Speaker 1: With Rowdy.
Speaker 2: Hello therapy, get go?
Speaker 1: Yes, who is this?
Speaker 3: Hey?
Speaker 2: My name is Rowdy. I'm nineteen and I am obsessed
Speaker 2: with my teacher. And before you think anything, I do
Speaker 2: sound like a five year old, but I promise I'm not.
Speaker 3: But I don't know.
Speaker 2: I've been obsessed with my teacher for ever since I
Speaker 2: met her, and I don't know. I feel like it's
Speaker 2: getting out of hand?
Speaker 1: Is this your what I would? Are you in high school?
Speaker 1: Are you in college?
Speaker 2: I graduated from high school but this was the last year.
Speaker 1: Okay? Well and this was last year and you're still
Speaker 1: obsessed with her?
Speaker 3: Mm hm h.
Speaker 1: What do you mean by you're obsessed with her?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 1: How does it? I guess what I what I asked specifically,
Speaker 1: is how does your obsession manifest?
Speaker 2: Like I want to spend the rest of my life
Speaker 2: with her as if I was like her son. You
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Are you fucking with me right now? Or is this
Speaker 1: a serious thing?
Speaker 2: This is serious?
Speaker 1: You want to spend the rest of your life with
Speaker 1: her as if you were her son?
Speaker 2: Yes, but like now that I say that, a lot,
Speaker 2: it sounds a lot weirder.
Speaker 1: But no, no, no, no, I'm not I'm not I'm not here.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to make sure you were fun with me.
Speaker 1: I'm not here to judge your thoughts and your and
Speaker 1: your feelings. Tell me what, tell me more about what
Speaker 1: you mean by that?
Speaker 2: Well, huh, I don't know. She what I mean is like,
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know what I could do
Speaker 2: without her. And I just stopped talking to her a
Speaker 2: little bit ago. And it's I've been upset since then.
Speaker 1: And you mean, you mean, what do you mean you
Speaker 1: stopped talking to her?
Speaker 2: So like at the end of school, I just stopped
Speaker 2: talking to her. And it's you know, because she is
Speaker 2: there every day for me. If I ever had a problem,
Speaker 2: I could talk to her about it. You know, if
Speaker 2: I had anything, she would help me out with it.
Speaker 1: So what kind of teacher was this?
Speaker 2: This was my math teacher.
Speaker 1: And when you say you had a problem, she was
Speaker 1: like helping you out with like personal problems.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, what kind of personal problems?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: Uh, I've I've had really bad issues with my mental
Speaker 2: health and she helped me a lot with that. And
Speaker 2: then you know, kids would just pick on me because
Speaker 2: you know, I wouldn't say anything or whatever. And if
Speaker 2: I ever needed anything from her, she would tell me
Speaker 2: and let me.
Speaker 1: M sorry, no, don't be saying anything. So when you
Speaker 1: say you're obsessed with her, and when you say you
Speaker 1: want her to be your mom, are you like romantically
Speaker 1: obsessed with your tea?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, not at all.
Speaker 1: Oh not at all. Oh yeah, okay, all right, that's
Speaker 1: why that's what I thought.
Speaker 2: This was no no, no, no. Uh that's what a
Speaker 2: lot of people think. But because I've talked to one
Speaker 2: other person about this, and that's what they thought. But
Speaker 2: she was never really like I've never had a thought
Speaker 2: of like dating her or anything like that. But I
Speaker 2: have had the thought like, what if the rest of
Speaker 2: my life she was my mom? You know?
Speaker 1: Hm hm hm hmm. Well okay, man, what what's your
Speaker 1: relationship like with your real mom?
Speaker 2: I'm not too good. When we were, when I was
Speaker 2: a lot younger, it wasn't too well. But you know
Speaker 2: now it's just we fight a lot. That's kind of it.
Speaker 1: What do you guys typically fight over?
Speaker 2: You know, like, uh, some days I don't want to
Speaker 2: go to work because I work at McDonald's and it sucks.
Speaker 2: You know, it's just I mean, you know, it's McDonald's.
Speaker 2: But so some days when I call off, I'll tell
Speaker 2: her and then she'll get mad at me and be like,
Speaker 2: you know, but then we get in a huge argument
Speaker 2: and then she brings back how I'm on probation for
Speaker 2: trying to stab someone.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, is that something you want to talk about?
Speaker 2: Sure, I just I really just want to finish getting
Speaker 2: my teacher off my chest because I've had nobody else
Speaker 2: to talk to and I can't believe I'm on your
Speaker 2: show right now. I've been waiting years to talk to you. Man.
Speaker 2: It's just but anyways, I'll get back to the stories.
Speaker 2: So you know, I'm not romantically obsessed with her, but
Speaker 2: I don't know what I would do without her. And
Speaker 2: you know, it's just been really rough not having her
Speaker 2: there for me, because you know, I can't really talk
Speaker 2: to anybody else. How I talked to her, you know,
Speaker 2: like I could tell her the truth. I could be like,
Speaker 2: you know, this is my issue, this is what I'm thinking.
Speaker 2: You know, what should I do to get help or
Speaker 2: what or what? But you know, and she was always
Speaker 2: there for me. She always helped me. She uh, I
Speaker 2: can't think of what it's called. But she went to
Speaker 2: school for something to like help, like, I guess you
Speaker 2: call us kids.
Speaker 1: Sorry? Sorry, sorry what did you you? You kind out
Speaker 1: just know what did you say?
Speaker 3: I said? Sorry?
Speaker 2: I said that she went to school to go do
Speaker 2: something and like like psychology for teens and stuff almost adults.
Speaker 2: So you know she, uh, she knew what she was saying.
Speaker 2: And you know, she was just always there for me.
Speaker 2: And I've been doing a lot rough, a lot more
Speaker 2: rough without her. I was doing so much better when
Speaker 2: I knew her and like talked to her at school
Speaker 2: and stuff. And now you know, I'm I'm just going downhill.
Speaker 1: So first thing I'm gonna say, I gotta get this
Speaker 1: out of the way. You really, you dude, you really
Speaker 1: sound like you need to talk to a real therapist.
Speaker 1: And I know that it's difficult to like get help
Speaker 1: in that way. I am not a real therapist. I
Speaker 1: know you already know that. I know, I know, I know,
Speaker 1: I know you already know that. I just gotta you know,
Speaker 1: let you know I'm not a real therapist. I think
Speaker 1: you sound like you need to talk to a real therapist.
Speaker 1: But still I'll talk to you about this stuff. So
Speaker 1: have you ever spoken to a real therapist about this.
Speaker 2: I haven't because you know, I always feel that people
Speaker 2: would judge me, and I can't blame them because I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, think about it. But you know, so I
Speaker 2: you know, that's kind of why I called in on
Speaker 2: your show, because you know, I will probably never ever
Speaker 2: speak to you again, and all the strangers who who
Speaker 2: are listening probably will never hear from me again. So
Speaker 2: you know, it's like, why not just get it out
Speaker 2: to somebody who you know I won't see and they
Speaker 2: won't talk to me about it again. Hm.
