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what's up UFO garage we've got a a

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pretty special treat for you guys I want

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to introduce Eric Mitchell when I first

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heard his story I've been telling you

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guys you know the fintan files with Lori

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and fintan one of the first times I

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heard her show I actually heard his

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story and it absolutely blew my mind and

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I probably listened to it a good eight

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to ten times in a row just because I

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couldn't believe like what I was hearing

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and we hung out with him yesterday he

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had a great talk yesterday and I'm super

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happy that you here man yeah absolute

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pleasure you know you guys helped me out

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so much I mean I'm so bad with

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electronics and everything and you guys

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just jump right in there and saved my

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butt otherwise it would have been a

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terrible talk no worries man no worries

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so just for the listeners man going

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ahead and introduce yourself and kind of

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tell us who you are and and why you're

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here in this position right now was a

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single father and four kids I was a very

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simple laid-back country guy deep

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Southern drawl and one day I woke up

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standing outside of my my front door and

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I had no idea how I got there or what in

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the world it was that I was looking at

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but it was like a 40-foot in diameter

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miniature Sun just floating over the

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street in front of me and I just

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couldn't fathom what the hell that was I

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didn't know of course I didn't think

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UFOs UFOs to me were like a silver disk

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in the 1950s film where you have a

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little fishing string any of that stuff

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and so I you know I went inside after

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about 20 minutes of staring at this

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thing and I left the door open so I can

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keep peeking at it and several hours

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came by and it was just there it didn't

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Bob it didn't weave it didn't do or

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sound or anything so I figured you know

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by first life the optical illusion is

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gonna become really apparent

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and I'm gonna be able to laugh at myself

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and get to the day drink some coffee

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right here the kids get up go to work

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you know and live life and by around 6

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a.m. when the Sun was coming up it was

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gone you know so I thought well damn it

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you know and throughout the day I was

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really upset about it really bothered me

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normally I'm the happy guy at work you

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know messing with people having fun but

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it was uh I stayed pretty quiet and

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about halfway through the day I remember

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being at the dentist office one time and

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they're drilling my teeth and I'm

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looking at this magazine talking about

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ball lighting you know how we all sit

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around yeah to read the magazine you

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know it's like this is not interesting I

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would never do this but since I'm here

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and there's nothing else to do and the

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guy next to me doesn't look too exciting

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I'm gonna read a magazine but the later

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on that night about 9:30 I got the you

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know the homework and done with the kids

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you know the television time and all

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that stuff I went outside for a smoke

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and I went outside and I'm kind of paste

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in the one-story apartment just looking

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up at that spot going wow you know all

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lightning I coulda should have woke up

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the kids you know I should have took a

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picture and you know the kids have a

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camera and about the time I threw down

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my cigarette but I see this big flash at

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the corner of my eye and there it was up

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there just above the apartment again and

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I went what the hell and it slowly

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started to dim off like if you were to

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turn off a light bulb in slow motion

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right it just slowly dimmed off and it

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was moving about two miles an hour in

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front of me and then it slowly would dim

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back on and sometimes it would look like

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a egg shape or a diamond shape it would

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seem to be different shape almost every

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time but predominantly it was spherical

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and it started following the tree line

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coming toward me to my my right hand

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side and

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almost made like a circle or a horseshoe

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to kind of circle around and end up

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behind where I was initially standing

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and it was above my apartment just above

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my apartment door and by then my knees

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are frozen my hands are shaking I have

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no idea inside my mind what to think of

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this you know there's no way it's a

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military application when you see this

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thing up close you go oh my god I pray

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you know those goats that just freeze up

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and fall the hell yeah

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embarrassingly enough I'd yeah that was

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me I just I I froze completely so the

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thing flashed twice really fast and then

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it shut off like a bullet and you would

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totally expect like wind to hit you you

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would expect a sonic boom you would

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expect something but right like a ghost

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it was just gone no sound no anything

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and I stayed up you know and I'm just

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terrible with computers I really am I

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get around electronics they mess up on

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me and everything but I grab my

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daughter's computer and I'm like where's

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the Google bar you know because I want

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to know what the hell this thing is but

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I ended up like half the night looking

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at like conspiracy theories and you know

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people that have a cracker but their

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cheese is kind of slid off the top you

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know they're not they're not all there

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so I didn't find what I was looking for

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I finally fell asleep about three

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o'clock in the morning and the next day

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after work I had water pump problems on

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my car and it was overheating my my

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neighbor Dan from across the street he

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was from Wright wright-patterson Air

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Force Base he spent eight years there he

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just moved back in with his wife and he

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came out and we're working on the water

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pump and hopefully it's a damn hose

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please God let it be a hose it wasn't it

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was the water pump so it's at $325 part

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and like damn it you know upset about

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that yeah well dan and his buddies you

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know he was excited about his wife's

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cooking she's she's a big black woman we

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called her mama she'll tell you like it

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is you know

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and she was making fried chicken and all

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kinds of man if you ever eat at her

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house you just food it's good sounds

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delicious yeah so he was excited about

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that and we're gonna work on the water

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pump later so he went inside and uh you

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know she leaned out you go had him

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babies you know it's a baby mama the

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babies are fine they're doing good you

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know and all that stuff and of course I

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was upset frustrated financially holy

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crap this is gonna set me back so bad

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and Dan came running out with a beer he

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said here man this'll calm your nerves

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you know just have a beer so I I was

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talking to him so I just put it on the

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you know top of my car and we were

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talking and he said man you'll make it

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through this you know don't let her run

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you down it's gonna be okay so he goes

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back to go into the house and I step

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back to grab that beer and I'm standing

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on my shoelace and I untied it you know

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it's like my god what else you know so I

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knelt down and I'm tying my shoelace and

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I felt this Rumble on the top of my head

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and at first I thought you know you know

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you're at the urinal or something like

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that and get the chills and your damn

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shoulders I thought some kind of odd

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episode was you know beginning to happen

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there with that but all the sudden it

