I think, I think this is going to work.
Perfect.
Thank you.
Welcome, Jer.
Okay.
Let's jump into this.
It's just the two of us.
Do you want to chat for a little bit?
Look at that.
How's it going?
How's your day?
Oh, that's great.
I'm good.
Just stepped inside for a bit to do this and it's fine because it was getting really, really
hot outside, so happy for the break.
But it's really exciting you got your vaccine.
I can't, I can't wait to get mine.
That's great.
And Liam's in here.
Hello.
Hello.
How are you?
I'm good.
How are you?
I'm good.
Thank you.
Excited to get to you now.
We'll see how it goes.
I haven't done one of these before, so there might be some rambling to kind of keep, keep
everything going.
Okay.
As long as you guys don't have a problem with it because I'll just kind of babble for a
bit and I don't know, it might get a little boring at times.
Got it.
Sounds good.
Let's see.
I don't know how many people are actually going to be in this.
So might just be the three of us, but I'm cool with it.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, might as well just jump right into it and start with this first one.
I'm just going to go down the line and kind of see how it goes.
What would you say is your preferred hobby to use for relaxation?
I think that's changed a lot, especially with COVID and quarantine.
I only really spent a week not working, so in that week I spent a lot of time reading
leisurely.
I'd kind of challenged myself at the beginning of that year before we knew any of this was
really going to take off.
I challenged myself to read 12 books, so one book a month because I hadn't been doing that.
I hadn't done that in years actually, so I bought 12 books from Amazon.
I already finished my January book.
I had double read in February and was hitting March and then all this happened and I think
with that one week not working, I was able to get through half of that book and then
jumped back into work.
So that was a really big thing for me to utilize as a way to decompress after work and still
now I try to do that, although work's been a lot more crazy now so it's been harder to,
but I would say that and running when I'm motivated to run are the biggest hobbies I've
picked up for really relaxing and not focusing on everything else that's happening.
So that's kind of where I'm at with that.
Oh you know what, I think another fun one was painting.
I always considered myself really untalented in the creative space.
My family members are very, I think, very talented artists and you know I could get
away with the stick figure and that was kind of a bummer for me.
So when I was cleaning out some things as I had moved, I noticed I had some paints lying
around and kind of bought into some more and picked up these just blank canvases and started
messing around and nothing is good, I promise you, so it's nothing I'll share because it's
not good.
But it's been a really cool way to express my color palette and just kind of work with
my hands a little bit in something that is visually creative, if that makes sense.
But yeah, that's probably another one.
Hi Don.
Just moving on, okay, so aside from generally not being rude, what can we all do to support
you as a person that started all of this?
You know, I think that's to be determined.
I definitely am toying with the idea of making you guys all pitch in money monthly so I can
get a bathtub.
It's been a serious thought of mine actually, so no one will get any pictures until I get
a bathtub, thought about it.
With a bathtub, absolutely, it'll be a long term investment, if you will.
I'm totally kidding, that's not it.
I tried, that was a stupid April Fool's thing.
Oh not at all, but I wouldn't spend all day in a bathtub, just enough, you just make most
of the time while you're in there, you know what I mean?
You know, plastic and heat isn't really good for your skin, and I've always wanted a bathtub,
so I'll put the link to the nicest bathtub and then I'll make sure you guys can have
something to work towards, how about that?
I'm totally kidding, that's just a stupid April Fool's thing, sorry Liam.
So really, aside from being rude, what can we do to support you?
Really just keep being cool people.
I think it's been a really funny thing, this whole spiel that's come out of it in the span
of a few days, and I don't know, I'm just kind of like speechless about it all actually.
So yeah, I think just keep being really genuine people, keep being honest, keep connecting
with each other and with me, and I think that's really all I can hope for, and I don't have
a full intention of what this is or what this could be or what I want out of it, I guess.
I think, I know I've mentioned this before when it came to someone asking me if I was
an AI or if I was a real human, which I am.
I'm definitely a real human, a few of you can attest to this because I couldn't get
screen sharing to work, so I know Doc sat with me for a while and any AI could have
figured it out faster than I did, so there's that.
