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But Savannah had an input on Angel before Amy Counselor. It's really not an input. It's a question. Angel, you can answer it if you don't want to. So one of the things that I've learned from and I observe when I watch Angel is like so I'm really loud and in your face and you can tell by what we talked about in the break why Angel doesn't do that, right? He's very, very quiet unless he knows you pretty well . So I guess my curiosity in that is like , are you being suspicious? Are you surveying the environment . Like of those like those quiet thoughts that go into your mind when you first walk into a room when you don't know somebody, you know ? Like because we're at events all the time. Sometimes you and I all walk in together and like mostly people come talk to us, but sometimes they don't. So I'm always about like , well, why is everyone just staring at us? Let's go talk to people. Your version of that is introspective, right? So I guess my question is what happens during that introspective time and and like , yeah, I feel like it's a skill I'd like to have. I just don't because I get overly uncomfortable . So I've seen you do it a bunch of times so that's it. It's purely from my upbringing. It's purely from , you know, for let's, you know, all grown up and everything. I was always the new kid. I was always you know, I was the I was the new kid. I was air force brat. I was the I was the Puerto Rican kid. I was the brown kid. I was the tall kid. I was a tall kid. I was a tall skinny kid. I was a tall skinny kid that didn't know how to play basketball. So I was always that guy. So it was as crazy as it sounds. And this is, I think, why I like how I do this . I never sought attention that way . And I've always kind of like and that's probably another part of it's also like a voyer part in the sense I like I try to see things play themselves out in front of me and then at that point I'll figure out where my l ane is how I can fit in. But a huge part of that absolutely is me is just not trying to bring attention to me in that sense because, you know, when you're the new kid, you're always picked on, you know , so you're six foot seven like everybody notices you When you walk into a room, people are like, oh man . So here's the thing and this is and I have friends of mine and they will tell you this and I firmly believe this. I feel that I am inconspicuous . I feel like I feel that I genuinely feel that I can get in and get out of places and people won't even notice me. I feel like don't feel like I try to draw attention to myself. So that's a part of that, I guess. That's crazy. And I know it sounds crazy. Sorry. Well, there you go. I wasn't sure if it was like a survival thing where like if I go to a restaurant, I'm always going to sit with my face to the door and I'm gonna know where both sides it's, right? So I didn't know if that introspection was like , you know, you deciphering who's what in the room, how you're gonna get out, how you're en going togage . Like I just was trying to figure out that an element of that and but that I would say that part of it came later in life . Like the situational awareness and that kind of stuff and you know kind of always sizing stuff up. That's definitely for my time living in New York and that kind of stuff . You know, you kind of learn those things. And so that's just always carried on. But initially it was always I just didn't want to bring attention to me kind of thing. And then it morphed from there. How much do you think you've changed since you started the monsters? Like because I mean I've seen changes, but how much do you think you've changed? I could no, I would say that I've a lot, I would say, you know, there's definitely conversations and things that I entertain with you guys that I never would have I wouldn't have, you know? Yeah, and there's definitely there's a point sometimes it's difficult for you to see things through my perspective, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah And so there was definitely a point I would okay. So on the run up to my very first contract, right? That like because that first couple of years I was hourly employed. I was still trying to, you know, figure it out I was worried and that's probably why I was kind of standoff as because I didn't want to I didn't want to get vested in something again and then have the , you know, have it not work out workout in this industry . So that when I signed my first contract, I was like cool , I'm in. And then for a part of that rust was a growth process. We had a couple different cast members . We weren't, you know, we were still trying to sync up, you know, kind of get it going. Yeah, we Jimmy was getting ready to leave . You know, there was a there was a version of the show where it's me , you, Jimmy, Kevin, and Tud's. Yeah , right. Yeah, yeah. Ryan, that was tough Yeah, you know, because Jimmy's out, you know, he's out the way to go. Yeah. You know, and Kevin's not happy because of what's going on with him. Yeah. And then I'm stuck in the old control room with Tuttle Trying to keep it all together. