Speaker 1: 0:03

It ain't coffee.

Speaker 2: 0:05

Yeah, it is, it's definitely coffee.

Speaker 1: 0:13

With what Did you just get that?

Speaker 2: 0:22

Oh no, I got a couple hours, well, like two hours ago.

Speaker 1: 0:24

Oh, oh, no I got a couple hours, well, like two hours ago. Oh, oh, man, man, have you been doing big things though.

Speaker 2: 0:32

I have not Stop. Don't do that.

Speaker 1: 0:35

Where did you find the drinks?

Speaker 2: 0:38

Those. It just came up. So like I swear, I swear to freaking God, my phone listens to me. Like me when it comes to Facebook, oh yeah. So an hour or two before I tried peach like Pepsi peach for the first time, and not even, like I said, a couple hours later, here comes this Facebook thing about this peach mango ginger ale and so like I had to try it because why not so?

Speaker 1: 1:13

was it good for real like? Is it like good mixing? You think it would be good?

Speaker 2: 1:20

it probably would be a good mix but, I haven't tried mixing it, but like it's not like overly sweet like drinks here, so like it's. So I'll give it like an eight out of ten. And it's just just because like the flavors is a little like bland. But like oh well, it's really good, it's just I'm not it's interesting that you um say that.

Speaker 1: 1:46

Um, I'm, we're gonna just do this different. Uh, thank you and welcome to the carolina taco podcast. You guys caught us in the middle of a conversation about um lexi's uh, recent purchase. We are talking about um. Was it canada dry?

Speaker 2: 2:00

yeah, canada dry peach, canada Dry, yeah, canada Dry Peach Mango.

Speaker 1: 2:03

Yeah, peach Mango, and I bought. I was in Big Lots not today, yesterday and I saw some peach ginger beer made by a company called Gosling. Can I tell you that is the sweetest. Look, I like ginger beer because it gives me that peppery taste and I like to feel that in my nose. I love that. So I bought it and I was like this is the sweetest ginger beer I've ever had in my life and I've had Reeds. Reeds has always been my uh go-to.

Speaker 1: 2:50

There was a? Um, damn, there's another one that I uh enjoy. I forgot the brand of it, but they use like cane sugar and when I read the ingredients on this Gosling one, it had the high fructose corn syrup, shit, and I was like, oh man, this is garbage and I don't know. So I've been trying to see if they make one with like sugar, like real sugar, in it instead of the high fructose. Yeah, that's interesting. Like, I love a good ginger beer and it's because I like to mix it with like gin and shit like that. You know what I mean. Um, but yeah, that's funny that you got something peachy.

Speaker 1: 3:40

Um, that's what, uh, but, as you guys know, um, I'm here with my co-host lexi um, and, like I said, you guys caught us in the um, kind of in the middle of a conversation. Uh, lexi made a post and it was pink and orangey and I was like, oh, what is that? Okay, I saw it. I was like, oh shit, what is that, what is that? But this also kind of brings up how everything listens to us and basically we'll know what you want immediately. It did the same thing. What's the last thing I um bought off? Oh, I wanted to buy like overalls, right, and Instagram is like showing me like all these, like hipster, like fucking modern, really like fashionable overall type, shit, knowing I damn sure I can't fit them right and and I'm like, I'm like my nigga, I'm just gonna go to walmart and just buy some fucking, yeah, some cartwrights or something like that. You know, like all the time.

Speaker 2: 4:59

I hate it. It did it today. It did it today, so, like did it today. I was on Facebook and they brought up an ad for Jones Soda. Not just any Jones Soda, the freaking Nuka-Cola Jones Soda. Guess what? I ended up ordering A four pack of those which will be here in a couple days. Stop it, stop it. You're getting my money and I I hate that. But it's.

Speaker 1: 5:30

You know it's crazy. I've been playing a lot more fallout 76, like a lot more down every day. Um, and the, the nuka colaCola shit is pretty expansive, like I didn't know there was so many Nuka Like orange cherry.

Speaker 2: 5:49

I knew there was Nuka and cherry and there's Quantum and there's like, yeah, the Dart, yeah.

Speaker 1: 5:57

Which is like alcoholic.

Speaker 2: 5:59

Yes. And these are the ones they actually have made. But, like then in 76, they have like grape and orange and a bunch of different ones and they're actually supposed to be making those and releasing those, I think later on this year, like they did a run of them and I missed it, so I think they're doing another run, but there's so many of them?

Speaker 1: 6:21

yeah, definitely, for sure, for sure. I was like, oh shit, okay, that's what's up, um, but speaking, there's so many of them, yeah, definitely, for sure, for sure. I was like, oh shit, okay, that's what's up. But speaking of gaming and stuff, have you been playing anything lately?

Speaker 2: 6:34

No, I haven't. Game been like over a week.

Speaker 1: 6:36

Oof, oof. Nah, I understand that. Like I said, I've just been playing Fallout. Division division had a update, I think what last week and all that stuff, um, but I haven't planned too much of it, not like that, but I've been playing fallout. The new um update on that, yeah, it's not bad. Um, honestly, it'll scare the fuck out of you. It really will, because I'm not gonna tell you um, but when you get to it, you'll get to it, you'll see why. Um, but uh, yeah, what, uh, what have you been up to just lately?

Speaker 2: 7:25

in general, oh my God, Pouring so much money into this Tesla. Oh my God.

Speaker 1: 7:33

You don't have to.

Speaker 2: 7:35

No, I have to. This wasn't something that was optional. So like, if you ever get a Tesla, there's so much that you got to like realize before you get a Tesla. There's so much that you gotta like realize before you get a Tesla, like that's just anyways. I should probably make a video about like things. I wish I knew before I got it, but anyways, so in the state that I live in, because Tesla cannot do business here as far as like a car company, I have to go do my own self registration and they have to go do my own self-registration and they have to send you a packet.

