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Hello?
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Hey!
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What s your name, cowboy?
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Uh, Joe.
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Joe.
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What s going on, Joe?
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Oh, you know, I celebrated my birthday today, or yesterday, and I m in Missouri right now.
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It s snowing right now, actually.
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Uh, how old are you turning?
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Uh, 27.
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I just turned 27.
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27 rock and roll.
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Well, I called you you texted me and you said I m in the military and Brony for over 10 years now.
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I m going to assume that when you say brony you re not talking about a special ops part of the military that I m not aware of you are talking about the the fandom of the my little pony universe and
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Yeah, yeah, I m pretty sure you look like you ve been on the internet for a while, so I m pretty sure you know what a brony is.
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I thought you were going to say I look like I would be a brony, and I m very curious to hear what would give you that impression.
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I mean, I do have a fucking neckbeard, so I guess it s valid.
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No, I don t got a neckbeard or anything like that.
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I m just a normal-looking dude.
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Um, but yeah, yeah i ve been in the i ve been in the military for about um a little actually just hit seven years last november And uh, i ve been a brony for over 10 years I feel like um You know, what s interesting is is that like?
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So, okay it
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like the brony subculture it used to be that used to be and you re well aware of this it used to be like kind of the butt of the joke on the internet and i i think culturally you guys have been replaced by furries because i have not heard a word about bronies in a long time and like now every now everyone s like shits on furries and you got nobody i like if you talk to like a
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like a middle schooler or even like a high schooler today, they probably wouldn t even know what a brony is, but they would know what a furry is.
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Yeah, a lot of people like to say bronies are diet furries, and I don t know, I don t really have any opinion on that.
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If you want to call us that, I don t know, I don t really care.
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But yeah, it s been a part of my life, and I ve been hanging on for
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10 years so i m really i m not passionate about it but i m i m i m like it s been a big part of my life and i think it s changed my life so i know when i say that well no i don t think i don t think it s corny i think i mean there s my uh significant fucking super smash brothers has been a significant part of my life so
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I mean, I totally understand how you arrived there, right?
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I mean, it s a sense of community.
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I m sure you ve been to conventions.
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I m sure you ve made friends.
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Yeah, I ve been to a lot of conventions last year, and I plan on going to some more this year.
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For the first time in my life, I ve actually had money to go to them, and I ve been wanting to go to them for a long-ass time.
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I m really happy with where I am at right now.
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Who s your pony?
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I m a Fluttershy fan.
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I was going to say a different word, but I can t really say that on here.
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I don t know what word you re referring to.
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It s it s a different word.
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I can t it s a it s a Naughty word.
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I m not allowed to say on here, but yeah, I just so the brony subculture.
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I mean be real with me are the like Are these guys are these guys?
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Do they fantasize about fucking the ponies?
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There s you know people like to say that a lot.
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I m not one of them, but I Keep it more pure I m not one of those weirdos that you know a lot of people like to say Oh bronies jerk off to my while they re watching My Little Pony or My Little Pony porn yes, there is a whole lot of My Little Pony porn but You know
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The most part of it is just people loving and enjoying the community into the show and you know, there s Tons and tons of content on the internet, you know, it s just it s crazy.
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But uh, yeah, it s it s uh Yeah
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Yeah, I mean, I mean, you know, you can t pin, you can t put rule 34 on My Little Pony.
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I mean, there s, we ve been watching ads of the Simpsons fucking each other on Pornhub forever, you know?
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No, no, I mean, like, people, well, no, what I m saying is, like, every cartoon has swathes of porn of it, so, you know.
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Yes.
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Okay, anyway, yeah The main reason why I wanted to get in contact with you is because Next year or this year rather.
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I m soon going on a deployment and My unit that I m with probably one person to maybe maybe three knows that I m actually knows that I m a brony and I don t know if I should
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I have obviously like I have merch like with me like I have a few plushes and um and uh but I m I don t know if I should bring that stuff and come out to my quote-unquote come out I m not gay but I quote-unquote I was about to say this sound this sounds like uh you know the controversy this is like the don t say pony law
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yeah yeah i mean uh just uh military guys just dicks in general especially my unit i m with the uh military police unit and uh they re just they re they re almost like you get people get shit on infantry and
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Military police is almost like infantry which like like 85% of them are dicks and I don t know if I ve been with this unit for my entire career.
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I don t know if I should come out or if I should just like Keep it hidden the entire career.
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I don t know.
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I was just wanting to get some advice on that and
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So you ve been, I mean, but you say you ve been both a, in the My Little Pony fandom and, uh, in the military for 10 years.
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So this is, so this is not a new.
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I ve been a brony for over 10 years and I ve been in the military for, I was a brony before I became, before I enlisted.
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So yeah.
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Now, is there still a branch of the military that rides horses?
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And if so, can you get transferred there?
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Cavalry?
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You can, but that s hardly ever done.
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Because I was going to say, you know that there s several closet bronies in the cavalry.
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Straight up, yeah.
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Actually, a lot of bronies are in the Air Force, believe it or not.
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Really?
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What do you think is the Venn diagram connection there?
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I m not 100% sure why.
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A lot of them are like... I don t know.
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I m not 100% sure why that is, but... If you meet a furry or a brony, there s like, I d say a 70% chance that they re in the Air Force.
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Well, okay.
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As far as like whether or not to let your, uh, people know that you re a brony.
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I mean, really the question is like, like how integral is this stuff into your, in your life?
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Right.
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Cause I mean, I don t, you know, I mean, what, what, what feel, what feels right to you?
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Well, um, I think.
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part of me saying fuck it and not give a shit about what anybody thinks and I kind of stand by that but
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there s another part where i don t want to get made fun of and get shit on every day during my deployment and uh you know and plus you know the show has it s like i know it sounds weird when i say this and corny but it s been like it s taking a uh like a big piece of my life and i ve
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It s I don t know how I should say it, but I a lot of the stuff that they show in the show like they teach lessons and stuff like that like the the plots of the show of the certain episodes.
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like in premises I kind of implement that into my life you know and so I want to be able to implement that and be a fan and yeah not care what anybody thinks but right then I don t want to be yeah you know what I m saying like it s kind of like it s kind of it s I swear to god it s kind of like high school like a high school or middle school like if you
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like something that s like say like what 10 or 15 years ago if you admitted you re like oh yeah i love anime and whatnot in middle school bro you d get like the shit made out of made fun of you so it s just it s a it s a it s
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It s a hit and miss the kind of thing, you know, and I don t know if I should say fuck it and just Go see what happens or hide it
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Well, well, let me ask you this, because like, like what is what is saying fuck it look like is like like on it?
