Speaker 1: 0:01

Thank you and welcome to another episode of the Carolina Otaku podcast. I am Afro and I'm here with Lexi. And I'm just going to be real with y'all. We're going to make this a short one because, as we all know, and I think the rest of the world knows that this weekend is a dream girl and I will be there.

Speaker 1: 0:30

Lovely co-host has really really good tickets to be there. So we're going to kind of give you guys kind of like a two. You know two this week, um, but you know how you got how we start this out. We start out with what we've been up to recently. Really hasn't been much anything, but still want to do that you never know. Um, well, actually there is something for lexi that I want to bring up yesterday for yesterday. Um. So, lexi, what have you been up to recently?

Speaker 2: 1:11

um, what have I been up to? You know what? I really haven't been up to much. I've been like getting ready for dreamville, so I was like putting together like my outfits and like buying all like the stuff I'm going to take with me. Um, yeah, that's pretty much it Gearing up for dream bill.

Speaker 1: 1:39

How many outfits do you have?

Speaker 2: 1:41

Two.

Speaker 1: 1:42

Okay, all right, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool um how's work going for you um, work has been pretty good.

Speaker 2: 1:53

Uh, right now it's kind of like a slow chill season, so yeah, okay, that's what's up.

Speaker 1: 2:02

Uh, I, uh, oh shit, I guess the last time we talked we didn't uh, I bought a smoker finally um, it's a nice one. Uh picked it up locally, uh came with a lot of shit. It came with a a weed burner, like what?

Speaker 2: 2:25

um, yeah, a weed, grass weed oh, oh, I know, I was thinking but it's uh, so I brought a pro.

Speaker 1: 2:37

It's actually a really nice smoker, has a warmer, the firebox is okay, needs some welding on the food warmer side, but not too bad. Um, holds heat pretty well really well actually. So, um, yeah, uh came with the uh, like I said, a weed burner and this thing is the psi on. This thing is crazy. You hook it up to a propane tank and you use like the little flint joint to like give it to spark it and that thing just goes like it's crazy, but I love it. It's. It's amazing, um, and it was my first time towing with my uh pickup truck and it did really well.

Speaker 2: 3:27

So are you making smoke like stuff when I get there?

Speaker 1: 3:31

Do you want something?

Speaker 2: 3:33

I would like something. Yes, please Thank you.

Speaker 1: 3:35

Okay, yeah, I get that, I got that, but other than that, not much of anything. This is random, but it's not really something new. I've been to a lot of different music but honestly, I've been getting into a lot of Americana, bluegrass instrumentals.

Speaker 2: 3:59

Okay.

Speaker 1: 4:01

I've been listening to shit like this since college. If people listen to this. There's a group that I listened to back in the day I don't know if they're still around Called Carolina Chocolate Drop, and they were kind of like they were all black group kind of in the bluegrass, kind of Americana, like realm, and it was really good. Um, yeah, but that's kind of what I've been uh getting into lately. Um, but, like I said, this is going to be a pretty quick episode. I kind of want to uh, well, I'll start out with so you're going to dreamville this weekend? What, um, are you excited about seeing a certain artist?

Speaker 2: 4:52

of course I am like excited to see so again. Um, I like I didn't buy my ticket with like the, the notion that like somebody's gonna be there and I gotta go see them. Now I just kind of went because like I knew I'd never been and I've heard that is really fun and like I do like j cole and I do like all the other dreamville artists, but like it wasn't like, oh, this particular artist has got to be there, so I'm going, which we can talk about it later. Um, because that was a big controversy there. So, yeah, I am excited though so what's kind of.

Speaker 1: 5:35

What's actually really funny is that I have been seeing a lot of people trying to get rid of tickets that they bought and like I have a friend and she's like, hey, you know anybody that uh wants to. I was like, nah, what's up? She's like I got a ticket for sale and I was like you should buy it and come what?

Speaker 1: 6:00

nah, no, no, I'm not going through all that. That's crazy. Look, that's going to be crazy. Two reasons why North Dixie is big as fuck. It's not that big, let's be real. And also, nc State is in the final four right now. North Dixie Park is literally adjacent from NC State, right, nc State men's and women's have made it is literally adjacent from NC state, right, nc state men's and women's have made it. Wait, no, I think the women might be done. But what men's have made it to the final four? Right, it's going to be crazy there this weekend. Crazy, crazy. I'm happy I don't live in downtown Raleigh anymore. It's static. I would be pissed the fuck off right now. But yeah, I have seen a lot of people saying, hey, I got an extra ticket for sale. Who wants to buy it? Have it at a discount. And I'm just like why? I wonder why so many people are selling these spare tickets.

