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So this week I've got some tips for you to help you get past the fear of taking a leap of faith.
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Welcome back to the pod.
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I'm my Draden Figaroa, and this is Unscripted and Unrehearsed, where I give you my take on things that I've seen, heard, and witnessed in the past week.
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Yeah, uh, I got a lot to share this week.
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Um but first pardon me, I gotta burp.
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All right, the fear of failure.
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A lot of people experience it, I experience it.
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Um I think it's the number one reason why some people don't take a chance on themselves, um, or take a leap and uh do the thing that they really want to do or explore or uh maybe change course in their in their lives and whatever they're doing.
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Um so yeah, we're gonna talk about that today.
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I have some tips that what I've done for myself to take a leap.
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Uh but first, uh so the the the level of insanity keeps rising.
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I mean, it doesn't seem to be any ceiling for this.
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And I don't know if it's just plain incompetence or well, it's racism for sure.
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Um, it's emboldenedness.
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Uh so the first of two that really stood out to me this week, and I don't know if you heard about this, but uh so Letitia Jacobo, an American citizen, born in Arizona, 24 years old, Native American.
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Keep that in mind, Native American.
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All right, she was arrested for allegedly driving with a suspended license.
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And I meant to look this up, but I don't know if you can be a I thought you could only get a ticket, or you get arrested if it's like multiple infractions.
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I don't know.
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I forgot to look it up, but you can tell me, let me know.
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Um, yeah, so she was arrested for driving with a suspended license.
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So when her mom, according to the the news report, when her mom went to go get her at the at the precinct or whatever, they told her, you can't take your daughter home, you can't bail her out.
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Ice is coming.
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ICE is coming for your daughter, and she's like, Well, um why is ICE coming for my daughter?
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We're uh that doesn't make sense.
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We're we're American citizens, we're Native Americans.
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Produce all her paperwork, all of her documents, her identification, all of that.
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She was told that ICE was coming to get her daughter for deportation.
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And they're like, um, we're Native Americans.
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Where are we going to be deported to?
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Now I thought this to myself.
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I could, you know, if I have a really good, decent, deep tantrum in the summertime, I could pass for a Native American.
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A lot of people who are mixed race can pass for Native American.
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A lot of us can't where where are they gonna deport this girl to?
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The reservation?
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It makes no sense.
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Insanity.
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Next up, we've got I didn't catch his name, but we have a Latino US Navy officer in uniform.
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Keep that in mind.
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Norfolk PD and ICE, an agent for each, detain this service member, um, again, in uniform, and asks him for his ID.
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It's like okay.
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Hands them over his military ID.
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The ICE agent says it's insufficient identification.
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His military ID.
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This is something you can't fake.
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It's like your driver's license, like your passport.
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This nobody fakes being in the military.
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Nobody.
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And if they do, they're not wearing uniform, they're trying to get benefits, and that's a whole other issue.
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But this dude was in his uniform, produced a military ID.
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They detained this guy until his I what was it, his watch commander or some?
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Oh, he was also asked for his passport.
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Nobody carries their passports with them.
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I carry my driver's license with me.
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That's all I got.
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I'm not carrying my passport around with me.
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You kidding?
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You lose that, forget it.
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It's it's it's an ordeal.
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I mean, just renewing it is a pain in the ass.
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Can you imagine?
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Anyway, uh, so he was asked for his passport.
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This all was resolved until I believe his watch commander or someone from the base, he was on his way to could verify its identity.
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Latino Navy officer.
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And so, in a roundabout way, because it just seems to be a lot of people of color who are experiencing the most pain and and and harm and damage from this nonsense.
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Um, there seems to be a little bit of a Republican backlash because people are asking, well, what about uh you know white immigrants who have overstayed their visas or uh skirting the system and all that?
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These people aren't being stopped because nobody knows.
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You know, they just blend into society, right?
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So it seems to be that there's some Republican backlash and a couple of um, well, I saw one report, I forgot there was one, what's his name?
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I forget his name.
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I'm sorry.
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Uh he just started ripping on this because it's just getting out of control where everyday normal American citizens are being pulled out of their cars.
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I don't know if you saw the report, the woman who she's screaming to top her lungs, I'm an American citizen, what are you doing?
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Uh another girl I saw this morning on the news running down the street, 23 years old, coming home from school or whatever, into her house, and her stepfather comes out to confront these guys who are not in any kind of identifiable insignia.
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He thought his daughter, his stepdaughter was getting kidnapped.
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It's so Republicans that seem to be um mouthing off, not mouthing off, they're starting to uh push back on this and being vocal of uh as they should be.
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Um one said that he thought this was horrible for the party, another report said that all of mentioned, you know, it just seems to be people of color and not the Europeans who are here illegally.
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Who it it you know, if it's one, if it's a rule for every one person, it's gotta be a rule for everybody, right?
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Of course, you know, not everything works that way, unfortunately.
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All right, so first we had in the in this you know pushback, you know, MTG.
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Okay, great.
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You know, she's it seems like she has a whole lot of ulterior motives in her uh departure.
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But now there was a report this week too that Nancy Mace was like, I'm gonna leave if we don't get this together.
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I can I can only imagine the number of people who just opened the door and held it for her.
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Because that's that's the first image that came to my mind was like, this way, hold the door.
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Um so yeah, she threatens, she's threatening to uh to leave and not seeking re-election.
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And a few others are starting to bail.
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And that, you know, I meant to, I wanted to save this for another day, but I'm like thinking there are a lot of people who are seeing the writing on the wall with all this other stuff that's probably being leaked that we don't know about, but it's obvious that we can see a little bit of uh like the health of a certain gentleman.
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Um they're like, if I don't get out of this now, like you know, that that fat guy said, you know, if the left gets in charge, we're all going to jail.
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Anyway, um so yeah, people are panicking and they're jumping ship.
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I don't I mean during World War II, when everybody was brought to trial, I mean, those who got away got away, but they left, left.
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They didn't like, you know, just resign and want to go about their business.
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They were, you know, arrested and tried.
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I don't know about the damage they've done, I don't think requires what does it require in my opinion?
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I think I think some jail time, if you were involved, um, if you were complacent, you should, you know, be ostracized.
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But if you're involved, involved, clinker.
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Um, all right, next up.
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I can't.
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This, okay, this is crazy.
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So did you guys hear about the Campbell Soup Company controversy?
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I'm sure you have, because it was like in the papers and on TV and all of that.
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So apparently leaked audio uh from a meeting with a former VP Martin Bailey.
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You can be heard saying, um, what were his words?
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Oh, it was food for for poor people, um, that it's unhealthy.
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Um, he wouldn't be eating this bio-engineered meat.
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Uh, and he stuck he stopped eating it years ago.
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Um, and he called his chicken was 3D printed.
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I'm like, okay, so in my brain, I'm thinking, oh, food replicators, you know, because it's bioengineered, energy recycled, 3D printed food, you know, uh molecules and uh uh nutrients put together to look and taste like real food.
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Hey, that would be great, you know.
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I mean, honestly, if it was safe, right?
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But you know, the last time, I mean, and I haven't eaten this stuff in a long time, and believe me, I my mother could sit me down at a table with a bowl of tomato soup and a bunch of crackers and a little bit of milk in there, and I was a happy kid.
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You couldn't tell me anything.
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I would, that's all I wanted.
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And I had a can of this was maybe 15 years ago.
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I bought a can of tomato soup because I'm like, I'm feeling my inner child today.
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I sat down and ate that shit.
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I felt like I put a spoon of salt in my mouth and I had unsalted crackers.
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I it tasted like a and it didn't even taste like tomatoes.
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And I remember the taste, it tasted like hot tomatoes, you know, mashed and I'm like, oh my god, this is awful.
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And then one time, you know, I was kind of like, you know, in my on the struggle bus, and I'm like, okay, let me just stock up on some soups and I'll get, you know, chunky was on sale, and it was like, get buy one, get one free, whatever, four or four dollars, whatever.
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And I got a variety of them, and I was reading the can, you know, after I got home, and I'm like, oh, there's a lot of sodium in this.
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And I'm like, yeah, whatever.
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Put it in my mouth, and I felt it.
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Well, first of all, the the beef nugget or chunk of beef did not even taste like meat.
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It it had no taste, but the whole thing just tastes like salt.
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Everything was like salty.
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And I thought maybe because I don't eat salt in my food.
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I'd hate salt in my food.
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I don't like to it, I don't like it.
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Um, I don't add it to my food.
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I just like it the way it's made, you know, whatever seasoning without salt.
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Because I always thought it was too much.
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My mother, my father's mother, at as she got older, her taste buds would go and as she would cook.
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It was a little on the health, hell, heavy on the salty side.
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I don't like salt in my food.
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Um, again, tasted like I put a giant spoon, tablespoon worth of salt in my mouth.
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I stopped eating it.
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I'm like, oh what a bummer.
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They they ruined soup.
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I'll make my own.
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But of course they let the guy go, but I mean, like, it's just hitting now the news that you know he said this.
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But it was like when he said that, it's food for poor people.
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I thought, okay, I know growing up, we, you know, we weren't, we were poor, you know.
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We had, you know, my mother had a book, a job off the books at a dentist's office, I want to say, and she was getting food stamps.
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You know, she was making do with two kids at home that she had a feet.
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You know, it was the 1970s.
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The world was crazy in the 1970s, for those of us who remember, it was nuts.
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But we had what we had and we were happy.
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But he said he wouldn't eat that.
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He oh my god.
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That that hit me sideways.
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I'm like, that was not on my bingo card at all.
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Um, and the the Schadenfreuder that I got for the week uh was Target's disgraceful gift bag.
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And listen, um, first of all, you know, all the the majority of people I saw waiting online for these bags, these gift bags are supposed to be, you know, spectacular, spectacular, and you know, all this great stuff.
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I mean, I did not see a lot of people of color out there.
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There are people who did wait for hours and hours in the freezing cold, something I would not do, um, for the gift bag.
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And I'm thinking, man, this sucks.
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You know, I'm boycotting and they're probably somebody's gonna probably walk away with a fucking PlayStation or a flat screen TV or you know, some really cool shit, you know, some high some Apple products, whatever.
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I was like, Womp womp.
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All right, whatever.
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I'm not meant to have this, but I wasn't gonna wait in line all night to get a spot.
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This is what they got these enormous, I mean enormous Mylar hollow bags, uh, with the Target logo on the side.
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And inside you got people where to live it.
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They should somebody pulled it out.
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They opened the bag, you could see inside there was a box of Udo cards, there was uh elf makeup, little thing of elf makeup, uh Jen's shampoo, a sample, and some other weird shit, like playing cards and one.
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And I'm like, I would have, I would have just left.
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I'm like, thank you.
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Just kept as a souvenir, I would have left the stuff, kept the bag and the ticket that I had to.
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So I could have that back my place in line card, and like this is what this is what I got.
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I would have I would have kept that because I'm stupid that way.
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But I was like, what is this?
