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Alright, let s get into the episode.
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Hello?
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Oh man, it s Lyle.
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How the heck are you doing, my guy?
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Oh man, I m doing alright.
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How are you doing, Ray?
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Aw, I m chillin .
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Uh, yeah, man.
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Uh, so, what s up, Lyle?
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What do we wanna talk about?
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Says that you wanted to call in to talk about, uh, working at Chuck E. Cheese.
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Yes, okay.
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So, I have- I have plenty of stories of working there.
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Uh, but I ll start with the grossest one first, because I feel like that one will be fun.
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Um, so, like, I m- I m pretty small.
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I m, like, 5 4 , like, Shurikens Unite, by the way.
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Uh, so,
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Very tiny, and when you re small at Chuck E. Cheese s, you re very usable.
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So to get into the sky tubes, there s not many people that can fit up there, right?
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You have to be a certain height in order to crawl up there and have space to move and stuff.
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So it was typically my job to clean it when the time came, which was terrible.
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I ll let you know that right away.
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But this particular day,
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was a day out of hell.
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Um, so I come in to work, you know, and I m just kind of hanging out and, uh, messing around on the games, uh, just kind of talking to kids and stuff like that.
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Like, Oh, that s cool.
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And then, uh, freaking all of a sudden we, cause we all wear walkie talkies for some reason, it s like a target or something or another.
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And over the walkie talkie, someone said, Hey, uh,
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We need someone to clean the SkyTubes as soon as possible. 
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And I m like, oh, God.
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So I don t answer, because I have a feeling I know what it s going to be.
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So I just keep my mouth shut.
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I m like, all right.
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And then all of a sudden, they just call my name out directly.
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They re like, hey, Ray, we need you back here real quick.
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So I head back into the back, and they re like, hey, so you re not going to like this, but some kid just shit and vomited all in the SkyTubes.
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I m like, not just talking like in the, like,
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Everywhere, down the slide, like, I don t know what this kid ate, like, besides Chuck E. Cheese pizza, but like, it was everywhere.
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Yeah, you were like, I don t know what this kid ate.
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You know, a little drop of sweat coming down your forehead.
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Right, yeah, and it was, it was pretty, it was pretty bad.
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I don t know, I guess.
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So I took a few slips, you know, you re trying to wipe stuff down and it s small in there, you don t have a lot of space.
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I m consistently just falling in shit and vomit trying to clean up after this kid that is just having a rampage in there and Yeah, so that you re you re you re cleaning up The shit and piss and vomit while the kids the kids still in there Yeah, yeah, he was stuck in there for a bit.
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I
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Oh, dude.
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Okay.
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You got to get the kid.
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That s like, that s like, that s like trying to dry your shower while the shower is running.
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We ll see.
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The thing was the kid was scared.
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Like he was freaking out.
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So like, he was like, cause you know, he s vomiting everywhere, throwing up everywhere.
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So, you know, he s like, what is my body doing to me?
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And like,
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he just would not leave this specific corner of the SkyTubes.
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He just sat there and he was just like crying and I was like, all right, come on, buddy.
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And like his parents are below me trying to coax him out.
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Like, come on, like, come out.
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If you come out, we ll get you ice cream, which I thought was a terrible idea.
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Like after I d just seen all over the place and like the kids, yeah.
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But this, uh, yeah.
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So he s freaking out and eventually we get him down and stuff like that.
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But that s like far after I got thrown up and like covered in shit.
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And then, believe it or not, the next day I came in, same thing happened again.
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Except it wasn t nearly as bad.
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So, that was a pretty tame experience on that end.
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Alright, I gotta ask you this.
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When you re in a sky tube, cleaning up shit and piss and vomit, what are you thinking?
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Are you like, I need to get a new job?
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What s going through your mind?
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My biggest thing was just trying not to slip it anymore, you know?
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Like, I m just like out here trying to survive, not ingest this kid s biohazard that s just made its way throughout this entire place.
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So like, I m just, just thinking about surviving that moment, but trust me on my way out, when I was done for the day and I was clocking out, putting my walkie talkie away or whatever, like, nah, I was definitely already on like, indeed, like, come on, please, God, something else.
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Uh, but,
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didn t work out.
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I actually ended up working there for like two or three years until I graduated high school.
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Oh, so this was during high school.
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Oh yeah, this is a while ago.
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This isn t like yesterday.
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Okay, wait, how old were you?
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How old were you?
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Oh, I was 18, I think.
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18 or 17.
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I don t remember.
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Oh, okay.
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Well, this was, this was, oh, okay.
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All right.
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17.
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That s a perfect age for cleaning up shit and piss and diarrhea.
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I actually, I think the more shit, piss and diarrhea you re cleaning up at the age of 17, I don t know if I directly believe in karma as some sort of like,
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Like, I don t think that there s any deities externally enforcing it, but I do think that if you spend a lot of time cleaning up diarrhea, piss, and vomit at the age of 17, life can only get better, right?
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Yeah, I mean, in a way, like, it s funny that you say that because I actually ended up working in a group home later in life because
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I wanted to be, like, a registered behavioral therapist, and the stuff I saw there was also just fucking nuts, man.
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Like, I had had my- oh, okay, I ll give you my favorite insult I ve ever been told by one of the kids that were in there, and he was- he turns over, and this is gonna be a little blunt, sorry, chat, but, like, uh, he said- he said, stop being a cum-guzzling cunt and make us dinner.
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And I just-
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looked at this kid and I was just like, what did you just say?
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And he said, I called you a cum-guzzling cunt.
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And I just turned around and I was like, what the fuck?
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And that was like my first week on the job.
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Oh, like 12.
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You know, it s funny, you get older and you forget.
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You forget what it was like to be 12.
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You forget that in fifth grade, you knew all that stuff.
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I definitely had cum guzzling cunt in me at 10.
