Speaker 1: 0:00

thank you and welcome to another episode of the carolina otaku podcast. I am afro and I'm here with my co-host lexi uh, yeah, guys, it it seems like we've been gone for a long time, but it really hasn't, because we did the episode from the convention and it seems like that seemed like it was forever ago yeah, it seems like it, but um, but I guess you know.

Speaker 1: 0:29

You guys know how we start these things off. What have we been up to, um, and all that shit. So, lexi, what have you been up to since we last uh talk?

Speaker 2: 0:42

actually this time not a damn thing. Nothing that sounds great I know last talk. Actually this time not a damn thing.

Speaker 1: 0:46

Nothing that sounds great, I know.

Speaker 1: 0:50

That sounds great, that sounds amazing, I would. I mean, we're going to talk about it more. But honestly, really, like I said, man, we're going to talk about about more what I've been up to, um, but other than that, uh, you guys know, I've been back home in Maryland, uh, for the past couple weeks. I'll be heading back to NC first week in December, um, good, seeing family, cousins and all that stuff while I'm here. But yeah, we have a lot to talk about and I guess the the first thing that I would like to talk about on a good high note is Villains Con. 2024, rock Hill, south Carolina. I will say it for a small in the first year of this convention pretty good, not bad at all.

Speaker 2: 2:03

Very nicely put together pretty good, Not bad at all.

Speaker 1: 2:05

Um, very nicely put together. On on the quick type shit you know what I mean. Um, very good. I was, I will say, very good vendors too. Um, very good vendors, uh, which, uh, I will say, you guys might be seeing a couple of them on this podcast talking about their product. So, uh, I actually did something and we got.

Speaker 2: 2:32

Okay, hold on he. He's not going to like downplay this. I'm going to hype this up because like he doesn't do this, so like, anyways, we get down our little part of what we were doing, what we were there for right, and so he's like all right, I'm gonna go down to the vendor area and like network, network with that wasn't the plan it was look that, that's what you did, um, and he did it. He did it well while I was going and buying things from vendors.

Speaker 1: 2:59

He did an excellent, excellent job yeah, we got got to meet some really good people who are in the Rock Hill area and it wasn't bad. I think the biggest to two, it was three standouts to me A in-state author, author, um, there was uh a couple that um who actually are going to be the first uh guest on the show in the month of december.

Speaker 2: 3:34

I contacted them hold on, wait a minute. Why the hell am I just not finding about? I was gonna tell you about it.

Speaker 1: 3:40

I was gonna tell you about it, uh after, so uh. And also you have access to the email, so you can see all this stuff.

Speaker 2: 3:48

I haven't put it on my new iPhone, so I don't. I haven't checked in like forever.

Speaker 1: 3:52

Oh well, the, the couple that is. There's a couple that we met at the convention who are from, who live in Rock Hill and South Carolina and they want to, are from, who live in rock hill and south carolina and they want to. They're in the steps of making a, basically a uh, I guess like a I don't know how to best way, but like a gaming kind of store for like board games and stuff like that, work outings and all that crap. So you're not doing the regular standard. You know escape room bullshit. I've done an escape room for like work purposes.

Speaker 1: 4:31

It was okay but it was kind of shitty. Um, but this time it's like you know, if you have like a dnd campaign that you want to do or maybe like some warhammer type shit, this is the place within rock hill that you would probably want to check out and kind of go see and uh, when they're on both of them they'll probably be able to give you a lot more details than what we can, but it was good meeting them and I say more details than I can because I didn't know about any of this.

Speaker 1: 5:00

So, yeah, hey, I was going to tell you after uh, and then I think the biggest one for both of us was uh, a couple the wife made soaps and lotions no soaps, scrubs and like air fresheners ah, and then the husband was a 3d printer and very friendly, very nice, very friendly, you can. It's great to see when you can tell when somebody is passionate about something, because as soon as you start asking questions about that specific thing, they just go, yo, he goes.

Speaker 1: 5:44

He went right in. I got this, I got this, I got this. This is how long this takes to do this and I was in for it all. Like this dude had some really good unique 3d printed stuff, I was like this is nice, you walked out with what with that, from that table so from that table he's mentioning, I bought some sugar scrubs and then she gave me soap for you, but I stole it.

Speaker 2: 6:14

What the fuck? Anyways, and then I bought like an air freshener for my car that I haven't put in my Tesla yet, so I'll do that eventually for my car that I haven't put in my tesla yet, so I'll do that eventually. And and then, from the 3d print side, I got a skull that's like a humidifier, so like out of his eyeballs there's smoke, so yeah, that was sick.

