GECK IRL: “I’M FINALLY AT PEACE”

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello. We are here in Washington Square Park.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
I have been I have traversed not a I mean
I've traversed a fair amount of places, and one of
my favorite places on the earth is Washington Square Park.
It brings together a diverse range of people. There's old people,
there's young people. There's all kinds of people. Those are

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the two kinds of people. But there's a lot of
people here. There's a lot of activity, there's a lot
of life, and I love it. I feel like I'm
at the center of the universe right now here in
Washington Square Park.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
I don't know why I'm talking like I'm an announcer.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Let's talk to some people. That's why we're here. We're
here to be a gecko and talk to people about life.
Do you want to talk to a gecko about life? No,
he doesn't. Do you want to talk to a gecko
about life? Have a seat? Have a seat. What's your name?

Speaker 3 (00:56):
My name is ChEls Parola.

Speaker 4 (00:57):
How are you doing?

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Charles's probably got a first end last Carls Parolas and
last name Parlo Paralo. Up, Charles, how's life? Ah, I'm
pretty good.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
I'm sitting next to a guy with a face like
like face panton and dress as a get go. This
is exactly what my parents envision for my life. They
want me to get an investment banking instead of doing this.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Okay, how's your relationship with your parents? They both passed away.
I'm sorry to hear that.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yeah, that's kind of a that was kind of a
rough segue there. I'm sorry I had how did you
give you do that?

Speaker 4 (01:21):
There?

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Where did you have a good relationship with them?

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Like growing up?

Speaker 3 (01:24):
I go got good enough?

Speaker 4 (01:25):
Yeah, I guess so.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
I mean, you know, I had a like a kind
of a rough relation with my dad until like a
few like, like I said, the year before we passed away. Okay,
so it's kind of nice. We actually got along for
that final year.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
So that's not when you guys were getting along. Like
what kind of stuff would you like do together?

Speaker 4 (01:39):
You know, I don't know if we would do.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
I mean, we would just hang out, you know, just
like eat dinner things like that. But I think it
was just like, you know, I didn't have the best
career for like years, and then it kind of picked up,
you know, and then I was like there was some
kind of pride there. We had some fun, but yeah,
it was kind of cool.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Did you like, did you learn anything about like in
that like little window of time, do you like, learn
anything about him that you like didn't didn't know during
your life that maybe like surprise you.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
So I mean occasionally, like because you know, my mom
passed away years earlier, and he had another girlfriend, and
he'd occasionally get drunk and talk about sexual things. So
I learned some weird fetish ship. I learned he liked feet.
He had that Dan Schneider thing going on. Yeah, so
I don't you know, I don't you know that's gonna
be broadcast now. But hey, you know doctor Kid's doctor
Parola like feet, you know what?

Speaker 4 (02:23):
You know?

Speaker 2 (02:23):
This actually brings up an interesting subject because it's like
if your dad starts talking to you about sex in
a weird way. It's like, you know, you only have
one you know, your parents are your parents, and you
know you want to know about them because they're your parents,
but also because they're your parents, you don't want to

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know about their sex life. But there's also a weird
thing where it's like, you know, I don't know, there's
a there's a like your dad telling you that he's
in defeat. There's like a vulnerability in there that does
kind of a lot of alcohol to a lot of alcohol,
but it's a vulnerability in there that is like kind
of even though it's like, oh, that's my dad, I
don't know if I necessarily wanted to know that, it's like, Oh,

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I'm kind of glad that I'm getting to know my dad,
or is.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
That we never really talked about sex and he never
gave me the talk. When I was a kid, I
learned about sex from Jerry Seinfeld, I just watching Don Feldts.
In fact, I remember the only time he tried talking
about sex, I already had it.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
I was sixteen. We were watching the movie.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
The Ninth Gate and it was kind of crazy because
there's a scene where Johnny Depp is having sex in
front of a burning church and there's some woman who's
who's actually the devil and her face is turning into
a horse face for some weird reason. And that was
the moment my dad's like, you know, you got to
use protection and I'm like, wait, are we doing that?
And he's like no, seriously, seriously, pregnancy that could be

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taken care of, but you know, ATDs are a thing,
and I'm like, wait, are we seriously having a moment.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Right now, he said, pregnancy that could be taken care of.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
But we were, we were, you know, it was weird.
I was going to Catholic school at the time, but
we were. We were like a kind of a liberal
household in that respect, you know, we were we were
the family. We had that like herschel Walker thought like, hey,
you get some pregnant, you put four ndred dollars and
a get well card and takes care of itself. Might
not be the best joke for everybody around, but okay,
it's you know, worked for them.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
I mean, you can abort chlamydia too, yeah, I mean,
I mean, yeah you can.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
You can get rid of chlamydia. Can't get rid of
some of the other ones. I mean I kind of
was wondering at age like fifteen sixteen, who my dad
thought I was hanging out with, Like, I mean, I
don't think like the clap was a thing that was
spreading around like with sophomores in high school. I mean,
but maybe it was. Maybe I just wasn't active enough.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Like no, so you said, okay, you said that, you're
you're kind of when your career started picking up, your
relationship with your dad started to give it what was
your career?

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Picking up looking looking like, what what is your career?

Speaker 3 (04:35):
I'm a YouTuber, TikToker actually like yourself, and I would say,
you know, like originally my dad kind of did it
because I always tried working in startups and other projects.
It didn't really go like the best, and there's a
lot of failure, a lot of false hope like oh, hey,
this is gonna work and it doesn't, and then the
money really starts coming in, especially from the snapchat shows. Yeah,
but I think like the best moment was, you know,
the Marek Human interview. I interviewed him back in the day.

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I had him on for like almost two hours. Cool
and my dad never watched it in my interviews before.
He said I was interviewing has been celebrities, which a
little bit true. And uh then he like watched the
whole Mark Cuban interview on TV. I went out to
like a club and then like I came back home
actually and he was like, hey, I just want to
say you did a really great job, but that that
was a really nice thing. And I actually I actually
told Mark after he passed away, I spoke to Cuban again,

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I mentioned that, yeah, and like, yeah, Mark Cuban, that
was a that's a really cool dude. I mean there's
two guys I can say I've met in this business
that are like, you know, like doing this, that are
just altern nice people. Mark Cuban's like exceptionalize.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
The other one, and this is the coolest thing, is
a mister Beast. Actually. Yeah, like you know, end of
last year, he followed me on Instagram and messaged me
and like, uh he really enough wanted a phone call.
And I was like almost crying afterwards, Like I told
people that, and you probably get a little yourself, like
that's almost like being like an actor on like a
regular TV show. And then DiCaprio, who shoots you a text,
great job like that's that was like it was like

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a tier moment. You get that feeling all.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
You know, it's fine.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
I I actually I'm I met mister Beast once a
while ago. I was at some I was at vid
Coon too. I went in.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
I was either twenty twenty two or twenty two three.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
I said it was twenty two twenty two. I've been
the last couple, but not twenty twenty two.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
And I was there, and I was in this like
room where like TikTok had a little like room where they.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
It was like it was like Brent Television, the SpongeBob
popsicle guy. There buy a chance there's.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
A SpongeBob popsicle.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
I was just watching a I was just watching an
hour long YouTube video about the SpongeBob pobstacle. Yeah, I was.
I was there and I mister Beast walks into the
room and dude, like, snap about me, dude. Immediately, all
these people just start like swarming him, like camera first,
being like, hey, mister beast, let me like show you

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a magic trick. Hey mister Beast, let me be in
my video because they want to like get his space.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
And I felt like bad for him.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
It's kind of like this when I was when I
was a kid, Like, uh, Pope, the Pope before the
current One visited New York and I was watching it
just on TV and there were tons of nuns jumping
like saying, oh, we got to get close to him,
got close with They're almost like groupies, and it's the Beatles.
That's kind of what it's like. It's like you could
have five million screw subscribers on YouTube and you're jumping
to see mister Bees like you could be because there's

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like there's kind of like a level where I feel like,
you know you and I might sort of be on
it where people sort of know us, like you know,
we get recognized. I mean, hell, that happened when you
were setting up, Like one guy came to you, A
bunch of people came up to you. One by guy
came to me. But but then there's like then there's
the megas and it's like there's like like god t here.
It's like and that's that's what he is, and it's
kind of that's what It's kind of sick to be
noticed by that.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
That's cool, you know. I always wonder about mister Beast
because like, uh, he keeps going and he's really young.
He's he's younger than me, you know, but he just
he keeps going. And I always wonder with dudes like that.
I'm like, how do you keep going? Because you get
to a certain point where you're like, uh, you know,

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like like what like after you achieve like this like
your massive sess you're number one, like you can't how
do you be?

Speaker 1 (07:56):
How do you keep being wanting to be more than
number one.

Speaker 4 (07:59):
For like infinity.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
So I've had a few conversations with him about that actually,
and I think at this point he has reached the
number one status on YouTube, and I think now his
big dream is to be someone like Walt Disney. Like
I really think his vision is because he told me
how many you know, I don't know if I can
say the number on camera, but he told me how
many candy bars they're selling. It's they're competitive with Hershey,
now they are. This is a billion dollar company.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Oh, I'm a large portion of that pie buying those
mister beets.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
I think they're just okay. And I told him that.
I told him that I respect Oh yeah, I told him.
I said I'd give the chocolate. I gave him a bee.
I gave him a bee. I gave him a bee
for beast.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, they're okay. I mean, well they're they're specifically not
meant to have as much like sugar and crap in them, right,
I don't.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
Know about that. It's like, I think they're fine. I
just think there could be some better chocolates out there.
But he's a really cool guy and I think he
will build a company worth ten billion dollars or more like,
I mean it's already I think valued at a billion dollars.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
Wait a minute, So back to you.

Speaker 4 (08:57):
Sure, back to me.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
You say, oh yeah, okay, So you interviewed these celebrities
and you're like, so, how I gots I'm curious about this,
like how do you how do you feel about your
career and life?

Speaker 3 (09:10):
And I think we're at a little bit of a
plateau right now. It's like there's nothing like, I mean,
do you ever get that feeling yourself as a creator.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
I've been getting. That's twenty twenty five has been for
me about about like, oh I have that plateau.

Speaker 3 (09:22):
Yeah, because it's like you could people don't realize it
as a creator. It's like you get to that point,
like the growth numbers aren't the same you get to
because people always think, like, you know, you get a
million subscribers, you're gonna have ten times as many views
one hundred thousand. But you know, I don't know if
you're more of a shorts or longer form or both.
But I actually told people it's like, oh, my most
viewed month ever on YouTube was eighty five million views,
and I had under fifty thousand subscribers. Yeah, now it's

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like I have a million subscribers. I can get like
a quarter of that. So it's like there's a little
bit of a plateau. So it's trying to break the
plateau and doing things like you know, I hired a
guy to do an animatedor we're gonna try to do an
animated videos. New app I'm trying to launch. So there's
so many new things you try to do because if
you because if you do have a plateau, you just
have a regular job like everyone else.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
That's all you're hundredercent correct.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
The thing though, is that, like, you know, I've experienced
posting a video on Instagram and TikTok or whatever and
having it get a million views or whatever, and I,
you know, I look at my YouTube or whatever and
I'm like, I don't know if it's like views that
I'm chasing more so than it is like, uh, I
don't know a novelty in like like like I don't

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know if the plateau is necessarily about like a number
more than it is about like, you know, what you're
actually doing.

Speaker 5 (10:31):
It gets the.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
Point I feel a little bit more almost about money, sadly,
because it's like, because the thing is when I first
when I first went viral on TikTok, and like, cause
you said you did this for five years, right, so
around the same for me as well. It was like
I started, like I really started going viral on like
twenty twenty one. And I remember the first time I
did a video. I was living with my brother and
like when they do the one viral, it was about
Adam Sandler. I posted two videos that day I made

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the night before. The first got eight views in two hours,
which eight likes in two hours, and then the second
one got seventeen thousand two hours and ended up getting
three and a half million views. And that's when I
was like, Okay, the celebrity stuff is really starting to sell.
And I did that and I was really, you know,
happy with how things were going. But but then it's like,
you know, and I wasn't even making money the first

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six months because there was that rumor TikTok they wouldn't
pay you if you monetize, and I believed it and
I was more into getting that two million view a
day number that I was making money, and I didn't,
you know, so I went like, you know, six months.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
I remember there was a rumor that if you joined
the Creator Fund, like they don't want to.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
Pay out, yeah, which was false, and you know, so
I didn't monetize, but it was more important to get
the views. Now it's like, oh hey, whippy, do get
get a million views. It's like I've done that hundreds
of times. So now it's like, okay, the money but
it got it's got to stop doing that. So it's
like now about long form content. Now it's about new
projects because.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
Do you like well, do you like do you like
covering celebrities?

Speaker 5 (11:50):
You know?

Speaker 3 (11:51):
So the thing is this, there's a line in Hollywood
because they say with directing, one for me, one for you,
And I think the biggest example of that is Tim Burdon.
Tim burd And did the movie Als in Wonderland. He
did not want to direct that movie. He didn't direct
the sequel.