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I could see myself calling somebody that.
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Yeah.
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I just thought that was wild though.
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Cause like, you know, I ve heard a lot of insults, but that just seemed like
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a very direct one.
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I was like, wow, he really thought about that one, or he heard it somewhere and just kind of laid it out on me.
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Kids are crazy, man.
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Yeah.
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They are.
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They re nuts.
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I ve been meaning to bring this up on the podcast.
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Maybe I have before, but I was in Manchester on my tour, and
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I, uh, I, I, I was like, ah, fuck.
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I was talking to this kid.
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This kid like found out that I was like popular on the internet and was American.
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So he like started asking me a bunch of questions.
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And this kid, he s like nine years old.
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And he said to me, he s like, do you know who Andrew Tate is?
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And I was like, Oh Christ, do you know who Andrew Tate is?
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And he was like, yeah man, Andrew Tate is top G. And I was like, what the fuck?
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And he was like, do you, he asked me if I listened to Joe Rogan.
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And I was like, do you?
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And he was like, yeah, like the one with Elon Musk.
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So this kid s nine years old, dude.
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It s like, these kids know way more than we think they do.
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I hate children a lot, I do, but I was fascinated talking to this kid because it really opened my eyes to how much shit kids know, especially being on the internet.
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These nine-year-olds are on TikTok as much as you and I are.
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They know... Actually, they re on it more.
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They re more keyed in to the idea of somebody being a cunguzzling cunt than you or I. I guess so, but, like, I didn t even know, like, you could be so angry at somebody.
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Well, I guess, never mind.
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Being in a group, I m gonna be pretty upset, too, so... But...
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Yeah, I don t know.
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While I was working there too, my car got stolen, actually.
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I just got it.
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It was like, I probably had it for like a month, right?
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And one of the kids that was in the home was known for stealing cars.
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That was his thing, right?
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So this kid, he s very smart and he s very manipulative.
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So they were like, hey, be on your shit with him.
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Make sure that you re paying attention to what you re doing, keeping your keys locked up and stuff like that.
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And, uh, just like be aware.
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So like, I m, I m like not dumb, but I do dumb things sometimes, you know, like if a mind just slips and you re like, okay.
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Uh, so I m on my way out for the day, uh, for the night and my person s coming in to relieve me or whatever.
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And me and this kid were talking, uh, out in the living room, just about his life, you know, and like kind of what he s going through.
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And it was a really sad story.
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I mean, like, I hope he s doing all right.
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Minus like the fact that he took my car, but, um, he, uh,
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He was just kind of like, just chilling.
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And then he came back and he tried to follow us.
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He tried to follow me into like the office where all of our stuff is like on all the medication and things like that.
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I m like, no, no, you can t go in there and stuff like that, whatever, blah, blah, blah.
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So he like acts like he turns around and back up.
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And as soon as I go to like take open the door with my keys that are like strapped onto my side, he grabs my keys and rips them off of the lanyard that I had on.
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Cause like I said, I was on my way out.
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you know, I was trying to leave, rips the keys out of my freaking, like, lanyard, runs downstairs, grabs some stuff from his room, and then he comes out with a fucking gun.
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While he comes out with a gun, and is aiming it at me, and was like, if you don t get the fuck out of the way, like, I don t want to kill you, but I will.
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And he s like, I need your car, and I m getting the fuck out of here.
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And I was like, oh shit.
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And like, in that moment, I m not about to be a hero.
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Like, I m like, yo, take the fuck car, man.
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Like, it s all yours.
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Uh, so he darts past me, uh, gets to the car ends up taking off.
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And then all I hear in the background is him just hitting things like boom, boom, like fucking just, and I knew my car was, was done at that point.
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I was like, yep, they find it.
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It s going to be destroyed.
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So it took him a week to find it.
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Then ended up picking it up on the side of the road.
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And it was just, it was just tatters.
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Like everything was broken.
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That could be broken.
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There was like,
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There was whole handles of, like, just, uh, like, random alcohol just all in the car, and it just smelled and breathed in there.
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There s a few, like, joints that were still in there.
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I took one of them, I m not gonna lie.
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Uh, and then there was just kind of, like, scattered around, like, roaches and stuff like that, too, and I was just like, well, what the fuck?
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It was, like, only, like, a week, but shit was wild.
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Uh, yeah, I don t work there either anymore, so...
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Completely take back what I said about how if you clean up a lot of piss and shit and puke at 17 that life gets better Well, I mean I think it does it s just The situation sucked and like it really taught me a lot about just kind of like those kids go through a lot You know, like they spent their whole entire life just being like told there, you know, like they re part of the system you know, they re like they suck or
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like their parents left them or can t handle them, you know?
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So at a certain point, it s like, if you were that upset, like, you know, when life is that bad for you at that young of an age, like, you just don t know how to react to those things.
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You re like, the first thing you want to do is either just fight everyone or just get out of there.
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You know, like, I don t want to be there.
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I didn t even want to be there working there.
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I could only imagine how they felt.
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Dude, how old was this kid?
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That one was 14.
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14 man, and I assumed did he yeah, I assume he had to go to juvie from there Yeah, I still get letters every once in a while updating me where he s moving around to from my understanding he got upgraded to the adult penitentiary and he s now I think serving a few more years for Beating up someone that he was with in the cell or whatever.
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I don t know
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Wait, you, why do you, why do you get updates?
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Is it like for your safety since you like fucking pointed a gun at me?
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It s like a, I kind of, well, yeah, it was mainly just like a, like a victim advocate kind of program that we have in the state that I live here.
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So like it gives you updates if you want them to kind of know what s going on.
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And like, yeah, the kid was like kind of sucks, but like, I would hope that his life got better.
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I kept getting these updates that they weren t.
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I was like, goddamn, like, you know, just kind of sucks.
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So that s, you know, I got it.
