Speaker 1: 0:02

Thank you and welcome to another episode of the Carolina Otaku Podcast. This is Zafro, and I'm here with my co-host.

Speaker 2: 0:14

Lexi, that's so funny Out of all episodes. He's never messed up once, and he messes up today.

Speaker 1: 0:21

Usually smooth as fuck. Not today, all right, but hello again, welcome back. Yeah, I will just start out saying happy birthday, tyler, happy birthday 8-7 Wednesday Tomorrow. But today is Tuesday the 6th and it is my sister's birthday. So happy birthday to you, um, but you know the way that we start these off. We usually see what we've been up to since the last time we, you guys, have seen us or heard us and, um, you know we kind of just go from there. So, lexi, what have you been up to? What's been going on?

Speaker 2: 1:09

Let's see. So I went to a concert, like two weeks ago I went to see Schoolboy Q.

Speaker 1: 1:19

Obviously the Blue Lip City you were just you out here, just buying up paraphernalia you.

Speaker 2: 1:27

Okay, stop. I have like one rule if I go to a show and like they have merch, I always buy at least one piece of merch, um, so yeah, that's that's just me, that's what, what I do, but anyways. So I went, I had the VIP meet and greet pass which I would get up and show you guys, but I have on shorts that are kind of short, so, no, I won't show you guys, but it is signed by Schoolboy Q. I did get to meet him. I did get to take a picture with him. Don't even laugh, don't laugh.

Speaker 1: 2:01

I didn't have to say that All laugh, don't laugh. You didn't have to say that.

Speaker 2: 2:04

Anyway, anyways. I said what I said so it is, I gotta meet him. He is short, you guys, he's like 5'7", but he is like the dopest individual you can meet. I mean, you ain't tall I'm laying back. Okay, here we go. We're not starting this tonight. We're not starting this tonight. We're not starting this tonight. I have one thing you have to be taller than me. I can't date somebody that's shorter than me, and I'm 5'3".

Speaker 2: 2:35

So he is taller than me, but I'm just saying I like them tall, thank you. So leave me alone. Okay, I said what I said. So, anyways, back to what I was saying. Like he is a dope individual, but yeah, I was like right in front of the stage, like super close, and like this man went for almost two hours straight, no breaks at all, dancing, rapping, everything so it was. It was amazing. That's what I've been up to. I've really been getting ready for like the next few months. I'm traveling each month for like the next few months. So next week I have to go to san francisco for work, uh, so I'll be gone for a couple days doing that and yeah, that's pretty much it that's what's up.

Speaker 1: 3:31

Um, I would say the what do I have up there too? Oh, um, help my sister move back to my home state. Help to move stuff out of her old place. Helped my sister move back to my home state. Helped her move stuff out of her old place. Went through the process of getting new tags on my car.

Speaker 2: 3:58

Get them inspections.

Speaker 1: 4:00

Yeah, I did. You know they charged like extra $10 for a damn, for the damn tent.

Speaker 2: 4:09

See, you know, we don't have those here. Yeah, no.

Speaker 1: 4:12

That's why y'all be driving around in half of cars.

Speaker 2: 4:15

Shut up. Nobody asked you.

Speaker 1: 4:18

Yeah, but they changed the. When I got, I got the inspection on the Volvo. When I got I got the inspection on the Volvo, I go to online to get my registration, get the little super sticker, and I can't do it because the title number changed. I got the, I got my title like two weeks ago and the title number changed. So now I had to go back to the DMV again and I mean it was quick, it was really fast, like I didn't have to wait or anything. Like they had the tag, like they're already and they just hand it to you.

Speaker 2: 4:58

Nice.

Speaker 1: 5:00

Right and I was like, okay, cool, so got that taken care of. I went back home to Maryland for my mother's day at a job, had like a little retirement joint, got to meet people that worked with Mom's been there since she was 17 years old Wow, 17 years old and through college she was working there. It got it, you know, for two years. It put my sister and I through college and, you know, with my dad, of course, my dad and my stepmother also, but it, you know, when you think about that, that's a long fucking time it is that's a long fucking time it is.

Speaker 1: 5:46

That's a long fucking time and it should have happened years ago. Um, I also realized that I'm not the biggest fan of meeting like people at a workplace, because I haven't been in a workplace in so long. Nothing, it's nothing against my mom's or nothing, but it's just like a lot of shaking hands and shit. And then you meet some people who knew you when you were like a kid and it's just like okay, I, I don't remember you so I remember you were this big and I was like I don't remember you, dude, nice to meet you, though, nice to meet you man, I, I don't remember you, dude Nice

Speaker 1: 6:23

to meet you though. Nice to meet you, nice to meet you. Man, I don't remember you at all, but it's cool though. So you know, yeah, but that was cool, it was like a really good celebration. You know, yeah, I mean that's really what I've been up to lately. We can kind of talk about this. I text you about this. My friend of mine that went to was it GalaxyCon? Yes, she went to GalaxyCon here in North Carolina and she was telling me, she was told First of all she bought a ticket. They had tickets in there for like, like you come like after three. Yeah, like, you buy a ticket and you have to come in after three.

