#157 - Sydnee Washington and Dewayne Perkins

Sydnee Washington and Dewayne Perkins join the pod to discuss their roommate-guarantor relationship, the requisite Stavvy's World check-in on Sydnee's life, Dewayne's gay promotion from sandwich artist to interior designer at Potbelly's, Murphy Lee of the St. Lunatics having strong stud energy, and much more. Sydnee, Dewayne and Stav help callers including a man whose wife is offended that his trans brother asked him but not her if he would donate his sperm so he could have a baby, and a woman who's wondering if she should tell her boyfriend that everyone in town hates him. Check out Sydnee Washington's podcast MESS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mess-with-sydnee-washington-marie-faustin/id1160606309 https://open.spotify.com/show/4vCgiF2E6Wo35ZkzcoedC3 Follow Sydnee Washington on social media: https://www.instagram.com/justsydbw/ https://twitter.com/Justsydnyc https://www.tiktok.com/@justsydbw20 Watch Dewayne Perkins's movie The Blackening: https://www.theblackening.movie/ Follow Dewayne Perkins on social media: https://www.dewayneperkins.com/ https://www.instagram.com/dewaynekperkins/ https://twitter.com/DewaynePerkins https://www.facebook.com/thedewayneperkins/ Thank you to our sponsors! Aura Frames - https://auraframes.com/stavvy use code STAVVY ☎️ Have a question for a regular episode? Call 904-800-STAV and leave a voicemail to get advice! 🎟️ See Stavvy live on the Dreamboat Tour 🛥️💕!!! https://stavvy.biz/ for tickets ‼️ Bonus episodes every week! Unlock exclusive, Patreon-only episodes at https://www.patreon.com/stavvysworld

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• 1:02Speaker 01

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• 1:31Speaker 02

  No, we're doing better.

• 1:32Stavros Halkias?

  Hoppa! Welcome, everybody, to Stobby's World. 904-800-STOP. Call in, we'll solve your problems. Returning favorite Sidney Washington is here with her guarantor, Dwayne Perkins.

• 1:51Speaker 02

  It's funny when I say it. When you say it, it's funny.

• 1:54Stavros Halkias?

  It's good, we're celebrating. You have an apartment, you live in a...

• 1:57Speaker 02

  Immediately.

• 2:00Speaker 02

  He didn't wait. He was like, "Yes, I'll bring Dwayne."

• 2:02Stavros Halkias?

  I'm chomping at the bit to get into this. We love tracking your life. You're in a great place. You're glowing. You look incredible. Fully gay again, I think, right? You've really improved.

• 2:13Speaker 02

  Back at it.

• 2:14Stavros Halkias?

  You're back. And I have good credit.

• 2:19Stavros Halkias?

  It's so ni- I told you this over text.

• 2:21Speaker 02

  Do not, do not listen to him.

• 2:22Stavros Halkias?

  It's so nice, I told you this over text, it's so nice you finally have a man in your life.

• 2:27Speaker 04

  We have a beautiful lavender marriage.

• 2:31Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 2:31Speaker 02

  All I needed was a gay man to get me right. Get me straight.

• 2:36Speaker 04

  Dinner for her last night.

• 2:38Speaker 02

  You did come dinner for me.

• 2:39Stavros Halkias?

  Wow, that's beautiful. I love this. I love to hear this.

• 2:43Speaker 02

  Yeah, you're still straight, right?

• 2:45Stavros Halkias?

  I'm still straight.

• 2:49Stavros Halkias?

  Still straight for the time being, we'll see what happens. For now, I'm open.

• 2:54Speaker 02

  Recession indicator when Stav is gay.

• 2:58Stavros Halkias?

  Things are tough, yeah, yeah. No, that's clear, that's like your crisis. You being straight at all means, oh shit, if something's wrong.

• 3:05Speaker 02

  It's going downhill.

• 3:06Stavros Halkias?

  Things are going really bad.

• 3:10Speaker 02

  Honestly, I could see how next year was gonna be, like, because it happened two years ago, I could just tell everything was gonna get worse after that. Not just me, but the whole, like, world.

• 3:22Stavros Halkias?

  Of course.

• 3:23Speaker 02

  Just fell with me, so. I didn't feel alone with the decision.

• 3:27Stavros Halkias?

  It wasn't even, yeah, it wasn't even your choice.

• 3:30Speaker 02

  It wasn't.

• 3:30Stavros Halkias?

  You were sort of, yeah, you were the canary in the coal mine.

• 3:33Speaker 02

  Oh my god, look at you, a philosopher.

• 3:34Stavros Halkias?

  When you're dating men, the world's going bad.

• 3:39Stavros Halkias?

  So I guess actually, by that logic, we should be back, we should be back any minute now. It's not getting better.

• 3:45Speaker 02

  I swear to you, there is some days where I'm like, so if I just lose everything, do I just start dating a man again? I don't know. I don't know. I've asked Dwayne and he doesn't want no parts.

• 3:58Stavros Halkias?

  This is a nice middle ground that you found. You guys are in a nice, like lavender marriage, that's a nice term. Is that, is that what people used to do? Kind of a double beard situation, a gay guy and a lesbian would live together?

• 4:10Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah.

• 4:12Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah. That was good. If they could figure that out, that was good.

• 4:16Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's like, you need care and love.

• 4:18Stavros Halkias?

  Sure, sure.

• 4:19Speaker 04

  And you can get sex outside.

• 4:21Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, exactly.

• 4:22Speaker 02

  Yeah, we have a sexless home.

• 4:24Stavros Halkias?

  Of course.

• 4:28Stavros Halkias?

  We're going double celibacy?

• 4:30Speaker 02

  No, I mean, I, you, have you had something else before?

• 4:34Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 4:36Stavros Halkias?

  Come on, dude. Don't disrespect Wayne.

• 4:40Speaker 02

  While I was there? The walls are thin. I just wanna say that.

• 4:44Stavros Halkias?

  Hey, listen, me and Eldis fucking my old mic.

• 4:49Speaker 04

  It was just once.

• 4:50Speaker 02

  Okay, one, yeah, and I, I think I've had sex while you were there. Maybe not. Maybe not, I don't think so. You would have hurt me.

• 4:58Stavros Halkias?

  That's the final, that's the final level of roommate intimacy. Knowing the BPMs that somebody fucks, that your friend fucks at. I can still, I can close my eyes and hear Eldis's stroke from the other room.

• 5:09Speaker 02

  Yo, pause.

• 5:16Speaker 04

  How wet is it?

• 5:20Speaker 02

  Macaroni in the pot.

• 5:21Stavros Halkias?

  No, it's more the grunts, it's more the creaking of the Ikea bed. It's definitely not.

• 5:27Speaker 05

  The picture frames are falling off the walls.

• 5:30Speaker 02

  Damn, are you, you fucking like a laid off husband? What's going on?

• 5:35Speaker 04

  I love effort. Good for you.

• 5:38Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, Eldis will give you a feverish 92 seconds.

• 5:43Stavros Halkias?

  And then he'll need a real rest. You hear, you hear him gasping for air.

• 5:47Speaker 02

  Yo.

• 5:48Speaker 04

  Like a song with no bridge.

• 5:53Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, it's like somebody who's performing a studio version that's way too hard live. That's Eldis having sex.

• 5:59Speaker 04

  Just a lot of pointing the mic out.

• 6:02Stavros Halkias?

  Your turn. You know the words. You know how this goes. Why don't you get on top?

• 6:09Speaker 02

  Dwayne, have you done this podcast before? You're feeling very comfortable.

• 6:15Stavros Halkias?

  I knew he'd fit right in. I love it, yeah, that is awesome. So you, how long have you guys been living together?

• 6:23Speaker 02

  Almost, like, almost a year.

• 6:25Stavros Halkias?

  Wow.

• 6:26Speaker 04

  Yeah, cuz you were there before I came, cuz I'd be back and forth.

• 6:30Speaker 02

  Yeah, let, let's just get this straight. We're gonna say this on the record. We don't need to be roommates, okay?

• 6:36Stavros Halkias?

  Right.

• 6:37Speaker 02

  We, like, he's.

• 6:38Stavros Halkias?

  We.

• 6:40Stavros Halkias?

  Both of you equally don't need each other, that's for sure.

• 6:44Speaker 02

  No, no, wait. Dwayne, you said it yesterday. I have the money. They just, on paper, they don't trust you.

• 6:50Speaker 04

  Yeah, like I said, it never gave poor, it gave irresponsible.

• 6:53Speaker 02

  Yes, thank you.

• 6:54Stavros Halkias?

  I agree with that. I agree with that.

• 6:57Speaker 02

  So, you know, when I initially asked him, he was like, actually, I do want to be bi-coastal. So I was like, oh, that's perfect. But then you know how bad the system is with trying to get an apartment, all that paperwork, all the back and forth, all the poor R experiences. There was a moment where I had to get Dwayne on Zoom with the landlords, right? And he thought that I was gonna be on a Zoom too. I said, no, no, no, baby. It's your paperwork that's gonna get us into this building. And then he gets on the Zoom. It did not feel like a loose meeting. It was very like, hey, nigga, who are you?

• 7:36Stavros Halkias?

  Very business-like, very about.

• 7:38Speaker 02

  You came in a white tank top and of course they're like, yeah, who are you?

• 7:41Speaker 04

  I didn't know what was going on and context.

• 7:43Stavros Halkias?

  Sure. A landlord meeting's always brutal.

• 7:46Speaker 02

  It was.

• 7:47Stavros Halkias?

  They all, a landlord always like, they forget that you're a human being. They just look at it as like, I need to get my rent paid. I don't give a fuck at all.

• 7:55Speaker 04

  But the issue was, it was a call to basically be like, hey, we like saw all your records and stuff. Why do you have so much money?

• 8:04Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, wow, really?

• 8:06Speaker 04

  You'd be like, what do you mean?

• 8:08Speaker 02

  He said, he said, Google me, baby. I'm on IMDb. You know why?

• 8:13Speaker 04

  I think they were just a little suspicious because I was like, I could pay for the whole year right now.

• 8:17Stavros Halkias?

  Right, right, right, right.

• 8:18Speaker 04

  Who are you talking to?

• 8:19Speaker 02

  Yo, he had me on speaker in the background. I said, oh, we not getting this. We not getting it, baby. We just should walk away gracefully.

• 8:27Stavros Halkias?

  Listen, I know how that goes. When I was looking at apartments, I had like multiple brokers be like, you can afford this place, right? Because I just came looking exactly like this. I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna, you know, what am I gonna put on a fucking suit? To look at, I'm looking exactly like this. I'm city biking over in a Hawaiian shirt and some athleisure, you know? And it's like, yeah, I can afford this incredibly expensive apartment.

• 8:50Speaker 04

  Are the bank statements not enough? What do you want me to look like?

• 8:54Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 8:55Speaker 02

  But the craziest thing is, is that the apartment was so far in Flatbush that it was like, what y'all are charging, you should be ashamed.

• 9:03Stavros Halkias?

  Right, right, right.

• 9:03Speaker 02

  Like, we're supposed to be in that neighborhood.

• 9:06Stavros Halkias?

  Of course, of course.

• 9:06Speaker 02

  And then they're looking at us, well, looking at him, like, so,

• 9:09Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 9:10Speaker 02

  why do you want to be here?

• 9:13Speaker 02

  He's like, I own another property, sir, in another state. What's up?

• 9:17Stavros Halkias?

  Right, right, right.

• 9:18Speaker 02

  I'm sorry to put your business on the air.

• 9:19Speaker 04

  That's, that's where it came to me, being like landlord to landlord.

• 9:25Stavros Halkias?

  And then, yeah, they're brushing Kabuli chairs, and you're like, oh, brother.

• 9:30Speaker 04

  Brother in arms. I know what we're doing.

• 9:32Speaker 02

  He put his hat on, he's like, tip tip, tip tip, now you know.

• 9:36Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, good day, sir. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 9:40Speaker 02

  Yeah, so, um, yeah, I think that, well, we've been friends for a long time, and that, that moment definitely solidified it, is because, you know, you don't know what a friend is gonna do with your paperwork. You don't know if they're gonna be a good roommate, and so, I, uh, friendship means everything to me, and I just wanted to make sure everything was smooth.

• 10:00Stavros Halkias?

  Of course.

• 10:01Speaker 02

  And I, I'm not good with paperwork, and I'm not good with lying, so it was, it was rough.

• 10:05Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, but you figured it out. Dwayne, a very brave man, you know, going into this, going into this.

• 10:13Speaker 04

  Some might say, naive.

• 10:16Stavros Halkias?

  Well, I'm just saying, maybe there's a reason it's so hard for you to get approved for all these things.

• 10:21Speaker 04

  And you know, I realized that after the sound.

• 10:24Speaker 02

  The system, the system makes it hard. Let's get into it. No, because I've been working, I don't want to, over thirty-five years. Over thirty-five years, and because I grew up in a neighborhood and a family that, oh, yeah, we didn't have money like that, as soon as I got money, I said, let's spend this shit.

• 10:40Speaker 04

  Time out, you said you've been working for, what time, what age did you start working?

• 10:44Speaker 02

  Oh, right away.

• 10:45Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 10:46Speaker 02

  Right away.

• 10:46Stavros Halkias?

  Out of the womb.

• 10:47Speaker 04

  Child labor, okay.

• 10:48Speaker 02

  Yeah. I was babysitting babies when I was a baby. I've been doing this.

• 10:54Speaker 04

  And I think that makes it worse if you've been working for that long and still.

• 10:59Speaker 04

  I don't think that's helping.

• 11:02Speaker 02

  There was a moment where I was getting my paperwork together and I said, well, assets, my titties.

• 11:09Speaker 02

  10,000 years.

• 11:14Speaker 02

  I will not this fucking water. I will commit a crime here with you.

• 11:21Stavros Halkias?

  I think they're holding up well, but there's some depreciation, that's all I'm saying.

• 11:26Speaker 04

  Does that account for inflation?

• 11:28Speaker 02

  You know, I'm not you had that. You always say, we making jokes about you. I'm not even gonna do it, because we can see you. So I'm not, I'm not gonna do you like you trying to do me right now, okay?

• 11:39Stavros Halkias?

  I'm just trying to help you get your, your books in order, so that's it.

• 11:44Speaker 02

  Oh, I didn't know you were in accounting.

• 11:46Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, exactly. I've, I've learned something about balancing the books. That's good, though. I do, and I want to say, just on the record, I am staunchly in favor of fake titties. That's one of my big, that's one of my big passion projects, you know?

• 12:00Speaker 02

  Really? Really?

• 12:03Speaker 02

  Well, I just want to let you know because of the economy, titties, the value has gone down. Nobody is caring about titties.

• 12:10Stavros Halkias?

  You think so?

• 12:12Speaker 02

  Because we, because like, look at, look at Sydney Sweeney, the other Sydney, right?