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Like, do you wear to do wear My Little Pony merch on it on a daily?
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No, no, no, no, no, no.
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I, I mean, my my personal room at home, it s decked out with all kinds of posters and and merch that I ve collected.
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since I ve been going to conventions this year.
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And I have a few things that I ve gotten in the past, but like, I don t know, I feel like if I do, if I, I swear to God, if I bring like a plush or a blanket,
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Fan-made blanket.
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I ll get like shit man had fun out of me So that s that s what I mean when I say fuck it and just bring my shit And if somebody asks me like what the hell is that?
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I ll be like yo, it s a twilight sparkle.
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It s Twiggy, man You got a problem with it?
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You know right right right right right so but then I don t want getting my fucking
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my my uh made fun of because i don t know i i like my little pony so can i ask how old you are yeah i yeah i told you earlier it was 27 which was okay well here s the thing look i
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And I don t know, because this stuff, it s certainly, certainly, and I want to say this, it s certainly easier said than done.
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The idea of being yourself, right?
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Certainly easier said than done.
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Whether me or, what s the fuck, Pinkie Pie, is it Pinkie Pie?
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Yeah it is Pinkie Pie, nice job.
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Looks like you re becoming one of us.
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Like back when the My Little Pony thing was like big, like all these YouTubers made these like, um, you ve probably seen them, these like horror parodies of My Little Pony shit.
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Oh yeah, like the creepypastas, yeah.
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Yeah, the creepypasta shit.
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So anyway, so look, whether I or Pinkie Pie, you know, gets up on our soapbox and says, you know, be yourself and that s the way to be, which I believe to my core is true.
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right like you ll be like you ll be happier if you be yourself and you don t care what anyone thinks i really it s gotta it s true right yeah but it s it s easier said than done for sure obviously you know you have to go through a lot of fear and uh overcome a lot of stuff but i mean goddamn man at 27 we re you know similar ages i mean at 27 it s like you know
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I get it, I get the fe- like when you re 16 and you just- you have nothing.
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Right?
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You- all you have is the social acceptance of your peers.
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But at 27, I- I- you re- you re just like- you re endowed as a fucking adult to- to...
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like but I own a fucking you paid for that goddamn Twilight Sparkle I know I m revealing that I know the names of all the ponies you paid for the Twilight Sparkle blanket all right you know you re an adult you make your adult decisions as to what you want to do and what you want to be into in your life and so
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God damn it.
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What s this other what s this fucking other guy gonna tell you that that that really?
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Yeah, there s a lot of stuff that I haven t That that s I ve heard before like there s Probably very little that you could say to me that I have not heard before but like I ve I ve heard it all I know I you know, I ll get called the the f-word and I ll call get called all kinds of stuff for for for liking it so it s
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You know, I m gonna... I think I m just gonna say fuck it and do it, but I don t know.
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Well, if you were in my position, and you knew that... I don t know, what would you do?
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Oh, here s the thing.
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I d like to tell you that I d say fuck it.
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And I d be like, I like my little pony and like, just be because I don t think I mean, look, I ve been talking to you for 15 minutes.
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I don t think that you liking my little pony, uh, unless if you feel this way from, from talking to you, I don t think that you liking my little pony is this thing.
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That s like so densely informative of your personality and of who you are as a person.
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Would you agree with that?
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Say that again, you kind of cut out.
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Like, do you, like, I don t think that you liking My Little Pony is so largely informative of who you are, of, like, your personality, right?
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You know?
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Like, when you, like, when you re in a, like, when you re, like, when you re in a community, like, in the Marines or whatever the, I don t, I know, the military.
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Army.
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Army.
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Army.
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I always fuck that up.
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But, like, when you re in, when you re in a community and you re around people,
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And those people are making their decisions in their head of who you are and whether or not you re accepted into the tribe and all that shit.
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Ideally those decisions are based off of things that are more important than whether or not you like My Little Pony, right?
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Like if you re a nice fucking guy, if you re easy to talk to, if you re helpful.
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So just bring the fucking blanket and then be a good person be you know I m always whatever your idea is of Productive useful member of this community and then go to sleep at night being with your fucking blanket and be like look I like my little pony, but I tried as hard as I could to be a good friend to those around me I tried as hard as I could to you know be a good
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Army men, whatever your fucking job.
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I tried as hard as I could to do my job well.
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And in the universe of the things that mattered, I tried.
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And you tuck yourself in with your Pinkie Pie plush and your Twilight Sparkle blanket, knowing that in the fields that mattered in life, you tried your best.
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You know?
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And again, all easier said than done.
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But when I m thinking about this, that s what I arrive at.
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Yeah, I mean, I m definitely I mean, I m a good guy.
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I like to think of myself as a good guy.
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You know, I, I m polite.
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I m, you know, I follow or I follow orders.
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I, I mean, you don t fuck horses, right?
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No.
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Okay, you took a little too long to answer that one, I believe you.
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No, I don t.
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No, I don t.
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Okay.
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I don t think... Well, then what s the big deal?
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I don t think any... I don t think any... Well, there s probably a few fucking weirdos out there that probably do, but... No, I don t.
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Okay.
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Well... Look, I hope you take what I said to heart, and if you do it... You know, you gotta own it, right?
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You gotta own it.
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Yeah, I m definitely... I m definitely gonna own it, but...
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And it s crazy too because in the military, you probably, there is, hazing and bullying in the military is so rampant.
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It s, everybody just blows it off.
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And that s why there s such a bad recruitment rate right now.
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And it s just, nobody wants to go back in.
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I think that s a huge part of it.
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Like everybody just,
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just makes the fun the shit fun out of like they just make fun of everybody and people that will take that to heart not realizing
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It s a joke.
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But when you say that joke over and over and over and over and over and over, it gets into people s minds.
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And it s just like, bro, I can t do this anymore.
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And so it s just, you know, I ve had that happen to me a couple times.
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Like, I ve had that gone through my mind.
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Like, sure, it s one guy will always tell me will call me a bitch every time I walk past him.
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But look look Matt.
