Hello, welcome back to the figuring out podcast.
This is the second episode.
Second.
With Jake, Alex and Layton.
Your new favorite co-host ever.
Co-host, I thought we were all in this together.
Yeah, that's why we're called co-hosts,
not just like the host and the two guests.
Okay, okay.
That's why it's called co-hosts.
We're all in this together.
I like Alex, you should know.
We're all figuring it out.
We're all in this together.
Copyright.
I can't remember the rest of the words.
Neither can I.
Alex is a pilot, he should know this, co-pilot.
So let's start this off by saying that, wow.
Let's start this off by saying that
first episode was a little bit of a mess.
All over the place.
It was all over the place.
I introduced y'all like twice
before we actually did intros,
and then I asked you guys to give you names.
So it was kind of all over the place.
It was kind of a-
A little bit.
We plan to be a bit more organized this time.
We're gonna try, but-
We're gonna try.
We're gonna figure it out.
You know, okay, wow.
Sorry, I can't help it.
You don't have to react to it,
just keep going.
I was gonna try and be a little inspirational there,
but it's not gonna work,
because when I try and be inspirational,
it just doesn't work.
Yeah, you're right.
You should stay away from that.
Yeah.
So anyways, first episode was a little messy.
We didn't know, we don't, you know,
we're totally new to this.
We have no experience podcasting whatsoever.
I've never intro'd an episode before that,
and you guys have never talked on a podcast
before that either.
So we're all new to this.
It was all kind of everywhere.
But this episode should be better.
And following it, it kind of had a serious tone to it,
you know?
It kind of had a, it wasn't as fun.
It was formal introduction, you know?
Yeah, kind of establishing who we are and everything.
So I think this episode is the fun one.
Is lighthearted, but formal a thing?
Because I feel like that's the best way
to describe the last episode.
I call myself professionally friendly when I'm at work.
Business casual.
Yeah, business casual.
Yeah.
Oh yeah, you started singing it,
and I was gonna say it, High School Musical.
What do you guys think of it?
I've never seen it, never heard the books,
no, nothing about it.
There's books?
Yeah.
Of High School Musical?
I'm pretty sure.
Bro, when I was in first grade,
I went to a private school.
There was a little bookshelf in my classroom,
and I think it had High School Musical books.
Really?
Yes.
Wow.
That's interesting.
That's incredible you remembered that.
Good to know that that exists.
I'm gonna have to go on Amazon and find these.
I actually, okay, what, Leighton, you were gonna say something?
I was just gonna say,
I kind of talked over you doing it,
but that's incredible he remembered that in first grade.
Yeah.
I can't remember anything for people who-
I can't remember anything since like 12th grade.
Yeah.
We have horrible memories here, but I remember-
Yeah, it's bad.
Leighton, did you ever watch High School Musical?
I think I did, I'm pretty sure I did.
Closet 2000's Childhood.
It was very, I don't remember hardly anything about it,
I'll be honest.
That is pretty fair.
I watched it semi-recently,
and I watched all of them with Jenna.
Jenna's my sister.
In a row?
Yeah, well, not like in one sitting,
but yes, in sequential order.
I did watch one, two, and three, you know, in order.
I didn't start with three.
That's a lot of High School Musical.
That's a lot of high school.
That's three years of high school.
Probably one, like the first one probably.
First one's really good.
Whatever the one-
Yeah, those are the only Disney movies I like though.
The only-
Only Disney movies?
That I can think of right now.
Only one I've seen is the one with-
Troy Bolton and Gabriella?
That one?
Yeah, probably.
You just tricked me, didn't you?
Those were the two main characters.
Okay.
Thank you for, why did you feel the need to do that?
You were struggling so much, I couldn't help myself.
I'm trying to think of her name
because I was trying to think of the actual actress name.
Sharpay.
No, she's a singer.
What is her name?
I can't think of her name.
You're asking who's the singer in the High School Musical?
Stop, stop.
I'm sorry.
The one in real life.
A real life singer?
Yes, that became very famous, very famous today.
Why can't I think of her name?
This is bothering me so much.
Give me a second, I might be able to think of her name.
While Leighton thinks of that,
you can't think of a single other Disney movie
that you like besides the High School Musical movies.
Remember, man, like eighth grade or something,
we were all addicted to singing Let It Go from Frozen.
You guys were into that.
You were singing it too.
I sung along, but I-
At the back of my mom's minivan.
No, but I can't, I didn't really like Frozen very much.
You didn't like it?
I loved it.
We all loved Frozen.
I don't know.
Jake's just denying it.
I don't know, it's just a typical Disney movie.
No other Disney movie.
You didn't like any of them.
Rattle off a few.
See, let's jog my memory.
I can't remember a freaking movie.
Was it Zootopia?
Zootopia was good, actually.
Zootopia was a good movie.
Zootopia was a fun movie.
You would say Zootopia.
I like Zootopia.
Sing?
Sing, was that Disney?
I'm sure you just liked the movie.
What?
Sing sucked.
Sing sucked?
No, it didn't.
The only good part about Sing was when the gorilla
started singing I'm Still Standing by Elton John.
That was, yeah.
That was a good scene.
That was the best part.
That was the best part about it.
After that, it was bad.
What's another Disney movie?
Leighton.
I'm looking to look it up.
Because I'm trying to find her.
What about the older Disney movies?
Alice in Wonderland, actually.
I did not think about that until just now.
That is my favorite movie ever.
Like, period.
Disney or not.
And it Just So Happens is by Disney.
That is my favorite movie.
See, you have two now.
Good job.
Well, four, because I like all the high school
musical movies.
Two series.
Or a series of a movie.
A series, yeah.
You thought of it, Leighton?
No, I'm trying to find it.
Do we count Marvel?
Because Marvel is owned by Disney?
I count Marvel movies as separate.
Speaking of Marvel, superhero fans?
Ah, kind of.
Marvel, Avengers?
Oh, you found it?
No, it wouldn't have been the first one,
because the first one doesn't have her in it.
So it's not the first one that I saw.
He's narrowing it down.
I don't think I've ever seen the first one, then.
