So True with Caleb Hearon - Claud is a Gift
Episode Date: August 14, 2025Welcome! This week’s guest is the talented Claud! Claud and Caleb talk coming out of the closet, the only places to eat in Syracuse, typing speed, rugs, and much more! Join our Substac...k for an exclusive post-episode chat with Claud and other bonus content! https://calebsaysthings.substack.com/ Follow Claud! @claud.mp3 Follow the show! @sooootruepod Follow Caleb! @calebsaysthings Produced by Chance Nichols @chanceisloudGo to https://www.Zocdoc.com/SOTRUE to find and instantly book a top-rated doctor today. #sponsored Grab an Angry Orchard Cider today. Don’t Get Angry. Get Orchard. Please Drink Responsibly. If you’re a lawyer who feels called to help protect due process, explore our nation-wide provider map and find an organization near you to get involved: acaciajustice.org/defendkids About Headgum: Headgum is an LA & NY-based podcast network creating premium podcasts with the funniest, most engaging voices in comedy to achieve one goal: Making our audience and ourselves laugh. Listen to our shows at https://www.headgum.com. » SUBSCRIBE to Headgum: https://www.youtube.com/c/HeadGum?sub_confirmation=1 » FOLLOW us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/headgum » FOLLOW us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/headgum/ » FOLLOW us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@headgum So True is a Headgum podcast, created and hosted by Caleb Hearon. The show is produced by Chance Nichols with Associate Producer Allie Kahan and Executive Producer Emma Foley. So True is engineered by Casey Donahue and engineered and edited by Nicole Lyons. Kaiti Moos is our VP of Content at Headgum. Thanks to Luke Rogers for our show art and Virginia Muller our social media manager.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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I bought a pot that I'm not even sure
like is kitchen safe
It has like a cute like round red lid
With like a blue circle
And like you can't sit really on the stove
Without balancing it kind of topples over
Yeah
But it's so cute
So one of the worst qualities for a pot
Is that it topples over
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Ha ha ha ha ha
Claude, you're so cute.
I loki love you so much.
The only way I can sit on this couch without like fully going toddler mode is if I sit a little bit forward.
Well, you're small.
I'm small.
You're small.
And that's really adorable and honestly perfect about you.
And it's what makes us a really funny pair to see out in public.
That's true.
You just couldn't be smaller and I couldn't be bigger.
And like together we form a hilarious odd couple.
We're perfect together.
We're perfect.
When people see us on city bikes, they're like, look at those two people who shouldn't know each other.
Father's son.
Father's son.
And you're the dad, by the way.
Yes.
And I'm your giant son.
Oh, I just love you.
How you been?
I've been good.
Will you tell me about your heart?
My heart is good.
My heart and my soul's good.
I just came back from Chicago.
Chicago.
It was like, it was a lollalo ploosa.
But my whole family.
And when I'm back in Chicago, I feel it.
another version of me
I do love that song
I mean it's such a good song
Yeah but your family's there you were saying
Yeah
Yeah I'm hyper
I just had a Diet Coke and some chicken
And I'm like ready to go
Like an espresso shot
Truly when you have chicken
After you've been hungry for a while
It does feel like you've been infused
With energy from God
Right but turkey puts you to sleep
Turkey not something to fuck with
But chicken
We're so up
And chicken and Diet Coke is like
Honestly I'm alive because of it
I mean, that powered a lot of people for a long time.
I think that was, like, how they did the covered wagon rides.
I think that's how they must have done it.
They settled the West on Diet Coke and Chicken.
You've heard it here first, folks.
But your family's in Chicago.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
My family's in Chicago, and it was Lollapalooza,
and I had a lot of friends playing.
And so I went to visit family, and I went to Lala Pluza.
And I got my mom, like, an artist for his band.
And she was running around backstage.
Whoa.
You got on stage.
I did.
Shelly performed with Clara.
Yeah, well, performed is generous.
We, like, danced.
Nice.
Yeah, we danced.
It was, like, like, sometimes I'll sing with her.
But this particular day was, like, there were flight delays, and she got in really last minute.
And, like, there was just, like, we just got our headphones on, like, right before getting onto the stage.
like singing was like impot like it would have been so
I would have sounded terrible Caleb
yeah that's okay you wouldn't have wanted to hear that sometimes
that happens I always sound terrible when I sing and I do it anyway
for love of the game you're so good at singing no I'm truly
around the house you should hear me it's insane we hear a couple bars
yeah what do you want me to sing um I don't know there's a song called
end of beginning
and when I'm back in Chicago I feel it
another version of me
I was in it
Really good
That was so good
Actually hit
Yeah that was amazing
Do you know what Annie and I were singing
I made Annie go rug shopping with me yesterday
Annie DeRuso friend of the pod
Where'd you go
Industry City
You were in over there?
Oh yeah like like South South Brooklyn
South South Brooklyn
It's like Restoration Hardware Outlet
West Elm outlet
Design Within Reach outlet
Like all of them are within a block
of each other
I keep looking directly into the camera
It's fucking rug city.
Look in the cameras.
That's what they're there for.
The audience loves it.
They're like,
you're a handsome young man with a beautiful smile.
Look into our cameras.
We put three of them here to capture you.
I made an ego rug shopping with me and we were singing,
and I don't want the world to see me.
God is the best song.
Iris?
Yeah.
Because I don't think that they'd understand.
I'm sorry, name a better song.
Name a better song, Iris, but listen.
No one writes it like that anymore.
there was a moment in the 90s where music got made
before and since
there has been very little music being made
it's like you and three of our friends
I feel like a lot of music is being made
no it's you and three of our friends and no one else
is making music anymore that's it it's me
Kevin and Annie
your three musicians my three musicians friends I only have three
and there will be no one that listens to this podcast
that Katie Crutchfield's going to send me a few
Curious text.
Katie.
Listens every week.
You and four of your friends.
Yeah.
So I have four musician friends.
Yeah.
That's it though.
Something about laying back on the couch is making me feel very silly.
You could ask me almost anything and you'd probably get away with it.
I feel really comfortable right now.
Yeah?
This is power.
How did you come out?
That's gay?
Yeah.
We'd actually have a real.
really good story about it.
Oh my, I'm so glad you asked. Hang on.
You bouncing around on this couch.
I'm just trying to get comfortable.
So I was visiting.
I was, well, I mean, I feel like it, you know, it always happens many different ways.
