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More Taco Bell and Still Covid
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New co-host Nick joins to discuss Taco Bell, again... As well as how we're handling Covid-19 and our plans for the vaccine.
Let us know what you think by emailing mildlyfrustrating@gmail.com
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Transcript
Introduction of Nick as Host
00:00:10
Speaker
Welcome to the mildly frustrating podcast. I'm here with Nick again, who is more or less the new host since Alan seems to have moved away and nobody started a fortnight of years. Yeah. So 14 or 18 years. So today he's probably not. I don't legit. I don't think he's ever listened to one of these podcasts.
00:00:30
Speaker
and he said that to me that he was like, I should probably listen
Taco Bell Adventures
00:00:33
Speaker
to one. So the last time that we talked, I believe we discussed in-depth Taco Bell, their menu changes. When was the last time you went to Taco Bell? You said he went recently, right? Last week actually, I believe so, yeah. So I went a little ham. So Jacob came over, when was it? Saturday?
00:01:01
Speaker
So, Jacob came over Saturday and I was like, dude, let's go crazy on some Taco Bell. I haven't had Taco Bell in forever. I was craving it and I'm trying to be, I'm trying to start to be healthier. I haven't had it since we talked about being one of our two last time.
00:01:19
Speaker
That's true. Um, I was like, uh, let's go crazy, uh, before I start my diet. So let's, let's do this thing. Um, so I'll show you on video. You guys can't see on the podcast obviously, but I'll show you on video here. Uh, so this is my total for the evening. Yeah.
00:01:39
Speaker
Can you see that? How much was it? That's a lot. Yeah, that's a lot of time to talk about. I spent $27. So I'll read you my order. So these are all things that I never ordered. I decided to go a little crazy and try things because I stick in my I stick in my lane, my comfort zone. It's all Doritos Locos.
00:02:02
Speaker
Mind you, this is not an ad, but you can get a Baconator from Wendy's for 10 bucks. I mean, I'm well aware of the cheaper options. There's cheaper options to tackle though. I'm well aware of that.
00:02:19
Speaker
Um, so I got, uh, so I went on, I looked at what people's favorite stuff to get there is. This is the first time you're reading this story. So I'm this, I looked at what the best stuff to get there is. I got the cheesy gordita crunch.
00:02:34
Speaker
Oh yeah, that's the one thing I get at Taco Bell anymore now. Is it really? Oh, all the way. I don't know what it is about it, but I mean, it could be a nostalgic thing for me, but ever since I was a kid, I was always gorditas. And when they come out with the gordita crunch with the cheesy.
00:02:50
Speaker
all the way. I mean, you can't make me say no. So that's what that was essentially the consensus. So I was like, let me give it a go. And it was pretty delicious. It was pretty fantastic. So I also got the Crunchwrap Supreme, which looks like it looks like a freaking spaceship.
00:03:11
Speaker
It's the Millennium Falcon. That's my second favorite thing about it, aside from the taste, is that I can look at it and I'm like, I'm eating a spacecraft right now. Is that it? When they do, here comes the airplane, it looks legit. Take that, you aliens. So that was really good as well. And then something Alan put me onto, which I had never had, which I mean, granted, I haven't had any of these, but hadn't even heard of was the quesalupa.
00:03:37
Speaker
I haven't I okay so I thought about eating that myself but the thing about that it just looked like
00:03:45
Speaker
when something even in the commercials looks greasy. Dude, it's Taco Bell. What is wrong with you? The thing is, is your standards going to Taco Bell? Well, yes, the standard is in your commercials, when you advertise, when you advertise, it shouldn't already look greasy. That does not look greasy. It shouldn't already look like it was
00:04:10
Speaker
that looks so good every time i see that thing on the commercial i'm like that looks like grease false it looks greasy so i just like i can't do it but that i guess that's just me no your no i mean it sounds good
00:04:27
Speaker
But I don't know. For me, to me, it looks it looks crazy. What? It's a it's a taco from Taco Bell. It has sawed us. Well, yeah. Well, I mean, yeah. But when the the thing is, when everybody advertises something, it doesn't. It usually looks it looks better than than when it comes out in real life. But that I wouldn't need that on the let alone probably eat that in real life. Now, if all things come after the case a loop, that's fine.