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But I enjoyed the shot before I do on that.
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I'm sorry, I just had to because you know speaking of boycotting, uh the the numbers came out, uh, I want to say on Thursday.
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Was it Thursday?
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I feel like it was Thursday.
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That uh Black Friday and Cyber Monday were the biggest shopping days as far as numbers go in a long time.
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And I'm I'm skeptical, but I'm like, I think I think this is this is my theory, and I I I don't think it's a conspiracy, but this is my theory, all right.
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They these companies are okay, they're they're wealthy, they have a lot of money, they have a lot of cash on hand, they have a lot of this reason why they don't pay their people as much as they should.
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They have money, okay.
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I'm sure they have rainy day funds.
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So, my theory is this people did not buy as much as they they're saying on Amazon at Target at Walmart at all these other places.
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What I think they did was they got the numbers and they offset it with whatever rainy day fund they had.
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Because I mean, I know they have to report the actual transactions and all of that, but transactions can be made, right?
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They can purchase stuff, they can do whatever.
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I firmly believe they fed and fudged their numbers just to show that they were not, and of course, they have they have bored people and shareholders they need their accountant to.
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They're losing money, they're gonna bail, they gotta show that we didn't lose anybody.
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As a matter of fact, we made money.
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So this whole boycott was just it was not, it was nothing.
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It was a it was a big nothing burger.
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I don't buy it.
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I honestly don't buy it.
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I know a lot of people personally online, a lot of people who are like, we're actually doing the thing.
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And if you look around, um I passed through a couple of shopping areas, and there's a lot of people out buying in small mom and pops, which is cool to see.
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So I don't know.
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I don't I don't believe it.
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That's what they reported.
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Can you all you know, it's my theory.
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I'm not accusing anyone of anything, but I just don't buy it.
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You tell me, what do you think?
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Do you do you really think that with all the backlash on dropping DIE policies and all of this?
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Do you honestly think that people cared more about themselves than actually making a statement?
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I mean I I don't know.
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Sometimes I feel like I'm asking questions that already can be I don't know.
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Some people are like that.
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Some people aren't.
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But I'm like, I'm doing my part for me because I know how it makes me feel.
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You know, I walk into a store and then I don't see products that I like because they somebody told them something and they're like, took it out.
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Did that make sense?
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I feel like I glitched.
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I glitched.
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Oh, my notes went away.
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Hold on.
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Oh, there's a meeting I have to go to today.
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I don't know.
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I was gonna say it seems like it's getting worse and worse, but I I feel sometimes like I'm repeating myself because it's it's going on in my head.
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I try very hard to not let the world events really affect my mood.
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It's it's uh it's exhausting.
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It's exhausting.
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Oh, you know what's really bothering me, guys?
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I gotta I gotta share this side note for you.
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So I took Max out last night when I got home from work, and there was this woman.
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There's well, it seems to be like there's a lot of new people with dogs in the area to go into the dog run, and like I don't recognize everybody.
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I'm like, oh, there's a new dog.
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I'm like, oh it's the new dog meat that really stresses me out because I don't know how he's gonna react and I don't know how they're gonna react, and it's like that.
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I just need him to poop and come home because it's fucking cold now, and I don't want to be out in the cold.
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And I took him into dog run, and you know, they come to the gates right away, they block, you know, they blocked and I'm like, oh, just move your freaking dog lady.
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Um, but they seemed okay.
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They were like wagging tails and sniffing, and you know, it seemed oh, okay, this is okay.
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And then all of a sudden, you know, I unleash him so he can go run to his poop spot, and he did a 180, like, I don't know, zoom zoom, and they were he went after this dog, and I've never seen him like that before.
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And I had to grab him by his harness and pull him, and I f it freaked me the fuck out and it upset me.
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And the lady was upset, and I was like, I'm so so sorry.
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I I don't know where that came from.
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And he's you know, he can you see him?
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Look.
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Yeah, I'm talking about you, mister.
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He was on punishment last night.
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No treats after the walk or anything.
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Um so I was like, oh my god, is your dog okay or whatever?
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And she just ignored me and kept walking about.
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I felt bad.
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And you know, I've been in that position before where, you know, you know, dogs go after Max.
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Um but I never know with him.
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Smaller dogs, he becomes a bully and he humps them.
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He's a fucking sexual deviant.
00:21:00.799 --> 00:21:13.519
Um other it seems to me as I'm thinking about it, like other pits or mixed pits or maybe he has an issue, but not always.
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Um, there's this one brown dog that I and the dog is nice.
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At first they got along, and then all of a sudden he just now he hates that dog.
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And every time you see him, and other dogs too, like you see when they come when that dude comes by.
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I think I talked about this before.
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When that dude comes by, all the dogs around they just start barking.
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And I'm like, that feels weird.
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Um they're like, get out of here, yeah, yeah, we don't like you.
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I don't like that.
00:21:38.160 --> 00:21:40.960
Um, but he has his friends like this morning.
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We made a new friend who's a a uh a labradoodle who was a rescue.
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Uh Milo, his name is Milo, and his dad's name is John.
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And then, of course, Luna, his best friend that he he runs around with.
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She's she's an old lady, and her dad is Jose.
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And And uh it was just the three of us out there early this morning and they were having a blast.
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So but yeah, last night he freaked me out and he attacked a dog, and I've it's stressful.
00:22:11.359 --> 00:22:13.359
It's very disconcerting, yeah.
00:22:14.160 --> 00:22:18.720
Anyway, so I just wanted to share that because that's it's I'm still vibrating from that because it was scary.
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Because if I had not grabbed him like I did, as he got close to the other dog, so I didn't see if he nipped or whatever, but I if I had not grabbed him and really pulled him, I don't I don't know what would have happened.
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So well, I knew what would have happened.
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It would, I feel bad still.
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All right, so um my musical obsessions before I get into the real topic of of today's video, um and post, uh, is all right, so I've been going down this nostalgic uh path of because okay, so during soundcheck at work, um there the the sound guy, he's a white boy with soul because he's been playing some RB from back in the day when I was a kid.
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We he's been playing Maze, he's been playing The Commodores, he's been playing um uh Al Green, uh all kinds of stuff.
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Teddy Penegrass.
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I mean, he's got us old heads like you know, singing and carrying the fuck on at soundcheck.
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And it's uh it's been such a blessing.
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So I've been like going into my Apple music and like finding those songs that I've forgotten about that I love so much, and then my mom turned me on to and saved them and so I can like when I have that moment.
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But what I've been obsessing about, and this is I think it started a couple years ago with Logic.
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He's a biracial rapper from Chicago, I want to say, maybe.
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I could be wrong where he's from.
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Um, but I enjoy his um his flow because he talks a lot about the stuff that I felt growing up and went through.
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Um I think he had a white father and a black mother or the other way around.
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I can't remember.
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No, black dad and a white mother.
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I have an Afro-Latino father who's mixed, and my mother who's white, German, French, Sicilian.
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Um so yeah, I I I was obsessing about his music a lot and uh listening to it over and over and over and over and over.
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But then uh Wren came along and it was like this.
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I think that the song that really I that I think blew up around here lately was the one where he's talking to himself, like his dark side, you know, the the side that tears you down and you know makes you second guess all of that, which leads into where I'm going.
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Um that entire conversation I think a lot of people can relate to.
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Um it is so deep and so dark and so uplifting as well, where you can remind yourself that the voice in your head is not real.
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Um it can be hard to it can be hard to get past and and I'm losing words all of a sudden.
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Um deal with um I completely lost my train of thought.
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Oh, okay.
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Uh just dealing with those emotions and that voice in your head constantly contradicting or second-guessing yourself or you know, making you worry about stuff.
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It can it can be tough.
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So that that video was it just blew up.
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And then I started looking into his music, and he's he plays the bass, he plays the guitar.
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Um he has an incredible singing voice, and he's a great entertainer.
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I've watched him where he's just sitting by himself playing, sitting on his speaker, and then if he's like on stage with a band, he's a great entertainer.
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And then I just recently found Prof.
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Is this I think he's biracial rapper, and his okay, his his flow is very, I'm gonna say, well, it's sexual.
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And and it's just facts.
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It's just he just he's talking the shit.
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And and it's it's so much fun to listen to.
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And it has that that frequency that you know gets you moving, it makes you makes you happy.
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So yeah, I've been obsessed with logic, Ren, and now Prof.
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And that's in my my circle right now.
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Um yeah.
00:26:44.240 --> 00:26:54.559
So um identifying and accepting fear and becoming vulnerable.
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Um these are things that I had to learn to help me get past um my audition fright.
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Now, mind you, when I don't get I don't get stage fright.
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I get like the jitters and the vibe vibrations really, really, really hard when I'm doing a live performance and I'm about to go on stage and I start shaking.
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And you can hear it in my voice until I get comfortable.
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I'm rehearsed.
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Once I'm rehearsed, all of that, it's there, it's in my body, it's in my head, it's in my mouth.
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And believe me, you need to exercise your mouth so you don't sound like you have got marbles in it.
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Once it's there, I'm good to go.
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And if I've done it a few times, I'm solid.
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Um, but sometimes going into an audition room, I'm I feel like I'm all over the place.
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And they have they they help you get there, they want you to be successful in this moment.
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So it's getting past that fear and accepting it and and becoming vulnerable.
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I know that when I walk in a room and I'm trying to, and I'm going for this part, it's one I've started looking at it differently than just like, oh my god, I gotta be great.
00:28:12.799 --> 00:28:15.519
It's a job interview, everybody has a job interview.
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They really want to see the best in me.
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I want to give them the best in me.
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So we're both on the same side there.
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Um, whatever I do, they're not judging me to judge me.
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They're gauging whether I'm the character that they are looking for to tell the story, the ever the whole thing, the face, the body, the mouth, the sound, all of that.
00:28:40.799 --> 00:28:44.079
They're trying to figure it out, just like I'm trying to figure it out.
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But it is a gig because one, I'm and I'm acting and performing, I'm also practicing my craft.
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And it's a step closer to where I want to be.
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So, so whether it's stage or film or you know, being on the internet, being being vulnerable takes a lot.
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Like even doing this, it it was in my head for a long time to you know create something just to get the thoughts out of my head and the feelings out of my body.
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You know, there's so much I can do by, you know, and out side note.
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If you were to like just be invisible sitting in a room, sometimes you'll just see me pick up a play and just start acting by myself.
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If you're looking outside from the window, you'd think I was losing it.
00:29:27.200 --> 00:29:38.079
But hey, I mean, I I started doing that after the Don Cheadle inner interview I saw where um he said someone came to say, Oh, I want to be an actor.
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And he's like, Yeah, so okay, so what are you doing about it?
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Like, are you reading plays?
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Are you performing?
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You know, acting is not all this extra stuff that you know.
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Are you in your living room acting?
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So I'm like, you know what, that's true.
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So I stopped waiting for the thing that's just over there to be an actor, and I just started doing it.
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Also, um doing this and the other things that I'm working on.
