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Hello from Daniel.
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Hello.
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Hello.
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What s up?
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Is this Lyle?
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Yeah.
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Who s who dis?
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No way.
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This is Daniel.
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New phone.
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Who dis?
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You know that?
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I do.
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I have heard that.
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This is Daniel, huh?
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Yeah.
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I didn t even get a call screener.
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Is that new?
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Um, wait, have we spoken before Daniel?
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We have not.
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Oh, well, what s up, man?
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Is there anything that you wanted to talk about or you just wanna freeball it?
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I m down to freeball it, but I m also down to talk about stuff.
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I ve called you thousands and thousands of times, and this is the first time I ve gotten through to you, and that s... crazy.
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That s- that s sweet, man.
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I got- alright, so in those thousands and thousands of times you ve called me, like, I- I have to imagine... I have to imagine you called a thousand times for... you had something in mind that was such a ruminating thought on your mind, you had to... Uh, I mean, it- it changes, uh, like, every day when I call you, like, when I first started calling you early 2020, I was playing, uh,
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No Man s Sky, and I always wanted to tell you that I played as a geck, which was like the race that I played as, and I didn t know if you knew that that was a race on there.
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No, I didn t, but I heard the game sucks.
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It does.
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It s a big time suck.
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But currently, I m living in a house of wayward children while their parents are in jail, and I thought that d be interesting to tell you.
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Dude, what the hell is a wayward child?
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I looked it up that way.
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I had an answer for you, and I knew you would ask that It s a kid that is hard to manage like unruly.
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They don t like to listen to direction stuff like that But yeah, my cousin s mom is in jail currently and since then she s been inviting all of her friends to live here Which is grown to six to ten depending on night They re all
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out of high school and just, you know, drinking and partying all night.
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So that s fun.
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Now, why are you or what s your relation to these kids?
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Why are you in this house?
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So I moved here after a breakup and my aunt wasn t in jail when she when I first got here.
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But as soon as I got here, she got into some legal trouble and went to jail.
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So it s my cousins.
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I live with my two cousins.
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And I m basically, quote unquote, the man of the house while she s in jail.
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Um, but, uh, yeah, they re my cousins.
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You should pitch this to HBO.
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This actually sounds pretty good.
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It would be a boring show.
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Cause all they do is hit their vapes and stare at their phones in the same room.
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I ve walked into a room and they ll all be eight to 10 kids will be staring at their phone.
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not speaking to each other while, like, loud music blasts.
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It s funny, right?
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Euphoria makes it look like everyone s, like, talking to each other and stuff, but what you described is a little bit more accurate.
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But you could call it the wayward cousins, which would be an interesting name for something.
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Anyway, all right, so it s you, so it s you in a room with, and your aunt s in jail, so it s, so you literally are the, like, only adult in the house.
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Yeah, I work a full-time job, so I m rarely home, but when I am home, there s just a bunch of kids in and out of the kitchen making hamburgers or ramen noodles, drinking Twisted Teas and asking to hit each other s nicotine.
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And what s the deal with this?
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Do you have custody of these kids?
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Do they put you down as their emergency contact when they do the field trips and shit?
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My oldest cousin, she s 17.
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I mean, technically, I don t know how it works legally, but she is able to be on her own.
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My grandparents, who live in the same neighborhood, have legal custody because this isn t the first time that my aunt s been in legal trouble.
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So, they have, like, emergency custody over them in the event that something happened to my aunt.
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They re, uh, they re around, um, you know, they buy the groceries and stuff like that.
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So if you get too high, they have legal cut, the grandparents got legal custody over you over, over the, I wish that was an option.
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I, I get drug tested at my job, so I can t smoke currently, which is a huge bummer, but, um, all right.
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So the older cousin is all right.
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So there s two of them.
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One is 17.
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How was the other one?
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She s 15.
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Okay.
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Alright, are they like... Now when you say wayward, that s what I was gonna ask, now when you say wayward, like, alright, they re, well, where are the parents?
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The dad, he lives in the same city, but he s got a different wife and kids of his own, and my cousins don t really want to keep too much contact with him unless they need to.
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Okay.
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He s out.
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The mom s in jail, so, yeah.
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Okay, so the dad abandoned the family, the mom is in jail?
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I see it the other way around, the kids kind of abandoned the dad, because when their mom went to jail, the dad wanted them to come live with him, but the kids don t like his wife, so they d rather be in a house with me, who they see as the cool guardian, because I really don t care as long as they don t wake me up in the middle of the night.
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I don t really tell them what to do, as long as the house is clean, for the most part, dishes are done.
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I kind of stay in my room.
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They re able to do whatever they want.
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So they re estranged from their dad just because they don t like his wife?
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Did the wife do anything or she just looks weird?
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No, she did what honestly any parent or me should have done or should do.
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They suggested that they, because the oldest one dropped out of high school and doesn t work or anything, so they suggested that she
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you know, get her GED and go get a job.
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And she s almost agoraphobic, meaning like she is afraid to leave the house.
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She doesn t like being in cars.
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So she s, uh, it s a, it s a laundry list of things, um, that go with that.
