Speaker 1: Attention all Australians. Tickets for Therapy Gecko Live are finally
Speaker 1: available in cities all over your beautiful country. I am
Speaker 1: going this summer to Perth, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and
Speaker 1: a nice little stop in Auckland, New Zealand. Tickets for
Speaker 1: these shows are selling fast, so you can get them
Speaker 1: now at therapy geckotour dot com. And in honor of
Speaker 1: my excitement for these Australia shows, I have created an
Speaker 1: episode where I talk exclusively to Australian callers except for
Speaker 1: one call at the end where I don't And also
Speaker 1: I only talk to three people, so I'm really just
Speaker 1: talking to two Australians. But god damn it, it's the
Speaker 1: Australia episode. Nonetheless, if you live in Australia, I would
Speaker 1: love to see you down Under at these Gecko shows,
Speaker 1: and you can go to therapy geckotour dot com to
Speaker 1: get tickets to all the cities that I mentioned above.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get into the episode.
Speaker 2: Aw from.
Speaker 1: John you Hello, Hello, how are you get Where are you?
Speaker 1: Are you at the top of a mountain or something?
Speaker 3: Let me close our window. I'm driving in Perth in Australia.
Speaker 1: Okay, can you take me off of I Can you
Speaker 1: pull over please? I can't talk to you while you're driving.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be an accomplished to whatever car
Speaker 1: accident you will inevitably, inevitably get into. All Right, what's
Speaker 1: up man? You're driving in Perth?
Speaker 3: You said, yeah, I'm driving in Perth.
Speaker 1: Ye, what's going on in Perth? I'm going to Perth soon?
Speaker 1: What sweat should I know before I go?
Speaker 3: You should know that you've got to come soon. We're desperate.
Speaker 3: Do you have your out here?
Speaker 1: Hell? Yeah, I'm I'm excited. What's and you guys are
Speaker 1: like I've You guys are on the opposite side of
Speaker 1: most of the other, like big Australian places.
Speaker 3: Correct, exactly. We get left out too often.
Speaker 1: Okay, do you who's the last like person you saw?
Speaker 1: Whether it's like a band or a comedian or whatever
Speaker 1: it is. What's the last like show you saw that
Speaker 1: came to Perth?
Speaker 3: Uh? Well, we just had a concert or a big
Speaker 3: event called Groove in the Move to a big concert
Speaker 3: two days ago Groove in the Move.
Speaker 1: Okay, did you what kind of music was it?
Speaker 3: A few different bands? So you had you had some yeah,
Speaker 3: some different different music. Hey, electric music, indie music. You
Speaker 3: know what indie music is?
Speaker 1: H yesh yeah, I've heard of indie music.
Speaker 3: Yeap beautifully. And then after the after the festival, we
Speaker 3: went home blaze don't what's some what's some gag on
Speaker 3: the couch?
Speaker 1: Watch the gag on the couch? I like that? What
Speaker 1: do you are you with somebody?
Speaker 4: Right now?
Speaker 1: It sounds like you're not alone?
Speaker 3: Now we're in a car driving back. There's a few
Speaker 3: of us.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, what's up?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 1: Who? So? What? What what are your what's are you guys? Homies?
Speaker 1: Are you in love? What's the deal?
Speaker 6: Yeah, we're in love totally.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, how do you guys know each other?
Speaker 6: I'm best man with his cousins and we only met
Speaker 6: this weekend.
Speaker 1: Properly, you just met this weekend and you're already in love.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's worth the h That's awesome.
Speaker 1: Man, that's awesome. I'm excited. This would be cool. I
Speaker 1: had so, I mean, I go to Perth and I
Speaker 1: have like a couple extra days. Well, just I set it.
Speaker 1: I intentionally set it up so that I could like, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of screw around each each city. That
Speaker 1: I go to in Australia and have enough time to
Speaker 1: like actually hang out and do some stuff because I've
Speaker 1: never been there before. What's like the what's the thing
Speaker 1: to do in Perth?
Speaker 6: Beaches and road trips?
Speaker 1: Oh wait, so by now when you say road trips,
Speaker 1: are you saying the thing to do in Perth is
Speaker 1: to leave Perth?
Speaker 3: Yes? Exactly.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's like so much pretty stuff all around Perth.
Speaker 1: Okay, are you guys? And here's the thing. Australia is
Speaker 1: so like Melbourne as they say, and Brisbane as they say,
Speaker 1: and Sydney are all on the east side of Australia
Speaker 1: and uh per and then it's like Perth is on
Speaker 1: the west side and in the middle is like the outback,
Speaker 1: which is like fucking crazy kangaroo crocodile hunter people live
Speaker 1: right right the bush.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, yeah bush.
Speaker 1: So there's so so Australia is already pretty isolated, and
Speaker 1: then Perth is like isolated from the isolation. So are
Speaker 1: you guys just going crazy over there now? I'm head, Okay,
Speaker 1: what do you do for fun?
Speaker 6: Beaches in road trips?
Speaker 1: Okay? I like that, you guys have I feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, for a second, I thought it was too
Speaker 1: good to be true that you guys met in a
Speaker 1: weekend and are already best friends. But if you're in
Speaker 1: such an isolated part of of of the world, I
Speaker 1: could see you. You know, whenever you come into contact
Speaker 1: with another human being who's you know, has some sense
Speaker 1: of a of a functioning brain, why would you not
Speaker 1: want to be their best friend? There's such a limited uh,
Speaker 1: you know, such limited options out there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, oh you like that, Like if you share a biah,
Speaker 6: you're already best friends. That's just how it works.
Speaker 1: I like that. Man, what's you guys said? You you
Speaker 1: smoked up after this or you're high right now, or
Speaker 1: you were.
Speaker 6: When we we we went to the festival and then
Speaker 6: when we got back, we we like smoked up outside
Speaker 6: and then came and sat in the couches and watched
Speaker 6: the episode with you.
Speaker 3: And Denzel code because Denzel was at the festival and
Speaker 3: Denzil was at the festival.
Speaker 1: Oh cool, cool, cool cool? Is weed legal in Australia?
Speaker 1: What's the deal with that?
Speaker 6: No, No, it's not okay. They don't like if they
Speaker 6: caught you with it, But if you had hate, they'd
Speaker 6: probably like, like you'd probably get like maybe jail time
Speaker 6: if you had lots. But if you just have enough
Speaker 6: that it's just like you smoking, they'll just give you
Speaker 6: a slap on the wrist.
Speaker 3: It's when you've got intention to sell, then yeah, you
Speaker 3: get in big trouble.
Speaker 1: What kind of tell me about your drug dealer, because
Speaker 1: I I'm just imagining like this Perthesian drug dealer guy
Speaker 1: to be an insane human being, and I want to
Speaker 1: know more about him.
Speaker 6: Most of the time it's like, oh yeah, my mate
Speaker 6: little sister knows the guy, and that's how we get
Speaker 6: all of our drugs. It's like, never ever really that shady.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, hmm. So you two are friends. You just
Speaker 1: met from your cousin. Where are you driving to right now?
Speaker 5: Going back home?
Speaker 6: So we were what to two and a bit hours
Speaker 6: down south of Perth in this little city called Bumbry
Speaker 6: and we're driving back north to Perth as respect. Yeah,
Speaker 6: we're to pit stop at a at a civil station.
Speaker 1: Now what were you doing in Bumbry?
Speaker 6: That was where the festival was?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, all right, did you guys get did you
Speaker 1: do anything crazy? Did your role face, did your candy
Speaker 1: flip anything gnarly like that?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 6: Nah. Like, probably the most gnarly thing was the Denzel
Speaker 6: Marsh That was pretty wild.
