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Bonus: Tape 001 · My Third Place Pod

• 0:06
  OK, Is it recording? I hope it's recording.
• 0:14
  Just feels dumb. All right, so sorry, this is me.
• 0:22
  I'm just talking, I guess. I don't really know what to say.
• 0:27
  I don't know how to start. I don't know what to say.
• 0:29
  I don't know how to start this. I'm not doing this for class.
• 0:37
  My guidance counselor, Miss Calderon, said I should try
• 0:42
  something this year to like, get more confident, especially with
• 0:47
  presentations, she said. I didn't have to turn it in or
• 0:54
  anything. Just supposed to help me talk
• 0:57
  more. I mean, I talk, I like to talk.
• 1:03
  I don't talk loud enough, talk all the time.
• 1:07
  That's not what I'm supposed to when they call on me and you
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  know, I don't talk. I don't like to talk loud.
• 1:15
  I, I, I guess I tend to whisper like I, I don't know if you can
• 1:21
  barely hear me, but I tend to whisper.
• 1:23
  I guess I used to like honey, I don't know.
• 1:27
  I just don't talk loud. You know, school just started
• 1:33
  again and everybody feels long. Like how did October already?
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  Like Halloween is like a few weeks away and I'm just like,
• 1:43
  very great. I still have Miss Bush.
• 1:50
  Misses Bush for English. Freaking clutch.
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  I'll tell you, I like her. She's a great teacher.
• 2:02
  Like I had her last year, English one.
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  This is English 2 now, but she actually likes when people talk,
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  not just read off paper. Yes, she said.
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  I should try to get more comfortable speaking in front of
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  people. I don't know.
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  I got Mr. S like, Nah, they want me to like be comfortable
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  speaking in front of people. Then you should not put me with
• 2:37
  Mr. S It doesn't help if you already had them.
• 2:44
  You already know what I mean. That dude, that's where he waits
• 2:49
  until you're not ready. He just calls you out of the
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  blue, like, you go ahead, go right up.
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  And you're like me, like, yeah, you go.
• 3:06
  Was it geography? So he makes us point up at go up
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  to the class, hold the map and make us point at the map and
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  with his little ruler saying a pointer and like you try to
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  tell, you know, it's like, hey, so I did this country.
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  And then then he starts yelling. He's like, I can't hear you.
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  So he makes you repeat it. And then he tried again, and he
• 3:45
  says he still can't hear you. And everybody laughs.
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  And then you just want to disappear.
• 3:51
  And you're just like, no, go away.
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  And like, it feels forever being up there.
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  And I hate it. I hate it so much.
• 4:00
  It's so aggravating and frustrating for that.
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  So yeah, I don't know how that's supposed to help.
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  I'm a sophomore now. I freaking weird.
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  So because like last year was man, last year was crazy of last
• 4:27
  year was crazy. Like I heard so many rumors that
• 4:31
  you couldn't walk on the senior lawn or else you're going to get
• 4:35
  jumped by the seniors. If it was your birthday, they'd
• 4:38
  jump you. It's like all kinds of things,
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  man. It was like, you know, trying to
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  survive. It was crazy.
• 4:46
  It was crazy last year. I'm, I'm so glad freshman, the
• 4:51
  freshmen this year though, are they're from my old school, so I
• 4:55
  actually know a few of them. Like who do I know?
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  Like Roderick, who else? Jeff, There's a lot of people
• 5:08
  from last year and that's hella cool 'cause like, you know, you
• 5:15
  get to hang out again. We mostly talk about wrestling.
• 5:22
  Honestly, it's like the most I talk to people about, you know,
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  it's like wrestling is literally the only thing everyone agrees
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  on right now. And last year freaking just past
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  year. Not last year.
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  Last year. We talked about it this year,
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  man, this past summer was crazy. DNW happened.
• 5:49
  Hulk Hogan turned freaking heel, dude.
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  Like what? What if you don't know who Hulk
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  Hogan is? He's one of my favorite
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  wrestling. But yeah, like, that's how you
• 6:02
  know how people are. Cool.
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  Like, I like people to watch wrestling and don't take it too
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  serious. And just like, Oh yeah, you
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  know, everybody's got a pity ring like WWW, who's better,
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  who's trash, who sold out with the NWO?
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  I'm not even trying to argue, but I just like it.
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  I like it. I like, I love it.
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  I wanted one day, like one day freaking wrestle for sure.
