Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to the Therapy Gecko Podcast. I am Lyle,
Speaker 1: I am a gecko. I am in New York City
Speaker 1: in a park. Today is what day is today? Does
Speaker 1: anyone know what day it is? Today? Is August something,
Speaker 1: and it's something. It's sometime in the afternoon. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: The time is now. It will never be August. What
Speaker 1: day is today? Today's August twenty fifth. It will never
Speaker 1: be August twenty fifth, twenty twenty five ever again. And
Speaker 1: that is why I have come to the park to
Speaker 1: be a gecko and talk to people about life. This
Speaker 1: is what I'm gonna do with my time alive on
Speaker 1: the earth. This is how I'm spending the one August
Speaker 1: twenty fifth, twenty twenty five that I get and by
Speaker 1: God is in an honor. So let's talk to some
Speaker 1: people at the park about life. It'll be fun, great, sick.
Speaker 1: Let's do it.
Speaker 2: Hi. What's your name?
Speaker 3: I'm Sid, Sid.
Speaker 2: Nice to meet you.
Speaker 3: Nice to meet you.
Speaker 2: What's going on, Sid? How's life?
Speaker 3: Life is pretty good? Just moved into NYU.
Speaker 2: Oh very nice. What are you studying.
Speaker 3: I'm studying recorded me.
Speaker 2: You're studying recorded music?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 1: Okay, So this is the opposite of studying music production.
Speaker 1: This is the music has been recorded and now we're
Speaker 1: gonna study it.
Speaker 3: So it's kind of everything. It's the school for like
Speaker 3: just an overarching music education. So it's production, it's songwriting,
Speaker 3: it's the business, it's it's a little school inside of this.
Speaker 3: It's a very small program, but it's just it's a
Speaker 3: school of recorded music.
Speaker 2: So basically, what are your dreams for the future. Is
Speaker 2: it to record music or to recorded music?
Speaker 3: Well, I'd like to be an artist, a singer, a performer,
Speaker 3: and I record my own music already. But yeah, my
Speaker 3: dream is to be a touring artist.
Speaker 2: I uh, you use to be a touring artist?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Very nice, very cool. What do you make music about?
Speaker 6: Do you sing?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: I sing, So singing is my main thing. My music
Speaker 3: is just a lot about my personal experiences and personal
Speaker 3: things that have happened in my life because I just
Speaker 3: I like to make music to try to make music
Speaker 3: relates to people as best as I can.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what uh I mean? For whatever?
Speaker 6: For whatever?
Speaker 1: You want to talk about what happened? What what's happened
Speaker 1: in your life?
Speaker 3: Well, I've had some interesting relationships with people, just friendships,
Speaker 3: not friendships, and I write about them, and I write
Speaker 3: about the good things and the bad things and high school,
Speaker 3: which is, you know, an experience for everybody.
Speaker 1: Do you talk so you go like Taylor Swift mode
Speaker 1: a little bit? Okay, a little bit?
Speaker 2: And how old are you?
Speaker 1: I'm seventeen, You're seventeen? Yes, Oh, so you're still in
Speaker 1: high school?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: I'm in college.
Speaker 2: Okay. Did you graduate a year early?
Speaker 3: No, just just a little, a little delayed, about to
Speaker 3: turn eighteen?
Speaker 2: Okay? So what?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 6: Who are who?
Speaker 2: Were like the artists that you like?
Speaker 3: Well, my favorite of all time is Billie Eilish, Okay,
Speaker 3: obsessed with her?
Speaker 2: She's cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm very like singer songwriter. So I don't
Speaker 3: know if you know like Lizzie Mcallpin. She's beautiful voice.
Speaker 3: I love her, saw her in concert, pretty great.
Speaker 1: I don't I feel anyone that you know, I almost
Speaker 1: guarantee I don't know. I know Billy, I don't know
Speaker 1: Billie Eilish is who do I listen to? I search
Speaker 1: Royalty free jazz music on YouTube and I listened to
Speaker 1: whatever that is. It's probably AI generated, Honestly, it's good.
Speaker 1: I don't know like the names of people, Okay, fair fair,
Speaker 1: But I mean that's cool. So do you like post
Speaker 1: music on the internet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I.
Speaker 3: Have three songs out right now, and I have a
Speaker 3: new one and it's coming on September nineteenth, and that's
Speaker 3: like on Spotify and anything you want to stream it on.
Speaker 3: And then I'm pretty active on TikTok as well, and
Speaker 3: I post like a lot of covers and just like
Speaker 3: my music and stuff and just kind of share everything
Speaker 3: about my life.
Speaker 1: So it's it's August, like, I see you have barely
Speaker 1: even been in school yet you just moved in two days,
Speaker 1: are you How do you Are you nervous?
Speaker 2: Are you excited? How do you feel both?
Speaker 3: I'm definitely nervous. I'm from the city as well, so
Speaker 3: it's a less of a big change for me as
Speaker 3: it is for other people.
Speaker 1: For you grew up in New York. What was that
Speaker 1: like going to high school in New York? Because it's
Speaker 1: are there any there's no TV? All the TV shows
Speaker 1: about like teens in high school they all take place
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, Like, there's none, none of them are
Speaker 1: there's no like high school shows that are in New York?
Speaker 2: Are they think?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 2: So, what's that experience like?
Speaker 3: It's definitely a little bit crazy. I high school was
Speaker 3: it was an experience, so I was definitely ready for
Speaker 3: college for sure. I mean it's kind of all I've
Speaker 3: ever known because I've just grown up in the city.
Speaker 3: And when I was younger, I did not like the city.
Speaker 3: But as I got to high school and stuff, I
Speaker 3: got a lot more independence and I went out with
Speaker 3: people and went out with friends and stuff, and so
Speaker 3: I definitely grew to like this, like love the city
Speaker 3: in high school because there was a lot more independence
Speaker 3: than my friends in the suburbs who are just getting
Speaker 3: their driver's license and I can't drive.
Speaker 2: That's what I mean.
Speaker 1: It would be a waste of time for you to
Speaker 1: learn how to drive in New York. Yeah, so is
Speaker 1: your I guess. So you went to high school like what,
Speaker 1: you went high school in Manhattan? Yeah, holy shit? Okay,
Speaker 1: and then you're going to college in Manhattan. So your
Speaker 1: life is not going to be that much different.
Speaker 3: No, But I mean it is different in a way
Speaker 3: because I'm doing what I like want to. I mean,
Speaker 3: I wanted to do music forever and so now I'm
Speaker 3: actually I get to go to school for it. And
Speaker 3: six out of seven of my classes are music classes,
Speaker 3: and I have a writing class that I have to take.
Speaker 1: It's exciting. Yeah, that's exciting. Okay, I guess uh hmm.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think if I have any questions for
Speaker 1: you about life. Well, and you're here with your two homies.
Speaker 3: Yes, one is my roommate.
Speaker 2: Okay, did you guys just meet?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well we had been texting a little bit, but
Speaker 3: we did just meet.
Speaker 2: Are you getting along well?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: I love her. It's a great match.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: And another one is my sister.
Speaker 2: Do you sister get along well?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, biggest supporter, promoter. She helps me hang these
Speaker 3: flyers all around the city. You might you might see
Speaker 3: them if you're walking around today. They say looking for
Speaker 3: fans of my music. And so they're like, oh, they're
Speaker 3: a play on the guy that put the posters all around,
Speaker 3: who is like looking for the perfect woman.
Speaker 1: And I actually think I have seen I actually I
Speaker 1: actually have seen that. No, are they they have like
Speaker 1: the little tear off shit right looking for fans. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's kind of it's like a play on like a
Speaker 1: dating profile.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, I've seen that. Okay, I've seen I haven't
Speaker 1: seen the looking I've seen your thing. I haven't seen
Speaker 1: looking for a perfect woman? Is there only that's you?
Speaker 1: I feel there's not like another person. I actually it's funny,
Speaker 1: I actually have seen that.
Speaker 2: That's crazy, all right, cool?
Speaker 1: I have people like found you through that? How long
Speaker 1: have you been putting those up? Because I feel like
Speaker 1: I saw that like a month ago, a couple of
Speaker 1: months probably, Oh okay, all right, so.
Speaker 2: You've been putting them out for a while. Yeah. Have
Speaker 2: you had people like message you being like I found
Speaker 2: you through that? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I have a bunch of like Instagram and TikTok comments
Speaker 3: being like, oh, like I found your poster in Chelsea
Speaker 3: and Washington Square Park, Like, so glad I found your music.
Speaker 2: It's pretty cool, very exciting stuff.
Speaker 1: Well, I hope that your musical journey is successful.
Speaker 2: I hope you don't.
Speaker 1: I hope you don't get jaded by the world. I
Speaker 1: hope you continue to love life. And uh, that's all
Speaker 1: I can really hope for you. I think you're gonna
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna do great, dude. I mean you're
Speaker 1: gonna live amazing life. And you know, I mean, someone's
Speaker 1: gotta make someone's got to write songs about stuff.
Speaker 2: Is there anything else you want to say to the
Speaker 2: people of the computer before we go.
Speaker 3: Well, if you want to listen to my music, my
Speaker 3: name is Sid Sid Hudson And yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2: Marker, thank you. I'll see you around the universe by Sid.
Speaker 8: Hi.
Speaker 1: What's your name? My name is Drew because you want
Speaker 1: to hold the microphone? Sure, my name is Drew.
Speaker 2: How's life going, Drew?
Speaker 6: It's going good.
Speaker 9: I actually drew some celebrities, okay, Seth Rogen and like
Speaker 9: Bill Murray and like Elton.
Speaker 2: John You drew Bill Murray and Elton I give an
Speaker 2: ar piece and everything. Oh okay, how did you get
Speaker 2: involved in doing this?
Speaker 9: I just like met them, like you know, just like
Speaker 9: bumped into them and like just like drew them, like
Speaker 9: you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Like how did you bump into the can I actually
Speaker 2: just hold the mic?
Speaker 9: Yeah, but yeah, I just bump into them, like I
Speaker 9: just like like randomly and I just like find some
Speaker 9: like I just like see them and they're like, you know,
Speaker 9: I say hi and everything, and like I asked them
Speaker 9: to ask them to draw them.
Speaker 6: And then I draw them and then take the arpiece.
Speaker 2: Now where did you bump into Seth Rogan?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: So yeah, oh, okay, and you and you were just
Speaker 1: like you just drew them and you gave him the thing.
Speaker 2: That's cool. How many celebrities have you bumped into?
Speaker 6: Ten?
Speaker 2: Ten?
Speaker 4: Ten?
Speaker 6: And I also bumped into a you ten bumped into twelve?
Speaker 9: So I also saw Pamela Anderson like twice okay, she
Speaker 9: was jogging. And also saw Nicki Minaj. She was like
Speaker 9: really nice where like yeah, she was like she was
Speaker 9: she was like a surprisingly really nice person.
Speaker 2: How do you how do you randomly bump into these celebrities?
Speaker 9: I don't know, I just like I just come across them.
Speaker 9: I guess it's like they're just walking and like, I
Speaker 9: don't know, it's kind of strange.
Speaker 6: It's like I just kind of.
Speaker 9: Like seem to like know where the like vibrancy or
Speaker 9: like the where the like the really popping places are
Speaker 9: or something.
Speaker 2: Maybe Okay, are you like a cool guy?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 9: I guess like I do hang around or like like
Speaker 9: places where it's they do?
Speaker 6: They do like play a lot of music and stuff.
Speaker 2: Are you are you? Like? Are you are you? How
Speaker 2: hard are you trying to gate keep this?
Speaker 1: Like? Would you like where would you tell us where
Speaker 1: all the cool people hang out? Or like is it
Speaker 1: bad if you spot where do the cool people hang
Speaker 1: out these days? You're here?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 6: Yeah one of them?
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's see who's the who? Uh?
Speaker 6: Who are who are?
Speaker 2: Name all ten of the celebrities?
Speaker 9: Okay, so Els and John Bill Murray, the guy from
Speaker 9: seth Rogen, the guy from uh Pineaple Express, Cecil Gilly.
Speaker 1: Hall, Cecial, Jill and Home Jake Jillenhomes Yeah okay.
Speaker 9: Also the guy from from uh Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley,
Speaker 9: the TV show What Camell Come Camel, Yeah, come yeah camell.
Speaker 6: And I also Drew like a really famous artist. Uh.
Speaker 9: His name is Julian Schnabo. His artwork goes for like
Speaker 9: ten million dollars in auction. I drew him here, so
Speaker 9: that's like six. But I can't remember.
Speaker 6: The other one was.
Speaker 1: Like that's okay, it's like you know what, I honestly
Speaker 1: the fuck all the fun all those people?
Speaker 6: Who are you?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 2: What's your name?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 2: Drew? Drew probably said that before, but I remember. So
Speaker 2: how'd you get into drawing?
Speaker 9: I just like I liked I was like drawing and everything,
Speaker 9: Like I like studied like how to like like drawing
Speaker 9: outside of like play, like opera and like all the
Speaker 9: arts and everything and everything, and I like drawing a
Speaker 9: lot because it helped.
Speaker 6: Me like get out of like a lot of like.
Speaker 9: Like I was always that quiet kid in the room
Speaker 9: like just like drawing by myself and everything, and like
Speaker 9: I was like drawing people and like making drawings and
Speaker 9: showing people, and people would always be excited about like
Speaker 9: what I show them and everything, and I always had
Speaker 9: like a I would like uh like just saying Japanese style,
Speaker 9: like I would just like draw anime or like represent
Speaker 9: anime in like my own way.
Speaker 6: Cool.
Speaker 9: Like basically what I do is like I just draw
Speaker 9: people as anime characters.
Speaker 2: Well you drew all those people's anime characters, draw people
Speaker 2: as anime? Would you draw me as an anime character? OK?
