Hello everybody, welcome back to the figuring it out podcast. This is now episode 9
No, we did eight in my backyard didn't we yeah, but eight isn't gonna make it so this is a
Yeah, Layton said there was problems with audio
Yeah, well also I realized I did you didn't even know that I didn't even mention this
I was wearing the hat of my company the whole time. So we'd have to blur that
Yeah, yeah
We just said it's episode 8 of the figuring out podcast today. We're gonna
We're kind of just gonna talk about opinions today. Nothing too heavy
We're not gonna get political and we're not gonna get in any kind of like
We're just gonna be doing
Just some just some basic ones unpopular opinions kind of like this or this kind of thing, you know
Like what you prefer preferences and that like and that kind of stuff today
So late night you had an idea already some kind of opinion that you wanted to talk about also
None of us are wearing headphones. Well, Layton's the only one wearing headphones ear reveal
Let's talk about this real quick cuz it's actually really funny that it happened so I I
Forgot my headphones. I walked out of the door with them. Jake time forgot all of his stuff everything everything
So he's using the extra mic that we have that Sam usually
Alex has everything because we're obviously
His cable died on his headphones so because of all that I'm the only one with headphones
All right, so you want to start us off with this opinion that you had in mind I can which one do you want me to do?
You can be both and we'll kind of just kind of bounce
so first first one
Salsa is overrated. I don't like it. He's a Texan. Oh my gosh
Okay, I'll say this if there's there in some cases better sauces
Oh, I don't know what else to call. I know but I'm saying like I don't know what to call salsa other than like
Like to lump it in with dipping sauce. Yeah
Technically dips I guess you could say yeah
So there it depends on the kind like the situation with other dips because if there's like have you guys ever been to chewy's?
Yes, yeah chewy's has that like creamy jalapeno sauce or whatever. Okay, and that stuff is a case. Oh delicious
Well, yeah, that doesn't like I know but I'm just saying like I'd eat that over salsa so I can kind of agree
Yeah, but you know, I think salsa's bad though. Oh, no, not at all. I love so I prefer over salsa
Yeah, but you're not saying it's bad late and saying it's bad. Yeah, I just don't like it
I mean, here's the thing I can eat it and I have eaten it when I'm like really hungry
I just don't prefer it and I think it's probably because most salsa is tomato based, right?
But I do like case so though
Yeah, cheese everybody's case
My grandma my grandma doesn't like it cuz she doesn't like any cheese
Sounds like a terrible life
I hope she does
She'd be our biggest fan but also annoying. Yeah, not annoying me. You're gonna call your grandma annoying
No, I love my grandma to death and she's not annoying at all
I don't know and she probably will listen to this one day. So I'm trying to be
Okay, anyways, he has a fire brisket case
We gotta get it together, okay, I'll try let me ask you this have you had pico before like pico de gallo
Yeah, that's a topping though. I think well, I did more than a top you did in the pico de gallo
You just like scoop all this you can do that. That's like a bunch of chunks. It's not it on like
Tagas or
Giving my opinion on yeah, I was asking Alex. No you
Okay, that's fine. Anyways, okay
Isn't that the stuff that kind of looks like it's like it's not but it's not it's like chunkier salsa
There's not like it's not as green. It's just chunks of like tomato onion and like cilantro a bunch of stuff like that
Probably I probably have had it and I probably didn't like it again because tomatoes. Yeah, it's on to start
It's stuff like that. It's tomatoes and onions two of the things that I don't like
Yeah, I will love pico. Yeah good pico. I will eat any day. I'll put that on everything
I'm gonna have some Mexican food of human. I'm honestly
I'm not a big Mexican fan really not but you like but you like these I
Okay, I'm actually very iffy about a lot of Mexican food
Tex-mex or original it depends. What do you mean by text me cuz like Taco Bell I'll devour I devoured three tacos
Okay, so that's that's a maramax. I devoured three tacos a quesadilla and nacho fries last night and had a strawberry
freeze
Tex-mex is like after dinner to
I was so hungry. Yeah, Tex-mex is mostly
Whatever like restaurants are around in Texas and other places of theirs. It's like there's a Phoenix. Yeah
Yeah, exactly. There's I think Chili's is technically considered that. Yeah
Okay, I can do it depends like Chili's I love Chili's I could eat it Chili's all day
Have you ever had original Mexican?
