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Speaker 1: Hello, Hi, can you hear me?

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Speaker 2: Yes? Who is it?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 1: This is a gecko guy.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, Oh my god. Sorry, I'm so loud.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, how you doing?

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Speaker 2: I thought it was damn. I'm good. Wow, this is

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Speaker 2: crazy man. I've been listening to you for years and

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Speaker 2: everyone's right too. It's so weird to like actually talk

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Speaker 2: to you. Oh my god, whoa how are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm good? I am uh yeah, I'm good. I feel

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Speaker 1: ready to talk about life and about stuff and about things.

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Speaker 1: I I just got back from Iraq yesterday. That was

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Speaker 1: pretty crazy, and now I'm now I'm back here in

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Speaker 1: America hanging out, living life.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's really sick that you're I watched your

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Speaker 2: break dancing video, but I didn't see your one talking

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Speaker 2: to the Juggalos. It was a little shaky. Everybody. That's cool,

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Speaker 2: but no, that's that's sick that you were in Iraq.

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Speaker 2: It's really cool that you're able to like travel and

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Speaker 2: make your make your job part of that too. It's

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Speaker 2: been cool to hear you with your uh with your podcast,

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Speaker 2: like seeing how it's growing and seeing you kind of

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Speaker 2: follow your passion. It's really cool.

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Speaker 1: Thank you man, Thank you, thank you. You know, I wanted,

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Speaker 1: I want to talk about the all the iraction on

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Speaker 1: the podcast, but I'm I'm going to do that at

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Speaker 1: another point because I want to talk to you because, uh,

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Speaker 1: you texted me something that I thought was super interesting

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Speaker 1: and I have questions. I am curious. You told me

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Speaker 1: that you did a strong man show today, yeah, and that,

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Speaker 1: uh you want to talk about like you want to

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Speaker 1: talk about these are your words, being a muscle mommy

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Speaker 1: and competing in a strong Man as a woman. I'm

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Speaker 1: very curious about that. Please please tell me how it went.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So, I don't know how much other people or

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Speaker 2: how much you know about strength sports necessarily. I know

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Speaker 2: you've kind of talked about fitness on the podcast, and

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Speaker 2: I've always thought it would be kind of interesting if

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Speaker 2: I called in to provide my perspective on being in

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Speaker 2: strength sports too and having that kind of be my passion.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, so, I I am twenty eight. Now. I

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Speaker 2: know you never like remember people's names, but it doesn't

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Speaker 2: really matter too much. But I'm twenty eight. I started lifting,

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Speaker 2: like doing up powerlifting, which is like squat, bench press

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Speaker 2: and bedlift. I started training that in my freshman year

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Speaker 2: like I said, and then I graduated college and I

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Speaker 2: went to a gym where they had strong Man stuff,

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Speaker 2: and so strong Man it kind of like the the

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Speaker 2: thing that people think of with strong Man is like

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Speaker 2: if you've ever seen the guy in a circus uniform

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Speaker 2: tell bell is called a circus bill, and that's sometimes

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Speaker 2: an event. It's strong Man was kind of just bringing

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Speaker 2: about bringing a weight that's as heavy as you can

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Speaker 2: Sometimes I've pulled a truck before the competition, which is cool. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: my profile picture on Instagram is me pulling a truck

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Speaker 2: with like a flag on the back. In school. Sometimes

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Speaker 2: it's well known for like Atlas stones what they're called,

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Speaker 2: a strong man has gotten kind of it used to

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Speaker 2: be more exciting and now it's kind of like it's

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Speaker 2: I wish I could have done that one. But I

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Speaker 2: I'm hoping when I explained stuff, if like it's not

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Speaker 2: like I think the coolest one that I did today,

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Speaker 2: And the yolk that I carried was four hundred and

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Speaker 2: it's it's cool to be able to because I've been

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Speaker 2: And so there's a federation in strong Man where it's

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And so in strong Man and honestly kind of

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Speaker 2: an Olympic sports to my understanding, there's ways to if

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Speaker 2: That's kind of what you're supposed to do to help

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Speaker 1: So I'm curious. So your boyfriend is also a powerlifter.

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Speaker 2: He's a powerlifter. I'm a strong an athlete.

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Speaker 1: Who would win in a fight.

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Speaker 1: I'm curious about this, Like was it important to you?

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Speaker 2: No, I never thought about it necessarily as like someone

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Speaker 2: like it's hard to be a woman doing strength sports

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. And look, you got to where

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Speaker 1: you and you deserve that. You know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, because like in the in the

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Speaker 1: really can't ask for anything that you don't have, you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it's nice. You do kind of get your

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Speaker 2: eighty pounds.

435
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Speaker 1: WHOA, that's great.

436
00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:59,800
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah. And then squat too. I don't really do

437
00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:01,600
Speaker 2: that one as much, but when I did it last year,

438
00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:06,760
Speaker 2: I squatted to sixty so they yeah, the numbers for

439
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,399
Speaker 2: it's hard to say numbers for strong man stuff because

440
00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:13,440
Speaker 2: it's you're never really going for like a heavy single.

441
00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:17,200
Speaker 2: But like I did an event today that was cool too.

442
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Speaker 2: It was I picked up a sandbag that weighs as

443
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Speaker 2: much as me, like one hundred and fifty pounds, and

444
00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:25,080
Speaker 2: then you know, like keg, like you put beer in it.

445
00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:27,119
Speaker 2: I picked up that one and that weighed one hundred

446
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Speaker 2: and fifty five pounds and I carried it, and then

447
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Speaker 2: I picked up an Atlas stone which also it was

448
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Speaker 2: one hundred and forty five pounds and tried to carry

449
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Speaker 2: that one. But it was cool though, because they like

450
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Speaker 2: split up the group everybody was competing today into two

451
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Speaker 2: groups to make it go with it faster, and I

452
00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:50,119
Speaker 2: picked up I was like the second, the last person

453
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Speaker 2: to go for that event. So like all these guys,

454
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Speaker 2: you know, some of them were like in their fifties

455
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Speaker 2: and stuff, and like they were carrying less than meet

456
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:06,200
Speaker 2: like hot shit, but yeah, thank you. But as far

457
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Speaker 2: as specific weights to give, I guess the last show

458
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Speaker 2: I did, there was an event where it was you know,

459
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Speaker 2: like a beer cake. Literally one of them is like

460
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Speaker 2: carrying a keg. It was a two hundred pound keg

461
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Speaker 2: and I put it over a bar that was at

462
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Speaker 2: like forty five inches tall like I'm five but two,

463
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Speaker 2: so it was maybe like forty two inches high, I think,

464
00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:31,199
Speaker 2: And I did that I think four times. So I

465
00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:34,840
Speaker 2: don't know, it's hard to like explain these numbers and

466
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Speaker 2: like know if other people like know what that feels like,

467
00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:45,000
Speaker 2: but it's it's I think the coolest part of it

468
00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:47,680
Speaker 2: for me is that the stuff that I'm doing next

469
00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:50,560
Speaker 2: year is stuff that I never thought I would be doing.

470
00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:53,359
Speaker 2: You know, like I now my voice is shaky. I

471
00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:59,160
Speaker 2: feel like it's so surreal, but it's just I think

472
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:03,880
Speaker 2: I've been really excited because, Yeah, the stuff that I'm

473
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:05,920
Speaker 2: doing next year is the stuff that I've been standing

474
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Speaker 2: since twenty seventeen, like working.

475
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Speaker 1: Towards you know, interesting what you never thought that you

476
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Speaker 1: would make it into what is it called federation?

477
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:21,879
Speaker 2: Well, there's different federations. It's more I never thought that

478
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:24,040
Speaker 2: I would be doing a qualifier to go to World

479
00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:27,280
Speaker 2: for a strong Man and like I'm going to have

480
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Speaker 2: you ever heard of the Arnold?

481
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Speaker 3: Uh?

482
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Speaker 1: No? Is that based off of chart?

483
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Speaker 3: Uh?

484
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:35,120
Speaker 1: Sorry? Is that based off the Schwarzenegger.

485
00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:39,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's a fitness expo and in Columbus, Ohio.

486
00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:41,679
Speaker 2: I don't know what else there is in Ohio, but

487
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:44,679
Speaker 2: there's a fit It's a fitness expo. So it's like

488
00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:47,040
Speaker 2: all the strength sports that kind of come together and

489
00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:51,480
Speaker 2: it's like it's one of the top sport strong man

490
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:56,480
Speaker 2: shows for people that besides the super heavyweight men. And

491
00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:59,359
Speaker 2: I'm going to that too. In March. That's a plan anyway,

492
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:02,520
Speaker 2: unless the events kind of stinker. If it's too expensive,

493
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,480
Speaker 2: then I probably won't. But I think I'm been saving

494
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:07,600
Speaker 2: my money. I think I can go, And the fact

495
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:09,200
Speaker 2: that I'm going to it is like I never thought

496
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Speaker 2: I'd be able to go, you know what I mean?

497
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Speaker 1: Mmmmm, what's the what is the demographic? Like who's in

498
00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:20,200
Speaker 1: the audience for these shows? I'm curious, like, who are

499
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,040
Speaker 1: the what's the demographic of people that attend?

500
00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 2: So the one that I did, it's mostly friends and family.

501
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 2: It's the people who compete, it's the people who help out,

502
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:33,119
Speaker 2: and then it's friends and family. So my mom and

503
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:36,480
Speaker 2: my stepdad actually came to watch, very nice and my

504
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:40,399
Speaker 2: mom she's, oh my god, she's weighs as much as me,

505
00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:43,200
Speaker 2: but she's like six inches taller than me. She's skin

506
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:47,680
Speaker 2: and bone, she's sixty. She's sixty years old, literally osteoporotic.

507
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,520
Speaker 2: And she's like, she said, she felt so out of

508
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:53,120
Speaker 2: place because you know, we're doing this stuff when we're

509
00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:56,520
Speaker 2: like all shouting and rah rah. But you know she

510
00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:59,680
Speaker 2: was there too, and there are other like parents and

511
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:03,080
Speaker 2: stuff there, and that's typically who it is, even at

512
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:07,200
Speaker 2: a bigger show, it's comprised of the athletes, the couple

513
00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:10,200
Speaker 2: people who help out, and then maybe some other athletes

514
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:12,320
Speaker 2: who go to that gym and are interested in it.

515
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:14,320
Speaker 2: But then in other ways it's friends and family. So

516
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:16,879
Speaker 2: if you ever watch a high level strong man show

517
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:22,080
Speaker 2: like the audience, I mean, for like World's Strongest Man,

518
00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:23,920
Speaker 2: that's like one of the biggest ones, and Matt has

519
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,160
Speaker 2: other people, but for ones that aren't as well known

520
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:29,359
Speaker 2: but are still big, it's usually friends and family.

