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Speaker 1: Hello, Hey there, Hi, Hi. What's your name? Him is

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Speaker 1: Jai Jai Ji?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 1: How old are you?

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Speaker 3: Ji? I'm twenty two?

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Speaker 1: Rock and roll Ji. What's what's going on? How you doing?

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Speaker 3: I don't I know, man. I think you saw what

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Speaker 3: I said in my text message. But over the past

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Speaker 3: two years I've lost over forty thousand dollars just from

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Speaker 3: wanting to wanting to buy people's affection. I guess because

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Speaker 3: I didn't really have a good time making I didn't

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Speaker 3: really have an opportunity making Brighton's growing up, so I

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Speaker 3: thought that was the best possible way to do it.

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Speaker 3: I guess.

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Speaker 2: Mmmm.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so tell me, I guess, go ahead and start

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Speaker 1: telling me about this from from whatever angle you want

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Speaker 1: to start at.

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Speaker 3: Okay. So, two years ago, I had received a trust

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Speaker 3: from my grandmother, who I'm pretty sure was like patient

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Speaker 3: zero of COVID. That's neither here nor there. Yeah, I

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Speaker 3: received the trust of just under one hundred thousand dollars

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Speaker 3: that was supposed to be going to.

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Speaker 4: School, and.

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Speaker 3: It didn't. Over forty to fifty thousand dollars of it

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Speaker 3: actually went into just fribble as shit and making a

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Speaker 3: whole bunch of friends through Tinder, and all bunch of

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Speaker 3: friends that I don't know didn't really have the best

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Speaker 3: intention for me, and I wanted to keep them around

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Speaker 3: by buying them gifts and taking them on strips. And

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Speaker 3: now none of those friends are still my friends. So

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Speaker 3: I don't really know how much that was worth.

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Speaker 1: And how long have you been using trying to use

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Speaker 1: money to make friends?

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Speaker 3: And I got that money. I had grown up very poor,

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Speaker 3: and so the most money that I've ever had to

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Speaker 3: myself was the four thousand dollars COVID stimulus check, and

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Speaker 3: I didn't really spend that money well either, And so

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Speaker 3: when I got this humungo check of seventy three thousand dollars, no,

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Speaker 3: it's kind of it's kind of game over, I guess.

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Speaker 1: So did you have friends growing up?

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Speaker 3: I wasn't really allowed to. I had a dad who

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Speaker 3: would basically ostracized me and not allow me to hang

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Speaker 3: out with any people that I had anything in contact

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Speaker 3: or common with, and it put me in a situation

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Speaker 3: and where even now I'm way more sociable. But it's

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Speaker 3: kind of like, I don't know how to maintain these friendships,

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Speaker 3: especially if I don't want to spend money on them.

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Speaker 3: Because I know that that's the only way that's kind

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Speaker 3: of worked in the past.

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Speaker 1: Hmm. Do you do you still keep in touch with

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Speaker 1: your dad? Do you do you know why he did that?

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Speaker 3: So, my dad is currently in a hospice for a

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Speaker 3: knock sic brain injury. He developed alcoholism and he had

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Speaker 3: a massive code problem and he fell into a coomo

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Speaker 3: speak or feed himself or talk very well. So I

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Speaker 3: him why he did all that, but he probably wouldn't

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Speaker 1: So do you at this moment have any friends? At

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Speaker 1: this moment, do you have any people who you would

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Speaker 3: I have a lot of boyfriends, but I I'm I

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Speaker 3: seek out Uh, I guess only romantic relationships. I don't

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Speaker 3: really speak out. I guess just friendships. I don't really

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Speaker 3: know how to do that. Any friends that I did have,

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Speaker 3: I don't really do anymore.

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Speaker 2: M hmm.

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Speaker 1: This might be a sensitive question, but and you don't

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Speaker 1: have to answer if you want. But do you do

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Speaker 1: you like like in the same way that you feel

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Speaker 1: you feel that way about sex?

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Speaker 3: No, not particularly. I wouldn't say so. I kind of

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Speaker 3: it's easy.

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Speaker 2: Mmmm.

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Speaker 1: Why do you feel like you have an easier time

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Speaker 3: Because it's way more I guess mutually beneficial. I don't know,

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Speaker 3: Like I it's just easier to talk people into wanting

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Speaker 3: out a whole long term friendship where we're just kind

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Speaker 3: just the way that works in my mind. I know

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Speaker 3: that's not like realistically healthy, but like that's just how

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Speaker 3: it's been because I've only been shown that, you know.

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Speaker 1: Mm hmmmm. All right, So you have a lot of boyfriends,

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Speaker 1: but no like actual friends, and you're you said you're

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Speaker 1: twenty two? Yes, Uh, what do you do? Are you

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Speaker 3: I was in school. I lost my job right before Christmas,

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Speaker 3: and I actually recently just moved skates to escape from

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Speaker 3: a pretty pretty bad relationship. So I'm kind of just

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Speaker 1: Oh, so you're in a new state, and do you

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Speaker 1: do you know anybody in this state? Do you have

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Speaker 3: I'm staying with family the place where I was living previously,

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Speaker 3: I didn't know anyone there, so I guess it's a

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Speaker 1: Mm hmmmmmmm. So I mean, why do you feel like

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Speaker 3: Because I, like, I know real estate that I'm I

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Speaker 3: don't want to sound like vain, but I know I'm

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Speaker 3: a really cool person, Like any single time where I

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Speaker 3: go out to an event, everyone shouldnd to me. But

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Speaker 3: I think it's the thing where just based on my

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Speaker 3: development and based on an autism diagnosis, where I feel

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Speaker 3: like I cannot maintain these genuine, like non transactional relationships.

