Speaker 2: 0:01

Thank you and welcome to another episode of the Carolina Otaku podcast. I am Afro and I'm here with my co-host.

Speaker 3: 0:09

Lexi.

Speaker 2: 0:12

Thank you again. Yeah, I'm just going to be honest with you guys. We don't have much to talk about. Honestly, this is going to be off the cuff. Who knows, this might actually be like a really good one, um, but but the way that we usually start these things off is we uh, you know, I kind of see what we've been up to. So, lexi, what have you been up to lately, since the last time we talked?

Speaker 3: 0:39

uh, since our last episode, um, not much. I went to the wedding to see we talking about wedding bells, um, and now I'm just focusing on getting ready for my cruise next month. Um, that's, that's pretty much it nice, nice.

Speaker 2: 1:03

Where's the um? Do you have a problem saying where you're gonna be going on a cruise?

Speaker 3: 1:10

I mean, y'all need to know all my business. Um, I am going to dr st thomas and, uh, grandster k, yeah, and there's one more spot, but it canceled. So those are the three places I'll be going.

Speaker 2: 1:25

Okay, okay, cool, cool, cool, cool, with me really much or nothing. Getting ready to go back home soon. I got the smoker welded done.

Speaker 1: 1:38

I got that welded.

Speaker 2: 1:40

He actually did a really good job. Like y'all, don't knock Facebook Marketplace for marketplace for like services and shit like that. I mean like real services, not like anything else, like don't, but like I don't know what else to say. Whatever, use marketplace to your best of your abilities to find what you need. Found a welder off of Facebook marketplace, came out, looked at the job and stuff like that.

Speaker 2: 2:12

I bought the metal and it's really good. You know, it's not like I'm not going to put a whole bunch of money into it, but for what it is, it looks good. I've been cleaning it up, getting rid of rust and all that stuff and it's coming together really nicely, really fucking nicely. Um, for sure, for sure, but uh, that's about it. For me, that's about it. Um, so in this episode, like I said, we're going to just, we're just going to shoot the shit man episode. Like I said, we're gonna just, we're just gonna shoot the shit man. Um, this past weekend, as uh, like she says, she went to a wedding. Um, well, let's just start there. Why the fuck do pete? Maybe it's just some people? What? What do you think is a good time in day to have a wedding?

Speaker 3: 3:06

it depends on who's at your wedding, like your demographic. I would say like if you got like a lot of old heads and stuff, you know you need to have that like earlier in the day and like keep it moving. But like I mean, if it's like a younger wedding, I can see why you would have it like later in the day. Um, and this wedding I went to was for like a younger couple, so, yes, they had it later in the day do you mind uh revealing that time?

Speaker 3: 3:32

uh, the wedding started at technically was supposed to start at six. I got there early, like which is uncommon for me because I'm usually like right on time or like a couple minutes late, uh, but they didn't start the actual wedding until like 6, 30, 6, 45 ish. So yeah, um, but it was like a 6 to 11 type thing, so yeah, that look.

Speaker 2: 4:01

As soon as the motherfucker said I do, I would have been gone. Fuck a reception Eatin'. What Did y'all eat after, Mm-hmm? Nah See, you're fuckin' up my whole eatin' schedule.

Speaker 3: 4:18

Did I not send you any of the pictures?

Speaker 2: 4:19

I did not send you any of the pictures, no you didn't, you didn't, you didn't, but that's a like, that's a. That's a such a crazy time frame. 6 to 11 were most of these people, over the age of 30 no, they're probably like.

Speaker 3: 4:37

I mean, yes, it was kind of like a mixed bag. It was supposed to be like 150 people at the wedding, so yeah, but um, this is. It's mostly like you know your mid-20s, you know your late 30s, but then you got like you know some old heads and stuff there too.

Speaker 2: 4:52

So yeah, oh yeah, I would have packed up after the I do's, I do, I do. What did they say, martin, you bring the beans, I bring the rice, there you go. What they say on martin you bring the beans, I bring the rice, there you go. I would have been gone on my way back home, I would have picked up something on the way, um, and then when I was, when I was thinking about like when would be the best season to actually have a fucking wedding, and honestly, me being me, I'd be like fucking winner no, because I want a beach wedding.

Speaker 3: 5:24

That could cannot happen in, like the winter, oh god, fuck no what I know, yes, I want a beach wedding, so it will have to be like spring summer wedding, because I'm not going on a beach cold in the middle of fucking january. Talking about some, I do no shivering my ass off, I'm sorry it shouldn't matter as long as you're together yeah, anyways, proceed on with your next question damn, I think, like in November-ish, maybe like November October-ish isn't bad.

Speaker 2: 6:04

That's not bad, though, is it?