But yeah, when I have a better idea, I don't know, I've kind of thought about it and I
think I've always wanted to create a safe space for people to just, I think, talk about
things that they don't feel comfortable expressing in real life, and I feel like there's always
that behind the curtain person in everybody that just kind of wants to talk about, I don't
know, something that really interests them, and granted, a lot of it delves into their
sexuality or what they find attractive or what their thing is, and I think for me and
what this server is, it's a lot of different things, but I think if the opportunity allowed,
I would make it more a space for people to chat about what gets them going and have it
be a space for people to feel more confident about themselves and kind of boost their own
self-esteem through all of it.
So I hope that makes sense, and I hope that kind of answers that question in a really
long-winded way.
Okay, thanks guys, yeah, Genuine's being tossed around a lot.
I think for me as a person, I don't spend a whole lot of time fucking around with unnecessary
niceties.
It's not genuine, it's a waste of time, it's a waste of energy, and I don't think it behooves
anyone when you act that way towards them, because I think if I was on the receiving
end, I'd feel very pitiful about it, and I just don't want to make another person feel
that way unless they absolutely deserve it and are being a total asshat about it, but
that's besides the point.
I try to conduct myself in a very honest manner, so that's that.
Okay, you're hosting a dinner party for the boys, starter main dessert, what's your menu?
I haven't conducted a lot of dinner parties, I have to say, but I think starters are always
fun.
I love fruits and vegetables, so I'd have to say some kind of grilled fruit, or I'm
sorry, grilled vegetables, so zucchini is great, carrots, I love grilled carrots for
some reason, grilled corn or any kind of steamed vegetables is great, I know we kind of talked
about asparagus, I love Brussels sprouts, Brussels sprouts and bacon, I actually haven't made
that in a long time, that sounds so good, so yeah, some kind of veggie starter, and for
the main, I eat a lot of vegetables, but I love, love, love a good steak, and I can't
even begin to stress this enough, like I eat a lot, and steak, like I will ask for the
largest steak, or I'll buy one from the grocery store, okay, I'll buy a really big steak,
and I will probably eat three quarters of it before absolutely tapping out, and love
every delicious moment of it, so yeah, some kind of steak prepared in a pan, not a grill,
because there's always some kind of smoky aftertaste that's kind of odd to me, and for
dessert, that's kind of hard, I don't eat dairy, like from a cow, so you know, and I'm
not a huge fan of cake, I love pie though, so probably a pie, but if it was for like,
like those are my favorites, if it was like a dinner party for other people, I'd definitely
be poking everybody's brains about what they liked, what they could eat, what they couldn't
eat, and then have a ton of variety on that, because I think, you know, making sure everyone
has something they can't eat is important, yeah, that answers that, right?
What's some of your all-time favorite music, and what's some recent stuff you've been digging?
Music's kind of hard, I listen to a lot of different genres, and it's really mood based,
so I want to say, gosh, it really just depends, the only thing, and I think I've mentioned
this before, like the only thing I will not listen to willingly is country music and reggae
and any type of like, death speed metal, those just don't do it for me, but I mean, I had
Warped Tour phase where I was listening to pop punk and alternative rock, and I still
love those bands to an extent, lately, I've been listening to a lot of lo-fi, I think
that's how you say it, right, it's not lo-fi, it's lo-fi, so I've been listening to a lot
of lo-fi, and I love those kinds of instrumentals, I think it's really easy to listen to, and
you don't feel like you're overwhelmed with like trying to listen to lyrics opposed to
like doing whatever it is you're trying to do, and for me, as of late, I felt a lot of
just, I'm easily distracted and my mind kind of like jumps, so it's really great to always
have that going, I know you guys have mentioned that the weather in most of your areas is
kind of gloomy, so in those kinds of instances, it's a lot of, I guess like Parisian inspired
music and a lot of it, I love listening to very mellow, cafe-style music, and then I'll
dabble into like fifth, I want to make sure, forties and fifties music, so you know a lot
of those old bands, Etta James, let me just pull up my spot really quick so I really don't
fuck this up, because I know some people in here are really into music, and I'm not about
to make a fool of myself in front of said people, because that would make you look so