521
00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:33,960
Speaker 1: Who's the like World's Strongest woman? Right now? Do we

522
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:35,159
Speaker 1: have a do we have eyes on that?

523
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:40,959
Speaker 2: The name that comes to mind for me, there's this

524
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:45,760
Speaker 2: woman named Nnez I am easy. I think she might

525
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:49,640
Speaker 2: be the strongest in her weight class. There is this

526
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 2: woman whose name I can't think of her name, but

527
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:54,720
Speaker 2: she's she's I think.

528
00:28:55,320 --> 00:29:00,080
Speaker 1: From Oh is it para Kara Squill.

529
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's definitely one of the top strongest athletes. The

530
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:11,160
Speaker 2: strongest people. It's mass move mass, so the strongest people

531
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:15,320
Speaker 2: are gonna be the heavyweights and the super heavyweights. Like

532
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 2: I can name the strongest people like in my weight class.

533
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:21,360
Speaker 2: But I guess to give you some perspective too, I

534
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:24,200
Speaker 2: am a typically one hundred and forty five pound woman.

535
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 2: When I do a weight cut into like a competitive

536
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:30,920
Speaker 2: weight class, I'm about one hundred and forty one pounds,

537
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:33,719
Speaker 2: and at one hundred and forty one pounds, there are

538
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:38,040
Speaker 2: women who are deadlifting four hundred and five hundred pounds.

539
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:41,640
Speaker 2: It's absolutely insane. So people are just nutty strong nowadays.

540
00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:43,800
Speaker 1: I got a fitness question for you. It's not really

541
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,640
Speaker 1: a fitness question. We're just like, okay, when people do

542
00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:50,800
Speaker 1: like squats. There's this thing that gives me tons of

543
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 1: anxiety when I see it at the gym where people

544
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:58,600
Speaker 1: do squats and they're carrying all of the fucking weight

545
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:01,239
Speaker 1: of the thing, not like with their They're not like

546
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 1: grabbing it with their shoulders, like they're on their fingertips,

547
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 1: you know, like they carry it all on their finger

548
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:10,480
Speaker 1: to you know, what I'm talking about is like, is.

549
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:13,040
Speaker 2: The bar on their collar bone?

550
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:16,320
Speaker 1: I may possibly possibly maybe I think it's like on

551
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:19,080
Speaker 1: their yeah, like on their back, on their neck maybe,

552
00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:22,320
Speaker 1: and they're just carrying it all with their fingertips, I

553
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:24,480
Speaker 1: don't know. And their hand their fucking hands are like

554
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:25,720
Speaker 1: curled all the way back.

555
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 2: Is that just like a regular squat? But people have

556
00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,000
Speaker 2: their hands bent really far back. I might know what

557
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:33,720
Speaker 2: you're talking.

558
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:35,800
Speaker 1: About, I think, so, I mean I might just be stupid, but.

559
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:41,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, no, if I'm picturing the right, some people

560
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 2: just have really good wrist flexibility. Some people, how do

561
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:50,600
Speaker 2: I say, Yeah, I mean that's just the way some

562
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:53,160
Speaker 2: people squat. Some people squat with their legs super wide

563
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:56,320
Speaker 2: out and have their hands bent really really far back.

564
00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, because it allows them to have the bar

565
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 2: sit lower on their on their upper back. So I'm

566
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:07,479
Speaker 2: not this is kind of out of my wheelhouse. But I,

567
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:13,160
Speaker 2: for instance, for my body shape, I have like longer thighs,

568
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 2: and so when I squat, I kind of will bend

569
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 2: over versus some people, like you can squat really upright

570
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 2: if they have like shorter thighs, and so there are

571
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 2: people if you squat, if you lean over more forward

572
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,320
Speaker 2: as you're squatting, and the bar bell is further down

573
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:33,239
Speaker 2: on your back, like on your upper back, and your

574
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:37,480
Speaker 2: hands are bed further, then that's little engineering. It's it's

575
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:41,480
Speaker 2: a smaller lever arm, so it's a little bit easier

576
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:43,480
Speaker 2: to move versus if it were higher up on your

577
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:45,720
Speaker 2: upper back. I don't know if what I'm saying makes sense,

578
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 2: But it's like it's the distance between the bar and

579
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 2: your hips is a little bit closer, so it's a

580
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 2: little bit easier to lift. I don't know if that's

581
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:54,520
Speaker 2: exactly the way to explain it.

582
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 1: That makes sense. I just as long as I thought

583
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:58,800
Speaker 1: you were gonna, as long as you didn't say because

584
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 1: they're crazy and why then No.

585
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:06,800
Speaker 2: We'stening regularly. We're not crazy and wild. They go to

586
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 2: bed at nine thirty pm. They don't drink beer or

587
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:13,800
Speaker 2: like once a month. You know they're not crazy.

588
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 1: So well, let me think here, what's next for you?

589
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 3: Well?

590
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 1: Do you tell me your name?

591
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:23,840
Speaker 2: Oh, it's Rochelle, Rochelle.

592
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 1: What's next for you? Rochelle? I guess so you're gonna

593
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 1: You're you're going out for Worlds. That'll be cool. When

594
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:29,480
Speaker 1: is that again?

595
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 2: So the qualifying show I'm doing, it's in Jersey in

596
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:37,200
Speaker 2: mid January, and if I do well in that, then

597
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:41,600
Speaker 2: Worlds would be in August of next year. Presumably it

598
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:43,960
Speaker 2: was in August of this year, so I think it

599
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:45,840
Speaker 2: would be in August next year. And then I'm doing

600
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 2: the Arnold two, which is in March, and after that,

601
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Speaker 2: I don't really know. I'll kind of figure it out after,

602
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:56,320
Speaker 2: but those are plans right now. M.

603
00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 1: That's awesome, that's really cool. I'm excited for you. I'm

604
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:05,120
Speaker 1: trying to think if H, well, I guess before we go,

605
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:07,440
Speaker 1: is there anything else you want the people to know

606
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 1: about women's strong men strong man competitions, those conceptions you

607
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 1: want to clear up.

608
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 2: I guess maybe it's a misconception, but I don't even

609
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 2: think it is. The people who go to the gym regularly,

610
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 2: or the guys, especially who looks big and scary, they're

611
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:32,479
Speaker 2: typically the nicest people. And if you see someone like

612
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 2: in there all the time and lifting heavy, and you

613
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:37,840
Speaker 2: ever have a question about like oh I don't I

614
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 2: don't know how to squat, or like I need help

615
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:41,520
Speaker 2: with ben, you give me a spot, like they would

616
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 2: be more than happy too. They'd be more than happy

617
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:45,520
Speaker 2: to talk about it and give tips because it's all

618
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 2: we do. You know, it's our only hobby. So people

619
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Speaker 2: who are like that, they're super nice and they would

620
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:56,120
Speaker 2: love to help you. You never have to like worry

621
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Speaker 2: people are watching you at the gym, because they're really

622
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 2: unless you're like in their cocky and like telling people like,

623
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:07,640
Speaker 2: oh this is whatever if you're like trying, Like I

624
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 2: always have respect for the people who are like clearly

625
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:13,359
Speaker 2: trying and a guy who's lifting like the bar bell

626
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 2: because he's new to it, or like someone who's overweight

627
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 2: and like clearly like is uncomfortable being there. Like, I

628
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 2: think that's great. And most people who do fitness to

629
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:24,800
Speaker 2: the level that I do, they feel the same with.

630
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Speaker 1: Oh my other question, but what's the what's the like

631
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:35,279
Speaker 1: like the other women who participate in the competitions? Do

632
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 1: you become friends with them? Are they the kinds of

633
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Speaker 1: people you you would want to hang out with?

634
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Speaker 2: I honestly, it's interesting. I don't really hang out with

635
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:48,080
Speaker 2: a lot of like the gym people outside of the gym,

636
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 2: but I would. I don't know. I guess I just

637
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 2: kind of I don't hang up. I don't I guess

638
00:34:57,160 --> 00:35:00,279
Speaker 2: I would simple question, simple answer your question as I would.

639
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 2: It's hard to break that barrier with like gym going people.

640
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:06,799
Speaker 2: But actually the people that I hung out with after

641
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 2: my competition today were people that I met in the gym.

642
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:14,319
Speaker 2: So I think it's just I don't know. Sometime real

643
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:16,279
Speaker 2: think about I guess trying to like ask them more

644
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 2: like if they want to hang outside of the gym.

645
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Speaker 1: Rochelle, is there anything else you want to say to

646
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:23,400
Speaker 1: the people of the computer before we go?

647
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:28,359
Speaker 2: No, I just it's so cool that have finally got

648
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:31,200
Speaker 2: on and were listening to you so long. Your podcast

649
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:36,200
Speaker 2: is great. It's it's really I guess for you. It's

650
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:38,760
Speaker 2: just I know people tell you like what you're doing

651
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:44,160
Speaker 2: is it's it's good. I'm trying to find my words,

652
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:48,440
Speaker 2: but it really is. It's really helpful to hear perspectives

653
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:51,320
Speaker 2: of a variety of people. I loved that guys story.

654
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:57,920
Speaker 2: I know I'm talking a lot mo Yeah, no, don't know.

655
00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:02,800
Speaker 2: Just the train Hopper guys fascinating you is so nice.

656
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 2: I don't know if he's listening to this too, but

657
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:08,360
Speaker 2: I hope he knows. Like I agree with the Spotify

658
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:12,560
Speaker 2: Covins too, like, yeah, he clearly loves his daughter and

659
00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 2: he's I just love hearing different people's stories and makes

660
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,600
Speaker 2: the world feel a lot smaller and it really does

661
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 2: help me know that. Like like you say too, I

662
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:24,960
Speaker 2: don't know anything. I don't know anything about people, but

663
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 2: I love learning about their experiences. I love It's just

664
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 2: it's cool that I got to get on, especially too.

665
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 2: When I see like your personal hobbies of like traveling

666
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 2: and making that part of your work and interviewing people,

667
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:40,479
Speaker 2: it seems like that strange to take off. So I'm

668
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 2: excited to see how that goes for you. I will

669
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:46,920
Speaker 2: be whatever is like, we'll be watching your career whatever.

670
00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:50,920
Speaker 1: Like, thank you, Rochelle, No, thank you.

671
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 3: Know.

672
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 1: I'm touched that so many people have been felt connected

673
00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 1: to that particular episode, because yeah, it really touched me too.

674
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:01,920
Speaker 1: It's cool to see. I'm very happy that that got

675
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 1: the kind of response that I think that that guy's

676
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 1: story warranted. And thank you for talking about this. This

677
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 1: was This was a very fun one and a sea

678
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:12,880
Speaker 1: of this was cool. I feel like, in a cee

679
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:16,839
Speaker 1: of a lot of you know, heavy stuff, it's nice

680
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:20,319
Speaker 1: to just like chat about a fun, cool, interesting thing

681
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 1: that someone does as part of their life. So I

682
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:24,719
Speaker 1: appreciate you coming on and talking about this.

