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Are we started? Yeah, we started. Okay. Welcome to another episode of the Carolina Cycle Podcast. I am Afro and I am here with my co-host.

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Lexi.

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Yes, you guys. Welcome back. Hope everybody had a good holiday and a good new year. Hope some people got a you know white snowy Christmas, I guess.

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Um we got a hot one.

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It's been crazy. But yeah, you guys know how we start these off. We've been, you know, see what we've been up to since we last talked and everything like that. So let's see what you've been up to. Uh, I think I kind of already know I've been talking to you.

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Yeah. Um nothing much. Really just gearing up from my trip next week. That's been pretty much it. I got new glasses.

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Nice.

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Other than that, nothing.

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You wear both, right? Glasses and contacts, right?

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Yes, sir.

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I still can't get with contacts. They fuck up my when I'm driving. My depth perception with contacts are just so fucked. It feels weird. That's why I just I just like glasses. And I can't get the whole thought of sticking my finger in my eye to get them out. It's not bad. I'm good. I got big ass hands, yo. I can't do that. Like, look, I'm like this. I'm like this at the damn mirror. And don't I hate that shit because they can't do it?

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The more you do it, the easier it gets.

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Nah, fuck that. Because they get folded. Sometimes they get folded into your eye.

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They do.

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And I'm just like, yo, I cannot get this. So yeah, I stay away from context, man. That's not really my shit. Um, what I've been up to working. Uh just working. Just really working. Not too much going on over here. Uh, you know, coming up with goals that I want for the year, yes, doing all that shit, writing them down, kind of getting prepared to watch three dogs at the end of this month.

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And that's you can do it.

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It's it's just it's just my sister's dog. That's it.

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You can do it.

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It's just my sister's dog. She tore that dog, he tore up my mom's cat's bed and the dog bed that my mom bought for her dog in the back of the minivan. He tore it up.

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Okay, okay. He's terrible. Not gonna lie. Poor Sonny.

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He Sonny, yo, Sonny is like terrified of this dog. Like, she she she doesn't even like want to be near this motherfucker. Like, doesn't even want to be near him. Like, if he's if he's in the vicinity, her ass is as far away as honestly, he's a nigga.

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Say no more. Say no more. Say say no more.

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Like, Watson is Watson is crazy. His name is Watson. Watson's crazy, man.

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So Watson's a YN.

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Basically, yeah. Like, Watson is literally a YN, hands down, that's what he is, right? So it's just he's he's gonna we're gonna be on some military type shit, man. Oh yeah. My sister bought a kennel, got it in the box. I'm like, hey, Watson, you wanna come out here and watch TV with us? Cool. The kennel's coming out where the TV is, and his ass can sit in there and watch. He he's like, he chewed up like my mom's like like molding, yeah. Like on the ground and stuff. Nah, man. He's like pulling when my mom tries to walk him. He pulls my mom and stuff like that. Nah, we're gonna get that. We're gonna nip this shit in the butt real quick.

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Wait a minute. When the fuck your pop collection get that goddamn bit.

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Oh man. I haven't funny thing is, I haven't bought uh what was the last pop that I bought? I think the last pop that I bought was a I don't even know. But I was telling my mom, so when my mom was here, I showed her, I showed her like why I collect these things. And the biggest thing that I showed her was the value? Yes. Yes, I showed her the value, right? So, like I said, I bought some Funko Pops because I know that they're going to hold a value, right? I don't like, I'm not the biggest fan of Hello Kitty, but I know that everybody else and their mother likes Hello Kitty shit. So I have like someone around here that's a Hello Kitty like Olympics, gymnastics Olympics, and Hello Kitty is in a singlet and it's like the USA flag and everything. Mm-hmm. That's almost like 250 right now. That's a lot. And I'm just like, oh yeah, this is it. Like, yeah. But anywho, really haven't been much much of anything. Getting back into working out, lifting. Um, my sister bought me a like a whole squat rack and everything. So it's in the garage. I already have bumper plates and everything like that, getting back into the cleaning jerks and snatching and all that stuff. Um, so that's good. But yeah, so in this episode, we're gonna uh kind of talk about goals. I have some news that I want to hear your thoughts about. Well, really, one big one. So we'll go through that first and then we can go through the goals. So I am going to share my screen, and I want you just to see this first article, and I want to hear your thoughts about it because it is going to be really fucking funny. Um, I know it's gonna be funny because you're gonna be like, what the fuck? Alright, so first is this or is making an AI anime waifu hologram for your desk. Now, before I, you know, before we get into this, I will say there are five avatars in this thing. This article is just going after the anime waifu shit. Right? So I I'll just preface it with that. I'm like, okay, cool. But they are trying, they they know what they're doing. They're trying to get people into this, and I'm gonna be honest with you. I know people are gonna buy this.

