Speaker 1: Do you have any long term friends that were internet
Speaker 1: only friends? No? To be honest, now, okay, why do
Speaker 1: you say it like.
Speaker 2: That, because I I just I never really I would
Speaker 2: always have friends that I would see in person.
Speaker 3: I would never try to be with someone just online,
Speaker 3: because that's kind of weird.
Speaker 1: Okay, No, but I don't mean. I don't mean. I
Speaker 1: don't mean like like dating. I'm not talking about like dating. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just just people that for whatever whatever reason, right, gaming,
Speaker 1: chat rooms, other things.
Speaker 4: What I actually do.
Speaker 3: There's a I have an Xbox friend that I've had
Speaker 3: for a while.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 5: But I'm person so yeah.
Speaker 6: You know what you are, right, thank you.
Speaker 1: I think everybody immediately goes like dating, like, well, I've
Speaker 1: been talking to him for six years and one day
Speaker 1: I hope to hold their hands.
Speaker 7: And do you have like like a like a truly
Speaker 7: friend and type relationship with them where you're not just
Speaker 7: talking when you're like playing Xbox with them?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we will definitely be like, hey, do you
Speaker 2: want to like get on and then we'll always hop
Speaker 2: on together.
Speaker 1: Right into the game and you may play while you're
Speaker 1: getting caught up or whatever it is you're doing.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Okay, of course, yeah, I think it qualifies as
Speaker 8: a friendship. I don't think you need to have a
Speaker 8: communication outside of the game.
Speaker 1: No, No, not at all. A lot of people don't.
Speaker 1: A lot of people don't. And that's fine. I mean,
Speaker 1: think about it. You may have you may have a
Speaker 1: work friend that you don't communicate with after you get
Speaker 1: home from work. Now, I mean you are seeing them
Speaker 1: in real life. They're a person, but there are no No, No,
Speaker 1: I don't mean. I don't mean it that way. I
Speaker 1: don't mean it that way. No, No, I don't. But see,
Speaker 1: but you were so quick to go no, that's weird.
Speaker 1: But the truth is you have that. Now, let me
Speaker 1: ask you this two part questions.
Speaker 9: Right, how long?
Speaker 1: How long have you been friends with that person?
Speaker 2: Ooh, probably like eight years?
Speaker 1: See and in a while. Part two, do you have
Speaker 1: any plans of ever trying to meet up with that
Speaker 1: Do you know where they live? No?
Speaker 4: And no, to answer your next question.
Speaker 1: No, you have no plans to meet up with them.
Speaker 2: No, I'm fine with being Xbox buddies and playing video
Speaker 2: games because that's.
Speaker 1: No, that's fine. No, that's fine, that's totally fine. I
Speaker 1: thought this was kind of cool. So it's a picture
Speaker 1: of a man and a woman, not dating, not dating.
Speaker 1: They're not boyfriend girlfriend, hooking up, getting laid, touching the chauna,
Speaker 1: none of that. They appear to be at a concert.
Speaker 1: I'm going to assume it's an Iron Maiden concert because
Speaker 1: of the T shirts they're wearing. I met my internet
Speaker 1: friend today for the very first time. We started chatting
Speaker 1: online in two thousand and one when we were both sixteen. Wow,
Speaker 1: that would make them forty and there they together like
Speaker 1: at that at a Maiden show.
Speaker 8: I saw this. This is the show in Helsinkia, just
Speaker 8: from the other night.
Speaker 1: Is it off brand for me to say that? I
Speaker 1: think that's kind of cool? Yes, Diya? Why is that
Speaker 1: off brand?
Speaker 7: I just think it is for you.
Speaker 1: I've never had Now I will say I don't have
Speaker 1: an internet friend. I never had an internet friend. I
Speaker 1: had other friends, but I never had But again, it's
Speaker 1: not just from dating. I'm not talking about dating apps.
Speaker 1: Like these two people met just chatting online.
Speaker 8: It wasn't it a system of a down chat room.
Speaker 1: I believe you're right, but like, take the take take Shanna.
Speaker 1: I think she said that was her name. She was
Speaker 1: all like.
