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See if this person responds Hey, what s up, man?
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Yeah, what s your name?
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It says here that you were recently harassed by time travelers Yeah, what is that about like last year?
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All right, bro Okay, so
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Let s see, maybe, fuck, maybe like five or six years ago, I was working at a, at like a fun center.
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And one of the customers ended up coming on, like we were in go-karts and shit.
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And it ended up being like my manager, but she was like 40 years older than like current day.
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And I was like, what the fuck?
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I didn t say anything though.
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I thought I was tripping because I just smoked like a lot of weed.
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And, like, I didn t think too much about it.
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I was like, oh, it s just a doppelganger.
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And then, fast forward, maybe, I don t know, to last year, I was working at, like, a different place, at a grocery store.
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And, like, customers started coming in, and they looked like friends that I personally know, and like people that, like, I actually do know.
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And, like,
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except they had aged, they were a lot older.
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And, um, like a couple of them, like I tried calling them out on it and like, they would just like kind of leave.
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And I specifically remember this one time my coworker at the, like at that store had also came in, but she looked like she was like 40 years older than what she does now, like looks like now.
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And, uh, she asked me for like a bottle of wine.
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and like she had called me by my name.
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And I was like, there s no way this old chick that looks just like my coworker knows my name.
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Cause I like, I never wore my name tag.
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And like while playing COD and stuff, I like, I swear my lobbies were getting hacked to where like other people in the lobby like that I was playing against would have my name as their username.
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And I was freaking out to the point to where, like, I didn t really know what to do.
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And I ended up having, like, a series of incidents to where I had, like, tried to reach out to the FBI and stuff, and, like, tried to figure out exactly, like, what was going on.
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Like, I was like, will these people keep showing up?
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Anyways, I ended up, like, trying to contact the government, and it didn t really go too well.
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And they ended up arresting me for like, um, disorderly conduct and shit.
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Okay.
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Slow down real quick.
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Um, how did you try to contact the government and then why did they arrest you?
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So I had reached out to them just with the assumption that somehow
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these time travelers had access to time travel to back to this time period through the government.
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Either that or it s some sort of privatized company.
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But when you say you reached out to them, I mean, what is, like, did you Google the White House phone number and call it?
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Like, what does that mean you reached out to them?
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No, like, you can, like, report internet crimes on the FBI and shit.
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So, like, you just email them.
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All right, so you sent the FBI.
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What s the email address to send the FBI and talk to them about time travelers?
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They haven t posted on their website.
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There s like you can literally email them.
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OK, so how did this escalate to you getting arrested?
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Because, like, the interactions continue to the point to where it was like I had stressed out over about it and I wasn t receiving
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any response from them, because I figured they probably thought I was schizophrenic.
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And so I ended up saying that I was going to do something that I probably shouldn t have.
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And then they took it as me making threats.
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And so they pretty much didn t interact with me until that
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I don t know.
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Like you kind of get what I m trying to say, though.
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OK, so you were emailing the FBI to let them know that there were time travelers and the FBI was not responding to you because you believe that they thought that you were lying.
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And so to get their attention, you threatened something drastic and then they tracked you down.
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How did they track you down from that email?
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Because I gave them my information, because I m not lying about this shit when I say like people have like shown up to my work.
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And then they would like follow me in traffic.
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And like, they would be like outside of my house and shit.
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Like, so like, so how soon happened?
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Like, how soon after you sent that?
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How soon after you sent that email?
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Did they come to your house and arrest you?
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It s been months.
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Really?
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And yeah.
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So like, well, it had been months of me sending them
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And when they arrested you, what happened?
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Well, I went through the process and they sent me to like a mental hospital, of course, just like everyone was saying, schizophrenia.
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And like, I wish I had screenshots of the time when they were literally using my name as like their usernames and shit.
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My problem, Lyle, is that I don t have any proof that they were doing this shit to me.
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And so in the event that it does happen in like 40 years or so, everyone can look back and say that it did happen.
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I have proof of it in a sense.
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Cause this shit s like, you re, you re probably not going to be deleting this shit anytime soon.
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What s your name again?
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I said at the beginning, I don t, I don t,
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You don t want to say it again?
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Is that what you said?
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That s okay.
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I m gonna call you Adam.
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Um, all right, Adam, you re going to hate this.
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Definitely not Adam.
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Adam, you re going to hate my line of questioning, but I got to ask you these, this stuff.
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Um, what did, what did they tell you at the mental hospital?
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They said the time travel was not real.
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Okay.
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Um,
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Do you have anyone else who you ve talked to about this stuff?
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My hospital s lit, though.
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Huh?
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What, you said the hospital was lit?
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Yeah, there s a bunch of cool people there.
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Oh, yeah?
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Well, tell me about the people you met at the hospital.
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Um... I don t want to get into, like, their personal problems and shit, but... Okay.
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Shout out to Eric.
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Shout out to Taylor.
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Shout out to Jared.
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Shout out to Dylan.
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There s a lot of cool people there.
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There s some people there
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Serving like G.I.