Speaker 4 (12:03):
He didn't care.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
He did it just so they would fund franken Weeni,
which was one of his early projects. It was one
for me, one for you moment. So with me, there's
some videos I really love covering. When I get to
do celebrity financials and movie financials and there's some cool stuff.
But then there's other times where yeah, it's not it's
like it's like just a video. Like like I mentioned earlier,
I did want about Hayley jaw Osman today about him

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getting arrested, and at the end of the video, I said, hey,
we all deserve to be forgiven, like and that was
like kind of a message there. But then again, I
like to sprinkle some stuff I'm interested in because you know,
he got paid one hundred and fifty k for six cents.
Bruce Will's got one hundred and twelve million. I think
that's a fact that should be known because it shows
how child actors, I think, are getting ripped off. So
I think, so, yeah, I am happy with the work,
but it could be better.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
I think that I like the application of the one
for me, one for you thing to you know, the
Internet universe.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
And I was all right, a little bit about like life.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
You know, I mean in general, if you want to
pursue some kind of creative thing, you know, everyone has
to make money and feed themselves. And it's like, you know, look,
you go to your job, you do one for yeah, yeah,
you give one up for capitalism, and then you yeah,
you do one for yourself. You know, it's it's you
can do both.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
I think it's a lot of careers. My dad was
a doctor and one thing he told me was he
loved doing surgery. Surgeries is fun. Pretty much every surgeon
love surgery. They hate seeing eighty patients in one day
having them complain getting the BS.

Speaker 5 (13:28):
But it's like a one.

Speaker 3 (13:28):
For me, one for you is you do those days
so you can do the days you like.

Speaker 4 (13:32):
Yep. Yeah, you know.

Speaker 3 (13:32):
Maybe there's some interviews you don't love doing, but some
videos do well.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
I'm having fun doing that. I like being outside.

Speaker 4 (13:38):
This is cool.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
You know you.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
Now, I gotta ask you a question, Okay, go ahead.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
What's the craziest interview you've done so far?

Speaker 1 (13:44):
Craziest well, craziest location, craziest.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
Location I've done. I mean, I've done this in Thailand,
I've done this in Japan. I've done this in Guatemala, Mexico.
I want to do more of that stuff, but okay,
you know, I don't know right now. Now, I'm enjoying
being in in New York. That's pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
It's a cool world we live in.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
What's your name again, brother, Charles, Charles part what's your
YouTube channel? Gotta check it out.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
My name Charles Parot Parol.

Speaker 4 (14:11):
You have a card, I'll give you my card.

Speaker 6 (14:13):
Car.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
I gotta get a car. I gotta get a Gecko card.
I can have my illustrator make you want to be
Oh it's oh, it's oh crap shit, oh dar okay.
Oh I love this. It's a Pokemon. I'm gonna show
this to the camera. This is pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
It's a it's a Pokemon business card.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
It's pretty sweet. Viral rush the ability to make any
topic viral and turn it into a million views. This
is cool, man.

Speaker 4 (14:37):
Yeah, that's gotta go. Pole boy.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
I'm known for like the YouTube polls too and now,
and I'm wondering if people are gonna watch that and
start calling me because my own numbers on it.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
But it's pretty cool, Charles Man, thanks for sitting out.
Anything else you want to say to the people of
the computer before we go.

Speaker 3 (14:50):
Uh, twenty twenty five. We're one third into the year.
I enjoy the rest of the two thirds and have fun.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
Charles speach Man, what's your name? My friend? Terrence, Terrence Pleasure.
What's up with you? Man? Do you have people in
your life for you alone?

Speaker 7 (15:05):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (15:05):
Yeah, I got people right here just as well. Yeah,
told me from Italy?

Speaker 4 (15:11):
Yeah? Nice?

Speaker 5 (15:13):
And that's my girlfriend. These are friends from Italy.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
My friends for are you from Italy? No?

Speaker 8 (15:17):
No, just my girlfriend is okay, yeah, okay, I'm not
that interesting. I'm from South Jersey, so nice. What's got
what's what's got you here in New York City?

Speaker 6 (15:26):
Work?

Speaker 2 (15:27):
Wait? You for work?

Speaker 5 (15:28):
Finance?

Speaker 2 (15:28):
So okay? Yeah, so it brought me a lot of money.
You don't have to say you don't want to Actually.

Speaker 5 (15:34):
I make Yeah, it's not bad. It keeps keeps me
in an apartment.

Speaker 9 (15:39):
You know.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
Nice.

Speaker 5 (15:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
What do you like about life?

Speaker 5 (15:44):
Possibility, opportunity, basically.

Speaker 8 (15:48):
Dune trying to you know, survive, get get them by nice?

Speaker 5 (15:53):
Uh art, I guess yeah. Are and culture great thing
about life?

Speaker 2 (15:59):
I don't know if they can and uh hear it
on the microphones. But where there's a guy over there
playing the violin. Oh yes, and it's very beautiful.

Speaker 5 (16:10):
Very talented. I wish I was half as talented.

Speaker 4 (16:15):
You know.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
I want to say I want to say something about
because I actually I do this a lot, not to
I don't know why I'm making what you said into
a whole thing, but I'm projecting right now. I'm projecting
right now. But I'll like, if I see somebody like
doing something cool, I do. I do kind of have
this like ego thing that I do. Why I bring
everything back to me Like I'm like, oh, I wish

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I was that good or I wish I was I
wish I was that. And I've been lately trying to
catch myself and just be like, just appreciate that this this.

Speaker 5 (16:47):
Thing, that this is a part of life. Yeah, yeah,
part of it. Yeah, I guess, yeah, maybe I am selfish.

Speaker 8 (16:52):
Maybe I think that's I think I know I have
to steal bros, you know, talent, Like I like, I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
You ever, like you ever on Instagram or look at
that dog you everyone like Instagram or like like I'll
go to a comedy club or whatever, I'll see someone
perform something and I'll be like, Oh, that person's so good.
I wish I was like this talented as something. And
sometimes I try to knock myself in the head and
be like, just.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
Appreciate that you live. You can't you can't be God,
you can't.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
Be the best thing at everything, in all things at all.
There's a reason that there's more than one person creating
the entire planet that we live in, you know.

Speaker 8 (17:29):
And that's what sucks. Like Damn, I can't be a
violin player. I can't be you know, a therapy keechout.
Like I guess I'm just me just doing whatever I
can do. That's pretty good.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
What is it? What is what is being you?

Speaker 5 (17:45):
Music? Producing?

Speaker 2 (17:46):
Really?

Speaker 5 (17:46):
Okay that's my passion.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
But yeah, what who do you like in the music universe?

Speaker 5 (17:51):
Music universe?

Speaker 8 (17:54):
You gotta say, like paral m F Doom is kind
of like everyone's like saying Tom F Doom, Trap call
Quest was like my big ye, my biggest thing.

Speaker 5 (18:04):
Great picks, Yeah, dayla soul.

Speaker 8 (18:06):
I mean I love I grew up on like nineties rap,
so like I love all those guys, Like do you
know you know King Dora, King Dora, Yes, yes, yes,
the Doom and uh Victor Vaughan.

Speaker 5 (18:17):
And all of them.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
I have I have. I have many memories of over
ten years ago, uh smoking weed in a car parked
on the side of the road in a random neighborhood,
gating to listening to King gy Dora Take me to
your Leader.

Speaker 5 (18:36):
The best, great ship, the best times. Can't really beat that.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
What's your what's your ultimate dream in life?

Speaker 5 (18:43):
A music producer?

Speaker 8 (18:44):
Yes, yeah, for sure, produced for some of my favorite artists.

Speaker 5 (18:49):
Meet just really meet some of my idols.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
Really, that's who would you want to meet? If you
could meet anyone?

Speaker 8 (18:55):
Well, I could check you off the list, Okay, hell yeah,
like Dave Chappelle, Larry Bird, not Larry Bird, Larry David
and then uh yeah.

Speaker 5 (19:05):
Far our Q Tip did you did you?

Speaker 2 (19:09):
Is you Tip alive?

Speaker 5 (19:10):
Yeah? Fife Dog, Fife Fife Dog. Don't quote me. I
think he's the one that passed away.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
Yeah. Uh, what the hell was I gonna What was
I gonna say? Oh, I forget I was just about
it was about celebrities, Larry David or Dave Chappellerry David,
Dave Chappelle, Dave meeting people, meeting people. My brain's not
working right now. Why do I not know what I'm
talking about?

Speaker 5 (19:34):
Comedy shows?

Speaker 2 (19:35):
Comedy show? Do you like comedy? Who do you like?

Speaker 5 (19:37):
Love comedy?

Speaker 10 (19:38):
Me?

Speaker 8 (19:38):
And uh, me and my girlfriend actually have a kind
of an addiction of going to the comedy seller.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
So, oh yeah, who who do you see? It to
that comedy seller.

Speaker 4 (19:47):
One of the.

Speaker 8 (19:47):
Biggest surprises Andrew Schultz like he just he just pulled
up randomly hit us with a couple of jokes.

Speaker 5 (19:53):
We saw at.

Speaker 8 (19:58):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, when when see you there, he put
up randomly.

Speaker 5 (20:02):
Shoot, I'm asking like for validation.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
I didn't know he still didn't stand up.

Speaker 5 (20:07):
Yeah, he pulled up randomly, and I was kind of.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
In the last five years.

Speaker 5 (20:11):
Yes, this was within the last year.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
I want to say, yeah, he's still doing stand up.

Speaker 5 (20:15):
And I started freaking out. I tried to tap her, like, hey,
that's that's Judd Apatow.

Speaker 4 (20:18):
She was like, who's that?

Speaker 5 (20:19):
And I was like that dude.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
You get to a point where you're like, nobody knows
who you know anymore, and the door keeps revolving. Yeah,
you know, nobody knows who you know. You don't know
anyone else knows.

Speaker 5 (20:31):
I mean, you know, it's crazy. I mean I was
freaking out when I saw you. So she was like,
who's that?

Speaker 8 (20:40):
High school Okay, yeah yeah yeah.

Speaker 5 (20:43):
I'm uh pretty good high school life. Yeah. I had
a crush on her. It took me a while to
get there, but we made it happen.

Speaker 2 (20:54):
Yeah, like you seem like you're living a nice life.

Speaker 5 (20:58):
I'm doing all right. I appreciate or kunt of my blessings.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
I guess yeah, yeah, I'm trying to do the same thing.

Speaker 4 (21:04):
This is a good place to do that.

Speaker 8 (21:06):
This park, New York. Yeah, this park. Yeah, a lot
of stuff going on. This guy's killing it, like I wish.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
I wish this camera was three sixty degrees. Yeah, show off.

Speaker 8 (21:20):
But we can't do multitude. I can't wish for a
unicycle right now, but.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
You can wish for whatever you want.

Speaker 5 (21:26):
I would love a unicycle right now. One of those
guys right now.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
What's your name again, Terrence? Terrence? Is there anything else
you gonna say? The people, the computer before we go?

Speaker 8 (21:34):
Yeah, follow my music page, skateboard Tea, Yeah, skateboard Tea, yes,
follow skateboard TA.

Speaker 5 (21:39):
Producer, producer life.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
Yeah, thank you very much, skateboard TA. See you around
the universe.

Speaker 4 (21:44):
How much this means?

Speaker 2 (21:45):
Oh, thanks man, thanks man, good luck on your dreams.
My friends. Well, Hi, what's your name?

Speaker 4 (21:52):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (21:53):
Can you hold your uh?

Speaker 6 (21:54):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (21:54):
There we go.

Speaker 6 (21:56):
Yeah, like if Mike Tyson said, Gay's Gai.

Speaker 2 (21:59):
Gaith Oh, Oh, okay, okay, got what's kay?

Speaker 4 (22:02):
What's your actual name?

Speaker 2 (22:03):
My name is Lyle, Lyle.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
Nice to meet you.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
Gae. You formally how's life? You look cool? I like
this jewelry that you have.

Speaker 6 (22:11):
You can look fish cooler than me, actually look but
uh a little more confident.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
Oh, look at this King Kong I'm looking look at
the King Kong Ring.

Speaker 6 (22:20):
Yeah, I actually just found it today. It's the first
day of warn it, first couple of hours of worn it.
So I'm glad you enjoy it.

Speaker 2 (22:25):
So, Gaith, what's up? Tell me everything? Tell me nothing?
What's what do? What do we? What do we do?

Speaker 6 (22:32):
Just?

Speaker 4 (22:32):
What do we do?

Speaker 2 (22:33):
I'm looking, I'm at the park. I'm looking for answers. Man,
do you have any answers? Answers or not, they don't
have to be the answer. But what are your answers?
Do you have answers?

Speaker 4 (22:41):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (22:42):
I'm basking the sun while we I guess we don't
really gut as much as kind of cloudy out.

Speaker 4 (22:46):
But it seems like a really beautiful day.

