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Alan Returns! Wish.com and Masks...
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Alan has returned! In this episode, we discuss a possible mask mandate, the ongoing worker shortage, wish.com, and much more.
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Welcome and Life Updates
00:00:11
Speaker
Welcome to the mildly frustrating podcast, the podcast for all things you guessed at mildly frustrating. So we're here again with Nick and we have a surprise return of Alan, who I'm guessing got, I believe he got the COVID vaccine and it seems it's bringing him back to life. So we appreciate you being here, man. You're dead for a little bit. Yeah, you know, kind of take some time off.
00:00:35
Speaker
Yeah, I set the way to to spend more time with my family Really focus on my life and some personal matters since the last time you're on I think um So I've definitely
Alan's Personal Journey
00:00:49
Speaker
moved. Well, we haven't released a podcast and how long has it been like?
00:00:53
Speaker
six months it's been a while maybe not six months but it's been a while definitely is the first time in my new place I don't think have you recorded since you know you haven't recorded in your office I don't know I think you've recorded in your house before yeah
00:01:09
Speaker
No, I was in, I was still in Wake Forest. Really? I was still in my, yeah, I was in the rental. Yeah. So I bought this house. Yeah. I haven't been on here since what? 2019. Yeah. Yeah. It's been a while. Yeah. I moved right. I moved right before the COVID vaccine or the COVID-19 thing happened. So.
00:01:28
Speaker
Yeah, this is my first time in the office and in my new house Super exciting. Hopefully my dogs won't freak out. Hopefully my wife won't just randomly show up in the garage door Yeah, what's it's expected and I expect mine to show up as well How do you make as well it's nice to have you back Frustrated but not more frustrated, you know
00:01:52
Speaker
Bad as frustrated as usual I assume yeah Definitely a lot of changes since I think last time we've been on I've been on the podcast really But yeah a lot of different changes, but I've been hanging in there and honestly the new place isn't too bad
00:02:11
Speaker
Um, any, any changes you want to discuss or you cause you said there's a lot of new changes. I don't know if there's anything you're trying to bring up. No, not really. No, no, no real changes other than that. I mean, you know, just newly single, but it's still living in the same area, which is interesting, but, uh, definitely, uh,
00:02:29
Speaker
You know, it definitely is something that's different. You know, you don't really think at least in some of my position that I would end up in an area like this just on a whim. Uh, but it was definitely one of those things where it was a risk that just didn't pan out. But now I'm stuck here for now, but the, the, the good thing is I made the best out of it. And so far I made a lot of good friends here.
00:02:55
Speaker
I mean, you know, that's why it's honestly kind of stayed in that mild zone is because yeah, it would definitely be very fresh if I didn't know anybody here. Yeah, and I didn't make anybody any friends and then I was just stuck here Yeah, you got got some some support there. Yeah
00:03:10
Speaker
So it's definitely an interesting journey that I've been on, but I'm ready to kind of go back home. Yeah. Oh, you'll be coming back. Uh, how long is that now? Like July. Yeah. My at least ends in July. Yeah. So two and so like nine or 10 months.
00:03:26
Speaker
Something like that? Yeah, something like that. So I got some time to plan out what to do. But yeah, it's definitely definitely a journey. I'm honestly, I didn't expect that this is where my life went. I was thinking about this in high school, but you never do. Yeah, I know. It's so strange.
00:03:44
Speaker
Well, are you are you glad you took the risk and went out there? Oh, yeah, no, there's no regrets here, honestly. I mean, again, I met some awesome people here, which I think in the long run, I'm going to enjoy their company a lot more than when I, you know, the original reason why I moved here. You know, so I think that that's something that will kind of last a little bit longer and.
00:04:04
Speaker
Ultimately, I think that that's a good thing. I mean, I don't think that I would have been able to expand myself so much, but at the same time, it does make
Housing Market Challenges
00:04:12
Speaker
me miss home. It makes me miss, you know, you guys and having my, my old friends just be around so that I could be within, you know, within reach. But yeah, definitely, definitely something that I wish was different, but I'm glad that I have what I do have. Yeah. Well, it'll be nice to, it'll be nice to have you back when you, when you do come back. I might have a room to rent.
00:04:34
Speaker
True. That's true. He can he can hook you up I'm not paying 1500. Yeah, it's half my just half the mortgage. It's all good Will you take one dogecoin?
00:04:54
Speaker
I have 0.06 of a dose if that works. Did you see the new one? About $11 worth. Yeah. Did you see the new one last or yesterday was a spade? Yes. That was going eight crazy all over the it was in my neighborhood. Oh, my neighborhood. Facebook was freaking out about it.
00:05:14
Speaker
I don't know. Sorry. I was thinking of the other one. Bitcoin. Bitcoin. Yeah, I know. Dogecoin. Yeah, I got 0.26 of something. I think of Dogecoin. Oh, isn't Dogecoin like $3? Well, no, it's like 32 cents.
00:05:30
Speaker
Yeah, that's sorry. I knew it was a three thirty two. Yeah. As of right now, it might be. I mean, that thing's been going up and down. Yeah. Anyway, it's it's been like five hundred bucks and then less than a penny at one point. Yeah. I've got like a whole bunch of volatile. It stays in like 30, the 32 cent range. I don't think it's it hasn't broken a dollar yet. Right. No, I've been waiting for it. Yeah. But no, I have like 26 shares of that. So I have a decent amount. So I'm hoping it does that.
00:05:58
Speaker
But yeah, as far as, as far as that, I'm not a betting man often. That's why I went to straight up a bit Coinbase and this isn't a problem, but I went straight up to them, got my earnings from them and that was free money. I'll just take that. Okay.
00:06:16
Speaker
Um, but so we'll go to our, uh, our returning co-host. Um, is there anything that's been particularly frustrating that you'd like to, uh, you know, bring to the group? This is a safe space. Yeah, I know. Right. It's like everything. So, I mean, like, I'm going through some crazy stuff right now, but like the, yeah, you look bad.
00:06:39
Speaker
Yeah, shut up. I don't know. Coming off a birthday, it's not so bad. So it's like I'm a lot less stressed than I was. But, you know, it's then the holidays are always rough for me anyway. So yeah. Yeah. And then trying to sell a house and then trying to buy a house right now is insanity. I don't envy that.
00:06:59
Speaker
No, it's not fun. It's nice for the money because like I said, I would love to have the money and then you ship it right back up to somebody else. Yeah, it's it's frustrating as hell. Yeah. Yeah. But it's been fun. Yeah. Cool. I'm ready to move that. I bet. So are you you're going to are you legit looking closer to? Yeah. So so we're we're in the process of like so
00:07:27
Speaker
We've already got our financing for our new loan. We've done all that stuff. So now it's just like finding a place and then trying to sell our place. And depending on which one we want to do first because of.
00:07:40
Speaker
the way the market is right now, you have to put down so much money. We bought this house with $100 of due diligence, and now they're talking about they want 15,000, 20,000 cash before you even sign the contract, which you can't get back if you fall through. Nick, can you spot him? Yeah. Yeah, hit me up if you got something. I'll take 20 cents right now. It's insanity.
00:08:02
Speaker
Yeah, so like we're talking about selling our house and then paying a company. There's like companies that will buy your new house for cash that you can do gold. Yeah, I wish. But it's like so you pay four percent of your buying.
00:08:18
Speaker
So you're talking about 10,000 bucks on top of the $10,000 you're going to pay those due diligence. So you're talking about, you know, we need, we have to sell our house to get the money. To have the cash to buy the new house just to get in it. And then we're right back to square zero. So it's like, yeah. Well, here's what I can say, at least on that though, is for as long as I've lived and I don't know nothing about the stock market or anything like that, but this is what I've known for as long as I lived.
00:08:45
Speaker
When the housing market rises, it's a great time to sell, but after two or three, four or five years, it crashes for another 10 years. Yeah. Two or three years ago, I think maybe no one to two years ago. Honestly, that was the perfect time to sell your house. Cause that.
