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Oh my god, I just totally got catfished.
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He looks absolutely nothing like his picture.
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So I found out the guy that I've been dating is married with kids.
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His wife just reached out to me.
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Welcome to the meat market.
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The single scene is a slaughterhouse, and we are here to devour it.
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We are your hosts.
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I'm Lindsay.
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I'm Jess.
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And today's sizzling single is Richard.
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Welcome.
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Thank you, thank you.
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So I absolutely love what you do.
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You go around and give haircuts, free haircuts, to the homeless and to veterans.
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Tell us about that.
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I want to learn more.
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I mean, it just started a week ago.
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Did you really?
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Yeah.
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Oh my god, your TikTok makes it look look like you've been doing it forever.
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I know.
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Yeah, I know.
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So what made you start this?
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Um well, two years ago, my grandpa passed away on October 14th.
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So he was a veteran.
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I've been taking it hard, and that day it just was like just a hard day, you know.
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And so instead of melting in the couch, I was on fall break from school and uh just decided to get up and just go go do something good, you know?
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And it turned into something and like my first my second video I posted I wouldn't say went viral, but 135,000 views in a week.
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You know, so it's pretty good.
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And so I just kind of I was having so much fun with it with the first video and like everyone's engagement and action and reposts and inspirations and it just turned into this like let me change and go, you know.
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That's amazing because I can imagine like for some for homeless people that have all that hair, like how good it must feel to have it all cut off, right?
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Yeah.
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And so like because of that video, it's like went around TikTok so quickly.
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Um the news cat channels reach out, so yeah, I'm supposed to be on ABC next week.
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Oh, congrats.
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Yeah, so that's gonna be pretty cool.
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Um, and there's a lot of people that are given like donations, not money, because I don't really want anyone's money.
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I'm doing it, I'm not doing it for that, you know.
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But people are reaching out to give me like shoes, clothes, blankets, pillows, and so like after I give someone a haircut, I give them an item too.
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So it's it's been fun.
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Oh, that's really cool.
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It's crazy how it completely changes someone's look too, right?
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Honestly, yeah, like I've been in corporate manufacturing for the last 15 years, and then I own my business for uh three years.
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Um but I just recently left corporate and started pursuing the barbering career.
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And uh it's just so different, you know, because like you never got appreciated in the corporate world and you slave like 12 hours.
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My schedule was 4 to 4, 4 a.m.
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to 4 p.m.
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What did you do?
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I was an operations manager for a manufacturing company.
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Yeah.
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So miserable.
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It was like you didn't get to see the sun, daylight ever, because you're like you're in a warehouse, you know, you work with the same 30 people.
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It's just it just got so I like completely stepped out of that um cash hour in my my retirement and just decided to hit the road and live out of my Tesla.
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So I'm giving up my house and everything.
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Do you currently live in your Tesla now?
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No, no, okay.
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Not yet.
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I'm gonna be moving out in probably around March.
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So this is all really fresh.
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Cause I know I'm literally last Saturday.
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That's crazy.
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Yeah, it is, it is really crazy.
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And like one of the video that did go viral, um, some lady actually, one of my it was her dad that she has been looking for.
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Oh my gosh, how cool.
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Yeah, have they reunited since?
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Um, no, I don't think so.
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She was she was she was pretty public about it because she didn't want to get like attacked, you know?
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So like she commented like that was her father, and then like she's like, he refuses help, you know, he doesn't want us, like he doesn't want to live with us, whatever.
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Um and but she was like I didn't know him my whole life until recently.
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And then she said the last time she's seen him was in January of this year because uh her aunt passed away.
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But yeah, she knows that he's out there.
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There was another family member that commented that same person was like, Yeah, and that's my uncle, I know him.
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And then like four days later, the girl commented.
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Wow, that's crazy.
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So when you go move into your Tesla, where are you gonna travel to do this?
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Nationwide?
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Um going to Maine.
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Maine?
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And you're gonna do stops all along the way?
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Yeah, so I'm gonna stop at every major, like not every major city, but I'm gonna try to stop at like the major cities throughout.
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Um so like New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana.
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Because I need I need to go south and then up.
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Because I need to do the five up top Delaware, Virginia, um, Connecticut, you know, Rhode Island.
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I haven't done those yet.
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So I only have 11 states to finish.
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And you're doing this whole thing to give free haircuts to the homeless?
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Yeah.
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Wow.
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And you're documenting it all on your TikTok?
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Every single so what is your TikTok handle?
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It's uh the gentle the gentle underscore barber.
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Gentle underscore barber, okay.
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And that's Instagram and TikTok.
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Nice.
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Yeah, it's it's been really fun.
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I can't wait.
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So I just go full time.
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That's so exciting.
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And how long do you plan on doing this for?
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I don't know.
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My daughter asked me the same question.
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Is your daughter going with you?
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No, she's with her mom.
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She's in school and she can't go.
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How old is she?
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12.
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Oh.
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So you don't know how you're just gonna hit the road and go where the wind blows you?
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Kind of.
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Like take take as long as you you have no time frame.
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Have you ever lived out of a car before?
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I've lived in my Tesla twice.
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Oh, you have?
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But only for short times.
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Like um, I did the first one, it was 32 days.
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I did 16 seats.
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Okay.
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How'd that go?
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It was hard because I was in the four-door sedan, the model three.
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So I slept in the front seat and my dog slept in the back.
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I have two border colleagues, Nala and Semba, they came with me.
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But now I'm in the Model Y, so it's the SUV version.