00:04:55
Speaker
and so caseloopa well i haven't had it yet so i'm biased yeah you're biased to not knowing i mean it's crazy hey there's there's just there's far and few if not none of where i looked at something on the commercial and saw the food and was like i don't know if i want to eat that
00:05:18
Speaker
And I've seen a lot of stuff from Taco Bell. It just dude, it just strikes me. It was it was pretty good. It was good. Yeah, it was. It had had a lot of substance to it. That's what really gets me frustrated is when I feel like I'm eating a substance. That's what I'm saying. I hate when I'm eating and I feel like I'm just having like a tortilla with just like nothing in it.
00:05:45
Speaker
Like if it's 90% bread, then that makes me angry. It's mildly frustrating. So I got the case loop, but that was pretty good. And then I followed it up with, I mean, the classic Doritos Locos Tacos.
00:06:01
Speaker
I mean I've had the Doritos of Osaka's it's just I don't like they're not bad don't get me wrong it's just I feel like there's better stuff for your buck like they're all about one something 150 you can get something around there for oh it could have been the Taco Bell that I went to but whenever I got the Doritos it was always like like you said instead but instead of like breading it was just a shell with a little bit of stuff in it oh just didn't seem like a lot of anything just
00:06:30
Speaker
It was just a Dorito show with a little bit of stuff in it. Yeah, I agree. That's that's completely down to the Taco Bell. So I live literally 10 feet from a Taco Bell. It's awful. I've gone there like twice and I will never go again. I so the only reason I got this is because Jacob lives near Taco Bell. I was like, grab it on your way here.
00:06:51
Speaker
because this one is awful. That's why I never get it. If this one was good, I'd get it every couple days. So it's a good thing. I got the local tacos from here. They were soggy, so they were like soft, hard shells. It was awful. And there was probably a tablespoon of meat in there at most.
00:07:09
Speaker
it was really bad um over several times over several months so it was really bad so i just stopped going um but yeah so i spent a crap ton of money and uh verdict was it was all really good but dude the Doritos tacos they just they they they're the cake topper they're so good you can't top a Doritos flavor it's just i mean it's it's a good flavor don't get me wrong it's just
00:07:36
Speaker
, and
00:07:58
Speaker
that's interesting
00:08:18
Speaker
and like I get those all the time because they'd only be a dollar too and like for a dollar they were pretty freshly pressed at least that's what I mean if it wasn't freshly pressed they did a good job imitating it freshly pressed so I mean just it was a good all-around burrito like just a good thing for your buck
00:08:38
Speaker
Oh, yeah. So the value is the worst thing on their menu. Value wise is the Dorito taco. It tastes delicious, but I know that's totally like a novelty, like novelty taco. Mm-hmm. Because why get a regular taco, like even a shofso taco when you can have a Dorito. Yeah. I mean, it tastes delicious, but it's, there's no, you're not going to fill up. I think I said on the last podcast, I could probably have 20 of them and be fine.
00:09:07
Speaker
Life hack though.
00:09:09
Speaker
make your own taco meat on the frying pan, you know, and use the, uh, because Taco Bell sells their seasoning off at like Walmart and stuff like that. You can get that stuff, make it. It takes like 10, but you can just put like the Doritos. You can get your cool ranch. You got your whatever and just sprinkle it on there. Make yourself a taco. Life hack is not make it yourself. That goes for any food you've ever bought anywhere.
00:09:37
Speaker
Well, shut up. Life hack from McDonald's. Make your own Big Mac. Well, for those people that are paying out the bond out the bond for that, literally you'll spend less money buying like a six six dollar pound of beef and like a 50 cent a pack of like this is common knowledge rather than doing 50.
00:10:00
Speaker
They don't make their money off of having something that nobody else has access to. They make their money off of giving it to you in 30 minutes. All I'm saying is if you're looking to drive all the way over there just for a locos tacos and you can literally give you all the stuff to make it.
00:10:36
Speaker
How about when you're about to go on a diet and you're like, wow, I really want to know I text him like that food. I text him like two hours beforehand. I was like, you know what? We should always have Taco Bell. So nobody plans for Taco Bell. You just did. No, no, that's not how it works. It's always, you know, we should probably just get that Taco Bell is special.
