Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, Hey, what's up?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 3: Is this Lyle?
Speaker 1: Yes? Sir? Who am I? Who am I speaking with?
Speaker 1: Right now?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: My god? This is Bryce?
Speaker 1: What's up? Bryce? How's life.
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 3: It's great, dude. I'm so cheese to be talking to
Speaker 3: you right now. This is insane. I'm a longtime listener,
Speaker 3: first time caller. I guess yeah, yeah, absolutely, brok Yeah,
Speaker 3: what are you doing? How's your night? Treating you? Happy
Speaker 3: Valentine's Day?
Speaker 1: Happy Valentine's Day? Brother? How's my night going?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 1: It's eleven is am where I'm at right now. I'm
Speaker 1: drinking a coffee. I'm having a good morning. I've been
Speaker 1: on a lot of kicks. I've been having a lot
Speaker 1: of epiphanies lately. I don't know if it's too early
Speaker 1: for me to share them, but I've been on I've
Speaker 1: been on a big like like I've I've been going
Speaker 1: through like a kind of a crazy like existential crisis
Speaker 1: and feeling like my brain is broken and it will
Speaker 1: never be fixed, and then I'm doomed. And it's crazy
Speaker 1: because when you feel that way, you kind of begin
Speaker 1: to feel as though nothing will ever, it will never
Speaker 1: get better, and then you like wake up and it
Speaker 1: typically happens to me at night more than in the morning,
Speaker 1: you know. And then I wake up in the morning
Speaker 1: and I drink a coffee and I do some push
Speaker 1: ups and I walk outside, and I'm like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: it's not we have there's hope in the worlds, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. And so every time I now,
Speaker 1: when I go into a spiral thought loop of like
Speaker 1: everything is gonna be awful forever, I remember that. A
Speaker 1: bunch of times I had that spiral thought loop and
Speaker 1: then went on to not think that way, you know,
Speaker 1: a week later, a month later, whatever the fuck it is, right,
Speaker 1: And it's you have to just keep relearning that that lesson,
Speaker 1: you know. But yeah, I'm more I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: learning a lot in the past, uh couple couple months
Speaker 1: that I've been and uh hanging out in Japan and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, big, big chilling. I've been learning a lot
Speaker 1: about uh life, myself, prosperity in the universe. Uh. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm feeling I'm feeling pretty good. I'm on a little
Speaker 1: rant to you right now.
Speaker 3: How you're kickings?
Speaker 1: I'm trying my bad this morning. I feel pretty good.
Speaker 1: How are you doing?
Speaker 3: I'm doing pretty fantastic.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: I just pulled up to an art museum and then
Speaker 3: I saw you were streaming and I was like, I
Speaker 3: got a call. GEK. Also great explanation too, By the way,
Speaker 3: I got to give you some credit for that, because
Speaker 3: I feel like I've been in similar situations, especially post COVID,
Speaker 3: and so I I gotta I gotta give you some
Speaker 3: props a little bit too. You're doing push ups. That's
Speaker 3: more than I'm you know, I got to give you
Speaker 3: some props there. You're cool as fuck, You're kicking ass.
Speaker 3: And too. The whole Japan thing too, that's sick. Like,
Speaker 3: I mean, I really want to go to Japan at
Speaker 3: some point too. But the fact that you're like taking
Speaker 3: some time out there outside of just a quick little
Speaker 3: trip or something over there, I think that's super sick.
Speaker 1: What's well, what's the art museum that you're at right now?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 3: So I am in Phoenix. So it's the Phoenix Art Museum.
Speaker 3: They're doing a whole little like Valentine's Day event thing tonight.
Speaker 3: So we're gonna step in there and drink some wine
Speaker 3: or something, or I guess we got a photo booth
Speaker 3: or look at some some some art.
Speaker 1: You know that sounds fun, that sounds that sounds kind
Speaker 1: of awesome. Yeah, what what? What are you? Are you there?
Speaker 1: Are you going there by yourself? Is there like a
Speaker 1: speed dating aspect to this?
Speaker 3: So no, I am with I'm going with somebody, but
Speaker 3: they keep shaking their head at me.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's what I was gonna say. Is I was
Speaker 1: gonna say, are we in a parked car with your
Speaker 1: angry girlfriend who's like it dressed up nicely for the
Speaker 1: for the of everything. She's probably like she put on makeup,
Speaker 1: she's like dressed, she's ready to go into the art museum,
Speaker 1: and she's just sitting in a parked car while you
Speaker 1: talk to the therapy gecko. That's fucked.
Speaker 3: I swear to god. I said, we gotta call him
Speaker 3: right now, And I kept dialing your number, like.
Speaker 1: Bro, can I talk to her? Or she like pissed?
Speaker 3: Do you want to talk to Is that? Okay? Okay,
Speaker 3: here we go, get you ready?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Hi, Hey, what's up? I'm sorry to ruin your date night.
Speaker 8: No.
Speaker 9: I was the one who told him we should call
Speaker 9: while we're here.
Speaker 1: Oh that's so that's so sweet, that's so nice. That's
Speaker 1: that's lovely.
Speaker 9: We've met through We met through Hinge and he got
Speaker 9: me into your podcast. So I've been listening to you
Speaker 9: for maybe like two months now, and every time we
Speaker 9: have the notification on, so every time you're on, we're
Speaker 9: also on listening. And I was trying before didn't get in,
Speaker 9: and the one time we're like, let's just just let's
Speaker 9: just give it a goya.
Speaker 1: It's cool. I'm so I'm curious about uh because the
Speaker 1: last episode, I'm like recording a bunch of episodes in
Speaker 1: Evans before I go on my little walk, but like
Speaker 1: the last episode before this one is I talked to
Speaker 1: this dude Mo and we talked a lot about like
Speaker 1: pros and cons of like online dating stuff. And it's
Speaker 1: interesting because, uh, so you guys met on Hinge. Right,
Speaker 1: how long ago did you guys meet?
Speaker 9: I think it was the beginning of January, maybe mid
Speaker 9: January of this year? Yes, yes, oh really yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys. You guys have been together for you
Speaker 1: guys have been together for a month.
Speaker 9: Uh yeah, a little over a month.
Speaker 1: This is so, this is so, this is it's so
Speaker 1: nice because you guys are in such a fresh new
Speaker 1: thing and you're kind enough to again, be you're you're
Speaker 1: probably sitting It's so kind of you to be sitting
Speaker 1: in a parked car with with this man being like,
Speaker 1: it's okay, we don't have to do uh you know,
Speaker 1: just just letting let it, letting him call the therapy
Speaker 1: Gecko to delay date night. It's a very.
Speaker 9: Kind I think this is more interesting than a museum.
Speaker 9: No offense, but I've got to be talking to you
Speaker 9: than a museum. It was we've got time, we have
Speaker 9: time for our dinner reservation, so we're good.
Speaker 1: Oh my, you have do you guys? Have you guys
Speaker 1: are talking to the therapy gecko guy going to a
Speaker 1: museum and you guys are living in heaven. This is
Speaker 1: so cool. I'm so uh, thank you for you for
Speaker 1: making this great. And by the way, I just I
Speaker 1: kind of uh, I'm I'm happy the call turned out
Speaker 1: this way because for a second I thought it was
Speaker 1: gonna be kind of sad that like, uh, what what
Speaker 1: what's what? Uh what what's what's what's what's your boyfriend's name? John?
Speaker 5: We can't Bryce?
Speaker 1: Okay, Bryce is bright, he's probably he's a handsome guy. Bryce.
Speaker 1: It's a handsome guy.
Speaker 9: Named So it was kind of funny because I mean
Speaker 9: him call you because I was nervous to call you myself.
Speaker 9: And then as soon as he went through, I was like,
Speaker 9: oh shit, you're gonna ask to talk to me because
Speaker 9: you always do that. Can I talk to the other
Speaker 9: person that's sitting next right next to you?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: And here here we are.
Speaker 1: So what how how uh how old are you guys?
Speaker 9: We're about twenty eight?
Speaker 1: Cool? Cool? What was the first uh date from from
Speaker 1: the Hinge?
Speaker 9: First state?
