Speaker 1: No way. Hi.
Speaker 2: Hi, what's your name?
Speaker 3: Aaron?
Speaker 2: Aaron? What's up? Aaron?
Speaker 4: A lot? Gick a lot. I never thought I would
Speaker 4: actually ever talk.
Speaker 2: To you, to be honest, Well, now we are talking.
Speaker 2: Now we are here, and I am I am curious
Speaker 2: to know what it is that you would like to
Speaker 2: talk about.
Speaker 4: Well, I don't really know where to begin, but crap.
Speaker 4: I have three kids with well, the same woman. We've
Speaker 4: been together for seven years. We broke up for a
Speaker 4: year and she lived in a separate state and we
Speaker 4: kind of and that was when we had one son together.
Speaker 4: Now we have two sons and a daughter together. Since
Speaker 4: she moved to Texas with me, and I had seated
Speaker 4: on her quite a bit in the past through text physically,
Speaker 4: and I kind of a fitted all of that and
Speaker 4: she just kind of spit against me, and obviously, fair enough,
Speaker 4: has been very hurt about all of that stuff. But
Speaker 4: on a daily basis, it's just feels like I'm constantly
Speaker 4: being judged for the little things that I forget to
Speaker 4: do or you know, the big things that I've done
Speaker 4: in the past, and it weighs on me. And about
Speaker 4: it was twenty twenty she had kicked me out of
Speaker 4: the house because I was messaging an next on Instagram,
Speaker 4: and I ended up hooking up with this girl that
Speaker 4: I knew when I first met to Texas, and we
Speaker 4: ended up getting back together. My kids got really sick.
Speaker 1: I moved back into the apartment and.
Speaker 4: I get a message like, oh man, like three months
Speaker 4: later from the girl that I hooked up with when
Speaker 4: I got kicked out, and she was telling me she
Speaker 4: was pregnant.
Speaker 2: So so this girl that you I cheat, cheated on
Speaker 2: your wife with, is pregnant or would would.
Speaker 4: It wasn't really, So I cheated to get kicked out
Speaker 4: on Instagram, I message to ey right, so she kicks
Speaker 4: me out. We get in this huge fight. She makes
Speaker 4: me leave, so I leave respectfully so she can have
Speaker 4: the house, you know. And after that I ended up
Speaker 4: hooking up with it. So we went together and I
Speaker 4: hooked up with this girl and then she we got
Speaker 4: back together in the girl message room and said she
Speaker 4: was pregnant.
Speaker 2: Okay, is she pregnant?
Speaker 4: No, she had the kid. This was like two years ago.
Speaker 4: But then she blocked me deck on everything.
Speaker 2: Well, so she so you, all right, so you have
Speaker 2: three kids with your current wife and then one kid
Speaker 2: with the we're okay. You have three kids out this
Speaker 2: woman who you're involved with long term, and then one
Speaker 2: kid with the other this other woman.
Speaker 4: So she blocked me. And that was like a year
Speaker 4: and a half, almost few years, and I didn't hear anything.
Speaker 4: And I was taking a trip from one part of
Speaker 4: Texas to another, away from the girl I've been with
Speaker 4: for forever, away from my family, and it was the
Speaker 4: fact that I might have a tab with someone else
Speaker 4: that I don't know if it's mine.
Speaker 1: Was really eating at me.
Speaker 4: So I kind of wanted to went about it the
Speaker 4: worst way possible, made a fake Facebook, found her, added
Speaker 4: her on Snapchat. But when I added her on Snapcat,
Speaker 4: I put my phone number in and it sent another
Speaker 4: vcation to my girlfriend like why do you have a Snapchat?
Speaker 4: You never have a snappat Then I tried to last
Speaker 4: for a minute, but then I just ended up telling
Speaker 4: her that I may have a chat with somebody. So
Speaker 4: we have and I got kicked out of there. I've
Speaker 4: been staying in my car on and off.
Speaker 3: Aaron.
Speaker 2: Well, listen, Aaron, everything you've just told me is uh
Speaker 2: is completely, completely, completely insane, and I think you know that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: have you ever been to have you have you ever?
Speaker 2: Have you ever? Have you you absolutely need to, Like,
Speaker 2: I'm happy to like chat with you, man, because you
Speaker 2: know we're here, but you you totally absolutely need to
Speaker 2: go see a real therapist too. There's there's some, there's
Speaker 2: some have you ever done that?
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, you're not a real therapist.
Speaker 2: You know. I'm not a real therapist.
Speaker 1: I do, I do?
Speaker 2: I do?
Speaker 1: Uh so, yeah, I do. I see a real therapist
Speaker 1: every two weeks.
Speaker 2: Okay, what does your real therapist tell you about the
Speaker 2: the soap opera that is your life?
Speaker 5: Hmm.
Speaker 1: Man, Therapists are kind of like they kind of go inside.
Speaker 1: They're like, well, I can understand why you're doing that.
Speaker 1: You had a bad past your parents, so it's kind
Speaker 1: of hard to actually feel any clarity from that. Sometimes
Speaker 1: I just try to be as honest as possible with
Speaker 1: my therapist, Like I just was with you about why
Speaker 1: I think I'm doing these things. I have a lot
Speaker 1: of things that I'm not gonna say. I your on
Speaker 1: your on your stream, but that happened to me and
Speaker 1: my past and that I've been through that coincide with
Speaker 1: all these actions. And I'm twenty six, man, I have
Speaker 1: to get it together. I mean, I just told you
Speaker 1: I have these kids, and like I'm I don't want
Speaker 1: to be a piece of shit, Like I really don't.
Speaker 1: It's just I've just made really bad mistakes. I don't
Speaker 1: want them to define me.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmmm hmm. Well, so, I mean, here's the thing, this, this, this,
Speaker 2: and I I don't know. I mean, I'm not going
Speaker 2: to tell you what to do. You have three kids,
Speaker 2: do you? Okay? So look, here's the thing. You should
Speaker 2: totally talk to a real therapist about this and get
Speaker 2: their you know, opinion and whatnot. But as far as
Speaker 2: I see it, if I were you and I just
Speaker 2: and I just transported into your body on this day
Speaker 2: having made whatever choices I I I had made, and
Speaker 2: it was you and whatnot, and I and I came
Speaker 2: to a point of clarity and decided that I wanted
Speaker 2: to be better. I would start by going, let's start
Speaker 2: with the kids, right, because I mean that's either were
Speaker 2: these children accidents or did you make the decision to
Speaker 2: have them.
Speaker 4: The first one?
