December 1, 2024 • 69 mins
An caller explains a situation involving a portal that has formed in their fence, a caller prepares to leave their life behind for a big move to Romania, and a final caller talks about what drove them to give up social media all together.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, Hello, Hi. What's your name? What's up?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
My name is Beatrice?
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Beatrice. How's it gone for me? You know it is
going all right for me. I'm actually uh, I'm happy
to be here recording this. It gives me something to do.
I think in life, if you don't have anything to do,
you'll go crazy. So I'm glad to be doing something
(00:27):
right now. What's up with you, Beatrice? What are you doing?
How are you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I am great. I just got out of a great shower.
I made some sausage balls, seasonal sausage balls, and I'm
very excited.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
It sounds wonderful. Well, Beatrice, is there a particular reason
that you picked up the phone and called a crazy uh,
a crazy person in a in a gecko suit? Today?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Oh my gosh, I have been trying to call you
for so long, like so many people say, and uh,
I I'm gonna go in another room, sorry, my bird,
excuse my bird.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
No.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I live next to a church, and the other day
I had somebody break through my fence that separates me
and the church, and he like proceeded to like chase
me down the street and like call me out and
(01:33):
this and that whatever. But my theory is that he's
making a portal through my fence so they can just
go straight down to the river because I live next
to a river. And I think, yeah, I've seen it
happen before.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I'm sorry, Beatrice, you said a man is a man
came from the church and ran through your fence and
started chasing you.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Well, yeah, so here's the deal. They come off of
the main road, and they come off the main road
and they like try to go behind the church and
like hang out and whatever. And I'm not really about
it because right now I'm like home by myself, so
I'm like, ain't wrong, Oh okay, but this guy was different.
(02:22):
I like started to leave, yeah, and I kind of
watched him because he was kind of looking at my
fence and I was like, please tell And next thing,
you know, he threw his bike over and then he
busted through it and just ran his way through my
fence and yeah, he just broke a chunk through and
then he just gone on his bike and chased me
down the road because I was watching him, And yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Do things like this happen often? Live in where you live?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
H I won't give the town, but I can confidently
say I live in Oregon, and so like the homeless
and like not even homeless, because this guy was very
aware of what he was doing. It's like the situation
like so this.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Was this was a man on drugs, not a man
possessed by the devil coming out of the church.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Honestly, either way, I don't care. But all right, like that, yeah,
all right, Now I'm debating if I want to sue
the church into paying for a fence.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Well, why why is it the church's fault? Did the
guy come? This is this guy? Why is it the
church's fault? This guy? Does he have anything to do
with the church?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
No? But here's the deal, is they always they're not
coming from my side, Like, they're not coming from my
side of the fence hopping over to get to the
main road. They're coming from the main road hopping over
like and then this is how I've been a problem before,
where they come from the road and they like go
through the cracks in my fence or whatever.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
But this guy is yeah, but why yeah, but what
is they have to do with the church.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Because we've asked them to help because it's some of
their fence too, you know, like half of it's theirs
if it's on there, if it's if we're sharing the
fence and half of it's theirs, And so we've asked
them before it be like, hey, we'll go.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Fifty to fifty.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Can you guys help us like rebuild the fence or
could you just help pay for it and we'll get
it done? And they're like, no, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
If I don't know if you have a case here
to sue the church, I mean, I don't that's an
interesting that's an interesting case though, is I guess who
owns the fence? Who's responsible for the fence? Yeah, because
like I guess, if you were to slice a fence
in half, you're only responsible for your side of the fence,
(04:50):
which doesn't make any sense. But you know, well, I
don't know. I don't know a lot about fence ownership law.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Me too, And that's why i'm so and that's why
I just want to look into it. But I've talked
to them and I feel like they won't give me
the time of day. But before I assume anybody yet,
obviously I'm going to figure it out, but I will
do it.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Guys, all right, Well are you are you doing all right? Otherwise,
or there are people always coming into your house trying
to kill you.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
No, not all the time.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
It's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
My neighbor next to me got robbed during the middle
of the day, so there's that. I took a picture
of a burnt spoon down on the bike path the
other day. It was pretty nice. I didn't want to
take it. I almost took it to add to my things,
but I thought I didn't know what was on that spoon.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
You're like the uh, you're like Ariel from The Little
Mermaid because she has like a spoon. But I guess
your spoon would be a crackspoon, you know, and.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
That would be very I'd be okay with a crack You're.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
You're the Little Mermaid of collect filling a grotto with
drug paraphernalia from the sidewalk.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Wow, that's magic. And honestly, here I could just take
a walk and find all kinds of stuff. That's a
good idea.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
What who are you? I will I? Who are you? Beatrice?
Speaker 4 (06:20):
What do you?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
What's your deal?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Okay, Well here's the deal. I'm twenty two, I live
in Oregon. Love it hippie life for real. I'm a
pre k teacher. I have a career in that. I've
been doing that for going on four years. And yeah,
I just teach three year old three, yes to like
(06:43):
five or six?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
What is the Oregon hippie life these days? What does
that look like to you?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Du Well, I'm not in Portland, so it's pretty good.
Oregon hippie life for me is a lot of tied I.
I've been getting a billiant tied I. Everybody is getting
KAIEDI for Christmas this year. Tied I Oregon country Fair.
I recommend going to that.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Okay, okay, what do you uh are they? I have Oh,
I have a question. You teach three year olds?
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I teach three to five or six?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
But I have I have a I have a question.
Are the kids gonna be all right? Because I'm worried
about uh, I'm worried about the children in this in
our world. We live in a freakish world that's evolved
far beyond what our biology was meant for. And I'm
a little terrified of whatever the children of the world
(07:50):
these days. I know that makes me sound like a grandpa,
but it's I am alarmed by it.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
No for real, me too, y'all. Like it's getting it's
getting biblical, y'all, like the end of times. I'm not
saying like always be watching, but I sleep with my
eyes open for real.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Do you really believe do you believe? I mean, I
no exaggeration, Do you really believe it is the end
of times?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Okay, Well, here's the deal. It's I mean, uh. In
the Bible, it's it talks about things that will happen,
you know, one thing after another, not necessarily day to day,
but in the timeline of time, things will happen. And
y'all there's things been happening. So it's hmmm, it's killing
(08:37):
And I do think it's something will happen if we
don't destroy ourselves first, we'll see God coming down taking
us anyway. Uh. The kids, Well, here's the deal. I
think that my kids at my work are super spoiled
and they're like COVID babies. Have you heard of that?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Uh, like babies that were conceived during COVID.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
See well and born more so born. I'm tagging this term.
It's called COVID babies. These are the kids that grew
up in quarantine and they don't have socialization and if
the parents didn't do their job, as like being a
teacher and like parent and teacher and teaching their kids.
(09:22):
Some kids I have now that are like where they
should be, like learning wise, they don't know their ABC's.
I'm like, what I said, you're five years old. It's
like it's things like that. But uh, I also did
foster care. I do foster care with my family and
we've been doing that for ten years. And uh, those
(09:45):
kind of kids, they're they come in feral because they've
been like living under bridges, but they have street smarts,
so it's like they're very aware of themselves. And they're
same age as my kids. The work, but they're already
like they just have common sense.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
You know. So you're worried about the kids, Uh, the
these COVID babies who have not who have neither, those, Yeah,
they just.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I get some COVID babies and they like those are
the kids who buy.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Those are the.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Kids who like can't share and can't have. Like, man,
I'm just trying to teach my kids how to not
be assled. Like if you could be like a solid
like five out of the day out of ten, that'd
be great. It's good.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
But yeah, and how long have you been a pre
K teacher for.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
I've been doing it for I've been doing pre K
for two, but I've been teaching for three going on four.
I was doing two year old and two year olds
is great. But something about like teaching the kids and
then like showing me what they've learned just from what
I've taught them. It's nice. It's a good feeling.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
You're only twenty two.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Hell yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
So they don't like, don't you have to finish college
before you start teaching people?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Well, here's the deal. I uh I it's like I
would say, I hate when people say daycare because I've
worked so hard to not be like a daycare teacher
and I'm not. I teach pre k and like a
high end uh glory, I'd say, yeah, glorified daycare. But
(11:38):
it's definitely like I have three classes at my school
and I have a class and yeah, no, you just
have to be a if teacher qualified. You get so
many hours and trainings in I have to do like
I think they moved it up to like a lot
of hours, like thirty hours or something crazy of like
trainings and so.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
And is this is this like a religious school like
a private school?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
No, these parents are just super rich and like one
of the parents they have the Tesla's like, the door
comes up, I'm like, and the five year old comes out.
I'm like, oh my gosh, what is your life? These
people own like businesses around town. They like are lawyers.
And one of my two year old one of the
(12:26):
two year olds are in Colombia for just a holiday trip.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I'm like, wow, nice are you? Are you a lady
of God? You you were speaking about that a little
bit earlier.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Wow, Me and God are pretty tight. We are, We're
pretty tight. And I grew up really religious. My grandpa
is a child evangelist and he's been doing that for
like forty some years, and so he's kind of really
into that. And my parents are very like Christian Baptists,
(13:06):
and then I have a lot of Southern Baptists. So
it's good. I just man. And that's the thing too.
My church that I grew up in after COVID, they're like,
if you don't go to church during COVID, then you're
sinning and you're a bad person. But I was like,
oh my gosh, nah, so and it just turns really dark.
(13:30):
We just had both of our lead pastors quit because
they both didn't get like the lead position they wanted.
So since they both didn't get it, they both quit.
And I was like, whoa. So I am very into it,
and I think not everything came from nothing, but as
(13:51):
far as like a community of a church and everything,
I don't go because I haven't found that yet.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
You know. Interesting, So you don't go to church, but
you you, I mean, do you want to? Is that
like something you want to kind of create a space
for in your life.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Hell?
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Yeah, I definitely go. And I have tried different churches
around town and whatnot doing all that thing. My partner
has even said, he's like, yeah, I'll go with you
here and there. I was like, hell yeah, So it's
it's a thing I've tried to incorporate in my life.
It's just some very I'm pickier about churches and who
(14:29):
I date.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Honestly, you're picky about churches and who you date.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
No, I'm pickier. I'm more picky about churches than who
I date.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Oh oh oh yeah, how'd you meet? How'd you meet
your s? O?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Met him on the apps?
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
When do you meet people in real life? For real?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Well? Which at.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
I don't want tender but uh. Actually he added me
on like all the apps, and I ignored him on
all of them and then Tender was like and I
was like, fine, I guess, but he's really great. Yeah.
I enjoyed a lot. Actually, he has a what can
I just.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Yes say as many things you want?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
What here's the deal. We'll be here all day. I
love talking. This is great. But uh no, he has
a six year old, autistic, nonverbal and blind son. That
can I just say?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Wow, he's a six year old son?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yeah, six year old, blind, autistic and nonverbal.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
How old is he?
Speaker 2 (15:38):
He's thirty. Well, he'll be thirty one in December, so
I'm kind of loving that, y'all.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Well, he's gotta he's got a six Yeah, what's uh
what's to do with his son?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
He's just like, I don't know, y'all. Sometimes it's just
like pick of the barrel. Just you come out blind, autistic,
and nonverbal. I don't know, y'all, but uh no, he's
and he's great. And I've gone over and hung out
with him and his kid and everything, and yeah, this
is great and I enjoyed. I'm like, oh my gosh, guys,
(16:11):
that could be a stepmom. What that's kind of crazy.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
What's your ultimate Beatrice? Right?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Well, it's I honestly, and I feel bad correcting you even.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
But it's be a Trice Beatrice, Beatrice. I don't know
if I don't, I don't, I don't know if you
listen to this show. But I'll talk to someone for
forty five minutes and I'll call them Sam and their
name is you know, uh, Jared or whatever. So I'm
gonna I think beat Beatrice is pretty good for me.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Hey, you could do beat Rice. People be calling me
beat Rice all the time.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Well, Beatrice, what what's your ultimate goal? What's your what's
your dream life look like? Uh?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Gag? I would kind of like to get married. Lit
feelings growth, but that would be nice. And uh, I'd
like to just yeah, grow my career. I've been moving up.
I've never gone down the ladder in my career, so
I'm pretty happy with that. And uh yeah, I don't
know animals. I'd like to see how many animals I accumulate.
(17:22):
I'm kind of crushing it right now.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
You'd like to see how many animals you can? How
many animals do you currently have?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I have a bird, I have a cock of teal,
he's pretty great. I have two dogs. I have a
sheep dog he's a sheep dog poodle mix, and I
have a Maltese poodle mix. I'm pretty pretty proud of
my dogs. And uh, I have a hamster. His name
is Killer because he bites. He bites me.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Uh, well, is there an animal that you are trying
to get that you don't yet have?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
You know, I'm hyperallergenic, so I can't really have most dogs.
But if I could have like a wiener dog, I
think my life would be complete. Not saying anything about
my dogs right now, I hope I'm not't listening.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
But well, before we go, I'll take some I don't know.