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sentences and shit for like killing people and like.
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Their stories are kind of fucked up, but like.
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I don t know, they were cool.
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They had a PS4 there.
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They had a PS4 there?
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Yeah.
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What games did they have on the PS4?
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Honestly, because we couldn t connect to the Internet, so like it was mostly just like UK and you could play like the campaign mode on COD, but a lot of people just played Stardew Valley.
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That s that s kind of funny that they put like people who like Killed people and did crimes against the government in a mental hospital where they can play video games about killing people.
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I I m not the one that approved the games When you when you told the other people in the hospital about these time travelers, what did they say I
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Um, everyone just had the same skepticism towards it.
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I mean, nobody really believed me, so I didn t really try to talk about it.
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Hmm.
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Do you have a, do you have like a support network?
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Do you have friends and family and stuff?
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Honestly, because of the situation, like I only had maybe like a couple friends before this.
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They don t talk to me anymore.
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Um, I, I didn t try to reach out to them after this either.
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I do have counselors that I go talk to.
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Shout out Valerie.
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Valerie s chill.
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But I m going to school right now.
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I m trying to get my vet tech certificate so I can work with
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like captain shit.
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That s pretty good.
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What, um, what did Valerie tell you that, uh, has been helpful?
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Um, she always tries to structure me towards like maintaining my normal daily schedule and getting my like homework done and shit.
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Um, she honestly doesn t believe me about like any of my stories when it comes to the time trial.
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Nobody does.
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And I, I, I was like, I knew that going into this situation.
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Um, but like my issues, like the implications of this.
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So when it does come around, the time travel has been confirmed.
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People are going to want to look into the activities of the people that invented this technology.
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And when you look back on history, like how much of that shit was been altered?
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Like why?
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Like, think about it.
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Like,
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There are so many wars that have been fought that didn t have to be fought, and those people with this technology just let it happen?
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Or is it a situation to where they had gone back, changed a world event, and it created new wars that they didn t know were gonna happen and shit?
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But why would people travel back in time just to fuck with you?
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Um, cause our generation s like that, bro.
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Like it s full of trolls and shit.
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So if our generation s the first generation that have access to it, they re going to go back to our time period and they re going to fuck with people.
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You know, that actually does kind of make sense that the TikTok pranksters of this day and age, when they get older, by the time that time travel technology exists, would go back in time and make, uh, like time travel prank videos.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Hmm.
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Um, so, well, I mean, fuck man.
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I mean, I guess besides all this stuff, it sounds like you re actually like doing pretty well with, uh, like school and, uh, you, you have a thing you want to do in life and you re going to counseling.
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That s pretty good.
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Yeah.
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I m trying to, I think after, uh, I mean, nothing in this world matters.
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So like the fact that I m trying to do something with my life, that s all that really matters at the end of the day.
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But like,
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Because of the insult to my intelligence that these time travelers have created, because of them harassing me and then me freaking out and then getting in trouble, fuck society.
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That s why I just want to help cats.
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I just want to make sure that I can help out a sick cat and make sure that it gets better and shit.
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There is something about animals that is just so pure, like there s no... No cat or dog really feels like they ve ever been intentionally malicious.
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Like, it s only humans that can make some kind of active choice for evil.
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I mean, there s some evil animals out there.
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Like, you ever come across a bad pitbull?
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A bad pitbull?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I guess, I guess those can be kind of mean sometimes too.
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And like a big bear or something.
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Bears are ferocious.
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Joe Rogan goes off about bears all the time.
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So what about your family?
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Do you have like, are your parents, do you talk to your parents?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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They re supportive in my, in my current endeavors to become Vat Tech.
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That s cool, man.
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What do they think about the time travelers?
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Just like everyone else, they don t believe it.
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Do you have anybody that believes you?
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No.
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How does that make you feel?
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I feel like my intelligence has been insulted.
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So when time travel
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does get confirmed, you can look back on this and be like, holy shit, this guy was telling the truth the whole time.
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I feel like if time travel was existed, people would use it to make money.
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That s exactly what I think has been done, and that s why the government s keeping a secret.
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Either that or like Elon went back in time and created cryptocurrency and shit, and that s why rug pulls happen every other week.
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Hmm.
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Okay, so you think that time travel was invented and in the future and that the current like wealthy people got like Elon Musk got so rich because he s from the future and went back in time to create cryptocurrency and make a bunch of money off of it?
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No, no, no, no, not necessarily.
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So like in that scenario, the time travelers would have gone back and like, let s say like interacted with Elon and had told him like, hey, do this or do that.
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Like it would have been Elon from the future coming back and talking to Elon from the present.
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But how so Elon.
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Okay.
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So Elon Musk in the future is poor, but he goes, no, no, no.
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He s still Elon probably, but he s just come back.
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He s just come back and made himself even more rich, which creates a multiverse.
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Have you ever seen the movie?
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Okay.
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You got to watch this movie.
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Have you ever seen Bill and Ted s excellent adventure?
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Um, I feel like I have, I m just not clicking that.
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Alright, you gotta watch this movie.