Speaker 6 (22:48):
If one guy knows what they're doing, they're all finding
their time to just enjoy themselves.

Speaker 4 (22:52):
So I like walking through parts like this. It's just
doesn't seem like anyone's.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
In a rush.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
You ever get freaked out how many people there are?

Speaker 4 (22:58):
Sometimes?

Speaker 6 (22:58):
Yeah, not like over but like the idea of how
many variables of people.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
There are so many variables, and it's weird because it's
like you only get to be there's eight billion people,
and you only get to be one person. You only
get you get to be one of the eight billion people.
The more the older I get, the more I'm like
believing more, and you know, like you know, like somebody
will like be on ayahuasca and start talking about shit

(23:23):
and you have no idea what they're talking about. The
more the more I think about it, I'm like, those
people are probably right, there is got there's gotta be
something underneath.

Speaker 4 (23:32):
They're delving into.

Speaker 6 (23:34):
Yeah, yeah, they're delving in areas that people aren't used to,
so I think we usually tend to think they're crazy. Yeah,
but uh yeah, it's just all about perspective, isn't it. Yeah,
everybody's entire personality, where you're born, where you see things.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
Do you know this word? I think I don't know
if I'm pronouncing it right. It's sollipicism.

Speaker 6 (23:49):
Yea.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
It's like the the theory that, uh, it's kind of
a it's a very ego full theory.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
It's like the idea that your.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
Consciousness like the whole world is just exists in your
brain because your consciousness is the only verifiable one to you.
So like the idea that the world is a simulation
for you, and that's the other thing that you can verify,
because again, you can only physically exist in your own consciousness.

(24:20):
It's kind of a spooky thing to think if you
really get wrapped up in it.

Speaker 6 (24:23):
I don't know if it's the same thought but or
a school thought, but someone's telling me about how they
believe in the idea that the afterlife is what we
deem it in a sense that if you live a
life that was good or bad, you would know more
than anyone.

Speaker 4 (24:37):
You would be your own judge.

Speaker 6 (24:38):
Yeah, and then your moments of death, no matter how
long it would be, would be either heaven or.

Speaker 4 (24:42):
Hell for you for what you deserve. You would know,
but your brain would go, this is where I'm going.
I have an idea. I know, I know I'm going here, But.

Speaker 11 (24:49):
Is that true?

Speaker 1 (24:49):
Like because it because like classically, like.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
Villains in like you know, movies or whatever, they think
they're a good guy, right, So like that you could
do like a bunch of crazy stuff. And then when
you're about to die, be like on our way to Heaven, Baby,
It's gonna be awesome.

Speaker 6 (25:06):
I guess that's the idea, the whole part of the
brain being the simulation.

Speaker 4 (25:10):
They I guess they really truly believe it was their way.

Speaker 6 (25:12):
I mean, you could be a whole disgusting person, a
vile person, and think you're the greatest person and wow,
I guess you beat the system.

Speaker 4 (25:19):
Yeah, kind of terrible to think in that way.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
I don't know, I think about I think about evil.

Speaker 4 (25:24):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
I'm always getting fucking existential. But I've been thinking about
good and evil differently, because good and evil, you think,
are like kind of like there's good people and evil people.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
But I do feel as though.

Speaker 2 (25:40):
This sound this sounds like it's like ayahuasca hippie ship,
but it feels very like real to me that we
are in like a collective consciousness. So any evil committed
is evil committed by the fucking collective consciousness of humanity,
and same with any good. You know, we're all each

(26:00):
other that kind of ship. I mean, that's how I
think when I'm you know, in a in a heady mood. Normally,
I'm actually lately, i've normally been in a heady mood.
But you know what I mean. Then sometimes you're just
you're just you're eating food and you're not thinking about anything.
I've been really into I love watching. I watched a
fucking hour long YouTube video that did a a deep

(26:24):
dive into the special features on all the different SpongeBob
DVDs throughout the years, and I was like, this is awesome.
I never want to think about death again. I want
to watch I'm trying. Oh, there was a VHS tape called,
I think it was a VHS tape called A Day
in the Life of SpongeBob, and I think it's like
about a kid who hangs out with SpongeBob, but like

(26:47):
it's like lost media or whatever.

Speaker 4 (26:48):
So I was watching that human kid.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
Yeah, human kid. I think he goes under the sea.
But no, no, no, you got the right idea. You
got the right idea. What's your life?

Speaker 4 (27:01):
Like?

Speaker 6 (27:02):
I just moved out here about a month back. I
visited a lot in the past, like five years. Cooluh,
I was raised in a restaurant, so I want to
be a chef.

Speaker 4 (27:10):
I am a chef.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
You're raised in a restaurant, yeah, like like you grew
up like yeahs.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
Like you like you slept in the oven like you.
I would sleep in.

Speaker 4 (27:19):
The booths every really busy weekad my mom. I was
a job before I worked.

Speaker 6 (27:22):
They would be like, oh, put a PlayStation in a
little chair upstairs for me, you'll pass out and cool things.
So cool, but uh yeah, I love food. I love
creative things.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
What kind of restaurant was this?

Speaker 6 (27:32):
It was an Indian restaurant run by a Middle Eastern
family because there was already a Middle Eastern restaurant in
the area and they weren't allowing a double down. So
my mom was like, I need to pay rent and
she picked up an Indian cookbook from the story were
they uh like, it's a I'm from Kansas City and
there's a uh like a river market city market and

(27:53):
they don't want just like five of the same thing.

Speaker 4 (27:56):
So their idea was the cater or like curate a dive.

Speaker 2 (28:00):
Oh okay, So this was like you know, uh what
a reading terminal market is.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
It was like that kind of vibe.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
Is this like like did you have was it like
a booth or was it like a standalone restaurant?

Speaker 6 (28:09):
You had a stand alone restaurant latched door that was
always open within a hallway, and we had a produce
spot next.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
To us within a hallway.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
So it's a restaurant as part of a complex of
a bunch.

Speaker 6 (28:17):
Of like a giant L shaped hallway with a big
farmer's market. You got little lomash people and all the
people selling stuff.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
On the outside and that, and you're in this restaurant.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
You're like whole life.

Speaker 4 (28:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (28:26):
No, at least until since early elementary school, well past
graduating high school. It's I just started like catering and
doing my own thing outside of it. And it's always
been a beautiful safety net of mine because it's a
guaranteed job. But I felt like the safety net kind
of became a hammock. I was just sitting.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
Oh, I've never heard that before. I like film you
come up with that. I guess, yeah, that's the safety
net becomes a hammock.

Speaker 4 (28:48):
Yeah, just like I feel you just lay there too long.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
That's something that I would see on like a business
success Instagram.

Speaker 4 (28:53):
It's yours just say it again.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
So I was I gonna say the so you cater
stuff now?

Speaker 6 (29:02):
Yeah, more like fusion dining quick events. When I would travel,
I would sell T shirts and art prints and whatnot,
and then I would also, like the last time I
did Lamberia, like Palestinian focused with like our fusion of
like middle like Mexican beeria.

Speaker 4 (29:16):
It was delicious, it was great. I had a great time.

Speaker 6 (29:18):
But lately, more for friends, I've been trying to find
work out here, try to work somewhere that can learn,
like I was looking at just different restaurants and spots whatever.

Speaker 4 (29:27):
It's a bit different.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
So why'd you come here from Kansas City.

Speaker 6 (29:32):
I had a friend who was doing great for themselves
that told me it was either this or Jordan. I
was gonna go to Jordan and stay with family, or
I was gonna come out here, which I did, and
I stay with a friend. And I'm lucky. I don't
pay rent, I don't play utilities. I just live here
now and.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
Try Oh cool, yeah cool. How is your friend cool
with you just not paying rent and living with them? Yeah.

Speaker 4 (29:51):
They missed me immensely.

Speaker 6 (29:53):
They wanted me to come out like five years back,
and they just simply wanted their They're like, they're not
the most social person.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
They're very friendly and an amazing person, but they're a
bit of a hermit.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
It what a homie, just being like, I'm lonely just
living in my house.

Speaker 4 (30:07):
I'm very fortunate for them.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
That's awesome. Do you know this guy?

Speaker 4 (30:10):
It's actually a friend. I knew her she.

Speaker 6 (30:12):
I knew her from middle school and we have been
friends since. We were close in all types of ways.
And after they moved out here, we just missed each
other and they gave me the option.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
Yeah, this is like like a romantic thing.

Speaker 6 (30:27):
It was briefly, but I'd say at least like seventy
five percent of our relationship was bor platonic than it
was romantic. It was one of those why would you
date your friend because you're both attractive and you like
each other, It's.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
Not enough, you know? Is that not enough?

Speaker 4 (30:42):
I don't think it's enough.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
I feel like, wait, wait, by the way, not to
comment in your life, but but what you just said
was fascinating to me. You're one of my best friends,
and we're both physically attracted to each other and we
like each other a lot. Not enough.

Speaker 4 (30:55):
We weren't compatible.

Speaker 6 (30:58):
It wasn't a compatible emotionally, and it wasn't compatible uh
where we were at the current moments in our lives.

Speaker 4 (31:06):
And because of that, now where we're at we just
it doesn't work like that.

Speaker 12 (31:09):
Are you dating?

Speaker 2 (31:10):
Are you dating around?

Speaker 4 (31:11):
I do date around. Uh yeah, I'm definitely a bit
of a.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
Whore, but like it's okay, So being a bit of
a whore is it? Do you bring girls back to
your place? Because I bet I was about to say,
is that that would be like, Hey, I live have
a complicated situation. I live rent for you with quasi X.

Speaker 4 (31:29):
Well, I don't remember.

Speaker 6 (31:29):
Bring girls like I don't bring that many homies back
because they don't.

Speaker 4 (31:33):
Again, they're not social.

Speaker 6 (31:34):
They don't want random people they don't know, and they
don't like being introduced to new people.

Speaker 4 (31:37):
Like they're very happy with their stuff.

Speaker 6 (31:39):
But no, the idea of like fucking someone like in
their spot is a little nutty to me. I would
I always tend to just like either go to someone
else's place, or I'll get a room, or I'll do
you know, okay, but more often not My dating situation
is more back home out here, it's been more just
meeting people, hasn't been as flirty.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
So you're telling me so you were slutting it up
around Kansas Yeah.

Speaker 4 (32:01):
Well, Kansas City, it's a bit of a smaller pool.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
Let's go. I'm very curious, what the uh what's the
Kansas City dating scene?

Speaker 1 (32:10):
Like, how's it compared to New York?

Speaker 2 (32:11):
Because people, because you know, the whole New York dating
scene thing is like this infinite people here, and so
some people feel like that makes it a bad place today.
Some people makes it feel like it's a good place today.
How's that compared to Kansas City?

Speaker 6 (32:23):
Casey has like five good spots once every other week
that are like popping off that people can meet and
hang out and do things.

Speaker 1 (32:30):
Oh so you're not an app guy?

Speaker 4 (32:31):
I am?

Speaker 6 (32:31):
Oh no, and I actually know act things don't work
for me. I always I'm so much better in person.
I sound like a loser. I feel it doesn't really
like feel natural texting and messaging, but when I'm in
front of somebody, it feels.

Speaker 4 (32:43):
So much more genuine.

Speaker 6 (32:44):
But uh no, compared to case everybody knows everybody literally,
It's just it's like small town stuff.

Speaker 4 (32:50):
It's the biggest small town ever. And uh it's a
very small.

Speaker 6 (32:53):
Pool compared to out here. I think, oh, here, you're
actually gonna meet someone unique. You're actually gonna meet someone
The variables are all over and it being a walking city,
you never know when the next corner might have someone
you know, it might be a next conversation.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
Interested, so are you do you? Have you ever like
seen someone that you thought was attractive on the street
or at the park and just struck up a conversation
with them.

Speaker 6 (33:15):
I tend to respond more than initiate because I feel like,
I don't know, I feel weird approaching people too much
of the city or in general.

Speaker 4 (33:23):
I don't want to bother.

Speaker 6 (33:24):
The most I'll do is say, hey, you're beautiful, just
wanted you to know that, and I'll leave it alone
at that, and if it was meant to be, they
might hit me up again.

Speaker 4 (33:30):
I don't ask for information.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
I remember when I was a kid. There's an episode
of Drake and Josh. Do you know the one I'm
about to talk about. No episode of Drake and Josh
where like they're at the movie theater and Josh goes
up to this Josh goes up to this girl and
he's like, I like your shoes.

Speaker 4 (33:46):
Oh is this the deep voice?

Speaker 2 (33:48):
I think so, because I'm sorry, And he says I
like your shoes and then she says thanks, and then
he walks away, and then she I mean, obviously this
is all a sitcom, so I don't know if this
is actually this would not happen in real life, I
don't think. But he walks away and the girl goes
up to hit This is like someone's fantasy. They walk
the girl walks up to them and goes, you're not
hitting on me, You're just gonna compliment my shoes and
walk away.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
That's so cool. Let me get your number.

