WEBVTT - “I CAN DO MORE PUSH UPS THAN YOU” 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.920 Hello, Welcome. How's it going. My name is Lyle. I'm 0:00:03.960 --> 0:00:06.080 a gecko. We're in New York City. It is a 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:09.800 Saturday night at I want to say nine pm ish 0:00:09.920 --> 0:00:13.560 at night. I am here in Washington Square Park. It 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:18.079 is a park in Manhattan on the earth. There's a 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:22.919 lot of people around. And I ate a pint of 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:26.079 ice cream this afternoon at three pm. 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:27.280 And let me tell you something. 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:28.680 When you get high and you eat a pint of 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:30.640 ice cream at three pm, your day is fucked. I 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:32.720 got high, I ate a pint of ice cream. I 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:36.720 took a nap. I woke up at seven pm. Do 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:39.559 you know how You know how it feels when you 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:41.159 get high, you eat a pine ice cream, you wake 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:43.199 up at seven pm after a four hour nap, You 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:46.239 feel as though the day is lost. You feel as 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:50.680 though it cannot be redeemed. So I thought to myself, 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:52.919 how do I redeem this day? How do I make 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:58.160 it so that this was somewhat of a productive time. Oh, 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:01.640 I know, I'll go to the park and I'll talk 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:03.520 to people as a lizard. 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:05.039 And let me tell you, the day is one. 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:07.680 So if you're listening to this and it's seven pm 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:09.480 and you just woke up from a nap after getting 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:12.040 high and eating ice cream. Just so you know, you 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:14.119 can revive the rest of your day. If I can 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:15.960 do it, you can do it. Okay, all right, I 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:17.840 don't know. The day might still suck. Let's see, let's 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:19.039 talk to some people as a gecko. 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:19.360 Hi. 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:22.560 Hi, Hi, what's your name? My name is Paulina, Paulina. 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:23.320 Nice to meet you. 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:24.080 Nice to meet you too. 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:25.039 How's life, Paulina? 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:28.280 Life has been okay? I don't know, it's been kind 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:29.280 of medium right now. 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:32.000 Honestly, is it usually medium or is it? What's it 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:32.559 like usually? 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:34.720 Like usually I feel like it's a little bit of 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:37.720 a higher point, But like right now I'm going. 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:40.480 Through a little bit of a. 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:41.560 Calmer section of my life. I guess I could say 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:44.960 because like before, I don't know, with like being younger 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:47.080 and like being single and everything like that, you have 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:48.720 a lot of more freedoms and you do a lot 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:54.240 of more crazy shit. Okay, but like now I'm married, wha, Yeah, No, 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:56.800 I'm married, and I like have an entirely different, like 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:59.120 kind of outlook on life. I guess you could say, 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:02.080 because like I have a husband now I have like 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:04.000 a stable person that I could come home to. 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:06.440 And I mean, I'm. 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:08.520 Not working right now, but like usually I'd be working 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:12.160 fucking seven days out of the week, like just tiring 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:15.200 myself out, stressing myself out. At one point last year, 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:17.320 I was working so much that I started losing the hair. 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:19.960 Holy shit, Yeah, because I. 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:20.839 Was stressing so much. 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:24.080 And it's like, especially like in New York, I don't know, 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:27.240 the working the stress of working and like having to 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:30.200 keep up and like having to thrive. 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:33.040 Like here, you can't be without money, you know what 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:33.440 I mean? 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:37.040 And yeah, it is a very hustle, hustle based, very very. 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:38.399 Very hustle based environment. 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:41.040 And it's just like I don't know, I used to 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:43.359 work so hard just to like be able to make 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:46.440 my rent, be able to like make a living, and 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:48.600 like be doing all the crazy shit that I used 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:50.760 to do, like going to the bars, going to the clubs, 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:53.040 paying for my friends and stuff like that. But like 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:56.520 now I have like calm down and like there's just 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:58.200 one person to like share that with. 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:00.680 You know what, So when did you get married? How 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:01.160 long ago? 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:04.000 I got married in March March twenty fourth. 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:06.640 It was a rainy day and and my culture is 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:09.399 like a good sign whenever you get married in the rain, 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:12.120 because then whenever you tie the knot, you can't untie. 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:13.119 I'm not when it's wet. 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:16.040 Oh. I was gonna ask you, where are you from? 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:20.480 I'm from Russia. Oh okay, yeah, but I'm from Russia. 