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Weird things happened in the weird weird
weird. Yo, yo, yo yo.

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We did it, y'all. That
is the energy I wish to see

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every time, every time we do
it, just every time, the whole

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time, every time, the whole
time. It's just not sustainable. It's

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are you sure? No, you're
not sure? You're not suout that it's

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sustainable. I'm you are? No, I don't, I don't know.

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Okay, gotcha, what are we
talking about today, Alex, I got

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some exciting, exciting stuff to talk
about. We do finally something current in

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our lives. The Azalea Fest,
yes, yes, yes, yes,

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which, for those of you who
don't know, is like an annual It's

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annual, right, yes, it's
an annual Wilmington festival. This is the

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seventy seventh annual Azalea Fest that,
to my understanding, I haven't done any

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research. I've just lived here for
twenty six years. Basically celebrates the blooming

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of the azaleas, and there's very
little to do with the azaleas. At

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the actual I didn't see a single
Now keep in mind, Nick, keep

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in mind, where we were was
just the street fair, right. Oh,

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there are many aspects to the Azalea
Festival around town. One of the

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major aspects of the azale Festival is
the garden Party. The garden party takes

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place at aale at excuse me,
early gardens, and this is a big

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who's who of the business world in
Wilmington. So basically you have to to

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be somebody or have some business to
get a ticket. They're in the garden

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doing tight business deals. No,
they're in the garden getting loaded. Oh

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that's yes. And then from there
the garden party ends and people go on

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their way, mostly to the beach
bars and the boats and the what have

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used and continue the party. The
cops were out too, did John notice?

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Yes, there were speed traps everywhere. Yes, especially the drunk driving

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you know, well ever does have
that, Like there's there's a lot of

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speed traps on weekends when the bar
scenes. Oh yeah, I do not

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speed at night. Yeah yeah,
here in town. You know what I

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will say is, I've never seen
one in my entire life. What speed

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trap like a like a dui checkpoint
multiple I've never seen one. I'm not

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saying I'm out here, no,
here in town. Really, yeah,

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I saw them and the Grays Creek
and stuff. I mean maybe, but

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I'm saying I see speed traps here
all the time. I saw one like

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two days ago. Damn, I
mean I used to. Just to be

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clear, though, speed trap and
a DUI checkpoint or two different things.

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What is a do UI checkpoint?
A DUI checkpoint is where they stop every

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car. Okay, I don't.
I haven't seen many of those. I

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have I have seen one, but
not many of those. Right. Speed

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trap is where CoP's just sitting out
waiting to get you. I see them

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all the time. Yeah, I
see them all the time. They're blowing

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our money. Man. So guys, this is the speed trap episode.

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So anyway, anyway, I'm sorry. So Azali Fest is this big thing

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and there's a bunch of concerts.
There's an Azalea Fest. Princess, there's

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like a whole procession the at princess
gets escorted around. Yes, that's who

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they like. Well, there was
it escorted by police. Yes, bro,

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it was like a presidential Yes,
that is what we did. Determine

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on full disclosure. I think it
was last week's episode that it is not

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like a bloodline thing, and it's
like a U pageant thing. Okay,

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she's not an actual princes. Yeah, full disclosure, I broke it down.

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I knew a girl that was the
Zellian Princess. She's very nice,

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nice, she's a nice girl.
She deserved it. And I think she

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was also Miss North Carolina. Wow, double dipping, and miss uh she

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was Miss Wilmington and then from Miss
Anyway, Oh, triple dipping. I'm

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I'm way too involved in the pageant
scene. Unfortunately. Have you ever competed

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in one? You know? Interestingly
enough, I have not competed. But

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my uncle is the only ever mister
Sammy Seahawks or mister U n c W.

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Mister U n c W. Yeah. Yeah, So this was like

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back when he was in college and
there was a missus UNCW pageant. This

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was like in the seventies or the
eighties. I don't know, no,

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probably seventies, sixties, seventies.
I have no clue. So your uncle's

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a mister I see. Yeah,
he's a cool guy. Yeah. I

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don't think you'll have met him.
You will meet him at the wedding.

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But anyway, there was a bunch
of stuff going on about uh this and

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that, and he was just like, well, why isn't there a mister

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U and C w pageant, so
him and his buddies petitioned the school.

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The school said, okay, fine, then won it. Andy, Yeah,

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he won it. That's crooked.
Sounds like some ship that somebody else.

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I know he rigged the ballots man. No, No, I think

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it was an honest vote. But
I don't know. If there were many

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contestants I have known he was in
their pockets. He was, I'm just

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look, look, I'm just gonna
be honest with you. I won't take

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this slander. Okay, Okay,
I won't sit by and let you trash

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my name. Her uncle is an
honest man. Yeah, okay. Cool.

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Anyway, so that's the festival,
Nick, What were we doing at

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Yeah? It was so awesome.
It was so amazing. Uh So you

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Ryan, how did the whole like
how it fell together? Yeah? How

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did it come together? Okay?
Because for those of you that don't know,

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Chris Senior did a UFO of God
like booth booth at the Azalea Fest.

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There's like hundreds of tents, you
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street fair downtown and it's like literally
hundreds of tents and you know, it

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kind of was reminiscent of a carnival
to me, I mean there was like

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tons of fried food booths. But
anyway, so last October Dad came to

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town. I can't I think he
just wanted to come and hang out and

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do the river Fest and they had
heard about it, and I was like,

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okay, cool. Never really been
to any serious unc I mean not

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un see Wellington Festival. Now during
the summer there's a farmer's market like pretty

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much every Saturday. So I've been
to lots of those and it's the same

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thing, but way smaller. She
was like, oh, this is pretty

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cool. October came around Riverfest.
It was like a legit festival, and

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Dad was like, I want to
go. I want to go. And

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they came and stayed and we went
to it and we saw a lot of

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booths and Dad was like, dude, I should get a booth at the

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next Riverfest in October, you know, a year from now. I was

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like, no, no, no, no, I'll do you one better.

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There's a bigger festival every April,
the Azalia Fest. You should get

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a booth there. Oh here's my
idea. Yeah, dude, I didn't

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know that he did. He had
no idea about the Alia Festival. And

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I had never been to one,
but I knew it was the biggest one.

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So I was just like, let's
do one there and the river Fest,

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which we just got confirmation. Herbert
booked for the river Fest in October,

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October fifth through sixth, So back
in October he started like applying for

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the it's like a permit or whatever
to like have a tent, and we

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had been planning and planning and Dad
was like, son, I want you

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and the boys. I want you
and the BSS boys to come out here

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with me. And we were like, okay, cool, And I mean

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the rest is history. Yeah,
yeah, so it it did happen already.

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It was so it was like an
indescribable weekend. Yeah, Like it

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was life changing for all of us. I feel it absolutely was. Yeah,

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And I mean we got to meet
so many of the omis and like

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we had skywatching sessions. I'm I'm
just kind of foreshadowing some of the stuff

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that we're going to talk about,
but I mean, wow, it was

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such a profound weekend. It was
insane. Alex went there on Friday because

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it was Friday, Saturday, Sunday, you guys had you and Jenny and

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Emily had somewhere to be for Friday
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I didn't make it on Friday,
but Alex did, So Alex,

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what happened on Friday? So Friday, I had a long day at work.

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I got off actually later than I
wanted to, and ran home,

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changed my clothes, and like hit
the road, headed straight downtown, lucked

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out with my buddy, got a
parking space, and ran down to the

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booth like I was speed walking,
pushing people out of the way, Not

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really, but kind of. And
I get there and it was pretty chill.

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Friday is generally chill day. It
starts around six pm, so I

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wasn't as late as I thought I
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there? Six or six thirty?
Oh? Okay, cool? But I

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saw pictures from like hours before six. I think it technically started Thursday,

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but our booth was for Friday through
Sunday. Okay, Yeah, I started

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seeing like pictures of the omis there
was with Chrismis coming through. Yeah,

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there were some early birds for sure. Yeah there was early birds, but

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like technically on the website, it
didn't start until the evening. Oh yeah,

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so uh, every day I show
up and I'm trying to remember who

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I met for I'm gonna forget people, but I'm sorry. Yeah, we

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should say that, like we we
all met dozen so many people. Yeah,

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dozens of omies like in the discord. But other than that, we

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met like that. Hundred people passed
through. Yeah, on Saturday, passed

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through like as in came to the
tent, to the Yeah, to the

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tent specifically, there were thousands of
thousands of people passed through, but like,

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yeah, just straight up to the
tent, like, oh my god,

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I traveled here to see you right
right, you know. So the

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first person I met on Friday,
his name was Gabe, and Gabe came

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back over to that he had been
there earlier, but I wasn't there.

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Then he came back over and your
dad was talking to another couple. And

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your dad is very impressive, CHRISR. When when just to be clear,

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I'm talking about Ryan's dad. Very
impressive when he does this kind of thing

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because he takes so much time with
each person. Like, you know,

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I've helped somebody out unrelated to the
project with their book signing, and it

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was that it was just that sign
the book move on next like get through

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the line, but your dad will
sit there and have a conversation, and

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I mean, you know, it
is kind of the nature of the thing,

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like everybody has their story, who's
interested in it, and anyway gives

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like everybody the time of day and
writes some message. Everybody gets something different,

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you know, very heartfelt message in
the book when he signs it.

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So anyway, he's talking to somebody. And I met Gabe, and Gabe

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was like twenty two and I'm gonna
tell his story and basically fell down,

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like you know, feeling kind of
lost. I feel like there's a lot

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of twenty two year old males out
there that are feeling generally lost in their

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place in the world and fell down
a Carl Jung rabbit hole and studying I'm

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saying that right, right, Ryan, Yeah, studying Carl Jung found your

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dad on a podcast and became a
big fan of your dad. Had no

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clue that went on Carl Jung podcast. Really yeah, me and Jenny actually

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which one. Oh, I think
it's called Speaking of Yung oh twos years

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ago. That's cool. So anyway, that's that's his whole thing, probably,

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how Yeah, And he was telling
me about the stages. Does that

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ring about stages of life or like
stage the hero's journey? Oh, yeah,

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the Hero's journey, that's what it. So he was like telling me

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where he was in the Hero's Journey. And then he found your dad and

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started studying your dad. Came all
the way from Tampa, Florida to see

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your dad. And so I'm sitting
there at the tent like, yoh,

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what's up man, Like you're about
my age whatever. We start chopping it

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up and I'm like, you know
about our show, right, and he's

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like no, which is so cool
to me because I'm like, dude,

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you're gonna love this. Yeah,
yeah, wait till I tell you right.

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So we talked about the show a
little bit and then we just kind

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of went back and forth and he
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like the whole weekend, pretty much
the whole weekend, but like that night,

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I mean he was coming to say
goodbye and ended up staying there like

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another two hours. He was with
his mom, came all the way from

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Tampa. They were so cool.
Oh dude, such cool people. They

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were the coolest. Big shout out, Gabe. Yeah, we got to

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meet his mom. His mom is
so that they're they're both sweet. Yes,

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the relationship is BEAUTI full, like
you know exactly how you would want

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a mother's son relationship. Oh totally. They're like they're like they seem like

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best friends. Yeah you know.
Yeah, So I hope he's listening to

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the show Gabe. That got to
be for five minutes as I was arriving,

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he had to fly away, so
I didn't. Unfortunately I didn't get

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the opportunity, and his uber was
there on the block and he still just

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wanted to talk to us and like
did not want to get in the uber.

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That was cool. Yea. So
Friday night kind of continues to move.

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I met I met another couple and
I remember his name is Sean,

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and I cannot remember her name.
And anyway, she had a hitchhiker.

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She was there all weekend. She
was really bummed because she walked up after

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we had seen orbs. So so
anyway, let me back up. We're

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hanging out. There's a couple of
people with the tent, and the orbs

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start popping off just like across the
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right, and I mean there's tons
of light pollution people walking back and forth.

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You've got junk people stumbling up and
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the orbs, just for the people
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them. And it was so cool. And then this couple pulls up later

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and she's bummed because she missed it. And then anyways started talking Chris.

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I started talking to him, and
that was that was pretty cool. And

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there was other people there. I'm
just like trying to recall and it's it

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might hit me later, but that
was kind of that was Friday had a

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first semi skywatching in the city event. Yeah. Yeah, And and like

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just a little bit of foreshadowing.
I mean there were orbs every night,

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kind of with Chris, kind of
like constant. Yeah with Chris. Everybody

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was hanging out at our tent.
Oh yeah yeah, if they were here

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for us. Yeah. Meanwhile,
there was chatter of a SkyWatch on Sunday

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night, right because Gorilla Style I
had been organizing one in the discord the

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week of saying, Hey, if
the weather's good, we're gonna SkyWatch on

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Sunday night. Some people were asking
questions, is there gonna be a SkyWatch?

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Is there gonna be a SkyWatch?
So oh, And I was totally

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like, you're coming out Sunday,
right, Oh. They're like yeah,

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yeah, yeah, or if they
didn't know, they're like, no,

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it's Sunday. Yep. Yeah.
I said that to like every person that

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I got a chance to talk to, like, you're coming on Sunday.

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And some of them knew, some
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Then then Saturday we went, and
I mean we got there pretty much like

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right when it opened up, and
it was literally like twelve hours straight of

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just one after another, like people
walking up. Dude, we had there

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were onmis that like would spot each
other in the crowd, like wearing like

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a hat or a shirt or something, and they would like link up and

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then they were like best friends for
the entire weekend. And the coolest that

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the probably the coolest example of that
was Corey and Chess and Chester shout out

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Corey and Chester shout out Corey and
Yes, And she told me the story

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that he was in the middle of
the street, Chester was looking on his

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phone on the map, trying to
get to the corner and we were on

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and she just kind of looked at
him and was like, are you here

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for Chris? And he's like yeah, and she's like so am I let's

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go. Yeah, and that then
they were like friends for the rest of

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the time. Oh yeah, like
instant best friends. Yeah. And it

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should also be said it was so
weird in a good way, like meeting

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all of these lovely, amazing people, because like it was like you just

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knew him already. It was like
you were already friends within like a sentence

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or two of meeting someone. I
just had this like the whole time,

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had this overwhelming like calm and love
and positivity, and I just felt so

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greatful to be there and be interacting
with everybody, Like one of the most

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emotional weekends of my life just flooded
with gratitude. It was just so cool.