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Um I needed to just open myself up.
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You know, I I care what people think, but I don't care what people think.
00:30:13.119 --> 00:30:15.839
So I'm just you if you understand the difference, you know.
00:30:15.920 --> 00:30:26.640
I I want, I'm hoping you're entertained and you find the funny shit that I share, or you know, the inspirational stuff that I've experienced and it helps resonate with, or if it resonates with you, it helps you, great.
00:30:26.799 --> 00:30:28.799
That's that's all I I care about.
00:30:28.960 --> 00:30:35.039
Um but you have to push past it because I forget who said this.
00:30:35.279 --> 00:30:38.799
Everything that you're ever desired is on the other side of fear.
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I don't know if it was from a film or an interview, Oprah interviews, because that's what comes to mind, but everything that you want is on the other side of fear.
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I know it's hard to, it's hard to do.
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It's easy to say, but it's hard to do.
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And I get that.
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And I've been there, and just know that when you say, well, what about Mike Draden?
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Has he did he do this?
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Yes.
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I did.
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I mean, even doing my first other stuff, I was scared shitless.
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What made it easy for me was um being vulnerable because the person I was working with on that first film was someone I knew for a long time.
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And he was uh an alternate because the original guy bailed at the last second.
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So I was like, oh my God, who would I want to do this with?
00:31:30.880 --> 00:31:37.039
So I thought of someone who I felt safe and comfortable with and would let me be vulnerable doing that.
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And you gotta be vulnerable with people to do that.
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Um and it takes a lot of strength, and there's that thing deep inside of you where you know if you don't do this, you're gonna hate yourself or you're going to get be hard on yourself.
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And I'm always hard on myself, so I'm that's a whole other conversation.
00:32:01.440 --> 00:32:06.079
But I am hard on myself, and I know if I it's that I don't know, I think it's because of the way I was brought up.
00:32:06.160 --> 00:32:11.920
I'm like, if you know you could do it and you just half-assed it, you get what you deserve.
00:32:12.160 --> 00:32:13.839
Well, you deserve what you get.
00:32:14.799 --> 00:32:17.839
Because I know I'm like, all right, I can do this, it's not a big deal.
00:32:17.920 --> 00:32:23.440
Let's just the the easier path is to just do it and not half-ass it.
00:32:23.599 --> 00:32:24.720
So there's that.
00:32:24.799 --> 00:32:38.400
So then then opening yourself up to new experiences and and uh whether it's reading books or watching a film or uh trying a new food food, it's culture, culture, culture.
00:32:38.559 --> 00:32:51.599
I think that is where you start finding the similarities of yourself and something that is apart from yourself, whether it be in a culture or a food or you know an experience or what have you.
00:32:51.759 --> 00:32:54.319
You know, just going to a museum and looking at things.
00:32:54.400 --> 00:32:55.599
I mean, when was the last time?
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I mean, I still remember a lot of my museum visits.
00:32:58.720 --> 00:33:02.240
I'm sure the the exhibits have been that I visited.
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I'm sure a lot of them have changed over the years, but they're still very fresh in my mind.
00:33:06.720 --> 00:33:15.519
Um, but hey, uh when was the last time you've been to you know what I would love to do, and I think I missed it already, was the is it the Jean-Paul Gautier exhibit?
00:33:16.000 --> 00:33:17.039
I think I missed that.
00:33:17.279 --> 00:33:36.720
Um but you just getting out there and seeing things that might inspire you or spark a thought or you know, a poem you might want to write, or you know, things like that, you need to open yourself up and it will help you get, I think, will help you get past the uh fear.
00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:45.920
Again, everything you want and you want to accomplish that you desire is on the other side of fear.
00:33:46.160 --> 00:33:56.400
And if you need to talk to someone about it, or if you need to write about it, or if you need to do what whatever you need to do to get around it, over it, under it, through it, do that.
00:33:59.359 --> 00:33:59.920
Try.
00:34:00.319 --> 00:34:01.839
I think I think it'll be exciting.
00:34:01.920 --> 00:34:05.519
I think you'll you'll you'll uh surprise yourself.
00:34:06.799 --> 00:34:09.599
I know I've surprised myself with a lot of things.
00:34:09.920 --> 00:34:13.519
Um and here's here's one regret.
00:34:13.599 --> 00:34:18.320
And I always think that I have no regrets in life, but I do have one that I can nail down.
00:34:18.480 --> 00:34:22.800
And I remember my uncle set me up for my first audition.
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It was down near uh the public theater.
00:34:28.079 --> 00:34:34.320
Uh it was actually was it in the it was in the building where the blue man troupe was performing.
00:34:34.559 --> 00:34:39.360
So I don't remember if it was the door next to it or you had to go into that theater, but that's where it was.
00:34:39.599 --> 00:34:42.559
And I had no idea what it was about.
00:34:42.719 --> 00:34:44.079
I didn't ask him any questions.
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He was just like, You I have an audition for you to go here, and and that's all it was.
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And I don't remember if he gave me a script to remember anything.
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I don't remember.
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Um, but I know that I chickened out, I got to the door and I chickened out and I got so scared.
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And I didn't go in.
00:35:04.880 --> 00:35:11.360
When I reported back to him, because when he asked me how it went, uh I said I didn't like it and I didn't want to talk about it, and I left it at that.
00:35:11.519 --> 00:35:15.280
But I think he knew that I didn't go because he looked it up.
00:35:15.440 --> 00:35:20.880
Uh but it was a learning lesson where I I was so afraid, but I was 17, 16 at the time.
00:35:20.960 --> 00:35:22.159
I didn't 17.
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16.
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I was 16 at the time.
00:35:27.039 --> 00:35:31.519
What helped get past all of that was when he enrolled me in improv classes in my first scene study class.
00:35:31.760 --> 00:35:42.000
Because I remember that's when at HP Studio, and then I know I was in classes and I turned 17 in classes that that year, 1986.
00:35:42.719 --> 00:35:44.159
1986, yeah.
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Um yeah, try it.
00:35:52.639 --> 00:35:53.119
Do it.
00:35:53.920 --> 00:36:08.239
Okay, you could even comment below and say, you know, share your share with your your experience with me on what or ask my advice on on what you can do and you know the the upcoming I'll come back to that.
00:36:10.639 --> 00:36:12.079
You alright there, sir?
00:36:12.559 --> 00:36:13.599
Here it comes.
00:36:14.639 --> 00:36:15.840
Yeah, good morning, Baba.
00:36:18.880 --> 00:36:20.320
No, you went outside already, no.
00:36:20.480 --> 00:36:21.920
No, no, no, no, no.
00:36:24.320 --> 00:36:25.599
We're not doing that.
00:36:25.920 --> 00:36:30.159
All right, so you identified it, you know what it's about.
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Now it's time to get past it.
00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:35.920
So if you're feeling fear about something, write it down, look at it, put it away, you're done.
00:36:36.159 --> 00:36:38.639
Say it out loud, get rid of it, put it away.
00:36:38.880 --> 00:36:40.800
So now taking the leap.
00:36:41.920 --> 00:36:54.639
Um I get quite I get asked sometimes, like, you know, where the idea for last call came from, or how did I know I wanted to do that or what have you.
00:36:55.360 --> 00:37:00.800
People are not understanding the creative process to writing a script and producing a film or a show or whatever.
00:37:01.039 --> 00:37:03.599
So I tell I tell this story.
00:37:03.679 --> 00:37:12.719
So I was I was reading an article backstage on backstage on the website, and it was about creating opportunities for yourself.
00:37:12.800 --> 00:37:17.360
And I'm like, you know, I was you know, on the struggle bus trying to figure shit out.
00:37:18.159 --> 00:37:41.920
And this article was talking about these people who created their web series and other film uh plays or whatever, um just by you know, just writing ideas down, and then it developed into creating a character that came from the writings or you know, people they talk to and different ideas floating around a room and they just started building and building and building, and then they're like, oh, we have something here.
00:37:42.079 --> 00:37:46.639
Let's go, let's try this step, and then they show it to someone, and like, oh, let's do, let's write something out.
00:37:46.800 --> 00:37:49.840
So they have a script now, and then oh, let's put it up for people and see what they think.
00:37:49.920 --> 00:37:58.960
So they did a reading, and then oh, let's let's like pitch it to a theater company, and now they're on a off-Broadway stage, or they're shooting it for YouTube or what have you.
00:37:59.119 --> 00:38:03.519
And it was just the start of the process was writing.
00:38:04.239 --> 00:38:21.840
So I thought, okay, I have stories to tell from when I from my corporate my life in corporate America to New York City nightlife to adult entertainment, I have stories, I have memories, I have shit that happened that you would not believe.
00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:23.599
I mean, you that's crazy, Mike.
00:38:23.679 --> 00:38:24.800
That that did not happen.
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And I like the guy who I know what he was on, but the guy who took a huge shit on the dance floor at Black Party that one year.
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That really happened.
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And a lot of you know who were there because we were like, oh my god, what happened?
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Yeah, stuff like that.
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Um, so I started writing, and uh I take my life, what is the saying?
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Uh write what you know.
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So I started writing all these different memories down, and I started creating a story about this character, Leo, who left his corporate world and ended up in nightlife and adult entertainment.
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There's a through line.
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And of course, you could see the first season of that rendition of Last Call on YouTube.
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So we started asking friends.
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I'm like, oh, who would shoot this?
00:39:19.599 --> 00:39:21.360
Who would who who would who would shoot this?
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Who would be play this?
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Who would play that?
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And it just evolved and there it became.
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Um creating opportunities for yourself will help you take a leap.
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Like I like doing this here.
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I thought, okay, I have things I'd like to share and get out of my head, blah, blah, blah, make a video.
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Who inspired me to do this?
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Leo Skeppi.
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He's listening homeboy, I think, is off his rocker, but he's smart too.
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So being smart and off your rocker, you've got you've got some talent there.
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And he does, I mean, I think he's studying psychology now or if he has a psychology degree.
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I know he was in nursing, he was in, he goes around speaking all the time, sharing his thoughts.
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You know, it's not the gospel on things, but he's got a he's got a viewpoint.
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And sometimes I something that he says resonates with me.
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I'm like, yeah, you know, maybe I'm maybe I'm overthinking this.
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Or sometimes I'm like, oh yeah, I'm just being a pussy.
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Oh, pardon me.
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Um I'm being an ass.
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I should just let it go, whatever.
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Uh so yeah, it inspired me to do this because it led me to it's helping me prepare for the other project that I'm working on that will people will be involved in, and you'll get to meet other people as well as I share and educate and whatever.
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Um taking a class will help you take a leap.
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I remember, like I said, my first improv class.
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I I was like, I didn't quite understand why my uncle enrolled me in this class.
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And I'm like, you know, I just memorize the lines and say the words, you know, and and do what comes.
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But the improv class helped me to be in the moment and use my body as it not for myself, but for the moment and the person opposite me or the people opposite me.
