December 18, 2025 • 19 mins
On today's podcast , Hosts Ramses Ja and Q Ward provide an elementary breakdown of societal frameworks and discus the topic of breaking up with a friend
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Still broadcasting from the Civic Cipher Studios. Welcome back to
the QR code, where we share perspective, seeking understanding, and
shape outcomes. Demand you are about to hear from is
a man who made a promise to always be there
for my son if he ever has questions and he
can't get a hold of his dad for some reason.
(00:21):
And I appreciate that more than you know. He is
the Q in the QR code. He goes by the
name of Qward.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
The voice that you just heard will steal me, my
brother and my friend. Even after today's question, I think
that's very, very important to point out he is the
R in the QR code and he goes by the
name ramses Jaw.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
And the question that we're going to be asking is
how do you break up with a friend? It just
jumped off the page at us and we were like,
you know what, let's ask this question.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
And so we're.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Gonna learn in real time what that looks like and
if we've ever done that before, because we don't know
the answer. But right now it is time for Q
words clapback, and he's going to give us an elementary
breakdown of society frameworks.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Q take it away, you know, family. One of the
most effective weapons that I've observed in the political sphere
in this country. A weapon, an effective, a very effective
weapon used by the right. MAGA in particular, has been
used against its own base, which sounds crazy, a weapon
(01:25):
that they use against their own base, but it's intentional confusion.
They actually rely on people not knowing what words mean,
and it's been an effective tool for them. They've turned
socialism into a pejorative. They label anti fascism as terrorism.
(01:54):
They scream about freedom while supporting systems that take freedom away,
and then they use trick words, right, because if you
don't understand different types of societies and governments, you can
be convinced to vote not just against your own best interest,
against your own survival. So let's slow this down. No ideology,
(02:20):
no insults, just clarity. Let's start at the top. Capitalism.
That's where we live, that's what we actually live under.
Capitalism simply means private ownership of business. Profit is the
primary goal. Whoever has the most capital has the most power.
(02:44):
And capitalism healthcare is a product, housing a product, education
a product. You are not given what you need, you
get what you can afford. Now, people would argue capitalism
(03:07):
has created so much in a way of innovation, but
without rules or limits or safety nets, it also creates
extreme inequality, corporate dominance, one hundred year almost wage stagnation,
people working full time jobs and not being able to
(03:31):
pay their rent, their health, for their health care, or
for their education. Some people working multiple jobs and struggling
to survive. And that's not a bug. That's how capitalism
was designed to work. The system almost requires that some
of us have nothing.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
It absolutely does require them now not have jobs.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I'd argue that capitalism doesn't have any virtues. Pull up
on me and we can have that discussion whenever you want.
Socialism this is their favorite word, and man, did they
lie to you about this one. They want you to
believe that socialism means big government controls everything. Not so fast,
(04:14):
my friend. Socialism simply means the society collectively insureds that
basic needs are met for everybody. Health Care, education, infrastructure
are all treated as public goods, not profit centers. The
(04:36):
funny thing is those who argue against socialism practice it
for themselves and each other every day. Under socialism, you
still work, you still own money, I mean, you still
earn money.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
You still own property. You just won't go bankrupt for
getting sick. You don't drown in debt because you want
an education, and you don't lose your housing because a
company decided that profits matter more than people. Most MAGA
voters already like socialist policies. They just don't like the
word social security, medicare, public schools as rams is pointing
(05:12):
out fire departments, you know, and public roads, all of
that socialism. They just don't call it that, and they
trick you every time. Communism this is what they call
everything they disagree with. Communism simply means the state owns
(05:34):
all major property, no private enterprise, no class system. In theory,
power concentrates at the top. The United States is not communists.
No serious political movement in this country is proposing communism.
(05:57):
Calling universal healthcare a communist practice is intentional ignorance and
intentionally dishonest. But they bet on and have successfully won
that bet their base, not knowing what the word means. Authoritarianism,
what we are sliding toward actively centralized power leaders that
(06:21):
weaken courtssent is punished, and loyalty matters more than the law.
