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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 Riley.
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Welcome.
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Thank you.
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So you are in the army.
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You may be the most beautiful army person I've ever seen.
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Tell us about that.
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Yeah, I get a lot of people that are like, what?
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You're in the army?
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Like, they're shocked.
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They're shocked.
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And I'm like, yep.
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Ten years this may.
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Ten years?
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Wow, congrats.
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And thank you for your service.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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So how did you get into that?
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Was that something you always wanted to do?
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No.
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Um, I was a foreign exchange student back in high school.
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My junior year of yeah, it was junior year.
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And my first country of choice was Greece, but they were having like political issues.
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So my second choice was Thailand.
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And I was like, okay, this is like a big difference, right?
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Huge difference.
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Uh-huh.
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So I got sent to Bangkok.
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And I showed up, and my host family was very poor.
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And um I was there for six months.
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I was supposed to be there for a full year.
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And there's four D's: no drinking, no driving, no dating, no drugs.
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And I was, you know, every three months you have to change to a new host family because they don't want you to think like that's the whole culture with just one family, right?
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So my first host family, like, very poor.
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I washed my clothes by hand.
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I walked to the bus stop.
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I took public transportation to get to the sky rail, BTS, which is in the air, and then you take the sky rail, and then I took a motorcycle on campus.
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It took me an hour and a half to get to school every day.
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Wow.
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Yeah.
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So I went to a public school and you had to wear a uniform.
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Like, that's the law there.
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And I loved it actually.
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It was like, okay, like, wow, this is cool.
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And I'm like 14, 15 years old at the time.
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Yeah, I had bleached blonde hair, and everyone would like be like, Can I take a photo with you?
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Pictures.
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So I felt like a celebrity.
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It was cool.
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It was cool.
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And then I was with my host family for my first host family for three months, loved them.
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And then they told me they were like, You need to go to a new host family.
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I was like, oh, okay.
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So my new host family, they were rich.
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I had a limo.
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What?
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A chauffeur, like to school every day, could not put toothpaste on the toothbrush.
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I'd get yelled at, could not do laundry, could not make my bed, nothing.
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And they were very rich.
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I don't even know what they did.
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And um, there was one day they left a note at home when I got home from school, and they're like, We're gonna go to China for two weeks.
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Here's$20.
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I was like, okay, like I can't really live off$20.
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But like, Thailand's cheap, but like not that cheap for two weeks.
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And so I went out partying and had some fun, and I came home and my maid did not speak any English, and she told on me when my host family got back.
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So I got the call, Riley.
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We booked your flight, you're going home next week.
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Pack your bags.
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I was there for six months.
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How many of the D's did you do in that one night?
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Three to four.
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All of them.
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I was hoping it was gonna be all of them.
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Three to four.
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And it's crazy though, because I got a taxi ride home and I was sitting in the front, buckled in.
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I was, I mean, I was tuned up, but like the army girl, I wasn't an army girl yet, but like the army girl in me, the military girl was like very fierce, feisty.
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And of course, the cab driver tried to pull over on the interstate and tried to touch me.
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And I was like, yeah, no.
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So I had to fight him.
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Wow.
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And I was like, bring me home now.
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And I say it because I didn't know how else to get home.
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So when I got home, I was already like, I already had my own issues that I was dealing with that I didn't tell anybody about.
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And then when my host family got home, they told me, okay, you're getting sent home.
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I'm like, okay, like maybe it was meant to be.
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So I was like, I was okay with it, you guys.
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Like after that, I was like, whatever.
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That was my first like crazy incident, I think that's ever happened to me, like that.
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That's kind of cool that you got to experience extreme poverty and extreme wealth in a country and see the differences, you know?
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I like I like I like the poor people.
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I do.
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Yeah.
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Like they're more humble.
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They like they get it, they understand, they treated me so well.
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I still have them on Facebook.
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My Thai name in Riley is Ray Rai.
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It means a few different names.
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It's called it's means beautiful girl, a Thai dessert in the sound of a cricket.
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Wow.
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So they called me Ray Rai, and I still keep in touch with them till this day.
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Do you did you like Thailand?
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Loved it.
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You did?
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Loved it.
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Um, would I ever want to live there?
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No.
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But like there's a lot of like white guys there, and they have their businesses here, but they put their money over there because of the cost of living so cheap, and they have their residency there.
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So it's always like a white guy, Thai woman, white guy, Thai woman.
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So it I mean, and when you're in Bangkok, everyone speaks English.
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So I mean, you're in a foreign country, but everyone speaks English.
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They call them something over there, and now I can't remember it off the top of my head, but it was on 90 Day Fiance this past season, the bald white guys that go to the Asian countries like the Philippines, Thailand, looking for women or lady boys or whatever it is that they're looking for.
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There's an they have like a name for them over there.
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Lady boys.
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No, the Americans, I mean the white guys that go over the phones.
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But I don't know.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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If white guys can't get women here, they go to the Philippines or Thailand.
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Yeah.
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I worked with a gentleman who was extremely older, I've probably in his 70s, and his wife was like 20.
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She looked like she was like 13, but she was from the Philippines.
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And he claimed that they met naturally when he went to visit Philippines.
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And I'm like, didn't you really meet her naturally, or was it through one of those agencies, you know?
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I don't know.
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I've seen videos like on the streets there, and I think the women are pretty readily available to me.