Yeah.
Wait, should I actually tell you?
Was that, I wasn't sure if that was a rhetorical question.
No, I'm having fun.
Okay, well, I went to visit Syracuse with my dad where I ended up going.
and I was like, you know, visit weekend for accepted students, whatever.
And we were, we got dinner that night at Dinosaur Barbecue.
Of course.
There's only two places to eat in Syracuse.
Yeah.
Dinosaur Barbecue and Pustabilities.
No, it's true.
I forgot about Pustabilities.
It's the only two restaurants, the red sauce at Postabilities and Dinosauri
Barbecue.
That's it in Syracuse.
It's really that.
Those are the two best.
I had to film a movie in Syracuse.
I know.
You were just there for wait for a very long time.
And so I know a lot about the town now.
I love it there.
Yeah.
You had, you, I went for college.
You went for work.
I have a complicated relationship with Syracuse, New York.
That's tricky.
That's tricky.
Yeah, they had us staying in a hotel off the highway.
And I, and at first I was like, man, crazy.
They're putting us at a hotel off the highway.
And then you look around Syracuse and you go, I don't know that they had much of a choice.
There's not, there's not a four seasons.
But did I like Syracuse?
It doesn't matter.
Did I, did I enjoy a couple of months?
meals at dinosaur barbecue yes I certainly did I and that is where I came out yeah I had like one
sip of my dad's beer and I was like I have to tell you something and I was like I'm I I think
I was like had hooked up with one person one time and I like told my dad I was like I'm seeing
someone.
I was not seeing anyone.
What's your dad said?
He was like, so does this mean
when you go
to like, when you go to
Syracuse and then you go to a frant party at
Syracuse, does that mean you're not interested
in the guys there? And I was like
yes. That's exactly
what that means. It was like how
like it was like
such a sweet way to freeze it
without having to be like, I
think I'm gay.
You know, it was just like, when you go to a frat party, like, who are you interested?
First off, no one, because it's a frat party.
First of all, I'm not there.
I'm not there.
I won't, I've never been to one.
Well, you know I was in a fraternity all four years.
I forgot.
People do forget this about me.
Thank God.
Thank God they forget this.
I feel like you would have been like social chair.
Were you social chair?
Close enough.
President?
No, I was the treasurer.
I was the pledge educator.
CEO.
What's the pledge educator?
Yeah.
I think we were technically called new member educators by the school, but it was like, when people joined the fraternity, I was in charge of, like, making sure they pass all of their, like, membership requirements, like, tests about the fraternity and getting their community service hours and doing all the requirements to join the fraternity.
Because, you know, you pledge for a semester.
Right.
So their first semester, it was a lot of their first semesters of college, and it was actually really cool because a lot of them had just started college, and I kind of became, like, a de facto, like, counselor for them.
That's a, I feel like you would be really good.
it was nice actually i mean in other fraternities it's like this is the guy who hits you and makes you
drink right but i was like and don't forget to call your parents you know because you were gay
yeah of course yeah well how did you come out to whom like what what's the best story you've got
the best story i've got um i did you come out in college i came out publicly in college after my
freshman year okay i uh came out in a facebook status as bisexual
I came out to my mom the day she dropped me off at college
and then I immediately went and hooked up with a guy,
a residence advisor.
What's the funniest way I came out?
Probably I was hooking up with a guy friend of mine in high school
and he really wanted to come out, but I didn't.
And so then he outed me to like three of our close friends.
No, that's horrible.
And then I was like, I could either deny this or just run with it.
I was pissed and devastated, of course.
Shut out.
But he's a very good friend of mine to this day.
And I don't blame him, by the way.
It's like I should have just come out to them.
And we were all very close.
It doesn't mean he should have done it.
But like, it's fine that he did.
But then I, to the girls that he kind of added me to, they're like, is this true?
This is what he's saying.
And I was like, yeah, I guess if he's saying that it's true.
And they're like, okay, why didn't you tell us?
And I was like, I don't know.
And they're like, okay, well, anyway, do you want to go to Applebee's?
Right.
And I was like, yeah.
Right, right.
And then we went to Applebee's, which is fully where I worked.
Right.
You worked at Applebee's?
Oh, yeah.
I was a neighborhood expert.
Wow.
Yeah.
Did you have a job at my school?
Yeah, I worked at a toy store.
Fuck, yeah.
You'd be so good at a toy store.
I worked at a toy store called Tales and Toys.
Knock it off.
And it went out of business, like, as I was working there.
Yeah.
Which I think makes a lot of sense.
Did you get free toys?
I didn't get free toys.
It was such a cute store.
Like, that's where I got my toys when I was a kid.
Like, my toys came from that place and, like, even had the same, like, wrapping paper from when I was a kid.
So when I would be, like, wrapping presents, the paper was so nostalgic for me.
Yeah.
That's so sweet.
I know it was sad when they went out of business.
It's a big toy.
What's the best present you've ever got?
As a kid.
Or in life in general.
What's the best gift anyone's ever given you?
And you can't say the gift of hope from our friendship.
That's...
You can't say the way that our friendship has gifted you with hope.
You have to say something different.
Okay.
What's second on my list?
Right behind hope from our friendship.
Yeah.
The gift of hope.
I have given you the gift of hope via our friendship.
What is the second best gift you've ever gotten?
Okay, okay, okay, I know, I know.
When I was, um, growing up, there was this store in, um, I have no idea where it was,
somewhere in Chicago, and it had all these little, like, yard metal little statues at the
store, and I wanted one so bad at my dad's like, you don't have a yard.
and I was like I really want one
and I think for my birthday that year
he got me like a miniature metal pig with wings
and I put it in my room
I put it in my room
no I wonder if I wonder if he does though
it really is really hard to like hang on to
it's kind of clunky and like
you really do need a yard for it
yeah I was in my room like next to my bunk bed
like this is the best thing anyone's ever gone on me
That's a really sick gift.
I loved it.
Did you name it?
Flying pig.
Of course.
I think I just referred to it.
Yeah.
Flying pig.
That's beautiful.
What do you think is the best gift you've ever given?
The gift of...
You can't say the gift of hope via our friendship.
Gift of hope.
Yeah.
Yeah, our friendship.
No.
I go like this.
Yeah, I can tell that sitting is a real challenge for you.
That's fine.
It's not our couch.
She's on the couch.
Yeah, that's fine.
