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Speaker 1: All right, let's get into the episode.
Speaker 3: Hello, Hi, Hi, how are you. I'm really good?
Speaker 2: How are you, Lyle? I'm doing better now that I
Speaker 2: am awake and alert.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that made any fucking sense, but
Speaker 1: what are you.
Speaker 3: Doing it's us. I'm putting together an Ikea table. I'm
Speaker 3: hanging out with my cat. He's turning nineteen in a
Speaker 3: few weeks.
Speaker 2: You guys turning nineteen? How old do cats live too?
Speaker 2: That's a depressing question that asked.
Speaker 1: But I'm curious, So.
Speaker 3: I adopted him when he was seventeen. I read that
Speaker 3: they become senior when they're twelve. The average, like expected,
Speaker 3: I guess, like lifespan is fifteen. But he's just chugging along.
Speaker 2: M okay, what what you all right? Say?
Speaker 1: You got a cat that's old?
Speaker 2: Well, have you have you had the cat for nineteen
Speaker 2: years or did you like find him when he was
Speaker 2: fifteen or so?
Speaker 3: No? No, so I only adopted him about a year ago.
Speaker 3: My aunt was fostering him her one of her best
Speaker 3: friends runs like a foster you know, organization for cats. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and this family abandoned the cat. He gave like a
Speaker 3: bunch of weird reasons, but including like, oh well, it's
Speaker 3: like our daughter's cat and she got into drugs or something.
Speaker 3: And then they also said that their other cat had
Speaker 3: just died and they didn't want to go through it again.
Speaker 3: But then I was reading his vet records and they
Speaker 3: were like super rich and like taking him for like
Speaker 3: cat acupuncture and chiropractic adjustments and feeding him this like
Speaker 3: raw organic turkey stuff. I don't know, it was. The
Speaker 3: whole situation was pretty weird, but overall, they just abandoned him.
Speaker 3: And then I met him because my aunt was fostering him,
Speaker 3: and I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 2: So they so they so they I Here's what I'm
Speaker 2: curious about is they gave the cat up for adoption
Speaker 2: to a foster cat place.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so, oh, okay, that's not I wouldn't and
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 2: I feel like that's not a bad When you say
Speaker 2: a band in the cat, I thought like they put
Speaker 2: him in the dumpsters.
Speaker 3: But like if you're like, I agree, yeah, that that
Speaker 3: I agree that makes sense. But also there's like there's
Speaker 3: so many animals that need homes. It's like, you can't
Speaker 3: take care of your own cat for like a couple
Speaker 3: more years.
Speaker 2: But I don't know I would, well can I And
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know anything about dogs.
Speaker 2: But it wouldn't it if the family knows that they
Speaker 2: can't take good care of the cat, wouldn't it be
Speaker 2: better for them to give up the cat to somebody
Speaker 2: who can do it competently.
Speaker 3: Yes, but the family was rich and they just didn't
Speaker 3: want to watch the cat pass away.
Speaker 2: Ooh, oh you know what that's made it. That is
Speaker 2: kind of that makes a lot of sense to Yeah,
Speaker 2: they they getting all the good parts in and then
Speaker 2: when it's time for the cat to die, they're like,
Speaker 2: let somebody else do the sad stuff.
Speaker 3: Right wait here he is, he's going to say, hello,
Speaker 3: give him me out, Sammy's he's sniffing my phone. You'll
Speaker 3: hear him me out in a minute. But yeah, so
Speaker 3: he's he's a little sick right now. But he's like,
Speaker 3: my love and joy. He looks like a four year
Speaker 3: old cat. And I'm only twenty two, so he's like,
Speaker 3: we're only four years apart because I'm about to turn
Speaker 3: twenty three. And so he came to college with me,
Speaker 3: and so he was like a little celebrity. We were
Speaker 3: calling him freshman boy living with the senior girl.
Speaker 2: That's kind of funny that, you guys, I didn't I
Speaker 2: didn't even realize that. Yeah, you guys are pretty close
Speaker 2: in age. I'm sure you have a lot of Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, if he weren't a cat you'd probably have a.
Speaker 1: Lot in common.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, it'd be a little kenchy, he'd be like
Speaker 3: a little barely legal, but it'd be fine.
Speaker 2: So okay, so they pawned. They pawn the depressing stuff
Speaker 2: off to youkud look and look, you know, say what
Speaker 2: you will about it.
Speaker 1: But that, I mean, that's kind of a smart move
Speaker 1: on their part.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess so, because the only because the main
Speaker 2: I mean that the main con of having uh, you know,
Speaker 2: an adorable animal friend is that it will inevitably die
Speaker 2: a slow, painful death, leaving you with tears and grief.
Speaker 1: People, what if people did.
Speaker 2: That with their family members. I guess they kind of do, Like, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's what's hospices.
Speaker 3: I guess I think this is like a more humane thing.
Speaker 3: I feel like it's like nursing homes where it's like
Speaker 3: like and I worked as an EMT for a while,
Speaker 3: and like there's so many and I mean, like, of course,
Speaker 3: a lot of people are in situations where they have
Speaker 3: to like give their family members, like to a home,
Speaker 3: but like, you know, like there's a lot of people
Speaker 3: who will like keep their elderly family members alive for
Speaker 3: a very long time, who could easily just like go
Speaker 3: into hospice and like pass like a dignified, peaceful death,
Speaker 3: but instead they want to keep like ninety year old
Speaker 3: Papa on like e ventilator and dialysis.
Speaker 2: Okay, wait a mate, here's okay, now you're here's the thing.
Speaker 2: You're flipping on me here because you're you were anti
Speaker 2: the rich people taking care of the cat and they didn't.
Speaker 2: You were you were anti the rich people take taken
Speaker 2: giving the cat away, but you're like with the person,
Speaker 2: you should give them away to the hospice and not
Speaker 2: take care of them. So you have opposing viewpoints for
Speaker 2: how to you know, properly deal with an old cat
Speaker 2: versus an old guy.
Speaker 3: See, I feel like I don't think my points are
Speaker 3: completely opposing, because what I'd say is, like I mean,
Speaker 3: with this cat, like I'm taking care of him, but
Speaker 3: like I'm not gonna put him through like hell with
Speaker 3: medical treatments and everything and like chemo and shit, Like
Speaker 3: I never do that to him, right, Like I just
Speaker 3: let him like ride it out and everything. But like
Speaker 3: since I care about him, like I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 3: watch him get sick and I'm gonna watch be there
Speaker 3: for him and take care of him because he's my
Speaker 3: loved one and everything. But like you know and like,
Speaker 3: but like for a human like, I think that like
Speaker 3: you should, you should take care of your loved ones
Speaker 3: and everything, and you should let them like pass like
Speaker 3: a dignified, peaceful death. But there's people who like will
Speaker 3: pawn them off but still make their family members go
Speaker 3: through a bunch of shit. But I guess it's different.
Speaker 3: I guess they're different things. I think I did go
Speaker 3: on a tangent with the old people's stuff.
Speaker 2: Well, no, I took those the rich people who gave
Speaker 2: you the cat to watch stuff, to watch suffer. They
Speaker 2: would call you a sucker, but I don't think that's true.
Speaker 2: I think there is dignity in watching a cat die
Speaker 2: that somebody else raised. Here's what I was thinking. Here's
Speaker 2: what I was thinking is have you ever seen Have
Speaker 2: you ever seen Garfield to a Tale of Two Kiddies?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: Should I?