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Because the story the story can evolve in miraculous ways when you're just being in the moment.
00:41:24.400 --> 00:41:33.840
Um, and sometimes those improv skills come out at work, too, where I literally was told by my supervisor, okay, stop, stop improvising.
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Um so much.
00:41:37.119 --> 00:41:40.480
I'm just gonna say it like that because it's it it's a it's a dung.
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Um so taking a class might help you, whether a pottery class, because you're thinking about that, an acting class, a writing class, uh anything, a dance class, a yoga class, anything.
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Start somewhere, read a book on the thing that that you're interested in or excited about.
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It will help you take that leap, I think.
00:42:02.320 --> 00:42:06.559
Um hey, I have tons of plays.
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If you're interested in reading a play, let me know.
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I'll I'll I'll send you uh a picture of the play that I have here or put you in touch with where you can get it for cheap.
00:42:16.320 --> 00:42:18.880
But I have tons of plays that I still read over and over.
00:42:18.960 --> 00:42:20.719
I have new ones I haven't even really touched.
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I started another one.
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I really am having a hard time getting it.
00:42:25.280 --> 00:42:28.000
Anyway, um, I'm too distracted with too many other things.
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Um, so yeah, and then um start talking to your friends or your in your closest circle of people.
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People, for instance, like uh have the keys to your place or you know, they're first on your call list, or you know, the person you talk to all the time.
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Share with them what you're thinking, what you want to do, see what they say, see what they think.
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Maybe they have uh have uh words of advice.
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Uh maybe if they don't, I'm like, uh, you know, whatever.
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Take that to that energy and like maybe let's see, let me do it and see what they think later.
00:42:59.440 --> 00:43:02.960
Um, but they would be your uh your your good resource.
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Ask advice of people doing the thing that you're interested in doing.
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Just you know, no commitment, just say, hey, um tell me about what you're doing.
00:43:10.559 --> 00:43:12.320
Um what what does it take to do that?
00:43:12.480 --> 00:43:14.960
Um uh when did you get this idea?
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Why are you doing it?
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When did you get started?
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What do you need to get started?
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Don't need a lot.
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I'm using my iPhone 11 right here, um, my microphones and some lights.
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A little bit of editing, poof, there it is.
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Um, this is the big thing.
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If you're gonna go for a lot of a lot of this, save some cash.
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Save some cash because a lot of the thing you're gonna do, you're gonna be out of pocket to do it.
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For instance, paying for the class, um, paying for uh some sound equipment, some lighting.
00:43:47.760 --> 00:43:54.079
Um doesn't have to be expensive, but you're gonna need some some of it to to pay for.
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Um if you're gonna go a big, a big way, like you know, shoot a an episode of something.
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Or you want to shoot like a pilot of something to pitch, to pitch somewhere.
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These are the people you need to make sure get paid.
00:44:08.400 --> 00:44:16.239
Your DP, your director of photography, the person with the camera, because they know they know lighting, they know angles, they know they have the thing that's gonna capture the best image.
00:44:16.559 --> 00:44:21.119
Your uh PAs, if you have someone helping out set things up, make sure they get some money.
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And your sound.
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Your sound is your number one person.
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It's gonna make everything sound great.
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Without that, you can have great video, but if it sounds horrible, you're screwed.
00:44:32.559 --> 00:44:35.280
So make sure these three people get paid.
00:44:35.519 --> 00:44:44.639
Um, and if you're gonna feed everyone on who's involved and you can't afford to pay for everyone, they're willing to donate some time, feed them, not pizza.
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Feed them.
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So save some cash to go and buy some cold cuts and some sandwich bread, or you know, get a bunch of wraps pre-made, you know, anything, you know, heroes slice them up and make little, you know, orders or whatever.
00:44:57.840 --> 00:45:02.559
Just make sure you feed people and then not pizza, because not pizza.
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Uh do that.
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Um, and I think you'll you'll have a have a really good time.
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And you'll take the leap because there you are.
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You've got people, like-minded people, doing the thing that you want to do, different aspects of the thing you want to do, doing the thing with you.
00:45:22.159 --> 00:45:23.760
Don't be afraid.
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Everything you want to accomplish and desire is on the other side of fear.
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And I take these words to heart myself because sometimes I have to remind myself, like, uh, I'm doing it.
00:45:35.760 --> 00:45:37.119
I'm just doing it.
00:45:37.599 --> 00:45:39.599
What's the worst that can happen?
00:45:40.960 --> 00:45:42.880
What's the best thing that can happen?
00:45:43.119 --> 00:45:54.559
Um, sometimes I wonder too how many people creative people are out there that um just don't do the take the leap or um do the thing that they really, really, really, really, really want to do.
00:45:54.960 --> 00:45:59.599
So I wonder, you know, I'm sure there's a lot more talented people than me out there who are like, hmm.
00:46:00.320 --> 00:46:06.880
Um I was a lot like that until I just said, fuck it.
00:46:10.719 --> 00:46:16.239
You as you get older, you realize there's less time to to deal with the bull.
00:46:17.119 --> 00:46:17.599
Crap.
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Bull crap.
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Just start.
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Definitely start.
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Alright, so now you tell me.
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I want to hear from all of you.
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How how get vulnerable with me.
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I promise I won't I won't tell anybody.
00:46:34.719 --> 00:46:40.000
Um how and when have you felt the most vulnerable?
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You don't have to go into too much detail.
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Just tell me how how and when did you feel like you opened yourself up to being vulnerable?
00:46:49.039 --> 00:46:52.960
Um, what is the the the thing that you're unsure about?
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Um that you want to take a leap on.
00:46:58.639 --> 00:46:59.519
Tell me what that is.
00:46:59.599 --> 00:47:06.800
Maybe I know someone who can help you get to get some knowledge to take the leap or take the next step.
00:47:07.679 --> 00:47:08.400
Let me know.
00:47:08.559 --> 00:47:10.000
I really I really want to do that for you.
00:47:10.079 --> 00:47:17.519
I want to use my connections or my acquaintances and say, oh hey, contact this person, tell them I sent you.
00:47:17.599 --> 00:47:18.320
I'll do that for you.
00:47:18.480 --> 00:47:19.360
Absolutely.
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Um and what could you do today that would help you get closer to that thing that you want to do?
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What's that one thing?
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Think about what you could do today that will start you on the path and do it.
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Tell me what it is.
00:47:36.480 --> 00:47:39.679
Again, if I know someone who can help you, I'll I'll put you in touch with them.
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Go for it.
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And if you don't care, you don't give a shit, tell me that too.
00:47:46.559 --> 00:47:47.760
I just don't care.
00:47:48.079 --> 00:47:49.840
No judgments, not at all.
00:47:51.039 --> 00:47:51.920
I need more coffee.
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Alright, guys, listen.
00:47:58.719 --> 00:48:03.760
I hope I hope this helps.
00:48:03.840 --> 00:48:04.719
I really do.
00:48:05.280 --> 00:48:06.559
But here's what I'm gonna do.
00:48:06.639 --> 00:48:09.280
And I know I've been talking about this for a while now.
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And um the AMA Ask Mike Anything episode is to in two episodes from now.
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It'll be on the 21st.
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Okay.
00:48:27.039 --> 00:48:28.880
So I need you to send your questions.
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And there's a giveaway attached to this because every person who sends a question, whether it be on Facebook, in the comments, on Facebook, Blue Sky, uh, Instagram, and my fan page Facebook page, if you're if you're watching there.
00:48:47.039 --> 00:48:51.039
Any anybody sends a question?
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I'm gonna I'm gonna take your question, I'm gonna answer it.
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Whatever it is, I don't care what it is, everything is just ask whatever.
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You know, you tell you ask, I'm gonna answer.
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From there, three people are going to be selected to win some prizes.
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And this is for the the well, if you're a content creator, are you a content creator?
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Do you do you want some some free tech to help you get started?
00:49:14.960 --> 00:49:17.280
I got three things for you guys.
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First up, microphone receiver, lightning receiver with the sound wind muffler, and this carabiner tripod.
00:49:34.320 --> 00:49:35.599
Let me take the magnet off here.
00:49:35.840 --> 00:49:38.719
All right, this tripod flips around like this.
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You can hold it like that, take paint.
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It becomes you put pull the legs apart, stand her up like this.
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There you go.
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See that?
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Angle it which ways you want.
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And then you just clip it to where you want to go.
00:49:53.679 --> 00:49:54.639
I've got two of these.
00:49:54.719 --> 00:49:57.519
So, and also the clip on the microphone comes off.
00:49:57.920 --> 00:49:58.880
See that there?
00:50:00.239 --> 00:50:06.079
You may have seen old older videos of me like on live or whatever, where I have it connected to my hat like this.
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So there's two of these, two sets of these.
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So you can see, got two sets of these.
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Got two sets of these with the receiver.
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And what's cool about the receiver is this is a USB 3 pass-through.
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So if this is connected to your device, you can still charge your device.
00:50:26.239 --> 00:50:27.760
All right, so that's that.
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So two lucky individuals will get those, and a third lucky individual will get this little packet of microphones, if I can get it open.
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Ah, all right.
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So you get the others get the cord too.
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You get the charging cord, you get USB adapter uh receiver with the lightning adapter.
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You can see that.
00:50:57.440 --> 00:50:57.920
Right?
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And you get not one, not two, yeah, but two microphones.
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With the muffler, dead cat, aka, and the clips also come off.
00:51:13.840 --> 00:51:17.199
So if you need to take them off to put them somewhere.
00:51:17.360 --> 00:51:18.079
So you get two of these.
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This is a bundle of two with the receiver and two chargers for these.
00:51:22.960 --> 00:51:25.119
The others will get have their chargers as well.
00:51:25.519 --> 00:51:33.199
So that's what I'm giving away to three lucky individuals so they can create content if they've been waiting for the right time for the right thing.
00:51:33.440 --> 00:51:34.960
I'm sending it to you.
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I pay for shipping.
00:51:37.840 --> 00:51:40.079
Don't care where it is, I'll send it to you.
00:51:41.920 --> 00:51:47.199
So enter to win.
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All you gotta do is send a question.
00:51:49.760 --> 00:51:50.960
Alright, so.
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Oh, there's something extra too.
00:51:54.079 --> 00:51:58.639
Um let me check my notes.
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I don't want to miss it.
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Uh all right, so until next time.
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Thanks for watching.
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Thanks for listening, wherever you're listening.
00:52:07.679 --> 00:52:10.000
Um, if you made it this far, let's see.
00:52:10.159 --> 00:52:11.360
I want you to.
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Oh, the speaking emoji?
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Put that down in the bottom there.
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I really want to, I want that.
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If you made it this far.
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Um again, everything you want to accomplish is at the other end of fear.
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And the link in the show notes below is a link to a motivational video that I found that is my gift to you for this episode.
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I want you to watch it, save it, review it as many times as you can.
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Um, and if you're watching on YouTube, please like, share, hit the bell, all that jazz.