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You would like this movie.
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It s about time travel.
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In this movie, um, there s like a scene where, it s kind of hard to explain, it s like paradoxical.
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There s like a scene where like, I think they need keys or something.
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And so they re like, all we have to do is make sure that if we, in the future, we go back in time and put these keys here.
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And then they look under the bush.
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They and there s the keys and they re like, okay if we go forward if in the future we go back in time and put the keys here the keys will be there but it s kind of like yeah, I Think that s how it happened.
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I think that s how shit works.
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All right, you would like that movie.
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But anyway, um Well, I mean look all that stuff beside like I like I keep saying all this stuff beside it seems like um You know you re doing well wouldn t there be
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Okay, what do you think about this?
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Time travel, like, in the future, do you think that time travel is this, like, thing that is only available to, like, wealthy aristocrats that can only use it for evil?
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Or do you think it s, like, an open-sourced thing and anybody can use it?
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They probably capitalized the technology and they turned it into, like, some sort of amusement park ride where you can pay to, like, use it.
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That s what I m guessing.
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just based on like the people that like because they were people that I personally had like no that showed up to the To my places of employment and shit So I m guessing it s some sort of like you can pay To get it kind of like going on like a fucking pain to go to space and shit how people have done that now You know origin and shit probably like that So I have another question if
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Time travel does exist and people are going back in time to fuck with you.
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Why are they only doing it to you?
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Like wouldn t if time travel existed?
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I feel like they probably have done it to other people too.
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It s just nobody connects the dots.
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And so they re like think about it like Jimmy Fallon gets people like celebrities to go back in the past and fuck with people.
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But like
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Nobody knows that it s them and then they videotape it and then send it back to the future.
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And they re like, holy shit.
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We sent this guy to like, go fuck with Will Smith.
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And like, he didn t even notice.
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Ha ha.
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You know what I m saying?
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Jimmy Fallon sending celebrities back in time to fuck with people truly is the most, um, futuristic dystopia I can think of.
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It s probably real.
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Do you have other interests besides time travel?
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Um, I mean, video games, um, I used to be big into kush, but I have to take drug tests now, so can t really smoke.
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Um, piece of paint, like, I don t know.
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I used to work out, but like shit, bro.
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Like I haven t been running.
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I need to get back on that.
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Um, I mean, sports are cool.
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I won my fantasy football league.
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That was dope.
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Rest in peace, Scott.
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Scott also won in our fantasy football league, but he passed away.
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Oh, I m sorry to hear that.
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How did you meet Scott?
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Is he a friend of yours?
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In-law.
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Ah, okay.
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So you have, you have
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friends.
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Who do you do this fantasy football league with?
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Oh, I, cause I got arrested and I was in jail.
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I m not in, I wasn t in it last year and then the league was full this year.
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So I m not a part of it this year.
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Do you have to like, um, how long was your sentence?
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Oh, I got time served.
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You got what?
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Time served.
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Okay Do you are you you re not planning on sending any more emails to the FBI anymore?
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Are you?
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No, never again, bro.
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That was literally just I was just trying to get help to figure out why these people were harassing That s it Did you still see this shit every day or was that kind of just like a one-time thing that you re trying to make sense?
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No, no, no, like I Literally haven t seen anybody that I know that like no ever since this whole situation happened.
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No, I
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It s been at least a year.
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Cause I was working.
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Maybe the last time was like last May.
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You know what I m saying?
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Have you witnessed any other, not, not too bad.
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It was 2022.
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Have you witnessed any other like paranormal shit?
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I ve seen the UFO.
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That s about it.
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Do you believe in aliens?
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Considering how big the universe is, it d be honestly ignorant to think we re the only thing there.
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Yeah, I buy that.
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I buy that.
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But I think aliens, if they have discovered us, they d be intelligent enough to not interact with us because of how disorganized and like chaotic our civilizations are.
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Alright, before we go, I ll open it up to questions from the chat, if the chat has any questions.
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Fuck.
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I ll pick the questions, you don t have to look at the chat.
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I ve been looking at it, everyone thinks I m crazy.
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If time travel is real, y all are gonna fucking remember this shit.
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Wow, what are your thoughts on Area 51?
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Area 51, that s probably where they store all the, like, cover technology and shit, and like,
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Any crazy, like, nuclear weapons and shit, like ray guns and like... Area 51, bro.
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Okay, this is an interesting question, and by the way, look, just see, and somebody in the chat said it, well, nobody s hating on you, all right?
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You ve been a very pleasant guy to talk to, so I hope you don t take any of this stuff with any malintent.
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But somebody did ask, somebody did ask, are you willing to be wrong?
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Willing to what?
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Be wrong.
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Am I willing to be- I m not wrong because it happened.
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Let s see.
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Do you drink tap water?
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Yeah.
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Do you have sex?
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Yeah.
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Nice.
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If an alien invited you to, would you go away with it?
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Hell yeah.
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I d be like Frye from drama.
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Coke or Pepsi?
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Pepsi.
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Do you think that aliens run the government?