Speaker 4 (34:10):
Yeah, I don't think that's gonna find I don't. That's
not what I'm expecting at all.

Speaker 6 (34:14):
I think it's more one of those things where I'm like,
I feel like such a lame for not saying something too,
because I'm like, Wow, that person, they elicited something that
made my heart flutter just briefly. I want them to
know that, even slightly. And yeah, I think that's the satisfaction,
just knowing that I made them smile, you know.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
Yeah nice.

Speaker 6 (34:30):
But yeah, I more often than not, someone is my
most flirtationous thing is a woman will go up to
me and tell me they like me, and I will
on the street, well, in general, like wherever in the world,
Like it could be in the streets, it could be
what it could be like more meeting friends and whatnot
or random events. But yeah, they showed me they have
something of interest in me, and I feel it back.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
Then, I will like all initiate that tell me about
a Jordan, Like what's what's the city that you do?

Speaker 4 (34:55):
You have?

Speaker 1 (34:55):
You hung out there a lot in you're life.

Speaker 6 (34:56):
I got to go there when in uh middle school
and in high school. Okay, when I went the first time,
it was meeting a bunch of people that I've never
met before that looked just like me, and seeing the
whole side of my father's family and completely being shell shocked.

Speaker 4 (35:12):
But it was beautiful.

Speaker 6 (35:12):
I missed my Uh the cities would be like it
a bit Zeega a man was the capital.

Speaker 4 (35:18):
Agaba is beautiful. It's on the ocean.

Speaker 6 (35:19):
You see it is a phenomenal thing to see. I
think you think see Petro watty Rum. But my favorite
things about Jordan were my grandma's courtyard. She had a
lementary and it was serene and I miss it immenseally.
She passed, and that's not really suthing I experienced anymore.
I think it's more family than is Jordan, but it's it's.

Speaker 4 (35:39):
I mean, you've traveled so much I've meant to. I've
traveled a bait like I've been at the Pan and whatnot.
And no, it's really interesting.

Speaker 6 (35:45):
To be into a whole, complete, different culture. It makes
me feel like a space.

Speaker 4 (35:49):
Traveling makes me feel like I'm on a different planet.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
But I love it. What fuck I think I hold
of this yet? A sign is for those listening on audio,
the sign just got fucked up. But that's fine. I
might just get rid of this way. Hold on, I
need to get a new one of these. Sorry, it's
that's that's good enough. So would you are you planning?

(36:15):
Are you planning on making any trips back to Jordan
anytime soon? Because it was between here and there.

Speaker 4 (36:19):
I'm I'm fortunate enough.

Speaker 6 (36:21):
My family has uh earned enough money and security in
their lives that they're able to be like, hey, if
you want to go Jordan, we will buy your ticket.

Speaker 4 (36:31):
We want you to experience your culture and your family. Again. Cool,
that's great, But yeah, I just this New York things
seemed a little more. The timing was a little more.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
Uh now, I mean you got a good setup.

Speaker 4 (36:41):
Yeah, I'm like, how often I want to get a
chance like that?

Speaker 6 (36:43):
A little summer in a little five months in New
York and experience as much as I can't compare to
my family, saying my mother, being the sweetheart she is saying,
whenever you want to go, I will let you go
see my sisters.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
So you've okay. But you moved here, you said a
month ago.

Speaker 4 (36:55):
I moved here.

Speaker 6 (36:56):
I was born in America, and I moved here a
month back. I to travel all the times because I
enjoy the city. But uh, yeah, I was just at
a point in my life where I got it, said
the whole handmaking sitting. I wanted to just change an
environment entirely to see how I could do.

Speaker 2 (37:11):
So, Gief, Gay, Gaith, Gaith, what's your Uh? What's what's
the dream?

Speaker 6 (37:18):
I kind of want to have like a Bob's Burgers
set up and no family, Like you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (37:24):
Yeah, well, I guess that's that's because you grew up
in the restaurant.

Speaker 4 (37:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (37:26):
I want to be able to live above a restaurant,
feed people and play the music I like and do
the things I want to do well, all the while
having my own space to curate. And then you know,
if a family happens, that happens. But the idea of
closing up the shop and going upstairs and knocking out
just sounds like a dream.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
It does sound like a dream, you know, Gaith, it's
doing nice talking to you, man. Is there anything else
you want to say to the people of the computer
before we go?

Speaker 6 (37:50):
Uh, piece for my people, freedom for those who are oppressed,
and uh, Honestly, I'm very happy to have a conversation
with you. You're in detained me on occasion, so.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
It's great to talk to you too. This is a
great interview. Thank you, have a good One's get go. Hey,
what's up?

Speaker 5 (38:09):
Hi?

Speaker 2 (38:09):
What's your name?

Speaker 13 (38:10):
Julia?

Speaker 4 (38:11):
Julia?

Speaker 2 (38:11):
Nice to meet you? Or am I Gecko? That's a
loaded questions? I am I guess I am Gecko.

Speaker 13 (38:19):
Congratulations. I'm really proud of you.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
Thank thank you. It didn't it didn't take that much work.
Anyone could buy this costume on Amazon.

Speaker 13 (38:25):
No, this is you? This is the real you?

Speaker 2 (38:28):
Is this is this the real me?

Speaker 1 (38:30):
What's up? How's life? Tell me everything? Tell me nothing?

Speaker 10 (38:33):
Life is insane? Bro figured my ship out. I was
homeless for like eight months. I'm not anymore. Beautiful City
of New York. Now I'm a hardcore activist trying to.

Speaker 2 (38:44):
Help the people out here homeless for eight months?

Speaker 1 (38:47):
Do you want to talk about that?

Speaker 5 (38:48):
No?

Speaker 2 (38:48):
Okay?

Speaker 13 (38:49):
Things get better though?

Speaker 1 (38:51):
Can I ask how things got better?

Speaker 13 (38:54):
Determination?

Speaker 10 (38:55):
You have to get your You have to get in
your mind state that like anything is better than where
you before.

Speaker 11 (39:00):
Got to keep moving forward.

Speaker 10 (39:01):
If you keep the aspects in your head that's like
I deserve better, I want better, things will get better
for me.

Speaker 13 (39:08):
Then you keep pushing yourself to until you reach like.

Speaker 10 (39:10):
A state in your mind where you're like this, this can,
this can get better, and this will get better, and
then things end up doing get better.

Speaker 1 (39:17):
Were you were you homeless here in New York?

Speaker 13 (39:19):
I was in New Jersey.

Speaker 2 (39:20):
Oh okay, let to figure stuff out.

Speaker 13 (39:23):
Got an apartment lined up for May first, Very nice,
feeling good, very nice?

Speaker 1 (39:27):
What was so like? If I guess, I guess like like, let's.

Speaker 2 (39:31):
Say somebody's listening to this that maybe is like in
a similar struggle or something like that, Like what what
is it that that got that got you out that
you know you feel like other people could learn from.

Speaker 10 (39:46):
If you can't do it day by day, just take
it minute by minute, hour by hour, minute by minute.

Speaker 11 (39:50):
Just keep breathing.

Speaker 13 (39:51):
You got to keep moving.

Speaker 11 (39:52):
That's all you need in.

Speaker 5 (39:53):
Times like these.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (39:55):
I like that.

Speaker 13 (39:56):
Time doesn't heal all wounds, but determination does.

Speaker 4 (39:58):
Well. I like that.

Speaker 1 (39:59):
Do you have a I give a gig, give a
job you do.

Speaker 10 (40:01):
I'm a full time nanny right now, but I also
do live music, photography, stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (40:06):
Cool? Cool?

Speaker 1 (40:08):
Who is crashing with?

Speaker 2 (40:10):
Oh? Grab ship? Someone's talking about career, believe in Jesus.

Speaker 13 (40:15):
Good Friday, fella.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
That's cool.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
Oh today's good for stay good Friday?

Speaker 11 (40:18):
I think so he is.

Speaker 2 (40:19):
When's Easter Sunday?

Speaker 13 (40:21):
This Sunday?

Speaker 5 (40:22):
Right?

Speaker 2 (40:23):
I don't know Christians? Are you Christians? Jewish?

Speaker 7 (40:27):
No?

Speaker 13 (40:27):
I'm just me.

Speaker 2 (40:28):
I like that. It's good. It's good to be you.
Let's see. Julie, Julia, Yeah, what's uh? What's what's what's
your dream in life? Julie? Uh?

Speaker 10 (40:45):
My goal, my dream in life is to just spread
the energy, spread the positivity.

Speaker 2 (40:50):
We need it.

Speaker 10 (40:51):
Yeah, we need it so much, so much, especially the
way our world's going. Got these pins on my bag,
Keep loving, keep fighting. None of us are free until
all of us are free, and our struggles are connected
because they are, they really are.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
Struggles are connected in how to tell? How do you
how do you how do you mean.

Speaker 10 (41:09):
When I when it comes to the end of the day,
everything dials down to the same thing. So the fact
of the matter is is that the patriarchy, the one percent,
they're gonna keep getting richer, and we have to and
we have to understand that it's all of us against
against the one percent, and all of us together when
you stop fighting each other.

Speaker 2 (41:28):
Well, okay, So I'm curious with you because here's the
thing is like there's nothing because like all right, Like
I'll be on Reddit or whatever and and read it.
It's like like right, It's like here's this new thing
Elon Musk is doing. All right, Elon, And I'm just like, well, yeah,
but I'm just like at a certain point, I'm just like, yeah,
but what you know, what can I I'm not what

(41:50):
can I?

Speaker 4 (41:51):
What can you do?

Speaker 14 (41:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (41:53):
Keep talking.

Speaker 10 (41:53):
I've been I don't have any on me right now,
but the past few days I've been passing around I
Know your Rights cards so people can know their rights if.

Speaker 13 (42:00):
Ice were to try and come down to them.

Speaker 10 (42:02):
Thought a warrant, Elon, he's a money hungry there's a
child he's among you hungry pig Ah.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
That guy's got a Nintendo bag. See, that's what I
do when the world gets when I get to when
I get too freaked out about the world is I
play video games.

Speaker 10 (42:16):
That's the way I go out and talk to people
and also.

Speaker 2 (42:19):
Go out and talk to people. Going out and talk
to people is fun. Do you have a lot of
friends around the city?

Speaker 13 (42:24):
Not yet?

Speaker 2 (42:25):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (42:25):
Did you?

Speaker 13 (42:26):
Just like, I've been here a month?

Speaker 1 (42:27):
Okay, how's your month here?

Speaker 10 (42:29):
But oh amazing, I've never I came here for the
first time yesterday, I'm like, fuck it, I'm coming back.
The inspiration is incredible. I've never felt so much creativity
in my life to just.

Speaker 2 (42:38):
Me me, it's great.

Speaker 4 (42:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:40):
Well, have you been meeting a lot of people?

Speaker 10 (42:41):
Oh yeah, that's some that's some guy that uh works
for like Vice magazine yesterday just like on a whim
who smoked a jag with him.

Speaker 11 (42:48):
Was pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (42:48):
Smoking a j with the guy who works at Vice
magazine is a very New York, young New York thing
to do.

Speaker 11 (42:55):
Yeah, I think so so New York.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
Uh, well, Julie, is there anything else? Donna say that?
People the computer before we go, People on the computer.
I care about you. I love you. You'll be okay
and you matter. Don't give up later, dude, God bless.
What's I'm Sam? Sam? That's good, nice to meet you.

Speaker 12 (43:13):
Like your like your outfits.

Speaker 2 (43:14):
Thanks, I like yours?

Speaker 4 (43:15):
Man.

Speaker 2 (43:15):
What's up has life?

Speaker 12 (43:16):
It's been okay? You know, like a cowboy had shirt?
It's not cowboy?

Speaker 2 (43:22):
Was was that this? Oh no, I'm sorry, not the
shirt the O I was gonna be on a birth
the key Chaine.

Speaker 12 (43:30):
Oh yeah, yeah, my dad got this from Hon Dura's nice.
But how's life been treating you?

Speaker 2 (43:34):
Man?

Speaker 1 (43:34):
How's life been treating me? A big fan of yours,
by the way, what thanks man?

Speaker 12 (43:39):
Yeah, you've been gett You've showed up occasionally on the internet,
you know, while on my phone.

Speaker 2 (43:44):
Thanks man. Life life right now is good. I like
being outside. It's nice.

Speaker 12 (43:50):
Actually, yeah, I need to get out more like I
feel like I cooped myself up in like my house
or in like a room.

Speaker 7 (43:55):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (43:55):
You can really lose today.

Speaker 2 (43:57):
I was like, I might have spent like two hours
or is just like re checking the social media refrigerator
and ship you got on Twitter and then you go, yeah.

Speaker 12 (44:06):
You go on the I'm only on like Instagram? Maybe
read it, you know, Yeah, it's like it's like an
endless cycle.

Speaker 2 (44:13):
It's an endless like dopamine cycle, killing your fu my
dreams that I'm like, am.

