I was a Huge Botard
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 running time 34:25
This episode of Internet Superstar looks at the shame of our earlier years through cathartic interviews with the now grown kid from the 2001 Internet meme "Hello my future girlfriend," the founder of Mortified, and The Star Wars Kid.
Unless they still are one, most people will admit to being a huge dork in their teenage years. Even Internet's Martin Sargent. On this episode of Internet Superstar, Martin works through the horrifying, shameful memories of his early years by interviewing people whose pasts may have been even more embarrassing.
In his first interview ever, Martin and Gator talk to a now grown up Michael Blount. Michael Blount, you'll recall, was the mullet-sporting, high-pitched kid from one of the first massively distributed Internet memes ever, Hello My Future Girlfriend. What's he doing now, how does he feel about his infamous past, and how did Martin contribute to his ruination back in 2001? It’s all in the interview.
Next up is David Nadelberg, founder of the wildly popular and critically acclaimed Mortified stage shows. Mortified, in Dave's words, "Is a comic excavation of adolescent art, writing, and media." In other words, it's everyday people getting up on stage and reading or showing the horribly embarrassing stuff they wrote or created in their angst-ridden youth. And now there's a fantastic website component of the show at GetMortified.com
And finally, in a true coup, we have the first interview EVER with The Star Wars Kid. What's he doing so many years after picking up a golf ball retriever and filming himself pretending it was a lightsaber, only to have the footage find its way onto the Internet and onto the computer screens of about 1/5 the world’s population? Tune in to find out.
Internet Superstar. It's only slightly less embarrassing than when you shat your pants running the high hurdles in 8th grade gym class!
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" Martins are not in -- yeah. Three superstar he. So yeah -- the fame in the news or relative of mine in a celebrity now you know hundred -- right now and you know case psychologically we haven't figured doctor the other anything like that people recognize you on the street that sort of thing how to go. I'm getting along just fine Manning get recognized very bad idea -- not -- star Marat as the that I thought it was because they showed turned out just a bit hostile to Mac oregano to back in 1984 -- 25 dollars back. That's about it. Did you give it didn't like didn't your big Internet celebrity now you can afford to give my money to accurately that drugs -- numb and I this sucker punch and got my truck engines drove right up there with. You know I Yangon right now by anybody that may go like all pearl officers coming to India as mad at the moment about. You don't have an idea that I've been recognized by the apple hasn't done here but."
" It's gonna happen and -- I swear to god is gonna make me there hasn't that's and begin today killed by -- That baby -- this six a lot -- so far becoming Internet it was through. My news show itself was expected to Libya met Kevin -- to write this -- improve the program. That it automatically gauge my ears in relative to other Internet people all need to do with. Log onto the -- if you -- here click it and well let's see here look like after. Shows. It that I and so it did we see this guy. And need your boy. Yet. Your idiotic trajectory straight on out night going toward the stars. Don't do it. Could well let's look at act okay slow and steady wins the race right. We'll see if I've got up with a recognized by next week and I hit it right I swear I will not happen to like -- crutch that. All I like turtles. And act. I -- yeah. Get. It they applaud today's show up are you embarrassed by how big of a dork you cooler means you're still -- life doing just don't realize how big of a -- you are right now but. Some day little boy I promise you will you will come to this realization well there's a straight web -- out there to help you mortified dot com where people get. Cathartic leaves -- got about how unbelievably. Clueless they weren't there are younger. By issuing old pictures. Who the street veterans that are in the bottom of the site at the correspondent's issue Dave -- Eagleburger. Will join us here in the -- but yeah. Look Cooper. The big yet that. This American life but now admittedly this guy is but the debate about the big guys. You know. And Dave on -- keynote got to thinking -- to thank you real real -- I mean I really do some pondered this morning yes even. Martin sergeant was not the most dapper with that follow up when I was school -- so I started -- that are relevant -- yet here. And the whole flip flop I -- well -- going. Get ahead of god to grant -- who borrowers that of them your book and -- Peabody sergeant and the family unit. Anybody out attack on community about. -- Your book and it's let's appreciate what I look like. In high school before I became a big dance and personalities here. So a lot -- and which. I thought it. Hit. Thank you wouldn't be right I sensible you mr. Rose more than two young boy courts that -- Edwards himself ablaze in front of the orange Julius -- ridge mall and you'll end up like guided the big guys who didn't want -- back yard. What was supposed to be -- this Gator -- doing all right what is supposed to be like -- that under in the hope that kids yeah. Anyway I had a real trip down memory lane looking up my old running through the in this market. You guys you want me to introduce you to my old -- man let's -- let me introduce again here is. My hope now."
