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It's My Life
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It's my life, don't you forget!!!
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Transcript
Emotional Overwhelm and Good News
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Welcome back to another episode of Gather Them Podcast.
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I am your host, Jerome, and we're back for another episode.
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We are on the last week of, well, the last full week of April, and I am feeling very... Hmm.
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I don't know what I feel today.
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I feel almost mentally...
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I feel mentally tapped a little bit, I think, but I feel like it might be just because I had really good news happen this week and I just have been overwhelmed with emotions.
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Happy, sad, anxious,
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I don't know.
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Stress isn't really an emotion, but I've been stressed mainly because I'm just trying to figure out what I'm going to do about certain things that are going on.
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And I'll mention them eventually next month, like what all happened.
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But I... Yeah, it's just been a whirlwind.
Astrological Influences: Full Moon in Scorpio
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And it didn't help that Scorpio was in...
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The full moon.
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We had a full moon at Scorpio.
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That's what it was.
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We had a full moon at Scorpio during tourist season.
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So it was an emotional week.
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It was an emotional week for me.
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And I feel tapped a little bit today.
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So I'm doing my best.
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And my allergies are really impacting me today.
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I don't know what it's like.
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A buildup, almost.
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I thought it was going to happen a little bit later, but I guess because we didn't have a real winter.
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It was just cold, like it didn't really snow, but I think that the...
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Spring season is really starting to hit me now.
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Which, I mean, better now than June.
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Because in June, I'm going to want to turn up, have fun, and all that good stuff.
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And not have to think about freaking, I don't know, allergies.
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Stupid stuff like that.
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Sorry, I'm like opening something while I'm talking and I should not be doing that.
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But ASMR or whatever.
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But yeah, yeah, it's just been an interesting week.
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And then next month, a lot of other interesting things will just kind of come about and happen.
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And yeah, it's like one of those things where you feel like life is on like finally getting on the right track and that things are starting to happen.
Podcasting Adventures
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But you're also like,
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dealing with the reality that you have to, um, that is not all perfect.
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Like it's not all, everything doesn't work out exactly the way you want it to.
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And, you know, you have a lot of wants and needs and things like that.
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Yes.
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But I don't know.
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It feels like you still are supposed to, uh, almost like sacrifice some stuff.
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Like everything is like, you get what you want, but it's always, it's not exactly, um,
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exactly exactly like how you thought it was going to be or you know how things kind of turn out so you know you just adjust and you keep pushing and eventually things happen and that's the good part um eventually shit does happen so um that is you know as long as you're working hard things happen so that's what i think my takeaway um for this week is or has been
00:04:22
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But other than that, I was on... Marcus's podcast was on our 50th episode.
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You guys should check that out.
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That was on... That was our 420 episode.
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Marcus came to the show on episode 50.
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And I...
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loved uh being that was like my first feature i love being a guest on the show and i loved hosting the show uh as well um so that what or hosting or co-hosting um like his like my show and then doing his show um midnight moonshine and marcus you know wherever you get your podcasts
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What else?
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What else?
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It's been like a really, like I said, this has just been a really
Jupiter-Uranus Conjunction and Life Changes
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exhausting week.
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I had so much stuff that I was going to like thinking about talking about, writing stuff down.
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I wanted to talk a little bit about that Jupiter-Uranus conjunction and what that felt like.
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And it was almost like all of the things I like manifested like prior to
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going in and then doing a little bit of extra manifesting on the day of the conjunction.
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I was like, not prepared for this week at all.
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Good things to come.
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I don't really know exactly what I wanted to really focus on too much today.
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I mean, I feel like there's been so much happening.
Political Frustrations: Primaries and Ads
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Definitely support 100% these students that are protesting right now for Palestine because it's so ugly.
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And at some point, like something's got to give.
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We just had our primaries here in PA.
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And with the primaries, first of all, I didn't even know the primaries were
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This week, like I didn't know that it was this past Tuesday, I thought it was going to be in March or May, because May is usually when I feel like we have our primaries.
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And I was like, does anyone did anyone else like catch that?
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Like we why are we having our primary so early?
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um and then i went to like look for where to do the voting and then the voting was like it wasn't anyone standing outside like how it usually is like there weren't people just outside there weren't signs on that many signs out about who you should vote for who you know wants your vote um i thought that was weird i thought that it was weird
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that the even social media wasn't ablaze.
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Like there were it was I saw a lot of Trump versus Biden ads, but I didn't see anything really that was promoting anyone else or anyone else's
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campaign, which sucked because I went in to work and then it was like, oh, shit, I forgot the today was the day you vote and then ended up getting to the polls kind of like, who do I vote for?
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Like what I do?
