Roderick on the Line

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00:00:23 ◼   ► hello hey John [TS]

00:00:27 ◼   ► hi Merlin how's it going man [TS]

00:00:31 ◼   ► oh I'm self-conscious [TS]

00:00:35 ◼   ► why are you self-conscious how God no [TS]

00:00:37 ◼   ► one cares but I've got a different [TS]

00:00:38 ◼   ► microphone and it's making me [TS]

00:00:39 ◼   ► self-conscious it sounds good [TS]

00:00:41 ◼   ► you notice a difference yeah it's [TS]

00:00:43 ◼   ► clearer i think it makes me sound old [TS]

00:00:45 ◼   ► you think it's a it's a it's adds a few [TS]

00:00:49 ◼   ► years to your voice and I'm worried that [TS]

00:00:51 ◼   ► it's accurate as a few pounds now I'm [TS]

00:00:54 ◼   ► worried that this is actually what I [TS]

00:00:55 ◼   ► sound like [TS]

00:00:56 ◼   ► oh alright I just haven't smoked in a [TS]

00:00:58 ◼   ► really long time but I sound a little [TS]

00:00:59 ◼   ► bit like I've got some some filterless [TS]

00:01:01 ◼   ► camels in my throat [TS]

00:01:02 ◼   ► yeah you've got a little Joan Rivers [TS]

00:01:04 ◼   ► yeah on I try to talk as much like to [TS]

00:01:06 ◼   ► save my instrument you know you that you [TS]

00:01:09 ◼   ► thought the old microphone kind of [TS]

00:01:11 ◼   ► concealed that a little bit [TS]

00:01:13 ◼   ► hmm maybe I had before this is really [TS]

00:01:16 ◼   ► super interesting stuff like as inside [TS]

00:01:18 ◼   ► baseball as they say I the only one is a [TS]

00:01:21 ◼   ► workhorse and the the road podcaster you [TS]

00:01:24 ◼   ► know he gets like the yeah right [TS]

00:01:26 ◼   ► plug-and-play yeah it's like the sm57 of [TS]

00:01:28 ◼   ► podcast Mike's that doesn't make any [TS]

00:01:30 ◼   ► sense that's like saying the tube videos [TS]

00:01:32 ◼   ► but it but this one I gotta be careful [TS]

00:01:35 ◼   ► cause of my closest i think it's not [TS]

00:01:37 ◼   ► just one thing plosives closes a thing [TS]

00:01:40 ◼   ► how did you how did you learn to use a [TS]

00:01:42 ◼   ► mic mm uh the hard way for sure [TS]

00:01:46 ◼   ► yeah you know you can tell a singer that [TS]

00:01:50 ◼   ► doesn't know how to use microphone and [TS]

00:01:52 ◼   ► you can really tell a singer that does [TS]

00:01:54 ◼   ► know how to use a microphone and [TS]

00:01:56 ◼   ► sometimes you gotta go i'll bet you know [TS]

00:01:58 ◼   ► or a gal will be a singer for four years [TS]

00:02:01 ◼   ► and never really figure out Mike [TS]

00:02:03 ◼   ► technique [TS]

00:02:04 ◼   ► uh-huh [TS]

00:02:05 ◼   ► but because i was a guitar player right [TS]

00:02:08 ◼   ► i had to you know I didn't have I don't [TS]

00:02:10 ◼   ► have the option of like a lot of Mike [TS]

00:02:13 ◼   ► shenanigans in the anus one of those [TS]

00:02:15 ◼   ► things where at least while you're still [TS]

00:02:17 ◼   ► just getting proficiency at all the [TS]

00:02:20 ◼   ► different pieces there's so many I you [TS]

00:02:22 ◼   ► probably never got this but I remember [TS]

00:02:23 ◼   ► feeling like I had so many different [TS]

00:02:24 ◼   ► things to do it once and I had to like [TS]

00:02:27 ◼   ► remember you only play it twice this [TS]

00:02:29 ◼   ► part you gotta play the guitar you gotta [TS]

00:02:32 ◼   ► make sure to turn your volume down this [TS]

00:02:33 ◼   ► part you know the paddles don't get me [TS]

00:02:35 ◼   ► started on the pedals lot of pedals a [TS]

00:02:37 ◼   ► lot of pedal work [TS]

00:02:38 ◼   ► yeah and then on top of all that you [TS]

00:02:41 ◼   ► have to remind yourself if you're the [TS]

00:02:43 ◼   ► singer 20 right also inhabit the emotion [TS]

00:02:47 ◼   ► of the song and present it to the [TS]

00:02:49 ◼   ► audience in a compelling way maybe I dlr [TS]

00:02:54 ◼   ► out there you got really bringing in [TS]

00:02:55 ◼   ► bringing motion to the people you know [TS]

00:02:57 ◼   ► and once you start doing that you forget [TS]

00:02:59 ◼   ► all you forgot to do the volume you [TS]

00:03:02 ◼   ► forgot to do the pedal you forgot to [TS]

00:03:04 ◼   ► even which court was the right cord it's [TS]

00:03:07 ◼   ► a lot of that's a that's a real juggling [TS]

00:03:09 ◼   ► act [TS]

00:03:10 ◼   ► hi welcome back to my talk up but i [TS]

00:03:13 ◼   ► think it's picking up the streetcar [TS]

00:03:14 ◼   ► extra well this is next to ya know and [TS]

00:03:16 ◼   ► so what kind of it would be if you don't [TS]

00:03:18 ◼   ► mind saying what kind of Michael's nose [TS]

00:03:19 ◼   ► I would be happy to say ah before i was [TS]

00:03:22 ◼   ► using the red podcaster which all [TS]

00:03:24 ◼   ► obviously still keep around because you [TS]

00:03:25 ◼   ► use kind of any proof then I dr. Rhodes [TS]

00:03:28 ◼   ► good for podcasting it says it right in [TS]

00:03:29 ◼   ► the name yet you know what it's true and [TS]

00:03:31 ◼   ► it's got one of those funny sweetie [TS]

00:03:32 ◼   ► shows so you know it must be good food [TS]

00:03:34 ◼   ► someone on the internet has a nice [TS]

00:03:38 ◼   ► person IRA carry Blanco sent me he works [TS]

00:03:40 ◼   ► at a place called Samson it's a samson [TS]

00:03:42 ◼   ► c01u pro oh nice I think they could have [TS]

00:03:46 ◼   ► got a better name for it but that c01 [TS]

00:03:48 ◼   ► know obviously the put for the tech nerd [TS]

00:03:50 ◼   ► engineer types that by microphones [TS]

00:03:52 ◼   ► that's that's just like Colin at the [TS]

00:03:54 ◼   ► birth of the rose-petal fact it could be [TS]

00:03:58 ◼   ► that could also be like the name of an [TS]

00:03:59 ◼   ► android phone now [TS]

00:04:00 ◼   ► m 0 android phone and write some anyway [TS]

00:04:04 ◼   ► it's nice what do you use these are [TS]

00:04:06 ◼   ► these a snowball what he is no no you [TS]

00:04:10 ◼   ► got one of the shirt and Jesse just [TS]

00:04:12 ◼   ► throwing looking ones like your printer [TS]

00:04:14 ◼   ► get rid of Mike told use a [TS]

00:04:17 ◼   ► podcasting Mike your professional god oh [TS]

00:04:22 ◼   ► my god exactly my salmon cut that out if [TS]

00:04:24 ◼   ► I'm really bad that i use an sm7 the [TS]

00:04:28 ◼   ► great the greatest of all microphone [TS]

00:04:30 ◼   ► just want a big poofy thing at two [TS]

00:04:31 ◼   ► different covers i think i have one of [TS]

00:04:33 ◼   ► those [TS]

00:04:33 ◼   ► it's got a poofy thing if you have one [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► let me let me [TS]

00:04:37 ◼   ► I mean I don't want to get in the way of [TS]

00:04:38 ◼   ► your Samson but listen the thing has [TS]

00:04:41 ◼   ► everything about me and microphones is [TS]

00:04:44 ◼   ► I've been to a lot of studios I've done [TS]

00:04:47 ◼   ► a lot of tracking and every time but the [TS]

00:04:51 ◼   ► producer or the engineer brings out all [TS]

00:04:54 ◼   ► when it's time to do vocals bring out if [TS]

00:04:55 ◼   ► we talked about this before I don't care [TS]

00:04:57 ◼   ► brings out all the microphones and sets [TS]

00:05:01 ◼   ► up a lot like them all out on a table [TS]

00:05:04 ◼   ► and he's like you know this is a this is [TS]

00:05:07 ◼   ► a twenty-five-thousand-dollar sony a [TS]

00:05:10 ◼   ► tube mic and this is a you know this is [TS]

00:05:13 ◼   ► our are you 47 that we got from from you [TS]

00:05:18 ◼   ► know the original pink floyd and you [TS]

00:05:20 ◼   ► know everybody's so proud of their like [TS]

00:05:22 ◼   ► really high definition beautiful [TS]

00:05:24 ◼   ► microphones and I and I I try not to be [TS]

00:05:29 ◼   ► i try not to be the the singer that's [TS]

00:05:33 ◼   ► like well none of those are going to [TS]

00:05:34 ◼   ► work so i submit to a few hours of [TS]

00:05:39 ◼   ► testing these microphones where they set [TS]

00:05:42 ◼   ► it up and they put it through their best [TS]

00:05:43 ◼   ► compressor and I sing and they track it [TS]

00:05:47 ◼   ► and then we go in and we compare all the [TS]

00:05:50 ◼   ► tracks and it's like well that's you [TS]

00:05:53 ◼   ► know that Mike sounds great on everybody [TS]

00:05:55 ◼   ► but for some reason it just doesn't [TS]

00:05:57 ◼   ► sound very good right here and they [TS]

00:05:58 ◼   ► eliminate that and then it's like well [TS]

00:06:00 ◼   ► this next one it kind of doesn't sound [TS]

00:06:02 ◼   ► very good either and they just start [TS]

00:06:04 ◼   ► eliminating all the microphones until [TS]

00:06:07 ◼   ► i'm back at the sm7 wow the shure sm7b [TS]

00:06:11 ◼   ► it's happened [TS]

00:06:13 ◼   ► so many times it happened 15 times and [TS]

00:06:16 ◼   ► so I go into the student I'm like you [TS]

00:06:18 ◼   ► know what is it step typically I just [TS]

00:06:20 ◼   ► using sm7 into an 1176 with all the [TS]

00:06:24 ◼   ► buttons pushed in and the engineer the [TS]

00:06:28 ◼   ► producers like well how sure but you [TS]

00:06:31 ◼   ► haven't tried my amazing sure no pun [TS]

00:06:33 ◼   ► intended you haven't tried my amazing [TS]

00:06:35 ◼   ► you know $80,000 microphone that i got [TS]

00:06:38 ◼   ► from the east german government and we [TS]

00:06:40 ◼   ► plug it in and we test it and then we [TS]

00:06:42 ◼   ► end up back at the sm7 that's strange [TS]

00:06:45 ◼   ► so it's a microphone that is I guess [TS]

00:06:47 ◼   ► made for me and I so I have come to [TS]

00:06:49 ◼   ► think of it as the only good microphone [TS]

00:06:51 ◼   ► it's helped a lot of people no question [TS]

00:06:53 ◼   ► yeah but uh but other people you know [TS]

00:06:55 ◼   ► and the thing is when i'm recording [TS]

00:06:57 ◼   ► other singers the sm7 into an 1176 [TS]

00:07:01 ◼   ► doesn't work necessarily for them they [TS]

00:07:04 ◼   ► that they sound amazing on these [TS]

00:07:05 ◼   ► beautiful microphones [TS]

00:07:07 ◼   ► I think it's so strange how the [TS]

00:07:08 ◼   ► different setups can make such a [TS]

00:07:10 ◼   ► difference is all the famous I guess [TS]

00:07:12 ◼   ► examples with guitars but like I'm [TS]

00:07:14 ◼   ► always amazed like i used to play a [TS]

00:07:15 ◼   ► Telecaster and I was aware of the [TS]

00:07:18 ◼   ► limitations and very specific sound of a [TS]

00:07:20 ◼   ► telecaster i'm amazed people with fairly [TS]

00:07:23 ◼   ► stock telecasters can get so many [TS]

00:07:25 ◼   ► different sounds I don't just sound like [TS]

00:07:27 ◼   ► Don rich or something they they can make [TS]

00:07:29 ◼   ► your Alex chillin or whatever they can [TS]

00:07:30 ◼   ► really make it sound so different and i [TS]

00:07:32 ◼   ► never found that easy to do the [TS]

00:07:34 ◼   ► Telecaster is one of those rare events [TS]

00:07:37 ◼   ► in human history where the guy that [TS]

00:07:41 ◼   ► invented the thing got it perfectly [TS]

00:07:45 ◼   ► right the first try right the Telecaster [TS]

00:07:49 ◼   ► is the first essentially the first [TS]

00:07:51 ◼   ► electric guitar for the songs models may [TS]