Speaker 1: 6:37

That was really cool. Um, and I was like, when he showed that to me, I was like, oh shit, you could put oils in this shit, and it's just. That's what I did too. I went and bought, was like, when he showed that to me, I was like, oh shit, you could put oils in this shit, and it's just that's what I did too.

Speaker 2: 6:48

I went and bought some like essential oils and put it in and like, yeah, it works.

Speaker 1: 6:54

That shit was nice, but it was uh a very nice, I will say very nice area. Um I would, I would say if, um, I would, I would say if, if they were to do it again, I say do it in that same area but try to find like in that same vicinity say it again and they need to add signs yeah, bigger ones and shit like that.

Speaker 1: 7:18

Yeah, um, had some people come out and cosplay and everything and it was just a you know you kind of you just had to do what you had to do and it worked out well, um, so that's, that's one thing. That was like really cool for a first year convention. It was nice. It was really really nice. That was my first time in Rock Hill, so, yeah, it was cool. What else I would probably I want to talk about? I want to talk about this because I stayed. I stayed at a. I stayed at Lexi's house while I was there and we were chilling on the couch and I was, you know, going through netflix. Okay, first of all, if you can buy the ninja slushy yeah, the ninja slushy.

Speaker 2: 8:13

So basically it's like a slushy machine. And so I made him like a drink and then, like he was like because he was talking mad shit about it beforehand like why do you have that, why do you need? And then I showed him up when I made him a sludge he was like, oh, oh, maybe I'll buy one. I get it, yeah.

Speaker 1: 8:30

I would definitely get one of them. Shits, it was nice. It was nice. It was just cool and chill. But I guess the thing I was talking about is I'm perusing through Netflix and I see an anime called Dan.

Speaker 2: 8:45

Dan and Dan yeah.

Speaker 1: 8:49

I'm sitting there, I haven't seen any episodes yet and the first thing like any we talked about this the first thing that gets you into an anime is usually that theme song. Lexi was right beside me. I heard this theme song, the intro, and it was like dun-da-da-dun-da-da-da-da. I looked at her and I said I don't like this shit.

Speaker 2: 9:14

Then like 10 seconds later.

Speaker 1: 9:18

I'm going to play this on the way back home. Yeah, I was jamming it. That song broke down and I was like there it is there it is.

Speaker 2: 9:29

That's what I want to hear.

Speaker 1: 9:31

I was like where's the melody and all that shit and I was like, oh, that's it. I heard it. Okay, got it, um. But I mean just in general from the episode. I'm up to date with the episodes but I mean, yeah, it was, it was. I mean shit with the first episode versus second. The first episode was crazy homegirl just yeah. I'm fucked by aliens and the aliens are like it's crazy. And then he, he, the dude, the kid, ends up meeting this uh tarot granny yeah, and the granny's like I'll let you suck, let me.

Speaker 1: 10:22

And I was like what in the hell do you have me watching?

Speaker 2: 10:25

what is this? I don't like, just keep watching, keep watching yeah, it was cool.

Speaker 1: 10:30

It definitely it definitely became uh, okay, so we we talked about this before. There are certain any anime that you see that's like at the end of the year, going into the new year with conventions. It's probably going to be what you, it's probably what you're going to see cosplays of, so I am expecting.

Speaker 2: 10:53

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm already expecting yeah.

Speaker 1: 10:58

Yeah, a lot, a lot of cosplayers like that. Yeah, I mean, it's just, you know we talk about this all the time. What cosplays are going to be? Just like you know, you're going to have Demon Slayer coming around. I think that you're going to have a lot of Hayaku, because I did watch the. They were facing Nekoma versus Karasuno, so I watched that movie and I love hayaku. It's. It's great.

Speaker 1: 11:30

I come from a volleyball family because my dad and my mother both played. My dad is actually a uh, college official for volleyball and volleyball is just something that he would take us to, like college matches and stuff Like we would. He would take us and we would see like schools for like, we would see like colleges that we never even heard of, like like winger, like what winger is? Like a school, like in, like, I think like in Pennsylvania or some shit, like it's just one of those like out out there schools. But, um, that was also good in Pennsylvania or some shit like it's just one of those like out their schools, but that was also good too. So if you guys want to watch something, I would say watch the Hayaku basically movie that came out when they're facing Nekoma versus Karasuno, so that was good also. But is Karasuno? So that was good also. But I think is there anything else before we get into the shit? Shits? Um, I don't know.

Speaker 2: 12:41

I think it might be about I know you're not going to not talk about that.

Speaker 1: 12:45

What.

Speaker 2: 12:46

I know you're not going to talk about the lo-fi pit.

Speaker 1: 12:49

Go ahead. Oh, no, no, no, that's what I was going to talk about, yeah, and then lead into that.

