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Living the American Dream

I think that's a little intense. I think it was just like my parents like overall like just mentality about things like Like, one example I remember so vividly is like, I would say, why don't we ever play the lottery? And they were, you know, a normal answer would be like, because you don't win. But their answer was, what would we, what do we need the money for? Like, if we won, we don't need that. It's bizarre. And that's what would be so frustrating to me. I'd be like, if you don't need it, someone else does. So you can go and, you know, start a charity. And like, that was always so frustrating to me. Like, how do you not need money? Like, I just, I never understood that. And like that, that That whole mentality is kind of what was different between me and my parents. Right. It was like I was super like American and like, you know, this American dude. And then they were just like, they loved like the roots in Slovakia and they were like, well, because they lived their entire life there, so I don't blame them. You know, it was, it's like me leaving America, me leaving America right now.

June 1, 201730:45David
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Jason30:06
Oh, like you were assimilated to the country, and I think that's your way of drawing a line, like, like, hey, I'm different than you, I'm American, you're from the shitty old country. And I think subconsciously you were saying— you were drawing that line in t…
David30:40
Slovakia. No, I think whatever, I think, I think that's good.
Jason30:43
Donuts with the cream.
David30:45
I think that's a little intense. I think it was just like my parents like overall like just mentality about things like Like, one example I remember so vividly is like, I would say, why don't we ever play the lottery? And they were, you know, a normal answer would be like, because you don't win. But their answer was, what would we, what do we need the money for? Like, if we won, we don't need tha…
Jason31:38
I think it's interesting that they moved here and they made their life better, but it came at a price maybe, or maybe they think to themselves, It completely changed our children.
David31:48
Yeah.
Jason31:49
Like, it ripped our values.