Speaker 1: 0:02

Okay, we're not going to fuck it up today, christopher, we're not going to fuck up the intro today, all right, thank you.

Speaker 2: 0:11

What the fuck? I'm sorry, it just caught me off guard. Why the fuck does it look like you have no neck? I can't. What are you talking?

Speaker 1: 0:19

about? I do. I'm just wearing a hoodie. What are you talking about?

Speaker 2: 0:26

Okay.

Speaker 1: 0:27

Fuck you. Thank you and welcome to another episode of the Carolina Otaku Podcast. I am Afro and I am here with my co-host who says I don't have no fucking neck.

Speaker 2: 0:41

Lexi, hi guys, how are you Welcome back? Fuck you.

Speaker 1: 0:48

That's the most you've said in an intro. Alright, anyway, welcome back. Thank you for joining us again and yeah, you guys know how we start these off. You know what we've been up to In the past, what week, week or the last time we spoke. So, yeah, what have you been up to? Luxie, you have some good stuff that you've been up to.

Speaker 2: 1:16

Anyways, we were just talking about this. So, anyways, yeah, hey guys, welcome back. We miss you guys. I don't know why it looks like he has no neck, but it really does look like he has no neck, or that his head is like two times bigger than what it usually is, but it's really freaking me out right now, you guys. So I want to talk about that real quick. But other than that, back at you, um. Other than that, um, lately I got a 3d printer stepped into that realm.

Speaker 1: 1:52

Um, it has been a challenge. Yeah, do you have what you print?

Speaker 2: 1:54

yeah, I have some of it um. So this is like little baby, grogu, when'd you do? That one A couple days ago. He has a bong in his hand. Then there's Bats oh, that's nice. Then Hello Kitty Okay, she was around here. I don't know where she went, but there's like a little small miniature Hello Kitty, but she's around here somewhere. This is a little small miniature Hello Kitty, but she's around here somewhere, but it's a little small miniature Hello Kitty that I made so far. That's some of the stuff.

Speaker 1: 2:30

I made.

Speaker 2: 2:31

Oh wait, and there's one more thing I made that's sitting right here.

Speaker 1: 2:35

Nice, should I ask her yes, smart, smart, smart, I'll fucks with that.

Speaker 2: 2:44

Okay, okay, what, ah smart smart, smart.

Speaker 1: 2:45

I'll fucks with that, Okay, Okay, what? What did you realize when it comes to 3D printing? That like the difficult part about it.

Speaker 2: 2:55

Is there any difficult part.

Speaker 2: 2:57

The whole entire thing is difficult like. So I don't know a lot about 3D printing starting off. I still don't know a lot about 3d printing, um, starting off, I still don't know a lot, but, um, I got an anchor make M five C, but it's probably like really like your entry level printer. Um, like it's, it's really easy to print like start off, like you have, like, uh, you could search for like STL files for different things that you want to print, instead of having to use like cura to slice it and then send it to the printer and all that stuff. You don't have to do that and it's pretty fast. It's um, it still takes like, depending on the size and the details of the print, it could take a, but I don't think. I think most of these took maybe a couple hours to make. If that, depending on the print. Nice, yeah, but the main thing is just making sure you have the right filliness, the right temperatures.

Speaker 2: 4:01

Lately it's been hard to get the what do you call it? The adhesion onto the plates. So it's causing like halfway through your print or it's like you see spirals and stuff. It's because of the adhesion. So that's a big problem I've been having lately um, but you know trial and error. I put way too much money into this, so, uh, we're kind of stuck with it now. So you're here how much uh.

Speaker 1: 4:27

How much uh filament have you bought?

Speaker 2: 4:30

I think I have 10 things of filament and I just got it like a week ago. Yeah, I have red blue, um, this, this color, um there is a black titanium. It's not a black titanium, but it's like a titanium kind of color. There's gray. And then I bought four spills at Micro Center yesterday at different times, like Pet G PLA Plus. I already have a PLA Silky and did I get any other kind of filament? I can't remember if I got another kind of filament, but yeah.

Speaker 1: 5:14

Gotcha. Okay, all right, that's what's up. That's cool, awesome, awesome. What have I been up to Working? That's about it. I'm really doing too much, just really working, getting ready for the trip in October.

Speaker 2: 5:41

Is this the trip we were talking about yesterday?

Speaker 1: 5:43

The work trip Tennessee. Yeah, tennessee trip.

Speaker 2: 5:48

You trying to be a pass for a bro, you guys? No, not.

Speaker 1: 5:51

Since I'm driving that 8 hours, I want to get my brakes changed On the Volvo. So I'm going to do that, and, yeah, I got to do that. Last thing I want to do is Look, I've been to Tennessee before. A lot of motherfuckers can't drive. Yo you know how many accidents I saw, so many accidents on the road. It was crazy. As soon as we hit that North Carolina state line in Tennessee, it was like accident, boom, boom. I was like what in the hell is going on here? It was crazy to me. Crazy, crazy, crazy. Um, yeah, that's about it. Nothing too crazy, um, thinking about finding another gig, not like keeping the job that I have, but, you know, doing something else. I just don't know what, though. I'm starting to like logistics, because I do a lot of it with the job that I have now. So am I trying to find something or not?