00:10:40
Speaker
with better quality
00:11:02
Speaker
I mean, if you're drunk and you're just like, man, I really want some talking. Exactly. I'd understand that. But you're already planning it. Planning is a rough word. I didn't plan. I said we should. So before you hang out, before you hung out, before he came over to your house, two hours, started drinking two hours. Yes. Did you or did you two hours talk about getting Taco Bell beforehand? Two hours.
00:11:30
Speaker
Two hours. Two hours is not enough. I have been to your apartment. There's literally a Walmart right across the street from you that takes five minutes to get to. Do you think he's coming over and we're going to have like a cooking party? This is not how hanging out works. This, this shows just how much you cook because literally standing in front of a skillet for about six minutes on the ground beef. Six minutes. It's going to take at least three days.
00:11:59
Speaker
I have to slow cook that. I think, don't you need a smoker for that? Anyways. Are you really your brother's brother? I ask him for advice on how to cook my steak. I can't even... I can tell you where to go pick up a steak. No, I can tell you where to pick up a steak. You don't need to make your own steak. That's for poor people.
00:12:26
Speaker
I can tell you where to pick up the steak. You don't need to make your own steak. No. You're either talking about longhorn or... You're gonna want to head to Texas Roadhouse down the road. Oh, after you head to the roadhouse. They'll hook you up. They got some nice, uh, some nice bread to lead you off. Keep you sated. Let's add the yarn barn from the ranch. Alright, so here's another ranch in the mix, which was...
00:12:54
Speaker
a huge surprise win to cap off everything. Cinnabon delights. Ever had them? Nope. Dude, I've never even eaten at an actual Cinnabon before. No, no, no, no. Taco Bell.
00:13:12
Speaker
Oh, no. No, I never even heard of them. Taco Bell Cinnabon Delights. I've heard of the cinnamon twists from Taco Bell. Oh, yeah. The cinnamon delights. Those are fantastic as well. What's the cinnamon delights? So there's your cinnamon twist. Yeah.
00:13:28
Speaker
And there's your, okay, that looks interesting. Oh, okay, yeah. Suck at names, but yeah, once I see them. I've never had them or anything, but I've looked at them and I'm like, if I had enough money, I would maybe get those. Dude. Slash, I don't know, like.
00:13:43
Speaker
When I go out to eat, I know I'm already eating Taco Bell. I know I'm already eating, like, bad. But when I see the desserts, I'm like, maybe I shouldn't get the desserts. I should really start watching my way. I guess I draw the line at, like, desserts. So I try not to get those, because I don't know.
00:14:04
Speaker
I've never gotten dessert from there. I had cinnamon twists probably seven or eight years ago. I've had the cinnamon twists only because my friend got the cinnamon twist, hated them, and was like, here, you can try them. And I was like, these aren't too bad. I just hate them. No, dude, I love anything cinnamon. They're so good. But yeah, they're they feel like they're too much money. That too. I'm like, I don't want to pay for the like.
00:14:28
Speaker
I mean, they're only a dollar. Getting a brownie or something from like the Domino's, whatever that I feel like it's more quality or did you see what it's weird because I'm eating sawdust. Why not eat the sweets from me? I don't ask me. I'm a man of contradiction. Have you ever seen what cinnamon twists are?
00:14:46
Speaker
No, I figured they were just like, essentially like pork rinds, but without the pork flavor and cinnamon flavor. You're exactly right. They're pork rinds with cinnamon on them.
00:14:59
Speaker
Dude, I was like that literally as I was like, this has a very familiar texture. It's just it tastes sweet. They're really good. I love I love all cinnamon. But so I mean, if you don't like cinnamon stuff, we I don't I don't our friendship is already strenuous from that point. Yeah. But I don't know. They just like they don't feel you at all. It's literally like just having nothing.
00:15:25
Speaker
it's air which i mean is fine but i don't know but i can never justify it's like a dollar but
00:15:30
Speaker
It's a dollar, but at the same time for what it is, it's a dollar. Like, I mean, normally a dollar is not, I could pay a dollar at the dollar general and get something weird. And that's fine with me, but spending a dollar on those things, I'm like, eh, is it really worth it? Like I love cinnamon on them all, but I can probably get a cinnamon cookie or like a cinnamon something else at the store for a dollar. It would be way better than whatever that is.