Speaker 1: Now definitely all acted and I'm not gonna lie, But
Speaker 1: not like we obviously we were having We were just
Speaker 1: doing what we were doing. We knew what we were doing.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like we were like, oh oh.
Speaker 2: And are you are you what do you do currently
Speaker 2: to try to be a good dad to your kids.
Speaker 1: I'm still going to the house every day even though
Speaker 1: we're not together, and I play with them. I also
Speaker 1: try to help her clean. The youngest is about to
Speaker 1: be one on the thirty first, so I just like
Speaker 1: really helped with him as much as I can.
Speaker 4: With her.
Speaker 1: She's in college now, so I'm just trying to help
Speaker 1: her at the same time, like play with my kids
Speaker 1: and make sure they're the first priority. But it gets
Speaker 1: mixed up because this all happened right before Christmas, so
Speaker 1: this is fresh.
Speaker 2: Okay, and you're still and what's your deal? You're you're
Speaker 2: you're in a relationship ship with the woman that that
Speaker 2: that is with the mother.
Speaker 1: Now we're done, okay, and you're for now.
Speaker 2: You're not in a relationship. Are you in a relationship
Speaker 2: with anyone right now?
Speaker 4: Nope?
Speaker 2: Okay, I think you know what. I think that's probably good, yeah,
Speaker 2: because it sounds like you got a lot of stuff
Speaker 2: to to work through.
Speaker 1: Can I preach for a second, gig?
Speaker 2: What is I I don't know what is what? Give
Speaker 2: me a small sample of your preach.
Speaker 1: Hinder dating apps. I just feel this compelling to just
Speaker 1: want to talk to somebody because I've literally like been
Speaker 1: with somebody for seven years and I just don't like
Speaker 1: being alone. Yeah, get way more comfortable with myself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I buddy, buddy, I I I get you,
Speaker 2: but I I I'm not a real therapist, but as
Speaker 2: somebody talking to you on the phone right now, who
Speaker 2: understands that who? And I want to give you the
Speaker 2: benefit of the doubt and I want to to try
Speaker 2: to be helpful to you in this conversation. And in
Speaker 2: doing that, I'm going to tell you that Tender is
Speaker 2: not going to help you right right now. You You've
Speaker 2: I if I were you, I would say you have
Speaker 2: not yet unlocked Tinder.
Speaker 1: That is a good way to put it.
Speaker 2: You have you, you have not yet unlocked Tinder. Tinder
Speaker 2: is another person entering your life. Is not going to
Speaker 2: be the thing that turns you around and makes everything awesome.
Speaker 2: I know it hurts that you feel uh lonely and
Speaker 2: you're used to having someone.
Speaker 3: But.
Speaker 2: This is that you have. You just have shit you
Speaker 2: gotta take care of. And I don't think that you're
Speaker 2: you know, and you said, you're twenty six, I'm twenty
Speaker 2: and you know, look, one day we're going to be forty.
Speaker 2: One day we're going to be fifty, and we have
Speaker 2: a lot of time between now and then, and in
Speaker 2: that time we can really make, you know, positive changes
Speaker 2: to like our behavior and our life. So that's kind
Speaker 2: of what I think we want to focus on. And
Speaker 2: for you, since you have kids, I mean, the first
Speaker 2: thing is like, Yo, how can I be a better
Speaker 2: father to my kids?
Speaker 1: Absolutely so, no, geck. I think this is why people
Speaker 1: call you because although you're not a real therapist, you're
Speaker 1: our age and you understand the generation that we're living in,
Speaker 1: and you understand the kind of shit that we think about.
Speaker 1: And it really is really easy to talk to you
Speaker 1: about this stuff rather than somebody that I'm uncomfortable around.
Speaker 1: For some reason, I feel like I know you because
Speaker 1: I've just watched you so much so well, so I
Speaker 1: really do appreciate what you do.
Speaker 2: Thanks, man, I appreciate that. So I mean, listen, so
Speaker 2: get into it with me here, Okay, we what do
Speaker 2: we want to do? We want to be a better
Speaker 2: dad to our kids, all right, we want to be
Speaker 2: a better dad to our kids.
Speaker 1: What else, no no dating apps, no sex for a while.
Speaker 2: It's a good idea.
Speaker 1: No relationships, no flirting, no chatting, just need to be
Speaker 1: need to work on myself.
Speaker 2: And that's a good idea. I think that's a good idea.
Speaker 2: That sounds like it'll be healthy. All right, So we're
Speaker 2: gonna chill out on the dating apps and we're going
Speaker 2: to chill out like looking for and I, by the way,
Speaker 2: I do this too, I think, and I'm not the
Speaker 2: only everyone does this. We're going to chill out on
Speaker 2: the whole like looking for a solution to our life's
Speaker 2: problems in another person, you know, right, So Okay, there's that,
Speaker 2: and then what what and what how? How else do
Speaker 2: you feel like you you can you can fuck up less.
Speaker 1: I need to have more space from the mother of
Speaker 1: my children. Okay, I need to give her space that
Speaker 1: she deserves.
Speaker 2: Okay. I think that's a good idea. All right, So
Speaker 2: we're gonna give space to the mother of your children.
Speaker 2: That's and that's the I I think that that's that's wise.
Speaker 2: That's a wise observation that you understand.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: I know, I fucked up really bad. Don't get the
Speaker 1: wrong I didn't call for you for you to tell
Speaker 1: me that it's okay. And I know that I did
Speaker 1: something a lot of things wrong, a lot of things
Speaker 1: I haven't said, but I'm just the past couple of days,
Speaker 1: I've just been really torn up about it.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm. So okay, we're gonna do that, and then uh,
Speaker 2: and the kids live with your with the mom, right right? Okay?
Speaker 2: And what's your what's your schedule at them? What's the deal?
Speaker 1: I usually so Tuesday Wednesday or Tuesday Thursday. She has college,
Speaker 1: so I get them from six to ten. But then
Speaker 1: the rest of the week is kind of open for
Speaker 1: me to reach out and ask if I can come over.
Speaker 2: Okay, do you have a job?
Speaker 1: I do?
Speaker 2: Okay? Do you are you you're financially supporting the kids?
Speaker 1: Yes, in the house and I'm not even living there.
Speaker 2: Okay, great, all right, that's good. I mean in my opinion,
Speaker 2: and I don't have kids, but and just in my opinion,
Speaker 2: if you want it, is like the bare minimum to
Speaker 2: do as if you have kids is like be present
Speaker 2: in the kids life and financially support them. So do
Speaker 2: you feel as though you are doing those those things?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: I really do.