Don't even sweat it.
Okay.
Best gift I've ever given.
Come back to me.
Easily.
Anyone else in the room?
What's the best gift I've ever given?
I'm not good at giving gifts.
I don't give gifts, and I don't really like giving them.
I'm trying to think the best gift I've ever gotten.
Um, you know what?
When I was on tour most recently, my friend
Carly, Carly Kane, friend of the product, shot out.
Carly went over to my apartment, got rid of my couch that she knew I didn't like,
and brought in a new one that I had picked out, put it in there for me,
and then, like, hung up some artwork and brought in some plants.
I kind of spruced up my apartment while I was gone, and I came back.
It was the nicest thing anyone's ever done for me.
That is so nice.
that's so thoughtful yeah really nice i really love that that's really sweet and gifts i've given
probably just the gift of hope that i give to all my friends right yeah well it's a very generous gift
yeah i infuse it into all my friendships and i think that that's probably the biggest gift i give
wait you don't like giving gifts i don't i just don't like getting gifts so i don't participate in giving gifts that
often i feel i find it very stressful when people when people are really into like birthdays and gifts and
And like, that just really stresses me out because I don't care if you do it for me.
So I'm, I just want you to love me the way that I love you.
That's really sweet.
You know, which is to not be stressed out about gifts.
I love giving gifts.
That's beautiful.
I like, if my gift is ready a couple weeks before I'm supposed to give it, I'm like, I want to tell you.
That's so, that's so sweet.
Let me tell you.
That's really sweet.
I love that.
I love giving gifts.
You've never given me one.
Well, okay.
It's no big deal.
The gift of hope.
Just the gift of hope from our friendship.
It's not enough.
That is enough, actually.
What do you think is the least hopeful you've ever been?
That one's a joke.
Don't answer that.
Don't answer that one.
Don't answer that one.
No.
Okay.
Let me ask you this.
Fuck Mary Kill.
Chicago.
New York.
Atlanta.
Don't say, okay.
Chicago, New York, Atlanta?
Yeah.
No.
That's too easy.
I didn't say L.A.
Because I wanted to be different.
but it has to be LA.
It has to be LA. Fuck me.
Can we do, like.
No.
You have to answer my name.
I don't want to.
Boston, Chicago, New York.
Boston, Chicago, New York.
Okay.
I feel like I'm going to get like so.
I feel like there's no right way to answer this
because everyone's going to be mad.
No.
I would.
Oh yeah, you tour also.
I know.
Don't answer this.
You actually tour.
I tour too,
but comedians can be mean to places they tour and get away with it.
I've never tried to be mean to the places.
You've never tried to be mean.
I don't think in general.
I've tried to be mean.
Really?
Yeah, I think so.
To who?
Well, when you left the room earlier and you told everybody to be nice to me, I said, you could say whatever you want.
I'm still going to tell him you were mean.
Whoa.
That was mean.
That's really nasty of you, yeah.
I know.
And then I said, just kidding.
Like, immediately.
This couch is tough, right?
Yeah.
Because it's like, I'm not quite comfortable.
It's just, like, not really off the ground at all.
Do you all need this pillow?
No, thank you.
though, I think maybe I'll just do like this.
I look bad.
God, I look bad.
No, Caleb.
I'm going to stand up real quick.
Don't cut any of this.
You look amazing.
Well, it's just like, the thing of it is, this feels really comfortable, actually.
Should we stand?
No, we can't.
Everyone's going to get mad because of the cameras.
Oh.
But I'm going to try sitting like this.
Okay, this is better for me.
Is this good?
Yeah, my back just hurts.
Wait.
Really?
Yeah, but I think that's just because I've been moving and then now I've been sitting for a long time
because we did Z-way's episode right before this.
Oh, okay.
And so now my body's like, what's going on?
Are you active or are you lazy?
Make a choice.
Right.
It's retaliating.
What's the laziest you've ever been?
Summer.
Always?
Every summer.
Yeah.
It makes a lot of sense.
Summer, I'm like, it's summer.
It's lazy time.
I'm on the couch and sleeping a lot.
My laziest era was for sure my last semester of college.
I, like, truly did nothing.
I moved never.
I was so depressed.
I laid in bed.
I took my meals in bed.
Victorian woman who was dying.
Wait, where did you go to college again?
Missouri State.
Go Bears.
M-I-S-S-O-U-R-I-State.
We love it.
That was beautiful.
I was beautiful.
Wait, you went there too?
That's where we met.
Wow.
Yeah.
That's so nice.
Yeah.
The people you meet in college are the ones that you know forever.
Is that the saying?
Yeah.
Chances kind of like a, do you know when you receive a parasite?
that you can't get rid of
that's what chance has been to me
it's just like that
but you do begin to love the parasite
because you don't know yourself without it
and it's causing you to lose weight or whatever
you know you find things to like about the parasite
chase that's so nice
chance
chance I know it's the weirdest thing
I'm so sorry don't be he loves it
this is only our second time meeting
I'm so sorry chance but that's one too many times
but you think it's so weird though
that I'm not kidding I have never in my life
experience something with
The name chance, people cannot get it.
Don't be.
It's Chase every time.
I always say Chase the rapper.
No, it's the name.
I'm telling you.
It's not the guy.
It's the name.
I'm kidding.
I come from...
No, chance the rapper.
I come from a really long line of people who, one, get names wrong and two, get phrases wrong.
Yeah.
Like yesterday I was walking, not to keep talking about my dad, but he, I was like, oh, I'm so
tired and, you know, lull over.
And he was like, do you have time to nap today?
And I was like, no, I don't have time to nap today.
And goes, well, when you get older, you'll die.
And I was like, do you mean you'll sleep when you're dead?
But hear him out.
When you get older, you'll die.
But hear him out.
That's what he said.
In his incorrectness, he made a brilliant point.
When you get older, you'll die.
And you will.
It was really like shell shocking to hear that.
I was like, what, Dad?
You're like, I'm a little sleepy day.
And he's like, we're all going to die.
And you're like, fuck, okay.
But he meant to say, you'll sleep when you're dead.
Yeah, that's really funny.
He was close.
Sheek.
Yeah, you should have him on.
He's kind of my diva.
Like, some people have pop divas.
Your dad's like my diva.
Yeah, he's like, kind of like you're like, what, fiance?
Yeah, or my like Madonna or something.
Right, you're Madonna.
