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Hello?
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Hello?
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Uh, is this- this is Danny?
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How d you know, bro?
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Uh, have we ever spoken before?
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Negative.
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What s- you seem like a- you seem like a quirky little guy.
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What s up, man?
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Oh!
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Yeah, that s- that s totally me, man.
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I m always alive at the party.
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Um... What s up?
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Yeah, what s up?
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You seem like you came armed with some shit.
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Hit me.
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Perfect.
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All right.
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So here s my little dilemma.
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So I ve been, uh, single for about what, three years now?
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Uh, within a seven year relationship, pretty much got cheated out of that one.
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Uh, I don t know, edible company, whatever.
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So that besides the point right now, I work for a medical practice and that s just one of the coworkers.
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She is very, very beautiful, right?
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Like top to bottom, very, very nice girl.
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going to a nursing school and everything of that sort right now.
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Uh, anyways, me and her really click it off, but I have this thing where don t share where you eat.
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Kind of did that in my job in Las in Las Vegas.
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And that kind of went hell to the left.
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Anyways.
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So my dilemma right now is she s kind of like my work wife and I m like her work husband type of situation.
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She s in a relationship.
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Her parents come to the office every so often.
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Very Hispanic.
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Everybody s like kind of knows each other, et cetera and so forth.
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Well, her parents despise her current boyfriend.
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Her mom just loves me from every time that she s come to the office.
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But my ex, that s kind of how me and her got together for those seven years.
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She was kind of like, you know,
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bad relationship and I just kind of gave her the ultimatum was like, Hey, you kind of see how I m treating you.
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You kind of do appreciate that.
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So it s like pick either him or me.
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She obviously decided to pick me.
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We were together for seven years, but yeah, that s kind of like, I have like PTSD of like doing that all over again.
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So kind of need your input on that.
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When you, what do you mean by you have PTSD from doing that?
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Was that, was that a bad experience for you?
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Sorry, what was that?
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Go ahead, what do you say?
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Can you repeat your question?
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You said you had PTSD and I m like, oh, is that a horrible experience for you?
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Not really PTSD.
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I m just kind of like scared of doing the same thing as I did with my ex of like getting with somebody while they re with somebody else and then like, you know, expecting
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You know, sunshines and rainbows and shit when you know, right, people have to go.
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So you have you there s there s multiple points of contention in in in this this potential whatever you want to call it this this potential pursuit.
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I mean being unfortunately It s funny like it s nice that this girl s mom likes you, but unfortunately she can t Swap her daughter s boyfriends on her behalf Yeah, I know of course totally understand But yeah Are you are you are you like in love you madly in love with this girl, or you just think she s very pretty I
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No, but I can definitely see myself having a future with this person.
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Like I can definitely see myself growing old and having like a family type of situation with her.
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You said, you said, no, I don t love this person, but I can see myself growing old and starting a family with them.
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Yeah.
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Well, you know, how can I ask you a question?
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Can I ask you a question?
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Yeah.
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How many, how many girls a day are you imagining that you re going to grow old and have a family with?
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Are you on the subway starting families with everyone you see?
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I ve only been in one serious relationship.
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I m 32 years old.
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And like, as far as like women, I m talking about, I m just talking about as you go through your day and, you know, look at people.
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No, just pretty much as far as like relationship wise, she s probably the only person that has come into my head about those types of things.
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But yet you ve... What does work wife mean?
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What does that even really mean?
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You re gonna have to help me out and like explain that one to you.
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Like what are you trying to refer to?
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You re the one that brought it up, man.
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When you say she s your work wife, like how would you describe that relationship?
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When I ve explained it to, like, my other friends, that s kind of like what they refer to.
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What the hell that means.
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Not really too sure myself.
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Are you saying there s like, there s flirting?
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Like, have you, like, have you ever... Who is this person to you?
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Have you gone on like a date with her?
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Or are you... No, no, no.
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Nothing.
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Nothing of that sort.
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I just... Me and her, we only... I don t talk to most of the other co-workers.
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Just me and her.
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We have that
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kind of, you know, connection you could kind of say?
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I guess what I m trying to say is should I make a move knowing that she has a boyfriend and me having these feelings that I have towards her in a medical office?
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Yeah, here s what I ll tell you and
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Look, I understand that you have this, uh, this passionate attraction to this person, and that passionate attraction is a blinding force to logic.
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It s a blinding force to logic, and you re gonna do what you re gonna do.
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But I understand that you are being blinded.
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By this attraction to the facts in front of you that spell out that this is a is gonna bring you a Lot of Potentially potentially I don t know life s weird and crazy, and I don t know shit about any anything But it has the potential to bring you You know
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pain and sadness and frustration pretty much more bad than good and yeah it s kind of like the see the song that kind of plays in my head it s the j cole song it s like fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me type of you know a situation so it s kind of like i don t have many friends
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So, hence why I m asking for your advice.