Speaker 2: 7:06

So I don't know why everybody's selling their tickets. I can only speculate what I've seen so far because I joined the Dreamville group, but pretty much it's a combination of the lineup was already. When it came out a couple weeks ago. The lineup was already weak to some people, like they didn't like it, and then yesterday they did the big switch. I'm not gonna call it a switcheroo because it's whatever, but a highlight. Like he's a headliner, he's like right under scissor but like chris brown was supposed to play at dreamville um yeah, and he backed out.

Speaker 2: 7:50

So did uh moon I think her name moon along like the one that did like hours and like the other song. Whatever, I listened to her. I just don't listen to her that often. Um, she backed out, so they had to replace her, and so a lot of people were upset because Chris Brown is not playing. And they replaced him with 50 Cent. Yes, they replaced him with 50. And everybody was like. Everybody was like yo, is this an April Fool's joke? You gotta be fucking kidding me. This is an April Fool's joke. You've got to be fucking kidding me. This is an April Fool's joke, right? Like what's going on and so, and people have been getting their shirts and when they get their like some people have gotten their shirt already and like it literally does say 50 Cent on the shirt where Chris Brown's name was in the lineup.

Speaker 2: 8:47

So they're like y'all waited last moment to tell us that chris brown is not going to be there, and so like people are now like no, I'm just, I'm not going to waste my time. And then I don't know for me. I don't. Like I already saw the sunday lineup, so the sunday lineup is pretty weak for me. Like I'm not a big fan of nikki, I don't really care about all the other people that are going to be there on sunday. I think, uh, who's performing sunday? Let's see, let's look at the lineup real quick. Um, like sunday, like I don't, I'm not like I used to love nikki, but like other than she did all that manganess and stuff, I'm like she's real toxic. I don't deal with toxic people like that. So she's going to be there, jizzy's going to be there. I'm like, eh.

Speaker 2: 9:34

And then you got Monica Raystrom what? Yeah, you got Keke a lot. I do like Keke a lot, so I am kind of excited about that. You got Boss a lot. I do like Kika a lot, so I am kind of excited about that. You got Boss. I think, yeah, boss.

Speaker 2: 9:47

And then you have Hondo Ho and then you have like Omen, and it's just a lot of people that like I'm not like woohoo about. Like Chase, yeah, I do like Chase. So Chase, of course, fine, but like I got like maybe two or three people on sunday that I'm like, oh I gotta see, that's crazy. So but like saturday, like I'm definitely gonna be there saturday, because when you got sizzle, you got schoolboy q um, like you got earth game and like um little yachi and jid, and like sunday's where it's gonna be for me. But yeah, thank you saturday. But like you know, it's it's.

Speaker 2: 10:36

It's a really weak lineup compared to like the last years. He had usher on saturday and then that sunday it was j cole and drake and he had summer love, summer um, and then he had um walk, of walk of flame mario. Like you see, the line is a whole lot better than that. And then the year before that, like it's just it's really and so, and then it's also they're waiting last moment to drop the lineup as far as who's playing at what time. That won't drop until Friday apparently. So people are like, why is he waiting last moment to do that? And it's just yeah.

Speaker 1: 11:19

Damn Well, sounds fun. So what juice have you been on? My business alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, alcohol alcohol alcohol. I mean, if I was, you want to come no, I don't have to work this weekend and I'm great now you see my pain and also, how can I, how can I come if I have to make you barbecue smart?

Speaker 1: 12:12

man so so smart man, so so so, yeah, so you know if you are going to dreamville, enjoy taking you know the sights in raleigh when you, if you can. Yeah, I mean, like I said, I went to college in Raleigh and if I tell you one thing, raleigh is not what it was when I was in college and it's a lot more smaller because it's more shit there. If you do want to get away from, uh, all that shit and get somewhere quiet, like I mean, it's quiet as fuck. If you go past the Capitol building, like you have the front of the Capitol building, if you keep going down the road past the Capitol building, it's going to be silent Like you won't hear shit Cause it's like the homeless people. You might see two or three homeless people down there chilling. They probably got a spot, sleep, chilling. They don't bother you. It's just a real chill spot and it's really quiet. It's nice. Have fun at Dreamville. Like I said, we're going to give you guys an extra episode because she's going to be here. That's going to be cool. So that's going to be cool. I guess I was.

Speaker 1: 13:40

I was thinking about today. I was actually thinking about mobile games and I don't touch them like that. I don't touch them. I don't play them like that, like I don't touch them, like I don't play them. First of all, I have big hands. The last thing I want to do is be sitting on my phone like this, messing with it. Yes, I can hook up my controller to it, but or you can buy a backbone.