Speaker 3: Was a cocktail bar?
Speaker 8: Was it? Yeah?
Speaker 3: A little ritual.
Speaker 9: I'm like, sorry, I'm like so nervous right now, I'm
Speaker 9: like to give you a cute little cocktail bar. And
Speaker 9: I kind of scared you when I like popped up.
Speaker 9: I was like trying to go for that. You were waiting,
Speaker 9: you were waiting for me, like outside the the restaurant,
Speaker 9: and I kind of I tried to scare him. I
Speaker 9: don't know if that really worked.
Speaker 1: Wait wait wait wait wait what Like he was like
Speaker 1: he was like sitting down, and you were like, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna like he creep up behind him and spook him.
Speaker 9: I'm gonna like count at him. Yeah, and then he
Speaker 9: said our hellos. We hugged and then we had to
Speaker 9: the cocktail bar was upstairs. We had to go into
Speaker 9: an elevator and there was this older couple with us,
Speaker 9: and it was it was a whole awkward. He was
Speaker 9: trying to make conversation with him and it didn't go anywhere.
Speaker 8: But the date was the date was great.
Speaker 9: Our waiter was really cool. Jello shots my first jellow
Speaker 9: shot ever. I'm kind of a nube when it comes
Speaker 9: to drinking. I never really did any that stuff until
Speaker 9: like maybe past year or so. Mm hmm, kind of
Speaker 9: a late bloomer.
Speaker 4: I guess how.
Speaker 1: Did uh did you avoid alcohol for like any particular
Speaker 1: reason or you just never interest you?
Speaker 9: It just never interested in me until I went through
Speaker 9: like a long term relationship breakup and then I kind
Speaker 9: of dipped my toe into that world.
Speaker 6: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1: That's a yeah, that's a that's a valid excuse, it's
Speaker 1: a valid reason to start drinking.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think, Wow, this is so this is this is
Speaker 1: really adorable. I'm really uh, I'm I don't know why,
Speaker 1: but I'm blushing right now. I'm I'm on, this is
Speaker 1: a very adorable phone call. This is so nice. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to think of what other questions I have for
Speaker 1: you guys, how many let me ask let me ask
Speaker 1: you this, Let me ask you this, because again this
Speaker 1: runs in such contrast to not in such contrast, but
Speaker 1: it's it's an interesting perspective shift. I think from from
Speaker 1: the last episode do how long were you were you
Speaker 1: swipping and swiping before you guys matched with each other?
Speaker 9: So I was I started hinge. So I never did
Speaker 9: any online dating either. I took like maybe like a
Speaker 9: two year break after my long term relationship, and then
Speaker 9: I kind of downloaded hinge as a joke. I wasn't
Speaker 9: going to take it seriously. And I think that was
Speaker 9: at the beginning of twenty twenty four, so like maybe
Speaker 9: like March of twenty twenty four is then like I
Speaker 9: started kind of dabbling in that went on most multiple
Speaker 9: dates with multiple people, and uh that was kind of
Speaker 9: a shit show and had some hard lessons, But like,
Speaker 9: I think I found a good guy this time.
Speaker 5: I'm looking right at I hope.
Speaker 1: So can I talk to Bryce? I want to hear
Speaker 1: what his journey's been back too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Oh my god, Gek, I get to speak to
Speaker 3: you twice in one night.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, what's how has your hinge journey been?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Dude.
Speaker 3: So she put it really well. It was definitely a
Speaker 3: shit show. Although I will admit Hinge is way better
Speaker 3: than bumble, Tinder the others for sure, the more reliable app,
Speaker 3: I feel like. And it's not even that like I've
Speaker 3: ever done well with dating apps. However, I feel like
Speaker 3: the dates have been at least mid to good on
Speaker 3: the spectrum of most dates that I've probably had gone
Speaker 3: on on Hinge, which was really only kind of like
Speaker 3: a handful. But yeah, I don't know. I will say though,
Speaker 3: I was probably on it for like two years or
Speaker 3: something like that, and this is definitely, I think the best.
Speaker 3: Not I think it definitely is the best I've felt
Speaker 3: about someone that I had met on a dating app.
Speaker 2: For sure.
Speaker 1: That's so nice.
Speaker 3: He's looking at me.
Speaker 1: That's so nice. God damn. I finally some hope and
Speaker 1: this god forsaken piece of shit fucking universe some hope. Dude.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 8: I love it.
Speaker 1: I love. Love is real. Love is real. Love is real.
Speaker 1: People listening to the fucking Therapy Gecko podcast, geez oh man,
Speaker 1: love is real. Chat that's so no. I'm so uh.
Speaker 1: I'm very jazzed by this phone call. Okay, I'm gonna,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm done with you guys. I'm gonna let you
Speaker 1: actually go into the uh into the museum. I'm I
Speaker 1: don't want to interrupt date night any longer.
Speaker 3: But oh, dude, no, this is the best date because
Speaker 3: sure we I just picked her up maybe like twenty
Speaker 3: minutes ago, to like cool. This is about the best
Speaker 3: way we could have started a day. Hands down, dude.
Speaker 1: What's her name again? Her name is Elise, Elise, can talk?
Speaker 1: Let me talk to Elise real quick.
Speaker 3: You bet here you go at least?
Speaker 1: Is there anything else you want to say to the
Speaker 1: people of the computer before we go?
Speaker 9: Just to be kind. You never know what someone is
Speaker 9: going through. Just be kind and gentle.
Speaker 8: Yeah, where's.
Speaker 1: Uh Bryce slash John? Anything else?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Oh do you have anything else?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Sure, I'm gonna also say be kind. But I'm also
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say that I hope everybody's doing really well
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five. I think for some people has been
Speaker 3: off to like a difficult start, And I hope that
Speaker 3: everybody in the chat listening knows that I love them
Speaker 3: and I wish them a fantastic year ahead. And that's it.
Speaker 1: Thanks Bunny, al Right, you guys. You guys enjoy enjoy
Speaker 1: being happy. You guys enjoy what you guys enjoy being happy.
Speaker 1: We're all we're all gonna live vicariously through uh your
Speaker 1: happiness and alleviate all of our personal degrees. Okay, bye guys.
Speaker 3: Oh man, hey, bye bye gack sea.
Speaker 1: Well that was so now. I don't I really, I don't.
Speaker 1: Often the word wholesome makes me feel gross. I don't
Speaker 1: like it. It feels like performative and weird. But that
Speaker 1: was I I that was a very wholesome phone call.
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed that. And it's interesting again because on
Speaker 1: the last episode we talked to Mo about this dating
Speaker 1: app journey, and I think a lot a lot of
Speaker 1: people are uh uh disillusioned with like dating apps and
Speaker 1: with trying to find someone. And there's a lot of
Speaker 1: like content on the internet and a lot of like
Speaker 1: general I think social thought is kind of pessimistic, and
Speaker 1: so it was cool to talk to these two people
Speaker 1: who are like, you know, yeah, we met this year,
Speaker 1: and you can tell, you can just tell by the
Speaker 1: fact that they're sitting in the car in a parked
Speaker 1: car together calling me that they have a nice rapport
Speaker 1: with one another after a very short period of time.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't a short period of time. I mean,
Speaker 1: listen to I call him John. I'm gonna call him
Speaker 1: John again, John, Bryce. Oh, Bryce, I'll call him Bryce.
Speaker 1: And Bryce is like, yeah, I was in a fucking
Speaker 1: on the fucking app for two years and most of
Speaker 1: it sucked, and then this one. It took two years
Speaker 1: to find the best one, and then you got uh
Speaker 1: at least She's like, yeah, I was in a long
Speaker 1: term thing, Like yeah, it's just it's just good to
Speaker 1: have a hopeful phone call because so much I think
Speaker 1: popular sentiment is a bit uh, a bit doo Marie,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So that was good. That
Speaker 1: gave that gave me hope for the planet. That and
Speaker 1: I hope, I hope everyone listening to this uh uh
Speaker 1: podcast has hoped that eventually they will also uh find
Speaker 1: someone to sit in a parked car with and talk
Speaker 1: to un a crazy internet guy with. It was cool.
