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Viral Storytellers · Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Artists on Artists and artists and Artists.
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  Speaker 2: This week on the show Hold Up, Let's back up,
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  Speaker 2: we're talking to storytellers.
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  Speaker 3: If you're wondering how we got there, perhaps these storytellers
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  Speaker 3: can tell you how from point A to point B
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  Speaker 3: and the arcs in between. The stories that you're about
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  Speaker 3: to hear are live and real.
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  Speaker 4: The Moth Radio Hour has some of the best storytellers
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  Speaker 4: you've ever seen, but maybe these next couple of storytellers
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  Speaker 4: have been on the Moth and have elevated the game.
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  Speaker 5: So pull up a seat, or listen in, or do
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  Speaker 5: whatever you'd like, because we're just telling stories today. Let's
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  Speaker 5: listen in.
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  Speaker 4: It's just amazing to be all in the same room
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  Speaker 4: with such like minded people that traverse the world in
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  Speaker 4: the same way that I do.
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  Speaker 1: I find it incredible to be around such wonderful souls
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  Speaker 1: and months.
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  Speaker 4: The way your mind perceives in my mind perceived feel
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  Speaker 4: symmetrical and yet paradoxical.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're all looking at the same disco wall,
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  Speaker 1: but from different beams of light.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for sharing that. That is why we do this,
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  Speaker 3: That is why we gather. We gather in a space
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  Speaker 3: to learn to hear, to grow, and to change, and
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  Speaker 3: stories they do that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean here, stories are perfect and powerful sound that
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  Speaker 1: I can feel, you know, I think here heartbreak feels
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  Speaker 1: good on a.
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  Speaker 3: Place like those reference heroes. Well, I've always thought they're
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  Speaker 3: the best part of us.
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  Speaker 5: Hi, my name is Daniel Rocky. I am from Santa Anita.
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  Speaker 5: I have been telling stories since I was three years old,
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  Speaker 5: but only started kind of competitively doing it in my
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  Speaker 5: later teens. Thank you for having me today.
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  Speaker 3: I'd like to sit with what you've just said.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, there was even a story in that introduction
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  Speaker 4: to you.
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  Speaker 1: The choice of words for late teens was sensational.
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  Speaker 3: It evokes not the girl of twelve years old getting
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  Speaker 3: her ears pierced at club Libby Lou.
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  Speaker 5: Is this you you're talking about?
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  Speaker 3: She might be her?
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  Speaker 5: Who might be her?
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  Speaker 4: She?
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  Speaker 3: You and she? We are all part of this. These
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  Speaker 3: stories are perfect and powerful.
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  Speaker 5: Which one.
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  Speaker 3: Yours?
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  Speaker 5: I just did a little bit of a prologue. I
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  Speaker 5: didn't really start my story yet.
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  Speaker 3: I can't wait to hear the rest of your story.
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  Speaker 4: My name hails from a mountaintop and arrives in a cloud.
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  Speaker 4: My parents we're always on top of a mountain, and
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  Speaker 4: then they had me and fell into a valley, and
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  Speaker 4: that was the cloud that surrounded the valley. I'm Trey
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  Speaker 4: Mount and I don't tell stories. I tell life. I've
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  Speaker 4: been on Moth Radio Lab three and a half times.
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  Speaker 4: One time they would not let me finish. And I
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  Speaker 4: believe in the power that life telling can do. It
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  Speaker 4: can change the world, it can stop bad things, it
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  Speaker 4: can help each other and all of us see inside
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  Speaker 4: of what we're all experiencing in a way that taps
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  Speaker 4: us in to empathy, sympathy and pain. And those are
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  Speaker 4: the three big things that my life focuses on.
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  Speaker 1: Where are you from? Where do you hail?
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  Speaker 4: I hail from a mountain, mountain that was in Colorado.
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  Speaker 5: Rockies Rocky Road ice cream makes That's what makes me
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  Speaker 5: think of having Rocky Road ice cream with my grandmother
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  Speaker 5: when I was eight.
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  Speaker 1: Rocky Road for me was being a gay man in Dallas,
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  Speaker 1: Texas in the seventies, having a different journey. My name
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  Speaker 1: is Eugene Capone. I tell stories about Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Is your neck okay, Eugene, It's fine, It's sleep on
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  Speaker 5: it kind of weird.
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  Speaker 1: No, It's where I like to perch. My head is
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  Speaker 1: my hand, because everything that I've gotten I've gotten with
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  Speaker 1: the use of my hands. And one thing I've gotten
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  Speaker 1: is the ability to speak and to support my brain
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  Speaker 1: Through my storytelling. I tell humorous stories about moments that
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  Speaker 1: might be slight to you but have a lasting impact,
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  Speaker 1: usually observations that are so granular and specific that makes
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  Speaker 1: you realize that God in life and whatever you may
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  Speaker 1: think is out there really is in the details. I
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  Speaker 1: have a story that was very popular on the Moth
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  Speaker 1: that went on to TL this American life as we
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  Speaker 1: all know it in the industry. As you guys know,
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  Speaker 1: what was your first My first TAL was two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and nine, and then they reran it in twenty sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, twenty twenty two. I count reruns as original airings. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and I told a story about standing in line waiting
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  Speaker 1: to buy a picture frame at a hobby lobby behind
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  Speaker 1: a loud mother.
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  Speaker 5: I heard this story.
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  Speaker 1: I loved this story, and it made me kind of
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  Speaker 1: a celebrity in the gay man telling story circle.
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  Speaker 4: It's a huge circle, just so, the gay circle.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the ones to tell stories.
