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Imaginary Friends & Life as a Child Without a Father

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0:00 so you never had an imaginary friend because you had a little no we're trying to survive bro we're like ████ what do we eat we just had imaginary dads [Laughter] [Music] do you guys believe that little kids can see ghosts yup a thousand percent and I also believe that until they are past the age of three or four they're still confused if they're in their past life or current life because they're reincarnated interesting I think kids are filthy Little Liars [Music] um I think they're like Master manipulators too yeah you know why they're so ████ cute in the face because if a full-grown adult did that ████ I'll beat them up that's for sure a thing it's like a genetic thing for sure and then so

0:51 humans are just like damn it you're so ████ cute I can't do it man yeah you have to take care of you you're such a ████ that Punchy little cute little ████ face especially with like with my kids now I feel the exact same way but if a full-grown adult does the same thing man I ████ slap the living life out of them do you believe that when kids have imaginary friends and maybe you guys did when you were kids yeah I tried I really wanted to have imaginary friend I just used imagination stuff do it yeah I did have an imaginary friends just because I was a loser what was describe your imaginary friend I don't remember his name was it a ghost remember any traits um I remember it was just like me was he funny and I was I was the only child so I was I just had to create a space where like I get to like lay in bed and then put my blanket over him and then we get to like talk dude you guys slept together yeah

1:47 set that on fire set it on fire it's just your intrusive thoughts I bet you won't set that on fire idiot and he's like oh yeah check this out I had imaginary pets pets yeah pets like really like I don't know if you could do that yeah you could do that ████ I would I would I would make up like cats and animals and ████ and did you have any like exotic ones like oh this is my pet tiger Dragon that's pretty badass that's kind of cool I had a little brother so there was no imaginary for me yeah oh he had a real one yeah the real ones beat his ass beat his ass and he deserved it though huh he had to come in though quite deserved it no did he so did he have an imaginary friend no dude I always have imaginary nurse yeah oh I wanted a brother not to like that you have a brother yeah

2:37 but he's 12 years older it's like having a third parent yeah yeah mine was a year younger Dad too like a more closer brother oh and I the thing is I I like after I was like two he was already gone because they sent him to boarding school so it's like by the time he's 14 he's gone so I'm like man I want to play with my brother every time in the summer like like he would he would put me on my skateboard and just like put me downhill and ████ and like you know I thought we were playing but he was just ████ with me you know that's like the big brother thing yeah yeah you think it's like you're both in on the joke yeah and then he's like yeah yeah you want to go down and like um he says hold the skateboard and then he throws me down the half pipe I'm like yay and then I fall and then he's like laughing with his friends and not knowing that that was the funny thing I just think I'm doing something cool great day been there Colleen you didn't

3:27 have any imaginary friends no I grew up with a brother like very close in age so same how many how many how many uh kind of like same situation my brother who's like 10 11 years older never saw him and then they use you for entertainment yeah well he just wasn't around uh and then um and then my brother Lance who's a year and a day older hmm you're in a day the closer relationship though you can actually play together and stuff yeah that's cool I had an older brother too Stepbrother ████ got kicked out to uh the army oh because he was being out to them when we were living in Hawaii he would get into fights and fight all the Samoans and everything and he would always go smoking weed and everything to my dad apart then my brother my dad was like you know what a little gift for you as soon as he turned 18 some dude came by brought him and said you're going to Korea for a

4:17 vacation oh go see Korea and got took it straight to the Army oh the Korean army Korean army that's some crazy ████ that's the mandatory two years right yeah yeah and ever since then my brother's like yo that's how they recruit Korean military people back in the day yeah yeah so what do you mean like how was his response to being sent there the trick me ████ [Laughter] he's always like the cool cat so he's no smoking in the room my pastor would come in give me the Jackie you know they give him all that I can throw chairs at him my brother was just that's Korean Korean and faster I'll ████ you up yeah dude with the batter thing and then my brother was just like I don't care and then some dude grabbed him I'll beat the holy ghost in your Beach yeah one day

5:09 just grab them took him to the airport so you're going to Korea to visit your family but nope straight to the Army so he was pissed about like did he come back a changed person like he couldn't come back so he's in Korea he's in Korea right now until this day so basically he deported his own son he deported his own son it was my stepfather older brother God damn he's the one that took care of me took me around to the basketball court showed me the ways always got me Legos and ████ gone damn dude yeah talk to him now he's like yo ████ dad just mad you never met your dad who beat his ass huh what do you like ████ up your dad yeah one day he would grab my dad would grab my brother's throat boom in the wall and I'll just watch like what the ████ is going on if you want to play basketball huh

