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Hello hello, hi, how are you?
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What s up, dude, what s going on?
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What s what s what s what s your name caller?
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My name is no Noel.
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What s what s up?
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How s it going?
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Is there anything you wanted to talk about?
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Yeah, actually so
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I just been in like a rut.
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Like I feel like I don t know if I m happy or like if I m really sad.
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I m 20.
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I feel like I ve been through a lot of shit and I m just trying my best to be happy but I don t even know what I want anymore.
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Like I have all these dreams and I used to like try to do stuff and now I just feel like the life sucked out of me and I go to work and I come home and I just sleep.
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Tell me, well, interesting.
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Tell me about all these dreams that you had.
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What were these dreams?
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Um, I used to do a lot of art.
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I sold art back in high school.
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I was also in a band.
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Um, I was a drummer.
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Well, I am a drummer, but, um, the band just like some drama happened and we broke up and yeah, I mean, I do art.
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I do music.
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I love animals.
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I just want to do something with that, but I feel like,
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It s really hard because I don t have a dream of like, oh, I want to be a doctor.
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I want to be a lawyer.
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Like, I want to do something that like means something in the world that s actually like putting something into society that is going to like leave something after I die to where it s like, hey, like this actually helps a lot, whether it s like helping people express themselves or like, you know, like saving animals or just doing something.
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But I feel like lately it feels like there s nothing that feels like it s going to be remarkable.
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Well, there s a lot of thoughts about that.
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Well, one, that s exciting.
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That s exciting that you have a general direction and your general direction.
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It doesn t sound particularly evil.
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You know, if you said that you want to manufacture grenades to throw at ponds of frogs, I d be like to each their own.
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But why is it?
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Well, here s a few things.
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The, the, the idea that whatever you do has to be remarkable is, is going to just fuck with you.
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Right.
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Because you could, you can accomplish those goals that you were talking.
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You can accomplish those, that goal today.
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Tell me that goal again.
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What was it?
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I don t even know what the goal is.
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I just want to do something that s going to like.
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mean something, like affect the world in some way or somebody some way.
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Dude, you can, I mean, if we want to get cheesy, I mean, you can affect the world today.
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You know, you can go and find some way to do that today.
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You don t have to start a fucking nonprofit to affect the world.
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I feel like it s just, sorry, go ahead.
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No, you go ahead.
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I feel like I have an internal conflict of feeling like I m eternally just doomed and no matter how much I do, no hate on anybody who s not, but I m vegan.
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I feel like I try to make my mark, what do you call it, environmentally.
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I do composting.
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I try to pick up all the trash in my neighborhood, spend time just picking up trash, doing these things, being there for my friends.
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I provide for my mom.
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I m a caretaker as well.
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For somebody else and it s like I just feel like for some reason like I can do all these good deeds and act with like the most pure intentions I can and like I just get like fucked like over and over I m like sick of it What do you mean you get fucked?
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What does that mean?
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Like I just feel like Like just really extreme like bad Situations will happen to me that seems like almost like comical like a way of like
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Like not all that stuff can happen to you.
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When was the last time you experienced one of these situations?
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I feel like I m still going through it.
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A really major one was I was in a really, really bad car accident.
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I was 18.
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I got kicked out of my mom s.
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Then I was living at a friend s, my bandmate.
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And then I got in this car accident that gave me a brain injury, really ruined my spine.
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And then two days later, I got kicked out of her dad s house.
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because I don t know, she basically said that I gave her weed, but I didn t, so she thought it d be okay if I gave it to her.
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Then I was homeless, hopping around and I m still trying to recover from that.
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I had to go back to my mom.
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I m gonna try to wrap it up and leave all this stuff in between, I guess, but now I live with my mom, which I did not want to do at this age, but she s relying on me now and I don t know, I feel like I m in a situation of
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I can t leave because she relies on me for like bills and, um, you know, like she relies on you for your financially supporting your mom.
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Yeah.
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She s, uh, she s like disabled, um, and like super mentally ill and like me too.
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But I guess like what s uh, all right.
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Well, what s, what s up with your issues?
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Like she s physically disabled.
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She can t work.
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She s not physically disabled, but she s like, she has just like really, really bad OCD and she has some health issues, but she s like, she s like really, I don t know exactly what her issue is.
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She s I ll put it this way.
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She s like somebody who s really like into like InfoWars and Alex Jones and like won t go outside pretty like agoraphobic Yeah, is there does she have enough of a thing going on where she can get some some of them freedom dollars from the government I don t know how any of that works, but she does but it s just really messed up because they don t let you have over like a certain amount your bank account and where we live like they keep raising the rent on us even in like a
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Discounted housing like I live in Florida, and yeah, it s really expensive here Okay, so your mom is like a Florida like What is it QQ anon type person yeah?
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I m pretty much the opposite like I mean don t get me wrong have my conspiracies, but like I won t stop it for letting me live my life um
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So you re taking care, how long have you been taking care of your mom for?
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Well, kind of like, I feel like I ve kind of often been the parent, like my life, cause she s like really bad alcoholic.
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Um, so I m like laughing, but it s not funny.
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Where s, where, where s, where s dad?
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I don t, we don t talk.
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I don t really know.
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My mom, my dad met and they gave up like online solitaire early 2000s.
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Um, how does one meet another person in a game of online solitaire?
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I guess, from what I understand, it was like early 2000, and like, they had, you know, like, old computers, and they had like chat rooms with online solitaire and chess, and then they met up, they decided, like, okay, like- Where you can just talk to other people while you each play solitaire alone?
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Yeah, like in a chat room, like in the chat.
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That sounds like a great place for two crazy people to meet.
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Yeah, and then I was bored, and I m like, what the fuck?
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I don t want to be here this much.
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Okay, so the dad s not in the picture.
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Does your mom have a boyfriend or anything like that?
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Not really.
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She has no interest in friends, boyfriends.
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I m like, please go outside.
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Go meet a guy or go make some friends.
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And she s like, no, I don t like people.
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I can t trust them.
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And you, you, can she, can she walk?
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Can she go to the store?
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Can she?
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Okay.
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And what she just is like refusing to, or like physically can t, like.
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She goes, she s just like, she gets so anxious about going anywhere.
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Like.
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I really try to be there for her.
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I guess you could say I m kind of like a little niche influencer online.
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I got these tickets for Joan Jett, and I was like, okay, she loves Joan Jett.
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Even though she kind of pisses me off when I take her, and she was just like, no, and she just started freaking out.
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She s like, I can t go out.
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There s too many people.
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I can t do it.
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What kind of influencer are you?
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You don t have to, you don t have to tell, you don t have to dox yourself if you want to remain anonymous on this thing.
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Honestly, I don t even care about being anonymous.
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Um, well, I ve taken a little bit of a break recently just to focus on working and stuff, but, um, I just like, I kind of just do whatever I feel called to do.
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Like I will post either just like, like fashion.
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I really like fashion or like I ll post my dog or, um, when I was in a band or like I have like a little art account.
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Um,
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I got really like there.
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I don t know actually somebody that you did this show with like reposted one of my memes one time and when I saw that I was like what the hell?
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Random things started blowing up.
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Was it Fantano?
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Yeah That s cool.
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He s always he s always reposting things.
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Yeah, it s just I just do like whatever
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I don t really have necessarily seem like I don t know but it just started taking off and that s another Like part of this is like I thought I was doing really good I was getting like brand deals and like free stuff and I thought it was awesome But then I started just feeling sad because I was doing all these things for other brands and like didn t have energy to like go to work Come home deal with all that like do brand deals and do my own stuff So I like were you I was was there was there a period of time where you were you were thinking to yourself like oh I might be able to make more money doing this than at my real job
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Honestly, only if I did OnlyFans and I ve done that and it was really terrible for my mental health.
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Like when I did that, that s the only way I could handle getting kicked out and everything when I was 18 is like doing that, but it just weighed on me so much.