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Um, yeah, that s a good question.
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That comes into the whole deep state thing.
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Um, I m going to say no.
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Um, Adam, is there anything else you want to say to the people of the computer before we go?
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Um,
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Honestly, I got more out of talking to Therapy Gecko than my therapist.
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Really?
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I thought you liked Valerie.
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Valerie s awesome, don t get me wrong.
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But I feel like we made more progress here than I have with Valerie.
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Hold on, I gotta, I don t wanna, I just, real quick.
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I m hesitantly appreciative of that, but I mean, I wanna know, what progress do you think we made?
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Oh, my proof that
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This shit fucking altered reality is on your stream now so we can look back in the future when time travels real and confirmed and We can question what else the government altered I ll take it well Listen you seem like a good guy Adam And I wish you good luck in in your pursuit of being a vet tech and of being a guy in the universe.
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I
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Thanks, bro.
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Have fun being a gecko, bro.
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Hey, thanks, bro.
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Take care.
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Bye.
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Damn, you can really just email the FBI.
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What if you can you email the FBI to say what s up?
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How much just like just a chat just to say hi.
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How many gifts do you think you could email the FBI before they arrest you?
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Someone go ahead and take one for the team on that and find out and let us know.
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It doesn t sound that bad to get arrested by the FBI.
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You meet some interesting people, you play some Call of Duty, drink some water.
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What else were you gonna do with your life, huh?
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Hello?
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Hello!
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Hi!
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Who s this?
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Hi, my name s Five.
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Five?
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What s up, Five?
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Is this gay?
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This is crazy.
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Yeah, dude.
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What s going on?
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Not much, God.
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Hi, how s it going?
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Where in Australia are you calling me from?
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I m from Perth.
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Oh, cool, man.
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I saw you on video.
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Oh yeah, you did?
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You went to the show?
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Yeah, I m sitting at the front, but I was too shy to come up.
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Oh, cool, dude.
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Cool.
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You know what s so funny, man, is like, I think I just like forget that I did that.
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But it doesn t feel like, that feels like, I mean, I think I was in, I was in Perth, what, it s November right now, it s June.
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No, it s fucking, no, it s July.
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It was one, two, it was only a few months ago.
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It feels like something I did when I was 19 or something.
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Yeah, cool time in Perth man cool time in Perth You re a busy man, so You do a lot of things Yeah, tell that to tell that to me jerking off five times today very busy doing that What s your name again five Five yeah
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Well, Five, I assume you didn t call just to hear about me jerking off.
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Is there anything in particular that you wanted to talk about today?
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Yeah, I have a hard time talking to people.
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I don t know how to talk to people, as in how to come up with things.
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Does that make sense?
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Yeah, like sometimes they ask me how I m going and stuff, but I just feel like I just look through them.
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I just don t know.
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You know, they share stuff to me and all I could come up with is like, cool, yeah, that s nice.
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That s great.
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Yeah.
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There s nothing else that comes up in mind.
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Does that make sense?
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I don t know.
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No, it makes perfect sense.
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Conversations are a little, they re kind of stupid.
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Yeah.
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It s funny because I work in a call center as well, so I have to come up with some conversations.
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But in real life, as in personally, I would rather just sit at home
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and stare at a telly and do nothing.
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Well, cause, um, most like, dude, there s this onion article that I love and it s, it says something like 95% of conversations don t need to happen.
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Like it s true.
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You know, you ll be talking to somebody and they ll say something like, oh, I just moved, uh, from this neighborhood to the other neighborhood and it s nice.
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What the fuck are you supposed to say to that?
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Yeah.
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So cool.
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Yes.
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Right.
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Right.
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So, I mean, I get it.
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I mean, tell me more about this call center job.
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Who are you talking to?
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What s the deal with it?
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I won t mention the name because it s quite known in Australia, but I work for a broadband company and essentially they call me and say, hey,
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my internet s not working, fix it for me.
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And I just tell them how to fix it.
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I ask them to turn it off and on.
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Most of the time it works again.
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I get abuse over the call.
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Yeah.
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But so, I mean, do they try to, do they make like small talk with you while you do it or something like that?
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Yeah.
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Sometimes I come up with stuff cause sometimes it s just, you know, it s just a little bit quiet.
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Um,
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I don t know, most of the time it s just me trying to fix this shit.
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It doesn t work most of the time.
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All right.
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So I mean, all right.
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So I mean, so those conversations, like they have a purpose, like you have a, like you can, you have a reason to be talking to these people because you re getting paid and they need a thing from you that you re getting paid to help them fix.
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Yeah.
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But we re talking about like outside of that.
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Um, yeah, like outside in like, like make friends and mostly with coworkers as well.
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And I just, I don t know how to make friends.
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I don t know how to say hi or say goodbye.
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I just have a hard time coming up with it with something to say.
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Do you, as it stands now, do you have any friends?
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Yes, I got friends, of course.
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Alright.
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What, um... I mean, do you... Do you have a lot of friends?
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I wouldn t say a lot, but I got friends.
