WEBVTT - “I NEED TO GET IT TOGETHER”

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<v Speaker 1>No way. Hi.

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<v Speaker 2>Hi, what's your name?

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<v Speaker 3>Aaron?

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<v Speaker 2>Aaron? What's up? Aaron?

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<v Speaker 4>A lot? Gick a lot. I never thought I would

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<v Speaker 4>actually ever talk.

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<v Speaker 2>To you, to be honest, Well, now we are talking.

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<v Speaker 2>Now we are here, and I am I am curious

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<v Speaker 2>to know what it is that you would like to

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<v Speaker 2>talk about.

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<v Speaker 4>Well, I don't really know where to begin, but crap.

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<v Speaker 4>I have three kids with well, the same woman. We've

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<v Speaker 4>been together for seven years. We broke up for a

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<v Speaker 4>year and she lived in a separate state and we

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<v Speaker 4>kind of and that was when we had one son together.

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<v Speaker 4>Now we have two sons and a daughter together. Since

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<v Speaker 4>she moved to Texas with me, and I had seated

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<v Speaker 4>on her quite a bit in the past through text physically,

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<v Speaker 4>and I kind of a fitted all of that and

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<v Speaker 4>she just kind of spit against me, and obviously, fair enough,

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<v Speaker 4>has been very hurt about all of that stuff. But

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<v Speaker 4>on a daily basis, it's just feels like I'm constantly

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<v Speaker 4>being judged for the little things that I forget to

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<v Speaker 4>do or you know, the big things that I've done

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<v Speaker 4>in the past, and it weighs on me. And about

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<v Speaker 4>it was twenty twenty she had kicked me out of

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<v Speaker 4>the house because I was messaging an next on Instagram,

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<v Speaker 4>and I ended up hooking up with this girl that

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<v Speaker 4>I knew when I first met to Texas, and we

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<v Speaker 4>ended up getting back together. My kids got really sick.

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<v Speaker 1>I moved back into the apartment and.

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<v Speaker 4>I get a message like, oh man, like three months

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<v Speaker 4>later from the girl that I hooked up with when

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<v Speaker 4>I got kicked out, and she was telling me she

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<v Speaker 4>was pregnant.

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<v Speaker 2>So so this girl that you I cheat, cheated on

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<v Speaker 2>your wife with, is pregnant or would would.

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<v Speaker 4>It wasn't really, So I cheated to get kicked out

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<v Speaker 4>on Instagram, I message to ey right, so she kicks

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<v Speaker 4>me out. We get in this huge fight. She makes

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<v Speaker 4>me leave, so I leave respectfully so she can have

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<v Speaker 4>the house, you know. And after that I ended up

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<v Speaker 4>hooking up with it. So we went together and I

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<v Speaker 4>hooked up with this girl and then she we got

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<v Speaker 4>back together in the girl message room and said she

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<v Speaker 4>was pregnant.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, is she pregnant?

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<v Speaker 4>No, she had the kid. This was like two years ago.

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<v Speaker 4>But then she blocked me deck on everything.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, so she so you, all right, so you have

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<v Speaker 2>three kids with your current wife and then one kid

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<v Speaker 2>with the we're okay. You have three kids out this

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<v Speaker 2>woman who you're involved with long term, and then one

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<v Speaker 2>kid with the other this other woman.

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<v Speaker 4>So she blocked me. And that was like a year

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<v Speaker 4>and a half, almost few years, and I didn't hear anything.

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<v Speaker 4>And I was taking a trip from one part of

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<v Speaker 4>Texas to another, away from the girl I've been with

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<v Speaker 4>for forever, away from my family, and it was the

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<v Speaker 4>fact that I might have a tab with someone else

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<v Speaker 4>that I don't know if it's mine.

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<v Speaker 1>Was really eating at me.

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<v Speaker 4>So I kind of wanted to went about it the

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<v Speaker 4>worst way possible, made a fake Facebook, found her, added

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<v Speaker 4>her on Snapchat. But when I added her on Snapcat,

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<v Speaker 4>I put my phone number in and it sent another

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<v Speaker 4>vcation to my girlfriend like why do you have a Snapchat?

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<v Speaker 4>You never have a snappat Then I tried to last

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<v Speaker 4>for a minute, but then I just ended up telling

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<v Speaker 4>her that I may have a chat with somebody. So

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<v Speaker 4>we have and I got kicked out of there. I've

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<v Speaker 4>been staying in my car on and off.

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<v Speaker 3>Aaron.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, listen, Aaron, everything you've just told me is uh

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<v Speaker 2>is completely, completely, completely insane, and I think you know that. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>have you ever been to have you have you ever?

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<v Speaker 2>Have you ever? Have you you absolutely need to, Like,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm happy to like chat with you, man, because you

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<v Speaker 2>know we're here, but you you totally absolutely need to

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<v Speaker 2>go see a real therapist too. There's there's some, there's

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<v Speaker 2>some have you ever done that?

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<v Speaker 1>Wait a minute, you're not a real therapist.

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<v Speaker 2>You know. I'm not a real therapist.

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<v Speaker 1>I do, I do?

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<v Speaker 2>I do?

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<v Speaker 1>Uh so, yeah, I do. I see a real therapist

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<v Speaker 1>every two weeks.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, what does your real therapist tell you about the

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<v Speaker 2>the soap opera that is your life?

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<v Speaker 5>Hmm.

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<v Speaker 1>Man, Therapists are kind of like they kind of go inside.

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<v Speaker 1>They're like, well, I can understand why you're doing that.

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<v Speaker 1>You had a bad past your parents, so it's kind

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<v Speaker 1>of hard to actually feel any clarity from that. Sometimes

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<v Speaker 1>I just try to be as honest as possible with

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<v Speaker 1>my therapist, Like I just was with you about why

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<v Speaker 1>I think I'm doing these things. I have a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of things that I'm not gonna say. I your on

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<v Speaker 1>your on your stream, but that happened to me and

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<v Speaker 1>my past and that I've been through that coincide with

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<v Speaker 1>all these actions. And I'm twenty six, man, I have

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<v Speaker 1>to get it together. I mean, I just told you

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<v Speaker 1>I have these kids, and like I'm I don't want

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<v Speaker 1>to be a piece of shit, Like I really don't.

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<v Speaker 1>It's just I've just made really bad mistakes. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>want them to define me.

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<v Speaker 2>Mm hmmmm hmm. Well, so, I mean, here's the thing, this, this, this,

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<v Speaker 2>and I I don't know. I mean, I'm not going

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<v Speaker 2>to tell you what to do. You have three kids,

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<v Speaker 2>do you? Okay? So look, here's the thing. You should

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<v Speaker 2>totally talk to a real therapist about this and get

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<v Speaker 2>their you know, opinion and whatnot. But as far as

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<v Speaker 2>I see it, if I were you and I just

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<v Speaker 2>and I just transported into your body on this day

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<v Speaker 2>having made whatever choices I I I had made, and

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<v Speaker 2>it was you and whatnot, and I and I came

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<v Speaker 2>to a point of clarity and decided that I wanted

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<v Speaker 2>to be better. I would start by going, let's start

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<v Speaker 2>with the kids, right, because I mean that's either were

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<v Speaker 2>these children accidents or did you make the decision to

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<v Speaker 2>have them.

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<v Speaker 4>The first one?

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<v Speaker 1>Now definitely all acted and I'm not gonna lie, But

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<v Speaker 1>not like we obviously we were having We were just

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<v Speaker 1>doing what we were doing. We knew what we were doing.

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<v Speaker 1>It wasn't like we were like, oh oh.

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<v Speaker 2>And are you are you what do you do currently

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<v Speaker 2>to try to be a good dad to your kids.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm still going to the house every day even though

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<v Speaker 1>we're not together, and I play with them. I also

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<v Speaker 1>try to help her clean. The youngest is about to

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<v Speaker 1>be one on the thirty first, so I just like

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<v Speaker 1>really helped with him as much as I can.

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<v Speaker 4>With her.

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<v Speaker 1>She's in college now, so I'm just trying to help

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<v Speaker 1>her at the same time, like play with my kids

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<v Speaker 1>and make sure they're the first priority. But it gets

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<v Speaker 1>mixed up because this all happened right before Christmas, so

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<v Speaker 1>this is fresh.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, and you're still and what's your deal? You're you're

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<v Speaker 2>you're in a relationship ship with the woman that that

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<v Speaker 2>that is with the mother.

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<v Speaker 1>Now we're done, okay, and you're for now.

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<v Speaker 2>You're not in a relationship. Are you in a relationship

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<v Speaker 2>with anyone right now?

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<v Speaker 4>Nope?

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, I think you know what. I think that's probably good, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>because it sounds like you got a lot of stuff

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<v Speaker 2>to to work through.

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<v Speaker 1>Can I preach for a second, gig?

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<v Speaker 2>What is I I don't know what is what? Give

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<v Speaker 2>me a small sample of your preach.

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<v Speaker 1>Hinder dating apps. I just feel this compelling to just

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<v Speaker 1>want to talk to somebody because I've literally like been

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<v Speaker 1>with somebody for seven years and I just don't like

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<v Speaker 1>being alone. Yeah, get way more comfortable with myself.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, I buddy, buddy, I I I get you,

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<v Speaker 2>but I I I'm not a real therapist, but as

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<v Speaker 2>somebody talking to you on the phone right now, who

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<v Speaker 2>understands that who? And I want to give you the

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<v Speaker 2>benefit of the doubt and I want to to try

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<v Speaker 2>to be helpful to you in this conversation. And in

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<v Speaker 2>doing that, I'm going to tell you that Tender is

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<v Speaker 2>not going to help you right right now. You You've

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<v Speaker 2>I if I were you, I would say you have

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<v Speaker 2>not yet unlocked Tinder.

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<v Speaker 1>That is a good way to put it.

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<v Speaker 2>You have you, you have not yet unlocked Tinder. Tinder

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<v Speaker 2>is another person entering your life. Is not going to

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<v Speaker 2>be the thing that turns you around and makes everything awesome.