You still have elections. They just don't matter. Sound familiar
leaders attacking judges, the media, protesters, and civil servants while
demanding loyalty. It's not about left or right. It's about control, dictatorship.
(06:46):
One person holds ultimate power, no meaningful checks and balances,
no accountability, no real opposition. That's just authoritarianism without a
good marketing campaign. Very very similar what we are somehow
sliding into while screaming about how we're patriots and love
the constitution. Fascism might be the word they fear most
(07:10):
because it's not just strong government, authoritarian power, extreme nationalism,
scapegoating minorities as the enemy, suppression of dissent, corporate and
state power working together. That might start to sound familiar
for you. A cult of personality around a single leader.
(07:35):
Fascism needs an enemy immigrants, LGBTQ people, journalists, intellectuals, and protesters.
That's why the term anti fascism exist or what they
are just simply calling antifa and they're labeling them terrorists.
(07:56):
If being anti fascist it's called terrorism, ramses, what would
that make fascism?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Fascism is always going to be fascism, but they're trying
to normalize it.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
I suppose, well, what would you call the government that
teaches you that being anti fascism is terrorism.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I would call that government fascist.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Okay, just wanted to make that clear.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Well, there you have it, black and white. So governing
yourselves accordingly, okay. Qu I know the answer to this question.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I know that you've had to like break up with
a friend before, But you know, tell me a story.
When has this ever happened in your life? What would
the circumstances, and how'd you deal with it?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
The thing that makes this question so interesting is that
I think when we hear the word friend, we dismissed
the idea of romance. I was friends with every person
I've ever fallen in love with, so I've almost never
broken up with a friend. I've never broken up with
(09:14):
a significant other before. I've only ever been either broken
up with or left in the darker the night type left.
So yeah, I can't recall ever having to break up
(09:35):
or even knowing how to do so. Now life has
set me and friends on different paths, most notably people
in my life who either outright support the current administration
or are sympathetic to it. But they drew those lines right.
(09:57):
Somebody over here says, I want to make life dangerous
for your children and your family, and you say, man,
that's cool, then you kind of made that decision for me,
because there's no person, not Barack Obama, not Bill Clinton,
not Kamala Harris that would come out and say they're
going to make life less safe for you and your
(10:20):
children and your family who I would support me, you know, Collins,
I mean anybody who can hear my voice, stranger. I
mean this literally. If there was a person running for
office and part of their campaign was that they're going
to make life less comfortable, less safe, and less equitable
(10:45):
for you and your family, like that was the intent,
not a byproduct of some policy. No, the intent is
to make life less comfortable, less safe, and less equitable
for you and your family. There's no way I could
support that person. So imagine you being my friend, me
knowing and knowing you and claiming to love you, and
(11:07):
supporting someone who has set out loud that they're going
to make life less safe and less equitable for you
and your family, and me continuing to support that person
who I've never met, who doesn't care about either of us.
So it's kind of two very different types of conversations
(11:28):
I've had some friendships kind of fizzle out on this
later topic that we just discussed, but yeah, I was.
I considered every person that I've ever been in love
with my friend on more than one occasion, my best friend.
But I never ended those relationships or broke up with
those people. They did that all by themselves.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I think that for me.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I had a friend I was really really close with
in high school and we we were like two peas
in a pod man.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
This is my guy. I'll say his name.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
His name was Yaser, And now the only reason I
can say his name is because I still love Yaser
and Yoaster still loves me, so we're good now. But
we went through a really challenging time and I was devastated.
But and I'm sure he'd agree with this, so he'd
be okay with me saying this. But once upon a
time our friendship, we got to a point where we
were just kind of getting really frustrated with each other.
(12:33):
He was making the choices that he was making, and
I was making the choices that I was making, And
he grew up a different way than I did, even
though we were in the same space. I was not
a drinker. I didn't even cuss. I still don't cuss,
you know what I mean, Like those are bad words, right,
you know, I was just kind of weirdo. I think
(12:54):
I still am a little bit. And Yaser was living
a full life, right, So all the stuff that cool
people did in high school, Yoaster did that stuff. Right.
We graduated, and so now we're in our first couple
of years of college and yos are still around and I'm,
you know, doing what I think I'm supposed to be doing.