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was like somebody turned the volume all

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the way up and if you ever stood in

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front of like a rock and roll

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you know speaker during a concert you

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feel that vibration in your chest yeah

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if you can only imagine that times a

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million being applied to your brain I

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mean I hit the damn ground boom you know

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and the only thought that I could force

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through my mind was oh my god I'm being

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killed just thinking whatever is killing

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me

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you know and I knew that I was throwing

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up I was trying to observe yeah that's

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what you do and even if you if you're in

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a car accident everything seems to slow

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down and you're observing oh my god I am

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so screwed right now right right in such

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a slow motion so my sense is we're just

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trying to pick up as much information as

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possible so I know that I was throwing

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up because my throat was open for a long

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period of time like three times in a row

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so I know I was throwing up but other

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than that all I could do is just holy

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crap you know how do you articulate that

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how do you explain you know that and it

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wasn't but 10 15 seconds I pushed myself

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off the ground and I felt as if a magnet

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was kind of swaying me back and forth

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you know like a magnet above you and

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you're the opposing you know force I was

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sliding a little bit back and forth but

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I picked myself up and I looked above me

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and the object was directly above my

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head and so it flashed again two times

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and then darted off the opposite way it

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came the night before or took off

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tonight or so I mean I really couldn't

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do much I wanted to you know call 9-1-1

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I was scared last week but I crawled to

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the the front door I made it there for a

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little while and I really couldn't move

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much I was messed up I was sweating I

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was so overheated you know what are

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you're 21 years old and you go to like a

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party with your friends you drink so

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much and you know you're gonna die so

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you just want to find that cold spot in

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the floor to maybe say your last words

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maybe someone has to pee and you can you

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know console with the last moments of

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your life that's that's that feeling you

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know other way you know but I never got

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to that that beer he handed me so I

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didn't you know I didn't drink at all

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that night but I did make it to the

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bathroom floor and I was gonna I was

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trying to go to throw up you know

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I didn't make it I just found the cold

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floor and I was that was it I was passed

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out well so the next morning I woke up

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around 5:00 a.m. and I was covered in

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vomit and blood my nose was bleeding my

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left ear was bleeding I was in a state

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of animalistic shock you know you ever

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scare a tiny animal that just wants to

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curl up in a corner and get away from

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everything and uh-huh there's no erratic

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sense to it you know being scared of the

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wall next to you or just completely I

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can't explain that but fear beyond

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absolute belief and I I jumped into the

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bathtub closed the curtain and I turned

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on the hot water and just let the let it

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rain on me yeah yeah you know get some

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of that blood off of me I was still

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fully clothed I didn't have my shoes on

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but I was still fully clothed but just

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to feel the moisture on my skin because

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my skin was burning as if you know I was

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in the you know Sun all day and had too

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much Irish heritage you know but you

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know I once it ran out I got out I

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changed my clothes and I went in I was

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insanely thirsty and I was brewing a pot

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of coffee and I went to him I have

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cranberry juice in the fridge and I mean

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I just clean clothes on and everything I

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bought dehydrated it yeah I mean as soon

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as I knew I was thirsty yeah

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but as soon as I had that moisture

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touched my lips I was like oh I had to I

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mean I was just going after it like I

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hadn't drank in in weeks

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right and I was spilling it all over my

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shirt my white clothes I didn't give a

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[\h__\h] you know all over the floor I

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apologize for the language

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don't worry though we cuss a lot so yeah

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I mean I'm [\h__\h] about it I went after

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that thing like a calf you know I'm just

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oh my god all right I have to have it

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and then I started feeling this rumbling

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feeling on the top of my head like

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tonight before there's nothing more

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scary than that you know I'm thinking

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yeah this thing is back it's above my

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apartment and it's about to do it again

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so I grabbed my my my counter next to my

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coffee pot and I brace for impact you

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know I wasn't gonna go all the way down

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I was gonna have some what some kind of

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you know it's funny to explain it but

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reality's reality I had I was gonna have

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some kind of control this time I wasn't

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gonna be knocked down all the way right

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you're gonna try to fight it or maybe if

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I can maneuver around the counter I can

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get away from it if it's some kind of

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directed thing that's coming down at me

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I can swing around the counter I could

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do this I'm more conscious this time

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right and ready for it yeah and then you

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know all the sudden this this vibration

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just goes away and you know I'm going

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thank God I mean I'm okay thank God so I

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go over to the couch the kitchens you

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know right next to the couch I go when I

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sit down I'm panicking I'm thinking I

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need to go to the emergency room from

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what happened the night before but what

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is the doctor gonna think if I tell them

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what happened to me and oh man so many

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things went rushing through my mind but

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I can only imagine yeah what do you say

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what do you do yeah you know I'm a

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single father with four kids they have

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no family they're their mother was you

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know an addict and and not fit to take

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care of them what's gonna happen to them

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if I get locked up in a padded room for

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saying exactly what happened Wow yeah so

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that's heavy

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it's really bad and I thought yeah I

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definitely had all the signs of

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what is that like the heat stroke yeah

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you know and it was really bad and I was

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burnt in certain places my skin was

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burned so it's like it did just zap

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everything out of you almost like oh my

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god yeah I mean I've learned so much

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about that particular instance since

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then through some really brilliant

334
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scientists but at the time I had no idea

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what was going on and I'm Dave my brain

336
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was so erratic that I attributed that to

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anxiety I thought since my brains going

338
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all over the place its anxiety what was

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really happening was the beginnings of

340
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savant syndrome which is incredibly

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terrible and can be confused with

342
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anxiety easily because your your brain

343
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just bounces all over the place and you

344
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can't keep track of yourself right right

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you know so several times that morning I

346
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would get that vibration you know it's

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seemingly on the top of my skull and

348
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almost like I can feel a muscle in the

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middle of my mind and once I noticed and

350
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located that consciously I relaxed it

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and the moment that happened it all went

352
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away so I jumped up and I'm I'm just I'm