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Well, I mean the brand deals they were this was was this like The the the brand deals this was not like a sexual thing like these these companies hiring It was more like Like okay, maybe this one will give me like $200 or this one will give me a hundred and then I get like X amount of free stuff And yeah, dude, you know, this is really I
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Well, it s it s a tough.
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It s a tough situation because it s like At what point?
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And I don t know I don t know to what degree your mom is like completely and utterly incapable of of Taking care of herself Do you have siblings?
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I have five, but they re a lot older than me.
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And you have five.
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Yeah, they have their well, one s deceased.
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Um, but they have their own kids.
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And like, they just like don t really come around so much because they re like, Well, that s just mom.
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Like, you know, we ve been trying and that s just how she is.
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Like, she likes to do this cute thing where she goes on vendors and gets drunk for a week at a time.
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And I m like, Hey, guys, come help.
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And they re like, that s just how she is.
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Give it a few weeks.
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none of them are and and and you re and so they re all older than you and they all have their and they all have their own lives and their own kids and their own things going on and you at 20 are stuck with her yeah like i m about to be 21 and like my youngest brother out of the five he s like i think he s 34 now and my oldest brother just retired from the marines wow
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yeah um i will say your podcast gets me through work i have like a job i wake up at four in the morning to go to and i m like it s all it keeps me awake and i m like all right like i secretly listen i m like i hope i don t get in trouble but
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Well, that s cool, man.
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I m glad to hear that.
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So when you, when you talk, so yeah, like what does that conversation look like when your mom is like on a bender or like, you know, you want to go do this thing, but you can t because you have to take care of your mom and you re, and you re talking to your siblings about it.
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What, what s that conversation look like?
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They ll be like, well, you know, that s just how she is.
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Like, you know, just got to tough it out.
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Like, it s been to the point, like, I won t get into too much detail, because I don t want to, like, trigger anybody, but, like, I ve been taken away by DCF, like, children, family, whatever, you know, when I was a kid and everything, and, like, had to, like, call them, and, like, I d get beat up by her, and, like, they d be like, well, you know, just got to be a little stronger.
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Now it s not really like that with her, because I m old enough, and, like, we have time apart, and I have my own car and my own job, you know, but they re just like, yeah, like, that s life.
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Tell me about your personal relationship with your mom.
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Do you, do you, well, let me ask you this.
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Do you, do you love your mom?
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I do.
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I feel like, uh, I feel like I have resentment for her in a way, but it s more like as I get older, it turns into more of like a sadness.
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Cause like, I wish I could have like given her a different life.
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So she didn t end up this way.
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Like it s like I have like, like I love her, but I kind of like pity her in a way, if that makes sense.
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And she, and she has no one, she doesn t have any friends, any family, any, any romantic partners.
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No, she has like, she has like one lady who lives in our complex that like she talks to sometimes, but yeah.
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Like I work for, I work for, I have two jobs and I m also a caretaker for one of my other neighbors who s actually like, she, she s very reliant on me, which is another person who s like, okay, I m stuck here.
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But, um, like this lady is like always concerned about my mom.
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Like, is she okay?
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She won t answer her phone.
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She never texts me back.
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And like, I m like, you know, Hey mom, like people are trying to be your friend.
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She s like, yeah, I know, but I don t have friends.
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I have acquaintances.
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All right.
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So your mom s got another lady in her complex and Alex Jones, and those are her best friends.
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Yeah, pretty much.
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Yeah.
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That and like YouTube.
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Who s this?
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Who s this?
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Who s this other lady?
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Who s this other lady that you take care of?
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I ll say her name starts with M. I m not asking her name.
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Who is she?
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What s the deal over there?
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I ve been in this place for a long time.
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I ve known her since I was six.
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It just so worked out that she had a lot of medical conditions.
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She had a lot of home health aides coming in, but they would not do their job.
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It s uncomfortable to have a stranger help you shower and stuff like that.
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Um, it worked out that like, um, she basically her insurance was willing to like employ somebody.
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So now I m working the two jobs and like, I work for her, but I ve even before that though, like if she ever needed me, like I was there and like, I would be there and like, I drive her to all her appointments and stuff.
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Cause like, this is a job you re getting paid to take care of this person.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Um,
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But she doesn t really have anybody else either like she has some kids, but they re like another like one s in another well Well, I ll say I ll say this.
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I know you say that but if this is a job you re getting paid to do You know she can always hire somebody else to do it Yeah Well, no, you said your name is no Yeah No, you
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Noel, you have all these dreams and you want to leave Florida.
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You want to get the hell out of there.
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I want to get the fuck out of here.
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I hate it here.
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And you re 20?
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Yeah.
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I just don t really have a support system.
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If I go somewhere and I move and my car breaks down or I can t pay rent, I m fucked.
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There s nobody to help me.
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Tell me about you.
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Do you have friends?
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Do you have a romantic partner?
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Do you have other family?
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I do, um, as far as other family, I m really only close to my brothers cause they re in the state and I never really met the other side of my family.
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I have a partner.
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Um, I have like, I have like a small group of close friends.
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Okay.
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And everyone s in Florida.
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Um, well one, actually I m going to go take a trip to see her in Missouri on Wednesday.
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I was having like a mental breakdown this month and I was like,
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I need to get out.
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And I just like booked a flight.
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Can I come over please?
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Oh, all right.
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So you have enough freedom in this situation that you can you know, go to Missouri?
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Yeah, once in a while I can like go go away for like a little bit.
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When I have the money and like can get time off.
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Okay, my dog, she s like my best friend.
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So I have to have care for her to have to find somebody to take care of her when I m gone.
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What s your, tell me, let s say I was your fairy godmother, Noel.
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And you can wave a magic wand and dream of anything where you re anywhere with anyone doing anything.
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Where are you?
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What are you doing?
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Who are you with?
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I don t know a state, but I can say, because I haven t traveled a lot, but ideally,
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I d like to live like maybe 20 to 30 minutes away from like a major city where there s like artistic people and like things going on.
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And I would like to have like an animal sanctuary where I take all the like abused animals and I m just rehabilitating them.
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And like I have enough money.
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I don t need like, I m not interested in like sports cars and stuff, but just enough money to like eat and like live comfortably to where I don t have to stress about
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like living and like I m able to like go to concerts or like buy new drums or like whatever I want you know and just like have like maybe my partner like some friends or or have the capability to be like hey like hey friend you want to come visit me like I ll buy your ticket come visit me on my cool cool ass sanctuary okay well I have look I have what I want to tell you
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But it s easy for it s easy for me to say because I know this is a tough situation and you have your own Relationship with your mom, but you know I
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Look, Null, you seem like a really nice person.
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You have good intentions.
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It seems like you ve been through a lot.
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It sounds like your mom and, you know, whatever, God bless her, but it sounds like she has not been super nice to you for your whole life.
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And I m just like, I guess it... It would be a shame
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for you, you re, I think you re entitled to live your own life and not feel like you need to be constantly in service of all these other people.
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And in that service of all these other people, lose yourself and your youth and
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your opportunity to pursue these things that you want to do but I know it s I know it s tough I know it s tough to to leave that behind but I don t know time is like this fucking non-renewable resource you only get so much of
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Let me ask you this let s let s let s let s let s get let s get a little more specific here all right a little less fantastical you know we don t have infinite money to fly our friends around and stuff but but let s say this let s say let s say your mom is
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has a beautiful supermodel boyfriend who is taking care of her and where she s like, I, you know, go live your dreams.
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I don t need you anymore.
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Go have fun.
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What would you do then?
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Um, assuming that I had like the money, I would go and get a place and like, well, I guess
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Honestly, something that I would love to do, but I feel like I can t because my dog is... I ve always wanted to do a work exchange, but not a lot of places will accept me and my dog, and I feel like I need her.