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But and it's amazing too, because
like they've heard hundreds of hours of

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our show, so it's like it's
expected they would feel like they know us.

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But that's what I told somebody,
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I would feel like I know them
exactly. It was. It was it

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was the reverse was true, which
equally yeah, which is not expected,

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which which is really weird to say. And you might not understand what we're

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saying, but it really did feel
like when we were meeting people and they

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were showing up, we were just
hanging out. Dude. Well, man,

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I had a thought. I had
a thought after the weekend was over,

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because I was thinking about that exact
kind of weird phenomenon of like,

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why do I feel like I know
these people? Like I met Chester and

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Corey. They were some of the
first people I met, and like,

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I mean, I instantly felt so
comfortable with them and felt like I was

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just hanging out with a couple of
my friends. Uh, which was bizarre

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to me. Yeah, very bizarre. I don't know these people, dude.

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They were from like across the They
were each from like a complete hours

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and hours and hours away. I
didn't catch Wherechesters from but Texas. Yeah,

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but were they both from Texas?
There? No, Florida. Yeah,

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from Florida. She actually lives like
ten minutes or less away from my

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sister. Yeah, that's right,
that's right, they're talking about meeting up.

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Yeah, a lot of Texas boys
came out, yes, and Florida,

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bro, and dude, California,
Yeah, California, Germany, Germany.

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Bro. Yeah, some of the
game all the way from Germany.

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Shout out. But I had,
yeah, shout out, Stephan, you

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you are a real one. Stephan, you brought me Horry bo. Yeah,

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he was handing out Harry Bow.
Yeah. But anyway, I had

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the thought I was thinking about,
like just how like cool it is to

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like meet these people and just feel
this instant connection and whatever. And I

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was like, why why does it
feel that way? And I think,

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at least for me specific lee,
I felt so comfortable and like gratified towards

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these people because in my head,
I'm thinking, these people are supporting my

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friend and his family, and like
these these people are showing up here.

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It's just like so many years of
the opposite, so many years of seeing

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like the Bledsoe family really go through
it and like not be supported and be

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ridiculed and like all this stuff,
and now here I am standing in the

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middle of the street in Wilmington,
surrounded by BSS hats and shirts. It

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was pretty trippy to see that.
It really was so trippy. Yeah,

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and yeah, that's maybe maybe that's
why for me, I don't know that

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I had a feeling that like maybe
maybe it's because of that. Uh,

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but I appreciate that, but I
mean they're there to support you too.

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Yeah, I mean, yes,
absolutely for sure. And and I had

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I had, people were just so
nice. I think the I think my

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favorite compliment that I received over the
weekend was that Zeke and Brent, remember

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Brent with the test and everything.
Yeah, Brent. They they told me

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that I'm the Sam wise Gamgee of
the show. We've kind of made jokes

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about that in private there we're like
Samon Frodo and he's freaking come on,

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Hey, you can't take offense to
that. You haven't seen it, that's

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true. You don't know, but
I know who that character is. Yeah,

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but you don't know what happens.
You don't know. If you did,

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he's really Aragorn. If we're Sam
and Frodo, one's that One's Dude's

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highest highest. It's the best guy
you could have gotten. You're fucking king,

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the alpha with the sword and just
the badass. Yeah, you're the

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king, bro. Yeah, you're
air Goorn. Bro. Well, if

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we're Sam and Froudo, you are
certainly Aragorn. Yes, Okay, Can

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I talk about how this affected me? Sure? I didn't really think I'd

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be called a king today? No, no, no, no no.

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So kind of going off of what
you said, Nick, I feel like

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every time I open up to somebody
and explain what I do the podcast,

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you know that's what I mean,
and I feel like you have to tell

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them, and then I'm like immediately
on defense because I'm getting ready to defend

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myself against whatever they're gonna say.
So I like, you know, not

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that people always say negative things.
A lot of people, especially because I

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don't tell everybody, a lot of
people are like, Okay, that's cool,

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write no follow up. But I
tell people, I mean even my

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own family, right, you tell
them and then you're immediately on the defense.

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And it was just so it was
so comforting being around all of these

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people who just get it and who
are fans and who know about the show

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and who loved the show and just
get it, and so there was no

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defense. It was all just being
yourself and being like everybody super nice to

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each other, super loving. People
were getting other people drinks like that part

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of it was just so wild.
And then to see that, like,

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and I told many people this,
but it's like it's so easy for us,

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or at least for me, I
can speak, for me to just

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come in here, put our head
down, do the work, crank out

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the content, stay focused on the
mission, light and positivity into the mic

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in this little room, and put
it on the internet and forget it right.

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Yeah, But then to see the
real life effect that what we do

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and all of the hours we put
in and have on on strangers essentially not

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strangers anymore, not the people that
showed up, but everybody else out there.

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You know that we don't know the
effect that we've had on people's lives.

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Is that's real, you know,
that's not that's not fake Internet stuff.

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That's that's that's like real. And
to hear that and to see people

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walking around with the merchandise to just
further support that message is just like I

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can't even I don't have the words
or the feelings to describe like how that

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makes me feel, you know what
I mean that it's just so moving.

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That really hit me. When I
met Corey, she was one of the

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first that I met, because you
know, I came to last day and

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Corey had been there at least Saturday, right all day. Corey moo in

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the discord. Yeah, just very
awesome individual. Oh yeah, she's the

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best. And she was really spunky. I really appreciated her energy. You

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know, she's fun to be around. And and it really hit me because

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I saw she was one of the
first people that on Sunday and she had

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the I Believe You shirt and then
the classic BSS hat, not this one,

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but the other one, and I
was like, oh my god,

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like that's what I wear. Yeah, that's what we have on our website,

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but I've never seen anybody else other
than my close family and friends.

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And then to meet her and then
everyone else showing up and people with the

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hats and there were so many hoodies. Yeah, and look, I'm I

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know we're talking about merchandise. It's
not about selling merchandise. It's about meeting

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people in real life who are wearing
our symbol that we've never seen on a

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stranger before. That's what it's about. Yeah. Yeah, it was mind

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blowing. Yeah, yeah, it
was overwhelming in a great way because,

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like you know, we've talked about
the fact that the best thing to come

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from this show is the way that
it helps people. We talk about it

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all the time. It's the most
gratifying thing about doing this. But just

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like Alex said, like, oh
my gosh, like hearing people who came

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to see us from all over the
country, from in the world. Yeah,

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like tell us the way that what
we do helps them, Like I

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I was. It was so emotional. It was so emotional and gratifying and

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amazing. I just wanted to and
also like exhausting. I've never done anything

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like that, Like, like I'll
just be completely candid and honest like it

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was. It was very exhausting.
And I already have like like a touchy

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kind of social battery. Like you
know, I'm very much like if I'm

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in like a high social situation and
I have to kind of like be on

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or whatever even for like a couple
hours, I have to like recoup,

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and it's draining to me. Uh
But like I was not about to stop

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because the positive like greatly outweighed any
quote unquote negative. Like it wasn't oh

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no, my body's tired and like
I'm meeting a lot of people, Oh

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no, Like the positives were so
much more powerful, you know, And

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yeah, I just couldn't be more
thankful to meet everybody. And I got

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I got to like treat a few
omis to lunch. Like we just were

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like me and Casey were talking like, let's go get something to eat.

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And we were hanging out with Corey
and Chester and Stepan, and I was

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like, y'all just come with us, y'all hungry, and they just came

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with us and we had a blast. It was really awesome. Like and

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then, you know, the other
really cool thing is usually when I have

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somebody that's like really pumped to show
me like a crazy ORB video or like

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some something kind of adjacent to that
or whatever, it's like us, It's

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like it's like our kind of circle, right, it's you and your family,

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it's Alex, it's like it's friends, me known, our whole lives

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who yeah, who have been like
into this subject for a long time.

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But then it's like hearing other people's
experiences and seeing like pictures that other people

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have gotten and oh my gosh,
Like Corey had this amazing, amazing story

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about like this this photo that's been
in her family for like generations and all

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this stuff. I don't remember the
exact details, so Corey, I'm sorry,

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but the gist of it was that
this photo, this like old photo,

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had been in their family for generations
and it was taken on some sort

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of like indigenous land, that I
don't. I don't think. I don't

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think their family like owned it,
but I think it was just somewhere that

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they spent time. Maybe it was
like a vacation thing. I'm not entirely

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certain, but it's indigenous land and
there was a fire, they were like

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doing a fire, and she had
she and or her family had heard that

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there are like ghosts, spirits of
Indigenous folk that kind of like occupy that

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land. And she showed me this
photo that was taken in there, that

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passed down in their family of a
fire, like a bonfire, and She's

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telling me all this and whatever,
and I'm like listening, and I'm like,

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well, where's this going. This
is cool, all this stuff,

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And then I can tell she's like
getting ready to show me a photo,

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so I'm thinking, like, what
is this going to be? And I

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can also tell that she's like really
trying to explain it so that I get

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it. And when she showed it
to me, I instantly saw what it

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was like supposed to be what she
was trying to show me. It was

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like it couldn't it could not have
been a more perfect silhouette of a person

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running with like a hatchet in their
hands. Oh, dad, I didn't

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see this like a straight up like
hatchet or like Tom, I'm I'm gonna

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message her and ask her if she'll
send me this. Dude. It even

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had a face. Wow, this
is like an old film photo. Like

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she she took a picture of it
with her phone and and like you know,

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it was so clear cut. And
then every everyone had stories. Everyone

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had stories about experiences or things that
they've seen and and and like god,

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it was so cool. So then, yeah, we just had such an

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incredible day, met so many amazing
people we got to meet. Big shout

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out to Pia and Jack. Yes, they came all the way from I

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think San Diego right by a small
time by it, all the way from

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there, and they are just like
the Oh my god. They were so

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sweet, so nice, so supportive
and had like stories of their own.

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And there was actually a story.
I'm gonna have to find it, so

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y'all give me a minute, but
there was a story about something that Pia

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experienced at the Azalea Festival that she
wanted me to share on the show.

408
00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:11.720
Well, while you're looking for that, I'll catch up a little bit.

409
00:30:11.759 --> 00:30:17.240
So we're still getting into Friday Night
and meanwhile, I'm in Charlotte, which

410
00:30:17.279 --> 00:30:19.160
is basically four hours away, and
I'm at a wedding. And I was

411
00:30:19.160 --> 00:30:22.480
happy to be at the wedding.
I wasn't like regretting going, but a

412
00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:25.279
part of me was like, dang, I wish I could be there.

413
00:30:25.279 --> 00:30:29.759
The whole time, I was really
feeling fomo but deep down inside, to

414
00:30:29.839 --> 00:30:30.799
be honest with you, guys,
I haven't told you all this, but

415
00:30:30.920 --> 00:30:33.960
I knew that I was not meant
to be there. But the y'all would

416
00:30:34.640 --> 00:30:41.200
first, because you know, this
isn't the first rodeo for me. I

417
00:30:41.240 --> 00:30:44.920
mean since the Dad's documentary came out
when I was fifteen, and I really

418
00:30:44.920 --> 00:30:48.519
have met a lot of people in
person who who have heard our story.

419
00:30:48.680 --> 00:30:52.599
Now. Granted, AZEA Festival was
the best experience of my life and it

420
00:30:52.720 --> 00:30:56.200
was beyond anything I've experienced, but
in my head, I was like,

421
00:30:56.519 --> 00:31:00.359
this isn't my first rodeo. I
want them to have an experience. It's

422
00:31:00.640 --> 00:31:03.400
so I'm getting these pictures on the
discord and on text, and I'm like,

423
00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:06.960
oh my god, I'm missing out. And you know, I'm enjoying

424
00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:08.200
the wedding, but I'm like looking
at my phone every twenty minutes, like

425
00:31:08.200 --> 00:31:11.799
waiting to see pictures and updates,
and I'm texting like what's going on,

426
00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:14.279
You're you know, tell me what's
going on. I'm like really dying to

427
00:31:14.319 --> 00:31:17.599
see and really wishing to be there, but also like a part of me

428
00:31:17.720 --> 00:31:22.000
was like this is right, you
know. And I start getting all these

429
00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:26.000
texts from you guys on Saturday,
and I think like the second it got

430
00:31:26.079 --> 00:31:27.359
dark each day, it was like
boom orbs are here, and you guys

431
00:31:27.400 --> 00:31:32.839
are you know, sending me pictures, sending me videos whatever? And yes,

432
00:31:33.000 --> 00:31:34.319
So anyway, did you end up
finding it? Yes? I did,

433
00:31:34.400 --> 00:31:37.200
Nick? Can I interrupt you?
Please? Please? So, Nick,

434
00:31:37.240 --> 00:31:41.559
do you remember the two gentlemen that
came from Texas? I do names?

435
00:31:41.720 --> 00:31:45.200
Was Mike, Yeah, I don't, I don't. Oh yeah yeah

436
00:31:45.440 --> 00:31:48.839
and his brother Mike and his brother. Yeah, I'm sorry, we met

437
00:31:49.880 --> 00:31:56.319
hard. Gosh were they the coolest? Twenty two hours from Texas? Yeah,

438
00:31:56.839 --> 00:32:00.880
to come here and they were just
stoked, like I had such a

439
00:32:00.880 --> 00:32:04.119
blast talking to them. Yeah,
and I'm pretty sure it's Mike. If

440
00:32:04.119 --> 00:32:07.759
it's not Mike, you please let
me know it's not Mike. Anyway.

441
00:32:08.039 --> 00:32:12.240
No, he was telling me a
story when they left at the butt crack

442
00:32:12.279 --> 00:32:19.240
of dawn to leave Texas and they're
driving out of their driveway and this hawk

443
00:32:19.640 --> 00:32:23.519
swoops down in front of the car. And this same thing happened to me

444
00:32:23.839 --> 00:32:28.519
and your dad Ryan on the way
to the Heart and your dad goes,

445
00:32:28.960 --> 00:32:30.680
Dad is big into hawk symbolism,
and your dad goes, that's a good

446
00:32:30.720 --> 00:32:32.960
omen. Today's gonna be a good
day. And I was like, I

447
00:32:34.119 --> 00:32:37.160
completely agree. So I told him
that. When he told me the story,

448
00:32:37.200 --> 00:32:38.319
I was like, that's awesome.
It's a blessing for your trip,

449
00:32:38.400 --> 00:32:43.400
but you're gonna have a great time
whatever. And so the day moves on.