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" Nice memories from my -- in fact. There's a whole -- I regretted about high school loans. You know thank -- finally got expelled from the naked power watch organized to raise money for the ball mixer my parents certainly opted to complete my education a private private school in northern Denmark because. It."
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" Remember the average normal to be active little man. That -- or of course. -- Star Wars kid -- it you know Beckett I believe you when ignorance they decide used on bears the you can imagine that happened yeah that's workmanship not -- robot brilliant idea and that fact hidden snag the Titanic. Credibility with the love whip. Yeah the shirt off to a man who can't -- Again yeah. All the my -- back there was Michael -- Who in 1999. Recorded what what I'll have to be one of the first wildly popular and that means remember that he rubber this plastic. Hello my future girlfriend. My future girlfriend. Let's take -- look at."
" Hello my -- chicken -- and it is letting them -- I lose yourself in the six day in New Mexico. Me he knew it and then duck -- But I. Thinks we're stuck yeah."
" Well that was in 1999. Wouldn't it be nice to know executives up you nine years later well what do you think we find out via Skype from Colorado August 1 interview ever. Here is Michael blood I don't Mike and Mike. That you haven't aged a bit unbelievable. -- like you remember."
" The day that you recorded that little bit. Little bit according to the page with written on there you're just gone through what seems to about quite a bad break up in the purpose of that was. To find a new Internet girlfriend correct. Can you tell us a little bit about the break up I mean how how heartbroken where you. It's not too terribly. But that enough that you want to visit to record that thing and it tried to find love -- new. It still will it be and how long have you put that up negative becoming Internet sensation. So maybe 23 years that. This we've gotten -- And what hit. We just mortified when that happened to me that tells about how all played out you went to school one day and somebody that might have -- you up by the -- what happens. No I'm just that a lot of you know the first. Some organized somewhere hey bill. Sort of thing lot of attention until my outlook. Get your MySpace page and I couldn't help but notice that -- it's than the page you're yet. I guess you didn't realize that what you were so desperately looking for a new girlfriend goes up somewhere along the -- you to sort of a dramatic turn here right. Only then acceptance -- will junior year. Did you do you think oh over it's like I don't like the thing we think that this dramatic experience. Of all the -- if you had any effect on shaping your your sexuality. There's a little. Then you could go up. It's a little bit. Actually of those some of that -- do you Martin. Accurate tech TV days -- spring. Yeah but the only -- that we wouldn't want to experience with what you saw itself up -- I didn't see it -- had a friend from. As a freshman I thought the time he called me. About it he and what we're really pissed off to create. Yeah effort that while. I -- thoughts are. Anyway negatively impacted your life changed the course of your life brought you and he -- to -- your friends your family. I sincerely apologize but you know I've imagined usually small about himself and relatively got slapping you make myself feel about it so. Please accept my apology. --"
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" Hello my future girlfriend. Bought my outlook. My name is Sean and show -- five -- tool. Please yeah we have -- on track. My hobbies include -- Young age in the east trip to outlaw bullish age of area should handle it -- poultry. You -- to be able to talk long. Hot. I am soon going in the long romantic ruled that I'm letting you can't get away it would be under the -- and -- English guy. With the -- my -- which sexual favors ultimately. I'll never forget optional."