Yeah, he's like the diva that inspires me, my North Star diva.
He's your Waxahatchee.
He's my Waxahatchee.
Datahatchee.
That's so sweet.
Yeah.
Waxedadachi.
There we go.
Yeah.
What's his name?
Todd.
Todd.
I told him I was...
Todd Ahatchy.
Told him I was going on a podcast today.
He told me to kick ass.
I think you are.
I think you're totally kicking ass.
It's not a soccer game.
It's not a soccer game,
but you're totally kicking ass in a way.
Thanks.
Don't you feel?
Yeah.
This is only the second podcast I've ever been on.
What was the first?
I don't know if that's true,
but the second one I remember being on.
What was the first?
Girls Rewatch podcast.
Oh, nice.
What did you talk about?
What episode did you do?
Did they do specific episodes on that?
We were on Broad City, which Broad City is like my favorite show ever.
And so, which I was really excited to do.
And it was the Shania Twain episode.
Fun.
And like Rupal's first appearance on the show.
Really fun.
It was a really good episode.
Really fun.
And Wanda Sykes' first appearance on the show.
Wow.
Big episode.
It was a huge episode.
Those two are great.
And I still just managed to talk about myself the whole time.
Yeah.
Instead of Abby and Alana.
That's okay, though.
Sometimes we're just supposed to talk about ourselves on podcasts.
That's kind of the point.
Really?
They can be whatever we want them to be.
Really?
Yeah.
Are you working on any music right now?
I'm trying to.
How's it going?
It's good.
It's good.
I have a lot of clarity on planes, I'm realizing.
Like, I'll be writing for weeks and then I'll take a plane ride and I've been like,
this is terrible.
This is amazing.
Like, it's just, it's so clear to me for some reason.
when I'm on a plane
but when I'm writing
I'm like
it's like very cloudy
and I just don't know
what's going on
kind of yeah
yeah what about you
are you writing music
are you?
Yeah
can I produce your album
yeah are you kidding
if I made an album
for real you could definitely produce it
really
yeah I don't see why not
I'll tell you something
I'm being really good today
I'm moving
I'm packing I'm doing
all the things I'm supposed to
I'm being very responsible
tonight
I'm going to get a type of high on marijuana
that they
frankly might outlaw soon.
Like I am going to get comatose high on marijuana tonight
in a way that you can't even almost believe.
I'm going to FaceTime you tonight and screen record it
and then post it.
And put it into this episode.
Yeah.
We're going to retroactively edit it into this episode.
You edit it right here.
Yeah.
I don't get, do you get high?
Not really.
I smoked a lot in high school and I think that changed something.
Do you know that theory of like you only have like 11 good smoking years in
you or something?
That really scares me.
Nine.
Seven.
That really scares me.
Eleven.
Sorry.
Which one?
I don't know.
I think it might be seven because 11 feels like a lot.
Seven.
Or maybe even four.
I did those seven, I could say.
I didn't start smoking weed until I was 26 or seven years old.
Oh, really?
Maybe 27, yeah.
Wow.
I never did before that.
Oh, you missed, like, smoking weed in high school and, like, going to 7-Eleven and getting a slurpee.
I think that's really good that I missed that.
It was so fun.
I know, but I didn't eat it.
I think it was good that it didn't find me then.
We would see like a cop in the 7-Eleven and be like,
just getting our slurpy.
Sir, and we're allowed to, by the way.
That's so fucking funny.
Oh my God, my God, oh, my God.
That's so funny.
Now I'm just getting, now I say I get high like maybe twice a week.
That's a good number.
It feels okay.
What do you do?
Do you watch a movie?
Sometimes watch a movie, go on a walk, go out,
to a bar with a friend hang out hang out i don't drink that's over for me i'm not drinking oh
really okay cool i think we might need to end drinking in general i i think we might need to end drinking
in general i i i'm hungover right now i would agree with that yeah yeah yeah yeah today you're
on board i was out until three in chicago last night i'm really sorry i didn't want to say it
claude i know but but like it's fine it is i'm doing amazing it really is you never would have
known you're kicking ass this is how i am when i'm not hungover too so i will say you
you seem very normal to me.
I didn't really drink that much.
You seem like yourself.
Hung over from the night of just being awake.
That's just the gift of hope you get from friendship.
Being up too late, exactly.
The gift of hope you get from friendship is the theme of the episode I've decided.
Can we title it?
The gift of hope you get from friendship.
Too long.
Too long.
Yeah.
Fuck.
Fuck.
What'd you say?
Chance.
I don't know if the mic will pick it up, but Chance just off.
in the corner of the room going,
it is a gift.
Shut up.
Wait.
One time, one time,
one time that was me,
I was on mushrooms and I was,
I had a duplex apartment.
It was like two bedrooms.
I had three roommates.
It was like two bedrooms on the top floor,
then a staircase that went like right into the living room kitchen
and then two bedrooms on that floor.
And I was on mushrooms and I was sitting on the top of the stairs.
And my two of my roommates were like,
having a conversation in the kitchen and they were talking about like this these people we knew
from college and like the guy was like always leading the girl on and I knew these people from
eight years ago or whenever at least I thought I knew them I actually am not even sure if I really
do and I was sitting on top of the stairs and I was like right like does lead her on and I was like
crying it's so true like and she's so true like and she's so
so sweet and he like I just don't think he even knows he's doing it and then like five minutes later
hear them go hello hello they're like someone there no god for five minutes that is so funny oh my
I'm crying I was like responding to their conversation yeah thinking they heard me and I was part
of it one time I was helping a friend of
move who was on my bad side and so I was talking negatively about them while we were helping
them move and I had moved I had moved the mattress a mattress that I was on the front end of
carrying a mattress behind me like kind of like this and my other friend was behind and we were
carrying it together right out of the house and then we're walking down the street to the car to
like put it in there and I start talking shit on the friend that we're helping move not realizing
that that friend had taken over the back end of the mattress from my friend so I was
talking shit to them about them without realizing it so i was like i was like yeah i just don't know what
the fuck he's thinking like god he's like he's like he's like totally like i don't know even what i was
saying but i was talking so much shit and then i turn around when we go to put the mattress and he's just
like hey and it was so fucking awkward that sucks but also i wasn't wrong so i was just like i
literally went sorry went back and grabbed more stuff from the house what's your friendship like
down uh really strong he's but it's complicated because
he's he has a really important job he's he's the president which is like so
random yeah of the country and so it's just like hard because he's like obviously I don't
feel like he's switched up but he's just gotten really busy right right like so he's
been the same as he's always been no he's like still my friend is in there somewhere
but it's like he's busy and like yeah he's just been like we don't talk as much on the phone
as we used to as much as you'd like I bet that's really hard but I remember the good times
and I have hope that when he's not in this job anymore,
like, will, like, kind of get back
to the way things used to be, but sometimes
you can never go back to the way things used to be.