Speaker 7: No, but then she thought about it.
Speaker 1: He was like, oh, my xbox buddy for ten years.
Speaker 1: For ten years, she's had that friend.
Speaker 8: Now did the poster who I believe was the mail
Speaker 8: and the photo correct? I think Thomas was his name,
Speaker 8: I believe. So did he say where? At this point
Speaker 8: they must know where each other lives? If they met
Speaker 8: up in Finland? Did he say where they live? I
Speaker 8: didn't see that.
Speaker 1: If if he did, I didn't. I didn't either a
Speaker 1: see it or committed to memory. But like I was
Speaker 1: reading about another people, So now I got involved.
Speaker 8: Right, Oh, he did say where? Said they are usually
Speaker 8: fifty five hundred miles apart. There you go, So what's
Speaker 8: fifty five hundred miles from DC SoC Russia?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, so my best friend is in Russia.
Speaker 7: You just don't know it yet.
Speaker 1: Hey, Alex, No, Alex doesn't know it yet. That's true. No, No,
Speaker 1: there's another one. Here you go. I met my best
Speaker 1: friend on a chat laun a chat group for the
Speaker 1: cure back in nineteen ninety six, so it was like
Speaker 1: a fan page. Right, I'm in the US, they're in
Speaker 1: New Zealand. We met in Vancouver. That's cool.
Speaker 8: Wow, By the way, that's farther than fifty five Miles.
Speaker 1: But am I saying that's cool? Completely out of brand?
Speaker 8: Is it because you like all the music tie in
Speaker 8: so far?
Speaker 1: No? No, not at all, because then I was reading
Speaker 1: about another guy. I was reading about another guy. Half
Speaker 1: of my raiding guild, which you know is some like
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna play my plus five dorkazoid card.
Speaker 8: Well, no, those people aren't going to call in.
Speaker 1: Half of my raiding guild of the last ten years
Speaker 1: is coming to my wedding in August.
Speaker 7: Whoa wedding.
Speaker 1: I've never met them before. What this will be the
Speaker 1: first time.
Speaker 7: You're paying for them to be at your wedding.
Speaker 1: They've been friends for ten years?
Speaker 6: Wow?
Speaker 1: Ten years? And they but again they've been friends for
Speaker 1: ten years. It's all the same. But you know what's weird?
Speaker 1: Then this is the part that struck me, like every
Speaker 1: so often, like now that the boys are home from school,
Speaker 1: well one of them is home from school, Like we'll
Speaker 1: go down in the basement and play like MLB the
Speaker 1: show and it'll be the two of us against two
Speaker 1: dicks online. Okay, Like we don't communicate with them, and
Speaker 1: so and maybe we're maybe we're the anomaly. We don't
Speaker 1: communicate with them. I would never try to hunt them
Speaker 1: down and go like, you know what, that was a
Speaker 1: good game, let's play them again.
Speaker 8: Is it because your parents don't let you or are
Speaker 8: you not my kids?
Speaker 1: So? Yeah, like I'll play online against people, not just
Speaker 1: with my kid, but i'll play on I'll play cell
Speaker 1: against people, but I don't try to strike up a friendship.
Speaker 8: Yeah, how old was the cure one? I know you
Speaker 8: said the year, but did you say how old they
Speaker 8: were when they met?
Speaker 1: No? I don't that. I don't have so do you.
Speaker 8: Only have the age for the Iron Maiden fans?
Speaker 1: It just says that they started in two thousand and
Speaker 1: one and now they're forty. But yeah, the like the
Speaker 1: the guild that's coming, they bring my guild for ten years,
Speaker 1: they're coming to my wedding.
Speaker 8: Is it a themed wedding, because I guess that would
Speaker 8: make sense.
Speaker 1: No, it's a regular wedding. It's a regular wedding. Like
Speaker 1: if you invited some people from work, are you going
Speaker 1: to set the wedding up to be like it's your work? No,
Speaker 1: this is a regular wedding.
Speaker 8: I mean I wouldn't know. Neither neither would Diane. But
Speaker 8: is that what Haley did was it themed out like
Speaker 8: the fourth floor?