00:09:05
Speaker
Everybody is buying houses. That was a great time to sell your house and get money. I don't, I think it's going on the decline as of right now, but it, once it goes down to that pit bar, you're gonna have to wait another 10 years. Yeah. That's why we don't want, like, I don't want to lose out on the money. I've gotten the equity right now. And that's what I'm saying is who knows if it's going to go up, how long it's going to go up, if it's going to take another 10 years, but.
00:09:31
Speaker
, and
00:09:52
Speaker
It might be the best you got again until fifteen years so the best time to buy it's not the best time to sell but it's the opposite is the best time to sell not the best time to buy exactly and i actually just actually working on the telecommunications i actually was able to talk with the customer.
00:10:11
Speaker
That was that just sold their house for a phenomenal fee. And they're actually staying on a motel right now. And they said that they're waiting until a time to buy another house and they're going to try to find somebody to help them with that and cut costs a little bit. But I mean, right now seems the time to sell. If you're going to sell now, unless you're going to want to stay at the same place for another 10 to 15 years, that's fine. But it sounds like you wanted to leave.
00:10:38
Speaker
And so I would. That's that's the weird part, right? Because we love our house, but like we want to have. A single family home like we're the townhome was a nice like investment in early like first house. Yeah. But now we you know, how many times do you want to walk your dog a day on a leash? Sucks. I'd rather have a yard. I can just let them go run off in and you know, just like being in a neighborhood where I don't have an adjacent wall to somebody.
00:11:05
Speaker
It's kind of what I don't want anymore. The underlying thing that you're not thinking about her is all of the poop you're going to be stepping on. Oh, I've got I've got pooper scooper songs and you just let them leave around the yard. I don't think you're going to go out there and just say, all right, let me play around and pick up all these pieces. Maybe not every day, but, you know, like once a week I'll come to it. Yeah, it's just it's so it's so volatile, right? I don't want to I don't want to wait and then lose what I have now because
00:11:34
Speaker
Like right now my house is shooting for 150% right now. That's ridiculous. How many times are you gonna get that? Well, that's what I'm saying is like, you get that now, you wait another five years when the market crashes, and then you're just buying a maybe possible better house for the same amount of money you just put down.
00:11:53
Speaker
As long as you know how to spend it wisely and you don't, you know, go frugal with all this cash. I mean, you should do fine. You should just do perfect. Yeah. The problem is you have to live somewhere in the meantime. I mean, because I mean, you're talking about like, if I tried to find a short term lease right now, you can't lease anything right now. Like that's where you kind of talk with your wife. And I mean, again, if you all are really close and really good, I would just say this.
00:12:18
Speaker
and
00:12:34
Speaker
Make that money last because after a year or so, when the market is even lower, you just buy a house at a different location, possibly for a better value or so. And then you live off of that. And also how close I was, you know, how close I dodged, uh, two years ago, living in a damn, um,
00:12:53
Speaker
like a shipping container house or a tiny house. That's what my wife wanted. Oh, she was in the tiny home thing. Like we saw one the other day, like the alternative. Yeah. Oh, dude. So annoying. I'm like, I mean, it's it's all good. It's nice if you're single with no kids and no nothing and you have nothing of value to carry around with you. Yeah, it's great. But I've got more stuff and just valuables that couldn't fit in a damn 300 square foot home. And I also don't want to live on like a box.
00:13:23
Speaker
Or, you know, it's, it's okay. In a personal experience, obviously, if you have a different point of view, that's fine. But I'm just saying, as far as a long-term goal, I mean, sacrifice two, two, so years and then gain an extra 10, 15 years until the market goes back up to sell that house. And now you have a bigger, better house. And you sell that bigger, better house. You know, it's just something that you can kind of, as long as you can maintain it. But if you ever live in a tiny home, Nick, Oh, I guess you already do.
00:13:53
Speaker
Well, the funny thing is actually I have a four-bedroom townhouse myself. Yeah Thank you. So I don't have to live at the tiny place. Thank you very much. Yeah, that's fair Just to give out in context he has roommates, but nobody's living in the other rooms right now. Yeah So I have the whole place myself and guess how much I'm paying and it's ridiculous and I love it But the thing is I lucked out I lucked out I mean and I'll take that
00:14:19
Speaker
But that's why I feel fortunate for what I have I just hate that I don't have more So you wouldn't so I don't know I've thought about it I would the idea of a tiny home to me is dope Yeah, I would want to do it and Tom like oh
00:14:37
Speaker
But then like, I don't have like a game room. Like I can like sit down and play video games without Jazzy sitting right next to me. I told you, that's what I told me. And I was like, just think about how annoyed we are when I'm doing something that you don't enjoy and just imagine that 24 seven 365 the rest of our lives.
00:14:56
Speaker
It would only work like
Tech Shortages and Consumer Frustrations
00:14:57
Speaker
if you have either the same exact hobbies or like you don't care. I don't know. Like you would have to do the same exact thing all the time. That's honestly, if I was rich enough, like if I was wolf on wall street rich or whatever, and I had, I was able to get on, you know, a big house and everything. And I was able to have a wife, I would go ahead and I'd have honestly separate rooms and separate areas just so that we'd have our own alone time. I mean, cause.
00:15:20
Speaker
being together, I mean, that's great and all, but you are still your own person. So, I mean, you still like to do your own things that you don't necessarily miss, like migrate with the other person. That's okay. That should be okay. I mean, cause you, again, have your own thing that they might not just be a hundred percent on. You know, if they're 98%, I mean, that's still,
00:15:40
Speaker
That blows out the hundred percent part, you know, so it's just it's one of those things like when I'm by myself and I can't help it, I could be with the person I've been with people that I've been the most comfortable with. Imagine every time you could be like, oh, OK, so you're going to watch TV or you want to like, you know, do this. I'm going to go over there and do this. You never could do that again. Other than I'm going to go outside and, you know, look at the clouds like your bed is your bed is also your table, also your kitchen.
00:16:09
Speaker
Well, yeah, you would have to you would have to go to somebody else's house or like go like out to do anything other than sit in your one spot. I don't know. So it sounds dope until you think about it. I can't do composting. I'm not doing all that stuff. Like it's way too much work.
00:16:27
Speaker
Well, the thing is I appreciate the love and I understand the joy of that life, but I also enjoy the concept. And I, again, I'm just a single guy, so I just hope for the concept. There's somebody there that I could actually enjoy living in a small area and just enjoying myself anyway, without that, I would like to think that there is somebody like that out there for me as well.
00:16:52
Speaker
Uh, the aspect for me, for the thing is there's a lot of people that can enjoy that. And I have a simple, I'm a civil guy. So, I mean, going out to the woods and stuff, that never bothered me. I don't need a lot, but the thing is I, uh, sometimes I do feel bougie and I just like to have a lot. I like to romanticize about that as well. But I mean, it's also, it's a combating thing. I don't know. I'm a, it, it, it combats, but yeah.
00:17:20
Speaker
But honestly, none of that is anywhere near as frustrating as the fact that the Xbox One Series X is sold out. Like why is that sold out everywhere? Why is the why is an iPhone like taking me a month to get?
00:17:37
Speaker
Dude, everything is taking forever and it's so everything is in the day and you can't get it. You can't get chicken wings right now. Zach's face. Come on. Who just wing stop just started doing thighs. Yeah. Yeah. Because because chicken wings are like it's the same thing that happens in the Super Bowl when they're like, oh, hey, you can't get chicken wings for the Super Bowl. It's like, when do we stop?
00:17:58
Speaker
for eating chicken. So I know they're still out there. I see them on the road. Legit. Ever since I learned that chicken wing hack, I've never even had a thought that I wanted a chicken like tender chicken. I just want straight up chicken wings so I can just do that and just.