683
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:29,880
Speaker 2: Thank you appreciate it. Oh I guess too, if people

684
00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:32,280
Speaker 2: I can throw out my Instagram.

685
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, sure please.

686
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:36,759
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to become a big name instrum man.

687
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:38,520
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to be an influencer, but I love

688
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:41,080
Speaker 2: that people have questions about fitness and want to like

689
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:45,560
Speaker 2: for me my Instagram handle, Well, yeah, my Instagram handle

690
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 2: is Roe Shambau nine five like r O s h

691
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Speaker 2: a m b oh ro Shambo. I'm Rochelle, Yeah, Rochelle.

692
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:03,759
Speaker 1: Yes, trust me, I'm an engineer. Oh this is you.

693
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:05,440
Speaker 1: This is you with your ripped boyfriend.

694
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 2: Yes, he he. When I make my next post, I

695
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:13,440
Speaker 2: got him a shirt that says a super hot cougar

696
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 2: stole my heart anywhere? Is that? Because I think it's cute.

697
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 1: Sorry, I hope this isn't weird considering the context. But

698
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:23,279
Speaker 1: you guys have crazy calves.

699
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:26,560
Speaker 2: Thank you. No, I love that.

700
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 1: I love them.

701
00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:29,400
Speaker 2: People like like I've had girls at the gym sy like,

702
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:32,240
Speaker 2: oh my god, like you your quads are huge, and like.

703
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 3: Thank you.

704
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:35,520
Speaker 1: Oh this is I see this is what the I'm

705
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:37,320
Speaker 1: looking at through a little carousel and I see the

706
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:40,920
Speaker 1: little the post the oh, holy shoe way is that you?

707
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 1: Oh holy fuck, dude, you're you look like you're about

708
00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 1: to Oh my god, this is you deadlifting? Uh damn.

709
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 1: That's Cray with the guy in the beard in the background.

710
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:52,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's three forty five.

711
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:56,720
Speaker 1: Holy shit, that looks that looks terrifying. Honestly, that looks

712
00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:58,960
Speaker 1: like like I look at this and I'm like, you

713
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,360
Speaker 1: look it looks like I mean, and you're professionals obviously

714
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:02,480
Speaker 1: know what you're doing, but I'm like, damn, if I

715
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:05,960
Speaker 1: tried to do this shit, my back would just fucking

716
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:07,840
Speaker 1: go be destroyed.

717
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:12,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, your your reaction is the same as my mom.

718
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:15,440
Speaker 2: She gets very scared to see me left. But you know,

719
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:18,280
Speaker 2: you do it for long enough, and you stay open

720
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:21,440
Speaker 2: to feedback from people, and anybody can do stuff like that.

721
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:22,160
Speaker 1: You know.

722
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, if anyone has questions ever about fitness or anything,

723
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 2: you can just like message me and I can do

724
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:31,759
Speaker 2: my best to answer. I feel like sometimes that's what

725
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:32,480
Speaker 2: people need.

726
00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 3: You know.

727
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:37,400
Speaker 1: I'm looking at you where on your profile picture with

728
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 1: pulling this truck with an American flag in the background.

729
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:41,840
Speaker 1: It's pretty epic.

730
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:46,120
Speaker 2: My dad recorded that video too, and it's just funny

731
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:48,239
Speaker 2: because he didn't get the truck until like at the

732
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:49,480
Speaker 2: very end, I think.

733
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 1: Oh, he just was like he just recorded you holding

734
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:54,480
Speaker 1: the rope.

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00:39:54,680 --> 00:40:01,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it was great. My dad moved, but he

736
00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 2: came to every single show I had before and every

737
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:07,719
Speaker 2: power every single one before you moved. So I appreciated

738
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:08,200
Speaker 2: that a lot.

739
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:12,040
Speaker 1: Well, thank you for calling. Rochelle. I wish you good

740
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:14,440
Speaker 1: luck in qualifying for worlds.

741
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:17,359
Speaker 2: Thank you, and good luck in all your trips too.

742
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:24,480
Speaker 1: See you around the universe. Dude. M hm, take care bybershell. Ye,

743
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 1: that was a fun one that felt like a very

744
00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:34,960
Speaker 1: classic therapy Gecko phone call.

745
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:35,600
Speaker 3: Yeah.

746
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:38,080
Speaker 1: I'm looking through this this woman's instagram. This is this

747
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:40,440
Speaker 1: like strong Man. She has all these photos of her

748
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:47,760
Speaker 1: strong Man shit row Chambeau one n. Yeah, this looks crazy.

749
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 1: This looks like I feel myself in pain just watching

750
00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 1: her do this stuff. Yeah, with look at this with

751
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:58,919
Speaker 1: the drum, the big fucking oh holy fuck, dude, she's

752
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 1: picking up this giant like bean bag and like bending

753
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 1: herself all the that's crazy. She's like, that's crazy. Holy shit.

754
00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:14,480
Speaker 1: She's like bending herself all the way backwards to hold

755
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:18,640
Speaker 1: up this barrel and then just like powers back forward.

756
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:29,600
Speaker 1: That's insane. Damn. Shout out, shout out to Rochelle. Hey,

757
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:29,960
Speaker 1: what's up?

758
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:30,120
Speaker 3: Man?

759
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:30,719
Speaker 1: What's your name?

760
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:32,719
Speaker 2: Oh?

761
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:36,440
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, just the get Yeah, who is this?

762
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:41,760
Speaker 3: Oh? This is Elias Elias.

763
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 1: Elias Elias. You texted me and you said I want

764
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:47,280
Speaker 1: to talk about my root beer collection.

765
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:51,399
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just text you right now. I just got

766
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:58,480
Speaker 3: a place with no connection. But I tried calling you

767
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:03,320
Speaker 3: tricking after I got off of work. But then I

768
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:05,279
Speaker 3: went to this place with no connection, and then I

769
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:06,239
Speaker 3: think I might have lost you.

770
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:11,400
Speaker 1: But none of that matters now, Elios, none of that matters. Now.

771
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:13,520
Speaker 1: I want to hear about this root beer collection.

772
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 3: Okay, So I've been building a root beer collection. I'm

773
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:22,160
Speaker 3: only twenty one, so I've been building a re sellection

774
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:27,440
Speaker 3: for like three years, four years now. I mean I

775
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:31,240
Speaker 3: tried everywhere I go, I try to find a bottle

776
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:37,399
Speaker 3: of root beer. I went to Well, so far, I've

777
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:42,200
Speaker 3: only went to places in California, but I went to Hawaii.

778
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:44,640
Speaker 3: I tried to find one there, and I don't think

779
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:48,399
Speaker 3: they sell the right type of the ingredients to make

780
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 3: a good root beer there, or so I heard. But yeah,

781
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:55,120
Speaker 3: I mean I have a picture of my collection, but

782
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:57,239
Speaker 3: I would just have to show you.

783
00:42:57,520 --> 00:42:58,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, can you text that to me?

784
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:06,520
Speaker 3: Tractice? Uh, Now I need to find it.

785
00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:12,440
Speaker 1: What's the most prized aspect of your collection?

786
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:21,560
Speaker 3: My most tried aspect? It's just that, I mean I

787
00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:22,400
Speaker 3: only have.

788
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:25,200
Speaker 1: Like or I'm sorry I said that wrong. The most

789
00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:26,200
Speaker 1: prized item.

790
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 3: Oh, I had, Well, I think my favorite. My favorite

791
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:36,759
Speaker 3: is the Dad's The Dad's root beer. You ever tried

792
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:37,080
Speaker 3: that one?

793
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 1: It's like, bro, So I've never had I've never had

794
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:45,080
Speaker 1: Dad's root beer. But when I was in high school

795
00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:48,839
Speaker 1: on Amazon, I once ordered like a hundred Dads root

796
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:52,799
Speaker 1: Beer barrel candies and so I've had like tons, Like

797
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:56,960
Speaker 1: I would just find loose root beer barrel candies in

798
00:43:57,040 --> 00:43:59,600
Speaker 1: my backpack all the time because of how many of them.

799
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:02,680
Speaker 1: I just like took me to school and ship. I've

800
00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:08,840
Speaker 1: never had actual Dad's root beer, though, Is it any good? Oh?

801
00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:12,960
Speaker 3: Dude? Every time there's I mean, we haven't had a

802
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:19,239
Speaker 3: Dad's great, but every time I.

803
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 1: Go there, Sorry you cut out for a second. Would

804
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:22,879
Speaker 1: you say?

805
00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:27,319
Speaker 3: Every time I go to the Little Sandwich.

806
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:32,359
Speaker 1: I always get it and oh, we're losing you.

807
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:36,759
Speaker 3: Refrigerator with Dad's root beer. I'm grabbing it. That's how

808
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:37,279
Speaker 3: good it is.

809
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:40,279
Speaker 1: Okay, every time you go to a sandwich shop you

810
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:42,400
Speaker 1: get it. That's how good it is. Okay, that's pretty good.

811
00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:46,839
Speaker 1: That's pretty good. Okay, what's the root what's the what's

812
00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:50,400
Speaker 1: the worst. What's the worst root beer that you've had?

813
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:55,680
Speaker 3: Okay? So I went to this candy shop my local mall,

814
00:44:56,560 --> 00:45:00,279
Speaker 3: and there was one called Rats root beer. It is

815
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:04,360
Speaker 3: like Rats and I tried it. It tastes it tasted

816
00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:14,200
Speaker 3: like like super watery. Uh you had like when you

817
00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:16,720
Speaker 3: drink from a water fountain. It's just it's just straight

818
00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:21,279
Speaker 3: up syrup. Yeah, that's what. That's what that one's chased like.

819
00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:23,279
Speaker 1: Okay, sounds good.

820
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:24,040
Speaker 3: I'm trying to find this.

821
00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, what about Okay, rank these one to three, A

822
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:35,640
Speaker 1: and W, barks, mug.

823
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:41,799
Speaker 3: Okay, now we're talking about the real the roof. So

824
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:46,480
Speaker 3: if you have bark in between those three, if you

825
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:51,279
Speaker 3: have barks in two or one the spirit, then that's

826
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:52,560
Speaker 3: the worst stigion of your life.

827
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:55,680
Speaker 1: Because okay, so bars barks is the worst.

828
00:45:56,040 --> 00:46:00,279
Speaker 3: Barks is definitely the worst for sure. And then I

829
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:03,200
Speaker 3: go A and W. But me and my brother dude,

830
00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:05,800
Speaker 3: we every every time we go to like a soda

831
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:09,600
Speaker 3: falon and they don't mug. Dude, I mean, I still

832
00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 3: drink the root beer, but if they don't have mug,

833
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:14,600
Speaker 3: I mean I give it like a.

834
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:20,160
Speaker 1: Okay, you're a mug guy. Automatically, you're a mug guy.