353
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seeing this as I'm telling you this you

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know I haven't talked about this in a

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while I started walking back and forth

356
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in front of my coffee table and I'm

357
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looking at my hands and I'm going no no

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no no you know no this this cannot be

359
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real and I would stop and I just closed

360
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my eyes and I slightly did it again and

361
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I went oh god hell no you know because

362
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it's real you know I actually did that

363
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so okay obviously now I have a brain

364
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tumor or you know it's something you

365
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know incredibly seriously wrong with me

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and you know you can break a finger or a

367
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rib maybe even have a leg amputated from

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your body the scariest [\h__\h] in the world

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is something wrong with your brain you

370
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know that's just morbid as hell you know

371
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what you can do about most brain yeah

372
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yeah I mean it's just one of those

373
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organs they don't fix you know so that

374
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was really scary really scary for me

375
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it was impossible to adjust you I think

376
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the fact that I was a single father and

377
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they relied on me I had to somehow make

378
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it from one day for the next with all

379
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this going on

380
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but this object didn't quit it kept

381
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coming back you know my neighbors

382
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started to notice I mean how could you

383
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not notice a 45-foot right old son in

384
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your yard yeah it scared them dan my

385
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neighbor man that poor guy he witnessed

386
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what happened to me the night before and

387
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you know he talked about it he one

388
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forward publicly and everything like

389
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that and he told me you said man I'm

390
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sorry he gave me a hug he was crying he

391
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said man I ran you know you got to know

392
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Dan you know I do a great Dan impression

393
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we've been friends for such a long time

394
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but he's so Eddie Murphy right then when

395
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he's in the room everybody knows it

396
00:16:44,760 --> 00:16:42,460
yeah and he's like man I ran I ran he

397
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said I ran I'm sorry actually those

398
00:16:48,270 --> 00:16:46,570
people would you know yeah that's what I

399
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told him I was like what do you think

400
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you were gonna help me you know get the

401
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hell out of there

402
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yeah that's what I would have done I

403
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would have ran to but I to this day he

404
00:16:59,010 --> 00:16:56,410
still feels bad about it like he has

405
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some kind of responsibility like I'm

406
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little brother and you know he could

407
00:17:07,980 --> 00:17:04,870
have done something but no I'm glad he

408
00:17:10,050 --> 00:17:07,990
did run because even though he was a

409
00:17:13,860 --> 00:17:10,060
witness to what happened to me it was

410
00:17:16,949 --> 00:17:13,870
still enough for him to really fall out

411
00:17:17,460 --> 00:17:16,959
of sorts in life yeah it messed him up

412
00:17:19,410 --> 00:17:17,470
too

413
00:17:22,309 --> 00:17:19,420
it messed a lot of people up you know on

414
00:17:24,510 --> 00:17:22,319
milk Lane out there you know there was a

415
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family after family there was 20

416
00:17:28,950 --> 00:17:25,810
apartments on one side of the street

417
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there are three trailers on the other by

418
00:17:32,910 --> 00:17:31,060
the end of this when the helicopter

419
00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:32,920
started showing up and the f-18

420
00:17:37,620 --> 00:17:34,570
interceptors started chasing these

421
00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:37,630
objects away people were getting scared

422
00:17:41,910 --> 00:17:39,850
of not only these objects but our

423
00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:41,920
government too right here they weren't

424
00:17:45,060 --> 00:17:43,450
they weren't coming out here giving us

425
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explanations the first time we got

426
00:17:49,110 --> 00:17:47,200
spotlighted by a black helicopter

427
00:17:51,930 --> 00:17:49,120
yard I turned to my daughter and I said

428
00:17:53,310 --> 00:17:51,940
sweetheart run the coffeepot finally the

429
00:17:55,470 --> 00:17:53,320
military knows and they're gonna come

430
00:17:57,960 --> 00:17:55,480
here and we're gonna you know they're

431
00:18:00,299 --> 00:17:57,970
gonna explain all this stuff to us just

432
00:18:02,159 --> 00:18:00,309
like the movies right yeah but you know

433
00:18:04,009 --> 00:18:02,169
that's just totally not how it works

434
00:18:06,269 --> 00:18:04,019
you know it's not how it works at all

435
00:18:08,399 --> 00:18:06,279
from what I know there was a man by the

436
00:18:14,750 --> 00:18:08,409
name of lieutenant town but to do this

437
00:18:21,330 --> 00:18:14,760
lieutenant don't say damn I like shrimp

438
00:18:23,250 --> 00:18:21,340
no but his name his name was lieutenant

439
00:18:25,620 --> 00:18:23,260
colonel Dallas II would of the United

440
00:18:29,909 --> 00:18:25,630
States Pentagon and yes I did just

441
00:18:31,500 --> 00:18:29,919
name-drop all right so my I didn't know

442
00:18:32,610 --> 00:18:31,510
about this guy yeah he didn't knock on

443
00:18:36,389 --> 00:18:32,620
my door and talk to me

444
00:18:38,430 --> 00:18:36,399
the man stalked us so my neighbor Debbie

445
00:18:41,610 --> 00:18:38,440
she's like you know you know how every

446
00:18:44,460 --> 00:18:41,620
neighborhood has a cat lady yeah I have

447
00:18:46,529 --> 00:18:44,470
one too yeah well that was Debbie you

448
00:18:49,919 --> 00:18:46,539
know and she you know she was really

449
00:18:51,659 --> 00:18:49,929
cool and she was the porter at the

450
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Lakeside like Shore condos down the

451
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street you know and people would rent

452
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rooms there and stuff and she would

453
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change out the soaps and the sheets and

454
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all that stuff and she called me up one

455
00:19:01,919 --> 00:18:59,769
day and she goes Eric this man is

456
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stalking you I said Debbie what are you