00:52:46.719 --> 00:52:49.599
And wherever you're listening, you know, just download.
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It may help smooth me up.
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I'm hoping at the season finale episode to give you some great updates on how well we did over the whole course of this season.
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Um because I'm excited about it and it's been growing, and I love you all for watching and listening.
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So, okay, have a good one.
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Stay warm wherever you are if you're in cold weather.
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So this week I've got some tips for you to help you get past the fear of taking a leap of faith.
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Welcome back to the pod.
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I'm my Draden Figaroa, and this is Unscripted and Unrehearsed, where I give you my take on things that I've seen, heard, and witnessed in the past week.
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Yeah, uh, I got a lot to share this week.
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Um but first pardon me, I gotta burp.
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All right, the fear of failure.
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A lot of people experience it, I experience it.
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Um I think it's the number one reason why some people don't take a chance on themselves, um, or take a leap and uh do the thing that they really want to do or explore or uh maybe change course in their in their lives and whatever they're doing.
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Um so yeah, we're gonna talk about that today.
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I have some tips that what I've done for myself to take a leap.
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Uh but first, uh so the the the level of insanity keeps rising.
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I mean, it doesn't seem to be any ceiling for this.
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And I don't know if it's just plain incompetence or well, it's racism for sure.
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Um, it's emboldenedness.
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Uh so the first of two that really stood out to me this week, and I don't know if you heard about this, but uh so Letitia Jacobo, an American citizen, born in Arizona, 24 years old, Native American.
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Keep that in mind, Native American.
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All right, she was arrested for allegedly driving with a suspended license.
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And I meant to look this up, but I don't know if you can be a I thought you could only get a ticket, or you get arrested if it's like multiple infractions.
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I don't know.
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I forgot to look it up, but you can tell me, let me know.
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Um, yeah, so she was arrested for driving with a suspended license.
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So when her mom, according to the the news report, when her mom went to go get her at the at the precinct or whatever, they told her, you can't take your daughter home, you can't bail her out.
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Ice is coming.
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ICE is coming for your daughter, and she's like, Well, um why is ICE coming for my daughter?
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We're uh that doesn't make sense.
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We're we're American citizens, we're Native Americans.
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Produce all her paperwork, all of her documents, her identification, all of that.
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She was told that ICE was coming to get her daughter for deportation.
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And they're like, um, we're Native Americans.
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Where are we going to be deported to?
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Now I thought this to myself.
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I could, you know, if I have a really good, decent, deep tantrum in the summertime, I could pass for a Native American.
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A lot of people who are mixed race can pass for Native American.
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A lot of us can't where where are they gonna deport this girl to?
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The reservation?
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It makes no sense.
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Insanity.
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Next up, we've got I didn't catch his name, but we have a Latino US Navy officer in uniform.
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Keep that in mind.
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Norfolk PD and ICE, an agent for each, detain this service member, um, again, in uniform, and asks him for his ID.
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It's like okay.
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Hands them over his military ID.
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The ICE agent says it's insufficient identification.
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His military ID.
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This is something you can't fake.
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It's like your driver's license, like your passport.
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This nobody fakes being in the military.
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Nobody.
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And if they do, they're not wearing uniform, they're trying to get benefits, and that's a whole other issue.
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But this dude was in his uniform, produced a military ID.
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They detained this guy until his I what was it, his watch commander or some?
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Oh, he was also asked for his passport.
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Nobody carries their passports with them.
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I carry my driver's license with me.
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That's all I got.
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I'm not carrying my passport around with me.
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You kidding?
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You lose that, forget it.
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It's it's it's an ordeal.
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I mean, just renewing it is a pain in the ass.
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Can you imagine?
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Anyway, uh, so he was asked for his passport.
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This all was resolved until I believe his watch commander or someone from the base, he was on his way to could verify its identity.
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Latino Navy officer.
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And so, in a roundabout way, because it just seems to be a lot of people of color who are experiencing the most pain and and and harm and damage from this nonsense.
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Um, there seems to be a little bit of a Republican backlash because people are asking, well, what about uh you know white immigrants who have overstayed their visas or uh skirting the system and all that?
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These people aren't being stopped because nobody knows.
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You know, they just blend into society, right?
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So it seems to be that there's some Republican backlash and a couple of um, well, I saw one report, I forgot there was one, what's his name?
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I forget his name.
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I'm sorry.
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Uh he just started ripping on this because it's just getting out of control where everyday normal American citizens are being pulled out of their cars.
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I don't know if you saw the report, the woman who she's screaming to top her lungs, I'm an American citizen, what are you doing?
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Uh another girl I saw this morning on the news running down the street, 23 years old, coming home from school or whatever, into her house, and her stepfather comes out to confront these guys who are not in any kind of identifiable insignia.
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He thought his daughter, his stepdaughter was getting kidnapped.
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It's so Republicans that seem to be um mouthing off, not mouthing off, they're starting to uh push back on this and being vocal of uh as they should be.
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Um one said that he thought this was horrible for the party, another report said that all of mentioned, you know, it just seems to be people of color and not the Europeans who are here illegally.
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Who it it you know, if it's one, if it's a rule for every one person, it's gotta be a rule for everybody, right?
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Of course, you know, not everything works that way, unfortunately.
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All right, so first we had in the in this you know pushback, you know, MTG.
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Okay, great.
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You know, she's it seems like she has a whole lot of ulterior motives in her uh departure.
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But now there was a report this week too that Nancy Mace was like, I'm gonna leave if we don't get this together.
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I can I can only imagine the number of people who just opened the door and held it for her.
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Because that's that's the first image that came to my mind was like, this way, hold the door.
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Um so yeah, she threatens, she's threatening to uh to leave and not seeking re-election.
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And a few others are starting to bail.
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And that, you know, I meant to, I wanted to save this for another day, but I'm like thinking there are a lot of people who are seeing the writing on the wall with all this other stuff that's probably being leaked that we don't know about, but it's obvious that we can see a little bit of uh like the health of a certain gentleman.
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Um they're like, if I don't get out of this now, like you know, that that fat guy said, you know, if the left gets in charge, we're all going to jail.
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Anyway, um so yeah, people are panicking and they're jumping ship.
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I don't I mean during World War II, when everybody was brought to trial, I mean, those who got away got away, but they left, left.
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They didn't like, you know, just resign and want to go about their business.
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They were, you know, arrested and tried.
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I don't know about the damage they've done, I don't think requires what does it require in my opinion?
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I think I think some jail time, if you were involved, um, if you were complacent, you should, you know, be ostracized.
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But if you're involved, involved, clinker.
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Um, all right, next up.
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I can't.
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This, okay, this is crazy.
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So did you guys hear about the Campbell Soup Company controversy?
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I'm sure you have, because it was like in the papers and on TV and all of that.
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So apparently leaked audio uh from a meeting with a former VP Martin Bailey.
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You can be heard saying, um, what were his words?
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Oh, it was food for for poor people, um, that it's unhealthy.
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Um, he wouldn't be eating this bio-engineered meat.
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Uh, and he stuck he stopped eating it years ago.
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Um, and he called his chicken was 3D printed.
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I'm like, okay, so in my brain, I'm thinking, oh, food replicators, you know, because it's bioengineered, energy recycled, 3D printed food, you know, uh molecules and uh uh nutrients put together to look and taste like real food.
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Hey, that would be great, you know.
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I mean, honestly, if it was safe, right?
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But you know, the last time, I mean, and I haven't eaten this stuff in a long time, and believe me, I my mother could sit me down at a table with a bowl of tomato soup and a bunch of crackers and a little bit of milk in there, and I was a happy kid.
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You couldn't tell me anything.
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I would, that's all I wanted.
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And I had a can of this was maybe 15 years ago.
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I bought a can of tomato soup because I'm like, I'm feeling my inner child today.
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I sat down and ate that shit.
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I felt like I put a spoon of salt in my mouth and I had unsalted crackers.
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I it tasted like a and it didn't even taste like tomatoes.
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And I remember the taste, it tasted like hot tomatoes, you know, mashed and I'm like, oh my god, this is awful.
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And then one time, you know, I was kind of like, you know, in my on the struggle bus, and I'm like, okay, let me just stock up on some soups and I'll get, you know, chunky was on sale, and it was like, get buy one, get one free, whatever, four or four dollars, whatever.
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And I got a variety of them, and I was reading the can, you know, after I got home, and I'm like, oh, there's a lot of sodium in this.
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And I'm like, yeah, whatever.
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Put it in my mouth, and I felt it.
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Well, first of all, the the beef nugget or chunk of beef did not even taste like meat.
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It it had no taste, but the whole thing just tastes like salt.
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Everything was like salty.
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And I thought maybe because I don't eat salt in my food.
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I'd hate salt in my food.
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I don't like to it, I don't like it.
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Um, I don't add it to my food.
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I just like it the way it's made, you know, whatever seasoning without salt.
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Because I always thought it was too much.
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My mother, my father's mother, at as she got older, her taste buds would go and as she would cook.
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It was a little on the health, hell, heavy on the salty side.
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I don't like salt in my food.
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Um, again, tasted like I put a giant spoon, tablespoon worth of salt in my mouth.
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I stopped eating it.
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I'm like, oh what a bummer.
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They they ruined soup.
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I'll make my own.
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But of course they let the guy go, but I mean, like, it's just hitting now the news that you know he said this.
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But it was like when he said that, it's food for poor people.
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I thought, okay, I know growing up, we, you know, we weren't, we were poor, you know.
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We had, you know, my mother had a book, a job off the books at a dentist's office, I want to say, and she was getting food stamps.
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You know, she was making do with two kids at home that she had a feet.
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You know, it was the 1970s.
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The world was crazy in the 1970s, for those of us who remember, it was nuts.
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But we had what we had and we were happy.
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But he said he wouldn't eat that.
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He oh my god.
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That that hit me sideways.
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I'm like, that was not on my bingo card at all.
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Um, and the the Schadenfreuder that I got for the week uh was Target's disgraceful gift bag.
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And listen, um, first of all, you know, all the the majority of people I saw waiting online for these bags, these gift bags are supposed to be, you know, spectacular, spectacular, and you know, all this great stuff.
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I mean, I did not see a lot of people of color out there.
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There are people who did wait for hours and hours in the freezing cold, something I would not do, um, for the gift bag.
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And I'm thinking, man, this sucks.
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You know, I'm boycotting and they're probably somebody's gonna probably walk away with a fucking PlayStation or a flat screen TV or you know, some really cool shit, you know, some high some Apple products, whatever.
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I was like, Womp womp.
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All right, whatever.
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I'm not meant to have this, but I wasn't gonna wait in line all night to get a spot.
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This is what they got these enormous, I mean enormous Mylar hollow bags, uh, with the Target logo on the side.
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And inside you got people where to live it.
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They should somebody pulled it out.
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They opened the bag, you could see inside there was a box of Udo cards, there was uh elf makeup, little thing of elf makeup, uh Jen's shampoo, a sample, and some other weird shit, like playing cards and one.