If the twitch chat has any questions, I'll If the
twitch chat has any questions, I'll I'll ask, I'll ask
them to you. But uh, I guess while those are
coming in. While those are coming in, I'm gonna try
to think of a of a question. Well, are you
(18:37):
in Are you in college right now? You're in school
to try to like get like accredited or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
No, I just law school. It's just like not been
my gig. I was homeschooled up until high school, so
i feel like, I'm just like, I don't know. School
is so intimidating. Everybody knows how to do it, and
I'm like, I don't know, so uh no, but you
can make good money otherwise, so it's not too bad.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Somebody said, would you walk through the portal in the
fence if that ends up happening, which kind of reminds
me that I completely glossed over your theory about how
the churches try to create a fucking portal in your backyard.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Yeah, no, here's the deal.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
And they do.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
It's not even the church, just like the crackheads around
town they do. They make portals. I've seen them on
a bridge and they come through with like bikes or
they go into the portal and I'm like, where are
they going? We're on a bridge.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Wait, the crackheads in your town are making portals.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Yeah, and they like and now there's signs where the
portal was. And sometimes I've seen like what oh, they
close up the portal.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Yeah you go, are you They're they're creating portals and
you'll see police close the portals.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Yeah. Like I've seen them close it and like close
like chane link. They break through and then they close
it and the next thing, you know, the portal's open.
And I think they made a portal through my sense
so they could get to the river easier.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Do you mean what you mean like a like a
magical portal?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I mean there's probably something magical happening on the other side.
And I don't mean like we're going to the Twilight Zone,
y'all or not, not nothing like that. But I mean
I would walk through as I was like that. But
I think if I walk through, I just.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
I just want. I just want to clarify for you,
and it's by whatever your live, whatever your truth is,
I want to know. But are are you using the
word portal to mean a hole or or like or
do you mean like a a supernatural portal?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Okay, well, here's to do. I always say to speak
your truth, so I will speak my.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Truth, please.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
I uh, I'm in the sense of like a giant
hole around town. But what's interesting, and it is a
portal too, because you don't know what's on the other side.
I mean, my portal is different because it's like right
through to my road, it's whatever. But the ones I've
seen around town you don't see what's on the other side.
(21:18):
Like over the bridge. You don't know where it goes,
but people come through it and go into it, and
it's like where do they go?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Beatriuce. I'm trying. I'm just want to get on the
same page with you here about this are you do
you what do you mean by a portal?
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I mean, like, I don't know, not like they get
not like they're time traveling or going anywhere crazy. I
just mean, like, how do they have an open hole
over a bridge and then come through a bike with
like come through the hole with a bike, Like I
(21:53):
we're on a bridge. Where are they coming from?
Speaker 1 (21:56):
So when you say that, when you say that they're
trying to make a portal in your backyard, you mean
like a hole? Or do you mean like, like, where
do you think this portal in your backyard is gonna
lead to?
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I think they're gonna go down to the river and
two more crack with soon.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
So you mean do you mean Okay, so you mean
a hole?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Yeah, like a giant hole.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Okay, this is we're not talking about like like are
and by the way, totally fine if you are. I
just want to or like you're not like on your
Narnias ship right now? Are you no.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
And I'm sorry if I do sound like that, I.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Do know, Okay, if you are, I don't care.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Oh I'm so serious, Like no, it's just a giant hole.
And I don't know. I recently got it fixed my knee,
I well, my eyelide. My neighbor got it fixed because
I told him about the hole, and uh he fixed it.
But uh still people be like coming through my fence, y'all.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
But as long as it's not a giant portal hole,
I'm fine with that.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
All right, I'm gonna see Somebody asked if you do graffiti?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Ooh no, because here's the deal. I can't. I'm I'm
not an outside the box thinker. And that's what's so
shitty about being a teacher, like a pre k teacher too,
is you have to do like crafts and stuff. And
oh my gosh, I did some hand turkeys this past
week and they I had a nightmare about them because
(23:25):
how bad they looked. They looked horrible. It looked so bad.
So graffiti is just like it would be like a
heart or something lame like that.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Let me, someone wants to know if you smoke weed?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Oh my gosh, here's the deal. Only because I know
my parents, I'm less in y'all. But hell yeah, I'm
an Oregon. We smoke so much. That's like what you do.
I mean, I'm not high right now. It might sound
like it, but I know, I yeah, we I was
high yesterday at Thanksgiving.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Hell yea.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
By the way, just somebody in the chat mentioned this,
and i'll, uh, i'll, i'll echo the sentiment. I would
push back against the idea that you were not an
outside the box thinker, because I think you're. I think
you've talked too much about portals on this phone call
for you to not consider yourself an outside the box thinker,
which is, by the way, a good It's a good thing.
(24:28):
I think it's good to be an outside of the
box thinker.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Huh, I concur I mean I do have a Have
you heard.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Of bo Jangle the chicken thing?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Oh my gosh. Yeah, Well they have these country ham biscuits.
Oh my gosh, country ham buscuit sandwiches. Oh they're so good.
And I got a country ham biscuit tattoo with a
cowboy hat because it's country. So that's pretty outside the box.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
I'd say that's cool. All right, I'll give you one.
If is there anything else you want the people to
know about you or your life or anything?
Speaker 2 (25:09):
I mean, hell, y'all, I don't. I had so many
things and I was like, you know, once you get
on here, it's nothing. Uh uh, I don't know. I
wish y'all have more to make me think. I don't,
and I know I'll regret it later, but I love talking.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
It was nice talking to you too, Beatrice.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
It's anything else you want to say to the people
before we go?
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Ah?
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Yes, I want to say, how did my brother Jeremy
because I'm going to be telling about him this what
I'm going to be telling him about this later and
if it makes the podcast, I will definitely be telling
him about this later. And if anybody else wants to
make a portal in my sense, please don't. I'm not
about the builder I did not.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
You have you you have you have hit your portal
quota for your life.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
I really have, y'all, and my fence can't take it.
She said, put me out.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
So all right, all right, Beatrice, Well, good good luck.
You have you.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
You.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
I think you're gonna be okay. You have a you
you you rank low on the list of callers that
I leave the conversations worried about them. I think you're
gonna be I think you're gonna be all right.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Ah well, thank you so much, and I appreciate and
I love talking to you. This is great.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Thank you, Beatrice. You have you have a good one.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Yeah, you have a great day.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Bye bye, Beatrice. I think she meant whole. I don't know.
I still don't know. I asked, you, guys heard. I
asked multiple times if she meant supernatural portals or if
she just meant whole, and she none of the times
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did she really give me a straight answer? But she might.
I but I guess, don't fucking I don't know. That's
probably that's my fault because it's me not being an
outside of the box thinker.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
You know.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Uh, doors are doors are portals in a sense. Yeah,
that's good. I liked that lady. She added, she seemed
like she had a nice life. She had she has
pets that she cares about, and she looks at portals
(27:37):
and insane things happened to her and she laughs about it. Uh,
that's yeah, she's gonna be all right. Hello, Hello, Hey,
what's up?
Speaker 5 (27:52):
Nothing much. I genuinely did not think I was gonna
get through.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Well, here you are and we are talking, and what
is up? How are you? What's your name?
Speaker 5 (28:01):
My name is roa weird name.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
I know.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
It means morning dew in Romanian, it's spelled are o
u A Are you?
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Are you Romanian?
Speaker 5 (28:15):
I am?
Speaker 1 (28:17):
What's going on? What's going on in Romania?
Speaker 5 (28:20):
You know I'm going to find out in three months?
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
So my whole family, all my siblings were born in Romania,
and I'm the only one I was born here. I'm
twenty eight, and I decided that I am going to
move to Romania.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
No shit, no way I had doing it. I had
a cab driver, had a Romanian cab driver a couple
of weeks ago, and he told me that Romania is
like one of the safest places that he he told
me he has like a like a seven year old
daughter or something, and he just lets her walk home
in the middle of the night. I mean, I don't
know why she's out anywhere.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
Okay, that's a little concerning.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Maybe that's on him, Maybe that's on him, But anyway,
what's so, why are you moving to Romania?
Speaker 5 (29:17):
So a few reasons. My life has been kind of
crazy here within like the last couple of years, I
got out of like a really shit long relationship where
I felt like I couldn't really do the things that
I wanted to do. I've always wanted to experience living
in a different country.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
And.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
That relationship ended, thankfully, And now I just have all
of this like freedom in a sense, and I feel
like I have so much more room to grow into
my skin. And I was like, what better way to
experience that than like go to a different country and
do that, because I feel like you get to learn
a different part of yourself and you kind of immersify
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yourself in a completely different environment.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
So you are moving, it's not this isn't a trip,
this is a move.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
Yeah, so I'm moving. I'm doing it.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Where are you moving from?
Speaker 5 (30:15):
From San Francisco?
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Oh okay, cool? What do you know?
Speaker 3 (30:19):
People?
Speaker 1 (30:20):
You have family in Romania? So you know some folks
I do?
Speaker 5 (30:24):
I do. Yeah, I'm gonna go see my grandma. She's
getting old, so I should go see her. I haven't
been to Romana since I was sixteen, So this is
it's going to be an interesting trip for me.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
And I'm.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
The language.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Oh so what I say, you haven't been since you
were sixteen twelve years ago, and you're so you're not
even gonna take a little trip first before you pack
up your bags and move.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
No, I'm just doing it.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Do you have a Romanian passport?
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Are you like officially a citizen?
Speaker 5 (31:01):
So I'm in the process of that right now. I
potentially might have to come back if it doesn't, if
everything doesn't get finalized, and I would have to come
back after like the ninety day you know, travel to day.
But I will will get sorted out regardless. And yeah,
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if I don't decide to stay in Romania, I will
probably stay in another country out in Europe. But that's
the plan right now.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Do you have a job or anything that you're gonna do?
Speaker 3 (31:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
I am applying a bunch of shit out there right now.
I just graduated in May, and the job market here sucks,
and I've been applying to jobs to get out of
my manny and gig for like the past seven months,
and I told myself, like two more rejections from all
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these fucking companies and I'm out. And that's kind of
what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
So what did you study?
Speaker 5 (32:11):
I studied environmental anthropology and archaeology, so I might do
some like archaeological work in Transylvania or some shit.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
That's cool they have they have bones in Romania.
Speaker 5 (32:24):
It's got bones, you know. I'm sure I can hopefully
I come across some bones from well I Dan Paler,
the people that he impailed.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
I don't know why. I know that. I know that
it's like a whole field that encompasses many different things.
But when you say archaeologists, my head goes to, like, oh,
this lady's going to Romania to dig up dinosaur bones.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
I mean I could come across those with archaeology like
you do, come across bones, and it's let's say, like
artifacts that you work with. That'd be cool. If I
come across a dinosaur bone, I don't know if I
know how to identify it, but maybe I took Zoo
orc Zoo archaeology, so I know how to identify some
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animal bones.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Are you gonna miss San Francisco? Do you got anything
going on for you there that you're like I don't
want to leave?
Speaker 5 (33:19):
Yeah, my friends, it's such a great city. I do
love this place. I've just been here my whole life.
So I think I'm gonna miss you know, the the
random naked people decide to walk out their door naked
one day. I think I really appreciate that. I think
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that's great. I would never do that. It's a city
that terrifies me, but I love it so much. Like
it's just the craziest shit happens here, but it's really
it's what makes San Francisco. So I missed that. But
I think I need to explore life outside of the US.
I've always wanted to.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Yeah, yeah, hmmm, Romance. What's that? What's that? What's the
city that you're moving to?
Speaker 5 (34:11):
So my family is from the city called Souchava. I
was thinking of staying there for a bit because I
have a place that I can stay at for free
for at least a few months. But I want to
spend some time in uh Agrest, Right, It's just more
there's more things going on there, it's more definitely more
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people speak English there. I'd be able to get around.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Yeah, that's the main I guess that was the when
you said a smaller town, I guess that was the
main thing. Is like, are you going to get are
you going to be fucked that that that you don't
know Romanian is the language Romanian.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Yeah, yeah, so like it.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
It's really weird because it was my first language. But
my parents are like freaking out when I was like struggling,
I guess in my English courses like growing up, and
they're like, oh my god, like we have to speak
English in the household. She's the first gen like she
has to know English well. So then they started speaking
English in the household. So I have this weird saying
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where I understand like ninety percent of it, but I
respond like an elementary student in Romanians.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Interesting, But I mean understanding is pretty good. I feel
like that's well. I feel like if if I had
to like choose between uh, like if it was if
it was binary, right, like I could only I could
only understand or speak English. I'm picking understanding. I could
I could shut up for the rest of my life
and just look at stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
Yeah, that's very true.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Yeah, uh, I like this, this is cool. Go ahead,
go ahead, you're gonna say something.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
Oh I was just gonna say yeah, So I'm saying, like,
fuck my life here, I'm gonna go do it somewhere
else in a different country. My friends are excited for me,
but they just think I'm gonna get kidnapped for some reason,
which it is not great to hear.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
But you I truthfully when it comes to not to
be a fuck or whatever. But like, of all the
places I have traveled, like New York and Los Angeles
are the more the most dangerous. Yeah yeah, I mean,
I don't know what's going on in Romania, but a guy,
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a guy told me once that it was safe, and
so you know, if that guy said it, then it's
probably true.