• 12:18Stavros Halkias?

  Of course. The two Sydneys.

• 12:24Speaker 02

  Big ol' roly-polies, just like, bouncy, like, supple, nice, very nice.

• 12:29Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 12:30Speaker 02

  She's also, well, talented, well, well, was, or talented still. But she was having to sell her bath water and some soap.

• 12:40Stavros Halkias?

  That was an interesting move, yeah.

• 12:41Speaker 02

  Titties are down.

• 12:43Speaker 04

  That's the thing.

• 12:44Stavros Halkias?

  I hate to say that.

• 12:45Speaker 04

  I don't know if it was a have to. I think her titties are up.

• 12:49Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 12:50Speaker 04

  That's why she can't show her bath.

• 12:51Speaker 02

  No, no, because if, if, it's safer when Holly Berry is at her peak.

• 12:56Stavros Halkias?

  Sure.

• 12:56Speaker 02

  Peak. I'm talking about when titties valued. Didn't she get like, how much?

• 13:01Stavros Halkias?

  Swordfish for swordfish.

• 13:02Speaker 02

  For swordfish. She was in there for like, what, twenty minutes?

• 13:05Speaker 04

  That's because she didn't show her titties.

• 13:07Stavros Halkias?

  No, she did.

• 13:07Speaker 02

  No, she did show her.

• 13:08Stavros Halkias?

  She didn't show her titties in that.

• 13:09Speaker 04

  But up until then.

• 13:10Stavros Halkias?

  Right, right, right, right, right.

• 13:11Speaker 04

  So that was like a reveal of the titties.

• 13:13Stavros Halkias?

  Absolutely. That was more, that was market, uh, that was market manipulation on Halle Berry's part. Whereas Sydney Sweeney.

• 13:19Speaker 02

  She's been showing it in Indies and Euphoria and everything. So it was like, "Hey, girl, we didn't see that. So what else you got?"

• 13:26Stavros Halkias?

  But I think, I actually do think tits are back, actually.

• 13:29Speaker 04

  I agree.

• 13:30Stavros Halkias?

  I think we're in a, uh, it's the way, when baggy, when baggy pants came back, big tits came back. It used to be a slim jeans, big ass era.

• 13:39Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 13:39Stavros Halkias?

  And I do think we have now moved on to big pants, big tits.

• 13:43Speaker 04

  Yes, it's the balance.

• 13:44Stavros Halkias?

  I think so. Cause you can't see a fat ass in baggy pants. But you can see big tits.

• 13:48Speaker 04

  You gotta show them titties.

• 13:49Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly.

• 13:51Speaker 02

  Well, I think it's just moving towards fascism, you know, soon everything is gonna be co- uh, covered.

• 13:57Stavros Halkias?

  I, this is, this is a big problem for me because people have said that asses are more left, identifies as left-leaning, but big tits are more of a conservative thing. And that pisses me off because I'm a staunch leftist who loves huge tits. And I don't, I don't necessarily agree with that.

• 14:15Speaker 04

  I don't either. I think that ass is more conservative.

• 14:18Stavros Halkias?

  Interesting.

• 14:19Speaker 04

  You put it in the hole when you're trying to avoid premature sex.

• 14:22Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, interesting.

• 14:24Speaker 02

  The gay man is speaking. We're gonna listen.

• 14:26Stavros Halkias?

  By pure functional reasons. Yeah, yeah. Not aesthetic. I was thinking aesthetic.

• 14:30Speaker 04

  Oh.

• 14:30Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 14:34Stavros Halkias?

  You're saying it's kinda like when a, when a, when like a Christian girl's like, "Well, I'm still a virgin." If I get my ass fucked, which is maybe the craziest logic in the world, you know?

• 14:44Speaker 02

  Well, is it?

• 14:46Speaker 04

  Because sex is made for reproduction.

• 14:49Stavros Halkias?

  Right, right, right, right, right.

• 14:51Speaker 04

  So if you are not reproducing.

• 14:52Stavros Halkias?

  Right.

• 14:52Speaker 04

  Then that's not of God.

• 14:53Stavros Halkias?

  Right, right, right.

• 14:54Speaker 02

  So they say, so they say.

• 14:56Speaker 04

  And that's why they don't like gay people because it's always in the booty.

• 14:59Stavros Halkias?

  Right, right, right.

• 15:00Speaker 02

  Always. Even lesbians.

• 15:02Speaker 04

  I'm a lesbian.

• 15:02Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, interesting.

• 15:03Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 15:05Speaker 02

  We, you know, we get our periods.

• 15:07Stavros Halkias?

  Sure, sure, sure, sure.

• 15:09Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 15:11Speaker 04

  Why would you say that? I just thought that there was like, kind of like a sister to sister, like, we get it.

• 15:15Stavros Halkias?

  Right, right, right. Oh, yeah.

• 15:17Speaker 02

  No.

• 15:17Stavros Halkias?

  What are we, men? We're not gonna fuck on our periods?

• 15:19Speaker 04

  Yeah, like, y'all both do it.

• 15:21Stavros Halkias?

  No, interesting.

• 15:22Speaker 02

  I'm at that age where it's like-

• 15:24Speaker 04

  It's kinda like frothing.

• 15:26Speaker 02

  No. I don't know, for me-

• 15:29Speaker 04

  Do you know what frothing is?

• 15:29Speaker 02

  I don't.

• 15:32Speaker 02

  What's frothing?

• 15:33Speaker 04

  We're, uh-

• 15:35Stavros Halkias?

  Fro- is it frothing?

• 15:37Speaker 04

  Is it? Cause frothing sounds worse.

• 15:40Stavros Halkias?

  Frothing sounds way worse. It's the, when you put, it's like dick smashed together?

• 15:44Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 15:44Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 15:45Speaker 04

  And you're like, using like, cum and sometimes if somebody's like-

• 15:48Stavros Halkias?

  Maybe that is frothing. The frothing sounds like a pre-cum kind of thing. Correct me if I'm wrong.

• 15:55Speaker 04

  And then if somebody is like, uncut-

• 15:57Speaker 02

  I'm sorry about it. I'm sorry I mentioned it. Nevermind.

• 16:00Stavros Halkias?

  Big mistakes, dude. You can't swim in these waters.

• 16:05Speaker 04

  If somebody's like uncut, you can put your dick in there for skin.

• 16:07Stavros Halkias?

  Right. Sort of a dock, docking station.

• 16:10Speaker 02

  And this is why y'all are sick.

• 16:14Speaker 02

  I mean, y'all, everybody in the room except me.

• 16:17Speaker 04

  What other marginalized group are you going to hate?

• 16:21Speaker 02

  Everybody can get it. Everybody can get it. Just let-

• 16:24Stavros Halkias?

  You're on a roll.

• 16:25Speaker 02

  It's equal opportunity.

• 16:26Speaker 04

  You really are giving Kanye?

• 16:27Speaker 02

  No, I'm not. I'm literally, I have no money to be Kanye, you know what I mean?

• 16:32Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, that's all that's stopping you?

• 16:34Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 16:37Stavros Halkias?

  You're the assets away?

• 16:39Speaker 02

  I think when you don't have any money and you're saying things, people are just like, well, you're poor. Like, of course you hate this and that. And you hate your life, so that's what it is. Not me, I love my life right now.

• 16:51Speaker 04

  You're projecting.

• 16:52Speaker 02

  Projecting, just a little bit.

• 16:54Stavros Halkias?

  You, you seem to be in more of a positive place overall.

• 16:56Speaker 02

  I am, I am. Well, okay, let's- We had a summer where Dwayne was like, let's do hard seventy-five. Explain.

• 17:07Stavros Halkias?

  And that's, yeah, what's?

• 17:08Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah, I just wanted to change my life.

• 17:11Stavros Halkias?

  And that's dieting. What is it exactly? Can you walk us through it?

• 17:14Speaker 02

  He ain't never heard none of.

• 17:17Speaker 02

  Explain it to him like he's five.

• 17:20Speaker 04

  It's a seventy-five day commitment to better men. So you're supposed to like follow like a diet, you're supposed to like exercise twice a day.

• 17:27Stavros Halkias?

  Twice a day.

• 17:29Speaker 04

  And one of the workouts have to be like outside.

• 17:32Stavros Halkias?

  Okay, get a little sun, sun a little sunlight.

• 17:35Speaker 04

  And I think that's about it, right?

• 17:37Speaker 02

  Yeah, and the diet is just whatever you want it to be. So for me, I was like, oh, no caffeine, no juice, no soda, no fried food.

• 17:46Stavros Halkias?

  Okay.

• 17:46Speaker 02

  And yours was?

• 17:47Speaker 04

  Uh, I didn't know like processed sugars, no carbs, basically, no fried foods.

• 17:55Stavros Halkias?

  Okay.

• 17:55Speaker 04

  I think that was it.

• 17:57Speaker 02

  Yeah, and you, you had to drink a gallon of water a day.

• 17:59Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah.

• 18:00Speaker 02

  A gallon of water. So we walked around with these like military like canteens. Like it looked like we were, you know, going to war or camp.

• 18:09Stavros Halkias?

  Sure.

• 18:09Speaker 02

  Either or. And so this is what we did every single day. And I had, my summer, I was miserable. I was miserable.

• 18:18Speaker 04

  One time I walked, I walked on the train and I had the bottle and this woman laughed and pointed at me and was like, that's a big ass bottle. Then the train car started laughing and I was like, I've never felt more.

• 18:28Stavros Halkias?

  I mean, that's the most middle school.

• 18:31Speaker 04

  Oh, no, I gotta get off. This is not my style.

• 18:32Stavros Halkias?

  Wow, you galvanized the community against your water bottle.

• 18:35Speaker 04

  You look fucking stupid.

• 18:38Speaker 02

  Every time I went somewhere, they're like, oh, you like water. Okay, we get it. It's like, okay, well, you're, you dry bitch. Like, obviously, you don't like water.

• 18:45Stavros Halkias?

  Right, right.

• 18:46Speaker 04

  But it, it did work.

• 18:47Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 18:48Speaker 02

  It did. It did.

• 18:49Stavros Halkias?

  You feeling better?

• 18:50Speaker 04

  Not now.

• 18:51Stavros Halkias?

  Not now, but for a week after the hard seventy-five? Yeah.

• 18:55Speaker 02

  We went hard. The same way we went hard for seventy-five, we went hard the rest, just like sugar.

• 19:03Speaker 04

  It was a hard.

• 19:04Stavros Halkias?

  You did a soft, soft twenty-five after the hard seventy-five?

• 19:07Speaker 02

  No.

• 19:07Speaker 04

  That would have been smarter.

• 19:08Speaker 02

  It would have. Yeah, it would have. And then I actually was like. I had went so deep, deep, deep that I was like, I'm gonna do Hard Time Me Five again. And then I did a week of it again. I said, I can't, I can't. Yeah, this is too much.

• 19:21Stavros Halkias?

  It would become like a religious thing almost. It gave your life some shape and purpose.

• 19:29Speaker 02

  But then people were like, I'm scared. Will you, will you get into a cult? And I'm like, no, that just feels like too much work.

• 19:36Stavros Halkias?

  I could see it.

• 19:38Speaker 02

  Really?

• 19:39Speaker 04

  If it was easy enough.

• 19:41Speaker 02

  It's not though. Cause you have to follow directions.

• 19:45Stavros Halkias?

  What if they house you? What if there's like a nice communal meal? They take care of a lot of your base necessities.

• 19:52Speaker 02

  When I was looking for an apartment.

• 19:54Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, what if there's no Dwayne? And someone's like, hey, come on into this house.

• 19:58Speaker 02

  If I didn't get the apartment at the time I did, and the cult was like, come on in, we got, I would have done that.

• 20:03Stavros Halkias?

  Okay, that's what I'm saying, alright. Yeah, I like a cult. I like, you know, I think it's fun. The idea of starting one seems fun.

• 20:12Speaker 04

  See, I'm very into that.

• 20:13Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, cause it's like, you could just be like, oh yeah. I, yeah, God said, I, I actually can't do any of the chores and I have to get head from all your wives. And then everyone's gonna be like, well, if God said it. And you can be like, ah, this is crazy. I can't believe he's saying this. Do you believe this guy? We gotta do it. We gotta do it or we don't get to go to Jupiter or whatever the fuck we believe.

• 20:34Speaker 02

  See, that's how I know you don't watch the documentaries. That's not how cult leaders are.

• 20:38Stavros Halkias?

  Hundred percent.

• 20:40Speaker 02

  First of all, they talk as if they're like, I'm like you. And then they catch, that's how it starts. But then they, you know, gain their trust and get people when they're at their weakest and then that's when they elevate and they're like, oh, I'm no more than all of you.

• 20:56Speaker 04

  Yeah, I'm not, you thought I was like you, but I'm actually ascending.

• 21:01Speaker 02

  I'm actually an alien.

• 21:04Stavros Halkias?

  Well, that's the thing though, that's you start being an everyman. And I would be so good at that. I would be really good at that, I think.

• 21:11Speaker 02

  And why would you say that?

• 21:12Stavros Halkias?

  Just cause, uh, the very, the very things that you mock, you know, make me very, I'm very, I'm just a regular guy. I'm just a some fat guy, bald, you know.

• 21:25Speaker 02

  Well, you have hair.

• 21:26Stavros Halkias?

  I do have a beard. Thank you. I kinda tricked you into saying that.

• 21:30Stavros Halkias?

  You fell into my trap. I have that, I have that now on record.

• 21:34Speaker 05

  You sound like persuasion here.

• 21:37Stavros Halkias?

  See that? See how quickly being a cult leader works? I could get you to say I have hair. What else could I get you to do?

• 21:46Speaker 02

  Sure, sure, sure.

• 21:51Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, not immediately, you know. First we're learning how to cook stews or whatever and then six, seven weeks in, I'm like, alright guys, this is crazy, but I have to fuck everybody.

• 22:03Speaker 02

  Which is crazy, cuz it's just like, how down and out. Not, not saying you gotta fuck everybody, but just these leaders that have eight, ten wives. I don't get it. Like, the girls have to be looking at each other like, can you believe we're fucking this dude?

• 22:22Stavros Halkias?

  But you're in that, you're like, you're so in that, like, mind frame where like, this is the coolest guy in the world, and it's actually a privilege, and we're getting closer to whatever bullshit they believe. And it must be fun to just make something up and make people believe it. You gotta be like, at a certain point, you gotta be like, I can't believe this is fucking working.

• 22:40Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's just like a very, very long improv scene.

• 22:46Speaker 02

  Or AI, AI. AI is getting me, man. Getting me bad. Yo, the bunny rabbits on the trampoline, I said, fuck, it looks real. Then I saw the bear, I said, nah, it can't be the bear. There's no way. But then I watched the videos with all these animals doing kooky weird, I said, it could be that.