450
00:32:43.599 --> 00:32:46.279
Still broad daylight, because this is
gonna transition into your story, Nick,

451
00:32:47.039 --> 00:32:52.079
So broad daylight, I'm hanging out
at the tent talking to some other

452
00:32:52.119 --> 00:32:59.079
people and I look up and right
above his head is this hawk circling.

453
00:32:59.279 --> 00:33:01.440
And I ran over to him and
tapped him on the shoulder and said look,

454
00:33:02.559 --> 00:33:05.720
and he looks up and it's like, oh my gosh. What I

455
00:33:05.759 --> 00:33:08.480
didn't know is what's going on on
the other side of the tent at the

456
00:33:08.480 --> 00:33:14.799
same exact time. And that's nixt
story. So Pia's story, by the

457
00:33:14.839 --> 00:33:20.640
way, just a side note,
there were like massive hawks. Every day

458
00:33:20.920 --> 00:33:27.160
there were They were like flying around
the tent like downtown. That's not usual.

459
00:33:27.400 --> 00:33:30.680
Yeah, thousands upon thousands of people
around like that's not normal. All

460
00:33:30.759 --> 00:33:34.920
right, So I'm going to share
this story. Thank you so much,

461
00:33:35.319 --> 00:33:40.039
Pia for allowing us to share this
story with everybody. It's really truly inspiring

462
00:33:40.119 --> 00:33:45.440
and incredible. So this is what
Pia sent in the discord. Shared to

463
00:33:45.480 --> 00:33:49.680
the discord, she says, before
I begin, I want to share my

464
00:33:49.759 --> 00:33:52.279
history with my religion and lif and
my life. I'm half Asian, half

465
00:33:52.319 --> 00:33:57.359
white, and I was raised by
a Buddhist. I was raised Buddhist by

466
00:33:57.359 --> 00:34:00.319
my mother, though not strictly,
and Catholic by my father. I was

467
00:34:00.359 --> 00:34:05.599
baptized and received Communion, but I
had no real belief in either religion.

468
00:34:06.440 --> 00:34:10.559
I have a disability called CMT disease
and will never forget crying out to the

469
00:34:10.559 --> 00:34:14.760
stars, to God, to whoever
was listening, to please heal me and

470
00:34:14.840 --> 00:34:19.079
make my life easier. After doing
this for a while, I lost all

471
00:34:19.199 --> 00:34:22.280
hope in God. I had both
hips replaced when I was eight years old

472
00:34:22.360 --> 00:34:28.280
and was in a body cast for
seven months. I lost so much blood

473
00:34:28.320 --> 00:34:30.679
I almost died. I asked myself, if there was a God, why

474
00:34:30.800 --> 00:34:36.119
was this happening to me. My
parents were both abusive to me, and

475
00:34:36.239 --> 00:34:38.280
although my father was a member of
the Catholic Church, he was a bad

476
00:34:38.360 --> 00:34:43.480
person behind closed doors. In fact, he was only doing it for his

477
00:34:43.519 --> 00:34:47.320
new wife, not for himself.
My home was very non spiritual, unloving

478
00:34:47.719 --> 00:34:55.639
and neglectful. And now we move
on to what happened on Saturday. Now

479
00:34:55.679 --> 00:35:00.280
onto my story from Saturday. She
says, Towards the end of the day,

480
00:35:00.400 --> 00:35:02.559
I had a chance to speak to
Chris. He gave me a big

481
00:35:02.679 --> 00:35:06.320
hug, and when he looked into
my eyes, it was like he could

482
00:35:06.360 --> 00:35:09.639
see the real me. It's very
rare that someone looks me in the eyes

483
00:35:09.719 --> 00:35:14.639
and sees my soul. He told
me, you shouldn't be in this much

484
00:35:14.679 --> 00:35:17.719
pain at such a young age.
I tried very hard to hold back tears,

485
00:35:17.719 --> 00:35:22.519
because even though he didn't know me
or my life, he completely understood.

486
00:35:22.639 --> 00:35:27.840
He's had his own traumas, lost
his heartaches and pain. And we

487
00:35:27.880 --> 00:35:31.079
had a little more personal talk,
and then he hugged me tightly and asked

488
00:35:31.119 --> 00:35:36.800
the angels to please heal me.
I closed my eyes and believed with my

489
00:35:37.039 --> 00:35:40.400
whole heart that it would happen.
As soon as he said this, we

490
00:35:40.480 --> 00:35:47.559
heard people exclaiming, look above us, there are two hawks circling. This

491
00:35:47.639 --> 00:35:51.840
got Chris and my attention. With
his arm still around me, he looked

492
00:35:51.840 --> 00:35:53.440
at me with a big smile,
as if he knew it would happen.

493
00:35:54.320 --> 00:35:58.159
The hawks circled a few times above
us, and then all of a sudden,

494
00:35:58.639 --> 00:36:04.920
two orbs appeared behind them. In
the daytime, they came in and

495
00:36:04.920 --> 00:36:08.639
out of visibility. They were bright
and seemingly white. They appeared multiple times

496
00:36:08.679 --> 00:36:12.840
in and out. Oh, I
read it again. I couldn't believe it,

497
00:36:12.920 --> 00:36:15.760
she says. I could never explain
in words how profound it was,

498
00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:20.800
but it was an event that completely
changed my life. On our way to

499
00:36:20.840 --> 00:36:24.119
the car, I saw so many
animals come to say hello. There were

500
00:36:24.360 --> 00:36:30.440
just tons of them. Most animals
would just run at the sight of people.

501
00:36:30.960 --> 00:36:34.440
Kiddies came out to say hello.
The cutest squirrel sat and stared at

502
00:36:34.519 --> 00:36:37.880
us. We saw about five squirrels
coming out of the trees just to watch

503
00:36:37.880 --> 00:36:43.280
and stare. We saw geese watching
us. I feel very blessed and appreciative

504
00:36:43.320 --> 00:36:46.239
of Chris's prayer for me. In
fact, days later, I've been impressed

505
00:36:46.360 --> 00:36:52.199
by how much less pain I've been
in, even at the beach, which

506
00:36:52.280 --> 00:36:55.920
is on Sunday night when we had
our big SkyWatch with a huge group that

507
00:36:57.440 --> 00:37:00.119
day. Yes, yes, even
at the beach, was able to stand

508
00:37:00.280 --> 00:37:06.679
for about forty to fifty minutes.
She is in a wheelchair. For the

509
00:37:06.719 --> 00:37:08.920
audience, I was able to stand
for about forty to fifty minutes. My

510
00:37:09.000 --> 00:37:14.679
maximum is usually about ten to fifteen
minutes. I saw her, and then

511
00:37:14.719 --> 00:37:20.199
she finishes it with I can feel
a change within. I saw her walk

512
00:37:20.239 --> 00:37:22.440
over to the ocean and touch the
water because heart her husband Jack, her

513
00:37:22.440 --> 00:37:24.679
from the West coast. They had
never been to the East coast and touched

514
00:37:24.679 --> 00:37:28.400
the water. And I saw her
and in my head I said, and

515
00:37:28.519 --> 00:37:30.440
she can be okay. And I
was like, just let her be,

516
00:37:30.519 --> 00:37:34.719
you know, cause I was kind
of helping Jack tender her a little bit,

517
00:37:34.800 --> 00:37:37.360
you know. Yeah, And she
walked right over there and she touched

518
00:37:37.360 --> 00:37:40.400
the ocean, and even in my
mind, I was like, that's incredible,

519
00:37:43.400 --> 00:37:49.000
It is so incredible. They were
so amazing and inspiring to meet,

520
00:37:49.199 --> 00:37:54.280
and like I feel changed having met
them, like such amazing, incredible people

521
00:37:54.559 --> 00:38:00.760
and like god, what a story. Oh God, it and and she

522
00:38:00.760 --> 00:38:06.719
she she did add one more thing
in a message that she wanted to include.

523
00:38:06.800 --> 00:38:08.639
She says, I would like the
audience to know that I was very

524
00:38:08.719 --> 00:38:14.719
much a non believer and did not
believe in the afterlife before this. That's

525
00:38:14.719 --> 00:38:17.320
how profound this has been for me. When I say my life has changed,

526
00:38:17.360 --> 00:38:21.920
I really meant meant it. That's
incredible. They were such wonderful people,

527
00:38:21.920 --> 00:38:27.039
man. Because she was in the
wheelchair. Dad had her and and

528
00:38:27.079 --> 00:38:30.000
you know, like Chris Junior's son
is in a wheelchair. Yeah, and

529
00:38:30.599 --> 00:38:36.159
it's it's just it's just a part
of our life when we're very accustomed to

530
00:38:36.280 --> 00:38:39.199
it and dealing with it. And
it's not about that. But my point

531
00:38:39.239 --> 00:38:45.320
is Dad had her sitting under his
tent, like like just just sit in

532
00:38:45.320 --> 00:38:46.880
the shade, you know, And
she sat with us and her husband the

533
00:38:46.880 --> 00:38:51.800
whole time, Saturday and Sunday.
Yeah. So I get back and I

534
00:38:51.960 --> 00:38:54.599
see them, and remember I'm the
one last to the festival. I mean,

535
00:38:54.639 --> 00:38:58.159
I showed up the third day and
they're under the tent, and I

536
00:38:58.159 --> 00:39:00.320
had no clue who they were,
but I just thought they look like such

537
00:39:00.440 --> 00:39:01.280
nice people. And I sat down
and I talked to them. One on

538
00:39:01.280 --> 00:39:07.880
one for quite a while, and
I just felt this deep well of sadness

539
00:39:07.920 --> 00:39:15.360
in particularly Jack. And of course, I mean I was asking Jack questions

540
00:39:15.360 --> 00:39:17.800
and listening to him and getting to
know a lot more about him, and

541
00:39:19.039 --> 00:39:22.960
I didn't pry into Pea, but
I just felt this well of sadness,

542
00:39:23.000 --> 00:39:27.840
like they have really been through something. Just shut the hell up and listen,

543
00:39:28.559 --> 00:39:30.159
you know. And it's like you
never know where anyone's coming from,

544
00:39:30.239 --> 00:39:34.880
you never know what they've been through, you never know there's suffering. Just

545
00:39:35.159 --> 00:39:38.440
listen, you know. And it
was just such an incredible sequence of events

546
00:39:38.440 --> 00:39:43.400
there, And I mean, I
can't see the future, but I just

547
00:39:43.440 --> 00:39:46.760
know incredible things are coming their way
and and honestly everybody's way. That was

548
00:39:46.800 --> 00:39:55.960
there. So a thousand and Pia, you you had an extremely important moment

549
00:39:58.000 --> 00:40:01.679
with a little boy that you I
think made very very happy, and I

550
00:40:01.719 --> 00:40:06.840
think you might have changed his life
a little bit. I mean, her

551
00:40:07.079 --> 00:40:14.559
and Vincent interacting like they were,
they were like talking about their wheelchairs and

552
00:40:14.599 --> 00:40:17.000
he was telling her like, you
know, they were just talking about the

553
00:40:17.079 --> 00:40:22.639
difficulties of it, and you could
tell, you know, he's kind of

554
00:40:22.639 --> 00:40:25.760
a reserved kid A lot of the
time, he doesn't you know, doesn't

555
00:40:27.639 --> 00:40:30.679
doesn't look people in the eye.
Sometimes he's not very like talkative a whole

556
00:40:30.679 --> 00:40:36.360
lot, but like in crowds,
yeah, especially Yeah, but gosh,

557
00:40:36.440 --> 00:40:42.760
I just he just lit up like
a light bulb and they just connected immediately.

558
00:40:42.800 --> 00:40:45.800
It was like it was like he
had found himself a best friend,

559
00:40:45.880 --> 00:40:50.119
like immediately, gosh, man,
that that was very wholesome. Oh,

560
00:40:50.159 --> 00:40:54.000
that moved me. That it was
just so incredible and inspiring. And that's

561
00:40:54.119 --> 00:40:57.880
that's the nature of this. You
know, you guys have seen us on

562
00:40:57.960 --> 00:41:00.320
camera for three years. You haven't
seen the reality of what it's like on

563
00:41:00.360 --> 00:41:04.239
our side. And it's it's it's
a lot of that, it's a lot

564
00:41:04.239 --> 00:41:07.199
of meeting people who, let me
just put it this way, the people

565
00:41:07.360 --> 00:41:15.280
who tend to see the phenomenon are
on the brink from pain and from suffering.

566
00:41:15.480 --> 00:41:20.559
And I think it's people like Pia
and Jack and us and whoever who

567
00:41:20.599 --> 00:41:24.559
have been through so much who I
don't know how to say this in the

568
00:41:24.639 --> 00:41:31.880
right way, who have been through
so much that like we need intervention,

569
00:41:32.039 --> 00:41:37.159
We we need to see you know. That's that's when we see. It's

570
00:41:37.159 --> 00:41:40.360
not just anybody that goes out there
and is like, all right, if

571
00:41:40.400 --> 00:41:45.719
you're real, show me like,
no, no, it comes with suffering,

572
00:41:45.239 --> 00:41:50.559
yea, or after suffering. Except
for the sorry, Nick, I'm

573
00:41:50.599 --> 00:41:53.719
sure yours is more profound, I
was gonna say, except for the drunk

574
00:41:53.800 --> 00:41:58.840
dude that wandered out of the wedding
and joined our sky watching and saw orbs

575
00:41:58.960 --> 00:42:04.119
and then can continued to deny their
existence. That was funny. There's definitely

576
00:42:04.199 --> 00:42:06.960
exceptions to the rule. No,
no, you don't have to have suffered

577
00:42:06.960 --> 00:42:08.400
to see that's not the point,
of course. You know, Dad will

578
00:42:08.440 --> 00:42:13.320
tell you he's had thousands upon thousands
of messages in the last seventeen years,

579
00:42:13.360 --> 00:42:15.880
and he said ninety nine percent of
everybody he's ever had a message from that

580
00:42:16.159 --> 00:42:20.400
started seeing orbs or whatever. Dad
will say, Okay, what's going on

581
00:42:20.400 --> 00:42:22.000
in your life? And then they
go into X and Y and Z,

582
00:42:22.119 --> 00:42:24.960
and it turns out, you know, my sister died from cancer, or

583
00:42:25.000 --> 00:42:28.840
my husband just died, or I'm
been in a car crash and I can't

584
00:42:28.840 --> 00:42:31.559
walk anymore. Just a laundry list
of problems that people are going through.