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I know you say and this is this is kind of my my wrap-up on this It s like I know you say it s like high school, but you re you you know we re we re 27 now It s like yeah, you re like you re above you re above I truly beat like like Making fun of other people and being a bully and being we like that s fucking High school like just be like just be above it man like the best you can again I know it s easier said than done, but just do your best to just be above it all right facts
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yeah definitely i m definitely gonna bring my my little twiggy plush and uh and uh hang her above my uh my uh uh now i ll probably fucking
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sleep with her fuck it tell tell people to just tell people that you re using it to smuggle in cocaine and then they ll be like hell yeah hell yeah they d be like dude that s fucking dope that s sick that s that is the twilight sparkle in that s that s the sparkle in the twilight sparkle what s your name again man Joe Joe is there anything else you want to say to the people the computer before we go
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I do, but I can t say that on here, but I ll just say this.
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Dude, okay, I just... I don t know what you re avoiding.
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You keep making it... I believe that you don t, but you keep kind of making it sound like you want to fuck horses with the, like, omissions that you re leading to.
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See, I like making that joke, but there s a lot of sayings that I can t say on here, so I don t want to get you in trouble.
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All right, all right.
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I m going to assume that the things that you re talking about have nothing to do with fucking horses.
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I m not a horse fucker, but I like to joke about it.
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Maybe leave though.
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Maybe don t be strong about those parts, but the other parts, whatever.
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I mean, I like to joke about them.
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I think it s funny.
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I think it s funny.
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Uh, you know, it s, it s always gets a good laugh out of people.
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Well, all right, Joe, I ll, uh, I ll talk to you soon.
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All right, Mr. Gecko.
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I appreciate you, uh, talking with me and whatnot.
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And, uh, I hope you have a good day.
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Take care, Joe.
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Bye bye.
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You too.
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Bye bye.
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He lost me at the end there a little bit with the just let you know, I think Joe should be allowed to do whatever he wants in the military, but maybe maybe we keep him away from the cavalry.
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Good luck, Joe.
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Hey folks, this is Lyle.
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I am very excited to announce that I am going back on tour in 2024 to do Therapy Gecko Live all across the country.
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If you ve never been to one of my live shows before, they re basically like giant group gecko therapy sessions where people from the audience come on stage to talk to a gecko about whatever they want, just like we do right here on the podcast.
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Plus,
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I mix in a few stories and presentations and little tidbits from my own life.
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Tickets are available right now at therapygeckotour.com or you can find the link in the episode description.
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I m announcing many more cities in the second half of the year, but right now, tickets are on sale for Phoenix, Arizona, Louisville, Kentucky, St.
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Louis, Missouri, Orlando, Florida, Tampa, Florida, Miami, Florida,
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Boston, Massachusetts, Denver, Colorado, Syracuse, New York, Albany, New York, Hartford, Connecticut, Las Vegas, Nevada, Salt Lake City, Utah, Nashville, Tennessee, Huntsville, Alabama, Chicago, Illinois, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, San Jose, California, San Francisco, California,
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Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington.
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And you can get tickets for all of those cities at therapygeckotour.com.
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If you didn t hear me say your city, you can still go to the link and hit the RSVP button to get notified for when I do come to your city in the second half of the year.
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This is my third tour so far, and I think it s gonna be sick.
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So I hope to see you there.
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Thanks.
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Hello?
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Oh, hey, what s up?
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Hey, who is this?
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I m Dan from Sweden.
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Dan from Sweden.
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What s going on in Sweden?
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Oh, just yeah, just cold, you know, just dark and cold.
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Are you now does that make a man sad?
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Are you sad because of the darkness and the coldness or do you does that like feed the Swedish body?
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I mean, I m kind of used to it.
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So, you know, the darkness is kind of like 50 percent of your life here.
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So, you know,
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It feels okay.
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I went to Sweden for the first time this summer.
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I went to, what s the, Stockholm.
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Yeah, do you live anywhere near there?
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Yeah, I ve heard about it.
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Oh, no, no, other side of Sweden.
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The 7-Elevens at Sweden, they have Chinese food.
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They have everything here.
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I wouldn t eat it myself, but you know, to each his own.
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Well, aren t you a little boy scout?
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You wouldn t need any 7-Eleven, good for you.
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Sorry, I was just being defensive.
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Dan the Man, what s up man?
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What d you want to talk about?
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Yeah, I don t know.
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I ve been having some issues lately and yeah, I just wanted some feedback or something from someone that doesn t know me, you know?
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So, I ve seen this girl for a while.
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And like we hit it off really good.
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But I m having issues with myself, you know, it s like hard because I m like used to being alone.
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So I don t really know what, you know.
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Yeah, you know, you kind of like get used to being alone and shit.
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Buddy, I m the expert on this particular conundrum that you re going through.
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How old are you?
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I am 37, actually.
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OK.
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Have you spent most of your life alone?
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Not really, like off and on and shit.
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But like the last six years, I ve been almost completely alone, except for, you know, working shit.
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So.
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Now, have you had a period of time in your life that was marked by, you know, like a, like a long-term relationship where you weren t alone for, you know, you had a person in the house with you and you were seeing other people on a daily basis.
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Was that your life for a time?
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Yeah.
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Like before this period of like the six years that have gone past, I ve had a really long-term relationship and that ended quite badly.
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So it kind of fucked me up.
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And, uh,
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made me like not even try it because like the dating scene is so fucking toxic nowadays, you know.
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So yeah, I just kind of like just didn t even try for six years and then all of a sudden this fell in my lap.
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Can you tell me why you don t have to if it s not important or you don t want to but why did the last one end badly?
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Well, we had a long, we were together maybe like six or seven years and
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Everything went well until we like moved in.
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And then all of a sudden she like changed everything in the way she lived.
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So it kind of drove us apart.
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And yeah, that kind of ended it all.
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And we were like, not really planning on anything, but we were discussing like maybe children and shit, you know?
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And then all of a sudden that gets dumped in my lap, you know?
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So after that, it kind of took me for a wild ride, so to speak.
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And all right, so I mean you ve experienced like Living with a romantic partner before you ve experienced life for having a consistent person around you and you ve experienced for the past six years being alone and I mean, what are you finding?
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to be the pros and cons of each and
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I mean, yeah, yeah, like being alone, there s not really many pros, so to speak.
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I mean, the only pro I can think of being alone is like you can do whatever you want when you want.
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Right.
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And that s kind of selfish if you really think about it.
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But yeah, I don t know.
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It s like, as I said, like a program myself now, like the six years that passed that this is my life.
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And now all of a sudden someone great comes up and that kind of messes with the whole thing, you know.
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So I m really trying to think about how to change my mentality, but it s really hard.