Speaker 2: Okay? Is are your children important? Is having a good
Speaker 2: relationship with them important to you. Absolutely, yes, okay, all right?
Speaker 2: What and then the rest of this stuff sounds sounds personal.
Speaker 2: It sounds like you're trying to like, uh like just
Speaker 2: learn how to be alone.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's a big thing.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: I just it's so easy to backtrack on that and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, I find myself talking to
Speaker 1: somebody or.
Speaker 2: Like, I don't know, what else do you feel?
Speaker 1: Like? Uh?
Speaker 2: What what else? What else? What else would you like
Speaker 2: to change? Like if like five years from now, what
Speaker 2: would you like to have be different?
Speaker 4: Hmmm?
Speaker 1: Maybe to be able to and this is gonna sound
Speaker 1: kind of dumb, but maybe to be able to say,
Speaker 1: like I'm not smoking weed every single day or.
Speaker 2: All right, you know.
Speaker 1: If that, dude do that.
Speaker 2: I don't think that's dumb. And also, you know the
Speaker 2: whole thing about like you go to the therapist and
Speaker 2: they say, oh, well, you're this way because your childhood
Speaker 2: was a certain way. I've been thinking about I've been
Speaker 2: I think I mentioned this on another podcast recently. Actually
Speaker 2: I actually yeah I did. There. I like the whole
Speaker 2: idea of yeah, like understanding why you are the way
Speaker 2: you are because of how you grew up. I think
Speaker 2: it's helpful because you understand it and then you go,
Speaker 2: all right, it's my responsibility to like deal with this shit,
Speaker 2: you know, right, Like you can't just blame it, and
Speaker 2: then you can't, like you get like resigned to it
Speaker 2: and go, oh, I just had to fucked up, you know, childhood,
Speaker 2: and so I'm fucked up forever, and I'm just gonna
Speaker 2: be miserable and and and sad all the time, you know,
Speaker 2: like you gotta is there something even there's even even something.
Speaker 2: I think that empowering about being like, uh, okay, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna fix right, So what I mean, what else do
Speaker 2: you want to fix?
Speaker 1: I guess my anger in some ways. Uh sometimes I
Speaker 1: could have a short vieuse on certain things. When there's
Speaker 1: a lot going on where the kids are all running around,
Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, I want to be like less jumpy sometimes.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm severely ADHD. If you couldn't tell, I
Speaker 1: was prescribed adderall in second grade until twelfth grade and
Speaker 1: then I haven't been medicated since. So I literally grow
Speaker 1: my head is everywhere at once. You were talking about
Speaker 1: if you don't have any kids earlier. I'd like to
Speaker 1: see some little gex eventually, dude.
Speaker 2: Me having kids around, no, well, because I don't want
Speaker 2: I am nowhere near and I'm giant, nowhere near children
Speaker 2: at all.
Speaker 1: Dude, I hope one day, when we're in our thirties,
Speaker 1: I turn on your podcast and there's a little GaX
Speaker 1: with their face faceted.
Speaker 2: Oh I would I think I think they would call
Speaker 2: CPS on me if I put any of this stuff
Speaker 2: on the child. Uh. Anyway, So listen, man, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna leave you with this, right, which is
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna leave you with this. Next time you
Speaker 2: like you like the the the problem of search, next
Speaker 2: time you feel this inkling to to get addicted to
Speaker 2: Tinder and to find the solution to your problems in
Speaker 2: somebody else. And by the way, I want you know,
Speaker 2: I've had plenty of of of, you know, experiences in
Speaker 2: my own life where you know, I was trying to
Speaker 2: find the solutions to my problems in somebody else. And
Speaker 2: I think it's it's a very very very common thing. Okay,
Speaker 2: I think he's here's here's what you Here's what you
Speaker 2: need to understand is that you can't is that you
Speaker 2: have a lot of is that you have a lot
Speaker 2: of like ship going on with you right now that
Speaker 2: you can and should fix internally, and that even if
Speaker 2: you did find a new cool person on your Tinder right,
Speaker 2: it wouldn't it's not a long term fix to any
Speaker 2: of these problems, right, Okay, just think about that. What's
Speaker 2: my stance on pornography?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I can't.
Speaker 2: I feel like, how'd you know I was watching it
Speaker 2: right now? That's what I do. I just have it on.
Speaker 2: I have I have multiple monitors, and on one of
Speaker 2: them I'm taking calls ano the other one I'm I'm
Speaker 2: watching a lot of porn.
Speaker 1: I think that's like a big root to my problem.
Speaker 1: Like I forgot to say that.
Speaker 2: But what's my opinion on photography? It's cool that it's there, you.
Speaker 1: Know, it's just there.
Speaker 2: I mean, don't don't just start small, start small, dude,
Speaker 2: don't don't take away all your little pleasures immediately. Yeah,
Speaker 2: what's your name again?
Speaker 6: Eron?
Speaker 2: Is there anything else you want to say to the
Speaker 2: people of the computer before we go.
Speaker 1: Get hard? Stay Geking, you know, keep calling GEK Dude.
Speaker 1: I love this show. I'm gonna watch it until the
Speaker 1: day I die. Well, hopefully you don't have before me.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: We'll see, we'll see. I'm trying to not eat as
Speaker 2: much candy anyway. Take care, man, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Good thanks for talking to me.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 2: That would be funny if all the porn I was
Speaker 2: I was just watching a ton of gecko porn. I
Speaker 2: don't know what gecko porn would be, but it sounds hot.
Speaker 3: Hello.
Speaker 2: Hello, what is your name?
Speaker 3: Serenity?
Speaker 2: Serenity? Lord give what's what's the what's you know? The
Speaker 2: serenity prayer? I think it's like an aa thing, like, Lord,
Speaker 2: give me the Is that called the serenity prayer? Do
Speaker 2: you know what I'm talking You don't even know what
Speaker 2: I'm talking about. This the one that's like, Lord, give
Speaker 2: me the strength to fucking do something, and the wisdom
Speaker 2: to do that thing too. It's just it's called the
Speaker 2: serenity prayer.
Speaker 3: Who gives Okay?
Speaker 2: I think yeah, it's like, Lord, give me the strength
Speaker 2: to accept. Oh, okay, okay, I remember it. I remember it.
Speaker 2: Lord give me the strength two the strength to accept
Speaker 2: the things that I can't control, the courage to change
Speaker 2: the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Speaker 2: That's the Serenity Preyer. I think it's the Serenity Preyer. Yeah. Anyway,
Speaker 2: you wanted to talk about Super Smash, Brothers Melee.