Speaker 1: Okay you guys, you guys are Marsh. Wait so you
Speaker 1: guys met? Like, did you guys go? You two just went?
Speaker 1: It was just you guys.
Speaker 3: Oh no, there was.
Speaker 6: Like, what ten of us?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, ten, twelve of us?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I don't even I don't think I
Speaker 1: have ten friends. No, that's not true.
Speaker 3: Friend you when you come to Perth, can we be
Speaker 3: your two gods?
Speaker 1: Dude? If you could, please, man, please I if you
Speaker 1: can bring all ten of those people, that'd be great
Speaker 1: because I don't know who the hell lives in Perth
Speaker 1: that listens to this, but I'm I'm excited to meet them.
Speaker 6: Yeahs done?
Speaker 3: How do we organize it?
Speaker 1: Well? Shit, I'll be I mean, i'll be in. I
Speaker 1: don't know when exactly I'll be there, but keep keep
Speaker 1: an eye out on the on the fucking did you subscide?
Speaker 1: This is and I'm just plugging myself, but did you
Speaker 1: subscribe to that? I have to like, it's so funny
Speaker 1: because I have to just like I have to, like,
Speaker 1: one by one convince because there's I don't know how
Speaker 1: many people live in Perth that listen to this thing.
Speaker 1: So I have to one by one be like, hey,
Speaker 1: did you go to the website and sign up to
Speaker 1: make sure you know what? I'll be there.
Speaker 3: Where all signed up? Every single one of us.
Speaker 1: Fuck? Yeah, well I'm excited to see you guys. All right,
Speaker 1: Well enough about me. What what what do you guys do?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 1: Are you in school? Are you in do your work?
Speaker 1: What's the deal? I'm in construction, ken and you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm in I'm in non structural engineering.
Speaker 1: Okay. Construction and structural engineering sound very similar. It sounds
Speaker 1: like one of you went to college and the other
Speaker 1: one didn't, but yet you do the same job pretty much.
Speaker 3: Probably probably the one that didn't go to UNI does
Speaker 3: more work than the one that did.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, so what do you can the construction guy?
Speaker 1: What do you construct?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I worked for a ceiling and wall fixing company and
Speaker 6: we just finished a job at a new like mental
Speaker 6: health building at a hospital, and like the company I
Speaker 6: work for, like builds all the framing and then sheets
Speaker 6: all the walls, make sure everything's good.
Speaker 1: Okay, And then what does a structural engineer do?
Speaker 3: Sit on the computer all day? And nice jobs? Jobs
Speaker 3: are looking pretty smid.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you're pretty much like, all right, so structural
Speaker 1: engineering you're pretty much sitting on the computer playing sims,
Speaker 1: and then the construction you are the sim.
Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly, that's exactly it.
Speaker 7: It's just making sure the building doesn't collapse on your sims.
Speaker 5: Mm hmmmm.
Speaker 1: Well what do you do?
Speaker 4: You?
Speaker 1: Is that? Your guys?
Speaker 4: Is?
Speaker 1: When you guys? How will do you? Guys? I'm twenty four, Okay,
Speaker 1: when you guys were little kids, what did you dream
Speaker 1: of doing?
Speaker 6: I wanted to be a dancer.
Speaker 1: You wanted to be a dancer.
Speaker 6: I was a professional dancer before I started in construction.
Speaker 1: Oh really?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 1: Like? What kind of dancer?
Speaker 6: I was like a tap dancer.
Speaker 1: You were a professional tap dancer before you got into construction.
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Are you fucking with me?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: No, I'm get serious.
Speaker 6: I the only thing that stopped me was COVID. It
Speaker 6: was like a dying like a dying style of dance. Yeah,
Speaker 6: Like the industry was dead and then COVID just was
Speaker 6: the last step.
Speaker 1: M Okay, what like what exactly were you were you doing?
Speaker 1: How were you making money? Were you like touring with
Speaker 1: a company or something.
Speaker 6: I was doing a lot of teaching just because there
Speaker 6: wasn't a lot of jobs. But I was in talks
Speaker 6: with a guy for.
Speaker 8: This musical and like got the job, and then COVID
Speaker 8: happened and the show got canceled, and that was kind
Speaker 8: of the last straw, and I decided I was going
Speaker 8: to quit.
Speaker 6: And do something that was a bit more money reliable.
Speaker 1: M do you do you miss tap dancing.
Speaker 6: Sometimes?
Speaker 1: What does any part of you like want to go back?
Speaker 1: Does any part of you consider, like, uh, quitting your
Speaker 1: construction job and trying to get back into the tap
Speaker 1: dance the tap dancing racket.
Speaker 6: If something really cool came up that just happened to
Speaker 6: kind of show itself, maybe, but I don't think I'm
Speaker 6: willing to search for it.
Speaker 1: Okay, So are you guys? You guys, both both of
Speaker 1: you guys seem happy with yourselves.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we just had a great weekend and and
Speaker 3: we're looking forward to getting back back to the reality
Speaker 3: of Stons Man.
Speaker 1: You're looking. Oh so you're looking. That's fascinating. So you're
Speaker 1: looking forward to getting back to reality?
Speaker 3: I suppose.
Speaker 6: So, yeah, a bit of a bit of a bit
Speaker 6: of a routine, you know.
Speaker 1: I wonder like this being so isolated from everyone, Like,
Speaker 1: I almost feel like that would make you more in
Speaker 1: maybe in some way make you more happy than I
Speaker 1: don't know, living in a place like like Los Angeles
Speaker 1: or something where you're you're hyper connected to everything all
Speaker 1: the time.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, I've been to l A once and there
Speaker 6: was so unbelievably overwhelming that I just like would never
Speaker 6: be able to live there.
Speaker 1: What were you doing there? Tap dancing?
Speaker 5: Actually was Oh fuck you dude?
Speaker 1: What wait? When I come Okay, when I come to
Speaker 1: when I come to Perth, can you can you fucking
Speaker 1: tap dance for me?
Speaker 6: I will come up on stage and tap dance.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm please, I'm a hundred I am, by the way,
Speaker 1: I'm one hundred percent serious.
Speaker 3: I'm so away serious.
Speaker 1: Do your shoes still fit the one that they because
Speaker 1: we're special shoes with the with the like look with
Speaker 1: the tap.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah yeah, I have like patients, the white ones.
Speaker 1: That's great, Okay, I'm excited for this. This will be great. Okay.
Speaker 1: So all right, so you used to be a tap dancer,
Speaker 1: and then what did you do before you were a
Speaker 1: a structural engineer? Or maybe I'm confusing you guys.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, that's right. I used to back in the day,
Speaker 3: I used to work at McDonald's.
Speaker 1: Okay, what do you tell me about working at Was
Speaker 1: it in Perth?
Speaker 3: It was in Perth.
Speaker 1: Tell me about the clientele of this Perth McDonald's. What
Speaker 1: kinds of people were were going through your drive through
Speaker 1: every day?
Speaker 3: It depends on what time. So during the day you
Speaker 3: just had your standard average either soccer moms with their
Speaker 3: kids or just people that didn't want to buy their lunches,
Speaker 3: I suppose. And then at night is when the when
Speaker 3: the fund came out. I suppose everyone either black baked
Speaker 3: or out of their bloody minds. And yeah, you didn't
Speaker 3: want to you wanted to go home.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, what was the strangest or or even
Speaker 1: most hostile interaction that you had well working there?