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Especially, not especially in this age, but you know, it gets hard after like six years of
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Programming herself to be alone so to speak.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, totally man So if you re telling me and you know if you re telling me the truth and that s how you really feel is that there s truly Very little pros to being alone.
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If those are your your honest feelings then what what is Holding you back from inviting this other person into your life To be honest, I think I
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The biggest issue is repeating what has been, believing what was, so to speak.
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I don t know if I can take that one more time, to be honest.
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Oh, you re afraid you re afraid of this new relationship exploding the way the last one did?
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Yeah, basically.
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And, yeah, yeah, basically, just that, actually, it s not really something I would like to go down again, you know?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Hmm.
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That s a valid fear.
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I get it.
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Well, I don t know, man.
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I mean, that s a valid fear, but I guess, like, what are your options, right?
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Like, you can kind of either just continue going like you re going and be alone for the rest of your life, or take another chance, right?
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I mean, those are really your two options when you look at it.
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I mean, both sound, like, equally valid, depending on where I m coming from.
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Uh, but yeah, of course, who wants to be alone forever?
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You know, that s fucking retarded.
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Think about it that way.
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Excuse me for saying that way, but, um, yeah, it s not like healthy to see them both as equally valid.
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This is just on that word.
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I was watching, uh, Charlie, you know, the movie Charlie and the chocolate factory.
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Yeah, there a new one?
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It actually is now that I think about it, yeah.
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Okay, you re alone.
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Tell me about this girl.
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Tell me about this person that you re going to move in with.
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It s a strange story.
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I talked to her like 10 years ago, or maybe more, maybe 12.
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And we kind of hit it off and she lived like, yeah, a long ways away from me, so to speak.
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All of a sudden she just like drops off the map.
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Like she disappears, she removes me from everything.
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And I was thinking like, yeah, okay, that s life.
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Like I m young, fuck it, you know.
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I ll just meet someone else as you do.
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Then all of a sudden she just pops up on Facebook like eight to nine months ago.
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And I didn t even realize it was her until I went in and checked and then I was like,
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the fuck.
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So I wrote her a message.
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And apparently, like she got a boyfriend at that time.
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And that s why she dropped off, which I respect, of course, but yeah, we just hit it off again, like it was 10 years ago, or 12 or something.
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And we finally meet.
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And yeah, well, this is a person that you had, you had a little bit of a thing going on with her earlier in your life, and then she re pops up and you guys reconnect.
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Yeah, yeah, exactly.
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So like 10 or 12 years has passed before last time I talked to her until now we started seeing each other.
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Wow, that s that s that s fascinating.
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And and what s it been like lately?
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Have you guys been like how often you guys seen each other?
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Well, considering she still lives far away.
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It s like once every month or two months or something like that.
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Because work and stuff, you know, so it s still you re still you re it s you re still alone kind of because it s that you re really Not, you know, you guys aren t seeing each other every day.
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Yeah, kinda.
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I mean we talk like all the time literally like every second we have Spare we talk to each other Other than that.
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Yeah, it s like I m still alone physically
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And it all depends, like, we try to plan out vacations, weeks, and, like, next time she s gonna come around, I m gonna go to work.
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So she s gonna be alone for 10 hours a day, but she s fine with that.
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So, yeah, we just try to see each other as much as possible until maybe she moves down here, so to speak.
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Okay, so it sounds like you re easing into this a little bit.
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You re not like, hey, let s get married and have kids right now and just go full speed.
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It sounds like you re, I mean, this is a very slow ease.
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Yes, you ve been, because your problem is you were programmed to this life alone, right?
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And I think to go from being fully, fully, fully alone to now there s a person in my face 100% of the time, I mean, you re gonna hate them.
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So like this is a good way you re doing it is like it s a gradual reprogramming.
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It sounds.
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Oh, yeah, definitely, because I ve been prone to like just throwing myself into relationships before.
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Right.
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And usually they explode.
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Right.
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Because of that.
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So like this time, it s like we just take it easy, you know, just see where it goes.
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Right.
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Try not to rush things, you know, because then usually it just ends up like, yeah, really bad.
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Right, you know, I m I don t know man.
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I ve spent It s pretty significant periods alone myself, and I m personally also struggling with like the you know, how do I invite more?
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Human beings into my life because I really do think I think even medically I think it s like if you ask a doctor whether it s better to be alone or with people They ll tell you it s better to be with people.
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So Oh, yeah
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So I don t, I don t, I don t know.
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I mean, it sounds like you re making the right choice, right?
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And, and, and you ll probably, and this is, I m, I m being very hypocritical saying this to you, but you will probably feel better, I assume, if you can get over the, the, your programming, right?
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I mean, you would know that better than I would, because you ve experienced both sides of the coin.
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Yeah, of course, of course.
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And as you said yourself, like it s,
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You do feel better, you know, once you re not completely alone when you have people around you that you can trust and rely on.
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It does make a huge difference in how you feel.
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Like, I don t have problems with, like, hanging out with people or meeting people or talking to people.
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I m very social.
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So it s not like I m alone alone.
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It s just like I m not, you know, I m alone from the
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having someone that loves you in that sense, you know.
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And also it s helpful for like not living like shit.
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I mean, because like when you have another person, you can t like leave your underwear on the floor and leave trash all around and all that shit.
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I mean, you don t have that problem because you re Swedish and I assume that your house looks like Ikea.
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But for, you know, if you re in America and it doesn t matter, you can do it.
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It s helpful.
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It s helpful to have some accountability on that front.
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Well, let me just say like that.
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It doesn t look like Ikea for most people here.
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I mean, I do see like where you re coming from, but no, like I got my summer wheels resting right here in front of me.
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It s like, uh, I put my feet on them, you know?
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What are summer wheels?
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Uh, you know, the, the rims with the summer tires on them.
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SPEAKER_00
What are you talking about?
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Summer?
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What are summer tires?
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Ah, yeah, there s like, you have tires all around, like you can drive any time of the year.
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In Sweden, since it gets too cold and snowy.
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Are you talking about a table or a car?
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Because those are two very different objects that I m talking about.
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Like I got, I got the rims for my car, right on the floor here by my computer.
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Oh, yeah.
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Okay.
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Yeah, that doesn t sound like Ikea.
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It s like I got rims here.
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I got
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You know, I get shit all over, but yeah, it s not like I got 50 days worth of food packets on the floor or something, at least.
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You ve got IKEA hot dog buns all over your room.
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I could have.