Speaker 1: I like, I liked that phone call.
Speaker 5: No freaking way, It's really me.
Speaker 1: What's your what's your what's your name, Homie, Cindy, what's up,
Speaker 1: how you doing, how's life, what's going on? What brings
Speaker 1: you to call into the The Therapy Gecko Show today.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, this is wild.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 5: I have been watching you on and off for like
Speaker 5: I don't know, maybe like I don't know, three five years,
Speaker 5: and I see you have the number on your screen,
Speaker 5: and I'm always like, oh my god, maybe the day
Speaker 5: will be the day. Today will be the day. And
Speaker 5: I looked at my fiance and I said, today is
Speaker 5: going to be the day.
Speaker 1: I feel it sick, and you've caught And the best
Speaker 1: thing is you've caught You've caught me in a I'm
Speaker 1: in a good mood today, which is nice. Sometimes this
Speaker 1: this is what happens to me sometimes is like I'm
Speaker 1: gonna share with you, like my personal experience of doing
Speaker 1: this podcast is like, sometimes I just my mood. My
Speaker 1: mood fluctuates a lot, and the goddamn one of the
Speaker 1: worst feelings that I have doing this podcast is like
Speaker 1: sometimes is like, so right now, I'm like, I'm in
Speaker 1: a good mood. It's the morning, I did some pushups,
Speaker 1: I walked, I'm feeling good. I had a little coffee.
Speaker 1: I'm in a good mood. And so I'm actually I'm
Speaker 1: actually I'm flattered and excited that you're excited to talk
Speaker 1: to me. Sometimes I show up to do so. Sometimes
Speaker 1: I show up to do this and I'm just like,
Speaker 1: I'm just like in a horrible mood. And somebody calls
Speaker 1: in and they can tell they're really excited to talk
Speaker 1: to me or be on the show, and I'm I
Speaker 1: and it's it's the most miserable thing ever because because
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh no, this person is so excited to
Speaker 1: be here, and I am physically incapable of matching their
Speaker 1: energy and excitement. And I feel bad. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna let them down and ship. But I feel good.
Speaker 1: But I feel good today. I feel good today.
Speaker 5: Can't feel You can't feel from an empty empty cup, Guest,
Speaker 5: you can't.
Speaker 1: It's true, you can't. But today my cup, my cup
Speaker 1: is absolutely filled to the brim with coffee and uh
Speaker 1: serotonin for now. So what's up man?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 1: What what brings you to call the Gecko Show?
Speaker 5: Well, my cup's about to be filled to the brim
Speaker 5: with wine. So with wine, with wine?
Speaker 1: Cool, let's do it. Let's do it. Let's do it.
Speaker 1: Let's let's uh a wine coffee collab right here? What
Speaker 1: here's the thing we can we can just bullshit about
Speaker 1: life or whatever. But if if, what do you do?
Speaker 1: You have a thing you wanted to talk about?
Speaker 5: No, I just wanted to bullshit about life. And I
Speaker 5: just think it's so cool that I was actually able
Speaker 5: to get through.
Speaker 1: Where Where do you?
Speaker 5: Where are you calling me from California?
Speaker 1: That's cool?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's let's have a normal person conversation, like we're
Speaker 1: at a cocktail party. Do you like living in California?
Speaker 5: Out of California that I'm not going to tell you
Speaker 5: where I'm from?
Speaker 3: No, but generally, yeah, are you from?
Speaker 5: I'm originally from Norkell. Yeah, I'm originally from northl but
Speaker 5: recently moved to Sokel. And it's there are places in
Speaker 5: Sokel that are better than others. But you know, it's
Speaker 5: nice to be where I am because I get to
Speaker 5: experience a new place and that's always book. I think.
Speaker 1: Uh, pretty beautiful. Where are you? Where are you originally from?
Speaker 5: Oh? The the Bay Area?
Speaker 1: Very cool, very cool. Well what's your.
Speaker 5: Oh he's cooking a dinner, yes, very special. And he said,
Speaker 5: I'm cooking this for you.
Speaker 1: Very nice. Oh yeah, it is cook for you.
Speaker 5: Dump him.
Speaker 1: You're done over, there's no your husband been just groaned
Speaker 1: in the background, I'm joking.
Speaker 5: I'm joking to just maybe ask and then if he
Speaker 5: doesn't do it, I don't know.
Speaker 1: So let's so let's do this. Let's I'm gonna let
Speaker 1: this is sort of this is becoming a bit of
Speaker 1: a themed episode right now? What what uh of? Whether
Speaker 1: this is a themed episode of whether or not love
Speaker 1: is real? Are you boy?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 1: It's not really, it's not. Actually, it's just becoming that
Speaker 1: how long have you been with how long have you
Speaker 1: been with your fiance for? How long have you guys have.
Speaker 2: Been together since twenty nineteen?
Speaker 1: Officially okay, okay, that's a long time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and did you marry this year?
Speaker 1: How did you? Guys?
Speaker 5: We we met because we met because he worked at
Speaker 5: we worked at a sandwich shop together. And yeah, that's
Speaker 5: all you get.
Speaker 1: That's all I get.
Speaker 5: I gotta keep things to myself, man.
Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on hold on, hold on, hold, on,
Speaker 1: hold on hold. Because the fact that you said because
Speaker 1: here's the thing is you could have just here's the thing, Cindy.
Speaker 1: You could have just said we met at a sandwich
Speaker 1: shop and I would have been like, oh, okay, they met
Speaker 1: at a sandwich shop. But you said we met at
Speaker 1: a sandwich shop and that's all you get. And by
Speaker 1: saying bye, and by saying that's all you get, you
Speaker 1: allude to the fact that there was a juicier story
Speaker 1: underneath the sandwich shop thing, which I would not have
Speaker 1: assumed at all before you said that's all you get.
Speaker 1: And I'm not gonna look. Look, go ahead, what what's
Speaker 1: what's I mean? Sure, what do you want to talk
Speaker 1: about it? What's the juicy story?
Speaker 5: It was with someone? And so was I just didn't
Speaker 5: work out and here we are, Okay.
Speaker 1: Okay, well look you know, I mean, was he like
Speaker 1: your boss at the sandwich Was he like your boss
Speaker 1: at the subway or whatever? And that was scandal Well.
Speaker 5: So no, no, no, So at the sandwich stop I
Speaker 5: worked out. There wasn't technically like a manager type of
Speaker 5: thing there, but there was kind of like a hierarchy,
Speaker 5: like Okay, the owner trusts this guy more than he
Speaker 5: trusts this guy to like do whatever whatever, so he
Speaker 5: would kind of he was like the like unofficial manager
Speaker 5: type guy there. And yeah, so like there wasn't anything weird,
Speaker 5: but yeah, I mean I would always get excited whenever
Speaker 5: he would like come in, come in for a shift,
Speaker 5: and I'd be like, oh my god, I wonder if
Speaker 5: he's working today, And then he would be and I'd
Speaker 5: be like, oh, no, I was just cleaning this counter
Speaker 5: over here. What No, Oh, I got it high.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm excited. I'm excited for you. Cindy. You're gonna
Speaker 1: get married, You're gonna be happy. Love is real. I guess.
Speaker 1: I guess love is real. I guess it's real.
Speaker 5: You guess maybe this name is if love is real
Speaker 5: or not?
Speaker 1: I think, Cindy. Is there anything else you want to
Speaker 1: say to the people of the computer before we go,
Speaker 1: or any anything else about this uh uh beautiful life
Speaker 1: you you seem to be living.
Speaker 5: No, it's just let my cats say, Hi, I'm getting
Speaker 5: yourself a cat, because if you're this is if you're
Speaker 5: thinking about getting yourself a cat, anyone out there, this
Speaker 5: is your sign.
Speaker 1: I'm not in it. I don't want to use. I
Speaker 1: can't even be responsible for a plant right now. I
Speaker 1: gotta I'm gonna start. If I can keep a plant
Speaker 1: alive for longer than a couple of weeks, I'll think about,
Speaker 1: you know something, getting a living thing that matters. Not
Speaker 1: that plants don't matter, but they also they don't matter
Speaker 1: as much as dogs. But but also why why does everything?
