Hello everybody. Welcome back to the figuring out podcast. This is episode four already. Yeah, seriously four weeks
Four weeks have passed in November. That's kind of crazy
Yeah, like what the last day is month of November has been quite eventful
We've I mean we started a podcast this month like yeah, cool that and actually continued it. Yeah
It hit me committed. It hit me the other day that we
This was like this is the fourth week. We started this
Three or four weeks ago. Yeah, start the month like it's feel it feels like we've done it a little longer because professionals now
Yeah, we're good. We figured it out. All right last episode. We're done. Bye. It's over. That's a wrap. All right ending
I
Finished editing the second and third episode for the YouTube for the yeah
I mean obviously y'all gotta go over it and make sure it's good. I never went over Jake's I didn't either
Yeah, I don't go over my own stuff. You just said I'm sure I
I didn't it is going over it enough. What editing it is going over it enough
I'm not the type of person to listen to a podcast in the first place
So I'm not gonna go relisten to it. I hope your audience have been good then
That's fine. We'll figure it out
They line themselves up it's perfect. Hey, I didn't react. Oh, yeah true you get well you laughed and that's a reaction enough
Yeah, he laughed. Yeah, I know you both I really you just said something about reacting and so I had to I was proud of myself
Okay, I'm proud of you late and I promise we all are makes me feel so fuzzy
We would clap for you, but then Alex would start doing meme review
Oh, no, we'll be out of sync now. Oh, no
The first one sinks us the second one desyncs. Oh, yeah, and then we got to do it again again
so
Today I was hoping to talk about
Hobbies and interests and the like because as a group. Yeah as a group because we've all got our own
You know interest and hobbies and everything and we could all talk about that
But that can be a dedicated episode where we ask questions for that person
So I thought we kind of go over something that we all are interested in here
And what spread this on was actually you know going to dinner and that kind of stuff Alex and I went to
Army surplus store today and I got some new stuff. I
Lay, you know Alex got some handbooks. I got a handbook. I'm gonna learn how to be a sniper professionally
And I'm gonna become a hitman and everything. It's gonna be awesome. Then I'm really gonna share making the money. Yeah, you lady. Yeah
Up until I get caught and then I'm you know put in prison or something like that
Whatever happens to hitman give me your money. I'll bill you out perfect and then
Yeah, I just thought I thought that'd be a good good topic because we all share enough of an interest and we could talk about
something for something in common
Other than the podcast yeah, so the you know, the podcast is about the podcast
Yeah, so
Since I'm kind of I'm the one kind of doing the intro and everything right now
I'm gonna put it over to one of you guys Alex. You wanna leave anything
You think came up obvious we all like doing yeah, what do you actually here? I'll ask you guys this
What do you what do you what do you think is like a common hobby?
I mean all of us off-roading. That's what I was gonna say that actually. Yeah, we all love off-roading
It's pretty standard for our generation. Of course, we play games together off-roading is a true hobby though. That's a good one
Well late and we talked about this in the last one actually yeah, well that was kind of brief though
We could actually we were gonna bring it up in this one. Yeah, actually, um
Sorry, I didn't mean to touch you
Are you talking about where you talked?
About me having a truck and then get maybe possibly I make fun of you
I mean we've mentioned Alex's Jeep as well. Yeah, that was part of our only vehicle that off-roads right now
Yeah, but uh and his four low doesn't work
I haven't checked the linkage. I still got a work on that. Yeah, and the sway bar connect
That's always good, you know, just they're meant to be detachable just not from the bolt just got a
few beads on there
Yeah, Josh can do that. He's learning to weld really taking welding classes. I'm a senator brother
I'm actually kind of sad that I didn't learn welding in high school. I thought about it
I'm thinking of doing electives for it still that's nice
I'm probably gonna just continue to do photography stuff, which will be another hobby
We talked about in another episode two of my two of my co-workers were pipeline welders for ten years
Wow, they know how to very well the
The the welding welding always makes good money, but the underwater welders are the people that make
They make the big bucks. Oh, yeah
Those guys are under there for like weeks on end apparently and they just weld underwater
Live down there like how we kind of went from like yeah hobbies as a group to things we'd like to do. We're getting off
We're gonna be hobbies. Yeah, the hobbies to come. Yeah true
Yeah, that's really YouTube. We all learn how to weld together
well back to off-roading yeah, well back to
What Alex thinks is something we all share in common because you said off-roading
I was gonna say that but I was like is lane selling that cuz you know you got rid of your truck
Then do you have anything else that off-roading late and that comes to mind that we all like yeah
And you know like something that you think we all share. That's a big one for us for sure. Yeah, I mean
is
Cameras fall into the category you like we're the tech behind cake and I like all like
It's kind of like how we all like outdoors, but Alex by far is yeah
We all enjoy our hobbies, but we one of us specializes in each
I think that's a that's a good way to put it cuz I can all get into them like like I
Feel like you yeah, I'm Jake this time
Yeah, actually
Yeah, but um
It's cool to like see you get curious about it because Alex and I like we're Alex and I are the the photographer
I kind of got you into photography. Yeah, you're the one who like really kick-started it and got me into it
But I I'd always been kind of curious about it. Yeah, you kind of ran with it after that
Yeah, and now I'm you know doing my own stuff with that
but I
Guess I yeah, that's a good one
But uh, I think tech is another one because like it's but I'm in the boat that you were in with photography
I don't know anything about tech. I know I know the jargon of like, you know basic what yeah
I know the basics. I know I know the pieces that go into a computer the name of this GPU
But I don't know the hurt. Yeah, I don't know or
Whatever he just said right over
That went in one ear and right out the other. Yeah, but uh, I think I think we've all got a pretty broad
like
Set of interests yeah, something we all kind of share and it's really cool to do that so we can
I'm just gonna say really we could talk about any of those hobbies. Yeah, because it's we have very broad horizons
The interest of that hobby. Yeah, so we just got to pick one. So I will say this
What really got me into this and something I was actually wanted to talk about was
When we went to dinner tonight for context we went to dinner tonight. We had ramen. It was awesome
Honestly not as good as the the place man I just went to by your place Jake that was thinking good
Yeah, I think it's a like a chain so I think I can say the name of it
but if it's not I'll look it up later what it went to ninja ramen and
Right next to it is a tea place like boba and it was really good that boba
You can order the bubble with your ramen. Yeah, did you say bombing? What did you say bombing?