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I didn't know there was like this thing about the uncommitted vote.
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Which a significant portion of Pennsylvania did Uncommitted as, you know, it's one of those things.
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We don't know who's the best option.
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Like, they're both trash.
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It's a giant turd sandwich and a giant douche.
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Like, it's not anything that is ideal either way.
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And now things really change.
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Like everything has been very consistent, very status quo.
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And I think a lot of people can sense that because nothing really significant has happened.
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Like things are happening where, you know, I saw certain things that were working out where jobs are required to pay people over time if they go over their hours and how jobs are now...
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I don't know, like, jobs are also... Or not jobs.
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They're, like, airplanes or, like, flights are supposed to give you your money back because of whatever fuck-ups they do.
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Which, I mean, honestly makes sense.
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And I don't know why we've had to, you know, grunt and bear and fight and all of that just for this.
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Because if you pay your money for something and it doesn't work out, like, you're supposed to be able to get your money back.
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And...
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I feel like, isn't that how capitalism is supposed to work?
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Isn't that the point?
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Is that if you sell a good or a service and it doesn't work out or it's not good or you don't get to... Isn't that why people have insurance?
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I don't understand.
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Either way, I'm just glad that we're at a point now where the government was like, y'all gotta pay.
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Because, I mean, in the long run, I don't think it's going to suffer suffer.
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But I think it's going to suffer in the sense of, like, if people are noticing that they're not able to fly out or just go somewhere because their flight is delayed or canceled or overbooked or whatever, it's like,
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It's just too much of a headache.
Airlines and Capitalism: A Critique
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And eventually people are going to be like, I don't really want to fly.
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And I imagine flying right now is very profitable.
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I also imagine that with this new law, the...
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Prices of things are going to go up pretty significantly.
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And I think that's okay.
00:10:25
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I mean, as long as I'm getting my money back, I don't really care because I was still going to book the flight anyway.
00:10:30
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But I just want to know that when I get there, like, and I get it, like, if I get, you know, get there late and the doors close, like, too bad, so sad.
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But y'all haven't even gotten me in the door, like on the plane or even...
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Through the I forget what that thing is called the thing that connects the airplane and the airport.
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I don't know what that's called.
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But it's like that little hallway, you know, that you go through.
00:10:59
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But I haven't even gotten on that.
00:11:01
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And y'all are like, well, we can't give you your money back.
00:11:04
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But we can give you, like, a hotel credit and, like, some drinks or whatever.
00:11:09
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Like, it's just like, just give me my money back.
00:11:12
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I'm tired of the shit.
00:11:13
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Like, I just want my money back.
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I...
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You know, especially when you wake up super early for a flight and it was already hard getting out the door and you did all the things, you went through TSA, took all your clothes off and all of that.
00:11:28
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It's like, well, I want my money back.
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I don't want anything else but that.
00:11:32
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If you can't get me on the next flight, then just I need my money back.
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And that's it.
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So I'm glad about that.
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But, you know, as a whole, like nothing is really happening per se.
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Like we're all just here and waiting for the shoe to drop.
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And, you know, students are protesting right now and that's looking.
00:12:00
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That's a lot.
00:12:01
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I know the bus was detouring the other day.
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And at first I was like, I don't know why the fuck, where's my bus at?
00:12:07
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Like I spent an hour trying to get home when I could have maybe just walked home and it would have been like 30 minutes versus like waiting for the bus, trying to figure out when the bus was going to come.
00:12:19
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And I didn't realize that the students were out protesting.
00:12:24
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And I feel like I felt victim to the, like, what the fuck is going on that is keeping the bus, whatever.
Protests and Conscious Consumerism
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I was mad, though, because I was walking home.
00:12:38
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I did eventually walk home.
00:12:40
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and on the way the bus was coming and I like ran up to the bus had to tap on the door because he closed the door um before I could even stand there I tapped on the glass and he just drove off I was like oh fuck it I'll just walk home at this point but um yeah I fell victim to the you know I'm wanting them students to basically
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go to class.
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You know what I mean?
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Like I, you know, and I, I feel like it wasn't, I think in, if I had known that it was, that was what was happening.
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Cause I did not know that.
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I knew there was protesting happening because people were saying, Oh, it's happening on, you know, such and such as campus.
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And then I was like, okay, I know it's going to be, uh, you know, traffic at some point somewhere, but I didn't think it was going to be on market street.
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And I was like,
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what the fuck, but it worked out.
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And I'm glad that, you know, the students are protesting.
00:13:43
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Someone has said something about how protesting doesn't work.
00:13:46
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And I mean, it works eventually, you do, you know, you eventually kind of get some kind of justice or something comes out of it.