bad, we're not about that, I've been actually listening to some K-pop recently too, so that's
been interesting, here we go, so oh yeah some Bing Crosby, oh there's a lot of Bing Crosby
on this, oh this is the one I made, so I used to work, we're at a retirement home and I
do music therapy with them, so you know I have kind of an old soul and I like a lot
of the music that came out of that decade, and I don't know when it's raining and you
just kind of play that kind of sound, it's very relaxing to me, Frank Sinatra, Doris
Day, Smarty Shaw is good too, I mean yeah you guys kind of catch my drift on that, it
really is just mood dependent, favorite bands, I could tell you the longest standing band
that I have just the softest spot in my heart for is Fallout Boy, and I'm sorry but it just
it lives, yeah they were one of the first bands I really got into and I don't know still
like anything that comes out about them just like makes my heart beat a little bit faster,
it's so stupid because some of their stuff recently wasn't very good, so I don't know
whatever it is they put out I'll pick up, yeah so that's kind of like an all-time favorite
music band of mine, but yeah I don't know to be honest with you I put everything on
shuffle and I just kind of like a lot of stuff and I never, and I'm really bad at this so
I apologize, but I never really hone in to like who's producing it, who's singing it
and follow their line back to their origin, I really just sit there and shuffle and like
curate a bunch of songs that I like and you know who makes them or when they made them
or whatever is like a fleeting thought to me, so I'm sorry I can't answer that question
a little bit more in detail, yeah favorite concert you've been or act you've seen live,
I used to work at a concert venue so I've definitely seen my fair share, I think being
in attendance of gosh you know I want to say I want it's kind of hard without sharing location
but I saw Rufus to soul live, I've seen them live twice and the first time I saw them live
I think was my favorite concert going experience because it was an outdoor location and it
just kind of was everything, it was great, it was a lot of visual and then you know listening
to the music and being a fan of their music too, it was a really fun experience and it
was at night so like the stars were out and you could really just vibe with everything
and yeah that was that I think is my most memorable and favorite thus far you know hopefully
with everything coming back it can be something new, what's one place that you definitely
want to visit and or live in your lifetime, that's a really great question, okay so there's
a few places I want to visit, I have an odd fascination with Canada and I always have
and I would love to visit Toronto, always wanted to go and every human I've ever interacted
with was like oh yeah you love it, it's got all this great stuff yada yada yada so I'd
love to visit there, would also love to go to Spain, really I like architecture and couldn't
tell you any details on it but really enjoyed being in the presence of great architecture,
I definitely was one that cried when the Notre Dame set ablaze that was really sad.
I've always wanted to go to South Africa too, I think it's always been a place I wanted
to at least visit, I'd like to go to Thailand, family member went a few years ago and really
had a great time and I think Tokyo just to say I've been, I want to say I'm an adventurous
eater but I'm not that adventurous, I don't think adventurous enough to really enjoy everything
that a lot of places have to offer in the form of food, at least in some of the Asian
countries I would love to visit just to see and be in the presence of that area but I
don't know if I couldn't eat or if I had to eat the same thing all the time because I
couldn't willingly eat something new it would be kind of a bummer for me.
So that's visiting, I would love to live in Paris, I went when I was younger and really
enjoyed it and I think would love to be in a European country that is very relaxed in
the form of day-to-day life and how it's conducted so I'd love to spend I think a year or two
in Paris and ultimately would love to live in Canada, I'd love to live in Western Canada.
I've been to Vancouver a handful of times now and essentially it's kind of like a better
LA you know, I don't know I just I see myself living there for quite a long time so I think
I'd ultimately love to live there for an extended period of time, so yeah great question.
I miss traveling, I haven't gone in a long time, kind of a workaholic so it's hard for
me to peel myself away to want to take a vacation and then with COVID it's been hard being an
American trying to go anywhere outside of the states, so I'm really looking forward
to some of those areas opening up to us.
You look amazing in all your pictures, thank you, but do you have a personal favorite that
you shared so far?