I said ramen the boba with the ramen. I thought you said the boba with the bombing
Sorry
Yeah, that's the one but uh, yeah the boba with the ramen was really good
It was like ice cold and it was sweet. Oh, yeah
The ramen that we had tonight was really good it just
It was different. It was a different kind of filling and it was very I don't think any of us really we didn't
We came nowhere close to finish. I was also doing the appetizers though that we got
The appetizers were also filling they were yeah, man. They were really sinking good. I like the appetizers
I think the appetizers were better than the actual probably I might agree with that and I think the only reason I said is because
Like that charred taste they wasn't the more it was so overpowering really? Yeah, I just I really liked it
I couldn't eat it. It's like the crispy on barbecue. Yeah, I feel like those fries needed cheese. I really wanted really
Yeah, like American cheese or like American
Ramen place
Just needed to be more nacho. We I like nachos. Yes, we should go to a barbecue place next time
Yeah, we're gonna get maybe maybe like Japanese cuisine is not your move. Not always it depends
I respect that Jake and I have a place that has some killer kimchi fries. Maybe we can introduce those
That's just like the like sealed two-hand corn dogs and that place has been blowing up recently. So yes
Yeah, what what you're the we I know I'm the miss it up. That's Korea and not Japan
Whatever you just said went
There it is again. Yeah, it is again
Yeah, I think
It's a voicemail
We're monitoring Jake's phone. It's
Recording on my phone and when we monitor it shows on the that band is gonna stay there the whole time
Well, actually it may not it's a voicemail anyway, so
but
Actually, this is a good question Layton. What's your what what's like the I don't want to say genre food
But like the culture food that you like most
type of type of food I say that cuz we're like you said the Japanese and like
It isn't really your top. Honestly, I really like
It's it's got a it's a almost a tie between seafood and barbecue
Interesting see if you love the Asian place we went to me in you. Oh, I know
See if you guys I
Cajun place. Yes, that crab was so good. Oh, it was so good. It was so good. Everything was so good
Yeah, it really was I mean just I don't think I've ever had anything seafood related that I didn't like yeah, or at least
like
There are foods that it's like I just won't eat them but
Everything see you actually tried. Yeah, I mean, yeah
Yeah, we actually
Yeah, we all tried it for the first time and they were bad no they weren't not they were weird
They were they were weird cuz they were they were doable. They were raw. They weren't cooked sprinkle
The salt on them made it much better that help you really you like put a bit of salt on those
It's lime or lemon juice. Oh, yeah, that's pretty good. I was all over those after that. Yeah, I don't know
It was even those weren't like normally that kind of stuff. I wouldn't like it all yeah, especially that texture. Yeah, but
Actually, it helps off some people try it with you too. Yeah
That's when it really is like that's when peer pressure is a good
You must like
You will enjoy this you will you will eat this and you will enjoy it and you will ask for seconds
And we will go back to get another order. Yeah
Alex what about you? You got any top food type top food?
Yeah, I love Tex-Mex and barbecue. I mean honestly, I love all food
Yeah, there's almost nothing that I will not eat and absolutely. Yeah, I guess especially for you with your family traveling so much it
I'm not
Went to Paris
Lucky by yes one day we're all gonna go together. We could have a whole episode dedicated to Alex talking about all the places
He's traveled. Yeah, we went to Paris like we're writing down
You're recording it. You better write these down or something. I know we're like where to go like future bucket list kind of known like
topics
Well, just check the recording yeah, I'll take a mental
Was gonna say are you gonna go ahead Alex Paris spring break?