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But usually it's very small.
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And it's not as
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we are living in like a very big world right now.
00:14:05
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And I think the best way to protest is almost like to protest on silence and just, you know, we talk about like where your money's going, like being more conscious of that, like don't have your money going to like places that are supporting the thing you're against, um, or, um, making sure that you are, um,
00:14:32
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supporting mom-and-pop places in your community and not these really big corporations and things like that or bi-locally and all of that stuff.
00:14:43
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I feel like that is kind of where we are at or where we maybe should be at when it comes to protesting now.
00:14:53
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Because all of this, you know, being in the streets and getting dragged across the ground by police and, you know, it just is weird to me.
00:15:05
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Like, that we live in this society where we have choice to not kill people and that...
Criticism and Identity Politics
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anything that gets said, like the idea, first of all, of protesting what Israel is doing to Palestine isn't anti-Semitic.
00:15:33
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Like that's not what that means.
00:15:35
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Like being anti-Semitic means that you are discriminating against like Jewish people.
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Like that literally, and it's not discrimination to say
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you guys shouldn't be killing, like Israel shouldn't be killing, the nation of Israel should not be killing Palestinian people.
00:15:58
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Like that's not anti-Semitic, that just is.
00:16:02
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Like that's where I feel like people are losing the plot.
00:16:06
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And there's a lot of Jewish people that are standing with Palestine because they know what Israel is doing is wrong.
00:16:14
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And that, to me, is all I need to know to...
00:16:19
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support that, you know what I mean?
00:16:20
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Or get behind that and understand what is happening.
00:16:24
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But it feels like there's this messaging for people that are, I don't know, maybe not as, I don't want to say smart, but I kind of want to say smart.
00:16:41
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Like people that don't understand nuance or they don't understand
00:16:51
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the separation of identities.
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I think that's what it is.
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It feels like it's people that don't understand that you can be a Jewish person and also support a ceasefire and the ending of bombing of people
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And genocide.
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Like, you can literally stand for that.
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And both things can be true.
00:17:19
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You can be Jewish and stand for that.
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And I feel like that's, again, where people get lost because they're one-track minded.
00:17:27
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They're very much...
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oh, anything you say against this is anti-Semitic.
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It's like, no, it's not that.
00:17:34
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It's the fact that you are killing people, which is against religious law.
00:17:40
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You're not supposed to kill people.
00:17:41
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I don't understand that.
00:17:43
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I don't understand the idea that we have all these rules from God, but then no one is...
00:17:53
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Abiding by them.
00:17:54
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Everyone's doing something.
00:17:55
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It's either you are, like, sleeping out, you're stepping out on your, you know, out of your marriage, or you're killing somebody, or you're stealing money, or you're lying and being deceitful, like...
00:18:09
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You can't use both messages.
00:18:11
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And that's how I know people are like one track minded, because how can you say one thing and then do something completely different?
00:18:18
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That doesn't make sense.
00:18:19
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So again, knowledge is power.
00:18:23
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I'm just going to say that knowledge is power.
00:18:24
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And the more, you know, and reading is fundamental and.
00:18:30
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Those are my key things.
00:18:32
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Those are in context.
00:18:33
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Also, again, context clues and, you know, understanding satire.
00:18:39
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That's the one thing I realized I don't like about the Internet right now is the fact that even in satire, you're confused as like, is this satire or is this like...
00:18:52
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Like, is this made up or is this not made up?
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You know what I mean?
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It's very hard to tell right now because of how dystopian life is.
00:19:02
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So sometimes I'll read things and people will be like, how did you not understand that?
00:19:07
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Or how did you not see that as satire?
00:19:09
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And I'm like, because I've seen so many different people say things that were similar and really mean it.
00:19:16
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Like, that's why.
Celebrity Scandals in the Media
00:19:21
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And also, too, like, I'm starting to realize that a lot of with this, like, I don't know, celebrity culture, we just seem to be just doing too much right now with this way things are going.
00:19:41
Speaker
And I'm specifically thinking about Megan Thee Stallion and how allegedly she was a
00:19:50
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Allegedly, she's supposedly going to court over the fact that or she's got a new trial or something's going on about her forcing this man to watch a sex act between her as some girl and, you know, or some other woman and how this woman or Megan anyway.
00:20:15
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Yeah.
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forced him to watch and record it and not say anything about it and all this and that.
00:20:24
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And I'm like, all right, like it's starting to feel like.
00:20:31
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And it's funny because Megan hasn't even addressed the rumors and that to me feels so.
00:20:39
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Like, without trying to get too much into it, because I can't say whether or not I feel like she did it or not, but it feels very similar to, like, the Lizzo thing.