Speaker 2: 7:24

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 7:26

Like you buy a ticket and you have to come in after three. That's what the ticket was for. I've never heard of that ever. I never even think. I didn't even know it was a thing, Right. So I was like, okay, that's interesting. And this place was. She told me this place was packed, packed, packed like a whole. She told me this place was packed, Packed, Packed Like a whole. A lot of fucking people at this shit, Right, yeah. And then she told me that, you know, it was a lot of people there, a lot of celebrities, a lot of voice actors and stuff like that. But the one thing that she told me was that there was the cast of the live action Avatar. The last airbender was there, and she told me how much they were charging for all three of them to be in a picture, and she said it was almost like four to five hundred dollars. Four to five hundred dollars for a picture.

Speaker 1: 8:27

I don't even know what that shit's gonna be autographed. And here's the funny shit. I wouldn't me personally wouldn't even want a picture with people from the live action. I'd rather have a picture with the voice actors from the series. Damn the live action shit. I could oh God, I can give two shits about that, because it just doesn't. I don't care, I really don't give a fuck. And when she told me that, I told you and what did you tell me? What did you tell me when I told you that?

Speaker 2: 9:12

What did I say? I don't remember.

Speaker 1: 9:15

That's why I said you said that you paid more. Oh, yeah, no, you said that's less than I paid to see fucking schoolboy Q, and that was an. Honestly, literally that was what, either the day of or the day after I sent you that message. Yeah, and you told me that and I was just like what the fuck? Like? That's crazy to me. This is, this is how I know we talk about this a lot, but this is how I know that conventions are becoming something totally different.

Speaker 2: 9:50

Honestly, conventions are basically going with gas prices, and it's not I mean like it's not just, it's just like they're becoming more and more popular and as the popularity goes, you know, okay, they see this is becoming a trend. Let me charge you guys more and more and more. Yeah for this like, but it's not just that, it's just over. Like I had some friends that went to dream con or whatever and like oh yeah, that's right, like one, like a friend of mine.

Speaker 2: 10:19

He's been like two years in a row and he said like this time he was like, yeah, they were better organized. But he was like, yeah, this is my last time coming, I don't, I don't want to come back, no more. Another friend of mine that does cosplay or whatever. He was like yeah, no, I. He's like I'm, I'm domicons. He's like, you know, he wants to go to more like game centric, like events, instead of like these anime events where everybody's like into everything, yeah, and it's just like it seems like the vibes are changing at these cons and so a lot of people are just not going to go, like even this year. Like I haven't been to any cons, the only one I'm really going to is twitch con where is that in?

Speaker 2: 10:57

september at san diego, yeah and so like. But besides that, like yeah, I really don't like miss it, I miss the vendor room. That's pretty much it, but like you know, it's just yeah. I think the the older crowd is like yeah, no, we did like okay man it's to the, it's really to the point.

Speaker 1: 11:23

And then now a lot of people within this anime realm that we talked about, the whole gatekeeping and shit like that of all of these famous Instagrammers and YouTubers and stuff like that, like KevOnStage.

Speaker 2: 11:50

Because, if I'm not mistaken, ke on stage was at dream con. There was a lot. There was a lot of them that dream? Yeah, and I think uh like even sexy rat was there are you serious?

Speaker 1: 12:00

yeah yeah, oh, wow, um, but I remember seeing Kev on stage. He was in a cosplay of Zorro and some people were pissed, some people were really mad about like, some people were really mad about that shit. I mean really mad. Here's the shit. If, hmm, okay, if y'all motherfuckers get mad at this motherfucker, y'all motherfuckers should have got mad at a whole bunch of other people before. If this is where you guys say, damn it, I'm putting my foot down. Y'all motherfuckers are left behind. Y'all motherfuckers. Like that shit is over. Like you guys should have said some shit a long time ago. You guys should have said shit a long time ago.

Speaker 1: 12:57

Like I think you can kind of tell the people that are true to the shit and the people that fake the shit, right, the people that are true to the shit and the people that fake the shit, right.

Speaker 1: 13:06

And it could be somebody that just gets into anime, right. But if you have a certain following behind you and you know, like you know your demographic of your following and shit of your following and shit, like you know your shit, if you're up there and you got that blue fucking, you know that blue fucking check next to your name and shit like that on all your shits. You know you're following, it's true, and you're just like. You know what I'm gonna get into this anime shit and you know for a fact it's gonna. It's gonna turn heads and that's what it did for kevin stage and people like I said, I'm in fucking facebook groups for anime and all that shit and like some people are just like this dude's a fucking poser, he's a fucking put him head. I'm like this. This is where you guys draw the line the line yeah, this is.