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But I just want my own place, and I just want to work somewhere that doesn t feel like I m just doing it for fueling a corporation.
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I used to have a job I really liked, but it ended really
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Well, I was gonna say, there s all these, like, um, if you re into hippie shit, there s all these, um, you know, whatever, places in, like, uh, uh, Southeast Asia or Puerto Rico or whatever, all these, all these, all these hippie farm places that you could probably run away to, but yeah, I don t, I don t, I don t know anything about whether or not they let dogs shit on their floor, but...
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Yeah, I m scared of also like, I m kind of scared of I m spiritual, but I m scared of spiritual people.
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I worked at a metaphysical shop.
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And like I managed it and just like, spiritual people have this way of being so like, like new age spirituality, they like they love to just like bypass things and be like, don t be depressed, just be happy.
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And I m scared to like go somewhere like that.
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And then it s like, okay, but I guess I have to just like throw myself into it.
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Well, it s cool.
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You um, I mean I ve only been talking to you for 20 minutes, but you seem like a sane and despite and fucking despite everything you ve been through you seem like a sane Not douche person and I see why I see why you could be afraid that um
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of of that if you go into an environment like that that everyone s gonna be a douche, but That s just a preconception.
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You know whatever people there could be cool, or they could be douches, but I Don t know, but you got the dog so Are you you have a van well, it s like a like a Honda CRV, but it s alright.
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It s decent in size
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okay um when you i do you go do you go to see a real therapist i do i love her so much oh yeah what does she tell you about all this shit um you know she can t really say directly like what to do of course but she s just like been trying to help me like more so stay sane and like stay stable stay they goddamn that s a ton of
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stay sable.
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Oh my god.
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Stay sane.
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I m gonna stay sane.
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I go to her and stay sane.
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More just trying to get me to like work on my art and stuff and like uh just you know I lost my job when I was seeing this therapist so we just have been in the transition of like okay you went from having one job now you lost your job now you re working two how do you not burn out um so it s just been about like mainly the focus of like saving money trying to see who I can live with to
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I can afford to move out if I have a roommate, but I don t really know anybody dependable very, very much now.
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Um, but yeah, I mean, I go to therapy and she s great.
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Um, I got a medication, which I was really opposed to for a while, but I do think it s helping.
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That s cool.
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Well, it was like an SSRI.
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Yeah.
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I don t know shit about it.
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I ve never been a big medication guy.
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Just as me, everyone works differently, but I ve never been a big medication dude.
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That s cool, that s working for you.
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It s cool you re able to have a therapist.
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Yeah, I m just on the grind.
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I ve been just like considering like I don t know if I should be on disability or not because I like I said I got in a car accident, and I still have issues But you know the government likes to be like oh you need health insurance.
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Let s take it away from you Get some get some freedom dollars if you can man get some I feel like I don t deserve it, so I don t know um
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Well, let me ask you, have you ever talked to your therapist about like, hey, you know, taking care of my mom is restricting my movement throughout the universe.
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What do you think about that?
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Yeah.
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I mean, she doesn t agree with like a lot of the things that my mom has like done or said to me and like, um,
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But, you know, it s just, like, in the situation, like, there s not a lot I can do.
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We have, like, safety plans to where, like, if something bad s going on at home and it s unsafe, like, I ll leave and I ll go to, like, XYZ s house and this is my backup plan here and, like, my room is my safe space and, you know, stuff like that.
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But, yeah.
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I mean, she doesn t agree with it, but, you know, she doesn t really know what to do either.
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Are you working on any music?
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Um, I bought a laptop.
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That s not a dinosaur.
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And like my other one, I have electronic drum kit, acoustic drum kit.
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And I have like a little mini keyboard, which I ve been trying to learn, but I feel like I was like, okay, when I get this, like, I m going to be able to make this.
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And now that I have it like the stuff I m like, I just find myself like just going home and being like, I can t set everything up.
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Like I m so drained and like,
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sad and I just, I can t.
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But Missouri, when I go see my friend, I m gonna take my keyboard and my laptop and just like during the flight and while I m there, we re gonna just like make music.
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I was, I ve been hopping trying to find like a new project.
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I think I work best in a band, but there s just a lot of drama here with that and like, trying to find the right people and I don t live in like a nice
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like part of Florida where all the artsy people are.
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I m like an hour and a half away.
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So it s like, where s the nice part of Florida where all the artsy people are?
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Is that Miami?
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No more like Tampa St.
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Pete.
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That s like the spot for like, cool.
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cool, open-minded people.
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Really?
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Tampa?
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Tampa?
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Yeah, especially around the college.
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I have a lot of friends.
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Well, friends, not super close friends, but most of the connections I have in that world are in Tampa.
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I was in a- I did a show in Tampa this year and I talked to- on stage to a Satanist.
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Which is pretty fun.
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Oh, that s awesome.
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So I guess- I guess that tracks.
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Um... Well, shit.
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Yeah, I missed that show, but I really want to come see the next one.
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No.
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I don t know.
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I don t know.
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You know, it s funny when you- when you said just now about, like, uh...
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Bottle the equipment and and then you get home and you re too drained to set it up I ve definitely been in situations like that where I m gonna You know go do this thing and then you and then the things in front of you And you re like all I want to do is take a nap Yes I Hope
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I hope you can find joy in whatever it is you do get to do.
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Thank you.
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I did a DJ set with my partner in my friend s garage recently.
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We were supposed to play at a show, but these people rented out an Airbnb.
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That s great.
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They didn t coordinate it with the Airbnb, so we got kicked out.
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I was like, man, we worked too hard on this, so we ended up playing in a garage for 10 people, but those 10 people, they re real ones.
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Do more of that.
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Do more of that.
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Find more opportunities to do shit like that.
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That s where the real meaty juices of life is, you know?
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Do more of that.
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There is something stopping me doing music, though.
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Well, kind of stopping me.
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What is it?
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One of my former bandmates, basically, I found out recently,
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they started spreading a rumor about me a little bit ago that I didn t know about.
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And they re saying that I tried to like get with them when they were minor, which is absolutely not true.
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I never did that.
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They actually tried to come on to me and I told them no.
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And they re like, okay, but now like people are having this perception of me that s not true.
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And I don t, I don t know.
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It s like, when I go places that I usually go, like, I feel like there s people who avoid me and like, it s like, I don t know.
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I don t know.
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It s hard because it s like the internet s
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It s such a scary place and anybody can say anything and like, I didn t do that.
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It is but it s I it is a lot but I m I m enjoying thinking in my head about How you should navigate it
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Cuz it s it s why it s fun for me cuz I have all these whatever problems in my own life This is I guess the thesis of the podcast, but it s like I have all these I mean now maybe it s not the thesis of the podcast But it s one that s a thing about it that I find interesting is cuz I have all these shit going on and in my life that I don t think about from any kind of objective you viewpoint because I m Emotionally invested and I m thinking about all this you know stuff going on in yours I
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Well, I ll tell you this.
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You should make a creative person with good intentions.
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And I think if you lean into that, you ll be okay.
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You know?
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I really appreciate that coming from you, yeah.
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The world s on fire, but you know, just be back in with it.
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All this shit of like, you know, we re gonna do a DJ set in the backyard and I m gonna... You have the entrepreneurial, creative mind to be able to think of ways to improve your life on your own volition without having to... without trying to wait.
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for someone or something else to come.
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You know?
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I think that s really within you, and I think you should think more about that.
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Do you know what I m saying?
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I think I need to go back onto social media after my trip.
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I think I want to go on the trip, take some time, and then make my return.
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Because I have, like, my followers on there.
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They re really nice.
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I just felt like too...
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Obligated like I had to reply to everybody and it was stressing me out and like but I think I need to go back and just put whatever I get You don t have to you know how many you know how many missed you don t you don t have to respond to anybody You know how many missed calls I have right now Yeah, fuck him fuck him You know
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No, but they ll be happy to see you again.
