claims work? Again? You like, I

896
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:38,440
Speaker 1: have to go and be your own lawyer.

897
00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:40,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you have to like talk to the judge

898
00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:42,520
Speaker 3: and just tell the judge your side, and then he

899
00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:46,000
Speaker 3: tells the judges side and then the judge makes the decisions.

900
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:50,520
Speaker 1: But you like, when Okay, you talked about sucking it

901
00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:53,440
Speaker 1: up and taking the l is that a and by

902
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:56,759
Speaker 1: the way, just sucking it up and taking the L

903
00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:00,319
Speaker 1: I don't there's there's no shame and never do in that.

904
00:50:00,719 --> 00:50:03,560
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a shame in doing that, do

905
00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:05,920
Speaker 1: you as part of your inkling to do that? Like

906
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:08,880
Speaker 1: you you're looking at this process of going to small

907
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:11,440
Speaker 1: claims court and being like, oh, this just seems like

908
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:13,480
Speaker 1: a pain in the ass, I don't even feel like

909
00:50:13,520 --> 00:50:13,799
Speaker 1: doing that.

910
00:50:14,040 --> 00:50:15,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what it is. That's what it seems like.

911
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:18,719
Speaker 3: It's like I gotta go down there sell paperwork and

912
00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:20,960
Speaker 3: then explain it and then relive the whole thing all

913
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:24,440
Speaker 3: over again because it's been like a month. So it's like,

914
00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:26,840
Speaker 3: you know, this is like this is the time I

915
00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:29,360
Speaker 3: should either do something or just like just pay for

916
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:30,719
Speaker 3: everything myself and move on.

917
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:35,040
Speaker 1: So that's where I mean, I'm just like, wow, no,

918
00:50:35,080 --> 00:50:37,399
Speaker 1: I mean, all right, it's three thousand bucks. Well, I mean,

919
00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:41,560
Speaker 1: look filling out the paperwork and going to the court.

920
00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:43,160
Speaker 1: Do you have a job. What's your job?

921
00:50:43,719 --> 00:50:47,200
Speaker 3: Yeah? I do something awful, but I work in banking,

922
00:50:47,520 --> 00:50:50,600
Speaker 3: like retail banking. So if you really want to know,

923
00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:53,799
Speaker 3: it's like it's like boring though, So like I go so,

924
00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:55,560
Speaker 3: like you know, if you don't like pay your taxes

925
00:50:55,680 --> 00:50:58,760
Speaker 3: or something, so like if you don't pay your taxes

926
00:50:58,840 --> 00:50:59,840
Speaker 3: like the government.

927
00:50:59,520 --> 00:51:01,520
Speaker 1: No I wouldn't. No, I always pay all my taxes

928
00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:01,919
Speaker 1: on time.

929
00:51:01,960 --> 00:51:05,319
Speaker 3: But yeah, but like so if you don't pay your

930
00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:08,720
Speaker 3: taxes or your property taxes, there's like at every bank,

931
00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:11,279
Speaker 3: every big bank at least, there's people that go into

932
00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:14,120
Speaker 3: those accounts and take that money prem your account with

933
00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:16,160
Speaker 3: like without you saying yes or no. So I do

934
00:51:16,239 --> 00:51:21,080
Speaker 3: that it so like my yeah, I do a terrible thing.

935
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:23,360
Speaker 3: So I feel really bad about it. So I'm like,

936
00:51:23,520 --> 00:51:25,080
Speaker 3: I don't know how long I can do this for it?

937
00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:29,120
Speaker 1: But yeah, stress going on in your life, Alex, Yeah

938
00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:29,560
Speaker 1: right now.

939
00:51:29,600 --> 00:51:32,000
Speaker 3: It's so it's usually I live a very quiet like

940
00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:34,520
Speaker 3: just me and my cat. We just show out email.

941
00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:37,160
Speaker 3: And then I started letting people come over and that's

942
00:51:37,160 --> 00:51:38,200
Speaker 3: when it's like, you know.

943
00:51:38,160 --> 00:51:41,239
Speaker 1: You let other people into the break your sink. Yeah, yeah,

944
00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:41,960
Speaker 1: they break your.

945
00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:44,040
Speaker 3: Fucking sink, and you know they embarrass me in the

946
00:51:44,080 --> 00:51:46,760
Speaker 3: whole front, in front of the whole building and my landlord.

947
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:50,239
Speaker 3: It's the whole thing, all right.

