“I DRAW THE RICH AND FAMOUS”

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome to the Therapy Gecko Podcast. I am Lyle,
I am a gecko. I am in New York City
in a park. Today is what day is today? Does
anyone know what day it is? Today? Is August something,
and it's something. It's sometime in the afternoon. It doesn't matter.
The time is now. It will never be August. What
day is today? Today's August twenty fifth. It will never

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be August twenty fifth, twenty twenty five ever again. And
that is why I have come to the park to
be a gecko and talk to people about life. This
is what I'm gonna do with my time alive on
the earth. This is how I'm spending the one August
twenty fifth, twenty twenty five that I get and by
God is in an honor. So let's talk to some

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people at the park about life. It'll be fun, great, sick.
Let's do it.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Hi. What's your name?

Speaker 3 (00:50):
I'm Sid, Sid.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Nice to meet you.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Nice to meet you.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
What's going on, Sid? How's life?

Speaker 3 (00:54):
Life is pretty good? Just moved into NYU.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Oh very nice. What are you studying.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
I'm studying recorded me.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
You're studying recorded music?

Speaker 4 (01:02):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Okay, So this is the opposite of studying music production.
This is the music has been recorded and now we're
gonna study it.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
So it's kind of everything. It's the school for like
just an overarching music education. So it's production, it's songwriting,
it's the business, it's it's a little school inside of this.
It's a very small program, but it's just it's a
school of recorded music.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
So basically, what are your dreams for the future. Is
it to record music or to recorded music?

Speaker 3 (01:31):
Well, I'd like to be an artist, a singer, a performer,
and I record my own music already. But yeah, my
dream is to be a touring artist.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
I uh, you use to be a touring artist?

Speaker 5 (01:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Very nice, very cool. What do you make music about?

Speaker 6 (01:47):
Do you sing?

Speaker 4 (01:48):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:48):
I sing, So singing is my main thing. My music
is just a lot about my personal experiences and personal
things that have happened in my life because I just
I like to make music to try to make music
relates to people as best as I can.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Yeah, what uh I mean? For whatever?

Speaker 6 (02:07):
For whatever?

Speaker 1 (02:07):
You want to talk about what happened? What what's happened
in your life?

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Well, I've had some interesting relationships with people, just friendships,
not friendships, and I write about them, and I write
about the good things and the bad things and high school,
which is, you know, an experience for everybody.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Do you talk so you go like Taylor Swift mode
a little bit? Okay, a little bit?

Speaker 2 (02:29):
And how old are you?

Speaker 1 (02:30):
I'm seventeen, You're seventeen? Yes, Oh, so you're still in
high school?

Speaker 4 (02:34):
No?

Speaker 3 (02:35):
I'm in college.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Okay. Did you graduate a year early?

Speaker 3 (02:38):
No, just just a little, a little delayed, about to
turn eighteen?

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Okay? So what?

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (02:45):
Who are who?

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Were like the artists that you like?

Speaker 3 (02:48):
Well, my favorite of all time is Billie Eilish, Okay,
obsessed with her?

Speaker 2 (02:51):
She's cool.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yeah, and I'm very like singer songwriter. So I don't
know if you know like Lizzie Mcallpin. She's beautiful voice.
I love her, saw her in concert, pretty great.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
I don't I feel anyone that you know, I almost
guarantee I don't know. I know Billy, I don't know
Billie Eilish is who do I listen to? I search
Royalty free jazz music on YouTube and I listened to
whatever that is. It's probably AI generated, Honestly, it's good.
I don't know like the names of people, Okay, fair fair,

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But I mean that's cool. So do you like post
music on the internet.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
Yeah, So I.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
Have three songs out right now, and I have a
new one and it's coming on September nineteenth, and that's
like on Spotify and anything you want to stream it on.
And then I'm pretty active on TikTok as well, and
I post like a lot of covers and just like
my music and stuff and just kind of share everything
about my life.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
So it's it's August, like, I see you have barely
even been in school yet you just moved in two days,
are you How do you Are you nervous?

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Are you excited? How do you feel both?

Speaker 3 (03:57):
I'm definitely nervous. I'm from the city as well, so
it's a less of a big change for me as
it is for other people.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
For you grew up in New York. What was that
like going to high school in New York? Because it's
are there any there's no TV? All the TV shows
about like teens in high school they all take place
in Los Angeles, Like, there's none, none of them are
there's no like high school shows that are in New York?

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Are they think?

Speaker 3 (04:19):
So?

Speaker 2 (04:20):
So, what's that experience like?

Speaker 3 (04:22):
It's definitely a little bit crazy. I high school was
it was an experience, so I was definitely ready for
college for sure. I mean it's kind of all I've
ever known because I've just grown up in the city.
And when I was younger, I did not like the city.
But as I got to high school and stuff, I
got a lot more independence and I went out with
people and went out with friends and stuff, and so

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I definitely grew to like this, like love the city
in high school because there was a lot more independence
than my friends in the suburbs who are just getting
their driver's license and I can't drive.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
That's what I mean.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
It would be a waste of time for you to
learn how to drive in New York. Yeah, so is
your I guess. So you went to high school like what,
you went high school in Manhattan? Yeah, holy shit? Okay,
and then you're going to college in Manhattan. So your
life is not going to be that much different.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
No, But I mean it is different in a way
because I'm doing what I like want to. I mean,
I wanted to do music forever and so now I'm
actually I get to go to school for it. And
six out of seven of my classes are music classes,
and I have a writing class that I have to take.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
It's exciting. Yeah, that's exciting. Okay, I guess uh hmm.
I'm trying to think if I have any questions for
you about life. Well, and you're here with your two homies.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
Yes, one is my roommate.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
Okay, did you guys just meet?

Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yeah, well we had been texting a little bit, but
we did just meet.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
Are you getting along well?

Speaker 4 (05:50):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (05:50):
I love her. It's a great match.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
And another one is my sister.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Do you sister get along well?

Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yes, yes, biggest supporter, promoter. She helps me hang these
flyers all around the city. You might you might see
them if you're walking around today. They say looking for
fans of my music. And so they're like, oh, they're
a play on the guy that put the posters all around,
who is like looking for the perfect woman.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
And I actually think I have seen I actually I
actually have seen that. No, are they they have like
the little tear off shit right looking for fans. Yeah,
it's kind of it's like a play on like a
dating profile.

Speaker 7 (06:24):
Right.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah, Okay, I've seen that. Okay, I've seen I haven't
seen the looking I've seen your thing. I haven't seen
looking for a perfect woman? Is there only that's you?
I feel there's not like another person. I actually it's funny,
I actually have seen that.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
That's crazy, all right, cool?

Speaker 1 (06:38):
I have people like found you through that? How long
have you been putting those up? Because I feel like
I saw that like a month ago, a couple of
months probably, Oh okay, all right, so.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
You've been putting them out for a while. Yeah. Have
you had people like message you being like I found
you through that? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (06:50):
I have a bunch of like Instagram and TikTok comments
being like, oh, like I found your poster in Chelsea
and Washington Square Park, Like, so glad I found your music.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
It's pretty cool, very exciting stuff.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
Well, I hope that your musical journey is successful.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
I hope you don't.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
I hope you don't get jaded by the world. I
hope you continue to love life. And uh, that's all
I can really hope for you. I think you're gonna
I think you're gonna do great, dude. I mean you're
gonna live amazing life. And you know, I mean, someone's
gotta make someone's got to write songs about stuff.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
Is there anything else you want to say to the
people of the computer before we go.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
Well, if you want to listen to my music, my
name is Sid Sid Hudson And yeah, that's it.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
Marker, thank you. I'll see you around the universe by Sid.

Speaker 8 (07:45):
Hi.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
What's your name? My name is Drew because you want
to hold the microphone? Sure, my name is Drew.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
How's life going, Drew?

Speaker 6 (07:52):
It's going good.

Speaker 9 (07:52):
I actually drew some celebrities, okay, Seth Rogen and like
Bill Murray and like Elton.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
John You drew Bill Murray and Elton I give an
ar piece and everything. Oh okay, how did you get
involved in doing this?

Speaker 9 (08:04):
I just like met them, like you know, just like
bumped into them and like just like drew them, like
you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
Like how did you bump into the can I actually
just hold the mic?

Speaker 9 (08:12):
Yeah, but yeah, I just bump into them, like I
just like like randomly and I just like find some
like I just like see them and they're like, you know,
I say hi and everything, and like I asked them
to ask them to draw them.

Speaker 6 (08:22):
And then I draw them and then take the arpiece.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Now where did you bump into Seth Rogan?

Speaker 6 (08:27):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (08:27):
So yeah, oh, okay, and you and you were just
like you just drew them and you gave him the thing.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
That's cool. How many celebrities have you bumped into?

Speaker 6 (08:36):
Ten?

Speaker 2 (08:37):
Ten?

Speaker 4 (08:38):
Ten?

Speaker 6 (08:38):
And I also bumped into a you ten bumped into twelve?

Speaker 9 (08:41):
So I also saw Pamela Anderson like twice okay, she
was jogging. And also saw Nicki Minaj. She was like
really nice where like yeah, she was like she was
she was like a surprisingly really nice person.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
How do you how do you randomly bump into these celebrities?

Speaker 9 (08:56):
I don't know, I just like I just come across them.
I guess it's like they're just walking and like, I
don't know, it's kind of strange.

Speaker 6 (09:01):
It's like I just kind of.

Speaker 9 (09:03):
Like seem to like know where the like vibrancy or
like the where the like the really popping places are
or something.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
Maybe Okay, are you like a cool guy?

Speaker 7 (09:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (09:13):
I guess like I do hang around or like like
places where it's they do?

Speaker 6 (09:17):
They do like play a lot of music and stuff.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
Are you are you? Like? Are you are you? How
hard are you trying to gate keep this?

Speaker 1 (09:23):
Like? Would you like where would you tell us where
all the cool people hang out? Or like is it
bad if you spot where do the cool people hang
out these days? You're here?

Speaker 2 (09:36):
Okay?

Speaker 6 (09:37):
Yeah one of them?

Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yeah, let's see who's the who? Uh?

Speaker 6 (09:42):
Who are who are?

Speaker 2 (09:43):
Name all ten of the celebrities?

Speaker 9 (09:44):
Okay, so Els and John Bill Murray, the guy from
seth Rogen, the guy from uh Pineaple Express, Cecil Gilly.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
Hall, Cecial, Jill and Home Jake Jillenhomes Yeah okay.

Speaker 9 (10:04):
Also the guy from from uh Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley,
the TV show What Camell Come Camel, Yeah, come yeah camell.

Speaker 6 (10:18):
And I also Drew like a really famous artist. Uh.

Speaker 9 (10:21):
His name is Julian Schnabo. His artwork goes for like
ten million dollars in auction. I drew him here, so
that's like six. But I can't remember.

Speaker 6 (10:28):
The other one was.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
Like that's okay, it's like you know what, I honestly
the fuck all the fun all those people?

Speaker 6 (10:33):
Who are you?

Speaker 1 (10:33):
Man?

Speaker 2 (10:33):
What's your name?

Speaker 6 (10:34):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (10:35):
Drew? Drew probably said that before, but I remember. So
how'd you get into drawing?

Speaker 9 (10:41):
I just like I liked I was like drawing and everything,
Like I like studied like how to like like drawing
outside of like play, like opera and like all the
arts and everything and everything, and I like drawing a
lot because it helped.

Speaker 6 (10:54):
Me like get out of like a lot of like.

Speaker 9 (10:55):
Like I was always that quiet kid in the room
like just like drawing by myself and everything, and like
I was like drawing people and like making drawings and
showing people, and people would always be excited about like
what I show them and everything, and I always had
like a I would like uh like just saying Japanese style,
like I would just like draw anime or like represent
anime in like my own way.

Speaker 6 (11:15):
Cool.

Speaker 9 (11:15):
Like basically what I do is like I just draw
people as anime characters.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Well you drew all those people's anime characters, draw people
as anime? Would you draw me as an anime character? OK?

Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah that's awesome? Wait why what what attracts you to
the anime style?

Speaker 9 (11:27):
It just looks cool, Like I like it's quick and
easy and like it looks cool to look at.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
So do you do you watch a lot of anime?

Speaker 6 (11:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (11:35):
What's favorite anime?

Speaker 6 (11:38):
Damn?

Speaker 9 (11:38):
I feel like my favorite anime is uh like start
Out Online or something or like.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
Do you ever imagine?

Speaker 1 (11:48):
Like? Oh, I like, do you ever sit around Neon
Genesis seven. Do you ever imagine, like, oh, what if
my life was an anime?

Speaker 9 (11:56):
Yeah, but like I don't know, like I mean, I guess,
like no, but like it's the same school, like how
it looks No, you.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
Never you never get lost in escapist fantasy.

Speaker 9 (12:04):
I mean I guess, like I see, I can kind
of see how it can be similar to life, but
it seems like anime.

Speaker 6 (12:10):
Seems like I I watched a lot.

Speaker 9 (12:12):
Of like anime with like like you know, I watched like.

Speaker 6 (12:17):
Like high School to Dad and like house Club and Ship.