Speaker 12 (44:19):
I Yeah, I got some I get some real dopamine
for once, and I'm like, wow, I forget how good
this feels. Yeah, it's not so fake?

Speaker 4 (44:23):
Ship?

Speaker 2 (44:24):
Yeah? Yeah, what's.

Speaker 4 (44:27):
What do you believe in?

Speaker 2 (44:28):
What do you think happens after we die? Yeah?

Speaker 12 (44:32):
I don't think anything happens. We just kind of fizzle out.

Speaker 7 (44:34):
You know.

Speaker 2 (44:35):
Are you excited about that or you?

Speaker 5 (44:37):
Yeah? Yeah, I am.

Speaker 12 (44:38):
Hopefully I got to keep a couple of like fragments
of like my life on earth. But like even if
I don't, I mean, I'm not going to exist. So
what am I really gonna be thinking about?

Speaker 14 (44:46):
Nothing?

Speaker 1 (44:47):
I was hanged.

Speaker 2 (44:48):
I was talking to my best friend on the phone
a few months ago because I was fucked the sign
the signs, the signs.

Speaker 1 (44:56):
Fucked I can hold oh yeah, we'll just hold it
all uh.

Speaker 2 (44:59):
And I was talking. I was talking to him and
I was like, yeah, I'm fucking depressed, and he was like,
you know, well, because I was depressed about I was
thinking of like death a lot. And he was like, well,
the thing is like death is a zero, but depression
is negative. He was. I thought that was fascination, Like
death is like a zero, like you're not anything, You're not,
like depression is worse than being dead.

Speaker 12 (45:21):
It's like the opposite of love is indifference.

Speaker 4 (45:23):
You know.

Speaker 2 (45:24):
Yeah, well that's probably a bad thing to say. Actually,
why that depression is worse than being dead? Oh?

Speaker 12 (45:29):
Actually, I mean if to the right people, it will
be to certain people, will be a bad idea to suggest.

Speaker 1 (45:36):
But but I got but it makes sense. Well okay, no,
hold on.

Speaker 12 (45:39):
I was for those of us who are alive, I
think it's a good point. It's an optimistic, good way.

Speaker 2 (45:43):
But when he said that, I was like, yeah, you're right,
Why don't I Why am I so afraid of death? Why? Like,
I'm afraid of death to But here's why I was,
I'm afraid of death to the bar was making me depressed.
But then it's like the depression is making is worse
than the fear. So just stop.

Speaker 4 (46:00):
Do you know what I'm saying?

Speaker 2 (46:00):
Yeah, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 12 (46:02):
You know, I guess you don't want to get a
point where you're just so sad you don't feel anything. Yeah,
because then I would be like, what's the difference between
that and death? Like I don't know.

Speaker 2 (46:11):
What makes you? What makes you?

Speaker 12 (46:15):
I mean not like achieved my dreams, you know dreams.
One of my dreams. I want to be a jazz musician. Okay, cool, Yeah,
I play the bass, a little big guitar, played the drums.
You know, I kind of maybe I'm spreading myself a
little too thin, but I'm hoping maybe one day I'll
be there. I'll be somewhere, you know, performing some cool
jazz music or just music. Would you ever busk? Like

(46:35):
I was gonna mention that, Actually, I've seen plenty of people.

Speaker 2 (46:37):
I don't know.

Speaker 12 (46:38):
Maybe if I maybe, if I like try like shoot
for the stars and don't make it, maybe I'll just
end up a busker. But I think i'd be content
for that. You know, it looks fun.

Speaker 1 (46:47):
I mean, look this guy, like we're well I'm looking
at We're looking at a guy right now.

Speaker 12 (46:50):
He's just playing people like playing drums, you know, they
like they have Some people don't even have instruments to
just bring like like egg shakers and stuff.

Speaker 2 (46:57):
Look, here's whether you're this guy or you're playing in
like the Manhattan Symphony Orchestra. You're doing the same thing.
You're playing the fucking violine in.

Speaker 12 (47:07):
Front of people. That's that's the whole point of music,
the whole point of music. Yeah, even if I like
play is shown there's like three people, I don't give
a fuck. Yeah, I'm as long as hey if they
dig it. If they don't, then I'm doing it for
myself at that point.

Speaker 2 (47:18):
You know, did you play any video games?

Speaker 12 (47:20):
Yeah, occasionally, I used to play. I used to be
a big gamer when I was a young boy. You know,
probably should have been focusing on the books. But you know,
out of PS three.

Speaker 2 (47:28):
And what else?

Speaker 4 (47:30):
Said?

Speaker 12 (47:30):
I have at a GameCube? Actually, when I was a
little kid. I think it was a little I don't
think that was the right console for me at that time.

Speaker 2 (47:36):
But what did you play on the game cube?

Speaker 12 (47:38):
I had a Superman game that was really sick. Oh yeah,
there's just one level where you had to beat like
you were on a timer. You have to save a
damn from getting blown up, and that shit gave me
really mad anxiety. I would always freak out on that
level and I never beat the game. Unfortunately. I think
i'd be able to do it now now that I'm older,
But you know, a lot of things were scary when

(47:58):
I was a little kid, you know, like Damn's explode
and uh.

Speaker 2 (48:01):
And then you realize that a damn exploding is if well,
depending on who he's.

Speaker 12 (48:07):
Also the responsibility that I was supposed to be Superman.
So like, yeah, like the damn exploding. If Superman let
a damn blow up, that's kind of disappointing. You know,
you expect him to be able to do it.

Speaker 2 (48:15):
Depending on who you are, the fear of a damn
exploding is not going to be quite relevant to your life.
That's true, but it was to me because I was Superman.
Being Superman probably sucks probably too. It's I mean, I'm
sure it's probably ful failing that he.

Speaker 12 (48:31):
Has a capacity to handle it, But if I was Superman,
I would be freaking out every day.

Speaker 2 (48:35):
But that that makes sense because if you were Superman,
you would have the capacity to handle it.

Speaker 12 (48:39):
Okay, Yeah, maybe maybe I just don't have the mindset
to be Superman. Maybe that's why I'm not Superman.

Speaker 2 (48:44):
Well, I don't think anyone could be Superman because he's
a fictional Yeah, he's a fictional character.

Speaker 12 (48:47):
He's also an alien. If he was really wouldn't be human.
So do you like superheroes?

Speaker 2 (48:55):
Do I like superheroes?

Speaker 14 (48:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (48:56):
What's your favorite superhero?

Speaker 2 (48:57):
Or probably Spider Man because he's relatable. He's just a kid, right.
So it's like you can see yourself beating.

Speaker 12 (49:02):
I've been by bugs before, you know, and you didn't
turn it out.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
No, it just makes your skin red.

Speaker 12 (49:06):
Yeah, it just makes it really itchy.

Speaker 5 (49:07):
You know.

Speaker 12 (49:09):
It's unfortunate. We were you bit by a get go
or something? Are you just a get go?

Speaker 6 (49:12):
No?

Speaker 2 (49:13):
I spout this on Amazon. He's about this Amazon. What's
your name again? I'm Sam? Sam? Is there anything else
you want to say? That the people a computer? Before
we go, Sam, learn an instrument. It will make your
life better. But that's about it, like very much talking
to talk to me, of course. I hope you uh
achieve all your dreams.

Speaker 12 (49:31):
You achieve all your dreams.

Speaker 1 (49:32):
I've already done it. I've achieved all my.

Speaker 12 (49:34):
Dream achieved more than your dreams.

Speaker 2 (49:36):
Thank you, all right, thank you? How going man? What
is your name Isabel? My name is Lyle. Nice to
meet you. How's life what's going on?

Speaker 15 (49:45):
Life is going great?

Speaker 2 (49:46):
Just got off of work, okay, what do you do
for work?

Speaker 15 (49:49):
Well, I'm a student at a university and I also
am a waitress a host.

Speaker 2 (49:54):
Okay, where do you Where do you wait or I mean,
not where do your waitress?

Speaker 1 (49:58):
But what kind of well what kind of food?

Speaker 16 (50:00):
Mexican restaurant? Okay, so I work around this area. Okay,
it's a beautiful day outside. You know, I don't really
have any problems.

Speaker 1 (50:07):
You don't need to have problem. Who told you need
to have problems?

Speaker 15 (50:09):
No one needs You don't need to have problem.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
You don't have Oh, actually this is kind of you
don't have wait hold on, you don't have any problems.
I don't think anyone. I'm getting hol on la, I'm
getting rid of this sign. The signs fucked. Any Way,
you were talking about how you have no problems.

Speaker 16 (50:23):
That's not exactly what I said. I was like, I
don't have that many. I mean finals are coming up.
I just solved my biggest problem, which was unemployment. Well,
my the old restaurant used to work at. They've decided
to sell and gave us four day notice. Yeah, they
told us on April ninth that we had four days
to go find a new job because they were closing
the store April thirteenth. So but that's all figured it out.

(50:44):
We got a new job, we have money coming in
the bank.

Speaker 15 (50:46):
I'm trying to keep my blessings and be grateful. What
about you?

Speaker 2 (50:51):
What about me? I am uh, I'm enjoying life in
this very moment. You come out, Yeah, you come out
to the park and you're like, oh, everyone's here.

Speaker 16 (51:03):
I feel like it's over stimulation Central right now because
there's just so much going on. We got skaters over there,
we got like people selling shit, like there's just everything.
Everyone's here today because it's a nice day out. Also,
whenever the weather hits above seventy degrees, nobody knows how
to act.

Speaker 1 (51:17):
So nobody knows how to act.

Speaker 2 (51:18):
Yeah wait, like wait when the when the weather hits
above seventy degrees? Like, and what what makes you feel
that way?

Speaker 15 (51:28):
Hmmm, I don't know. Maybe just be I don't know.

Speaker 16 (51:32):
People just tend to be a little bit louder. I'm
not trying to say that as a bad thing. I'm
trying to say that as like, you know, everyone wants
to enjoy the nice day out, and they aren't very
They are less considerate than they were when it's colder
out because everyone's trying to get home, you.

Speaker 1 (51:44):
Know what I mean, Well, this is like, okay, like it.

Speaker 16 (51:46):
Is a very public park. I'm not saying nobody knows
how to act. Everyone's very respectful here.

Speaker 2 (51:50):
But I guess the thing about like New York City
is that like there almost is like there's very little
x spectation. Like if some guy was just like on
a on a nice quiet like this isn't like a
quiet park. For fact, like if some guy came through
with like a giant fucking like boombox and was just

(52:11):
blasting music.

Speaker 15 (52:12):
That's pretty typical.

Speaker 1 (52:13):
Actually, yeah, that's.

Speaker 2 (52:14):
Like, well, you wouldn't bad an eye. It's you're not
gonna be like, oh, how rude. It's like we're it's
fucking you know in New York City.

Speaker 15 (52:21):
It's New York.

Speaker 2 (52:22):
Yeah yeah, but but did you did you see someone
where you were like that little that's a little out
of line.

Speaker 16 (52:29):
No, Honestly, today everyone's being chill today. I honestly appreciate it.

Speaker 13 (52:34):
Thank you.

Speaker 16 (52:34):
We should keep it up just the you know, being
with your friends and keeping at a normal level. However,
I did see some people pie each other in the face,
and that was kind of funny, but they were a
little scary.

Speaker 2 (52:43):
Uh where they scared?

Speaker 1 (52:45):
Where they clown people?

Speaker 16 (52:46):
No, they were just like pie each other in their
faces and like running around.

Speaker 15 (52:49):
But that was really it. That's none of my business though.

Speaker 2 (52:52):
What's your name again, Isabelle? What's your dream Isabelle? What
do you wanna do with with your fleeting existence in
this universe?

Speaker 15 (53:00):
My sweet existence in this universe?

Speaker 4 (53:01):
Oh? Sure?

Speaker 1 (53:02):
Well if I said fleeting existence, but are you sweet?

Speaker 2 (53:04):
Is better?

Speaker 4 (53:05):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (53:05):
Okay?

Speaker 16 (53:06):
Well I want to be a lawyer one day, specifically
with intellectual property AI and cybersecurity law.

Speaker 1 (53:12):
Whoa Okay, do you know a lot about AI?

Speaker 15 (53:15):
I'm a computer science major, so yes?

Speaker 2 (53:16):
Oh no, shit, Okay, are you scared or are you optimistic?

Speaker 11 (53:20):
Quite?

Speaker 16 (53:21):
Terrified with the way that job prospects are going right
now and like the job market, but other than that,
trying to stay positive because I do graduate next year.

Speaker 2 (53:28):
Oh I guess I meant like it, like, are you
optimistic about the future? Because because we are on I've
talked about this before, like we're on like the chat,
we're on the iPhone one of chat GPT right now, correct,
and so it's only gonna get crazier.

Speaker 16 (53:45):
I mean people are right now writing like breakup letters
through chat GPT.

Speaker 15 (53:49):
So I mean I don't something that happened to you,
it happened to me.