00:20:47
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Like, it feels very similar to the whole thing of when you're hanging out with someone that is a certain way or acts a certain way, then...
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That's kind of what it is.
00:21:07
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Like, that's what it's almost like it is.
00:21:10
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You know what I mean?
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Like, it's not like one of them things where.
00:21:16
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And this is not to say, like, she didn't do it or anything like that, but it's like.
00:21:24
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let's just say like for a listen, like going to the club in Amsterdam or whatever, and her telling you to eat like a banana or suck up in it, whatever it was, like, I forget even what that whole thing was about.
00:21:36
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But you know what I mean?
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Like, you just like, if you want to, if you're hanging out with that person, like you kind of, this is the vibe.
00:21:43
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And I feel like
00:21:50
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it's sometimes very hard to believe when men, especially the fact that this man didn't claim like he was actually like physically sexually assaulted or anything like that, but that he was forced to watch her make out with another woman.
00:22:06
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Um, and I don't know if that's all it is, but I mean, when I read, when I was reading through initially, that's all it seemed like it was, was that that's all it was.
00:22:17
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Um, um,
00:22:20
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Yeah, but I just, I don't know.
00:22:21
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It feels very, like, Lizzo-coded in that way.
00:22:24
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It feels like I need more details.
00:22:27
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Like, I need more information.
00:22:29
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Like, I need to know what exactly went on.
00:22:34
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I need to hear the full story, you know?
00:22:37
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And then at the same time, I'm like, I also don't really want to hear the full story because I feel like...
00:22:46
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And my thing is, too, is like, if it is true, it's like, well, damn, damn, girl, like, what the fuck?
00:22:50
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Like, we all been like supporting you.
00:22:53
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And and I imagine that's how people feel about a lot of their faves.
00:22:56
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Like people probably feel that way about R. Kelly.
00:22:59
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But I mean, the tapes, like they literally have physical hard evidence.
00:23:05
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So, I mean, if a physical hard copy of whatever video this man was, you know, told to record came out and I saw it, I'd be like, oh, shit.
00:23:13
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Like, all right, then like we got a damn girl.
00:23:17
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What did you do?
00:23:17
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You know?
00:23:19
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Oh, my God.
00:23:20
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Sorry.
00:23:20
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My throat is like let me drink something real quick.
00:23:22
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Hold on.
00:23:29
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ASMR.
00:23:31
Speaker
Yeah, my postnatal drip right now is terrible.
00:23:33
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These allergies are really bad.
00:23:39
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Yeah.
00:23:40
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And so, yeah, there was that.
00:23:41
Speaker
And then also I started watching this show called High Hopes and High Hopes is like very interesting.
Cannabis Culture and TV Influence
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I don't know what kept me watching this show.
00:23:52
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I watched the whole thing.
00:23:53
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I didn't binge it, binge it.
00:23:55
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But I did watch the whole thing.
00:23:56
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It's only six episodes, which was very easy to watch.
00:24:01
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And it makes me really want to move to L.A.
00:24:03
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even more.
00:24:04
Speaker
Like, this show just...
00:24:08
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The wild and interesting things that they would just kind of get into the very cool, calm, aesthetic,
00:24:22
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There's still those glitzy things.
00:24:24
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There's still those very fabulous, knowing a celebrity, a celebrity maybe popping into a shop or whatever.
00:24:33
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Those things happen.
00:24:35
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But I just love how calm it seems.
00:24:39
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It's not like the hustle and bustle here in Philadelphia or New York.
00:24:44
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It's very much...
00:24:46
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more chill.
00:24:47
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And I like that.
00:24:48
Speaker
I like more chill.
00:24:49
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I think the show itself was a little weird.
00:24:52
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It's like the idea of it, knowing that the United States as a whole has not embraced cannabis, it is still criminalized in a lot of spots.
00:25:07
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And we talked about this on Marcus's podcast of how
00:25:13
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In Philadelphia, for example, it's not legal to do recreational cannabis, but it is decriminalized because...
00:25:28
Speaker
of how Philadelphia is not Pennsylvania.
00:25:31
Speaker
Like we're not the, we are here like in this state, but it is not the same at all by any stretch of the imagination.
00:25:40
Speaker
And it like, what's going to happen in Altoona is not going to be what happens here.
00:25:49
Speaker
Right.
00:25:50
Speaker
Um, which is interesting about living in Pennsylvania.
00:25:53
Speaker
Also, I gotta get the fuck out of here.
00:25:55
Speaker
It is just too much.
00:25:58
Speaker
But, um, yeah, needless to say, um, it is a show that where it feels weird that this exists now, like it feels like it should exist in the future.
00:26:08
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Like not now because it's still such a polarizing thing.