I'm going to school, just doing my best, and Yoster's
(13:19):
decisions they compromised our friend group. And you know, I've
talked about Bootleg keV on the show before for folks
that listen to the Bootleg cav Show. Kevin is four
years younger than me, and so he was always a
(13:41):
little kid, and so I was responsible for him if
I'm driving with him, if i'm you know, whatever, taking
him out of town, that sort of thing. So if
I'm sixteen, he's twelve, you know, if I'm nineteen, he's fifteen,
he's not an adult. So he's very much my responsible.
I'm his big brother, and Yoser was my friend at
the time we were. He's still my friend. But you
(14:03):
know at the time, we were like like this, you know,
and he'd make these choices and you know, bring stuff
on the trip that wasn't supposed to be there. You know,
I'm not a drinker, like I said, he'd bring these things.
We're not twenty one yet. These things were very scary
for me at the time. And again me calling this
out would frustrate him, and then him saying, I'm being uptight.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
You know, we just ended up in a tough spot.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
So one night, you know, I discovered that, or one
day rather, I discovered that, you know, someone had backed
into the door of my car. And it just so
happened to be the case that I was working at
the security office as work study on the campus where
I worked, and I reroound the tape and I saw
that Yoser had driven his truck by my car.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
It was yellow at the time.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
It's so funny, and he backed he like was driving
down the lane in the parking lot, then like stopped
and then backed turned into the door of my car.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
And then drove off with the bumper of his truck.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
He had a kind of a beat up oll truck
and drove off just as a way to just vent
his frustration with me right, And so I saw that
video and I was like, oh my god, you know,
this is like way worse than I thought. And so
I get home later because we kind of lived together.
I didn't have my mom in high school, so I
just lived in sort of a group home type of
(15:24):
situation and you also lived there too. And I got home,
I'm like, hey man, I saw you ran it in
my car. And then he got in my face like
I didn't, why are.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
You accusing me of this? Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
And I went to my car, got a flashlight shined
on his bumper and I could see the paint from
my car on his bumper, and I was like, hey man,
what color is my car? And he looked up and
he's like, hey man, I'm sorry. I'm you know, you're right,
I'm sorry. I've been kind of going through some stuff
and you know, he kind of explained it, and I
was like, it's okay, man, I forgive you.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Don't worry about it, because I do love him.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
He went through a lot of rough stuff after he
and I kind of went our different ways, but he
found his way his beautiful family. We hugged on my
last it was two birthdays to go. But you know,
we're good now. But the breakup part, for me at least,
was kind of letting them because you know, in Yostro's case,
(16:17):
with me, that wasn't a romantic story. That was literally
just my friend. How we ended up breaking up, which
again wasn't something I wanted to do. I don't think
it was something he wanted to do either, But we
just kind of let the story take its natural course,
and then we started asking real questions about the reality
of our circumstances. Would you be friends with somebody like you?
(16:40):
Would you go to sleep in the same space as
somebody like you? You've done these things? Do you think
that this is appropriate? If someone did this to you,
how would you feel? How would you respond to it?
And so I guess that breakup, if you want to
call it that, that's the closest thing I can remember.
Even though it was devastating for me, and it was
(17:01):
I'm sure it was devastating for him too. It was
really a very measured, very calculated decision that we arrived at.
We were pretty mature for that a.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Well, I was.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I think I was pretty mature for that age. And
I think that Yaser was mature in other ways, but yeah,
reaching that point was it was simply a matter of logic,
and I think what we decided to call it was
like a break. You know, hey, let's just take a break. Man,
let me let me finish this semester you're working on,
you know, your job stuff.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Why don't you do that? Man, I'm always here for
you know. I love you, I love your mom.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
You know, he says the same. But let's give each
other a little bit of space and then just kind
of let what happens happens, right, And then of course
I went on and graduated, I got into radio, and
Yoaster went on and did.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
What he ended up doing and learned his lessons. I
learned mine.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
And you know, the story has a happy ending. But
that's the best advice I could offer to somebody on
how to break up with a friend if someone you
really love, it gets kind of complicated. So good luck,
and that's going to do it for us here at
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(18:10):
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Peace
Still broadcasting from the Civic Cipher Studios. Welcome back to
the QR code, where we share perspective, seeking understanding, and
shape outcomes. Demand you are about to hear from is
a man who made a promise to always be there
for my son if he ever has questions and he
can't get a hold of his dad for some reason.