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And I'm like, I would have, I would have just left.
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I'm like, thank you.
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Just kept as a souvenir, I would have left the stuff, kept the bag and the ticket that I had to.
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So I could have that back my place in line card, and like this is what this is what I got.
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I would have I would have kept that because I'm stupid that way.
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But I was like, what is this?
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But I enjoyed the shot before I do on that.
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I'm sorry, I just had to because you know speaking of boycotting, uh the the numbers came out, uh, I want to say on Thursday.
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Was it Thursday?
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I feel like it was Thursday.
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That uh Black Friday and Cyber Monday were the biggest shopping days as far as numbers go in a long time.
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And I'm I'm skeptical, but I'm like, I think I think this is this is my theory, and I I I don't think it's a conspiracy, but this is my theory, all right.
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They these companies are okay, they're they're wealthy, they have a lot of money, they have a lot of cash on hand, they have a lot of this reason why they don't pay their people as much as they should.
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They have money, okay.
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I'm sure they have rainy day funds.
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So, my theory is this people did not buy as much as they they're saying on Amazon at Target at Walmart at all these other places.
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What I think they did was they got the numbers and they offset it with whatever rainy day fund they had.
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Because I mean, I know they have to report the actual transactions and all of that, but transactions can be made, right?
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They can purchase stuff, they can do whatever.
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I firmly believe they fed and fudged their numbers just to show that they were not, and of course, they have they have bored people and shareholders they need their accountant to.
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They're losing money, they're gonna bail, they gotta show that we didn't lose anybody.
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As a matter of fact, we made money.
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So this whole boycott was just it was not, it was nothing.
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It was a it was a big nothing burger.
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I don't buy it.
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I honestly don't buy it.
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I know a lot of people personally online, a lot of people who are like, we're actually doing the thing.
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And if you look around, um I passed through a couple of shopping areas, and there's a lot of people out buying in small mom and pops, which is cool to see.
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So I don't know.
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I don't I don't believe it.
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That's what they reported.
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Can you all you know, it's my theory.
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I'm not accusing anyone of anything, but I just don't buy it.
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You tell me, what do you think?
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Do you do you really think that with all the backlash on dropping DIE policies and all of this?
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Do you honestly think that people cared more about themselves than actually making a statement?
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I mean I I don't know.
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Sometimes I feel like I'm asking questions that already can be I don't know.
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Some people are like that.
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Some people aren't.
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But I'm like, I'm doing my part for me because I know how it makes me feel.
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You know, I walk into a store and then I don't see products that I like because they somebody told them something and they're like, took it out.
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Did that make sense?
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I feel like I glitched.
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I glitched.
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Oh, my notes went away.
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Hold on.
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Oh, there's a meeting I have to go to today.
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I don't know.
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I was gonna say it seems like it's getting worse and worse, but I I feel sometimes like I'm repeating myself because it's it's going on in my head.
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I try very hard to not let the world events really affect my mood.
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It's it's uh it's exhausting.
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It's exhausting.
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Oh, you know what's really bothering me, guys?
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I gotta I gotta share this side note for you.
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So I took Max out last night when I got home from work, and there was this woman.
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There's well, it seems to be like there's a lot of new people with dogs in the area to go into the dog run, and like I don't recognize everybody.
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I'm like, oh, there's a new dog.
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I'm like, oh it's the new dog meat that really stresses me out because I don't know how he's gonna react and I don't know how they're gonna react, and it's like that.
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I just need him to poop and come home because it's fucking cold now, and I don't want to be out in the cold.
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And I took him into dog run, and you know, they come to the gates right away, they block, you know, they blocked and I'm like, oh, just move your freaking dog lady.
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Um, but they seemed okay.
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They were like wagging tails and sniffing, and you know, it seemed oh, okay, this is okay.
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And then all of a sudden, you know, I unleash him so he can go run to his poop spot, and he did a 180, like, I don't know, zoom zoom, and they were he went after this dog, and I've never seen him like that before.
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And I had to grab him by his harness and pull him, and I f it freaked me the fuck out and it upset me.
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And the lady was upset, and I was like, I'm so so sorry.
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I I don't know where that came from.
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And he's you know, he can you see him?
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Look.
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Yeah, I'm talking about you, mister.
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He was on punishment last night.
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No treats after the walk or anything.
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Um so I was like, oh my god, is your dog okay or whatever?
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And she just ignored me and kept walking about.
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I felt bad.
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And you know, I've been in that position before where, you know, you know, dogs go after Max.
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Um but I never know with him.
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Smaller dogs, he becomes a bully and he humps them.
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He's a fucking sexual deviant.
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Um other it seems to me as I'm thinking about it, like other pits or mixed pits or maybe he has an issue, but not always.
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Um, there's this one brown dog that I and the dog is nice.
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At first they got along, and then all of a sudden he just now he hates that dog.
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And every time you see him, and other dogs too, like you see when they come when that dude comes by.
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I think I talked about this before.
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When that dude comes by, all the dogs around they just start barking.
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And I'm like, that feels weird.
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Um they're like, get out of here, yeah, yeah, we don't like you.
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I don't like that.
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Um, but he has his friends like this morning.
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We made a new friend who's a a uh a labradoodle who was a rescue.
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Uh Milo, his name is Milo, and his dad's name is John.
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And then, of course, Luna, his best friend that he he runs around with.
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She's she's an old lady, and her dad is Jose.
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And And uh it was just the three of us out there early this morning and they were having a blast.
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So but yeah, last night he freaked me out and he attacked a dog, and I've it's stressful.
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It's very disconcerting, yeah.
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Anyway, so I just wanted to share that because that's it's I'm still vibrating from that because it was scary.
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Because if I had not grabbed him like I did, as he got close to the other dog, so I didn't see if he nipped or whatever, but I if I had not grabbed him and really pulled him, I don't I don't know what would have happened.
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So well, I knew what would have happened.
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It would, I feel bad still.
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All right, so um my musical obsessions before I get into the real topic of of today's video, um and post, uh, is all right, so I've been going down this nostalgic uh path of because okay, so during soundcheck at work, um there the the sound guy, he's a white boy with soul because he's been playing some RB from back in the day when I was a kid.
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We he's been playing Maze, he's been playing The Commodores, he's been playing um uh Al Green, uh all kinds of stuff.
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Teddy Penegrass.
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I mean, he's got us old heads like you know, singing and carrying the fuck on at soundcheck.
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And it's uh it's been such a blessing.
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So I've been like going into my Apple music and like finding those songs that I've forgotten about that I love so much, and then my mom turned me on to and saved them and so I can like when I have that moment.
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But what I've been obsessing about, and this is I think it started a couple years ago with Logic.
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He's a biracial rapper from Chicago, I want to say, maybe.
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I could be wrong where he's from.
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Um, but I enjoy his um his flow because he talks a lot about the stuff that I felt growing up and went through.
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Um I think he had a white father and a black mother or the other way around.
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I can't remember.
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No, black dad and a white mother.
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I have an Afro-Latino father who's mixed, and my mother who's white, German, French, Sicilian.
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Um so yeah, I I I was obsessing about his music a lot and uh listening to it over and over and over and over and over.
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But then uh Wren came along and it was like this.
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I think that the song that really I that I think blew up around here lately was the one where he's talking to himself, like his dark side, you know, the the side that tears you down and you know makes you second guess all of that, which leads into where I'm going.
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Um that entire conversation I think a lot of people can relate to.
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Um it is so deep and so dark and so uplifting as well, where you can remind yourself that the voice in your head is not real.
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Um it can be hard to it can be hard to get past and and I'm losing words all of a sudden.
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Um deal with um I completely lost my train of thought.
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Oh, okay.
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Uh just dealing with those emotions and that voice in your head constantly contradicting or second-guessing yourself or you know, making you worry about stuff.
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It can it can be tough.
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So that that video was it just blew up.
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And then I started looking into his music, and he's he plays the bass, he plays the guitar.
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Um he has an incredible singing voice, and he's a great entertainer.
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I've watched him where he's just sitting by himself playing, sitting on his speaker, and then if he's like on stage with a band, he's a great entertainer.
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And then I just recently found Prof.
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Is this I think he's biracial rapper, and his okay, his his flow is very, I'm gonna say, well, it's sexual.
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And and it's just facts.
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It's just he just he's talking the shit.
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And and it's it's so much fun to listen to.
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And it has that that frequency that you know gets you moving, it makes you makes you happy.
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So yeah, I've been obsessed with logic, Ren, and now Prof.
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And that's in my my circle right now.
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Um yeah.
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So um identifying and accepting fear and becoming vulnerable.
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Um these are things that I had to learn to help me get past um my audition fright.
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Now, mind you, when I don't get I don't get stage fright.
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I get like the jitters and the vibe vibrations really, really, really hard when I'm doing a live performance and I'm about to go on stage and I start shaking.
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And you can hear it in my voice until I get comfortable.
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I'm rehearsed.
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Once I'm rehearsed, all of that, it's there, it's in my body, it's in my head, it's in my mouth.
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And believe me, you need to exercise your mouth so you don't sound like you have got marbles in it.
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Once it's there, I'm good to go.
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And if I've done it a few times, I'm solid.
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Um, but sometimes going into an audition room, I'm I feel like I'm all over the place.
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And they have they they help you get there, they want you to be successful in this moment.
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So it's getting past that fear and accepting it and and becoming vulnerable.
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I know that when I walk in a room and I'm trying to, and I'm going for this part, it's one I've started looking at it differently than just like, oh my god, I gotta be great.
00:28:12.799 --> 00:28:15.519
It's a job interview, everybody has a job interview.
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They really want to see the best in me.
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I want to give them the best in me.
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So we're both on the same side there.
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Um, whatever I do, they're not judging me to judge me.
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They're gauging whether I'm the character that they are looking for to tell the story, the ever the whole thing, the face, the body, the mouth, the sound, all of that.
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They're trying to figure it out, just like I'm trying to figure it out.
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But it is a gig because one, I'm and I'm acting and performing, I'm also practicing my craft.
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And it's a step closer to where I want to be.
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So, so whether it's stage or film or you know, being on the internet, being being vulnerable takes a lot.
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Like even doing this, it it was in my head for a long time to you know create something just to get the thoughts out of my head and the feelings out of my body.
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You know, there's so much I can do by, you know, and out side note.
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If you were to like just be invisible sitting in a room, sometimes you'll just see me pick up a play and just start acting by myself.
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If you're looking outside from the window, you'd think I was losing it.
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But hey, I mean, I I started doing that after the Don Cheadle inner interview I saw where um he said someone came to say, Oh, I want to be an actor.
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And he's like, Yeah, so okay, so what are you doing about it?
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Like, are you reading plays?
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Are you performing?
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You know, acting is not all this extra stuff that you know.
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Are you in your living room acting?
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So I'm like, you know what, that's true.
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So I stopped waiting for the thing that's just over there to be an actor, and I just started doing it.