• 23:06Speaker 04

  I would say, I sent a video to a friend and said, oh, AI has, has to be stopped. And it was a, a video of Stephen Hawking using his wheelchair on like a skateboard.

• 23:16Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, hell yeah.

• 23:19Speaker 04

  And then he like went up and then fell, and then like people came to like help him, cuz it didn't go well.

• 23:25Speaker 02

  First of all, Stephen Hawking was not that cool. He wouldn't get on a skateboard, like.

• 23:30Stavros Halkias?

  No, he was using the chair down the ramp.

• 23:34Stavros Halkias?

  Which would be cool if they made those, if they made extreme wheelchairs.

• 23:41Stavros Halkias?

  Put little rockets on it, you could do little flips.

• 23:43Speaker 05

  There's an awesome one of him on BattleBots. He's in like the BattleBots arena.

• 23:48Speaker 02

  I went live, I went there live. I started in Vegas. It was dope as hell, yeah. No, I watched it, I was like.

• 23:55Speaker 04

  Was there a paraplegic there?

• 23:56Speaker 02

  No, it was just the, it was just the, the robots battling each other. It was very cheesy. Also, I was in Vegas. I had been there for pretty much a week. I was low, down and out, and I said, oh, I was doing spots at the Comedy Cellar. Yeah, so it was like, oh, this is a little treat. Do you wanna see something cool?

• 24:16Speaker 04

  Are they like big, are they small?

• 24:17Speaker 02

  Some of them are really big, some of them are really small. It's actually pretty interesting.

• 24:21Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, I watched BattleBots, actually. It's pretty sick.

• 24:24Speaker 02

  It is.

• 24:25Speaker 04

  What's the venue? Is it just like a room? Like, I've never like seen.

• 24:29Speaker 02

  No, it gives warehouse. It's like warehouse, yeah. And it's very performative, like the host and everybody's involved. You're like, yeah, and then you're like this, and it's just like, hey, this person is in a jumpsuit. They're just here at 2pm. They don't, they're not that excited.

• 24:43Stavros Halkias?

  You meant the BattleBots matinee?

• 24:50Speaker 02

  Just in the audience chilling.

• 24:51Speaker 04

  Have you been to a monster truck rally? Are they like somewhere?

• 24:53Stavros Halkias?

  Hell, yeah.

• 24:54Speaker 02

  I don't know. No, I've never been there.

• 24:56Stavros Halkias?

  There's more pomp and circumstance to a monster truck rally. There's more people there.

• 24:59Speaker 04

  Cause I went to one of those for the first time. It was so loud.

• 25:01Stavros Halkias?

  It's loud. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 25:03Speaker 04

  And I said, that would make sense. I didn't realize like that. And I was like, why is everybody wearing earmuffs? Oh, my fucking god. It's crazy.

• 25:10Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 25:10Stavros Halkias?

  But it is sick. I do like it.

• 25:12Speaker 04

  I had a good time. I saw the cars flipping. It gave a weird vibe a little bit because of the demographic, but I'm still.

• 25:20Speaker 02

  Cause I was like, hmm, I don't know if I would wanna be in amongst the crowd.

• 25:24Stavros Halkias?

  Sure. What was BattleBots like?

• 25:27Speaker 02

  Uh, it was kids. It was mad kids there. The parents just like being supportive. And then at the end of the.

• 25:34Speaker 04

  Especially at the matinee.

• 25:35Speaker 02

  Yeah, at the matinee, but at the end of the show, they're like, oh, we're trying to get more like kids to be a part of, um, you know, the creative arts and engineering. So, they have like a, they sell at the end. That's actually like, oh, yeah, we should. We should support BattleBots, you know?

• 25:53Stavros Halkias?

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• 27:41Stavros Halkias?

  One time I, I was in Greece with my friends and we were, we had done, we done mushrooms and we were swimming in the ocean. It was a great day and we saw like signs for like this magician and we were like, oh, it'll be cool like a fucking Vegas. You know, like we're on shrooms, it'll be fucking sick and we're just, it's super hot. We're tripping and we're just like, fuck, we gotta make it to the magician, like we're running late, we're like rushing to get, we, we get out of the beach. We go to the, the magic show and we show up, we go, we're like, oh, we just made it. We get there and it is just so clearly a show for like babies. It's like a magician that's like, ooh, like doing shit like this, it's like, huh?

• 28:26Stavros Halkias?

  It was like parents and like Max, an eight-year-old. We were just the oldest people without children. It was creepy because we're also, like our pupils are fucking huge. It's just like three guys being like, oh, fuck dude. He's fucking step, his big finisher was stepping on glass. Like he just, he was just like, ah, and he was like, he was like not even doing like a good job. His assistant was like helping him, so it was just like, he was barely stepping on glass. It wasn't even magic, it was just a guy kind of floating above the glass and when he touched it, he'd be like, ah.

• 29:01Speaker 02

  An actor, I love that.

• 29:02Speaker 04

  The trick to not being paid?

• 29:04Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, it was fucking up, but it was a great, it was a beautiful experience.

• 29:08Speaker 02

  Well, I will say this about magicians. At first I was like, they're so fucking cheesy, but I actually like the cheesy magicians. I'm annoyed at the people that are like David Blaine, who takes it way too seriously.

• 29:21Stavros Halkias?

  Being cool.

• 29:22Speaker 02

  Oh, and you know, he's, he's attractive, you know, like the girls go crazy for him.

• 29:29Stavros Halkias?

  I didn't know that about David Blaine. Although I guess he was, wasn't he a member of the pussy posse?

• 29:34Speaker 02

  The girls would go crazy for him, like,

• 29:40Speaker 02

  2011, 2012, he used to come into the, the bar that I worked at. And when I tell you obnoxious, we're having a good time, all you hear is broken glass and so, ah! And he's chewing on glass in the middle of the fucking bar and we're like, dude, get out of here, who's gonna clean this up? We're like, who's gonna clean this up? He's eating more glass, he's like, can you please stop, you're scaring the hoes.

• 30:09Speaker 02

  You're scaring the hoes.

• 30:10Stavros Halkias?

  Wow. David Blaine scared the hoes by eating glass, huh?

• 30:14Speaker 02

  Yeah, but then...

• 30:15Stavros Halkias?

  He wasn't scaring them too much.

• 30:16Speaker 02

  No, well, obviously, they're scared in the moment, but then afterwards, he's going to the bathroom and he's, "So, can you chew on something else?" Like, it's just dumb shit.

• 30:26Stavros Halkias?

  Chew his ass. Ooh, was there anybody else? I mean, I know you've told a couple of stories, but like, is there anybody non, the non, I know you told the Jim Carrey story, I feel like, but is there anybody else? Like, David Blaine, I didn't think about. Is there like a random celebrity who got more of an interaction, or like more of a reaction than anybody would have thought? Because David Blaine kind of surprised me that he was that big. Is there anybody else that we're missing in 2011?

• 30:49Speaker 02

  He was huge, um...

• 30:50Stavros Halkias?

  Like a carrot top or something, buddy.

• 30:53Speaker 04

  More Vegas people.

• 30:54Speaker 02

  No, um, they, no, there was like a big, like, private party, so it was a lot of celebrity, like Kate Moss, a whole, like, a whole, but it was, it was very base.

• 31:05Stavros Halkias?

  Sure.

• 31:06Speaker 02

  And so, you know, I'm there, I'm just happy to be there, but I don't know everybody who's famous. I don't know everybody who's legendary.

• 31:11Stavros Halkias?

  Famous people hate that.

• 31:12Speaker 02

  They hate that.

• 31:13Stavros Halkias?

  When you treat them like a regular person.

• 31:14Speaker 02

  Well, no, I remember one time Bono came in and, uh, obviously, I know who you are, dude. But he's like, um...

• 31:22Stavros Halkias?

  "I can't help it, your shitty songs are on my phone."

• 31:25Speaker 02

  Ooh.

• 31:25Stavros Halkias?

  "I didn't ask for it." Remember that bullshit?

• 31:27Speaker 02

  I...

• 31:27Stavros Halkias?

  Why the fuck they put a U2 album on every iPhone?

• 31:30Speaker 02

  You guys, listen, you guys act like you were, you know, touched. It was just music. Don't make it that big of a deal.

• 31:38Stavros Halkias?

  It was fucking annoying. U2 sucks.

• 31:39Speaker 02

  They ain't asked for my consent. Okay, as a man, you should relate. Okay. That's all I'll go do, so...

• 31:47Stavros Halkias?

  Okay, so because other men rape, I have to listen to U2?

• 31:51Speaker 02

  Yes, absolutely.

• 31:53Stavros Halkias?

  First of all...

• 31:54Speaker 02

  That's us taking the power back.

• 31:56Stavros Halkias?

  That seems like a horrible trade-off. I would try for like, police reform before you make us listen to shitty music, but, hey, whatever. You said, "What? If some people rape, everybody should be raped."

• 32:08Speaker 02

  I did not say that.

• 32:09Stavros Halkias?

  Basically, basically. Essentially, you said that.

• 32:12Speaker 02

  I never said that.

• 32:13Stavros Halkias?

  Anyway, Bono's in there.

• 32:15Speaker 02

  Bono's in there and he's like, playing pool, he's ordering a mojito at 2:00 PM on a Sunday, kind of strange. But he's talking to me and I'm like, "Yeah, you know, I'm working."

• 32:26Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 32:26Speaker 02

  I was like, "I'm Sidney," he's like... And I'm Bono. I'm like, yeah dude. I knew that. Like, I saw you here the other night with all the ZZ Top and like every.

• 32:41Speaker 02

  Yeah, listen, we.

• 32:41Stavros Halkias?

  Big ass beards?

• 32:42Speaker 02

  Yes, it was cra- and people were going crazy. I was like, this guy needs a haircut. They all of them. They looked dusty. But I think the craziest story was allegedly.

• 32:54Stavros Halkias?

  Please.

• 32:55Speaker 02

  Somebody was doing cocaine right out on the table and they took a wet straw. And started, I was like, sir, go home. And it was allegedly Sting.

• 33:08Speaker 04

  What did they do with the wet straw?

• 33:09Speaker 02

  I was like, you have to get out of it. They took it out of the.

• 33:12Stavros Halkias?

  To do coke with it?

• 33:13Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 33:13Stavros Halkias?

  And you're just gumming it up? You just have like a weird coke paste?

• 33:17Speaker 02

  God, get out of it. Your shirt is bad. You're too.

• 33:20Stavros Halkias?

  He was probably all backed up. He had nut for like two months or whatever. You know Sting likes to fuck for like 12 hours. He was like three days straight and not nut?

• 33:27Speaker 02

  Allegedly. But then I was making a big sing. I was like, can you believe this? Fuck it. They're like, hey, it's Sting. He does what he wants.

• 33:34Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, you ever heard of Desert Rose?

• 33:39Speaker 02

  They didn't put that on my iPod.

• 33:42Speaker 04

  I like know the names Sting, but if somebody showed me a picture, I couldn't tell you.

• 33:46Speaker 02

  No. Yeah, there was tons of people that were like, these, you should know who these people are. I was like, no, I shouldn't.

• 33:51Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 33:52Speaker 02

  I was like, I know, I know Jenny White.

• 33:54Stavros Halkias?

  Sure, of course.

• 33:54Speaker 02

  I know Chingy.

• 33:56Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, Chingy. I know Holliday.

• 33:59Speaker 02

  I know Murphy, I know Murphy Lee from the St. Lunatics.

• 34:03Stavros Halkias?

  I'd, I'd recognize that half a mask anywhere. Is that the, is that the Black Phantom of the Opera?

• 34:19Stavros Halkias?

  Wow. What an era, the St. Lunatics days. That's fu- yeah, that is. Did you have any, there he is.

• 34:28Speaker 02

  You know, it's crazy because I feel like he got hotter later.

• 34:34Stavros Halkias?

  Interesting. He did have a run as, which is, yeah, it is very funny to-

• 34:39Speaker 02

  That's him looking better.

• 34:40Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 34:40Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 34:41Stavros Halkias?

  Without the mask, you think.

• 34:42Speaker 02

  He was not a bad looking guy.

• 34:44Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 34:44Speaker 02

  I was really, I was really into that, but then someone told, I remember going on a podcast and saying, Murphy Lee was hot and they were like, I could see why you're a lesbian.

• 34:53Stavros Halkias?

  That's true, bring him back up.

• 34:55Speaker 02

  It's done.

• 34:55Stavros Halkias?

  He does have the stud vibe.

• 35:00Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 35:03Speaker 02

  My diaper.

• 35:04Stavros Halkias?

  Holy shit.

• 35:05Speaker 02

  Murphy Lee, call me.

• 35:07Stavros Halkias?

  A clean shaven Mur- pull, pull up clean shaven Murphy Lee. Uh, yeah, that looks like somebody's aunt.

• 35:15Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, well, you can't, ooh, why is Hulk Hogan coming up? Anyway, whatever, who gives a-

• 35:20Speaker 02

  We'll move on.

• 35:21Stavros Halkias?

  Uh, whatever. Um, interesting, uh, Dwayne, you never had any jobs where you, uh, had weird interactions with celebrities? I mean, I guess now, now you're actually in a bunch of movies, TV.

• 35:33Speaker 02

  Well, he's a celebrity.

• 35:34Stavros Halkias?

  Of course, of course, you know.

• 35:36Speaker 04

  Thanks.

• 35:37Stavros Halkias?

  You know, we got-

• 35:39Stavros Halkias?

  Did you, what were your jobs before? Cause you, you were pretty much, you were like, I feel like you were working pretty young in, in comedy and stuff, but you, what were your like jobs before?

• 35:49Speaker 04

  I've had a bunch of jobs.

• 35:49Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah?

• 35:50Speaker 04

  I worked at, um, a sandwich shop and then I got promoted within the sandwich shop to work in the corporate office.

• 35:57Speaker 02

  Say the name.

• 35:58Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, wow.

• 35:58Speaker 02

  Say the name.

• 35:59Speaker 04

  It was Potbelly.

• 36:00Speaker 02

  Yeah, I'm like, don't just say any sandwich shop.

• 36:02Stavros Halkias?

  Potbelly is good.

• 36:04Speaker 04

  Yeah, and then they hired me to be an interior designer.

• 36:08Speaker 04

  So I've, I've decorated Potbelly across the country.

• 36:11Stavros Halkias?

  That is truly one of the gayest promotions I could possibly, I've possibly, I've ever heard. It's like, to be making sandwiches, be like, you've got it, kid. We need you to, you need to make-

• 36:21Speaker 04

  We need like a, like a young hip person. I said, me! And then they hired me.

• 36:27Speaker 02

  We need meatball down and get you some curtains.

• 36:32Speaker 02

  You would be better with tapestry.

• 36:34Speaker 04

  And I was great at it.

• 36:35Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah. Your talents are being wasted on provolone.

• 36:41Speaker 04

  And then, once I was done, they sent me back to the sandwich shop.