Speaker 2: Well, I, I, well, I haven't either, but I've seen
Speaker 2: the poster for it, and the poster seems to imply
Speaker 2: I think the plot of that movie is I think
Speaker 2: the plot of that movie is similar. Again, haven't seen it,
Speaker 2: but I think it's similar to your exact situation because
Speaker 2: it's about like a rich, aristocratic, aristocat cat who like
Speaker 2: trades places with Garfield, who's like, you know, I guess
Speaker 2: a a sort of middle lives a middle class existence,
Speaker 2: and the and the rich cat now has to deal with,
Speaker 2: you know, eating tu an ad of a can where
Speaker 2: he was, you know, before, prepared these elegant meals and whatnot.
Speaker 2: And this kind of remind this reminds me a little
Speaker 2: bit of like the rich This was like a rich,
Speaker 2: pampered cat and now he's like living in a college dorm,
Speaker 2: you know, eating ramen with the rest of us.
Speaker 3: I kept him, I did keep him on his bougie food.
Speaker 3: I spoiled you cat.
Speaker 2: Oh you did? What? How do you what kind of
Speaker 2: bogie food does he eat? What do you kind of Jenny's?
Speaker 3: It cost me twenty a week. It's fine. It's like
Speaker 3: really not the end of the world. And it's got
Speaker 3: it's made. I literally am looking at my friend right now.
Speaker 3: It's raw organic turkey with like alfalfa sprouts and papayas
Speaker 3: and almond meal and stuff. And I also the old
Speaker 3: family also like had kept him only in one bedroom
Speaker 3: because they would also sedate him because he like baby
Speaker 3: clawed him right, so they called his claw out with
Speaker 3: ethical right. I went through his whole of that record,
Speaker 3: and they would sedate him in the morning because he
Speaker 3: nibbles on your face to wake you up, and they
Speaker 3: didn't like that. But I get this, count all toys.
Speaker 3: He has the run of the house. Who's a college celebrity.
Speaker 3: He had an eighteenth birthday party. We had a little
Speaker 3: eighteenth birthday rager. And yeah, I still give him his
Speaker 3: organic food. So Sandy is living it up.
Speaker 2: I have a question. You said it's unethical to declaw
Speaker 2: a cat. Do you think and a genuine question, do
Speaker 2: you think it's unethical to neuter a dog?
Speaker 3: Do I think it's unethical to neuter a dog? I
Speaker 3: haven't even, like, I guess mentally gone down that rabbit hole,
Speaker 3: but I don't. Maybe it's not a rabbit hole. I
Speaker 3: guess it's like an important thing.
Speaker 1: A dog hole.
Speaker 3: More so, Yeah, I feel like it's not because there's
Speaker 3: so many like dogs who like, like the whole purpose
Speaker 3: of like neutering dogs is so that like they don't
Speaker 3: continue to like reproduce because there's so many already like
Speaker 3: stray dogs, Whereas like neutering a cat is like I mean,
Speaker 3: not neutering. Declawing a cat is like taking off like
Speaker 3: our fingernails.
Speaker 2: Like I'm I feel like this whole call, I've been
Speaker 2: arguing with you.
Speaker 1: I don't mean to do that.
Speaker 3: No, that's okay. I love this.
Speaker 1: Okay, good, okay, God, I'm glad you enjoy this, because Kyle,
Speaker 1: I love you.
Speaker 3: I'm just thrilled to be talking to you.
Speaker 2: I'm thrilled to be talking to you too. I hope
Speaker 2: you don't think I'm being combative, but I'm all. I
Speaker 2: am very curious because here's the thing. And I know
Speaker 2: you say it's because you say it's unethical to declaw cat,
Speaker 2: but it's fine to neuter a dog. If somebody, if
Speaker 2: I had the choice between getting my fingernails clipped off
Speaker 2: or my penis cut off, I would choose the fingernails.
Speaker 3: But it's not that there. Here's the thing, though, it's
Speaker 3: not your penis cut off. It's like getting what's it called,
Speaker 3: what's a vasectomy? It's a aseectomy, and like a visectomy
Speaker 3: is like not that bad, right, Like you can get
Speaker 3: that shit reversed. I don't know if dogs can get
Speaker 3: it reversed. But apparently like you just need like a
Speaker 3: bag of frozen teas on your ball for like the rest.
Speaker 5: Of the day, where you can wait?
Speaker 2: You can? Can you? Can you reverse neuter a dog?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna google that. I'm probably gonna be put on
Speaker 2: some kind of fucking weird list of weird dog Can
Speaker 2: you de neuter?
Speaker 1: How do you spell neuter a dog?
Speaker 3: Gu r T E R? I don't know, No, it
Speaker 3: would be r t e R.
Speaker 6: Just be t e R.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm seeing Okay, can you can you de neuter
Speaker 2: a dog? Can you un neuter a dog? Male dogs
Speaker 2: cannot be unnutered. Neutering involves removing the reproductive organs entirely,
Speaker 2: and it is irreverse however, so yeah, so it's irreverse
Speaker 2: however of a sectomy. Of a sectomy leaves the testes
Speaker 2: and text, so the body still has normal Yeah, apparently
Speaker 2: they they they by the way, don't I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be hard on yourself for not knowing that
Speaker 2: much about neutering a dog, because it would be it
Speaker 2: would be strange if you knew a lot about neutering dogs.
Speaker 2: So unless I was, unless you were a vet like
Speaker 2: a human now. Now, now, here's what the clause. Can
Speaker 2: the claws grow back?
Speaker 3: No, No, they're permanently removed.
Speaker 2: It's not like fingernails. They can't just move but grow back.
Speaker 3: No, it's like they pulled them off, like like I
Speaker 3: personally imagine it, like they pulled them out like with clyires,
Speaker 3: like in the you know, like the scary movies where
Speaker 3: they're torturing people like they and at least cats apparently
Speaker 3: with like long term psychological issues. Here we go, so
Speaker 3: like if your cat goes stray, like they can't defend themselves,
Speaker 3: they're just kind of screwed. But it's it's literally only
Speaker 3: so they don't scratch up your furniture.
Speaker 2: The Humane Society says Decloine can cause paw pain, back pain, infection,
Speaker 2: and lameness. That's weird. That just says lameness. Removing clause
Speaker 2: improperly removed claw Apparently improperly removed clause can regrow.
Speaker 5: Interesting.
Speaker 2: I don't know what that means. I don't know if
Speaker 2: that what that means exactly.
Speaker 3: Though, but maybe they didn't like take the whole thing out.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, either way, you know, I'm glad. I'm glad
Speaker 2: as human beings. That you know, we don't have to
Speaker 2: worry about getting new it or.
Speaker 3: Declaud Yeah, at least not day age.
Speaker 1: At least not in this day and age.
Speaker 2: And you know, in a fucking we we're we're That's
Speaker 2: a that's a privilege we have as people in America,
Speaker 2: is that we don't have to get you know, declaude our.
Speaker 3: God given right as Americans.
Speaker 2: Well, let's see, we talked for about fifteen minutes about
Speaker 2: your cat. I want to before we go, is there
Speaker 2: anything else that you wanted to talk about? I know
Speaker 2: that we kind of just talked about. I wasn't expecting
Speaker 2: to talk to you about, uh, dog neutering, but you know,
Speaker 2: I'm glad we did. Is there anything else that you
Speaker 2: wanted to kind of talk about? I wanted to give
Speaker 2: you the opportunity for that if something was floating around
Speaker 2: in your brain.