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And social media can be a cool ticket.
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It can be a cool ticket to exciting things.
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I want to do a podcast with my brother.
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We want to call it Nolan Void.
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Um, no, hey, do you want to, um, someone, uh, someone that you, do you want to plug any music?
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Do you have any music on your, um, on the internet?
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I do have my old band music up, but I would probably rather plug like my actual page.
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Cause right now I m still working on getting in a new project.
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Like I said, but you can plug if you want.
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I don t know if you want to dock yourself.
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If you want, you can plug.
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Go ahead.
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Fine I was fine.
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It s cool like sometimes somebody will like plug an Instagram page on here or something And then I ll go to the Instagram page like a week after the podcast is out And I ll see all these people be like I m here from the gecko and that oh, I like that Like talked to you about like he worked at a theme park and like he like wore a dinosaur suit and
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Yeah, yeah.
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He never plugged, though.
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We became mutuals on TikTok and like had a little conversation.
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Oh, that s cool.
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Yeah, it s cool.
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You guys can bond over being on the Gecko Show.
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Yeah, over therapy Gecko.
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Yeah, go ahead.
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So right now I m only on like Instagram, TikTok, unfortunately, mainly.
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But it s Nullify, so it s like N-U-L-L-I-S-T-O-K.
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E-Y-E so like nullify but with the word eyeball like like eye in it if that makes sense Fuck yeah, um I Think that makes sense.
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I don t know my brain doesn t work right now, but um No, thanks for thanks for calling.
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I hope Some way shape or form Do is there anything else you want to say to the people of the computer before we go or anything else we didn t cover um
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Give me five seconds to put my brain in thinking mode.
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Um, I guess I do have one question for you.
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Do you have art on this Instagram?
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Um, so God damn it.
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I changed my art, uh, Instagram.
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It should be here.
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What is it?
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What is it again?
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I ll look, I ll look at it now.
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Yeah.
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Cause I have two Instagrams, one for my visual art and then one was for the actual, like my profile, but I changed the art one.
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I think, well,
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Do you want the art one or like my normal one?
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Whatever one you want to plug to the people.
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Okay, I ll give you my normal one and then you guys can go from the link tree from there.
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So it s N-U-L-L-I-F-E-Y-E.
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Oh, okay, now I get it.
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Now that I m seeing it.
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There s an I. Okay, there s another I. Yeah.
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Um, I think the art one is like Noel is online.
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I ve been trying to figure out a better name.
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Um, well, Noel, um, oh, there was a thing you wanted to ask me.
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Yeah.
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What s up?
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Yeah.
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I just, I guess if anything, I just wanted to ask, like, how do you feel like you deal with so many people perceiving you?
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Like, how do you feel like you like, just like remind yourself, like, okay, it s just me.
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Like I m doing this for like, just me as a creative.
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Well, I don t really feel I don t really feel or internalize the idea that That there s a fucking dog barking really loudly right now.
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That s tracking me um I Don t really I don t really feel that I don t really feel as though.
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I m being perceived for lots of reasons one is obviously You know I have this costume that Maybe I need a gecko costume
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Yeah, well, I mean yeah, what do you made maybe maybe met what metaphorically whatever that whatever your gecko costume is whether it s like you know you have a some but you perform under some alternative name or in some costume or some shit like that, but um Yeah, one well, there s
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that and then I also just like I don t know dude I don t feel I don t feel none of it feels really real like I ve just I posted a fucking picture of an almond on my Instagram and it got 30 and 30,000 people liked it and it doesn t and it just feels it doesn t feel like oh these are 30,000 real people
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Even when I m on a stage, I don t feel very perceived and I m all and I m just like, whatever, if all these people like, you know, I m really appreciate, I m really appreciative that that they re sticking around and that they re listening to the podcast and that they re
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They re into what I m doing, but I don t, um, I don t know, feel, uh, famous or, or anything like that.
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And also I m trying, like I said earlier, I m actually, I don t know if I said it to you or if I said it to somebody else, but I really don t, if I suck or people think I m cringy or, or whatever, it s like, they re only thinking about me for like,
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a second, you know?
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Here s the thing, is if people are thinking about you because you suck, they re only gonna be thinking about you for like, a second, and then they re gonna move on with their day.
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And if people are thinking about you because they like you, then, you know, that s fine.
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But... Whatever, man, I m just trying to do my own thing and live my own life and figure out how I can not be a fat loser guy.
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You know, and that has nothing to do with how anyone perceives me.
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That s just... That s how I perceive myself.
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You know, not that I perceive my- well, I ve perceived myself as a fat loser guy plenty, uh, plenty of times.
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But, uh, you know, that s- that s- that s the perception that I care about.
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How do I perceive myself?
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Well, you re an awesome little gecko guy.
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Uh, thanks, man.
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Thanks, man.
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I appreciate that.
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Thank you so much for, um, talking and, like, I really appreciate your podcast.
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It means a lot of other people through our day, so... Thanks, man.
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Yeah.
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Uh, good luck.
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I m gonna play music and...
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Go check out Nullify s thing.
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Can I ask you one really quick question?
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Sure, man.
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What s up?
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I wanted to basically... I ve been kind of thinking of like one day like not as like my main thing but kind of like going live and maybe seeing if people want to like I don t know Skype and just call and talk about whatever but I was like I don t want to be stealing like Therapy Gecko s thing at all.
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Okay, hold on.
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Would Therapy Gecko hate me?
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Hold on.
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Okay, we just talked to a guy about this.
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Really?
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Yeah, there s somebody called in.
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Somebody called in this stream and talked about it.
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I did not invent the call in show.
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So yeah, yeah, go ahead and you can Skype people.
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I mean, you can do you can Skype people in a gecko costume.
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I don t give a fuck if you go
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I like the last thing I wanna do is have beef with Therapy Gecko.
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Go crazy.
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Do whatever you wanna do.
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I have no influence over the decisions you make in your life at all.
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When I become an awesome DJ, I ll sample you.
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People have been doing call-in shows forever.
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I always find it so funny when I ll get messages or DMs or whatever and be like, is it okay if I do a call-in show?
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I m like, dude, I...
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They ve been doing call-in shows since like the 80s, like this is not my intellectual property.
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Have fun with your life, Noel.
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Go do stuff.
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Go watch Info Wars with your mom.
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That sounds actually kind of fun.
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I m good.
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I m gonna go return my library book and get the other ones that I checked out.
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That s where I m gonna start.
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Hey, have a good night, Noel.
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Thank you so much for taking my call.
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Take care, dude.
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Bye.
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That was cool.
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I like talking to her.
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That s a tough situation.
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I don t know what to do, but there s a lot of, that s a tough one, right?
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Cause you care about your mom, but I, you can t let it stop you from, uh, doing, you know, living your own life.
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Uh,
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Yeah, good call.
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I hope she figures out what s going on with her.
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It s fun.
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I was talking about it.
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It s like interesting talking to other people about like all the shit going on with them and their lives it s um It takes me out.
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It takes me out of my own it takes.
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I m I m It s like that I was on the phone with her for 40 minutes and in that 40 minutes.
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I was like in my head Thinking about like how does how does how can she figure this shit out and it you know?
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That s a fun 40 minutes, because the next 23 hours of my life are going to be me thinking about my own problems and how I can make millions of dollars from home to fly my friends out to see me.
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That sounds cool.
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I want to do that, too.
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Thanks for calling, Noel.
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go and you know what try if you ever try try eating a chicken sandwich sometime you ve earned it i know you re trying to save the planet i know you re trying to be nice but if you have never had a chick-fil-a chicken sandwich treat yourself you earned it
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All right, folks, this ends the phone call portion of the podcast and begins a transportation to the streets of Manchester, England.
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Yes, I was in Manchester, England, which is God, I want to say north of London.
