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Speaker 1: All right, let's get it. Welcome back to another episode

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Speaker 1: of Bros and Cons where we discuss life.

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Speaker 3: That's it, chrials, tribulations, and we're trying to cover all

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Speaker 1: What's your name? Were you from? I just want to

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Speaker 1: say all glory to God. It's an absolute honor to

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Speaker 1: be you, so I appreciate you having me on. My

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Speaker 1: name is Kean. I'm twenty four years old. I was

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Speaker 1: born in Iran. I lived there for twelve years and

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Speaker 1: since I came to Australia, I've been living in Sydney,

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Speaker 1: and to be honest, yeah, I'm just very blessed to

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Speaker 3: You very I'm glad to have you on bro, especially

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Speaker 3: having someone from Iran man seeing as most of our

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Speaker 3: common guests before we're Polynesian, because you know, well.

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Speaker 3: We've covered almost everything about you know, Polynesia and you

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Speaker 3: in today about you know, what's it like in the

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Speaker 3: Middle East. You know, what's it like growing up in Iran?

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Speaker 1: All right? So so in Iran, to be honest, I

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Speaker 1: had a pretty good life, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: Most of my growing up was with my grandparents and

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Speaker 1: be honest, I just mainly grew up with my grandparents,

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Speaker 1: lived a pretty good life. There was periods where I

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Speaker 1: and that I was lucky to have a childhood where

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Speaker 1: so I was very blessed in that aspect when I

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Speaker 1: In schools and that even if you're not different. Bullying

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Speaker 3: I've never seen bullying at this stage. You know, it

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Speaker 3: And I feel like this podcast is the biggest privilege

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Speaker 1: the time, I was cooked, b and like he came

432
00:21:34,119 --> 00:21:36,320
Speaker 1: off pretty violent, you know, like the guy, Like I

433
00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:39,280
Speaker 1: remember they'd done some shopping and he kicked the shopping

434
00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:42,840
Speaker 1: and I saw she was pregnant because and I was like, brother,

435
00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:45,639
Speaker 1: what are you doing? Like relax, you know, And this

436
00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:47,800
Speaker 1: guy started bridging up, right, And I was just off

437
00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:51,320
Speaker 1: my head, burg and this guy started bridging up and

438
00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:56,000
Speaker 1: pretty much just pepped in a bit and he made

439
00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:58,800
Speaker 1: his wife like film us and I was full chopped

440
00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:03,360
Speaker 1: cuse like he made his world films. And what I did,

441
00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:06,679
Speaker 1: like I snatched their phones and I made them delete it,

442
00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:09,360
Speaker 1: delete the video. But then like I don't know why,

443
00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:11,720
Speaker 1: but like I just ran off with their phones because

444
00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:15,160
Speaker 1: and like I don't know why, probably because it had

445
00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:17,719
Speaker 1: my fingerprints or whatever. I just ran off with their phones.

446
00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:20,199
Speaker 1: And I was that chopped cuz I was trying to

447
00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:23,520
Speaker 1: fucking run off, but they kept following me and I

448
00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:25,520
Speaker 1: didn't get fired. And he started yelling and there was

449
00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:29,639
Speaker 1: all these pedestrians that followed him. And but for that

450
00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:32,199
Speaker 1: I got done with Robbery and Company, because you know,

451
00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:35,879
Speaker 1: I got Bell Denoyd. And I remember I went to

452
00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:39,919
Speaker 1: Parkley and I was there for a month, but I

453
00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:41,679
Speaker 1: was the first time I went in. I did it

454
00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:45,680
Speaker 1: a bit hard, you know. And yes, I was at

455
00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:49,760
Speaker 1: Parkley and then I came to batist A wing was

456
00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:51,840
Speaker 1: a bit hard, you know. I was at the fire

457
00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:55,360
Speaker 1: in Silbra. I was lucky had the best selly child

458
00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:59,000
Speaker 1: curse shout out, shout out to him and A wing

459
00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:01,200
Speaker 1: was a bit hard, but to be honest, and then

460
00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:03,120
Speaker 1: I came to see one too and that's where you were,

461
00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:07,320
Speaker 1: and it was pretty kick back there, you know. So

462
00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:09,880
Speaker 1: what happened was I ended up getting bailed to rehab,

463
00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:12,879
Speaker 1: even though it was like a wall in charge I had.

464
00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:15,080
Speaker 1: So it took a while to get into a rehab.