Speaker 1: So I guess, like, tell me a little bit more
Speaker 1: about your life, man, Like what uh so you say?
Speaker 1: Like in when you were in school people were bullying you,
Speaker 1: what were they bullying you about?
Speaker 2: Well, you know, uh, I had a bit of a
Speaker 2: mental issue and uh you know, I got picked up
Speaker 2: from school in an ambulance and everyone was saying I
Speaker 2: overdosed on fit and all, which did not happen. And
Speaker 2: then everyone like they would always be like, yo, you
Speaker 2: got fit on you and stuff, and then some kid, Uh,
Speaker 2: sadly I have scars and kids laugh at me for that.
Speaker 2: People laugh at me at work at it too, And
Speaker 2: you know, I just never really talk to people called
Speaker 2: me weird and you know, and.
Speaker 1: What do you go ahead? I want to do you finish?
Speaker 2: Oh, I was just gonna say, and I'm mildly autistic,
Speaker 2: which really sucks because you know it's just no, that's
Speaker 2: not a lie, that's that's true. I'm not trying to,
Speaker 2: you know, make anybody feel bad for me, but it
Speaker 2: it's just like you know, when people find out, they're like, oh,
Speaker 2: you know, that's why he's so weird, and then they
Speaker 2: like to use it against me.
Speaker 1: Hmm, what do you want out of life? I'm curious.
Speaker 1: You know that that evolves over time, but just at
Speaker 1: this moment, at.
Speaker 2: This moment, you know, I kind of just I don't know.
Speaker 2: I want a happy life. You know. I'm tired of
Speaker 2: feeling like shit every day, waking up being like, you know,
Speaker 2: I have no one to talk to. You know, my
Speaker 2: life's going to hell. I work at a fucking fast
Speaker 2: food restaurant at nineteen, you know, I can't fucking I
Speaker 2: suppose like somehow I can't get any other job.
Speaker 1: So nineteen is a I I need you to know,
Speaker 1: nineteen nineteen solid age to be working at a fast
Speaker 1: food restaurant. I don't know if you're you're not. You're
Speaker 1: talking like you're forty seven. So okay, you want to happy.
Speaker 1: What's a happy life look like?
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I want a wife and some kids,
Speaker 2: you know. Yeah, and uh, I don't know. I don't
Speaker 2: want to be rich, but I also don't want to
Speaker 2: be poor, yeah, you know. And I want somebody in
Speaker 2: my life who is like my teacher, you know, who
Speaker 2: will talk to me and not just you know, go
Speaker 2: straight to ask me, you know, all these questions like
Speaker 2: you know, are you suicidal or this and this and
Speaker 2: actually tell me like what I should do, who I
Speaker 2: should talk to about stuff, and actually helped me through
Speaker 2: what I'm going through.
Speaker 1: Can you tell me a little bit more about how
Speaker 1: your teacher helped you go through what you were going through,
Speaker 1: like things she said or whatnot that was that was
Speaker 1: helpful to you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll give you something.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: This is pretty uh find out anybody else would confess this.
Speaker 2: But you know, I ain't got nothing better to do
Speaker 2: with my life. So I tried to kill myself one time,
Speaker 2: and she saved me from that. Also, you know what
Speaker 2: else she saved me from screaming at some kid she
Speaker 2: was crying one day in the classroom because you know,
Speaker 2: some kids were making fun of me and she went
Speaker 2: and like, you know, did what she had to do.
Speaker 2: And then what else. You know, anytime I was ever sad,
Speaker 2: she would just help me. She would be like, yeah,
Speaker 2: it'll get better, you know this. And then I didn't
Speaker 2: meet her kids one day. I stayed after school and
Speaker 2: her kids are super nice. They're very well behaved, and
Speaker 2: you know it just I don't know.
Speaker 1: So so you said you were like, oh, this person
Speaker 1: will tell me things and actually helped me. She won't
Speaker 1: just be like are you suicidal? Like have you had
Speaker 1: experiences where you reached out for help and you felt
Speaker 1: like it was inadequate?
Speaker 2: Yes, multiple times I've been into the mental hospital about
Speaker 2: I don't know four or five times.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Never wants to help me, you know, everyone's everyone there
Speaker 2: never helped me. Try to put me on new meds
Speaker 2: didn't work. And then you know, I have a mom
Speaker 2: who you know, I tell her and then she gets
Speaker 2: angry at me and being like, well, you know, my
Speaker 2: life sucks, you know I have to live this and this. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then you know I have a sister named Kurmis,
Speaker 2: and she oh kind of just tells my mom everything.
Speaker 3: She was the one.
Speaker 2: Girl in my life before my teacher, who I could
Speaker 2: actually talk to.
Speaker 1: Do you still feel as though you can actually talk
Speaker 1: to her? Is she still a big part of your life.
Speaker 2: I mean, she's a big part of my life sort of,
Speaker 2: but I can't talk to her because you know, she
Speaker 2: tells my mom everything. Then my mom wants to bring
Speaker 2: it up, you know, anytime I'm around her, and then
Speaker 2: you know, it just turns into either a fight or
Speaker 2: you know, her telling me her how sad her life is.
Speaker 2: So m but and then if you want to hear
Speaker 2: who I almost stab. I got in a fight with
Speaker 2: my stepdad because I was trying to get shipped out
Speaker 2: of my house or my mom's house while I was moving,
Speaker 2: and she wouldn't give me one of my things, and
Speaker 2: then she was yelling at me, and then my stepdad
Speaker 2: came out and pushed me out the door, and then
Speaker 2: I tried to stab them. The cops came and they're like,
Speaker 2: you know, we gotta bring you, we gotta detain you
Speaker 2: and do whatever.
Speaker 3: I got booked.
Speaker 2: I was charged with I think it was battery or something.
Speaker 2: It was pretty sure it's a battery, but it was
Speaker 2: a felony and somehow I got it changed down to
Speaker 2: a misdefener.
Speaker 3: I don't know how.
Speaker 2: But now I'm on probation and I can't have any
Speaker 2: of the stuff that I enjoy and life. You know,
Speaker 2: I was always a big knife collector and the gun collector,
Speaker 2: and I can't.
Speaker 3: Do that anymore.
Speaker 2: Well, ah, you agree with it though.
Speaker 3: Don't you.
Speaker 1: Agree with what.
Speaker 3: That like?
Speaker 2: I shouldn't have any guns or knives?
Speaker 1: I think I listen, man, I would hope. I I
Speaker 1: mean this sincerely. I hope you find things in life
Speaker 1: that make you happier than guns and knives.
Speaker 2: Do well, I ain't really got anything else. My dog,
Speaker 2: My dog died like a year ago. She was we
Speaker 2: got her the day I was born, and somehow she
Speaker 2: lived so.
Speaker 1: Or no, So I mean, let's get back to I
Speaker 1: want to just get back to like the health, the
Speaker 1: happy life, that's what you wuther. Okay. So wait a minute,
Speaker 1: So so you moved out of you Are you living
Speaker 1: on your own now? Are you living with your family? Yes?
Speaker 1: I'm living on my own okay? And is is McDonald's
Speaker 1: paying the bills?