Speaker 3: Yes, So a couple of years ago my friend started
Speaker 3: working for one of the companies. So recently I've just
Speaker 3: been spending a lot of time going to different like
Speaker 3: fighting game conventions and maybe I go for like Smash,
Speaker 3: Melee and Ultimate. And I happened to see a stream
Speaker 3: where you were talking about Hbox. Yeah, and it's just
Speaker 3: funny because I don't know, he's nice and like, I've
Speaker 3: just had the opportunity to meet him and it's been
Speaker 3: really fun going and yeah, getting to travel around the
Speaker 3: US and go to a different place and just hang
Speaker 3: out with everybody in like the fighting game community.
Speaker 2: I love getting to talk about my extremely niche hobby
Speaker 2: of competitive Super Smash, Brothers, Melee. Competitive Smash, Yes, in
Speaker 2: general is not very niche, because like I mean, Super
Speaker 2: Smash Result, like Super Smash Press Ultimate, like everyone fucks
Speaker 2: with But I I hate alt care about it. I
Speaker 2: don't I don't watch it, I don't play it. It's
Speaker 2: specifically the one for the game cube that I'm into. Yeah, Yes,
Speaker 2: so you you work for Nintendo.
Speaker 3: No, no, I don't Luigi.
Speaker 2: And Super Mario sixty four tell us.
Speaker 3: I have no idea, but yeah, I just got into
Speaker 3: it because my friend she started working for a company.
Speaker 3: Uh it was like a gaming company but it dissolved,
Speaker 3: but yeah, while she was working for it, Like that's
Speaker 3: how I got introduced to it. And I always played
Speaker 3: Melee growing up. But it was really fun just going
Speaker 3: and seeing like how competitive it was. And yeah, everybody
Speaker 3: in Melee is pretty nice at least, like all the fans.
Speaker 2: And yeah, so you've been how many different tournaments have
Speaker 2: you gone to?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: I think maybe five or six so far, and then
Speaker 3: this year I'm planning to go to one, Like my
Speaker 3: next one is in Vegas.
Speaker 2: Wait what's it called?
Speaker 3: Uh, I don't know if you say EVO or even.
Speaker 2: You're you're going to Evo. Yeah, they don't do Melee anymore,
Speaker 2: but Evo Evo is like the super fighting game tournaments.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I went to Genesis too. You went to Genesis, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Like this year, like in twenty in February, back in February.
Speaker 3: Yes, Yeah, it was really fun.
Speaker 2: That's sick. Who who'd you meet at Genesis? We're we're
Speaker 2: you know what fuck it, it's my podcast. We're talking
Speaker 2: about competitive Super Smash Brothers Melee. Who'd you meet at Genesis?
Speaker 3: Well, I guess a bunch of different people, but like,
Speaker 3: I'm very fortunate that my friend she's dating someone who's
Speaker 3: like friends with some of the players. So I'm not
Speaker 3: very cool myself, but I just like by association and
Speaker 3: very fortunate to get to meet some of the players.
Speaker 1: Like salt Uh, Leffen, you met Lef?
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I mean kind of off hand.
Speaker 2: How would I actually I had one interaction with Leffen.
Speaker 2: So Leffen is U is one of the best Super
Speaker 2: Smash Brothers Melee players in the world who is known
Speaker 2: he's like this is his thing. He is known for
Speaker 2: being a dick. And one time I sat one time
Speaker 2: I was at it. I used to go to these tournaments,
Speaker 2: and I went to play with him, and I asked
Speaker 2: him if he would be down to play friendlies and
Speaker 2: he kind of like rolled his eyes and said sure.
Speaker 2: And then we play like one game and he four
Speaker 2: stocks me and then he just like unplugs my controller
Speaker 2: and like vaguely like throws the cord at me. And
Speaker 2: you know what, here's the here's the great thing about
Speaker 2: having a persona like being known for being a dick.
Speaker 2: I didn't walk away from that interaction being I wasn't disappointed.
Speaker 2: I wasn't like, oh, man, if I got to meet
Speaker 2: left and he was a dick, I walked away been like, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's what that was his that's his thing.
Speaker 3: That's kind of an honor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was kind of. It was kind of an
Speaker 2: honor exactly. I had this. I had one interaction. I
Speaker 2: had another interaction with Hungry Box.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: I thought this was pretty funny. I was playing him.
Speaker 2: I went to Pound twenty sixteen and we we played
Speaker 2: where he was on a setup and I plugged in
Speaker 2: to play friendlies with him and we start playing and
Speaker 2: I take the first stock and I took the first
Speaker 2: stock and he looked at me and he was like,
Speaker 2: are you ranked? And and I looked at him and
Speaker 2: I was like, I said, no, are you And he
Speaker 2: did not think that was funny at all.
Speaker 3: He was, Oh, I think that was pretty clever.
Speaker 2: Good job, thanks man. Anyway, that's uh, yeah, I haven't
Speaker 2: been to a smash major in a long time, but
Speaker 2: that's that's it. It's kind of sad, man. It's kind
Speaker 2: of sad because I do wish that I was into
Speaker 2: like a a Fortnite or Call of Duty or street
Speaker 2: Fighter or ultimately something something that's like, because Melee is
Speaker 2: only going to go downhill. It's only it's not going
Speaker 2: to get more popular. There's only every year going to
Speaker 2: be less and less people playing it. It came it's
Speaker 2: like a twenty five, twenty six year old game. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so nobody's nobody's gonna this is always gonna be less
Speaker 2: people playing it. It's a bummer. I was into like
Speaker 2: a real game.
Speaker 3: Same, I know what you mean?
Speaker 2: Do you play? I do?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Who do you? Who do you play?
Speaker 3: I like playing Peach? And then my personal favorite character
Speaker 3: who I don't play against anyone, is Kirby, even though
Speaker 3: he's like the shittiest, but he's just my personal favorite.
Speaker 2: Do you play any of the other Uh? What is it?
Speaker 2: Do you play any of the other fighting games?
Speaker 3: I tried recently getting into a street Fighter, but as lame,
Speaker 3: it as like my hands kept cramping up, and I
Speaker 3: was like, maybe this isn't for me, and like all
Speaker 3: the combos and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm actually I'm gonna take this opportunity to share
Speaker 2: something with my audience, people who are listening to this.