Speaker 5 (36:30):
I remember it being pretty safe when I was there. Yeah,
I'll be fine. I hear stories all the time of
my siblings, like taking the buses by themselves, like in
elementary school, and you know, you don't really hear that
much over here at all.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
So yeah, yeah, San Francis, I don't. I'm this is
this is an ignorant statement that is derived from no
empirical data whatsoever. But my gut feeling tells me that
Bucharest is probably for then then San Francisco.
Speaker 5 (37:03):
Oh absolutely, I like to my apartment in San Francisco,
so there's that.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Yeah really yeah, yeah, this is a real getting chased
themed episode.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
I know.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
It's true it happens.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
I like this though, because I I I love the
idea of picking up your life and moving to a
foreign country. I think it's cool. I think I hope
it goes well.
Speaker 5 (37:33):
I do too. Yeah, I've really been trying to, like
embody this whole like habit of like not just saying
that I'm going to do something. It's so easy too,
It's so easy to sit there and like imagine like
a new thing for your life. But it's like another
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thing to like get up and just do it. And
like I've just been I'm terrified, but I've just been
telling myself to like just do shit. Scared, like just
do it? Why not?
Speaker 3 (38:03):
What?
Speaker 1 (38:04):
And Now if this, if this move went perfectly right,
if it went one hundred the best way it could
possibly go, what would that look like?
Speaker 5 (38:16):
I think I would find a career somewhere out there.
I would like to have my own place. I would
bring my so I have to come back and get
my cat actually, so I would have my cat there
with me, my cat otis.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (38:36):
I don't know, I just I can't really think of
anything further than just like being happy and having a
good career and eating good food and fucking living it
up in Europe and traveling and maybe finding bones and artifacts.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Well, how long were you in San Francisco for?
Speaker 5 (38:59):
So I've been living in the outskirts of San Francisco
my whole life. But I moved into San Francisco like
almost three years ago.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Somebody in the chat says, are you concerned about I'm
gonna take We're gonna take some questions from the chat
if the chat wants to ask any questions. I like
doing that. So somebody said, are you concerned about the
possibility of World War three happening in that region? Which
is a funny thing to say because it's a contrad
it's a contradictory sentence. Are you concerned about a World
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War happening in that region?
Speaker 5 (39:38):
Yeah? I was actually thinking about that the other day.
You know, I think regardless, like we're fox wherever we go.
So yeah, I'm concerned. But is that gonna stop me?
Speaker 3 (39:48):
Now?
Speaker 1 (39:51):
Wait? Why is is? What's I'm I'm ignorant. Where is
Romania near? That's that's being that's there's war.
Speaker 5 (39:59):
Uh, well it's right next to Ukraine, So I guess
there's that, But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
I feel like.
Speaker 5 (40:10):
If I feel like I would be safe in Romania,
Like who gives a fuck about Romania? You know, like
they're just there. I don't think they've they've really gotten
their hands in anything like super dirty, or maybe they
haven't I'm being ignorant, but I don't know. I feel
like Romania is just kind of a bystander, and I
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think I would be safer there than even if technically
it's closer to where it would be starting. I think
I would be safe hide in my grandmother's village. He'll
be fine.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Well, let's see, nobody has any more. Nobody has any
other good questions? Oh they said, they said, apparently, Wait,
somebody said, she hasn't heard about the new Romanian Trump?
Is there is this Trump? Has Romania have like a
crazy guy?
Speaker 5 (40:58):
Yes, so I heard about us the other day and
actually made me really fucking sad. He's just this kind
of extremist man who has been part of organizations that
are not aligned with my morals. And I guess he's
(41:19):
taking the lead and that's very concerning. Yeah, actually I
forgot about that. Damn well, I might have to reside
in a different country nearby. But yeah, if that guy.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
When Yeah, which which which one would you go to?
Speaker 5 (41:43):
Maybe the Netherlands, maybe Sweden?
Speaker 1 (41:47):
A fuck man, I was just I was, I don't
know how hard it is to go there, but how
artists I lived there, But I fucking love the Netherlands.
I was just there. I did I did a I
did a show and mister damn, it was fucking amazing.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
I don't not to not to keep dick riding Europe.
And I probably said this on the podcast started, but
they they just it's just so much better there than
it is here. It's just so they have all the
same they have like virtually because our whole thing is
like freedom, but they have virtually all the same freedoms
(42:26):
except except the gun one. Yeah, they have virtually all
the same ones. And you don't need a car in
all the cities and a lot of those places they
have like like free or cheap healthcare and college tuition.
And it's like, what what are we I don't you
go over there? And you're like I asked chat Rept,
I was like, is there anything that is better about
(42:48):
America than uh Europe? And chat Cheept was like, America
is good if you uh want to be an entrepreneur
with little regular restrictions or if you want to own
a gun, and Europe is better for quality for and
then and then it said Europe is better for quality
of life.
Speaker 5 (43:09):
Yeah, that that takes that takes it all for me.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
You know.
Speaker 5 (43:15):
It's it's unfortunate that one of the things that I'm
really excited for out there is healthcare, which is like
that should just be given here.
Speaker 1 (43:25):
But you know, can you but can you do that?
Can you just like show up and be like, hey,
I heard you guys have free healthcare? Can I have
some of that?
Speaker 3 (43:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (43:35):
I'm going to figure that out, all right, figure it out.
Speaker 1 (43:40):
Well, let's say somebody else. Oh yeah, someone wants to
know if there's any uh good go uh good Romanian food.
Speaker 5 (43:54):
Good Romanian food. Yeah. I really like a lot of
the pastries. Like one of my favorite kind of like
holiday pastries that my mom will hopefully be making around
these holidays. It's called kozak, really good. It's like a
bread sweet closonac. Also, Samalae is really good. It doesn't
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look pretty, but it's just it's it's like cabbage rolls.
It's like meat and rice in it. It's really good. Yeah,
I would say those two. Uh that we eat a
lot of, like at least from like the region where
my family's from. It's like we eat a lot of
it's like very close to like Mediterranean foods, so a
(44:42):
lot of breads and different like breads and cheese and
salami and olives and always eating a shark charcuterie or
sharcucci board or whatever that's called.
Speaker 1 (44:57):
Someone in the chat said, here in the Netherlands, we
have our own Trump too, and he's closing the borders.
So if you want to come, be quick, man. They
got everyone's got a Trump guy. I don't know. I
I'll look at it. Somebody also said this. I'm sorry
this wasn't a question for you, but somebody said, uh,
(45:18):
here in the Netherlands, everything closes so early, and I
will I went to the Netherlands to do a show
a few weeks ago, and I woke up at like
four in the morning, and I was hungry and everything
was closed. So I was just kind of wandering around Amsterdam,
uh for like at four o'clock in the morning, and
(45:39):
a bunch people keep coming up to me and be
like this guy came up to me and he's like, hey, hey, man,
where are you from? And here's the thing. At four
o'clock in the morning, when people come up to you
and start like, where are you from, they're not They're
probably not trying to make friends. They're probably I just
assume I make an assumption that they're trying not to
(46:00):
make friends. And so I said to him, I was like,
I'm sorry, man, I'm just trying to get food. I
don't really want to talk right now. And he goes,
fuck you, you pussy, I'll fucking beat the shit out
of you. And I was like, all right, sorry, I
just walked away, and a little part of me was
like I was walking away, and a little part of
me was like, like, I like, I a very one
(46:23):
percent of me, I'm not being generous. A one percent
of me in my head was like, man, maybe that guy,
maybe he really did just want to be my friend,
you know, maybe he really was wandering around at four
o'clock in the morning trying to find for And I'm
like the fourth guy he tried to make conversation with
(46:46):
and I turned him down, and I'm I'm like, I'm
part of me. Ninety nine percent of me was like,
like I wanted to like sell me coke or whatever.
But one percent of me was like, oh I I
led him into I was like the last line of
defense between that guy and his joker era. But you know,
so be it. Uh well, anyway, you don't need you
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need to know? What's your name? Again? Some with an.
Speaker 5 (47:15):
Like row your boat?
Speaker 2 (47:17):
Row?
Speaker 1 (47:17):
Is there anything else you want to say to the
people of Wisconsin and other places across the worlds before
we go somebody somebody listening to this, Probably somebody listening
to this probably is in Wisconsin right now, but not
just to them, to everyone, to everyone. Is there anything
you want to say to everyone?
Speaker 5 (47:35):
Yeah? Uh yeah, not just to Wisconsin, to everyone, kind
of what I said this earlier. Do you should scared?
Just do it? Do something terrifying today, but like be safe.
Speaker 1 (47:47):
I like that. I like that. Uh, rowa good luck.
Maybe I'll do a show in Romania one day and
and if you want to bring your whole family and
you guys can be the only people to show up.
That could be fun.
Speaker 5 (48:01):
I'll be there. I'll bring clover Knock.
Speaker 1 (48:03):
All right, sea later row forever. That's cool. I've never
been to Romania. The only thing I know about Romania
is that Andrew Tate is from there. I guess that's
kind of a bummer that, like, uh oh, he's the
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only thing. I think maybe a lot of people know
about Romania. I don't know anything about Romania. What should
I know about Romania? I know, okay, I know that,
and then I know that the cab driver that I
met said that Romania is cool. I don't wonder if
anything else, uh, anything else from about Romania. I'll go
(48:50):
there one day just to hang out and fucking walk around. Yeah,
maybe when day I'll go to Romania and walk around.
I'm I'm I'm. I feel like I'm exiting, not exiting,
but pausing my era of go alone to a foreign country,
and it is fucking just stare at stuff. I'm pausing
(49:18):
that for now, but I might return, who knows. I'm
glad that this lady Rowa is going alone to Romania.
I think that's cool. I want to I'm gonna do something.
I'm gonna do more shit like that myself. I think
that's cool.
Speaker 2 (49:34):
Hello, Hello, is this Lyle? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (49:39):
Who is this?
Speaker 4 (49:40):
Oh my gosh, you can call me is?
Speaker 1 (49:44):
What's up? Is how you doing? How's life?
Speaker 3 (49:47):
I'm doing good? I'm sorry, I'm very nervous.
Speaker 1 (49:49):
I know, dog, I've said this. I don't know if
I said this to someone already. This is this is
one of the least This is one of the low
al with stakes things that you will do with your
entire life. You will make decisions on what you're gonna
eat for breakfast that have a higher stakes than this
(50:09):
phone call. So I hope you take solace in that.
Speaker 3 (50:13):
I do. I do, thank you, Lyle.
Speaker 1 (50:16):
Uh, what's up man? How you doing?
Speaker 3 (50:19):
I'm doing?
Speaker 2 (50:20):
Get it?
Speaker 3 (50:20):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (50:21):
Just had Thanksgiving me or Thanksgiving part two? I guess,
And uh, do you get my text? You know, I
don't really know how this whole thing works.
Speaker 1 (50:31):
This whole thing works the same way that any other
phone call you've ever made in your life works, my friends.
Speaker 4 (50:37):
Very true, Lyle, Well, I guess I I guess I
wanted to talk about a screen addiction.
Speaker 1 (50:45):
Oh yeah, sure, yeah.
Speaker 4 (50:48):
Like I was for like a good part of the
my high school career. I was big into TikTok and
posting like every day, like eight fifteen times a day.
I it like I racked up a good amount of
views or whatever. But I was like constantly on my
(51:11):
phone and and like also like simultaneously pretending that I
was like, you know, like self righteous on my phone
like whatever, And like a couple of years ago, I
just realized how much it was consuming me, especially like
with the stuff that I was posting about on TikTok.
(51:33):
It was very hypocritical of me. And I don't really
know where I'm going with this anymore.
Speaker 1 (51:40):
Oh why how old are you now?
Speaker 4 (51:43):
I'm twenty one?
Speaker 1 (51:45):
And what kind of stuff were you posting?
Speaker 3 (51:48):
I was?
Speaker 4 (51:49):
I was kind of like posting like I guess, like
artsy videos was like a quote overlaid over top, like cool,
very cut, dry copy paste stuff. But like I was
scrolling on pindrest all day looking for Philly quotes.
Speaker 1 (52:05):
And are you still a Are you still posting stuff?
Speaker 3 (52:09):
No?
Speaker 4 (52:10):
No, no, no, I stopped a couple of years back.
It was like I said, it was just like consuming me,
like way too much time spent just over my phone,
like like wondering why my videos weren't getting views and
like like yeah it was yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (52:31):
Yeah, no that that I've you know, I've I've been there,
and it's the fucking stud It's just the stupidest thing.
Speaker 4 (52:43):
You can never have enough, Like you get you get
one video with ten thousand views and then you're not
satisfied with anything left and then it keeps going up.
Speaker 1 (52:52):
Can I tell you so? I've Here's the thing my
like pure I think my my Instagram and TikTok career
have peaked, you know what I mean. I think I
really like in twenty twenty two, there was a point
where I was grinding out these videos of me staring
(53:15):
at my camera while somebody said something insane to me
and and trying to get views on them, and I
would in twenty twenty two like I would, there was
a point where, like like a couple months where just
every single video I posted would get like a million
views at least. And I'm very grateful for that time
(53:36):
because that is like I was able to parlay it
into like an actual, you know, community of people who
like listen to this podcast and go see me live
and stuff. And I'm grateful for that. But I now,
but even when I was getting millions views, I was like,
(53:57):
if a video didn't get a certain amount of view use,
it would make me like it would I would get
anxious about it, you know what I'm talking about? And
now I'm like, if I if my post gets Like
if I post something and it gets like six thousand
views or whatever, now I'm like thrilled, you know what
(54:20):
I mean. I'm like because now I'm like, it's been
almost five years of me doing this and now I'm like, oh,
it's six thousand people are still here watching me do
this shit. That's incredible, you know. So I'm like, I've
learned a lot about this pursuit of the Internet numbers
and stuff, and I'm one of the things I've learned
(54:41):
is that what you are actually doing, and whether or
not you're enjoying it, and whether or not you're mentally sane,
it's far more important than how many views you get.
