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042 - Discovering a passion for cooking w/ Steve Paniagua · Here's to You

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  Hey everybody, it's Dusty V here.
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  I just wanted to let you know that the following episode
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  featuring Steve of Bully and Bulk on Instagram, umm, the
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  audio might sound a little weird.
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  I had to pull the audio from the video recording that we did
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  because I had a bunch of my equipment stolen and some of
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  that equipment had the original audio recording that we did with
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  Steve. So just a fair warning that the
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  audio is not quite up to the standard that I try to push out
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  for our episodes and in general. And hopefully we can get Steve
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  on to do another show with us. Thanks ladies and gentlemen, you
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  are now tuned into another episode of Here's to You, the
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  podcast. I am your host and producer,
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  Dusty V. Sitting next to me with her blue
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  hair is 5 milli Fanny. Milligram. 5 Milli, Fanny.
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  And. Today, our guest in studio is
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  our dear friend and dear friend of one of our other dear
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  friends, Eddie. It's Steve.
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  Hell yeah. How you guys doing?
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  Good. How are you doing?
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  I'm good I just want to introduce myself Steve Punyagua.
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  You can find me under bullying bulk on all my platforms.
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  Just so you guys know I am smart, handsome, strong and buff
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  Yes you are. So if you guys do want to make
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  sure you guys have. Yeah.
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  How you doing today, Steve? Dude, it's really fucking high
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  here. Not in here, but like, in
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  general, yeah. And, like, my office's, like,
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  air conditioning is off, so it sucks, Yeah.
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  But no, I just just. Yeah, but you're also really
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  strong. But and handsome and smart and
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  smart. Yeah, Just make sure you know
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  that. And then you know that.
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  Yeah, I know that. Yeah.
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  But we're in here to make sure everyone.
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  Yeah, everyone knows that. You guys should just look me up
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  and you'll see it on there. He'll laugh in a little bit.
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  You'll be excited. Yeah, you can see the handsome.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just look into the eyes.
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  Yeah, that's exactly what it. Is yeah, yeah.
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  And then mesmerize instantly. But it is fucking hot.
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  It is. It is.
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  Dusty's dad is currently at an airport right now.
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  Yeah, he's in South Korea and I can only imagine all the hotness
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  that's walking by him right now. Not talking about the heat.
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  Oh, OK, That was that wasn't implied.
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  I didn't pick up on that. Thank you.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  You know, I'm just even though I'm super smart.
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  Yeah, you see that? I didn't pick up on that.
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  It's because I'm not that smart sometimes.
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  Oh, and. If you still haven't picked up
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  on it, there's a lot of baddies in South Korea.
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  Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
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  That's the good one. Yes, North Korea is the bad one,
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  correct? Yes, baddies there too.
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  Yeah, not in the sense that we like though.
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  Yeah, like 'cause they're yeah. They're like.
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  Bad, bad and and we like bad we. Like bad.
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  Bad. Oh, OK, That's that's yeah.
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  That's really changes it, yeah. That really cleared things up
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  for me, 'cause that was, that was really hard.
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  Yeah. So, speaking, you're not from
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  South Korea. No, not right now.
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  No, no, right now. You don't identify.
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  No, no, not. People confuse me for Asian or
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  like Samoan, so I get that a lot.
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  It's like, oh, is this guy Asian?
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  And I'm like, how I kind of wish a little bit though, you know
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  what I mean? Yeah, like why?
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  Because it's a really cool culture.
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  Yeah, now they are. Oh.
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  That was that was really tell that was a micro aggression,
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  micro aggression. Tour too.
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  Like all general Asian. I was like, oh I I love Asia,
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  you know what I mean? That's weird as hell.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. I really enjoy Laotian food,
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  Vietnamese food and traditional Chinese and say that, so I would
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  prefer to be from one of those. Yeah, fair.
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  Yeah, Yeah. See.
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  Well, you're a Laotian, though. I like Korean food too.
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  I like Korean food. Yeah, I like Japanese food too.
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  I like. That's my thoughts.
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  Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. They're shit slabs.
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  Yeah, pretty good. Their weddings are so
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  interesting too. Yeah, they're, they're adorned.
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  Yeah. I mean, they're, they're decked
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  out. Yeah, they are like they got
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  hella money. Yeah, or or not, you know, their
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  whole lives for these five day weddings.
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  Yeah, man. In between.
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  Yeah, yeah, I like those people too.
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  Those. People, it's great.
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  I like all the Asians. The Asians are cool.
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  The Asians are cool. I fuck with them.
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  Oh yeah, yeah, so. But.
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  I used to get confused that Samoan.
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  Right. So I know what you mean there.
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  Dude, I think it sucks for me because I'm so fucking big.
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  Like people are just like, oh, this guy's Samoan automatically
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  because listen, yeah, like I don't think it's like a a bad
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  thing. Like I again, handsome, strong
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  buff, buff. Yeah, but but I'm also like, I
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  gotta break it to them that I'm Mexican and it's always a little
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  bit of disappointment when I say, oh, I'm actually Mexican.
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  And then they're like, oh, you're Machista.
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  Yeah, yeah, that's exactly what it is.
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  Yeah, they always think Red Pill to tell that's what they think.
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  Yeah, they always think you're Latinos for Trump.
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  That's exactly what it is. I'm kidding.
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  Fuck. So where, where, Where are you
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  from? Born Born and raised in Chicago,
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  OK left when I was 17, moved to Dodge City.
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  You. Left your family?
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  No. No, I don't.
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  Know we came as a family because Dodge has a lot of Mexicans and
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  so moved to moved to Dodge and then moved here to Wichita so I
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  claim Chicago. Because you grew up there, yeah.
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  Yeah, so I I try not to claim dodge.
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  That's why you don't like the Mexican.
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  Well, I don't know about that. It's just have you been?
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  You've been a dog. I grew from dog.
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  No, I'm I'm from Sacatecas. Uh huh.
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  That's where I'm from. I grew up in Dodge.
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  You got really upset that then I said you were from Dodge.
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  Yeah. So now think about that.
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  Because because I claim Mexico before I claim America.
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  Fair. Yeah, fair or United States or
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  whatever. Fair.
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  Like sometimes, like everything that's going on right now, I'll
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  be like, Oh yeah, the states did that.
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  And then my friends will be like, what the fuck?
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  And I'm like, Oh yeah, I'm part of the states.
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  I'm like, no, no, I'm Mexican. Yeah, I just grew up here.
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  I'm trying to go back. Trying to go back, Yeah, self
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  deport. Yeah, I'm trying to crazy.
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  Yeah. Like for to permanently live
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  there. I mean, at least for some time.
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  It'd be really cool. Yeah, that I think that would be
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  really cool actually. Yeah.
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  I haven't been to Mexico in like since I was 8.
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  I'm going back actually this August, I'm going to, well, I'm
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  going to Mexico City. My family's really Jokhan.
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  OK, so but we're I'm going to Mexico City for like a bachelor
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  party, so that's going to be kind of cool.
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  I'm really nervous. I'm nervous.
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  Oh, I, this is only my second time flying.
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  Oh, I went to Philly like last year or the year before that,
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  and that was my first time flying.
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  I mean, flying, you know, OK, since I've been adults.
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  So it's been really scary. Oh, and I'm like, I'm gonna
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  throw up on the plane and then I'm also going with what, your
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  dudes, you know what I mean? So.
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  They're just gonna be become what they.
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  Yeah, man, they're gonna be, you know, I'm gonna have to kiss
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  them and I don't want to throw up and.
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  You don't want to throw up after them and then be yeah.
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  And then? It's so.
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  Rude it. Is it's like when you kiss your
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  friends, you can't throw up? No.
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  No, no, because then you have. To enjoy it, there's some.
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  Denise gets it right, Josh. We have unpaid interns in our
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  room too, by the way. Thankfully, finally, we haven't
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  had any in a while. Shout out to Denise and Josh.
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  But yeah, they enjoy kissing the homies too.
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  Yeah, hell yeah, in general, Like we all kiss the homies.
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  Oh hell yeah, Dusty does too. I I feel, I feel in my place.
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  Yeah, exactly. Yeah, but I think you'll be
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  fine. Like, you know, there's been
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  some plane crashes. How how long is the flight?
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  Yeah. Think about that.
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  I didn't make it go any better. This is, you know, maybe I just
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  won't go now that I think about you could drive all the plane
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  crashes. Oh, I'm going to drive to.
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  We drive. We drive to Sacatecas.
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  Regards of family. I have no ass.
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  I will not be able to sit for that one, but to be honest.
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  But you're funny, you're smart, you're handsome, and you're
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  strong. You're right, I could get
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  someone to pay for me exactly that's.
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  Exactly right. We always have to, yeah.
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  Yeah, got to put it out there. I got to really think Mama
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  mentality. Abundance.
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  Abundance. When we think like that, things
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  come to us. The universe, yeah, gives it to
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  us. I mean, but we have to do work
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  too. Funny story about that, yeah.
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  So I think the. Universe perfect you sorry.
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  Well sometimes but I post, I posted a video where I put it's
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  like the only audience that I have and it wasn't true at all
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  at the time is that I only have alt Mexican women and Asian and
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  and hippie hippie women in my chat.
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  And gay straight men. And straight and straight men.
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  I have that as a question. Yeah, dude.
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  And it's been it's been amazing they.
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  Flocked. They flocked in.
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  It was like a magnet. I I called to them.
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  And they came. See, that's how like
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  affirmations, really. Do we did?
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  Yeah. Like we had Shawna in here.
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  That's what the metaphysical, that's what she called it,
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  right? Yeah, yeah.
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  That's why Shawna taught us all that stuff.
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  Remember, she said all. These things doesn't remember.
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  She doesn't remember. She you don't remember?
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  That conversation. I have not gone to the editing
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  of that yet. OK, well talk to it I.
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  Remember it? I remember when I'm actually
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  there listening to it again. Well, shout out to our producer
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  extraordinaire Dusty, because he really remembers all this stuff.
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  Hell, you listen, I mean. It comes it's stored in there
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  it. Comes in ways you.
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  Have to install like keys. Yeah, yeah.
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  To bring it back to the front. No, that's fair.
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  When it's not in front of you, you don't remember.
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  When you're up my butt throughout the week stacking
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  stuff in front of it, it's gonna get lost in the file.
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  Hypothetically, if I wanted to be up a butt like, how would I?
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  How would I? How would?
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  You do that how? Would I join?