Speaker 3: 6:08

Wouldn't shit be cheap? You, out of all people, know that I hate. I literally hate being cold Like you.

Speaker 2: 6:17

Look, I understand that. I understand that that means people look, I don't know, maybe it's just me, whatever, I don't know, maybe it's just me, whatever, I don't know weddings I don't go to a lot of them. Um, so, during this is the story that I have that happened this weekend I was having a very high moment and in this high moment I was sitting here. In this high moment, I was sitting here in this chair and this in my office and I started to think about the first season of family guy, where Stewie was singing rocket man by Elton John and he was doing it in a way that William Shatner did it in 1978 at an award show, right. So I'm sitting there and I watch. It came into my head and I was like, oh my gosh, I got to see this again because this shit was fucking hilarious, cool.

Speaker 2: 7:15

So I'm watching it and by this time I'm laying in bed. So I'm watching it and I'm like this is so stupid, this is so fucking stupid, this is so fucking stupid. Why is this so funny? Right now, this is so funny. So then I'm like wait, this was like a spoof of a real thing and I've never watched the real thing of William Shatner doing this. So I went and found it on youtube. Somebody took the audio and made the audio correct and everything and it was fucking william shatner singing rocket man and this was in 19. This is how tech oh, this is the tech episode boom. This is how technology came into this shit you wanna finish, you wanna finish it it's sitting on a stool with a fake cigarette.

Speaker 1: 8:24

here's the shit about the fake cigarette the motherfucker would suck in the cigarette and then the smoke would come out automatically, and then he would go. Nah yo, that's the funniest shit.

Speaker 2: 8:40

And this motherfucker was sitting there like he was holding that bitch like this he had it moving like this the whole time and he's singing literally the words to the whole song of Rocketman, but he's not singing it, he's talking. He's like william shatner is here, like that's what. It's like that type of shit, like william shatner type shit. Right, and it's just so funny because they bring in this effect where william shatner is sitting on his stool and he's just sitting there and then he's still smoking his stupid ass, fake ass cigarette and then another william shatner comes from behind him and starts singing again. And then there's another william shatner that's very stoic and just up, he's just looking up at the sky, because this william shatner is the rocket man. You know it's. You know what the funniest one out of these different William Shatner is is the one that was dancing and happy, and William Shatner was like doing this, like little shit with his with his hands.

Speaker 2: 10:00

So I'm watching this shit and I am dying laughing, right? So I'm watching this shit and I am dying laughing, right. Um, I, I, I send a message to lexi and I'm like yo, I am high as shit right now.

Speaker 3: 10:15

You need to check this shit out now, mind you, when he sent this to me, I am high myself and like I've been drinking and like he sends me this fucking clip, I am rolling. Now, mind you, I am at this wedding, so I am just like rolling and laughing out loud this fucking clip.

Speaker 2: 10:33

That's why I watched it like twice the funniest shit, and this is something that I brought up to her. So when you are in a high state, a lot of people might hear this and they'll be like, oh, that's stupid. But when you're in a high state, if you still have the, if you're most honestly, if you, if you're getting, if you, if you're doing something, and you're getting so high to the point where you're just like not even able to function, you need to back off a little bit, because you should still know around your surroundings, right. So if you're able to you know, kind of know, where your surroundings are and, let's say, you have like these thoughts in your head, you should literally record yourself saying these thoughts out loud and then listen to them back, because I really do think a lot of people will probably say some like really cool shit when they are in that state, but when they're out of it, they'll never remember it.

Speaker 2: 11:34

So I was, I was. I mean I if, if you listen to it, it was like I was. I was like fucking insane. You know what's crazy. I didn't even think about it, but I could definitely bring these up right now because I was, I was definitely, I was definitely feeling that shit and, um, I'm trying to.

Speaker 1: 12:04

I'm high as fuck right now, but okay, during my highness I was thinking about Stewie in the first season of Family Guy, when he's seeing a rocket man, I was just watching that, by the way. With William Shatner. You need to watch this whole shit because it's basically a replica. So the podcast. This shit is stupid. We should put something within, like our podcast called High Moments. Oh my god.

Speaker 2: 12:37

Look, I don't give a fuck. We talked about a whole bunch of shit on this shit. I don't care. That is the funniest shit and the most funniest shit on this shit. I don't care. That is the funniest shit. And and the most funniest shit about this thing is that this is at an award show william shatner is hosting. William shatner said I'm, I don't need that. Motherfucker. Literally said I just can't host. I have to give them something more.

Speaker 1: 13:08

Need that, motherfucker, literally said I just can't host, I have to give them something more.

Speaker 2: 13:12

Hold on, I got an idea. Let me ask Elton. I know him by first name. I know him by first name basis, of course.