948
00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:52,040
Speaker 1: Like can I ask you, I don't know, I have to

949
00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:53,200
Speaker 1: tell you to want to how much do you get

950
00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:54,799
Speaker 1: paid an hour doing that?

951
00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:57,120
Speaker 3: Like twenty bucks?

952
00:51:57,640 --> 00:51:59,640
Speaker 1: All right? And I mean how long do you think

953
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:01,839
Speaker 1: it would take you to go to small claims court?

954
00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:05,240
Speaker 3: Uh? That's taking This is a good day of PTO.

955
00:52:06,760 --> 00:52:09,920
Speaker 1: Okay, So look like what you make twenty dollars an hour?

956
00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:12,239
Speaker 1: It probably I don't know the math here, but I

957
00:52:12,239 --> 00:52:14,680
Speaker 1: guess what I'm trying to say is like the amount

958
00:52:14,719 --> 00:52:16,759
Speaker 1: of work that it would take you to, you know,

959
00:52:16,840 --> 00:52:19,279
Speaker 1: go to small claims and do the whole thing is

960
00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:25,880
Speaker 1: probably It's probably if you're just converting time hours into money,

961
00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:29,640
Speaker 1: it's it's probably worth the money.

962
00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:33,520
Speaker 3: Going he is probably worth doing. I keep hearing the

963
00:52:33,520 --> 00:52:36,000
Speaker 3: same answer over and over again, and it's just like, dang,

964
00:52:36,040 --> 00:52:37,919
Speaker 3: I really have to do this. Because then it's also

965
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:40,880
Speaker 3: like you think this person's your friend, so it's like, dang,

966
00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:42,799
Speaker 3: you really put me in a situation where I have

967
00:52:42,880 --> 00:52:45,440
Speaker 3: to do. Yeah, it's like a whole thing, and like

968
00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 3: what and like the worst oh, sorry, no, yeah, you

969
00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:50,840
Speaker 3: go ahead. But like the worst part is so like

970
00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:53,160
Speaker 3: after all of this happening, I kicked him out and

971
00:52:53,160 --> 00:52:54,680
Speaker 3: like that was the first time I ever kicked someone

972
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:57,359
Speaker 3: out the house. But like he comes back and he's

973
00:52:57,400 --> 00:52:59,600
Speaker 3: like the worst part, And what makes me feel nice

974
00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:01,279
Speaker 3: is he comes back and he knocks on the door

975
00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:03,719
Speaker 3: and he says, hey, he didn't ask if I was

976
00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:06,280
Speaker 3: okay or anything. He's just like can I get my beers?

977
00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:08,439
Speaker 3: So like I'm like sitting here and I'm like, fuck,

978
00:53:08,520 --> 00:53:10,239
Speaker 3: I can't believe I like let this be to my

979
00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:12,880
Speaker 3: house and like all you care about is beer not

980
00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:15,239
Speaker 3: to thousands of dollars in them? And you just did

981
00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:18,080
Speaker 3: you know, It's just kind of like m So now

982
00:53:18,080 --> 00:53:20,520
Speaker 3: I'm like kind of re evaluating my friendships too, and

983
00:53:20,560 --> 00:53:23,480
Speaker 3: it's like, you know, do I want to have friends

984
00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:25,040
Speaker 3: in my life? Because then you have to take those

985
00:53:25,120 --> 00:53:27,120
Speaker 3: risks with those friends, like the whole thing.

986
00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:30,040
Speaker 1: So now you're looking at all your friends and you're like,

987
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:35,960
Speaker 1: which of you motherfuckers would break my yah? Who's gonna

988
00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:39,000
Speaker 1: Who's gonna, you know, rip my refrigerator door off and

989
00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:39,960
Speaker 1: throw it at my dog?

990
00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:43,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, like my cat was so he was getting wet.

991
00:53:43,640 --> 00:53:45,680
Speaker 3: It was like a whole thing, and I'm like, dang,

992
00:53:45,719 --> 00:53:48,279
Speaker 3: which one? Like which one is next? Like? So now

993
00:53:48,320 --> 00:53:50,240
Speaker 3: I'm like do I want to hang out with people anymore?

994
00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:52,719
Speaker 3: And I'm like yeah, because like a part of me does.

995
00:53:52,800 --> 00:53:54,960
Speaker 3: But then part of me is like I was doing

996
00:53:55,040 --> 00:53:56,560
Speaker 3: fine on my own, you know, you just like keep

997
00:53:56,600 --> 00:54:00,400
Speaker 3: a pushing, you set your timeline and your goals. Don't know.