Speaker 2: 6:54

I don't know, though Maybe you mean by myself in tech?

Speaker 1: 7:01

I mean, I'm still going to be in tech, but it just I don't know. I like the logistics side of things. We, um, it's a lot of it's a lot of shit with it. I've been making a lot of phone calls to like fedex and different countries and shit, but man, it's pretty nice, it's not too bad, um. But yeah, that's about it from my side. Nothing crazy, I will say. The weather was really nice today, but anyway. So in this episode we're kind of going to branch off into one thing, into another, but the bulk of it is basically being introverted and extroverted. But the bulk of it is basically being introverted and extroverted. I brought this up to Lexi over the weekend and she said I'm introverted just like you. So what the fuck are we going to talk about? Yeah, I am, and I was like you're definitely more extroverted than I am. It might not be a lot, but you are.

Speaker 2: 8:10

I am not. I am very much an introvert. Yes, We've had this conversation, but any way we can have it.

Speaker 1: 8:20

You go to so many concerts Okay.

Speaker 2: 8:27

That's not being introverted yes, it is, it very much is, and like hold up, hold up, because I go outside and I'm in the street sometimes.

Speaker 1: 8:34

Don't, don't let it fool you, I am an introvert, okay yeah, that's, that's what I'm saying, not, you're not like a total, like just out there extrovert, no, no.

Speaker 2: 8:44

Not at all. No, I am an introvert Stop acting like I'm not.

Speaker 2: 8:49

I'm not saying that you're not, but I'm not more extroverted than you. Just because I go to concerts or whatever doesn't mean that I'm more extrovert. If I go out a place like that, high probability there's somebody with me. Um, because I don't like large crowds, for one by myself. Um, because like, yeah, that's, that's a no-go.

Speaker 2: 9:17

And then when I'm out, I don't like being talked to like I have blinders on. When I'm out, like it's talk to like I have blinders on. When I'm out, like it's I don't know. So like, if somebody like says something to me and I don't catch it, I I'm sorry I scoot by, but like, well, even like I don't, I don't even notice it. So, like I got the car wrap right, it is, it's a pretty wrap. I never noticed when people were looking at my car. But, like, if I, like if I'm not driving, somebody else is driving, they will notice everybody looking at the car and I'm just like, oh, I'm not paying any attention. Same thing with people looking at me in public, like, unless you look at me dead in the face and I can see you dead ass looking at me like that shit. Don't do that if you're looking at me dead in the face.

Speaker 2: 10:09

I don't notice yeah, I wouldn't notice, just like. Yeah, and I have resting bitch face, so like ain't nobody approaching me or talking to me in public because they think I'm a bitch. So it is what it is.

Speaker 1: 10:30

I um it, what? What? Let me think about this topic is yes, as she said, we are both introverts. One of the main reasons why I have the job that I have working at the range is to get me out of that. You know what I mean, because I'm talking to a.

Speaker 1: 10:54

Oh, shut up Talking to a bunch of people that have the same interests, and I've met a lot of different characters at this range, a lot of different characters, but, but most of all, most of them have been pretty nice and copacetic. But that was one of the reasons why I took the job, because it gets me out of that comfort zone and it's not like I don't know how to talk to people, like that's never the issue. I know how to talk to fucking people. I'm not like a fucking mute or anything, and just, you know somebody say, hi, how are you? I'm just like, it's just like dip, nah, you know, um, but I do think there are certain I don't know, because some people might say that because we go to conventions, we're not introverted people, right, and I would say, yeah, I would say personally, nowadays, honestly, the way that them shits are packed, I'm still not talking to no fucking body at these uh cons. That's the thing. I'm not talking to nobody right, and it's just. I'm just not going to like I know so many people that be like oh, my god, why don't you you know, okay, you know a woman at the con or something like that get to know like first of all, the last thing that a woman at the con or something like that, get to know her. First of all, the last thing that a woman wants to deal with is a motherfucker walking up to her and especially if she's in some fucking cosplay, right, walk up to her. She probably, honestly, she is probably how can I put this so it doesn't sound shitty?

Speaker 1: 12:40

Okay, we talked about the con goer, right? I think we forgot one. We forgot about the motherfuckers or, excuse my language, the niggas that go to these things and just fucking, just lurk, lurk, it just lurks. It's just the lurkers, right. They go to panels in the back checking to see what the fuck going on, checking to see what's out there. Go to the vendor room there's usually a group of them, usually a group of them, right, and they just lurking, they lurk, go ahead. I'm sorry.

Speaker 2: 13:34

You're good. No, he's telling the truth though. Case in point like all right, speaking of like introvert and like social batteries and all this shit, this is a great story to tap into all that. So, like when I went to MomoCon one year, right, I was in a cosplay, I was doing a panel and then, like a bunch of people from my community wanted to like meet up and hang out and like do all kinds of shit Okay.

Speaker 1: 14:01

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 14:03

You already know, I just said it before I do not like being around a lot of people. So you want to talk about social battery being drained by the end of that, completely drained. It didn't help that that was the year that somebody was following me around the whole entire time I was at the con, so it doesn't help. But yeah, you will see those lurkers. You will see those people that like, just in like, like, either in your little panel or you know they might see around that nigga at the same time like at the same.