Kind of I'm a big fan of tamales. Okay, that's about it
And obviously chips and queso and all the good stuff like that rice and beans
Yeah, I like that stuff but like enchiladas basic tacos. I do like but everybody know that even do enchiladas
That's a basic, you know tacos is everybody likes tacos. If you don't like tacos then leave
I do like tacos. Yeah, I don't like crunchy tacos very often. I'm more of a soft
Yeah, I'm a soft. I'm a crunchy taco kind of guy, but I also am I I mean I can enjoy it
If it's a taco of any kind, I'll probably eat it
So I like there one of the tacos that we used to have
With a friend of mine, I'll just say his name Caden and
Carrieth when we go to their house and stuff
They would have deer tacos a lot
I did love them even though I even though I didn't love the hard taco shells
I mean, I didn't mind them makes it with the venison. Yeah, so it was it was really good. Those were always
Okay
Lane has one more opinion too. Yeah. Oh, yeah
Coffee's also overrated
Earlier he said I don't like I don't care for coffee. I don't even need it. So for me Starbucks Starbucks is a waste of money
I thought I can agree Starbucks is a way I thought Alex was a good to about to get like a lot more volatile
Over here Alex is the coffee guy here. I like coffee but like Alex I don't need it
I I didn't use to drink it. I don't need it, but I don't need caffeine. It has no effect on me
I can drink like soda right before bed and just fall asleep
I can drink a lot of caffeine too and not have a problem sleeping
The only reason I actually like coffee is because whenever I was younger my mom would get like the bottle Starbucks Rappuccinos
And stuff she loves but I would drink those two because they're pretty sugary and sweet. Yeah, it's not like raw coffee
But eventually I ended up
Working your way up more and more. Yeah, I know I can trick like straight espresso
Dude, I just I don't one I don't think I've had hardly any coffee
Yeah, I really didn't ever have a whole lot of it
I didn't have a whole lot of it. So I never got used to it and never was like, oh I want this or need this
I never it's definitely a bit of an acquired taste
For sure. I didn't mean to interrupt that you're done
But um, I definitely I definitely think that it's one of those things that you have to drink more of to get used to it
Yeah, there's even me. I don't drink a lot of coffee, but I do drink coffee
Okay, and so it's kind of a hit or miss a lot of the time with me because sometimes I'll get something where I'm like
Okay, this is good. But then sometimes I'll get stuff where it's like, oh my god, this is so bitter
I it tastes like dirt. I just
kind of just bean water taste like bitter bean water, yeah, I
Mean that is what a coffee is what coffee is but uh, yeah, I'm a big fan of coffee. I like coffee
Okay, but I'm getting more into tea. Yeah
but tea as in I
Don't know how to explain it cuz the hot tea there's like green tea. I like I love green tea green tea
It's so good or cold hot
but
We're Texan we all three of us
Sweetie. Yeah. Oh, yeah
Whoa, hold on over there
Yeah, you do any sort of tea besides like sweet tea any any hot tea
No, not really. Okay, and I just don't
Really? I think that's also part of it is I don't really like now a little bit different. Yeah, I can drink hot
But I never crave it. I never am like, oh, I really want I uh
For the most part if it's cold tea, it's the Arizona green tea. Yeah, I drink that's good
I I crack like four of those cans a day. I have bought boxes and gone through them in a week
Whoa, like I love that stuff. But um, yeah hot drinks
I'm kind of iffy on usually but if it's a cold morning, a hot just
Just yeah kind of on acquired tastes late and actually just tried a mineral water here. So yeah
Water I have Jake's got one of mine. We've got lime mineral water
That's another kind of acquired. Hey, where y'all's thoughts on those Jake. I guess you like him. I've drink
I've drink a lot of topo Chico before this that's it. And yeah, like the grapefruit flavor in the lime flavor
Grapefruit is really good. But uh, is it sweet kind of I mean they're like these
These are more mineral II than the top of Chico
I taste that calcium. It's actually from mineral wells, Texas, which is
It's a spring area
So I
I've it's an acquired taste and I've kind of gotten used to it
We also drink liquid death a lot at my house and liquid death has the sparkling stuff, but it also has
Like oh my god, they their tea is so good. I'm big fan of peach tea as well
I'll say that peach is really good the the liquid death peach tea
Very good. Anyways, yeah, what are your thoughts on the mineral water?
I didn't like it just because it's bitter and I don't like a whole lot of stuff
Yeah, a lot of people don't pretty bitter like dark chocolate is one of those things that because it's bitter. Yeah, I'm like
I'm like I can eat it and it's okay, but it's not something I'm like, oh I see dark chocolate
I'm gonna grab it off the shelf you ink. Yeah, that's me. That's me right there
Oh, I love dark chocolate. That's my favorite kind of like as dark as you can go like like 90%
Yeah, once you go black, you can never go back. Okay
No, but yeah, I just I don't know I don't really have I don't know any kind of like how dark it is
I just know dark chocolate. He goes to the baking oil. He gets that stuff. Oh, yeah
No, actually though. I want as much as I like dark chocolate. I really am not much of a chocolate person. Oh, yeah
I I'm actually not much of a sweets person a whole lot
Get sweets. It's more a sweet drink than a sweet food or candy or something like that
but
I'm a carb addict
Me too brother
Yeah, we're really getting we've we're in the like food and
I think it's cuz it's the easiest thing to have opinions on yeah
No, it like salt and vinegar chips, dude
Huge fan of this. Oh my god
Dude, that's what that's definitely a divisive one. Y'all think I
Know I think very many people like those well
I just think that's not a very popular flavor compared to other flavors that like
Yeah, I don't like potato chips just regular salty potato
Doused in vinegar. Yeah, dude. Oh my gosh. I will devour an entire bag of kettle jalapeno chips, dude
Kettle jalapeno chips are unmatched. Yeah, those are
Top of the top of the tier list. They are good number you do those
I haven't I haven't like ever gone and yeah, so I'll never go buy a bag of them
But if somebody has them, I'm like, oh, yeah, I will buy two bags
No, I'll that's me. I'll buy two or three bags of salt and I'll eat them
Yeah, and what I was gonna say is y'all are like, oh, he doesn't eat very much duties because I'm always gorging
Are you all the time? Oh, yeah, it's terrible
It's honestly terrible. I don't snack a whole lot, but whenever I do I
What about this
This is a pretty this is a pretty divisive topic as well
you guys a mountains or
Sea mountains mountains or beach. No question. I knew you were gonna say that but I was curious what Layden was gonna say I
Don't know it's kind of 50-50 for me. Really? I haven't been to a whole lot of either
I've been to the beach much more than the
The the mountains though because I've only been to the mountains once. Okay
But I've been to the beach several times, but I still like both. Yeah
If you had to pick one though, probably just mountains just cuz I haven't been there as much
But if I got so like I had a curiosity
Yeah
Okay
If I had a similar experience like a similar amount of times that I've been to both and maybe it would change and I go
Back to beach. Yeah, cuz I don't like cold. That's fair. Usually. Yeah mountains do kind of get a little chilly. Yeah
That's why
Mountains. Yeah, I love the beach cuz that's mainly where we've traveled to but now that I'm when but that was when we were younger
Now that I'm older. I've like I'm like the mountains call to me
Nah, we actually I want to start traveling into like Colorado more often with my dad
Because when we climb Mount beer step, I've already mentioned this to you guys god knows how many times but I've loved climbing
I'm sure that you and I need to go come out. Yes, we do. Would you like a man?