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:23.560 I moved to America like about eleven years ago. Cool, 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:26.040 and I'm first I came to New York and I'm 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:28.240 from New York. I came to Texas, from Texas to 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:31.120 Los Angeles, and from Los Angeles to New York again. 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:32.280 Where did you meet your husband? 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:34.440 I met my husband here here. I think you mete 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:37.520 him at one of the bars or clubs. 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:39.640 I met him at Washington Square Park. 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:40.280 Oh really? 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:41.120 Yeah? 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:42.400 How did that work? 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:43.240 Oh? My gosh. 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:45.400 It was actually a little bit of a crazy story 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:47.200 because I was. 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:48.640 With my boyfriend at that time. 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:53.680 And we were all hanging around the same group, and 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:57.760 so my now husband he used to like come over 0:03:57.800 --> 0:03:59.720 there and try to like sneak me away and stuff 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:00.960 like that, and I was like, no, no, no, no, no, 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:03.480 I'm in a relationship. I'm in a relationship. And I 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:06.440 swore that he was a red flag. And then afterwards 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:09.480 I ended up breaking up with my ex and we 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:12.320 ended up getting I like gave myself a couple of 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:14.400 months to like recover because it was a little bit 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:16.800 of a it was a crazy situation. 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:17.640 He was like thirty. 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:22.279 I was like nineteen at the time, and I thought that. 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:23.720 Older men were like more mature. 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:26.720 I thought that they would be able to, like not 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:30.960 only financially help but like mentally as well, like kind 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:33.920 of be able to like guide me and not be like. 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:35.800 As immature as I was sure. 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:38.039 But it turns out that he was more mature than me. 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:40.160 So I was like, no, I don't really. 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:41.400 This is your ex that you're talking about. 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:42.960 Yeah, my ex that I'm talking about. And then I 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:47.520 met my husband, which he's twenty three, and I realized 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:51.240 that he was more mature than a thirty year old man. 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:53.880 Like he was working, he was doing his thing, he 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:56.240 was taking care of stuff, like he was helping. 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:57.120 His mom everything like that. 0:04:57.200 --> 0:05:01.200 And then it's like whenever I came into his life, 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:03.320 he was doing that like time spy for me, and 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:06.320 I was like, oh my god, like it does like 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:09.000 an age like a thirty year old doesn't mean that. 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:10.520 It's like he's more mature. 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:13.120 So are you? So you went for working like seven 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:16.559 days a week. Yeah too. Now is he like bringing 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:17.560 home the nut for everyone? 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:18.159 Yeah? 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:20.279 Okay, what's he do? How does he bring on the nut? 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:24.240 He's a construction worker as well as he does photography 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:28.800 on the side, and he like does photography for like parties. 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:32.960 He does photography for skating videography as well. And then 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:35.440 I'm like his little assistant sometimes, you know, so you 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:37.520 work with him, Hey, I kind of work with him 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:39.840 and I like edit his videos, I help him out 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:41.920 with the posting, I help him out with his scheduling 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:45.240 everything like that, because he like being a construction worker. 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:47.800 He's like freelance right now, and he like goes all 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:51.360 around the place in New York. But and so it's 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:53.800 like really hard to build a schedule around that. 0:05:54.000 --> 0:06:00.200 But me the amazing Paulina, I get, so, how long 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:01.960 were you guys dating before you got married? 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:06.400 We okay, honestly, our relationship moved really quick. We've known 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:10.200 each other for like two years. We've been together for 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:11.640 ten months. 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:14.080 Now. Did you get married in Russia or here? 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:16.039 We got married here? No, no, no, no, we did 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:17.920 not get married in Russia. We got married here. 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:22.960 And I met him two years ago and then we 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:26.680 ended up getting together like next the year after that, 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:30.320 and like two months after I broke up with my ex, 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:33.240 we ended up getting together. We made things official in November, 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:36.920 we got engaged in February, and then we got married 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:37.360 in March. 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:40.839 So you said that now is a calm time. 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:43.160 Yeah, now it's a calm time. 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:47.599 Now miss the crazy times at. 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:50.920 Times, if I'm being honest, Yes I do. 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:54.440 Because I was able to say, like, I did everything 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:56.520 for myself type of thing, you know what I mean? 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:58.400 Sure I was. 