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And forgive me if I m making an assumption here because I don t like to do that, but if you don t have a lot of friends and your life as a whole is not where you want it to be and you re kind of looking at this passion,
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that you have for this person as like oh i m gonna i m gonna you know this woman is going to fix my entire life she s going to make me not feel sad and alone anymore and it s going to be an easy lane to everlasting eternal happiness
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It s like you wish that that were true, but it never is.
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And so, uh, I would, I would, if I were you, and I don t know if you ll do this because you re, you re like, we talked about blinded by, um, you know, these, these other forces.
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If I were you, I would, I would take a step back and go, well, what else needs to receive some of my attention right now in my life?
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Totally totally agree with you on that fact.
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That s why I really haven t I mean I ve been in the office for almost a year That s really why I haven t done any Move towards her cuz go to a play a fuck forget it go play a fucking pinball game Go do it do do literally anything else.
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You know I just been making basically just playing video games on my spare time whenever I have to Well, I don t know.
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I guess maybe something that do you really have do you really have no friends?
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Oh?
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Yeah, not really.
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I literally had this whole edible company in California.
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You have zero people.
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Like, if I were to show you my call log right now, it s probably just my parents that I talk to, and I live with them.
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You know what I mean?
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Okay, I understand that you like this girl, but A, she has boyfriends.
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Of course.
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And that s not, that s just a recipe for disaster.
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Yeah, I don t want to be the first record either, so.
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And, uh...
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You know be You I think before you start trying to you know get get wifed up Yeah, you got it.
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You got it.
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You got to make some friends man.
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Oh
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I appreciate the input, man.
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Oh look, you seem like a nice- you don t seem like a- I just- if I could give you a compliment, and this is one of my highest compliments.
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You don t seem like a sociopath, man.
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I think if you put yourself out there, you could make some homies.
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Yeah, I- that s what all my patients tell me, that I m a genuine good-
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human being, I guess you could say that s what they say.
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I m very outgoing.
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Real quick, hold on, hold on, real quick.
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Patients, what are you?
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Oh, I m a medical assistant.
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Okay, all right.
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Continue, what were you gonna say?
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But, uh, no, yeah.
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Like how you said, the way that I just come off, that s who I normally am.
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I don t have any issues socializing.
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It s just more of the way that I ve been fucked over in the past.
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It s just something that I guess I still haven t yet to get over that.
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I know when I get over it, I ll be okay, but it s just, I guess it s the factor of being alone for, in a sense of a relationship for the past three years.
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And then seeing somebody who you could kind of see yourself with, it s kind of like those ideas just kind of keep circling in your head and not having friends, you kind of like make this idealic fantasy of what possibly could be.
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And you sometimes need people like yourself to just fucking put you in the right fucking headspace, you know?
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Yeah, we all know we all fall victims to those.
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We all fall victim to those fantasies.
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Yeah.
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And they re blind.
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They re blinding fantasy.
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I ve fallen victim to, you know, blinding fantasies myself.
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And I, you know, whether whether the decisions.
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Yeah, go for it.
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With Tinder and basically the whole Internet and technology being taken the
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the face of socializing as far as like physically what s like what s your recommendation or like well i know you do stand-up and stuff like that but like someone like myself like you know to make friends yeah i guess
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I don t know, brother, it s very, it s actually, I m gonna tell you, it s funny that we re having this, I know I m like, I m feeling myself tonight, so I m talking like I m an expert, but buddy, I got no goddamn idea, I was thinking that myself, I m alone in my studio apartment going like, how do I make fucking friends?
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Yeah, trust me, I guess it s also where you live, because when I lived by myself in Vegas, it wasn t that much,
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You know, people out there are more social.
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I guess that s where I am now.
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I feel more entrapped being in Miami and just not feeling it down here.
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But yeah, that s my situation.
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When you bring up the internet, and there s a lot of back and forth discourse on this kind of thing, but when you bring up the internet,
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You can, I kind of think it s a choice between if you want to be optimistic about it or pessimistic about it.
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Cause if you could be pessimistic about it and you can go like, well, everyone s, you know, on discord for, you know, 20 hours a day and there s no reason to ever leave your house.
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And so that s, you know, it s a, it s a plight to socialization or you could be an optimist about it and you can go, oh, there s meetup.com.
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There s a Facebook groups.
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There s,
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Ways to start events and spread awareness about the event like there s so many ways that social media actually can You know bring people together, so it s I think I Suck at elaborating and expressing myself Typing I m better speaking it so it s easier for me to Be in front of somebody and talk I come from Cuba so English is not my first language So it s hard to me like some humor and stuff like that that people type in
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I don t get it.
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So, but sometimes when I m in front of them, they re explaining, um, I get the emotion behind it.
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I don t know if that makes any sense.
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When did you, when did you move to America?
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Uh, 98.
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I was born in 91.
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I came at the age of.
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Okay.
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She s been here for a long time.
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Yeah, I know.
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I ve been here for a long time, but as far as like, you know, growing up and like, you know, the typical, like American humor and stuff like that, it s hard for me to kind of like relate one another sometimes.
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But besides the point, it s... Wait, real quick, before we move on, what s an example of a joke that somebody told you that you didn t get, that you later had to have explained to you?