457
00:19:05,909 --> 00:19:03,669
talking about you know she said paying

458
00:19:07,769 --> 00:19:05,919
attention yeah she said I'm at work I

459
00:19:10,019 --> 00:19:07,779
went into this man's room to change

460
00:19:13,310 --> 00:19:10,029
everything out and there's pictures of

461
00:19:16,169 --> 00:19:13,320
you and the children all over his bed

462
00:19:18,210 --> 00:19:16,179
she said there's a ledger of everything

463
00:19:20,970 --> 00:19:18,220
that you do go to work when you shop at

464
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Kroger you know what vehicle you drive

465
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your VIN number she's got everything

466
00:19:29,159 --> 00:19:25,840
written about you here she said this man

467
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is stalking you so I said Debbie hang up

468
00:19:34,919 --> 00:19:32,919
the phone get that man's name out of the

469
00:19:37,259 --> 00:19:34,929
office and call me back I need to know

470
00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:37,269
immediately what's going on here you

471
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know I got daughters that's mine I'm not

472
00:19:43,230 --> 00:19:41,769
thinking the experience I had or

473
00:19:45,750 --> 00:19:43,240
anything like that I'm thinking this

474
00:19:49,649 --> 00:19:45,760
dude is some kind of sicko that's

475
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stalking my little babies and so she

476
00:19:54,029 --> 00:19:51,309
called me back and she said well this

477
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man's name is lieutenant galaxy wood of

478
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the United States Pentagon well in the

479
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very beginning I found

480
00:20:04,290 --> 00:20:00,910
this guy very gaunt he was a state

481
00:20:07,110 --> 00:20:04,300
director for a MUFON of Kentucky and he

482
00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:07,120
began to open a case on me would take

483
00:20:11,700 --> 00:20:10,090
him witness statements all that so you

484
00:20:13,740 --> 00:20:11,710
know he was taking my photos and my

485
00:20:16,230 --> 00:20:13,750
videos of this object it was coming back

486
00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:16,240
it was coming back so he was really

487
00:20:20,100 --> 00:20:17,890
intrigued he's like this damn thing you

488
00:20:21,810 --> 00:20:20,110
know most people see it once or twice

489
00:20:23,700 --> 00:20:21,820
and that's it he's like this thing's

490
00:20:25,710 --> 00:20:23,710
yeah I'm like yeah it's coming every

491
00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:25,720
night so he sent a team out and

492
00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:30,250
everything like that but he he took five

493
00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:32,770
people called Dallas II would in the

494
00:20:37,710 --> 00:20:35,050
United States randomly you know off the

495
00:20:40,050 --> 00:20:37,720
internet and he sent him to Debbie and

496
00:20:42,450 --> 00:20:40,060
he said which guy rented this room and

497
00:20:43,830 --> 00:20:42,460
she picked out the man that was in the

498
00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:43,840
Pentagon he worked for the United States

499
00:20:46,500 --> 00:20:44,890
Pentagon Wow

500
00:20:48,210 --> 00:20:46,510
it was smart for him to kind of do a

501
00:20:50,340 --> 00:20:48,220
lineup to confuse her you know because

502
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most people would just jump into belief

503
00:20:55,890 --> 00:20:53,020
but my investigator is always skeptical

504
00:20:58,170 --> 00:20:55,900
until it's tangible for him and I love

505
00:21:00,480 --> 00:20:58,180
that about him because you know what if

506
00:21:02,490 --> 00:21:00,490
I'm never wrong about what I experienced

507
00:21:04,290 --> 00:21:02,500
or something like that I mean the truth

508
00:21:07,170 --> 00:21:04,300
is the truth the hell with me the hell

509
00:21:09,900 --> 00:21:07,180
with anything else but if the truth the

510
00:21:12,090 --> 00:21:09,910
truth is there and it's recorded it's

511
00:21:14,130 --> 00:21:12,100
more important than so many different

512
00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:14,140
other things that could bother our minds

513
00:21:20,610 --> 00:21:17,650
with thought you know and so after 42

514
00:21:24,300 --> 00:21:20,620
years of doing this you can't lie to the

515
00:21:25,770 --> 00:21:24,310
guy you can't I mean you just you can if

516
00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:25,780
your hands in the cookie jar

517
00:21:29,730 --> 00:21:27,490
yeah he's gonna know it he's gonna know

518
00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:29,740
it I mean if you slightly fib he's gonna

519
00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:31,210
find out so you might as well just held

520
00:21:35,790 --> 00:21:33,210
together truth about everything yeah and

521
00:21:38,100 --> 00:21:35,800
there were some things that well I

522
00:21:41,820 --> 00:21:38,110
didn't lie to him about but I was so

523
00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:41,830
uncomfortable sharing that I didn't tell

524
00:21:49,830 --> 00:21:43,210
him for a long time

525
00:21:51,570 --> 00:21:49,840
and he knew so one day I fly out you

526
00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:51,580
know to Kentucky and I'm sitting at his

527
00:21:56,070 --> 00:21:53,170
desk and he was like oh by the way I

528
00:21:58,440 --> 00:21:56,080
only said would you like a bourbon and I

529
00:22:00,390 --> 00:21:58,450
said well it's midday

530
00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:00,400
I know it's Kentucky and it's acceptable

531
00:22:04,890 --> 00:22:02,530
but you know a cup of coffee would be

532
00:22:06,270 --> 00:22:04,900
fine he said well before we get that cup

533
00:22:08,790 --> 00:22:06,280
of coffee you want to look at my screen

534
00:22:10,910 --> 00:22:08,800
you know and I looked at his screen and

535
00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:10,920
I immediately recognized what do you

536
00:22:16,820 --> 00:22:15,210
on the screen and I went oh no I said

537
00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:16,830
how long have you known about this you

538
00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:19,170
know because I was I was keeping certain

539
00:22:29,150 --> 00:22:21,690
aspects of my stuff secret it was just

540
00:22:32,210 --> 00:22:29,160
to - how do you say it's too unreal to

541
00:22:34,070 --> 00:22:32,220
even talk about yeah you don't even want

542
00:22:35,390 --> 00:22:34,080
to hear yourself say it so it's like you

543
00:22:39,290 --> 00:22:35,400
know I'm not ever gonna tell anybody

544
00:22:41,180 --> 00:22:39,300
about yeah and it happened with Dropbox

545
00:22:42,740 --> 00:22:41,190
I don't understand computers and my

546
00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:42,750
daughters were help sending him things

