Speaker 1: Come from Danny tixcept Hello.
Speaker 2: Hello, Hi, what is your name? I'm Danny Danny? What's up? Danny?
Speaker 2: How you doing?
Speaker 3: What's going on? No way, dude, I'm like freaking out
Speaker 3: a little bit. That's coat. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: What what are you doing right now? What's up?
Speaker 3: I'm walking around the living room.
Speaker 2: Okay? Where do you live.
Speaker 3: Louisiana?
Speaker 2: I've never been to I don't think I've ever been
Speaker 2: to Louisiana. How close are you to New Orleans?
Speaker 3: I'm about four hours away Louisiana. The only interested part
Speaker 3: of Louisiana is.
Speaker 2: New So are you Is that where you were born
Speaker 2: or did you move there?
Speaker 3: I was born in Columbia.
Speaker 2: Columbia like like the country. Yeah, oh when did you
Speaker 2: move to Louisiana?
Speaker 3: I was purchased when I was like three and no, yeah,
Speaker 3: living Florida for a while, and then Texas to Florida
Speaker 3: and Texas to Florida and then I'm a raft guy
Speaker 3: and I met this girl and she lives in Louisiana.
Speaker 3: So now I'm in Louisiana.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry you were you were purchased?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, when you're adopted cost like cost money?
Speaker 2: Oh okay, I've never heard of. I've never heard somebody
Speaker 2: refer to being adopted as being purchased.
Speaker 3: Yeah, due to cost ten thousand, So you.
Speaker 2: Were purchased when you were three, So I still okay,
Speaker 2: So you were you were born to Colombian parents in Colombia, correct, Yes,
Speaker 2: and then at three years old your parents were just like,
Speaker 2: we can't do this, and they put you up for adoption.
Speaker 3: Well, I have like thirteen siblings and they couldn't have
Speaker 3: all of this, so all.
Speaker 2: Right, Jesus they were meeting you guys, like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: pretty crazy? Is that? So you had thirteen siblings and yeah,
Speaker 2: your parents put you up for adoption when you were three?
Speaker 2: Is that legal? You could just you could just give
Speaker 2: up at three?
Speaker 3: No, I was. I was seized by the state because
Speaker 3: there were so many kids and my mom didn't want
Speaker 3: to take care of all of us.
Speaker 2: Basically, you were seized by the Colombian government. Yeah, like
Speaker 2: like like CPS.
Speaker 3: I think I have a whole report. So basically they
Speaker 3: they went into the house for like domestic dispute for
Speaker 3: my other siblings because someone reported them for like neglect,
Speaker 3: and I was undocumented, Like I was just kind of
Speaker 3: like she gave birth to me and she wasn't feeding me,
Speaker 3: so I actually I have a severe delay.
Speaker 2: In height because of that, a severe delay in height.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: How how tall are you?
Speaker 3: I'm five to three, so I'm not like but like
Speaker 3: you know, like my growth was just like really delayed.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmmm wow, holy cramp? Do you have you? When's
Speaker 2: the last time? How old are you?
Speaker 3: I'm twenty.
Speaker 2: When's the last time you saw like your birth parents?
Speaker 2: Do you ever see them?
Speaker 3: No, I'm no, I've I've read about I've read about
Speaker 3: them a whole bunch. But where where did you read?
Speaker 2: Where did you read about them?
Speaker 3: I just have one like one fat report that just
Speaker 3: goes over the whole situation I was in when I
Speaker 3: was a kid. So I just read about like I
Speaker 3: just know their names and like what was going on,
Speaker 3: and like that's about it. But it's just not too much.
Speaker 3: It's so vague.
Speaker 2: Who well, wait when you say you have this report?
Speaker 2: Who where's this report coming from?
Speaker 3: Other state of Columbia?
Speaker 2: Uh? When did they give you that report?
Speaker 3: So it was just like the report on like when
Speaker 3: they found me and like everything that led up to
Speaker 3: me being adopted, like the whole my whole background and
Speaker 3: stuff because they like to give that to parents, so
Speaker 3: like they can see if their kid has too much baggage.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, all right, so when you were, as you say,
Speaker 2: purchased at three, they gave that report to your parents. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so who tell me who adopted you?
Speaker 3: Uh? My dad? Uh two Americans. My dad's keeping my
Speaker 3: mom's Colombian like background, so they went they wanted the
Speaker 3: Colombian Colombian kids, so they lived in Colombia.
Speaker 2: Okay, and are your parents are you like? Are are
Speaker 2: they cool?
Speaker 3: Yeah? They're pretty cool. They're pretty cool sometimes.
Speaker 2: Are you you got a good relationship with them?
Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, yeah, I mean it used to be rocky.
Speaker 3: I I called in because I have I had an addiction
Speaker 3: to Vantage for two years and that makes me like
Speaker 3: see and like dream about wicked ship. But during that
Speaker 3: time it was but now it's all fixed up.
Speaker 2: You had an addiction to Benadrill for two years? What
Speaker 2: what two year period? Uh?
Speaker 3: About twelve to fourteen.
Speaker 2: Oh holy fucking shit. How are you doing now? You
Speaker 2: kind of sound like you're doing all right now. You
Speaker 2: said you met a girl and you moved to Louisiana.
Speaker 2: How are you doing now?
Speaker 3: I'm doing good. I do seasonal works that work for
Speaker 3: like National parks there alright, got and so I travel
Speaker 3: a whole bunch and cool, that's I'm met my partner.
Speaker 3: I met it working at Yellowstone Cool.
Speaker 2: Cool man. Damn you really made it out of some ship.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 2: What does the so the but you wanted you said
Speaker 2: you called in specifically you wanted to talk about Benadrill,
Speaker 2: not that I you know, what, does this still affect you?
Speaker 2: Does this still affect you? Six years later?
Speaker 4: I still have like really crazy dreams, but like loly,
Speaker 4: like like because I forgot someone was talking about something
Speaker 4: about dreaming, not some man be thinking.