Speaker 2: 14:03

This is the person that you guys want to say all right, hold on, wait a minute, so like. That is very true. A lot of people do that. So like, if you're on facebook and you're in the anime, you probably already heard of the group or you're in this group, but you know the 50 shades, like girls who just be coming in there know nothing about anime or will say, like the wildest thing you like, huh, wait yeah so you're just like doing this for your only fans look, it's so easy to just get a cosplay costume that you can buy and it can be.

Speaker 1: 14:51

It can be tight-fitting and all that shit. And you know we talked about this shit before because it's real. You know niggas are gonna flock to your shit. You know it because niggas are always gonna be niggas and ass and titties always get seen like niggas always flock to that shit. And if you're in a cosplay, that just adds to that. You just throwing more fuel to the fire. Now you get your money. And if you a dude and you out here paying for that shit, hey my nigga, do what you gotta do. You get your money. And if you, if you a dude and you out here paying for that shit, hey my nigga, do what you gotta do. That's your. You earn that money. You spend that money the way that you want to nigga. But that's wild. That's.

Speaker 1: 15:37

It's wild to me that people are like pissed off about that shit now. Some people are pissed off about that shit now when this should have been an uproar a long time ago. If you really, if people want to be on some gatekeeping type shit, you know what I mean. So I don't know it going to a DreamCon ever. I really don't. I mean, I think I think like MomoCon is probably like I would say, momocon is probably the biggest convention that I've been to, that I have been to and I've been to a lot, but that is the biggest one. Um, it's just some cons that when I sit there and I'm thinking about it like I know I would never go to a New York Comic Con. That's dude. I would go fucking crazy, not in a good way. I would be like I need to get the fuck out of here. I need to get the fucks out of here. I need to get the fuck out of here. This is insane. This is a lot.

Speaker 2: 16:48

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 16:49

Or like a San Diego Comic-Con.

Speaker 2: 16:51

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 16:53

That would be a lot too. I would just be like nah, I'm good.

Speaker 2: 17:00

I made that mistake. Like I went to my local to from my local con, I went to Dragon Con. That was my first VidCon. I was so done, I was over it. Since now I've gone to way more cons. Since then I want to go again. That was very overwhelming because it spans three buildings and there's people everywhere.

Speaker 1: 17:35

What I do want to know is I wonder if people would even go to the cons that are startups that aren't like famous right dream con. It dream con started what two, three years ago no long it's been.

Speaker 2: 17:57

I think it's like four years now. Four years, okay, or maybe more, yeah, but it is.

Speaker 1: 18:02

It's relatively newer, but it is yeah yeah, I I wonder if, like people even go to the local shits. I'm serious, like I wonder if people go to like the small local ones, like the ones that aren't in a convention center but like in a hotel you know what I mean like I've been to cons and like, fucking like how they ends and shit like that, like shits that have, like you know, like a little fucking room in the vendors shit. There's a um, the durham durham comic-con. The durham convention is not that big. They have it at d-pack, I think, but it's not that big. But I already know, at Deepak I think, but it's not that big, but I already know that it's going to be crazy this year and that shit, I think, is in November or something. You got the Fayetteville Comic Con. You have Greenville and our Greenville, not your Greenville, our Greenville.

Speaker 2: 19:02

Anyways.

Speaker 1: 19:09

But I wonder if people even go to those, or would people even think about you know, starting at these small cons to try to, you know, help build these these up, or you're just going. You want to talk about people that you know are bandwagoning stuff. You know you don't want to be a bandwagoner or, uh, all that shit. Go to your small shits, support those yeah you know what I mean.

Speaker 1: 19:31

You can go to the big joints if you want to cool. I mean, hey, it's your money, do what you want, but start off local shit. You know what I mean? Like there's a there's a convention here in North Carolina Sable something. It's Sable something. I forgot what it's called. I need to look it up though, but you know, I think it started maybe about two years ago, not that big. It comes around every year they have it in Nightdale.

Speaker 1: 19:58

North Carolina, that's not even a really big city. Nightdale, north Carolina, that's not even a really big city, nightdale, north Carolina. And you know it's to the point where they're doing it again this year. So you know they're doing something right. It's just interesting to me that people get pissed off about, like you know, people like a Kev on stage being at these places and they're just like dude, you just get onto this shit. Well, yeah, well, yeah, nigga, when you start a job, you don't know every fucking thing right, you don't like.

Speaker 2: 20:32

Even like when I started getting into it. Like I know we had a local one here but like the larger cons I didn't know about. And like I know people around here that go to, like my local one but they don't know about. Like the other ones around here like momo kai awa, dragon khan like, or the one I think there's one like columbia is pretty big, but like they don't go to those because you know, you don't know until you get more and more into it exactly, exactly.

Speaker 1: 21:04

So it's a. You know it. I don't know. I think, uh, people are kind of just wishy-washy when it comes to certain shit, especially within this anime and gaming realm um, oh wait, hold on, though you think it's bad.

Speaker 2: 21:21

here there is a big con for true crime.