Speaker 2: 13:21

Let me ask Elton if I can sing Rocket man the william shatner way, it would be a hit. It's gonna kill. So here's the shit. I was sitting there thinking like if somebody did this shit today they would get fucked up because that shit wouldn't happen. Like if I can't even think anybody who would do some stupid shit like that because they would have to be an actor like I don't even know. I don't know, but it's if I'm at an award show and it looked like probably like the grammys or something had to do with music. If I'm at an award show and I know elton john is be there, the last motherfucker I want to hear singing Rocket man is the motherfucker that didn't write the song.

Speaker 1: 14:13

That's.

Speaker 2: 14:16

I don't want to hear that. I'm sorry, I don't want. And I read the comments underneath this video and I saw one that said actually, now that I look at this, it actually is pretty genius the way he did this and I'm like I thought I was high. These motherfuckers are high as hell.

Speaker 1: 14:37

How the fuck, can you say that that doesn't make any fucking sense?

Speaker 2: 14:43

to me Anyway, having high moments, I think, if you're honestly, I really do think people should record that shit because I don't know, you might say some stupid shit, you might say some funny shit, you might say some shit that actually might help you in the. But man, that was this past weekend was crazy, crazy, because it was just that video. I was just like. I was just like fuck man.

Speaker 3: 15:14

And then tell them how many times you watched it.

Speaker 2: 15:16

I watched it about like five or six times Because it's just so fucking funny, it's so corny, it's so bad that it's actually kind of good. It's so bad, it's. It's so fucking bad, like the, the effects of him walking behind himself. That shit is crazy. That shit is wild. To me. It was so fucking funny, it was great. And the way that family guy had Stewie do it was also great. It was, it was great. This was first season family guy. So, oh man, that shit was funny as hell. Um, jesus, that was so fucking stupid okay. Oh man, that shit was funny as hell. Jesus, that was so fucking stupid, okay. Also, did you see on Steam what the top games are right now?

Speaker 3: 16:17

I have not looked. What are the top games right now?

Speaker 2: 16:20

Do you know what two games are in there that came out years ago? I?

Speaker 3: 16:24

bet you, it's some Fallout games, isn't it?

Speaker 2: 16:29

Fallout 76 and Fallout 4. I think this is top 10 of top sellers right now.

Speaker 3: 16:44

Look at the top seller list now. No no, it's not on the top sellers list. Yeah, it is no, not on mines. I see it on mine. Okay, if you look at top sellers, like live, right now it's not. But if you go to the weekly chart, it is oh, okay, so the first is manor lords, which I've been wanting to look into that game and then which I've been wanting to look into that game, and then Counter-Strike 2, steam Deck, helldivers. Fallout 76 is number 5. Fallout 4 is number 6. And yeah, that's it.

Speaker 2: 17:16

Do you think?

Speaker 3: 17:18

Oh, New Vegas is 29. Excuse me, I misspoke.

Speaker 2: 17:22

Dude. Bethesda did this shit on purpose, man. They knew what the fuck was gonna happen.

Speaker 3: 17:25

They knew and my favorite is 63. Y'all need to like play fallout 3 more anyway, um they knew what they were doing.

Speaker 2: 17:33

I think, I really do think that I mean, I was playing 76 years ago and I they had a really big update recently, literally, I think, literally when the show came out. I think they had an update that happened in Fallout 76 and I mean, they did a lot for 76 so for 76 they added Ghoul's outfit.

Speaker 3: 17:59

They I don't think Maxim's in there. You can't get the Vault-Tec suit that Lucy wore. That's in there. You can't get the Vault-Tec suit that Lucy wore. That's in there. What else they do? They were given utilities away for the game and then they cut the price of Fallout 1 to half price for a month if you joined and they had a free trial of Fallout 1.

Speaker 1: 18:25

It's.

Speaker 2: 18:28

I hope honestly, I really do hope people that are. Hopefully there's new people coming in to the game, hopefully this opens up people to more of the Bethesda games, because it's a whole fucking catalog of shit that they could play. Um, but I was, I was kind of surprised to see them up there, but not really. I was just like, oh, okay, that makes sense because of what has come out about it and you know, it has people kind of going into it Like I got back into it and I was like, oh my gosh, this shit good and it works on a steam. If you have a steam deck, it works on the steam deck actually very well it does because I play it all the time yeah, it's not bad, it's actually really good.

Speaker 2: 19:15

Um, it's really good. I'm trying to think has there been anything else that I have been playing, been keeping up with Division 2. It's really not anything that's coming out that I'm just like oh my gosh, I gotta get this. There's this new fucking Grey Zone Warfare shit, some Call of Duty shit, I don't know. This is a question that just came into my head. Do you think games are at a certain what's the word? Do you think games are at a certain limbo right now?