We went to a Lebanese restaurant in Paris the best sneaking food I have ever had I'll send you a picture
Maybe you can put it on the screen or something. Oh my gosh. It was heavenly just this
What the previous video I did that and latent through the picture
But we went to a Lebanese restaurant it was so stinking good I would love to
To have a place like that around here. It was some of the best food. I've ever had nice. It was delicious
Yeah, it is pretty good. I haven't had too much of it, but uh, it's it's been good from what I've done
I don't know if I've ever had any of it. So you'll have to give me examples
What you can see the picture a bunch of different places around Texas and
Like in the area we were against some new restaurants over here. We we have to try and go and then
We ought to bring a little bit back
Just kind of like things snippets
We take pictures of everything. I mean, yeah
You've got a massive thing of ramen like the size of the table in front of us
Just eat it in front of it, maybe you don't make that much noise unless you're like an ASMR channel to
Do I do in one? I don't even know that much about mukbangs. It's just from like what I've seen like on thumbnails
I've seen it from memes. That's all I know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and like memes the ones were
It's like the Japanese like cute Japanese girls that are like tearing apart school. Oh my gosh
Those are awful like our time. They're so that's a whole another topic dude. It's literally awful. Yeah, but um, I
Guess I'm a I'm a seafood nation food kind of guy Asian food
It has my lot of seafood already in it and I think that's part of why I like it so much
But I like sushi man. Oh
Don't get me started sushi. I could talk forever about sushi. I like sushi. Yeah
No, I'm just being done whenever I say sushi I always think of this is saying it as sushi
I don't know why but I just thought I'd stuttered or something. No, I'm sorry. I wasn't trying to make funny this time
That I I make fun of you a lot in the records and I kind of did feel bad after I don't know why you're
The one we pick on it sometimes it's same when he's here. Yeah
It is literally I'm not trying to like play victim here, okay
It is everyone in my life. Really? I'm not even kidding
Yeah, it is. It's a massive. I just I just take it as people like me
So yeah, well, that's the thing with the way I grew up and my family works if we insult each other
And that's how we love each other. Yeah, and so you doing that's how I do to you guys. I mean you do that to all of us
Yeah, that's just because I'm you know, funny one of the group
I mean as my bullying funny funny guy ask any of my co-workers if we ever have any of my co-workers like just even
One of them on the podcast. Oh, we'll talk about it. Like how much does
You make fun of at work and stuff and you'll it's literally every day. Oh every day. I'm not saying that to get sympathy
Let's all cry for Layton. Oh
Live-streaming we could beg for don't it don't know what you guys know is for late
Yeah, seriously, look at this poor poor soul. I'll be a dog guys. Come on. I think y'all just proved my point. I
Don't know it just comes naturally
Wow, I don't know man, it just happens, you know, I'm a good sport about it
Yeah, it is good that you take it. So you take it so I try to
I will admit I at least I I really lay it on you and I were good friends though
And I really hope somebody we actually don't take it as well as you do
Oh, yeah some people or people like take it and then it hits them later. Uh-huh. And then it's a mean
Yeah, or something like that or it's just like it isn't even did they mean it? It's just that it hits
Oh my god, it's like oh that was me. Yeah, but I I will respect the fact that you thank you. He actually cries
Hey, you know what you better get those windows tinted
I can see I could see every detail your face behind me on the way to Alex's house in the camera inside records
Oh my god live Tesla footage of late balling while autodrivers
Cash that's where he makes all his money. Yeah
We'll start a patreon. It's just late and like bawling
We got so off track
This one
And Sam I hate him Sam I do too we all hate Sam all the Sam's out there we hate you
You know what? I'll stand by that boom
We got Sam haters on the podcast. We ought to get fellas, you know, Sam haters on the podcast
Two-thirds of our listeners are probably named Sam. We just lost them all and that's just Sam
We have three listeners you Sam and Sam the girl since actually that'd be a third of a listener son. Yeah
Oh
The girl wait, yeah, she listens Sam said that she's like one of the first listeners on each episode. Hey, what's up?
That's wait
What?
I'm so confused. Never mind. Just we'll move on I'll ask you later cuz I'm so confused
Okay
We're losing each other. Yeah
Things are falling apart. We're going we like the rabbit and then we
Be
Back to the lane. Yeah
No, it's it's because of what you said we have to cut a bunch of this know we'll be get everything back on track
Yeah back on track back to hobbies. Let's go figure it out
Anyways so much for a podcast
Running back to the hobbies. So before dinner
We went to the army surplus store and
Layton have you ever been to an army surplus store? I don't you know what this is. Yeah, it's like like just where just yeah
Bunch of stuff and it's usually
Being you know army I assume it's military
Shirts, yeah
Yeah
I don't think I can actually sell that without like certain permits
Probably
Yeah, you can buy case
Yeah, well, I know that there's on there's like ammo surpluses of no, yeah, that's a separate thing. Yeah, this is just
equipment
But yeah while we were there you can there's like vests and stuff like that. It's super cool place and
Such a great time. I got I got a yeah
We talked about this our manuals remember what it like how to pronounce it or what?
Shmog or shmiga or something like that. It's like a baklava
It's the head wrap that people use is like scars and stuff like that. You saw me wearing it
But it's like the Middle Eastern head wrap style thing. Do you remember how to put it on?