Oh, you're looking up.
You're still on.
He's still on High School Musical.
I'm still trying to find it.
I was just making sure.
I'm listening, but I'm trying to find it.
I thought you were just looking up Disney movies
to try to rattle off a few.
No.
I was like, dude, how long does it
take to look up Disney movies?
Honestly, if we're going to talk about superheroes
now, we really need Sam.
Sam's the superhero guy.
He's our superhero guy.
Sam would have, for sure.
Also, Sam would have guessed who I was trying to talk about.
Absolutely.
He's our movie nerd in general.
The only actual name that I remember,
the only two names I remember from High School Musical
are Ashley Tisdale and Zac Efron.
Yeah.
It's a, I'll.
You just keep thinking over there.
When it comes to Marvel, I liked Marvel.
It was fun.
Up until like phase four, like the end of phase four.
I don't know.
I'm too little of a Marvel fan to know what phase four is.
It's when they kind of started playing with like,
I'm trying to think of a way to say this
without making it sound bad.
Was it when, was it around the time they,
was it like before Infinity War or after Infinity War?
It was right after Endgame.
OK.
I think Endgame ended phase three.
Yeah.
And then all movies after that were phase four.
I'm so dumb.
I realize she's not the person in the movie I've been thinking
of.
It's a completely different person.
Who is it?
I'm about to look it up because I just
remembered the name of the movie.
I'm going to laugh at you so hard when you say this.
I'm just going to promise you.
Go ahead.
I'm looking at you.
I'm going to turn up your gain in everything so you're nice
and clear.
Don't mess up our sound again, dude.
Don't worry.
I'll keep it at the same.
Jacob's playing with our lives earlier.
It wasn't High School Musical.
It was Camp Rock that I was thinking of.
Oh, wow.
With Demi Lovato?
Yes.
Oh my god.
I can see the similarities.
I can see it.
I just never cared about High School Musical at all.
So when I saw Camp Rock, I guess I thought it was like,
that's the one where it's like, boom, boom, boom, Camp Rock.
Yeah.
I watched those two.
Those sucked.
I can't believe I didn't remember Demi Lovato.
That had the Jonas Brothers in it, too.
I can't remember.
The Jonas Brothers?
Yeah, it did.
Oh, yeah.
Demi Lovato and the Jonas Brothers.
And I don't remember if there were other ones.
But I think maybe those were mid.
Some hardcore mid.
Back on Marvel real quick, though.
Yeah, sorry.
The only Marvel movies I actually really like
are Guardians of the Galaxy.
Dude, the third one was so good.
The third one was absolutely.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah.
That one was so good.
The first one was all right.
The second one, that was good.
That was set in.
They knew what they were doing.
It was great.
The third one, it was just so dramatic.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
When it got closer to the ending,
it was really when it started throwing punches left, right,
and center.
It was so good.
It was nerdy.
I love the first one.
The first one was.
It was still really good.
I liked it.
It's one of my higher on my list Marvel movies.
Yeah, just because of how fun it is.
I remember seeing the second one.
It seems birthday party at an AMC.
Yeah.
All of us went together.
That was the one where they established who Star Lord was
and everything.
And who Peter Quill is.
And I was like, dude, I love this guy.
Didn't we all go together or was I not there?
Yeah, we did.
I think I did.
Because I'm pretty sure that's the night I ate too much
popcorn and threw up.
Really?
It was either that or a Star Wars movie.
Did we ever go see a Star Wars movie?
Null of Sam.
If you guys went to go see a Star Wars movie,
I was not with you.
Probably.
Then it was either that one.
I wasn't.
OK.
I think you were there, so it probably
had to be the Guardian of the Galaxy 2 movie.
Anyway, I had too much popcorn, threw up, and yeah.
Poor thing.
I went and got his mom and stuff, and I felt really bad.
And I think she was also.
I think I remember that.
Obviously, she was a mom, so she was not upset,
but was upset because I woke her up.
Yeah.
That sucks.
Sorry, I almost threw up.
Did you?
No, I didn't.
I wasn't serious asking that question either.
I feel like that needs to be stated.
OK.
What were you saying, Alex?
There was something y'all just brought up a while.
Oh, it's because you said mid.
Son, I brought it up a second ago
before we started recording.
Was Gen Z slang?
Dude.
OK, do we want to move toward Gen Z slang?
We can do it, Alex.
Sure.
What are some Gen Z slang words that you actually
unironically use?
We all say some really stupid stuff
just because it's funny sometimes,
because we know our generation's crazy.
One of my favorite ones from the newer slang.
And this isn't even Gen Z, I don't think.
This is just like new slang.
Riz.
I freaking love that word.
Yo, Riz Gat.
The Gat.
Oh, that's the first one.
That's actually a meme.
No one is going to listen past this point
after they hear us say Gat.
I just lost all the adults.
Level three Gat out here, bro.
I do not want to have to explain this to my mother later.
And I'm going to have to.
That's why they listen to this, so they can understand.
This is a parents podcast.
We can explain to our parents our stupid slang.
Dude, when I first heard the word Riz,
the first thing that I thought was the only people
that are legitimately using the word Riz have no Riz.
Yeah.
That's the sad part about it.
Riz is kind of a word for very dramatically trying
to pick up girls.
Riz is like the umbrella term for confidence.
I guess so, yeah.
You've got a lot of Riz.
I'm thinking more of the videos themselves.
If you have Riz, you have confidence.
Yeah, you've got that kind of like, I don't even know how to explain.
Riz is something you have.
It kind of also means that you turn the person on a little bit.
A little bit, kind of.
It depends on the context.
Well, if you say that you Riz-ed her up.
Well, then that just means that you got her attracted to you.
Yeah.
So well, that doesn't have to mean sexually.
I get a lot of the time it does, though.
In some cases, yeah.
I guess with standard Gen Z, probably.
At least in most of the ways I've seen it used,
it's kind of like a sexual undertone to it, too.
Most of the ones I've seen are the cringe ones.
That's the only ones I've seen.
No, I haven't seen it.
Please, can I have you?
No, no.
Let's hop on to the gat real quick.