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I don t know, ever since 2020, it s just kind of weird.
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I feel like COVID did something to us, and I became more observant.
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And before that, I was just kind of, you know, I just, I just do what I do.
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And now it s just more like, why do I do these things?
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And I question it myself.
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Like I, why do I say that?
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Or how, why did I say that?
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I don t know.
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It s yeah.
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I know, I want you to know, I know exactly what you mean.
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This happens to me when I, I mean, it ll happen sober, but when I get high, I get like really kind of paranoid and over-analytical and like, you ll be talking, I ll be talking to someone and, you know, say like, oh yeah, I went to that restaurant and it was really good.
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And I ll be like, well, I didn t need to fucking say that, you know?
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Yeah, no, I get that, yeah.
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Yeah, no, I know what you mean.
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And it s because 99% of everything that everyone fucking says, you don t actually need to say it, right?
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And you can sit there with an analytical point of view and go, well, this thing that this person just said has no real meaning, and this thing that I said has no real meaning.
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Mmm, you know like you re talking about or like you or or you know as you were describing yourself pre pandemic you can just not think about any of that shit and just just talk and do things and say things without thinking about them, you know, and that that actually This is probably would make it makes you happier than double thinking every everything, but I don t know if you can I
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I don t know.
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I don t know.
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It s hard.
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I don t know why I do it.
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I just, I just, I feel, yeah, like you said, it s kind of, it feels, conversation just feels pointless, like it doesn t have to happen.
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And I don t know, I just, I m the type of person that just would just rather sit at home, do my own thing, then go out.
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and you know and see people i just i don t see the point of that i don t see the point of of going out spending a lot of money just to see people and just you know talk i just i don t it s not that i i don t enjoy them i i do i would do it i do it but i just i don t
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see the point of doing it.
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Yeah, that makes sense.
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It makes perfect sense.
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I ve been there a lot.
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If your life was designed intentionally for your own maximum fulfillment,
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Happiness pleasure all those things What would it what would it look like, you know, I mean cuz I I assume Socializing would play some Elements in in that concoction Yeah, I Probably sitting at home
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getting high, playing a lot of games.
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That s my perfect point of view of life, of what I want to do.
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You know, if I don t have to go work, if everything is kind of handed to me and I got a loving partner and that, then I would just probably sit at home, getting high most of the time,
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and just playing games, enjoying myself, not talking to people.
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Do you have a girlfriend?
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I have a boyfriend.
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I have a partner, Beyonce.
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Okay.
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How long have you been engaged for?
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Three years now.
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That s cool.
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So you know him enough.
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This is cool.
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You re at a point with him where you know him enough that you guys can just be in the same room and never talk to each other ever again.
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That s basically what we do most of the time.
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Well, we don t get high anymore.
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We re trying to get better.
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But yeah, we just get high, smoke weed, and play games, and look at each other and say, how s it going?
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Yeah, good.
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All right, cool.
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And continue playing games.
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So if that s what you re doing, and that s what s making you happy to do, is the problem just that
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You re like, you have this idea of like, oh, I should be out talking to people and you re beating yourself up because you re not doing what you should be doing.
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Yeah, my partner s quite of a social person, basically the complete opposite of me.
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And he likes, he likes doing stuff.
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He likes to go out, see his family and that, where obviously I would, I would want to spend time with him as well and do these things with him.
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But he s probably listening to this right now.
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But in what what I want to do is just nothing.
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You sit at home and that could be a problem.
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I don t know.
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But that s that s what I would rather do is just not do anything and not worry about.
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I don t think you know here s like I guess.
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My take on this is like, you know, if you re an introvert out of fear, I think that it s worth making a change.
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But if you re an introvert out of just desire to live that kind of a life, then I don t see anything wrong with it.
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I don t know if it s out of fear, I mean... And that s what you gotta do, is you gotta really look deep within yourself.
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And you gotta answer the question as truthfully as you possibly can.
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Of like, is this... Do I not go out and talk to people because I am afraid, or because I just straight up, executive decision, do not want to, you know?
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Because if you re afraid and you re like, oh, you know, I think I might actually be happier going out, talking to people, doing all these things, I m just scared to do it, then it could be worth examining that fear and trying to overcome it.
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But if it s again, if it s just like I straight up don t want to talk to people, I want to get high and play video games and chill, then this, you know, that s a good life.
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Yeah.
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Are you sure you don t have a degree for this?
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You re really good.
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I m a fucking- Dude, maybe- How hard is it to become a therapist in Australia?
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I have no idea.
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I m not a therapist, so I wouldn t have a clue.
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What are you?
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Um, I m a jack of all trades, I ll do anything.
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I used to be a support worker, I used to work at the airport, you know, doing, delivering food stuff, used to be a chef, and now I m just a guy behind a chair, behind a computer, telling them to turn it off and on again.
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Man, I gotta say, jacking off five times and then putting on a Halloween costume and plugging a shitty microphone into my laptop and pretending to be a therapist is so much better than going to school for eight years and spending $600,000.
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No offense to anyone who did that.