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Like dad jokes.
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Dad jokes.
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Items that are not available in Cuba or something like that, whatever it may be making, you know, whether it may be like a specific type of food or something like that, not knowing what that thing might be and then trying to
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comprehend what the joke is about with something that you don t know it becomes challenging at times.
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What city do you live in?
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Miami.
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You live in Miami?
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Yeah.
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There s a strong Cuban population in Miami, right?
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There is.
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What s the name of that, what is it, Little Havana?
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Yeah, Little Havana.
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Dude, I had some sick Cuban food in Little Havana.
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Oh, dude, bro.
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Versailles.
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It s probably one of the best.
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I mean, Rage is one of the best spots down here.
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But anyway, look, I just, I ll just say this.
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Um, if I can, if I can say anything practical, you live in a major, major, major United States city.
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I don t know what your, um, schedule is like outside of, uh, curing people who have, um,
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aids but um go go do some stuff man there s like i bet there s a billion i bet there s art galleries there s meetups there s oh i mean i don t know if you re i assume you re not a clubbing guy i know miami s big for that but go just go i get the fuck out of the house go do stuff you know and stop fantasizing about this lady yeah i really do yeah i even have like
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All these things.
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I used to do photography, have like a personal trainer degree.
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And yeah, I just got to get the fuck out and socialize myself more.
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What s your name again?
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Danny.
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Danny.
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Danny, it was good talking to you.
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I m rooting for you.
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I think once again, you seem sane and that means a lot in this world.
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I appreciate that, bro.
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You know, I I tell myself that everything s going to be OK and that eventually somebody that will find
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my craziness dash, you know, sanity.
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Appreciable.
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And yeah, but besides that, man, I really do appreciate just giving me your input and saying it how don t have anybody else telling you kind of thing.
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Of course.
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You know, when I m when I m blinded by my own fantasies, I ll call you and you can smack me across the face.
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Yeah, for sure.
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No, I ll tell you straight.
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I ll let you know when the green is just not green enough in the face area.
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You know, I ll let you know how it is, bro.
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Thanks, man.
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I appreciate it.
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You have a good one, and chat.
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You all have a great one as well.
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You too.
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Take care.
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Later.
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I don t know why I said that that guy cures AIDS.
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Maybe he does.
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I don t know.
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I don t know his life.
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Oh, okay.
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Hold on.
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This person I need to call immediately.
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Hello.
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Hey, what s up, man?
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Hey, what s up, Gecko?
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You texted me and you said, I want to talk about how I ve been eating Reese s every day for 12 years.
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Yeah, you know, I mean, it s the good stuff.
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Is that true?
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Is that true?
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Please, please don t tell me you re lying to me.
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No, I would not lie about this.
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You could ask anybody who knows me.
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It s kind of my thing.
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Are you eating just the cups or are you eating a myriad of different Reese s products?
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No, I eat.
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I m pretty particular in my taste, specifically the seasonal ones.
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Are my favorite ones and oh my god the pumpkins the trees what else the easter eggs?
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Oh, yeah all the hanukkiahs Imagine there was a hanukkiah reese s that would probably be delicious.
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I would eat it candle by candle Oh, yeah, no, we d be in trouble.
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We d be going in.
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So it s so it s the seasonal one So are you eating variations?
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Are you eating the fast break the nut rages the outrageous?
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Yeah, no, I mean, I ll mess around with those, you know, when there s no other options.
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But ultimately, I m just always going for the seasonal ones.
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But you know, during those long stretches between holidays, and then they get out stock in stores.
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But then I recently found out I can buy it online.
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People are
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stockpiling it there and so I just order some that comes right to my door.
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Holy fuck you can order pumpkin Reese s Cups any time of year.
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Any time you want dude.
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Have you had the ones where the chocolate is orange?
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Oh no, I actually haven t tried those ones yet.
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I think... I wanna say that s... They do that for Kit Kat and for Reese s.
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They make a version of it where the chocolate is orange.
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It might be like a white chocolate.
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I don t know if it tastes orange, necessarily.
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I don t know, I d be interested.
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It s a cosmetic thing.
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I d give it a try, that s for sure.
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Alright, so what s your routine?
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Like, is there a time of day you typically eat the Reese s?
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How do you do this?
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Oh, yeah, you know, I m a creature of routine for sure.
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Yeah.
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So, you know, in the work days, I kind of go throughout my day.
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I try not to bring the Reese s to work because that s dangerous.
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I can t control myself.
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Right.
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So I need that time to like, you know, kind of, kind of, uh, uh, reset my tolerance, if you will.
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And then I get home and then boom, crack one open right away.
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and enjoy it, and then I ll have dinner, and then I ll have another post-dinner recess, and then nighttime comes, and I m in bed, and I m down another two easy king size, of course.
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So how many cups per day is that?
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You know, and then on the weekend, I m eating more.
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I mean, on average, I ll have probably four a day during the week, and then on the weekend, sometimes like five or six.
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What do you look like?