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In England, I was there over the summer to do a live show there.
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And while I was there, I did a bunch of street interviews with people in Manchester.
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A lot of you don t live in Manchester and you live in, I don t know, Australia or the or America, or you live in a place that s not Manchester.
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So here s a cool opportunity.
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Right?
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Here s a cool opportunity to talk vicariously through me to two people who live in a place that you ve never been to and hear what their life is like and what they have to say.
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So, uh, consider it a cool, it s like you re traveling.
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but you don t even have to move anywhere unless if you re listening to this in your car, in which case you are moving.
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All right.
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Uh, let us transport to the streets of Manchester, England to talk to some people on it, not on the phone to talk to them in real life.
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All right.
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Yo.
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Hello.
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What s your name?
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My name s Poppy.
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Poppy, nice to meet you.
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Nice to meet you too.
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How s life?
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It s alright.
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It s not too bad.
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Okay.
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At the moment, yeah.
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What s making it a... Wait, what s this a... Is that a clown or a robot on your necklace?
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It is a clown.
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I like that.
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That s cool, man.
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Yeah.
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Do you like clowns?
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What do you like about clowns?
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I don t know, they re just fun.
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They re happy but they re weird and colourful.
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I have a collection of vintage clown dolls which a lot of people think is weird.
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I am certain one of them is going to kill me.
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It has the little twist on the back and it moves and it plays a song and it plays Small World from the Disney ride.
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It s a small world.
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That s very creepy.
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It is very creepy, and I m certain at one point it s going to kill me.
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SPEAKER_02
As somebody who s a fan of clowns, would it not be an honor to be killed by one?
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It would, to be honest.
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That s why I keep it.
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They re all, like, in my bedroom on a shelf.
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SPEAKER_02
How do you feel about Ronald McDonald?
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SPEAKER_00
He s okay.
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SPEAKER_00
He seems a little bit predatorial for a clown.
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SPEAKER_00
He s really into kids, that s true.
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SPEAKER_00
He is.
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SPEAKER_00
So, he s like a 4 out of 10.
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SPEAKER_00
I like his color scheme, the red and yellow.
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SPEAKER_02
It s a good look, but... Top 3 clowns.
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SPEAKER_00
Ooh.
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SPEAKER_00
I don t know, like, specific clowns.
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SPEAKER_00
I mean, Pennywise definitely has to be up there.
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SPEAKER_00
He d probably be, like, number three.
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SPEAKER_00
Number one would have to be Art the Clown from The Terrifier.
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SPEAKER_00
He is, like, a black and white Piero French clown, but he s terrifying and murders people viciously.
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SPEAKER_02
I just thought I couldn t think of three clowns.
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SPEAKER_00
Yeah, no, neither can I. I can definitely think of those two, but there s not many, like, well-known clowns.
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SPEAKER_02
I have a friend, she loves clowns, and she is a... I think she doesn t like when people say that clowns are creepy.
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SPEAKER_00
I fully agree that they re creepy, but I m a big fan of creepy things.
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SPEAKER_00
I like a lot of horror.
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SPEAKER_00
I like the idea of the unknown.
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SPEAKER_02
What is it that appeals to you about the unknown and horror?
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SPEAKER_00
I don t know.
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SPEAKER_01
I ve always been, like, very fascinated by death.
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SPEAKER_01
Not, like, death itself, but, like, what happens afterwards.
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SPEAKER_00
What do you think happens afterwards?
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SPEAKER_01
I don t know.
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SPEAKER_01
I don t necessarily believe in, like, heaven or hell.
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SPEAKER_01
I possibly believe in reincarnation, maybe.
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SPEAKER_01
I think that would be quite cool.
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SPEAKER_00
Okay.
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SPEAKER_01
Ghosts, very possibly.
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SPEAKER_01
I mean, I don t know, but no one can prove if they do or don t exist.
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SPEAKER_01
Same as, like, religion.
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It s all about belief.
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SPEAKER_00
If you had the choice, what would you be reincarnated as?
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SPEAKER_01
That is a good question.
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SPEAKER_01
I feel like a sloth.
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SPEAKER_01
I d enjoy being a sloth.
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SPEAKER_00
A sloth?
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SPEAKER_00
Why a sloth?
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SPEAKER_01
They just have a very chilled life.
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SPEAKER_01
And they re cute.
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SPEAKER_01
They just hang on branches.
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SPEAKER_01
They re vibing.
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SPEAKER_00
You re a fan of creepy things?
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SPEAKER_00
Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00
You ever seen a wet sloth?
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SPEAKER_01
I ve not seen a wet sloth.
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SPEAKER_00
Go home, go to Google, type wet sloth.
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SPEAKER_01
Okay.
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SPEAKER_00
They look like monsters that are out to try to haunt you.
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SPEAKER_01
I will check out some wet sloths.
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SPEAKER_00
What do you do for a living?
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SPEAKER_01
At the moment, I work in retail, but I recently got a job working in fashion.
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SPEAKER_00
Okay, sick.
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SPEAKER_00
Now in retail, do you encounter a lot of crazy people?
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SPEAKER_01
Not necessarily crazy people.
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SPEAKER_01
There are definitely some strange people.
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SPEAKER_01
I work in a shoe shop, so not the weirdest of people, but there are definitely some strange people I ve encountered working in retail.
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SPEAKER_00
Do you have any stories of anything that was unruly that happened to you or anything like that?
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SPEAKER_01
Unruly?
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SPEAKER_01
Not necessarily, but there s this one woman who s come in quite frequently and this was like my first week or like first couple weeks on the job and they essentially call it initiation if she comes in.
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SPEAKER_01
The rest of the staff, like the two other staff who were working, left the shop.
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SPEAKER_01
Like they went out back just so I was the only one on the shop floor with her to talk to her and she tells everyone about how her father always put her in shoes that were too small for her and It gave her really wide like Short feet because they didn t grow properly and she only has specific shoes she can wear and she previously told one of my co-workers that
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that her, like, speaking to her was hurting her breast cancer.
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SPEAKER_01
Bearing in mind, my co-worker had gone through breast cancer and had a mastectomy, and because she was being loud, this woman turned around and went, excuse me, can you be quiet?
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SPEAKER_01
You re hurting my breast cancer.
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SPEAKER_01
So she s just an odd lady.
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SPEAKER_01
You do get some interesting people.
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SPEAKER_00
Is there any scientific basis to that, where being loud causes cancer?
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SPEAKER_01
No, there is no scientific data to say that is accurate.
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SPEAKER_00
What s this job in fashion that you have?
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SPEAKER_01
Uh, it s fashion buying.
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SPEAKER_01
So for like a big corporation working for like a website where eventually like I have a say in like what we buy in terms of design and then they get sent over to suppliers to then like be mass produced for the online retailer.
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SPEAKER_00
Speaking of fashion, I like the shoes.
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SPEAKER_00
Thank you, they are Crocs.
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SPEAKER_00
The Crocs with the cowbells on them.
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SPEAKER_01
Yes.
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SPEAKER_00
When you were a little kid, what was your dream?
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SPEAKER_01
My dream was to be a fashion designer.
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SPEAKER_00
Oh, so your dreams came true.
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SPEAKER_00
Do you feel that way?
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SPEAKER_00
Do you feel excited about all this?
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SPEAKER_01
I definitely feel excited.
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SPEAKER_01
I graduated two years ago and it took me two years to try and get a job in my degree.
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SPEAKER_01
I went through university during COVID so it was rough being on a practical course during COVID definitely.
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SPEAKER_00
on a practical course.
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SPEAKER_00
By practical course, that means like something where you re like in a place doing stuff.
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SPEAKER_00
Yeah, like the COVID is the whole you can t be in a place doing stuff.
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SPEAKER_01
Yeah, very much so.
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SPEAKER_01
So I did a course in footwear and accessories design.