" Hugh Hewitt who are pregnant man -- built a website about it of course. You can do it cheap when it goes -- and this at the promo -- for all want to see it. -- If you are cute. Little. Yourself if that's superstars goes daddy."
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" Welcome back tonight show but that's going to the dropping support of phenomenally successful stage show mortified which also has the hysterical yet cringe inducing web component at -- mortified dot top. Mortified -- that was the cultural phenomenon might Newsweek it has been celebrate this American life. And I'm very pleased to know give it a real immediate boost here on my -- I just want their fears gay -- good day today -- it. So did anyone who hasn't had experience of attending mortified and any of the several cities -- the regular production what is how would you describe."
" I would like it terabyte is as a comic excavation. The strange and extraordinary things people created its kids. Basically. Ordinary people getting onstage reading aloud embarrassing love letters lyrics journals home movies and orange shirt total strangers."
" You watching all these mortified Cuba it was on your website and yeah it was unpleasant it was built up and brought back again. -- brought a lot of apparently couldn't and you think memories about one colossal -- I was in Iceland it was a really bad really deep stage -- but I think about. Like that this awkward -- that like the highest -- less reputable link for months before the game -- Houston had yet I didn't -- to work again for four months. If you -- which they market stability. And we want to thank -- only word I spoke to her at that that we're so. How you doing in French class I think. To this -- created about that memory you know it's cathartic to talk about it now I get the purpose of the Asia."
" Is an -- And -- I suppose you've got Google gradual several times and and debated apologizing to parents and I'm really are."
" And I'm not ready for that yet. Talking about your I'm not ready to confront bat and -- person to person will. Yeah you out when the bullet and see that it. Did burden you did did this whole idea come about because you yourself and the work -- your own -- of the members."
" I yeah I started the project perhaps a decade ago. When I had I discovered. A really terrific. So let's start -- love letter that I hate it really into girl. Ahead and give manager. And then I discovered -- I don't know like 9899 and and I I was reading into lot of friends at parties and then eventually that you know. Another factor -- terrible actor like to put this up onstage and I want to invite other people to do the same it. And then sure enough there -- people with a lot worse. Childhood reading to him."
" Do you remember like a particular line from that letter. That you might wanted to share with the AFI shares it with the storms."
" Opens up within need to -- really didn't know her. Can really only thing to note that I tried to. The everything to this girls are wanted to be funny and corn sweet and smart intellectual type -- films. -- all friends bed -- Did it it was this is. Hello Leslie. -- data today yeah it's quite well I must admit."
" If you look at yours is a good one because what you are about to read and may not an investor -- another -- to -- and put it."
" That other -- that now I can reach a look at a mid level but I would imagine the U. Her legs from the Norton anthology of poetry that's gorgeous. Well -- always -- so we can put them in better context or when you're right now let's go ahead take a look at one of the mortified Q Bach showed you how about their get mortified dot com. This one is called Melissa's -- okay."
" Hi I'm Melissa when I was fourteen I was madly in love with my next door neighbor and fortunately. He had a girlfriend. So I of course came up with a devious scheme to win him over. But I kind of lost it. Page one of -- Mutilation techniques. To his girlfriend. This is her -- This is my lips after I Razr. This is her -- After I checked your -- football which I do cats and she cancer in her face."
" So -- feel pretty good idea for -- like that pretty bad gotta be quite cathartic for people to get up front page article on the web site. It started humorous we've worked through these horrible memories in the people afterwards station I feel like a weight -- that up myself."
" Yes you know it it's really it's really a nice and senator of the project is. Every single performer that we wanted to working weird more than telling us that this is just been a really interesting experiment for them where they're learning. About who they are and do more for who they were and then for the audience. They wanted to putting themselves in the people's shoes so much that they relate and they go through the same experience."