Speaker 3: 19:59

I don't know.

Speaker 3: 20:01

I would say probably not. Looking at the trajectory, last year for gaming was a really good year. Yeah, because we got a lot of good games. We got Starfield that we were waiting so long for. That finally came out. We got Baldur's Gate 3 that had been an alpha for two years and finally came out and killed it. What else came out last year? It was like Diablo came out last year. It was pretty good. Those are the top three for me. I know other people have others, but those are really running pretty good games this year. I haven't. You know, those are like hitting the ground running pretty good games. This year I haven't seen like a game that I'm like, oh, I've been waiting on that or like, oh, you know, that looks like amazing, I want to play it. Like I really haven't seen anything. So I don't know. We'll have to see like what this year brings, because we're still early in the year Tomorrow's May but we still got another seven months to see what happens, you know what's crazy, I forgot that Diablo came out last year.

Speaker 2: 21:15

I really did Because, honestly, it seems like Diablo has been out for the newest. Diablo has been out for a very long time.

Speaker 3: 21:23

Sorry, I actually got it for your birthday present last year, yeah.

Speaker 1: 21:26

I did.

Speaker 2: 21:30

Damn, is it me? I wonder if it's me like I don't think it's me getting away from video games. Yeah, I don't think so, but maybe it's like, I don't know. I play Rollercoaster Tycoon.

Speaker 3: 21:52

Yeah, my aunt used to play that all the time.

Speaker 2: 21:57

It's cool to just build shit and just see a fucking rollercoaster just go flying in the air. I'm not crazy or nothing, but it's cool. That's what they all say. But uh, nah, it's dope.

Speaker 3: 22:14

It's dope I, I don't know jesus I don't know, I don't know I just I don't think there's been anything that's out that's probably been able to capture your attention.

Speaker 2: 22:26

Yeah, because I go through this, like I go through this Steam shit like damn near almost every day and I'm like, okay, let's see what's new, let's see what's on sale. There are sales going on all the time, even for like Ubisoft and stuff like that. I love Assassin's Creed, but the new one that came out, I think, last year, I was like I'm going to wait for that shit to go on discount, I'm going to wait for that shit to drop, drop the drop, drop. And I'm going to say this, and a lot of people might not agree with this, but I've played most of the Assassin's Creed and I will say probably my favorite one is Assassin's Creed 3 with Connor. Oh yeah, I love the one with Connor. The one with Connor was dope as hell.

Speaker 3: 23:15

I'm an oddball. I like Origins. That's my favorite one you like Origins?

Speaker 2: 23:21

I like that and I like Odyssey too. I thought Odyssey was really good, also Odyssey was really good. I like that storyline, but I like Odyssey too. I thought Odyssey was really good, also Odyssey was really good. I like that storyline. But yeah, the one with Connor Hell, yeah, that shit was dope. Yeah, I don't know, I just play a whole bunch of old shit. Now I'll just go back to old shit that I've been playing forever. You know what I mean. Like, I mean, I haven't picked up my Switch in what Months? You know what I mean.

Speaker 3: 23:52

This has been sitting here and I know it's dead.

Speaker 1: 23:56

I haven't picked up this shit in months.

Speaker 2: 24:00

Oh man, I was just like fuck, I just haven't, you know I've been. The thing is, when it comes to like this whole like, I always have so much shit in my head that I think about like. I think about like okay, I want to do this barbecue shit. Cool, I have this that I want to do. I have so much shit that I want to do and what are you doing?

Speaker 3: 24:28

I spilled my drink, so just keep doing stuff.

Speaker 2: 24:32

Hey was it? Was it water?

Speaker 3: 24:36

No it was not.

Speaker 1: 24:39

What was?

Speaker 3: 24:39

it, you mad nosy. It was a Celsius. Okay, all right.

Speaker 2: 24:46

Now your table is going to get all that energy. So nice sweater, thank you. Thank you, that's nice. Who's that? Is that? Gurr? Yeah, nice, yeah, gurr's dope, yeah, I just, I always have a lot of shit, shit like in my head of stuff that I want to do on a daily or just in the future, and I was thinking about this today, like I'm usually always fear taking the risk to do shit, don't know why.

Speaker 2: 25:25

Um, well, I know why. It's just because I don't want to lose everything that you know I put into it. I don't, I don't want to lose all of that and then be and just fail. Like I said, we talked about the whole failure shit in another uh episode, stuff like that and you usually get the same shit like oh, you have to fail. Failing makes you stronger. No, that's though, you know. Yeah, whatever.