Speaker 2: Kind of?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: I kind of do some jobs here and there. I
Speaker 2: work at a funeral home for a little bit. You know,
Speaker 2: I don't embalm people, but you know I set up
Speaker 2: for funerals and this and this.
Speaker 1: But you know, okay, okay, and do you do you
Speaker 1: do you have any any friends from school? Not from anything.
Speaker 2: I have one and everyone makes fun of them, and
Speaker 2: I hate it. Just makes me so mad because it's like,
Speaker 2: you know, this dude deserves better, He deserves better than
Speaker 2: I do. You know this this kid is you know,
Speaker 2: he's nice. And one day he got caught smoking weed
Speaker 2: in the school and everyone freaked out. Because the school
Speaker 2: I went to was pretty much it was all rich kids,
Speaker 2: you know, it was it was all rich in country folks.
Speaker 2: So it was never like any want to be gangsters
Speaker 2: or anything. So day Dane was always out, you know,
Speaker 2: out of the on the weird side of things.
Speaker 1: And there you you went to like a private school
Speaker 1: with like a bunch of rich kids. Yes, mm hmm,
Speaker 1: tell me more, Tell me more about your friends. Are
Speaker 1: you still friends with this guy Dane?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm friends with Dane, but you know, we, uh,
Speaker 2: we haven't really been talking recently. Why, you know, because
Speaker 2: one of the girls I liked, he he liked to
Speaker 2: and then we got in an argument about it.
Speaker 1: Oh Jesus Christ man.
Speaker 2: I know, I know, just like everything else in my life.
Speaker 1: No no, no no no no no.
Speaker 2: No no no no.
Speaker 1: No no no no no no. So it's a hold. Okay.
Speaker 1: So the girl that you like, Dane liked, yes, and
Speaker 1: is Dane with her now?
Speaker 2: No no, no, no, she she rejrected him and me.
Speaker 2: But we got to fight because, you know, just over it.
Speaker 2: And then you know, he hasn't texted me. I tried
Speaker 2: to text him and he just didn't get text me back.
Speaker 1: So you know how long ago is this fight?
Speaker 2: About two weeks ago?
Speaker 1: Okay? And you tried to text him and he didn't
Speaker 1: text you back. What did you say to him?
Speaker 3: Hold on, let me pull it up.
Speaker 2: Sure, I said, hey, Dane, I hope that you're doing better.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry about the argument, but I hope we.
Speaker 3: Can get over this.
Speaker 2: And he just hasn't texted me back.
Speaker 1: What's your name again?
Speaker 3: Man, Rowdy?
Speaker 1: Rowdy? That's a cool name.
Speaker 3: Thanks, m m m hmm.
Speaker 1: What do you What do you like to do? Do
Speaker 1: you like video games? Do you do music? What do
Speaker 1: you do?
Speaker 2: I love pictures, I love shooting guns and uh, you know, uh,
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to sound like mister nice guy, but
Speaker 2: I do love helping people. One thing that I've always
Speaker 2: wanted to do in my life is save somebody. And
Speaker 2: you know, I'm I'm gonna try to become a paramedic.
Speaker 2: I always wanted to be a state trooper. Ether're known
Speaker 2: as kind of a police officer, but for the highways
Speaker 2: because they stop such trafficking and drug trafficking and car
Speaker 2: crashes and stuff. So you know, it's just always been
Speaker 2: something in my life. Ever since I was a kid,
Speaker 2: I've always wanted to help people.
Speaker 3: M hm.
Speaker 1: So I mean, all, you know, great answers. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't fucking like you know whatever. I don't like guns,
Speaker 1: but fucking whatever. Uh So, what I would do if
Speaker 1: I was you? Man? And by the by the way,
Speaker 1: I just I I okay, A couple of things. One
Speaker 1: is I and I and I really mean this rowdy.
Speaker 1: I've been talking to you for eighteen minutes and I
Speaker 1: could tell truly that you're You're a smart guy. You're
Speaker 1: a loving guy. You know, so I hope I hope
Speaker 1: you understand that about yourself.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it, man.
Speaker 1: I like you're also extremely you know, you're extremely young.
Speaker 1: You're nineteen. You know, if I think at this point
Speaker 1: right like and what you described to me as a
Speaker 1: happy life, it's totally I really am optimistic for you
Speaker 1: that those things are not out of your reach because
Speaker 1: what you really want is you want to be around
Speaker 1: people that you can trust, and you want to help people,
Speaker 1: which is great because I think there's so many avenues
Speaker 1: for you where you can help people and be around
Speaker 1: other people, Like being a paramedic is a great idea.
Speaker 1: You know, you're gonna have to go to school to
Speaker 1: do that. I'm sure you'll meet people in school and
Speaker 1: you know, and when you do that, and this is
Speaker 1: way harder said than done, but I really hope, like
Speaker 1: when you go to school to be a paramedic, you know,
Speaker 1: and your meet other people and you're indulging in this
Speaker 1: community that you don't take any of the stuff from
Speaker 1: high school or from your mom. Like with you, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, it's a friend like you you
Speaker 1: get to, like I decide who you want to be.
Speaker 1: And again, from the eighteen minutes I've talked to you,
Speaker 1: you're You're a smart and caring person. So if you
Speaker 1: decide that's who you are, and who you want to be.
Speaker 1: You can go be that and you don't have to again,
Speaker 1: eas just have than done. You don't have to take
Speaker 1: like the bullying and the bullshit like with you into
Speaker 1: this new community because you're a fuck You're a fucking
Speaker 1: adult now, you know, and high school sucks and it's
Speaker 1: awful and everyone's mean and horrible and you don't but
Speaker 1: you're an adult now, and you can choose to be
Speaker 1: an adult and you can choose You're not gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: let high school follow you around. I mean, uh so
Speaker 1: that's that's that's the most important thing. Is that what
Speaker 1: you're gonna do. You're gonna go into community college or
Speaker 1: anything like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a certain college I want to go to,
Speaker 2: but you know, it would kind of give out where
Speaker 2: I am. So, you know, I don't really want to say,
Speaker 2: but cool, you know.
Speaker 1: But are you are you? Are you able to is it?
Speaker 1: Are you able to afford it without taking out a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of loans and ship?
Speaker 2: I don't think so. Okay, from as far as I
Speaker 2: know that what I've like looked up into it, I need,
Speaker 2: I need to take a loan, But you know, I
Speaker 2: don't I don't you know, I don't know how to
Speaker 2: do any of that ship. And you know, I'm my
Speaker 2: My parents are divorced. You know. I live with my
Speaker 2: father for pretty much my whole entire high school year,
Speaker 2: and then I moved down here for my senior year.
Speaker 2: And you know, and that's that's kind of one thing too,
Speaker 2: is that you know, I don't know. When I lived
Speaker 2: in this other town, I had a girl who.
Speaker 3: Was my.
Speaker 2: Pretty much a rehab kind of person because for some reason,
Speaker 2: since I smoked weed, they thought, you know, I was
Speaker 2: an addict. So but I've never felt the same way
Speaker 2: for anybody else that I've had for my teacher and
Speaker 2: my rehab.