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So I m like, is this dad like a, uh, just a guy who abandoned his family or you, or you think he s a good guy?
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He s a good guy.
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No, he s a good guy.
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My dad s friends with him.
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Um, they re, you know, he s kind of like my, uh, uncle loans removed, I guess.
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Cause he,
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he s not really around to hang out or anything like that, but he s a good guy.
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He s just, uh, like I said, he s got his own kids and those kids actually want to see him versus his daughters who don t want to see him.
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All right.
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And what s the mom and the mom.
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Okay.
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So the mom.
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Oh, oh, oh, your aunt is I got I got mom.
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I thought there was I thought the aunt I thought there was an aunt and a mom and I got confused.
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No, no, they re Yeah, aunt is okay.
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Mom is the aunt is their mom.
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And what s what?
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I mean, you don t have to tell me any, you know, you don t actually, you actually don t have to engage in this conversation.
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All you can just hang up.
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But if you want to, what did what did she do?
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Why is she in jail?
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Her ex wife.
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I don t know if they re even ex wife at this point.
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But I think they re still legally married.
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She violated a restraining order that she had on her by trying to contact her about their daughter that they had together.
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And that led to her ex-wife going to law enforcement and trying to get her in as much trouble as possible, which worked, I guess.
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She s been in there for almost four months now.
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So your aunt is lesbian?
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Yes.
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And she had a... Oh man, that s a story right there.
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It s not even a story, it s just a really weird scenario.
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Well, that s really weird because like... I don t think lesbians can have accidental children.
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Dude.
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There would have to be a lot of... It definitely wasn t an accident.
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Butt-dialed emails for that to happen.
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My aunt got my cousin to donate his sperm to her ex-wife.
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So that, cause she wanted, she wanted the child to have our DNA, our blood.
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Um, so technically the child is my cousin s daughter.
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Um, it s, it s, that s what I m saying.
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It s, it s almost incest like, but you know, he donated the sperm to her wife who isn t related to us at all.
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Um, but I told him from the beginning not to do it.
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Cause I knew something like this was going to happen.
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They were going to get divorced or they were going to split up or something was going to happen.
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And now he s just got this DNA trial that we can t even see in our family.
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The ex wife won t let us see her.
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But yeah, you know, that s just running around the world.
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All right, go no further.
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What s your name again?
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Daniel.
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All right, Daniel, we re gonna do this very slowly.
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Okay.
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All right.
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I m gonna, I m gonna try to explain it.
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And then you stop me when I m wrong.
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Yeah, your cousin.
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Who is your aunt s ex-husband?
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My aunt is one of four sisters.
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Your aunt s one of four sisters, got it.
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Yeah, so one of her sister s children is my cousin.
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Okay, so your cousin from another aunt is a guy and he jizzed in a cup and used it to impregnate your aunt s ex-wife.
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Yeah.
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I mean, not directly impregnate her, but yeah, he gives them a cup and then probably gave it to someone who, uh, inseminated her.
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Okay.
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So, so, so it s a little, so it feels a little bit incestual, but it s kind of not because it s like, yeah, it s your own family DNA going into her ex wife s vagina.
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Right on paper.
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It s, it s definitely not incest, but from like, you know, word of mouth, it definitely sounds a little incest.
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Yeah.
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I mean, when you just, when you just kind of put it all together, when you, when you slow it down, it makes sense.
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But when you say my cousin impregnated my aunt, it s, it sounds a little incestive.
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Uh, okay.
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Now, why did, why, why did, why was there a restraining order?
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Um, there was a, uh, of a physical, uh, interaction that got, cause they were split up when I moved in.
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Um, and then the ex-wife came back to the house to get some of her stuff.
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And that caused, like I guess she was grabbing stuff that wasn t hers.
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So that caused my aunt to get physical with her.
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And then cut to like a week later, my aunt pulled out the ex-wife s roommate out of a car on the, on like the road and like assaulted her, like beat her ass.
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And so that, that s why she s in jail.
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But the restraining order is because, I mean, anyone can go get a restraining order on anybody.
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I don t know you, but I can go get a restraining order on you.
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I d like to see you try that.
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It would be hard to explain that I want to get a restraining order on a random gecko that I don t actually know.
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You know what?
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This is all sounding very wayward, for sure.
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Yeah, all right Now all right, so the the the cousins the 15 and 16 year olds They don t they don t like the dad because the Wife is telling because the dad s wife is telling them that to like get a job and stuff get a job yep And do they like?
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The mom are they like yeah mom s badass because she fights ladies like their mom
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She s considered the cool mom.
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She s considered the cool aunt of the family.
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She s, you know, smoking weed.
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She does mushrooms in the woods.
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She works from home, so she s just constantly high.
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Like, she s considered the cool aunt, but she s at the same time, she s considered the... What s the word?
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She s not present with her children.
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She doesn t make her kids do anything.
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You know, I m not judging her parenting style, but like...
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Your kids should definitely like have some kind of direction or and so okay, so and she went to jail and she just called you in to I moved here.
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I moved here from a different town a different city after a breakup And I was living with my grandparents like I said in the same neighborhood as my aunt and cousins and then after this happened I moved in with my cousins to
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Linda Helping Hand to be the adult in the house.