00:15:57
Speaker
Yeah, for some reason, I don't want to spend the dollar after I spent $29, $27. It's fine. That too, yeah. That's another tragedy. I want to spend like 30 bucks here. I want to spend the dollar. Well, also, I never buy any of these. I never buy desserts from them like at all. But I was like, if we're going crazy, might as well go crazy. And there was two of us. So as a 12 pack, we each split it. And dude, they're amazing.
00:16:24
Speaker
So good. If you ever have the chance, I'm telling you your next trip just get so a two pack of them is a dollar twenty nine, which seems like too much. But just to try it, just do it. It's magical, magically delicious. Can I just like put that two dollars and add that with my extra eight dollars so that we can get another one of those giant. The nacho platters from that that one place.
00:16:53
Speaker
Oh, from a hickory tavern. Now that is worth it. Those are pretty good. That is worth it. That was, that was a clutch. Yeah. Giant platter of nachos for like 10 bucks. Those are fantastic. I have a hard time finishing them.
00:17:08
Speaker
Uh, every, every time I think about anything, whether or not it's worth the bang for its buck, I always think about those notches. I'm like, wow. That was worth it. I was like, this is pretty fantastic. Let me get it. And, uh, worked out perfectly. I'm very happy with your decision. I mean, they're kind of a staple, although now I have to kind of wean off them because the chips are not a good.
00:17:31
Speaker
Um, the chicken's fine. The chips are no bueno.
Vaccine Hesitancy Discussion
00:17:35
Speaker
Um, so do you plan on getting your vaccine? Oh yeah, eventually. Um, what's, what's holding you off right now? Or is it just strictly the group thing?
00:17:47
Speaker
What do you mean the group thing? Like, are you not eligible yet? Is that the only reason why? Oh, I mean, yes and no. I'm one of those people that kind of likes to wait a little bit. It's not like that. I'm totally against vaccines or anything like that. And I'm not somebody that's just like, Oh, everybody's out to get me, yada, yada. The government's totally going to just like probe me with something in there. I just like to like, none of it's FDA approved or like yet. Uh, false information is okay. Well, then maybe now release it without it being FDA approved.
00:18:17
Speaker
Well then, um, then I'm gonna have to update my, uh, facts on that one. But, um, aside from that, it's like, aside from that, my standpoint is that I like to just kinda make sure other people are okay first, like before I do it.
00:18:33
Speaker
Like I've never, I never want to be the first one to go out and do something. Only because, I mean, there's just mistakes that happen all the time, yada, yada. So I mean, it's not like I'm never going to do it, but I'm not going to be the first few. I'm never going to do that, but I'll, I'll, I'll go in when like.
00:18:54
Speaker
I think my gamble is good, you know. I see. So I like to make calculated risk. I don't just like to make the risk. I just like, I like calculated risk.
00:19:06
Speaker
So when, when I'm like, all right, everything seems good. I mean, they're not coming out with stuff like that, yada, yada, everything seems all right. Cause when everything first happens, people give out information. But of course, again, it could be misinformation, like what I just got. And you have to re again, reeducate yourself and make sure that you have all the facts and everything on both sides. And so I like to do that first before making a life decision, such as putting something foreign into my body.
00:19:34
Speaker
Yeah, and I mean, and that's how a lot of people feel. And like, I love, you know, the facts of cybernetics. I've never, I've never going to be the first person with a microchip in my head, but I certainly won't be the last, you know.
00:19:51
Speaker
Something like that. So it's all about calculation. I kind of want to wait a little bit just to make sure, especially because the human error is always a thing. And you know, it's something that we might have something figured out, but we thought we knew a lot about medicine for about a century before people actually started dialing into medicine. So it's always good to make sure. I just want to make sure that every like there's no long term effects as well as short term effects.
00:20:20
Speaker
So far, no short term effects. So that's good. Also shy away from the fact that I am slightly biased. I, I do have a fear of FOB of needles. So that is a partial effect of it, but I've also had like the same thought process for everything. So it's not just because of the needles. It's also because I just, I'm not the type of person to be the first one in somewhere. I'm like in the middle. Have you ever had a flu shot? Yeah.
00:20:49
Speaker
When was the last time? Last time was probably about two years ago. Really? Yeah. I mean, I thought it'd be long. Cause like the, the, well, I mean the, the last time I had one since then was in high school when I was, when it was mandatory.