Speaker 2: 8:10

So yeah, you know about this, right.

Speaker 1: 8:12

So yeah, I was texting about it.

Speaker 2: 8:16

But so tesla has to send you a registration packet, and they took mad long getting me this packet, like right in north carolina. The tag is only for 30 days, I'm like here's 45. So, like they didn't send me the paperwork until like the 27th or 26th day, and so my tech was supposed to expire that Sunday. I didn't get my paperwork till that Thursday, so I had to literally take off work for a bit and be like hey, I gotta go register my car before my tag expires, right? So, um, I had to go to the tax office and register, like, pay my taxes first. I don't have any kids, but out of $874, $65 of it went to the schools, so that was Makes sense. I don't have kids, though, so I'm like I hate it. So, anyways, I get it. Kids are our future, whatever.

Speaker 2: 9:28

So I had to pay that and then, okay, after that I had to get my tax. I had to go to the dmv. Dmv was like lying out the ass because their social security verification system went down and so that had nothing to do with tax, but just everybody was stuck in line waiting if you were getting like license or whatever. Um, so finally got that done, it took like another hour and a half and I had to pay a another fee for it being an ev. There's 160 fee for it every two years that I have to pay because we don't have gas taxes. We don't have gas. So that was like $1,000 for getting my car registered and set up here. And then I had to put it in the shop this week to get it wrapped because I want to wrap. This is like first time I'm wrapping a car but I'm wrapping it, and that was like 3K to wrap the car.

Speaker 1: 10:23

How did you find the person?

Speaker 2: 10:30

Looking around 3k to wrap the car. So how'd you find the person? Uh, looking around, yeah, um, he was like find somebody, a marketplace to do it. I'm like fuck, no, because no, no, he wants me to take like a sixty thousand dollar car to someone's like little garage and let them like work on, and I'm just like no, I'm probably going to take it to a business in case something happens.

Speaker 1: 10:53

Sometimes, look, I know, whatever I don't give a fuck. Sometimes you just got to give that motherfucker a chance. Sometimes you just have to give that one motherfucker a chance to actually like show that he can actually do shit yeah, that's cool.

Speaker 2: 11:09

Not me, I'm not with me. Yeah, I'm not gonna be that. I'm not gonna be that guinea pig, I'm sorry I'm just saying um it. I don't know I didn't tell you what happened today, though, either.

Speaker 1: 11:21

One more thing, so is that why you sent me that picture?

Speaker 2: 11:25

of what the cameras yeah. So he messaged me after that and he was like, hey, I can't get your front open. And I was like, oh my bad, I have it in v-lane like ballet mode so you can't do much in the car. I didn't know it locked the front so I had to like go into the app and unlock, like turn it off so you can get in. But uh, yeah, the top part of the hood is now like wrapped and he sent me the videos of that.

Speaker 1: 11:53

So hopefully by friday it should be done I gotta, you gotta, send me the way I see it. You're just doing it like. Is it like a? Uh, matte black no, it's.

Speaker 2: 12:03

It's's like it literally looks like glitter that's being poured over the car on top of black. It's like the color or the wrap is called galactic black.

Speaker 1: 12:14

Of course it is.

Speaker 2: 12:15

Of course, it basically is black with glitter, but the glitter is like iridescent, so it shifts. I'll show it to you later.

Speaker 1: 12:27

Are you going to get like, are you you gonna change, like the wheels on it, like the rims and stuff, all right.

Speaker 2: 12:32

It has black limbs. So it literally was like a blacked out car, like the windows were tinted, the wheels were black, the paint was black.

Speaker 1: 12:42

So yeah, what's the lowest? You can go tent-wise there.

Speaker 2: 12:45

I think it's either 20 or 30%. I want the lowest. I can go in the state without getting a ticket, but I mean here it's better you get a tent ticket, and if you do, it's that cop that has something to prove.

Speaker 1: 13:00

Yeah, the cop that has something stuck up his ass. Okay, okay, damn, yeah, something stuck up his ass. Um, okay, um, I don't know, I haven't really been, um, I really haven't been doing too much, just planning out like stuff that I want to do around the house. I'm a map out, um, where, so I say, probably like August, september, I'm a map out where, so I say, probably like August September, I'm gonna get my whole front done. I'm gonna get rid of that nasty as mulch, because mulch is fucking stupid. I think mulch is the dirtiest shit ever and it gets old and looks ashy as fuck in your front lawn. So I'm getting rid of that. I'm gonna put down some landscaping, um, like the landscaping tarp that keeps the weeds away and stuff like that, because the construction company didn't. And, um, I'm gonna put gravel I want to get like a black gravel in front of the house just to make an accent almost a little bit better. Um, I'm going to see, probably like gravel and dirt. You know, our dirt, our dirt here is really like clay, like as like a mixture of half a half. You know clay and shit like that. So I have some sunflower seeds, like literally like sunflower seeds, different species of sunflowers that I want to grow and I want to put those in the front when you first walk in. Yeah, so I definitely want to do that and I want to have it so they come back. Just you know, just the every year type thing.

Speaker 1: 14:42

And then I want to plan out um, I'm going to be planning out how I'm going to get a fence in the backyard, what kind of fence I want. I don't want to do a wood fence, I really don't, because it just seems old as fuck. I know it's reliable as fuck, but it just seems so old to do just like that, that regular wood, you know, fence. And I'm thinking, and I'm thinking I want to do like metal, like a metal fence, but I want to put like the privacy like black, like screen on it, like a metal chain fence, and put a black mesh type thing on it so people can't see through it. I would want to do that. I told my mom that she was like that's going to look tacky, chris. I was like I don't care, somebody got some shit to say Fuck them, it's my house.