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so I'm trying I'm like, man, I'm like, and there were some really dark days that during that time, Russian and one hundred percent I was like, man like I got the gig that I want, but like I don't know apart like I got here and I don't know how long it's going to last you know but so once the cask got a little bit solidified and then by the time of the second contract I started feeling more confident and then there was a conscious decision on my part. There's a point where I was like , dude , so you're here how you've got to like I don't know open up or like you got to trust these guys I got to trust us. I got to trust the guys that I've worked with. I got to trust Ryan. I don't know. I don't know how much Ryan remembers, but I know that that first year or two that he was on, I was a jerk to him. I was remembered. I'll never forget. You and Jimmy talking back and forth in the talk bag . And then being mean to me, it was great. It's because I didn't understand Ryan, right? And so the job you've really you and he have really become close now. Yeah, but it's 'cause I've learned so much about him, but that first year, I'd like you guys remain to him. The joke that I would say, I was like, I was dokes from Dexter. I was like I was on him because I thought he was he still is that I thought 'cause I thought he was like I didn't know him and I thought he was scamming. Not scamming. That's not the right word. I just didn't know him. Yeah. But you got a lot weirder too when he first came . But you don't trust people off the bat anywhere. No, that's probably buddy. Yeah, like takes it a while to get to know it. It's probably my toughest quality, I guess. How are you about being in control? Do you feel uncomfortable when you're not controlling your environments? Not so much so that it like that I get apprehensive about it. You know, like this, like I dig this and I dig this because of the vehicle that we're in. But I don't feel like I need to have that outside of this. Like if you're home, you don't have to be the one in control. You can let someone else take control. Oh no, yeah, I don't mind yeah, I don't mind that at all. You can sit back and relax and hang out. Like you don't have to have everything perfect to be happy. Oh no, no not at all. That makes no sense for you Okay, all right. I know you're ready for the diagnosis. We got to take a break unfortunately. Again, this has been great though. And so you do have enough stuff to make a diagnosis on AI. Again, nothing's real so as my license . It's not a real diagnosis, but yes, the character of Angel, I have a little bit of a diagnosis and treatment yet. The character of Angel. Yes. Oh, I like that in this universe. Okay, in this universe, we'll hear about the character of Angel . Oh yeah, so anytime you do any of us, it can just be the character of Right. The character Brian, the character . We're talking therapeutically, but this is not therapy, right? And so I want people to know that like we're having a good time we're talking about therapy, but this is not exactly full therapy. For the show, it's for the universe. Trying to keep that license. That's good. I'm a character in this universe. The character of Amy the Counselor. I love it. Okay, all right, so we'll have the unofficial diagnosis. I love it. When we come back, don't go anywhere, you're listening to the mantra the morning . Real radio . All right, time for the conclusion of Angel Day . It's angel's birthday this week. I figured we'd focus on Angel for for his birthday with Amy the counselor . She's been she's talked to Daisy. She's talked to Amber . She's talked to Angeli. That was fascinating. She did a brief one of us three group sessions. Group session as a team . We will focus on Ryan one week. We will focus on me one week and then we'll focus on Sabana . We get left to the laugh. Well, do you want to be next if you want to be there going next? I don't want to be next. Whenever you're ready. Casey a new s is I'll be next. I don't care, but I'm not here next week. When are you coming? No, we'll have to think about. Let's do Angel. See? See, I knew it. I knew exactly that. Anyway, back to Angel. So Angel's character of his diagnosis, I would say, what's called an attachment disorder , which is where we're having difficulty securing healthy emotional bonds because of our history. Right, right. So always like not allowing yourself to fully dive in or spending a long time . It's a coping mechanism like Sabannah had said, right? It keeps you safe, it keeps you from having to fully be open. So that's one of it. And then when you top it off with the stuff that's happened with the grief, right? That's twenty years of grief that you didn't go to therapy for no judgment. Initially no , I would say that I've I've never specifically specifically gone for that. It's popped up this kind of sentence . And so that's the other part. When you have complex grief, it compounds, it keeps on building. And then it can turn into something like PTSD. It could turn into something depression, anxiety as well . So that takes a lot more assessments and diagnoses for those . So those are the two big things and I would