(00:21):
And I appreciate that more than you know. He is
the Q in the QR code. He goes by the
name of Qward.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
The voice that you just heard will steal me, my
brother and my friend. Even after today's question, I think
that's very, very important to point out he is the
R in the QR code and he goes by the
name ramses Jaw.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
And the question that we're going to be asking is
how do you break up with a friend? It just
jumped off the page at us and we were like,
you know what, let's ask this question.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
And so we're.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Gonna learn in real time what that looks like and
if we've ever done that before, because we don't know
the answer. But right now it is time for Q
words clapback, and he's going to give us an elementary
breakdown of society frameworks.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Q take it away, you know, family. One of the
most effective weapons that I've observed in the political sphere
in this country. A weapon, an effective, a very effective
weapon used by the right. MAGA in particular, has been
used against its own base, which sounds crazy, a weapon
(01:25):
that they use against their own base, but it's intentional confusion.
They actually rely on people not knowing what words mean,
and it's been an effective tool for them. They've turned
socialism into a pejorative. They label anti fascism as terrorism.
(01:54):
They scream about freedom while supporting systems that take freedom away,
and then they use trick words, right, because if you
don't understand different types of societies and governments, you can
be convinced to vote not just against your own best interest,
against your own survival. So let's slow this down. No ideology,
(02:20):
no insults, just clarity. Let's start at the top. Capitalism.
That's where we live, that's what we actually live under.
Capitalism simply means private ownership of business. Profit is the
primary goal. Whoever has the most capital has the most power.
(02:44):
And capitalism healthcare is a product, housing a product, education
a product. You are not given what you need, you
get what you can afford. Now, people would argue capitalism
(03:07):
has created so much in a way of innovation, but
without rules or limits or safety nets, it also creates
extreme inequality, corporate dominance, one hundred year almost wage stagnation,
people working full time jobs and not being able to
(03:31):
pay their rent, their health, for their health care, or
for their education. Some people working multiple jobs and struggling
to survive. And that's not a bug. That's how capitalism
was designed to work. The system almost requires that some
of us have nothing.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
It absolutely does require them now not have jobs.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I'd argue that capitalism doesn't have any virtues. Pull up
on me and we can have that discussion whenever you want.
Socialism this is their favorite word, and man, did they
lie to you about this one. They want you to
believe that socialism means big government controls everything. Not so fast,
(04:14):
my friend. Socialism simply means the society collectively insureds that
basic needs are met for everybody. Health Care, education, infrastructure
are all treated as public goods, not profit centers. The
(04:36):
funny thing is those who argue against socialism practice it
for themselves and each other every day. Under socialism, you
still work, you still own money, I mean, you still
earn money.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
You still own property. You just won't go bankrupt for
getting sick. You don't drown in debt because you want
an education, and you don't lose your housing because a
company decided that profits matter more than people. Most MAGA
voters already like socialist policies. They just don't like the
word social security, medicare, public schools as rams is pointing
(05:12):
out fire departments, you know, and public roads, all of
that socialism. They just don't call it that, and they
trick you every time. Communism this is what they call
everything they disagree with. Communism simply means the state owns
(05:34):
all major property, no private enterprise, no class system. In theory,
power concentrates at the top. The United States is not communists.
No serious political movement in this country is proposing communism.
(05:57):
Calling universal healthcare a communist practice is intentional ignorance and
intentionally dishonest. But they bet on and have successfully won
that bet their base, not knowing what the word means. Authoritarianism,
what we are sliding toward actively centralized power leaders that
(06:21):
weaken courtssent is punished, and loyalty matters more than the law.
You still have elections. They just don't matter. Sound familiar
leaders attacking judges, the media, protesters, and civil servants while
demanding loyalty. It's not about left or right. It's about control, dictatorship.