Speaker 2: 12:57

Okay.

Speaker 1: 12:57

Yeah, so okay, so we'll get into it. So in the last episode that we posted, I told you guys that I got laid off and it was literally that week so that was on a Saturday that we recorded that, that the Monday of that week I got laid off at 12 pm. Literally I was and I kind of go through this a regular day. I had a meeting with my manager the Thursday before the weekend because I got to Maryland that Thursday and she looked me dead in my face and said, yep, I don't have anything else to talk about, right, go through the weekend. And Monday was a holiday in Ireland. That's where my manager was. And I saw a meeting come up on my calendar. I already knew. I knew who the person my manager was on it, but I also knew the other person and they work in HR and I was like I know it's coming, so did it. And I was like you guys, let me go. She was like, yeah, my manager didn't really say much shit. The HR person just said everything.

Speaker 2: 14:18

They do all the talking.

Speaker 1: 14:20

It was almost to the point where my manager couldn't even look me in my fucking face, even though we were like on a camera, she couldn't even look me in my face, right, and it it wasn't until so they give me the letter. Are we going to send you a letter? Are we going to give you a severance? And I was one of 165 people that got let go. There's a whole they came out with a whole article about it and all that stuff and it was the company I work for and it was a couple other companies that are within block three, ethereum and stuff like that that kind of let go of people also. So, um, I was just one of those people that it happened to and I will say that I guess the good thing is the severance was is good, um, because some people get let go and don't get shit but don't get shit um, but it it really?

Speaker 1: 15:24

I've never not been without work. It's only been one time I haven't had a job, but that was by choice and I left the job and in a month I got a new one um, but it's, I will tell you. We talked about this before. In this job market, I'm telling you guys, first fucking hand, this shit is not for the faint of heart. I'm telling you, it's not, honestly, the only I don't trust, indeed at all. So your only best bet is LinkedIn. But then, within LinkedIn, you run into Jobs that have been reposted. Whenever I see a reposted job, the first thing that goes to my head is okay, you reposted this so you can get data. You already have the job filled. You're doing this to get certain numbers that you need company wise. I hate that shit, can't stand it.

Speaker 1: 16:40

I guess another big thing that I've noticed is Is that I read Just post on LinkedIn of people who are just frustrated, who are just like I applied to this many jobs and I go through this many interviews. The people that are interviewing them, they go through tons of tests, tons of other interviews and all this stuff and it's like you have recruiters that are giving their input like, yeah, we posted a job and I got over like a thousand people that applied A thousand people and you're picking one A thousand people and you're picking one. Now, the biggest thing with me is we have a government that tells us all the time that I know they skew fucking numbers. Oh man, we got tons and tons of jobs. Where the fuck they at? And I thought about this and I'm like we have tons of jobs, but it's not in this realm, it's not in this tech realm. It is. It's a lot of jobs out there, it's a lot. It's not in tech, tech realm it is.

Speaker 2: 18:02

It's a lot of jobs, a lot that's not intact, and and the one thing about it is it's getting harder, because now everybody keeps hearing about how, like, oh, how, tech, so great, and you make all this money, and so now everybody's applying to these jobs and, like now they realize, oh, okay, it's not so great and then, like you know, it just makes it harder for like other people to get jobs now because, like you have this oversaturated talent pool. It's kind of. It's kind of like how everybody's like oh, I want to be a nurse, I want to be a nurse, I want to be a nurse. And then you realize that nursing is not for the faint of heart.

Speaker 1: 18:39

No, it's not. It's not when the big I've had. It's been three weeks now and I have had time to reflect on a lot of stuff. My biggest thing is that I will tell if you are a manager and you manage people, be honest with people. Don't tell them yeah, we, there's some stuff going on.

Speaker 2: 19:10

If you know that, like but you know they can't like they can't, they can't.

Speaker 1: 19:17

But also, if you're a manager and you say one thing like yeah, we're cutting costs in places and stuff like that, but I don't know what's going on, what else is going on, don't worry about it. Don't tell me to not worry about shit that part sucks yeah, but like don't tell me not to worry about anything, that's like because, yeah, it's's just like my old job that I got laid off two years ago.

Speaker 2: 19:47

They got hit with a ransomware attack. With that ransomware attack we were down for a month and a half. We lost major revenue in stock share. Everybody's like oh no, don't worry about it, everything's cool. Here they come. You know that october like oh, um, so we need people to like we're about to do layoffs, so you're either going to volunteer or we're going to start choosing people to lay off.

Speaker 1: 20:16

So yeah it. So yeah it, it's a. I've had really good managers and when I left one of the managers that I that was probably one of the best managers. Before I got late, before I was like cut off. I know the process because that's what I do. I cut people off like that's what I did. I was a system administrator. I would cut people off their access and everything. So before they cut my access, I contacted the manager in the old position that I had within the company and I told her hey, you were, you were probably one of the best managers that I've ever had, because she wasn't.

