Hello, welcome to the figuring it out podcast with the three co-hosts here Jake, Alex and
Leighton.
What's up?
I'm, I already pointed to us but I'm Jake, right next to me is Alex and then Leighton
is on the other end of the couch.
You guys want to start with introductions and then we can kind of go, we'll just like
work our way down.
Leighton you want to start?
Okay.
So, you know like, look at the camera, look at us, whatever but.
I mean what like.
You know like name, occupation and.
occupation, occupation, occupation, occupation, occupation, occupation, occupation, okay.
It's like going.
You know like school kind of stuff, just something like that, just basic information.
First day of school.
Yeah, first day of podcasting.
Oh, they grow so fast.
So like Jake's.
Or age as well.
You're going to keep interrupting me?
Yes.
Okay, cool.
This is going to be a lot of this podcast, him interrupting every single person.
Okay, wow, wow.
Yeah.
Pretty common with us.
It's pretty common, we talk over each other.
Anyway, like Jake said already three times, my name is Leighton, I work, I'm not going
to tell you who I work for, maybe someday, maybe someday.
Small company.
Yeah, a small company.
What?
Just later on.
Yeah, just later on.
But I do internet, and the company I work for also does electric, so it's internet and
electric.
And you're 20.
That's about it.
Yeah.
I'm older than you.
Oh, 20.
You're 20?
Not yet.
In a month, you're 20.
Yeah, birthday?
I don't want to say my birthday.
Astrological signs?
It's in December, I'll tell you that.
Oh, they know our signs.
December child.
Yeah, I'm a December child.
I will say it's not Christmas, thankfully.
Close to it though.
Pretty close.
Yeah, and I'm Alex.
I will tell you who I work for.
So I work for HEB, which is a grocery store, which is only in Texas.
It was actually recently rated like the number one grocery store in America.
Really?
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah, it's a pretty sweet place.
It's an awesome place to work.
I absolutely love it.
The prices are great too.
They are great, yeah.
I don't know about gas, but produce?
I don't know if there's prices to bring.
Gas is pretty nice compared to gas.
Gas is pretty nice compared to Kroger.
Yeah?
I want to use Kroger.
They want to, like with the HEB that you're at, when I went there to get gas last time
we hung out, I got gas and it was like 30 cents cheaper.
HEB is great.
That's like, I don't know.
He told... Oh, go ahead, sorry.
Sorry.
I'm also a student.
I'm going to a local community college in the area too, and I'm 20 years old.
Go on.
Well, I was going to say, I forgot to say what school, because I don't go to school.
So there, there's that.
Layden did not go to college.
He went straight into the workforce.
He went straight into the workforce through connections.
Exactly.
And I may, I may go back someday.
My company that I work for said they will pay for it if I decide to go.
It's good to get an associate's or something like that.
Yeah, something like that.
Just so you... It's the qualifications that you need to move up.
Yeah.
It really always looks good.
Exactly.
And then, I'm Jake.
I am 19 and I went to school for a little while.
I'm coming back to school this January, same school as Alex, and then I work for Discount
Tire right now.
You've worked for a lot of places.
Okay, so yeah.
He has worked for a lot of places.
Kind of an interesting story.
You're figuring it out.
Yeah, true.
We all are.
That's the point of this.
So... I can't believe that Jake wasn't the first one to say that.
Trust me.
I got it all out.
I got it all out two nights ago.
When we recorded two nights ago, and for two hours straight, I did figuring it out jokes
the entire time.
Oh, yeah.
I tied it back, and then I was... And then I also plugged it several times.
I'm too smooth with it, bro.
Don't worry.
It'll come to me.
It'll come naturally.
Back to the places you've worked.
Anyways, yeah.
So I've worked at Ace Hardware.
I've worked at a doggy daycare place called Camp Bow Wow, and I am now working at Discount
Tire.
I worked a day at a UPS warehouse, and I've done a little bit of photography on the side.
I've done a little bit of door dashing.
I've done a little bit of all sorts of stuff.
If we're talking about our past jobs, I worked for Best Buy before I worked for the company
I work at now.
I've only worked at HGB.
Yeah.
Jake.
Oh, actually, you know what?
We could also do... What do you want to do in the future?
What I want to do in the future?
Yeah.
Hopefully work for the company I work for now, but just move up.
I mean, honestly.
Well, you never know.
I mean, currently, I don't have any ambitions to move out of the company.
I love the company I work for.
They pay great.
The benefits are great, but I'd like to move up.
Yeah, so right now, you're an internet... You call yourself a technician, right?
It's a technician.
Yeah.
It's an internet technician.
We do.
You do internet installs in houses.
Yeah.
I go to people's houses, install their internet.
Mostly, I don't do as many installs.
In the beginning, I did, just to learn it, but now it's mostly repairs.
If your internet breaks, I'm the one to come to your house.
Working your way up, would that be going to more like management or something?
Yeah.
Either management.
We have supervisors that look over, that are over us to make sure we're doing quality
work is really... I mean, they do a lot of other stuff, but it's mainly quality work.
Is there a specific order to these, or do you... Are there branches where you can split
to a supervisor or something else?
It's more branches, because it's weird.
If you really want to get into how our company works, then it's going to be a weird ladder
to climb.
We'll save that for another time.
Well, it's a very weird ladder.
You're not going to get into a hierarchy of the company you work in.
It's a very weird ladder to climb, because after the position... Okay, now there is.
There literally a month ago, there didn't used to be.