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This really would be a cool show like there would be I there d be a cool scene where like you go to meet at a diner with the With the with the dad and you re like and the dad s wife is like why won t they just like I can imagine different actors playing All these people you re dead like this the dad kind of I mean, I know he s dead, but your dad the dad could be like James Gandolfini Did you say the dad is dead?
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No, no, no, no, the dad s not, no, I said he s the, I said James Gandolfini is dead, but I don t know, the dad might be dead.
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I don t know you and this could all be a lie, but how old are you?
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I m 28.
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You re 28.
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Okay.
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So are you just like taking, are you, are you, is any part of you like, fuck this, I don t want to deal with this or you re, you re really?
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Oh yeah.
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100%.
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Uh, they wake me up almost, they wake me up almost every night between 11 o clock and two o clock in the morning being loud.
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Um, and I try to, I don t try, I do, I don t, I don t leave my room to like yell at them cause I don t want to be seen as like a bad guy.
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So I ll text my cousin and be like, Hey, it s too late.
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Can you turn it down?
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And,
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nine times out of ten she ll do it instantly and be like, oh I m so sorry, I didn t realize you were being that loud.
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So it s not that big of a problem, but I m counting down the days till I leave this city.
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I got 160 minutes.
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Okay, this is what I was gonna ask and this is not, and look, the answer could be love for these two, for your cousins or whatever the fuck.
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But what is stopping you from getting out of there?
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What is stopping you from getting out of there?
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Money, mostly, and then somewhere to go.
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I m saving up money as much as possible.
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In the next six months, I plan to have at least 12 grand saved up.
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My savings is laughable.
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And then in the next six months, my best friend is moving to Kansas City, and he offered for me to come with him.
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And it s illegal to smoke there, and I can get a job and smoke with no problem.
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So that s the plan.
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So I got six months to live.
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See, another reason this would be a great TV show is because our main character has this great goal that you can really root for which is that he wants to move to Kansas City and get high.
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I don t ask for much.
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I want a very simple life.
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I would absolutely root for you in trying to fix this family so you can move to Kansas City and get high.
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And what, the only thing stopping you is... So let me, all right, so I guess, let s say you did have $12,000.
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And like, I mean, what are these kids?
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They re not like little kids, you know, they re fucking 15 and 17.
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I mean, it sucks.
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It s totally, totally not your problem at all.
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It s the, I mean, it s, it s, it s, it s these, the fucking parents, but does any part, is it like, is any part of you like, like when you leave, is any part of you going to be like, ah, shit, you know, I hope, I wish, I wish I could have helped those kids.
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I mean, they re my family and I love them, but I ve already come to the realization that there s not a lot that I can do or that, like, whatever I say, I don t think they would, like, take in and use that and, you know, change their life around.
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So, I m already, I m comfortable with our relationship and when I leave, like, yeah, I ll miss them and stuff like that, but they re gonna be fine or they re gonna, hopefully my aunt s out of jail by then.
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If not, then my grandparents will step in and start taking care of them more.
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I don t know.
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But like you said, it s not really my problem.
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I m doing what I can right now.
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What s your mom s deal?
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My mom lives in Virginia and she s retired military with her husband, who s current military.
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picture-perfect family.
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Um, my stepdad and her, uh, why don t you go live with them?
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What are you, what are you doing with these like fucking euphoria kids?
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I got it.
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Right.
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I got a job here.
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Um, working at an animal shelter, uh, that pays really, really well.
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And I, I, I love it for the most part.
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And so the job that I have, which I probably could transfer to another animal shelter, that s probably not that hard to do, but, um,
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I don t have to pay rent here.
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Um, I don t have to, I ve got very small amount of bills.
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So I m in a position to where I can save up and plan, you know, six months down the road.
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Um, and like I said, I just got out of, uh, out of a relationship, a four year relationship.
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And so moving here was kind of like, uh, an escape.
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I was living with her.
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So I was like, I gotta, I gotta leave the city.
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Um, so like here, I m not being pressed by my parents.
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I m,
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more or less on my own, other than, like you said, the Euphoria kids.
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Yeah.
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Well, you also get the benefit of every once in a while, one of the kids will let you take a little hit of their vape, which is nice.
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Oh, yeah.
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Oh, yeah.
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I mean, I ll never buy cigarettes or vapes again, but that s because I don t have to.
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If I just want to hit someone s vape, I go out and ask.
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As long as you have a bunch of high schoolers hanging out in your house, you never have to buy cigarettes again.
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Yeah, and I don t feel bad about it because I m not hanging out with the kids.
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So it s like, you know, I m not I m just kind of there.
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If I was hanging out with these are my friends and I d be like, all right, this is a little this is kind of weird.
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Well, you re really you re really living it up, man.
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Congratulations.
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I hope you live.
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I hope I hope if I ever come to Kansas City, I want to get
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hi there too and be like yeah I m living that guy who I talked to I m living his dream right now once I m able to like plan for like going to shows and stuff like that I m definitely gonna try to go to one of your shows and I ll go in a purple a purple lizard outfit so you know it s me and I ve tried to find that you re not gonna be able to find that really okay oh by the way by the way by the way I ll know it s you
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I can tell what you look like already.
