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How did the phone go over?Remember I messed up the shipping. No,
no, no, but he atleast saw a picture. Oh yes,
he was very very excited. Right, Yes, so he found out
he's getting a phone. He's justdoesn't have it yet, so you don't
know when it comes in. No, I know that it arrives Wednesday.
Oh sweet, yes, oh good, So he must be very excited.
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He is over the moon. Yes, good deal. And he knows he's
getting like Snapchat and Instagram. AndI immediately texted my friends and said,
guys, what is discord because Ido not know. Yep, it begins.
It began before even him having thephone in his hand. That's awesome.
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That's great. So that's number one. Number two was reunion. It
was was it awesome, so amazing, and it was so emotional, mostly
for you, i'd like to thinkeverybody else, but it was just at
our age, mid life. Ohhere we go, Jesus age, don't
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blink. A lot was shared andit was in a good way. Yeah,
it was honesty. I I'd liketo think I've always had with in
my relationship with these people, butothers opened up that I had never seen
in a way I've never seen before. So wait, was that just in
your small group or like the wholegroup? Elliott, I only talked to
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you, only talk to the peopleyou knew. You didn't introduce yourself to
anybody that you saw there. Italked to all of my friends and Sabah,
I'm kidding. If Sabas children arelistening, he is. He's a
good guy too, know what thatwas. And I talked to one person
who the entire conversation I didn't knowwho was. And then somebody from my
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hometown so I'm not friendly with.But who who was there? And obviously
you're a group of little league tobe honest, outside of your group of
friends that you already knew, youtalked to two people. Great reunion,
No, I mean it's great thatyou were with all your friends. Yeah,
that's who we wanted to see.No, but you want to see
everybody in your class. No,I wanted to see for the Because I
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couldn't do much on Friday, Ijust went to one panel and I left,
so I saw at that point onlylike three people of the group.
And then I didn't get back onto uh campus until the party Saturday night,
and so I had limited time.The party we had and your party
was on campus. Yeah, wehad the It was like a little over
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four hours. And by the way, good news for Diddy fans because if
R Kelly is any indication in twentyyears, you can play that again.
Even DJ Prez was like, yeah, sure, you want me to play
this because it was not on hisplaylist. And not only did we hear
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Ignition twice, we then heard itagain when it was paid for at the
piano bar in m Street. JesusChrist, by the way, I can't
tell you the last time I thoughtof Ignition, but I bet it sounded
great. It's questionable, it wasawkward, it was awkward. Yeah,
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but it's but again a great song. You got to separate from the art.
But that's the thing, Like wehad so much fun. And but
then also there were conversations under thetent that deepened my sense of mortality.
Oh, Jesus Christ. I hadthis in a text yesterday to UH,
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one of the people I walked withdown to the piano bar, apologizing saying
I was a little bit off becauseof a discussion I had had that evening
and it thrown me for a loop, and about dying yeah, and it
affected my ability to like be payingat the piano bar, to be present.
I'm a little pitchy, little emotionalwalk. Yeah. But wait a
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minute, what was the why areyou talking about dying? Everybody should be
talking about having fun and what's goingon in their life and their families and
whatever and what like what they've done. But they still wanted so much fun
that it really brought me down andwanted to talk about death. No,
it just it was a reminder thatlife is short and we wish there was
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more of this, more get together. Yes, you'll make but that takes
effort. I told these people onthis text chain that we had created,
which is called are we really thisold? Oh? Jesus Christ? But
I told them I am. I'mgoing to check in with all of them
weekly. Okay, well you knowwhat I mean. We said we wanted
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to too. Oh the check in, Oh is so bad. When I
checked in Friday for the reunion events. First of all, you walk in
there's a massive poster of all thedonors, and I was like, well,
nothing shames you more than money becausemy name was not on there.
And then they hand you can Ijust asked you a very good friend of
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mine was Elizabeth burgess On there asa donor, she got money and then
they hand you your name tag,which is adorn in all these various ribbons.
The only ribbon I had was atwentieth anniversary or to twentieth reunion.
Oh so what are the ribbons?Significant? Donated this Royalty Society ambassador.