Maybe less than a month ago or so.
To go higher than the supervisor that is over me.
There wasn't a higher position directly.
He had a boss, but it was somebody in a different department doing different things.
It's weird.
Like I said, it's a weird ladder to climb.
Alex, what about you?
I'm probably not going to stay at HEB for too long.
I'm really interested in aviation.
I got my private pilot certificate actually last January.
I would like to fly for American Airlines.
We're from North Texas area, so DFW is a big hub in our area, which is where Americans
are based from.
It's a local airline I could actually fly from.
I think it'd be super awesome though, if I could get a job as an HEB corporate pilot.
Yeah, that'd be pretty cool.
That'd be awesome.
I think I'll let you know, I chuckled a little bit just because you were like, North Texas
area?
We should have specified that we were trying not to be.
You didn't want Texas at all.
We're based in Texas and all this other stuff.
People on the internet are impressive when it comes to finding stuff.
They can literally look at the glint through the window behind us and be like, the sun's
shining at this point and I happen to see that Jake's wearing a watch.
I'm not wearing a watch, but you know what I mean.
I would identify your time zone maybe.
It would identify time zone and it would identify so much and people are frigging internet sleuths.
I think saying North Texas is fine.
They don't know where in North Texas.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
There's several million people here.
It's one of the largest, most populated parts of the state and America in general.
So we're keeping it in probably.
Yeah, don't worry.
I would say just North Texas.
That's why I don't know.
We'll figure it out.
See?
We'll figure it out.
This is our thing.
So anyways, back to the discussion hands that, you know, like pilot, you want to stay in
your company and then plan for now, plan for me.
I don't know.
You never know what opportunities are going to come out.
There's a lot going on right now.
Right now I'm going to school for HVAC.
I'm going to that's what you're going to be doing next semester.
Yeah, this coming semester in January, I'm going to be doing HVAC classes to get my certificate
and, you know, like a year span.
And then is that for commercial like residential commercial.
Okay.
And actually, no, it starts residential and then you do residential one, two, and then
it goes to commercial.
Oh, you kind of work your way up.
Yeah.
Okay.
So I'm getting my residential one and that's the certificate I need to get started.
And then from there, I'm going to just go into HVAC and work.
And the idea is to do that, make good money and then pay for my hobbies like photography,
motorcycles, that kind of stuff.
But recently, having gone to photo shoots with freelance photographers going to shooting
photos for church and stuff like that, I have kind of discovered that maybe I want to do
photography as a career and I may start taking photos at the discount I work at.
So you've already done a little bit of that, haven't you?
A little bit, not very much, but I haven't posted anything about it.
But when I do, I'm hoping that by doing that and tagging discount, they'll see that and
be like, hey, that's cool.
Would you like to take photos?
Because I like the idea of doing corporate photos, like working for a company like National
Geographic or something like that.
That'd be pretty fun.
But right now, at least, I don't want to have to make my own work because I feel like it's
going to put too much pressure on photography to be my to make a living.
And then I'm going to lose interest in it.
It's going to lose that magic behind it.
So that's the idea right now is HVAC.
That's what it shows up.
I don't want to throw a wrench in your...
I don't want to throw a wrench, but it sounds like after last night because we had...
We talked about it last night.
Do you have this conversation already?
Oh, yeah.
So I talked to my therapist yesterday.
I'm not his therapist.
He's not my therapist.
In case he ever listens to this or watches this video.
Because I'll tell him about it.
First listener.
Jake's therapist.
My therapist.
Howdy.
Let's go.
See, I'm sorting my problems out.
He's doing it.
I'm figuring it out.
Boom.
I was going to say that.
It's going to get sold so fast.
You stole that from me.
I was going to say that one.
Don't worry.
I'll figure it out.
There'll be more chances.
It works too well.
But anyways, what were we talking about?
Your therapist.
Oh, last night and the therapy.
So I talked to my therapist about it and I told him about the HVAC thing.
And he was like, let me write a number for you on this whiteboard.
He writes a number.
It's 115-120.
And I was like, is this supposed to be an equation or something?
What's the deal?
You wrote two numbers.
And he was like, just anything in that range.
And I was like, OK.
I guess they're big numbers.
He's like, yeah.
That's how hot it gets in addicts in Texas.
You know about this.
I could have told you.
I was like, I'm not doing that.
Actually if you work on older houses, our HVAC, a lot of HVACs in houses are in the
attic now, like the indoor unit.
But ours is actually in a closet.
Really?
Oh, that's so nice.
Well, yeah.
Yours is in your house.
It's still newer houses mostly.
Yeah.
That's where you go, I guess.
Yeah.
And that's the thing is, like, late in spend time in addicts, but it's only been like 10
minutes max.
I try not to go more than 10 minutes.
A lot of modern homes have the venting and everything set up mostly in the attic.
So the issue with that is I have to spend a long time in there.
That would surely be extended periods.
Yeah.
And for anybody watching the video right now, I'm the biggest out of the three of us.
I am the thicker build.
I'm warm.
I run hot.
Outside of my thicker build and everything, I just naturally run hot.
I'm sweating right now because it's hot as balls in here.
You're wearing jeans and a t-shirt and Leighton's chilling and probably how thick is that shirt?
Not thick.
Cotton.
Yeah.
But still, so you get the idea.
So I could not do that.
Summer, 98 degrees outside will have me on the floor crying and sweating.
That's a cool summer day.
I know.
And I'm dying on those days.