Speaker 1 (53:54):
No, at least I don't think so okay.

Speaker 16 (53:56):
I mean I happened to feel like acquaintances, I guess.
But like you were, what were you saying, like the.

Speaker 2 (54:03):
Last thing you just said, like are you okay? Because
you study this stuff, yes, and you study AI? Are
do you are you afraid of what's happening?

Speaker 13 (54:13):
I am.

Speaker 16 (54:14):
I do think that a lot of people are using
artificial intelligence in a way to benefit them and profit
off of it rather than use it as a tool.

Speaker 1 (54:23):
Isn't that basically that what we've been doing with technology
for instead.

Speaker 15 (54:27):
Of using those tools. I mean yeah, but you know there's.

Speaker 16 (54:30):
A difference between profit and then capitalistic reed at the
point like you're using AI to replace like let's just like,
what's one example, I'm being put on a spot right now.

Speaker 15 (54:43):
Let's say you're.

Speaker 16 (54:44):
Using AI to.

Speaker 15 (54:49):
Cut this part out because I'm thinking so hard right now.

Speaker 1 (54:54):
I'm better, Okay, we're leaving it in shut No. Look look,
look you got look that's life all right?

Speaker 16 (55:05):
Sometimes Okay, you know what life cake go my way.
It's fine artificial intelligence when it comes down to, like.

Speaker 15 (55:15):
You used to Well, if you're using it for homework,
it's one thing.

Speaker 16 (55:18):
But if you're using it for like to write off
I guess Tara, for tax plans, it's something completely different.
But I really can't think of a single like right now.
My brain is so farted out. I'm so sorry. I'm
promise I'm better at talking to you.

Speaker 2 (55:34):
Well, all right, do you think we'll eventually get to
the point where like because here's because here's the thing is, uh,
I don't like the new seasons of Family Guy. I
think Family Guy used to be better, and I want
and when when is chat? When is chat gpt gonna
be able to write Family Guy like they used to
in the in the in the you know, two thousand.

Speaker 15 (55:54):
Family Guy can be recreated.

Speaker 16 (55:55):
I think those minds are brilliant and they cannot be
recreated by aim.

Speaker 2 (55:58):
Unfortunately, what my AI is gonna get to a point
where it can write better Family Guy than the Family
Guy writers? Right, Because if it's not that.

Speaker 11 (56:08):
I guess, I mean to each their own.

Speaker 16 (56:09):
Everyone has a different opinion about like how about like
Family Guy? So if they think the most recent seasons
are better than the old seasons. There's always gonna be
someone who thinks that. There's also someone's gonna think that
the old seasons are better than you. But I personally
think that AI cannot. I'll do the old ones.

Speaker 2 (56:26):
Do you use chatchept for stuff?

Speaker 16 (56:29):
I do use it to explain my calculus homework because
my teachers aren't that great at explaining stuff. So yes,
I do support using chatchept when you need stuff explain. However,
maybe you shouldn't be writing your entire essays with a
literacy skills are important.

Speaker 2 (56:44):
Oh my god, if I had, dude, if I had
chat cheapt in high school and college, I would use
it for fucking everything. I would never ever write an
essay in my entire life.

Speaker 11 (56:54):
That is so fair.

Speaker 15 (56:56):
That is so fair.

Speaker 2 (56:56):
I don't know if you have used it.

Speaker 16 (56:57):
To write essays and shit, no, I've used it to
write out my outlines though, Okay, so I'll use I'll
take an outline that the chrat GPT has made and
then base my essay off of that.

Speaker 2 (57:08):
The funny thing is is that they say that there's
like software that you can run the ship through to
like tell you if it's been AI generated, but there's
no way that it can do.

Speaker 16 (57:18):
It's all boof, it's all like stupid as well. There
it's like this AI generator that you put the Declaration
of Independence in it.

Speaker 11 (57:24):
And it is said that.

Speaker 16 (57:24):
There's yeah right right, So I don't think it's like yeah, no,
it is completely fun because there's some people who genuinely
write their papers and then they get flag for plagiarism
with AI and they have to go, you know, talk
to the deans about it, and then it revokes their students,
that is, if they found if they found like guilty
or whatever. It's kind of crazy because AI checkers aren't
even that great in first place. Because I can sound

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all professional and smart as I want an essay. If
I sound too professional or too smart, they're gonna be like,
oh a, I wrote this.

Speaker 2 (57:53):
Well, but why not let AI do stuff that we
don't want to do.

Speaker 16 (58:00):
I feel like then we'll just start getting lazier and
lazier and lazier.

Speaker 2 (58:03):
You know we are we not already pretty fucking lazy?
Who I mean, we order thirty dollars burritos to our house?

Speaker 15 (58:12):
You ordered thirty dollars burritos to my house.

Speaker 2 (58:14):
I do not you've never you've never ordered a thirty
dollar burrito.

Speaker 15 (58:17):
A thirty dollar burrito's kind of insane.

Speaker 2 (58:19):
You've never you've Okay, look, we all know you've never.
You've never uber eat food before in your life.

Speaker 16 (58:26):
I've never said that. I said I'd never uber eats
the thirty dollars burrito.

Speaker 1 (58:29):
If you've uber eased anything, it's been thirty dollars. I
used door dash, What did you door dish?

Speaker 16 (58:36):
I haven't used that app in like, honestly two years
because I needed to cut it out.

Speaker 2 (58:40):
Yeah, okay, but so if you use DoorDash at all
for anything, like like if you door dashed anything, it
was probably thirty dollars.

Speaker 16 (58:48):
I mean the most expensive thing that I DoorDash was
a space heater to my apartment because I didn't want
to go to Low's and the Lows was too far
from me, and that was more than thirty dollars.

Speaker 15 (58:58):
But I think it's kind of crazy to.

Speaker 1 (59:00):
Spend I let me just.

Speaker 16 (59:02):
I live next to good restaurant, so like there's like
so many like little mom and pop shops that are
like up and down the streets that I live from.

Speaker 15 (59:09):
It's I can just walk.

Speaker 2 (59:11):
If you're door dashing a space heater to your house.
I don't think you can claim to be above door
dashing a thirty dollars burrita to your house. I am not.

Speaker 13 (59:21):
I am above that.

Speaker 15 (59:22):
Why are you spending thirty dollars on a burrito?

Speaker 4 (59:26):
Why? Why?

Speaker 1 (59:26):
Why not just go buy the space heater?

Speaker 15 (59:29):
The space heater was like you see, a Brooklyn trains suck.

Speaker 16 (59:37):
I would have to take the queue to downtown Brooklyn
and then I would have to take the R down
to Sunset.

Speaker 2 (59:42):
Or what about someone who asked have a car? Nobody
here has a car. I mean they do, That's why
they have streets. What's your name? What's your name again, Isabelle?
How many times did I ask you that? I'm not
good with names? Isabelle? Is there anything else you want
to say to the people of.

Speaker 16 (59:56):
The computer Kelly, guys, I hope we all find it's
rough out here, Isabelle. Nice to meet you.

Speaker 2 (01:00:04):
Good God, bless blessed, see you around the universe. Apologize
for nothing, see you around the universe as all. Hi,
what's your name?

Speaker 11 (01:00:14):
I'm Lily, I'm Scarlet.

Speaker 2 (01:00:15):
And what's what are you guys doing out in the
town today?

Speaker 11 (01:00:19):
Oh?

Speaker 17 (01:00:19):
My god everything. I just saw you and I had
to come over. I was like, I know that guy,
Hell yeah, hell yeah John to me?

Speaker 2 (01:00:27):
Really yes, I hold I hold you all like the.

Speaker 17 (01:00:29):
Same regard as like Jack Black Tanner from Love on
the Spectrum I like have like y'all are like my favorite.

Speaker 2 (01:00:35):
Who's Who's Tanner from Love on the Spectrum. He's just
a Tanner I've never seen.

Speaker 15 (01:00:41):
He's from Georgia.

Speaker 11 (01:00:42):
He's a wonderful man.

Speaker 2 (01:00:43):
He He's like, do.

Speaker 11 (01:00:45):
You want to know everything?

Speaker 2 (01:00:46):
I like?

Speaker 15 (01:00:46):
I like donkeys, I love chickens.

Speaker 11 (01:00:49):
I don't like pigs.

Speaker 2 (01:00:50):
You or him?

Speaker 1 (01:00:52):
What do you like?

Speaker 11 (01:00:54):
Kind of Tanner? A little bit?

Speaker 2 (01:00:55):
Okay?

Speaker 11 (01:00:56):
I like to listwigs, legs. New York. I love New York.
I love this city.

Speaker 1 (01:01:03):
Did you guys just move here?

Speaker 11 (01:01:05):
Uh? Three years? Yeah? So pretty new?

Speaker 1 (01:01:08):
But what do you guys do here? Are your students?

Speaker 5 (01:01:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (01:01:10):
What do we?

Speaker 2 (01:01:11):
What do we study?

Speaker 11 (01:01:14):
I study journalism. I'm child psych so hopefully that's lucrative.
I don't think it will be.

Speaker 2 (01:01:21):
Okay, what what do you What do you guys hope
to do with your future?

Speaker 7 (01:01:26):
I would like to talk about culture because my entire
the reason I hesitate so much on my major is.
My major is communications and Media studies and journalism and
digital storytelling.

Speaker 2 (01:01:36):
Okay, but I say.

Speaker 7 (01:01:37):
Journalism, but I have to talk about culture, Okay if
I'm being completely honest, Like I totally don't want to
go into psychology.

Speaker 17 (01:01:45):
If I could be anything, I would just like this
is so stupid, but I would love to be rich,
like no talent, no job. I just want like money
to like travel and like I want to be fashioning
stuff like that would be great or like a socialite
but kind of baby yeah exactly, baby, Like.

Speaker 2 (01:02:04):
Really you would get bored. I grew up poor.

Speaker 11 (01:02:07):
Girl, so I feel like I would never get bored.

Speaker 17 (01:02:10):
Like they've experienced things I've never experienced, probably won't ever.

Speaker 1 (01:02:14):
So the idea, who's who's the rich?

Speaker 17 (01:02:19):
Like traveling bro, I can't just fucking drop money and
go to England like I would like the like.

Speaker 11 (01:02:25):
Fake jobs they have.

Speaker 7 (01:02:27):
We're influencer, well influencer, and they're like my job is
to like try the air wan Strawberry.

Speaker 11 (01:02:33):
I want that job, yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:02:34):
Or like take photos for like clothes yeah, like but
like on your Instagram, so it's not even like good.

Speaker 1 (01:02:39):
Yeah, I mean I have a fake, funny job yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:02:43):
But yours is like, yeah, yeah, you're out here with
You've got a gimmick. You've got a gimmick, you got
a thing, like it makes sense. Like I'm just so
tired of seeing like a blonde white girl be like.

Speaker 11 (01:02:53):
Com with me to pilates in New York City. I'm like,
that's actually not what we have about. The thing is
that's what I want. That's true.

Speaker 2 (01:03:00):
Well why do you do it? Why don't you do
why don't you come with me to plates in New
York whatever your version of that.

Speaker 11 (01:03:08):
That's also like an issue.

Speaker 17 (01:03:09):
I'm just like so incredibly lazy that I'm like I
have to work for things, and it's just like I
want to have fun.

Speaker 11 (01:03:15):
Like life is always work, work, work all the time.
I want to go out.

Speaker 17 (01:03:18):
I want to see things and see people and like
do shit, Like I don't.

Speaker 11 (01:03:22):
Know, Yeah, I wan to be rich. That would be great,
like to not have financial burdens.

Speaker 15 (01:03:27):
Yeah, Like Pooky and Jet a little bit like I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:03:30):
Agree you are Pooky and Jet.

Speaker 11 (01:03:31):
I'm just dropping all the people.

Speaker 7 (01:03:33):
Pooky and Jet are this southern couple and then Jet
is kind of like a little bit of a bad
guy unfortunately, like he works in dental insurance and like
actively takes away people's dental insurance. But they're so happy
and they're like, we're going to asking.

Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
For fact, Well, how do we know these people? Who
are these people? How do we know them? Okay?

Speaker 5 (01:03:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:03:54):
Are they rich? Very very Why don't you guys do
a Pooky and Jet thing?

Speaker 11 (01:04:02):
Actually? Yeah, I'm actually we're actually gonna steal their content.

Speaker 1 (01:04:05):
God, do your version of Bookie and Jet?

Speaker 2 (01:04:08):
You know, why don't you? Because like what, I don't
know you could? You guys could be influencers. Why not?

Speaker 17 (01:04:13):
Oh honestly, I was thinking about it, But I think
I'm like too dislike to like, I don't know, I
feel like my my you disliked. Yeah, Like my personality
is abrasive I've heard or like polarizing is a good word.
And I feel like you either really like me or
really not like me on the internet.

Speaker 1 (01:04:27):
But that I mean that.

Speaker 2 (01:04:28):
But isn't the internet full of like abrasive personalities? Aren't
the most famous people on the internet people who like
everyone hates.