00:07:54 ◼   ► be portable you can take off the neck [TS]

00:07:56 ◼   ► and put in your trunk wasn't the [TS]

00:07:57 ◼   ► original value proposition [TS]

00:07:58 ◼   ► yeah it's just a slab of wood and and [TS]

00:08:01 ◼   ► you could unscrew the neck and and yet [TS]

00:08:05 ◼   ► it is still as valid a guitar and I mean [TS]

00:08:10 ◼   ► there have been seven thousand different [TS]

00:08:12 ◼   ► kinds of guitar since then or maybe [TS]

00:08:13 ◼   ► seventy thousand but the Telecaster is [TS]

00:08:16 ◼   ► still like just as valid guitar as any [TS]

00:08:20 ◼   ► other and in in a lot of ways better you [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► know more indestructible more versatile [TS]

00:08:26 ◼   ► it's astonishing if you can think of you [TS]

00:08:27 ◼   ► can think of any other technology where [TS]

00:08:29 ◼   ► the first one the first iteration of the [TS]

00:08:33 ◼   ► thing continues to be the industry [TS]

00:08:35 ◼   ► standard throughout the whole life of [TS]

00:08:38 ◼   ► the of the thing i mean i guess like [TS]

00:08:40 ◼   ► stratovarius yeah i mean the [TS]

00:08:44 ◼   ► conventional wisdom at least with the [TS]

00:08:45 ◼   ► computer maths is that it takes two or [TS]

00:08:48 ◼   ► three tries to get something to be the [TS]

00:08:50 ◼   ► version that we really remember like [TS]

00:08:52 ◼   ► right we love the first iphone because [TS]

00:08:54 ◼   ► it was amazing but it's not [TS]

00:08:55 ◼   ► boy if you look at it compared to you [TS]

00:08:57 ◼   ► know an iphone4 it's it's such an [TS]

00:09:01 ◼   ► evolution forward that I get what you're [TS]

00:09:03 ◼   ► saying that's pretty crazy that at that [TS]

00:09:04 ◼   ► time you could have something with that [TS]

00:09:06 ◼   ► many revolutions and knowing what we [TS]

00:09:09 ◼   ► know about what made that sound good you [TS]

00:09:10 ◼   ► still can't make it sound that much [TS]

00:09:11 ◼   ► better [TS]

00:09:12 ◼   ► yeah it's already crazy I guess I mean [TS]

00:09:14 ◼   ► there are probably a couple of nerds [TS]

00:09:16 ◼   ► listening who are like what about the [TS]

00:09:17 ◼   ► rickenbacker frying pan guitar and what [TS]

00:09:19 ◼   ► about that you know and there were [TS]

00:09:21 ◼   ► hollow body electric with microphones [TS]

00:09:23 ◼   ► glued to the outside of them or whatever [TS]

00:09:26 ◼   ► I mean there were prior right whatever [TS]

00:09:28 ◼   ► that means and how many but what you're [TS]

00:09:30 ◼   ► saying though is how many things that [TS]

00:09:32 ◼   ► were made 60 years ago [TS]

00:09:34 ◼   ► can you take and plug into a standard [TS]

00:09:37 ◼   ► interface for its market today and have [TS]

00:09:40 ◼   ► it still sound better than a lot of the [TS]

00:09:42 ◼   ► stuff that's made today [TS]

00:09:43 ◼   ► that's not astonishing yeah it's [TS]

00:09:45 ◼   ► incredible to think that they think that [TS]

00:09:47 ◼   ► they didn't make that telecaster to be [TS]

00:09:49 ◼   ► they didn't make it to be premium it was [TS]

00:09:53 ◼   ► just a pic took a bandsaw to a piece of [TS]

00:09:56 ◼   ► wood and they I mean but not just it's [TS]

00:09:58 ◼   ► not just the usefulness of event think [TS]

00:10:00 ◼   ► of the shape of the Telecaster who I [TS]

00:10:02 ◼   ► mean you look at it and it's still a [TS]

00:10:04 ◼   ► beautiful thing like it is still a [TS]

00:10:06 ◼   ► gorgeous [TS]

00:10:07 ◼   ► they just leo fender just drew a shape [TS]

00:10:10 ◼   ► was like how well will you want to reach [TS]

00:10:13 ◼   ► up high on the neck so I guess we'll [TS]

00:10:14 ◼   ► like cut it out on that side and then [TS]

00:10:17 ◼   ► it's ok you can come here and pick up [TS]

00:10:19 ◼   ► there it's gotten pretty in my mind [TS]

00:10:22 ◼   ► because I've seen lots of my favorite [TS]

00:10:23 ◼   ► guitar players using it but it's not [TS]

00:10:25 ◼   ► just on it's not like looking like a [TS]

00:10:28 ◼   ► gradual something we go that's like a [TS]

00:10:30 ◼   ► work of art right but in fact it is the [TS]

00:10:33 ◼   ► ultimate gorgeous [TS]

00:10:34 ◼   ► I mean I the Telecaster was the first [TS]

00:10:36 ◼   ► guitar I coveted [TS]

00:10:38 ◼   ► really because the pete townsend know [TS]

00:10:40 ◼   ► because of Chrissie Hynde oh I saw those [TS]

00:10:43 ◼   ► original Chrissie Hynde music videos for [TS]

00:10:47 ◼   ► the for that first pretenders record and [TS]

00:10:49 ◼   ► that was right upright one you know you [TS]

00:10:52 ◼   ► can see the clash playing them too and [TS]

00:10:55 ◼   ► was just like what is that incredible [TS]

00:10:57 ◼   ► cool guitar Chrissie Hynde players and I [TS]

00:11:00 ◼   ► wanted one immediately [TS]

00:11:02 ◼   ► um and I went down to the guitar store [TS]

00:11:05 ◼   ► and they were like yeah it's nine [TS]

00:11:06 ◼   ► hundred dollars ranks like nine hundred [TS]

00:11:08 ◼   ► dollars you can buy a goodbye dodge dart [TS]

00:11:11 ◼   ► for that I don't even know what a dodge [TS]

00:11:13 ◼   ► dart was but I need a new you can get [TS]

00:11:15 ◼   ► another classic car I saw swinger I saw [TS]

00:11:17 ◼   ► dodge dart swinger you remember the [TS]

00:11:19 ◼   ► swinger and I think the lady version of [TS]

00:11:20 ◼   ► the dart had little daisy for the night [TS]

00:11:23 ◼   ► you hold your tongue sir i love you know [TS]

00:11:25 ◼   ► i love the swinger was a sporty little [TS]

00:11:27 ◼   ► car where was not a lady car want to put [TS]

00:11:29 ◼   ► a daisy on it there was you could I mean [TS]

00:11:32 ◼   ► I think you might have seen somebody who [TS]

00:11:34 ◼   ► put one of those bathtub daisies [TS]

00:11:36 ◼   ► probably cuz it's the inner sound y'all [TS]

00:11:38 ◼   ► let's stick with a sticker on the side i [TS]

00:11:41 ◼   ► don't think the swinger necessarily all [TS]

00:11:42 ◼   ► came with I think he had swing my friend [TS]

00:11:45 ◼   ► Sam got one and he in and we're in high [TS]

00:11:47 ◼   ► school so at that point it was 20 years [TS]

00:11:49 ◼   ► old [TS]

00:11:50 ◼   ► mm and you know it was one of those [TS]

00:11:52 ◼   ► things it was a little bit like having [TS]

00:11:53 ◼   ► like my VW bus were like you could [TS]

00:11:55 ◼   ► definitely kill it but then you could [TS]

00:11:57 ◼   ► also resuscitate it with almost alarming [TS]

00:11:59 ◼   ► ease first plant six the greatest motor [TS]

00:12:02 ◼   ► ever made that right slant 6 i'm telling [TS]

00:12:06 ◼   ► you if they still made this land six [TS]

00:12:08 ◼   ► with uh we wouldn't have all these [TS]

00:12:10 ◼   ► problems can get it all be different [TS]

00:12:12 ◼   ► that we would have only from with the [TS]

00:12:13 ◼   ► youth of America if that if we just said [TS]

00:12:15 ◼   ► we're making that the Dodge slant six [TS]

00:12:18 ◼   ► motor co I remember my mom had a long [TS]

00:12:21 ◼   ► time long time had a pontiac catalina [TS]

00:12:23 ◼   ► and just remember every time you open up [TS]

00:12:25 ◼   ► the hood and it looked like many of the [TS]

00:12:27 ◼   ► parts have been removed [TS]

00:12:29 ◼   ► there was like so much space like you [TS]

00:12:30 ◼   ► open up our rvw that we've got now which [TS]

00:12:33 ◼   ► is you know a new car you open it up you [TS]

00:12:35 ◼   ► look inside and it's what I imagine like [TS]

00:12:37 ◼   ► an iphone looks like there's no [TS]

00:12:38 ◼   ► tolerances for anything anywhere it's [TS]

00:12:40 ◼   ► all or nothing serviceable know it's [TS]

00:12:42 ◼   ► just it's just covered with a giant [TS]

00:12:44 ◼   ► plastic carapace it just looks like a [TS]

00:12:47 ◼   ► like a robot cockroach made it home [TS]

00:12:50 ◼   ► inside of a magic book but that's really [TS]

00:12:54 ◼   ► unpleasant it's terrible and that's what [TS]

00:12:57 ◼   ► those cars sound like to have a slant [TS]

00:12:59 ◼   ► six you know if there was room in there [TS]

00:13:02 ◼   ► to spread out a picnic blanket inside [TS]

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00:13:21 ◼   ► starboard is a phantom be good w [TS]

00:13:22 ◼   ► shoegaze band star bolt to take it you [TS]

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00:15:16 ◼   ► we could not do it without you have car [TS]

00:15:18 ◼   ► trouble today is anything you can talk [TS]

00:15:19 ◼   ► about I had some car trouble i'm [TS]

00:15:21 ◼   ► probably recovered so quickly i would [TS]

00:15:23 ◼   ► still be crying on the side of the road [TS]

00:15:24 ◼   ► trying to find my phone to work [TS]

00:15:26 ◼   ► yeah I couldn't get the car to start it [TS]

00:15:27 ◼   ► was the battery was dead but more [TS]

00:15:29 ◼   ► importantly I'm very worried about my [TS]

00:15:31 ◼   ► next-door neighbor across the street [TS]

00:15:33 ◼   ► neighbor did the karaoke errs no no the [TS]

00:15:35 ◼   ► little of the lady with the fan the lady [TS]

00:15:38 ◼   ► with the bano dear I'm very worried [TS]

00:15:40 ◼   ► about four days ago five days ago all of [TS]

00:15:46 ◼   ► a sudden a bunch of people started being [TS]

00:15:47 ◼   ► around that house coming and going at [TS]

00:15:50 ◼   ► all hours people pilot out of the house [TS]

00:15:53 ◼   ► and getting in her car and driving away [TS]

00:15:56 ◼   ► five people in her car and then an hour [TS]

00:16:00 ◼   ► later coming back parking the car on the [TS]

00:16:04 ◼   ► on the grass this and then there was [TS]

00:16:07 ◼   ► some kind of what I hesitate to call a [TS]

00:16:12 ◼   ► party but definitely was an unsuccessful [TS]

00:16:15 ◼   ► Markie well definitely like a Saturday [TS]

00:16:18 ◼   ► night where there were a bunch of [TS]

00:16:20 ◼   ► sketchy people going in and out of the [TS]

00:16:22 ◼   ► house and it was probably a party to [TS]

00:16:27 ◼   ► them but to me it looked like a bad [TS]

00:16:31 ◼   ► scene [TS]

00:16:31 ◼   ► you know what I mean unless you million [TS]

00:16:33 ◼   ► evidence any of this time I have not [TS]

00:16:35 ◼   ► seen her in a week now but the thing is [TS]

00:16:37 ◼   ► that she often would go I would go a [TS]

00:16:39 ◼   ► week or two without seeing her because [TS]

00:16:42 ◼   ► she's well you know a little disabled [TS]

00:16:44 ◼   ► like she walks with a cane she's pretty [TS]

00:16:46 ◼   ► slow her boyfriend / fiancé the guy [TS]

00:16:55 ◼   ► with the giant neck tattoo of a mosquito [TS]

00:16:58 ◼   ► with its mosquito proboscis buried in [TS]

00:17:04 ◼   ► his neck vein like a giant i'm at a [TS]

00:17:08 ◼   ► giant it's the size of Uncle received [TS]

00:17:10 ◼   ► from customers to get the size of a [TS]

00:17:11 ◼   ► Folgers coffee can [TS]

00:17:13 ◼   ► tattooed on his neck giant mosquito and [TS]

00:17:15 ◼   ► this is that this is the mosquito there [TS]

00:17:17 ◼   ► this is the tattoo that he chose to get [TS]

00:17:19 ◼   ► on his neck called Skeeter well you know [TS]

00:17:23 ◼   ► what that I should start calling him [TS]

00:17:25 ◼   ► Skeeter he has a long white beard that [TS]

00:17:27 ◼   ► he has put rubber bands in Allah gotta [TS]