Speaker 1: Person, your rehab person, like like she was a counselor.
Speaker 3: Yes, m.
Speaker 1: I I wish for you the the optimism. It's hard
Speaker 1: to have when you're in the moment, it really is,
Speaker 1: But I wish for you the optimism that as you
Speaker 1: continue to go through life, you will meet new people
Speaker 1: who you know. You can't go through life trying to
Speaker 1: find someone in someone else, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: If you just go through life being like I just
Speaker 1: need to find someone in my life who can be
Speaker 1: with me the way that my teacher was like with
Speaker 1: me to the tea. You kind of fuck yourself a
Speaker 1: little bit when you do that, because you I don't
Speaker 1: know if you can find someone in someone else, but
Speaker 1: you can be open minded to the idea that there's
Speaker 1: people who are who are not like anyone you've ever met,
Speaker 1: that you will meet, and there's people who will make
Speaker 1: you feel in ways that you have never felt. And
Speaker 1: for you, because you're nineteen years it's that optimism that
Speaker 1: will happen only grows, and the chances of that happening
Speaker 1: expand as you fucking go do things, you know, like
Speaker 1: be like go to school or volunteer. Right, So I
Speaker 1: would make a I mean I would make a big
Speaker 1: fucking list of like everything you could possibly do that
Speaker 1: involves helping other people and being around other people. It's
Speaker 1: volunteering or going to school to be a paramedic or
Speaker 1: you know, coaching a little league kickball team, whatever the
Speaker 1: fuck it is, right, And the more you take your ah,
Speaker 1: the more you attack that list and put yourself out
Speaker 1: there and reject the sell whatever happens to you in
Speaker 1: the past that cause yourself steam to be whatever it is.
Speaker 1: You know, you're inevitable you're the idea that you'll live
Speaker 1: this happy life. It's it to me is inevitable if
Speaker 1: if you have the courage to, you know, make that
Speaker 1: list and attack it. So I'm optimists.
Speaker 2: I got more more things to say. First, I really
Speaker 2: do appreciate it, man, I really do.
Speaker 3: I love your shows.
Speaker 2: You know, I've been watching you for like two and
Speaker 2: a half years now, me and my little sister has
Speaker 2: been watching you.
Speaker 3: We love you.
Speaker 2: But the other thing is is that back to my
Speaker 2: teacher real quick, is that you know, I also I
Speaker 2: want kids, like how she has kids, but also that
Speaker 2: I found out recently that she was getting divorced and
Speaker 2: it sucks because you know, I don't know. I know
Speaker 2: this is going to sound super like weird, but I
Speaker 2: don't want her to find a new boyfriend because it's
Speaker 2: just her husband, I guess, because I feel like just
Speaker 2: her kids will change so much.
Speaker 1: Are you sure you don't have romantic feelings for this person?
Speaker 2: Yes, I am sure. I mean, you know, I never
Speaker 2: really had the thought of, like, no ever being with
Speaker 2: her like that, But I don't know, I just feel like,
Speaker 2: you know, it's gonna tear her family apart.
Speaker 1: In all this stuff, my brother my brother, my brother
Speaker 1: rat Rowdy, Rowdy, I uh, it's very sweet that you
Speaker 1: care about this, but you got you absolutely gotta gotta you.
Speaker 1: You absolutely cannot be invested in this woman's life.
Speaker 2: M hm.
Speaker 1: Take take. I would take the amount of investment that
Speaker 1: you have in this woman's life and redirect that to
Speaker 1: your own.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: You know you want to have kids one day, you
Speaker 1: want to do this, You want to do that, So
Speaker 1: focus on doing whatever you gotta do to put yourself
Speaker 1: in the best position to be doing that shit instead
Speaker 1: of thinking about this lady's kids.
Speaker 2: And I actually, I do have one more thing to say.
Speaker 1: Go ahead.
Speaker 3: I feel like.
Speaker 2: I might be, you know, fucked up in the head because,
Speaker 2: like truly, I think if somebody ever hurts my teacher
Speaker 2: and I ever find out that I would kill them.
Speaker 2: And I'm being honest. I'm not trying to sound creepy
Speaker 2: or whatever, but no, it's just.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I first, all, Rowdy, you got I don't you gotta
Speaker 1: go see a real therapist? Oh okay, you gotta go
Speaker 1: see a real therapist. Yeah, will you go do that?
Speaker 1: Will you do that? Will you try it? Will you
Speaker 1: at least try to see a real therapist. Will you
Speaker 1: go on the internet and be like, how can I
Speaker 1: get free therapy? Will you? Will you do something to
Speaker 1: try to get a real thing? Does McDonald's give you
Speaker 1: health insurance? No?
Speaker 2: Sadly fucked up?
Speaker 1: I know, okay, will you at least will you try?
Speaker 1: Will you try to go see a real therapist?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: Technically I have one, but you know, I just I
Speaker 2: don't really talk to her too much because.
Speaker 1: You know, who is your technical real therapist?
Speaker 2: Well, I can't necessarily say her name, but.
Speaker 1: Not her No, don't. I don't want her name like
Speaker 1: who like who?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 1: What does she do? What's her job?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: She is all a counselor therapist kind of person. She
Speaker 2: just I kind of just sit down, tell her how
Speaker 2: I'm feeling, what happened this and this?
Speaker 1: Och a therapist? Yeah, why don't you tell her all
Speaker 1: these things that you're talking about on this podcast right now?
Speaker 2: Because, like I said before, you know, I'm going to
Speaker 2: see I'm going to see her multiple times until you know,
Speaker 2: I eventually you know, stop paying insurance or whatever. But
Speaker 2: you know, with you and everyone who's watching, you know,
Speaker 2: they may know who know who I am? They may not,
Speaker 2: you know, but I doubt I will ever see any
Speaker 2: of y'all in my entire life.
Speaker 1: I implore you to share everything you shared on this
Speaker 1: show with your real therapist.
Speaker 2: And I talked to my therapist because I told her,
Speaker 2: I'm like, I did tell her this. I'm like, I
Speaker 2: feel like I'm obsessed with my teacher, but not in
Speaker 2: an like romantic kind of way. And she was like, Okay,
Speaker 2: well you know this, this and this, and I'm like yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: And then one time while I was working, my teacher
Speaker 2: actually came through the drive through with her kids and
Speaker 2: I tried to pay for her meal. And I told
Speaker 2: my counsel or that and she goes, well, you know,
Speaker 2: you seem like you seem like, you know, you have
Speaker 2: a romantic relationship with her. And I'm like, I hope not.
Speaker 2: She's way older than me, and you know, I have
Speaker 2: never had a thought of that throughout this, even meeting her.
Speaker 2: And it's just I kind of want your opinion on it,
Speaker 2: to be honest.
Speaker 1: My opinion specifically on the teacher.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if I need to share more so you can
Speaker 2: get more.
Speaker 1: No, I feel like, no, no, I I kind of
Speaker 1: feel like I've given you what my opinion is on
Speaker 1: this on this teacher situation. But I'll restate it is like, like, dude,
Speaker 1: you're like, first of all, I just hope you like
Speaker 1: you're you're in nineteen. You've told me so many things. Sure,
Speaker 1: you've said things that are concerning, right, but you've also
Speaker 1: said things like again, I'm not a real fucking therapist.