Speaker 1: 21:29

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 21:30

It's in Tennessee. The ticket prices for this con are more than mobile con dragon, con San Diego con. Like they're expensive, they're like 300, 400 just for a standard yeah, just for a standard, like whatever, if you want to go higher, oh you, you look into like some grants, so yeah oh, this better be like oh, that's crazy, that's crazy.

Speaker 1: 22:05

And what's the? What's the? Uh, I guess what's? This is gonna be a weird question. What's the? What's the appeal of it? Is it just people coming to? It's like any other convention, just people coming together?

Speaker 2: 22:22

yeah, it's just like true crime creators, like content creators, like I think they actually have, like victims, like been through it, and just like a lot of different stuff for that particular space you said, victims are there too.

Speaker 2: 22:37

Yeah, like like, yeah, some like will speak out about like different things that happen. You know things of that sort and so I I get it, but like you're charging more than some of the biggest like interest cons there are, just talk about like true crime all day and I just like even me, you look like a true crime junkie. I'm just like no, I'm not. I'm not paying on prices, that's wild.

Speaker 1: 23:10

I didn't know that, damn. I mean, I guess there's a convention for everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, damn, that's crazy. Yeah, yo, if you guys want to be on some uh, you know, uh, what is it? Gatekeeping type shit, like do it. If you're gonna do it, do it like you know, at a time that actually makes sense. Don't do it like come on, come, come on. Like for real, y'all get mad at that nigga, really fuck it. Um, but, like I said, I did do some traveling.

Speaker 1: 23:56

I traveled to, uh, back to my home state, uh, and while I was driving back okay, first of all, while I was driving back, uh, I went this goes so crazy. So we're gonna talk about how we travel. Like we know that we have to go somewhere, what do we do? Like it's I'm. I'm specifically talking about driving, flying, be at the airport early, make sure you have all your shit together and, yeah, cool. I'm talking about driving, though, like when you know you're about to drive somewhere, what is it that you're doing before you get on that road and all that shit?

Speaker 1: 24:43

And I will say, when I was driving to Maryland, I was, uh, sonny was in the back, she was asleep, and I was like you know what I think I was like hitting a Virginia state line and I was like the song that came into my head when I was it's usually like certain songs that come into my head when I'm driving and it's weird. But the song that came into my head was I miss you by Aaron Hall Weird. I know, it was weird, right. So I played that song and it just takes me through a whole new Jack swing like playlists and shit like that and I love, I love new jack swing music. I love it. I love everything fucking about it because it's just so, it's good, it's good shit, okay anyway.

Speaker 1: 25:41

Um, yeah, so when you know you're about the let's say you were going to the schoolboy q concert and you had to drive to atlanta, what, what is it? Do you just get in and just go or do you? Are you like prepping shit? All right, I got this, got that, want to get that together. I gotta do this. What are you doing?

Speaker 2: 26:02

so if I'm driving to a concert, yeah, um, so, after taking probably two hours to get ready, I am getting prepped. So, like to make sure I have like my little snacks, like something to drink, like a water or a Red Bull, and then, you know, I head out and usually I'm probably playing like a playlist of songs by the artist that's going to be there that I'm going to watch I was going to ask you do you like prep your ears? Yeah, do you?

Speaker 1: 26:47

prep your ears so you could just be like in the know of shit. You're just like, yeah, yeah, I'm ready for this.

Speaker 2: 26:53

Yeah, okay, uh, so that, yeah, I do that. And yeah, I pretty much I try, like when I'm in the car by myself, I'm not one to like make mini stops. I'm getting where I'm going and I'm going. I'm not like, oh, let me stop at the gas station, oh, let me stop and get this. No, that's a straight destination. If I don't have anything in the house for me to take with me, luckily there's a Sphinx. I can go either way and there's a Sphinx within five minutes of me. I'll either shop at one of them and get my water or a Red Bull, probably a snack or something, and then I'm hitting that road. And one thing about me even if I know where I'm going, I know the direction, I know how to get there, I still want to put my GPS on just to make sure, because you never know you might hit that slowdown. So, as you were driving to Atlanta, you never know when you'll get that slowdown. That's like 45 minutes and you're just like bruh.

Speaker 2: 28:02

I hate Atlanta traffic I hate it so much it is disgusting, are you?

Speaker 1: 28:10

I mean, you know, you know me like if I know if I shut up, if I know, shut up if I know. Okay, so whenever I'm driving back home because that's honestly, if I travel anywhere, I'm most of the time it's me going back home, um, but if I'm traveling anywhere, I'm leaving like hell early. I'm leaving two in the morning, two in the morning, like alarm goes off. Well, I say 2 30, alarm goes off. I'm taking a shower, brushing my teeth, getting my dog packed up, we're in the car, we're out by 2 30 navigation going.

Speaker 1: 28:50

I already went to gas station to fill up the tank the night before. I'm like on some dad shit, like I'm like we got, I'm getting, I'm getting gas tomorrow, so everybody be ready. Like I tried with my sister up to maryland one time and I was like Tyler, look, you know I leave early. I was like put your shit in the truck the night before so we can just you take your shower, we can just head on out, I pack up the dog and we gone he is not lying at all.