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Yeah, I could have.
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It s not impossible.
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SPEAKER_00
You should try the 7-Eleven Chinese food.
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I don t know if it s Chinese food.
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They have like a noodle bar there.
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It s good.
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This is very decisive and people hate me for it, but I m gluten.
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Not like I chose to be it, but I just am.
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SPEAKER_00
Wait, you re gluten free?
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gluten intolerant.
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Yeah, I d probably explode just by going in there and smelling it.
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I would say that trying the 7-Eleven Chinese food is probably the, you know, that s a single lonely man activity.
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And so, you know, the time is hopefully running out on that.
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But anyway.
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7-eleven experience you had with Yeah, anytime I look at my anytime I look at the phone ringing and I see like a plus Six like I see it s a foreign area code.
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I m like, oh hell yeah, I can talk to this person about Foreign 7-elevens like I do anytime I talk to anyone We ve talked about that too much we ve talked about that too much.
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Um, Dan the man Is there anything else you you want to say about any of this shit or any anything at all in general before we go?
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Well, not really.
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I mean, I kind of already, like, had the same thoughts as before, like I do now.
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Like, I kind of already understand it.
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It s just like, I need someone to reaffirm it because people here, they re all like, fuck women, you know, and like, you know, the co-workers, I mean, they re like, oh, these women, fuck them, you know.
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They don t really care about this whole love shit, at least what they re saying.
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So I just need someone from outside of all of that to just reaffirm what I m already thinking, you know?
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Well, I don t know, man.
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I mean, there s like, I m sure there is.
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And I don t think it s a gender thing.
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I m sure that there is single 60-year-old men and 60-year-old women that are happier that way than not.
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I truly believe there s no...
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right way to live life.
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But again, you ve experienced both sides of the corn.
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So you decide for yourself which universe you enjoy living in more.
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That s true, man.
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I try to remember myself about that from time to time, I guess.
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Dan the Man, any final thoughts, feelings, sentiments before we go?
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Not really, man.
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Just keep up what you re doing.
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We all love you, and yeah, have a great night, man.
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You, too.
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You truly are the man, Dan.
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Thanks, man.
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Bye.
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Take care.
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Seriously, you go back and watch Charlie and the Chocolate Factory from 2006.
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You ll be like, God damn, they really got away with some stuff in this movie.
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Call from Josh.
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To accept, press 1.
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To send a voice mail.
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Hello?
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SPEAKER_00
Yo, what s up, Geck?
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SPEAKER_00
How s it going?
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SPEAKER_00
This is Josh.
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This is Josh, bro.
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SPEAKER_02
Well, Josh, I can t believe I m fucking talking to you.
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SPEAKER_00
Here we are.
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I can t, I can t believe I m talking to you, man.
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SPEAKER_00
I might, one of my first friends names was Josh.
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Was he cool?
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SPEAKER_00
No, he was a dick, but you sound cooler than, than he is.
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SPEAKER_00
Um, what s up, Josh?
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SPEAKER_00
What d you want to talk about?
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SPEAKER_02
Damn, bro.
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I don t know, honestly.
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I just thought I d call and see what happened.
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SPEAKER_00
Yeah, honestly, I called like 200 times and I was like, yeah, I ll do it when we re shut.
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Pretty cool, bro.
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Just wanna smoke some weed and fuckin  talk to a gecko on the phone.
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SPEAKER_02
That s pretty sick.
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SPEAKER_02
Life can t get better than that, I guess.
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SPEAKER_00
That is pretty sick.
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SPEAKER_00
That is pretty sick.
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SPEAKER_00
It s definitely a bizarre thing to do, smoke weed and talk to a gecko on the phone.
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I forgot I was a gecko for a second.
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I ll forget that I m a lizard.
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You know, it s weird to have this, like, alt costume to my life.
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SPEAKER_00
Say that again?
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It s cool that you stick with it and that you kind of go with it, you know?
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It s cool that you just keep on dressing up and doing the geck thing, bro.
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Just keep on
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That s a lot of commitment.
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That s probably more commitment than I ve ever really had with a lot of shit that I ve done.
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SPEAKER_00
Yeah, what s something that you ve done that you feel like you couldn t commit to?
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I don t know, bro.
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I m in between a lot of shit right now and it just feels hard to commit to something super concrete and solid.
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SPEAKER_00
What are your options?
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kind of a lot to be honest but it s just I don t know how to like dial it in and like kind of figure out like if it s really something that I want to do and like pursue like I don t know I m interested in like a lot of things and I do a lot of shit like right now I work at a weed farm and that s pretty cool and I grow weed for a living and I do it on my own time too but I also have like a degree in photography and I know how to DJ and like I kind of know how to do like a lot of shit to be honest it s just I don t
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I don t like hone it down and like, kind of like focus on one thing.
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I kind of just jumped from one thing to another.
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SPEAKER_00
How old are you?
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I m 24.
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Hmm.
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Do you have like a day job?
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Yeah.
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I work.
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Yeah.
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I work at a weed farm.
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All right.
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SPEAKER_00
Right.
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SPEAKER_00
Okay.
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So, all right.
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But you ve, so you ve, you re sticking to that.
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That s, that s your kind of constant.
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Yeah, I ve been doing it for about like four months now and it s it s really fucking cool, bro.
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It s probably like one of the best jobs that I ve ever had.
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It s definitely something that like makes me happy and like every day I go to work and I m like super fucking happy.
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I don t get paid that much, which fucking sucks.
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But I mean, it is what it is, you know, I mean, I get paid like 1560 or something like that, but it is what it is, you know, like pay is one thing and stuff, but fucking
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Yeah, I mean, that s just the only like problem right now.
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It s just I don t get paid enough.
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Otherwise, I d really be like, you know, honing it down and like kind of doing this like in the long term of things.
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But yeah, it s just it s a little harder right now.
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Brother, I ll tell you, if you re waking up every day and you don t want to shoot yourself in the fucking face, you are winning in this life.
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SPEAKER_02
Yeah, yeah, that s honestly that s that s a good point to make.
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I don t know, I do mean that though.
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I mean, it s uh... I think to wake up every day and not be like, oh fuck.
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SPEAKER_00
You know, that s... That truly is winning in life, right?
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SPEAKER_00
I mean, what else?
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SPEAKER_00
What could be better?
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SPEAKER_00
I mean, I know it s a bummer not being able to make any real money, but um... I mean, with the weed farm, it s like, couldn t you... Couldn t you go into business for yourself one day and then start making some money there?