Speaker 1: Like I'm just a fucking dude, and you should talk
Speaker 1: to a real therapist or be your respond possible for
Speaker 1: let me just say you like, hey, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: the Hey, I got you. We're cool. Like that's it,
Speaker 1: like you you gotta talk to real favors. But from
Speaker 1: my perspective, yes, you've told me things that are concerning,
Speaker 1: but you've also told me things that actually made me
Speaker 1: feel pretty optimistic because you've laid out really nice goals
Speaker 1: for yourself. You've laid out really clear direction for your
Speaker 1: life that's positive, you know, saying you want to help people.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: You You've said thing, You've said things that show that
Speaker 1: you care, not the thing about killing the guy, but
Speaker 1: the thing about you know, your friend Dane, you know.
Speaker 1: And so my response to this problem you have it
Speaker 1: but being obsessed to your teacher, my opinion, My feelings
Speaker 1: truly are that you should really thread together all of
Speaker 1: those positive things you've laid out and take all of
Speaker 1: the energy that you're putting into being obsessed with your
Speaker 1: teacher to thinking about her life into thinking like, if
Speaker 1: anything happens, r take all of that energy that you
Speaker 1: are focused on this woman and redirect it into a
Speaker 1: strong investment in your own life and in the direction
Speaker 1: that you have laid out talking to me right now.
Speaker 1: Does that make sense? Yes, Okay, that is exactly what
Speaker 1: I think you should do and go see a real therapist.
Speaker 1: Do you agree with me?
Speaker 2: I do agree. It's just like I said, you know,
Speaker 2: it's just hard to tell a therapist exactly how I'm
Speaker 2: feeling and whatnot, because you know, it's just like I
Speaker 2: said before, I'm going to see him again and then
Speaker 2: they're going to bring it up.
Speaker 1: That's good. It's good that you're going to see them again,
Speaker 1: and it's good that they're going to bring it up again.
Speaker 2: Well, I kind of feel what I'm scared of is
Speaker 2: that some days I'm having a really good day and
Speaker 2: then you know, somebody brings up something and they just
Speaker 2: ruins my day, it ruins my week, you know.
Speaker 1: Look, man, I, by the way, by the way, what
Speaker 1: you I just I'm what you just said. I've personally
Speaker 1: been dealing a lot with this idea of like you know,
Speaker 1: like like when I'm dealing with my own fucking problems,
Speaker 1: I talk about them in therapy, and uh I journal
Speaker 1: about them, and part of me really latches on actually
Speaker 1: to what you just said, which is like, oh, uh am,
Speaker 1: I just going to be like reinforcing my own problems
Speaker 1: in my brain. Like what if I'm having a good day,
Speaker 1: I don't want to go to therapy that's scheduled that
Speaker 1: on this Thursday at four pm where I happen to
Speaker 1: be doing good and then get in a chair and
Speaker 1: talk about how I'm doing bad. But that's not fuck it,
Speaker 1: but that's but that's good, right because then your therapist
Speaker 1: can be like, hey, remember when you were talking about this,
Speaker 1: and you can be like, oh, I don't fucking know
Speaker 1: what you're talking about. Life's great, everything's amazing. Then you
Speaker 1: go back and then it's like, especially if you already
Speaker 1: have a therapist, man, Like I get, I understand it's
Speaker 1: really like fucking tough out there, but like, if you
Speaker 1: already have a therapist, you talking about this shit.
Speaker 3: And.
Speaker 1: You know it might help you kind of track a pattern, right,
Speaker 1: because you're just dealing with your own thoughts on your
Speaker 1: own fucking brand. And yeah, but so you should do that.
Speaker 1: But in addition to doing that, I'll say it again,
Speaker 1: you should take all the positive things you laid out.
Speaker 1: I want to help people, I want to do this,
Speaker 1: I want to do that, and like feverishly attack those
Speaker 1: goals and spend all of your time, all the time
Speaker 1: that you're spending thinking about your teacher, please try to
Speaker 1: spend it instead thinking about the ways in which you
Speaker 1: want to improve your life and work towards the positive
Speaker 1: things you've told me. Do you feel like you can
Speaker 1: do that? Yeah? Cool man.
Speaker 2: It feels so much better getting it off my chest, though,
Speaker 2: because anytime I talk to my mom about it, she's like, well,
Speaker 2: you know, why do you like her more than me?
Speaker 2: And this and this and this, And I'm like, you know,
Speaker 2: every time I tell you how I feel, you either
Speaker 2: yell at me or tell me how bad your life is,
Speaker 2: and it just sucks because.
Speaker 3: It makes me feel worse.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's like, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm sorry
Speaker 1: to hear that. I'm sorry that your mom is has
Speaker 1: been selfish? What's the question.
Speaker 2: Now this I'm kind of going off on, you know,
Speaker 2: just what I've seen you post before. Well, I do
Speaker 2: want to say that one video, that one you posted,
Speaker 2: I can't remember the girls, but she pegged. I think
Speaker 2: it was a Christian man. That was the funniest shit ever. Yeah, English,
Speaker 2: I just want to know if you would like I'm
Speaker 2: not asking you to, nor am I telling you not to,
Speaker 2: but if you do post this anywhere, I would love
Speaker 2: to hear what other people think about it, because, you know,
Speaker 2: I want to know what other people think to the
Speaker 2: point that I can get a better understanding of you know,
Speaker 2: how how other people look at it. This is how
Speaker 2: I look at it, and then see what my therapist,
Speaker 2: you know, looks at it.
Speaker 1: Are you talking about pegging or are you talking about
Speaker 1: everything you just talked to me about of the course of.
Speaker 2: This conversation, everything I just talked to you about.
Speaker 1: Okay, you faith that, you know. Here's the thing. I'm
Speaker 1: going to post this on YouTube and there are YouTube comments.
Speaker 1: Take the YouTube, by the way. I here's the thing
Speaker 1: I I gen you. First, First of all, I think
Speaker 1: that uh, I think that the the the gecko go
Speaker 1: watchers are pretty are pretty reasonable people. I have. I
Speaker 1: have that faith and they will they will absolutely have
Speaker 1: thoughts on your situation. Take and and you're gonna read them,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna read them too, because I'm curious about
Speaker 1: their thoughts of the situation. And I read a lot
Speaker 1: of comments. But take them with a grain of salt,
Speaker 1: because people on YouTube and on the internet are in
Speaker 1: fact insane mm hmm, So take them with a grain
Speaker 1: of salt. If you see something and you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's a good point, that's helpful, then run. Then great.
Speaker 1: If you see something that's like you suck and you you,
Speaker 1: you know whatever, then just ignore it, you know, So
Speaker 1: take them with a grain of salt. If you read the.