Speaker 2: 29:23

So we like, we stayed at an Airbnb all together for MomoCon one year, right? Oh yeah, I was, me and my friend. We went out to a rave, right, and we left at like 11. So he was already knocked out of sleep and I was like alright, hopefully I get to tell him bye before he leaves, right? We get home at like I think like 2 30. This man is gone, like look at his room, there was nothing there. Everything's gone.

Speaker 1: 29:57

I'm just like well, god, damn he's out super this is me driving from atlanta to north carolina. I was gone like 2 am. I'm hitting a fucking road. I am a person that likes to get to where I need to, where I need to get to early, so I still have the rest of the day to do shit. I don't, I'm not. Look, I put it to you like this I think people that leave like midday are insane. And then people that leave at nighttime and drive into the morning, they're crazy. Driving at night into the morning, nah, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'd rather leave early morning. I get to sleep the night before and.

Speaker 1: 30:44

I'm up, ready to go. You know I'm playing my music and I'm making it and I'm whatever I'm going, and if I'm driving to Maryland, see, this is where I fucked up. So I left for Maryland on a Wednesday morning. During the weekday it was a workday. That's where I fucked up. Most of the time if I go to Maryland, I'm leaving on a weekend, mostly a Sunday, going into a Monday. Right, I fucked up. Most of the time if I go to Maryland I'm leaving on a weekend, mostly a Sunday going into a Monday Right.

Speaker 1: 31:12

I hit traffic, of course, in northern fucking Virginia and I hit traffic on a Baltimore-Washington Parkway. On a Baltimore Washington Parkway, the two-lane shit that goes up forever, that passes Bowie and all that shit Right. So I was like I never hit traffic like this. This shit is horrible. And then you got like no, all I'm saying is I'm an early person, wake up, drive there. And I'm a person that doesn't stop. I go now, depending on where it is. Like I had to stop for gas, like when I drove from North Carolina to Alabama when my sister was down there. Yeah, I stopped because I had to fill up on gas.

Speaker 2: 31:58

So I got some drinking all that shit.

Speaker 1: 32:00

Right, I think I stopped when I went to Atlanta. From North Carolina to Atlanta, I think I stopped. Also, I think we can stop Carolina or some shit, but I am a person that, like I said, gets up early and just goes you know midday midday is cool, you know you're up and Adam, you had your night's sleep.

Speaker 1: 32:23

You get yourself together, but you're going to. I feel like you hit traffic every time. But then, like I said, together but you're gonna, I feel like you hit traffic every time. But then, like I said, the people that, oh yeah, I'm gonna start driving at like eight, 9. Pm and I'm a go into the morning. Nigga, you are not a truck driver, nigga, you are not a truck driver Like you. Better get your sleep.

Speaker 1: 32:47

Shit, you know it's, it's shit like that. You know it's to each his own, for sure, for sure. But for me I've always done that, always done that. The only time I haven't done that was when I was in college. And I'm like taking the Amtrak to Maryland and that Amtrak ride is almost eight hours, so that's a whole day. Ouch, from Raleigh, north Carolina, to Maryland, that's a whole day. So you know you're just there. But, like I was saying, I was fucking.

Speaker 1: 33:24

I was thinking about the song Miss you by Aaron Hall and I was going through some new jack swing shit and I was just like, damn, this new jack swing shit is hitting. I had the windows down the whole time. I'm rolling, I'm doing like 75 80 cruise control on just going in the volvo cruising and that thing is fast so I'm rolling. You got some idiots. The only thing in the morning time is that there are some idiots.

Speaker 1: 33:55

It's mostly 18 wheelers on the road but there are usually some idiot like cars out there, high beams on on the highway the whole time. Motherfuckers driving slow, low lane, 18 wheeler trucks in the fast lane not moving, what else? Accidents, cops on the side of the road, construction I hate construction in Richmond going up there. But yeah, like, if I'm going to a, a convention like it, and I'm doing like a cosplay, I have everything laid out and packed up the night before. Everything. If there are weapons included, weapons too you have to, because you the last thing you want to do is just you drive all the way there and you forget shit, like some shit is already in the car and also I do that every time, though, like when I have a cosplay that has a weapon.

Speaker 2: 35:03

I swear to god, I always leave the weapon in my car by accident, or I do not pack it, so I don't have my weapon. So like yeah that happens sometimes.

Speaker 1: 35:15

that really happens. Or what I do is if I know that I need weapon and I can order off Amazon and I just get it sent to the hotel that I'm staying at. That's pretty good too, um, oh, also, this might be kind of, but if you are traveling to a different state, make sure you, if you carry, make sure you know your gun laws before you just go with your gun there most southern states are pretty chill when you go up north, where it's kinda um cause, you better believe when I go to Tennessee, you best believe, you better believe when I go to Tennessee, you best believe, you best believe.