Gat is just another term for your butt.
Yeah.
So stupid.
Oh my gosh.
It's so dumb.
It's like, you know, level three gat means you got a big old butt
and everything.
My parents enjoy using very mild Gen Z slang sometimes just
to be kind of funny.
Do not use gat.
It's the most awful thing ever.
If I ever heard my mother or my dad say that, I might throw up.
You throw up again.
Gat is the most cringe one yet.
It's the worst one that's come out in the last couple years.
Riz is bad, but gat is not used outside of a cringe context.
I use gat for the shock factor.
It's what we use when we're joking around on a Discord call
before we talk in a game.
And it's like 3 in the morning.
We're all out of our minds.
I've explained mid to my parents.
They understand that.
Mid's just kind of like.
It's just kind of meh.
It's all right.
Yeah, I mean, it's literally middle of the road.
I think mids originally started as people
calling something mid-tier.
And then they just dropped the tier part.
Yeah, it's just now mid.
Yeah, it's mid.
But nobody says, wow, that's pretty top.
Nobody says that.
It's just pretty mid.
Isn't it like that's S-tier is what they'll say now?
Yeah, S-tier.
That was a thing for a while.
S-tier is based off this tier list thing.
It's what?
S, A, B, C.
It depends.
There's a bunch of them.
It's a bunch of letters that signify kind of like grades.
Like A, B, C, D, S.
And it usually goes off of a.
See, you would think A would be the top.
Well, I think it goes off the same grading level
as like video games.
Because usually in video games, you go from like F to D to C
to B to A.
And then you work your way into S. And in some games,
if they really want to layer it on like Devil May Cry,
some Sonic games do it.
If you do extra well, you go past S and you get like a double
S, or you get like a triple S, depending on how well you do,
depending on all the criteria that the game has.
That shows you how much a nerd I was, because I was just like,
no, A, A plus is the best.
A plus.
I want an A.
What's some other slang or Gen Z words that you guys use?
I don't really know.
I get all my slang from Josh.
I get mine from the stupid YouTube videos, dude.
Yeah, YouTube is.
Josh is the cringe one in our family.
He's a band kid, after all.
Is he from middle school or something?
Or he's in high school?
He's a band kid.
So that should explain enough.
No, we didn't go to public school.
That was something my mother talked about,
which we should actually talk about.
Oh, we were homeschooled.
That could be its own episode, actually.
It could be a whole episode.
Maybe we talk about it really briefly here, just to.
For context, I went to public school.
These two were homeschooled.
So was Sam.
But Sam has a unique perspective,
because he can actually speak to a little bit of both now.
Yeah, because he's in actual college.
Well, Alex can do the same.
He's in college. I guess, but he was only until fourth grade.
And then I was homeschooled for a year.
But otherwise.
And then you.
I think, Leighton, you mentioned that you were.
Kindergarten.
It doesn't count.
Oh, OK.
So that's for another time.
But.
How does that not count?
Kindergarten doesn't count.
You don't have any.
You don't have bad influences in kindergarten.
Oh, for that.
Oh, I was thinking homeschool years.
I was like, wait, what?
Oh, no, yeah.
The reason I say kindergarten doesn't count
is because I didn't get a true.
What are kindergartners going to like?
You don't even get bullied, really, in kindergarten.
Not really.
Yeah, I guess so.
Not to the point.
Not like it.
Yeah.
Not as soon as you get into like second, third grade.
Not when you're old enough to understand what bullying is.
Maybe somebody's mean to you.
But everyone's just rude in kindergarten.
The very next day.
Because everybody's your best friend.
You know, they don't.
It's either you're nice or you're not.
Yeah.
And it's not like you're doing it on purpose.
It's just that's how it is.
Yeah.
What were we talking about beforehand?
School.
Oh, before the school?
Before school.
Gen Z slang.
Oh, yeah.
Josh being a kid.
Josh is a band kid.
And for most people that will listen to this
know what a band kid is when they say that.
I mean, I know what it is, but I don't have experience.
Usually the stigma that comes with being a band kid.
Waterburger.
I thought you said water border.
I was like, yeah.
Band kids waterboard people.
For all the audio listeners out there, Alex just drinks.
I drank some waterburger.
We got waterburger before.
So a band kid is like a student that's in a marching band.
And then some people couldn't see me.
I wonder if I picked up my waterburger cup.
Yes, that's why I explained it.
Yeah, we both explained it already.
You're preaching to the choir here, Paul.
So usually the stigma that comes with band kids
is that they're really cringe.
Because they're the type of people
that will watch those Instagram reels and YouTube shorts
and TikToks where it's just like all the Gat Riz everything.
On Fortnite.
Yeah.
That's the one where it's the hold up.
Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding.
That meme, that's where that came from.
Or not like that's where it came from,
but those are the kind of people that will watch those videos.
And then they'll go do that.
They're just kind of cringe.
All the band kids out there, all the band people out there,
no disrespect.
My dad was in a band.
Yeah.
He was in a band in high school.
My brother's in band.
He's still a, he's an all right guy.
But that's just because he's my brother and he's a punk.
But all the band kids out there, no disrespect, no flack.
You guys are funny in your own way.
But you watch Fortnite videos with Kyat.
Yeah, but you watch the top 10 biggest Fortnite booties
and videos and stuff.
So a little bit of flack.
A little bit.
Just a little bit.
But yeah.
So that's what a band kid is.
Is just kind of a cringey individual
that's in marching band.
Something else we could kind of get into here.
It's something that's kind of a joke throughout Gen Z.
I think it's that there's kind of a line around 2004, 2005,
where there's the older half of Gen Z than the younger half.
Yeah, that's true.
A line where they are very different.
It's like a whole different generation.
It's like those videos that you see, reels and stuff,
that it's like the 2000, like anybody born before 2004
will know this or blah, blah, blah.
It's like that, except it's kind of humor and like maturity.
They're maturing in almost a different way.
We grew up with a lot of technology,
I think, which shaped us to being the stupid people we
are today.
But the younger half of Gen Z grew up even more already
having that there than us even.
We grew up with flip phones whenever we were younger.