(06:46):
One person holds ultimate power, no meaningful checks and balances,
no accountability, no real opposition. That's just authoritarianism without a
good marketing campaign. Very very similar what we are somehow
sliding into while screaming about how we're patriots and love
the constitution. Fascism might be the word they fear most
(07:10):
because it's not just strong government, authoritarian power, extreme nationalism,
scapegoating minorities as the enemy, suppression of dissent, corporate and
state power working together. That might start to sound familiar
for you. A cult of personality around a single leader.
(07:35):
Fascism needs an enemy immigrants, LGBTQ people, journalists, intellectuals, and protesters.
That's why the term anti fascism exist or what they
are just simply calling antifa and they're labeling them terrorists.
(07:56):
If being anti fascist it's called terrorism, ramses, what would
that make fascism?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Fascism is always going to be fascism, but they're trying
to normalize it.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
I suppose, well, what would you call the government that
teaches you that being anti fascism is terrorism.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I would call that government fascist.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Okay, just wanted to make that clear.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Well, there you have it, black and white. So governing
yourselves accordingly, okay. Qu I know the answer to this question.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I know that you've had to like break up with
a friend before, But you know, tell me a story.
When has this ever happened in your life? What would
the circumstances, and how'd you deal with it?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
The thing that makes this question so interesting is that
I think when we hear the word friend, we dismissed
the idea of romance. I was friends with every person
I've ever fallen in love with, so I've almost never
broken up with a friend. I've never broken up with
(09:14):
a significant other before. I've only ever been either broken
up with or left in the darker the night type left.
So yeah, I can't recall ever having to break up
(09:35):
or even knowing how to do so. Now life has
set me and friends on different paths, most notably people
in my life who either outright support the current administration
or are sympathetic to it. But they drew those lines right.
(09:57):
Somebody over here says, I want to make life dangerous
for your children and your family, and you say, man,
that's cool, then you kind of made that decision for me,
because there's no person, not Barack Obama, not Bill Clinton,
not Kamala Harris that would come out and say they're
going to make life less safe for you and your
(10:20):
children and your family who I would support me, you know, Collins,
I mean anybody who can hear my voice, stranger. I
mean this literally. If there was a person running for
office and part of their campaign was that they're going
to make life less comfortable, less safe, and less equitable
(10:45):
for you and your family, like that was the intent,
not a byproduct of some policy. No, the intent is
to make life less comfortable, less safe, and less equitable
for you and your family. There's no way I could
support that person. So imagine you being my friend, me
knowing and knowing you and claiming to love you, and
(11:07):
supporting someone who has set out loud that they're going
to make life less safe and less equitable for you
and your family, and me continuing to support that person
who I've never met, who doesn't care about either of us.
So it's kind of two very different types of conversations
(11:28):
I've had some friendships kind of fizzle out on this
later topic that we just discussed, but yeah, I was.
I considered every person that I've ever been in love
with my friend on more than one occasion, my best friend.
But I never ended those relationships or broke up with
those people. They did that all by themselves.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I think that for me.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I had a friend I was really really close with
in high school and we we were like two peas
in a pod man.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
This is my guy. I'll say his name.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
His name was Yaser, And now the only reason I
can say his name is because I still love Yaser
and Yoaster still loves me, so we're good now. But
we went through a really challenging time and I was devastated.
But and I'm sure he'd agree with this, so he'd
be okay with me saying this. But once upon a
time our friendship, we got to a point where we
were just kind of getting really frustrated with each other.
(12:33):
He was making the choices that he was making, and
I was making the choices that I was making, And
he grew up a different way than I did, even
though we were in the same space. I was not
a drinker. I didn't even cuss. I still don't cuss,
you know what I mean, Like those are bad words, right,
you know, I was just kind of weirdo. I think
(12:54):
I still am a little bit. And Yaser was living
a full life, right, So all the stuff that cool
people did in high school, Yoaster did that stuff. Right.
We graduated, and so now we're in our first couple
of years of college and yos are still around and I'm,
you know, doing what I think I'm supposed to be doing.