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Some people looked like decorated veterans.I had twentieth reunion and even then they
asked me, they said, whatare you do you feel like you're close
to dying? No? No,the tears didn't come until later God,
when they said what are your pronouns? And I had skipped that question online
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registering because I didn't care, likeit just didn't it didn't seem necessary to
have that printed on my, uhmy little badge, although I would have
taken anything on that badge compared tosome of the people who's whose badges went
down to their belt ribbon. Sothe person assisting it's like an underclassman.
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They said, do you want tofill that in? I said, okay,
sure, So I thought I wouldjust auto populate if I wrote he,
I wrote he and then hit enterand she's like, do you mean
he him. No, he theyI look like a buffoon. No he
So then she's like, you knowyou can leave that blank, and I
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in my head I'm like, yeah, I thought so, that's why I
did it on and then he andthen man, man, I turned to
her and said, that's a goodidea. Well keep it ambiguous. Man.
That did not go Overwhell but EdCooley turned it all around because that's
the panel I went to, dowe have any ambiguity people? Hey,
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my friend Joe asked a question duringthat panel someone in front of us in
the row in front turned around andfist pumped him. Are you serious?
Yea as good question? What washis question? It was about sports betting?
Oh real? And because they wereI will say I only say that
don't bet on us yet. Heactually kept quiet. Smart It was smart
during that question. But the otherpeople on the panel, who I didn't
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pay as much attention to signing upbecause I really only wanted to see coach
Cooley. But we had the directorof the w NBA Players Association, Oh
really, which was fascinated. Didyou ask her about Kaitlyn Clark getting shoved
to the ground that had not happenedyet? Oh? Never mind. Then
you had the vice president of baseballoperations for the Padres. Are you serious?
And then a rep was there forthe Guardians, Kristen. Did they
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all go to Georgetown? Yes?What of them was in my class?
And you had no idea? Well, thank god you didn't talk to him?
Well I did, I didn't knowhim. Then I introd I did
want to go up to it.Kind of feels like your life is half
over. Hey, we're struggling alittle bit this year. One of the
guys from the basketball team during myfour years on campus was there, Gerrel'briley,
and I so wanted to ask himfor a picture, but he was
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surrounded all night by tall, hotblondes. I was like, that reminds
me real quick. Hey, Elizabethburd just how you doing? So?
I couldn't butt my way in?Hey? What was the but so you
were just but so that was thepanel. That was the panel. That's
all I did on Friday Friday,and then Saturday, you just went to
the party. Saturday's Party, aFriday Nights party on campus, was a
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summer garden party themed Saturday Nights wasreturned to camp, which is an interesting
one and I see you wondering why, And it's because at the age we
knew each other. None of usattended camp. You just in college.
Even if it was a summer campyou happened to go to, you wouldn't
have been with your classmates in college. So we're like, whatever, it's
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not a great pick. I wasn'ton the committee. I can't complain.
I go and show up back tocamp. You're in college. Who's going
to summer camp in college? Anyway? I show up in high socks,
the khaki shorts at Georgetown's Senior Weektwo thousand and four, shirt and neckerchief.
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And you know how many people dressedup for the theme? Zero?
Well one just you. No,there were three of us from your group.
It was you and two other friends, and that is basically all.
We walked up and I was like, oh my god, Oh my god,
where did you where'd you litter theneckerchief? Yeah, so you took
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off your shirt. By the way, multiple people on the dance floor,
not from my group, but tookoff their shirts. Oh really, yes,
right on. You were hammered.We didn't even hear p d Pablo,
but they still took their shirts.It's the freaking weekend. So yeah,
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I definitely hopefully it was appreciated,not even when I got to the
cocktail hour with my just my friendsand your neckerchief, all of them,
and it was all right. Itwas fourteen girls and three guys. The
fourteen girls didn't do it, andall week they had been talking about how
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they were picking out their outfits.I didn't know that meant like neat summer
dresses. No, we look likeidiots. Joe had on a Lithuania basketball
team tied I shirt and Jim shorts, and because I had purchased twelve bandannas,
he also had a band just hedidn't wear it as a neckerchief.