Speaker 1: 20:58

It's a. It's a rare thing to get a really good manager that's not fucking annoying, that is rude to others and that actually understands how and actually understands people. And she was one of them. And she told me she was like yeah, we. She was like I'm sorry that you, that you, that you are, you know you got cut. Then she told me straight up she was like we're gonna be cutting people from my team too in the next two days. And I was like she didn't tell me that shit. She didn't tell me shit. But that's just the that's. That's the difference yeah.

Speaker 2: 21:38

But you know, like all right, they're gonna watch me back because, like you could say this and then next thing you know somebody's gonna run and tell hr and then hr gonna be like, well, how do you know who told you? And then it gets back. So like, yeah, I can see why some managers don't do it, even though it's a pain in the ass, like, but like don't, and at least at least you got that, like at least I. I got hit up on a with a hey, I didn't talk to you Monday. And then like Monday is like, oh okay, you now laid off, so you know you could have told me that Sunday when you hit me up.

Speaker 2: 22:13

So I mean, you know having to get up out of my bed and come, you know, get to my little workstation. But like, yeah, you know, get to my little workstation.

Speaker 1: 22:20

But like, yeah, what's what's funny is I literally that a couple of days before that before the weekend actually I saw a video of this guy saying never let go of a person on a Friday. Never let go of a person on a Friday. Always do it on a Monday, because if you let go of a person on that friday, they're going to be in a and they're going into a weekend yeah, two days where they're supposed to be able to relax, think about shit and relax. That weekend is probably going to be one of the worst weekends that they ever fucking have. So if you have to let go of somebody, do it on a Monday, don't ever do it on a Friday.

Speaker 1: 23:03

So, yeah, man, I didn't feel the depressive state until maybe a couple days ago, because it's like I'm not doing anything and that's the crazy shit. I told my mom I'm really happy that I was at home when it happened, because I probably I don't know if I was back in my house, I probably would have been like fuck, I probably would have been at the range every fucking day. Why I would have been at the range? Because I was like because I wouldn't have anything else to do. So I'm like let me just go shoot my guns at a target.

Speaker 1: 23:53

Anyways, I'm serious I probably would have been at the range every day, I mean at least you have something now that you're doing. Yeah, and even that was like I'm not a risk taker. People being a risk taker nowadays is I don't gamble. I don't go to casinos, I don't gamble.

Speaker 2: 24:14

You're straight laced as they come.

Speaker 1: 24:16

I'm not straight laced as fuck, but I don't gamble though, because it's all a fucking. They see you coming. I'm not straight laced as fuck, but I don't gamble though, because it's all. It's all, it's all a fucking. They see you coming. I'm not doing that shit, so I'm not a risk taker like that. And when you, when you bet, when you bet on yourself, I will say this this is going to sound crazy as shit, but I've been listening to a lot of Larry June, to a lot of Larry June, and when I tell you, larry June is the most impactful, he is that motherfucker, is a fucking motivator.

Speaker 2: 24:50

I swear.

Speaker 1: 24:53

I swear Larry June is a fucking motivator. I listen to his music. I be cruising, first of all. June makes summer cruising music if you have a sunroof in the summer, windows down and you cruise, and that's the type of music he plays. But there's something that he says. He has a song where he talks about betting on yourself every time. You bet on yourself every damn time and I would hear that shit and I was just like going through his catalog and I was like damn that, nigga, right, and it's just shit like that. Like you know how some motherfuckers be, like they would listen to, like I don't know, some Jay-Z or some shit to be on some motivation shit and be like hell, yeah, I'm going to go out here and get this shit. I'm like nah, nigga, nah, I got to listen to that Larry June man, because that Larry June just be cruising on them shit, especially on the Alchemist beat. Oh my God, but anyway.

Speaker 1: 25:55

So one thing that I always wanted to do we talked about this before. One thing that I always wanted to do. We talked about this before. You guys know that I am into smoking meat, brisket, chicken, whatever, right, and I can. I will say that possibly this me getting let go from this job is a sign of kind of doing stuff for myself doing the barbecue thing, actually doing the mushroom farm thing that I wanted, that I've always wanted to do, and kind of just like kind of just seeing what happened. Seeing what happens, taking the risk and just going with it. Um, so, with that I kind of just started thinking and writing stuff down and getting stuff together.