Speaker 1: Yeah that's awesome? Wait why what what attracts you to
Speaker 1: the anime style?
Speaker 9: It just looks cool, Like I like it's quick and
Speaker 9: easy and like it looks cool to look at.
Speaker 2: So do you do you watch a lot of anime?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: What's favorite anime?
Speaker 6: Damn?
Speaker 9: I feel like my favorite anime is uh like start
Speaker 9: Out Online or something or like.
Speaker 2: Do you ever imagine?
Speaker 1: Like? Oh, I like, do you ever sit around Neon
Speaker 1: Genesis seven. Do you ever imagine, like, oh, what if
Speaker 1: my life was an anime?
Speaker 9: Yeah, but like I don't know, like I mean, I guess,
Speaker 9: like no, but like it's the same school, like how
Speaker 9: it looks No, you.
Speaker 2: Never you never get lost in escapist fantasy.
Speaker 9: I mean I guess, like I see, I can kind
Speaker 9: of see how it can be similar to life, but
Speaker 9: it seems like anime.
Speaker 6: Seems like I I watched a lot.
Speaker 9: Of like anime with like like you know, I watched like.
Speaker 6: Like high School to Dad and like house Club and Ship.
Speaker 9: So I watched animate within a lot of like like
Speaker 9: like school related Yeah, well a lot of them to watch,
Speaker 9: Like I also play like Dona Rampa the video games.
Speaker 9: So I watched such school because I taught high schoolers
Speaker 9: how to chol cool high school to how to draw
Speaker 9: for like a year.
Speaker 6: Cool, And like I feel like school is where.
Speaker 9: Like a lot of stuff, like I learned to like
Speaker 9: really like it's where I learned to really home myself
Speaker 9: myself as like an artist. So I like school oriented
Speaker 9: things like yeah, I like, yeah.
Speaker 1: Like well there's there's it's you know, there's something very
Speaker 1: nostalgic about that time.
Speaker 2: Yes, so elegist, you know, like you're you're, you're.
Speaker 1: It's a weirdly paradoxically care free yet stressful time. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Being in high school, yeah.
Speaker 1: You know, I mean, I mean ship the lady who
Speaker 1: was just here, she was, she was she just graduate
Speaker 1: high school. She was talking about, you know, all of
Speaker 1: my life experiences, and I was like, in my head,
Speaker 1: I was like, how much life experience can you have?
Speaker 1: But then I remember, I'm like, yeah, I get when
Speaker 1: you're in high school, you still are stressed out about things.
Speaker 1: You get older and you realize, well, I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: you get older and you realize it didn't matter.
Speaker 9: Like video games like I used to play, like like
Speaker 9: like Japanese video games, okay, like like Pokemon.
Speaker 2: And like, yeah, I know Pokemon, Like that's cool.
Speaker 6: I like.
Speaker 9: I also like the Digimon animes and Pokemon animes.
Speaker 2: Those those are those are like the best I feel
Speaker 2: I was gonna. I was gonna say, you get older
Speaker 2: and you're and you're like.
Speaker 9: I feel like those are the top three Pokemon Digimon Like.
Speaker 1: You get older and you're like, oh that stuff didn't matter,
Speaker 1: but everything matter, well nothing really matters.
Speaker 2: Everything only matters relative.
Speaker 10: To what to what's how you feel and in the moment, yeah,
Speaker 10: and like how you express yourself right right, So even
Speaker 10: if it felt like it didn't matter, of course it
Speaker 10: doesn't matter fucking now, But it mattered then.
Speaker 1: I mean, nothing that matters now. It's gonna matter later anyways.
Speaker 1: But uh, what matters to you these days? What matters
Speaker 1: to you right now?
Speaker 9: Like our and like like I feel like celebrity culture
Speaker 9: and also like like.
Speaker 6: Anime. It's our anime celebrity culture.
Speaker 2: Why does tell me why celebrity culture?
Speaker 6: I like like.
Speaker 9: Movies and ship and like TV shows like Friends and
Speaker 9: like Big Bang Theory. It just seems like cool to
Speaker 9: like to to watch those shows and like and it's
Speaker 9: like hilarious and just like it's is. It's just cool
Speaker 9: to watch, you know what I mean? And to like
Speaker 9: and the people who are like like actors and everything
Speaker 9: work for the show are like really cool.
Speaker 2: Is there a celebrity?
Speaker 1: Okay, you're clearly very you like celebrities, like bumping into celebrities. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: is there a celebrity that you want to draw more
Speaker 1: than anyone else? Who's the number one who would be
Speaker 1: the number one get for you?
Speaker 9: I mean, I guess like either like Beyonce or like
Speaker 9: Share or something like jay Z.
Speaker 1: What do you think? What do you think it's like
Speaker 1: to be Beyonce? Like you ever thought about that?
Speaker 6: I don't know, Like she must have like a really
Speaker 6: nice life.
Speaker 9: I guess like it's yeah, she seems nice, like she
Speaker 9: sings really well, so like obviously, like do.
Speaker 6: You think anything?
Speaker 2: Do you think anything? Like what do you think sucks
Speaker 2: the most about being Beyonce?
Speaker 6: Nothing?
Speaker 2: You think this is something? Yeah, there's something's gotta talk
Speaker 2: about being up.
Speaker 9: Up to one point, like up to a certain point,
Speaker 9: like like it's like nothing really bothers you. But like
Speaker 9: I feel like maybe she's like really like I don't know,
Speaker 9: like she seems like a normal person. I feel like
Speaker 9: they're just normal.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 9: I feel like celebrities are like more normal than like
Speaker 9: people sometimes like not people up did there are more
Speaker 9: people normal than people And it's like I mean that's
Speaker 9: not weird in itself, But I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 9: I guess like yeah, like but like I guess I
Speaker 9: celebrities do have like certain like interesting personalities. Like I
Speaker 9: remember like Elton John when I drew him, like he
Speaker 9: was like like I drew him and then he was like, oh,
Speaker 9: you messed up, and he was like, oh, it's okay.
Speaker 9: He was like nice about it. He was disappointed, but
Speaker 9: nice about it.
Speaker 2: Oh wait, he just you. He was like, you messed up?
Speaker 6: Yeah, right again?
Speaker 2: How can you messed up? In what way?
Speaker 9: I don't like the drawing that come out right? So
Speaker 9: but I dream again and he took it. He was
Speaker 9: the right way it too, and like I draw, I
Speaker 9: drew the drawing. He took the drawing and like yeah,
Speaker 9: he went just like a really fancy card, like he.
Speaker 1: Was sorry, there's a gentleman over here carrying a wet
Speaker 1: wanna and I'm it's distracting me a little bit. This
Speaker 1: is one of the most stimulating place. This is among
Speaker 1: the most stimulating places in New York City. So, uh, actually,
Speaker 1: I would love to Actually, I would love to take
Speaker 1: you up on this drawing.
Speaker 2: Is it cool?
Speaker 1: Can I can I interview someone while you're drawing? Or
Speaker 1: do you want to draw while we talk?
Speaker 9: I mean, I guess I could draw later, but I
Speaker 9: guess like it was cool, Like I don't know, I
Speaker 9: guess like it was cool talking, like you know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I saw I'll saw your show. And stuff like
Speaker 6: it was cool.
Speaker 9: Like it was like when I was watching it, it
Speaker 9: was like I feel like it's like really like kid
Speaker 9: friendly too, and like I like, you know, like it's
Speaker 9: like cool, like because I draw kid friendly stuff too.
Speaker 1: Kind Oh I get I don't. It's absolutely not intended
Speaker 1: to be a kid.
Speaker 9: Friendly but it would be like that call like that
Speaker 9: like that like that like that knnot call of duties
Speaker 9: to call everyone nigger or some ship, you know what
Speaker 9: I mean?
Speaker 1: Like why is you went from? But I guess like
Speaker 1: you went from hold on?
Speaker 2: Hold on? You said you said, my my show is
Speaker 2: both kid friendly.
Speaker 9: Everybody watching your watching your show when I was really young,
Speaker 9: about a lot younger and like like two years back
Speaker 9: or three years back, and like it was cool.
Speaker 6: So like I like watching your show. Thank you.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, I was watching it.
Speaker 6: I was like I was like, I was like stone
Speaker 6: this ship, and.
Speaker 1: I was Okay, So it's kid friendly, but it's friendly
Speaker 1: with the kind of kids who who yelled slur zone
Speaker 1: call of duty lobbies.
Speaker 6: Is what say?
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, you.
Speaker 1: Know what I'm gonna I'm going to take that as
Speaker 1: I'm going to take that as a compliment from you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll take that as a compliment from you.
Speaker 2: What's your what's your name again? I'm sorry, Drew.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and my video game.
Speaker 2: I like, I like that your name is you draw
Speaker 2: and your name is Drew.
Speaker 6: So Drew, Drew.
Speaker 1: Sorry, that's stupid. Has anyone ever said that to you before? Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm glad. That's a stupid thing to say, But I'm nobody.
Speaker 1: Nobody's ever said that. Nobody never made the connection.
Speaker 6: Not really, I do not really maybe they maybe they
Speaker 6: think about it.
Speaker 2: But what was your childhood? Like did you have a
Speaker 2: nice childhood?
Speaker 6: I like traveled a lot.
Speaker 2: Where'd you go?
Speaker 9: I went to Europe a lot? And why I don't know,
Speaker 9: Like I studied there. Like I went to like, uh
Speaker 9: private school, and like would study there and like would
Speaker 9: like read like the best textbooks in the world and
Speaker 9: like just like really learn ship and I liked that experience,
Speaker 9: and like, I don't know, it's like almost like I
Speaker 9: still went to school, but I still would have done
Speaker 9: well with the school schooling I got when I was
Speaker 9: really young, because private school is like that good. And
Speaker 9: I feel like if you like went to private school
Speaker 9: for a long time, it would just be so much
Speaker 9: knowledge like somebody.
Speaker 6: Sometimes people say too much on it, but I don't know.
Speaker 9: I feel I feel like at least I went to
Speaker 9: private school, and maybe like.
Speaker 6: The amount of teaching I got, I was like just enough.
Speaker 6: But I don't know. I went to private school and
Speaker 6: I was really young.
Speaker 9: I liked I like to go in private school.
Speaker 1: Would yeah, would you say if are you do you
Speaker 1: think you have kids?
Speaker 6: One day, I'll put them in private school?
Speaker 2: You put them in private school?
Speaker 1: Really, I feel like I'm like, I'm pretty I went
Speaker 1: to private school for a few years. Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: think public public school is good, right, because you don't
Speaker 1: want to like you want you want your kids to
Speaker 1: be in the world, don't you word?
Speaker 6: Yeah, So I.
Speaker 9: Wouldn't give them a lot of like like year school
Speaker 9: time or like yearly like like maybe like five years
Speaker 9: or something or ten.
Speaker 6: I don't know, maybe ten. I don't know. It depends.
Speaker 6: I had like five.
Speaker 9: Years of like private school when I was really young,
Speaker 9: So I don't know.
Speaker 6: I feel that's a good mouth, but I don't know.
Speaker 6: This good question, Drew.
Speaker 1: Is there anything else you want to say to the people,
Speaker 1: like a computer before we go?
Speaker 6: You're a really cool dude.
Speaker 2: Oh thanks, Sure? You are too, man.
Speaker 9: You should people should keep watching a show thank you
Speaker 9: because it's like it's just hilarious and thanks watching one episode.
Speaker 2: But yeah, shit, thanks Ruey. I'll see okay, I'll see
Speaker 2: you later.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 1: I hope you run into Lizzie McGuire or whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll see you on the universe.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 2: Hey, what's your name?
Speaker 4: What's your name?
Speaker 2: My name is Lyle, Lyle.
Speaker 4: Nice to meet you.
Speaker 1: I just had to be a dick to those guys.
Speaker 1: Why you know, sometimes you got to be a dick.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, the selection here's well, okay, here's the thing,
Speaker 1: the selection processes. I mean, we're near NYU, So there's
Speaker 1: a lot of like.
Speaker 2: Like eighteen year old college students here. No, I don't.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of like eighteen year college students. And
Speaker 1: also that happens to be a demographic of people who
Speaker 1: I think have seen my show on TikTok. But I
Speaker 1: don't want to just interview eighteen year old college students.
Speaker 1: So and I also don't want to interview people who
Speaker 1: really want to be on. I want I want someone
Speaker 1: to begrudgingly be I want to someone who's like I
Speaker 1: don't know, if I really want to, and then they
Speaker 1: come to be on that, and then then we get
Speaker 1: you know, people who always people who want to really
Speaker 1: want to be on the show generally don't have a
Speaker 1: lot of set to say.
Speaker 2: I guess I really don't have.
Speaker 4: A lot to say. Is there anything you want to
Speaker 4: talk about it?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 6: Wait?
Speaker 2: What's your name? Nor Lyle? Nice to meet you. Okay,
Speaker 2: so you're not a college student.
Speaker 6: Who are you?
Speaker 2: What do you do? Why'd you drop out?
Speaker 4: Fuck? Fordham University? I'm joking. I'm joking. I did go
Speaker 4: to Fordham for a little It was just too expensive.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's a good reason. Wait, nor can you hold
Speaker 1: the microphone like?
Speaker 2: Okay? Okay, So how was dropping out?
Speaker 4: It was pretty chill, you know, dropped out. I'm going
Speaker 4: back to school now, going around to community college.
Speaker 2: So okay, how's community calls going?
Speaker 4: I've been started. I don't know. Man, I'm kind of scared.
Speaker 2: Why you're scared? Tell me why? What's you're scared of?
Speaker 4: Because low ki covid funched me over. I was so
Speaker 4: used to like online school, and this is like my
Speaker 4: first time in a hot minute, going back in person.
Speaker 2: Really, it's been fun years man, dude, I.