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Speaker 3: I feel like I have to as soon as I

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Speaker 3: gift just to validate, oh, this is how much I

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Speaker 3: appreciate you. And then when I never return and get

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Speaker 3: that in return, it's like maybe I need to give

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Speaker 3: I appreciate them, And then it just it's I don't

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Speaker 3: I don't really get the logic behind it. It's just

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Speaker 3: how it works in my head and obviously not working.

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Speaker 1: So you're initiating giving these people money very early on

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Speaker 3: I guess, yeah, like maybe maybe like two to three

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Speaker 3: I'm dating, it's immediate I'll start getting them gifts.

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Speaker 1: I was going to ask, does this carry is this

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Speaker 1: does this activity carry over into like all these boyfriends

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Speaker 1: that you're talking about.

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Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely absolutely. I've probably the majority of the money

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Speaker 2: Hm. Hm.

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Speaker 1: And you know I asked her already, but I'll ask

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Speaker 3: Just for the sake of I guess, not being alone.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, Like like right now, I was just

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Speaker 1: Mmm. So, so there's a lot of I want to

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Speaker 1: talk about that whole thing, but but I guess i'd

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Speaker 1: focus for now on like the money thing. Like, do

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Speaker 1: you do you have a specific example of a relationship.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So it was when I had first moved to Houston.

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Speaker 3: I mean, honestly, i've been to Austin in a while.

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Speaker 1: I guess.

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Speaker 3: So, yeah. I had bought them so many gifts on

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Speaker 3: it was a six hour round trip. But yeah, that

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Speaker 3: That was probably the first instance. And yeah, mm hm.

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Speaker 2: Hm hmm.

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Speaker 1: And this is something that's happened to you a few times.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, mm hmmm. No, I was gonna say, I was.

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Speaker 3: I know that I'm just getting myself into these situations

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Speaker 3: because I tend to hang out with pretty pretty much

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Speaker 3: kind of people that I like.

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Speaker 1: So tell when when you when you tell me, tell

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Speaker 1: me what do you mean by those kinds of people?

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Speaker 2: What are the what?

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Speaker 1: Who are those kinds of people?

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Speaker 3: I hang out at a lot of punk clubs. I

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Speaker 3: venue is comedy clubs. I was friends with a lot

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Speaker 3: a lot of comedians is that they always need coke,

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Speaker 3: and so I would always be the one who bade

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: That's kind of fucked up. But yeah, that's just generally

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Speaker 3: people who have issues already.

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you this before we keep going. Do

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Speaker 1: you have a real therapist?

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Speaker 3: I just wanted to talk to you.

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Speaker 1: That, Okay, Jiji, I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you this.

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Speaker 1: If you can do these things while you're fucked up,

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Speaker 1: So concerning, Well, look, I mean, first of all, continue

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Speaker 1: You are that kind of person. That's all that you do.

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Speaker 1: Why have you?

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Speaker 4: Why have you so strange to me?

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Speaker 1: Well, it's it's really and and you you do have

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely.

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Speaker 3: like it's true, like I know that there's things to

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00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:07,120
Speaker 3: me that interesting. But yeah, it's it's just like where

444
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:09,359
Speaker 3: does it. Like it's it's gonna stop somewhere and then

445
00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:11,720
Speaker 3: they're gonna stop finding me interesting. And so I have

446
00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:13,840
Speaker 3: to be like, oh no, wait, hold on, I'll get

447
00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:15,359
Speaker 3: you this people.

448
00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:17,080
Speaker 1: Just so you don't lose your interest in me, or

449
00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:20,119
Speaker 1: you know, can we flip the script for a second.

450
00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:23,040
Speaker 1: These people like this friend, this friend who you took

451
00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:29,600
Speaker 1: to Austin who wasn't really that cool anyway, Like, did

452
00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:32,440
Speaker 1: you do you like these people? Do you find these

453
00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:33,360
Speaker 1: people interesting.

454
00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:37,159
Speaker 3: I love them. I think they're so interesting. That's the

455
00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:39,879
Speaker 3: main reason why I hang out with y. I hung

456
00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:42,080
Speaker 3: out with them as much as I did every single

457
00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:44,880
Speaker 3: person that spent it like such a such and such

458
00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:47,320
Speaker 3: amount of money on. I thought they was the coolest

459
00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:49,840
Speaker 3: person on earth and there was. They were just my

460
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:51,840
Speaker 3: favorite person, and I just felt like I had to

461
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:53,239
Speaker 3: like prove that to them.

462
00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:55,000
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm hmm.