00:18:14
Speaker
You're talking about ripping the small bone out and eating it one piece. Yeah Flats are the best. My wife hates them and I love them. I was I was I was like teeter-tottering I was always on the fence about those until I learned about that. Oh this changed the game How long have you been trying to get the Xbox for
00:18:38
Speaker
Far too long. I honestly, since the first time you told me about it, I looked it up and that's when, um, game stop. How was having an issue? I was like, all right, well, I'll try it later. I totally forgot about it until the next time that you, you, uh, wanted to, um, I know you told me about it through, uh, Walmart. And then after Walmart, like I've been trying it for the first three or so days, I was trying it every 11 minutes. Cause you said it is check every.
00:19:05
Speaker
Yeah.
00:19:21
Speaker
And I was actually just telling, uh, Alan how it was ridiculous that they, at this point in time and their career, that, uh, they, they didn't have the, uh, like, uh, a queue line or something. So like, if I tried to get into it initially and say like may or, you know, June or July, why they wouldn't just cue me in for that. Instead of having me continuously watch it every like July, August, September, like trying to do all that.
00:19:50
Speaker
So I don't like that might actually thought about it first then I wanted to issue that might make it worse because then you'd have so you have the people who are
00:20:03
Speaker
I don't want to say scammers, but the scalpers, well, that's what I was also telling him as well. You're already using your information because you have to get a credit check in order to get the payment plan. Oh, if you're getting the plan, if you're getting the payment plan, you should have a queue line and you can only use it pretty much once. So it's kind of hard to scan, like get multiple, you know, you can get up to two. Yeah, I don't disagree. So I feel like that should be at this point in time. I mean, come on.
00:20:29
Speaker
Like, and if not, I told them maybe I should make this for Shark Tank and then pitch this all over. I mean, it's just ridiculous at this point, like. Yeah. Well, everything has been super hard to find. Um, like Alan said, his iPhone is pending until further notice. Yeah. So he ordered the iPhone 13 and it says like Thanksgiving essentially is when it'll get here.
00:21:16
Speaker
Okay, well, I'm talking about Xbox and at this point, I guess Apple. I think you're right. No, so he already purchased his phone. He's waiting for it to ship to get here. Yeah. Yeah. Like I went to AT&T store and waited for like 10 minutes and asked him if he had any 13 pro maxes. He's like, he left at me. He said in stock, like in the store. I was like, yeah, he goes.
00:21:18
Speaker
when it was shipped, is like we're shipping no earlier than eight weeks
00:21:39
Speaker
No. It's like, can you order one? Like, and he goes, Yeah, we can order one. I was like, is it the same process I would order online from Apple? And he goes, Yeah. I was like, Well, how long can you have it here? He goes, I can probably have it here within the week. And I was like, Yeah, I'll go see. So online, talk to the AT&T person, the girl. And I was like, Hey, I want to order a 13 max. She's like, we can have it there by November 28. And I was like, I thought the guy in the store told me I could have it within a week. She goes, I don't know what he's talking about.
00:22:08
Speaker
He was trying to get the sales while he was trying to get it. Yeah, of course he was. He just wanted me to buy it through him. This is where you go over and call it server spectrum. We'll help you out. Your shipping date has been delayed. I'm sure I could pay him within a week. Yes. And then he could have it there within seven weeks. And I was like, all right, we're good.
00:22:23
Speaker
It'd probably take even longer because as soon as you pay, they don't need to send it. It's just so weird. I kind of hope that I give you a cue or something like that, but that's ridiculous. The places are doing that. Like, and that's the thing I noticed, at least as far as, you know, staying on the Xbox topic, the games I've been playing on there, they're not even finished when they come out. I don't know what's going on. I would prefer a finished product. I understand a lot of people, they don't like waiting for things, but me personally, I would.
00:22:52
Speaker
I would really like to have a finished product at least once every 10 years. Yeah, it's a kind of a general problem that's been going on. People are complaining because I mean, now everything even more than ever has been shifted to money. It's also a lot easier nowadays with digital projects because you can push out an update to something though. So they don't care. They'll be like, we'll release it tomorrow and then just update it for the next six years. We're making money for the next six years. And we barely even had to put any work into it.
00:23:25
Speaker
Yeah, no, that's the very action that I really don't like about it. I just feel like we give into that and we're like, yeah, okay. As long as it comes out tomorrow, I don't care how long, how crappy you make it. I just want you to come out with it and then I want to go ahead and pay for it.
00:23:41
Speaker
Me personally, I, I would like to have the finished product pay the $60 or, or at this point, I mean, I will go ahead and pay a hundred dollars or so. Cause obviously at this stage of the game or finished product, the graphics and everything that they put in it does, I will agree with the price changes. Not a lot of people like the price increase, but I mean, come on, they're making these kinds of games at this, the, you gotta have some sort of price increase at some point.
00:24:08
Speaker
And we've been saying that 60, $60 for a game for a long time. Um, I feel like it's, it's fair to ask for a price increase, but I also feel like it's fair to ask for a finished game. I mean, just don't give into that. I mean, we can be babies all you want to, but you're making us the stuff you're the parent. You tell us no, and they're going to come out with it when we'll get there when it gets there. So, I mean, that's what I feel like it should be.
00:24:34
Speaker
for a company that they are the ones who especially don't care. It's the customers who care. The customers get pissed off, but I mean, it doesn't matter. They already made their money. Well, I feel like the customer, it's slightly on the customers only because they're allowing it to get to that point. I mean, if we just stopped paying for it and they get their act together and then, yeah, people are, we accept it. People are pissed off, but it doesn't mean you're not going to buy it anyway.
00:25:01
Speaker
It's definitely, it's definitely stopped me from buying pre-orders. I'll tell you that one. I have completely stopped pre-ordering anything because the pre-orders suck hard. I remember when Call of Duty pre-orders, if you got a specific pre-order at a certain amount of time, you can get the physical
00:25:23
Speaker
a package, a statue or something, or like a replica or something like that. You can get something or ordering a specialized package and all that. Nowadays, you're just like, go ahead and get a skin for the same gun that everybody else gets. Yours looks different than theirs. Yeah. Nobody don't give you a lot of incentive. People in Call of Duty, I do not look at their guns. Oh, that's a nice gun. No, that's ridiculous. I mean, come on.
00:25:51
Speaker
Yeah, well, so yeah, so he's waiting on his iPhone and I we both actually ordered.
00:25:59
Speaker
more of the Woo band, so I don't know if you remember. Is that that fitness thing? Yeah. Yeah. So they released a new one like a month ago. You would. So they released a new one like a month ago. You just have to go in and order it. It's free because you pay a monthly subscription to use their service, so it's free to get the band. Oh, yeah.
00:26:23
Speaker
I put in my preorder, it's like, oh, hey, you get priority because you're already a member, you know, you put in your order for the upgrade. Uh, dude, that was like a month ago and they are estimating maybe shipping at the end of November.
00:26:36
Speaker
Am I getting the new one? I didn't even notice what version I'm getting. OK, cool. Yeah. Yeah, it's everything just to be transparent. This isn't paid or an advertisement
Pandemic's Economic Impact
00:26:50
Speaker
is. No, we don't have any advertisements. Also, I was surprised if anybody thought we did. I told him how shocking like this last year has shown to do something with that.
00:26:59
Speaker
how little our culture can handle a small blip in any kind of industry like you had one like one major thing and then we lost toilet paper and Clorox wipes for six months. And then now we're like, oh, hey, we've lost truck drivers and dock workers and all this other stuff. It's just so crazy.
00:27:25
Speaker
Yeah. So, uh, I don't know if you got that email, Alan, but whoop, send me, sent me an email. They're like, Hey, um, so like, as you know, there's a worldwide shortage of workers and materials and like, everything is a shortage right now. So like we're working as hard as we can to get it to you as fast as we can. Uh, but things are delayed and we're doing our best. It's essentially the email I got. So they, uh, they gave me like a tracking thing for my specific order. It was like.