Speaker 9 (12:19):
So I watched animate within a lot of like like
like school related Yeah, well a lot of them to watch,
Like I also play like Dona Rampa the video games.
So I watched such school because I taught high schoolers
how to chol cool high school to how to draw
for like a year.

Speaker 6 (12:38):
Cool, And like I feel like school is where.

Speaker 9 (12:40):
Like a lot of stuff, like I learned to like
really like it's where I learned to really home myself
myself as like an artist. So I like school oriented
things like yeah, I like, yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
Like well there's there's it's you know, there's something very
nostalgic about that time.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
Yes, so elegist, you know, like you're you're, you're.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
It's a weirdly paradoxically care free yet stressful time. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
Being in high school, yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
You know, I mean, I mean ship the lady who
was just here, she was, she was she just graduate
high school. She was talking about, you know, all of
my life experiences, and I was like, in my head,
I was like, how much life experience can you have?
But then I remember, I'm like, yeah, I get when
you're in high school, you still are stressed out about things.
You get older and you realize, well, I was gonna say,

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you get older and you realize it didn't matter.

Speaker 9 (13:35):
Like video games like I used to play, like like
like Japanese video games, okay, like like Pokemon.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
And like, yeah, I know Pokemon, Like that's cool.

Speaker 6 (13:44):
I like.

Speaker 9 (13:44):
I also like the Digimon animes and Pokemon animes.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
Those those are those are like the best I feel
I was gonna. I was gonna say, you get older
and you're and you're like.

Speaker 9 (13:53):
I feel like those are the top three Pokemon Digimon Like.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
You get older and you're like, oh that stuff didn't matter,
but everything matter, well nothing really matters.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
Everything only matters relative.

Speaker 10 (14:04):
To what to what's how you feel and in the moment, yeah,
and like how you express yourself right right, So even
if it felt like it didn't matter, of course it
doesn't matter fucking now, But it mattered then.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
I mean, nothing that matters now. It's gonna matter later anyways.
But uh, what matters to you these days? What matters
to you right now?

Speaker 9 (14:20):
Like our and like like I feel like celebrity culture
and also like like.

Speaker 6 (14:33):
Anime. It's our anime celebrity culture.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
Why does tell me why celebrity culture?

Speaker 6 (14:38):
I like like.

Speaker 9 (14:43):
Movies and ship and like TV shows like Friends and
like Big Bang Theory. It just seems like cool to
like to to watch those shows and like and it's
like hilarious and just like it's is. It's just cool
to watch, you know what I mean? And to like
and the people who are like like actors and everything
work for the show are like really cool.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
Is there a celebrity?

Speaker 1 (15:06):
Okay, you're clearly very you like celebrities, like bumping into celebrities. Yeah, Well,
is there a celebrity that you want to draw more
than anyone else? Who's the number one who would be
the number one get for you?

Speaker 9 (15:18):
I mean, I guess like either like Beyonce or like
Share or something like jay Z.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
What do you think? What do you think it's like
to be Beyonce? Like you ever thought about that?

Speaker 6 (15:33):
I don't know, Like she must have like a really
nice life.

Speaker 9 (15:36):
I guess like it's yeah, she seems nice, like she
sings really well, so like obviously, like do.

Speaker 6 (15:41):
You think anything?

Speaker 2 (15:42):
Do you think anything? Like what do you think sucks
the most about being Beyonce?

Speaker 6 (15:47):
Nothing?

Speaker 2 (15:48):
You think this is something? Yeah, there's something's gotta talk
about being up.

Speaker 9 (15:52):
Up to one point, like up to a certain point,
like like it's like nothing really bothers you. But like
I feel like maybe she's like really like I don't know,
like she seems like a normal person. I feel like
they're just normal.

Speaker 6 (16:03):
I don't know.

Speaker 9 (16:03):
I feel like celebrities are like more normal than like
people sometimes like not people up did there are more
people normal than people And it's like I mean that's
not weird in itself, But I don't know, I don't know.
I guess like yeah, like but like I guess I
celebrities do have like certain like interesting personalities. Like I

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remember like Elton John when I drew him, like he
was like like I drew him and then he was like, oh,
you messed up, and he was like, oh, it's okay.
He was like nice about it. He was disappointed, but
nice about it.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
Oh wait, he just you. He was like, you messed up?

Speaker 6 (16:38):
Yeah, right again?

Speaker 2 (16:41):
How can you messed up? In what way?

Speaker 9 (16:43):
I don't like the drawing that come out right? So
but I dream again and he took it. He was
the right way it too, and like I draw, I
drew the drawing. He took the drawing and like yeah,
he went just like a really fancy card, like he.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
Was sorry, there's a gentleman over here carrying a wet
wanna and I'm it's distracting me a little bit. This
is one of the most stimulating place. This is among
the most stimulating places in New York City. So, uh, actually,
I would love to Actually, I would love to take
you up on this drawing.

Speaker 2 (17:15):
Is it cool?

Speaker 1 (17:15):
Can I can I interview someone while you're drawing? Or
do you want to draw while we talk?

Speaker 9 (17:20):
I mean, I guess I could draw later, but I
guess like it was cool, Like I don't know, I
guess like it was cool talking, like you know.

Speaker 6 (17:27):
Yeah, I saw I'll saw your show. And stuff like
it was cool.

Speaker 9 (17:30):
Like it was like when I was watching it, it
was like I feel like it's like really like kid
friendly too, and like I like, you know, like it's
like cool, like because I draw kid friendly stuff too.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
Kind Oh I get I don't. It's absolutely not intended
to be a kid.

Speaker 9 (17:44):
Friendly but it would be like that call like that
like that like that like that knnot call of duties
to call everyone nigger or some ship, you know what
I mean?

Speaker 1 (17:52):
Like why is you went from? But I guess like
you went from hold on?

Speaker 2 (18:03):
Hold on? You said you said, my my show is
both kid friendly.

Speaker 9 (18:07):
Everybody watching your watching your show when I was really young,
about a lot younger and like like two years back
or three years back, and like it was cool.

Speaker 6 (18:16):
So like I like watching your show. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
Okay, Okay, I was watching it.

Speaker 6 (18:22):
I was like I was like, I was like stone
this ship, and.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
I was Okay, So it's kid friendly, but it's friendly
with the kind of kids who who yelled slur zone
call of duty lobbies.

Speaker 6 (18:34):
Is what say?

Speaker 2 (18:35):
Okay, Okay, you.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
Know what I'm gonna I'm going to take that as
I'm going to take that as a compliment from you. Yeah,
I'll take that as a compliment from you.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
What's your what's your name again? I'm sorry, Drew.

Speaker 6 (18:48):
Yeah, and my video game.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
I like, I like that your name is you draw
and your name is Drew.

Speaker 6 (18:53):
So Drew, Drew.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
Sorry, that's stupid. Has anyone ever said that to you before? Okay,
I'm glad. That's a stupid thing to say, But I'm nobody.
Nobody's ever said that. Nobody never made the connection.

Speaker 6 (19:05):
Not really, I do not really maybe they maybe they
think about it.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
But what was your childhood? Like did you have a
nice childhood?

Speaker 6 (19:12):
I like traveled a lot.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
Where'd you go?

Speaker 9 (19:15):
I went to Europe a lot? And why I don't know,
Like I studied there. Like I went to like, uh
private school, and like would study there and like would
like read like the best textbooks in the world and
like just like really learn ship and I liked that experience,
and like, I don't know, it's like almost like I

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still went to school, but I still would have done
well with the school schooling I got when I was
really young, because private school is like that good. And
I feel like if you like went to private school
for a long time, it would just be so much
knowledge like somebody.

Speaker 6 (19:50):
Sometimes people say too much on it, but I don't know.

Speaker 9 (19:52):
I feel I feel like at least I went to
private school, and maybe like.

Speaker 6 (19:58):
The amount of teaching I got, I was like just enough.
But I don't know. I went to private school and
I was really young.

Speaker 9 (20:07):
I liked I like to go in private school.

Speaker 1 (20:10):
Would yeah, would you say if are you do you
think you have kids?

Speaker 6 (20:14):
One day, I'll put them in private school?

Speaker 2 (20:16):
You put them in private school?

Speaker 1 (20:17):
Really, I feel like I'm like, I'm pretty I went
to private school for a few years. Yeah, but I
think public public school is good, right, because you don't
want to like you want you want your kids to
be in the world, don't you word?

Speaker 6 (20:32):
Yeah, So I.

Speaker 9 (20:32):
Wouldn't give them a lot of like like year school
time or like yearly like like maybe like five years
or something or ten.

Speaker 6 (20:41):
I don't know, maybe ten. I don't know. It depends.
I had like five.

Speaker 9 (20:44):
Years of like private school when I was really young,
So I don't know.

Speaker 6 (20:48):
I feel that's a good mouth, but I don't know.
This good question, Drew.

Speaker 1 (20:53):
Is there anything else you want to say to the people,
like a computer before we go?

Speaker 6 (20:57):
You're a really cool dude.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
Oh thanks, Sure? You are too, man.

Speaker 9 (20:59):
You should people should keep watching a show thank you
because it's like it's just hilarious and thanks watching one episode.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
But yeah, shit, thanks Ruey. I'll see okay, I'll see
you later.

Speaker 8 (21:07):
Man.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
I hope you run into Lizzie McGuire or whatever. Yeah,
I'll see you on the universe.

Speaker 6 (21:13):
Man.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
Hey, what's your name?

Speaker 4 (21:16):
What's your name?

Speaker 2 (21:16):
My name is Lyle, Lyle.

Speaker 4 (21:18):
Nice to meet you.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
I just had to be a dick to those guys.
Why you know, sometimes you got to be a dick.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
I'm like, well, the selection here's well, okay, here's the thing,
the selection processes. I mean, we're near NYU, So there's
a lot of like.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
Like eighteen year old college students here. No, I don't.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
There's a lot of like eighteen year college students. And
also that happens to be a demographic of people who
I think have seen my show on TikTok. But I
don't want to just interview eighteen year old college students.
So and I also don't want to interview people who
really want to be on. I want I want someone
to begrudgingly be I want to someone who's like I
don't know, if I really want to, and then they

(22:05):
come to be on that, and then then we get
you know, people who always people who want to really
want to be on the show generally don't have a
lot of set to say.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
I guess I really don't have.

Speaker 4 (22:15):
A lot to say. Is there anything you want to
talk about it?

Speaker 6 (22:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (22:17):
Sure?

Speaker 6 (22:18):
Wait?

Speaker 2 (22:18):
What's your name? Nor Lyle? Nice to meet you. Okay,
so you're not a college student.

Speaker 6 (22:22):
Who are you?

Speaker 2 (22:23):
What do you do? Why'd you drop out?

Speaker 4 (22:26):
Fuck? Fordham University? I'm joking. I'm joking. I did go
to Fordham for a little It was just too expensive.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
Okay, that's a good reason. Wait, nor can you hold
the microphone like?

Speaker 2 (22:34):
Okay? Okay, So how was dropping out?

Speaker 4 (22:38):
It was pretty chill, you know, dropped out. I'm going
back to school now, going around to community college.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
So okay, how's community calls going?

Speaker 4 (22:45):
I've been started. I don't know. Man, I'm kind of scared.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
Why you're scared? Tell me why? What's you're scared of?

Speaker 4 (22:51):
Because low ki covid funched me over. I was so
used to like online school, and this is like my
first time in a hot minute, going back in person.

Speaker 2 (22:59):
Really, it's been fun years man, dude, I.

Speaker 4 (23:02):
Was like kind of in school towards out of high school,
but like like it wasn't like really, I don't know.
I just got really used online.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
This is your first time going. What have you been
doing for the past five years?

Speaker 6 (23:13):
Dude?

Speaker 4 (23:14):
Literally fucking around? Can I say this on the show?

Speaker 2 (23:17):
Can I say? You say whatever you want?

Speaker 4 (23:19):
I've been on a bender for the past month.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
I've been on a bender kind of bender.

Speaker 4 (23:23):
Literally, I just be going out any club in Bushwick
I'm there probably unfortunately.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
Okay, why.

Speaker 6 (23:30):
How old are you?

Speaker 4 (23:31):
Twenty one?

Speaker 2 (23:32):
Okay? Do you have do you have children?

Speaker 4 (23:34):
I take care of children.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
Actually that's yeah, that's different though, do you have are
do you? Are you responsible to anyone in any way,
shape or form?

Speaker 6 (23:42):
Really?

Speaker 4 (23:43):
All right, my bunny?

Speaker 1 (23:44):
But ap okay, all right, so you don't have any
living thing that requires you to be all right?

Speaker 2 (23:51):
So yeah, this is a living thing. But great, that's fine.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yeah, but you know, going on benders, I think there's
a Look, here's the thing. We all have it in us, right,
and we got we all gotta get it out right,
and I better to get it out now when you
nobody gives this shit exactly like you know. Look, if
you were forty five and you had two kids and
they were starving and you were out at the club,

(24:14):
that'd q that'd be a little questionable.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
But you're fine. Who cares go get drunk, Go live
your life.

Speaker 4 (24:19):
That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
I mean, don't you know there's a balance right because
you want to you don't want to get drunk and
live your life too much and then you realize you
never did anything with it.