465
00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:17,760
Speaker 1: And then I went to this rehab. It was a

466
00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:21,399
Speaker 1: private rehab and I did nine months there. And I

467
00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:24,720
Speaker 1: remember at the first rehab bro I had all these reservations,

468
00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:26,960
Speaker 1: you know, I used to at the time. My drug

469
00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:30,040
Speaker 1: use wasn't luck with full hard drugs. But I remember

470
00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:32,800
Speaker 1: being in that rehab when I was probably eighteen, and

471
00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:35,679
Speaker 1: I remember I probably tried oil like once or twice.

472
00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:39,359
Speaker 1: And I remember having reservations because this is something they

473
00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:42,720
Speaker 1: talk about in rehab and that they're having reservations full foxia,

474
00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:45,240
Speaker 1: you know. And I remember having reservations at the first

475
00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:47,960
Speaker 1: rehab about I was like, fuck, I can't wait till

476
00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:49,720
Speaker 1: I have a ball oil in my hand, you know.

477
00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:52,560
Speaker 1: So I was even though I was at rehab, I

478
00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:55,480
Speaker 1: was never actually I didn't know why the fuck I

479
00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:59,480
Speaker 1: was there. I was still young. And so anyway, I

480
00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:04,200
Speaker 1: got bailed to this second rehab. I did nine months there.

481
00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:07,399
Speaker 1: I ended up getting an ICO. Yeah, and to be honest.

482
00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:09,520
Speaker 1: At that rehab, I was on the G and shipro

483
00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:12,679
Speaker 1: like I was. I was, and it wasn't like, yeah,

484
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:15,920
Speaker 1: I was on the G and I was still running

485
00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:19,880
Speaker 1: the mark and every weekend I'd be drinking and get smashed,

486
00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:22,760
Speaker 1: you know. And so I never really actually did any

487
00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:26,119
Speaker 1: work to better myself. So I got an ICO. I

488
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:30,240
Speaker 1: left that rehab after nine months, and I breached the

489
00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:34,919
Speaker 1: ICO in one week because but around this time, I

490
00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,440
Speaker 1: was hanging around on the streets as well, and I started, Yeah,

491
00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:40,119
Speaker 1: and I had a good missus at this time too,

492
00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:44,040
Speaker 1: because like you know, and like she didn't do drugs

493
00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:47,639
Speaker 1: and like she truly loved me, you know, but for

494
00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:51,040
Speaker 1: my partner now, yes, okay, yeah, but it is what

495
00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:55,040
Speaker 1: it is. Yeah. But yeah, so I started getting on

496
00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:58,600
Speaker 1: the oil and like before I knew it, because like

497
00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:01,720
Speaker 1: you started, it took over my life. It took over

498
00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:04,720
Speaker 1: my mind, burw you know. And like so I was

499
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:08,080
Speaker 1: doing bricklaying, and I started I started off like using

500
00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:11,240
Speaker 1: it maybe twice a week, this and that, and then

501
00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:13,240
Speaker 1: before I knew it, but I was using every day,

502
00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:16,760
Speaker 1: you know, before work, doing work after work. Yeah, And

503
00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:20,040
Speaker 1: because like when I started first doing it, it made

504
00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:22,359
Speaker 1: me feel like I was myself cuz it made me

505
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:25,560
Speaker 1: feel fully normal. It took away all my insecurities and

506
00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:28,200
Speaker 1: shit like that. You know, this was at the start.

507
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:32,240
Speaker 1: But and like bros, Yeah, it's fucking ugly man, Like

508
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:36,399
Speaker 1: before I knew it, like because I started using it

509
00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:40,919
Speaker 1: a lot, Like I was making like a fucking Chimney brow. Yeah,

510
00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:43,639
Speaker 1: So before I knew it, I started getting on it

511
00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:47,480
Speaker 1: every day and then I lost my job, lost it

512
00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:51,399
Speaker 1: left it in a way, and at the time, it

513
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:56,480
Speaker 1: like I had no idea that it was. Like I

514
00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:58,320
Speaker 1: didn't see it as a bad thing, but I felt

515
00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:00,760
Speaker 1: like it's like I also off for like cut of

516
00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:03,399
Speaker 1: medication that I was on, and I fully replaced it

517
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:07,440
Speaker 1: with it got worse and worse. You know, started off

518
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:10,280
Speaker 1: with just half grams and stuff like that. But because

519
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:14,320
Speaker 1: I lost my job, yeah, like I had to find

520
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:17,760
Speaker 1: ways to support my habit, and I started hanging around,

521
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:21,679
Speaker 1: like I started like getting deeper into the street stuff

522
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:24,000
Speaker 1: and just the drug world. Yeah, and a lot of

523
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,920
Speaker 1: the boys that I was kicking back with, like we're

524
00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:30,119
Speaker 1: heavily into that. And that's one thing about that world.