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Six foot, 180, relatively slender.
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Yeah, people don t understand it, but I probably consume like 1,000 calories in Reese s a day sometimes.
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But I also plan out my diet.
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So I don t drink any liquids that have sugar in them.
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So I m strictly going, saving it for the best.
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You know what I m saying?
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Do you drink alcohol?
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No, I don t drink alcohol.
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What do you eat when you re not eating Reese s?
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What s the rest of your diet look like?
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Oh, man.
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I mean, it s not great.
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I would say it s like the average diet, you know, take out here and there and then cooking.
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I try to cook three times a week, have a decent breakfast, eat a banana every day.
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That s also my thing.
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I just love peanut butter generally.
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So I usually have banana and peanut butter almost every day as well.
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in the mornings.
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Do you think this will have any kind of long-term impact on your health?
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I don t know.
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I think it ll be negligible, honestly.
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I don t think they re that bad of a candy.
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I think people who are drinking Mountain Dews and stuff every day, I ll be right in line with them.
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If you look at it like
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The sugar and calories in the One Mountain Dew is like, you know, two or three Reese s.
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I mean, not calories wise, but you know, the junk that s in soda.
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Have you ever spoken to a doctor about this?
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You know what?
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I actually haven t.
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I would be really interested to see what he said.
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You know, it s funny.
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I m actually looking.
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I m actually looking it up right now.
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And, um, all right, here are the nutritional facts of a king size Reese s, which would be four cups.
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Wait a minute.
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These are the, these are, these aren t, you re not, you re not eating like the miniature cups, right?
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These are full size cups.
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No.
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And they re the seasonal ones.
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So like, I mean, technically like the king size seasonal ones, they re just bigger Reese s.
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So you only get two in the king size, but I guess it probably equates to the regular cups.
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you know what all right there s 400 calories there s 44 grams of carbs 39 grams of sugar so it s like you this is basically the same thing as
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Think I don t know.
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I m I m I m clearly not a nutritionist of any kind This is like if you drink it like drink a bottle of coke every day pretty much Yeah, that s what I m saying.
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You know maybe a little worse very very maybe a little worse, but you know at least it s you know It s giving me it s giving me energy.
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You know there s a little bit of protein in there Where you buy these Reese s at?
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Uh, anywhere I look around for the sales.
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So like the best thing to do is like right after Halloween or whatever, where all the stores put their, the Reese s on clearance.
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And then I just go and I clean them out.
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And, uh, yeah, anywhere I get my hands on them though.
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But yeah, if you don t look for the sales, I mean, it starts getting pretty pricey.
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So I try and yeah.
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What are the other, what are the other people in your life think about this?
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Um,
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They think it s a little ridiculous, but I mean, they all got their Starbucks or their fast food, you know.
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I d probably say most people have something comparable, you know.
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Or they re smoking cigarettes every day.
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I don t know.
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I don t really, myself, don t believe it s that crazy.
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It s just something I love so much.
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I think ever since I was an adult, and like I said, I m not joking, I m 31 now and ever since I was 19, 18, since I got my own place and got my own paycheck, I was just getting them every day because it s like, that s just what I enjoy.
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It s not like something I purposely set out to do.
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But then after a while, it s kind of like, well, let s just keep this thing going.
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You re like the kid who had this fantasy that he would eat ice cream for dinner every single day.
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And you re living that fantasy.
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You re absolutely right.
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That s the beautiful thing about being an adult.
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You just get to do that stuff.
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Wow.
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Well, I wanted to, there s two more things that I just wanted to bring up about this.
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One, my record, you didn t ask my record of like in one sitting.
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If you were curious, it s 17.
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That s kind of like my limit I found.
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That s when they come back up and that s no bueno.
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When they come back up, do you make it 18, 19, 20?
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Do you eat the puked up Reese s?
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No, no, I don t do that.
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I m not that crazy.
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And then also I m also really particular, like a lot of people like their Reese s frozen, you know, which is, which is fine.
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It s decent, but like,
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I ll even, I prefer mine like room temperature, like right before it gets to that melting point, right?
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So sometimes I ll like, I don t know, take my Reese s in with me in the package still like while I go and take a shower and then they get a little bit more warmed up and then as soon as they hit the mouth, you know, they re just melting away.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I saw this tweet once that was pretty funny that said something like, there s something extremely sexy about taking the miniskirt off the Reese s miniature.
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That s great.
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That s great.
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I m going to be feeling a little guilty now when I m thinking I m dressing it.
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Now, 17 in one sitting, you said?
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Yeah, yeah, mm-hmm.
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And you threw them up afterwards?
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Yeah, no, it didn t end well.
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That s my limit.
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But I had to know.
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You re just so good, you know?
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I mean, I know you know.
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That s why we re talking about it right now.
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Yeah.
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Well, the second thing, what was the second thing?
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Oh, crap.
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Um, oh yeah, no, and I can even taste, like, the differences, like, depending on where they re manufactured, there s, like, differences between them.
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So once I find, like, a good batch, in my opinion, I ll seek out, like, those specific Reese s from that store.