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But the first one is clearly the better option.
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No, it s great.
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You have a good life.
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It s awesome.
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Well, five.
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I don t know, five, do you feel like... I m actually, I m curious for you, like, now that we re this far into the conversation, like, the whole thing of, like, is it just a genuine choice versus is it a fear?
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Like, what do you think about that for yourself?
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I genuinely don t know.
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I like seeing it for
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doing nothing, but at the same time, um, also seeing people does make me anxious, but I know myself that when I, when I get there, that I ll, I ll be fine.
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You know, I ll just, I ll come up with something, but I still don t see the point.
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So I guess it s sort of, it s kind of in between, but I still would rather just sit at home getting high, doing nothing.
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But at the same time, I don t mind seeing people and going out.
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Well then... Why don t you... Sit at home, get high and do nothing and... Stop beating yourself up about it, you know?
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Do you know what ha- Do you know what- I ve been thinking about this a lot lately, like, in... In my own life and in talking to these callers, is like... Do you know the idea of, like, having your cake and eating it too?
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Hmm.
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I don t know if that- Uh, what do you mean?
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Is that- Is that... Expression?
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Australian Do you know what that expression means?
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I don t know if I can explain it.
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All right the idea of having your cake and eating it too I don t know why the fuck I don t even know but like to me do it to me for you to um
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There s the idea of having your cake and putting a big scoop of diarrhea on it and then eating that.
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That s kind of what you do when you make a decision and then you beat yourself up about the decision that you made.
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It s having your cake, putting a scoop of diarrhea on it, and then eating it.
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Because if you made the decision to go
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sit at home and get high and play video games, then bask in the glory of the decision you made as an adult for what you want to do with your life, as opposed to sitting on this weird fence of, well, I m going to do this, but the whole time I m doing it, I m going to beat myself up for not doing this other thing.
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It s like, fucking do one or the other and stop getting pissed off at yourself.
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Like eat your cake.
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But that s the thing.
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That s what anxiety do.
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That s what it just makes you think, you know, that you ve made that wrong decision.
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I get it.
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I get that.
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I get that.
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I m by the way, I m talking so much shit right now because like to bring to bring this whole conversation back to where it started with me jacking off It s like when I m jacking off.
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I should just I should just be doing it.
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I should just be Like stoked I should be like in my brain the whole time.
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I should just be like this is awesome after I finish I should be like that was awesome.
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I m so glad that I m alive and enjoying the endowment of
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The human ability to have an orgasm, that s a beautiful thing.
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I, as a human being, am graced to have.
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You know, that s what I really should be doing.
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If I m gonna do it, right?
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If you re gonna do a thing, just do it.
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That s not what I do, though.
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I do it, and then I m like, oh, I could ve done all these other things, right?
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I do it, and then I beat myself up for not doing, you know, writing a fucking term paper.
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I don t know why I said that.
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I m not in school.
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But, um...
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You know, whatever, editing a video, starting a new project, doing any other productive thing, right?
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So, you know, I m talking a whole bunch of shit to you right now about this whole concept, but I do kind of feel that way.
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It s like, if you re going to do it, then just do it.
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Don t, you know, do it and then beat yourself up about it.
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Yeah, no, that makes sense.
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Thank you, Geck.
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I appreciate that.
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I appreciate your point of view.
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Um, well, do you have any fun Australia facts for us?
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Um, yeah, the spiders are not that dangerous here.
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There s not a lot of, um, I don t know.
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I m, I m completely safe on where I m at.
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Although on my last address, when I, where I used to live, there was a bunch of spiders where this big spider.
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It s just like hanging on the wall.
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So we sprayed some insect killer to it, and it started crawling up to the roof.
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And I m pretty sure it s still alive.
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It s still hiding there somewhere.
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But I m still here.
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So if you guys want to move to Australia, come over.
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You re completely safe.
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It s really, I went there, Australia to me, it felt like England and America combined together and then divided by two.
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It felt very much in the middle of, it felt like an amalgam of those things.
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Somebody in the chat said, Lyle, you re beating yourself up for beating yourself up.
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I thought that was a little funny.
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Anyway, five, thanks for calling, man.
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Any final thoughts, feelings, sentiments before we go?
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Take care of yourself, everyone, and thank you for listening to me, and thanks, Lyle, for calling me and talking to me.
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I appreciate that.
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Take care, man.
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Enjoy getting high and playing video games.
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Sounds cool.
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I will do.
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I will do.
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Well listened to.
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And playing video games.
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Later, man.
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Catch ya.
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Bye.
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Hello?
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Hello?
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Hi, is this... Alyssa?
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Yeah.
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Okay, cool.
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What s up, Alyssa?
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How s life?
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Uh, it s pretty okay.
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Um, I m in college right now, so that s fun.
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You texted me and you said, I live in a college dorm and I m pretty sure that my suite-mate hates me.
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Yeah, um, we are actually in a constant war.
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I don t know if it s just me or if, like, you know, it s two.
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Wait, hold on.
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You said you don t know if it s just you or if she knows?