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Yeah, definitely.
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SPEAKER_02
Yeah, I definitely could.
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SPEAKER_02
And I have like a certification for like, um, like cannabis business.
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Like I, through my university, I took like a course for like a couple of months and they certified me to like, you know, I guess be knowledgeable in the industry.
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And I really am bro.
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Like I ve been doing this like on my own for about three years and I m still learning and there s like a lot to learn about it.
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SPEAKER_02
Um, and it just takes a lot of time, dude.
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Like that s the only thing that sucks is like,
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It takes a shit ton of time and there s like a lot of opportunity at my work to kind of like, uh, I guess grow with it, but it s just like, I have to really stay there for like a long time and, and wait for them to expand.
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And I m just like a super impatient person.
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And I wish that like I had the patience to kind of wait, but I have like a lot.
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SPEAKER_00
Can t you go rogue?
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SPEAKER_00
Why can t you go rogue?
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SPEAKER_02
I am trying to bro.
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SPEAKER_02
Yeah, I m trying to, and it s just, it s fucking hard.
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SPEAKER_02
It s just, you need to have a lot of money to do it, you know?
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SPEAKER_02
Like right now, I m growing out of my garage and I got like a really good fucking set of them.
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Like I got a huge ass tent.
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I got like seven plants in there.
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Then I have like another cloning seedling tent and I got a lot of other stuff going in there.
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And I made myself like a personal, like little Instagram to like start promoting like the stuff that I m doing and all that kind of stuff.
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SPEAKER_02
But you know, it s, it s beginning, you know, it s just like at the starting stages of where it s at.
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SPEAKER_00
Man, but you re happy every day.
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SPEAKER_00
You re not, uh, like, do you, and you, you re not going insane every day.
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SPEAKER_02
No.
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SPEAKER_02
Yeah.
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Honestly, like life is super good for me right now.
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SPEAKER_02
Like I have a girlfriend and she s amazing and have an amazing family and a really good life.
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SPEAKER_02
Honestly, like everything s like really good for me.
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It s just, you know, I just want to get my life, my personal life started.
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SPEAKER_02
Like I still live with my mom and you know, it s, it s cool.
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SPEAKER_02
You know, I get to save up money, but.
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SPEAKER_02
You know, I live with my mom and it s kind of embarrassing just in that, in that, in that way, you know, just like a lot of people that I know, they re like, you know, starting their lives and going about their own business.
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And I know I shouldn t be like comparing my life to theirs, but I m just like, man, I really wish I could.
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SPEAKER_00
Do you feel as though your life has, has yet to start?
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mmm what do you mean you said you see your friends starting their lives as if to imply that you have not yet started your life yeah well I m
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I mean, I guess they just leave their nest, you know, like they, they move out of their parents.
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I don t know.
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I feel like that s like a huge step for people.
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And I just haven t gone that step.
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And it s, uh, it s a little frustrating, you know?
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So wait a minute.
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Are you growing a bunch of weed in your mom s basement?
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No.
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Well, yeah.
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Yeah.
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I mean, in my garage.
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Yeah.
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You said no.
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And then you re like, well, yeah.
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Does she know that you re growing weed in the house?
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Oh, yeah, definitely.
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Yeah, she s she s cool with it.
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I mean, my family s like, pretty cool, like the stuff that I m into and pretty supportive about it and all that.
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I mean, she doesn t like really care.
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And like, she doesn t like ask about it.
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You know, I ll tell her like, Oh, like I m doing this.
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And this is what my plants are looking like and stuff like that.
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And she s like, Yeah, that s cool.
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And that s it.
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Um, I don t know, man.
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I m sort of Oh, there s a cockroach.
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I gotta get rid of this cockroach.
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Give me Hold on.
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We ll cut this part out.
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SPEAKER_01
Brandon, we ll cut this part out.
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Yeah, take your time and get that shit out of there.
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I m actually dealing with a bug problem right now.
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Yeah, do you get the shit out of there?
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Oh, God.
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Should I give this fucking Airbnb a better view?
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This is gross, dude.
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What am I gonna do?
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Oh, dude.
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If there s any kind of pest, give him a bad review.
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He was a big ass cockroach.
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It doesn t matter much.
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Well now it s gone, now it s out of my eyesight.
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SPEAKER_01
Oh wait no, it s in the corner right now, it s just feeding.
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Oh, it s crawling up.
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Brandon, we ll cut all this out.
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Alright, hold on.
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Step on it, get it.
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Actually, eat it, get it, you re a fucking lizard dude.
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It s huge!
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I am a lizard, I wish I had like lizard powers, but... Oh god, I don t even really, I don t want to kill it, I just want it...
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Oh, did it just flap?
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Do cockroaches have fucking wings?
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Yeah, bro.
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That shit will fly out your face, man.
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SPEAKER_01
Wait, cockroaches fly?
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Oh, fuck.
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Alright, hold on.
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Fuck this.
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Fuck this.
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Alright, hold on.
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Dude, fuck this.
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Alright, hold on.
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Where is it?
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It s crawling under the blue screen.
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SPEAKER_01
Oh, no, bro.
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Alright, where s my... I need the paper towels.
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Oh god.
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Oh, now it s crawling up.
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You ll be able to see it in a second.
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How do I... I m afraid!
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Alright, should I just... Hold on.
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Alright, hold on.
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Let me just... I need to... Give me a minute.
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Maybe I ll use the mic stand.
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The way it knows, it can tell.
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Oh, it, it, oh, dammit, it, hold on.
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Did you hear that?
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Yeah, yeah.
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Alright, now it s running.
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It s, it, okay, it knows.
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It knows I m out for it.
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Yeah, let it fuck off, dude.
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Fuck that.
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I don t want to damage the mic s, ugh.
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It s hiding now.
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It s in this corner.
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Do you have, like, a book or something?
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You know, I ll use this.
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I got a fucking... Yeah, maybe I will use it, but that s a good idea.
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Let me get a... If you got something heavy, just squash it, dude.
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Hold on.
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Let me get a... I don t even know where it is now, now it s all... It s still hiding in the corner?
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Dammit, now I m gonna be sleeping and a fucking cockroach is gonna... Jump up on me.
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Oh crap, oh god, that spooked me, that spooked me a lot.
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I m spooked.
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Hold on, I gotta take care of this fucking thing.
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Oh crap, now it s under my bed now, oh god.
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SPEAKER_00
No, dude, no, not your bed.