Speaker 1: 15:42

So I was like it is a house, yeah you know, um, I know what is the standard and it looks pretty. It looks beautiful, oh my gosh, whatever. Um, and with the fence, I also want to plan out where I'm gonna put my chickens, because I'm gonna be buying a chicken coop soon. Also, um, I have a number for somebody locally who breeds chickens. They have all different types of species and stuff like that. So I want to get prepared for that, have a good space for them and make sure that they're just able to just enjoy and just live. You know what I mean? That's also something that I want to do, and once I get a fence, I might get another dog another dog I might, I might, I might um.

Speaker 1: 16:35

Here where I live, there are a lot of strays and a lot of dogs that are in shelters and stuff like that. So I'm a really I'm a huge fan of shelter dogs. Huge fan Cause I know that most shelter dogs are pits or pit mixes and I'm gonna tell y'all something. If somebody says, oh, pits are so aggressive, no, they're not. Pit bulls are some of the most pussy ass dogs you will ever get in your life. Pitbulls are afraid of rain. Some pitbulls are cool like and they protect, and some of them it all depends on how they grow up and stuff and how comfortable they are with you, but most of them are the most biggest babies you'll ever be in your life, the most biggest babies you'll ever be in your life. I mean babies. Somebody breaks into this house right now. My dog is going to walk up to them and smell their crotch. That is it.

Speaker 2: 17:35

Don't do something like that okay, she's not doing, sorry. She's not doing shit. She's not really doing anything. She's doing anything when I'm better.

Speaker 1: 17:43

Yeah, so I need to get a dog that will at least fucking bark, because this one don't. You know what I mean.

Speaker 2: 17:50

So she's so quiet, though I love her it's.

Speaker 1: 17:55

It's like I'm like, okay, I would get like something, a second dog, because I have the fence, I can leave them outside for a certain amount of time and they'll be able to chill together and stuff like that. Um, and I'll probably put like something out there that they can just like just chill the fuck out and they can come back in, and all that crap. Um, that's really what I've been doing and I've been watching just some. I was, I was in the mood to watch like a new anime, just some random shit, and I was on Crunchyroll, you know the library of anime. Now there is no competition, there is no comp, so I found a, uh, an anime called Card.

Speaker 2: 18:43

I guess Netflix would be it's competition yeah, but it's.

Speaker 1: 18:47

But I hear you. But you mean like the Netflix original shit yes yes, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.

Speaker 1: 18:57

I understand that. Um, but I saw this anime called bartender and oh man, it's really fucking good. You guys, I'm not gonna sit here and explain the whole shit to you, but if you are a person, I'll put it to you like this if you like food wars and you like the way in food wars they broke down, how foods reacted and how the science behind it and how it broke down and everything like that, you'll like this too, because they do the same thing when it comes to mixing and making cocktails. It opened up my. It opened up my mind, because I didn't. I would never think about that shit if, because I'm not a bartender and it kind of just opened up my eyes to know, like bartender, like really good bartender, really good bartenders are good for a reason, not the shitty, shitty hits that fucking. Oh yeah, you gotta get. I'm gonna give you your money's worth and you're gonna taste this alcohol. That is not the point of a drink.

Speaker 2: 20:06

I hate that. I don't like tasting the alcohol in my drink, so I agree.

Speaker 1: 20:12

Right, I don't. It's not the point of me getting a drink, isn't for me to taste it, it's for me to enjoy it. I don't, I don't give a fuck what anybody say. I like drinking sometimes, but if alcohol is not a good, like it's something, it's some alcohols that are actually good because they're made to be good and they are smooth some whiskey, some scotches. Those have good aftertaste after them and those aren't chugging type shit. Those are sipping and actually taking in that flavor.

Speaker 1: 20:50

Right, cheap shit, leave it, fuck it like bottom shelf shit, whatever, don't even touch it. Um, like burnett's, and you know burnett's has every fucking flavor that you could think of. Burnett's has a damn fig flavor. They got lychee, they got all this type of flavors that no other place like come on, get the fuck out of here. But anyway, this anime was really good. It opened up my eyes to different drinks and, yeah, if you guys want to check, I would definitely recommend checking out Bartender. It's good. I've just been watching a lot of stuff this past week. You mind if I keep going, keep going.

Speaker 2: 21:41

Okay, you mind if I keep going.

Speaker 1: 21:42

Keep going. Okay, so, stepping away from anime, there was a series that I also came upon on Max, the HBO Max or just Max now called Ren Faire, and it was something else that opened up my eyes to how, like, what happens behind the scenes in these big like conventions and Renaissance fairs. This is a Renaissance fair in fucking Texas and it's been around for almost what I want to say 40, maybe 45, 50 years, and it all started from this guy I forgot that motherfucker name, but he old now. He's old now to the point where this motherfucker's like I want to sell this shit, I want to get married and I want to just live out the rest of my life and die. He's like I only got a couple years to die, to live and I just want to live. No, to do the total asshole, and I just want to live this to do the total asshole and I just want to live this shit out. Right, watching this whole series remind me of watching the righteous gemstones, but it's real life type shit. That's what it reminds me of, right? So this guy, like I said, he wants to get married. He was never married and within this series, he's like going on dates with, like these young ass women. He has like a whole like sheet, like a uh, like a fill out sheet, like saying like are your, uh, are your breasts real? Are they real, are they fake? Like he said, like this is shit that he has on this piece of paper, right, and it was just. He met one woman and she was like no, they aren't. I did get work done. He was like well, this is over. It was crazy.