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Like, what is there to know?
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Like, she ll do, like, little things to me, and, like, I don t know if she realizes that, like, they re kind of offensive, or if I m just being crazy.
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Can I hear one of these little things?
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Yeah, okay.
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So, the other day, um, I talked to her about putting my
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stuff like my shower stuff in the shower with her because she has like a shower rack in there and I went to shower like a few days after and she had moved my shampoo out of her rack and she moved it like onto like a different part of my shower and then she moved like my loofah off of the shower onto the floor so you know
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Okay, wait, so, I, the... Why don t you have your own rack on the shower?
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The shower is really small, so it s like, her rack takes up the whole shower.
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Is it bad to have a loofah on the floor?
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Um, I guess not, but like, it s kind of gross.
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What other little things has she done?
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She dried her underwear in the shower, too, one time.
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How do you dry underwear in a shower?
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I don t know, I just walked in, her underwear was like hanging on the shower, so.
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And this makes you think that she hates you because she s drying her underwear in the shower?
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Um, there s also like, just today, just today, we both walked out of our rooms to go to the elevator to go to class, but she purposely skipped the elevator to go to the stairs.
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Weird.
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Weird.
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How do you know this?
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Was this just like a randomly assigned roommate?
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Yeah, just randomly assigned.
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She shares my bathroom with me, but not my actual room.
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Okay, and what, are you like a freshman?
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Yeah, I m a freshman.
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Okay, um... I mean, look, you know, if I, here s what I would, if I were you,
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I m going to go advice mode on this.
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Because, um, I ve been, I feel like I ve been in situations like this before.
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If I were you, Alyssa, I just, I wouldn t lose sleep over this because I assume, are you planning to live in the dorms next year or what are you going to do next year?
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I m trying to move into the apartments next year, actually.
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Okay.
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And you re going to try to, you re going to try to move with, with, with, do you have friends?
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Have you made friends since going to college?
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No Well look either way, I m sure you how what it s October are you and so you ve only By the time may rolls around you ll have friends Yeah, that s true
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So, what ll happen is you ll eventually never see- you re- you just keep in mind, um, that you re never gonna see this person ever again in your entire life.
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So, don t, uh, don t lose sleep wondering whether or not this person hates you.
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Because, her- she s also probably all, you know, fucked up, too, because she s a fresh- is she a freshman?
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No, she s a sophomore.
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Okay well she has her own whatever reasons as to why she acts however she acts that you re never gonna know or understand and you know I think if you accept that and you know whatever you pick up your loofah when she moves it and you put it somewhere else and you just deal with it and then eventually you you you let it get to you as little as you you can control within your brain and then next year you can you know get an apartment and
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Punch a hole in the wall, do whatever you want.
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Okay.
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What do you study?
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I m actually trying to be a teacher, elementary school.
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Oh, okay.
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Are you... Do you enjoy school?
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Yeah, it s alright.
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I m hoping that this is the right major for me, but we ll see.
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Well, if it s not, you can always... sell apples.
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I ll remember that, thank you.
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Alright, take care Alyssa.
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Is there anything else you want to say to the people at the computer before we go?
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Shout out to my boyfriend Julian, because he s watching right now.
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And also, we ll watch you together.
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So yeah, we love your podcast and your show.
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Oh, rock and roll.
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Thank you guys, man.
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Thank you guys.
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Take care, and I hope you find a nice spot for your loofah.
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Thank you.
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Bye, Alyssa.
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Bye.
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Don t tell Alyssa, but I don t really know what a loofah is.
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It s like a sponge, right?
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Here s the thing a loofah is either like a sponge or I don t know what it is And if it is like a sponge, why don t they just call it a sponge?
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It s probably not like a sponge.
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I Don t know.
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I use I just use my I just put soap.
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I don t even get like sponges or washcloths I just put soap directly onto my hands and lather my body with my own hands.
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Oh
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I don t understand.
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I don t understand why we bring a third party into that mix.
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That s never made a lot of sense to me.
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But whatever, I m not college educated.
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That s not true.
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I went to Temple University and it failed me.
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I don t know what a loofah is.
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Hello?
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Hi, what s up?
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Hi.
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Who is this?
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I don t want to give my real name.
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Okay.
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Well, Jessica, what s going on with you?
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Um, nothing really.
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I m just working and listening to your podcast.
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Um, I see here you, you messaged me saying that you and your sister are fighting and you wanted to talk about that.
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Yeah.
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It s like the stupidest fight ever, but she s like so mad at me that we haven t spoken.
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Me and her were like super close, but we haven t spoken the whole like week other than just bickering.
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What do you, do you want to, what are you fighting about?
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I don t really know how it started.
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It like, I m trying to think.
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We currently, I don t want to give too many details.
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We kind of work at the same place right now.
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And I worked here first and then she started.
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Um, but then she s looking for a new job cause she doesn t like it.
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And I m also looking for a new job.
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And I told her about something I want to pursue.
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And she kind of just like stole it.
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And so I called her out for it.
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And then she said that it was originally her idea, which is just so stupid.