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<v Speaker 2>I know it hurts that you feel uh lonely and

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<v Speaker 2>you're used to having someone.

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<v Speaker 3>But.

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<v Speaker 2>This is that you have. You just have shit you

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<v Speaker 2>gotta take care of. And I don't think that you're

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<v Speaker 2>you know, and you said, you're twenty six, I'm twenty

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<v Speaker 2>and you know, look, one day we're going to be forty.

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<v Speaker 2>One day we're going to be fifty, and we have

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<v Speaker 2>a lot of time between now and then, and in

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<v Speaker 2>that time we can really make, you know, positive changes

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<v Speaker 2>to like our behavior and our life. So that's kind

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<v Speaker 2>of what I think we want to focus on. And

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<v Speaker 2>for you, since you have kids, I mean, the first

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<v Speaker 2>thing is like, Yo, how can I be a better

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<v Speaker 2>father to my kids?

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<v Speaker 1>Absolutely so, no, geck. I think this is why people

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<v Speaker 1>call you because although you're not a real therapist, you're

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<v Speaker 1>our age and you understand the generation that we're living in,

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<v Speaker 1>and you understand the kind of shit that we think about.

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<v Speaker 1>And it really is really easy to talk to you

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<v Speaker 1>about this stuff rather than somebody that I'm uncomfortable around.

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<v Speaker 1>For some reason, I feel like I know you because

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<v Speaker 1>I've just watched you so much so well, so I

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<v Speaker 1>really do appreciate what you do.

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<v Speaker 2>Thanks, man, I appreciate that. So I mean, listen, so

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<v Speaker 2>get into it with me here, Okay, we what do

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<v Speaker 2>we want to do? We want to be a better

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<v Speaker 2>dad to our kids, all right, we want to be

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<v Speaker 2>a better dad to our kids.

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<v Speaker 1>What else, no no dating apps, no sex for a while.

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<v Speaker 2>It's a good idea.

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<v Speaker 1>No relationships, no flirting, no chatting, just need to be

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<v Speaker 1>need to work on myself.

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<v Speaker 2>And that's a good idea. I think that's a good idea.

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<v Speaker 2>That sounds like it'll be healthy. All right, So we're

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<v Speaker 2>gonna chill out on the dating apps and we're going

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<v Speaker 2>to chill out like looking for and I, by the way,

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<v Speaker 2>I do this too, I think, and I'm not the

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<v Speaker 2>only everyone does this. We're going to chill out on

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<v Speaker 2>the whole like looking for a solution to our life's

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<v Speaker 2>problems in another person, you know, right, So Okay, there's that,

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<v Speaker 2>and then what what and what how? How else do

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<v Speaker 2>you feel like you you can you can fuck up less.

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<v Speaker 1>I need to have more space from the mother of

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<v Speaker 1>my children. Okay, I need to give her space that

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<v Speaker 1>she deserves.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay. I think that's a good idea. All right, So

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<v Speaker 2>we're gonna give space to the mother of your children.

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<v Speaker 2>That's and that's the I I think that that's that's wise.

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<v Speaker 2>That's a wise observation that you understand.

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<v Speaker 5>Uh.

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<v Speaker 1>I know, I fucked up really bad. Don't get the

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<v Speaker 1>wrong I didn't call for you for you to tell

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<v Speaker 1>me that it's okay. And I know that I did

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<v Speaker 1>something a lot of things wrong, a lot of things

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<v Speaker 1>I haven't said, but I'm just the past couple of days,

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<v Speaker 1>I've just been really torn up about it.

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<v Speaker 2>Mm hmmm. So okay, we're gonna do that, and then uh,

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<v Speaker 2>and the kids live with your with the mom, right right? Okay?

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<v Speaker 2>And what's your what's your schedule at them? What's the deal?

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<v Speaker 1>I usually so Tuesday Wednesday or Tuesday Thursday. She has college,

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<v Speaker 1>so I get them from six to ten. But then

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<v Speaker 1>the rest of the week is kind of open for

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<v Speaker 1>me to reach out and ask if I can come over.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, do you have a job?

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<v Speaker 1>I do?

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<v Speaker 2>Okay? Do you are you you're financially supporting the kids?

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, in the house and I'm not even living there.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, great, all right, that's good. I mean in my opinion,

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<v Speaker 2>and I don't have kids, but and just in my opinion,

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<v Speaker 2>if you want it, is like the bare minimum to

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<v Speaker 2>do as if you have kids is like be present

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<v Speaker 2>in the kids life and financially support them. So do

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<v Speaker 2>you feel as though you are doing those those things?

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<v Speaker 3>Yes?

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<v Speaker 1>I really do.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay? Is are your children important? Is having a good

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<v Speaker 2>relationship with them important to you. Absolutely, yes, okay, all right?

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<v Speaker 2>What and then the rest of this stuff sounds sounds personal.

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<v Speaker 2>It sounds like you're trying to like, uh like just

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<v Speaker 2>learn how to be alone.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I think that's a big thing.

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<v Speaker 4>Uh.

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<v Speaker 1>I just it's so easy to backtrack on that and

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<v Speaker 1>then all of a sudden, I find myself talking to

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<v Speaker 1>somebody or.

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<v Speaker 2>Like, I don't know, what else do you feel?

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<v Speaker 1>Like? Uh?

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<v Speaker 2>What what else? What else? What else would you like

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<v Speaker 2>to change? Like if like five years from now, what

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<v Speaker 2>would you like to have be different?

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<v Speaker 4>Hmmm?

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe to be able to and this is gonna sound

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<v Speaker 1>kind of dumb, but maybe to be able to say,

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<v Speaker 1>like I'm not smoking weed every single day or.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, you know.

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<v Speaker 1>If that, dude do that.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't think that's dumb. And also, you know the

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<v Speaker 2>whole thing about like you go to the therapist and

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<v Speaker 2>they say, oh, well, you're this way because your childhood

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<v Speaker 2>was a certain way. I've been thinking about I've been

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<v Speaker 2>I think I mentioned this on another podcast recently. Actually

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<v Speaker 2>I actually yeah I did. There. I like the whole

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<v Speaker 2>idea of yeah, like understanding why you are the way

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<v Speaker 2>you are because of how you grew up. I think

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<v Speaker 2>it's helpful because you understand it and then you go,

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<v Speaker 2>all right, it's my responsibility to like deal with this shit,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, right, Like you can't just blame it, and

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<v Speaker 2>then you can't, like you get like resigned to it

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<v Speaker 2>and go, oh, I just had to fucked up, you know, childhood,

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<v Speaker 2>and so I'm fucked up forever, and I'm just gonna

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<v Speaker 2>be miserable and and and sad all the time, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>like you gotta is there something even there's even even something.

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<v Speaker 2>I think that empowering about being like, uh, okay, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>gonna fix right, So what I mean, what else do

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<v Speaker 2>you want to fix?

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<v Speaker 1>I guess my anger in some ways. Uh sometimes I

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<v Speaker 1>could have a short vieuse on certain things. When there's

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<v Speaker 1>a lot going on where the kids are all running around,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm like, hey, I want to be like less jumpy sometimes.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, I'm severely ADHD. If you couldn't tell, I

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<v Speaker 1>was prescribed adderall in second grade until twelfth grade and

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<v Speaker 1>then I haven't been medicated since. So I literally grow

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<v Speaker 1>my head is everywhere at once. You were talking about

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<v Speaker 1>if you don't have any kids earlier. I'd like to

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<v Speaker 1>see some little gex eventually, dude.

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<v Speaker 2>Me having kids around, no, well, because I don't want

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<v Speaker 2>I am nowhere near and I'm giant, nowhere near children

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<v Speaker 2>at all.

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<v Speaker 1>Dude, I hope one day, when we're in our thirties,

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<v Speaker 1>I turn on your podcast and there's a little GaX

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<v Speaker 1>with their face faceted.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh I would I think I think they would call

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<v Speaker 2>CPS on me if I put any of this stuff

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<v Speaker 2>on the child. Uh. Anyway, So listen, man, I'm gonna

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<v Speaker 2>I'm just gonna leave you with this, right, which is

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<v Speaker 2>I'm just gonna leave you with this. Next time you

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<v Speaker 2>like you like the the the problem of search, next

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<v Speaker 2>time you feel this inkling to to get addicted to

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<v Speaker 2>Tinder and to find the solution to your problems in

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<v Speaker 2>somebody else. And by the way, I want you know,

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<v Speaker 2>I've had plenty of of of, you know, experiences in

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<v Speaker 2>my own life where you know, I was trying to

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<v Speaker 2>find the solutions to my problems in somebody else. And

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<v Speaker 2>I think it's it's a very very very common thing. Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>I think he's here's here's what you Here's what you

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<v Speaker 2>need to understand is that you can't is that you

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<v Speaker 2>have a lot of is that you have a lot

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<v Speaker 2>of like ship going on with you right now that

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<v Speaker 2>you can and should fix internally, and that even if

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<v Speaker 2>you did find a new cool person on your Tinder right,

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<v Speaker 2>it wouldn't it's not a long term fix to any

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<v Speaker 2>of these problems, right, Okay, just think about that. What's

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<v Speaker 2>my stance on pornography?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 1>I can't.

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<v Speaker 2>I feel like, how'd you know I was watching it

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<v Speaker 2>right now? That's what I do. I just have it on.

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<v Speaker 2>I have I have multiple monitors, and on one of

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<v Speaker 2>them I'm taking calls ano the other one I'm I'm

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<v Speaker 2>watching a lot of porn.

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<v Speaker 1>I think that's like a big root to my problem.

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<v Speaker 1>Like I forgot to say that.

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<v Speaker 2>But what's my opinion on photography? It's cool that it's there, you.

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<v Speaker 1>Know, it's just there.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, don't don't just start small, start small, dude,

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<v Speaker 2>don't don't take away all your little pleasures immediately. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>what's your name again?

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<v Speaker 6>Eron?

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<v Speaker 2>Is there anything else you want to say to the

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<v Speaker 2>people of the computer before we go.

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<v Speaker 1>Get hard? Stay Geking, you know, keep calling GEK Dude.