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  Well, the. Way that the way that I in that
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  position for my friends is that I send them hey I'm thinking of
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  this thing at this time and then I send them another message
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  about another thing that I. Was thinking about a different
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  thing. Never.
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  Mind but I have a thought on this because I feel like I
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  always forget that I need to remember that Dusty is a guy at
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  the end of the day and I feel like when I talk to guys I can
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  only send them one thing at a time.
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  Like one question, one message at a time so that they can
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  respond to this. Oh, I've heard this, yeah.
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  And then I can send them another one.
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  But if I send them back-to-back, they will only respond to the
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  last message. Yeah.
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  You know, they won't respond to other like two things that I
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  also said. Is that true?
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  Do you feel that's true? I would say in general maybe.
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  Josh, sorry in turn to say. Maybe in general, like in just
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  like like assholes, you know, but I.
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  Don't think. So I it's not the.
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  First time I've heard that but. If you have ADHD and you have
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  all this other stuff, maybe like I'm, I think I'm dyslexic, you
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  can see the L in the R on my fingers because sometimes I
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  forget when an. L Oh my God I've literally
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  thought about doing. That how many times?
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  Have I not said that to you? Sorry.
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  No, no, go ahead. Last week.
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  That's rich. That's what I'm saying.
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  I literally tell him all the fucking time and he's saying
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  since last week, I've told you this more than once.
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  What the fuck was I talking? About about the left and the
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  right that guys don't remember. Oh yeah, you know, like there
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  might just be other reasons. I think generally a person,
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  let's just be honest, sometimes people just be sending shit to
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  send shit, you know, I. Respond to whichever one that
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  has the. Most urgency word.
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  Yeah, Yeah. How do you how do you know what
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  is priority like like in your head?
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  How do you the? Topic was was for what is coming
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  up up next versus what you sent second, which is down the road
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  in three weeks. OK, that's fair, that's fair,
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  'cause like I and I do do that. Like I'll, I'll send you an idea
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  that will be like weeks or months from now.
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  Not who we're talking about in that moment and trying to talk
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  to them in that moment. And then you're like, so you
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  going to respond to me? Oh, you're needy too?
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  Give. Me like a week.
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  Because it takes for fuck, dude. It's because I'm a person of
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  action. Like, I guess you're done.
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  Like let's keep going. Next thing, next thing.
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  Come on. We're not going to be like
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  we're, we're going to be doing one thing and then we're going
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  to do the next thing to get us there like always.
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  That's the way that my brain works.
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  That's the way that I function. I'm like, action don't fucking
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  take forever. Yeah, so am I, but you can't
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  bring something that's three weeks out and try to make it cut
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  in line. Well, no, it's more of like, So
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  it's I'm planting seeds, that's what I'm doing.
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  So why does it matter if he doesn't answer?
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  Because he's the seeds there. Because it means time to go, you
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  know, I'm saying she needs it. Watered right away.
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  I need it watered. That's a good point.
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  Wow, Wow. OK, now we're now we're saying a
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  lot of accusation. No, yeah, now we're getting,
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  we're getting a far away from the topic.
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  Oh, now when it comes back to you.
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  Yeah. Step away.
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  Now. We're When did you make your
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  migration to Wichita large city? So I actually, I went to the
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  Community College there for like 2-3 years because I don't know
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  what I wanted to do. And then you actually might
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  know. Do you know Sam Nava doesn't
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  matter that, but he I'm like, Hey, what are you doing after
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  after here? And he goes, I don't know, I'm
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  probably going to college, went to WCU and I'm like, oh, can I
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  room with you? And he said yes.
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  And so I just applied that day just came.
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  So it was just luck I guess that I got here.
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  Friends pushing friends, Yeah. Super cool.
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  Yeah, So what'd you study at WC? Well, I started off with
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  mathematics, and then I switched over to marketing, and then I
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  finally ended up with psychology, philosophy and
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  sociology. Yeah.
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  Wait, so you are smart? Smart since you started with.
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  Oh yeah, I'm hella smart. Yeah.
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  Like, yeah, I just. I'm not very good with.
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  No, no, no, I'm, I'm everything I say is 100% serious.
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  Dusty he. Was talking about the homies.
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  I'm just saying. Yeah because I don't know what
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  y'all talking about. Never been kissed by homie ever.
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  Damn, that's not. Even none of my girl homies.
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  I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe.
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  It's easy to believe, but just knowing the guy who's surprised?
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  Gotta find better homies you. Do OK, yeah.
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  Sorry. Sorry.
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  So then you came to Wichita then?
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  Yeah, you started. You like what led you into your
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  bullying Bulk. Yeah.
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  Account. Like what?
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  How the heck did we get there? OK, so it's kind of a it's a
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  little bit of a weird story because it includes like the
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  pandemic and stuff. But this is, this is, this is so
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  I was incredibly depressed, like for years.
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  And then I got therapy, you know, 'cause I'm, I'm masculine
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  like that. And smart.
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  And buff, you got to do the whole thing or else.
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  Oh. Smart.
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  Strong. Handsome, no smart, handsome,
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  strong and buff because the brain is the most important in
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  my legs. Of course, just, you know, OK.
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  And so I went to, I got, I got therapy and everything and I got
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  better. And I'm like, oh, I need to take
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  up a hobby. And it was during, you know, I
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  was feeling like my best during the pandemic, which feels like
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  shit because everyone else was, like, depressed and so, so good.
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  Yeah, I was. Feeling great yeah right.
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  Like that's when I. It was a little.
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  Bit of heaven. For me, that's when it got
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  worse. Really.
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  Yeah. My my depression and my anxiety.
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  Are you super like a like extroverted?
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  I'm pretty in the middle. But what happened was no, no,
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  they told me that it depends how you, how you recharge.
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  And I recharge by being by myself.
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  Oh, OK. Yeah.
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  So it gets more introverted, but I can easily turn it on and turn
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  off what happens? But no, I got I got COVID.
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  And then at that time I had a roommate.
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  And so then I was isolating in my room because I was, you know,
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  I was thinking of her at that time.
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  And my mom was here still. And so I was like, yeah, I
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  shouldn't be around people. And I don't know, that was that
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  was kind of crazy. And that's when I realized that
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  I can never commit a crime because I would not be able to
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  survive in jail. Like to be in a place solitude,
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  like already my anxiety, my depression were already, you
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  know, on the brain. But then that just like, really
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  said it. No, I think that was a lot for a
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  lot of people. And I think that's kind of where
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  a lot of people were like on the edge.
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  And that's when they hit him. Yeah.
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  And that's where hit him. Or it made you kind of be like,
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  oh, I kind of appreciate being with myself a little bit more.
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  I think that's where it led me, right?
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  Like where I was feeling OK with being with myself a little bit
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  more. Again, out of that depression, I
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  started baking and then I'm, you know, like everyone else when
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  TikTok started, I'm like, this fucking sucks.
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  I like TikTok sucks ass, right? And then I got on TikTok and I'm
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  like, oh, actually it's kind of fun, right?
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  Like it's stupid, but it's fun. So I started like.
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  Doing the dances. No.
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  It was a little harsh. Well, I mean, and so I would
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  start recording myself baking because that's where I
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  originally got it. And then I was doing that for
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  maybe like 6 months and I got tired of like not being able to
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  be as creative as I wanted to. And so I'm like, I'll learn how
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  to cook. So then I started recording
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  myself how to cook and I got I, I changed my style a little bit.
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  And then you guys know, as soon as you perfect your craft a
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  little bit more than it's easier to get more views and get more
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  people to follow you. I'm still.
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  Trying to figure it out. Get some tips man.
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  Oh, OK. I mean, I think we're good with
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  the talking stuff and the drinks, Yeah, but it's the
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  Instagram, the social media, it's.
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  Hard. It's hard, yeah.
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  And so I got lucky with with TikTok early on.
• 18:55
  It was really easy to grow on there.
• 18:56
  So I got like 30,000 followers really quickly.
• 18:59
  Million views when a time when 1,000,000 views was a lot.
• 19:02
  I think that's not. A lot anymore.
• 19:04
  No, it's not. I started capitalizing on it,
• 19:08
  which was really like, it was good, but then I got depressed
• 19:11
  again. I was in a relationship that
• 19:13
  really, really sucked. Right?
• 19:14
  Yeah. Toxic.
• 19:15
  Yeah, toxic as fuck. And so I I kind of was not as
• 19:20
  consistent as I would like to be, right.
• 19:22
  And I was only making one video every two months or something
• 19:25
  and I was going to quit actually into a couple a couple months
• 19:30
  ago. And Eddie, he's like, man, I
• 19:33
  think you like it. And I'm like, you know what,
• 19:35
  Maybe I owe it to myself to actually fucking settle down and
• 19:37
  really do the work that I have to put in.
• 19:41
  Send myself a schedule. I'm doing Tuesday, Thursday and
• 19:44
  Saturday or when I release videos.
• 19:46
  Started doing TikTok live. So I don't know if you guys ever
• 19:49
  seen those, right? Started doing twitch.
• 19:52
  I do I twitch my I video stream everything right And one of the
• 19:56
  things that I'm really big on is community.
• 19:58
  So I told myself I'm going to I'm going to comment on every
• 20:01
  single message. I don't know if you go through
• 20:02
  my thing and like every single one as much as I can
• 20:06
  realistically, I don't know how long I could keep it up, but
• 20:10
  yeah. But it it became where I'm like,
• 20:13
  oh, I found this passion in cooking that I knew I always
• 20:15
  had. I just never had like the.
• 20:17
  Outlet, Yeah, the outlet it do it.
• 20:19
  And now I'm living by myself, you know, I'm making a little
• 20:21
  bit of extra money and I know how to and I know how to teach
• 20:24
  myself, right. I love learning shit.
• 20:26
  And then on top of that, also learning the video editing,
• 20:31
  learning how to connect with people, learning how to really,
• 20:34
  you know, have a hook or some shit.
• 20:37
  That's where the hell yeah yeah. Well, this is that was by
• 20:40
  accident. I think that kind of really led
• 20:44
  me to really want to pursue this a little bit more and it kind of
• 20:46
  blew up in the past couple months, right?
• 20:48
  Like now I have 40,000 followers on Instagram.
• 20:51
  Crazy. I have merch now.
• 20:54
  That's something crazy, right? I have 5053 thousand on on
• 20:59
  TikTok right and all my views are pretty consistent.