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Let's preference this before we even go any further. It is CES this week, yeah. And the thing for CES is AI and ro and like robots. So if you follow CES, you're gonna see a lot of this.

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Yeah.

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But like, no, no. This is getting this is so cringy.

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So Razor Project Ava, AI game coach from last year, CES, is taking a new form for 2026. A tiny holographic anime girl and a capsule you can put on your desk. Anime girls and pods were were already a thing at CS, CES 2025, but Razor takes on, takes it on um much smaller and desk friendly. So it's a five uh five by five, five point five inch animated hologram, right? And you can, like I said, you can change his avatar to different things, right? But it's just to me that I mean look at this. This is this is insane. And we talked about this in the last we talked about this in the last episode. Things that people love that have a computer at they deck at their desk, being able to change the color of things, which you can do that. That's that's Razor's MO. That's like their whole MO of being able their uh what is it? Uh oh man. Razor has like a name for their shit. Is it Chrome? Chrome lighting or something like that?

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You know what? Do I have any of my old Razor stuff on here?

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Yeah, that's what I'm trying to think. I used to have a Razor keyboard, but I don't have that anymore. Yeah, you have a razor keyboard and all kinds of stuff. But I saw this and I said, okay, this is this is a little this is a little too much, man. Just a little bit.

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Just a little bit.

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Yeah, and and and the funny thing is, it's it man, this is gonna sound really sad. But people are gonna buy this and be eight and and are gonna talk to this thing.

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You know they're gonna do more than that with that thing.

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You can't do that. You can't do that.

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No, okay, okay. We we both know some.

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That's not see you can change it. There are other avatars.

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He looks like he belongs in Fortnite, but you know, but you know, most people that are gonna buy this are gonna buy this for the anime girl, right?

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Oh, yeah, for sure. For sure.

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And they're gonna be trying to have her do some degenerate shit.

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Yeah.

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You already know what is gonna happen with this.

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It's gonna be it's gonna be at some point where somebody's gonna be able to mod this and make them naked.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And probably like put them in all kinds of positions and all kinds of shit. Like, yeah.

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Yeah, it it's and the funny thing is those are the I feel like those are the type of motherfuckers that so whenever I go to a car show or like uh Cars and Coffee or something like that, I always see the motherfuckers that have like the anime.

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Cars.

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Yes, yes, all the time. Yeah, and it's you know, it's always a Honda, Mazda, something like that. It has to be.

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Because if you you can't put that onda like that.

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No, they I mean, it's true though. You can't put you can't put that shit on a Volvo or like a Ford. That's gonna be weird.

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So Do you think some of these detritors care?

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Yeah, because if you go to a Cars and Coffee, you have to Do you think they're going to a Cars and Coffee though? Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think they get out sometimes, for sure. They gotta show off the the the I don't even, it's not a paint. They're rap. It's a rap for sure. And it's like literally a half-naked woman just on the side of their car.

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Thomas, ooh.

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Oh, man. That's crazy. But yeah, I I wanted to see what you thought about this. So uh I guess you won't be getting this, eh?

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No, I will not be getting that. No, thank you. I will pass, thank you.

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And then uh I sent you an article today about the smart bricks. Yeah, um, I don't know how I feel about this. Um either. So now it's it's basically a smart brick where if it know it it'll sense that there's another smart brick attach, and then you're able to change, I would think, like the color and you know, color of what you have put together and kind of give it more life and stuff like that, right? Um now I I do like that to the point where if it's like a uh like the Lego flower pieces, like the the molten models, the flower models that you or the bonsai trees and stuff like that that you can make, or even the picture, the picture frames, right? I think those are dope. I think those that would be amazing for that.

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I wonder since they're like a little LED lights in here, like I know you can change the color, but you can also like say it's like a picture frame, you can have it kind of like do like a RGB like color show around the picture and all kinds of shit.

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Yeah, that would be sick. Now, here's my other thing about this. I wonder how much this shit is gonna cost.

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Isn't it down there at the bottom?

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Let's see.

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Yeah, right there.

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Oh, okay, that ain't bad now. That ain't bad.

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Include with one smart break.

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No man.

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See this you know, you can just click the video. I kind of want to see this in play.

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You wanna see it?

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Yeah.