Speaker 1: 26:50

I was in Maryland. The goal was to, even if I had a job, the goal was to actually do this anyway. Right, I was going to be in Maryland for a month and I said you know what, let me see how this barbecue thing goes and I'll just do it in North Carolina too. So I bought like a new smoker. By the way, if you guys want a smoker or any type of grill or anything, go get them shit now. Go to Home Depot, lowe's. You're going to get them on sale. Don't wait until the summer or the springtime, because that's when you're going to be paying full price. I bought a smoker. That's usually $600, and I paid $300 for it.

Speaker 2: 27:32

It's not bad.

Speaker 1: 27:33

Yeah right, so go get that thing. If you need something you need a Blackstone or something like that go get them shits. Go get them now. Don't wait until you're the summertime and you start watching these damn TikTok videos of people on the damn Blackstone and you're like damn, I want to get one of those.

Speaker 1: 27:51

No, you can't get one, so go get those shits now. But yeah, with that I started a business called the low five pit and basically it's a business where I am smoking meat no sides, even though I can cook and throw down on some fucking sides.

Speaker 2: 28:13

No sides.

Speaker 1: 28:16

I'm just, it's just. Nah, I don't need people tasting sides and be like, oh my gosh, I think that, good, you could do this, you could do that. Man, shut the fuck up, just just. That's why I'm just cooking meat, that's it. So I started that. I mean coming up with the name, the name, coming up with the name is Christ.

Speaker 1: 28:36

It was a lot. I was going through a lot of shit right, thinking about names, going through all this shit, and it wasn't until I was at my sister's house and I, uh, I picked her up from the airport because she had to travel and it was the next day, stay with her the next day, and I was just in her office just typing shit up and just sitting there thinking and I was like I was like I was like ty, come here. And she was like what? And I was like I think I got a name and I was like what about the lo-fi pit? And she was like that's actually not bad. And then we started like doing logos and shit like that and I like pit happens, but it's okay pit happens was.

Speaker 1: 29:18

You know what's crazy Pit Happens was cool, but I also thought it was a little bit corny too. It didn't fit the type of person I am. It just really didn't the Lo-Fi Pit just like. If I hear that I'm thinking like chill shit, good shit, and it's just relaxed. You know what I mean and that's the type of vibe that I want to give off. And honestly, I hate to say this, but most of the music that I've been listening to now is lo-fi shit. I have a lot of lo-fi shit that I just play. So what I did was to get my logo, because I needed something quick just to put on. So I uh, you know, used the ai and I just gave a description saying I wanted something ironic but also kind of witty too, and I said give me a logo where a pig and a cow have headphones on, listening to music with a smoker and smoking meat and there is.

Speaker 1: 30:41

It came up with a pretty damn good logo. It did really well and um. So you know, just from there I've just been going forward and just seeing what happens. Um gave out samples of some, uh, pulled pork that I did. My sister took some to her job and you know some people friends and family tried it and stuff like that Got some orders that I got to do this week.

Speaker 2: 31:12

I want a brisket.

Speaker 1: 31:14

And I know, I know and I got to work on like getting like shipping stuff, like how to ship it and stuff like that. So, yeah, it's just something that I'm doing and when I get back home it's going to be doing the mushroom thing. You know what I mean. Like Oyster mushrooms is probably just going to be like the biggest thing that I do, because it's just Mushrooms is probably just going to be like the biggest thing that I do because it's just OK. So I like mycology, that's, that's the study of mushrooms, and I need y'all to really understand what mushrooms can do for you, not not like it's if you're vegan or vegetarian. I think you already know. But Mushrooms are actually, are actually fucking amazing. Honestly, I could probably eat them every fucking day if I could. Just mushrooms with rice man.

Speaker 2: 32:13

Okay, I haven't heard that.

Speaker 1: 32:16

It's just simple stuff but yeah, with the smoking I can make, I can take smoked mushrooms or making like smoked cheeses and all this. It was just a whole bunch of stuff that I can add to stuff. But yeah, I think that's kind of like the big thing that's been. That happened, got laid off and kind of was like you know, just betting on myself and just going with it. Like I said, I'm happy that I was home when it happened. I guess that's kind of the that's kind of a big thing. I even when I, when I, when I got laid off, I contacted my co-worker who I went to Tennessee with and he was like what the fuck? He was like what the fuck, I swear to God, because it was random.

Speaker 1: 33:11

Yeah, it was so random, it was just random as hell and it was just like oh yeah, there it is, that's it, that's it, that's it. You know not much you can do about that.

Speaker 2: 33:30

No, it's kind of like If you're in tech, it is bound to happen at some point in your career.

Speaker 1: 33:37

Two years man. Two years at the shop. Two years Two it's. Two years man. Two years at the shop. Two years two it's. I mean it. I'm not gonna say all of tech. There are just certain industries, like cyber security is pretty I think cyber security is actually pretty Depending like I know. I worked at CrowdStrike and I know people that are still there to this day when I was there.