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Oh, thanks.
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Okay, one question.
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Who do you think would play me?
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I don t know if that s a compliment.
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Who do I think would play you?
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Who would you have play me in my show?
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If you know what I look like, who would you have me play?
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Oh shit, that s actually a good idea.
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Oh, you know that guy Amir from College Humor?
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No.
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I d have him play you.
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I don t want to lie to you.
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Okay, I ll look him up as soon as I get off the phone with you.
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And I don t know if I m going to be like,
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Uh, like, like you said, I don t know if that s going to be a compliment or not.
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So I think you look like that guy.
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All right.
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Well, we ll find out what that means.
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Um, what s your name again?
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Daniel.
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Daniel, is there anything else you want to say to the people, the computer before we go?
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Uh, keep calling.
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Don t give up.
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Cause like I said, I ve called you thousands of times and super, super happy that I finally got to talk to you.
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Uh, I want to give a shout out to my best friend, Chavit.
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That s not his real name, but that s what I call him.
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But I m going to tell him to watch this or listen to it.
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Chavis, let your friend move in with you.
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Oh, he will.
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I really appreciate talking to you, man.
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I m a big fan.
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I ve literally listened to you since the beginning.
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Yeah, you re great.
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Lots of help, man.
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You re a big helping hand.
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you know what if all the if all the people dude if all the people who listen to this podcast each contributed one dollar we could buy a plot of land in in kansas city and just live on it and get high
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Yeah, we don t even have to build a house.
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We can just make a little tent or something.
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It doesn t rain.
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Yeah.
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Tent City.
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Tent City.
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Tent City in Kansas.
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Gecko Tent City in Kansas City, Missouri.
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All right, man.
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Only in my dreams.
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Take care, man.
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You too, dude.
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Thank you so much.
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That place would smell like shit.
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No offense.
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Um, hello?
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Hi, who is this?
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Hi, this is Jade.
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Tell me- tell me what s up, Jade.
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What is it you wanted to talk about today on the- on the Stupid Gecko podcast?
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On the Stupid Gecko podcast.
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Okay.
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So, recently my life has kind of been flipped upside down.
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Um, I... was kicked out by my partner, uh, like two weeks ago, and...
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kind of, I m just figuring it out.
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Um, he like financially supported me and everything.
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Um, so I kind of just, I m here trying to find a job.
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I m living with a friend and like rediscovering myself.
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It s pretty crazy and scary.
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Okay.
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Uh, how old are you?
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I m 24.
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You re 24.
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Okay.
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And how long were you with this guy you were living with?
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Um, we ve been together for like five years, but only married for two.
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Yeah.
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How long had, had he been financially supporting you for?
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For the entire time.
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Um, so he d been financially supporting you since you were 19?
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Pretty much.
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Yeah.
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I was in school and in a really bad family situation.
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Um, and so he kind of like let me move in and let me use his car and all of these things while I was finishing my degrees.
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And I, as someone who is coming from like a very unstable background, I was like, yes, this sounds great.
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Give me a break from like feeling stressed and like finally feeling secure.
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And what, what did you study in school?
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I studied social work.
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Did he pay your tuition or did you go into debt for that?
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Did not I definitely have a lot of student loans Okay, did you graduate?
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Yes, I have a bachelor s in a master s degree When when did you get your master s degree?
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I?
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Got my master s degree when I was 21 Okay, and so did you get a for the past three years have you had had a job at all I?
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Um, so I had, I actually was working as a therapist and burnt out really fast because I was not really taking care of myself.
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And I was coming right from school and I was kind of jumping into this position where I had like zero guidance.
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And so I kind of had a big breakdown in like January of 2021.
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And my mental health kind of went down the drain and I just was trying to recover for like an entire year.
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And then recently I ve just been working part-time What are you doing part-time I m a nanny Okay, cool.
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That s yeah, that s like that s the purest form of social work Yeah, yeah for sure.
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I definitely like
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I can still use it on my resume that I ve been giving to everyone and putting out there.
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Um, and it still looks good.
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Like it still looks cool.
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SPEAKER_00
So what, what, what went, what went wrong?
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That s a tongue twister.
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What went wrong?
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What went wrong with your partner?
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Um, well, I kind of decided to blow up our marriage by
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speaking to someone else just in a grab for attention and he found out about it.
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What does that mean?
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I didn t sleep with anyone but I was definitely like messaging this person on like social media and like just flirting with them.
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It was not really like anything to me.
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Yeah.
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So he found out about that and was very upset.
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But I would say that relationship was kind of going down the drain for a while.
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And we probably shouldn t have like even gotten married.
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Well, it sounds like you felt like you weren t getting adequate enough attention from him and it was causing you to want to seek attention elsewhere.
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Yeah, for sure.
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And I ve definitely processed that, but I take accountability of my actions.
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Why was it, um, going downhill even before that?
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Um, I think just based upon like the relationship that we had and how I was completely like codependent on him and he was very completely codependent on me in a lot of ways.