835
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:22,439
Speaker 3: I'm definitely I'm definitely a mug guy.

836
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:25,000
Speaker 1: For I'm with you. I'm also a mug guy. I

837
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:27,440
Speaker 1: just like the dog. I don't know why, but something

838
00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:30,319
Speaker 1: about looking at the dog while I'm drinking the root

839
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:33,000
Speaker 1: beer makes the root beer taste different. I don't know

840
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:34,640
Speaker 1: that much about mug like. I don't know if it,

841
00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 1: if it. I know that A and W. I think

842
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:41,400
Speaker 1: A and W is like A what's it? What is

843
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 1: A and W under? I think they're under.

844
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:45,239
Speaker 2: Oh?

845
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:47,640
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So there's the three. There's the three

846
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:58,759
Speaker 1: big challengers in the soda beverage industry. There's Pepsi of

847
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:05,759
Speaker 1: course to Pepsi and mug BrX is owned by Coke. Yeah,

848
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:14,120
Speaker 1: and then uh, A and W is hold on, I

849
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:17,000
Speaker 1: think a NWS by like Snapple. Let me let me

850
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:22,040
Speaker 1: look at this an W. Yeah, A n W is

851
00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:29,560
Speaker 1: under doctor Pepper, doctor Pepper. I think doctor Yeah, Curig,

852
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 1: Curig Curig doctor Pepper is a publicly traded Oh I

853
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:41,399
Speaker 1: didn't know that they merged. Okay, Curig doctor Pepper. Okay, yeah,

854
00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:43,200
Speaker 1: there we go. Okay, it used to be the doctor

855
00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:48,440
Speaker 1: Pepper Snapple group, and now it is the Curig doctor

856
00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:53,600
Speaker 1: Pepper group. So the doctor Pepper people, the Pepsi people,

857
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 1: and the Cola and the Coca Cola people are the

858
00:47:56,239 --> 00:47:59,759
Speaker 1: main competitors in the space, and they all have their

859
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:05,040
Speaker 1: own root beer and I agree that I think mug

860
00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:08,239
Speaker 1: is the best of those. Oh I got I have.

861
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:10,359
Speaker 1: I have a question for you. What are what's your

862
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:13,239
Speaker 1: opinion on root beer floats? How do you like a

863
00:48:13,239 --> 00:48:16,720
Speaker 1: little bit of a vanilla ice cream in your root beer?

864
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:20,959
Speaker 3: Honestly, that's like saying, like putting a cherry on top,

865
00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:23,680
Speaker 3: you know, No, you always put like cherries on top

866
00:48:23,719 --> 00:48:25,560
Speaker 3: of like a like a cat take or something.

867
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:27,880
Speaker 1: Oh, I just got the photo. I just got the photo.

868
00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:30,359
Speaker 1: Oh ship, there's so many people in here that I'm

869
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:33,880
Speaker 1: not okay, hold on, wait let me sorry, go ahead,

870
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:35,520
Speaker 1: go ahead, go ahead. Sorry, it's got kind of.

871
00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:40,040
Speaker 3: So this is this is not my full root beer

872
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:42,520
Speaker 3: collection I put it. I haven't taken a picture of

873
00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:46,680
Speaker 3: my my fullest one, Like the Rats one is not

874
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:51,080
Speaker 3: on there. But this is like maybe a year ago,

875
00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:54,080
Speaker 3: but I added maybe another stack on top of that.

876
00:48:55,719 --> 00:48:57,719
Speaker 1: This is awesome. Okay, I've had I'm gonna go through

877
00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:00,520
Speaker 1: the ones I've had. Okay, you've got IBC. That one's

878
00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:03,120
Speaker 1: pretty good. I don't know if I've had the IBC

879
00:49:03,239 --> 00:49:07,200
Speaker 1: root beer. But I've definitely had the IBC cream Soda.

880
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:15,400
Speaker 1: That ship's really good. Henry Wine Hard's, I've never had that. Stuarts.

881
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:21,239
Speaker 1: That's a that's a sleeper pick. Yes, Stuart's. Stuarts has

882
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:25,920
Speaker 1: an amazing orange creamsicle flavor. Have you ever had?

883
00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:28,360
Speaker 3: I had that? I had that one.

884
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:33,000
Speaker 1: Okay, Balls root beer?

885
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:36,120
Speaker 3: Okay, that one's my favorite one. Actually, yeah, that was

886
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:38,520
Speaker 3: my favorite one because I brought it home one day

887
00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:41,720
Speaker 3: and then my brother was like, you're really drinking balls

888
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:45,400
Speaker 3: right now? And I was like, no, root beer?

889
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:49,319
Speaker 1: Wait, balls is a Where have I seen this? Yeah? Okay,

890
00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:57,520
Speaker 1: I've seen Balls before as like, uh uh yeah, I've

891
00:49:57,520 --> 00:50:04,440
Speaker 1: seen it in like a classy blue soda before. But

892
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:06,719
Speaker 1: I didn't know they had a root beer. So that's interesting.

893
00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know river City. I don't

894
00:50:10,040 --> 00:50:13,520
Speaker 1: know river City. Oh look at this dang butterscotch root beer.

895
00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:14,160
Speaker 1: What was that?

896
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:14,320
Speaker 3: Like?

897
00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:16,120
Speaker 1: Tell me about did they have how was.

898
00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:23,600
Speaker 3: The So that one is a little That one's a

899
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:25,240
Speaker 3: little more on the sweeter side.

900
00:50:25,560 --> 00:50:26,759
Speaker 1: Right, it's got butterscotch.

901
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:28,160
Speaker 3: Yeah.

902
00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:28,600
Speaker 1: Good.

903
00:50:28,719 --> 00:50:30,480
Speaker 3: That one's like probably the most seest one.

904
00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:36,640
Speaker 1: Jackson hole Buckin' root Beer virgils. I've had this one. Okay,

905
00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:40,799
Speaker 1: the Spreker fire brewed root beer.

906
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:44,399
Speaker 3: They have, They have a couple of different types of those.

907
00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:46,880
Speaker 3: I have like maybe two more of those in that

908
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:47,600
Speaker 3: new collection.

909
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:53,200
Speaker 1: Okay, this one the root beer main roots. Where's that

910
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:54,560
Speaker 1: one from? That looks familiar?

911
00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:58,440
Speaker 3: I got that? Do you know what Lake Lake Tahoe

912
00:50:58,480 --> 00:51:03,640
Speaker 3: in the in the Nevada? Sure, that's where I got

913
00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:07,120
Speaker 3: that one. And it's like, gave me like a forest

914
00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:09,839
Speaker 3: you feel, because I feel because Lake Child was kind

915
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:12,400
Speaker 3: of like foresty and like I don't know, it's it

916
00:51:12,760 --> 00:51:15,120
Speaker 3: was just like the all the aesthetic around it. And

917
00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:17,840
Speaker 3: I was like, it just like called my name in

918
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:20,799
Speaker 3: this little little tiny bakery I went too, and I

919
00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:22,600
Speaker 3: was like, hey, grab me.

920
00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:27,040
Speaker 1: I want to backtrack real quick. The dang butterscotch root beer.

921
00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:31,320
Speaker 1: How heavy was the butterscotch? Could you taste the notes?

922
00:51:33,239 --> 00:51:33,560
Speaker 2: It was?

923
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:36,719
Speaker 3: It was kind of like it was kind of like

924
00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:40,759
Speaker 3: a root beer float, honestly, not like but it had

925
00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:44,880
Speaker 3: like that it had that vanilla e like, oh, you

926
00:51:44,920 --> 00:51:51,040
Speaker 3: know if you there's like this root beer, Oh it's

927
00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:53,080
Speaker 3: it's it's like mug too where you make it like

928
00:51:53,160 --> 00:51:56,040
Speaker 3: kind of like cream it's like root beer. It's like

929
00:51:56,080 --> 00:51:59,239
Speaker 3: the cream style cream soda.

930
00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:00,959
Speaker 1: And what's it called?

931
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:05,880
Speaker 3: Okay, actually it's just cream soda. So that's kind of

932
00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:07,240
Speaker 3: what it tastes like if you had.

933
00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:10,720
Speaker 1: Oh, okay, it just tastes like a regular cream soda.

934
00:52:11,719 --> 00:52:14,200
Speaker 1: All right, we have all right, here's the dads, which,

935
00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:16,480
Speaker 1: as you say, is your favorite. I've never seen Dad's

936
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:20,759
Speaker 1: root Beer as just like sold in like a play.

937
00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:23,280
Speaker 1: I've just never seen it out and about.

938
00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:26,799
Speaker 3: Yeah. I had a spot by my house down town,

939
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:31,080
Speaker 3: and uh, honestly it's pretty good. It's a gig sandwich spot,

940
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:32,640
Speaker 3: so I like it.

941
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:35,400
Speaker 1: Oh shit, Dad, I'm on the Dad's root Beer website,

942
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:37,080
Speaker 1: a website I never thought I would ever be on,

943
00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:39,440
Speaker 1: but it seems like they have a butt. Dad's has

944
00:52:39,480 --> 00:52:44,520
Speaker 1: all these whoa dude, holy tits? Have you ever seen

945
00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:49,840
Speaker 1: this before? Dad's old fashioned blue cream Soda? Have you

946
00:52:49,880 --> 00:52:55,440
Speaker 1: ever seen that? I'm not actually Dad's Blue cream Soda,

947
00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:59,520
Speaker 1: it says, it says Dad's Blue Cream Soda is almost

948
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:07,759
Speaker 1: liquid with cotton candy with very heavy vanilla notes. That

949
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:10,799
Speaker 1: sounds fucking insane. I'm dude. You can sign up for

950
00:53:10,840 --> 00:53:14,319
Speaker 1: a They have an email list. I'm signing up for

951
00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:18,879
Speaker 1: that they have Yeah, dude, you can write to them.

952
00:53:19,040 --> 00:53:24,399
Speaker 1: Nine to fifty South Saint Charles Street, Jasper, Indiana, four

953
00:53:24,600 --> 00:53:26,640
Speaker 1: seven five four six.

954
00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:29,080
Speaker 3: I'll miss it out.

955
00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:31,319
Speaker 1: They have merch. What do they have on? What's their

956
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:34,799
Speaker 1: merch situation? You can buy a ooh ooh you see this.

957
00:53:35,800 --> 00:53:41,400
Speaker 1: They have a Dad's root beer mug. Imagine drinking Imagine

958
00:53:41,480 --> 00:53:44,959
Speaker 1: drinking a Dad's root beer out of a Dad's root

959
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:48,480
Speaker 1: beer mug. That sounds awesome. They have lip bomb. It

960
00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:50,279
Speaker 1: tastes like root beer. That's I don't I don't know.