• 21:02
  I have a 10,000 views at least at each video, which before I
• 21:07
  was struggling to get 300 right. And so I think all that
• 21:12
  combination of stuff and and just really hitting everything
• 21:15
  that I care about, which is creativity, which is, you know,
• 21:18
  being able to feed someone because food is really important
• 21:20
  in life, right? Obviously you can see by by
• 21:23
  weight, right? Or even just I know it was.
• 21:27
  How like sweet that sounded. Yeah, like how I heard your
• 21:31
  passion. That's.
• 21:31
  What I was saying too. OK.
• 21:34
  Sure. So you know, all that kind of
• 21:38
  led to to this thing. And it's, it's been a really
• 21:43
  humbling experience to have consistent people on my
• 21:48
  comments. And I think me being able to
• 21:50
  comment, you know, to all these people all the time and lets me
• 21:55
  build a little bit of that like parasocial thing, which isn't
• 21:58
  always good, but it is kind of nice to have even on my TikTok
• 22:02
  lives now. Like I have people that come and
• 22:04
  watch me right? And they come specifically for
• 22:07
  this. And now there's.
• 22:09
  So this is going to sound a little conceited, but like,
• 22:12
  girls come into my chat and I don't know why the fuck this is
• 22:15
  happening, right? Yeah.
• 22:16
  The girls come into my chat and they start fucking flirting.
• 22:19
  Like they're just throwing the most heinous shit out there.
• 22:22
  And I'm just like what? What is the one that has been
• 22:25
  like? Oh, that one.
• 22:26
  That one felt really nice. Well, one of them told me to
• 22:29
  lock them up and one of them just put a picture on my comment
• 22:32
  of, of like a dummy lifting their legs like, and they're
• 22:37
  like me. Whenever he says hell yeah, I'm
• 22:39
  like, Jesus Christ, I say hell yeah a lot.
• 22:41
  You know. So it's been a little weird to
• 22:44
  to to get. Really coming to your to your.
• 22:46
  No, they they are. They really are.
• 22:48
  Like really playing on that word.
• 22:50
  Yeah, dude. And it's really, really crazy.
• 22:53
  But I now I have like a community of girls that come to
• 22:56
  my life. But now they all like ganged up
• 23:00
  on me. Oh, OK, so now they have a good.
• 23:02
  Way or a bad way? I, I mean, they, they talk a lot
• 23:05
  of shit, but like, in a good way, you know what I mean?
• 23:07
  Because I'm a little bit into that, Yeah.
• 23:08
  And you're a. Bit of a shit talker.
• 23:09
  Oh, you're a real, I don't know, not real, sorry.
• 23:11
  I. Don't know about my shit talker,
• 23:13
  I'm just speaking the truth, you know?
• 23:15
  And a lot of my viewers aren't that smart, so.
• 23:19
  I gotta make sure they know. Of course, if we haven't
• 23:22
  established yet, you're a very sarcastic guy.
• 23:26
  Sure, let's say that. Yeah, I just, I think I, I think
• 23:33
  some of that is like, I grew up, OK.
• 23:35
  I grew up like super red pilled. And so you know what I mean?
• 23:39
  Like as I was coming up, some of that was just like, oh, I
• 23:42
  fucking women don't like fucking guys who are like ugly and all
• 23:46
  this stuff, you know, like shit that you see Joe Rogan and all
• 23:48
  these people talk about, right. But I think deep down I actually
• 23:52
  knew that I really didn't believe a lot of that stuff.
• 23:54
  I was just kind of angry. So to therapy.
• 23:59
  Hell yeah. Therapy.
• 24:00
  Yeah, Right. Or just being like a decent
• 24:02
  person and learning from your experiences.
• 24:04
  That too, right? That too.
• 24:05
  We can also grow without therapy, guys.
• 24:07
  Yeah, like it's possible. Go to fucking therapy guys.
• 24:09
  But literally go to fucking therapy.
• 24:11
  I I'm always like, I want to tattoo that on me and just like
• 24:14
  just. Go to therapy.
• 24:15
  Yeah, that'd be a little crazy. But no, just.
• 24:17
  Do you? Yeah.
• 24:18
  Do you? No.
• 24:18
  I just, I just feel like everybody needs therapy it.
• 24:21
  Is it, is everybody, it's it should be universal.
• 24:23
  I think everyone needs it, but I think growing up that way and
• 24:28
  and then obviously transitioning to where I'm fucking huge on on
• 24:33
  women's rights. You know, I'm really huge on
• 24:36
  equality, LGBTQ, super progressive in every one of my
• 24:40
  stances, right? Except for a steak.
• 24:43
  But. That it should be, and it should
• 24:46
  be rare. That it should be only salt and
• 24:49
  pepper. Oh, OK, yeah.
• 24:51
  Unless it's Mexican, you guys, we throw a bunch of shit in
• 24:53
  there and. That's OK.
• 24:55
  That's OK. Because like.
• 24:56
  Yeah, I mean, it's OK. I mean, it's going to be true as
• 24:59
  fuck and it's going to hurt my job, but it's fine, right?
• 25:02
  But a lot of this stuff but. It's good, sorry.
• 25:07
  Yeah, no. And and so I think having that
• 25:10
  kind of like growth where I did have this kind of like shock
• 25:13
  humor and everything like that. But now where I can, I'm still
• 25:17
  that. I think I kind of hit this
• 25:18
  audience where it's like, again, women who understand that kind
• 25:22
  of humor and understand that I'm coming off as like a like a like
• 25:25
  a little bit of a douche, Like I'm playing up a misogynist a
• 25:27
  little bit, you know what I mean?
• 25:29
  But also I am a safe space with everything.
• 25:31
  Like every time I get a new set of followers I share, it's much
• 25:35
  like fucking pro immigrant, pro LGBTQ, like UCLA sized shit.
• 25:42
  You know as much you see ACLU and ACLU type shit as much as I
• 25:47
  can on my stories and repost as much as I can just so they can
• 25:50
  understand. Like you're coming to a place
• 25:53
  where I'm going to. I really believe if you don't,
• 25:56
  if you believe your stances, you're going to stand fucking 10
• 25:58
  toes down on them. Oh, 100.
• 25:59
  Percent so talking about them and everything like that, I
• 26:02
  think. And again, it makes me hit this
• 26:04
  demographic of like, due to straight guys who make gay
• 26:09
  jokes, right, who love it, but they're also incredibly
• 26:12
  progressive. And they kind of been shunned a
• 26:14
  little bit because they like those kind of jokes because they
• 26:16
  grew up on fucking cob lobbies, you know what I mean?
• 26:18
  So I think I, I, it's been pretty cool kind of navigating
• 26:22
  that space, you know? Yeah.
• 26:25
  I was going to say that like it's it's like the for me, like
• 26:28
  I have on because I don't really do TikTok very much.
• 26:32
  I should at least for the podcast, like if you see our
• 26:37
  podcast on TikTok, I mean still follow it, please follow it,
• 26:40
  Please follow us. Rule #1 don't shout your own
• 26:44
  fucking platform. Please, I'm shouting out my own
• 26:47
  shit. I don't care.
• 26:48
  But no, I was going to say that like what I'm what I always get
• 26:53
  on Instagram is like kind of the dark humor jokes about like
• 26:57
  depression and anxiety and all that stuff.
• 26:58
  And it's like, like just dumb shit like that.
• 27:01
  And like, I find them funny. Yes, I go to therapy.
• 27:03
  Yes, I do all these things. And no, I'm not actually telling
• 27:06
  you to go run in traffic. But they're funny.
• 27:08
  They make me feel better because it's like I'm not the only one
• 27:11
  who thinks these things, No. Yeah, it's like it's it's
• 27:14
  gallows humor. I think that's what they call
• 27:16
  it. It's really big in like the, the
• 27:18
  healthcare kind of stuff, you know what I mean?
• 27:23
  Yeah, dude, like who fucking wants to be PC all the time?
• 27:26
  Let's be honest, you're not PC at home all the time.
• 27:29
  And the people who act like that are, are fucking asses.
• 27:32
  They're they're fake. They're fake as shit.
• 27:34
  And I think the most important thing we could do when we're
• 27:37
  putting ourselves out there, when you guys are putting your
• 27:38
  podcasts out there, we're not putting on my videos is being as
• 27:41
  genuine as you can, as authentic to to yourself, because that's
• 27:44
  what people connect to, right? Nobody wants the fucking, you
• 27:49
  know, corporate, you know, level anymore.
• 27:52
  It's tiring, you know, Yeah. Especially whenever it's
• 27:55
  everywhere. Yeah.
• 27:56
  And people can see through that, too.
• 27:57
  Like, Oh yeah, he's just saying that because he wants to be
• 28:00
  perceived that way. Yeah.
• 28:01
  But you can tell he doesn't really believe it.
• 28:03
  Yeah, yeah. It's, it's exhausting to be
• 28:06
  around that all the time. Yeah.
• 28:08
  Yeah, I think like that's one of the things or why we also wanted
• 28:11
  to do the podcast was like just, yes, we want to interview
• 28:16
  people, but we want to interview them wholly.
• 28:18
  Like you as a person, you're not just this job title, you're not
• 28:21
  just this hobby, you're not just this thing like that's one piece
• 28:25
  of you, but like there's so much more of you.
• 28:27
  And, and, and that's like one of the, I mean, I think like
• 28:31
  alcohol kind of helps bring that up sometimes, right?
• 28:34
  Gives you that little confidence.
• 28:36
  We do mocktails too, if our guest prefers A mocktail.
• 28:40
  But I think like that's kind of where that stem from.
• 28:43
  But also one of the people who we had early on as one of our
• 28:48
  bartenders for the podcast, she was the one who kind of was
• 28:51
  like, hey, let's do drinks and make signature drinks for
• 28:53
  everyone too. Oh, that's cute.
• 28:55
  And that's how that happened. But IA 100% agree with you.
• 28:59
  I mean, I think it's you because you're you're you're so much
• 29:04
  more than just this one thing. Yeah.
• 29:06
  You're not just, you're not just fully in bulk.
• 29:08
  You're much more than that. Yeah, I'm handsome, smart,
• 29:10
  strong enough, of course. Yeah.
• 29:12
  Thank you. Thank you for saying that.
• 29:15
  Of course, of course, what was it?
• 29:17
  So how are you, you know, like you started when you started
• 29:21
  approach 10,000 followers, what was that like?
• 29:24
  I think it was just a little bit of like, oh, I'm doing it right.