Speaker 2: Comments, well, I'll let other people call in because I
Speaker 2: know tons of people want to talk to you. But
Speaker 2: I really do appreciate you talking to me. I really
Speaker 2: need to get this stuff off my chest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm yeah, I'm glad. I'm glad we could talk
Speaker 1: about all this stuff. And I please, I implore you
Speaker 1: to uh take take what I said into consideration about
Speaker 1: redirecting everything and towards you know, how you can improve
Speaker 1: your own life, because uh, I'm I'm I'm optimistic for you.
Speaker 3: Mhm.
Speaker 1: Is there anything else you want to say to the
Speaker 1: people that Is there anything?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Sorry? Is there anything else you want to say to
Speaker 1: the people of the computer before we go?
Speaker 2: What should I say? Never don't tell your dreams to
Speaker 2: a small minded person because they will shoot it down. Anyways,
Speaker 2: thank you, therapy, Get.
Speaker 1: Go, have a good night routing you too, So it's fun.
Speaker 1: Okay for the people in the YouTube comments are going
Speaker 1: to be upset that I call them insane, but I
Speaker 1: had dude, you can go look at I forget which
Speaker 1: video this is on, but I do. I read the
Speaker 1: comments on my YouTube and on Spotify's comments now, and
Speaker 1: I read all of those, and I forget which which
Speaker 1: one was it. I'm trying to remember which podcast it was.
Speaker 1: I think it was with the guy who I never
Speaker 1: remember anyone's name, but I think his name was No,
Speaker 1: it was I think it was on the podcast with
Speaker 1: our boy Richard. I think it's the one called I'm
Speaker 1: Getting My Life Together at thirty five. I think it's
Speaker 1: that one. It's either Richard or that guy Tyler. But anyway,
Speaker 1: somebody commented saying, hey, Gek, you should be nicer to
Speaker 1: the callers. You were a little bit of an ass
Speaker 1: you know. They didn't say you were kind of an asshole.
Speaker 1: They said, hey, GEK, you should be nicer to the callers.
Speaker 1: You were kind of an asshole to that guy. And I,
Speaker 1: you know, when I read when I read that, I
Speaker 1: wasn't like, oh, fuck this guy, you know, it was like,
Speaker 1: I'm like, what maybe I maybe I fucking will dude.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I am sometimes in insane moods when
Speaker 1: I record these, so I was like, oh shit, maybe
Speaker 1: I was being common asshole to this guy. So I
Speaker 1: wrote back and I was like, all I wrote I
Speaker 1: was how so because I wanted to know. I wanted
Speaker 1: to exp I've done this before. Actually this is I
Speaker 1: had another comment there who said, God, what did she say? Oh?
Speaker 1: She said I gave this caller tailor terrible advice and uh.
Speaker 1: And I wasn't like, oh fuck you, what do you
Speaker 1: know you're on YouTube? I was like, I was genuinely curious.
Speaker 1: I was like, what do you think? Uh, why did
Speaker 1: you why? What did you disagree with? And she wrote
Speaker 1: me back a whole bunch of stuff. But anyway, I'm
Speaker 1: off traffic. Okay. Someone comments they go, hey, GEK, you're
Speaker 1: being kind of an asshole to this guy I wrote.
Speaker 1: How So he writes back, Ah, fuck, I'm sorry, man,
Speaker 1: I didn't actually mean that stuff. I just wanted to
Speaker 1: get your attention. And I was like, all right, because
Speaker 1: I read when I read, I read shit, I think
Speaker 1: about it. But that was kind of interesting for me
Speaker 1: because it made me be like, Okay, ninety nine percent
Speaker 1: of what everyone writes on the internet, they just don't
Speaker 1: fucking mean. Like when you when you when you comment
Speaker 1: on like a TikTok of someone and you're like, this
Speaker 1: is cringe and you suck and you should kill yourself.
Speaker 1: If the person that is in the TikTok, if you
Speaker 1: were looking at their face right now, that's what you'd say.
Speaker 1: You'd say, Ah fuck, I'm sorry. I didn't. I did
Speaker 1: not realize you're a real human being. You only you
Speaker 1: have existed for your entire life, and you've existed for
Speaker 1: point zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero
Speaker 1: zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero one
Speaker 1: percent of my life. And so we're working on two
Speaker 1: complete opposite contexts. When I'm writing, you know that you suck,
Speaker 1: so uh, you know something to consider when you're reading
Speaker 1: internet comments.
Speaker 2: All from Anthony.
Speaker 3: Hello, holy shi it is this? Gek?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Who is this?
Speaker 3: This is Anthony?
Speaker 1: What's going on? Anthony? How can I get you?
Speaker 3: Let Well, I had a few questions for you, gek.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll try my best. What's going on?
Speaker 3: Okay? So you've talked about your Panda Express.
Speaker 1: Before? Yeah, I love pan Express.
Speaker 3: What's what's your order from Panda Express when you're sober
Speaker 3: and when you're high?
Speaker 1: Uh, trick question, they're the same. Actually actually wait no,
Speaker 1: all right, you're you know you totally got Okay, here's
Speaker 1: my order what I'm sober. My order i'm sober is
Speaker 1: half and half fried rice and Lomaine noodles. Okay, I
Speaker 1: get the Kariokey chicken and the orange chicken. That's what
Speaker 1: I'm sober. Okay, Okay. When I'm when I'm high, I
Speaker 1: get the same thing. But I also get a side
Speaker 1: order of the honeyglaze shrimp and a chicken egg roll
Speaker 1: and an apple pie roll.
Speaker 3: They have apple pie rolls.
Speaker 1: They have apple pie rolls, which is truly something you
Speaker 1: would only get if you are extremely high. They're good, dude,
Speaker 1: They're like, yeah, they're like an apple pie egg roll.
Speaker 1: It's delicious.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's Is it like the McDonald's like apple pie
Speaker 1: or it was just about I was just about to
Speaker 1: say that it's similar to a McDonald's apple pie, but
Speaker 1: it's you know, and it is it is similar to
Speaker 1: McDonald's apple pie. But it's it's really good. Bro. It's
Speaker 1: like covered. I think they've it's like some like kind
Speaker 1: of crystallized sugar on the outside of it. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: an egg roll with like fucking cinnamon and apple inside
Speaker 1: and then they roll it around and some yeah, like glazed,
Speaker 1: some some kind of crystallized sugar. Bullshit.
Speaker 3: Nice.
Speaker 1: I'm not particularly adventurous when it comes to Panda express
Speaker 1: I like what I like. Although here's my problem, my
Speaker 1: problem with the Lo Maine. I'm so happy that you
Speaker 1: asked me this question. I feel like all day I'm
Speaker 1: just talking about intense things, which actually I like doing
Speaker 1: some of the times. But this is this is good, Okay,
Speaker 1: the Low Maine. It's got like onions and peppers in it.
Speaker 1: I can hang with. I can hang with some onions.
Speaker 1: But yeah, there's I think there's you know, there's something
Speaker 1: I eat around. What is I think it's onions. I
Speaker 1: like onions, but I wouldn't just like eat a whole
Speaker 1: fuck of both of them, you know, I'd eat them
Speaker 1: like a yeah yeah. Fairs and the onions they cut
Speaker 1: and they put in that low mane are huge, but
Speaker 1: the low maine is good and so kind of typically
Speaker 1: towards the end of the meal, I just have a big,
Speaker 1: big container of onions.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I do kind of hate like a giant chunk of
Speaker 3: any chopped vegetable when I have a bunch of mixed vegetables,
Speaker 3: because then it's like just one giant piece. I'm not
Speaker 3: really enjoying the mixture. I'm just enjoying the piece.