Speaker 1: So no that you don't have to theme it out
Speaker 1: just because they're in your guild. I don't think for
Speaker 1: the well, this one isn't a wedding, but the people
Speaker 1: that met in a cure Chat group, they're probably not
Speaker 1: doing like a Robert Smith themed wedding. Now there isn't
Speaker 1: a wedding. By the way, Will you do me a favor,
Speaker 1: will you write down wedding? Please just write down wedding.
Speaker 1: I'll know what it means. Actually, don't write down wedding,
Speaker 1: just right down wedding. Where am I going? Kristin line one? Hi,
Speaker 1: Elliott the morning.
Speaker 6: Hey this is me, Yeah, Hi, who's this? It's Aaron
Speaker 6: Myrtle Beach.
Speaker 9: What's up?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 9: Hey?
Speaker 1: What's going on? Aaron? How are you?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 6: A good shoot?
Speaker 9: So I was just gonna say I have met a
Speaker 9: lot of chick ass people in Facebook groups over the years,
Speaker 9: like my buddy Richmond, my buddy h Phil and Richmond. Uh.
Speaker 9: I've gone to concerts with these people, I've smoked with
Speaker 9: these people, and I also lost my virginity to a
Speaker 9: girl I'm not on Facebook many years ago.
Speaker 1: How Like, but in what, in what context? Did you
Speaker 1: meet him on Facebook?
Speaker 9: One was an at posting group like he obviously I
Speaker 9: can't say that word.
Speaker 1: On the air.
Speaker 9: And another one was a metal music group. We've all
Speaker 9: just met together. We've gone to concert, smoke, we had
Speaker 9: fun and like I said, I lost my virginity to
Speaker 9: one girl from a posting group.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Hey, let me ask you this the like
Speaker 1: for the like the metal music group or something? How
Speaker 1: long were you like? Is it like these people were?
Speaker 1: They were twenty four years. I feel like knowing somebody
Speaker 1: for twenty four years, you know them, but I still
Speaker 1: feel like it would be odd twenty four years later
Speaker 1: to meet them face to face.
Speaker 9: It wasn't really odd at all, Like we just saw
Speaker 9: each other and hugged and just celebrated our favorite band.
Speaker 5: This.
Speaker 9: One of the continents we went to was Carolina Rebellion
Speaker 9: at Charlotte Motor Speedway. It was a Ben sevenfold, Rob
Speaker 9: Zombie and I believe fot Finger Death Punch was there
Speaker 9: as well, and we all just had a hell of
Speaker 9: a weekend together. It was just a great goddamn time.
Speaker 1: Did you know it was them, like immediately.
Speaker 9: Yeah, because they picked me up at my house and
Speaker 9: we all carful to get the race track together.
Speaker 1: That makes sense. That makes sense. See there's something about
Speaker 1: it now, if I'm being honest, you telling me the story,
Speaker 1: there's part of me that goes but the But but
Speaker 1: it's cool, you know what I mean? How long were
Speaker 1: you friends before you met up?
Speaker 6: It was a few years.
Speaker 1: See, I'm I think I'm the I think I'm the
Speaker 1: odd ball. I'm the odd one out.
Speaker 9: And there was one lady that came with us who, sadly,
Speaker 9: Paula is no longer with us, but she was like
Speaker 9: a second mom to me. She was the leader of
Speaker 9: our little group and we mess her very much.
Speaker 1: Can I ask you a question. I'm not being rude
Speaker 1: about Paula, but I'm going to ask a serious question.
Speaker 1: Did you guys go Did you go to her funeral?
Speaker 9: I could not because it was up in Ohio. I
Speaker 9: got you, and it was during COVID. It was during COVID,
Speaker 9: so we really couldn't do much.
Speaker 1: I understand. I understand. All right, Very good, very good.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 8: Yes, Tyler, I'm reading more through the thread where the
Speaker 8: original poster answered some questions.
Speaker 1: The Iron Maiden couple so well don't say couple, No,
Speaker 1: no friends the friend actually.
Speaker 8: He points out, because there are a lot of you
Speaker 8: in the chat who can't help themselves. Did you guys
Speaker 8: do it a little hands? And he points out that
Speaker 8: her husband took the photo.