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I don t know.
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I m gonna sleep at tonight.
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Well, can you trap it in anywhere?
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Is there nothing around you that you can get it with?
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Dammit, I m gonna wake up in the middle of the night and there s gonna be a big cockroach on me.
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Yeah, like a cup cup in a cup.
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just like put it put the put a couple i could i tried well i tried to get it with the mic stand but brandon will cut all this out but no well should i leave it in should i just leave all this in yeah leave it in dude yeah it s a good it s a good way to i don t know just fucking i feel like if i were in my car and i was listening to a podcast and the host just started talking about a cockroach that he s trying to kill i d be like what the fuck
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That s a real moment into it, you know?
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I guess so.
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You know, like real life kind of struggle situation in the moment.
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Yeah.
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You re handling it pretty well, I d say.
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I mean, you re trying to get rid of the problem.
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I don t know where this fucking thing is now, and I don t want to... Hold on.
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Oh, this is so gross, man.
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SPEAKER_00
Yeah, dude, that is pretty gross.
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I ve had to deal with a lot of cockroaches that work and stuff, and it sucks.
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Where do you where do you work that you were dealing with cockroaches?
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I don t even remember Honestly, I m gonna be so I don t even remember What the hell we were talking about before any of this happens We re just talking about growing weed bro, and I m on the road All right.
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Hold on state okay, do we try to remember we were talking about because I m gonna probably cut this out and Fucking yeah, I got you.
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I got you.
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I want to I want to continue our conversation because it was a good I
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Oh, I found it!
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Oh, it s on its back now!
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It s on its back!
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Oh my god, it s f-fucking- Holy shit, this is gross.
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Get it, get it, get it, get it, get it!
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Holy shit.
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Dude, how big is it?
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Like, is it the size of your hand, or like, your foot?
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Dude, I just fucking got this shit, oh my god.
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Let s go, Geck.
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Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
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Yeah, get it!
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Whack him!
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Oh crap, it ran away!
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Did you get it?
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Hold on, it ran away!
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Fuck, dude!
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No, I stomped the fuck out of it, and it... Dude, I got it, I stomped the fuck out of it, and then it ran away.
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Hold on.
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Just, like, put a lot of pressure on it.
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Just, like, put your body weight on it.
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Oh, I see it.
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Hold on.
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Yeah, if you don t... If you just stomp on it, it s not gonna... You re not gonna kill that shit, dude.
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They re, like, indestructible.
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You gotta, like, put weight on it.
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I thought it was saying like, try to get a book or something and throw it in and it ll explode or something, I don t know.
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Did you get it, bro?
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I m concerned now.
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Alright, I think I tra- Alright, I trapped it.
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There you go.
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I trapped it and now I m just- I ve trapped it and now I m just gonna-
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Now I m just gonna... Dude, how long were we doing that for?
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I don t know, man, but I mean, at least you got it.
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I was just concerned that you were gonna be trapped with a cockroach in an Airbnb, dude.
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That would ve sucked.
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Should we leave this in?
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SPEAKER_01
I feel like this is... This isn t good.
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I don t think this is good.
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But this is not a good podcast.
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Right?
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SPEAKER_00
No, dude.
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No, dude.
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It s good.
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It s good.
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It s good.
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All your podcasts are good, bro.
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I listen to you at work, like, almost all the time.
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SPEAKER_01
Dude, what the fuck were we ta- It was good, that was- Dude, what the fuck were we talking about?
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We were just talking about weed farming, bro.
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I was, uh, telling you how I worked at a weed farm, and... Yeah, I mean, how I worked at a weed farm, and I just got a lot of, like, kind of, like, opportunities, I guess, and, like, avenues to go through with it, in terms of, like, you know, going rogue, and, like, kind of starting my own business, and whatever, I guess.
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Alright, fuck it, we ll leave it in.
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We re gonna leave it in.
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If this makes the podcast, you should leave this in and just have the video be like, all right, well, fine.
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All right, you screw it.
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Well, we re going to leave it in.
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This is part of you and me is connection together as part of this call.
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Um, yeah, it s real as hell.
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I I m so dude, I forgot about all of life before this.
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I don t even know what the fuck I was talking to you about.
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Oh, yes, living with your mom and growing weed and all this stuff.
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Yeah, that s pretty much on par with what we were talking about.
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Alright.
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You asked me where I work, so I mean... Oh, yeah, where do you work?
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Oh, wait, you work at a farm.
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Oh, but you said you have commitment issues and you were doing too much...
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do many different things, but I think that s good.
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I think you re on a good track here, my friend.
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I really do believe that.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I just feel like sometimes I wish I could just, I don t know, man, just sit down and really just figure out what the fuck I really want to do, because growing weed is fucking fun.
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I love it, man.
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It s awesome.
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It s just like I like to spend time with plants.
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I like to grow them and take care of them.
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bring things to life you know I think that s just it s really cool for me to experience that and you know I do like a lot of like other artsy stuff but I don t know I get insecure about it and I kind of just like put it down and when I get stressed out I kind of just go back to gardening and it just brings me back to like who I really feel like
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I am, I guess, if that makes sense.
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Yeah, you know, I think you sound like a very multifaceted man.
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Yeah, a bit, I guess.
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I mean, I know how to do a good amount of things.
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Like a jack of all trades, but master of none kind of deal.
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Right, right.
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I don t think that s a bad, I think it s good to be a renaissance man though.
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I know you re bringing it in as some kind of new, like, you re bringing in some kind of like a bad thing that you can t commit to anything, but I think it s good.
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I mean, you really only have such a finite amount of time to live.
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You might as well do all kinds of different stuff.
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Yeah, I think so too.
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I mean, I think people should just be interested in a lot of different things and not really like, I don t know, I guess only just be settled with one thing and just leave it at that.
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I think people should always try to learn and just like be interested in other stuff.
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Like, I mean, I just learned how to do like growing weed on a whim, bro.
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Like I just threw a seed in a pot and fucking invested like money and a lot of time into it.
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And you know, here I am like three years later with like a pretty, pretty good like method of like growing weed and shit.
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It s been fun, man.
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It s been a really cool journey, and I just don t know where it s gonna take me.
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You know, it s like I m spending all this time and money, and I spent a lot of money on this, like, certification and stuff, and I spent a lot of money on my own growing supplies, and it s just like, goddamn.
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Like, what is this really gonna do for me, besides just the fact that it brings me, like, happiness?
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Which isn t like that, you know, like- Dude, you re f- What are you fucking talking about?