• 36:43Stavros Halkias?

  Wow, really?

• 36:44Speaker 02

  Damn, you had to go back?

• 36:46Speaker 04

  And then, I had to quit. I said, "You can't show me the good life."

• 36:50Speaker 04

  "Go back."

• 36:51Speaker 02

  The demotion of it all.

• 36:53Stavros Halkias?

  I'm picking out antique chalkboards to write the sandwich specials on one day, and I'm supposed to make them the next? No, thank you.

• 36:59Speaker 04

  I used to do on-demand laundry service for rich people.

• 37:03Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, wow.

• 37:04Speaker 04

  They were weird, generally.

• 37:05Stavros Halkias?

  Totally, totally. Yeah, I did-

• 37:07Speaker 02

  What do you mean?

• 37:08Speaker 04

  Like, they were-

• 37:10Stavros Halkias?

  Just the interactions were strange.

• 37:11Speaker 04

  They were strange. One guy I thought was gonna kill me, cuz he- Cuz usually, they just leave it, and you pick it up. And he was like, "Come inside my house." And I was like, "For what?" And then he was like, "Come inside my closet." And I said, "No."

• 37:24Speaker 02

  What were you wearing?

• 37:26Speaker 04

  The uniform.

• 37:29Speaker 02

  Well, cuz I'm like, if you're looking-

• 37:30Speaker 04

  What was I wearing?

• 37:31Speaker 02

  No, I'm saying, if you're looking like this, you come to my door. I'm like, "Well, come in."

• 37:35Speaker 04

  I was wearing a black shirt.

• 37:37Stavros Halkias?

  He thought it was a pornography situation.

• 37:39Speaker 04

  Looking like a valet.

• 37:42Speaker 02

  But a cute one.

• 37:43Speaker 04

  Yeah, I worked at a production company. I worked at a tech company. I've had so many jobs.

• 37:48Stavros Halkias?

  Tech company, interesting.

• 37:49Speaker 04

  Yeah, it was a company called Tech Week, and they put on a tech conference. And they used to sit on those big balls. It was just like, it felt like I was like a TV show.

• 37:59Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 38:00Speaker 04

  And I was-

• 38:01Stavros Halkias?

  They probably had a bunch of free snacks.

• 38:02Speaker 04

  So many snacks.

• 38:03Stavros Halkias?

  Catered lunch.

• 38:04Speaker 04

  Steal. It was the best.

• 38:06Stavros Halkias?

  I worked at a shitty toy store.

• 38:07Speaker 02

  Why would you steal if it's just out? It's not stealing if there's like-

• 38:10Speaker 04

  No, it's stealing once you take it from the place and bring it to your home.

• 38:13Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, yeah. Backpack full of Chips Ahoy and stuff like that, popcorners.

• 38:17Speaker 02

  I thought it was a free-for-all, no?

• 38:19Stavros Halkias?

  No, no, no. You're not supposed to just take as much as you can.

• 38:22Speaker 04

  And I would take more than snacks. I'm stealing supplies. They gave me a laptop I tried to keep.

• 38:31Speaker 04

  I was young, I had no money.

• 38:32Speaker 02

  Big businesses, give us the fucking laptop, dude. What are you gonna do with this Dell?

• 38:37Speaker 04

  Don't steal from people, but a corporation, maybe take it.

• 38:40Speaker 02

  Absolutely, we're taking.

• 38:41Stavros Halkias?

  Absolutely. We're going stealing from corporations.

• 38:44Speaker 02

  That's what they have, like, loss prevention and insurance for, you know? So, take it.

• 38:49Stavros Halkias?

  I agree.

• 38:50Speaker 04

  Loss prevention. Oh, I also worked at JCPenney.

• 38:52Stavros Halkias?

  Ooh, hell, yeah.

• 38:54Speaker 04

  That was my first job.

• 38:55Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 38:55Speaker 04

  I was a greeter at the mall.

• 38:57Stavros Halkias?

  A greeter at JCPenney, wow, that's an upscale JCPenney.

• 39:00Speaker 04

  Yep, and it was in a very diverse neighborhood. I would try to say hi in different languages based on what I assumed. That's why I didn't keep the job for long.

• 39:09Stavros Halkias?

  Positive racial profiling.

• 39:12Speaker 02

  The second day, they're like, so we're gonna have to let you off.

• 39:15Speaker 04

  I want them to feel like they are at home.

• 39:18Speaker 02

  You're like, konnichiwa.

• 39:20Speaker 04

  Just like, yes.

• 39:21Speaker 02

  No, that was a black man, sorry.

• 39:23Stavros Halkias?

  So fucking funny.

• 39:24Speaker 04

  Based off your feature, because I think.

• 39:26Stavros Halkias?

  You grew up in Chicago, right?

• 39:28Speaker 04

  Jumbo, yeah.

• 39:29Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 39:32Stavros Halkias?

  That's fucking hilarious.

• 39:33Speaker 02

  Damn, you have had a lot of jobs. Stavi, what about you? You see our people, we know.

• 39:41Speaker 02

  What have you done?

• 39:42Stavros Halkias?

  Well, I never, I never led on rich guys until I could get thousands of dollars out of them. I never did that. I just kind of worked with my hands, blue collar, worked at a machine shop. I worked at a block, one of the last blockbusters when I was in college. That was pretty fun.

• 40:02Speaker 02

  You definitely give Blockbuster energy.

• 40:03Stavros Halkias?

  It was, yeah, I really enjoyed that. I learned, they never, when they send you to collections, they don't actually, they just threaten you with phone calls. They don't actually send you to collections at Blockbuster. They make it seem like they do. They send you a bill that looks like you've been sent to collections. But they told me, we never actually send anyone to collections. So I just stole like fucking 20 DVDs on the way out. I was like, oh, sick, I'm just gonna keep these.

• 40:28Stavros Halkias?

  I worked at a machi, yeah, I worked at a machine shop.

• 40:29Speaker 02

  Wait, does that work for a lot of places or it was just?

• 40:32Stavros Halkias?

  It's over now, Blockbuster's the, maybe it's part of it.

• 40:33Speaker 02

  No, no, no, but I'm saying like, are you really in collections or they're like just trying to scare you?

• 40:40Stavros Halkias?

  I bet you some places are trying to scare you, but I don't know.

• 40:42Speaker 04

  Yeah, also, there are ways you can get out of it because.

• 40:46Speaker 02

  Tell me.

• 40:47Speaker 04

  Some people are not supposed to like sell like your information to third-party places. So you just like make a fuss about it. You can really, I've gotten some, a lot of things handled.

• 40:57Speaker 02

  So you do, how'd you get my number? Is that what you said?

• 40:59Speaker 04

  Threaten or sue you, but you know, like you can do like claims. My, I did it, I saw it on TikTok and I did it for my student loans.

• 41:08Stavros Halkias?

  Really? And it worked?

• 41:09Speaker 04

  No, that's why my credit score is so good.

• 41:11Stavros Halkias?

  Wow.

• 41:11Speaker 02

  Wait, that happened to me. They sold, they sold my student loans to a collection.

• 41:16Speaker 04

  And then if there's like, like data leak or something, you could be like, um, fraudulent.

• 41:23Speaker 02

  Wait, can you help me move you home?

• 41:24Speaker 04

  But it's only on like two, like only on like some of them, because some of the credit unions didn't, uh, they said, "Go fuck yourself."

• 41:32Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 41:32Speaker 04

  So on certain credit, my credit's like eight hundred something, and on some it's like six something. And I just don't tell people about that one.

• 41:38Stavros Halkias?

  Sure.

• 41:39Speaker 02

  Oh.

• 41:39Stavros Halkias?

  No reason to.

• 41:40Speaker 02

  But so are the same.

• 41:42Speaker 04

  No.

• 41:42Stavros Halkias?

  I wouldn't say that.

• 41:46Speaker 02

  Well, I just want you to know that I am an authorized user, so I'm getting up there.

• 41:52Stavros Halkias?

  Good for you.

• 41:52Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 41:53Speaker 04

  Authorized user of what?

• 41:54Speaker 02

  Of, um, my partner's, my partner's MX.

• 41:58Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, wow.

• 42:00Speaker 02

  To get my, my credit up.

• 42:01Stavros Halkias?

  That's good.

• 42:02Speaker 02

  Why was it so short? Let it go long.

• 42:05Speaker 04

  Wait, what is that? You could just put yourself on somebody else's credit card?

• 42:09Speaker 02

  I didn't put myself on.

• 42:10Stavros Halkias?

  Do you actually get like a credit boost from that?

• 42:13Speaker 02

  Yes, you do, because now I have a, a higher credit limit.

• 42:16Stavros Halkias?

  Gotcha.

• 42:16Speaker 02

  And also, you know, she's, she's paying it off on time and like.

• 42:20Stavros Halkias?

  Of course, of course.

• 42:20Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 42:21Stavros Halkias?

  So you're building credit the way you build like a child's credit?

• 42:24Speaker 02

  Fuck you.

• 42:26Stavros Halkias?

  You're on your dad's credit card or whatever.

• 42:29Speaker 02

  Just because your bum ass had to work hard. And I just had to be myself, charisma and all, and loving and.

• 42:37Stavros Halkias?

  Who worked hard? I got rich off podcasting.

• 42:40Speaker 02

  Oh, you had to work hard.

• 42:42Stavros Halkias?

  Comedy. I, I hit a lottery myself.

• 42:45Speaker 02

  You did?

• 42:46Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 42:46Speaker 02

  I mean, you had to be a part of something what's called Come Town Boys.

• 42:49Stavros Halkias?

  Sure, sure, sure, sure.

• 42:50Speaker 02

  That's fucking crazy.

• 42:51Stavros Halkias?

  That is true.

• 42:52Speaker 02

  You worked hard.

• 42:52Stavros Halkias?

  That is true. Yeah, I guess come indirectly helped us all, you know? It all, we all, we all got there somehow.

• 42:59Speaker 04

  I immediately went back, "Baggage."

• 43:05Speaker 02

  See, you said it, you said it.

• 43:07Speaker 04

  Because I can.

• 43:08Stavros Halkias?

  Feels nice to hear it, you know? It feels old, old fashioned.

• 43:13Speaker 04

  I reclaimed it. It's mine to you.

• 43:17Speaker 02

  Do you know who his listeners are? They're like, well, Dewayne Perkins.

• 43:20Stavros Halkias?

  No, no, they don't think they get the pass. They don't think so.

• 43:23Speaker 04

  You don't.

• 43:24Stavros Halkias?

  They've moved on.

• 43:25Speaker 02

  They have. They're actually, they always say really nice things.

• 43:29Stavros Halkias?

  That you're a bit, yeah, everybody loves you.

• 43:30Speaker 02

  Yeah, some of them are like, she's loud. She's not even that hot to her.

• 43:37Stavros Halkias?

  That's the first one. I think you're hot. I think you're hot, but.

• 43:41Speaker 04

  You don't think you're loud?

• 43:42Speaker 02

  No.

• 43:43Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, interesting.

• 43:44Speaker 02

  Oh, no, I think I project my voice. I just want you guys to know, I was a youth insight in the Whitney Museum when I was in high school. So I used to give tours to senior citizens and kids and I know how to speak from the diaphragm.

• 43:58Stavros Halkias?

  Right.

• 43:59Speaker 04

  I used to give tours too. That was one of my jobs.

• 44:01Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, I could see that.

• 44:02Speaker 02

  Look at that. What do you have? Where's the lesson?

• 44:04Stavros Halkias?

  I've never given a tour. I worked at a Sherwin-Williams paint store for a year and a half.

• 44:09Speaker 02

  Were you huffing paint?

• 44:11Stavros Halkias?

  I was not, but I would steal, you know, when somebody fucked up paint, I would just take it, you know?

• 44:16Speaker 04

  What would you do with it?

• 44:17Stavros Halkias?

  My brother was an artist. He would use it, you know?

• 44:20Speaker 02

  Swiggy.

• 44:21Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 44:21Speaker 02

  You should start with that. Lead with that.

• 44:23Stavros Halkias?

  Okay, I'll lead with it. Um, I also want to say, we're gonna do some questions too, but I want to say, Dwayne, I love The Blackening. We never, I wanted to.

• 44:30Speaker 02

  Talk about it. Now clap.

• 44:34Stavros Halkias?

  The movie, the movie was so good. Um, and it was just, and when I was making, like, I made an independent movie and seeing that, I was, that was like a real inspiration. Cause I was like, these are, you know, people that, you know, like, obviously you had a career and people knew you, but it's hard to make a fucking movie. And it was just so cool to see, it was so fucking, and if you guys haven't seen it, it's Perfect Time. It's like, you know, you know, spooky season, go watch The Blackening.

• 44:58Speaker 04

  It's streaming on Netflix.

• 44:59Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, streaming on Netflix. And that, that movie, I mean, it's just very funny. Um, and I, I mean, the tagline was also, I mean, it's the kind of movie where you hear the title and then the tagline being like, we can't all die first. It's just so perfect. You know exactly the movie you're, the movie you're in for. And it's just like, yeah, there's never a movie where, uh, horror movie where it's all black people. It's always, someone is always the sacrificial lamb. And it was very funny to see a bunch of different. Sort of archetypes in a horror movie, just sort of in, in, in their own movie, you know what I mean? It was, it was awesome. And it was very well, the twists are great, it's just very, very funny, uh, really good, really good movie. So I wanted to give you.

• 45:37Speaker 02

  Get off his dick. Cause why you had to, the way you had to explain your own movie?

• 45:41Stavros Halkias?

  I'm sorry, Sidney, what was your movie?

• 45:43Speaker 02

  Oh.

• 45:44Stavros Halkias?

  Okay, I apologize. After I, we'll, we'll do the one, the independent comedy you wrote and starred in, maybe we can start there. Oh, you're kind of talking to filmmakers here.

• 45:59Stavros Halkias?

  Sorry if you're kind of, if we're moving too fast for you.

• 46:02Speaker 02

  You know what?

• 46:04Speaker 02

  Let's really go.

• 46:06Speaker 04

  We can talk about stand up.

• 46:13Speaker 02

  Maybe y'all, you and Marie.

• 46:19Speaker 02

  Marie was like, yeah, get, get Dwayne in there. She called you and be like, so when you get there. Do the switcheroo, switch up on her.

• 46:28Speaker 04

  This was only a response to your response to the response.

• 46:32Speaker 02

  No, it is an amazing movie.

• 46:34Speaker 04

  Thank you. Most people don't know, like, it is, like, it was a parallel to, like, being, like, in comedy spaces.

• 46:40Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 46:41Speaker 04

  Being like the token, and then I did a show with all black people and was like, hey.

• 46:46Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, why don't we do this?

• 46:47Speaker 04

  This, this don't happen often.

• 46:48Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 46:49Speaker 04

  And it was, I'm so glad it happened the way that it happened in.

• 46:52Stavros Halkias?