Speaker 2: 25:50

I get it. Um, and then there's another off topic shit my manager. I say like maybe last week, last Thursday, I just had a shit morning. I just I was just like beat the fuck up and I don't know why. And I was in a meeting with my manager and she was like you good? And I was like nah, I was like I think I need to take some time. And she was like you should have been doing that a long fucking time ago. And she was like when are you? She was like when are you going back home? And I was like soon. And she was like take that whole week. She was like you need to take that whole week, take that whole week. And she didn't say this. But basically she was like just chill the fuck out, man, just chill the fuck out. And I was just like, okay, yeah, I can do that, for sure, for sure, for sure. I don't know what it is, I don't know. And then I'm thinking about going back into, like, the job search too.

Speaker 3: 27:02

Sir, yeah, you're like me.

Speaker 2: 27:07

I think it's time to go. Honestly. I sit here and I think about it and I'm like maybe it's time to start seeing what's out there. You know, seeing what's going on.

Speaker 3: 27:18

I mean, I don't blame you, I'm not necessarily in the job search, I'm actually trying to like eliminate some stuff, but yeah.

Speaker 2: 27:33

Definitely it. The the thing is about this whole job search man, there are so many. You run into so much like fake shit. Now. You run into so much fake shit like I've heard that linkedin is basically just a dating app now okay, it's not that bad to the extent that, like you think that okay, like I use linkedin like yeah, I do too.

Speaker 2: 28:01

I use it too. So when I heard that and I was like where, I was like where are they doing that shit at? I was like where? So? And then it's like you have all of these different job search engines and stuff like that, the Indeeds, the Glassdoor, all that shit, but it's just like on Indeed, I just feel like I run into like so much, so much fake shit and it's insane. It's insane.

Speaker 3: 28:34

I don't use Indeed like that, but Indeed did get me my job by accident because I wasn't even like on the website somebody I was like with at the time. They had pulled up a job and I was like what's that, send that to me. And so I replied and I got the job. So like yeah, but like you gotta be careful on Indeed. And it's like alright, so we just shooting the shit. I'm gonna tell y'all what I'm tired of seeing and I need y'all to stop being so loud because y'all sucking it up with everybody that works at home. Please y'all stop getting on fucking TikTok and fucking working from home. On TikTok, live Y'all are taking.

Speaker 3: 29:20

Yes, people will be taking calls and working and on TikTok Live.

Speaker 2: 29:31

Like come on now. I didn't know that was a thing.

Speaker 3: 29:32

I didn't know that is a thing, and I'm just like y'all need to stop, because maybe the same people on here be like oh yeah, tap in if you want to get a work from home job, I do resumes or whatever. Yada, yada, yada Like ma'am.

Speaker 2: 29:52

And none of that shit really fucking matter. None of that shit matters. There is no fucking. There is no such honestly. It's probably somebody watches and be like whatever. My stepmom works in human resources and she's the one that's like always looked at my resumes and stuff like that and I will say there is no. Like you can't look at minds a resume that's like oh yeah, this resume is for my work from home job.

Speaker 3: 30:23

That's not a thing, you just put your shit, you just put your resume up there, okay so the idea that they have behind that is that, like the ats system that they use to chat resumes, they want to put like certain buzzwords and stuff in it that'll grab your resume from the particular system, so that way you have a better shot of getting a job.

Speaker 3: 30:45

But I mean if good no, I was gonna say but. But I mean common sense, like if you look at what the posting is and like the skills that they're looking for, you should probably put that in your resume somewhere. But then again, you don't want to be lying if you have a certain skill that you know absolutely nothing the fuck about.

Speaker 2: 31:05

So I, we, um, we were looking for some people on our team and I can remember my manager saying that they ran into so many people that used ai to write up their resume and then the resume, the ai would actually put in certain shit that the person didn't know. So when they had to do a project or some type of test or something or they got asked a certain question, they didn't know what to do.

Speaker 2: 31:36

So they would use literally chat gpt on the interview to answer certain questions. Right, and I sit there and I hear that and I'm like. So when you do that, first of all, in order to do that really well, you have to know how to talk to the AI to the point where it actually does it, but it's not going to give you anything. That's like crazy, perfect, right.

Speaker 3: 32:03

Right, you still have to go back and tweak it, but then again you still need to be reading it, right?

Speaker 2: 32:09

And knowing what you're putting into your shit. You know what I mean. So it when I when I heard that, I was like that's actually really, that's not even. That's not even personable. So if I'm interviewing you and I have a, I ask you this question and you don't have that, I can understand. If you know the shit and you're just like all right, I need to get a resume typed up. You know, maybe I can use chat GPT to help in certain small things Not a lot, but it was to the point where my manager could read a resume and she was just like that's, that's not real. This isn't a real resume. This is somebody who used AI to make their resume and I get it.

Speaker 2: 32:55

But I think I think a lot of people that are applying to jobs now and with this AI, I think a lot of people are I think they get anxiety.