And then we got into the iPhones.
They're growing up more starting with the iPhones,
the old ones into the new ones.
And I think they're kind of getting
into the social media aspect of technology
even sooner than maybe we did.
Yeah, I can see that.
I think it's affecting them like it did us.
They're introduced to TikTok in an even younger age.
I saw something the other day.
It was these kids didn't know what a keyboard and mouse was.
Like they didn't know how to use it type thing.
What?
They didn't know how to use it because the only games they've
ever played are like on phones and iPads and stuff.
Are you serious?
So they put a controller in front of them
because most kids nowadays know how to use controllers.
So sure, maybe they don't know how to use a keyboard mouse.
But controller, Xbox, PlayStation, whatever.
They give it to them.
And apparently these really young kids moved it aside
and tried to touch the monitor because they
thought it was touch screen.
That's kind of bad.
I mean, I feel like that's extreme.
It is extreme.
But we're moving that direction.
That's pretty concerning still.
I've seen these videos back in front of Gen Zers,
the older half, where it's parents asking their kids what
they would do if the bank asked them for their social.
Like what do you think the bank would mean
when they ask for your social?
Social security number?
Yeah.
Yeah, these kids think it's like their Instagram handle.
Their social.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah.
Like their social media?
Yeah, their social media, not like their social security.
It's like, what?
Well, most.
OK, be honest.
Speaking of social media, follow me at Jake's Photographer.
And Alex at Real Cheelix.
I'm not on Instagram anymore.
I mean, I am, but I don't get on it enough.
Sorry, it was a chance for a shameless plug I had to fit.
You were saying?
Man, you made me forget.
I'll remember it in just a second.
That sounds like a terrible personal problem.
Yeah, it is a personal problem.
I took an L. It's fine.
Oh, that's another slang.
That's another one.
Yeah, L and F.
You took an L or something.
L.
That's pretty obvious.
Most people know that.
You took an L.
F is more Gen Z signing.
You took a loss.
F is.
That's from an old Call of Duty game, isn't it?
Actually, it's not old.
It's Advanced Warfare.
I think it's Advanced Warfare.
There's a scene in the game where you walk up
to a dead comrade.
It's his funeral.
And it hits.
Or is it Halo?
It's Cod.
I played it.
And you walk up, and you hit hold F. And it says,
the prompt is press F to pay respects.
Oh, yeah.
And so to say F is to be like, you acknowledge that.
Pay respects.
Someone.
You acknowledge a loss.
Someone on Instagram calls an Instagram model hot
or something.
And she's like, you're cool.
Or just hearts it.
F for that, dude.
Or says something dumb back and kind of hurts him in a way.
And then everybody is an F. Because you just
took a massive L.
Anytime Jig Guy is the game, we all spam F.
That's what I was going to ask, by the way.
Do y'all know your social securities by heart?
Yeah, I can name it right now.
No, I saved mine on my phone.
I actually can't name it right now.
I have a memorized one.
OK, I have mine memorized, too.
I actually, this isn't too personal,
because it's actually pretty common among companies
and stuff.
But I'm not going to do anything.
Don't worry.
I really thought you were just going to name your social
app.
I was like, what?
It's not that personal.
To name off your digits.
I am not ready for that.
But in order for me to get gas, we have gas cards and stuff
on my truck.
And so when I get gas, I have to type
in the last four of my social to get gas to improve it.
You have to get gas pump?
Yeah.
So I type in mileage, and then I type in my social.
I should install.
Well, not the whole thing.
We should put key loggers on there.
People do.
Yeah, that's something I could talk about.
But yeah.
Once again, tech and all that can be another.
People put key loggers on everything.
But I just thought that was interesting
since we were talking about socials a little while ago.
I remember the last four of my social,
because it used to be the exact, like it
used to match the last four of my debit card for a while.
I have a new debit card, so you know.
Oh, no.
Too bad.
Can't steal his info now.
But you can't ever show that debit card.
Oh, never.
But yeah, it was just really fun.
If you get recognized in the store,
someone's going to swipe it from you.
Yeah, true.
I got it.
I got Jake's credit card.
Run off.
Yeah, I guess that's the issue with starting a podcast
or something like that is if it ever blows up,
then people will recognize us.
And they'll be like, oh, hey, it's those guys.
Yeah, but we're going to stop talking about this
so that we don't go on another security rant.
Yeah, true.
That's a good idea.
Move on.
What are we moving on to, though?
I don't know, but I just need to move on.
We were joking about how Texans, we went to Water Burger,
because I mentioned I was drinking my Water Burger.
That was a while.
That was a while back into the conversation.
We were talking about how Texans call Water Burger, Water
Burger, though.
Yeah.
Like it's the default.
Yeah, no one from Texas does that.
I used to think it was literally,
like I never knew how to spell it.
I didn't care enough to learn how to spell it.
And so I always thought it was Water Burger.
And so I would spell it like Water Burger.
I feel like that also goes hand in hand
with the dyslexia part.
I'm dyslexic.
We haven't talked about that.
Yeah, but I mean like the spelling part.
Oh, like actually spelling it Water Burger.
Yes.
See, I would have actually, like a couple years ago,
I would have actually spelled it like that.
Yeah, honestly, I like Water Burger,
but it's not restaurant tier list.
No.
It's kind of like D tier.
It's very mid.
It's mid.
Yeah, it's mid.
Oh, I wouldn't call it mid.
It's worse than mid for me.
And some, yeah, in some Water Burgers,
you take an L and some you take a W.
Yeah, that's another one.
W just means you took a win.
But the burgers are always good, I think.
They're not.
Yeah.
I've had better fast food burgers.
I do get the fancy ones, though.
I don't get just like a Water Burger Jr.
I get like the sweet and spicy bacon burger,
something like loaded up.
Yeah, the ultra deluxe super bacon cheese-inator.
XR Ultra.
Yeah, deluxe edition.
iPhone references now.
This is going back to technology.
Yeah, I don't know.
Just kind of low tier on my personal list.
You know, it's not the best, but it's not the worst
by any means.
In-N-Out is even lower than that.
I hate In-N-Out.