Speaker 1: 14:36

I don't know how that motherfucker, just that motherfucker, just end up around you at all times. How, how, who fucking knows, but he just shows up, he, just, he just shows up. But we forgot about the Lord.

Speaker 2: 15:13

You know I cannot hear you, by the way, so you need to make a comment. We're having technical difficulties, you guys. We apologize, we'll get back to it momentarily. If you're listening to this, I apologize for the dead air. Um, he's fixing his mic, you guys, and if you guys are watching this, you can see what we're doing. Want to try now? No, no, you cannot, oh now I can't hi welcome back.

Speaker 1: 16:02

That's weird, I was using the broadcast thing and it just must have went out. Huh, okay, whatever. Um, but yeah, drove up to my, you know, drove up to my for my grandmother's funeral and my stepmother and my dad had, like this little you know, got the family together a little game night thing. After the fact I said, yeah, I ain't going. My sister, my sister, went and they were like where's Christopher? And she was like, yeah, his social, his social battery is done. That was it. He was out for most of the day meeting people and seeing people and hugs and all that shit. Yeah, I'm good, I'm good. So I get what you mean by that. Like it, it's, I'm one of those people that my, my me being an introvert is like going to the store early in the morning because nobody else is there, crack a dawn type shit as soon as they open.

Speaker 1: 17:02

Um, going to the gym at 3 am because nobody else is in, that bitch yeah I can play the music as loud as I want and by the time I am done, that's what everybody and their mother is coming in, I'm out, I gots to go. Uh, I try to get everything done that I have to do during the day, most, most times in the morning, so I have the afternoon to do whatever I want. If you're like, hey, let's go out at like after eight o'clock, oh, hell, no, eight o'clock for me is cool. When, like the whole wedding, like that wedding thing you were talking about, when you were like, oh yeah, around five, we didn't leave, like around like 11, and I was like 11 o'clock, I can't do that, can't do that. Um, that's that's my type of uh, being a introvert. Like I don't do bars, don't do the club shit, um, don't do parties or nothing like that. I just don't like loud noises.

Speaker 2: 18:13

That's why I live in a fucking country, for a reason I don't like loud noises either, but I can tolerate certain loud noises like like thunderstorms. Can't, can't, do it thunderstorms over the best no, no, they're not.

Speaker 2: 18:27

When I hit the crack of lightning. No, it's not, I'm probably under my covers. I'm not dealing with that. Okay, I'm not doing that. Loud noises, like just irritate me, um, but unlike him, I I am that person that will go to, like I used to go to bars and like clubs and like obviously I go to weddings that end late and concerts that end late. You know he's an old man, so he doesn't do these things.

Speaker 2: 18:57

I'm just kidding, but he's an introvert, um no I'm old as shit, I don't give a fuck, fuck it whoa, okay, chill, you know um.

Speaker 2: 19:11

But yeah, just because I do those things does not mean that like I am an extrovert, because it's not like I'm going out and like looking for people to talk to or whatever. It's not like I'm going out and I'm like looking for people to talk to or whatever. It's probably because I'm going out with somebody or you know, we're hanging out, um, so that's why I'm out and about, um, and, like I said, when I am out by myself doing stuff, like I don't, I'm just like blind yep, I have headphones on most of the time yep, you see me with, like my, my airpods or my airpods with the little skull.

Speaker 2: 19:51

That's cool, but like little spikes on it.

Speaker 1: 19:53

So people don't approach me at all yeah, never mind I got headphones on and it's.

Speaker 1: 20:00

I think that nowadays you might meet a lot of people that are more introverted, and I mean, I think some kids nowadays are probably a lot more introverted just because of just the way that shit is now compared to when we were growing up and it was like go outside, go do some shit, come back when lights come on. You know what I mean, right? Or you know I can remember being outside and my grandmother telling me hey, y'all need to come inside Time to you know, time to come in. It's getting dark Type shit like that.

Speaker 2: 20:33

Street lights on. Oh yeah, your ass in the house, gotta go.

Speaker 1: 20:38

But nowadays it's to the point where, like I think it's damn near like molded into children because of everything. It's just, I don't know, everything's on your phone. You don't have to go out much, you can communicate, do all that shit. You know, I do believe like, hey, sometimes you got to go out and touch some grass. You can't go out and touch grass, you can't go out and touch grass, you have to go out and touch grass and it's just, you can't stay dormant. But like man, I don't know, this goes kind of deep because it goes into like also like the hobbies that you have. Like, if you don't have, like, certain hobbies that involve social interactions, then that's also another big thing that could bring you know. That can bring you closer to being a or make you an introvert. Like most of the hobbies that I have don't really involve groups of people or anything like that. You know, working on my cars, because I enjoy doing that. Gaming can involve people, but it's not in-person interaction, it's all.

Speaker 2: 21:54

Hold on, wait a minute. Stop that, stop that, stop that.

Speaker 1: 21:56

What Go ahead hit me.

Speaker 2: 21:58

So, like you can say, gaming is an introvert thing, but it's really not when you think about it. Okay, depends on the games that you're playing. And then one first off. It really doesn't matter Either way. If you're playing a single-player or multiplayer game, it can be an introvert thing, especially if it's a single-player game. You're like, okay, well, let me find a community that maybe knows something about this game. Like, hey, how do you do this in the game? So you're now talking to other people that play this exact same game as you, um, or you're multiplayer, hey, let me find somebody else that you know I can play with. And now you guys or whatever, playing. Like.