525
00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:32,960
Speaker 1: But a lot of the people that on it, they

526
00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:36,720
Speaker 1: you don't realize that what you're doing is wrong because

527
00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:39,119
Speaker 1: you feel very comfortable in that world. It's like a

528
00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 1: whole other world. But I swear twenty four seven, I

529
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:45,719
Speaker 1: was urching doing being these like garages and stuff just

530
00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:49,240
Speaker 1: like out twenty four seven, looking for ways I can

531
00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:51,639
Speaker 1: support my habit, you know. And I remember, like it

532
00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:54,000
Speaker 1: came to a point where I was doing being these

533
00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:56,159
Speaker 1: on like houses and that, but all night, Bro, Like

534
00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:58,560
Speaker 1: I wouldn't sleep, I'd only sleep on the nod. I

535
00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:01,000
Speaker 1: remember I used to do like around with the acts

536
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,560
Speaker 1: in my backpack, and I used to have all these

537
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:08,480
Speaker 1: different like Louis Vitone and fucking Jimmy Chew, like woman's

538
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:11,119
Speaker 1: handbags and shit that I just urched and like found, bro,

539
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:13,879
Speaker 1: and always for sale, you know, and just selling stuff

540
00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:16,840
Speaker 1: for twenty four to seven. But it was I was

541
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:18,879
Speaker 1: just fully like I was just a bad unkie Joe, Bro,

542
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:23,119
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like, and I didn't really

543
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:26,399
Speaker 1: realize it at the time because I was it was

544
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:29,760
Speaker 1: the way that I was functioning, and like, I was

545
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:33,639
Speaker 1: so comfortable in that world. And I remember going to

546
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:36,240
Speaker 1: jail was a full blessing for me, Bro, because like

547
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:39,119
Speaker 1: the second time, because there was no other way I

548
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 1: was going to get clean. Like honestly, like going to

549
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:48,960
Speaker 1: jail this second time was a blessing because like there

550
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:50,959
Speaker 1: was no like I didn't think I needed help, bro.

551
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 1: And I was full getting to a point of psychosis too, guys.

552
00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:58,359
Speaker 1: I remember, I remember like thinking that like there was

553
00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:01,280
Speaker 1: helicopters following me and ship like they were I was

554
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:04,520
Speaker 1: was fucked up, bro, Yeah, and I fully believed it,

555
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:07,719
Speaker 1: you know. And but yeah, I remember like I was

556
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,119
Speaker 1: just like out twenty four to seven, Bro, I rock

557
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:12,639
Speaker 1: up to the boys he has with like full laptops

558
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:15,160
Speaker 1: in my bag, like all sorts of shit, you know, yeah,

559
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:19,920
Speaker 1: Selbur And a few months before leading to getting done,

560
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:22,680
Speaker 1: my partner left me because I was using too much

561
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,679
Speaker 1: of that. I was trying to like not show it

562
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 1: to her, but I was. I was saying that, like, look,

563
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 1: I'm still making money doing this stuff. And I'd bring

564
00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 1: like cues and this and that around, and like I'd

565
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:35,399
Speaker 1: just be I always had Bro, you know, when I

566
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:37,600
Speaker 1: was in the depth of my addiction, I always had BRO.

567
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 1: And I remember, so I lost my partner and I

568
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 1: was numb at the time because like all I heard

569
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:49,480
Speaker 1: about was you know, like I was very much pleasure driven,

570
00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:52,080
Speaker 1: you know, by the drugs, and because it was like

571
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 1: the way I was functioning, I looked after myself, but

572
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,600
Speaker 1: a lot of it was just to support my own habit.

573
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:01,000
Speaker 1: You know. When I was in I was on beep

574
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 1: every day as well, you know, so that kind of

575
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:06,520
Speaker 1: helped me with the come down on that. But this

576
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 1: time I did it a lot easier in jail. I

577
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:11,160
Speaker 1: don't know why, probably because I was cooked twenty four

578
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 1: to seven, but like I managed to get bail again

579
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 1: bro to rehab, you know. And but this time going

580
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 1: to rehab, something clicked in me because, like I swear

581
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:26,440
Speaker 1: the first week, the first two weeks of being in

582
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:28,520
Speaker 1: this rehab and there was no phones or nothing, you know,

583
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 1: but I started feeling all the emotions that I suppressed