Really?
You hate In-N-Out?
So many people are going to disagree with that.
Well, not that I hate it, but it's just like it's worse than.
I mean, like they're all kind of just mediocre burgers.
You know, like thin friggin patties with Sonic.
That's a big thing for some people.
Sonic?
So Sonic's pretty low on my list.
Though I will say, Sonic is not really known for their food.
But when I need a quick burger, I run to Sonic.
It's got all the sauces on it.
We've had some bad experiences at Sonic.
Or at least my family has.
Oh, yeah.
I've only had good experiences at Sonic.
And multiple Sonics.
Really?
Their Dr. Pepper, at least the ones by my house, is perfect.
It's so good.
There's a McDonald's by the college I go to.
And I've become a regular there.
The manager and all the other people
recognize me when I'm pulling to their curbside socks.
I've been there so much.
I haven't.
Oh, thank God.
Especially with the Jeep I drive in.
Yeah, I was going to say with the Cherokee.
I go each Monday and Wednesday at the exact same time,
pretty much.
And they know me.
I've been doing it for like a year now or so.
I go to a donut shop almost every morning.
You regular donut shop?
Yeah.
I usually run to a McDonald's in the morning.
But recently, I've kind of reevaluated it.
Because, yeah, I mean, it's only $8 every morning.
But $8 a day adds up quick.
Like at the end of the day.
It's like the people who like at Starbucks each morning
for 20 years.
And it's up to like $5,000 or something.
And then I realized that if I didn't spend so much money
on fast food, that I would have a lot more money.
Yeah, I wouldn't be rogue.
That's the best way of putting it.
So I've kind of reevaluated that recently.
I got my breakfast paid for by a coworker this morning,
so that was nice.
Nice.
That I did take that offer up.
And I was like, give me that.
Right now.
There's a question.
What do you guys think of McDonald's breakfast?
I love it.
I don't have it very often.
But it's pretty good when I have it.
Big fan of a good sausage biscuit.
Dude, the breakfast burrito with some pecante sauce on it?
Holy moly.
Breakfast burritos can be pretty divisive for me.
Really?
It really depends on where it's from.
Like Fuzzy's.
Fuzzy's is so good.
They have a good one.
But like McDonald's, that kind of stuff.
I like their hash browns.
Their hash browns are really good.
I recently started getting the sausage, egg, and cheese
biscuit, and it's just an egg and cheese extra.
And it's perfect.
Dude, do you put jam on those?
I do not.
They're so good with jam on them.
I've never been one for jam and sausage kind of thing.
Strangely good.
I can see that.
And I've tried it before with regular breakfast at my house.
But it's never been something that I could sit there
and be like, oh yeah, I'm going to devour this right now.
Have you tried it with McDonald's sausage burrito?
I haven't.
And I don't plan to.
Oh, you should.
Pretty close-minded about that.
That was a pretty good shutdown right there.
I don't plan to.
No.
I'm usually willing to open to eating new stuff.
So you just stick it to the second tell.
I'm not a very picky person.
What's up with you?
I have thinned out, OK?
You have.
I have.
I used to be a lot heavier than I am now.
I actually noticed when we were getting dinner,
you were thinner.
You look good, man.
I got out of the shower, and I was
sitting in my gray sweatpants.
And I was like, shirtless, and I was like, dang.
I look good.
I was like, whoa, who is this guy?
You 100% made muscles at yourself, didn't you?
100%.
Yes, you did.
I may be a little guilty.
Yeah, you made muscles at yourself.
When I'm waiting for my shower to warm up,
I'll sit there in the mirror, and I'll be like, oh my god,
I have muscles.
I'll flex.
And not in like a, oh yeah, I look so good,
you know, posing in the mirror and everything.
Is it more of a shock to like, oh my gosh, I have muscles.
It's really like I'll find myself doing that,
and I'll flex in the mirror, and then I'll laugh.
And I'll be like, oh my god, I can see my muscles.
That's crazy.
I used to be like 220 for context.
And then working at Discount Tire
and moving all the time, especially in the Texas heat,
and now especially that I'm eating less,
because like, I'm still having trouble eating a little bit.
So skipping some meals and kind of just like,
not eating much in the first place,
along with working a lot, has really just slimmed me down.
I can tell.
And it's crazy.
Yeah.
Good for you.
The only thing I need to fix now is my sleep schedule.
That's falling apart right now.
Yeah, that's going to take some work.
That puppy's killing me.
You want to talk about it?
Are you the only one taking care of it?
No, we all are.
But it's an effort on all of our part.
You seem like you take care of it a lot, though.
I'm not going to lie.
Kind of.
It's also just a mix of like poor sleeping habits.
Maybe I just call it bad times then.
Yeah.
So.
Yeah, OK.
OK, I call it bad times.
I'll just stop calling him.
He doesn't want to talk to me.
Actually, for the most part, you have very bad times.
Oh, my.
He gets off work later than both of us.
Yeah.
But even when he's at work, there are rare occasions
where he'll be like driving to a place.
And he'll call me, and I'll be on the toilet.
Like I will have just sat down, pants up my ankles.
And I'm like, oh, yeah, I'm about to pull up my YouTube.
And I'm about to sit here for an hour straight.
And then my phone starts buzzing.
And I'm like, what?
And then it pops up late in his face on my phone.
And I'm like, exactly what I wanted to see
while I was sitting on the toilet.
And so I reply with a text, hey, I'm on the toilet right now.
Can I call you in a second?
Usually I'm in math class or in the middle of a shopping run.
Genuinely, I will say, can I call you in a second?
And then I completely forget to.
I get off.
I get up.
I go to my room, sit at my desk.
Turn on your anime again.
No, Pop-Open, Risk of Rain, because I recently
got the remastered game that they made.
They remade the first game.
Really?
And I'm in love with it.
It is so good.
But I'll get into that another time.
Hop on there.
And I'm just out of sight, out of mind.
I really think I have ADD.
Oh, 100%.
Everybody around me says that.
And I told my mom, I was like, mom,
can I go to the doctor to check if I have ADD or something
like that?
And she's like, no, you don't have ADD.