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What if you could bring your imagination to life for real? Play with your creations, and let them play back with you. Well, that's exactly what we've built. Wait, really? Introducing the LEGO smart play system. Oh boy, a new platform made of endlessly interactive smart bricks, smart tags, seriously? And no way! Smart minifigures. Hold on, so you can interact with the little guys now? All connected to bring play to life like never before. Whoa, was that a burp? These things can burp and react to how you move with dynamic sound and lights. Holy shit, there's lights. One brick to turn your Lego builds into an opportunity to create, explore, and unlock your imagination. Ducks? This is gonna be huge. Huge. Come play in the next dimension with the Lego Smart Play System.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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And and all those examples, it was only one brick.

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Yes.

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On each of those things.

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Yeah, I know. Yeah.

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I don't like that. So if if I buy if I buy a a Lego set, and I know it's a, you know, it's uh, I don't know, it's it's a uh uh let's say they do a Lego set of like you know, Jaomi, right? And this one Lego set is gonna have this one brick that you're able to light up shit. If you wanna add more bricks, you're gonna have to buy more, right? And it just goes in a random place that's like his name. You know, like I don't know. I could be I I could be totally wrong.

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But I think it's a good start, like pushing Lego into like the 21st century, as far as like what technology, because blocks have been blocks for like ever, obviously, but now we have the capability to have them do more, and so I I guess they're trying to try it out and see how it goes.

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So yeah, I think it's a great idea.

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It is, yeah.

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I I definitely appreciate that. It's just if I'm gonna pay for something like this, I would, like I said, if I buy like the picture frame shit and I want that to be like if I'm doing this podcast, like that samurai shampoo joint right there, right? If that was like a Lego joint that I can frame and I can put up, and that shit can light up, oh my gosh, that'd be amazing.

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It would be.

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But if I have to pay$500 or$600 to get the amount of bricks that I need to do everything, fuck that. I'm not gonna do that. I might as well just go on Amazon and buy some some damn uh, you know, some damn lights and just put it around the frame. I don't know.

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I mean, let's just see how it goes. I feel like this is like the beginning. They're probably like, as most tech does, it's always high at the beginning, and then over time it gets cheaper, and then we get more quantity. So let's just hope for the best with this.

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Yeah, definitely. It I would I would definitely say that I do like the thought process of it, and I think it looks great. If it's one block, like cool. If you're able to buy more, like actually go to a Lego store and buy them separately, cool, you know, but I also do wonder when it comes to when it comes to this, will the value of the sets go up also just a little bit? It also would they still be collectible? Like if a set goes out of commission or they take it off the shelves, would that still hold its value, especially if this shit is like a light up shit, and by the time, let's say you sell it to somebody else, that brick don't work. Oh, none of that shit works because it's just you know, some people don't open these boxes, they buy them and just let them sit, and they don't, but just because they know that they're not gonna be, they're going off the shelves.

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Yeah.

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So I don't know. I don't know, but I do like the thought process behind it and everything like that. And it looks like it's only going to be right now for their two by four Lego bricks. That's it. So, you know. I I do like that though. I do.

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Did you see the Sony of Fila? Their electric SUV. Yeah, Sony's coming out with their own electric vehicle in uh 2028. I'm supposed you are supposed to be able to use your PlayStation controller inside the vehicle and to play games. You can already do that. I mean, you can technically already do that inside of a Tesla, so just ain't. But I mean, if you look it up, it looks like a more featuristic version of a Range Rover. Yeah, I think the price tag on it was like pretty expensive, like between like 89 and 102 when this is supposed to drop. So I don't I don't know. It's it's a long way off, and I don't even know how the electric car market's gonna be in like two years because right now it's it's on a decline.

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This shit starts at$89,000 for the origin trim and then goes up to$102 for the signature trim. Fuck that. With delivery starting mid-2026 in California, yeah, it better start in California, including a three year subscription to tech fee. No.

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Mm hmm.

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Okay, I'm gonna say this shit, and I've been thinking about this for a fucking while. So I shouldn't have to pay for features in my fucking car.

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I have to pay for features in my car.

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That's cool. You made that decision. Love, look, love driving the T.

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Okay, all right, no, no, no, no, no. Look, okay. So it's gonna depend on who you are as a person, right? If you're gonna pay for features in your car or you are not gonna pay for features in your car, right? So I pay for the premium connectivity in my car because you can do much more with it than without it. Even in my Mazda, I have to pay for the use of the app to do the remote start. So even like in the most basic of cars, you still have like app features that you have to pay for. Yes, yes. Even in my maza, I have to pay for that. So I mean, if you want the like for me, I'm a convenience person. I know I am going to pay more top dollar for convenience. Okay, cool. I know I'm gonna do it, but there's some people just not, and you're one of those people that just are not, and there's a lot of people out there that just are not. It is what it is. Everything going towards nowadays is you gotta pay for something additional. I hate it, it's stupid, but like I want convenience. I'm sorry.