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I ll try to stock up on those.
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Because they do have, you know, their own tolerances in which they re, you know, manufacturing these.
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And some of them aren t quite as good as the others.
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Is this your, like, special interest?
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Dude, if Mr. Hershey himself came to me and said, please work for me, that would be the ultimate goal and the dream come true.
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Have you ever been to Hershey Park in Hershey, Pennsylvania?
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I have not.
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You got to go.
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Dude, you got to go because there s a ride.
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You ever been to Disney World?
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Yeah, uh-huh.
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You ever played a Buzz Lightyear ride where you have all this like you have a crappy plastic and you shoot crappy, you know what I m talking about?
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Yeah, I just did that last year with my daughter.
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They have this ride.
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Oh my god, you have kids.
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Alright, look at this guy.
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He s able to reproduce.
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Yep, absolutely.
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There s a ride at Hershey Park called the Reese s Cup Extreme Challenge.
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where it s like a Reese s Cup themed shooting ride.
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It s like the Buzz Lightyear ride.
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And I don t know if they still do this.
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I don t know if they still do this, but I think they give you a Reese s Cup afterwards.
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But you didn t hear it from me.
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Oh, I m gonna have a look into this.
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I appreciate it.
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Tell me again about this thing.
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You can tell where they re manufactured from?
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Like, you can tell if they were, like, made in China or whatever?
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No, I mean, no.
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I, I can t tell where they re manufactured from.
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I can just tell like the differences, like, like, oh, this must have been one batch from a certain facility.
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I have no idea, but I can just tell.
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Do you know the name?
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Do you know the names of facilities around the country that manufacture Reese s cups?
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I mean, a few, like in my local area.
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Sure.
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And you can tell what state do you live in?
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Illinois.
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How many Hershey manufacturing plants are there in Illinois?
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I mean, like three that I know about that distribute.
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Yeah, at least distributors.
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I shouldn t say they necessarily make them there, but they re a distributor.
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And you can tell which Reese s are from which factory?
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Yeah, or at which point in time.
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Right, because there s a different consistency in the peanut butter sometimes.
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I don t know if you ve ever noticed, some seem more oily or more crumbly.
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Is it like rings on a tree?
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Like if you see rings on a cup, it was made years ago.
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Yeah, usually if I crinkle the wrapper too and I listen really closely, it kind of speaks to me.
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I don t know if you re joking.
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No, I m joking about that.
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If you if you told me you re like, I can tell from just by rubbing the wrapper.
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What state this Reese s Cup was made in I would know if I d be impressed.
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That one was a little extra.
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Goddamn, what do you think about Reese s Puffs?
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Uh, decent.
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I mean, it s a solid cereal.
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Yeah.
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No, I, you know, I wouldn t say it s my favorite surprisingly, but I mean, it s definitely solid cereal.
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I ll take it any day.
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You know, I once a long time ago, uh,
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By a long time ago, I mean like a year or two ago, I did a stream on Twitch where I bought one of every Reese s product at my local grocery store and mixed them into a big fucking bowl and microwaved the bowl and took a spoon and just went to town on it.
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Oh, you stud.
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You stud, Lyle.
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That sounds crazy, there s like 78 different kinds of Reese s or something like that.
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I know, there really are, there actually are.
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There s a lot.
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What do you think about Reese s Pieces?
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Oh yeah, definitely solid.
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But actually when it comes to that, I m actually a fan of that peanut butter M&M s, just because they pack more peanut butter in them.
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You re a fucking poser dude, don t say that.
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You know, okay, okay, I m sorry, I ll take that back.
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Just cut that out.
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What do you think about have you ever had Reese s peanut butter like there s the actual peanut butter yeah Yeah, I have and it s not the same.
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It s not like the candy peanut butter right, but it s very good But yeah, I ll definitely mess with it dude if they sold a jar of like the true candied peanut butter they put in Reese s That s when things would probably spiral out of control How old is your daughter?
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Uh, she s coming up on five on Halloween.
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Has she ever had a Reese s cup before?
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Oh, dude, dude.
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And speaking of like the wrinkle of that wrapper, I have her conditioned on, on, you know, not trying to, but if I m like within two rooms of her and I m opening up a Reese s, she ll come running.
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And she s like, yeah, give me a bite.
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And I m like, Oh my gosh, I got to share this now.
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But she loves it.
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See, that s funny to me because I would have said maybe when she gets older, she ll feel this way.
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But I would have thought it would be like, you know how there are some people whose parents are alcoholics, so they just have never touched a drink in their life.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I would I would have thought it d be more like that, like she would hate them because they cause very positive sugar rage.
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It cost a lot of PTSD for her.
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Yeah, I definitely have turned my fiancee against anything peanut butter.
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So there s a little bit of that there.
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So I can see that.
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I can see that.
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Well, listen, let me know when you turn, um, 70 years old, because if I find out that you live that long, I m going to start eating four Reese s cups a day too.
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You know what?
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I think you should.