547
00:22:47,300 --> 00:22:45,210
and apparently it came across the

548
00:22:51,860 --> 00:22:47,310
Dropbox what I was trying to hide from

549
00:22:54,830 --> 00:22:51,870
everybody you know this why's this why

550
00:22:56,090 --> 00:22:54,840
is a hilarious man turns his screen

551
00:22:59,420 --> 00:22:56,100
toward me and he said when were you

552
00:23:00,980 --> 00:22:59,430
gonna tell me about this I felt you know

553
00:23:03,050 --> 00:23:00,990
I felt the blood rush into my face

554
00:23:05,120 --> 00:23:03,060
because you know that embarrassment of

555
00:23:08,270 --> 00:23:05,130
feeling like a liar even though you

556
00:23:11,360 --> 00:23:08,280
didn't quite like you just it's you know

557
00:23:14,060 --> 00:23:11,370
not not offering up the whole truth you

558
00:23:16,220 --> 00:23:14,070
know yeah my greatest lie is yes honey

559
00:23:18,380 --> 00:23:16,230
you you don't look fat in that dress at

560
00:23:20,180 --> 00:23:18,390
all but that's about that's the best I

561
00:23:24,250 --> 00:23:20,190
can pull off with a straight face out of

562
00:23:28,540 --> 00:23:24,260
years of practice but um but man I uh

563
00:23:30,710 --> 00:23:28,550
geez well where do we go from there to

564
00:23:33,740 --> 00:23:30,720
there's so many different directions

565
00:23:36,140 --> 00:23:33,750
yeah I have a question so so you spoke a

566
00:23:38,780 --> 00:23:36,150
little bit about your the experience of

567
00:23:41,540 --> 00:23:38,790
going through the savant syndrome and we

568
00:23:43,430 --> 00:23:41,550
witnessed it personally in the elevator

569
00:23:47,060 --> 00:23:43,440
the other day you know you spoke perfect

570
00:23:48,770 --> 00:23:47,070
Spanish you know like I tell you maybe

571
00:23:50,750 --> 00:23:48,780
talk a little bit about like your that's

572
00:23:55,820 --> 00:23:50,760
what Spanish people say - they said I

573
00:23:57,470 --> 00:23:55,830
love your accent to me so maybe maybe

574
00:24:00,050 --> 00:23:57,480
speak a little bit about that experience

575
00:24:03,290 --> 00:24:00,060
like you know you you're visited by this

576
00:24:06,290 --> 00:24:03,300
this entity or you know the Sun and then

577
00:24:07,790 --> 00:24:06,300
you can download and then you go through

578
00:24:09,380 --> 00:24:07,800
this savant thing like I'm really

579
00:24:11,330 --> 00:24:09,390
interested in like you know a lot of

580
00:24:12,780 --> 00:24:11,340
people are not interested in that a lot

581
00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:12,790
of people are like well

582
00:24:16,740 --> 00:24:14,650
you know congratulations you're smart

583
00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:16,750
the smarter you get the more you realize

584
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:21,730
how ignorant we are so not smart you

585
00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:23,890
know that's what I would call myself but

586
00:24:28,260 --> 00:24:26,290
my investigators got a hell of a sense

587
00:24:30,180 --> 00:24:28,270
of humor and because he understands pain

588
00:24:31,620 --> 00:24:30,190
you have to throw a lot of humor in

589
00:24:34,799 --> 00:24:31,630
there you know that's how you get

590
00:24:36,810 --> 00:24:34,809
through it as boys you know you know how

591
00:24:38,490 --> 00:24:36,820
you know people in the Navy and people

592
00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:38,500
in war they just kind of nudged each

593
00:24:42,539 --> 00:24:40,570
other and mess with each other just yeah

594
00:24:45,890 --> 00:24:42,549
toughen up you can get you can get a lot

595
00:24:51,030 --> 00:24:45,900
done through humor yeah yeah yeah and he

596
00:24:52,890 --> 00:24:51,040
he calls me up one day he said Eric oh

597
00:24:54,539 --> 00:24:52,900
you know I've uh I'm working on this and

598
00:24:57,690 --> 00:24:54,549
that and I went bah bah bah bah bah bah

599
00:24:59,909 --> 00:24:57,700
bah I mean you just went off ain't no

600
00:25:01,320 --> 00:24:59,919
accent no deep southern accent I was

601
00:25:04,260 --> 00:25:01,330
speaking really fast

602
00:25:05,730 --> 00:25:04,270
and he said there's this Eric and I said

603
00:25:07,230 --> 00:25:05,740
well of course it is and you were

604
00:25:08,549 --> 00:25:07,240
supposed to call me about 20 minutes ago

605
00:25:10,530 --> 00:25:08,559
I know I have a few things to do and

606
00:25:12,419 --> 00:25:10,540
blob of lunch said whoa what's going on

607
00:25:14,909 --> 00:25:12,429
here you know he was upset he was like

608
00:25:18,270 --> 00:25:14,919
bull Eric Mitchell right you know he

609
00:25:20,039 --> 00:25:18,280
didn't recognize but once he realized

610
00:25:23,310 --> 00:25:20,049
what was going on and the changes I was

611
00:25:25,860 --> 00:25:23,320
going through you know he he was helpful

612
00:25:29,130 --> 00:25:25,870
he was there for me I used to lay in the

613
00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:29,140
shower and turn the water on and I would

614
00:25:35,549 --> 00:25:31,210
lay there and listen to each individual

615
00:25:37,380 --> 00:25:35,559
drop hit the the porcelain around me so

616
00:25:40,230 --> 00:25:37,390
I can keep my mind busy so it didn't

617
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:40,240
drive me absolutely insane yeah you can