Speaker 2: 34:13

Yeah, because, because.

Speaker 1: 34:18

Seniority.

Speaker 2: 34:20

Yeah, kind of. Yeah, you know where I worked, there's like, but where I worked it was like every six months there was like a round of them. So I mean yeah you think you're on top of a lot at some point. But there's always been there like years, like my manager was there like years and hasn't faced it yet, but like most companies have it.

Speaker 1: 34:46

Yeah I, I just think it's, it's you get. You get as much information and learn as much as you can. And just on to the next one.

Speaker 1: 34:57

Yeah, and just on to the next one Keep moving, yeah, and just on to the next one. Um, I mean, it's just this process, you know, you're, I I don't even as to the point now where I think remote is not even like. I hate to say this, but I might have to be like at least driving in, at least, maybe like two days out of the week, Just because and I'm also looking local- yeah.

Speaker 1: 35:32

I guess that's another big thing too. What I noticed is when I'm on LinkedIn and I'm looking within, like the Raleigh Durham area.

Speaker 2: 35:40

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 35:41

A lot of those jobs don't get a lot of clicks Because it's not remote and people you.

Speaker 2: 35:49

It's a hybrid. You have to go in and work there.

Speaker 1: 35:51

Yeah yeah, nobody wants to go in and I think that I think that's kind of an advantage right now. I hate to say that, but I think that's like a really good advantage because I don't think some people, first of all, I don't think some people need to be working remotely. Let's just get that out the way. Some people, I don't think some people, first of all, I don't think some people need to be working remotely. Let's just get that out the way. Some people, I don't think some people can work remotely because it's I don't think some people can focus like that. That well, I've been, like I said I've been remote since 2018. I've been, like I said I've been, remote since 2018.

Speaker 1: 36:27

And you know, it's not, it's cool, it's more flexible and all that stuff. But if the money talking, the money talking you need to come in two days out of the week, all right, cool, cool, cool, cool Two days out of the week. But, yeah, that's cool, I can do that. Um, just, you know, make it beginning of the week, just don't make it end of the week that's cool don't make it end of the week, cause that's gonna be shit.

Speaker 1: 36:55

So that's what I've been going for, and I actually got something today that's good yeah, I was like, okay, cool, yeah, man, it's yeah, just been on your fucking cell, Jesus Christ man, I wake up every morning. I'm just like what the fuck am I doing?

Speaker 2: 37:27

At least you have that freedom, you have that freedom?

Speaker 1: 37:32

It's not freedom that I decided. That's the shit as a grown ass adult. It's freedom that you were given based off of layoff, and it's just like I didn't make this fucking choice. You know, yeah, man, I did go to a dope-ass butcher, though, here in Maryland, in Catonsville.

Speaker 2: 38:00

Did you get something like exotic?

Speaker 1: 38:03

Nah, it was just beautiful. It was just the way that they had everything organized. The menu You're able to get like pig snout and all that stuff. You were able to get a whole bunch of like tongue, like cow tongue and all that stuff. Oh yeah, oh yeah, it was beautiful. Nice cuts. Cuts didn't look dingy, didn't look horrible. It was very, um, the neighborhood. I was in the car, my mom, my mother, went with me, I drove and, if you know, maryland roads are crap, right, they're shitty. And I was talking to her, I was driving around. I was like, man, these roads are horrible. But as soon as we got into this neighborhood, where this butcher is, those motherfuckers smooth the fuck out. Really nice, really. I was like, ooh, these are smooth. I had my hands at ten and two. Look, I'm doing one of these shits. I'm like, wow, just doing one of these to people I don't even know. But the houses were weird though. The houses looked like row houses and it was like on a hill and it was kind of different.

Speaker 1: 39:25

Yeah, it was really weird, but they look really cool and they probably go for a lot of fucking money. But this place was fucking gorgeous man. It was a very good place, Very nice cuts of meat and all that stuff. I also went to a Sam's Club. I haven't been to a Sam's Club in years. We have one here and you know Sam's Club.

Speaker 2: 39:43

I haven't been to a Sam's Club in years. We have one here.

Speaker 1: 39:46

And you know it's crazy. I haven't been in there in years, but I think all Sam's Clubs just smell the same.

Speaker 2: 39:52

Yeah, they do smell the same. It's kind of weird.

Speaker 1: 39:55

I was just like oh my gosh, it smells like boxes and stuff. Yeah, that was interesting also, but, um, as you said you talked about, you said yourself that you um, also did get laid off and I remember, I remember when you uh did you text me Sunday, I did you Sunday.