Right. I mean...
But we used to have so much fun.
Yikes.
Yeah, it's hard.
Sometimes you think it's a really big job,
and they're like, I don't want to say he's changed
because that doesn't feel fair, but like, yeah,
he's just, like, going through with something right now.
Like, and that happens, and that's, like,
sort of the cycle of friendships, like...
Yeah.
But, you know, when you get on the other side of this,
your friendship's going to be stronger than ever.
I had somebody tell me once
that when your friend gets famous
you have to give them three years
to be really weird
I think I know who told you that
Yeah?
Yeah
Who?
Grace.
Maybe.
Or did I tell you that
because Grace told me that?
Someone told me this.
Someone in our friend group
is spreading this
And yeah
That's what's happening with
DJ.
Okay.
Oh, this, Donald's...
Yeah.
I just call him DJ
It's like from back in the neighborhood
Right, no, totally.
Yeah, I just hope that like he'll
I don't know,
I just hope he'll like come out
on the other side of this job
like the guy that I used to know.
He's not taking the fame well.
No.
It doesn't seem to it.
It's gone straight to his head.
He's gone straight to his head and he's being like, yeah, I don't know.
We just like, we used to joke about stuff.
Like we'd be like, oh, you know, like, whatever.
But like now it's like he's really doing really crazy stuff.
I thought we were kidding.
But it turns out he was serious.
That's really, you thought everything he was saying was a joke.
Like you'd be like, oh my God.
No, like, yeah, we used to hang out back in the day.
be like, I'm going to do mass deportations, and I'd be like, DJ, but then, no, he straight
up is, which is crazy.
Oh, Caleb, I'm sorry.
I know.
It's hard.
But sometimes your friend succeeds and, like, things change.
I can't even remember why we started talking about this.
Well, that's because it's gone on for so unnecessarily long.
It's like, everyone was over.
I'm going to be like, he cannot still be doing this.
Yeah.
Anyway, no, let's change the subject.
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I'm very forgetful.
Yeah.
And there's always something I forget to say and then I really don't forgive myself.
Yeah.
Because I really want to tell you things.
Maybe instead of trying to be better at remembering,
you could get better at forgiving yourself.
One time, Caleb, I asked you...
My God, Chance, don't cry.
It's okay.
Chance is crying now because I'm so profound.
Chance.
One time Caleb said to me, one time you were like...
I was like, Caleb, like, you're so good at making decisions...
Do you remember this?
I was like, you're so good at making decisions.
How are you so good at making decisions?
And you're like, it's not that I'm good at making decisions.
It's that I can handle it if I make the wrong one.
Yeah.
I have a lot, I tell a lot of people this in my life.
That is, I tell so many people of that in my life too because you told me.
Yeah.
Well, that's what it is.
It's, people say this to me a lot.
I have a lot of friends that are indecisive and struggle with decisiveness.
And they ask me the same question of like, how do you, how are you so good at making
choices?
And like, it's not that I never make the wrong choice.
It's just that I know that if I make the wrong choice, there will be consequences and
I'm prepared to handle them.
Right.
And that's just what, that's, you just have to get, you don't have to get better at making choices.
You have to get better at accepting choices.
in consequences.
Right.
That's all.
It's just so good.
Thanks.
And then I was like, my response was like, I can't handle it when I make the wrong
decision, which is why I can't make a decision.
That's really fair.
Anyway, I'm going to get into my story.
Yeah, tell your story.
Okay, so I was, it was like really, really, really hot day.
And I was, the trains weren't working.
And I was running late to a meeting.
And I had to take an Uber to the,
the West Village.
Yeah.
Do you know this story?
Yeah, yeah, I love this story.
Wait, how do you know it?
Did I tell you?
You told me when we were biking.
Oh, yeah.
Is it okay if I tell it now?
Of course.
It's for them.
Not me.
I'm nobody.
I'll tell you guys.
I was in an Uber and I was, so I was heading into the West Village from Brooklyn
and I was heading up like sixth Ave and sixth Ave turns like one, the far left lane goes to the
Holland Tunnel, which goes to New Jersey.
And it's always like so back to.
up and I was in this Uber and
the Uber we
like I was the whole ride was supposed to take like 25 minutes
and I had been in the car for like 40
because he was like kind of not
just he wasn't driving great
and so we were in the city and I was like oh my god
like I've already missed the first like 20 minutes of this meeting
like this is horrible and we're sitting on 6ab
and I'm like okay finally like it looks like the traffic's like breaking up
on sixth half like the hall and tunnel lane is like standstill traffic but there's three other
lanes going up six that are just like flying i was like okay like all i'm texting like be there soon
and i'm like texting texting i look up and i'm like we're sitting in the hall and tunnel lane yeah
and i was like oh no like if we go to new jersey like my whole day is over like yeah i'm in the super
for another hour so i was like excuse me god i cannot imagine you trying to do this i know because i was
like I'm not like I never say anything ever yeah other than like how's your day going you know
but I was like excuse me like I think this is the Holland Tunnel lane and we're already
we've been sitting in this lane for so long it's already like the dotted lines are gone like it's a
single line like we're about to turn left into a hall and tunnel and I was like a fucking nightmare
it's a nightmare it would have added like an hour yeah and I think Uber charges me for that so I was
like excuse me like I think
you might be in the wrong lane.
And then he just starts, like, yelling at me.
And he's like, you think I'm in the wrong lane.
Why don't you drive the wheel?
Like, whoa, blah, well, like.
I'm sorry.
Like, I'm sorry.
Get in the passenger seat.
I'll drive us.
And he's like, I'm in the right lane.
This is the right lane to be in.
And I was like, I'm so sorry.
I said anything, like, totally, like, keep going.
And he's like, I can drive the car.
Like, I'm going to drive the car.
I was like, okay, okay.
And then his phone rings and he answers immediately.