Speaker 3: But I'll have like dreams where I'm just like stuff
Speaker 3: and it feels like days and weeks.
Speaker 5: M hm.
Speaker 2: So do you what's one of your crazy dreams?
Speaker 3: Uh? Like? I have a reoccurring dream where I'll show
Speaker 3: up in a room and it's like a room that's
Speaker 3: like painted like like an ocean. Like it's like I'm
Speaker 3: looking at a horizon at like one of those doctor's offices,
Speaker 3: and that's the only thing in the room. That's the
Speaker 3: only thing in the room. And then there's a little
Speaker 3: screaming no, and he just walks around me in like
Speaker 3: circles and I can't move, but I'm like conscious, and
Speaker 3: I'll sit there and I'll think for like hours and
Speaker 3: I'll turn into like days, and then I'll feel hungry
Speaker 3: and shit, and then I wake up and it was
Speaker 3: like I only took like an hour nap and for
Speaker 3: like two weeks.
Speaker 2: So you're you have a sleep paralysis demon? Who's a gnome?
Speaker 3: I guess he's not in everyone. Sometimes it's different, it's
Speaker 3: a different thing, but it's always like there's something looking
Speaker 3: at me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's like sleep paralysis, right, Yeah, I guess how
Speaker 2: how often do you have these dreams? Uh?
Speaker 3: Like twice a week?
Speaker 2: Holy shit? You ever been to like a fucking doctor? Uh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have. But that was when like so like
Speaker 3: after I went to because I went to rehounds for
Speaker 3: arounders and stuff, because I did it when I was younger.
Speaker 3: We put some holes in my brain apparently some something psychological.
Speaker 3: I don't know, but it just said to take a
Speaker 3: take like twenty years to clear up or something and
Speaker 3: heal from the damage. I just did that like a
Speaker 3: really bad time.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm mm hm.
Speaker 5: Hm hmm.
Speaker 2: All right, So you were purchased why do you say
Speaker 2: purchase instead of adopted?
Speaker 3: It adds a little psaz?
Speaker 2: No, it totally, it totally does it totally adds a
Speaker 2: little pizaz.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I called him before one other time. I
Speaker 3: don't know if you remember that, but I was. I
Speaker 3: was that guy who got I got. I got expelled
Speaker 3: from my school because I was in front of it.
Speaker 2: You got expelled from your school because you shipped in
Speaker 2: front of it?
Speaker 3: No, because I got they like this, this has spending me,
Speaker 3: and so I took a big sad crab from the school.
Speaker 3: All right. I don't know I was to say it
Speaker 3: because I told you that story one time.
Speaker 2: When was when was this?
Speaker 3: This is like, this was like eight months ago now
Speaker 3: I'm thinking about it. It was a long ass time ago.
Speaker 2: I don't remember a story. I'm sorry, I don't remember
Speaker 2: a story about you taking a ship in front of
Speaker 2: somebody taking a shit in front of their school.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right, Yeah, I just thought about that. I
Speaker 3: was like, damn, that was a long ass time ago.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you were purchased. I guess it's it is
Speaker 2: kind of a flex to be like you are inherent.
Speaker 2: You have a like they say, you can't put a
Speaker 2: price on human life. But you literally can be like
Speaker 2: I am worth at least ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I guess if you look at it that way, Yeah,
Speaker 3: ten thousand dollars. Dude, I paid. I paid ten thousand
Speaker 3: dollars and sixteen cents from behind the city.
Speaker 2: Okay, I mean that's pretty good.
Speaker 3: I don't know, I think the piece of crap ten
Speaker 3: thousand dollars? What would you buy with ten thousand dollars?
Speaker 2: Like, what would I buy with ten thousand dollars? Well,
Speaker 2: it's I mean, I guess it's it's interesting to know
Speaker 2: that you can buy a baby for ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I'm gonna do anything with that information.
Speaker 2: But what else is worth ten thousand dollars? Maybe, like, uh,
Speaker 2: I don't know you could buy I sold my car.
Speaker 2: It was a Ford Focus and I only I got
Speaker 2: like two thousand dollars for that ship. So I guess
Speaker 2: I would buy five of those.
Speaker 3: You're right, what is valuable to you?
Speaker 2: What is valuable to me? Like like in life? Like
Speaker 2: like what's like what's valuable to me? Like? What would
Speaker 2: I what's valuable to me? Monetarily speaking? Or it just
Speaker 2: in life.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what is what is something like whatever? Whatever you
Speaker 3: think about buying something like comfort or and that doesn't
Speaker 3: have to do with food. What like what monetary?
Speaker 2: I mean? I try to I mean I try to
Speaker 2: put money away because I just never want my goal.
Speaker 2: I just never want to have to like work a
Speaker 2: real Like I've been able to successfully coast through life
Speaker 2: never having a super real job, and I'd like to
Speaker 2: be able to do that forever. So I just put
Speaker 2: away money. That's the most valuable thing to me. But
Speaker 2: like I like, I mean, I'll spend money on convenience,
Speaker 2: like a good fucking Ubers and uber Eats and stuff
Speaker 2: like that. You know, food definitely. I never cook, so
Speaker 2: I'm always buying food out a lot because I don't
Speaker 2: want to have to deal with cooking. You know, I'll
Speaker 2: hire someone to come and clean all the dirt out
Speaker 2: of my apartments stuff like that. You right, what about you?
Speaker 3: Honestly, it's just honest. It's pretty much this tackle Bell.
Speaker 3: I feel like I'm steel Bad or something. Is that
Speaker 3: tacle Bell? It's like anything. I just get tackle Bell
Speaker 3: and they have all the same shit, just different packaging
Speaker 3: for all their foods. So I guess, like whatever kind
Speaker 3: of witness I'm feeling, I get, you know, you.
Speaker 2: Know as much as I as much as I love
Speaker 2: talking about Taco Bell, I'm still not done talking about
Speaker 2: your life story because you have an interesting thing going on.