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  Speaker 5: And did you think all humans tell stories?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: I think they do, but some of them are not
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  Speaker 1: meant to be heard. And I just love to tell
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  Speaker 1: these stories and use my perception to make you aware
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  Speaker 1: of the things you haven't been perceiving.
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  Speaker 3: Hmm, thank you. I'd like to start by where I've been.
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  Speaker 3: I was never good at French. It was always difficult,
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  Speaker 3: the present participle, the past parciple, participle. It just never
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  Speaker 3: ever really sat right with me. Como ale who That
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  Speaker 3: wasn't my game. So when I was presented with the
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  Speaker 3: possibility of studying abroad for three months, away from my
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  Speaker 3: little home in Arcadia, California, I thought no way. But
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  Speaker 3: then I remembered what my mother told me.
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  Speaker 4: So, what is your name?
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  Speaker 5: She's getting to it.
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  Speaker 3: To start to give you that I have to give
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  Speaker 3: you where I've fit.
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  Speaker 5: She's never understood French. It's getting some welcome back.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're going to I think we're going to
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  Speaker 1: learn there's something to do with French in her name.
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  Speaker 1: And then it made her learn more about herself.
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  Speaker 5: Start there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know how this story start.
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  Speaker 3: And my mother told me. Sometimes, you know, when you
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  Speaker 3: lose your card again and you can't find it and
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  Speaker 3: the sleeve is poking out from somewhere in the bed.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes you have to pull it to.
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  Speaker 5: Get metaphor, which means her name's probably right around the corner.
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  Speaker 4: And why is she losing a card to get into bed?
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  Speaker 5: It's the second metaphor. It means we're close to the driveway.
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  Speaker 1: I don't find that relable for me, and so I.
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  Speaker 3: Pulled the card again of my life. And when I
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  Speaker 3: stepped off the plane at Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris, France,
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  Speaker 3: the immigration officer said, what's your name? And I sah
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  Speaker 3: Maria Eliza Basket and I'm here for business and pleasure.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. I'm as I said, I'm from Arcadia. I
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  Speaker 3: have been on the Moth several times and.
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  Speaker 5: Six sony a cuttings.
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  Speaker 3: I'm counting original stories. And so they sent me. I'm
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  Speaker 3: not sure if any of you have been sent this.
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  Speaker 3: The the sweatir the sweatshirt.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I have the sweatshirt as well the neck. They
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  Speaker 1: have the crew neck and I have the zip up Fleee's.
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  Speaker 5: Where's the zip up? Is that old?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: You don't have the zip of Fleae?
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  Speaker 4: I had the zip up? Police?
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  Speaker 3: How many times before they sent you a zip up? Pleae?
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  Speaker 1: Well, the Moth sent me the zip of Flease after
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  Speaker 1: my first time. The zip of flee is not earned
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  Speaker 1: by the amount of times, it's the amount of, you know,
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  Speaker 1: worthwhile times.
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  Speaker 5: So Tea, Sure it's not like the year that you
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  Speaker 5: participated in the moth because I feel like, do you.
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  Speaker 3: Think there was an email that maybe they were supposed
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  Speaker 3: to give out.
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  Speaker 1: But I received an email that I was getting a
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  Speaker 1: zip up. Please, it's actually a fascinating story. I was
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  Speaker 1: sitting on my corduroy couch.
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  Speaker 4: It's gonna be a long one, sitting.
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  Speaker 1: On my corduroy couch, the couch that I got on
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  Speaker 1: a yard sale. The woman said, take what you can.
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  Speaker 1: I can't take anything else. She was going through a divorce.
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  Speaker 1: She said the best memories of her life are on
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  Speaker 1: that couch, but she can't afford to have it in
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  Speaker 1: the new apartment. There's a lot of stuff around there,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of what would be gotten things of that
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  Speaker 1: yard sale. A necklace that say be Frey, another necklace
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  Speaker 1: that says ends nowhere to be seen.
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  Speaker 4: That was your story.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I'm not done. Sorry, I'm just give your whole
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  Speaker 1: moth story. No, this isn't a moth story. This is
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  Speaker 1: something that happened to me. Sorry, this could be a
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  Speaker 1: story if it's good, let me know if it's good
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  Speaker 1: to be able to use it.
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  Speaker 5: I was gonna say a moth story versus what something
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  Speaker 5: that's happened to you?
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  Speaker 4: That's both.
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  Speaker 1: So I took the couch home. I was sitting on
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  Speaker 1: it and I found a little quarter in it, and
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  Speaker 1: the quarter was interesting. Me and my ex husband used
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  Speaker 1: to look at quarters. We used to save them. He
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  Speaker 1: was obsessed with buying mint mints online, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: special Kennedy quarter, stuff like that. When he left, he
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  Speaker 1: took everything with him. But I found this quarter, a
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  Speaker 1: quarter that I knew he would think was wonderful. But
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  Speaker 1: I can't talk to him anymore. We're no contact, no contact.
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  Speaker 1: We don't talk, but we fuck.
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  Speaker 5: There's no way to going back to the zip zip right.
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  Speaker 5: The police.
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  Speaker 4: Anyways, lives on the X. He usually kind of wraps
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  Speaker 4: it up.
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  Speaker 1: I was landing on that. I was sitting on the
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  Speaker 1: quarter of the couch looking at this quarter, thinking what
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  Speaker 1: can I do with this? I was wondering when he
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  Speaker 1: was going to reach out to me. I looked, I
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  Speaker 1: got an email. The email said, we're sitting out the
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  Speaker 1: police's can you send your size? I said, extra large?