Speaker 3: Oh, thank you. I don't have anything particularly like like
Speaker 3: weigh on me right now that I need to talk about.
Speaker 3: I figured out if you have any questions for like
Speaker 3: an EMTIERR ski patroller, I can answer.
Speaker 5: Those if you ever have.
Speaker 2: You're you're a ski patroller. Yeah, have you seen a
Speaker 2: lot of like fucked up things?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Not too much. I've seen more fucked up things
Speaker 3: as an EMT, not as much as a ski patroller,
Speaker 3: but I have. I've been doing this is actually I
Speaker 3: just finished my seventh year. I just volunteer. I do
Speaker 3: twenty Yoah wait.
Speaker 1: You finished it? How old can I ask you? Can
Speaker 1: I ask you how old you are?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: That's fine.
Speaker 3: I'm turning twenty three in May. But I started when
Speaker 3: I was sixteen. You can actually start when you're fifteen
Speaker 3: as a ski patroller, but you're not allowed to have
Speaker 3: patience on your own till you're sixteen.
Speaker 2: Dude, you're telling me I could be fuck you're telling
Speaker 2: me I could get fucking decapitated and they would send
Speaker 2: a sixteen year old.
Speaker 3: I swear to god. I had a guy. I had
Speaker 3: literally I was literally like seventeen, and I had a
Speaker 3: sixteen year old who is like unconsciousness of the head injury,
Speaker 3: and like it's like, y'all trust me with this stuff.
Speaker 1: Holy shit.
Speaker 3: The protocols for like ems aren't like too hard, you know,
Speaker 3: like to become an EMT. It's like really like it's
Speaker 3: like a three month full time class.
Speaker 2: So wait, so there was so there was a sixteen
Speaker 2: year old kid with like head trauma and you were
Speaker 2: seventeen and they sent you Yes, holy shit, So did
Speaker 2: they just send you like you are alone?
Speaker 3: I was the first one there and then I called,
Speaker 3: you know, I mean, so what the way it goes
Speaker 3: at my mountain all least is they send one person
Speaker 3: to check and see like what we need and to
Speaker 3: like keep the person stable or do CPR whatever you
Speaker 3: need at that moment, and then they call on the
Speaker 3: radio for some more people or just one other. You
Speaker 3: most calls you only need two people because you need
Speaker 3: two people on the sled most of the time. But
Speaker 3: I of course called for way more people.
Speaker 2: Dude, if I were sixteen and they sent me to
Speaker 2: like if I were if I were sixteen and they
Speaker 2: sent me to like talk to like a kid who
Speaker 2: had head trauma, I would be like, we need an adult.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. It was. It was really interesting,
Speaker 3: but it was I think the cop like being trusted
Speaker 3: with that and like training for that at such a
Speaker 3: young age like instilled me with a lot of confidence
Speaker 3: that I've like carried on to have today. And it's
Speaker 3: one of the best things I've ever done for myself.
Speaker 3: I love it. There's people who like started doing it
Speaker 3: when they were like sixteen eighteen. We have one guy
Speaker 3: on our team who's like eighty five, and he's like
Speaker 3: not seeing anymore, but he's still like helping run the clinic.
Speaker 3: It's insane. People just do it forever.
Speaker 5: I love it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's weird being trusted with that at a young age.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be I would be.
Speaker 2: I'd probably have a fucking heart attack and they'd have
Speaker 2: to send three other folks.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Somebody in the chad.
Speaker 2: Said, would you rather the seventeen year old comedy the
Speaker 2: eighty five year old? I'd probably rather the eighty five
Speaker 2: year old.
Speaker 3: I don't know. It depends on which eighty five year old. Like,
Speaker 3: we have some of these guys on our team who
Speaker 3: are older, like I would trust with like delivering my child,
Speaker 3: and they are not even like doctors or anything. I
Speaker 3: would just let them because I'm like, I trust you.
Speaker 3: It just depends on the person. I guess, yes. But
Speaker 3: like here's the thing, like there's a medical care and
Speaker 3: then they're getting down the mountain in this led which
Speaker 3: quad do you trust more?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I guess that's if if we're talking about like physically
Speaker 2: needing to trans for transfer you down a place or
Speaker 2: up a place. You know that that would make sense. Now,
Speaker 2: why tell me why has it been such a great
Speaker 2: experience for you? It's like I guess you said it
Speaker 2: gave you. It gave you the confidence to like deal
Speaker 2: with crazy shit.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, and I've met some amazing people. It helped me.
Speaker 3: It helps me a lot through nursing school having that background,
Speaker 3: and I just accepted my first nursing job. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: be in a pediatric ic you, and I'm kind of like, like,
Speaker 3: you know, just I'm kind of like, all right, well,
Speaker 3: if I could do that as a sixteen year old,
Speaker 3: I could figure anything else out.
Speaker 2: You know, You're gonna be in a pediatric ice you.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Are you residency though?
Speaker 2: Are you? I?
Speaker 1: I I hmmm? Are you do you?
Speaker 2: Are you gonna see some like really kind of fucked
Speaker 2: up shit?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean like you are. I kind of like
Speaker 3: just already kind of have in my career and like
Speaker 3: my perspective on it is like, are like, like fucked
Speaker 3: up shit happens regardless of all the time. I can't
Speaker 3: watch one orders for you. That shit makes me cry,
Speaker 3: But like being able to help in those moments, like
Speaker 3: just it doesn't bother me as much because I'm able
Speaker 3: to be in control of the situation and do something
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 4: Mmm.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 2: I so so so you can't watch law and Orders
Speaker 2: for you because it's like even though it's fake, you're like, oh,
Speaker 2: I'm just a passive observer of these these horrors, but
Speaker 2: at least you know in the ICU, You're like, oh,
Speaker 2: this is really fucked up, but I can do something
Speaker 2: about it, exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I can't stand and watch a code. I
Speaker 3: have to be doing something or like tears will fall
Speaker 3: down my face like it's already happened, Like I can't.
Speaker 3: When I was a nursing student, like and I had
Speaker 3: to watch a code once, I was like I can't
Speaker 3: watch this, Like I started crying. But like if I've
Speaker 3: run codes by myself, you know, since I was eighteen,
Speaker 3: and like it's been fine.
Speaker 2: You know what is what is code?
Speaker 3: A code on the ambulance, it usually means like CPR
Speaker 3: in progress because I did ski patrol an ambulance while
Speaker 3: I was in nursing school. But in the hospital it
Speaker 3: could be like a stroke code. It could be you know,
Speaker 3: just like it depends kind of like where you are,
Speaker 3: Like what terminology. It could be that someone's like bleeding
Speaker 3: out and about to you know, like go into cardiac arrest,
Speaker 3: but code usually means cardiac arrest in my experience so
Speaker 3: far at least.
Speaker 2: Hmm. Okay, well, you know I like this perspective because, yeah,
Speaker 2: you're very brave to do that, because, like you know,
Speaker 2: I mean, it's true, fucked up shit happens. And I've
Speaker 2: all I've always thought about, like, you know, the people
Speaker 2: who like show up at the scenes of like, you know,
Speaker 2: crazy crazy things, and like how that must affect them.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 2: But the way that you the way that you talk
Speaker 2: about it, where you're like, I'm not as scared of
Speaker 2: it because I know what to do and I can
Speaker 2: actually like go in and help as opposed to just
Speaker 2: being a like like you were talking about, kind of
Speaker 2: a passive observer of of of these uh these codes.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 1: I'm glad.