961
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:55,040
Speaker 1: If this mug you can sell, you can become a

962
00:53:55,080 --> 00:53:58,480
Speaker 1: real itter. Look at this. You can sell dads. Use

963
00:53:58,520 --> 00:54:02,160
Speaker 1: the contact form to reach out to be able to

964
00:54:02,200 --> 00:54:05,360
Speaker 1: sell dads at your location. Okay name, No, I'm not

965
00:54:05,360 --> 00:54:07,120
Speaker 1: gonna fill that out. I don't have anything funny to

966
00:54:07,160 --> 00:54:10,560
Speaker 1: say while I fill that out. But uh, okay, I

967
00:54:10,560 --> 00:54:12,520
Speaker 1: could read the history of Dad's Rutier, but I won't.

968
00:54:12,520 --> 00:54:15,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna finish your collection. Okay, you have dog and

969
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:17,840
Speaker 1: what is this one? Say? Dog? And us dog and

970
00:54:17,880 --> 00:54:23,879
Speaker 1: SuDS dog and what dog? And SuDS Dog and SuDS Rutier. Okay,

971
00:54:23,880 --> 00:54:25,960
Speaker 1: how was that that one?

972
00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:29,439
Speaker 3: It was all right, just this is a regular root beer,

973
00:54:29,640 --> 00:54:32,920
Speaker 3: maybe like A and W type. So like all these

974
00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:36,719
Speaker 3: all these root beers bottles I based off my those

975
00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:39,040
Speaker 3: top three that you mentioned earlier, the mug A and

976
00:54:39,239 --> 00:54:45,839
Speaker 3: W and then barks. I rarely, I rarely rate them

977
00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:49,759
Speaker 3: as the bark style. It's usually A and W. But

978
00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:54,000
Speaker 3: like what the wing do the mugs those are like

979
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:59,920
Speaker 3: like the dads maybe yeah, yeah, I like this.

980
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:02,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, you've developed your own you've developed your own ranking

981
00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:06,800
Speaker 1: style system where a BARX is a C an, a

982
00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:09,719
Speaker 1: n W is a B and a mug is an A.

983
00:55:10,719 --> 00:55:19,320
Speaker 3: Yeah. But then the last one is Sioux City.

984
00:55:19,640 --> 00:55:21,920
Speaker 1: Sioux City. I saw that. I saw Sioux City. Okay, well,

985
00:55:21,920 --> 00:55:23,160
Speaker 1: I'm where do you rank Sioux City?

986
00:55:24,920 --> 00:55:29,600
Speaker 3: That one's an abbie. Actually I had this one when

987
00:55:29,640 --> 00:55:34,520
Speaker 3: I was super drunk one night, and uh so, maybe

988
00:55:34,680 --> 00:55:36,480
Speaker 3: maybe it was a mug back then, but it's probably

989
00:55:36,520 --> 00:55:38,680
Speaker 3: an a wie mm hmm. Yeah.

990
00:55:38,680 --> 00:55:41,600
Speaker 1: You sober up and you really yeah, you sober up

991
00:55:41,600 --> 00:55:43,480
Speaker 1: and you realize that what you thought was a mug

992
00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:45,720
Speaker 1: is really a Sometimes it can be a box.

993
00:55:48,520 --> 00:55:49,160
Speaker 3: Yeah.

994
00:55:49,560 --> 00:55:53,279
Speaker 1: I see that you have lego flowers coming out of

995
00:55:53,320 --> 00:55:54,960
Speaker 1: a few of these bottles. I like that.

996
00:55:56,320 --> 00:55:58,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, Mike Jruffer bought them for me, and then I

997
00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:01,040
Speaker 3: had no place to put them, so I chose the

998
00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:07,040
Speaker 3: three bottles that were probably I think I chose these

999
00:56:07,080 --> 00:56:10,279
Speaker 3: because there were mugs. They were the mug rating like

1000
00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:11,879
Speaker 3: the virgils, and.

1001
00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:17,239
Speaker 1: Then oh, okay you gave you gave literal flowers to

1002
00:56:18,560 --> 00:56:21,239
Speaker 1: the mugs. Ranking okay, so Henry all right. So for

1003
00:56:21,320 --> 00:56:26,200
Speaker 1: the people who can't see this image, the Henry wine

1004
00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:30,040
Speaker 1: Hearts has a flower in it, so that's a mug rating.

1005
00:56:30,880 --> 00:56:35,479
Speaker 1: The Virgil has a flower in it, that's a mug grating.

1006
00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:37,239
Speaker 1: And then the Dads has a flower in it. So

1007
00:56:37,600 --> 00:56:39,799
Speaker 1: those are are those are? Those are three mugs out

1008
00:56:39,840 --> 00:56:42,560
Speaker 1: of the whole collection.

1009
00:56:44,040 --> 00:56:46,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I have a cup. I don't put

1010
00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:50,200
Speaker 3: flowers in the I think I have one more mugs,

1011
00:56:50,280 --> 00:56:53,239
Speaker 3: but I'm blanking on the name of it. Dude, I

1012
00:56:53,239 --> 00:56:57,120
Speaker 3: need to send you that updated picture because they have

1013
00:56:57,320 --> 00:57:00,520
Speaker 3: like another stack on top of this one picture.

1014
00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:04,480
Speaker 1: Can can you send me that? Can you send me

1015
00:57:04,560 --> 00:57:06,480
Speaker 1: that other picture? How far? How so this is from

1016
00:57:06,520 --> 00:57:07,120
Speaker 1: a year ago?

1017
00:57:08,239 --> 00:57:11,919
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I I'm actually coming home from work right now,

1018
00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:16,800
Speaker 3: so I don't I'm not in access of my rootbeer

1019
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:21,760
Speaker 3: collection right now, But next time you're live, I'll just

1020
00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:23,120
Speaker 3: send you a picture or something.

1021
00:57:24,720 --> 00:57:31,040
Speaker 1: So okay, let me count one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve. Okay,

1022
00:57:31,080 --> 00:57:33,400
Speaker 1: right now, there's thirteen bottles in this picture. How many

1023
00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:34,680
Speaker 1: bottles do you think you have? Now?

1024
00:57:36,280 --> 00:57:38,880
Speaker 3: Probably twenty six? Only?

1025
00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:40,640
Speaker 1: Shit? Okay?

1026
00:57:41,160 --> 00:57:41,840
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1027
00:57:41,880 --> 00:57:44,040
Speaker 1: How far away are you from your house right now?

1028
00:57:45,280 --> 00:57:48,480
Speaker 3: I about forty minutes?

1029
00:57:48,920 --> 00:57:49,280
Speaker 1: Okay?

1030
00:57:49,360 --> 00:57:52,240
Speaker 3: All right, Well, yeah, I'll have to send you it later.

1031
00:57:52,560 --> 00:57:56,520
Speaker 1: All right, you'll have to send me it later. What's

1032
00:57:56,880 --> 00:58:01,600
Speaker 1: the give? What? What's the root beer that you've heard

1033
00:58:01,680 --> 00:58:07,120
Speaker 1: of in passing that you have not yet tasted but

1034
00:58:07,200 --> 00:58:10,680
Speaker 1: would like to taste one day?

1035
00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:18,680
Speaker 3: Uh, that's a good question because it's usually like because

1036
00:58:18,680 --> 00:58:21,000
Speaker 3: I'm more of a of a fake type of guy,

1037
00:58:21,800 --> 00:58:25,920
Speaker 3: like all my my pet animals I've gotten like from

1038
00:58:25,960 --> 00:58:31,080
Speaker 3: like them coming to me. You know. It's like like

1039
00:58:31,160 --> 00:58:34,320
Speaker 3: I said earlier about that main room beer, like it

1040
00:58:34,480 --> 00:58:36,520
Speaker 3: just called my name. Like as soon as I walk

1041
00:58:36,560 --> 00:58:39,040
Speaker 3: to a store, I look in like the soda section

1042
00:58:39,680 --> 00:58:41,240
Speaker 3: just to see if they have one. But you know,

1043
00:58:41,400 --> 00:58:47,960
Speaker 3: I'm not just not a lot of my friends are

1044
00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:50,440
Speaker 3: a root beer type of guy. Actually, my brother is

1045
00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:53,680
Speaker 3: is more. I'm a doctor pepper guy, and uh so

1046
00:58:53,680 --> 00:58:57,680
Speaker 3: we don't really see eye to eye. But I mean,

1047
00:58:57,680 --> 00:58:59,800
Speaker 3: it's just whenever I see it, I just grab it.

1048
00:59:00,080 --> 00:59:02,320
Speaker 3: I don't I haven't had any hurt or I haven't

1049
00:59:02,320 --> 00:59:04,680
Speaker 3: heard any I traveled yet.

1050
00:59:04,720 --> 00:59:08,200
Speaker 1: So I like that you. I like that you. I

1051
00:59:08,400 --> 00:59:11,800
Speaker 1: like that you let fate bring the right routiers to you.

1052
00:59:14,720 --> 00:59:20,240
Speaker 3: And that's just a good, uh good lifestyle for me

1053
00:59:20,320 --> 00:59:23,600
Speaker 3: at least. I can't speak for everyone, but I like

1054
00:59:23,680 --> 00:59:25,600
Speaker 3: that lifestyle as just a person.

1055
00:59:26,240 --> 00:59:30,160
Speaker 1: Is there anything that you feel somebody? If someone out

1056
00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:33,040
Speaker 1: there wants to start collecting rupier bottles, what advice would

1057
00:59:33,040 --> 00:59:37,480
Speaker 1: you give to them?

1058
00:59:37,520 --> 00:59:41,400
Speaker 3: Just some I mean, just amongst your travels. Just go

1059
00:59:41,560 --> 00:59:46,560
Speaker 3: to the local corner store and just look in the

1060
00:59:47,120 --> 00:59:52,480
Speaker 3: soda section. If they don't have any, just you just

1061
00:59:52,520 --> 00:59:56,520
Speaker 3: gotta move on. Not much, not so much to it. Also,

1062
00:59:56,640 --> 00:59:59,640
Speaker 3: restaurants have them too, sometimes if you ask a routier

1063
00:59:59,680 --> 01:00:03,240
Speaker 3: and then you can sometimes ask them for the bottle.

1064
01:00:04,200 --> 01:00:07,680
Speaker 1: Do you feel like collecting root beer has given you

1065
01:00:07,760 --> 01:00:11,920
Speaker 1: a good perspective on the idea of just moving on

1066
01:00:12,080 --> 01:00:14,959
Speaker 1: in general? You know, has it let you be better

1067
01:00:15,000 --> 01:00:19,640
Speaker 1: at that? What do you mean, like you know you said,

1068
01:00:19,680 --> 01:00:21,320
Speaker 1: if they don't have root beer, then you just move on,

1069
01:00:21,760 --> 01:00:23,880
Speaker 1: you know, like I'm I guess I'm trying to take

1070
01:00:24,880 --> 01:00:28,920
Speaker 1: your root beer collecting and apply it to your broader

1071
01:00:28,960 --> 01:00:35,960
Speaker 1: life in some sense. No, actually not really, well then

1072
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:37,000
Speaker 1: never mind.