Speaker 2: 22:34

I know a lot of people that make friends with inside gaming or connections with inside gaming, like you know, like, for instance, like me and ellie um. Rest in peace, ellie, but anyways. So that's how we met. We met in a group full of gamers. All had in common that we were all black gamers, right, and so she didn't look that far to me. You know, um, she's like two hours away, not even two, two hours away. She lived an hour away from me. We had been playing online or whatever. We met in person. We just became good friends. We used to stream together, we used to play games together, we would hang out, go on vacation together. It all just started because of that, yeah.

Speaker 1: 23:23

Nice, okay, yeah, you're right, you're right, you're right it, yeah, I guess so, because I can probably say that even me, being in the whole like car community shit you know, I met some people through it for sure, especially with like the firearm shit. So guns and stuff, yeah for sure, for sure, um, so yeah, yeah, would do you think, when it comes to um, when it comes to dating, do you think it matters being with somebody that's extroverted to get you out sometimes of the introverted shit, or is the introvert introvert? Is the two having a relationship that are two introverted people? That shit is like.

Speaker 2: 24:18

I've been on both ends of that and it really just depends on who you're with. So, like you guys know, whatever. But um, I have an ex-fiancee right, he was an extrovert. Love to be the center of attention, love to go out, whatever, run the streets, all right, cool street twice when I want to go into the whole story.

Speaker 2: 24:41

Okay, yeah, but like I think when you're dating you need to find somebody that matches you, and what I mean by that is like he would go out, he would like you know I'm going to this party or whatever. No, I don't really like parties like that, but whatever, like I went to a few, wasn't my kind of scene or whatever. And like my social battery dream. He wants to stay, whatever. Cool, you guys see, that didn't work out because like he likes to be the center of attention.

Speaker 2: 25:13

I do not like being the center of attention. He likes to go out and make a like a mess and cause a ruckus and like I'm not about that, um, and so that was just a lot of conflict. But also like being an introvert and being two introverts. It could also be a bad thing too, because like okay, we're both introvert and then obviously there's levels to your introvertness. Some are just like I want to stay at home, I'm a neat, I ain't going nowhere, we ain't doing nothing, we ain't going outside, right, you know they ain't gonna fight with me because I'm outside in these streets sometimes and like I need like a role partner just to do something, just like whatever, and you know they don't enjoy it, they don't like it.

Speaker 2: 26:06

So like you have to find that person that kind of like matches what you, what your range is yeah um, and like also being an introvert, two introverts together, I mean it can make that codependency like you guys are just codependent on each other just for like social interaction and like you really don't have anybody else to vent to outside of that besides that particular partner and it just it can be a whole mess, um, so yeah, definitely, definitely I would.

Speaker 1: 26:45

I would think that having, like you said, yeah, you need to find somebody who is kind of in your same realm and in that same type of uh I don't know, like you said, in that same, if you want to be with somebody that's introverted and you want to find somebody who might be a little bit more extroverted, you know that might want to, you know, get you out get you out, have a little fun every now and again, but you don't want that partner.

Speaker 2: 27:12

That was like resenting you because like you've been the house and they on the street and they feel you're boring and whatever. I've had that before where I've been viewed as boring because like I'm not out in those streets like that all the time or whatever, and they're like you're boring and then like, okay, cool, then now they're naturally gone. I'm out in the streets and I'm turning up and where are you at, like you know anyway, proceeding on like despise somebody that matches you or that is tolerant of where you are as far as your, your comfort zone, I guess, is the way.

Speaker 1: 27:45

True, very true. I do think like I have no problem going out to like dinner and shit. With dinners and stuff like that, awesome, cool, trying new places, dope as fuck. I love that shit. Um, but if you're like, hey, my friend is having this party, uh, do you want to go? I'm like, oh, I think my hip is going to be out of place then. So, uh, I need to take a little range.

Speaker 2: 28:25

Uh, or either like are we going, but we ain't saying about 30 minutes an hour out.

Speaker 1: 28:31

Yeah, definitely. I'm like I don't know about that one. What time to start? Oh, for real.

Speaker 2: 28:38

Who won't be there?

Speaker 1: 28:39

Yeah Right, oh shit, gonna be there. Yeah right, oh shit. Yeah, that's gonna. That's kind of you, kind of I don't know about that it. I would say, if I'm doing stuff with my partner, I don't, I don't, that's dope as shit and it's just us two. But when it's like more people involved in it like I've never been on like a group date before but I just had this feeling that I probably would not like that shit.

Speaker 2: 29:12

Why.

Speaker 1: 29:13

You said why.

Speaker 2: 29:14

Yeah. I don't know, I just think you know like not like you don't know the other people, like you guys are all friends, you guys all know each other. So you tell me, if you don't know like I mean sometimes it's not like you don't know the other people Like you guys are all friends, you guys all know each other. So you tell me, if you don't know, like I mean, sometimes it's not like that, though.