So I don't think I could do HVAC.
So I told Jake last night, I was like, yeah, you know it's really hot.
Like when you go up in the attic and I don't know, it's probably 130, 140 in there and
you come out and it's a hundred degrees outside.
Feels cool.
Yes.
On a summer day and you come out of the attic and you're like, wow, it's cold out here and
it's a hundred degrees outside.
I've experienced that just moving boxes out the attic.
That's like 30 seconds or something.
Being in our attic, I shot a video.
You've seen it, Alex.
It was a Rainbow Six Seeds joke.
Oh yeah.
I'm circulating for a while and the joke is it's these guys, it's people that just get
in the weirdest positions and then they play the phone buzzing noise.
And it's like, Dokubee's calling, but I've got the best spot ever right now.
And it's in literally, they're like wedged between count, like cabinets and walls and
they're peeking a corner with like a Nerf gun.
And so I got my airsoft gun and I got in my attic and there's a hole right next to like,
literally it's, it's so perfect.
There's a hatch that we use to get into our attic and there's a hole right next to it.
Like someone blew it out with a sledgehammer.
Wow.
Rainbow Six in real life.
I have a video of my whole, my whole garage in the frame and right up in the very top
of the frame is the orange muzzle of my airsoft gun.
And it's, and it's the noise playing and it cuts to me in the attic and I'm laying down
with my airsoft gun looking through the hole and it's a, and it's, you know that, but I
was in there for, I don't know, probably I want to say no less than 10 minutes and I
got out and I was sweating my balls off.
I was like, I never want to get up there again.
I had also inhaled like half of our insulation.
So I took a dust mask up there next time I went, but I, it was miserable.
I was miserable up there.
I was like, this is terrible.
That was pretty recent too.
It's like October, right?
Yeah.
Just turn November.
It was cooler earlier too.
I was trying like late December, early October is when I did that.
Not December, September, late September, early October is when I shot that video.
It was warmer than that.
Yeah.
It was a little warmer though.
It wasn't like hot though.
I mean, weather right now is still in the same area though.
Yeah.
Except for this last week.
So anyways, let's kind of get a wrangle on the direction we're going because we're already
rambling.
A little bit.
This is your fault.
You're the one who started talking about it.
I'm just saying.
Look.
I was trying to give context to the attic thing.
But I definitely gave maybe too much context.
But move on.
Yeah.
Boom.
Right there.
That's where I'll cut it.
Now they know you cut.
Okay.
What's your point?
Okay.
It's their fault.
They missed out.
Keep going.
You're rambling again, Jake.
All the Sam's out there.
We hate you.
That's an inside joke.
That's a joke.
Oh yeah.
That's another thing I forgot to mention.
We're going to have a fourth co-host every now and then.
It's going to be our fourth friend Sam.
We're not going to consider him a guest because he'll probably be on more.
I mean, is a guest considered like once or twice?
I guess he's a recurring guest.
At the same time, he's one of the boys too.
This is like a boys podcast.
It would have been four all the time if his schedule wasn't so busy.
He's in college.
He's on college.
On college for college.
On quick context, he'll still do an intro, but he's the only one out of four year college
out of the four of us right now.
He's a communications major as well and he's got his own stuff that he's doing at that
place.
So he'll have a lot more to talk about and usually episodes that have him on it will
either give him more time to talk or we will kind of just let him lead the conversation.
We'll kind of interview him maybe.
Yeah, a little bit.
Kind of let him catch up with most of the stuff then we'll kind of continue the conversation
from there.
So first episode is a big deal.
Now we've got introductions out of the way.
We can kind of sit here and think about the fact that we've started a podcast now.
We're sitting on a couch in front of a camera with a mixer in front of us and podcast mics.
And a laptop.
Professional.
It's pretty big.
So I guess me and Leighton would be the ones to talk about setting stuff up.
But Alex, since you were kind of out of the loop with that, what's been your thought process
about starting this podcast?
I mean, I've been pretty busy the past week.
We kind of started this whole podcast over like the period of one week.
We've been talking about it for a while, but you know, things really got going, got together
over the past week and I've been sticking busy.
So yeah, I missed out on a big majority of it.
I felt bad leaving you out of the setup stuff.
We were going to do this today anyway, so it was kind of just like, you know, let's
so far the only setup I actually saw was like plugging in all our stuff like the physical
setup.
Yeah, true.
A lot of it was fine.
A lot of it was late and I playing with sliders and stuff while we were recording.
Yeah, you guys tried out our whole kit.
You got here.
Well, except the camera stuff.
We got that.
That's true.
Yeah, I have the camera.
You got most of that.
You were going to say something.
I was just going to say, I don't even remember.
Oh, sorry.
Wow.
Just going to knock my hand away.
I'm just trying to hold your hand.
Don't worry.
I'm not gay.
They're going to think you are now.
No, don't worry.
We're all straight.
It's great.
Maybe that's what we're figuring out.
You're getting us off our topic again.
What?
Yeah, I know.
I'm sorry.
It's the setup of our podcast.
I remember what I was going to say.
I was going to say that the only thing I can talk about setup is going to the store and
buying all the equipment because 90% of the stuff I bought and went out.
Yeah, you are the one making the money in this group.
You're definitely the breadwinner.
We work in the split at least a little bit.
We still are.
That's not a worry is that you're going to pay for everything.
No, no.
I had to go to Guitar Center to get that mixer and all that.
You said that like it was such a painful experience.