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I want to say it s it s my Ray.
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It s nice of you that, um, clearly these, uh, uh, victim advocate things are being sent to you so that you are like, oh,
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Think they re being sent to you for the opposite reason that you re using them for you know because I would want to receive that to be like okay good fuck this guy he s In prison or let me make sure to stay away from there, but you re actually using them to check in on this guy Yeah, and like no I mean you just don t like we re all human like shit happens like I said he was a kid he made him a stupid mistake and I
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It just sucks that, especially in that kind of system and that kind of community, they just get stuck in it.
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There s no real way out sometimes for them.
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It takes a lot of perseverance and a lot of inner strength to just get yourself out of such a terrible, terrible place and terrible situations.
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And then the people that work there, the turnover s high, so all these people taking care of you are just strangers in and out of your life.
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Right, it s a bummer, I mean, that kid s, I mean, easy to assume that that kid had a shitty home life.
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His mom and dad are probably shitty to him, and so he goes out and be shitty, and then he s in fuckin  prison, and people are shitty to him in there, so he s gotta be shitty in response, and it s just like, it s just like, yeah, how the fuck do you get out?
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It s like, you gotta, I mean, it s like, even,
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I don t know, dude, I don t know, I don t know how I could... I mean, even when, you know, someone like you shows up and you re there for five seconds, but you show him a little bit of empathy, like you re doing the best that you can, and still it s not enough, he, you know, steals your car and fucks it up, but... Yeah, it s a shame, man.
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Yeah.
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Well, I mean, like... Well, we all go through it, and that kid just had it a lot worse than I have, I guarantee, in a lot of other ways, so... I mean...
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Was like I still watch the bathroom.
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I hope he s good out there You know kind of it sucks to grow up in that kind of situation.
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It really really does and Kind of how I feel for him, but it s almost like What was that?
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What was this place?
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I?
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It was like that is essentially it was simply like if they call it like a a
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Like, uh, yeah, it s just a group home.
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That s the easiest way.
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It sounds like it was a Chuck E. Cheese, but with no pizza and no games.
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Oh, yeah, no pizza, no games, kids still screaming, and I m still cleaning up vomit and shit.
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So, like, I feel like nothing really changed between the two jobs.
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What do you do now?
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Uh, I m a mechanic.
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I work in cars.
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Oh, that s a total 180 from anything else.
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Oh.
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Yeah, no 110% like I do have a good passion for it I want to eventually like get a good savings up like that to go back to school and like Working kids in that same kind of like field and stuff like that To really kind of try to be like, you know, hey, like you re in a shitty situation But be like paid to be consistently there for them, you know, like and and and be in a good financial situation have the education to deal with the problems that they have and help them, you know instead of
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just like what they ve been given, like in the specific place that I worked, it was just a simple turn and burn, you know, like, like, oh, you re a good-willed person and you re not going to like touch kids or be weird.
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So you re like, you re in, you know, I wanted to like mean something so that they know, like, Hey, someone actually like cares, you know, and they want me to be better and stuff like that.
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What, uh, what s your ultimate goal in life, Ray?
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What do you hope to achieve with the remaining time you have left on the earth?
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Hmm.
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I don t know.
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I guess just be happy.
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I m already kind of happy, so I pretty much did it.
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I just want to enjoy life and everything it comes with.
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I love going to see live music.
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I m super into going to festivals and stuff like that.
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When I saw you at Electric Force, I was super bummed because I wasn t there this year, but I m definitely going next year.
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Oh yeah, those festivals are so fun.
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Stuff like that, you know living in the moment going on random one-off vacations if I can afford it I can t just live life of wouldn t just see what it all has to offer Yeah, electric forest was that was a ton of fun.
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Hopefully I ll be back next year when when you re there I mean that was shoes I think that was the most amount of people that has ever that was like a thousand people in the crowd for both show Oh, yeah Oh
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EF is crazy.
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It s one of the biggest festivals in the country and it s like one of the prettiest and honestly, it s got good vibes.
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I m super stoked that you were there because I think you deserve all the internet clout to have people make penises and chat.
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You re awesome and I love what you do.
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Um, you know, yeah, on the last, I did two shows there, and then after the second one, it was like, alright, I have nothing else to do.
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I m gonna see if one of these people that are coming up to say hi to me after my show, I know one of them will give me some mushrooms.
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I would be surprised.
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I would be surprised if no one didn t, to be honest.
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I was like, I think this will be an easy find.
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And so this guy, he gives me like, he s like, he s like, two is mellow, three, you ll really feel it.
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And I was like, I ll do three.
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So I ate three of the gummies.
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And the whole time I had, I was fucked up.
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It was like, uh, the whole time I was like, man, I wish I took more instead of like, it was an interesting moment for me.
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Cause I was like, I should just be enjoying where I m at.
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Right.
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But instead I was like, man, I wish I took more of these mushrooms.
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Um, I had a great time.
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Uh, wandering for those of you who don t know about electric forest, it s like this big crazy music festival that it s also like a, um,
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Let s see, I ve been there, Coachella, Bonnaroo, and EDC, and Electric Forest, I think, had the greatest variety and spectacle of shit of all those things.
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I mean, it was such a cool scene, you re like,
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It s like an all-night rave in the middle of the woods, but there s not just music.
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There s, like, all these different things that you can encounter in the forest.
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Like, I saw, uh... They have a library in the middle of the forest, and there was this... It was three o clock in the morning.
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SPEAKER_03
and there s a lady on a stage who is reading a children s book to all these adults who are a hundred percent of them are just gone on drugs and she s reading it to them like she was like she s reading to kindergartners and she s like doing the voices of all the characters and like turning the book around to show them the pictures and stuff it was awesome
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Um, I saw a guy cool.
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They have so much art too.
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They do.
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I saw this guy, um,
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Then there s this other station in the middle of the woods.