Speaker 2: 33:08

I think they get anxiety, I think they get nervous, I think they get scared when it comes to applying to jobs, when they go on these interviews for these, because you're, you're literally I haven't been on an interview in a minute, but I usually I've usually done really well on interviews and honestly, it's I don't know how to explain this. It's I think it's really the way that you present yourself and you answer and you know how to talk, but you have to know what you're talking about, of course, but knowing what you're saying, knowing how it sounds coming from you, I think is a really big. It's some really big shit that you needed, that people need to take into consideration. Um, like I said, I don't know how the interview process is now, but I've years ago, I was having interviews with like back to back. I go to a company and they're like oh yeah, we want you to talk to this person and talk to this person right now. Do these two and then we'll have Panel interviews.

Speaker 2: 34:17

Oh my gosh, panel interviews are so fucking stupid. Jesus Christ, you want to talk about literally putting somebody in a chokehold in front of you, have four people on one side of a table or on a Zoom call, and then you're just sitting there, the odd person out. Everybody else can talk to each other on Slack and shit. Oh yeah, this person is this person that, this person that and you sitting there, you know, trying to answer these shits the best way they can and the only in the. And the one thing that they always say is you know, we're just trying to understand and trying to get to know you better like, get the fuck out of here. Get the fuck out of here I don't know.

Speaker 3: 35:03

It's. The job market is so weird right now and it's it's so weird. It's just like alright, you have everybody's trying to do work from home still, and then you have companies that are like trying to move people back into the office. And then you have people that are like all right, well, like I want to make more money, you know, but I don't want to necessarily try to learn everything. I need to learn to to make more money. What's the quickest way I can make more money?

Speaker 3: 35:39

So they like oh okay, let me look at what these skills are. Real quick, let me just say I know I'm real quick and like go on my resume or whatever. And so then, like, people are getting hired for these jobs and these jobs are finding out all right, these people don't know what the fuck they're talking about. They're just throwing it on their resume, which makes it harder for people that like are trying to get the job. Now they got to go above and beyond to prove that they know something, because some dumb ass unfucked it up for everybody. And then you got these people that be working from home and just like doing everything but work, like I said, doing tiktok lives or whatever while working and like now you got companies want to be like we want you on camera while you work. No, what? No, I'm definitely not doing that.

Speaker 1: 36:21

I don't like that at all that's um, that's so like yeah, I have like, uh, like somebody I know they just got a new job right.

Speaker 3: 36:27

I don't like that at all. That's great. That's great. Yeah, I have somebody I know that just got a new job right and their training is on camera for, like it's not long, it's like a month of training, but they have to be on camera the whole entire time they're in training, and I'm not talking about while your trainer's teaching you and you're learning, I mean the whole entire time. Even when you're doing self-study or independent work. They have to be on camera to have somebody watch.

Speaker 3: 36:54

And it was funny because they also told us the job, told his friends, like hey, we can't see you on camera, we need to see you on camera. And they're like, yeah, because you know the boss go back and watch his deep recordings. Like why are you going back and watching recordings of a training process? It's not like they're showing other people or whatever, they're just going back and watching. It's just like we've gotten to that point. Jesus Christ, you got people that are applying for job after job after job. No callback, no interview, no, nothing yeah being out of work for like months.

Speaker 3: 37:32

You still got layoffs in tech. So you gotta think about coming to tech. I mean we still got layoffs, um, so you're ready for that, like yeah.

Speaker 2: 37:44

Jesus, it's not even it. I will always say this you never are your job, is never your family. If they come off with that bullshit, leave now, because they're going to. Honestly, when it comes to the point where they got to cut motherfuckers, that family shit goes out the window. Out the window really fast. That shit leaves immediately. I mean it's gone it. It there is no, there is no family. Oh, we're, we're a family and all that stuff. No, this is business, this is, this is a fucking job.

Speaker 3: 38:25

This is business.

Speaker 2: 38:28

You know what I mean. There's a reason. I don't really know much about unions and stuff like that, but there's a reason why there aren't many anymore. That whole family shit, though, is.

Speaker 3: 38:45

I remember at my old job that I used to work at for a big cell phone provider, anytime anybody mentioned the word union, it was always like, okay, let's pull you offline, let's have a little chat real quick. Talk about some unions, how we do not do unions down here. So if you want to online time, that was the quickest way to get it. Talk about some union or unionizing, because they would be like, oh, okay come see me in my office real quick.

Speaker 2: 39:12

Yeah, it's man, it's to the point where it's you want a job that pays well, but then it's like, okay, do you deal with the bullshit that comes with the job that pays well over just your, your mental and all that shit? Do you deal with the rules of the job? That's there, that could be crazy rules, but if the if I guess these are questions that that people should ask themselves If you have to leave your house for this job, is the compensation worth it? That's the first thing. If you're far away from the place, like said, it's all about compensation, all about compensation. I understand some people. I understand some people want to have, like that, really good work, environment and stuff like that.