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Like I said, I've said this plenty of times. 2010 or lower people. Look, newer cars are cool, they're making them so that you're not able to fix them yourself and you have to take them to a dealership in order to get them fixed. Also, I'm gonna say this, which I'm actually kind of happy about. It looks like they're kind of going, some manufacturers are going away from sedans. Thank God.

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Yeah, a lot of them going away from SUVs too.

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Cars hit their peak when they when they made to me station wagons and pickup trucks. Look, you say ill and minivans, those are the can I finish minivans, minivans, station wagons, and pickup trucks are the best things that you can get.

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All three cars that I wouldn't buy.

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Right? The other I like hatchbacks. I know you do, and I like honestly, a lot of like Buick. Buick doesn't make sedans anymore. Buick just makes crossovers, right? Crossovers are cool, but like I get it, but sedans themselves are kind of shitty. Like anytime I see somebody driving a Nissan Ultima, I'm like, oh my gosh, you're annoying.

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I had two.

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Do you drive them now?

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I mean, no.

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Thank God. So it's just it's just certain shit that I'm just like, like I said, the most utility and most like reasonable topics.

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But yeah, think about it.

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Like okay, I'm short. I'm small. What the fuck? I look like in a pickup truck, right?

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Like an F-250 or some shit. Like it's it's not gonna work for me.

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You don't even gotta go to D. Like the Fort Mavericks. The Fort Mavericks are actually really nice cars. You never know. That's that's cool. That's what is the what is the Tesla considered?

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An SUV. Mine is an SUV.

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That's a SUV? A sport utility vehicle.

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Yes, yes, the Model Y is considered a sport utility vehicle.

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That's considered a sports vehicle.

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Yes. Like for me, like even before, okay, okay. Even before I got the Tesla, my Mazda, that was my first SUV. Up until that point, I've driven nothing but sedans. Why? Because I don't need a lot. Like I have one person, not a lot of people are in my car.

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So what do you consider like a Chevy Tahoe?

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An SUV?

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That's crazy.

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What?

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Because I would consider your car a uh Yeah, no, it's not considered a has fat.

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Even on my interns and all my registration for my car, it says SUV. It's considered SUV.

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Yeah. You know my nitro, the old one that I don't drive, the black one? Yeah, yeah. They considered that a fucking wagon.

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That wasn't a wagon. That looks like an SUV.

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Right. I love that they considered it as a wagon. Hey, cool. But they considered it as a wagon. Dope. But anywho, um, sorry, get off topic. I was I've just been thinking about that. How like sedans are kind of just like like if you it just I don't know. I don't know. Maybe just because I haven't been in a sedan in a very, very long time.

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But then again, when you use your car, you're using your car for hauling stuff, picking up stuff. Like, you need the room. You have sunny, you you need all the room you can. But some people, it's just them in the car. Like, it's rare that somebody's in the car with me and I'm like taking something major that I need a truck or something for. I think, and then like a a minivan. What the fuck I'm gonna do with a minivan? I don't have kids. I don't need like three.

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But picture, like, minivans are so sick though. No, they're not. They're comfortable seats. Like the storage is great.

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You could never have me be like, ooh, ooh, that's a sexy minivan. Never. What? Ever.

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The the Toyota, Toyota Sienas are fire.

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No.

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No.

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Oh my gosh, those shits are dope. All right, but um, some other things I just wanted to bring up. Uh, this is the 30th anniversary for Pokemon, which uh started in Japan in uh February 27th, 1996. Um Jesus, we're older than Pokemon. Yeah.

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Um thanks for reminding me.

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And that's about it. But anywho, actually, isn't our is uh PlayStation and Xbox coming out with a new gen this year?

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Shouldn't be this year. It's usually every seven years, so I think we got like maybe one more year. They might like announce them this year, but typically each gen is like seven years, and then the next gen comes. So we'll see what they got this year.

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Gotcha, gotcha. Yeah, man. Sienna's a dope. Like, minivans are sick.

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I remember this girl in high school that had one, and she she would be flying in the shit.

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But I was like, no, never seen look, a minivan with a nice tent on it, and you're you're just able to man, y'all don't know. Y'all don't know. Y'all don't know. More minivans for me. All right, so uh what we really wanted to talk about in this main episode was kind of just goals for the new year. I know a lot of people like to set goals and stuff like that. Some people follow through with them, some people don't. Some people like to write them down. You know, some people don't like to write them down, but I feel like if you write them down and you're able to see that, you know, all the time, you might be able to continue with that goal. So I'll I'll start this just for me, goal-wise. Like I said, getting back into the gym, getting back into working out, watching more animes that I don't like usually watch. Like, I'm not the biggest fan of the what are the animes that are like uh like I don't know how to explain it. Because I'm mostly like I like sports and the anime, like the action and mystery type stuff, or just the stuff that's kind of like obscure obscure, like the bartender anime that I've talked about, or Blue Giant and shit like that. But what's the like the ones that are like really happy go lucky and the cheesy Yeah, I don't like those.