Speaker 3: Oh oh, I remember I got absolutely abused once because
Speaker 3: we made some lady park in the waiting base and
Speaker 3: when I bought out her food when it was ready,
Speaker 3: she wasn't happy with the size of the bag and
Speaker 3: threw the food back at me. I reckon, I reckon.
Speaker 3: From then I had to walk inside with all this
Speaker 3: drink and food all over me. Here, I was like,
Speaker 3: this is a bit shit, isn't it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well you just did, but you are? Yes?
Speaker 3: Oh sweet? Yeah, so that kind of made me want
Speaker 3: to pack up us. So it's just like I don't
Speaker 3: need this sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: And are you happier now being a structural engineer than
Speaker 1: working at McDonald's.
Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean, who doesn't want to play sims for? Reallyly?
Speaker 1: Oh man? Do you construct what? I don't even know
Speaker 1: your guys' names, but with a construction worker? Are you
Speaker 1: do you you hope to one day be a structural
Speaker 1: engineer or are you happy being the sim Well?
Speaker 7: I'm doing laboring now, so it's like the bottom of
Speaker 7: the barrel job. So I'm hoping to next year start
Speaker 7: apprenticeship to become an electrician and then do that for
Speaker 7: a while and see what happens.
Speaker 1: Nice nice mm Yeah? Are you guys? Are you guys
Speaker 1: dating anyone? Do you have girlfriends, boyfriends? Or are you
Speaker 1: just married to each other.
Speaker 3: With dad in the same go? Actually, and she's in
Speaker 3: the cars.
Speaker 1: Okay, now you're fucking with me? Oh I just I
Speaker 1: just heard a girl laugh in the back. You're not
Speaker 1: fucking with me, dude? Who is this? Who is this
Speaker 1: girl that's just been silent the whole time. What's your name?
Speaker 2: My name is Nae?
Speaker 1: Say that one more time?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 1: Oh, Neve? Yeah, Neve, Neve? Why have have you? Is
Speaker 1: it true you're dating both of these guys at once?
Speaker 2: Apparently? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Hm, you couldn't decide between the structural engineer and the
Speaker 1: construction worker.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a tough.
Speaker 1: Well, I guess it is because you know, look one,
Speaker 1: I think one of you guys is buttoned up and
Speaker 1: you know, stable, safe, secure option, which is you know,
Speaker 1: it's just attractive. But then the other one is is
Speaker 1: you know, the bad boy, the wild card, and that's
Speaker 1: attractive too, And she's she's caught between both of these
Speaker 1: compelling offers.
Speaker 3: Which which one do you reckons the saber one?
Speaker 1: Now that I think about it, I'm not so sure
Speaker 1: about either of you. But so wait, so how do
Speaker 1: you guys know her? Or I will talk ask her?
Speaker 1: How do you know these guys?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 2: I know the structural engineer from work. We used to
Speaker 2: work together, and then I met the construction worker just
Speaker 2: this weekend?
Speaker 1: Okay all? And are you are all three of you
Speaker 1: in love? Now?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 1: What what do you do? Neve?
Speaker 2: I work at Bunnings, which is like a hard restore.
Speaker 1: I work up Bunnings Bunnings. Oh, you guys are all wait,
Speaker 1: this is crazy. So the structural engineer plays the sims
Speaker 1: moving around the construction worker who then goes to buy
Speaker 1: hardware to make the construction from the girl working in
Speaker 1: the hardware store.
Speaker 6: It's all connected.
Speaker 1: It's all connected.
Speaker 3: So literally, life in Australia is a big seems.
Speaker 1: Wow, well I can't I can't wait, Neive, do you
Speaker 1: have any outside of just uh road trips and what
Speaker 1: is it? Road trips in Tennis? What was the other thing?
Speaker 6: Not beaches?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Beaches and road trips? Neve? Do you have any suggestions
Speaker 1: for cool perth stuff to.
Speaker 2: Do Rottennest Island and for wooll driving as well?
Speaker 1: Oh wait, you know, I know, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: know something I want to ask you guys about. I
Speaker 1: want how do I see a Quaker? I want to
Speaker 1: see a quaker.
Speaker 2: That's Rottenest Island. So you catch a ferry it's like
Speaker 2: an hour away, just off your perth and then you
Speaker 2: can see the cockers.
Speaker 1: Have you got? For those who don't know, a quaker
Speaker 1: is like it's like a really big hamster kind.
Speaker 9: Of yeah, they're like they're like they're like a little
Speaker 9: teddy bear and on Rottnest Island they have no natural predators,
Speaker 9: so they're just like not scared to go up to you.
Speaker 6: So you can get right next to them, like cuddle
Speaker 6: them and take a photo with them.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, man, wouldn't that be great to live in
Speaker 1: an island where you have no natural predators?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 5: Iconic?
Speaker 3: When you come to Perth, Yeah, we'll get on. We'll
Speaker 3: get on my boat and we'll take you over to Rotnest.
Speaker 1: You have a boat, I've got a boat. Okay, that's that.
Speaker 1: That's that's sexual engineer money.
Speaker 6: Can get those swim.
Speaker 1: Well, apparently this one doesn't have to because he's got
Speaker 1: he's got an Australian homie with a boat.
Speaker 6: Yesh strout a life jacket.
Speaker 1: On just in case that would actually be a good idea.
Speaker 1: So what how do you how do you? How do
Speaker 1: so you guys know each other through a cousin, neive?
Speaker 1: How do you know these guys?
Speaker 2: So I worked with the structural engineer and then I
Speaker 2: I met his.
Speaker 5: Cousin for him, right right right?
Speaker 1: What's your what's your dream in life? Neve?
Speaker 2: I don't know I'm just living. I'm just vibbing right now.
Speaker 1: Man, I'm damn. It seems like it seems like you
Speaker 1: guys are all happy over there. You're living in the moment,
Speaker 1: you're on your boats, You're uh fucking hanging out with
Speaker 1: with quakers, you get you got Donald's over there. Sounds
Speaker 1: like a good turb It sounds like a good pace
Speaker 1: of life. I'm into it. Well, damn, I hope you
Speaker 1: guys get to your destination. Are you have you just
Speaker 1: been driving this whole time. I haven't heard anything.
Speaker 6: No, no, no, we've been stopped at a petrol station.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, thanks for thanks. I'll let you guys get
Speaker 1: back on with your journey. Excited to see you in Perth.
Speaker 1: I will hold you to it. I funk, man, I
Speaker 1: think give me like a week and I think I'll
Speaker 1: actually fucking have the show on sale. But uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: come fucking uh, I'm gonna I'm gonna see you tap dance.
Speaker 1: I'm holding you to that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, how are you planning to get up on stage
Speaker 6: with DNA show?
Speaker 1: There's like a honestly, honestly, at any point, at any point,
Speaker 1: just be like, Hey, I'm the guy you talked to
Speaker 1: that offered the tap dance. You can, I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: you special permission to yell that out and we'll we'll
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 3: Done done, can on the sins work or two?
Speaker 1: No, only he can yell out, I've let me ride
Speaker 1: on the boat.
Speaker 3: You can yell out, Yes, let's go, I'll.
Speaker 1: Yell Is there anything else that you guys want to
Speaker 1: say to the people of the computer before we go?
Speaker 6: Shout out to the homies. So listening right now, and
Speaker 6: we love you.
Speaker 1: Gek, what do you guys? I only caught neat. What
Speaker 1: are your guys' names? I never got them?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 6: Construction workers James.
Speaker 3: James, and the structure engineer is Daniel Daniel Man.