I actually do it cool live demonstration see y'all are embracing the visuals. All right
Y'all are embracing it this can be taken out of the audio. Yeah
Like or if you describe here's the thing if you describe it in
detail then
No, but I'm just saying if you describe the item in detail then so it's like and we can talk about this beforehand
Yeah, true. Well, whatever just let them put it on we're getting a live demo
I'm a shmogger actually. Yeah, I guess I can run you guys through Alex hold the mic hold the hold his mic
Oh, yeah, there's Mike works to here. Oh wait here
double mic hold
Hold my mic. Yeah, so how this works. It's just a big
Just a big square. I'll go under your arm
You fold it into a triangle and then
Take my cap off this might be easier. Yeah, it is
The cap I already tested it, you know, I did Alex. I think I'm getting blinded by his forehead. Whoa
Yeah, you're big freaking the lights are hitting it and I'm just I'm gonna go blind
Yeah, so you drape it over your shoulders these like front parts and then you take this you bring it
Under your chin. I'm sorry smack my leg over your face
For a second he for a second. It just looked like a hijab. Is that that's what it's called, right?
It's either that or a hijab. Okay, I think it's you put you pronounce it pretty close though. Yeah, and then
You go pretty fancy and you've got this mask. It's pretty cool
You know, it's like you were like 12 different ways or very Middle Eastern, you know
Yeah, and then you can pull that down and everything but what's cool about this is that you know, like Alex said you can wear it
multiple ways
the way I was wearing it is as a scarf which is
Honestly that looked more it would have been military. It is kind of
I have wanted something like this for so long and I didn't know what they were called and now I have it
It's it's we know where to get them. There's tons of them. Yeah
Seriously got an army surplus store and there's all sorts of colors and patterns the black and white is awesome
It is really cool. I do very well with the style that I enjoy. Yeah
We're very modern here
Now he just needs a gun and some airsoft guns. I could really make the look
Yeah, just got a tape over the orange tip, which might be a little illegal in some areas
But I could just this is American my backyard. It's a little bit. I could just let you have one of my real ones
Yeah, just pose with the ladies got guns guys. I do. Oh, come on. There it is. Oh
Pull that down and you've got this. Well, I love fancy. Yeah, you've got this nice
Scarf cool boom. Hooray. Maybe it looks a little funky
Sitting down. Yeah, and then you've got
whoa
What's a cap it looks pretty cool. Yeah now he really looks like the military like the urban military
He looks like an urbex or actually urbex here is perfect. I don't want to get
Political but you do look like an organization. Yeah, I trust me I
We're not gonna joke about yeah, I'm just saying you look very similar
Yeah, it's actually it's kind of thin which is nice and so we're breathable. It's very I mean
Then enough for you to see through it. Yeah, so it's actually quite nice to wear like this is what we did with our evening
It's a yeah, it's a little warm. I was working when they all when they did all this
Don't rip off your headset cord. Yeah, I'm trying
Yeah, it's a little warm in here. So I'm not gonna
Continue to wear is gonna turn the fan back up. Yeah. Well, should I'm worn long sleeve?
I short sleep I'm obsessed with that thing. I love it. I'm actually gonna wear it like very regular
He was so high whenever I was trying all the ways to put it on and I was like that
Oh my god, I can wear I look at it Alex. Yeah, I'm like I'm like I
Think so high that's funny like a child on Christmas day. And actually, you know what? Oh happily
Happily do it again because I love that maybe we'll get you some more for actually
Where my poncho to all that would be a good idea to each get one just for the podcast and stuff
But give a gift for each other
Yeah
Yeah, we know Sam on there for that
Sam got a finger trap. I wonder who got him that one
Did y'all even hear what I just saw no
I sung I'll be home for Christmas
What you don't yeah you do I don't know I hate Christmas music, excuse me
Wow, we're getting off topic of
Well, we'll come back we'll talk we'll come back to my distaste
We tried Alex though, yeah, that's a whole lot of that's a whole lot of Alex
You get a whole episode worth out of just telling me why I should like Christmas music
Actually music could be another hobby, but yeah, it's all I love listening to music
Yeah, do we all I sat in our discord a picture of my I use YouTube music of my YouTube music recap
They do thing like Spotify is like Spotify's rap rap thing. Yeah, yeah, and I was
I was the point one percent of one and only listeners. I listen to it 66 times more than the average person. What's on?
Just in general. Oh, no, no, I just more than wait just like in all of you music
Yeah on all of you to music. I was the top point one percent. Oh my god, she six times more
Just in general like you listen more than
Specifically one actually I guess oh wait is that I don't know what that song is. No, it's a it's a artist
Oh, oh, this is a specific. I thought
You're one of the top point one percent users of YouTube music. Yeah, that's what I'm how much
General you listen. Oh, no, I was like I have like 38,000 hours this year though
I'm in that same room or minutes. Excuse me. Not 38,000 hours
hours
Hours quite impressive in the air. How does yeah that that's a
Lot of just a I can text a picture of this too. That's a lot of Alex got several years worth of listening in one year
Yeah, man. I'll put your thing up if you want to
All right, but anyways, so
The military surplus store was really cool to go into are you playing copyrighted music on our podcast right now
I'm I swear Alex. I was like there's a squeal. What does that know? It's it's from my phone
It's it's Alex's copyrighted music. That's gonna get us. Oh, I have 46,700 minutes of listening
So anyways military surplus stores really cool and they had these handbooks, right?