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  Like, one day I want to, like, do it.
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  Hey, You know, like, remembering from when I was a kid, I jumped
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  off the couch because I wanted to do an elbow drop and I hurt
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  my elbow. Yeah, sometimes keep going.
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  Be like, lunch is mad clicky. Like, do what, you know, where
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  everybody sits already. So I just like whatever I bypass
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  that. I usually go to the small gym
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  and play soccer because I love soccer.
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  I love playing, I love watching. I don't play though enough
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  because I'm like freaking. I'm new.
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  I don't want to freaking. I don't know, I need to learn
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  more. Like I said, that is probably
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  what I'm doing this for. I mostly hang out with the
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  Spanish kids and it's cool though.
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  Nobody's run. They're really cool girls.
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  I'm not really trying to date anyone here.
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  Not out here. It's freaking awkward.
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  Like what if you break up and you're still going to walk past
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  each other for like 4 years? Like how did the other people
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  that have been here for so long handle that?
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  Yeah, it's not for me. I'm good.
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  I like, what? Did we start breaking up before
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  October, before homecoming and stuff was weird.
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  It's awkward. I'd rather talk to a girl from
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  what I'm smooth, but what I'm currently doing right now.
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  Hold on, I didn't know why I'm recording this at home.
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  I think it's just quieter. Me.
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  Nobody's here. I, it's just got the fan on, but
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  you're still like, I should have turned it off, but you know, I,
• 8:37
  I, Oh well, whatever, I don't have to turn these in or
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  anything. This is, Caledon said.
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  I could just do whatever she told me, just like, you know,
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  record herself. So I ask my mom if I could get
• 9:00
  some money and go buy some tapes, cassette tapes and record
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  myself on my radio, on my little radio and just, I don't know,
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  I've what's it called? I used to do that like a few
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  years back when I was hanging out with my homies and we would
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  do some, we would sing songs. We're just saying all that
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  stuff. It's fun.
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  One of my cousins used to like record himself being a DJ.
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  He it was, it was freaking off. It was crazy.
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  It was crazy. Wow.
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  OK. I just never imagined myself, me
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  doing that. No, I could never.
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  I would never. That'd be crazy.
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  Be a DJ, be getting in front of the cabinet, get in front of
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  people. I, I really have freaking the
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  cojones to get in for other people right now.
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  I'm just like, you know, this is the country of Italy, blah,
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  blah, all that shit. But Mr. Caldon said I could
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  bring it these tapes in anytime I wanted to talk about anything
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  that's going on. But it isn't required.
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  I don't have to. But just like, you know, for
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  good extra credit. I don't know what I would say in
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  this. Stuff like, this is weird.
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  She says it would be mostly to get for myself to, like, listen
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  to myself talk without freezing up.
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  I mean, so far I'm doing good. I'm fine.
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  It's just like when people look at me and it's like, what are
• 10:50
  you looking at? Why are you laughing?
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  And I freeze up and I hate how my voice sounds already like
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  whatever I'm I'm comfortable. Oh my God.
• 11:03
  Anyway, it's school feels different.
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  It's just not bad, but just different.
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  Summer went by really fast. Really, really fast.
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  I'm sorry. I don't know why I'm jumping
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  around my brain. That's how my brain works
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  actually. It's just I, I'm doing this.
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  I, I, you could even see me on here like at school, just like I
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  go from 1 scene to the other. I don't know what they call it.
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  Just, you know, I'm not all there, I guess, All right,
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  Things that I've been into so far lately.
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  I'm into wrestling. You already know that.
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  WF and Dutch Odeon Midnights and again on Saturdays for WW, the
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  Superstars, something like that. Their fault.
• 12:02
  I remember watching WWF Superstars on Saturday morning
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  something. Hulk Hogan is my favorite
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  wrestler of all time, but he turned heel.
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  He turned heel at freaking Bash at the Beach.
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  Bash at the Beach is a paper here.
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  It's a it's a show. And he turned heel and joined
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  these two guys from the other F Diesel and Razor Ramon, Kevin
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  Nash and Scott Hall. And now they're calling himself
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  NWO. And I'm just like, hell yeah.
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  It's so freaking fun. I love it.
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  They're deep. They're just like they're they
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  run. Don't you know you now?
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  It's crazy. I tell you, it's crazy.
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  It's so crazy. I could talk about wrestling
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  forever. Forever.