• 29:27
  10,000 followers is is kind of like a first big milestone, you
• 29:31
  know, when it comes to contact creation, It was, it was a
• 29:35
  little, I didn't feel very deserving of it when it first
• 29:39
  came up right. Again, I just started doing my
• 29:41
  videos. I just started talking.
• 29:43
  It was like about a sad story, like my friend killed herself
• 29:46
  and that fucking sucked, right? And I was just like missing her.
• 29:49
  And I put it that out there, right?
• 29:50
  And I didn't really want to be the guy who's just telling sad
• 29:53
  stories, right? And so it was a little bit of
• 29:56
  like, I don't feel worthy of these followers right now.
• 30:01
  I don't feel really worthy of like, I don't feel confident in
• 30:05
  my craft enough to feel like I needed those 10,000 followers
• 30:08
  yet, you know? And that's kind of a weird place
• 30:10
  to be. And I think a lot of creators go
• 30:12
  through that because it's just, you know, you work so hard to
• 30:16
  put something out and you're never going to be satisfied with
• 30:18
  it. I looked through some of my
• 30:20
  videos and I fucking hate them. But they're like the best videos
• 30:23
  that people love. And it's probably just 'cause I
• 30:25
  hate them, 'cause I'm seeing it critically, you know what I
• 30:28
  mean? Yeah, yeah.
• 30:29
  And you were in a place, maybe out of time, where they just
• 30:32
  wasn't. No, Yeah, yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm
• 30:36
  trying to take this second wave of people as my first level of
• 30:42
  like deserve growth. You know, I, I've been doing
• 30:46
  this for five years, you know what I mean?
• 30:48
  I've been doing it for a very long time.
• 30:50
  And this is the one time where I put down like my ex, she gave me
• 30:56
  a month like 3 years ago and I didn't use it once until the
• 31:01
  last this year. And so I put in that work and I
• 31:06
  feel like I deserve it now. You know what I mean?
• 31:08
  I feel like I'm I'm deserving. I put in enough work and enough
• 31:12
  of myself into my work that that sounds pretentious.
• 31:17
  That's. Not that sounds like growth.
• 31:19
  Yeah, well, I still, I'm still a little bit like but.
• 31:23
  Go back to therapy. Oh, OK.
• 31:25
  Thank you. But no, like, seriously, I think
• 31:29
  like we all kind of go through that, right?
• 31:31
  Like, it's not, it's not pretentious to think of yourself
• 31:35
  in that way or what? Are you struggling?
• 31:38
  I just, I disagree a little bit. I think it's it is a little
• 31:41
  pretentious and it's a little bit narcissistic to think of
• 31:43
  yourself the way that I'm saying it.
• 31:45
  Like, you know, I'm that you're. Finally growing.
• 31:47
  No, that that it, that I'm deserving of something, right.
• 31:50
  I feel like it's it's really important to stay very, very
• 31:54
  humble and to be get, you know, be with the community that
• 31:59
  helped you right? Like, I think that's really,
• 32:01
  really important. And so me saying that I deserve
• 32:06
  it feels a little bit disingenuous because.
• 32:09
  Maybe it's the word choice, yeah.
• 32:10
  Maybe I. Think it's the word choice.
• 32:11
  You're right. Because it's.
• 32:13
  I hear what you're saying. You're you feel like maybe
• 32:15
  you're saying like you expect it.
• 32:17
  Yeah, like I'm I finally did all the work so duh, I better get
• 32:21
  this. But that's not what you're
• 32:22
  trying to say. That's not what I'm hearing when
• 32:24
  you say that either. Yeah, I think it's just
• 32:26
  definitely the word choice. Like you're finally at a point
• 32:28
  where you're seeing all the work that you you're putting in,
• 32:31
  like, like seeing how that is becoming fruitful.
• 32:34
  Yeah. You're seeing that growth from
• 32:36
  it and you're seeing how people are gravitating towards that.
• 32:40
  Are you a therapist? Well, no, but I've, I've been in
• 32:43
  therapy for a lot of years. Actually, when she graduated, I
• 32:47
  graduated and then actually no, did I?
• 32:51
  I went back and and I was like, what?
• 32:55
  Are you doing here? No, no.
• 32:58
  She was like, yeah, when I said just hit me up when you want to
• 33:00
  see me, she, she really meant that I sent me up when you want
• 33:04
  to see me. Nuts.
• 33:05
  No, you're done. You're not done.
• 33:07
  And then I was like, oh, OK, never mind.
• 33:09
  But no, I went back and because, I mean, I was still going to go
• 33:12
  back. I wasn't actually going to
• 33:13
  leave. Like I wasn't going to cut dry.
• 33:16
  But I went back and then I was like, how long has it been?
• 33:20
  I haven't told you anything. And then she was like, yeah,
• 33:22
  it's been like 5 weeks. I was like, oh, I, I, I, sorry.
• 33:28
  I felt like 2 months since I've last seen you.
• 33:30
  I thought I was doing really great.
• 33:33
  No, but I am doing well in the sense that like I feel well and
• 33:38
  I can like I can manage, yeah, I can manage all not just the
• 33:46
  emotions, but I can manage other things, the feelings, the
• 33:49
  thoughts that all of that and kind of call it when I am doing
• 33:53
  self deprecating things, when I am like and just kind of
• 33:57
  understanding. I think like that's what I meant
• 34:00
  also with the word that you, the word choice that you just said.
• 34:03
  When we really understand our feelings and our emotions, then
• 34:05
  we know like what to call it. And when you're able to be like,
• 34:09
  OK, I'm not saying this and I I need to have it because I
• 34:13
  deserve it. No, you're trying to say
• 34:15
  something else. I don't know.
• 34:17
  I, I do think like that's been really helpful with therapy, but
• 34:20
  no, I'm not a therapist. I've just been in it.
• 34:23
  Make sure. And I'm, I'm not graduated.
• 34:26
  I went back. I'm trying to get a graduate
• 34:28
  degree now. OK, I'm going back, though I
• 34:32
  know it's not done. It growth is never done.
• 34:35
  Never. I mean, it's just levels.
• 34:37
  No, Yeah, you. There's always something to
• 34:39
  improve. Yeah, always, always something
• 34:42
  so. You know what else is growing me
• 34:46
  Factory? Ah yeah, so this sounds like a
• 34:48
  great transition. Time for a drink then.
• 34:51
  Sure does. OK, but.
• 34:54
  So we'll be right back. Hey, that was really good
• 34:56
  transition, Dusty. It did get hot in here.
• 35:02
  And we thought. You're such a bitch.
• 35:09
  What? Made me laugh.
• 35:10
  We're back. Sorry.
• 35:14
  Okay, what I. Have to deal with Steve.
• 35:16
  Yeah, during the break, all the guys were kissing.
• 35:17
  They. Were.
• 35:20
  I watched from the corner. I don't know if that makes it
• 35:25
  any better or worse so. All the free ditty prayers
• 35:30
  worked. Hey, he really got out, huh?
• 35:34
  Yeah. I didn't pray for him, but yeah,
• 35:35
  all. The other ones, yeah.
• 35:37
  He got out though, huh? Or something?
• 35:39
  No. I.
• 35:40
  Don't know if he's out but he's not all the serious charges they
• 35:43
  were like not dropped. For two.
• 35:45
  They were dropped, weren't they? Or found out guilty for some of
• 35:48
  them to you. That which was pretty crazy.
• 35:50
  That's. Crazy.
• 35:51
  Yeah, yeah. Little guy guilty of the
• 35:53
  prostitution stuff. Because, you know, he did shit.
• 35:57
  Yeah, right there. You were there.
• 36:00
  You were invited. What were you doing?
• 36:04
  Just chilling. In the corner.
• 36:05
  Yeah, I was just handing out the.
• 36:07
  The oil, yeah. I was just, I was trying to make
• 36:10
  the million, so yeah, close my eyes so I didn't have to
• 36:13
  incriminate myself. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 36:15
  So you couldn't, I mean that's how you were paying to get the
• 36:17
  followers for. Account.
• 36:18
  Yeah, because. People can buy followers.
• 36:20
  I know. I know that.
• 36:21
  Yeah. You buy them, of course, all the
• 36:23
  time. Yeah.
• 36:24
  I mean, what else am I supposed to do?
• 36:26
  Actually grow an organic audience?
• 36:28
  No, he does that. I'd rather do that than rub his
• 36:31
  nipples. Let's not speak forever.
• 36:37
  It's just thinking. It's just thinking of that.
• 36:39
  Tell us what we're sucking on right now.
• 36:41
  Wow, that was I. Appreciate that.
• 36:49
  Okay, wow, OK no, yeah, so we made a Sheila pineapple sage
• 36:55
  Margarita. I was at the store and I found
• 36:59
  this liqueur that is called Sheila.
• 37:03
  And I don't know, I just had like all these notes in it.
• 37:05
  It says that it has like lavender and hibiscus flavor,
• 37:08
  and then it has cloves of black pepper and cinnamon and
• 37:11
  caramelized pineapple and ancho chebe.
• 37:15
  And I was like, hey, this sounds perfect for Steve because he
• 37:18
  makes food. I know you said you want it
• 37:20
  clear, but I was just like, no, it has to be something that's
• 37:24
  gonna be very, like, tasteful. Yeah.
• 37:27
  And inspire a lot of taste. It's very.
• 37:29
  Delicious. I really appreciate it.
• 37:31
  Yeah, keep saying I appreciate it, but I really do appreciate
• 37:33
  it. I love when people give me shit.
• 37:35
  You love free shit. Yeah, because you're free.
• 37:37
  Freeze you. Free and easy.
• 37:40
  Yeah, well, if you guys want to make it at home, we will, you
• 37:44
  know, make sure to follow our Instagram and I guess hard
• 37:47
  TikTok too. That's here's to you cast on
• 37:49
  both of those and you just, yeah, well, we'll just post it
• 37:54
  there. I'm not going to say all the
• 37:55
  shit that we did for it because yeah, we don't do that no more.
• 38:00
  We're down in person. It's a lot of work to do that on
• 38:03
  the mic. We used to make them on the mic.
• 38:06
  Oh, really? Yeah, or at least the last one
• 38:08
  so that we can actually talk about the drink.
• 38:10
  Oh, OK, OK, yeah. You want to talk about the
• 38:13
  drink? No, OK.
• 38:15
  I mean, if you want me to, I can if you want.
• 38:18
  OK guys. So this tastes like like
• 38:20
  damarindo, like a drink, and they put a little bit of like
• 38:23
  jalapeno in it. I don't know how to explain it
• 38:25
  better than that, but that's exactly how it tastes.