618
00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:42,250
imagine every sound that you heard a

619
00:25:46,530 --> 00:25:44,530
bird in the distance a car in the

620
00:25:47,909 --> 00:25:46,540
distance your brain is just analyzing it

621
00:25:51,810 --> 00:25:47,919
and putting things together and it's

622
00:25:53,700 --> 00:25:51,820
just so rapid and so yeah thank you for

623
00:25:55,830 --> 00:25:53,710
bringing that up because you know a lot

624
00:25:59,970 --> 00:25:55,840
of people can recognize a lot of my

625
00:26:03,120 --> 00:25:59,980
difficulties in life but that one is

626
00:26:05,010 --> 00:26:03,130
incredibly painful yeah you know and my

627
00:26:07,530 --> 00:26:05,020
investigator calls me up one day and

628
00:26:12,780 --> 00:26:07,540
he's got the worst sense of humor man

629
00:26:19,289 --> 00:26:12,790
could ever have he enjoys himself but he

630
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:19,299
says you understand you felt yeah he has

631
00:26:23,580 --> 00:26:21,010
a good time at my expense

632
00:26:26,669 --> 00:26:23,590
yes and if he ever listens to this yeah

633
00:26:29,789 --> 00:26:26,679
be laughing is that butt off you can

634
00:26:31,380 --> 00:26:29,799
custody you're good alright he calls me

635
00:26:33,060 --> 00:26:31,390
up one day and he said Eric it's really

636
00:26:36,390 --> 00:26:33,070
important that you learn Spanish as fast

637
00:26:37,769 --> 00:26:36,400
as possible and I said okay I'll go to

638
00:26:39,779 --> 00:26:37,779
the library I've got the day off

639
00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:39,789
tomorrow and blah blah blah you know so

640
00:26:45,750 --> 00:26:43,090
I got to it and you know mainly right

641
00:26:49,380 --> 00:26:45,760
brain so I remember everything

642
00:26:50,789 --> 00:26:49,390
almost but reading writing punctuation I

643
00:26:53,070 --> 00:26:50,799
get in trouble all the time I think it's

644
00:26:55,860 --> 00:26:53,080
stupid it's like you know but the

645
00:26:57,990 --> 00:26:55,870
Spanish isn't the only language many

646
00:27:00,210 --> 00:26:58,000
languages right now after this event

647
00:27:01,850 --> 00:27:00,220
well it's halfway through Spanish if you

648
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:01,860
guys want to laugh for a minute I

649
00:27:11,580 --> 00:27:06,490
understood Doble V which is the the

650
00:27:15,120 --> 00:27:11,590
letter W and I was like syllables yeah

651
00:27:18,750 --> 00:27:15,130
so they're actually saying double V okay

652
00:27:21,990 --> 00:27:18,760
so here's my humor in a library learning

653
00:27:24,659 --> 00:27:22,000
a language in one week I see double V

654
00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:24,669
that's more common sensual than us

655
00:27:35,070 --> 00:27:31,090
saying w so here's the part that slowed

656
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:35,080
me down in learning Spanish why is the

657
00:27:51,090 --> 00:27:48,210
spelling of W start with a D you know so

658
00:27:53,549 --> 00:27:51,100
in my production slowed down big-time

659
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:53,559
when I hit W I was like no this is all

660
00:27:59,880 --> 00:27:57,010
wrong right but I decided out of all the

661
00:28:02,549 --> 00:27:59,890
dialects that was available there I was

662
00:28:05,130 --> 00:28:02,559
gonna study Castellanos which was the

663
00:28:07,409 --> 00:28:05,140
old man language with a you know the old

664
00:28:09,510 --> 00:28:07,419
lady old man language because there's so

665
00:28:13,139 --> 00:28:09,520
many different dialects in South America

666
00:28:15,090 --> 00:28:13,149
that everywhere you go it's different

667
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:15,100
right so I figured I just learned the

668
00:28:19,950 --> 00:28:17,770
main castellanos anguish and all that

669
00:28:21,779 --> 00:28:19,960
stuff and so he called me up the next

670
00:28:24,899 --> 00:28:21,789
Monday and he said well how far did you

671
00:28:27,799 --> 00:28:24,909
get into Spanish you know I said I had

672
00:28:31,060 --> 00:28:27,809
no te preocupes amigo

673
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:31,070
no problem I've got it you know

674
00:28:39,049 --> 00:28:32,450
[Laughter]

675
00:28:40,430 --> 00:28:39,059
you okay Toto Kamali yeah yeah well we

676
00:28:42,230 --> 00:28:40,440
have a lot of like spanish-speaking

677
00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:42,240
things on our podcast it's like kind of

678
00:28:48,289 --> 00:28:46,530
it's kind of a trend yeah yeah so you

679
00:28:50,090 --> 00:28:48,299
know I asked him I said you know are we

680
00:28:51,710 --> 00:28:50,100
going to Peru or are we gonna you know

681
00:28:53,299 --> 00:28:51,720
go on some kind of expedition do you

682
00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:53,309
have a case that I can help you with

683
00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:55,290
because he does that now he's like if he

684
00:28:59,330 --> 00:28:57,090
can't figure something out or decipher

685
00:29:01,610 --> 00:28:59,340
it he'll call me up and say I need you

686
00:29:04,700 --> 00:29:01,620
to analyze this or that or so it's

687
00:29:06,260 --> 00:29:04,710
really cool that you know thinking from

688
00:29:09,470 --> 00:29:06,270
his perspective having me

689
00:29:11,150 --> 00:29:09,480
as a friend and confidant and everything

690
00:29:13,789 --> 00:29:11,160
else it's like well people can't figure

691
00:29:15,530 --> 00:29:13,799
it out give it to him and his screwed-up

692
00:29:17,419 --> 00:29:15,540
mind will you know figure something out

693
00:29:19,039 --> 00:29:17,429
so I asked him you know what kind of

694
00:29:21,049 --> 00:29:19,049
expedition are we doing why do we have

695
00:29:27,470 --> 00:29:21,059
to learn Spanish immediately and he said

696
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:27,480
I just wanted to see if you could you