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  Speaker 3: And I have to know. I'm I'm so curious. What
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  Speaker 3: did you end up doing with the quarter?
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  Speaker 1: I put it back in the couch, and I thought,
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  Speaker 1: if I ever knee it, it's there. And if he
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  Speaker 1: ever comes home and we are rolling around and having
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  Speaker 1: a moment of passion, passion like we used to have
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  Speaker 1: when we met at the State Fair in two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and two, he'll reach into the crevices find a quarter
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  Speaker 1: and say, Wow, I feel so lucky, and I'll know
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  Speaker 1: all along, Yeah, you are lucky.
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  Speaker 5: I knew that he is the lucky one.
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  Speaker 1: He's the lucky one.
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  Speaker 4: I like to say, that's a way forward? About what
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  Speaker 4: I say? That's a way forward? Oh that's interesting, because
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  Speaker 4: you know, life for me is just about finding ways forward.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you never know what path you're going to
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  Speaker 4: end up on. With the path that you're walking on,
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  Speaker 4: there's a lot of forks in the road. That's not
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  Speaker 4: only two directions before five six. What you're looking for
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  Speaker 4: is just a way forward? Do you do way forward?
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  Speaker 4: Did you go to church? I am a saved from church.
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  Speaker 5: Man's constructionists you were.
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  Speaker 1: Saved from church.
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  Speaker 4: I was saved from church. So I don't believe in religion.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think organized religion is good in this world,
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  Speaker 4: but I do believe that above the world, there is
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  Speaker 4: some sort of universal power that embodies itself in every
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  Speaker 4: single fragment, every single little thing in this universe. And
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  Speaker 4: if you pick at the seam of one of these things,
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  Speaker 4: you'll get life. And that is a way forward.
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  Speaker 3: I really do I have permission to pay you a
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  Speaker 3: compliment you do. I appreciate the way you use your
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  Speaker 3: hands in stories. How I think most people when they
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  Speaker 3: have the instinct to say two, they use these two fingers,
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  Speaker 3: But you're not using those two fingers. You're using entirely
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  Speaker 3: different ones, and they're telling a different story.
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  Speaker 4: And thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Where does that come from?
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  Speaker 4: So that actually, I've never even heard this that I
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  Speaker 4: use my hands. It's insane that you would point that
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  Speaker 4: out for me. That comes from Probably I just wasn't
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  Speaker 4: raised like everybody else. I've just always been a little
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  Speaker 4: bit more observant on the world in a way. My
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  Speaker 4: eyes are opened in a way that sees things that
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  Speaker 4: I've noticed that a lot of people can't see. You know,
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  Speaker 4: their eyes are closed on the world, and I'm on
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  Speaker 4: top of it, eyes open, surfing down the lines. I'm
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  Speaker 4: always looking for these ways forward, and I'm always just
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  Speaker 4: seeing things and experiencing things that I just don't know
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  Speaker 4: if people experience.
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  Speaker 1: Can I ask a girl?
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  Speaker 4: So this people? But it could be a girl a
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  Speaker 4: small way.
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  Speaker 3: So that's a girl, and this is people.
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  Speaker 1: This is a girl, and this is people.
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  Speaker 4: No see, if you were watching, this was me experiencing.
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  Speaker 4: This is people experiencing. And I didn't say.
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  Speaker 3: I remember that being a girl in your story to her,
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  Speaker 3: what happened to the girl? And where is that girl?
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  Speaker 1: Now?
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  Speaker 4: I didn't bring up a girl.
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  Speaker 5: Aren't you surprised? It was me inserting myself. M okay,
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  Speaker 5: like the ragged little bone, I am.
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  Speaker 4: You are a funny one, aren't you.
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  Speaker 3: I find that humor stories are so important and so valuable.
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  Speaker 4: I love your humor stories.
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  Speaker 5: I wouldn't call my story humor. I would call them more.
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  Speaker 5: The line you're about to cross, I walk it. I
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  Speaker 5: walk it home.
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  Speaker 1: So the line someone else is about to cross, you
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  Speaker 1: walk it? So in what way? Another if the.
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  Speaker 5: Comedian is meant to show you where the line is,
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  Speaker 5: I walk it all the way home.
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  Speaker 3: You walked the line.
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  Speaker 4: As an example, what if I told you?
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  Speaker 5: What if I told you. Out of every single person
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  Speaker 5: sleeping every night, I'm not one of them.
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  Speaker 4: What are you doing?
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  Speaker 5: What if I told you I'm an insomniac before a storyteller,
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  Speaker 5: I'm an insomniac.
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  Speaker 4: So what is the line you're walking now? Walking home?
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  Speaker 5: The line I'm walking today is a line of redemption,
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  Speaker 5: a line of I just need a minute. I just
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  Speaker 5: need a minute to clear my what?
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  Speaker 3: I just need a minute. That's just such a relatable
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  Speaker 3: injection of humor that that I think we can all
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  Speaker 3: relate to.
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  Speaker 4: It's if we just had a minute each, I think
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  Speaker 4: people would be happier.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it so funny that a minute is a joke
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  Speaker 1: to an hour? What an hour thinks a minute it's funny?
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  Speaker 1: But a minute doesn't think it's funny?
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  Speaker 3: What well? I would say, the hour doesn't think of
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  Speaker 3: the minute even at all. And that's what's so funny
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  Speaker 3: about that.
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  Speaker 5: When I think of an hour, I think of my
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  Speaker 5: mom when she climbed this mountain. She left me and
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  Speaker 5: my dad and she said, I'm off to climb a mountain,
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  Speaker 5: mountain I couldn't tell you the mountain of I don't
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  Speaker 5: know men, no pause.