00:27:52
Speaker
estimated like November 30th or not 30, like the 20th. I was like, damn. Yeah, it's it's crazy. It's like I said, it's just it's it's maddening to think of like how little how little we took this seriously for so long and then how it can just shut down everything like. But I was telling him the same thing. Like when you go to the grocery store, you expect like
00:28:18
Speaker
some things to be out, but to see like major brands be out like their whole case be gone. It's like, holy crap. It's amazing how how fast it was. It was like if everybody says we're going back to normal and it's like, yeah, now we can't buy.
00:28:36
Speaker
I have the stuff in the store and the stuff you can get is like a dollar more expensive on everything. Yeah. Lord. Yeah. The upcharge for the stuff you can get. Yeah. It's like you're paying, you know, you're paying for more gas and more money. Everything is just more. So it's it's just insanity. Yeah. So that's been just a general issue. It's affecting a lot of things.
00:28:59
Speaker
If you never knew that the human ecosystem was fragile. Yeah, exactly. That's what I'm saying. It's like it we I mean, growing up, who thought like the like us a virus could shut down the economy pretty much. It's just the weird thing is it's happened multiple times. Why is everybody so surprised? Spanish flu. Yeah. I think it's like I think it's more like the regular flu.
00:29:29
Speaker
I was watching a video the other day just like how
00:29:33
Speaker
I know you guys are younger than me, but like how our generation, so even people in the thirties. So anybody graduated between oh three and oh 10, we've seen two major economy hits and a few fungus virus all within 10 years. So it's like, we never ever recovered from oh eight. And then we got 2020 that happened in the same 12 year span. It's like, yeah.
00:29:59
Speaker
It's just crazy. Yes, I'm I'm very grateful that I don't have nothing because I could easily have nothing. Yeah. Just from like the way I believe my life worked out
Online Shopping Adventures
00:30:11
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so.
00:30:11
Speaker
So kind of on kind of on the same note, I. So I was looking at like Wish.com and these like a third party Amazon sellers. And I just got to tip my hat to your people, Nick. Oh, right. OK. Take your breath.
00:30:34
Speaker
These third party Chinese ripoffs are sometimes fantastic. Like I've gotten well, dude, have you ever searched something like super generic like like like fan or charger or something like that? And there's eight billion of the same exact like literally the same exact product, except a letter like a printed letter is different. It's hilarious.
00:31:01
Speaker
I usually know exactly what I want or around there. So I usually type in the specific one, but no. How does that work? I can. If I do this now, so like Amazon. At their end, they're all the same one, except this one in the middle. There's one from tripole from CCC. From Gaia top. Whoa.
00:31:27
Speaker
I know, right? Definitely in the Asian region, I guess. From Slenpet. OK, now you're. Dude, it's hilarious that all these like third party. Is it just resellers or like they're just.
00:31:47
Speaker
No, it's brands. Like, well, brands in quotes, like they're knockoffs of like people just buy bulk and then put a name on it. Alawan. Misu. You know, the funny thing is the name brands and the knockoffs are both made in China. Yes. Well, everything is made in China. That's what I'm saying. It's not made in the same factory. So it's Beskar, EZ ACC.
00:32:16
Speaker
Jay-Z creator. And they're all the same fan. So it's I was just thought it was hilarious, like going through and seeing. Dude, have you ever bought anything from Wish.com just as a side note? I bought two things from there and I was very unhappy with both.
00:32:36
Speaker
Yeah, how'd it go? The shirt that I had was more plasticky than I imagined. And the watch came in broken. It was already broken when I got it. I was stunned to see that I was excited about how cool it looked. And they made it look like it had lights that turned on on it. It was glow in the dark, or supposed to be. I tried to do the glow in the dark. It didn't work out too well.
00:33:01
Speaker
Yeah, it was already like the minutes time never ever worked. Yeah, dude. Wish.com is its own whole subject. It's it's so funny. I'm sure you guys have seen like videos like here's my wish.com purchases. Let's see what we got. Now, I will say this and I'm not condoning anybody to ever try this. Don't ever.
00:33:21
Speaker
ever try this, but I have seen a YouTube channel that bought Bulletproof vests and stuff from there. He obviously didn't wear them. We put them on like mannequins and stuff, but they actually did catch some things and they were impressive. There is impressive.
00:33:40
Speaker
enough stuff there, but that was it. That was the only thing I ever saw that ever actually had any sort of, why did I get confused with wish.com and DHK? I just thought of DHK. I was going to say, I was very happy with DHK. I got two trash cans when I order one. So wish.com.
00:33:59
Speaker
Yeah, it's the one I see on Facebook all the time. So DH Gate has a lot of the same stuff, but they have some decent stuff. Wish.com sure has a few products on there, but it's like the car turbo. I feel like it's the dollar general of the internet. Exactly. Yeah.
00:34:16
Speaker
It's like Dollar General. You thought eBay was whack. Yeah. I feel like there's not a there's not a lot of regulation on Wish.com. It's just kind of like Wawa West. Like you got something to sell, sell here. I feel like it's a straight up lie about a lot of their products. Like you got something. I don't know. You got something to sell. Is it in a box yet? Yeah. I saw like people buy like a
00:34:41
Speaker
Somebody bought a, like a new graphics card. Oh, I saw some of those on that. I was like, there's no way. Well, yeah, well, it was, I mean, it was to see what they get just for fun because it was like brand new graphics card. That's like five hundred dollars. It was listed for like ninety dollars. OK, let's go and order it. We get it. So they get it immediately. Like you take it out of the box. Looks nothing like it. And they plug in and it's like it's like a six year old.
00:35:07
Speaker
uh, graphics card that doesn't need, like it says, uh, must have windows XP on it because that was the newest at the time. Oh my God. It's hilarious. It is the dollar general. They have so much stuff on there and they make it look so cool. Like your watch. I don't know how they got, how they have not gotten slapped with lawsuits after lawsuits and everything. I mean, it's China. They advertise it so.
00:35:32
Speaker
I mean, they the way that they feel like that's considered false. I feel like that that has to be some sort of law. There's a lot of legality that you can walk around in marketing. There's a reason why there's like there's literally jobs that are called marketing liaisons for lawyers. And all they do is just how to word it to where you weren't.
00:35:53
Speaker
liable for anything that's crazy you just have to it's not how to play the game now that's also if it's a it's like ebay where it's a third-party seller so when you thought america was the capitalist system a one right here with the whistle is so it's you can buy something wish is not liable because that they didn't sell it they're just run the website that allows other people to sell things
00:36:19
Speaker
So they're not liable for that. And then you try and contact her, but you'll contact them and be like, Hey, what the heck? My product is broken. They don't have to answer you. Um, a lot of the times if you try and bring like legal action, they'll just shut down their company in quotes. Uh, and then they put up a new one that they just, you know, added a Z to it.
00:36:40
Speaker
Yeah, they don't they don't really care about like your customer ratings. So they're just going to create a second one. Yeah, no, they're good. And they'll boost all their cell numbers. They'll sell to themselves like 20 times and be like, oh, this is a legitimate seller. Look, it's got 20, 20 cells in the last week. Yeah.
00:36:58
Speaker
Yeah, you get some hilarious stuff. Dude, those videos are so funny to watch. They'll purchase some crazy stuff that is not even- That's where the car turbo one actually worked. It was interesting.
00:37:13
Speaker
Somebody bought like a laptop, it was like a Lenovo or a Dell or something like that, you know, new laptop with, you know, four gigs of RAM for like, and it was like 50 bucks. And they're like brand new, like, so they get it and it's like obviously used, has stickers on it, like, they open it up, it has none of the same specs, it's hilarious. There was a guy that was selling iPads at the back of his van, which is obviously number one.
00:37:43
Speaker
And I remember seeing people on Facebook saying, I got scammed by this guy. He was selling just the boxes. They weren't even filmed. They weren't even clean filmed. They were just the boxes. They would open it up as a big piece of wood that had been carved out that said iPad on the bottom of it. And people were paying hundreds. I was like, you didn't open it. They're like, no, I thought that he was good. I was like, why isn't it wrapped?