You're fine.
Yeah, so I'm like, you're 19.
You could go to your son.
Shrug my shoulders and I'm like, hey, mom.
I can't pay for a doctor's visit.
You insane?
Oh.
You just called me broke.
I'm trying to budget.
I called you broke five minutes ago.
Why don't you go to the doctor?
I'm trying to avoid a McDonald's breakfast.
Yeah, and he's like, go to the doctor.
Yeah, you should go to the hospital and get a CAT scan.
Don't cost that much.
But I don't know.
It's only a professional evaluation.
It doesn't cost that much if you have insurance.
You only have to pay the doctor and the radiologist
and the hospital.
Hey, insurance pays for most of it if you have insurance.
We might, but I don't have insurance.
You're covered under your parents, which probably
has decent insurance.
I'm very poorly prepared for adult life.
Yeah, I can tell.
That's why we're making this podcast.
We all are.
So we can figure it out.
I can give you some tips that I know about some things.
But how much do you know about insurance policies?
I should really go to State Farm.
I think it was Jake from State Farm.
I'm willing to bet money that if I went there and I was like,
hey, I'm Jake.
Can I get an insurance?
They'd be like, no.
They'd hire you?
They'd say, no.
You get the full price or you don't get it.
And then I'd be like, but I'm Jake.
And they'd be like, OK, Jake.
Nice to meet you.
We have millions of customers named that.
They're like, I have millions of customers named that.
If we gave you a discount, we'd have
to give every single other Jake a discount.
Hate that logic.
Why can't you just make a special exception for me?
I should win the lottery.
So you mean like Karen logic?
Yeah.
I hate Karen logic.
That's so bad.
No, but I should win the lottery.
I should go get a Powerball ticket.
Split it with me, please.
Yeah.
I'm going to go buy out an entire booth of lottery tickets.
And I will win at least one.
If one of y'all won the lottery, would you actually
share with the whole group?
No.
He's not generous enough.
I wouldn't share the money with you.
I'd take you guys if I like.
Guaranteed, if I won the lottery.
We'd have to spend it through you.
You'd be making the decisions.
Because if I won the lottery, without a doubt in my mind,
I would take off work.
I wouldn't stop working because it's still
good to have a work ethic.
It's still good to be a working adult.
The people who don't do that when they win the lottery
are the ones who spend it all and go broke again.
Yeah.
Well, it's hard to spend as much as some lotteries give you.
Like, if you won the Powerball, there's no way
you could spend that much money.
F-35.
Can you buy that?
You make a very enticing.
Well, maybe not now.
Maybe in like 100 years or something.
Anyway.
You could buy multiple older military aircraft.
OK, but you'd be dead for that F-35.
So if I won the lottery, guaranteed, I would still work.
I would take it in installments or whatever.
And then I would travel.
I would get a new camera, and I'd travel everywhere.
I'd go see the entire world as much as I possibly can.
So if that were the case, I'd bring you guys along with me.
And I'd be like, yeah, guys, let's go rent a nice car.
Let's go screw around and have fun.
But I would not give you money.
Not unless you guys helped me win the lottery
by buying out another stall worth of lottery tickets.
Well, then we might as well just win it ourselves
and keep it for ourselves.
Well, that's the thing.
If we're all putting in the effort to get one,
then I won it.
Then I would be like, OK, you guys spent the money on the ticket.
It's the cost of each ticket three ways.
Yeah.
I'd be like, you know what?
You guys helped this idea.
You guys bought tickets as well.
I'll give you some money.
Then it's a little different.
I wouldn't give my family any money.
Oh, wow.
No, because that's the thing.
We talked about this.
Jenna was like, did you give me money?
I'd be like, no.
No.
Cry about it.
Watch me get this nice car I won.
In your face.
Yeah.
I'm going to move out this day.
Dear sister, I love you, but you're not getting any money.
Dear sister, dear brother, dear mom,
I have to pair my parents a little bit,
because my parents raised me.
Yeah, your parents literally paid for it.
I'm obligated to give them a few million.
Just to cover for putting up with you.
Jenna and Josh, though, they're on their own.
I've been a very expensive child.
I had a lot of medical bills because I was born premature.
So I know my parents owe a lot of money.
A little twig.
Spindly little fingers everywhere.
You pick locks with those things.
Oh, my gosh.
What would you do if you won the lottery, Alex?
Buy a plane.
Fair enough.
Probably some nice property out in the mountains
somewhere or something.
Like we were looking at a while ago.
That'd be awesome.
I recently followed an account on Instagram,
and it's a plane account.
And it's just a bunch of plane stuff.
And it's like, one guy is starting up his plane,
doing the whole process.
I have several of those.
I was like, dude, I want to start flying.
That looks cool.
Sure.
You know what?
I should.
Do you have the money?
No.
Yeah, again, you have the time.
I don't have the money.
No, yeah, again Jake is broken. I have the time. Oh you better believe I have the time
I've got the time to sit here and talk into a microphone. Do you have the patience? Yes? Okay? No possibly
I don't really know I don't think patients to figure that out
Yeah, I don't know I think it'd be fun to fly
Alex you're saying other than by a plane would you do anything with?
Let's say you won the Powerball for like 70 billion dollars. What would you do with that?
Like you said, I probably wouldn't spend it all. Yeah
Put every single bit of the 7 billion into like Bitcoin and so many it tanks
Tanks the next day he flexed for like the five hours that you have all of the stocks
Just like I could buy Amazon. Oh my god
I
Probably wouldn't actually spend that much of it. I just have a bunch saved up
I use it for like nice steaks and much money. I'm a to I'm too
Person I just I'd be I'd be mr. Beasting at all. Yeah
70 million for you until I got down till my last few billion
Yeah, last year. No, I think realistically I'd put like I had to legit put like half of
If I had 70 billion dollars, I put half of that into a bunch of charities and stuff
Oh, yeah, that's a good fun stuff like that invest a little bit of it after I learned about investing a lot more and then
I'd just travel and have fun with it. Yeah, actually speaking like charities and stuff
We mentioned yesterday like church and or yesterday last episode like church and stuff probably tie is like several billion
What what's 15% of 70 billion?