Speaker 1: 29:28

Sometimes you don't know, you don't, you don't know shit, and all you motherfuckers just end up in the same place because this person knows this person, this person knows this person, this person knows this person, right? So you don't know how this person acts, how this person sounds, how they interact with each other. One person can be one dude can be so fucking obnoxious. You're just like dude, will you shut the fuck?

Speaker 2: 29:49

up. Shut the fuck up.

Speaker 1: 29:50

Yeah, like you talk too goddamn much. Here's a dollar. Shut the fuck up. You know shit like that.

Speaker 2: 29:55

But then again, that's when you got a good partner y'all, I can have that nonverbal communication like you.

Speaker 1: 30:05

Just you do one of these like oh, looks like I'd be hitting the old dusty trail, and then just get up and just go, because that shit is crazy.

Speaker 2: 30:16

Or your best like, even like me and my best friend, my best friend David, like we'll do that too. We'll just like look at each other and have a whole communication without saying nothing, or just like you have to. I guess, going out, you gotta be with people that you know, you know and you can trust you know in those kind of situations.

Speaker 1: 30:37

But yeah, definitely, definitely, and I can't say honestly, I couldn't tell you. I can only tell you like the side of the introvert, because that's what I'm mostly him can't really tell you much about the extrovert. I think just extroverts are just like out there. I'm not saying they need to be a center of attention, but not all of them, no, some of them, but I do think that it's just like they get an itch to.

Speaker 1: 31:08

I gotta go do something, I gotta go somewhere. I gotta, you know, just be out and about. I can't stay in this place for you know a certain amount of time. I think I'm gonna put this. I'm not saying that all extroverts are like this, but I do think that some extroverted people, some possibly couldn't do work from home jobs.

Speaker 2: 31:38

No, that's already been talked about. Some people just like being in that social interaction and like talking to people yeah and they just do not do well with work from home.

Speaker 2: 31:50

Like I remember when I worked at verizon there was this one co-worker that I have that I know if he went work from home he would hate it because he lost a talk to everybody yeah, I mean everybody like his calls. He would get like when you take calls, he'd get like nine calls a day and we're supposed to be like up to the 20s, just because he'd be talking to people on the phone that long and socializing and then he socialized with everybody that was in the center.

Speaker 1: 32:15

So I just like he has to socialize yeah, I'll be trying to get out that conversation so fucking quick, yeah, man, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I got that guys to go. Man, I gotta go take a shit. Damn, let me go like, do whatever to get the fuck out of this conversation. Um, so, yeah, I really can't say much about the uh, the extrovert shit, so, but, um, just don't. Another thing is, don't let anybody if you I'm to the point where I say that you know it's okay to be fucking boring dude some people like, okay, let's talk about this shit on this. Damn, okay, you know the whole balloon shit, right, we talked about this. What? That whole balloon shit that's going around and shit like that, right, yeah, so I have seen so much shit of like like people like literally, they be like, so, uh, why did you pop your uh?

Speaker 2: 33:22

your balloon.

Speaker 1: 33:23

Yeah, I don't know that nigga looked kind of boring to me, you know. I mean not really, you know, I'm just not feeling it, you know.

Speaker 2: 33:32

Then they got a big ass head, like all right, cool oh, like I said earlier, like how you look, like you had no neck and your head was bigger than you were.

Speaker 1: 33:42

Yeah, you know, it's just. It's just like I. I somebody calls me born, first thing I'm saying is thank you, I wouldn't want to be anything, fuck. Thank you. Thank you, god damn, I wouldn't be anything. Thank you for calling me more, because I feel fucking great. I will shake your hand if you call me born. Thank you for calling me born, because I feel fucking great. I will shake your hand if you call me born. Thank you, see you later.

Speaker 2: 34:09

You know it is. It is what it is Like. I've been called that several times. I'm like okay, whatever, I don't care.

Speaker 1: 34:19

What, what I don't know what people expect. Like, do people expect people to just be like out here just on some like I don't know, like I don't know some crazy shit every day?

Speaker 2: 34:34

you know what I mean I feel like as we get older and like as social media like comes ingrained into like everybody's day-to-day life, we we go on and we see these influencers and like their life looks all grand and they're out and about and they're on vacation, they're at this party living it up, doing this, doing that, whatever, yazzy, yazzy, yazzy. And like now people are like well, damn, my life is fucking boring compared to x, y and z or whatever. And there was this one channel I like follow on, tiktok, where the guy like like romanticize your like nine to five or whatever, and he's basically he just makes tiktok clips about like his day, like him just being an average working person is like hey.

Speaker 2: 35:24

Yes, you know who I'm talking about.

Speaker 2: 35:25

I know who you're talking about yeah, he just made random clips about his day or whatever his normal-ass life. He's not the one that I'm going to quit my 9-to-5, just do TikTok. He's just like I like working my 9-to-5. It brings me peace and like even for me, like I don't want to do the content creation full-time, like it's, I like getting a paycheck and I'm guaranteed to get that paycheck every week. Um, I ain't got to worry about like I mean, I have health insurance, it's paid through my employer, so like things like that.

Speaker 2: 36:05

I just, you know, it's not a bad thing to like have a normal life no not everybody's gonna have an extravagant life, not everybody's gonna have like a mansion, not everybody's gonna have, you know, yachts or whatever the case may be. It's okay to just live a normal life and be happy with that.