00:17:31 ◼   ► practice [TS]

00:17:32 ◼   ► yeah yeah he looks exactly like captain [TS]

00:17:34 ◼   ► lou albano actually and he he's got like [TS]

00:17:36 ◼   ► he's got one of those alcoholic [TS]

00:17:37 ◼   ► cigarette voices that's just like i did [TS]

00:17:39 ◼   ► that and that is not good [TS]

00:17:43 ◼   ► yeah so he's out there kind of running [TS]

00:17:46 ◼   ► the show in and out some real cranky [TS]

00:17:50 ◼   ► people there's a guy that looks like [TS]

00:17:52 ◼   ► Wilt Chamberlain if Wilt Chamberlain was [TS]

00:17:54 ◼   ► a mega stoner and was completely bald on [TS]

00:17:58 ◼   ► top except had a kind of a fringe pretty [TS]

00:18:01 ◼   ► pretty pretty fluffy fringe around his [TS]

00:18:04 ◼   ► ears always wears a headband increasing [TS]

00:18:08 ◼   ► and he's six foot ten but then a bunch [TS]

00:18:12 ◼   ► of other like new skechers and they're [TS]

00:18:17 ◼   ► coming and going in and out of the house [TS]

00:18:19 ◼   ► late at night kind of trying to keep [TS]

00:18:21 ◼   ► quiet except for this one gal that [TS]

00:18:23 ◼   ► obviously like is the this younger gal [TS]

00:18:27 ◼   ► probably 40 year old gal that's like [TS]

00:18:28 ◼   ► kind of queen of the scene so she feels [TS]

00:18:30 ◼   ► like she can talk at any volume at any [TS]

00:18:33 ◼   ► time and everybody's going to approve of [TS]

00:18:36 ◼   ► it [TS]

00:18:36 ◼   ► uh-huh and so I'm I'm I'm surveying this [TS]

00:18:41 ◼   ► these goings-on and there's a lot of [TS]

00:18:45 ◼   ► whispered conversations in the driveway [TS]

00:18:48 ◼   ► and then somebody you know like does a [TS]

00:18:51 ◼   ► fast walk back into the house and [TS]

00:18:52 ◼   ► somebody else does a fast walk up the [TS]

00:18:54 ◼   ► street and I'm like what's going on over [TS]

00:18:57 ◼   ► there I don't like it I don't like it [TS]

00:18:59 ◼   ► but there's enough there's an there are [TS]

00:19:02 ◼   ► enough problems one I routinely don't [TS]

00:19:04 ◼   ► see my neighbor for weeks at a time so i [TS]

00:19:08 ◼   ► can't really say like well one day I [TS]

00:19:10 ◼   ► stopped seeing her and all these people [TS]

00:19:11 ◼   ► showed up so i had to call the community [TS]

00:19:13 ◼   ► service patrol and the second thing is [TS]

00:19:16 ◼   ► like there's enough sort of class and [TS]

00:19:19 ◼   ► cultural difference between me and them [TS]

00:19:21 ◼   ► that I am bridge I'm routinely looking [TS]

00:19:25 ◼   ► out the window going [TS]

00:19:26 ◼   ► those are scumbags I know scumbags and [TS]

00:19:30 ◼   ► yet maybe i'm being classist right now [TS]

00:19:36 ◼   ► maybe they aren't scumbags maybe they [TS]

00:19:39 ◼   ► are just people just good folk working [TS]

00:19:43 ◼   ► for cooler struggling to make ends meet [TS]

00:19:46 ◼   ► and then the other voice in my head is [TS]

00:19:48 ◼   ► like working folk don't walk like [TS]

00:19:50 ◼   ► crackheads the crackhead walk is a very [TS]

00:19:53 ◼   ► distinctive cockroach Ewok but then I'm [TS]

00:19:58 ◼   ► like you know I'm second-guessing it the [TS]

00:20:00 ◼   ► whole time because I'm like what you [TS]

00:20:01 ◼   ► know what if I called somebody and said [TS]

00:20:05 ◼   ► I'm worried about my across-the-street [TS]

00:20:06 ◼   ► neighbor and they said well what makes [TS]

00:20:08 ◼   ► you worry about them and I was like well [TS]

00:20:10 ◼   ► a bunch of skechers going in and out of [TS]

00:20:12 ◼   ► her house and I haven't seen her in a [TS]

00:20:13 ◼   ► week and they're just kind of like and [TS]

00:20:16 ◼   ► they're like well are they are they like [TS]

00:20:20 ◼   ► setting the house on fire they do they [TS]

00:20:22 ◼   ► appear to be stealing her stereo and [TS]

00:20:23 ◼   ► it's like mm not exactly i mean people [TS]

00:20:27 ◼   ► are moving things in and out of the [TS]

00:20:29 ◼   ► house but it's not a clearly didn't [TS]

00:20:32 ◼   ► there's no moving van pulled up and [TS]

00:20:34 ◼   ► filled up that so well anyway I said [TS]

00:20:37 ◼   ► it's happening in slow motion like that [TS]

00:20:38 ◼   ► I I know exactly what you mean we're [TS]

00:20:40 ◼   ► like I over the years I for any number [TS]

00:20:43 ◼   ► of reasons I've got much less [TS]

00:20:46 ◼   ► trigger-happy about saying oh that's [TS]

00:20:47 ◼   ► called the cops because I'm realizing as [TS]

00:20:49 ◼   ► i get older and see more stuff how [TS]

00:20:51 ◼   ► complicated that decision can be in the [TS]

00:20:54 ◼   ► moment and over the years after that you [TS]

00:20:56 ◼   ► know that suddenly you're the guy who [TS]

00:20:56 ◼   ► called the cops on people like you do [TS]

00:20:58 ◼   ► you want to be that guy and this is a [TS]

00:21:00 ◼   ► good reason but so on the one hand it [TS]

00:21:01 ◼   ► could be she's like not well she's [TS]

00:21:05 ◼   ► particularly not well she's bedridden [TS]

00:21:06 ◼   ► and a bunch of sketchy people are [TS]

00:21:08 ◼   ► helping out but you don't you're worried [TS]

00:21:11 ◼   ► about like an elder abuse type situation [TS]

00:21:12 ◼   ► where maybe she's sitting there with [TS]

00:21:14 ◼   ► sores or something [TS]

00:21:15 ◼   ► well or just I mean there are a lot of [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► things going through my head and and and [TS]

00:21:19 ◼   ► the other voice in my head is like well [TS]

00:21:21 ◼   ► what what if she is in trouble and [TS]

00:21:25 ◼   ► you've been sitting watching this go on [TS]

00:21:27 ◼   ► for four days like she doesn't have [TS]

00:21:29 ◼   ► anybody to count on calling and alerting [TS]

00:21:33 ◼   ► the authorities except you you're the [TS]

00:21:35 ◼   ► only person with eyes on this nobody [TS]

00:21:37 ◼   ► else in the neighborhood pays attention [TS]

00:21:38 ◼   ► to anything that [TS]

00:21:39 ◼   ► going on and you know what what are my [TS]

00:21:42 ◼   ► responsibilities to her and what's the [TS]

00:21:46 ◼   ► worst thing if you think they call it [TS]

00:21:47 ◼   ► yeah he's gotten these the welfare call [TS]

00:21:49 ◼   ► like uh what's the worst thing that [TS]

00:21:51 ◼   ► happened you think you go you going to [TS]

00:21:54 ◼   ► say how i am using a voice modulator now [TS]

00:21:57 ◼   ► maybe not do that but you would say you [TS]

00:22:00 ◼   ► haven't seen my neighbor for a few weeks [TS]

00:22:01 ◼   ► you might want to drive by and check it [TS]

00:22:03 ◼   ► out [TS]

00:22:03 ◼   ► yeah right i feel so anyway so last [TS]

00:22:08 ◼   ► night uh a lot of a bunch more like and [TS]

00:22:13 ◼   ► the thing is interrelated like they all [TS]

00:22:14 ◼   ► come running out jump in the car and [TS]

00:22:16 ◼   ► drive somewhere so yesterday there's [TS]

00:22:18 ◼   ► they're standing in the driveway and [TS]

00:22:20 ◼   ► that and the guy with the mask and [TS]

00:22:21 ◼   ► Skeeter is saying like we got ripped off [TS]

00:22:24 ◼   ► man we got ripped up we really got [TS]

00:22:26 ◼   ► ripped off this time and I was like okay [TS]

00:22:29 ◼   ► all right now I'm getting to the bottom [TS]

00:22:30 ◼   ► listening to this through my head and [TS]

00:22:32 ◼   ► multi-level marketing [TS]

00:22:34 ◼   ► ya know now i'm getting to the bottom of [TS]

00:22:36 ◼   ► this and he's and then he starts [TS]

00:22:39 ◼   ► whispering and he's like you know they [TS]

00:22:40 ◼   ► got all my weed and I'm like oh that's [TS]

00:22:43 ◼   ► not a reason to call the cops that they [TS]

00:22:45 ◼   ► stole his weed but who I mean it's like [TS]

00:22:48 ◼   ► people coming in and out of the house [TS]

00:22:49 ◼   ► stole his stuff but the the other drunk [TS]

00:22:52 ◼   ► guy that lives in the van in the front [TS]

00:22:53 ◼   ► yard is nowhere to be seen and he's [TS]

00:22:56 ◼   ► normally my biggest problem it's the [TS]

00:22:58 ◼   ► skeeters not the guy in the van Skeeter [TS]

00:23:00 ◼   ► lives in the house [TS]

00:23:01 ◼   ► no the dude in the van is totally [TS]

00:23:03 ◼   ► different guy huh [TS]

00:23:05 ◼   ► and the dude in the van is like and i [TS]

00:23:06 ◼   ► would expect him to be out doing his [TS]

00:23:08 ◼   ► usual act which is like fucking police [TS]

00:23:11 ◼   ► took my kids need me here and in the [TS]

00:23:15 ◼   ► middle of the road right isn't he yeah [TS]

00:23:16 ◼   ► yeah here at the mill road but he's gone [TS]

00:23:19 ◼   ► I don't see him at all his van still [TS]

00:23:20 ◼   ► there anyway so last night I'm driving [TS]

00:23:22 ◼   ► by I look in the in the driveway of the [TS]

00:23:24 ◼   ► house and there is a display unit of [TS]

00:23:29 ◼   ► fascia for Windows Phones fascia for you [TS]

00:23:35 ◼   ► know like like cases different cases for [TS]

00:23:39 ◼   ► android phones i guess and it's [TS]

00:23:42 ◼   ► obviously a store display that someone [TS]

00:23:45 ◼   ► has boosted what like somebody stole [TS]

00:23:49 ◼   ► like windows phone cases [TS]

00:23:52 ◼   ► one stole a display of like 25 different [TS]

00:23:55 ◼   ► colored windows phone cases perhaps [TS]

00:23:57 ◼   ► thinking that they were phones no and [TS]

00:24:01 ◼   ► that got them to the house realized they [TS]

00:24:03 ◼   ► weren't phones and just dropped it in [TS]

00:24:05 ◼   ► the driveway so I'm like okay that's not [TS]

00:24:09 ◼   ► that cool and then this morning I wake [TS]

00:24:14 ◼   ► up and there is a landscaping truck with [TS]

00:24:17 ◼   ► a wood chipper [TS]

00:24:18 ◼   ► oh no that drives up in front of the [TS]

00:24:21 ◼   ► house [TS]

00:24:22 ◼   ► there are now three cars parked in the [TS]

00:24:24 ◼   ► grass and in a you know just in a way [TS]

00:24:28 ◼   ► that I can't quite see through the hedge [TS]

00:24:30 ◼   ► something goes in the wood chipper [TS]

00:24:34 ◼   ► they spend a minute [TS]

00:24:38 ◼   ► grinding something up and then the wood [TS]

00:24:40 ◼   ► chipper truck drives away it's like some [TS]

00:24:44 ◼   ► kind of like emergency shredding service [TS]

00:24:46 ◼   ► 448 handful an armful of items now where [TS]

00:24:50 ◼   ► I mean it but the thing is it's a it's a [TS]

00:24:52 ◼   ► proper landscaping truck it's not like [TS]

00:24:54 ◼   ► it you wouldn't have thrown up like an [TS]

00:24:56 ◼   ► old computer printer in there it was it [TS]

00:24:59 ◼   ► was it was a landscaping truck now I in [TS]

00:25:03 ◼   ► my whole life I have never seen one of [TS]

00:25:05 ◼   ► those pull up somewhere shred one thing [TS]

00:25:08 ◼   ► for one minute [TS]

00:25:10 ◼   ► no and then drive away for a million [TS]

00:25:13 ◼   ► reasons I mean usually took a tree or a [TS]

00:25:15 ◼   ► bunch of bushes something if you it's to [TS]

00:25:17 ◼   ► call that thing out you have 21 enough [TS]

00:25:19 ◼   ► stuff to get shredded that needs to be [TS]

00:25:20 ◼   ► shredded it's got to be something that [TS]