697
00:29:33,350 --> 00:29:29,210
know and it's just that thing it did

698
00:29:41,570 --> 00:29:33,360
make said back tooth kind of bite hey

699
00:29:44,810 --> 00:29:41,580
Chris right now yeah yeah sure so yeah

700
00:29:47,780 --> 00:29:44,820
he enjoys himself it might offend quite

701
00:29:52,220 --> 00:29:47,790
a bit and you know inadvertently in a

702
00:29:54,289 --> 00:29:52,230
way it absolutely does that for me it

703
00:29:56,510 --> 00:29:54,299
heals me in a way you know yeah either

704
00:29:58,640 --> 00:29:56,520
way he does me you know it's one thing

705
00:30:01,580 --> 00:29:58,650
to look up to a mentor and a very wise

706
00:30:04,700 --> 00:30:01,590
person and go you're a real [\h__\h] yeah

707
00:30:06,799 --> 00:30:04,710
you know but at the same time it's a

708
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:06,809
bonding experience that really keeps my

709
00:30:11,180 --> 00:30:09,330
mind off of all that pain right you know

710
00:30:13,970 --> 00:30:11,190
so many people like me have so much for

711
00:30:16,789 --> 00:30:13,980
me involved in themselves and I

712
00:30:19,190 --> 00:30:16,799
understand them you know poor me it

713
00:30:22,070 --> 00:30:19,200
hurts it's painful I've gone through too

714
00:30:23,930 --> 00:30:22,080
much man I [\h__\h] get that I keep it to

715
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:23,940
myself I'll have a few beers before I go

716
00:30:26,810 --> 00:30:25,290
to bed or something like that and I'll

717
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:26,820
feel sorry for myself and tomorrow's a

718
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:27,410
new day

719
00:30:33,650 --> 00:30:31,410
you know seek positivity seek you know

720
00:30:36,860 --> 00:30:33,660
greatness see what can I do

721
00:30:38,330 --> 00:30:36,870
can i top a university today can i you

722
00:30:39,919 --> 00:30:38,340
know they say the sky's the limit but

723
00:30:41,250 --> 00:30:39,929
when you're visited by stars you know

724
00:30:43,289 --> 00:30:41,260
you you

725
00:30:46,650 --> 00:30:43,299
tend to take a different perspective in

726
00:30:48,150 --> 00:30:46,660
life right right so no I'm not happy

727
00:30:50,340 --> 00:30:48,160
about everything that happened to me I

728
00:30:53,039 --> 00:30:50,350
look back to the man that I was with a

729
00:30:57,780 --> 00:30:53,049
deep southern accent IQ of a hundred and

730
00:31:00,690 --> 00:30:57,790
ten and I'm mourn the dying but in me I

731
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:00,700
miss that simplicity I missed that life

732
00:31:07,049 --> 00:31:04,210
and I wish I had that option or whether

733
00:31:11,039 --> 00:31:07,059
that was going to go away forever or not

734
00:31:12,539 --> 00:31:11,049
but it was just taking BAM gone and even

735
00:31:15,900 --> 00:31:12,549
though I'm still me I've got my morals

736
00:31:21,299 --> 00:31:15,910
I've got my values I'm a southern guy my

737
00:31:23,310 --> 00:31:21,309
brain is now extremely different and you

738
00:31:26,039 --> 00:31:23,320
either learn to have fun with it through

739
00:31:27,270 --> 00:31:26,049
humor and intellect or you feel sorry

740
00:31:30,210 --> 00:31:27,280
for yourself but you know like

741
00:31:32,220 --> 00:31:30,220
everything in life and sound is you know

742
00:31:35,100 --> 00:31:32,230
waves there's ups and downs and you can

743
00:31:37,830 --> 00:31:35,110
look at things as for me and you could

744
00:31:39,539 --> 00:31:37,840
also look at things like holy crap I

745
00:31:41,669 --> 00:31:39,549
woke up this morning I have a hangover

746
00:31:55,770 --> 00:31:41,679
because I tried vodka for the first time

747
00:31:58,140 --> 00:31:55,780
and for some reason I'm on a podcast you

748
00:32:01,200 --> 00:31:58,150
know that's so great that you know you

749
00:32:03,180 --> 00:32:01,210
you kind of learned how to with this

750
00:32:05,930 --> 00:32:03,190
with this experience that you had and

751
00:32:08,430 --> 00:32:05,940
what's happening with your mind

752
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:08,440
instead of doing the poor me thing you

753
00:32:12,299 --> 00:32:10,330
found a way to exercise it you found a

754
00:32:15,630 --> 00:32:12,309
way to utilize it you know even though

755
00:32:17,970 --> 00:32:15,640
it's a it could be a talent or a tragedy

756
00:32:20,370 --> 00:32:17,980
you know that's not a way to you're

757
00:32:22,770 --> 00:32:20,380
trying to harness it and it still may be

758
00:32:25,710 --> 00:32:22,780
tough but you know it's it's it's

759
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:25,720
working for you and yeah I mean it's a

760
00:32:29,940 --> 00:32:27,730
good example like you find out you've

761
00:32:31,830 --> 00:32:29,950
got something wrong with your leg and if

762
00:32:35,010 --> 00:32:31,840
you find out you you have to have it

763
00:32:37,770 --> 00:32:35,020
removed there's no fixing it so you get

764
00:32:39,659 --> 00:32:37,780
that news in your mind and it's always

765
00:32:42,570 --> 00:32:39,669
somebody else it can't be you and now

766
00:32:44,190 --> 00:32:42,580
it's you and you go oh my god you know

767
00:32:47,220 --> 00:32:44,200
immediate surgery and then you wake up

768
00:32:50,180 --> 00:32:47,230
and the moment you wake up you realize I

769
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:50,190
was asleep because I was in surgery