584
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 1: from all the traumatic experiences in my life at once,

585
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:40,360
Speaker 1: bro the first two weeks at rehab, and like because

586
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 1: this time, like I've done rehab before, but I'd never

587
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:45,880
Speaker 1: really run my life down like this hard, you know,

588
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 1: So I started feeling all the emotions. But and you know,

589
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:54,080
Speaker 1: something clicked in my brain that like that something that

590
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 1: you I should have known, which is probably common sense,

591
00:29:56,760 --> 00:30:00,760
Speaker 1: Like I realized that I was using drug an alcohol

592
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:03,680
Speaker 1: all this time to suppress how I really felt, bro,

593
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 1: and to kind of alter my reality, you know what

594
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 1: I mean. And even though I'd already done like two

595
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:12,760
Speaker 1: years of rehab or like a year and a half

596
00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:16,239
Speaker 1: or whatever, like, I'd never actually had this realization, bro.

597
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:19,240
Speaker 1: And so when I got to this rehab the second time,

598
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:21,800
Speaker 1: like I knew that I had to fucking make get

599
00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:25,640
Speaker 1: this right, bro, Because like I always found my identity

600
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:28,560
Speaker 1: in the streets and the crime and stuff, and I

601
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:30,640
Speaker 1: always tried to do more things my way, you know.

602
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:35,560
Speaker 1: I always felt like I was the one in control.

603
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:38,720
Speaker 1: And this is kind of where God really came into

604
00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:42,959
Speaker 1: my life. And like because I started having this like

605
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:48,080
Speaker 1: self realization that like that like my whole life, like

606
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:51,680
Speaker 1: because of the defensive mechanisms that I built built up

607
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:57,120
Speaker 1: over time like that, Like for example, I tried to,

608
00:30:57,720 --> 00:30:59,440
Speaker 1: like I remember when I was young, I used to

609
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,320
Speaker 1: want to be like, you know, like Mark Tyson. I'd

610
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 1: do the boxing, but it didn't work out. And then

611
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:07,760
Speaker 1: I'd want to be like a full like a hectic

612
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 1: street kid, and I wanted to always be like a

613
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 1: mad robber, like robbing all the drug dealers and that,

614
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,240
Speaker 1: and like, to be honest, none of it really worked

615
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 1: out for me, bro, you know. And this is something

616
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 1: that I realized now, and it's that like God's got

617
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 1: other plans for me, Bro, and I've tried to do

618
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:27,960
Speaker 1: things my way, gus, but they haven't worked for a reason,

619
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:31,240
Speaker 1: you know. And like, for example, even when I dislocated

620
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:33,960
Speaker 1: my shoulder in my first boxing fight, my dad was like,

621
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 1: it's God's plan because if your shoulder had been right,

622
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,320
Speaker 1: you probably would have killed someone by now on the streets.

623
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:44,960
Speaker 1: And like all this time, I didn't realize all the

624
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 1: pain and trauma that I'd put my family through, bro,

625
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:51,760
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like it's, yeah, so coming

626
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 1: to rehab this time because it made me realize that,

627
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,880
Speaker 1: like I'm twenty four now, Bro, that the last four years,

628
00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:00,640
Speaker 1: I've spent all of it like going in and out

629
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:03,479
Speaker 1: of jail and rehab, you know. And to be honest,

630
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,480
Speaker 1: because I was getting so deep into the streets stuff,

631
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 1: I used to think that like I had to do

632
00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:12,239
Speaker 1: a certain amount of jail, not jail, but like I

633
00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:14,440
Speaker 1: always felt like what the fucking my own rehab? All

634
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:16,320
Speaker 1: the boys I was kicking back with, they've done big

635
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 1: time and I always found my identity in that and

636
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:22,560
Speaker 1: that was just because I had a distorted way of thinking, brother,

637
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And so anyway, coming to

638
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:29,120
Speaker 1: rehab this time, like for example, when I was in jail,

639
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 1: I'd read the Bible and stuff like that, and I

640
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 1: always believed in Jesus Christ, but I never really my

641
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 1: faith wasn't as strong as it is now. So it

642
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 1: was I was at a Christian rehab, you know. And

643
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 1: I remember I was in chapel one day and like Australia,

644
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 1: I just I told the workers there, I was like,

645
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:55,360
Speaker 1: look like I really want to change, but there's a

646
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 1: part of me that really struggles and is telling me

647
00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:01,640
Speaker 1: like I'm thinking like I haven't done enough jail, brother,

648
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:04,800
Speaker 1: Like I used to think like, oh I haven't done

649
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:08,040
Speaker 1: enough jail luck and that like I'm not fully done

650
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:10,880
Speaker 1: with the street stuff. Like I wasn't really fully at

651
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:13,239
Speaker 1: a point of surrender, you know what I mean. I

652
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 1: hadn't really completely surrendered. Like at that time, I knew

653
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 1: that I was done with drugs and alcohol and that

654
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:23,479
Speaker 1: my tolerance was zero moving forward. Yeah, but I hadn't

655
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:27,479
Speaker 1: really surrendered because I felt like, oh there's still like

656
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 1: I still want to do crime, you know what I mean.