00:26:13
Speaker
Um, yeah.
00:26:16
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that I feel like I could get more joy out of it if it were.
00:26:23
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And I think the thing that's, and I'll say, like, just kind of be candid and just kind of open up and say exactly what the problem
Cannabis Industry Disparities
00:26:30
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is.
00:26:30
Speaker
But it's the fact that there's these two
00:26:32
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brothers that, you know, they're from a different country.
00:26:35
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I forget if they're Russian or I know they're Jewish, I believe, but they, you know, own a MMD is their brand and they dropped a series on Hulu on 420.
00:26:53
Speaker
I will say it was a very smart marketing campaign because if you binge the whole thing,
00:26:58
Speaker
you will have gotten to the end.
00:27:00
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And then by the end, they're like, oh, we're opening up, you know, other locations in LA.
00:27:06
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And, you know, we're going to start opening locations across the United States.
00:27:09
Speaker
And, you know, these are the things we're looking for employees.
00:27:13
Speaker
And these are, it makes you almost want to work there.
00:27:15
Speaker
Like you kind of want to work there a little bit.
00:27:17
Speaker
But the thing that bothered me the most, I think, was the fact that like,
00:27:21
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there's still Black people that are being, Black and Brown people that are still being locked up for weed possession in the United States.
00:27:30
Speaker
And it's like these White people just could come in and dominate the industry and profit off of it when
00:27:44
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Black people are, you know, have been doing it as well, like selling it and consuming and we don't get to benefit in those same ways.
00:28:01
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So it is very interesting.
00:28:03
Speaker
And I think about it sometimes.
00:28:04
Speaker
I think about owning my own cannabis shop or working at a cannabis shop as like a bud tender or something like that, because I do like weed.
00:28:16
Speaker
And I find that learning about it is very...
00:28:22
Speaker
interesting most of the time, I'll say.
00:28:26
Speaker
But I just didn't like that part of it.
00:28:27
Speaker
I didn't like the part that, you know, it felt like it's this show where
00:28:37
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these brothers get to, you know, sell and they, and also too, they didn't really, um, initially, and I guess that was part of the show was like, I was like, okay, like eventually it was like, all right, cool.
00:28:52
Speaker
But like the whole thing where the employees had to basically do backflips just for them to get more of a lead at their job.
00:29:03
Speaker
And I think now seeing episode six where I was like, okay, now I get it a little bit more.
00:29:10
Speaker
Because I was like, I don't understand why y'all didn't just go to Dani and ask her.
00:29:14
Speaker
Or like, I don't know why she didn't feel comfortable enough to go to y'all in the first place just to be like, oh, I'm working on a cannabis plant.
00:29:22
Speaker
You know, yeah.
00:29:24
Speaker
Like, let's talk about a collab or let's talk about growing my spot here.
00:29:31
Speaker
Like, I just feel like if you know someone as your best butt tender, why not?
00:29:38
Speaker
try to keep them.
00:29:39
Speaker
You know what I mean?
00:29:40
Speaker
The same thing was for Jared with his music and wanting to be their social media branding person.
00:29:46
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I was just like, well, obviously, like, it makes sense.
00:29:49
Speaker
Like, he's hip.
00:29:52
Speaker
He has a good way with the customers.
00:29:55
Speaker
He's very personable.
00:29:57
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People, like, also attractive.
00:29:59
Speaker
People like talking to him.
00:30:02
Speaker
So it makes sense to promote him within the company to do something
00:30:08
Speaker
that's a little bit more social media driven or that has some like creative aspects to it.
00:30:18
Speaker
You know, I thought Uriel was hilarious.
00:30:23
Speaker
He at first he was like, I was kind of annoyed with him because I was like, oh, my God, like he's literally a freaking idiot.
00:30:29
Speaker
But then I'm like, no, I kind of get him like he's lovable and he does look out for his friends.
00:30:37
Speaker
And
00:30:39
Speaker
he's like a very easy person.
00:30:41
Speaker
And I like people like that.
00:30:43
Speaker
Like, I do like people that are very easygoing and easy to get along with.
00:30:50
Speaker
He doesn't seem like someone that is...
00:30:54
Speaker
like threatening or anything, you know, he's like very, uh, he looks out for, you know, the people that he cares about and he kept pushing for himself.
00:31:05
Speaker
And I was like, really shocked to see that where he was drawing that design for the little matron, uh, release that they were doing.
00:31:14
Speaker
And I was so confused.
00:31:17
Speaker
That's the thing.
00:31:17
Speaker
That's why I was like, I watched this, um,
00:31:21
Speaker
show high on Sunday.
00:31:22
Speaker
And I was just like, what the fuck is this show?