say for treatment or what's called EMDR treatment if you're ever wanting to get into that , it's really learning how to process emotions in a comfortable way. Right? Because a lot of times we're all taught like, oh, emotions are bad, don't talk about them, don't talk about it. And then it's twenty years later and we're still feeling that emotion If we're going to therapy and we're fully processing it from our brain to our body and doing that circular loop, then we're able to think about things and not have the pain anymore. And that's why I asked you that is like, am I able to think about this person in my life without feeling sad anymore . It's normal. It's totally not a bad thing, but you want to be able to revel in the thought of the loved one and still feel that love versus that pain and takes processing that. Yeah. I got some. That's what I got. That's pretty good. It doesn't make sense. Yeah, it absolutely does resonate. Yeah . And thank you for talking about this. I know it's like, I don't want to reopen all this every single time. And that's the thing is like, how have you dealt with it now? Like you seem like you're doing good . Do you feel like you're still dealing with it? I would say I think that I will always deal with it. I feel that way about it. But because of the program and then because of the way that I have you know, not everyone has this. So through the show and the platform and then talking with the guys then and then, you know, having these kind of conversations I. have I feel like I am in a better place when it comes to that. There were times where there were I think we would then when it initially happened, there was times where in the very beginning before that where people would come before the program, before, you know, it did all that. Someone would try to come and talk to me and I think this is what Russ was picking up on or the guys in the show were picking up on. And I was like, who are you? And who are you to try to talk to me about my brother? You know, and so that was a step or a door that a threshold that I had to walk through . So that's what I was going to ask you. So knowing what you know about Angel in our situation where like I've always been I always like kick gloves whenever I bring it up because I don't want to say anything that's going to be offensive or us dealing with Angel, like should we be little, I don't know how to say it, like more kit gloves when we talk about that or always ask . I would say especially since you know that person is like, do you want to talk about this? Do you not? Yeah, right. Because and the thing is like, you know, you all are coworkers, so you don't want to blur the lines too much. You still want to be coworkers if you're meshing too much with work . And I have like a new diagnosis for all of you. Yeah, yeah. What's weird is we're coworkers that deal with our emotions and our feelings all the time. Right. So we share those emotions and feelings. So it is a weird blend of it is, it's an amesment. Yeah . And it can be fun and nice, but it can also be unhealthy because if you have a blurred boundary and you don't know, can I talk about this? Can I not? That can be anxiety ridden, right? Or that can cause more trauma. And so the new diagnosis that I would give all of you is that all of you are married to the monsters . Oh yeah, well that's right. If he can't keep a relationship because of the monsters, if each of you have maladaptive things because of being married here , that's a brand new diagnosis just for each of you. Well, that's my total one, to be honest with you. That's been my total issue and problem probably. That's your greatest love. And like, it happens to many people in the industry because you love what you do and then it's not easy to make space and room for anybody outside of here. Yeah , I think you nailed that . I think all of us have dealt with, you know, it's hard to have a relations hip outside of this when you spew things that are on your mind that might hurt someone else's feelings. And how much fun you have? You're like, again, my husband's musician, so I always had to kind of understand like that's his world. And I'm not always a part of that. And that can be hard when you connect with somebody . And so someone's that's coming and connecting with you guys and they don't necessarily get to come in here and have a say, that can be a lot to deal with. And you know , with what we do too, like we'll be all in some topic or whatever. And you know, Ryan's yelling at me and I'm yelling at Angel . And then you know, and we're all passionate and we go to break. And it's like, okay, everything's done. Right. You know, to put it in the box, we just said all that, but you know, part of your show. Yeah, yeah. I have one more question for her before she's leaving and it's very important and no it doesn't have anything to do with you. I didn't say it didn't about feet but you're looking at me and you're thinking about feet nice ly how it is and you're afraid she's very ing. She has all dialogue . One thing is, you know, people saying things are in your head, right? Like that is that is definitely a bad character trait like to tell someone