Speaker 1: 35:58

Look, you can't be too careful, you can't be too careful. But yeah, whenever I travel it's always early in the morning, always always like and when I got back, when I came back here, I was staying at my sister's house on new place it caught off like, compared to my mom, it cut off like a whole hour of me driving, which was really good because I was already close to DC and I just had to go. I think I left at 2.30ish. I got home maybe at 6.50, 6.47. I was making some good. I made some damn good time. I was rolling All windows down, same way Coming up, going down, hit a little bit of traffic in virginia too, but yeah, it wasn't, it wasn't too bad, it wasn't too bad.

Speaker 1: 36:57

I made really good time there, for sure, for sure are you um. So in your next couple months when you are traveling, it's all fine all right, that's. All of it's fine. I do think like, well, you, probably you have way more experience than me when it comes to, like, the flying prep and all that shit. When you're flying, how often are you? How early you get into the airport?

Speaker 2: 37:25

So I at least try to get there like two hours early, um, especially if I'm going to, like if I'm going through Atlanta oh yeah, I'm making sure I'm getting there like maybe close to three cause those lines to get through TSA. Yeah, sometimes it can be awful is that an international airport? Yeah okay okay, this is one of the biggest airports. I think we got down this way, but yeah oh yeah, it is.

Speaker 1: 37:59

When I went to fucking italy for work, they threw away a big ass like metal container of olive oil that I bought from there. That shit was good shit. And they said oh, we had to throw this away because you can't see through the bottle. Motherfucker, I bought this at the. That shit pissed me off. I should have put it in my check bag. Wasn't even thinking about it, whatever. Um, when you went to atlanta recently, did you do the tesla?

Speaker 2: 38:22

you took tesla no, I did not. I took the other car, really yeah.

Speaker 1: 38:30

Damn. I thought you were going to take the Tesla on that joint.

Speaker 2: 38:33

Oh no. So like I take the Tesla when I have time, because if I take the Tesla I have to recharge it before I get home, and so it would have been me getting there, that would have been fine.

Speaker 2: 38:48

But coming the, you know I already have to sit in traffic trying to get out of the place I'm coming from, and then I gotta stop get something to eat because I'm hungry, um yeah like that would add like probably because I have because when I stop at like a charger, like if I'm driving, let's say's say, from Georgia to South Carolina, and because I have a level one charger it's like the slowest I always try to charge it like to 90% or at least, and that takes anywhere from like 30, 40 minutes just for it to do, and then you know that's already a two hour drive for me. So that's literally like like three when we stop and get food or something like three, four, you know hours because I took my charge, you know like because I took the tesla, so I just like nah, we're taking onyx and that's gas stop at a gas station in and out, and you know, straight shot back home. So that's why did um, what so?

Speaker 1: 39:54

what time did that concert end? And you just drove right back right after.

Speaker 2: 39:58

So you got home like around 12 1 o'clock like that, like two, yeah, because like the concert was over at, because yeah, concert was over at like 1130. 1130. Yes, what?

Speaker 1: 40:22

1130. Yes, jesus, jesus Damn.30?. Yes, jesus Damn.

Speaker 2: 40:33

What I don't know Anyway.

Speaker 1: 40:38

That seems really late. Okay, go ahead Okay.

Speaker 2: 40:40

He's an old man, you guys.

Speaker 1: 40:43

All right, that seems really fucking old. Anyways, 11.30? Yes, and then I still got to drive back home. Yes, anyways, 1130 yes, and then I still gotta drive back home. Yes, oh no, oh, no, no yes, anyways.

Speaker 2: 41:04

So you gotta drive back. So, anyways, get out. There's like traffic. It wasn't that bad. It's like, yeah, we were right there, so what's that much traffic to get out? It's probably like 10 minutes to get out and then, um, we have no checkers here at all. So the only time I get checkers is when I'm like somewhere that has it alana has it, so I stopped me out of checkers is when I'm like somewhere that has it Atlanta has it, so I stopped being able to get checkers. Well, every time I'm in Atlanta, it always wants to take me to the one that's downtown and that's like the most ratchet checkers ever. It's like right near a gas station. It's like the hood gas station. We were on the side and there was like it's like the hood gas station, like we were, like we were in a side and there was like tape all around the gas, like pumps or whatever.

Speaker 2: 41:57

Nah, I'm gonna go to the next one, so another one and um, yeah, so after that, and then driving and stopping at gas, I got home at 2.

Speaker 1: 42:09

I don't know why, but 1130 just seems so.

Speaker 2: 42:14

Okay, we get it. You're old and you do not like to be up that late. It's okay. It's okay, you'll be alright.

Speaker 1: 42:27

That's crazy, that is wild. That's how I kind of never understand how like people at like conventions, like you go to a rave or some shit in the party and shit cool. Whatever you do your shit, that's what you want to do and all that shit. Um, and I already know those raves go crazy at conventions.

Speaker 2: 42:50

They do.