00:38:04
Speaker
And why is he selling out the back of a van in the middle of a Target parking lot? Yeah, exactly. You know where you can get some good speakers and the guy that's walking down the middle of Target and selling them out the back of his car that he's going to rip the wires out and you're going to be like, well, why did you rip the wires out? Because he just stole it out of the back of that car. Like, good job. He just bought some stolen.
00:38:25
Speaker
Car parts. Let's go. Yeah, I appreciate that, Nick. So thank your parents and whoever
COVID Mandates and Personal Freedom
00:38:32
Speaker
else. Wow. On that. Yeah, no problem. From us to you. Yeah. I'm going to go to you. And I should know. Get Chinese from from which dot com. Oh, God. Send you a chicken tender. First of all, it takes six weeks and then who knows what I'm going to get. That's true. It does also take months. Who knows about even any like
00:38:54
Speaker
I wonder how long it would take now with all the shipping. Oh, God. That's why I don't want to buy the HK right now. Like I want to buy stuff, but it's like it'll take literally a year to get here. Yeah. Take get here next season.
00:39:06
Speaker
Yeah, that's like okay. Yeah, there any more teams coming in I'll buy the the new team I Need the next expansion team so I can get ahead of things the next five years I'm gonna order five years ahead of time. Mm-hmm. So I got it. I got a good question for you Okay, so this came up in local government
00:39:25
Speaker
Like I said, I think I brought it up to you earlier. So it's I heard the first ever person say. The most cognitive answer to. What do you think about mass mandates? And I heard his answer and I was like, oh, wow, it's actually somebody that's like not thinking about it like.
00:39:48
Speaker
You know, one side just needs to be right, and one side really wants to be right, so you never know what's going on. And he said, he was like, how can you enforce something at a restaurant when I can take my mask off as soon as I sit down? So why do I need to wear it in?
00:40:07
Speaker
I mean, that's always been a question. I know. So like just as general, how do you feel about it? Do you feel do you feel weird? It's been I just felt like it was just a consideration thing. I mean, you go in so that you're not coughing on the hostess table and the main area and all that kind of stuff, but you're going at your own table. It's going to be cleaned right after and all that stuff. So.
00:40:30
Speaker
I mean to me it's no harm no foul I mean you're wearing your mask to give other people at least a peace of mind I mean there are a lot of people that have so he's not arguing he's not arguing the mask itself he's arguing he's saying what's your opinion on the man on there being a mandate for it
00:40:48
Speaker
I get it in some terms. And again, that's more of a courtesy thing. I mean, if you're just a place that says, Hey, you don't have to care about these other people that are getting sick. That's one thing, but at the same time, I mean, everybody's getting, I mean, vaccinations now. So either do you don't at that point, technically at this point, it's on you. What was that one time we saw Dylan, it was the, uh, Wake County requires mass, but you do. It's what keeps you and your family safe.
00:41:17
Speaker
Yeah, I feel like that's a mask. It's kind of a joke in place. It was that. Yeah. So the public place, right? Yeah. So that but that's like, I feel like that's the argument, right? That it it is a common courtesy, but nobody hears. It's the United States. Nobody's courteous here.
00:41:37
Speaker
Everybody's about themselves. Some people are, but most people are not. So it's like, can you be myself? I don't I don't judge other people that don't wear a mask, but I personally, I will just go ahead and wear a mask anyway. I mean, just because I'm a courteous person and me personally, I haven't gotten my vaccination quite yet, so I will wear a mask just in case.
00:41:57
Speaker
Um, now do I plan on getting a vaccine? Yeah, but I'm not anti-vax. It's just, I just haven't gotten it yet. Um, and I don't, I feel like I'm the same way I'm vaccinated, but I still wear a mask just because it's like, I don't know if nothing else, it just doesn't get me sick. So it's, I don't feel like there's any problem with it. Like, I get it. I get the people that are like super, it's the ones that are super aggressive about it. They always like.
00:42:21
Speaker
But I mean the people that are super about people aggressively against it and people aggressively for it and those people are the people that kind of make the issue because I'm doing it to be courteous or I don't have to do it and that's my own courteous you can just apply yourself and be curious yourself by either staying home wearing a mask or staying away from if you see that I don't have a mask and you don't want to be near me.
00:42:42
Speaker
then you can do the courteous thing and you just stay on your part, not infringe upon other people's rights. That's the whole thing. We're America. Every single person has the freedom to do what is legally bound. And the person, that's the thing that people don't get is you have the freedom to be against it, but you also have to have the freedom to be forward. So you have to kind of learn to coexist with that without being aggressive. Would you be mad if they,
00:43:11
Speaker
Because, I mean, you're you're arguing that there should be, you know, nobody should force away on anybody else. Does that mean you would care if there was a mandate?
00:43:21
Speaker
The only mandate that I would care about is if they mandated that people cannot wear masks in there. That's the only mandate I would actually care about. Have you told me that I had to? And the thing is, I have other perspective from other countries as well. I mean, I have a friend that lives in Australia and she's currently still in lockdown. They've been in lockdown since before we started and they're still in lockdown, like complete lockdown.
00:43:45
Speaker
They've been taking one for the team and they've had a lot of rampant outbreaks within Australia as well. I mean, it happens. It's a real thing. And I understand how real it can be. So for them to tell me, hey, there needs to be a mandate. We need to do this and that. That's not going to bother me because the bottom line is I'm keeping people alive. I'm keeping people safe as much as possible. That's my sacrifice. If my purpose in life is to keep other people happy. I mean, that's what I got to do.
00:44:13
Speaker
just because I have to wear a mask. I mean, honestly, I don't even understand a lot of people that have issues because a lot of those same people are having issues with the government following you, man. And tracking you, dude. If you wear a mask, doesn't that help you conceal your identity just a little bit more? I don't understand. I love the they're putting a tracking chip on you while they gave you the cell phone that's got the tracking chip inside of it.
00:44:39
Speaker
Yeah, I'm just like, we already have so much stuff in our technology that you're already allowing the government to track you. I don't understand why you think they would spend billions more just to put one inside of you. Just in case they decide to toss their phone into a lake and never go back to it again.
00:44:57
Speaker
People, you can think you're immortal and all that stuff, but the thing is, I mean, you gotta kind of get over yourself. We, we have to get over that thing that, Oh, if it's not happening to me, it's not happening at all. That's just, that's just something that lets somebody else who had the same kind of mentality as you, as far as I want to be alive. And that's the main goal. The main thing here.
00:45:19
Speaker
They didn't get a chance to, but you did. So you think it's okay. But the thing is, we all want to kind of be alive as long as we can until we do. If you go ahead and go to somebody, I already wanted to go. That's, that's on them, you know, whatever. But if you give it someone, I mean, come on, that's just ridiculous. But as far as the mandate on having masks, I wouldn't have any sort of.
00:45:43
Speaker
ill will against that. I mean, I understand it. I mean, we're trying to keep everybody safe. I'm trying to keep that other person safe. They don't want to die. I don't want to die. Honestly, that's what he is. Well, you don't want to. Hey, hey, this is a selfish person. We can't talk about that part. No selfish person. But the thing is, is like. You know, with the covid, it's.
00:46:10
Speaker
It's something that happens even if you don't die, your respiratory system goes into whack for months. There's people that still don't have scent and they got the COVID near when it started. They still can't smell things. I mean, that's just, I feel like even if you didn't want to die, you at least want to keep your scent. I mean, I wouldn't miss it.
00:46:30
Speaker
Not being able to smell some good food. Who is the smell stuff? Now, I will say, I mean, if you haven't if you have an issue eating broccoli and stuff, this would be the perfect time for you to eat some veggies. I mean, honestly, that's a great. Nicko is looking on the bright side. I'm just saying you got a part of the silver lining somewhere. I mean, all the veggies I could, you know, I can't I can't even taste them. So healthy all week.
00:46:56
Speaker
What if we go into another lockdown? What's going to happen? What's here?