Speaker 1: Are you serious?
Speaker 8: Yes, so she did not go alone.
Speaker 1: She brought her husband, right.
Speaker 8: It was her first time seeing Iron Maiden. It was
Speaker 8: his fifty second time. Oh my god, seeing Iron Maiden.
Speaker 8: But I liked this question. How often do you still talk?
Speaker 8: And did you maintain the consistency through all the years,
Speaker 8: Which is a.
Speaker 1: Great question, See, I like it. Well, no, because the consistency.
Speaker 1: I bet it's different when you're sixteen than say, when
Speaker 1: you're thirty, So I would bet the consistency slowed down.
Speaker 8: He says, there were a few dry patches over the years.
Speaker 1: But lately, I bet I was going to say it
Speaker 1: either ends in your like this girl's a loser or no, no,
Speaker 1: been talking forever twenty years, Yeah, but then you meet
Speaker 1: him and then the no, no, no, I'm just no.
Speaker 8: He's talking about prior to meeting at the concert. Oh yeah, No,
Speaker 8: you go through different patches, he says, lately though they talked,
Speaker 8: talked daily.
Speaker 1: Oh I bet. I bet. I was gonna say, it
Speaker 1: either ends or it ramps up. If you were if
Speaker 1: you were the if so you're the girl's husband, is
Speaker 1: there any part of you that goes, seriously, We're going
Speaker 1: to hell Sinky to go see Iron Maiden with some
Speaker 1: ID that you chatted with when you were sixteen.
Speaker 8: I mean he has been in the picture for a
Speaker 8: shorter amount of time.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 1: But if Jackie was like, oh, hey, like, how early
Speaker 1: in the relationship do you go, Oh, my good friend Thomas, Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean I know him, but I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 8: Him this day and age though, with especially gaming, I
Speaker 8: feel like like this, I know, I know somebody after
Speaker 8: their guild is going to their wedding.
Speaker 4: Get there.
Speaker 1: I hope they're serving magic.
Speaker 8: Need and to give the person credit. The way they
Speaker 8: phrased the question about sex was your bone.
Speaker 1: Line?
Speaker 9: Eight?
Speaker 1: Hi Elliott in the morning, Hey you guys go out. Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm doing great. What can I do for you, sir?
Speaker 6: Awesome?
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 4: I have multiple online friends right now, all due to gaming,
Speaker 4: all because of gaming.
Speaker 1: How long do these friends go back?
Speaker 4: Well, what I've got one that goes back to when
Speaker 4: I was in like middle school, two thousand and one
Speaker 4: or so. We played PlayStation two back in the day
Speaker 4: he was in Canada. We were friends for so long,
Speaker 4: and I've kind of like walt connected with him, and
Speaker 4: I've honestly been trying to search him for him for
Speaker 4: about five years. I've been looking kind of everywhere. Honestly,
Speaker 4: I've been trying to like reconnected with them and find them. Man,
Speaker 4: because he was a real good friend.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 4: We spent a lot of time together.
Speaker 1: Did you ever meet in person?
Speaker 4: No, we never met in person.
Speaker 8: No.
Speaker 1: Do you have any online friends that you were friends
Speaker 1: with for years that you did meet in person?
Speaker 6: Yep, yep.
Speaker 4: I met a guy and Call of Duty about six
Speaker 4: years ago. And last year he came down to Florida
Speaker 4: and met me in Florida with his wife and we
Speaker 4: spent a whole weekend and just had so much fun
Speaker 4: and it was awesome.
Speaker 1: Did he where in Florida? Are you?
Speaker 4: I'm in Jacksonville?
Speaker 1: Okay, So was he like he and his wife were
Speaker 1: just going to Jacksonville and met up or did they
Speaker 1: come to see you?