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<v Speaker 1>I love this show. I'm gonna watch it until the

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<v Speaker 1>day I die. Well, hopefully you don't have before me.

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<v Speaker 4>I don't know.

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<v Speaker 2>We'll see, we'll see. I'm trying to not eat as

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<v Speaker 2>much candy anyway. Take care, man, Thank you very much.

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<v Speaker 1>Good thanks for talking to me.

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<v Speaker 7>Man.

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<v Speaker 2>That would be funny if all the porn I was

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<v Speaker 2>I was just watching a ton of gecko porn. I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know what gecko porn would be, but it sounds hot.

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<v Speaker 3>Hello.

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<v Speaker 2>Hello, what is your name?

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<v Speaker 3>Serenity?

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<v Speaker 2>Serenity? Lord give what's what's the what's you know? The

0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:20.600
<v Speaker 2>serenity prayer? I think it's like an aa thing, like, Lord,

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<v Speaker 2>give me the Is that called the serenity prayer? Do

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<v Speaker 2>you know what I'm talking You don't even know what

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<v Speaker 2>I'm talking about. This the one that's like, Lord, give

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<v Speaker 2>me the strength to fucking do something, and the wisdom

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<v Speaker 2>to do that thing too. It's just it's called the

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<v Speaker 2>serenity prayer.

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<v Speaker 3>Who gives Okay?

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<v Speaker 2>I think yeah, it's like, Lord, give me the strength

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<v Speaker 2>to accept. Oh, okay, okay, I remember it. I remember it.

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<v Speaker 2>Lord give me the strength two the strength to accept

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<v Speaker 2>the things that I can't control, the courage to change

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<v Speaker 2>the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

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<v Speaker 2>That's the Serenity Preyer. I think it's the Serenity Preyer. Yeah. Anyway,

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<v Speaker 2>you wanted to talk about Super Smash, Brothers Melee.

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<v Speaker 3>Yes, So a couple of years ago my friend started

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<v Speaker 3>working for one of the companies. So recently I've just

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<v Speaker 3>been spending a lot of time going to different like

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<v Speaker 3>fighting game conventions and maybe I go for like Smash,

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<v Speaker 3>Melee and Ultimate. And I happened to see a stream

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<v Speaker 3>where you were talking about Hbox. Yeah, and it's just

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<v Speaker 3>funny because I don't know, he's nice and like, I've

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<v Speaker 3>just had the opportunity to meet him and it's been

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<v Speaker 3>really fun going and yeah, getting to travel around the

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<v Speaker 3>US and go to a different place and just hang

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<v Speaker 3>out with everybody in like the fighting game community.

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<v Speaker 2>I love getting to talk about my extremely niche hobby

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<v Speaker 2>of competitive Super Smash, Brothers, Melee. Competitive Smash, Yes, in

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<v Speaker 2>general is not very niche, because like I mean, Super

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<v Speaker 2>Smash Result, like Super Smash Press Ultimate, like everyone fucks

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<v Speaker 2>with But I I hate alt care about it. I

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<v Speaker 2>don't I don't watch it, I don't play it. It's

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<v Speaker 2>specifically the one for the game cube that I'm into. Yeah, Yes,

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<v Speaker 2>so you you work for Nintendo.

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<v Speaker 3>No, no, I don't Luigi.

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<v Speaker 2>And Super Mario sixty four tell us.

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<v Speaker 3>I have no idea, but yeah, I just got into

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<v Speaker 3>it because my friend she started working for a company.

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<v Speaker 3>Uh it was like a gaming company but it dissolved,

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<v Speaker 3>but yeah, while she was working for it, Like that's

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<v Speaker 3>how I got introduced to it. And I always played

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<v Speaker 3>Melee growing up. But it was really fun just going

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<v Speaker 3>and seeing like how competitive it was. And yeah, everybody

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<v Speaker 3>in Melee is pretty nice at least, like all the fans.

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<v Speaker 2>And yeah, so you've been how many different tournaments have

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<v Speaker 2>you gone to?

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<v Speaker 4>Oh?

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<v Speaker 3>I think maybe five or six so far, and then

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<v Speaker 3>this year I'm planning to go to one, Like my

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<v Speaker 3>next one is in Vegas.

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<v Speaker 2>Wait what's it called?

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<v Speaker 3>Uh, I don't know if you say EVO or even.

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<v Speaker 2>You're you're going to Evo. Yeah, they don't do Melee anymore,

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<v Speaker 2>but Evo Evo is like the super fighting game tournaments.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah. I went to Genesis too. You went to Genesis, Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>Like this year, like in twenty in February, back in February.

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<v Speaker 3>Yes, Yeah, it was really fun.

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<v Speaker 2>That's sick. Who who'd you meet at Genesis? We're we're

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<v Speaker 2>you know what fuck it, it's my podcast. We're talking

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<v Speaker 2>about competitive Super Smash Brothers Melee. Who'd you meet at Genesis?

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<v Speaker 3>Well, I guess a bunch of different people, but like,

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<v Speaker 3>I'm very fortunate that my friend she's dating someone who's

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<v Speaker 3>like friends with some of the players. So I'm not

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<v Speaker 3>very cool myself, but I just like by association and

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<v Speaker 3>very fortunate to get to meet some of the players.

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<v Speaker 1>Like salt Uh, Leffen, you met Lef?

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<v Speaker 3>Well, yeah, I mean kind of off hand.

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<v Speaker 2>How would I actually I had one interaction with Leffen.

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<v Speaker 2>So Leffen is U is one of the best Super

0:24:52.320 --> 0:24:55.280
<v Speaker 2>Smash Brothers Melee players in the world who is known

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<v Speaker 2>he's like this is his thing. He is known for

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<v Speaker 2>being a dick. And one time I sat one time

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<v Speaker 2>I was at it. I used to go to these tournaments,

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<v Speaker 2>and I went to play with him, and I asked

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<v Speaker 2>him if he would be down to play friendlies and

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<v Speaker 2>he kind of like rolled his eyes and said sure.

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<v Speaker 2>And then we play like one game and he four

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<v Speaker 2>stocks me and then he just like unplugs my controller

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<v Speaker 2>and like vaguely like throws the cord at me. And

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<v Speaker 2>you know what, here's the here's the great thing about

0:25:34.160 --> 0:25:36.760
<v Speaker 2>having a persona like being known for being a dick.

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't walk away from that interaction being I wasn't disappointed.

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<v Speaker 2>I wasn't like, oh, man, if I got to meet

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<v Speaker 2>left and he was a dick, I walked away been like, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>that's what that was his that's his thing.

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<v Speaker 3>That's kind of an honor.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it was kind of. It was kind of an

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<v Speaker 2>honor exactly. I had this. I had one interaction. I

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<v Speaker 2>had another interaction with Hungry Box.

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<v Speaker 3>Uh.

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<v Speaker 2>I thought this was pretty funny. I was playing him.

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<v Speaker 2>I went to Pound twenty sixteen and we we played

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<v Speaker 2>where he was on a setup and I plugged in

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<v Speaker 2>to play friendlies with him and we start playing and

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<v Speaker 2>I take the first stock and I took the first

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<v Speaker 2>stock and he looked at me and he was like,

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<v Speaker 2>are you ranked? And and I looked at him and

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<v Speaker 2>I was like, I said, no, are you And he

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<v Speaker 2>did not think that was funny at all.

0:26:35.600 --> 0:26:39.440
<v Speaker 3>He was, Oh, I think that was pretty clever.

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<v Speaker 2>Good job, thanks man. Anyway, that's uh, yeah, I haven't

0:26:45.800 --> 0:26:48.399
<v Speaker 2>been to a smash major in a long time, but

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<v Speaker 2>that's that's it. It's kind of sad, man. It's kind

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<v Speaker 2>of sad because I do wish that I was into

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<v Speaker 2>like a a Fortnite or Call of Duty or street

0:27:00.640 --> 0:27:04.280
<v Speaker 2>Fighter or ultimately something something that's like, because Melee is

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<v Speaker 2>only going to go downhill. It's only it's not going

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<v Speaker 2>to get more popular. There's only every year going to

0:27:09.840 --> 0:27:12.520
<v Speaker 2>be less and less people playing it. It came it's

0:27:12.560 --> 0:27:18.720
<v Speaker 2>like a twenty five, twenty six year old game. Yeah,

0:27:19.240 --> 0:27:22.600
<v Speaker 2>so nobody's nobody's gonna this is always gonna be less

0:27:22.640 --> 0:27:25.679
<v Speaker 2>people playing it. It's a bummer. I was into like

0:27:25.680 --> 0:27:26.720
<v Speaker 2>a real game.

0:27:28.080 --> 0:27:29.240
<v Speaker 3>Same, I know what you mean?

0:27:30.040 --> 0:27:32.680
<v Speaker 2>Do you play? I do?

0:27:32.840 --> 0:27:33.280
<v Speaker 3>Yeah?

0:27:34.000 --> 0:27:35.040
<v Speaker 2>Who do you? Who do you play?

0:27:36.720 --> 0:27:41.280
<v Speaker 3>I like playing Peach? And then my personal favorite character

0:27:41.480 --> 0:27:44.520
<v Speaker 3>who I don't play against anyone, is Kirby, even though

0:27:44.560 --> 0:27:48.160
<v Speaker 3>he's like the shittiest, but he's just my personal favorite.

0:27:49.040 --> 0:27:55.119
<v Speaker 2>Do you play any of the other Uh? What is it?

0:27:56.680 --> 0:27:59.320
<v Speaker 2>Do you play any of the other fighting games?

0:28:02.119 --> 0:28:05.840
<v Speaker 3>I tried recently getting into a street Fighter, but as lame,

0:28:05.880 --> 0:28:08.359
<v Speaker 3>it as like my hands kept cramping up, and I

0:28:08.440 --> 0:28:10.440
<v Speaker 3>was like, maybe this isn't for me, and like all

0:28:10.440 --> 0:28:11.760
<v Speaker 3>the combos and.