Speaker 4: Was like kind of in school towards out of high school,
Speaker 4: but like like it wasn't like really, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I just got really used online.
Speaker 2: This is your first time going. What have you been
Speaker 2: doing for the past five years?
Speaker 6: Dude?
Speaker 4: Literally fucking around? Can I say this on the show?
Speaker 2: Can I say? You say whatever you want?
Speaker 4: I've been on a bender for the past month.
Speaker 2: I've been on a bender kind of bender.
Speaker 4: Literally, I just be going out any club in Bushwick
Speaker 4: I'm there probably unfortunately.
Speaker 2: Okay, why.
Speaker 6: How old are you?
Speaker 4: Twenty one?
Speaker 2: Okay? Do you have do you have children?
Speaker 4: I take care of children.
Speaker 2: Actually that's yeah, that's different though, do you have are
Speaker 2: do you? Are you responsible to anyone in any way,
Speaker 2: shape or form?
Speaker 6: Really?
Speaker 4: All right, my bunny?
Speaker 1: But ap okay, all right, so you don't have any
Speaker 1: living thing that requires you to be all right?
Speaker 2: So yeah, this is a living thing. But great, that's fine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know, going on benders, I think there's
Speaker 1: a Look, here's the thing. We all have it in us, right,
Speaker 1: and we got we all gotta get it out right,
Speaker 1: and I better to get it out now when you
Speaker 1: nobody gives this shit exactly like you know. Look, if
Speaker 1: you were forty five and you had two kids and
Speaker 1: they were starving and you were out at the club,
Speaker 1: that'd q that'd be a little questionable.
Speaker 2: But you're fine. Who cares go get drunk, Go live
Speaker 2: your life.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I mean, don't you know there's a balance right because
Speaker 1: you want to you don't want to get drunk and
Speaker 1: live your life too much and then you realize you
Speaker 1: never did anything with it.
Speaker 4: Get out the way now when I'm like twenty one and.
Speaker 2: Have it like in me, how have the vendor's been going?
Speaker 2: You having fun?
Speaker 4: I've been having a lot of fun. Yeah, okay, yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm about a drink. I actually just smoked before this. Okay,
Speaker 4: get on here.
Speaker 2: But it's not illegal. I don't think nah, I don't
Speaker 2: think it's legal.
Speaker 4: This guy over here, I'm here with this guy from Amsterdam.
Speaker 2: Honest, Oh he looks a little Dutch. How do you
Speaker 2: know this Dutch guy?
Speaker 4: That's how we know each other? Uh tinder so close
Speaker 4: hinge We met on Hinge. Okay, I this is our
Speaker 4: first time meeting. We've been talking for like, oh.
Speaker 2: This is his first time meeting like so long.
Speaker 4: This is our first time meeting.
Speaker 2: Okay, do you want to come up? Do you want
Speaker 2: to talk?
Speaker 4: Come here? Come here?
Speaker 2: You don't want to you have a come up? Is you?
Speaker 2: I mean you know, if you don't have to, you
Speaker 2: don't want to. I don't guys.
Speaker 4: This is what his name is?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 2: What's his name?
Speaker 6: Glue?
Speaker 2: Glue?
Speaker 6: Is that?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess. Really funny, hold on, I'm gonna guess.
Speaker 1: His name is Dufinlage.
Speaker 2: What what is it?
Speaker 4: It's tunis Lute. His first name, tunis Loute.
Speaker 6: See.
Speaker 1: You can make fun of Europeans because they've been Dick's
Speaker 1: for all of history. You can make fun of Americans
Speaker 1: and Europeans because they've all they've just been assholes for
Speaker 1: the whole time.
Speaker 4: Nah, i'd be saying, I don't know what you're saying.
Speaker 4: You hang it in at Urgan. So that's kind of fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love you too, man, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: What okay, wait, wait, what's his name again? Tunis Lute?
Speaker 1: Tunis lute? That's cool. Do you get free healthcare? He
Speaker 1: gets free healthcare. We can make fun of him.
Speaker 4: You don't get free healthcare in the Netherlands.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't want to. If you don't want
Speaker 1: to talk on the microphone. I can't. He can't here,
Speaker 1: hold on, I'll talk. I'll just talk to you. If
Speaker 1: he's not gonna talk on the microphone, I don't want
Speaker 1: to talk to.
Speaker 4: Him, but it's okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I do want. I want to talk
Speaker 2: to you.
Speaker 1: But if he doesn't want to talk, but you're you're like,
Speaker 1: it's like talking to a ghost right now. If I'm
Speaker 1: talking to you and you're over there and I can't,
Speaker 1: it's okay, it's all right. I'll talk to you. Nor
Speaker 1: I'll talk to I'll okay, So nor out of the question.
Speaker 1: Toutis lose out of the question. Okay, So you met
Speaker 1: this Amsterdami and man, Yeah, I'm hinge, right, Okay, how's
Speaker 1: hinge going for you?
Speaker 4: I'm actually two weeks two months sober off hinge.
Speaker 1: But so are you? Okuys you met this guy first
Speaker 1: on hinge. You guys were texting for a while. Yeah, okay, I.
Speaker 4: Mean I'm a hingebop. I can't lie I'm a hingebop.
Speaker 2: What's a hingebop?
Speaker 4: I'm just using hinge too much? Like why am I
Speaker 4: on hinge so much?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: That's okay? I use I use Hinge a lot too, dude.
Speaker 4: It's it's dangerous. You get on there and then like
Speaker 4: you just start talking all these like I used to
Speaker 4: be an amagal kid. I used to be one of
Speaker 4: the Yeah, so this is like a megal but like
Speaker 4: low key, like attracted people and like consentually seeing dick
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 1: Okay, but okay, yeah, how are you?
Speaker 2: Are you enjoying the hinge life?
Speaker 4: I'm not enjoying hinge. That's why I deleted it.
Speaker 2: Okay, cool, How's how has it been?
Speaker 4: Thoughts on hinge?
Speaker 2: Sorry the crowd?
Speaker 1: Hold wait, we're we're having a conversation. I can't talk
Speaker 1: to that. I can't talk to them. They're not I
Speaker 1: only have I only have two microphones. Okay, okay, hold on, So.
Speaker 4: Give me your thoughts on hinge. Like, I know you
Speaker 4: use it, but like, what are your thoughts? Like I
Speaker 4: feel like it's a scam.
Speaker 1: I have a lot of thoughts on hinge. One is
Speaker 1: I think hinge has changed? First of all, as I
Speaker 1: use Hinge, I'm fully realizing and understanding that it is.
Speaker 2: Hey, there's pros and constant hinge.
Speaker 1: One of the cons is that as I'm using it
Speaker 1: and the longer I use it, the more I'm like,
Speaker 1: this is doing something irreversibly damaging to my brain.
Speaker 2: Oh for sure, it's.
Speaker 4: Like the validation and then like low key, this is
Speaker 4: so on a pocket not every Okay, no one's ugly.
Speaker 4: They're just not my type, right, but i'd be getting
Speaker 4: the craziest people liking my hands when I'm like dog,
Speaker 4: like i think I'm chopped, Like.
Speaker 2: Well no, well, well okay, so there's.
Speaker 4: Subjectively but like still I'm like dog, I think this
Speaker 4: is a scam, and I think they're trying to get
Speaker 4: you to pay for Hinge premium.
Speaker 2: Of course, they're trying to get you to pay for
Speaker 2: Hinge previous.
Speaker 4: Look that, bro, I'm gonna go out to the bar
Speaker 4: and find my husband. Like that's what I'm gonna do, Well,
Speaker 4: Hinge exactly, That's what I'm gonna That's what I'm doing.
Speaker 1: But also also people dog pusing, people dog on dating apps,
Speaker 1: and there's good reasons why people dog today. But like
Speaker 1: everything every part of life, every every era of life,
Speaker 1: like okay, the nineteen hundreds, right you or like whatever,
Speaker 1: like when when we lived in villages, It's like, okay,
Speaker 1: we used to live in I'm talking completely out of
Speaker 1: my asshole right now. But we used to It used
Speaker 1: to be you, they're was it. There was another girl
Speaker 1: in the village or another boy in the village, and
Speaker 1: they were the only person that you had sex with forever,
Speaker 1: and then you died, And that has its pros and cons. Right, Okay,
Speaker 1: you know that has his pros and cons. And then
Speaker 1: there's hinge and you can have your infinite your perceived
Speaker 1: choice of an infinite amount of people to have sex
Speaker 1: with their date or get married too, and that has
Speaker 1: its pros and cons, so that there's no better or worse.
Speaker 4: Wait, like Swiss topics. So you see how we have
Speaker 4: all those options.
Speaker 7: Though.
Speaker 4: That's why New York City is the worst fucking dating pool.
Speaker 1: Whycause but that's not an objectively bad or good thing.
Speaker 4: I think everyone is fucking situation shipts central. Right now,
Speaker 4: riddle me that weather boy, well, gecko boy, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, say this again.
Speaker 4: Why do you think, like, no, it's situationship central. Well,
Speaker 4: it's like too hard to make a choice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, but it depends on who you are, and
Speaker 1: it depends on what you value. Right, because there's something
Speaker 1: Let me ask you a question, because there's some people
Speaker 1: who are different. Well I'm not I mean, you can
Speaker 1: answer this specifically, but there's some people who they want
Speaker 1: a wide variety of connections throughout their life, and there's
Speaker 1: some people who want just one. And then you know,
Speaker 1: you get the opportunity to connect with people you would
Speaker 1: have never connected with before through these apps, I guess.
Speaker 1: And yes, there is a paradox of choice that it presents,
Speaker 1: and that's a legitimate paradox of choice. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's just a new thing that has its pros and cons,
Speaker 1: just like the old things had.
Speaker 4: But like, would you rather just like NonStop, like be
Speaker 4: talking to all these people wasting your energy and they're
Speaker 4: like you never find the right person because like it's
Speaker 4: just like everything is so unseerious and like there's so
Speaker 4: much short term gratification from those apps.
Speaker 2: I agree, I agree with everything you're saying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I agree that having an endless amount of
Speaker 1: choices and talking to another of people, I agree that
Speaker 1: it's emotionally taxing. But again it's pros and cons because
Speaker 1: think about like those think about like these old couples
Speaker 1: who hate each other. Do you have you ever met
Speaker 1: to parents are divorced Okay, your parents, did your parents
Speaker 1: when you your grub, did your parents like hate each
Speaker 1: other a little bit?
Speaker 2: Okay, so your your.
Speaker 1: Parents probably grew up without this paradox of choice. And
Speaker 1: so the people used to just get married to whoever
Speaker 1: was fucking around, right, so that had that was a
Speaker 1: pro There was pros to that. It was two people
Speaker 1: and there was no decision paralysis and they just had
Speaker 1: to fucking sit and make it work.
Speaker 2: And there's something really beautiful and amazing about that.
Speaker 1: But there's a sort of con of like, you know,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, we're trapped in this thing that
Speaker 1: we got into because we was just the thing that
Speaker 1: was there. And so again, all these things they have
Speaker 1: pros and cons. So you now have the opportunity to
Speaker 1: sift through hundreds of different dudes to see which one
Speaker 1: is the one that you feel the most naturally aligned to,
Speaker 1: which is emotionally taxing but also is better than you
Speaker 1: just you know, being with the first guy that was around,
Speaker 1: and it was maybe not the right.
Speaker 4: These people and like you can break up whatever. But
Speaker 4: like what I liked about pre dating apps is like
Speaker 4: when you met someone, it was like I believe in
Speaker 4: the fact that like things are meant to be, so
Speaker 4: I feel like you were meant to meet that person.
Speaker 4: It's like destiny or whatever. So I don't know, i'd
Speaker 4: prefer that over Hinge and like Tinder like that. The
Speaker 4: options are nice, but that's my hot take.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I believe in something really no universe.
Speaker 4: I think I'm sitting here right now. I feel like
Speaker 4: the universe like why am I here? Like imagine if
Speaker 4: I came like a few hours later or a few
Speaker 4: hours earlier, I would to have been sitting here.
Speaker 1: I sure that somebody else would be and I'd be
Speaker 1: doing that and you'd be doing something else.
Speaker 4: True, but like it's like we're interacting right now, so
Speaker 4: it's like it means something, you know, Like I feel
Speaker 4: like we're.
Speaker 1: Meant to like it means whatever we want it to mean.
Speaker 1: There's no the universe has no laws. Okay, there's no
Speaker 1: judge jury of the universe. Right, you're the judge and
Speaker 1: jury in God of your own life, which means that
Speaker 1: you can derive meaning from whatever you choose to be
Speaker 1: and it's inherently valid because you're God.
Speaker 4: But I like co star decide that for me. I
Speaker 4: don't really do that deciding what coast You don't know
Speaker 4: what coastar?
Speaker 2: Wait? Astrology?
Speaker 4: Yes, okay, it's probably a fucking scam, but I use that.
Speaker 2: Do you pay premium?
Speaker 4: No? I don't pay premium. I just like make it
Speaker 4: go along. I'm like, if I see something and it's like, oh,
Speaker 4: do it gives you like three dus three domes? Right?
Speaker 2: What are your three dues and three dots of the day.
Speaker 1: This is not an ad for coast Star, by the way,
Speaker 1: this is a completely random thing.
Speaker 4: Oh my god. Wait, my ex texted me. I haven't
Speaker 4: talked to him in two years.
Speaker 2: Wait your sex? You just now?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 4: I showed my should I read this? Okay, standard first generation?
Speaker 4: I don't even know what that means. Anyways, let's see
Speaker 4: what our thing is.
Speaker 2: Okay for today?
Speaker 4: Okay, guys, My co star for today is love is
Speaker 4: when a question mark feels more like a period. Oh dude,
Speaker 4: friend zone, borrowed items, hold hands, don't hot takes nitpicks?