Speaker 1: 23:46

Look, I say this dude is old, liver spots. One of his eyes goes this way, the other one goes this way. He's looking all fucked up. He reminds me of um stink meter from the boondocks. It's just one eye going this way, one eye going that way. Right, he just don't say the n-word and he, he runs this, this, this. He he's very just like in his ways and he talks down to people but he doesn't recognize it at all. And if somebody were to call him out on it, then he feels a certain way about it, right. So I'm just like this is crazy. Anyway, old guy aside, whatever, it's like a dude on there is probably doing drugs. He's like chugging Red Bulls and stuff. Russian is the. It's a. It's a crazy. It's a crazy series to watch, but it it just.

Speaker 1: 24:53

And there's this other dude in there who's been there for a long time. Him and his wife worked there together and he's like he's like you know this job, I've been here all these years. He's like a manager and this is like my life and I want to buy the company to keep this going and all this stuff and his wife, the whole time is just like. Looking at him, like you are such a bitch you're gonna get on your head, right? No, she doesn't say that, but you can tell from the, from the shots that they get of her looking at him, she's just over it. She's like I'm tired of this shit, I don't want to work in this shit anymore. Like let's do something fucking else, jesus Christ. Like girl fucking backbone bro. This motherfucker is like.

Speaker 1: 25:41

I'm just telling a glimpse of it, but the dude, the old guy, fires this guy right After working for him for years and this dude's crying and stuff. I don't know what I'm going to do All this experience that I have. I don't know where I'm going to go, all this stuff. And he's like what if I write him a letter kind of just saying please bring me back? He's begging and groveling and all that shit. And I'm just like man. This dude is such a groveling and all that shit. And I'm just like man. This dude is such a bitch. You better take that experience to go find some other shit. It's a.

Speaker 1: 26:15

It's crazy it's crazy he got his job back but it was in a lower position. It's wild. It's the position that he like, the position that he first the first job he ever got there. That's the position that he has and somebody else has to manage his spot. It is insane. It's. It's a crazy series. It's crazy. It's called renfair and it is wild like it's. It's crazy like if you watch it you're gonna be like damn, this is like the righteous gemstones, like it. Just, it just reminds me of that. This dude lives on this big ass like compound and all this stuff has tons of cars. All his cars look the same, you know tie hose, cadillacs, shit like that. This dude is worth like 4 mil, maybe even more, right so any, any. He's only going for younger women, right? So you know, damn well, these women don't give two fucks about this old man. They know he about to kick the bucket and I'm about to get paid.

Speaker 1: 27:32

Yeah, he ain't got no kids, he ain't got shit Right. So it's a crazy, crazy, crazy fucking series. And also on HBO Max I watched the kind of like many document, uh documentary about stacks records, um, in tennessee. And I know about stacks beforehand, I know about some of the artists, like isaac hayes, johnny taylor um, oh, not, otis writing. Otis writing, yeah, um, all that shit, the bark the bar keys. Um, oh not, oh this writing, oh, this writing, yeah, um, all that shit, the bark the bar keys. Barclays, barkeys.

Speaker 1: 28:14

Um, so it was just crazy watching just how that all started, with like a brother and sister starting like a record store, and then they had a studio beside it and then they would, they just like, embrace the community of black people. They would come in by, people would just be dancing to music and then they just started letting them you know, letting black people record, and they started to make hits and it's just, it was really really interesting to just kind of see where it goes. You know, booker T and all that shit, like it was good, it was really good, um, and just seeing their growth, how they were at their highest point, like at their highest point, isaac hayes was the fucking man, right, otis passed away, plane crash, all that stuff. So Isaac Hayes was like that nigga Black Moses that's what they called that nigga he was that. That motherfucker. Isaac Hayes was a fucking genius because he was a great producer and he could write really good shit and his music was like really like orchestra type shit. It sounds good in the ears, right. So it was just crazy watching it how they did a whole big-ass concert and um in la and watts and all that shit, this huge-ass concert. They got their own police officers to come because they didn't want that tension from, like you know, la cops and stuff like that. And it was just a good fucking time to see that. And I think about shit like that now and I'm just like man, I don't think it could. I don't think that shit can happen anymore. Like I mean, you have concerts and stuff outside and shit like that, like dreamville and all that stuff, but I don't know it's it was. It was interesting seeing like all of these black people come together and it was like just chill shit. We all here for the same reason we want to hear good music and we want to have a good fucking time and it was. It was just good to see.

Speaker 1: 30:33

Um, yeah, I've been watching a lot of shit recently so that's kind of what has been like the shit. But definitely definitely watch the anime and definitely watch that renfair. If you're not into like soul music and stuff like that, you don't have to watch the watch shit. The Stax thing but it's a good look also. But that Barton anime man good shit. And that Ren Faire shit. I think everybody should watch the Ren Faire. If you watch that shit, the next time you go to a convention, just notice shit. Just look around at the people that are wearing all the same shirts, like, and just notice the people that aren't wearing shirts but are actually like in the background doing shit. I've worked at a convention before as a photographer. I've done that. That shit is not for the faint of heart. Yes, you get in for free, but nigga, that's free labor but you get a free ticket.

Speaker 2: 31:40

But you get a free ticket but they really don't have time to spend it like I know somebody that does photography for like mobile con. Yeah, he's always running around like taking pictures or whatever, and like I was, like I didn't go this year, like the year before that and the year before that he was photographer, and like he barely had time to go like look at panels and do things for himself, Like yeah, you, you really get put the work into those sh himself.