And it goes on the car phone and it's like,
happy birthday
and I was after like
40 seconds of like back and forth
and then we went to New Jersey
and that was my birthday
present to him
it is so funny for him
to be screaming at you get a happy birthday call
and then do exactly what you were worried about
I was like
King
I was like look what we've done now
where we ended up
There are people missing me in the West Village right now.
I missed the entire meeting.
That is so funny.
Did you get forgiven about the meeting?
Yeah, it was fine.
I'm like early.
I'm always early.
Yeah.
And so when I'm running late, it's like a fighter, like my whole body starts like freaking out.
It makes sense.
That's not your nature.
No, it's not my nature.
I have a problem where anytime I'm early, my friend will inevitably be late.
And so it, that's just my luck in the universe.
Yeah, yeah.
So it creates these wait times for me that are like 40 minutes where like I've come I've come 15 minutes early
And they've come 30 minutes late and it has amounted to me sitting here for 45 fucking minutes
That's tough.
And so then I'm more upset with them than I even deserve to be because I exacerbated it by being early.
Right, right, right.
And the whole thing is just a nightmare.
That is really hard.
And I'm not European, so I'm not okay with this.
No.
I think being on time is really nice.
I love being on time.
Maybe this is my hot take.
Yeah.
Being on time is like, I think it's really rude to be late.
Yeah.
I really do.
I think it's so rude to be late.
I know.
I try not to care so much because things happen, but it's like, man, I really don't.
I feel bad when I do it, and I really don't like it when people do it to me.
I don't like it.
I don't like it.
I talk to people when I'm running four to five minutes late.
Yeah.
I'm saying, I say like 10 minutes before if I know I'm running like five minutes late,
I say I'm so sorry I'm running five minutes late be there soon.
To me, it's seven minutes.
minutes seven minutes is the moment where it's because that's 10 almost that yeah seven's where
it's like now I'm looking around going where the fuck is this person right five minutes I go of course
seven minutes is when you need to say something 20 minutes is when you need to be very apologetic
20 minutes is like you've done something crazy to me yeah yeah 15 you didn't plan correctly exactly
or someone died in front of you like something has to have happened that was crazy if you're
regularly 20 minutes late to stuff I do feel that you're rude I think that's really rude but
And some people have, like, really, like, bad time management skills.
And, like, it's like, it's like, it's like you're born with it.
Like, they just don't know how to get somewhere on time.
Yeah.
I don't, I struggle with empathy for that.
Me too.
I really do.
Because we teach it to kids.
Cheers.
Cheers.
We teach it to kids.
Sometimes adults tell me things that they struggle with that I'm like, for sure, but we,
you do have to solve that now.
Yeah.
Like, I'm so sorry that that doesn't come natural to you, but it is time for you to go ahead
and solve that.
You understand that, of course.
You know?
It's been 50 years.
They're like,
I'm impatient and I can't read a clock.
It's like, fix it.
Yeah.
Read a clock.
Fix it.
I don't know what to tell you.
There's a certain point where like you just need to work on that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's tough.
That's a tough one for me.
I could practice more grace though.
I can't.
I could stand too.
I should.
Okay.
I should and I should, but I can't.
I know that I can't.
Yeah.
That's crazy.
I'm like a ball of fury sometimes.
Really?
no i'm acting i was going to say that sounded really adorable i'm like i just get so rageful
if you were ever sincerely mad at me i think i would cry i would cry if you were mad at me
i don't get mad i i just get really worked up internally yeah just you know and then i like
eat something and i'm fine yeah what do you think is your best quality uh that's such a good
question and it can't be like a professional thing it can't be like how good you are at making music
because i already know that uh well that is i'm i don't know my best quality i can type really fast
nice yeah like on i keep seriously yeah i can type and i can do it without looking do we have a
computer in here that's not being used chance can you pull up the w pm test will you do a w pm test for us right now
i've never done that before i just think i can type really fast do you want me to do it first
and then you can do it so you can watch me do it.
We are on the podcast going to do a WPM test right now.
Chance did you pull it up?
What do you type?
You'll see.
Sentences?
Chance, bring it to me first.
I just remember this one time.
My mom, I think I get it from my mom because one time I was telling her a story.
You have to keep telling the story and narrate while I do this, okay?
Wait, okay.
One time I was telling my mom a story, I was like, my teacher is being so crazy,
giving us all this homework.
And she's like, uh-huh, uh-huh, and I look, and she's going like this.
like she's sending an email and she's looking at me
oh she's sending an email and she's looking at me while
while I'm telling her the story and I don't think she's listening
because she's sending an email but she's able to
look at me I thought that was really cool
that is really cool I was like when I grew up
one of these days yeah exactly do home keys
home keys like your fingers are all on like the home keys and like the middle
and then you just know or is it all just free finger no no no no
that's crazy wow
no it's it's ground it's planted it's can i see what you're doing can i hear it's the one
oh my gosh am i allowed to say oh my god on a podcast no all right i'm taking over
my name's caleb you need to hear me i'm i'm going rogue this is going
this is so true are you going to edit this out no this is all this was
really slow
and then the
timer began the timer begins.
In today's increasingly hectic and stressful world
Claude is taking their typing test now
so far they have gotten through two words
it's not looking good for their speed
what can I tell you guys about me
why Claude takes their typing test
Well, we're hoping to get a new studio for the podcast soon.
Guys, I think that would be really neat.
We're going to see if it happens or not.
I'm moving into a new apartment at the moment, which is very exciting.
The address is, just kidding.
You wish, freaks.
Go on.
Chance moved to New York.
I did.
Hello.
Welcome to New York.
Chance, how are you feeling about your New York City move?
I feel great.
I really love my place.
I'm excited to explore the neighborhood a bit more,
but I've just been spending a lot of time inside, setting all my shit up just so I
and, like, you know, be free for other things.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's really, really good.
Yeah, it's really proud of you.
Thank you.
I got a piece of chicken stuck in my teeth.
I'll deal with it later, though, no one worry.
Claude is nearly done.
Just a couple seconds left here on their test.
Okay.
I believe that they've already beaten me, but we'll see.
It's hard to, okay, they got their score.
What did you get?
Let me see.
Three words for a minute.
Who, but your accuracy was 96%.
53 words, that's bad.