No, I don't know, I don't think so, I don't think any of them are my favorite, I don't,
I think they're fine, I think they're good pictures, I don't know if I'd consider anything
my favorite, there might be one that I haven't shared yet that I think is my favorite that
I'll probably post today I guess since that's the topic, yeah I guess I should probably
just drop that one since it's not there, yeah I know it's kind of hard to say, I've found
and taken a personal favorite for that just because I don't really look at them in that
way, sorry, one moment, that row where'd it go, sorry guys, awkwardly, sorry, sorry guys,
awkwardly, one pause, welcome, welcome, some new faces in here, personal face, I don't
know, okay so that, that should, yeah that I think would be, yeah we'll leave it at that,
that's that, anyways, where am I, serious question, why are you so fire, you know genetics
really worked in my favor, that's pretty much it, you know genes have a lot to do with it,
I think I got pretty lucky, I played a lot of sports growing up that was kind of a mandatory
thing and not that you know we were forced into it but we kind of were, yes I played
a lot of sports growing up and so that always kept me active and you know through school,
through middle school, high school and into college, I played college volleyball for my
first year and a half and yeah I don't know, I just, that's kind of it, after college volleyball
I just got really paranoid about the freshman 15 even though I wasn't a freshman anymore
and I think that kind of stuck with me for a really long time, especially while I was
in college, I saw a lot of people I went to high school with posting on their social media
just like how much fun they were having and damn alcohol does some people dirty and I
was not, I like put myself in such a headspace like that was not going to be me, so I was
very conscientious about you know if I was drinking a lot like you know how am I going
to work it off and eat right so it wouldn't end up sticking with me for the long run and
yeah I think to this day I still have pretty decent eating habits although they're not
always that great like yeah last night I was talking to a couple people about my late night
McDonald's run so that was not the healthiest decision at 11 o'clock at night but you know
when you crave the nuggets you just got to go get them, I'm so stupid, I'm sorry, yeah
it's a yeah so not always the best decisions but yeah I guess that kind of I hope that
answers your question, what's your idea of the dream or perfect date to go on, gosh that's
hard I haven't been on a date in a really long time, like a really long time I haven't
been on a date so I couldn't even imagine what a COVID date would look like now if I'm
being honest, yeah definitely, I think wow a perfect date, I think those are kind of
hard because even if you did everything right and I said you know I want to go on a picnic
and then I want to go see a movie and then have dinner like even if someone did all three
of those things like it wouldn't mean anything was perfect and it wouldn't mean that anything
was you know going right because I mean I'm sure anyone can attest to following the rules
and having the end result not be what you wanted and I don't know I think one date that
I did go on was with my now ex-partner that we were together for five years.
One date that he took me on was he bought a random ticket to a concert that played the
night we were going out so like we were going out on a Thursday and he bought a ticket to
whatever band was playing at this local venue and we went and I thought it was really fun
because it was spontaneous and it was this little like cover band that neither of us
had heard of and it was like a bunch of 50 plus year olds hanging out and I don't know
it was just really cool because it was spontaneous and yeah really exciting you just kind of
were winging it so I think something spontaneous and thoughtful I think is a great place to
start does that does that answer your question okay if you had to only eat one kind of food
for the rest of your life what would it be who that's hard I like a lot of different
food these are just like great questions and I'm just not the right person to answer them
because I don't have like a favorite of anything everything is great if I am to be the most
honest with myself this is gonna sound shitty but I'm gonna be super honest if I could eat
one thing for the rest of my life it would be any variety of salad like I can
like I can eat if you give me like an assortment of vegetables condiments like anything like
anything that can be put in a leafy green bowl will work for me for the rest of my
life I am I am I'm a little German so I love everything like tart and I love vinegar and
love just drenching all of my salads and in some kind of acidic goodness so pickles
pepperonis any type of vinaigrette dressing actually haven't used sauerkraut in a salad
before what's the one I am thinking of like a pickled beet or cabbage super good or like
a pickled green bean actually used that recently so yummy I love all that in salad so I know
I could always change up my salad and I would eat it for the rest of my life that's my
basic ass answer yeah so what inspired you to want to share your amazing body I was approached
on reddit actually by someone who sent me this really thought out message about wanting
to try out like an auditory thing and I mean reaching that point in quarantine where you're
