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Hello.

Thanks for doing this, appreciate it.

I'm happy to be here.

I'm very excited to talk to you about this.

This is a very interesting subject.

I have had problems with addiction my whole life particularly like I had a really bad video game addiction at one point in time and I got a quick cold turkey.

It was like eight hour a day a day addiction like and and what when was that 20 years ago somewhere around then okay. Yeah a little more than 20 years ago.

Okay, so you were in your 30s? Yeah. And how did you realize that you were addicted? Oh, I knew. Okay. You knew from the very beginning? Well was very fun. I was playing this online video game called Quake and what it is is you play online and you know you

You are in this 3D environment and you hear like sounds in 3D and the graphics are amazing and you're running around shooting of people and they're shooting at you and it's really exciting.

It's very thrilling, but it's not real life and

it'll eat your whole life away.

Yeah.

So I'm curious, how did you, I mean, did you know from the very beginning that you were addicted or no

So what at what point like how long into it did you say gee this is a problem I should change this behavior

Well what I would I would change this behavior. Well, when I would go to bed in the morning.

Because I would come home from like a comedy show

and I would literally play all night long.

Okay. And then I would realize it was like 8 o'clock in the morning and the sun was up

and I was just going to bed. I was like, this is terrible for you. Like what am I doing?

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