657
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 1: And so I was really struggling with this, and I

658
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 1: talked to the workers and they read out this Bible

659
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:40,160
Speaker 1: verse to me bro two Corinthians five seventeen. Therefore, whoever

660
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:43,640
Speaker 1: is in Christ is a new creation. The old has gone,

661
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 1: and then new has come. And that was probably the

662
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 1: turning point for me finding my identity in Christ. And

663
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, That's where my life truly

664
00:33:55,240 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 1: began to change. And I started praying and kind of

665
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 1: just trying to come to peace with the things that

666
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 1: I can't control and just doing kind of And I

667
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:09,840
Speaker 1: think it also has to do with like my brain

668
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:13,600
Speaker 1: coming to a point of like developing properly, because like

669
00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:16,719
Speaker 1: now I'm a year clean. I think, because like you know,

670
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:19,120
Speaker 1: like when you're young and that your brain is still developing,

671
00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:21,239
Speaker 1: and because I used to smash myself with so much

672
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 1: drugs and shit, my brain hadn't developed properly. So now

673
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:27,919
Speaker 1: that I think that I got that break and let

674
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:30,640
Speaker 1: my brain not break, Like I'm never gonna do drugs again,

675
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:34,120
Speaker 1: but like when I when I let my brain like

676
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 1: heal itself, it's really you know what I mean. And

677
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 1: I've kind of like now I know who I am,

678
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:45,239
Speaker 1: and now I know like that with God behind my back, bro,

679
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:48,400
Speaker 1: I can do anything, you know what I mean, Like

680
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:52,439
Speaker 1: there's and it's it's it's it's that simple, you know it's.

681
00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:54,800
Speaker 1: But at the same time, when you're in that life,

682
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:58,799
Speaker 1: it's so hard to see the other sword, you know,

683
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:00,879
Speaker 1: because I used to think I haven't done enough jail,

684
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 1: this and that. And one of the things that I

685
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 1: came to the point of realization about was that like

686
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:08,400
Speaker 1: if I had got done for some of the stuff

687
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 1: that I had done, like I would have copped like

688
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 1: multiple years, you know what I mean. So like obviously

689
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 1: God has other plans for me. And the way I

690
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 1: viewed it is that God like has protected me so far,

691
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:26,440
Speaker 1: you know, and He's given me these chances to pull up,

692
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:29,239
Speaker 1: Like for example, there's he's put me in rehab both

693
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 1: times for a reason. And I know that if I

694
00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 1: get done again for something, firstly, it will be a

695
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:41,080
Speaker 1: lot worse and secondly, like I'll probably like I won't

696
00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:43,040
Speaker 1: get the chance again, Like you know what I mean,

697
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:45,880
Speaker 1: Like I feel like God, yeah, only gives you so

698
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 1: many chances, and I know that I took these chances.

699
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:53,400
Speaker 1: This last chance. But yeah, like literally it took. It

700
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:56,880
Speaker 1: wasn't easy, but like it just it just depends on

701
00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:00,279
Speaker 1: how much longer you want to stay in that life,

702
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 1: keep repeating the same circles, you know. But yeah, like,

703
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:05,959
Speaker 1: to be honest, my faith there's never been as strong

704
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 1: as it is. And to be like today, like I

705
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 1: read the Bible. I try to read it as much

706
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:12,760
Speaker 1: as I can. So I'm still in the rehab program

707
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:16,440
Speaker 1: at the moment. It's not like a full residential rehab

708
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:19,840
Speaker 1: like I've been used to. It's more of a program

709
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:24,319
Speaker 1: where it teaches people coming out of institutions to learn

710
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:28,400
Speaker 1: how to fit into society because like I've never really

711
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,400
Speaker 1: been able to, you know what I mean, live a

712
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 1: normal life. Like I'd always I never could hold down

713
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 1: a proper job. But I was always part of that

714
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 1: is because I was using drugs, you know, I remember, Like,

715
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:43,960
Speaker 1: but the main reason I wanted to do it is

716
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:48,920
Speaker 1: to bring sean light on addiction and just that like

717
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:54,160
Speaker 1: it's it's just just to kind of spread a positive message,

718
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 1: bro because a lot of people that I know from

719
00:36:57,600 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 1: back in the day, they struggle with it, you know,

720
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:02,479
Speaker 1: they fall back in so easy. But and I feel

721
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:05,400
Speaker 1: I feel blessed, but I feel like it's it's God

722
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 1: that's taking that temptation and like triggers away from me.