I would have a mountain. Okay, you know what next day?
headline
three young men die
Local frozen to death. Yeah local 14
All of the clothes young men die one found in a cave barely survived the Alex
Like your med bag
Nah, but uh, I'm mountains person for the most part but I do like the beach every now and then well
I immediately chose mountain like no questions asked
I will say like after we went on our our East Texas trip in the summer like the very next day I got back
I went to Galveston or not Galveston Corpus Christi. It's a beach in Texas or city with beaches in Texas
Yeah, I went there with my grandma and grandpa to visit my aunt and uncle and stuff. They were working down there
Oh my gosh, I can in seriously get into the beach. Yeah, especially if I can like boogie board or something
Yeah, that's like my main issue with the beach is just how hot it is. I got a bad sunburn
I'm not a heat guy. We already talked about that but
Like that's the main issue that I have with the beach is that you're sitting on that sand and the sand is hot
The sun's beating down on you flex up on you
Yeah, you get in the water and then there's warm spots and cold spots. You're trying to chase the cold spot, but it keeps moving
I don't get it out of the water. I like and if you want the cold spots go deeper
Yeah, sure
Texas has warm beaches like very warm beaches
Then get bit by a shark
Yeah, just get ripped away by the undercurrent
Yeah
I think a lot of people the reason they because I feel like a lot of people do prefer
Mountains over over the beach and I think it's just because a lot of people have a fear of not knowing what's in
My mom's that way she doesn't like that kind of thing
Here's what I say to combat that not in like a like a debate kind of thing, but just like if
People are afraid of the beach
They should also be afraid of the mountains because there's bears up there. There's killers in the mountains. They can see them from afar
Okay, but actually think about how much more likely it is to find a killer in the mountains compared to a beach
Well, I'd be more worried about the wildlife. Bears. Yeah. Well, that's what I'm trying to do
But like realistically people aren't gonna think oh no bears scared like but when you think of like a horror situation
People in Yellowstone walk up to bears
Dude, oh my gosh. I would love that. Just go pet the big puppy
Oh look at him, he's so cute
Look at the big puppy
He's so fluffy
Just slapping it on the side
It'd kill me, heart beat
I'm an animal person. I could see it
Breaking news
Um, oh man
I had another point I was gonna make but then I forgot what I was gonna say
Another opinion?
We can move on to the next one. I was gonna say something else about it, but uh
Dogs or cats?
We're just gonna get the basic ones out of the way here
My family has had lots of each
I want a cat so bad
Cats? Honestly, I gotta say
Well, they're both very good pets
Cats can be honestly at times a whole lot better
Well, I was gonna say they won't necessarily make as much of a mess
But they will totally like the pets
Depending on the cat
You might get a fantastic cat
We've had amazing cats that are honestly way better behaved than any of our dogs we've had
Or at least our current dog
Who is a mess
We love Brandy
I love Brandy
Cats I think have the ability to be way more protective of you
They may not be like as effective at being protective
Because they're like tiny little fluff balls
But they're very good
I think they're very good
They're like tiny little fluff balls
They have the ability
I've had a cat follow me
Like a mile to my grandparents house
My grandma would drive it back
They like stand up and protect kids
I've seen cats save kids from falling down stairs
There's lots of videos of dogs doing the same thing
Cats can be stinking incredible
They'll totally cuddle with you
Of course people do end up with cats that hate them
I think a
Sam's cat
I love Sam's cat
Sam's cat loves both of us
It's Sydney's cat more than Sam's cat
Is it Sydney's?
It's her cat
Yeah
That cat is amazing
Maybe I just have good luck with cats
I think that plays a huge role
A big part of it also plays
For me I'm just an animal person in general
I love all animals
But if I had to choose
Just because we've only ever had dogs
I'd have to say I'm a dog person
If I was going to have to go into the middle of nowhere with an animal I'd be a dog
Yeah that's fair
Yeah
You've always had dogs
I've always had dogs because
My brother and my dad are allergic
Very allergic to cats
So we can't have them
My mom grew up with cats though
And I don't think she'd have them just because of that
Because they had not terrible experiences with them
But they had
They got unlucky with their cats
They got lucky and unlucky with a couple of cats
So they've seen both
I would take a cat
Personally
Just to see what it's like
I don't think I would get more than one
I only have one for the experience
I think one is plenty of pets
But then that would mean my family would have a hard time coming over
That's probably why I'd never get it
Or else you'd have to shut the cat in that room
If I moved out I'd honestly get a cat first
Cats handle themselves better
They're independent
I can leave them with some food and water for a while
But at the same time
Obviously you still have to take care of them
They're still a pet, they're still an animal
You still have to spend time with them
They require less maintenance than dogs
That's the main thing
I love dogs so much and I'd love to come home to a dog
That's wiggling their butt, super happy to see me
But I'm also happy coming home and hearing my cat
From across the house go
And going
Oh, yep, he hasn't eaten
And then I'd go feed him
He's fine
We have those big feeders
Where the food automatically comes in
Cats don't wolf down all their food at once
They eat slower and they regulate themselves
I feel like cats are a lot smarter than dogs
They have the ability to be
With dogs you have so many breeds with so many varying intelligence
And then you've got others
Vizla's are the one that he is
My puppy for context
He's a little bit more intelligent
My puppy for context
He's a genius
He's so smart
He's already like
Four months is how long he's been alive
And he's responding to his name
He's already picking up how to sit
How to stay, everything like that
Those dogs are so smart
Cats are just generally more smart than dogs
They may be less obedient at times
But they have a lot to know
Cats are stubborn
They're very stubborn
I actually saw a thing recently
Well it wasn't recently, I saw the thing a while back
Talking about why cats are like that
Why they're kind of all like
Is it the independent part of them?