Speaker 2: I'm glad that folks like you exist so that, you know,
Speaker 2: when I get a paper cut someone someone's brave enough
Speaker 2: to help me out and not you know, too grossed out.
Speaker 3: Thank you man. Yeah, I don't know. It's also just exciting.
Speaker 3: I mean, like a lot of people who do it,
Speaker 3: just enjoy it a lot. It's interesting, it's fun. A
Speaker 3: lot of people like the pride that comes out of it,
Speaker 3: and I do too. But yeah, it's nice being able
Speaker 3: to do something you just have to study outside of
Speaker 3: work a lot and lean on your training.
Speaker 2: Well, this was a pleasure talking to you about dog
Speaker 2: penises and being an EMT. What is your what is
Speaker 2: your name.
Speaker 3: Against It's Michaela my real name today.
Speaker 2: Oh, I was going you could have given me a
Speaker 2: fake now. I mean, if you don't want to use
Speaker 2: your name, I can, I can cut it out.
Speaker 1: But I mean, also, there's no one.
Speaker 3: Heard this the combination of the nineteen year old cat
Speaker 3: and the ski patroller and nursing. They'd be like, oh,
Speaker 3: that's Michaela. So it's fine. I'm coming to your show
Speaker 3: in New York.
Speaker 2: So I'll see, that'll be That'll be awesome, great, great, great,
Speaker 2: I'm excited. See. Okay, So I'm gonna I'm gonna say
Speaker 2: this and I'm going to try to hold myself to it.
Speaker 1: Uh and I funk.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I talked about this in a podcast, storry,
Speaker 2: but whatever. People. As I've been on the tour, people
Speaker 2: have been coming up to me and being like, oh,
Speaker 2: we talked on the phone before. Do you remember me?
Speaker 2: And actually half the time I do. Like I met
Speaker 2: I met the girl who drank somebody's blood. I met
Speaker 2: the guy whose sister was addicted to VR video games.
Speaker 2: I met this dude who he and I both licked
Speaker 2: an Xbox controller over the phone together. Like I've been,
Speaker 2: I've been meeting folks and half the time I don't remember,
Speaker 2: but half the time I do. So if you if
Speaker 2: you're like, hey, we talked about neutering dogs and being
Speaker 2: an EMT, I am pretty sure I'll remember. So if
Speaker 2: jog say that this was you, I won't remember your name,
Speaker 2: but I will remember what we talked about.
Speaker 3: That is totally fine. I am thrilled. I'm excited. Thank
Speaker 3: you so much for giving me the time and everything.
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Speaker 2: all the skeeech all the children. Thank you for saving
Speaker 2: the mountain children are our future.
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: You Bye bye.
Speaker 4: God.
Speaker 2: I wanna I would love a Save the Mountain Children
Speaker 2: T shirt?
Speaker 1: How do I get one of those?
Speaker 2: Hey?
Speaker 1: Adrian, how are you doing?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 4: I'm good?
Speaker 3: How are you.
Speaker 2: I'm doing all right. What's uh? What's what's your life like?
Speaker 4: Is this the geg?
Speaker 1: This is the GEK?
Speaker 4: That's so crazy?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: My life's fine right now. It's been a lot of
Speaker 4: ups and downs. I'm a little neighvous.
Speaker 1: That's okay.
Speaker 2: What tell me about the ups and downs if you
Speaker 2: want to?
Speaker 4: Okay, I might get emotional. I okay, I got broken
Speaker 4: up with like on Monday.
Speaker 2: Oh really?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: What's what was the cause of this breakup?
Speaker 4: I honestly don't know. She just said, uh, I don't
Speaker 4: think we should be together, and I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm m.
Speaker 1: Okay. How long were you dating her?
Speaker 2: For?
Speaker 4: Like five months?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 7: What?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: Okay, Well you said there were ups. What were the ups?
Speaker 4: So, like, right before that, I had gone to a
Speaker 4: breakup and well I hadn't met her, so that was
Speaker 4: the up.
Speaker 3: Hmm.
Speaker 4: You're not. I've just been trying to grow more responsibly
Speaker 4: as an adult.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel that. I think I think we're all
Speaker 2: kind of trying to do that. How are you? How
Speaker 2: old are you?
Speaker 1: If you don't want me.
Speaker 4: Asking, I'm twenty eight.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: So you said you're trying to grow more responsibly as
Speaker 2: an adult as an adult? What and what way are
Speaker 2: you trying to do that?
Speaker 4: I guess just not victimize myself and not rely on
Speaker 4: anybody for anything, and uh, show up to work when
Speaker 4: I need to. That's it.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm. Well why do you feel like you're you're
Speaker 2: not showing up to work when you need to?
Speaker 4: Because I don't because I don't have a car right now.
Speaker 4: So I like I was showing up like an hour
Speaker 4: late to work like every day for like a few months,
Speaker 4: and uh now I'm just taking the bus mm hmmm.
Speaker 4: And I guess around time, Okay, what do you do?
Speaker 4: I kind of do like, ah, like would work?
Speaker 3: You do?
Speaker 2: Would work?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: What kind of wood are we talking about?
Speaker 4: It's like all kinds of was we just make? Like
Speaker 4: luxury doors.
Speaker 1: You make? You make?
Speaker 2: Who's out here buying luxury doors?
Speaker 4: Honestly, I don't know people in San Francisco a lot,
Speaker 4: but it's like from everywhere, all customers crazy. They're expensive.
Speaker 2: Is that something you would ever buy a luxury door?
Speaker 2: I feel like if I have, if I have the
Speaker 2: extra money to apply luxury to an item in my life,
Speaker 2: I would pick something other than a door.
Speaker 4: They're pretty cool doors they open like accordions. It's it's
Speaker 4: kind of nice.
Speaker 2: Okay, So what are the what are the ups aside
Speaker 2: from just meeting her?
Speaker 4: Besides meeting her? Well, I got over my my ex
Speaker 4: before that, and that I didn't think I'll ever do.
Speaker 2: That was was it was, was meeting her kind of
Speaker 2: like a big catalyst for getting over your X beforehand.
Speaker 4: Yeah, honestly, I didn't really notice how much it was
Speaker 4: until honestly, kind of resa, so she broke up?
Speaker 2: Why did Why did you feel like you would never
Speaker 2: get over your ex?
Speaker 4: Because I don't know. I think I loved her a lot.
Speaker 4: It was probably just like the most serious relationship I've
Speaker 4: ever been in.
Speaker 2: M hm.
Speaker 4: We just spent like almost every day together.
Speaker 1: Why did you guys break up?
Speaker 4: Oh? So I chew, dude, I chew you.
Speaker 2: That mm hmm m hmm. What what was it that
Speaker 2: made you cheat? Or you know, what was kind of
Speaker 2: going through your mind? Uh when you were doing that?
Speaker 4: Oh all right, it's like a long story. So like,
Speaker 4: I don't know, I was just like honestly a piece
Speaker 4: of shit at first, Like I just didn't care at
Speaker 4: all about like about the relationship, and then I don't know,
Speaker 4: so like I had cheated on her at some point
Speaker 4: and then I told her, and then we broke up.