00:21:07
Speaker
I don't normally get sick. So it's just one of those things that I kind of forget about and I'm like, oh wait, I didn't get a flu shot this year, huh? Yeah. So the, so the flu shot, I don't know. It's, you can argue both ways. Uh, I mean, there's definitely, as far as I'm concerned, no reason not to get it, but the, the difference between the two is obviously COVID's worse for you. You know, more dangerous, but the COVID vaccine is more effective.
00:21:37
Speaker
The flu shot vaccine is only like 50% effective, something like that. Especially because it, you know, different strains and all that. But a lot of people feel that same way of, so I was of that same mindset of waiting. I was like, let's wait. I mean, it's hard to be like, oh yeah, hey, we're developing a vaccine. It'll be available to you next weekend. Like, it's hard to wanna get that. But then, you know, obviously it's been available for, how long, like five months?
00:22:06
Speaker
Yeah, but so few people have gotten it because I mean, they had it for like, they only had it open for a few select and now they're just starting to open it up to the public more and more. So I would imagine not too many people have had it. I mean, now maybe more than before, but.
00:22:26
Speaker
Yeah. So right now, 16% of the population is, uh, well, 16% of North Carolina is vaccinated. The entire United States is 16.6% vaccinated fully. That's not just the first dose. That's both doses. Yeah.
00:22:43
Speaker
Um, so that's, um, 150 million doses. Um, so it's, it's getting out there, but yeah, you're right previously. So like, if we look back at, um, like the beginning of February, it was only like 2% of the population was vaccinated. So yeah, I agree. It was, it was kind of a waiting game, at least for me as well. I mean, it's still, it's still, I mean, it's, it's out of alpha testing and it's in the beta testing right now. That's dangerous language.
00:23:14
Speaker
I wouldn't say that. Oh, why not? Because they do all the testing before they release it to the public. They have a controller for testing. No. And the first few people touch. They don't beta test on people. Oh, well, OK. If you if you. Yeah, I guess if you want to say it like that. Yeah. Say it like what? I said no.
00:23:39
Speaker
If you want to say it like no. If you want to say it like they don't beta test on people, but I mean at the same time, what a beta test is, is you do a small amount of people before you have the actual launch, the massive worldwide launch. Yeah, it's been a massive worldwide launch. They did the testing.
00:24:02
Speaker
How can it be a massive worldwide launch if not everybody has access to it? They have to have certain people have it first and then they're unlocking it slowly and slowly. It's not a full blown launch. There's a difference between people not having access to it and...
00:24:19
Speaker
testing out on people you can say i mean yes and no you can say that but who's to say that they're not slowly doing that that way that if there was something that went wrong they didn't just give everybody that then they they had certain people with it like it's still controlled it's still in a controlled environment it's not fully just that's different than it being
00:24:47
Speaker
you know needfully distributed as fast as possible is different and you know you can make adjustments along the way if you find an issue that's different than we're gonna send it to a hundred million people and see if they die and then after that we'll see what happens like they're sending out the final product
00:25:09
Speaker
Um, anyways, so do you, do you plan on getting vaccinated on like when you're able to, which I think is in a week, everybody's eligible to seven. I mean, I'll probably definitely think about getting it.
00:25:22
Speaker
And at this juncture in time, it's more like I just got to do my research and update myself now and then make that informed decision, which I mean, what it seems as if it seems so far from what you're telling me that it should be okay, then I won't see any issue as to why I shouldn't or wouldn't. But if I do find something that is alarming to me personally, then I may or may not.
00:25:46
Speaker
So where I could say as a percentage wise, maybe 80, 70% yes. I'm not going to go ahead and say 100%. Yeah, I'll go ahead and get it next week, simply because I have to inform myself first.
00:26:02
Speaker
So I know a couple of people who were purposefully waiting on getting the vaccine because they were scared. Because they were like, oh, I was going to push through so quick. So I texted my mom. She was like, no, I'm not going to get it. It was really fast. It's like, OK. So you'd rather have COVID. And it's kind of the alternative, either.
00:26:23
Speaker
either risk getting COVID or you risk the vaccine, which, you know, vaccine has its side effects of, you know, the normal crap that you don't want to deal with, but I don't know. Um, I was just curious if you were considering it and, uh, because it's going to affect your, your daily life here shortly. Once everybody starts getting back into the mix.