It kind of was because of how far away I live.
It was 40 minutes, one direction, dude, and then 40 minutes back.
Talk about giving away location.
Seriously.
No, I didn't say I.
You went to a guitar center.
You were specifically 40 minutes away from it.
Oh, yeah.
That's really.
Oh, Alex, you said North Texas.
Okay.
There's 1.5 million people here.
Stop putting together this stuff for them.
They would have anyway.
My gosh, it's the internet.
Yeah, true.
So they knew we were just not.
Cut.
We're not allowed to talk at all about any building we've ever been in.
You understand me?
North Texas is the only place.
You giving away HEB and you giving away.
HEB is throughout the entire state of Texas.
And this town is a nationwide franchise.
Yeah.
The company I work for is not.
It is one specific location.
It's generally across a couple of counties.
So that's why we're leaving it out.
Just like the college Sam goes to, the college we're going to.
And well, he's going to.
I'm going.
We're stuffed to cut.
No, I was going to give them a hint I shouldn't have because if I put it together for them.
Anyway, continuing with our conversation of the syrup of the podcast, you and I actually
did a little bit of brainstorming.
Yeah.
With over dinner.
Yeah.
Over ramen.
We also had our little Google Docs session.
He and I goofed off on Google Docs.
We tried out some AI podcast ideas and stuff.
We aren't really using any of them.
A lot of the setup stuff was fun to play around with.
I forgot what I was going to say.
Though I did ask you what you were thinking about starting it.
Layton, what was your, how were you feeling while we were kind of in the process of starting
everything?
I heard about it.
I think as soon as y'all told me is like when it really took off because I was like, okay,
you want it by this deadline.
Let me go get it.
Like, you got on it.
I literally, as soon as they told me about it, I was like, that's a good idea.
Jake and I were talking.
Yeah.
I got the call two days ago and it was, Hey, I got a mixture, but it's a little bigger
than a little bigger than the one we had planned.
Oh, okay.
Though I, so again, fledged, you know, I just got a text.
Hey, Alex, go to your best buy.
Pick up a microphone.
Yeah.
I literally ticked.
I was like, cool.
If we use the room in your house, we're coming over.
You don't, I get it.
I'm approaching your location rapidly.
Rapidly.
No.
Um, it was, yeah, for y'all, it must've been easy.
Yeah.
I didn't have to do very much.
Yeah.
You didn't do anything.
You guys got on it.
You, you set up everything.
You organized us.
We, you know, got things in motion.
Yeah.
And I had, I had looked at the website that was like, it was just a step-by-step thing
that ran you through, you know, the process of starting, like what you need to figure
out.
Is that where you got that stupid little thing from the, uh, on Google docs, the little,
the mixer that we were going to, yeah.
Yeah.
That's what it suggested.
Okay.
Well then I don't know.
It was something bigger and more expensive.
No, I didn't want to.
I was okay with that.
It wasn't gear that they were suggesting specifically for three co-hosts.
It was just like, that's a good starter one.
Okay.
Cause I went into this store that will not be named apparently.
Um,
I'm not cutting it out.
Oh, you're not cutting it out.
Okay.
I went into the guitar center.
We talked for so long about all that.
You just mentioned it's guitar center.
Well, you said you cut it.
Well, now you can live close to it.
Guitar centers once again is a nationwide franchise.
Is it?
I didn't know that.
I mean, I guess, I don't know.
Maybe.
Oh, well, you see, you don't know.
I assume most states have guitar centers.
It's cause of Alex saying what he said earlier.
So.
Whatever.
Anyway.
Continuing.
Moving on.
You guys are so, and here I thought I was the ADD one.
This is so frantic.
Jake was the one, I blamed Jake for starting our whole privacy thing.
Cause I would have been fine giving away a bit more information.
But Jake was like, Oh, I'm looking to say North Texas.
Can I finish my story now?
Go ahead.
Okay.
Wow.
I got confused.
Anyway, I went into guitar center and asked the guy.
I was like, what is it called?
It was like a zoom.
It was a zoom T4, P4, something like that.
No, it's not that one.
It's not that one.
It was the one that was originally.
It was the zoom pod track.
This is a zoom LA.
Okay.
Anyway, it was that one.
And I was like, I asked the guy.
I was like, uh, so I'm trying to start podcast.
Is this going to be able to handle four mics?
It has four inputs.
He was like, no shot, no shot.
It has the four inputs, but it can't process it or something.
Not enough power.
He was like, maybe not for these mics.
Yeah.
He was like, do the mics need power?
I was like, I think so.
I don't know.
He was like, they probably need power.
So no, not a chance.
I was like, okay, what do I need then?
And he was like, he recommended one option and I took that option.
That's what happened.
It's working pretty good.
I can't.
It's great.
Okay.
Yeah.
I didn't know the story.
It was literally four times the cost of the other one.
So that's why he recommended it.
Yeah.
So making some commission on that.
Maybe.
Yeah.
Just a little bit.
Yeah, probably.
You know, he was helpful though.
Any tips?
Yeah.
He was super helpful though.
So shout out to that guy.
Guitar Center.
Yeah.
Guitar Center employees.
Shout out to all the Guitar Center employees.
I love you.
Yeah.
You guys are great at the Sam's though.
We hate the Sam's.
I forgot what he was probably named Sam at Guitar Center.
They don't hate any Sam's.
I hate Sam's.
It's specifically him.
If you come out with any backlash at us, go for Jake.
Don't worry.