• 38:27
  You know what I mean? Yeah.
• 38:30
  It hits you at the beginning and then at the end it hits you with
• 38:32
  a little bit more sharpness towards the back of your throat
• 38:35
  and it's a really satisfying kind of warm taste.
• 38:39
  That sound is so sexual. Yeah, of course I'm talking to
• 38:41
  you. It's fine.
• 38:45
  And warm. Yeah, stop.
• 38:48
  So gross. Oh my God, can you talk to me?
• 38:53
  Like that? Yeah, literally, he Dusty
• 39:00
  admitted while we were on break that he's kissed homies.
• 39:03
  So Speaking of kissing the homies, we want to talk about
• 39:06
  fusions of different foods. Yes.
• 39:09
  And what's your take on them? Do you like that?
• 39:11
  Do you not like, you know, here's like Dubai chocolate
• 39:14
  coming out, Swedish candy? Do you do any like fusions of
• 39:18
  different foods and. Yeah, OK, So I'm OK with fusion
• 39:23
  food as long as it makes sense. You know what I mean?
• 39:25
  Like a fur burrito that was really big.
• 39:27
  That seems stupid as hell. Buzz The you know, the the broth
• 39:31
  itself, you know that's what you want.
• 39:33
  You're eating just like bun or whatever it is, right?
• 39:38
  I think combining cultures is really important when it comes
• 39:41
  to food. A lot of the stuff that we eat
• 39:43
  are pretty similar. And as soon as I started
• 39:45
  exploring individuals. So what I like to do is pick a
• 39:49
  country and then cook it for like a week or two and just kind
• 39:52
  of learn the flavors for it and then see how that kind of fits
• 39:56
  into the Mexican food, which is, I don't want to say my
• 40:00
  specialty, but it is what I cook the most of.
• 40:03
  Yeah. I think it's really important to
• 40:06
  kind of expand your palate that way.
• 40:08
  And so fusion food is really, really important in that way,
• 40:11
  so. One of the, I guess one of the
• 40:14
  fusion foods that people don't really think about is like banh
• 40:16
  MI, right? It's like a torta.
• 40:18
  Yeah, it's a torta. And it came from the same place,
• 40:21
  you know, French people, you know, they they invaded Vietnam.
• 40:27
  They did. Yeah, fucking French invaded
• 40:29
  everyone. Yeah, I didn't know that they
• 40:31
  invaded Vietnam. They're a little bit of
• 40:33
  assholes, you know what I mean? They are though.
• 40:35
  But they brought over their baguettes.
• 40:37
  And so the baguette ended up becoming bun me means just the
• 40:40
  bread itself. It's not the sandwich.
• 40:42
  It's actually the bread. Yeah.
• 40:43
  And so how do you know that bringing that over is kind of
• 40:47
  like even though it's a forced and terrible thing.
• 40:50
  Yeah. It did kind of expand the food
• 40:52
  of something that we kind of enjoy now, right.
• 40:54
  You know it's. Like us having chocolate.
• 40:55
  Yeah, like us having chocolate or, you know, like three
• 40:59
  sisters. This is something I just thought
• 41:01
  of. Like the Three Sisters blend is
• 41:03
  like, what's that corn, beans and and squash?
• 41:08
  It's really big. It's, it's kind of like the
• 41:10
  native food, right? Like for indigenous people, for
• 41:14
  Mexicans as well, right. Like the indigenous Mexicans.
• 41:17
  That's kind of what the, the, the food that this was your
• 41:21
  thing. You know what I mean?
• 41:22
  And now it's kind of changed over time into where we still
• 41:25
  have more traditional foods. If you guys are interested in
• 41:28
  indigenous food, please check out Chef Tiet.
• 41:31
  She's amazing. She's superseded.
• 41:33
  Yeah. I went to the thing that he.
• 41:37
  Put together. Yeah, yeah, it was really good.
• 41:39
  Yeah, yeah. She's amazing.
• 41:41
  She's super sweet and really, really knowledgeable about
• 41:44
  everything, you know? But yeah, and now that's
• 41:49
  transformed. The Three Sisters is kind of
• 41:51
  used now as like cowboy caviar, you know what I mean?
• 41:54
  Like they add that base dense bean salads, you know what I
• 41:58
  mean? That's kind of all the same
• 41:59
  thing. So fusion is really necessary to
• 42:01
  kind of expand the food and even like bridge cultures really.
• 42:06
  So how I feel about it? What's your favorite fusion
• 42:09
  food? I want to say maybe like I love
• 42:14
  dortas dude. I love Dortas A.
• 42:16
  Good Dorta. Yeah, a good dorta of any kind,
• 42:19
  you know what I'm saying? Any kind, You know what I'm
• 42:21
  saying? So stupid.
• 42:27
  I, I think I, one of the things that I want to do is kind of
• 42:31
  explore this thing you're going. To have to tell me all the
• 42:33
  tortas that you like. I'll send you all the all the
• 42:35
  pictures. And so I really do like the
• 42:40
  scene it within like a cultural like traditional food, right.
• 42:45
  So my favorite thing to think about is like Al pastor.
• 42:49
  So that comes from the Lebanese. We had a really huge influx of
• 42:52
  Lebanese and, you know, Mediterranean food come in
• 42:55
  through through Mexico, you know, And so they're like the
• 43:00
  gyros and all that stuff, or heroes, as they say, of those
• 43:04
  foods. They were transformed over time
• 43:07
  and kind of into a pastor. And that's why you use the same
• 43:11
  spits and everything. It's really similar.
• 43:15
  I like seeing it in that kind of sense, you know what I mean?
• 43:17
  I love that kind of food because then now if you're trying to go
• 43:21
  down into Mexican food, now you have to learn about
• 43:25
  Mediterranean food, Now you have to learn about Japanese food,
• 43:28
  You know, you have to learn about indigenous food.
• 43:33
  And it's really, it's really awesome to see it like that.
• 43:36
  So because a lot of your videos will be like, you're sharing a
• 43:39
  recipe and you're saying more things and, you know, you're
• 43:42
  saying other dumb shit in between them.
• 43:43
  But have you had anybody actually come back and be like,
• 43:48
  my shit didn't turn out this way or like, or any haters on the
• 43:53
  Internet that are just, what are they called Haters?
• 43:58
  Yeah, haters like the other word.
• 44:01
  Trolls, trolls. Trolls, yeah.
• 44:04
  No, not really. I think it's, I'm really
• 44:06
  surprised the amount of people, the community again, that I
• 44:09
  built has been incredibly supportive.
• 44:11
  I mean, talk shit on me, but it's only a little bit.
• 44:14
  And I mean like from the shit. Yeah, it's really, I mean, I
• 44:16
  fucking love it. So you like a good shit talking?
• 44:20
  Yeah. And so when I do the, I
• 44:26
  purposely don't share ingredient amounts.
• 44:30
  I think. Yeah, you don't.
• 44:32
  Yeah, I used to. And I realized that's not really
• 44:34
  me, right. And the reason it's not
• 44:38
  necessarily too much work. I just think it makes you a bad
• 44:40
  cook sometimes to really rely on a recipe.
• 44:43
  So whenever I buy, I have like 50 cookbooks.
• 44:46
  I've never even used one of the recipes really, besides the
• 44:48
  baking ones. I look through them and kind of
• 44:51
  get the understanding basic measurements right, and then use
• 44:56
  that to kind of create. And I think that's really
• 44:59
  important because it brings like an intuitive sense and it brings
• 45:03
  more of your own personality into the food.
• 45:05
  So I'm not big on tomatoes. I try to omit them as much as I
• 45:09
  can. So.
• 45:10
  A lot of things don't become that, right?
• 45:13
  So my food, like my mullet ends up becoming, I mean, there's not
• 45:17
  a lot of tomatoes to begin with. It ends up being different than
• 45:21
  the one that my mom made, you know what I mean?
• 45:23
  Even though I got the same thing and it also kind of links you
• 45:26
  back to the traditional cooking. You know what I mean?
• 45:28
  Like your mom is not going to tell you the recipe.
• 45:30
  She's. Going.
• 45:32
  To she's. Like on Punita and I'm like,
• 45:34
  what's a fucking Punita? Like, I don't know what that is,
• 45:37
  mom. Yeah, and it just kind of brings
• 45:40
  it more. Oh shit, I just spit it.
• 45:43
  It brings you more back into like the like the actual feeling
• 45:48
  of of connection with your food. And as again, as potential as
• 45:53
  that sounds, sorry. Doesn't sound pretentious.
• 45:55
  I think you're struggling. Go back to therapy.
• 45:57
  OK, Thank you. OK, so then on on kind of the
• 46:04
  same topic of Mexicans, like, you know, we do love we all love
• 46:09
  a good butter pecan. Pecan or pecan?
• 46:11
  Yes. Butter pecan, I say.
• 46:14
  Pecan you. Say pecan.
• 46:15
  I say both and and so no one gets mad at me.
• 46:18
  Oh, fair. But, you know, we all love a
• 46:20
  good butter pecan ice cream. We all love something spicy.
• 46:24
  We all love like we love Peppino, which you said you hate
• 46:28
  Peppino. Peppino, Yeah.
• 46:30
  I fucking hate it. Yeah, so it's so kind of like on
• 46:35
  the like, what are you learning as you're making all these foods
• 46:39
  that like, why the fuck do we gravitate to so much to this
• 46:42
  shit? I really, I wanted to do a
• 46:46
  study, I actually wanted to get a graduate degree in, in food
• 46:50
  history and anthropology with food and all that stuff.
• 46:53
  So one of the things that I would like to kind of see is how
• 46:56
  much of, I mean, our food is cultural, right, Wherever you're
• 47:01
  from, and how much of an impact of mental health that really
• 47:06
  has, right? And so I know when I'm feeling
• 47:09
  like shit, I'm going to go get some Mexican food, right?
• 47:12
  Like I'm going to get myself taught that I'm gonna fuck it up
• 47:15
  on a Deep Throat that, you know, saying.
• 47:18
  Which? Both of them, you know, I'm
• 47:20
  saying both of them. And So what was the question?
• 47:25
  I got lost, I'm sorry. Why you were I was asking you
• 47:30
  like there are just so many things that like Oh yes, yes,
• 47:33
  stereotypically we do love these things.
• 47:35
  I. Think it's just because we grew
• 47:36
  up with them, right? Like it was what was abundant
• 47:39
  wherever our ancestors were, you know?
• 47:42
  And so that kind of leads it back.