00:25:22 ◼   ► can be standing there supervising it's [TS]

00:25:24 ◼   ► not like you're throwing a dachshund or [TS]

00:25:26 ◼   ► something he's gonna you know he wants [TS]

00:25:28 ◼   ► to know there's something responsible [TS]

00:25:29 ◼   ► that you're throwing in there and he [TS]

00:25:30 ◼   ► drives away right away that sent [TS]

00:25:32 ◼   ► overnight at this point i'm looking [TS]

00:25:34 ◼   ► through them the hedges like a total you [TS]

00:25:38 ◼   ► know like a super paper and you know I [TS]

00:25:43 ◼   ► feel like mr. Furley and mrs. Kravitz [TS]

00:25:48 ◼   ► mrs. Kravitz what are you doing in then [TS]

00:25:51 ◼   ► and the truck truck drives away and then [TS]

00:25:54 ◼   ► you know again all the cars scatter in [TS]

00:25:56 ◼   ► every direction and I'm like okay what [TS]

00:25:58 ◼   ► if my neighbor because I had already [TS]

00:26:00 ◼   ► been thinking like what if she died [TS]

00:26:04 ◼   ► and she's and there and there's enough [TS]

00:26:09 ◼   ► shit in that house and enough like weird [TS]

00:26:11 ◼   ► stuff to figure out that she died and [TS]

00:26:16 ◼   ► her fiance is gradually stripping all [TS]

00:26:20 ◼   ► the copper pipes out of this place and [TS]

00:26:23 ◼   ► not calling no you're not calling it in [TS]

00:26:25 ◼   ► yet [TS]

00:26:26 ◼   ► right there in that there in that kind [TS]

00:26:28 ◼   ► of that by period where they can keep [TS]

00:26:30 ◼   ► people from knowing that she's gone [TS]

00:26:32 ◼   ► you still got a place to live and took [TS]

00:26:34 ◼   ► up copper pipe to repurpose right but [TS]

00:26:37 ◼   ► watching them there is a kind of calm a [TS]

00:26:43 ◼   ► sort of unperturbed bubble column to [TS]

00:26:45 ◼   ► them that maybe is because they're [TS]

00:26:48 ◼   ► crackheads and so they have a constant [TS]

00:26:50 ◼   ► level of tents anxiety but it never [TS]

00:26:53 ◼   ► fully never flares but that's not true [TS]

00:26:55 ◼   ► crackheads crackheads get go bonkers [TS]

00:26:57 ◼   ► when things are even a little bit out of [TS]

00:26:59 ◼   ► whack [TS]

00:27:00 ◼   ► so and i'm trying to think like it's [TS]

00:27:03 ◼   ► been 45 days it's been pretty hot days [TS]

00:27:05 ◼   ► in fact if somebody was dead in there it [TS]

00:27:07 ◼   ► would be intolerable to live there [TS]

00:27:10 ◼   ► maybe she I mean but if she went to [TS]

00:27:13 ◼   ► visit a relative she would have taken [TS]

00:27:14 ◼   ► her car [TS]

00:27:15 ◼   ► I mean I honestly and then the problem [TS]

00:27:18 ◼   ► is I'm a I'm enough of a busybody and [TS]

00:27:20 ◼   ► I'm a total top collar I call the cops [TS]

00:27:23 ◼   ► all the time but I don't know what my I [TS]

00:27:27 ◼   ► don't know what case i can make and the [TS]

00:27:30 ◼   ► end i am anna and there's a part of me [TS]

00:27:32 ◼   ► that is inhibited by a feeling that a [TS]

00:27:36 ◼   ► lot of the things I'm seeing that I'm [TS]

00:27:38 ◼   ► making judgments about fall into this [TS]

00:27:41 ◼   ► category of like well is that a [TS]

00:27:43 ◼   ► legitimate judgment you're making or are [TS]

00:27:45 ◼   ► you making some kind of weird are you [TS]

00:27:48 ◼   ► are you not a member of the culture and [TS]

00:27:51 ◼   ► so you are like casting aspersions yeah [TS]

00:27:55 ◼   ► oh I I think about that all the time now [TS]

00:27:58 ◼   ► and then when I was a kid i'm back to [TS]

00:28:01 ◼   ► guitars number one afternoon our [TS]

00:28:03 ◼   ► neighbor who was a semi-professional it [TS]

00:28:06 ◼   ► sparked player was like cool enough to [TS]

00:28:09 ◼   ► let you know couple teenagers hang out [TS]

00:28:10 ◼   ► with him and he would show us Jimi [TS]

00:28:11 ◼   ► Hendrix licks and stuff and you [TS]

00:28:13 ◼   ► when he let me borrow his tube screamer [TS]

00:28:14 ◼   ► pedal and in the time it took me to walk [TS]

00:28:18 ◼   ► from his yard to my yard we had a Jason [TS]

00:28:21 ◼   ► yards pretty much almost by the time I [TS]

00:28:23 ◼   ► walked into the house my mom called me [TS]

00:28:25 ◼   ► from the office because our nosy [TS]

00:28:27 ◼   ► next-door neighbor said that I was [TS]

00:28:29 ◼   ► bringing beer into the house so you know [TS]

00:28:32 ◼   ► the thing is you know you know how it is [TS]

00:28:33 ◼   ► to be a busy but you've been Gladys [TS]

00:28:34 ◼   ► Kravitz you're waiting for any reason to [TS]

00:28:36 ◼   ► call and she was waiting for some some [TS]

00:28:38 ◼   ► reason she had nothing better to do and [TS]

00:28:40 ◼   ► so she called called me and called my [TS]

00:28:41 ◼   ► mom because I had a guitar effect in my [TS]

00:28:43 ◼   ► hand right so you don't want to be that [TS]

00:28:46 ◼   ► guy you don't have anything you know [TS]

00:28:47 ◼   ► funny that you would mention Jimi [TS]

00:28:49 ◼   ► Hendrix because a big part of the [TS]

00:28:52 ◼   ► culture of a of my neighbor she's a [TS]

00:28:57 ◼   ► black woman in her sixties her husband [TS]

00:29:00 ◼   ► was about 15 years older than she was or [TS]

00:29:02 ◼   ► 10 years older and he was a Seattle [TS]

00:29:05 ◼   ► musician who had played with jimi [TS]

00:29:06 ◼   ► hendrix and one of the calling cards of [TS]

00:29:11 ◼   ► all of these a Seattle african-american [TS]

00:29:15 ◼   ► dudes in their sixties if they have if [TS]

00:29:18 ◼   ► any of if you are a guy in his sixties [TS]

00:29:21 ◼   ► who's lived in seattle his whole life [TS]

00:29:22 ◼   ► and you ever smoked pod you have a story [TS]

00:29:26 ◼   ► about how you used to hang out with Jimi [TS]

00:29:27 ◼   ► Hendrix right so every one of these guys [TS]

00:29:30 ◼   ► the Wilt Chamberlain guy totally as [TS]

00:29:32 ◼   ► bored me to tears with his stall his [TS]

00:29:34 ◼   ► stories about how he and Jimmy were [TS]

00:29:36 ◼   ► seven you know because themes and Jimi [TS]

00:29:40 ◼   ► Hendrix famous famously introverted guy [TS]

00:29:42 ◼   ► who just sat in his house and play [TS]

00:29:44 ◼   ► guitar alone a lot but he knew every one [TS]

00:29:47 ◼   ► of these guys they all knew his mom and [TS]

00:29:49 ◼   ► they all you know it's like he didn't [TS]

00:29:50 ◼   ► know his mom Jimi Hendrix was and was [TS]

00:29:52 ◼   ► raised by his dad but every one of these [TS]

00:29:54 ◼   ► guys got 25 stories so the thing is that [TS]

00:29:57 ◼   ► in addition to like your normal sort of [TS]

00:29:59 ◼   ► cracky weird vibe going on over there [TS]

00:30:02 ◼   ► every once in a while a guy will walk in [TS]

00:30:05 ◼   ► with a fedora with a giant fucking a [TS]

00:30:07 ◼   ► feather sticking out of it or like not [TS]

00:30:11 ◼   ► just a feather but like a like a peacock [TS]

00:30:14 ◼   ► feather like a feather that's four feet [TS]

00:30:15 ◼   ► tall and you know where and we'll call [TS]

00:30:19 ◼   ► him mr. hat [TS]

00:30:20 ◼   ► yeah and then a guy comes in in a [TS]

00:30:22 ◼   ► scooter and a suit made of scarves [TS]

00:30:24 ◼   ► and it's just like I don't know what I'm [TS]

00:30:26 ◼   ► seeing [TS]

00:30:27 ◼   ► it's hard to know how to filter all of [TS]

00:30:28 ◼   ► that i'm a rock musician I've seen some [TS]

00:30:31 ◼   ► crazy shit but this house is just like [TS]

00:30:33 ◼   ► tonight so anyway and like Skeeter but I [TS]

00:30:38 ◼   ► never thought the day would come but [TS]

00:30:40 ◼   ► when i see skater it's a relief to me [TS]

00:30:42 ◼   ► because at least he is a guy that I know [TS]

00:30:45 ◼   ► is reliably up a broken-down unreliable [TS]

00:30:50 ◼   ► alcoholic at least I know is I got his [TS]

00:30:53 ◼   ► number right [TS]

00:30:54 ◼   ► the rest of the the rest of the scene i [TS]

00:30:57 ◼   ► got no I have no purchase on [TS]

00:31:00 ◼   ► uh-huh and everybody's super friendly [TS]

00:31:02 ◼   ► like you know even even the the guy that [TS]

00:31:05 ◼   ► looks a like eazy-e when I come out into [TS]

00:31:09 ◼   ► the street you know kind of like oh [TS]

00:31:10 ◼   ► hello good morning taking the garbage [TS]

00:31:12 ◼   ► out or whatever he wants to come over [TS]

00:31:13 ◼   ► and chat and like everybody's really [TS]

00:31:15 ◼   ► friendly so I don't feel like they have [TS]

00:31:18 ◼   ► the body of my neighbor wrapped in a [TS]

00:31:21 ◼   ► carpet somewhere but then the fucking [TS]

00:31:23 ◼   ► wood chipper truck that's a curveball in [TS]

00:31:27 ◼   ► if this if this were a young adult novel [TS]

00:31:31 ◼   ► from from my use [TS]

00:31:33 ◼   ► I think that the answer is clear [TS]

00:31:34 ◼   ► obviously if you're grown ass man she's [TS]

00:31:36 ◼   ► called police because it clearly [TS]

00:31:37 ◼   ► something's not right here but I'm just [TS]

00:31:39 ◼   ► saying I guess there's probably always [TS]

00:31:41 ◼   ► maybe probably somebody inside but maybe [TS]

00:31:45 ◼   ► you need to go and do some [TS]

00:31:46 ◼   ► reconnaissance just just to get your own [TS]

00:31:48 ◼   ► maybe you need to put your nose against [TS]

00:31:50 ◼   ► the window and see what's really going [TS]

00:31:51 ◼   ► on in there who see this is this is the [TS]

00:31:55 ◼   ► thing that be over the last four years [TS]

00:31:57 ◼   ► there have been a lot of people come in [TS]

00:32:01 ◼   ► and out of the house and it's always [TS]

00:32:02 ◼   ► turned out to be benign you know there [TS]

00:32:06 ◼   ► was a guy there with a moving truck for [TS]

00:32:08 ◼   ► a while and I was like this two years [TS]

00:32:10 ◼   ► ago turned out it was her dead husband's [TS]

00:32:14 ◼   ► long-lost cousin who found him in the [TS]

00:32:15 ◼   ► phone book and came and stayed for a [TS]

00:32:17 ◼   ► week and he was he was like a deeply [TS]

00:32:20 ◼   ► charming guy from from Atlanta and I was [TS]

00:32:24 ◼   ► like oh please don't go I want you to [TS]

00:32:26 ◼   ► stay here you are you didn't get [TS]

00:32:28 ◼   ► influenced he was a good guy but then he [TS]

00:32:30 ◼   ► was like I live in Atlanta [TS]

00:32:31 ◼   ► go home i actually said to him like [TS]

00:32:33 ◼   ► please don't go it was like it's been [TS]

00:32:35 ◼   ► this has been really great i love it up [TS]

00:32:37 ◼   ► here you know it's a place I could see [TS]

00:32:38 ◼   ► myself retiring to but I gotta go [TS]

00:32:41 ◼   ► and so but like going around the back of [TS]

00:32:44 ◼   ► that house or people on it that doesn't [TS]

00:32:47 ◼   ► feel safe [TS]

00:32:48 ◼   ► uh huh you know not to mention the fact [TS]

00:32:50 ◼   ► that like like cranky guy who lives in [TS]

00:32:54 ◼   ► the van I haven't seen him and he's the [TS]

00:32:57 ◼   ► one that scared it's just a really [TS]

00:32:59 ◼   ► immersive video game [TS]

00:33:00 ◼   ► this guy here you know I mean you might [TS]

00:33:03 ◼   ► spend everything might spend two weeks [TS]