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There was a guy was like jacking off a puppet.
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He was like rubbing the clitoris of a puppet.
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And then the puppet squirted into a cup.
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And then someone, he had someone in the audience drink the puppet cum.
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It was awesome.
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SPEAKER_03
Uh, if you have the chance, why don t you go to Electric Forest?
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SPEAKER_03
And, and, and... I wonder what he used for the, for the puppet cum.
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SPEAKER_03
Oh, it was probably, I mean, it was, it was puppet cum.
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SPEAKER_04
Kind of makes me like, cause you know, it s gotta be like, no, I don t want to think about that actually.
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That d be a lot, but.
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Also shout out, shout out to the homie who gave me those three mushroom gummies.
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You re a hero.
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All right.
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Ray, anything else you want to say to the people at the computer before we go?
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Um, I ve introduced so many people to this show.
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Uh, I m sure they ve already recognized my laugh.
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So if you re out there and you re watching this, cause I forced you to watch it to be like, Hey, look, I did things on most layers.
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SPEAKER_04
Uh, hi.
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Love you guys, and everyone in chat, you guys are awesome.
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Just be nice to each other, love each other, and forget.
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And then remember that people just say stupid shit sometimes, like, you know, but don t let it ruin your night and stuff.
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And Lyle, I hope you have a wonderful rest of your tour.
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I m so sad I missed it, but I m definitely going to be there next year in Denver, and I ll have quite a few friends with me too.
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SPEAKER_03
Oh, fuck yeah.
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Denver s one of my favorite places to do it, so I m excited to see you there.
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He went from cleaning up piss to cleaning up motor oil.
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He is Ray, and I hope you have a good night.
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You too.
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I hope you keep streaming.
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I ll stay on, and you have a good rest of your night too, bud.
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Take care, man.
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Take care.
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SPEAKER_03
Hello?
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SPEAKER_03
Hello?
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SPEAKER_03
What s up?
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SPEAKER_00
Oh, damn.
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SPEAKER_00
Yo, what s up, Lyle?
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SPEAKER_00
Oh, damn.
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SPEAKER_00
I did not think I d get through.
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SPEAKER_03
How s it going, baby?
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SPEAKER_00
I m good, man.
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SPEAKER_00
How are you?
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SPEAKER_03
I m hanging in there, dude.
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I m a lizard weird guy on the thing.
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SPEAKER_03
What s up?
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What s going on?
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SPEAKER_00
Yeah, man, hey.
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I m just like filling nitrous balloons, doing nitrous, living life, like hanging out, you know?
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I hear the sound of a nitrous balloon filling up in your room, yeah.
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SPEAKER_00
Yeah, man.
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SPEAKER_00
Hold on.
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SPEAKER_00
Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00
Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00
Yeah.
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SPEAKER_03
You know, can you take I know this might be difficult because you re really busy, but can you take me off of the speakerphone?
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Is that better?
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SPEAKER_03
Much better.
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SPEAKER_03
How many nitrous balloons today?
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A lot.
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I mean, it s a 20 pound tank.
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It s not empty yet.
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So
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20 pound tank that is absolutely enough nitrous to swell your brain I mean, you know, you gotta breathe in between balloons, you know Okay, I m glad you found a way to do this healthily Yeah, of course, you know drug usage, of course, the only way to do it is healthily, you know How long have you been doing nitrous for?
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Oh man, today?
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A few hours.
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Lifetime?
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I started my first time when I was 17.
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I m 30 now.
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What s 7 x 8?
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7 x 8.
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7 x 8 is, let s see.
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8 x 8, 64 minus 7 would be 56.
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Am I right?
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Damn, that s pretty good, actually.
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Thank you.
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My ADHD brain rounds up and then just subtracts down.
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It s a pretty cool, weird little trick, actually.
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Have you noticed any cognitive impairment after doing all these fucking nitrous balloons?
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Given the moment, of course, following days, depending on how much I do, I will say it
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affects more so like your liver.
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It s weird, man.
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Like your ability to eat shit, if you don t keep up on your vitamin B, gets shot.
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So you got to make sure you eat like beans or like red meat or like take one of these or something.
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It s a weird thing to be
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cognitively function.
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But yeah, vitamin B, when you do nitrous, goes way down.
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So you got to make sure you do that.
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Vitamin B12, extremely necessary for cellular function.
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You know, I will say you put a lot more thought into inhaling this entire tank of nitrous oxide than I thought you did.
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Yeah, I mean, like I said, I ve been doing it for a while.
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My nickname is the Wook Cook.
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You know, I
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I try to take care of people.
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My big rule is, if you re gonna treat yourself like shit, you gotta make sure you take care of yourself.
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What do you care about?
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What s your name, Nick?
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Is your name Nick?
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Oh man, yeah, Nick, yeah.
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What do I care about?
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SPEAKER_01
Damn, that s a loaded-ass question, man.
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SPEAKER_01
Yeah, what do you care about?
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I assume you care about things that aren t besides just getting stupid high.
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SPEAKER_01
I, yeah, no, I care about a lot.
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Um, this is more of like a distraction.
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I genuinely, my, my like bottom line, my bottom line is I just want people to be like happy, you know, free, healthy, you know, eat food, have a shelter, clothes, learn some stuff.
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SPEAKER_03
Do you have hobbies?
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What do you do with your life?
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Oh, for sure.
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So I cook, uh, like I said, the wok cook, um,
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I like going to music often, if that wasn t a given.
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Being outside in general is a very healthy activity.
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So in general, I ll try to be outside as much as I can.
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But a majority of my life is in the kitchen, so a lot of my life revolves around, you know, eating and drinking, which isn t necessarily a bad thing.
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SPEAKER_08
Do you have a job?
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What do you do for work?
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Yeah, so currently I run a sandwich shop.
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I ve been sous-chef and manager.