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  Speaker 1: She went off alone to have menopause.
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  Speaker 5: That's what dad said. He said, cheer up, kid, cheer up, Rocky.
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  Speaker 5: Mom's moms climbing the mountain of menopause. And I said,
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  Speaker 5: but what about dinner? I said, what about breakfast? Who's
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  Speaker 5: going to do that? And my dad said, there's a
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  Speaker 5: new man in town and he's your dad and he's
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  Speaker 5: your paw.
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  Speaker 4: So all you expected your mom to do was make
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  Speaker 4: dinner breakfast? Whoa, whoa? Whoa?
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  Speaker 5: Is that the beginning of where I begin, where my
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  Speaker 5: learning is. I'm so fucked and I need to sleep.
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  Speaker 4: See you are humorous.
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  Speaker 5: I haven't.
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  Speaker 1: You're very funny.
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  Speaker 3: You are very funny. Story.
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  Speaker 4: You're safe.
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  Speaker 3: That is so funny, very funny story.
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  Speaker 5: It's just the water.
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  Speaker 4: Never had water all I drink is what.
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  Speaker 1: That's funny. The thing about it is, you know, yes,
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  Speaker 1: you just mentioned I haven't slept in days. I believe
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  Speaker 1: a day would think an hour and a minute or
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  Speaker 1: the same. You know, if you're talking to a day,
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  Speaker 1: they're lumping in an hour and a minute, but we
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  Speaker 1: know an hour and a.
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  Speaker 5: Minute or but well, our day is day friends with
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  Speaker 5: the week.
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  Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 1: It's I feel like it's like a little brother situation.
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  Speaker 4: See. What I would say is a week would always
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  Speaker 4: be saying I just need a minute, I just need
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  Speaker 4: one minute.
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  Speaker 1: That's really really interesting, that's really fascinating.
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  Speaker 5: Does the week for some reason remind you, guys, of
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  Speaker 5: your first love?
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  Speaker 4: I was just going to ask, that was Does the
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  Speaker 4: week remind you of your love?
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  Speaker 1: You were going to ask.
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  Speaker 5: Just because I'm young and just because I look like
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  Speaker 5: Mike TV doesn't mean you could be mean to me.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not trying to be mean. I think the youth
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  Speaker 4: have so you an interesting tap into what's going on
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  Speaker 4: in the world that I think your perspective.
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  Speaker 5: And what do you know about me?
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  Speaker 4: What do I know?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: I know that you are like me. How made of atoms?
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  Speaker 4: Made of water? Ideas flowing a fountain of knowledge that
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  Speaker 4: people are waiting to drink.
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  Speaker 3: Water.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, I have a question, and I never did this.
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  Speaker 1: Would you mind reciting Eminem's Lose Yourself just a little bit?
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: I get this all the time, Lose yourself.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: From the beginning of the song, the real lyrics, not
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: the chorus.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: How does that goes these weeks? Oh? What's the first line?
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: What is the first line of that? Does they mean?
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: Goodness? Gracious?
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Four?
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: Storytellers are in a room.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: If you had if you.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: Your storytellers, try to remember.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: One this meme. This reminds me of storytellers. Does it
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: take to recite you remember? Lose yourself?
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: Lose yourself?
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: If I had a nickel and that nickel represented you.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: It's sort of love of those classic setups. None of
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Rabbi walk into a bar. How many does it take?
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: Okay?
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: As classic as mm hmmm mm hmm, it just went away?
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: Okay, okay?
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: Do you use your kindle as a phone? You can
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: make a call on a kindle.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: My lover, his palms are sweaty, knees, weak, arms are heavy.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: There's vomit on our better already better spaghetti. He's nervous,
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: but on the surface he's calm and ready to drop bombs.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: But he keeps on forgetting. Thank you.
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: Can I ask if you did this, if you get
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: a show with a law, what would you do with
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: the other hand so.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: You would not believe?
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: I kind of just want to see you do that
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: exact same thing but with two ants.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: Yes, so.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: I like it a lot less.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: Oh, this is a different feels like.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: This is magician.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Work, This is hypnotism.
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: Okay, so now he doesn't talk.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: His palms are sweaty, arms heavy, there's vomit on a
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: sweater already, moms spaghetti. He's nervous, but on the surface
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: he's calm and ready to drop bombs. But he keeps
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: on forgetting that the whole crowd will go so loud.
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: So you do have the dominant hand.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: It feels yeah, right, is my dominant dominant.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Thank god we had the secondhand to visualize the SAGETI.
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: I didn't know how long it was with the first hand,
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: because yeah, and it.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Was so much more to say with the second.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: You guys have to come to my shows. I would
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: love for you guys to come to my shows.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Where do you guys do shows?
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: I mostly do?
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: Please just answer, please, please answer.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: My shows are mostly at stand up and Tell. There's
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: a great thing in Boulder, Colorado called stand Up and Hell.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: It's where I run a lot of my stories. It's
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: run by a moth old vj J Video jockey and
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: he just lets me go up and try new stories.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Nice.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: What about you?
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I have a first look deal with Romans bookstores, so
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: they get to it's crowd. So I showed them the
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: story first and if they don't want it, I can
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: take it out to other.
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: Email it to them, or do you like tell it
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: to them?
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: I have to go ahead and tell the clerks.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: So you tell the clerks. They decide if they like
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: your story.