0:28:13.359 --> 0:28:18.480
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I'm actually I'm gonna take this opportunity to share

0:28:18.560 --> 0:28:21.560
<v Speaker 2>something with my audience, people who are listening to this.

0:28:21.960 --> 0:28:24.800
<v Speaker 2>If you've gotten this far in this conversation and you

0:28:24.920 --> 0:28:28.879
<v Speaker 2>haven't turned this off, and this is of any interest

0:28:28.920 --> 0:28:32.320
<v Speaker 2>of you, do you should check out? And what's your

0:28:32.359 --> 0:28:36.680
<v Speaker 2>name again, Serenity? Surendity? I right, we did the whole

0:28:36.680 --> 0:28:38.960
<v Speaker 2>thing with the press, Serenity and serending. I'm sure you

0:28:38.960 --> 0:28:41.800
<v Speaker 2>know about this. I'm sure maybe you've seen this. There

0:28:41.880 --> 0:28:45.440
<v Speaker 2>is a and and and let me and stay with

0:28:45.480 --> 0:28:48.240
<v Speaker 2>me on this, folks, Okay, this is this is gotta

0:28:48.240 --> 0:28:51.360
<v Speaker 2>stay with me on this. There was a four hour

0:28:51.560 --> 0:28:59.400
<v Speaker 2>long documentary about the competitive Super Smash Brothers scene. It's

0:28:59.400 --> 0:29:03.600
<v Speaker 2>a fantastic stick documentary. It's it's for free on YouTube.

0:29:04.600 --> 0:29:09.360
<v Speaker 2>It's called The Smash Brothers. It's by a guy named

0:29:09.480 --> 0:29:15.320
<v Speaker 2>uh Samus or some sam Ox. It's called the Smash.

0:29:15.400 --> 0:29:18.479
<v Speaker 2>If you just go on YouTube and you search the

0:29:18.520 --> 0:29:25.880
<v Speaker 2>Smash Brothers. I think it's like at nine episodes or something,

0:29:26.040 --> 0:29:28.200
<v Speaker 2>but you go watch the first episode. It's really sick.

0:29:28.240 --> 0:29:31.240
<v Speaker 2>It's how it basically basically what happened with Super Smash

0:29:31.280 --> 0:29:33.920
<v Speaker 2>Brothers made. It's an old game and the community kind

0:29:33.920 --> 0:29:36.600
<v Speaker 2>of died out a little bit, especially when Brawl happened.

0:29:36.960 --> 0:29:41.440
<v Speaker 2>And then this guy makes this documentary about the competitive

0:29:41.480 --> 0:29:45.040
<v Speaker 2>Super Smash Brothers scene, and he kind of like rely,

0:29:45.160 --> 0:29:47.000
<v Speaker 2>like this documentary comes out and everyone's like, oh, this

0:29:47.120 --> 0:29:49.760
<v Speaker 2>is so sick, and then everyone gets in on it

0:29:50.880 --> 0:29:54.600
<v Speaker 2>and it kind of revitalized the scene. So you know

0:29:54.800 --> 0:29:57.920
<v Speaker 2>that a formal recommendation to go check out this four

0:29:57.960 --> 0:30:02.760
<v Speaker 2>hour long Super Smash Brothers documentary on on YouTube. Have

0:30:02.840 --> 0:30:03.320
<v Speaker 2>you seen it?

0:30:04.200 --> 0:30:04.640
<v Speaker 3>Yeah?

0:30:05.640 --> 0:30:06.360
<v Speaker 2>It's pretty cool.

0:30:06.880 --> 0:30:10.240
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, well, and especially it's just nice having like recognition

0:30:10.400 --> 0:30:13.160
<v Speaker 3>for such like, as you said, like a niche group.

0:30:13.240 --> 0:30:16.280
<v Speaker 3>And yeah, so.

0:30:16.280 --> 0:30:19.120
<v Speaker 2>Do you so you don't work in a video what

0:30:19.280 --> 0:30:20.480
<v Speaker 2>do you work in video games?

0:30:22.520 --> 0:30:22.720
<v Speaker 3>No?

0:30:22.920 --> 0:30:23.400
<v Speaker 2>I don't.

0:30:23.600 --> 0:30:26.360
<v Speaker 3>It's just more of like I don't know, a passion,

0:30:26.440 --> 0:30:28.880
<v Speaker 3>I guess, like a really big hobby. So I like

0:30:29.000 --> 0:30:32.160
<v Speaker 3>video games and yeah, once I went to like my

0:30:32.240 --> 0:30:36.040
<v Speaker 3>first one and seeing like competitive gaming, I was like, oh,

0:30:36.080 --> 0:30:39.440
<v Speaker 3>this is addictive and like just especially sitting in the

0:30:39.440 --> 0:30:42.920
<v Speaker 3>crowd and being there, I finally understand the hype for

0:30:43.000 --> 0:30:44.920
<v Speaker 3>sports and other things.

0:30:46.360 --> 0:30:49.440
<v Speaker 2>What. Uh, it's true. It's funny. I was never into

0:30:49.520 --> 0:30:54.680
<v Speaker 2>like sports, but that was kind of like my version

0:30:54.760 --> 0:30:58.640
<v Speaker 2>of sports was it was, yeah, I got it at

0:30:58.640 --> 0:30:59.400
<v Speaker 2>that point.

0:31:00.880 --> 0:31:01.360
<v Speaker 3>Exactly.

0:31:01.520 --> 0:31:05.640
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, And it's funny because the like the biggest esports

0:31:05.760 --> 0:31:12.600
<v Speaker 2>in the world are like mobia games like League of

0:31:12.720 --> 0:31:16.280
<v Speaker 2>Legends and DODA yes. And I don't get that because, like,

0:31:16.400 --> 0:31:19.360
<v Speaker 2>you could be any random motherfucker. You could be like

0:31:19.680 --> 0:31:23.200
<v Speaker 2>sixty year old boomer person and you could be looking

0:31:23.200 --> 0:31:25.080
<v Speaker 2>at a And that's why I don't get why, like

0:31:25.080 --> 0:31:27.040
<v Speaker 2>fighting games aren't the most popular, because you could be

0:31:27.040 --> 0:31:30.160
<v Speaker 2>like a boomer and watching a fighting game and be like, okay,

0:31:30.200 --> 0:31:33.680
<v Speaker 2>the one the guy getting hit a lot is losing.

0:31:34.040 --> 0:31:38.320
<v Speaker 2>Like you understand the concept of a fight, right, But

0:31:38.400 --> 0:31:41.800
<v Speaker 2>I look at a moba and I have no idea

0:31:41.840 --> 0:31:42.520
<v Speaker 2>what's going on?

0:31:43.840 --> 0:31:49.280
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, there's a lot going on definitely, uh yeah, Like yeah,

0:31:49.520 --> 0:31:50.480
<v Speaker 3>especially in League.

0:31:50.960 --> 0:31:52.760
<v Speaker 2>What do you what do you work in? If not

0:31:52.880 --> 0:31:54.800
<v Speaker 2>video games?

0:31:55.520 --> 0:31:59.920
<v Speaker 3>I work for an online technology company that does like

0:32:00.920 --> 0:32:07.480
<v Speaker 3>online monitoring for kind of like the best way I

0:32:07.520 --> 0:32:10.560
<v Speaker 3>can describe it is I do monitoring for like looking

0:32:10.560 --> 0:32:15.120
<v Speaker 3>out for like school shooters and other violence and other things.

0:32:15.560 --> 0:32:17.000
<v Speaker 2>Do you see Do you see a lot of fucked

0:32:17.040 --> 0:32:18.440
<v Speaker 2>up stuff all the time on the internet?

0:32:19.800 --> 0:32:20.240
<v Speaker 4>I do.

0:32:21.080 --> 0:32:29.240
<v Speaker 3>I do. Yeah, well, actually not too much, just because

0:32:29.520 --> 0:32:33.160
<v Speaker 3>I was kind of already interested in it and like

0:32:33.240 --> 0:32:35.920
<v Speaker 3>it's interesting. We get to sometimes, like train with like

0:32:35.960 --> 0:32:40.280
<v Speaker 3>the FBI, and sometimes through that we'll see like really

0:32:40.280 --> 0:32:43.200
<v Speaker 3>graphic images of like crime scenes.

0:32:43.600 --> 0:32:44.840
<v Speaker 4>Uh.

0:32:44.880 --> 0:32:47.680
<v Speaker 3>And actually, like whenever I first went into it, I

0:32:47.720 --> 0:32:50.560
<v Speaker 3>thought it was gonna be kind of like disappointing or

0:32:51.360 --> 0:32:53.160
<v Speaker 3>I was going to be like, oh, no, the youth

0:32:53.280 --> 0:32:58.440
<v Speaker 3>is so like negative. But actually a lot of things

0:32:58.440 --> 0:33:00.880
<v Speaker 3>that I see, like a lot of younger kids are

0:33:00.880 --> 0:33:04.280
<v Speaker 3>really supportive of each other, uh and like really against

0:33:04.360 --> 0:33:08.680
<v Speaker 3>bullying and and like surprisingly like a lot of times

0:33:08.680 --> 0:33:10.640
<v Speaker 3>you don't hear about it, but they are stopping like

0:33:10.680 --> 0:33:14.800
<v Speaker 3>school shootings and another school violence like bombing and things

0:33:14.920 --> 0:33:19.520
<v Speaker 3>up pretty frequently, which is so well, I guess that

0:33:19.560 --> 0:33:21.720
<v Speaker 3>probably sounds negative, but no, that's not.

0:33:21.640 --> 0:33:23.840
<v Speaker 2>That what why I feel like that's well, I guess

0:33:23.920 --> 0:33:25.880
<v Speaker 2>you're right. I guess that's a double edged sword because

0:33:25.960 --> 0:33:28.920
<v Speaker 2>it is positive, but I guess negative that there it's

0:33:28.960 --> 0:33:33.920
<v Speaker 2>happening in the first place. Yeah, but I mean that's nice.