Speaker 2: Wait, I said, wait, let me look at this again.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Okay, hold on, Okay, so the okay, So this is
Speaker 1: cost Star. This is not an ad, but co Star
Speaker 1: is like an astrology app. And what's your what's your sign?
Speaker 4: I'm a cancer?
Speaker 2: Okay? So this is so every cancer who has this app.
Speaker 4: Gets this, Yes, every cancer, but not technically every cancer.
Speaker 4: It goes based on like when you were born, what
Speaker 4: city you were born in?
Speaker 2: Okay, so you gave co Star all this shit?
Speaker 1: Yeah, like, oh, you gave it your social Security number
Speaker 1: and it was like, here's what is going on with you?
Speaker 4: Don't I don't even realized I carried my social Security
Speaker 4: number on me up until like last week. It was
Speaker 4: in my wallet. I didn't know that.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that, all right, So I'm gonna let
Speaker 1: me read this, Okay. So love is when a question
Speaker 1: mark feels more like a period. Stop hunting for hitting meetings.
Speaker 1: In your partner's words, your suspicion is creating the very
Speaker 1: distance you fear.
Speaker 2: Woo.
Speaker 1: Okay, co Star, this is definitely written by Ai. Okay,
Speaker 1: So dudes, friend zone, borrowed items, holding hands, don't hot takes, nitpicks,
Speaker 1: strong sense, Okay do you So what do you do
Speaker 1: with this information?
Speaker 4: I mean, I feel like it goes pretty accurately because
Speaker 4: I'm here with a guy from Hinge and we're friends now,
Speaker 4: so I feel like it's already going in the red direct.
Speaker 2: That's cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this guy, this is the this is such a standard,
Speaker 1: polite European man, just standing there.
Speaker 4: So scared of me. He was like, I'm so scared
Speaker 4: to meet you. I don't want dude looking at your
Speaker 4: face right now?
Speaker 2: Is so? Why did he say he was scared of you?
Speaker 4: Why wouldn't he be scared of me?
Speaker 10: Like?
Speaker 2: Why wouldn't What reasons do you believe him?
Speaker 4: So many reasons? Why are you scared of me? Give
Speaker 4: me some reason.
Speaker 2: We can't talk to him.
Speaker 1: He doesn't want to be talked to, and he doesn't
Speaker 1: have a microphone where I'm all, I can only learn
Speaker 1: about him vicariously through you. Why why what reasons have
Speaker 1: you given him to be scared of you?
Speaker 4: Probably because I'm like loud and crazy and I like,
Speaker 4: oh my god, I loke. He did block him for
Speaker 4: a month when I was in Norway, I got mad
Speaker 4: at him.
Speaker 2: Why did you get mad at him when you were
Speaker 2: in Norway?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: Was he supposed to go? Were you supposed to go
Speaker 1: to Norway? I'm not gonna talk to you. Was he
Speaker 1: supposed to go to Norway?
Speaker 2: I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I guess he was supposed to go to Norway to
Speaker 1: visit you not to kind.
Speaker 4: Of it was like kind of you were gonna go
Speaker 4: to Oslo and then you bailed. But it's not.
Speaker 1: It's it's what's his name again, dude, that's like the
Speaker 1: name that's like the fucking that's like the kid from
Speaker 1: Willy Wonka.
Speaker 2: Dude, that's like an Augustus.
Speaker 4: Gloop, like you're talking to Like back in the day,
Speaker 4: they were like, you're talking to someone named Tunis Lupe.
Speaker 4: Please stand up.
Speaker 1: No, this guy is all. This guy is a great guy.
Speaker 1: I hope, I really hope you don't kill him.
Speaker 4: Am I gonna am I gonna kill you? No, he's
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna kill him confirmed, So I'm not gonna
Speaker 4: kill him.
Speaker 1: Guys, So, okay, So you've been going out to the
Speaker 1: club a lot. Is what's going on at the club.
Speaker 4: It's it's just really fun, dude, why not go to
Speaker 4: the club with you? You need to go to the
Speaker 4: club in this get up.
Speaker 2: I've done that.
Speaker 4: You would pull, you would pull.
Speaker 2: I've gone to the club in this get up.
Speaker 4: Dude. You gotta go to Bushwick. They would eat you
Speaker 4: up there.
Speaker 6: I don't know if.
Speaker 4: Bwick is like I it's not even like.
Speaker 2: With all the clubs.
Speaker 1: Okay, I've gone there once or twice, dude, yes, right
Speaker 1: house of Yes.
Speaker 4: Oh no, no, no, you're thinking more so like near Jefferson.
Speaker 4: Right house of Yes. This is near Jefferson.
Speaker 2: H huh. I mean I'm not a big club guy.
Speaker 2: I don't like dance.
Speaker 4: I don't I've never really been a house of Yes.
Speaker 4: So it's like, I don't know if anyone here has.
Speaker 1: But yeah, okay, So what's what's your name again? Nor?
Speaker 2: Nor?
Speaker 6: Nor?
Speaker 2: So what's uh? What's the future look like for you?
Speaker 6: Nor?
Speaker 4: The future looks like for me. I'm gonna start school.
Speaker 4: I have to clean my room. I've been sleeping on
Speaker 4: a bed that's slanted like this Free Palestine. I don't
Speaker 4: know if I could be political on this, bitch, but yeah,
Speaker 4: what he said, Yeah, I'm gonna clean my room. Oh
Speaker 4: and then I'm going to Maine tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I forgot you forgot you were going to Maine tom Yeah,
Speaker 1: how do you forget a ticket?
Speaker 4: Like three days ago?
Speaker 2: What are you doing in Maine?
Speaker 4: My friend Georgia just moved there.
Speaker 2: Shout out Georgia, Shout out Georgia. Is he coming with?
Speaker 2: Is two for coming with? I don't know two for.
Speaker 4: Is not coming with I think I think Tunis is
Speaker 4: never gonna hang out with me again after this. He's
Speaker 4: probably really scared.
Speaker 2: I really, are you sure you don't?
Speaker 1: Can you tell what you talk afterwards?
Speaker 2: Okay? All right, wait nor wait nor can you hand
Speaker 2: the mic to Tunis?
Speaker 4: Okay, guys, this going to Tunis?
Speaker 6: Okay?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I have a seed, have a set, Okay, Tunisis, Tunis,
Speaker 11: nice to be you, Tunas.
Speaker 2: Sorry for making fun of your name.
Speaker 12: That's okay. Yeah, I need to get used to it
Speaker 12: a bit.
Speaker 1: I I I love Amsterdam. I've been there like three times,
Speaker 1: two shows. There's a great time. Shout up Boom. You
Speaker 1: ever been to Boom Chicago?
Speaker 12: No?
Speaker 1: Oh, I did a show there. It's a good time. Anyway,
Speaker 1: it gives a shit me. Okay, So what are you
Speaker 1: doing in America?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 12: I just moved there? Actually, Oh really, I was here
Speaker 12: in March.
Speaker 11: I auditioned to music school cool play drums cool, and
Speaker 11: now I'm going to city college here. Yeah that's why
Speaker 11: I'm here. So now I live here?
Speaker 2: What made you wanna?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 2: Despite everything? You were like, yeah, I'll come to America.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's a bit crazy, but uh, I come here,
Speaker 11: Like it's been a kind of in my head for
Speaker 11: a really long time because I studied jazz, I wanna
Speaker 11: and this is like the you know, the place for uh,
Speaker 11: for jazz music. It's the it's super nice New York. Yeah,
Speaker 11: so that's why I wanted to come here basically, And
Speaker 11: I don't know. I figured I just try and you
Speaker 11: cannot plan on yeah things sometimes.
Speaker 1: So so how does New York compare to Amsterdam?
Speaker 12: I mean Amsterdam is just totally different.
Speaker 11: I feel it's very like small compared to here, Like
Speaker 11: I bike everywhere, you know, like you can walk most places, like,
Speaker 11: I mean, the layout is more it's like a half circle, right,
Speaker 11: I mean, here's like straight lines most like up and down.
Speaker 6: Like.
Speaker 2: So, so, what what happened in Norway?
Speaker 12: Nothing?
Speaker 11: I mean, so okay, I will tell my story.
Speaker 2: Yeah what happened?
Speaker 11: Well nothing because I was like, okay, So I came
Speaker 11: here in March and I had hinges and then basically
Speaker 11: I saw a picture she was in Sandum, which is
Speaker 11: my hometown, and I was like, whoa, you're why were
Speaker 11: you in Sandum because that's I just recognized the background.
Speaker 11: It's really random. I was like, wow, what we're in
Speaker 11: Sandom and then we met, but then she just came
Speaker 11: back from Amstem and I was just leaving back home basically,
Speaker 11: and then I mean we stayed in touch and you
Speaker 11: were like I want to go to Epstein, but I
Speaker 11: was like like I don't.
Speaker 12: Know like how to say.
Speaker 2: Yeah I was, and now I can't talk to you
Speaker 2: and everyone.
Speaker 11: Yeah, so I was like, you know, like if I
Speaker 11: go to New York, we'll just have We'll just meet
Speaker 11: in New York.
Speaker 1: Like, so, wait, is you guys first time ever meeting? Yeah,
Speaker 1: how's it gone.
Speaker 11: Well, it's like it's been like like literally one minute
Speaker 11: and then we saw you.
Speaker 2: So it's like I'm severely interrupting this first meeting.
Speaker 12: We're more we're conversing through you now.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I see, yeah, I see, It's okay, Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: Wait wait, so we just talked about me and Nora
Speaker 1: talked about here for a while, talking about your view
Speaker 1: on on Hinge.
Speaker 12: I mean, it's I don't know.
Speaker 11: I also haven't been on it for I guess since
Speaker 11: March kind of almost or like no, it's short, it's
Speaker 11: a bit.
Speaker 12: April or something, Okay, but yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's are you looking for love? Do you want to
Speaker 1: like get married and have children and stuff at some point?
Speaker 11: Yes, okay, but uh, I mean yeah I was on
Speaker 11: it and then it's like it didn't make me super happy.
Speaker 11: I mean, you meet people like I wouldn't have met you,
Speaker 11: Like I met a lot of people just through Hinge.
Speaker 12: But like it doesn't mean like it's what you make
Speaker 12: of it.
Speaker 11: I feel, what gives meaning to a relation, Like you
Speaker 11: can just be friends or you can I mean, maybe
Speaker 11: you like someone and you will Like it's just facilitating,
Speaker 11: but it's also a bit manipulative in the way it's
Speaker 11: made because it's still like like, yeah, someone is making
Speaker 11: money off of is monetizing off of this platform, right,
Speaker 11: So I feel inherently it's a bit like you shouldn't
Speaker 11: trust it always, you know what I mean, Like.
Speaker 1: I see, yeah, but people have been monetizing this stuff forever, right,
Speaker 1: I mean I don't know, Like what about those guys
Speaker 1: who come up to you at the park and they're
Speaker 1: like a rose for the lady, you know, like people
Speaker 1: do that, and like it's actually it's very funny because
Speaker 1: on Hinge you can buy roses, right, and it prompts you.
Speaker 1: It says, do you want to buy a rose? And
Speaker 1: there are places where you go like like this is
Speaker 1: in a lot of like parks in Europe, right, there's
Speaker 1: like dudes handing out.
Speaker 6: They're like dudes.
Speaker 1: They'll go up to like a couple and they'll be
Speaker 1: like a rose for the lady and they're like in
Speaker 1: real life, try to.
Speaker 2: Get yeah around to buy a rose. So you know,
Speaker 2: it's nothing new.
Speaker 11: You can flip it like it's yeah, in a way,
Speaker 11: it's this is similar. But I feel because I don't know,
Speaker 11: I don't really have a strong up.
Speaker 12: I feel you used to do whatever you want.
Speaker 11: Basically like if you feel good with hinge, you should
Speaker 11: use it. Like but also it's very it can be addictive,
Speaker 11: you know, Like that's for me, Like that was why
Speaker 11: it was better to just not use it.
Speaker 2: Yeah it can it can be, yeah, like.
Speaker 12: It has many sides. I don't know.
Speaker 2: So are you guys gonna go out to the club?
Speaker 6: Are you club?
Speaker 12: I'm not like a club person, to be honest, Like.
Speaker 2: You're not a club guy?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 12: Yeah, you ever been.
Speaker 2: To uh Paradise so that.
Speaker 12: Was called so yeah, yeah, yeah I've been there. Yeah
Speaker 12: that's nice.
Speaker 1: That's where I did mdm A for the very first
Speaker 1: time there really. Yeah, like seven years ago you.
Speaker 12: Were there in the crowd.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was there for the Amsterdam Dance event like
Speaker 1: seven years ago. Yeah, that was a that was a
Speaker 1: crazy night of my life.
Speaker 12: That was a fun time.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 11: Man is really nice. Yeah, it's I mean, yeah, it's
Speaker 11: really nice. Everything is kind of close, like you're in PARADISEA.
Speaker 11: You can go to lights, lights supply, you know, it's
Speaker 11: like where the clubs other clubs are like you can
Speaker 11: go out.
Speaker 12: It's really nice. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay, so what should uh? What?
Speaker 6: What do you?
Speaker 2: Uh? What do you what's better about America than Europe?
Speaker 2: Let us let us have something?
Speaker 11: Well, I don't know yet because I just I arrived Saturday.
Speaker 11: I mean I'm here for the music, like for jazz music.
Speaker 1: Have you there's a lot of really great jazz artists
Speaker 1: playing in the park all the time.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I haven't. I mean, I just I haven't seen
Speaker 12: it here. But I saw a guy playing the sexophone.
Speaker 2: Well listen, I don't want.
Speaker 1: I don't wanna. I'm gonna. I don't wanna. I don't wanna.
Speaker 1: Keep you guys waiting, is there? What's your name? In
Speaker 1: Tunis yea, Tunis, is there anything else you gonna say
Speaker 1: to the people of the computer before we go?