Speaker 2: So you where'd you grow up?
Speaker 3: I grew up in like Miami area and then Dallas, Okay?
Speaker 2: Well, and what like where'd you go to high school?
Speaker 3: I went to ice school in like Kelly, Texas, like
Speaker 3: Keller High like half of our high school with Kelly
Speaker 3: High and half of my high school in Florida.
Speaker 2: Are you still friends with people from high school?
Speaker 3: Kind of really bad at like retaining so not really?
Speaker 2: And tell me where you met this girl that you
Speaker 2: live in Louisiana with again.
Speaker 3: I met her in Yellowstone, like Yaloston National Park?
Speaker 2: Where's Yellowstone?
Speaker 3: It's in Montana?
Speaker 2: Okay, So you grew so you go you kind of
Speaker 2: move around a little bit when you're growing up. You
Speaker 2: go to high school in Keller, Texas, and then when
Speaker 2: you're eighteen you graduate, you graduate high school? Yeah, and
Speaker 2: then where do you go after you graduate high school?
Speaker 3: I went straight to Yellowstone. I dropped out to college.
Speaker 2: Did you say you went to college for a little bit.
Speaker 3: No, No, I dropped up before the first day Yellowstone,
Speaker 3: like the summer before, and then college.
Speaker 2: Okay you yeah, you okay, So you graduate high school,
Speaker 2: you like intern at Yellowstone or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, summer job very nice.
Speaker 2: And then you're like, I'm just not going to go
Speaker 2: to college. I'm just gonna stay here.
Speaker 3: Yeah. It just seemed like a scam. I was gonna
Speaker 3: go to like culinary school, and it just seemed like
Speaker 3: a fat scam, especially because I was working in the
Speaker 3: kitchen and Yellowstone all the chefs told me not to go.
Speaker 2: Oh, I mean that's awesome. I'm so I'm curious about
Speaker 2: a few things. How did you get what we what
Speaker 2: were you actually doing at Yellowstone? How'd you get involved there?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 2: Like, tell me, tell me how you got that gig
Speaker 2: and what the gig is.
Speaker 3: So they have a website called cool Works. It's like Indeed,
Speaker 3: but for seasonal work, like they have like any national park,
Speaker 3: like whenever they're offering up like Chiju League housekeeping or
Speaker 3: kitchen work. But I applied on cool Works and I
Speaker 3: just want to go just to get the hell out
Speaker 3: with Florida, just see different states. And then none of
Speaker 3: the states are cool. It's just hard to compare to
Speaker 3: the South, so it's stick to go for like seasons.
Speaker 2: So anyway, so I just the only thing I'm like
Speaker 2: dumbfounded by this just because, like I mean, it's so
Speaker 2: like the job market and shit is is kind of
Speaker 2: crazy and so like did you know anyone there or
Speaker 2: you just like you just applied eighteen, no like experience
Speaker 2: or anything, and they just got you on.
Speaker 3: Oh dude, Yellowstone is crazy to heart anybody. I do
Speaker 3: what I do, what time? I saw so much because
Speaker 3: the altitude is so high, you get really fucked up.
Speaker 3: I saw someone drink it black, I was drunk, try
Speaker 3: to stab someone, and then when they called the National
Speaker 3: Park Service to get him out of the park, he
Speaker 3: just drove off in a motorcycle and no one ever again,
Speaker 3: like like crazy, people were shitting on walls and stuff.
Speaker 3: People doing like cocaine and may even though like it's
Speaker 3: a fat telling me because it's federal land. Yellowstone is crazy, dude,
Speaker 3: They hire whoever, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: That's uh, that's fucking awesome. I like that. I Uh,
Speaker 2: that's cool. I love that you You were just okay,
Speaker 2: so you're eighteen, You're just like, I need to get
Speaker 2: the fuck out of Keller, Texas. Why why'd you pick Yellowstone?
Speaker 3: They were the first ones to call me back. I
Speaker 3: applied to like.
Speaker 2: Everywhere and did they Did they throw you some money
Speaker 2: to get over there?
Speaker 3: No? No, not really. Some some companies do what they don't.
Speaker 2: Okay, did you work any jobs before that, like when
Speaker 2: you were in high school?
Speaker 3: Yeah, just like shitty fast foods. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So you're running over to Montana and like what you
Speaker 2: rent an apartment there? You meet some Craigslist roommates.
Speaker 3: No, for two hundred bucks, you get three meals a
Speaker 3: day and like housing and it was like a cabin,
Speaker 3: Like it was like a cabin right up.
Speaker 2: Oh they okay they so you lived at the park.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I lived in the park.
Speaker 2: Oh oh dude, that's awesome. That's so cool that they
Speaker 2: can just do that at eighteen, just fresh out of
Speaker 2: fucking school. And did you meet a lot of people?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, like a fuck ton of people. There's people from
Speaker 3: like all countries there too. It's like an international thing.
Speaker 2: Wow. Wow, what did you actually do? What was your
Speaker 2: like job?
Speaker 3: Pantry? I just made desserts and silets for rich people
Speaker 3: coming up there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's the demographic running around Yellowstone, dude?
Speaker 3: Surprisingly, it's like mostly Asian apparently like Yellowstone super popular
Speaker 3: in like China or something. It's a lot of like, yeah,
Speaker 3: Asian people I met. I met that lady who was well,
Speaker 3: there was like a show of like American short people.
Speaker 3: Her whole family came uh, mostly Asian, I'd say most
Speaker 3: Asian and a lot of white, but you don't really
Speaker 3: see it colors.
Speaker 2: H And so how long were you working there?
Speaker 3: For about six months?
Speaker 2: And how'd you meet your girlfriend?
Speaker 3: She's working at the gas station and she uh, I
Speaker 3: was like pretty much blackout one night and she asked
Speaker 3: if I wanted to go to the pub with her
Speaker 3: because they have like employee pubs and only one of
Speaker 3: them is open till too So I said yeah, I
Speaker 3: joined in and then start talking from there.