Speaker 2: If you've gotten this far in this conversation and you
Speaker 2: haven't turned this off, and this is of any interest
Speaker 2: of you, do you should check out? And what's your
Speaker 2: name again, Serenity? Surendity? I right, we did the whole
Speaker 2: thing with the press, Serenity and serending. I'm sure you
Speaker 2: know about this. I'm sure maybe you've seen this. There
Speaker 2: is a and and and let me and stay with
Speaker 2: me on this, folks, Okay, this is this is gotta
Speaker 2: stay with me on this. There was a four hour
Speaker 2: long documentary about the competitive Super Smash Brothers scene. It's
Speaker 2: a fantastic stick documentary. It's it's for free on YouTube.
Speaker 2: It's called The Smash Brothers. It's by a guy named
Speaker 2: uh Samus or some sam Ox. It's called the Smash.
Speaker 2: If you just go on YouTube and you search the
Speaker 2: Smash Brothers. I think it's like at nine episodes or something,
Speaker 2: but you go watch the first episode. It's really sick.
Speaker 2: It's how it basically basically what happened with Super Smash
Speaker 2: Brothers made. It's an old game and the community kind
Speaker 2: of died out a little bit, especially when Brawl happened.
Speaker 2: And then this guy makes this documentary about the competitive
Speaker 2: Super Smash Brothers scene, and he kind of like rely,
Speaker 2: like this documentary comes out and everyone's like, oh, this
Speaker 2: is so sick, and then everyone gets in on it
Speaker 2: and it kind of revitalized the scene. So you know
Speaker 2: that a formal recommendation to go check out this four
Speaker 2: hour long Super Smash Brothers documentary on on YouTube. Have
Speaker 2: you seen it?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: It's pretty cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, and especially it's just nice having like recognition
Speaker 3: for such like, as you said, like a niche group.
Speaker 3: And yeah, so.
Speaker 2: Do you so you don't work in a video what
Speaker 2: do you work in video games?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: It's just more of like I don't know, a passion,
Speaker 3: I guess, like a really big hobby. So I like
Speaker 3: video games and yeah, once I went to like my
Speaker 3: first one and seeing like competitive gaming, I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: this is addictive and like just especially sitting in the
Speaker 3: crowd and being there, I finally understand the hype for
Speaker 3: sports and other things.
Speaker 2: What. Uh, it's true. It's funny. I was never into
Speaker 2: like sports, but that was kind of like my version
Speaker 2: of sports was it was, yeah, I got it at
Speaker 2: that point.
Speaker 3: Exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's funny because the like the biggest esports
Speaker 2: in the world are like mobia games like League of
Speaker 2: Legends and DODA yes. And I don't get that because, like,
Speaker 2: you could be any random motherfucker. You could be like
Speaker 2: sixty year old boomer person and you could be looking
Speaker 2: at a And that's why I don't get why, like
Speaker 2: fighting games aren't the most popular, because you could be
Speaker 2: like a boomer and watching a fighting game and be like, okay,
Speaker 2: the one the guy getting hit a lot is losing.
Speaker 2: Like you understand the concept of a fight, right, But
Speaker 2: I look at a moba and I have no idea
Speaker 2: what's going on?
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot going on definitely, uh yeah, Like yeah,
Speaker 3: especially in League.
Speaker 2: What do you what do you work in? If not
Speaker 2: video games?
Speaker 3: I work for an online technology company that does like
Speaker 3: online monitoring for kind of like the best way I
Speaker 3: can describe it is I do monitoring for like looking
Speaker 3: out for like school shooters and other violence and other things.
Speaker 2: Do you see Do you see a lot of fucked
Speaker 2: up stuff all the time on the internet?
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 3: I do. Yeah, well, actually not too much, just because
Speaker 3: I was kind of already interested in it and like
Speaker 3: it's interesting. We get to sometimes, like train with like
Speaker 3: the FBI, and sometimes through that we'll see like really
Speaker 3: graphic images of like crime scenes.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: And actually, like whenever I first went into it, I
Speaker 3: thought it was gonna be kind of like disappointing or
Speaker 3: I was going to be like, oh, no, the youth
Speaker 3: is so like negative. But actually a lot of things
Speaker 3: that I see, like a lot of younger kids are
Speaker 3: really supportive of each other, uh and like really against
Speaker 3: bullying and and like surprisingly like a lot of times
Speaker 3: you don't hear about it, but they are stopping like
Speaker 3: school shootings and another school violence like bombing and things
Speaker 3: up pretty frequently, which is so well, I guess that
Speaker 3: probably sounds negative, but no, that's not.
Speaker 2: That what why I feel like that's well, I guess
Speaker 2: you're right. I guess that's a double edged sword because
Speaker 2: it is positive, but I guess negative that there it's
Speaker 2: happening in the first place. Yeah, but I mean that's nice.
Speaker 2: That's so okay, because here's the thing I I I
Speaker 2: I worry for the children, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: because they're kind of fucked up.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so he that you're you know, you're monitoring
Speaker 2: their chats. Wait, so that fucking government liked. Do they
Speaker 2: actually they monitor well our ship like that. I can't
Speaker 2: whistle whist the Therapy Gecko podcast right now.
Speaker 3: So the company worked for it. I can't say their name,
Speaker 3: but we're kind of like we try to be as
Speaker 3: non invasive as possible. So you'd have to type something
Speaker 3: or do something on a computer that the school has
Speaker 3: like paid to sign up for monitoring. So a lot
Speaker 3: of times, you know, it'll have to be like I'm
Speaker 3: going to bring a gun or I have a gun,
Speaker 3: or I'm gonna shoot up a school, and then you
Speaker 3: kind of trigger something and then I review it and
Speaker 3: then if I have to call the school or if
Speaker 3: I have to call the police. We also do like
Speaker 3: suicide uh watching Sometimes the funniest part is it will
Speaker 3: trigger for I see a lot of porn, and then
Speaker 3: I also see like a lot of fan fiction that
Speaker 3: the kids will write. And the fan fiction is always
Speaker 3: really funny because sometimes it'll be like, oh no, it
Speaker 3: is this child talking to an adult like this, but
Speaker 3: it's just I'm writing like a Wolf fan fiction or
Speaker 3: Harry Potter or something.
Speaker 2: So these are like, oh so this is like on
Speaker 2: this is like on the school computer.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, Okay, Okay, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, I mean yeah, I feel like if you're watching
Speaker 2: porn and talking about bringing a gun in on the
Speaker 2: school computer, you kind of fuck around.
Speaker 3: And find out, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: What about kids who are like I feel like there's
Speaker 2: a lot of the school shooter genre of joke is
Speaker 2: oh is out? Like how many times is a kid
Speaker 2: like I'm going to bring a gun to school? But
Speaker 2: he's he's just uh, he's just he's just trolling.