Speaker 4: No, Man, they planned the whole vacation around coming. I
Speaker 4: mean he did. She kind of tagged along. I think
Speaker 4: you know, but yeah, planning the whole vacation, on coming
Speaker 4: down and seeing me and meeting me. Yeah, it was
Speaker 4: just so cool. I got another friend that's over fifteen
Speaker 4: years that I invited him out to my wedding. He
Speaker 4: unfortunately couldn't make it, but he's across the country. I'd
Speaker 4: never met him. I mean, I'd go on and on. Man, gaming,
Speaker 4: I have more friends thanks to gaming than I do
Speaker 4: in real life. I'm gonna be honest with you, now.
Speaker 1: That's totally fine. That's totally and I applaud you for it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have no problem with that.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, man. If it wasn't for gaming, I don't know,
Speaker 4: I wouldn't have any any friends.
Speaker 1: I'm your friend. I got you, I got you, all right,
Speaker 1: very good, very good, Thank you, sir, thank you.
Speaker 8: Yes from Facebook Canvas Rights or Susan Wrights a geo
Speaker 8: cities chat in the late nineties of teenager udies.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, what's the next Simms.
Speaker 8: We've kept in touch since then. Her daughter is now
Speaker 8: coming to the East Coast in the fall for college,
Speaker 8: so hopefully we'll meet for the first time in person.
Speaker 8: And finally, I like that. I like that now I
Speaker 8: feel like whether it was comments or calls. The meetup
Speaker 8: has been positive?
Speaker 1: Yeah, are there because you do know these people?
Speaker 8: Are there stories where it's just so different online and
Speaker 8: the face to face doesn't meet expectations?
Speaker 1: Uh? Yeah?
Speaker 7: Or people get super awkward?
Speaker 1: Maybe, well I bet there is some of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but no, the because I did read about some that
Speaker 1: went south, and a lot of it is when you're
Speaker 1: especially like you meet online when you're younger or it's
Speaker 1: been years that as you get older, you start to
Speaker 1: learn things about them that maybe you didn't know. And
Speaker 1: it ranges everything from political differences to choice of vocabulary
Speaker 1: to like people just being out like like I think
Speaker 1: the person's a Nazi, Like so some of them because
Speaker 1: they may not share that, and now you meet them
Speaker 1: and you start learning all these things that maybe they
Speaker 1: didn't want to share on Xbox.
Speaker 8: Or maybe they weren't that person when they were a teenager.
Speaker 1: Well you true, there was a lot of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was a lot of that. Like at sixteen, this
Speaker 1: guy wasn't a Nazi, but as he's gotten older, he's
Speaker 1: really learned to hate the Jewsky, is.
Speaker 8: This why you're not chatting with people on MLB show?
Speaker 1: I'm not a Nazi.
Speaker 8: No are you no, that's such a specific.
Speaker 1: Oh, it was just one that I read. It was
Speaker 1: just one that I read. Yeah, Hi, Elliott in the morning.
Speaker 5: Elliott my son was star football player state championship football team, graduated,
Speaker 5: broke all ties, and became the biggest gaming nerd in
Speaker 5: the world. He did a road trip, picked up three
Speaker 5: other guys along the way, met up with a force
Speaker 5: in Florida. All his gaming friends for the first time
Speaker 5: this summer he graduated. Now they are all his best friends.
Speaker 5: They go to comic cons dressed as dragon ballers and
Speaker 5: that's the only people he talks to anymore.
Speaker 1: You know what, but he but he, but they made
Speaker 1: sure to get together in person.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, twice a year every year.
Speaker 1: You know what, that's kind of cool. That's kind of cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got no problem with that. You know what, I
Speaker 1: think I may have to I may have to rescind.
Speaker 7: What did you remember when?
Speaker 8: Now?
Speaker 7: Yes, what's what's the group or.
Speaker 1: Going to sound No, it's going to sound bad, but
Speaker 1: it's not.
Speaker 8: Bad as what scandalous?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Bad as also.
Speaker 1: Made inappropriate and it's.
Speaker 8: Not I was just like the email forwards from Jerry
Speaker 8: the Old Mailman No, that kept a group together for
Speaker 8: a while.
Speaker 1: I am text buddies with somebody that I've never met,
Speaker 1: and we probably text once or twice a week, and
Speaker 1: I don't know that I'll ever meet him.
Speaker 7: Who is?
Speaker 8: Have you told us this before.