Speaker 1: What are you uh? These people just sat through a
Speaker 1: bunch of ads, but we're doing this one for free?
Speaker 1: What do you get at Panda Express?
Speaker 3: At Panda Express, I feel like most of the time
Speaker 3: I go, I only will get like the the bowls
Speaker 3: where it's one entree on one side, and I'll just
Speaker 3: get I kind of switch it up between the low
Speaker 3: maine and the fried rice.
Speaker 1: You never do half.
Speaker 3: I've done half in half, but then I feel like
Speaker 3: half and half, half and half in just those bowls.
Speaker 3: It doesn't really feel good, you.
Speaker 1: Know, what I'm gonna agree with you. I think I
Speaker 1: half and half is kind of the coward's way out,
Speaker 1: like you have to really commit.
Speaker 3: Well, I think it's fine, but I feel like if
Speaker 3: you do half and half in the bowl, you're just
Speaker 3: not getting like a happy amount of each. You're just
Speaker 3: getting kind of like a sad amount of each where
Speaker 3: you wish you had a little bit more but not enough.
Speaker 1: What's the one entre that you get.
Speaker 3: A lot of the time, I'll get orange chicken, but
Speaker 3: I also like the fuck the I can't remember anymore,
Speaker 3: but mostly orange chicken. I'm being honest. I'm kind of
Speaker 3: basic like that.
Speaker 1: I deeply scrabbring moons, bro, they have fucking crab grown
Speaker 1: wounds at at a Panda Express. Yeah, do you get
Speaker 1: the carangoons? Have you ever had one? I've never had.
Speaker 1: Have you ever had one?
Speaker 3: Wait?
Speaker 1: No, no, no, I'll stop, stop, stop, stop stop. They don't
Speaker 1: have I'm sorry, sorry, I'm so sorry. They do not
Speaker 1: have crab rangoons. At Panda Express. They have cream cheese rangoons,
Speaker 1: which kind of sound like who gives a fuck? Actually,
Speaker 1: I'm sure they're good. I respect them. Only yet one
Speaker 1: entre I wish I had that kind of discipline. Okay, Wait,
Speaker 1: by the way, there was a second question that you
Speaker 1: had or something. I think you said you had multiple.
Speaker 3: Well, on a more serious note, I have a very
Speaker 3: important exam.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow and you're talking with me about Panda Express instead
Speaker 1: of doing your fucking homework.
Speaker 3: Well, study for a while, and I'm kind of tired
Speaker 3: of studying, and I figured I'd rather not just study
Speaker 3: all night. I kind of want to just relax for
Speaker 3: a little bit before I take this exam.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: I feel like if I if I study too much,
Speaker 3: it's just gonna overload and I'll just be like this
Speaker 3: and then kind of not too good. What kind of
Speaker 3: examines it to online exam to become certified as a
Speaker 3: personal trainer?
Speaker 1: Wow? And is Panda Express part of your uh your
Speaker 1: your nutritionist recommendation?
Speaker 3: Well, that'd be out of my scope of practice to
Speaker 3: say anything on nutrition, But I wish I could tell
Speaker 3: people more about Panda Express while training them.
Speaker 1: Is free. I mean it's about I mean, I assume
Speaker 1: it's like it's a good source of protein.
Speaker 3: Yeah, pan Express has like good healthy choices, but I
Speaker 3: mean most of the time you go to Panda Express, Like,
Speaker 3: when are you getting healthy choices, they're kind of shitty.
Speaker 1: I mean, okay, I mean, tell me what you think.
Speaker 1: I I mean, I get the Tarioki chicken. Obviously, when
Speaker 1: I go in there and I'm stone that I'm getting
Speaker 1: like like when you're getting the apple pie roll, you're not.
Speaker 1: It's not a great day. But I go like, I
Speaker 1: feel like, okay, when I get their Tariact chicken, It's
Speaker 1: like it's grilled. It's not for yes, they put a
Speaker 1: lot of sugary sauce on it, but like just that
Speaker 1: and some rice. I'm like, Okay, this can't be that unhealthy's.
Speaker 3: I'd say that's that's pretty good. It's better than like
Speaker 3: if you don't want to cook at home and you
Speaker 3: make and you go out and you get that a
Speaker 3: Pan Express. Like that's pretty solid. You did a pretty
Speaker 3: good selection.
Speaker 1: Okay. I got another question for you. Okay, when you
Speaker 1: go to Panda Express and you get to the register
Speaker 1: and they do this at every Panda Express, do you
Speaker 1: round up the thirty cents to give to the Children's hospital?
Speaker 3: Shit, No, I never do that.
Speaker 1: You know you never do it?
Speaker 3: Uh anywhere I go. If they asked me to round up,
Speaker 3: I pretty much never do it one time. My I
Speaker 3: did it once for like a single penny because I
Speaker 3: saw it asked me to round up by a penny,
Speaker 3: and I was like, it's fine, it's just a penny.
Speaker 3: And then I showed the receipt to my mom because
Speaker 3: I think I was getting something for her, and I
Speaker 3: rounded up by a penny, and she's she saw the receipts,
Speaker 3: saw that I rounded up and was like, well, now
Speaker 3: I have to keep this for like a tax right off,
Speaker 3: because you don I never thought that the penny would
Speaker 3: really matter. I thought we'd just move on.
Speaker 1: That's really funny. That's just keeping the receipt for the
Speaker 1: tax right off.
Speaker 3: She doesn't. I always love to give my mom every
Speaker 3: receipt this cause wait down. You know those apps where
Speaker 3: you can like scan your receipt and you can get
Speaker 3: points and eventually, like get enough points, you get a
Speaker 3: gift card or something.
Speaker 1: Are we about to do another ad? No, I've never
Speaker 1: I've never heard of these apps. What are these I have? No,
Speaker 1: I haven't heard of them.
Speaker 3: Tell me, okay, so there are these apps that I
Speaker 3: don't use. My mom is and you can do surveys
Speaker 3: as well as scanning your receipt from like basically wherever
Speaker 3: you go and you can get points for them, and eventually,
Speaker 3: once you get enough points, you can get gift cards.
Speaker 3: But it's like you gotta like do a lot of
Speaker 3: spending to get a gift card.
Speaker 1: It's so far. I'm gonna put like an ad read
Speaker 1: right before this call, and so they're just gonna go
Speaker 1: from ad reads to even more ads. I've been No,
Speaker 1: I haven't heard I haven't heard of these. Well, I
Speaker 1: guess we didn't say any of the n app's names,
Speaker 1: but no, I've never heard of them. Damn. Maybe I
Speaker 1: should have been keeping my receipt because I'll I'll round
Speaker 1: up when it's like sixty seven cents. But yeah, I'm like, yeah, whatever,
Speaker 1: round up. Sometimes sometimes they'll get me. I just feel
Speaker 1: like a dick every time I don't. Here's Here's what's
Speaker 1: funny though, is when you do it, they like they
Speaker 1: there's like a there's like a bell that they press. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that makes me uncomfortable, like like you like like when
Speaker 1: I round Like when they're like, hey, do you want
Speaker 1: to ride up ten cents? And I'm like sure, and
Speaker 1: they're like look at this guy. I'm like, yeah, you
Speaker 1: don't need to do that what were you gonna say, do.