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I don't either, but for it can tell you I make fun of him because he watches those and I'm just like, yeah, nah, I'm good. I I can't watch those. Like yeah, slice of life.

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Yeah, yeah. Those, those, you know, kind of like I think the last one that oh, wrong one. Uh last one that I kind of watched that was like slice of life was like, oh, that's tough. I don't even know. Would would you consider Nah that Kotoro one really wasn't slice of life? I don't think so. I don't know, but you know, just check out some like me watching.

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Okay, I I guess I have one. It'll be spy family, it's kind of like slice of life, but not really too much.

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Like 5%.

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Yeah, like like the 5%. But it's there. The elements are there.

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Yeah, like 5%. Um, but yeah, you know, kind of check out just the stuff that's like random on Crunchyroll, something I would never look at. Kind of looking more into that stuff.

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I mean, sometimes it'd be the best ones.

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Yeah, like, you know, me going down the rabbit hole of uh what was that shit that I watched? Neon Genesis? Yeah, that was, you know, that was cool. That was dope. Um, what else? I would probably say getting my 92 Volvo wagon up, I have the turbo rebuilt for it, and I gotta get the head, the head of it fixed, and I already have the huh?

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No, I was gonna say, remind you, you guys, he's had this car since I've no no.

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Yeah, I've had this car for a while. Um it was actually up and running too. It was actually really up and running and driving, but it's just, you know, it's an older car. You gotta I had tags on it. It was all up to date and everything. But I was like, I need to upgrade the turbo. I need to um just make other changes to it and everything like that. So get that up and running, get rid of the nitro, and yeah, I think I think that's about it. You know, around this time last year, I was still looking for work. That's the craziest shit. And I say probably this is gonna be tough for me. But I'd probably say like maybe get out more. I do want to go to some more cons because I didn't go to any last year like that. Did you go to any last year?

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No, the only one I really went to was TwitchCon.

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Oh, okay. Gotcha.

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Yeah, I I need to you know, go to some this year. Didn't do anything last year, so you know, we'll see how that goes. I'll probably say that's about it. And also just with the just with the podcast itself, I I think that honestly, I'm gonna say I honestly thought it's been it's been good. Like you sent me something with the year-in wrap-up of the just the statistics and the numbers. And I'm I was like, is that real? Like, I had to ask you, like, is that was that real? Like, is that real? I'm like, that's not real. That's real. So yeah, yeah, I looked at it myself and I was like, oh shit, okay. But yeah, you know, just nothing crazy, you know, nothing crazy goals-wise or anything like that. You know, I might travel some more. I want to do, I do want to go to the mountains here.

SPEAKER_05: 32:30

Use your PTO.

SPEAKER_06: 32:32

Yeah, yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_05: 32:35

That's what you need to do this year. This last year.

SPEAKER_06: 32:38

Yes.

SPEAKER_05: 32:40

Thank you. I'm getting off my mommy box now.

SPEAKER_06: 32:44

Yeah, you know. I don't know. Do you do you do goals like that? Or are you just like, if some shit happens, it happens.

SPEAKER_05: 32:52

So I always and if my audio sounds terrible, first thing on my goal list, somebody needs to remind me. Oh, by the way, my birthday is like next week. So if you want to buy me a better mic, thank you. Because this one's a pain in my ass, okay? Um, but if not, then that's fine. Whatever, fuck it. I'll buy my own. But um, so for me, like goal-wise, I don't write them down because I I'm not one to like write something down. I probably should because I am out of sight, out of mind a lot. But I usually have things that I want to accomplish in a year. I try not to focus so much on like every day I need to get this fall, I need to get this ball. But like, I think about more like alright, what steps or um wanna get to the the end golf, right? Yeah, and so for me this year, I know I've been talking about it so much, but I really do want to get a house this year that is my own. I know, I know, but after the whole flood scenario and like me having to move houses and like literally downgrade um certain things as far as like housing-wise, like I want something that's mine that I'm paying for, that I'm putting like equity and things of that nature on. Um it's just it's it's really hard to make that step because you never know. It's like what if, and then like what if I hate this house or lose my job, what if, whatever, what if, and I just need to shut my mind off. Is that me?

SPEAKER_06: 34:37

That's what's happening fucking.