It's it's kind of a I'm hesitant to go I'm
hesitant to blanketly state that it's a stupid metric because
(55:03):
a lot of those metrics have allowed me to, you know,
do what I do and talking to you right now
and going on these tours and doing other stuff. So
I'm hesitant to completely dismiss them. But at a certain point,
your sanity becomes more important.
Speaker 4 (55:22):
Definitely, No, I as soon as I like, because for
a while I was like telling myself, like, oh, the
views don't matter, or like the likes don't matter, the
fall number doesn't matter, whatever. And then like but even
like as I was telling myself that and like my
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views were dropping or whatever, I was still stressing about it.
And for me, the only thing that really like got
rid of all of that anxiety entirely was just putting
it down. Not that it ever was like crazy big,
but it does feel better stepping away from it. And
then also like that kind of like spiraled into like
(56:08):
basically getting rid of most of social media entirely and
trying to stay off on my phone, which I mean,
what I what I originally wanted to talk to you
today was about, uh like, just how everyone like is
totally just in their phones all the time, and uh like,
(56:31):
once I put mine down, even for like the first week,
I noticed that all of my friends everyone around me
was like in every downtime, every moment that they had
where it's just scrolling, nonsense, nothing, dude.
Speaker 1 (56:46):
If you if you want to feel like a fucking idiot, okay,
two things. One thing is have you ever have you
ever you were on a train or a bus and
you watch somebody else scroll on their phone yep, and
you watch them like open a bunch of apps and
(57:06):
tap here for no reason and tap that scroll on that,
and it just they look like such an idiot. And
then you realize and then dude, and then you realize,
oh no, that's what I look like every minute of
every fucking day. I look like a monkey idiot.
Speaker 4 (57:24):
Yeah, I feel like such a like a cornball pulling
out my phone, like doing laundry or something like just
to pass the time. It's idea.
Speaker 1 (57:37):
It's the most it's unfortunately, the most terrifying thing I
think happening.
Speaker 2 (57:43):
Right.
Speaker 1 (57:43):
It's like really spoo, it's really spooky. And it's like
our because technology, you know whatever, all these points have
been made a billion times, but our biology is not.
Even The technology that we have is so exponentially, unfathomably
(58:05):
greater than our biological constraints.
Speaker 4 (58:10):
You know, we're monkey brains with we're crazy.
Speaker 3 (58:13):
Yeah technology.
Speaker 1 (58:15):
Yeah, it's like the gap is humongous. And when you
think about how long human human beings have been on
the Earth compared to how long, uh, this technology that's
consumed us is on the Earth, it's it's nothing. It's
just it's nothing, and we're we're kind of the ones
dealing with it, and uh, it's it's yeah, it's freaky, man,
it's freaky.
Speaker 4 (58:37):
It's you know, yeah, I don't know what I was
gonna say.
Speaker 1 (58:46):
Well, what do you do now that you're not on
your computer?
Speaker 4 (58:50):
Well, I'd like to say that I do like awesome
crazy stuff that you site on the internet, but I
kind of just do school and work.
Speaker 1 (59:01):
That's perfectly what that's that's what What do you do
for school or what do you do for school and work?
Speaker 3 (59:08):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (59:08):
Well, I'm a line cook at a small little place
near my school I go to I live in Maine,
so I go to school.
Speaker 3 (59:17):
What do I go to school for? Parks? Rec and tourism?
Speaker 1 (59:20):
Oh cool?
Speaker 4 (59:21):
Yeah, sorry, I don't know what I'm gonna do with it.
But in my head, a degree is at least a
foot in the door. It's a safety net.
Speaker 1 (59:28):
But that's cool though, because that's I mean, that's very
antithetical to what we're talking about. Like, you like working
at a park.
Speaker 2 (59:34):
You know?
Speaker 3 (59:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (59:37):
No, fine, Yeah, And I'm I'm big into the outdoors.
I like I like learning about the woods, the trees. Yeah,
it makes me feel a little bit more connected.
Speaker 1 (59:52):
I feel I'm did I'm going crazy because, uh, I've
realized I just need to be stimulated all the time,
you know, whether it's like with like a porn or
weed or eating something or looking at it's just it's
when you when you really like take it all away
and you try to sit, it's hard. I've gone on.
(01:00:13):
Watch is easy, yeah, even watch. Even watching a movie
is like, fuck this, I want to watch a movie
while I look at porn.
Speaker 3 (01:00:24):
Not enough stim There's never enough stem.
Speaker 1 (01:00:27):
Never enough stem, never enough.
Speaker 4 (01:00:29):
I joke about it, but it's not even really a joke.
Speaker 1 (01:00:32):
Are you is it hard to Are you still like
pretty good at not being on your phone a lot?
Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:00:40):
I mean I my screen time has been cut like
way down, Like I remember, like in high school it
was up to like probably like eight or ten hours
a day, and and now I'm like, I've set screen
time on my phone which you can bypass pretty easily,
but I try not to anyways. I'm I'm I'm doing
(01:01:04):
good a couple hours a day, which I think is
probably all right.
Speaker 1 (01:01:08):
Good good. Yeah, I mean, well, when you here's the
thing is you try I try to. I like, I'll
delete on my apps and I'll take everything away, and
it's like you. I think if you don't have something
to like replace it with that keeps you stimulated in
some productive sense, then you're can to really go crazy,
(01:01:29):
even like I guess a fucking book, I think, can
I can I? By the way, just to balance everything
out that we've been talking about, can I make I'm
gonna make a controversial statement that by the way, I'm
by the way, I'm uh, I don't. I'm not gonna
give any numbers, but I am half joking. I'm not
gonna say that. All right, I'm I don't believe what
I'm about to say, but I have to say it
(01:01:50):
because I believe it, but I don't believe it. You understand,
you know, you get what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (01:01:57):
I know you're saying.
Speaker 1 (01:01:58):
I was here, all right, all right, all right, books
are fine, but they're overrated. Okay, I don't think that.
If I sit and I play not maybe not Call
of Duty, but like I played. I've been playing Undertail
like it's like a narrative video game, right, and it's
(01:02:21):
got a story, you know, I've said, and I played.
I played it for a couple hours, and I don't
believe that there's anything so much more productive and virtuous
and amazing about reading a book for two hours than
doing that for two hours, you know what I mean?
(01:02:41):
I like or even like like, I don't think that
watching a movie or a or a long season of
television is that much more bad? Is that?
Speaker 3 (01:02:52):
Like?
Speaker 1 (01:02:52):
I don't think it's much more virtuous to read all
of Harry Potter that it is to watch all of
the movies. Me I would give I'll give it to nonfiction.
I'll actually, okay, I'll play the devil's advocate to myself
on a few things. I under I'll give it to nonfiction.
I think nonfiction you kind of learn more about like,
you learn a little bit more about the universe, and
(01:03:13):
you can learn skills and and this and that. I'll
give it to nonfiction. I think I'll give it to nonfiction.
And I'll give it to fiction in the sense that
your vocabulary can probably be better by reading. But I
believe the margins are slim. It's what I'm saying. I
believe the margins are slim. That's all I'm gonna say.
Speaker 4 (01:03:37):
No, I agree with you. I was I was gonna say,
there's I mean, reading all of the Twilight series and
then or like playing Smash for three out. I mean, well,
I don't know, Twilight is kind I mean nothing against Twilight,
but you know what I mean, it's kind of nothing.
If you're reading like philosophy books for three hours a day, right,
(01:03:58):
then you're insane.
Speaker 1 (01:03:59):
But yeah, well wait, did you say if you're reading
philosophy books for three hours a day you're insane?
Speaker 4 (01:04:07):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, this's is for school.
Speaker 1 (01:04:11):
I don't think that.
Speaker 3 (01:04:12):
I think reading.
Speaker 1 (01:04:13):
I think reading philosophy books for three hours a day
is definitely more productive than playing Cold Duty for three
hours a day.
Speaker 3 (01:04:19):
Oh yeah, that's what I mean.
Speaker 4 (01:04:21):
But I imagine that that there's not very many people
that do that. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm stupid, but
I feel like there's much more people that when they
read for fun, it's just.
Speaker 1 (01:04:38):
For entertainment, right right, And I think, yes, that's what
I mean. Is like when the entertainment for pleasure, reading,
I don't think is that much more virtuous than like
playing a video game for pleasure. But also I don't
buy it. But also I don't, you know, forget I
said any of this stuff, because someone's gonna DM me
and be like, you're actually wrong, and I'm gonna be like,
I didn't say that, So why don't talking about credit
(01:05:01):
for it? What's your what's your name again? Sir? Is
is okay? Well I gave everyone else. I gave everyone
else on this podcast questions, So does that I'm gonna
ask if the chat hesity questions for you real quick.
They might not. Sometimes they don't. Sometimes they just put
put emojis in there. Someone said, maybe you could you
(01:05:25):
could read a dictionary. Oh? Someone said, what do you
what do you do for What do you do for fun?
Someone asked what you do for fun?
Speaker 4 (01:05:32):
Oh, well, I'm a big skateboarder.
Speaker 3 (01:05:35):
That's basically all I do outside.
Speaker 2 (01:05:36):
Of school and work.
Speaker 1 (01:05:39):
Oh, skateboarding, that's cool.
Speaker 3 (01:05:41):
Yeah, it's fun. It's fun.
Speaker 1 (01:05:47):
Someone. I don't know if they're asking this to me
or to you, but they asked if you still watch porn?
I just talked about watching porn, So I think they're
probably asking you.
Speaker 4 (01:05:56):
Yeah, sad, probably shouldn't look.
Speaker 1 (01:06:01):
Look, look, you don't have to go into detail on that,
all right. Someone just oh, what what trick? What tricks
can you land? What's the best trick you can land?
Speaker 4 (01:06:12):
She's the best trick I can try?
Speaker 5 (01:06:14):
Flip?
Speaker 3 (01:06:14):
Sometimes you can.
Speaker 1 (01:06:16):
You can do a triflip?
Speaker 2 (01:06:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:06:19):
Really? Oh yeah, that's so cool. I just gained a
lot of respect for you, not that I didn't already have,
not that I didn't already have respect for you, but
I just a little more.
Speaker 3 (01:06:30):
I appreciate that lot. That means a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:06:34):
Oh someone said you can read porn. I forgot about that.
Speaker 3 (01:06:37):
Oh yeah, like fanfick and stuff. That could be cool.
Speaker 1 (01:06:44):
I don't. I don't. I wouldn't jump directly to fanfic.
But when you could, what's the other what's.
Speaker 3 (01:06:49):
The other porn that you would read?
Speaker 1 (01:06:51):
Like hustlers regular just like regular fans before there was
fan fiction there, there's just there's just like erotic novels
and stuff.
Speaker 4 (01:07:00):
Jack Off analog.
Speaker 6 (01:07:03):
Yeah yeah, well yeah, shit man, is uh is there
anything else you want to say to the people of
the computer before we go?
Speaker 3 (01:07:17):
Damn?
Speaker 4 (01:07:17):
I should have had something prepared.
Speaker 1 (01:07:19):
Oh you know, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (01:07:21):
I don't, but I love you so much.
Speaker 1 (01:07:24):
While thank you is good luck to you. You're gonna
be all right. Everyone I've talked to today I think
is gonna be all right. So I'm excited about life.
Thank you is good luck, and uh, try to keep
keep not going on your phone.
Speaker 3 (01:07:41):
Hell yeah, thank you le later, buddy peace.
Speaker 1 (01:07:51):
When I actually, when I was a boy, I think
I was fourteen, I found this. I found this website
and it was I think it was I don't I
don't remember the name of the website. I think it
was called like my first Time dot com or whatever.
And it was like, for some reason, when I was fourteen,
(01:08:12):
like one of my first, Like it wasn't my very first,
but it was like one of my first, like within
the first, like my my my maybe like sophomore or
junior year of of masturbation, like the third or second
year I ever started doing it. I would read these
users submitted stories that people would submit about them, like
(01:08:37):
how they lost their virginity, and and there was something
there's something about like you imagining it that, you know,
leaving things up to the imagination. I don't know why
I'm sharing this, but it feels it feels good.
Speaker 5 (01:08:53):
Took it, goes on the line, taking your phone calls.
Speaker 1 (01:08:58):
Every nine everything.
Speaker 2 (01:09:00):
He was showing his ideas, teaching him how to be
like but he's not really an expert.
Hello, Hello, Hi. What's your name? What's up?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
My name is Beatrice?
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Beatrice. How's it gone for me? You know it is
going all right for me. I'm actually uh, I'm happy
to be here recording this. It gives me something to do.