I'm going to school, just doing my best, and Yoster's
(13:19):
decisions they compromised our friend group. And you know, I've
talked about Bootleg keV on the show before for folks
that listen to the Bootleg cav Show. Kevin is four
years younger than me, and so he was always a
(13:41):
little kid, and so I was responsible for him if
I'm driving with him, if i'm you know, whatever, taking
him out of town, that sort of thing. So if
I'm sixteen, he's twelve, you know, if I'm nineteen, he's fifteen,
he's not an adult. So he's very much my responsible.
I'm his big brother, and Yoser was my friend at
the time we were. He's still my friend. But you
(14:03):
know at the time, we were like like this, you know,
and he'd make these choices and you know, bring stuff
on the trip that wasn't supposed to be there. You know,
I'm not a drinker, like I said, he'd bring these things.
We're not twenty one yet. These things were very scary
for me at the time. And again me calling this
out would frustrate him, and then him saying, I'm being uptight.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
You know, we just ended up in a tough spot.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
So one night, you know, I discovered that, or one
day rather, I discovered that, you know, someone had backed
into the door of my car. And it just so
happened to be the case that I was working at
the security office as work study on the campus where
I worked, and I reroound the tape and I saw
that Yoser had driven his truck by my car.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
It was yellow at the time.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
It's so funny, and he backed he like was driving
down the lane in the parking lot, then like stopped
and then backed turned into the door of my car.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
And then drove off with the bumper of his truck.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
He had a kind of a beat up oll truck
and drove off just as a way to just vent
his frustration with me right, And so I saw that
video and I was like, oh my god, you know,
this is like way worse than I thought. And so
I get home later because we kind of lived together.
I didn't have my mom in high school, so I
just lived in sort of a group home type of
(15:24):
situation and you also lived there too. And I got home,
I'm like, hey man, I saw you ran it in
my car. And then he got in my face like
I didn't, why are.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
You accusing me of this? Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
And I went to my car, got a flashlight shined
on his bumper and I could see the paint from
my car on his bumper, and I was like, hey man,
what color is my car? And he looked up and
he's like, hey man, I'm sorry. I'm you know, you're right,
I'm sorry. I've been kind of going through some stuff
and you know, he kind of explained it, and I
was like, it's okay, man, I forgive you.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Don't worry about it, because I do love him.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
He went through a lot of rough stuff after he
and I kind of went our different ways, but he
found his way his beautiful family. We hugged on my
last it was two birthdays to go. But you know,
we're good now. But the breakup part, for me at least,
was kind of letting them because you know, in Yostro's case,
(16:17):
with me, that wasn't a romantic story. That was literally
just my friend. How we ended up breaking up, which
again wasn't something I wanted to do. I don't think
it was something he wanted to do either, But we
just kind of let the story take its natural course,
and then we started asking real questions about the reality
of our circumstances. Would you be friends with somebody like you?
(16:40):
Would you go to sleep in the same space as
somebody like you? You've done these things? Do you think
that this is appropriate? If someone did this to you,
how would you feel? How would you respond to it?
And so I guess that breakup, if you want to
call it that, that's the closest thing I can remember.
Even though it was devastating for me, and it was
(17:01):
I'm sure it was devastating for him too. It was
really a very measured, very calculated decision that we arrived at.
We were pretty mature for that a.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Well, I was.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I think I was pretty mature for that age. And
I think that Yaser was mature in other ways, but yeah,
reaching that point was it was simply a matter of logic,
and I think what we decided to call it was
like a break. You know, hey, let's just take a break. Man,
let me let me finish this semester you're working on,
you know, your job stuff.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Why don't you do that? Man, I'm always here for
you know. I love you, I love your mom.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
You know, he says the same. But let's give each
other a little bit of space and then just kind
of let what happens happens, right, And then of course
I went on and graduated, I got into radio, and
Yoaster went on and did.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
What he ended up doing and learned his lessons. I
learned mine.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
And you know, the story has a happy ending. But
that's the best advice I could offer to somebody on
how to break up with a friend if someone you
really love, it gets kind of complicated. So good luck,
and that's going to do it for us here at
the QR Code. Today's show was produced by Chris Thompson.
Got it right this time. Shout out Chris Thompson. Thank
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you for everything.
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