463
00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:04,720
Speaker 3: This is another thing I had that kind of reminds

464
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:11,200
Speaker 3: me of something. So probably maybe a year after I

465
00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 3: had stopped talking to the friend that I took to Austin,

466
00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:19,840
Speaker 3: I went to Channel five was on tour at the time,

467
00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:22,040
Speaker 3: and they were in Houston and they were having like

468
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 3: a little after party at this comedy club and they

469
00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:29,960
Speaker 3: never ended up showing up, but I went just to

470
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:32,080
Speaker 3: see if they ended up showing up, and that friend

471
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:36,560
Speaker 3: was also there, and there was just something inside me

472
00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 3: that like, I'm never the type to want to start confrontations,

473
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,800
Speaker 3: but it was just like I was being controlled, Like

474
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:46,080
Speaker 3: I was just I just got up and walked over

475
00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:48,840
Speaker 3: to them, and I was just like I could tell

476
00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:50,359
Speaker 3: that they were just scared of me.

477
00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 1: The friend, the friend that you brought to Austin with

478
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:54,840
Speaker 1: you was there.

479
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:59,800
Speaker 3: Yes, Yeah, I could tell that they were scared. They

480
00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:01,960
Speaker 3: got so scared. They told me that they didn't even

481
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:05,959
Speaker 3: recognize me. They're they're much bigger than me, They're much

482
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:09,600
Speaker 3: taller or bigger, and they kind of just shrunk under me.

483
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 3: And that made me feel good as hell. That made

484
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 3: me feel so good. But that makes me feel evil too,

485
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:20,159
Speaker 3: because I don't know what I did be like to

486
00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:22,480
Speaker 3: make them have that reaction just to seeing me after

487
00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:25,480
Speaker 3: all that time, but made me feel like shit. So

488
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:27,120
Speaker 3: it was nice to feel make them feel like shait

489
00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:31,640
Speaker 3: for this a little bit, I guess. Mmmmmm, I don't

490
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:32,960
Speaker 3: really know why I brought that up, but I just

491
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:35,040
Speaker 3: kind of no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I I.

492
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 1: Don't know, Jay, I'm really I'm really thinking about this,

493
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:45,359
Speaker 1: and I'm really uh like every like like this is

494
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:50,720
Speaker 1: such a weird situation because everything's there like clearly, like

495
00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:55,480
Speaker 1: like I guess you would think like, oh, this comes

496
00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:58,920
Speaker 1: from like low self esteem, but you know, like you

497
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:01,639
Speaker 1: clear but clearly you you recognize all of the things

498
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:03,919
Speaker 1: that are positive and good about yourself because you've been

499
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:09,600
Speaker 1: talking about them and are aware of them. So I'm

500
00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 1: just really trying to figure out. And also you have

501
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:13,960
Speaker 1: these like social skills that are really hard to develop.

502
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:16,680
Speaker 1: So I'm like, what the what is it that is

503
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:20,440
Speaker 1: like this? What is the block that's making it so

504
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:23,640
Speaker 1: that you you feel like I feel needs to spend

505
00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:24,280
Speaker 1: money on people?

506
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:28,520
Speaker 3: I just got mad imposter syndrome. I already know that

507
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 3: that's the main thing, but like, yeah, it's a very

508
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:37,520
Speaker 3: weird situation. It doesn't really make sense in my mind.

509
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:42,440
Speaker 3: Like anyone else, probably if they were in my exact

510
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:46,120
Speaker 3: same status range, they probably have the most amount of friends.

511
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:49,120
Speaker 3: But it's just so difficult for me. I don't understand.

512
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:49,720
Speaker 3: I don't know.

513
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,480
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Is there anything else here that you're that

514
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:56,600
Speaker 1: your therapist said that is helpful that you want to

515
00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:57,000
Speaker 1: bring up?

516
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 3: Don't uh, I don't know. Don't look for what you

517
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 3: want to see in yourself and others. I guess like, yeah,

518
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:14,960
Speaker 3: that was that was the main thing. Like I met

519
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 3: all these really cool people who were everything that I

520
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 3: wanted to be musicians, comedians, stand ups.

521
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:24,000
Speaker 1: Whatever about that, Well, tell me more about that. They're

522
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 1: everything that you want to What do you want to be?

523
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:28,600
Speaker 3: I want to be an entertainer, like I want to

524
00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 3: be I want to be known by everyone and known

525
00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:35,360
Speaker 3: by no one at the same time. You know, it's

526
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:38,600
Speaker 3: that's just it's just it comes up to me as

527
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 3: like the prime of confidence, the prime of self esteem,

528
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 3: I guess is you being able to put yourself in

529
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:50,240
Speaker 3: front of all these people without any any worries about

530
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:52,160
Speaker 3: it because you know that you're you're doing something for

531
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 3: them at the end of the day.

532
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:55,880
Speaker 1: That's what I would you have to you got to understand.

533
00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 1: And you know this for saying the comedians and musicians

534
00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:02,880
Speaker 1: are some of the most u self esteem motherfuckers out there.

535
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, I totally. I've seen it. I've seen

536
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 3: it first pance. But like just being able to put

537
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:11,600
Speaker 3: on that facade just for a little bit, mm hmm,

538
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:15,240
Speaker 3: is is just what It's just so appealing to me,

539
00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:19,240
Speaker 3: Like just being able to put on a mask just

540
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:19,960
Speaker 3: for a little bit.