0:33:33.960 --> 0:33:36.680
<v Speaker 2>That's so okay, because here's the thing I I I

0:33:38.040 --> 0:33:40.200
<v Speaker 2>I worry for the children, you know what I mean,

0:33:40.240 --> 0:33:41.320
<v Speaker 2>because they're kind of fucked up.

0:33:41.400 --> 0:33:41.800
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

0:33:41.920 --> 0:33:45.480
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and so he that you're you know, you're monitoring

0:33:45.520 --> 0:33:49.360
<v Speaker 2>their chats. Wait, so that fucking government liked. Do they

0:33:49.400 --> 0:33:53.760
<v Speaker 2>actually they monitor well our ship like that. I can't

0:33:54.640 --> 0:33:57.840
<v Speaker 2>whistle whist the Therapy Gecko podcast right now.

0:34:00.680 --> 0:34:02.600
<v Speaker 3>So the company worked for it. I can't say their name,

0:34:02.680 --> 0:34:05.920
<v Speaker 3>but we're kind of like we try to be as

0:34:06.000 --> 0:34:09.520
<v Speaker 3>non invasive as possible. So you'd have to type something

0:34:09.680 --> 0:34:12.040
<v Speaker 3>or do something on a computer that the school has

0:34:12.080 --> 0:34:16.160
<v Speaker 3>like paid to sign up for monitoring. So a lot

0:34:16.160 --> 0:34:17.799
<v Speaker 3>of times, you know, it'll have to be like I'm

0:34:17.800 --> 0:34:19.399
<v Speaker 3>going to bring a gun or I have a gun,

0:34:19.480 --> 0:34:21.080
<v Speaker 3>or I'm gonna shoot up a school, and then you

0:34:21.200 --> 0:34:24.239
<v Speaker 3>kind of trigger something and then I review it and

0:34:24.280 --> 0:34:25.920
<v Speaker 3>then if I have to call the school or if

0:34:25.920 --> 0:34:28.480
<v Speaker 3>I have to call the police. We also do like

0:34:28.600 --> 0:34:34.480
<v Speaker 3>suicide uh watching Sometimes the funniest part is it will

0:34:34.480 --> 0:34:38.719
<v Speaker 3>trigger for I see a lot of porn, and then

0:34:38.960 --> 0:34:41.560
<v Speaker 3>I also see like a lot of fan fiction that

0:34:41.680 --> 0:34:43.720
<v Speaker 3>the kids will write. And the fan fiction is always

0:34:43.760 --> 0:34:47.000
<v Speaker 3>really funny because sometimes it'll be like, oh no, it

0:34:47.080 --> 0:34:49.279
<v Speaker 3>is this child talking to an adult like this, but

0:34:49.440 --> 0:34:53.960
<v Speaker 3>it's just I'm writing like a Wolf fan fiction or

0:34:54.440 --> 0:34:55.680
<v Speaker 3>Harry Potter or something.

0:34:56.480 --> 0:35:00.360
<v Speaker 2>So these are like, oh so this is like on

0:35:00.920 --> 0:35:03.120
<v Speaker 2>this is like on the school computer.

0:35:05.120 --> 0:35:08.239
<v Speaker 1>Yes, yeah, Okay, Okay, I.

0:35:08.160 --> 0:35:10.200
<v Speaker 2>Mean, I mean yeah, I feel like if you're watching

0:35:10.239 --> 0:35:12.719
<v Speaker 2>porn and talking about bringing a gun in on the

0:35:12.719 --> 0:35:14.400
<v Speaker 2>school computer, you kind of fuck around.

0:35:14.200 --> 0:35:18.680
<v Speaker 3>And find out, right, Yeah.

0:35:17.719 --> 0:35:19.839
<v Speaker 2>What about kids who are like I feel like there's

0:35:19.840 --> 0:35:26.480
<v Speaker 2>a lot of the school shooter genre of joke is

0:35:27.320 --> 0:35:30.160
<v Speaker 2>oh is out? Like how many times is a kid

0:35:30.160 --> 0:35:31.480
<v Speaker 2>like I'm going to bring a gun to school? But

0:35:31.520 --> 0:35:34.480
<v Speaker 2>he's he's just uh, he's just he's just trolling.

0:35:36.040 --> 0:35:38.520
<v Speaker 3>Well, so that definitely happens. That's kind of part of

0:35:38.560 --> 0:35:40.600
<v Speaker 3>my job is I have to go and look and

0:35:40.680 --> 0:35:43.560
<v Speaker 3>kind of make like the judgment or the call. We're

0:35:43.560 --> 0:35:45.280
<v Speaker 3>always going to air like on the side of caution.

0:35:47.560 --> 0:35:50.240
<v Speaker 3>But there are some schools where they've already had shootings

0:35:50.280 --> 0:35:52.879
<v Speaker 3>in their school, so they'll be like very serious about it,

0:35:52.960 --> 0:35:55.680
<v Speaker 3>and any type of like joke or comments they kind

0:35:55.680 --> 0:35:57.719
<v Speaker 3>of want to know. So you'll end up emailing the

0:35:57.760 --> 0:36:01.080
<v Speaker 3>counselor or calling them let them know, and then they'll

0:36:01.120 --> 0:36:08.320
<v Speaker 3>review it. Yeah, just because well obviously like a serious issue,

0:36:08.320 --> 0:36:11.640
<v Speaker 3>but a lot of kids will also make like, you know,

0:36:11.760 --> 0:36:13.719
<v Speaker 3>like when you're having a shitty day, like how I

0:36:13.719 --> 0:36:16.279
<v Speaker 3>want to kill myself or and they don't really mean

0:36:16.320 --> 0:36:18.799
<v Speaker 3>that they literally want to die. But that's also part

0:36:18.840 --> 0:36:21.880
<v Speaker 3>of my job is just making the determination of that

0:36:22.080 --> 0:36:24.399
<v Speaker 3>and deciding what to do.

0:36:26.239 --> 0:36:27.880
<v Speaker 2>Do you think the kids will be all right?

0:36:29.680 --> 0:36:34.200
<v Speaker 3>I really do. I really do think the kids will

0:36:34.200 --> 0:36:36.000
<v Speaker 3>be alright. I definitely do.

0:36:38.160 --> 0:36:47.239
<v Speaker 2>Well, that's reassuring. Well, what what do you who do

0:36:47.280 --> 0:36:49.719
<v Speaker 2>you mean in street Fighter? Is that street Fighter your

0:36:49.760 --> 0:36:50.600
<v Speaker 2>main fighting game?

0:36:52.960 --> 0:36:54.680
<v Speaker 3>No? I would definitely say it's Melee?

0:36:56.200 --> 0:36:57.120
<v Speaker 2>Are you good?

0:36:57.680 --> 0:37:05.359
<v Speaker 3>Absolutely no, No, I mean I wouldn't say I am.

0:37:05.760 --> 0:37:07.200
<v Speaker 2>I got you know what I should? I want to

0:37:07.239 --> 0:37:12.279
<v Speaker 2>do a twitch stream one day where I I I

0:37:12.320 --> 0:37:15.479
<v Speaker 2>fuck I Slippy net play people. I actually did that once.

0:37:15.719 --> 0:37:18.839
<v Speaker 2>I actually I remember a long time ago. I was

0:37:18.960 --> 0:37:22.960
<v Speaker 2>I was streamed like as a Gecko and then I

0:37:23.160 --> 0:37:24.880
<v Speaker 2>uh said, like I was on I was either on

0:37:24.920 --> 0:37:27.000
<v Speaker 2>the phone with somebody or in the chat with somebody,

0:37:27.480 --> 0:37:29.160
<v Speaker 2>and they were like, yo, I play I'm down to

0:37:29.160 --> 0:37:33.160
<v Speaker 2>play you. And I just streamed myself like I was

0:37:33.239 --> 0:37:36.680
<v Speaker 2>doing actual video game twitch streaming, and I streamed myself

0:37:36.719 --> 0:37:39.160
<v Speaker 2>on Slippy. For those who don't know, Slippy is when

0:37:39.200 --> 0:37:41.480
<v Speaker 2>you can play Melee online with other people. And I

0:37:41.480 --> 0:37:44.280
<v Speaker 2>streamed myself on Slippy and I just got my fucking

0:37:44.360 --> 0:37:45.040
<v Speaker 2>ass whooped.

0:37:47.640 --> 0:37:52.720
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, then it gets pretty brutal on there. Some people

0:37:52.760 --> 0:37:54.359
<v Speaker 3>are well, I mean, yeah, a lot of people are

0:37:54.360 --> 0:37:55.880
<v Speaker 3>really good. I was surprised.

0:37:58.560 --> 0:38:02.719
<v Speaker 2>Do you play online? Yeah? Are you good?

0:38:04.640 --> 0:38:09.680
<v Speaker 3>No, it's mainly for fun, yeah, just mainly mainly for

0:38:09.719 --> 0:38:12.359
<v Speaker 3>fun a hobby. I mean, some of my friends are

0:38:12.400 --> 0:38:16.640
<v Speaker 3>really really good. But I'm just a casual player. I

0:38:16.640 --> 0:38:18.920
<v Speaker 3>mean I play Kirby so that if anyone knows that

0:38:19.000 --> 0:38:20.600
<v Speaker 3>kind of speaks for itself.

0:38:22.000 --> 0:38:27.279
<v Speaker 2>Well, certainty it was I will I'll say this. I'll

0:38:27.280 --> 0:38:31.000
<v Speaker 2>say it was serene to talk to you. You probably get

0:38:31.120 --> 0:38:34.040
<v Speaker 2>jokes about your name. I've realized every time I make

0:38:34.080 --> 0:38:37.000
<v Speaker 2>a joke about someone's name, they look at me, uh,

0:38:37.080 --> 0:38:40.160
<v Speaker 2>with such a disgust because they've heard that joke a

0:38:40.280 --> 0:38:44.400
<v Speaker 2>hundred times. But Serenity, it was serene to talk to you.

0:38:44.440 --> 0:38:46.560
<v Speaker 2>Is there anything else you want to say to the

0:38:46.560 --> 0:38:48.239
<v Speaker 2>people of the computer before we go?