Speaker 1: 32:08

Like, yeah you, you really get put the work into those shits. I never been to a a Ren fair, never been to a Renaissance fair or anything like that, um, but you like I know it's not easy Trying to get those started. Like I can only just imagine how much work went into starting up DreamCon, getting that shit started, and then you know that people are going to come. That's the shit. That's crazy. You know people are going to come to this shit, big or small. Crazy.

Speaker 2: 32:51

You know people are going to come to this shit, big or small, right, and then it's just going to grow every year. Yeah, that's true, but then again, like they have like the opposite problem most like condes start off small so they don't know if they're gonna have that attendance. They have a problem attendance because they had fans yeah is that them learning how to do the business?

Speaker 1: 33:12

yeah, I'm kind of evolving from that yep, I think that's the that's oh for sure, for sure. And I was telling a friend of mine, I was telling her I was like that's kind of like one of the big reasons why, like I'm not, like you know, eager to go to conventions anymore. It's just because it's so saturated. It's so many people like I know, I know Dragon Con is a big convention. I expect that I do right. But your local shits, like where I am, the animazements, the galaxy cons, like all that shit, are insane. Yeah, they're insane. Like tell me if you the the biggest.

Speaker 1: 34:09

The way that I can tell when a convention is really act is when I'm in that vendor room, right, and I'm trying to get to shit. But there are so many people that you just that you just can't get to shit. And everybody, you're like I'm looking like dead ahead of me, just so that I don't hit anybody. That's how crazy it is. It's like I'm driving a car in this bitch. It's crazy now. It's really crazy now. It's crazy now. It's really crazy now, like.

Speaker 2: 34:50

No, I was gonna say it's that Like okay.

Speaker 2: 34:55

So, like we all know, like 10 years ago this was not like the big popular thing, and so it's grown and expanded so much.

Speaker 2: 35:03

So now you have everybody that's getting into like, basically, stuff that they used to say was not cool, unpopular, and so the more it becomes more mainstream, the more you're going to have people come into these things and with that brings new people, new energies, new ways of thinking, and yeah, that's what a lot of people I know that go to conventions have said. It's like, as you get older, you start seeing the change in the attendance and who's going, and that brings new vibes, new energies, things that you may not want to be around and you just don't want to be a part of right, and so it just makes you really not want to go and like, yeah, I, like I I didn't go to momo con this year. I've been like definitely every last year since, like 2019, but like something didn't happen 2020, but anyways, um, and I'm like I didn't really go, I'm not that sad about it, and this year, like I think the only con I'm really going to is twitch con and so, like, I'm not really sad that I haven't been so right.

Speaker 1: 36:25

Yeah, I'm not okay, I'm not. I'm not really tripping on shit like that for real, for real, not like that. But when I think about, like OK, one convention, that so it was one year I was like knocking out conventions, like I was going to a lot of them shits, I really was, I was knocking shit out Locally, I was traveling to go, all that shit. I want to say it started with, I think, I went to Animazement that year. I went to GalaxyCon that year. I went to the playthrough convention that year these are all local. Then I went to the Queen City, went to the playthrough convention that year these are all local. Then I went to, uh, the queen city, went to the queen city.

Speaker 1: 37:14

Even that at that time was packed as fuck and them niggas were literally in the basement of the hotel, so, so the whole convention was down a short thing of stairs and they just had nothing. Here's the shit. This is not a small hotel, but you come in right, even to get registered, there was a line out the door into the parking garage I remember this very well and you go downstairs and downstairs is where this whole convention was, this whole shit, right. So I'm like, oh cool when I tell you I think they had a game room in that bitch. I think there was a big game room. Yeah, there was a game room and you had the panels and all that shit.

Speaker 1: 38:19

That place was already packed, and this was during COVID. So you had to take a COVID test. You were wearing a mask and you had to have your card on you at all times, right? So that was like. That was like I was like okay, this place, this is going to get very popular very quick and it's been there for a while. So it's not anything new, but it's just and this was like. This was like peak Demon Slayer 2. This is like this is.

Speaker 2: 38:52

This is this is this is this is this is, this is, this is this is this is this is, this is, this is, this is this is this is this is this is, this is, this is, this is, this is this is this is this.

Speaker 1: 39:04

Even understand how many Demon Slayer cosplay costumes you that you saw, and she knows because he met me in my Demon Slayer cosplay.

Speaker 2: 39:22

So yeah, it was.

Speaker 1: 39:26

It was so much, it was so many people in Zenitsu Tanjiro, it was so much shit, right, and this is, and the funny thing is you can kind of tell, like, what people read, like the manga and the people that watch the series, because you would see people that dress up as characters that haven't even been like introduced yet, right, and these motherfuckers walk in like yeah, I'm doing something, yeah, you see the fit. You don't even know who the fuck I am, nigga. You don't know who the fuck I am. You see me, you see me out here. Who are you supposed to be, nigga? You don't know where the fuck I am. You see me, you see me out here. Who are you supposed to be? Nigga? I'm DLE. You don't know when you been, where you been. Yo, like what he's, like, that's so. That's so funny to me because that shit really happens.

Speaker 1: 40:33

You, you see, yep it really does I'm sorry, y'all, because it's just like I said, peak Demon Slayer. Like, if you weren't watching Demon Slayer, what the fuck were you doing? Right, this is peak Demon Slayer, so I'm sorry.

Speaker 2: 40:58

He's not lying at all.