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Um, so what, so you both are at the same job.
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You re leaving that job to pursue something.
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She s leaving that job to pursue the same thing.
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And then you told her that she was copying you.
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Yeah, well, she, it is a certain job that she applied for that I specifically wanted.
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And she technically has way more like working experience.
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So in the grand scheme of things, she ll get the job.
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Okay.
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And you re upset because yeah.
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And you re upset because you told her about the job because you, in the context of you applying for it.
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Yes.
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And it s not even, honestly, I m not mad that she would get the job.
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It s more of like how she s been treating me ever since I called her out on it.
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Um, what s the job?
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Oh, it s like, just like a management position.
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It s like nothing huge.
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Okay.
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Why do you think she s treating you differently?
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Well, she s older, so I don t know if she just feels like she gets first fits.
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Cause she s, that s what she said.
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She said,
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I m the older one, so I can t copy it.
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And I was like, well, that s just bull.
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Well, you know what I want to say about this is that.
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Your sister can do nothing to truly, honest to God, impede your life progress in any way, shape, or form, even if she does apply for this job.
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Which is true.
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But we both know that that s not really what this is about.
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Yeah, no, it s just about the attitude.
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And then I was going to just overlook it and move on, because whatever.
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It s like a job.
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It s not the end all, be all.
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So then I was just trying to text her, like, just normal.
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And I had cracked a joke about, or not a joke, let me phrase this correctly.
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I cracked a joke about a celebrity who s, like, getting called out for, for, like, a post they had made.
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And it s, like, her favorite celebrity.
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And she, like, snapped on me and, like, called me, like, these names and was, like,
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Don t talk to me, which again, stupidest thing I ve ever, like, I don t know.
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It s just so, like, stupid.
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Is it Amy Schumer?
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No.
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It s, uh, it s Selena Gomez.
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It s like a political thing, which is why I don t really want to, like, get too in-depth in it.
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I don t know.
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This is hard, man.
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To me, it s kind of silly.
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It sounds very silly, yeah.
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You seem like the type of person who lets water flow under the bridge very easily.
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Yeah, and I m willing to just move on.
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And she hasn t spoken to me.
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I think that s a strength, by the way.
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I really do.
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Because ultimately,
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I feel like I m sort of like that in a lot of situations, too.
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And ultimately, the more you can be like that, the more your life, personally, it becomes easier if you re not fighting with people all the time.
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And if you are fighting, you re hopefully picking your fights very methodically.
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and so i don t know it sounds it sounds like you re you re making the decisions that make your life easier and once you do that it s like i don t know it s hard because you can t make you i don t i don t know what the fuck
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What s going on with your sister?
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I don t know.
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It like literally came out of nowhere.
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Like me and her were like as close as like I don t know.
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I think sisters can be.
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Have you tried talking to her and being like, hey, what is going on?
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I m not trying to ruin your life.
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I m sorry for what I said about Wizards of Waverly Place.
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It was in the heat of the moment.
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I didn t.
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She was just like,
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She s like, you ve been mean all week, like I m sick of you.
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And I was like, whoa.
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Cause like the conversation beforehand was just completely normal.
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I don t know.
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And I don t know if she s like, I don t know, just going through something, but it s very weird, very out of character.
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I m just not sure how to get over it.
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Like get her to get over it.
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Well, you can t get her to do anything, unfortunately.
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Yeah.
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It s just, it s just silly, I guess.
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I mean, I think if you ve approached her in peace talks, and they ve been rejected, you ve kind of done what you can do in that situation.
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That s tough.
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I hope it, um... I don t know, you could bake her a cake.
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But, uh... I think you re doing the right thing, though, by just moving on with your life.
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There s a lot of
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There s situations where that s just the best thing you can do.
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So, um, you know, move on with your life.
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Maybe she ll come back around.
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Um, and, uh, yeah, you know, and never say anything bad about Selena Gomez ever again.
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All right.
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Um, what s your name again?
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I think you made a fake name.
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Oh, I did.
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You know what?
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So I forget people s names a lot on this show, but if I come up with a name for them, I always remember the name.
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So the fake name I gave you, it s Jessica.
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That s the name of one of my dogs that died.
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Oh, I m so sorry.
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It s all right.
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It happened a while ago.
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A lot of dogs are dead, and that s a thing that you got to put up with in life.
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Mm-hmm.
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Um, Jessica, is there anything else you want to say to the people at the computer before we go?
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Um, no.
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I just, I love your show.
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I listen to it like every single day.
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So this is really cool.
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Thank you.
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I hope that your sister... Here s what you do.
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Tell your sister, like, hey, I m sorry I said what I said about Selena Gomez, but, you know, you can say whatever you want about the therapy gecko and we ll be even.
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You can say he s a fag.
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I ll tell her exactly that.
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Douchebag.
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And then you guys are even.
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Thank you so much.
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Of course.
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Have a good one.
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Bye, gecko.
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Taking your phone calls every night.
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Therapy get those joints right.
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He s teaching you how to live your life.
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But he s not really an expert.