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Also, um doing this and the other things that I'm working on.
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Um I needed to just open myself up.
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You know, I I care what people think, but I don't care what people think.
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So I'm just you if you understand the difference, you know.
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I I want, I'm hoping you're entertained and you find the funny shit that I share, or you know, the inspirational stuff that I've experienced and it helps resonate with, or if it resonates with you, it helps you, great.
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That's that's all I I care about.
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Um but you have to push past it because I forget who said this.
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Everything that you're ever desired is on the other side of fear.
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I don't know if it was from a film or an interview, Oprah interviews, because that's what comes to mind, but everything that you want is on the other side of fear.
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I know it's hard to, it's hard to do.
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It's easy to say, but it's hard to do.
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And I get that.
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And I've been there, and just know that when you say, well, what about Mike Draden?
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Has he did he do this?
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Yes.
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I did.
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I mean, even doing my first other stuff, I was scared shitless.
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What made it easy for me was um being vulnerable because the person I was working with on that first film was someone I knew for a long time.
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And he was uh an alternate because the original guy bailed at the last second.
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So I was like, oh my God, who would I want to do this with?
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So I thought of someone who I felt safe and comfortable with and would let me be vulnerable doing that.
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And you gotta be vulnerable with people to do that.
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Um and it takes a lot of strength, and there's that thing deep inside of you where you know if you don't do this, you're gonna hate yourself or you're going to get be hard on yourself.
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And I'm always hard on myself, so I'm that's a whole other conversation.
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But I am hard on myself, and I know if I it's that I don't know, I think it's because of the way I was brought up.
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I'm like, if you know you could do it and you just half-assed it, you get what you deserve.
00:32:12.160 --> 00:32:13.839
Well, you deserve what you get.
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Because I know I'm like, all right, I can do this, it's not a big deal.
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Let's just the the easier path is to just do it and not half-ass it.
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So there's that.
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So then then opening yourself up to new experiences and and uh whether it's reading books or watching a film or uh trying a new food food, it's culture, culture, culture.
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I think that is where you start finding the similarities of yourself and something that is apart from yourself, whether it be in a culture or a food or you know an experience or what have you.
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You know, just going to a museum and looking at things.
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I mean, when was the last time?
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I mean, I still remember a lot of my museum visits.
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I'm sure the the exhibits have been that I visited.
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I'm sure a lot of them have changed over the years, but they're still very fresh in my mind.
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Um, but hey, uh when was the last time you've been to you know what I would love to do, and I think I missed it already, was the is it the Jean-Paul Gautier exhibit?
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I think I missed that.
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Um but you just getting out there and seeing things that might inspire you or spark a thought or you know, a poem you might want to write, or you know, things like that, you need to open yourself up and it will help you get, I think, will help you get past the uh fear.
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Again, everything you want and you want to accomplish that you desire is on the other side of fear.
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And if you need to talk to someone about it, or if you need to write about it, or if you need to do what whatever you need to do to get around it, over it, under it, through it, do that.
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Try.
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I think I think it'll be exciting.
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I think you'll you'll you'll uh surprise yourself.
00:34:06.799 --> 00:34:09.599
I know I've surprised myself with a lot of things.
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Um and here's here's one regret.
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And I always think that I have no regrets in life, but I do have one that I can nail down.
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And I remember my uncle set me up for my first audition.
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It was down near uh the public theater.
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Uh it was actually was it in the it was in the building where the blue man troupe was performing.
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So I don't remember if it was the door next to it or you had to go into that theater, but that's where it was.
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And I had no idea what it was about.
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I didn't ask him any questions.
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He was just like, You I have an audition for you to go here, and and that's all it was.
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And I don't remember if he gave me a script to remember anything.
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I don't remember.
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Um, but I know that I chickened out, I got to the door and I chickened out and I got so scared.
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And I didn't go in.
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When I reported back to him, because when he asked me how it went, uh I said I didn't like it and I didn't want to talk about it, and I left it at that.
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But I think he knew that I didn't go because he looked it up.
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Uh but it was a learning lesson where I I was so afraid, but I was 17, 16 at the time.
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I didn't 17.
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16.
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I was 16 at the time.
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What helped get past all of that was when he enrolled me in improv classes in my first scene study class.
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Because I remember that's when at HP Studio, and then I know I was in classes and I turned 17 in classes that that year, 1986.
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1986, yeah.
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Um yeah, try it.
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Do it.
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Okay, you could even comment below and say, you know, share your share with your your experience with me on what or ask my advice on on what you can do and you know the the upcoming I'll come back to that.
00:36:10.639 --> 00:36:12.079
You alright there, sir?
00:36:12.559 --> 00:36:13.599
Here it comes.
00:36:14.639 --> 00:36:15.840
Yeah, good morning, Baba.
00:36:18.880 --> 00:36:20.320
No, you went outside already, no.
00:36:20.480 --> 00:36:21.920
No, no, no, no, no.
00:36:24.320 --> 00:36:25.599
We're not doing that.
00:36:25.920 --> 00:36:30.159
All right, so you identified it, you know what it's about.
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Now it's time to get past it.
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So if you're feeling fear about something, write it down, look at it, put it away, you're done.
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Say it out loud, get rid of it, put it away.
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So now taking the leap.
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Um I get quite I get asked sometimes, like, you know, where the idea for last call came from, or how did I know I wanted to do that or what have you.
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People are not understanding the creative process to writing a script and producing a film or a show or whatever.
00:37:01.039 --> 00:37:03.599
So I tell I tell this story.
00:37:03.679 --> 00:37:12.719
So I was I was reading an article backstage on backstage on the website, and it was about creating opportunities for yourself.
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And I'm like, you know, I was you know, on the struggle bus trying to figure shit out.
00:37:18.159 --> 00:37:41.920
And this article was talking about these people who created their web series and other film uh plays or whatever, um just by you know, just writing ideas down, and then it developed into creating a character that came from the writings or you know, people they talk to and different ideas floating around a room and they just started building and building and building, and then they're like, oh, we have something here.
00:37:42.079 --> 00:37:46.639
Let's go, let's try this step, and then they show it to someone, and like, oh, let's do, let's write something out.
00:37:46.800 --> 00:37:49.840
So they have a script now, and then oh, let's put it up for people and see what they think.
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So they did a reading, and then oh, let's let's like pitch it to a theater company, and now they're on a off-Broadway stage, or they're shooting it for YouTube or what have you.
00:37:59.119 --> 00:38:03.519
And it was just the start of the process was writing.
00:38:04.239 --> 00:38:21.840
So I thought, okay, I have stories to tell from when I from my corporate my life in corporate America to New York City nightlife to adult entertainment, I have stories, I have memories, I have shit that happened that you would not believe.
00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:23.599
I mean, you that's crazy, Mike.
00:38:23.679 --> 00:38:24.800
That that did not happen.
00:38:24.960 --> 00:38:38.320
And I like the guy who I know what he was on, but the guy who took a huge shit on the dance floor at Black Party that one year.
00:38:38.960 --> 00:38:40.000
That really happened.
00:38:40.079 --> 00:38:44.800
And a lot of you know who were there because we were like, oh my god, what happened?
00:38:45.360 --> 00:38:47.199
Yeah, stuff like that.
00:38:47.440 --> 00:38:54.719
Um, so I started writing, and uh I take my life, what is the saying?
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Uh write what you know.
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So I started writing all these different memories down, and I started creating a story about this character, Leo, who left his corporate world and ended up in nightlife and adult entertainment.
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There's a through line.
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And of course, you could see the first season of that rendition of Last Call on YouTube.
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So we started asking friends.
00:39:18.480 --> 00:39:19.519
I'm like, oh, who would shoot this?
00:39:19.599 --> 00:39:21.360
Who would who who would who would shoot this?
00:39:21.440 --> 00:39:22.320
Who would be play this?
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Who would play that?
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And it just evolved and there it became.
00:39:25.920 --> 00:39:32.159
Um creating opportunities for yourself will help you take a leap.
00:39:32.320 --> 00:39:33.840
Like I like doing this here.
00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:38.719
I thought, okay, I have things I'd like to share and get out of my head, blah, blah, blah, make a video.
00:39:38.960 --> 00:39:40.559
Who inspired me to do this?
00:39:40.800 --> 00:39:41.920
Leo Skeppi.
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He's listening homeboy, I think, is off his rocker, but he's smart too.
00:39:48.559 --> 00:39:53.119
So being smart and off your rocker, you've got you've got some talent there.
00:39:53.199 --> 00:39:57.119
And he does, I mean, I think he's studying psychology now or if he has a psychology degree.
00:39:57.199 --> 00:40:02.079
I know he was in nursing, he was in, he goes around speaking all the time, sharing his thoughts.
00:40:02.239 --> 00:40:05.519
You know, it's not the gospel on things, but he's got a he's got a viewpoint.
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And sometimes I something that he says resonates with me.
00:40:08.800 --> 00:40:12.480
I'm like, yeah, you know, maybe I'm maybe I'm overthinking this.
00:40:12.559 --> 00:40:14.639
Or sometimes I'm like, oh yeah, I'm just being a pussy.
00:40:15.119 --> 00:40:16.079
Oh, pardon me.
00:40:17.119 --> 00:40:19.199
Um I'm being an ass.
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I should just let it go, whatever.
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Uh so yeah, it inspired me to do this because it led me to it's helping me prepare for the other project that I'm working on that will people will be involved in, and you'll get to meet other people as well as I share and educate and whatever.
00:40:38.719 --> 00:40:47.840
Um taking a class will help you take a leap.
00:40:48.320 --> 00:40:51.760
I remember, like I said, my first improv class.
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I I was like, I didn't quite understand why my uncle enrolled me in this class.
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And I'm like, you know, I just memorize the lines and say the words, you know, and and do what comes.
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But the improv class helped me to be in the moment and use my body as it not for myself, but for the moment and the person opposite me or the people opposite me.
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Because the story the story can evolve in miraculous ways when you're just being in the moment.
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Um, and sometimes those improv skills come out at work, too, where I literally was told by my supervisor, okay, stop, stop improvising.
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Um so much.
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I'm just gonna say it like that because it's it it's a it's a dung.
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Um so taking a class might help you, whether a pottery class, because you're thinking about that, an acting class, a writing class, uh anything, a dance class, a yoga class, anything.
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Start somewhere, read a book on the thing that that you're interested in or excited about.
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It will help you take that leap, I think.
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Um hey, I have tons of plays.
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If you're interested in reading a play, let me know.
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I'll I'll I'll send you uh a picture of the play that I have here or put you in touch with where you can get it for cheap.
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But I have tons of plays that I still read over and over.
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I have new ones I haven't even really touched.
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I started another one.
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I really am having a hard time getting it.
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Anyway, um, I'm too distracted with too many other things.
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Um, so yeah, and then um start talking to your friends or your in your closest circle of people.
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People, for instance, like uh have the keys to your place or you know, they're first on your call list, or you know, the person you talk to all the time.