SPEAKER_05: 34:38

I I know, I know, but at least yours isn't immediate, but it it did happen. But like that is the thing. Um, a second thing is I want to complete the trifecta for comp to you, so I do want to work on getting my network plus um this year, because I already have my A Plus, my C3 plus my Siza Plus, so I want to get the network plus um and get that done. So I've signed up. Well, I haven't signed up. I put interest in for a class and we'll see if I get it or not. If not, then I'm just probably gonna raw dog it and study on my own. Try to do it, even though my ADHD works. And then other than that, this year I do want to save more money and look into more like investments and of that nature.

SPEAKER_06: 35:32

Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. That's the that's the thing that they Jesus Christ, they might be teaching that shit now. But when I was in school, they they man. I I hate to say this, but the bottom of the school system just failed the fuck out of a lot of people. So there are some there's some shit that is is for the good that they taught us, but some like the stuff that you actually really fucking need, like, oh yeah, these are the type of accounts that you should have. Not like, you know, a regular checking account and a savings account.

SPEAKER_05: 36:13

But everybody, but that's like the basic everybody tells you have a checking account and a second account. Right. And they don't talk about like what's the difference between a regular saving account and a high-yield savings account. What's the CD, like all this other shit that you can like invest and like put money into.

SPEAKER_06: 36:29

A brokerage account. Like I didn't know, I didn't know about brokerage accounts or none of that shit until I started working at Charles Schwab. And I realized I from that I knew what a split was or a CD's treasury, you know, T bills and shit like that.

SPEAKER_05: 36:49

You know, like and I didn't learn until I got my job and they had like employees stopped purchasing. And so it was going to e-train. I'm like, what's this? And it's like a brokerage account. I was like, oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02: 37:02

So like it's like we don't know until like out. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06: 37:08

This is the shit that and now, and now kids are starting to see this more just because of TikTok and Facebook and YouTube and stuff like that. We didn't have that shit in the internet.

SPEAKER_05: 37:22

We had the internet, but like we're not looking that shit up on the internet as kids.

unknown: 37:27

Right.

SPEAKER_05: 37:29

Or like playing games online or whatever the case may be, or be on MySpace, like HTML coding shit. That's what I was doing as a kid. Or, excuse me, also I was like making like stuff in Photoshop. That was but like I wasn't looking up like what's the best way to invest your money? What's the difference of trying to hide you on a regular saver, Kelly?

SPEAKER_06: 37:51

Yep. Should I get a Roth IRA and all that shit? You know, like, you know, it's and it's always better to do that sooner than later. Definitely. One other thing is, you know, I one of my biggest things is I always wanted to have like my own shit business-wise. Right? Always thinking about shit in my head. What I've realized is that for me, once I start doing shit for like money, that's like a hobby or something, and I have to deal with people all the fucking time, that's when I lose the hobby. That's when I like I used I used to do photography, and I'm gonna be honest with you, I was really damn good at it. He was I was really damn good at it, but I got tired of doing fucking photography because of people. And it annoyed the fuck out of me. And that was me being not knowing how to uh tell people this is this, this is what you're getting. You're gonna see your basically you're gonna see everything after we're done. I'll show you some stuff, you know, if we're taking a shot and stuff like that. I really wasn't good at telling people how to stand, how to model. I just really wasn't into that. Most of my pictures that I was taking just hobby-wise was just honestly, I was taking landscaping stuff. I had a tripod and I was taking HDR photos. Not like, you know, nowadays cameras do the HDR for you. I was taking HDR photos at different, I was doing at negative three, zero, positive three, put those shits in the Photoshop and do the HDR combination, and I do the edit that I need to do to bring everything together, right? So, yeah, I I kind of just left photography. And I just said, I don't want to do this anymore. And plus, everybody and their mother, sisters, their mother's mother, their cousins on the other side of the world, cousins, cousins, became a fucking photographer. And I just said, nah, this internet. Like I bought, I had studio lights, I had backdrops. I had everything. Backdrop stands. Like, I still have that equipment. I still have cameras around his house. You know? So I just kind of left it. So, and then when I was thinking, I was like, oh yeah, well, I like cooking and smoking meat and stuff like that. But here where I am, it is fucking expensive. People aren't just gonna buy fucking barbecue by the pound without fucking sides. And the last thing I'm doing is cooking sides for people because I don't want to hear people's mouths about my sides. My sides are banging. I made great fucking food. I cook well. I just don't want to hear people's mouth shut up and eat. Right? So eat the king anime. Yeah, yeah. It's like I don't want to hear that shit. And then I'm like, okay, so the one thing that can stay consistent, and I know I have done this before is mushrooms. I know that works. I've done it before. I know the process. I know the steps to do it. And I mean gourmet mushrooms, people. Oyster, shiitake, you know, lion's mane. Yeah, shit like that. Come on. Cordyceps, shit like that. So I've done that before. I love the process. I love the process of kind of getting the green spawn, sterilizing the green spawn, buying the liquid culture, and then putting that with the green spawn, watching that mycelium and all that stuff grow within the mason jar, and then putting that to a substrate, and then just watching your mushrooms grow. I love that. I love the science behind it. And I like mushrooms. They're good shits.