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:02.080 I could call myself a dependent. I could like tell 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:04.719 people that like yeah I did this, like I own 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:06.960 this place, or like I rent this place, I paid 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:07.920 for this, I paid for that. 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:09.000 But like now. 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:13.560 It's nice because my husband takes care of me and 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:16.440 I don't. And it's like it's not even he doesn't 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:18.360 even like put me in the position of like, oh 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:19.640 I'm paying for this, I'm paying for this. 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:20.640 No, it's not even that. 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.640 It's just because I feel like it's my own personal ego, 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:25.200 you know what I mean. That takes me to that 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:28.400 place sometime because it's just like, man if I was single, 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:30.200 I'd still be doing this, this and this, but like 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:31.800 now I can't like. 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:36.840 So, when did you move to New York from Russia. 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:38.240 To New York from Russia? And I moved eleven years ago. 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:40.720 Yeah, okay, you mentioned that. Why did you come to 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:41.120 New York. 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:45.520 My mom got married to my stepfather and he's an 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:49.400 American and so they fell in love everything like that. 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:52.000 He was their English tutor, and so she ended up 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:55.800 moving over here, and my dad didn't really know because 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:59.640 like the immigration stuff was like really really off at 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:01.760 that time for some reason, and it was really expensive 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:04.560 to get papers, and so we lived in New York 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:06.880 for a little bit because it's a blue. 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:12.720 State, you know what I mean, and. 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:14.720 Easier, Yeah, it's definitely easier to not get deported. And 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:18.240 then once once we had all our papers figured out 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:20.520 and everything like that, we moved on to Texas and 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:22.240 then Texas. 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:24.880 From Moscow to New York is like a little bit 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:25.760 of a culture shock. 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:28.760 I'm sure it is. They tell me what the culture 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:29.560 shock felt like. 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:32.800 The culture shock. Honestly, it wasn't even from Moscow to 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:33.120 New York. 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:35.000 The culture shock was really from the point of me 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:38.680 like not being able to speak English properly whenever I 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:41.760 came here, and it was like really hard because I 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:46.120 went to like a predominantly like American. 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:47.480 School and they used to like how. 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:49.720 I was ten. 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:52.600 Years old, ten years old whenever I came here and 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:58.480 people I don't know, like kids are menaces, Like yeah, 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:00.200 all that time, they used to call me like a 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:04.280 commed whar, like I'm a communist, go back to my 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:08.839 country everything like that. Yeah, I kind of advanced years old, 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:12.560 say I'm saying, but like kids are menaces nowadays, bro, 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:15.640 Like I remember all of those times, like whenever my 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:17.760 fellow ten year olds were just like you need to 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:19.840 go back to your own country, blah blah blah blah blah. 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:22.040 You're your country is the one that started the Cold 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:23.319 War with us everything like that. 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:25.439 Like what so I gotta ask you that is it? 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:27.720 Is it like weird being Russian now? 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:29.040 Honestly? 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:33.200 Yeah, honestly yeah, with like everything going on in the world, 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:36.920 like with the Russian Ukraine War everything like that, it's 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:43.360 it's a hard time being like Russian or like calling 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:44.240 yourself Russian. 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:50.960 But like I'm mixed. My grandma's Ukrainian. 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:55.479 I was born in Russia and I grew up speaking Ukrainian, 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:59.920 but like I ended up just losing it over time. 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.760 Do people in Russia do they like Putin? Like does 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:04.840 anyone like him? Or do they all not like him? 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:08.760 I feel like it's media manipulation. 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:11.599 Whenever people are like saying like, oh, no, Putin this, 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:15.320 Putin that, but he's I feel like people know that 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:18.280 he's not a good leader. They know that he has 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:22.560 gotten to like he's gotten to the top of power, 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:25.199 and now he doesn't want to like get it away, 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:25.400 you know. 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:25.720 What I mean. 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:27.760 You don't have like a like a weird uncle or 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:29.680 something who's like, no, I think he's a cool guy, 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:30.439 Like how you know. 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:31.800 I bet I do. 