Speaker 11 (01:04:37):
Yeah, what type of reputation is that?

Speaker 7 (01:04:39):
Though?

Speaker 11 (01:04:39):
I don't want to be like that for.

Speaker 7 (01:04:42):
Who they're like a podcast that's always been kind of controversial.

Speaker 11 (01:04:47):
I dub just did like a content cop.

Speaker 2 (01:04:50):
Oh no, sure, I know. I was on the Age
three podcast a couple of times.

Speaker 11 (01:04:53):
Yeah yeah nice in person.

Speaker 2 (01:04:56):
Uh yeah yeah yeah, I'm f a shout out my
boy cam.

Speaker 11 (01:05:00):
Oh my god. I used to like I used to
like watch the podcast and stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:05:03):
So yeah, I always was.

Speaker 11 (01:05:04):
Like, they should call me on, let me on.

Speaker 2 (01:05:06):
What would you talk about if you're if you're on there.

Speaker 17 (01:05:09):
I love the way he argues, Like, I love the
way he argues, and like, I just want to see if,
like I could outsmart him because sometimes, like I watched
this just Pearly Things debate and that one got me, like,
I hate her with every fiber of my being.

Speaker 11 (01:05:20):
I hate that woman.

Speaker 17 (01:05:21):
So seeing him absolutely destroy her like intellectually made me
really happy.

Speaker 2 (01:05:25):
You guys used the internet a lot.

Speaker 11 (01:05:27):
Media studies, Yeah, media, I'm bored.

Speaker 17 (01:05:31):
I love the Internet and it's great, Like what a
fantastic thing that has been created.

Speaker 2 (01:05:35):
I don't know sometimes I don't know, man, sometimes. But
you know, also that was out of pot because I
also use the Internet a lot. I just don't know.

Speaker 11 (01:05:44):
I mean right now, like we're on the internet.

Speaker 2 (01:05:48):
Yeah, yeah, I guess that's true, But.

Speaker 17 (01:05:50):
How joyous is I think all we were born in
two thousands.

Speaker 1 (01:05:53):
For like you like being born.

Speaker 7 (01:05:55):
I think we were right before, like not either of us.
I believe we're given. I had as babies, I had
my DS.

Speaker 11 (01:06:02):
And I was in it.

Speaker 2 (01:06:03):
Or would you play on the DS?

Speaker 11 (01:06:04):
I played Mario.

Speaker 7 (01:06:06):
I played a lot of Pokemon, Pokemon Sapphire.

Speaker 11 (01:06:11):
And oh what was it cooking Mama? I played Monster High?
That was great. Yeah, we did a different very different people.

Speaker 1 (01:06:20):
Are you guys gonna get the switch to?

Speaker 11 (01:06:22):
Absolutely not?

Speaker 2 (01:06:24):
Thank you?

Speaker 11 (01:06:25):
What a money grab? I can't believe that, Like and
it is.

Speaker 17 (01:06:27):
Like ninety dollars to buy like the game to teach
you how to use, like the switch.

Speaker 2 (01:06:31):
I heard it is kind of funny. It's ninety dollars
to get the game.

Speaker 11 (01:06:34):
That incredibly insane.

Speaker 2 (01:06:37):
But they look cool, like the new Marri Kart does
look sick where you can like drive, I do point like.

Speaker 7 (01:06:42):
I had wow and multiple friendships start through playing Mario Kart.

Speaker 17 (01:06:47):
But like the Little app, the Little app uh huh.
I was always bad at Mario Kart. So I literally
don't play any Mario games. I'm a saunic girl.

Speaker 1 (01:06:55):
Well, what's your guys' names again.

Speaker 11 (01:06:57):
I'm Lily, I'm Scarlet.

Speaker 2 (01:06:59):
Is there anything else you guys want to say to
the people of the computer before we go?

Speaker 11 (01:07:02):
Stay good and distrust the government? Play Mario Kart.

Speaker 2 (01:07:08):
Hello, sir, what's your name?

Speaker 14 (01:07:09):
My name is Adam. What's your name?

Speaker 2 (01:07:11):
Adam? My name is Lyle.

Speaker 7 (01:07:12):
Hi.

Speaker 2 (01:07:13):
How's it going? Adam has life?

Speaker 14 (01:07:15):
Life is excellent, really excellent.

Speaker 2 (01:07:17):
I'm so uh oh, Adam, give me if favorite hold
the mic like a little I thank you, Adam, got
your life is excellent. I want you to know. And
I'm not saying I'm not blowing smoke up your ass,
but looking at your face and the way that you
say that life is excellent, I can tell that you're
telling the truth. And that excites me because you know,
I don't know. Life is filled with lots of like

(01:07:38):
uncertainty and fear and weirdness, and so to look at
someone's face and have them say that life is excellent
and fills me with a lot of joy.

Speaker 1 (01:07:46):
So I'm ko, why is life excellent? Tell me more?

Speaker 9 (01:07:49):
That's that's a longer answer, but life is life is excellent.

Speaker 14 (01:07:52):
Life is fun. I'm having a great time.

Speaker 2 (01:07:57):
What's what's having what's causing you to have that's a
great time. I mean, I see you have your family here.
I'm sure that that's a big part of its huge, huge.

Speaker 9 (01:08:05):
I love my work, I love my family. I have
a wonderful wife. I have a fun life.

Speaker 1 (01:08:12):
Tell me what's your what you do for work?

Speaker 14 (01:08:14):
I own a guitar company?

Speaker 6 (01:08:16):
Cool?

Speaker 2 (01:08:17):
How long are you doing that?

Speaker 14 (01:08:18):
About thirty years?

Speaker 1 (01:08:20):
And it's been exciting for all thirty years?

Speaker 14 (01:08:22):
That exactly excited?

Speaker 2 (01:08:24):
Wow? What is it that makes it so exciting?

Speaker 9 (01:08:31):
That's an interesting question? Why is it exciting? I get
to do what I love. First, I work with a
lot of exciting people, a lot of guitar players that
are fun to be around and exciting to work with.
So I enjoy what I do every day. I've never
once scotten up and said, oh I got to go
to work today.

Speaker 14 (01:08:51):
Wow, I love it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:52):
Has that been your whole life?

Speaker 14 (01:08:54):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:08:55):
Okay, tell me about before?

Speaker 9 (01:08:57):
Well, that wasn't as much fun, and that wasn't as
much is excellent? I did you have to go through
that till you figure out where you want to be.

Speaker 2 (01:09:05):
But that's what I want to hear is I want
to hear about when it wasn't so excellent, and then
how it became excellent.

Speaker 14 (01:09:09):
That's not a good story.

Speaker 2 (01:09:10):
What do you mean that's not because that's a great story.
What do you mean that's not that it's a wonderful story.
That's the story I want to hear everything is great
all the time. That's not a good story. Everything wasn't
so great, and then it becomes because no one else
says that, no one else will say that.

Speaker 14 (01:09:25):
You were amazed that.

Speaker 2 (01:09:26):
So stay with the good part, okay, because.

Speaker 9 (01:09:29):
The boring prequel to the amazing was the same as
everyone else's story was terrible?

Speaker 2 (01:09:36):
And then how did it become not terrible?

Speaker 14 (01:09:37):
I decided it was time for it not to be terrible?

Speaker 2 (01:09:41):
Was there something? Was there something that happened or did
you wake up one day or how what made you
decide for it? I don't want this to be terrible anymore.

Speaker 9 (01:09:51):
I decided that I wanted to do something I love
every day, and then I decided who I wanted to
be with. That's when I met my wife, and you
put those two together, and that's when it became amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:10:03):
When did you meet your wife.

Speaker 14 (01:10:06):
Five years ago? Four or five years ago?

Speaker 2 (01:10:08):
How'd you guys meet.

Speaker 9 (01:10:09):
She's a photographer shooting pictures for me. Love guitars?

Speaker 2 (01:10:12):
Cool?

Speaker 14 (01:10:13):
Yeah, that's how we met.

Speaker 2 (01:10:14):
And how old is your son?

Speaker 14 (01:10:17):
That's the grandson.

Speaker 2 (01:10:19):
Oh, that's your grandson.

Speaker 14 (01:10:20):
You believe that? Can you believe?

Speaker 2 (01:10:21):
That's my Wow?

Speaker 14 (01:10:23):
That's the grandson.

Speaker 2 (01:10:24):
Wow, that's awesome. How how old? Five? Wow? So how
many kids do you have?

Speaker 14 (01:10:32):
She has two girls and I have two girls. Those
are her two girls?

Speaker 2 (01:10:35):
Cool cool man?

Speaker 14 (01:10:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (01:10:37):
Wow, twenty three and twenty wow, twenty three today?

Speaker 2 (01:10:40):
And those are those twenty four today?

Speaker 14 (01:10:43):
Twenty three?

Speaker 2 (01:10:43):
You're twenty four today? Oh, happy birthday? And so the
are these your wife?

Speaker 4 (01:10:48):
Kids?

Speaker 2 (01:10:48):
Are your kids?

Speaker 14 (01:10:49):
Those were her kids?

Speaker 2 (01:10:50):
Cool man? What are your kids up to?

Speaker 14 (01:10:52):
My kids?

Speaker 9 (01:10:52):
I have two girls too. One's a psychologist, one is
a flight attendant.

Speaker 14 (01:10:57):
Wow, everyone's happy.

Speaker 9 (01:10:59):
All good kids. It's good fun. We do what we
love and we're here.

Speaker 2 (01:11:04):
Can I so if I can? I can I ask
you some questions? I'm I'm curious if you're willing to answer.
So you said things before like you seem correct me
if I'm wrong, But as I'm interviewing you, it seems
as though one could separate your life into distinctly like
when things you say we're terrible when things you say

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were great terrible, but that's good. Can I ask how
old you were when you felt like things started to
become good?

Speaker 9 (01:11:35):
There was always pieces of good things, but I never
had the whole package until recently.

Speaker 2 (01:11:41):
Until recently. What was it about recently where you like,
I have the whole package?

Speaker 14 (01:11:45):
I don't.

Speaker 9 (01:11:46):
When I got remarried and and the business was already going,
so that was good.

Speaker 14 (01:11:52):
That was only half of the package. Only you know
it's not enough.

Speaker 9 (01:11:59):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:11:59):
I like hearing these is because a lot of people
think that, like, oh, if you know, I don't have
this by a certain age, or this isn't or you know,
you know, you break up with your first significant other
and you're like, oh, I'll never find love again, this
will never happen again. This will never happen again. I'm dying,
you know whatever, And then yeah, so it's cool to
hear stories of that not being true.

Speaker 14 (01:12:21):
How did you end.

Speaker 9 (01:12:21):
Up in Washington Square Park as a get go asking questions?

Speaker 14 (01:12:26):
Well?

Speaker 2 (01:12:27):
Today, how I ended up as a get go in
Washington Square Park asking questions? Is I wanted to get
out of the house, But I mean, I've been doing
this for like five years just being a lizard and
talking to folks.

Speaker 14 (01:12:38):
Why a lizard?

Speaker 9 (01:12:39):
What was it about a lizard that made you go
in that direction?

Speaker 2 (01:12:44):
I just had the costume, so it could have been
anything like a giraffe.

Speaker 4 (01:12:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:12:49):
I kind of fell into this weirdly enough.

Speaker 9 (01:12:52):
And how is it the lizard business? Asking questions?

Speaker 2 (01:12:57):
It's cool? Ycause this is enjoyable. It's not I'm out,
I'm in. I'm in real life. I meet people I
wouldn't have never met before.

Speaker 14 (01:13:07):
And what do you do with the content? YouTube?

Speaker 2 (01:13:10):
I put it on YouTube, I put it on a TikTok.

Speaker 14 (01:13:13):
How is the YouTube and TikTok business for you?

Speaker 4 (01:13:16):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:13:16):
It's good, it's nice. It's fun. It's good to be
I mean I do.

Speaker 2 (01:13:20):
I do this version of it, and then I do
a version of it where I talk to people on
the phone. You know, this version is fun because I
get to be face to face with people.

Speaker 14 (01:13:29):
It's interesting.

Speaker 9 (01:13:30):
So how many followers do you have on the on
your platforms?

Speaker 2 (01:13:36):
Several several more than more than one hundred, more than
a less than less than less than a billion, more
than one hundred. What's your guitar company? F you Tone,
f U Tone, do you play?

Speaker 14 (01:13:49):
Yeah, you have to.

Speaker 2 (01:13:51):
Are you in a band?

Speaker 6 (01:13:52):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:13:52):
Okay, but I have to play.

Speaker 1 (01:13:55):
You even't stop smiling since you sat down.

Speaker 14 (01:13:57):
I'm a happy guy.

Speaker 4 (01:13:58):
You wake up like this?

Speaker 14 (01:13:59):
Yeah, go through your lasts?

Speaker 2 (01:14:01):
Really? Wow? This is this is cool man, It's cool
to see. It's cool seeing someone enjoy their life so much.