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He looked like he was going tohold up a bank. And Andrew to
Andrew looked like he was going totennis camp. But we tried, but
no one else did. But itwas a great time as soon and super
much. You should see some ofthe messages I've written to my friends since
it's just we connected on levels wehad never, even for the four years
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together, met each other at andso you guys were walking around between campus
and M Street. I mean,I know that's not bad. Yeah,
we did for to get to theparty and then to go to the after
party, which was in the hotellobby. It wasn't but it was for
that right only. R Kelly.Apparently we're good to go. Fine,
we're good to go. Oh.I thought you were gonna say, like
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you guys all scootered all over theplace. Oh, my kids, there's
no way my kids are listening.Because I didn't wear a helmet. I
rode an e bike. You did, I know, I know, were
you terrified? Like, oh,here comes the other elbow? You didn't
wear a helmet? Well, wegot on them in Roslin, and because
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that's where I met to get dressed, that's where I met Joe and Andrew.
You had to get meat for toget dressed into camp gear. Oh,
he didn't want to get funny looks. I showed up in my outfit.
But they had been at a poolparty earlier in the day and I
was at flag football, so theyhad to choke it. So medham Roslin
and they're like, uh, whydon't we just bike over? And I
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said how about lyft right and theysaid no, it's uber And I said,
let's do that a car and theysaid no, we've done it it's
great. We go over like theRoosevelt Bridge and I was like, I've
I've never even rented a scooter before. So we get down there, like
do you have the Uber app?And I said yeah, and I open
it up and they said you gotto hit two wheels or something like that,
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and they scan the bikes and theyhop on them. I thought I
had read somewhere that helmets were underthe seat, Like I thought that was
a thing. I just thought wetalked about it, so they provided them.
Yeah, so I'm trying to pullthe seat off to find the helmet,
and Andrew yet else clocks running boysand they take off and this seat
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now is at a height where Ican't touch the ground. And you know
how I've been on a bike lately. And I didn't realize until we got
on them, when I pedaled alittle bit that there was a motor and
they're e bikes, except they saidthey're faky e bikes, which sounds like
a real bike, but that they'renot exactly like they're not what Simon cow
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has fallen off of. Right,maybe those are more powerful, but these
things they get up and go.Yeah, and we were beating by we
talked to people who were going likeforty fifty miles an hour on them,
and we were after going across thebridge, you know, you're by the
Kennedy Center and then you're around goingup to M Street. It was it
was interesting and felt very unsafe.Dude, you wrote it with no helmet
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and no elbow pads and no kneepads nothing. I did have on a
lot of friendship bracelets. Oh,I forgot about that part of my outfit.
So your group made friendship bracelets exchangedlike your swifties. Nope, Jay,
did you make friendship bracelets for everybody? Well, everybody's own name.
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This one is for Jess, thisone is for Andrew, this one is
for Joe, this one, thisone is for Coach Cooley. I did
have one on that I have likedmany on but one did say Tyler,
but that was from Brian, sothat wasn't That wasn't from something that I
had had that previously. But yeah, h no, no protective gear at
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all for my first time ever ona god that's off brand. Everything else
has really been on brand. Likeeverything else matches down to the neckerchief and
calling it that the but the theagreeing to get on a bike with no.
I'm surprised you didn't just say no, Sorry, guys, I'm taking
a car meet you there. Yeah, well that was their whole thing.
They're like, listen, it's gonnabe faster than a car. It still
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took fifteen minutes to get from Roslinto M Street with this roundabout way.
Granted it was very scenic, andthen everyone's individual bike costs like twelve bucks.
I was like thirty six dollars.Yeah, how is this better?
By the way, thirty six bucks. I paid four dollars more than that,
and I'm going to Florida. We'reno. But was the bike fun?
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I've never been on one. Iwant to get on one. In
the worst way. It was here, there's a there's a photo of the
two of them in front of me. I even took a photo on it.