Speaker 1: Does anything matter? Okay, all right, that's enough. Thank you
Speaker 1: very much for calling Cindy. I'll talk to you later.
Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you. It's nice talking to you.
Speaker 8: Bye.
Speaker 1: By. I've been thinking about that a lot, like the
Speaker 1: inherent vale Like. Okay, a plant is a living thing, right,
Speaker 1: and so is a dog, and so as a human.
Speaker 1: But we value the lives of plants significantly. We value
Speaker 1: the lives of dogs. We value the lives of dogs
Speaker 1: pretty good, we value them more than chickens. Okay, I've
Speaker 1: already been on this rant before, but I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: it again. Why a human being and a dog, and
Speaker 1: a chicken and a plant, if you zoom out enough,
Speaker 1: are all worthless? Okay? I guess that's the thought that
Speaker 1: I came to. But and I don't inherently, I don't
Speaker 1: take that back. But you subjectively decide for yourself the
Speaker 1: value of things, and we, as a collective consciousness have
Speaker 1: subjectively decided that humans are more valuable than dogs. Dogs
Speaker 1: are more valuable than chickens, and in some cases I
Speaker 1: think people value plants more than chickens. So I guess
Speaker 1: the point of what I'm saying is that it really
Speaker 1: sucks to be a chicken. Hello, Yo, what's up man?
Speaker 1: What's h How's life?
Speaker 8: Uh? Pretty good? You know, I mean it's been it's
Speaker 8: been excitingly stressful. Oh you know, I got I got
Speaker 8: like so I'm only nineteen, right, and so I started
Speaker 8: doing electrical when i was seventeen with some family and
Speaker 8: I've only been a helper, you know, for like a
Speaker 8: year and a half. And then a coworker left for
Speaker 8: vacation for like a week. And this is like a
Speaker 8: small company, so I'm like the only helper. So when
Speaker 8: my coworker left for vacation, he I was able to
Speaker 8: get his van for the week, so I like have
Speaker 8: the material and everything, but he just like didn't show
Speaker 8: back up. So like I have his van now and
Speaker 8: that a company basically just like gave it to me.
Speaker 8: So now I'm like a high up guy sort of.
Speaker 8: And you know, that's just been like kind of stressful
Speaker 8: but like really cool.
Speaker 1: You were endowed with the power of the van.
Speaker 9: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Interesting, what is it? I'm sorry, what does this company do?
Speaker 1: What kind of company is this.
Speaker 8: Electrical? So like we do like multimillion dollar like custom
Speaker 8: homes and we do like that we build them and
Speaker 8: do the electrical for them.
Speaker 1: That's cool. Uh do you like being stressed out?
Speaker 8: You know? I'm trying to figure that out because you know,
Speaker 8: the last time I was stressed out, I had like
Speaker 8: a big like mental thing going on, and you know
Speaker 8: that that was a big, big deal. But so I'm
Speaker 8: trying to learn to get through it. So you know,
Speaker 8: we're we're working with it, and we're seeing where it
Speaker 8: takes me.
Speaker 1: Where.
Speaker 8: There's so many things I could potentially talk about. We
Speaker 8: could keep going about this.
Speaker 5: But.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I don't know, man, where where? Where is?
Speaker 1: Where is uh? Stress taking you? Now?
Speaker 8: You know? I guess I said, like it's kind of
Speaker 8: just like seeing where it takes me because it's like, yeah,
Speaker 8: it's stressful because it's new, but it's also like exciting
Speaker 8: and it and it opens up like a pathway for
Speaker 8: you know, what it can be, what my life can be.
Speaker 8: And so like, I don't know, it's it's hard to
Speaker 8: like put my thoughts into words, you know.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmmm hm.
Speaker 8: So I don't think it's it's a bad stress necessarily.
Speaker 8: It's just like one of those things. It's like, Okay,
Speaker 8: it's new and I gotta like conform to it because
Speaker 8: like now I'm given the responsibility of like doing things
Speaker 8: on my own.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean that's a good thing to do at nineteen, right,
Speaker 1: like doing stuff on your own. Do you have like
Speaker 1: do you have dreams? Do you have goals for the
Speaker 1: future and shits?
Speaker 8: Uh, you know, I'm not really a relationship guys, so
Speaker 8: you know, all my goals are kind of just like
Speaker 8: by myself. Yeah, you know, I I of course the
Speaker 8: average you know, teenager, you know, young young adult, their
Speaker 8: dreams rich and nice cars and whatever. So you know,
Speaker 8: I just want to at least get somewhere successful. When
Speaker 8: I was really young, I always told my parents I
Speaker 8: wanted to make more money than them. So I guess
Speaker 8: I still my golf.
Speaker 1: Tell yeah uh fuck yah nice nice nice, no man,
Speaker 1: get your get get get that bag, my friends, get
Speaker 1: that bag.
Speaker 7: I mean, And I mean that that's another thing.
Speaker 8: Uh. So, Like I have like twenty two thousand dollars
Speaker 8: in my bank account because I.
Speaker 7: Just like save.
Speaker 1: That's amazing.
Speaker 7: I really wanting Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, And I've been wanting to get a Musting because
Speaker 8: my parents had a Mustang when I was really young,
Speaker 8: and I like really really liked it, but they had
Speaker 8: to sell it because like they didn't they didn't like
Speaker 8: the fact that, like I was in the back seat,
Speaker 8: and they just felt like it was not a safe
Speaker 8: car for, you know, a toddler basically, so they sold it.
Speaker 8: And like now that I'm like really into cars, I've
Speaker 8: I really want a Mustang And are you really closed
Speaker 8: the right amount?
Speaker 1: Sorry, go ahead, i'm'na let you finish before. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: let you finish before I go Dave Ramsey on you.
Speaker 8: So, like I'm really close to having like enough to
Speaker 8: be comfortable with it. You know, I already have a car,
Speaker 8: you know, I have a comfortable job and everything, so
Speaker 8: it's like it's not a need. And I'm still living
Speaker 8: with my parents, so like you have you have that
Speaker 8: side of the story too. It's just like, did did you.
Speaker 1: Save up that twenty two You saved up that twenty
Speaker 1: two k? Just by working?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Just just working really, m bro.
Speaker 8: And I don't make too much any you know in
Speaker 8: the first place. I think right now, in making eighteen
Speaker 8: an hour.
Speaker 1: That's an incredible that's an incredible amount of money to
Speaker 1: save up at nineteen from just working.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean I because I started working at sixteen,
Speaker 8: I had Funny enough, I worked at Carvel, you know,
Speaker 8: at the ice cream shop for like a year before
Speaker 8: I did this, so it was like incredible change of
Speaker 8: pace too. But yeah, no, I I mean because I
Speaker 8: lived with my parents. You know, I I don't like,
Speaker 8: I'm not really a social person, so I'm not going
Speaker 8: out with friends and spending money on food every single day,
Speaker 8: you know. Yeah, they're just saving you pennies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Okay, Can I go to Dave Ramsey on you?
Speaker 4: Sure?
Speaker 8: Yes, go ahead?
Speaker 1: Okay, So you so you have you said you have
Speaker 1: like twenty two k yeah, and uh, how much is
Speaker 1: like and you already have a car?
Speaker 8: Correct?
Speaker 1: Do you want my unsolicited advice?
Speaker 8: I mean I can already guess what it is.
Speaker 3: About cars, so I could.
Speaker 8: Already guess what that is. But sure, let me hear it.
Speaker 1: You know what, you know, what what do you think
Speaker 1: it is? What do you think? I'm gonna say?
Speaker 8: Uh that that money can definitely be spent elsewhere, and
Speaker 8: I could I should continue saving it. And uh, you know,
Speaker 8: I already have a car. I already have a you know,
Speaker 8: comfortable place where I'm at, so I should keep saving
Speaker 8: it Okay, what.
Speaker 1: Do you think about what you just what do you
Speaker 1: what do you think about those completely original ideas that
Speaker 1: you just formed in your own head?