Speaker 4 (24:28):
Get out the way now when I'm like twenty one and.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
Have it like in me, how have the vendor's been going?
You having fun?

Speaker 4 (24:34):
I've been having a lot of fun. Yeah, okay, yeah,
I'm about a drink. I actually just smoked before this. Okay,
get on here.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
But it's not illegal. I don't think nah, I don't
think it's legal.

Speaker 4 (24:43):
This guy over here, I'm here with this guy from Amsterdam.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
Honest, Oh he looks a little Dutch. How do you
know this Dutch guy?

Speaker 4 (24:50):
That's how we know each other? Uh tinder so close
hinge We met on Hinge. Okay, I this is our
first time meeting. We've been talking for like, oh.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
This is his first time meeting like so long.

Speaker 4 (25:03):
This is our first time meeting.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
Okay, do you want to come up? Do you want
to talk?

Speaker 4 (25:06):
Come here? Come here?

Speaker 2 (25:10):
You don't want to you have a come up? Is you?
I mean you know, if you don't have to, you
don't want to. I don't guys.

Speaker 4 (25:16):
This is what his name is?

Speaker 6 (25:19):
All right?

Speaker 2 (25:19):
What's his name?

Speaker 6 (25:20):
Glue?

Speaker 2 (25:21):
Glue?

Speaker 6 (25:21):
Is that?

Speaker 1 (25:22):
I'm gonna guess. Really funny, hold on, I'm gonna guess.
His name is Dufinlage.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
What what is it?

Speaker 4 (25:30):
It's tunis Lute. His first name, tunis Loute.

Speaker 6 (25:34):
See.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
You can make fun of Europeans because they've been Dick's
for all of history. You can make fun of Americans
and Europeans because they've all they've just been assholes for
the whole time.

Speaker 4 (25:45):
Nah, i'd be saying, I don't know what you're saying.
You hang it in at Urgan. So that's kind of fun.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
Yeah, I love you too, man, Thank you very much.
What okay, wait, wait, what's his name again? Tunis Lute?
Tunis lute? That's cool. Do you get free healthcare? He
gets free healthcare. We can make fun of him.

Speaker 4 (26:03):
You don't get free healthcare in the Netherlands.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
I mean, I don't want to. If you don't want
to talk on the microphone. I can't. He can't here,
hold on, I'll talk. I'll just talk to you. If
he's not gonna talk on the microphone, I don't want
to talk to.

Speaker 4 (26:16):
Him, but it's okay.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
Yeah, I mean I do want. I want to talk
to you.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
But if he doesn't want to talk, but you're you're like,
it's like talking to a ghost right now. If I'm
talking to you and you're over there and I can't,
it's okay, it's all right. I'll talk to you. Nor
I'll talk to I'll okay, So nor out of the question.
Toutis lose out of the question. Okay, So you met
this Amsterdami and man, Yeah, I'm hinge, right, Okay, how's
hinge going for you?

Speaker 4 (26:41):
I'm actually two weeks two months sober off hinge.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
But so are you? Okuys you met this guy first
on hinge. You guys were texting for a while. Yeah, okay, I.

Speaker 4 (26:48):
Mean I'm a hingebop. I can't lie I'm a hingebop.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
What's a hingebop?

Speaker 4 (26:53):
I'm just using hinge too much? Like why am I
on hinge so much?

Speaker 1 (26:56):
You know?

Speaker 2 (26:57):
That's okay? I use I use Hinge a lot too, dude.

Speaker 4 (27:00):
It's it's dangerous. You get on there and then like
you just start talking all these like I used to
be an amagal kid. I used to be one of
the Yeah, so this is like a megal but like
low key, like attracted people and like consentually seeing dick
you know.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
Okay, but okay, yeah, how are you?

Speaker 2 (27:19):
Are you enjoying the hinge life?

Speaker 4 (27:23):
I'm not enjoying hinge. That's why I deleted it.

Speaker 2 (27:26):
Okay, cool, How's how has it been?

Speaker 4 (27:28):
Thoughts on hinge?

Speaker 2 (27:28):
Sorry the crowd?

Speaker 1 (27:29):
Hold wait, we're we're having a conversation. I can't talk
to that. I can't talk to them. They're not I
only have I only have two microphones. Okay, okay, hold on, So.

Speaker 4 (27:41):
Give me your thoughts on hinge. Like, I know you
use it, but like, what are your thoughts? Like I
feel like it's a scam.

Speaker 1 (27:46):
I have a lot of thoughts on hinge. One is
I think hinge has changed? First of all, as I
use Hinge, I'm fully realizing and understanding that it is.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
Hey, there's pros and constant hinge.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
One of the cons is that as I'm using it
and the longer I use it, the more I'm like,
this is doing something irreversibly damaging to my brain.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
Oh for sure, it's.

Speaker 4 (28:06):
Like the validation and then like low key, this is
so on a pocket not every Okay, no one's ugly.
They're just not my type, right, but i'd be getting
the craziest people liking my hands when I'm like dog,
like i think I'm chopped, Like.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
Well no, well, well okay, so there's.

Speaker 4 (28:22):
Subjectively but like still I'm like dog, I think this
is a scam, and I think they're trying to get
you to pay for Hinge premium.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
Of course, they're trying to get you to pay for
Hinge previous.

Speaker 4 (28:29):
Look that, bro, I'm gonna go out to the bar
and find my husband. Like that's what I'm gonna do, Well,
Hinge exactly, That's what I'm gonna That's what I'm doing.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
But also also people dog pusing, people dog on dating apps,
and there's good reasons why people dog today. But like
everything every part of life, every every era of life,
like okay, the nineteen hundreds, right you or like whatever,
like when when we lived in villages, It's like, okay,
we used to live in I'm talking completely out of
my asshole right now. But we used to It used

(28:58):
to be you, they're was it. There was another girl
in the village or another boy in the village, and
they were the only person that you had sex with forever,
and then you died, And that has its pros and cons. Right, Okay,
you know that has his pros and cons. And then
there's hinge and you can have your infinite your perceived
choice of an infinite amount of people to have sex

(29:19):
with their date or get married too, and that has
its pros and cons, so that there's no better or worse.

Speaker 4 (29:25):
Wait, like Swiss topics. So you see how we have
all those options.

Speaker 7 (29:30):
Though.

Speaker 4 (29:31):
That's why New York City is the worst fucking dating pool.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
Whycause but that's not an objectively bad or good thing.

Speaker 4 (29:40):
I think everyone is fucking situation shipts central. Right now,
riddle me that weather boy, well, gecko boy, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
Yeah, say this again.

Speaker 4 (29:49):
Why do you think, like, no, it's situationship central. Well,
it's like too hard to make a choice.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
Yeah, sure, but it depends on who you are, and
it depends on what you value. Right, because there's something
Let me ask you a question, because there's some people
who are different. Well I'm not I mean, you can
answer this specifically, but there's some people who they want
a wide variety of connections throughout their life, and there's
some people who want just one. And then you know,
you get the opportunity to connect with people you would
have never connected with before through these apps, I guess.

(30:20):
And yes, there is a paradox of choice that it presents,
and that's a legitimate paradox of choice. But you know,
it's just a new thing that has its pros and cons,
just like the old things had.

Speaker 4 (30:31):
But like, would you rather just like NonStop, like be
talking to all these people wasting your energy and they're
like you never find the right person because like it's
just like everything is so unseerious and like there's so
much short term gratification from those apps.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
I agree, I agree with everything you're saying.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
Yeah, and I agree that having an endless amount of
choices and talking to another of people, I agree that
it's emotionally taxing. But again it's pros and cons because
think about like those think about like these old couples
who hate each other. Do you have you ever met
to parents are divorced Okay, your parents, did your parents
when you your grub, did your parents like hate each
other a little bit?

Speaker 2 (31:04):
Okay, so your your.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
Parents probably grew up without this paradox of choice. And
so the people used to just get married to whoever
was fucking around, right, so that had that was a
pro There was pros to that. It was two people
and there was no decision paralysis and they just had
to fucking sit and make it work.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
And there's something really beautiful and amazing about that.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
But there's a sort of con of like, you know,
all of a sudden, we're trapped in this thing that
we got into because we was just the thing that
was there. And so again, all these things they have
pros and cons. So you now have the opportunity to
sift through hundreds of different dudes to see which one
is the one that you feel the most naturally aligned to,

(31:48):
which is emotionally taxing but also is better than you
just you know, being with the first guy that was around,
and it was maybe not the right.

Speaker 4 (31:58):
These people and like you can break up whatever. But
like what I liked about pre dating apps is like
when you met someone, it was like I believe in
the fact that like things are meant to be, so
I feel like you were meant to meet that person.
It's like destiny or whatever. So I don't know, i'd
prefer that over Hinge and like Tinder like that. The
options are nice, but that's my hot take.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
I don't know if I believe in something really no universe.

Speaker 4 (32:23):
I think I'm sitting here right now. I feel like
the universe like why am I here? Like imagine if
I came like a few hours later or a few
hours earlier, I would to have been sitting here.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
I sure that somebody else would be and I'd be
doing that and you'd be doing something else.

Speaker 4 (32:35):
True, but like it's like we're interacting right now, so
it's like it means something, you know, Like I feel
like we're.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
Meant to like it means whatever we want it to mean.
There's no the universe has no laws. Okay, there's no
judge jury of the universe. Right, you're the judge and
jury in God of your own life, which means that
you can derive meaning from whatever you choose to be
and it's inherently valid because you're God.

Speaker 4 (32:57):
But I like co star decide that for me. I
don't really do that deciding what coast You don't know
what coastar?

Speaker 2 (33:02):
Wait? Astrology?

Speaker 4 (33:03):
Yes, okay, it's probably a fucking scam, but I use that.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
Do you pay premium?

Speaker 4 (33:08):
No? I don't pay premium. I just like make it
go along. I'm like, if I see something and it's like, oh,
do it gives you like three dus three domes? Right?

Speaker 2 (33:16):
What are your three dues and three dots of the day.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
This is not an ad for coast Star, by the way,
this is a completely random thing.

Speaker 4 (33:23):
Oh my god. Wait, my ex texted me. I haven't
talked to him in two years.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
Wait your sex? You just now?

Speaker 6 (33:27):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (33:29):
I showed my should I read this? Okay, standard first generation?
I don't even know what that means. Anyways, let's see
what our thing is.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
Okay for today?

Speaker 4 (33:39):
Okay, guys, My co star for today is love is
when a question mark feels more like a period. Oh dude,
friend zone, borrowed items, hold hands, don't hot takes nitpicks?

Speaker 2 (33:50):
Wait, I said, wait, let me look at this again.
Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
Okay, hold on, Okay, so the okay, So this is
cost Star. This is not an ad, but co Star
is like an astrology app. And what's your what's your sign?

Speaker 4 (34:02):
I'm a cancer?

Speaker 2 (34:02):
Okay? So this is so every cancer who has this app.

Speaker 4 (34:06):
Gets this, Yes, every cancer, but not technically every cancer.
It goes based on like when you were born, what
city you were born in?

Speaker 2 (34:12):
Okay, so you gave co Star all this shit?

Speaker 1 (34:14):
Yeah, like, oh, you gave it your social Security number
and it was like, here's what is going on with you?

Speaker 4 (34:18):
Don't I don't even realized I carried my social Security
number on me up until like last week. It was
in my wallet. I didn't know that.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
I didn't know that, all right, So I'm gonna let
me read this, Okay. So love is when a question
mark feels more like a period. Stop hunting for hitting meetings.
In your partner's words, your suspicion is creating the very
distance you fear.

Speaker 2 (34:37):
Woo.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
Okay, co Star, this is definitely written by Ai. Okay,
So dudes, friend zone, borrowed items, holding hands, don't hot takes, nitpicks,
strong sense, Okay do you So what do you do
with this information?

Speaker 4 (34:53):
I mean, I feel like it goes pretty accurately because
I'm here with a guy from Hinge and we're friends now,
so I feel like it's already going in the red direct.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
That's cool.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
Yeah, this guy, this is the this is such a standard,
polite European man, just standing there.

Speaker 4 (35:08):
So scared of me. He was like, I'm so scared
to meet you. I don't want dude looking at your
face right now?

Speaker 2 (35:14):
Is so? Why did he say he was scared of you?

Speaker 4 (35:18):
Why wouldn't he be scared of me?

Speaker 10 (35:19):
Like?

Speaker 2 (35:19):
Why wouldn't What reasons do you believe him?

Speaker 4 (35:21):
So many reasons? Why are you scared of me? Give
me some reason.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
We can't talk to him.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
He doesn't want to be talked to, and he doesn't
have a microphone where I'm all, I can only learn
about him vicariously through you. Why why what reasons have
you given him to be scared of you?

Speaker 4 (35:34):
Probably because I'm like loud and crazy and I like,
oh my god, I loke. He did block him for
a month when I was in Norway, I got mad
at him.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
Why did you get mad at him when you were
in Norway?

Speaker 6 (35:44):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (35:44):
Was he supposed to go? Were you supposed to go
to Norway? I'm not gonna talk to you. Was he
supposed to go to Norway?

Speaker 2 (35:48):
I didn't know.