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" And lord if I mean you feel bad about her right yeah yeah essentially. Reiner told the latest there one time when I was -- boy and I was down down by the river with my best friend up. My best friend Ricky -- was -- he start talking all sorts of mad smack talking (%expletive) about -- they saw hostel often that wasn't going to be all right come back about his -- and killed him. And -- Bob way to his body down -- in my career I killed my best friend."
" Okay. Hey Dave Mozilla content in this stage shows and online seems to be stuck with delivered by people our age that we're about stalemate. Who didn't have blogs and MySpace page about to -- to unload their grief -- do you see it mortified changes as time moves forward."
" You mean over the years we've we've had -- seventy year old women onstage. In them. News people in the sixties and and we even had people probably bill as young as of those rare like. 23. Sound like that and what did -- think stresses we're starting -- a lot of the submissions from people. Well we blog entries that are actually -- that are over there are about ten years old we forget how on the Internet and all that has been around an event in her first book. One of the entries is actually based in a series of emails. And I mean we're all parts."
" I hadn't died yet. I keep that you theater that is like this big new thing but it -- every word in the previous blocked from. Our red white -- and hello my future girlfriend. I doubt he's my hero he's thought about that -- me. Wow it's also nice to hurt anyone watching this right now. How can they get up on stage of participated shows -- how to how to go about doing that. --"
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" It took Hillary he had. Ricky -- talking a bit about regrets you know things that you might have done in the past image he had never figured you wish you'd done differently like that you and your high schoolers like. It's written do you have anything like that you -- Element you know I don't regret stuff Martin -- what I mean what I like about it is some amusing 110 on that deal you know whatever the consequences man that's -- warrior -- army. -- kind of I don't think kind of puts -- that's what I think -- so there's nothing in -- you can flight that you wish you done differently come -- Well you know I don't press me on this on one thing about a month ago allows and I -- over there to try to parting with the troops you know to get while pumped up -- karate demos and stuff. Let's go to school with no matter how it out loud when I got an hour jet ski anyway there was just one day when I'll walk into this market to a chemical ticker. I don't think that it creeps you know you're gonna be equally deep Harvard -- computer at my store Indian man how about that. Okay. So sorry don't go. I mean you should -- let me finish this -- in this market in Iraq in this little boy approaches -- He's in the market he's got a dirt Wall -- dollar Amber's face and he only had like one plastic flip flop on his closes I'll concert tour the -- up and held out his hand to me. And he in his and got his little shiny red apple. In the opera and up to me and it was like he was -- apple awhile that's and that that's an amazing story did you take it. No matter round house kick that all stand -- the solar like to -- article about at a out of this plastic sandals that it turned him into that out and after it over not to -- you -- the -- If I can't imagine what Marty another direct. Written. -- yeah. I did not a -- to -- When he's finished watching road map that's the hard reality that is one month but let's and that will always be learned the hard way that I promise you that so I suppose you regret picking that little boy. Comment Mallard that was not catch him a little bit tired of the road area really really really do and a number on that commitment. -- young man I know we go back a long ways but parts of what I got banned artery out mutilated body and yourself. Ticket world of Atlanta -- that -- party seeming to suggest that your man get down the company I'll let my aunt helped out -- hotel. Ten minutes issue."
" While -- eases you know -- I still love everything but the agent that different breed and death -- Award I guess is going in you know again warrior can't -- charge not judge okay. We'll talk about another guy committed himself on the Internet and see how he's come to terms with it now that several years -- Explain that better known as the Star Wars kid would join us right. This word from our sponsor news. And now the -- yeah."