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And we just didn t really have our own identities at all.
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Mm-hmm.
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It sounds, I was gonna say this, I honestly was thinking this from the very beginning when you said he was financially supporting you.
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I mean, it sounds like it s absolutely for the best that you guys are not doing your thing anymore.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I mean, look, especially if he was, I mean, I don t know, man, I guess I get it if you, it sounds like you came from a rougher family background.
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Yeah, for sure.
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Um, just, yeah.
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I feel like I ve... I m not trying to, like, make myself sound like a victim or anything, but I definitely, like, feel like I ve struggled my whole life in a lot of ways.
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Well, it s not about, uh, it s not about, you know, a label of victim or perpetrator or anything like that.
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It s just, it s life.
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Yeah.
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Um... Okay.
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So, do you still talk to this guy?
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Or when s the last time you talked to him?
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So yeah, so it was like last Monday or a few Mondays ago, he kicked me out.
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I went to my best friend s house where I m staying.
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Um, and he decided like immediately that we were going to get a divorce without speaking to me.
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Um, and had almost like signed all the paperwork.
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And then we went and sat down and talked and talked and talked and talked and talked for hours and hours and hours.
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And.
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Okay, how long ago was that?
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that was only about a week ago and it s definitely been like pretty hard I didn t realize that I was like such a codependent person until I like had to not see my person so you guys decided that you were going to get separate so you re legally what legally separated and yeah I think I m not gonna talk for a month yeah just to kind of
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find ourselves and figure out like what we actually want in the relationship.
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Um, cause it seems like we re not blind in some ways.
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Um, do you anticipate that you re going to want to get back together with this guy or even that he will want to get back together with you?
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I don t know.
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And that is, I guess you, I know that you don t give couples advice or relationship advice, but I mean, possibly just like discussing this could help me process if I want to, or
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if I want to just like cut it off clean, I m just not really sure.
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And it feels like every day away from him is super different.
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Where like, I m struggling, crying all day.
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And then like the next day, I m like, I m an independent box bitch.
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I can do this.
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I just like, you know, I don t know, hustling and stuff.
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So it just like changes every day.
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But I think that where we left was
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that he needed to figure out if he could trust me again, and I needed to figure out what I needed in a relationship.
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That sounds fair.
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I mean, look, man, I have my thoughts.
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I don t like tell... the whole, like, oh, I don t know if you give relationship advice thing.
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I just, um... You know, I ve realized I ve actually been doing a lot, and this is kind of genius on my behalf, is, um, I ll say I don t like telling people what to do, which is true.
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But then I ll tell people what to do and also sometimes kind of enjoy doing that That s okay.
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I m here for it.
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This is why it s pretty genius.
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It s pretty genius um I mean, I know I don t I don t I I try to get through this podcast without telling people to do as much as possible But like I mean, dude I
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All right, what s your name again?
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Jade.
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What s your dream in life, Jade?
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And that is something that I don t know at all.
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I used to think that it was helping people, and I feel like maybe in my future it is.
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But I think I was very much too giving of myself, and so now I m focusing on what fills me up,
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I think my dream is maybe like being a musician, but I ve never really like believed that I can do that All right, so I made a few thoughts and I m sure these are all things you ve thought about before is your boyfriend is wondering whether or not he can trust you which is a good thing for him to be wondering because I
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you know, if you really like him, you understand that he does deserve to be with somebody that he can trust.
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And in that understanding, would understand that you might not be the best person for him at this time.
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And also that a relationship and also he might he s not probably not the best person for you.
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if the relationship was so unsatisfying for you that you felt the need to, um, you know, find attention in other places.
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So at first glance, not really knowing a lot about you, not really knowing a lot about him.
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This seems like it was a good thing for both of you guys.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I agree for sure.
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Okay, so, um, and, and look, people are emotional and, uh, make stupid decisions.
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Plenty.
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And so I m not going to say that you re undeserving of love or happiness ever again for the rest of your life at the age of 24.
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Um, but you re in a moment right now where I think you should, um,
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focus on yourself.
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I mean, you ve been with this guy who s been financially supporting you for six years.
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You six years, right?
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Five years, six years, whatever.
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Yeah, it s like five coming on six.
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Yeah.
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It s a long time.
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It s like you re gonna be a lot.
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It s good.
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It ll be it s gonna be difficult.
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It s a difficult transition.
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But I think you ll be a lot happier if you go on the journey of building a genuine agency in your own life.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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For sure.
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Yeah, I agree with everything that you re saying.
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I think my emotions just, like, get in the way, and same with him.
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Like, when we re together, he s like, I just, we are, like, still in love, but also just, like, it doesn t feel like we re compatible because, yeah, like I said, like, I don t know if we even, like, should have gone through with marriage or any of those things.
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Like, that wasn t in my gut instinct.
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Here s the thing, and here s the thing.
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I genuinely believe that different things make, and this is why this is my, this is why I don t like telling people what to do is because different things make different people happy.
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Um, they just do.
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For some, I m sure there are plenty of people out there who got married when they were 21 and they re still together at 32 and are really happy.