Yes, but it's also because cats see us
As big furless babies
So that's why they bring you things
Because they're trying to teach you how to hunt
And they think that they are taking care of you
And so when they do
Whatever they want
It's because they're in charge
They see us
That's why they're independent, they have to fend for themselves
They see us as children
Because that's how they treat their children
And so that's why cats are so like
That's funny
I'm going to do what I want chief
But obviously that varies on breed
Because some breeds are just very like
I'm going to stick right next to you
And I'm never going to leave your side
And if you leave me for more than three days
I will kill myself
It happens, I'm legit
I read a cat called
And I think it's the Maine Coon
I read a lot about them because I wanted to get one really bad
Aren't they the biggest cat?
They're the super fluffy ones
They're like three feet long
I read something how
You can't
They're like
What's the breed of dog that's like that?
There's a breed of dog that also does this
But if you leave them alone for too long
Oh it's ducks, that's what it is
You have to get two of them
And you have to get those cats because
If they get too lonely
They'll stop eating
They stop just functioning
And then they get so sad and depressed
That they die because they
Are just depressed
I was going to say because we've had a Maine Coon
And we've gone like week long vacations before
And it's always been fine
But at the time we had a second cat
It wasn't a Maine Coon, it was another cat
Maybe that contributed to that
So that's why like
They're so affectionate
That's why they get like that
That was the cat that followed me a mile to my grandparents house
So you've got to be able to trade some things
You've got to spend a lot of time with that cat
If you want it to be
If you want an affectionate one
If you want it to grow
To love you
There's a lot of maintenance that can go into them at times
But for the most part
I'm a fan of cats
If it's like
Now that I'm older
I'm a mature animal
I'm a mature individual
There goes my phone
Dude I'm all over the place tonight
Thanks for the caffeine
I'm shaking bro
Our dog has shown that she's incredibly intelligent
But she chooses to use
That intelligence about
1% of the time
She'll do the most
Ridiculous thing
She's a mess who's just blatantly disobedient
She keeps repeating the most awful things
But at times
Constantly just pulling stuff out of the trash
She'll go into my room
She's been yelled at so many darn times
And she just continues
Like literally I kid you not
50 times at least
She has done stuff like that
But she keeps disobeying
But she's shown that she has lots of intelligence
Through like just various little things
I don't remember those because they're far less common
But she totally has
Lots of smarts
She chooses not to use them
Maybe she's actually just stubborn like a cat
She has the soul of a cat
Well that's the thing some dogs are like
Berkeley, my other dog
She's a Basenji mix
And Basenjis are known and are actually
Commonly called cat dogs
Because they have the temperament of a cat
Because she's like you will touch me when I want you to touch me
And I'm going to go
I'm going to go do my own thing
But they're also another breed that's super smart
So
Stormy is the same way
She's super stubborn
I love Stormy, I love her so much
She's so stubborn
She's such a diva
She is, yeah she is so like
Maybe we should put photos up of all of our dogs
While we're talking about this
Boom, boom, boom
Rapid fire, boom
Because I've got two
Have you actually put any photos on any episodes before?
I haven't edited any video
I've only edited audio so far
Oh wow, so we have no videos yet?
Well we have
We've got the first episode and then
RSS puts up
We are 7 episodes
Behind on video right now
Wow, alright, we gotta get that going
I'm going to have to try some
We're going to move on to a new opinion
I just saw that
We're all going to agree on that one
Maybe we won't disagree though
Yeah, maybe we'll be surprised
Yeah
Maybe just do it quick because if we all agree then we move on
Taylor Swift is overrated
Yeah, that's agreed
I don't know much about Taylor Swift
I like a couple songs
She makes some good music
I guess I agree
People hype over her
Kylie's going to hate me for this if she hears that
All the women we've shot
We had a finding
We had a finding love from this podcast
Yeah, because I'm looking for love online
What could possibly go wrong?
I really enjoy Taylor's songs
They're classic
People are going to hate me for this
Like 2000 teen style songs
That's nostalgic
Yeah, it's like childhood music
I really enjoy it
But I'm not like
Taylor Swift
Personally, I'm going to be real honest
I think Taylor Swift's fan base
Is a little
They're crazy
They're a little
And I mean no offense
To that
To any Swifties
To any Swifties out there
You do you
You like the artist, support her, whatever
But like
From my perspective
Some of those people are like
Obsessed
They're crazy
And it
Puts me off of it a little bit
It's like I don't want to be a part of it
Basically
Anyway, okay, so yeah, we agreed on it
You guys have any at all?
I've got a few pulled up but it's kind of hard
Because a lot of these can like really
Get deep
But also some of these are like
We've taken some of these basic ones deep
Yeah, a lot of these also
I just
For audio listeners, I have my phone
I have my phone right here
And I'm just looking online for stuff
Because there's nothing wrong with looking for a little bit
Of extra, you know, like we don't always
Have to have a topic sorted out
I'm sure that's an opinion song
Should we have topics?
Should we have topics ready?
Should we be able to talk about something on our podcast?
This is why we're failures
We're never going to make it
To be fair, y'all figured
This out while I was at work so I didn't really know
What the topic was to like a few minutes beforehand
Because I wasn't present
I have excuses
A lot of these are kind of
I'm going to be real honest with you
Some of these really suck
Opinion, are opinions a good podcast topic?
Yeah, true
Okay, how about this? Country music
I love country music
I go
Alex is more opinionated than I was ready for
I'm going to be real honest
I thought you were a very neutral person
Like, okay, rephrase it
Overall or
Country music, yes or no
No
Overall, if I have to go overall, no
I can roll you out to some country music
That does not mean that I don't like
A lot of songs though
But as a whole, is it something I listen to a lot?