Cancel me.
Not them.
The joke with Sam is our fourth co-host guest guy.
His name is Sam's.
That's why we keep saying we hate Sam's.
I've got a running joke that I hate him, which I do.
I don't like him at all.
I didn't even want him on the podcast.
Except for I got-
Specifically between you two.
I got you to admit the other day that you liked him.
We all love you, Sam.
We didn't talk about that part.
I was assuming you'll probably watch this because you're a good friend, but you probably won't.
We hate Sam's.
We probably will, but you probably won't.
We do.
Move on, please.
Don't worry.
I said I was assuming he will, but he probably won't.
For real though, all the Sam's out there, I do love you.
I promise.
We're good to Sam's.
But not in a weird way.
Did that need to be specified?
Yes.
I feel like that didn't need to be specified.
Because some people out there will be like, oh, he loves me.
This is more rambling.
It is very much more rambling.
We'll get better at this.
Yeah.
We'll figure it out.
I can't talk.
We'll figure it out podcast, you know, where you can find it on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple
Music.
We're going to be on everything?
No, that's just those three.
I was about to say, or anywhere else you find your podcast, like the rest of the podcast
you put.
I actually don't know any other things.
Google Podcast is getting taken down, apparently.
Really?
They're moving to YouTube Music because that's like, YouTube Music, it's YouTube, but without
videos.
Leave it to Google to cancel another service.
Yeah, seriously.
No, it is still canceling.
I was going to say it's not like canceling.
They're just moving it to another service that's like one central thing, YouTube Music,
but no, it's the...
Crip Stadia.
Yeah.
Bro, Stadia was pretty cool.
I actually use that thing, man.
All right.
So I guess I never really answered my part of the question, the base question that led
to all of this, which was, you know, what were you thinking when we started this?
I'm so glad you remembered that.
What's your opinion?
See, that's the thing.
As long as we have the base question that we asked that led us to...
Oh, it's fine because we can keep moving on.
We can just cycle back.
Go back to...
I hope we have more because I got nothing.
I'm figuring it out.
That was not intended.
That happened and I realized it after I said it.
Okay.
We shouldn't have made our podcast name jokes or like something that we can joke about like
that.
Just jokes.
No, it's not even...
It's jokes.
Jokes.
Welcome to the jokes podcast.
Speaking of...
Your end of setting up our podcast, actually, you made some pretty cool cover.
The camera hasn't even been able to see that yet.
Yeah, true.
Over here.
Yeah, you were supposed to put it behind us.
It's pretty cool.
We were going to hang it up there.
So this is...
I mean, I just wrote it with Sharpie.
Pretty sick.
It's frantic, it's quick, and it's fat and ugly and that's the point.
I thought it looked beautiful.
I love the kind of like hand drawn look.
Yeah.
And that's cool.
I like the handwriting scribbled look and I think it fits really well with the energy
and the kind of theme of the podcast.
I have to make a copy for the digital cover.
As it's quick, it was kind of like scribbled because we hadn't thought of anything yet
and we're still planning as we go.
Spur of the moment.
We're figuring things out.
You should say it louder.
I should say it louder.
Yell into the mic.
Well, because I didn't want to interrupt you, but...
I interrupt.
Thank you.
That's so sweet.
I'm not sweet.
Interrupt me next time.
I'm actually thoughtful.
Be a terrible person.
No, I'm thoughtful.
I'm going to interrupt you right now.
Thank you, Alex.
You're welcome.
You waited to interrupt us.
That's not interrupting.
Pure chaos.
I interrupted you last minute whenever you were talking.
Mulan, please.
Anyways, so starting up the podcast, I've been wanting to start a podcast for a while
and talking to you, Alex, over dinner, we had talked about a food podcast originally
and then we were like, no, because the music that restaurants play is going to get copyrighted.
We're going to get copyright strike on the first episode and then it's only going to
go downhill from there.
So then after talking to you guys, I've just been super excited for this the entire time.
Pretty cool.
I've had the idea before and I've brought it up.
I remember bringing it up with you guys beforehand before we all kind of got into the college
stage and we were more in high school.
We discussed YouTube and podcasts several years ago, actually.
And so I do remember doing that, but this is like now it's the time to act.
When I like these past few months, especially, I've been wanting to do something new.
I've been wanting to like, you know, try new things.
I've been wanting to like grow as a person, figure out what I like doing.
And this was like top of the list.
I was, you know, let's let's do this.
And especially now I was like, I followed through with it this time.
I was first time we've actually done that.
We've had tons of ideas before about your podcasts, about YouTube, about, you know,
gaming stuff about what I still want to do.
Gaming footage that we recorded.
Oh, yeah.
Stuff.
And we've never used it.
Hours of it.
We have hours.
We have footage from the trip we went on to North Texas to East Texas.
We didn't film that in a way that was really ready to upload.
It was more just like, yeah, but it was like, we still have it.
We can dash cam style.
Yeah.
We can edit it and everything like that and put together.
But we never did.
And so it was more like montage B footage.
Yeah.
Kind of like that.
And this is like the first thing that we've properly followed through on production wise.
And so I'm hyped for it.
We saw the gear and I was like, dude, this is real.
We got to commit to editing now and uploading.
Ready to go crazy.
And that's the thing.
I think editing is going to be fun once I actually put the effort into learning it.
I can't.
Sorry.
I mean, I would, but I've tried editing before.
I never fall through.
Hey, that's not a problem.
I think part of that is the photo editing side of things.
