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Gerry Wagner

Gerry Wagner

President of Education, Services & Products Company LLC (ESPCO), HVAC trainer and technical education specialist with 45+ years in HVACR and renewable technologies

Jun 4, 2026

3:23
What do you think about the, the selfish route comment? I mean, when you're in that state, I've never been in that specific state, so I can't even talk to it, but someone in that state, are they being selfish? Or is it just like, "I just can't go on"? Like, h-how is that?
3:38
It's the latter.
3:39
I don't like it being categorized as selfish.
3:42
To someone who is in general good mental health, I understand why they would, uh, feel that it's selfish.
3:49
I completely understand that.
3:51
But again, from my point of view, from someone who's been there and continues to be there for to some degree, I don't look at it as a selfish, and I hope you can't.
4:02
Can you imagine how hopeless you have to feel to even consider harming yourself to the point of death? I hope you and your audience never feel something like that, but it's, to someone who has felt it, it's not a selfish thing.

7 MINS LATER

10:54
Yeah
8:13
I'm like, "Dude, like, I, I needed to go to bed two hours ago." So that comes part and parcel with that specific narcotic.
8:20
You are literally wired from it.
8:22
I remember hearing the actor Kelsey Grammer, who everybody knows from Frasier, and he's very open about his past addictions and use of cocaine, and he said, "You know, I didn't use coke because it sucked.
8:34
Coke in its moment was fun as hell.
8:37
You stayed up all night.
8:39
You played, uh, Trivial Pursuit," which seemed for some reason to go along with that.
8:44
But then it grabs you.

8 MINS LATER

16:27
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