Bad looking comes around you see there's just a check lying
Whole bunch of zeros go buy yourself some nice Bibles or something
Got my gold check here where to God never looked so good before
We were making jokes about
Review earlier. I got socked us from my new soccer review
That would be 10.5. That'd be 10.5 billion dollars
That's a lot you'd make it into heaven with that amount this isn't the Catholic Church Oh true
Whoa, I dig at the Catholics
1800s Catholics
Thank you for clarifying now the only the only people after you're the Spanish Inquisition
Yeah, their ancestors yeah, yeah, yeah, that was a I
Forgot what I was gonna say. Good god, dude. I'm all over the place tonight the first episode
I was actually good with topics and now I'm like
Blanking so we didn't talk about too much forehand. We've been kind of just going spontaneous mode, you know
I've been drawing drawn blanks. Wait. Okay when I say that Wow, here's an idea
When I say something he's got an idea. I've got an idea
So when I say something like I'm drawing blanks, what do you get?
We just think of when I say imagine you string your desk with your drawing tablet drawing and there's just nothing there
Just drawing with white on a white. I imagine drawing a blank card like in a card game
Yeah, because I think of I think of like cards against humanity or something. Yeah, it's a white card
You just pull it and it's completely blank. It's just a white card. I imagine when you say I'm pulling blanks
I think you know
More than one so it's like yeah
One after the I think of like a weird nightmare where I get it I'm like playing
Hold the cards are empty playing you know, and I'm like trying to draw blue and they're all white
It's just like no it's all white zeros
I've got like 16 fingers holding my full deck of cards in the deck. That's really what it's like playing
You know though. Yeah, it's so bad especially if you play the computer version
Oh my god, dude goes on and on and of course Ubisoft usually is behind that as well. Yeah and trash
Yeah, then it gets bad Ubisoft is pretty trash on their servers. Hey, you know what though? That's when you find the
like a
infinite card glitch or something, you know like
Exploit it so you can get blues card tricks, but it's digital. You know, yeah, I'm counting digital cards
Gavin's the luckiest person at uno because I'll play with him Caden Hannah me
Well, we'll do two two v2s and our game will go like an hour
like literally an hour and like we'll get so close so many times and like
we'll have like we'll be down to you know, two cards or whatever and
Gavin won't have anything I can like combat us and so he has to draw and he starts drawing and like two cards in he
Gets a plus four. Oh my god random two and so he gets a change of the color
He wants and a plus four to screw whoever it is
and it's like every time the
The game that I think of when I think of like a card game that takes a really long time is war
Though the one I know of and maybe I'm playing it wrong
But the way I learned war is you split the deck in half and you flip a card off the top of your deck
Whoever is a higher card takes it and adds it to their deck on the bottom and you just keep doing that until one runs
Out of cards and it is terrible. It is so bad
Sounds bad. It's it's fun because like, you know, it's whoever's higher card and you don't know what's next
So you're like, ah, and then you know by like the third hour you're like
And by the fifth hour you're like I hate this get me out of here
But you but your pride doesn't let you quit because you know, you're like, I'm so close to winning
You know 99% of gamblers quit right before they went big
Always go to Vegas
Alex's mentality. Oh, here we go. Never quit gambling. Yeah thoughts on gambling. Oh
Really? Yeah, we're gonna run. Let's ask you first. What do you think about not? Well, that's a little that's a little of a broad topic
We went to Vegas or with the type of person that would go with like a specific set of money
Or would you just go with a your card?
I'd like to think I'd be smart enough to go with a set amount, but I would totally go with my card
I just however I would start losing pretty quickly. I would lose really quickly and
Yes, I have a little bit of a gambling tendency
but
But we got my machine on the my server. Oh my god. I've played
Games enough games that like are gambling like yeah that I think I could actually stop because I think that through that I've proven to myself
I could stop it. Yeah, but I would
Can't win yeah, I would I would gamble a lot of money away before I stopped that would be the problem
I don't know how much Alex putting aside your I'd never go to Vegas in the first place if you did go to if
Lately tonight change you to the backseat of a car and dragged you to Vegas
What would you do Vegas?
just
Check out cool hotels or something take pictures. I don't know pictures
Awesome Vegas, so you know there's no casino shots or something
There's called there's a thing called the boats in Louisiana those gambling really yeah, it's where my grandmother used to go a lot
That's cool. Yeah fun fact real quick fun fact the way my grandmother paid for my aunt's wedding was winning gambling
Are you sure yep, that's crazy. Yep. Yeah, I
Think I'd I think I'd gamble on my money away if I went to Vegas
I'm a terrible gambler, and I have terrible luck
I went to my family on my mom's side plays poker and apparently they're really thinking good at it
I'm the entire family. I really think we should have a poker night
I really think I don't know how to play it well enough. I get some I never have I have a
I have a set of chips and two decks of cards at my house brand new haven't been opened
Actually one deck of cards has been open and they are the smoothest cards
I have ever felt I took them out, and I like held them in my hands, and they just slid
Regularly along themselves. I was like oh my god. I'm in heaven. They were so smooth and so perfect
I was just like I could play with the I could find all these cards all day long and just feel them like slide along
Each other because they were right out of the box. Oh my god. I'm so happy. He's tampered with the cards. I don't trust him
Cheater cheater yeah, that's why I'm the dealer yeah
Well, yeah, I guess when I was younger. I had a history of cheating in games with my mom
I particularly candy land oh my gosh
In Candyland how do you cheat you into the bathroom?