00:33:05 ◼   ► before you ever even go on to the [TS]

00:33:06 ◼   ► property just figuring it out before you [TS]

00:33:08 ◼   ► ever level up and we're gonna go and get [TS]

00:33:10 ◼   ► past the guy in the van [TS]

00:33:12 ◼   ► it's the Legend of Zelda Legend of skied [TS]

00:33:15 ◼   ► I think the guy in the van like he's the [TS]

00:33:19 ◼   ► type of alcoholic that he will have a [TS]

00:33:21 ◼   ► long conversation with you and then the [TS]

00:33:22 ◼   ► next day and not remember ever having [TS]

00:33:24 ◼   ► met you and he hates he really hates the [TS]

00:33:27 ◼   ► cops because they took his kids you [TS]

00:33:30 ◼   ► could use that to your benefit if he's [TS]

00:33:32 ◼   ► that forgetful maybe you could you could [TS]

00:33:34 ◼   ► exert intimated the ICU don't make [TS]

00:33:37 ◼   ► yourself a target but if you could let [TS]

00:33:38 ◼   ► him know that like me maybe you have [TS]

00:33:39 ◼   ► some things that you could help him out [TS]

00:33:41 ◼   ► you know we get into that kind of [TS]

00:33:43 ◼   ► serious alcoholic delirium he might he [TS]

00:33:44 ◼   ► might really open up I'm directly across [TS]

00:33:47 ◼   ► the street though so it's like you know [TS]

00:33:49 ◼   ► i have i have one of those 3,000 [TS]

00:33:50 ◼   ► candlepower spotlights that basically is [TS]

00:33:54 ◼   ► a it's a spotlight from a battleship [TS]

00:33:55 ◼   ► that could illuminate a whole theater of [TS]

00:33:58 ◼   ► war and I keep it on reserve for those [TS]

00:34:01 ◼   ► moments when I really want to light up [TS]

00:34:03 ◼   ► the street [TS]

00:34:06 ◼   ► because it's a little bit of a shock and [TS]

00:34:08 ◼   ► awe yeah anyways if it sells get heavily [TS]

00:34:10 ◼   ► weaponize light [TS]

00:34:11 ◼   ► yeah it's just like boom and then [TS]

00:34:14 ◼   ► everybody scatters or or but the problem [TS]

00:34:16 ◼   ► with the like that is there's no [TS]

00:34:18 ◼   ► question where it's coming from [TS]

00:34:19 ◼   ► no no now how will you know when it's [TS]

00:34:23 ◼   ► gone too far [TS]

00:34:24 ◼   ► let me put it that way like you know if [TS]

00:34:25 ◼   ► you're the obviously you know your [TS]

00:34:26 ◼   ► thinker you think these things through [TS]

00:34:28 ◼   ► when do you think you would know I mean [TS]

00:34:30 ◼   ► apart from the obvious sort of people [TS]

00:34:31 ◼   ► shooting guns in the air kind of thing [TS]

00:34:33 ◼   ► when you think you would know that it [TS]

00:34:34 ◼   ► was time to do something I've been [TS]

00:34:36 ◼   ► waiting for there to be one of those [TS]

00:34:39 ◼   ► like a situations where a bunch of [TS]

00:34:42 ◼   ► people are coming out and loading up a [TS]

00:34:44 ◼   ► car with things that seem like they [TS]

00:34:46 ◼   ► belong in the house [TS]

00:34:47 ◼   ► turntables you know furniture quilts [TS]

00:34:53 ◼   ► quilts like somebody where where where [TS]

00:34:55 ◼   ► it's clear that they are that they are [TS]

00:34:58 ◼   ► dismantling the house right but i [TS]

00:35:00 ◼   ► haven't quite seen that yet huh for a [TS]

00:35:03 ◼   ► while the 30 or the woman in her forties [TS]

00:35:06 ◼   ► that was kinda queen of the scene she [TS]

00:35:08 ◼   ► sat on a on a plastic lawn chair in the [TS]

00:35:11 ◼   ► front yard for like three hours one time [TS]

00:35:15 ◼   ► between the hours of one and four in the [TS]

00:35:17 ◼   ► morning in a way that felt like she was [TS]

00:35:21 ◼   ► a she was like posted there like you go [TS]

00:35:25 ◼   ► sit on the chair out front [TS]

00:35:26 ◼   ► Wow and and watch watch the road and i'm [TS]

00:35:33 ◼   ► not even i'm not even like really [TS]

00:35:35 ◼   ► delving into the cars that are just [TS]

00:35:37 ◼   ► driving up pulling up out front of the [TS]

00:35:40 ◼   ► house stopping in front of the house [TS]

00:35:42 ◼   ► idling 45 minutes [TS]

00:35:44 ◼   ► no one gets in no one gets out why [TS]

00:35:46 ◼   ► windows are tinted and in the car drives [TS]

00:35:48 ◼   ► away again why I haven't even gotten [TS]

00:35:50 ◼   ► into telling that part of the story [TS]

00:35:53 ◼   ► it's very concerning I couldn't write [TS]

00:35:56 ◼   ► something with this many traps treats [TS]

00:35:58 ◼   ► with this many like faints [TS]

00:35:59 ◼   ► yeah there's so much stuff here it [TS]

00:36:01 ◼   ► sounds and you know there's probably one [TS]

00:36:02 ◼   ► thing that just explains it all [TS]

00:36:03 ◼   ► maybe it's a halfway house unlicensed [TS]

00:36:05 ◼   ► halfway house where else [TS]

00:36:08 ◼   ► it's definitely been an unlicensed [TS]

00:36:09 ◼   ► halfway house for a long time but things [TS]

00:36:11 ◼   ► are out of control now [TS]

00:36:14 ◼   ► yeah you can you know sometimes you can [TS]

00:36:15 ◼   ► feel like you can feel like when [TS]

00:36:18 ◼   ► somebody's influences waning here's a [TS]

00:36:20 ◼   ► funny thing when people get a little bit [TS]

00:36:21 ◼   ► older and you start to get something [TS]

00:36:22 ◼   ► like empty nest syndrome even if that's [TS]

00:36:24 ◼   ► you know a deceased spouse we love [TS]

00:36:26 ◼   ► having people around you know you want [TS]

00:36:28 ◼   ► people you want to hear people around [TS]

00:36:29 ◼   ► the house it's a great thing that I [TS]

00:36:30 ◼   ► think is another thing you see this a [TS]

00:36:32 ◼   ► lot in older women i think we're like [TS]

00:36:33 ◼   ► you know I really like being left alone [TS]

00:36:35 ◼   ► i like i like having I want to be secure [TS]

00:36:38 ◼   ► whatever but like you know I kind of [TS]

00:36:39 ◼   ► like the fact that I get to have my own [TS]

00:36:41 ◼   ► space and do it the way that I want and [TS]

00:36:43 ◼   ► so it sounds I mean is the stuff that's [TS]

00:36:45 ◼   ► going on now something the kind of thing [TS]

00:36:46 ◼   ► that she would welcome or enjoy three [TS]

00:36:48 ◼   ► years ago [TS]

00:36:49 ◼   ► mm no hard to tell you know she's a she [TS]

00:36:53 ◼   ► was always a pretty respectable lady in [TS]

00:36:56 ◼   ► the sense that she liked the whole [TS]

00:36:59 ◼   ► reason that Skeeter came into the house [TS]

00:37:00 ◼   ► was that she was uh that she [TS]

00:37:04 ◼   ► characterized herself at one point to me [TS]

00:37:06 ◼   ► as a drug and alcohol counselor and I [TS]

00:37:09 ◼   ► was like really I don't know about that [TS]

00:37:12 ◼   ► or or rather I took it in the same way [TS]

00:37:16 ◼   ► that when somebody says to me that they [TS]

00:37:18 ◼   ► are a sex educator serial entrepreneur [TS]

00:37:21 ◼   ► you know you're right but any time [TS]

00:37:23 ◼   ► somebody says that there are mental [TS]

00:37:25 ◼   ► health professional professional dancer [TS]

00:37:26 ◼   ► like me really are you really [TS]

00:37:29 ◼   ► and she was like that you know i'm a [TS]

00:37:32 ◼   ► sort of a drug and alcohol counselor I [TS]

00:37:33 ◼   ► was like everybody who ever went to a [TS]

00:37:36 ◼   ► 12-step meetings mechanic says that [TS]

00:37:38 ◼   ► about themselves but it doesn't make it [TS]

00:37:41 ◼   ► true [TS]

00:37:42 ◼   ► and so Skeeter was there ostensibly [TS]

00:37:46 ◼   ► originally to get to eat em she was [TS]

00:37:50 ◼   ► walking him through the but I mean he's [TS]

00:37:52 ◼   ► out there right now just drinking sterno [TS]

00:37:54 ◼   ► and sprayed hairspray into a plastic bag [TS]

00:37:56 ◼   ► and like all kinds of that nobody sober [TS]

00:38:03 ◼   ► Nelson job I really causing me some [TS]

00:38:07 ◼   ► anxiety and then I got out there this [TS]

00:38:09 ◼   ► morning my car wouldn't start and I was [TS]

00:38:10 ◼   ► like okay what's that is somebody [TS]

00:38:13 ◼   ► sleeping in my car and they're leaving [TS]

00:38:14 ◼   ► the door cracked open so they can read a [TS]

00:38:17 ◼   ► the in-flight magazine or like how did [TS]

00:38:20 ◼   ► my car battery get run down and then I [TS]

00:38:25 ◼   ► went and checked the trunk to see if the [TS]

00:38:27 ◼   ► trunk was ajar because sometimes that [TS]

00:38:29 ◼   ► will run your car battery down huh [TS]

00:38:31 ◼   ► I realized that my guitar was in the [TS]

00:38:33 ◼   ► trunk and had been in there for 10 days [TS]

00:38:36 ◼   ► oh my god and I hadn't and I don't lock [TS]

00:38:39 ◼   ► my car because if you lock your car they [TS]

00:38:41 ◼   ► just come break your window pane for [TS]

00:38:43 ◼   ► window so i leave my car unlocked well [TS]

00:38:45 ◼   ► any number not in the town could have [TS]

00:38:48 ◼   ► come by and pop the trunk and there was [TS]

00:38:51 ◼   ► my guitar and I would have been I [TS]

00:38:53 ◼   ► wouldn't have noticed it was missing [TS]

00:38:54 ◼   ► until later on this week when I needed [TS]

00:38:58 ◼   ► it and I would have been like where's my [TS]

00:38:59 ◼   ► guitar I wonder and because i have three [TS]

00:39:02 ◼   ► houses there's always that possibility [TS]

00:39:03 ◼   ► that it somewhere else right [TS]

00:39:06 ◼   ► that's a harrowing feeling I'm like that [TS]

00:39:08 ◼   ► with my backpack and my backpack really [TS]

00:39:10 ◼   ► feels like my own port brain you know [TS]

00:39:12 ◼   ► it's got all the stuff in it that it's [TS]

00:39:13 ◼   ► not just immediately on my body and when [TS]

00:39:15 ◼   ► i leave it somewhere I'm it's it's like [TS]

00:39:17 ◼   ► leaving my kid I feel I want to get it [TS]

00:39:20 ◼   ► back i feel better but not that much [TS]

00:39:22 ◼   ► better [TS]

00:39:22 ◼   ► you know what I mean where you're like [TS]

00:39:24 ◼   ► cuz you're still vulnerable yeah i mean [TS]

00:39:26 ◼   ► like it's the stupid still with me you [TS]

00:39:27 ◼   ► know so it was in your backpack computer [TS]

00:39:30 ◼   ► well as various times your computer [TS]

00:39:32 ◼   ► could be an ipad it could just be like [TS]

00:39:34 ◼   ► you know everything that I i like to [TS]

00:39:36 ◼   ► keep a pretty light wallet and so i will [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► outboard some of that as we say in to [TS]

00:39:40 ◼   ► the backpack but I'm pretty dog about it [TS]

00:39:43 ◼   ► i mean i've i've really it'sit's I think [TS]

00:39:46 ◼   ► like the way a lot of people will be [TS]

00:39:47 ◼   ► with a person like I just don't forget [TS]

00:39:49 ◼   ► that but was it to you because you think [TS]

00:39:52 ◼   ► is your accessory light inside you think [TS]

00:39:54 ◼   ► it's me it's me fired let's get scared [TS]

00:39:56 ◼   ► through the pickup but it's been an [TS]

00:39:58 ◼   ► eventful week [TS]

00:39:59 ◼   ► yeah yeah and and at I could have I [TS]

00:40:04 ◼   ► don't know I don't know what I didn't [TS]

00:40:05 ◼   ► have the headlights on [TS]

00:40:06 ◼   ► I don't know how I ran down the battery [TS]

00:40:08 ◼   ► but it but it but it causes me great [TS]

00:40:10 ◼   ► concern nicely so much more confident [TS]

00:40:12 ◼   ► about everything I used to really [TS]

00:40:14 ◼   ► falsely I used to really feel like I [TS]

00:40:16 ◼   ► understand [TS]