585
00:42:32.079 --> 00:42:37.920
And we have realized over time that
there's a connection to trauma and suffering and

586
00:42:37.960 --> 00:42:43.199
it's I mean, I mean read
the book like Dad was praying to God,

587
00:42:43.239 --> 00:42:45.079
like you got to kill me now
because I can't deal with this anymore,

588
00:42:45.199 --> 00:42:46.920
or you got to save me this
one or the other. I can't

589
00:42:46.960 --> 00:42:52.760
do it. And that's when they
came, you know, absolutely, we

590
00:42:52.960 --> 00:42:58.480
got an opportunity to meet and speak
to another incredible person there named Paul,

591
00:42:58.760 --> 00:43:07.559
who just had another of so many
incredibly inspiring stories. I could have listened

592
00:43:07.599 --> 00:43:12.760
to him all day. I think
his story needs to be shared. It

593
00:43:12.800 --> 00:43:16.599
is. I think it's extremely important, and I really hope that it gets

594
00:43:16.639 --> 00:43:22.719
told at length. And but the
cliff notes of it are essentially that,

595
00:43:22.280 --> 00:43:29.400
Yeah, he found himself in just
a horrible, horrible place in life,

596
00:43:30.519 --> 00:43:36.840
really really bad on drugs and homeless
and for five years, for five years

597
00:43:37.400 --> 00:43:43.639
separated completely from his family, his
children, everyone. I mean, he

598
00:43:43.760 --> 00:43:50.079
was completely alone and on the street
and like you know, strung out.

599
00:43:50.480 --> 00:43:59.480
And he described this, this stunning
experience, years before he knew the name

600
00:43:59.599 --> 00:44:06.039
crisp So or anything about this phenomenon
in any way whatsoever, told this incredible

601
00:44:06.039 --> 00:44:14.079
story of just a really extremely dark
night that he had where he was really

602
00:44:14.159 --> 00:44:21.239
like oding like he was and thought
that he wasn't going to make it,

603
00:44:21.440 --> 00:44:28.199
and he saw all he could do
was look at the doorknob in the room,

604
00:44:28.320 --> 00:44:30.800
and there was a light kind of
like glinting off of it, and

605
00:44:30.840 --> 00:44:34.679
everything else in the room was going
dark. He thought he was dying.

606
00:44:35.079 --> 00:44:37.920
The only thing that he could do
was look at that light in the doorknob,

607
00:44:38.400 --> 00:44:45.159
and it moved closer to him and
got bigger and eventually became a woman

608
00:44:45.360 --> 00:44:49.239
dressed in Egyptian clothing. No,
no, no, all right, sorry,

609
00:44:49.400 --> 00:44:53.360
no, correct, the doorknob became
the demon, and the demon that

610
00:44:53.440 --> 00:44:59.840
he was feeding with his negative actions. You're right, and the demon was

611
00:45:00.119 --> 00:45:05.199
is basically growing stronger because of what
he was doing. Full disclosure. I

612
00:45:05.239 --> 00:45:08.199
did not have the opportunity to hear
his story, So please where we're gonna

613
00:45:08.239 --> 00:45:12.079
fill you in because I do think
there's a lot of similarity. He has

614
00:45:12.079 --> 00:45:15.480
a lot of stories and there's a
lot of similarities. Sorry to cut you

615
00:45:15.480 --> 00:45:21.079
off, Nick. So the demon
feeding off of his energy and then he

616
00:45:21.159 --> 00:45:24.599
kind of comes to a little bit
and sees a woman in the room,

617
00:45:25.079 --> 00:45:30.639
still still not really having control of
his body, but it's lightning up and

618
00:45:30.679 --> 00:45:37.119
the woman is dressed in Egyptian clothing
and not not a hallucination, not like

619
00:45:37.920 --> 00:45:45.239
a fog, like a bona fide
woman. And he's seeing this walking back

620
00:45:45.239 --> 00:45:49.000
and forth in front of his bed, and she's going, we're in a

621
00:45:49.039 --> 00:45:52.679
spiritual war, and this is how
I find you. You're feet. You

622
00:45:52.760 --> 00:45:59.000
are feeding the demon with your negative
actions and this is all telepathic of course,

623
00:45:59.159 --> 00:46:01.679
right, Yeah, he never saw
our face. You know, this

624
00:46:01.760 --> 00:46:05.519
is you're feeding the demon with your
negative actions. You know, you basically

625
00:46:05.599 --> 00:46:08.119
need to get it together. Yeah, and then and then he kind of

626
00:46:08.159 --> 00:46:12.280
like snapped out of all of it, not to mention he was he did

627
00:46:12.320 --> 00:46:15.119
describe to me he had been seeing
orbs following right, yes, right following

628
00:46:15.119 --> 00:46:17.039
it he called him drones. He
didn't know what they were, Yeah,

629
00:46:17.079 --> 00:46:20.920
he was. Yeah, he said
he was like texting his son like there

630
00:46:21.000 --> 00:46:22.599
was a drone that like, well, he continues to call him drones to

631
00:46:22.679 --> 00:46:24.800
yah, right, right, because
that's comfortable to him. Yeah, But

632
00:46:24.840 --> 00:46:29.800
he told me he was like,
I know what it is now after learning

633
00:46:29.800 --> 00:46:32.039
about you guys, But I like
to say drones because it's what I'm familiar

634
00:46:32.039 --> 00:46:35.280
with and comfortable with. But I
know they're not drunk, right, And

635
00:46:35.320 --> 00:46:37.400
I get that. I totally respect
that, Like it's just it's it's a

636
00:46:37.519 --> 00:46:42.079
it's a it's like I said in
the first episode, he's like trauma bonded

637
00:46:42.199 --> 00:46:47.519
to that terminology, you know,
Like and so basically there's another story and

638
00:46:47.559 --> 00:46:51.800
I don't really want to tell it
because I don't really think I'm going to

639
00:46:51.840 --> 00:46:54.920
do it justice and I'd like almost
kind of want to save it if that

640
00:46:54.960 --> 00:47:01.719
makes sense. Yeah, yeah,
And but basically ends up ends up repairing

641
00:47:01.719 --> 00:47:07.079
his life, becoming a father again
to his son who's also there. Both

642
00:47:07.280 --> 00:47:10.440
great dudes, Like, and he
was actually texting me his son, Paul

643
00:47:12.880 --> 00:47:15.000
was texting me like, Hey,
we're coming from Miami. What do we

644
00:47:15.079 --> 00:47:20.400
need to bring? But I'm like, kid, bring a jacket. But

645
00:47:20.599 --> 00:47:25.800
we're still talking right now. Actually, No becomes a father again and is

646
00:47:25.840 --> 00:47:31.119
trying to explain this right, And
then your dad's book comes out and they

647
00:47:31.159 --> 00:47:37.679
get to read together about the suffering
that your family went through until you know,

648
00:47:37.920 --> 00:47:43.400
intervention essentially from the orbs from above, and they found common ground.

649
00:47:43.719 --> 00:47:49.199
They found you know, he can
relate to his father now because of the

650
00:47:49.239 --> 00:47:52.599
book, and now they're big fans
of the show. Yeah. Yeah.

651
00:47:52.719 --> 00:47:58.599
The father straight up said that like
reading Chris's book, reading UFO of God

652
00:47:59.559 --> 00:48:05.760
gave him the strength and the perspective
to be able to explain it to his

653
00:48:05.920 --> 00:48:09.599
son. That's amazing, amazing,
Like, are you kidding? That's what

654
00:48:09.639 --> 00:48:14.360
this is all about. Family,
And you know what I want to say

655
00:48:14.440 --> 00:48:17.199
right now is that this is happening
and is going to happen all over the

656
00:48:17.239 --> 00:48:22.800
world. I believe that what the
the awakening is about, the great Awakening,

657
00:48:22.800 --> 00:48:25.239
the age of Aquarius, which I
believe we are in now. I

658
00:48:25.239 --> 00:48:30.159
think we are in the Age of
Aquarius now. I think that this is

659
00:48:30.199 --> 00:48:34.159
going to happen to many people around
the world, and they're going to begin

660
00:48:34.599 --> 00:48:40.159
to have these intense spiritual awakenings and
and we'll see things. And I think

661
00:48:40.199 --> 00:48:45.719
that that's where we come in,
is to help people understand that it's nothing

662
00:48:45.760 --> 00:48:49.559
to be afraid of. You.
No, it's not only for us.

663
00:48:50.440 --> 00:48:53.519
No, we just were traumatized ahead
of everybody. Yeah, that's that's the

664
00:48:53.519 --> 00:48:59.239
best thing that can come out of
it. It's it's going to ramp way

665
00:48:59.360 --> 00:49:04.679
up people like Paul, And I'm
telling you, man, like, there's

666
00:49:04.840 --> 00:49:06.800
there's gonna be a lot of this, I think. I think, I

667
00:49:06.800 --> 00:49:09.119
think rapidly around the world, people
are going to start seeing more of the

668
00:49:09.159 --> 00:49:13.880
phenomenon and more signs and over the
next few years, and this is only

669
00:49:13.960 --> 00:49:20.119
the beginning. Oh. Absolutely,
absolutely, it's just a different animal when

670
00:49:21.360 --> 00:49:23.920
you're hearing this stuff in person.
Yeah, you know, it is shocking.

671
00:49:24.159 --> 00:49:30.639
Oh man, it's shocking. It's
overwhelming. But it's just like it's

672
00:49:30.679 --> 00:49:35.639
just reaffirming that. I'm just very
glad. It's like Alex said, it's

673
00:49:35.679 --> 00:49:37.280
like we sit here, you know, every week now. Used to be

674
00:49:37.519 --> 00:49:40.599
every other weekend, three times,
you know, three episodes a night,

675
00:49:40.639 --> 00:49:44.639
but now it's every week. We
sit here and we talk to the camera.

676
00:49:44.719 --> 00:49:46.039
There's nobody in the room but us
three, and we put it out

677
00:49:46.039 --> 00:49:49.880
on the internet and we're shadow man. We have no clue how many people

678
00:49:49.880 --> 00:49:53.039
are really actually listening. And for
three years we're grinding. We're grinding,

679
00:49:53.039 --> 00:49:55.519
we're grinding, and we're the three
of us are just like, we believe

680
00:49:55.519 --> 00:49:59.199
in this mission. Let's do it
no matter what. It's not about this,

681
00:49:59.239 --> 00:50:00.960
it's not about that. It's about
telling the story, telling the message.

682
00:50:01.159 --> 00:50:05.920
We keep doing it and then boom, we're face to face with seventy

683
00:50:05.960 --> 00:50:07.480
to one hundred people who are like, you've changed my life, dude,

684
00:50:07.519 --> 00:50:10.320
I'm seeing this and and this is
happening to me in this It's like,

685
00:50:10.719 --> 00:50:15.960
oh my god, Like there are
real people out there. Yeah yeah,

686
00:50:16.039 --> 00:50:22.199
not just YouTube comments, real people
hugging me and laughing with me and crying

687
00:50:22.199 --> 00:50:24.880
with me, and we're sharing these
magnificent moments and we're looking at the sky

688
00:50:24.920 --> 00:50:29.360
together and we're all enjoy and wonder
at the heavens. It's like, oh

689
00:50:29.360 --> 00:50:31.280
my god, dude, like there
is no going back. No, not

690
00:50:31.440 --> 00:50:36.239
at all, not at all.
Yeah, it was I gotta tell y'all.

691
00:50:36.920 --> 00:50:40.039
Getting asked to sign a book is
crazy. Someone asked me, and

692
00:50:40.440 --> 00:50:45.880
I think it was Skippy. He
shout out, shout out. He was

693
00:50:45.920 --> 00:50:47.400
the first and he was like,
are you sign my book? I said

694
00:50:47.679 --> 00:50:54.239
why, I'm just a dude,
Like, come on, man, Skippy

695
00:50:54.679 --> 00:51:00.559
really cool. Skippy his lovely wife
got off work. Yeah, Katie.

696
00:51:00.800 --> 00:51:04.880
They gosh, like, they are
so cool. Casey and I got a

697
00:51:04.960 --> 00:51:08.239
chance to hang out with them for
a while and talk about just like life

698
00:51:08.320 --> 00:51:14.760
and they're so incredible, wonderful.
Shout out Jenny Ree. We got to

699
00:51:14.760 --> 00:51:21.079
meet Jenny Ree Anthony Anthony so cool. We talked about D and D for

700
00:51:21.119 --> 00:51:23.480
a while, Oh my gosh.
And then I got to FaceTime with her

701
00:51:23.599 --> 00:51:30.519
daughter Emmy, which and just talk
about Stephen universe because we're this ten year

702
00:51:30.519 --> 00:51:34.079
old girl, well eleven. Now
she just had her eleventh birthday. Happy

703
00:51:34.159 --> 00:51:37.599
birthday, Happy birthday, Emmy.
Yes, happy birthday, birthday. And

704
00:51:37.599 --> 00:51:42.280
also it was Jenny's Jenny Reeve's birthday. The day that she was on Saturday.

705
00:51:42.559 --> 00:51:45.360
Was it Saturday or Sunday? I
think it was Saturday. I think

706
00:51:45.440 --> 00:51:47.639
Sunday. You sure, yeah,
because they came right back out to the

707
00:51:47.800 --> 00:51:52.280
thing right right, yes, yeah, So God, that was so cool

708
00:51:52.559 --> 00:51:55.880
because you were there, Ryan,
you were there. Let's let's go ahead

709
00:51:55.880 --> 00:51:59.159
and just do this real quick.
Let's get this out of the way.