723
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:11,719
Speaker 1: Like because people could be smoking in that like in

724
00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:14,440
Speaker 1: front of me, I wouldn't get triggered at all, Like

725
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't have any like I don't like Australia.

726
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:20,879
Speaker 1: I feel very blessed in that regard. But so that's

727
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 1: why a lot of like the statistics are very low

728
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:29,160
Speaker 1: for people actually recovering, especially from I and this and

729
00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:31,920
Speaker 1: that from the harder drugs. So but I just want

730
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 1: to kind of show people that it's possible and that

731
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:41,120
Speaker 1: anything is possible for me, Like having faith and building

732
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:45,360
Speaker 1: my strengthening my relationship with Christ has really helped that,

733
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:48,000
Speaker 1: just bro, Like, because I had all these categories that

734
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:50,360
Speaker 1: I was placing myself in, you know, and I was

735
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 1: like like this kind of did me wrong. I have

736
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 1: to get him back, you know, this and that and

737
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 1: like and like it was like for getting to me.

738
00:37:57,680 --> 00:37:59,880
Speaker 1: Bro Like, I was like, I can't let this go,

739
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:03,680
Speaker 1: you know, I'm only trying to impress God. Brother. Yeah,

740
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:05,879
Speaker 1: I don't give a fuck what anyone has to think

741
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:09,440
Speaker 1: about me, or I don't really care, like because also

742
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:12,640
Speaker 1: like I might be dirty as some people for doing

743
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:14,719
Speaker 1: certain things, but that's me. I've got like a bit

744
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:16,880
Speaker 1: of oced in that. But like at the same time, bro,

745
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 1: I've done a lot of bad things to people as well,

746
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:21,239
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? And who am I to

747
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:24,360
Speaker 1: hold grudges and over little things like you know what

748
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 1: I mean, Like if God forgives, like what can I

749
00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:30,360
Speaker 1: why can't I? You know, it took me four months

750
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:34,879
Speaker 1: in jail and like three years in residential rehab and

751
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:37,879
Speaker 1: to be honest, at the same time, as much as

752
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:41,160
Speaker 1: rehabit that gives you the tools, it's you've got to

753
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:44,279
Speaker 1: really make that decision within. Bro. It all comes down

754
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:46,600
Speaker 1: to if you really want to change or not. And

755
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:50,880
Speaker 1: it's degrading, bro, you know, like even though like like

756
00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:53,759
Speaker 1: when I was in diction, Like even though like I

757
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:57,319
Speaker 1: did all right and this and that, Like you know,

758
00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:00,840
Speaker 1: I don't want to glorifyze certain things of being woln

759
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:03,799
Speaker 1: or like yeah, like you know what I mean, being

760
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:06,360
Speaker 1: a tough boy or whatever. But like there's also a

761
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 1: lot of shit that like people don't see, which is like,

762
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 1: for example, I've done a lot of cre activities, you know,

763
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:16,279
Speaker 1: like fucking like for example, like carrying my sixty four

764
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:19,760
Speaker 1: inch TV on a bike all the way to Central

765
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:21,320
Speaker 1: to sell it for three hundred bucks just so I

766
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:23,919
Speaker 1: can get on, you know, and like selling all my shit,

767
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:27,200
Speaker 1: you know, like when you're really doing it hard, like

768
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 1: a lot of people like think that you have to

769
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,719
Speaker 1: condescend it to the limit before you can you come

770
00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:35,279
Speaker 1: to a point of pulling up. I've also seen News

771
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:37,880
Speaker 1: do a video about how even one day in jail

772
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 1: is too much, you know, yeah, yeah, it doesn't matter.