What was yours?
mine was in the 80s and mine was also bad just so you know 53 words per minute I thought I didn't know we like I'm better when it's I'm just free flowing this one had rules this wasn't fair this wasn't a fair test we should have tested you on your own writing like yeah yeah just to see what you could have done yeah yeah I'm gonna up with it on my own you're still really fast I would have been really fast if I also if you had a desk and like a setup I just feel like an actual keyboard I just feel like an actual keyboard I just I just like an actual keyboard I just
know that I personally would have done better in that situation.
Right.
So I can only imagine what you would have done.
Amazing.
Yeah.
A hundred.
Probably even more.
I think I've done in the hundreds before.
Really?
Like, I think I've done like 118 and 120.
You were really fast.
I was moving.
I will say that was really bad, what I did.
Yeah.
The work I did.
Yeah, your work there was tough.
That's, it's all so funny that the, yeah.
The intro to this was you voluntarily saying not your best quality.
you volunteered that that was your best quality overall as a person
and they did one of the slowest
oh my god that's so funny dude
wow I don't know myself at all
no I think you do because I think you're faster
I think the circumstances were rigged against you
I don't think so
oh yeah it was rigged so you come
not looking better. It was rigged. Just lie on the podcast. Sorry, keep moving this couch.
No, it's okay. You and the couch have a complicated relationship. I can feel it. Oh, my God.
You look amazing. Really? Don't ever worry about how you're looking because you look great.
Thanks, Caleb. So do you. It's really about whether or not you're comfortable and whether or not you enjoy your life.
I am totally enjoying my life. That's awesome to hear. I think run with that. Keep enjoying your life.
What percentage of the time do you think you enjoy your life?
Okay. So that's tricky because lately I am really busy.
and I find it hard to be busy
because I get really stressed out about that.
Really? Yeah.
I get more stressed when I'm not busy.
Opposite.
Wow.
I have total belief that I will be busy again
and that things will come my way.
I do not have the thing where I'm like,
oh no, I need to be busy.
It's healthier.
What percent do I think I'm enjoying my life?
Percentage of minutes in the day,
I would say I enjoy my life 92% of the time.
That's a lot.
Yeah.
That's awesome.
I think I'm really in the pocket of enjoyment of my life.
That's really awesome.
Yeah, I try to really only, I try to only do things that I like.
But sometimes you've got to do the dishes.
Sometimes you have to, oh my gosh.
Or take out the trash or whatever.
I have to do the dishes right now.
I know.
Like literally, I'm not speaking figuratively.
No, I could feel that.
I'm literally having to do my dishes.
I could feel that there's a dishes problem going on with you.
There is.
They're not dirty dishes.
Well, they are.
I should say that.
Well, then you do not know what we're talking about.
they are dirty but they're not like i i rinse them and then i don't have a dishwasher
so i rinse them and then i put them in the sink so there's not like food on them yeah but
they should be you know properly washed no having a dishwasher is really tough it sucks you're living
a really hard life but i only have three plates so it's not that hard that's smart that's how you
have to live when you don't have a dishwasher you have to limit yourself i never i don't even i don't have
like a table like so i never host so i only need three plates yeah just you just you
And I've actually only ever used one or two of them.
Wow, one plate unused.
Yeah.
For sale, a plate, never used.
For sale plate, never used.
I have a red plate, a yellow plate, and a blue plate.
The red one I use the most.
Why are they all different colors?
Well, I thought that was cute.
It is cute.
Right?
It is cute.
I just didn't know if maybe there was some other reason I wasn't thinking of.
It's very cute.
Primary colors.
Yeah, that's really cute.
Because when I moved into this apartment, it was my first time living.
in my own apartment without roommates.
And it was the first time I was like, I have to buy plates, you know, because usually I
just been using my roommate's plates.
Yeah.
And we need quad plates.
I need my plates.
So I went to the store and I, I had so much free, like, I didn't have pots.
I didn't have pants.
I bought three plates, red, yellow, blue.
I bought a pot that I'm not even sure, like, is kitchen safe.
It has, like, a cute, like, round red lid with, like, a blue circle and, like, you can't sit
really on the stove without balancing,
it kind of topples over.
Yeah.
But it's so cute.
So one of the worst qualities for a pot
is that it topples over.
There really needs to be stuff in it.
Yeah.
So I do have this pot.
Now, the one thing about it is it topples over.
But the pan matches.
That's nice.
And that topples too.
Okay.
That's not good.
You got the toppling set.
But it was so exciting to buy it.
Yeah.
It is fun to do that stuff.
So fun.
I have some plates of money.
own.
Really?
Yeah.
What do they look like?
Oh, yeah.
Well, my ones in Kansas City have a big red set.
Oh, I like that.
All red.
The red plates, coffee mugs, bowls, smaller plates.
I feel like you have really great interior design style.
That is very kind of you.
I've never seen it with my own eyes, but I feel like you really do.
I want to thank you for speaking on that, and I don't think that I do.
I think I have decent.
Okay.
But it's not, I just, there's some things I can't figure out spatially.
I get that.
I can figure out like a couch and a rug sometimes, but sometimes I end up having really basic taste on accident.
Sometimes I'll like something and be like, you're a low-key basic.
With what?
Give me an example.
Like the things I like.
Totally.
Like I'll like a rug and be like, that actually is an ugly rug and not in a cute chic way, but in a way where like a woman from Ohio would have this in her house.
Like in an Airbnb.
Identically correct.
You have Airbnb style?
Sometimes on accident.
Okay.
Like I really will like something because it's.
I don't know.
Sometimes I just feel that my interior design taste is not what it needs to be.
I think, I, like, really pride myself on having stuff that is kind of really random.
Yeah.
And I recently went to a friend's house in L.A., and they had the same rug as me.
And I kind of had, like, an identity crisis.
That's really scary.
I was like, that's my rug.
Yeah.
But you're a rug, my rug, that's my rug.
Where did you get it from?
I got it from, well, an ad.
I got it from an ad
on Safari website
internet
I got it on the internet
I got it from an ad
on Safari website internet
absolutely brother
like really it's tassel
honestly I bet a lot of people have it
probably
it was probably like some horrible website
like rugs.com or something
rugs USA
it wasn't that
because I know that one
but all those like rugs
U.S.A. Waf Bear, Target, even, they all have the same rucks.
Have you noticed that?
Yeah, and they advertise to people like us.
They do.
They advertise to queer people in Brooklyn because they're like, you don't want to spend
3,000.
I'm telling you, I went rug shopping yesterday.