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: I have to tell a physical first look.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: It's great.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: It's more like a first here.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Spencer and Nathan love me. But there's this new girl, Regina,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: and she cannot stand me in if she's working, I'm
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: not getting booked. It's so frustrating, but I like it.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's nice. It's a nice place, and the
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: audience is so warm at Romance, it's just so nice.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: They're my crowd. They love the minutia. In Pasadena, everything
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: is about details.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: Yes, do you ever do the the Tell me more,
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: Mike and Burbank, tell me more.
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: I did kids Night, I did Junior Night.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: You did Junior Night. It tell me more. Oh, it's
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: nice that they have a junior Night.
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: Everywhere has a junior night for everything.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Everything has everything.
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: Literally bowling, there's a junior Night.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: That's a good name for a show or sorry, excuse me,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: a story. Junior Night. Have you written a story called
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: junior Night.
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: I'm working on a show full show, a show, a
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: full show, full storytelling show, somewhere in between a story
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: and a novel, but on its feet. And I want
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: to fill the crowd with old people. And I also
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: they can hear you, so they can hear me.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: I think this is such a unique You.
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: Can hear you, they can hear me.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: What do you guys think love is?
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: That's really interesting. I mean, I'm sure we all have
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: a love story.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: We do.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: Mine looks a little different.
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: Of course, it starts somewhere we don't expect. Here comes.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: I'm in the axe throwing bar. I know, I know,
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: but I was invited via Slack for a company outing.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: My boss said that it was the place we'd go
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: to make some friends. Oh great, me sitting around with
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: a bunch of coworkers I don't know, having to throw
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: axes and drink IPAs. What is this the year twenty fourteen?
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: In all seriousness, my father had just passed away. I
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: had seven marbles left in my purse, marbles from his
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: game of Mancala that he's so effortlessly left in my
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: car when I dropped him off on the airport on
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: the way to the hospital.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: The airport, I'm not going to ask why I'm just
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: I'm just calling attention to the way on the airport.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: On the way.
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: Do you.
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: Finished flying? Going to the hospital?
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: He was going on the airport.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: Was always our game, okay, Ever since I was a
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: little girl, we any bad day at school, any bully,
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: any rough grade on a test, any lunch that got
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: stolen from me before I had the chance to eat it. Hey, sport,
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: you want to play some mancala? That's what would greet
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: me when I got home.
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: What was the question, just so I can prep for
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: welcome question was what is love?
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Okay?
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: So when I finally fell in love for the first
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: time over a couple of axes and some bubbling IPAs
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: and that one coworker with that story about Bermuda that
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: I just can't seem to care about, I was swept
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: off my feet in a way that I didn't expect.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: But when I slipped on that seventh marble, I learned
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: sometimes you have to fall before you can know.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Did you hear her slip on six Mars before that?
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: She had?
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Wow?
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: This episode is really funny so far, wouldn't you say, Kylie?
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: I think I'd say so, Jeremy, And you know, I'd
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: say that there's a lot of stuff coming down the
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: pike that is not necessarily only on this episode.
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: Yes, we're talking about our patreon. You guys can check
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: us out on Patreon. Yeah, we play these ridiculous characters,
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: but we also are all friends and real life people
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: and we like hanging out.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: We talk about all the episodes. We have an after
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: show for every episode that in the past, like Recent
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: Memory two years, that you can find on there for
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: the low low price of five dollars a month. And
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: we have a bunch of other stuff too. Jeremy danced
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: for twelve weeks straight one time. You can find all
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: of that on the Patreon.
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: That was a blast. We put in way more work
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: than we need to, and that is reasonable for the Patreon.
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: We just love it. We love hanging out and talking
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: to y' all, so come on and check it out.
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: It genuinely does help us.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: We can't we can't do this without you.
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: Uh oh, she's gone, jafay.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: Join the patreon.
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: D So she's a storyteller. Why does she have a
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: full time job. I've got so many questions, but I'm
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: just not going to ask them. That was beautiful.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: That was about my ex boyfriend Mark.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: There's no way it was. He wasn't mentioned.
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: It was the coworker.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: It was about him.
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: Can I say, you have this amazing ability that both
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: felt written, that both felt extremely written and like you
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: were reading it. I don't know how you did that.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: It's the weirdest acting I've ever heard.
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: It's both written and like you are reading it.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: It is in sence, it's both like written, and I've
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: sort of fallen into a style where you've never seen
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: it on its feet, you've never felt it on its feet.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: And in a way, it's almost like I don't even
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: really want to be there. It's like my coworkers were
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: telling me this is where I should be. Wow, But
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: that's where I found myself week after week, taking solace here.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm sure the stage has been solace and
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: a home.
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: Absolutely rise, it's been healing. It's been a healing place.
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: Some people get therapy. I get up and tell my stories,
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: tell my life.
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: You know, well, you bring up the thing, the excellent
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: point about a full time job, and I'm wondering how
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: each of you pay the bills when you're not telling stories,
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: or if stories do pay the bills. I'm curious about that.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm a humorist. I read some stories. I read
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: a lot online.
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: I love your short stories, and I like your weird drawings.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I make a lot of weird drawings.
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: Figures with really big.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: Feet, strong, with a shaky hand, with a very shaky hand.
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: It's like you're on a bumpy train.
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: It is just so you. I mean talking about style.
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: I feel like each of us come in this world,
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: not necessary knowing will we end up, but discovering your
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: style along the way is a path forward.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: It is, it is. I have a zine. It's really fun.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: But working up the courage to make a zine.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: It's really courageous for me to have done it. It's
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: brave and it's scary, and I was nerve wracked. But
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: when I finally did it, I was so proud and
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: I get to talk about so many wonderful things. I
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: just I just made this story that I published about
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: meeting a man on grinder with a piss kinke and
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: it was so fun, hilarious. It was, you know, drinking
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: different drinks throughout the week to see if it made
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: my piss different flavors.