773
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:45,279
Speaker 1: But it's also so cool because now I'm seeing it's

774
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:48,279
Speaker 1: becoming a trend, people changing their life. Yeah you know

775
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:50,839
Speaker 1: what I mean, It's actually becoming a trend, and it's

776
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:52,800
Speaker 1: so good to see. But I just want like people

777
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 1: to know that you don't have to go to jail

778
00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:58,400
Speaker 1: to pull up, you know, like, yeah, you don't have

779
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:00,719
Speaker 1: to go to the end of ends. Yeah, but it's

780
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 1: hard when you're in that life say to just say

781
00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:05,480
Speaker 1: to you what you're saying. Somebodys feel like they've still

782
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:09,640
Speaker 1: got more room even in like life of like normal life,

783
00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:12,080
Speaker 1: you can die the next day, but especially in addiction

784
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 1: and that you know, you never know when it when

785
00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:17,400
Speaker 1: into the day that like you, I don't know, you

786
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:20,239
Speaker 1: spin out, you kill someone or you get killed or

787
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:23,359
Speaker 1: your O d and that you know, like a spin out, bro,

788
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:25,560
Speaker 1: Like no one's in rehappen that I see people coming

789
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:28,960
Speaker 1: in on their own accord. And I have a lot

790
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:31,520
Speaker 1: of respectful people that do that because I know that

791
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:34,239
Speaker 1: when you're when when you're so hooked on that thing

792
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:39,359
Speaker 1: that's keeping your numb, Like having to change is so scary, bro,

793
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:43,120
Speaker 1: you know, and like to be honest, the sooner the better,

794
00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:46,359
Speaker 1: but you know, because the longer you go on with it,

795
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 1: like the harder it becomes to unpack all that trauma

796
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:53,640
Speaker 1: and the more you lose, you know, like.

797
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:59,040
Speaker 3: Your your testimony is just one of those powerful testimonies

798
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:03,600
Speaker 3: out theres is why you know. It truly shows that

799
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 3: the power and how we're always saved by the bill

800
00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:11,960
Speaker 3: or more importantly saved by the grace of God. You know,

801
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:16,759
Speaker 3: you never know, man, one day when something hits or

802
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:21,440
Speaker 3: you just you know, blackout banging, you're gone, you know,

803
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:24,480
Speaker 3: and we're the lucky ones here, you know, by the

804
00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 3: grace of God, we're still alive. You know, this guy

805
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:30,759
Speaker 3: hasn't been shot, I haven't been stabbed to death. Or hospital,

806
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:34,759
Speaker 3: you know, jail and so forth. So I always I

807
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:37,640
Speaker 3: always look at it in that way, man, because there's

808
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:40,640
Speaker 3: been so much. There's there's boys that I do know

809
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:44,400
Speaker 3: that you know, they haven't made it to this point.

810
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:48,959
Speaker 3: They're gone, they're long gone and probably the same age

811
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:53,000
Speaker 3: group as us, and probably younger. And you know, it's

812
00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 3: never too late to stop and change now and hopefully

813
00:41:57,160 --> 00:41:58,720
Speaker 3: this podcast, you know, reaches.

814
00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:03,799
Speaker 1: But like now that I'm sober, I overthink like everything, bro,

815
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:05,840
Speaker 1: you know, I worry about this and that. You know,

816
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 1: it's funny because when you're in that life, you don't

817
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:11,279
Speaker 1: give a fuck like I've always been in Like I

818
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:13,799
Speaker 1: love thrills and that especially getting on the oid because

819
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:16,680
Speaker 1: of that feeling. I still chase that feeling this day.

820
00:42:16,719 --> 00:42:16,879
Speaker 3: Bro.

821
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:19,040
Speaker 1: You know, That's why I always step out of my

822
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 1: comfort zone and do things that make me feel like

823
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:27,480
Speaker 1: like yeah, yeah, And I feel like who would have thought,

824
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:30,560
Speaker 1: like four years ago for being bafflist together that today

825
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:33,920
Speaker 1: I'll be here on the podcast speaking talking about how

826
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:37,560
Speaker 1: yeah changed my life, bro, you know, And it's everything

827
00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:40,319
Speaker 1: is possible if you believe, you know, And that's what

828
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:42,680
Speaker 1: it really comes down to, bro. And I've got a

829
00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:44,920
Speaker 1: lot of respect for you for this podcast, and I

830
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:47,680
Speaker 1: know that you have also like you know, changed the

831
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:52,240
Speaker 1: trajectory of your lives. Yeah, that's why it's it's everything

832
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:54,120
Speaker 1: happens for a reason, and that's why I think like

833
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:57,720
Speaker 1: a path of colloides. Yeah, I really with your message,

834
00:42:57,960 --> 00:42:59,960
Speaker 1: was like my family is spinning out on the men