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  Like, a lot. That's what me and my friends
• 13:00
  just talk about wrestling forever.
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  Just like, hey, what was your favorite match this past year
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  and all this shit? Yeah, yeah, Last year was
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  horrible. But this year is like, gay.
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  Like the ratings are up because those W and NWO.
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  Hell yeah for life, baby. That's what I'm talking about.
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  Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
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  What else did I do, Pastor? I went to the movies.
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  Yeah. Independence Day.
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  Independence Day with Will Smith and Bill Paxton.
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  Bill Paxton or Bill Pullman. Bill Pullman.
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  Sorry. Yeah, that fucking movie was
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  hot. Oh my God.
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  There's this one girl from Saved by the Bell in the college
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  years. I saw her.
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  I was like, hey, it's that one girl from, you know, Saved by
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  the Bell. And it's like, and I kept
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  telling you I was like, yeah, that one girl from, say, about
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  about college years, the one that dates AC slaters in this,
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  but nobody knows what I need 'cause I guess nobody saw the
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  college years. Whatever, man, whatever.
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  But Independence Day, Yes. That was a great movie.
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  Oh my gosh, So awesome. They freaking Jeff Goldthrough
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  from from Jurassic Park. That one guy, dude, Yeah, you
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  have to watch this movie. You have to.
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  It is the best freaking movie I've ever seen.
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  Oh, man, the aliens are wild. The aliens are crazy.
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  Oh, man. What else?
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  Mission Impossible with Tom Cruise.
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  How do I used to watch the old TV show?
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  The the old, old TV show my mom used to be like, What's this?
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  And like and watch it. It's like Mission Impossible.
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  Like like I love the theme song. It's like it's your mission to
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  choose to accept it. And it was fun.
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  It was fun watching it. Freaking love the theme song and
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  everything trailers. What I want to watch next, I
• 15:19
  don't know, don't be a menace or something like that is a fun.
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  It's a crazy ad movie. I don't I've never I don't know.
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  This movie is coming out in December called Scream.
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  Yeah, I'm so going to watch that Marky Mark.
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  Marky Mark. If you know who Marky Mark is,
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  Good Vibrations guy Fear. That's the movie.
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  Hell yeah. It looks fucking crazy.
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  It looks hella crazy. I I wanna watch it.
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  I wanna see. I'm so into that.
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  Hell yeah. I rarely watch cartoons
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  starting, you know, on Saturday mornings.
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  I know. I it's not like I used to watch
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  him. It's like, you know, I don't
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  have time for that. It's like now it's just like
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  girls, like everything is on my mind is girl stuff, girls here,
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  girls there. It's like, whoa, calm down
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  there. But my favorite are X-Men.
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  I love the X-Men. Oh my God, X-Men are so awesome.
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  I guess the toys also, my brother has toys, but you know,
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  action figures, space shipping. Like there's lava, WMAC,
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  Masters. If you've never seen that, it's
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  like a martial arts show. It's like I started to be like a
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  real, real show up. And no, it's scripted.
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  It's like, you know, it's a show.
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  Show. There's this one dude on the
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  show. He's in Mortal Kombat.
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  Well, he wasn't Mortal Kombat. I forgot his name, though.
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  Like, I got to look it up. He's the one with the dreads.
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  And like, yeah, I spotted him in the movie and I was like, oh,
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  shoot, it's that one guy from WMAC Masters.
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  Hell yeah. And then he died in the movie.
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  And I'm like, no way. Oh, damn, OK, whatever.
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  Been playing games nonstop. Like I'm still freaking stuck on
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  this level. On March 64, we got the we got
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  the Nintendo 64 for Christmas. Well, my brother did 'cause he
• 17:37
  gets everything like it is. But you know, I like to play it
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  like I. So he got that and he started
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  playing that. I said let's get Mortal Kombat
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  also like we got it. We also got a car racing game,
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  Cruising USA, and my sisters love it.
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  Yeah, those are her favorites so far.
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  Which house music. Music's been hitting music.
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  Oh my God, dude freaking pot got killed in September.
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  Freaking hell. That's crazy.
• 18:20
  Wow he was in Vegas and kind of fighting and all this shit came
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  out. Him and that one dude that runs
• 18:36
  the fucking death row never has made me big though.
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  Just you know, they were, they were shot and like 7 days later
• 18:48
  POC died and now he's gone and they've been playing freaking
• 18:54
  California love non-stop. It's crazy.