Speaker 2: So cool, you got blood. She works at like the
Speaker 2: Yellowstone gas Like, did you work for Yellowstone and she's
Speaker 2: working at the Yellowstone gas station?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Wow, that's pretty that's pretty cool. What are these employee pubs?
Speaker 3: So like all of I think all of the locations
Speaker 3: except for Roosevelt have one. But it's like if you
Speaker 3: go behind the building and you'll enter like it's just
Speaker 3: as employees, only then there's like a like a literal
Speaker 3: whole bar, like how you'd have like a nice ass
Speaker 3: bar for like the guests. They have a nice ass bar,
Speaker 3: but it's just in the back and it's just like
Speaker 3: hitting all the employees can go in.
Speaker 2: How many people work at Yellowstone?
Speaker 3: A lot of people, like like a whole bunch, Like
Speaker 3: I'd say at least like four four walmarts worth of employees.
Speaker 3: Maybe do they pay? Okay, no, they say, all right,
Speaker 3: I don't know. They kind of stuck that dude. They'll
Speaker 3: fire you at like a moment's notice, and they'll give
Speaker 3: you two hours to leave the park when you haven't
Speaker 3: even figured out hotel or like airplane ride or nothing.
Speaker 2: And when you left Keller, did you leave any friends
Speaker 2: behind or were you? Were you just like are you
Speaker 2: kind of riding solo through life?
Speaker 3: I have some I don't know, I really hate to say.
Speaker 3: And I have a lot of acquaintances, but I have,
Speaker 3: like I listen, like two close friends, two close friends behind.
Speaker 3: But other than that, no one else other than my family.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, And so you're at Yellowstone for six months,
Speaker 2: you meet a lady and what's the ladies deal? Is she?
Speaker 2: Where is she originally from?
Speaker 3: She lives in Louisiana her whole life.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you meet a lady and what happens at
Speaker 2: the end of those six months, She's just like, Hey,
Speaker 2: I'm going back to Louisiana. Come with.
Speaker 3: No. So we we were based always basically like I'm
Speaker 3: trying to travel and stuff, and I dropped out of
Speaker 3: college and like because I dropped out of college to
Speaker 3: travel in Yellowstone and she was like, dang, I'm trying
Speaker 3: to do the same thing. So I just came with
Speaker 3: her to Louisiana and then we did another seasonal and
Speaker 3: then we're back in Louisiana. But we just had the
Speaker 3: same ideas of like wanting to travel and you know,
Speaker 3: living on living on the highway. Basically, I guess.
Speaker 2: Do you two live in an apartment together in Louisiana?
Speaker 3: We live with her parents.
Speaker 2: Okay, do you do you guys work?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: What do you guys do?
Speaker 3: I don't have a job yet. I'm trying to get
Speaker 3: a job at bass Pro. But she's a she's a server,
Speaker 3: like a like a waitress.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you're gonna get a job at bass Pro.
Speaker 2: She's waitressing and you guys are saving up for your
Speaker 2: next adventure.
Speaker 3: Well, most of like waiting. I'm like, I'm fine, I'm
Speaker 3: fine to go on more. But uh, there's some family
Speaker 3: family stuff going on.
Speaker 2: So your family or her family very okay, So you're
Speaker 2: what you said.
Speaker 3: You're waiting, Yeah, waiting?
Speaker 2: What are you waiting for?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I wish you'd tell me, but who knows?
Speaker 2: You're you're waiting on her?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay? Mmmm, what do you what? You're twenty?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's next for you? What do you want? Uh?
Speaker 3: I kind of I just want to pick a direction
Speaker 3: and just start walking, the start driving or something. I
Speaker 3: don't know. I just want to leave.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm. Do you feel do you feel calm? Do
Speaker 2: you like do you have any like anxiety about the future,
Speaker 2: or do you feel good?
Speaker 3: I feel pretty good. I don't know. I don't really
Speaker 3: know what's going on, but I feel like i'd have
Speaker 3: it handled. Uh. Do you know like to skip by
Speaker 3: and skip by?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean you like, uh, your whole attitude of
Speaker 2: yeah you're at it, your your whole the attitude that
Speaker 2: you've displayed, I guess to me over the course of
Speaker 2: this call makes me feel like you're gonna be uh,
Speaker 2: you're gonna be fine.
Speaker 3: Wow, thank you love.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I really do. I mean that because you
Speaker 2: seem another person that just goes for it.
Speaker 3: Do you want to hear my girlfriend sat.
Speaker 2: Cat like like the like hearing hearing me out?
Speaker 3: Yeah, a squeeze is backing me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do want to hear that. Yeah, let me
Speaker 2: hear that.
Speaker 3: Sucks. Come on, Oh he's parent. Never mind, Okay, this
Speaker 3: kid is like fat, like a fat kid.
Speaker 2: How fa how much do you think he weighs?
Speaker 3: I don't know if Billy touched the floor?
Speaker 2: Wait wait wait wait wait he like when he walks
Speaker 2: like wait, like when he's standing on his fore legs,
Speaker 2: his belly is touching the floor.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like the back part of the building scrapes that
Speaker 3: like slaps around.
Speaker 2: That sucks. That's so funny. Yeah, well, ship man, this
Speaker 2: is cool. I like I like a story like this
Speaker 2: because I know there's a lot of people who listen
Speaker 2: to this show that are being like, what the fuck
Speaker 2: should I do with my life? And it's like it's
Speaker 2: this is one of the cool This is one of
Speaker 2: the things I like about doing this show is like
Speaker 2: nobody will ever tell you what you should do with
Speaker 2: your I mean people, we'll totally tell you what you
Speaker 2: should do with your life, like your parents and society
Speaker 2: and stuff. But I feel like you can. There's so
Speaker 2: much to learn from just like observing what other people
Speaker 2: are doing with their lives and decisions they're making and
Speaker 2: how they have turned out. I mean, you're very young.