710
00:51:59.199 --> 00:52:01.320
Okay, now, now this is
the people that were pictured here. I

711
00:52:01.320 --> 00:52:04.920
don't want anybody being like, oh
I was there and I didn't get shouted

712
00:52:04.960 --> 00:52:07.239
out. All right, we're gonna
do a rolling shout out. We got

713
00:52:07.440 --> 00:52:09.440
Corey, we got Stephan, we
got Kyle, we got Zeke, we

714
00:52:09.519 --> 00:52:16.599
got Jenny, Daniel, April,
another Jenny. There were multiple Daniels and

715
00:52:16.679 --> 00:52:21.199
multiple Jenny's. Oh yeah, there
were three Jenny's. My really popular name

716
00:52:21.599 --> 00:52:24.480
James Joel Pia. And then there
were some individuals who are photoed here that

717
00:52:24.519 --> 00:52:28.639
I did not get to meet or
have the opportunity to talk to more than

718
00:52:28.679 --> 00:52:32.840
like five seconds, and I cannot
remember their names. Shout out Adam Saturday,

719
00:52:32.920 --> 00:52:37.400
dude, Yeah, Adam. Oh. And I also want to give

720
00:52:37.440 --> 00:52:42.719
a big shout out not pictured to
Collette and her husband Jesse. Jesse,

721
00:52:44.199 --> 00:52:49.320
Me and Olivia talked to them for
quite some time on Sunday. Super awesome

722
00:52:49.360 --> 00:52:52.280
people, super beautiful family. They've
done a great job, and I just

723
00:52:52.320 --> 00:52:59.800
want to give a shout out here
that they've really kind of opened me and

724
00:52:59.840 --> 00:53:07.639
ABA's eyes to some things and gave
us more confidence with some things we were

725
00:53:07.639 --> 00:53:09.840
wrestling with when it comes to like
starting a family. So that I don't

726
00:53:09.840 --> 00:53:13.679
want to be super like, you
know, forward about it, but thank

727
00:53:13.719 --> 00:53:15.960
you very much for that. Yeah, they were awesome people call it and

728
00:53:16.880 --> 00:53:22.760
Jesse and their daughters Matilda and Georgia. Yeah, yeah, go ahead with

729
00:53:22.800 --> 00:53:25.599
the names, right. Yeah.
And there's there's many people, I mean,

730
00:53:25.679 --> 00:53:29.519
dude, that was a photo of
about we had seventy people on the

731
00:53:29.519 --> 00:53:30.480
beach. So let's get to that. But before we get to that,

732
00:53:30.559 --> 00:53:35.360
I wanted to finish a thought I
had earlier cause I don't feel like it

733
00:53:35.400 --> 00:53:37.920
was complete enough, I wanted to
talk a little bit more about the suffering.

734
00:53:37.719 --> 00:53:40.320
I'm not trying to wish suffering on
people. I'm not saying that you

735
00:53:40.360 --> 00:53:44.079
should want to suffer to see the
phenomenon. That is not what this is

736
00:53:44.119 --> 00:53:47.360
about. What I'm trying to say
is I think that the people who have

737
00:53:47.400 --> 00:53:53.400
suffered the most are the ones that
the miracles occur around the most. Right,

738
00:53:53.480 --> 00:53:57.800
Like, I want to make it
very clear, I'm not promoting suffering.

739
00:53:57.840 --> 00:54:00.199
I'm not saying, oh, you
know, out there and get trauma's

740
00:54:00.239 --> 00:54:05.159
hizhed so you start seeing. It's
not a prerequisite. No, it's not

741
00:54:05.679 --> 00:54:09.440
the point. But something I have
noticed in my life is people who have

742
00:54:09.519 --> 00:54:14.360
been through profound suffering and profound trauma, you look at them in the eyes

743
00:54:14.400 --> 00:54:17.320
and you can see the deepest kindness. Oh yeah, people always I get

744
00:54:17.320 --> 00:54:20.519
this comment on the internet all the
time, and I've had people tell me

745
00:54:20.519 --> 00:54:22.760
in person, your dad just has
this twinkle in his eye. He's just

746
00:54:22.800 --> 00:54:24.480
so nice. It's like you read
earlier. You know, he looked at

747
00:54:24.480 --> 00:54:28.480
Pa and he said, you shouldn't
be in this much pain at such a

748
00:54:28.519 --> 00:54:34.840
young age. You know, he
has suffered, He has felt physical pain

749
00:54:34.920 --> 00:54:39.400
to the brink of wanting to literally
die Crohn's disease in rheumatoid he he understood

750
00:54:39.400 --> 00:54:45.480
her, you know, and it's
like that's my point is, you know,

751
00:54:45.639 --> 00:54:52.159
to come from so much misery and
so much pain, but then the

752
00:54:52.199 --> 00:54:55.039
phenomenon occurs. It's like God's showing
you, like, don't give up,

753
00:54:55.239 --> 00:54:59.960
Like there's a reason for all of
this, you know, just keep going

754
00:55:00.079 --> 00:55:04.079
and just be positive. And I
wanted to say something. Let me think

755
00:55:04.079 --> 00:55:07.360
who it was. I think it
was whose book was it? Then I

756
00:55:07.440 --> 00:55:12.880
signed it was Samara shout out Samura. Samara Samura was this amazing individual and

757
00:55:14.079 --> 00:55:19.039
yeah, and she's just such a
wonderful, lovely person and she wanted us

758
00:55:19.079 --> 00:55:22.119
all to sign her book. And
now I was asked by quite a few

759
00:55:22.119 --> 00:55:25.119
people to sign their book. And
one thing I do when I'm when I'm

760
00:55:25.159 --> 00:55:30.000
typically signing books, is I don't
read it. Everybody else wrote, like

761
00:55:30.079 --> 00:55:32.000
my siblings or you guys or whoever. I just I open it, I

762
00:55:32.039 --> 00:55:35.239
find a spot, and I sign
it. And I wanted to be personal.

763
00:55:36.239 --> 00:55:37.679
I read a couple of things,
you know, like here and there.

764
00:55:37.719 --> 00:55:39.880
I might glance over it and I'm
oh, you know, read what

765
00:55:39.920 --> 00:55:43.880
my brother wrote? But that's typically
not what I do. So I signed

766
00:55:43.880 --> 00:55:49.719
Samura's book like towards the end of
the day. Now she is a student

767
00:55:49.840 --> 00:55:54.599
in my sister's vocal and holistic program, Emily Halloway Voice I think it's called.

768
00:55:55.079 --> 00:55:59.599
So she came a long way to
meet us. But also it was

769
00:55:59.599 --> 00:56:01.639
a really deal to Emily because she
was her first prototype student. She was

770
00:56:01.679 --> 00:56:05.239
the first one who signed up for
a prototype course. Yeah. So they

771
00:56:05.480 --> 00:56:08.159
didn't know that, yeah wow.
And she came all the way from Burbank,

772
00:56:08.159 --> 00:56:15.519
California. And she so she flew
out Tuesday, the same day my

773
00:56:15.599 --> 00:56:17.000
sister did. So the festival ended
Sunday, but she was in town for

774
00:56:17.039 --> 00:56:20.920
two more days basically. So she
was like, yeah, I don't want

775
00:56:20.920 --> 00:56:22.239
to be you know, a problem, but if you guys, you know,

776
00:56:22.280 --> 00:56:25.320
aren't busy tomorrow night, Monday evening, maybe we could do dinner or

777
00:56:25.360 --> 00:56:28.079
something. I was like, oh
no, no, we'll hang out.

778
00:56:28.320 --> 00:56:30.559
I'll see you tomorrow. It wasn't
like bye, thank you for it.

779
00:56:30.599 --> 00:56:31.559
I was like, no, no, I'm gonna I want to see you

780
00:56:31.559 --> 00:56:36.719
tomorrow. Like, just link it
up with Emily, We'll go to dinner.

781
00:56:37.199 --> 00:56:38.559
She comes over at five, Jenny
gets off work. So she shows

782
00:56:38.599 --> 00:56:42.480
up right at five. She didn't
leave till twelve thirty in the morning.

783
00:56:42.639 --> 00:56:45.480
Like, we just hung out and
we had such a great time. And

784
00:56:45.639 --> 00:56:47.559
me as the brother. My sister
lives in Florida, so she's staying with

785
00:56:47.599 --> 00:56:52.039
me in North Carolina. So I'm
like, look, this is a big

786
00:56:52.039 --> 00:56:55.320
deal for her. She flew all
the way from California to see us too.

787
00:56:55.360 --> 00:56:58.159
It's a big deal for Emily to
meet her student, but it's a

788
00:56:58.199 --> 00:57:00.280
big deal for Samma because she flew
all they here. I like, you

789
00:57:00.320 --> 00:57:04.039
just come and you just freaking stay
and we're just gonna hang out and we're

790
00:57:04.039 --> 00:57:07.039
gonna vibe, you know. Yeah. And something she told me that night

791
00:57:07.159 --> 00:57:08.679
was she said she just had a
lot of nice things to say. And

792
00:57:08.719 --> 00:57:15.280
she said, Ryan, every member
of your family that signed my book said

793
00:57:17.199 --> 00:57:22.079
stay positive. And I was like, oh, I didn't know that,

794
00:57:22.760 --> 00:57:24.000
so I didn't read what they wrote. And I was like, well,

795
00:57:24.039 --> 00:57:27.199
that makes sense. That's how my
dad raised us, you know. Yeah,

796
00:57:27.199 --> 00:57:30.559
But I say that to say that
my dad has learned that at the

797
00:57:30.639 --> 00:57:34.239
end of all this, at the
end of all this suffering and trial and

798
00:57:34.280 --> 00:57:36.360
struggle. I mean, you've read
his book. I mean he held his

799
00:57:36.400 --> 00:57:38.280
wife in his arms as she was
dying, taking her last breath. You

800
00:57:38.320 --> 00:57:43.880
know, he's lived through hell.
And he told me in private about a

801
00:57:43.960 --> 00:57:47.199
year ago. He said, Son, my secret to all of this the

802
00:57:47.280 --> 00:57:52.519
thing that if I did not do
this, I would not have survived.

803
00:57:52.880 --> 00:57:59.000
He said, I never stopped visualizing
a positive outcome in my mind. That's

804
00:57:59.000 --> 00:58:04.480
what it's all about. He said, It's always about visualizing a positive outcome.

805
00:58:04.960 --> 00:58:07.239
And you know, God will take
care of the rest. Like it's

806
00:58:07.880 --> 00:58:10.599
that's what it's all about. And
I just wanted to say that about the

807
00:58:10.639 --> 00:58:14.480
suffering thing. I wanted to leave
that a better place. But let's get

808
00:58:14.480 --> 00:58:16.880
to Sunday. So we've we've talked
about most of the people that came.

809
00:58:16.920 --> 00:58:20.679
I mean, Sunday was incredible.
I got there nine am, got up

810
00:58:20.679 --> 00:58:22.239
at five o'clock. Wait real quick, sorry, before we move on to

811
00:58:22.280 --> 00:58:25.440
that. One last experience somebody shared
with me. It's a super quick one.

812
00:58:25.440 --> 00:58:32.679
Did you know that Stefan had missing
time experiences the whole weekend? He

813
00:58:32.760 --> 00:58:37.440
told me. He oh yeah,
oh straight up. You want to know

814
00:58:37.480 --> 00:58:42.119
another cool thing about Stephan. Stephan
is the gentleman that flew all the way

815
00:58:42.119 --> 00:58:45.480
from Germany and it's never been to
North America before in his life. Dude,

816
00:58:45.519 --> 00:58:49.960
I've been to the town he's from, really, Cologne. That's cool.

817
00:58:50.000 --> 00:58:52.639
I've been there. I brought my
grandmother a little teapot from there.

818
00:58:52.760 --> 00:58:55.000
That's so cool. It's a really
really cool place. It's it's the most

819
00:58:55.079 --> 00:59:00.480
uh, it's like the biggest cathedral
in Europe. I think, oh wow,

820
00:59:00.559 --> 00:59:01.800
yeah, like the three wise men
are buried there. But anyway,

821
00:59:02.159 --> 00:59:07.159
very cool place. It's it's it's
a very famous European cathedral called Kolner Dome

822
00:59:07.360 --> 00:59:10.440
in Cologne. And he's from a
small city, right. Germany has like

823
00:59:10.440 --> 00:59:14.639
the main cities and then like the
little cities around it. But it's different

824
00:59:14.800 --> 00:59:16.360
there, you know. But anyway, I thought that was really cool.

825
00:59:16.360 --> 00:59:21.559
I've actually been to the place he's
from, you know. Yeah. But

826
00:59:22.519 --> 00:59:25.320
he told me that he's really into
this stuff, and he's listened to other

827
00:59:27.119 --> 00:59:31.000
paranormal or supernatural focused podcasts and he
was just he said he listened to one

828
00:59:31.039 --> 00:59:34.840
for a while that was about like
the Irish Faye and the fairies, because

829
00:59:34.880 --> 00:59:37.079
that's a big topic in the spiritual
world. Yeah, and he listened to

830
00:59:37.079 --> 00:59:39.159
another one. I can't remember what
it was about. And he said,

831
00:59:39.159 --> 00:59:45.920
when he listened to these other shows, Uh, he had weird Poultergeist activity

832
00:59:45.960 --> 00:59:52.320
in his house and he started listening
to our show and it all went away.

833
00:59:52.280 --> 00:59:55.639
Wow, he stopped having weird stuff
happened in his house and he stopped

834
00:59:55.679 --> 01:00:00.480
listening to those shows. Wow.
He did not tell me that that is

835
01:00:00.519 --> 01:00:05.360
so wild. I don't know.
Yeah, and then like the missing time

836
01:00:05.519 --> 01:00:07.400
stuff is so wide, tell me
about I've never heard any of that.

837
01:00:08.199 --> 01:00:13.000
Oh dude, I mean there were
multiple, but the one that I remember

838
01:00:13.119 --> 01:00:16.440
right now is like he was staring
at it. He was staying at an

839
01:00:16.480 --> 01:00:22.800
airbnb, and he like walked outside
very early in the morning and he was

840
01:00:22.840 --> 01:00:28.159
standing there for what he thought was
like maybe ten minutes or so and went

841
01:00:28.199 --> 01:00:31.639
inside and it had been like two
hours at least an hour. He had

842
01:00:31.639 --> 01:00:35.000
it on the flight home. I
was going to say, on the plane,

843
01:00:35.280 --> 01:00:37.679
he messaged us in discord and said
that he had missing time on the

844
01:00:37.679 --> 01:00:45.119
plane. He had had missing time
experiences like leading up right up to like

845
01:00:45.280 --> 01:00:51.440
right before the Azalea fes, like
multiple strange missing time experiences. And the

846
01:00:51.480 --> 01:00:55.360
funny thing is like he was he
acted like it was the most normal thing

847
01:00:55.480 --> 01:00:59.800
ever, Like he was. He
was not surprised by it, like at

848
01:00:59.800 --> 01:01:01.519
all. I was just like,
whoa, what do you mean, Like

849
01:01:01.519 --> 01:01:05.400
what do you think that is?
And he was just like I don't know,

850
01:01:06.639 --> 01:01:10.559
but it seemed like the guy it
would take a lot to surprise him.