Some of them were in the $7,000 range.
That's insane.
And I said, you just have to be kidding.
It's really crazy.
Obviously, I won't do it.
I had a budget that was, I had a high budget.
But I was like, I will never in my life spend even a half of that on the road.
Rugs are really expensive.
They are.
It's crazy.
And the lower budget you go, the more people have.
that rug. And the more that the rug actually
sucks. You get a cheap rug and you're
like, this is ugly, looks bad,
feels bad, slips and slides.
I'm sliding all over my apartment with this
rug. It follows me
into the kitchen.
This is a damn rug.
This gosh darn rug.
Think about rugs is. You should do stand up.
About your rug.
Think about rugs is they slide.
That was that. By the way,
I would laugh at that.
I don't, I, I, I'm horrible at stand-up.
I tried it one time, but don't ask.
But sometimes I feel like, I have this, like, recurring dream that, like, oh, no, I have to do stand-up.
Like, the opportunity, it's not even an opportunity, it's like, I have to do it.
So sometimes that anxiety comes into my real life.
So I, like, have to practice jokes on my partner.
Of course.
Yeah.
And they are so lucky.
I'll be like, like, like, but I'm shh.
And then they're like it. Do they laugh or no?
I think it's like 70%.
That's a good hit rate.
I know.
Many comics would kill.
I'm like, I am so funny in private.
I believe you.
And then you put a microphone in front of me and it's like, I have three plates.
And that was your big, yeah.
And no dishwasher.
Three plates was your big closer.
Yeah.
Oh, I have a question.
Claude, what's so true to you?
I think that if you're canceling plans,
I think we're, like, past the part.
Like, I think we're past the age of, like,
you don't have to say why.
You can just say so sorry, can't make it anymore, have fun.
Yeah.
I don't think anybody should expect a novel of, like, why.
Oh, my God, you know, there's chipmunk, you know, you can't.
Yeah.
Traffic.
Yeah.
You know, squirrels.
Like.
Yeah.
Squirrels are always part of it, too.
That's the hard part.
I, like, I don't know.
I don't, it's not helpful to anyone.
Yeah.
Because there's always a lie involved.
Yeah.
I was like, oh, I just had the longest day.
You know, and I don't want to, I don't want to get a paragraph about it.
And I trust my friends enough to be like, I can't come and know that it's for a good reason.
Yeah.
Or even a bad reason and that's okay, too.
Yeah, I just also feel like if someone does it to you enough and you're annoyed by it,
you can stop inviting them to things or whatever.
But it's like, yeah, I'm with that.
I'm like, don't send me a reason, whatever.
Yeah, yeah.
Don't come.
And if I'm, if we're close enough, I'll be like, why not.
not yeah yeah or like if we're close i'll ask do you want to talk about yeah i'll be like what's up
everything cool yeah but i don't think people need to you're right i feel like too another thing i'm
thinking of i think you said it on here once is like the nicest thing you can do is go to someone's
birthday party the nicest i really stand i think that if you don't go to a birthday party then maybe
give a little bit of an explanation yeah it's hard though because everyone's always having one
i know think about how many birthday parties you get invited to in a year and only one of the best
things ever happens to me is when I get invited to something I don't want to go to
and I'm out of town, the way I get to text back to that, no, no, get yourself comfortable.
I'm really far away.
Okay, I'm ready.
You feel set?
Yeah.
The way I get to respond to a plan when I'm out of town for it is so gorgeous to me.
I get to respond so like, I'm out of town.
I respond like an heiress who's like going to be, I'm like, oh, darling, I so would kill to see you then.
Right.
Unfortunately, my travels have taken me elsewhere.
I love the way I get to, like a magnanimous, like, I get to respond like somebody I'm not even.
Have you ever responded to a text?
And then in your head of the Osrat had been like, oh, I should respond to that text.
I'm going to say, like, oh, no, I'm out of town.
And then you look and you've already responded.
Oh, no, I'm out of town.
Yeah.
Has that ever happened to you?
Yes.
I often go back to respond to things that I were, and vice versa.
Well, I often go back to be like, why didn't they ever text me back and realize I had not responded to them?
Right, right, right.
I think I have like automatic brain responses to texts like birthday party I'm going to be out of town it's oh no a sad face yeah I'm out of town I hope you have so much fun and I think that's a beautiful response to send but that's like I know that's what my fingers will just start typing yeah it's just gonna happen it's gonna even when you're in town and you're not sad exactly it's like your brain's like oh no I'm out of town I have a segment for you what I have a segment for you what is it it's true false
Oh, okay.
Okay, I'm going to read you 15 statements.
You're going to tell me as quickly as you can if you think what I just said is true or false.
Okay, okay.
Please use the words true or false.
Okay.
And then if you get 10 or more correct, I'm going to give you 50 U.S. dollars.
Okay.
South America has more nations than Africa.
Wait, do it again.
South America has more nations than Africa.
True.
False.
The average human body consists of 30% water.
True.
False, 60%.
West Side Story is based on Romeo and Juliet.
False.
True.
there are five original teenage mutant ninja turtles
false four
the ostrich egg is the world's largest bird egg
false true
there are always even numbers
of rows on corn ears
what
what
there are always even numbers of rows on ears of corn
true
Edward Smith was the name of the captain of Titanic
true true Syracuse University's mascot is Captain Orange true false Otto the Orange I went there the NFL has 30 teams true false 32 Alaska has the most active volcanoes of any US state that's true true my chemical romance has released six studio albums false false false four Justin Bieber was born in London Ontario Canada true true the Dewey Decimal System is primarily used in libraries true true the world's party girl what oh nice me too
the world's longest coastline is in China
false false it's Canada
Highland Park Illinois was the headquarters of the solo
Cup company until 2009
wait I'm from there
did you know that
oh that's why is that true no
that can't be true true true true true
the solo cups until 2009
headquarters oh my goodness how they do
really bad
that's terrible no it was a beautiful
attempt that was full of spirit and you really
committed to the time which i thought was beautiful thank you you're quite welcome claude what
what else do you want to tell people where can they find you uh the internet um i have like
instagram and stuff it's i have no e at the end of my name claude and sometimes it's like
my last name claude mince or sometimes it's claude dot at p3 is that what i was supposed to say yeah
you did great i hate doing that you did so great thank you so much for doing it we love you
Thank you for having me, Kaelan.
We love you, dude.
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