541
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:23,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, when well, when you go do the open mic, well,

542
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:24,560
Speaker 1: when you go to the Commis shows, you ever do

543
00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:28,200
Speaker 1: like open mics? Yeah, I don't know.

544
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 3: I I did a few because my friend was running it,

545
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:36,400
Speaker 3: and I don't know. I I just I don't know.

546
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:38,760
Speaker 3: If I'm not good at writing material, I'm kind of

547
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:43,400
Speaker 3: a funnier person on you know, on off a dime.

548
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:47,480
Speaker 3: But I mean, obviously anything that I practiced with I'll

549
00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:50,840
Speaker 3: get better at. But it's just I don't know. I

550
00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:52,360
Speaker 3: feel like a lot of people just have an inherent

551
00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:56,360
Speaker 3: talent for it, and uh, it's kind of discouraging when

552
00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:57,520
Speaker 3: I don't see that out of myself.

553
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 1: M Yeah, there's a there's a lot going on here.

554
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:06,840
Speaker 1: But uh, I when's the next time You've been in

555
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 1: your house for five days? You haven't gone out, you

556
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 1: haven't spoken to anyone.

557
00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 3: Or just like, I mean, it's probably it hasn't been

558
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 3: like maybe it may have been like maybe two or

559
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 3: three days, probably not five days.

560
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:19,880
Speaker 1: Okay, Well are you would you be willing to go

561
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 1: out again?

562
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:20,920
Speaker 2: Well?

563
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 1: What's today, Thursday, tomorrow's Friday night? Would you be willing

564
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 1: to go out again and try again? But this time

565
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:29,000
Speaker 1: just make it a point of like nothing of like

566
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it, but I'm not. I'm at least

567
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:36,560
Speaker 1: this time, I'm not gonna get fucked up. Yeah, but

568
00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna give it to and I'm not gonna

569
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:40,600
Speaker 1: give into my impulses and I'm gonna see what happens.

570
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 3: That's hard, but yeah, I can try to make a

571
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 3: promise to myself.

572
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, because yeah, all you need is I mean,

573
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:57,880
Speaker 1: if you're so like, you're so close. That's the thing is,

574
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 1: it's just so close, you know. And all you need

575
00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 1: is like like a little bit of evidence that like, oh, okay,

576
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 1: this idea that I need to buy people things to

577
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 1: get them to like me is is all in my head.

578
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 1: Let me get a little bit of evidence that that

579
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 1: this is all in my head. And I don't know

580
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:23,239
Speaker 1: if I don't know if fixing uh whatever trauma and uh,

581
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:27,600
Speaker 1: you know, a mental wiring is is as easy as that.

582
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 1: But it seems like a good place to start, Like

583
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 1: let me just go out make a friend at night,

584
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:36,160
Speaker 1: start talking to someone, which I know I can do

585
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 1: because I know I'm a sociable, cool person. And let

586
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:44,400
Speaker 1: me do it without alcohol because the alcohol, you know, obviously,

587
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:46,920
Speaker 1: yeah alcohol makes you a little bit more confident, but

588
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 1: but you don't but you don't need it. That's that's it.

589
00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:55,440
Speaker 1: That shit's within you, you know. So so I guess

590
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:58,600
Speaker 1: if there's any homework from this phone call, it's like,

591
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:03,160
Speaker 1: go out, go out, do your thing, but just try

592
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:05,120
Speaker 1: not to get fucked up and trying not to buy anyone,

593
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:08,720
Speaker 1: you know, cocaine or movie tickets.

594
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 3: All right, I'll try my best.

595
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 1: What's your nick, ji Ji? Is there anything else, like

596
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 1: any other aspect of this that you want to talk about,

597
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 1: or any anything else you wanted to run buy me

598
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 1: or any any any other any stuff before we go?

599
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:35,160
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know. The other thing that I

600
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:37,600
Speaker 3: said in my text mesice to you was because I

601
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 3: think all this kind of like, uh sparked up because

602
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:45,640
Speaker 3: I electrocuted myself at school, nearly burnt the school down,

603
00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 3: and I think ever since then, like it's just kind

604
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:53,520
Speaker 3: of like I guess rewired my brain a little bit.

605
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 3: I feel like if I hadn't done that, I would

606
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:57,560
Speaker 3: have been like a normal sociable human being.

607
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 1: But wait, do you feel like because you burned the

608
00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 1: school down?

609
00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 3: You No, I didn't actually burn it down. I cause

610
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:11,840
Speaker 3: an I caused an electrical fire. I nearly burned the

611
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:15,760
Speaker 3: school down, but UH didn't.

612
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 2: So but I.

613
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:23,799
Speaker 3: Was in probably two thousand and six, So you feel

614
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:24,000
Speaker 3: like that.

615
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 1: And you feel like that's still as as what about that?

616
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:28,360
Speaker 1: Do you feel like it's still lingering today?

