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Ride the Wave: A Raw Confession from the Mic · LOLwithMariandJohn.com

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  Stand out from the crowd. Be different.
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  Be new. New. New. Be new.
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  Something spectacular. Something they've never seen before. Be original.
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  Be true to yourself.
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  Make a splash.
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  Be fresh.
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  Ride, ride the wave. Ride the wave.
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  That edge of the wave right in on it be right there at the forefront you know
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  leading everything be new and fresh and just right there at the forefront just.
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  It's hard to do,
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  when all you can do is be yourself. I don't know what else to be,
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  and yet I keep asking myself, are you interesting enough for this thing called
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  followers, people to follow you?
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  Oh man i just wanted to talk i just wanted to be me i'm a theatrical person,
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  i like to be on stage and i love speaking i love speaking to people i love storytelling
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  i am a narrator i am an orator I am an emcee.
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  I want to speak.
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  And I have found that at times, things that I say are received well.
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  And almost even sometimes, dare I say, people say, Hey!
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  That was kind of intelligent.
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  Although it wasn't intelligent to come into this room without water,
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  without any beverage whatsoever, I am dying of thirst.
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  I am crossing the safari, the sand dunes.
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  I am experiencing heat and dry.
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  My throat, like cotton, like swallowing a hundred crackers with no water.
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  Dry like the sand.
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  About to cease in its ability to create tone, word, volume, to speak to people.
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  People is people. People is people.
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  I wish to come off as personable, friendly, likable.
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  I feel as though I am more a pessimist, kind of bitchy, a snob, an elitist,
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  detached, unaware, ignorant, vulgar.
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  Vulgar okay let me say it let me just say it are you ready,
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  here we go fuck,
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  fuck,
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  fuck,
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  i don't feel better for saying that i'm just got to say that i don't i don't
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  feel better i don't feel more energized i don't feel more wonderful i don't
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  it didn't give me anything it it was loud it was a sensation it was,
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  outrageous it was uh,
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  barely palatable.
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  Profanity though you know i don't know there's fuck there's shit there's bullshit,
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  and then you say it and it changes who is allowed to watch,
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  it changes who your voice gets to reach because you said fuck shit,
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  ass.
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  Focusing on that you realize is ignorant it has no bearing on the reality of
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  life it's just a philosophy to argue over,
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  by people who have too much time on their hands,
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  Argue about the stuff Oh, you see? You see what happened?
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  I wanted to say argue about the shit that matters But the genteel part of me
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  was Argue about the things that matter, darling,
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  Argue about the things that matter,
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  argue about the shit that matters,
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  that matters.
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  Why do so few people have so much?
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  Why are we ignoring not ignoring the steps we're taking our baby steps little
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  baby steps when it comes to doing our part to make sure that the earth continues,
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  and doesn't die under our watch,
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  baby steps we're taking baby steps,
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  in order for us to succeed at that you do realize life will have to change dramatically,
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  for everyone especially those in metropolises cities large cities,
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  life will need to change dramatically,
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  it would become something,
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  not what you're living right now and you guys can't even freaking deal with
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  plugs for cars and i say you guys because,
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  i don't drive i walk everywhere i've gotten to that point in my life where i
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  just walk and if i can't walk to it then i don't want to be there.
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  I focus on the people around me i've said this before and i'll say it again,
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  I focus on the people around me, the people in my building, my apartment building.
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  I get to know them. I have gotten to know them. I'm involved in their woes.
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  I'm here as a support mechanism to let them know they're not alone.
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  And yeah, it can be taxing, but it's also extraordinarily rewarding to.
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  To feel like you're part of a community to know people that actually have your back as you have theirs,
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  why aren't we doing this more often what's with the isolation what's with the
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  not knowing anyone in your apartment building that has got to stop,
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  get involved get to know when was nosy bad nosy,
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  is the person who calls the police because margaret next door looked like she
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  was struggling with that man
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  through the kitchen window who was in her kitchen knocking her upside the head
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  so i called the cops nosy saved margaret that day,
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  since when did nosy become bad it's not nosy when you're paying attention to your neighbors.
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  Just don't do it with judgment. You know what I'm saying?
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  Don't watch them because you're looking for things you want to argue about,
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  to be dissatisfied about, to critique.
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  That's not being neighborly. Be neighborly.
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  Everybody's coming with their own story. Some of them are wild,
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  outrageous, unbelievable, terrifying.
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  They're all coming with their own stories.
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  Don't be afraid to get involved and get to know them.
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  Give what you can and let them give what they can. Become a community, a family.
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  Integrate your resources. Oh, what a scary concept.
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  An apartment building where everybody shares. Oh.
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  Well, we have to because we want change. And this allows us to not participate
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  in that which is necessarily mass appeal, which is why I'm no good at this game.
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  This podcast follower watch me game. I suck. I've been doing this for years.
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  I've worked my butt off. I've worked my ass off to figure this out.
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  I taught myself everything, how to put the podcast together,
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  how to operate the cameras, the right microphones to buy, everything,
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  everything, the amplifier, lighting. I just, oh, oh, lighting, shoot.
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  Lighting. And God said, there's the lighting. It's too bright.
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  It's not set correctly. Here we go.
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  Here we go,
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  and now it's set correctly.
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  Oh, because I am just dismal looking. And somehow these lights make me look a little dismal.
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  Not a lot dismal. Not at this, you know, at death's door.
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  Sucks.
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  Look at you. I'm a big fat boy. I don't know how much longer I got to live.
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  Just trying,
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  to do what I know I'm an emcee I'm an orator I'm a host I like to talk,
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  I had fun bye.