That helps.
Like we're used to sitting behind.
That's usually color though.
You have to like trim footage and audio.
Yeah.
But to a degree, you know, the time consuming idea of sitting at your desk and listening
or watching something over and over again.
Kind of used to that.
Yeah.
The idea.
So yeah.
And I guess that's, that's something I guess that can lead into our next topic is interest
in hobbies.
Oh, boom.
There you go.
Transition.
I'm figuring it out.
He's going to be leading us a little while just until we all get a handle on it.
Jake has our ideas.
Yeah.
I'm the content creator guy.
It's it's it's it is.
I have an Instagram.
Oh yeah.
You do and you get hobbies.
Yeah.
Okay.
We're going to work our way down again.
But the opposite direction is actually starting with you.
Sure.
We'll do that.
I think I was trying to change it up.
We are letting the one that talks the most talk first.
Okay.
I'm just just get started.
Get started.
Okay.
Anyways, so I like photography.
Thank you.
I didn't talk perfect.
Good job.
I'm proud of you.
Hello.
Other person.
Was that it?
Truly, you just like photography.
That's what Jake does.
I like photography.
I'm starting now.
You're going to stop.
I'm a photographer as well.
We're filming on my camera, actually.
Yeah.
We like doing photo shoots together.
Canyon M50.
Kind of mentioned that.
Mark two.
Wow.
Correct.
Fancy the new one.
Er.
What?
New er.
Yeah.
It's really as fast as I have a new processor in this one.
Jake and I can nerd about, nerd out about photography stuff for hours.
What's your shutter speed on that photo?
Whoa.
What ISO did you use?
It's kind of grainy.
Oh my gosh.
Did you choose the AI denoise feature on that?
Did you crop that?
It looks a little rotated.
I can see that you changed the vibrant, the vibrant slider instead of the saturation.
Why'd you choose to do that?
Did you put contrast to 50?
Oh my gosh.
Is this bit going to get old?
Yes.
Okay.
Why'd you do that instead of the normal one yet?
Apparently not.
Okay.
I'm done.
Okay.
Where are the photographers?
I've done a little bit of video.
I've done one video.
Let me say that.
It was really fun though.
I'd be happy to do some more editing with this as well.
Yeah.
That's pretty cool.
My turn.
On to you, Layton.
Finally.
I'm just kidding.
Chill.
He's going to be leading us for the most part because we're not good at this.
Finally.
No, I'm the one who's talking a lot.
What a switch in personality and attitude.
I love to switch it up on you.
Stop.
Anyway.
I really like technology.
That's part of the reason I got into doing the internet thing.
The person that I knew that helped me get into it.
Good job.
Cut.
Cut it out.
Beep.
We'll have to learn how to do that now.
I'm going to have to get used to not saying the name because I say it so often.
Layton, your turn.
Oh, yeah.
Trayden, what are your interests and hobbies?
My interests are technology.
Yeah.
That's about it.
You like gaming a lot.
You're a big gamer.
Yeah, you're a big gamer.
You build computers too?
Yeah, I've built a lot of computers actually.
You helped me build my computer.
I helped you build your computer.
You helped my brother build his computer.
After he messed it up.
The laptop.
We're actually using was Layton's.
I bought it from him last year.
Yeah, true.
The laptop.
He's the one that did all the research for all this tech stuff.
Yeah, you bought our equipment here.
Mixer, all the wires and everything.
Yeah, true.
Like I said, I'm into technology.
That's why I got into doing what I do for a living, which is internet.
I guess you could say another one of my hobbies is flying.
I haven't done a lot.
Yeah, I was going to say.
You're not going to talk about.
I can't think about that.
I'm going to talk about photography.
Yeah, we're both into photography, but flying is the most unique thing that you do.
One person here can fly a plane and.
One person can open a round of bottles.
One person can fly a plane and one person can open the boxes on the side of the road.
You can cut off people's internet.
That's not the only thing I can do.
That's the, what's the cod thing where you're like, I think it's a cluster strike or no,
it's a cruise missile where you pull it out the back.
That's you cutting people's internet.
You better listen to this podcast.
Relating is going to kill your internet.
I guess anyone with a truck could do that too.
Just run into the box.
They just heard that line is already listening to the podcast.
I said, anybody that just heard me say that is already listening to the podcast.
So I guess it's kind of redundant.
Yeah, you're speaking to the people who aren't listening.
You there, your sounds traveling across the world.
I'll figure it out.
Sound waves.
Yep.
I guess another thing I like too, though, besides that, do you actually, hold on, I
have a question.
I have a question.
So do you keep track of your time in the 360 degree, even if they just take you from ear
Have a problem
to ear streaming?
Yes.
That sounds saying it.
Yup.
I mean that's another question.