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I mean, to me, it s worth the risk, you know, it s just, it s the best.
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Is there anything else you want to say to the people of the computer before we go?
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Uh, no, I m just, I m, I m actually really happy that I m talking to you right now.
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I love what you do.
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I love listening to you.
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Um, yeah.
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And thank you.
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Um, and also, uh, people on the computer, um, if you don t like Reese s, you re probably wrong.
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Um, and with that, that s all I got.
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Have a good one, man.
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Take care.
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See I m a big fan of the Reese s fast break.
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I used to eat those for breakfast and Look at me now.
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I m in the best shape of my life.
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That s not true at all I might be in the worst shape of my life, but that s that s mainly due to fast food then Reese s or both Hey, what s up?
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What s going on?
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Oh, not much.
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Just laying around in the dark.
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What s your name?
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I put Sippy.
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What s going on with you, Sippy?
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Oh, I don t know.
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I mean, I guess I had a little moment at work today that I m kind of playing over in my head.
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Maybe I shouldn t have said some things that I said.
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What was the moment?
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Well, I work with a lot of girls, a lot of girls that are into like a lot of new age stuff, which is pretty typical of, you know, girls and I guess people in general these days.
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But one of these coworkers said that she was going to have an aura reading.
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or like an aura photo taken, and I was like, oh no.
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No, you should not do that.
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That s... Do you even know, like, where the concept of auras, like, came from?
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Like, because they re basically invented by, like, a white supremacist in America, you know?
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Is it true?
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Yeah, it s true.
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You know, like, yeah, most people, maybe they thought it came from some like Eastern religion or, you know, whatever.
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It seems like some mythical concept, but, uh, no, it was, uh, what s who s this white supremacist that came up with or is, uh, his name is CW Ledbetter.
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And, um, yeah, basically in the early 1900s, he, uh, just took some ideas, um, from
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theosophy from, you know, an earlier religion of sorts, or New Age way of thinking.
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And he kind of saw how this movement was spreading in America, and how we can maybe take advantage of it.
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And this is a concept that he kind of came up with.
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And, you know, I don t know, I m not the one to come and explain everything to you right now.
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But, you know,
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I m not very good at, uh, getting out the details, but, um, yeah, it s just interesting.
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It s just interesting that, you know, how I feel like this like spread in the world.
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And what did you say?
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Oh, I said, I said, so this, this coworker was getting in or an aura photo taken.
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What do you mean?
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Is that it s what it sounds like.
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I mean, apparently go and there s a little camera hooked up.
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to a laptop and they take a picture of you or sometimes you put your hand on something and it like gives you a little color printout and then it tells you like what colors your aura is and what that says about you which is fine and it s fun you know whatever it s fun and cool and but I don t know you know these are things that
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you know, she s probably paying money for it.
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You know, a bunch of money just for some crap.
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So what did you say to her?
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I just said, no, don t do that.
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And honestly, I think I m just, you know, it was fine.
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Like, do you even know where this comes from?
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Like, you know, these crazy woo-woo ideas.
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Like, I just listen to these girls talk about this shit all day.
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And I don t know.
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I m just like, I don t know.
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I just feel like if they said that, like, Jesus was going to read your aura, it would be like, no way.
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And not like I m all for Jesus or anything, but I just feel like we just don t question, like, a lot of things that are wrapped up in
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you know the woo.
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I kind of think most people are of this opinion of, like, I don t really give a fuck who you are, what you do, what you think, unless if it starts to, you know, actually affect me or other people, you know?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, yeah, for sure.
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So like, whatever, if people want to, like, pay... Well, yeah, I don t know, if people want to, like, pay money for, like, stones that they think will make them live forever, then, you know, that s between them and the stone people.
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Yeah, and I ve come full circle with a lot of, like, the new age shit, too, where it s like, yeah, you know what, I can, like, I ve gone from being, like, total, total skeptic and, like, just, like, wanting to learn about things, like, what, you know, these different experiences that people have, like, actually really are, and just come back full circle to being like, well, you just can t explain a lot of these things, but, uh, I don t know, this is, it s, I just feel like, I don t know.
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There s just a lot of bullshit.
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You know, don t you don t you wish though?
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Like sometimes I wish that I did believe in it.
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Like I wish I was into that.
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I wish that I could just hold a bunch of stones and and feel better.
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That s the thing, dude.
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I literally just like bought a rock like two weeks ago because I m trying to come back around to like what I can connect with, you know, and not feeling like
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You know, that it s all bullshit because I realized, no, it s not fun.
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It s not fun to have to tell somebody that like, yeah.
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Like, do you even fucking know what you re talking about?
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Like, you know, it s not fun to tell people that like their experiences are crap.
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And you know what, like I said, like I kind of feel bad about it.
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I just feel like, and I don t think it was as big of a deal in the end as I thought, you know, you know, it sucks.
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You and me both know that those rocks don t do shit.
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They don t do shit, but they re cool.
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Like that s the thing.
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Like I, I m like, I, you know, they re fun and tarot cards are cool, but like, I m like, just go buy like a nice dinner for you and your friends.