Speaker 2: 40:16

I kind of I kind of got out of that mindset a long time ago. I did it's. I'm more like all what's the? How much are you paying, paying me for this, for this job? I, you know I've been through. I've worked in the whole like call center shit and worked in the cubicle and all that shit. So I'm like the whole environment, shit, I really don't give a fuck about that. How much are you paying me?

Speaker 3: 40:54

I don't give a fuck about that. How much are you paying me? I don't know. I still like that. Like every time I'm in an interview, like I always ask about like culture and and things like that, because I get it, you can make a lot of money.

Speaker 3: 41:02

But like me, I I come from my call center culture too, and like I don't necessarily want to deal with that toxicity just for like a dollar. Like I I don't I don't know if I ever explained it to you. Like you know, like where I used to work, where it was just like they will brainwash you to be leaving, like oh well, where are you gonna go? I'm just gonna pay you this amount or do this for you, or xyz, yada, yada, yada, yada. And I'm no, I'm not doing this shit, no more. Like I gave you guys eight years of my fucking life and you're like no, I'm not dealing with that. So that's something that still matters to me. But like compensation does matter too, and like that's kind, leave one of mine's right now. But like it's like I I dope myself out the trenches. I'm not trying to go back into the trenches either.

Speaker 2: 41:57

So like, yeah, it's I think it's also to a point where, when you start making a certain amount of money, when you start, you're stupid.

Speaker 1: 42:14

What You're stupid? I heard the noise you made.

Speaker 2: 42:18

When you start making a certain amount of money and you're like, okay, if I go on this job search, will I be able to find something at same level or more, you, you tell yourself same level, but in all, without all reality, you know you want more, right, you know you want more. So it's not really same level. I want more shit, I want more money. Um, it's, it's a, it's a whole clusterfuck, man and then you gotta think about it too.

Speaker 3: 42:53

Like right now the economy's all fucked and like things are high as shit and so like you can't be taking any pay cuts, because if you do, like bills still gotta be be paid, you still got to buy groceries and rent insurance, everything's going up. So just like damned if you do and you damned if you don't, and it's just, it's a crazy time right now. There's a lot of things that you know people have to contemplate and think about on the day-to-day basis.

Speaker 2: 43:25

Yep. How much gas do I really need to put in this car? How much gas do I really need to put in this car? Do I really need to go to the anime convention this year?

Speaker 3: 43:37

Right, and then, like, not just that, it's just like. Also like y'all making 100k, is not it? It's not it. Please stop saying that y'all want to make 100k and that's the magical number is not the magical number because taxes are a pain in the ass.

Speaker 2: 43:57

When you get that high, you get into that tax bracket I wouldn't say, okay, if your goal is to get to 100K, get to the goal, get to the goal. Let's say, get to the goal. Let's just say that's not it, but we got to get to the goal first. We got to get to the goal, get to the goal. And, honestly, whatever you're making, if you start, if you get something else and you're making more, you're already doing better. For sure, for sure, you're already doing better, for sure, for sure, you're already doing better. That's, that's the first thing. But it's going to be to the point where I do think that I don't know, they always said, like middle class was the thing that ran, that helped America, like you know, like maneuver through stuff and get through stuff. It was always the middle class. But honestly, I couldn't even tell you what would categorize as a middle class anymore. I couldn't even tell you, because I I wouldn't even think I would be middle class, because I'm not married, I don't have kids, You're doing all that on one income.

Speaker 3: 45:11

So, yes, you will be technically middle class.

Speaker 2: 45:13

That's middle class for real.

Speaker 3: 45:15

So you own a home. Yeah, but you own a home At a good area, you have multiple vehicles, you have money saved in the bank, you are middle class. Okay, okay, okay, okay.

Speaker 1: 45:34

Don't say that, I'll say it to you. This is what he puts up with on a regular day basis, by the way.

Speaker 3: 45:46

I just want gonna say something and I lost my train of thought.

Speaker 2: 45:52

Damn, I'll come back okay, well, did you stream yesterday?

Speaker 3: 46:00

yes, I did.

Speaker 2: 46:00

I played fall at 76 nice how long you play for like two hours because I had work. Two hours. Okay, how far have you gotten so far?

Speaker 3: 46:13

I am level 30-something.

Speaker 2: 46:17

Nice. Yeah, there are people. I mean people are playing the fuck out of that game Like crazy, crazy.