No
Okay, I'll say that, I don't necessarily listen to it a lot
But I can really get down to some country music
Okay, that's what I guess
Okay, well I guess it's really just do you like
Country music, that's what I should have said
In that case
Yes
You like country music, you like country music
I don't like country music
Well, not at all, but like more no than yes
So that's why I say no
Because I'm
I don't know
It all sounds the same, it's like Christmas music
It all sounds the same
Drinking, women, trucks
I got my heart broken
I'm drinking beer
And I've got a truck
I'm doing 95 down the highway in my F-150
Occasionally, you get a
I love my dog
I'm fishing, I'm in Texas
Or it's just a mix of a bunch of those
It kind of gets into southern music too
Yeah, but like sure you can
You can boil a lot of genres down to that kind of stuff
Like I'm sure rock is a lot of heartbreak
And a lot of like love and stuff like that
But I don't know, it's just like
I don't want to hear about how you're drinking your sadness away
Because you got caught cheating
Or something like that, you know, it's like
I don't want to hear about how
Sometimes the girl was cheating
I don't care about your heartbreak bro
It doesn't sound good
There's more folk, and you know what I think the problem is
There's, the music doesn't sound
Good enough to me to make it worth listening
To the lyrics, because
Like I said, do you like the instruments or something?
Well it's not that I don't, I love like acoustic guitar
I love guitar
But I don't know, it just, the way that everything
Kind of sounds together, I mean
I love me some good old southern music
With some banjo and stuff, some guitar
Ok, banjo, I'll get behind banjo any day
Banjo, I love banjo
You probably have to play it a little bit
For me to get it
Alex just pulls it out from behind the couch
Well don't you know
That's one of my favorite instruments I think
Yeah, I don't know, but like
That's the thing is, like I said
Rock and stuff like that covers a lot of
Heartbreak and stuff, but with rock
You've got like that
Electric guitar with it and everything
I love just like
A good riff and everything like that
That goes with it, it just, I don't know
It's a little more intense I think
Is what it is, and it kind of
Good, it just, rock works better
I used to not like it at all
Really? Really?
Yeah, at all, but
Wow
I can get into it more
But I don't know very many artists at all
If you ask me what kind of rock do you listen to
I probably couldn't even tell you the name of the song
Or artist
Here's kind of a thought maybe
I've turned Sam to the rock style
Is he used to not like rock?
Well it's not that he didn't used to like it, but he didn't used to listen to it a lot
And so when I started playing stuff
And he was, now he's, that's all he listens to
Well that's not all he listens to, but that's a lot of what he listens to
Do you guys lean more towards like
More like classic like
70s, 80s, 90s rock
Or something more modern
It depends, I like older stuff
But I also like newer stuff
I think the older stuff is better, but I do listen to both
Like I listen to a lot of like Journey
And a lot of stuff like that
But I also listen to a lot of like
Shinedown, and Shinedown's not new new
But it's newer than 80s and 90s
And stuff like that
I have more 70s, 80s, 90s stuff
That I do, mainly 80s
Recently though I've been listening to a lot more
Punk
And all the versions that come with it
Pop, punk, punk rock, punk is like
I don't know, I kind of want to think of
It feels more like a subgenre of a whole bunch of genres
It's kind of like an edgier rock
Metal?
No, because metal
That's harder
Metal I think of just screaming
Well then you get into screamo
I know, I can't do that
That's when it's like
I can do some light metal
But that's the top of my
Yeah, I think, cause that's the thing
Screamo's more like screaming
And then metal is more like
It's not harder lyrics
It's harder instruments
That's fair
So that's like the facets
It's more yelling
Yeah, that's a better way of putting it
Because they have to yell
To get that punch
With the music
To match the instruments
But with punk
It's exactly what it sounds like
It's punk
It's kind of a little more snappy
And a little edgier
I'm sure I've heard some
And it sounds dumb saying edgy now
It has such a stigma around it
But like, I don't know
It's got a very
It's a description
A lot of the themes, it works so well
Because the music fits the theme
Of it so well
Because it's very like screw you
And screw society
Okay, it's that kind of thing
And so, I'm not the type of person
To be all
Screw the system
You know, rebel
And you're cool
I can get down to it
Layden
What?
I thought you looked like you wanted to say something
You've also been very quiet
Alex and I have been kind of bouncing off each other
I don't know a whole lot about it
So there's not a lot of input from me
Then we'll move to a new
For now, let's talk about
A music genre
While I look at these other
Alex and I should talk about one?
John Denver, thoughts
I don't know who it is
Well, here's the thing
I've probably heard his songs
I'm terrible with artists
Okay, yeah, exactly
See, I didn't know who
Who sang it, like who sung that
There you go
I know Sam doesn't like them
That's the only song I've heard
Really?
I love John Denver, my parents like John Denver
It's like huge Colorado mountain songs
Have either of you all seen
It has nostalgia for me
Have either of you all seen Friends?
No, not really
That show is lame
I heard it's actually awful
Like you take out the laugh tracks
It's so boring
I've watched it and it is like
It's not even
At least in my books, it's not even good enough to put on
As like background noise
It's boring
Flat out
It's always going to get me shot
From someone
Friends, I
Haven't watched The Office
I haven't watched Friends
I like The Office, I like Seinfeld
Seinfeld is
I'm not going to lie, Seinfeld is kind of
Almost in the Friends area for me
I think it's pretty funny though
I genuinely do laugh at the humor
Maybe I just have terrible humor
Okay, there's a
Layton, have you seen any sitcoms though?