• 47:44
  You're always going to be kind of tied to it.
• 47:45
  Like even with music, you know, I mean, there's like rhythmic
• 47:48
  stuff that is kind of tied to it.
• 47:52
  Again, I'm probably getting into a tangent, but it's kind of it's
• 47:57
  kind of known that when during pregnancy, certain things kind
• 48:00
  of affect you and kind of lead on to your to your changes.
• 48:04
  Like one of the big things is like generational trauma.
• 48:07
  So during 9/11, a lot of people were pregnant and they saw that
• 48:11
  the people that were the kids that were pregnant ended up with
• 48:13
  higher cortisol. So they were more stressed out
• 48:16
  and higher PTSD straight out the womb, right?
• 48:19
  So it's not, I don't think it's far fetched to think that a lot
• 48:21
  of the food that we kind of affected us and became a little
• 48:25
  bit more what we need for comfort or de stressing and
• 48:31
  stuff like that. That makes sense.
• 48:33
  Yeah. I love a good savory chip.
• 48:36
  I'm always wanting chips and it's just because I could grow
• 48:40
  up and just like walk down the street or not even the street,
• 48:43
  but just over to my neighbor who has Athena in her house and buy
• 48:47
  a fucking bag of chips in Mexico.
• 48:49
  Mexico. Oh my God.
• 48:50
  Not in Dodge, no. Talking about in Mexico.
• 48:53
  Yeah. And so I'm always like, yeah,
• 48:56
  chips are my weakness. Yeah, but like just chips from
• 49:00
  Mexico too. Every time it's like, what can I
• 49:01
  bring you back some chips, please?
• 49:03
  I would really want some chapos, a little round ones.
• 49:05
  Those are my favorite. I watched.
• 49:08
  Her eat a whole bag of them last week.
• 49:10
  Yeah, something like that. But Speaking of eating and not
• 49:22
  eating, I guess, or limiting, you also started out on a weight
• 49:25
  loss journey too, right? Yeah, I was kind of curious
• 49:28
  because like, you're making food a lot, so like, are you eating
• 49:32
  it too, I imagine? Yeah, that was a little bit.
• 49:37
  So I have binge eating disorder, I have disorder eating in
• 49:41
  general. Some of that was I had to work
• 49:46
  through that and I think cooking actually really helped through
• 49:48
  it a lot just because I think I had this relationship with food
• 49:58
  that wasn't realistic and for me for a lot of the time felt like
• 50:02
  shame, you know what I mean? And so me going through this
• 50:06
  like journey of, of weight loss and obviously I go to a
• 50:11
  dietitian every two weeks, you know what I mean?
• 50:13
  Because I'm trying to get trying to get better therapy every
• 50:16
  every three weeks kind of thing. You know, it's been, it's been a
• 50:23
  little hard to be this guy who found his passion in cooking and
• 50:28
  was also 420 lbs and also learning to kind of be OK with
• 50:35
  not finishing my plate, which is a huge thing.
• 50:37
  And like you know, and bring communities.
• 50:40
  Yeah, any any immigrant like you better fucking eat that whole.
• 50:43
  Shit. We're not.
• 50:44
  We're paying for it, right? Yeah.
• 50:45
  You can't leave that plate. Exactly.
• 50:47
  And then even just being OK with that and maybe all this food
• 50:50
  isn't for me. So that's been, it's been really
• 50:53
  hard to kind of work through it. I'm getting better.
• 50:55
  I haven't gained back any weight.
• 50:57
  I've lost 80 lbs since I think it's second time that I lost 80
• 51:01
  lbs. First time I did it, not good.
• 51:05
  I didn't eat anything and I wasn't cooking anything.
• 51:07
  This time I'm cooking. Anything so, so really
• 51:08
  depressing. Yeah, yeah, it was really sad.
• 51:10
  Yeah, it just, it wasn't. It was also maybe more of the
• 51:13
  shame kind of playing in. Yeah, yeah.
• 51:15
  And it was just trying to not not be, trying not to be.
• 51:22
  Again, authenticity is really important, right?
• 51:25
  So I was not really being myself when I was doing that initial
• 51:28
  weight loss. And that's why I didn't stick.
• 51:30
  Yeah, so yeah, sorry. I was.
• 51:38
  I was hoping Dusty would jump in a bit, but damn Dusty, man, I
• 51:42
  swear. That's crazy.
• 51:47
  You'd be doing that shit, man. No, don't.
• 51:55
  Like fist fighter right now. No, I'm just trying to be like
• 51:59
  Lauren. Tell me.
• 52:00
  Yeah, the next bullet point here and you just have Tinga 2 Madre.
• 52:03
  Yeah. It was.
• 52:09
  It was just. Like today.
• 52:10
  I saw that one today that you made about the the chicken
• 52:14
  thinga and then you were saying like, you know, like the madre
• 52:18
  and you were saying dumb shit about it.
• 52:20
  Yeah. So I actually, I'm also on a
• 52:23
  slow deficit right now. And how many calories?
• 52:27
  I think it's like 7 four, no 17500, something like that.
• 52:33
  Five. 100 calories you're in. 17500 a day.
• 52:36
  OK, what's your deficit like? That's that's the.
• 52:39
  Deficit. Oh, that's your deficit?
• 52:41
  No, I mean like how many like calories are you eating less
• 52:44
  than your maintenance? No, that's what I'm telling you.
• 52:47
  100, yeah. 17500 like my maintenance, huh?
• 52:51
  1750, that thing. Am I saying that wrong?
• 52:56
  Yeah, I can't do math. OK.
• 53:00
  Sorry, I was just 1751750. Yes, that's accurate.
• 53:06
  That's it's around that, yeah, I forgot what my maintenance is
• 53:10
  right now. I have somebody who's managing
• 53:12
  all my cameras, so I'm not even. I'm just kind of like, Yep.
• 53:17
  Just do it. That's pretty fucking cool.
• 53:19
  Yeah, shout out to working really hard to finally being
• 53:22
  able to afford something like that, the privilege of it.
• 53:25
  Yeah, but so I was, I'm also like, I, I'm eating all the food
• 53:30
  that I want to eat. Like I'm not eating some salad.
• 53:33
  I'm not eating like shit that I don't want to eat.
• 53:35
  Like I had ceviche this week. I also made chicken thingatu.
• 53:39
  Like I'm like, I want to eat the food that I've enjoyed to eat,
• 53:43
  but just adjust it to my macros. So I'm still hitting the stuff
• 53:48
  that I need to hit because I don't want to hate myself.
• 53:52
  I I will just say that like I think that what comes with the
• 53:54
  deficit, though, it's hard because it's like, I don't I
• 53:57
  want to eat like four or five of these things.
• 53:59
  Yeah. You know, like I don't want to
• 54:01
  just eat 2. Like I had I could only have two
• 54:04
  tostalas, a chicken thing. I couldn't.
• 54:06
  I know you're exactly exactly. Visibly upset, I was started
• 54:11
  shaking. I know, but like, and I'm just
• 54:16
  like, OK, well, at least I get to have it.
• 54:18
  But I've also been on the deficit for almost like a year
• 54:20
  now. Oh shit, that I'm used to the
• 54:23
  calories. Yeah, it's not.
• 54:24
  And it's not a dramatic because I think I forgot what my
• 54:27
  maintenance is, but we've only like done like 400 off.
• 54:31
  Like, I think it's not, it's not a crazy thing.
• 54:34
  And it's like a pound A. Week almost.
• 54:37
  We're not like that systematic about it because I'm also doing
• 54:43
  a lot of weight training and trying to gain, well, I've
• 54:46
  always done. Weight.
• 54:47
  OK, OK. Yeah, like that's always been
• 54:48
  part of my life, or not always, but now for the last maybe, I
• 54:52
  don't know, 7-6 years, that's been part of it.
• 54:55
  So yeah, I'm not like. Do you like Powerlift or?
• 55:00
  Just like strength training. Cool.
• 55:01
  Cool. Yeah, I got into powerlifting as
• 55:05
  I was losing weight. So I, I tried to get my, you
• 55:09
  know, 1500 LB club or 1000 LB club.
• 55:12
  I just met the other week. So I mean, a couple months ago.
• 55:15
  And so yeah, I'm really, I don't share that too much and I would
• 55:18
  like to, it's just a little scary to kind of record myself,
• 55:22
  you know, you know, at the gym or anything like that.
• 55:25
  I did see that you posted you were at at the gym earlier today
• 55:28
  so. Oh yeah, yeah, no, I think like
• 55:30
  it's I agree. I hear you.
• 55:32
  Like I want to and I'm like Oh my God, I'm finally like.
• 55:35
  Or now that I'm also sticking to the deficit that I'm feeling
• 55:39
  like oh, I can really finally see more definition around
• 55:42
  certain areas. Yeah and it's like, but I want
• 55:45
  it more so I'm not gonna post this.
• 55:47
  No yeah, you know what I mean. I.
• 55:48
  Feel that, Yeah, yeah. I think for me is like, I have a
• 55:53
  big ass belly and it doesn't even matter how much weight I
• 55:56
  lost, right? Like I, you could just see my
• 55:57
  fucking belly either way. And so it's been kind of hard
• 56:01
  for me to embrace this. And I'm sure you're feeling
• 56:03
  this. I think with, again, women
• 56:05
  suffer really heavily with, you know, body image issues where
• 56:10
  it's like, I, I feel very good. And then I see myself in the
• 56:13
  mirror. You know what I mean?
• 56:14
  Like, that's, that's the kind of stuff.
• 56:16
  Yeah. No, but that's really awesome
• 56:17
  you're doing here. Yeah.
• 56:19
  So it's really cool. Thanks.
• 56:20
  No, it is. I yeah, like just kind of on the
• 56:23
  whole body shaming and stuff like that, you know, what are,
• 56:27
  has that something always been a part of your life too?
• 56:30
  Or like, how do you, like we were talking earlier about
• 56:32
  friends and how they help you with things.
• 56:35
  But like, sometimes it feels like men don't have that type of
• 56:37
  support system as much as women do, or maybe they don't allow
• 56:41
  themselves to have it or just for whatever reason.
• 56:44
  Yeah, we were like we were talking about it earlier.
• 56:46
  I think it really just depends on the demographic.
• 56:49
  I think it's really big on on, I guess with with friendships, you
• 56:58
  have to be very vulnerable, right, To have a very good
• 57:01
  friendship, you know, you have to be willing to do a lot of
• 57:04
  shit that you really don't want to.