1073
01:00:37,600 --> 01:00:40,400
Speaker 3: What's your name, ages, It's Elias with a.

1074
01:00:40,480 --> 01:00:44,560
Speaker 1: Z, Elias, Elias, thank you for sharing this. This has

1075
01:00:44,600 --> 01:00:48,200
Speaker 1: been an incredibly enjoyable twenty minutes for me.

1076
01:00:49,880 --> 01:00:51,360
Speaker 3: Me toon therapy, get go.

1077
01:00:51,920 --> 01:00:53,040
Speaker 1: Is there anything else you want to say to the

1078
01:00:53,040 --> 01:00:54,320
Speaker 1: people of the computer before we go?

1079
01:00:57,480 --> 01:00:58,520
Speaker 3: Keep drinking root beer?

1080
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Speaker 1: Beautiful? Thank you, Elias.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: That was That was incredibly enjoyable for me, folks. I

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01:01:12,080 --> 01:01:17,560
Speaker 1: think I'm going to end the podcast today by reading

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01:01:17,600 --> 01:01:21,320
Speaker 1: a few emails. I like that I've gotten a little

1085
01:01:22,400 --> 01:01:28,840
Speaker 1: drip in of of GEK mails and I figured I

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01:01:28,840 --> 01:01:33,320
Speaker 1: would read a few of them. I'll also talk a

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01:01:33,320 --> 01:01:36,840
Speaker 1: little bit about my trip to Iraq. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if I'm going to do a whole thing about it,

1089
01:01:39,760 --> 01:01:43,040
Speaker 1: but it was really it was amazing. I mean, it

1090
01:01:43,080 --> 01:01:50,600
Speaker 1: was so un like what my expectations were of what

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01:01:50,640 --> 01:01:54,360
Speaker 1: it would be like. That's the main thing I want

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01:01:54,400 --> 01:01:57,800
Speaker 1: to say. I'll say everything that I really want to

1093
01:01:57,840 --> 01:02:00,000
Speaker 1: say when the video is out, because that's it's gonna

1094
01:02:00,160 --> 01:02:04,080
Speaker 1: take me a full month to edit it, at least

1095
01:02:04,120 --> 01:02:07,200
Speaker 1: a month at least, So I'm aiming for like, no,

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01:02:07,400 --> 01:02:10,200
Speaker 1: I'm aiming for like the very beginning of November to

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01:02:10,240 --> 01:02:14,680
Speaker 1: get the full video out there. But yeah, it was.

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Speaker 1: It was great. People were so fucking nice to us.

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01:02:16,840 --> 01:02:18,840
Speaker 1: Like the very first day we were there, these like

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Speaker 1: two police officers holding like big ass AK forty seven's

1101
01:02:23,200 --> 01:02:24,800
Speaker 1: just like came up to us and they were like,

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Speaker 1: where are you guys from, how you guys doing? Welcome

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01:02:28,120 --> 01:02:30,600
Speaker 1: to Iraq, and then they gave us some SIGs and

1104
01:02:30,960 --> 01:02:34,000
Speaker 1: then one of them like invited us to get lunch

1105
01:02:34,040 --> 01:02:38,040
Speaker 1: with him and his mom. We had we just had

1106
01:02:38,040 --> 01:02:41,720
Speaker 1: interactions like that all the time, where like I don't know,

1107
01:02:41,720 --> 01:02:44,800
Speaker 1: people would just be really chill and really respectful and

1108
01:02:44,840 --> 01:02:49,000
Speaker 1: really uh really really nice. I wish I could. I'm

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01:02:49,040 --> 01:02:51,920
Speaker 1: glad that I went and I and I took a

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01:02:51,920 --> 01:02:54,480
Speaker 1: bunch of video because I'm kind of shit about explaining

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01:02:54,480 --> 01:02:58,680
Speaker 1: it with my words, but yeah, it was a great time.

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01:02:58,720 --> 01:03:02,240
Speaker 1: Please please go somebscribe to YouTube dot com slash lyle

1113
01:03:02,320 --> 01:03:05,440
Speaker 1: forever so that when I post the video in a

1114
01:03:05,480 --> 01:03:07,240
Speaker 1: month you can see it because it's it's it's one

1115
01:03:07,280 --> 01:03:12,800
Speaker 1: of my favorite things I've I've done in my gecko career. Anyway,

1116
01:03:12,880 --> 01:03:14,600
Speaker 1: let's read a few emails and then we'll get the

1117
01:03:14,600 --> 01:03:19,360
Speaker 1: fuck out of here, all right. This is from Ali

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01:03:20,360 --> 01:03:28,080
Speaker 1: subject line af af fantasia. Am I saying this correctly?

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01:03:28,840 --> 01:03:35,520
Speaker 1: Afantasia fanta Okay? Hi Lyle. I wanted to email because

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01:03:35,520 --> 01:03:39,760
Speaker 1: I recently learned I have something called afantasia and inability

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01:03:39,920 --> 01:03:44,320
Speaker 1: to form mental images, and it's been a crazy revelation

1122
01:03:44,560 --> 01:03:48,120
Speaker 1: for me. I never realized I was missing something until now.

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01:03:48,560 --> 01:03:52,840
Speaker 1: When I imagine things, I don't see them, I feel their

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01:03:52,880 --> 01:03:56,400
Speaker 1: presence or I know certain facts about them. If I

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01:03:56,440 --> 01:03:59,040
Speaker 1: picture a forest, I can tell you how quiet or

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01:03:59,120 --> 01:04:02,360
Speaker 1: loud it might be, how tall the trees are, how

1127
01:04:02,360 --> 01:04:05,320
Speaker 1: the evening sun paints an orange. But none of that

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01:04:06,040 --> 01:04:08,680
Speaker 1: is an image. It's more like a list of facts

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01:04:08,720 --> 01:04:13,560
Speaker 1: that my mind creates. Interestingly, I do see things in

1130
01:04:13,600 --> 01:04:18,160
Speaker 1: my dreams, sometimes very clearly, and sometimes when I'm between

1131
01:04:18,320 --> 01:04:22,480
Speaker 1: being awake and asleep, I'll catch moments of imagery and

1132
01:04:22,520 --> 01:04:24,919
Speaker 1: what I assume is the way other people see their

1133
01:04:25,000 --> 01:04:28,920
Speaker 1: thoughts all the time. Interesting, I've been thinking about this

1134
01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:32,360
Speaker 1: a lot lately, I feel spiteful that others have this

1135
01:04:32,520 --> 01:04:35,360
Speaker 1: skill and I don't. I'm really tired at the time

1136
01:04:35,400 --> 01:04:38,600
Speaker 1: of writing this, so I'm sorry if I sound insane.

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01:04:38,800 --> 01:04:41,560
Speaker 1: Afantasia isn't something I like to talk about to people

1138
01:04:41,560 --> 01:04:44,200
Speaker 1: in real life, but I'd love to hear your perspective.

1139
01:04:44,680 --> 01:04:47,840
Speaker 1: How do you see in your head? Thanks for reading this.

1140
01:04:49,320 --> 01:04:52,200
Speaker 1: That's interesting. That part about like how I part about, Like, oh,

1141
01:04:52,240 --> 01:04:58,120
Speaker 1: I can almost catch a glimpse of what a thought

1142
01:04:58,880 --> 01:05:02,240
Speaker 1: might feel like when I dream, but it's like elusive.

1143
01:05:02,480 --> 01:05:05,439
Speaker 1: That's so interesting. How do I see in my head?

1144
01:05:06,280 --> 01:05:09,400
Speaker 1: I'm imagining boobs right now, but they they're like cartoon.

1145
01:05:09,640 --> 01:05:11,480
Speaker 1: I'm imagining that. It's like when I try to imagine

1146
01:05:11,480 --> 01:05:15,480
Speaker 1: boobs is like a painting of it. Okay, I just

1147
01:05:15,520 --> 01:05:21,280
Speaker 1: did it. I just imagined like a normal, like human boobs,

1148
01:05:22,120 --> 01:05:23,600
Speaker 1: but it felt like a wickied. It felt like I

1149
01:05:23,640 --> 01:05:26,360
Speaker 1: was looking at like the Wikipedia page for boobs. It

1150
01:05:26,400 --> 01:05:33,400
Speaker 1: was a very non sexual image. Anything I could tell

1151
01:05:33,440 --> 01:05:36,920
Speaker 1: you about how I see in my head would be

1152
01:05:37,360 --> 01:05:42,320
Speaker 1: it would be fake because I'd be trying, like right,

1153
01:05:42,400 --> 01:05:44,360
Speaker 1: like if I try to, like not like when I

1154
01:05:44,400 --> 01:05:49,800
Speaker 1: like naturally imagine things, because I'm like trying to imagine something.

1155
01:05:49,840 --> 01:05:52,919
Speaker 1: Right now, I'm trying to imagine like a gecko. I'm

1156
01:05:52,920 --> 01:05:57,600
Speaker 1: imagining the gecko lizard emojive. I can see it. This

1157
01:05:57,680 --> 01:05:59,680
Speaker 1: is a weird exercise to do right now. This feels

1158
01:05:59,720 --> 01:06:01,600
Speaker 1: kind of achadelic. I feel like I'm like entering and

1159
01:06:01,640 --> 01:06:04,280
Speaker 1: exiting my head because yeah, I can see it. I

1160
01:06:04,320 --> 01:06:09,600
Speaker 1: know what it feels like to imagine something. I guess

1161
01:06:09,600 --> 01:06:12,040
Speaker 1: I can't explain it. Is this a real condition?

1162
01:06:12,080 --> 01:06:12,160
Speaker 2: Now?

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01:06:12,200 --> 01:06:13,760
Speaker 1: I'm not saying you're lying, but I'm JUSTO, you know

1164
01:06:13,800 --> 01:06:17,080
Speaker 1: what I mean? Yeah, Okay, I'm googling it. Affantasia is

1165
01:06:17,080 --> 01:06:20,560
Speaker 1: the inability to form or access mental images in one's mind,

1166
01:06:20,760 --> 01:06:26,800
Speaker 1: often referred to as lacking a mind's eye. The phenomenon

1167
01:06:26,840 --> 01:06:32,000
Speaker 1: was first described by Francis Galton in eighteen eighty. Who

1168
01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:37,919
Speaker 1: the hell was this guy? Francis Galton? He's dead now,

1169
01:06:40,920 --> 01:06:44,080
Speaker 1: I don't know why. That's the only thing I have

1170
01:06:44,160 --> 01:06:46,520
Speaker 1: to say about him. I mean, it's not the only thing.

1171
01:06:46,520 --> 01:06:53,600
Speaker 1: He invented fanta and he's dead. He died in nineteen eleven.