Speaker 1: 41:03

Motherfucker, if you thought you were the coolest nigga, if you came in there with a character that wasn't even introduced yet, do you know how many Rengokus I saw? Motherfuckers flamed the fuck up, got the whole house and flamed the fuck up, got the sword with the hilt on it, with the flaming shit, motherfuckers are ready to go. They're like, oh yeah, that motherfucker had that shit laid out the day before. Looking at that shit like it was the first day of school. He's like, oh yeah, I'm gonna kill him with this shit. I'm gonna kill him with this shit. These niggas don't know, they don't even know who I am, but I'm gonna show them right now and then. And then it'd be that one motherfucker. It'd be you know, all conventions have like the, the group photo, like the anime group photo and stuff. Right, you know you got. You know most people that are the same, you know, introduce characters and stuff like that. But you know most people that are the same introduce characters and stuff like that. But then you got the niggas over here, the cool niggas on the side, right, and those are the niggas that like, oh, we ain't here yet, but we coming. You know what I mean? Check it. They in the picture like this. They in the picture like this oh, we coming, we coming. You don't know yet, but we gonna be in the next season though. Okay, anyway, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1: 42:35

Like I remember, I saw a person at a convention and they were dressed up as what's his name? From a chainsaw man. I forgot his name. It's also the D, doesn't it? I forgot his name, but I saw somebody dressed up at the chainsaw, chainsaw man outfit and everything like that. And I remember hearing somebody say man, people ain't ready for that, yet People ain't ready. This is before it came out. Y'all they were like people ain't ready for that, yet people ain't ready. This is before it came out. Y'all they were like people ain't ready for that, yet people ain't ready for that, they ain't ready, they not ready. Crazy, crazy it is. It's like I mean, people are very friendly. They'll probably tell you, like, if you were to ask them, like, like who you dressed up as? Oh, I'm dressed up from the anime Chainsaw man, cosplaying as the character from Chainsaw man. You know, I don't know, you might meet some motherfuckers that are like nah, don't worry about it, you'll see it, you'll see it, you'll see it. You just watch out, you'll see it, though, you know.

Speaker 2: 43:41

So it's always that like oh, this person reads yeah, look at her cosplays. Or you have that one person that do like the uh score, like cosplay. This has nothing to do with anime, but it was just, it's one of my favorite cosplays ever. So, like, I watch YouTube, like that's my primary like like streaming platform. So like I watch a lot of content and there's a locale called uh, christian and if you don't know, don't go down that rabbit hole, but anyways, so well, he's apparently racist, right, and there was a Black dude at MomoCon who was cosplaying as Christian, had the Pikachu necklace and everything, and it was just like the most obscure one because, like, you had to know what it was like to understand the cosplay and it was just so funny and I was going to get a picture but like, but I just had my turn around, he was gone and I was so sad, but yeah that was the most interesting one to me that I've ever seen oh my goodness, yeah, yo it it.

Speaker 1: 44:57

hey, conventions are becoming a lot more saturated because they are becoming a lot more popular, like I said, said I understand there are some conventions where I'm like, yeah, that's going to be big Dragon Con when it comes out in September. I know that is going to be crazy, crazy. Crazy is DragonCon takes into consideration the space, because they have about three or four floors.

Speaker 2: 45:30

It's buildings, it spans buildings.

Speaker 1: 45:32

Yeah, of room because they know what's coming. People come out of town to go to these conventions.

Speaker 2: 45:41

One of the largest top ten conventions in the top 10 of all these conventions in the United States?

Speaker 1: 45:47

Yeah, so it's you know it's expected, but these your local shit, your local shit. You gotta think people are driving into town to go to your local shits, right? And then I was telling my friend that and I was like it's just too crazy. And she was like you know that they're building a new convention center though, right?

Speaker 2: 46:07

and I was like what she's like. Yeah, I was like because you got conventions for everything now, like it's not just anime and gaming, like there's true crime conventions, there's hacker conventions and tech conventions and if you convention it or whatever influencer conventions, if you can put people in a room, they're conventioning it.

Speaker 1: 46:33

We got furry conventions here in Raleigh and Chapel Hill.

Speaker 2: 46:41

Y'all would. I'm proceeding on, all right. What else do I have to else?

Speaker 1: 46:44

yeah, like that's real shit, like real shit there's a hold on, wait. No, there's a website right where it shows you all the conventions in each state and, honestly, you can go back to like the 1940s and it shows you all the conventions that happen. Right, very little, very little, very little shits. But I was just like, oh, I wonder what new conventions are coming up this year in the state that I live in and I'm like furry convention, okay, all right, you know.

Speaker 2: 47:16

Are you going?

Speaker 1: 47:18

No, I ain't going. More poverty. Look, I know motherfuckers put a lot of money into those shits, those suits are not cheap at all.

Speaker 1: 47:28

I'd be damned Look, nobody got this shit. I'd be damned if I'm walking around in some big-ass suit sweating and shit. I already sweat a lot anyway. The fuck, I don't want to be in that shit. But yeah, when you go to the conventions and the bigger that it is you kind of have to think about like I mean you don't have to because you're there to enjoy it, but just take into consideration to think about, like the people that are working in the background of the shits and the volunteers and all that shit, like some people, the people, most of the people that are on staff that's their bread and butter like they travel with the convention, like galaxy con well, used to be raleigh, super con, galaxy con Now. They traveled to like Richmond, I think. They traveled to like, uh, florida and just a whole bunch of different States and they just they just keep moving, yeah, so it's, it's wild.

Speaker 1: 48:37

It's wild, wild, um, but not a big demon slayer. Tom is crazy, crazy. The cosplays were probably just sold out, like every figurine like I got. I got fucking. I got fucking figurine like Demon Slayer figurine still in the box that I haven't even opened up and I still want to get all of them. I got one right here. I got one right here, like this is my favorite character in the whole series and we just saw like literally in the past two episodes, we just saw his ass. So I'm like his ass, so I'm like, I'm like man, I look peak.