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" Snapped out and Uranus letting club. Made Mars that he Peabody which it. Welcome back to my show. Might actually took it up by storm and a video of him swing a golf ball retriever while pretending to be -- from all fell into the wrong hands got uploaded to the Internet and went on to be viewed and -- that by about a billion people roughly one. Of the population could well -- Hero showed just the right to speak out defend himself and tell the story of what it's like a bit like as the both lampoon person. In the world since last week thought he's matured into a young man he is also path that is identity remain anonymous right. Viewers please welcome gasoline Raza the Star Wars kid. Should do -- wouldn't -- reluctant to overlook the past six years."
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" Welcome to Internet superstar that show the make me. The Internet superstar."
" Martins are not in -- yeah. Three superstar he. So yeah -- the fame in the news or relative of mine in a celebrity now you know hundred -- right now and you know case psychologically we haven't figured doctor the other anything like that people recognize you on the street that sort of thing how to go. I'm getting along just fine Manning get recognized very bad idea -- not -- star Marat as the that I thought it was because they showed turned out just a bit hostile to Mac oregano to back in 1984 -- 25 dollars back. That's about it. Did you give it didn't like didn't your big Internet celebrity now you can afford to give my money to accurately that drugs -- numb and I this sucker punch and got my truck engines drove right up there with. You know I Yangon right now by anybody that may go like all pearl officers coming to India as mad at the moment about. You don't have an idea that I've been recognized by the apple hasn't done here but."
" It's gonna happen and -- I swear to god is gonna make me there hasn't that's and begin today killed by -- That baby -- this six a lot -- so far becoming Internet it was through. My news show itself was expected to Libya met Kevin -- to write this -- improve the program. That it automatically gauge my ears in relative to other Internet people all need to do with. Log onto the -- if you -- here click it and well let's see here look like after. Shows. It that I and so it did we see this guy. And need your boy. Yet. Your idiotic trajectory straight on out night going toward the stars. Don't do it. Could well let's look at act okay slow and steady wins the race right. We'll see if I've got up with a recognized by next week and I hit it right I swear I will not happen to like -- crutch that. All I like turtles. And act. I -- yeah. Get. It they applaud today's show up are you embarrassed by how big of a dork you cooler means you're still -- life doing just don't realize how big of a -- you are right now but. Some day little boy I promise you will you will come to this realization well there's a straight web -- out there to help you mortified dot com where people get. Cathartic leaves -- got about how unbelievably. Clueless they weren't there are younger. By issuing old pictures. Who the street veterans that are in the bottom of the site at the correspondent's issue Dave -- Eagleburger. Will join us here in the -- but yeah. Look Cooper. The big yet that. This American life but now admittedly this guy is but the debate about the big guys. You know. And Dave on -- keynote got to thinking -- to thank you real real -- I mean I really do some pondered this morning yes even. Martin sergeant was not the most dapper with that follow up when I was school -- so I started -- that are relevant -- yet here. And the whole flip flop I -- well -- going. Get ahead of god to grant -- who borrowers that of them your book and -- Peabody sergeant and the family unit. Anybody out attack on community about. -- Your book and it's let's appreciate what I look like. In high school before I became a big dance and personalities here. So a lot -- and which. I thought it. Hit. Thank you wouldn't be right I sensible you mr. Rose more than two young boy courts that -- Edwards himself ablaze in front of the orange Julius -- ridge mall and you'll end up like guided the big guys who didn't want -- back yard. What was supposed to be -- this Gator -- doing all right what is supposed to be like -- that under in the hope that kids yeah. Anyway I had a real trip down memory lane looking up my old running through the in this market. You guys you want me to introduce you to my old -- man let's -- let me introduce again here is. My hope now."