Speaker 8: Damn it, you did that to me, didn't you. You know,
Speaker 8: I'm definitely not opposed to it, because I'm still not
Speaker 8: like one hundred percent on the idea of getting you know,
Speaker 8: a musting because it's like, damn, I have twenty two K.
Speaker 8: That's like more than like I'm in like the top
Speaker 8: one percent for my age, you know, totally. So it's
Speaker 8: just like it's like, I know, that's not exactly the
Speaker 8: smartest thing to do, and it's just just like, damn,
Speaker 8: everything is so expensive right now that can't even get
Speaker 8: me like an apartment, And it's just like if I
Speaker 8: get an apartment and I rent it out, I don't
Speaker 8: make enough, you know, in a monthly manner to like
Speaker 8: sustain that that would like drain over time. You know.
Speaker 8: So it's just like feels I feel weird with money.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 1: Well, dude, yeah you have like like, yeah, I get
Speaker 1: like twenty two K for nineteen that you made just
Speaker 1: by saving and working again, like for congratulations on that.
Speaker 1: That's fucking awesome. But yeah, to a mustang. It's like
Speaker 1: that's I think at nineteen, like do you you already
Speaker 1: you already know everything going on? You already have. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna go on. I'm not gonna go on a
Speaker 1: rant about everything. But so if your goal is to
Speaker 1: like make a bunch of money, like why don't you
Speaker 1: you should use the money that you already have to
Speaker 1: do a thing to make you money instead of like
Speaker 1: buying a depreciating asset.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 8: I mean that is very true, and I while like
Speaker 8: I've definitely thought about it, I've i haven't like dived
Speaker 8: into that enough because it's just like already worth you know,
Speaker 8: you know, forty hour weeks and stuff. So like anything
Speaker 8: that I would have to buy to make money, it
Speaker 8: would more have to be like a passive thing, you know,
Speaker 8: like stocks or whatever. But then like even then that's
Speaker 8: like that's that's uh, that's scary. You know. I could
Speaker 8: spend two grand to make you know, five hundred, but
Speaker 8: I can also lose that like two grand, you know.
Speaker 8: So it's like that's that's kind of like.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean it depends we're getting into where we're
Speaker 1: getting super like uh, fight financial advice gecko right now.
Speaker 1: But it's like, uh, you know, I mean, I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: you could invest in fucking this is this is hilarious
Speaker 1: to be tough, there's something funny about telling someone to
Speaker 1: invest in index funds while wearing a gecko costume. There's
Speaker 1: something amusing to me about that. But no, man, there's
Speaker 1: fucking into But also like what I mean, what do
Speaker 1: you do electrical where you have a van? Like I
Speaker 1: don't know, man, I feel like you could do you
Speaker 1: do you have want to? Like do you ever want
Speaker 1: to like start a business? Do you ever want to?
Speaker 1: Like because you work right now for a company doing
Speaker 1: electrical work right and now like you have the keys
Speaker 1: to the van, you're in charge of the van. But like, bro,
Speaker 1: if you save up, you know, maybe you can buy
Speaker 1: your own van and you start your own little company.
Speaker 1: And that's because if you want to, you want to
Speaker 1: make more money than your parents, you eventually have to.
Speaker 1: I think, like, you know, I mean, you could do it.
Speaker 1: The way that most people have done it. I think
Speaker 1: is like they work a job and they put it
Speaker 1: into index funds and then like a fucking forty years later,
Speaker 1: they they start to have enough, you know, money, they
Speaker 1: get like they get rich slow.
Speaker 7: I mean I have a rough or k already, right, right.
Speaker 1: But if you right, but you're you know, I don't
Speaker 1: know I'm talking. You're a you're an industrious young man,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Like you can I feel
Speaker 1: like you you have the ability if you want to,
Speaker 1: you could like start your own business. You got a
Speaker 1: nice little cushion and you don't even have to quit
Speaker 1: your job to do it, Like you know, you could
Speaker 1: save up to invest in doing your own thing, because
Speaker 1: if you want, if your goal is to make a
Speaker 1: ton of money, like you'll make the most money ultimately.
Speaker 1: I think like going out on your own and doing
Speaker 1: your own business. It'll be harder, it'll be more stressful
Speaker 1: to do more work, but you know it'll it'll be
Speaker 1: good for you, I think in the long run, more
Speaker 1: than like buying them for sure.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean that's definitely the end goal is to
Speaker 8: do something on my own, considering like I'm working for
Speaker 8: my cousins, right and like seeing where they've gotten, and
Speaker 8: I mean they didn't start in a good path to
Speaker 8: life in the first place, so to do where they've
Speaker 8: got kind of gotten is impressive, and it's just like
Speaker 8: that's definitely an end goal, but there's like that takes
Speaker 8: a lot of time and like school to actually do that,
Speaker 8: because there's like I'm technically not even supposed to be
Speaker 8: working on by myself as an apprentice. There's like laws
Speaker 8: that say like there needs to be a master electrician
Speaker 8: or like a journeyman to like oversee me as I'm working,
Speaker 8: so like technically I'm not, that's not happening. But you
Speaker 8: have to be like four years to get out of
Speaker 8: your apprenticeship in school, and it's like another four years
Speaker 8: or like eight thousand work hours in order to get
Speaker 8: like your masters or something like that. I haven't read
Speaker 8: too much into it, but it's like it's more like
Speaker 8: a time thing instead of a money.
Speaker 1: How old are your how old are your cousins?
Speaker 8: You know that is a great question forties?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah yeah yeah, well it's just yeah, but
Speaker 1: like well a couple things is like is the business
Speaker 1: you want to start, Like would it be in the
Speaker 1: same would it be in uh electrical?
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Interesting.
Speaker 8: I mean I wouldn't put so much time into this
Speaker 8: without you know, uh wanting an end goal of you know,
Speaker 8: my own electrical company. Yeah, because like that's really where
Speaker 8: I think everyone wants to end up when they do trades.
Speaker 8: I feel like everyone wants to be their own company
Speaker 8: in the trade because that's where you really make the money.
Speaker 8: I mean, my cousins kind of brags sometimes or they're
Speaker 8: making like half a million dollar like deals and things
Speaker 8: like that, Like my boss is cars on cars, and
Speaker 8: it's just like.
Speaker 1: Is that is that what you want you want to
Speaker 1: be making? Like that? Is that what you want you
Speaker 1: want to be like making like half a million dollar
Speaker 1: deals like with your own electric.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, that sounds like, yeah, it's definitely an end goal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you're so fucked I mean being nineteen and
Speaker 1: having saved up that much fucking money and like, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, well, I'm also curious about this, like are
Speaker 1: you are? Do you feel antsy? Like like what kind
Speaker 1: of person are you?
Speaker 3: Are? You?
Speaker 1: Like I need to get out of my fucking mom's
Speaker 1: house right now.
Speaker 8: I mean, dude, that can be another hour conversation that
Speaker 8: I could have, truly, but like to keep it short,
Speaker 8: I guess you know, like my whole childhood growing up,
Speaker 8: I didn't have the best relationship with my parents, So
Speaker 8: I do think it is kind of weird, right, now
Speaker 8: that I'm just like living at my mom's and like,
Speaker 8: I'm kind of okay with it right now because I
Speaker 8: mean we had to go through like family counseling and everything,
Speaker 8: so I mean it's definitely a huge step. So I'm
Speaker 8: fine with it as of like right now, and I'm
Speaker 8: not too antie to like get out of here, but
Speaker 8: it's definitely like that could change, like tomorrow, you know,
Speaker 8: like something could happen. It is just like no, I
Speaker 8: want out of here, and it's like.
Speaker 7: I don't know where to go.
Speaker 8: That's the hard part. Feel like everything is so expensive.
Speaker 8: It's crazy.
Speaker 1: Dude, stay like us, oh my god.
Speaker 2: But it.
Speaker 1: Not to give you more unsolicited advice, but like bro
Speaker 1: at nineteen, like, oh my god, I mean stay there
Speaker 1: as long as they'll not like you don't want to be.