I think in life, if you don't have anything to do,
you'll go crazy. So I'm glad to be doing something
(00:27):
right now. What's up with you, Beatrice? What are you doing?
How are you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I am great. I just got out of a great shower.
I made some sausage balls, seasonal sausage balls, and I'm
very excited.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
It sounds wonderful. Well, Beatrice, is there a particular reason
that you picked up the phone and called a crazy uh,
a crazy person in a in a gecko suit? Today?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Oh my gosh, I have been trying to call you
for so long, like so many people say, and uh,
I I'm gonna go in another room, sorry, my bird,
excuse my bird.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
No.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I live next to a church, and the other day
I had somebody break through my fence that separates me
and the church, and he like proceeded to like chase
me down the street and like call me out and
(01:33):
this and that whatever. But my theory is that he's
making a portal through my fence so they can just
go straight down to the river because I live next
to a river. And I think, yeah, I've seen it
happen before.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I'm sorry, Beatrice, you said a man is a man
came from the church and ran through your fence and
started chasing you.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Well, yeah, so here's the deal. They come off of
the main road, and they come off the main road
and they like try to go behind the church and
like hang out and whatever. And I'm not really about
it because right now I'm like home by myself, so
I'm like, ain't wrong, Oh okay, but this guy was different.
(02:22):
I like started to leave, yeah, and I kind of
watched him because he was kind of looking at my
fence and I was like, please tell And next thing,
you know, he threw his bike over and then he
busted through it and just ran his way through my
fence and yeah, he just broke a chunk through and
then he just gone on his bike and chased me
down the road because I was watching him, And yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Do things like this happen often? Live in where you live?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
H I won't give the town, but I can confidently
say I live in Oregon, and so like the homeless
and like not even homeless, because this guy was very
aware of what he was doing. It's like the situation
like so this.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Was this was a man on drugs, not a man
possessed by the devil coming out of the church.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Honestly, either way, I don't care. But all right, like that, yeah,
all right, Now I'm debating if I want to sue
the church into paying for a fence.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Well, why why is it the church's fault? Did the
guy come? This is this guy? Why is it the
church's fault? This guy? Does he have anything to do
with the church?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
No? But here's the deal, is they always they're not
coming from my side, Like, they're not coming from my
side of the fence hopping over to get to the
main road. They're coming from the main road hopping over
like and then this is how I've been a problem before,
where they come from the road and they like go
through the cracks in my fence or whatever.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
But this guy is yeah, but why yeah, but what
is they have to do with the church.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Because we've asked them to help because it's some of
their fence too, you know, like half of it's theirs
if it's on there, if it's if we're sharing the
fence and half of it's theirs, And so we've asked
them before it be like, hey, we'll go.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Fifty to fifty.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Can you guys help us like rebuild the fence or
could you just help pay for it and we'll get
it done? And they're like, no, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
If I don't know if you have a case here
to sue the church, I mean, I don't that's an
interesting that's an interesting case though, is I guess who
owns the fence? Who's responsible for the fence? Yeah, because
like I guess, if you were to slice a fence
in half, you're only responsible for your side of the fence,
(04:50):
which doesn't make any sense. But you know, well, I
don't know. I don't know a lot about fence ownership law.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Me too, And that's why i'm so and that's why
I just want to look into it. But I've talked
to them and I feel like they won't give me
the time of day. But before I assume anybody yet,
obviously I'm going to figure it out, but I will
do it.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Guys, all right, Well are you are you doing all right? Otherwise,
or there are people always coming into your house trying
to kill you.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
No, not all the time.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
It's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
My neighbor next to me got robbed during the middle
of the day, so there's that. I took a picture
of a burnt spoon down on the bike path the
other day. It was pretty nice. I didn't want to
take it. I almost took it to add to my things,
but I thought I didn't know what was on that spoon.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
You're like the uh, you're like Ariel from The Little
Mermaid because she has like a spoon. But I guess
your spoon would be a crackspoon, you know, and.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
That would be very I'd be okay with a crack You're.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
You're the Little Mermaid of collect filling a grotto with
drug paraphernalia from the sidewalk.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Wow, that's magic. And honestly, here I could just take
a walk and find all kinds of stuff. That's a
good idea.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
What who are you? I will I? Who are you? Beatrice?
Speaker 4 (06:20):
What do you?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
What's your deal?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Okay, Well here's the deal. I'm twenty two, I live
in Oregon. Love it hippie life for real. I'm a
pre k teacher. I have a career in that. I've
been doing that for going on four years. And yeah,
I just teach three year old three, yes to like
(06:43):
five or six?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
What is the Oregon hippie life these days? What does
that look like to you?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Du Well, I'm not in Portland, so it's pretty good.
Oregon hippie life for me is a lot of tied I.
I've been getting a billiant tied I. Everybody is getting
KAIEDI for Christmas this year. Tied I Oregon country Fair.
I recommend going to that.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Okay, okay, what do you uh are they? I have Oh,
I have a question. You teach three year olds?
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I teach three to five or six?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
But I have I have a I have a question.
Are the kids gonna be all right? Because I'm worried
about uh, I'm worried about the children in this in
our world. We live in a freakish world that's evolved
far beyond what our biology was meant for. And I'm
a little terrified of whatever the children of the world
(07:50):
these days. I know that makes me sound like a grandpa,
but it's I am alarmed by it.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
No for real, me too, y'all. Like it's getting it's
getting biblical, y'all, like the end of times. I'm not
saying like always be watching, but I sleep with my
eyes open for real.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Do you really believe do you believe? I mean, I
no exaggeration, Do you really believe it is the end
of times?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Okay, Well, here's the deal. It's I mean, uh. In
the Bible, it's it talks about things that will happen,
you know, one thing after another, not necessarily day to day,
but in the timeline of time, things will happen. And
y'all there's things been happening. So it's hmmm, it's killing
(08:37):
And I do think it's something will happen if we
don't destroy ourselves first, we'll see God coming down taking
us anyway. Uh. The kids, Well, here's the deal. I
think that my kids at my work are super spoiled
and they're like COVID babies. Have you heard of that?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Uh, like babies that were conceived during COVID.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
See well and born more so born. I'm tagging this term.
It's called COVID babies. These are the kids that grew
up in quarantine and they don't have socialization and if
the parents didn't do their job, as like being a
teacher and like parent and teacher and teaching their kids.
(09:22):
Some kids I have now that are like where they
should be, like learning wise, they don't know their ABC's.
I'm like, what I said, you're five years old. It's
like it's things like that. But uh, I also did
foster care. I do foster care with my family and
we've been doing that for ten years. And uh, those
(09:45):
kind of kids, they're they come in feral because they've
been like living under bridges, but they have street smarts,
so it's like they're very aware of themselves. And they're
same age as my kids. The work, but they're already
like they just have common sense.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
You know. So you're worried about the kids, Uh, the
these COVID babies who have not who have neither, those, Yeah,
they just.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I get some COVID babies and they like those are
the kids who buy.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Those are the.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Kids who like can't share and can't have. Like, man,
I'm just trying to teach my kids how to not
be assled. Like if you could be like a solid
like five out of the day out of ten, that'd
be great. It's good.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
But yeah, and how long have you been a pre
K teacher for.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
I've been doing it for I've been doing pre K
for two, but I've been teaching for three going on four.
I was doing two year old and two year olds
is great. But something about like teaching the kids and
then like showing me what they've learned just from what
I've taught them. It's nice. It's a good feeling.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
You're only twenty two.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Hell yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
So they don't like, don't you have to finish college
before you start teaching people?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Well, here's the deal. I uh I it's like I
would say, I hate when people say daycare because I've
worked so hard to not be like a daycare teacher
and I'm not. I teach pre k and like a
high end uh glory, I'd say, yeah, glorified daycare. But
(11:38):
it's definitely like I have three classes at my school
and I have a class and yeah, no, you just
have to be a if teacher qualified. You get so
many hours and trainings in I have to do like
I think they moved it up to like a lot
of hours, like thirty hours or something crazy of like
trainings and so.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
And is this is this like a religious school like
a private school?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
No, these parents are just super rich and like one
of the parents they have the Tesla's like, the door
comes up, I'm like, and the five year old comes out.
I'm like, oh my gosh, what is your life? These
people own like businesses around town. They like are lawyers.
And one of my two year old one of the
(12:26):
two year olds are in Colombia for just a holiday trip.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I'm like, wow, nice are you? Are you a lady
of God? You you were speaking about that a little
bit earlier.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Wow, Me and God are pretty tight. We are, We're
pretty tight. And I grew up really religious. My grandpa
is a child evangelist and he's been doing that for
like forty some years, and so he's kind of really
into that. And my parents are very like Christian Baptists,
(13:06):
and then I have a lot of Southern Baptists. So
it's good. I just man. And that's the thing too.
My church that I grew up in after COVID, they're like,
if you don't go to church during COVID, then you're
sinning and you're a bad person. But I was like,
oh my gosh, nah, so and it just turns really dark.
(13:30):
We just had both of our lead pastors quit because
they both didn't get like the lead position they wanted.
So since they both didn't get it, they both quit.
And I was like, whoa. So I am very into it,
and I think not everything came from nothing, but as
(13:51):
far as like a community of a church and everything,
I don't go because I haven't found that yet.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
You know. Interesting, So you don't go to church, but
you you, I mean, do you want to? Is that
like something you want to kind of create a space
for in your life.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Hell?
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Yeah, I definitely go. And I have tried different churches
around town and whatnot doing all that thing. My partner
has even said, he's like, yeah, I'll go with you
here and there. I was like, hell yeah, So it's
it's a thing I've tried to incorporate in my life.
It's just some very I'm pickier about churches and who
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I date.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Honestly, you're picky about churches and who you date.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
No, I'm pickier. I'm more picky about churches than who
I date.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Oh oh oh yeah, how'd you meet? How'd you meet
your s? O?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Met him on the apps?
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
When do you meet people in real life? For real?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Well? Which at.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
I don't want tender but uh. Actually he added me
on like all the apps, and I ignored him on
all of them and then Tender was like and I
was like, fine, I guess, but he's really great. Yeah.
I enjoyed a lot. Actually, he has a what can
I just.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Yes say as many things you want?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
What here's the deal. We'll be here all day. I
love talking. This is great. But uh no, he has
a six year old, autistic, nonverbal and blind son. That
can I just say?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Wow, he's a six year old son?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yeah, six year old, blind, autistic and nonverbal.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
How old is he?
Speaker 2 (15:38):
He's thirty. Well, he'll be thirty one in December, so
I'm kind of loving that, y'all.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Well, he's gotta he's got a six Yeah, what's uh
what's to do with his son?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
He's just like, I don't know, y'all. Sometimes it's just
like pick of the barrel. Just you come out blind, autistic,
and nonverbal. I don't know, y'all, but uh no, he's
and he's great. And I've gone over and hung out
with him and his kid and everything, and yeah, this
is great and I enjoyed. I'm like, oh my gosh, guys,
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that could be a stepmom. What that's kind of crazy.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
What's your ultimate Beatrice? Right?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Well, it's I honestly, and I feel bad correcting you even.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
But it's be a Trice Beatrice, Beatrice. I don't know
if I don't, I don't, I don't know if you
listen to this show. But I'll talk to someone for
forty five minutes and I'll call them Sam and their
name is you know, uh, Jared or whatever. So I'm
gonna I think beat Beatrice is pretty good for me.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Hey, you could do beat Rice. People be calling me
beat Rice all the time.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Well, Beatrice, what what's your ultimate goal? What's your what's
your dream life look like? Uh?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Gag? I would kind of like to get married. Lit
feelings growth, but that would be nice. And uh, I'd
like to just yeah, grow my career. I've been moving up.
I've never gone down the ladder in my career, so
I'm pretty happy with that. And uh yeah, I don't
know animals. I'd like to see how many animals I accumulate.
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I'm kind of crushing it right now.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
You'd like to see how many animals you can? How
many animals do you currently have?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I have a bird, I have a cock of teal,
he's pretty great. I have two dogs. I have a
sheep dog he's a sheep dog poodle mix, and I
have a Maltese poodle mix. I'm pretty pretty proud of
my dogs. And uh, I have a hamster. His name
is Killer because he bites. He bites me.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Uh, well, is there an animal that you are trying
to get that you don't yet have?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
You know, I'm hyperallergenic, so I can't really have most dogs.
But if I could have like a wiener dog, I
think my life would be complete. Not saying anything about
my dogs right now, I hope I'm not't listening.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
But well, before we go, I'll take some I don't know.