Speaker 1 (35:48):
I guess he was supposed to go to Norway to
visit you not to kind.

Speaker 4 (35:53):
Of it was like kind of you were gonna go
to Oslo and then you bailed. But it's not.

Speaker 1 (35:59):
It's it's what's his name again, dude, that's like the
name that's like the fucking that's like the kid from
Willy Wonka.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
Dude, that's like an Augustus.

Speaker 4 (36:08):
Gloop, like you're talking to Like back in the day,
they were like, you're talking to someone named Tunis Lupe.
Please stand up.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
No, this guy is all. This guy is a great guy.
I hope, I really hope you don't kill him.

Speaker 4 (36:19):
Am I gonna am I gonna kill you? No, he's
I'm not gonna kill him confirmed, So I'm not gonna
kill him.

Speaker 1 (36:27):
Guys, So, okay, So you've been going out to the
club a lot. Is what's going on at the club.

Speaker 4 (36:35):
It's it's just really fun, dude, why not go to
the club with you? You need to go to the
club in this get up.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
I've done that.

Speaker 4 (36:42):
You would pull, you would pull.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
I've gone to the club in this get up.

Speaker 4 (36:45):
Dude. You gotta go to Bushwick. They would eat you
up there.

Speaker 6 (36:51):
I don't know if.

Speaker 4 (36:52):
Bwick is like I it's not even like.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
With all the clubs.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
Okay, I've gone there once or twice, dude, yes, right
house of Yes.

Speaker 4 (37:05):
Oh no, no, no, you're thinking more so like near Jefferson.
Right house of Yes. This is near Jefferson.

Speaker 2 (37:10):
H huh. I mean I'm not a big club guy.
I don't like dance.

Speaker 4 (37:13):
I don't I've never really been a house of Yes.
So it's like, I don't know if anyone here has.

Speaker 1 (37:17):
But yeah, okay, So what's what's your name again? Nor?

Speaker 2 (37:20):
Nor?

Speaker 6 (37:20):
Nor?

Speaker 2 (37:21):
So what's uh? What's the future look like for you?

Speaker 6 (37:23):
Nor?

Speaker 4 (37:23):
The future looks like for me. I'm gonna start school.
I have to clean my room. I've been sleeping on
a bed that's slanted like this Free Palestine. I don't
know if I could be political on this, bitch, but yeah,
what he said, Yeah, I'm gonna clean my room. Oh
and then I'm going to Maine tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
I forgot you forgot you were going to Maine tom Yeah,
how do you forget a ticket?

Speaker 4 (37:42):
Like three days ago?

Speaker 2 (37:43):
What are you doing in Maine?

Speaker 4 (37:44):
My friend Georgia just moved there.

Speaker 2 (37:46):
Shout out Georgia, Shout out Georgia. Is he coming with?
Is two for coming with? I don't know two for.

Speaker 4 (37:51):
Is not coming with I think I think Tunis is
never gonna hang out with me again after this. He's
probably really scared.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
I really, are you sure you don't?

Speaker 1 (37:58):
Can you tell what you talk afterwards?

Speaker 2 (38:01):
Okay? All right, wait nor wait nor can you hand
the mic to Tunis?

Speaker 4 (38:03):
Okay, guys, this going to Tunis?

Speaker 6 (38:05):
Okay?

Speaker 11 (38:07):
Yeah, I have a seed, have a set, Okay, Tunisis, Tunis,
nice to be you, Tunas.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
Sorry for making fun of your name.

Speaker 12 (38:13):
That's okay. Yeah, I need to get used to it
a bit.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
I I I love Amsterdam. I've been there like three times,
two shows. There's a great time. Shout up Boom. You
ever been to Boom Chicago?

Speaker 12 (38:22):
No?

Speaker 1 (38:22):
Oh, I did a show there. It's a good time. Anyway,
it gives a shit me. Okay, So what are you
doing in America?

Speaker 6 (38:28):
Well?

Speaker 12 (38:28):
I just moved there? Actually, Oh really, I was here
in March.

Speaker 11 (38:31):
I auditioned to music school cool play drums cool, and
now I'm going to city college here. Yeah that's why
I'm here. So now I live here?

Speaker 2 (38:41):
What made you wanna?

Speaker 1 (38:43):
So?

Speaker 2 (38:43):
Despite everything? You were like, yeah, I'll come to America.

Speaker 11 (38:47):
Yeah, it's a bit crazy, but uh, I come here,
Like it's been a kind of in my head for
a really long time because I studied jazz, I wanna
and this is like the you know, the place for uh,
for jazz music. It's the it's super nice New York. Yeah,
so that's why I wanted to come here basically, And

(39:08):
I don't know. I figured I just try and you
cannot plan on yeah things sometimes.

Speaker 1 (39:14):
So so how does New York compare to Amsterdam?

Speaker 12 (39:19):
I mean Amsterdam is just totally different.

Speaker 11 (39:21):
I feel it's very like small compared to here, Like
I bike everywhere, you know, like you can walk most places, like,
I mean, the layout is more it's like a half circle, right,
I mean, here's like straight lines most like up and down.

Speaker 6 (39:38):
Like.

Speaker 2 (39:39):
So, so, what what happened in Norway?

Speaker 12 (39:41):
Nothing?

Speaker 11 (39:42):
I mean, so okay, I will tell my story.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
Yeah what happened?

Speaker 11 (39:51):
Well nothing because I was like, okay, So I came
here in March and I had hinges and then basically
I saw a picture she was in Sandum, which is
my hometown, and I was like, whoa, you're why were
you in Sandum because that's I just recognized the background.
It's really random. I was like, wow, what we're in
Sandom and then we met, but then she just came

(40:13):
back from Amstem and I was just leaving back home basically,
and then I mean we stayed in touch and you
were like I want to go to Epstein, but I
was like like I don't.

Speaker 12 (40:25):
Know like how to say.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
Yeah I was, and now I can't talk to you
and everyone.

Speaker 11 (40:30):
Yeah, so I was like, you know, like if I
go to New York, we'll just have We'll just meet
in New York.

Speaker 1 (40:36):
Like, so, wait, is you guys first time ever meeting? Yeah,
how's it gone.

Speaker 11 (40:42):
Well, it's like it's been like like literally one minute
and then we saw you.

Speaker 2 (40:48):
So it's like I'm severely interrupting this first meeting.

Speaker 12 (40:52):
We're more we're conversing through you now.

Speaker 1 (40:54):
Oh okay, I see, yeah, I see, It's okay, Yeah, okay.
Wait wait, so we just talked about me and Nora
talked about here for a while, talking about your view
on on Hinge.

Speaker 12 (41:03):
I mean, it's I don't know.

Speaker 11 (41:06):
I also haven't been on it for I guess since
March kind of almost or like no, it's short, it's
a bit.

Speaker 12 (41:14):
April or something, Okay, but yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
It's are you looking for love? Do you want to
like get married and have children and stuff at some point?

Speaker 11 (41:23):
Yes, okay, but uh, I mean yeah I was on
it and then it's like it didn't make me super happy.
I mean, you meet people like I wouldn't have met you,
Like I met a lot of people just through Hinge.

Speaker 12 (41:37):
But like it doesn't mean like it's what you make
of it.

Speaker 11 (41:42):
I feel, what gives meaning to a relation, Like you
can just be friends or you can I mean, maybe
you like someone and you will Like it's just facilitating,
but it's also a bit manipulative in the way it's
made because it's still like like, yeah, someone is making
money off of is monetizing off of this platform, right,

(42:04):
So I feel inherently it's a bit like you shouldn't
trust it always, you know what I mean, Like.

Speaker 1 (42:10):
I see, yeah, but people have been monetizing this stuff forever, right,
I mean I don't know, Like what about those guys
who come up to you at the park and they're
like a rose for the lady, you know, like people
do that, and like it's actually it's very funny because
on Hinge you can buy roses, right, and it prompts you.
It says, do you want to buy a rose? And

(42:31):
there are places where you go like like this is
in a lot of like parks in Europe, right, there's
like dudes handing out.

Speaker 6 (42:36):
They're like dudes.

Speaker 1 (42:37):
They'll go up to like a couple and they'll be
like a rose for the lady and they're like in
real life, try to.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
Get yeah around to buy a rose. So you know,
it's nothing new.

Speaker 11 (42:44):
You can flip it like it's yeah, in a way,
it's this is similar. But I feel because I don't know,
I don't really have a strong up.

Speaker 12 (42:51):
I feel you used to do whatever you want.

Speaker 11 (42:53):
Basically like if you feel good with hinge, you should
use it. Like but also it's very it can be addictive,
you know, Like that's for me, Like that was why
it was better to just not use it.

Speaker 2 (43:06):
Yeah it can it can be, yeah, like.

Speaker 12 (43:08):
It has many sides. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (43:12):
So are you guys gonna go out to the club?

Speaker 6 (43:14):
Are you club?

Speaker 12 (43:15):
I'm not like a club person, to be honest, Like.

Speaker 2 (43:18):
You're not a club guy?

Speaker 1 (43:19):
No?

Speaker 12 (43:19):
Yeah, you ever been.

Speaker 2 (43:21):
To uh Paradise so that.

Speaker 12 (43:24):
Was called so yeah, yeah, yeah I've been there. Yeah
that's nice.

Speaker 1 (43:28):
That's where I did mdm A for the very first
time there really. Yeah, like seven years ago you.

Speaker 12 (43:32):
Were there in the crowd.

Speaker 1 (43:34):
Yeah, I was there for the Amsterdam Dance event like
seven years ago. Yeah, that was a that was a
crazy night of my life.

Speaker 12 (43:41):
That was a fun time.

Speaker 6 (43:42):
Man.

Speaker 11 (43:42):
Man is really nice. Yeah, it's I mean, yeah, it's
really nice. Everything is kind of close, like you're in PARADISEA.
You can go to lights, lights supply, you know, it's
like where the clubs other clubs are like you can
go out.

Speaker 12 (43:54):
It's really nice. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:55):
Okay, so what should uh? What?

Speaker 6 (43:59):
What do you?

Speaker 2 (44:00):
Uh? What do you what's better about America than Europe?
Let us let us have something?

Speaker 11 (44:06):
Well, I don't know yet because I just I arrived Saturday.
I mean I'm here for the music, like for jazz music.

Speaker 1 (44:14):
Have you there's a lot of really great jazz artists
playing in the park all the time.

Speaker 12 (44:17):
Yeah, I haven't. I mean, I just I haven't seen
it here. But I saw a guy playing the sexophone.

Speaker 2 (44:25):
Well listen, I don't want.

Speaker 1 (44:27):
I don't wanna. I'm gonna. I don't wanna. I don't wanna.
Keep you guys waiting, is there? What's your name? In
Tunis yea, Tunis, is there anything else you gonna say
to the people of the computer before we go?

Speaker 6 (44:37):
No, h.

Speaker 12 (44:40):
Like, well, it's it's cool, like it's crazy meeting you. Actually,
that's yeah.

Speaker 2 (44:45):
Crazy meat. Wait have you seen my show before? Yeah?

Speaker 11 (44:48):
Cool like Instagram or something. Okay, cool, Yeah you're talking
to Mark Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah crazy.

Speaker 2 (44:58):
Yeah. He did a show over in parody, so I think.

Speaker 12 (45:02):
Really, wow, that's crazy.

Speaker 6 (45:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (45:04):
I was in Japan one time and I went up
the elevator from Sheba station and then he was.

Speaker 12 (45:09):
There calling someone.

Speaker 11 (45:11):
It's crazy, literally, so random, and then I think I
discovered him at the same time as you.

Speaker 1 (45:16):
Well, I'm happy that we could you and I could
finally cross paths from the Internet into real life.

Speaker 2 (45:22):
Yeah, well, well, thank you to Tunis.

Speaker 1 (45:25):
Tunis, Nora, you want, you want anything else you want
to say to the people?

Speaker 4 (45:29):
I'm so hungry and Lilah's super awesome.

Speaker 2 (45:32):
Oh, thank you, Norah. Thank you guys.

Speaker 1 (45:33):
You guys have a good rest of you guys, have
a good rest of your lives. Bye Nora, Bye, Tunis.
I'll see you guys around the universe.

Speaker 12 (45:41):
Oh yeah, okay.

Speaker 1 (45:42):
Bye Tunis. Bye, guys. Have a seat what's your name?
I'm Sarah, Sarah.

Speaker 2 (45:49):
My name is Lyle, So Sarah. Yeah, what's up the sky?

Speaker 6 (45:54):
You know, how's life?

Speaker 7 (45:57):
I just moved here last week? So yeah, no, it's
been pretty hectic.

Speaker 2 (46:02):
What made you want to move to New York for college? Okayeah?

Speaker 13 (46:06):
You know the basic art school experience?

Speaker 6 (46:09):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (46:09):
So yeah, how what do you make art about?

Speaker 7 (46:12):
I mean, honestly, whatever makes money? Like I do like design,
so like, yeah, I mean I do art for fun,
but like I'm majoring in design because like I feel
like that's more money making.

Speaker 13 (46:22):
Not gonna lie. Not no offense to the fine arts majors.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
So what kinds of things do you design to make money?