998
00:54:01,719 --> 00:54:04,040
Speaker 1: Well, look, Alex, I'm gonna tell you, well, here's the

999
00:54:04,080 --> 00:54:09,560
Speaker 1: I mean. Look, like, first of all, I I I

1000
00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:15,719
Speaker 1: I am a big proponent of the idea that there

1001
00:54:15,719 --> 00:54:19,960
Speaker 1: ain't ever any shame in taking that L, taking that

1002
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:23,239
Speaker 1: big L, putting it in your mouth and taking a

1003
00:54:23,239 --> 00:54:27,479
Speaker 1: big old gulp of water, swallowing it and shitting it out.

1004
00:54:28,280 --> 00:54:31,480
Speaker 1: You know, ain't no shame in that. So if that's

1005
00:54:31,520 --> 00:54:33,239
Speaker 1: what you want to do, if you're like, ah, fuck this,

1006
00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:41,040
Speaker 1: then you know no shame. But also, mathematically speaking, there's

1007
00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:44,440
Speaker 1: probably a financially decent decision to go and get your

1008
00:54:44,440 --> 00:54:46,920
Speaker 1: money back on small claims if you feel like you

1009
00:54:46,960 --> 00:54:50,239
Speaker 1: can prove it. But okay, and then let's go to

1010
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:52,799
Speaker 1: this thing. Right, you had a friend, you trusted this guy,

1011
00:54:52,880 --> 00:54:54,399
Speaker 1: You thought this guy was cool, and then he goes

1012
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:56,040
Speaker 1: and wrestles you and breaks your sink, and so now

1013
00:54:56,080 --> 00:54:58,200
Speaker 1: you're like, what the fuck? Which my other friends are

1014
00:54:58,200 --> 00:55:01,760
Speaker 1: about to come in my house and destroy my I

1015
00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:11,359
Speaker 1: think in general, right, you kinda find what you're looking for.

1016
00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:16,279
Speaker 1: So if you walk around uh with these these this

1017
00:55:16,480 --> 00:55:21,040
Speaker 1: new set of goggles that makes you look at everybody

1018
00:55:21,040 --> 00:55:25,520
Speaker 1: and that you meet as a as a filthy sink destroyer,

1019
00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:30,799
Speaker 1: then then I think that that's what you'll find. But

1020
00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:34,839
Speaker 1: don't let you know this one experience that you have

1021
00:55:34,960 --> 00:55:40,799
Speaker 1: with someone completely warp your idea of all of humanity.

1022
00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:43,360
Speaker 1: You know that would be that would be really letting

1023
00:55:43,440 --> 00:55:45,120
Speaker 1: a letting holy win.

1024
00:55:45,880 --> 00:55:48,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, yeah, we don't want him to win, because

1025
00:55:48,719 --> 00:55:51,560
Speaker 3: that's where I'm at, like because like it's like because

1026
00:55:51,719 --> 00:55:54,000
Speaker 3: like like taking the l means that he kind of wins.

1027
00:55:54,440 --> 00:55:54,600
Speaker 2: You know.

1028
00:55:54,880 --> 00:55:56,560
Speaker 1: No, I don't think that's what that means. I don't

1029
00:55:56,560 --> 00:55:58,359
Speaker 1: think that's what that means. I don't think that's what

1030
00:55:58,400 --> 00:56:03,000
Speaker 1: that means because I now, look, I don't I think

1031
00:56:03,160 --> 00:56:05,200
Speaker 1: I don't think you letting the three thousand bucks roll

1032
00:56:05,239 --> 00:56:07,640
Speaker 1: off your back is letting him win. But I do

1033
00:56:07,680 --> 00:56:14,800
Speaker 1: think you now going through life with a deep sense

1034
00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:18,719
Speaker 1: of mistrust for everyone you meet, is letting him win.

1035
00:56:19,239 --> 00:56:22,160
Speaker 1: Because that's good because look, three thousand dollars, I mean, yeah,

1036
00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:25,680
Speaker 1: it's a lot of money. But we're talking this is

1037
00:56:25,719 --> 00:56:30,080
Speaker 1: your this is your this is your psyche. We're talking

1038
00:56:30,120 --> 00:56:33,520
Speaker 1: about all right, that shit you gotta protect, you know,

1039
00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:37,719
Speaker 1: So don't let don't let that get sucked over by

1040
00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:38,160
Speaker 1: the sink.

1041
00:56:39,480 --> 00:56:41,879
Speaker 3: M Yeah, okay, thank you all.