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: I loved that.
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: And you guys call me the funny one.
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: He is so funny, but you are really funny.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: I want to challenge you that me pissing on another
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: man is not funny. It's just sexuality. I would challenge you.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: I know you're young, but piss is not funny per se.
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: For me, it was so funny.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: I want to challenge you that it's sexuality, whether it
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: be homosexuality or heterosexuality, is not funny.
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: I'm talking about the person you're with. I think I'm
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: talking about you drinking something like me.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Me discovering that watermelon power aide makes my piss taste
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: different than milk.
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: That's funny.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: It's not funny. It's a discovery. It's a challenge.
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: And I don't even think that's sexual. I think it's just.
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: Like biological to needcover funny.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: I need all of you to look at your biases
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: and realize how hurtful you're being. Right now.
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: Thank you for giving me this challenge, because I have
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: to admit I giggled your lying about the piss coffee frappuccino.
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: It struck me as humorous, But now I.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: See something about you is evil.
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: Can I say something and I'm just thinking it.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: I say something.
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: Do you feel like you don't have a You're not
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: a good storyteller, but you're really good at doing the
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: melody of a story.
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: No, I'm obsessed with her story.
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: It's interesting.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Feel so.
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: Want to learn more.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: There's so many people who I've learned from who I'm
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: in any In many ways, I'm just sort of sort
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: of taking the lessons they've given me. You know, the
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: people who run that tell me more. Mike, those legends, Sarah, Adrian, Mikey.
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: They are legends.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: Legends and pillars in the community. And so if anything,
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: I'm I'm sorry if I appear nefarious in any way.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: I only aim to tell a story.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: Oh it's okay, Okay, something is.
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: But that was weird just right now.
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: I don't know what I said. I only aim to
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: tell a story.
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: See, I think I don't think she's actually telling a story.
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: I think she's doing something else.
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: I think she's perfect. I'm enamored. I'm obsessed, and I
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: want to discover.
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: Can you hold my water for a second. Yeah, I'm
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: just GOODA tie my shoe. What were you saying?
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: I was saying, I'm enamored.
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: Dang, I thought i'd get him to stop.
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: I'm obsessed and I need to discover what's at the
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: bottom shoe of that fountain.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: There it is.
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: If you give me a prop, I use it into
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: my story.
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: Big whoops on me?
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: What's your style? I mean we barely heard you tell
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: a story. Okay, we can move on.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: He might tell the trolley story. I've seen him do
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: it once.
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: Oh, here comes trolley, Mama, the trolleys rolling down.
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: Get up, Get up, Junior, the trolley's here, gan up, Yes, stupid, heck,
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: what do you mean? I was watching the TV. The
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: voices everything I heard sounded like mush. Do people talk
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: like this anymore?
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: I'm asleep. Oh he was watched TV every night. Mm
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: hmm these voices. Part of me goes, these voices in
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: my head? Get up, rest? What does it sound like?
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: I want rest? I want space? Can I'm with a trally?
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: Time for the trappy little boy?
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: I want space from my thoughts. I want to stop.
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: I want to stop the car and I want to
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: I'll be down in a second. Mom, it's time for school.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: I just think, what's amazing one that it's just a
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: story about watching TV.
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: I'm telling you you are like the Larry David of storytelling.
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: That was hilarious, so funny, so funny, and it was
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: just I couldn't. These voices that you do are uncanny,
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: they are inspired, they are beautiful, and they are fun.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: Which show is that Apple Dumpling Gang?
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: What would you say that show?
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: Apple Dumpling Gang.
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: No, it wasn't the Apple Dumping Game, Dumpling Appling, Apple
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: Dumpling Apple?
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, am I showing my TV show? I'm
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: so old.
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: You're not that old.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: I'm sixty two.
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: That's not that old.
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: How old are you?
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: I'm seventeen.
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: Gosh, gosh.
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: You have so many more stories to tell.
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: So many little stories to uncover.
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: Do you actually think my stories are good? Or I'm
• 38:46
  Speaker 5: just young and I got into this.
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: It's a little bit of both for me.
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: That sucks.
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: No, they're not bad. They're interesting. You're here's something that
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: you're doing with these voices that are I've never seen.
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: It's TV.
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: It's something raw, and I think what fills in the
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: gaps of that raw energy is life. And the more
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: you live, the more you'll have to tell and you'll
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: get there.
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: But all I do as I live is watch content.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Do you feel like because you have this beautiful, really
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: wonderful vocabulary that I can imagine gets in the way
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: of relating to other people that you go to school with,
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: do you find yourself lonely or other people that like
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: you that can connect with you.
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's funny. You said that I don't have any friends.
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: Not anymore?
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, not anymore? Do you not have any friends?
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: Not anymore? Do you not have them?
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: So?
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: I don't anymore have no friends? So I have friends now? Yeah,
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: And it's you guys implying that you guys will be
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: my friends.
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: That's path forward?
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: Do you want to are you? Are you saying you
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: want to be my friend?
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: And that's a path forward?
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: I your dedication to path forward?
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you it.
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: Could you tell me more about your strategy. I know
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: that you hashtag every post you have with path Forward.
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: Now I'm not really in the social media game. Yeah,
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: but what does that do and what do you hope
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: to achieve?
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: I believe that branding is important, and I think having
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: a path forward is a great way for people to know.