What's coming Mount Washington over in New Hampshire? It's the most dangerous mountain weather wise in the United States
Wow, it used to have the highest recorded wind speed in the world
I think it was at least like ground level or because you know, it's a mountain. It's up high so it gets higher winds
But I think Australia actually stole that record not too long ago. Oh wow, which is kind of funny
Australians
That was a cool hike though. Oh my gosh, I would love to do that dude
Climbing Mount Beer Stat with my dad in Colorado
It's in this big mountain range of what's considered 14 years
Oh, yeah, yeah
And it's just it's this whole ridge of mountains and there's this there's this one trail that goes across like three different peaks
That you can hike and people did that but me and my dad hiked to the top of Mount Beer Stat and it was amazing
I hiked up Pikes Peak, which is another one of the 14ers. I didn't go down. We drove down
Yeah, we've been a Pikes Peak countless times cool, but we've never hiked up it like that. I've never been I've been to Colorado
And I've been very like that. We all take late into the mountains. Yeah, you gotta take me anywhere, please
Yeah, I would be awesome. Yeah, I want to go see stars
Oh, dude, you have no idea we got go to Big Ben, dude. Yes. I got some amazing Milky Way photos in Big Ben
Another place I've been to I hiked Emory Peak. They're a high speaking Big Ben Wow
Yeah, I guess yeah Alex got so Alex is really the
Really the star of the show with it comes to like diversity and interest
I mean, I guess you could say that all of us like off-roading but Alex is the only one that has a car right now
You you had fun. I had late. I had a truck super cool ramming
He got the cool off-road tires on it. You were gonna get like maybe a bumper and some lights
Maybe a winter sunny he ended up getting a Tesla instead though. It's kind of disappointment
He's a big fun of him for it. Sometimes he does he know not sometimes literally each time every time I seen you
Exactly that's what he says
For all your friends, yeah
I guess I've seen the hobbies and interest section. Yeah, I mean what else what was your next topic idea?
I'm really know I was gonna I was going through I was gonna double back and say my interest cuz I did that as
A joke and then you guys ran with it. I was like, you know what whatever we'll commit to it
All right, go back then I like photography and media mainly media stuff is as I'm as I'm discovering more about it
I love video like what do you mean by media? Well kind of just like I should say digital me
They job. Whoa, deja vu my boy deja vu. I have seen this place before higher on the streets
Sorry, that's not me out of it. But um, I do a lot I do a lot of digital media and stuff like that
Turning up the fan is hot in here. My gosh, please
But yeah, a lot of the other stuff I do did media wise is
Photography, I want to get into videography. We're doing audio stuff now
No, just a lot of that kind of stuff. I've done a lot of art
One other thing we actually have cool lights that you guys haven't even seen yet. We've got a
M. Oh, they're on they're on and up. It's just that that's how bright they get. They're not very bright
I guess so, you know that it's too bright otherwise
but um
Anyways, I've done a lot of art stuff. I've drawn so much. I grew up doing art
So I've done a lot of that but you are not this yeah, that's another one of your hobbies
Yeah, you know some cool on I've drawn a lot. I've I'm mainly pencil and paper stuff right now, but I have
A bit of dab I've dabbled in digital stuff a lot of our profile pictures right now are he did some sweet profile pictures
For us almost based off our personalities. Yeah, it's a lot of cartoonish stuff
I I drew comics for a little while nothing serious, but just for the fun of it the profile picture
I use at work is the one is it that yeah, that's awesome
Yeah
But I guess that's as far as I go. It's just really media in general like I did
What's it called I was in the yearbook
Class I guess for middle school. So I did a little bit of journalism. I did the photography for that
I'm doing stuff for our church right now for photography and I'm getting more into the media stuff with that like audio mixing and all
That's really I did live cameras as well for that. If you go to church you want to volunteer do like text stuff
I do media
I did it for a little while actually. Yeah, we've so we've all dabbled in media stuff a little bit
But uh, your your siblings are kind of musical too. Yeah, like pianos guitars. Like you play any I
Am the least musically talented person you will ever meet. I've never heard you play any and I that's her for a reason
though most I'll ever do is sing and even then I I don't have the voice of a singer by any means so
My sister and my brother both play
Are well my sister and my dad play guitar my sister's
Every instrument you can imagine though to a degree. She's not know this well not every piano
Yeah, she does she does like piano guitar piano guitar ukulele. She did a little bit of electric guitar with my dad
I've heard it in the background. That's my brother. Yeah, he because we share the room. That's why you hear it
he's he's in marching band at school and he
He plays the trombone. Oh, it's a trombone. Well, he did rent a trumpet and he plays that in his free time
But that's the first thing that he's ever like really taken seriously. That's cool in this kind of stuff
So that's what that's what they did. I have a ukulele. I can only play one chord. It is C
I would love to learn to play the ukulele. It sounds
I only took piano for like a year and maybe it was it was either six months or a year
I don't remember like second grade or something. No
I don't think so. No, I didn't know you know, I know it was later than that. Yeah, it was way more recent
Okay, I guess that's a topic and a half right there how we know each other. Yeah. Well, let me finish my thought first
Oh, I thought you were done. You both paused
Alex interrupt me trying my best here late in my bad. Sorry
continuing
And there we go again. No, uh all I was gonna say is just don't ask me to play anything on the piano
Cuz I don't know that's fair. So this is just you know
final kind of like nail in the coffin type thing and I only remembered it because I
Recently got a target that let me shoot archery again. So I was gonna ask you guys any
sports growing up
Baseball. Yeah, I was never really a sports person. My mom liked tennis. So by extension I kind of did too
It's pretty fun once you can actually get into it. Yeah, I played golf a lot when I was younger
I took like serious golf lessons. I can actually get pretty decent if I warm up. It's pretty fun
I like doing I played almost every sport not literally I played the majority the main ones except for football
My dad didn't want me playing football. That's fair, but I played
soccer I played
Basketball you and I took a year of fencing together as well. We did that
Sam did fencing for a lot longer
I wish I'd been able to take it longer dude. Yeah, that would've been cool
But baseball was my main thing for a while and I want to say I did it up until I was
11 I think 10 or 11. It was about time. Yeah, and then I stopped because
The plates in my heels started growing and it caused me a lot of pain when I was running and standing on them for a
Long time and the doctor said it wouldn't get better until like it would be something I had to grow out of and it
Probably wouldn't stop until I was 18 is what he said
So because of that I kind of stopped having interest and just my last year baseball was really rough
So I just stopped that sucks
Yeah, I guess I did I did baseball in like middle school and stuff and I I really enjoyed it
I still I still enjoy baseball every now and then Sam was a big baseball player Sam was a really big
His whole family was there's still sporty people dad kind of like raised him and his little brother especially to play
Baseball and his older brother. I guess I forgot that did he do baseball too. I think their whole family
Yeah, they're all sports. My brother's doing like
sport it's like
Sports medicine or something right now in college. So he's pursuing that like big time but
Yeah, I did I did
Baseball then and then in high school I did archery and I shot competitively for three years doing that
I lettered freshman year and then so I still have my letter jacket at home and I wear it still because it's my favorite
thing ever but
Yeah, at some point I just stopped but I thought about that because I recently got a target and I've just been shooting in
My backyard and it feels so good. I've wanted to shoot a bow again
It's and I honestly I want to go bow hunting
especially now that I'm older because I used to I used to be iffy about hunting because it was you know, like
Oh, what about what about it's a mom?