If the twitch chat has any questions, I'll If the
twitch chat has any questions, I'll I'll ask, I'll ask
them to you. But uh, I guess while those are
coming in. While those are coming in, I'm gonna try
to think of a of a question. Well, are you
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in Are you in college right now? You're in school
to try to like get like accredited or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
No, I just law school. It's just like not been
my gig. I was homeschooled up until high school, so
i feel like, I'm just like, I don't know. School
is so intimidating. Everybody knows how to do it, and
I'm like, I don't know, so uh no, but you
can make good money otherwise, so it's not too bad.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Somebody said, would you walk through the portal in the
fence if that ends up happening, which kind of reminds
me that I completely glossed over your theory about how
the churches try to create a fucking portal in your backyard.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Yeah, no, here's the deal.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
And they do.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
It's not even the church, just like the crackheads around
town they do. They make portals. I've seen them on
a bridge and they come through with like bikes or
they go into the portal and I'm like, where are
they going? We're on a bridge.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Wait, the crackheads in your town are making portals.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Yeah, and they like and now there's signs where the
portal was. And sometimes I've seen like what oh, they
close up the portal.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Yeah you go, are you They're they're creating portals and
you'll see police close the portals.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Yeah. Like I've seen them close it and like close
like chane link. They break through and then they close
it and the next thing, you know, the portal's open.
And I think they made a portal through my sense
so they could get to the river easier.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Do you mean what you mean like a like a
magical portal?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I mean there's probably something magical happening on the other side.
And I don't mean like we're going to the Twilight Zone,
y'all or not, not nothing like that. But I mean
I would walk through as I was like that. But
I think if I walk through, I just.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
I just want. I just want to clarify for you,
and it's by whatever your live, whatever your truth is,
I want to know. But are are you using the
word portal to mean a hole or or like or
do you mean like a a supernatural portal?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Okay, well, here's to do. I always say to speak
your truth, so I will speak my.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Truth, please.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
I uh, I'm in the sense of like a giant
hole around town. But what's interesting, and it is a
portal too, because you don't know what's on the other side.
I mean, my portal is different because it's like right
through to my road, it's whatever. But the ones I've
seen around town you don't see what's on the other side.
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Like over the bridge. You don't know where it goes,
but people come through it and go into it, and
it's like where do they go?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Beatriuce. I'm trying. I'm just want to get on the
same page with you here about this are you do
you what do you mean by a portal?
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I mean, like, I don't know, not like they get
not like they're time traveling or going anywhere crazy. I
just mean, like, how do they have an open hole
over a bridge and then come through a bike with
like come through the hole with a bike, Like I
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we're on a bridge. Where are they coming from?
Speaker 1 (21:56):
So when you say that, when you say that they're
trying to make a portal in your backyard, you mean
like a hole? Or do you mean like, like, where
do you think this portal in your backyard is gonna
lead to?
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I think they're gonna go down to the river and
two more crack with soon.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
So you mean do you mean Okay, so you mean
a hole?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Yeah, like a giant hole.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Okay, this is we're not talking about like like are
and by the way, totally fine if you are. I
just want to or like you're not like on your
Narnias ship right now? Are you no.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
And I'm sorry if I do sound like that, I.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Do know, Okay, if you are, I don't care.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Oh I'm so serious, Like no, it's just a giant hole.
And I don't know. I recently got it fixed my knee,
I well, my eyelide. My neighbor got it fixed because
I told him about the hole, and uh he fixed it.
But uh still people be like coming through my fence, y'all.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
But as long as it's not a giant portal hole,
I'm fine with that.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
All right, I'm gonna see Somebody asked if you do graffiti?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Ooh no, because here's the deal. I can't. I'm I'm
not an outside the box thinker. And that's what's so
shitty about being a teacher, like a pre k teacher too,
is you have to do like crafts and stuff. And
oh my gosh, I did some hand turkeys this past
week and they I had a nightmare about them because
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how bad they looked. They looked horrible. It looked so bad.
So graffiti is just like it would be like a
heart or something lame like that.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Let me, someone wants to know if you smoke weed?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Oh my gosh, here's the deal. Only because I know
my parents, I'm less in y'all. But hell yeah, I'm
an Oregon. We smoke so much. That's like what you do.
I mean, I'm not high right now. It might sound
like it, but I know, I yeah, we I was
high yesterday at Thanksgiving.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Hell yea.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
By the way, just somebody in the chat mentioned this,
and i'll, uh, i'll, i'll echo the sentiment. I would
push back against the idea that you were not an
outside the box thinker, because I think you're. I think
you've talked too much about portals on this phone call
for you to not consider yourself an outside the box thinker,
which is, by the way, a good It's a good thing.
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I think it's good to be an outside of the
box thinker.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Huh, I concur I mean I do have a Have
you heard.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Of bo Jangle the chicken thing?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Oh my gosh. Yeah, Well they have these country ham biscuits.
Oh my gosh, country ham buscuit sandwiches. Oh they're so good.
And I got a country ham biscuit tattoo with a
cowboy hat because it's country. So that's pretty outside the box.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
I'd say that's cool. All right, I'll give you one.
If is there anything else you want the people to
know about you or your life or anything?
Speaker 2 (25:09):
I mean, hell, y'all, I don't. I had so many
things and I was like, you know, once you get
on here, it's nothing. Uh uh, I don't know. I
wish y'all have more to make me think. I don't,
and I know I'll regret it later, but I love talking.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
It was nice talking to you too, Beatrice.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
It's anything else you want to say to the people
before we go?
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Ah?
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Yes, I want to say, how did my brother Jeremy
because I'm going to be telling about him this what
I'm going to be telling him about this later and
if it makes the podcast, I will definitely be telling
him about this later. And if anybody else wants to
make a portal in my sense, please don't. I'm not
about the builder I did not.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
You have you you have you have hit your portal
quota for your life.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
I really have, y'all, and my fence can't take it.
She said, put me out.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
So all right, all right, Beatrice, Well, good good luck.
You have you.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
You.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
I think you're gonna be okay. You have a you
you you rank low on the list of callers that
I leave the conversations worried about them. I think you're
gonna be I think you're gonna be all right.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Ah well, thank you so much, and I appreciate and
I love talking to you. This is great.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Thank you, Beatrice. You have you have a good one.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Yeah, you have a great day.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Bye bye, Beatrice. I think she meant whole. I don't know.
I still don't know. I asked, you, guys heard. I
asked multiple times if she meant supernatural portals or if
she just meant whole, and she none of the times
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did she really give me a straight answer? But she might.
I but I guess, don't fucking I don't know. That's
probably that's my fault because it's me not being an
outside of the box thinker.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
You know.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Uh, doors are doors are portals in a sense. Yeah,
that's good. I liked that lady. She added, she seemed
like she had a nice life. She had she has
pets that she cares about, and she looks at portals
(27:37):
and insane things happened to her and she laughs about it. Uh,
that's yeah, she's gonna be all right. Hello, Hello, Hey,
what's up?
Speaker 5 (27:52):
Nothing much. I genuinely did not think I was gonna
get through.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Well, here you are and we are talking, and what
is up? How are you? What's your name?
Speaker 5 (28:01):
My name is roa weird name.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
I know.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
It means morning dew in Romanian, it's spelled are o
u A Are you?
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Are you Romanian?
Speaker 5 (28:15):
I am?
Speaker 1 (28:17):
What's going on? What's going on in Romania?
Speaker 5 (28:20):
You know I'm going to find out in three months?
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
So my whole family, all my siblings were born in Romania,
and I'm the only one I was born here. I'm
twenty eight, and I decided that I am going to
move to Romania.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
No shit, no way I had doing it. I had
a cab driver, had a Romanian cab driver a couple
of weeks ago, and he told me that Romania is
like one of the safest places that he he told
me he has like a like a seven year old
daughter or something, and he just lets her walk home
in the middle of the night. I mean, I don't
know why she's out anywhere.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
Okay, that's a little concerning.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Maybe that's on him, Maybe that's on him, But anyway,
what's so, why are you moving to Romania?
Speaker 5 (29:17):
So a few reasons. My life has been kind of
crazy here within like the last couple of years, I
got out of like a really shit long relationship where
I felt like I couldn't really do the things that
I wanted to do. I've always wanted to experience living
in a different country.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
And.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
That relationship ended, thankfully, And now I just have all
of this like freedom in a sense, and I feel
like I have so much more room to grow into
my skin. And I was like, what better way to
experience that than like go to a different country and
do that, because I feel like you get to learn
a different part of yourself and you kind of immersify
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yourself in a completely different environment.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
So you are moving, it's not this isn't a trip,
this is a move.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
Yeah, so I'm moving. I'm doing it.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Where are you moving from?
Speaker 5 (30:15):
From San Francisco?
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Oh okay, cool? What do you know?
Speaker 3 (30:19):
People?
Speaker 1 (30:20):
You have family in Romania? So you know some folks
I do?
Speaker 5 (30:24):
I do. Yeah, I'm gonna go see my grandma. She's
getting old, so I should go see her. I haven't
been to Romana since I was sixteen, So this is
it's going to be an interesting trip for me.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
And I'm.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
The language.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Oh so what I say, you haven't been since you
were sixteen twelve years ago, and you're so you're not
even gonna take a little trip first before you pack
up your bags and move.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
No, I'm just doing it.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Do you have a Romanian passport?
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Are you like officially a citizen?
Speaker 5 (31:01):
So I'm in the process of that right now. I
potentially might have to come back if it doesn't, if
everything doesn't get finalized, and I would have to come
back after like the ninety day you know, travel to day.
But I will will get sorted out regardless. And yeah,
(31:29):
if I don't decide to stay in Romania, I will
probably stay in another country out in Europe. But that's
the plan right now.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Do you have a job or anything that you're gonna do?
Speaker 3 (31:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
I am applying a bunch of shit out there right now.
I just graduated in May, and the job market here sucks,
and I've been applying to jobs to get out of
my manny and gig for like the past seven months,
and I told myself, like two more rejections from all
(32:01):
these fucking companies and I'm out. And that's kind of
what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
So what did you study?
Speaker 5 (32:11):
I studied environmental anthropology and archaeology, so I might do
some like archaeological work in Transylvania or some shit.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
That's cool they have they have bones in Romania.
Speaker 5 (32:24):
It's got bones, you know. I'm sure I can hopefully
I come across some bones from well I Dan Paler,
the people that he impailed.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
I don't know why. I know that. I know that
it's like a whole field that encompasses many different things.
But when you say archaeologists, my head goes to, like, oh,
this lady's going to Romania to dig up dinosaur bones.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
I mean I could come across those with archaeology like
you do, come across bones, and it's let's say, like
artifacts that you work with. That'd be cool. If I
come across a dinosaur bone, I don't know if I
know how to identify it, but maybe I took Zoo
orc Zoo archaeology, so I know how to identify some
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animal bones.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Are you gonna miss San Francisco? Do you got anything
going on for you there that you're like I don't
want to leave?
Speaker 5 (33:19):
Yeah, my friends, it's such a great city. I do
love this place. I've just been here my whole life.
So I think I'm gonna miss you know, the the
random naked people decide to walk out their door naked
one day. I think I really appreciate that. I think
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that's great. I would never do that. It's a city
that terrifies me, but I love it so much. Like
it's just the craziest shit happens here, but it's really
it's what makes San Francisco. So I missed that. But
I think I need to explore life outside of the US.
I've always wanted to.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Yeah, yeah, hmmm, Romance. What's that? What's that? What's the
city that you're moving to?
Speaker 5 (34:11):
So my family is from the city called Souchava. I
was thinking of staying there for a bit because I
have a place that I can stay at for free
for at least a few months. But I want to
spend some time in uh Agrest, Right, It's just more
there's more things going on there, it's more definitely more
(34:34):
people speak English there. I'd be able to get around.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Yeah, that's the main I guess that was the when
you said a smaller town, I guess that was the
main thing. Is like, are you going to get are
you going to be fucked that that that you don't
know Romanian is the language Romanian.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Yeah, yeah, so like it.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
It's really weird because it was my first language. But
my parents are like freaking out when I was like struggling,
I guess in my English courses like growing up, and
they're like, oh my god, like we have to speak
English in the household. She's the first gen like she
has to know English well. So then they started speaking
English in the household. So I have this weird saying
(35:09):
where I understand like ninety percent of it, but I
respond like an elementary student in Romanians.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Interesting, But I mean understanding is pretty good. I feel
like that's well. I feel like if if I had
to like choose between uh, like if it was if
it was binary, right, like I could only I could
only understand or speak English. I'm picking understanding. I could
I could shut up for the rest of my life
and just look at stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
Yeah, that's very true.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Yeah, uh, I like this, this is cool. Go ahead,
go ahead, you're gonna say something.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
Oh I was just gonna say yeah, So I'm saying, like,
fuck my life here, I'm gonna go do it somewhere
else in a different country. My friends are excited for me,
but they just think I'm gonna get kidnapped for some reason,
which it is not great to hear.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
But you I truthfully when it comes to not to
be a fuck or whatever. But like, of all the
places I have traveled, like New York and Los Angeles
are the more the most dangerous. Yeah yeah, I mean,
I don't know what's going on in Romania, but a guy,
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a guy told me once that it was safe, and
so you know, if that guy said it, then it's
probably true.
Speaker 5 (36:30):
I remember it being pretty safe when I was there. Yeah,
I'll be fine. I hear stories all the time of
my siblings, like taking the buses by themselves, like in
elementary school, and you know, you don't really hear that
much over here at all.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
So yeah, yeah, San Francis, I don't. I'm this is
this is an ignorant statement that is derived from no
empirical data whatsoever. But my gut feeling tells me that
Bucharest is probably for then then San Francisco.