  Totally.

• 46:53Speaker 04

  So thank you.

• 46:53Stavros Halkias?

  Cause you, you wrote it, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it was just like, and the cast is incredible too. I mean, everybody's so fucking funny.

• 46:59Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 47:00Stavros Halkias?

  Um, but yeah, go watch the, go watch the, watch the movie, guys. Just a nice plug for it.

• 47:05Speaker 04

  Thanks.

• 47:06Stavros Halkias?

  Are you working on others? Are you, I mean, I know you're on, uh, The Studio, which is fucking great.

• 47:10Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 47:11Stavros Halkias?

  Very funny, you're great in that. Are you working on other stuff? Are you writing other projects?

• 47:15Speaker 04

  The sequel.

• 47:16Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, hell, yeah, dude. Well, if you needed an evil white guy, you know what I mean? We always need people to kill. Yeah. But I. I'd love to be killed in the black and it'd be, it would be an honor to have a gruesome death.

• 47:33Stavros Halkias?

  It's just so long.

• 47:36Stavros Halkias?

  That's awesome, dude. Screaming. Um, all right, sweet. Well, listen, watch out for that. And I just wanted to, cause I, I love the movie and, uh, um, and let's, but we have, you know, a wealth of, of like life experience on this couch. So it's time to help our callers. So why don't we, uh, why don't we play some calls here, Aldous?

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• 49:26Speaker 07

  Hi, Stavi. Um, love you, love the pod. I have a very specific question. Okay. Um, so I have a boyfriend. We've been together like nine months. Things are going very well. He's very nice to me. It's like the best relationship I've been in so far. I will say he has a very. Strong personality. Like i- in general, like I find with how people react to him, it can be kind of a love him or hate him situation.

• 49:56Speaker 07

  Very kind of show, like especially in a group setting, he can be a little domineering, a little over the top. Just in general, you know, um, some people think he's kind of an arrogant asshole. You know, I I really don't think he is, he's kind of more, you know, and he's kind of different one on one and stuff. But like in a group setting, I can definitely understand why people feel that way. We live in a really small town where like everyone has an opinion about everybody, you know. So frequently it will get back to me that somebody has an issue with him or like I've talked shit about him. Or whatever. And you think that's their. I'll just hear it through the grapevine of like somebody else, you know, having some kind of it, never anything really serious, but just kind of like, oh, that guy's an asshole.

• 50:41Speaker 07

  Kind of thing. And and their opinions don't really bother me. Um, what my question is, is when I hear these things, do I tell him? Like that I'm hearing other people, like, do I tell him, oh, man, I heard through the grapevine that this person has a problem with you or is there really no point? Like, in the name of being a united front, I'm usually kind of inclined towards telling your partner basically everything. But at the same time, it seems not very helpful. Like I I don't personally, like. I don't even want to know when people are talking shit about me because I don't, I don't care and it just kind of makes me feel bad. And so it's like, let them have their opinion, you know? At the same time, it has also happened that he genuinely believes that someone likes him and that they're good friends.

• 51:24Speaker 07

  And then I will hear through the grapevine that they can't stand him. And part of me thinks that he should know about that, like to help him save face socially, you know? So. I don't know. Tell just tell me what you think like when you if if people talk shit about your partner, is it an automatic tell your partner about it or not necessarily?

• 51:48Speaker 07

  And that's my question.

• 51:49Stavros Halkias?

  Interesting.

• 51:50Speaker 07

  Thank you.

• 51:52Stavros Halkias?

  Well, did you have an immediate? It seemed like you this.

• 51:55Speaker 02

  Why do they feel comfortable? Talking shit about your man? Clearly, they're like. They're trying to plant little Easter eggs like. Yo. He might not be a good guy, cuz why would you feel like I need to cuz it's like tell him if you don't like him. What you going to her for?

• 52:14Stavros Halkias?

  But it could be the kind of thing where. She's saying it's through the grapevine, so it could be the kind of thing where. Somebody tells somebody who tells somebody who is actually close to her that's like, hey, just so you know. This guy's been talking shit on your boyfriend. I don't think it's directly the person who hates her boyfriend is like, hey, your boyfriend's a fucking piece of shit. I think it's like. A couple steps removed.

• 52:34Speaker 02

  I'm a woman, I'm telling you when when somebody's like, well, such and such said that your man's a asshole. It's like, well, I actually think that as well.

• 52:41Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, interesting.

• 52:42Speaker 02

  But I'm glad that somebody else said it to me.

• 52:44Stavros Halkias?

  You're using them as the buffer. Yes, yes, yes. That's a good point. That's a good point. Um, that, yeah, go ahead, Dwayne.

• 52:52Speaker 04

  If. I think that they're probably telling her so that they can tell him so he can change so that they can. Be a so their experience can be better.

• 53:02Stavros Halkias?

  I think you give it. That's a very charitable read on the situation. I don't think they're hoping for a positive outcome. I think they think this guy's a piece of shit and they don't care.

• 53:11Speaker 04

  Yeah, but like I think like when you say that, I think there's like either two options, like leave him.

• 53:16Stavros Halkias?

  Right.

• 53:16Speaker 04

  Or like. You should like make him better.

• 53:19Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, interesting. Yeah, I feel like I'm I'm inclined to think they're. Very heavily on the leave him side. But I think it is possible that they're like, hey. Can you maybe check this behavior? That could be part of it.

• 53:31Speaker 04

  Yeah, cuz like if he's not like. Cuz she's saying like, oh, it's not like anything terrible. They're just like, they don't really fuck with him.

• 53:37Stavros Halkias?

  But see. I'm she's an unreliable narrator here. Cuz it's I think yours you saying the dicks out of this world is probably correct.

• 53:45Speaker 02

  Nine months, nine months. That's not that's not enough time for me to be like. Well.

• 53:52Speaker 02

  Cause the thing is, is like, how come she hasn't gone to him already? Cause like, if if I'm in the the whirlwind relationship that I'm in with this part, I'm immediately be like, yo, such and such talking shit about you. We pillow talking. But if I'm hesitant and I'm like, there might be some validity to what she's hearing.

• 54:11Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, my my initial, like, the fact that her she ends the call by being like, so my question is, when you hear people talking shit about your partner, do you tell them that's not really your issue? Your issue is why the fuck does everybody talking shit about him and is there, like, at a certain point, it becomes worthy of you being like, is everybody else right?

• 54:33Speaker 04

  I definitely think that's what the issue is, is like, oh, I just love asshole.

• 54:37Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, that's true.

• 54:39Speaker 04

  So what you gonna do about it? Cause why we talking about him? This is your life.

• 54:46Stavros Halkias?

  Different one on one is one of the biggest red flags I've ever, like, men and women, it's like, someone who's a fucking asshole to everyone, but they're nice to you, the person they're fucking, they don't really get credit for that, in my opinion.

• 54:57Speaker 02

  They're inside of you, duh.

• 55:00Speaker 02

  I would hope that they're nice to you while they're inside of you.

• 55:02Stavros Halkias?

  At least they get it. I mean, I guess there are plenty of assholes who aren't even nice to their partner, but still, I don't know.

• 55:08Speaker 04

  So it just was like, if she gonna tell him, the intent behind telling him, like, are you telling him to like, keep keep like, ooh, they they talking shit? Or are you saying like, hey, maybe you're an asshole.

• 55:19Stavros Halkias?

  Treating people like this. Yeah, yeah. I'd also love to know what it is.

• 55:24Speaker 02

  Cause she's like. He's arrogant and um, he's over the top.

• 55:32Speaker 02

  So he probably cuts people off, he's probably, it's a small town, he probably be boasting about the like, smallest shit that is like, alright dude.

• 55:39Speaker 04

  Hater love.

• 55:41Stavros Halkias?

  Probably big fish, small pond situation, he's got, yeah, yeah. And he just rubs people the wrong way.

• 55:47Speaker 02

  But also those people could be small minded and just like basic folks and they are, you know.

• 55:53Speaker 04

  It's a small town, move to a bigger city, then you have more assholes.

• 55:59Stavros Halkias?

  I guess I'd love to know.

• 56:00Speaker 02

  And they're jealous, maybe.

• 56:01Stavros Halkias?

  It's jealousy, I'd love to know how this actually manifests itself, right? Is it like? Is he just being straight up rude to people or is he just kinda like? Loud and boisterous, there's, there's a difference between. You know, acceptable behavior and unacceptable behavior and it's hard for us to tell without examples, but. Yeah, I don't know, I, whether you should tell him or not, I probably would, I would definitely tell. If I, especially the social thing where it's like. He, cause part of this is. He might not understand how much his behavior is negatively, like. He might think this is cool, like he thinks people that are his friends. The people that he thinks are his friends are talking shit about him, he kinda needs to know those people don't like him because then he could be like.

• 56:44Stavros Halkias?

  Well, why, why do they feel this way about me? And then he can actually think about his uh own behavior. Now, these people also are maybe cowards who should just tell this to his face. So it's like, no one here is coming out well.

• 56:56Speaker 04

  That's what it's giving a town full of bitch ass.

• 56:58Stavros Halkias?

  Full of snakes.

• 57:00Speaker 04

  I don't know, they're really seeing what they're supposed to be saying.

• 57:03Speaker 02

  Yes, that could be true, but I also know these people who. You know, I, I don't wanna, on a spectrum, not really socially aware and like.

• 57:11Speaker 04

  Another marginalized group?

• 57:12Speaker 02

  No, no, no, no, no, we know these people, we know these people that, that you, you could see that the, that the. Group is uncomfortable, they said some things and they're like, alright now, and they just keep going, it's like. You, you, it doesn't matter if somebody's like, hey, stop, they're gonna keep going.

• 57:30Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so I don't know, I would say in a relationship, I would probably tell my partner, especially if they. They're cool with someone that's talking shit. I think you can't let them. Like make a fool of themselves at a minimum, you know, like.

• 57:43Speaker 04

  You have to tell them.

• 57:44Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 57:44Speaker 02

  But also when people are talking shit, it's like, so what are you gonna say? Are you gonna tell them or like, cause stop coming to me? Like, tell those people, they need to speak to him about this.

• 57:52Stavros Halkias?

  True, hey, if you have a problem with them, fucking tell them, that's true, cause there's, there is too much. Bitch ass behavior going on in this, in this small town, in this hamlet.

• 58:03Stavros Halkias?

  Alright, what else we got, Eldis?

• 58:08Speaker 08

  What does stop you greet God and eldest your loyal squire?

• 58:12Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, I like that.

• 58:14Speaker 08

  I'm twenty seven, uh, live in the city that I grew up in and have a pretty large friend group where most of us also live in that city. We hang out pretty often. Um, one of our very close friends, however, has taken up a habit over the last year or so of bailing on plans pretty much every time plans are made. He will even bail on plans that he himself initiated.

• 58:37Stavros Halkias?

  That's next level.

• 58:39Speaker 08

  Truly without fail, he blames his girlfriend for the bail every single time. Um, you know, it's not just that, but he's presumably like creating elaborate and bizarre stories to accompany that. And so, you know, at one point he said his girlfriend's brother who lives in another state had COVID. Another time, her lesbian aunt and her partner were visiting town and there was traffic to get into the city so he couldn't come. Uh, just last weekend, he said, pretty blatantly, he said, "Sorry, I can't come. She has diarrhea."

• 59:11Stavros Halkias?

  Wow.

• 59:12Speaker 08

  Uh, come to find out, she posted an Instagram story an hour later at an ice cream store. So, basically, none of us feel bold enough to confront him about it, but it's easier to just kind of shrug, assume he won't show up. I mean, what would you do about this, though? It is frustrating, you know, on the offense, we do see him, everything's fine and great, but, um, just feels like he does everything possible to not be our friend and see us. Like, at what point would you approach him? At what point would you confront a guy like this? Would you just cut off the friendship? Um, yeah, I appreciate your thoughts. You're the best. Thanks.

• 59:41Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, I mean, this is, I think this is just classic twenty seven, thinning out the herd of your friends. You know what I mean? Like, at every age, you realize you kind of outgrow certain people. And this guy is, he, if somebody cancels on you this many times, you just stop inviting them at a certain point. You're like, I'm tired of this fucking, like, I don't know, is he like your best friend? Do you guys go, how far back do you go? He might just be... Eight year, twenty seven is also a classic time where a lot of friends from like your twenties start to drop off. You know what I mean?

• 1:00:18Speaker 02

  Nah, but twenty seven is like, we lit, we out, let's go. Like, there should be no reason why nah, I got a girlfriend. We out, the girlfriend's out, we drinking, we partying, what's good, like it's summertime.

• 1:00:30Stavros Halkias?

  That's what I'm saying, he doesn't wanna be a part of that.

• 1:00:32Speaker 02

  Was it snowing? Like, nobody is just making up excuses, especially at that young of age, it's like, we wanna be outside.

• 1:00:39Speaker 04

  I mean, I don't wanna sound like not sympathetic, but there's a pattern of everybody being bitches, like. What's going on? Like, he's saying like, I'm not in bold, y'all, if y'all don't jump him emotionally as a group.

• 1:00:54Stavros Halkias?

  Like, what the fuck, man?

• 1:00:55Speaker 04

  Hello, and then also just show up where he at. Ambush. I think y'all need to match energies.

• 1:01:02Speaker 02

  I like that.

• 1:01:03Speaker 04

  Match energies, and then just have fun with that, cause clearly he's having fun making shit up.

• 1:01:08Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, it's really weird why he feels the need to make these, it's also very cowardly to hide behind your girlfriend.

• 1:01:14Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:01:15Speaker 04

  So he may be hiding something.

• 1:01:17Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, I mean.

• 1:01:18Speaker 02

  He could be depressed.

• 1:01:20Stavros Halkias?

  I don't, yeah, I mean, I guess if he's a good enough friend. Yeah, he's on crack, that's, that's another throwback, a throwback vice.

• 1:01:29Stavros Halkias?

  I think, I think if he's a good enough friend, it merits like a direct conversation to be like, hey man, what the? What the fuck's going on? Like, you don't come to anything, like, you know, it's all good, like, do you want to hang out? Like, something is, there's no way these excuse, like, I always think, he's talking about one of his best friends. I always like think if, like, somebody I'm as close with as eldest, or somebody in like our friend group, we would be like, hey man, what's the fuck's going on? Like, what? And if, if you get another evasive sort of like, oh, enough, like, somebody's pretending, then it's like, alright, that was your chance to explain yourself, and then it's like. You're just kinda, I don't need to see you. You don't wanna hang out with me, I don't need to fucking hang out with you.

• 1:02:09Stavros Halkias?

  And even said, it's a bigger group and all of them are all hanging out. So if this guy doesn't wanna fucking, save him the fucking mad, it's like he's playing Mad Libs with these excuses. It's like, a place, a family member, uh, an ailment. Oh, sorry, I had the flu at a Thai restaurant with my second cousin. I couldn't make it to the game, you know what I mean?