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" The day that you recorded that little bit. Little bit according to the page with written on there you're just gone through what seems to about quite a bad break up in the purpose of that was. To find a new Internet girlfriend correct. Can you tell us a little bit about the break up I mean how how heartbroken where you. It's not too terribly. But that enough that you want to visit to record that thing and it tried to find love -- new. It still will it be and how long have you put that up negative becoming Internet sensation. So maybe 23 years that. This we've gotten -- And what hit. We just mortified when that happened to me that tells about how all played out you went to school one day and somebody that might have -- you up by the -- what happens. No I'm just that a lot of you know the first. Some organized somewhere hey bill. Sort of thing lot of attention until my outlook. Get your MySpace page and I couldn't help but notice that -- it's than the page you're yet. I guess you didn't realize that what you were so desperately looking for a new girlfriend goes up somewhere along the -- you to sort of a dramatic turn here right. Only then acceptance -- will junior year. Did you do you think oh over it's like I don't like the thing we think that this dramatic experience. Of all the -- if you had any effect on shaping your your sexuality. There's a little. Then you could go up. It's a little bit. Actually of those some of that -- do you Martin. Accurate tech TV days -- spring. Yeah but the only -- that we wouldn't want to experience with what you saw itself up -- I didn't see it -- had a friend from. As a freshman I thought the time he called me. About it he and what we're really pissed off to create. Yeah effort that while. I -- thoughts are. Anyway negatively impacted your life changed the course of your life brought you and he -- to -- your friends your family. I sincerely apologize but you know I've imagined usually small about himself and relatively got slapping you make myself feel about it so. Please accept my apology. --"
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" Welcome back tonight show but that's going to the dropping support of phenomenally successful stage show mortified which also has the hysterical yet cringe inducing web component at -- mortified dot top. Mortified -- that was the cultural phenomenon might Newsweek it has been celebrate this American life. And I'm very pleased to know give it a real immediate boost here on my -- I just want their fears gay -- good day today -- it. So did anyone who hasn't had experience of attending mortified and any of the several cities -- the regular production what is how would you describe."
" I would like it terabyte is as a comic excavation. The strange and extraordinary things people created its kids. Basically. Ordinary people getting onstage reading aloud embarrassing love letters lyrics journals home movies and orange shirt total strangers."
" You watching all these mortified Cuba it was on your website and yeah it was unpleasant it was built up and brought back again. -- brought a lot of apparently couldn't and you think memories about one colossal -- I was in Iceland it was a really bad really deep stage -- but I think about. Like that this awkward -- that like the highest -- less reputable link for months before the game -- Houston had yet I didn't -- to work again for four months. If you -- which they market stability. And we want to thank -- only word I spoke to her at that that we're so. How you doing in French class I think. To this -- created about that memory you know it's cathartic to talk about it now I get the purpose of the Asia."
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" And I'm not ready for that yet. Talking about your I'm not ready to confront bat and -- person to person will. Yeah you out when the bullet and see that it. Did burden you did did this whole idea come about because you yourself and the work -- your own -- of the members."
" I yeah I started the project perhaps a decade ago. When I had I discovered. A really terrific. So let's start -- love letter that I hate it really into girl. Ahead and give manager. And then I discovered -- I don't know like 9899 and and I I was reading into lot of friends at parties and then eventually that you know. Another factor -- terrible actor like to put this up onstage and I want to invite other people to do the same it. And then sure enough there -- people with a lot worse. Childhood reading to him."
" Do you remember like a particular line from that letter. That you might wanted to share with the AFI shares it with the storms."
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" Hi I'm Melissa when I was fourteen I was madly in love with my next door neighbor and fortunately. He had a girlfriend. So I of course came up with a devious scheme to win him over. But I kind of lost it. Page one of -- Mutilation techniques. To his girlfriend. This is her -- This is my lips after I Razr. This is her -- After I checked your -- football which I do cats and she cancer in her face."
" So -- feel pretty good idea for -- like that pretty bad gotta be quite cathartic for people to get up front page article on the web site. It started humorous we've worked through these horrible memories in the people afterwards station I feel like a weight -- that up myself."
" Yes you know it it's really it's really a nice and senator of the project is. Every single performer that we wanted to working weird more than telling us that this is just been a really interesting experiment for them where they're learning. About who they are and do more for who they were and then for the audience. They wanted to putting themselves in the people's shoes so much that they relate and they go through the same experience."