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:35.680 I feel like whenever I visited Russia last time, which 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:37.679 was the last time I visited was in twenty nineteen, 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:41.440 and there was times of whenever my dad, my stepdad 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:43.920 was like talking to my mom's friends and they were like, no, 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:47.080 Putin is awesome, Putin is great. And then the war 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:50.280 started happening and they were like, oh, it's not early. 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:51.559 How it's playing out to. 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:54.440 Be Like he's not that, he's not that good of 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:56.560 a leader anymore. Like in the past, I don't know, 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:59.240 in the nineties or in the early two thousands, whenever 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:02.360 he was in the president run everything like that. Maybe 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:04.880 he was good, maybe he was doing good for the country, 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:08.160 but now the power has definitely gotten to the top 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:09.720 of his head and it's ridiculous. 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:13.920 So back to your personal life, yea, uh do you like, 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:16.760 what do you hope for the future for yourself? 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:18.160 I want to start a family. 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:21.680 I really I've been dreaming of being a mom, like 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:25.240 ever since I was little, and I feel like starting 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:28.000 a family, especially being married, is the next step. It's 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:32.040 just it's just really hard with like the economic position 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:34.640 everything like that, everything that's going on in the world 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:36.319 right now, Like it's. 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:37.959 It's hard putting a kid into that. 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:39.960 But then at the same time, I feel like I'd 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:42.079 be able to make a life for that child that 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:45.040 nobody else would, you know what I mean that, yeah, 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:46.640 it wouldn't matter with anything. 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:47.440 It's hard. 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:49.839 It's weird to like, you know, I mean, it's hard 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:52.320 to be like optimistic about the future. That's a little 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:55.160 bout like, uh, you know, by the time I'm like, 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:56.679 if I have a kid, when I'm like say, like 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:59.560 thirty seven or whatever, like in ten years, yeah, then 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:03.679 by the time that my kid is like eighteen, I'm 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:04.760 ready to go to college. 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:06.360 I'll be like fifty fucking five. 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:08.880 Yeah, who knows what the world is gonna look like 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:11.560 there might like I'm worried about like there being like 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:15.240 no economic opportunities, Yeah for my kid, because even like you, 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:17.840 like being eighteen, going to college now is so different 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:22.080 than it is like twenty eight years ago for our parents. Yeah, 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:26.160 you know, like it's it's worrisome that you have like 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:28.400 gen Z. I feel like has gen Z and Jenop 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:31.480 I have like I would assume maybe I'm just talking shit, 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:35.160 but it seems as though they have much less economic opportunities. 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:38.640 Yeah, yeah, no, I definitely agree with that. And it's 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:41.920 like the fact I don't know now college isn't really 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:46.520 like we're at least guaranteed, It's not, it's not guaranteed anymore. 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:49.199 Like it's definitely if you have like a dream to 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.800 go to college, like you can you can do everything 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.160 in your power to like go into college and stuff 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:55.640 like that. I was just talking about that to my 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:58.640 friends today. I worked at Chipotle before, and I had 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:02.480 people that had masked degrees, bachelor's degrees that were working 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:05.320 and like serving food to people. And it's just like 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:09.160 you spent all that time, you spent all that money 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:13.120 and you're still working amid as what I mean. 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:15.600 Yeah, it's a it's a terrible bummer. 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:18.040 And it's like now people that like have business degrees 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.480 or something like that, they're they're even dropping that and 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:23.600 they're starting to do content creating or they're starting to cook, 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:26.960 like they're starting to make their own restaurants or something 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:29.600 like that. They don't even use their degree and what's 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:33.160 really what they got it initially for, you know what 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:36.480 I mean? And like I went to college for a 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:42.720 couple of semesters and it was, honestly, like I feel 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:46.080 like it was even more stress than working whenever I 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:48.440 was working here, because like. 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:49.520 Was it more stressful than working at Chipotle? 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:55.559 I feel like that, Yeah, yeah, because I'm very genuine 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:56.400 I'm surprised to hear that. 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:58.400 Look, working at Chipotle looks very stressful. 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:00.440 It's it is, honestly is. 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:02.880 And like I used to I used to do everything, 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:04.360 Like I used to be in prep team. 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:06.920 I used to be the hostess. 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:08.360 Like the cashier, and I used to be the one 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:10.960 rolling your burritos, you know what I mean. And it 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:13.800 was like we had to worry about every little thing. 