Speaker 4: We took a break, and in that break, she she
Speaker 4: met some other people and hooked up. I guess. So
Speaker 4: we got back together, and uh, like we like we
Speaker 4: hooked up the day we got back together, and then
Speaker 4: the next day.
Speaker 8: She told me she hooked up with other people, and
Speaker 8: so we had like a big fight, but we got
Speaker 8: back together, and so like I was just mad for
Speaker 8: like like a solid.
Speaker 4: A year and a half about it. Like I don't know,
Speaker 4: I guess I just wanted to cheat on his back.
Speaker 2: And so wait, So so you cheated on her first,
Speaker 2: or she you guys took a break. Okay, all right,
Speaker 2: So you cheated on her first, and then you guys
Speaker 2: took a break, and then she hooked up with other
Speaker 2: people during the break and that made you upset, and
Speaker 2: so you wanted to kind of hook up with other
Speaker 2: people again. Yeah, basically okay.
Speaker 1: So and how long ago was all this?
Speaker 4: Oh man? It was like the beginning of last year.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: And in your like lamenting you said, you said that
Speaker 2: this was kind of a thing you thought you would
Speaker 2: never get over. And in the in the dwelling of it. Ah,
Speaker 2: you know, what were you Did you come to any
Speaker 2: like realizations, Did you come to any thoughts or feelings
Speaker 2: in a in a in a retrospective about that situation?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, definitely. Well I just feel like I should
Speaker 4: have Well, I was just thinking wrong the whole time,
Speaker 4: the beginning part of the relationship, and I just wish
Speaker 4: I knew the things I know now basically.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm mm hmm. What tell me what you know now?
Speaker 4: I don't know. I guess if someone's putting that much time,
Speaker 4: then they really do love you, And I don't think
Speaker 4: they want to ruin that on purpose m hm hm,
Speaker 4: just to show more affection and care because I was
Speaker 4: really I was kind of mean all the main boyfriend.
Speaker 2: I think, Hm, why why do you feel like you
Speaker 2: were mean?
Speaker 4: Well? I have like this thing. I don't know. I
Speaker 4: just don't like to be touched a lot, and like
Speaker 4: I want to let my ex touch me a lot,
Speaker 4: like when we cuddle, Like hell yeah, you know, like
Speaker 4: I don't I would be smoking she started touching Me'd
Speaker 4: be like I want to be touched right now. M
Speaker 4: h stuff like that, like the little things you know,
Speaker 4: next saying like you were should like up.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right?
Speaker 2: So this ended and then you kind of had this
Speaker 2: realization that I don't know, you had like a kind
Speaker 2: of re organization of your character. And then you decided
Speaker 2: how long ago did you How long was it between
Speaker 2: the end of that one and the beginning of a
Speaker 2: new one, the one that you the real you just
Speaker 2: broke up with?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 4: So we and my first X we stopped talking in
Speaker 4: September before her birthday because I had asked her because
Speaker 4: like we're still talking for like months after we broke up,
Speaker 4: like probably like nine months I think, and then we're
Speaker 4: just talking like I I've probably seen her like like
Speaker 4: a big handful of times. And then towards the end,
Speaker 4: like we weren't really seeing each other at all, but
Speaker 4: just texting like every day. Yeah, and then at the end,
Speaker 4: like she was literally texting me that much. And asked
Speaker 4: her if she still wanted to keep talking to me
Speaker 4: or she wanted to keep trying to fix this, and
Speaker 4: she just told me that she had hooked up with people, and.
Speaker 3: I just.
Speaker 4: I just stopped completely replying to everything.
Speaker 2: Wait, so she so she told you she was hooking up?
Speaker 1: So was she cheating on you?
Speaker 4: Well, we weren't really together.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, so you were taught you were You said
Speaker 2: you were with this most recent girl for five months though,
Speaker 2: so you weren't really together with her.
Speaker 4: But I'm confused the story.
Speaker 2: I'm a little confused too. Uh maybe I wasn't listening
Speaker 2: hard enough, but hm hmmm mm hmmm.
Speaker 4: All right, So me and my first girlfriend we broke
Speaker 4: up and we're talking for like a solid ninety months,
Speaker 4: and then she told me that she hooked other people,
Speaker 4: and so I just pretty much ghosted her after that,
Speaker 4: and uh I pretty much met my new girlfriend like
Speaker 4: a few days later.
Speaker 2: Yeah see yeah, yeah, So so after you kind of
Speaker 2: had this like so, you know, you had this uh
Speaker 2: relationship with this uh first girl that you don't look
Speaker 2: back on too fondly. But then instead of like taking
Speaker 2: at least a little bit of time to process that,
Speaker 2: you went straight into a new relationship.
Speaker 4: Yeah I did.
Speaker 2: Why do you well, why do you feel like you
Speaker 2: did that?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 4: Well, because I was like lonely for those yeah yeah,
Speaker 4: and well I just wasn't hanging out with anybody for thoseess,
Speaker 4: I was just talking to my ex and.
Speaker 1: I really want to do you do you have friends?
Speaker 4: No, honestly, like I do, but like I see my
Speaker 4: friends rarely.
Speaker 2: Mm hm hm hm.
Speaker 6: M hmmm.
Speaker 2: Well look, I mean I have a few thoughts, you know.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, look, man, I feel like you
Speaker 2: might benefit from a little bit of time just to
Speaker 2: yourself too, like, uh, you know, work on yourself and
Speaker 2: work on uh this loneliness because I found that, like,
Speaker 2: you know, if you if you're unhappy and lonely when
Speaker 2: you don't have a relationship, a relationship is not really
Speaker 2: gonna fix that. You know, those are kind of like,
Speaker 2: at least in my experience, you know, I've had lots
Speaker 2: of times like that where I was, I was really lonely,
Speaker 2: and you know, sort of felt like a relationship was
Speaker 2: the thing that was gonna, you know, make make my.
Speaker 1: Life so much better.
Speaker 2: And I think the pursuit of that and the obsession
Speaker 2: over that, you know, it didn't do me any favors.
Speaker 2: And I feel like if if you were to redirect
Speaker 2: the the energy that you're spending really you know, trying
Speaker 2: so hard to not be alone, to like go into
Speaker 2: your own brain and figure out why you're doing whatever
Speaker 2: it is you're doing, and uh, you know, figure out
Speaker 2: more about you as a person alone attached to anyone,
Speaker 2: you know, and however long that takes man, whether it's
Speaker 2: you know, uh one year or five years or whatever.
Speaker 2: You know, I think I think you'll come back, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, a different person, a little bit better equipped
Speaker 2: to to be in a relationship and you know, uh
Speaker 2: not kind of be in this relationship because it's because
Speaker 2: it's it's it's externally satisfying. You're trying to satisfy some
Speaker 2: internal desire with something external. You know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that makes.
Speaker 4: Sense, it does. I've been thinking about that a lot.
Speaker 2: Later, Okay, so you can think what tell me what
Speaker 2: you tell me? What conclusion you've come to about that?
Speaker 4: About about what exactly?
Speaker 2: Sorry, well you said you've been thinking about it a lot.
Speaker 2: What do you What conclusions have you come to or
Speaker 2: thoughts have you been having?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I just want to find out kind of
Speaker 4: who I am. Again, I haven't been single for like
Speaker 4: five years maybe or more.