• 1:02:29Speaker 04

  Him making plans and then bailing is diabolical.

• 1:02:33Speaker 02

  People do that too. People do that too. And the, the best way to deal with those people is, you just don't say nothing. And then you don't invite them and then they're like, wait a minute. And it's like, you didn't already got blocked from the group, babe. You don't have to reach out individually, cause you're not in the group no more.

• 1:02:49Speaker 04

  I definitely think friends like tell you what kind of friend that they are. And if you like them enough, you just adjust to the positioning.

• 1:02:56Stavros Halkias?

  Right, right.

• 1:02:57Speaker 04

  And so it's like, oh, that's just the, like, I have a friend that you know, like, oh, they just not gonna be on time. Or like, oh, the friend that we don't invite to certain things, cause they might fight people. Or just like knowing like, who they are. And be like, oh, that's just not the friend that we like go out with.

• 1:03:09Stavros Halkias?

  Of course.

• 1:03:10Speaker 04

  But like, do y'all talk on the phone? Like, is that the friend that you just like talk on the phone?

• 1:03:13Stavros Halkias?

  Sure, sure, sure.

• 1:03:13Speaker 04

  So just like, every friend can be everything.

• 1:03:16Stavros Halkias?

  That's a good point. That's a good point. And yeah, and at the most extreme, it's like a friend just might drop off too. If he, there might just be no part, you know, especially if he's doing this weird shit. And that's okay too. But yeah, try, give him a, I mean, I think it merits one conversation. See how he reacts. And then it's like, other than that, it's like, alright, well then fuck it. You don't, you just don't get an invite anymore.

• 1:03:38Speaker 04

  Yeah, because what if he's just doing a bit to be like, my friends don't tell me the truth. I'm gonna see how far I can push them to actually like, make our friend group more open.

• 1:03:46Speaker 02

  You think he's that smart? I don't think that.

• 1:03:48Speaker 04

  I did that with my family once.

• 1:03:50Stavros Halkias?

  What, what did you do?

• 1:03:51Speaker 02

  Well, you're a genius, so.

• 1:03:53Speaker 04

  I just kept like withholding like emotional, like stuff to see if they would like, do it, actually did it with an ex, where I was like, oh, this like is very passive. How far can I go? And I moved states to see if they would like, like, bring it up. And they didn't. And that's how I knew like, okay.

• 1:04:09Stavros Halkias?

  I love how you're like, they're crazy.

• 1:04:14Stavros Halkias?

  Anyway, I'm gonna be changing the zip code, my zip code. I'm gonna, I need to get a new driver's license to teach him a lesson.

• 1:04:21Speaker 04

  So maybe look inward, maybe it's the friend group's fault.

• 1:04:24Stavros Halkias?

  That's true, it's very, it's possible, but I, my money's on this guy's a coward and a weird, and weird. And fuck him personally.

• 1:04:32Speaker 04

  And his girlfriend is not alive, he is.

• 1:04:35Speaker 02

  He don't even have a girlfriend.

• 1:04:37Stavros Halkias?

  That's him with a, yeah, that's him with an AI filter.

• 1:04:39Speaker 02

  And that lesbian hotline, no.

• 1:04:45Speaker 02

  Fucked up.

• 1:04:45Stavros Halkias?

  That's right. Keep it going, Eldis.

• 1:04:49Speaker 09

  Yo, Savvy Podcast. Um, just something I'd throw you guys away, I've been listening to a lot of the clips channel recently, so, um. My brother is transgender, um. We're, I'm thirty years old, he's thirty-two, um, so recently, I was asked by him if I would donate some of my sperm to help the cause for him and his wife, you know, and very, uh, wasn't sure how to take it, you know, kinda odd thing to hear, um.

• 1:05:31Speaker 09

  My wife, you know, of course, she felt very conflicted on how to feel about it, cause it didn't involve her at all. Just kinda called me on a random Sunday, anyways, um, anyways, I'll think, um, I'd have said no, you know, after telling him that I was thinking about it for a little bit, but, um, yeah, anyways, let me know.

• 1:05:54Stavros Halkias?

  Interesting. Why did you say, I don't know, I don't think it's that weird personally.

• 1:05:59Speaker 04

  I was just about to say, is it weird that I don't think that's weird at all?

• 1:06:02Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, you shared DNA, he can't biologically get his wife pregnant, so he's like, why don't I get the next closest DNA match? He doesn't ask you to fuck his wife, he wasn't like, hey, can you nut my wife? He was just like, can we do this, like, I don't actually think this is weird, to be honest with you.

• 1:06:19Speaker 02

  Um, it's.

• 1:06:21Speaker 04

  You have the opposing view?

• 1:06:22Speaker 02

  I'm gonna put out there that it's a little weird.

• 1:06:23Stavros Halkias?

  Okay.

• 1:06:24Speaker 02

  It's a little weird, because, um, yeah, why you didn't include his wife?

• 1:06:29Speaker 04

  I don't think that's weird either.

• 1:06:30Speaker 02

  And you, and no, I'm not gonna on a phone call about this, you take me to dinner.

• 1:06:33Stavros Halkias?

  I kind of agree with that.

• 1:06:34Speaker 02

  You order, you order some apps, you get an entree.

• 1:06:37Stavros Halkias?

  Now we're overdoing it, I was with you.

• 1:06:40Speaker 02

  You're like, so, by the way, you feeling good? You're full? Good? Now, y'all, I was thinking.

• 1:06:47Stavros Halkias?

  Right.

• 1:06:48Speaker 02

  I'm gonna need some of y'all, you know, baby juice.

• 1:06:51Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:06:52Speaker 02

  So I can procreate with my family.

• 1:06:54Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:06:55Speaker 02

  And it's the same DNA and just like, explain it. So it make everybody feel comfortable. Because.

• 1:07:00Speaker 04

  It feels like they're floating the idea. And not necessarily being like, this is an official ask. But you've been like, hey, like, is that a thing that you would be comfortable with? And I see why I wouldn't want to ask my brother and his wife at the same time. I want to ask the person I am related to, to be like, hey, how you feel? And if the answer is like, oh, I'm cool with that. And then I'm like, okay, then we should discuss it with your wife.

• 1:07:23Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, I, I actually, I could see, I see your point too. But I actually, I do see what you're saying, Sydney, where it's like,

• 1:07:30Stavros Halkias?

  you want to kind of make it feel like a family decision. Cause it's like, if he was single or even not, not married, maybe I'm with you, Dwayne. Where it's like, if he wasn't, but married does feel like, it's kind of her jizz too. You know what I mean? It's like, they have kids.

• 1:07:44Speaker 04

  I just don't respect marriage.

• 1:07:45Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, that's true. And I respect that.

• 1:07:48Speaker 02

  Projecting.

• 1:07:50Stavros Halkias?

  And I respect that stance, Dwayne. But I do think, I, I don't know if he needs the full fucking nine course meal that you're suggesting, Sydney. But I think something more than a random phone call on a.

• 1:08:02Speaker 02

  Make it nice.

• 1:08:03Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah. Even if you just sit down, you, you talk in person.

• 1:08:08Stavros Halkias?

  But I don't find, I maybe find, I would have liked the better ask. But I really don't find the ask that weird personally. I think like, it's not, you know, it's just like, you're using your, your sibling's DNA to have a kid.

• 1:08:23Speaker 02

  Yeah, but at the end of the day, what if the kid gets, you know, twenty-three and me later on? It's like, you not the father? You, that's the father.

• 1:08:32Speaker 04

  You can go keep it secret?

• 1:08:33Speaker 02

  Some people do.

• 1:08:34Speaker 04

  You think the child's not gonna know that their parent is transgender?

• 1:08:38Stavros Halkias?

  Or maybe the kid's really dumb. And they're like, huh? Why is it my dad, my dad?

• 1:08:43Speaker 02

  Hold on now, we have gotten through three calls where people are pussyfooting around and not being direct and being weird and shady. Parents do that.

• 1:08:54Stavros Halkias?

  Sure, I agree with you, I agree with you.

• 1:08:55Speaker 04

  But I guess, do you think you could have a child and they not know that you're a lesbian?

• 1:09:03Speaker 02

  I'm not gonna have a child.

• 1:09:07Speaker 02

  You asking me questions I never even thought about.

• 1:09:09Speaker 04

  I just feel like there's this information that would be very hard to hide.

• 1:09:12Stavros Halkias?

  I also think it wouldn't be that big a deal. It's like you're it's still like especially being an uncle. It's like it's already a really close family member, you know, and it's not like you would feel like that's your dad. You would be like, that's my uncle, you know, you're already sharing DNA with that person.

• 1:09:26Speaker 02

  Technically, that's my dad, technically, on paper.

• 1:09:30Stavros Halkias?

  Not really. Your dad is who raised, your dad is who raises you.

• 1:09:34Speaker 04

  Sure, but like.

• 1:09:34Stavros Halkias?

  And it's their relative.

• 1:09:36Speaker 04

  Adoption, like a parent is a position.

• 1:09:39Stavros Halkias?

  This is interesting. This has come up a couple of times and it is interesting. Different people have, different people feel very strongly about it, but I think it's like almost completely who raises you. Like, I don't think it matters. I mean, not at all. Of course, it matters a little bit, but especially when we're talking about a sibling where it's like this is still, you know, biologically, you're sharing a lot of your DNA. I don't think it's that big a deal.

• 1:10:01Speaker 04

  Biology really does feel logistical.

• 1:10:04Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:10:05Speaker 04

  Like emotional.

• 1:10:07Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, in this case in particular, yeah.

• 1:10:09Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 1:10:10Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, this would you lend your jizz for this in this situation?

• 1:10:14Speaker 05

  I think so. I think it would need to be like, you know, probably not framed in like a phone call or something.

• 1:10:20Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:10:21Speaker 05

  It would need to be like a big sit down discussion.

• 1:10:23Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:10:24Speaker 05

  I think I would.

• 1:10:25Stavros Halkias?

  And as a married man, would you want your wife involved in the ask?

• 1:10:29Speaker 05

  I think so, for sure.

• 1:10:30Stavros Halkias?

  Okay.

• 1:10:31Speaker 05

  But I, you know, I could see, I could see like, there is something that like, you know, yes, you are the uncle, you're not like in the position of the parent, but I don't know, I could see like just looking down the line or something. You're like, whoa, that kid is like from my jizz. I know it's, I know it's stupid, but like I could see it like crossing my mind or something. But at the same time, we've looked it up before because people have called in with like adoption questions, like when's the, how should you tell your kid they're adopted? And the orthodoxy is you want to tell them as soon as possible, so.

• 1:11:08Stavros Halkias?

  Like as soon as they understand the concept, we're talking like.

• 1:11:10Speaker 05

  No, like from, from when they're a baby, like before they can even understand, you want to start like just telling them that narrative. So they're like used to it and grow up with it their whole life. And I think this would be like that where it's like. You know, obviously put in baby terms or little kid terms.

• 1:11:27Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 1:11:27Speaker 05

  Get more into it as they get older, but it's like, yes, you are from Uncle Eldie's jizz. You are, you know, the son of.

• 1:11:36Stavros Halkias?

  That's not, that's still your uncle, your dad is your dad.

• 1:11:39Speaker 05

  So it's like.

• 1:11:40Stavros Halkias?

  Some dads don't have jizz.

• 1:11:42Speaker 02

  Some dads don't have jizz. Now that's an important conversation.

• 1:11:46Stavros Halkias?

  That's true.

• 1:11:46Speaker 05

  That's a nice children's book.

• 1:11:47Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:11:48Speaker 05

  Some dads don't have jizz.

• 1:11:51Speaker 05

  And I think if you frame it like that for this, it wouldn't be like. Yeah. Weird, because it just gets like normalized from the kid's birth. Totally. Between the whole family or something. Yeah. So, yeah. Okay, all right. We got to the bottom of that.

• 1:12:04Speaker 02

  But you also know that kids are asshole and there's always gonna be that moment, he's with his uncle and he's like, you're not my dad. And he's like, well, actually. Draw four bitch, I am.

• 1:12:17Stavros Halkias?

  I mean, either way, this guy didn't want it. Where the fuck you been?

• 1:12:24Speaker 05

  Uh, play us another one.

• 1:12:26Stavros Halkias?

  That was a good question.

• 1:12:27Speaker 05

  That was a good one.

• 1:12:29Speaker 10

  Fan of the show, I'm actually watching it right now.

• 1:12:31Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 1:12:32Speaker 10

  I am, I've got some questions. I'm twenty-three years old. I got about twenty thousand in debt. That's like credit cards, personal loans and a bunch of bullshit. And, uh, no one really knows about it because I'm managing it, but. I mean, in your position at this age, you know, what would you do? Like, obviously pay it down. But, um, I feel like I'm like, I feel like I'm fucked. I feel like everything is just falling apart.

• 1:12:59Speaker 10

  I don't have any payments, like on cars or nothing. It's literally shitty personal.

• 1:13:04Speaker 10

  And, uh, yeah, so I just wanted to see what you would do in a money tight situation. I'm able to eat, but I just have that lingering over my head. So, thanks for, uh, thanks for doing this, man. This is cool. Uh, I'm gay.

• 1:13:19Speaker 05

  Okay, cool, man.

• 1:13:21Stavros Halkias?

  Um, this is tough because I've never thought of like I was poor and never really thought about money. I was like, oh, it'll just happen. I'll just figure it out. And then as soon as it was about to start becoming a problem, I started making money off a podcast. So I've never learned financial literacy at all. I don't know what to do with debt. I also like. My family was really heavily in debt, so it scared me out of debt. So even in like, I chose the college I went to because. I got a scholarship. It wasn't the best school I could go to. I was just like, I'm not having student loans. I've always avoided debt. I pay shit off like. Even when like a financial person will be like, oh, it's fine to have a this loan.

• 1:14:03Stavros Halkias?

  I've paid out, you know, you know, a mortgage earlier than I needed to. So I'm pretty scared of debt. I would probably just pay it down. And at least stay ahead of the interest rate. Like that's the killer with debt is that you might borrow fucking six grand, but if you let the interest rate. Kill you, you'll you'll end up with like fucking twenty grand in debt. So I would just stay ahead of the interest. You know, try and pay it, pay it down as much as you can as fast as you can, especially because it was credits, you know. Personal credit card shit. That means you were just buying Xboxes and fucking takeout with that. You don't even have shit to show for it. Um, so just change, you've figured it out now, though. Just change your habits and try and pay it down, but. You know, as much as you can without completely fucking your life up is what I would say.

• 1:14:45Speaker 04

  Yeah, and if you have people um. In your life that you can trust or like can support you, uh, file for bankruptcy.

• 1:14:54Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, interesting.

• 1:14:55Speaker 04

  Um, and then um. Have a plan before other things that you would use credit for within the, what is it, seven years?