00:47:02
Speaker
What's your prediction here? Do you, do you think we had to another like outbreak? I don't think we're going to go into another lockdown unless it's really, but I would say this, if we go into a lockdown, everybody better take it seriously. Cause here's a logical standpoint. You think a government such as our own wants to go into another lockdown where they have to pay a whole bunch of people money that they could be using to have military funds and other shit. Yeah.
00:47:31
Speaker
No, there's no way that they want to drain their fundage that they're already indebted to back in us where we can't make it. They, so if we go into another lockdown, it better be for a serious reason and I would take it 100% seriously.
00:47:49
Speaker
I think people would take it less seriously because of the first time. I said from a logical standpoint, I didn't say from a regular average Joseph, like I would take it a hundred percent seriously because you can think and have all these ideas of what we're going to get out of it.
00:48:08
Speaker
No, we're not going to get out of anything by going into lockdown and paying the American people money that they're not working for that's not applying any services to any other aspect. They're not, they don't want to do that. They don't want to do it.
00:48:24
Speaker
I mean, if they got to do what they got to do. Why do you make fun of me hiccuping so bad? Because it's hysterical. I think I hit the hiccup and he's like, dude, he just makes fun of me so bad when I hiccup, I can't help it. Because I'm worried about you. Why? I have my helmet on, we're good. Oh, OK. Make that sound good. No, that's not a normal sound like you got stabbed in the gullet. Wow.
00:48:51
Speaker
So we went to a hurricanes game, we went to a comedy show. We're excited that things are getting a little bit back to normal. So I mean, right now, a mandate wouldn't really affect
00:49:08
Speaker
The kinds of things that we're doing because we're everybody's generally wearing masks the people who aren't probably should and if you put in a mandate They probably still won't so I mean, I don't I don't know how much it'll really do Well, that's where it's the morality of thing. There's a difference between you know allowing that to go on and putting down some rules that people decide to You know disobey
00:49:32
Speaker
There's always people that's on the fence that if you just say, well, you don't have to, if you don't want to, then they're just not going to. But if they were told to do so, then they would, because they know exactly what's, what's up. They know that, oh, they told me, oh, there's obviously some importance to it. I'm going to go ahead and do it. And who knows how long we'll be in this weird in between work.
00:49:51
Speaker
things could get worse at the job of a hat or you know continue to get better you know who knows or if it will be another variant and we just it's I mean we're kind of in the same place we did it and everybody was like all right nobody out for two weeks boom everything
00:50:08
Speaker
the the
00:50:38
Speaker
But then the kind of argument to that is why do I have to go into lockdown for a month? Because some moron in, you know, Florida got sick. Why is that our problem? So that you don't get it in a week from now when you go out to the club. Why are you being punished? Because, you know, that's the whole argument. Well, exactly. And that's that. I mean, you do it for the greater good. You do it just so. Well, good luck with that.
00:51:04
Speaker
Well, yeah, obviously. That's why I say that's the human condition. It'll never happen
Vaccination Choices and Variants
00:51:10
Speaker
that way. But in a perfect world, if they just took out that month, they would have saw how easier it would have made it for the rest of their life. I mean, now look at us. We're two years ahead of here and they still have to hear from every person that wears man. Why are you wearing man? And do you think they enjoy that more than if they just stayed for that? They would have been over. It would have been. It would have been.
00:51:34
Speaker
So I have that's what I keep telling myself whenever I'm trying to get that shot Yeah, this is all coming from the guy who doesn't have a vaccine I just I was putting light to that. Thank you. Thank you for helping me Yeah, you should go ahead and take care of that situation myself
00:51:55
Speaker
I mean, it's the same market. Why do you have to get a shot and risk your health and have to deal with getting I know I need to get a shot. It's just I don't I first off I was already a little bit skeptical. Skeptic.
00:52:09
Speaker
Just come back to us when you're ready. Skeptical. Skeptical. I was about to say it. I know you weren't. I was too. I was a little bit skeptical when the first shots came out. I was like, well, it did come out in like a month. Let me check out and see how that goes.
00:52:28
Speaker
And then they're like, Oh, uh, new Johnson and Johnson only one shot. And I was like, great. Fantastic. I'll go for that one. It's only one shot and it works before I got it. I literally, I already made an appointment to get my shot. And then they said, Oh, Johnson Johnson gives you a whole bunch of blood clots and all that. Oh yeah. And I'm not going to go for that. And then ever since then, I'm like, well,
00:52:49
Speaker
There's the new Delta variant coming out that actually did leak over to the U.S. And there is a possibility of a new variant. I'm like, well, technically Covid has a whole bunch of variants anyway, so that might be something. But at least as far as I was saying, maybe they might come out with a vaccine to point out that as well. Well, kind of an improved one for the other ones, because they have always had doubts about them. Not very many. I mean, it is FDA approved, but at the same time, they are still we're
00:53:19
Speaker
so then you get to your might be some things so that's why I was like maybe I should just wait until next month if they're gonna come out with another month but they have it yes and I'm just like well I'm just gonna go ahead and get the the Pfizer just just in case I'm just gonna go ahead and do it yeah I am bumping myself to try down I'm psyching myself up to do but I'm gonna probably do it next week yeah you better
00:53:43
Speaker
Well, I got to do it by the time Danny's a wedding. That's, that's the main goals. I want to have it done by them just to have it done. And then it, it takes like, was it two weeks after?
00:53:54
Speaker
Yeah, that's why I want to do it like next week. Yeah, it takes two weeks to go completely taken on.
Celebrity Preferences Debate
00:54:01
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, immunize. Yeah. That's why I want to done next week. That way I make it in time. But fair enough. So I do have a question for you guys that it's coming up. It's come up before just it's like a fun party question. And I don't think I've asked either one of you.
00:54:21
Speaker
Would you rather communicate only in emojis or never be able to text again?
00:54:32
Speaker
Exactly. I would take communicating emojis, only because sometimes I need to text and I can't talk, so it would be nice to just go ahead and just text it out. But it's an emojis, which is really embarrassing. After people understand, because I would explain it, I'd be like, I'm sorry, I don't know what it is. I have some sort of brain aneurysm, I can only text emojis.
00:54:55
Speaker
They would understand the homies would get me. That's all that matters Can I say neither?
00:55:04
Speaker
Because I hate I would hate calling people. I don't like talking on the phone no matter what. Yeah, that's the point. I had I had to do. I had to do it. It's I mean, at least with texting with the emojis, you get the option of texting and still calling them if you need to. I mean, at that point, if they really they're like, bro, I really can't handle your emojis. I'm like, well, the only other options I can call you.
00:55:31
Speaker
So you don't have an answer. You hate both situations. Yes, because I like I can't stand emojis because I'm an Android person and we have very few emojis. And then secondly, I can't go without texting. I'd rather never make a single phone call my entire life and lose texting. Fair enough. So he's an emoji person, just with limited emojis. Yeah.
00:55:56
Speaker
smiley face that's it yeah smiley face and winky face would you rather so obviously ryan reynolds has an aviation gin and the rock has um tequila yeah it's on the tip of my tongue because we had it we finished it i've had uh who's uh
00:56:23
Speaker
Conor McGregor's whiskey. Yes. That's interesting. Oh, that's fine. That's fine. Taramana. That was an interesting. Yes. Yeah. So would you rather sip gin with Ryan Reynolds or shoot tequila with the rock? Wow. See, I think if you do the rock, you probably get Kevin Hart, too. That's not necessary. Not necessary. Well, Ryan Reynolds would get his wife.
00:56:52
Speaker
That's also true. Which is more likely than Kevin Hart being there. No, Kevin Hart's always there. You're seeing them, you never see them outside of each other. Kevin Hart's always everywhere. I think I'm doing Ryan Reynolds because he's got that, like, just his attitude about just, I don't know, I just like his movies better too.