Speaker 1: 42:51

They go crazy and I just be like I'm good, I'm good. That's where you see the cat boys and the cat girls. That's where you see the cat boys and the cat girls. That's where you see them, maybe at the, maybe like you see them at the convention, and then you're like yeah, cool, cool, but when it gets to that part, you know, oh whole nother.

Speaker 1: 43:17

Totally, totally, totally, totally different, totally different. My um speaking I know real topic but my sister went to a convention in boston for, like you know, dermatology for animals and shit like that, and she was like I got, she was like I gotta show you this video and I was like what she was like. There was this Asian lady that was a doctor, a vet, she was like an older woman, she was break dancing and I was like what? And she showed me the video and this woman was getting down. She was getting down, she was, she was getting down. I was like, oh shit, like she was. She was in the middle of the floor like killing it, like she was like, oh, I am away from whatever. I am going crazy out here. I don't give a fuck. I'm not gonna see half of y'all ever again anyway.

Speaker 1: 44:08

So I'm dancing my ass off and I was like yo, that's sick. I actually really like that.

Speaker 2: 44:17

No, that makes me think about. At one of my old jobs there was this big work truck.

Speaker 1: 44:23

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 44:24

And an old supervisor of mine went on this trip. Apparently he got super drunk I mean drunk, drunk, drunk, oh yeah and like got naked and was running up and down the hallways and like saying some wild shit. And like it was even more funny, like I was out drinking one night and I saw him while I was out drinking very sobering moment. I was like all right, we gotta go. I don't want to see my like supervisor here while I'm trying to drink.

Speaker 2: 45:01

No gotta go, but anyways, yeah, he ended up getting fired for that. I mean, hey, some people are like, oh, I'm not at home. Oh, fuck all that, Let me.

Speaker 1: 45:12

Yeah, it's interesting because I think like I don't know, when it comes to work and you go to parties and stuff like that, if people get drunk and shit like that, you a lot of those people forget that when you're at a company function you're still on work time yeah, you're at a company function.

Speaker 1: 45:37

This isn't some shit, like you know. You're not a fucking bar with just any fucking body Like you. That's not the way it is. So you have to represent the company and if you're a supervisor or a manager, you have to know your surroundings always, and you got to know you. Also, you should know your alcohol. You should know if you're a lightweight or heavyweight Like that's just come to fuck on. You should know this alcohol intake. You should know if you're lightweight or heavyweight like that's just come the fuck on. You should know this shit. That's just that's easy shit. Come on, it's Jesus man. Yeah, but I know some people that have gotten fired for doing stupid shit. You know getting drunk, doing crazy shit, thinking it's cool and all that's like. That's the. That's the one thing about. Like. That's the one thing about. Like company, like fucking parties and shit like that. I feel like motherfuckers that aren't married are going to go fucking crazy.

Speaker 2: 46:43

Oh no, it's not just the married ones too. Oh yeah, they be out here.

Speaker 1: 46:50

Fucking crazy, like Fucking crazy, fucking crazy. They be doing some of the most stupidest shit. And then they go home and it's just like oh well, you expect me to just sit here and look at you, at your face after I know shit that you did the night before you, piece of shit, fucking Gary, you think, oh man, nah, man, nah. When I went to Italy for work, in my head I was like in my head. In my head I was like I know for a fact that people are going to be fucking angry. It's a, it's a given.

Speaker 1: 47:41

We stayed in fucking villas and it was. We fucking had to stay. It's a given we had. We stayed in fucking villas and it was separate rooms. Right, I don't know if it happened, but it's just like we are the only people at this thing, at this whole resort. The company bought the whole resort. There's nobody else here. Come on, come on. The company bought the whole resort. There's nobody else here, come on, come on. And most of the time, it's usually motherfuckers on the same team, on the same fucking team no lies are told here at all.

Speaker 1: 48:18

I was like in my head that whole time. We were early, I was just like man, I know what some dirty motherfuckers is. I was like I know what some dirty motherfuckers is, that's and when. So my job, we're trying to figure out where we're gonna have like our next, like big ass company joint right, and I look, I'll be surprised if it's in America.

Speaker 1: 48:48

It's gonna be crazy if it's in another country it's still gonna be fucking crazy, but oh yeah it man. Work. Shit is crazy anyway, any fucking way. Um, but you said that you will be. You said that in the next couple every month you're gonna be traveling. You said twitch con and everything else is work stuff so next week is work stuff.

Speaker 2: 49:22

Next week is work stuff. I gotta go do some stuff. September is TwitchCon. Then October I have a wedding. That's in New York, that's gross Upstate.

Speaker 1: 49:37

Oh, that's gross. What part Like what oh upstate.

Speaker 2: 49:46

I go to Brooklyn.

Speaker 1: 49:49

Oh shit, sorry, Sorry I'm not the biggest New Yorker. It's just so congested, it's just so fucking injustice, it's just so much shit and it's so many people Oof. You find that right.

Speaker 2: 50:08

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1: 50:09

Okay, good, good, good, that's good, that's really good. If you were driving, I was like I was going to say, stay in Jersey and just drive into New York. Yeah, that's good, okay, only thing I have is work stuff and that's about it. Just work stuff and I'm driving that, so that should be fun. How far is that?