You would talk about a brand,I know, I know that was
that was really dangerous. It's like, oh, that looks awesome. Your
weekend of recklessness? Is that Joe? Yeah, I told you what he's
wearing. Oh my god, that'sembarrassing, I said. Tye Bronze Medal
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Winners, Barcelona ninety two. Evenwhen We got to the cocktail hour and
the hostess was like, can wehelp you? Like, you can't come
in here dressed like that. Itsays twentieth on my name tag. All
of my friends could not believe that. I agreed, and I felt more
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like I was pressured into doing it. But everyone knows that's not me.
That's not me. You're crying allnight, that's me, right, friendship
bracelets. Oh yeah, And Isaid this before, and it's so weird
in the context of the post meto era, but everyone everyone described me
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in school and continues to harvey no, no, no no, And I've
told you this before and again.It sounds very strange for twenty twenty four,
but hey, we're listening to theremix to Ignition. I am very
not sexually threatening, which, bythe way, should be a descriptor for
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every person. You should want everyoneto be described that way. But that
was me, and it continues tobe me to this day. Hey,
just real quick, how far isit from the Orlando Airport to Disney.
It's a little bit of a bike. Now that you're all, that's wasting
more time. But it was good. It was everything you wanted, and
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now you're gonna write a weekly updateto that group chat. I think I'm
gonna go individually. Oh christ,really try to cater my newsletter? Look
a newsletter by zine? Oh God? How many people did I do yesterday?
Specifically, Hey, so I wokeup this morning. I well,
I confessed to Lindsay. I rodea bike without a helmet, did not
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use the letter E in front ofit. I was I was so afraid
to tell Lindsay that. Can Ibe Lindsay? Yeah? Who cares?
I wrote individual things to seven ofthe girls yesterday. Uh, and a
couple of them wrote back, Iand the others have left him on red.
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Yeah, here's the one. Ifthe talk after we left the on
campus tent was weird, I apologize. Within that party, I was confronted
with a lot of reality, specificallyspecifically mortality, and I'm a weirdo.
So it was a lot. Uh. Tyler noticed in block
How did the phone go over?Remember I messed up the shipping. No,
no, no, but he atleast saw a picture. Oh yes,
he was very very excited. Right, Yes, so he found out
he's getting a phone. He's justdoesn't have it yet, so you don't
know when it comes in. No, I know that it arrives Wednesday.
Oh sweet, yes, oh good, So he must be very excited.
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He is over the moon. Yes, good deal. And he knows he's
getting like Snapchat and Instagram. AndI immediately texted my friends and said,
guys, what is discord because Ido not know. Yep, it begins.
It began before even him having thephone in his hand. That's awesome.
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That's great. So that's number one. Number two was reunion. It
was was it awesome, so amazing, and it was so emotional, mostly
for you, i'd like to thinkeverybody else, but it was just at
our age, mid life. Ohhere we go, Jesus age, don't
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blink. A lot was shared andit was in a good way. Yeah,
it was honesty. I I'd liketo think I've always had with in
my relationship with these people, butothers opened up that I had never seen
in a way I've never seen before. So wait, was that just in
your small group or like the wholegroup? Elliott, I only talked to
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you, only talk to the peopleyou knew. You didn't introduce yourself to
anybody that you saw there. Italked to all of my friends and Sabah,
I'm kidding. If Sabas children arelistening, he is. He's a
good guy too, know what thatwas. And I talked to one person
who the entire conversation I didn't knowwho was. And then somebody from my
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hometown so I'm not friendly with.But who who was there? And obviously
you're a group of little league tobe honest, outside of your group of
friends that you already knew, youtalked to two people. Great reunion,
No, I mean it's great thatyou were with all your friends. Yeah,
that's who we wanted to see.No, but you want to see
everybody in your class. No,I wanted to see for the Because I
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couldn't do much on Friday, Ijust went to one panel and I left,
so I saw at that point onlylike three people of the group.
And then I didn't get back onto uh campus until the party Saturday night,
and so I had limited time.The party we had and your party
was on campus. Yeah, wehad the It was like a little over
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four hours. And by the way, good news for Diddy fans because if
R Kelly is any indication in twentyyears, you can play that again.