Speaker 2: 40:28

I texted you Sunday I was like, hey, I'll probably get laid off tomorrow.

Speaker 1: 40:33

Yeah, I was like for real that next day. I was like nah, nah, nah. And then boom. There it is. I'm going to ask you because I brought this up to you. You'd be like nah, nah, whatever, but since you have been laid off, has it been better or worse? It's been better, and you know why oh yeah, I know um if I, if what's today, tuesday yeah oh, I know what's better because of what you did Sunday. I know what's better because of what you did Sunday anyways. So, yeah, it's better, because what?

Speaker 2: 41:24

you did Sunday anyways. So yeah, it's been better. I mean like, so I'm not going to say like right now I'm still in that phase because, like, unlike him, I didn't get my immediately. I gotta wait for my, I'm still waiting for my severance, so that's there. So I don't think it's really hit me yet in like my pay yet, and so when that happens, I think that's what's gonna set it and it's like all right yeah something's missing, um, how am I?

Speaker 1: 42:02

and I gotta adapt, that's, that's pretty much it, it you know, I I hate to say but that I told you when it happened, I was like, oh my gosh, I was like this girl has time. I was like this girl really has time, like she has time to do like on on, she has time to not do nothing nothing and that is like, but I don't like not doing anything.

Speaker 2: 42:32

That's the problem nigga, I know.

Speaker 1: 42:37

But I will say you have, I've been, I've been, you know, you've been on the streaming shit a lot harder recently.

Speaker 2: 42:45

No, I haven't. Just because I streamed five hours the other night doesn't mean I'm back on it.

Speaker 1: 42:56

Did you stream last week too?

Speaker 2: 42:58

No, I didn't. That was my first stream in like a week.

Speaker 1: 43:05

Are you just playing zombies?

Speaker 2: 43:09

No, I have Dragon Age. I'm playing too, because it came out.

Speaker 1: 43:14

Okay, okay, okay. Damn man, I'm happy I told you before. I'm ecstatic that you got that time to just do. We talked about this. We probably would not have been able to do that live podcast if Lexi wasn't laid off because she would have been working. Lexi wasn't laid off because she would have been working. She would have been working. It just would have been one of those things you know.

Speaker 2: 43:54

Yeah, I mean, you could have did it for us.

Speaker 1: 43:58

He already did it anyways, because on the website it literally just has the logo with just his picture he's the face of the podcast. I am just the background. It was by mistake, that's what he says the way that they worded that shit was wild, right. And then, shit, it was something else. I was gonna say damn it, damn it, damn it, damn it, damn it, damn it. Uh, shit, it was something else. I was going to say Damn it.

Speaker 1: 44:25

Damn it, damn it damn it, damn it, damn it. Um, fucking lost it. Ah, it didn't come right to me, but yeah, the way that they worded that shit, it was just strange. It was just really, really strange. Uh, I will say that I'm not I'm never the most optimistic person, right, I'm just not. I was. I used to be, you know what? I used to be bright eyed and bushy tail, like when I first got my degree and out of college that was probably the worst time to be bright eyed and bushy tail. I'm like I'm going to go find a job and I'm like in my mother's house watching the office every fucking day applying to jobs and just like, just also shit. Like Jesus Christ, this sucks. I'm going that that was the time when I was going on interviews like like tie dresser and all that shit and being told that, oh, you might be too qualified, but I don't have any fucking experience. All I have is a damn degree, like just a whole bunch of crap. But you know what's funny?

Speaker 2: 45:48

what's up?

Speaker 1: 45:49

now that I sit here and I think about this. So I went to school in north carolina and I came back home for about a year and it wasn't until I took the risk and moved back to north carolina that you had a job is when I got a job at Charles Schwab through a tech agency.

Speaker 1: 46:09

I was a contractor for six months and then they brought me on as a full-time hire. I was working for Tech Systems. Tech Systems was crazy. I was driving to work every day like tech systems was crazy. And um, I was driving to work every day, shaking the triangle transit bus into downtown Raleigh and just walking to work and it's just yeah. It wasn't until I took that risk, like I was crashing like in a friend, like in a friend's house, and I was just like in a friend, like in a friend's house, and I was just like I was using. It was crazy. So before I was living it was close to downtown raleigh and I was using another friend's uh driveway to park my car and then from their house I would walk downtown to to work, and it wasn't until I got my first place.

Speaker 1: 47:13

I remember I came back up here because I was getting my first place and I brought all my shit and my dodge, nitro and I just I honestly, I didn't have a place to put it, so I just left it in the truck. And I was just driving around with all my stuff in the truck, right, and I remember my friend was like Christopher, are you homeless? I was like no, it's just, I'm waiting to move into my place in September. So I don't have, I'm not going to pay for storage, so I'm just gonna, you know, leave it in the truck. And yeah, man, that was crazy, that was a crazy time. And the funny thing is I was making shit then too. Oh my gosh, I was making such shit. It was just so bad of money.