Speaker 3: Well, so that definitely happens. That's kind of part of
Speaker 3: my job is I have to go and look and
Speaker 3: kind of make like the judgment or the call. We're
Speaker 3: always going to air like on the side of caution.
Speaker 3: But there are some schools where they've already had shootings
Speaker 3: in their school, so they'll be like very serious about it,
Speaker 3: and any type of like joke or comments they kind
Speaker 3: of want to know. So you'll end up emailing the
Speaker 3: counselor or calling them let them know, and then they'll
Speaker 3: review it. Yeah, just because well obviously like a serious issue,
Speaker 3: but a lot of kids will also make like, you know,
Speaker 3: like when you're having a shitty day, like how I
Speaker 3: want to kill myself or and they don't really mean
Speaker 3: that they literally want to die. But that's also part
Speaker 3: of my job is just making the determination of that
Speaker 3: and deciding what to do.
Speaker 2: Do you think the kids will be all right?
Speaker 3: I really do. I really do think the kids will
Speaker 3: be alright. I definitely do.
Speaker 2: Well, that's reassuring. Well, what what do you who do
Speaker 2: you mean in street Fighter? Is that street Fighter your
Speaker 2: main fighting game?
Speaker 3: No? I would definitely say it's Melee?
Speaker 2: Are you good?
Speaker 3: Absolutely no, No, I mean I wouldn't say I am.
Speaker 2: I got you know what I should? I want to
Speaker 2: do a twitch stream one day where I I I
Speaker 2: fuck I Slippy net play people. I actually did that once.
Speaker 2: I actually I remember a long time ago. I was
Speaker 2: I was streamed like as a Gecko and then I
Speaker 2: uh said, like I was on I was either on
Speaker 2: the phone with somebody or in the chat with somebody,
Speaker 2: and they were like, yo, I play I'm down to
Speaker 2: play you. And I just streamed myself like I was
Speaker 2: doing actual video game twitch streaming, and I streamed myself
Speaker 2: on Slippy. For those who don't know, Slippy is when
Speaker 2: you can play Melee online with other people. And I
Speaker 2: streamed myself on Slippy and I just got my fucking
Speaker 2: ass whooped.
Speaker 3: Yeah, then it gets pretty brutal on there. Some people
Speaker 3: are well, I mean, yeah, a lot of people are
Speaker 3: really good. I was surprised.
Speaker 2: Do you play online? Yeah? Are you good?
Speaker 3: No, it's mainly for fun, yeah, just mainly mainly for
Speaker 3: fun a hobby. I mean, some of my friends are
Speaker 3: really really good. But I'm just a casual player. I
Speaker 3: mean I play Kirby so that if anyone knows that
Speaker 3: kind of speaks for itself.
Speaker 2: Well, certainty it was I will I'll say this. I'll
Speaker 2: say it was serene to talk to you. You probably get
Speaker 2: jokes about your name. I've realized every time I make
Speaker 2: a joke about someone's name, they look at me, uh,
Speaker 2: with such a disgust because they've heard that joke a
Speaker 2: hundred times. But Serenity, it was serene to talk to you.
Speaker 2: Is there anything else you want to say to the
Speaker 2: people of the computer before we go?
Speaker 3: I just want to say hi, chat and give a
Speaker 3: shout out to the gets girlies.
Speaker 2: Rock and roll having good night, Serene, rich Ridity, have.
Speaker 3: A good night.
Speaker 6: Bye bye.
Speaker 2: Yeah, dude, send me send me some send me slippy codes.
Speaker 2: If you if you, if you're listening to this and
Speaker 2: you play competitive super smash Bros. Melee, send me a
Speaker 2: fucking slippy code, and uh, if I just completely run
Speaker 2: out of anything else to ever do with my life,
Speaker 2: maybe I'll play Strangers and Slippy. That could be fun. Actually,
Speaker 2: that would be a fun stream. Maybe I'll do that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: send me slippy codes.
Speaker 3: All from Ripe Potato Man to accept, Press one to
Speaker 3: send a voicemail, Press two.
Speaker 2: Hey man, what's your name?
Speaker 7: I'm Ripe Potato Man.
Speaker 2: All right, well, Ripe, how how old are you?
Speaker 7: I'm twenty three?
Speaker 2: Cool man. Have we ever spoken before?
Speaker 7: Nope, never spoken before?
Speaker 2: Well, Ripe, what's uh? What's going on with you? Man?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 2: How's life?
Speaker 3: Honest to goodness?
Speaker 7: Life should be going great?
Speaker 2: Life should be going great? Why? Why?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: Why this should?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 7: I don't know. I got my dream job. Things have
Speaker 7: been going great for me, but I don't know. I
Speaker 7: lack the sense of community. I don't talk to anybody. Yeah,
Speaker 7: and I don't know it just things have just been
Speaker 7: going great for me in every on paper way. But
Speaker 7: I just feel like things just haven't been living up
Speaker 7: to their expectations.
Speaker 2: You know, through most of my life, I've been a
Speaker 2: fairly I mean, I've always had. I've always had a
Speaker 2: lot of good friends. I've always had a lot of
Speaker 2: good friends. But I think in my mind, i've always
Speaker 2: I've been attached to like stoicism in this sense of
Speaker 2: there's what you can and what you can't control. And
Speaker 2: one of the great eighth difficulties of life is that
Speaker 2: you cannot control other people unless if you're like a
Speaker 2: crazy person, then you try. Then you like form a
Speaker 2: then you try really hard to like feed people poison
Speaker 2: and control them and all that stuff.
Speaker 6: But but but normally, but normally, normally it's like, you know,
Speaker 6: I'm I'm I try to focus in the realm of
Speaker 6: what I can control and then not what I can't control.
Speaker 2: And so community is a tricky one because it's really important.
Speaker 2: You can't just be an isolationist. You can't just fucking
Speaker 2: not talk to anybody or have no friends or you
Speaker 2: just can't do it. And I'm trying, I'm in my head,
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'll, you know, I'm all I'm responsible for
Speaker 2: solving all my problems, right, so how do I solve
Speaker 2: a problem that, uh is, this has nothing to do
Speaker 2: with that has nothing to do with me, because it's
Speaker 2: about other people, right, it's like, how do you You
Speaker 2: can't make somebody love you, you can't make somebody be
Speaker 2: your friends. But and I've been thinking about this a lot,
Speaker 2: because I've to think about this my whole life, and
Speaker 2: I think you can. What is within your control is
Speaker 2: to put yourself in more situations where you are around
Speaker 2: other people.