00:40:16 ◼   ► a lot more than I do today and it gets [TS]

00:40:18 ◼   ► worse like every week i have more self [TS]

00:40:21 ◼   ► doubt about all the angles i'm probably [TS]

00:40:22 ◼   ► getting wrong about something and [TS]

00:40:24 ◼   ► sometimes it not sick cripples me but [TS]

00:40:26 ◼   ► like in a case like that i mean if you [TS]

00:40:28 ◼   ► were 10 years younger with you hesitate [TS]

00:40:30 ◼   ► for a minute like you just did Beauty [TS]

00:40:31 ◼   ► their do-it-yourself for you like call [TS]

00:40:33 ◼   ► the police right yeah I feel like 10 [TS]

00:40:36 ◼   ► years ago with it and that's the problem [TS]

00:40:38 ◼   ► i think what a major problem with [TS]

00:40:40 ◼   ► getting older is that I feel like the [TS]

00:40:42 ◼   ► same person and yet i'm not responding [TS]

00:40:45 ◼   ► to things the same way and I wonder if I [TS]

00:40:48 ◼   ► am the same person i remember a kid said [TS]

00:40:51 ◼   ► to me a guy I'd known in high school [TS]

00:40:53 ◼   ► when I was 24 or something [TS]

00:40:56 ◼   ► he came through town and stay with me [TS]

00:40:59 ◼   ► for a week and he said you know you're a [TS]

00:41:04 ◼   ► funny guy but you're not nearly as funny [TS]

00:41:06 ◼   ► as you were in high school [TS]

00:41:08 ◼   ► oh and I was like well that's shitty [TS]

00:41:11 ◼   ► thing to say and he was like no I mean [TS]

00:41:13 ◼   ► in high school like you were hilarious [TS]

00:41:15 ◼   ► but you were also cruel like you're a [TS]

00:41:21 ◼   ► lot better now because you were funny [TS]

00:41:25 ◼   ► but you were you were terrible and now [TS]

00:41:27 ◼   ► you're not terrible [TS]

00:41:29 ◼   ► not so terrible and from within [TS]

00:41:33 ◼   ► I had I mean I could kind of understand [TS]

00:41:36 ◼   ► what he was saying because there there [TS]

00:41:38 ◼   ► there was a moment where I made somebody [TS]

00:41:41 ◼   ► cry and I felt bad about it [TS]

00:41:44 ◼   ► I told you the story when i was running [TS]

00:41:46 ◼   ► for freshman class president in college [TS]

00:41:49 ◼   ► and we were all in the lunchroom and and [TS]

00:41:52 ◼   ► the principal or whatever the dean of [TS]

00:41:55 ◼   ► the college I guess there's not a [TS]

00:41:57 ◼   ► principal of the college dean of the [TS]

00:41:59 ◼   ► college was announcing the results and [TS]

00:42:02 ◼   ► and he announced that my opponent had [TS]

00:42:07 ◼   ► won the freshman class president and I [TS]

00:42:09 ◼   ► saw guide that I knew and a guy I'd [TS]

00:42:11 ◼   ► known from Anchorage who coincidentally [TS]

00:42:12 ◼   ► went to my college I saw him make about [TS]

00:42:17 ◼   ► the like pumped fist hand motion of like [TS]

00:42:21 ◼   ► yes [TS]

00:42:23 ◼   ► and I knew that it that it was not that [TS]

00:42:26 ◼   ► he was so excited for the other person [TS]

00:42:29 ◼   ► to win he was just excited that I lost [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► for X right right and I was like I I was [TS]

00:42:35 ◼   ► a little devastated by that this was a [TS]

00:42:37 ◼   ► guy who I mean we weren't friends but [TS]

00:42:39 ◼   ► we've gone to high school together [TS]

00:42:41 ◼   ► there should have been at least enough [TS]

00:42:44 ◼   ► loyalty just from that to carry us to [TS]

00:42:47 ◼   ► carry it through that he wouldn't wish [TS]

00:42:48 ◼   ► it upon me [TS]

00:42:49 ◼   ► that's way worse than winning the other [TS]

00:42:51 ◼   ► guy to win you have to want you to lose [TS]

00:42:53 ◼   ► ya and and I realized in that moment and [TS]

00:42:55 ◼   ► kind of you know like that that was one [TS]

00:42:58 ◼   ► of a series of moments where I was like [TS]

00:42:59 ◼   ► oh maybe I am maybe there are people who [TS]

00:43:03 ◼   ► genuinely don't like me because I am I [TS]

00:43:06 ◼   ► mean or bad but within my mind I still [TS]

00:43:11 ◼   ► feel like the same person and now I'm in [TS]

00:43:13 ◼   ► my forties I can't trust anything I [TS]

00:43:15 ◼   ► think right now I'm gonna trust you more [TS]

00:43:18 ◼   ► than I trust you to tell me [TS]

00:43:19 ◼   ► well you shouldn't you know I there's [TS]

00:43:22 ◼   ► this weird uh I don't know rubicon [TS]

00:43:24 ◼   ► between like all the stuff I used to [TS]

00:43:25 ◼   ► think I know really well and it's either [TS]

00:43:27 ◼   ► side over here where it's me like you [TS]

00:43:29 ◼   ► know swatching toward responsibility [TS]

00:43:31 ◼   ► even though i'm not really that good at [TS]

00:43:33 ◼   ► the responsibility stuff so when there's [TS]

00:43:35 ◼   ► something like you know loud music [TS]

00:43:37 ◼   ► that's keeping my kid with a cold awake [TS]

00:43:40 ◼   ► even I'll sit on that because i'm not [TS]

00:43:42 ◼   ► sure exactly how to handle that because [TS]

00:43:43 ◼   ► there's the 20-year old version of me [TS]

00:43:45 ◼   ► who doesn't want to be a dick and tell [TS]

00:43:46 ◼   ► somebody to turn down the music and the [TS]

00:43:48 ◼   ► other version because man if you're a [TS]

00:43:50 ◼   ► real dad you would just walk over there [TS]

00:43:51 ◼   ► treat that other treat that kid like a [TS]

00:43:53 ◼   ► kid that you respect and say hey to [TS]

00:43:55 ◼   ► favor could you turn it down my kids but [TS]

00:43:57 ◼   ► I still debate that I'll sit there and [TS]

00:43:58 ◼   ► and mold that over for a couple hours [TS]

00:44:00 ◼   ► and then so what I do might want to call [TS]

00:44:02 ◼   ► the police and have them be might be my [TS]

00:44:04 ◼   ► dad for me like I i don't know i think [TS]

00:44:07 ◼   ► what I knew less i had more confidence I [TS]

00:44:09 ◼   ► was less than you probably less [TS]

00:44:10 ◼   ► effective but it felt more effective [TS]

00:44:13 ◼   ► like I felt more like I was getting [TS]

00:44:14 ◼   ► stuff done [TS]

00:44:15 ◼   ► like I was getting stupid stuff done but [TS]

00:44:17 ◼   ► I really thought I knew what I was doing [TS]

00:44:18 ◼   ► I feel like we're not representing [TS]

00:44:20 ◼   ► megalomaniacs very well right now we [TS]

00:44:23 ◼   ► used to be better and I think we need to [TS]

00:44:25 ◼   ► really need to step back [TS]

00:44:27 ◼   ► well I'm a I'm a little embarrassed no [TS]

00:44:30 ◼   ► that's not true i'm a lot embarrassed [TS]

00:44:34 ◼   ► that I have sort somewhat been [TS]

00:44:37 ◼   ► concealing the fact that i got into a [TS]

00:44:39 ◼   ► fist fight the other day what I'll John [TS]

00:44:43 ◼   ► you haven't done that in a while have [TS]

00:44:45 ◼   ► you know it's been a long time no matter [TS]

00:44:47 ◼   ► how it was at bumbershoot my god and [TS]

00:44:50 ◼   ► there were a couple of drunks drunk 25 [TS]

00:44:54 ◼   ► year-olds who were i was waiting in line [TS]

00:44:58 ◼   ► in the drinking fountain and this you [TS]

00:45:03 ◼   ► know drunk kid with like shark eyes his [TS]

00:45:07 ◼   ► lean in next to the drinking fountain [TS]

00:45:09 ◼   ► and he's just kind of eyeball and [TS]

00:45:10 ◼   ► everybody there's a line of people [TS]

00:45:12 ◼   ► looking at the drinking fountain [TS]

00:45:13 ◼   ► he's just we even and staring and he's [TS]

00:45:17 ◼   ► making everybody uncomfortable couch and [TS]

00:45:21 ◼   ► I'm talking to a friend and somebody [TS]

00:45:25 ◼   ► asks me if I'm way there's two drinking [TS]

00:45:29 ◼   ► fountains a short one at all one and [TS]

00:45:31 ◼   ► somebody asked me if I'm the short one [TS]

00:45:34 ◼   ► is is available in and they asked me if [TS]

00:45:36 ◼   ► I'm gonna go on the short one I was like [TS]

00:45:37 ◼   ► no i'm waiting for the stand up tall one [TS]

00:45:40 ◼   ► and this guy leaned up against all goes [TS]

00:45:45 ◼   ► just say something sexist to my [TS]

00:45:48 ◼   ► girlfriend and I was like what and it [TS]

00:45:54 ◼   ► was hilarious [TS]

00:45:56 ◼   ► it was a hilarious a provocation right [TS]

00:46:02 ◼   ► he's not saying did you look at my [TS]

00:46:04 ◼   ► girlfriend he's saying did you say [TS]

00:46:06 ◼   ► something sexist to my girlfriend like [TS]

00:46:09 ◼   ► it's a total millennial a thought [TS]

00:46:13 ◼   ► process right it's a millennial bully [TS]

00:46:15 ◼   ► he's a millennial bully like he has [TS]

00:46:17 ◼   ► figured it out [TS]

00:46:18 ◼   ► he's still a bully asshole but he's been [TS]

00:46:20 ◼   ► raised in this culture where where you [TS]

00:46:24 ◼   ► have to couch you're bullying in this [TS]

00:46:28 ◼   ► first thought process of like I just [TS]

00:46:31 ◼   ► defended her Kizzy said something sexy [TS]

00:46:34 ◼   ► hit my head is spinning John that is so [TS]

00:46:36 ◼   ► many levels this yes well now he's got a [TS]

00:46:38 ◼   ► really righteous reason if not it's not [TS]

00:46:40 ◼   ► his Fedora wearing male ego he's a he's [TS]

00:46:43 ◼   ► worried [TS]

00:46:43 ◼   ► that's right and the band the thing is [TS]

00:46:45 ◼   ► that in any other time in history [TS]

00:46:47 ◼   ► God his righteous reason would have been [TS]

00:46:49 ◼   ► that he was defending her because you [TS]

00:46:51 ◼   ► were trying you were like a coming on [TS]

00:46:55 ◼   ► here yeah you and you're disrespecting [TS]

00:46:56 ◼   ► his male Authority yeah you were [TS]

00:46:58 ◼   ► disrespecting his property but now he's [TS]

00:47:01 ◼   ► a social justice warrior and he's [TS]

00:47:03 ◼   ► defending her because you said something [TS]

00:47:05 ◼   ► sexist to her and i was like I didn't [TS]

00:47:07 ◼   ► say anything to her or you [TS]

00:47:09 ◼   ► he's like she says something sexist [TS]

00:47:13 ◼   ► tonight girlfriend hunch and you know it [TS]

00:47:15 ◼   ► likes gets up off the wall squares and [TS]

00:47:18 ◼   ► shoulders up and I'm and I'm standing [TS]

00:47:22 ◼   ► there in a suit and I was like there are [TS]

00:47:27 ◼   ► 25 25 different strategies at my [TS]

00:47:30 ◼   ► disposal to defuse this situation and [TS]

00:47:35 ◼   ► I'm choosing to use none of them well [TS]

00:47:37 ◼   ► and I was like you know what kid you too [TS]

00:47:41 ◼   ► drunk to be in public your hospital [TS]

00:47:44 ◼   ► you're gross and you need to get out of [TS]

00:47:46 ◼   ► here [TS]

00:47:47 ◼   ► this is a music festival people are [TS]

00:47:48 ◼   ► having a good time and your piece of [TS]

00:47:51 ◼   ► shit you need to go home and he was like [TS]

00:47:53 ◼   ► whoa you're booked in to talk to me [TS]

00:47:57 ◼   ► about little bit do you go home and you [TS]

00:48:00 ◼   ► know any steps to me and I'm like [TS]

00:48:02 ◼   ► seriously you're drunk you too drunk to [TS]

00:48:04 ◼   ► be out and you need to either go sit on [TS]

00:48:07 ◼   ► a bench until you sober up [TS]

00:48:08 ◼   ► we need to go home because you're a pain [TS]

00:48:10 ◼   ► in the ass inside know you some kind of [TS]

00:48:14 ◼   ► fucking fuck you man fucking 40-year old [TS]

00:48:17 ◼   ► and I was like I am 40 years old and I'm [TS]