Speaker 6: No, h.
Speaker 12: Like, well, it's it's cool, like it's crazy meeting you. Actually,
Speaker 12: that's yeah.
Speaker 2: Crazy meat. Wait have you seen my show before? Yeah?
Speaker 11: Cool like Instagram or something. Okay, cool, Yeah you're talking
Speaker 11: to Mark Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah. He did a show over in parody, so I think.
Speaker 12: Really, wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 11: I was in Japan one time and I went up
Speaker 11: the elevator from Sheba station and then he was.
Speaker 12: There calling someone.
Speaker 11: It's crazy, literally, so random, and then I think I
Speaker 11: discovered him at the same time as you.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm happy that we could you and I could
Speaker 1: finally cross paths from the Internet into real life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, well, thank you to Tunis.
Speaker 1: Tunis, Nora, you want, you want anything else you want
Speaker 1: to say to the people?
Speaker 4: I'm so hungry and Lilah's super awesome.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, Norah. Thank you guys.
Speaker 1: You guys have a good rest of you guys, have
Speaker 1: a good rest of your lives. Bye Nora, Bye, Tunis.
Speaker 1: I'll see you guys around the universe.
Speaker 12: Oh yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: Bye Tunis. Bye, guys. Have a seat what's your name?
Speaker 1: I'm Sarah, Sarah.
Speaker 2: My name is Lyle, So Sarah. Yeah, what's up the sky?
Speaker 6: You know, how's life?
Speaker 7: I just moved here last week? So yeah, no, it's
Speaker 7: been pretty hectic.
Speaker 2: What made you want to move to New York for college? Okayeah?
Speaker 13: You know the basic art school experience?
Speaker 6: Okay?
Speaker 2: So yeah, how what do you make art about?
Speaker 7: I mean, honestly, whatever makes money? Like I do like design,
Speaker 7: so like, yeah, I mean I do art for fun,
Speaker 7: but like I'm majoring in design because like I feel
Speaker 7: like that's more money making.
Speaker 13: Not gonna lie. Not no offense to the fine arts majors.
Speaker 1: So what kinds of things do you design to make money?
Speaker 13: Well, I mean I'm going to school for it right now.
Speaker 7: I haven't started working yet, okay, but like, I mean
Speaker 7: I enjoy like editorial design.
Speaker 13: It's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: Are these your homies?
Speaker 13: Yeah, they're also going to school here.
Speaker 2: Oh do you just meet them? No?
Speaker 13: We graduated together from high school.
Speaker 1: Ye okay, and and now you guys are going into
Speaker 1: college together.
Speaker 13: We're going to college together. She's going upstate.
Speaker 2: So are you guys like from New York?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 13: No, we're from Florid.
Speaker 2: Oh oh wait, so what's she doing here? Oh you're
Speaker 2: going to she's visiting.
Speaker 1: Wow, okay, you know why not? I didn't mean that
Speaker 1: like an accusat curious. Well, let's see Sarah. You said
Speaker 1: your name was. You have a lot of cool trinkets
Speaker 1: on your bag. You gotta you got three different bears,
Speaker 1: the two bears. Oh, you have a diet coke pin.
Speaker 2: I like that. Why are they laughing at that? Why
Speaker 2: is that so funny? I don't know that.
Speaker 13: I guess they hate me. They secretly they have.
Speaker 1: You have a diet coke pin? I love that. Actually, No,
Speaker 1: I'm not.
Speaker 13: Actually jingle around everywhere I go.
Speaker 2: So it's got a ribbon on it?
Speaker 13: Oh yeah, yeah, because why not.
Speaker 2: You've got Uma Thurman from pulp fiction.
Speaker 13: Mm hmmm. I actually dressed up as her one year.
Speaker 2: So yeah, did you have like the cocaine nose?
Speaker 13: Oh yeah, not real, not real. Just don't worry, don't worry.
Speaker 2: It was auth that you can do whatever you want
Speaker 2: with your life.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, cocaines don't do cocaine too much. Yeah, cocaine's like
Speaker 1: a little like fun. Cocaine's like very you don't want
Speaker 1: to like buy your own.
Speaker 13: Yeah, just like a sample.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like you'll you only want to do cocaine.
Speaker 1: Twice a year if you're in a weird situation where
Speaker 1: someone offers it to you, but it don't You don't
Speaker 1: want to.
Speaker 13: Go to You don't want to get into the red like.
Speaker 2: Buying it yourself, you know.
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's the meaning of life?
Speaker 13: Drugs? Bitches and coke?
Speaker 2: Very cool?
Speaker 1: Sarah's anything else you want to say to the people
Speaker 1: of the computer before we go, Stay.
Speaker 13: In school, do what you want with your life?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Sarah forever? Yes for having of course, thank you
Speaker 2: for joining me on the Get Go show.
Speaker 13: Of course.
Speaker 1: Here you go, you sir, I see you. You come on,
Speaker 1: come on over, that's going.
Speaker 2: What's your name?
Speaker 6: Alex? Alex?
Speaker 2: Nice to meet you. Where we met before? Have we?
Speaker 1: Yeah? You know I remember you from where signs say.
Speaker 8: Oh right now, I'm giving a free dating advice many
Speaker 8: one of the many signs that I hold.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah you I So.
Speaker 1: I come to this park like almost every day, okay,
Speaker 1: and you do you you're here a lot, right.
Speaker 6: I'm here like every weekend.
Speaker 1: Okay, and you hold up you make little content? Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh you Okay. Here's where we first met you have
Speaker 1: you held there's so many people watching. You held up
Speaker 1: a sign that said, uh, make me laugh and give
Speaker 1: win a thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: I tried. I tried to make you laugh.
Speaker 8: I have you know, I have so many people, so
Speaker 8: many like characters that approached me, So it's hard for
Speaker 8: me to remember everybody. There's a guy in a banana
Speaker 8: suit that approached me, a guy in a fucking corn
Speaker 8: dog suit that approached me. I get all kinds of
Speaker 8: characters out here, A major salib of the park, I
Speaker 8: get it.
Speaker 6: Oh, there's just so many characters out here.
Speaker 1: Welso, so yeah, I met you doing that well? Actually
Speaker 1: could we talked for a little bit and then you
Speaker 1: weren't recording?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 8: Yes, So I record some days. Other days I just
Speaker 8: feel like coming out and just hanging out.
Speaker 1: You know, no, no, you know you thought you thought
Speaker 1: you were recording, but then you weren't.
Speaker 2: It wasn't like we were just hanging out.
Speaker 6: Occasionally, I'll like, forget to press record.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna remember me. I'm gonna stop trying to
Speaker 1: get you to remember me. What's your name again?
Speaker 6: I'm Alex, Alex.
Speaker 1: I just told you my name. Is you already forgot, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I will see. Here's the thing is, I'm okay. So
Speaker 1: we're different, right, yeah, maybe we're not different. Maybe we're
Speaker 1: the same. Yeah, but like I don't remember, I will
Speaker 1: forget your name immediately, but I remember who you are.
Speaker 6: Yes, I definitely remember you a fraud costume. You can't
Speaker 6: forget that.
Speaker 2: No, I wasn't in the fraud cost And it's not
Speaker 2: what Who cares? Who cares? Who cares?
Speaker 11: What?
Speaker 2: How's life going? What's going on?
Speaker 6: Pretty good? I mean, everything is going pretty spot on.
Speaker 8: Besides you know, my dating life, you know everything else, Like,
Speaker 8: I'm so satisfied, okay, just dating?
Speaker 1: Why what's wrong with your dating life? You're not doing
Speaker 1: a bit right now?
Speaker 2: Are you okay? What's this?
Speaker 6: Go ahead?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 6: No, no, go ahead? Honestly, situationships are they into me?
Speaker 6: Are they not? X's?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 6: Heartbreaks? You know, it's it's so it's so much, it's
Speaker 6: so much going on.
Speaker 1: Are you doing you? Are you you swearing your life?
Speaker 1: You're not doing a bit right now?
Speaker 6: No? No, okay, I understand.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: You sound like you're in like content making voice right now,
Speaker 1: and I wanted I.
Speaker 8: Fully respect and other people are making content so I
Speaker 8: don't try to mess up.
Speaker 6: I'm not to mess up.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, I don't think you're trying to have a
Speaker 1: good time. It's all right, all right, all right, Sorry,
Speaker 1: I know I'm being a dick. Right now, you're gonna
Speaker 1: know I'm being a dick.
Speaker 8: Sometimes when I tell people think like Alex, are you
Speaker 8: are you working with me?
Speaker 6: I'm like, no, I'm being serious. What are you?
Speaker 2: What are you looking for in your dating life?
Speaker 8: What am I looking for my dating Honestly, I'm just
Speaker 8: trying to I'm trying to settle down. You know, if
Speaker 8: I've had my whole phase, it was fun. Right now,
Speaker 8: I'm just trying to like settle down, find someone that's
Speaker 8: just like long term, long term relationship.
Speaker 6: That's that's all I'm looking for.
Speaker 2: So why has that been hard for you to find?
Speaker 8: Because everyone else just wants to I guess it's still
Speaker 8: in their whole phase or is it just starting.
Speaker 6: Their whole phase?
Speaker 2: Where are you finding these people? You know?
Speaker 6: I come here a lot.
Speaker 2: I coeople out here.
Speaker 8: You know, occasionally I will go to like bars or nightclubs,
Speaker 8: But again, people over there are just trying to hook up,
Speaker 8: So that doesn't help.
Speaker 2: Are you looking for guys girls.
Speaker 1: All right, really you're really having a hard time because
Speaker 1: here's what's Here's what's annoying, I mean, not annoying, but
Speaker 1: interesting I'll say, is everyone says the same thing. We
Speaker 1: just had a girl sit down and say this. Everyone's
Speaker 1: always like, oh, New York, nobody wants to settle down.
Speaker 1: It's like if everyone's saying that, then I mean it
Speaker 1: must not be true to an extent.
Speaker 8: I mean, I guess we're just meeting the wrong people,
Speaker 8: you know. I guess it's just bad luck, bad timing.
Speaker 1: Have you met a lady where you're like, oh, I
Speaker 1: where you've said to her like, hey, I want something
Speaker 1: more and she's like.
Speaker 2: Ah, this.
Speaker 6: So I'm never for me. I'm never forward.
Speaker 8: I don't let them know, like straight up like hey,
Speaker 8: I'm into you, let's go out, because I've done that
Speaker 8: before and it seems to like freak people out, okay
Speaker 8: when I'm just too forward, which I get, you know,
Speaker 8: which I get. So my my whole like I guess
Speaker 8: my whole ethos not ethos, I guess the way I
Speaker 8: pursue dating nowadays, like I'm just super like nonchalant, laid
Speaker 8: back about it, like hey, yeah, we can hang out
Speaker 8: if something happens, it happens, but I'm not gonna like
Speaker 8: rush to anything. I'm not gonna pursue anything if the
Speaker 8: other person doesn't feel the same way.
Speaker 1: Well that's that's how I think it should be, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: like youse hinge.
Speaker 6: No, I'm not into dating.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, well like cause like like even I mean
Speaker 1: it's actually this isn't even a dating app thing, but
Speaker 1: like when some people there's some people who are like, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm looking for my my love and I
Speaker 1: need and I'm like, it's a little weird because it's like,
Speaker 1: well aren't we all we all yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 2: But it's like you.
Speaker 1: Can't start is that how That's like you can't like
Speaker 1: start off that way, right, Like people have to kind
Speaker 1: of naturally get into things.
Speaker 8: I mean, of course, there's like to an extent, you
Speaker 8: do have to pursue like a little bit, I guess
Speaker 8: from both parties also. But the thing is, like you,
Speaker 8: when I come out here, I meet so many amazing people,
Speaker 8: like I will make so many friendships and it gets
Speaker 8: to a point where I'm like this person is cool.
Speaker 8: I would love to hang out with them, Do I
Speaker 8: want to mess it up, like ya feel that way
Speaker 8: about them and then mess up a good friendship. Yeah,
Speaker 8: because I've had had that in the past, where I've
Speaker 8: had people that I do like.
Speaker 6: Start off having strong feelings about them.
Speaker 8: As I get to know them, I do do a
Speaker 8: good friendship and it gets to the point where I'm Okay,
Speaker 8: I wouldn't want to pursue a relationship with you because
Speaker 8: I do see you as a really cool friend.
Speaker 1: It's sure, don't want to tarnish that friendship, extremely safe.
Speaker 6: But I guess that's where I'm stuck.
Speaker 8: I'm meeting so many people and and I'm always I
Speaker 8: guess I'm always putting myself in the friend zone before
Speaker 8: they do that to me, which is my bigining.
Speaker 2: You know, well, is that an issue? I mean, can
Speaker 2: you go wrong with that?
Speaker 6: Really? I mean, of course, but how many friends? How
Speaker 6: many more friends do you need? Like? How many more
Speaker 6: friends can you have? You know?
Speaker 2: Part of me wonders.
Speaker 1: Are you supposed to feel some kind of like natural
Speaker 1: gravitational pull or are you else to for me?
Speaker 8: For me, I can think anybody is cute, I can
Speaker 8: think anybody is attractive upon first meeting them.
Speaker 1: You can think anybody is shut up. You can think
Speaker 1: anybody's shut up. You can think anybody. You can think
Speaker 1: anybody's attractive. You can decide to find anyone attractive. I mean,
Speaker 1: of course, I'm not gonna let you run away from
Speaker 1: the statement you make. You can you can decide like
Speaker 1: you can decide that anyone is attractive.
Speaker 8: I mean, yeah, I can think I can look at
Speaker 8: anyone and say, yeah, they're attractive, they've got nice features.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that person is attracted. Anyone, anyone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're lying for me.