Speaker 1: I mean you have like a head a head start,
Speaker 1: right because when you're like, you know, twenty four or
Speaker 1: like you're like past like typical college graduate, you see
Speaker 1: what you're fucking doing. I think it's just so smart
Speaker 1: because like a lot of people, you're nineteen and you
Speaker 1: have twenty two thousand dollars and there's gonna be tons
Speaker 1: of fucking people who like they go to like a
Speaker 1: four year degree and they are three years older than you,
Speaker 1: having to like live at home with their parents for
Speaker 1: a while, and they're actually have they have negative money,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean.
Speaker 7: And so you're like, you're the like going for mechanical engineering.
Speaker 1: Do you like are you are you are you in debt?
Speaker 8: No? No, not at all.
Speaker 1: It's fucking great. Yeah, that's like I'm not.
Speaker 8: Like twenty two like in my savings right now.
Speaker 1: First, so you could like live a your mom. You
Speaker 1: can live with your especially if you're like okay with
Speaker 1: it and they're not, like, you know, even if there's
Speaker 1: some trouble, as long as you're not like in like
Speaker 1: a horrible situation. Like if you're okay with it and
Speaker 1: you're fucking you know, making money on the trade, and
Speaker 1: you can live there for another three years, save up
Speaker 1: you probably save up another twenty two thousand dollars and
Speaker 1: then fucking yeah, uh no, man, you're you're in a
Speaker 1: you're in the six spot. I think you're in a
Speaker 1: six spot. Uh just don't buy a Mustang and you're
Speaker 1: in a sixth spot.
Speaker 8: So like what do you think about like small purchases,
Speaker 8: like small guys in like like like thousand dollars. Like
Speaker 8: like just like in I I I'm very like tinkery
Speaker 8: kind of guy, Like I really like having projects. Yeah
Speaker 8: you know, I also to like really dive into projects
Speaker 8: and so like I right now my current hobby is
Speaker 8: car audio, So like I like you know, making or
Speaker 8: building like the sub wolfers and and you know like
Speaker 8: the classic uh you know, like speakers and everything. I
Speaker 8: really like doing that. So like that's it's kind of
Speaker 8: an expensive hobby. So it's just like it's kind of
Speaker 8: hard for me to even though I have twenty two thousand,
Speaker 8: like I could, I could spend a grand easily and
Speaker 8: not have to worry about it. But it's just like, man,
Speaker 8: that's like a grand that I saved, and so I'm
Speaker 8: like very hard to spend money on myself.
Speaker 7: There was a deal.
Speaker 8: Going on in grub hub today for like Chipotle, and
Speaker 8: it was like I could buy one and get a
Speaker 8: burrito for free, bro, but it was like thirty dollars yeah,
Speaker 8: after like delivery seas and everything because it had oh
Speaker 8: no grubbs grubbubs good it's fucked yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Watch watch them put a grub hub aad right after
Speaker 1: this phone call. Yeah, but know all those that.
Speaker 7: All those like money.
Speaker 1: Dude, No, you're so you're like, honestly, what you just
Speaker 1: said I think is really cool too. About how like
Speaker 1: you're a tinkerer and you have like all these different
Speaker 1: like things you like to do. I mean, why don't
Speaker 1: you I don't know, do you do you have? I
Speaker 1: feel like you you know, like, uh, I feel like
Speaker 1: you could start a lot of different kinds of businesses
Speaker 1: with with your projects and hobbies and and whatnot. You're
Speaker 1: you're you're towards if it makes you feel any better.
Speaker 1: And I say this to this is something I say
Speaker 1: to callers and I and I say it every time
Speaker 1: I say it. I mean it fully. You are. You
Speaker 1: are quite towards the bottom of people who I hang
Speaker 1: up the phone from. And and uh, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of worried about that guy. You know. I
Speaker 1: think you're gonna be. You're gonna do fine. Yeah, as
Speaker 1: long as the Yeah.
Speaker 8: I have a hard time taking in compliments, so I
Speaker 8: mean i'd like to say thank you.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't think no, I think it's uh staying
Speaker 1: at home for another like three years and then you'll
Speaker 1: be Because here's the fucking thing. You'll be twenty two
Speaker 1: and a billion other twenty two year olds are gonna
Speaker 1: be like graduating from the four year university with tons
Speaker 1: of debt, and you're gonna be in the opposite situation
Speaker 1: where you have you possess as much money as most
Speaker 1: other twenty two year olds have in debt, and then
Speaker 1: from there you can fucking you know, have enough money
Speaker 1: that you can you know, start a little bit by
Speaker 1: a little fucking subwolffer whatever the fuck thing to make
Speaker 1: you do your little subwiffer whatever the fuck business. I
Speaker 1: think it's cool. I think uh, I think you're on
Speaker 1: a cool path. I'm excited for you.
Speaker 8: Thanks. And on a completely unrelated topic, yeah, we were
Speaker 8: talking about that's very coincidental. Yeah, So I listened to
Speaker 8: your podcast like every single day, especially these days lately
Speaker 8: where I've been working with myself. I will literally just
Speaker 8: have like I'll scroll down really really far on Spotify
Speaker 8: because it like plays in like the order of like
Speaker 8: old to new, so like I have to scroll a
Speaker 8: little bit so it auto plays to the next one. Right, So,
Speaker 8: I've been listening to you a lot recently, and today
Speaker 8: my cats if he's sitting right next to me. By
Speaker 8: the way, his name is Scout. He's like thirteen years old.
Speaker 8: He I was laying on my bed like four hours
Speaker 8: ago maybe, and I hear a bunch of ruckus. I
Speaker 8: look over it and he's got a gecko in his mouth.
Speaker 1: A real gecko.
Speaker 8: Yeah, a real gecko. My cat caught a get go
Speaker 8: inside of my house and he killed it and it
Speaker 8: squeaked when he bit into it, and it's kind of traumatizing.
Speaker 8: And then now you streams, and then now I'm on
Speaker 8: the phone call with you. So it's very weird.
Speaker 1: Are you in Florida?
Speaker 8: Yeah? I am.
Speaker 1: Okay. I was like, why is there geckos in your house?
Speaker 8: Yeah? I am in Florida.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So it's just it was very weird. It was very coincidental.
Speaker 8: Figured it was my day, you know.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 8: On top of that, go ahead, my name is Bryce.
Speaker 1: Go ahead. I want to let you finish.
Speaker 8: Uh Well, I don't even know what I'm gonna say.
Speaker 8: What was that? What did I say?
Speaker 1: You said? On top of that?
Speaker 8: On top of that, on top of that, you don't
Speaker 8: I have no idea, honestly.
Speaker 1: Well, Bryce, Bryce, do you give a good name to uh?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 1: Florida man? Everywhere. I'm excited for your your your future
Speaker 1: life trajectory. Is there is there anything else you want
Speaker 1: to say to the people of the computer before we go?
Speaker 8: Get a cat? Everyone needs a cat, all right?
Speaker 1: You have the second price to put caller before you
Speaker 1: said that too about getting a cat.
Speaker 8: Really, yeah, I mean I was listening, but like I
Speaker 8: was also busy calling like sixty times, so I didn't
Speaker 8: exactly listen.
Speaker 1: Everyone's everyone's into cats. Everyone likes cats, and dude, they're
Speaker 1: the best. Uh well, take care of Bruce.
Speaker 8: They licked himself endlessly and that's annoying. All right, I'll
Speaker 8: tak to you later, Brole.
Speaker 1: Bryce. Thanks, it's kind of fun going going Dave Ramsey
Speaker 1: mode every now and then. I liked, I liked. I
Speaker 1: like that guy. He was cool. He's again he ranks
Speaker 1: low on the list of callers that I'm concerned about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's interesting, Like the trade ship is interesting. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I'm very I'm very like opinionated and passionate about like uh,
Speaker 1: you know, college ship and like going into debt versus like, uh,
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, the trade the trade the trade route
Speaker 1: is pretty cool. I mean there's I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: there's good things about the college experience, but it's just
Speaker 1: uh yeah, I don't know. I think I think, I think,
Speaker 1: Uh Bryce is gonna be in a good, good position.
Speaker 1: He's got a he's a good he's a quality Florida man. Hello, Yeah, Hey,
Speaker 1: what's up. What's your name?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 1: My name is Anthony, Anthony. Uh, what's up? Anthony?