Speaker 1: You know, Daniel is such a buttoned up name. It
Speaker 1: makes sense that that's the structural engineer, and James is
Speaker 1: the is the bad boy construction worker.
Speaker 3: It just wines up perfectly.
Speaker 1: It does. Well. Thank you guys for calling man, it's
Speaker 1: a pleasure talking to you and I will see you
Speaker 1: very soon.
Speaker 3: Sounds good. Thank you, Take care guys.
Speaker 1: Fine, Well, that was fun. Perth sounds cool. Perth sounds cool.
Speaker 1: It really is. Go look at a map of Australia.
Speaker 1: Perth is like all the way on the other side
Speaker 1: of like all the actual Maybe is it offensive to
Speaker 1: say the actual cities? It probably is? But whatever, man,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go there. I'm gonna hang out with a Quaker.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to McDonald's. I'm gonna watch this guy
Speaker 1: tap dance. It'll be fun. Think yes for calling.
Speaker 4: All from Lily.
Speaker 1: Hello, what's up? What's your name?
Speaker 6: Lily?
Speaker 1: What's up Lily? How you doing?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 4: Today's my eighteenth birthday.
Speaker 1: Oh? Happy birthday? What are you are you doing anything?
Speaker 4: Cool?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: So today is actually a public holiday for me, so
Speaker 4: I can't actually celebrate. But I thought I call in.
Speaker 1: What what public holiday? Where are you calling from? Where
Speaker 1: it's a public holiday?
Speaker 4: I'm from Australia.
Speaker 1: Oh cool man? What going to Australia pretty soon?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I really want to go to one of your shows.
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 1: What public holiday is it in Australia? Today?
Speaker 4: It's Anti Day?
Speaker 1: It's what day?
Speaker 4: Antic Day is like like you know when you like,
Speaker 4: you know, a war and stuff. Sorry, I don't really
Speaker 4: know much about the public holiday myself, except for the
Speaker 4: fact I'm born on it.
Speaker 1: And Zach, how do you I'll look it up right now?
Speaker 1: How do you spell that? A N Z A n
Speaker 1: Z oh and zach Yeah, all right, and Zach Day
Speaker 1: is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New
Speaker 1: Zealand that broadly commemorates all Australians and New Zealanders who
Speaker 1: served and died in war. Oh okay, it's like your
Speaker 1: guys's Veterans Day.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's pretty depressing day to be born. If I'm
Speaker 4: being honest.
Speaker 1: It's like, well, it's like Memorial No, that's like Memorial Day. Now,
Speaker 1: here's the thing, and this is I don't know if
Speaker 1: this offensive or not, but I had I didn't know
Speaker 1: that there was Like I didn't know that Australia had wars.
Speaker 1: Like here's because here's the thing, right is Australia. It's
Speaker 1: all the it's out of the fucking way. It's all
Speaker 1: the way. It's like an isolated territory. So like, who,
Speaker 1: who the fuck are you guys going to war with?
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I have the toys of it. That's
Speaker 4: like my favorite fact of Australia. So basically, one day
Speaker 4: we had a war with eies.
Speaker 1: With what.
Speaker 4: Are you familiar with? The big bird that's like native
Speaker 4: to Australia.
Speaker 1: You had a word. You had a war with birds.
Speaker 4: And we lost to them.
Speaker 1: What you had a spell? That spell that were in India?
Speaker 4: Yeah, e M you and then yeah we basically.
Speaker 1: Are you being serious so that you went to war
Speaker 1: with birds that serious?
Speaker 4: Like that is my That is the most embarrassing thing
Speaker 4: about the country I live in.
Speaker 1: Hold On, I'm gonna look this up now that I'm
Speaker 1: gonna look up m em you War Australia was a
Speaker 1: nuisance wildlife holy ship? Dude, Okay, hold on, if you go, dude,
Speaker 1: if you fucking wait, this is crazy. If you search
Speaker 1: you e M you War Australia and you go to
Speaker 1: Google images, there's just a picture of a guy choking
Speaker 1: a fucking bird. You guys actually went I thought you
Speaker 1: were fucking with me. This is true. You guys went
Speaker 1: to this is it says? Okay? The m you War
Speaker 1: was a operation undertaken to curb the population of a
Speaker 1: large flightless bird indigenous to Australia. How many people dot
Speaker 1: hunt aftermath? Let's see how many people died in the.
Speaker 4: I don't think anybody died. I think it was like
Speaker 4: an actual war. I think what basically happened was a
Speaker 4: bunch of people wanted to like go to the land
Speaker 4: and like do stuff for EMUs were there, So basically
Speaker 4: the solution to that problem was to shoot a bunch
Speaker 4: of ems. But EU is basically fall back. I think
Speaker 4: that's what happened.
Speaker 1: So you're telling me, and again, look, no offense to
Speaker 1: any no offense. I know. I know that we have
Speaker 1: a large population of Australian veterans that listen to this show,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to offend them, but it kind
Speaker 1: of sounds like Australia, you know. They they killed a
Speaker 1: bunch of birds, and then we're like, let's have a
Speaker 1: day of remembrance for the people that killed the birds.
Speaker 4: Not not specifically them.
Speaker 3: But yeah, sure were that did?
Speaker 1: Did you guys have any other wars or just but
Speaker 1: it doesn't really seemed like a war. It just seems
Speaker 1: like a It seems like more of a massacre than
Speaker 1: a war. There's no but none of you guys died.
Speaker 1: It was just the birds.
Speaker 4: Well I don't know. Well, the birds kind of won
Speaker 4: in a way, so that's kind of like the good thing.
Speaker 4: I guess. Well, their are very very strong and smart creatures,
Speaker 4: so they basically out smart at them.
Speaker 1: Look, all I'm saying is if you all I'm saying
Speaker 1: is if you search em you war Australia and you
Speaker 1: go to Google images, it does not look like that
Speaker 1: bird is winning.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 1: So you were born, So you were born on the
Speaker 1: day of Australian Remembers. So is are like the banks closed?
Speaker 1: What actually happens on this day?
Speaker 4: Not much like just everything shut down? So basically I
Speaker 4: have to celebrate my birthday tomorrow.
Speaker 5: How are you?
Speaker 1: How are you going to celebrate your birthday?
Speaker 4: I'm learning to watch Mario.
Speaker 1: The Mario movie.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So now when a movie comes out, said, when a
Speaker 1: movie comes out in like France, right, like a big
Speaker 1: animated movie, they dub it over in French. Do when
Speaker 1: a movie when a movie comes out in Australia, do
Speaker 1: they just like dub the movie over but give everyone
Speaker 1: an Australian accent? Or is it still in American English?
Speaker 4: As much as I would love to see like an
Speaker 4: Australian like voice over and hear like Mario say like
Speaker 4: kunt or something like may or something like that, Sadly, Norie,
Speaker 4: we get the American version.
Speaker 1: I've heard that kunt is a term of endearment in Australia.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it is. We two have friends basically.
Speaker 1: And so so if you walk up to a random
Speaker 1: stranger and call them a cunt, it's not it's Is
Speaker 1: it still bad?
Speaker 4: No? I don't think no. I think they're like not
Speaker 4: like that. But I think if they're like your friends,
Speaker 4: you can be.
Speaker 1: Like, oh hey, you know, okay, do you do you
Speaker 1: call your friends cunts?
Speaker 4: No? I I caught them other swear words, but that's
Speaker 4: not really one of them.
Speaker 1: What what other swear words do you call your friends?
Speaker 4: I don't know. Uh, I don't know. Bitch, like my
Speaker 4: friend called me that this morning.