I don't think so
The Office is too classic
The Office, that has some
Believe me, The Office is way too dry
I've seen so many
I've seen so many memes
Though, like
Just through Instagram, YouTube, whatever
Of Friends, Office
All the popular sitcoms and stuff
So I've seen a whole lot of the moments
I just haven't actually watched the show
That's the thing
With the clips and stuff
Even with, oh my god
Even with Friends, people clip stuff from Friends
And it's supposed to be the funny moments
And it isn't funny
And it's like, oh my gosh
Well, sometimes it requires context
People that need to actually rely on people
That's the thing, even still, even with context
Or if you don't need it
It's just like
Straight face, completely straight face
For audio listeners, I paused because I was making a completely bored and uninterested face
Because that show is boring and uninteresting
No, but
The Office is way too dry
I will say
There are some
Actually some pretty funny
That
Nah
You said you haven't watched The Office
But like you said, you've seen clips, right?
Have you laughed at those much?
Some of them, but they're
Like, Office, way more than Friends
Maybe it's a generational thing
I'm more of a 90's kid, even though I'm totally not
Or 80's or 90's kid, I think
I will say
The only funny parts of The Office
Is when Jim is messing with Dwight
Those are
Some of the funniest
Parts of The Office, and those are the only funny parts of The Office
But that's just because Jim is such a
Smug like
Dirty, like
And Dwight's over to the top a lot of times too
And Dwight has it coming to him every time
Oh, because he's so serious, and he's like just chill
That was so funny
Yeah, but anyways
You were going to say something just now?
Oh yeah, Michael driving his car into the pond
What?
I didn't actually watch The Office
But my mom watched The Office all the way through
Even my mom was like
My mom has watched the whole office and she was like
It's kind of so-so
I like all the episodes I've seen
Apparently the ending is really good though
I haven't seen the ending
I don't care if anybody spoiled it for me
Because I probably never watch it anyway
None of us have seen it, so
Cartoons
Any hot takes on cartoons?
Don't get me started on cartoons
Like, okay, for instance, for me
Avatar, The Last Airbender
Gravity Falls
Gravity Falls was so good
Phineas and Ferb
Some of those awesome shows
Fantastic shows
Steven Universe
Steven Universe was really good
I thought it was trash
Okay, actually, I can kind of
Get behind that, but that's just because
I can see Steven Universe being kind of just like
I don't know
I don't have a word for it without triggering people
But it's
It's very just
You don't know if Steven's going to
End up with a girl or not
Nah, but
I don't know, a lot of people like it
And I liked it when I watched it
Did y'all watch Gumball?
Oh my god
Gumball is so good
That show has
It's such a dumb
Sense of humor
Somehow it's also so
Smart
Three times the cheese
But it never got that parking ticket
That's a good quote
My favorite episode by far is the one where
They're talking about selling out and how they don't
Because the family needs money
But they don't want to sell out and do an ad
For whatever the burger place is
And so they slowly
Devolve an animation style
Into lower and lower budget
And it becomes like sketch boards
Or something, or drawing boards
And then they become post-it notes
At some point we see the animators talking
And as someone who has done
Animation and as someone who like
Knows that process, it is so good
Like the fact that they did that
Is crazy
Also the number of animation techniques
They use in that show
There's 3D animation, stop motion
There's some lady
With her chin and mouth
In the show
Suzy or whatever
There's so much effort put into that show
And it is so good
I was gonna mention an episode that I really liked
To match what you were saying
I like them all really though
They're all funny
I'm gonna be so real with you, Layden
You mentioned Avatar
I watched it
I watched like the first season
You gotta watch more than first season
I... Snoresville
I'm willing to watch more of it
Because you guys
You guys swear by it, you and Sam
But I don't know
The first season
I was just kinda like
Oh my gosh
I didn't mean to make that joke
The first season of Avatar
They're really just figuring out
What to do with the characters
The second and third season
So much better
A lot of people say that
And a lot of shows
I'm gonna be real with you
Doesn't get better
Maybe it's just not your thing too
Maybe that's fair
But for me, second season, third season
So much better
Honestly, it's hard for me to watch the first season
Because the second and third are so good
I'll watch Phineas and Ferb growing up
It's my most watched show by far
I recently watched
Like within the past
Two years or something
The entire series again for like the fifth time
Oh my gosh
Okay, I've got another food one here
Okay, yeah
Mint chocolate chip ice cream
Good
Both of you?
That's a classic
You don't like it?
I don't like mint chocolate chip
Did you really just say that?
Yeah, I thought everybody just loved it
You thought everybody loved it?
It's such a basic flavor
It's like just slightly less basic than chocolate and vanilla
We just...
Is that an opinion too?
I'm peaking right now
Because I have no shot
Tell me about it, Jake
Come on
I don't even have words, bro
Do you like hate it or just like not
Are you just kind of...
I don't understand how people are so crazy over it
I'm not crazy over it
It's a good flavor
You just put it on par with chocolate and vanilla
Those are the two biggest flavors ever
I'm not crazy about those either
But like
To put it on such a high standing
It's not on the same level as those
It's very close
That's what I mean
I'm not a big fan of it
I didn't know that was a thing
I just didn't think that you...
Some people felt so strongly about it
I don't know, it's just the mint and the chocolate
I can eat like yorks or something like that
I'll eat those all day
I love those things
But mint chocolate chip ice cream is just weird
I had no idea
You know this?
Have you ever had Andy's mints?
Yes
They're very similar
They're the exact things they give you at Olive Garden
See, those are also good
And that's the same thing as yorks and stuff like that
But I don't know
It's something about the ice cream
Maybe it's because it's an ice cream
But it just...
I don't know, dude
I don't like it
Okay, chocolate or vanilla
That's a good one
I choose chocolate
I don't like the taste of vanilla
I don't mind vanilla at all
Vanilla gets old really quick
Vanilla bean with coffee grounds on top
Perfect
Wow, okay
Bring the coffee back in
Alex is our coffee guy
No thanks for me
I like chocolate milkshakes
I'm not a huge fan of strawberry
I don't like strawberry as a flavor either
Chocolate's my favorite, but I can do strawberry
I've got a real good one
Pineapple on pizza
I'll take it
I can eat it, I don't see why people are so against it
But I wouldn't order it
We all share the same views
Oh, you like it too?