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When you put the back seats down, Tessa sells a bed, you could put a bed back there.
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Oh, nice.
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And so, like, I have like a a full size bed in the back.
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So, what do you plan on showering?
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Do you get a gym membership?
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Yeah, plan of fitness is 20 bucks a month.
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So nice.
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That's what we had another guest a quite a long time ago who lived in his car, and that was he used the gym for shower.
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I mean, I am doing this by choice, by the way.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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It's funny he was too.
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That's it's it's sort of becoming this.
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I feel like it's kind of trendy.
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It's like you see the vans and stuff.
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Yeah, and like I've seen other people doing it, and I'm just like, let me add a twist to it, you know, and do something different.
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What an experience.
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It's gonna be cool.
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So, like um September 3rd, I left, and this is like I guess it's not the first time, but this is the first time me and the dogs went by ourselves um and the Model Y, and we went to San Francisco.
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It was gone three weeks.
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So we was in San Francisco for a week, and then we went to Sa um Sacramento for a couple days, and then you was anymore a couple days, and then down to LA for a week, and then down to San Diego.
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And then we were gone for 19 days.
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It was cool.
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And so did you said you run on donations so people can donate via TikTok?
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I mean, if they want to send money donations, they can.
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Uh I have a link on my in my bio on my TikTok.
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Uh, I'm not asking for that, but I know people don't that not everyone has clothes to give away, so if they want to give some money, like I've had people on TikTok comment that they're gonna just send some money for a free haircut, you know, which is cool.
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That would definitely help my journey, you know.
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Um, but it's not about the money.
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Do you have things set up in cities already that you're going to?
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Groups, have you had anybody reach out from certain cities?
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Um, so I just started working with a nonprofit here in town called Cloud Cover Treats.
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Okay.
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They are a mobile shower and laundry map.
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So they're a trailer, they've been around for like five years.
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Um, but they have another location or another organization in Fort Worth.
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So they just had a big event over there last week and they raised like 150k for like what they're doing.
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So it's pretty cool.
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Okay, cool.
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Um, so he's supposed to set me up, and then they asked me like if I had other, you know, like other places organizations set up for, and I told him no yet, not yet, because it literally started nine days ago.
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Like, no, but imagination's more important than knowledge.
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I promise you that.
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You know, I have a tattooed on my back, I have my whole back tattooed, like shoulders to ass.
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It's pretty sweet.
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Um but yeah, and she and they, you know, like they told me that they can get me set up with different organizations.
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Um, I also reached out to the VA, one of the VAs in Mesa.
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Um they're gonna let me come to like a nursing home.
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Like they have five different nursing homes in Mesa all through November.
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Um so I'm gonna be going there and giving free haircuts to them because they said that that's one service that they don't get in the nursing home is haircuts.
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So they have to like leave and pay for your transportation, pay for the haircut.
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So it'd be cool to experience that.
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Sure.
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That would be cool.
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So you have a daughter.
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Were you married before?
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I was for how long?
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Eight years.
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Well, together eight years.
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We were married for five.
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How old are you if you don't mind me asking you?
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Well, and if you don't mind me asking, why did you end up separating?
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I wanted her to travel and she didn't.
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Really?
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The world works the way it's supposed to work.
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Yeah, and our last episode is travel.
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Tra differences in travel, in opinion on travel and travel styles, is it a deal breaker?
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It absolutely is.
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Especially if like you are real to who you are and you're not faking who you're giving on social media, right?
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Um, yeah, no, it was a big deal.
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Like, we had a great marriage.
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I levered it out.
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She's a great mom.
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We co-parent, we're best friends still.
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Like, I wouldn't say we're best friends, but we get along great.
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You're amicable.
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Yeah, no, like I I literally tell the world that like we are the examples of co-parent, and it does exist.
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Like it might take time in the beginning, but it does.
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If you both wanted to work, it works, you know.
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So and she's here in Arizona, yeah, yeah.
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Very grateful for her.
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She, you know, you know, like I do my part, you know, I have 50-50.
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It's not like I don't do my part, you know.
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I have my daughter used to have my daughter three weekends a month.
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Um, you know, she's 12 turning 13 already trying to, even though she just turned 12 in August.
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But um, you know, she's not always wanting to come to dad's house every weekend, like friends, or you know.
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I'm also out here alone.
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I don't have no family here.
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Did you ask her what she thought of you doing this before you started?
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Like did you know?
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I just completely dropped the ball on her.
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Yeah.
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And I documented it.
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It's on my TikTok.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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No, that like I told her that I had something that I wanted to talk to her about, like, after I made my decision up, and she like she kept asking, like, what is it, Dad?
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What is it?
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You can even see in the video, like one of the clips.
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She's like, What are we doing?
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you know, and like we're walking in the bedroom to go to like this map that I have in my room where I have all these magnets of all the states I've been to.
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And I was like, I'm gonna finish going to cross off my bucket list, and you know, like I'm gonna move out of the house and into the car for a while and do it.
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And she was like, How long are you gonna be gone?
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You know, asking those questions.
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I'm like, I'm still gonna see you, like, I'll fly you out to wherever I'm at, it's fine, you know.
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Like her mom supported it, you know, she supported it, so it's I don't know, supposed to be happening, I guess.
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Yeah.
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So you say you like traveling.
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Have you done international travel or do you prefer just sniff?
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Hell yeah, I've done international traveling.
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What's your favorite place?
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Rome?
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Really?
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Yeah, Rome is amazing.
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I mean, London's nice.
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London's cool, London's not really nice, but it's the best.