Speaker 2: You still have a lot, you have, like so much
Speaker 2: more of yourself to develop, but you have that like
Speaker 2: adventurous spirit and willingness to like figure shit out. That
Speaker 2: is like ensures to me that you'll have a good
Speaker 2: life no matter what kind of setbacks you have, especially
Speaker 2: because you've i mean goddamn experienced plenty of setbacks already
Speaker 2: that haven't stopped you from continuing to do shit. It's cool. Yeah, man,
Speaker 2: do you so in Louisiana? Do you keep in touch
Speaker 2: with your like you're I mean, you're I'm just gonna
Speaker 2: I'm gonna all refer to the people who purchased you
Speaker 2: as your parents. Do you keep in touch with them? Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, like every every three days I get my mom.
Speaker 2: Will call, oh wonderful, Okay, great, So you're still you're
Speaker 2: still cool with them? They're they're in your life? Oh yeah, okay?
Speaker 2: And what about the two close friends from Keller?
Speaker 3: Uh, like three every three weeks? Maybe, I mean okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm like horrible friends.
Speaker 2: Do you make do you and you're cool? You're cool
Speaker 2: with mom and dad?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Or do you have friends in Louisiana?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: Are you trying to make friends in Louisiana?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: I bet you'll meet some I bet at the best
Speaker 2: pro shop you'll meet some interesting folks.
Speaker 3: Dude, I hope. So all my friends are like forty
Speaker 3: like acquaintances, you know, and I can't really hang out
Speaker 3: with them. You know. Sometimes I end up hanging out
Speaker 3: with their kids and watching their kids. I don't want
Speaker 3: to hopefully and hopefully speak of my age.
Speaker 2: Sure, sure, what's your name again? I'm Dan, Danny? Well, Danny,
Speaker 2: this is a did you get? Did you get whatever
Speaker 2: you wanted out of this conversation? I've just wanted to know.
Speaker 3: I just want to hear your sweet voice loud.
Speaker 2: Thanks, Danny, You're you're a cool guy. I'm excited for you.
Speaker 3: You're a cool guy. Now. I appreciate you.
Speaker 2: Man. Is there any is there anything else you want
Speaker 2: to say to the people of the computer before we go. Uh.
Speaker 3: When something feels overwhelming and you feel like you can't
Speaker 3: do it, you're only halfway there.
Speaker 2: I like that. Take care of Danny, good luck, good
Speaker 2: luck laugh. I like that guy. He's a cool guy,
Speaker 2: chill person, just to go. I like I like life,
Speaker 2: I really do. I like life. I like uh. I
Speaker 2: liked his story because he had a real life story.
Speaker 2: He had, he had a super real life story. I
Speaker 2: mean the growing up out of thirteen fucking kids. You
Speaker 2: get seized from the state because your parents are you know,
Speaker 2: and then you get adopted, and then you get addicted
Speaker 2: to Benaderrilla at twelve years old. That's insane. And then
Speaker 2: you fight sleep paralysis demons for the next who knows
Speaker 2: how long, and then you graduate high schoo and you're
Speaker 2: just like, I'm just gonna move to Montana because i
Speaker 2: just want to do it because I'm eighteen and I
Speaker 2: need to see the world and I'm not gonna let
Speaker 2: anyone or anything stop me. And then you meet a
Speaker 2: and then you meet a lady in real life, not
Speaker 2: on like you're not on Discord or on a dating app.
Speaker 2: You need real life. You meet a lady who works
Speaker 2: at the gas station while you're blackout drunk, and then
Speaker 2: you guys get together, and then you move to Louisiana
Speaker 2: and get a job at bass Pro shops and plan
Speaker 2: your next diventuon. That's cool. I like, that's such I
Speaker 2: love this. I love this man's real fucking life. It's cool,
Speaker 2: and it's like not even it's like the beginning of it.
Speaker 2: And he's not worried. That was a cool thing. I like,
Speaker 2: he wasn't worried. He didn't seem worried. He was just
Speaker 2: like enjoying his life for exactly what it is while
Speaker 2: planning his adventures. I think that's really cool. So shut
Speaker 2: out Danny.
Speaker 3: From Madison.
Speaker 2: Hello, Hello, Hi, what is your name?
Speaker 1: Minus Madison?
Speaker 2: Madison? What's up? Madison? How's uh? How's life?
Speaker 1: Life is great? I've been trying to get in touch
Speaker 1: with you. We actually talked a couple of years ago. Now,
Speaker 1: I was the person that called in about my weird
Speaker 1: actual projection dreams and wait, you remember this.
Speaker 2: We talked about a weird astral projection dream. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: had what what was the name of the universe that
Speaker 2: you astro projected? Cascada Cascada I I one hundred percent
Speaker 2: remember you. I remember I remember several things. I remember
Speaker 2: several things. I remember one that, yeah, that you astro
Speaker 2: projected into a fucking crazy place, and then we met
Speaker 2: on stage at Bonnaroo.
Speaker 1: I think yes, which was my hail Mary, I just
Speaker 1: dumped Alvira on my face green.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do remember that. I do remember that. So
Speaker 2: I'm gonna set for people who aren't familiar, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: set some contexts. So you called in a couple of
Speaker 2: years ago to talk about how you astro projected into
Speaker 2: a different universe, which I guess means that you went
Speaker 2: to sleep and then your brain projected into another dimension
Speaker 2: that you call Cascada. Is that an accurate summary?
Speaker 1: Basically up as another person. So some people say it's
Speaker 1: like dissociative, but not in my day to day life.
Speaker 1: I would just wake up and like, oh, I'm harper
Speaker 1: in Cascada, and if a month would pass here, a
Speaker 1: month would have passed there. So it's been going on
Speaker 1: for like fifteen years.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, well Madison, listen, I'm happy you called in again.