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SPEAKER_08
I just want you to know, you are beginning every single sentence with a yawn.
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SPEAKER_05
No, no, no yawn, no yawn.
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No, no.
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You re a se- like you- like everything- Does it sound like I m yawning?
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SPEAKER_08
Yeah, every- the beginning of every sentence you say sounds like you re waking up from a nap.
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SPEAKER_07
Yeah, yeah, cause I m inhaling nitrous, so my voice is definitely skewed a little bit.
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Uh, your job?
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My job?
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I m a cook.
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SPEAKER_07
Well, line cook.
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SPEAKER_07
What cook?
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SPEAKER_08
You re a line cook, what do you, I mean, you don t have to dox yourself, but I mean, are you a line cook at a chain?
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SPEAKER_03
Yeah, no.
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No, no, I m an independent.
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Oh, okay.
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Up in the, I ll say the Northeast of America.
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What do you cook?
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What are your best dishes?
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I mean, personally, if I had an option to, my favorite thing to cook is barbecue.
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I love smoking meats.
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But, you know, in general, fried chicken.
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My favorite.
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I m a big Southern American.
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Go ahead.
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Do you get, are you high usually when you re cooking?
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On marijuana.
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Yeah.
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Every day, all day for sure.
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Sometimes I drink, you know, here and there.
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I, you know, when I was younger, I used to party a lot more.
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I ve had my indulgences to the point of recognition.
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So now it s more or less on
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myself to live a lifestyle while maintaining myself.
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I have to say, I have to say, Nick, if you re inhaling a 20 pound canister of nitrous oxide while saying that you used to party pretty hard, I am very curious what you used to do.
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What used to party and used to look like you.
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Yeah, a lot more nitrous.
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My buddy, I will say, I don t do, I don t really, so I ll do, let me put it this way.
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When I was younger, I practiced it, then I didn t, and now I m kind of back to it.
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The three Ps, with the exception of the fourth, pills, powders, and pharmaceuticals, and then pressies.
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Those are the ones you want to be careful of.
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SPEAKER_08
What s a pressie?
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SPEAKER_07
Like a roll, like ecstasy.
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SPEAKER_08
Oh, okay.
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SPEAKER_08
And now how many peas are you on these days?
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SPEAKER_05
Uh, I mean, I ll eat like Molly, but I don t really do pills, powders, or pharmaceuticals.
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I might do like ketamine and cocaine, but I don t buy it.
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Okay.
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So, all right, so you work as a line cook, you re making fried chicken, you re making barbecue.
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I have to assume that you re pretty, you make some pretty good food.
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I like to assume so, and I think, you know, from the feedback that I ve gotten, people have told me that I do.
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SPEAKER_05
Yeah.
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Yeah, for sure.
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Dude, on this phone call right now, you ve, I mean, you ve taken one hit of nitrous oxide per cent said.
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SPEAKER_05
Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Pretty much every, like, it s like every, every, every breath pretty much.
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Yeah.
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SPEAKER_08
Yeah.
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What are your relationships like?
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Do you have family?
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Do you have a girlfriend?
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Do you have... What s going on?
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Right now, no girlfriend.
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Nope.
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I got a pretty healthy relationship with my parents.
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My nephew is actually up right now.
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I m gonna go see him tomorrow or on Friday.
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We re gonna go to the art museum.
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It s free on Fridays where I live, which is like kind of a giveaway where I live.
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I don t know if it s as much of a giveaway.
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SPEAKER_08
I don t know if the art museum is free on Fridays is as much of a giveaway of where you live as you think it is.
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SPEAKER_02
Do you live in Philadelphia?
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SPEAKER_05
I don t live in Philadelphia, no.
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That s a good guess, though.
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It is in the Northeast, I did say that.
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So, yeah.
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Now we re narrowing it down, so you re not helping me out, Gecko.
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SPEAKER_08
Alright.
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SPEAKER_08
So, you have a good relationship with your nephew.
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SPEAKER_08
When was your last relationship?
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SPEAKER_00
Um... Shit, man.
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SPEAKER_00
Official.
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Years ago, unofficially.
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SPEAKER_00
There are definitely some people who
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would be upset hearing this, but unofficially, there s been a few here and there.
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They definitely mean a lot to me, but it was more or less me finding myself over the years.
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SPEAKER_08
I know you re doing very important things right now, but can you keep the phone to your face?
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SPEAKER_08
I couldn t hear anything you were saying.
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SPEAKER_05
Yeah.
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SPEAKER_05
Can you hear me now?
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SPEAKER_08
Yeah.
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SPEAKER_05
I was saying, you know,
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Over the years, I ve had relationships in and out, but I will say that they ve faltered because of my own cognitive choices, like being vocal about setting boundaries, boundaries not being met, me leaving, or me not meeting the boundaries of said person.
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SPEAKER_05
You know, man, we re all just working on ourselves.
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SPEAKER_08
So, Nick, do you desire, do you have friends?
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SPEAKER_08
What are your friends doing?
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SPEAKER_04
Sure, my friends are listening right now.
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SPEAKER_04
I actually texted them and said I was in queue, so shout out to my homies if they re still listening.
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SPEAKER_08
What do you hope for the future, Nick?
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SPEAKER_08
What do you want out of life?
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Man, that s a question right there.
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SPEAKER_05
Like I said, man, I just want everyone to be happy, healthy, fed, a place to live, clothes on their back, learn a little bit.
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SPEAKER_05
That s my bottom line.
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SPEAKER_05
I know it s a lot to ask.
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SPEAKER_05
It s a very obscure and jaded thing, I guess, to be like, I wish world peace.
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SPEAKER_08
I ve never heard somebody say it was jaded to wish for world peace.
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SPEAKER_06
Of course it is, man.
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Look at me sitting over here sucking down nitrous being like, here we all just get along.