1172
01:06:53,640 --> 01:06:57,800
Speaker 1: That's one hundred years ago. At least. He's known for

1173
01:06:57,960 --> 01:07:04,080
Speaker 1: regression towards the mean. Okay, we can stop reading about

1174
01:07:04,120 --> 01:07:13,080
Speaker 1: this guy. Thank you for sharing this. Ali. Okay, this

1175
01:07:13,120 --> 01:07:24,880
Speaker 1: is from Let's see. This is from Cherry. Subject line

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01:07:25,120 --> 01:07:29,480
Speaker 1: the void made me send this. Hi, Lyle, my name

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01:07:29,560 --> 01:07:31,520
Speaker 1: is Cherry, and I don't really know how to start

1178
01:07:31,560 --> 01:07:35,520
Speaker 1: this without sounding either incredibly self important or totally unhinged.

1179
01:07:35,960 --> 01:07:38,640
Speaker 1: Maybe both. I've listened to your show for a few

1180
01:07:38,760 --> 01:07:41,920
Speaker 1: years now, mostly at work, but also sometimes on long

1181
01:07:42,040 --> 01:07:45,000
Speaker 1: drives when I want to hear someone else speak fluently

1182
01:07:45,120 --> 01:07:48,440
Speaker 1: to the void. I know this is strange. I know

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01:07:48,560 --> 01:07:51,640
Speaker 1: I am strange, but I also know myself well enough

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01:07:51,640 --> 01:07:54,760
Speaker 1: to trust when I feel something important. And this feels

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01:07:54,840 --> 01:07:58,400
Speaker 1: important in the way weird things often do. I think

1186
01:07:58,440 --> 01:08:01,840
Speaker 1: we might be the same kind of person, whatever that means.

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01:08:02,280 --> 01:08:04,840
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to be dramatic. It's just the way

1188
01:08:04,880 --> 01:08:08,040
Speaker 1: you talk, the way your thoughts loop and land and

1189
01:08:08,120 --> 01:08:11,720
Speaker 1: reach sideways into the absurd and intimate at the same time.

1190
01:08:12,560 --> 01:08:15,600
Speaker 1: That is how I think. That's how I feel and navigate.

1191
01:08:16,000 --> 01:08:18,960
Speaker 1: Like we both tuned into the same haunted radio station

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01:08:19,080 --> 01:08:24,800
Speaker 1: and decided to keep listening. That's very poetic. This is

1193
01:08:25,760 --> 01:08:29,400
Speaker 1: let's keep going anyway. I'm rambling, I'm nervous, I definitely

1194
01:08:29,400 --> 01:08:31,719
Speaker 1: smoked a bowler two. But that doesn't mean I'm wrong.

1195
01:08:32,640 --> 01:08:35,280
Speaker 1: I'm not asking for anything, not trying to get on

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01:08:35,360 --> 01:08:38,760
Speaker 1: the show. I just don't often find my flavor of

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01:08:38,840 --> 01:08:41,439
Speaker 1: weird reflected in other people, and I guess I wanted

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01:08:41,439 --> 01:08:44,599
Speaker 1: to let you know that I exist somewhere out here,

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01:08:45,080 --> 01:08:49,800
Speaker 1: not expecting a reply, but also kind of hoping for one.

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01:08:49,960 --> 01:08:51,840
Speaker 1: Not a fan of talking on the phone, but maybe

1201
01:08:51,880 --> 01:08:53,759
Speaker 1: in the next life we can talk on the phone

1202
01:08:53,760 --> 01:08:56,680
Speaker 1: for approximately seven to thirty minutes. It's nice that she

1203
01:08:56,880 --> 01:09:05,280
Speaker 1: clocked exactly how much time most people here spend on

1204
01:09:05,360 --> 01:09:08,160
Speaker 1: the show talking. It's approximately seven to thirty minutes. Thanks

1205
01:09:08,160 --> 01:09:09,400
Speaker 1: for being one of the few people who makes you

1206
01:09:09,439 --> 01:09:12,640
Speaker 1: feel like less of an anomaly. PS. So sorry, I

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01:09:12,680 --> 01:09:22,640
Speaker 1: just reread that email. But fuck, are we ball Cherry?

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01:09:22,800 --> 01:09:25,479
Speaker 1: How do I respond to this? I don't know. I

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01:09:25,520 --> 01:09:27,240
Speaker 1: don't think it's that weird of an email. I don't

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01:09:27,240 --> 01:09:30,000
Speaker 1: think I don't think it's that particularly star. I don't

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01:09:30,000 --> 01:09:32,400
Speaker 1: think you would listen to the show. I think it's

1212
01:09:32,400 --> 01:09:35,120
Speaker 1: a legitimate reason to want to like to listen to like.

1213
01:09:35,160 --> 01:09:37,160
Speaker 1: When I think about like podcasts I listen to, or

1214
01:09:37,200 --> 01:09:39,920
Speaker 1: comedians I like, and things like that, I guess I do.

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01:09:40,000 --> 01:09:44,080
Speaker 1: I appreciate them because they have a similar I feel like,

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01:09:44,120 --> 01:09:46,719
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, I can see myself in this person's brain,

1217
01:09:47,479 --> 01:09:50,320
Speaker 1: So I don't think that's this is weird. You know

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01:09:50,920 --> 01:09:54,439
Speaker 1: this makes sense. I don't know if I have a

1219
01:09:54,439 --> 01:10:00,639
Speaker 1: good response to it, although I guess I just did respond.

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01:10:01,520 --> 01:10:03,400
Speaker 1: I hope you're doing all right, Cherry. It was very

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01:10:03,439 --> 01:10:06,160
Speaker 1: pigh like this. I like, I know that you feel

1222
01:10:06,400 --> 01:10:08,800
Speaker 1: weird about this email, but it's poetic. I like it.

1223
01:10:08,880 --> 01:10:11,960
Speaker 1: We both tuned into the same haunted radio station and

1224
01:10:12,000 --> 01:10:14,880
Speaker 1: decided to keep listening. It's it makes me think about

1225
01:10:14,880 --> 01:10:18,120
Speaker 1: how I'm being perceived when I talk on this fucking

1226
01:10:18,160 --> 01:10:23,479
Speaker 1: thing and I get I'm, I'm, I'm I'm this email.

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01:10:23,520 --> 01:10:26,120
Speaker 1: It makes me feel like it's a good perception. This

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01:10:26,200 --> 01:10:28,720
Speaker 1: email makes me feel like I exist. So okay, I'm good.

1229
01:10:28,760 --> 01:10:32,479
Speaker 1: I'm glad. This makes me feel like I also exist

1230
01:10:32,960 --> 01:10:36,479
Speaker 1: in a way. So thank you. Thank you for making

1231
01:10:36,520 --> 01:10:41,479
Speaker 1: me also feel as though I exist by reflecting that

1232
01:10:42,080 --> 01:10:47,040
Speaker 1: my existence somehow makes sense to you. You know what

1233
01:10:47,160 --> 01:10:56,880
Speaker 1: I mean? That was a mutually beneficial email. Okay, let's

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01:10:56,920 --> 01:11:04,599
Speaker 1: do one more, all right. This is from someone subject

1235
01:11:04,600 --> 01:11:07,280
Speaker 1: line I cut open dead people for a day and

1236
01:11:07,320 --> 01:11:10,400
Speaker 1: now I can't get over it. Hey Gek, I'm a

1237
01:11:10,439 --> 01:11:14,080
Speaker 1: pre med student working through my undergrad degree and recently

1238
01:11:15,040 --> 01:11:19,720
Speaker 1: shadowed a forensic pathologist, the type of doctor who does autopsies.

1239
01:11:20,320 --> 01:11:23,920
Speaker 1: It was an insanely eye opening experience, and though I've

1240
01:11:23,960 --> 01:11:27,920
Speaker 1: never had a fear of death, autopsying approximately ten people

1241
01:11:27,960 --> 01:11:30,559
Speaker 1: has really changed my perspective on a lot of things,

1242
01:11:31,120 --> 01:11:33,880
Speaker 1: mainly that we are all just bags of flesh and

1243
01:11:33,960 --> 01:11:37,320
Speaker 1: are way more fragile than we think we are. During

1244
01:11:37,360 --> 01:11:39,920
Speaker 1: the autopsies, you have to go through all the organs,

1245
01:11:39,960 --> 01:11:43,280
Speaker 1: plus cut the skull open and gross the brain, which

1246
01:11:43,320 --> 01:11:47,520
Speaker 1: is a very inhumane experience. Obviously, I know it's necessary

1247
01:11:47,560 --> 01:11:50,320
Speaker 1: to determine the cause of death, and I literally work

1248
01:11:50,360 --> 01:11:53,680
Speaker 1: with organs and tissues every day. Just something about the

1249
01:11:53,720 --> 01:11:57,920
Speaker 1: physical dismemberment of a human is mentally jarring, and every

1250
01:11:57,960 --> 01:12:00,280
Speaker 1: instinct you have is screaming at you to see stop

1251
01:12:00,320 --> 01:12:03,439
Speaker 1: and run, kind of like the whole Uncanny Valley thing,

1252
01:12:03,760 --> 01:12:07,520
Speaker 1: which comes from our recognition of decaying humans and subsequent

1253
01:12:07,960 --> 01:12:12,639
Speaker 1: flight response. Halfway through the workday, I went to grab

1254
01:12:12,720 --> 01:12:14,679
Speaker 1: lunch and it all hit me. At the same time

1255
01:12:16,439 --> 01:12:20,120
Speaker 1: I was trying to eat a spam musubi, which apparently

1256
01:12:20,160 --> 01:12:23,920
Speaker 1: has the same fleshy sponginess as livers do. I couldn't

1257
01:12:23,920 --> 01:12:26,760
Speaker 1: eat meat for weeks, and I couldn't stop thinking about

1258
01:12:26,760 --> 01:12:28,880
Speaker 1: how everyone in that morgue were people I could have

1259
01:12:28,880 --> 01:12:32,080
Speaker 1: had classes with or passed on the street. I think

1260
01:12:32,120 --> 01:12:34,880
Speaker 1: about those patients and their families every day, and the

1261
01:12:34,960 --> 01:12:38,160
Speaker 1: experience has made me so much more passionate about medicine,

1262
01:12:38,240 --> 01:12:41,599
Speaker 1: because half of those deaths were completely medically avoidable if

1263
01:12:41,600 --> 01:12:44,760
Speaker 1: those people received the correct care. I don't regret the

1264
01:12:44,800 --> 01:12:47,200
Speaker 1: experience at all, but I don't think I'll ever really

1265
01:12:47,200 --> 01:12:53,599
Speaker 1: be the same. Do you have any thoughts. Well, I'm

1266
01:12:53,600 --> 01:13:00,680
Speaker 1: gonna have a billion thoughts. It's all shit I've been

1267
01:13:00,720 --> 01:13:03,400
Speaker 1: talking about on here before. But yeah, I think a

1268
01:13:03,439 --> 01:13:07,920
Speaker 1: lot about our own fragility. I try not to. I

1269
01:13:08,000 --> 01:13:14,519
Speaker 1: try not to, because, like bro coming to terms with

1270
01:13:14,600 --> 01:13:17,320
Speaker 1: your own fragility as a human being and the fragility

1271
01:13:17,360 --> 01:13:20,360
Speaker 1: of the universe and the transient nature of time and

1272
01:13:20,400 --> 01:13:24,160
Speaker 1: all this existential stuff. It's a crazy ride, I think,

1273
01:13:24,200 --> 01:13:26,360
Speaker 1: if you're alive, I think it's a good ride to take,

1274
01:13:26,800 --> 01:13:30,840
Speaker 1: but it becomes at at some point just like incompatible

1275
01:13:30,960 --> 01:13:35,800
Speaker 1: with like normal ass life and I got to that.