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:16.160 We had to worry about having the right amount of 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:18.800 food prepped, and it wasn't the regular amount of people 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:21.160 every single day, you know. So it's like we had 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:23.800 to get the amount of food prep correctly, we had 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:25.040 to roll everything correctly. 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:27.720 We couldn't really waste anything. And it was just. 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:31.600 I don't know, and then balancing that on top of 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:35.000 school with like having to get your assignments in time, 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:37.280 so have to get good grades to come out with 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:41.720 a good GPA to keep your scholarship or if I 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:43.520 don't know, if you're like paying for it. 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:47.280 It's so hard. It's ridiculously hard. 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:49.680 I feel like having a job like that is good 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:52.040 training to be a mom, because being a. 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:53.120 Mom is also like. 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:54.560 It. 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:58.960 It's like you can't like college, like you can fuck around, yeah, 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.800 you know, if you work at like Chipotle or whatever, 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:04.120 you can't just like like be on your phone the 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:04.560 whole time. 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:07.080 You gotta like roll burritos. You got things you gotta do. Ship. 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:09.560 Yeah, you have a kid, you gotta came in your 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:11.560 phone all the time or rest child will die. You 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:13.360 kind of do have to roll the kid a little bit. 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:16.040 You gotta roll the kids. You gotta change a diaper. 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:19.640 I like, like when you're like like the logistical mechanics 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:22.360 of of changing a diaper are kind of seemed to 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:25.000 be similar to rolling a burrito. You know, you're you're 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:26.960 moving things through their hands and you know, doing this 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:34.000 and that thing. Yeah, Paula, Pauline, Paulina, Paulina, Yeah, well Pauline, Okay, 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:35.920 I want to ask you this before we go, because 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:38.720 you came up to me, uh, before I settle this 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:40.960 crap up, and you were like, I've been present for 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:43.200 a lot of your other Gecko sessions and I've always 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:44.000 wanted to get on one. 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:44.920 Have we cover? 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:48.080 Is there anything else that we didn't cover that you 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:49.960 want to make sure we cover before we go? 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:53.640 I feel like this is exactly what I've been yearning for. 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:57.480 My entire life, right Uh, Paula, anything else you want 0:15:57.480 --> 0:15:58.880 to say to the people of the computer before we go? 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:02.880 Be happy, be optimistic. Life is great despite everything that's 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:04.760 going on. You create your own shit. 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:07.560 Honestly, Thank you, paul By, have a go, and thank 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:08.440 you for talking to a gecko. 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:09.480 How many is mullah? 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:11.160 Mullah? Like money? 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:11.560 Yeah? 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:14.600 What's that? Mullah? How's life? How's it going? What are 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:15.520 you doing in the park tonight? 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:19.239 Right now? I'm just really spending time with my boyfriend, 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:22.640 my friends, just getting my mind off of stuff because 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:26.040 I've been trying to look for a job, fishing up 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:31.320 school and just I'm going a bit stressed. So I'm 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:33.440 here to take off a little bit away from the day. 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:37.560 See, I'm like tempted to ask you what you're stressed about, 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:39.360 but the whole thing of going to the park is 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:41.200 to not talk about it. So would you like to 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:43.160 not talk about what you're stressed about? I can talk 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:45.040 about it, Okay, what he's stressed about. 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:51.480 Well, it's just like in my life, I feel like 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:55.360 there's a lot of people coming to me and trying 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:58.480 to distract me from what I'm really supposed to do. 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:03.800 Like I'm really trying to get into like law and stuff, 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:08.879 and I feel really discredit and discouraged by people around 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:11.520 me based on how I look and where I'm from 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:16.680 because growing up in like kind of a poorer area, 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:20.560 it's not really expected from people. So I wanted to 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:24.359 really like do that, but it gets discouraged. So I've 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:27.479 been dealing with a lot of like setbacks when it 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:32.480 comes to even getting work because it's that automatic, Oh 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:34.480 how much do you make? Where do you live at 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:38.399 in ethnicity questions so much harder. 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:40.439 So when you say that, like the people around you 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:43.719 are discouraging you from what you actually want to do. 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:46.879 Like is this like your friends or your family or 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:48.960 like just like random people that you talk to. 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:54.879