SPEAKER_02: 42:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_06: 42:15

So that's that's the consistent thing, and that's kind of the route that I'm going to. But I guess my biggest thing was trying to do a lot at one time and not taking stuff in phases. You can't start, you just can't go into shit and just go.

SPEAKER_02: 42:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06: 42:36

It doesn't work like that. And that's that was my mentality about shit. Like, all right, we're gonna do this shit and we're just gonna go in crazy. You know what I'm saying? It's good, we're just gonna go in crazy, right?

SPEAKER_05: 42:47

Fall to the wall.

SPEAKER_06: 42:48

Yeah, can't do that. So, you know, now it's to the point where I have stuff laid out in phases to the point where, all right, we're gonna start off here. If we get customers or customers that come back, then we add on. Then we grow. Oh, I want to add microgreens to this thing. So we start growing microgreens. And then once we get into a process and a certain rhythm, cool. You know, so and the funny thing is, I know for a fact that people want the mushrooms because I got contacted. I I'm a part of a group on Facebook for the county, and I got contacted by a guy who put up who was doing a farmer's market, and he saw the post that I was doing mushrooms, and he said, Hey, do you have any mushrooms that you want to sell? And I told him, not right now, I haven't been doing that much. But he was like, Let me know when you want to, and we can put you into the market so you can sell your product and your produce and stuff. And I was like, okay, cool. So people want them. They do. You know, um, so that's that's always been something that's on my mind. Like I said, it's not a crazy amount that I need to start it. Unlike fucking barbecue, buying fucking pounds of fucking briskets. Like we talked about this. A hundred, almost a hundred bucks for full pack of brisket. Do you know how much I would have to charge by the pound in order to make a profit?

SPEAKER_02: 44:30

How much?

SPEAKER_06: 44:31

For that brisket. If I'm thinking correctly, and I wrote this shit down like almost a year ago, it would have to be at least almost 25.

SPEAKER_05: 44:44

Oh, I know somebody about that easily.

SPEAKER_06: 44:46

Yeah. 25, like 25 for like a pound, or like whatever. Right? Because it's because you have to, you have to make something off of it.

SPEAKER_02: 44:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06: 44:59

You know, the cheapest thing that you can do and make money is probably just going pork butts and just doing like pulled pork. But people love brisket. You know, so I've had everything laid out, thought about it, wrote it down, had plans for it and everything. If I can, you know, if I'm able to do it, I will do it. Shit, I got the big ass smoker and everything, might as well, shit. But for right now, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's too much money out of pocket. Too much. Um, so yeah. That was just something that I thought about when it came to like me trying to start something. And I don't want to like start a business and like tech or anything like that, just because I'm just like, I do that work.

SPEAKER_02: 45:51

What do you like for?

SPEAKER_06: 45:52

Yeah, I don't want to do, like, I don't want to do that shit. Even though that shit would definitely make the most money, but it's like, nah, I can't. When you sit there and I think about the shit that I know how to do and what I can do, and trying to think of the biggest thing was trying to think of a problem and being able, like, what can I do to solve this problem? And how can me thinking of trying to solve this problem, how can I profit off of making or solving this problem? That's the biggest thing.

SPEAKER_02: 46:30

And I know that people love mushrooms.

SPEAKER_06: 46:37

Like I said, that's the that's the one thing I know people love. Vegans, everything. It's a great substitute for a lot of stuff. So I know that's always a that's always a good thing. Yeah, man. Uh, when it comes to goals, I think, you know, having them is always good. I don't think just having a plan just in general, like you wanting to get a house, that shit is going to kill you. Like, when you if you find one and when you're signing that document and you have the lawyer and your realtor beside you, this is how I felt. I felt like I was selling my soul.

SPEAKER_05: 47:18

I don't have voice note.

SPEAKER_06: 47:20

Yeah. I feel like I was selling my soul. Like my realtor looked at me and said, Are you not happy about this? And I and I I and I sat there and I was like, oh my gosh, I am I am selling my soul right now. I'm happy that I did it. Because it's this is mine. Nobody can take that over me. And anybody that says, oh, buying a house is stupid, it's not really yours. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, go ahead and continue renting your shit and giving your money to some other motherfucker. Have fun.