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Like don t get a stupid picture and like a, you know, a printout that s going to tell you that like you re passionate.
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Like, I don t know, you know, like I don t have a problem with like astrology and like, you know, like a lot of it, I don t have a problem with if you just like take it
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and like interpret it for like yourself.
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I don t know.
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But I think there s just so much grift.
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There s so much grift and like, yeah, there s it s a struggle because yeah, I do want to believe I do want to hold the rock and I do want to believe but at the same time,
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like what are you fucking talking about you know so yeah it s hard for me to have strong opinions about this stuff because i ve thought about it and like i don t um
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What- I don t subscribe to any of- There s a lot- Like, I m not into woo-woo shit.
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Like, I ve had people call in to tell me about, like, ghost sightings or demon possessions and, you know.
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I m- Like, if someone s gonna call me and they re gonna, you know, you know, put themselves out there and be vulnerable and sharing this thing with me.
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I m not gonna- I m not gonna be like- I m not gonna be like, fuck you, that s not real.
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But in my own personal head, when there s nobody else around... I mean, no, that shit s, you know, not real.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Well, that s the thing, too.
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It s like, no, I don t believe in ghosts.
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But then like, sometimes, like someone you know, who s like, totally rational.
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Yeah, this Yeah, you know, like, they tell you a story that you know, you re like, wow, I actually totally, totally believe that.
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And then, you know, you think, Oh, I ve never seen a ghost.
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But like, oh, I ve definitely had unexplainable things happen to me and everything.
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But, but that s where like, this gristy shit comes in.
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That s where this new age shit comes and sneaks in it.
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You know, that s where it tries to tell you that, like, oh,
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Well, that unexplainable thing, you know, is this and it means this and you know, well, that s another thing is I also, um, uh, you know, look again in my own personal head, I m like, nah, none of that shit s real, but also in my own personal head, you know, I think I m a total idiot.
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I don t know anything at all.
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Maybe stones work.
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Maybe, uh, there s ghosts.
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Whatever I don t I don t win any I don t I gain absolutely nothing from refuting or or accepting the existence of ghosts and spirits and Sagittarius whatever that is I know and I don t gain anything by telling my friend not to go get her order read but I guess I just like I don t know I ve been super into like learning about like religion and belief and
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from everything from like, like fucking auras, to aliens.
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From auras to aliens, Gack, I wanna know about it all.
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And some of it is pretty cool.
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And some of it is total bullshit.
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And I wanna, I don t know.
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Yeah, sometimes I do wanna be the person that is just like, wants to say yes, and have the aura reading.
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But, I don t know, I guess I can t be.
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That s what it comes down to.
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Does anything do you do you care about anything?
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What do you what things do you think are real?
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Hmm.
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That s a good question.
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I think you re I think having fun with your friends is real.
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I know that s so cheesy.
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But like, I just think like, I don t want to say being a good person because
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You know, you bring up on your show a lot how it s fun to be mean, and it s totally fun to be mean.
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I ve wanted to call in and just talk about that, but you know, this happened today, so it s on my mind.
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It s what I need therapy for.
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a little bit fun to be me I was thinking about that I was um I was watching George Carlin last night talk about 20 people who ought to be killed that was the routine he was doing and I could imagine him doing like saying something like these people who
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Worship stones should be thrown out of a helicopter and it s like he doesn t mean and that s the thing is he doesn t mean it I m what he s talking about all these pieces like he says like People who wear visors should be shot in the face and like obviously he doesn t mean it, but it s so fun to say Of course, but it s just funny that you said something about people who worship stones because I don t know God I literally this is my problem.
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I listen to too many podcasts
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I was listening to a podcast the other day that brought up the fact that I, and I heard this too in the George Carlin documentary that came out this past year or so, that he was a hardcore atheist for most of his life.
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But, um, after his first, after his wife died, he, um, had another girlfriend who was really into like crystals and new age shit.
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And now he, like when he died, you know,
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he was into carrying around corks, like he always had corks with him.
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Really?
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See, there we go.
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There it is.
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Yeah.
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And I m like, okay, like there s something, but that s what I m saying.
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It s like, I don t know.
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Yeah.
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I feel like maybe there is something to rocks, but who said that there s something to rocks?
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Well, probably a lot of people over time.
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Like you can t just trace it back to one guy at the beginning of, uh, you know, the 20th century who,
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Decided that he could take advantage of people, you know, I don t know.
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I don t know What do you know, what do you know for sure?
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Mm-hmm.
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I know that I love my bunny Yeah, I think I I m with you I m with you on that I m with you on that there s some I
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I think, I think love is real.
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So not like, not like romantic love.
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I don t think that s real.
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I think if you have like, I don t think, I don t think you really love your boyfriend or girlfriend, but I think you love, you can love a dog and that s real.
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Yeah.
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I don t know what I m saying.
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I m just, I m just fucking.
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No, what you re saying is like, no, I know.
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I think what you re saying is that like a relationship is something that you have to work at.
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But love is just there, you know?