Speaker 1: 14:08

Like I buy what.

Speaker 2: 14:09

A backbone.

Speaker 1: 14:10

Yeah, yeah and does. Would that's actually a good question. A background yeah, yeah and does. Would that's actually a good question. You looked it up, but is gaming is? Is mobile gaming better on an android phone or iphone?

Speaker 2: 14:29

um, you know, I really haven't noticed the difference between the two because I have both like one for personal, one for work, and I don't really like notice the difference. I think samsung is a little bit better at least they try to be as far as like game, because they have like a game mode and like certain things you can do while you're playing a game versus like iPhone really doesn't have that. So I guess a little bit of a win goes to Android anyways is.

Speaker 1: 15:05

I know that, like one of the big games right now that's on mobile, I think is the Call of Duty joint yeah, call of Duty mobile yeah, that Call of duty joint um people love that shit I used to play it when it first came out.

Speaker 2: 15:21

I don't like I don't.

Speaker 1: 15:22

I haven't played it really much since then I think the big thing with mobile games, though, is how. The big thing is. These companies have to make money, so they have to have, like in-game transactions and stuff like that. They have to.

Speaker 2: 15:38

Yeah, that. And then on the free ones, you have the ads everywhere so they make money with that and yeah, it is so easy to get sucked into that. Though, on like a mobile game, I only like now that I work from home home, I literally never play mobile games unless, like, I think the only time I really mobile game like that is like if I'm on a flight, yeah, and like I ain't got nothing else to do, so I'm like I have something, or like I just I'll like scroll through the app store and there's like a little game that like intrigued me. It might keep my attention like a day or two, but I'm not gonna like play it like long term.

Speaker 1: 16:22

Right, right, I understand that I, I know like I mean shit. You can see it at conventions. I know people that what's that mobile game? Oh, is it called Ganesh Ganesh.

Speaker 2: 16:37

You mean Ganesh?

Speaker 1: 16:41

Yeah, that's only a mobile game, right, or?

Speaker 2: 16:42

is that like?

Speaker 1: 16:43

on everything.

Speaker 2: 16:44

It's on PlayStation, pc and mobile.

Speaker 1: 16:48

Ah, yeah, I see a lot of cosplay. I remember seeing a lot of cosplay with with that game. Yeah, I just couldn't. I don't know it's I get it. If you don't have the, you know, if you don't have consoles or the PC and stuff, you know, and you have a really good phone, I mean, why the hell not, you know, if you have the space to do it and I mean, you can even stream like mobile games.

Speaker 1: 17:16

So yeah, true. Hmm, one thing that, uh, I really need steam deck to get this shit together when it comes to like adding more games to this shit. Because when it comes to like adding more games to this shit, because a lot of stuff, if you have, if you have a steam deck, and if you go into the um the store, you can see stuff that's compatible with the steam deck and stuff that isn't. And when I say shit is not, it is not what my games are.

Speaker 1: 17:53

Controls don't work. You gotta like, I hate using the um, like the touchpad, the little square touchpad, shit. I never want to use those because I'm like, why, why, why do I want to use these For what? Like, even if I'm playing like a fighting game, I still wouldn't use those. I still wouldn't use those. I'm like, oh my gosh. So, um yeah, mobile gaming is just something that I'm just it's like, I get it and but they get their money the way that they can and I don't know, everybody's getting fucking screwed, jesus Christ, everybody's getting fucking screwed. Oh man, mom, I don't know why. I'm just talking shit now. My mom told me about one of her clients who thought he won the lottery.

Speaker 1: 18:56

And I told her I was going to bring this up on the podcast, Right. And she he told my mom he was like you're the only person I trust, but I won the lottery. I won the lottery Right. And so my mom said I went to go look at the lottery ticket and she said this motherfucker literally took all the numbers, like he took all the numbers and added those shits up and thought that he won the lottery with that. My mom was like no, you didn't win.

Speaker 2: 19:33

I wouldn't even broke it to him. I would let him be delusional all the way to he went to cash it in Okay.

Speaker 1: 19:38

His his shits. She was. He was like he was like hey, I just cause she, he, he's one of her like test clients. And she, he was like what, what do I do tax wise if I went like a million dollars from from the one? He's like I'm the only person to tell you about this. Don't tell nobody else. I, uh, that shit was funny. She told me that shit and I was like ma you a lying, please don't tell me that's. That's not real. That's not real. They tell you the instructions on the card on the scratch off. That can't be real. It was like that really happened, like that's.

Speaker 2: 20:17

You know what that's crazy? Because, like you know, now they have the machine where you don't even have to scratch, you just can scan it and it'll tell you if it's a winner or not.