SPEAKER_05: 47:57

I mean, it has its upsides and has its downside. It's one down.

SPEAKER_06: 48:02

For sure. For sure. Something breaks, you don't have to worry about it. Call your landlord, they get it fixed for you. Cool. Awesome. But I know I can paint my walls any color I want to. I can do whatever the fuck I want to do in my house. Why? Because my name's on the shit. I can do whatever I want with my land. Go, you go to a place that you rent and go ahead and start digging up a garden in somebody's backyard. What the hell are you doing? You don't own this shit. I remember seeing a video of a uh, it was this dude who was a uh HVAC guy, right? And this woman was renting this house, right? And he comes into the backyard and he's about to do what he needs to do, fix the, you know, air conditioning and stuff like that. And this woman comes out of the backyard. Who are you? And what are you doing back here? I'm here to fix the the AC. I was told that it was out. Your landlord called, yeah, that's cool, but you just can't come into my backyard like that.

SPEAKER_05: 49:11

And it's not your backyard. Like, oh, it reminds me of this one case I saw the other day where this girl was like renting out this Airbnb for a month, right?

SPEAKER_02: 49:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 49:24

And so when it's time for her to leave, the bitch is like, no, I'm not leaving. She was like, you're gonna have to kick me out, right? Because she had paid for the month and established residency there for over 30 days. Yeah. She the girl had to literally go to court. And it wasn't like they were giving her like a quick turnaround time. They this drew out for like months.

SPEAKER_06: 49:46

So this lady was just living in this girl, the woman that owned the Airbnb had to go to court to get her out of the Airbnb. Yes. Okay.

SPEAKER_05: 49:58

The court date was scheduled for like months, months out, right?

SPEAKER_02: 50:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 50:02

So then she just had to put up with this person living in her Airbnb, not paying a dime, and while she's having to pay like a mortgage on this Airbnb, or whatever the case may be. And so she got so fed up with it, she's like, I will pay you to leave if you sign this paper. So the girl signs the paper and was like, no, I'm not leaving. What?

SPEAKER_06: 50:31

I would have busted that door with everything that I had. I would have came in that bitch like Rambo. You better get the fuck out of my house. You better get the fuck out of my house. Who the fuck you think this is? I would have came in there with two dogs that weren't even mine. I knew they'd be vicious.

SPEAKER_05: 50:47

I mean, even in like my family, my uncle went to jail because he was trying to get somebody out of his house and they wouldn't leave. So my uncle's like, all right, cool, whatever. And like pulled out a gun and tried to shoot him. No, you're gonna get out of my house. You're gonna get out of my house. Like, I don't understand.

SPEAKER_06: 51:03

You're gonna get the fuck out of my house, man. Stop fucking playing with me. Like, it it's that's that's that whole like squatter's right type shit. Yes, right? And what the sad part is about that is that Airbnb didn't come to her defense.

SPEAKER_05: 51:19

No, because it was something like because she took the messaging off their platform. They were like, we're not liable, so we can't help you. So that was the item from them. That's all they had to say.

SPEAKER_06: 51:32

That's crazy. Nah, man. That's nah, nah. You get the fuck out of my house. But yeah. Anyway, man, you know, yeah. But if you haven't thought about your goals, think about those, take those into consideration, and start to do it. If you if you have a goal to go back into the gym, or you're trying to lose some weight, do it and stick with it. As soon as you start seeing changes in your body, you're gonna be like, shit. This shit works. It's gonna, it's gonna change your whole mindset. Trust me.

SPEAKER_02: 52:04

That's what happened to me.

SPEAKER_06: 52:05

Um, but yeah. Uh so I think that's all I have to say. We're gonna say happy early birthday to Lexi. Right. And I hope you have a great trip. Bring me back some cigars.

SPEAKER_02: 52:26

We'll see.

SPEAKER_06: 52:28

And hey, I already told you where I'm going.

SPEAKER_02: 52:31

I know.

SPEAKER_06: 52:31

I'm already gonna bring you back some shit. So, um, but yeah, happy birthday. I hope you enjoy your trip. I hope you're safe. It's it's gonna be a group, y'all. I hope. Yes.

SPEAKER_05: 52:42

Yes, and it's gonna be all inclusive, so I'm not in the middle of nowhere. I'll be fine. Thank you.

SPEAKER_06: 52:49

All right, all right, cool. Um, yeah, happy birthday. Hope you enjoy it, and I hope you have a good time. And um, yeah, we will talk to you guys in the next episode. Thank you for listening and make sure you follow us on all our socials. All right, bye.