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SPEAKER_01
Okay, so like designing and making shoes.
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SPEAKER_01
And obviously, I had none of the access to any of the machinery.
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SPEAKER_01
So COVID definitely messed up my university degree, I d say.
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SPEAKER_00
What do you do outside of fashion and clowns?
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SPEAKER_01
I enjoy hiking.
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SPEAKER_01
I go on a lot of walks.
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SPEAKER_01
I like just adventuring in nature.
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SPEAKER_00
Do you like living in Manchester?
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SPEAKER_01
I do, yeah.
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SPEAKER_01
It s one of my favourite cities in the UK.
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SPEAKER_01
I tend to find the north of the UK is a lot more friendly than the south.
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SPEAKER_01
Up north, a lot of people will just happily talk to anyone.
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SPEAKER_01
And like, if you cross people in the street, you smile at them.
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SPEAKER_01
Down south, everyone just sort of looks straight ahead where they re going.
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SPEAKER_01
No one talks to anyone.
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SPEAKER_00
Mm-hmm.
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SPEAKER_00
Yeah, people here have been pretty friendly so far, but as I m going through Europe, I m going down south.
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SPEAKER_01
Yeah People will get a lot less friendly the closer to London you get.
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SPEAKER_00
Really?
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SPEAKER_00
Okay, I m going to London after this.
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SPEAKER_01
Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01
I mean London, there s plenty of friendly people in London, but the South is a lot less.
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SPEAKER_01
Like, they re the stiff upper lips.
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SPEAKER_00
Hey, what do you think about all day?
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SPEAKER_01
About what?
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SPEAKER_00
Just in general, like, as you walk the streets or fold clothes or, you know, are watching a movie or walking through the street, like, what do you think about?
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SPEAKER_01
Not a lot, usually where I m going.
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SPEAKER_01
I don t think about much when I m going from A to B, just how to get there, the journey.
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SPEAKER_00
That sounds awesome.
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SPEAKER_00
I think that s the happiest a human being can be.
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SPEAKER_00
I mean that with full sincerity, because if you mean what you re telling me right now, that means that as you walk around, you re in the moment.
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SPEAKER_01
Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00
You re in the moment.
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SPEAKER_01
I just look around, admire scenery, take in my surroundings, but pretty much I m just thinking of how to get from A to B. Are you happy?
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SPEAKER_01
I d say I m fairly happy in life.
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SPEAKER_00
That s great.
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SPEAKER_01
I m definitely doing better.
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SPEAKER_00
Yeah, but what s what s making you be doing better?
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SPEAKER_01
I couldn t tell you just, you know, medication.
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SPEAKER_00
Really?
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SPEAKER_00
Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00
You know, I was good.
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SPEAKER_00
I was I m gonna tell you this.
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SPEAKER_00
I was gonna start doing medication.
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SPEAKER_01
Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00
But I was like, ah,
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SPEAKER_01
I genuinely recommend medication.
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SPEAKER_00
Okay.
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SPEAKER_01
I have been medicated for the last three years.
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SPEAKER_00
You don t have to answer this question, but what... Yeah, you don t have to answer, but what are you on?
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SPEAKER_01
I m on a medication called Venlafaxine.
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SPEAKER_00
Venlafaxine?
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SPEAKER_00
Yeah, it s for antidepressants.
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SPEAKER_01
I ve never heard of that.
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SPEAKER_01
It s a bit of an odd one, like it s a twice-a-day one.
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SPEAKER_01
I tried about three others before that, which none of them worked.
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SPEAKER_00
You ever try... Let me think.
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SPEAKER_00
You ever do Lexapro?
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SPEAKER_01
I believe that is a brand in America, in the UK it s called something different, and I think it might be called Sertraline.
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SPEAKER_00
Sertraline, okay.
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SPEAKER_01
In the UK.
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SPEAKER_01
That one worked for a while, and then when they upped my dose, it was like the other end of the spectrum.
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SPEAKER_01
I was manic, I could have stayed awake for 72 hours.
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SPEAKER_01
Completely did like a 180, so I was like, I like sleep, so I m gonna stop taking these.
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SPEAKER_00
You know how they say to think of your happy place, right?
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SPEAKER_00
Is your happy place a haunted house?
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SPEAKER_01
Probably yes.
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SPEAKER_01
I ve been to haunted houses and like with groups of friends, I m either always the one that they put first or the one that they put at the back because people will chase me.
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SPEAKER_00
See, I don t know how I would find a haunted house in the UK because all the ghosts would have British accents, which would make it a little bit funnier.
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SPEAKER_01
That is true, there are a lot of British accents, but I suppose it depends where in the UK you go.
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SPEAKER_01
There are accents all over, and some of them are quite scary.
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SPEAKER_01
I would not like to be chased by a Scouse ghost.
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SPEAKER_00
What s a Scouse ghost?
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SPEAKER_01
A ghost from Liverpool.
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SPEAKER_00
Oh, a ghost from Liverpool?
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SPEAKER_01
Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00
I ma haunt ya, mate.
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SPEAKER_01
That was nothing like Liverpool.
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SPEAKER_01
It s got a lot of, like, hech to it.
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SPEAKER_00
I ma haunt ya, mate.
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SPEAKER_00
Sorry, sorry, sorry.
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SPEAKER_01
It s more like, oh, I m from Liverpool.
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SPEAKER_00
What the fuck are you talking about?
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SPEAKER_00
What are you talking about, mate?
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SPEAKER_01
That was a little bit Australian.
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SPEAKER_00
That was a little Australian.
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SPEAKER_00
Can you do an impression of a ghost from Liverpool about to haunt somebody?
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SPEAKER_01
Oi, what the fuck are you doing in my house?
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SPEAKER_01
I ll smack your eyebrows off.
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SPEAKER_00
All right, I got to go to a fucking British haunted house.
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SPEAKER_01
Yeah, there you go.
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SPEAKER_01
That s all you need.
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SPEAKER_00
What s your name again?
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SPEAKER_01
Poppy.
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SPEAKER_00
Poppy, is there anything else you want to say to the people at the computer before we go?
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SPEAKER_01
I would like to say just live life how you want to.
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SPEAKER_01
Don t let other people tell you how to live your life.
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SPEAKER_00
What s your ultimate dream?
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SPEAKER_01
Honestly, I don t really have like an ultimate dream.
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SPEAKER_01
I d like to go to Japan.
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SPEAKER_01
That s probably the biggest one.
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SPEAKER_00
Okay.
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SPEAKER_00
Well, I just talked to a guy who went to Japan.
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SPEAKER_00
Yeah, if he can do it.
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SPEAKER_01
I ve also been to Japan, I believe.
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SPEAKER_00
What, you ve been to Japan?
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SPEAKER_01
No, I said you ve also been to Japan.
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SPEAKER_00
Yeah, I have been to Japan.
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SPEAKER_00
Oh, so you ve seen me on the computer before?
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SPEAKER_01
Yes, I do know who you are.
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SPEAKER_01
You re Lyle, the therapy gecko.
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SPEAKER_00
Oh, okay, alright.
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SPEAKER_00
I have seen you on the internet before.
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SPEAKER_00
Okay, sometimes people, I m like, I ve had people come up to me and be like, yo, dude, I love what you re doing, man.
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SPEAKER_00
I m a huge fan.
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SPEAKER_00
Can we get a picture?
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SPEAKER_00
And then we take a picture, and then on their way out, they re like, by the way, I love that turtle costume.
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SPEAKER_01
I mean, you don t even have a shell.
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SPEAKER_00
I could see this as a turtle.
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SPEAKER_01
No, a gecko is more of a lizard.
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SPEAKER_01
Turtles are a different type of reptilian entirely, I believe.
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SPEAKER_00
Thanks for talking to me, Gecko Puppy.
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SPEAKER_01
You re very welcome.
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SPEAKER_00
I ll see you around the universe.