• 1:15:02Speaker 02

  Mm hmm.

• 1:15:03Speaker 04

  Uh, that you have and then have like guarantors, like people that like can facilitate you doing the things that you need.

• 1:15:10Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 1:15:11Speaker 04

  While you rebuild your credit.

• 1:15:12Stavros Halkias?

  Good. This is good. Have you given somebody else this advice recently?

• 1:15:15Speaker 04

  Uh, something that I realized is that like a lot of wealthy people file bankruptcy all the time.

• 1:15:21Speaker 02

  It's in the TikToks, it's in the reddits, all the time.

• 1:15:24Speaker 04

  Yeah, it really is just a system. Uh, it's just a bailout that people that that's just worse for people that have less.

• 1:15:30Stavros Halkias?

  Interesting.

• 1:15:31Speaker 04

  But if you know how to kind of game the system, you can use it to your advantage.

• 1:15:35Stavros Halkias?

  Huh.

• 1:15:36Speaker 02

  Yeah, seven years goes by fast.

• 1:15:38Speaker 04

  It does, because how many things do you need to finance if you have an apartment?

• 1:15:42Stavros Halkias?

  So you're just not allowed to finance shit for seven years, that's how it goes?

• 1:15:45Speaker 04

  Yeah, cuz you just like your credit is just really bad, so most people just won't do it. But if you just do those things before you do it, you set yourself up to where you're like, oh, I have enough cash to do this, I have this, I have this. You can just kinda be cruising through those seven years.

• 1:16:00Speaker 02

  Yeah, and not living beyond your means and stuff, you're good.

• 1:16:04Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, that's interesting, yeah, again, I don't know shit, that sounds like a good advice.

• 1:16:08Speaker 04

  Sugar daddy, sugar mama, like.

• 1:16:09Stavros Halkias?

  That's good too.

• 1:16:10Speaker 04

  Find you a nice benefactor.

• 1:16:12Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, that would be awesome.

• 1:16:16Stavros Halkias?

  But yeah dude, that's good, you know, look into that shit, I don't know what the fuck, I'm sorry.

• 1:16:20Speaker 04

  Also, uh, look at if there's any data leaks, and then you could try to.

• 1:16:26Stavros Halkias?

  Have you been involved in any class action lawsuits?

• 1:16:28Speaker 04

  Like, people are really bad at holding information, so if you can find out, uh, where your debt is, and see if there's any way, like, any like back channels, or any ways you can just like get that shit canceled, that's the way to do it.

• 1:16:39Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, it is really fucked up that these banks can sell your debt. Let's say this guy has twenty thousand debt, a bank can buy it for like three grand or some shit.

• 1:16:49Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:16:49Stavros Halkias?

  And they don't give you the opportunity to just, well, let me fucking buy, I'll buy for four, you know what I mean, like? And that's, but they won't do that because they wanna, that's how fake debt is.

• 1:16:58Speaker 02

  That's not true, they can do consolidation, um, if like you have multiple streams of like debt, and they consolidate it and make it, you know, truncate it, you know, do it for smaller.

• 1:17:09Stavros Halkias?

  Interesting, yeah.

• 1:17:11Speaker 02

  That's what it.

• 1:17:11Speaker 05

  I think you can call in Hagel, if someone like.

• 1:17:14Stavros Halkias?

  You can, I mean, they've done it. There's, there's, there's organizations that buy medical debt and like forgive a lot of medical debt. You could pose as a philanthropic organization and buy your own debt, that's fun, that's a fun little, you know? I would be interested in that kinda scam.

• 1:17:29Speaker 05

  Buy it on another credit card.

• 1:17:32Speaker 02

  Also, medical debt, always gift the itemized. Get the itemized and start, what, so what is this? And what is that? And what, oh, wait, I didn't have that.

• 1:17:41Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 1:17:41Speaker 02

  Why is this here? Why does this cost so much? And then they all start being like, who you know? They start taking things off and then you realize, you're like, oh, you guys are a scam.

• 1:17:50Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, oh, of course.

• 1:17:51Speaker 02

  And then it gets lower and lower.

• 1:17:53Stavros Halkias?

  It's one of the fucking craziest scams. Yeah. Yeah, but so, yeah, I don't know, fucking called Dave Ramsey or some shit. I don't know what the fuck to do about it.

• 1:18:04Speaker 04

  I don't know, be, become president. He'll go away.

• 1:18:10Speaker 02

  Stabby, has anybody ever like, said, hey, can you help out? Can you donate to GoFundMe? Have you given like a chunk of change, you know?

• 1:18:20Stavros Halkias?

  I mean, I donate to stuff, yeah, but not, ne- never off the, no one's, no one's voicemail'd in.

• 1:18:27Speaker 02

  Like, hey, can I borrow seven, six dollars?

• 1:18:28Stavros Halkias?

  We delete those calls around.

• 1:18:32Stavros Halkias?

  They don't do that shit. Does never get to me.

• 1:18:36Stavros Halkias?

  That's some of the best, that's the only good producing Elvis does, is make sure that never crosses my desk.

• 1:18:42Speaker 02

  No.

• 1:18:44Speaker 02

  Good, no.

• 1:18:48Stavros Halkias?

  Sydney calling with a voice changer.

• 1:18:52Stavros Halkias?

  Dwayne's moving to LA. I need another guarantor.

• 1:18:57Speaker 04

  Have you co-starred?

• 1:18:58Speaker 02

  Yo. I ain't never telling y'all shit again. I try to be transparent and say, hey, I got somebody who's looking out. Somebody loves me, cares about me, wants to make sure I'm housed. And y'all like, yeah, I got a guarantor, you, you broke ass bitch ass, no credit ass hat and hoe, like.

• 1:19:18Speaker 04

  You gotta keep more secrets.

• 1:19:20Speaker 02

  Well, I want, I want to put it out there so people can know that like, listen, you, you are who your network in villages.

• 1:19:27Stavros Halkias?

  That is, that is actually is true.

• 1:19:28Speaker 02

  If you have a whole bunch of people that's like, nah, I'm not helping you, then you gotta look within and be like, well, why don't these people want to help me? And then if you hanging out with a whole bunch of people, like, hey, man, I ain't got it. You gotta lose those people.

• 1:19:39Speaker 04

  You gotta find.

• 1:19:40Stavros Halkias?

  Again, one of the classic, I'm with Sydney and then she takes a turn. I'm like, yeah, you're so right. It's about community, we have to be there for each other. And then like, if someone's broker than you though, cut them off.

• 1:19:52Speaker 04

  Do not be friends with people with less money than you.

• 1:19:55Stavros Halkias?

  You need to be the brokest one in your circle.

• 1:20:00Speaker 04

  I mean, I'm not bad advice. You are who you surround yourself with. But just know, if you're the broker's friend, if you are-

• 1:20:08Speaker 02

  So you say you never have a hundred dollars? You just never have a hundred dollars? Yeah, man, I'm gonna have to let you go. Click.

• 1:20:16Stavros Halkias?

  I've been removed from the group chat.

• 1:20:22Stavros Halkias?

  Place another one, big L.

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• 1:21:51Speaker 12

  Hey Stav, Elvis, and guest. Here is the deal. I live in the Baltimore area. Saw you at Magoob's last year, loved it.

• 1:21:57Stavros Halkias?

  Thank you.

• 1:21:58Speaker 12

  I live in the Baltimore area. My boyfriend also lives in Maryland. We met in November of last year. Um, we kind of were doing like a casual quote unquote thing because he was getting ready to move across the country. As we were hanging out, it got more serious. I fell in love with this guy. He fell in love with me. Got really complicated when he got his new job uh in San Diego and wanted to or was going to move. Here's the deal. We, I caved. Um, we're doing long distance. It's really hard, however.

• 1:22:32Speaker 12

  I think it's worth it. I think this is someone I want to be with. I like.

• 1:22:36Speaker 02

  He already left you.

• 1:22:37Speaker 12

  I'm twenty-five, he's thirty-three. I feel like we've both had some relationship experiences that have really taught us about what we need and what we want. And he treats me really well and I love him. The thing that I'm asking from you is what are the things I need to look for or be sure of before making a big move? Um, I have family on the West Coast. I have family in Maryland. I wouldn't know anybody in the city I'd be moving to except for him. However, I wouldn't move until I had a job lined up. And, you know, I am very personable and outgoing. I think I can make friends, but.

• 1:23:12Speaker 02

  None of that matters.

• 1:23:13Speaker 12

  Hoping for a little bit of advice on like what I should know before making that kind of a jump. So, thanks so much. Bye.

• 1:23:20Speaker 02

  I'll answer that.

• 1:23:21Stavros Halkias?

  Please.

• 1:23:21Speaker 02

  You gotta have a job. You gotta have money. You gotta have your own shit situated. So then when y'all combine, you're not depending on him. He's not like, well, you you here again, like. And and I honestly think it would be even smarter if she moved there and had her own place. You know what I'm saying? So you you have that independent. Oh, you know, I am gonna look for my own friends. I am gonna be venturing out. So it's not just like this codependency, like, we're living together. I moved here for you. You I you hate that. I moved here for you and you here now. So what's up? Are you gonna mention this every time we get in an argument? And like, that was me. I was like, well, I came to LA. It's like, whoa, hey, man.

• 1:24:04Speaker 02

  You here. You got mad friends you connected. You can't get no job. So what do you want me to do?

• 1:24:09Stavros Halkias?

  Talking to yourself from three years ago? This isn't about this woman at all.

• 1:24:19Speaker 04

  Do not move for this girl. Don't do it.

• 1:24:25Speaker 02

  No, no, no, do it, do it. You've done it, right?

• 1:24:28Speaker 04

  No.

• 1:24:28Speaker 02

  No, somebody's done it for you.

• 1:24:31Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:24:31Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, somebody's done it.

• 1:24:32Speaker 04

  Yeah, and I'm not with that person. Don't do it. Don't do it.

• 1:24:36Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, we have two examples of it not working out.

• 1:24:38Speaker 04

  And we played different sides. Both sides did not. We are not with those people.

• 1:24:42Stavros Halkias?

  It is genuinely hard. I mean, this is a, there's a reason this is hard to do. And it's also interesting. I mean, how long were they together? She said a couple of months before he moved.

• 1:24:51Speaker 05

  She said they started last November.

• 1:24:53Stavros Halkias?

  Last, okay.

• 1:24:54Speaker 05

  Started casual, but picked up.

• 1:24:56Stavros Halkias?

  Alright.

• 1:24:56Speaker 02

  Nah, sister.

• 1:24:57Speaker 04

  Yeah, I mean, like, what is this job? Like, I would say, um, y'all should have the relationship be adjusted to the reality. And not try to force reality to match the relationship. And the reality is, y'all live in two different places. If y'all can keep that going, then keep that going. And if y'all can't, then y'all can't. Like, maybe this is the universe saying, like, this is the test. Like, but I don't know. If moving there for him, when you have all this reservation, that reservation ain't gonna go nowhere just because you went to a new place.

• 1:25:29Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, I mean, ah, because it's tough, because it sounds like if they were in the same city, they'd just be, it's, she, it doesn't sound like she has reservations about the relationship. She has reservations about the logistics of, of this.

• 1:25:41Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:25:41Stavros Halkias?

  But that is, you know, that's fucking hard. I mean, this, a cross-country move is hard, and I agree with you Sid, where it's like, you want, do you really want to do this? If this, and it, you know, I think there's two schools of thought. One is, do you actually want to live, move to the city? If this guy wasn't in the picture, would you like your life there? Can you find a job that you like? You know, maybe you don't like your job that much, you're ready for a change of scenery, and this is like a no-lose situation where it's like, either it works out with him, or I, or I'm in a cool new city and I'm trying and, you know, you're relatively young still. You still have, like, moved to a different city for a couple of years, and if you don't like it, move back. That's still in the cards. That's one school of thought. Or the other one is, you're just kind of going all in on this relationship, and you need to just...

• 1:26:26Stavros Halkias?

  It it's it's almost like don't have a plan B and just hope this works out. I don't, I'm just saying those are the two schools of thought. I probably am more partial to the first one.

• 1:26:36Speaker 04

  I agree.

• 1:26:36Stavros Halkias?

  Um, but then again, sometimes these things only work when there are exceptions to the rule. You know what I mean? Like, I could see the logic of just like, as soon as you get a job, move there, see what you guys have together. And maybe figure it out sooner rather than later, but.

• 1:26:52Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:26:53Stavros Halkias?

  I think the first one is safer for sure, and I think it's a better way to go about things. Um, but I also think you should do it as soon as possible if you're really committed to this relationship.

• 1:27:03Speaker 04

  Also, I don't know if you, if she has a job now. If she doesn't.

• 1:27:06Stavros Halkias?

  I think she does in, in Baltimore, in the, in the Baltimore area.

• 1:27:10Speaker 04

  I would say if there is a way that you can just spend a longer amount of time there, as like a little like dress rehearsal.

• 1:27:18Stavros Halkias?

  Sure.

• 1:27:19Speaker 04

  I feel like that can give some good data.

• 1:27:22Stavros Halkias?

  Definitely.

• 1:27:23Speaker 04

  And then just seeing like, is there a way to where like, cause if the whole thing is just like, you wanna be around this person more. Is there whether you can do that without having to move your whole life? Just be like, oh, you're there.

• 1:27:32Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 1:27:32Speaker 04

  And I'm just only saying that because I'm living a bi-coastal life now.

• 1:27:35Stavros Halkias?

  Sure.

• 1:27:35Speaker 04

  And I think there are just like eras of being like, oh, I can be here for like a little bit. I can be here for a little bit. And I think if you can make it work, you should make it work. So you don't have to change your whole life.

• 1:27:44Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah. Is there a way you can work from, work remotely and spend two weeks there or something? And just see if you even like the city, you know, you might fucking hate it.

• 1:27:52Speaker 04

  Yeah. Get a new job where you're at that allows you to have, to be able to spend time there.

• 1:27:56Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, is that possible?

• 1:27:57Speaker 04

  Have to like move your whole life.

• 1:27:59Stavros Halkias?

  Is, yeah, that's, and you know, I've had friends who, I mean, I do have friends who actually did make long distance work and, and there is a period of it where it's like, you're almost just both taking turns visiting each other and seeing each other enough. But even that, you can only do for so long because that's also not reality, right? Like whenever, a lot of long distance relationships feel awesome because whenever you're visiting, you're just kind of on vacation. No one's really living their real life. It's like, we took time off, we're seeing each other. That's not day to day reality. So if there's a way for you to actually spend time there that actually feels more real, more like what life would be like there. Instead of like, let's meet up in, in the middle and go on a fucking trip or you know, I'll come, you take a week off work.

• 1:28:44Stavros Halkias?

  I'll come to, you know, whatever, like. That I think, that you can only do for so long. I think that's good as a, as a sort of Band-Aid on a long-distance relationship. But yeah, I think, try and, try and see, definitely have a job. And have the amount of independence that makes you feel comfortable. And see if you could do a little dress for us. I do like that.