1276
01:13:35,960 --> 01:13:37,880
Speaker 1: I got to that point and I thought I would

1277
01:13:37,880 --> 01:13:39,800
Speaker 1: never be able to leave it, and I and I did,

1278
01:13:40,000 --> 01:13:41,400
Speaker 1: and that not you know, I don't know if I

1279
01:13:41,400 --> 01:13:43,160
Speaker 1: ever left it whatever, but I thought I would never

1280
01:13:43,200 --> 01:13:48,120
Speaker 1: be able to just like live normal fucking human being

1281
01:13:48,400 --> 01:13:55,919
Speaker 1: life after having really felt like I went there mentally.

1282
01:13:58,120 --> 01:14:00,680
Speaker 1: But now I have, and it's it's good. It's good

1283
01:14:00,720 --> 01:14:02,280
Speaker 1: to know. I think you should take the ride if

1284
01:14:02,320 --> 01:14:06,400
Speaker 1: you'd never taken the ride. But yeah, I try not

1285
01:14:06,479 --> 01:14:08,640
Speaker 1: to think about this stuff as much as I I

1286
01:14:08,680 --> 01:14:10,000
Speaker 1: try to know, I don't try not to think about

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Speaker 1: the stuff. I try to think about the stuff optimally,

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Speaker 1: try to think about the stuff just enough to keep

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Speaker 1: my ass in shape and ignore it just enough to

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Speaker 1: keep my ass sane. You know, I'm glad it's made

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Speaker 1: you more passionate. And the fact that you say you

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01:14:27,280 --> 01:14:28,960
Speaker 1: won't ever be the same, I don't think. I don't

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Speaker 1: think I'm the same after having my crazy, fucking existential crisis.

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Speaker 1: But that's good, but you but I feel. But I

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01:14:34,880 --> 01:14:36,920
Speaker 1: also I think in order to go there, I had

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01:14:36,920 --> 01:14:39,640
Speaker 1: to lose touch with certain parts of myself, and that

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01:14:39,680 --> 01:14:42,760
Speaker 1: felt scary. The idea that I would uh that in

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01:14:42,840 --> 01:14:46,080
Speaker 1: order to gain this kind of clarity, I had to

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01:14:46,320 --> 01:14:49,400
Speaker 1: give give away certain things, but I got I got

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Speaker 1: all that stuff back. I feel so I feel like

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01:14:52,560 --> 01:14:59,640
Speaker 1: I'm not. I feel like i'm not. I feel like

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01:14:59,680 --> 01:15:03,439
Speaker 1: I've been come more whole as a result of kind

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01:15:03,479 --> 01:15:09,400
Speaker 1: of facing my own fragility. I haven't fucking faid. I

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01:15:09,439 --> 01:15:11,040
Speaker 1: don't think I would want to face it in the

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01:15:11,080 --> 01:15:14,639
Speaker 1: way that you have faced it. I'm sorry. That's a lot.

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01:15:14,680 --> 01:15:17,240
Speaker 1: That's a lot, but uh, you know you're you're in medicine.

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01:15:17,240 --> 01:15:19,760
Speaker 1: It's what you do. Uh, And it's a noble thing

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01:15:19,800 --> 01:15:21,040
Speaker 1: to do what you do. I mean, I don't want

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01:15:21,040 --> 01:15:22,800
Speaker 1: to That's that's why it's noble. I don't want to

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01:15:22,800 --> 01:15:25,679
Speaker 1: fucking do it. So, but someone has to do. Someone

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01:15:25,720 --> 01:15:29,479
Speaker 1: has to cut open dead guys. Someone has to do it, bro,

1312
01:15:30,520 --> 01:15:33,240
Speaker 1: someone has to cut open dead guys. And I'm glad,

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01:15:33,400 --> 01:15:35,519
Speaker 1: and I am glad that it's you and it's not me,

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01:15:36,240 --> 01:15:39,160
Speaker 1: And it's noble of it to be you. So you

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01:15:39,200 --> 01:15:41,519
Speaker 1: should be proud of yourself for cutting open dead folks.

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01:15:41,520 --> 01:15:44,639
Speaker 1: It's not an easy thing to do, and I'm glad

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01:15:44,680 --> 01:15:47,240
Speaker 1: that it's made you more passionate. Let that be Look,

1318
01:15:47,400 --> 01:15:49,560
Speaker 1: because that's the thing, right is like you you you

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01:15:50,000 --> 01:15:55,479
Speaker 1: face it and you're fucking terrifying, but you're using it

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01:15:55,520 --> 01:15:58,559
Speaker 1: to actually like do work. And that's when you're the

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01:15:58,640 --> 01:16:00,679
Speaker 1: least terrified, I think, is when you're in the flow

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01:16:00,720 --> 01:16:03,680
Speaker 1: state and when you're working, and when you're like have

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01:16:03,760 --> 01:16:06,960
Speaker 1: some kind of mission, right, Because you could easily open

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01:16:06,960 --> 01:16:09,719
Speaker 1: look at all these dead people and have it drag

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01:16:09,800 --> 01:16:14,120
Speaker 1: you into nihilism. But it didn't. It dragged you quite

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Speaker 1: the opposite, into into being passionate about keeping people alive.

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Speaker 1: You know, that's awesome. I think that's great. So that's

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Speaker 1: my thoughts on this email is that you know, what

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01:16:26,160 --> 01:16:29,240
Speaker 1: you experienced sounds like it was really jarring and crazy

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01:16:29,280 --> 01:16:34,920
Speaker 1: and life altering in terms of your perception of life.

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01:16:35,320 --> 01:16:37,920
Speaker 1: But it didn't fucking take you into nihilism. It didn't

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01:16:37,960 --> 01:16:39,479
Speaker 1: make you go, we're all bags of flesh and we

1333
01:16:39,520 --> 01:16:41,559
Speaker 1: don't fucking matter. It took you deeper into your own

1334
01:16:41,640 --> 01:16:45,240
Speaker 1: fucking humanity. That's what I love about this email is

1335
01:16:45,280 --> 01:16:49,559
Speaker 1: it took you deeper into your own humanity. Humanity being

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01:16:49,600 --> 01:16:51,960
Speaker 1: a thing that you know is kind of beyond us

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01:16:51,960 --> 01:16:56,720
Speaker 1: that we don't understand. That's like getting us away from

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01:16:56,720 --> 01:17:01,040
Speaker 1: our own nihilism and into let's fucking do something, you know,

1339
01:17:01,600 --> 01:17:06,599
Speaker 1: let's let's keep being more passionate about medicine and fucking

1340
01:17:07,040 --> 01:17:09,760
Speaker 1: making it so less people die. It's cool. I like it.

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01:17:10,439 --> 01:17:11,880
Speaker 1: I think I think I think you took a good

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01:17:11,880 --> 01:17:19,880
Speaker 1: direction with it. I saw it. I saw a dead chicken,

1343
01:17:21,560 --> 01:17:24,720
Speaker 1: like it's a raw dead chicken, and I was like, yo,

1344
01:17:24,760 --> 01:17:26,519
Speaker 1: it's crazy. How like you go to chick fil a

1345
01:17:26,640 --> 01:17:29,479
Speaker 1: and like everything's like white and nice and polished and

1346
01:17:30,400 --> 01:17:32,840
Speaker 1: like that, Like there's marketing and they have like Instagram,

1347
01:17:32,960 --> 01:17:35,559
Speaker 1: you know, and it's like a like the capital the

1348
01:17:35,600 --> 01:17:40,120
Speaker 1: capitalistic guysation whatever of like killing a bunch of chickens

1349
01:17:40,600 --> 01:17:43,080
Speaker 1: to make it like a nice, fun, happy, cool thing,

1350
01:17:44,439 --> 01:17:47,479
Speaker 1: even though it's like killing a bunch of fucking living things.

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01:17:48,240 --> 01:17:50,639
Speaker 1: It's kind of crazy. I don't say that. I'm totally

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01:17:50,720 --> 01:17:52,439
Speaker 1: I love Chick fil A. I'm gonna keep eating there

1353
01:17:52,520 --> 01:17:56,360
Speaker 1: and enjoying it and loving loving it. I might go

1354
01:17:56,360 --> 01:17:58,640
Speaker 1: there right after this. I'm not. This isn't like a

1355
01:17:58,640 --> 01:18:00,599
Speaker 1: peta rant, but it is. You gotta think about it

1356
01:18:00,640 --> 01:18:04,960
Speaker 1: is kind of crazy. All right. That's the podcast. That's it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you all for listening, Thanks for being here. My

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01:18:07,720 --> 01:18:12,400
Speaker 1: name is Lyle. I'm a gecko. I don't know. If

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01:18:12,439 --> 01:18:16,439
Speaker 1: I don't have anything else to say, uh, follow me

1360
01:18:16,479 --> 01:18:18,800
Speaker 1: on YouTube YouTube dot com slash Lyle forever. That's what

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01:18:18,840 --> 01:18:22,840
Speaker 1: I'm gonna post all of my Iraq stuff. I'll i'll

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01:18:22,840 --> 01:18:25,240
Speaker 1: talk about it more if someone calls in and asks

1363
01:18:25,280 --> 01:18:28,679
Speaker 1: me about it. I can't really just I'm not gonna

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01:18:28,720 --> 01:18:31,320
Speaker 1: rant about it, but I'll also talk about it on

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01:18:31,360 --> 01:18:33,519
Speaker 1: that video when I put it out in a month. Anyway, whatever,

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01:18:34,080 --> 01:18:38,040
Speaker 1: I'm Lyle, I'm crazy. I'm a gecko. Thanks for listening.

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Speaker 1: See you again Wednesday. Gek bless everythin goes on the line,

1368
01:18:44,360 --> 01:18:48,760
Speaker 1: thanking your phone calls every night. Everything goes, And I'm

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Speaker 1: teaching you a loud mean of your line expert