else that something's in their head that's not true. Absolutely a bad character trait. Yes. Bam in your face, but that's not what I want to start with. But she constantly says things that aren't true. Like she'll say something. No, that's she's convinced that I'm feeling a certain way. That's what we want to talk about. But you brought it up. Yeah. I was on accident. You wouldn't shut up. So I had to bring up rejecting and you both have different realities and you're not connecting the reality together You have different realities . That's true. That solves the problem. Okay, do we find them? We' alwaysve been friends. Let me see your toes. I've been in counseling since I was fifteen years old, right on and off, on and off, on and off, on and off. Only one time this ever happened to me. And I want to know from your perspective if this is normal or if this is bizarre. So I was talking to one therapist at one point in my journey and the therapist started crying , right ? I immediately felt like, okay, well now I've ruined this guy's day, right ? Like, so now I'm taking on that . And then they then he tried to explain to me that that crying was normal and blah blah and I'm only crying because the story you told is tragic and blah blah blah, whatever, whatever. Is it okay for your therapist to cry while you're trying to get therapy? How long had y'all been seeing each other? For a while, he cried the next time too. And that's when I quit. I was like, dude, I can't I can't come in here and feel like I'm ruining your life. Absolutely. It's, you know, it's good to be connected and you don't want them to be a robot for sure. Right, right. But if he did it once and you're like, did you tell him that it was weird? remember he should have been able to read it. No, I do remember. I remember telling my story, him starting crying and going, why are you crying? No, that's not okay. You said it like that? No, I said it. That was really good . No, I was like, why are you crying? Yeah, and he was like, because what you said was sad about and I was like, I understand that, but why are you crying? Right. Like it happened to me. It didn't happen to you. Like I don't now I feel like an ass because like now I messed up your day like so the whole thing was really awkward to me. So what do you think about? What's your thoughts on that? Therapists are still human and so you have to give him some grace, but also if he had been seeing you for a long time, he should have known you well enough to be able to like monitor that in a way to be like, hey, you know, I went through this, but two times crying, he was going through something and he wasn't taken care of himself well enough to take care of you. One time is like empathy, right? Like, oh my gosh, I feel surpassed. You went through that. Yeah . Sometimes you're pushing . Sometimes you've got a problem Well, I felt like one time you're being judgy, like how dare you throw your emotions on to me in this moment. Interesting. Well, he was trying to connect with you with his emotions, but that wasn't an option. I'm not a baby. I'm not a cry baby. Oh boy. I don't think you really realize just how much you laid out there to a therapist . But crying for crying is just a part of our body. It's like peing. It's like it's yes, that's what I call it actually I call it face . I call it taking a cry. It's taking a cry. It's peanut out of your eyes and it's a way for your body to re regulate. So he needed to regulate from your story. But if that wasn't therapeutic for you, he should've caught that. So especially when I said, why are you crying? Yeah, he should have read the room for that for sure. So next time next time you're available we'll make you next whenever you're available. Let'll have look to at our schedule in the break. When can you come back? Like next week? I don't know, we have to look at our schedules in the break. We don't have to plan it on the show. We can plant it in a break. Are you yelling at me again? What are you talking about? We're gonna make some yellow tears? It's a FloridaComedy Collective. com that's Florida Comedy Collective. com. And you got a big show coming up. Well, that's in August. I will be at the Melrose Center tonight for standup comedy at four PM downtown Orlando. Okay, very nice. 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And one of the sponsors of this I guess both these guys we met last year has or been two years it now? I can't remember. Actually, it's we got George Ellis and Adam here and you got to get really close to the microphone so we can hear you. George, how you doing today buddy? Good, good. Thank you for having us, Russia. Okay, is is it this okay, is this the third year second year? I can't I feel like I know you well because it seems like you've been in here several times. This is actually the fourth year that I'll be attending. Yeah, second year as a sponsor as a sponsor. Yeah. And then and thank you for sponsoring the event. We appreciate that. And you got your Carola Kancer screening fund shirt on. I appreciate that. Yeah, yeah. So I got this last year. You know, made my contribution. Yes. Ready to make more contributions as time goes