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Do you actually hear the words that just came out of your fucking mouth?
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I know, that s what I m saying.
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You said, what is this actually going to do for me except bring me joy and happiness?
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It s fucking stupid.
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Well, I guess when I say that, I mean like, I don t know, bro.
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People are just, maybe not people, maybe it s just me that I m just so focused on trying to get a career already, you know, and like really sink down into that and just, I don t know, be a normal person.
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Yeah, but here s the thing though, right?
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It s like, you know, money,
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I don t know, it s helpful for a lot of fucking things.
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I feel like you, I feel like you, like, you strive for money so that you can, you know, relax and be happy.
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But if you can relax and be happy without any money...
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You re kind of fucking golden, dude.
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I don t know.
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I m very, like, I m je- I m honestly, I m jealous of you when I hear that you re, like, you wake up every day and you re, you know, you re chilling.
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And I can hear it in your voice.
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You can- and I could hear it when you were- when we were talking about the cockroach.
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You- you- you re in a good mood.
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You know, you re not groveling at the fucking streets every day, right?
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That s a- that s a blessing.
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Yeah.
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And I guess that s how I used to kind of feel when I was in college and like making art and shit.
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And it s like, I think that kind of like way of like going about like making art and, you know, going to school for it was like really fucking pain in the ass and just like not really all that much fun anymore.
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I mean, I made a lot of cool shit, but there s just like a lot of expectation behind it.
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And, you know, when I grow weed, it s like, I already know the expectation and I already know what I want.
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Give me, what s your weed Instagram?
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I wanna promote you, because you helped me, you talked me through.
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I think if you weren t there when I was fighting that roach, I think I wouldn t have been bold enough to trap it.
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It s still underneath, here s the thing, my mic stand, right, I tried to hit it, I tried to hit it with my fucking mic stand, and what I did was I hit it with the mic stand, I thought I got it, but I didn t realize that the mic stand, it s not, the base isn t flat.
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The bass isn t flat, the bass is concave.
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So I didn t hit it, I just trapped it.
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Yeah, you could ve just trapped it then.
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Damn.
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So it s sitting there, it s sitting under my mic stand in the other room, it s trapped.
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Wait, so what s the current situation of the roach?
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Is it in something?
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It s trapped.
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I can t bring the microphone all the way over there.
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It s trapped underneath.
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I hope it is.
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If I lift up that mic stand and there s no bug underneath it, I m gonna be freaked out.
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I m gonna be like, where the fuck is this thing?
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I ll get it though.
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Yeah, when you re ready to get it, you just gotta be in go mode and you really gotta kill that thing.
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Like, get something, like, super heavy.
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I don t know what you have around you, but the heaviest thing that you could find.
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Just get it, and once you open that microphone, bro, just fuckin  squash it.
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I m about to smash up with this TV.
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SPEAKER_03
Alright, um... Well... Josh, I really do feel like we got to know each other pretty well over the course of these 20 minutes, and I m rooting for you, man.
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I think, uh... I think you re doing great.
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I really do.
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Of all the people...
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from from from experience from my personal experience being a human being and my personal experience talking to Several different human beings on this show.
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I think you re doing pretty damn good Josh So keep your fucking head up and did you already give me the weed Instagram?
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No, bro Let me check what it is because I kind of forgot the name of it, even though I go on it like every single day it s
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It s Z Woods, Z-W-O-O-D dot Z. Z Woods?
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Yeah, Z Woods.
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Z-W-O-O-D dot Z, yeah.
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All right, I m gonna check it out.
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It s private right now, but I ll make it, hold on, let me make it public so you can see what I m doing, sorry.
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It ll take me like two seconds.
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Well Josh, is there anything else you wanna say to the people of the computer before we go?
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Actually, let me look at the Instagram real quick.
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I might have silly comments.
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Zwood.z?
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Zwood.z, okay.
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Yeah, so you got a bunch of pictures of weed this is cool this is nice this is something look at you you re an entrepreneur my friend You and you you make it you have a little journal You know, it s funny our pro if you look at both of our profile If you look at both of our profile pictures on Instagram from far away they look very similar I
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Dude, look at this shit.
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You have a whole vlog here.
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This is cute.
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I like this.
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Thanks man.
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Yeah, I like try to keep it pretty well documented and like let people know what I m doing and like try to like explain like the methods and like techniques that I use and all that kind of stuff.
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It s really fun.
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It s a it s it s really it s really cool to kind of like document in that way because I mean, I don t I m not really good at writing and stuff.
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I always fucking forget so.
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I feel like I m on social media enough that it just kind of correlates to be the same thing.
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Well Josh, I might be hitting you up to borrow some pesticides very soon.
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Dude, I have a bug problem right now, so I got some good shit.
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I just spent like $130 on like a fungicide and insecticide to kill these fucking aphids that I got in my tent, which is like really pissing me off, but it is what it is.
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I m gonna throw this Keurig at a roach for free and hopefully that gets the job done.
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Oh wait, I have a pan!
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Okay, I m gonna use the pan.
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There you go.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Use the pan, bro.
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I mean, but you just gotta be fast.
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You gotta throw your whole body into it, really.
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Yeah, I was too busy.
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I was too busy trying to- I was distracted because I was talking to you while I was doing it, but now I think I m gonna get it.
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Are you gonna take a break real quick and, like, get it?
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Like, on stream?
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SPEAKER_03
No, I think I m going to finish this phone call and then I m going to go get it.
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Okay, cool.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Do that, dude.
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You got to kill that thing, man.
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It s like, it s not good to have roaches around you.
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I mean, especially if you re sleeping in the area where it s at, man.
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I mean, that s just, that s pretty dangerous, dude.
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What, where are you?
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I don t know if it s dangerous.
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I don t think that, I mean, it s, it s gross, but I don t think that the roach can like hurt me.
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They can hurt your feelings.
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with its presence.
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Is there anything else you want to say to the people at the computer before we go, Josh?
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Just always learn stuff, always learn things and, uh, be excited for things that, uh, that you re never really sure about and, uh, smoke a shit ton of weed and do some shrooms.
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Beautiful.
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Take care of Josh.
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All right.
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In the show notes of this episode, I will let you know whether
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not I got the roach I think all right I m all right I m looking at it right now and it s underneath yeah it s underneath this fucking mic stand and I don t know I don t know if it s still there or not but we ll get it thanks for calling Josh
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He s teaching you how to live your life But he s not really an expert