6:01 you want to play basketball all day no come late every day but your brother doesn't have like a Revenge mission to come back no no no there was no Revenge Mission he was just like my brother now my dad's in Korea because one day my dad's there too yeah because my dad called the Army himself you're gonna go see your family okay cool no one day my dad was just like hey son I'll be back in a week and I was like okay Dad see you soon gone he's like I'm in Army now no no that's the same filtration ten years later he messages me 10 years 10 years later what do you say how are you doing did you take care of Mom I'm like

6:52 ████ that's your job I take care of us what 10 years you you were just guessing what happened you just yeah I just bounced on you yeah we were in like Elementary Middle School yeah and I was like yo when's he coming back Dad um Mom when's he coming back I want to pierce my ears oh this and that and one just never came back that's ████ he bounced on you and your mom my mom and my little brother he he bounced and then my and then I that's when I saw my whole family crumble because my dad was the money maker oh ████ so my mom didn't know how to do it so she would be working 6 a.m to 6 a.m wow but I was like yo what what's open that ████ it that's why you got a thousand jobs huh that's why you got a thousand jobs that's why I got a thousand jobs whoa that's crazy that's true I was like Mom what's open up what the hell what

7:42 the ████ are you doing what I am mom she's working overnight shift at the factory or something how come you guys didn't call the Army on yourselves too so you all go over there because I was trying to I was just painting walls at those times we're just doing whatever we want stealing food because we had to stealing pens just for school but we didn't even go to school but you want pants just a case we could do it yeah oh it's back to school we need to get it stealing pads for school but you don't go yeah but but it was always me and my little brother we were always doing the same thing together uh so you never had an imaginary friend because you had a little no we were trying to survive bro like ████ what do we eat just had imaginary dads [Laughter]

8:34 I'm only I'm only joking because it's your life is like my dad left too so so far I can relate did you ever imaginary dad I just bottled my friends [Laughter] you kind of you kind of have Role Models though like so like my pop left at 14 too we just in the the way the the thing is the freedom that you have is so fun so far you don't think about how ████ up it is right because your mom's like too busy working all day she's probably sad as ████ yeah as a kid you're probably just coping because you just don't know so we're just like out with other ████ wild boys that have no parents yes and then you're just like Lord of the Flies like riding your bike till like three in the morning you don't give a ████ like going to Raves whatever and then you just get into the funnest ████ and

9:24 it's like some of the funnest times were that I'm not gonna lie that was the best time of my life graffiti bike cigarettes right who bought a walk to school and you turn around you're like ████ this exactly you just don't go hey I left your mom a bunch of voicemails I was like oh keep leaving them she's just busy but we didn't have the the money to pay for the phone bill so I kept telling the teachers yeah you gotta keep calling her she's just busy yeah kid hacks for us if after a second period they they don't call roll so all the kids after second period they just left yeah so I'm like I had a short school day be out by 10. yeah only stay for breakfast and I'm like there's the fence let's go boys down the fence we go and he just play all day all day every day crazy smoke

10:15 and then and then um and then you have like random male figures being Your Role Models that's that's what would happen but but then you start looking up to like gangs like gangster dudes or like whatever like you just you just have a primitive idea of what a man is right so the toughest guy that like can throw down or like the guy that like protects you or gives you money they're like oh yeah this guy's he's a boss and then like you look back and you're like oh that guy was a 23 year old loser that's what happened with me yeah it was just always looking at gangsters and like I want to be like him right and then you have like an intelligent actual good father figure but you look at them you're like man he's a fat loser he's he's so fat he can't fight he just what is like yeah he's a loser how's he supposed to protect us right but then you're like you just look at the wrong

11:07 characters and then later on like you actually go to a loving home and then you see how their dad is their parents are they're just like oh yeah this guy is cool yeah yeah that's what happened that guy's a fat loser is all I hear no or dads that will take you out bicycle ride Beach day then your whole thing starts changing like oh this is kind of cool man yeah I don't have to be on the street I don't have to be on I'm getting soft like I don't have to be on the street anymore yeah I don't have to smoke cigarettes because this ████ guy's telling me to smoke cigarettes yeah but cigarettes are pretty cool at that time was it pretty cool yeah fresh Lounge baby [Music]

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