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And there s also plenty of people out there that got married at 21 and are just fucking absolutely miserable.
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And so, and I don t know the difference between those two couples.
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I don t know what that X factor is.
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So some things that work for some people don t work for other people.
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But I mean in talking to you specifically I think like it seems as though You didn t get that much of a chance to develop yourself as a as a person on your own You know Yeah, yeah, and also it wasn t like you were stoked in this relationship Yeah, I definitely feel like at least the last like I
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nine months have been not great in that relationship and there were like multiple times that I asked for what I needed and did not get that so I definitely also feel like I don t know if I could enter back into that because I feel like I ve also like grieved the relationship in the last like eight months okay so I felt all of those emotions what is it that you wanted to are there any things um besides just having sex with other people
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Um, that you wanted to do while you were in a relationship that you didn t do or haven t done.
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Yeah, for sure.
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Yeah, for sure.
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I mean, just in general, like my, I guess we could say like ex partner now.
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Um, he was like, he was pretty like introverted, like home body kind of thing.
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And like, I was definitely like the person who was like playful and like let loose.
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And I just like,
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Sometimes I want to frolic in a fucking field.
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And he s like, never down for that ever.
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It s like, I want to have fun in my relationship and not always like be serious or be the one initiating that fun.
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That was definitely like a big thing.
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Okay.
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Uh, what, what are some like manifestation, what are some ways that you can now manifest that in your life?
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And I, and I, by manifest, I mean like,
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things you can do that are manifestations of your outgoingness?
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You know, like, do you want to do on a travel places?
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Do you want to go to the club?
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I don t know, just anything at all that involves putting yourself out there.
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Yeah, I think just like letting my I found that I have, I come from a background with like a lot of religion and stuff.
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And so I feel like I have a lot of
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discomfort just like being in my body and moving my body.
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So I ve actually been getting into dancing, which is like not like me.
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I don t like that.
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But now I do because I m discovering like, it s okay to move your body and it s okay to be comfortable in your body and you don t have to be like hiding that and it s not like an inherently like sexualized thing.
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So definitely that.
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Yeah.
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Do you know do you know the Macarena?
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No, I don t.
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Nobody s ever sexual.
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I don t think the Macarena, I think it s probably one of the least sexual dances that exist in the dance lexicon.
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But anyway, what else?
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Anything else?
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I want to start riding horses again.
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It s something that I did when I was a kid.
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I don t know if I can
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Well, so then...
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It sounds like you, it sounds like just leave this guy alone and go figure out your own life.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And that s the advice I ve definitely been getting.
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I again, think it s just like really hard with emotions and like, especially if he like decides he wants to work it out and he s willing to like work on these things that I ve been asking for, for like the whole relationship.
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Um, like I m,
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Want to be with that person like that is I don t know you know I don t know if they look if the guy can t I m trying to think about this I mean if the guy came to back to you and was like Hey, I know there s been some problems, and I want to work it out.
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I don t I don t know I don t know this is why I m not going to tell you what to do because Okay, and people let s here s the thing people are listening to this are going to be like you know fuck you But and then another person s get a comment under the person who wrote fuck you then they re going to write noble fuck you and everyone s gonna
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Argue, but at the end of the day not me or anyone listening to that knows What s gonna make you or this guy happy?
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Yeah But I got a hunch That you guys should just go live your own fucking lives yeah, yeah for sure and then like I
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We did an accidental check-in like one weekend where like he called me and I was like, oh no, is it an emergency?
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And he s like, I m doing really well.
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And I was like, that s good.
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I like to hear that.
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So yeah, maybe you re right.
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Maybe that s like a sign that like he s doing well.
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I m doing well.
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Like we can both do well just separately.
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What s your name again?
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Jade.
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Jade, is there anything else you want to say to the people at the computer before we go?
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Um.
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I don t know, just listen to your gut instincts and be true to yourself.
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Have a good night, Jade.
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SPEAKER_00
Thanks, you too, bye.
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For some reason whenever I ask people if there s anything else they want to say, they always end with advice.
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Why not, like, I want a good
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Next, hey, if you re listening to this and you ever call in and you ever hear me say, do you have anything else you want to say to the people at the computer?
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Don t do it.
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Don t don t give any advice.
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Say something.
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Do something cool.
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Like even just like a... Give me like a Go Ravens or something.
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I don t know.
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It s too much advice on this show.
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More post call thoughts.
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Look, people listening to this, they re going to have their ideas of, uh, no, you shouldn t do this or no, you shouldn t do that.
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And I have my, I have my ideas of, of that as well.
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But I think the one thing after talking to so many different people and.
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Both on this show and in real life is that you just is exactly what I said.
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Different things make different people happy and people s
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brain chemistries are wired differently.
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And I sort of think that, you know, if I m on the phone with somebody and I m talking to them for a long time, I can, you know, you can get an idea of maybe how they are wired.
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And once you have that information, form an idea of what might work well for them based on the information you have about them as a person.
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But then also you got people who are being like, well, no, they re brainwashed.
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And sometimes they are, and sometimes they aren t.
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And I guess what I m trying to say is that I don t know anything.
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Alright.
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Hey guys, it s Lyle here.
