Hey, PJ.

Hey, Alex.

Are you ready for this week's episode?

Do I need to be ready in like a different way than normal?

I've just trying to prepare you, man.

This one's a weird one.

Okay, I like a weird one.

So this is a story that I've been reporting for like the last month, and it's honestly

kind of taken over my life.

But it starts small.

It starts very small with this guy named Eric Yearwood about two and a half years ago,

Eric embarked on this quintessential New York life change where he quit his job as a teacher

in Florida and moved to the city to become an actor.

But it didn't go so well.

I haven't made the kind of career I wanted for myself, I guess, and I'm kind of falling

back on some plan Bs.

That's a tough racket, really tough.

And especially when I moved here and I had a fiance and because I wasn't making a lot

of money and didn't seem like I was headed towards a stable lifestyle, we split up.

So I was pretty down and out mid year 2015.

To make ends meet, Eric got jobs doing stuff like building stages for fancy, shmancy events

and some graphic design work, but Eric was not living his best life.

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