Speaker 5 (37:03):
Oh absolutely, I like to my apartment in San Francisco,
so there's that.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Yeah really yeah, yeah, this is a real getting chased
themed episode.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
I know.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
It's true it happens.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
I like this though, because I I I love the
idea of picking up your life and moving to a
foreign country. I think it's cool. I think I hope
it goes well.
Speaker 5 (37:33):
I do too. Yeah, I've really been trying to, like
embody this whole like habit of like not just saying
that I'm going to do something. It's so easy too,
It's so easy to sit there and like imagine like
a new thing for your life. But it's like another
(37:54):
thing to like get up and just do it. And
like I've just been I'm terrified, but I've just been
telling myself to like just do shit. Scared, like just
do it? Why not?
Speaker 3 (38:03):
What?
Speaker 1 (38:04):
And Now if this, if this move went perfectly right,
if it went one hundred the best way it could
possibly go, what would that look like?
Speaker 5 (38:16):
I think I would find a career somewhere out there.
I would like to have my own place. I would
bring my so I have to come back and get
my cat actually, so I would have my cat there
with me, my cat otis.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (38:36):
I don't know, I just I can't really think of
anything further than just like being happy and having a
good career and eating good food and fucking living it
up in Europe and traveling and maybe finding bones and artifacts.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Well, how long were you in San Francisco for?
Speaker 5 (38:59):
So I've been living in the outskirts of San Francisco
my whole life. But I moved into San Francisco like
almost three years ago.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Somebody in the chat says, are you concerned about I'm
gonna take We're gonna take some questions from the chat
if the chat wants to ask any questions. I like
doing that. So somebody said, are you concerned about the
possibility of World War three happening in that region? Which
is a funny thing to say because it's a contrad
it's a contradictory sentence. Are you concerned about a World
(39:31):
War happening in that region?
Speaker 5 (39:38):
Yeah? I was actually thinking about that the other day.
You know, I think regardless, like we're fox wherever we go.
So yeah, I'm concerned. But is that gonna stop me?
Speaker 3 (39:48):
Now?
Speaker 1 (39:51):
Wait? Why is is? What's I'm I'm ignorant. Where is
Romania near? That's that's being that's there's war.
Speaker 5 (39:59):
Uh, well it's right next to Ukraine, So I guess
there's that, But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
I feel like.
Speaker 5 (40:10):
If I feel like I would be safe in Romania,
Like who gives a fuck about Romania? You know, like
they're just there. I don't think they've they've really gotten
their hands in anything like super dirty, or maybe they
haven't I'm being ignorant, but I don't know. I feel
like Romania is just kind of a bystander, and I
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think I would be safer there than even if technically
it's closer to where it would be starting. I think
I would be safe hide in my grandmother's village. He'll
be fine.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Well, let's see, nobody has any more. Nobody has any
other good questions? Oh they said, they said, apparently, Wait,
somebody said, she hasn't heard about the new Romanian Trump?
Is there is this Trump? Has Romania have like a
crazy guy?
Speaker 5 (40:58):
Yes, so I heard about us the other day and
actually made me really fucking sad. He's just this kind
of extremist man who has been part of organizations that
are not aligned with my morals. And I guess he's
(41:19):
taking the lead and that's very concerning. Yeah, actually I
forgot about that. Damn well, I might have to reside
in a different country nearby. But yeah, if that guy.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
When Yeah, which which which one would you go to?
Speaker 5 (41:43):
Maybe the Netherlands, maybe Sweden?
Speaker 1 (41:47):
A fuck man, I was just I was, I don't
know how hard it is to go there, but how
artists I lived there, But I fucking love the Netherlands.
I was just there. I did I did a I
did a show and mister damn, it was fucking amazing.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
I don't not to not to keep dick riding Europe.
And I probably said this on the podcast started, but
they they just it's just so much better there than
it is here. It's just so they have all the
same they have like virtually because our whole thing is
like freedom, but they have virtually all the same freedoms
(42:26):
except except the gun one. Yeah, they have virtually all
the same ones. And you don't need a car in
all the cities and a lot of those places they
have like like free or cheap healthcare and college tuition.
And it's like, what what are we I don't you
go over there? And you're like I asked chat Rept,
I was like, is there anything that is better about
(42:48):
America than uh Europe? And chat Cheept was like, America
is good if you uh want to be an entrepreneur
with little regular restrictions or if you want to own
a gun, and Europe is better for quality for and
then and then it said Europe is better for quality
of life.
Speaker 5 (43:09):
Yeah, that that takes that takes it all for me.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
You know.
Speaker 5 (43:15):
It's it's unfortunate that one of the things that I'm
really excited for out there is healthcare, which is like
that should just be given here.
Speaker 1 (43:25):
But you know, can you but can you do that?
Can you just like show up and be like, hey,
I heard you guys have free healthcare? Can I have
some of that?
Speaker 3 (43:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (43:35):
I'm going to figure that out, all right, figure it out.
Speaker 1 (43:40):
Well, let's say somebody else. Oh yeah, someone wants to
know if there's any uh good go uh good Romanian food.
Speaker 5 (43:54):
Good Romanian food. Yeah. I really like a lot of
the pastries. Like one of my favorite kind of like
holiday pastries that my mom will hopefully be making around
these holidays. It's called kozak, really good. It's like a
bread sweet closonac. Also, Samalae is really good. It doesn't
(44:21):
look pretty, but it's just it's it's like cabbage rolls.
It's like meat and rice in it. It's really good. Yeah,
I would say those two. Uh that we eat a
lot of, like at least from like the region where
my family's from. It's like we eat a lot of
it's like very close to like Mediterranean foods, so a
(44:42):
lot of breads and different like breads and cheese and
salami and olives and always eating a shark charcuterie or
sharcucci board or whatever that's called.
Speaker 1 (44:57):
Someone in the chat said, here in the Netherlands, we
have our own Trump too, and he's closing the borders.
So if you want to come, be quick, man. They
got everyone's got a Trump guy. I don't know. I
I'll look at it. Somebody also said this. I'm sorry
this wasn't a question for you, but somebody said, uh,
(45:18):
here in the Netherlands, everything closes so early, and I
will I went to the Netherlands to do a show
a few weeks ago, and I woke up at like
four in the morning, and I was hungry and everything
was closed. So I was just kind of wandering around Amsterdam,
uh for like at four o'clock in the morning, and
(45:39):
a bunch people keep coming up to me and be
like this guy came up to me and he's like, hey, hey, man,
where are you from? And here's the thing. At four
o'clock in the morning, when people come up to you
and start like, where are you from, they're not They're
probably not trying to make friends. They're probably I just
assume I make an assumption that they're trying not to
(46:00):
make friends. And so I said to him, I was like,
I'm sorry, man, I'm just trying to get food. I
don't really want to talk right now. And he goes,
fuck you, you pussy, I'll fucking beat the shit out
of you. And I was like, all right, sorry, I
just walked away, and a little part of me was
like I was walking away, and a little part of
me was like, like, I like, I a very one
(46:23):
percent of me, I'm not being generous. A one percent
of me in my head was like, man, maybe that guy,
maybe he really did just want to be my friend,
you know, maybe he really was wandering around at four
o'clock in the morning trying to find for And I'm
like the fourth guy he tried to make conversation with
(46:46):
and I turned him down, and I'm I'm like, I'm
part of me. Ninety nine percent of me was like,
like I wanted to like sell me coke or whatever.
But one percent of me was like, oh I I
led him into I was like the last line of
defense between that guy and his joker era. But you know,
so be it. Uh well, anyway, you don't need you
(47:10):
need to know? What's your name? Again? Some with an.
Speaker 5 (47:15):
Like row your boat?
Speaker 2 (47:17):
Row?
Speaker 1 (47:17):
Is there anything else you want to say to the
people of Wisconsin and other places across the worlds before
we go somebody somebody listening to this, Probably somebody listening
to this probably is in Wisconsin right now, but not
just to them, to everyone, to everyone. Is there anything
you want to say to everyone?
Speaker 5 (47:35):
Yeah? Uh yeah, not just to Wisconsin, to everyone, kind
of what I said this earlier. Do you should scared?
Just do it? Do something terrifying today, but like be safe.
Speaker 1 (47:47):
I like that. I like that. Uh, rowa good luck.
Maybe I'll do a show in Romania one day and
and if you want to bring your whole family and
you guys can be the only people to show up.
That could be fun.
Speaker 5 (48:01):
I'll be there. I'll bring clover Knock.
Speaker 1 (48:03):
All right, sea later row forever. That's cool. I've never
been to Romania. The only thing I know about Romania
is that Andrew Tate is from there. I guess that's
kind of a bummer that, like, uh oh, he's the
(48:25):
only thing. I think maybe a lot of people know
about Romania. I don't know anything about Romania. What should
I know about Romania? I know, okay, I know that,
and then I know that the cab driver that I
met said that Romania is cool. I don't wonder if
anything else, uh, anything else from about Romania. I'll go
(48:50):
there one day just to hang out and fucking walk around. Yeah,
maybe when day I'll go to Romania and walk around.
I'm I'm I'm. I feel like I'm exiting, not exiting,
but pausing my era of go alone to a foreign country,
and it is fucking just stare at stuff. I'm pausing
(49:18):
that for now, but I might return, who knows. I'm
glad that this lady Rowa is going alone to Romania.
I think that's cool. I want to I'm gonna do something.
I'm gonna do more shit like that myself. I think
that's cool.
Speaker 2 (49:34):
Hello, Hello, is this Lyle? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (49:39):
Who is this?
Speaker 4 (49:40):
Oh my gosh, you can call me is?
Speaker 1 (49:44):
What's up? Is how you doing? How's life?
Speaker 3 (49:47):
I'm doing good? I'm sorry, I'm very nervous.
Speaker 1 (49:49):
I know, dog, I've said this. I don't know if
I said this to someone already. This is this is
one of the least This is one of the low
al with stakes things that you will do with your
entire life. You will make decisions on what you're gonna
eat for breakfast that have a higher stakes than this
(50:09):
phone call. So I hope you take solace in that.
Speaker 3 (50:13):
I do. I do, thank you, Lyle.
Speaker 1 (50:16):
Uh, what's up man? How you doing?
Speaker 3 (50:19):
I'm doing?
Speaker 2 (50:20):
Get it?
Speaker 3 (50:20):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (50:21):
Just had Thanksgiving me or Thanksgiving part two? I guess,
And uh, do you get my text? You know, I
don't really know how this whole thing works.
Speaker 1 (50:31):
This whole thing works the same way that any other
phone call you've ever made in your life works, my friends.
Speaker 4 (50:37):
Very true, Lyle, Well, I guess I I guess I
wanted to talk about a screen addiction.
Speaker 1 (50:45):
Oh yeah, sure, yeah.
Speaker 4 (50:48):
Like I was for like a good part of the
my high school career. I was big into TikTok and
posting like every day, like eight fifteen times a day.
I it like I racked up a good amount of
views or whatever. But I was like constantly on my
(51:11):
phone and and like also like simultaneously pretending that I
was like, you know, like self righteous on my phone
like whatever, And like a couple of years ago, I
just realized how much it was consuming me, especially like
with the stuff that I was posting about on TikTok.
(51:33):
It was very hypocritical of me. And I don't really
know where I'm going with this anymore.
Speaker 1 (51:40):
Oh why how old are you now?
Speaker 4 (51:43):
I'm twenty one?
Speaker 1 (51:45):
And what kind of stuff were you posting?
Speaker 3 (51:48):
I was?
Speaker 4 (51:49):
I was kind of like posting like I guess, like
artsy videos was like a quote overlaid over top, like cool,
very cut, dry copy paste stuff. But like I was
scrolling on pindrest all day looking for Philly quotes.
Speaker 1 (52:05):
And are you still a Are you still posting stuff?
Speaker 3 (52:09):
No?
Speaker 4 (52:10):
No, no, no, I stopped a couple of years back.
It was like I said, it was just like consuming me,
like way too much time spent just over my phone,
like like wondering why my videos weren't getting views and
like like yeah it was yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (52:31):
Yeah, no that that I've you know, I've I've been there,
and it's the fucking stud It's just the stupidest thing.
Speaker 4 (52:43):
You can never have enough, Like you get you get
one video with ten thousand views and then you're not
satisfied with anything left and then it keeps going up.
Speaker 1 (52:52):
Can I tell you so? I've Here's the thing my
like pure I think my my Instagram and TikTok career
have peaked, you know what I mean. I think I
really like in twenty twenty two, there was a point
where I was grinding out these videos of me staring
(53:15):
at my camera while somebody said something insane to me
and and trying to get views on them, and I
would in twenty twenty two like I would, there was
a point where, like like a couple months where just
every single video I posted would get like a million
views at least. And I'm very grateful for that time
(53:36):
because that is like I was able to parlay it
into like an actual, you know, community of people who
like listen to this podcast and go see me live
and stuff. And I'm grateful for that. But I now,
but even when I was getting millions views, I was like,
(53:57):
if a video didn't get a certain amount of view use,
it would make me like it would I would get
anxious about it, you know what I'm talking about? And
now I'm like, if I if my post gets Like
if I post something and it gets like six thousand
views or whatever, now I'm like thrilled, you know what
(54:20):
I mean. I'm like because now I'm like, it's been
almost five years of me doing this and now I'm like, oh,
it's six thousand people are still here watching me do
this shit. That's incredible, you know. So I'm like, I've
learned a lot about this pursuit of the Internet numbers
and stuff, and I'm one of the things I've learned
(54:41):
is that what you are actually doing, and whether or
not you're enjoying it, and whether or not you're mentally sane,
it's far more important than how many views you get.