Speaker 2: Has life going pretty good? What about you? Man?
Speaker 1: Uh, it's also pretty good. I'm feeling jazzed. I'm feeling
Speaker 1: I'm feeling I feel today like a like a real
Speaker 1: human being, uh, taking part in the universe instead of
Speaker 1: living in my own brain going crazy, which I think
Speaker 1: is the optimal way to be a human being. But
Speaker 1: I don't. I'm I'm beginning to feel very confident that
Speaker 1: that's the optical way to be a human being is,
Speaker 1: in some way, shape or form, take part in the
Speaker 1: universe in whatever small way, by having a conversation with
Speaker 1: another human being or drawing a picture on a on
Speaker 1: a on a piece of paper and throwing it out
Speaker 1: the window. Uh. So I'm just gonna keep trying to
Speaker 1: do that as much as possible. What's up with you?
Speaker 1: What's up with you? Anthony? Are you Anthony? I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be honest. You sound uh, you sound depressed.
Speaker 2: No, I'm just chilling.
Speaker 1: Okay, Sorry. I classic mistake, by the way, classic mistake
Speaker 1: thinking somebody is depressed when they are in fact just chilling.
Speaker 1: Classic mistake. Didn't mean to project upon you. How's how's chilling?
Speaker 2: I got a question? Go ahead, pretty but do Kanye's
Speaker 2: tweets offend you?
Speaker 1: Do Kanye's tweets?
Speaker 2: Do you?
Speaker 1: Look? Uh? It's just attention seeking and so uh be
Speaker 1: to me being offended and like is is just serving
Speaker 1: the attention that is being sought. And the better alternative
Speaker 1: is to not really pay uh any attention at all? Yeah?
Speaker 2: All right, Well do you like any of his music?
Speaker 7: Sure?
Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, I mean the old stuff, like you know,
Speaker 1: graduation and stuff. Yeah yeah, wow, what's that?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 2: But some Panda Express right now?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Do you like Panda Express? Do you like the food?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Dude, lot I called you before actually and we talked
Speaker 2: about Panda Express for like ten fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: Right, Oh, should we do that again? Sure? Recently, what's
Speaker 1: going on with you? Have you been thinking a lot
Speaker 1: about Kanye West? And or is that just like a
Speaker 1: random question?
Speaker 2: Well, you know, he's always doing stuff right, So I
Speaker 2: saw some of the stuff he was doing, and I
Speaker 2: like his music. You know, I talked about it with
Speaker 2: my friends pretty often. What he does, Yeah, what are
Speaker 2: you as you? I mean what he says is weird,
Speaker 2: but it's entertaining in a way. And I still like
Speaker 2: his music, though I think it's getting worse.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, uh, it's just it's just like, uh,
Speaker 1: it's an attention grab. I wish that like, because look,
Speaker 1: the guy's clearly like fucking talented. I wish he like
Speaker 1: grabbed attention through other means besides like what he's doing,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like you could just grab
Speaker 1: I mean, you could just grab attention by doing cool
Speaker 1: things and making cool origin doing cool music. And it's
Speaker 1: I think it's just a thing of like you your
Speaker 1: escape going he's doing like you know, it's just acting
Speaker 1: out for attention, and I feel bad. I feel I
Speaker 1: don't know, I almost even just talking about it on
Speaker 1: the podcast, I'm like, I don't want to give attention
Speaker 1: to that. Really, I feel like, I like, do I
Speaker 1: like giving attention to just regular ass fucking life? You know?
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, uh, how long you've been door d Ashen for?
Speaker 2: Oh? No, no, no, I ordered it. I didn't I'm not
Speaker 2: doing it.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I thought you were doing I thought you
Speaker 1: were delivering it. What do you do to make to
Speaker 1: make money to survive to live.
Speaker 2: Right now? I'm in college, but I work as a
Speaker 2: personal trainer.
Speaker 1: Oh really?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Are you ripped eating my panda express? Kind of?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Well what do you bench?
Speaker 2: Most I ever benched? I don't do a lot of
Speaker 2: bench press for strength more so, I don't do that
Speaker 2: that much, or do mainly just for hyperchase fee. But
Speaker 2: most ever benched at once was two of five mm hm,
Speaker 2: so just under two plates. Do you like the bench?
Speaker 1: Do I like to bench?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do. I like to bench. My back was
Speaker 1: a little uh fucked up for a bit, so I
Speaker 1: stopped going to the gym for a little bit and
Speaker 1: I just started walking a lot instead. But uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I've gotten I've gotten into doing uh push ups again.
Speaker 1: I like push ups. They're fairly efficient, and I feel
Speaker 1: like they're a little bit less uh crazy on my back,
Speaker 1: uh because it's not like heavy heavy weight you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, well.
Speaker 1: Okay, well this you know what. I I enjoyed having
Speaker 1: this conversation. I truly honestly did ye? I don't know,
Speaker 1: even if we didn't talk about anything, really, I've I enjoyed.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, me too?
Speaker 1: Is the right?
Speaker 8: One?
Speaker 2: Last question?
Speaker 1: Go ahead? What's up?
Speaker 2: Will you be my Valentine?
Speaker 1: Well? I'd be sure, I'll be your Valentine? Why not?
Speaker 2: Thank you? Thank you? That really made my day.
Speaker 1: You know, normally I would say uh no, where I
Speaker 1: would say I feel uncomfortable with that, but I why,
Speaker 1: I just am trying. Why not sure? I'll be your
Speaker 1: fucking Valentine? Yeah, I'll be your Valentine? Why not? Cool?
Speaker 1: What are you gonna get me? What are you? What
Speaker 1: do you hold on? What are you gonna get me
Speaker 1: for Valentine's Day?
Speaker 2: Valentine's Day? Well, I think for you, Gek, I know
Speaker 2: you love Reces and I know you like pandas. Maybe
Speaker 2: I'll drop by with the nice tend to express meal
Speaker 2: on some recepts fast break right now.
Speaker 1: That sounds really nice. I know you're not going to
Speaker 1: do that, but I'm also I'm also not going to
Speaker 1: I'm also realistically probably not gonna get you anything for
Speaker 1: Valentine's Day either, But I will still be your Valentine.
Speaker 1: In like a spiritual sense.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: All right, take care of man, take care. Hello. Hello, Hey,
Speaker 1: what's your name.
Speaker 7: My name is Bradley, Bradley.
Speaker 1: What's going on?
Speaker 4: Nothing much. I'm house sitting for my aunt and uncle
Speaker 4: right now. You know, they're out on a date for
Speaker 4: Valentine's Day. I never thought i'd actually get through. This
Speaker 4: is like my second attempt at calling you cute.
Speaker 1: That's that's cute. What about Well, when you say house sitting,
Speaker 1: what do you are you taking care of the pants,
Speaker 1: plants or pets or no.
Speaker 4: Like their kids are here, they're just like hanked out
Speaker 4: right now, so you know.
Speaker 1: That's baby, that's babysitting. That's not really house sitting.
Speaker 4: I guess I don't know. You know, once they're asleep,
Speaker 4: they're just they don't exist, right.
Speaker 1: Well sort of sort of they exist a little bit,
Speaker 1: but a little bit. It's it's interesting with uh like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess I never understood the phrase house sitting. I
Speaker 1: guess like that that's not like house sitting is like
Speaker 1: another word for like like if you gotta take place,
Speaker 1: take care of like like oh, we have a hamster
Speaker 1: and a and a fern. You know where are your
Speaker 1: aunt and uncle on on a date too?
Speaker 4: I think they're just out drinking right now. Nothing too exciting.
Speaker 1: That that's exciting. Where are they You think they're gonna
Speaker 1: get really fucked up?
Speaker 4: Definitely, dude. They've been six like the past like month
Speaker 4: and a half. You know, they got three kids. So
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, this is like their first time.
Speaker 4: I have a minute, they're gonna be going for a
Speaker 4: good while.
Speaker 1: Do you have a Valentine?