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Hi, who s this?
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This is Justin.
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Justin, what s going on, man?
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Nothing, man.
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How s it going?
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It s going alright.
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I actually feel pretty good right now in this moment.
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SPEAKER_02
Dude, it s okay if it s not, but is there anything in particular you want to talk about?
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Well, nothing in particular.
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Just been listening to the stream.
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This is the first time I caught a live one.
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Figured I d call in.
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You said your name is Jason, right?
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Justin okay, but people are you know what I m not I m not even gonna.
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I m not gonna try anymore Just J. What s what are you doing right now?
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What did you do today?
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What did I do today?
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I went to work today and Took a nap took a good nap today, and it s been about it.
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What do you do for you do today?
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I m a plumber
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You re a plumber.
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What did I do today?
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Let s see.
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What the fuck did I do today?
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I woke up.
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I edited something.
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I spent a lot of time setting up my little supercast page thing.
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I ate some chicken and rice.
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I had deep existential thoughts about
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if I need to change the way that I live every day and then I abandoned those thoughts because they would have required me to
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overhaul my brain chemistry and habitual nature to make a change, which is too intimidating a task to even begin to face, and I looked at Reddit instead and saw that
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Timothee Chalamet and Kylie Jenner are now dating.
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And that me and me looking at that image is a part of my life forever.
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Yeah, you know, it s a shame when things like that come up and then you re just kind of stuck with that burned into your brain, you know?
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Yeah.
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What s the last image that you feel like you saw that really burned in your brain?
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a
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Yeah, yeah, I think my sister used to watch it.
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My sister and my dad are both very into reality TV, but I ve never been a fan.
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What was the latest thing you saw on Vanderpump Rules?
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It was like some dude, he s like talking with the lady about some wine or some shit like that, and I said, can you turn this shit off?
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That s that s that s an episode of that is exactly what an episode of Vanderpump Rules is like is some lady is talking to some fucking guy about some wine But yet, you know, it s funny is when I think about these kinds of things is I would like you and I would never watch
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That show and I m not saying that like to be cool because like I would never watch that show, but I respect it because Thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of people Do watch that show?
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Do find enjoyment in it and that s actually a beauty that s actually inspiring to me You know I mean you know there s there s certain shows in that and
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that realm that I would watch, but that is one that I just can t get behind.
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You know, back in the day, a Jersey Shore, I definitely found myself watching episodes, but this Vanderpump, which is not something I can get behind.
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What shows do you watch?
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Well, you know, we ve been going for a little
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I ve been a little wholesome lately and I ve been watching some Ted Lasso, you know, try and uplift my mood and you know, get some nice, nice wholesome feels in.
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What is, I keep seeing it, what the hell is Ted Lasso?
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I know it s got that guy in it who s in stuff.
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It s a guy who s just kind of like a, just a good old guy who was a football coach and then he went to coach soccer overseas
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No one really likes him because he s just, you know, uh, an American football coach who knows nothing about soccer and just a lot of like cheesy feel good type stuff in it, you know?
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Okay.
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Is there, should I watch it?
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I mean, it was good right off the bat.
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I m slowly fading out of it though.
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I don t know if that s because I m getting stuck back in the scrolling on my phone.
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Yeah.
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Scrolling on your phone is compelling.
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Scrolling on your phone is compelling.
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I was thinking about that.
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I might have talked about this before, but I have a friend who told me that he will watch TikTok intentionally.
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Which blew my mind.
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And what I mean by that is... I m trying to get behind what s the difference between spending time watching TV and spending time scrolling through TikTok.
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And I think it s about the intention.
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Because you sit down, you pick Ted Lasso, and you sit and you watch.
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And it s like you...
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It feels like when you re watching it, you made that decision to sit down and watch it, whereas you find yourself on TikTok learning the details about Timothee Chalamet and Kylie Jenner.
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And now you re in this loop that you re not behind the wheel of this.
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But I had a friend who said that he ll watch TikTok and he ll be like, I m blocking out an hour to sit down and watch TikTok.
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Who the fuck does that?
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You could actually be productive.
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You could sit there.
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You could sit there and take notes.
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You could take notes.
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There s like people.
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There s actually is a lot.
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I mean, there s a lot of bullshit.
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Then, you know, Candy Crush family guy clip shit.
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But there s people talking about valuable stuff on there.
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And if you if you sat there and like whatever, took notes or something, you actually probably learn something.
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But that s not how that works, really.
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No, well I guess it depends on the type of scrolling you re doing.
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I don t normally whip out a notepad and paper when I m getting some deep scrolling in.
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Yeah, that d be... But if I did, I could be really gathering some good information.
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Okay, you watch Ted Lasso.
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I just watch, dude, I just watch like Family Guy and South Park.
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Little, uh, the classics there?
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Yeah.
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I don t remember the last time I got it.
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I really got deep into like a drama series or something.
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There s this one TV show.
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I usually just re-watch an old show.
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Yeah, what are you re-watching?
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Go-to for me is always Entourage.
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Entourage is just a classic that I could just throw on.
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Gotta get back in.
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That s cool.
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You know what I watched recently?