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SPEAKER_00
What s your name?
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SPEAKER_02
Charlie.
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SPEAKER_00
Charlie, nice to meet you.
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SPEAKER_02
Nice to meet you.
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SPEAKER_00
What s going on in life?
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SPEAKER_02
My life has not been great, I m not gonna lie.
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SPEAKER_00
Good.
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SPEAKER_02
So, my cat got fleas, right?
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SPEAKER_02
A couple months back, and we thought we got rid of them, but we didn t, so we had to get an exterminator in, and now we re living out of the hotel, and
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SPEAKER_02
It s just not really fun.
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SPEAKER_00
Oh, you re like Suite Life of Zack and Cody.
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SPEAKER_02
Literally.
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SPEAKER_00
Yeah.
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SPEAKER_02
Yeah.
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SPEAKER_02
I love that show.
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SPEAKER_02
Yeah, it s just it s not fun.
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SPEAKER_02
It s not fun.
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SPEAKER_02
I don t know how to like smile about it.
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SPEAKER_02
Any advice, Mr. Gecko?
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SPEAKER_00
Oh, about living in a hotel?
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SPEAKER_00
Well shit dude, here s what I would do, I would watch every episode of Suite Life of Zack and Cody and just recreate what they re doing.
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SPEAKER_00
Because Zack and Cody seem like they re having a great time, like, do that, get one of those bellhop fucking things and skateboard through the hallways.
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SPEAKER_00
Cause some mischief by crawling through the air vents and stuff.
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SPEAKER_00
But actually do that, I ve heard air vents in real life are fucked up, but... Embrace it, go to the hotel, have a pool.
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SPEAKER_02
It is, but it s closed.
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SPEAKER_02
But I feel like maybe... But that s the mischief, right?
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SPEAKER_00
You guys sneak into the hotel.
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SPEAKER_02
Exactly, exactly.
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SPEAKER_02
We ve got to make our own for a minute.
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SPEAKER_00
Maybe wear a disguise to get past the guard?
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SPEAKER_00
Should I put, like, a mustache on or something?
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SPEAKER_00
Yeah, put a big mustache on.
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SPEAKER_00
There s so much potential for misadventures in your situation, and you ve got to pick up on that.
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SPEAKER_02
You re so right, man.
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SPEAKER_02
You re so right.
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SPEAKER_02
I mean, it just...
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SPEAKER_02
I don t feel like I am feeling very inspired to do much mischief, though.
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SPEAKER_00
Are you in this hotel by yourself or with your family?
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SPEAKER_02
I m with my girlfriend there.
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SPEAKER_00
Oh, okay.
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SPEAKER_00
Rock and roll, rock and roll.
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SPEAKER_00
And is she feeling good about it?
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SPEAKER_00
She said it is what it is.
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SPEAKER_00
So what do you do?
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SPEAKER_00
What s your job?
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SPEAKER_02
I m a security guard.
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SPEAKER_00
You re a security guard?
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SPEAKER_02
Yeah man.
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SPEAKER_00
What do you secure?
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SPEAKER_02
We do like events and concerts and stuff.
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SPEAKER_02
So I do the Albert Hall on Peter Street.
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SPEAKER_02
Lots of gigs and concerts and that type of thing.
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SPEAKER_02
I really enjoy it.
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SPEAKER_00
You re like on the front line of crazy drunk people.
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SPEAKER_02
Yes, yeah, yeah.
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SPEAKER_02
And like the shit that some people come out with.
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SPEAKER_02
I mean, I was at a festival working this weekend and this guy, he looks at me and he s like, is that a security announcement that my mum s coming?
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SPEAKER_02
And I m like,
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SPEAKER_02
What are you on about, man?
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SPEAKER_02
And he s looking at the lights like, is she coming?
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SPEAKER_02
My mom is on the way.
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SPEAKER_02
And I m like, bro, unless you rang her, you re fine.
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SPEAKER_00
Wait, he thought that the entire building made an announcement to say that his mom was there to pick him up?
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SPEAKER_02
That s how much he was tripping, yeah.
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SPEAKER_00
That s kind of sweet, actually.
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SPEAKER_02
I wish I was on his level at that moment in time.
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SPEAKER_00
Have you ever had to kick someone out?
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SPEAKER_02
So many times.
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SPEAKER_00
Have you ever had to kick someone out and they just won t fucking go?
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SPEAKER_02
All the time, all the time.
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SPEAKER_02
One time, this 45-year-old woman, 45, she didn t want to leave, so then she tried to get me on the floor, and then she bit me.
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SPEAKER_02
Holy crap.
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SPEAKER_02
A 45-year-old woman bit me.
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SPEAKER_02
It was quite humbling, actually.
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SPEAKER_00
Were you worried that when you woke up in the morning, you would turn into a 45-year-old woman?
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SPEAKER_02
Kind of hoped I would not gonna lie.
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SPEAKER_02
It seems pretty sweet, you know, but um, I Just wish it gave me some powers like spike like a spider-man bite or something, you know What was she did she like did you have to like take her to the police or you just let her go?
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SPEAKER_02
I mean, I just let her go I mean, they always say well if you want to press charges you can but it ll take forever.
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SPEAKER_02
So So I ve just I ve just fucked it up.
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SPEAKER_02
Sorry bend it off
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SPEAKER_00
You can say fu- I don t know why people think they can t curse on here.
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SPEAKER_00
You can say any- you can say cunt.
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SPEAKER_02
Can I just ask real quick?
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SPEAKER_00
You can ask me anything, yeah.
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SPEAKER_02
Are you the real gecko?
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SPEAKER_02
Like, is there- are you an imitation?
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SPEAKER_00
Am I the real gecko?
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SPEAKER_02
Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00
What does that mean?
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SPEAKER_02
Like, you know, I ve seen you everywhere and are you the real- are you the one?
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SPEAKER_00
Are you the true gecko?
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SPEAKER_00
Unless I don t think there is another guy gecko dude on the computer.
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SPEAKER_02
I didn t realize how much I needed to see you today, man.
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SPEAKER_02
Honestly.
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SPEAKER_00
Well, man, I mean, can you, I got a question for you.
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SPEAKER_00
Go on.
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SPEAKER_00
All right.
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SPEAKER_00
All these people around us right now, let s say they fucking bum rushed me, tried to stab me.
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SPEAKER_00
Could you, would you secure me?
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SPEAKER_02
Fuck yes, I would.
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SPEAKER_00
Honestly.
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SPEAKER_02
Yeah, come on, come on.
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SPEAKER_02
I mean, honestly, you wouldn t even see me do it.
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SPEAKER_02
That s how good I am, bro.
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SPEAKER_00
Because you d be fucking gone.
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SPEAKER_00
Okay.
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SPEAKER_00
What s your ultimate dream in life?
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SPEAKER_02
Okay, you re gonna laugh at me.
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SPEAKER_00
I m not.
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SPEAKER_02
To be a fucking MI5 spy.
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SPEAKER_00
Well, you re already doing security.
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SPEAKER_02
I m thinking I ve got a good way in there, you know?
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SPEAKER_00
You could be like James Bond.
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SPEAKER_02
Exactly.
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SPEAKER_02
Yeah.
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SPEAKER_02
What s a female version of James?
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SPEAKER_00
Jane.
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SPEAKER_02
Jane Bond.
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SPEAKER_00
Jane Bond.
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SPEAKER_02
Doesn t have the same ring.
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SPEAKER_00
What s your name again?
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SPEAKER_00
Charlie.
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SPEAKER_00
Charlie Bond.
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SPEAKER_02
Charlie Bond.
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SPEAKER_02
I think we could make that work.
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SPEAKER_00
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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SPEAKER_00
Okay, so you want to be a super spy.
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SPEAKER_00
What kind of spy activities do you want to be doing?
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SPEAKER_00
Do you want to be spying on... Who are the UK s enemies?