Speaker 4: I don't. That is part of the reason I called
Speaker 4: because I I had a like long term girlfriend and
Speaker 4: we broke up probably about a month ago, and I
Speaker 4: don't know. I think I think it's kind of a funny,
Speaker 4: funny breakup, Like.
Speaker 1: Legitimately, why is it funny?
Speaker 4: Yeah? So pretty much like you know, I'm twenty, I
Speaker 4: do twenty year old things. You know, I like to
Speaker 4: get some actions sometimes.
Speaker 8: And you know, we're both at the all right, okay.
Speaker 4: And like all of a sudden, this is like seven
Speaker 4: months in, it all stopped, and you know, I was
Speaker 4: sitting there, I'm like, man, am I that bad?
Speaker 3: In the bedroom?
Speaker 4: Like I wasn't gonna ask, you know, like I just
Speaker 4: let it let it go for a couple of months
Speaker 4: and we were having some issues for like we're together,
Speaker 4: like about two months after this, we were having some
Speaker 4: issues in that time. We had like a little little
Speaker 4: falling out and I'm like, hey, like I want to
Speaker 4: go over there to talk about this in person, like
Speaker 4: get things settled. They're just like a misunderstanding. And I'm
Speaker 4: there and like out of nowhere, she's like, hey, so
Speaker 4: I haven't been honest with you, like I found God again,
Speaker 4: and like I yeah. She's like I need a Christian
Speaker 4: boy now, and I'm like, but we were you know,
Speaker 4: dare I say get in or freak on for like
Speaker 4: a good majority of this relationship, Like why stop now?
Speaker 4: And she looks me dead in the eyes. I'm being
Speaker 4: so serious. She goes, I don't want to burn in hell,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, okay, cool, yeah.
Speaker 3: And look for her.
Speaker 1: Good for both of you. Yeah, go ahead, keep going.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 4: Sorry, I'm not religious personally, you know what I mean,
Speaker 4: Like I grew up Christian, like I respect anybody you
Speaker 4: know in their beliefs, but it's just something that doesn't
Speaker 4: resonate with me. And I'm like, shoot, sorry, I'm losing
Speaker 4: track now now let me double back.
Speaker 5: Well, so.
Speaker 1: That it is it is it? Do you think you're
Speaker 1: gonna burn in hell?
Speaker 4: I don't know. I think it's something I'm gonna worry
Speaker 4: about when the time comes, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: Like until then, I'm just gonna do.
Speaker 8: Whatever I want.
Speaker 1: Sure, sure, No, until then, get get your get your
Speaker 1: freak on, go crazy. Exactly interesting, that's it, you know what?
Speaker 1: By the way that I just that situation worked out
Speaker 1: so well for you from my perspective, right because like,
Speaker 1: of all the different ways that a relationship could could end,
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is just my perspective is like if
Speaker 1: a girl, if this this girl broke up with you
Speaker 1: because she's like I want a nice Christian boy to
Speaker 1: be celibate with. It's like that feels like an easy
Speaker 1: lift for me because it's not like because like if
Speaker 1: she found like a like a she was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm just like I'm leaving you for a cooler, hotter guy.
Speaker 1: You know, that would that would make me depressed. But
Speaker 1: if she's like, oh, yeah, no, I I I've completely
Speaker 1: changed who I am as a human being, and I
Speaker 1: need to find somebody who is like like she's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I need to find someone who wants to provide me
Speaker 1: with something that you cannot provide because you are, as
Speaker 1: you have a state ablished a freaky little demon man
Speaker 1: and not a nice Christian boy. By the way, please
Speaker 1: be a freaky little demon man. All right, that's your
Speaker 1: god given right. But you know you're not a You're
Speaker 1: not a good Christian boy. So it's a little bit
Speaker 1: easier to leave because it's like, oh, I I this.
Speaker 1: It's not like, oh I'm not enough, I am insufficient.
Speaker 1: I'm I just literally am not the flavor of ice
Speaker 1: cream that you are looking for, you know, So that's
Speaker 1: kind of this all that's kind of nice. I actually think, yeah.
Speaker 4: Now I don't know what the issue is. Now I'm
Speaker 4: having doubts it's the truth because so during this conversation,
Speaker 4: like you know, I'm a guy in college, you know,
Speaker 4: I like to drink occasionally. It's my friends, and she
Speaker 4: would come and you know, she'd party with us, all right,
Speaker 4: and so I'm like, what about that, Like, you know,
Speaker 4: literally like a week ago, you're getting hammered with me
Speaker 4: and my friends, Like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but but who gives a shit though whatever.
Speaker 1: Let her, let her, let her, let her find God,
Speaker 1: let her be born again, let her go on her
Speaker 1: own fucking journey. Who cares?
Speaker 4: You know, No, that's that's reasonable, But like I'm just curious,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean, because we were together for
Speaker 4: like almost a year, like like that wasn't the truth
Speaker 4: because she's been like you know, she's like, oh, I
Speaker 4: want to still stay in contact and so follow each
Speaker 4: other like I almost be peaceful and like I don't
Speaker 4: really care, you know what I mean. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 4: like sure, and like you know, I'll be on TikTok.
Speaker 4: And you've seen her repos since about like just getting
Speaker 4: fucking sloshed and like getting with dudes, and that makes
Speaker 4: me wonder. I'm like, damn, did you just lie to
Speaker 4: my face after like a year?
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe it doesn't really matter either way, you know exactly.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I guess it's like dude, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I guess it's like a mildly interesting. But at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, I'm like, I don't know who
Speaker 1: gives a ship which this person is doing on her TikTok,
Speaker 1: whether or not is like like who, I just I
Speaker 1: just who cares?
Speaker 4: You know, that's real. It's just nosy, you know what
Speaker 4: I mean? Like I like knowing stuff. I hate like
Speaker 4: not knowing, you know what I mean. Like let's say,
Speaker 4: like my mom orders a package, you know, I like
Speaker 4: need to know what's inside that thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'm I'm a looking at your ex's Instagram
Speaker 1: reels to see, oh, is she finding God or not?
Speaker 1: Like is she?
Speaker 4: It just is kind of oh, I'm not like actively
Speaker 4: seeking it out, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But like, sure, I know I get it. You probably
Speaker 1: don't like I don't. I don't take I don't take
Speaker 1: that you're obsessively stalking your exes Instagram or whatever. But
Speaker 1: it's just like I don't know, let her find God
Speaker 1: or whatever. Maybe maybe she maybe she is lying to you,
Speaker 1: Maybe she's lying to you, and you know, she found
Speaker 1: a cooler, hotter guy, and maybe that cooler hotter guy
Speaker 1: is Jesus and and God bless her if it is.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know it makes for an easy way to
Speaker 4: tell people he broke up. You know, I just tell
Speaker 4: him I got like cooked by a celestial being.
Speaker 1: It and yeah, yes, I like that you got cocked
Speaker 1: by God? And what of all the belief of all
Speaker 1: the celestial beings to be cocked by I think being
Speaker 1: cocked by Jesus and God is is you know? Pretty good?
Speaker 1: It's like I think I've said something like this before,
Speaker 1: but it's like when the team that beats you, uh
Speaker 1: you know, wins the Super Bowl, right, it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: well we got beat by the best guys, so who
Speaker 1: of course, you know, no harm done. No, I don't
Speaker 1: take it personally. They were just the best guys. That's Jesus.
Speaker 1: That's literally Jesus fucking Christ right there. So you have
Speaker 1: no shot, right, you're you're these are the best guys.
Speaker 1: Of course. What's your name again, Brian Bradley, Bradley, Brian Bryce,
Speaker 1: all the same? Whatever you or anything else? Sorry, I
Speaker 1: don't mean to well, Brian Bradley, Bryce. Is there anything
Speaker 1: else you want to say to the people of the
Speaker 1: computer before we go?
Speaker 4: I don't know, I mean find not to you know,
Speaker 4: cross a cross paths with Jesus and his his children.
Speaker 4: You know he's gonna cook.
Speaker 1: You have a good d have a good rest of
Speaker 1: your entire life, Bradley, you as well, wile, thank you,
Speaker 1: take care? Bye bye? That was uh, that was Bradley.
Speaker 1: Love is real. Loving, Love is love is real. Love
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