Speaker 1: Actually, your friend called you a bitch this morning? Why
Speaker 1: did your friend call you a bit? No?
Speaker 4: Yeah, she was like, you like having morning bitch, like
Speaker 4: having birthday, bitch. That's what she said to me.
Speaker 1: Okay, so yeah, all right, So you live in Australia.
Speaker 1: Can I ask what? And you don't. You don't have
Speaker 1: to get specific, but like, what part of Australia are
Speaker 1: you in?
Speaker 4: I'm part of Western Australia.
Speaker 1: Oh shit, is that? Where are you? Are you You
Speaker 1: in Perth?
Speaker 4: Yeah That's where I'm from.
Speaker 1: Oh hell yeah, I'm going to I'm going to Perth soon,
Speaker 1: is it I've heard it's cool? Is it like different
Speaker 1: from like Sydney and Melbourne and in those places?
Speaker 4: I would say yes, I feel like we're a lot
Speaker 4: more cloised in Does that make any sense?
Speaker 1: Are you more Australian do you think? And less American?
Speaker 4: I would say yes, I feel like you know, it
Speaker 4: would be a culture shock.
Speaker 1: Give me, like I want to Okay, so like give
Speaker 1: me when I go to Perth. I want to make
Speaker 1: a Perth ship, you know, the word like a a
Speaker 1: Perthesian reference that people in Perth will be like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's a good reference. That that the he really knows
Speaker 1: stuff about Perth. What's a what's a good Perthesian reference
Speaker 1: I can make when I go there?
Speaker 4: You could just mention them. I'm pretty sure everybody wants
Speaker 4: to that.
Speaker 1: Does that? Is that? Is that?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 4: I don't know really any references, to be honest, but
Speaker 4: that is I mean, I'm pretty sure if you mentioned that,
Speaker 4: everybody would just understand what you mean.
Speaker 1: Is that true? Is that? Is that like a popular thing?
Speaker 1: And does everybody know about the EMU war?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Everybody does.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna find a way to bring it.
Speaker 4: Up actually we got taught that in school, you did.
Speaker 1: Okay, Here's what I'm gonna do is when I come
Speaker 1: out on stage, I'm gonna put up a picture on
Speaker 1: the projector's screen of this guy killing this bird, and
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna talk the picture for the first for
Speaker 1: the entire show. All right, So what else? Tell me more?
Speaker 1: What else is your life like, Lily? Any other? Well?
Speaker 4: I was I was going to call in and say, like,
Speaker 4: you know, how like I'm pretty like, you know, not
Speaker 4: really feeling my birthday, but like I'm actually like pretty
Speaker 4: happy right now.
Speaker 1: Okay, why were you not feeling your birthday?
Speaker 4: Well? Okay, so when so I'm turning eighteen, right and
Speaker 4: I thought when Okay, when I was a little kid,
Speaker 4: I thought when I was going to turn eighteen, I
Speaker 4: was going to like own a mansion and like a
Speaker 4: like a I don't know, like you know, be rich,
Speaker 4: like be like a millionaire. But like I feel like
Speaker 4: I'm a very unrealistic goal so as a little kid,
Speaker 4: because you know, I'm I'm like unemployed and you know,
Speaker 4: I'm just working normal nine to five job and a
Speaker 4: college like UNI student right now, So.
Speaker 1: Yeah, why did you so? Okay, when you were a
Speaker 1: little kid, and you thought that you would have a
Speaker 1: million dollars by the time you were eighteen. What did
Speaker 1: you have? Where did you say think they would come from?
Speaker 4: I don't I don't really know. I just thought i'd
Speaker 4: get lucky, like win the lottery.
Speaker 3: Maybe.
Speaker 1: Do you ever play the lottery? No, so you thought
Speaker 1: you were going to win the lottery without even playing it.
Speaker 1: That's the super Lottery without putting in a ticket. Do
Speaker 1: they have the lottery in Australia?
Speaker 4: Yeah, of course, How would I know? Well, you know,
Speaker 4: it's actually like as if well, you know, I don't
Speaker 4: want to like make any.
Speaker 1: Assumptions, but make whatever assumptions you want. I'm making assumptions.
Speaker 4: Well, like I had a friend in America who thought
Speaker 4: we traveled by kangaroos, So I don't know what you
Speaker 4: Americans really think about them.
Speaker 1: Wait, do you guys not.
Speaker 4: No control on trains.
Speaker 1: I'm trying. I'm trying to have my buddy photoshop a
Speaker 1: picture me in a kangaroo's pouch as part of like
Speaker 1: a tour promo. But now that I know that's not
Speaker 1: how you guys actually trans uh, you know, transport yourselves.
Speaker 1: And maybe I'll just photo shot myself into a train. Well,
Speaker 1: all right, what's your what's your dream for the future, Lily,
Speaker 1: what do you want to be uh in soon?
Speaker 4: I don't like career wise.
Speaker 1: Uh, your career life anything.
Speaker 4: And I just like cliche in terms of life. I
Speaker 4: just like hope that the future is much more clear
Speaker 4: and just I'm just happy.
Speaker 1: I guess, Okay, well, what do you mean that clear
Speaker 1: the future? That I the future will never be clear,
Speaker 1: That's the whole point.
Speaker 4: I know. But I feel like now, especially in my life,
Speaker 4: I have a lot more responsibility because I'm legally an
Speaker 4: adult now, and I just feel like I don't really
Speaker 4: even know what I'd want to do as a career,
Speaker 4: and I'm just, you know, kind of living day by
Speaker 4: day and I just I'm kind of lost, and I
Speaker 4: just hope that I just find out kind of what
Speaker 4: I want in life.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, you at this very moment, what do you
Speaker 1: desire in life.
Speaker 4: In this very moment?
Speaker 1: Yes? Or I mean in this very moment, or I
Speaker 1: guess in this moment generally.
Speaker 4: This face existence, Well, I guess I just want birthday
Speaker 4: cake and just to have a normal day to know.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, look, here's the thing is, Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: now that I'm thinking, I'm gonna get all. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get all motivationally because it's how I'm feeling in this moment.
Speaker 1: All you desire is birthday cake? Correct, So you know,
Speaker 1: look when you're eating your birthday cake. Uh, that's this
Speaker 1: is what I'm learning. Life is is just a bunch
Speaker 1: of God I'm a douchebag. Life is just a bunch
Speaker 1: of right now. Right, So whatever you want right now,
Speaker 1: you know, is that's all that matters. Got this is
Speaker 1: you know what what I just said is not true
Speaker 1: at all, because if you live like that, you're gonna
Speaker 1: end up like me, eating fucking candy for breakfast, lunch,
Speaker 1: and dinner.
Speaker 4: I already do that.
Speaker 1: What kind of candy.
Speaker 4: I eat? Like? Mom? Bob Nickols? Do you guys have
Speaker 4: cherry ripe?
Speaker 1: What is cherry rope?
Speaker 4: Cherry ripe? All? Okay, do you guys have a crunchy?
Speaker 1: Well? No, no, I'm not. What is cherry cherry rope or cherry? Right?
Speaker 4: It's cherry cherry ripe. It's like a chocolate and in
Speaker 4: size like cherry your stuff?
Speaker 1: Uh no, I don't think so we have we have
Speaker 1: cherry eminem Wait, we don't even have cherry and I
Speaker 1: just made that up. Okay, Well, are are you gonna
Speaker 1: so you're not celebrating your birthday today because.
Speaker 4: It's it's I'm just gonna eat like cake and stuff,
Speaker 4: all right.
Speaker 1: What are you going to college?