Speaker 2: Is there like, uh uh, something update on this or
Speaker 2: something quick?
Speaker 1: You encouraged us me to write it down the book,
Speaker 1: which I did the book is almost done, and this
Speaker 1: has changed the trajectory of my life. I just need
Speaker 1: to thank you. You can have actually changed how my
Speaker 1: life is playing out. I'm leaving in a month go
Speaker 1: be a writer in residence in as Chateau in Champagne,
Speaker 1: France among other artists based off of the book that
Speaker 1: I've written.
Speaker 2: Wow, holy crap. Yeah, so you you started, You started
Speaker 2: writing a book about your experiences astro projecting into this
Speaker 2: crazy place.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you said something along the lines of this
Speaker 1: sounds kind of like a Miyazaki movie. You write the
Speaker 1: story down.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I did.
Speaker 1: I wrote this bitch down and I found on Instagram
Speaker 1: right and lay this writing or it was an artist's residency.
Speaker 1: They have them around. I always thought that was some
Speaker 1: rich kids shit, but I applied through Apply, I sent
Speaker 1: them a short story i'd written and then the plot
Speaker 1: of the book. They offered me money to come work
Speaker 1: on my book and be around other artists like writers, maeakers,
Speaker 1: musicians and help get published. So I'm going to about
Speaker 1: to go to Europe for the first time. I leave
Speaker 1: in November third, and then after that I'm living off
Speaker 1: grid in the nudest colony in the Canary Islands for
Speaker 1: Christmas time.
Speaker 2: You're going to a nudist colony in the Canary Islands.
Speaker 1: Yes, i am.
Speaker 2: How did you find out about this?
Speaker 1: Okay, maybe you've talked about this before. Have you heard
Speaker 1: of work away? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: I was just browsing and work away because, like I said,
Speaker 1: I'm already gonna be over there, so while I'm over there,
Speaker 1: I might as well an experience out of the trip.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking for ways to ball on a budget
Speaker 1: and searching through these workaway things. And this because up
Speaker 1: this old gay Irish dude, he lives with this dog
Speaker 1: in this new community in alonzo Rote. He likes to
Speaker 1: show people the culture. He lives in a camperman. You
Speaker 1: live in a tent, but it's part of the commune,
Speaker 1: so you can stay as long as you want. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stay for a month, including Christmas. I just
Speaker 1: reached out to him. But hey, is this a real
Speaker 1: because it looked too good.
Speaker 2: To be true.
Speaker 1: But he has probably two hundred reviews like it's legit.
Speaker 2: Okay, So so again, some more context for the people.
Speaker 2: So work Away free plug it's this website where you
Speaker 2: can go to like basically you search like a location
Speaker 2: that you want to go to, and you can connect
Speaker 2: with people who like basically you work for them and
Speaker 2: change for like housing and food and so it's like
Speaker 2: a way that people can go and uh, you know,
Speaker 2: meet new people, experience new places without having to spend
Speaker 2: a whole bunch of money. So are you working for
Speaker 2: this newdist colony?
Speaker 1: So it's kind of helping out around the camp, but
Speaker 1: mostly he's older and needs companionship and he usesn't like
Speaker 1: to be alone, so he'll have one or two people
Speaker 1: within that time. But the community is like fifty people
Speaker 1: from my research, So it's not like I'm building a thing.
Speaker 1: But it's the truth, which is just saying, which is
Speaker 1: also crazy.
Speaker 2: Are you this isn't like a This isn't like a
Speaker 2: sugar daddy thing, is it?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: No, I looked into that, like, I mean, not that
Speaker 1: at all. He's like, if it makes you better, I'm gay.
Speaker 1: It's just this old gay dude that is not lonely,
Speaker 1: but he lives in his own little spot of land
Speaker 1: of this community. And I'm feeling like I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: roll up on a like old commune kind of situation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which funny enough.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I already help out with a lot of these
Speaker 1: old hippies in Tennessee. I'm part of an environmental group.
Speaker 1: It's like a lot of occagenarians and me doing environmental retreats.
Speaker 1: So I'm used to hanging out with old hippies. So
Speaker 1: I that's the vibe I'm getting.
Speaker 2: How old are you, Madison, I'm twenty nine, very cool.
Speaker 2: I love I like this because I you know, I
Speaker 2: struggle with uh, but I want just what I'm about
Speaker 2: to say is just the most first world fucking problem ever.
Speaker 2: But I'm gonna say it anyway. Is I struggle with
Speaker 2: like continually believing that uh, that life that like, my
Speaker 2: life will continue to spans and I'll continue to have
Speaker 2: enriching life experiences and reasons to like wake up in
Speaker 2: the morning and stuff. And when I hear your story,
Speaker 2: I'm inspired because I'm like, you know, if my life
Speaker 2: ever gets stale and I really need something to juice
Speaker 2: it up, I can always go to a nudist colony
Speaker 2: in the Canary Islands and hang out with an old
Speaker 2: gay Irish guy. I mean I mean that, Since I
Speaker 2: mean that, Since I mean that, so sincerely, like I
Speaker 2: sleep better at night knowing that anytime I want that option,
Speaker 2: I can take that option in life. And I like
Speaker 2: hearing that you're talking about this too, because you know
Speaker 2: I've talked I talk about this too, Like a lot
Speaker 2: of people think that. Well, so I mean break this
Speaker 2: down for me real quick, are you? So you're you
Speaker 2: You have to pay to get to the Canary Islands, right,
Speaker 2: you have to pay your own airfare?
Speaker 1: Yes, but it's not as much as you'd think. So
Speaker 1: my writing thing is in Champagne. From there, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take a train through the Swiss Alps for it's like
Speaker 1: fifty euros and it's a take you through World Heritage sites.
Speaker 1: Gonna go take that beautiful.
Speaker 5: Train right down to Italy.