0:38:50.760 --> 0:38:53.040
<v Speaker 3>I just want to say hi, chat and give a

0:38:53.080 --> 0:38:55.400
<v Speaker 3>shout out to the gets girlies.

0:38:56.560 --> 0:39:02.760
<v Speaker 2>Rock and roll having good night, Serene, rich Ridity, have.

0:39:02.640 --> 0:39:03.200
<v Speaker 3>A good night.

0:39:03.440 --> 0:39:10.080
<v Speaker 6>Bye bye.

0:39:11.640 --> 0:39:15.520
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, dude, send me send me some send me slippy codes.

0:39:16.640 --> 0:39:18.680
<v Speaker 2>If you if you, if you're listening to this and

0:39:18.719 --> 0:39:21.160
<v Speaker 2>you play competitive super smash Bros. Melee, send me a

0:39:21.160 --> 0:39:26.919
<v Speaker 2>fucking slippy code, and uh, if I just completely run

0:39:26.960 --> 0:39:29.120
<v Speaker 2>out of anything else to ever do with my life,

0:39:31.320 --> 0:39:36.080
<v Speaker 2>maybe I'll play Strangers and Slippy. That could be fun. Actually,

0:39:36.120 --> 0:39:38.200
<v Speaker 2>that would be a fun stream. Maybe I'll do that. Yeah,

0:39:38.239 --> 0:39:39.520
<v Speaker 2>send me slippy codes.

0:39:41.520 --> 0:39:45.160
<v Speaker 3>All from Ripe Potato Man to accept, Press one to

0:39:45.239 --> 0:39:46.759
<v Speaker 3>send a voicemail, Press two.

0:39:47.920 --> 0:39:48.960
<v Speaker 2>Hey man, what's your name?

0:39:50.680 --> 0:39:51.719
<v Speaker 7>I'm Ripe Potato Man.

0:39:52.480 --> 0:39:54.560
<v Speaker 2>All right, well, Ripe, how how old are you?

0:39:55.960 --> 0:39:56.719
<v Speaker 7>I'm twenty three?

0:39:57.360 --> 0:39:58.960
<v Speaker 2>Cool man. Have we ever spoken before?

0:40:00.080 --> 0:40:01.360
<v Speaker 7>Nope, never spoken before?

0:40:01.840 --> 0:40:04.520
<v Speaker 2>Well, Ripe, what's uh? What's going on with you? Man?

0:40:04.560 --> 0:40:04.640
<v Speaker 4>What?

0:40:05.120 --> 0:40:05.680
<v Speaker 2>How's life?

0:40:08.040 --> 0:40:08.840
<v Speaker 3>Honest to goodness?

0:40:08.960 --> 0:40:10.080
<v Speaker 7>Life should be going great?

0:40:11.239 --> 0:40:13.160
<v Speaker 2>Life should be going great? Why? Why?

0:40:13.360 --> 0:40:13.480
<v Speaker 4>Uh?

0:40:14.000 --> 0:40:14.720
<v Speaker 2>Why this should?

0:40:16.600 --> 0:40:16.839
<v Speaker 5>Well?

0:40:17.280 --> 0:40:19.920
<v Speaker 7>I don't know. I got my dream job. Things have

0:40:19.960 --> 0:40:22.719
<v Speaker 7>been going great for me, but I don't know. I

0:40:23.200 --> 0:40:29.319
<v Speaker 7>lack the sense of community. I don't talk to anybody. Yeah,

0:40:29.360 --> 0:40:32.359
<v Speaker 7>and I don't know it just things have just been

0:40:32.360 --> 0:40:35.719
<v Speaker 7>going great for me in every on paper way. But

0:40:36.280 --> 0:40:40.520
<v Speaker 7>I just feel like things just haven't been living up

0:40:40.520 --> 0:40:41.640
<v Speaker 7>to their expectations.

0:40:41.760 --> 0:40:44.640
<v Speaker 2>You know, through most of my life, I've been a

0:40:44.680 --> 0:40:46.560
<v Speaker 2>fairly I mean, I've always had. I've always had a

0:40:46.560 --> 0:40:48.080
<v Speaker 2>lot of good friends. I've always had a lot of

0:40:48.080 --> 0:40:49.920
<v Speaker 2>good friends. But I think in my mind, i've always

0:40:50.280 --> 0:40:55.239
<v Speaker 2>I've been attached to like stoicism in this sense of

0:40:56.000 --> 0:40:59.000
<v Speaker 2>there's what you can and what you can't control. And

0:40:59.160 --> 0:41:06.080
<v Speaker 2>one of the great eighth difficulties of life is that

0:41:06.120 --> 0:41:09.279
<v Speaker 2>you cannot control other people unless if you're like a

0:41:09.360 --> 0:41:13.400
<v Speaker 2>crazy person, then you try. Then you like form a

0:41:13.640 --> 0:41:17.880
<v Speaker 2>then you try really hard to like feed people poison

0:41:17.960 --> 0:41:19.840
<v Speaker 2>and control them and all that stuff.

0:41:19.880 --> 0:41:25.279
<v Speaker 6>But but but normally, but normally, normally it's like, you know,

0:41:25.400 --> 0:41:27.120
<v Speaker 6>I'm I'm I try to focus in the realm of

0:41:27.120 --> 0:41:29.960
<v Speaker 6>what I can control and then not what I can't control.

0:41:30.200 --> 0:41:32.880
<v Speaker 2>And so community is a tricky one because it's really important.

0:41:32.880 --> 0:41:35.040
<v Speaker 2>You can't just be an isolationist. You can't just fucking

0:41:35.120 --> 0:41:39.040
<v Speaker 2>not talk to anybody or have no friends or you

0:41:39.160 --> 0:41:42.799
<v Speaker 2>just can't do it. And I'm trying, I'm in my head,

0:41:42.840 --> 0:41:46.160
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, I'll, you know, I'm all I'm responsible for

0:41:46.160 --> 0:41:49.120
<v Speaker 2>solving all my problems, right, so how do I solve

0:41:49.160 --> 0:41:55.360
<v Speaker 2>a problem that, uh is, this has nothing to do

0:41:55.400 --> 0:41:57.440
<v Speaker 2>with that has nothing to do with me, because it's

0:41:57.440 --> 0:41:59.480
<v Speaker 2>about other people, right, it's like, how do you You

0:41:59.480 --> 0:42:01.680
<v Speaker 2>can't make somebody love you, you can't make somebody be

0:42:01.719 --> 0:42:06.239
<v Speaker 2>your friends. But and I've been thinking about this a lot,

0:42:06.239 --> 0:42:07.799
<v Speaker 2>because I've to think about this my whole life, and

0:42:07.840 --> 0:42:11.520
<v Speaker 2>I think you can. What is within your control is

0:42:11.560 --> 0:42:16.960
<v Speaker 2>to put yourself in more situations where you are around

0:42:17.000 --> 0:42:17.600
<v Speaker 2>other people.

0:42:18.600 --> 0:42:21.640
<v Speaker 7>And uh, but that's the real problem. That's the real problem.

0:42:21.719 --> 0:42:24.840
<v Speaker 7>Is that in this day and age, I can try

0:42:24.880 --> 0:42:28.319
<v Speaker 7>to go and go to a bar, or maybe go

0:42:28.400 --> 0:42:32.440
<v Speaker 7>out and try more social exercises and do more athletic

0:42:32.600 --> 0:42:36.040
<v Speaker 7>things that can bring friends to you. But the truth

0:42:36.080 --> 0:42:38.600
<v Speaker 7>of the matter is is that in this day and age,

0:42:38.600 --> 0:42:40.719
<v Speaker 7>it's really hard to try to make friends. Like all

0:42:40.760 --> 0:42:43.760
<v Speaker 7>of my friends at this point are seven hours away.

0:42:43.920 --> 0:42:46.440
<v Speaker 7>I've moved so far away from all the people that

0:42:46.440 --> 0:42:48.879
<v Speaker 7>I've grown that I've learned these things from that I've

0:42:49.080 --> 0:42:52.360
<v Speaker 7>developed friendships with to try to take this dream job

0:42:52.440 --> 0:42:54.759
<v Speaker 7>that I can have a salary that can allow me

0:42:54.920 --> 0:42:58.239
<v Speaker 7>to survive in this economy. But the truth is is

0:42:58.400 --> 0:43:02.160
<v Speaker 7>just that now that I've find only have some level

0:43:02.200 --> 0:43:06.560
<v Speaker 7>of affluence, I've lost all of the social characteristics that

0:43:06.640 --> 0:43:09.720
<v Speaker 7>give me the ability to be the person to give

0:43:09.800 --> 0:43:12.120
<v Speaker 7>those people the person that I want to be.

0:43:13.760 --> 0:43:19.200
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, that sounds that sounds juicy. How what where

0:43:19.239 --> 0:43:19.840
<v Speaker 2>do you live.

0:43:21.440 --> 0:43:21.759
<v Speaker 4>Right now?

0:43:21.760 --> 0:43:24.959
<v Speaker 7>I'm living in North Carolina. I grew up in in

0:43:25.040 --> 0:43:28.080
<v Speaker 7>upstate New York, but I moved to Tennessee when I

0:43:28.160 --> 0:43:31.120
<v Speaker 7>was a kid, and I developed these friendships when I

0:43:31.160 --> 0:43:34.600
<v Speaker 7>was a teenager that actually gave me friends that were

0:43:34.600 --> 0:43:36.839
<v Speaker 7>real friends. And then as soon as I got a

0:43:36.920 --> 0:43:40.719
<v Speaker 7>good job offer, I moved away to North Carolina to

0:43:42.040 --> 0:43:45.200
<v Speaker 7>you know, to have that sense to move on with

0:43:45.280 --> 0:43:48.200
<v Speaker 7>my life and be a person and gain the job

0:43:48.200 --> 0:43:51.040
<v Speaker 7>that I've been working for for a long time to get. Yeah,

0:43:51.080 --> 0:43:52.719
<v Speaker 7>and then all of a sudden, once I had it,

0:43:53.600 --> 0:43:54.880
<v Speaker 7>I've lost everything.