00:57:15
Speaker
I would say a tequila shot with the rock only because in his earlier years, I thought Ryan Reynolds was just a douchebag. And then on his later years, he, of course, he stole my heart, you know, he because I'm a very sarcastic person and he got he got to the sarcasm bit. But the thing is, is I've never felt ill will towards the rock and I've always led the rock. So I got to give it to him.
00:57:39
Speaker
He wore a fanny pack. He wore a fanny pack. No, it's true. He's done. Dude, he he was the only guy I've ever seen that could actually rock the fanny pack and not look stupid. I mean, he looked he looked I mean, he didn't look the best, but he there's a lot. Imagine Seinfeld with that. Imagine me with the fanny pack. I mean, I wouldn't look that I could see. He was able. He was able to rock the fanny pack without.
00:58:09
Speaker
It making him look like I wouldn't know so I I wasn't sure what Alan which is I knew you would choose the rock
00:58:18
Speaker
So I would just I'm just choosing Ryan Reynolds because he writes and directs his own movies. Yeah. The rocks. The rocks still just the he's Jason Statham, but bigger. I would also like to learn some. I mean, I'm not saying he's a bad person. It's just like I would just like he seems like workout, bro. And I'm not like I'm not going to dig a workout, bro. If I'm drinking, I'd rather have the skinny guy that doesn't work out every day. Dude, his stories are probably hilarious.
00:58:47
Speaker
I'm sure. Which I mean, I think I think Ryan Reynolds would be a better storyteller. So I would even throw in a third person. Ryan Reynolds is sarcastic, but I don't think he would make too many like funny jokes. He make a lot of sarcastic jokes where if I was with The Rock, I feel like he'd bro me up. He would really kind of try to bro me up and like he'd make some awesome jokes with me and we'd be able to like, you know, do it back and forth.
00:59:11
Speaker
Yeah, Ryan Reynolds, I think it would be more about Ryan Reynolds and more about the show, you know, that he just got weird. Oh, I'd rather do whiskey with with Matthew McConaughey. I feel like he has better stories. That's it. He has Long Branch, right? So he has a whiskey. That's it. Yeah, I guess. Plus, he's like a super football guy. So, yeah, that's fun. I mean, the rock is like the ball, too, but I don't know. Yeah, I got Ryan Reynolds if I had to drink it. Yeah, I think
00:59:39
Speaker
the rock would be like he'd have much better stories like because he does a lot like a ton of stuff goes everywhere and meets all these people and is featured in a ton of stuff and he like is like he loves talking to people so I'm sure he has some hilarious stories but I think
00:59:58
Speaker
Ryan Reynolds would be would tell them better. Like imagine Ryan Reynolds storytelling with to a dinner like I would I would have a dinner with him and just let him talk. I just let him like talk to me and essential. If you are looking for like a motivation and like somebody like to help you out, like I feel like he'd be like a dope. He's almost like a dad, the rock. Yeah. Like I would love talking to him, but I wouldn't like be like, hey, dude, like.
01:00:27
Speaker
I don't know if I had to choose between both of them to like go and hang out with. I think I'd probably choose Ryan Reynolds. I feel like he's more relatable. I think that's more because of the whiskey. But I mean, but like the rock is so like a superstar. Ryan Reynolds feels like a guy you could relate to almost. He's like a he's like every man. That's why I think Matthew McConaughey is the same way. They just feel like everybody in the rock is like a superstar.
01:00:55
Speaker
Like, yeah, I feel like I would go to the rock for advice, but I would go to Ryan Reynolds to hang out. There you go. That's the weird thing is I feel the exact opposite. I'd go with the rock to hang out with. Like, I feel like he'd be a cool guy to just hang out with. And then I feel like Ryan Reynolds would be a good guy to just talk to you about like how to turn things around. Because Ryan Reynolds is the guy that had a terrible
01:01:22
Speaker
career happening like he started out great he started to downfall in the weird area and then he was able to literally climb himself out so as far as that goes he just has a lot of insight as far as that and where the way he talks is more sarcastic and a little bit more i feel like his words have a little bit more depth in them where the rock he has a lot of inspirational words a lot of like things that just help you have a good time
01:01:47
Speaker
and help you just feel more at ease with yourself where Ryan Reynolds wants you to be better than what you are when he talks. I don't know. That's the way you are out of touch, sir. I don't know, sir. That's that's what I get from. I was like, that's like literally the rocks Instagram is all motivation.
Dating Life Reflections
01:02:05
Speaker
Well, yeah, but that's why I think he, well, I watched them all the time. That's why I think the rock has like that, but that's cause he's a big guy. He's supposed to, but when you hang out with him, that's when he gets to be in, he's probably a great guy to just talk with and hang out with. He can't, you have a beer with him. He just talks to you about all these good times. He's had all that kind of stuff.
01:02:26
Speaker
And you guys have a great time where Ryan Reynolds, he's like, Hey man, you know, you're a great guy. You should really, you know, do this, do that. And you'd be able to probably have a good time, maybe play some pool or something with them. But I wouldn't say he would be like my hangout guy. Also, the rock does come with Kevin Hart. So he carries him in his fanny pack.
01:02:51
Speaker
But yeah, is there anything else you guys wanted to bring up that you're dealing with or frustrated about? Well, I'm sure Nick is frustrated because now he's back into the dating world. I'm happily married. I'd like to say I'm happily married. I'm actually happily single. It's actually not too bad.
01:03:13
Speaker
I've thought about a lot of the things that relationship brings and at least my relationship. I can't talk for all of them, but you're like, you're like, it's not bad. Well, you're like looking for like girls, right? You're not like embracing your singleness like you're trying to. Well, I'm more reserved, I think, than I was before. Like I want.
01:03:35
Speaker
And I thought about it and I am at the point where I've never really had like any one night stands before or anything like that. So I'm like, I'm a very experimental experimentalist person. So in that aspect, I do kind of want to experiment with the average person's dating life. You know, just dating like.
01:03:55
Speaker
Hey, how's it going? See for a week. And if I like you, I like you. If I don't, then skedaddle, as opposed to my usual ones that lasts about a year or two years, three years, and then they don't lead anywhere anyway. Well, that takes a long time. So I'm thinking about, you know, just try it out and just not being as reserved as they used to be and just being, but at the same time.
01:04:17
Speaker
Uh, it is still, I am almost 30 now. So it's just like now I do that. Now's the time to go ahead and, uh, go ahead and, uh, stay slow. Has it been good or bad? Like, has there, has there been any issues or are you like, I've been, I've been okay. I've been, I've been actually, it's weird cause the last relationship that I have, it just stated me into a weird place and I realized.
01:04:45
Speaker
And it's weird cuz I actually just had a dream last night of kind of how the day sometimes would end and where I would be frustrated because it was a simple task and we couldn't even accomplish it because of all the stress and anxiety that was going through. I was just reflecting on how I was mad every day.
01:05:02
Speaker
Well, I wasn't even mad every day. That's the weird thing. But it was just one of those times where I was like, that was kind of how it was in certain aspects, which is not what I was looking for. And it really, it really put me on the path that I was on earlier, you know.
01:05:18
Speaker
where I was like, I should stay single for a little bit and just kind of see what I need from another person. Cause I thought I did. And when I found that person, I still had rose goggles on and I still ignored the red flags and stuff like that. And I thought I was past that, but I wasn't apparently. And it's just one of those things where I'm just like, well, I need to slow down or some, I need to
01:05:44
Speaker
changed something because some people that I know, well, there are some people that were in our middle school that have gotten married are now divorcing their husband. And it's happening more and more often now. I'm like, wow, you know, and some of those girls, I was like,
01:06:00
Speaker
I thought that I could see a future with them as well. And now that's happening. Well, exactly. That's when I was in middle school, high school, and when I was kind of coming out into the world. And that's when they started going into it. They were like 19, 20 when they got into the relationship and they get married. But they were still in high school and they were dating that same person. And I was there. What are you trying to say exactly?