Speaker 1: 36:31

Definitely it the last thing. You're right about the whole influence and shit, because you'll see some motherfuckers be like you got a nine to five. Nigga what you fucking.

Speaker 2: 36:43

You're dumb you working for somebody. Why you not out here being? Why you not out here getting this content creation?

Speaker 1: 36:52

like girl, what you doing it's like, shut the fuck up, I got, like, I got a check coming in, like, come on man, I got health insurance and shit like that. You know this. This goes back to the shit we talked about last time. Everybody's trying to be on this entrepreneur shit, right, and then that shit ain't easy shit. And I'm not saying working a nine-to-five is easy, but I mean I know who I'm going to when I don't get my goddamn check HR. But hey, hr, fuck going on with my money. You know You're right, the influencer shit is crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy. You want to get rich, you want to make $10,000 a month. If you're not making $10,000 a month, what the fuck are you doing? What? What do you mean? What am I doing?

Speaker 2: 37:49

I'm living my life the best I can, and then it's possible to make that amount of money working a nine to five? Yeah it is it's not out of reach no, it's not, you can do it you, can you definitely can it's.

Speaker 1: 38:14

And if you're working a nine to five, y'all continue to work that shit. We talked about this shit. If you want to move up into other shit, go for it. Do it, take the risk. That's the biggest thing about anything in life. You have to be willing to take that risk. You have to be willing to take the risk even if you're trying to step out, to be more extroverted.

Speaker 2: 38:38

That is a risk that you are taking that is a risk, don't, don't I? I get it. Take a risk, y'all. Please stop taking these delusional ass risk and like it's crazy, like why I think like last year the lady like said she had moved to texas oh yes, for her kids, yeah a full-time influencer with a small follow count and no savings. Like you have kids, you can't be taking a delusional risk like that.

Speaker 2: 39:19

Now you homeless and you got these babies with you, or like I mean, she's probably making it now well, now that she's been on the news and everybody knows the damn name, like, yeah, she probably is making some coin now but then again.

Speaker 2: 39:35

A lot of people probably forgot about that, so she may not be making any coin because everybody made her name, so hey, but or like, even with like streaming, people will be like, yeah, I'm going to quit my job to be a full-time streamer. And then what, you ain't got no savings. How many viewers are you getting? How much money were you making before you decided that you want to go full-time? Do you have any brand deals, affiliate marketing, like merch or like? How are you gonna get this revenue source? Like it's not just easy. I'm gonna quit my job and I'm going to do this full-time like please, if you're gonna take at risk, make it a calculated risk yeah, that's all I say.

Speaker 1: 40:21

Yeah, man it, jesus christ, jesus christ, I um it. Like she said, if you're gonna do something, just make sure you have your shit together before you do it. Make sure you have your shit together, that's the biggest thing. If you're trying to take a hobby and you want to make that shit into some full-time shit, think about it first, plan it out. You like playing video games? Okay, think about the game that you want to play, think about how much time you're going to put into this shit and think about that. You probably won't be making any type of profit for like six months.

Speaker 2: 41:00

Or, you know, when your hobby becomes your job, you start to hate your hobby now and you don't want to do it at all.

Speaker 1: 41:06

Yup, yup, and I tried to do a segue there, but it probably didn't work. But speaking of hobbies, lexi didn't want to talk about this because she's just like I don't give a fuck, but I think it's pretty funny. Um, there has been this list of least attractive hobbies for men, according to women. Um, and who would have thunk it? Number one on the list, playing video games come on, who would have thunk it?

Speaker 1: 41:43

right, let me just go through these. Playing video games, collecting figurines, that's two. I'm already. Magic tricks I don't do magic tricks. I'm actually kind of surprised by that. I don't know tell tricks I'm actually kind of surprised by that, I don't know. Tell me if I'm wrong. I don't know a lot of motherfuckers that are just walking around with you know, just doing magic tricks and shit like that. Online trolling how would you know somebody's doing it unless they told you? Gambling yeah, that's a big one. That should be like number one. Number one yeah, it should be number one. Building model trains there's nothing wrong with that. That's actually a really nice hobby. That's actually pretty cool. Taxidermy Okay, that's kind of out there. Comic book collecting, which honestly love it, I mean it's great. And bird watching look, that's probably. Look, there's nothing wrong with bird watching. Nothing at all.

Speaker 2: 42:57

Like I mean, is he low-key or peeping tom while he's bird watching though?

Speaker 1: 43:01

like I think, I think you can, I don't know. That's a good point that's about that part that's a good point. I forgot about, about that, I forgot about that. But on this score chart, playing video games is like at a 90. Birdwatching is at 50.

Speaker 2: 43:26

Okay, what I feel like our generation and before is probably causing most of that, because I feel like now you have Everybody now is playing video games and like it's becoming more socially accepted. So but again, you know, we still have that like why do I want to date a man that only he does is play video games? Every time he comes home he wants to play video games. And Every time he comes home he wants to play video games. He never spends no time with me Like, okay, I get, that's a valid argument. I get it. We talked about it, you know.

Speaker 1: 44:05

Sorry about that.

Speaker 2: 44:09

No, a lot of people, like a lot of people, still view that as being childish and immature. Play video games, yeah, jesus. And then I found Proudish and immature.