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SPEAKER_08
Do you think Vladimir Putin would be more chill if he was high on nitrous a lot every day?
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SPEAKER_04
I think he d be more loopy.
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Because I ve seen people not so fucking chill on nitrous.
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SPEAKER_04
I don t, you know, it can go one way or the other.
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SPEAKER_04
Schizophrenic people shouldn t be doing nitrous.
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SPEAKER_04
Is that dude grounded?
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SPEAKER_04
I don t know.
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SPEAKER_05
It doesn t seem it.
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SPEAKER_05
Should he do nitrous?
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SPEAKER_05
Maybe.
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SPEAKER_05
Should it do mushrooms?
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SPEAKER_05
Probably.
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SPEAKER_08
I did nitrous oxide once five years ago.
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And I ve never done heroin, but it felt like what I think heroin feels like.
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So I ve never done crack, but I m told it s more like crack.
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Like the woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo.
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uplifting sounds and stuff like that.
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SPEAKER_08
Would you consider yourself addicted to whippets?
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SPEAKER_08
No.
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SPEAKER_06
No, because addiction in the general term, if you re talking in the physical sense, no.
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SPEAKER_05
Psychologically, still no.
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SPEAKER_05
You can t physically get addicted to whippets.
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However, I m psychologically not addicted to them either.
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SPEAKER_05
Was I when I was younger?
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SPEAKER_05
That s a different question.
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Am I now?
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SPEAKER_08
No.
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SPEAKER_08
Are you going to do Whippets again tomorrow?
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SPEAKER_05
Actually, yeah, because the reason why I have this tank is because there s a band playing in town tomorrow.
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So I m not going to do all this tonight.
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It s for like after the show tomorrow.
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SPEAKER_05
So when we re all like, you know, on mushrooms and acid and Molly and stuff, we can do this while we re hanging out, smoking weed, you know, chilling.
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SPEAKER_05
It s like an after party thing.
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SPEAKER_08
Are you going to do them the day after that?
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SPEAKER_05
I m just... I mean, I doubt it, because it will most likely be gone.
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SPEAKER_05
And then I m not going to, like, go fill the tank up again anytime soon.
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SPEAKER_08
OK.
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SPEAKER_08
Are you happy and satisfied?
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SPEAKER_06
No, no.
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SPEAKER_06
I mean, especially with, like, what was that?
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SPEAKER_06
I m sorry.
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SPEAKER_06
Go ahead.
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SPEAKER_08
Are you happy and satisfied with life?
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SPEAKER_05
Yeah, yeah.
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SPEAKER_05
I got it.
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SPEAKER_05
I think that s like a very weighted conversation.
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SPEAKER_05
Like, you know, each day is
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What it is, you take it as it comes.
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I think I m a happy person.
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I like the relationships I m with.
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I like the job that I have.
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I have future in my mind.
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SPEAKER_04
I m not, uh, I don t think I m a terrible person.
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SPEAKER_04
You know, that s everybody else s perspective, I suppose.
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SPEAKER_04
But, you know, I like to think that I m a good person.
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SPEAKER_04
What else can you say?
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SPEAKER_00
Well, goddamn, you sold me on nitrous oxide.
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SPEAKER_02
I m in.
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SPEAKER_02
You know, it s not for everybody, but, uh,
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You know, sometimes it s fun.
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SPEAKER_02
Like I said, man, like, you know, it s like, you just gotta be smart when you re being stupid.
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SPEAKER_00
Nick, do you feel as though you got what you desired out of this conversation?
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I got, I definitely got it.
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SPEAKER_02
That s for sure, man.
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SPEAKER_02
Like, uh, I didn t, I didn t go in with any intention.
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SPEAKER_02
Uh, there was no like extrapolation necessary.
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So everything I got out of this was exactly what I wanted.
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SPEAKER_02
So I appreciate the time.
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SPEAKER_02
You know, I genuinely didn t even think I d get this far.
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SPEAKER_02
So that s kind of cool.
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SPEAKER_00
Is there anything else you want to say to the people of the computer before we go?
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SPEAKER_03
People of the computer, just be kind to each other and enough of the internet trolling.
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SPEAKER_03
It s just old hat.
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SPEAKER_03
Just learn to love yourself and love each other.
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SPEAKER_03
My God.
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SPEAKER_00
Have a good night, Nick.
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SPEAKER_04
You too, Lyle.
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SPEAKER_04
Thank you, brother.
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SPEAKER_00
Well, we did it.
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SPEAKER_00
We created the best advertisement for Whippets on the internet.
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SPEAKER_00
Sounds like it is the solution to all of life s problems.
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SPEAKER_00
Thank you, Nick.
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SPEAKER_00
No, Whippets is terrible for you.
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SPEAKER_00
Definitely don t do Whippets.
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SPEAKER_01
Call from Carlos.
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SPEAKER_00
Carlos.
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SPEAKER_00
Hello.
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SPEAKER_00
How you doing?
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SPEAKER_01
Am I on?
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SPEAKER_01
You re on.
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SPEAKER_01
Oh my goodness.
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SPEAKER_01
What an honor.
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SPEAKER_01
What an honor.
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SPEAKER_01
What s up, man?
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SPEAKER_00
How are you?
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SPEAKER_00
It s a fucking Carlos.
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SPEAKER_00
I say this in full sincerity.
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SPEAKER_00
It s an honor to talk to you.
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SPEAKER_01
I m grinning from ear to ear.
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SPEAKER_01
Am I saying it right?
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SPEAKER_00
You re grinning from ear to ear.
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SPEAKER_00
Well, you re being preemptive because this you I don t I don t
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SPEAKER_00
I don t know how this phone call is going to go.
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SPEAKER_00
You might, it might, you might ring, you might hang up being like, ah, that actually was not fun.
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SPEAKER_01
No, no, no, no.