Speaker 7: And uh, but that's the real problem. That's the real problem.
Speaker 7: Is that in this day and age, I can try
Speaker 7: to go and go to a bar, or maybe go
Speaker 7: out and try more social exercises and do more athletic
Speaker 7: things that can bring friends to you. But the truth
Speaker 7: of the matter is is that in this day and age,
Speaker 7: it's really hard to try to make friends. Like all
Speaker 7: of my friends at this point are seven hours away.
Speaker 7: I've moved so far away from all the people that
Speaker 7: I've grown that I've learned these things from that I've
Speaker 7: developed friendships with to try to take this dream job
Speaker 7: that I can have a salary that can allow me
Speaker 7: to survive in this economy. But the truth is is
Speaker 7: just that now that I've find only have some level
Speaker 7: of affluence, I've lost all of the social characteristics that
Speaker 7: give me the ability to be the person to give
Speaker 7: those people the person that I want to be.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that sounds that sounds juicy. How what where
Speaker 2: do you live.
Speaker 4: Right now?
Speaker 7: I'm living in North Carolina. I grew up in in
Speaker 7: upstate New York, but I moved to Tennessee when I
Speaker 7: was a kid, and I developed these friendships when I
Speaker 7: was a teenager that actually gave me friends that were
Speaker 7: real friends. And then as soon as I got a
Speaker 7: good job offer, I moved away to North Carolina to
Speaker 7: you know, to have that sense to move on with
Speaker 7: my life and be a person and gain the job
Speaker 7: that I've been working for for a long time to get. Yeah,
Speaker 7: and then all of a sudden, once I had it,
Speaker 7: I've lost everything.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, very tricky, very tricky. Hmmm mmmmmmm. Okay, what
Speaker 2: have you done? And you do you live in like
Speaker 2: a big city in North Carolina?
Speaker 7: I am about an hour north of Charlotte, so I'm
Speaker 7: in a smaller city area, but it's and I I mean,
Speaker 7: I can't afford gas to drive towards a larger city
Speaker 7: or even I mean, truthfully, I just spent my last
Speaker 7: hour watching a football game and you know, just having
Speaker 7: some maide in the oven pizza and that was the
Speaker 7: best part of my week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, dude, Yeah, dude, I'm laughing. I'm sorry. I
Speaker 2: said that's juicy, and I laughed only I it's I
Speaker 2: resonate with you. That's why I'm laughing.
Speaker 7: No, I totally get it. No, because you understand. Yeah,
Speaker 7: so I feel like in a pickle.
Speaker 2: All right? Hm m mmmmmm hmmm. Tell give me some
Speaker 2: other things. What else have you tried? Right? What else
Speaker 2: have you tried?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 5: I'm I'm not a religious person, but I went to
Speaker 5: church this morning, you know, just to find a sense
Speaker 5: of community because I just I need to talk to
Speaker 5: a living person and outside of my work, because the
Speaker 5: people at my work.
Speaker 7: They they talk to me, they like me, I feel
Speaker 7: like and I feel like I've gained a lot of
Speaker 7: community and a lot of as of friendship there. But
Speaker 7: at the end of the day, there are people I
Speaker 7: work with, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And what do you like?
Speaker 7: I sorry?
Speaker 2: Yeah. What do you like to do?
Speaker 7: I like to build things. I like to do things.
Speaker 4: I like to just.
Speaker 7: Add a positive force to the universe build things.
Speaker 2: What things do you like to build?
Speaker 7: I build experimental vehicles, I build houses, I build whatever
Speaker 7: you name it. I I try to build, you know,
Speaker 7: if there's a problem, I try to solve it.
Speaker 2: Okay, So you're like a what's I don't know if
Speaker 2: there's a word for what you are. But you build.
Speaker 2: You build vehicles, not.
Speaker 7: Like cars, but more like I. I build one wheel,
Speaker 7: you knowicycle, broomstick type things, you know, like I, I
Speaker 7: try to build the weirdest thing I can think of.
Speaker 7: I use three D printers, I use whatever I can
Speaker 7: come up with to solve whatever problem I have in
Speaker 7: my head and make it work.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 7: I have hype hobbies to a degree.
Speaker 2: Okay, so what you what you should do is take
Speaker 2: those hobbies right like three D printing and uh building
Speaker 2: and here here if I could can I, if I
Speaker 2: could give you some homework, and I'll do it too.
Speaker 2: If I give you some homework, would be to take
Speaker 2: that hobby that you have to build, because that's what
Speaker 2: you just described is really great. Actually, so like the
Speaker 2: hobby of you know, three D printing of building things.
Speaker 2: Charlotte's uh uh m hmm. Yeah. Okay, you live in
Speaker 2: you live in somewhere that's big enough I think for
Speaker 2: you to do this. Iither find think about different groups,
Speaker 2: different in persons, social groups like a robotics club like
Speaker 2: uh like like when you like, when you were in college,
Speaker 2: they had all these clubs. Right, there's clubs. Club clubs
Speaker 2: still exist, they still exist even as an adult. So
Speaker 2: I would think of some clubs that are related to building,
Speaker 2: whether it's like a fucking architect meetup or a hackathon
Speaker 2: or some ship like that. Right, Okay, So you scour
Speaker 2: the internet. You scour Facebook and meet up and Google
Speaker 2: and Craigslist, and well, don't scour too much on Craigslist
Speaker 2: because then you'll end up sucking a guy's talk. That
Speaker 2: wasn't funny, you know, I tried, I was, I was like,
Speaker 2: that wasn't funny. I wish I didn't say that. No,
Speaker 2: it wasn't. It wasn't funny, it was it was happy,
Speaker 2: it was that wasn't funny. Uh okay, So so do that, right,
Speaker 2: and here's what you here's the here's the key, here's
Speaker 2: the truth, here's what we here's what we Here's where
Speaker 2: we take our fucking power back. Okay with here's where
Speaker 2: we take our power back? Right? Okay, If we don't
Speaker 2: find any of this shit, what do we do? Right?
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 2: You make it? You make it you you put yourself
Speaker 2: out there, okay, and you say hey at the Charlotte
Speaker 2: Public Rec Center every every first Tuesday of the month
Speaker 2: where we're doing a building event. And you go on
Speaker 2: Facebook and Craigslist and and and meet and you and
Speaker 2: you make a little flyer with or you hire somebody
Speaker 2: else with all your money that you have, and you
Speaker 2: and you and you make a flyer and you fucking
Speaker 2: make the event right and even if it goes just
Speaker 2: and just doing this just to be like I try
Speaker 2: just to be like. I took my loneliness and my
Speaker 2: community problem into my own hands. I didn't wait for
Speaker 2: somebody else to fucking do it for me. It'll make
Speaker 2: you feel better. And there's a lead least one other
Speaker 2: lonely motherfucker playing with legos in your area that you
Speaker 2: guys can uh you know, hang out. So that's my
Speaker 2: that's my that's my that's my practical advice to you.