on. Yeah , we've right now over thirty people have we've been able to screen and have taken care of at life imaging thanks to people like you who help us help us with that. So and that's why we're doing this this wine somping or grape somping thing, right? And we're gonna take the bottles of wine that we make and auction them off at the end of the year for the former before he tries to guilt you Savannah. No, I'm not kidding. I'm not it's not gonna work. I'm not trying to guilt Savannah. I try to I try to throw this girl in there 'cause I like her. She looks cool. You just don't like , she's got really pretty feet. She got blue nail polish on, she got really pretty feet. Anyway , I'm trying to get her the day off work . So George, tell us who do you have here with us today? I know that Bagel King is here. By the way, Bagel King is going to provide break a breakfast buffet. They've done that like for the past three or four years. It's always amazing. Who did you bring here with you? So today I have Adam Ellis that you know and he and I wrote a book. We put it out last year and we promoted it last year. And the name of the book is a surgical approach to meat cutting. That's right. Oh yeah. And we actually donated a copy to Savannah. Yeah. And this year Adam wrote his own book, so this is not my book anymore. Yeah. And he's going to disclose what the title of the book here on the air. And we 're for the first time. For the first time I saw on social media, it was like a mystery like right. Adam, how are you doing today buddy? I'm great. You're really close to the mic. Yeah, I did this last year too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can never remember. So yeah , how'd the book go last time? Really well. I was like, we really enjoyed ourselves last time we went there. The Crimson House was real fun. I think we were kind of like we didn't drink or anything. I think this year we might change. You got to drink . If it's a monster event and you drink, you've got to drink. It makes it a lot more fun. We brought whiskey today too. So that's why we were so nice. Yeah. Buffalo and trace. So is that what made you decide ? I think I want to write a book of my own. I've always had a fascination with writing. I always used when I was in elementary, middle school, used to get my books taken away from me 'cause I was never paying attention to the lesson. I was reading. I was in my own world and I worked at Barnes and Noble for about six years as a merchandising manager. And I feel like this is a delayed thing. Like this should have happened ten years ago. Right? Like so everything that's coming to flu long time planned out . Right, right, right. So I'm jealous because I tried to get jobs at Barnes and Noble for I would apply. That's one of the jobs. Again, I've always wanted to work at a record shop and then Barnes and Noble or what the other place I tried to get job at a and they would never hire me. I got really lucky. I think I just put my application in and then the woman that was my main manager, which was Monica, and she was great. Adam closer to my What do I do with my hands? Yet again, yeah, she just hired me on the spot and so eventually I just climbed the ladder there and then got into a lot of writing groups and just very involved in the writing world. It's very interesting though, but it's very challenging though. So this is the book that you have now, the new one, you want to tell us the title? So yeah, it's just basically going to be a locational piece about Central Florida and the Central Coast Atlantic, New Syrna and Daytona. It's got a protagonist that's got there. And so the title is going to be Beasts, Beauties, and Banned Books. Okay . It's very digitally distorted because we didn't want to give up the whole cover, but that's what's going to cover is gonna be like . Okay. And what's the what's the I mean what's the premise? What's the premise? What's the idea? It's just a story a very simple tame story. Originally I was going to call it for entertainment purposes and I decided I liked that title better but it's, just a very plain slice of life book, you know, locational piece. There's a lot of restaurants that are familiar. So it's like everything that's in the book location wise is a real place. Yeah , but the story wise is mostly fiction Where did you come up with the idea of it? What's it? It's just one of these like kind of like a Hunter S. Thompson Gonzo writing type deal. I was like, it's got like lots of, you know , politics going on in the background, real world situations , what's been going on over the past few years. Are these characters that you've had floating in your head or? Yeah , a lot of it is just like fictional. A lot of it is real people that I've changed their names to. Do you think there's a scenario where like somebody's gonna be reading this and they're like wait a minute, he's talking about me. Well there was a really good book that I had actually got on the top twenty list at Barnes and Noble 'cause I kept pushing it and it was written by an anonymous person and I keep not talking in the mic as usual . And it was called the Diary of an Oxygen Thief and it was written by