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" Okay. Hey Dave Mozilla content in this stage shows and online seems to be stuck with delivered by people our age that we're about stalemate. Who didn't have blogs and MySpace page about to -- to unload their grief -- do you see it mortified changes as time moves forward."
" You mean over the years we've we've had -- seventy year old women onstage. In them. News people in the sixties and and we even had people probably bill as young as of those rare like. 23. Sound like that and what did -- think stresses we're starting -- a lot of the submissions from people. Well we blog entries that are actually -- that are over there are about ten years old we forget how on the Internet and all that has been around an event in her first book. One of the entries is actually based in a series of emails. And I mean we're all parts."
" I hadn't died yet. I keep that you theater that is like this big new thing but it -- every word in the previous blocked from. Our red white -- and hello my future girlfriend. I doubt he's my hero he's thought about that -- me. Wow it's also nice to hurt anyone watching this right now. How can they get up on stage of participated shows -- how to how to go about doing that. --"
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" It took Hillary he had. Ricky -- talking a bit about regrets you know things that you might have done in the past image he had never figured you wish you'd done differently like that you and your high schoolers like. It's written do you have anything like that you -- Element you know I don't regret stuff Martin -- what I mean what I like about it is some amusing 110 on that deal you know whatever the consequences man that's -- warrior -- army. -- kind of I don't think kind of puts -- that's what I think -- so there's nothing in -- you can flight that you wish you done differently come -- Well you know I don't press me on this on one thing about a month ago allows and I -- over there to try to parting with the troops you know to get while pumped up -- karate demos and stuff. Let's go to school with no matter how it out loud when I got an hour jet ski anyway there was just one day when I'll walk into this market to a chemical ticker. I don't think that it creeps you know you're gonna be equally deep Harvard -- computer at my store Indian man how about that. Okay. So sorry don't go. I mean you should -- let me finish this -- in this market in Iraq in this little boy approaches -- He's in the market he's got a dirt Wall -- dollar Amber's face and he only had like one plastic flip flop on his closes I'll concert tour the -- up and held out his hand to me. And he in his and got his little shiny red apple. In the opera and up to me and it was like he was -- apple awhile that's and that that's an amazing story did you take it. No matter round house kick that all stand -- the solar like to -- article about at a out of this plastic sandals that it turned him into that out and after it over not to -- you -- the -- If I can't imagine what Marty another direct. Written. -- yeah. I did not a -- to -- When he's finished watching road map that's the hard reality that is one month but let's and that will always be learned the hard way that I promise you that so I suppose you regret picking that little boy. Comment Mallard that was not catch him a little bit tired of the road area really really really do and a number on that commitment. -- young man I know we go back a long ways but parts of what I got banned artery out mutilated body and yourself. Ticket world of Atlanta -- that -- party seeming to suggest that your man get down the company I'll let my aunt helped out -- hotel. Ten minutes issue."
" While -- eases you know -- I still love everything but the agent that different breed and death -- Award I guess is going in you know again warrior can't -- charge not judge okay. We'll talk about another guy committed himself on the Internet and see how he's come to terms with it now that several years -- Explain that better known as the Star Wars kid would join us right. This word from our sponsor news. And now the -- yeah."
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" Snapped out and Uranus letting club. Made Mars that he Peabody which it. Welcome back to my show. Might actually took it up by storm and a video of him swing a golf ball retriever while pretending to be -- from all fell into the wrong hands got uploaded to the Internet and went on to be viewed and -- that by about a billion people roughly one. Of the population could well -- Hero showed just the right to speak out defend himself and tell the story of what it's like a bit like as the both lampoon person. In the world since last week thought he's matured into a young man he is also path that is identity remain anonymous right. Viewers please welcome gasoline Raza the Star Wars kid. Should do -- wouldn't -- reluctant to overlook the past six years."
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