Speaker 1: 49:30

When an anime is at its peak and you add to convention and you're dressed up in that shit, oh nigga, it's a gang, it's a gang, y'all, it's a gang. I'm telling you. I'm telling you, I'm telling you, I know people, I know that's going to make a clip, I know it's going to make a clip and it's going to be so fucking funny, because that's real shit, man, real shit. Any anime that's real shit, man, real shit. Any anime that's like popular and it's like peak shit, like I can't even. I mean, demon Slayer is still at peak shit right now, but I can't even like I don't even know. I need to get back. I need to get back into my shits too. I feel like I'm losing. I need to know what's like the popular shit nowadays.

Speaker 1: 50:29

I think my hero always, unfortunately, my hero what if that was like? What if, like you had your own like list and like you gave it to a guy, like, hey, fill this out please. Um. And then one of your questions on there was like what's the acronym for um? What is it? M, h, a, yeah, mha, right? You were like how do you feel about MHA? And they're like, oh my gosh, like my favorite character is this, get out of here, wrong answer.

Speaker 1: 51:13

Nigga, you're gone bye yeah, hit the fuck, hit the road man, get out of here. You could have said anything else. You could have said any other anime. You know what I mean. Couldn't have said anything else. You couldn't have said any other anime. You know what I mean. You could have said Sword Art online Shit.

Speaker 2: 51:28

Okay, okay, like, that's kind of like how I am. It's like, oh, game, what do you think about gaming? It's like at least like oh, I don't. Oh, okay, I'm going to talk to you later yeah, why we're not gonna have much in common.

Speaker 1: 51:53

Oh shit, man, um it. Man. See, now I'm sitting here trying to think about like what other, like you're always gonna see, like in dragon ball, you're always gonna see. Like Dragon Ball, you're always gonna see.

Speaker 2: 52:05

Like you know, the staples and you always see your Akatsuki game, like you always want to see.

Speaker 1: 52:13

Somebody went on Amazon real quick and was like fuck, I need a cosplay. And they just bought a starter pack, right, you get the starter pack Right, you get the starter pack shit. And you get the roving shit. And then you're like, yeah, I got this shit, I got it the size that I need and that bitch still don't fit and it's cheap and it rips. Trust me, I know because I've done it.

Speaker 1: 52:42

I've been on the quick show like damn, I need a fucking like. When you're you're like I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna cosplay this shit. But then when it gets closer, you're like, fuck man, I'm gonna cosplay something. But then you sit there and you're like but I ain't got the time, I don't have, I don't have time to get anything. So then what you do is, because I've done this, you go online and you're like what are the quickest cosplays that I can come up with in the next couple days? Right, so either you're dressing up as an Akatsuki, you're dressing up as L from Nintendo or from uh uh, or those are like quick, all that nigga, all you need is a white tee and some pants and you're good and you just need to like honestly, if you got, the light.

Speaker 1: 53:41

You can just put your hair over your face and you're good Like easy shit, easy shit. I think another quick, easy one is a noske. Right, I think a noske is an easy one, because everybody can't do a noske.

Speaker 1: 53:58

Everybody can't, but they will and that's fine. You know what I mean. Go ahead, do what you got to mean, go ahead, do what you gotta do. You do what you do, um, but I think those are like easy shits, easy, easy shits, like I think I was. I was going to.

Speaker 1: 54:18

I wanted to do a conan, a Gawa from case clothes, one of my favorite animes, and his outfit is actually pretty simple Bow tie, um, a vest, and he wears shorts with the vest, right, it's really simple, but you got to get all that shit together and you got it. I want to get like the right bow tie color, right, I think that's a pretty good one, but you got some. You gotta. You gotta really put some time to that shit. You can't be on some. You can't be on some like, uh, yeah, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna dress up as a vash to stampede and I'm gonna get that shit done in like two days.

Speaker 1: 54:59

Where the fuck you gonna get that jacket? Where you gonna get the fuck you gonna get that jacket? Where you gonna get that jacket? You gonna get that jacket no time soon. Oh, yeah, I wanna dress up as an Assassin's Creed character. Now, you can't go on Amazon and you can't get that Assassin's Creed shit, just like you can get the Akatsuki shit. But just know you're buying some shit that's going to rip really fast, oh man. But nah, cosplay, whatever you want, you guys, just if you're going to do it, do it. Don't wait until the last minute.

Speaker 2: 55:37

Just do it.

Speaker 1: 55:39

Don't wait until the last minute, please, please, don't wait until the last minute. Dress comfortable. Don't wait till last minute, please, please, don't wait till last minute. Dress comfortable. Do not wear the shoes that those motherfuckers wear. Wear something comfortable. Oh, you know another easy character? That's really easy. All you need is dog tags and you need um, just like some like plastic weapons. Is um tags and you need just like some like plastic weapons. Is? I forgot his name? He's from Gangster, gangster.

Speaker 2: 56:12

Oh, are you talking about? Like the deaf boy?

Speaker 1: 56:15

The what. The deaf brother yeah yeah, yeah, the one with the locks and shit Easy, he's an easy one. Oh, you need a dog tag If you got the locks and shit easy, he's an easy one. All you need is dog tags. If you got the locks, you're already halfway there. But nah, um, yeah, you know nah.

Speaker 2: 56:38

I don't think you're gonna get one you're never gonna get one, but it needs one because I actually like that anime. Do you think that doing? Um, I don't think you're going to get one, you're never going to get one, but it needs one Because I actually like that anime.

Speaker 1: 56:45

Do you think that doing cosplay from Jujutsu Kaisen is easy?