Speaker 2: You haven't been single for five years?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I guess I don't even remember
Speaker 4: the stuff I could do. I like to the guitar
Speaker 4: a lot.
Speaker 1: M hm, what's your name again?
Speaker 4: Adrian?
Speaker 2: Adrian? Well, Adrian, listen, fucking take care of yourself, man,
Speaker 2: do if you haven't been single for five years, I
Speaker 2: feel like you have uh uh some some interest, some
Speaker 2: an interesting opportunity to dive into your own brain and
Speaker 2: maybe you'll emerge a little bit better.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Is there anything else you want to say to the
Speaker 1: people of the computer.
Speaker 2: Before we go?
Speaker 4: Uh? I love each other.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much for calling Adrian?
Speaker 4: All right? Thanks le bye?
Speaker 2: Take care man, take care.
Speaker 4: Hello.
Speaker 5: This is Ty. How are you doing?
Speaker 2: I'm doing good, Tai?
Speaker 1: What's up?
Speaker 2: Man? How you doing?
Speaker 5: You know what's going? This is actually the first time
Speaker 5: I've gotten on here, and I've been calling for a
Speaker 5: while and listening for a better part of a here.
Speaker 2: Oh really, well, thanks man, I appreciate that here we
Speaker 2: are here, we are Yeah, man, Ty, I like that name.
Speaker 2: That's a cool name. How do you spell it? Uh?
Speaker 5: T a I the Chinese way? But my parents are
Speaker 5: very white and so am I?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: Tie?
Speaker 2: I mean is there? I'll start with this. It's okay.
Speaker 2: If not. Is there anything in particular that you called
Speaker 2: in to want to talk about today?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 5: Not really, man, I just wanted to get in a
Speaker 5: chat with you and just talk about whatever. I don't
Speaker 5: know if there's a specific prompt this time around. But
Speaker 5: you know, I was actually the one who commented about
Speaker 5: Sonic Heroes in the chat earlier.
Speaker 2: Oh you commented about Yes, somebody commented have I ever
Speaker 2: played Sonic Heroes? And I replied by saying that I have.
Speaker 2: It's a great game. Have you played it?
Speaker 5: You know? I did growing up on the old school
Speaker 5: Xbox that played a lot of that, in the old
Speaker 5: Star Wars nice, the Old Republic game. I don't know
Speaker 5: if you ever dabbled.
Speaker 2: I'm familiar with it, but I've never really dabbled in it.
Speaker 5: Pretty good.
Speaker 2: I remember when I so Sonic Heroes is about, Uh,
Speaker 2: it's you play as teams of three of the Sonic characters,
Speaker 2: and each each team is comprised of a speed character,
Speaker 2: a power character, and a flying character. And when I
Speaker 2: was a kid and I was playing that game, I
Speaker 2: would imagine, like if my friends and I were were
Speaker 2: in the Sonic Heroes game, and what roles we would play.
Speaker 2: I was always a bigger kid, so I was the
Speaker 2: power even though I wasn't strong.
Speaker 1: I was just kind of fat.
Speaker 2: And then I'd have a friend who was fast, he'd
Speaker 2: be the speed guy. And then I guess that we'd
Speaker 2: pick some kid to be the fly guy, even though
Speaker 2: it didn't make sense because he couldn't fly. He tried,
Speaker 2: but it didn't work because it's it's all, it's all imaginary.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I like that game. I haven't play. I
Speaker 2: haven't played really any of the Sonic games since.
Speaker 5: Yeah, neither have I, man, And to be honest, I
Speaker 5: was never a huge fan of Sonic. But I was
Speaker 5: just thinking about, like, you know, childhood games and stuff
Speaker 5: that I used to play, and you were talking about
Speaker 5: Nintendo earlier and between that, I played a lot of
Speaker 5: the Lego Star Wars games too, Man, I don't know
Speaker 5: if you played like Bog two trilogies or whatever. Those
Speaker 5: were sut of fun. Other than that, though, Man, I
Speaker 5: guess I do actually have something that just came out.
Speaker 5: My best friend is moving across the country next month,
Speaker 5: and I'm really bummed out about it.
Speaker 1: Man, where are they moving to?
Speaker 5: He's moving to Miami.
Speaker 2: Okay, and where are you at?
Speaker 5: I'm in Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: What are they moving for?
Speaker 5: Oh? So he just got a job for a really
Speaker 5: good tech company. He graduated with a computer or he's
Speaker 5: going to graduate a computer science degree this spring and yeah,
Speaker 5: he's really well set up and everything, and it just
Speaker 5: kind of sucks, you know, because we just got super
Speaker 5: close and we listened to a lot of the same
Speaker 5: music and everything, and I don't know, he's just like
Speaker 5: the biggest part of my support network, i'd say, and
Speaker 5: it's just kind of that sum go.
Speaker 1: Hmm, yeah, tell me about the rest of your support network.
Speaker 5: Well, that's actually another funny story because my parents, who
Speaker 5: I tend to talk to you quite a bit for
Speaker 5: like life advice and stuff, are actually moving out of
Speaker 5: the country in May as well. So yeah, they're going
Speaker 5: and then uh yeah, I don't know. I'm just trying
Speaker 5: to I think the best thing for me to do
Speaker 5: right now is just making friends and try to kind
Speaker 5: of build up a support network that way. But it
Speaker 5: just kind of sucks because, you know, it was like
Speaker 5: the last four years of my life, I've spent with
Speaker 5: a lot of these people, and now we're all kind
Speaker 5: of going our separate ways.
Speaker 2: Huh yeah, hmmm. I feel like, yeah, I feel like
Speaker 2: that is a good opportunity to make new friends. Trying
Speaker 2: to think what else that's good. That's good about your
Speaker 2: parents though, because like I get it when your parents
Speaker 2: are a big party of support system, and you don't
Speaker 2: want them to leave. But there's also a part of
Speaker 2: you that I think should be really happy for them
Speaker 2: that they're like do and shit, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Like lots of people's parents just stay. Lots of people's
Speaker 2: parents have kids and then don't ever do anything else
Speaker 2: again with their lives. So just a lot of them,
Speaker 2: you know, do it on purpose because they like it
Speaker 2: that way. But I feel like there's room for you
Speaker 2: to be uh, you know, I guess happy for your
Speaker 2: parents that they're like trying to do shit with their lives.
Speaker 2: You know, like if my mom, if my mom told
Speaker 2: me that she was moving out of my hometown to go,
Speaker 2: uh you know, live in in in Taiwan for the
Speaker 2: rest of her life, and you know, I ple plea
Speaker 2: you know, pledge allegiance to some god that she discovered,
Speaker 2: I'd be like, all right, well that's a bummer. I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna be able to see as often. But do you
Speaker 2: you know, we're only alive for like two seconds. Might
Speaker 2: as well be happy that the people we care about
Speaker 2: are doing good things with their lives.
Speaker 5: All right, No, absolutely, I'm really excited for them because
Speaker 5: they're actually moving to an island in the Caribbean out
Speaker 5: of all places. I know it's insane, but I think
Speaker 5: the thing that I'm most worried about isn't even for
Speaker 5: myself necessarily as far as like losing them, but for
Speaker 5: my younger sister, because she's still like just kind of
Speaker 5: starting college. She's about to finish her freshman year, and
Speaker 5: I'll be like the closest relative to her, So if
Speaker 5: something were to happen to her, you know, I'd be
Speaker 5: like most responsible, which is insane to me because like,
Speaker 5: I'm only twenty two.