Even DJ Prez was like, yeah, sure, you want me to play
this because it was not on hisplaylist. And not only did we hear
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Ignition twice, we then heard itagain when it was paid for at the
piano bar in m Street. JesusChrist, by the way, I can't
tell you the last time I thoughtof Ignition, but I bet it sounded
great. It's questionable, it wasawkward, it was awkward. Yeah,
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but it's but again a great song. You got to separate from the art.
But that's the thing, Like wehad so much fun. And but
then also there were conversations under thetent that deepened my sense of mortality.
Oh, Jesus Christ. I hadthis in a text yesterday to UH,
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one of the people I walked withdown to the piano bar, apologizing saying
I was a little bit off becauseof a discussion I had had that evening
and it thrown me for a loop, and about dying yeah, and it
affected my ability to like be payingat the piano bar, to be present.
I'm a little pitchy, little emotionalwalk. Yeah. But wait a
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minute, what was the why areyou talking about dying? Everybody should be
talking about having fun and what's goingon in their life and their families and
whatever and what like what they've done. But they still wanted so much fun
that it really brought me down andwanted to talk about death. No,
it just it was a reminder thatlife is short and we wish there was
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more of this, more get together. Yes, you'll make but that takes
effort. I told these people onthis text chain that we had created,
which is called are we really thisold? Oh? Jesus Christ? But
I told them I am. I'mgoing to check in with all of them
weekly. Okay, well you knowwhat I mean. We said we wanted
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to too. Oh the check in, Oh is so bad. When I
checked in Friday for the reunion events. First of all, you walk in
there's a massive poster of all thedonors, and I was like, well,
nothing shames you more than money becausemy name was not on there.
And then they hand you can Ijust asked you a very good friend of
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mine was Elizabeth burgess On there asa donor, she got money and then
they hand you your name tag,which is adorn in all these various ribbons.
The only ribbon I had was atwentieth anniversary or to twentieth reunion.
Oh so what are the ribbons?Significant? Donated this Royalty Society ambassador.
(05:30):
Some people looked like decorated veterans.I had twentieth reunion and even then they
asked me, they said, whatare you do you feel like you're close
to dying? No? No,the tears didn't come until later God,
when they said what are your pronouns? And I had skipped that question online
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registering because I didn't care, likeit just didn't it didn't seem necessary to
have that printed on my, uhmy little badge, although I would have
taken anything on that badge compared tosome of the people who's whose badges went
down to their belt ribbon. Sothe person assisting it's like an underclassman.
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They said, do you want tofill that in? I said, okay,
sure, So I thought I wouldjust auto populate if I wrote he,
I wrote he and then hit enterand she's like, do you mean
he him. No, he theyI look like a buffoon. No he
So then she's like, you knowyou can leave that blank, and I
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in my head I'm like, yeah, I thought so, that's why I
did it on and then he andthen man, man, I turned to
her and said, that's a goodidea. Well keep it ambiguous. Man.
That did not go Overwhell but EdCooley turned it all around because that's
the panel I went to, dowe have any ambiguity people? Hey,
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my friend Joe asked a question duringthat panel someone in front of us in
the row in front turned around andfist pumped him. Are you serious?
Yea as good question? What washis question? It was about sports betting?
Oh real? And because they wereI will say I only say that
don't bet on us yet. Heactually kept quiet. Smart It was smart
during that question. But the otherpeople on the panel, who I didn't
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pay as much attention to signing upbecause I really only wanted to see coach
Cooley. But we had the directorof the w NBA Players Association, Oh
really, which was fascinated. Didyou ask her about Kaitlyn Clark getting shoved
to the ground that had not happenedyet? Oh? Never mind. Then
you had the vice president of baseballoperations for the Padres. Are you serious?
And then a rep was there forthe Guardians, Kristen. Did they
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all go to Georgetown? Yes?What of them was in my class?
And you had no idea? Well, thank god you didn't talk to him?
Well I did, I didn't knowhim. Then I introd I did
want to go up to it.Kind of feels like your life is half
over. Hey, we're struggling alittle bit this year. One of the
guys from the basketball team during myfour years on campus was there, Gerrel'briley,
and I so wanted to ask himfor a picture, but he was
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surrounded all night by tall, hotblondes. I was like, that reminds
me real quick. Hey, Elizabethburd just how you doing? So?