851
01:01:10.880 --> 01:01:15.280
Yeah. Yeah, Like I feel
like I could jump out and just

852
01:01:15.360 --> 01:01:17.960
like try to scare him and he'd
just be like, hey, yeah,

853
01:01:19.880 --> 01:01:22.840
so cool. Yeah, such an
amazing guy. Honor to meet you,

854
01:01:22.840 --> 01:01:27.880
Stefan. I cannot forget will H
and Heather. Yes, well they were

855
01:01:27.880 --> 01:01:30.039
not in the pictures, but they
were there as well. They were also

856
01:01:30.079 --> 01:01:32.519
at the heart Yeah, shout out
and will H and I was playing and

857
01:01:32.599 --> 01:01:36.480
making sand castles with his little son, and it was it was really cool.

858
01:01:36.559 --> 01:01:38.920
That's awesome. Stefan was cool.
I had the honor. I'm so

859
01:01:39.039 --> 01:01:45.039
lucky that my wife was born in
Germany and my mother in law is German,

860
01:01:45.119 --> 01:01:49.000
so I know, like literally a
I don't know like one percent of

861
01:01:49.039 --> 01:01:51.599
the German language, just because I
like to be like, what does this

862
01:01:51.679 --> 01:01:53.239
mean? So I can tell it
your uncle, you know. So when

863
01:01:53.280 --> 01:01:58.880
he was about to leave to go
home for the night Sunday night, I

864
01:01:58.920 --> 01:02:05.480
said to bist Mina Freud wound Ish
haptish leb, and he said, oh,

865
01:02:05.639 --> 01:02:07.639
so sweet. It means you are
my friend and I have love for

866
01:02:07.719 --> 01:02:12.880
you, you know, I just
because I tell her cousins and uncles and

867
01:02:12.880 --> 01:02:15.840
aunts when I'm leaving. So that
was cool for me, Like, yes,

868
01:02:15.360 --> 01:02:19.719
I can say the line, say
it one more time to bist Mina

869
01:02:19.800 --> 01:02:22.000
Freud. I mean, I don't. I can't pronounce it that great,

870
01:02:22.079 --> 01:02:24.000
But no, I know I'm not
trying to I'm not trying to make fun

871
01:02:24.000 --> 01:02:28.199
of you. And I learned this
through hard experience because I said, how

872
01:02:28.199 --> 01:02:32.840
do I say I love you to
her cousin. Oh, it's it's ish

873
01:02:32.920 --> 01:02:37.159
liba dish. And I told her
cousin that and she started blushing and they're

874
01:02:37.199 --> 01:02:38.840
like, no, no, no, no, no, that means like

875
01:02:39.440 --> 01:02:43.960
a romantic. I was like,
oh, oh, that's embarrassing. And

876
01:02:44.760 --> 01:02:46.159
you know, so I had to
learn how to say it in the friendly

877
01:02:46.199 --> 01:02:50.639
way, which is ish haptish leb, I have love for you. You

878
01:02:50.760 --> 01:02:52.679
know. I would go around just
saying that, and they don't know English

879
01:02:52.719 --> 01:02:54.880
to correct me. You know,
it's a pretty funny moment. So I

880
01:02:55.440 --> 01:03:00.199
had to learn to say it in
the friendly platonic way, and that was

881
01:03:00.239 --> 01:03:02.199
cool for me, man like because
because because Germany is very special to me,

882
01:03:02.559 --> 01:03:06.280
you know, because I have family
there. So I was really happy

883
01:03:06.320 --> 01:03:08.719
to spend time with Stephan. I
felt a connection with him. That's cool.

884
01:03:08.760 --> 01:03:14.880
You know. The way he speaks
his English is like how her family

885
01:03:14.960 --> 01:03:17.079
speaks. So I was very comfortable
with him, and it was cool for

886
01:03:17.159 --> 01:03:22.599
me. But anyway, so Sunday, oh my god. So yeah,

887
01:03:22.599 --> 01:03:27.079
so Sunday was crazy. So I
was in Charlotte. We get up at

888
01:03:27.079 --> 01:03:30.800
five in the morning, rush three
and a half four hour drive to Wilmington,

889
01:03:31.159 --> 01:03:36.519
and I get there like nine,
like literally, like festival starts.

890
01:03:37.079 --> 01:03:39.920
I'm running to the tent like parked
at the parking deck across downtown. And

891
01:03:39.960 --> 01:03:43.719
I get there and there's already people
there, you know, and a part

892
01:03:43.760 --> 01:03:45.000
of me was like, oh my
god, I'm so tired. I haven't

893
01:03:45.039 --> 01:03:49.000
been here all weekend. I just
want to get to the tent and nobody

894
01:03:49.039 --> 01:03:51.840
be there but my parents and my
siblings, so that I have a moment

895
01:03:52.320 --> 01:03:53.880
to see my family. Nope,
I get there and there's three or four

896
01:03:53.880 --> 01:03:58.559
people there, and I'm like,
we're in it now. And immediately that

897
01:03:58.639 --> 01:04:01.039
went away. Yeah, and I
felt great, and I felt like,

898
01:04:01.639 --> 01:04:05.239
oh, Captain Skippy Daniel, he
was there. I was very excited to

899
01:04:05.239 --> 01:04:09.480
see Daniel because Daniel and I have
probably played like hundreds of hours of video

900
01:04:09.480 --> 01:04:13.440
games together since we did the Valheim
Server and played other games, and I

901
01:04:13.880 --> 01:04:15.000
just had such a connection with him. I was like, yes, Daniel's

902
01:04:15.000 --> 01:04:17.880
gonna be here. And I get
there and there's other people there, and

903
01:04:17.920 --> 01:04:23.039
it just immediately was like like just
the best day. I mean, y'all

904
01:04:23.039 --> 01:04:25.559
were there, you know, and
we just hung out all day. And

905
01:04:26.039 --> 01:04:31.719
Dad said, Dad told me that
at least forty or fifty people were turned

906
01:04:31.719 --> 01:04:36.519
away at the booth because there was
a line so long that he, you

907
01:04:36.559 --> 01:04:40.840
know exactly what Alex said. Dad
spent so much time with each person one

908
01:04:40.880 --> 01:04:44.119
on one that there were forty or
fifty people who got tired of waiting,

909
01:04:44.360 --> 01:04:46.320
yeah, and left. And he
was like, but that's okay, that's

910
01:04:46.320 --> 01:04:49.719
what this is about. You know. It's great, you know, but

911
01:04:49.760 --> 01:04:53.360
like that's how busy it was.
Yeah. So me and I know,

912
01:04:53.400 --> 01:04:57.400
at one point Nick did it too. Me. Junior would go out.

913
01:04:57.519 --> 01:05:00.599
Me and Junior would go out and
play like clet crowd control with people on

914
01:05:00.679 --> 01:05:03.239
line and just like engage people on
line to kind of keep like, you

915
01:05:03.280 --> 01:05:05.360
know, to make it feel like
they weren't waiting, you know what I

916
01:05:05.400 --> 01:05:09.119
mean. We had a great time. We were trying to talk to people

917
01:05:09.119 --> 01:05:11.599
that were waiting. Yeah. Yeah, me and Nick we love doing that

918
01:05:11.599 --> 01:05:14.920
because then we're like, you heard
about our show. But no, it

919
01:05:15.039 --> 01:05:17.639
was so cool to see Junior too. Oh yeah, definitely. Junior was

920
01:05:17.679 --> 01:05:23.400
having a blast and it was just
so cool to see that happen. And

921
01:05:23.480 --> 01:05:25.880
I know you feel that way too, Ryan. Oh dude, it was.

922
01:05:25.960 --> 01:05:30.159
It was immaculate, the vibes,
the the energy and the fun of

923
01:05:30.199 --> 01:05:32.639
it. I you know, I
didn't even know. God the other Daniel

924
01:05:32.880 --> 01:05:40.320
took a bus from Maryland. He
did twelve hours with no plan of anywhere

925
01:05:40.360 --> 01:05:44.639
to stay. He was just like
oh and he shot out Daniel. Daniel

926
01:05:44.800 --> 01:05:50.599
Deshai has been a fan. He
has been watching our show since episode zero.

927
01:05:51.119 --> 01:05:55.880
I got his number. Yeah,
he's coming. He might come to

928
01:05:55.920 --> 01:06:00.599
Wilmington soon too. Episode zero.
He's heard you on a podcas before when

929
01:06:00.639 --> 01:06:03.960
you were saying like, I'm thinking
about starting a podcast. That must have

930
01:06:04.039 --> 01:06:09.920
been because I announced it there right, so I don't I don't know,

931
01:06:10.400 --> 01:06:13.840
that's crazy. He was cool man
since episode zero. He won our first

932
01:06:13.920 --> 01:06:17.840
ever giveaway. He brought the little
baggy that's right, he had the original

933
01:06:17.920 --> 01:06:23.039
bag of crystals that we gave away
three years. Casey saw that little bag

934
01:06:23.079 --> 01:06:26.440
and almost cried because she was like
Jenny and I went to the store and

935
01:06:26.480 --> 01:06:30.320
picked out the confetti and picked out
the crystals and picked out the little ball.

936
01:06:30.559 --> 01:06:32.719
My gosh, I was trying to
think about what our first giveaway was.

937
01:06:35.400 --> 01:06:38.400
In his hands, he showed it
to us. I saw it,

938
01:06:38.440 --> 01:06:41.679
wow yo, and he was dripped
out and like it was like a rony

939
01:06:41.719 --> 01:06:45.119
kinchin like button up anime shirt.
Dude. He was so cool, so

940
01:06:45.199 --> 01:06:46.920
cool, he was very cool.
I had to get his number, and

941
01:06:47.840 --> 01:06:50.039
I wish I had more time with
him, but he came so late in

942
01:06:50.039 --> 01:06:54.639
the day. But you know,
he told me he might come to Wilmington

943
01:06:54.639 --> 01:06:57.440
suit. That's another thing that you
just reminded me of, something that was

944
01:06:57.480 --> 01:07:00.519
so incredibly wholesome and none of us
expected. Is like you said, with

945
01:07:00.639 --> 01:07:02.679
Daniel, and even with Stephan flying
from Germany, he didn't know anybody,

946
01:07:02.800 --> 01:07:10.400
and several others they they didn't have
a ride figured out, and people stepped

947
01:07:10.480 --> 01:07:15.119
up and they just started carpooling and
becoming friends. And at the end of

948
01:07:15.119 --> 01:07:16.800
the night Sunday night, when we
were all saying goodbye and and I was

949
01:07:16.840 --> 01:07:19.199
like, yo, Daniel, you
ever come to Wilmington. I got his

950
01:07:19.320 --> 01:07:21.519
number. He was like, yeah, man, I'm actually gonna probably be

951
01:07:21.519 --> 01:07:24.920
coming to Wilmington soon. I was
like, for real, He said,

952
01:07:24.960 --> 01:07:29.320
yeah, I think I'm gonna come
see Zeke. Zeke gave him the ride

953
01:07:29.360 --> 01:07:32.199
and they just they just they became
friends and he's hung out like the entire

954
01:07:32.239 --> 01:07:36.880
time at the beach. Oh yeah, during the had dinner together watch and

955
01:07:36.880 --> 01:07:39.800
the next thing you know, he's
like, I might be a Wilmington soon.

956
01:07:39.800 --> 01:07:42.639
As Zeke. I was like,
call me, dude, I want

957
01:07:42.639 --> 01:07:47.239
to see you guys. Can I
get involved? Yeah? I want to

958
01:07:47.320 --> 01:07:50.599
party? Yeah? Can I be
invited? Yeah? No. It was

959
01:07:50.679 --> 01:07:54.039
just awesome, man, Like people
really hit it off. It was it

960
01:07:54.119 --> 01:07:59.440
was it was magic. Yeah,
and so so sorry finally sky Watch.

961
01:07:59.519 --> 01:08:00.960
Yeah, so blown through Sunday.
I'm not going to go into every moment

962
01:08:01.000 --> 01:08:04.800
the whole day, but every time
I spoke to somebody, I was like,

963
01:08:05.880 --> 01:08:10.519
you stand through tonight, you stand
in town tonight. And when people

964
01:08:10.639 --> 01:08:13.320
be like yeah, I was like, oh you coming tonight, you come

965
01:08:13.360 --> 01:08:15.079
into the SkyWatch. I probably told
one hundred people you come into the SkyWatch

966
01:08:15.079 --> 01:08:16.720
to night. You're coming to the
Skywall tonight. Some people were like,

967
01:08:16.760 --> 01:08:18.800
yeah, oh my god, dude, that's why I came. Some people

968
01:08:18.840 --> 01:08:21.359
were like, no, I didn't
know about it, you know, because

969
01:08:21.359 --> 01:08:25.359
I intentionally wanted it to be a
gorilla thing, and that blasted out to

970
01:08:25.399 --> 01:08:29.560
the internet and we ended up having
seventy people on the beach. Dude,

971
01:08:29.600 --> 01:08:32.800
we don't even have enough time to
tell the magnitude of what happened. I

972
01:08:32.840 --> 01:08:36.680
mean, where do we begin.
Seventy people show up, and now you

973
01:08:36.720 --> 01:08:40.880
guys ran a little late, and
that's only because we had to tear down

974
01:08:40.920 --> 01:08:42.880
the booth, We had to figure
out the rides. You guys had to

975
01:08:42.920 --> 01:08:45.000
go all the way home, switch
cars, come all the way back,

976
01:08:45.039 --> 01:08:46.840
twenty twenty five minutes out and we
had the I mean, yeah, we're

977
01:08:47.439 --> 01:08:50.119
late, right, yeah, yeah, So you guys showed up about thirty

978
01:08:50.159 --> 01:08:56.199
minutes or so after everybody got there. But dude, so I left downtown.