• 57:06
  And I think for a lot of like the more misogynistic or the
• 57:11
  more machismo or like the more machismo or whatever it is, the
• 57:14
  more the more focused on showing a certain type of masculinity.
• 57:19
  It's harder for you to be able to be vulnerable with someone,
• 57:22
  which is really weird because you know, some of those places,
• 57:25
  like you said, you were in the Army, right?
• 57:27
  Air Force, Air Force, like some of these places where they are a
• 57:30
  little bit more masculine, you know what I mean?
• 57:33
  These, these occupations, they're like the gayest straight
• 57:37
  man I've ever met, you know what I mean?
• 57:39
  And it just happens, right? And so I think that mentality
• 57:43
  kind of sucks. And it's, I mean, there is like
• 57:45
  a lonely dude epidemic and some of it is self-imposed, like some
• 57:48
  of the dudes that are watching Red Pill shit, Joe Rogan stuff,
• 57:53
  which I mean feeds into it. But even if it was self, you
• 57:59
  know, self-inflicted loneliness, it's still it's still an issue,
• 58:03
  you know what I mean? So.
• 58:04
  Yeah, fair. I was going to say just kind of
• 58:08
  even around that. Like, I think a lot of the
• 58:10
  times, like people don't think of their friendships as
• 58:13
  relationships. Oh yeah.
• 58:15
  You know, and, and I, I at least for me, like that was something
• 58:18
  that I realized that I wanted to work on and spend ample time on
• 58:23
  it and like, learn to understand my friends love languages, male
• 58:28
  and female. Like, I know the way that they
• 58:30
  want to communicate. Or like I was joking about like
• 58:32
  me sending Dusty all this dumb shit all the time.
• 58:34
  But I do know how Dusty communicates.
• 58:36
  So like, yeah, I'm giving him shit about it.
• 58:38
  But like, I get it. Yeah, yeah, I'm not like pissed
• 58:41
  off, but yeah, about it or something, you know.
• 58:44
  And I think like that, that's it, right?
• 58:47
  Like we don't always, I think we are always looking for just a
• 58:51
  romantic partner to fill all these holes, but that's not.
• 58:54
  Really realistic? No, it's not, no.
• 58:56
  Because you need your friends, you if you're lucky enough to
• 58:59
  have your family and and also like those family relationships
• 59:02
  too. And then your relationship now
• 59:05
  romantically can flourish more and then your relationship with
• 59:08
  yourself. Like there's just so much much
• 59:10
  of it that you can't just focus. On one again, going back to the
• 59:15
  community thing and what's really important for me to kind
• 59:17
  of build that in the thing, community can help you build
• 59:21
  anything you want, you know what I mean?
• 59:24
  And like you said, friendships take work.
• 59:26
  And one of the biggest things I have an issue with right now
• 59:28
  with like social media really big is like, I don't want to do
• 59:31
  that. So I won't help my friend.
• 59:33
  Oh, like I'm feeling, I'm feeling like tired.
• 59:37
  So I won't go see my friend and I'll cancel on it.
• 59:40
  I feel like that's fucking crazy to do.
• 59:43
  I would never do that. You know, I'm tired.
• 59:45
  I'm gonna be a little pissy, right?
• 59:47
  Yeah. But I made this commitment to my
• 59:49
  friend, you know what I mean? So I gotta do it.
• 59:51
  And I feel like that's it's a little fucking selfish, you know
• 59:54
  what I mean? To, to to do that all the time,
• 59:57
  especially when you're you're, you're trying to build this
• 59:59
  friendship or you're trying to keep these friendships.
• 1:00:01
  It's not going to make them feel good.
• 1:00:03
  Yeah, I mean. I mean, the commitment, whether
• 1:00:05
  it's at the friendship level, at the relationship or romantic
• 1:00:08
  relationship level, it's all really important to be like
• 1:00:11
  leaving someone dry over something else or like I'm
• 1:00:13
  feeling this certain way or somebody else just came in and
• 1:00:16
  they invited me to something else that's more important to
• 1:00:19
  them. Like that's also just as fucked
• 1:00:21
  up because you're you're not giving that person who you made
• 1:00:24
  those original plans with the respect that they deserve.
• 1:00:27
  Exactly. It's.
• 1:00:28
  About respect and stuff like that.
• 1:00:29
  And then I'm not saying you can't ever ditch plans or
• 1:00:32
  whatever. Yeah, but like doing it so
• 1:00:34
  consistently, what's the point? Like why are you even friends
• 1:00:36
  with that person? Yeah, yeah, 100% yeah.
• 1:00:41
  One thing that I did still kind of want to talk about that's not
• 1:00:45
  even on this was more around like, you know, you you touched
• 1:00:49
  on the fact that you're like, yes, I do have these types of
• 1:00:51
  followers more, but I'm always sharing these things instead.
• 1:00:55
  And so that's something that you're willing and excited to
• 1:00:58
  talk about too. So yeah, yeah, like I just kind
• 1:01:02
  of whore is there. Trump is a piece of shit.
• 1:01:08
  Like, what else to say about that?
• 1:01:10
  I think the way that we're treating immigrants is
• 1:01:13
  incredibly inhuman. And the people who are using
• 1:01:16
  religion as a justification for that is incredibly disingenuous
• 1:01:21
  and an asshole thing to do. I think that if you really,
• 1:01:25
  truly, and I'm, I'm really hitting on the religious part
• 1:01:27
  because I'm, I was, I'm Catholic ish, you know what I mean?
• 1:01:30
  I grew up in that kind of stuff. I mean, I got a fucking yeah.
• 1:01:34
  And so it is not godly to hate people.
• 1:01:38
  It is not godly to exclude people just because the way that
• 1:01:40
  they look or the status that they come in.
• 1:01:43
  I truly believe that the people that are coming that are talking
• 1:01:46
  this way, if God himself came back, tried to cross from
• 1:01:50
  Mexico, they would deport him. And this is, you know, this is
• 1:01:53
  this is a real thing. And it sucks because I think
• 1:01:57
  some of that, again, we talked with the lonely male epidemic
• 1:01:59
  and stuff like that, Some of that was caused by like us not
• 1:02:04
  allowing people to make gay jokes, you know what I mean?
• 1:02:06
  Like not allowing people to. Not that they should be
• 1:02:08
  offensive all the time, but. Just like being themselves, they
• 1:02:12
  aren't allowing people to express themselves.
• 1:02:14
  Full. Yeah.
• 1:02:15
  And it's like. We're like, suppress everything
• 1:02:17
  that is, yeah, not masculine. BPC BPC be be.
• 1:02:22
  What do you call? Just be, you know, and I'm
• 1:02:28
  talking about this. Whatever images that no.
• 1:02:30
  Yeah, like we're cancelling people because they didn't like
• 1:02:32
  certain things, right? And I and not, again, not to get
• 1:02:35
  on like weird, like Soapbox. I think you have to let people
• 1:02:38
  and meet them where they're at. You have to meet them where that
• 1:02:41
  and someone and and I'm singling out this kind of grip a little
• 1:02:44
  bit just because that's kind of the group that led Trump to it.
• 1:02:48
  You know, white males, they were told for a long time that
• 1:02:52
  they're bad for being white males, right?
• 1:02:55
  And you can't be doing that shit.
• 1:02:56
  It's going to just push people away.
• 1:02:58
  That's true. That's.
• 1:02:58
  True, it just makes them mad too.
• 1:03:00
  They need an outlet. Yeah.
• 1:03:02
  And not saying, I mean, how are you going to teach someone to
• 1:03:04
  grow if you don't give them the opportunity to grow, right.
• 1:03:06
  And so like, I think there's, there's a certain level where
• 1:03:10
  it's a little bit of the fault of like the left a little bit
• 1:03:13
  where it's like, we're not, we're talking about being
• 1:03:16
  accepting, we're talking about being allowing people to grow,
• 1:03:19
  but we're canceling them and not letting them improve in any
• 1:03:22
  fucking chance. And then also the people who are
• 1:03:24
  disingenuous in their, in their beliefs of, of, you know, God
• 1:03:28
  and all this stuff and, and saying that there's a, they,
• 1:03:33
  they care about all people, but they're constantly hating on
• 1:03:35
  LGBTQS who have no choice in what they, they love, right?
• 1:03:40
  They're constantly hating on immigrants who, like them, would
• 1:03:44
  do anything for their children. They're constantly hating on, on
• 1:03:48
  anything that isn't them, right? And that's such a shitty thing.
• 1:03:54
  And it's so hurtful that people don't understand that, right?
• 1:03:58
  And it doesn't allow them and it doesn't allow anyone to grow.
• 1:04:02
  It keeps everyone back and it and it causes more hurt than it
• 1:04:06
  should. Yeah, right.
• 1:04:09
  I'm AUS citizen, my mom is undocumented.
• 1:04:11
  I'm scared of getting deported. Right.
• 1:04:14
  Yeah, no. Like what the fuck?
• 1:04:15
  Yeah. Like what is that?
• 1:04:16
  Because it really could happen. It could.
• 1:04:17
  Happen, yeah. Or with whatever that's saying
• 1:04:20
  right now of overturning, like, birthright citizenship, yeah.
• 1:04:23
  Birthright citizenship, like go fuck yourself.
• 1:04:25
  Like, I think, yeah, I think at a certain point it becomes you
• 1:04:28
  not wanting to be open minded and it becomes you being racist,
• 1:04:33
  even if you had a different intention at the beginning.
• 1:04:36
  Yeah, at a certain point you're trying to not learn.
• 1:04:38
  You don't want to own up to the mistakes.
• 1:04:40
  Because some people voted for Trump and then they regretted it
• 1:04:43
  and. Then that's.
• 1:04:44
  OK, that's OK because we're. Human and we make mistakes,
• 1:04:46
  yeah, and we can change your mind and a certain as much as we
• 1:04:49
  can change. Yeah, as much as you want to
• 1:04:50
  change, there's always growing, right?
• 1:04:52
  But at a certain point it's just because you're racist and
• 1:04:56
  because you don't fucking care about people and stop using
• 1:04:59
  religion or any other kind of stuff to to make it acceptable.
• 1:05:04
  Right. Yeah.
• 1:05:04
  That's it. Sorry, you don't have to
• 1:05:06
  apologize. I think that was really awesome.
• 1:05:09
  I think that like even in cancel culture, like it's hard because
• 1:05:14
  I like to believe that people can change.