00:26:42
Speaker
I mean, yeah, so that's constantly something that I debate on whether or not getting it. It's never a thought of, oh, I'm not going to get it. Hopefully, I just don't get the virus. And hopefully, everybody that gets the vaccine, since everybody else is getting it, I'll be safe. I'm not thinking about that at all. It's more like,
00:27:01
Speaker
I just wanna make sure that at least for the time being, if I don't hear too many things going wrong, then there's no reason for me to doubt it or doubt its effectiveness. It's just on whether or not like
00:27:16
Speaker
on anything like it's not even just this it's anything that i do i'm not going to be you know the tester monkey or the sheep or whatever i'm not going to just be the first one to go out there so yeah i want to try it oh yeah but i'm just never going to be the first one to do anything um i'm going to let somebody else do it first and you know check it check it out see if see if see if the waters are fine then i'll go do it
00:27:42
Speaker
and
00:27:55
Speaker
go out for a little bit only on the grounds of, you know, just as a precaution. I mean, I know that it should work and everything like that, but, you know, me walking around, touching stuff, doing everything, and then going somewhere else where I can't get the virus, sure, but I mean, I can still have it on my hands.
Post-COVID Social Life Reflections
00:28:20
Speaker
and so transmitted somewhere maybe somebody that doesn't have the vaccine yet might get
00:28:36
Speaker
amount that I do that just in case because I mean for me it takes out a couple of moments of my life but for someone that means that it could mean more it can mean I take somebody out for good or maybe I take somebody out even more permanently than it would myself so you know just as a as a I mean if if nothing else just as a courtesy so are you excited to kind of get back into the swing of things
00:29:05
Speaker
Yes I know, I mean, here's the thing, I'm an introvert, I love staying at home and doing all that kind of stuff, but I also love having the option of going out, and that's really the main thing I think a lot of people might be thinking about is, even though a lot of people don't necessarily like to go out all the time, they want to have that option.
00:29:23
Speaker
And for me, that's another like, I don't like to go out all the time and party and do all that stuff, but would I like to go and hang out with you like more often than not? Yeah. Would I like to go out and, you know, hang out with Jimmy without worrying about catching Covid? Yeah. You know, like, I want to I want to have the option of being able to, you know, hang out with
00:29:52
Speaker
uh, friends and family without worrying about whether or not I'm going to give them something or they're going to give me something. So, I mean, it is nice to have that option. Um, but I mean, just because everything opens back up and everything doesn't mean that I'm just going to go buck wild and just start like having parties every day. Well, I was just curious if you're like, how do you feel about it? If you're excited, like, do you miss hanging out with people?
00:30:19
Speaker
I mean, some aspects of it. I mean, of course, I would imagine if I was one of those people knowing myself, if I was somebody that worked like out of facility and then due to COVID, I was forced to go home and work, I wouldn't want to come back to going back to the physical work site in Oregon. I would enjoy working out in front of my house and enjoying that. But aside from that, like,
00:30:47
Speaker
I mean, you know, exciting is too strong of a word, but also unexcitement is too small of a word. You know, I'd say I'm right around the middle. I just love having the option. Yeah.
00:31:05
Speaker
I'm definitely leaning towards on excitement. I don't know. I liked not feeling the pressure of feeling like you have to go somewhere. I understand that. Yeah, definitely. I mean, once everything's open up, you're you have that more pressure. Everybody's going to ask you, hey, you want to go out and hang out? And that's when you have that. Oh, man. Yeah, I mean, that was the worst part. I don't miss. I won't miss those questions of whether or not I can go over it because now right now, if I really don't want to go over some, I can just
00:31:34
Speaker
Well, you know, I'm just trying to watch myself because of COVID. And that's a perfectly fine excuse now, but soon enough, that excuse will be gone. Yeah, true. Yeah. I mean, that's not my go to, but it definitely is useful if there's, you know, okay, I'm good. I'm just kind of. That's my go to. I'm chilling. Well, I don't know. You feel more, you feel more obligated when it's, I've turned into even more of a hermit crap than I was before.