Speaker 2: 48:01

Mm.

Speaker 1: 48:03

That was shit money.

Speaker 2: 48:04

Oh, he's reminiscing you guys. Yeah, that was shit money, mm, that was shit money.

Speaker 1: 48:06

Aw, he's reminiscing you guys yeah, that was shit money though, like oof, that was bad, um, but yeah, y'all it's um. A lot of stuff has happened in the past couple weeks, um and uh, yeah has happened in the past couple weeks and yeah, I mean I don't have much to say. Look out for, like I said, the vendors being on here talking about what they want to talk about.

Speaker 2: 48:42

I had no idea about.

Speaker 1: 48:44

I said I was going to tell you after the call. Will you stop? Oh, also, I'll bring this up because it's going to look different, but for the surroundings and stuff that you guys see right now, it's going to be different in the next show that we have, because, streamyard, how can I put this?

Speaker 2: 49:14

StreamYard is too damn expensive for the amount of mimes that we use it. We literally use it probably at the most three times a month, and I'm just not paying $45 for StreamYard anymore. That's what it is, so it's gonna look different. It may, it it anyways. So if you guys look at like her boss and stuff, you won't see like the background or whatever. Yeah, we'll figure it out, but yeah, streamers gotta go bye-bye it's gonna be something different, you guys.

Speaker 1: 49:39

So, uh, yeahyard kind of went like they notified us, but it's just like it went from what? Was it 20?

Speaker 2: 49:48

25 to 45.

Speaker 1: 49:50

Yeah to 45.

Speaker 2: 49:51

With like nothing really extra about it.

Speaker 1: 49:56

Right, and you know. So we're going to just find another way to do the video and stuff like that and all that crap, yeah, I mean. Oh, and also we have a blue sky now too. I was gonna tell you about that also.

Speaker 2: 50:16

You haven't even followed me on.

Speaker 1: 50:20

When did you make one?

Speaker 2: 50:22

A couple days ago.

Speaker 1: 50:23

Oh, I didn't even it's. Did you make one A couple days ago? Oh, I didn't even. Where is it on your?

Speaker 2: 50:26

It's somewhere out there in the ether oh man.

Speaker 1: 50:32

But yeah, we got one of those too, you guys, so keep a lookout for that. We'll probably add the link somewhere. But yeah, thank you guys. You have anything else that you want to add?

Speaker 2: 50:43

Yeah, you guys keep listening. We are almost at a thousand listens, so definitely keep plugging that. If you guys haven't definitely give us a five-star rating where you guys listen to us at. Also, you haven't just definitely share us out, so we can grow and do more things for you guys listen to us out, and then also, you haven't just definitely share us out, uh, you know, so we can grow and do more things for you guys.

Speaker 1: 51:08

So oh, also, well, one other big thing. I got a lot of compliments about our merch, so, um, we're gonna hopefully not anytime soon, but hopefully we can get that out and get that to you guys, because, honestly, the best looking hoodie was hers.

Speaker 2: 51:35

I was about to go find it really quick, but I'm trying to think. Where did I put it?

Speaker 1: 51:39

Yeah, she had the best hoodie. I'll be back and it looked great. It was, yeah she had the best hoodie.

Speaker 1: 51:45

I love that. I love that and it looked great. It was like really really nice and I was like I didn't think the color combination with the purple and the pink and purple lettering would work, but it worked really well. I just got a basic like brown and orange one and it was okay. But hers looks fucking amazing, like it looks really good. So it's it's um, with that color scheme and a whole bunch of different color schemes, I think it would do really well. Yeah, that looks that looks. Yeah, that looks good. I think I told you maybe I didn't at the Sphinx down the street from your house.

Speaker 2: 52:31

Yeah, no, you told me.

Speaker 1: 52:32

Yeah, I got a compliment about the hoodie I was wearing and I will say this. Sphinx gas stations are dope.

Speaker 2: 52:45

I'm a QT girly. What did you say? I'm a QT girly. What'd you say? I'm a QT girly.

Speaker 1: 52:49

I've never been to one and I was like oh man, these are dope. But I like a Loves. I like, uh, what is it, loves I?

Speaker 2: 52:58

think yeah, the truck stop one.

Speaker 1: 53:01

Yeah, I love those because those places have the cleanest bathrooms. Um, but anyway, you guys thank you for listening. And um, yeah, the truck stop one. Yeah, I love those because those places have the cleanest bathrooms. But anyway, you guys, thank you for listening. No-transcript.