00:48:21 ◼   ► telling you need to go home and his [TS]

00:48:23 ◼   ► friend is there and his friend jumps in [TS]

00:48:25 ◼   ► and is like he's just drunk man he's [TS]

00:48:27 ◼   ► just drunk and I was like yeah he's [TS]

00:48:29 ◼   ► drunk you're drunk you're too drunk go [TS]

00:48:32 ◼   ► home and then the girlfriend is like huh [TS]

00:48:35 ◼   ► stop it Steve town and I'm like all you [TS]

00:48:39 ◼   ► need to get out of here and he's you [TS]

00:48:46 ◼   ► know then he and then his friend is like [TS]

00:48:48 ◼   ► whoa who the fuck are you why don't you [TS]

00:48:50 ◼   ► get out here and then it's like two of [TS]

00:48:51 ◼   ► them right that the drunk guy and then [TS]

00:48:54 ◼   ► his drunk friend that was [TS]

00:48:55 ◼   ► trying to be the Peacekeeper and then at [TS]

00:48:58 ◼   ► a certain point the guys like you know [TS]

00:49:00 ◼   ► what fuck it man shake my hand shake my [TS]

00:49:02 ◼   ► god and I was like I'm not gonna shake [TS]

00:49:05 ◼   ► your hand did I got nothing to shake [TS]

00:49:06 ◼   ► your hand about you need to go home [TS]

00:49:09 ◼   ► that's all I'm telling you and then it's [TS]

00:49:12 ◼   ► like well he wouldn't i wouldn't shake [TS]

00:49:15 ◼   ► their hand right so then it's like you [TS]

00:49:16 ◼   ► fucking bitch man you a bitch you won't [TS]

00:49:18 ◼   ► shake my hand I'm like I'm a bitch i'm a [TS]

00:49:21 ◼   ► fourteen-year-old bit telling you to get [TS]

00:49:25 ◼   ► the and that now there's a crowd of [TS]

00:49:27 ◼   ► people like 40 real bitch I'm telling [TS]

00:49:30 ◼   ► you to go home [TS]

00:49:32 ◼   ► ma out of here go sit down on the grass [TS]

00:49:35 ◼   ► but don't stand here by the freaking [TS]

00:49:39 ◼   ► drinking fountain picking fights with [TS]

00:49:40 ◼   ► people and then he pushes me cause set [TS]

00:49:45 ◼   ► pushes me while calling me a bitch in [TS]

00:49:47 ◼   ► such a way that he kind of like spittle [TS]

00:49:49 ◼   ► lickspittle bitch like bitch which me [TS]

00:49:53 ◼   ► and I fucking punched him right in the [TS]

00:49:54 ◼   ► face and then I punched him again in the [TS]

00:49:57 ◼   ► face and then I put took him down to the [TS]

00:49:58 ◼   ► floor and then his friend punched me and [TS]

00:50:03 ◼   ► then I yeah I don't know I don't [TS]

00:50:06 ◼   ► remember uh but in the end it was so [TS]

00:50:14 ◼   ► then I was embarrassed that are you [TS]

00:50:16 ◼   ► wearing a suit from where you're 40 year [TS]

00:50:18 ◼   ► old bitch in a suit [TS]

00:50:19 ◼   ► I'm a four-year-old home-owning bitch [TS]

00:50:22 ◼   ► sooo John and um and then I'm standing [TS]

00:50:27 ◼   ► there and this kid is a mess and his [TS]

00:50:30 ◼   ► friend is like running and I popped a [TS]

00:50:35 ◼   ► button off my suit [TS]

00:50:37 ◼   ► and I'm embarrassed I'm like what the [TS]

00:50:38 ◼   ► fuck how did this happen how am i [TS]

00:50:40 ◼   ► standing here now in a huge crowd of [TS]

00:50:41 ◼   ► people and so I go so I turned around to [TS]

00:50:45 ◼   ► go and I'm just like I need to go splash [TS]

00:50:47 ◼   ► some water on my face I go into the [TS]

00:50:48 ◼   ► bathroom I look down at my finger is all [TS]

00:50:52 ◼   ► fucked up on now and I'm like not only [TS]

00:50:55 ◼   ► did I get into a fistfight but now i'm [TS]

00:50:58 ◼   ► fucked up my finger i do not even any [TS]

00:51:02 ◼   ► more have the karate skills to not hurt [TS]

00:51:06 ◼   ► myself it on this guy's head so I'm in [TS]

00:51:11 ◼   ► the bathroom and I'm like this is bad [TS]

00:51:12 ◼   ► this is bad this is embarrassing [TS]

00:51:15 ◼   ► I'm full-grown man there were a lot of [TS]

00:51:18 ◼   ► ways I could have dealt with that so I [TS]

00:51:21 ◼   ► sit in the bathroom for a little while [TS]

00:51:23 ◼   ► and I'm like I don't even want to come [TS]

00:51:24 ◼   ► out of the bathroom i'm so fucking [TS]

00:51:25 ◼   ► embarrassed but eventually come out of [TS]

00:51:28 ◼   ► the bathroom and my friend is waiting [TS]

00:51:29 ◼   ► there and he says we should leave by the [TS]

00:51:33 ◼   ► back stairs and I say why and he says [TS]

00:51:40 ◼   ► para bunch of cops and paramedics around [TS]

00:51:44 ◼   ► the corner and there's a there's like [TS]

00:51:50 ◼   ► blood all over so it was pretty bad [TS]

00:51:53 ◼   ► it was I mean I was mad yeah well I mean [TS]

00:51:57 ◼   ► I i do I wasn't there but and I don't [TS]

00:52:00 ◼   ► have the skills but you were I think in [TS]

00:52:03 ◼   ► a pretty defensive position I don't you [TS]

00:52:06 ◼   ► know you got what you had to do I can I [TS]

00:52:08 ◼   ► mean what you know the thing is that [TS]

00:52:09 ◼   ► that 99% of people i think would have [TS]

00:52:13 ◼   ► said that the actual thing to do in our [TS]

00:52:16 ◼   ► contemporary society would have been to [TS]

00:52:21 ◼   ► say hey guy [TS]

00:52:23 ◼   ► I didn't say anything to your girlfriend [TS]

00:52:24 ◼   ► it's cool or you know like you're right [TS]

00:52:28 ◼   ► to defend her up against people saying [TS]

00:52:30 ◼   ► sexist things to her or that weren't [TS]

00:52:32 ◼   ► actually set or the one then no one was [TS]

00:52:34 ◼   ► talking to you or you know or just like [TS]

00:52:37 ◼   ► avert your eyes and not say anything and [TS]

00:52:39 ◼   ► wait for him to take on the next person [TS]

00:52:42 ◼   ► that he encounters or let him sit by the [TS]

00:52:45 ◼   ► drinking fountain for 45 minutes and [TS]

00:52:46 ◼   ► scare everybody in the building [TS]

00:52:49 ◼   ► or whatever go get in a car or you know [TS]

00:52:52 ◼   ► whatever his plan was but in any case so [TS]

00:52:55 ◼   ► we we go out via the back stairs and my [TS]

00:52:59 ◼   ► friend says listen I don't want to [TS]

00:53:02 ◼   ► glorify that at all but the best moment [TS]

00:53:05 ◼   ► of it was two guys walking through you [TS]

00:53:08 ◼   ► know kind of skirting the devastation [TS]

00:53:10 ◼   ► and one of them says what the hell [TS]

00:53:13 ◼   ► happened to those two guys and the other [TS]

00:53:15 ◼   ► one goes i heard they got their asses [TS]

00:53:17 ◼   ► kicked by a forty-year-old that's awful [TS]

00:53:23 ◼   ► that's terrible it's terrible and so [TS]

00:53:25 ◼   ► then I had always seen you you've lost [TS]

00:53:27 ◼   ► weight you look at that he got hair you [TS]

00:53:30 ◼   ► cut your hair in a sensible way your [TS]

00:53:31 ◼   ► biggest rim you look kind of like Tom [TS]

00:53:33 ◼   ► Wolfe and your fucking 40-year old [TS]

00:53:35 ◼   ► business yeah but then I'm like I'm like [TS]

00:53:37 ◼   ► I'm you know I i lost a button off my [TS]

00:53:39 ◼   ► suit my friend is like they're mopping [TS]

00:53:41 ◼   ► his blood off the glowing people and [TS]

00:53:43 ◼   ► then I then I watched as they could [TS]

00:53:45 ◼   ► because they put him on a girl on your [TS]

00:53:46 ◼   ► own John eNOS and so I'm in I'm [TS]

00:53:49 ◼   ► embarrassed and I also feel bad and you [TS]

00:53:55 ◼   ► know and every minute of the day I have [TS]

00:53:58 ◼   ► a reminder of it because you're my [TS]

00:54:00 ◼   ► finger is in a fuckin split now [TS]

00:54:02 ◼   ► oh now which finger which hand my my my [TS]

00:54:06 ◼   ► first finger my pointer finger of my [TS]

00:54:07 ◼   ► right hand so it's not a it's it's I can [TS]

00:54:10 ◼   ► still play guitar with my second finger [TS]

00:54:12 ◼   ► but um like I have a gig this weekend [TS]

00:54:16 ◼   ► shit and also so I get home and I'm like [TS]

00:54:20 ◼   ► well you know I've broken my hands [TS]

00:54:23 ◼   ► before and you just go to the doctor and [TS]

00:54:26 ◼   ► they just they just tell you you know [TS]

00:54:29 ◼   ► they charged seven hundred dollars to [TS]

00:54:30 ◼   ► tell you we already know so i made a [TS]

00:54:33 ◼   ► splint out of a couple of chopsticks and [TS]

00:54:35 ◼   ► some band-aids and I wear that around [TS]

00:54:38 ◼   ► for a while and I was like well maybe [TS]

00:54:42 ◼   ► that's not the right maybe chopsticks [TS]

00:54:45 ◼   ► are two straight you don't want to have [TS]

00:54:47 ◼   ► your you want to make your fingers to [TS]

00:54:48 ◼   ► straight so I took the chopstick splint [TS]

00:54:52 ◼   ► off for a couple of days and I was just [TS]

00:54:54 ◼   ► like I'm just going to use it until it [TS]

00:54:55 ◼   ► gets better [TS]

00:54:57 ◼   ► and then I think I reinjured it in a way [TS]

00:55:01 ◼   ► that makes me think that maybe it's [TS]

00:55:02 ◼   ► broken [TS]

00:55:04 ◼   ► yeah and so now then i went to the drug [TS]

00:55:07 ◼   ► store and I bought a proper splint and [TS]

00:55:09 ◼   ► copper tape on it [TS]

00:55:12 ◼   ► ok as you said you're making circles you [TS]

00:55:14 ◼   ► can look closer and I'm connecting john [TS]

00:55:16 ◼   ► III don't you go sort of i think you [TS]

00:55:18 ◼   ► might wanna get that looked at the thing [TS]

00:55:20 ◼   ► is that what you what happens you go [TS]

00:55:22 ◼   ► look at the dr x-rays gonna tell you [TS]

00:55:24 ◼   ► things you already know yeah 700 hours [TS]

00:55:26 ◼   ► and you should have you should put a [TS]

00:55:27 ◼   ► splint on it and it's like I gotta split [TS]

00:55:29 ◼   ► on it now I should have had it on there [TS]

00:55:30 ◼   ► the whole time [TS]

00:55:31 ◼   ► God but so it hurts and I feel like I [TS]

00:55:35 ◼   ► did break it and it's been a week and it [TS]

00:55:41 ◼   ► doesn't feel like it's you know [TS]

00:55:42 ◼   ► therefore for the week that I was kind [TS]

00:55:44 ◼   ► of walking around in either my [TS]

00:55:45 ◼   ► chopsticks plant or my or just using it [TS]

00:55:48 ◼   ► I was like hurts enough awful lot and [TS]

00:55:52 ◼   ► it's pretty swollen but I feel like the [TS]

00:55:54 ◼   ► best thing to do is just ice it and use [TS]

00:55:59 ◼   ► it dawns a really small John yeah and a [TS]

00:56:03 ◼   ► and I guess and ultimately i'm most [TS]

00:56:05 ◼   ► embarrassed at the fact that I don't [TS]

00:56:07 ◼   ► even know how to like beat up a drunk [TS]

00:56:11 ◼   ► without breaking my own hands [TS]

00:56:13 ◼   ► give me a break he's uh I you are got [TS]

00:56:18 ◼   ► them on my heart would be in my throat [TS]

00:56:19 ◼   ► that situation uh I mean it was [TS]

00:56:23 ◼   ► upsetting i think it was upsetting to [TS]

00:56:25 ◼   ► everyone [TS]

00:56:26 ◼   ► um but it's a it's just one of those [TS]

00:56:30 ◼   ► situations where where as I replayed it [TS]

00:56:33 ◼   ► it was like I oh I'm such a i'm such a [TS]

00:56:39 ◼   ► paternalist you know like this kid [TS]

00:56:43 ◼   ► obviously didn't have a good dad and I [TS]

00:56:46 ◼   ► was going to be his bad dad for that [TS]