I couldn't butt my way in?Hey? What was the but so you
were just but so that was thepanel. That was the panel. That's
all I did on Friday Friday,and then Saturday, you just went to
the party. Saturday's Party, aFriday Nights party on campus, was a
(08:35):
summer garden party themed Saturday Nights wasreturned to camp, which is an interesting
one and I see you wondering why, And it's because at the age we
knew each other. None of usattended camp. You just in college.
Even if it was a summer campyou happened to go to, you wouldn't
have been with your classmates in college. So we're like, whatever, it's
(08:56):
not a great pick. I wasn'ton the committee. I can't complain.
I go and show up back tocamp. You're in college. Who's going
to summer camp in college? Anyway? I show up in high socks,
the khaki shorts at Georgetown's Senior Weektwo thousand and four, shirt and neckerchief.
(09:18):
And you know how many people dressedup for the theme? Zero?
Well one just you. No,there were three of us from your group.
It was you and two other friends, and that is basically all.
We walked up and I was like, oh my god, Oh my god,
where did you where'd you litter theneckerchief? Yeah, so you took
(09:41):
off your shirt. By the way, multiple people on the dance floor,
not from my group, but tookoff their shirts. Oh really, yes,
right on. You were hammered.We didn't even hear p d Pablo,
but they still took their shirts.It's the freaking weekend. So yeah,
(10:03):
I definitely hopefully it was appreciated,not even when I got to the
cocktail hour with my just my friendsand your neckerchief, all of them,
and it was all right. Itwas fourteen girls and three guys. The
fourteen girls didn't do it, andall week they had been talking about how
(10:26):
they were picking out their outfits.I didn't know that meant like neat summer
dresses. No, we look likeidiots. Joe had on a Lithuania basketball
team tied I shirt and Jim shorts, and because I had purchased twelve bandannas,
he also had a band just hedidn't wear it as a neckerchief.
(10:46):
He looked like he was going tohold up a bank. And Andrew to
Andrew looked like he was going totennis camp. But we tried, but
no one else did. But itwas a great time as soon and super
much. You should see some ofthe messages I've written to my friends since
it's just we connected on levels wehad never, even for the four years
(11:09):
together, met each other at andso you guys were walking around between campus
and M Street. I mean,I know that's not bad. Yeah,
we did for to get to theparty and then to go to the after
party, which was in the hotellobby. It wasn't but it was for
that right only. R Kelly.Apparently we're good to go. Fine,
we're good to go. Oh.I thought you were gonna say, like
(11:31):
you guys all scootered all over theplace. Oh, my kids, there's
no way my kids are listening.Because I didn't wear a helmet. I
rode an e bike. You did, I know, I know, were
you terrified? Like, oh,here comes the other elbow? You didn't
wear a helmet? Well, wegot on them in Roslin, and because
(11:56):
that's where I met to get dressed, that's where I met Joe and Andrew.
You had to get meat for toget dressed into camp gear. Oh,
he didn't want to get funny looks. I showed up in my outfit.
But they had been at a poolparty earlier in the day and I
was at flag football, so theyhad to choke it. So medham Roslin
and they're like, uh, whydon't we just bike over? And I
(12:20):
said how about lyft right and theysaid no, it's uber And I said,
let's do that a car and theysaid no, we've done it it's
great. We go over like theRoosevelt Bridge and I was like, I've
I've never even rented a scooter before. So we get down there, like
do you have the Uber app?And I said yeah, and I open
it up and they said you gotto hit two wheels or something like that,
(12:43):
and they scan the bikes and theyhop on them. I thought I
had read somewhere that helmets were underthe seat, Like I thought that was
a thing. I just thought wetalked about it, so they provided them.