It's it's kind of a I'm hesitant to go I'm
hesitant to blanketly state that it's a stupid metric because
(55:03):
a lot of those metrics have allowed me to, you know,
do what I do and talking to you right now
and going on these tours and doing other stuff. So
I'm hesitant to completely dismiss them. But at a certain point,
your sanity becomes more important.
Speaker 4 (55:22):
Definitely, No, I as soon as I like, because for
a while I was like telling myself, like, oh, the
views don't matter, or like the likes don't matter, the
fall number doesn't matter, whatever. And then like but even
like as I was telling myself that and like my
(55:42):
views were dropping or whatever, I was still stressing about it.
And for me, the only thing that really like got
rid of all of that anxiety entirely was just putting
it down. Not that it ever was like crazy big,
but it does feel better stepping away from it. And
then also like that kind of like spiraled into like
(56:08):
basically getting rid of most of social media entirely and
trying to stay off on my phone, which I mean,
what I what I originally wanted to talk to you
today was about, uh like, just how everyone like is
totally just in their phones all the time, and uh like,
(56:31):
once I put mine down, even for like the first week,
I noticed that all of my friends everyone around me
was like in every downtime, every moment that they had
where it's just scrolling, nonsense, nothing, dude.
Speaker 1 (56:46):
If you if you want to feel like a fucking idiot, okay,
two things. One thing is have you ever have you
ever you were on a train or a bus and
you watch somebody else scroll on their phone yep, and
you watch them like open a bunch of apps and
(57:06):
tap here for no reason and tap that scroll on that,
and it just they look like such an idiot. And
then you realize and then dude, and then you realize,
oh no, that's what I look like every minute of
every fucking day. I look like a monkey idiot.
Speaker 4 (57:24):
Yeah, I feel like such a like a cornball pulling
out my phone, like doing laundry or something like just
to pass the time. It's idea.
Speaker 1 (57:37):
It's the most it's unfortunately, the most terrifying thing I
think happening.
Speaker 2 (57:43):
Right.
Speaker 1 (57:43):
It's like really spoo, it's really spooky. And it's like
our because technology, you know whatever, all these points have
been made a billion times, but our biology is not.
Even The technology that we have is so exponentially, unfathomably
(58:05):
greater than our biological constraints.
Speaker 4 (58:10):
You know, we're monkey brains with we're crazy.
Speaker 3 (58:13):
Yeah technology.
Speaker 1 (58:15):
Yeah, it's like the gap is humongous. And when you
think about how long human human beings have been on
the Earth compared to how long, uh, this technology that's
consumed us is on the Earth, it's it's nothing. It's
just it's nothing, and we're we're kind of the ones
dealing with it, and uh, it's it's yeah, it's freaky, man,
it's freaky.
Speaker 4 (58:37):
It's you know, yeah, I don't know what I was
gonna say.
Speaker 1 (58:46):
Well, what do you do now that you're not on
your computer?
Speaker 4 (58:50):
Well, I'd like to say that I do like awesome
crazy stuff that you site on the internet, but I
kind of just do school and work.
Speaker 1 (59:01):
That's perfectly what that's that's what What do you do
for school or what do you do for school and work?
Speaker 3 (59:08):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (59:08):
Well, I'm a line cook at a small little place
near my school I go to I live in Maine,
so I go to school.
Speaker 3 (59:17):
What do I go to school for? Parks? Rec and tourism?
Speaker 1 (59:20):
Oh cool?
Speaker 4 (59:21):
Yeah, sorry, I don't know what I'm gonna do with it.
But in my head, a degree is at least a
foot in the door. It's a safety net.
Speaker 1 (59:28):
But that's cool though, because that's I mean, that's very
antithetical to what we're talking about. Like, you like working
at a park.
Speaker 2 (59:34):
You know?
Speaker 3 (59:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (59:37):
No, fine, Yeah, And I'm I'm big into the outdoors.
I like I like learning about the woods, the trees. Yeah,
it makes me feel a little bit more connected.
Speaker 1 (59:52):
I feel I'm did I'm going crazy because, uh, I've
realized I just need to be stimulated all the time,
you know, whether it's like with like a porn or
weed or eating something or looking at it's just it's
when you when you really like take it all away
and you try to sit, it's hard. I've gone on.
(01:00:13):
Watch is easy, yeah, even watch. Even watching a movie
is like, fuck this, I want to watch a movie
while I look at porn.
Speaker 3 (01:00:24):
Not enough stim There's never enough stem.
Speaker 1 (01:00:27):
Never enough stem, never enough.
Speaker 4 (01:00:29):
I joke about it, but it's not even really a joke.
Speaker 1 (01:00:32):
Are you is it hard to Are you still like
pretty good at not being on your phone a lot?
Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:00:40):
I mean I my screen time has been cut like
way down, Like I remember, like in high school it
was up to like probably like eight or ten hours
a day, and and now I'm like, I've set screen
time on my phone which you can bypass pretty easily,
but I try not to anyways. I'm I'm I'm doing
(01:01:04):
good a couple hours a day, which I think is
probably all right.
Speaker 1 (01:01:08):
Good good. Yeah, I mean, well, when you here's the
thing is you try I try to. I like, I'll
delete on my apps and I'll take everything away, and
it's like you. I think if you don't have something
to like replace it with that keeps you stimulated in
some productive sense, then you're can to really go crazy,
(01:01:29):
even like I guess a fucking book, I think, can
I can I? By the way, just to balance everything
out that we've been talking about, can I make I'm
gonna make a controversial statement that by the way, I'm
by the way, I'm uh, I don't. I'm not gonna
give any numbers, but I am half joking. I'm not
gonna say that. All right, I'm I don't believe what
I'm about to say, but I have to say it
(01:01:50):
because I believe it, but I don't believe it. You understand,
you know, you get what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (01:01:57):
I know you're saying.
Speaker 1 (01:01:58):
I was here, all right, all right, all right, books
are fine, but they're overrated. Okay, I don't think that.
If I sit and I play not maybe not Call
of Duty, but like I played. I've been playing Undertail
like it's like a narrative video game, right, and it's
(01:02:21):
got a story, you know, I've said, and I played.
I played it for a couple hours, and I don't
believe that there's anything so much more productive and virtuous
and amazing about reading a book for two hours than
doing that for two hours, you know what I mean?
(01:02:41):
I like or even like like, I don't think that
watching a movie or a or a long season of
television is that much more bad? Is that?
Speaker 3 (01:02:52):
Like?
Speaker 1 (01:02:52):
I don't think it's much more virtuous to read all
of Harry Potter that it is to watch all of
the movies. Me I would give I'll give it to nonfiction.
I'll actually, okay, I'll play the devil's advocate to myself
on a few things. I under I'll give it to nonfiction.
I think nonfiction you kind of learn more about like,
you learn a little bit more about the universe, and
(01:03:13):
you can learn skills and and this and that. I'll
give it to nonfiction. I think I'll give it to nonfiction.
And I'll give it to fiction in the sense that
your vocabulary can probably be better by reading. But I
believe the margins are slim. It's what I'm saying. I
believe the margins are slim. That's all I'm gonna say.
Speaker 4 (01:03:37):
No, I agree with you. I was I was gonna say,
there's I mean, reading all of the Twilight series and
then or like playing Smash for three out. I mean, well,
I don't know, Twilight is kind I mean nothing against Twilight,
but you know what I mean, it's kind of nothing.
If you're reading like philosophy books for three hours a day, right,
(01:03:58):
then you're insane.
Speaker 1 (01:03:59):
But yeah, well wait, did you say if you're reading
philosophy books for three hours a day you're insane?
Speaker 4 (01:04:07):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, this's is for school.
Speaker 1 (01:04:11):
I don't think that.
Speaker 3 (01:04:12):
I think reading.
Speaker 1 (01:04:13):
I think reading philosophy books for three hours a day
is definitely more productive than playing Cold Duty for three
hours a day.
Speaker 3 (01:04:19):
Oh yeah, that's what I mean.
Speaker 4 (01:04:21):
But I imagine that that there's not very many people
that do that. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm stupid, but
I feel like there's much more people that when they
read for fun, it's just.
Speaker 1 (01:04:38):
For entertainment, right right, And I think, yes, that's what
I mean. Is like when the entertainment for pleasure, reading,
I don't think is that much more virtuous than like
playing a video game for pleasure. But also I don't
buy it. But also I don't, you know, forget I
said any of this stuff, because someone's gonna DM me
and be like, you're actually wrong, and I'm gonna be like,
I didn't say that, So why don't talking about credit
(01:05:01):
for it? What's your what's your name again? Sir? Is
is okay? Well I gave everyone else. I gave everyone
else on this podcast questions, So does that I'm gonna
ask if the chat hesity questions for you real quick.
They might not. Sometimes they don't. Sometimes they just put
put emojis in there. Someone said, maybe you could you
(01:05:25):
could read a dictionary. Oh? Someone said, what do you
what do you do for What do you do for fun?
Someone asked what you do for fun?
Speaker 4 (01:05:32):
Oh, well, I'm a big skateboarder.
Speaker 3 (01:05:35):
That's basically all I do outside.
Speaker 2 (01:05:36):
Of school and work.
Speaker 1 (01:05:39):
Oh, skateboarding, that's cool.
Speaker 3 (01:05:41):
Yeah, it's fun. It's fun.
Speaker 1 (01:05:47):
Someone. I don't know if they're asking this to me
or to you, but they asked if you still watch porn?
I just talked about watching porn, So I think they're
probably asking you.
Speaker 4 (01:05:56):
Yeah, sad, probably shouldn't look.
Speaker 1 (01:06:01):
Look, look, you don't have to go into detail on that,
all right. Someone just oh, what what trick? What tricks
can you land? What's the best trick you can land?
Speaker 4 (01:06:12):
She's the best trick I can try?
Speaker 5 (01:06:14):
Flip?
Speaker 3 (01:06:14):
Sometimes you can.
Speaker 1 (01:06:16):
You can do a triflip?
Speaker 2 (01:06:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:06:19):
Really? Oh yeah, that's so cool. I just gained a
lot of respect for you, not that I didn't already have,
not that I didn't already have respect for you, but
I just a little more.
Speaker 3 (01:06:30):
I appreciate that lot. That means a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:06:34):
Oh someone said you can read porn. I forgot about that.
Speaker 3 (01:06:37):
Oh yeah, like fanfick and stuff. That could be cool.
Speaker 1 (01:06:44):
I don't. I don't. I wouldn't jump directly to fanfic.
But when you could, what's the other what's.
Speaker 3 (01:06:49):
The other porn that you would read?
Speaker 1 (01:06:51):
Like hustlers regular just like regular fans before there was
fan fiction there, there's just there's just like erotic novels
and stuff.
Speaker 4 (01:07:00):
Jack Off analog.
Speaker 6 (01:07:03):
Yeah yeah, well yeah, shit man, is uh is there
anything else you want to say to the people of
the computer before we go?
Speaker 3 (01:07:17):
Damn?
Speaker 4 (01:07:17):
I should have had something prepared.
Speaker 1 (01:07:19):
Oh you know, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (01:07:21):
I don't, but I love you so much.
Speaker 1 (01:07:24):
While thank you is good luck to you. You're gonna
be all right. Everyone I've talked to today I think
is gonna be all right. So I'm excited about life.
Thank you is good luck, and uh, try to keep
keep not going on your phone.
Speaker 3 (01:07:41):
Hell yeah, thank you le later, buddy peace.
Speaker 1 (01:07:51):
When I actually, when I was a boy, I think
I was fourteen, I found this. I found this website
and it was I think it was I don't I
don't remember the name of the website. I think it
was called like my first Time dot com or whatever.
And it was like, for some reason, when I was fourteen,
(01:08:12):
like one of my first, Like it wasn't my very first,
but it was like one of my first, like within
the first, like my my my maybe like sophomore or
junior year of of masturbation, like the third or second
year I ever started doing it. I would read these
users submitted stories that people would submit about them, like
(01:08:37):
how they lost their virginity, and and there was something
there's something about like you imagining it that, you know,
leaving things up to the imagination. I don't know why
I'm sharing this, but it feels it feels good.
Speaker 5 (01:08:53):
Took it, goes on the line, taking your phone calls.
Speaker 1 (01:08:58):
Every nine everything.
Speaker 2 (01:09:00):
He was showing his ideas, teaching him how to be
like but he's not really an expert.
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'Monster: BTK', the newest installment in the 'Monster' franchise, reveals the true story of the Wichita, Kansas serial killer who murdered at least 10 people between 1974 and 1991. Known by the moniker, BTK – Bind Torture Kill, his notoriety was bolstered by the taunting letters he sent to police, and the chilling phone calls he made to media outlets. BTK's identity was finally revealed in 2005 to the shock of his family, his community, and the world. He was the serial killer next door. From Tenderfoot TV & iHeartPodcasts, this is 'Monster: BTK'.
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