just kind of like itching for interaction I went into it and we kind of did this thing
where he would talk to me and I would have my camera on and he would just kind of like
watch me and I'd just kind of be wearing like a bathing suit painting or kind of like in
a bralette watching hockey like and yeah I don't know I just kind of he pointed it out
to me too he's like oh like you really like showing off and I was like wow like I didn't
even notice that about myself until that point and yeah that ended and I don't know I just
kind of thought why not I'm being honest yeah so that is that's uh that's that that was
my little adventurous bit and it led to all of this and meeting all of you so you know
I said all worked out right yeah so that's that um and that's the last question um yeah
that's what I got you guys have any other any other things you want to know
my actual job um I work at for a major retailer company in the states and I'm a sales manager
so I manage people on the sales floor and I deal with the public all the time um which
is which has been an experience um yeah that's what I do for work so my schedule is shit
and I I manage some really great people so I'm I'm lucky in that regard um but I I work
with the public and the public is rough right now so uh not so lucky there it's it's really
really hard so um be nice to your retail workers if I can put a PSA out there um yeah that's
what I do I work in retail yes it's the it's the thing for for now I think um yeah I've
been doing it for just about five years actually so it's been a uh it's been a wild ride
oh I think you cut off you can type it too if that's easier oh oh I'm 25 I turned 25
in November and hit my quarter life crisis in January I'm old um yeah no 25 was a big
one um I never I I mean if you have asked me before 25 would have been like yeah no
age is a number no big deal I'm not worried about it like you shouldn't be worried about
it and then when I hit yeah when I hit 25 I was like wow like and and it's so funny
because um like your age now and like the grand scheme of how people view your age has
changed a whole lot because um especially with quarantine I've noticed just you know
if this were a quarantine and I was in my teens or you know where younger people are
in this like I've noticed from the people around me like it's so cool to be at home
and like not work you can choose to not work you can take it easy like just focus on you
and getting through quarantine and all that and I think like for me in my in my 20s you
know I can say mid-20s now like I feel like I'm still in that mentality of like you need
to sit on this timeline still so like at 25 like you should have accomplished certain
things and I feel like that timeline now is like so skewed and it's not applicable to
anyone who is you know I'd say like 22 and younger um like that timeline doesn't even
exist anymore so for me hitting 25 and not being where I saw myself at 25 um you know
jumping yeah it's it's hard now um but yeah I don't know I I hit that quarter live quarter
life crisis pretty rough and uh yeah so that's that's 25 in a nutshell for me right now but
I think with everyone getting um vaccinated and knowing that some things are going to
be resuming a new normal I think that's going to be I'm really excited to just get get back
out there um if money were no issue what would you spend your days doing oh man um you know
a lot of things I think if I didn't have to worry about money I'd put a lot more effort
into being more creative and I think exploring my creativity um I I enjoy styling so I enjoy
working with uh apparel and putting outfits together for people and being a resource for
exploring how they want to look and how they want to feel through the things they wear
and um I really believe that if you wear something that makes you feel good you know you see
yourself differently so I think I'd put a lot more effort into building on that um it's
just not always a fruitful business to jump into so um and you know isn't a quick business
to jump into either so a lot of it is self-starting and self-promoting and it takes money and
so if I if I didn't have to worry about money that would definitely be how I'd spend a lot
of my time yeah I think I know maybe one person that's made like personally that's made a
career out of styling and maybe it's very difficult yeah the I was actually going to
go along that line I'm into the printing industry oh that's really cool um yeah what's
that unless you're doing it through a company which I mean you're not making as much money
as you could if you were independent but like uh yeah I don't know I think that's how I'd
spend I think that's how I spend my time um and then traveling I mean if money wasn't
an issue I'd spend a lot of my days traveling and and moving around and just kind of making
the world my oyster um that'd be a great thing the Caribbean sure um I'm not a big beach
person but I would definitely spend a few days um enjoying the food definitely yeah
you know I was I was just talking to somebody about this too um I am definitely a poolside
lake river kind of person um I yeah I love the pool love the pool I grew up by the beach
and um man I loved it growing up but I hate sand I hate that it gets everywhere I hate
that it sits in your car for years and you can do everything you want but you'll still
find sand and things and um having a dog I think and wanting to take your dog to the
beach is a fucking chore and then yeah I don't know I just rather not work with sand so if