And I got a sniper one training and employment
It teaches super cool teaches you how to like read range properly and you know
All these different like movement tactics and everything super covering concealment not gonna make you better on FPS
I don't plan to this for real life. This is so I can this is so I can hunt not animals people
Oh, I told you I'm becoming a hitman
Legal purposes this is I was gonna say a joke for legal purposes. This is a joke in game in game
in Minecraft, yeah
He was talking about hitman like for
I've actually never played those games. I have on study. It was pretty cool
My brother Gavin was into him for a while
He did play a lot of them. I played a little bit not much games. That's a hobby between us all we like deep rock
That's true. It's a hobby. We all play games. I just lost my mom on that
Deep rock deep rocks a lot of fun. We've been playing a lot of deep
Three of us like that one of our top things we need to play more because we only actually played one. Yeah recently recently
Alex and I have played a lot recently and you played recently. Yeah, but all three of us together
It hasn't been it's always a bit blast. Yeah, it's always so much fun
I was uh, it was actually funny. I was playing remnant 2 and
I got into this dark cave area and I hit F without thinking
Yeah, and it activated an ability that I had to save and I was like I hit my desk I was like no
Because I would just restart the checkpoint
I
Forgot what I was gonna say. God. Oh man. You really are me today. I know seriously and you're really me
You just took a dig at yourself. Yeah
Yeah, who am I?
That ramen changed I know
Seriously, dude, I'm all over the place my switch wrong and sweaty and I'm just everything's wrong. Yeah
What are you saying about me? I don't know man. I'm not saying anything about you. I'm just saying what I experienced
Okay, I hate being here. This is terrible. I hate being I'm not even allowed to hate Sam anymore. That's a joke
Why cuz you're late. Yeah, cuz I'm late. No, it's not I'm not I'm not who am I who is Jake?
Who is Jake? I was about to say your last
That's gonna be in it that's gonna be an episode where I sit here and stare into the camera
And I talk and I'm the only host in the episode and I'm gonna sit here and be like who am I?
Taking deep introspective dive. We'll have like some really deep music playing or something. You two are just in the background like giving me a script
Say this next she and I are just playing like checkers in the background applause. I just started like plotting it in
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry
Yeah, the military ship was store was cool. I was gonna feed manuals
Do you wanna just run through those real quick? I'm going to be a sniper. I'm going to be a special forces
guerrilla warfare guy
I also have a book on booby traps and army survival. Alex's inner prepper is really coming out right now
I'm in it like you have I'll be able to complete my my house. I sure forced to be reckoning take on the US army would have been
Really funny if I would have gone to see what book I would have picked
Yeah, there was one on like close-quarter combat with and it was a karate and taekwondo. Oh, I have that one, too
Yeah, and I like a dragon on the cover. That's what made me
That was a cool look at it cuz I was like, ooh
You know the resident we began here. Yeah
Yeah, but um, it was cool. There's a lot of fun
I definitely want to go back because I want to get another one of those
Scarves I'm gonna call scars because I don't know the actual word
Pronunciation videos. Yeah. Yeah, it's like the Google Translate like mouth
Yeah, other than that, uh actually speaking of scarves and stuff I wanted to talk about this a little bit
style
We never actually talked about our yeah, I was gonna say I brought that up out the window. Yeah, that's sort of off-roading
That's what was brought up. I mean styles becoming kind of a hobby. That's why I brought it up. I apologize
It's not something we do together. We don't show
Certainly enjoys something we were talking about thing during dinner
Yeah, actual hobbies want to get into off-roading now. Yes, what was brought up first? That's uh, let's let's cover
Let's cover some off-roading. Let's cover it. So Alex you got it. You got Cherokee, right? I do old Cherokee
It's uh, what year is it 99? Oh goodie. Wow
Love an old Cherokee. I love how you say good year. You weren't even born. I mean, it's a good year for the chair
It was a good year back then man. Yeah, 99
Yeah, thanks back five years before I was born in 2004 for context
Yeah, but yeah, well I said my age in the first episode to so 2004 2003 2003 almost
I'm the oldest right on the edge
edging it
Sorry, I've all the jokes have been going around about it. Like everybody's always making jokes about edging and stuff
So I had you want you?
Don't make that face. You want to explain that? No, I don't I don't
We cut we already covered slang. We're moving on from so anyways, you get you get your red Cherokee. It's awesome
Any dings any problems got a few dings not from us. Yeah, we have we haven't dented it ourselves yet
I haven't gotten to rocks. No, you take tree take note of the yet what tree you hit that Camille's
No
The tire itself. Yeah, that didn't actually do anything. It's gonna come from that is on the wheel
It was the tire impact to the tire can dent the wheel
The guy that works at a tire shop brother, I don't have those skinny little that I said
I saw the truck. Josh. I was like you act like I don't know we're gonna tire my dad ripped into me
He was like, oh, yeah, you were gonna tire job, you know so much
Yeah, so I get a curb at 40 my wheels would be fine
Okay, so
Anyway, you haven't made any dents not not yet. I haven't made one note of the dent. I'm noting that down personally
Yeah, are we gonna call some I'm gonna bring a sledgehammer to your house next time. No, I was hoping you'd be from off-roading. Okay
Well, I can't be from offering we'll just go off road
I'll happen to drop my side into your door. I accidentally swung it. Oops. Oops. Oh, no
It's real rocky out here's I'm walking around we did almost we did overheat at one time. Yeah, that was fun
Jake and I just saw we were gonna go
Try an off-road the place we went to before they closed the gate. So we weren't allowed back in very sad
um, so we couldn't go to the cool rocks and stuff in the creek bed, but we're going to another creek bed and
There was a puddle in it. Let's say you know, it was a it was a big puddle rather
Everything around there was rocky and stuff and stupidly instead of thinking of clay or silt
I just thought it'd be rocky on the bottom of the puddle cuz why wouldn't it be you know?