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SPEAKER_01
It s cool.
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SPEAKER_01
It s cool.
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SPEAKER_01
It s cool.
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SPEAKER_01
I m just like really excited.
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SPEAKER_01
Am I, uh, I don t know.
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SPEAKER_01
I m just overwhelmed, you know?
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SPEAKER_00
What do you, what s, what s overwhelming you at this moment?
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SPEAKER_01
Well, I remember seeing your show randomly on
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on twitch yeah and i was like hey this is pretty cool thanks and then i was just watching your comments and people i don t know you i feel like you have this aura where you make people super comfortable and and i m pretty sure this has been said before but because you re in a costume you make people knock down this wall so they re like very not don t have a bias i guess
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Well, I appreciate that.
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I hope I do.
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I hope that I have some kind of calming something.
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Is there a reason you called, Carlos?
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It s okay if there s not.
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I guess I ve always just tried to call you and see if I could ever go through.
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Yeah.
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Hey man, I just had a baby.
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You just had a child?
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Yes, man.
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Wow.
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Um, that sounds, that sounds awful.
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How s it going?
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Well, it is that as well, but for the most part, I feel like the good part overshadows it.
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Like for anyone who s ever afraid of having one, like the reason why they don t have one,
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It s like, it s very much there.
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It never goes away.
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You re still scared of it.
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That s the thing about having a kid is that you, it, you can t really, I mean, you, you can have a, you can t reverse the decision.
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You can t put the baby back up inside of the vagina.
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It s here.
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You wish you could shove it back in, but you know, you just, you just can t anymore.
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You can t.
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There s no return at the hospital, per se.
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You can t kill the baby.
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You can theoretically kill the baby, but it is agreed upon by most philosophers that that is unethical.
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And I ll stand by that as well.
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So once you have a kid, you just have one.
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Well, you can leave.
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A lot of people leave sometimes.
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You know I talked to somebody on the podcast However long ago, and she was like wondering if she was a good mom and I don t know I had really good parents, so I m not I don t have a good like I Don t have a lot of faith in this hypothesis, but I kind of feel like just not not leaving when you like could totally just leave is
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That s got to be like at least 70% of being a good parent is like, you know?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I definitely agree.
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Definitely.
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I think that you definitely have to be there because like, uh, I didn t grow up with my father.
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Right.
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So whenever I do talk to someone who had shitty parents, I m like, well, at least, you know, your father, right.
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You know, because, and they re like, oh, well, you know, you don t know how it feels like, because I do have my father, but he s a piece of shit.
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So like,
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I m like constantly, you know, going through it.
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And then, and then I m like, well, I never had one to begin with.
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So I don t know.
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I guess it s almost like that half, half full, half empty.
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Yeah.
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Like which way do you want to see it?
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Would you, would you rather have had a piece of shit father than no father?
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Uh, I prefer no father.
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Yeah.
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I ve thought about this.
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I think that my curiosity will always be the fact that I never completely knew him.
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I knew where to find him, but under certain like circumstances, um, I just couldn t see him.
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But now, you know, I ve been very, um, very busy with my own life.
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And once I became independent, uh, basically, you know, uh, handling everything on my own, I just wasn t as curious as, as before.
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And, um, but I think that to be a good parent, not only do you have to be present, but you also have to be kind of like, you know, curious about, about, about the kid.
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You know what I mean?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, sure.
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Yeah.
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I feel like you can t just be like, all right, I m here.
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I mean, usually you can do any, you can do whatever you can kill the baby.
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I was saying you can do whatever, but you can t, you shouldn t.
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Um, yeah.
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Well, hey, yeah, I guess you shouldn t just like, yeah, you shouldn t just, you know, lean on the fact that being there is, is good enough.
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Right.
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You got to also be curious and do all sorts of stuff.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Do you ever plan on having kids having little losers going around?
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Oh man, I mean, I m so, so far removed from any life that looks like me having kids right now.
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I mean, I m still, I m a young guy still.
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I m only 25.
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Yeah, that is pretty young.
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So I, you know, I don t know who knows about the future, but I m having, I have a, bro, I have a hard time taking care of myself.
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Like I don t do laundry.
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Um, I just wear shit out of the hamper all the time.
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Um, I go to sleep without brushing my teeth a lot.
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Uh, I don t cook anything.
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Um, I mean, I m, I can t, I m not doing good.
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Just me.
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And so adding a little guy, adding a little.
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person to do all that stuff for is That d be too much Right.
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Well, I think that you ll do just fine, bro like seriously and this comes from the bottom from from a stranger s bottom part because I mean I think that we re all we re all smart right and if you re interested in anything or like a
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you seem pretty responsible with your show, let s say, right?
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Sometimes.
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I think that you ll at least give it your all.
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I don t know.
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I don t see you being any sort of shortcoming of anything, but anyway, bro.
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I appreciate that.
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Yeah, yeah, I m pretty sure.
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Go ahead, go ahead.
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Well, you know, sometimes my show drives me crazy and I m like, I should abandon
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this and go to, um, you know, fucking, uh, Vietnam.
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But I, I m not, I don t have any plans to do that anytime soon, but I think about it as a legitimate option.
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Whereas like if I had a kid again, you know, if I had a kid, I don t want to be like, I should just abandon this kid and go to, go to Laos.
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You know, I mean, again, again, I can do that, but you know, it s a whole different thing.
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Do you have a way out of your show?
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Have you revealed your identity at all?
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If you wanted to leave your show, no one would definitely recognize you.
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You know what I m saying?
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You know how... Oh, yeah.
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I mean, I would just stop posting stuff.
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But you haven t put your real name out there?
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I mean, yeah, people know my real name and how I look, but I don t think people like...
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Like, no, I don t get recognized in the streets as myself ever.
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I think you re pretty famous.
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Like I saw you like two years ago, right?