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Share with them what you're thinking, what you want to do, see what they say, see what they think.
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Maybe they have uh have uh words of advice.
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Uh maybe if they don't, I'm like, uh, you know, whatever.
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Take that to that energy and like maybe let's see, let me do it and see what they think later.
00:42:59.440 --> 00:43:02.960
Um, but they would be your uh your your good resource.
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Ask advice of people doing the thing that you're interested in doing.
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Just you know, no commitment, just say, hey, um tell me about what you're doing.
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Um what what does it take to do that?
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Um uh when did you get this idea?
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Why are you doing it?
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When did you get started?
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What do you need to get started?
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Don't need a lot.
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I'm using my iPhone 11 right here, um, my microphones and some lights.
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A little bit of editing, poof, there it is.
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Um, this is the big thing.
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If you're gonna go for a lot of a lot of this, save some cash.
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Save some cash because a lot of the thing you're gonna do, you're gonna be out of pocket to do it.
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For instance, paying for the class, um, paying for uh some sound equipment, some lighting.
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Um doesn't have to be expensive, but you're gonna need some some of it to to pay for.
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Um if you're gonna go a big, a big way, like you know, shoot a an episode of something.
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Or you want to shoot like a pilot of something to pitch, to pitch somewhere.
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These are the people you need to make sure get paid.
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Your DP, your director of photography, the person with the camera, because they know they know lighting, they know angles, they know they have the thing that's gonna capture the best image.
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Your uh PAs, if you have someone helping out set things up, make sure they get some money.
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And your sound.
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Your sound is your number one person.
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It's gonna make everything sound great.
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Without that, you can have great video, but if it sounds horrible, you're screwed.
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So make sure these three people get paid.
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Um, and if you're gonna feed everyone on who's involved and you can't afford to pay for everyone, they're willing to donate some time, feed them, not pizza.
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Feed them.
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So save some cash to go and buy some cold cuts and some sandwich bread, or you know, get a bunch of wraps pre-made, you know, anything, you know, heroes slice them up and make little, you know, orders or whatever.
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Just make sure you feed people and then not pizza, because not pizza.
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Uh do that.
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Um, and I think you'll you'll have a have a really good time.
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And you'll take the leap because there you are.
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You've got people, like-minded people, doing the thing that you want to do, different aspects of the thing you want to do, doing the thing with you.
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Don't be afraid.
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Everything you want to accomplish and desire is on the other side of fear.
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And I take these words to heart myself because sometimes I have to remind myself, like, uh, I'm doing it.
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I'm just doing it.
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What's the worst that can happen?
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What's the best thing that can happen?
00:45:43.119 --> 00:45:54.559
Um, sometimes I wonder too how many people creative people are out there that um just don't do the take the leap or um do the thing that they really, really, really, really, really want to do.
00:45:54.960 --> 00:45:59.599
So I wonder, you know, I'm sure there's a lot more talented people than me out there who are like, hmm.
00:46:00.320 --> 00:46:06.880
Um I was a lot like that until I just said, fuck it.
00:46:10.719 --> 00:46:16.239
You as you get older, you realize there's less time to to deal with the bull.
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Crap.
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Bull crap.
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Just start.
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Definitely start.
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Alright, so now you tell me.
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I want to hear from all of you.
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How how get vulnerable with me.
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I promise I won't I won't tell anybody.
00:46:34.719 --> 00:46:40.000
Um how and when have you felt the most vulnerable?
00:46:42.800 --> 00:46:44.239
You don't have to go into too much detail.
00:46:44.320 --> 00:46:48.880
Just tell me how how and when did you feel like you opened yourself up to being vulnerable?
00:46:49.039 --> 00:46:52.960
Um, what is the the the thing that you're unsure about?
00:46:53.440 --> 00:46:57.360
Um that you want to take a leap on.
00:46:58.639 --> 00:46:59.519
Tell me what that is.
00:46:59.599 --> 00:47:06.800
Maybe I know someone who can help you get to get some knowledge to take the leap or take the next step.
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Let me know.
00:47:08.559 --> 00:47:10.000
I really I really want to do that for you.
00:47:10.079 --> 00:47:17.519
I want to use my connections or my acquaintances and say, oh hey, contact this person, tell them I sent you.
00:47:17.599 --> 00:47:18.320
I'll do that for you.
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Absolutely.
00:47:19.599 --> 00:47:26.480
Um and what could you do today that would help you get closer to that thing that you want to do?
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What's that one thing?
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Think about what you could do today that will start you on the path and do it.
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Tell me what it is.
00:47:36.480 --> 00:47:39.679
Again, if I know someone who can help you, I'll I'll put you in touch with them.
00:47:39.920 --> 00:47:40.880
Go for it.
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And if you don't care, you don't give a shit, tell me that too.
00:47:46.559 --> 00:47:47.760
I just don't care.
00:47:48.079 --> 00:47:49.840
No judgments, not at all.
00:47:51.039 --> 00:47:51.920
I need more coffee.
00:47:55.440 --> 00:47:57.280
Alright, guys, listen.
00:47:58.719 --> 00:48:03.760
I hope I hope this helps.
00:48:03.840 --> 00:48:04.719
I really do.
00:48:05.280 --> 00:48:06.559
But here's what I'm gonna do.
00:48:06.639 --> 00:48:09.280
And I know I've been talking about this for a while now.
00:48:10.079 --> 00:48:19.920
And um the AMA Ask Mike Anything episode is to in two episodes from now.
00:48:20.159 --> 00:48:24.480
It'll be on the 21st.
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Okay.
00:48:27.039 --> 00:48:28.880
So I need you to send your questions.
00:48:28.960 --> 00:48:46.000
And there's a giveaway attached to this because every person who sends a question, whether it be on Facebook, in the comments, on Facebook, Blue Sky, uh, Instagram, and my fan page Facebook page, if you're if you're watching there.
00:48:47.039 --> 00:48:51.039
Any anybody sends a question?
00:48:51.119 --> 00:48:53.039
I'm gonna I'm gonna take your question, I'm gonna answer it.
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Whatever it is, I don't care what it is, everything is just ask whatever.
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You know, you tell you ask, I'm gonna answer.
00:49:00.880 --> 00:49:06.480
From there, three people are going to be selected to win some prizes.
00:49:06.639 --> 00:49:11.360
And this is for the the well, if you're a content creator, are you a content creator?
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Do you do you want some some free tech to help you get started?
00:49:14.960 --> 00:49:17.280
I got three things for you guys.
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First up, microphone receiver, lightning receiver with the sound wind muffler, and this carabiner tripod.
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Let me take the magnet off here.
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All right, this tripod flips around like this.
00:49:38.800 --> 00:49:40.639
You can hold it like that, take paint.
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It becomes you put pull the legs apart, stand her up like this.
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There you go.
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See that?
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Angle it which ways you want.
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And then you just clip it to where you want to go.
00:49:53.679 --> 00:49:54.639
I've got two of these.
00:49:54.719 --> 00:49:57.519
So, and also the clip on the microphone comes off.
00:49:57.920 --> 00:49:58.880
See that there?
00:50:00.239 --> 00:50:06.079
You may have seen old older videos of me like on live or whatever, where I have it connected to my hat like this.
00:50:06.320 --> 00:50:08.400
So there's two of these, two sets of these.
00:50:08.480 --> 00:50:10.880
So you can see, got two sets of these.
00:50:12.159 --> 00:50:15.199
Got two sets of these with the receiver.
00:50:15.280 --> 00:50:21.039
And what's cool about the receiver is this is a USB 3 pass-through.
00:50:21.119 --> 00:50:24.639
So if this is connected to your device, you can still charge your device.
00:50:26.239 --> 00:50:27.760
All right, so that's that.
00:50:28.000 --> 00:50:40.239
So two lucky individuals will get those, and a third lucky individual will get this little packet of microphones, if I can get it open.
00:50:40.639 --> 00:50:41.920
Ah, all right.
00:50:42.320 --> 00:50:44.639
So you get the others get the cord too.
00:50:44.719 --> 00:50:55.119
You get the charging cord, you get USB adapter uh receiver with the lightning adapter.
00:50:55.679 --> 00:50:56.639
You can see that.
00:50:57.440 --> 00:50:57.920
Right?
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And you get not one, not two, yeah, but two microphones.
00:51:07.920 --> 00:51:13.760
With the muffler, dead cat, aka, and the clips also come off.
00:51:13.840 --> 00:51:17.199
So if you need to take them off to put them somewhere.
00:51:17.360 --> 00:51:18.079
So you get two of these.
00:51:18.159 --> 00:51:22.880
This is a bundle of two with the receiver and two chargers for these.
00:51:22.960 --> 00:51:25.119
The others will get have their chargers as well.
00:51:25.519 --> 00:51:33.199
So that's what I'm giving away to three lucky individuals so they can create content if they've been waiting for the right time for the right thing.
00:51:33.440 --> 00:51:34.960
I'm sending it to you.
00:51:36.159 --> 00:51:37.599
I pay for shipping.
00:51:37.840 --> 00:51:40.079
Don't care where it is, I'll send it to you.
00:51:41.920 --> 00:51:47.199
So enter to win.
00:51:47.280 --> 00:51:48.800
All you gotta do is send a question.
00:51:49.760 --> 00:51:50.960
Alright, so.
00:51:52.159 --> 00:51:53.920
Oh, there's something extra too.
00:51:54.079 --> 00:51:58.639
Um let me check my notes.
00:51:58.719 --> 00:51:59.840
I don't want to miss it.
00:52:00.320 --> 00:52:04.960
Uh all right, so until next time.
00:52:05.119 --> 00:52:05.840
Thanks for watching.
00:52:05.920 --> 00:52:07.519
Thanks for listening, wherever you're listening.
00:52:07.679 --> 00:52:10.000
Um, if you made it this far, let's see.
00:52:10.159 --> 00:52:11.360
I want you to.
00:52:12.000 --> 00:52:13.519
Oh, the speaking emoji?
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Put that down in the bottom there.
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I really want to, I want that.
00:52:18.079 --> 00:52:19.599
If you made it this far.
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Um again, everything you want to accomplish is at the other end of fear.
00:52:28.639 --> 00:52:35.119
And the link in the show notes below is a link to a motivational video that I found that is my gift to you for this episode.
00:52:35.199 --> 00:52:39.519
I want you to watch it, save it, review it as many times as you can.
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Um, and if you're watching on YouTube, please like, share, hit the bell, all that jazz.
00:52:46.719 --> 00:52:49.599
And wherever you're listening, you know, just download.
00:52:49.679 --> 00:52:51.119
It may help smooth me up.
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I'm hoping at the season finale episode to give you some great updates on how well we did over the whole course of this season.
00:52:59.519 --> 00:53:04.719
Um because I'm excited about it and it's been growing, and I love you all for watching and listening.
00:53:04.800 --> 00:53:07.199
So, okay, have a good one.
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Stay warm wherever you are if you're in cold weather.