Speaker 2: 56:54

You know what I don't know? I really haven't put much thought into doing one If it would be easy or not? I mean, yeah, it would be like easy or not. I mean it would probably depend on what character like. If you're doing like Goju, like, okay, then you got some things you gotta like figure out.

Speaker 1: 57:17

But like what's the other dude's name? What's his old's the other dude's name? What's his um, his old, like friend oh, tom at the lake. Uh well, I can't think of his name, but tom at the lake, the purple, like the purple joint around his neck and stuff in his waist, and all he wears is just like a pair of black pants and a t-shirt. Yeah, his father. Fuck, what's his name? Homeboy's father, the motherfucker that can make the animals come.

Speaker 1: 57:52

Yeah, I don't remember his name, oh his dad Basically his dad and his cosplay is pretty easy too. Here's the thing with his cosplay, though I think the big thing for me when it comes to cosplays is just me personally. I want to be like, if I know I'm going to be doing something and I plan it out ahead of time and I know I have to be in a certain shape to do it, oh, I'm gonna get in that shape so I can look, so I can look good in that shit, right, like, if I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it, you're going to do it, I'm going to do it. Oh yeah, I'm going to do it. But you want to be like I wouldn't nothing against it. But if you're going to do Baki, you got to do Baki, right? You got to do Baki, right? You gotta do Baki, you gotta do Baki. If you wanna do Baki, or you can do Baki in a whatever outfit that he has or whatever cosplay that he has, or whatever you know, you can do it any way you want to, but I don't know for me, if I'm gonna do, I want to do the damn thing. You know what I mean? That's just me. I want to do that. If I want to dress up as Connor from Assassin's Creed. I want legit shit so that I know what's going to last. And if I wanted to, just you know, go go to a local con and just put it on, I can. That's the one thing about doing a cosplay having the materials good materials and stuff, because you can just reuse them later, that Akatsuki shit that you get from Amazon.

Speaker 1: 59:43

I tell you what you get because I've done it. You get the jacket. The bitch don't fit all the way. You get the, you get. You get the ban, you get the ban right. Or you get the mask shit right. It's not the best, it ain't, it's not. I think people can get away with like a good Luffy.

Speaker 1: 1:00:10

I think doing a Trafalgar, I think doing a Trafalgar is tough. It's hard to do a Trafalgar because Trafalgar, most of his best outfits are like him with his hat and he's wearing like like warm shit, like stuff with like fur around it and all furry stuff. Hold on. Yeah, he has a couple of alterations where he's like wearing a hoodie and like blue pants and boots and stuff like that. But you got to have that hat for Tra like that. But you gotta have that hat for Trafalgar. You have to have that hat. If you don't have the hat, you're not Trafalgar. Sorry, you're not. You have to have that hat. Nigga, hold on, you have to have the hat. You have to have this hat. If you're oh shit, if you're gonna do his cosplay, his sword, if you can get his sword that long, gotta have the sword, gotta have all that shit. It's probably one of my favorite ships. Actually, I would love to get the hoodie. Actually, as soon as we're done with this, I'm gonna go online and see if I can find this hoodie.

Speaker 2: 1:01:38

I knew that was coming.

Speaker 1: 1:01:39

Yeah, yeah, that's a good hoodie. I've seen a lot of people definitely was coming. Yeah, yeah, that's a good hoodie. Um, I've seen a lot of people definitely uh doing him, but not with the whole suit, just with the, the blue button down and his like cheetah print tie, yeah, and then, honestly, I'm just giving ideas now, if you guys want to be on some really cool shit, I would do. If you could do the lo-fi girl from the YouTube shit, I think that would be sick. Or you could do the chill hop raccoon with just the hoodie, the blue jeans and the headphones. Like it works, it'll work. I'm pretty sure you'll get a lot of compliments on it, for sure, for sure. Um, also, if you don't know, lo-fi girl, uh, the lo-fi channel with the lo-fi girl, they have a new.

Speaker 1: 1:02:42

It is good it is good, it's good, it's really good. The medieval lo-fi I was like whoa, what this shit hits, though, because they have like the synth, the synth, the synthesizer, lo-fi shit, which is really good. Um, I'm not the big, I'm not the biggest fan anymore of the lo-fi girl like hip-hop beats because they're kind of like really like whimsical hip-hop beats. They're not like really like boom bap type shit, but the medieval shit hits. I love chill hop, because it has that those type of boom bap type of low-fi beats. There's another one called fantastic music. The one thing about fantastic music, though, is that they just play the same shit over and over again, so it's really nothing new um, not bad actually yeah, right, yeah, you're like.

Speaker 1: 1:03:38

You're like whoa, how the fuck they do that. And it's weird that I just read this like watch this renaissance fair shit. And now I'm hearing this look, don't get me started. I might start a, a black renaissance fair, you know, afro fair or some shit, and I'll be playing this shit on the. Just playing that shit, man, that shit will be fire shit. Don't get me started. Oh god, not a bad idea. I feel like I did a lot of talking this episode that's good, they can hear you for an episode yeah, you're next.

Speaker 1: 1:04:22

You're gonna be talking a lot on the next one. Yes, oh man, but um, yeah, is there anything else that you wanted to add?

Speaker 2: 1:04:35

I don't know. This was a long episode, you guys an hour and four minutes yeah, um you streaming tonight nope no no nope, nope, nope.

Speaker 1: 1:04:51

Um, yeah, like I said, uh, thanks for listening. You guys, this one, um, you know, lexi usually send me a message saying like all right, what are we going to talk about? And I'm like, honestly, the shit that we go through during the week, we can talk about that shit. That shit just works. So, like I said, thank you for listening again and we will see you guys later.

Speaker 2: 1:05:23

Bye guys, See you guys next time.