I've never actually fully had it
The concept doesn't sound bad at all
I'll take it
Putting something sweet slash sour
On something like pizza
I am a little hesitant
I guess it has a savory kind of
My main worry would be
The clash with the type of sauce
Because some sauces
You don't want straight tomato sauce and pineapple
Yeah
The sauce has to be right
To go with pineapple
Because that's such a specific flavor profile
Compared to what's on pizza
But I would be open to trying it
I gotta say though
I like literally anything
I'm the most unpicky person I've ever met
So it's not really much of a surprise
Alex, I gotta ask you
Have you eaten grass before?
Just unironically?
Unironically, I don't know
I've made pine needle tea
So that's kinda close
I could make grass tea
Dude, you and I
I made a candy line green salad once
It was actually not terrible at all
I taste like normal lettuce honestly
Don't eat pesticides kids, be careful with that
Weren't you concerned about that
I think it was fine
Because we're both here though
I definitely questioned whether there was pesticides
But I think it was fine
We were pretty young
For anybody
Alex lives pretty close to a golf course
We didn't pull from the golf course
It was our own yard I think
Us just eating plants
Off a golf course
We ate onions from the golf course
Those onions were crazy
I was not prepared for us
They were legit onions
I had one and I was like
Good god
To be fair, we were just eating straight onions
Which is pretty strong
We weren't using as an ingredient
With dirt and all
I just had another topic pulled up
And I was gonna ask you guys about it
I'm trying bean grass at some point
So when you guys travel
Road trips or planes? Car or plane?
I love flying
I can't get down in the group
I knew you were gonna say that
I would love to fly too expensive
My dad has airline miles
We're not talking about expenses or anything
Oh, preferred?
We're gonna take this real serious
Okay
It's preference
We're talking opinions here
I don't even need a movie
Give me a window seat, I will put on my earbuds
I'll put on my earbuds
The Irish get out
I completely buy muscle memory
I'll put on my earbuds and just stare out the window
Even if it's night, I'll just look out the window of the plane
And just think and imagine
I'll think about the flex of the wing
And the control services
I'll think about the flex of the wing
Wonder how far this can bend
Snap
Wow, look at that flex
That can actually bend
Quite far, the 787 wings will move like
20 feet
I'm gonna be real with you guys
You prefer driving?
It's really fun to go on a road trip
It's fun to be on the road
It can get tiring if you're out there for too long
It is very fun to be on a plane
And I love flying
It really is just a like
It solidifies that idea of like
I'm traveling
But at the same time
I love a road trip
You go on the road, you're just cruising down a long highway
Especially at night
Roads are totally open
And you're just cruising
You maybe stop somewhere halfway
You and I go into take start pictures with a
Playlist going
That is probably some of the most fun I've had
Doing like driving
That isn't exactly like a
Full road trip
Going to East Texas was fun
Road tripping to East Texas was so much fun
Especially when you have friends
That makes it really good
And a comfy car
I do it by myself even
I travel by myself just because I think it's fun
Travel is travel to me
It doesn't matter how you do it
More fun with family and friends
I'm similar
I'd be happy to just go anywhere at this point
Okay here's one
What's your preferred state
To travel to
I don't know how much you've traveled
Not a whole lot
I know you've got one
I was going to say Texas
You don't have to specifically do anything
Like how me and Alex
Have to choose a bunch of states
But maybe just like
What's your favorite state that you've been to
Out of the ones you've been or something like that
This kind of comes back to me
Being the most unpicky person
I love everywhere I've been
When I was going to Washington
Washington State not D.C
I was genuinely upset
This was back in like 2018 or whatever
I was so upset when my parents told me we were going there
Because I wanted to go to Colorado again
And once we actually got there
I loved it so much
But
I was kind of late in it
Oh yeah
But man going to the
Smoky Mountains too they're totally as cool as the Rockies
They're very different
But I love them and then the White Mountains
The Appalachians up in the northeast
Dude the beach has been
Really cool and everywhere in Texas I've been is awesome too
I was going to say
Texas is my favorite state
But it's my favorite to live in
It's my favorite deal
Do you think Texas is ideal to live in?
I have a lot of reasons for that
Like we're Christians
He's not talking for weather
Take weather out of the equation
If weather is out of the equation
Do you love it enough or no?
There's so many cool things in Texas
We have the beach, we have the forest, we got the desert
We got some white mountains
We have open plains and prairies
We do have a lot here
We have almost every biome
In the US
A lot of cool biomes
There's so many cool things to do
There's really good city areas
There's a lot of good stuff in Texas
Plus the economy is pretty decent
For the US as well
You're going to love me for saying this
What?
Speak louder
I was purposely talking quietly sorry
You're going to love me for this Jake
Say it
Arkansas
I love Arkansas
I've only been to it once
I don't think I went too far into it
I'd have to
The Ozarks are awesome
I'd have to see where I went
I really did think it was cool
Just the trees
You go there in fall time
The hills that I saw
I didn't see mountains but I saw really big hills
I want to go off roading there
In Hot Springs with y'all
Hot Springs would be so much fun
I am a big fan of Colorado
Me too
I love Arkansas but Colorado has always held the top spot
It has a special place in my heart
It's just Colorado
They've got the mountains
We've already covered that topic
I don't know
I have no opinion after that
Colorado is so chill
Temperature wise too
Everybody is just so laid back
A lot of the places we've been
It's a little touristy
But everybody is riding bikes everywhere
Everybody is just chill
There are so many forerunners
Everybody is just so chill
Everybody goes outside so much
And does stuff
It's so much better
So
Favorite
Weeds legal in Colorado
I'm sorry
I had to say it
That's fair
That's why everyone is so chill
It's Canada but better
Favorite excursion
Favorite excursion slash activity you've done on a trip
And I'll tell you mine
It was in Colorado and it was white water rafting
Dude, white water rafting is so much fun
Favorite excursion
It's climbing Mount Beirstad
I love white water rafting and we've been several times
I haven't been now that I'm over 18
Which means we can do higher class rapids
But
It's always
Climbing a mountain is always going to be
A higher
It's going to be on top of my list
Favorite trip I think I mentioned this once before
Climbing Mount Washington with my dad
Coolest hike I've ever done
Plus it's the most dangerous mountain in America
I think it's supposed to be
I really want to climb another mountain
I've never done it so maybe that would be my favorite
Next outing
Real quick though
Unpopular opinion, I think New Mexico is awesome
I think a lot of people kind of look down on it
But like good for like some basic skiing stuff
There's some beautiful
Hikes there in mountains
Really cool forests like Cloudcroft area
Is your mic picking me up?