0:43:55.320 --> 0:44:03.560
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Yeah, very tricky, very tricky. Hmmm mmmmmmm. Okay, what

0:44:03.600 --> 0:44:05.040
<v Speaker 2>have you done? And you do you live in like

0:44:05.040 --> 0:44:07.360
<v Speaker 2>a big city in North Carolina?

0:44:07.840 --> 0:44:10.319
<v Speaker 7>I am about an hour north of Charlotte, so I'm

0:44:10.360 --> 0:44:13.960
<v Speaker 7>in a smaller city area, but it's and I I mean,

0:44:14.480 --> 0:44:17.040
<v Speaker 7>I can't afford gas to drive towards a larger city

0:44:17.280 --> 0:44:20.000
<v Speaker 7>or even I mean, truthfully, I just spent my last

0:44:20.040 --> 0:44:23.640
<v Speaker 7>hour watching a football game and you know, just having

0:44:23.640 --> 0:44:26.279
<v Speaker 7>some maide in the oven pizza and that was the

0:44:26.280 --> 0:44:27.279
<v Speaker 7>best part of my week.

0:44:28.320 --> 0:44:31.719
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, dude, Yeah, dude, I'm laughing. I'm sorry. I

0:44:32.040 --> 0:44:34.520
<v Speaker 2>said that's juicy, and I laughed only I it's I

0:44:34.560 --> 0:44:36.680
<v Speaker 2>resonate with you. That's why I'm laughing.

0:44:36.880 --> 0:44:40.120
<v Speaker 7>No, I totally get it. No, because you understand. Yeah,

0:44:40.880 --> 0:44:42.400
<v Speaker 7>so I feel like in a pickle.

0:44:43.040 --> 0:44:54.799
<v Speaker 2>All right? Hm m mmmmmm hmmm. Tell give me some

0:44:54.840 --> 0:44:57.200
<v Speaker 2>other things. What else have you tried? Right? What else

0:44:57.239 --> 0:44:57.800
<v Speaker 2>have you tried?

0:44:59.480 --> 0:44:59.719
<v Speaker 3>Well?

0:44:59.760 --> 0:45:04.600
<v Speaker 5>I'm I'm not a religious person, but I went to

0:45:04.680 --> 0:45:07.720
<v Speaker 5>church this morning, you know, just to find a sense

0:45:07.760 --> 0:45:10.200
<v Speaker 5>of community because I just I need to talk to

0:45:10.320 --> 0:45:13.719
<v Speaker 5>a living person and outside of my work, because the

0:45:13.760 --> 0:45:14.920
<v Speaker 5>people at my work.

0:45:14.760 --> 0:45:16.880
<v Speaker 7>They they talk to me, they like me, I feel

0:45:16.880 --> 0:45:19.000
<v Speaker 7>like and I feel like I've gained a lot of

0:45:19.080 --> 0:45:20.880
<v Speaker 7>community and a lot of as of friendship there. But

0:45:21.200 --> 0:45:22.520
<v Speaker 7>at the end of the day, there are people I

0:45:22.560 --> 0:45:23.560
<v Speaker 7>work with, you know.

0:45:24.280 --> 0:45:26.640
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, And what do you like?

0:45:26.680 --> 0:45:28.160
<v Speaker 7>I sorry?

0:45:28.239 --> 0:45:29.480
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. What do you like to do?

0:45:30.200 --> 0:45:32.720
<v Speaker 7>I like to build things. I like to do things.

0:45:32.920 --> 0:45:33.879
<v Speaker 4>I like to just.

0:45:36.040 --> 0:45:39.640
<v Speaker 7>Add a positive force to the universe build things.

0:45:39.680 --> 0:45:40.960
<v Speaker 2>What things do you like to build?

0:45:41.480 --> 0:45:46.400
<v Speaker 7>I build experimental vehicles, I build houses, I build whatever

0:45:46.440 --> 0:45:48.560
<v Speaker 7>you name it. I I try to build, you know,

0:45:48.719 --> 0:45:50.520
<v Speaker 7>if there's a problem, I try to solve it.

0:45:50.840 --> 0:45:53.960
<v Speaker 2>Okay, So you're like a what's I don't know if

0:45:54.000 --> 0:45:56.120
<v Speaker 2>there's a word for what you are. But you build.

0:45:56.239 --> 0:45:57.960
<v Speaker 2>You build vehicles, not.

0:45:57.880 --> 0:46:01.760
<v Speaker 7>Like cars, but more like I. I build one wheel,

0:46:02.239 --> 0:46:05.920
<v Speaker 7>you knowicycle, broomstick type things, you know, like I, I

0:46:06.000 --> 0:46:08.160
<v Speaker 7>try to build the weirdest thing I can think of.

0:46:08.280 --> 0:46:11.279
<v Speaker 7>I use three D printers, I use whatever I can

0:46:11.320 --> 0:46:14.680
<v Speaker 7>come up with to solve whatever problem I have in

0:46:14.719 --> 0:46:15.879
<v Speaker 7>my head and make it work.

0:46:16.360 --> 0:46:16.680
<v Speaker 2>Okay.

0:46:16.800 --> 0:46:18.840
<v Speaker 7>I have hype hobbies to a degree.

0:46:19.400 --> 0:46:22.160
<v Speaker 2>Okay, so what you what you should do is take

0:46:22.200 --> 0:46:26.160
<v Speaker 2>those hobbies right like three D printing and uh building

0:46:26.680 --> 0:46:29.279
<v Speaker 2>and here here if I could can I, if I

0:46:29.280 --> 0:46:31.919
<v Speaker 2>could give you some homework, and I'll do it too.

0:46:32.280 --> 0:46:34.520
<v Speaker 2>If I give you some homework, would be to take

0:46:34.560 --> 0:46:36.880
<v Speaker 2>that hobby that you have to build, because that's what

0:46:36.880 --> 0:46:39.800
<v Speaker 2>you just described is really great. Actually, so like the

0:46:40.200 --> 0:46:46.719
<v Speaker 2>hobby of you know, three D printing of building things.

0:46:47.640 --> 0:46:52.840
<v Speaker 2>Charlotte's uh uh m hmm. Yeah. Okay, you live in

0:46:52.960 --> 0:46:54.759
<v Speaker 2>you live in somewhere that's big enough I think for

0:46:54.840 --> 0:46:58.680
<v Speaker 2>you to do this. Iither find think about different groups,

0:46:58.800 --> 0:47:02.920
<v Speaker 2>different in persons, social groups like a robotics club like

0:47:03.120 --> 0:47:05.080
<v Speaker 2>uh like like when you like, when you were in college,

0:47:05.560 --> 0:47:11.720
<v Speaker 2>they had all these clubs. Right, there's clubs. Club clubs

0:47:11.760 --> 0:47:14.640
<v Speaker 2>still exist, they still exist even as an adult. So

0:47:16.200 --> 0:47:18.400
<v Speaker 2>I would think of some clubs that are related to building,

0:47:18.400 --> 0:47:22.839
<v Speaker 2>whether it's like a fucking architect meetup or a hackathon

0:47:23.360 --> 0:47:26.840
<v Speaker 2>or some ship like that. Right, Okay, So you scour

0:47:27.040 --> 0:47:31.160
<v Speaker 2>the internet. You scour Facebook and meet up and Google

0:47:31.360 --> 0:47:34.880
<v Speaker 2>and Craigslist, and well, don't scour too much on Craigslist

0:47:34.880 --> 0:47:37.319
<v Speaker 2>because then you'll end up sucking a guy's talk. That

0:47:37.360 --> 0:47:39.040
<v Speaker 2>wasn't funny, you know, I tried, I was, I was like,

0:47:39.480 --> 0:47:41.719
<v Speaker 2>that wasn't funny. I wish I didn't say that. No,

0:47:41.760 --> 0:47:43.920
<v Speaker 2>it wasn't. It wasn't funny, it was it was happy,

0:47:44.000 --> 0:47:51.719
<v Speaker 2>it was that wasn't funny. Uh okay, So so do that, right,

0:47:52.000 --> 0:47:54.640
<v Speaker 2>and here's what you here's the here's the key, here's

0:47:54.680 --> 0:47:56.960
<v Speaker 2>the truth, here's what we here's what we Here's where

0:47:57.000 --> 0:48:01.440
<v Speaker 2>we take our fucking power back. Okay with here's where

0:48:01.480 --> 0:48:04.239
<v Speaker 2>we take our power back? Right? Okay, If we don't

0:48:04.320 --> 0:48:07.200
<v Speaker 2>find any of this shit, what do we do? Right?

0:48:10.000 --> 0:48:10.440
<v Speaker 7>I don't know.

0:48:10.880 --> 0:48:16.880
<v Speaker 2>You make it? You make it you you put yourself

0:48:16.880 --> 0:48:20.920
<v Speaker 2>out there, okay, and you say hey at the Charlotte

0:48:22.320 --> 0:48:27.040
<v Speaker 2>Public Rec Center every every first Tuesday of the month

0:48:27.560 --> 0:48:31.560
<v Speaker 2>where we're doing a building event. And you go on

0:48:31.640 --> 0:48:35.160
<v Speaker 2>Facebook and Craigslist and and and meet and you and

0:48:35.239 --> 0:48:38.760
<v Speaker 2>you make a little flyer with or you hire somebody

0:48:38.800 --> 0:48:41.560
<v Speaker 2>else with all your money that you have, and you

0:48:41.640 --> 0:48:45.120
<v Speaker 2>and you and you make a flyer and you fucking

0:48:45.640 --> 0:48:48.440
<v Speaker 2>make the event right and even if it goes just

0:48:48.920 --> 0:48:51.360
<v Speaker 2>and just doing this just to be like I try

0:48:51.640 --> 0:48:53.640
<v Speaker 2>just to be like. I took my loneliness and my

0:48:53.640 --> 0:48:55.759
<v Speaker 2>community problem into my own hands. I didn't wait for

0:48:55.800 --> 0:48:58.520
<v Speaker 2>somebody else to fucking do it for me. It'll make

0:48:58.560 --> 0:49:00.799
<v Speaker 2>you feel better. And there's a lead least one other

0:49:01.239 --> 0:49:05.960
<v Speaker 2>lonely motherfucker playing with legos in your area that you

0:49:06.040 --> 0:49:10.680
<v Speaker 2>guys can uh you know, hang out. So that's my

0:49:11.160 --> 0:49:14.040
<v Speaker 2>that's my that's my that's my practical advice to you.