00:31:27
Speaker
Because I could not figure out if they were dropping.
00:31:30
Speaker
I didn't know what they were dropping.
00:31:32
Speaker
I thought they were opening up because they were like, oh, we need to find a venue.
00:31:34
Speaker
We need to find a venue.
00:31:35
Speaker
So I thought they were like trying to find a venue or trying to find a space to open up another location and they were going to call it that.
00:31:47
Speaker
That's what I was thinking.
00:31:48
Speaker
And that's what I was like, I don't understand why, like what is happening right now.
00:31:53
Speaker
Because like, why are you making shirts for
00:31:56
Speaker
this cannabis.
00:31:57
Speaker
Like if you, I thought you were making shirts for like the business.
00:32:01
Speaker
So that was very confusing to me initially.
00:32:04
Speaker
And then the part, uh, with Danny trying to sell and how that was a conflict of interest, which again, granted like that is technically, yes, a conflict of interest, but I also feel like if my best butt tender was like,
00:32:25
Speaker
oh, well, you know, I have to sell or I have to do this or I have to do that.
00:32:31
Speaker
I, again, I don't know what I would do per se.
00:32:34
Speaker
I just feel like as a small business to have a non-compete agreement is a little weird.
00:32:41
Speaker
Like, I'm not going to lie.
00:32:43
Speaker
I think it is, it makes sense when it comes to
00:32:49
Speaker
Like if someone has access to trade secrets to put that in their contract.
Non-Compete Agreements: Are They Fair?
00:32:57
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But I feel like I, as an employee, don't even know enough about my own place of employment to create anything that would be a compete or a competition or create that level of
00:33:16
Speaker
need within a contract.
00:33:18
Speaker
You know what I mean?
00:33:18
Speaker
Like I sometimes I just go to places and I and the only thing I really take away nine times out of 10 is the way in which the job treated me, how easy it was to get stuff done, whether or not they were well resourced.
00:33:31
Speaker
And that's it.
00:33:32
Speaker
Like that's kind of all I take into account, really.
00:33:34
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I don't you know, when it comes to this whole, oh, well, you know, you could be taking trade secrets or ingredients or this or that to compete.
00:33:42
Speaker
It's like,
00:33:44
Speaker
I'd rather just come out my own thing, you know, because then that's me.
00:33:48
Speaker
Like, I know that I did it and it wasn't a thing where I, you know, had to steal from my, you know, job or whatever to just get my product out.
00:34:01
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Like, that to me is the thing that I feel strongly that as a starting person,
00:34:10
Speaker
You know, it just makes sense to me.
00:34:11
Speaker
It's almost like in therapy, too, like where I feel like.
00:34:15
Speaker
I'll say this.
00:34:16
Speaker
I had a non-compete clause for when I was a therapist and starting therapy again.
00:34:21
Speaker
Like, shout out to that.
00:34:25
Speaker
But when I was a therapist, initially, when I first started out, there was a non-compete clause of you can't open a practice within like.
00:34:33
Speaker
such X amount of miles and you can't take these clients with you and yada, yada, yada, X, Y, and Z. And I'm like, okay, but like, you're not going to, I hear you.
00:34:44
Speaker
Like I do, I hear you, but
00:34:47
Speaker
the patient's also not going to want to stay with you.
00:34:49
Speaker
Like, that's also the other thing.
00:34:50
Speaker
Like, they may want to, but if you open a practice and you're able to take their insurance and keep the same time, the meeting time and all of that good stuff, if you were able to just do that, then, you know, I feel like that to me
00:35:12
Speaker
Makes sense.
00:35:12
Speaker
Like, why would I want to keep a patient at a practice that I now have to fill the fill those shoes?
00:35:20
Speaker
Like, I have to fill the shoes of the therapist that they were seeing, who they had a relationship with.
00:35:27
Speaker
And oftentimes I've had more than one therapy therapist where I've been like, I don't really like this therapist as much as my last one or I.
00:35:37
Speaker
I feel uncomfortable telling this therapist certain things about myself because I don't have that relationship with them or, you know, the way in which they, um, act or whatever.
00:35:47
Speaker
But again, I don't know.
00:35:48
Speaker
People have their own ways of doing things.
00:35:50
Speaker
I just felt like it was weird that they didn't, um, ask from within first.
00:35:55
Speaker
Cause they did like all of this testing and spent all this time, like going to all these places.
00:36:00
Speaker
And I'm like, um,
00:36:01
Speaker
Y'all could be partnering with someone that you're already hired with.
00:36:06
Speaker
And you can modify the contract, whatever, try her weed.
00:36:11
Speaker
It's not this big to do to me.