835
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:03,680
Speaker 1: not become you know what I mean. And because like

836
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:07,600
Speaker 1: like I remember like my eighteenth birthday, Like because like

837
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 1: I remember my eighteenth birthday, Like I had beef with

838
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:13,880
Speaker 1: someone and like they had a cake for me and that,

839
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:15,719
Speaker 1: and I was like, now, fuck this shit. I feel

840
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:17,880
Speaker 1: like shoot it up all black, and I was like

841
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:19,920
Speaker 1: I'm going to go kill this kind of shit, you know,

842
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:22,320
Speaker 1: ordered trauma that I've put them through, you know, coming

843
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:26,200
Speaker 1: home with blood all over my clothes and like full

844
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:31,760
Speaker 1: always doing drugs and you know, leaving leaving the house

845
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 1: like at all times and bringing all sorts of shit home. Yeah,

846
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:38,799
Speaker 1: like they would have they would have seen it all man. Yeah, bro,

847
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:41,120
Speaker 1: And like at the time you don't realize it, you know,

848
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:45,120
Speaker 1: but yeah, like all glory to God. Man, Like they're

849
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 1: very proud of me, and I'm very blessed that they've

850
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:51,960
Speaker 1: stuck by me as well, believed in me. But in addiction.

851
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:54,799
Speaker 1: Obviously it was hard because I was numb to the

852
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:57,920
Speaker 1: world and I felt like no one was there for me.

853
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:00,479
Speaker 1: But like I was just cook.

854
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:00,680
Speaker 3: Bro.

855
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 1: You know, do you feel like they your parents will

856
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:07,719
Speaker 1: what's this podcast? Yeah? They're my number one supporters, man,

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Speaker 1: And they're one of the main reasons that I do this,

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Speaker 1: you know, because shut up moments. Because if it wasn't

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Speaker 1: for them, I wouldn't be here today. Obviously. They brought

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Speaker 1: me to Australia to live a better life and I

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Speaker 1: was lost, but now I'm found in Jesus Christ. Amen.

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Speaker 1: So what's just quick one?

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Speaker 3: What's what's their look for in the future, you know,

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Speaker 3: as your future? Is there any new upcoming Barber events

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Speaker 3: or is there any upcoming content ideas coming up?

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Speaker 1: I'm just going to keep being myself, bro. I'm on

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Speaker 1: a mission to become the best version of myself I

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Speaker 1: can mentally, physically, and spiritually. The gates of hell are

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Speaker 1: locked from the inside, you know, and a lot of

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Speaker 1: the burdens and troubles in life our own doing. And

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Speaker 1: all you have to do is believe in yourself and

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Speaker 1: do it hard. For a little bit and your whole

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Speaker 1: life can change, you know. And just the main thing

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Speaker 1: is having faith for me, and I encourage everyone to

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Speaker 1: just not do drugs, go to school, but yeah, like honestly,

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Speaker 1: just have good intentions and think positive and positive will

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Speaker 1: come into your life, you know. Moving forward, my plans

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Speaker 1: are to just become the best version of myself physically, mentally, spiritually,

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Speaker 1: in order to help others that have been through similar

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Speaker 1: similar situations as many people that have especially come from

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Speaker 1: a different culture or country. Just to kind of be

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Speaker 1: the best version of yourself you can be. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm just going to keep speaking the truth, spreading the

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Speaker 1: truth and preaching the world of God. Big respect to

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Speaker 1: the boys for doing what they're doing. And it's an

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Speaker 1: absolute honor to be here once again. I appreciate you

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Speaker 1: using a lot for having me on. Just be yourself.

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Speaker 1: You know things are going to get hard, but don't

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Speaker 1: let him learn, don't let him break you, and just

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Speaker 1: keep shouldering on and one something that works for you

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Speaker 1: and always be yourself and have good in your life.

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Speaker 2: Because He's say a lot for Pick City ladies out

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Speaker 2: here again.

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Speaker 3: Our official website has just been launched. You know, if

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Speaker 3: you guys are keen on trying on some of our

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Speaker 3: new merch. There's only to my understandings, and there's only

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Speaker 3: two two pieces out. So there's any a hoodio and

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Speaker 3: the jacket out jacket out right now.

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Speaker 1: Wind Breaker, we got a wind and a windbreaker. Make

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Speaker 1: sure you guys get one. Man, if you've bought one

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Speaker 1: for months before, just shoot me at the m'm let

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Speaker 1: me give you a discount for one. Mom move a

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Speaker 1: queen like you. We'll never understand the thing suited with

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