Speaker 1: Then I'm gonna pop around the Coke Barcelona, Madrid. But
Speaker 1: Madrid to the Canary Islands is like thirty five euros
Speaker 1: for a ticket a plane ride, so it's not it's
Speaker 1: nothing crazy, and I already have those tickets.
Speaker 2: And then once you're there, you can you basically work
Speaker 2: a little bit and you're staying at this place for
Speaker 2: free and you're eating for free.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'm just trading. I'm helping out around camp.
Speaker 5: It's genuinely seems like a lot of people fish.
Speaker 1: Around this community, so that might be part of how
Speaker 1: they get food. I'm not showing up with no money,
Speaker 1: you know, you never you never know. But he says,
Speaker 1: stay here for free, help out around. We're a really
Speaker 1: strong community, so we're just excited to have somebody to
Speaker 1: learn about everything.
Speaker 2: Cool. Well, I like that. I like, uh, the idea
Speaker 2: of like, you know, you you can go out and
Speaker 2: have a new life experience and you don't need to
Speaker 2: spend like an astronomical amount of money to do it
Speaker 2: because anytime, like when I go on Instagram and I
Speaker 2: see like travel content, it's always like people. So it's
Speaker 2: people having like fancy fucking dinners and staying at the
Speaker 2: w and like all this crap. And you know you can.
Speaker 2: You can do it on a on a budget. You know,
Speaker 2: you just need a.
Speaker 1: Lot on a budget.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, So I like, I don't.
Speaker 1: Work remote and I'm taking two months off, so I'm
Speaker 1: making it work. I really am.
Speaker 2: I liked that. I think it's I think it's cool
Speaker 2: making it work. I just want to say one thing
Speaker 2: before we go. I appreciate that you said that I
Speaker 2: changed the trajectory of your life, but I just really
Speaker 2: need you to understand that all I I just said, oh,
Speaker 2: maybe you should write a book, and you went and
Speaker 2: you wrote a whole fucking book. So you you were
Speaker 2: the one who changed the trajectory of your life, not
Speaker 2: me so, but I appreciate.
Speaker 1: I have sent to me. You were the lightning rod
Speaker 1: that helped me see the direction I needed to be
Speaker 1: stepping into. And I just want to thank you for that.
Speaker 1: That was a chance, but you were the person that
Speaker 1: allowed me that chance.
Speaker 2: So thanks, well, thanks Madison. I hope to what I
Speaker 2: hope one day I can astro project into into this
Speaker 2: crazy place that you you hopefully created in your own brain.
Speaker 2: That would be fun.
Speaker 1: I'll send you a copy of the book as soon
Speaker 1: as it's I'll published.
Speaker 2: Madison, is there anything else you want to say to
Speaker 2: the people of the computer before we go?
Speaker 1: No, this life is crazy and you can do whatever
Speaker 1: you want, which sounds crazy.
Speaker 2: To cut out. Well oh wait, or maybe you didn't,
Speaker 2: Maybe that you.
Speaker 1: Was you can It was just quick.
Speaker 2: Thanks for calling, Madison, Take care, Thank you, good luck
Speaker 2: good luck at the good luck at the newdest colony
Speaker 2: in the Canary Islands.
Speaker 1: Yes, my tities will be out and it will be amazing.
Speaker 2: Doesn't that sound fun? Doesn't that sound fun? Isn't I really?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know, like you know, you can.
Speaker 2: I guess you can just do if you really want to.
Speaker 2: I really do believe like if you want to make
Speaker 2: it work, to just go do something random and weird. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'd like to think it's figure outable. I'd like to
Speaker 2: think if you just you decide I want to do
Speaker 2: a random, weird thing and I'm gonna figure out logistically
Speaker 2: how I'm gonna do it, that it's possible. I'd like
Speaker 2: to think that a new where is the Canary Eye Islands?
Speaker 2: Is that a real place that sounds like a that
Speaker 2: sounds fake? Canary Islands a newdest resort? Well, yeah, maybe
Speaker 2: I'll do that one day.
Speaker 3: Who knows all from Lena?
Speaker 2: Hello?
Speaker 5: Hey man?
Speaker 2: Hi? What is your name?
Speaker 5: My name is Lena?
Speaker 2: Hello Lena? Have we ever spoken before? Lena?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: Well? What's up? Dude? How How's how can I? How
Speaker 2: can I be a gecko on the phone with you today?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 5: Get this right? I have this cat. He's really cool.
Speaker 5: He right? I thought it was a she this whole time.
Speaker 5: I got him In May. I think I have a
Speaker 5: transgender cat, and I want to know if I should
Speaker 5: have like a coming out party or I don't know,
Speaker 5: if you have something you know, like it's a pretty
Speaker 5: big deal.
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't think that you initially thinking that
Speaker 2: your cat is uh you you thought it was a boy.
Speaker 5: I thought it was a girl. So I had it
Speaker 5: for months and I thought it was a girl, and
Speaker 5: then I was giving it a bad because he she
Speaker 5: at the time liked.
Speaker 2: Well, I just just real quick, just I don't think
Speaker 2: that you thinking your cat is a girl and then
Speaker 2: realizing it's a boy is the same thing as your
Speaker 2: cat being transgender.
Speaker 5: That's I think it is, because why because I don't know.
Speaker 5: It just seems so sudden, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: Like I feel like I would have known. I should
Speaker 5: have I should have known in the beginning. And I
Speaker 5: feel like I've just been disrespecting their gender this whole time.
Speaker 2: Well, I guess your cat, I mean, I guess your
Speaker 2: cat has it like a small penis that you just
Speaker 2: didn't realize was that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but none of that.
Speaker 2: But yeah, but that doesn't make that doesn't make your
Speaker 2: cat trans that your cat. I'll say, here's what I'll say.
Speaker 2: The idea that you personally had a trans gender cat
Speaker 2: existed in your brain because you in your brain there
Speaker 2: was a girl cat who then transitioned into a boy cat.
Speaker 2: But that's that's I mean, so you can have a
Speaker 2: you can have a coming out party in your own consciousness,
Speaker 2: but that's not I guess what's taking place in reality.