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That's true.
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They probably want to meet an American.
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Yeah, they know they're set if they get with one.
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Yeah.
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Interesting.
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So do you travel a lot now?
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Do you love to travel?
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Yeah, I do.
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I was a flight attendant for six and a half years.
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Well, what airline?
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It's called Skywest Airlines.
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My husband used to fly for Skywest.
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That's where how he got started.
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Oh, and he was a pilot.
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Okay, okay.
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Yeah, I was based in Detroit, Boise, Salt Lake, and Phoenix.
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So interesting.
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You probably do know my husband then.
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He was based in Phoenix.
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I wonder how well you know my husband.
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Can we bleep out the person's last name, guys?
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Yeah, yeah.
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Um, travel a lot, yes.
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I think I've been to almost all 50 states.
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I know I haven't been to Alaska, but almost 50 states.
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Yeah.
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Wow.
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Yeah.
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And so why just out of curiosity, why did you want to do the foreign exchange program?
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You just wanted to get out.
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Well, I was in high school and I moved around a lot because my parents were always dating guys, girls, breakups.
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So I moved around a lot.
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Dad was an alcoholic, mom got super sick, so I had to go live with friends, grandparents.
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So I was always the new girl at the new school.
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And as you get older, as females know, like women get those clicks, the girls make those clicks, and when you join at a later age, it's a little too late.
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Um, I am very athletic.
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I love sports and kind of replaced um the start one of the starters.
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And they've all gone to school together since kindergartner, like kinder school.
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And um, I took her spot on the starting five, so she didn't like that.
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So she got everyone to basically gang up on me, and I was like, you know what?
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And I was like, I came home and I kept crying to my mom, and my mom was like, you know what, like high school does not matter, trust me.
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And my mom was, you know, homecoming queen, MVP of every sport.
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Like, she was like the star, beautiful girl.
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And she was like, Trust me, when you graduate high school, you only have one or two friends from high school, so don't worry about high school.
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So I dropped out, and um, we tried to resolve it.
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Um, my uncle was the history teacher there, he was always teacher of the year, driver's ed, student teacher, football coach, golf, all the sports.
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So my family was very well known, but I was like like that odd duckling out because I was always moving schools because my parents.
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So I dropped out and obviously I did not want a GED.
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I wanted a high school diploma.
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I was like, I know I'm smart, I know I can do it.
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So I applied for some online school in Minneapolis, Minnesota, even though I was like three and a half hours away.
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Got an online, got into an online school, and then I worked a full-time job uh as a sophomore in high school, 40 hours a week.
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Doing what?
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I was a banquet manager, so I worked weddings, I was in charge of weddings every weekend during the weeks, and there's this nonprofit organization called Rotary.
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So I will I got to know them, and they're the ones that sent me to Thailand.
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Um they're like, if you raise this amount, we'll match your other half.
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I was like, okay, because I got to know every group I served every week.
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I was like, what do you guys do?
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What do you guys do?
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And that's how I got sent to Thailand.
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Oh yeah.
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Good for you.
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Yeah.
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So was your trouble in Thailand what caused you to go into the army then when you got back?
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Yeah, so kinda.
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I was like, okay, I got back, what am I gonna do now?
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Like, I'm full of adventure.
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I know I'm not meant to be in high school, I don't fit in.
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So I was like, let's join the army.
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And my mom was like, No, you're not doing that.
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And my dad didn't have a say because I lived with my mom.
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And my recruiter, um, he drove an hour and 20 minutes, knocked on my mom's door at five o'clock at night, calmed her nerves, and he said, She's not gonna ever get deployed, she's never gonna go to war, like this, that.
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And he's she's like, okay.
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And then I go, what's in it for me?
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Like, I want something out of this.
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And so I got, you know, if you're in the military, you understand this, but most people get sent to basic training with a like fuzzy, you have no patch, no rank, no nothing.
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So they're like, We'll we'll make you a PB2.
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And I'm like, what's that?
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And they're like, you get rank and pay, and I'm like, okay, fine.
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So I shipped off when I got home.
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I had like, I was like, can I just enjoy my summer?
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Because I was in Minnesota at the time.
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And our summers are like two months long, and then winter is like 10 months long.
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So I enjoyed my summer and then I shipped off September 6th of 2016 and went to basic training in South Carolina and started my journey there.
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So did you go to boot camp?
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Yeah.
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And how was that?
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Is that tough?
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Is it as bad as they say?
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Yes, and no.
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Um, I think the females again, it was round two of high school times two.
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And um, my last name is Wright Meyer, so I had a lot of nicknames.
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I had wrongmeyer.
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Oh god.
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I had left Meyer, I had retirement because I am one of those women, like I'm like, I feel like I'm a s like, I'm like Killbit.
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Like I'm silent, but I'm deadly.
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And you don't but I don't want to show that.
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Like, I don't want to be teacher's pet.
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I don't want you to know like that I'm a threat because I realized kind of like if you show that right away, women hate you.
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Like you're you know, you don't fit in.
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So I acted like I didn't know what I was doing.
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I acted not athletic.
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I tried to be like like, you know, the worst of the worst, so that I didn't get picked on.
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Because when you're one of the best, that's when people come after you, they talk about you.
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Then when it came time to like the test and all the testing, I killed it like a hundred percent.