Speaker 1: 44:18

Yeah, play video games. Yeah it Jesus. And then I found a list of the top unattractive things that men find with women. Hobby wise, you want to take a guess what the first one is?

Speaker 2: 44:31

Makeup.

Speaker 1: 44:32

Huh.

Speaker 2: 44:33

Makeup.

Speaker 1: 44:34

No.

Speaker 2: 44:35

What is it? Tour cards and astrology? Oh, they don't like them.

Speaker 1: 44:44

Astrology bitches. Okay, that's hilarious. The gym, the crystals, you know the shit like. I saw this and I laughed okay, cool I thought that was funny as shit. I was like oh, that's crazy. Second is no hobbies, which actually you run into that shit a fucking lot no hobbies. So you're like so what are your hobbies?

Speaker 2: 45:10

I don't have any?

Speaker 1: 45:13

What the fuck are you doing? Compulsive shopping what?

Speaker 2: 45:21

why are you looking at me for the?

Speaker 1: 45:23

fuck, I want a fucking podcast. Addiction to social media traveling hold on.

Speaker 2: 45:37

What's wrong with traveling? Hold up, wait a minute.

Speaker 1: 45:40

Hold up traveling somebody said you know, the question was what are hobbies that women have that you find unattractive? Somebody said travel is not a hobby. Travel is not a hobby. That's what they said.

Speaker 2: 46:02

Travel is not a hobby. The fuck out of me. Traveling is a hobby, is one of the ones that I enjoy a lot. You get to see new places, try new things, experience a culture that you never experienced before. You put a lot of time into planning these trips. You put a lot of time into planning these trips. You put a lot of money into this trip. So how is this not a hobby?

Speaker 1: 46:20

I want to yeah, you tell, hey, hey, tell her, tell her, because I ain't gonna answer.

Speaker 2: 46:27

Uh, gossiping that's not a hobby watching reality TV that could be a hobby having OnlyFans. I mean, what's wrong with that she making money? Look at her going clubbing.

Speaker 1: 46:52

Yeah, I can see why that being a swifty or overly into celebrity culture so she likes a little bit gossip.

Speaker 2: 47:01

Why, why, why didn't she just put that like? Why do you gotta put it like?

Speaker 1: 47:05

no, I thought I thought that was pretty funny, but nah, having the, the astrology and the tour cards. Like me, personally, I don't believe in the astrology shit.

Speaker 1: 47:17

It's like I always like here we go yeah, this is one of the questions that I always like. Hate is oh, what are you? And I'm just like I'm this. I'm not gonna say it here, but I am this because't Because the last thing that people be like, you usually tell them, and what's the next thing that usually come out their mouth? I knew it, I knew it, I could feel it. I knew it, I knew it. You totally just give off that vibe.

Speaker 2: 48:00

Okay, so he doesn't believe it. I do it to a certain extent. Okay, so he ain't gonna tell y'all. I'll tell y'all mine y'all probably know it anyways, because I post about all the time. I am a capricorn. Guess what that means? Okay, all righty, that means I am earth sign. That means that I'm about my paper and minding my business and I do not like people like that. Okay, so that's, that's literally what it means. Now, does that define all my personality traits? No, it does not. But yes, some people do, but it doesn't necessarily mean that like that's everything about you.

Speaker 2: 48:35

It just identifies some. It does not. Some people live by that shit though. Yes, some people do, but it doesn't necessarily mean that like that's everything about you. It just identifies some common thing that you might have with other people in that same sign. So, like my twin, he is also a Capricorn. We do not have the same birthday or whatever, but we are both Capricorns and we are very similar and a lot of Capricorns that I know. We are all very similar. So, like it doesn't necessarily mean that, like you, a Capricorn, you match everything to a freaking T, but you might have some like indications, like I will never date another Leo.

Speaker 2: 49:13

No, not doing it why, can they like to be the center of attention? Yeah, yeah, yeah um, and I pretty sure you guys know some leo's. You're like, oh wait, yeah, yeah, they do they do.

Speaker 1: 49:27

Yeah, I'm an aries. Oh, he told you guys. Yeah, I'm aries, but, um, I don't know what any of that shit gotta do with shit, so I don't care. Um, and and honestly, oh, the the tour card shit that I took.

Speaker 1: 49:46

I sent you the message from instagram that I got from the the random person yeah saying that she felt some type of stupid fucking energy for me and I'm like who the fuck is this? I was like who the fuck is this. So I text my friend who's into like she's into the tarot cards and crystals and stuff and I was like what the hell is this? And she was like oh yeah.

Speaker 2: 50:14

Yeah, you don't know, Spiritual scammers yeah those are scammers.

Speaker 1: 50:18

And she was like you never seen that before and I was like hell. No and the message honestly, she said that shit and I said who are you? I don't know you who are you, and I was just like. I just feel some type of energy or something coming from you. I'm like I should have played along with it and just been like you know what, you're right, I feel that energy too. You know what I feel that energy too. Hold on Wait a minute.

Speaker 2: 50:57

No, I wouldn't even play into that. Just leave it alone and keep it moving, Because next thing you know you're going to walk around and some bad shit going to happen to you. Just let it go.