00:36:13
Speaker
If you're a small business, and you're like...
00:36:19
Speaker
All right, I'm going to just take a sample of this.
00:36:21
Speaker
But, you know, you would have to change their contract or create a new role for them in the company if you were to, you know, take them on.
00:36:32
Speaker
And they're like, well, we don't really have the money for that and blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:36:36
Speaker
So I guess I get that part.
00:36:37
Speaker
But I don't know.
00:36:38
Speaker
I'm just like, I feel like I wasted a lot of time.
00:36:42
Speaker
in episodes two and three, just trying out a bunch of different brands.
00:36:49
Speaker
And then to make that comment or talk about that man's shirt, he was like, well, don't talk about, you know, the person you're trying to get money from or money to help you with like your business or whatever, and then make fun of their shirts or whatever.
00:37:04
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I don't think they were making fun of his shirt.
00:37:06
Speaker
I think they were just commenting on the fact that he wasn't dressed in
00:37:10
Speaker
In a way in which they thought he should be dressed.
00:37:15
Speaker
And... That, to me, I think, was the thing that would have made me feel more... Because I feel like I see both sides.
00:37:25
Speaker
I see both sides of it as, yes, you're right.
00:37:29
Speaker
Like, you should be a little bit, you know, dressed professionally.
Character Analysis in 'High Hopes'
00:37:33
Speaker
But then it's also, like, it's weed.
00:37:35
Speaker
Like, it's not like you're...
00:37:41
Speaker
on Wall Street or something like it's literally just it's weed.
00:37:46
Speaker
Um, I don't know.
00:37:48
Speaker
That's just me.
00:37:49
Speaker
I just take a very relaxed approach to it, I think.
00:37:52
Speaker
Because if you're just starting out, it's like you can kind of you're not you don't even have like a full
00:38:01
Speaker
idea of what your brand is and like why not just build from within like if you have really great bud tenders just lift them up like if you're trying to open new stores like promote to managers promote to um i've been getting a lot of weird fucking text messages i don't know what the fuck that's about um sorry that was very random i hate when my phone vibrates and i get uh the messages on my watch and they're just like very weird
00:38:33
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um yeah just promote from within long story short we're just gonna promote from within um what else what else on that show I think that was pretty much it um for uh that show I also enjoyed Freddie lastly I guess I will just say lastly I did enjoy Freddie um and his whole uh adventure of being on this show and um
00:39:00
Speaker
just moving to California and, you know, getting to be friends with the people that he works with.
00:39:07
Speaker
I thought that was like really cool.
00:39:09
Speaker
And yeah, that's pretty much it.
00:39:17
Speaker
Yeah.
00:39:20
Speaker
I think that might be all.
00:39:22
Speaker
I don't really have too much.
00:39:23
Speaker
My brain is just like, so I'm tired.
00:39:25
Speaker
I am tired as shit.
00:39:28
Speaker
I am ready to just...
00:39:36
Speaker
Get on with the weekend.
00:39:37
Speaker
That's supposed to be nice.
00:39:38
Speaker
And that's supposed to be nice next week.
00:39:39
Speaker
I can't wait for it to stop feeling cold or just like weather of where it's like warm in the daytime and then like colder at night because I have to wear either a heavy coat or not a heavy coat.
00:39:53
Speaker
Like it's just too much.
00:39:54
Speaker
I just need consistency right now.
00:39:56
Speaker
That's what I need.
00:39:58
Speaker
I need consistency.
00:40:00
Speaker
Yeah.
Social Media and Content Accessibility
00:40:06
Speaker
Sorry, I'm just looking at some looking at Biden's day to hold debate with Trump.
00:40:13
Speaker
I actually don't want to see that because it's like embarrassing.
00:40:17
Speaker
It's starting to get very embarrassing at this point.
00:40:19
Speaker
Like, it's not funny.
00:40:21
Speaker
Like, it's really not fun.
00:40:22
Speaker
Like, I can even watch it and laugh.
00:40:24
Speaker
Like, it's so embarrassing to be a nation that just operates like this.
00:40:30
Speaker
Like, this is like embarrassing as shit.
00:40:34
Speaker
Lastly, Big Sean talked about how X isn't... I guess how people are just like... Nudity's flying everywhere.
00:40:46
Speaker
Everyone's flying.
00:40:47
Speaker
Boobs everywhere.
00:40:48
Speaker
Vagina.
00:40:50
Speaker
Penis.
00:40:52
Speaker
All that.
00:40:52
Speaker
Everywhere.
00:40:53
Speaker
All over.
00:40:54
Speaker
And... How accessible nude is on there.
00:40:59
Speaker
And I actually do agree with him on that.