617
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:33,920
Speaker 3: The faring to my nerves? I don't know, I had,

618
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 3: I had electrical current shot through my body and I

619
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:44,479
Speaker 3: brought out the power in the entire school for maybe

620
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:45,640
Speaker 3: like six hours.

621
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:52,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, but like and it gave and you feel like

622
00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:54,840
Speaker 1: that gave you like reverse superpowers.

623
00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:58,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it kind of like made me a

624
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:01,400
Speaker 3: little r worded just a little bit. It kind of

625
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:02,839
Speaker 3: doled me down a little bit.

626
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:05,440
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Well.

627
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:07,920
Speaker 3: You know when you you know, when people go to

628
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,920
Speaker 3: conversion camps like shock the gay out. I feel like

629
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:14,000
Speaker 3: it shocked the sociability out of me. Ever since then,

630
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:16,400
Speaker 3: I've just been kind of stupid interesting.

631
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:22,520
Speaker 1: Well, well, look that's not true, right like you, It's

632
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:26,239
Speaker 1: not It's not fucking true. Giy, this is not fucking true.

633
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not Andrew Huerman. I don't know

634
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 1: how things work in the body. But but that's not true.

635
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:38,279
Speaker 1: So got go Tomorrow's Friday night. Go out, don't get

636
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 1: fucked up, don't buy anyone any fucking things, and just

637
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 1: just see see how you feel just just talking to people,

638
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 1: no attachments.

639
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:51,120
Speaker 3: I'll turn up respectfully, I'll try my best.

640
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:53,719
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, is there anything else you want to

641
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 1: say to the people of the computer before we go?

642
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 2: Ji?

643
00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:02,080
Speaker 3: He should love have a wonder full day. You can

644
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:06,839
Speaker 3: find me on Instagram at T tests. Love you so much.

645
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:08,120
Speaker 3: Thank you guys for listening.

646
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:15,960
Speaker 4: P test t t e E p e F no tests,

647
00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 4: but like test oh P.

648
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 1: Pests Yes, p E E T e s t F.

649
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:30,840
Speaker 1: That's actually kind of a cool Instagram name. Thank you

650
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 1: for calling j gat Blessed you have a the rest

651
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:40,200
Speaker 1: of the night. That was interesting. Hm, I hope she

652
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:42,360
Speaker 1: does it. It's funny. I talked to her for a

653
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 1: pretty long time. We talked for like thirty five minutes,

654
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:47,400
Speaker 1: and uh, sometimes I do I did feel at the

655
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:50,800
Speaker 1: end of that call that it started with we we

656
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:53,480
Speaker 1: went through that whole problem, and I do think I

657
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:56,239
Speaker 1: kind of just ended it by saying, well, hey, why

658
00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 1: don't you just not do that? And it's like, yeah,

659
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:04,360
Speaker 1: thanks by that's fantastic advice from the therapy gecko. But

660
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:07,440
Speaker 1: I don't know, hopefully that was helpful in some way,

661
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:12,120
Speaker 1: shape or form. Yeah, I felt with her like all

662
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:15,480
Speaker 1: this like everything was there, like she she had an

663
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:20,160
Speaker 1: awareness of like who she was and and the positive

664
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:23,440
Speaker 1: qualities that she had, but there was just some fucking

665
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:26,400
Speaker 1: mental block And I don't know with doing these with

666
00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:28,880
Speaker 1: with having these conversations and doing these things. There's just

667
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:30,360
Speaker 1: a lot of things where I'm like, I don't know

668
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:34,520
Speaker 1: how to how to overcome that thing. But whatever, I

669
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 1: hope that that that brief call with a gecko was

670
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:45,759
Speaker 1: helpful in some way shape or form. Hello, Hey, what's up?

671
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:48,400
Speaker 2: Dog? What's up?

672
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:49,799
Speaker 1: What's your name?

673
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 2: Seth?

674
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:54,760
Speaker 1: Seth? Seth? How can I get you today?

675
00:37:56,040 --> 00:38:01,320
Speaker 2: No fucking way. I've got a big issue going on

676
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:01,759
Speaker 2: right now.

677
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:06,279
Speaker 1: Let's hear about it. Let's see, let's let's talk about it.

678
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:14,080
Speaker 2: I love one girl for who she is and another

679
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:16,279
Speaker 2: for who she is, but for what she's got.

680
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:22,879
Speaker 1: Okay, tell me more.

681
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 2: One girl works for FedEx with me. Another one works

682
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 2: for Warner Brothers Studios in makes is going to make

683
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:40,280
Speaker 2: a lot of money. Okay, I don't know who to choose.

684
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 1: Okay, how did you meet? Tell me how you met

685
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:48,800
Speaker 1: these girls?

686
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:51,960
Speaker 2: Facebook? Uh?

687
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:52,400
Speaker 3: Like?

688
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 1: How on Facebook?

689
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:58,640
Speaker 2: Uh? Facebook? Dating and friendship?

690
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:02,440
Speaker 1: Okay? When when you meet a woman on Facebook who

691
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 1: tells you that she has a lot of money, well

692
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 1: you have to verify whether or not she's a real

693
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:10,560
Speaker 1: human being.

694
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 2: Right, And I did. I made her verify where she

695
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:22,200
Speaker 2: works because being where I live, working for Warner Brothers.