Speaker 4: Oh? Yeah, I am.
Speaker 1: What are you going to study?
Speaker 4: I'm gonna study probably something in the artfield. Currently right
Speaker 4: now I study huh sorry, oh, currently, I'm just studying.
Speaker 4: It's kind of just like an opening course for people
Speaker 4: who drop out, kind of like a GED I think
Speaker 4: that's what you guys call it.
Speaker 1: Did you did you drop out of high school?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I did?
Speaker 1: Oh uh I thought you so, So you're taking like
Speaker 1: a GED course? Mm hmmm, why did you drop out
Speaker 1: of high school? Uh?
Speaker 4: Family issues?
Speaker 1: Okay? Do you How do you feel about that decision?
Speaker 5: Now? Do you?
Speaker 1: Are you glad that you made it?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I mean I dropping out of high school? I think
Speaker 4: that was the only regret I have was not seeing
Speaker 4: my friends again. But honestly, I have so many opportunities
Speaker 4: in Australia too, you know, still have a good career,
Speaker 4: so I'm not too stressed about it.
Speaker 1: And so you want to you want to have a
Speaker 1: career in the arts of some kind m hm, what
Speaker 1: kind of art like drawing?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I want to It's like way in the future,
Speaker 4: but one day I want to like own my own
Speaker 4: clothing store.
Speaker 1: Okay, rock and roll. That's a cool. That's a cool. See.
Speaker 1: Do you are you like into fashion?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I am hugely.
Speaker 1: What what is your like? Are you into shoes, hats?
Speaker 1: What's like everything?
Speaker 4: Basically?
Speaker 1: Okay, so you want to own your own clothing store,
Speaker 1: that's cool. What's the what's the fashion industry in Australia.
Speaker 4: Like, oh, for the most part, not too bad? Was
Speaker 4: pretty boring.
Speaker 1: What are you are there a lot of like art
Speaker 1: fashion school places in uh in Australia.
Speaker 4: Well, we don't have like the top schools, like you know,
Speaker 4: art isn't really like seeing as much as a koreer here,
Speaker 4: if that makes sense, like specifically where I'm from. So
Speaker 4: if I wanted to really go to like a really
Speaker 4: good stage like art school, I would have to travel
Speaker 4: outside where I live. But yeah, we do have like
Speaker 4: art courses and you know, I could still study fashion here.
Speaker 4: So but it isn't like as you know, as good
Speaker 4: as I would want it to be a book, you know.
Speaker 1: So you say that where you are from. So you
Speaker 1: said that so specifically in Perth, art is not seen
Speaker 1: as like as like a real career.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like we're kind of really working class and you know,
Speaker 4: people go on to study be a lawyer and you know, doctors.
Speaker 4: And I'm not saying that's bad, but I feel like
Speaker 4: that's really really cool. But I just wish where I
Speaker 4: was from art was taking a little bit more seriously,
Speaker 4: I guess, but you know, it's what it did is
Speaker 4: I don't really care.
Speaker 1: Well, I feel like art and stuff it's all on
Speaker 1: the computer, right, Like if you made a clothing brand,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean you it wouldn't it would You
Speaker 1: wouldn't just sell stuff in Perth, you'd sell stuff everywhere, right,
Speaker 1: So I mean this is almost the whole idea of
Speaker 1: art being taken seriously in one part of the world
Speaker 1: or not. It's all. It's all. Uh. We live in
Speaker 1: an interconnected global universe now, so I feel like art
Speaker 1: is taken seriously in that interconnected universe.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, you're right, like it, things are much more
Speaker 4: accessful than it probably was like years back, and I
Speaker 4: am very grateful for that to live in like a
Speaker 4: modern society, and I definitely but you know, I think
Speaker 4: those still are risks being taken when it comes to
Speaker 4: online stuff, but you know, that's that's way in the future.
Speaker 4: And I just you know, when it comes to being successful,
Speaker 4: especially in art, it's you know, I feel like even
Speaker 4: if I did do it would still take some time
Speaker 4: for my career to be subtle because there's so many
Speaker 4: I'm trying.
Speaker 1: To like.
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 1: I have an idea.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm trying to weard it in a way that
Speaker 4: makes sense.
Speaker 1: You should you should draw this picture of the guys
Speaker 1: strangling an emu and put it on a shirt. I
Speaker 1: would buy that shirt.
Speaker 4: Could I give it to you on the tour? Coming?
Speaker 1: Yeah? No, I'm coming. I don't know where in Perth,
Speaker 1: but I'm coming there somewhere in July. No, yeah, well sorry,
Speaker 1: are there stills? Are there still EMUs running around? Do
Speaker 1: you guys get rid of all of them?
Speaker 4: That they definitely are, but they're like way in the outback.
Speaker 1: Have did you ever go to the out back?
Speaker 4: I've heard it's gnarly, it's kind of dangerous, So not really,
Speaker 4: I mean I kind of have kind of habits.
Speaker 1: For I don't know, is it our our Kangaroo's dangerous.
Speaker 4: Depending on the kangaroo, depending on the k.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Kangaroo Jack is yes, I do really you know
Speaker 1: who Kangaroo Jack? I feel like that. How old is
Speaker 1: that fucking movie?
Speaker 4: That very old?
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, you know how you said that people that
Speaker 1: people will ask ask you if folks in Australia get
Speaker 1: around on kangaroos? Do you Is there anything like that
Speaker 1: for Americans that you like? Do you think that we
Speaker 1: get around on hamburgers? Like? What's your version of that?
Speaker 4: Well? I do think that every American carries a gun,
Speaker 4: but I don't know if that's true.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm bringing mine to Australia.
Speaker 4: Okay, I don't know how well you get in, so
Speaker 4: good luck.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna kill some kangaroos. I've heard kangaroo
Speaker 1: meat is great.
Speaker 4: You can get in the shout, Yes, it is very great.
Speaker 1: I've no, I don't have a gun, and I don't
Speaker 1: plan to kill any kangaroos unless if one threatens me,
Speaker 1: in which case I will have to defend myself. Oh no,
Speaker 1: I think you're going to be fine, Lily. I mean
Speaker 1: you can do you can do anything. I think. I
Speaker 1: don't know that. I don't know if I don't know
Speaker 1: that for sure, though, I don't know how reassuring you
Speaker 1: of what I just said was Has this phone called
Speaker 1: been helpful to you at all?
Speaker 4: It's made my birthday day?
Speaker 1: Okay? Great? What do you do? You like? Uh? Have
Speaker 1: do you do on your bir How big of a
Speaker 1: birthday person are you? Some people are like, it's my
Speaker 1: birthday month, you know, and they're like that big or
Speaker 1: how how how into your own birthday are you?
Speaker 4: I'm just like, I just celebrate the day and that's
Speaker 4: pretty much it.
Speaker 1: Well, if I can, if if I can just say this,
Speaker 1: I'll say this, I'll be serious for a second. Okay,
Speaker 1: you know, Lily, I think you're It sounds it sounds
Speaker 1: as though you're disappointed because you were hoping for clarity today, right.
Speaker 1: You wanted, you know, like you said, for things to
Speaker 1: be more clear. But here's the thing. Here's what you
Speaker 1: you find out is clarity. It doesn't exist. You'll never
Speaker 1: ever get it.
Speaker 4: Is that reassured?
Speaker 1: And so and so? Is it reassuring? I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe it'll make you want to stop searching for it.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's not I don't know if it's necessarily
Speaker 1: true that you'll never get clarity. You might get like
Speaker 1: a little bit of clarity, but you'll never receive ultimate
Speaker 1: eternal clarity, or maybe you will. I mean, I'm I'm dumb.