Speaker 7: And wile I'm just I'm going to ask this not
Speaker 7: just for me, but for everybody who listens to you religiously,
Speaker 7: because I do. I listen to you all the time,
Speaker 7: Matt right, I love all of your streams.
Speaker 2: Thanks.
Speaker 7: I just want to ask you this question. Purely in
Speaker 7: this day and age. All right, we've lost so much
Speaker 7: when it comes to social interaction. What would be your
Speaker 7: advice to somebody who's trying to make friends, who's trying
Speaker 7: to meet people, who's trying to get out of this
Speaker 7: horrible social bubble that we've constructed over the last few years,
Speaker 7: to meet people in person? What is your advice?
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, I just I just gave I
Speaker 2: just told you my advice. That's exactly my advice.
Speaker 7: And for me personally, no, no, for me personally, but
Speaker 7: I genuinely need that, like for all the rest of
Speaker 7: the people who are listening.
Speaker 2: No, but but but but it wasn't It wasn't for
Speaker 2: you personally. It wasn't for you personally. It was a
Speaker 2: very practical thing. It was what are your hobbies, what
Speaker 2: are your interests? What are you naturally attracted to? That's
Speaker 2: what I asked you. You said, it's building, And so
Speaker 2: it's okay, take all of your natural hobbies and things
Speaker 2: that you're into and attracted to, and you go out
Speaker 2: and you find in person events related to them, and
Speaker 2: if those don't exist, you create them. That's the advice. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And also, I'm not I'm not one hundred percent convinced
Speaker 2: that I agree with you that we are in the
Speaker 2: least connected age ever.
Speaker 7: It's oh, we're in the most connected age ever, but
Speaker 7: not the most socially connected age ever. Where people can
Speaker 7: see each other in person. You want to meet someone online,
Speaker 7: you can meet them in line in a second. If
Speaker 7: you want to find someone who has the same interest
Speaker 7: as you, you can meet them hands down, way faster
Speaker 7: than you ever could before. But the truth is that
Speaker 7: this this person to person connection that you can find
Speaker 7: from just meeting people in person. I feel like we've.
Speaker 2: Lost well, how old are you? Twenty three?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, well I'm I'm you And I don't really have
Speaker 2: a good sample size for that because we're of the
Speaker 2: age that where we grew up with with I don't
Speaker 2: we don't remember a time where there wasn't an internet.
Speaker 6: I don't know if you've talked.
Speaker 2: To people who who who do But but I'm gonna
Speaker 2: I'm gonna that whole question. Are we lonelier now than
Speaker 2: we were before? Is uh? I don't necessarily think I
Speaker 2: agree with that, because the Internet holds so much better
Speaker 2: everything I just told you to do, Find an interest,
Speaker 2: find and then find an in person group that relates
Speaker 2: to interest, and then that doesn't exist create it. That
Speaker 2: whole process that I just told you is a thousand
Speaker 2: times easier with the Internet.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, it definitely is because you can just
Speaker 7: go on whatever whatever social media website you want to
Speaker 7: choose and find people and find a group.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you can hand.
Speaker 2: That and it's never been easier to go suck a
Speaker 2: random guy's cock, which is a form of connection.
Speaker 7: God bless Craigslist.
Speaker 2: What's your name again? Write potato man, Write potato man. Well,
Speaker 2: are you gonna be honest with man? It's fine if not.
Speaker 2: Are you gonna do this?
Speaker 7: I'm gonna try.
Speaker 2: I'll let you finish. I'm sorry, I let you finish.
Speaker 2: Go ahead.
Speaker 7: No, I'm gonna be honest with you. I've thought of
Speaker 7: doing this before. I genuinely have. And to be honest
Speaker 7: with you, there's a lot of trepidation that comes from
Speaker 7: the fact that just should I should I not? But
Speaker 7: the fact that I've actually been able to get on
Speaker 7: the phone with you after all the streams I've watched
Speaker 7: with you. I'm going to try to do it because
Speaker 7: you motivate me to do it.
Speaker 2: Please, dear fucking God, if this works for you, let
Speaker 2: me send me like an Instagram DM. I would love
Speaker 2: to know if this worked for you. What was I
Speaker 2: gonna say? Well? What else are you gonna do? Right?
Speaker 2: Are you just gonna rot and die?
Speaker 7: No, to be honest with you, I like I said,
Speaker 7: I have the job I've wanted for a very long time.
Speaker 7: I've been working towards mechatronics for a very long time.
Speaker 7: I have a job that's giving me an internship of mechatronics.
Speaker 7: I shouldn't have Priuthfully, I shouldn't have gotten this job.
Speaker 7: If it wasn't for the lack of people in the
Speaker 7: market right now, I wouldn't have the job I have.
Speaker 7: They're pushing me to finish my mechatronic certification right and
Speaker 7: they're the ones who are helping me. They like me
Speaker 7: the fact that I work as much as they want
Speaker 7: me to work. I will stay late, I will come
Speaker 7: in early, I will do whatever the hell they want
Speaker 7: me to do. I'm getting motivated from the fact that
Speaker 7: the people that believe in me believe in me, so
Speaker 7: I'm going to continue moving on in that pass. But
Speaker 7: the fact is I don't have the social interactions and
Speaker 7: you're helping motivate me. Whether it's from this call alone,
Speaker 7: but from the streams i've watched from you before. You've
Speaker 7: helped me motivate myself to go and try good.
Speaker 2: Please let me know how it works for you. I'm
Speaker 2: I'm very excited to hear.
Speaker 7: I appreciate that, man, Righte potato.
Speaker 2: Is there anything else you want to say to the
Speaker 2: people of the computer before we go?
Speaker 7: Yeah, Love, life, and happiness. Those are the three keys
Speaker 7: to everything.
Speaker 2: Thank you, righte potato. Man, I will talk to you soon.
Speaker 2: God bless you.
Speaker 7: All right, I'll keep watching the stream. Thanks man.
Speaker 2: Beacon goes on the line taking its phone calls every night.
Speaker 2: Every Beacon goes to it. I'm just teaching you to
Speaker 2: loud in the lives