696
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:24,440
Speaker 2: Seems fucking impossible.

697
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:27,600
Speaker 1: Have you met these two women in person?

698
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:32,160
Speaker 2: Uh? Yes?

699
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:35,400
Speaker 1: I feel like that should be a simple answer, no question,

700
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 1: yes and.

701
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:40,600
Speaker 2: Other stuff.

702
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:45,759
Speaker 1: What do you I just asked if you had Have

703
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:47,280
Speaker 1: you met these two girls in person?

704
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:48,480
Speaker 2: Yes?

705
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:51,640
Speaker 1: Okay, I did ask if you had sex with them?

706
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:54,800
Speaker 3: I know?

707
00:39:57,040 --> 00:40:00,719
Speaker 1: But uh yeah, okay? Are you are you?

708
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:00,920
Speaker 3: Like?

709
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:01,080
Speaker 2: What?

710
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:03,000
Speaker 1: What's what's the story with that? How long have you

711
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 1: been like?

712
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 3: Uh?

713
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:04,920
Speaker 2: Well?

714
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:06,040
Speaker 1: Do they know about each other?

715
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:07,919
Speaker 2: Yes?

716
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:10,799
Speaker 1: All right? How long have you been involved with each

717
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:11,080
Speaker 1: of them?

718
00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:15,000
Speaker 2: Uh? Two three months?

719
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:20,319
Speaker 1: Okay? And both are they are? And both of them?

720
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:22,080
Speaker 1: How do they Okay, so they both know about each other?

721
00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 1: How do they feel about the existence of each other

722
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:24,800
Speaker 1: in your lives?

723
00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 2: Negative? Okay, one feels better than the other.

724
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:36,960
Speaker 1: Okay. And so you're asking me which of these girls

725
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:39,080
Speaker 1: you should go with based on like one of them

726
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:40,240
Speaker 1: makes a lot of money?

727
00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:48,440
Speaker 2: No, which one I should really go just go with?

728
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:51,839
Speaker 1: Okay? Well?

729
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:54,960
Speaker 2: Which I love both of them?

730
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:56,759
Speaker 4: M hmm.

731
00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:04,040
Speaker 2: One of them is more comfortable, one room provides more luxury.

732
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 1: So you're trying to get this. If I if I

733
00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:13,759
Speaker 1: were you, I wouldn't factor how much money either of

734
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:18,240
Speaker 1: these women make into your decision unless that's just always

735
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 1: been your dream to be a trophy husband.

736
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 2: It's not. It's more I've been the one always doing

737
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:32,759
Speaker 2: a lot of ship, the cooking, the cleaning everything. One

738
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 2: has her issues, doesn't have her kids. One has her

739
00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:43,840
Speaker 2: kids and likes to do the cooking and cleaning.

740
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:46,200
Speaker 1: All right, So let me ask you this. If you're

741
00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 1: gonna be, if you're gonna be, uh, the sugar, the

742
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:57,239
Speaker 1: trophy husband to this multimillion dollar Warner Brothers executive, what

743
00:41:57,400 --> 00:41:59,080
Speaker 1: what are you going to bring to the table that's

744
00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 1: gonna make her want to spoil you?

745
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 2: That's the exact question I asked myself, because she says,

746
00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:11,280
Speaker 2: you don't have to do anything, just be yourself.

747
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:14,239
Speaker 1: Are you a cool guy?

748
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:19,880
Speaker 2: Yeah? The reason why she says she loves me is

749
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:21,120
Speaker 2: because I am who I am.

750
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 1: Okay, so you know this one for three months and

751
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:27,279
Speaker 1: you guys are already in love.

752
00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 2: I'm in love with both of them and you've.

753
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:37,640
Speaker 1: Known both of them three months? Yeah, Okay?

754
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:39,480
Speaker 2: Do you both love me for who I am?

755
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:40,440
Speaker 3: Do you?

756
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:41,239
Speaker 2: Well?

757
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:43,480
Speaker 1: Congratulations? Not many people can say that.

758
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:52,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, but one is also talking to another guy, the

759
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:58,480
Speaker 2: other one that's not well off, and it sucks.

760
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:02,800
Speaker 1: I'm very confused. I'm I still want to get to

761
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 1: the bottom of why you are so in intrigued with

762
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:09,560
Speaker 1: how much money this woman makes.

763
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:14,719
Speaker 2: I wasn't. I loved her for who she was when

764
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:18,200
Speaker 2: we started talking. I started talking to one that was

765
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:21,560
Speaker 2: supposed to be a friend, and then she confessed her

766
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:24,120
Speaker 2: love to me while I was talking to this girl

767
00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:27,080
Speaker 2: that was supposed to be doing and I confessed my

768
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:32,640
Speaker 2: love back, and I became an argument, and I stepped

769
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:38,640
Speaker 2: talking to this other girl for five days and we

770
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:45,480
Speaker 2: sorry what We had sex every day and then I

771
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 2: ended it when this other girl, or sorry the other

772
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:55,239
Speaker 2: girl goes Hey, So my boss decides to surprise me

773
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 2: with a free trip to the Bahamas because she whispered

774
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:08,440
Speaker 2: what broa mm hmm, and then I it's sorry. I

775
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:13,399
Speaker 2: did ask for proof, and she provided me with every

776
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:17,080
Speaker 2: little bit of proof, and we are going to the Bahamas.