Speaker 13 (46:32):
Well, I mean I'm going to school for it right now.

Speaker 7 (46:35):
I haven't started working yet, okay, but like, I mean
I enjoy like editorial design.

Speaker 13 (46:39):
It's pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (46:40):
Are these your homies?

Speaker 13 (46:41):
Yeah, they're also going to school here.

Speaker 2 (46:44):
Oh do you just meet them? No?

Speaker 13 (46:46):
We graduated together from high school.

Speaker 1 (46:48):
Ye okay, and and now you guys are going into
college together.

Speaker 13 (46:54):
We're going to college together. She's going upstate.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
So are you guys like from New York?

Speaker 6 (46:58):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (46:59):
No, we're from Florid.

Speaker 2 (47:00):
Oh oh wait, so what's she doing here? Oh you're
going to she's visiting.

Speaker 1 (47:03):
Wow, okay, you know why not? I didn't mean that
like an accusat curious. Well, let's see Sarah. You said
your name was. You have a lot of cool trinkets
on your bag. You gotta you got three different bears,
the two bears. Oh, you have a diet coke pin.

Speaker 2 (47:19):
I like that. Why are they laughing at that? Why
is that so funny? I don't know that.

Speaker 13 (47:24):
I guess they hate me. They secretly they have.

Speaker 1 (47:26):
You have a diet coke pin? I love that. Actually, No,
I'm not.

Speaker 13 (47:30):
Actually jingle around everywhere I go.

Speaker 2 (47:32):
So it's got a ribbon on it?

Speaker 13 (47:34):
Oh yeah, yeah, because why not.

Speaker 2 (47:36):
You've got Uma Thurman from pulp fiction.

Speaker 13 (47:39):
Mm hmmm. I actually dressed up as her one year.

Speaker 2 (47:41):
So yeah, did you have like the cocaine nose?

Speaker 13 (47:44):
Oh yeah, not real, not real. Just don't worry, don't worry.

Speaker 2 (47:47):
It was auth that you can do whatever you want
with your life.

Speaker 4 (47:49):
I know.

Speaker 1 (47:50):
Yeah, cocaines don't do cocaine too much. Yeah, cocaine's like
a little like fun. Cocaine's like very you don't want
to like buy your own.

Speaker 13 (47:59):
Yeah, just like a sample.

Speaker 2 (48:00):
Yeah, like you'll you only want to do cocaine.

Speaker 1 (48:04):
Twice a year if you're in a weird situation where
someone offers it to you, but it don't You don't
want to.

Speaker 13 (48:10):
Go to You don't want to get into the red like.

Speaker 2 (48:12):
Buying it yourself, you know.

Speaker 6 (48:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (48:14):
Yeah, what's the meaning of life?

Speaker 13 (48:19):
Drugs? Bitches and coke?

Speaker 2 (48:23):
Very cool?

Speaker 1 (48:25):
Sarah's anything else you want to say to the people
of the computer before we go, Stay.

Speaker 13 (48:29):
In school, do what you want with your life?

Speaker 2 (48:32):
Yeah, Sarah forever? Yes for having of course, thank you
for joining me on the Get Go show.

Speaker 13 (48:37):
Of course.

Speaker 1 (48:38):
Here you go, you sir, I see you. You come on,
come on over, that's going.

Speaker 2 (48:43):
What's your name?

Speaker 6 (48:44):
Alex? Alex?

Speaker 2 (48:44):
Nice to meet you. Where we met before? Have we?

Speaker 1 (48:47):
Yeah? You know I remember you from where signs say.

Speaker 8 (48:51):
Oh right now, I'm giving a free dating advice many
one of the many signs that I hold.

Speaker 2 (48:55):
Okay, yeah you I So.

Speaker 1 (48:56):
I come to this park like almost every day, okay,
and you do you you're here a lot, right.

Speaker 6 (49:01):
I'm here like every weekend.

Speaker 1 (49:03):
Okay, and you hold up you make little content? Yeah,
oh you Okay. Here's where we first met you have
you held there's so many people watching. You held up
a sign that said, uh, make me laugh and give
win a thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
I tried. I tried to make you laugh.

Speaker 8 (49:20):
I have you know, I have so many people, so
many like characters that approached me, So it's hard for
me to remember everybody. There's a guy in a banana
suit that approached me, a guy in a fucking corn
dog suit that approached me. I get all kinds of
characters out here, A major salib of the park, I
get it.

Speaker 6 (49:34):
Oh, there's just so many characters out here.

Speaker 1 (49:35):
Welso, so yeah, I met you doing that well? Actually
could we talked for a little bit and then you
weren't recording?

Speaker 5 (49:40):
Uh?

Speaker 8 (49:41):
Yes, So I record some days. Other days I just
feel like coming out and just hanging out.

Speaker 1 (49:46):
You know, no, no, you know you thought you thought
you were recording, but then you weren't.

Speaker 2 (49:49):
It wasn't like we were just hanging out.

Speaker 6 (49:51):
Occasionally, I'll like, forget to press record.

Speaker 1 (49:53):
You're not gonna remember me. I'm gonna stop trying to
get you to remember me. What's your name again?

Speaker 6 (49:58):
I'm Alex, Alex.

Speaker 1 (49:59):
I just told you my name. Is you already forgot, Yeah,
I will see. Here's the thing is, I'm okay. So
we're different, right, yeah, maybe we're not different. Maybe we're
the same. Yeah, but like I don't remember, I will
forget your name immediately, but I remember who you are.

Speaker 6 (50:12):
Yes, I definitely remember you a fraud costume. You can't
forget that.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
No, I wasn't in the fraud cost And it's not
what Who cares? Who cares? Who cares?

Speaker 11 (50:21):
What?

Speaker 2 (50:22):
How's life going? What's going on?

Speaker 6 (50:23):
Pretty good? I mean, everything is going pretty spot on.

Speaker 8 (50:27):
Besides you know, my dating life, you know everything else, Like,
I'm so satisfied, okay, just dating?

Speaker 1 (50:32):
Why what's wrong with your dating life? You're not doing
a bit right now?

Speaker 2 (50:35):
Are you okay? What's this?

Speaker 6 (50:36):
Go ahead?

Speaker 3 (50:37):
No?

Speaker 6 (50:37):
No, no, go ahead? Honestly, situationships are they into me?
Are they not? X's?

Speaker 1 (50:44):
You know?

Speaker 6 (50:46):
Heartbreaks? You know, it's it's so it's so much, it's
so much going on.

Speaker 1 (50:49):
Are you doing you? Are you you swearing your life?
You're not doing a bit right now?

Speaker 6 (50:53):
No? No, okay, I understand.

Speaker 2 (50:55):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (50:55):
You sound like you're in like content making voice right now,
and I wanted I.

Speaker 8 (50:59):
Fully respect and other people are making content so I
don't try to mess up.

Speaker 6 (51:02):
I'm not to mess up.

Speaker 1 (51:03):
No, no, no, I don't think you're trying to have a
good time. It's all right, all right, all right, Sorry,
I know I'm being a dick. Right now, you're gonna
know I'm being a dick.

Speaker 8 (51:11):
Sometimes when I tell people think like Alex, are you
are you working with me?

Speaker 6 (51:14):
I'm like, no, I'm being serious. What are you?

Speaker 2 (51:15):
What are you looking for in your dating life?

Speaker 8 (51:18):
What am I looking for my dating Honestly, I'm just
trying to I'm trying to settle down. You know, if
I've had my whole phase, it was fun. Right now,
I'm just trying to like settle down, find someone that's
just like long term, long term relationship.

Speaker 6 (51:30):
That's that's all I'm looking for.

Speaker 2 (51:32):
So why has that been hard for you to find?

Speaker 8 (51:35):
Because everyone else just wants to I guess it's still
in their whole phase or is it just starting.

Speaker 6 (51:39):
Their whole phase?

Speaker 2 (51:40):
Where are you finding these people? You know?

Speaker 6 (51:43):
I come here a lot.

Speaker 2 (51:44):
I coeople out here.

Speaker 8 (51:48):
You know, occasionally I will go to like bars or nightclubs,
But again, people over there are just trying to hook up,
So that doesn't help.

Speaker 2 (51:55):
Are you looking for guys girls.

Speaker 1 (51:57):
All right, really you're really having a hard time because
here's what's Here's what's annoying, I mean, not annoying, but
interesting I'll say, is everyone says the same thing. We
just had a girl sit down and say this. Everyone's
always like, oh, New York, nobody wants to settle down.
It's like if everyone's saying that, then I mean it

(52:18):
must not be true to an extent.

Speaker 8 (52:20):
I mean, I guess we're just meeting the wrong people,
you know. I guess it's just bad luck, bad timing.

Speaker 1 (52:24):
Have you met a lady where you're like, oh, I
where you've said to her like, hey, I want something
more and she's like.

Speaker 2 (52:33):
Ah, this.

Speaker 6 (52:33):
So I'm never for me. I'm never forward.

Speaker 8 (52:37):
I don't let them know, like straight up like hey,
I'm into you, let's go out, because I've done that
before and it seems to like freak people out, okay
when I'm just too forward, which I get, you know,
which I get. So my my whole like I guess
my whole ethos not ethos, I guess the way I
pursue dating nowadays, like I'm just super like nonchalant, laid

(52:59):
back about it, like hey, yeah, we can hang out
if something happens, it happens, but I'm not gonna like
rush to anything. I'm not gonna pursue anything if the
other person doesn't feel the same way.

Speaker 1 (53:09):
Well that's that's how I think it should be, right, Yeah,
like youse hinge.

Speaker 6 (53:13):
No, I'm not into dating.

Speaker 1 (53:15):
Okay, okay, well like cause like like even I mean
it's actually this isn't even a dating app thing, but
like when some people there's some people who are like, uh,
you know, I'm looking for my my love and I
need and I'm like, it's a little weird because it's like,
well aren't we all we all yeah, pretty much.

Speaker 2 (53:33):
But it's like you.

Speaker 1 (53:34):
Can't start is that how That's like you can't like
start off that way, right, Like people have to kind
of naturally get into things.

Speaker 8 (53:44):
I mean, of course, there's like to an extent, you
do have to pursue like a little bit, I guess
from both parties also. But the thing is, like you,
when I come out here, I meet so many amazing people,
like I will make so many friendships and it gets
to a point where I'm like this person is cool.

(54:04):
I would love to hang out with them, Do I
want to mess it up, like ya feel that way
about them and then mess up a good friendship. Yeah,
because I've had had that in the past, where I've
had people that I do like.

Speaker 6 (54:19):
Start off having strong feelings about them.

Speaker 8 (54:21):
As I get to know them, I do do a
good friendship and it gets to the point where I'm Okay,
I wouldn't want to pursue a relationship with you because
I do see you as a really cool friend.

Speaker 1 (54:29):
It's sure, don't want to tarnish that friendship, extremely safe.

Speaker 6 (54:34):
But I guess that's where I'm stuck.

Speaker 8 (54:35):
I'm meeting so many people and and I'm always I
guess I'm always putting myself in the friend zone before
they do that to me, which is my bigining.

Speaker 2 (54:44):
You know, well, is that an issue? I mean, can
you go wrong with that?

Speaker 6 (54:47):
Really? I mean, of course, but how many friends? How
many more friends do you need? Like? How many more
friends can you have? You know?

Speaker 2 (54:53):
Part of me wonders.

Speaker 1 (54:56):
Are you supposed to feel some kind of like natural
gravitational pull or are you else to for me?

Speaker 8 (55:02):
For me, I can think anybody is cute, I can
think anybody is attractive upon first meeting them.

Speaker 1 (55:07):
You can think anybody is shut up. You can think
anybody's shut up. You can think anybody. You can think
anybody's attractive. You can decide to find anyone attractive. I mean,
of course, I'm not gonna let you run away from
the statement you make. You can you can decide like
you can decide that anyone is attractive.

Speaker 8 (55:28):
I mean, yeah, I can think I can look at
anyone and say, yeah, they're attractive, they've got nice features.

Speaker 6 (55:32):
Yeah, that person is attracted. Anyone, anyone.

Speaker 2 (55:34):
Yeah, you're lying for me.

Speaker 6 (55:36):
No, I'm being dead serious. You hold.

Speaker 2 (55:38):
I just want to make sure I understand what you're
trying to say. Yes, go ahead, you can look.

Speaker 1 (55:42):
At anyone m hm any like literally anyone with no Well,
let me can look at anyone and.

Speaker 8 (55:52):
Go and decide that they're attractive. Okay, Well that's not
what exactly what I was saying. I see where you're
coming from.

Speaker 1 (55:59):
Now.

Speaker 8 (56:00):
What I was trying to say is that obviously I
find attractive. I find the people who I find attractive.
I find attractive, right, Like, you see what I'm saying, right,
anyone I find attractive I will find attractive for me
to catch.

Speaker 1 (56:15):
Feelings, somebody, what are you what are you even saying.

Speaker 6 (56:20):
Okay, I'm not going to find everybody attractive.

Speaker 2 (56:22):
Okay, Yeah, well that's what you were just saying about.

Speaker 6 (56:23):
Everyone has preference.