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  I mean, I love POC. He's fucking awesome.
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  I loved him in Poet of Justice, I loved him in freaking above
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  the rim. So crazy.
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  But he passed away and I'm like that's all right.
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  I don't know. What the fuck, you know, I
• 19:18
  that's my favorite. He's he's one of my favorites.
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  I love his music. Everybody at school, some of
• 19:29
  some of the people, some of the kids are at school, other ones
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  like, yeah, that sucks, you know?
• 19:38
  Yeah, I also been bumping No Diggity.
• 19:43
  That video is freaking awesome. It's funny too.
• 19:47
  It has the band as puppets also, and it's supposed to be how
• 19:51
  Anthony Hardaway had his puppet when he did those commercials.
• 19:55
  If you don't know who, Anthony Penny Hardaway.
• 19:59
  Yeah, he's hilarious. Speaking of basketball, Jordan's
• 20:03
  back. We've won the championship
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  again. In June and I'm like hell yeah,
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  hell exciting. That's my dog.
• 20:12
  That's my dog. I love Michael Doran.
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  I can't wait to watch Space Jam when it comes to help.
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  Oh my God, I that's going to be crazy.
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  He's with the Looney Tunes. It's going to be like how they
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  did with one Frame Roger Rabbit or something.
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  That would be great. There's also another movie
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  that's a cartoon. It has Brad Pitt, that one hot
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  cartoon girl. Cool world.
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  Yeah, that movie could be awesome.
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  Hell yeah. That's so cool.
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  I can't wait to watch these movies.
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  I'm so excited. I'm making a list of movies I
• 20:57
  want to watch, so hopefully that that shit be like, right there
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  and stuff. What else?
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  Yeah. I don't really date anyone at
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  school, not because I don't want to.
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  It's just, you know, the whole breakup thing.
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  It's just, you know, it's like I don't want to see this person
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  for the rest of my school year. It's, you know, and I dated her.
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  I dated her. I dated her.
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  I was like this crazy man. It's like how you guys do it.
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  It's like, how do you, how do you guys and girl to them?
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  I don't know. You can't pretend it's not
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  weird. Totally.
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  I like, I just tried to talk to other girls from other schools.
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  Safer. Nobody's going to know.
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  Nobody's going to know here. It's like, you know, like she
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  don't see me over there. I don't see her over here.
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  It's all good. I met this girl at my cousin's
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  apartment complex. Her name is Nikki.
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  Yeah. If he hit it off right away.
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  This is back in June. Yeah.
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  We've been dating Tano. Like we've been together ever
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  since. And we like, was like, I yeah,
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  yeah, it's long distance. And we only see each other when
• 22:15
  I come over to the apartments. Like, dude, it was my cousin's
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  birthday and we went out there. My mom and my brother and
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  sisters and I saw her. And we were just waking talking.
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  Yeah, we were talking. We were making out at the same
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  time. Hey.
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  Hi. But, you know, we got to, she
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  got to meet my mom. We got to meet everybody and
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  everything. It's really cool.
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  Like she's really cool. There's a song that she likes
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  already and she thought like, Oh my God, you know this song, I
• 22:55
  love it like Always Be My Baby by Mariah Carey.
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  And I'm like, OK, yeah, we can listen to that.
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  It's like like that's her song now.
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  I'm just like, we have a song now.
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  She's like, sure, why not? Let's go always be my baby.
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  You're like, I'll never get tired of that song.
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  Why not? And she's been singing it
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  non-stop and stuff. After school I come home, do a
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  little homework, checking my brothers and sisters, do
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  anything, cook for them because my mom's working at night till
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  night time. Then I usually go across the
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  street and hang out with my friends until like 9 basically
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  into the street lights come on and I'm just like alright I got
• 23:38
  to go back home, go check in at home, see if my mom's home yet
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  or if not come back out, check in on the kids, see how they're
• 23:48
  doing. They're good, they're good.
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  They don't come home till like later on because they're like,
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  they walk home. So this is like the quietest
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  part of the day. So I get to actually talk.
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  Yeah, which is cool. I like doing this.
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  This is so cool. Hold on.
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  I didn't realize how late it was.
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  They're almost going to be home, so I guess I got to go.
• 24:24
  I suppose, yeah. So all right.
• 24:33
  Yeah. Cool.
• 24:34
  I'll do this again later.