979
01:08:57.439 --> 01:09:00.199
We literally rushed down Marcus Street,
hit RV's on the way. I

980
01:09:00.199 --> 01:09:02.439
don't usually eat stuff like that,
but I was like, dude, we

981
01:09:02.479 --> 01:09:04.960
just need to get there as fast
as possible. And I've had like a

982
01:09:04.960 --> 01:09:09.239
couple of bites to eat all day. Let's just get the easiest thing,

983
01:09:09.600 --> 01:09:12.520
dude, I'm telling you. We
got there like seven forty or seven forty

984
01:09:12.520 --> 01:09:15.039
five, which was the set time. And when I got there, fifty

985
01:09:15.119 --> 01:09:19.800
people were in the parking lot and
I pulled in and they all cheered,

986
01:09:21.359 --> 01:09:28.800
what that's amazing, And dude,
it was surreal. And I parked and

987
01:09:28.840 --> 01:09:30.359
it was just like, oh my
god, this is happening. Like I

988
01:09:30.399 --> 01:09:33.079
didn't expect a crowd to be standing
here in the parking lot. I didn't

989
01:09:33.079 --> 01:09:35.479
know what to expect. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, you know. And

990
01:09:35.720 --> 01:09:40.319
we started going out there and setting
up, and the vibes were so high,

991
01:09:40.359 --> 01:09:44.399
and I wanted to share this moment
with Corey that that really just showed

992
01:09:44.399 --> 01:09:46.600
me that people really listen. Yeah, they really listen to what you say.

993
01:09:47.199 --> 01:09:51.119
And and Corey, dude, you
know you said she's your age,

994
01:09:51.159 --> 01:09:54.399
right, or like two muths older
than you, So yeah, just turned

995
01:09:54.399 --> 01:09:58.159
thirty basically. Yeah, So I
mean she's she's our age, yeah,

996
01:09:58.159 --> 01:10:02.359
you know, and she's he's pretty, like pretty, I would say,

997
01:10:02.399 --> 01:10:06.840
like, God, I don't I
mean this in a good way. She's

998
01:10:06.920 --> 01:10:11.760
she's petite. She was, you
know, short, and you know it's

999
01:10:11.840 --> 01:10:15.680
tiny. Yeah, he's really tiny, and it's really you know, it's

1000
01:10:15.640 --> 01:10:18.720
wholesome. And she was carrying this
big ass chair and I was just like,

1001
01:10:18.760 --> 01:10:20.960
hey, you know, let me
carry that for you. And she's

1002
01:10:21.000 --> 01:10:23.199
like no, no, no,
I got it. And I was like,

1003
01:10:23.239 --> 01:10:25.479
no, no, please, like
I'd like to carry it for you.

1004
01:10:25.520 --> 01:10:27.840
And she's like it's okay, I
don't need help. And I was

1005
01:10:27.880 --> 01:10:30.680
like, well, you know,
I insist, and she she let me

1006
01:10:30.800 --> 01:10:32.800
carry it. She was like,
okay, here, you can carry it.

1007
01:10:33.039 --> 01:10:40.119
And I had it and I was
walking down the access pier and we

1008
01:10:40.119 --> 01:10:42.760
were talking and she was just like, you know, I usually don't allow

1009
01:10:42.880 --> 01:10:45.680
people to help me, Like I
don't allow people to help me. And

1010
01:10:45.720 --> 01:10:46.920
I literally I just pat her on
the back and I said, you know,

1011
01:10:46.960 --> 01:10:49.479
sometimes you just got to be vulnerable. It's a very special skill.

1012
01:10:49.600 --> 01:10:53.159
It's like a valuable skill. And
she was like, I know, you're

1013
01:10:53.199 --> 01:10:57.479
probably right. Cut to yesterday or
the day before, she posted in the

1014
01:10:57.600 --> 01:11:00.680
discord, and this probably went over
y'alls because y'all weren't present for that conversation,

1015
01:11:01.439 --> 01:11:06.760
but she said, you got to
hear this. It's she just reflected

1016
01:11:06.760 --> 01:11:12.079
my words at me like a mirror. Oh damn, I don't know how

1017
01:11:12.119 --> 01:11:15.600
to search based on name. Anyway, she said, thank you for showing

1018
01:11:15.640 --> 01:11:24.600
me your angry side and being vulnerable
with the omies. She reflected at me

1019
01:11:24.680 --> 01:11:26.359
what I said at her, and
I was like, damn, you really

1020
01:11:26.399 --> 01:11:29.399
just use my own words against me. Didn't because on Sunday I was so

1021
01:11:29.520 --> 01:11:31.520
tired and I went to meet her. But I was like, look,

1022
01:11:31.560 --> 01:11:33.640
I'm gonna be honest with you.
I have not eaten all day. I've

1023
01:11:33.640 --> 01:11:35.720
got to go eat. Would you
like to come meet with us. I

1024
01:11:35.760 --> 01:11:39.800
cannot do this any longer unless I
go eat. And I was like faint

1025
01:11:39.840 --> 01:11:41.600
and I was falling out, and
she was like, dude, I got

1026
01:11:41.640 --> 01:11:44.600
it. And she was making jokes
about me being angry and you know whatever,

1027
01:11:44.640 --> 01:11:46.319
and and and then I said that, you know, sometimes you got

1028
01:11:46.319 --> 01:11:49.800
to be vulnerable. And then she
said it back to me, and that

1029
01:11:49.920 --> 01:11:53.920
just cleared. I was like,
you know, they really listen that,

1030
01:11:54.159 --> 01:11:56.640
you know people I don't know.
Man. For me, it was just

1031
01:11:56.640 --> 01:11:59.960
this funny moment. I can't describe
it. But anyway, we get out

1032
01:12:00.119 --> 01:12:05.800
there and everybody's high spirits and just
you know excited and whispers, and I

1033
01:12:05.880 --> 01:12:10.000
kept going around telling everybody. When
I would say are you coming out tonight

1034
01:12:10.039 --> 01:12:11.920
and they say yeah, I'd be
like, it's gonna be a good night.

1035
01:12:12.199 --> 01:12:13.720
I said it the whole day,
it's gonna be a good night.

1036
01:12:13.760 --> 01:12:15.479
I feel like it's gonna be a
good night. And Dad put out the

1037
01:12:15.479 --> 01:12:20.039
word eight thirty right right, Mom
and Dad show up before it gets too

1038
01:12:20.079 --> 01:12:25.039
dark. There are sixty five people
there because Jennifer, I thought, well

1039
01:12:25.399 --> 01:12:28.560
it was eight. I think he
changed it to eight because I didn't know

1040
01:12:28.960 --> 01:12:31.199
until like said, eight thirty is
when the orbits a I got you the

1041
01:12:31.279 --> 01:12:35.399
time to get there ended up being
seven forty five got but Dad was like

1042
01:12:35.439 --> 01:12:42.399
eight thirties when it's going to start. And Jennifer, whose boyfriend was Brent,

1043
01:12:42.439 --> 01:12:45.159
the one you were talking about earlier
who said your Sam Wise, Jennifer

1044
01:12:45.279 --> 01:12:48.399
was just also very kind, oh
and just a very special individual. She

1045
01:12:48.560 --> 01:12:53.760
was very You just spoke to her
and you could feel this powerful friendliness,

1046
01:12:53.960 --> 01:12:58.279
you know. And Emily had her
or maybe Jenny had her count the crowd

1047
01:12:58.399 --> 01:12:59.920
or maybe she just did it.
I don't know, but she kind of

1048
01:13:00.000 --> 01:13:02.079
sixty five people. I was like, Okay, I want a picture before

1049
01:13:02.079 --> 01:13:05.479
it gets too dark. So I
literally yelled at sixty five people, line

1050
01:13:05.560 --> 01:13:09.199
up, I want a photo,
and they all got together in a line,

1051
01:13:09.279 --> 01:13:13.399
and I think Jennifer or my wife
or somebody snapped a photo of us.

1052
01:13:13.439 --> 01:13:15.640
And just at this point the excitement
was building. And then right as

1053
01:13:15.640 --> 01:13:20.720
it gets about dark, we start
to see a couple of orbs. But

1054
01:13:21.600 --> 01:13:25.640
I mean, you guys were there
at eight thirty. You know what happened

1055
01:13:25.640 --> 01:13:30.359
next? A lot, yeah,
a lot. It was pretty much like

1056
01:13:30.159 --> 01:13:36.399
two hours straight of just orb after
orb after orb, some of them doing

1057
01:13:36.680 --> 01:13:43.680
really spectacular things. There were a
couple of orbs that the whole crowd would

1058
01:13:43.720 --> 01:13:51.359
be watching for a minute, and
then like it would like flash like extremely

1059
01:13:51.640 --> 01:13:59.920
extremely bright, so bright that everyone
like would audibly gasp like or even yell

1060
01:14:00.199 --> 01:14:02.119
like, oh my god, did
you see that? Everybody's yelling did you

1061
01:14:02.159 --> 01:14:08.000
see that? Oh my god?
Like and then like looking at some of

1062
01:14:08.000 --> 01:14:10.840
the footage. We were looking at
some of the footage with your dad right

1063
01:14:10.880 --> 01:14:15.039
before we came in here to record
this from that night, like with the

1064
01:14:15.960 --> 01:14:23.359
night vision psionic camera, And there
were so many orbs in the sky,

1065
01:14:23.520 --> 01:14:29.279
so many more orbs than you could
even focus on. There were so many

1066
01:14:29.359 --> 01:14:34.199
that you'd be watching one or two
or a little cluster of them, and

1067
01:14:34.239 --> 01:14:39.720
then just out of view there are
so many more, flashing and moving and

1068
01:14:39.760 --> 01:14:43.880
doing weird stuff. And then,
dude, some things that I've never seen

1069
01:14:43.960 --> 01:14:47.319
before is you know, when you're
skywatching and you're looking for the orbs and

1070
01:14:47.359 --> 01:14:51.199
you're seeing them, it's so obvious
what is an orb? What is a

1071
01:14:51.239 --> 01:14:55.560
satellite? What is a plane?
It starts to Once you're out there for

1072
01:14:55.600 --> 01:14:59.239
a while, like a good half
hour or so, it becomes very clear

1073
01:14:59.600 --> 01:15:04.960
what's what. But then dude,
they started playing games with us. We'd

1074
01:15:04.960 --> 01:15:10.399
be looking at what we all are
like, that's a plane. People are

1075
01:15:10.439 --> 01:15:14.279
audibly saying like, oh, that's
a plane. Whatever. We're watching it.

1076
01:15:14.279 --> 01:15:17.560
It's flashing like the red and green
or red and white like a normal

1077
01:15:17.640 --> 01:15:27.199
plain wood or whatever. And then
suddenly like it would become one bigger brighter

1078
01:15:27.800 --> 01:15:31.520
light that is like orange, and
it's like change direction, change direction.

1079
01:15:31.920 --> 01:15:38.399
I oh my gosh. We were
all watching one over that was like over

1080
01:15:38.479 --> 01:15:45.920
the city that was a bright like
orange yellowish orange light and it started moving

1081
01:15:45.920 --> 01:15:50.560
out over the ocean and then it
starts blinking like a plane, and so

1082
01:15:51.359 --> 01:15:55.319
everybody started saying like, oh,
it's a plane, it's a plane.

1083
01:15:55.319 --> 01:15:59.319
Whatever. Everybody starts looking away from
that at other things. And then I

1084
01:15:59.359 --> 01:16:03.479
heard I think think it was Jennifer
who was like, no, look,

1085
01:16:03.520 --> 01:16:09.319
everybody look, and so Jenny,
your wife, and then Casey they looked

1086
01:16:09.920 --> 01:16:15.680
and they saw it completely like about
faced, turned completely around and just started

1087
01:16:15.720 --> 01:16:23.560
going the opposite direction back the way
that it came and was again a single

1088
01:16:23.800 --> 01:16:30.760
bright yellow light. Yeah. Like
it was like there were orbs like trying

1089
01:16:30.840 --> 01:16:35.840
to make us think that they were
planes and then switching in front of our

1090
01:16:35.840 --> 01:16:40.159
eyes into something else. Oh dude, not to mention there were ones constantly

1091
01:16:40.199 --> 01:16:44.159
blinking over the ocean. Oh yeah, Maulten and a clouds above the ocean

1092
01:16:44.199 --> 01:16:45.279
and then they would shoot down to
the ocean and they would blink and then

1093
01:16:45.279 --> 01:16:48.640
they would split up and blink into
multiple We have, you know, crazy

1094
01:16:48.720 --> 01:16:51.760
video from it. We post that
posted some of those on Instagram. Yeah,

1095
01:16:51.800 --> 01:16:58.319
one one was blinking like right over
the horizon and blinking like red,

1096
01:16:58.800 --> 01:17:02.520
and you know, everybody's thinking like
what is that? Is it an orb?

1097
01:17:02.680 --> 01:17:05.680
Is it a boat? Is it? What it's like moving? And

1098
01:17:05.760 --> 01:17:11.600
so that was weird. And then
it shoots into the sky. Yeah,

1099
01:17:12.479 --> 01:17:16.800
like what one orb came off the
ocean, went up into the sky over

1100
01:17:16.880 --> 01:17:20.119
our head, and it was dim
over our head, and then it got

1101
01:17:20.439 --> 01:17:26.520
so bright that all seventy people screamed, oh yeah, oh my god,

1102
01:17:26.680 --> 01:17:31.760
and erupted into clap. Yeah,
called it clapter. Yeah, erupted into

1103
01:17:31.800 --> 01:17:36.520
clapter, just started clapping, and
dude, listen, and my whole life,

1104
01:17:36.760 --> 01:17:42.720
I have seen one orb brighter than
that. Of all the orbs,

1105
01:17:42.800 --> 01:17:45.159
I have seen one brighter thing.
It was bright. It was. It

1106
01:17:45.239 --> 01:17:49.680
was shocking, Yes, it was. It was a miracle everyone. It

1107
01:17:49.720 --> 01:17:55.199
was unbelievable. It was. It
was profound, dude. There were like

1108
01:17:55.359 --> 01:17:59.760
clusters of like two or three orbs
that would be going in a direction and

1109
01:17:59.800 --> 01:18:03.560
then would start like twirling around each
other like they were chasing each other.