Speaker 1: He goes to school with my kid? No, you definitely
Speaker 1: have not said that.
Speaker 7: Why would the creepy part, why would you not meet them?
Speaker 1: I don't know that I ever will when my kids
Speaker 1: got one year left to school.
Speaker 8: So it is your child's friend, right, Yes, okay, you
Speaker 8: said he goes to school with your son. Oh, yeah,
Speaker 8: they know each other like your son doesn't know about
Speaker 8: this texting relationship you have with this kid your bone.
Speaker 1: No, No, he's friends with my kid, but I only
Speaker 1: text with him. I've never met him.
Speaker 8: Then how did you start up chatting with him?
Speaker 1: My kid hooked the two of us up connected the
Speaker 1: two of us. He's a big baseball guy, so we'll
Speaker 1: text about baseball.
Speaker 8: And you've never with all your campus visits, no met
Speaker 8: him face.
Speaker 1: Never met him face to face, don't even know what
Speaker 1: he looks like. Well, he'll be at your funeral.
Speaker 8: It helps when you're a similar to keep this.
Speaker 1: Going for So does that sound sketch.
Speaker 7: What does your son say, Well, he was the one
Speaker 7: who hooked you.
Speaker 1: Up in the first It's totally fine.
Speaker 8: Why I shouldn't say hooked.
Speaker 1: Because remember my mom did dance with a friend of
Speaker 1: mine from school that she met at a bar. That's different.
Speaker 1: That was trying to hook up.
Speaker 8: But you guys don't ever like FaceTime.
Speaker 1: No, I gotta be honest. I don't know that I
Speaker 1: know what the kid looks like. I have no idea.
Speaker 8: Will you meet it graduation?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 8: Is he not the same year?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I have no idea what year he's
Speaker 1: I don't ask him things like that.
Speaker 7: That's strictly baseball.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, like we'll do like immaculate grid, not together
Speaker 1: like that. That would be lame.
Speaker 8: Is this the kid who was able to guess the silhouettes?
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, yeah, this is the same kid. Like he's
Speaker 1: a baseball savant.
Speaker 7: And you never creep into like hockey or anything.
Speaker 1: Okay, thank god, she says creepy to his room. Hey
Speaker 1: you said it. No, he's I have a strictly baseball
Speaker 1: conversation with him.
Speaker 8: Don't have to creep when you're already under the bed.
Speaker 8: Gaming sports music music chat rooms are those A handful
Speaker 8: of people Candice was one of those, and Jennifer, they've
Speaker 8: met people in pregnancy apps and websites for people who
Speaker 8: were due in the same month.
Speaker 1: That's good. That's good. Like if you're going through like
Speaker 1: I don't know, like the not No, that's wedding. What
Speaker 1: is what is it for? Bump the bump? If you
Speaker 1: were if you were going through that, you're in there
Speaker 1: obviously at the same time as somebody else. You may
Speaker 1: you may strike up a friendship. That's good.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Jennifer says friends. For seventeen years with this whole
Speaker 8: group of women, we have met a few in person
Speaker 8: over the years. We've set up meal delivery for each other,
Speaker 8: go fund me accounts, when a couple of families having
Speaker 8: a health crisis. They are friends for Oh, but you're
Speaker 8: now you're thinking what happens if the Tennessee kid has
Speaker 8: a need for cash?
Speaker 1: And the leads line eight, Hi Elliott the morning? Hello, Yeah, Hi,
Speaker 1: who's that.
Speaker 4: Evan?
Speaker 1: Hey Evan? What can I do for you?
Speaker 5: Yes, I'm meeting an online friend tomorrow coming to town
Speaker 5: from Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: How long? How long? How long? How long have you
Speaker 1: guys been friends online about two years or so? Two years?
Speaker 5: How did you met on a chronic pain chronic pain
Speaker 5: discord group server?
Speaker 1: Oh wow, no kids.
Speaker 7: So they're like commiserating with somebody.
Speaker 1: What's your what's your issue?
Speaker 6: I have a nerve pain in the face?
Speaker 1: Oh no kidding? And what have they got the same thing?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: Was it specifically for nerve pain in the face? Yeah?