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SPEAKER_00
The Russians?
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SPEAKER_00
How are we?
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SPEAKER_00
Are we chill?
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SPEAKER_02
Oh, we re good.
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SPEAKER_02
We re good.
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Me and you, we re good.
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I was talking about are the US and UK, are they chill?
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Yeah, yeah.
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Hey, let me ask you a question.
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Go on.
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You re British?
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Yeah.
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What do the Brits think of Americans?
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Well, we actually all think that you re all kind of Silly, do you know what I mean?
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Because yeah, you pay for health care What is that every single person by the way did the way that your face?
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Recoiled and like looked down for a second.
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Everybody s face does that every time I ask them that question.
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I m sorry No, you don t have to be sorry.
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It s it s funny.
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Did you hear about the whole Chinese food thing on Twitter Chinese food thing?
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so Americans were like
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You call this Chinese food, Brits?
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What are you on about?
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This isn t Chinese food, it s just slop.
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And how are you guys telling us what s food when you eat cheese out of a can?
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People have told me.
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You guys don t have cheese out of a can here?
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No, we don t.
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I ve been looking all over the grocery store for it.
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We have proper cheese.
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Has anyone seen grated, like, actual cheese around here?
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The thing is, people, like, I think it s a thing that people say that the food in Britain sucks.
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It s not the best.
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Everything else, every good food we have has come from somewhere else.
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Sure.
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Like Indian, Chinese, Italian.
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I mean, that s a lot of places.
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It is, it is.
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That s America.
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I can t think of an American food.
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Have you had any traditional British food since you ve been here?
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I had a British breakfast.
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How was it?
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I was just like, I ll get the British breakfast and I m seeing all these items on my plate that I ve never seen before in my life.
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And they all taste like some weird different version of potatoes.
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Have you tried black pudding?
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Yeah, I have tried black pudding.
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How was it?
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A little gross.
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Yeah, it s like everything in a mush.
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So you guys think that we re a bit silly.
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Definitely.
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What do you think is silly about us?
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Iraq.
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Okay, I guess that was silly.
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Say that again?
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No roundabouts.
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You have blocks instead of cul-de-sacs.
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Yeah, yeah.
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No, we ve got cul-de-sacs going on.
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You re like, oh yeah, I live 10 blocks away.
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Like, what does that mean?
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Is a block a mile?
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I think a block is like, like a city s, okay, by the way, I don t, for a long time I didn t know what a block was.
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Okay, okay, okay.
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But I don t judge, I don t know what a lot of stuff is.
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So a block, I think like, so if a city s on a grid, I think a block is like one little block on the grid.
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So like let s say you re walking down Manhattan and there s like, you re on First Street, like two blocks down would be Third Street.
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That makes more sense than I d like to admit, to be honest.
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That actually does.
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Alright, what other myths can I dispel?
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How can I defend America today?
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You re all pussies when it comes to drinking.
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I m trying to think.
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I m trying to think, people in the UK, Scotland, Ireland here, they re bigger drinkers, yeah.
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Pretty much alcoholics, but we don t see it like that.
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Do you guys have frats?
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Frats?
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No, I ve always wanted to go to a frat party, but they don t exist here.
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But the frats do a lot, they represent a big,
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I would say probably pie chart of the piece of the pie of the American drinking culture.
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Is it like super, super intense?
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Like just what you see on films and stuff?
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Is it 22 Jump Street?
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Yeah, it s 21 Jump Street.
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I think so.
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I was in a frat for like half a second and then I was like, I don t want to do this.
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Is it like... My friends who were and they... Did you have to do an initiation and stuff?
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Yeah, you have to fuck a goat.
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Well, our old prime minister, like, fucked a pig.
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No, that was Black Mirror.
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It was real.
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It was based off a real thing.
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That was real?
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Do you guys know that David Cameron thing?
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Wait, this guy, wait, that wasn t just a black mirror thing, he actually had sex with a goat?
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He was in like a, I guess a British frat in like a really, you only have frats in like posh schools, right?
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And he joined one and they were like, oh, to be in this frat of like mega rich people, you have to like, I think it was burn a 20 pound note in front of a homeless person and then put your penis inside a pig s mouth.
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So he did both of those?
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Well, he got in, so I m assuming so.
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But he doesn t represent us.
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Learning a lot about classic British traditions.
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I would never do that.
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I would never do that.
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What do you think about all day as you walk the streets?
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Weed.
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Weed?
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Weed.
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Weed s like illegal here, right?
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So illegal.
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Have you ever been to California?
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No.
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There s like fucking Apple stores where you can buy weed, yeah.
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Don t you need like a medical card or something?
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In a lot of places you do, but in a lot of places you don t.
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Nice, nice.
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Because I m like one thing off getting a legal prescription.
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Can you get a legal prescription here?
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Technically, but it s like really complicated.
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You have to have tried two different legal medications And then if they don t work for you, then you can get a legal prescription, but it s not very known.
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Are you high right now?
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I m on one prescription.
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So one more to go and I m nearly there Do you have any questions for me before we go How are you warm right now
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I feel great.
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That s all I ll say.
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That s all I wanted to hear, man.
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What s your name again?
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Charlie.
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Charlie, is there anything else you want to say to the people at the computer before we go?
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I ve wanted... I never thought this would happen.
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Please.
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Fucking yes.
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Fuckin  yes, that s it?
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Fuckin  yes!
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Fuckin  yes!
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I like it!
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Thank you so much.
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I needed this role.
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Thank you, Charlie.
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I appreciate it.
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And that ends the podcast.
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This has been Therapy Gecko.
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I have been Lyle.
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If you liked those Manchester interviews, or if you just like the IRL interviews in general, and you want to see what these people look like, and you want to hear the rest of the interviews that I did in Manchester, you can go to Therapy... No, shit.
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Fuck you can go to youtube.com slash Lyle forever And you can find The video the video should be called being a gecko in Manchester and it ll be up by the time this podcast is up So go check that out.
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Uh, the audio on these intros sound shitty Because I don t i m just recording them with the voice memos on my iphone.
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Normally I record with a
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like a blue yeti microphone but this is just my shitty phone microphone and the you know what is funny is i could get my real microphone but it s upstairs and i m in a uh a basement in my parents house right now and i don t want to go upstairs i m just gonna do and and this i don t even think this part of the but this is the very end so fucking who even cares if this sounds
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good or not.
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This is the end of the podcast.
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Nobody s even going to be listening to this rant that I m doing right now.
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And there s nothing beyond this rant.
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There s no content after this.
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So this minute and 23 seconds that I m recording into a phone right now, that s going to sound shitty, isn t going to be relevant to anyone s life or matter at all.
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So,
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It s not worth it to me to go upstairs and get the good microphone.
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Actually, I m lying to you.
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You know what?
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I m lying to you.
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The microphone s not upstairs.
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It s in my car.
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But that doesn t fucking matter.
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So I just lied and said it was upstairs.
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Because whether it s upstairs or in my car doesn t make a difference to anyone.
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So it s not like one of those lies that
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you know, matters.
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I don t think anyone cares.
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I don t know.
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Does, I hope, I don t know if anyone cares about any stuff.
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Do you guys care about things?
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What do you, um, I care about a few things.
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I care about a few things.
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This has been two minutes and 25 seconds.
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I haven t stopped talking.
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I might not.
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I m going to go the full three minutes.
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All I have to do is talk for 30 more seconds.
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And then this outro, which I don t mind being that long because there s nothing that this is, there s no content ahead of this, that this long rambly outro is obstructing.
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So it s fine that it s long and I m going to, I m going to stop.
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I don t want to be I don t want to do this anymore.
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Not the podcast as a whole.
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I would love to keep doing the podcast as a whole for many more years.
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But this intro this I know the outro.
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I m going to stop doing right now.
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Okay, thanks for listening to the podcast.