00:41:00
Speaker
People were joking because they were talking about how...
00:41:04
Speaker
he is the same person that goes and like watches that stuff.
00:41:08
Speaker
But again, I don't know if y'all, you know what I mean?
00:41:12
Speaker
Like, I don't, it's like, so he's grown, but I think he's also making a point.
00:41:18
Speaker
And the point is just that it's way too easy to access.
00:41:22
Speaker
And you can just be on public, just, you know, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling.
00:41:27
Speaker
And next thing you know, you just see, uh,
00:41:32
Speaker
A penis.
00:41:33
Speaker
Or you can see my friend posted this one thing of a baby's hand coming out of a woman's vagina.
00:41:40
Speaker
And she was... Or the baby was trying to grab a piece of pizza that was, I guess, on her stomach or whatever.
00:41:49
Speaker
And she... It was just weird.
00:41:51
Speaker
And I was just like, this vagina just out here to the world.
00:41:55
Speaker
You know?
00:41:56
Speaker
I think that sex is, you know, one of the things that...
00:42:02
Speaker
shouldn't be taboo, but I also feel like there is...
00:42:11
Speaker
I guess what porn itself is too accessible.
00:42:15
Speaker
It's too out there.
00:42:17
Speaker
The fact that kids can just... I was lying about my age when I was a kid.
00:42:23
Speaker
There's nothing that can be done about that.
00:42:27
Speaker
I would just fake it and just... Unless you have someone upload their ID card, there's not going to really be a way.
00:42:34
Speaker
And I feel like even then...
00:42:36
Speaker
if someone really wanted to access something, they would probably upload their parents' ID card or, you know, their big sister or somebody.
00:42:49
Speaker
Like, they'll find a way.
00:42:50
Speaker
There's always a way to figure it out.
00:42:54
Speaker
And so I don't know what can be really done about that, per se.
00:42:58
Speaker
There are options to, you know, create sensitive...
00:43:05
Speaker
You know, those sensitive media filters on top of the pictures so that when you click it, you can see it.
00:43:12
Speaker
But a lot of times I find that those aren't effective and like they'll block the things that aren't porn.
00:43:21
Speaker
And it's like, well, I do want to see this, but I don't want to see that.
00:43:24
Speaker
Like, I just want to be able to...
00:43:28
Speaker
navigate the internet without randomly popping up on a penis or, you know, and I, and that's also too, like the thing is you also, it's like who you follow.
00:43:37
Speaker
You have to just block out who you follow, but that doesn't help if you're a child and you are just on there.
00:43:44
Speaker
Um, that's why I respect TikTok, which they also banned that shit this week.
00:43:47
Speaker
I forgot about that.
00:43:49
Speaker
They also banned to talk finally and they are not banned.
00:43:53
Speaker
They didn't
Potential TikTok Ban in the U.S.
00:43:54
Speaker
ban it.
00:43:54
Speaker
They agreed that if it does not get
00:44:01
Speaker
If it does not get sold, then, you know, it will be banned in the United States.
00:44:07
Speaker
They said that they would sell it.
00:44:10
Speaker
And that if they I mean, this is rumor.
00:44:12
Speaker
They're saying that if they did sell it, then they wouldn't sell the algorithm like TikTok, which I mean, honestly, that's pretty smart.
00:44:20
Speaker
Like, that's actually very smart to sell an app and then keep the algorithm because the algorithm is a thing that.
00:44:26
Speaker
makes TikTok like that's what makes it so successful and without that it's like well what do you have you have to create the algorithm yourself um me personally I'm such a stickler where I'm like I'm just gonna
00:44:45
Speaker
I don't know.
00:44:45
Speaker
And that's probably what my problem is.
00:44:47
Speaker
I just be like, fuck y'all.
00:44:49
Speaker
Like the rest of the world versus the United States is crazy.
00:44:53
Speaker
I hate that.
00:44:55
Speaker
Oh, I hate that so bad.
00:44:56
Speaker
But that's it.
00:44:59
Speaker
We're done.
00:45:01
Speaker
I promise next the next episode will be better.
00:45:03
Speaker
I promise y'all it will be.
00:45:07
Speaker
But yeah, that's it.
00:45:07
Speaker
Follow me on socials, GatherThemPod on X and on Instagram.
00:45:14
Speaker
And then if you have any listener letters, GatherThemPod at gmail.com.
00:45:18
Speaker
But that's it for this week's episode.
00:45:19
Speaker
This was really short.
00:45:20
Speaker
Yes, I know.
00:45:22
Speaker
But, you know, we're here for a good time, not a long time.
00:45:26
Speaker
So until next time, take care of yourselves.
00:45:31
Speaker
Bye.