Speaker 3: 46:27

I was going to say no, because everybody's playing it, which is great. I'm glad people are playing it now. If the show had came out around the time 76 came out, I think that would have been epic failure, because that game was trash at release. Oh, I didn't know. Yeah, because that game was trash at release. Yeah, it was trash at release, but at least now they've added stuff into it. We got the NPCs back. There's an expansion in there. There's a lot to do. You guys get the nice wrapped up. Here you go. Love fallout we got. Oh, y'all fallout fans. Here you go.

Speaker 3: 47:14

Here's the type of shit pile of garbage that y'all get to play. So you know it's whatever yeah yeah that seems the way.

Speaker 2: 47:26

That seems to be like a Bethesda type thing. That seems to be like the, the, the usual status quo. Alright, so we're gonna put this out, we're gonna get this out to people. People are gonna say it's shit. Some people are gonna continue to play it and deal with our updates, but then, but then it'll be perfect, absolutely perfect.

Speaker 3: 47:52

It's still not perfect now.

Speaker 2: 47:54

I mean, no, it's not perfect, but it was better than it was.

Speaker 3: 47:56

Yeah it was better than what it was, it was still not perfect.

Speaker 2: 48:00

Yeah, for sure, for sure, for sure, damn.

Speaker 3: 48:07

You know what's crazy.

Speaker 2: 48:08

I didn't think and this can all go to I didn't think that this would actually hit almost an hour.

Speaker 1: 48:18

I didn't think.

Speaker 3: 48:19

I don't know why you didn't think that holy shit, it's good.

Speaker 2: 48:25

um, are you streaming tonight? Nope, just based off the random topics and stuff. Holy shit, it's good. Are you streaming tonight?

Speaker 1: 48:29

Nope.

Speaker 3: 48:33

Nope, you barely got me here because I wasn't feeling good when I sat here, so yeah, oh well, thank you.

Speaker 2: 48:44

So do you have anything else that you want to add?

Speaker 3: 48:49

No, you guys, you know, be safe, take care of yourselves. Love you guys. Thank you guys for listening.

Speaker 2: 48:55

Yeah, thank you guys for listening. Follow all the socials.

Speaker 3: 49:00

Oh wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. We do have a question. Are you going to ask them your barbecue question? Because I'm tired of people replying to me on Facebook. I have no need for barbecue information. You do, I don't.

Speaker 2: 49:14

Did you get a lot of people?

Speaker 3: 49:16

Did you not look at the post?

Speaker 2: 49:18

I saw look, I don't care, the motherfucker. I think it was the first person the motherfucker that went through this whole fucking soliloquy of shit saying all right, if I get two meats and then two sides. Who was that?

Speaker 1: 49:38

Oh, I know who it was. I know who it was, I know.

Speaker 2: 49:44

I know who it was, but if the question I was asking was, if you were to, if you were to buy a barbecue plate, depending on the location that you're in, what would be the two sides or the side that you would actually want with that plate and how much would you actually pay for that plate? And I had a conversation with a friend of mine and they were like maybe like 10 to like 20 bucks, right, but I also know this person pays like almost like 25 for like cupcakes, what's wrong with that?

Speaker 2: 50:27

Artisan cupcakes and stuff like that.

Speaker 3: 50:29

What's wrong with that?

Speaker 2: 50:31

Oh my god.

Speaker 3: 50:33

Sir, I go to Hall's Shop House for like $300 for like two people, so like.

Speaker 2: 50:39

Whoa cut the shit what.

Speaker 3: 50:42

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 50:43

What is it called again?

Speaker 3: 50:44

Hall's Shop House.

Speaker 2: 50:46

What is that? What is it called? Again, hall's Chop House? What is that? What is it?

Speaker 3: 50:48

It's like a steakhouse.

Speaker 2: 50:50

Oh, it's a steakhouse, okay, I get that, I get that, okay, but, um, yeah, that would be the. That's the question. I have Kind of like some marketing shit that I just want to see what's going on in people's heads and what they um would use their hard-earned or spend their hard-earned money on oh, also you guys, we have a new feature we can also like texas.

Speaker 3: 51:16

Um, I think at the bottom of the description of our podcast, I think, there's like a link or something that's supposed to be there, that you guys can text us stuff. And yeah, bus route released it. I just enabled it today, so oh shit, okay, cool, all right.

Speaker 2: 51:32

Well, um, thank you guys for listening to this episode. I know it was a whole bunch of different tangents and stuff, but I hope you guys enjoy it. Go watch that William Shatner shit. You should really go watch it. I'll probably make a clip about it somewhere this week, but go watch that shit. Like watch it and like you're gonna laugh.

Speaker 3: 51:58

It's kind of stuck in your head.

Speaker 2: 52:00

Because it's stuck in my head right now so enjoy the rest of your week and we will see you when we see you.

Speaker 3: 52:09

Bye.