Speaker 2: So what are you afraid is going to happen to
Speaker 2: your sister?
Speaker 5: Man, Well, she lives in a pretty big city at
Speaker 5: the moment, and I don't know. I mean, she's just
Speaker 5: an eighteen year old girl living in a city kind
Speaker 5: of on her own, far away from her parents. So
Speaker 5: of course, you know, it's just kind of the big
Speaker 5: brother part of me that kind of worries for her.
Speaker 5: I don't know. I certainly hope nothing happens to her,
Speaker 5: but something does. You know, it's on me basically to
Speaker 5: kind of drop everything just make sure she's all right.
Speaker 2: What is and she's in the same city as you are.
Speaker 5: No, she's about i'd say, like one hundred and fifty
Speaker 5: miles south.
Speaker 2: Oh all right, I mean all right, so she might
Speaker 2: as well live in Japan. That's like a whole other
Speaker 2: place from you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean if that's commendable that you have that
Speaker 2: you know, instinct for her, that's nice. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: I mean, look, she's alway, was she in college?
Speaker 5: Yeah, she just started uh this past fall here, all right.
Speaker 2: I mean again with this whole I feel like theme
Speaker 2: of this conversation, like you should be excited for her.
Speaker 2: She's I mean, yeah, it's probably I mean it scary
Speaker 2: being you know, freshly graduating high school, moving to a
Speaker 2: whole different place. But that's part of I'm glad she's
Speaker 2: doing that instead of again, uh, you know, sitting at
Speaker 2: home and not doing anything or challenging herself in any way.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's fair. I completely understand that too, I know.
Speaker 5: And don't get me wrong, super happy for I'm just
Speaker 5: I'm just saying, like, if something bad were to happen
Speaker 5: and beyond me, but now she's a super bright kid
Speaker 5: and she'll be all right, I don't feel fear very
Speaker 5: much for her at all. I think she's actually gonna
Speaker 5: do uh, pretty great things.
Speaker 2: I think you're a super bright kid. I think you're
Speaker 2: going to be all right.
Speaker 5: You know what you two?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 5: I think you're doing alright.
Speaker 2: Ah fucking hope, man. Goddamn what what's your name again?
Speaker 5: I'm tie Ty?
Speaker 1: What do you hope for the future?
Speaker 2: Tie What do you? What do you want to do
Speaker 2: for the rest of your existence on the earth.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm about to finish my degree here, and hopefully
Speaker 5: once I graduate, I want to move out of Wisconsin
Speaker 5: because there's nothing here but cows and angry people. So
Speaker 5: I think I'll probably move west and just try to
Speaker 5: do something in either like radio broadcasting producing or do
Speaker 5: you like podcast production or something like that. I really
Speaker 5: like the idea of kind of audio engineering or I
Speaker 5: currently have a job as a camera operator right now
Speaker 5: as well, so I feel like just kind of being
Speaker 5: behind the scenes on either like a podcast or like
Speaker 5: any sort of like internet show or something would probably
Speaker 5: be ideal for me. Once you graduating here?
Speaker 2: What do you what are you on?
Speaker 1: A camera operator for?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 5: So for the current university, I attend my film while
Speaker 5: they're athletic events for ESPN plus and uh yeah, so
Speaker 5: I mean it. Don't get me wrong, I'm not like
Speaker 5: a huge sports guy, but it's really good resume builder
Speaker 5: and I'm just trying to get anything I can at
Speaker 5: the moment.
Speaker 2: You know, you sound you sound like.
Speaker 1: A good guy.
Speaker 2: You sound like you're I don't know, I don't know
Speaker 2: how to put this, but I'm excited for you.
Speaker 5: I really appreciate that you have.
Speaker 2: You have like you sound grounded. I don't know, I
Speaker 2: don't know how to say that, but maybe I maybe
Speaker 2: that's what I mean.
Speaker 5: No, I gotch man, and no, seriously, thank you. I
Speaker 5: really appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Huh are you willing? Are you willing to kill someone
Speaker 2: for your sister?
Speaker 3: Uh? That?
Speaker 5: Uh? You know, it wouldn't be a first option, but
Speaker 5: if it came down to it, Uh, you know, I
Speaker 5: feels like life or death, then I think, you know,
Speaker 5: I probably.
Speaker 2: Somebody your your sister is walking down the streets of
Speaker 2: this big city and she accidentally bumps into somebody while
Speaker 2: she's walking and the person she bought, the person that
Speaker 2: pupped into her doesn't say sorry, and so she asked
Speaker 2: you to kill them?
Speaker 1: Do you do it?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 5: But you know what if the person like was just
Speaker 5: carrying a vat of asset on him. And you know,
Speaker 5: when she brushed that guy's shoulder or whatever, and his
Speaker 5: clothes were made out of assid as you know normal
Speaker 5: people's clothes are. I would uh, I would probably kill
Speaker 5: him then because it probably just hert my sister. But
Speaker 5: you know, in any case, Yeah, I haven't seen the
Speaker 5: beats in the chat.
Speaker 2: So well, I'm glad that you've well, I'm glad to
Speaker 2: hear that you've thought of everything. Thank you for calling.
Speaker 2: Tell you have a rest of the night. Anything else
Speaker 2: you want to say to the people of the computer
Speaker 2: before we.
Speaker 5: Go, Uh, I would just say that, you know, watch
Speaker 5: therapy Geck and check out his tour coming up here,
Speaker 5: and uh yeah, buy some merchant in the store.
Speaker 2: Bye, guys, take care. Man.
Speaker 4: Hello, Hello, I'm doing good.
Speaker 3: How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm a gecko on the computer. Man, aren't we all?
Speaker 6: You know something? Geck?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I feel like so. I called them before I had
Speaker 6: the one minute call at one point and I talked
Speaker 6: to you about me suing my old job.
Speaker 7: I was like, sure, Yeah, when when I get this
Speaker 7: money from the settlement, I feel like I'm going to
Speaker 7: have a lot of people coming up to me, the
Speaker 7: old friends that I haven't spoken to in years, asking
Speaker 7: me for financial help, you know, And I don't want
Speaker 7: that because I know I'm going to talk.
Speaker 6: About it a little bit. But I don't want these
Speaker 6: people to come up to me and ask me, Hey,
Speaker 6: can you give me this? Can you give me that?
Speaker 6: I have plans of what I want to do with
Speaker 6: the money.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you are you sued your can you o
Speaker 2: refy for those who haven't, who have no idea what
Speaker 2: I mean, start us from the beginning with no prior
Speaker 2: knowledge of any of this.
Speaker 6: All right, So in twenty twenty, when I started working,
Speaker 6: I was making like sixteen fifty an hour. It was amazing,
Speaker 6: getting like almost one thousand dollars paychecks every two weeks.
Speaker 6: I was super happy with my job, super happy with
Speaker 6: customers and my managers and everybody. I had moved away
Speaker 6: from the state that I was living in and I
Speaker 6: started working for the company in a different state. Right
Speaker 6: when I got out here, my manager told me, she
Speaker 6: said that the guys that work at the store either
Speaker 6: quit or they're fired.
Speaker 4: And I didn't know what.