Speaker 2 (56:24):
Okay, Yes, anyone that you find attractive.

Speaker 6 (56:26):
Attractive, I will find attractive.

Speaker 2 (56:27):
Okay.

Speaker 8 (56:28):
For me to catch for me to really fall for someone,
to catch feelings for someone, I have to get to
know them.

Speaker 2 (56:35):
Okay, I see what you mean. I see what you mean.
I see Okay.

Speaker 1 (56:37):
Basically, there's a lot of women that you find attractive,
but not a lot of women who you're like, I
want to give my soul to you.

Speaker 2 (56:47):
That makes sense, or a lot.

Speaker 1 (56:50):
Of women you find attractive, but not a lot of
women you're like, I deeply want to emotionally invest myself
in you.

Speaker 8 (56:56):
I guess. I guess, like, I see, I see what
you're trying to say.

Speaker 1 (57:02):
I think a lot of people to feel that way.

Speaker 8 (57:05):
No, I mean for me, like, I can't really fall
for someone head over here unless I really get to
know them.

Speaker 6 (57:11):
I can't get butterflies unless I really get to know them.

Speaker 8 (57:14):
Oh okay, I have to really vibe with them at first.
I have to really like see what their humor is like, see, like.

Speaker 2 (57:20):
Like, how for you're you're you're slow to love.

Speaker 6 (57:24):
Yes, yes, I get, yeah.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
I get. I feel like I'm not like that at all.

Speaker 8 (57:29):
I mean everyone's different, you know, yeah, the same, everyone
like has their own preference.

Speaker 6 (57:33):
That's just how I am. And I feel like that's
what I struggle. That's what I'm at that it's not about,
that's why.

Speaker 2 (57:39):
That's just why does that make you.

Speaker 8 (57:40):
A disavant a disadvantage because everyone is like everyone that
I meet is in their whole face and they just
want to hook up, and that's not what I'm looking
for anymore.

Speaker 1 (57:47):
You know, Okay, But I don't think that puts you
at a disadvantage.

Speaker 2 (57:50):
That's just who you are.

Speaker 1 (57:51):
I mean you could say that only wanting sex's has
everything else is pros and cons, you know.

Speaker 8 (57:59):
I mean yeah, pretty much where you're set. We're trying
to say, yeah, I guess, yeah, I agree.

Speaker 1 (58:03):
Why is everything else so amazing in your life? What
else is going on?

Speaker 6 (58:06):
I mean, I'm satisfied. I'm my social life is going great.

Speaker 8 (58:09):
I come out here and hold a stupid sign and
people approach me, So my social life is good.

Speaker 6 (58:13):
That's cool. I have so many great friends.

Speaker 2 (58:15):
You mean to let you make a lot of friends
at the partes.

Speaker 6 (58:16):
Yeah. Absolutely, that's why I come out here.

Speaker 2 (58:19):
The content.

Speaker 8 (58:21):
Content is going great. I'm making a lot of memories.
I love my job. I love my job.

Speaker 6 (58:27):
Not this isn't my job, my job that I do
during the week when I'm not here. I love you.

Speaker 2 (58:30):
What's your job.

Speaker 6 (58:31):
I'm a teacher's aide.

Speaker 8 (58:32):
Oh cool, So I take care of like I teach
pre k so I take care of like three year olds.

Speaker 6 (58:37):
Cool.

Speaker 8 (58:38):
I love my job. I love my family. So I'm
just Yeah, I'm satisfied in.

Speaker 6 (58:45):
All aspects except dating. That's where I struggle with. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (58:49):
Hm hmm.

Speaker 1 (58:50):
So you have this problem where you have you been
in like, have you ever been in a situationship with
someone where you're like, oh, I could see myself.

Speaker 2 (59:00):
But isn't a situationship?

Speaker 1 (59:01):
House is in the situationship the the inception of for
me relationship.

Speaker 8 (59:05):
For me, a situationship is not like, oh, we can
fuck around and maybe it'll go somewhere. No, a situationship
is no, We're gonna fuck around and that's it.

Speaker 6 (59:12):
It's not gonna go anywhere. That's my headphones.

Speaker 1 (59:15):
Oh okay, sure, But that's like a labeled thing like
can't anything become.

Speaker 2 (59:20):
Something? It could?

Speaker 6 (59:21):
It could.

Speaker 8 (59:22):
Uh, that's just my headspace going into situationships, Okay, Like
I I just prepare myself for that, not prepare myself.
I just I'm just in that headspace. Like, Yo, we're
in a situationship. We're gonna mess around. I'm not looking
for anything after that. I'm not looking for anything past that.
If we're gonna just gonna keep messing around.

Speaker 6 (59:41):
You know, I wouldn't here.

Speaker 2 (59:43):
Who's your ideal woman?

Speaker 6 (59:45):
My ideal woman? Like, yeah, like what do I like?
What do I look for? Yeah?

Speaker 8 (59:50):
Sure, I don't really have a specific type, you know,
I don't really you know, check boxes like oh, she
has to have this, this and that for for me
to want her.

Speaker 6 (59:59):
Like, no, I don't have a type.

Speaker 8 (01:00:01):
Just someone who's just someone who can joke around like me,
someone who I guess, yeah, just someone who can joke
around like me. Someone who can like have a good laugh,
someone who can mess around. Uh, someone who I want
someone very like laid back, someone's very nonchalant. Okay, someone
who can match my energy, but in general, someone who's.

Speaker 6 (01:00:23):
Very laid back.

Speaker 2 (01:00:24):
Okay, okay, because.

Speaker 8 (01:00:25):
I wouldn't want someone to you know, like outshine my personality.
You know, I'm very outgoing, but to an extent.

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
So you don't want somebody who's also outgoing.

Speaker 8 (01:00:35):
Like someone who can match my energy, but not to
the point where they can over overshine me, overpower me.

Speaker 1 (01:00:40):
Okay, you want to make sure you want to be
the guy, like you want to be the guy?

Speaker 8 (01:00:45):
Hey, like I want to be like yeah, like this
is me, Like this is what you got. And it's
tough because there's so much competition out here, and it's
very easy for someone that you're dating to look at
someone else and oh, this guy's got what he doesn't have?
Like he there's there's pretty obvious he doesn't. He doesn't
compare it to that guy.

Speaker 1 (01:01:03):
Well, it's whack a mole, you know, it's like, yeah,
someone has. There's many, in fact, not many, infinite people
out there who have an infinite amount of positive qualities
that you do not possess but they don't have. But
it's swackamle, right, it's like, oh, I like this one thing.
I Anyone that your date is gonna have things you
like about them and things you don't like about them,

(01:01:23):
and there will be somebody who has the things that
they don't have that you want, but then they have
other things that you don't.

Speaker 2 (01:01:29):
It's what you know. It's no no one literally nobody
is perfect.

Speaker 6 (01:01:33):
You know.

Speaker 8 (01:01:33):
At this point, I'm just like you do know how
to have to be perfect. I'm not looking for anyone perfect.
I'm willing to accept any flaws. But for any flaws, Yes,
any flaws.

Speaker 6 (01:01:44):
Sorry, that'd be just scared. Scared.

Speaker 2 (01:01:45):
I don't like bees.

Speaker 8 (01:01:46):
Yeah, but no for me, I'm just I have a
lot of insecurities that like, it's they it's very obvious
when uh me showing my insecurities, Like I'm I can
try to hide it as much as I can, but
they just come out at random times.

Speaker 1 (01:02:03):
You don't have to talk about this if you don't
want to, but I'm I'm naturally curious. What are your insecurities?

Speaker 6 (01:02:09):
My insecurities?

Speaker 8 (01:02:10):
Uh, damn, which one? There's so many, there's like a hole.
I could write a whole script, a whole novel about
my insecurities.

Speaker 1 (01:02:19):
Well, what's like, I guess you're well, one my height, Like,
I'm how tall are you?

Speaker 8 (01:02:23):
I'm five to ninety five to nine, I'm very average height.
If I want to date someone, they would have to
be like really short.

Speaker 2 (01:02:30):
You know. I mean, let's talk about this. Yes, I'm
five to seven, right.

Speaker 1 (01:02:35):
Commara, I'm actually five six, but I just tell everyone
I'm five seven.

Speaker 2 (01:02:42):
So I'm five to seven, right.

Speaker 1 (01:02:44):
And I've also throughout my life been pretty insecure about
my height. But you know what, But here's the thing
right with like all these things, is like you were
delta hand in life.

Speaker 2 (01:02:57):
Yeah, you were born as this.

Speaker 6 (01:03:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:03:01):
There's things you can change about your body if you
don't like it, you can get you can there's things
you can change about your body if you don't like them.
And there's things that you cannot change about your body.
And the way I think about my height, the way
I've kind of reconciled is like, oh my god, here's
here's how I reconciled my height.

Speaker 2 (01:03:19):
I would not roll the dice again, you know what
I'm saying.

Speaker 6 (01:03:24):
Like, in terms of what rolling the dice.

Speaker 2 (01:03:26):
I was born with certain things about me and my essence.

Speaker 6 (01:03:31):
In my life, and you can't change your height.

Speaker 1 (01:03:33):
And there's a lot of things I love about my
life and about my essence and about my body and
about my brain, about my who I am. There's a
lot of things I don't like about my body, my
brain and my essence and who I am. But if
if God came down from the heavens and was like, hey,
would you you want to Hey, you don't like being

(01:03:54):
five seven? You want to roll the dice again. I'm
not rolling those dice. I'm not taking another chance. I'll
take this, I'll key, I'll stay. I'm not that's like
black check. You know, I'm not. I'm not gonna hit.

Speaker 8 (01:04:06):
I get what you mean when you have, like when
you have quite a few friends that like like, obviously
you don't want to compare yourself to other people, but
when you're with other people you like, your mind ghost
places like you can't help it.

Speaker 6 (01:04:21):
You can't help but compare yourself.

Speaker 1 (01:04:23):
One thing I've oh, I've never forgotten that I heard
once is that if you're gonna be jealous of someone,
you have to be jealous of all of them. You
can't just run around picking your favor picking all the
best qualities from everyone, because that's not real life. So
you know, if someone someone might be taller than you,

(01:04:44):
but they have other things going on and their life
that are fucked, that are that your life is, you
know better than I mean, that's the same with like
all insecurities.

Speaker 8 (01:04:51):
I see what you mean. I see what you mean. Yeah,
I see what you mean. Another one of my biggest,
like insecurities.

Speaker 6 (01:04:58):
It's just like.

Speaker 8 (01:05:01):
It's as well, I want to retract to Bacca what
I was saying earlier, shut out.

Speaker 6 (01:05:05):
For me to fall for someone, I have to get
to know them.

Speaker 8 (01:05:08):
Once I get to know someone, the reason I've been
in so many situationships is because that first impression, the
first few interactions is always like the easiest to me.

Speaker 6 (01:05:18):
Like you'd be like, oh, I just met you, you
don't know.

Speaker 8 (01:05:20):
Me, so I can pretty much put on a bask
and be whoever the fuck I want to be in.

Speaker 6 (01:05:23):
Yeah, I guess that's what people people like, right, It's.

Speaker 1 (01:05:26):
All you're right, at a certain point, you gotta you know,
you gotta till a certain let your breath go and
let the stomach hang out metaphorically.

Speaker 8 (01:05:33):
Like after like a while that you really get to
know someone, then I start that's when I started really
catching feelings. That's when I started getting the butterflies, like yo,
I can't be how I was at the beginning, Like
it's just it's messing with me, Like I've known you
for so long, but I don't know. Something's changed now
to the point where I can't be around this person.

(01:05:54):
I can't act like how I used to be at
the beginning. It just fucks with my head and messed
with my head. I get the butterflies, know mm hmmm hm.
This one person that that I would see frequently at
this park at the beginning, I for like, oh, yeah,
she's cute.

Speaker 6 (01:06:08):
Like she's cute.

Speaker 8 (01:06:09):
I don't think much of it. I wouldn't say I'm
head over heels for her. I'm not getting butterflies, but yeah,
she's cute. I wouldn't see myself pursuing a relationship with her,
but yeah, she's cute. I don't I'm not getting butterflies,
as I would constantly see her here all the time
when I would come out here, and she would give
me like these little nudget like hey, like take down

(01:06:30):
my number. Let's hang out sometime, like oh, let's hang out,
get some boba without your sign, like without your content,
let's just hang out. Like yeah, I'm down, come to this.
I just moved into a new apartment. Come to my apartment.
Let's hang out, Let's let's grab a drink like, yeah,
I'm down. As I gotten to know them, and I
would see all these signs, I'm like, ooh.

Speaker 6 (01:06:53):
Are they flirting with me?

Speaker 2 (01:06:54):
Like oh, like.

Speaker 8 (01:06:56):
I'm getting the butterflies. I'm like, am I getting Am
I getting butterflies? Like the more I'm seeing them, like yeah,
now now that I'm seeing them, now that I'm vibing
with them a little bit, and I'm like, now I'm
getting the butter more.

Speaker 6 (01:07:08):
Butterfly, I'm getting butterflies.

Speaker 2 (01:07:09):
I'm sorry, quick, can I a see to just hold
the Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:07:10):
I got her, I got you. My bad, My bad. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:07:13):
As I'm getting to know them more and more, I'm like, oh,
now I'm catching feelings.