Speaker 6: No, I'm being dead serious. You hold.
Speaker 2: I just want to make sure I understand what you're
Speaker 2: trying to say. Yes, go ahead, you can look.
Speaker 1: At anyone m hm any like literally anyone with no Well,
Speaker 1: let me can look at anyone and.
Speaker 8: Go and decide that they're attractive. Okay, Well that's not
Speaker 8: what exactly what I was saying. I see where you're
Speaker 8: coming from.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 8: What I was trying to say is that obviously I
Speaker 8: find attractive. I find the people who I find attractive.
Speaker 8: I find attractive, right, Like, you see what I'm saying, right,
Speaker 8: anyone I find attractive I will find attractive for me
Speaker 8: to catch.
Speaker 1: Feelings, somebody, what are you what are you even saying.
Speaker 6: Okay, I'm not going to find everybody attractive.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, well that's what you were just saying about.
Speaker 6: Everyone has preference.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yes, anyone that you find attractive.
Speaker 6: Attractive, I will find attractive.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 8: For me to catch for me to really fall for someone,
Speaker 8: to catch feelings for someone, I have to get to
Speaker 8: know them.
Speaker 2: Okay, I see what you mean. I see what you mean.
Speaker 2: I see Okay.
Speaker 1: Basically, there's a lot of women that you find attractive,
Speaker 1: but not a lot of women who you're like, I
Speaker 1: want to give my soul to you.
Speaker 2: That makes sense, or a lot.
Speaker 1: Of women you find attractive, but not a lot of
Speaker 1: women you're like, I deeply want to emotionally invest myself
Speaker 1: in you.
Speaker 8: I guess. I guess, like, I see, I see what
Speaker 8: you're trying to say.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people to feel that way.
Speaker 8: No, I mean for me, like, I can't really fall
Speaker 8: for someone head over here unless I really get to
Speaker 8: know them.
Speaker 6: I can't get butterflies unless I really get to know them.
Speaker 8: Oh okay, I have to really vibe with them at first.
Speaker 8: I have to really like see what their humor is like, see, like.
Speaker 2: Like, how for you're you're you're slow to love.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, I get, yeah.
Speaker 2: I get. I feel like I'm not like that at all.
Speaker 8: I mean everyone's different, you know, yeah, the same, everyone
Speaker 8: like has their own preference.
Speaker 6: That's just how I am. And I feel like that's
Speaker 6: what I struggle. That's what I'm at that it's not about,
Speaker 6: that's why.
Speaker 2: That's just why does that make you.
Speaker 8: A disavant a disadvantage because everyone is like everyone that
Speaker 8: I meet is in their whole face and they just
Speaker 8: want to hook up, and that's not what I'm looking
Speaker 8: for anymore.
Speaker 1: You know, Okay, But I don't think that puts you
Speaker 1: at a disadvantage.
Speaker 2: That's just who you are.
Speaker 1: I mean you could say that only wanting sex's has
Speaker 1: everything else is pros and cons, you know.
Speaker 8: I mean yeah, pretty much where you're set. We're trying
Speaker 8: to say, yeah, I guess, yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1: Why is everything else so amazing in your life? What
Speaker 1: else is going on?
Speaker 6: I mean, I'm satisfied. I'm my social life is going great.
Speaker 8: I come out here and hold a stupid sign and
Speaker 8: people approach me, So my social life is good.
Speaker 6: That's cool. I have so many great friends.
Speaker 2: You mean to let you make a lot of friends
Speaker 2: at the partes.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Absolutely, that's why I come out here.
Speaker 2: The content.
Speaker 8: Content is going great. I'm making a lot of memories.
Speaker 8: I love my job. I love my job.
Speaker 6: Not this isn't my job, my job that I do
Speaker 6: during the week when I'm not here. I love you.
Speaker 2: What's your job.
Speaker 6: I'm a teacher's aide.
Speaker 8: Oh cool, So I take care of like I teach
Speaker 8: pre k so I take care of like three year olds.
Speaker 6: Cool.
Speaker 8: I love my job. I love my family. So I'm
Speaker 8: just Yeah, I'm satisfied in.
Speaker 6: All aspects except dating. That's where I struggle with. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Hm hmm.
Speaker 1: So you have this problem where you have you been
Speaker 1: in like, have you ever been in a situationship with
Speaker 1: someone where you're like, oh, I could see myself.
Speaker 2: But isn't a situationship?
Speaker 1: House is in the situationship the the inception of for
Speaker 1: me relationship.
Speaker 8: For me, a situationship is not like, oh, we can
Speaker 8: fuck around and maybe it'll go somewhere. No, a situationship
Speaker 8: is no, We're gonna fuck around and that's it.
Speaker 6: It's not gonna go anywhere. That's my headphones.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, sure, But that's like a labeled thing like
Speaker 1: can't anything become.
Speaker 2: Something? It could?
Speaker 6: It could.
Speaker 8: Uh, that's just my headspace going into situationships, Okay, Like
Speaker 8: I I just prepare myself for that, not prepare myself.
Speaker 8: I just I'm just in that headspace. Like, Yo, we're
Speaker 8: in a situationship. We're gonna mess around. I'm not looking
Speaker 8: for anything after that. I'm not looking for anything past that.
Speaker 8: If we're gonna just gonna keep messing around.
Speaker 6: You know, I wouldn't here.
Speaker 2: Who's your ideal woman?
Speaker 6: My ideal woman? Like, yeah, like what do I like?
Speaker 6: What do I look for? Yeah?
Speaker 8: Sure, I don't really have a specific type, you know,
Speaker 8: I don't really you know, check boxes like oh, she
Speaker 8: has to have this, this and that for for me
Speaker 8: to want her.
Speaker 6: Like, no, I don't have a type.
Speaker 8: Just someone who's just someone who can joke around like me,
Speaker 8: someone who I guess, yeah, just someone who can joke
Speaker 8: around like me. Someone who can like have a good laugh,
Speaker 8: someone who can mess around. Uh, someone who I want
Speaker 8: someone very like laid back, someone's very nonchalant. Okay, someone
Speaker 8: who can match my energy, but in general, someone who's.
Speaker 6: Very laid back.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, because.
Speaker 8: I wouldn't want someone to you know, like outshine my personality.
Speaker 8: You know, I'm very outgoing, but to an extent.
Speaker 2: So you don't want somebody who's also outgoing.
Speaker 8: Like someone who can match my energy, but not to
Speaker 8: the point where they can over overshine me, overpower me.
Speaker 1: Okay, you want to make sure you want to be
Speaker 1: the guy, like you want to be the guy?
Speaker 8: Hey, like I want to be like yeah, like this
Speaker 8: is me, Like this is what you got. And it's
Speaker 8: tough because there's so much competition out here, and it's
Speaker 8: very easy for someone that you're dating to look at
Speaker 8: someone else and oh, this guy's got what he doesn't have?
Speaker 8: Like he there's there's pretty obvious he doesn't. He doesn't
Speaker 8: compare it to that guy.
Speaker 1: Well, it's whack a mole, you know, it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: someone has. There's many, in fact, not many, infinite people
Speaker 1: out there who have an infinite amount of positive qualities
Speaker 1: that you do not possess but they don't have. But
Speaker 1: it's swackamle, right, it's like, oh, I like this one thing.
Speaker 1: I Anyone that your date is gonna have things you
Speaker 1: like about them and things you don't like about them,
Speaker 1: and there will be somebody who has the things that
Speaker 1: they don't have that you want, but then they have
Speaker 1: other things that you don't.
Speaker 2: It's what you know. It's no no one literally nobody
Speaker 2: is perfect.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 8: At this point, I'm just like you do know how
Speaker 8: to have to be perfect. I'm not looking for anyone perfect.
Speaker 8: I'm willing to accept any flaws. But for any flaws, Yes,
Speaker 8: any flaws.
Speaker 6: Sorry, that'd be just scared. Scared.
Speaker 2: I don't like bees.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but no for me, I'm just I have a
Speaker 8: lot of insecurities that like, it's they it's very obvious
Speaker 8: when uh me showing my insecurities, Like I'm I can
Speaker 8: try to hide it as much as I can, but
Speaker 8: they just come out at random times.
Speaker 1: You don't have to talk about this if you don't
Speaker 1: want to, but I'm I'm naturally curious. What are your insecurities?
Speaker 6: My insecurities?
Speaker 8: Uh, damn, which one? There's so many, there's like a hole.
Speaker 8: I could write a whole script, a whole novel about
Speaker 8: my insecurities.
Speaker 1: Well, what's like, I guess you're well, one my height, Like,
Speaker 1: I'm how tall are you?
Speaker 8: I'm five to ninety five to nine, I'm very average height.
Speaker 8: If I want to date someone, they would have to
Speaker 8: be like really short.
Speaker 2: You know. I mean, let's talk about this. Yes, I'm
Speaker 2: five to seven, right.
Speaker 1: Commara, I'm actually five six, but I just tell everyone
Speaker 1: I'm five seven.
Speaker 2: So I'm five to seven, right.
Speaker 1: And I've also throughout my life been pretty insecure about
Speaker 1: my height. But you know what, But here's the thing
Speaker 1: right with like all these things, is like you were
Speaker 1: delta hand in life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you were born as this.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: There's things you can change about your body if you
Speaker 1: don't like it, you can get you can there's things
Speaker 1: you can change about your body if you don't like them.
Speaker 1: And there's things that you cannot change about your body.
Speaker 1: And the way I think about my height, the way
Speaker 1: I've kind of reconciled is like, oh my god, here's
Speaker 1: here's how I reconciled my height.
Speaker 2: I would not roll the dice again, you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying.
Speaker 6: Like, in terms of what rolling the dice.
Speaker 2: I was born with certain things about me and my essence.
Speaker 6: In my life, and you can't change your height.
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of things I love about my
Speaker 1: life and about my essence and about my body and
Speaker 1: about my brain, about my who I am. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of things I don't like about my body, my
Speaker 1: brain and my essence and who I am. But if
Speaker 1: if God came down from the heavens and was like, hey,
Speaker 1: would you you want to Hey, you don't like being
Speaker 1: five seven? You want to roll the dice again. I'm
Speaker 1: not rolling those dice. I'm not taking another chance. I'll
Speaker 1: take this, I'll key, I'll stay. I'm not that's like
Speaker 1: black check. You know, I'm not. I'm not gonna hit.
Speaker 8: I get what you mean when you have, like when
Speaker 8: you have quite a few friends that like like, obviously
Speaker 8: you don't want to compare yourself to other people, but
Speaker 8: when you're with other people you like, your mind ghost
Speaker 8: places like you can't help it.
Speaker 6: You can't help but compare yourself.
Speaker 1: One thing I've oh, I've never forgotten that I heard
Speaker 1: once is that if you're gonna be jealous of someone,
Speaker 1: you have to be jealous of all of them. You
Speaker 1: can't just run around picking your favor picking all the
Speaker 1: best qualities from everyone, because that's not real life. So
Speaker 1: you know, if someone someone might be taller than you,
Speaker 1: but they have other things going on and their life
Speaker 1: that are fucked, that are that your life is, you
Speaker 1: know better than I mean, that's the same with like
Speaker 1: all insecurities.
Speaker 8: I see what you mean. I see what you mean. Yeah,
Speaker 8: I see what you mean. Another one of my biggest,
Speaker 8: like insecurities.
Speaker 6: It's just like.
Speaker 8: It's as well, I want to retract to Bacca what
Speaker 8: I was saying earlier, shut out.
Speaker 6: For me to fall for someone, I have to get
Speaker 6: to know them.
Speaker 8: Once I get to know someone, the reason I've been
Speaker 8: in so many situationships is because that first impression, the
Speaker 8: first few interactions is always like the easiest to me.
Speaker 6: Like you'd be like, oh, I just met you, you
Speaker 6: don't know.
Speaker 8: Me, so I can pretty much put on a bask
Speaker 8: and be whoever the fuck I want to be in.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I guess that's what people people like, right, It's.
Speaker 1: All you're right, at a certain point, you gotta you know,
Speaker 1: you gotta till a certain let your breath go and
Speaker 1: let the stomach hang out metaphorically.
Speaker 8: Like after like a while that you really get to
Speaker 8: know someone, then I start that's when I started really
Speaker 8: catching feelings. That's when I started getting the butterflies, like yo,
Speaker 8: I can't be how I was at the beginning, Like
Speaker 8: it's just it's messing with me, Like I've known you
Speaker 8: for so long, but I don't know. Something's changed now
Speaker 8: to the point where I can't be around this person.
Speaker 8: I can't act like how I used to be at
Speaker 8: the beginning. It just fucks with my head and messed
Speaker 8: with my head. I get the butterflies, know mm hmmm hm.
Speaker 8: This one person that that I would see frequently at
Speaker 8: this park at the beginning, I for like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 8: she's cute.
Speaker 6: Like she's cute.
Speaker 8: I don't think much of it. I wouldn't say I'm
Speaker 8: head over heels for her. I'm not getting butterflies, but yeah,
Speaker 8: she's cute. I wouldn't see myself pursuing a relationship with her,
Speaker 8: but yeah, she's cute. I don't I'm not getting butterflies,
Speaker 8: as I would constantly see her here all the time
Speaker 8: when I would come out here, and she would give
Speaker 8: me like these little nudget like hey, like take down
Speaker 8: my number. Let's hang out sometime, like oh, let's hang out,
Speaker 8: get some boba without your sign, like without your content,
Speaker 8: let's just hang out. Like yeah, I'm down, come to this.
Speaker 8: I just moved into a new apartment. Come to my apartment.
Speaker 8: Let's hang out, Let's let's grab a drink like, yeah,
Speaker 8: I'm down. As I gotten to know them, and I
Speaker 8: would see all these signs, I'm like, ooh.
Speaker 6: Are they flirting with me?
Speaker 2: Like oh, like.