777
00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:20,640
Speaker 1: You asked her for proof that she works at Warner Brothers.

778
00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:25,400
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I mean where I live, that's unheard of.

779
00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:28,480
Speaker 1: Where do you live? What state?

780
00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:30,040
Speaker 2: Iowa?

781
00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:34,440
Speaker 1: Iowa? You asked her for like you said, I don't like.

782
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:35,919
Speaker 1: She said she works for Warner Brothers, And you said,

783
00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:39,120
Speaker 1: I don't believe you send me an email from your

784
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:40,160
Speaker 1: Warner Brothers address.

785
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 2: Uh, sort of. I wanted proof that she worked for

786
00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:51,400
Speaker 2: Warner Brothers because why where we live something like that

787
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:55,880
Speaker 2: isn't a job here, okay? And I didn't believe her,

788
00:44:56,440 --> 00:44:58,719
Speaker 2: So I was like, well, I want proof that you

789
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:01,800
Speaker 2: actually do work for one Brothers. And she sent me

790
00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:05,400
Speaker 2: her past coode information.

791
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:09,360
Speaker 1: She sent you her past code information.

792
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:11,000
Speaker 2: Yep.

793
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:16,040
Speaker 1: Is that sensitive information.

794
00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:23,520
Speaker 2: To a point, but it's not enough to get her

795
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:29,000
Speaker 2: in trouble. What do you do? I work for FedEx?

796
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:30,480
Speaker 1: Okay?

797
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:32,160
Speaker 3: Are you?

798
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:34,520
Speaker 1: Is the plan to marry this woman and quit your

799
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:36,560
Speaker 1: job and be like a house husband.

800
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:40,120
Speaker 2: That's what she tells me she wants me to be.

801
00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:41,880
Speaker 1: How do you feel about that?

802
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:51,160
Speaker 2: I mean great, I've met her kids, I met her.

803
00:45:56,040 --> 00:46:02,879
Speaker 1: Okay, Uh, I mean it's I mean, look, it really

804
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:05,680
Speaker 1: sounds it really sounds like you want to go with

805
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:07,280
Speaker 1: the woman who makes more money.

806
00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:15,360
Speaker 2: In a way, but there's a huge difference between the

807
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:15,920
Speaker 2: two of them.

808
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:17,920
Speaker 3: What is that.

809
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 2: She likes to cook and clean and be a housewife

810
00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:30,759
Speaker 2: and that's something I've never had, like happiness. Like I said,

811
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:31,759
Speaker 2: I've been the one to.

812
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:35,239
Speaker 1: Wait a minute. So this, This woman, the cooking woman

813
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:39,040
Speaker 1: wants to This woman wants to cook and clean for

814
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:44,040
Speaker 1: you and be the sole income owner of the house

815
00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:47,000
Speaker 1: as well, while you literally do nothing.

816
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:53,920
Speaker 2: No, that's that's not it. I like a woman that

817
00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 2: wants to help cook and clean. I've always cooked and clean.

818
00:46:58,080 --> 00:47:02,560
Speaker 2: I want to share that and do both at the

819
00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:06,480
Speaker 2: same time. I mean, have you ever been the one

820
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:09,680
Speaker 2: in a relationship to always cook and clean everything up?

821
00:47:10,719 --> 00:47:14,200
Speaker 1: So you want to share the cooking and cleaning with

822
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:22,439
Speaker 1: her while she makes all of the money. No, what's

823
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 1: your idea? What's what's what's your name again, Seth, Seth, Seth?

824
00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:30,239
Speaker 1: What's your ideal situation here?

825
00:47:32,920 --> 00:47:33,480
Speaker 2: Happiness?

826
00:47:34,239 --> 00:47:36,040
Speaker 1: Okay? What's gonna make you the most happy?

827
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:41,880
Speaker 2: Enjoying life with someone?

828
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:44,840
Speaker 1: Okay? Which of these women do you think you're gonna

829
00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:46,879
Speaker 1: enjoy life with more?

830
00:47:51,239 --> 00:47:54,200
Speaker 2: The other one? Because I mean, I told the story

831
00:47:54,239 --> 00:47:55,040
Speaker 2: about the other girl.

832
00:47:56,360 --> 00:47:57,759
Speaker 1: You haven't told the story. What's the story?

833
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:06,759
Speaker 2: So she okay, both of them has three kids, one

834
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:12,760
Speaker 2: has all three, one doesn't. The other one that works

835
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:19,719
Speaker 2: kind of with me since we're both FedEx people. She

836
00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:26,200
Speaker 2: lost her kids due to a lot of bad things.

837
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:31,680
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna tell her story. Right here. She had

838
00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:37,360
Speaker 2: to Forcelly kind of give up her rights to her kids, okay,

839
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:42,319
Speaker 2: for their safety. Okay, the other one didn't, so there's

840
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:45,680
Speaker 2: limited time that she can spend with her kids. The

841
00:48:45,719 --> 00:48:46,919
Speaker 2: other one has her kids.