770
00:32:56,580 --> 00:32:54,250
my legs probably gone you know and if

771
00:32:59,850 --> 00:32:56,590
you go through that emotion with me as I

772
00:33:03,169 --> 00:32:59,860
speak to you about it you you pull the

773
00:33:05,909 --> 00:33:03,179
blanket up you notice it gone the

774
00:33:10,110 --> 00:33:05,919
impossibility of realization is there

775
00:33:14,190 --> 00:33:10,120
right the shock of this can't be real

776
00:33:20,220 --> 00:33:14,200
it's absolutely present with you at that

777
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:20,230
exact moment and I mean Jesus Christ you

778
00:33:23,669 --> 00:33:22,330
know if you can really feel that if you

779
00:33:25,409 --> 00:33:23,679
can go through that emotion with your

780
00:33:27,030 --> 00:33:25,419
own leg now somebody else's leg not

781
00:33:29,690 --> 00:33:27,040
somebody else's life but your own life

782
00:33:34,190 --> 00:33:29,700
if you can put yourself in my shoes and

783
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:34,200
you know really take this euphemism this

784
00:33:41,010 --> 00:33:38,650
you know example and go that's that

785
00:33:43,470 --> 00:33:41,020
exact moment that exact confusion that

786
00:33:47,850 --> 00:33:43,480
exact emotion has been my life for seven

787
00:33:50,669 --> 00:33:47,860
years you know it is a everything that's

788
00:33:53,220 --> 00:33:50,679
always going on all the time there's

789
00:33:55,409 --> 00:33:53,230
always that underlying hum of what we

790
00:33:59,310 --> 00:33:55,419
just talked about right right and what

791
00:34:01,380 --> 00:33:59,320
you really have to realize is okay so do

792
00:34:03,630 --> 00:34:01,390
I become an alcoholic or maybe a drug

793
00:34:06,590 --> 00:34:03,640
addict I haven't tried drugs yet and I

794
00:34:09,149 --> 00:34:06,600
say yet but I'm probably not going right

795
00:34:11,490 --> 00:34:09,159
you know alcohol is hard enough

796
00:34:14,010 --> 00:34:11,500
I'm from Hot Springs Arkansas I have

797
00:34:17,460 --> 00:34:14,020
smoked pot before and yes Bill Clinton I

798
00:34:23,970 --> 00:34:17,470
did inhale because Bill Clinton did too

799
00:34:25,740 --> 00:34:23,980
you know he's from the same town you and

800
00:34:29,099 --> 00:34:25,750
Hillary both I mean cocaine all that

801
00:34:34,830 --> 00:34:29,109
stuff don't let Hillary Hillary hear

802
00:34:36,810 --> 00:34:34,840
this if she'll kill myself you know so

803
00:34:42,599 --> 00:34:36,820
that's a good that's a perfect example

804
00:34:43,889 --> 00:34:42,609
of like yeah we've met hey man dude I so

805
00:34:46,740 --> 00:34:43,899
appreciate you coming on the show today

806
00:34:48,990 --> 00:34:46,750
I want to do like a longer form podcast

807
00:34:51,510 --> 00:34:49,000
map so we only have a few moments here

808
00:34:53,190 --> 00:34:51,520
today you know the do to like the the

809
00:34:55,050 --> 00:34:53,200
you know the camera and like the battery

810
00:34:56,849 --> 00:34:55,060
and stuff but I want to do like a longer

811
00:34:59,050 --> 00:34:56,859
form thing so we have your we got to get

812
00:35:01,720 --> 00:34:59,060
your information so you can call in in

813
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:01,730
yeah yeah absolutely you guys you guys

814
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:04,010
are incredibly awesome I mean I had no

815
00:35:07,540 --> 00:35:06,170
idea I mean there's there's a lot of

816
00:35:10,450 --> 00:35:07,550
podcast out there and everything like

817
00:35:12,100 --> 00:35:10,460
that and I saw you guys make you guys

818
00:35:13,990 --> 00:35:12,110
you helped me out so much and we had so

819
00:35:15,430 --> 00:35:14,000
many cool conversations there's too bad

820
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:15,440
we couldn't do that on radio but yeah

821
00:35:20,500 --> 00:35:18,410
absolutely well you know this this this

822
00:35:22,420 --> 00:35:20,510
is something fun that we do but when it

823
00:35:24,670 --> 00:35:22,430
comes down to it it's it's not about us

824
00:35:25,690 --> 00:35:24,680
it's about all you guys yeah yeah and

825
00:35:27,010 --> 00:35:25,700
that's the important thing

826
00:35:28,660 --> 00:35:27,020
it's about people listening and you know

827
00:35:30,100 --> 00:35:28,670
yeah there's probably there may be

828
00:35:32,260 --> 00:35:30,110
somebody out there that maybe has

829
00:35:34,420 --> 00:35:32,270
something similar an experience similar

830
00:35:36,700 --> 00:35:34,430
to you and just hearing you speak about

831
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:36,710
it is you know can help person and I'm

832
00:35:40,060 --> 00:35:38,090
always looking to help people like that

833
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:40,070
as well yeah always always because I

834
00:35:44,380 --> 00:35:42,890
know what it's like and I'm so familiar

835
00:35:45,940 --> 00:35:44,390
with it I forget the rest of the world

836
00:35:48,790 --> 00:35:45,950
sometimes you know

837
00:35:51,030 --> 00:35:48,800
well understandable Eric thank you so

838
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:51,040
much for being on my man so much

839
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:53,330
absolutely absolutely

840
00:35:56,820 --> 00:35:54,890
all right guys well we're gonna have

841
00:35:59,380 --> 00:35:56,830
Eric back on the show again

842
00:36:02,050 --> 00:35:59,390
hopefully pretty soon and we're gonna

843
00:36:04,930 --> 00:36:02,060
keep this thing going but that's gonna

844
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:04,940
be it for us this is our last one at UFO