Speaker 1: 51:07

I was like what the fuck? I was like I've never, ever encountered this, Ever, ever, ever. They exist. I was like whoa, that fucked me up there for a minute.

Speaker 2: 51:19

I like how you ignored me when I saw Sunny come in the room and I said Sunny she was laying down here the whole time no, she got up no, no, she got up to basically turn around and laid back down.

Speaker 1: 51:33

Yeah, she's just been chilling, she's been. I have her bed. I moved her bed to the office just because I work in here most of the time and she's just in here. So she one of her beds I had to throw out because I had it for a while. I need to buy her another one, um, but uh, yeah, yeah, that shit fucked me up. Man, like I said, I've seen people go by the crystals and all that stuff and I mean they're pretty crystals, nice gems and stuff. I mean that's cool, but I don't get it. I really don't. It's just I don't know it. Just I don't know. I don't want to wake up and you know my girl's like standing over top of me with like a fucking crystal praying over me. You know what I mean. Like I don't need, like I'm waking up and I'm like what the fuck you?

Speaker 2: 52:30

doing. Oh, that's not even funny, but I know somebody like their dad is in this relationship and, like the woman that they went, does like roots and all kind of other stuff and so they, they moved to escape her and she just followed them and, um, he still hasn't escaped. I'm just going to leave that there on the table. There you go.

Speaker 1: 52:59

Protect yourself, jesus Christ. But yeah, man it. I don't know. It's a lot of stuff we talked about, but if you're an introvert, don't let anybody basically be the introvert that you are. Don't let anybody tell you that it's wrong. Don't let anybody ever tell you that, oh, maybe you should get out. I mean, people are going to tell you, maybe you should get out more and socialize more and all that stuff. If you don't fucking want to, you don't have to do shit, especially okay let me rephrase this if you live in your mother's house please, please, go outside, please, yeah if you live in your mama's house, you need to go, but you live by yourself.

Speaker 1: 53:53

You got your own shit. You ain't got to do a god damn thing, but do what you want to do. That's just the way that it is. If you're extrovert, I mean understand that introverts are introverts. Sometimes they don't want to do certain shit.

Speaker 2: 54:12

I think on both ends introverts, we need to understand that. Extroverts, they need to talk to people, they need to socialize. Okay, cool, that ain't for c's, that's cool. Same thing with introverts we don't want to talk to people, we just want to chill, we don't want to. It's just like we got to understand each other and like, yeah yeah, definitely sure for sure.

Speaker 1: 54:37

Jesus Christ, Damn. It was something else that I wanted to um that I was gonna bring up. Oh yeah, Fall's on the way, you guys. And.

Speaker 2: 54:51

Is that really what you wanted to bring up? Was that fall? Yes, because I'm ready for it Fuck this summer, summer, I don't want to be cold fuck this summer, fuck this the heat that we had.

Speaker 1: 55:03

I'm ready for this nice cold weather. I can open up my windows and, oh man, the only thing that sucks when it starts getting cold is that, since I got this well shit pipe, the freezing and all that shit, that's the only thing I just have to keep my water dripping. But other than that, it's not bad. Oh, and I'm also going to be buying another smoker. Here we go.

Speaker 2: 55:29

Alright, you have fun with that.

Speaker 1: 55:32

I'm going to take it. So my mom is doing Thanksgiving this year. I'm not doing it. So I'm going up there and I was like maybe I can, because then you know, hoa, bullshit, all that crap, I can't take my, the one that I hook up to the back of my truck and tell wait, wait, wait, wait.

Speaker 2: 55:48

Hold up, you got an hoa out there my mom does oh, that's not what I am.

Speaker 1: 55:53

I don't know, people shoot in their backyard here. So it's just. I was like, okay, I'm going to find a smaller smoker that can at least fit like three briskets on it and I can just put in the bed of my truck. All I have to do is just lift it and it just goes in the bed. Right, if I can do that, I'm cool and I'm able to roll it to the back of my mom's house and it's not in sight, we're good. And she was like maybe you can sell some barbecue while you're up there too. And I was like, yeah, maybe. So try to find something a little bit smaller, not this big-ass one that I got, and you know, we'll see what happens. We'll see what happens, for sure, for sure. Yeah, um, anything else that you want to add?

Speaker 2: 56:48

unlike him, I am not ready for fall but. But pumpkin spice season is back at Starbucks, so I'm happy.

Speaker 1: 56:56

So oh my goodness, you one of those people.

Speaker 2: 56:59

Hell yeah, pumpkin cream, cold brew, 2% milk and two pumps of caramel. Sir, with the cup lined with caramel, that's my order.

Speaker 1: 57:08

A cup what? What about it?

Speaker 2: 57:10

The cup lined with caramel.

Speaker 1: 57:12

Oh sorry, I don't drink coffee at Starbucks.

Speaker 2: 57:16

Well, because you don't have one close by, don't? Anyways, there is a new Starbucks?

Speaker 1: 57:20

Don't do that.

Speaker 2: 57:21

There's a new Starbucks where I live, five minutes away. You know I'm going to be at Starbucks all the time, worse than I was before.

Speaker 1: 57:30

Jesus Christ, oh my goodness. But thank you guys for joining us for another episode of Carolina Cycle Podcast. We will see you when we see you. Bye, guys, bye.