Speaker 3: You uh uh? So do you round up only when
Speaker 3: someone asks you? Or do you round up when like
Speaker 3: you're doing something on electronic device and no one there
Speaker 3: is to like pressure you.
Speaker 1: No, it asks me on the thing. And I don't think, no,
Speaker 1: it's never it's never a human being asking me. It's
Speaker 1: just it's the thing asking me. Although I am like, okay,
Speaker 1: I'll do that, right, because it's like whatever, sixty seven cents, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can have my sixty seven cents. But I do
Speaker 1: wonder because like giant corporations are never altruistic, right, like
Speaker 1: like like like when I go to McDonald, so it'll
Speaker 1: be like round up for the uh whatever, Ronald McDonald house,
Speaker 1: you know, the ron McDonald house.
Speaker 3: Uh sure, sure, cool.
Speaker 1: It's like it's like it's like their charity. And when
Speaker 1: you go to mcdonal times it'll ask you to round up,
Speaker 1: however many sense to give to the Ronald McDonald charity,
Speaker 1: and it's like the the logo is like his clown
Speaker 1: hands giving and oh yeah, and so I'll occasionally I'll
Speaker 1: round it up and uh but I'm thinking, I'm like,
Speaker 1: there's no fucking way that McDonald's and Pana Express are like,
Speaker 1: you know, let's just do something nice for the kids. Like,
Speaker 1: there's no fucking way. There's gotta be. There's gotta be
Speaker 1: and I don't know what it is. Maybe John Oliver
Speaker 1: can do a thing on it or whatever the fuck,
Speaker 1: but but there's gotta be something that is still like
Speaker 1: the money is going to help them. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's like a tax right off, but.
Speaker 3: I bet it is a tax, right If I was
Speaker 3: just about to ask you that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's probably just like a tax. It's probably just like, oh,
Speaker 1: let's get more of their money so that we can
Speaker 1: write it off as I mean, maybe I'll stop, Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe I should stop rounding it.
Speaker 3: Up, because then if you round it up, then McDonald's
Speaker 3: and pan Express can say, oh, we donated like two
Speaker 3: million to charity this year. But really it's like it's you, you.
Speaker 1: Know what, I might start keeping my receipts so that
Speaker 1: I get the right off and they don't, or I
Speaker 1: guess we both get it right off. But why should
Speaker 1: they get a fucking right off They didn't do it? Well,
Speaker 1: hold on, that doesn't make any sense, though, Why should
Speaker 1: they get the fucking right off? Only one of us
Speaker 1: hold on. Okay, now I'm thinking about this. Now, I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about this because I didn't even think about that
Speaker 1: with your mom, with the receipt and everything. If I
Speaker 1: round up my sixty seven cents and I write that
Speaker 1: spending off on my taxes, can the company also write
Speaker 1: that ship off on their taxes? Because that's because then
Speaker 1: that money is being written off twice in the in
Speaker 1: the system.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: There's God, there's something fishy going on about this.
Speaker 3: Something wrong there.
Speaker 1: There's something going on. Yeah, there's definitely something going on
Speaker 1: at the at the fron McDonald house. I don't know
Speaker 1: what it is.
Speaker 3: There's definitely something. I feel like if if they let you,
Speaker 3: if they put it up there, it's definitely benefiting them somehow.
Speaker 3: So I feel like the write off has to be
Speaker 3: a thing for them. I feel like you can't just
Speaker 3: be like an image thing because most about food fast
Speaker 3: food places just have the image of the food itself
Speaker 3: and that's it.
Speaker 1: What do you get when you go to McDonald's.
Speaker 3: Usually, uh, they have that five dollars meal. I got
Speaker 3: that a few times, but usually I just get like
Speaker 3: two mc chickens and then I'll do their online coupon
Speaker 3: for like a dollar large fry.
Speaker 1: No bev no bet you you you you do it.
Speaker 3: All raw, got beds at home?
Speaker 1: Wow? Okay?
Speaker 3: What you are?
Speaker 1: You a water guy? You dye coke? What are we doing?
Speaker 3: Water? For sure? But also like a big big like
Speaker 3: PEPSI zero coke zero guy? Not really a diet coke guy.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm interesting. Interesting.
Speaker 3: Diet coke doesn't taste like coke, but coke zero it
Speaker 3: tastes like coke.
Speaker 1: Di coke doesn't taste like coke, but coke zero tastes
Speaker 1: like coke. I was thinking today, I was wondering what
Speaker 1: the differences between diet coke and coke zero. I have
Speaker 1: no idea.
Speaker 3: I think coke zero doesn't have caffeine in it, but
Speaker 3: I might be wrong.
Speaker 1: I don't know coke zero has. Guy, I really I
Speaker 1: you know, someone in the comments, let me let us
Speaker 1: know if you have the answers to any of these questions.
Speaker 1: I'm really curus. I've always wondered what the difference is
Speaker 1: between diet coke and coke zero because there's no such no,
Speaker 1: there's caffeine and coke zero. They have diet caffeine free coke.
Speaker 1: That stuff's the best, because you know, sometimes I want
Speaker 1: a diet soda in the middle of the night, but
Speaker 1: I don't want to be uh, you know, up up
Speaker 1: until the wee hours of the morning.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: Well this was a great way to fill thirteen minutes
Speaker 1: of this podcast.
Speaker 3: Is this going on the podcast?
Speaker 1: Going on the podcast?
Speaker 3: This is? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely you thought this wasn't podcast material.
Speaker 3: I didn't know for I was gonna ask you later
Speaker 3: towards the end of the cough this could go on
Speaker 3: the podcast or not?
Speaker 1: It was absolutely, big fan.
Speaker 3: I worked a summer job at Walmart and your podcast
Speaker 3: like saved my life at this Walmarts. Man, it made it.
Speaker 3: It made it bearable.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Well, good luck on your personal trainer thing.
Speaker 1: That's not what I would have pegged this exam to
Speaker 1: be for after this conversation, but good luck. I hope
Speaker 1: you break all your prs and uh and you and
Speaker 1: you and you get to eat lots of kaaki chicken
Speaker 1: whilst doing so.
Speaker 3: Here if I if I passed tomorrow, I'll go get
Speaker 3: Panda Express.
Speaker 1: It's a great that's actually pretty.
Speaker 3: Sure that well, I'll try the apple pie egg roll
Speaker 3: thing and hopefully.
Speaker 1: Try the apple thing and I took no responsibility for
Speaker 1: any diseases you make in tract. All right, take care
Speaker 1: of man.
Speaker 3: Why is your face not red?
Speaker 1: Go get out of here.
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