0:49:15.239 --> 0:49:17.799
<v Speaker 7>And wile I'm just I'm going to ask this not

0:49:17.880 --> 0:49:20.800
<v Speaker 7>just for me, but for everybody who listens to you religiously,

0:49:20.840 --> 0:49:22.479
<v Speaker 7>because I do. I listen to you all the time,

0:49:22.480 --> 0:49:25.000
<v Speaker 7>Matt right, I love all of your streams.

0:49:25.280 --> 0:49:25.560
<v Speaker 2>Thanks.

0:49:26.080 --> 0:49:29.279
<v Speaker 7>I just want to ask you this question. Purely in

0:49:29.440 --> 0:49:32.840
<v Speaker 7>this day and age. All right, we've lost so much

0:49:33.080 --> 0:49:35.920
<v Speaker 7>when it comes to social interaction. What would be your

0:49:35.960 --> 0:49:38.879
<v Speaker 7>advice to somebody who's trying to make friends, who's trying

0:49:38.880 --> 0:49:41.120
<v Speaker 7>to meet people, who's trying to get out of this

0:49:41.400 --> 0:49:45.280
<v Speaker 7>horrible social bubble that we've constructed over the last few years,

0:49:46.480 --> 0:49:48.920
<v Speaker 7>to meet people in person? What is your advice?

0:49:49.719 --> 0:49:51.799
<v Speaker 2>Well, first of all, I just I just gave I

0:49:51.840 --> 0:49:53.840
<v Speaker 2>just told you my advice. That's exactly my advice.

0:49:53.880 --> 0:49:56.040
<v Speaker 7>And for me personally, no, no, for me personally, but

0:49:56.080 --> 0:49:59.040
<v Speaker 7>I genuinely need that, like for all the rest of

0:49:59.080 --> 0:49:59.920
<v Speaker 7>the people who are listening.

0:50:00.480 --> 0:50:02.319
<v Speaker 2>No, but but but but it wasn't It wasn't for

0:50:02.320 --> 0:50:04.200
<v Speaker 2>you personally. It wasn't for you personally. It was a

0:50:04.280 --> 0:50:06.239
<v Speaker 2>very practical thing. It was what are your hobbies, what

0:50:06.239 --> 0:50:08.000
<v Speaker 2>are your interests? What are you naturally attracted to? That's

0:50:08.040 --> 0:50:10.160
<v Speaker 2>what I asked you. You said, it's building, And so

0:50:10.200 --> 0:50:13.719
<v Speaker 2>it's okay, take all of your natural hobbies and things

0:50:13.760 --> 0:50:16.160
<v Speaker 2>that you're into and attracted to, and you go out

0:50:16.200 --> 0:50:19.920
<v Speaker 2>and you find in person events related to them, and

0:50:19.960 --> 0:50:23.960
<v Speaker 2>if those don't exist, you create them. That's the advice. Yeah.

0:50:24.000 --> 0:50:29.160
<v Speaker 2>And also, I'm not I'm not one hundred percent convinced

0:50:29.160 --> 0:50:31.600
<v Speaker 2>that I agree with you that we are in the

0:50:31.680 --> 0:50:32.919
<v Speaker 2>least connected age ever.

0:50:34.400 --> 0:50:36.799
<v Speaker 7>It's oh, we're in the most connected age ever, but

0:50:36.880 --> 0:50:39.440
<v Speaker 7>not the most socially connected age ever. Where people can

0:50:39.480 --> 0:50:42.040
<v Speaker 7>see each other in person. You want to meet someone online,

0:50:42.280 --> 0:50:44.600
<v Speaker 7>you can meet them in line in a second. If

0:50:44.600 --> 0:50:46.520
<v Speaker 7>you want to find someone who has the same interest

0:50:46.600 --> 0:50:49.200
<v Speaker 7>as you, you can meet them hands down, way faster

0:50:49.239 --> 0:50:51.759
<v Speaker 7>than you ever could before. But the truth is that

0:50:52.200 --> 0:50:55.200
<v Speaker 7>this this person to person connection that you can find

0:50:55.239 --> 0:50:58.000
<v Speaker 7>from just meeting people in person. I feel like we've.

0:50:57.840 --> 0:51:01.919
<v Speaker 2>Lost well, how old are you? Twenty three?

0:51:03.040 --> 0:51:03.600
<v Speaker 6>Yeah?

0:51:03.840 --> 0:51:06.200
<v Speaker 2>Okay, well I'm I'm you And I don't really have

0:51:06.320 --> 0:51:10.440
<v Speaker 2>a good sample size for that because we're of the

0:51:10.480 --> 0:51:12.919
<v Speaker 2>age that where we grew up with with I don't

0:51:13.200 --> 0:51:16.320
<v Speaker 2>we don't remember a time where there wasn't an internet.

0:51:17.880 --> 0:51:18.920
<v Speaker 6>I don't know if you've talked.

0:51:18.760 --> 0:51:23.279
<v Speaker 2>To people who who who do But but I'm gonna

0:51:23.280 --> 0:51:27.879
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna that whole question. Are we lonelier now than

0:51:27.920 --> 0:51:33.120
<v Speaker 2>we were before? Is uh? I don't necessarily think I

0:51:33.160 --> 0:51:36.040
<v Speaker 2>agree with that, because the Internet holds so much better

0:51:36.120 --> 0:51:38.320
<v Speaker 2>everything I just told you to do, Find an interest,

0:51:38.760 --> 0:51:41.600
<v Speaker 2>find and then find an in person group that relates

0:51:41.600 --> 0:51:44.040
<v Speaker 2>to interest, and then that doesn't exist create it. That

0:51:44.120 --> 0:51:46.480
<v Speaker 2>whole process that I just told you is a thousand

0:51:46.560 --> 0:51:48.360
<v Speaker 2>times easier with the Internet.

0:51:49.400 --> 0:51:52.200
<v Speaker 7>Oh yeah, yeah, it definitely is because you can just

0:51:52.239 --> 0:51:55.120
<v Speaker 7>go on whatever whatever social media website you want to

0:51:55.160 --> 0:51:57.800
<v Speaker 7>choose and find people and find a group.

0:51:58.120 --> 0:51:59.440
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, and you can hand.

0:51:59.360 --> 0:52:03.400
<v Speaker 2>That and it's never been easier to go suck a

0:52:03.480 --> 0:52:05.960
<v Speaker 2>random guy's cock, which is a form of connection.

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<v Speaker 7>God bless Craigslist.

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<v Speaker 2>What's your name again? Write potato man, Write potato man. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>are you gonna be honest with man? It's fine if not.

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<v Speaker 2>Are you gonna do this?

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<v Speaker 7>I'm gonna try.

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<v Speaker 2>I'll let you finish. I'm sorry, I let you finish.

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<v Speaker 2>Go ahead.

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<v Speaker 7>No, I'm gonna be honest with you. I've thought of

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<v Speaker 7>doing this before. I genuinely have. And to be honest

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<v Speaker 7>with you, there's a lot of trepidation that comes from

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<v Speaker 7>the fact that just should I should I not? But

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<v Speaker 7>the fact that I've actually been able to get on

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<v Speaker 7>the phone with you after all the streams I've watched

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<v Speaker 7>with you. I'm going to try to do it because

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<v Speaker 7>you motivate me to do it.

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<v Speaker 2>Please, dear fucking God, if this works for you, let

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<v Speaker 2>me send me like an Instagram DM. I would love

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<v Speaker 2>to know if this worked for you. What was I

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<v Speaker 2>gonna say? Well? What else are you gonna do? Right?

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<v Speaker 2>Are you just gonna rot and die?

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<v Speaker 7>No, to be honest with you, I like I said,

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<v Speaker 7>I have the job I've wanted for a very long time.

0:53:11.760 --> 0:53:14.239
<v Speaker 7>I've been working towards mechatronics for a very long time.

0:53:14.280 --> 0:53:16.800
<v Speaker 7>I have a job that's giving me an internship of mechatronics.

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<v Speaker 7>I shouldn't have Priuthfully, I shouldn't have gotten this job.

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<v Speaker 7>If it wasn't for the lack of people in the

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<v Speaker 7>market right now, I wouldn't have the job I have.

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<v Speaker 7>They're pushing me to finish my mechatronic certification right and

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<v Speaker 7>they're the ones who are helping me. They like me

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<v Speaker 7>the fact that I work as much as they want

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<v Speaker 7>me to work. I will stay late, I will come

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<v Speaker 7>in early, I will do whatever the hell they want

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<v Speaker 7>me to do. I'm getting motivated from the fact that

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<v Speaker 7>the people that believe in me believe in me, so

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<v Speaker 7>I'm going to continue moving on in that pass. But

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<v Speaker 7>the fact is I don't have the social interactions and

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<v Speaker 7>you're helping motivate me. Whether it's from this call alone,

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<v Speaker 7>but from the streams i've watched from you before. You've

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<v Speaker 7>helped me motivate myself to go and try good.

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<v Speaker 2>Please let me know how it works for you. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>I'm very excited to hear.

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<v Speaker 7>I appreciate that, man, Righte potato.

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<v Speaker 2>Is there anything else you want to say to the

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<v Speaker 2>people of the computer before we go?

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<v Speaker 7>Yeah, Love, life, and happiness. Those are the three keys

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<v Speaker 7>to everything.

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<v Speaker 2>Thank you, righte potato. Man, I will talk to you soon.

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<v Speaker 2>God bless you.

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<v Speaker 7>All right, I'll keep watching the stream. Thanks man.

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<v Speaker 2>Beacon goes on the line taking its phone calls every night.

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<v Speaker 2>Every Beacon goes to it. I'm just teaching you to

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<v Speaker 2>loud in the lives