I pulled out a bunch of cards and put them in line, so I would specifically have dude
What I was like 10. Oh my gosh
You thought you were being smart and she noticed oh yeah, not immediately she was suspicious after I got like 10 good cards
So I
Used to cheat a little bit not in a crazy way, but I'm the only one in my family without glasses
Everybody in my family has glasses and so when I would play card games. I would look in the reflection of their glass
Like go fit I was that just smarter though
Like is it really cheating or is it just it's play smart. Yeah, I didn't look at your card
You showed them to me. Yeah, literally glasses glasses, or it would just be something like
Like Jenna Josh would kind of just let their hand down a little bit
Oh, that's I would lean back a little bit. I just kind of that's glanced
And I just places cards on the table almost and it's like pick up your car
Yeah, or but it was always just something where I would like I'd take a glance or something like that
All right, I look at the reflection of a glass table. I think dude reflections were my best friends
Yeah, but you were sneaky. Oh, yeah. I was I was on top of it the reflections. I don't think is cheating that much
But if the whole leaning back thing cuz you're like, oh I wanted you that's 100% that cheating the reflections I think is just
Unfortunate for the person where contacts next time
Loser like I don't know what to describe that as but for some reason to me that just feels like using which at your disposal
Within the game so have you ever use your resources to your advantage?
Yeah, that is your resources always been my argument
Yeah, always but I'm not saying use your resources as your muscles can lean back and look in your eyeballs can go look at the car
I've got the muscles. No, that's got the muscles. I've got the tendons
I got the same thing and they've got the lack of brainpower to hold their cards up, right?
So have you ever cheated than late? Oh, probably I can't remember exact instance
Probably little kitty two shoes over there. I just can't I don't remember that
That or it's I've done
What about this perspective that or I've done it so many times I can't remember
He's a bad boy. Yeah, you did say that reflections aren't cheating. Yeah
He's over here like I've been I've been using my resources for so long
I don't know what's considered cheating
Yeah, I take liberty in my rules
Yeah, you know what? That's the best way to play rules are meant to be broken rules are not meant to be broken
I've been to my will the only rules of you know, or what you can convince those table
You guys ever played spicy, you know, yeah, it's spicy, you know so
Much I don't know if I've played spicy spicy, you know has like six other rules to it and it's like zero
Zero makes all the hands rotate. Okay, I played this I played this sevens are like you get to take people's car
No sevens are you go silent? Yeah. Yeah, and you can't talk until you play another seven draw card
Yeah, if you talk you have to draw a card
Every time you talk you see on the or make noise on the computer version on the computer version zeros flip the cards
You know whatever direction it's going and then sevens you get to take somebody's day. Yeah anybody that's that's what you can
So dogs do oh and then sixes you hit the table and the last person hit the table has to draw and then
I think I can't remember what the other one is
There was one other one. I can't remember though. But yeah, so that's that's spicy
You know, and it is the most fun version of you know, I have ever played another game you and I like yes
We just bought it one more to wow. Oh here to slay here to slay. It's like
That one's hard kind of hard to explain in simple terms. It's Dungeons and Dragons, but it's not as open
It's just cars and you're just fighting monsters and it's not nearly as complex
yeah, really simpler roll your dice do the action fight the monster or
Do something in spite of the other team? Yeah, it's really fun. You battle each other
It's cool heavily suggested the that any listener checks it out because it's a lot of fun. It's by a
Something it's like bad unicorn games or unicorn something like that. I don't know
It's a fun game though, and they let you make your custom cards super cool. I saw your cards and everything. It's super fun
Huh? I want to draw custom art for it and then like upload it because I think it'd be really fun
I want to draw it cuz all of its animals like all the characters are like cute little animals
Or Zermont so I want to draw bag boy with like fox ears
You know and he's just kind of like sitting there. You gotta give him like some armor or something. Yeah
So that's that's the fun part about it Alex. I know you'd have a lot of fun with the
My gosh, I could have such a blast the one day. I was you came up with a really cool
They turned out so good actually it was like a it was an alchemist. Yes
Yeah, I would wanted to say an alchemist, but I did yeah, I didn't want to like lump it into that
I wanted something a little bit more original that like separate from what the actual cards
Dude fantasy worlds are my favorite things ever. I love fantasy
wizards witches
Warlocks, you know what those are all kind of the same thing but like you know, it's like night stores like dragons everything like
Oh my gosh, yeah, but yeah those worlds I love them and like but I that's the thing
I could never get into like Lord of the Rings and everything like that. Yeah, it was never really because I loved that kind of stuff but
way too political way too
There's a war in the lands and everything
It's like as cool as it is to see politics and like a fantasy setting cuz you know
That's a whole new it's a whole different world. It's a whole new like government and all
Yeah, and everything like that. It's a whole new way of working. It's
It's a lot. Yeah, I'm like, oh my gosh and then
Sure, Gorn of
Fiendsville has been upset at a
Vladimir of you know XYZ land and it's like you're like, okay
When do you guys fight when when do the big magic spells come out?
I don't want all these rules. I just want fighting. Yeah, I just want to see the dragon breathe fire
I don't want to wait nine seasons for that. That's that's why I will never watch Game of Thrones
Yeah, yeah, cuz I would sit there and I'd be like
I could never watch this so
Yeah, I know Game of Thrones for me. Yeah, I I agree. I never got into any of those popular things like that
I like fantasy. I wouldn't say I love fantasy
I like it a lot, but I wouldn't say I love it because if I loved it
I feel like I would be the person that could get into stuff like Harry Potter or
Lord of the Rings or something like that. I really never got into either one of them books or movies
I mean, I've watched a little bit of both but not near as much and I mean I understand basics really really basic stuff about it
But no, I mean I could never get into it. I don't think it's so fair. All right guys, we're gonna cut it off here
We'll probably pick up our fantasy talk
Episode 3 again, we can kind of finish this off
Thank y'all for watching
We kind of wanted to have some more fun with this podcast just because it's good to you know
Have some chill time after your crazy day. That's part of you up as well learning to not work a bunch
Yeah, the the fun the fun also has to balance out. Yeah the seriousness of life
You know, the first episode was a little little heavier serious episode
Yeah
it was us getting you know getting introductions out of the way establishing who we are and now it's kind of
to this point where we can sit back and chill out and remember that though
Yeah, there there are the serious things in life about like careers and you know, like jobs and well, those are the same thing
But you know what? I mean, you know talk more about it too
But yeah, maybe not a whole episode unless that's what yeah
but it's it's always a good idea to kind of kick back relax have a little fun and
Get away from the seriousness for a little bit. So so thanks for chilling with us. Yeah. See y'all later You