Speaker 14 (01:14:08):
Are most people miserable?

Speaker 1 (01:14:10):
Do you think most people are miserable?

Speaker 14 (01:14:13):
Are most people not? Maybe not miserable? Unhappy?

Speaker 2 (01:14:15):
Why do you think most people are unhappy?

Speaker 9 (01:14:19):
Just my experience in dealing with people, Most people are
unhappy that I come across.

Speaker 2 (01:14:24):
What about Okay, so you're in the let me ask
you this. You're in the music industry. I bet you
meet a lot of hot shots. You meet a lot
of I'm sure, like rich artists, people or whatever. Do
they seem happy or do you think like what do
you think the correlation is?

Speaker 9 (01:14:40):
Believe it or not, it doesn't equate to happiness? Okay,
super famous, super rich? Do you think you want some
pretty unhappy?

Speaker 2 (01:14:51):
Why do you think that is?

Speaker 14 (01:14:52):
Because the truth.

Speaker 9 (01:14:54):
Is that money doesn't buy happiness, which is what we
were just talking about, but it does give you freedom
to pursue your happy. Of course, of course, big difference.

Speaker 2 (01:15:05):
I agree it gives you the freedom to pursue things,
but it completely in and of itself pursue your happiness.

Speaker 13 (01:15:13):
Though.

Speaker 9 (01:15:14):
Sure, all if all things were said, if you had
whatever amount of money it is that you think would
make you happy, that you didn't have to do anything,
what would you do with the money?

Speaker 2 (01:15:27):
I think I think it. I think it can free
you from a lot of if you had it, so.

Speaker 14 (01:15:32):
That everyone has a number. I have the numbers. You
have a number.

Speaker 9 (01:15:36):
If if you had that number, would you be out
here interviewing me?

Speaker 2 (01:15:41):
I think I would.

Speaker 9 (01:15:42):
It's a great answer because I always tell my wife
if I hit the mega millions, and if I if
I hit the one hundred million dollars, all I would
do is build a bigger.

Speaker 2 (01:15:51):
Guitar company, because yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:15:55):
And just do it bigger. And that's it. So I
do what I love because I love it. But I
would still do it if I didn't have to do it.
Most people have to go where they go every day,
and if they had a.

Speaker 14 (01:16:08):
Choice, they wouldn't. One day, I made a choice.

Speaker 9 (01:16:11):
Instead, we're going to pursue what makes me happy instead
of what makes me the most money.

Speaker 14 (01:16:16):
And was when I made that move.

Speaker 9 (01:16:18):
I was making a lot more money to risk it
all for next to no money.

Speaker 2 (01:16:24):
And those first few years when you were building the
guitar company and making much less money than you were making,
what was that like?

Speaker 14 (01:16:31):
And sometimes no money?

Speaker 2 (01:16:33):
What was that like?

Speaker 14 (01:16:34):
Scary at times? But I was happy every day?

Speaker 2 (01:16:38):
Really?

Speaker 14 (01:16:38):
Yep?

Speaker 1 (01:16:40):
Where was that? Is this all in New York City?

Speaker 14 (01:16:42):
Right outside of Philadelphia?

Speaker 2 (01:16:44):
Oh? Cool? Cool? How long did it take you before
you started like making money and feeling like, Okay, this
is a stable thing.

Speaker 14 (01:16:54):
That's a good question too. I don't know.

Speaker 9 (01:16:56):
It wasn't It wasn't horribly long, but it wasn't an
overnight thing either. It's it's a long road and it
wasn't a straight line. I was all over the place.

Speaker 2 (01:17:07):
Do you feel like, what's your sense of peace been
like throughout your life? But do you feel like you've
been peaceful for most of your life? Or is your
piece a recent thing? You seem you seem extremely at
peace and that's recent.

Speaker 14 (01:17:25):
Five years? Wow, out out of my entire life, that's
not a lot of time. No, Now, I have to
live a very long time to.

Speaker 2 (01:17:33):
Get even can I can I ask you how old
you are fifty eight, fifty eight.

Speaker 14 (01:17:39):
I'll be fifty eight this year, fifty seven.

Speaker 2 (01:17:41):
And in the past five years is when you've felt
the most peace five six years. That's really cool, that's right.
I'm very I like, on a personal level, I'm very
inspired by that.

Speaker 9 (01:17:50):
That's great. Yeah, this was worthwhile. If you're inspired and
feel good, Yeah, be happy every day.

Speaker 2 (01:17:58):
But like, have you found pockets of peace throughout your life?

Speaker 1 (01:18:02):
What gave you those pockets of peace?

Speaker 9 (01:18:08):
I would say small pieces of the puzzle that I
have now, just in smaller doses and as not is
not a concentrated level. So the moments of happiness, moments
of good things, you know, not constant now, it's.

Speaker 1 (01:18:26):
Just now it's concentrated because of your family.

Speaker 9 (01:18:30):
Because of everything. But it's everything my wife, my family,
my business, and my friends. I have a nice little
balance circle.

Speaker 1 (01:18:41):
And it took you a lot till it took you
a lifetime to.

Speaker 9 (01:18:44):
Get to figured out, to figure it out. And I
didn't figure it out before. And there was time when
I was very young where I actually made a lot
of money at.

Speaker 14 (01:18:53):
A very young age and was miserable.

Speaker 1 (01:18:58):
Because why why were you so miserable? During that time?

Speaker 9 (01:19:02):
I was young and maybe not clear on what happiness was.
I thought money was happiness, and it's like a band aid.
It's almost like a drug fix. It's just short term happiness.
So you finally get it, or you buy something you
want or do something you want, then it's over. It
wasn't true happiness, it was just stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:19:27):
Let's say, if somebody is looking for peace out there,
what would you tell them?

Speaker 14 (01:19:35):
I don't know if I'm the best person to give advice.

Speaker 2 (01:19:37):
But well, look, you're peaceful in this very moment, and
so I declare that to mean that you would be
good at giving me.

Speaker 9 (01:19:43):
My advice would be do something you love every day
to start. And if you're not doing something that you
love or you're passionate about, you're you're on the wrong
path if you want to be happy.

Speaker 2 (01:19:59):
I got I got this question for you. How'd you
know you were ready to become a father?

Speaker 14 (01:20:06):
How well I know it is?

Speaker 9 (01:20:06):
That's it's also an interesting question. My I was twenty
six when my first daughter was born, and I knew that.

Speaker 14 (01:20:14):
I wanted to be a young father really and I
was so it was great.

Speaker 2 (01:20:19):
How do you know you wanted to be a young father?

Speaker 9 (01:20:22):
It's a deep question because I had such a shitty father,
so I thought I could do a better job and
I wanted to prove it and I did.

Speaker 2 (01:20:32):
That's awesome. Man, was it hard being a young father
because I'm I'm I'm twenty seven now and I.

Speaker 14 (01:20:39):
Have little get gos.

Speaker 2 (01:20:40):
No, No, I don't have kids, but I want I
don't have I don't have kids. But like when I imagine
I don't have kids, but when I imagine, like you know,
my the the latter half of my life, I imagine
wanting to have a family. But I'm like, I don't
know if but like if I if I had a
kid right now, I think that kid would be fucked.

Speaker 14 (01:20:57):
You know why.

Speaker 2 (01:20:58):
I don't know, just because it's like I don't feel
I don't feel ready right now, but.

Speaker 14 (01:21:03):
I'm like responsible, get go.

Speaker 2 (01:21:05):
I think like right now, like my right now, I'm
like wrapped up in like my own life and figuring
out myself that like if you handed me a baby,
I'd be like, oh shit, you know, but I don't know.

Speaker 14 (01:21:18):
You don't want to be too old, you don't want
to be there.

Speaker 9 (01:21:20):
Did you have any friends when you were younger that
had the old dad like he was like an old guy,
like an old man.

Speaker 2 (01:21:27):
I mean my parents are in their like late sixties,
their sixties, my dad, yeah, my dad, my parents, everyone
in there, like mid late thirties.

Speaker 14 (01:21:38):
Yeah, that's on that.

Speaker 9 (01:21:40):
That's on the back end of I think of having
kids interesting. You know, you want to be able to
be the dad down on your hands and knees and.

Speaker 14 (01:21:49):
Yeah, playing with the kids.

Speaker 2 (01:21:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:21:51):
I was just playing on the monkey bars with their grandson.
I still love it.

Speaker 2 (01:21:54):
Yeah, that's awesome, man, But it was it must have
been hard at twenty six.

Speaker 14 (01:22:00):
No, I don't know it was. It was.

Speaker 9 (01:22:04):
I considered it an accomplishment and I enjoyed it.

Speaker 2 (01:22:07):
That's awesome.

Speaker 9 (01:22:08):
And when I look back on it, I don't regret
that at all. I set out for that, I got that,
and I think it was good.

Speaker 2 (01:22:18):
Do you do you regret anything?

Speaker 9 (01:22:20):
I regret lots of things, tons of things I regret,
but I wouldn't give that up. I can't give it up.
I'm just happy now. It's great. Look at my wife's smiling. Okay,
she's happy too. Are we happy?

Speaker 14 (01:22:36):
Every day?

Speaker 9 (01:22:38):
I tell her every day? We got no.

Speaker 2 (01:22:43):
His wife, his wife. Just for people who can't hear
his wife just said, tell him about when the day?

Speaker 9 (01:22:47):
When the Day's my motto years ago. My my one
daughter is heavy into it with me. Till at the
end of every day, I keep scoring to see if
I won the day, and what do I mean by winning.

Speaker 2 (01:22:59):
The What do you mean by winning the day?

Speaker 9 (01:23:01):
Was I happy that day? Did I have a good day?
Did I feel good about myself? Did I accomplish things
I wanted to accomplish?

Speaker 14 (01:23:10):
And was I happy?

Speaker 9 (01:23:12):
As opposed to losing a day where at the end
of the day you're miserable, you're regretful, You're like, today sucked.

Speaker 14 (01:23:22):
I don't want to do this again.

Speaker 9 (01:23:23):
And it has nothing to do with money, because there's
been plenty of days where I'd make great money where
I lost the day where I was unhappy, but I
made a lot of money, I was unhappy. And there's
been plenty of days where I've lost money or made
no money and been happy with myself and my relationships

(01:23:44):
in my day. And at the end of the day,
I say to myself every night, did I win today?
And most days now I say, yeah, I won today.
My goal is to die with a winning.

Speaker 2 (01:23:56):
Record where you won more days than you lost.

Speaker 7 (01:23:59):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:23:59):
I'm still still behind.

Speaker 9 (01:24:01):
Oh way behind. But I'm on a major wind streak.
I'm on a great dynasty type wind streak. But I've
got years to go to break even. Too many years
wasted on the wrong people, the wrong things, the wrong ideas,
wasted time.

Speaker 14 (01:24:20):
You know what I'm talking about. Yeah, yeah, you know
exactly what.

Speaker 2 (01:24:25):
I'm talking about. Man, you know that's awesome. That's awesome.
What's your name again, man, Adam? Adam?

Speaker 1 (01:24:33):
A great pleasure to meet you.

Speaker 2 (01:24:35):
Man, it was a pleasure.

Speaker 14 (01:24:35):
Where could I see this?

Speaker 2 (01:24:37):
Uh, it's on YouTube dot com slash Lyle.

Speaker 14 (01:24:40):
Forever, Lyle forever.

Speaker 2 (01:24:42):
Is there anything else you want to say to the
people of the computer before we go, Adam, This was.

Speaker 9 (01:24:47):
A great experience talking to Lyle the get go. I
had a blast here in New York today with my
wife having fun. Happy birthday to Maddie. We're having a blast.
This was great. And and if one person got a
positive message from me, I'm glad I stopped.

Speaker 1 (01:25:06):
I got a positive message for you. So you got
the one person.

Speaker 14 (01:25:09):
We won the day.

Speaker 2 (01:25:10):
We won the day. Nice to meetch Adam, Thank you
very much, man. That was awesome. This was a great
Gecko session. This was a lot of fun, folks. Just
goes to show if you're fucking feeling insane in your house,
just go outside, try to talk to people. You'll feel better.

(01:25:33):
I'm saying that from my personal experience. It was great
talking to that guy because I don't know, if you
listen to the podcast, you know that I've been talking
about all kinds of existential crazy bullshit. But isn't it
so cool? Doesn't it give you so much hope when
you meet someone who's like I fucking kept fighting for
my fucking piece and I eventually found It took until

(01:25:54):
he was goddamn fifty three years old, but he found
the piece.

Speaker 4 (01:25:58):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:25:59):
It's cool, man, It's cool. It just makes you want
to not give up on finding peace. So that was cool.
Shout out Adam, Shout out New York. Thank you guys
for watching on YouTube or listening on the On the podcast,
my name is Lyle. I am a gecko and I
will I will see you all around the universe. Maybe

(01:26:22):
at some point in the future, get blessed, see you around.

Speaker 4 (01:26:27):
Thanks for listening.

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