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: But do you feel like if you hashtag it on
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: every story? No story has its own category. That's just
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: the category of every single story, so and therefore it
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: means nothing.
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: I think it actually means everything, because every single story
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: should have a path forward.
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: It's almost like the hashtag AD but for storytellers.
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: Or hashtag for you, m h, it's sort of if
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: it's or hashtag video, it's like using the hashtag video.
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: What's wrong with that? I do that every post too.
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: I do hashtag ad, hashtag video, hashtag path forward.
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: And they're not ads?
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: Are they? No? They're not ads. I just want to
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: grab on that ad algorithm that hot Wait, this.
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: Is an important question. Maybe I'm just young and selling out,
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: but are any of you guys doing branded stories?
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: I told the story about hot Cheetos.
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: We can all do our branded story.
• 41:40
  Speaker 5: We can guess the brand, okay, because I like to
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: hide my branded stories pretty deep.
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: It is ghost to say the name of the brand
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: in your branded story exactly.
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: If you could do a good job, you'll just sell
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: the product on its own, is what I believe.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: Well, and and look, commercialism is obviously awful. I am
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: not a so porter of it, but if I want
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: to make some money, I have to do this. You know,
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: I would do want to hear your hot cheetos story.
• 42:07
  Speaker 5: Let's hear it.
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: M Sunday. I woke up and walked and immediately felt
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: the sun hitting here and reminded me of my mother,
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: the way I would sleep on her breasts. I found
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: comfort in a warm embrace of being held, being thrown
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: up and down. My father entering the room, asking have
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: you been to church yet? Me wondering why we go
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  Speaker 4: to church?
• 43:08
  Speaker 5: WHOA no cheeto yet?
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: Cheeto count zero.
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: It's that type of fire, that type of passion, that
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: type of flavor that you can find in every single
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: hot cheeto.
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: Found the cheeto.
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: Hashtag ad hashtag video, hashtag path forward Now.
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: Did you catch the cheeto just now? Or was that
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: your aunt?
• 43:48
  Speaker 5: And he's celebrating his own story a little bit more
• 43:49
  Speaker 5: about religion than I expected of.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: A victory lap over here. He's enjoying that he got
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: to tell.
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: That incredible That was a great stranded story. Thank you
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: for sharing.
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: Thank you you guys. Go.
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: The first man I focked couldn't come unless I clasped
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: his balls.
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: A lot of brands wouldn't like this.
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: We were in a chateau, a chateau in New Orleans, Louisiana,
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: he said, come inside, and come inside me. He said,
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: don't leave until the morning. I don't want the landlord
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: to see you. She thinks I'm straight.
• 44:29
  Speaker 5: Maybe Airbnb.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: I said, honey, you're more of a queen than Elizabeth.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: There's no way that you're getting out of this. The
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: secret's out. Being an openly gay man in New Orleans
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: wasn't necessarily a walk in the bar. We had our problems,
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: but we had our fun too.
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: It could be secret the deodorant.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: I was nervous that this man loved me so much,
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: the way sweat would drop down his forehead onto.
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: His shoes Nike.
• 45:06
  Speaker 5: It could be both. It could be both.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: In the morning, the sun shined in like all tiny
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: pieces of dust, dancing, dancing in the moonlight, dancing in
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: the sunlight, the light where the sun and the moon
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: shook hands and said goodbye. Hmm. As I left, he said, wait,
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: before you got here, can you have rav and his
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: sex with me one more time?
• 45:33
  Speaker 5: I said, yes, okay, there's gonna ask to call a
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: new book.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: As we swapped fluids, I began to realize I need
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: to stop by and grab myself a McRib. It was limited.
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: It's a limited time. He said, what are you thinking about?
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: I said meat. He said that's right, and I said,
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: not the kind you think.
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: Holy shit, it's a wow.
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: That was for McDonald's.
• 46:08
  Speaker 4: I'm sure they loved that. I'm sure they loved that.
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: They did they they they played it, and they played
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: it in Morocco.
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: In Tangiers.
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: Morocco would hate that story.
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: I don't think they could play that there. They could
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: play that, actually, that story there, I'm not sure.
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: I don't care they paid me.
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: I never was a fan of the song Hit Me
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: Baby one more Time.
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: It's the best thing in the world I am in.
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: I need more.
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: Something about that chorus, so, something about that auto tune.
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: It just rubbed my ears the wrong way. So when
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: I was pushed on stage, she.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: Always doesn't.
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: So when I was pushed on stage at Club TG
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: for my thirty second birthday, I knew that blind karaoke
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: was never gonna be my thing?
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: What brought it?
• 47:22
  Speaker 5: Could it be?
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: But then I remembered who wasn't at my birthday party?
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: My friend Sarah. She just got a new job in Washington,
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: d C. Telling Congress to stop putting oil every damn where.
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: Her job to put oil every damn where I'm.
• 47:46
  Speaker 5: Gonna tell you this right now. If we go back
• 47:47
  Speaker 5: to Baby one more Time, I'm out of here.
• 47:50
  Speaker 4: I walk.
• 47:50
  Speaker 5: If it's a lyric from Baby one more Time, I
• 47:52
  Speaker 5: fucking want it's to come out of fucking nowhere.
• 47:55
  Speaker 4: It's gonna slam us in the ass.
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: So when I finally asked the DJ okay give it
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: to me, what's my blind KARAOKEI song? And he showed
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: me that Blue Early two thousand's cover of that Brittany album,
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: I thought, oh no, I have to get out of here.
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: So I ran to the bathroom and what did they
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: have sitting on the bar counter? Happened to the friend
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: of congree playtext tampons.