• 1:05:16
  I mean, I do think 100%, like my therapist says this all the
• 1:05:19
  time. What you see is what you get.
• 1:05:20
  Yeah. So like, what you see and how
• 1:05:22
  people are showing up is what you get.
• 1:05:24
  Oh. Yeah, I think that 100%.
• 1:05:25
  I think, again, like you said, cancel culture, I'm not saying
• 1:05:28
  we shouldn't fucking put bad people who are bad people,
• 1:05:31
  right? I'm not saying that at all.
• 1:05:32
  Yeah, I'm saying that. We do need to give opportunity.
• 1:05:36
  Opportunity. There's an opportunity that is
• 1:05:38
  needed. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:05:39
  I mean, yeah, yeah, no, yeah. I think like you said, all that
• 1:05:44
  we wanted to say too. We didn't go through the
• 1:05:46
  lightning room. Oh, OK.
• 1:05:47
  I thought you were just playing room.
• 1:05:48
  OK, that. Was the the more you know?
• 1:05:52
  Yeah, sound. Oh, that was oh, that's, that's
• 1:05:54
  a cute sound. OK, so one other thing that we
• 1:05:57
  like to do with the podcast as we start to wrap up is this
• 1:06:00
  thing called Lightning Round, where we just ask you a bunch of
• 1:06:03
  different questions and you're just going to kind of like say
• 1:06:06
  these things, whatever comes to mind 1st, and Dusty's going to
• 1:06:10
  do the first one. Oh shit, that's.
• 1:06:14
  Good, sweet or savory? What's your preferred flavor?
• 1:06:21
  Your profile. Savory.
• 1:06:23
  Okay, what's 1 ingredient you secretly hate working with
• 1:06:28
  Secret because we already know which one.
• 1:06:33
  Chicken. Chicken.
• 1:06:34
  OK, that. Yeah, that's surprise.
• 1:06:37
  Chicken breast or chicken in general?
• 1:06:39
  Chicken in general. Have you ever touched chicken?
• 1:06:43
  You do you wash the chicken when you do work it with it.
• 1:06:45
  No, I don't, but I don't blame anyone who does.
• 1:06:48
  That's a hugely cultural thing, so that's OK.
• 1:06:51
  But I also don't want people telling me to want my chicken.
• 1:06:53
  Yeah, I've heard it's not good to wash it.
• 1:06:56
  But it spreads bacteria. It spreads it crazy.
• 1:06:59
  Yeah, but I think it is a cultural.
• 1:07:00
  Thing yeah, I don't I don't usually wash the chicken before
• 1:07:04
  I cook with it but I found that out like last week where people
• 1:07:08
  were like it was some cooking video I think they're like, he
• 1:07:13
  didn't wash the chicken he didn't wash everybody's like he
• 1:07:15
  didn't wash the chicken I'm like.
• 1:07:17
  What the fuck? You're washing the chicken?
• 1:07:18
  No. Yeah, I have to.
• 1:07:19
  Cook with it. Yeah, no, same.
• 1:07:23
  Same. Yeah.
• 1:07:24
  Midnight snack. My favorite mini snack.
• 1:07:29
  I honestly really just like a coke.
• 1:07:32
  A Coke, yeah, like a nice. Oh, you did like.
• 1:07:34
  Soda. You did say that you're you're
• 1:07:36
  drinking a lot of Coke right now, Yeah.
• 1:07:37
  Or like Coke. Always.
• 1:07:43
  I've been drinking Coke 0. That's my fucking shit too.
• 1:07:47
  Yeah, I love that shit. My dad's addicted to Pepsi.
• 1:07:49
  I. Do Pepsi.
• 1:07:50
  Oh my bad, I'm fucking Mexican man sorry like.
• 1:07:54
  Caffeine hit, I guess. Cute.
• 1:07:56
  If you're cooking style or a genre of music, what would it
• 1:07:59
  be? Oh shit, probably like EDM dude,
• 1:08:02
  that's fucking chaotic shit. One dish you'll never post again
• 1:08:09
  and why. Nothing.
• 1:08:14
  I actually really like everything that I post.
• 1:08:16
  I think it'd be fine. I think I would make a better
• 1:08:19
  iteration of stuff. Maybe like my corundas.
• 1:08:21
  They fuck, I fuck those up, yeah.
• 1:08:24
  But OK. The weirdest cooking kitchen DM
• 1:08:32
  you've ever received. Cooking kitchen DM what do you
• 1:08:36
  like? Like related to.
• 1:08:40
  Nothing. I don't think I got anything
• 1:08:42
  weird besides those like, again, those thirsty women that come
• 1:08:47
  into my chat. But that's part of personally my
• 1:08:50
  fault 'cause I asked him to come in to Metro.
• 1:08:53
  You should be asking them to come in.
• 1:08:55
  I thought you said you're not supposed to self promote
• 1:08:57
  yourself. That's not self promoting,
• 1:08:59
  that's just me being myself. OK, there's a difference.
• 1:09:02
  OK. Can only use three spices for
• 1:09:06
  the rest of your life. Salt.
• 1:09:11
  Like can a mix be used like a mix like A5 spice?
• 1:09:15
  Should we allow it? I'll allow it.
• 1:09:18
  OK. OK, it's 5 spice.
• 1:09:20
  It's 5 spice comes in one jar. There you go, salt, 5 spice, and
• 1:09:26
  then maybe some kind of like, I don't know if this is
• 1:09:30
  necessarily spice, but some kind of acidity, maybe vinegar, lime,
• 1:09:34
  something like that. Building blocks.
• 1:09:37
  I think that you think 5 spice. That's what I was looking at was
• 1:09:41
  I was making some chicken and I was using A5 spice thing and I
• 1:09:45
  decided to look up a recipe and then that's when I saw the.
• 1:09:49
  The whole thing about washing chicken. 5 spice is really is
• 1:09:52
  really versatile. You could use it in sweet, sweet
• 1:09:55
  connotations. I want to put it into yeah, and
• 1:09:58
  I want to put it into a like Strawberry Shortcake almost.
• 1:10:03
  And then but make 5 spice whipped cream.
• 1:10:06
  So the hit of cardamom and cinnamon and starnies, it's
• 1:10:11
  really warming. So it'd be a really nice kind of
• 1:10:13
  warming thing for this. Like really cool.
• 1:10:16
  Dessert. Spice whipped.
• 1:10:21
  Cream. Yeah, that sounds OK.
• 1:10:23
  And when you make it and make sure to invite, Oh yeah,
• 1:10:25
  everybody in this room, of course, alternative baddies or
• 1:10:30
  hippie baddies. Fuck.
• 1:10:34
  Alternative. Alternative.
• 1:10:37
  Is it the blue hair? Oh, of course.
• 1:10:39
  You're in a Latina too. Tattoos.
• 1:10:43
  God, yeah. First food memory that made you
• 1:10:48
  say hell yeah? My mom makes spaghetti better
• 1:10:54
  than. Oh yeah.
• 1:10:55
  Fuck man, every time I eat it I'm like hell yeah.
• 1:10:58
  Oh. Yeah, yeah, always say it's for
• 1:11:02
  sure. OK, we gave you this song or
• 1:11:04
  this question so you have time to think about it.
• 1:11:07
  So 3 songs that describe your life anthem.
• 1:11:11
  Right now, I want to say, have you heard?
• 1:11:17
  Fuck, I forgot the name of it. The fight that vessels.
• 1:11:22
  Have you heard that one from him?
• 1:11:25
  It's by some Juan Sebastian maybe?
• 1:11:28
  Oh. OK.
• 1:11:29
  And that's the fight that vessels right now.
• 1:11:33
  That was really I'm I'm needing some kisses.
• 1:11:37
  From the homies, yeah. Sure wants to get from.
• 1:11:41
  The Tortas. From.
• 1:11:43
  The. From the all baddies.
• 1:11:45
  From the heavy baddies. And, you know, tattoos that
• 1:11:48
  happen to be Latina and from I like, I think maybe like etch up
• 1:11:56
  on me. I like that one too.
• 1:11:58
  Yeah, I'm a little romantic. And I also really do like.
• 1:12:00
  Mexican, right? I feel like Mexicans are, How
• 1:12:02
  romantic. You got it.
• 1:12:03
  You can't fall. You can't fall in love with
• 1:12:05
  being without being a little Mexican.
• 1:12:06
  Love Mexican, Lee. Yeah.
• 1:12:09
  I feel like some, I feel like other cultures don't get me when
• 1:12:12
  I say that I'm like, that's cuz you don't get it.
• 1:12:13
  Like I can't say this word to you.
• 1:12:15
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:12:16
  And then I do like like a something kind of love.
• 1:12:20
  I feel like that's really just kind of like a little mellow.
• 1:12:25
  It tastes like I made an Eclair for it.
• 1:12:28
  I used to make this like kind of food thing where like you put
• 1:12:31
  music to food and it tastes like Eclair like a very sweet light
• 1:12:35
  puffy, you know, puff pastry with inside like a nice like
• 1:12:40
  soft vanilla cream and. Warm.
• 1:12:44
  Yeah, and then on the very top, some really dark chocolate.
• 1:12:48
  Can you take a fucking bite of that when you're laying down or
• 1:12:51
  on the couch? You know what I mean?
• 1:12:54
  That shit up. Fuck.
• 1:12:55
  Sounds like a court memory. We talked.
• 1:12:57
  Yeah, you should. Come over for it.
• 1:13:02
  OK, well, we've now heard a little bit about both you and
• 1:13:08
  your stories, your passions and interests.
• 1:13:11
  So tell us and our listeners, you said it at the top, but how?
• 1:13:15
  How we can find you? How can we support you?
• 1:13:17
  Guys, I am bullying bulk BULLY. Figure out the rest.
• 1:13:24
  I can't spell and you can find me on TikTok, on Instagram, on
• 1:13:30
  YouTube, on Twitch. You can find me down the street.
• 1:13:35
  You can find me at a McDonald's. You can hit me up on my.
• 1:13:37
  DMS if you're a beautiful woman and of age.
• 1:13:40
  If your name is Fanny, you can hit me up.
• 1:13:44
  If you, the way that you can support me is just watching my
• 1:13:47
  stuff, sharing it and just really, really being passionate
• 1:13:56
  about the stuff that you do. I think that's really, really
• 1:13:58
  important and I try to share that as much as possible.
• 1:14:01
  So support me and and being passionate about your own shit.
• 1:14:05
  Oh, that's so sweet. OK, well here's to you and
• 1:14:10
  Pariva Babako.