Speaker 1: 20:26

It's kind of weird because so for Christmas I think I said this before, but for Christmas my mother usually buys us, like my sister and I, like fifty dollars worth of scratch offs, Right, and Sometimes we win. I think the most I won was probably like two hundred dollars Right. And you know, you go through all this scratch off shit. You get your fucking quarters, scratch it off, you get all this shit on the, you know everywhere, yeah, Right, and then you scratch off all this shit and you hand it to the motherfucker and the motherfucker just goes and that's it and I'm like why the fuck did I just scratch all this shit off?

Speaker 1: 21:04

for if you already know it's a fucking winner by the damn serial, by the damn code on the number on the back of it, there's no point in me scratching this shit Like, yeah, I guess it's for the, for the. You know, you know just to do it yeah, just the overall experience, but it's like I don't even have to check this shit.

Speaker 2: 21:28

I guess it's like the whole like process of it. It's just like like, because I went to the casino like two weeks ago or whatever, and like it wasn't bad it was, it was really fun, but like, um, it's just like you know, now you don't have to pull the lever for, but it's, it's just. I guess it for me. I like the slots, it's just the pretty lights and the sounds. I'm a big kid.

Speaker 1: 21:56

You like a sloper. When you went to this casino because I asked you about this I sent you a message saying big money, how much did you make?

Speaker 2: 22:10

When you get there because it was my first time using my rewards accounts you get there like, because it was my first time using my like rewards accounts you get 25 like free play. So I took that, turned that into 30 and then I went to one. I went to from that machine, I went to another machine and I think I won another 25. Oh word. And then I went to another machine and I think I won like 50.

Speaker 1: 22:40

Okay.

Speaker 2: 22:42

But then I lost it all and then after I won the 30, I pulled money out my account and then I didn't lose that Much of that.

Speaker 1: 22:57

You sounded so like I pulled money out of my account. Yeah, I did?

Speaker 2: 23:05

I pulled $500 out. Yeah what? Was that plan or that was like spur of the moment type shit no, that was like I didn't have a plan to like for a specific amount, but I just pulled it out. I was like let me just pull out 500 and then like let's see what happens. Yeah, I didn't go home, bro, I only like went home with 470 so I like I lost $30.

Speaker 1: 23:35

I know that Okay.

Speaker 2: 23:40

Because I went to the last slot machine and I was being really greedy because I won. I was positive, I was like let me see how far I can go. Yeah, I lost it all, damn.

Speaker 1: 23:58

I can't get myself to do casinos like that. I'm not the biggest fan of like I don't. I don't even like scratch offs, because it's just like I don't want to waste the money to do it like fuck that like no nah, it's okay, I'm gonna do it again when I get on my cruise, so we'll see what I come home with oh it's just like a big ass, like casino cruise.

Speaker 2: 24:21

No, so like when you're on a cruise oh, most boats have like a casino so like when you're in the water.

Speaker 1: 24:30

Hmm, you can be one of those old women with just a plastic cup, wearing like bedazzled pants and, you know, with rhinestones on it.

Speaker 2: 24:41

I mean, I might be the days that we were at sea.

Speaker 1: 24:44

In a cowboy hat?

Speaker 2: 24:46

Yeah, I might be. You might see me on the boat with a cowboy hat and like the little cup of like whatever, and I don't smoke. So there ain't gonna be anything but like something, and I'm just gonna be like jesus speaking of a cowboy hat.

Speaker 1: 25:05

Did you listen to that new beyonce shit?

Speaker 2: 25:08

I've not listened to it yet it's a whole country album, right yeah, and I don't like country, so it's gonna be um yeah I wonder what made her uh do the country?

Speaker 1: 25:24

yeah. Do you think she got? Do you think she just got tired of losing?

Speaker 2: 25:30

that was funny, but um, anyways, I don't, I don't, I wouldn't say that. I mean she is from texas, so did you know?

Speaker 1: 25:40

okay, all right, yes, you know now, but if you were to like see her for the first time, right, where would you think she was from somewhere?

Speaker 2: 25:50

Somewhere down south, for real.

Speaker 1: 25:58

Yeah, Would it be Texas though?

Speaker 2: 26:01

I wouldn't say necessarily Texas, but it would be somewhere down south. If you heard her speak, how she talks, she doesn't sound like she's from up north. She definitely sounds like she's from the south.

Speaker 1: 26:14

I wonder if her going into this is a thing that she's going to be doing, or is it just some shit she's like let's just try something different.

Speaker 2: 26:28

I feel like it's probably something different. A lot of artists do that Like I can't think of any off the top of my head, but like like Michelle Williams.