00:32:05
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I mean, it's not necessarily a bad thing, but it also might not necessarily be a good thing. Well, yeah, it's also hard to accomplish because I was pretty much a hermit crab before. But I'm, you know, converted to work from home. I love working from home. I hate talking to people. It just saves me a lot of aggravation and energy.
00:32:23
Speaker
I know I am not looking forward to having to go out and socialize and be, you know, be a person. It's really frustrating to try and like, like, oh, hey, that's it. I mean, for me, I actually say right now the worst part of being quarantined and not having everything open and stuff is that like I want to do stuff with my girlfriend and we have a lot of fun.
00:32:53
Speaker
You know being you know being able to stay at home and doing whatever and like that's fun and all but sometimes you know you'd want to go to the movies or you want to go out for a dinner date or you want to like kind of go and You know have fun someplace go to the park play mini golf or whatever You know like do kind of stuff that you do as fun you know young people that just like to have dates and just kind of
00:33:17
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You know it's not it's not like i'm being sociable with like a whole bunch of people or people that don't want to spend time with but i do want to spend time with her but i also want to
00:33:26
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Not always spend time at the house because there's only so many that you can watch streaming stuff. Maybe play video games together. You guys can cook together. I mean, if you guys really are creative and stuff, you guys can do art and kind of decorate the house. But I mean, eventually, after a year of doing that, there's there's only so many times you can redecorate the house and find different meals to cook. Especially because you have to do that every single day. So
00:33:55
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the one thing I will say that I will be excited about after everything's kind of lifts up, we can go out and do so without feeling like we're going to put anybody in danger or that we're putting ourselves in danger just for something as trivial as going out to watch them. Well, we never did that. Like, go out to get something to eat.
00:34:16
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you know, unlike, I mean, we we've cooked pizza at the house before, but I mean, nothing beats like a piece of parlors like pizza. I mean, you can still get that. But yeah, I see your point. I mean, yeah, you can get that. But the thing is, you see, and you can say, oh, contactless delivery, yada, yada. But I mean, let's be real here. They're touching the box.
00:34:40
Speaker
That is good. I mean, they can set it down in front of your doorway, but they touched it. So they had to take it out. You know, I mean, so, and I mean, I'm just saying like, it's just. If you, if you want something that's just not in the house, of course you're going to have to go out and get it. And eventually you're going to have to get groceries and stuff. But the thing is.
00:35:02
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What I'm gonna like the most about having all the lifts and having the vaccines and everything, making it so that people won't be sick, is the fact that I won't feel guilty trying to make myself survive.
00:35:17
Speaker
Well, yeah, I don't know it's not a big deal like I you know, I miss seeing people but not really I Miss the idea of I'm missing certain people. I don't miss hanging out with everyone. Yeah Yeah, like I want to see people but I don't want to hang out with people. Yeah, I don't so we'll see what the next couple months shakes up like socially and Business wise and I don't know. I'm just not ready to venture out of my bedroom. I'm I'm cool where I'm at
00:35:49
Speaker
It's not even like I feel just more claustrophobic like it's it's not that Like again, I don't want to necessarily go out but like I want to have the option I want to be I want to be able to yeah, you don't want to feel like you're in lockdown, but you I'm greedy option. I Want to have my cake and eat it, too
00:36:11
Speaker
Yeah, I gotcha. Well, I don't know. Like, I want this all to end, but I also am enjoying the in-between time. Obviously, I don't want me or anybody else to get sick, but I'm enjoying not having the pressure of having to go out. Yeah, I definitely can see that. I'm just chilling, dude. But yeah, like tomorrow, I'm probably going to be...
00:36:34
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Missing around going I'm probably gonna go to a bar or two just you know grab a drink with a friend that we I do I don't think I've been out of house since last February Need I mind you he hasn't gotten his vaccine yet
00:36:48
Speaker
No, he hasn't. But yeah, I don't think I don't think you should do that. I haven't gotten my vaccine yet. Even though I haven't, I'm not going to see you. I just shouldn't go just because you haven't got you. I can't go out. Yeah. So I don't know. Not kind of looking forward to not looking forward to being out and.
00:37:13
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I don't know, we'll see how it goes. But I guess I can't stay in my room forever. As much as I'd like to. Speaking of, do you have any big plans this weekend or are you just chilling, dude? I don't work. Today's my weekend. So you got home at like nine. What are you doing? Are you just making leftover food or? Legit my schedule as I get home at around 9 30.