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Yeah, I guess so.
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Are you married?
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Do you have a boyfriend?
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No, I am not.
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I am single.
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I m like chronically single.
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Have been for a long time.
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time.
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And you know, I m just at the point where I m okay with it.
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And you know what, that s it, too.
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I work with these girls that are a little bit younger.
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And they re in the spot right now where they re searching.
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They want to get their auras read and get acupuncture and shit.
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I m like, I did that.
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I did that.
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And it can be okay.
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Like I did a little searching.
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I did a little yoga.
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It s good.
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It s fine.
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Just don t go too far.
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Are you scared for, like when you were these girls  age, were you into, you said you were searching, and you kind of see them searching in the same way that you were, and you re like, oh, you have no idea.
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Yeah.
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I mean, like I said, I mean, when I say searching, I would say like not searching for like a spirituality.
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in that aspect.
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I don t think that of like me or the girls that I am speaking of, but you know, they re just looking for like something to connect with or something to make them feel good or something that s going to like, I don t know, just like cure, like a sadness that you have, like at that age where you just feel like, oh man, you ve tried a lot of things or like, you know, you thought you had yourself set up and these relationships and then they failed and like,
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you know, okay, now you got to like, try again or start something else.
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And yeah, you re just, you know, looking around and giving things a try.
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And that s okay, that s fine.
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But it s also just a slippery, it s a slippery time, you know, that s a spot where you can just like, you know, get taken advantage of easily.
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And you could just be taken advantage of by like another person or another relationship.
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It doesn t have to be an idea or a philosophy.
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Are you familiar with anxious attachment?
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Hmm.
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I mean, no, not formally.
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I can guess.
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No, no, no, not anxious.
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Avoidant attachment theory.
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Hmm.
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Not exactly.
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the whole thing of like you re, you re, uh, avoiding like, you know, uh, attachments or, or certain loves or certain things because you are afraid that they will turn out to be like, you know, like, like a shit, like you re avoiding like crystals because you are afraid it s going to turn out to be a sham or relationship because you re afraid it s gonna fuck you over in some way.
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Do you know what I m talking about?
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Totally.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, totally.
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I mean, I ve been thinking about that recently just in like,
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you know, my own life of like, what am I going to do?
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Like, maybe I should take a risk and like, just try to like, work for myself, be my own boss.
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What s a risk look like for you Sippy?
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Tell me, tell me your risk.
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Well, I mean, I don t know.
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I mean, I m at this point where I ve worked at my job for a while, you know, quite a few years and I m just kind of like, you know, it s not something I can do forever.
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There s no up, I mean, you know, there s nowhere to go.
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And I just don t, you know, my interests are changing and my priorities are changing and my sense of, um, I don t know.
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I wanted to say sense of security, but I don t know if that makes sense, but I ve just thought like, Oh, what would it be like if I tried to like have my own little business or I don t know, start a podcast or.
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Do anything just do something.
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Yeah, I just fucking do something because for a long time I ve just like Yeah, I can do something.
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But the thing is I just have like a new interest like every three weeks.
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So it s hard To commit but I just gotta commit to something that sticks, you know, you know, we should do you know We should do you know, we should do sippy What should we do?
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We should go out and get stones of- of- of patience and of wisdom and they will show us the way.
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Can we put them on Temple University s campus and then kids can get stoned by them?
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What are you talking about Temple University for?
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Do you go to Temple?
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I went to Temple University.
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Oh shit.
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I still live in Philly, like so close to Temple.
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Oh shit.
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Well, I was just there, dude.
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Yeah, man.
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Whatever whatever you feel like here s what here s what you should do anytime you re feeling crazy just Take your bunny go to the the the nook where everyone goes to get high and hang out and everything will be Be peaceful People will be like you re too old to be hanging out here with a bunny you re looking like you re like one time I told my mom that
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It was really hot in Philly and I think it was the day when I was taking my bunny to the vet.
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And on the way home, I like stopped and I sat on a bench at the park and kind of like readjusted like her carrier and make it easier just like to carry and I was hot.
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And like a girl came over and was like, oh, can I pet your rabbit?
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And I was like, oh, sure, whatever.
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And I told my mom about this later and she was like, oh, you better be careful.
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People are going to think that you re trying to like
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attract children to you with your rabbit.
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And I was like, um, okay.
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Yeah.
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Well, um, Sippy, is there anything else that you want to say to the people of the computer or just in general before we go?
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Just, um, just think critically, you know, just think a little bit deeper, be a little bit, you know, have fun, but
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I don t know.
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Don t live your life in fear, but just ask questions.
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I like that.
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Have a good night.
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You too.
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Bye bye.
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Take care.
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I don t even know what I said during that call.
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So if I said anything stupid, you know, but this is actually just a, this is a disclaimer for this entire podcast.
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I don t know.
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I don t,
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to have any idea what I m talking about anytime I say words.
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So if you heard me say something and you re like, what the fuck is he talking about?
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That s why that is.
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Okay, I feel better now.
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I m gonna put this on the internet.
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