Speaker 2: That meant that but those are the only two ways
Speaker 2: to not have a job to leave the job.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but it was it was a primarily female staff,
Speaker 6: so it was a very small amount of guys and
Speaker 6: the staff, you know. So she said specifically, the guys
Speaker 6: either quit or are fired. So I was like confused
Speaker 6: as to like what that meant. Maybe they weren't happy
Speaker 6: in the job, you know. But I understood in a
Speaker 6: few months that it's because our boss tended to drop
Speaker 6: the hours of the guys and boost the hours of
Speaker 6: the girls so that they could have more time on
Speaker 6: the floor into the store. I decided I didn't want
Speaker 6: to work at that store anymore and I wanted to transfer,
Speaker 6: so I put in a transfer request and my boss
Speaker 6: wrote me up for being late because I lived like
Speaker 6: thirty minutes away from the store. He made it impossible
Speaker 6: for me to transfer for like six months straight. So
Speaker 6: I started picking up ships at other stores around the area.
Speaker 6: And then eventually when he caught onto that, he called
Speaker 6: those stores and told them not to let me work, okay,
Speaker 6: And I was very upse this because I was like,
Speaker 6: why aren't you letting me work? You know, this is
Speaker 6: a fair And then when I brought it up to him,
Speaker 6: he fired me and he told corporate he lied to corporate.
Speaker 6: He called corporate and lied to them and said that
Speaker 6: I was offering customers drugs in the drive through to
Speaker 6: get me fired after months of me complaining that I
Speaker 6: wasn't getting enough hours and everything. And I had to
Speaker 6: have no complaints from anybody at the store, no customers,
Speaker 6: no managers, no coworkers. You know, it was just him.
Speaker 6: So now that I'm suing them, my attorney had us
Speaker 6: set up a specific amount of money that I want,
Speaker 6: and the money that I said was eighty thousand. I
Speaker 6: don't know if I'm going to get that exact amount.
Speaker 6: I'm okay if I get less, if I get more, great,
Speaker 6: If I get that amount, amazing, you know. But I
Speaker 6: feel like when that money comes in, people are going
Speaker 6: to start hitting me up, asking me for money, asking
Speaker 6: me for help with different things.
Speaker 2: Okay, so let me stop you right there. For so
Speaker 2: we are severely putting our cart before the horse here.
Speaker 2: You don't even have this money, and it's not even
Speaker 2: a guarantee that you will win this case at all.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's it's pretty much guaranteed because they is
Speaker 6: a company that doesn't want to go to court, so
Speaker 6: they're more likely my attorney told me this that he's
Speaker 6: worked with a lot of cases against the path. Okay,
Speaker 6: he says that they're a company that always wants to
Speaker 6: settle out of court. If they can do anything to
Speaker 6: get this case done and over with as quick as possible,
Speaker 6: they will do it.
Speaker 2: So okay, So he says, why, I have a few questions,
Speaker 2: Why do you why do you think your boss was
Speaker 2: antagonizing you so much for no reason?
Speaker 6: I honestly don't know. I mean I've I've brought I've
Speaker 6: tried to like bring it up to my coworkers about it,
Speaker 6: and they've all said that he's always had something against
Speaker 6: the guys in the store for no reason at all, seemingly.
Speaker 6: But I think that the final straw of the the
Speaker 6: the you know, me being antagonized at work is him
Speaker 6: telling corporate that I was offering customers.
Speaker 2: Drugs And that's just a total out of your way
Speaker 2: to to get that happened. I mean, that's just a total,
Speaker 2: complete straight lie.
Speaker 1: Yes, fucking weird man.
Speaker 2: You don't have any idea why this guy doesn't like you, like,
Speaker 2: like that much enough to lie like that.
Speaker 6: No, I don't know. I mean, maybe me being laid
Speaker 6: a couple of times. But that doesn't really I don't
Speaker 6: think that's grounds.
Speaker 2: You know, he's probably was he I mean, he's probably
Speaker 2: just a sad guy.
Speaker 4: I maybe.
Speaker 2: Bizarre.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: By the way, okay, listen, what do I think. I
Speaker 2: think if your friend asks you for ten thousand dollars
Speaker 2: you say.
Speaker 6: No, Yeah, that's that sounds like a good idea.
Speaker 2: Are you really, like, I mean, are you Are you
Speaker 2: really that concerned with your friends and family ask you
Speaker 2: for money? Like what I mean, what kind of people
Speaker 2: are in your circle so much that this is like
Speaker 2: a very serious, you know, thing that you're nervous about.
Speaker 6: I mean, I've known a lot of people that I
Speaker 6: fear would be this way with money. And I've had
Speaker 6: I've had people that I've had to like stop talking
Speaker 6: to because because they've asked for things that I cannot
Speaker 6: provide them. You know, people some people asking me texting me,
Speaker 6: hey do you have cash? App I'm broke, I need
Speaker 6: money this and nut. I don't want to give people money,
Speaker 6: you know, I'm just trying to pay the.
Speaker 2: Well, you don't have to. And by the way, you know,
Speaker 2: I mean, like, yeah, you don't have to give people
Speaker 2: money if you don't want to give them money, man.
Speaker 2: And also, you know, I'm going to challenge you for this,
Speaker 2: all right. Look, hey, look if somebody is asking if
Speaker 2: somebody hears that you got a whatever thing and they
Speaker 2: start asking you for a bunch of money and you
Speaker 2: thought they were your friends, I'm gonna challenge you. Look
Speaker 2: at it as a good thing, all right, because it
Speaker 2: reveals you know about things about.
Speaker 4: The people that you're close with.
Speaker 2: It reveals the things about the people that you're close with.
Speaker 2: So in that sense, it can be a blessing, right
Speaker 2: because you you now have more information about the people
Speaker 2: that you you hold close and that can sometimes be positive.
Speaker 4: For sure.
Speaker 6: And you know what, people, my best friend, he's told
Speaker 6: me multiple times, I mean jokingly, he's told me that, oh,
Speaker 6: I'm gonna leach off of you now. But I know
Speaker 6: ha ha.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're like, oh, yeah, might actually be joking.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but I don't want him to do that. I've
Speaker 6: known him for the past seven years. You know, I
Speaker 6: don't think he's that type of person. I strongly believe
Speaker 6: that he's not that type of person. But in the
Speaker 6: back of my mind there's that fear that he might
Speaker 6: be serious about that.
Speaker 1: Here's what you do.
Speaker 2: If somebody ask you for money, you go, I earned
Speaker 2: this money by selling drugs out of it, and if
Speaker 2: you want eighty thousand dollars you can go and do
Speaker 2: the same thing.
Speaker 6: It's a pretty damn good advice.
Speaker 5: Gick.
Speaker 2: Hey, listen, Andrew, Well, thanks for calling man. I hope
Speaker 2: you get all your money, and I hope that you
Speaker 2: and your friends go have you know, fun, pinball pool
Speaker 2: parties with it. So anything else do you want to
Speaker 2: say to the people of the computer before we go.
Speaker 6: Well, I hope you have a good day chat. I
Speaker 6: have to take out the trash. But don't let money
Speaker 6: change you if you ever get any.
Speaker 2: Take care, man, take care gek. They say money does
Speaker 2: not change a person, it merely reveals them. But I
Speaker 2: don't know if that's true, because if you get a
Speaker 2: really cool car, then maybe you'll be happier. That's how
Speaker 2: life works. I've learned that that's how the more the
Speaker 2: more stuff you can accumulate, the happier you will be.
Speaker 2: This is proven by many psychologists on the line calls
Speaker 2: every nine teaching you can expect