anonymous. And you still don't know who the writer is, and you wrote for two books after that, but there was a publication and I said, how does the publication the publication must know who this person is. Right. But it was like one of those books that I read and it didn't have an ending to it, but it just really resonated with me like the type of writing that we're going like with our generation the thirty and forties, you know? That's all right. Now I wanted to point out that Amber is here . And if you look her up on social media, she's Morocco painter and she's the one that did all the illustrations of both books. Okay . And so what I like. Find an illustrator is a difficult difficult is difficult . And a lot of people, you know, like I'll save money by, you know, you using , you know, AI or something like that. Good on you for using an actual illustrator. That's him. Amber, let me ask you a question. So obviously A,I is a problem right now with a lot of people . Aren't you glad that A you got hired to do this? And are you doing a lot more illustrating or is that is that business getting difficult for you now? You know what? Actually, I think a lot of people are moving closer towards illustrators because they see the problem with all the AI. So the right people are going to find me if they do, they do, you know, and the people that are into AI hopefully stay away. So that's what we want. You know, I don't want those clients to be honest. Spell out your Instagram. Yeah, if people want to follow you on Instagram, how do they follow you? So it's Mayrocky Pain ter. It's MER AKI and then Painter. Okay, that's on everything. That's dot com too. And how long how long have you been an artist? How long have you been doing? Coming up on nine years now. So how old were you when you had a fascination with it when you first started? When I first started, I did it to help support my family. My mother had ALS. Okay. So I couldn't really work because I had to stay home a lot. Right. So I did a lot of watercolor paintings and then I sold that. And you know, from there I just kind of took a little bit of a break and end up doing my own thing and we kind of landed here. It's a difficult thing to break into, isn't it? No, I don't think so. You did really? No, because well, okay, you start with pen and paper and everyone has a pencil or paper and then from there, you know, if you really are made for it, you just keep going and you don't stop until you get where you're going and then the rest of it is just finding where you need to be. Okay, very good. I like her . Sabana likes you . And I like her too. So George, tell me so we've got Bagel King here as well, right? Yes. Who wants to speak from Bagel King? Tell me what can people look forward to it. Now every year you guys have brought, I mean like just an incredible plethora of food. What can people look forward to next Friday free breakfast from Bagel King? Yeah. So next Friday you're getting New York style pastries, right? Mini black and white cookies, Linzard tarts, all the goodies there. You know, bagels and spreads that we make fresh every morning. Right. And of course, you know, breakfast sandwiches this time. So actually you guys got a taste of them just now how was breakfast? That was good. I did the pastrami one. Fantastic way to serve my morning. There's sandwiches out there. Yeah, I gave you guys before I brought some more. You ate all the sandwiches. Yeah, sorry, buds . All the good ones are gone. I'm kidding, they're all good. Doo doo sandwich. I don't know why they brought a doo doo sandwich, but that's all that's left. So your sandwiches next week. Yeah, yeah. So they're like sandwiches are massive, right? So the ones you guys have today are full size, you know, the restaurants right you guys getting like the smaller half size ones, you know? Yeah, but they're still, I mean they're perfect for grab and go, perfect for the event. You guys are in love? Oh yeah. Yeah, we sell like crazy catering. Now were you at the event last year? I was not. You were not I was on radio . You wait though. I mean, like it's it's crazy how many people show up from New Summer to Beach. Like every year we do this, it's a huge turnout. Now the one year we had a problem with rain, hopefully we'll not have that problem next week. And I mean we got a better stage setup, better tent set up and everything. So even if it were to let's say drizzle, we would be fine. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then George, we're doing that here. Listen, George, you're with me. You're like, you remember I love Lucy, right? Of course. I remember when I love Lucy, Lucy did the whole bit. She was stomping stomping the grapes, you know? So since Linda Byrd has a wine, you know, bar, we thought it'd be a funny bit if we do the whole w ines, you know, wine stomping, take that take those juices, make our own make our own wine and sell, you know, auction it off and some bottles off at the end of the year for the cancer screening fund. Do you think that's a good idea or not? Actually, I think it's a great idea. Thank you. As a matter of fact, I think it's so good. I'm gonna put my money where my mouth is.