1110
01:18:03.720 --> 01:18:06.880
Yeah. Some of the craziest stuff
I've ever seen in my life. Me

1111
01:18:06.960 --> 01:18:11.880
too, dude. Like honestly,
like that night humbled me. Like I

1112
01:18:11.920 --> 01:18:13.479
say it on the show. Sometimes
it's like, oh, you know,

1113
01:18:13.520 --> 01:18:15.000
you get used to it and then
every now and the phenomenon will come in

1114
01:18:15.039 --> 01:18:16.720
and shake you up and be like, Okay, you're not used to it

1115
01:18:16.800 --> 01:18:20.960
again. Yeah, that night was
that For me, I think it was

1116
01:18:21.000 --> 01:18:26.119
intentional, like especially with all the
look at me on a plane and then

1117
01:18:26.159 --> 01:18:29.840
like you know, it's like you
think you know what it is. That

1118
01:18:30.000 --> 01:18:32.520
was the lesson. It was like
you think you know what we are,

1119
01:18:32.800 --> 01:18:36.640
but right, but you don't.
Yeah, I just I feel like I

1120
01:18:36.640 --> 01:18:43.840
feel like that happened because listen,
this is the biggest crowd that we have

1121
01:18:44.079 --> 01:18:49.359
ever skywatched with in one moment,
seventy plus people and everybody there with their

1122
01:18:49.399 --> 01:18:53.359
hearts and minds together, you know, putting their will up to the universe,

1123
01:18:53.399 --> 01:18:55.880
saying please show me a sign,
you know, and Dad's leading them

1124
01:18:55.880 --> 01:18:59.119
in prayer, and it was just
just miracles happen. And my mind keeps

1125
01:18:59.159 --> 01:19:01.960
going towards what would happen if there
was a thousand people, It would be

1126
01:19:02.760 --> 01:19:05.920
unbelievable. And I don't know,
man, I just feel like so many

1127
01:19:05.960 --> 01:19:09.600
lives were changed that night. I
mean, there was an energy there that

1128
01:19:11.039 --> 01:19:14.319
we just we could describe it all
day and it doesn't do it justice.

1129
01:19:14.319 --> 01:19:19.920
I mean, we all felt that
weekend will live in my heart forever as

1130
01:19:20.000 --> 01:19:25.560
one of the coolest things I've ever
done. Sunday was like definitely one of

1131
01:19:25.560 --> 01:19:28.840
the very best days of my life. And Jennifer, not my wife,

1132
01:19:28.880 --> 01:19:33.279
not Jenny Ree, but the other
Jennifer, Jennifer and Brent also Emily's student.

1133
01:19:33.520 --> 01:19:38.960
Yes, she told me something that
night on the beach, and she

1134
01:19:39.239 --> 01:19:44.720
said, she said, I started
my spiritual awakening in January. And I

1135
01:19:44.760 --> 01:19:48.279
was like, huh, like you
mean like this January, like four months

1136
01:19:48.319 --> 01:19:53.199
ago January. And she's heard like
pretty much every episode of our show,

1137
01:19:53.359 --> 01:19:59.319
and she is very in deep and
she was just so calm. And so

1138
01:19:59.560 --> 01:20:01.039
you meet a lo lot of people
who start to go through like an awakening,

1139
01:20:01.079 --> 01:20:04.039
and unfortunately, you know, it's
just like some people, they they're

1140
01:20:04.119 --> 01:20:08.119
like going crazy with Oh my god, I'm realizing so many things. It's

1141
01:20:08.159 --> 01:20:11.720
normal, it happens. She was
just like, I don't know, I

1142
01:20:11.760 --> 01:20:15.560
just felt such a way about her
that was very good. I can't put

1143
01:20:15.560 --> 01:20:18.439
it into words or quantify it.
And she told me, she said,

1144
01:20:19.000 --> 01:20:26.159
you guys have changed my life listening
to your show and the information that I've

1145
01:20:26.199 --> 01:20:30.800
learned from you guys has taught me
so many things and led me into so

1146
01:20:30.880 --> 01:20:33.239
many areas of research. I just
I cannot thank you enough. Basically,

1147
01:20:33.680 --> 01:20:38.520
something like I don't remember if she
said, you guys are changing the world

1148
01:20:38.640 --> 01:20:42.279
or it was something to the effect
of like, you're having an impact far

1149
01:20:42.359 --> 01:20:46.600
beyond what you can fathom. Yeah, And a lot of people said that,

1150
01:20:46.680 --> 01:20:50.920
oh yeah, you guys are impacting
me in the world, far beyond

1151
01:20:50.920 --> 01:20:53.520
what you can fathom. And they
said that, and I was like,

1152
01:20:53.560 --> 01:20:56.079
you know, I just I hear
you saying that, but I just I

1153
01:20:56.119 --> 01:21:00.079
don't understand. But anyway, incredible
day and incredible weekend. And it was

1154
01:21:00.079 --> 01:21:04.640
the night before the eclipse. It
was and we could go on and on,

1155
01:21:04.680 --> 01:21:10.399
but I wanted to show this.
James shout out, James rocksh We're

1156
01:21:10.399 --> 01:21:12.760
gonna link up with him. He
lives two hours away. Yes, And

1157
01:21:13.399 --> 01:21:16.640
I met another guy with James who
didn't come with him, came separate,

1158
01:21:16.680 --> 01:21:20.399
but they realized they lived like twenty
minutes away from each other. I hit

1159
01:21:20.439 --> 01:21:24.239
it off, Brady. Yeah,
very cool guys. We're gonna link up

1160
01:21:24.239 --> 01:21:27.479
with them eventually and invite the mount
SkyWatch. But James brought us this wood

1161
01:21:27.560 --> 01:21:30.479
round, so cool? Is that
upright? Yep? It's also a North

1162
01:21:30.520 --> 01:21:34.319
Carolina pine Yeah, oh sweet,
it's a North Carolina pine tree. And

1163
01:21:34.359 --> 01:21:39.920
he said that other woods would probably
have done better and not cracked but the

1164
01:21:39.960 --> 01:21:43.199
fact that it was a North Carolina
pine. I love it. The crack

1165
01:21:43.239 --> 01:21:45.439
gives it a character. See if
you look at the bark on the side

1166
01:21:45.439 --> 01:21:47.199
of the tree, doesn't it look
familiar. Oh yeah, yeah it does.

1167
01:21:47.359 --> 01:21:50.479
It's like Fayetteville pine trees. It
is. But I grew up around

1168
01:21:50.520 --> 01:21:54.520
these trees. I'm familiar with him. He didn't tell us the name of

1169
01:21:54.560 --> 01:21:57.000
his friend who made this, but
he had his friend make this, and

1170
01:21:57.039 --> 01:22:00.319
he just touched higher, just touch
higher. He delivered this to a and

1171
01:22:00.399 --> 01:22:03.479
it is It's just this is incredible, incredible. Yeah, this is a

1172
01:22:03.600 --> 01:22:08.399
treasure. I really want to find
a place for it in our new studio

1173
01:22:08.560 --> 01:22:11.479
so that we can just see it
all the time. This is like a

1174
01:22:11.479 --> 01:22:15.000
sacred treasure to us. I mean, this is so kind. I mean,

1175
01:22:15.800 --> 01:22:18.800
and like, I'm just so humbled
that people would would think so well

1176
01:22:18.800 --> 01:22:23.199
of us to do something like this
for us. And thank you so much,

1177
01:22:23.279 --> 01:22:27.399
thank you, James, Yeah,
thank you. It's just unbelievable.

1178
01:22:27.479 --> 01:22:32.159
Man. And the last thing that
I want to say is I think that

1179
01:22:32.600 --> 01:22:39.439
this there was no coincidence that you
know. On on the episode with Chris

1180
01:22:39.520 --> 01:22:43.319
Junior, we talked about what happened
Easter weekend and that was one week before

1181
01:22:43.359 --> 01:22:45.319
the Azalia festival. And and Dad
has he's been living with me for a

1182
01:22:45.359 --> 01:22:48.079
while, so we've pretty much been
together every day in the last month.

1183
01:22:48.560 --> 01:22:51.039
And he's been telling me for a
week now, it's like, Son,

1184
01:22:51.159 --> 01:22:54.960
this Easter week things are changing,
things are changing, We're in a new

1185
01:22:55.000 --> 01:22:58.640
phase with the phenomenon. Every time
he tells me that the intensity ramps up

1186
01:22:58.680 --> 01:23:01.239
and how they interact with us and
how they choose to show up and you

1187
01:23:01.279 --> 01:23:04.359
know, I mean, I think
we all saw that in effect this weekend.

1188
01:23:04.680 --> 01:23:06.960
And he keeps telling me, he's
like, Son, that eclipse has

1189
01:23:06.960 --> 01:23:12.239
mark change. It's Aquarius, like
the shift is happening, like we are

1190
01:23:12.319 --> 01:23:15.199
shifting now, like it's happening.
And it was marked by the eclipse.

1191
01:23:15.520 --> 01:23:19.640
The day of the eclipse, Junior
saw a UFO in the daytime during the

1192
01:23:19.680 --> 01:23:25.399
eclipse. And then last night,
which was Wednesday, because we're recording this

1193
01:23:25.439 --> 01:23:30.720
today, Thursday the eleventh, three
days after the eclipse, we walked out

1194
01:23:30.760 --> 01:23:32.720
of my front out of my garage
at my new house that my dad,

1195
01:23:32.800 --> 01:23:35.840
my brother, and our buddy Derek, who you guys will be hearing from

1196
01:23:35.840 --> 01:23:39.039
soon. He was supposed to be
tonight's episode, but we had to do

1197
01:23:39.039 --> 01:23:45.399
his aliafest. The four of us
walked outside and we saw the craziest ORB.

1198
01:23:45.840 --> 01:23:47.600
Oh yeah, and I put it
on my Instagram story. I'll probably

1199
01:23:47.680 --> 01:23:50.159
end up posting it later. It
won't be on my story by the time

1200
01:23:50.159 --> 01:23:54.800
this comes out, But it's just
genuinely one of the craziest orbs I've ever

1201
01:23:54.800 --> 01:23:58.960
seen. It looks kind of like
our schedul it kind of does it kind

1202
01:23:58.960 --> 01:24:00.359
of does. I didn't think of
it. There are like multiple times,

1203
01:24:00.560 --> 01:24:03.720
especially when you were slowing it down
and going frame by frame, there was

1204
01:24:03.760 --> 01:24:08.560
a couple of times I was like, that looks a lot like the sigil.

1205
01:24:08.680 --> 01:24:11.239
Yeah, that's weird. It was
like a triangle and it was like

1206
01:24:11.319 --> 01:24:14.439
yellow, and then there were multiple
times that kind of looked dark in the

1207
01:24:14.439 --> 01:24:16.119
middle. That's weird, man,
I didn't think about that. Yeah,

1208
01:24:16.159 --> 01:24:19.520
that's and it's over our new studio. I know. Yeah, true,

1209
01:24:19.680 --> 01:24:23.640
true at the house. But I'm
just saying, you know, crazy times

1210
01:24:23.680 --> 01:24:27.600
ahead, Wonderful things are happening,
magical things, and I just I just

1211
01:24:27.640 --> 01:24:31.159
think we're incredibly blessed and like there's
no turning back, man. I mean,

1212
01:24:31.239 --> 01:24:33.800
even if for those seventy people that
came from all over the world just

1213
01:24:33.840 --> 01:24:36.760
to hang out with us that one
night. We'll do it for them absolutely

1214
01:24:36.880 --> 01:24:44.159
forever. Absolutely. I feel so
blessed and honored to have met every single

1215
01:24:44.159 --> 01:24:47.720
person that I met. I love
each and every one of you with my

1216
01:24:48.000 --> 01:24:53.640
whole heart. And the people that
weren't able to make it, I love

1217
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you too. If you were listening
to this, I love you and thank

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01:24:57.119 --> 01:25:00.640
you so much. And I hope
I do get to meet you all one

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01:25:00.720 --> 01:25:02.319
day. That would be so cool. I remember two more names that I

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01:25:02.359 --> 01:25:11.760
had to shout out, Gabatomic Particles
in our discord and Justin Strubel. Oh

1221
01:25:11.840 --> 01:25:15.439
yeah, shout out to those wonderful
individuals. They are some very cool people

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01:25:15.600 --> 01:25:21.840
that we met at the Azalea Festival. And Justin Strubel is a visionary artist

1223
01:25:23.199 --> 01:25:28.199
and you guys should check out Jay
Underscore Strubel Underscore Art Underscore on Instagram and

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01:25:28.239 --> 01:25:30.520
you will not be freaking disappointed.
And if there was anybody that we missed

1225
01:25:30.520 --> 01:25:33.840
with the shout out, we are
so sorry. We did not have everybody

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01:25:33.880 --> 01:25:39.119
pictured because people came and went at
different times and I was, you know,

1227
01:25:39.199 --> 01:25:41.399
going based on the pictures we had, and there were a lot more

1228
01:25:41.439 --> 01:25:44.600
people than that who showed up.
I mean that, you know, there

1229
01:25:44.640 --> 01:25:46.880
were seventy people gathered on the beach. There was at least double or more

1230
01:25:46.920 --> 01:25:49.399
than that that we saw in and
out of the tents. Oh yeah,

1231
01:25:49.399 --> 01:25:54.119
it's impossible to name everybody. Shout
out Chris Tucker, who brought us the

1232
01:25:54.159 --> 01:25:58.960
hot sauce and the peppers and was
the one who sent us the three D

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01:25:59.079 --> 01:26:05.319
printed. Yes, it was so
cool to meet you guys. So cool.

1234
01:26:05.359 --> 01:26:09.239
Shout out Chris Tucker. Love the
Rush Hour movies, They're great,

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Uh, Alex. Any closing thoughts, I hate, I hate going last.

1236
01:26:14.760 --> 01:26:17.000
Stay positive? How do I follow
up? Stay positive? That's good?

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01:26:17.279 --> 01:26:20.520
Yeah, that's it, all right, all right, thank you all.

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01:26:20.600 --> 01:26:27.760
We love you by my guys.
Weird things happen in the backyard of

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01:26:27.880 --> 01:26:47.319
Leftsoe House. Ship. Look got
so weird coming clutter you like, smirring

1240
01:26:47.439 --> 01:26:59.359
on the inside of it. No
one knows. Man, Come right over

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01:26:59.520 --> 01:27:39.800
now A side not a happy