No, it was full of stinking slickest clay I ever seen. Yeah, my gosh
So I almost got stuck in that I got the rear wheels have put on there and it just like you could see you feel the
Jeep just slide into the water
we
Pedals instantly he was like I thought we were
Frozen it would have been such a way to winch that thing out
Yeah, that's where we were so I was gunning it back and forth sliding it, you know, I was so worried
We were gonna submerge it. I was rocking it. That was a deep we were sliding and eventually I floored it backwards
I was able to spin it around and get it out
And we made it out of the creek bed and by the time we got back to the road cuz I was like
All right, I think we're done in the spot. It got up to 250
I think my winches walking my radiator of it
So yeah, sure we have the video or not the video but the photo of the mud on the tire still
It was ridiculous. You can hear you could hear the like boiling. Oh, yeah
We have video of the splashing water on the radiator
So I need a new rate or a higher performing radiator I think
You got a mod that thing that was a trail toy. Yeah, I'm self like a cheap Corolla or something to drive around
I'm gonna do that at some point because the jeeps a bit
That's what I'm gonna do when it comes to driving. That's what I'm gonna do. That's that'll be another hot you want a bike
Yeah, I'll get into bikes another time
I also want to buy a cheap beater car. I want him to get a four Ranger, dude
Oh my gosh, I would love to pay off your Tesla first
Maybe I would put it past you to go like get it get one like
That's what he's using the bike with that bonus bro, give it to me
You would not share any lottery money with oh really we talked about this
I if I said if we all work for it, I'll share with you. Did you work for my bonus? No, so
Or going back to off-roading yeah, I heard the training got distracted so did I I had an autism I saw that I saw
The joke about like I've to see people
Train and so I was like, I'm sorry. Okay, I couldn't help myself Wow
No, I saw the passenger train though on that and track. Yeah, whatever is something
Dude, I have place we can go on a transfer. Let's go get on that
Anyways YouTube back to off-roading. Uh
Anyway, we're working out things mean to upgrade and repair on the Jeep and make it better. Soon. They'll be a ripper
Yeah, I think I think that would be fun. I
When I was still looking for a car
I heard from one of Jenna's friends Jones my sister if nobody's caught on to that yet
I mentioned it ten times. Also, I mentioned Gavin Gavin's my brother. I don't think I ever said yeah, Gavin's my brother
I was in the middle of saying something. Oh, yeah, sorry, but Jenna Jenna's friend at one point told me that he had this
Old Cherokee. Oh, I never heard of this. No, I've told you about it. I promise you'll hear you'll recognize in a minute, but
The all the guys who had it beforehand. It's a totally rebuilt title and that's because the guys oh, I know you're trying
To split it in half. They put a welder in the back so they can just roll the back together
Welding rig set up on the back of the on like our outside the hatch to the back of the Jeep and they would actively weld it back
back together on the trail
Like you could I was told that you could see the weld mark from like right behind the driver and passenger seat across the floor
You can see the weld mark and I was like I need this thing and he was like, yeah
And it's crazy loud and it is they like have it up and torn literally torn it apart several times
I was like, oh, yeah
I want that thing and then I was like no because my dad would probably die before he decided that that was a good idea
You can have one of them. Let alone for my daily
Breakdown on the i20 or whatever. Breakdown literally it would snap in half. Yeah, how would you fix that too if it didn't?
Well, it's got to weld. Yeah, it comes full circle
Or you would call your brother and he would do it. Nah, he can't drive right now. Soon. Still getting his permit
Okay, speaking of roading though late and your car before your Tesla you'd have sweet Ram. We were
That thing is a blast
That's what we took to East Texas
I technically still have it
Your dad owns it but you can still drive it I guess
It's in my name still. It's in both of our names actually
Oh crazy
Sharing is caring
Dude that thing is awesome but you got some exhaust
I can still use it
That thing is so much fun
You put a bit of work into that thing
Not much honestly just new headlights and tires
A little bit of a lift?
No, there's no lift
It was leveled before I got it
What?