Speaker 1: I don't know anything, but.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think if I've ever gotten clarity. My
Speaker 1: life feels extremely unclear. But I also I picked a
Speaker 1: weird thing to do. I mean, yeah, if you wanted
Speaker 1: to do, I mean you also picked you also picked
Speaker 1: a weird thing to do. Like because right, because if
Speaker 1: you were going to be a lawyer or a doctor
Speaker 1: or something, you'd have more clarity. You'd be like, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to law school and then do my residency,
Speaker 1: and then in ten years from now, I know exactly
Speaker 1: what I'm doing. I'll be cutting open people and I'll
Speaker 1: be trying to do that. But uh, I mean, even
Speaker 1: but even then, there's, like you know, there's there's there's
Speaker 1: a lack of clarity and your personal life and your
Speaker 1: relationships and your and your feelings about about how you're
Speaker 1: gonna feel once you're in certain places, and I don't know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like I'll stand by that for now. That
Speaker 1: clarity is sort of unattainable or or maybe it's a
Speaker 1: recurring Maybe clarity is like a recurring process, like you
Speaker 1: always every every day you get a little bit more clarity.
Speaker 1: I feel that every day I get a little bit
Speaker 1: more clarity, But there's no like final clarity of like yep,
Speaker 1: I know everything. I can see my entire past and
Speaker 1: make make sense of it. I can see my entire
Speaker 1: future and make sense of it, and I feel completely
Speaker 1: content and at peace forever. I don't know if that exists.
Speaker 1: Well maybe I haven't seen I haven't felt the personally, but.
Speaker 4: How really helpful. But I just want to add one thing.
Speaker 4: I guess if there was one hundred a sick clarity
Speaker 4: in my life, I don't think it would be as
Speaker 4: exciting exactly exactly. And I think maybe it's the bad
Speaker 4: days and the good days that make me and my
Speaker 4: future so much better, you.
Speaker 1: Know, good good. I mean, in Australia, you can just
Speaker 1: have like a fucking spider about you and then you're done.
Speaker 4: Right exactly, So we live every day like to feel.
Speaker 1: Lost like I like that. I like that. I feel
Speaker 1: I feel more clear now. Yay, Well, Lily, it was
Speaker 1: nice talking to you. Man. You have a whole day
Speaker 1: ahead of you. It's like it's like the morning where
Speaker 1: you are.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it is. I gotta go eat breakfast.
Speaker 1: Well, have fun eating breakfast. And is there anything else
Speaker 1: you want to say to the people of the computer
Speaker 1: before we go.
Speaker 4: Well, I just wanted to say thank you for making
Speaker 4: my birthday so much more brighter and thank you chat.
Speaker 4: I guess I haven't read it, so, but yeah, thank
Speaker 4: you rock and Roll.
Speaker 1: Happy birthday, Lily. And I'll see you around the universe. Man,
Speaker 1: take care, see you in perse see ya.
Speaker 4: I'll see you there. I'll bring your T shirt.
Speaker 1: Ok, see you, Lily.
Speaker 2: All from Dave.
Speaker 1: Dave, Yo, you did? What's going on?
Speaker 5: Just getting some tacos right now?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 5: How you doing?
Speaker 1: What kind of tacos?
Speaker 5: Well, I'm actually going to run for my dad, So
Speaker 5: I don't know if you know what's lingoar. So it's
Speaker 5: head meat tacos and meat tacos.
Speaker 1: Ah, Well, which one's better?
Speaker 5: I personally don't like both that much, but if I choose,
Speaker 5: probably tengue me.
Speaker 1: Okay, Dave, is there anything in particular you wanted to
Speaker 1: talk about today?
Speaker 5: Well, there's a couple of things. I don't know if
Speaker 5: I could go on a whole bill right now?
Speaker 1: What is you? You have to turn your TV off
Speaker 1: before you do that? What is what was that?
Speaker 5: That was a taco stan. I'm literally out in public.
Speaker 5: I didn't expect to get in. Sorry if it's like
Speaker 5: super chaotic right now?
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, uh okay, you wanted to go on a
Speaker 1: whole thing. I got time for a whole thing. Hit
Speaker 1: me with your whole Sorry, you've got.
Speaker 5: Time for a whole thing. So yeah, I don't know, man. Uh,
Speaker 5: I'm in a weird dilemma.
Speaker 1: Is it about a girl? About it?
Speaker 5: No, not about a girl, all right, But it's just
Speaker 5: like it's just like general life direction thing, you know.
Speaker 5: So it's like, yeah, again, I'm twenty two years old.
Speaker 5: I didn't go to school, and then I decided to
Speaker 5: play music and be in a band, do a bunch
Speaker 5: of haggard ship nice and it's been it's been a
Speaker 5: pretty positive experience. It's turned out really well for me.
Speaker 5: I got a tour that I'm gonna be doing in Europe.
Speaker 1: Oh fuck yeah, brother, that's awesome.
Speaker 5: Yeah. So I'm like but then at the same time,
Speaker 5: you know, I kind of kind of have a weird
Speaker 5: like look back where it's like Uh is this?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 5: Is this stable? Is this something I want to keep doing?
Speaker 5: Should I just keep doing like shitty jobs? Or should
Speaker 5: I go to school and do the whole you know,
Speaker 5: walk the past that's already there.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you're on a to wait, so you're going
Speaker 1: on it. It sounds like the music's going. Well, you're
Speaker 1: about to tour Europe?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, the thing the whole Europe deals Like I
Speaker 5: actually hopped on with a band that's like already pretty
Speaker 5: well established, like an eighties band. So yeah, so are you.
Speaker 1: Are you a solo music? Are you a solo artist
Speaker 1: or are you with your with a band?
Speaker 5: I'm with a band I like, I do mostly funk music.
Speaker 1: Nice? Are they your homies or.
Speaker 5: I'm like I'm blessed like litherarn Area, or just a
Speaker 5: bunch of friends and everyone gets too long and we
Speaker 5: all hit each other up.
Speaker 1: Well that sounds fucking sweet. So you're just debating, like
Speaker 1: as should I like go find a more stable.
Speaker 5: Job, yeah, I mean that, or just I don't know.
Speaker 5: It's also just in terms of lifestyle, and I mean
Speaker 5: I like like to play a music lifestyle, you know,
Speaker 5: but it's also like, well I don't want to like
Speaker 5: end up being a burnout either.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you something. You're gonna fucking die. Are
Speaker 1: you aware of that?
Speaker 5: Very true?
Speaker 1: You're gonna die. You're gonna die. You could die tomorrow, dude,
Speaker 1: I have no idea you're gonna it. Sounds like I'm
Speaker 1: threatening you. I'm gonna find you, I'm gonna kill you. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not all I might. You don't know. You don't
Speaker 1: know what the fuck I could do. I'm sorry, all right,
Speaker 1: I got so into tell you I was gonna kill
Speaker 1: you that I forgot everything else. Okay, you're only you're
Speaker 1: twenty two. Here's the thing. If you were forty seven
Speaker 1: and had two children and a wife and you wanted
Speaker 1: to abandon all of them to go tour uh in
Speaker 1: Europe with a band, I mean, God bless you, but
Speaker 1: it would be it would be away. Yeah, tougher deal
Speaker 1: than right now. I mean, you don't You don't have
Speaker 1: a fucking girlfriend or a wife, or kids, or you
Speaker 1: have any that ship do What the fuck are you
Speaker 1: talking about? Yes, hang out with your band and go
Speaker 1: to Europe. When are you ever gonna be able to
Speaker 1: do this again? You can go to school whenever.