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I watched the pilot of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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Curb the pilot?
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Wow.
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Yeah, the pilot.
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The one where he s putting on a stand-up special.
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It s pretty good.
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There s this one TV show... It s not even really like a TV show, but there s this one TV show that I ve been showing everyone.
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Like, every time I meet a new person, I ll show it to them.
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I found.
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It s the coolest thing I ve ever seen.
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It s called Off the Air.
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I don t know if I ve talked about it on here before, but it s on HBO Max.
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It s an adult swim show.
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And it s this like compilation of video art.
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It s all centered around one theme.
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So there ll be like a color episode and, you know, 10 different artists make videos about color and they re kind of collaged.
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together.
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It s like if you re an adult swim fan, it s like the coolest adult swim thing.
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Dude, adult swim was one of those things for me, like as a kid, when you throw that on late night, it was like, all right, we re getting into some shit right now.
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robot chicken comes out around 12 30 and shit s hitting the fan you know yeah yeah yeah it s a great it s a it used to come on like four o clock in the morning but check that out off the air it s on youtube it s on hbo but um all right so are you gonna get a divorce dude i ve been only married uh two months now so probably not yet you know i m just gonna try and ride this out for a while
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Yeah.
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I almost, I m wondering, I m like, is two months too soon to get a divorce or are you kind of cutting it off right before it gets bad?
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I don t think there s a timeline on that, you know?
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You just kind of know, like you re either in or you re out.
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How do you feel?
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Do you feel in?
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I m in, you know?
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I think that s why I went through the whole, you know, marriage process.
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I think that was kind of like the testament to me being in, you know?
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Were you a hundred percent sure?
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I was a thousand percent sure, but you know, after 10 years, um, you know, it was, it was the right decision to be made.
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That s fucking cool, man.
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How old are you?
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You know, I also biased on it all.
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You know, I, I, I have the view of, Hey, yeah, I want to be with this girl for the rest of my life, but I don t fully agree with, I think marriages or, or what it is now.
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It s not about just,
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being with that person, it s a whole money grab from all these people.
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Like, Ooh, you got to buy this ring.
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You got to buy that ring.
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You got to rent this place.
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You got to spend all this money, you know, crazy, crazy.
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But is your wife, is your wife into that?
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Does your wife, is your wife want like a real dream wedding and a nice ring?
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And does she like nice things?
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Well, it wasn t about that, like the nice ring and stuff, I wouldn t say I would say it was more just, you know, having that special day together with us and our family.
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Yeah, you know, I think that s, that s, which you know, that part I did enjoy, but all this time and effort leading up to it, boom, gone like that.
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Yeah, happier faces the days over.
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You seem happy sort of
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I am pretty happy most of the time, but that comes with certain days, you know.
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Marriage or not, I think that s just a personal thing I deal with.
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How old are you, man?
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I m 29.
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Okay, cool.
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How old are you?
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I m 25.
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Okay, cool.
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But yeah, that s...
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That s about it.
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You know, I ve been dealing with life and, you know, taking it, taking it day by day.
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You know what I mean?
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Trying to make the most of each day.
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That s cool.
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Did you, what did you, did you, all right, let s see this before we go.
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Do you, do you feel like you made the most of this day?
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Uh, well, I took like a three hour nap, so I would say no.
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But I m also feeling pretty sick.
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I think I got a chest infection.
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I went to a concert and I think I got sick there.
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What concert?
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Was it?
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Wait, let me guess.
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Let me guess.
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Let me guess.
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Let me guess.
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Oh, fuck.
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I was going to ask, was it a Ted Lasso concert?
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No, it was not a Ted Lasso concert.
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It was some 41 Simple Plan and the Offspring.
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It was sick.
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Well, uh... Was it worth getting sick?
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Oh, 100%.
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I went with my brothers, and it was badass.
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What if you die?
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What if you die of your sickness?
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What if I die?
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Well, I ll die with the great memory of being at a concert with my brothers.
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I like this fucking guy.
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I like this fucking guy.
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What s- I like this guy.
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Justin?
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It s Justin, yeah.
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Okay, alright.
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See, I remembered your name.
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See, that s actually, you want to hear the truth, Justin, I ll only tell, I m actually going to cut off the broadcast and I ll just tell you this.
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If I like you, I ll remember your name.
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Hey, I appreciate that.
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No, I m kidding.
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I don t, um.
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You don t like me.
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I get it, man.
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It s all good, dude.
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I don t, I m still deciding if I like you, I guess, too.
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Well, Jason, is there anything else you want to say to the people at the computer before we go?
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Live every day like it s your last because you never know if you re gonna die.
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What did you, your wife just, yeah, I just heard your wife yell something.
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What did you, what d you say?
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Your wife just yelled something.
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What d she say?
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You took a nap today.
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Like I m living every day like that laugh.
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That s cool.
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Um, all right.
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You take, take care of Justin.
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Go, uh, go, go kill a bird.
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All right, man.
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Have a good one, dude.
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Take care.
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Taking your phone calls every night.
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Therapy kid goes doing it right.
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He s teaching you how to live your life.
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But he s not really an expert.