You had tires
Yeah, I added tires
Most cars do have tires Alex
Thanks Jake
Sorry that was a late one, I apologize
No, I did put tires on it
We got in some mud with that thing though
Yeah
East Texas was very muddy when we were there
I was so scared because that trail camera
Oh my gosh
We were going through some power or like a power line path
Oh my gosh
Somebody had trail cameras
Some old hunting trail cameras set up
I thought you were talking about that one back road that we took
That had the sign on the tree
Oh that one
The sign on the tree that said smile you're on camera in the middle of nowhere
That was a country road, county road still
I was free, I was like get us out
We were in the boonies over there
That was it
Just a swamp
That freaked me out
It was crazy
The worst part about that was that it was
That's not supposed to be
That is not something
It was a county road, that was still a public road
He was just claiming it
That is not something that you put on a tree next to a back road
That's not welcoming
Without intending to scare people off
Oh dude, East Texans are crazy
They're like, they're rednecks basically
I should know
It's literal deep south swamp land out there
It's ridiculous, yeah
I mean people go flying by on either sport boats or pontoon boats
Or air boats or something
Punting gators at night
Yeah, they just go flying
I mean even in, like actually
We saw a guy who was doing it
People going
With a big light bar on the front of the boat
Yeah
That was cool
We even have a picture of his boat but it's like super blurry
We should go gator hunting
That would be fun
Man, I'd be happy just fishing for catfish again
Up until the point where one of us lose a finger or something
Or worse
Dude, I got so many catfish on that trip
Only one
It was two
I thought it was three
Maybe it was three
Either way it was really fun
I think you got two
Did you get two?
Maybe he did get two
I only remember the one really
We'll talk about the trip a little more
That could be another episode
Oh yeah
We have footage from that
Funny moments
That's where we can really do the boom boom boom
Yeah, that would be fun
Nah, but for context for audio listeners
Because I don't think I said it
When I do the boom thing
I'm putting my hand, throwing my hand out
Like it's a transition almost
Where I throw it and we edit in the clip
Or the image we're talking about or whatever
So just for context that's what that is
He's going somewhere
Where's Alex going? Who knows?
Just to clear
Please clear that banner I'm begging you
52 minutes
Oh my gosh
No
It's back up as a setting in a
I got so many bro
Wow
Alex just unleashed the damn
Yeah he did
Of all the banners on my phone
I have so many
Just swipe
He should be able to swipe down I think
Oh there we go
We're good
Oh they stopped
Wow
You stopped the damn
You put the new damn in the place of the old one Alex
Good job
It'll burst soon
Oh I'm sure it will
Oh
Stop
What did I do?
The o
I just said o
I know and I know that you were insinuating with that o
Okay
We might have to do a second episode already
What?
Yeah
52 minutes
Dang bro
We try and keep it about an hour
We talk a lot here
Most of the time it's off topic we're having fun
I'm having a lot of fun this time
Yeah this has been a fun episode really
We like talking about things we like
We uh
We're surprised
I don't know I feel like us kind of just talking this episode has really been a good indicator of the hobbies and stuff that we enjoy
We kind of covered the topics now we can go into depth on each of them
Yeah
If we can stay on track
I think it was pretty good we briefly covered things that we liked
We told a quick story for the most part about things
We're leaving off a couple still
Yeah and then we move forward to the next one
Yeah
But uh
And now I think that's probably the important part about stuff like hobbies and stuff is that
We've all got our own individual interests but we also have things we share and that kind of brings us closer as friends
It gives us stuff to talk about clearly
Yeah
And uh allows us to have fun
Chitty chatty
You know tell these stories to the podcast and share inside jokes and stuff like that
And I think that's an important part of growing up especially especially when we're young adults like this
When it's uh it's really time to kind of have fun with stuff like that
Explore yourself
Yeah learn who you are that kind of stuff you know have fun and go on trips and stuff like that with your friends
Make these memories not to the point where maybe you do some stupid stuff like too stupid stuff but you know off-roading in the darks
Can be stupid
Off-roading in the dark and property that's kind of bad
Out of the things in the middle of nowhere
You could get stuck
Out of the things our generation does that's pretty damn bad
We're pretty good
And I think that's
We're good kids
I think that that could be another message that we save for another time is that you don't need to worry about wasting your youth with alcohol
Nobody needs to chase
Nobody needs to chase alcohol and stuff at this at our age
We've had
We're still you're still developing the stuff you need to be chasing and not waste your youth is the stuff that you enjoy doing
We've had such a good time like just over the years as friends and stuff and we've never had any of that
We never had anything like that
And I think that's
Awesome times
That's the important part that I think some like a lot of people in our generation this age kind of look past and miss
You gotta get out and do something find a hobby and have fun
Find who you are
Outside of having to drink having to smoke having to go to parties and stuff and maybe you do enjoy going to parties but not to the parties where that's how everybody
I think you do that because you have nothing to do though you know yeah
And I think I think that's the that's the thing especially with like the college mindset and we'll get like yeah
Yeah, but Sam can talk about that really well in college
But um for you I think it's I think it's a good approach especially as a young adult college you know not in college whatever
You know find out who you are for you know find out what you love doing like
And I say this because that's what I'm doing right now
I'm rediscovering my love for photography I'm I'm starting a podcast
You're taking off on the photography
I'm exploring who I am and I'm really enjoying it and I don't need alcohol or weed or whatever to do any of this stuff
Because I'm happy with what I'm doing right now and happy with the friends I have and that's better be that's another
That's another thing I think is really important is the friends that you have because like
You feel like you got a you got a drink you got to smoke you got to go to parties with all these people
Then are they really your friends like yeah, that's the question to a degree like yes
They can be but the friends that are gonna encourage you to chase stuff like that instead of chasing what you love and start
You actually can actually stuff yeah people you can connect with without having to be you know people you can connect with sober
That's it. No, that's what I was gonna say get hobbies be sober good job
Yes, I don't know and maybe that's just me being the way I am with that kind of stuff cuz like
We're still developing like the last thing you need to be doing right now is screwing up your brain
Cuz that's only gonna screw you up later down the road, you know
Yeah, but I think I think that's the important part about this is to make memories with your friends
Your real friends these and don't got real friends go find some real friends
It may be hard, but you're gonna you're gonna thank yourself later for doing it. Yeah, even if it's just one
Yeah for a while like I find with some people is that they?