00:37:41
Speaker
I do my relaxation process for about 20 minutes and then I either do like a five minute yoga session and then I work out so I just do like we go straight into cardio and abs.
00:37:59
Speaker
Because, I mean, I work from like 12 to 9, so by the time I wake up and have to start getting ready for work, of course, due to COVID, the hours, the office hours are a little bit more restricting, so I never really get any gym time.
00:38:16
Speaker
So you're coming home and working out. Essentially, before I eat and make that workout useless. Before I have some mozzarella sticks. Essentially, I don't want to gain any more weight, but I don't care so much about not gaining weight. You just want to maintain.
00:38:38
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the
00:38:54
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I've been catching up on bills and stuff. So of course healthy food isn't the most affordable option. So it's mostly like, is the food, you know, making, I think I'm still losing weight. It has shown, but as far as how much I could have lost, I'm definitely not where I could be if I, if I had a really healthy diet.
00:39:16
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that's interesting,
00:39:33
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Speaking for myself, it's not going to happen. It's I'm such a junk food addict as we spoke for 45 minutes about Taco Bell at the top of the show. Yeah, exactly. I mean, yeah, that's the thing is what I'm getting to notice is like.
00:39:48
Speaker
I mean we talk about junk food and so like and like I do eat a good amount of junk food but I mean I'm I'm not for for anybody who has or maybe losing hope on whether like it's okay to eat junk food every now and then even Jimmy eats cookies every day and every now and then he'll eat some Taco Bell or he'll eat like some junk it's okay to like splurge every now and then
00:40:12
Speaker
But as long as you keep it at a non-colossal amount, you should still be able to at least maintain or lose weight. I've been able to eat an okay amount of bad food and still been able to lose weight, just not as fast as you'd expect. Yeah. It depends on your... As fast as I'd want. Yeah, it depends on your metabolism.
00:40:36
Speaker
So I'm so that to you. I'm like sedentary. I don't like I don't do anything. I just sit. I work and then I eat and then I go to bed and I wake up and I work and it all takes place in the same exact spot. It's all three different locations in the same spot. Is it bed, the chair you're in now or the couch? No, it's all bed, bed and bed.
00:41:03
Speaker
Just generally. He makes special occasions whenever I go and hang out with him then. That's true. I only venture into the living room when I have guests. I don't know. I'm gonna have to try and slowly start putting myself back into society. Anyways, as we record our podcasts from the comfort of our own homes,
Conclusion and Future Episodes
00:41:22
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We'll go ahead and close this one out, but I appreciate everybody being here and listening. We'll see. Obviously, Nick's got a new mic. We got him a new setup, so he should sound a little bit better. Put a comment down below. Down below in the podcast.
00:41:45
Speaker
So things will be changing and evolving as we go and Tell me right now if I'm and I sound better And we have six colors on the line, yeah, they all say nope sounds worse Oh
00:42:03
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We can hear his voice better, but that doesn't mean it is better. No, they said, please turn him down. Worst part of the show. And there's only two of us. Anyways, so we'll see how next week works out with what we come up with, what to be frustrated about. But thanks. I wasn't too frustrated this week. I had a pretty good week.
00:42:27
Speaker
Yeah, it hasn't been too bad. And it seems like every time we we line up to talk about it, I'm like, it seems like ever since the quarantine, you know, it just seems like everything's been better. I don't know. I don't know about all that. I don't know what happened, but I just seem a lot less frustrated about everything. Well, it's also been rough because.
00:42:47
Speaker
Like I said, Alan's been out of commission as far as recording the podcast. I think he sold his mic. Um, Jimmy is just in general MIA. Um, and we just got you this mic. So essentially I'm the most reliable one here. So here, uh, you're more of a last resort, but anyways, exactly. I'm the only one that showed up.
00:43:09
Speaker
It was an open invitation. You're the only one who answered my text. Yeah. So, I don't know. We'll see. We'll see how things shake up next time. Hopefully we can do this on a more regular basis now that I have somebody who has a mic and won't be just me complaining into a computer. But thanks for being here and we hope you all stay frustrated and stay frosty.
00:43:37
Speaker
See y'all next time. Peace out. Triskets? Say Triskets?