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: Wow, it was a play text, you know, the playtext
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: crowd I think would love.
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: Crowd, would love that. That was beautiful And there's a
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: little bit more about it that where I you know
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: I and the false In the full version, I do
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: sing all of hit Me.
• 48:51
  Speaker 4: Baby one No way.
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: That is electric, even though I don't like it, even
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: though it grinds my gears.
• 48:58
  Speaker 4: That's amazing.
• 49:00
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry if I'm active listening too much and talking
• 49:03
  Speaker 5: throughout your story.
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: No, it's I love an engaged audience.
• 49:07
  Speaker 4: What about your brand? Train thing going on?
• 49:16
  Speaker 5: Titanic's moving, Oh, Titanic, Titanic's flying away, now.
• 49:24
  Speaker 4: Get on in. Eh a British boat.
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: The boat is flying What a weird movie.
• 49:32
  Speaker 5: I just want to go to sleep.
• 49:37
  Speaker 4: Brand could be anything.
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: Listen up, is ship going there?
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: Huh?
• 49:44
  Speaker 5: I didn't remember it being like this. I just need
• 49:47
  Speaker 5: to go to bed.
• 49:49
  Speaker 4: Listen up, everybody, who is this character?
• 49:56
  Speaker 5: We got walver as high as I can see, and
• 49:59
  Speaker 5: we're heading straight to the bottom of the ocean.
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: I think it's trucks.
• 50:10
  Speaker 4: I think that. I think the brand's gonna come out
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: of nowhere.
• 50:14
  Speaker 5: Hey, little Rocky, are you asleep now? I'm watching TV?
• 50:19
  Speaker 5: But I'll go to sleep soon. I promise.
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: Rocky.
• 50:24
  Speaker 5: Stop being dishonest. I just wanted dishon.
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: It's like it's.
• 50:33
  Speaker 5: The water came and it flew. Wow. I didn't know
• 50:38
  Speaker 5: the Titanic was flooded with disawney water. What a strong mineral.
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: So you equated to sawny to sinking the Titanic.
• 50:48
  Speaker 5: I don't know you.
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: You know, when a seventeen year old gets a brand deal,
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: it's kind of always how it goes. They shouldn't see
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: that money that, young guys, Can I ask you so
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: much money?
• 50:59
  Speaker 5: There's so much money in it? Don't you guys want
• 51:01
  Speaker 5: to tell everybody who know write branded stories.
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: So much money?
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: It's a lot of money in it.
• 51:06
  Speaker 4: Can I can? I I ask you a question. I
• 51:11
  Speaker 4: would like to know when you guys know you are
• 51:16
  Speaker 4: living in a story you're going to tell in the future,
• 51:21
  Speaker 4: When you are experiencing that wave of knowledge, knowing that
• 51:28
  Speaker 4: a story is what is happening right now, a future
• 51:34
  Speaker 4: moth story.
• 51:35
  Speaker 5: Hmm, When will you guys know that what you're doing
• 51:42
  Speaker 5: is a future story?
• 51:44
  Speaker 4: Why do I piss you off? Someone there?
• 51:45
  Speaker 5: He said it as I was trying to sleep with
• 51:48
  Speaker 5: these two old, three old people. Bored as ever, I
• 51:52
  Speaker 5: sat there listening to him, asked me if this was
• 51:56
  Speaker 5: a story that I would one day tell? And yeah,
• 51:58
  Speaker 5: big guy, it is, that.
• 52:03
  Speaker 4: Was your answer.
• 52:04
  Speaker 5: That's a little preview of story I'm writing of you, sir.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: The little man with the hands and wondered how he'd masturbates.
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: I wondered, if he's ever experienced anal pleasure, I certainly
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: won't be the one to give it to him. My
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: penises as useless as a incumbent president on the last
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: year of an election. Y. I wondered, he talks so
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: much but says so little. I wonder if what his
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: mouth looks like surrounding abreast. I wonder what does feet
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: do when they dance. I wondered if anyone's attracted to him,
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: or if he'll ever have sex. I wonder if there's
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: any hope for him.
• 52:53
  Speaker 4: I just don't know what I did that was so
• 52:56
  Speaker 4: off putting.
• 52:57
  Speaker 5: Nothing, I think for two.
• 53:01
  Speaker 3: I never was good at high fiving. It was something
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: that didn't come naturally to me. After the baseball games
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: in Little League, I would hide in the dugouts so
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: I didn't have to go in the high five train.
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: But then I met a man who wasn't only high fiving,
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: but telling stories with all five fingers. And I want
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: to learn from him, and I want to invite him
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: to the tell me more. After hours, Mike, after.
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: Hour, I would I would not do this. I do
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: want to be clear.
• 53:47
  Speaker 4: I do want to be clear interest.
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: I do want to be clear.
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: There's an old gay man and a young seventeen year
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: old boy, and you're the only one that might be
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: praying for him. So I want to be clear that
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: we're safe but you're.
• 54:04
  Speaker 5: A moving forget target.
• 54:05
  Speaker 4: What makes it after hours?
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: They don't do it alcohol at the after hours one.
• 54:11
  Speaker 4: You know, I have always loved a little bit of whisky,
• 54:22
  Speaker 4: a little bit of ice. So this for me seems
• 54:31
  Speaker 4: like a path forward. I've got him, I've got him.
• 54:40
  Speaker 5: Oh my god, the lady she's becoming dust.
• 54:43
  Speaker 4: Please do this for me. I've never hooked up with anybody. Please,
• 54:47
  Speaker 4: I'm not.
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: I'm obtained another storyteller ru the Moth universe.
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