Speaker 6 (01:07:19):
Now I'm starting to get butterflies.

Speaker 8 (01:07:20):
Okay, okay, okay, And now it's gone to it after that,
this was all last year. By the way, the winter,
the winter comes and goes, there's like no communication, like
I don't like the winter.

Speaker 6 (01:07:30):
I hibernate in the winter.

Speaker 8 (01:07:31):
I stay at home until the winter passes, like I
don't like going out in the winter. So as winter passes,
there's no there's no interactions, no text, no phone calls,
no FaceTime, there's nothing.

Speaker 6 (01:07:43):
There's there's no interactions.

Speaker 8 (01:07:44):
I completely go ghosts, which is not intentionally, not something
I want to do.

Speaker 6 (01:07:48):
It's just something that I do.

Speaker 8 (01:07:53):
As the spring starts and I see her like again
after after a whole winter not seeing her, She's like, hey, you.

Speaker 6 (01:08:00):
Know, it's good to see you. YadA, YadA, YadA.

Speaker 8 (01:08:04):
I started getting the butterflies again, and I'm like yo, like, uh,
like I would I would assume, like all this time
spent a part would make me miss her, and it did,
but no, we're back to square one. I'm getting the
butterflies again. Uh so, Yeah, I saw her in April.

(01:08:25):
In April I would see her a few times. Then
May I did not see her. June I did not
see her. July I saw her again, and at that
point I was like, dude, I don't care, like I
don't have butterflies anymore.

Speaker 6 (01:08:36):
I genuinely missed seeing you.

Speaker 8 (01:08:38):
I've genuinely missed seeing that person, and my fuck it,
like I I'm back. I gave my confidence back again,
like I missed that person so much to the point
where I'm like, I don't care.

Speaker 2 (01:08:48):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (01:08:48):
The in so the insecurity is just the insecurity.

Speaker 2 (01:08:52):
Of being who you are when you don't feel nervous.

Speaker 8 (01:08:59):
Well, when I don't see that that person as much,
I guess as much.

Speaker 2 (01:09:03):
So is this a general insecurity, you would.

Speaker 8 (01:09:06):
Say, I'd say so, I'd say so. But yeah, as
as I was saying, uh, where where was I? So yeah,
after after not seeing her for so long, I started
seeing her again, and I'm like, yo, I genuinely missed you.

Speaker 6 (01:09:19):
I genuinely missed her.

Speaker 8 (01:09:20):
I think she noticed because when I started getting butterflies,
I started acting nonchalant around her, and I think she
picked up on that, like, oh, this guy's was so
fun at the beginning.

Speaker 6 (01:09:30):
What happened?

Speaker 8 (01:09:32):
Like he's so laid back in nonchalant now, like what's
going on? And I did not tell her why, but
I think she picked out all my nonchalant iss But again,
as once she saw me in June, after a whole
long time of not seeing not seeing me, I gained
my confidence back. I saw her again. I missed her
and we talked. We were viving again. I think she

(01:09:53):
she saw like, oh he's back. He's not nonchalant anymore,
Like he's back, he's back to his old self again.
Something happened. He's back to his own self. Now I
want to see him again. Now I want to keep
seeing him and again that that fucked with my mind again.
I got the butterflies again. She gave me her number,

(01:10:15):
even though I have her on Instagram.

Speaker 6 (01:10:16):
She gave me her number. She invited me to her apartment.
I bought her. She was here one day.

Speaker 2 (01:10:22):
Do you like this lady? Do you like this lady?

Speaker 6 (01:10:24):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:10:25):
Okay, because this whole thing, I'm like, do you fucking
like this lady?

Speaker 6 (01:10:27):
I'm getting to that point.

Speaker 2 (01:10:28):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, sorry, get it to that part.

Speaker 6 (01:10:32):
It's the whole back and forth thing.

Speaker 2 (01:10:33):
Sure, sure, sure.

Speaker 8 (01:10:35):
So I she comes to the park one day, She's like, Alex,
I'm bored.

Speaker 6 (01:10:39):
What should I do?

Speaker 8 (01:10:41):
I'm like, uh, do you want a buzzball? We can
go get a buzzball. She's like, fuck yeah, let's do that. Okay, okay,
well we'll go get a buzzball. We went to we
went to the store. I was like, you know, I
got you, I got you. It's like five bucks, I
got you covered.

Speaker 2 (01:10:53):
She's like.

Speaker 8 (01:10:53):
She came up from behind me. She's like, Alex, I'm
gonna give you the boyfriend hug. And she comes from
behind me and she squeezed. She squeezes me, Like, dude,
you don't say that ship to like anybody, Like I'm
gonna give you the boyfriend.

Speaker 6 (01:11:04):
You don't say that to anybody.

Speaker 8 (01:11:05):
This girl clearly likes you, right, Okay, Okay, she clearly
likes me.

Speaker 6 (01:11:09):
I clearly like her.

Speaker 2 (01:11:10):
Okay, like, dude, let's just fucking hang out.

Speaker 6 (01:11:12):
Let's hang out, like I'm I'm like, I know.

Speaker 8 (01:11:15):
She said that she had to go, like afterwards because
she had, like I don't know, I think she had
worked the next day, but she said she had to go. Okay, okay,
we will. We will schedule a hangout. We will schedule
hang out to meet each other.

Speaker 2 (01:11:26):
Like why is this so complicated?

Speaker 6 (01:11:28):
I'm getting to that point.

Speaker 2 (01:11:29):
Okay, sorry, I'm sorry, sorry sorry.

Speaker 8 (01:11:34):
So, uh yes, three times we schedule a hangout three
times for me, It's like three strikes.

Speaker 2 (01:11:43):
Like you should oh, she kept delaying.

Speaker 8 (01:11:45):
No, no, So we made a day to hang out
on a Saturday. Okay, I'm like, yeah, absolutely, let's fucking
get lunch or whatever.

Speaker 6 (01:11:52):
Let's hang out.

Speaker 2 (01:11:52):
Yeah she but did she yes, Okay, you hung out.
We were both so hola, hola.

Speaker 1 (01:11:58):
Okay, what's your name again? By the way, like, Alex,
you said three strikes, you're out? Uh huh what were
the three strikes?

Speaker 8 (01:12:04):
I'm getting I was just getting to that, okay, Okay,
So we made us data. This was on our Friday.
We made a day to hang out on Saturday. Saturday
morning comes like, hey, we're still on fridayday and she's like, yeah,
I'm down. Let's let me know when you're here. Text
me when you're here, like, all right, perfect, I got you.
I will be there at three o'clock. It's it's like
one o'clock. I will be train takes me like thirty minutes.
She didn't show up. No, no, As I was making out,

(01:12:29):
hopping on the train about to head there, train Delace
train is now working on weekends.

Speaker 6 (01:12:35):
You gotta take the bus.

Speaker 8 (01:12:36):
You gotta take the long ass bus to Atlantic and
transfer do all this, and you know NYC traffic, you know.
And I'm like I text him like, hey, you know
the trains aren't working. I'm so sorry. I will be
there as soon as I can, but I don't know
with traffic, I don't know how long it'll take me
to get there.

Speaker 2 (01:12:52):
Okay.

Speaker 8 (01:12:53):
It's like, yeah, just let me know when you get here.
Buses take a long time. Trains take a long time.
I get here at it like eight and nine o'clock
at night, like, hey, I'm so sorry, Like are you here?

Speaker 6 (01:13:02):
She's like no, I had to head her out.

Speaker 8 (01:13:04):
I'm sorry, Like no, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry the
fucking trains. Wait, so this is strike on, this is
strike one, okay, Like, hey, can we reschedule?

Speaker 6 (01:13:12):
It's like, yeah, let's get lunch tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (01:13:14):
Alex, I don't think I can. I don't think we
can do all three strikes. Listen all right, because listen,
because how long ago did this happen?

Speaker 6 (01:13:25):
This has been going on for like two months? What
the fuck?

Speaker 2 (01:13:28):
Alex? Do you like this?

Speaker 6 (01:13:30):
Lady?

Speaker 2 (01:13:31):
I do? Okay, doude? Then what the fuck she likes you?

Speaker 6 (01:13:35):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:13:36):
Why I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:13:36):
I don't know anytime things are this complicated, it kind
of it's like it's like, what even is this.

Speaker 8 (01:13:43):
The second time we made to reschedule? She said, yeah,
let's let's get lunch tomorrow. Like the trains are fucked up,
but let's get lunch tomorrow. I'm like, fuck, yeah, I
showed up. She's like, actually, I don't feel like going
out anymore. Like hey, you know, that's fine. Sometimes you
don't feel like it's a Sunday. Not everyone likes going
out on Sunday. That's fine.

Speaker 6 (01:13:59):
She's like, we do Monday, Like, okay, yeah, let's do that.
Let's do Monday.

Speaker 8 (01:14:04):
I come on Monday. She does to show up. Okay,
I guess I got an answer. I guess she doesn't
like me. Okay, and then retracting to that statement like
this was after by the way, I get her a
buzzball and she comes from after a while of not
seeing her. Okay, she comes from behind me, Alex, I'm
gonna give you the boyfriend hug.

Speaker 2 (01:14:23):
Alex.

Speaker 1 (01:14:23):
I'm exhausted by this. I know me too, Okay. So
here's what okay, Okay, okay.

Speaker 6 (01:14:28):
So and I'm like, dude, I don't know anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:14:30):
Okay, Yes you do know?

Speaker 6 (01:14:31):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:14:32):
Yes you do. She hasn't been no no, no, no, you
do know?

Speaker 6 (01:14:34):
Don't yes you do?

Speaker 2 (01:14:35):
I don't know, Yes you do? You do know? You
know that you're exhausted. I am you shouldn't be exhausted.
So you do know?

Speaker 6 (01:14:42):
I don't know, Yes you do do? I what do
I know?

Speaker 1 (01:14:46):
What do you know that you're exhausted. You know that
this relationship is exhausted. You know this dynamic is exhausting you. Yeah,
but that's a lot of information to have, you know,
the dynamics exhausting you.

Speaker 2 (01:14:54):
It is exhausting me hearing it.

Speaker 1 (01:14:56):
So it's like, you know, go find something that doesn't
exhaust Jesus fucking Christ.

Speaker 8 (01:15:01):
She texted me one day when I'm here chilling, doing
my own thing. She texts me like, Hey, I'm at
the park. I get so fucking nervous that I just
run out of the park and I just wait for
her to leave, Like, I'm just tired of this back
and forth.

Speaker 2 (01:15:12):
Alex, You're you know what, Alex, You're a sweet boy.

Speaker 1 (01:15:15):
I think you'll find a relationship one day that doesn't
exhaust you.

Speaker 6 (01:15:19):
You know, I'm trying. I'm out here trying. Actually, actually no,
I'm not out here.

Speaker 2 (01:15:22):
You're not really out here trying.

Speaker 1 (01:15:23):
You're out here existing, being, living your own life, being
who you are, exerting your authentic self upon the universe.
And when you do that for long enough, the universe
brings you back, whatever the fuck it brings you back.

Speaker 6 (01:15:38):
At the point, I'm just like do whatever. It's whatever.
I'm like, I'm exhausted.

Speaker 1 (01:15:42):
I'm exhausted, Alex, is there anything else you want to
say to the people of the computer before we go?

Speaker 8 (01:15:48):
Surround yourself with good people, because good people will bring
you up. If it were for the people that I
surround myself with, I would not be up sitting here, uh,
doing this talking about all my fucking insecurities.

Speaker 6 (01:15:59):
So I have my friends to thank for that. So
love y'all. Surround yourself with good people.

Speaker 1 (01:16:03):
I thank you very much for your time and your honesty. Man,
I really appreciate it. Thank you, Alex. You have a
good one.

Speaker 2 (01:16:07):
I'm sure. I'm sure.

Speaker 1 (01:16:08):
I'll see you in the park later. Man, Andrew, nice
to meet you. Has life, what's going on?

Speaker 6 (01:16:14):
I'm doing, lile.

Speaker 5 (01:16:15):
I just just moved here from Florida. Okay, it's my
first time. Actually it's like my third week here.

Speaker 2 (01:16:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:16:24):
I just saw you, so I was like, you know what,
I'll pop a squat. You seem like a really interesting person.

Speaker 2 (01:16:28):
Well thanks man. What brought you to New York work?

Speaker 5 (01:16:31):
Actually, as well as just pretty much. I grew up
in Florida felt like I was stunted, like my growth
was stunted there. I didn't have like a lot of creativity.
I had like some falling out with friends over my
sexuality and religion, and so I felt like New York
was a safe place for me, not only creatively, but

(01:16:51):
also to express myself fully. So I'm kind of out here.
I don't really have too many friends out here either,
So I was like, you know what, it would.

Speaker 2 (01:16:58):
Be nice to sit down and talk with someone.

Speaker 6 (01:17:00):
Okay, cool man?

Speaker 3 (01:17:01):
Sure that.

Speaker 2 (01:17:02):
I was so patient, you know, it's why. So how
you said you've been here for three weeks?