1042
00:56:43,840 --> 00:56:46,759
Speaker 1: For sure? For sure? What kind of sink was? It

1043
00:56:46,800 --> 00:56:47,400
Speaker 1: was a granite?

1044
00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:52,120
Speaker 3: No, it's like ceramid. It's really ugly too, And like

1045
00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:53,799
Speaker 3: I'm trying to do the mask on like how they

1046
00:56:53,840 --> 00:56:57,080
Speaker 3: calculated a thousand dollars because it's the same think you

1047
00:56:57,239 --> 00:57:01,040
Speaker 3: just put new legs and new pipes on.

1048
00:57:01,600 --> 00:57:03,279
Speaker 1: It's true, you could probably. I mean it sounds like,

1049
00:57:03,719 --> 00:57:05,799
Speaker 1: you know, that's the most annoying thing, right is when

1050
00:57:06,440 --> 00:57:09,960
Speaker 1: like it's a shitty sink and they're still like it's

1051
00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:12,000
Speaker 1: three thousand dollars. You could probably go on it. You

1052
00:57:12,040 --> 00:57:14,600
Speaker 1: could probably buy your own fucking sink and put I

1053
00:57:14,680 --> 00:57:15,080
Speaker 1: know I could have.

1054
00:57:15,080 --> 00:57:17,920
Speaker 3: Got a nice one from home Depot two hundred books.

1055
00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:22,040
Speaker 1: Don't lose sleep over there, don't lose sleep over the sink.

1056
00:57:22,040 --> 00:57:24,200
Speaker 1: All right, life, you got more going on in your life.

1057
00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:27,840
Speaker 1: You know you'll you will be happy again and you

1058
00:57:27,880 --> 00:57:29,720
Speaker 1: will be pissed off again. I assure you of those

1059
00:57:29,720 --> 00:57:31,040
Speaker 1: two things.

1060
00:57:31,720 --> 00:57:35,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, that makes sense. There's gonna be worse than this. Okay,

1061
00:57:35,440 --> 00:57:37,400
Speaker 3: get ready.

1062
00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:40,440
Speaker 1: I hope that's I hope that's not the main thing

1063
00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:44,920
Speaker 1: you took away from this conversation. But Alex, is there

1064
00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:46,560
Speaker 1: anything else you want to say to me or the

1065
00:57:46,600 --> 00:57:49,160
Speaker 1: people of the computer or Eddie Murphy before we go?

1066
00:57:50,360 --> 00:57:52,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, one thing, I listen to your podcast, like for

1067
00:57:52,920 --> 00:57:55,040
Speaker 3: the past like nine months, you got me through all

1068
00:57:55,040 --> 00:57:57,200
Speaker 3: alast summer it's really awesome.

1069
00:57:57,760 --> 00:57:58,040
Speaker 1: Thanks.

1070
00:57:59,160 --> 00:58:01,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, I really enjoy thank you, and I love them.

1071
00:58:01,480 --> 00:58:03,480
Speaker 3: I like the like the two hour ones, like the

1072
00:58:03,480 --> 00:58:06,320
Speaker 3: ones that are closer to two hours.

1073
00:58:06,480 --> 00:58:11,200
Speaker 1: Well I started. What happened was I was releasing them

1074
00:58:11,240 --> 00:58:14,160
Speaker 1: once a week, and then they were two hours, and

1075
00:58:14,200 --> 00:58:16,880
Speaker 1: now I released them twice a week and they're one hour.

1076
00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:20,840
Speaker 1: So you know, I kind of split them up a

1077
00:58:20,840 --> 00:58:24,280
Speaker 1: little bit. I couldn't for me to release two two

1078
00:58:24,280 --> 00:58:29,360
Speaker 1: hour podcasts a week. Yeah, a little crazy, but.

1079
00:58:29,640 --> 00:58:33,640
Speaker 3: Everything in moderation. Yeah, does this one go on the podcast?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll put this on the podcast. I don't know

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Speaker 1: which one, but it'll it'll make it on there eventually regardless. Well,

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Speaker 1: god damn, thank you, Alex. You have a good one.

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Speaker 1: And I hope you get your cosmically, I believe you

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Speaker 1: will get some version of your three thousand dollars back, okay.

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Speaker 3: And I hope So there you universe looked out by.

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Speaker 1: Never Get goes on the line, taking your phone calls

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Speaker 1: every night, everythink, Get goes to any ride.

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Speaker 2: He's teaching you the housing of your life, but he's

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Speaker 2: not really an expert. H