842
00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:56,080
Speaker 1: This, uh, Facebook dating sounds exactly like the place that

843
00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:57,400
Speaker 1: I anticipated would be.

844
00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:01,480
Speaker 2: Horrible.

845
00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:08,160
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say anything further than that. Well, all right, man,

846
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:10,200
Speaker 1: I mean, god, damn, I asked you this question and

847
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:12,759
Speaker 1: you answered it immediately, so you know you don't need

848
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:13,919
Speaker 1: my help. Go with your gut.

849
00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:17,160
Speaker 3: I mean, so.

850
00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 2: This girl, I was saying both of them at the

851
00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:24,160
Speaker 2: same time for a month and a half.

852
00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:25,440
Speaker 1: Uh huh.

853
00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:29,000
Speaker 2: I ended it with one of them.

854
00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:33,239
Speaker 1: Oh, which you already ended it with one of these girls.

855
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:42,000
Speaker 2: This sort of space, Well, we don't. Well. One of

856
00:49:42,239 --> 00:49:44,319
Speaker 2: the one I ended it with asked me to come

857
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:46,600
Speaker 2: over one night, and I was like, all right, fuck it.

858
00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:51,360
Speaker 2: I was drunk, but then I said, we can't do

859
00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:52,160
Speaker 2: this again.

860
00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:58,719
Speaker 1: Dude, listen, okay, and and h I don't know which

861
00:49:58,760 --> 00:50:00,480
Speaker 1: I don't know, first of all, don't know if. I

862
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:02,160
Speaker 1: don't know if either of these two women are real.

863
00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:03,880
Speaker 1: I don't actually know if you're real. And if this

864
00:50:04,040 --> 00:50:08,840
Speaker 1: is some kind of AI generated Facebook dating advertisements. But

865
00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:10,759
Speaker 1: if I were if I were, if I were you,

866
00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:13,400
Speaker 1: if I were you, I would I mean would just

867
00:50:13,480 --> 00:50:15,719
Speaker 1: pick something and dive into it. Because the longer you

868
00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:21,480
Speaker 1: spend sitting on the fence and uh, you know, postulating

869
00:50:21,520 --> 00:50:27,600
Speaker 1: about these two, you're just gonna waste time. And I

870
00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:30,160
Speaker 1: don't I don't know. This whole thing is super Uh

871
00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:35,320
Speaker 1: it's kind of weird to me. But you know, do

872
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:36,400
Speaker 1: whatever makes you happy.

873
00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:36,600
Speaker 4: Man.

874
00:50:36,640 --> 00:50:40,359
Speaker 1: I know that that's a platitude, but it sounds as though,

875
00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:44,319
Speaker 1: again when I asked you how you felt, you had

876
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:47,000
Speaker 1: a gut reaction. So I mean, if I were you,

877
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:48,440
Speaker 1: I would go with that gut reaction.

878
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:56,480
Speaker 2: That that's what I plan going with. Mm hmm.

879
00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:00,120
Speaker 1: But also, I mean, think about all the things that

880
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:03,120
Speaker 1: you can do with with this woman's money and with

881
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:05,520
Speaker 1: her influence too, because I was going to say, you should, uh,

882
00:51:06,040 --> 00:51:07,560
Speaker 1: you should ask her if she's going to make the

883
00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:10,640
Speaker 1: next Batman movie not suck, because I walked out of

884
00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:13,520
Speaker 1: the to let her know that. Yeah, I walked out

885
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:14,239
Speaker 1: of the first one.

886
00:51:14,360 --> 00:51:17,759
Speaker 2: So I'm hoping that she didn't have that much influence.

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Speaker 2: She has a little bit.

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Speaker 1: What's your Name's what's your name one more time, Seth, Seth,

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Speaker 1: is there anything else you want to say to the

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Speaker 2: Go watch Akaman two? Because that helps her revenue.

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Speaker 1: That helps her revenue, and it also uh trickles down

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Speaker 1: to you apparently. Yeah, take care, Seth, thanks for calling. Hey,

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Speaker 3: I'm a free I just got a suit.

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Speaker 5: It's like a head and the tail and I'm very

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Speaker 5: proud of it.

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Speaker 3: It's awesome.

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Speaker 1: All right, Frost, let's get into it. How's the crazy

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Speaker 1: monkey suit? Sex? That's what everyone wants to know.

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Speaker 5: I don't want to sweat too much in it, you know,

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Speaker 5: because I want to keep it nice. But once I

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Speaker 5: get a few more suits, I'll probably delegate one for

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Speaker 5: the hot steaming.

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Speaker 1: So you are trying to get to the point where

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Speaker 1: you have a few monkey suits and one of them

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Speaker 1: is specifically for sex. Yeah, just a few, you know,

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Speaker 1: that's a good idea. I should, I should. I should

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Speaker 1: set aside one of my Gecko suits for that.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, but you only have one though, right dude?

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Speaker 1: When you said oh yeah, just now, you kind of

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Is that good?

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Speaker 1: All right, I have nothing else to say.

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Speaker 3: On the line making nine.

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Speaker 5: not

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Speaker 1: Really an expert