Speaker 6 (01:17:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:17:07):
Okay, And what are you doing here? You going to school?
You're working? I'm working. I'm a marketing director right now? Okay?
Yeahs you are? I am thirty one, thirty one?

Speaker 6 (01:17:16):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:17:16):
Have you been doing anything to try to make friends?
Meet people? So that's the thing.

Speaker 5 (01:17:21):
I've been so like occupied focus on work as well
as like trying to get familiar with the city that
I really haven't had made time for that, which I
need to is definitely, uh, something I kind of have
to adjust to, just because I would say for so long,
since I was from Florida, I had most of my
friends growing up. I never had to make friends again,

(01:17:44):
like like as an adult, now, and especially as like
a new person. I guess you could say, because now
I'm like living more in my like authenticity, living.

Speaker 2 (01:17:52):
Who I am. That's good.

Speaker 5 (01:17:53):
Yeah, So now it's like navigating that and learning to
kind of not HIGs parts of me and learn how
to like really kind of navigate this new version of myself.
I guess you can call it, and uh, I guess
navigate it. And I don't even want to call it
the correct way, because I guess there is no correct
way about going about things. But just like I guess

(01:18:16):
my goal is just to like completely be authentic with its.

Speaker 1 (01:18:20):
And it's well, it sounds like, yeah, you mentioned Florida
as being kind of stifling to your growth, as being
a place where you did not feel as though you
could be that authentic self. Yeah, exactly, and so wait,
so and how long did you live in Florida for
up until now?

Speaker 12 (01:18:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:18:32):
Oh, okay, so it is the first three weeks out
of Florida exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:18:35):
Oh my god, Okay, so you're in You're in this
is this is this the first time you actually feel
like you are living as your authentic self?

Speaker 2 (01:18:42):
Pretty much, get out of here. That's that's amazing. That's
really cool. It is a big leap.

Speaker 5 (01:18:47):
I find it as free like as possible. I feel
like I would never change my life. I went through
a lot of trials and tribulations, like I said, you know,
coming out late in life, as well as like losing
a lot of friends my church, Like it was like
really difficult time for me, but it literally sharpened me.
It made me polish me into the person I am today.

(01:19:09):
I like to tell people gave me superpowers. I feel
like I have a level of understanding people now from
all walks of life and understanding them just because of
those hardships. I felt like they gave me a level
of sympathy and empathy for people that I wouldn't have
had if I didn't go through those those certain things.
And I guess it's just I'm happy that I was

(01:19:30):
able to get come out of the other side of
it with a positive outlook on life. And because I
know a lot of people don't. So I'm just even
sharing this too, because I know you have probably a
lot of people who watch you, so just to let
them know that, like you got to just like authentically
be yourself. I know that word is like thrown around
a lot now. But it's so true. It's so freeing
to be yourself no matter what you're going through, Like

(01:19:53):
you'll find peace when you like when you start loving
yourself more, because no one could love yourself like love
you as much as you can love yourself.

Speaker 1 (01:20:00):
Well, look, I know you said you're having you know,
trouble making friends and whatnot, But I ever new nothing
you have said is quite out of the ordinary for
only being in a place for three weeks.

Speaker 2 (01:20:09):
Yeah, yeah, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:20:10):
So I are you in person as this marketing director
or is this like an online thing?

Speaker 5 (01:20:14):
So no, I'm in person. I worked two days a
week there. Co workers are cool, just like I guess
they're like older than me. So it's like a little.

Speaker 1 (01:20:23):
Well here's the here's the good news is that where
in Florida were you? West Palms?

Speaker 2 (01:20:29):
Okay of West Palm. It's like it's a little posh.

Speaker 5 (01:20:31):
Yeah, it's like right across from like there's literally right
over the bridge is Palm Beach Island.

Speaker 1 (01:20:36):
Yeah, it's like a wes West Palm is definitely yeah. Yeah,
I Well, the good news is that you moved to
one of the best places in America to meet people.

Speaker 2 (01:20:51):
There's infinite I mean, what do you like? What are
you into?

Speaker 5 (01:20:53):
I love art, I love fashion, I love photography, I
love writing.

Speaker 2 (01:20:58):
Oh, I mean, bro, I know that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (01:21:00):
Yeah, here's the thing I mean, dude, I mean, this
is why I live in New York, right, It is
because you know, I mean, I come to this park
almost every day.

Speaker 2 (01:21:10):
It makes me feel alive.

Speaker 1 (01:21:11):
Anytime I feel like I'm dying or I'm like old,
or I like that everything. You know, there's nothing left
for me to do on this planet, I just come.
I you know, New York is the place to where where,
even after you think you've you know, seen it all
or done it all or whatever, there's places and people
and rooms you can go into and things to remind

(01:21:32):
yourself that, oh shit, there's more. There's always there is more,
and and and here's the but here's the thing. It
doesn't find you. It doesn't find you. It doesn't find you.
But you don't even have to do it in the
correct way. But it's if you go out in search,

(01:21:52):
you find it.

Speaker 2 (01:21:53):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:21:54):
So like if you go on the internet and you
search for weird art events, or you see some stupid
fly as you're walking and you click the QR code
and you actually go to the thing, and then when
you're at the thing, you.

Speaker 2 (01:22:05):
Actually talk to some people.

Speaker 1 (01:22:07):
You start, you know, so the more again, the more you,
you know, authentically exert yourself upon the city and the world.

Speaker 2 (01:22:14):
You you you find these things.

Speaker 1 (01:22:15):
Yeah, so I mean even the fact that you came
to sit and talk to a random dude on the thing.

Speaker 2 (01:22:22):
Is a good sign.

Speaker 1 (01:22:24):
So yeah, all like crazy cool art, fashion, whatever the
fuck shit exists?

Speaker 2 (01:22:29):
Ye do you?

Speaker 1 (01:22:30):
I'll give you some like Instagram pages to follow and
some shit too.

Speaker 2 (01:22:34):
Later after we've done this, I appreciate that someone take
a little video of us.

Speaker 1 (01:22:38):
What's up? How's it going? Look at this guy? Look
at this guy? Who's this guy? I love this combination.
Look at this guy. He's got a combination. I've never
seen a combination of a leopard print shirt with an
army bag and he's got the leopard.

Speaker 2 (01:22:54):
Uh yeah, look at this guy? Well why do I? Man?

Speaker 1 (01:23:05):
Nice to see you too, man, God bless But yeah, dude,
you're you're in a great position.

Speaker 5 (01:23:10):
Yeah, I feel And that's the good thing is I'm
giving myself time. Like I said, I'm navigating it. I
feel like I'm in a good place. Uh, sometimes I
could get it lonely. You know, I haven't really made
too many friends out here yet, so that's why I
was like, let me, let me, let me just sit
down and have a good conversation for once.

Speaker 2 (01:23:25):
And you see, like I said, you seem like a
really interesting guy. Yeah, you're doing well here.

Speaker 1 (01:23:28):
After after we're done, there's a couple of like, uh,
like email lists I'm on and like Instagram pages.

Speaker 2 (01:23:34):
I'll give yeah, for sure, for sure. Can I ask
you some questions? Yeah, hit man? Okay, is that what?
You just have one suit or you have multiple suits?

Speaker 1 (01:23:42):
Oh? I have I have well, I don't know anymore. Honestly,
I have a this is a hundred. I just have
a room and it's got a pile of like there's
five parts to wait, there's five parts to the suit.
There's there's the head, the hands, which are technically two parts,
but actually no, there's there's Okay, I'm gonna count this one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

(01:24:06):
There's seven parts to the suit, okay, two hands, two feet,
a torso, pants, and a head. And I just have
an amalgam a big green pile of parts.

Speaker 2 (01:24:19):
Of the suit.

Speaker 1 (01:24:19):
It's awesome, just a room of like like you know
in the Simpsons, the giant burning tower of tires. That's
why I have that, but with uh with echo suits.
So I don't know how many that compiles when you
add them up, but yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:24:34):
That's that's what I got.

Speaker 5 (01:24:36):
The second question is I guess, out of all the
interviews I've ever done, what was the most interesting thing
You've learned about yourself in the process of doing this?

Speaker 2 (01:24:43):
Can I tell you the truth? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:24:45):
I get asked this question a lot of like what's
like the craziest thing you've learned, or like what's the
most interesting thing you've learned?

Speaker 2 (01:24:51):
Or what have you learned about humanity? I'm gonna be
honest with you.

Speaker 1 (01:24:55):
The more I travel and talk to people and do this,
the more I know I don't know fucking anything. I actually,
the more the more agnostic I become. Actually oh wow,
yeah wow, oh wait, sorry, I'll answer in one second, but.

Speaker 5 (01:25:10):
Now altruistic, like you don't feel like you like love
more because you know, like.

Speaker 2 (01:25:14):
No, I know.

Speaker 1 (01:25:14):
I become more agnostic about my beliefs, and I become
more agnostic about how what I know about the world
and what I know about myself and I by my
identity crumbles the more I talk to people, because when
you're when you're younger and when you're in high school,
it's way easier to have a sense of identity and
an ego. And then the more you talk to people
and the more you travel and learn things and do things,
the more my identity my ego crumble and I don't

(01:25:37):
know and the more I know nothing. Yeah, this in
uh and this is lame that I'm gonna quote this,
but I'm gonna do it is in Rick and Morty.

Speaker 2 (01:25:45):
You know the actually you know what this is in
Rick and Morty?

Speaker 6 (01:25:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:25:49):
Do you know the scene where Rick is talking not
when Morty's talking to Summer and he's like, you hang
out with Rick, And the more you hang out with Rick,
the more you know nothing and he knows everything. And
all I know is that we're all gonna die and
nobody belongs anywhere.

Speaker 2 (01:26:02):
Come watch TV. Yep. That is how I feel when
I travel.

Speaker 1 (01:26:05):
Wow, and when I do this and when I talk
to people, the more I'm like, oh, the universe knows everything.
I know nothing, nothing matters, No one belongs anywhere. I'm
gonna go play video games and jerk off.

Speaker 2 (01:26:15):
So I get that it.

Speaker 5 (01:26:16):
Almost feels like the Yeah, because you can't have any
go at that point, especially if you're interviewing people constantly
learning new stuff, and then everyone's a reflection of you.

Speaker 1 (01:26:25):
And it's honestly, it's almost less about even like the
work that I do, and even just like living my
life on a personal level. The older I get, the
more I live my life on a personal level and
I have my own personal experiences, is how I arrive
at the fact that I don't fucking know anything.

Speaker 6 (01:26:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:26:39):
Do you feel like that makes what you do harder?

Speaker 1 (01:26:41):
Though?

Speaker 8 (01:26:43):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:26:43):
Kind of.

Speaker 1 (01:26:44):
I think existing on the internet and having a podcast
almost beckons upon you to have strong opinions.

Speaker 2 (01:26:49):
Yeah, but it's almost like you're.

Speaker 5 (01:26:53):
It's not that you're catering to the algorithm, but almost
like you kind of have to in a sense.

Speaker 6 (01:26:59):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:26:59):
Yeah, but yeah, but I mean, I don't know, we're
having we're having this conversation right now, and I guess,
and I guess I have expressed a strong opinion in it, yeah,
which is that I don't have a lot of strong opinions,
a strong opinions, but.

Speaker 5 (01:27:12):
That's hey, and what opinions changed every day. Man, you
don't know who you're gonna talk to the next day.
So that strong opinions does how strong is the next conversation?

Speaker 2 (01:27:19):
Oh you're gonna hate me. But what's your name again?

Speaker 1 (01:27:21):
Andrews get So it's okay, Well Andrew, listen, you're my
last interview of the day. I'm gonna pack all this
shit up. But is there is there any bring us home?

Speaker 6 (01:27:30):
Andrew?

Speaker 2 (01:27:30):
What do you want to say to the people of
the computer before we get out?

Speaker 5 (01:27:32):
To anyone out there watching this or listening, just know
that you have to. You don't have to, but it's
so much beneficial if you do what you love and
you are who you are, and just know that I am.
That I am is the key, and you learn that
you that life is coming literally out of you.

Speaker 2 (01:27:49):
You what's inside of you. You manifest.

Speaker 5 (01:27:51):
Sometimes it takes time for reality to catch up. But
if you if you say I love yourself all the
time in your head, you start actually bringing up to reality.
So just know that I know it's not silly and
woo woo, but it's true.

Speaker 2 (01:28:04):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:28:05):
So it's been great knowing you. It's been a great conversation.
I appreciate your time my friend.

Speaker 1 (01:28:08):
Appreciate you Andrew folks. Thank you guys very much for
listening to the Therapy Gecko Podcast. I'm Lyle, I'm a Gecko.
I'm gonna go home or not, or I'll just sleep
here at the park. I don't care. I mean, I
do care. I don't want to sleep at the park,
but I like the park. I'm I'm this is a
bad act, this is a bad outro, but it's what

(01:28:30):
I said. I can't take it back. I theoretically can.
I can, of course I can take it back. I
can edit it out, but I'm not gonna do that.
I'm gonna leave it in. Thanks for listening. I'll be
back in a few days with another episode of the thing.
Ghek bless you. Thanks for being here. See you guys
around the universe.

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