Speaker 8: I'm getting the butterflies. I'm like, am I getting Am
Speaker 8: I getting butterflies? Like the more I'm seeing them, like yeah,
Speaker 8: now now that I'm seeing them, now that I'm vibing
Speaker 8: with them a little bit, and I'm like, now I'm
Speaker 8: getting the butter more.
Speaker 6: Butterfly, I'm getting butterflies.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, quick, can I a see to just hold
Speaker 2: the Yeah.
Speaker 6: I got her, I got you. My bad, My bad. Yeah.
Speaker 8: As I'm getting to know them more and more, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 8: now I'm catching feelings.
Speaker 6: Now I'm starting to get butterflies.
Speaker 8: Okay, okay, okay, And now it's gone to it after that,
Speaker 8: this was all last year. By the way, the winter,
Speaker 8: the winter comes and goes, there's like no communication, like
Speaker 8: I don't like the winter.
Speaker 6: I hibernate in the winter.
Speaker 8: I stay at home until the winter passes, like I
Speaker 8: don't like going out in the winter. So as winter passes,
Speaker 8: there's no there's no interactions, no text, no phone calls,
Speaker 8: no FaceTime, there's nothing.
Speaker 6: There's there's no interactions.
Speaker 8: I completely go ghosts, which is not intentionally, not something
Speaker 8: I want to do.
Speaker 6: It's just something that I do.
Speaker 8: As the spring starts and I see her like again
Speaker 8: after after a whole winter not seeing her, She's like, hey, you.
Speaker 6: Know, it's good to see you. YadA, YadA, YadA.
Speaker 8: I started getting the butterflies again, and I'm like yo, like, uh,
Speaker 8: like I would I would assume, like all this time
Speaker 8: spent a part would make me miss her, and it did,
Speaker 8: but no, we're back to square one. I'm getting the
Speaker 8: butterflies again. Uh so, Yeah, I saw her in April.
Speaker 8: In April I would see her a few times. Then
Speaker 8: May I did not see her. June I did not
Speaker 8: see her. July I saw her again, and at that
Speaker 8: point I was like, dude, I don't care, like I
Speaker 8: don't have butterflies anymore.
Speaker 6: I genuinely missed seeing you.
Speaker 8: I've genuinely missed seeing that person, and my fuck it,
Speaker 8: like I I'm back. I gave my confidence back again,
Speaker 8: like I missed that person so much to the point
Speaker 8: where I'm like, I don't care.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: The in so the insecurity is just the insecurity.
Speaker 2: Of being who you are when you don't feel nervous.
Speaker 8: Well, when I don't see that that person as much,
Speaker 8: I guess as much.
Speaker 2: So is this a general insecurity, you would.
Speaker 8: Say, I'd say so, I'd say so. But yeah, as
Speaker 8: as I was saying, uh, where where was I? So yeah,
Speaker 8: after after not seeing her for so long, I started
Speaker 8: seeing her again, and I'm like, yo, I genuinely missed you.
Speaker 6: I genuinely missed her.
Speaker 8: I think she noticed because when I started getting butterflies,
Speaker 8: I started acting nonchalant around her, and I think she
Speaker 8: picked up on that, like, oh, this guy's was so
Speaker 8: fun at the beginning.
Speaker 6: What happened?
Speaker 8: Like he's so laid back in nonchalant now, like what's
Speaker 8: going on? And I did not tell her why, but
Speaker 8: I think she picked out all my nonchalant iss But again,
Speaker 8: as once she saw me in June, after a whole
Speaker 8: long time of not seeing not seeing me, I gained
Speaker 8: my confidence back. I saw her again. I missed her
Speaker 8: and we talked. We were viving again. I think she
Speaker 8: she saw like, oh he's back. He's not nonchalant anymore,
Speaker 8: Like he's back, he's back to his old self again.
Speaker 8: Something happened. He's back to his own self. Now I
Speaker 8: want to see him again. Now I want to keep
Speaker 8: seeing him and again that that fucked with my mind again.
Speaker 8: I got the butterflies again. She gave me her number,
Speaker 8: even though I have her on Instagram.
Speaker 6: She gave me her number. She invited me to her apartment.
Speaker 6: I bought her. She was here one day.
Speaker 2: Do you like this lady? Do you like this lady?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 2: Okay, because this whole thing, I'm like, do you fucking
Speaker 2: like this lady?
Speaker 6: I'm getting to that point.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, sorry, get it to that part.
Speaker 6: It's the whole back and forth thing.
Speaker 2: Sure, sure, sure.
Speaker 8: So I she comes to the park one day, She's like, Alex,
Speaker 8: I'm bored.
Speaker 6: What should I do?
Speaker 8: I'm like, uh, do you want a buzzball? We can
Speaker 8: go get a buzzball. She's like, fuck yeah, let's do that. Okay, okay,
Speaker 8: well we'll go get a buzzball. We went to we
Speaker 8: went to the store. I was like, you know, I
Speaker 8: got you, I got you. It's like five bucks, I
Speaker 8: got you covered.
Speaker 2: She's like.
Speaker 8: She came up from behind me. She's like, Alex, I'm
Speaker 8: gonna give you the boyfriend hug. And she comes from
Speaker 8: behind me and she squeezed. She squeezes me, Like, dude,
Speaker 8: you don't say that ship to like anybody, Like I'm
Speaker 8: gonna give you the boyfriend.
Speaker 6: You don't say that to anybody.
Speaker 8: This girl clearly likes you, right, Okay, Okay, she clearly
Speaker 8: likes me.
Speaker 6: I clearly like her.
Speaker 2: Okay, like, dude, let's just fucking hang out.
Speaker 6: Let's hang out, like I'm I'm like, I know.
Speaker 8: She said that she had to go, like afterwards because
Speaker 8: she had, like I don't know, I think she had
Speaker 8: worked the next day, but she said she had to go. Okay, okay,
Speaker 8: we will. We will schedule a hangout. We will schedule
Speaker 8: hang out to meet each other.
Speaker 2: Like why is this so complicated?
Speaker 6: I'm getting to that point.
Speaker 2: Okay, sorry, I'm sorry, sorry sorry.
Speaker 8: So, uh yes, three times we schedule a hangout three
Speaker 8: times for me, It's like three strikes.
Speaker 2: Like you should oh, she kept delaying.
Speaker 8: No, no, So we made a day to hang out
Speaker 8: on a Saturday. Okay, I'm like, yeah, absolutely, let's fucking
Speaker 8: get lunch or whatever.
Speaker 6: Let's hang out.
Speaker 2: Yeah she but did she yes, Okay, you hung out.
Speaker 2: We were both so hola, hola.
Speaker 1: Okay, what's your name again? By the way, like, Alex,
Speaker 1: you said three strikes, you're out? Uh huh what were
Speaker 1: the three strikes?
Speaker 8: I'm getting I was just getting to that, okay, Okay,
Speaker 8: So we made us data. This was on our Friday.
Speaker 8: We made a day to hang out on Saturday. Saturday
Speaker 8: morning comes like, hey, we're still on fridayday and she's like, yeah,
Speaker 8: I'm down. Let's let me know when you're here. Text
Speaker 8: me when you're here, like, all right, perfect, I got you.
Speaker 8: I will be there at three o'clock. It's it's like
Speaker 8: one o'clock. I will be train takes me like thirty minutes.
Speaker 8: She didn't show up. No, no, As I was making out,
Speaker 8: hopping on the train about to head there, train Delace
Speaker 8: train is now working on weekends.
Speaker 6: You gotta take the bus.
Speaker 8: You gotta take the long ass bus to Atlantic and
Speaker 8: transfer do all this, and you know NYC traffic, you know.
Speaker 8: And I'm like I text him like, hey, you know
Speaker 8: the trains aren't working. I'm so sorry. I will be
Speaker 8: there as soon as I can, but I don't know
Speaker 8: with traffic, I don't know how long it'll take me
Speaker 8: to get there.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 8: It's like, yeah, just let me know when you get here.
Speaker 8: Buses take a long time. Trains take a long time.
Speaker 8: I get here at it like eight and nine o'clock
Speaker 8: at night, like, hey, I'm so sorry, Like are you here?
Speaker 6: She's like no, I had to head her out.
Speaker 8: I'm sorry, Like no, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry the
Speaker 8: fucking trains. Wait, so this is strike on, this is
Speaker 8: strike one, okay, Like, hey, can we reschedule?
Speaker 6: It's like, yeah, let's get lunch tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Alex, I don't think I can. I don't think we
Speaker 1: can do all three strikes. Listen all right, because listen,
Speaker 1: because how long ago did this happen?
Speaker 6: This has been going on for like two months? What
Speaker 6: the fuck?
Speaker 2: Alex? Do you like this?
Speaker 6: Lady?
Speaker 2: I do? Okay, doude? Then what the fuck she likes you?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 2: Why I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know anytime things are this complicated, it kind
Speaker 1: of it's like it's like, what even is this.
Speaker 8: The second time we made to reschedule? She said, yeah,
Speaker 8: let's let's get lunch tomorrow. Like the trains are fucked up,
Speaker 8: but let's get lunch tomorrow. I'm like, fuck, yeah, I
Speaker 8: showed up. She's like, actually, I don't feel like going
Speaker 8: out anymore. Like hey, you know, that's fine. Sometimes you
Speaker 8: don't feel like it's a Sunday. Not everyone likes going
Speaker 8: out on Sunday. That's fine.
Speaker 6: She's like, we do Monday, Like, okay, yeah, let's do that.
Speaker 6: Let's do Monday.
Speaker 8: I come on Monday. She does to show up. Okay,
Speaker 8: I guess I got an answer. I guess she doesn't
Speaker 8: like me. Okay, and then retracting to that statement like
Speaker 8: this was after by the way, I get her a
Speaker 8: buzzball and she comes from after a while of not
Speaker 8: seeing her. Okay, she comes from behind me, Alex, I'm
Speaker 8: gonna give you the boyfriend hug.
Speaker 2: Alex.
Speaker 1: I'm exhausted by this. I know me too, Okay. So
Speaker 1: here's what okay, Okay, okay.
Speaker 6: So and I'm like, dude, I don't know anymore.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yes you do know?
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yes you do. She hasn't been no no, no, no, you
Speaker 2: do know?
Speaker 6: Don't yes you do?
Speaker 2: I don't know, Yes you do? You do know? You
Speaker 2: know that you're exhausted. I am you shouldn't be exhausted.
Speaker 2: So you do know?
Speaker 6: I don't know, Yes you do do? I what do
Speaker 6: I know?
Speaker 1: What do you know that you're exhausted. You know that
Speaker 1: this relationship is exhausted. You know this dynamic is exhausting you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that's a lot of information to have, you know,
Speaker 1: the dynamics exhausting you.
Speaker 2: It is exhausting me hearing it.
Speaker 1: So it's like, you know, go find something that doesn't
Speaker 1: exhaust Jesus fucking Christ.
Speaker 8: She texted me one day when I'm here chilling, doing
Speaker 8: my own thing. She texts me like, Hey, I'm at
Speaker 8: the park. I get so fucking nervous that I just
Speaker 8: run out of the park and I just wait for
Speaker 8: her to leave, Like, I'm just tired of this back
Speaker 8: and forth.
Speaker 2: Alex, You're you know what, Alex, You're a sweet boy.
Speaker 1: I think you'll find a relationship one day that doesn't
Speaker 1: exhaust you.
Speaker 6: You know, I'm trying. I'm out here trying. Actually, actually no,
Speaker 6: I'm not out here.
Speaker 2: You're not really out here trying.
Speaker 1: You're out here existing, being, living your own life, being
Speaker 1: who you are, exerting your authentic self upon the universe.
Speaker 1: And when you do that for long enough, the universe
Speaker 1: brings you back, whatever the fuck it brings you back.
Speaker 6: At the point, I'm just like do whatever. It's whatever.
Speaker 6: I'm like, I'm exhausted.
Speaker 1: I'm exhausted, Alex, is there anything else you want to
Speaker 1: say to the people of the computer before we go?
Speaker 8: Surround yourself with good people, because good people will bring
Speaker 8: you up. If it were for the people that I
Speaker 8: surround myself with, I would not be up sitting here, uh,
Speaker 8: doing this talking about all my fucking insecurities.
Speaker 6: So I have my friends to thank for that. So
Speaker 6: love y'all. Surround yourself with good people.
Speaker 1: I thank you very much for your time and your honesty. Man,
Speaker 1: I really appreciate it. Thank you, Alex. You have a
Speaker 1: good one.
Speaker 2: I'm sure. I'm sure.
Speaker 1: I'll see you in the park later. Man, Andrew, nice
Speaker 1: to meet you. Has life, what's going on?
Speaker 6: I'm doing, lile.
Speaker 5: I just just moved here from Florida. Okay, it's my
Speaker 5: first time. Actually it's like my third week here.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I just saw you, so I was like, you know what,
Speaker 5: I'll pop a squat. You seem like a really interesting person.
Speaker 2: Well thanks man. What brought you to New York work?
Speaker 5: Actually, as well as just pretty much. I grew up
Speaker 5: in Florida felt like I was stunted, like my growth
Speaker 5: was stunted there. I didn't have like a lot of creativity.
Speaker 5: I had like some falling out with friends over my
Speaker 5: sexuality and religion, and so I felt like New York
Speaker 5: was a safe place for me, not only creatively, but
Speaker 5: also to express myself fully. So I'm kind of out here.
Speaker 5: I don't really have too many friends out here either,
Speaker 5: So I was like, you know what, it would.
Speaker 2: Be nice to sit down and talk with someone.
Speaker 6: Okay, cool man?
Speaker 3: Sure that.
Speaker 2: I was so patient, you know, it's why. So how
Speaker 2: you said you've been here for three weeks?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, And what are you doing here? You going to school?