01:06:20
Speaker
But they're ending their relationships about the same time that I am currently single now and I'm looking for relationships. So it's like, what if anything have changed really? If I was in a relationship with somebody and then divorced them now, what if I've wasted the same amount of time?
01:06:36
Speaker
so It kind of puts me in a weird weird perspective that I don't know what I want to do And but I am I am excited that i'm by myself and I have the options essentially Yeah, and when I wake up every day like I don't have any real anxiety. I know what I want to do I know how I get ready for work how I do this how I keep the house clean And I know that if I ever get divorced i'm not going to lose half my stuff because right now i'm single
01:07:05
Speaker
I mean, I don't have a lot either, so... That's why you go in the tiny home. It's a bit of a comfort. You say that's why you go in the tiny home? Yeah, you go in the tiny home, you don't have to lose a lot. This will take half of the tiny home and all the money that you saved.
01:07:20
Speaker
I'm just kidding. But I mean, that's just one of the things that I have a peace of mind. I'm by myself. I don't have to worry about any of the hardships of the relationship and anybody that I do meet, they're a friend. They're not somebody that I don't like. They're not somebody that I'm like, oh, I have to go home and be with this person type thing. Every person that I talk to there, I'm a friend. And if I don't talk to him, well, sorry, bud.
01:07:46
Speaker
I'm a free man. I'm a free man. You're either a friend or you're not like. And so I talk with you guys. You guys are friends. And I don't I don't sit here talking with you guys wishing I was doing something else. I just talk with you and I'm like, yeah, I'm with. Well, I do. Every time Dylan talks to me, I wish I was going to. Well, I was going to. Well, that's because you guys are married. You're your friend, your inner friend, you know, marriage. So are you are you happy you like didn't have to deal with any of this?
01:08:16
Speaker
Uh, well, I mean you dealt with it for a little bit but so after moving like it would be terrible try to date now It'd be awful. I wouldn't want to do it now moving from south carolina. You mean yeah, just not having anybody up here So it's like it's really hard. It's hard not to find friends when you're in your mid 30s then yeah Trying to find a girl that doesn't have five kids and or need emotional baggage. Yeah, that's another thing All of my girls that are locally available. I have at least one or two kids like
01:08:46
Speaker
Like I'm not even worried about that part. It's more like just the, the X's that are the problem. The kids are using that. The problem is everybody else around the kids. Well, the thing for me is if I wanted to start a family, I would like to start my own, but I wouldn't want to be the third one out, you know? Yeah. Because at that point it's just like experience I do and all that other stuff. And it's just, I would have opted into one, maybe two.
01:09:12
Speaker
I dated I dated one when I was like, I think. Dylan, the first time I dated a kid, I dated a girl that had five kids when I met her. We're 20 kids that had five kids at 24. We were 24 and she had five kids. And I was like, how many? How did that happen? Did she have like a couple twins?
01:09:31
Speaker
Yeah, so she had two twins and then a newborn. She had a newborn when I met her. OK. He was probably like seven months old. I was like, what in the heck have you been doing? Yeah. Like she wasn't bad. She was a great person. It's just like. It's just too much going on. Yeah, that's nothing to say with the mom. The mom can be a perfect person, but at the same time.
01:09:52
Speaker
You got to understand, if you're a mom with five kids, it's going to be hard to try and find a guy that doesn't matter how wonderful you are. It's just a hard commitment. That was a catfish thing too. I thought I was talking to her and all the pictures were her, but it was her mom trying to set her up. When I showed up, she didn't know who I was.
01:10:16
Speaker
Mom had talked to me the whole time and I was like so many stories like you're like I said so many things I didn't want to tell you Well still was around so like you could do anything Baby yeah, he's like you consider anything of the fear wasn't me watching you. It was crazy Well, well West when you could probably still buy good things off wish well
01:10:40
Speaker
Yeah, I can't imagine. Luckily, I got to skip all that. I mean, not to say that it was. It wasn't an easy journey, but you still got. Yeah, exactly. There's there's bumps in every road, but honestly, if I had a choice, if I wish I could, if I could have a choice, essentially, I would choose essentially the route that you went.
01:11:00
Speaker
Of course, it'd be a little bit different. You'd be Asian during it. It would have been nice to have met like I have known my the person that I would be able to fall in love with for the last my life. I wish I would have known them.
01:11:16
Speaker
when I was a kid so I could know what kind of person they were from the start to beginning instead of them telling me a story about how that happened. But at the same time, I don't regret having the experience I have as well, which is why I would say it would be nice to have the option that you had, but I would definitely, my experience would have been different either way.
01:11:37
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Fair enough. She would have been free for at least 20 until she was 24 or five. And I would have definitely been not even thinking about that for a while. Like, hey, I have to. Spread my egg bowls and let these. Make some bowls and take some bowls. Yeah. Sure. The real Asian persuasion. You know, it's it's weird how it turned out now.
01:12:06
Speaker
It's not a bad thing. I just think it's all different, but it's kind of how you, you interpret it.
Life's Unpredictability and Challenges
01:12:11
Speaker
Well, it's frustrating still. I mean, I hate the fact that I had to go through all this kind of run around to get whatever I might be able to get into the future, but I mean, given knowing the person that I am, it's really heartbreaking that I had to get dealt the hand. I just understand that it was the hand I was dealt. I got a kind of.
01:12:31
Speaker
I mean, yeah, it could always be worse. Oh, yeah. Always be worse. I'm always thankful for what I have because they're. It's it's a weird, weird train, but it definitely could have zigged either way and could decide either way as well. Mm hmm. Yeah, it's yeah, I was just kind of trying to get everybody's perspective on that because I mean, like I said, everything they
01:12:57
Speaker
no matter what situation you're in, it could always be frustrating. I can pretty confidently say that all of us are frustrated at some point. And the weird thing is we all have different relationship variants as well. So I don't think however you think you're going to win, but trust me, there are no winners in this game. We're all losers here. The only person that wins is life.
01:13:23
Speaker
That's why that is an actual game.
Podcast Production and Gratitude
01:13:26
Speaker
Yeah, so it's it's been an interesting week and happy to have the band back together and hopefully we can do this a little more regularly. I don't think this is actually going to make here, but yeah. No, this will never see the light of day. I'm getting a new computer tomorrow and I will not be copying this over. So hopefully, yeah, again, we'll be back soon. I'm going to try and get this edited like this.
01:13:51
Speaker
It takes a while, we've been recording for a while, so it's no small task to edit it, so it's gonna be fun. Looking forward to it. This is minor. You're awake anyways. Yeah, I'll complain about it next week on the podcast. There you go. This is gonna subtract from the big chunk that me and Alan did by ourself that Dylan just doesn't want to put it. Yeah, well, fair enough. I didn't record that part, unfortunately. You didn't record it at all. Yeah. I know how we feel.
01:14:19
Speaker
Well, we appreciate you guys being here and I appreciate all the people listening. All three of you. Well, either way, this is fun for us to do. It's a way for us to hang out and enjoy each other's company. I miss Israel. Hello, mom.
01:14:38
Speaker
I just want to say hi to my mom out there. Shout out to the moms. Yeah. The real heroes. So thanks for being here, everybody. And we will talk to you all soon. Hopefully that's not too far away. But yeah, thanks for joining. We hope you enjoyed. And if you have any suggestions or any comments, feel free to send it to mildlyfrustrating at gmail.com. And I will not respond or probably even see it because that's not a real email.
01:15:10
Speaker
So yeah, thanks. Enjoy the rest of your week everybody and hopefully it's not as mildly frustrating as it was for us.
01:15:17
Speaker
Bye everybody. Bye. And we're off. I'm gonna go order some Chinese food and go pick it up now. Sweet. Oh, you were serious about the Chinese food. Oh yeah, I'm definitely going to get Chinese food. I didn't expect that. I was legit thinking about seeing about getting Chinese food today and then I saw my bank account. I was like, oh, fair enough. Maybe next week. Well, I saw Nick and I was like, I didn't even see a man about some Chinese food.