Speaker 2: 50:41

How far is that? How far is that?

Speaker 1: 50:45

Eight hours.

Speaker 2: 50:47

That's not too bad.

Speaker 1: 50:49

That's not bad. It's a pretty good drive. I'm going to be there for the whole week. Leave Sunday, get back.

Speaker 2: 50:55

At 2 am, like he usually does, anyways.

Speaker 1: 50:57

Hell yeah, I'm going to be going through the mountains. I'm going to be going through the mountains, so I'm gonna be going through, like the asheville area and shit like that on the way out. Oh man, I want to see the sunrise on that shit. That shit's going to be amazing. I'm gonna be. That's why I like to drive, because I can see shit like that. You know, um, and I appreciate that for sure, for sure, that's um, uh, I'm trying to think if there's anything else not really many games coming out soon that I'm like, oh, my gosh, Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Speaker 2: 51:39

Did you? Did you play fallout London?

Speaker 1: 51:41

Cause we ain't talk about that oh no, I have not played it yet. I still need to like look, trying to start that motherfucker is actually really difficult why don't you just ask me to help you? Yeah, I know, I thought, have you played it? Yes, do you like it? Yes, like do you?

Speaker 2: 51:58

yes, I'd Do you like it?

Speaker 1: 52:01

Do you like it better than I know? It's like on top of the Fallout 4, but do you like it better than Fallout 4?

Speaker 2: 52:15

No, it's not. It's not Fallout 4. Alright, let me explain it. So you got that all right, because he hasn't played it, even though I bought him the game. You guys, I literally bought him the game, so he could try it out and he didn't try it out anyways.

Speaker 2: 52:36

So fallout london is a conversion mod, so pretty much they take the game and they just like redo it and I'm gonna say it's probably the best mod for a game that I've ever seen. The the amount of like detail they put into this, it feels like a new game and it theoretically it is. I think it adds another 70 to 90 hours of gameplay on top of the game. You don't have a Pip-Boy, you have an Atta-Boy. Atta-boy. They take a bald boy out. There's no images of him, it's just like they're.

Speaker 2: 53:24

It looks really weird. It's like like a crap, not like a crash, I mean, but kind of like a crash. I mean it's really weird, looking like they're. Whatever, um, the perks are, just it's just the same as um fallout, we won't. Some perks have been tweaked and things of that nature. Um, I forgot, I don't know. I don't know if there's a mystery stranger in there or not. I think it's all I can't remember. It's really good. The music in there is. They did put fallout music in there, so you still have some of the staple songs, but they did add some London tracks in there, like UK-based music, the voice acting yeah, I saw that they got For one of the voice actors.

Speaker 1: 54:21

It's like UK based music, the voice acting yeah, I saw that they got for one of the voice actors. It's one of the doctors.

Speaker 2: 54:29

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's cool. Yeah, they got him in there and also you guys.

Speaker 1: 54:37

This is all free.

Speaker 2: 54:39

Yeah, definitely all free. So they do take donations, but it's not required, it is all free. Yeah, definitely all free. So they do take donations, but it's not required, it is completely free. So that's another reason why all that effort that they put in is like, definitely they should have like charged people, but they did it all for free and everything is.

Speaker 2: 55:04

I mean, you're going to have glitches in it. It's not perfect, but even Bethesda can't make a perfect game. Their games are riddled with bugs. So there are a lot of bugs, but there are mods out there to help with those bugs. For me, there's a like the loading. The loading is terrible. It can take sometimes up to a minute for things to load. There is a. There is a mod out there that supposedly fixes it, um, and so you could try that. I I've seen some improvement, but I haven't really played it since I installed it to see if it is really good or not. Um, the game is harder because, like in the beginning, like the first few hours, you can't find a gun nowhere. You're basically using, like, melee weapons. Um, you don't really have many stem packs. Food is your best friend in this game. If you can eat it, you want to take it with you, because stem packs are expensive and hard to buy. Oh, that reminds me. They don't use caps. Caps is not their currency. They use tickets. That's their currency, it's tickets.

Speaker 1: 56:24

I will give it a try, um I have the time to do it, so um you just gonna rub it in my face oh yeah, I'll give that a try, but I did watch a video about it and it does look um. It does look nice, um. Also, anybody that's on the coast of North Carolina, please be careful. Yeah, I think it's a. Was it a hurricane?

Speaker 2: 56:49

I thought it went down to a tropical storm.

Speaker 1: 56:53

Yeah, be careful, you guys. I think we're just going to get rain and shit anyway, but yeah, anything else.

Speaker 2: 57:05

Nope, I'm good.

Speaker 1: 57:07

You streaming tonight.

Speaker 2: 57:09

Nope, I am not Okay.

Speaker 1: 57:13

Well, thank you guys for joining us for another episode of the Carolina Taku Podcast and we will see you guys again later. Bye, guys, bye.