00:56:51 ◼   ► half an hour and i don't know i don't [TS]

00:56:53 ◼   ► who knows if you know like I got beat up [TS]

00:56:58 ◼   ► a couple of times when I was that age I [TS]

00:57:00 ◼   ► was never like sit by a drinking [TS]

00:57:01 ◼   ► fountain pick fights with people i mean [TS]

00:57:03 ◼   ► i got drunk beat up for legitimate [TS]

00:57:05 ◼   ► reasons that I was an asshole who needed [TS]

00:57:08 ◼   ► to be taken to the way [TS]

00:57:09 ◼   ► having a primary not to defend the [TS]

00:57:11 ◼   ► experience but it sounds like he was a [TS]

00:57:13 ◼   ► predator and maybe just too drunk to [TS]

00:57:15 ◼   ► know he was being a predator but that's [TS]

00:57:16 ◼   ► that's not a way to behave in public as [TS]

00:57:18 ◼   ► an adult [TS]

00:57:19 ◼   ► yeah yeah and you know and I could have [TS]

00:57:22 ◼   ► I could have gone and found a security [TS]

00:57:24 ◼   ► guard and then what you know like come [TS]

00:57:26 ◼   ► on what would have happened there [TS]

00:57:27 ◼   ► nothing maybe so [TS]

00:57:30 ◼   ► four-year-old bitch with the security [TS]

00:57:31 ◼   ► card yeah then I'd be like a [TS]

00:57:32 ◼   ► four-year-old bitch in a suit that went [TS]

00:57:33 ◼   ► and got his mom mrs. he wasn't it wasn't [TS]

00:57:36 ◼   ► exactly the name calling it was the the [TS]

00:57:37 ◼   ► pushing you and the like provoking you [TS]

00:57:40 ◼   ► that basically now two guys are gonna [TS]

00:57:42 ◼   ► fight you and your soup [TS]

00:57:44 ◼   ► yeah right i mean the the push was not [TS]

00:57:46 ◼   ► benign it was a it was like the it was [TS]

00:57:52 ◼   ► the provocation they started classic a [TS]

00:57:54 ◼   ► classic such a classic bully though you [TS]

00:57:56 ◼   ► know I'm because the really classic [TS]

00:57:57 ◼   ► bully is not somebody who you know it [TS]

00:58:00 ◼   ► succeeds referred you know 20 years at [TS]

00:58:02 ◼   ► it in the classic ability is is somebody [TS]

00:58:04 ◼   ► who's gotten away with it [TS]

00:58:05 ◼   ► yeah and get on with it enough and it [TS]

00:58:07 ◼   ► becomes their own like a kind of [TS]

00:58:11 ◼   ► malignant therapy for trying to deal [TS]

00:58:15 ◼   ► with power in their life and yeah that [TS]

00:58:17 ◼   ► and then they just beat up when they can [TS]

00:58:19 ◼   ► we write and condition when he made the [TS]

00:58:21 ◼   ► transition from did you say some things [TS]

00:58:23 ◼   ► access to my girlfriend to just shake my [TS]

00:58:26 ◼   ► hand and it'll be cool [TS]

00:58:28 ◼   ► what was missing in the interim was any [TS]

00:58:32 ◼   ► kind of apology right and if he had said [TS]

00:58:35 ◼   ► or his friend said hey I'm sorry I got [TS]

00:58:38 ◼   ► that wrong I apologize [TS]

00:58:41 ◼   ► let's just shake hands and be done with [TS]

00:58:43 ◼   ► it yeah like this is you know what this [TS]

00:58:44 ◼   ► is stupid [TS]

00:58:45 ◼   ► I'm so this let's just move on yeah okay [TS]

00:58:47 ◼   ► know that right no no no no no John I i [TS]

00:58:55 ◼   ► like this I well I don't like the San [TS]

00:58:56 ◼   ► detail but you know he had said if he [TS]

00:58:59 ◼   ► had made it but what he did was the [TS]

00:59:01 ◼   ► classic bully move which was kiss my [TS]

00:59:03 ◼   ► ring [TS]

00:59:04 ◼   ► yeah now he's like he's trying to get [TS]

00:59:06 ◼   ► out of it he realizes that he is that he [TS]

00:59:08 ◼   ► is out of his depth and they basically [TS]

00:59:10 ◼   ► you've now that he sees it as you've [TS]

00:59:12 ◼   ► successfully negotiated to wear a tough [TS]

00:59:14 ◼   ► guy doesn't have to beat you up and now [TS]

00:59:16 ◼   ► all you have to do is is admit that he [TS]

00:59:18 ◼   ► was right all along and shake his hand [TS]

00:59:19 ◼   ► like a gentleman [TS]

00:59:20 ◼   ► yeah right exactly and [TS]

00:59:22 ◼   ► the fact that i would shake his hand [TS]

00:59:24 ◼   ► then became the issue of course now too [TS]

00:59:27 ◼   ► but now it's about like you're not even [TS]

00:59:28 ◼   ► a normal gentlemen [TS]

00:59:29 ◼   ► yeah yeah look like and that that is the [TS]

00:59:32 ◼   ► that's the classic sort of bullying [TS]

00:59:34 ◼   ► redirect and people do that all the time [TS]

00:59:36 ◼   ► and some classic way to trick somebody [TS]

00:59:38 ◼   ► Indian sucker-punched well yeah yeah [TS]

00:59:41 ◼   ► right i know he loved signs and a hell [TS]

00:59:44 ◼   ► of signs of my daughter school when I [TS]

00:59:46 ◼   ► noticed the other day that i think is [TS]

00:59:47 ◼   ► pretty good was like it's very short [TS]

00:59:48 ◼   ► signs just said how to apologize for [TS]

00:59:50 ◼   ► something and there's three steps don't [TS]

00:59:52 ◼   ► you say well no I'm just saying what if [TS]

00:59:54 ◼   ► you're genuine apology goes like this [TS]

00:59:56 ◼   ► you say I'm sorry for what I did [TS]

00:59:59 ◼   ► number one [TS]

00:59:59 ◼   ► number one [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► 42 it was my fault and number three what [TS]

01:00:03 ◼   ► can i do to make this better and i have [TS]

01:00:04 ◼   ► to tell you as signs go [TS]

01:00:06 ◼   ► I think that's a pretty good sign [TS]

01:00:07 ◼   ► because because nothing sucks like a bad [TS]

01:00:09 ◼   ► apology [TS]

01:00:10 ◼   ► you know the I'm sorry you're offended [TS]

01:00:11 ◼   ► kind of apology out the big city big [TS]

01:00:13 ◼   ► city [TS]

01:00:13 ◼   ► exactly but the button but in that case [TS]

01:00:16 ◼   ► you know that guy that was not about [TS]

01:00:18 ◼   ► that and the thing is you know this [TS]

01:00:19 ◼   ► you've been that guy in a sense you've [TS]

01:00:21 ◼   ► been the dumb drunk guy who was watching [TS]

01:00:24 ◼   ► himself from outside his body do [TS]

01:00:25 ◼   ► something stupid [TS]

01:00:26 ◼   ► somewhere in that guy's little pinhead [TS]

01:00:28 ◼   ► he probably saw what a dumbass he was [TS]

01:00:30 ◼   ► being but yeah I got ya i don't want to [TS]

01:00:32 ◼   ► try and defend it but i really doubt [TS]

01:00:34 ◼   ► that's the first time this has ever [TS]

01:00:35 ◼   ► happened [TS]

01:00:36 ◼   ► I doubt that he said Bumbershoot is [TS]

01:00:37 ◼   ► going to be my bully coming-out party I [TS]

01:00:38 ◼   ► bet he didn't shit like that for years [TS]

01:00:40 ◼   ► usually back down [TS]

01:00:42 ◼   ► he absolutely has an and the fact that [TS]

01:00:43 ◼   ► his girlfriend and his friend were so [TS]

01:00:46 ◼   ► ineffective in controlling him that is [TS]

01:00:49 ◼   ► stopped to eat [TS]

01:00:50 ◼   ► yea travis team and then has been his [TS]

01:00:53 ◼   ► buddy you know like decided he was going [TS]

01:00:56 ◼   ► to get on board the bullet train rather [TS]

01:00:58 ◼   ► than you know and i think i hope that [TS]

01:01:01 ◼   ► the lesson that they take away is that [TS]

01:01:03 ◼   ► 40 year old guys have 20-plus more years [TS]

01:01:08 ◼   ► of kicking people's ask then they do you [TS]

01:01:11 ◼   ► know what I mean like like at least in [TS]

01:01:13 ◼   ► that situation I hope to take away was [TS]

01:01:16 ◼   ► there are a lot of people there are a [TS]

01:01:18 ◼   ► lot more people to watch out for them we [TS]

01:01:20 ◼   ► prior than we previously thought [TS]

01:01:22 ◼   ► well yeah yeah I wish you would I wish [TS]

01:01:24 ◼   ► you would be something even more humane [TS]

01:01:26 ◼   ► which is like wow that's a pretty I was [TS]

01:01:27 ◼   ► acting like a real shitty oh well no [TS]

01:01:29 ◼   ► because that you that you know that that [TS]

01:01:31 ◼   ► was that they will never go back and [TS]

01:01:33 ◼   ► reevaluate their own behavior probably [TS]

01:01:35 ◼   ► can't remember it but if they just think [TS]

01:01:37 ◼   ► to themselves oh there are more people [TS]

01:01:40 ◼   ► watching and and um and prepared to [TS]

01:01:46 ◼   ► intervene and capable of of stopping me [TS]

01:01:50 ◼   ► then I previously thought [TS]

01:01:52 ◼   ► right because they were so contemptuous [TS]

01:01:54 ◼   ► of the fact that I was older and they [TS]

01:01:57 ◼   ► were like 40 years old that you should [TS]

01:01:59 ◼   ► have seen the looks on their faces like [TS]

01:02:00 ◼   ► your fucking 40 dude what are you gonna [TS]

01:02:03 ◼   ► fucking do about what's it's probably [TS]

01:02:05 ◼   ► not so different than us going to punk [TS]

01:02:06 ◼   ► rock Sean going God look at that guy [TS]

01:02:08 ◼   ► you know what why is that guy here [TS]

01:02:10 ◼   ► doesn't he know that this isn't for him [TS]

01:02:12 ◼   ► well I know but you know there were [TS]

01:02:13 ◼   ► always those guys a punk rock shows who [TS]

01:02:15 ◼   ► are 40 years old that you sure I shifted [TS]

01:02:17 ◼   ► entangle with those guys with mosquitoes [TS]

01:02:20 ◼   ► tattooed on their next people better [TS]

01:02:22 ◼   ► scoot over here like no thank you [TS]

01:02:26 ◼   ► I young you were or how do i say you [TS]

01:02:30 ◼   ► have concerns for the consequences of [TS]

01:02:34 ◼   ► this [TS]

01:02:34 ◼   ► oh there was some suggestion well so I [TS]

01:02:37 ◼   ► got a tweet from somebody who was like [TS]

01:02:39 ◼   ► hi big fan really excited to meet you [TS]

01:02:42 ◼   ► and was about to say hi [TS]

01:02:44 ◼   ► I at the center house when you got into [TS]

01:02:49 ◼   ► a strange altercation with a drunk and I [TS]

01:02:50 ◼   ► decided to split and I was like I'm [TS]

01:02:54 ◼   ► really sorry that you had to witness [TS]

01:02:57 ◼   ► that a debacle and she said well you [TS]

01:03:01 ◼   ► know i'm a teacher and I realized that [TS]

01:03:04 ◼   ► this situation wasn't going to get any [TS]

01:03:06 ◼   ► better if there was a crowd of people so [TS]

01:03:08 ◼   ► i just got out of there right so i [TS]

01:03:10 ◼   ► imagine that she I'm hoping that she [TS]

01:03:13 ◼   ► split before she split even while it was [TS]

01:03:16 ◼   ► just sort of an ugly butt back and forth [TS]

01:03:20 ◼   ► before it turned into a a like a one way [TS]

01:03:22 ◼   ► back and forth but some but my friend [TS]

01:03:27 ◼   ► did say like I does it concern you that [TS]

01:03:29 ◼   ► that the 25 people could video tape and [TS]

01:03:32 ◼   ► put it on the internet and um in a way [TS]

01:03:39 ◼   ► it would just be it would just be [TS]

01:03:41 ◼   ► embarrassing in the same way that it [TS]

01:03:42 ◼   ► wasn't already embarrassing which is [TS]

01:03:44 ◼   ► just like what am i doing right but it [TS]

01:03:47 ◼   ► was not it was not unrighteous no no i [TS]

01:03:50 ◼   ► was i was thinking more of from a legal [TS]

01:03:53 ◼   ► standpoint [TS]

01:03:54 ◼   ► well that's the thing that's and that [TS]

01:03:57 ◼   ► this is the problem of a videotape right [TS]

01:03:59 ◼   ► yeah if somebody had turned on their [TS]

01:04:01 ◼   ► phone just in the last five seconds [TS]