It's yeah, like I don't want to do that and part of it is just that like I didn't want to kill something
But now that I'm older and I kind of think about it now that you're older killings. Okay killings. Okay, I
Do a violent video game? Yeah, there's too many violence
This is what Call of Duty does to you. Yes. So anyways now I now that I think about it a lot more a
Actually now that I've kind of grown a little bit more spiritually as well
I realized that God has put animals on the planet for us to to like you're allowed to eat animals
Yeah, you're allowed to eat animals. He that's why they're there
It's for us to use into like as resources and then on top of that. It's the idea that
You know as long as I actually make use of the animal and it serves a purpose and it's not senseless killing then
It is it is okay for something like that to happen kind of give you a respect as well exactly and that's the thing
I I it is a little bit more of a
Growing respect for nature and everything like that and the animals that live in these environments
As I you know, if I were to go hunting
I've never still haven't gone hunting but if I were to go hunting it would be I would be
I think I would do that kind of thing where I like kind of like sit down next to them like thank you
You know kind of thank the animal. Yeah, that's something that like they put that's their life that they just gave up so that I could
I could have food or something like that
So in the book of Genesis God killed animals. Yeah
animals plural plural plural
Yes, thank you for the close of yes. Yes. I think it was like here or something like that. It was it was a
Specified yeah, it wasn't specified
Bestified what? Yeah, it wasn't specified. What I thought he used leaves. Oh, no, that was when they ate the fruit
Yeah from the tree and then they covered themselves with leaves. Yes
And that's why God may close for them. Yeah, I know the skins of animals. Yeah
Yeah, I guess it wasn't specified if it was deer. I just for some reason always thought it would make sense. Yeah
It was probably not it sounds like I mean you need a lot of rabbit hides to make a shirt
Well, I mean you can make like a nice bikini for you or something like that
No one said it was like full-on clothes like we're wearing here. Yeah, I mean just like the same as like underwear
It's like the leaves. Yeah, maybe an underwear. I just like stitch some leaves together
These are Hanes
Hey, that's why it's called fruit of the loom there you go Wow, that would actually be so comical if it was yeah
Yeah, all right. So I'd say this is a pretty good first episode good recording and everything like that
Man, you to trim a little bit of it down. Oh, yeah rambling. There's gonna be probably cut this down
We're out what 51 minutes can probably cut it down to half an hour or so. I think well, that's the thing
We don't we also don't have to cut it down because a lot of this is gonna be like important a lot of there's definitely
a lot of and that's the thing is that there also is a natural progression to
Keep the flow. Yeah, so that's the thing if you cut too much out
It can easily lose that flow can come become choppy and that kind of stuff
Yeah, so could be jarred when you get better at our talking
Yeah, and that's the idea at least thoughts at the end. We're still figuring it out and that genuinely is not a joke is not a joke
We are this we none of us have experience doing podcast at all
All of us have the experience of talking but never behind a mic in behind headphones chat with each other
Yeah by in front of a camera with a mixer and everything
We don't have that kind of stuff experience and so we're learning as we go because that's the point of this podcast
to share with other people the
Experiences of three sometimes four young men who are still figuring out their lives ahead of them
Yep, just what we should have said at the beginning the scut with the podcast is actually here we go
There's our intro at the very end people have to listen for the most important. There you go
Yeah, I think the dog agrees with us. Yeah, yeah
That's my neighbor maybe should we guess I want for you know, yeah
It would be awesome to have guests on here dogs very loud
You know the funny thing like I one of my co-workers has expressed interest in possibly doing a guest appearance cool
He's super funny. I think that'll be good make it good
So yeah, I guess that's that's the end of the first episode as we as we kind of wrap things up
You guys got any last words? No, thanks for watching. Yeah, I guess so. Yeah, that's listening
This has been Layton Alex and Jake
and first episode of figuring it out podcast, thank you so much for listening as we
as we kind of learn as we go as we figure it out, I hope that we
The hopes are high for this going forward that will will be able to grow and we'll be able to continue to share the livelihoods
Of these of three young guys sometimes for your experiences as we as we figure it out
All right signing off. Yeah, and that's a close