Both of ours are and so I was trying to make sure that
I'm going to point them more like this
I do this yeah
Put your mics away from me
Honestly I think New Mexico is awesome
I wouldn't mind living in the northern part of the state
Like
Kind of like level with
Amarillo, Texas you know
I got you, I got you
We've been to New Mexico like once or twice
And it was fun when we went
But I just
I guess it is a popular opinion
At least between us because it's just like
It's very just
Kind of
Basic west
It's New Mexico
It's got kind of Colorado
It's right next door and it's way better
It's got like some of the desert stuff like
The other western states but it's not as good as
The other western states
It's kind of mid I think people have
I really like it
Having gone to Colorado and comparing that
To New Mexico that's the issue
That's what a lot of people do
But I still really like it
And on top of that if you want deserts or sand dunes
We've got those here
You don't need to travel to New Mexico to do a lot of stuff
It's a volcano in New Mexico
It's cool
Anybody down to sacrifice
Anything?
Any local virgins
Around here we can throw in there?
You are talking to two
So
I forgot what I was going to say
Dang it
Balls
That's not what I was going to say but that's kind of like the placeholder
Well maybe
That's actually it
I've got a null texture
You can cut this out if you want
You want to wrap it up?
I've got one more
This one I've got to
I've got to just like
Type this in
I'm purely curious about this
Just for absolutely no reason
So I'm going to
You had this in your notes you were thinking about this one
No I'm going to
This is something else
How do you pronounce that?
Out here
How do you pronounce that word?
Avocado
Do people say avocado or something like that?
No people say avocado
Avocado I've heard that
I think that's kind of a regional thing
I think it depends
Jenna and my mom
Say avocado
But I say avocado
That's why I think it's regional
Now that I
Don't think it's regional because
I'm in the same house as my family
And we say it differently
Now that I think about it I think if you wouldn't have shown me that
I probably would have said it
Avocado
That's why I showed you the word because I didn't want to say
Do you guys pronounce it avocado or avocado?
Because then both are in your head
And whichever one you heard last
But like if I were to hear it
I'd be like oh it's whichever one I heard last
You say aw?
I say aw
There's several words that Texans also say differently to most of us
I'm trying to think of some
Y'all
Did you know that
A lot of people
Don't know what a liquor store is
What?
It's called ABC store in a lot of places
Dude some places have drive thru liquor stores
What?
Roll up, I'll take a beer please
Really you can do that
It's crazy
You'd think Texas would have that
Yeah
Did you know that some people
Actually think that we ride horses and carry
Carriages around
I think that's more of a European thing to think
I don't know
Some people ride horses around
Like a tiny town in the middle of nowhere
I mean like really like
That's downtown Dallas
Riding horses everywhere
Gotta know Park and the Corral
Hey where do I
Ride my horse up real quick
Where do I park the stallion
Yeah
Check out this Mustang I just picked up
One horsepower
She's not turbocharged
I don't know how many people so maybe this isn't as big as I think
I'm not
I'm gonna describe it to you just so that you can
Say it okay
What are the things
That are on the road that haul
Big cargo
A semi truck
Every now and then I would rarely say 18 wheeler
That's a big thing in Texas
I grew up saying semi
I always call it an 18 wheeler
So many people I know call it an 18 wheeler
I grew up calling it an 18 wheeler
And now I'm kind of just like it's a semi
It's a semi truck
I think Big Rig was more of an 80s thing
A lot of people I've heard in the northern states
Call it a tractor trailer
I've heard that sometimes
I don't say that though
It's a tractor trailer
That's so northern of them
And this is very southern of us
That's not a John Deere
Talking about sweet tea earlier
Salsa
I'm saying semi over here I'm sort of 18 wheeler
Apparently Texans say 18 wheeler not semi
I'm trying to think of another one that's like
Very Texas oriented versus
Well we can think
Of more later but for right now
We'll have a Texan episode next time
That's a good idea
We have a listener in Germany or something
Pekan Pekan
What's hello in German?
I should know this I was just there
My parents were learning German
Guten Tag
Guten Morgen
Good morning
This is a good place to wrap it up
So I think
This is good that
Yeah
There's a lot of really different
Perspectives on some stuff
More opinion than I thought we were going to be
And I think that's good to have
You know
Maybe not
We haven't gotten into heavy stuff and we probably won't
Because this ain't that type of podcast
But it's good to have
It's good to have your own opinions and stuff like that
Everybody's a little different
And I think that's what makes it so cool
To talk to new people and everything like that
That's what makes a friend group interesting
And we will have guests
Like actual guests on the podcast
We should have their opinions
We should lead with an opinion question every time we have a guest
What do you think on this?
How do you feel about Texas?
Are we cool?
You listen to the podcast?
Are you a fan?
Anyways we're getting a little distracted
We'll get into more topics next time
Thanks for watching
We'll talk to you all later
Thanks for listening to the Figuring It Out Podcast
Bye!