Speaker 1: For trade em on the Oh yeah, my mom got that.
Speaker 1: The what do you?
Speaker 7: Oh, you should just get her in the check group.
Speaker 1: The uh, what is she doing tomorrow?
Speaker 8: He's left town?
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, So and this guy's flying from Cincinnati
Speaker 1: to meet you.
Speaker 5: He has a frontier unlimited pass you can so he's
Speaker 5: coming to DC.
Speaker 1: What are you? What are you gonna do? Like? Is
Speaker 1: he staying with you?
Speaker 6: He's not staying with her? Or just gonna hang out downtown?
Speaker 6: Send me all together?
Speaker 1: I think? Are you nervous?
Speaker 6: Nope?
Speaker 1: Where are you meeting?
Speaker 8: Elliott? Just wants to know what restaurants are going to.
Speaker 1: A little bit your bone? Hey, send me a follow up,
Speaker 1: let me know how it goes. I would be so nervous.
Speaker 1: I hope you feel better. I would be That sounded
Speaker 1: very flippant, and I didn't mean it that way.
Speaker 7: Hey, sorry about your pain.
Speaker 1: Hi Elliott the morning. Yeah, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 6: This is a You can call me Bacon. That's the
Speaker 6: nickname everybody knows me for.
Speaker 1: Hey, what's a bacon?
Speaker 7: Bacon?
Speaker 1: You're Bagel?
Speaker 6: Another day in Paradise. I heard you're looking for nerds.
Speaker 6: You talk to people online.
Speaker 1: I don't think your nerds. I don't think your nerds.
Speaker 1: What where did you? How many online friends do you have?
Speaker 6: If I was gonna say online friends that I've never
Speaker 6: met in person, unfortunately I got none. No more because
Speaker 6: they've unfortunately passed and I've been to both their funerals.
Speaker 1: Wait, so though, did you meet them? Did you meet
Speaker 1: them prior to attending their funerals? Did you meet them
Speaker 1: in person?
Speaker 6: So the first one I didn't, unfortunately, but I met
Speaker 6: the second one at that person's funeral.
Speaker 1: Did you really them?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 6: I did.
Speaker 1: Did anybody at the did anybody like did that guy?
Speaker 1: I'm assuming it's a guy. I could be wrong, but
Speaker 1: did any world man? Did any of that guy's family?
Speaker 1: Like did they know? Like who's the stranger? And you
Speaker 1: were like, Oh, I'm an online friend and this is
Speaker 1: our other online friend? Like did the family think it
Speaker 1: was kind of cool.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, the family was all four it. It was
Speaker 6: funny as hell because they saw us rolling in and
Speaker 6: it was like four of us that the three of us,
Speaker 6: we were all friends from actually the DMV area, and
Speaker 6: all of them have kind of moved. We all showed
Speaker 6: up in Ohio and they're like, who are these people?
Speaker 6: And we're like, we met them online.
Speaker 1: Through call of duty, right, you know what?
Speaker 6: And they were like, okay, cool, join in.
Speaker 1: If I were the family, and I mean this sincerely,
Speaker 1: I would think that's kind of cool because you're talking
Speaker 1: about like somebody who who, like you, didn't hang out,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And it's easy. I can't
Speaker 1: say it's easy to be online friends, but it's there's
Speaker 1: no investment financially in being an online friend. So the
Speaker 1: fact that like you dropped everything to go to this funeral,
Speaker 1: if I were the parents, I would think that that's
Speaker 1: a like, that's a very sweet thing to do. Absolutely.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 6: We we were best friends for probably three or four
Speaker 6: years just because of a pandemic and everything, right, and
Speaker 6: once we got that news, we all were like, all right,
Speaker 6: you meet here in Dulles Warker Ive, Indo. Ohio.
Speaker 1: Good for you, Good for you. Well, it doesn't matter. Elliott.
Speaker 1: All right, very good, very good, Thank you, my friend.
Speaker 1: Can I grab line one?
Speaker 4: Hi?
Speaker 1: Elliot the morning?
Speaker 2: Hi, good morning Elliott.