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Like when the pandemic started, I m like, oh, this is therapy for real.
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So I feel like I m talking to a celebrity.
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That makes me feel sick that you think that.
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It makes me feel sick though.
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Why do you think I m so stoked, bro?
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Well, I appreciate your stokeness, but I feel like you and I are talking in the way that we would talk if we just met at like a fucking, you know, a bar or something like... Yeah, man, first round would be on me, bro.
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Well thanks man, but I think the idea of like being famous and people having like an idea of who I am as a person is bizarre, but I m trying to just be a guy, you know, and I feel like we re talking the way that we would talk if we just met on the street.
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Maybe not the street!
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Maybe the street we wouldn t talk to each other about, you know, whether or not, I don t think, I don t think we would be like walking past each other on a sidewalk and I d be like, Hey, excuse me.
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Um, what s your name?
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And are you planning on having a family anytime soon?
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I don t think we would talk to each other like that, but.
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Right.
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Right.
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Right.
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I think I d be carrying my, I think I d be crying my, I d be having my, my crying baby on my, on my arms.
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I m like, Hey man.
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Yeah.
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And I have a baby now.
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So if you ever have any questions, you know, let me know, man.
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especially the hard ones.
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I feel like people don t talk about the hard questions, you know what I mean?
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Like, does it suck?
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Like, you know what I m saying?
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Like, everyone s like, oh, having a baby is, you know, a blessing, blessing, or like, oh, was this baby planned or whatnot?
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And like, most babies, I think, most parents I ve talked to, you know, admit that they re not, but like, they re not going to like, tell you the truth, or like, how can I explain this?
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It s like, it s definitely like more life is definitely more real and people are admitting things to us.
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Like, uh, people that we call adults as when we were little, like they re being more truthful than ever.
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Like they re not white line to us or to me anyway, anymore.
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So it s like this kind of like veil.
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And what, in what way do you feel like they re being more truthful?
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Like for instance, like their flaws, because, um,
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Did you ever think that your parents could do no wrong at one point?
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And it kind of like, like now they re, they re like, yeah, you know, I was scared when I had you or like, yeah, you know, kind of like, yeah.
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Like they re starting to treat me like a more of an adult.
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Yeah, for sure.
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I like having this conversation with my parents where I, there s, I like, I like trying to hear about their vulnerabilities.
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I m going, I m going back home soon.
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And I m thinking, I m thinking about recording a podcast with my parents.
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Not like, not for the public.
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Right, right, right.
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Like for this, but just for me.
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Is it going to be like a voice?
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Was it going to be like, is it going to be like a voice podcast or was it?
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I think I ll just say I m bringing, I m going to just throw a microphone in a backpack and go back home.
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And, uh, like I just asked them about their lives and stuff and record it and show it to my sister and no one else.
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Would you be willing to ask them hard questions about like.
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Um, you know, every family goes through, um, you know, hardships or, you know, um, I ve thought about that.
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Yeah.
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I ve thought about that.
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Yeah.
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You know, I, um, I ve thought about how, uh, cause yeah, every, my family, every family has like history of things that are maybe tough.
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And I ve thought about how I want to talk about that in this podcast.
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If I talk about it.
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But I mainly want to ask the types of things that I talk to strangers about on this podcast, but with my family.
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Like, how did you feel when you first had me?
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How did you feel when you first had my sister?
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Where d you grow up?
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Just general stuff I realize I ve never talked to them about.
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because because it would be weird to do over a regular dinner, you know, like if I m a mom and I m like, how did you feel when you had me?
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I feel like I d be putting myself out there with that question.
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But if I m like, hey, let s sit down and like record something for the purpose of talking about this.
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I think it s an interesting idea.
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So we ll see how it goes.
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You know what I think would be thought provoking or tell me, Carlos.
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I think that it would be something like how did you deal when do your parents have siblings?
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They do.
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Yeah.
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How did, how, you know, how did your parents feel when they felt like their siblings were meddling or not respecting boundaries within their personal or marital life?
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You know what I mean?
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Like, like those types of conversations.
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I don t know.
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I don t know how much my parents, that s the thing is I don t, I don t know how much my mom or my dad would like be cool.
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I mean, I would tell them, I d be like, I d be like, this is for the, for the private, but I don t know how much they would be cool with talking about that on a,
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like recording it, but I guess my, my goal is not to stir the pot within that conversation, but it s just like trying to see, you know, what, what, what advice can they pass to you?
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And then you, to your viewers, you know what I mean?
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Like, I think it s worthwhile sometimes, um, just spreading not only positivity, but productivity.
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You feel me?
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Like, um, yeah.
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I just think it d be worthwhile every once in a while.
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Carlos, Carlos, Carlos.
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Well, Carlos, thanks for talking to me about this.
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You seem like a good guy.
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I think your child... Is everything okay?
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Yeah, yeah.
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We re good.
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We re good.
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Yeah, man.
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Hey, you know what?
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I m super honored that I was on here.
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I can t wait to... Can I replay this?
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Uh, maybe I ve been deleting VODs lately.
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I m going to keep doing that, but eventually this will, this will be in, in some podcasts at some point.
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Cool.
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Cool.
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What do you call your fandom, your fan base?
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Um,
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by your community.
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Folks, people.
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Shout out to your folks and people on this Twitch channel, man.
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They re the best.
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Absolutely.
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Absolutely.
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Well, thank you for calling, Carlos.
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It s good to talk to you and God bless you for eight years.
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No more.
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Thank you, sir.
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Thank you, sir.
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Same to you.
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Same to you.
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You too.
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Bye.
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Man, I m very glad I don t have a child.
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That would be a lot.
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I ve said this on this show about 8,000 times, but I feel like I can barely take care of myself.
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So to add a little person in the mix would be insane.
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But who knows?
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Life s long.
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We ll see.
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But he s not really an expert.