Speaker 5: What do you.
Speaker 1: I want you to go ahead, No, go ahead, tell
Speaker 1: me your THU tell me tell me.
Speaker 5: Your I mean I'm gonna go to your regardless of
Speaker 5: you know what's next app, I mean I know what
Speaker 5: I'm gonna do next. After that, I'm gonna playing music.
Speaker 5: But it's like, you know, it's tosa and yeah, give
Speaker 5: me a minute, and.
Speaker 1: And u un un moss para permis apple. Oh examples
Speaker 1: froud what what you know? You know mass permise Apple?
Speaker 5: But I don't know. I don't know what you're saying.
Speaker 5: You gotta come.
Speaker 1: I don't know I'm saying it. I tried to learn
Speaker 1: how to speak Spanish. You know what the order of
Speaker 1: your tacos, I'll be here.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I mean after after you, I'm I'm doing
Speaker 5: another band with my best friend that we're going to
Speaker 5: see where it goes. It's not getting solid yet. We
Speaker 5: got so solid.
Speaker 1: Oh fuck Sapple means toad. I thought it meant gecko.
Speaker 1: All right, So you're just you're like you're scared of
Speaker 1: the future of like what you're gonna do next.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a good.
Speaker 3: Way to put it. I do have some anxiety towards
Speaker 3: the future.
Speaker 1: Take your hands off your phone.
Speaker 5: Again, anxiety of the future.
Speaker 7: Gag.
Speaker 1: Well, all right, let me tell you. I'm gonna try,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna motivate you right now, because look again,
Speaker 1: you could you could literally all you all you have
Speaker 1: to do is eat enough food so that you don't die,
Speaker 1: and not go to jail and not get anyone pregnant.
Speaker 1: Do those three things and you're fine.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you make it sound really fucking easy, man.
Speaker 1: I know, I know it's by the way, I know
Speaker 1: it's not. Okay. If it were that easy, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: have anxiety, have anxiety about what the fuck I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do with my life all the time. So I don't
Speaker 1: you know, But this is the stuff I wish I was.
Speaker 1: I was, I internalized and and I haven't internalized it.
Speaker 1: But I'm telling it to you because maybe if you're
Speaker 1: here from me, you'll internalize it better. Like you, well,
Speaker 1: I mean, now's the time. If you want to do
Speaker 1: this shit, now is the time, right, Like you have
Speaker 1: no obligations to anyone else, Why why not?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I get it, I get it, But I don't
Speaker 5: know why there's this other fucking like by the side
Speaker 5: of me. They're just like staring at me. And fucking
Speaker 5: combating that a little bit sometimes, you know. I mean,
Speaker 5: I don't want to get to me too, Nihiley, but
Speaker 5: it's like, huh is it? I don't know. I again,
Speaker 5: just like thinking about the future too much.
Speaker 1: No live while you can. I mean, what do you
Speaker 1: what do you? What do you want to go to
Speaker 1: school for?
Speaker 5: I would want to go to I mean, so I'm
Speaker 5: in between going a school for like mycology, which is
Speaker 5: growing mushrooms, or some kind of psychotherapy. But if I
Speaker 5: was to become psychotherapist, I would want to be a
Speaker 5: psychedelic psychotherapist.
Speaker 1: You don't need a degree to grow mushrooms.
Speaker 5: I don't. I actually learned how last year.
Speaker 1: All right, So what the hell are you? Go? Go
Speaker 1: to Europe? Go to go spend look from twenty two
Speaker 1: to thirty. Go be a fucking burnout rock and roll superstar,
Speaker 1: dealing drugs across and playing gigs across the world. You know,
Speaker 1: do your thing. Yeah, be crazy, thanks gig.
Speaker 5: I kind of need that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like you're gonna die and it's gonna
Speaker 1: be my fault. Now.
Speaker 5: Now, I'm pretty I'm pretty uh, I'm pretty haggard, but
Speaker 5: I'm pretty safe with it.
Speaker 1: I think I'll say this, I'll saye this. I do
Speaker 1: believe that any time you want to pursue a stable
Speaker 1: and normal things, stability will be there. But it'll be
Speaker 1: there at all ages of your life. But right now
Speaker 1: it's like that's the perfect time to go fuck around,
Speaker 1: Like fuck around.
Speaker 5: Stability lifestyle is always going to be there, and like,
Speaker 5: but the time tacklogg an idiot isn't always there.
Speaker 1: I I can tell you're a punk rock motherfucker. We'll
Speaker 1: be gass. You're eating pig heads and playing music.
Speaker 6: And yeah, dude, yeah there.
Speaker 1: You do you like drugs? You like mushrooms? Are you cocaine?
Speaker 5: I yeah, I do dabble in like a good amount
Speaker 5: of drugs. But I must like drinking some acid.
Speaker 1: Go to Europe, drink some acid, do cocaine, sleep with
Speaker 1: a hooker. Your job will be you can grow mushrooms
Speaker 1: when you're fucking fifty.
Speaker 5: Very true, very very true. But it's like, I don't know, man,
Speaker 5: It's it's just a conflicting thing. There's also like I guess,
Speaker 5: like my family that I think about sometimes, but they're
Speaker 5: not It's not like, oh they're against it or anything,
Speaker 5: like they're fucking they're super fucking cool too.
Speaker 1: But your but your family doesn't your your family doesn't
Speaker 1: have to live your life. You're You're the only one
Speaker 1: that has to be in your body and exist in
Speaker 1: your surroundings.
Speaker 5: That's very true too, man. I don't know, you might
Speaker 5: have to eat some mushrooms on it again or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very funny that you know so in your
Speaker 1: sober world, but you as a sober man, a gecko
Speaker 1: told you to do cocaine and then you're gonna do mushrooms. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I don't know what I'm trying to say right now.
Speaker 6: All right, that's the trip.
Speaker 1: What's your name again? Damn David? David?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Was this conversation helpful or do you think I've destroyed you?
Speaker 5: No? This is an awesome conversation. Man, I'm still figure
Speaker 5: out in You're good. I started listening to you, you
Speaker 5: know how I started listening to Actually, yeah, like my
Speaker 5: background noise, I'll like listen to your podcast while I'm
Speaker 5: doing like mushroom mark and it's like good to listen to.
Speaker 1: It's like, bro, it's like I'm speaking into your mushrooms
Speaker 1: and my my gecko words and you know, emanate through
Speaker 1: the the roots and into the people's brains when they
Speaker 1: eat them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you're there's gonna be a gek mushroom agenda
Speaker 5: going on.
Speaker 1: I like that, man. Well, God damn, I I you know.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing is, I wish I could follow any
Speaker 1: of my own advice that I tell people on this
Speaker 1: fucking podcast. So I'm gonna listen to what I'm telling you.
Speaker 1: I'll do that for you. All right, all right, you
Speaker 1: have a good one. Man's anything else you want to
Speaker 1: say to the people of the computer or to me
Speaker 1: or to Charlie Sheen before we.
Speaker 5: Go, Well, keep on, keep on keeping on.
Speaker 1: Man, God damn, do a line for me. Maybe I'll
Speaker 1: talk to you soon.
Speaker 5: Bee Geg.
Speaker 1: I like that guy. I think he's gonna do. I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna do good in life. Never be Ken
Speaker 1: goes on the line taking your phone calls every night.
Speaker 1: The Rep Ken goes doing his eye's teaching you loud
Speaker 1: in the lid of your life. But he's not really
Speaker 1: an expert.