Speaker 7: How are you?
Speaker 4: I am?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 1: Thank you? Who is this?
Speaker 3: This is Heather in Austin, Oh?
Speaker 1: Yes? And what can I do for you? In Austin?
Speaker 3: So I met someone actually on Facebook, actually commenting on
Speaker 3: a post from EPM.
Speaker 2: I met a lady who we both laughed about the
Speaker 2: same thing, and we kept in touch. And it's been
Speaker 2: probably thirteen or fourteen years now that we just every
Speaker 2: now and then we'll communicate on social media, but we
Speaker 2: definitely keep in touch. And you brought us together.
Speaker 1: Elliott Bay, thank you. So you bone the have the
Speaker 1: two of you have the two of you ever met?
Speaker 3: We have not met in person, but she lives in Georgia,
Speaker 3: uh and I'm in Texas and uh, you know, if
Speaker 3: I ever drive back east, my plan is to stop
Speaker 3: and you know, see theater and maybe meet in person.
Speaker 1: Why don't you guys come to DC and meet like
Speaker 1: it's something we're doing.
Speaker 3: I mean I would love to.
Speaker 1: I'm not flying you yet, I'm not flying you in.
Speaker 3: I'm sure damn. Okay, well no, I would love to
Speaker 3: She is from Pennsylvania, so you know she was in
Speaker 3: the he was in the area. Come off and she
Speaker 3: gets back to DC.
Speaker 2: But yeah, maybe we can plan something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's try to get that done. Let's try to
Speaker 1: get that done. All right, very good, very good. I
Speaker 1: appreciate it, Thank you, ma'am.
Speaker 8: What was the story?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hung up, I hung up. It was in
Speaker 1: that I hate Elliott chat.
Speaker 8: Oh, they were making fun of your teas.
Speaker 1: But do you see what I mean? All of this
Speaker 1: sounds nerdy, but it's cool.
Speaker 7: It's a sense of community.
Speaker 8: Yes, I don't think in twenty twenty five it's as
Speaker 8: nerdy as it may have once been. Like when your
Speaker 8: original story when they were chatting in the system of
Speaker 8: a down room, right, that probably even though it was.
Speaker 1: Does it sound nerdy when ten members of his guild
Speaker 1: is coming to his wedding that he's never.
Speaker 7: You just have a problem with the word guild from
Speaker 7: the guild.
Speaker 8: I just think it doesn't.
Speaker 1: We'll be dressed like a dragonballer.
Speaker 8: And I'm afraid of some of these people because burroh,
Speaker 8: I won't say a name from Instagram. Hello, maybe you
Speaker 8: can get in on this. Kristen h some of his
Speaker 8: best friends are from online knife collecting groups.
Speaker 1: Kristin yeh, did Kristen show you the new knife that
Speaker 1: she just got as a gift from somebody? Wait? Another
Speaker 1: new knife?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I don't want to say. I don't want to say who.
Speaker 7: She just got it in the mail this week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, in the mail. It's here.
Speaker 8: M h oh, it's at home.
Speaker 1: Yeah it was. Yeah, I held it. Was it yesterday
Speaker 1: or the day before?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 1: It's heavy, like if she stabbed someone, it's doing some damage.
Speaker 8: Why can't we say who sent it?
Speaker 1: I don't know if I don't know if we're supposed to.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we're supposed to.
Speaker 8: Hmm, that's mysterious. Was it from somebody famous?
Speaker 1: Um? No, you know the person?
Speaker 8: So this is somebody that we're all close with. Well
Speaker 8: I didn't get a gift.
Speaker 1: I didn't get one either, and I bet you complained
Speaker 1: about that.
Speaker 8: Was it for a special reason?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Because Kristen likes knives.
Speaker 8: Oh that's really kind.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well there are things I like. I'd like a
Speaker 1: new pair of skates. Don't you have your dog lead
Speaker 1: you over to h hockey and get.
Speaker 6: Me some.
Speaker 1: You got a pen. Say again, yeah, you got a pen.
Speaker 1: We all got a pen. God. And by the way,
Speaker 1: I'm kidding. I don't want skates. I like my skates.