Speaker 5: Him them, but the cat.
Speaker 2: But the cat was always a boy, right, It didn't like,
Speaker 2: nothing changed.
Speaker 5: So my cat's name is Kouchie, right and Ramonte. Now
Speaker 5: now that I know it's a boy, and I don't know,
Speaker 5: I feel like this whole time, like the pink toy,
Speaker 5: the girly conversations. Of course I talked to my cat.
Speaker 5: I feel like I've just been I've just been disrespecting
Speaker 5: it this whole time.
Speaker 2: I mean you can keep I mean, you can keep
Speaker 2: treating your cat like a girl. I don't know, like
Speaker 2: do I don't think.
Speaker 5: He's very fasty too, dude, you can't treating here's.
Speaker 2: Here's here's you can keep treating your cat like a
Speaker 2: girl because he's like your cat. I don't even think
Speaker 2: your cat. I don't think that your cat knows anything
Speaker 2: about itself. I don't think your cat knows it's a cat.
Speaker 2: I don't think it knows it's a boy or a girl.
Speaker 2: I think your cat is dumb, no offense, your animals are.
Speaker 2: Animals are dumb, and I don't care. I know that.
Speaker 2: I know that there's a you can show me a
Speaker 2: YouTube video of a cat that like saves another cat
Speaker 2: from a thing. But animals are just dumb. But they
Speaker 2: don't have awareness of them. So the reason why I can't,
Speaker 2: the reason why a cat can't be transgender and a
Speaker 2: human ken is because a human has the awareness to
Speaker 2: know what they are, and a cat, the cat's brain
Speaker 2: isn't developed enough to do that. So I mean, I
Speaker 2: guess your cat could be gay.
Speaker 5: He's gay. We figured it out. He's just gay.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying he is. I'm saying he could be.
Speaker 5: He's gay though he's gay.
Speaker 2: I just you you want your cat to be gay
Speaker 2: for some reason. I don't know why.
Speaker 5: You know. You know that question gay son or thought
Speaker 5: daughter gay son? All the way.
Speaker 2: I don't. I hate that question. I really, I really,
Speaker 2: I really do have that question. I do. I hate
Speaker 2: that question. What's wrong with having either? I'm not even
Speaker 2: saying that to like sound like a good person. I
Speaker 2: just don't like that question.
Speaker 5: You're absolutely right. I think I want my cat to
Speaker 5: be gay. I think I'm the problem.
Speaker 2: Mile, It's it's possible.
Speaker 5: Wow, you really are a therapist.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not at all. I'm not a therapist. I
Speaker 2: am not a therapist. I am I am. I am
Speaker 2: a green man, That's what I am.
Speaker 5: You really helped me figure this one out. Man.
Speaker 2: Well I'm glad. I'm very glad that I know. I
Speaker 2: don't think. I don't think. I don't think I did anything,
Speaker 2: and I don't think you did anything. I don't think, Lena,
Speaker 2: is there anything else you want to say to the
Speaker 2: people of the computer before we go?
Speaker 5: Listen, guys, if you ever think your cat may be
Speaker 5: gay or transgender or anything, maybe maybe they're not and
Speaker 5: maybe they're just a cat and they just want to
Speaker 5: love you and be there for you and have no labels.
Speaker 5: They want to be cat or dog.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 5: Thank you, this was this was healing.
Speaker 2: I have a good one, Lena, Thank you.
Speaker 5: Good night.
Speaker 2: You know this illustrates something to me, is I think
Speaker 2: you know people are always people always are mad about
Speaker 2: like like when someone goes on Facebook and they see
Speaker 2: like a status from a guy and he's like, I've
Speaker 2: decided that I identify as a wolf, and they get
Speaker 2: like upset about that. I don't. I don't think that's
Speaker 2: something to get upset by. It's something to be celebrated
Speaker 2: because like the like the awareness that you, as a
Speaker 2: human being, you are endowed with a brain that is
Speaker 2: aware of itself. You're aware of your own death, You're
Speaker 2: aware of your own identity, like you know, you're like no,
Speaker 2: no animal knows its name or whether it's a boy
Speaker 2: or animals, they just they don't have awareness of them,
Speaker 2: so they don't know that they're gonna die. It's kind
Speaker 2: of blissful, actually, it's it sounds peaceful to be an animal.
Speaker 2: That's why dogs are always happy and they always have
Speaker 2: that face. But as a human, you have awareness, and
Speaker 2: you with that awareness, like deciding who you are is like, uh,
Speaker 2: it's kind of a beautiful advancements of the human species
Speaker 2: in a sense. You get to customize, you get you
Speaker 2: can be whatever you want. You can decide what you
Speaker 2: are because you're a human. It's cool, you know. Can't
Speaker 2: cats can't do that. Cats can only be cats because
Speaker 2: they have they don't have the awareness to identify as
Speaker 2: anything else, which is I was gonna say that that's
Speaker 2: a bummer, but I also think, but I also think awareness.
Speaker 2: I don't know about you guys, I don't know about
Speaker 2: the people listening, but I most of life's problems are
Speaker 2: due to awareness. Although the animal Kingdom, uh, the animal
Speaker 2: kingdom is mainly concerned with only with present dangers. There's
Speaker 2: a lion is gonna come kill me. Animals only know
Speaker 2: that they're gonna die if they're like right about two,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like, an animal only knows
Speaker 2: is gonna die if if a lion is chasing it.
Speaker 2: But we're we're sitting here like, oh no, in sixty years,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get heart disease. And you get sad about that.
Speaker 2: It's kind of a they're kind of a bad way
Speaker 2: to live, kind of a bad way to live. There
Speaker 2: be Cant goes on the line taking your phone calls
Speaker 2: every night. Never beIN Can goes doing his eye He's
Speaker 2: teaching you loud in the lid of your life. Money's
Speaker 2: not really an expert