I could be laying out poolside or yeah if I could uh be laying out by the beach or by
the pool or by a lake that would be fantastic that would be great yeah that would be great
um I'm going pretty pretty pretty hard on my tan this this time around so I'm excited
yes um how long do you think you're going to keep this server going for uh indefinite
oh I don't know um I think I think having joined Reddit earlier this year and um my
experience with people online and like developing online relationships of any sort um kind of
sits in this like two week window so when you meet someone new you're kind of um really
excited to talk to them and get to know them and it's really fun you chat every day or
you chat every other day you chat very consistently and then I think after this like healthy two
week window things just kind of become for a lack of a better word redundant um and yeah
absolutely unless there's something that you can really connect on or have in common um
or what you guys just live really exciting lives and always have something to talk about
so I don't know this this could very well be a two week server and then everyone just
kind of you know moves on or you know doesn't interact as often or you know whatever the
case may be um so I don't really have a timeline for this um I think I'm just kind of keeping
it open um until you know otherwise I don't plan on I think the only real reason I would
shut it down would be if I you know hopped into a serious relationship of any sort but
at this time I don't really see myself doing that um just having I mean I think just having
come out of one but it's been a year it's been like a calendar year now and um yeah
I just don't see myself jumping in anything serious so as long as this is uh as long as
I'm single I think this will be open um unless it just kind of like completely dies out and
then and then I'll wipe it and all that jazz but I don't know it's kind of rolling with
the punches here does that answer your question um perfect yeah that's that's that but I do
have to say I'm really pleased with how it's going I think for for the amount of time it's
been open um and I don't know I think it's really cool that people can come together
and just kind of shoot the shit on a lot of different things so it really like gets me
a little giddy when I'm not in the channel and you guys will post stuff about food or
animals or what you're doing that day or any workouts you've accomplished um I think that's
really exciting for me to see that people are actually connecting outside of um me having
to post something um granted I I'm not posting on a schedule which I'm not sure if that's
something you guys would be interested in um I haven't really gotten that far but if
it is something you're interested in then please let me know and I will I'll do my best
to follow it um but yeah no I'm really pleased with how it's going so far um I've kind of
toyed around with with like how how big I guess I want the server to be as far as like
members and stuff um I definitely wanted to keep it tight leash on everything because
I've been in servers where you know it starts off really small and intimate and everyone's
getting along really well and then it takes like you know one person to come in and just
kind of put in really negative um attitudes and and and vibes I guess if you want to throw
that term around and then it just kind of sours everything and I don't know that's
that's when it becomes like work and it doesn't become anything fun to be around and the last
thing I want for this is to be work so um you know I'd love any feedback as to like
what you'd want out of this um just so you know making this a fun space for everybody
as well but I'm not sure how how serious I'm going to get about trying to grow um trying
to grow this um because I I thought that was really funny I thought I mean I I thought
it was really really fun um I was really really like in tears with that initial group uh chat
which was honestly a huge mistake um I have not been on snapchat very frequently and when
I saw it put that together on accident I was like oh shit like this is probably really
uncomfortable for some people um and then it just kind of became yeah
oh my god yeah that really was so funny um and I mean I think
yeah I think everyone's gonna know yeah we get to fill in the tutu part so I'm looking
forward to see what you do with your corner um and granted that's okay uh it doesn't have to be
anything um it can be whatever you want it to be to be honest um or it doesn't have to be anything
at all if that's that's not it um but yeah no I'm uh I was really really surprised at
how many people latched on to your name uh in a really fun way
um let's see if there's any no I'm not the nugs um yeah no I I'm excited to see what uh what comes
uh what comes out of this and uh like I mentioned before I'm open to any feedback to see what you
guys are looking for in this if anything um gosh all your questions are quite reserved
I'm assuming it's because everyone's being very very respectful and on their best behavior um
um but um I appreciate all the all the niceties if you guys want to send me anything you can
always ask me um in private if you want or um still send it through here after vc and I'll
answer it um I'm a pretty open book I don't really have much to to hide um so
yeah that's just kind of my my thoughts on that um yeah if there's nothing else then
I'm gonna quit the recording of the Q&A and we can sit in here and shoot the shit or
we can just close it out for the day so
so