Yeah, so I'm trying to pullthe seat off to find the helmet,
and Andrew yet else clocks running boysand they take off and this seat
(13:03):
now is at a height where Ican't touch the ground. And you know
how I've been on a bike lately. And I didn't realize until we got
on them, when I pedaled alittle bit that there was a motor and
they're e bikes, except they saidthey're faky e bikes, which sounds like
a real bike, but that they'renot exactly like they're not what Simon cow
(13:24):
has fallen off of. Right,maybe those are more powerful, but these
things they get up and go.Yeah, and we were beating by we
talked to people who were going likeforty fifty miles an hour on them,
and we were after going across thebridge, you know, you're by the
Kennedy Center and then you're around goingup to M Street. It was it
was interesting and felt very unsafe.Dude, you wrote it with no helmet
(13:48):
and no elbow pads and no kneepads nothing. I did have on a
lot of friendship bracelets. Oh,I forgot about that part of my outfit.
So your group made friendship bracelets exchangedlike your swifties. Nope, Jay,
did you make friendship bracelets for everybody? Well, everybody's own name.
(14:11):
This one is for Jess, thisone is for Andrew, this one is
for Joe, this one, thisone is for Coach Cooley. I did
have one on that I have likedmany on but one did say Tyler,
but that was from Brian, sothat wasn't That wasn't from something that I
had had that previously. But yeah, h no, no protective gear at
(14:35):
all for my first time ever ona god that's off brand. Everything else
has really been on brand. Likeeverything else matches down to the neckerchief and
calling it that the but the theagreeing to get on a bike with no.
I'm surprised you didn't just say no, Sorry, guys, I'm taking
a car meet you there. Yeah, well that was their whole thing.
They're like, listen, it's gonnabe faster than a car. It still
(14:58):
took fifteen minutes to get from Roslinto M Street with this roundabout way.
Granted it was very scenic, andthen everyone's individual bike costs like twelve bucks.
I was like thirty six dollars.Yeah, how is this better?
By the way, thirty six bucks. I paid four dollars more than that,
and I'm going to Florida. We'reno. But was the bike fun?
(15:24):
I've never been on one. Iwant to get on one. In
the worst way. It was here, there's a there's a photo of the
two of them in front of me. I even took a photo on it.
You would talk about a brand,I know, I know that was
that was really dangerous. It's like, oh, that looks awesome. Your
weekend of recklessness? Is that Joe? Yeah, I told you what he's
wearing. Oh my god, that'sembarrassing, I said. Tye Bronze Medal
(15:45):
Winners, Barcelona ninety two. Evenwhen We got to the cocktail hour and
the hostess was like, can wehelp you? Like, you can't come
in here dressed like that. Itsays twentieth on my name tag. All
of my friends could not believe that. I agreed, and I felt more
(16:08):
like I was pressured into doing it. But everyone knows that's not me.
That's not me. You're crying allnight, that's me, right, friendship
bracelets. Oh yeah, And Isaid this before, and it's so weird
in the context of the post meto era, but everyone everyone described me
(16:30):
in school and continues to harvey no, no, no no, And I've
told you this before and again.It sounds very strange for twenty twenty four,
but hey, we're listening to theremix to Ignition. I am very
not sexually threatening, which, bythe way, should be a descriptor for
(16:51):
every person. You should want everyoneto be described that way. But that
was me, and it continues tobe me to this day. Hey,
just real quick, how far isit from the Orlando Airport to Disney.
It's a little bit of a bike. Now that you're all, that's wasting
more time. But it was good. It was everything you wanted, and
(17:18):
now you're gonna write a weekly updateto that group chat. I think I'm
gonna go individually. Oh christ,really try to cater my newsletter? Look
a newsletter by zine? Oh God? How many people did I do yesterday?
Specifically, Hey, so I wokeup this morning. I well,
I confessed to Lindsay. I rodea bike without a helmet, did not
(17:41):
use the letter E in front ofit. I was I was so afraid
to tell Lindsay that. Can Ibe Lindsay? Yeah? Who cares?
I wrote individual things to seven ofthe girls yesterday. Uh, and a
couple of them wrote back, Iand the others have left him on red.
(18:07):
Yeah, here's the one. Ifthe talk after we left the on
campus tent was weird, I apologize. Within that party, I was confronted
with a lot of reality, specificallyspecifically mortality, and I'm a weirdo.
So it was a lot. Uh. Tyler noticed in block
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