Like one friend isn't enough or two friends isn't enough or three friends. I've got three friends. Yeah
I've got more than three friends. Yeah, like the main three are you yeah, but you two and Sam. Yep
That's it
And now I'm happy with that and maybe obviously not everybody's happy with that
But at the same time you take what you can get real friends are the people that are gonna stick with you can
Make these memories with you and you know encourage you to grow as a person that in a healthy way that yeah
Well, you know, I don't know what it would take for me not to be friends with y'all, you know, like it
I really don't know like something it would have to be a
Huge major thing that I just can't look at your Tesla
Like total my car and I'd be like I hate you but you know, we're still friends like yeah
You know, it would have a I don't know what it would have to be something so drastic and yeah
Like it would have to be like you like blew up an orphanage or something
And then you're kind of a bad guy. I think I'll step away from it. It's like we can still be friends with me
But like it just struggles and stuff yeah like yeah like I don't know if I I don't think I'd ever leave you any of y'all
Sam
Included I hate him though, but don't we all don't we all
Speaking my language
As much as I hate him. I don't know if I could ever leave him for any of the stupid stuff he does
Yeah, I and that honestly I made me think like we could we could talk about
Relationship stuff to you. Oh, yeah, not even just like romantic buddy. No friendship
Oh, yeah, we could we'll talk about the sir. We yeah, we can talk about that another time
But yeah, I guess the message I wanted to get across I didn't mean to dwell on it so much
It's just that get out from your friends your real friends the people that are
People are you gonna encourage you to be healthy and have fun in the ways that you all share
You know for some people that's a little different. Yeah, everybody's everybody's in a different situation, but
You know just gonna make it if you if you find yourself in a position where you don't have friends like I
Have you guys and you guys have you know everybody else in our little group then?
Go ahead and make some friends go do something pursue what you want. It'll come naturally
That's the thing like it got a kind of this was a little yeah
Like we for the most part met through church and stuff like that
But Alex and I are close because we've gone and taken photos together
We've pursued our interest together late and you and you and me know each other well through Alex, but also
Through the podcast you hanging out the common interest like tech and stuff like that
He's our cupid yeah, he just shot me in the butt with an arrow
Just got shot in the like you know major artery
I can't see cuz they're on Spotify I shot them with my own yeah, not a not a love boner straight-up
Straight-up dying dead he has an arrow in him currently
I'm just like leaving out on the pocket audio listeners is just like okay. What's wrong and then the video listeners are like dialing 911
Yeah, but uh it's just I think it's important to have friends like you guys and you know do this kind of stuff and make
These kind of memories when we're young
In a healthy way that yeah, we can enjoy ourselves and look back on and be like yeah
I'm really glad we didn't go to that party and get high and drunk and look at us
It's tough and talking about arrested all sorts of random stuff to a nice heartfelt moment for a minute to the end
That's the hope is that I kind of want to end each episode with some kind of you know like see we actually are
About this podcast is that the hope is that we can talk about how we're going somewhere. Yeah, and like we're still figuring it out
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we're thinking he's been wanting to do it figuring it out as a group of friends
And that's what this podcast is about yeah
We joke around we have fun, and that's part of why I don't know part of why we do this
but another part is showing people that
You know what?
What close friends are like yeah? Sorry? I'm motion. I'm motioning a lot right now
But you think very talk with my hands type of guy, but um expressive yeah, I do a lot with my hands
I'm really good with my hands stop now. You're the one doing it, but um
Yeah, I think that's a it's what this podcast was that's what I at least hope the podcast would be is
At the end of each episode people can take away the fact that this is what it's like being a young adult right now
Yeah, at least for us. You know everybody's living their own lives, but here
We are living ours, and we're loving every second of it, so
Maybe not every single man
You know when you say something stupid. I really want to really roll my eyes a little bit
Sorry, I've really laid into Sam this episode
And it's not that I feel bad about it. It's just that I like I feel like it might get a little old
They're probably tired of hearing it. Yeah, probably get it you hate it. I know
It's more of an inside joke. Yeah, which is part of why part of us being friends
Yeah, anyways is this ever gonna end yeah right now. Thank you for watching or listening in
We hope you enjoyed us talking about all sorts of random stuff
Yeah, going all over the place a little bit late. You got any closing statement. You haven't closed anything in the
Now four episodes yeah
Congrats, Layton
We'll see y'all later all right
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