Speaker 1: 26:41

Right Like her going from R&B into gospel.

Speaker 2: 26:45

Yeah, but that's a permanent thing for her. I mean, like on a temporary, like one project basis, like let's, like a lot of artists like okay, going off the top of my head, like little way he's been talking about, like oh, I want to make a rock album. He didn't make that rock album, it's not his main like music, but he did make one yeah, what about nelly?

Speaker 1: 27:06

nelly did some country shit too he did too.

Speaker 2: 27:09

God not. A song would be stuck in my head and my eighth grade teacher used to play that song all the fucking time.

Speaker 1: 27:16

I think I told you this I had a teacher in high school in AP English. She would, so we would have like these stupid creative writing shits and she would. I forgot what her name was. Fuck, she was a white woman. She was kind of short and like, kind of like like wide, like she, kind of like like a penguin and um, she, she would play natasha beddingfield the whole album during this creative writing shit. Right, and this is like 2008, 2009, so natasha beddingfield was, like you know, like cd came out, it was that, um, that release your inhibition, oh god, yeah, that song sucks. I hate that song so like my like.

Speaker 2: 28:19

So like in eighth grade there's like my mom was like you're gonna do honors english so you can go ahead and get your high school credits out the way. So I was whatever. So my eighth grade teacher was Miss new. She was, her brother-in-law worked at the same school with her and then her husband worked at the high school.

Speaker 1: 28:44

So was the husband like a gym teacher.

Speaker 2: 28:45

Yeah, so it was a brother-in-law. The brother-in-law was a gym teacher too, and so she would play nelly, like nelly and the um uh tim mcgraw song, like all the time. She would play uh jojo, all the time, oh god. And then I like she'll play country music. At that point I would just like tune it out because I'm like I can't, I just can't anymore. But she would play that the whole entire period and like there were maybe three or four black kids in that class and every time we would just look at each other like oh my god help me.

Speaker 1: 29:36

You know what's? You know what's crazy, gym teachers always have the craziest last names, right? I? Um, I don't know if, if I make clips out of this, people would know these names if I went to school with them, but in elementary school I had a teacher named Mr Terry Berry. I swear to God I did Mr Terry Berry. And how I remember this is because the name was just so fucking different, fucking different.

Speaker 1: 30:17

Then I had, uh, a teacher, a gym teacher, named miss grape and mr medicus. Now if people listen to this, people will know who mr medicus is, because mr medicus was a jewish dude and he had motherfuckers in that bitch doing fucking line dances, the chicken dance, macarena, um, all that shit. The electric slide. He had motherfuckers, like motherfuckers were doing that shit in gym class, right. Then, uh, then it was, um, oh shit. There were two that I remember. I can't remember the third one Shit. There were two that I remember. I can't remember the third one Miss Nero and this looks funny. Mr Burton, middle school shit. And then in high school, shit. I don't even remember that shit um I just remember elementary to middle.

Speaker 1: 31:20

I don't remember high school, I don't. I really don't. But gym teachers always had some of the weirdest last names, but terry berry. Mr terry Berry was like the craziest shit to me because it was just so unique.

Speaker 2: 31:36

That's just a cake.

Speaker 1: 31:37

Yeah, yeah, right. Yeah, jim was wild back in the day. Now I'm thinking about like Jumpstart for Kids, where they had people jump, roping and shit.

Speaker 1: 31:49

There was a time when our principal I'm not going to say name I remember I know her name, but our principal at the time there was like this big ass like assembly, and yeah, if people were there, they were there. But she, she started to hula hoop right, and she had like a hula hoop on her waist, a hula hoop on her arm, a hula hoop around her neck and a hula hoop right and she had like a hula hoop on her waist, a hula hoop on her arm, a hula hoop around her neck and a hula hoop on her leg. Like I'm pretty sure that was, that was it. I'm pretty sure. But yeah, sorry, um, gym teachers have weird fucking names. So, wow, weird fucking names. I don't, I don't know, I don't know man. So Wow, weird fucking names. I don't, I don't know, I don't know that. But Is there anything else that you want?

Speaker 2: 32:48

to Say no, I'm good, good, all right.

Speaker 1: 32:55

Like I said you guys, this is going to be really short, not a long one today. Make sure you follow Lexi on Twitch, lexi the noob. She has started streaming on Mondays, tuesdays, is that it?

Speaker 2: 33:15

And some random day during the week. So you get three days to see me.

Speaker 1: 33:19

Okay, make sure you follow her. And yeah, thank you guys for listening and we will see you guys later.

Speaker 2: 33:32

Bye.