• 1:29:02Speaker 02

  Get on Facebook, right? Get in the groups of San Diego. See what, what's popping, like, trying to make friends, you know, see if they got groups, do that. Get on Hinge, see what's the vibes of like, yeah, cause just in case you move there, relationship to work, you still have a job and you've made friends, is there a possibility?

• 1:29:23Stavros Halkias?

  You're saying what's the competition?

• 1:29:25Speaker 02

  For me to still have dating options. Cause sometimes you could go to a dope-ass city, people mid. You just, that's not what you want in a partner. You're like, oh, it's popping platonically, but not, it's not popping for the P. So, um.

• 1:29:39Stavros Halkias?

  Luckily I have all these backups ready to go.

• 1:29:41Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:29:42Speaker 04

  Exactly.

• 1:29:43Speaker 02

  You should.

• 1:29:44Speaker 04

  With your secret hinge that you have.

• 1:29:46Speaker 02

  You should.

• 1:29:46Speaker 04

  And then you should see if he's on Hinge too.

• 1:29:48Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, if you come across his profile, then forget it.

• 1:29:52Speaker 04

  Then don't move.

• 1:29:52Stavros Halkias?

  Buy a house in Baltimore, forget the whole thing.

• 1:29:55Speaker 02

  Facebook has a group, are we dating the same guy? Get in that group as well.

• 1:30:00Stavros Halkias?

  That would be nice. That, that's an easy way to see if you need to get out of this.

• 1:30:03Speaker 02

  Check that first. Check that.

• 1:30:05Stavros Halkias?

  And that solves all your problems.

• 1:30:06Speaker 04

  Just find a reason to leave.

• 1:30:09Stavros Halkias?

  Els, you got something fun for us to go out on here, little buddy?

• 1:30:11Speaker 02

  What a bang.

• 1:30:17Speaker 13

  Hey, Stabby. Uh, I am a, uh, dad, got a ten-year-old little girl who, uh, is getting bullied by three little shits in her little after-school club. So I was calling to see if you had any tips for, you know, any comebacks that we, I could.

• 1:30:43Speaker 13

  Teach my daughter at least to help, you know, best of those kids that are trying to roast others. Appreciate it. Longtime caller, first time listener. Take it easy.

• 1:30:53Stavros Halkias?

  Damn.

• 1:30:54Speaker 02

  Where are the women? I need, I, I want the dad out of here. I need, where's the aunt? Where's the sister? Where's the mother? Where? Cause they need, cause this bullying stuff has gotten out of hand. And like, I see it over and over on TikTok and like the threads. It's like, these kids are just getting so vicious. And it's like, somebody has to come up there and hold these kids accountable. And it starts with, I need to talk to their parents. And I, unfortunately, I don't need a man doing that. I need a woman talking to the other person. Uh, usually another woman would be like, hey, what's going on? Where is the disconnect? Why do you have these kids coming here and making my child's life terrible?

• 1:31:37Speaker 04

  And why can't a man do it?

• 1:31:41Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 1:31:44Stavros Halkias?

  I don't know. I mean, aren't you worried?

• 1:31:46Speaker 02

  If he had a son, go there for your son.

• 1:31:48Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, you think it's like a gen- gendered bullying?

• 1:31:51Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:31:51Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, I, I do kind of.

• 1:31:52Speaker 02

  It's girls bothering girls.

• 1:31:53Speaker 04

  I think it should be the opposite. I think that the opposite gender should handle it. So that there is less of a chance of projecting your own.

• 1:32:01Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, yeah. That's a good point. That's a good point. Yeah, yeah.

• 1:32:04Speaker 04

  Then you can come with like a more.

• 1:32:06Stavros Halkias?

  Dad's, dad's addressing their, their daughter's behavior. Mom's addressing son's behavior. That's interesting. I mean, I, I mean, I do worry about the like, uh, what kind of bullies are these?

• 1:32:18Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 1:32:19Stavros Halkias?

  Like, are you get, like, when your parent deals with it, that's, then you, then you're become a snitch in their eyes?

• 1:32:26Speaker 02

  Good. Yeah. Yeah, I'm snitching. I'm sorry.

• 1:32:28Stavros Halkias?

  Okay.

• 1:32:29Speaker 04

  Is it just like roasting? Is she getting like beat up? Like, is it physical? Cause like, I think that changes it. Cause if it's just roasting, I would say you find information about their family, share it with her. And get her like really run them jokes at the crib.

• 1:32:42Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, hire a private investigator.

• 1:32:43Speaker 04

  I remember, I was in second grade, maybe first grade, and I was getting bullied. And then I found out that the guy's daddy was in jail. And I said, that's where your daddy in jail is. He started crying.

• 1:32:55Speaker 04

  Changed, changed everything.

• 1:32:56Speaker 02

  But you see, that's in your blood, like you are that, that's why you are who you are now. That's why, profession, like you're a comedian. The way the dad is talking, you ain't got it babe, like you're not gonna, you are not.

• 1:33:07Speaker 04

  Put it in an improv class.

• 1:33:08Stavros Halkias?

  She's like, gentle, yeah.

• 1:33:10Speaker 04

  You gotta put it in an improv class, get, get her quicker.

• 1:33:13Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, it's not a bad idea to learn stuff about their family, honestly.

• 1:33:18Speaker 04

  Hit him where it hurts.

• 1:33:19Speaker 02

  I don't know, I just, I've just been watching too many of the like, these kids, just like, little kids, just committing suicide and it makes me so angry. And it's like, I don't wanna play these games, this, the roast, learn about, no. Get the parents involved and, and god forbid you have to take the kid out. I, like, none of that, oh, we're just gonna see how this plays out because then it could be too late. And you don't know, these kids, a lot of these kids are coming from broken fucked up homes. So they ain't got nothing to live for.

• 1:33:49Speaker 04

  That's why you gotta train your child.

• 1:33:52Stavros Halkias?

  I know, I do, unfortunately, there's part of me that's like, the worst part about being a parent is just, you have to kinda cede control and your kid just kinda has to figure some shit out for themselves. And bullying kind of is one of those things, like, how you, like, socializing, all this kinda shit, it's like, it is definitely heartbreaking because it's like so sad when your kid is getting bullied. But I also wonder like, we don't know the extent of this bullying, right? Is it possible this is normal kid stuff? Is it really over the top? I don't know, but it's like, shit like this is gonna happen. Like your kid, your kids are just gonna, I got bullied, I bullied people, people were mean to me, I was mean to people. You just kind of have to figure it out.

• 1:34:34Speaker 04

  Yeah, like, I definitely think it's like about the like rant, like if it's like, cause I got bullied pretty bad when I was younger. Also, I was a crazy kid. I have a whole like one man show where I talk about like trying to kill a bully in third grade. I said, how dare you try to bully me, you have to die. So, it shouldn't get that far, like, you have to see like, is it physical? Cause like.

• 1:34:53Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 1:34:53Speaker 04

  Like where is it? And I think it is about just like meeting your child where they are and be like, how do you feel?

• 1:34:59Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 1:35:00Speaker 04

  What do you wanna do? Are you afraid, like, and then giving. Them tools cuz it if it's just shit talking, you gotta just be like, hey, that you can't control what somebody's child is saying. So you can, but you can't help your child fortify themselves and give them sick things to say back. If it's physical, then you can teach your child how to defend themselves, but also that then puts you in a place of like, okay, I can't go to the school. Cuz this is something that like, that's a little far.

• 1:35:25Stavros Halkias?

  And even if it is, if it's kind of the point where you do need to like, yeah, intervene, I do think, cuz I think that does solve things a lot. Sometimes parents, sometimes like parents will figure it out. Like, I think we had a friend who was kind of in a similar situation. And he talked to the other parent and the parent was like mortified. And was like, I can't believe my fucking kid would behave this way. I'm gonna figure this out. That's a possibility, but. There's also the po- like, look, today it's bullying, tomorrow it's something else like, and ten is kind of unfortunately when like. You're kinda, she's about to be in middle school.

• 1:36:04Speaker 02

  I like, how dare you, you're, you haven't lived. How you, how dare you bully in elementary? Go to high school, go to college.

• 1:36:14Speaker 02

  Get a personality. You don't even have a personality.

• 1:36:16Speaker 04

  That's the worst bullying, at least from my.

• 1:36:19Speaker 04

  Didn't get as like, cuz you have a great, like, elementary school, I think is like the formative years of your life is the, at least for me was the hardest time. And so I think just creating a system where like your daughter at least feels supported enough to like come to you. A good first step.

• 1:36:35Speaker 02

  Yeah, for sure. That's good. You're a good dad. You're a good dad.

• 1:36:39Speaker 04

  Hey, this how you take somebody down quick.

• 1:36:41Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, and I really actually do think it's not a bad idea to learn about these people's family. Like, it's not, it's not a horrible idea to be like, look. Let's workshop some insults. If you wanna use them, you can use them. If you don't, you don't have to.

• 1:36:54Speaker 04

  Cuz that's helpful on both ends, cuz it's helpful in them roast, but also helpful in being like, okay, where are they from? Like, can, can I talk to them? Are they like, from like where they're like stats, like? Is it a family of crazy people? Then maybe we shouldn't talk to them.

• 1:37:09Stavros Halkias?

  That is what backfires when you go to the family, cuz it's like sometimes like, fuck you, you don't tell me how to raise my fucking kid. And now you have to fight a dad. That's crazy.

• 1:37:18Speaker 04

  And now, just so you get beat up, and now the whole family gotta move.

• 1:37:21Speaker 02

  No, I have a friend that constantly, like, when shit is not working out, we taking the kid out. Let's, we do, let's go, like, it, and I salute her every time, because it's like.

• 1:37:30Speaker 04

  Taking the kid out, you think that's the best?

• 1:37:32Speaker 02

  No, because sometimes, no, no, no, sometimes the school is fucked up, like, um, academically, or like, there is bullying, the kids are just too rowdy, that, or your, your child is not really attaining any information, the reason why they're in school anyway, and it's like, hey, we gonna find another school, this, you, this school is not the end all be all, and like, take them out if you have to.

• 1:37:54Stavros Halkias?

  I know, but there's also a fine line between, you can't do that every time. Like, there is, your kid has to also.

• 1:37:59Speaker 04

  You're talking to my friend, she, she, she hadn't done it.

• 1:38:04Stavros Halkias?

  Your kid also has to learn a little self-sufficiency, maybe it's a little early for that, but it's like, that's, the world sucks dick, and your people are shitty to you, and you kinda have to, you have to kinda be prepared for that, and so, you know.

• 1:38:16Speaker 04

  Does your friend feel like her child has, like, benefited from that? Like, how does that manifest in the child?

• 1:38:21Speaker 02

  Yeah, child is in an amazing school now, I mean, it took some time, but, school is great, kids are great, dang, it was a long road, but worth it.

• 1:38:30Stavros Halkias?

  As long as there's some stability at the end of the road, that's important. I think just constant changing shit can be kinda fucking tough. But yeah, look, this sucks dude, sorry, you know, good luck.

• 1:38:39Speaker 02

  Yeah, man, you're great, you're a good dad, so at least, I mean, you're, you're asking comedians who ain't got no kids, but yeah, that's good.

• 1:38:45Stavros Halkias?

  That's true, yeah, this really was a fun one to go out on.

• 1:38:51Speaker 02

  Great job.

• 1:38:52Stavros Halkias?

  It was like, some light, I thought it was gonna be like a thirty second, like, oh, I finally started eating pussy, it's awesome, but no.

• 1:38:59Speaker 05

  I didn't know it was gonna get that deep, I thought you guys were gonna be like, make fun of the kid's parents or something.

• 1:39:03Stavros Halkias?

  All these children pieces, you call the ten year olds cunts, what are you?

• 1:39:08Speaker 04

  Fight children.

• 1:39:09Speaker 02

  I brought up suicide, I took a video, nah.

• 1:39:12Speaker 04

  They really did, I said, oh, so we're going there, okay.

• 1:39:16Speaker 02

  But you know what, I do wanna end on something positive. Cause I always come here and it seems like I'm some, you know, some rough around the edges bitch that's just only talking about my old life and how I used to have turn up and now I'm like getting my life together. I'm lesbian, but I am making strides, career rise. I had a half hour on Hulu.

• 1:39:37Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, go watch that, absolutely.

• 1:39:39Speaker 02

  Yeah, so watch that.

• 1:39:40Stavros Halkias?

  Go watch that.

• 1:39:40Speaker 02

  I'm back on Instagram, it's on Disney Plus, I'm on Instagram again.

• 1:39:44Stavros Halkias?

  Love that.

• 1:39:44Speaker 02

  And, um...

• 1:39:50Speaker 04

  Big things, baby. Big things. Back on the gram.

• 1:39:53Speaker 02

  Putting out a movie on Instagram. You will be seeing it next year. And that's how you end on a bang, bitch, so you needed me. So you needed me.

• 1:40:01Speaker 04

  Come on, filmmaker Sydney.

• 1:40:03Speaker 02

  So you needed me. You're welcome.

• 1:40:05Speaker 04

  See you in Venice.

• 1:40:07Stavros Halkias?

  The bullying's bad, babe.

• 1:40:08Speaker 02

  See you in Long Island.

• 1:40:11Stavros Halkias?

  I love it. Things are up, the stock is up.

• 1:40:14Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 1:40:15Stavros Halkias?

  For Sydney.

• 1:40:16Speaker 04

  Those titties are appraised high.

• 1:40:18Stavros Halkias?

  Yup, 11, 11K.

• 1:40:20Speaker 02

  I'm gonna get them done again, just so you know.

• 1:40:22Stavros Halkias?

  Alright.

• 1:40:23Speaker 02

  So y'all could do that by following me on all of my social platforms. Follow my podcast.

• 1:40:29Stavros Halkias?

  Let us know when you got them and we'll put you, we'll get you back, when you got the news set in.

• 1:40:36Stavros Halkias?

  This was so fun, guys, Dewayne, thanks for being here.

• 1:40:38Speaker 04

  Thanks for having me, this was great.

• 1:40:39Stavros Halkias?

  Anything else you wanted to plug also, anything at the end here?

• 1:40:42Speaker 04

  Hell, no. I ain't got nothing else to say.

• 1:40:45Speaker 02

  No, you do, you're social media.

• 1:40:47Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah, sure, oh, right, I need more followers so I can get, um, brand deals.

• 1:40:52Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:40:52Speaker 04

  So follow me on Instagram, TikTok, it's Dewayne Perkins, D E W E Y N E.

• 1:40:58Stavros Halkias?

  I love it. We'll, we'll link to all that stuff. Thanks for being here, guys, this was so fun. Thanks for listening, guys, we'll see you next time, bye, bye.

• 1:41:05Speaker 02

  Bye.

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