Speaker 2: You're working? I'm working. I'm a marketing director right now? Okay?
Speaker 2: Yeahs you are? I am thirty one, thirty one?
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 2: Have you been doing anything to try to make friends?
Speaker 2: Meet people? So that's the thing.
Speaker 5: I've been so like occupied focus on work as well
Speaker 5: as like trying to get familiar with the city that
Speaker 5: I really haven't had made time for that, which I
Speaker 5: need to is definitely, uh, something I kind of have
Speaker 5: to adjust to, just because I would say for so long,
Speaker 5: since I was from Florida, I had most of my
Speaker 5: friends growing up. I never had to make friends again,
Speaker 5: like like as an adult, now, and especially as like
Speaker 5: a new person. I guess you could say, because now
Speaker 5: I'm like living more in my like authenticity, living.
Speaker 2: Who I am. That's good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So now it's like navigating that and learning to
Speaker 5: kind of not HIGs parts of me and learn how
Speaker 5: to like really kind of navigate this new version of myself.
Speaker 5: I guess you can call it, and uh, I guess
Speaker 5: navigate it. And I don't even want to call it
Speaker 5: the correct way, because I guess there is no correct
Speaker 5: way about going about things. But just like I guess
Speaker 5: my goal is just to like completely be authentic with its.
Speaker 1: And it's well, it sounds like, yeah, you mentioned Florida
Speaker 1: as being kind of stifling to your growth, as being
Speaker 1: a place where you did not feel as though you
Speaker 1: could be that authentic self. Yeah, exactly, and so wait,
Speaker 1: so and how long did you live in Florida for
Speaker 1: up until now?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh, okay, so it is the first three weeks out
Speaker 2: of Florida exactly.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Okay, so you're in You're in this
Speaker 1: is this is this the first time you actually feel
Speaker 1: like you are living as your authentic self?
Speaker 2: Pretty much, get out of here. That's that's amazing. That's
Speaker 2: really cool. It is a big leap.
Speaker 5: I find it as free like as possible. I feel
Speaker 5: like I would never change my life. I went through
Speaker 5: a lot of trials and tribulations, like I said, you know,
Speaker 5: coming out late in life, as well as like losing
Speaker 5: a lot of friends my church, Like it was like
Speaker 5: really difficult time for me, but it literally sharpened me.
Speaker 5: It made me polish me into the person I am today.
Speaker 5: I like to tell people gave me superpowers. I feel
Speaker 5: like I have a level of understanding people now from
Speaker 5: all walks of life and understanding them just because of
Speaker 5: those hardships. I felt like they gave me a level
Speaker 5: of sympathy and empathy for people that I wouldn't have
Speaker 5: had if I didn't go through those those certain things.
Speaker 5: And I guess it's just I'm happy that I was
Speaker 5: able to get come out of the other side of
Speaker 5: it with a positive outlook on life. And because I
Speaker 5: know a lot of people don't. So I'm just even
Speaker 5: sharing this too, because I know you have probably a
Speaker 5: lot of people who watch you, so just to let
Speaker 5: them know that, like you got to just like authentically
Speaker 5: be yourself. I know that word is like thrown around
Speaker 5: a lot now. But it's so true. It's so freeing
Speaker 5: to be yourself no matter what you're going through, Like
Speaker 5: you'll find peace when you like when you start loving
Speaker 5: yourself more, because no one could love yourself like love
Speaker 5: you as much as you can love yourself.
Speaker 1: Well, look, I know you said you're having you know,
Speaker 1: trouble making friends and whatnot, But I ever new nothing
Speaker 1: you have said is quite out of the ordinary for
Speaker 1: only being in a place for three weeks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 1: So I are you in person as this marketing director
Speaker 1: or is this like an online thing?
Speaker 5: So no, I'm in person. I worked two days a
Speaker 5: week there. Co workers are cool, just like I guess
Speaker 5: they're like older than me. So it's like a little.
Speaker 1: Well here's the here's the good news is that where
Speaker 1: in Florida were you? West Palms?
Speaker 2: Okay of West Palm. It's like it's a little posh.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like right across from like there's literally right
Speaker 5: over the bridge is Palm Beach Island.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like a wes West Palm is definitely yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I Well, the good news is that you moved to
Speaker 1: one of the best places in America to meet people.
Speaker 2: There's infinite I mean, what do you like? What are
Speaker 2: you into?
Speaker 5: I love art, I love fashion, I love photography, I
Speaker 5: love writing.
Speaker 2: Oh, I mean, bro, I know that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, here's the thing I mean, dude, I mean, this
Speaker 1: is why I live in New York, right, It is
Speaker 1: because you know, I mean, I come to this park
Speaker 1: almost every day.
Speaker 2: It makes me feel alive.
Speaker 1: Anytime I feel like I'm dying or I'm like old,
Speaker 1: or I like that everything. You know, there's nothing left
Speaker 1: for me to do on this planet, I just come.
Speaker 1: I you know, New York is the place to where where,
Speaker 1: even after you think you've you know, seen it all
Speaker 1: or done it all or whatever, there's places and people
Speaker 1: and rooms you can go into and things to remind
Speaker 1: yourself that, oh shit, there's more. There's always there is more,
Speaker 1: and and and here's the but here's the thing. It
Speaker 1: doesn't find you. It doesn't find you. It doesn't find you.
Speaker 1: But you don't even have to do it in the
Speaker 1: correct way. But it's if you go out in search,
Speaker 1: you find it.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: So like if you go on the internet and you
Speaker 1: search for weird art events, or you see some stupid
Speaker 1: fly as you're walking and you click the QR code
Speaker 1: and you actually go to the thing, and then when
Speaker 1: you're at the thing, you.
Speaker 2: Actually talk to some people.
Speaker 1: You start, you know, so the more again, the more you,
Speaker 1: you know, authentically exert yourself upon the city and the world.
Speaker 2: You you you find these things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I mean even the fact that you came
Speaker 1: to sit and talk to a random dude on the thing.
Speaker 2: Is a good sign.
Speaker 1: So yeah, all like crazy cool art, fashion, whatever the
Speaker 1: fuck shit exists?
Speaker 2: Ye do you?
Speaker 1: I'll give you some like Instagram pages to follow and
Speaker 1: some shit too.
Speaker 2: Later after we've done this, I appreciate that someone take
Speaker 2: a little video of us.
Speaker 1: What's up? How's it going? Look at this guy? Look
Speaker 1: at this guy? Who's this guy? I love this combination.
Speaker 1: Look at this guy. He's got a combination. I've never
Speaker 1: seen a combination of a leopard print shirt with an
Speaker 1: army bag and he's got the leopard.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, look at this guy? Well why do I? Man?
Speaker 1: Nice to see you too, man, God bless But yeah, dude,
Speaker 1: you're you're in a great position.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel And that's the good thing is I'm
Speaker 5: giving myself time. Like I said, I'm navigating it. I
Speaker 5: feel like I'm in a good place. Uh, sometimes I
Speaker 5: could get it lonely. You know, I haven't really made
Speaker 5: too many friends out here yet, so that's why I
Speaker 5: was like, let me, let me, let me just sit
Speaker 5: down and have a good conversation for once.
Speaker 2: And you see, like I said, you seem like a
Speaker 2: really interesting guy. Yeah, you're doing well here.
Speaker 1: After after we're done, there's a couple of like, uh,
Speaker 1: like email lists I'm on and like Instagram pages.
Speaker 2: I'll give yeah, for sure, for sure. Can I ask
Speaker 2: you some questions? Yeah, hit man? Okay, is that what?
Speaker 2: You just have one suit or you have multiple suits?
Speaker 1: Oh? I have I have well, I don't know anymore. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I have a this is a hundred. I just have
Speaker 1: a room and it's got a pile of like there's
Speaker 1: five parts to wait, there's five parts to the suit.
Speaker 1: There's there's the head, the hands, which are technically two parts,
Speaker 1: but actually no, there's there's Okay, I'm gonna count this one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
Speaker 1: There's seven parts to the suit, okay, two hands, two feet,
Speaker 1: a torso, pants, and a head. And I just have
Speaker 1: an amalgam a big green pile of parts.
Speaker 2: Of the suit.
Speaker 1: It's awesome, just a room of like like you know
Speaker 1: in the Simpsons, the giant burning tower of tires. That's
Speaker 1: why I have that, but with uh with echo suits.
Speaker 1: So I don't know how many that compiles when you
Speaker 1: add them up, but yeah.
Speaker 2: That's that's what I got.
Speaker 5: The second question is I guess, out of all the
Speaker 5: interviews I've ever done, what was the most interesting thing
Speaker 5: You've learned about yourself in the process of doing this?
Speaker 2: Can I tell you the truth? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I get asked this question a lot of like what's
Speaker 1: like the craziest thing you've learned, or like what's the
Speaker 1: most interesting thing you've learned?
Speaker 2: Or what have you learned about humanity? I'm gonna be
Speaker 2: honest with you.
Speaker 1: The more I travel and talk to people and do this,
Speaker 1: the more I know I don't know fucking anything. I actually,
Speaker 1: the more the more agnostic I become. Actually oh wow,
Speaker 1: yeah wow, oh wait, sorry, I'll answer in one second, but.
Speaker 5: Now altruistic, like you don't feel like you like love
Speaker 5: more because you know, like.
Speaker 2: No, I know.
Speaker 1: I become more agnostic about my beliefs, and I become
Speaker 1: more agnostic about how what I know about the world
Speaker 1: and what I know about myself and I by my
Speaker 1: identity crumbles the more I talk to people, because when
Speaker 1: you're when you're younger and when you're in high school,
Speaker 1: it's way easier to have a sense of identity and
Speaker 1: an ego. And then the more you talk to people
Speaker 1: and the more you travel and learn things and do things,
Speaker 1: the more my identity my ego crumble and I don't
Speaker 1: know and the more I know nothing. Yeah, this in
Speaker 1: uh and this is lame that I'm gonna quote this,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna do it is in Rick and Morty.
Speaker 2: You know the actually you know what this is in
Speaker 2: Rick and Morty?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Do you know the scene where Rick is talking not
Speaker 1: when Morty's talking to Summer and he's like, you hang
Speaker 1: out with Rick, And the more you hang out with Rick,
Speaker 1: the more you know nothing and he knows everything. And
Speaker 1: all I know is that we're all gonna die and
Speaker 1: nobody belongs anywhere.
Speaker 2: Come watch TV. Yep. That is how I feel when
Speaker 2: I travel.
Speaker 1: Wow, and when I do this and when I talk
Speaker 1: to people, the more I'm like, oh, the universe knows everything.
Speaker 1: I know nothing, nothing matters, No one belongs anywhere. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go play video games and jerk off.
Speaker 2: So I get that it.
Speaker 5: Almost feels like the Yeah, because you can't have any
Speaker 5: go at that point, especially if you're interviewing people constantly
Speaker 5: learning new stuff, and then everyone's a reflection of you.
Speaker 1: And it's honestly, it's almost less about even like the
Speaker 1: work that I do, and even just like living my
Speaker 1: life on a personal level. The older I get, the
Speaker 1: more I live my life on a personal level and
Speaker 1: I have my own personal experiences, is how I arrive
Speaker 1: at the fact that I don't fucking know anything.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Do you feel like that makes what you do harder?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 2: Kind of.
Speaker 1: I think existing on the internet and having a podcast
Speaker 1: almost beckons upon you to have strong opinions.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's almost like you're.
Speaker 5: It's not that you're catering to the algorithm, but almost
Speaker 5: like you kind of have to in a sense.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, but I mean, I don't know, we're
Speaker 1: having we're having this conversation right now, and I guess,
Speaker 1: and I guess I have expressed a strong opinion in it, yeah,
Speaker 1: which is that I don't have a lot of strong opinions,
Speaker 1: a strong opinions, but.
Speaker 5: That's hey, and what opinions changed every day. Man, you
Speaker 5: don't know who you're gonna talk to the next day.
Speaker 5: So that strong opinions does how strong is the next conversation?
Speaker 2: Oh you're gonna hate me. But what's your name again?
Speaker 1: Andrews get So it's okay, Well Andrew, listen, you're my
Speaker 1: last interview of the day. I'm gonna pack all this
Speaker 1: shit up. But is there is there any bring us home?
Speaker 6: Andrew?
Speaker 2: What do you want to say to the people of
Speaker 2: the computer before we get out?
Speaker 5: To anyone out there watching this or listening, just know
Speaker 5: that you have to. You don't have to, but it's
Speaker 5: so much beneficial if you do what you love and
Speaker 5: you are who you are, and just know that I am.
Speaker 5: That I am is the key, and you learn that
Speaker 5: you that life is coming literally out of you.
Speaker 2: You what's inside of you. You manifest.
Speaker 5: Sometimes it takes time for reality to catch up. But
Speaker 5: if you if you say I love yourself all the
Speaker 5: time in your head, you start actually bringing up to reality.
Speaker 5: So just know that I know it's not silly and
Speaker 5: woo woo, but it's true.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: So it's been great knowing you. It's been a great conversation.
Speaker 5: I appreciate your time my friend.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you Andrew folks. Thank you guys very much for
Speaker 1: listening to the Therapy Gecko Podcast. I'm Lyle, I'm a Gecko.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go home or not, or I'll just sleep
Speaker 1: here at the park. I don't care. I mean, I
Speaker 1: do care. I don't want to sleep at the park,
Speaker 1: but I like the park. I'm I'm this is a
Speaker 1: bad act, this is a bad outro, but it's what
Speaker 1: I said. I can't take it back. I theoretically can.
Speaker 1: I can, of course I can take it back. I
Speaker 1: can edit it out, but I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna leave it in. Thanks for listening. I'll be
Speaker 1: back in a few days with another episode of the thing.
Speaker 1: Ghek bless you. Thanks for being here. See you guys
Speaker 1: around the universe.